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The Butler Herald.
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W. N. BENN8.
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A Horrible Tragedy.
A Wholesale Murdek of a Family
and Suicide op the Proprietor
One op the most Heart-Si cken-
i no Carnivaia op Death on Re
cord.
The Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger of Wednesday f*th inst.,
contains the following :
In Sumter county one of the
most sickening tragedies was com-
Legal Advertisements Jmittedon Monday evening that
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THE BUTLER HERALD.
W. N. BENNS.
lit!Itor and Publisher.
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TUESJnY, JUNE 11th 1878,
M ATI0NAL HOTEL,
(■ ' *?. C. CORBETT, Pro.
Nearly Uppohii'K Pakhknubk Depot
MACON, GEOUG1A.
■ft 2 to $3 Per Day,
Accor fling to Room
of the State. The news reached
the cich yesterday afternoon early
and we set immediately about pro
curing the facts in the case. So
terrible and unprecedented were
the details as almost to stagger
creduality. Facts soon began to
pour in, however, uutil the last
lingering doubt was dispelled and
the crime stood forth in all its re
volting reality.
It seems that the tragedy occur
red in the western portion of Sum
ter county,about fifteen miles from
Americus, near u place known as
Davison's Mills.
Mr. John \V. Caldwell, who
was regarded as a bard working,
quiet. industrious citizen,proceed
ed in apparently the most method
ical manner to butcher his entire
family.
Various remora are afloat, and
numerous causes have been assign
ed for the deed, but we have ascer
tained as closely us possible the
tacts in the case, and they use as
follows, as brought forth iu the
coroner's inquest :
Caldwell first proceeded to kill
1 ANIER HOUSE, i iis wi<e with a smut King iron by
B. DUB, Proprietor,
A4ACON, - — — O-
—O—
ami comfort of its patroi
desirable and convenient
The Tables
Have the beat the market affVla. Omni
) and Iroiu depot free of charge, bag-
* free ol elrnrge.
I supplied with the best wines
jil liquors.
DR. RICE,
37 Court Place, LOUISVILLE, KY.,
MM, »4 produdig mom o f tk* tglk>wl*| *ff*ct>: Hirriil
■M-iwlMlKMluInni, Dtan*** of Bl«ht, DHMtto I*
«* rfcnfcalDmj’, Plmnln* M Vim. AverMM to Bodrtr at
Pott**, Ooofiulon of idea*, Lom of Banna 1 Pow*r,
r*r.4f'la,Marria*a !mprr>j*r or ankappr, ara thonachly
Sf
Taia Sum qufckljr cured. rniluti treated by Ballarn.
«rcai Cawaltatiaa (rca and lorltad. cfcaraw mioniMa
Ul cmpaadaaaa MrieUy omBdaattal
A PRIVATE COUNSELOR
Of M pa«a*, aw t to a ay tUdraM, **e*rt It mM, Hr Mr*
SLiTbmb rwta.ii. SrV.k
fJiyflBIbnwnfcRs you can engage in. 85
U Jjljl t0 $20 per day made by auy worker
«t either eex. right in their own Idealities.
Particulars and samples worth $5 free. Im
prove your spare time at this business. Ad
dress Stinson t Co., Portland, Maine.
||ff!
cretioD oreice«i.~AnybnifVl«^ iiaS Uie Ingre-
dlenU. Dr. W. JAQVBft A CO., No. 1M
«, IfMt Sixth KlfNt. CfrtBMH. «.
OEOltGIA—Taylor Countv :
To whom to may concern : Whereas L.
Q (J. MeOrary, Administrator, dr bonis non.
on tli - estate of Mrs. Dm. J. Wiichur, ot
said conuty deceased, ban filed in iny office
his final return showing that lie has fnily
administered said estate and praying for let-
iers of Dismission from said Administration.
These are therefore to require all persons
concerned, auditors und next of kin. to show
cuiii* *t any they cun, on or heturu the tint
Monday in August nox». why Mid letters
should uot be Granted und said applicant dis
missed us pru' ed.
«*iv‘. niidi r my baud and Official .Signs*
turn. is 1st May 1H7H.
JAMBS D. HUSH,
Culinary.
beating out her brains.
Not content, he attacked his
children,and with the same weap
on dashed out the brains of three
of them, Still uot content with
tiThojocation is the harvest of death which he had
lesspor j ie rU8 | ie j j u to the garden
where his sister-in-law,Miss Fran
ces Mitchell, had fled for safety
when the bloody work first com
menced, and seizing a grubbing
hoe, with repeated strokes muti
lated her skull fearfully, almost
instantly killing her. He then
turned his attention to himself.
He climbed upon the roof of his
residence. This was the first that
was kuowu of the affair. Home ne
groes were at work in a field near
by when they heard screams, and
when they turned they saw Cald
well on the top of the house, ges
ticulating violently and'culling/or
help. They hasteued toward him
but as they approached they saw
him leap from-the house-top. He
fell on his bteast and body. He
was taken up insensible, and car
ried in the house where the ghast
ly sight of the murdered mother
aud children met their gaze.
One of the negroes then started
for assistance, leaving two others
to watch the man, they were now
convinced was a taving maniac.
Caldwell, soon le.ived aud the
negroes asked him “wlmt have
you done ? are you iu your sen
ses?” He replied “yes, I have
killed my fainity and want to kill
myself,” and begged the negroes
to kill him,
They, of couia^, refused, He
then s©ht one of them away for a
neighbor, leaving hut one with
him. The murderer then started
toward the colored juhu, telling
him if he did not leave he would
kill him. The negro fled,
Caldwell then proceeded to the
gin house, near by,climbing to its
top. One of hie sons,about twelve
years of age, come up apd asked
him what was the (Patter. He re
plied that he had killed his fami
ly and was going to kill himself.
By this time the alarm had been
sounded through the neighbor
hood and they began to approach,
and in full sight of them he plung
ed head foremost to the ground, a
distance of thirty feet, striking on
his head, and died in a few mo
ments.
Those killed were three children
Alice, agen ten, Robert six and
Leila, two years of age, his wife,
Nancy, aged forty and the ai§ter-
in-law, Miss Francis.* Mitchell,
thirty-eight years of agf.
He had eight children. Four
were absent from home to the field
aud elsewhere. His little daugh
ter, Emma, was at bomb hut es
caped by flight, runuihg three-
quarters of a mile and giving the
alarm. As she passed her father
said, “Emma,do you want to die/'
she being terror strickeu said,
“Oh, papa, no.” He then said,
“then leave here quick, or I will
kill you.”
He was a man of forth-seven
years, a consistent member of the
I’rimative Baptist church,and the
clerk of his church. Me was mild
it manner, »m l regarded us a
quiet iudusfrious,peacihle and iu-
offensive citizen.
Two. theories of the cause af the
murders and suicides have been
formed—one that he was insane
at the time of the tragedy. Our
latest advices, however, assure us
that it is clear that he was not in
sane, but that the cause of the
great crime was his improper re
lations with his sister-in-law,who
was found to be in a delicate state.
The community is greatly chock
ed. Six coffins were seat out from
Americus yesterday. Such a trag
edy has never before occurred in
this portion of our State, and we
trust we may not again have to
chronicle such deeds of bloodshed
aud unnatural villiany.
Sleeping Together.
More quarrels occur between
brothers, between sisters, between
hired girl,between clerks in stores
between apprentices in mechanics’
shops,between hired mefrjbetween
husbands and wives, owing to
electrical changes through which
.their nervious system go, by lodg
ing together night after night.,
under the same bed-clothos, than
by almost auy disturbing cause.
There is nothing that will so de
range tho nervious system of a
person who is eliminative in uer-
vious force .as to lie all night in
bed with another person who is
absorbent in nervous force. The
absorber will go to sleep and rest
all night, while the eliminator
will bo tumbling and tossing,
restless and nervous, and wake
up iu the morning fretful,peevjsh,
fault-finding and discouraged. No
two persons, no matter who they
are, should habitually sleo|) to
gether, One will thrive and the
other will lose. This is the law
and, in married life,it is defied al
most uifivcrtally. ChicagoLedfrer,
Lost I
1)Y HATTIE E. 8. CRBSSY,
The word lost has a painful sig
nification. The mother who sees
her child laid away in the grave
may for a time consider her sor
row very great; hut at length she
liecomes reconciled, knowing that
‘the Lord givith, and He taketh
away.” But the parent whose
child is lost in the forrest, or in
the heart of a great city, is frantic
with grief, and - v *rshadnwed with
•he most terrible forebodings un
til the child is found. Jf the child
is nof found, the jiarent never
ceases to mourn while life and
reason exists. The child may tall
a prey to the beast of the forest;
it may he captured by lawless sav
ages; on the other hand, it may
perish in the streets of the vast
city; it may wonder to the dock
and be drowned, or it may he
caught up by some vicious person
who will rear it after the manner
of his own vile heart. Such con
jectures will constantly oppress
the minds of the afflicted parents,
and tin y will never know a mo
ment's rest this side of the grave,
for tkey know not the fate of their
I* st, lost child. The sceues of the
long gloomy night iu which every
street iu the city was ransacked,
or the phantoms of the trackless
forest pursued,in hopes to find the
missing one,ate ever’fresh in their
memory. Soon after a battle in
Secessia, a mother, learning that
the regiment to which her son be
longed was in the engagement,
looked to find his name, not with
the killed or wounded, hut among
tho number that were missing.
