The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-25

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| lucky, on the 10th inst.
On the 10th Mayor Cooper Of New York
| sent to the Board Of Aldermen for con-
firmation the name of Allen Campbell as
city comptroller, to succeed John Kelly
the scahem of the Tammany Hall demo-
cracy. Campbell's nomination was con-
| firmed by vote of 13 to 8, amid much
/ excitement.
A large number of people from Kansas
have assembled on the borders of Indian
Territory and express determination to
push ahead into the Indian Territory.
Many have already crossed the line. A
regiment OF u. 8. troops are near them to
prevent their going any further and coli
lision seems imminent.
| The quarantine convention in session
at New York last week unanimously re-
| solved that it Is the duty of the general
government to defray all quarantine ad-
ministration which extends beyond the
| boundaries of a single state, and they ask
for an appropriation from congress. adj
| journed to meet at Savannah next Deeen-
| ber.
Congressional representatives of the
| mining states and territories last session
| being strongly opposed to numerous land
bills framed by the public land commits
sion agreed upon a short measure as
| substitute for them. The substitute will
not be pressed during this session except
| as a means Of killing off the land conn.,
| mission bills. As representatives of the
| mining states are opposed to any legisia-
tion at present and as no bill can we'll be
passed without their cooperation it is
| thought TO be doubtful If any further acs
ton upon the subject is taken this ses-
sion.
The Evening Express tTammany) thus
speaks of the Tammany aldermen who
voted with the republicans and anti-Tam-
many aldermen and made sure revolu-
ton: To Bernard Goodwin, Robert Fos-
ter Frederick Helbjg and Henry Hofan,
Sirs. You were elected aldermen by the
votes of honest democrats who believed
your professions and trusted in your
honor. You were elected as members of
the Tammany democracy of this city in
the belief that you would carry out your
pledges before your nominations in good
faith. You have betrayed your trust,
repudiated your professions, turned trail
tor to the people who elected you and
branded yourselves as utterly without
private honor or manliness. You have
sold yourselves cheap, very cheap, for the
disgrace and infamy of your conduct will
stick to your names while you live, and
will attach to your children after the
grave is dug for you and you lay down IN
it. There is no resurrection for men who
have damned themselves. The parties
whose abject tools you willingly became
will not trust you and have no further
nse for you. Judas went out and hung
himself after he got his thirty pieces of
silver. You need not hang yourself; you |
are already worse than gibbeted. The |
brand set on Cain is harder to carry than
death. Live aud enjoy the price of your
treason if you can, but if you live to the |
age of Methusaleh you will never outliye |
the crime of which you yesterday con
vic.ed yourself Col The Star. keiiy's |
organ says: with the events Of yester-
day, the profound conviction must impress |
itself on the minds of democrats every |
where that New FORK is no longer DEM
ocratic city. 1t has been traded of,
handed over to republicans body and soul. |
1t will no longer roll up those magnificent
maiorities which redeemed the state and
placed it in the van of the democratic
phalanx." The Star brands the four
fammany aldermen who voted for Camp
bell with Cain like ineffaceable marks as
Hobjects with downcast eyes and burning
cheeks, writhing under the contempt of
their indignant associates whose recorded
action yesterday will haunt them during
their lives as kissing reproacb.'
A Charleston S. G., dispatch Of Dec. 18th
says: Joe. Barnes, Vance Brandt and
Julia Brandt, aged respectively 16, Is and
10 years, and all coiofed, entered into a
conspiracy to rob the house of Mr.. Ken
nedy in Salem, Clarendon county. In
the absence OF her husband, Mrs. Ken
nedy, a young white woman tried to
balk them, but finding her efforts una
vailing ran ont of a back door and at
tempted to escape to neighbor's, when
Vance overlook her and with stick of
wood Knocked her down, and although
she begged for mercy and promised to
give him al the money In the house he
dealt her two more crushing blows, and
his sister coming up just then. severed
the head from the body with hoe.
| When Mr.. Kennedy returned some three
hours afterwards he found his wife lying
outside the front gate, mutilated, cold
and stiff, her head almost severed IN
twain. The entire Uranium was cut off
from ear to ear, leaving the brains scat
tered around ON the ground. Several col
ored persons " ere arrested Monday, but
no clue to their guild being obtained they
were promptly released. On Tuesday a
colored boy named Joe Barnes WAS ar
rested. He showed SO much confusion on
being questioned as to his whereabouts
| Sunday that only few questions served
/
| the above account is taken. Vance and
Julia denied having anything to do with
| it. but the cloths which they wore Sunday
were bloody, with small particles of brain
upon them. The money and pistol of
| Kennedy found in their possession were
| bloody and on being questioned about the
! blood upon their clothes the woman said
they had killed chicken, and the man
said he had killed some partridges. On
examination, bloody finger prints on the
hoe handle corresponded precisely with
those on shawl wora by the woman on
| the day of the murder, which circum
stance had as great weight to convict her
as the testimony of the boys. The hor-
rible character of the murder awakened
/ intense Indignation in the neigh borhood
and crowd of 100 white men and 90 col
ored men assembled to punish the MUIR
derers. A further examination estah-
lished the truth of the confession of
Barnes. Negroes begged the whites to
! permit them to take the prisoners and
/ burn them alive. This was refused, but
/ avote was taken whether they should be
jailed and await the court or be lynched.
Only "a voted to wait on the law, and it
was determined to hang them TO trees
nearest the scene of the crime. Halters
were obtained and fastened to limb ct a
/ tree. A cart was placed under the limb
and the prisoners ordered to mount. Just
/ then, Joe Barnes begged to be allowed to
pray, and commenced by saying that he
/ had never prayed before and never ex-
pected to again. Nothing was said by
either of the others except groans and
lkerchiefs being tied over their faces, the
cart was pushed away and he trio were
soon dangling in theAir.