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Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Jan. 16, 1862

MARRIED

BABCOCK - LODER - In this city, on the evening of the 1?th inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. G. D. BOARDMAN, Harrison A. BABCOCK and Hattie ? LODER.

BURGIT - BURLEIGH - On the 14th inst., by rev. Belville ROBERTS, Wm. BURGIT, of East Troy, Wis., to Miss Maria I. BURLEIGH, of Rochester, N. Y.
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DIED

ALSTON - In this city, on Tuesday evening, the 14th instant., Miss Catharine ALSTON, aged 22 years.
-Funeral this (Thursday) afternoon at 1 ½ o'clock, from the residence of her brother-in-law, B. F. HALE(?), No. 8 ½ Elizabeth street.

EMERSON - In Utica, on the 10th inst., of consumption, Sarah EMERSON, relict of the late Dr. Amos EMERSON, of Charlotte, aged 55 years and 4 months.

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Jan. 17, 1862

LAST APPEARANCE OF MRS. NOAH

This evening for the benefit of Mr. CARROLL, the one time favorite of the Rochester theater going public, Mrs. W. G. NOAH, will make her appearance on the stage for the last time, probably. The piece selected for the occasion is "Lucretia Borgia," in which Mrs. NOAH formerly achieved some of her greatest triumphs, and we presume that the remembrance of her excellence in the part will induce many who are seldom seen within the walls of the theater now-a-days, to attend.

The beneficiary of the evening, Mr. CARROLL, is a careful, pains taking actor, and an estimable gentleman personally; qualities which should ensure him a good house and a hearty reception.
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MAN MISSING - On Wednesday morning, Jan. 1st, John W. MERRIAM left his residence, saying that he was going to work. He had previously been in the employ of the N. Y. C. R. R. company, and on Thursday P. M., he was seen by his son to go to the Paymaster's car and get his wages, since which time nothing definite has been heard of him by his family. The missing man was about five feet eight inches in height, short built, light complexion, gray hair and whiskers. He wore black clothes, and a low crowned hat, same color. Any information concerning him may be left at this office.
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A NEW IMPLEMENT FOR FARMERS - We call the attention of our farmers to a farming implement of merit now on exhibition at the Court House. It is a corn planter, resembling very much a light cultivator, and judging from its appearance the saving of labor in a single day would amount to the cost of the implement. Let our farmers call and see it. The owner of the right for this State, Mr. J. M. SCRIBNER, is stopping at the Clinton House, where he may be consulted in reference to sales of rights or single machines.
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SAD AFFAIR - CHILD FATALLY SCALDED
-A very sad affair occurred on Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. BURNS, on Perkins street, near Lake Avenue, which resulted in the death of a little boy, two years of age, by being scalded with a kettle of boiling water. The little fellow climbed upon a chair to get something on a mantel shelf, and in reaching after it lost his balance and fell against the stove. In his fall he caught the edge of a kettle of boiling water and pulled it over on him, spilling its contents all over his body. The child was terribly scalded; so much so that medical aid could not alleviate his pain, and he lingered in great agony until the next evening when death terminated his suffering.
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HEN ROOST ROBBED - About the meanest act that a member of the human family can be engaged in, is that of robbing a hen roost - taking poor innocent and unoffending chickens from their perches, tearing them ruthlessly from their accustomed places of abode, and consigning them to an ignominious end, in an unceremonious manner by wringing their necks. We regret to say that such an occurrence took place early yesterday morning. The hen roost of B. F. MARSH, on Broadway, was entered and about a dozen the fowls abstracted therefrom. The guilty parties were successful in escaping with their booty without detection.
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BOYS LOST - Two boys named John GAMBLE and Wm. PORTER ran away from East Palmyra about three weeks since. One of them was about fourteen and the other twelve years of age. Since their departure their friends have been unable to gain any clue of their whereabouts, and are very much distressed thereat.-
The eldest boy is very respectably connected and has had superior advantages of education and bringing up. The other was an apprentice boy. Any person who can furnish information concerning these boys, will confer a favor on their affected friends and relatives.
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JOSEPH CASTLEMAN - Mr. Jacob CASTLEMAN received a letter yesterday from Mrs. CASTLEMAN, who it will be remembered went to Washington a few days since to see her son, a member of Capt. REYNOLDS' artillery corps, who was reported to be ill of erysipelas. It appears that the young man had nearly recovered from this disease when he was attacked with the small pox - or varioloid - and at the Gate(?) Of his mother's letter he was very low. She was not permitted to have access to him.

