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^ppointedConsul^o^lao.
/ T lie election returns from eighty-two
Lntica give a majority of 5,87/ votes
& a Convention. * _
f Toombs in his speech in Atlanta -he
Ler Jay spoke of Heart Butler as "the
M thief of the universe.”
M. DWINELL. PROPRIETOR.
VOLUME XXXI.
‘WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1877.
NEW SERIES--NO. 42
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■ The University of Oxford, Enplnn
L confered on Grant the title of
V l_ Drunk on Corn Liquor we su
Le these initials rtan-I for.
Deacon Smith wants tin- Dimoorcl
Lurtv to die. Be pation'. you truly go.
Iman’ It »''H die i,; ul,,i fl” 10 J,c
f,n. Then you v.ill never see it agai
—Court'> r -J" nrm ^ ^
The hi ’hcst cnnqiliir.ent Hayes has h
|,incc h-became President was paid ’ :
Jby lien Butler, who beautifully raid; ‘
|have no influence with this Aclmmistr
lion.”— Cuhnnl"- Amy -a..
Merchants who purchase spoons i
I New York, should lay in as large
I stock as early as j-.orsible before t!
| price goes up. . B’.flUr ; ntrnd? rr.o' m
I to New York and making it his ■ «'
J. li. Syphnx. once a -
I ]inj:toa estate, titid recen
[ the Virginia Legislature, reiver:
I election of Gonenil W. H. F.
Governor. Syjihax believes in it!
family. _
In Mary land they have a “shcrp-kiH-
iug-dny" law which makes the own- rot
the sinning canine chargeable for the
flhoep killed. A man in -hat ‘■'fate re
cently gained a verdict lor the aini.ur.f
of thirty-two dollars ng t -t the -.w;v r
of a dog tliat had killed eight sheep.
Mr. Hill, ns we see from tho Lull c.rre
Reporter'* report of his so .cm : - 're
place last week, expressed the “m, as
a lawyer, that the “pre-cut -'.-'His o'
property'exempt by homestead . :w.
not he effected hy the convention, he.-ame
the convention would have no power to
divest a vested right. ’
llore is an item for cotton maniacs
that may act as a curative modicum:
Judge Tarver, of Twiggs county, su’d.
11,fifth pounds of wool last w-ek it: Sa
vannah at 27* cents per pound : end Dr.
Buchan, of Dodge county, su'd 2 l->0
pound, at 2C1 cents per pound. Down
with King Cotton ! Vive T.c Hoi, Sheep 1!
The otlicial returns from Poik county
gives a majority for “No Convention''—
the vote being 1182 for Convention and
■120 against it. Mr. N. .1. Timlin, op
posed to Convention, received 544 votes,
nearly two to one of the Votes for the
other candidates for the Conventual;
Dean 281, Denton 257, Jones 251, Head
l'Jo, Florence 81 and Morgan 28.
A very, very hard-hearted ru n—one
who, as a “man and brother,” isn’t worth
a cent—suggested to us yesterday that
the best way to “solve tire negro prob
lem" would bo to get all the darkies to
go on an excursion to the western fron
tier, having sent forward, in advance, an
agent to convince the Indians, hy unan
swerable arguments, how profitable the
"waol raising" business is.
A special from T-ousville, Kentucky
totlio World, of Sunday, say? there arc
well authenticated rumor? in currency
there that “the name of a 'imminent
Kentucky gentleman, an ox-Uni'-d
States Senator lias been forged to no--?
amounting, it is said, to Fome $”0,000.
Tho alleged criminal i? a lady of 1 i~k
social position, but who, it is also said,
is not to be considered responsible for
her acts.”
A plain old fashion farmer, win
hateth ye dog and loveth ye mutton,
yesterday remarked to us that if the
convention “didn't fix up somethin'
agin dogs so farmers could raise slu rp,
before long thero wouldn’t be a she< p
in Georgia. For you see the lcgislabr
is never agoin to pass such a law. A
majority of the members will m-o
againts it every time : cause why. it s
very nat’ral, for you know ‘self preser
vation is the first law of nature’ "
Our rural friend is perhaps mo*: ‘ o
severe on the “assembled wisdom of
the State;” but hope deferred not on.:y
makes the heart sick, but sometimes
drives one to desperation.
The Dunkors or Tunkers, according
to the New York World, a delegation of
whose members called on Mr. Hayes
recently, belong to a sect founded in
1703 at Schwnrzenau, Germany, by Al
exander Mack and seven others who re
jected the doctrines of pedo-baptism.
The name is a nickname, derive from
the German tunkeu—to dip ; members
of the sect styling themselves Brethren.
Persecution drove tho founders to Hol
land, and between 1719 and 1729 they
all emigrated thence to America. They
are found to the number of some eight
thousand in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. Their
Church discipline is nearly the same as
that of other Baptists, except that every
brother is allowed to exhort. Men
found apt to teach are ordained minis
ters, the oldest teachers bishops. The
Dunkors affect groat plainness of dresf
and language, like the Quakers; neither
tako oaths, fight nor go to law, and till
rocontly took no interest. They cele
brate tho taking of the sacrament with
love-feast, washing of feet, the kiss of
charity and the right hand of fellow
ship, anoint the sick with oil for recov
ery and use triue immersion, with lay
ing on of hands and prayer even while
the person baptized is in the water.
LLECVIO.N FOK 1 OMTMiON.