Weeks passed before any of the
particulars could be ascertained.
•She thou was informed that all
the missing, except her son, had
reported themselves. He had nev
er been seen or heard of since the
day of the battle,and, in all prob
ability, he was then wounded oi
killed, and fell among the cane-
break, where he was over-looked,
and had not since been discovered.
At this intelligence her grief
was unutterable, still she indulg
ed a sweet hope that lie would he
card from again, and perhaps in
time return home, perhaps with
his regiment, which was expected
in a few weeks. Thus she remain
ed in an agony of suspense until
the clay on which the fiUO who
had survived the perils of war re
turned to their Northern homes.
They went away a thousand strong
400 of them perished either on the
battle-field or by the hand of dis
ease. On their arrival they met
with a cordial reception from the
public. As the train hove in
sight, canuous were fired, church
bells were rung, and the streets
resounded to the strrins of mar
tial music. There was also a mag
nificent arch erected, beneath
which the soldiers proudly march
ed, adorned witli wreaths of ever
greens,and mottoes,such as “Wei
come home,” “We are glad you
have come,” etc. Then the sold
iers paraded through the different
streets, and thence to the park,
where a collation awaited them.
To many it was a season of rejoic
ing, but to those whose friend*
had oot leturned it was a day of
mourning and regret.
To her wiioM* sou wan Inst,alas !
there wns no one whose grivl com
pared with bus. VYheu she was
told .that he was not with the reg
iment, aud they had brought no
further tidings of him, she drop
ped senseless in the street and was
carried home.
“If I could only know, ' she of
ten exclaimed, “ithat became of
him; even could I hear that he
died, and had a decent burial, l
could not nmmur.but this terrible
suspense aud uncertainty is unin-
durable.”
Bvr only son, on whom she do
ted, her only dependance iu her
declining years, is lord, and she
will probably never know the par
ticulars ot his death, or the inten
sity of hjs sufferings.
And how many there aru who
have perished in the gold regions
when tii*y were in pursuit ol rich
es, or ou the wide sea and no thi
ngs ever reached their friends of
their demise. They, too, are not
only dead, but lost. God grant
that a day may comp when all the
lost may be found, and that they
mav again meet the friends who
have mourned for them so long
aud.ao bitterly, never again to be
Repainted.—Chicago Ledger.
Constant Employment.
'1 ii»r man who in obliged to be con
stantly employed to earn the ueeessa-
p up port
knows hoi flin ’’Oqji ipphu
for when h« desires wealth aud idle
ness.
To be constantly busy it to be al
ways happy. Persons who have sud
denly acquired wealth, lnokcn up
llitfr active'pursuits, end began to
live at their ejtsc. waste away and (lie
iu a very short time. Thousands who
have been blessings to the world, und
added to (lie common slock ol happi-
ness, it they had been content to re
main in an humble sphere and earned
each mouthful of food that nourished
their bodies. But no; fashion and
wealth took possession of them, aud
they wore combi duly ruined* They
ran away from pence aud pleasure,
uni unpl aced u lingering death.
Ye who are sighing for the pomp
and splendor of life, beware! Ye
Know not what ye wish l So situa
tion, however exalted—no honors,
however glorious—can yield \ ou sol
id enjoyment while discontent Iui-k*
iu your bosom.
The secret of happiness lies in this:
to be always content wi'h your lot f
aud never nigh for splendor or riches
or magnilicence of fashion and power
Persons who are busy, :<ml go cheer
fully to their daily tasks, are the least
disturbed In tin* tlurlmilieu* of busi
ness, and at night deep composedly*
Beware of discontent, then—of sigh
ing and longing for that which may
never be. Go about your duties as
one who expects to-morrow may be
your last, and be liuppy even in that
thought !—Chicago Ledger.
Useful Talents,
To be a good business man voi
must hqve some talent. Businesi
is eminently fit for a man of gen
ills, and to earn a livelihood is th
best way to sharpen one’s wits
Besides, busities affairs effer betfce
apportunities at present, than th
so-called professions. Therefor
our youth sholud be thorough 1
an 1 practically trained for bum
Hess, in order that they may *tt<
ceed aud become a credit to whaf
ever calling they may adopt. A
the same time they should head
nested, u<.t to dispise labpr; toi
alter all, it is only by bard wor
that we achieve any success worth
ot tho^tiame.