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Jan. 18, 1862

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

In West Troy last Tuesday afternoon, a woman left her child, an infant of three years old, sleeping on a bed while she went out, locking the door behind her. By some means the bed on which the child lay sleeping, took fire. A colored woman living in a room up stairs, discovered the flames, and upon bursting in the door the child was found burnt to a crisp and quite dead.

Henry O'CONNOR, Esq., of Muscatine, Iowa, District Attorney, and reputed to be one of the best lawyers in the State, joined the first company that was ?aised in that place after war broke out, as a private. -
He was with the First Iowa ?? the battle of Wilson's Creek, and fought like a Turk. On returning home he was offered a commission - any he might choose in a??giment. But his reply was, "D--n your commission; all I want is a gun." That's the kind of a man for you.

In having been ascertained that a great amount of sickness and suffering prevailed in the 33d Indiana Regiment at Crab Orchard, two young ladies of Indianapolis, named Miss Elizabeth BATES and Miss MERRILL, both possessing wealth and high social position, volunteered as nurses, and are new in camp attending to their duties. Neither of them has relations or personal friends in the regiment, so that nothing but the purest motives of patriotism and zeal in the sacred cause of the Union, induced them to forsake the comforts and endearments of home for the privations of a military camp. The wife of Capt. HENDRICK, of company A, is also there on the same mission of mercy and love.

Col. Henry DOUGHERTY, who was so badly wounded at Belmont, is at the house of his uncle, Col. John DOUGHERTY, at Jonesboro, where he is tenderly cared for. His leg was amputated three times by the rebels, yet so bunglingly that it will have to be again dressed. He is having a patent leg made, and will still command his regiment. His men say they will have no other Colonel.

James BROWN has a second time been convicted of the murder of Mr. HOGAN, M. P. P. at Toronto.

A few months ago, the editor of the Charleston Mercury prayed that our ships might be sunk. Quite a number of them, laden with stone, have since been sunk right before his eyes. We hope he is grateful for the answer to his prayer.

The paper mill of Barstow & Fairchild, in Williamsville, Erie county, was destroyed by fire on Thursday morning. Loss $20,000.

A man named SAVAGE has "struck ile," in Livingston county, Illinois. It is claimed to be as good in all respects as the Pennsylvania oil.

Judge BARNES of Bath was seriously injured last Monday, by being thrown from his cutter; his head striking against a post.

Mr. and Mrs. LEFERTS, residing on Montgomery street Syracuse, lost three children by malignant scarlet fever, between Tuesday noon and Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock. The three little ones were buried in the same grave.

Instead of being authorized to raise a regiment of cavalry to fight against the United States, Col. Arthur RANKIN has been superceded in his command as Colonel of the North Military District in Canada.
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MARRIED

DRAKE - EARL - In Cattaraugus county, Norman DRAKE, of Oakfield, to Cynthia, daughter of Silas EARL, of the former place.
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DIED

ACER - On Friday morning of the 17th inst., of Congestion of the Lu???, Mary Post; daughter of John A and Maria F. C. ACER, aged 4 years.
-Funeral to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon, at two o'clock, from their residence, No 224 Buffalo street. - Friends of the family are invited to attend.

