Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1893-01-20
MURDER TX NEW ENGLAND.
Crimos OF Unparalleled Atrocity In th'
Land of Puritan People.


Land OF Puritan People.
In respect TO murders, remarkably in
genious and novel in their conception,
astounding in their execution or un-
fathcmrble in their mystery, New En-
gland holds a bad eminence. If it be
admitted that New England is the
scene Of more appalling murders than
is Wyoming or Dakota, it is not at the
same time an admission Of an inferior
civilizati Moreover, II certain
human vanity were not so anxiously
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other community, we have concealed
about us certain irrepressible and out
rageous pride in the fact that when we
do have murder here in New England
usually II is murder worth talking
about and which commands place on
the first page of every American news
paper.
Without calling up the memorable
White case in Salem, .he killing of
Parkman by Prot Webster the dread
full mystery o. Bussey Woods, the mex
plicable Piper murder, the child sacri-
sSe of Pocasset, Mrs Robinson, the
Somerville poisoner, or the unparalleled
butcheries by Jesse Pomeroy, one needs
TO turn back the pages of criminal his
tory, as we make II here in New En-
gland, but little more than two years
TO find FIVE OF the most atrocious in
stances In the annals of life-taking
The Turing of Hiram Sawtell into the
Lebanon woods by latter-day Cain,
and the passionless murder and mutila-
ton perpetrated there by a man Of I'M
common intelligence in the hope ofgain-
AZ thus a double interest in petty
anitesirnal In comparison with the work
done by the gravitational attraction on
the shrinking mass adduced by Helm
holtz as the real source Of the suns
heat
The whole story of energy now in the
sun, whether of actual heat correspond
ing To the suns high temperature, or of
potential energy las of the not-run'
down weight OF the clock-work)-
potential energy of gravitation de-
pending on the extent of future shrink
age which the sun is destined TO expert
enca, is essentially finite; and there Is
much less OF il now than there was three
hundred thousand years ago. Similar
considerations Of action on a vastly
smaller scale are, of course, applicable
TO terrestrial plutonio energy, and
thoroughly dispose OF the terrestrial
perpetual motion" by which Lyell
and other followers OF Hutton, on
as sound principles as those of the
humblest mechanical perpetual mo-
4fAufgt triad 20 find thaf ha nth on m
go on forever as II is illuminated by
the sun from infnity of time past to
infinity Of time future, always habita-
ton for race after race Of plants and
animals, built on the ruins of the habi-
tations OF preceding races of plants aud
animals.
The doctrine OF the "Dissipation Of
Energy" forces upon us the conclusion
that within finite period OF time past
the earth must have been, and within
D finite period OF time TO come must
again be, unfit for the habitation Of
man as at present constituted, unless
operations have been, and are 10 be,
performed which are impossible under
the laws governing the known opera
tions going on at present In the mate
rial world. --Fortnightly Review.
Ito Corrected Himself
He was a good fellow, but the gam
marty Of his language panied his edu'
Gated wife severely and she was con-
stantly correcting him A few days
ago she told him Of the departure OF ?
friend,
"YeR," he said, 81 knew he was going
but l did not know he had gone
She looked up at him SO, he thought
no had slipped again.
Excuse me, /" he apologized hurried
ly. II knowed he was going, but ]
didn't know he had WENT
Then II was she broke down and
wept Detroit Free Press
During the past forty years the
churches In the United States have
grown IN numbers at a much greater
rate thAn the population ln 1850 there
were 8s, iSa churches or buildings deT
voted 10 purposes OF worship In 1900
there were ii2,2b6 The gain IN forty
years was lO4, O7s, or 272 per cent In
The same period the population OF tho
United States increased from 2S, 1911, $40
10 81, 6ss, $3.50, This shows gain OF 3d.
48O. STA, or ITO per cent,