The Rhode Island Republican

Horrid Murder.--The secret and atrocious murder of Mr. White has been acted over again in this county, but we fear that the prospect of bringing to punishment the authors of the deed is gloomy. About two weeks since, a Mr. Edes, in Pike county, was sitting by his wife, near the fire, when he was shot dead by some person from without. The ball passed through his head, and so instantaneous was his death that he did not even fall from his chair, but remained in the position in which he was sitting until some of the neighbors, three miles off, could arrive. A man by the name of Gormond has been arrested upon suspicion of being the murderer, and a true bill found by the Grand Jury. Gormond was his step son, and at the time the gun fired his mother jumped up and exclaimed. "Don't kill him, my son but take the property." A difference between Gormond and Edes had existed for some time; circumstances, probably improper now to mention, induced the finding of a true bill. The trial has been continued over to the next term of the Court. in March next, under the expectation that time will develop something by which the murderer, whoever he is. may be brought to punishment. Gormond has been bailed, with four sureties, each in the sum of three thousand dollars. --[Montgomery (Alabama) Journal.]