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THE BUTLER HERALD. Published By W. N. k2Eti?J3. A WEEKLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER,DEVOTED to INDUSTRY AND CIVILIZATION. Terms, oxrcnoirAn a yeah. In Advance VOLUME 3, BUTLEJB, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, AlMilL 22, 1879. whole jwxni it i as Advertising Rates. One sqnare one Insertion $1 00; each sab* sequent insertion 00 cents. Ouo oolumn.one year $100.00 One column, nix months 60 00 One column, three tnoDths 36 00 Half column, one year 6000 Half column, six mouths * .30 00 Hall column, three mouths 20 00 Quarter column, one year 30 00 Quarter column, sit months 20 00 Quarter column, three ukuiUui 12 00 Communications ot a political character, <i art cles written in aivocncy or defense of toe oluims of aspirants for oliloe, 16 cents per line. Announcement ef Candidates *5 00. Lega Advertisements Will be inserted at the following rates Sheriff sales, per square *..... $3 50 Application frnlettew of administration 100 I 'cave the fi< Id. At 8,510 the watch Application for letters of uuurdii cship j^iof the murdered man had stopped. Dismission from administration one „ , , , The farm bailiff declared that he had met Mr. Dnbourg hastily leav ing the field by the stile at that very time. Asked if he had look ed at his watch, he owned that h* had not done so. Certain previ ous circumstances, which he men tioned as having impressed them- selv. a on his memory, enabled him to feel sure of the truth of this as sertion without having consulted his watch. He was pressed on this important, point, but he held to his declaration. At 8,30 he had seen Mr. Dubourg hurriedly that, on his oath the Altercation having occurred six weeks ago, he had never spoken to the man, or sot eyes on the man since. As the matter there stood, these circumstances were considered ns being unfortunate circumstances for Mr. Dubourg—nothing more. Ho had his ‘‘alibi” to appeal to, and his character to appeal to;and nobody doubted the result. The lady appeared ah witness. Confronted with Mr. Dnbourg the new witness, who*e evidence! in the prisoner’s favor he declared to be too important to be delayed tor a single moment. After a short colloquy between the judge and barristers on either side, the court decided to continue the sitting. The witness appearing in the box, proved to b» a young woman in delicate health. On the ev ening when the prisoner had paid his visit to the lady she was in that ludv's service as housemaid. on the question of time, and lore-[The day after she had been per ed to answer, she absolutely con-’ niitted (by previous arrangement tradicted him, on the testimony bfj with her mistress,) to take a week’s Dismission from guardianship 6 Ou For leave to sell 1-uid 4 «0 Application for homestead iW Hotice to debtors and creditors 4 0() hale of real estnteby administrators, fifteen- t rs and guardians, per square, 3 00 Sale of perishable property, ten days.. .,2 0C Estray notices, 30 d»»vs , u0. All bills for advertisiuu in this paper are due ou the first appearance ot the advertise ment will br presented when the money is needed. THE BUTLER HERALD. \V, N. BEN NS. Editor ami Pulfslior, Bt.0juptiom TtttOB $1.00, }‘ju Annum TUESDAY APRIL 22ud 1879. Condcmntcl by a Clock- 11Y WILKIE OOI.I.IX3. On a sura ago, u man w •r ere rung, years f und inurdoivd in u field near a certain town, in the west ot England. The nume ol the H-Id was “Pardon's Piece/' The man was a small ca ponier and builder in the town, who bore an indifferent ' hatacter. On the evening in question a distant rela tive of his, employed a« farm bai- litf'by a. gfeitlemun ip the neigh borhood, happened to br passing »• stile which led from the field int* the road, and saw a geutlenian leaving the field by way of this stile rather iu a hurry. He rec ognized the gentleman (whom he kuew by sight only) us a Mr. Du bourg. They passed each other on tin road in opposite directions. After a certain lapse of time—estimated as being a half hour—the farm bailiff had occasion to pass back along the same road. On reach ing the stile he heard an alarm raised and entered the field to see what was thr matter. He fouiii several persons runuijngjjtywiu *t»Le further side of Parson shjHiiJefor ward a boy who was standing at the back of a cattle, shed, iii a re mote part of the enclosure, scream ing with terror. At the boy’s feel lay, lace downward, the dead body of a man with his head horribly beaten in. His watch was under him hanging out of his pocket by the chain. It had stopped—evi dently in cousequeoco of the con cussion of its owner’s fall on it— at 8,30, The body was still warm. All the other valuables, like the watch, was left on it. The farm bailiff instantly recognised the man as the carpenter und builder mentioned above. At the preliminary inquiry the stopnge of the watch at 8,30 was taken as ottering good circumstan tial evidence that the blow which had kill H e man had been struck At that time, The next question was if any one had been uear the body at 8,30? Had any other person been ob served in or near the field at that He? No witness had been discovered who had seen anybody vise uear ihe place. Had the weapon turn- d up with which the Vow had been struck? It had not beeu found. Was any one known (rob bery hnviug plainly not been the motive of the crime,) to have en tertained a gudge aganst the murdered man? It was no secret that be associated with doubtful charm tt is, male and tamale; but suspicion failed to point to any one of them in particular. In this state of things there was no alternative but to request Mr. Dnbourg—well known in and out of town «s u young gentleman ol independent ionuoe, bearing an exc ilfiit elmracier--—to give some account of himself lie immediately admitted that be Imd passed through the field. 