Wheeling Times And Advertiser

We copy the following from the Hopkinsville Gazette of the 11th inst: "On Tuesday evening last, about sunset, two strangers in a small two horse dearborn, were observed to stop at a place called the Salubrious Springs Meeting House. They kindled a fire at this spot in the open air, under a tree, and repaired to the residence of Mr. Holland, where they had some biscuit baked, and bought a few pounds of bacon. A gentleman returning home about 9 o'clock at night, observed the strangers by their fire, talking in a low voice. At an early hour, next morning, one of the strangers was discovered murdered lying before the fire under some covering, with his face horribly mutilated by hogs. A club and some stones, the instruments of death, were found lying near the murdered man, a few dollars in small coin were also scattered about the body, but the fiendish assassin was not there: under the lash of guilt and fear he had fled. The dearborn, with a small gray horse, was left on the ground, the other horse, a sorrel, with probably a blind bridle on him, was gone. It was supposed that the murdered man was killed by his companion, and that money was the object. A pair of saddle bags was left in the dearborn; in the saddle bags were found some papers; from an examination of which it would appear, that their owner lives in White county, Tennessee, and that his name is Thomas Robinson."