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THE BEAUCHAMP TItAGE
LY.
r I ii<‘ Assassination of Atornoy-
Gcneral Sharpe--A Betrayed
Girl’s Vei gence—Marrying Alt
other Lover to Accomplish it
and Killing Herself the Night
Before he was Hanged.
From the Ciucinnatti Commercial.
01 thp many crimes coimuitted ott
the sarred soil of Kentucky there
never has been one for romance of
incident, cbivlary of motive, tragedy
of ending equal lo flint of the Beau
champ affair. Though transpiring
many years ago. its details have lost
none of their freshness, and the high
standing of the and their per
sistenf efforts to suppress everything
relating to it, have tended to perpetu
ate its remembrance, and tender it a
romance that e\en at this late day
ail Kentuckians love to talk ol and
wonder over. The murderer or infat
uated avenger of another's wrongs’
was J. 0. Beauchamp, the son of a
respectable farmer near Bo wlir g Green-
He was a young law student of unus
ual promise, whose talents and address
had attracted the favorable notice of
the afterwards murdered Solomon P.
Sharpe, at that time Attorney-General
of the State. Y< ung Beauchamp was
of ardent temperament, entertained
exalted ideas of woman’s purity, and
once upon his vacation chanced to
meet Miss Ann Cooke, a beatiful young
lady, who during his absence in the
pursuit of his studies had witlr a wid
owed mother, taken up her residence
uear his father’s farm.
It was a case of love at first sight
Miss Cooke was melancholy as a lov
er’s lute, lived in great privacy, and
her mysterious movements and in
tentional withdrawal from society
threw around a halo of mystifiea
tion that fired the ardor of the law
student and made him a willing slave
at her feet. He called upon her actu
ally forced himself into her presence
and borrowed books of her, simply to
afford him an excuse to call again.—
She repelled his advances in a mariner
that only lured him on. He persecu
ted her with kindness and haunted
her with attentions. He proposod,
tvas rejected ; she Would never marry.
He persisted with an excess of passion
aud ardor that induced her to tell him
her story, and wrung ftum him a prem
ise of revenge.
She Lad Been betrayed, she said
by Col. Sharpe. Her case was a pe
culiarly sad one. Col. Sharpe had
been raised in her father’s family. —
The sacred rites of hospitality he had
repaid by filching the daughter’s virtue.
And she like many another, became a
mother ere she was a wife. She bad
been famed for her beauty, yet her
disgrace had withered its chatmes
and crippled its powers. Her family
had been wealthy, hut adver_ity had
overtaken them. Her father and
male relatives were all dead. There
was no one to avenge her wrongs.—
Beauchamp, tied to her fate by the
silken cords of a desperate love, as
well as by the lomantic notion of a
chivalric temperament that urged him
;o wash out by assassination or chal
lenge th 9 wrong done, readily took
an oath to hurl Sharpe to the doom
he deserved.
‘‘Shaipe will not tight,” said Miss
Cock, when Beauchamp announced
his attention of calling hiui out; “he
is too great a coward,” That was in
1821.
The Legislature was in sess'on in
Frankfort. Beauchamp readily found
Co 1 . Sharpe at the Mansion House
The Colonel recognized him cordially.
“I’ve come to Frankfort to see you on
impoitaut business, ’ aud Beauchamp
took him by the atm, saying. “Lot’s
take a waik.”
They went to a retired spot by the
river s'ue, The bell at the Mansion
House rang for supper.
Beauchamp turned upon Sharpe |
with a nervous manner and eye spark- 1
ling with anger.
“Do you remember the last words
Miss Cooke, whetn you ruiued, spoke
to you ?”
Sharpe stood as if transfixed.
“I am the avenger yvhorn, in the
spii it of prophecy, she, the last time
you ever saw her, warned you would
right her wrongs.”
Shai pe stood still, deigning no re
pty.
“Will jou fight a duel with me?”
“My dear iiiend,” cringingly spoke
the Attorney General. “I canot fight
you on Mias Cooke’s account.”
‘Defend yourself, then,coward and
viilian that you are,” shrieked Deau-
DAJVSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SETT UMBER 13. 1878.
champ, drawing an enormous dirk.
‘‘l have no weapon tut a pen
knife.”
Beauchamp threw him a Spanish
knife.
“My dear friend, I cannot fight
you,” stil 1 urged Sharpe.