13itt, in contradiction to the farm hoi iff he declared that he looked at bis wu ch at the moment bc- or« he ciO'sed the stile, und that the time by it was exactly 8,15 Five minutes later, that is in say, ten minutes before the uiurdot bad beetuj"TLQiilted, on I he evutanc of tub dead man's watch, be had paid a visit to a lady living near Fat don's Piece, and had r* maiued with her until his watch, consult ed once more on l*«vitig the lady’s house, informed him that it was 8,45. Here was what the defence call ed an “alibi.” It entirely satis fied Mr. Dubourg’s friends. To satisfy justice also it was necessa ry to call the lady as a witness. In the meantime another purely formal question was put to Mr. Dubourg. Did he know any thing of the murdered man? With some appearance of confu sion, Mr. Dubonig admitted that he hud been induced by a friend to employ the man on some work. Further interrogation extracted from him the following statement of facts: That the work had been very badly done; that an exorbitant price had been charged lor it; thai the man, on being renionutrated which had behaved in a grossly impertinuut manner; that an al tercation had taken place between them; that Mr. Dubourg had seiz ed the man by the collar of his coat, and had turned him out of the house; that he had called tin man an internal scoundrel (being in a passion at the time,) and threatened to “thiash bin within an inch of his life’’ (or words t< that effect) if he ever presumed to come near the house again; that he hud sincerely regretted his own violence the momeot he r» covered his self-possession; and las'ly, the clock on her In substance, her simply this: She looked at bur clock when Dubourg entered the room, thinking it rather a lute hour for a visitor to ca'l on her. The clock (regulated by the maker only the day before,) pointed to twenty-five minutes to nine. Prac tical experiment showed tlmt the; time required to walk the distance, at rapid pace, from the stile to the* lady's house, was just five minutes. Mere, then, was the farm bailiff (himself a respectable witness.) corroborated by another witness of excellent position and character The clock on being uxamiut.d iu.\t, was found to he right, The evi dence of the clock maker prove ! that In- kept the key, and that there had beqn no necessity to set the clock ntul wind it up again, since lie had performed both those nets on the day preceding Mr. 1 tuboiirg’s visit, Tljo accuracy ot tlu? cjoek thus vouched for, the codclnsion on the evidence was ir tesiWtjhlf^ Mr. Dubourg stood 1 c«■ ii- victcd of* having been in tin? fi Id at the time when the murder was oorijfaitftfd; of having, by bis own admission, had a quarrel with the murdered man not long b- fore, terminating in an assault and Hi rent on his side, and, lastly, of having attempted to set up an alibi by false statement of the question of time. There was no alternative lmfc to commit him to fake his trial at the assizes, charged with the murder of the builder in Pardon's Piece. The trial occupied two days. No new facts of importance were discovered in the interval. The evidence followed the course which it had taken and the pieliiniunry examinations, with this difference only, that it was more carefully sifted. Mr. Dubourg had the dou ble advantage of securing the ser vices ol the leading barrister of the circuit, and of moving the irrepros- siblesympathiea of the jury,shocked at his position, and eager for proof of his innocence. By the end of the first day the evidence hud told against him with such irresistible f< rej that his own counsel despair ed of the result. When the priso ner took his place in the dock on the second day there was but one conviction in the minds of the peo pie iu court; everybody said “the clock will hang him.” It was nearly two in the after noon, an«l the proceedings were ou the point of being adjourned for half an hour, when the attorney for the people was seen to hand a p&per to the counsel for the de fense. The counsel rope showing sign-t of agitation which roused the cu riosity of the audience. lie de manded the immediate hearing of: past eight. holiday, and to go on a visit to her parents in the west of Corn wall. While there she had fallen ill. and had not beeu strong enough since to return to her employment. Having given this preliminary ac count of herself, the housemaid then narrated ihe following extra ordinary particulars iu relation to her mistiess’s clock: On th<- morning of the day when Mr. Dnhourg had called at the bouse she hud been cleaning the mantbqiiu.ee. She bad rubbed the part of it. which was under the dock with her duster, had acci dentally struck tlie pendulum, and had Mopped it. Having once be fore done this Rhe had been severe- V reproved. f eat ing that a repe- lit’on of the offence, only the day after the deck had been regulated by the mnk’-r, might lead perhaps L) the withdrawal of hi r leave of abs tice, she had determined to put matters right again if possible by herself After poking under the clock in the. dark, and failing to