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The Butler Herald. Piibltuhed By W. N. BENN8. A WEEKLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER,DEVOTED TO INDUSTRY AND CIVILIZATION . | O.VJH Terms, DOLLAR A YEAR. In Advance- BUTLER, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JUNE 11. 187*. DHOLE M'MHEH 8 4 . Advertising Rates. On* square one insertion $1 00; each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. One oolnmu,one year $100.00 One oolttmn, six months 50 00 One column, three months 35 00 Half oolninn, ene year 50 00 Half column, six months 30 00 Half oolumu, three months 20 00 Quarter column, one year - • 30 00 Quartor oolumu, six months 20 00 Quarter column, throe months 12 00 Communications of a political character, cl orioles written in alvocaot or defense of toe claims of Aspirants for office, 15 cents per line. Announcement ef Candidates $5 00. 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 Will be inserted at the following rates has ever occurred in the confines Sheriff sales, per square $3 60 Sheriff’s mortgage sales 6 80 Application for letters of administration 4 80 Application for letters ef guardianship. .4 00 . Dismission from administration 6 00 Dismission from guardianship ....500 v Yer leave to sell land 480 Application tor homestead .4 00 Noufie to debtors and oreditors........ 4 00 ftale of real estate by administrators, execu- t >rs ami guardians, per square 3 00 Sale of perishable property, ton days... .2 $( Estruy notifies, 30 days ‘»0. All bills for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of the adverlite- inimt will bf presented when the money is UC:du(i. THE BUTLER HERALD. W. N. BENNS. lit!Itor and Publisher. * 1’wor 81.00. Fan Annum. 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.