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Jan. 20, 1862

LOCAL AFFAIRS

Affray in a Gambling Room - Sam. Melby Shot and Probably Killed - Deposition of the Wounded Man

A young man by the name of Samuel MILBY, well known in this city, was shot last evening, at 6 o'clock, in a gambling room in the second story of Moulson's Block, Frost street, first door south of the Central Railroad Depot, under the following circumstances:

The occurrence took place in a room occupied by Theodore NEWCOMB. The following persons were present at the time of the affray: Samuel MELBY, the wounded man; his brother, Pat MELBY, an ex-policeman; Alex WILSON; Wm. SHAW; Theodore NEWCOMB, and a man known as "Let. HUTCH." His name is HUTCHINSON. They had been engaged in gambling at faro, when HUTCHINSON had an altercation with Pat MELBY about the stakes, and collared him, at the same time drawing a revolver. Samuel thinking he was about to shoot, caught HUTCHINSON by the collar and drew him around, when the latter fired the pistol at him, the ball entering the abdomen a short distance above the groin. As he received the ball, MELBY exclaimed, "my God, he has shot me," and immediately fell to the floor. In the confusion HUTCHINSON escaped.

MELBY was immediately conveyed to Mendelbaum's saloon, and carried to an upper room, and placed in bed. Drs. LANGWORTHY and MONTGOMERY were summoned, and probed the wound, but could not find the ball. They state that the wounded man is in a very critical condition, and the chances are against his recovery. The Rev. Father MOORE was sent after to take the supposed dying man's confession. He spent about twenty minutes with MELBY alone affording him the consolations of the Catholic religion. MELBY was vomiting almost constantly, which was pronounced a very unfavorable symptom.

As soon as officer KENNEY heard of the affair he burst open the gambling room kept by NEWCOMB, and secured the gambling implements and devices used in the establishment.

MELBY has been an inmate of State prison for two years. He was a boatman. We are told that HUTCHINSON has also been in the State Prison.

HUTCHINSON is described as being a short, slight made man, about five feet eight inched in height, and about thirty years of age. He has one club foot; wears a boot with a cork sole. He has a sandy moustache, and chin whiskers. He is a notorious black-leg, and hails from Troy. His relatives reside at Newark, Wayne Co. Officers are on his track, and it is thought that he will be caught.

Below we give MELBY's deposition as taken by Coroner BLOSS. It was obtained with great difficulty, in short snatches and broken sentences, as the unfortunate man could hardly speak.
Samuel MELBY, being duly sworn and examined, testifies an says: I am twenty-seven years of age, and reside on Lime street. I was shot to-night by a man in the room that Alex. WILSON and Theodore NEWCOMB kept; never saw the man before. The room is in Moulson's Block, on Front street. MANDELBAUM has nothing to do with it. Billy SHAW, Theodore NEWCOMB, Alex. WILSON, my brother Patrick, and I were in the room at the time. They had been playing cards with my brother, and got quarreling, and got up from the table. My brother struck at this fellow, and he pulled something out of his pocket to strike my brother, as I thought. I took hold to swing him around, and as I did so he got his hand on his pocket and turned around and shot me, and then ran. I think my brother had won some money of him. They were dealing faro all day, and I was there looking on. Theodore NEWCOMB and the man that shot me dealt faro. The man who shot me is somewhat lame, and is of a sand complexion.

His
Samuel X MELBY
Mark

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of January, 1862
W. W. BLOSS, Coroner
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DEAD IN BED

Yesterday morning an infant, belonging to a family of the name of PIERCE, residing at the corner of Buffalo and Elizabeth streets, was found dead in bed with its parents. Coroner BLOSS investigated the case. A physician expressed the opinion that death might have been caused by ????
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FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT - Mr. Theodore BRIDGEMAN, a brakeman employed by the Central Railroad Company on a local freight train, was killed by falling from the cars, as the train was entering Utica, about half- past eight o'clock last Wednesday night. The Utica Herald says the unfortunate man was walking over the train toward the rear car, with the intention of cutting off the three last cars, which were to be left at that station. Separating the three house-cars he was to cut off and the one on which he stood, was a platform car, and it is supposed that, blinded from the smoke of the locomotive, he walked off the end f the box car and fell under the wheels of the moving train. The body, when recovered, presented a horrible spectacle, having been pushed along the track for some distance, after the accident.

