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rg Turnpikem eoartbouae Mt, at which « was submit* stockholder* guine of com-srly (lay. If tey anticipate s at Brook?-npleted with-will pay divi sssrs. Trow Hits have alia becriptione. of the enter-graded over of the road, nearly three f the current ave the three j completed, toll. Twen-id one bridge use and two purchased fors far in the I have been *nt deficiency i mis Couuec-riptions ($1,-i be expended e eastern end therelore not tficiency. It. two things— ney on rnnrt-Itscribe more the latter a subsciption ,450, we will ribed, whichPro'to Son in title us to of stock. If sum of $1,-id to Bruoks-re can safely e cost of the d $1,800 per seven miles $13,500and H. C. ed a com mi t-licit furtherealh.lohert Fr .st, Amos Frost, i death, sud-on Monday ve Driving ulars of the the cause of te surmised, man, while Ide stall, was ip and fall lediately ap-P. Graham, i, and remov-ter gasping a supposition a horse, but dished, as no e found upon red hoy em-itifies that he by a horse, iy this, aud rom the stall een kicked, f the opinion was probably to press, the g a thorough (fair.stricken par-i the funeral The family y of theen-r: Anotheron Thursday sons came in ut, supposed «ion got out nman. Word ■gan, who ar-eni to his of-ry. One of idow, named ve Madison, med Marion raised near Creek. She es, and when * out a rather 'lie Marshal, y, permitted ■ejoicing.to the stoek-; Brooksburg hieh is made read at the it was stated nicy of the ioual $1,450. irs. Richard ke $1,000 of t the Messrs. ; the accoinability men-ictors nf the )0, stock suh-of the Depu-uarries, have nish tor the apolls, 135,-lation stone,hie yards or is the largest sou tract that county, and Mr. Wrape js wiiio'i will er 'tone firm si so large aUr to pnwt wtit|«|g, we liave not laaraad that a flag wto knag Mt at the Courier uMoa ta tom or of the recent election, at New Albany, of effoenfor the Southern Indiana Editorial Association. The oversight is more apparent from t be well-known, gratification entertained by the editor of the Courier over the election of the new President of the Association. .Tbs alarm of fire'about half-past 12 o’clock, Thursday last, was caused by the partial burning of the roof at the rear of the residence of Mr. S. C. Stearns, on Main Cross, near Elm. The fire was extinguished wiihout great damage.The Remedy.To escape the worthless abominations offered under the title of Baking Powders, rests wholly with the consumers: they are the ones that have to suffer. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder is decided by chemists to be the most perfect and wholesome powder made.CORRESPONDENCE.Cattle Raising in Colorado.Ohio Ranch, ) (12 miles south Colorado Springs, Col.,) V October 21, 1878. j To the Editor of the Herald:Thinking a few lines from this locality would be a little interesting to your many readers, I take I his opportunity of addressing them through your valuable paper.In the first place, I will give them an outline of how cattle are raised and handled in this part of the country. We have a cattle association here, extending from Pueblo, on the south side, to the Divide, on the north side, a distance of about seventy miles long and about fifteen miles wide, composed of twenty-five or thirty members, owning, altogether, about ten thousand head. If a man wants to put, say from one hundred to any number above that, into the association, he can do so. the association seeing that they are taken care of, and charge him in proportion to the number of head he enters. Here let me add that the total expenses for last year’s services were only 36 cents per head, including pasturage, handling, branding, blabbing, Ac. How does this compare with some of your Eastern cattle meu’s reports?Each rider in this association is supposed to represent six hundred head. He ha* one horse for every one hundred head; therefore, each rider has six horses, and at present writing they are havi.ig their semi annual round up, and are camping at our corral, which is composed of fifteen men, two cooks, and ninety-five horses. In the last thiee days they have branded over two hundred calves and hlubhed twice that number. They will wind up on this range in another .lay, and expect to bring in several hundred more to mark and ldah. Perhaps I hail better explain what is meant by blabbing. It is a sure process of weaning. A piece of wood is hewn out and a notch cut in it; this is slipped into the calf* nose, and hangs down over