“You d—J villian, what do you
mean by that? That she is not wor
thy you should fight her friend aud
avenger V”
‘My friend, I meant that I never
can fight the friend of that worthy,
injured lady. Had her brothers
murdered me, I would not havo rais
ed my hand to defend myself. And
if you are her husband, I can never
fight you.”
“I am not her husband, but her
friend and avenger. She sent mo to
take your life. Now, d —d villian
you shall die.”
He raised lu’s dagger. Sharpe ran.
Beauchamp seized him by the collar.
Sharpe fell upon his knees and beg
ged for his lile.
“Take ray property; ray whole es
tate is at your command, but, ob, let
me live,” ho cried.
Beauchamp released his hold, slap
ped Sharpe’s face, and kicked him as
he arose.
“Get up, jou coward. I’ll publicly
horsewhip you to-morrow in the
street, you infernal coward,” he
said.
Beauchamp meant to be as good as
his word. He procured a horsewhip,
and presuming tliat Sharpe, surround
ed by his friends, would make a show
cf resistance, provided himself with
pistols, with which to finish him.--
Sharpe felt that:
Ho who fights ind runs away.
May live to fight another day.
So before break of day be was on his
horse en route for Bowling Green.
Beauchamp rt turned to his home.
! Miss Cooke now tesolved to take ven
gecnoo in her own hands. Daily she
oractioed w ith pistols, till tier aim be-
Ci.nro deadly. She tiied to alitir
Sharpe to her house. He avoided
her. Beuuchan.p ri framed from any
further attempt on Sharpe’s life to
give Miss Cooke the opportur.i’y she
wished for. It never cause, and this
des re to ki'l him herself gave to
Sl.sipe many adty ol life. lu June’
1824. Beauchamp and Miss Cocke
weie married. And then lie claimed
he had the right 10 assassinate his
wife’s seducer. Sharp 1 was r.ow a
candidate for the Legislature, hut his
treatment of Miss Cooke added to his>
unpopularity, so he announced that
Miss Cooke’s child was the offspring
of a negro. He even produced a for
ged cettificate to substantiate this
unheard of villiany.
Beauchamp heard the tale, and re
solved that Hhatpe’s hour had now
come. He repabed toFrankfort, and,
unable to obtain lodgings at the ho
te's, passed the uight wi.h Scott, the
keeper of the Penitentiary. He retir
ed early, and prepared for his mur
derous deed. Instead of shoes he put
on yarn stocking*. He concealed his
face in a red bandanna handkerchief.
He secreteda long knife in bis bosom.
Stealthily be crawled unobsertel out
of his lodgings, and repaired noise
lessly to Sharpe’s residence. Drawing
his dagger, he knrek three times.
“Who’s there?” cried Stiarpe.
“Covington,” replied Beauchamp
(Covington was an intimate friend of
Sharpy’s).
The door opened. Shr.rpe appear
ed, aud Beauchamp seized him By the
throat. He tried to escape.
Mrs. Sharpe appeared at a rear
door.
Beauchamp tore off his ma.-k and
thrust hi? face close to his doomed
victim. “And do you now know on ?
he scofliugly sneered.
Sharpe drew back and cried,“Great
God, rt is he.”
They tvere his last words.
Bjuechnmp plunged his dagger
deep into his heart. The blood sport
ed upon the walla and dabbled the
floor. “Die," was all Beauchamp
said. And he died.
The hue and cry was so n raised. I
The assassin was followed by an eu-1
ger crowd f pursuers. Cap'ured, j
arrested, he was brought back and
tried. He was convicted: he was
sentenced to be executed. His wife |
remained with him totbelast. She made
no attemp at concealing the fast that |
she instigated and urged on the assus- i
sination. She gloried in it, aud scout
ed at the tbr-atsof indicting her as j
accessory before the fact. The night 1
before the execution she procured an j
ounce vial of laudanum and pursued-1
ed her husband to cheat the gallows :
if he could. The laudanum was di
vided. She swallow and ono-half. He
took his portion. Then they kuult
and prayed. They sang for joy; they
shouted that their sins had been tor
given, anu in a delirium of ecstasy
| roused the ether inmates of the pris
on. i'he poison did r.ot work. She
1 swore that she would starve herself to
j death, die with her husband, and be
| buried in the same coffin.
