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WClll :mu nuiuv i lie .11.11.11 iii-iurc iwent mid looked for the bodv. I did not go to the out.side d mr when he was being taken out of the house. There was an awful slamming of things, and I was afraid to go. The dogs harked all the time after he was taken out. We all staid in the bed room till morning. I have heard .Mr. Kii'kmaii say he was afraid some one would do him ;m injury. There were marks all the way to the place where lie hung, showing he had been dragged.Yv. K. Pierson sworn, said : My judgement is, by the tracks shown this morning, that there were three persons in the party. The ropo being shown witness, was identified by’him as the rope with which Mr. Kivkman was hung. I found some of the clothes in the yard that seemed to have been drawn out of the house at the time Mr. Kirkinan was. They were bed clothes, a quilt and a blanket, I think. Along the road the marks looked as though he had been dragged nearly all of the way to the plaee where he was hung. When wc found Mr. Kirk-inan the ropo was tied around his nock, tongue protruding a little and head on one side.Dr. A. G. Gorrell, sworn ; Am practicing physician, have examined the body of Mr. Kirkman, find nothing that would destroy his life but strangulation. The mark upon his head looks as though it was struck with a revolver. Keek is not broken, but was without doubt strangled to • death. Tho blow upon the head was enough to stun him but not enough to produce death. There were other bruises upon him, but were produced by dragging along. Find no broken bones or limbs.We also append an extract from an editorial in the Beg inter, and heartily endorse the suggestion in regard to prompt and condign punishment for such crime :This is a deed which must appal wliilo it dishonors our State. Murder could not be more brutal, more cowardly, or more infamous. No excuse may be offered for tho assassination of this mob. They were murderers, all. Their pursuit of the old man was brutal in its inception, brutal iu its continuation, fiendishly brutal in its last fell act. It was cowardly in the same rank degree— cowardly m its masks and secrecy cowardly in its ciavcn odds of twen, ty strong men to one poor, old,weak man, cowardly as even animals would be n*»h«niod of cowardice inFacts About Printing.We glean from an article in a late number of Harper'* Magazine, come curious facts iu regard to printin'It is supposed that John Crone-berger was tho first printer in Amor-ca. Ho sot up his press in Mexico in 1550, and printed a book called tho Manual for Ada Us,The first press in New England was established by Stephen Payo, in Cambridge, Mass., in 1039. The first press west of the Mississippi at St. Louis in JSOS.The first type were made to imt* tnte the host writing.Subiaco was tho first place in Italy where printing was practiced.Konmn letters were originally used to distinguish remarkable words or passages, as is now done wiih Italic.The first newspaper was printed at Venice, and was called the Gazette lt;/e Venice.Signatures to sheets were used by Zorat, at Milan, in 1 -170.'The first type-foundry in America was Christopher Sanr, of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and the first font cast was of German type, about 3735.The first typo-casting machine was invented by DavidBruce, Jr., of New York, 1838.Stereotyping was introduced into the United States‘by David Brucc, of New York, in 1813. The first work east in America was the New Testament in bergcois, in 1813.I'urixdual Motion Again.Pella Blade, May 11th.—A citizen ol' Polk township, living near Coal port, claims that lie has solved the problem of perpetual motion and invented a machine that propels itr self. One or two persons who have been fortunate enough to get a glimpse of it, tells us that it is the most wonderful piece of mechanism they ever saw. It bos no weights, springs or anything of tjie kind about it, and if started to ruuning in the evening will be found going at tho same rate in tho morning,and would run ten years the same way, or at least till it.was worn out. It is all rondo of wood, and tho inventor intends to make anotlipr one of iron, brass or steel. We have always been of the belief that perpetual motion would continue to puzzle the brain of tho greatest inventors of the age, and would like to -see this machine, before we pan yet believe that it is a success.in my circ been tli character!the noble his base c« he kissed and, finall ted his i thought nr desire thai hundred fi famous wr would hav for him to“I have farmer to i dying, “11 that bit of tho old w: scttlc’i ? tlc’t, and y scttle’t, aisettle’t, nnlt; 801110-1?” claimant, “ gather.” the stout c his face rei
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Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa, US
Wed, May 19, 1875
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