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Show ! ANOTIIKH TRAOEUI Of rite "DarkRuil Bloody Crouuil." j IttMtulur Correionionce ol tho Ukuai.o.; ! Lkxisoto.v, Kv.,Scpt. U, 171. EJ I tors Herald : TliH morning the s-'ivanl of Mr. Jacob Harper, u wealthy and much renpeeied citizen living near Midway, were horrilied to lind him murdered, .and his. lister, in another room, in aj j dyinij eiiidittnn, having ln-en horribly ' j inunglcd l-y f-onie midnight as-:assin. I iTlie instrument a .-mall dull meat-j iax! was lbiind lyimj on tho lloor eov-1 leredwiih blood and the givy hairs of 1 1 he murdered mau adhering to it j No clew has been e.-tablished whereby 'to identity the assassin, but three i negroes have been arrested uil suspicion. suspi-cion. Mr. Harper was in the habit of I keeping a good deal of money about j his house, and it is supposed the object j of the murder was plunder, lie was, an unmarried man, owned a large! Ilium, and in conjunction with his j brother John, rai.ed aud handled a I great many line horses; was one of ' the owners of "Longfellow," the celebrated cele-brated racer. This makes the third one of the family murdered in the same house, one of the other brothers having met his death at the liands ol some plundereri during the war. i Kanukr. |