Alexandria Daily Advertiser

MURDER.--We are informed that a New England tin pedlar was murdered last week near Woodstock. The circumstances are as follows, viz.

The pedlar stopped at a house enquired for horse feed, got it, and was invited into the house, and pressed very hard by two women, being the sole occupiers, to take some refreshment, which he at last consented to, and whilst eating, one held his head and the other cut his throat, and they put him in the cart, shut it up, and started the horse.

The horse travelling out of the road, was met by a traveller, who seeing no person near, undertook to open the lid, and there found the dead body: he turned the horse, and started him back, the road he appeared to have come and the horse stopped where he had been fed--the man went in, and found the two women examining the plunder they had taken, and the blood-stains about the floor. This caused a suspicion, and our informant says the women were immediately taken up, and lodged in Woodstock jail, to stand a trial before an examining court.

(Staunton Eagle.)