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Jan. 21, 1862

A HORRIBLE CRIME ---A WOMAN LEAVES HER INFANT OUT DOORS TO FREEZE TO DEATH

About ten days ago, the dead body of a male child, about six weeks old, was found upon the sidewalk in Oxford place. An investigation was had, which led to the belief that the child had been placed there, that it might freeze to death, and that its death was caused in this manner.

Suspicions fell upon a woman named Ellen CHENEY, wife of George A. CHENEY, and yesterday she was arrested by Constable MERRILL, when she acknowledged her guilt, and narrated the circumstances.

To-day, Mrs. Laura WEEKS, wife of John WEEKS, No. 14 Blossom street, was arrested as an accomplice. They were taken before the Police Court, and fully committed on a charge of murder, to await an examination on Tuesday next. In the meantime an investigation will be made by Coroner RICHARDSON.

The mother of the child does not live with her husband. She is nineteen years old, and has been married two years. Evidently she is not very intelligent. She says, in extenuation of her offence, that she worked in a shop, and found it difficult to bear the expense of supporting the child, and that she had applied at a police station to see if she could not get aid from the city, but on returning home was advised by Mrs. WEEKS to abandon the infant in the street. They accordingly, in the evening, took the child and carried it into Oxford place, where they left it upon the steps of a doorway, hoping that it might be taken in and cared for.

Mrs. Weeks is about fifty years of age.
{Boston Traveller}
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ANOTHER CHILD MURDERED BY ITS MOTHER - The police of the First Station arrested yesterday a girl named Catharine J. HENNESY, on a charge of murdering her child. The body of the child, a female, was found in Cooper street, Thursday night. Coroner MOORE was called, and expressed the opinion that the child was about twenty hours old, and that it came to its death from other than natural causes. He will investigate the circumstances of the case. {Boston Trav.}
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MARRIED

BRISTOL - BARBER - In Rush, on the 15th instant, by Rev. James BALNETI?E, Mr. L. C. BRISTOL and Miss Emeline BARBER, both of Rush.

TOWNSEND - STORMS - In Batavia, on the 1st inst., Uriah TOWNSEND and Eliza STORMS, both of the above place.
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DIED

CROCKER - In Pavillon, on Sunday evening, relict of the late Isaac CROCKER, and mother of J. L. CROCKER, aged 7(1 or 4) years.

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Jan. 22, 1862

HORRIBLE CRIMES

Utica Herald, 20th

MURDER AND SUICIDE

It is seldom - and we are thankful - that Utica furnishes material for so horrible a recital as we are called upon to lay before our readers this morning. A man, under the influence of liquor, brutally murdered his wife, and afterwards deliberately ended his own life by cutting his throat with a razor, about half past five o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the building No. 32 John street, just below the canal bridge. The facts of the case, the instigating cause of the tragedy, the appearance of its bloody theatre, may be told in a few words. The stench of the rum reaches us through the sickening smell of the blood.

James DUNN, an Irishman, about 40 years of age, a carriage trimmer by trade, has occupied, with his wife Mary DUNN, during three months past, a couple of rooms and a small bedroom in Mr. John CONNOLLY's boarding house, west side of John street, between Catharine street and the canal bridge. DUNN was a man addicted to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquor, and when under its influence was uncontrollable and brutal to the last degree, so that his wife for many a year has led a wretched life, only relieved at intervals by her husband's absence from home, which absence has been invariably spent in jail. He was a powerfully built map, she a woman rather under the medium size, and, of course, entirely at his mercy. Only a few days since he returned from jail, and commenced the course of rioting, drinking, and debanchery, which terminated so terribly last night.