Special telegram? to the Atlanta Con-
stUution of yesterday cave the election
eturr.s from twenty-six counties,which
rsliow a vote of 3,113 for a convention
and 5,980 against it. In A tlanta there
were twenty-two majority against the
convention. It was rumored on the
street that a dispatch had been received
yesterday afternoon that 58 counties
had been h-ard from giving a majority
of 5,000 for a convention.
a .irtsr ustmmai r. or grant as a
F<>3 lUFli IlY A KORTURKMER.
Napclv—i is known as tho “Man of
d" ' n>and Grant v.ill eventually pass
in!" !.: Try as the “.Nan of good luck.”
As we iea.1 the telcgiaus from Europe of
the bourns n r .id him by royalty, of the
n iiU-’inn <!' tb° Engl’sh preps, of AVest-
lnin-Vr > -dn.lag to a funeral sermon in-
irrlardrd with flattery of tbo ex-Presi
limit, our woudt-r grows beyond all bounds
a? m -ntr.’uy reviewing bis career we find
it .-'.•niida-ii-n whatever for it all save
that remarkable “Good Luck” tbatfound
1 bn in an ob-curc position, and bore him
to ‘be > ' V -• pinnacle of-—notoriety.
Tie- .'bib.wing estimate of Grant, from
l!;< ! ':■ o will be read with more
in r.- t as btioo the criticism of a north-
L c ha
would s<
and C7*n then
cely have In on fk
au commeneci
"T. c 7V7,w ... on Sunday informed the
■i'vary Grant never lost a battle.
\s Grant was licked at Belmont,-and
igain at Sbilob. and suffered two disas-
r in repul es in his assaults in May,
8‘i . h. fore V: ks'mng, it is seen that
le Tr:'"b n?scrlion is somewhat at
tari.;*:c<* with tiic facts. The strategist
if tic ’ ?! asserts that Grant’s “theory
vae tl.u* a battle should always cost the
nctuy m irt than it co.-t bint,” and yet it
tit- fart that jir-'t the reverse is the
• .ith. Grant wn? always willing to lose
'■ r- tart! in order to k• : 1 «.ne vf the en-
I. ", h ■ e 1:1? ..■.up.-.u ids ccl-
. 1 i.iterance that bis “cat's tail”
v ■ :i c ier.gc?-.’ Hi 1 Grant not been
• m-sis-ui o! me,,, tb.:", iwl.e many
m u; as Lee the latter might have taken
'V::.'bt.utsn :u - ’a, tl.c G::iie.- taking
Hi, kiimnd. I* was "our to > nc t:.°t drove
Richmond
n bad not
from the
South. Grant was not u strategist in any
m e of I word. All be knew of war
was to keep “hammering” awsy, con-
seiou- only of the fact thr* in the end
:uperii ri‘y in numbers au;' in supplies
must give st:cfc?s. In truth, our late
war, out.hie of FIotroan's Atlanta cam-
; :.i.. •, bad very b:tle strategy in it. In
o . . • a'i; , t:ir in.-tauce? it was simply a
.... , •" L t V e and take, in which not gante-
m 1 ut weight, had the best of it.
Grant, as shown by history, lacks in all
the purely intellectual qualities of afirst-
c'.tt V.-V.trr. He has no culture to rec-
om-rep.d 1dm in ctlier respects. It is a
vrr will known fact that the men with
w’- in he has associated since the war,
wh • 1.:been his friends and intimates,
have not l>o ; n men noted either for their
soci: moral or intellectual worth.
Georgiacs.
Tim Cedartown r.-prcn says: “The
,°h,-riff Fobl forty acre lots of land on
luesday last at from two and a half
rent? per lot to on« dollar and fifty cents.
The Swainsboro Herald says that the
sime paper says: “M. Sol. William
son, C this country,killed a mammoth
eagl- few days ago. The ettgle had
k "'ll a large (young) calf.
A Cobb county man fold five hun-
il.nl pounds of honey in Atlanta last
ivck for sevente-tive dollars. Ho says
Ids b<rs almost support him, and cause
him no trouble and little expense.
A Chattahoochee county constables
“levied on the undivided half of gray
mule. He wasn’t particular which end
lie took, and it was thirteen days before
ho opened his eyes and recognized his
ed him up one morning and giving him
a bag of peas, directed him to sow them
in a certain field. Tom took the peas
and started for the field. After he had
been gone about half an hour ho
thought he would go and see how his
son was doing the work. When he
reached the field, to his surprise Tom
was mounted on a mule and busily en
gaged scattering the peas. The old
man protested, but Tom assured him
him it was the way it was done at col
lege, and a great improvement on the
old fogy method. After witnessing
the operation a while the father thought
he would like to give the new way a
practical test, so he called his son, say
ing:
“Git off of that critter, Tom, and jist
let me try my hand a little.”
Tom dismounted and the old man
mounted the mule.
The “new way” was noyel and the
old manlwos',delighted. He was getting
on finely, when the mule chanced to
turn its head, just as he was scattering a
“handful,” which, instead of reaching
the ground, went into the mule’s oar.
The mule, unaccustomed to such fam
iliarity, gave some novel movements
and the old man landed on his head
some twenty feet away. Tom rushed
to his father’s assistance and raised
him up. The old man was somewhat
riled, and collecting himself, said-
“Tom, you infernal fool, if you try
any more of your collego farming on
this place, I’ll bast you alive. Dern
your college farming. Take up them
deas and sow them like a white man
ar.d none of your college lamin’ hero.”
Tom sowed the peas the old fashion
way but if he wanted a muss he had on
ly to suggest to the old man how a thing
was done at college,
A Putnam county man is manufac
turing “shuck” soap,. The corn shucks
are fed to the lye r.= long as it will eat
them, and the whole is boiled until it
is saponified. No grease is used in tho
process, and the soap is said to he very
;ond.