its mouth, when the calf is again turned loose to range with its mother.If a “tender-foot” want* to have a little fun, let him come out here, get a well-broken cow horse, and go with the boys one day. If he comes in all sound at night, he is transferred at once from a “tender-foot” to an old settler. They use here the Mexican saddles, weighing from thirty-five to forty-five pounds.The weather at present is fine; we have had no storms as yet. and exnect to have this kind of weather till Jan-uary.I will write you again in a short time, and give you a general descrip tinn of the men’s lives—how they live. c.At present, they have a big Indian scare a few hundred miles east of here, but we do not anticipate any trouble.I remain yours, e.,J. N. PAYNE, Formerly independent candidate forClerk of Jefferson county.Saluda Letter.Saluda, Oct. 26th, 1878.To the Editor of the Herald:I know your readers are always glad to hear some'hing from the spicy land of “Sweet Saluda,” and I therefore propose to give you a few item* occa 8ioually, in order that the outside world may know what is going »n at the “hub” of creation. I don’t propose to give you any gossip or slauder, for that’s a regular trade here, aud belongs to the fine arts. I do not wish to eucroach on the rights of those who have served in that trade lo! thesehas improved sonic, though Dr. Phil lips is kept busy all the lime. There has been more to do than one physician could attend to, and the Doctor looks considerably wearied.The teachers of this township held their first institute last Saturday at Centyr School-housv. Their next meetings will he held on the first Saturdays in each inontn, aud a general invitation to attend is extended to all. I; was proposed that the institute should meet at the different school-houses, and that the teacher should have hi-school in sc-sion until noon, after which the pupils Would be dismissed, and the members of the institute crit icise his teaching, and make such sug gestions as would be beneficial to the school. The schools are all starting well, aud uo doubt will do goodwork.Miss Nannie Harris n Mr*. Loekliait Mr. Sol. Aeree •Miss Mary Jone*Mr*. Hattie YanHom Mr. J as. Mount Mr. O. E. Arbuckle Mr. W. D. Hearn Mr. Ilarvy Bummers Mr. Geo. C. Monroe Mi** Maggie Williams Mi. Foster Well*in District No. 1X.Terrible Murder «f an Entire Family Near Vincennes.[By Telegraph to the Sentinel.] VrNCENNHS. Ind., Oct. 24. -Tin-morning, as the average citizen *a j}repariug.J|ii}i*elf .foejthu us»ttka* lt;nlt; * tiona of the day and feeling grntefo. that, ha had DMMd aootWDig£t«rf« fro* ***** naurtfcrara and tramps, -tow uamdtjr staid and quiet city was thunderstruck with 4he report that* wtiole family t»t people had . been rtithleaaly irtifrdered in cold blood without a momert's warning «| the dread fate which overtook tfwui. The rumor flew from one to another, and it was discovered to be no false alarmlt; as a messenger had reached the sheriff's residenoe at 7 o’clock, notifying hint that the family of John D. Vacelet, consisting of himself, wife and two children, had been murdered dWring the night. The sheriffs deputies and Justice Heidenrich, acting coroner, immediately proceeded to the scene of the murder, which was a farm four miles east of the city belonging to \V. J. Wise, and occupied by Vacelet as a tenant. The farm is situated on the Evansville railroad, the track being only 200 yards from the house, which is an ancient ramshackle aflair consisting of three rooms, ami is about three quarters of a mile from the main road which leads from the city in that direction. Theapproach to t hehoiise isth rough a dense forest of scrub oaks by a wagon road not much used. The house is surrounded on the north and east by this forest, and on the south aud west are the fields which were cultivated by Vacelet before his untimely taking ofi. It is a gloomy, lonely place, and the nearest neighbors are half a mile distant. Yonr correspondent reached the scene and found 500 or 600 person-collected from the city and neighbor h «od, all busy discussing the horrible tragedy which had been enacted at nui own doors.John D. Vacelet, the murdered man. is 55 years of age, has lived in this vicinity for 30 years, having for maov years previous to his going on the farm filled the position of sexton at the Catholic cemetery and janitor of the cathedral. His character was good, and he hail no enemies and harmed nobody. He was a simple, unsophi-ticated man, retaining milch of the primitive