June 5, 1826, was a great day in
FrauLford. The city was thronged
j lo see the last of J. 0 Beauchamp
The black and ominous gibbet was
elected on n hill-top near by. The
drums beat mournful dirges from an
early hour. At 11 o’clock Mrs. Beau
champ told the jailer to leave Iter for
a few minutes with her husband.—
The jailer left but was soon recalled
by deep groans from their cell. He
returned and found them both wel
tering in blood. They had stab! ed
themselves with a knife the wife had
concealed. Ilis wound was not fatal
nis wife soon expired. Beauchamp
was car tied to her bedside as her life’s
blood was ebbing fast. Ho felt iter
pulse.
“Farewell child of sorrow, farewell
victim of persecutor! and misfortune!
You are now safe from the tongue of
slander. For you I’ve lived, for
you I die.” He kissed her lips ; ho
was lendy.
The blood was fiicling from bis
wotiuds. He was tco weak to sit up,
so they laid him in a covered wagon
and hauled him to the gallows.
He waved his hands to tht> ladies,
wl,o-e weeping eyes cleerod him with
sympathy and consolation. They
were compelled to help him get on .
bis coffin. He was too weak to bit
upon i: unsupported.
“G.vo me some w a‘er. Let the
drums play Bonaparte’s Retreat from
Moscow,” woie his lust words.
They buriied the self-murdered wifo
and the executed husband in the same
coffiu, folded in each others armes. —
Even in death they were nor divided.
Their grave is at BLo in field, Kv.,
marked by a modest shaft. Before
her death Mrs. Beauchamp wrote the
following epitaph, which wasengraved
on the tombstone of the misguided
pair:
Enlotnhi and below in eac h other’s arms
Toe husband and the wife repose;
Sale from life’s never-ending stormes,
Secure from all their cruel foes.
A child ot civil fate she lived
A villian’s wiies her peace had crossed
The husband of her heart revived
The liapincss she long had lost.
Ho heaid her tale of matchless woe,
And burning for revenge niose;
He laid her hast-betrayer low.
Aud struck dismay to virtue’s foes.
Reader, ii honor’s generous blood
E’er wanned tly heart here drop a
tear,
Ar.d let the sympathetic flood
Deep in my mind its t.aces wear.
A brother or a sister thou--
Dishonored see thy sister dear;
Then turn and see the villain low,
And let fall a grateful tear.
Daugtitersof virtue grant the tear,
That love and honor’s tomb may
claim.
In your defense the husband here
Laid down inyouth his life and fame.
His wile disdained a life forlorn,
Kft from her heart’s beloved lord ;
Then, reader, here their fortunes
mourn,
Who for their love their life blood
poued-
The excitement over the fate of
Beauchamp and the tragic ending of
his wife has lent to the tragedy a ro
mantic halo, and some years since,
John Savage, a New York journalist
and play-iighter, worked the leading
incidents of the affiir into a drainer
entitled “The Sybil,” which, however
was performed only twice. Sharpe’s
son got out an injunction at Louisville
against the parformance of the piece,
and 6uceeedod in suppressing it en
tirely.
Whore the trragedy to occur in
these days it is verry doubtful if
Beauchamp would have ever felt the
halter draw.
Saved ly Whisky.
A mas' extraordinary instpnce of
pluck and endurance, combined with
a miraculous oscape from a horahlo
death by suffocation or starvation, re
cently transpired at Grizzly Fiat, near
lowa Hill, Placer Cos , Cal. An oi l
man, known as “Giizzly” Brown while
at work in his mine, was overwhelmed
and burned lya eavenf the mine—
He was tightly shut in seventy-five
yards from daylight, with scarcely a
hope that be would be missed and !
search made, as bis mine was quite a i
dis'ance from any human habi'ation,
with not a mouthful of food and only
half a bottle of whisky for drink, and
to person or thing from which to i
! look for assistance save his nick and ,
j shovel, which fortunately 1 • it proved j
| for him were hurriod wit' hi m He
j began the almost belp!e-o ast .f dig
ging himself out. Fort' nate'.y the
j earth proved safe end easy to work
i in, and finally, after having been en
j tombed for three days with nothing
to sustain life but the friendly bottle
of whisky, he reached the surface,
completely exhausted from his long
fast, but with strength enouth remain
ing to reach a place where he could
get nourishment. Score one for whis
jky.
■
Drink does not drown care, but wa
ters it and makes it grow faster.
VO To 14.-NO. 28-
Negro Logic.
Old P impey cime down to the
villago the other day, with a big
biass watch-key prominently disp'ay
ed'frotu a shoe-string chain,
“YVhar's your watch, Uncle Pomp?
asked a young nigger.
•‘Dun got none.”
"You ain’t?”
"No, chile.”
"Den what fo’ you knry dat rr
watch key roun’ conspicuous '?”
Old Pompey chuckled.
‘‘Look here, chile,” said he, "ymuse
ain’t no ljgican —got no head for do
scientific sine of matter. Do youse
s’pose dat if 1 come down here a to- !
tin’of a stable door dat it would le
any sign dat I owed a boss? Do |
tw cases am prezaetly parallelogram, j
The Meriwether Vindicator thus de
scribes a rem rkable blind pteacher
who resides in Harris county: ‘ Rev.
Jesse Moore, tiro blind pr> aeher, who
is expected to preach at the Ruptist
Church next Sundny has bean totally
blind for eight or ten years.
Ilis eyes fi; st became inflamed from
exposure to the suu iu the schoo
room, his seat being near a window
where the rays of the sun shoue with
great ii.tensity during a portiou of the
day. This happened while he was u
hoy, and losing his sight his education
was completed at a school for the in
struction of the blind. He now reads
with ease and fluency books with rais
ed letters.
M•. Moore has groat mechanical
ingenuity, having within the last year
constructed a fine bass violin. The
railing forming the altar at the Meth
odist Church in Greenville was turned
by Mr, Moore since die has been
blind. For weeks at a time he has
carried on the business of a small
country store noar the home of Elder
Jesse 11, Williams, who is his uncle.
Mr. Williams states that this blind
man cau find any article in the store
readily, and can by his touch at once
tell the denomination of any bill or
coin presented by his customers,
For music he has great fondness
end considerable cultivation. His
sermons are said to be chaste aud for
cible.
He is a licensed minister of the
Baptist Churcn anti has preached at
a great many p'aces in his own and
the adjoining counties the present
summer.”
Snake story xroin the Columbus
Times :
“Yesterday a gentleman Cont.ec'ed
with the North and South Railroad
related to us a snake story, which is.
in every particular, true. ll e w*s
overlooking the work of some hand.-
on Friday who were clearing away
biush cn the road near Mulberry creek
As one of the hands was engaged in
knocking aw iy briars with a spade a
huge moccasin fell out of the bushes,
arid, dropping mar tire negro’s foot,
immediately wrapped himself uhoul
one of his legs. The snake stiuck at
the man several times, hut the spade,
fortunately for the darkey’, acted as i*
shield and kept the man from being
struck by the fangs of the reptile. The
uegro’s cries fur hu'p brought others
to the spot at once, ar;d the snuk
was speedily killed. The eyes of the
map about whi m the 8’ ake was coil
ed were as large as saucers, and hi.-
skin, though perfectly black, actually
turned white. He was frightened
terribly.
The snake measured four feet seven
iuches in length, and was seven inches
in circumference <rt the largest part of
the body. His fangs Iy inersui*
ment were one inch, long, and about
six inches of the tail was perfectly
red.”
Akti-KeuamicilSpoht. —Jug break
in g is an amusement in some country
tow ns in Oliio. People meet, gener
ally at a church, bringing with them
all the jugs which have accumulated
in their households, A small admis
sion fee is charged. While one of
the number breaks the jugs wih the
hammer, the rest sing songs, the
“L ttle Brown Jug” being an especial
favorite. Some of the more caiitable
people put in the jugs various articles
and the contouts of the jugs and the
money taken at the door are turned
t over to one oi other of the chuiches.
! Ai 1 for (he yellow fever stiff rers
is being given at. numerous points
throughuut ihe State.
Oo account of a very great increase
jof the ‘ varmints,” the Oglethorpe
Echo wants the glorious old antebel
lum spmt of fox hunting to bo reviv
ed.
IJecilpt for Spoiling a Boy.
J Give him his own way. Allow
j him the free use of money. Give him
full access to vicious men. Permit
him to spend l ! s evenings in billiard
saloons and taverns. Call him to no
account of evening. Furnish him
with no stated employment.
These rules, if followed, will enable
}he paronts to tutu out in a few
years, a fii>t loafer, with a fair pros
pect of seeing him earned off to the
penitentiary.