A Wonderful Rainfall.
JoIu£3 in Tennessee Aflor Many Days of
Drouth.
Memphis Xvalancit®, June V.]
What a waterfall! Think of ^,600
tons of pure rainwater pouring from
the clouds on Court Square all at once
—hot exactly in one pour, hut all inside
of thirty-six hours. That is the quanit-
ty which fell between daylight on
Tuesday and 4 o’clock yesterday after
noon. It was enough to load the steam
er Grand Republic. If all in a bulk
and piled out on a bank, it would make
a solid sheet of water 9 inches deep and
with an area of two acres, Court Square
answering just that amount, and the
rainfall being 9 and 7,100 inches. It
was almost one-fourth of tho total an
nual average of rainfall for this part of
the country, the uaual amount being
about 45 inches, and it was almost un
precedented in extent and volume. A
whole month of rain during the wettest
period of the past four years did not
exceed 12 inches, and here we have 9
inches in less than two days. It is
enough to make any one stop and pon
der.
During a part of yesterday the water
poured down from above in such blind
ing sheets that the light of day was ob
scured, and stores and offices in the city
had to light the gas. River mon report
that the human vision could not pene-
trato the rain. sheets fifty yards, and
several approaching 6toamer3 were com
pelled to run under slow bells, as if in
a dense fog. The shores could_ not be
made out oxcopt when the lightning
would flash and let its dim outlines be
seen.
Several people, some say five or six,
were seen on the different scattering
particles of rafts, floated by the city
yelling for assistance. The steam tugs
working to keep the coal fleet clear
were too busy to rescue them. As far
as known none were lost. It is sup
poses several boats put out from shore
and brought them in at points below
the city.
The rain commenced pouring again
at 10 o’clock last night, and up to 2
o’clock this morning two additional in
ches of rain must have fallen.
Romantic and Thrilling Recog
nition.
Here is what a man can
forming” in Southwestern
Mr. David Ayres, of Mitchell county
started after the war had ended with the
following property, viz: 1,330 acres of
land, worth $1,500; (550 bead of cattle
wroth ; 5 per head, ar.d 250 head of
sheep at $2 each, and two old horses.
'! ■ ’.,a? two men to take care of stock,
«Inch he pays by g’.ving them every
tentii lanb for their care of the flock?
under their charge, and ho furnishes
them a house each, and gives them the
use of as much land around the houses
as they wish to cultivate. He Jalso
pays them 5* cents per head for shear
ing rheep. The stock is never fed; they
thrives upon the nativs grasses in the
pine forests; they require no shelter
and no extra feed and care. The cattle
roam at large, the sheep are in flocks
of from 300 to 500 in each, range. The
business of the bands is to take care of
the flocks and see alter increase in the
spring. The shell) lamb from the
middle of December through t'ue spring
and from 500 sheep he gets antaverage
of 300 lambs. The sheep arc very free
from dssease; they have never been
known to have distemper, which is so
common and so fatal in other sections,
The rams are kept with th» flock the
whole time, and arc never aeperated.
Mr Ayres has sold cyery year 100
head of cattle’ for which he obtained
510 per head §1000, 100 sheep at $2.00
per head. 8200, and he now has over
1.500 head of cattle, and over 3.00 head
of sheep. Each sheep averages 3 lbs
of wool so from bis sheep he obtains
9,000 pounds of wool yearly.
A sturdy farmer of Chattahoochee
county who had received few education
al advantages, determined that his son
should be thoroughly educated. He,
therefore sent him to the beat schools
in tho county, and when sufficiently
advanced sent him to college. Tom,
while a bright student,did not rank very
high when it came to work. During
vacation he came home and the old
man, knowing his aversion to labor call-
About ten years ago, two brothers
left their homos in Illinois and went to
California. Tho elder was a man of
the most steady habits and had rcceiv-
lo a* “Fbcon I C< I a good business education, but the
R ! younger was inclined to be dissipated
' ° ' and, indeed, bad figured in so many
scrapes at home that his departure was
not regretted in his native village.
The two brothers lived for a short time
in San Francisco while they looked
for situations. The younger brother
however, fell into bad company, and
they separated by mutual consent.
The elder obtained! a situation in a
wholesale store as porter, and by his
diligence and steadiness so worked
himself into the confidence of his em
ployers that he rose from tho position
of porter to that of partner in the firm.
He lately purchased a house m Bush
street, married a lady of considerable
fortune of her own and on last Christ
mas Eve he saw three beautiful chil
dren around him enjoying the de
lights of a Christmas tree. The family
retired at midnight, but the gentlemen
had hardly closed his eyes when he
was awakened by a noise down stairs,
and moving stealthily to the parlor
with a revolver in his nand he saw a
man endeavoring to open the buffet
where he kept his silver. Leveling
his revolver at the thiefs head, he
exclaimed, “Stop or you’re dead man!”
The Jimmy dropped from the hands
of the burglar, who falling on his knees
cried out “Ab God is my judge, Robert,
I did not know that you lived here!”
The gentleman then discovered to his
horror that the burglar whom he was
about to shoot was the younger brothsr
whom he had not met for nearly ten
years. That night the burglar slept
peacefully under the roof of his for
giving brother whe assured a friend,
with tears in his eyes that he was
about to give him employment in his
own store and that he had never spent
a happier Christmas.
Tho St. Louis Globe makes honora
ble mention of an oaken chest in that
city which it assert is 800 years old.
