Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican Feb 15, 1849 MURDER — A most brutal murder has been committed in the vicinity of Uxbridge, Mass., upon the body of Prudence ARNOLD by William KNOWLTON. The victim was a young girl of about twelve years of age. The murderer was a young man between the ages of twenty-two and twenty- five. The murder was committed about 9 o'clock, A. M. The family with whom deceased was residing had gone away, leaving in the house only herself, her sister and KNOWLTON. Previous to committing the horrid deed he took the precaution to ascend the stairs into the hall, and to fasten one of the two doors leading from it with a knife. He then descended and shortly after the girl entered the hall and was followed by him into a bedroom, where he cut her throat with a razor, inflicting a mortal wound three inches long and two deep.-- After committing the act, he endeavored to cut his own throat with a razor. He has been arrested, and will await his trial in May next. On his examination he plead not guilty, but the evidence was so strong against him as to leave no doubt of his guilt. KNOWLTON was a laborer in the family where the girl resided. Another person has since been arrested on a charge of aiding, abetting, and hiring him to commit the horrid deed. ** Mr. ELLIS was the enterprising builder of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. ** AWFUL DEATH Col. Otis DIMOCK, a very respectable citizen of Darien, came to his death on Friday the 27th ult., in a most horrible manner. As near as we have been able to learn the particulars, they are as follows. He left home in the morning, taking his axe and dinner with him, intending to remain all day in the woods, engaged in felling trees. At near dark he had not returned, and his wife sent their little boy in quest of him. On going through an open field, he found where his father had fallen a tall dry tree. His axe was standing against the stump of the tree, but he was not to be found. He took the axe home, and told his mother there was something on the axe which stuck to his hands. Upon looking at it, they found the axe covered with blood. The neighbors immediately went to the spot, and found his body crushed and mangled in a most terrible manner, under the body of the fallen tree. The weight of the tree had been the means of bespattering the axe with blood, as before mentioned. It is supposed that after he had cut the tree nearly down, he placed the axe against the stump and went towards a heap of rails, for the purpose of getting one with which to push the tree in the right direction — but the tree fell while he was in range, and crushed him to atoms! Thus has an estimable citizen, in the prime of life, with a family looking to him for protection, been cut down in a moment by the insatiable fiat of the fell Destroyer, and a happy family made to mourn his untimely death. Truly, "in the midst of life we are in death!" — [Batavia Advertiser] ** — If a ship is of the feminine gender, why are not fighting vessels called women-of-war instead of men-of-war? Answer that, will you ? ** A Clergyman found Guilty of the murder of his Wife ! Plymouth, N. H., Feb. 3d, 1849 A Special Session of the Common Pleas Court for this county was brought to a close last evening, and the Rev. Ezra DUDLEY, a clergyman of a neighboring town, has been found guilty of the Murder of his Wife!, on the evening of the 5th of March last; murdered cruelly and brutally that she might be "out of the way" of his connection with another woman for whom he had entertained a most gross and unhallowed affection. This piece of diabolism was worked off in the midst of a wonderful "revival," gotten up and carried on by this Reverend Murderer, and it was on their way home from an evening prayer meeting, where there had been more than a usual display of the ‘power of the Lord' that this wretch clasped his ordained and consecrated fingers about the throat of his defenceless wife, until she ceased to breathe. It is but about half a dozen years since another preacher of this county was found guilty by our courts, of murder of his wife too, driven into this depth of iniquity by the same ungodly passion that has overwhelmed poor DUDLEY. Though in this retired section we may not enjoy all the "Gospel privileges" of more favored regions, yet it cannot with truth be said that all our deaths takes place without "benefit of clergy." — [Cor. Boston Chronotype.] ** MARRIED In Byron, on the 29th January last, Mr. Samuel SPAFFORD, of Byron, to Miss A. Jane MERRILL, of the same place. In Barcelona, Chautauque Co., on the 4th inst. Mr. Daniel ADAMS, of Batavia, to Miss Rosanna STICKNEY, of the former place. In Dansville, on the 1st., Mr. George DISBRO to Miss Laura PALMER, all of this village. In Sparta, on the 1st inst., Mr. Aranda K. HUMPHREY to Miss Elizabeth ARTMAN. In Canandaigua, on the 1st., Mr. Alexander SWARTHOUT to Miss Caroline OTIS, daughter of Nathaniel JACOBS, M. D. In Buffalo, on the 1st inst., W. M. CROZIER, Esq., of Warsaw, to Miss Olive, daughter of Hartley WELD, of Buffalo. In St. Paul's Church, Angelica, on the 6th inst., by the Rev. L. THIBON, Lucuian P. WETHERBY, Attorney-at-Law and District Attorney, to Sophia DAUTREMONT, both of that place. In this city, on the 5th inst., by Rev. A. BERKY, Mr. Joseph KERBER to Miss Mary Ann FRAUBOLD, both from the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. ** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS