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A lady from Bedford county gives us the subjoined particulars of one of the most atrocious and horrible crimes we have ever been called upon to record. It appears that Mr. Henry Creasey, living In the Meadows of Goose Creeek, In Bedford coun ty, come short time since had the misfortune to love his wife, who died leaving an infant child. The infant was placed under the care of Mr. John Morgan, its grandfather, and was nursed by a colored girl, aged about fifteen years. Two or three days, since Mrs. Morgan had occasion to scold this girl for some delinquency, at which she showed marked signs of anger and re sentiment. The next day Mrs. Morgan visited a neighbor's house, a short distance off, leaving the child with the nurse. Dur ing her absence the fiendish nurse, to gratify her anger against Mrs. Morgan, deliberately threw the child into the fire, and let it re main there until its rege were burned off at the ankle, causing its death. When Mrs. Morgan returned in a few hours, she was horrified to see the innocent little babe curved almost to a crisp, its distorted fea tures indicating the terrible agonies it had endured. The three, who still remained o the house, was at once texed with the dead, but denied it bitterly, stating that the child’s rage had been eaten off by a dog while she left only a few moments. This was wholly disproved by the plain marice of the fire, and the brute being threatened with severe punishment, finally condessed that she had committed the horrible deed in the manner above stated, and nesigos as her reason her dissatisfaction against Mrs Morgan. She was then conveyed to Liberty and committed to jail for trial. She should properly have been hung from the limb of the first convenient tree.—Tynehburg ( Va.) News, Philadelphia thieves have a plan for res cuing their comrades from the police which would have done credit to the ingenuity of Chicago. It was introduced for the benefit of James Haggerty, the other day. They collected in the courtyard in force, and when the door of the van was opened Jimmy jumped past the officers and through an opening which the crowd made for him, running of The mars of bin fiends then closed up about the officers, opened um brella in their faces, shouted fire, and got up a sham fight in the doorway of the hotel through which Jimmy ran, blocking all pureult until he had dodged out a beel door, jumped into a back that was to wait ing and drove of. Mr. Jobo Swinton, who lately left the New York Times, after many years of ser vice upon it as an editorial associate of Mr. Raymond, is engaged upon a work entitled “Ten Years of Journalism.” It will not only embrace Mr. Swinton’s experience as editorial writer and managing editor, but will treat of the leading elements, features sach characteristics of metropolitan journal im. Such topics as the “Editorial Life,” “Journalism Today,” the ‘Scope and Power of Journalism,” “Journaliatio Mor ala,” the “Editorial Style, etc, etc., will be discussed from the standpoint of experi ence. There is a woman in Rochester, New York, who is opposed to second marriage. Of course she ban a cast from husband and known he will never die and give her a chance to rope in another one. She argues through a Rochester paper that escend ma rrage ought to be forbidden by law, on the ground that as mad is immortal we should legislate for the next world as well as for this—that if it is a crime to have two wives or two husbands there [i will be w crimes there after. All this may be so; and as we bave’ at least ninety per cent. more legislation In this world than we know what to do with. It would probably be wwll enough to whip some of It to the next,
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Petroleum Centre Daily Record
Petroleum Centre, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Nov 05, 1869
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