The boards are an inch and a half in
thickness and are held to-gother by
wooden pegs.
How It Reels to be Hang:.
Frosi tht EranftTille Courior. May 31.]
It is not every day we meet with a
man who can gracefully get up and
trnthfully say: “Iv’e been hung by the
neck three times,” and when one does
run across such a man he usually
quickens his sense of hearing to an acute
degree,
A representative of the Courier hap
pened to meet just such a man, a few
days ago, in the person of M. L. Nelson,
of Tennessee, and during the conversa
tion he related the experience which is
the subject of this article. Mr. Nelson
is about 50 years of age, but in ap
pearance and probably experience is
much older. He has been in this city
several days, interested in a bankruptcy
Euit, which invelved him considerably
and may be his ruin. Notwithstanding
these misfortunes he was in good spirits
and talked lightly of his losses.
Some few days ago he took offense
at a remark made to him by an official
on a common carrier, and in relating
his grievance, remarked: “I’ve been
hung by the neck three times, and don’t
scare at trifles.” When asked what he
meant, he said: “I mean just what I
say,” and then told his story.
It was in the spring of 1865 when the
Federal troops were moving northward
and the Confederate soldiers were re
turning home, and Arkansas was in a
very unsettled condition, the safety of
neither life nor property being great,
Mr. Nelson was in tho Confederate ser-
vice and had come in possession of 55,-
000, which he was anxious to place in
the hands of some neighbors in that
State for safe-keeping. He exchanged
military garb for civilians’ clothes,
wearing a new hat, suit and boots, and
placed 84,500 in a pocket-book attach
ed to a belt worn next to the skin, and
*500 and some odd bills in nn inside
pocket of the vest. It was just at dusk;
he was riding toward his destination
when, almost simultaneously, three
shots were fired, aud “zip-zip” went tho
balls, one taking the skin off the right
temple, another produced a wound iu
the shoulder, and the other struck his
horse. Tho animal reared and threw
his rider over into the dust, blinding
him for the moment.
Wonderful Brothers.
Oue Commits a Murder sod the Other
Agrcel to Hang for the Crime—Damon and
PhtUzs Repeated—“Saved by n Neck.”
Before Nelson could tise he wn.- sur
rounded by three men in fantastical garb
such as was wont to be worn by the Ku-
kluk Klans, which masked the entire fig
ure and diguised the face. They placed
revolvers at his head and bade the “d—d
rebel,” as they called him, to rise, ac
companying it with some bumcombe pa
triotic remaks. As it was just dark, they
took him a little way into the woods,
where they made him exchange his new
clothes, boots and hat for some ragged
wardrobe which they carried with them,
at the same time relieving him of his gold
watch. Of course they searched his pock
ets and took the §500 or moro in the vest.
They next took his horse and after
binding his arxne and placing a thin
rope about his neck, led him for about
two hours over a miserable road, muddy
and swampy, not permitting him to
ride.
At length they reached their destina
tion, and placing him under a tree fas
tened the rope about his neck and threw
the other end over a branch. “Where’s
the rest of the money ?” they asked.
“What money ?” inquired Nelson, but
he had not time to a3k further, when
ho was jerked up and felt a choking
sensation, then a swimming in the head
which relasped into a dreamy uncon
sciousness; he was hung for the first
time. Recovering he found himself ly
ing on the ground with symptoms of a
sore threat. As soon as he opened his
eyes the ruffians collared him and lifted
him to his feet, again placing him un
der the rope.
“That was the wont of it,” said Nel
son. “The hanging itself didn’t hurt
so much bnt the gettin’ up was what
did.”
What do you mean by that ?” was
asked.
“Why, the lifting me up after I’d
been hung,” he replied. “Lord, but I
wa3 sick. Did you ever, when in
swimming, stay under water too long
and come up nauseated and deadly
sick ? Well, that’s the way I felt, only
a dam site worse.”
“How long were you suspended ?” we
asked.
“It seemed a mighty long time to me
but it couldn’t have been many seconds,
I suppose. They only hung me about
three inches above the ground.”
The robbers seemed well satisfied with
their experiment, and volunteered the
belief that tho “d—d reb” would tell
all this time. They wanted to know
where be put the rest of his money, and
where they could find other horses anu
valuables for Uncle Sam’s army, but
as Nelson gave them no satisfaction the
hanging was repeated, with the same
unpleasant symptoms.
This, together with Nelson's igno
rance of the condition of his neighbor’s
stables, failed to extort the desired in
formation, and he was hung a third
time.
“I was getting tired of it and didn’t
propose to stand it any longer, so I
commenced to abuse them,” said Mr.
Nelson, and if his account is true he
did most woefully “cuss” them. They
knew he had more than $500 with him,
but supposed he had it hid in the
neighborhood, and searched no further
than the pockets. It seems the fellows
had followed him from a boat whereon
ho had taken passage and saw him re
ceive the money from the clerk. One
of them became enraged, and placing a
revolver against his breast, said, “I’m
going to kill you dead.”
“That was preferable to a renewal of
the hanging, and I defied him to put
his threat into execution. I thonght
my last hour on earth was i>ver sure, as
he stepped back about twelve feet and
leveled the weapon at me. He would
have fired, but one of his companions
stopped in front of me and said, “No
sir, you don’t, this fellow’s been hung
three times, and if he don’t confeee
now he never will, and you ain’t goin’
to shoot him.” Sure enough they spared
me, and all went over to a shanty, where
we slept all night—one on each side of
me. I was exhausted, so I slept well,
and when I awoke they were all gone.”
