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Shocking Murder.—We are pained to
chronicle the occurrence of a horrible murder
near this city Monday night, ofwhich Mr. Edgar
Carmichael, son of A. W. Carmichael Esq., has
been the victim. While returning from his store,
to the residence of his father at Butler's Creek,
about a quarter of a mile distant, lie was waylaid
by a party of assassins, shot and stabbed to death.
This is all we can learn of this diabolical deed,
the very thought ofwhich makes the blood cold.
An unassuming, estimable and promising young
man, a member of oue of our most worthy families,
has been most foully murdered, on tlie roadside
within a quarter of a mile of his own home,
and no clue has been found to indicate the perpetrators
of the revolting crime. Tlie times in
which we live are becoming fearfully wicked
when human life is held so cheap. Let us hope
that something will be done, and that speedily,
to check this carnival of crime into which our
community is drifting, and that an example will
be made of the vagrants who, despising to work
for an honest livelihood, now live by robbery and
murder.

Since the above was in type, a correct statement,
so far as known, of this atrocious murder
has been placed in our possession, from which
it appears that some unknown parties drove up a
wagon to the store. As the doors were not
broken, it is supposed Mr. Carmichael had
retired to bed, and hearing the persons knocking
admitted them, thinking, doubtless, they had
come to make some purchases, not suspecting
their wicked purpose, as he had, it is believed,
admitted ^persons at night on former occasions,
who came to buy goods. The incarnate friends
shot him through the heart and rifled the store
of its contents. When his friends entered the
store Tuesday morning his lifeless body was
found behind tlie counter, with no other covering
than his night clothes, which leaves the
impression that, had had retired to bed, and was
murdered by parties, whose ostensible purpose was
to buy goods, but whose real object was murder,
and robbery. The young man who usually
assisted Mr. Carmichael was absent Monday night
from the store, and the assassins availef
themselves of his absence to perpetrate the most hertless
cold blooded murder ever committed in this vicinity.
The clothes of the deceased, as well as the
bed clothes, and the most valuable goods in the
store were carried away. Mr. Carmichael was
about twenty-one years of age, a young man of
moral and social worth, and Was esteemed for
his many good qualities of head and heart.—

Having fought bravely through the war, he
retirmed home without any of the vicious habits so
contracted in the army and was engaged
in the laudahle purpose of building up his own
fortunes, when the hand of the assassin struck
him down in the morning of his manhood, with
a future full of promise and usefulness to
himself and the community of which he was a young
but respected and promising member. Peace to
his soul.—Augusta Constitutionalist.