Tho Dublin Gazette relates the
following plucky adventure: “A con -
party of huntsmen ware out one day
j last webk, w hen Mr. Seth J. Kellnm
go* a shot at a lu ck, wounding him
1 only in the nr>so with a single shot.—
The deer was pursued ft r several
1 miles, Mr Thomas Btackshenr heard
the dogs approaching whi'e he was
on the margin of a lake, which had
receded within its 1 auks from the
drouth. He srer. ted himself, and the
deer came lopir g up the lake margir,
anJ ar he got opposite to Mr. Back
siteir the latter sprang at and seized
tho buck by the horns. The buck
then betook bin self to the lake [end
gate one bound into the water, which
was about ten feet deep and several
yanls in width. Mr. B held on
ami the deer carried him out. When
thay git our, some brush, which tem
porarily detained the animal, enabled
Mr. 15 ——to get out his knife, cu, his
(.he buck’s) throat, and tbo prize was
secured, lie weighed one hundred
and fifteen pounds net.
A boy eight or ten years of ago was
killed at Sandorsville Monduy by a
man shooting him with a double-bar
reled gun. The fiist barrel snapping,
be shot him wi*h the second. Tho
trouble is said to have originated from
a game of marbles, the little fellow
breaking up the game and incensing
the man. The murderer, whoso name
is not given, is in jail.
— -
"When,” asks the Warrenshurg
(Mo) Press, “when is tile timo t<
travel?” When you hear her father’s
foot on the third step, young man, is
about as good a time ns any to s'ait,
and you can pr olong the tour to suit
your own convience and the length of
the otil man’s cane. From the inno
cence with which you ask tho ques
tion, wo suppose you didn’t travel un
tii he was e’ear into the parlor. Serv
ed you right.
‘Dar arp,’ said a sable orator, ‘two
roads through din world. Do one am
a broad and a narrow road dat leads
to perdition, and the udder am a nar
row and broad road dat loads to shuro
destruction.’ “If ihat am do case,’
said a sable hearer, ’dis cullud indi
vidual takes to de woods.’
I venerate old age; and I love not
the mad who can look without pino
tion upon the sunset of iif> , when the
dusk of evenirg begins togasher over
he w itciy ey, and the shadows of
twilight glow broader and deeper
upon tho untlors’auding.— L'jiiq >
fellow
Miss Nancy says a man is good fi r
nothing until ne is married, and ac
cording to her experience ho ain't
worth dreadful little when he ir.
"I run speaking, ’’ said a lorgwindnn
■rater, "for the benefit of posterity.”
‘Yes,” said one of the hearers, “and if
you keep on much longer your audi
ence will be tliore.”
Why is a very angiy man like the
clock at fifty-nine minutes past two'ye?
B -cause lie just ready to strike
one.
A tack j oints heavenwards whon i
means the most mischief. It l.ai
many human imitators.
m • m
Gen. Guidon will unifom the G ,r
--don Cadets u military company’ in
Brunswick.
A woman has ‘o has to settle a
mail’s coif' e with the white of an egg
tmt she can settled his hash with a
look.
If a man could see his face whin
lie is trying to sneeze, he would be
come so disgusted ttiat tie would
leave the country.
The ehains'of habit are generally,
:oo small to fie flt till they ate too
strong to be broken.
Oood Digestion.
“Give us this day our daily bread'*
und good medicine to digest it, is both
teverent and human. The human
stomach and iiver are fruitful sources
of l.te’s comforts; or, disoidered and
diseased, they tingle misery along
every neive and througheve'y artery.
The man or woman withyooi dig**tion
seen be@u ; y as they walk, and overcome
obstacles tiiey meet iu the rutine of
life, where the dyspeptic sees only
gloom aod stumbles and gtowls at
every imaginary object. The world
s'iil ueeda two or three new kinds ot
medicine before death can be perfect
ly abolished ; hut that many lives have
been prolonged, rnd many sufferers
lroui Liver disease, Dispepsia and
Hoadajhe, have been cured Meruell’s
Hepatine, is no lunger a doubt. It
cures Headache iu twenty minuter,
aud there is no ques iou but what it is
the most woudeitul discovery yet made
in medical science. Those afflicted
with liiliuusmss and Liver Complaint
sucuti use Mlkuell’s Ufpatikk.
It can be had at Da. J. K. J v> es.