Mr. Nelson does not believe they were
Federals, as they called themselves, but
were highway robbers who knew the
surrounding country and its people, as
they called him by his Christian name.
For several weeks after, hones and cat
tle were missed, but the robbers could
not be identified. No other victims
were subjected to the banging torture.
Lincoln, Neb., May 29, 1877.—A
case cutrivalling that of Damon and
Pythias has just occurred in the State
of Missouri, of'which we have seen no
full account. We have been fortunate
in obtaining the facts from one who
was interested somewhat in the matter
and subjoin them.
In Bloomfield, a little town in the
county of Stoddard, State* of Missouri,
lived two brothers, Poindexter and
James Edmondson. Poindexter, the
elder, waB a smart, intelligent young
man of twenty-seven, who had for years
cared for and protected his younger
brother James. The latter was of fee
ble mind, but was remarkable for the
affection displayed toward his elder
brother. The slightest wish of Poindex
ter was to James a sacred .command,
and the affection was rstuned in an
equal ‘degree "by the older brother.
Last summer ’ Poindexter had aoiuu
trouble with a man named William
Shaw, and in tho fight which ensued
Edmondson was struck on tho head
with a brick by SIia,v and seriously in
jured. He was confined to his room
for a considerable length of time, and
during his confinement very naturally
0 ave expression to such remarks as “I’ll
get even with him,” “I’ll fix Shaw for
this,” etc. These expressions were no
ticed and rememberod by many people
who called to see him, though nobody
paid any great attention to thsm at
that time. During the illness of Poin
dexter, James showed remarkable fits
of violent anger toward Shaw, whenever
ho saw his brother’s wound; and long
afterward, when the wuund hnd| heal
ed, he would fiy into a violent fit of
rage at sight of the scar in his brother’s
head.
One day last Octobor Poindexter,
while’sitting with his brother, sudden
ly put hi? hand to his head complaining
that it ached terribly, and that he be
lieved that Shaw had given him a wound
from which he would never entirely
recover. James had his usual parox
ysm,and Poindexter tried to soothe him
mentally finding fault with himself for
so thoughtlessly speaking ofthis subject
before his half crazed brother.
The next day James disappeared and
that night Shaw was found cut to pieces
with a butcher knife and quite dead in
his room. Suspicion at once fastened
upon Poindexter Edmondson, because
of the former trouble he had had with
Shaw and his threats during and since
his illness. He was arrested and
thrown into prison.
For two days the most agonizing
thoughts filled tho mind of Poindexter
in regard to the murder. The actions
of his brother James,his disappearance
and the murder following upon it
pointed in hismind to his brothor
JiiFS on tho murderer
of Shaw. But he heroically kept his
mouth sealed. On thejthird day James
returned and confessed to his brother
that he had murdered Shaw, and wan
ted to denounce himself at once Jand
take his place behind the bars with his
brothor. Bnt Poindexter refused to
allow it. In the most binding way
and in the most sacred manner he
commanded his brother never to toll
anybody the facts in the case. Used
to obeying his brother’s slightest wish
he readily made tho required promi
ses.
i’OINDEXTER SENTENCED TO DEATH.
The trial of Poindexter came on and
tho best attorneys that could be found
were employed in the defence. They
did all that could be done, yet they
were convinced that Poindexter was
keeping back from them some impor
tant truth about tho matter. They
urged upon him the necessity of con
fiding everything to his attorneys; but
he invariably replied that he had told
all about the case that he could tell
and all he knew. The trial ended, and
the jury brought in a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree, and the
unfortunate man was sentenced to be
hanged on May 22, 1877. The attor
neys tried by every means to get a new
trial, to have the Supreme Court review
the decision of the lower court, but in
vain and the young man prepared Tor
his almost unheard of sacrifice. As a
lost resort an appeal was made to Gov.
Phelps for interference; but after every
argument had been exhausted the
Governor firmly refused to interfere
with the findings of the court. The
last hope was gone, and Poindexter
prepared for death.
The fatal day was drawing near, but
the interposing hand of Providence was
also near. A few days before tho time
set for the judicial murder, James Ed
mondson was taken suddenly ill at
Bloomfield and laid upon his deathbed.
Then, knowing that his life was draw
ing to an end, he confessed that he, and
not his brother, had killed William
Shaw. Propor witnesses were called in
and the confession was taken down in
writing. As a matter of course,
the people were greatly excited. Thei e
were but a few days intervening before
the time set for the execution. What
was to be done must be donequickly. A
public meeting was called, a sum of
money raised and a young man sent
with allpos3ible speed to lay
the facts before Governor Phelps
at JJefFerson City. Bloomfield
considerable distance from the
railroad, but tho young law
yer who Was sent as messenger rode to
tho nearest railraad station and then
hastened to Jefferson City and laid the
papers before Governor Phelps. This
was on the Sunday evening preceding
the Tuesday when Edmondson was to
have suffered. The Governor granted
a respite to Angust 6, and then thelaw-
yer began bis ride for a life. He firat
tclopraphed to Dexter, the nearest tele-
praph station, the result of his mission
and then, as fast as steam and and hor
se could carry him, he hastened back to
Bloomfield with the Governor’s order
of commutation. He was not an hour
too soon, although his telegram had
been received before. But there was
no hanging in Bloomfield on that day
and the people were all immensely
happy. Poindexter Edmondson conld
not speak when first informed that his
brother had made a confession. James
died, and the iailer, without authority
of law, let his brother attend the funer
al under guard. Measures were at once
set on foot to induce the Governor to
grant a full and unconditional pardon
which will no doubt he done in a day
or two.
