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1 i Laricr a#< (SawmmaL gfjSOt-'' ^pniL !0, 1S70. ^^SUBSCRIPTIONS. FOS thk W eekly. f;oo r~*;; ; , ino flt ^V*' ' ,r*e in advance, j-r.r i f 11' »•* »■*?(&«.« wiH 5>- 50 a yrftr, »rd L. W»* sLT V * 5 oo. T«i- W **‘i«»r more. <,! ” > co PF wU ’' rur , 0 clubi °l £ "' t clavton, of Georgia, line ^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 !“‘n>L ,1 arxl ■ 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. CONTRACT H4TES OFSJFiMTBnre One tqure one men'll 1,4 One iqoue throe months. Oneequareaiz month■ Ona equare twelve montho—.. .. O*e-fourth column ona month On*-lourih column three months* One-fourth "X — One-fourth column twelve months. oolmnm month One-hnlf column three months...... OaA>htlf column fix months—...... Ono-hnlf column twelve month*..., One oolumn one month... 4 On. —loam thr— months. eo oo on. column aiz montho , , 114 to >n * ^° lTUnn twuhre mouth*., , Ill 90 TW fawsoinit rate. m tor either Wookij ar Tri-Weekly.; WhenptbUohodin hath sopon, I# per cut. additional upon kbit rutin. MM M M M M 33 0b M «» IM 00 31 *0 M 00 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. »appeared H wear- ! pair' of at he did it -’htance at r for the mg.sjmtstifeJ boots Was asked; yrhe • £S"t. 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