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Greencastie Banner.I- rom Washington-Collafed from Fellies for theG. J. LAXIfSDAJdS. - v ^ Editor tGtecncastle* IndXia.THURSDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1878Near Vincennes, Wednesday night of last week, John Vacelet, a Frenchman, his wife, and two sons, were cut to pieces with ax in the hands of BOine unknowk person. Pierre Provost, a Frenchman who had been working on the fatrm for a few months, was arrested on suspicion, but the evidence was cireuursiantial. lie was a man of fifty years, lie came to a neighbor’s house the night of the murder, with nothing «5n hut his shirt, and informed them in broken English that they had va h—1 -of a time over at Vacelet’s.” The neighbor, Mr. Hruettc, furnished him with clothing, and, after break, fast, in company with his son and another neighbor, went with Provost to the scene of horror, but notified the authorities before entering the house. A coal-oi! lamp was burning on the table, and three axes were found in the house, but, apparently, only one of them had been used in the slaughter, the others being smeared with blood for a purpose. Vacelet was an honest man, and had accumulated some prop, erty. Saturday night Provost hanged himself with a towel and a portion of his coat made into a rope. When the jailor entered with his breakfast Sunday morning, the bloody fiend was stiff and cold. lie bad to draw his feet up from the floor and hold them until respiration ceased. A quiet smile of sweet peace played upon his features as if he gloried in his deed and in cheating j ustice. Late Saturday night a priest exhorted him to confess and take communion, as there was danger of lynching, and the holy man wanted him to go into the presence of his Maker with his soul stainless, but Pierre would not listen to him. A vigilance committee had been organized, it is said, and he would nndoubt-ly have been lynched. The most reasonable theory is that Provost had been hired by Vacelet’s relatives in Franco to put the family out of the way to prevent them from sharing in the large property recently left in that country by a deceased brother. The place was well chosen for the bloody deed. Knox county is reliably Democratic, and Blue Jeans is Governor.mt- • w —-The Army of the Tennessee is having a reunion at Indianapolis. The association is composed mostly of prominent officers. Thomas A. Hendricks has been selected to resnondWashington, OUp to date the applications siohs ou account of the 1; ainotmt, in round figures, to 1 deed thousand, two hundred a t Iron sand of which were made and two hundred and forty 1 by widows.The Democratic leaders an ing very restive at the ciph ness. They have been waiti Tilden spoke and they now 8? not spoken to the purpose, them declare that they will influence to have the Natioi ocratic Committee formally Tilden and all his designing f but nobody has yet beon fou enough to give any public e: to this private talk*Attorney General Devens tlt; Northrop, United States atb South Carolina: “I want nlt;ing or guarantees, but a judic tigation of the outrages a have been committed upon ing parties in the exercise rights as United States citize Secretary Sherman says of Anderson's retraction: Heways been satisfied that thlt; history would in the end fu cate him from all charges a srons -in the matter of the Sherman letter, and bp wot to assist, rather than to del -struct, a thorough exaijiinn all the facts.News from South Carolina the worst that has been fcai the situation there. Wade is conceded to have been hoi his promises, but he is ] against his followers. The which Gov. Hampton at tl made to prevent this cone affairs have been abandoned now allows bis own aids to I: in this repressive movemen Shirts.* The latter have dc that no Republicans shall h in South Carolina; that Rcpn jorities must be overcome by force, fraud, regardless of t or consequences. They are tent that they have control branch of the State Goi They wish to drive the color from politics even in -the where the black majority is i one. The District Attorney to obey the letter of Attorn cm Devens, or to execute the lav is no longer a pretext that a lion is to be held in South The fact that Anderson hf statement hostile to the Dor giving them much concern agree that if lie does not static until the Potter committee ( a report based on his evidc whole basis of a report would away. Among others who ] the attempt to force the invlt; upon Congress, it is undersl it can be proved that Col. Pe down to Baltimore and had i with a number of those i here, and that he insisted, in
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