The Boss Bear Story.
A Narrative Characteristic of California.
From the Calaveras (Cal.) Chronicle.]
A few days ago a very exciting but
also ludicrous incident occurred at the
upper end of Hunter’s Flat, some ten
miles north of West Point, Calaveras
county. John Giles, who has been
prfitably engaged in trapping in the
mountains about, the past winter, visit
ed a Mr. Hall, who owns a small ranch
on Hunter’s Flat. A few hours previ
ous to Giles’ arrival a bear had paid
his respects to one of Hall’s Berkshire
hogs, leaving the smaller portion of it
under an oak tree for future lunch.
Giles owns a large steel trap, weighing
sixty pounds, which was hauled to the
oak tree, a pine some nine inches in di
ameter was then cut down, the butt
nearly reaching the oak. The heavy
chain attached to the trap has an enor
mous swivel at the end, which was se
curely fastened to the strong iren bolt
and inserted in the butt end of the pine.
The ghosty remains of Berky were car
ried up the oak tree and lashed to the
trunk so as to be in right. Tho trap
was set, and Giles proceeded to obliter
ate foot marks. • All at once Hall yelled
in a scalp-raising tone, “here he comes!”
Sure enough an enormous and appar
ently enraged bear was making rapid
headway toward the mourners under
the oak. Before Giles got started in
the race Hall had taken the lead by a
good many lenghts, leaping wild coffee
aushes six feet in height with ease.
Tho roar;n, of the ferocious brute in
the rear accelerated Giles’ speed until
he was exhausted, when he returned to
look back and note with a grateful
heart that bruin had given up the race.
He shouted the happy fact to his com
panion, who was some hundred yards
ahead, but Hall continued the race un
til he reached his cabin.
The two now concluded to wait some
two hour?. Giles had no weapons with
him, and when the time expired Hall
advanced trivial objections, but offered
to lond his rifle. As Hall is acknowl
edged to be a bold and skillful hunter,
Giles pressed him to explain his ap
parently cowardly behavior, and the
blushing and stuttering friend said
that he was recently engaged to the
reigning belle of West Point—did not
fear death—but seriously objected to
the possibility of bruin’s unkind
scratching, under the circumstances.
Giles shouldered the rifle and started
in the direction of the trap. He found
the Berkshire epicure with his left fore
paw in the trap, which he had dragged
some five hundred yards, tree and all.
When the monster caught sight of his
jailer his rage knew no bounds in his
efforts to get at him, but the trap and
the tree, which had become fastened in
the undergrowth, held him securely.
Giles says he lodged five balls in the
bear’e ears, which all ineffectually flat
tened. Balls fired at the head only
penetrated the skin. Several shots in
the region of the heart finally brought
him down, but he did not die until
three hours after. When the monster
had been skinned, his head, back of his
ears, was found to be two feet ten and
one-half inches in ciroumference. The
carcass when dressed weighed 1,453}
pounds. It is probably the largest
bear of its species ever seen in Colfomia.
The skin is a very fine one, and Giles
intends to present it to President
Hayes.
Hon- Wayne Hacveagh to Beast
Butler.
Short, Sharp and Incisive—A Warning to
Young Men.
Philadelphia, June 6.—Gen, B. F.
Bxdler, Washington, D. C.: I fear yon
have overworked your inventive facul
ties for your long and labored letter of
to-day shows signs of failing pewer,
and will go far to destroy that reputa
tion for effective scurrility which you
have 30 sedulously fostered. The issue
between you and me was your own seek
ing, and is so plain that you cannot ob
scure it by any amount of misrepresen
tation, howervor irrelevant or vulgar.
You deliberately wrote and published
concerning mo some sheer falsehoods,
without a particle of foundation for any
one of them. Thereupon I promptly
put you on the national pillory with
a very legible statement of your offen
ces upon your forehead.
As you have endured your punish
ment for an entire week, and now vir
tually confess that every statement
made by you was untrue, I have no ob
jection to your getting down; you must
not suppose that I place you there in
resentment only. My chief purpose
was to exhibit you as a warning to
younger men, by showing them that in
spite of great ability and energy you
had become the leper of our politics by
reason of the general conviction that
you habitually disregard the eighth
and ninth commandments. That pur
pose has been fully answered by com
ments of the country upon your charac
ter and I have no furtherinterest in the
matter. I will not even take the trou
ble to deny any new falsehood you may
think it to vour odvantago to invent
about me will not believe anythingyou
say against me and those who know
you, of course, will not believe any
thing you say against anybody.
Wayne MacVeagh
A Long Liyed Dog.
Elbertoa Gizotto.]
Lost week there died in Elberton a
dog that had lived longer than most of
the canine species. He was the pro
perty of Mrs. Shannon, and well known
in our village as the attendant of Mai.
Shannon for 10 years before his death
rince which time the poor dog has
seemed to care little for hie own exis
tence, refusing food until strongly for
ced by hunger—and prying into the
face of every one that approaced him
seeming in search of his dead master,
and when he found himself disappoint
ed turning away with every appearance
of complete despair. This aog was
nearly 19 years old, and was named
“Ranse Wright,” after Gen. A. R.
Wright, who at the time of the dog's
birth, was in the zenith of his glory.
Czar is pronounced as if it were
Bpelled Char.— Washington Star. Then
his wife is nothing mcro than a char
woman.—Cincinuatti Gazette.
We didn’t know that tho gentle mus
ical mosquito was at all inclined to
drink, yet we seo people putting up bare
for them.