simplicity of the ancient French settler, and pursued the even tenor of his way in the limited sphere he moved in, at peace with his neighbors and contented with his lot. His wife was 50 years of age. The two sons, F'ank and John, aged respectively 16 and 14 years, were stout, hearty-looking fellows. Pierre Provost, the suspected murderer, is 45 years of age, weighs perhaps 150 pounds, has nothing specially murderous in hts expression, but has a quiet, stolid lock. He came here as a strati-in February last, and was hired bv Vacelet to assist him in his farm work. He represented himself as only a short time from France, and speaks no En-ltsh. He says that he was awakened about halt-past 3 o'clock by a noise in the house, and saw four or five men struggling with the inmates. Ho immediately jumped out of a window and ran to Eugene Broetle’s house, half a mile dis'ant, ami informed them what was going on. Bruetle, his wife, son and a neighbor, accompanied by Provost, returned to Vaeelet’s after preparing and eating breakfast, reaching there at 5 o’clock, nearly an hour after Provost reached Bmetle’e, and seeing the condition ot affairs immediately dispatched a messenger to the sheriff. The house consists of three rooms. Provost and ttie two bovs occupied one room, the boys sleeping on a high bed aud Provost oil a tinn-dle bed, the old man and his wife occupying another room, which was used as a kitchen. The other room, a small one, was used as a lumberThree axes and a pruning fork were found in the ro om All of them had blood on them, but only one axe bore evidence of basing been used in the bloody ma-sacre. It had blood and hair on it; the others only had blood on the sides, not on the edge or poll. The two boys were discovered on the bed with their heads terribly crushed and gashed. There set med to have been no snuggie upon their part. Vacelet was lying- in the doorway between the two rooms, evidently hav ing heard the assis-in as he dispatched his two first victims, and had cone in to discover what was the matter. There he was met by the murderer, and his body presented a fearful and sickening ap|earance. There were nine gashes on the head and face and three on his arm, shoulders and breast. There had evidently been a severe struggle. The old ladv was in her bed, with five ghastly cuts on her face and head and one across the throat, sever* ing the jugular vein as it done by a knife. She had evidently not moved while the struggle was going on between her husband Htnl the murderer. Perha|s she lost her senses and died without suffering.The whole scene was enuogh to make the heart of the stoutest man quake with terror, aud cause the most hardened to shed a tear. The floor ran with blood; the bed clothes were soaked with it. The walls and ceiling were spattered with blond and brains. It looked like a slaughter house. The prisoner appeared cool and calm, and although frequent threats were made both in French and English to hang him, he did not lose his composure. He ran to Bruetle’s house with noth' ing lt;m hut hi.- shirt. Tiie clothes which he usually wore have not yet been discovered. Blood was found on his shirt and arm, and the hloodpr tracks of a barefooted person were discovered by the bedside of the old lady. The neighbors give Provost a gmtd character, and many of them believe in his innocence. Circumstances thus f ir point to him as ihe guilty man.Mauy Klml Vord*.[Madison Star. Oct. 22d ]The B-ard •■{ Directors of the Madison Herald met ve-terday and closed up the first financial year of their pa per under its present management file establishment was leased to Mr Lin. C. Jones for two years, Mr. Jones taking entire charge, Mr Randall go ing mu. Mr. Jones is to be highly congratulated upon tip* marked success be has made of the Herald. He took charge nf it when it was bankrupt and next to worthless, and has irtade it a firmly established, paying paper. The net profits of i he Herald last year were $1,400, a splemled showing. When the fact is taken into consideration that Mr. Jones had nn tiewsp.t-pea-suxperien*, and hut limited Opportunity ever before I . d } ntrnads'ie work, his succ ss is the ni u-e marked tfml surprising. The rtiar Warmly «nd aWraefelT ^jgWies fir •|1flt;c*ticoess of it-i-itenijr.tj.iiry. the. Herald. That p..-
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Madison Weekly Herald
Madison, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 30, 1878
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