The house where the deed was committed is an old, ricketty, dingy looking building, full of dark passages, dirty windows, and small rooms - damp and slimy. The upper or most convenient part of it is occupied by Mr. John CONNOLLY, who keeps a sort of lodging house. DUNN, as we have before stated, occupied three rooms on the ground floor, one of them a very small bedroom, probably not more than ten feet by six, in which were two beds. In this small room, where light can hardly penetrate in the brightest day, the murder and suicide was done, so silently that its discovery so soon was by mere accident. A daughter of Mr. CONNOLLY was coming down the stairs with a pail of slops to empty in the street, and in passing a narrow window in the wall of the little bedroom, saw DUNN upon his knees, over the prostrate body of his wife, cutting and slashing her with a razor. The girl screamed with affright, dropped the pail, and ran up stairs to tell the horrible tale to her father. DUNN's little daughter, only eight years old; was in CONNOLLY's room at the time.

While CONNOLLY ran for help, this little child went crying down to the room where her parents were. In passing the window in the wall she saw her father, in a sitting posture, his back against the bedroom door; saw him with the razor in his hand; saw him draw it twice across his throat. Thus the murder and the suicide were both witnessed, and by different spectators. The child ran around to the bedroom door and tried with all her feeble force to open it, but the body of her father against it was too much for her strength, and it was not till CONNOLLY had returned with help that the door could be opened. When that help reached the spot, the murderer and suicide was still alive, making a horrible gulping noise through his gaping throat.

The Coroner was summoned, and the human slaughter house was entered. Coroner VAN NESS, a man of unusual nerve, was appalled at the sickening sight. The woman lay at full length upon the floor before the bed, in a pool of blood, the right side of her neck and head covered with ghastly wounds, gashes from the razor across her face from the forehead to the chin, some of her teeth broken off, her features distorted as if she had died in terrible fear and pain. Gloves were on her hands, and she was otherwise attired as if, before she was struck, she had intended to go into the street. The murderer was leaning against the door, his throat cut across and across again, by the bloody razor he held in his hand. Everything was in the wildest confusion, bed-clothes, some articles of wearing apparel, and straw from the beds strewn over the floor and soaking up the blood.

The theory of the murder is that DUNN came home drunk about five o'clock, and found his wife preparing to go out because there was no wood in the house with which to make a fire, that his brutality commenced, and he struck her at first with a hatchet or an axe, (which can not, however, be found) twice or three times on her neck and chin, finishing the bloody work with a razor which he has long kept in the bed. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that no outcry was heard; that the woman was stunned by the first blow from the hatchet. Whether insanity, or sudden remorse, or fear of the consequences of his deed, prompted the murderer to destroy himself, is a subject for conjecture.

Only a couple more victims of the "rum fiend." Two little children, a girl of eight, and a boy of nine years are orphaned, and whisky remains "steady and unchanged!"
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DEATH OF A GOOD MAN

The Bath Courier has a lengthy obituary of the late John W. FOWLER, of that place and father-in-law of Lieut. Governor CAMPBELL. The deceased was born in London in 1790, and came to this country in 1801 with his parents. At the age of thirteen he went into the employ of the late John P. RYERSS, a large landholder in Steuben County, with whom he remained until of age. His connection with the Land Office of the Pulteney Estate in Steuben and Allegany has made him known to the people of those counties, and no man was ever more implicitly trusted than Mr. FOWLER by those with whom he had such extensive transactions. The Courier concludes as follows:

Mr. FOWLER was a useful and intelligent citizen. In the early period of his life he filled the office of Justice of the Peace of the town of Bath, and several times that of Supervisor, and also Treasurer of the county. To the discharge of the duties of these stations, as of all other duties, he brought that practical good sense, and that unfailing habit of doing right at all times, and in spite of all influences, that gained for him the implicit confidence of the public. His political preferences were decided, but his character was not disfigured by intolerance for those whose views differed from his own.