Christian Reid.
Wuhingtoncomspondescof Cincinnati! Cbm-
mercI&L]
Let me sketch for you the pretty face
of Christian Reid, whose pleasant books
“Valerie Aylmer,” “Morton House,”
and her last novel, ‘lAfter Many Days,”
are well known to you. -1 saw her at
tho race in Baltimore, and afterwards
had the pleasure of dining with her.
She is Miss Fisher, of North Carolina,
and spends her winter in Baltimore
with her aunt and uncle, Judge and
Mrs. Hairstons, who beforo the war,
were reckoned tho richest people in the
Tar State, and even now enjoy the
income from a million. Miss Fisher
is poor, and deserves more credit and
praise that my pen can carry. She,
aids in every way her father’s family
which is large. Indeed, I understand
she is their mainstay. She is about
twenty-two, medium height, with a
slight, graceful figure, which she dres
ses with exquisite taste. Her small
shapely head is covered by a profusion
of wavy, rippling brown hair, done up
after a carelessly artistic fashion. Her
features are regular, small and very
pretty. Her eyes are large, lustrous
and of a very uncertain color. At the
race when I saw her in the stables and
and watched her as with her uncle she
passed among the horses, caressing and
patting them, her eyes looked of a lus
trous black. A dinner she was talking
with a well meaning but silly man,
and her eyes were of a dead gray.
Later on she found a congenial spirit
and her eyes were of the most tender
bl ue. She is gentle, extremely graceful
and very shy; cannot bear the least re
ference to her writings, on which sub
ject she is painfully sensitive. Her
voice is like that of all Southern women
low-toned and musical. She talks well
and when warmed up to her subject,
;rows positively eloquent. She makes
out little from her books. There is
quite a demand for them but a friend
told me the Appletons bought out the
copyright of each for a low figure, and
that was the end of it. She spends her
summers at home, and her winter with
her uncle and aunt.'who are devoted to
her new book is spoken of as the hap
piest of all her efforts, and I am told the
first edition is already exhausted. Giy*
seed this brave woman, and grant hei
every success.
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Gail Hamilton*
This lady has been heaving small
cans of dynamite atSenator Blaine’s en
emies and the afflicted are insisting that
th» fixed amunition comes from Sena
tor Jim. In other words they assert
that Blaine, of Maine is fighting be
hind Gail’s breast works. To thoso
who know both personally this is bosh.
Were Blaine poiessed of the force of
expression that in humor, sarcasm and
invective is of the keenest sort in this
little lady, he would have been a terror
to his enemies. Gail Hamilton, as if
known is a feme sole of a certain age
who does not “pretty much,” as they
say in Indiana, when she isin a state of
repese. I hardly think she would
scare horses on the avenue as Borne of
our female pen-drivers can; but she is
not one to make more than six suscep
tible Yankees die of love. Bnt ehe is
a charming conversationalist, possess
ed of the fact to talk a good deal with
her ears. She not only listens with
appearent interest, but she adroitly
leads her victim to talking on subjects
in which he is at home—generally
himself. It is' a study to see Miss
Hamilton at a dinner party, seated
next some old legislative duffer, and
note how she helps him mount his
hobby. Once on, and away goes the
1. d.
I said to her one night after a din
ner of this sort, “Old pig-iron Kelly
says you are the most brilliant conver
sationalist he ever encountered.” “And
I pledge yon my word of honor,” ehe
replied, smiling, “that I have not ut
tered five wards in two hours. My
brilliant conversational talent consists
in listening wsth intese interest to his
talk on the tarcef, which, . you know
means himself,”’
These savage attacks of Miss Gail’s
has interested me amazingly. She was
an acknowledged classic when I began
my public efforts with the pen, and as
we were thrown together a good deal
she has kindly manifested a motherly
care of poor attempts. She has been
exceedingly grieved at my indnlgence
in vituperation, Now, to see the little
woman justly aroused, assaulting the
enemy with the same weapon, is rather
encouraging.
How to Get your Note discoun
ted.
Here is the way to do it. A young
man desiring to get a banker to dis
count his note struck upon the follow
ing happy expedient. He gent a friend
to tell Mr. Banker that he had just fal
len heir to a large fortune; but before
opening an account with the bank, it
was his intention to try the good na
ture of the banker by entering the office
and asking some favor in a rough and
uncivil manner. The keen old coon
took the bait, and chuckled as the vic-
timizer presently came in, threw him
self in to a chair, and setting his mud
dy feet on the desk demanded if his
note for $500 would be discounted.
With all the respect which proper-min
ded people chow to the rich, onr finan
cier,with good-natured gush, discounted
the note, and never found out the joke
until it fell due.
Happy thought, to try that on.—
Knomttc Tribune. .'*!
Jaws of Iron.
A Nineteen-Year Old Day Lift,he Seven
Hand red Pounds With Ills Teeth.
Granville, N. Y., June 3.—Morris
Wando of this village, aged nineteen and
weighing one hundred and sixty pounds,
deserves the title of champion “Man
with the iron jaw.” A feir days ago a
man weighing 200pounds sat on n henry:
table in a saloon here. Wando stood on
a chair and seizing the table on one side
with his teeth, lifted it and fBe man two
feet dear ofth’e flote.ahdlieHttemBierff
fifteen seconds. He lifted a cask' of whia? thS other ,3ajr in a,,
key weighing 400 pounds, astride of which * i “*
were two men whose weight was 300
pounds more, by seizing it by the chime
with his teeth, holding it oat straight.