set the pendulum going again properly in that way, she next attempted to lilt the clock and give it a shake. It was set in a tumble case, with a bronze figure on the top, and it •vhn sm heavy that she was obliged to bunt for something which she could use as lever. The thing prov ed not easy ft) linf! ou the spur of the moment. Having at last laid her band ou what she vnu.tui, she contrived so to lift the clock a few incln g and drop it again ou the uiuntb piece aa to set. it going once more. The next necessity was, of course to move the hands on. Here agaiu she was met by un obstacle. There was difficulty in opening the glass case which protected the dial. Af ter uselessly Beaching hr some instrument to help her, she g *t the footman (without tel ing him what she wanted it tor) a small chisel. With this she opened tlie case—after aciden tally scratching die brass frame of it—and sat the hands of the clock by guess. She wi l flurried at the time, fearing thut her mistress might discover her. Later in the day she found that she had ov**r estimated the interval of time that bad parsed while she was attempting to put the clock right. She had, in fact, set it just a quarter of hour too fust. No safe, opportunity of soeretely put ting the clock right again, had occured until the hist thing at night. Sko had moved the hands buck to the right time. At the hour of the evening when Mr. Dubourg hud culled on her mis- ire:.s she positively swore that the clink whs n quarter of un lour too fust. J t lmd pointed, us her mistruss had d»* c!ared, to twenty-five minutes to nine -—the right time then being, us Mr. Dubourg ImW asserted, twenty mil cites Questioned ns to why she had re-4 frained from giving this extrnordnary evidence at the inquiry before the mag* •trate, she declared that in the distant Cornish village to which she had gone next day, and in which her illness, bad detained bar from that time, nobody had heard of the inquiry or the trial* She would not have been then present to state the, vitally important circum stances to which she hud ju4t sworn if the prisoner’s twin brother /had • not found her out ou th'e previous day,had not questioned her if she knew any* thing about the clock* , and had not (hearing what. ho . hud to tell) insisted ou her taking the journey with him to court next morning. The-evidence virtually derided the trial. i - • Them was a great hurst of relief in the crowded assembly when- the wo man’s statement Imd come to ua end. She was closely cross-examined a8 a mutter of course. Her character was inquired into; corrohnrative evidence (relative to tlio chisel and the scratch es on the frame) wan sought for, and whs obtained. The end of it was that, at a late hour on the second evening, the jury acquitted the prisoner without leaving their box. It was too much to say that his life Imd been saved by his brother. His brother alone had persisted front first to lust, iu obstinate ly disbelieving the clock—for no better reason than that the c’ock was the witness which asserted the prisoner’s guilt t He Imd worried everybody with his incessant inquiries; lie had discov- •red the absence of the house-maid af ter tlie trial had begun and he had staited off to interrogate the girl,know ing nothing and suspecting nothing— Himply determined to persist in the one everlasting question witli which he per secuted everybody. “The clock is go ing to hung my brother; can you tell ine anything about the clock?” Four months later the mystery of the crime was clewed up. One of the disreputuble companion* of the tnur* dered man confessed on his death-bed that he had done the dead. Thera wa® nothing interesting or„ remarkable in the circumstances, i'iiaftc // edflwbdjad put innoceuoe in peril, had offered ini'* punity to guilt. An iufitoious woman, u jealous quarrel, und the absence at the moment of witnesses on the spot —these were really the commonplace materials which composed the tragedy. Married Life. We commend to those who medi tate crossing the Rubicon of single blessedness and traveling ou life’s lonj£ journey together, the very beautiful and apposite advice ofFredeiioka Rre- There iu a world of wisdom nud good sense in what she says. Listen: Deceive not out* another in small tbiugs nor in great. Oue liftle sin-, gle lie 1ms, before now, dishirlu'd a whole married life. A small c*u«o lias often great consequences. Fold not the arms together und sit idle, “Laziness is the devil’s cushion.” Da not run much from home. Due’s own health is of more worth than gold. Many a marriage, my friends, begins like the rosy morning, and then tails away like a snow-wreath. Ami why, my friends? Because the married pair neglect to be as well pleasing to each other after marriage as before. En deavor always, my children, to please one another; but at the saiu« time keep Clod in your thoughts. Lavish not ail your love on to-day, for remember the marriage has its to-morrow, too. “Spare as one may say, fuel for .the winter.” Consider, my daugfflbrs, what the word wife expresses. The married wo man is her hmsbaud’s domestic faith, and in her hand lie must be abie to con fide house and family; be able to entrust to her, the key of his heart, *« well a» tin- key of hisbuiiug-room. liis honor and iti<7 home are under •)«»*• keeping, hi* wil-being is iu her hunt!. Think of this. And you, my sons ho faithful hus bands, and good fathers of f-miiiftfi. Act so that ymu wives shall eMucm mid love y*u.