His religious character was peculiarly attractive to all lovers of simple, unpretending, practical Christianity. For nearly thirty years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a ruling elder in the society of that denomination in this village. In his implicit faith, his deep seated love of divine truth, his liberal aid to all the enterprises of the Church, and his practice of that pure and undefiled religion set forth by apostolical precept and example, we are assured in speaking of him as one who in life truly walked with God, and who has passed now to the abode of just men made perfect.

Mr. FOWLER had, throughout life, enjoyed remarkably good health. On the Sunday previous to his death, he attended divine service twice, according to his in?ariable practice. A short time after his return home from the afternoon service, he was struck down by paralysis, and lingered helpless and speechless, until Wednesday morning, the 8th inst., when he expired.
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TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT HARRODSBURG, KY

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday
A gentleman who arrived last night on the Covington and Lexington Railroad informs us of a terrible tragedy which took place on the Billoe's Mill Road, near Harrodsburg, Ky., on Saturday evening last. It appears that a man named Edward SCOTT, a school teacher of much distinction in that part of the State, had married a widow TILFORD, daughter-in-law of the late Major TILFORD, of Lexington, Ky., and on the evening above named SCOTT entered the room where the family were sitting, and without saying a single word, drew a revolver and fired at Mr. James TILFORD, aged 16 years, the shot taking effect in the breast and causing his death in a few hours. SCOTT then fired at Edward TILFORD, a lad eleven years of age, killing him instantly.

At this juncture the children rushed screaming out of the room. As the family were flying in great consternation, SCOTT fired at Miss Emma TILFORD, aged about eighteen years, and she fell bleeding to the floor, died the next morning. A young Miss TILFORD was also shot in the arm. SCOTT pursued the remainder of the family, but they succeeded in eluding him, and escaped from his fiendish designs on their lives. All the children were those belonging to his wife. SCOTT ransacked the house from top to bottom, breaking everything within his reach, and fearful of being pursued by his neighbors, who had assembled to protect the family, he ran above stairs, fastened the trap door, and cut loop holes in the roof to fire upon his captors when they approached.

After much maneuvering, he was felled by a blow from a neighbor, who came upon him in a different way from that which SCOTT anticipated. The murderer was then safely secured and lodged in jail to await an examination. When taken, Scott was found to be well armed with revolvers, two double barreled shot guns, a U. S. musket, a hatchet and a butcher knife; so that the horrible butchery of the helpless and unoffending family must have been premeditated. The whole neighborhood was in a great state of excitement when our informant left; for, as there is no known cause or provocation for the horrid deed, and as SCOTT shows no symptoms of insanity, and refuses to give any reason for his base conduct; the whole affair is wrapped in mystery. SCOTT was to have an examination on Monday.
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MARRIED

WILBUR - HALL - In Avon, on the 9th inst., by Rev. N. ELMAR, Mr. Cyrus WILBUR and Miss Julia W. HALL, all of Avon
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DIED

MILBY - In this city, on the 21st inst., Samuel MILBY, aged 32 years.
-Funeral this (Wednesday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from the residence of his father, No. 2 Lime st. Friends of the family are invited to attend.

HAMMOND - In East Rush, on Tuesday morning, the 21st last, Joanna Dean, eldest daughter of Caleb H. and ??san C. HAMMOND, aged (10 or 19) years 10 months 4 days.

ANDREWS - In Bergen, Genesee county, on Friday morning, the (11 or 17th) inst, Dr. R. ANDREWS, aged 63 years.

TYRRELL - On Saturday, January 18th at Niagara Falls, of scarlet fever, Henry B., only son of Benjamin and Frances TYRELL, aged 5 years, 6 months and 2 days.
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