Three men pulling on a rope which he
held in his teeth, could not badge 'Wando
from his tracks. He has gone East t
seek an engagement with a circus.
An Extraordinary Career.
The Wonderful History of Dr. John Pried-
rich Ton Herder.
Cincinnati ComoroUl }—
The most important event in the his
tory of the German Pioneer Associati>*i:
tion probably occurred last evening, .-.t
their regular meeting, being the advent
among them of an old Prussian soldier
and physician, nearly a hundred years
old, who had served in most of the great
wars of the last and the present century.
His name is Johanna Friedrich Von
Herder, and his jjlge is ninety-seven
years. He was a son of one of Freder-
rick the Great’s famons Generals, and
at an early age served as military phy
sician in tho Prussian army. At the
battle of Jena he was wounded and to
ken prisoner, and alter recovering his
health, accepted a position on the med
ical staff of the French army, afterwards
being appointed staff physician to tho
great Napoleon. He followed the Giant
of Battles through all his.subeeqnent
wars. He saw. thagreat fire of Moscow
and endured the awful sufferings of
the immemorably disastrous retreat
which followed. He v«8 in Egypt: be
held the celebrated charge of the Mam
elukes upon the French squares aad
heard the exhortation of the petit cor.
pored, telling his soldiers that forty cen
turies were looking down upon them
from the summits of the Pyramids. He
saw Waterloo, the oharge of the Cuiras
siers, the defeat of the Old Guard, the
slaughter of the terribl pursuit.
Afterward he joined the Tukish army,
and continued in tho service of the Sul
tan until the time of the Greek war,
and the Massacre of Scio, when his
sympathies being enlisted in the cause
of humanity, he joined the Greek forces
as an army physician. After the war
he again went to France, and joined the
the French army. He went to Algiers
and served there. He subsequently
returned to Germany, got married, anil
took part in the Revolution of ’48, and
had to fly the country. On coming here
with his wife and children, he went to
St. Louis; and received 815,000 dollars
soon after from the remainder of his fa
ther’s estate, started in the nnrsey bus
iness near the city. He failed in this
and at last having loet nearly all his
fortune, returned to the practice of his
irofession. Then came the war for the
Inion; and the old man, together with
his five sons, joined an IUinoiaregiment.
Four of his sons were killed in the war
and the|fif(h subsequentlyjdied. His wife
also died, and now the old man desire?
to return to France. The Pioneere’ As
sociation having heard his story, voted
him fifty dollars to help pay his expen
ses. He is now on his way to Europe.
He yet seems vigorous, aud told his ex-
traodinary story last evening with re
markable precision and distinctness.
A Desperate Gambler.
An occurrence has lately
pixed
at Nice. A notorious habitue of the
Casino, who had made hls iupney. prin
cipally there, had set up a . vehicle a
pair of horses “tiger,” and all. and cut
quite a swell driving in the neighbor
hood. - - ■ .» : •: * i
One day he was riding in the envi
rons of the town upon the- fine roads,
when his servant sitting upon the
zaised box behind, who had been feel
ing somewhat uneasy at not receiving
his wages for some time, seeing that his
master was alone ventured to ask him
if he would not mekeit convenient to
pay him. , ,
The master was in a good humor
“How much is it, La Fleur?’*
“One hundred,-and twenty-five liv-
res, may. it please you monseur,”
“Very well, here it is,” said the
master, spreading the sum in paper
currency upon the seat of the vehicle,
“Now, La Fleur’ have you a pack of
cards with you?”
“Certainly,” answered the obsequi-
ons lackey*. X always cany them,
monseur,” producing the cards at once.
“That is well.. Now.I will be bank
er, and you shall play against me, I
will take the front seat, the back one
shall serve for onr table:"
The lackey asserted .to this amused
at his piaster’s condescension. Lack
was rather on the master’s side but
both men become quite eager in the
game, thinking of that and that only.
Little by little the footman’s money
was going, until all that was left of his
wages was five livres. He began to
feel anxious, when suddenly the luck
turned and he won the whole smn
back with every son hi? master hail
about him,
Piqued at his loss,’the master wager
ed horse which tho. lackey won then
its mate next the "harness and lastly
the carriage itself. Luck ran all or.c
way and the servant, La Flenr, won
everything. The master took out his
watch ana pnt it down against a giv< n
sum. The cords were shuffled; the
lackey won. ■»—
I having nothing more, La Fleur;
you have cleaned meoiit,’ said the half
desperate gambler.
The servant was in high spi its at his
strange run of luck.
Here are a hundred livr**?. monseur.
I will stoke them against y onr position
if you win they are yours, f f you lose
we change seats.”
Agreed. ‘
The cards were shuffled. La Flour
won and the vehicle returned to Nice
with its former master sitting in the
servant’s box behind La Fleur ineiiM
Marvels of the Teleoraph—A
patent has jost been granted to Loring
Pickering, one of the editors and propri
etors of the Venning Gall newspaper of
San Francisco, for a method of rapid
telegraphing of lac similes of stereotyped
plates. It is claimed that h^ this pro
cess an entire pegc of a newspapercan be
transmitted by telegraph. in from-fifteen
to thirty minutes, delivering the copy di
rectly from the instrument in such form
that it can be handed immediately to the
rioters. Jn other Words, the copy will
e a substantial reproduction of the orig
inal, except that it ,may be giyen in a
Urger-sized letter, if so desired.
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boots Was asked; yrhe •
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ojace offered tWenty-five*'cants for the M
production of a like result on his hoots en
the offer was accepted, the job was , e
done, and the quarter was paid. oe