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Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
Tuesday July 28, 1829
Alabama Silk
We received by the last mail, enclosed in a letter from a friend, a skein of beautiful silk, a sample of about twenty-five pounds grown and manufactured this season on the plantation of Dr. Purnell, of Greene county. It is equal in strength, quality, and appearance to any we have seen, the growth of this country, and is inferior only to the best Italian silk. We are happy to learn that the Doctor has made extensive arrangements for its cultivation next season, and that he expects to manufacture several hundred pounds for market. Mobile Register
Submitted by Nancy Piper
Horrible Tragedy - A Father Murdered by His Son
From the Eastern Clarion, published at Paulding, Miss., we learn that Thos. R. Borden, Esq., one of the most respected and esteemed citizens in Greene county, Ala., was shot and killed by his own son while lying in his bed on the morning of the 28th ult. It seems that Mr. Borden was shot at night, in his bed, and before Mrs. B. had retired. She was in another part of the house, and hearing the report of the gun went to her husband to wake him, that he might get up and see about it. Upon speaking to him and shaking him he did no reply, when a light was procured and the unfortunate gentleman found to have had his head literally blown to pieces and his brains scattered about the bed and walls. His son was scarcely suspected of the crime until the day of his father’s funeral, when he took his father’s saddle horse and four thousand dollars, which he previously knew was in the house, and fled. The neighbors immediately pursued him, and arrested him at Lauderdale Springs, Miss., and carried him back to the scene of his inhuman crime.
Texas State Gazette (published as State Gazette), Austin, Texas; May 3, 1856 - Submitted by K. Torp
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