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MURDER.HORRIBLE CRIME.A MAN KILLED DY A PROSTITUTE.On Saturday morning, Chief of Police Gilmore discovered a mm m a deserted blacksmith shop on tho Bloomington road, in a horrible condition. His mouth was fly blown, and he was evidently near death. He was taken to the station house, where medical assistance was called, in spile of which he died at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. After his death it was discovered that his skull had been fractured in the hack part by a blow.A coroner’s jury was immediately summoned by Dr. Gerstmeyer, and a post mortem examination was held by Dr. O., assisted by Dr. Calhoun and I)r. Mull. The facts elicited were as follows:The man's name a.as Edward Bat ton. He was formerly a blower at the glass works. His father and mother live at Lockport, N. Y. He has, of late, beeo dissipated aud hard. His deatb was earned by a blow from a rolling pin in the bands of Jeanette Parsons, notorious prowitute in the “Hollow Square” bagnio, an infamous den of vice in ibis city, on Friday evening. It seems that Batton was fighting a man in the house referred to, when the woman, Parsons, struck him on the back of the head as recited above. The uame of the man who was fighting Batton is not yet knowD. It is supposed that Batton wandered, unaided, out to the old shop where he was found. The evidence that Jeannette Parsons struck the blow which killed him is conclusive. She was immediately arrested and confined in jail.A YOUNG WOMAN OUTBAtlBD SATURDAY NIOUT.a*A Large Library.—The library ef Dr. Ezra Read, of this city, contain it « about four thousand volumes, comj probably ax many old and rare be* k any private collection in America. Among the rarest of the old books are, a copy ofXenophon, 1623; Dionysius of llaEcaiu-assensis, 1758, a beautiful work; Rapin's Critical Works, an edition of which onlysix copies are in America, 1706; Bentley upon Phalaris, 1699; Plutarch's Lives, 1G83; Cicero’s Letters to Atlicus, 1490, a book published fifty years after the discovery of the art of printing; Groves' Antoninus, 1793; Seneca, 1G14; Pliny, 1634; Virgil, 1528; Herculaneum Manuscripts, a valuable compilation; Pu fiend or fa Law ofNature and Nations, 1717; Cicero, 1741; Odes of Pindar, 1749; Thucydides, 1753;Cruaiue’ Roman Poets, 1743; Hymns of Callimachus, 1755; Xenophon, 1770; Demosthenes, 1726; Terenlii, 172G; Cow-per’s Homer, 1791; Roman Monument* 1745; Virgil, 1717; a rare Latin Lexicon; Bell’s Pantheon, 1790; Conquest of Mexico, 1724; Martialis, 1501; Life of Homer, 1736, the only copy in America; History of Triumvirate. 1GSG; Homer’s I Iliad, 1732; Athenian ^Oracle, 1704;Facciolaiti Lexicon;Seneca aud Tacitus, very old; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1732, (this hook was the property of the Earl of Donncgal); Homer, 1527, in hog-akin cover.Dr. Read expends about twelve hundred dollars annually in adding to his library. His collection of modem books is full and interesting.LETTER FROM 1ION. D. W. YOOR-11 EES TO GAFT. BRIGGS.[Mr. Voorhees’ recent performance at Spencer lends peculiar interest to his letter of May 16, to Capt. J. C. Briggs. It is reproduced from The Express of May 21st.]Waebikoton, D. C., May 17.Dear Captain:—Your favor is ». hand. The idea that 1 would under any circumstances, support Grant, seems too ridiculous for serious contradiction. The statements to that cflcct are maliciously and absurdly false. The reason why 1 will not support Greeley is that he is no better than Grant in any respect, and in some ]Kints ho is worse. 1 his was my meaning when speaking in the House. „Yo lione t and intelligent Democrat cun gup• port either Gia.it or GectUy without jinU abandoning kin principle*. lire ami water can mingle mote ennljf and const ft ently than I could become an adherent of cither of them.1 shall stand by my sincere and lifelong principles. If I did othcnetee I would be a dithontxl man, unworthy of my lt;nm re-upget or the rcxpcct lt;f anybody et.e. 1 f for this course I am to he condemned, 1 nui entirely content. 1 wonld nut take any other for all the lionois the world has to give.1 confidently believe, however, tliat the great National Democratic party will not commit a disgraceful suicide a*. Baltimore on the 0th of July. 1 believe it will be guided by principle and honor, and iirenent candidates for whom the true andOn Saturday evening about ten o’clock a young woman named Mary McCall who has lived recently in lh% country near Effingham, Illinois, and whoarrivec in this city on Friday, was paving frou the Sixth street pavenger de|*ot to ihiChestnut street depot. She had been tc the former npcn some business and war returning to lodge with Bartholomew, at the latter. When about half way back she wa-» accosted by a n ai, who put his hand over her mouth, threatening to kill her if she uttered a word. She screamed two or three times, but her cries* did not attract attention. The man draggeJ her in!« a new building near the track, where he outraged her person and compelled her to teinain through the rain storm, nearly two hours. Then he let her go, and she wandered to the Chestnut street depot, rrhere she was kicdly cared for.The police have made rigid but unavailing search for the acoundiel. The girl is from the country. She haseeveral marks of violence on her person. Her throat is bruised by choking.The Journal agrees to hoist “thename of Mr. VOORIWS” in its “general ticket,” thus committing itself to his support, and ilieu proceeds to pour half a column of ice-water, slowly, tricklinglydown the spinal column of the aspirant for a continuance of Congressional honors. This is a sort of compromise that palpably licks consistency, and lias no savor of the independent spirit that the Journal wa* aupjiosed to be assiduously cultivating. It is a serious mistake. Either a cordial support of Mr. VooR-hees, involving a square back-down, or an unequivocal opposition to him, vri' the only practicable course. It if a repetition of the blunder of the drunken fellow who thought to avoid a collision bysteering between the lights that shone oneither side of the box of an advancingcoach.The following transfers of real estate hove been made since last report:Famuel W. Hirvcll to Jane Lonce, lot in Gilbert Place for $i,200.Nathaniel l’reston to Andrew Femeior, lot in Nathaniel Preston's . ubtlivision lor $450.Same to John P. Wise, lot in same sub- | division for $450.Fame to John Melosch, lot in sr.me subdivision lor $450.John Wall to John A. Wagner, lot in Turner’s subdivision for $300.Frederick Teanv, et al, to same, lot in same subdivision for $350*W. Albert Wheeler to Jules lion ricll lot in Jones’ subdivision for $575.- Janies (’. Hurt to Henry Schrocdcr. lot in Burt’s subdivision for $500.Isabella Thompson to John S. Miller, lot in Rose’s subdivision for $1,400.M. A. Jewett to Geo. C. Duy, 2 lots in Jewett’s addition for $1,000.Feborn M. Cornell to Peter S. Kcstcr, G} acre* in Linton township for$345,50.Minerva C. Col lings to same, acres in mine township for $550.John Duncan to Win. A. Wheeler, lot in Duncan’s subdivision for $750.Mark Heal to O. C. Fuqua, lot in Jewell’s addition for $1,225.Daniel A Jones to George C. Duy, lot is Jones’ subdivision for $000.Charlotte Preston to John Dwyer, lot in Charlotte Preston’s subdivision for $115.John L HumMton to Geo. C. Duy, 9 lots in lluuiauou’s subdivision for $4,01150.Wm. A. Flcliing to Marcellua M. Goodman, loi in Gookiim’ addition for $lt;00-Delo-* W. Minsludl to James 15. Armstrong, lot in Miiu-hall’e subdivision for$402Max F. Hohrrg to I«*nnis Hurst, lot in John Sibley’- divjrioii for $1,050.Dido-* W. Min ha I to Otto Austcrmll-Irr. lot in Mirh.tlTs subdivision for $1,520.Tub “lull fight” at the fair grounds yesterday v*«t» a disgraceful affair. A very hard crowd of about 400 people at tended. Three small boys ran a foot race blindfolded, after which they were made drunk on l-eer. Three white men from Macksvillc were dressed up as Indians. Two were scared by a rumor that the crowd proposed to tar anil feather them, and sneaked away. The third was too drunk to go with his comrades. His clothing was torn til by a crowd of boys* An old hornier* bull, which has roamed in the cheerful lar.es about Macksvillc, was to do the fighting, but the retreat of the* lif.ii*hAll' Imocic aborigines left himVirtrti* lmt'4 dfr lit iillM
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Terre Haute Weekly Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 24, 1872
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