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mo SERIES —VOL. XCII
NEW SERIES—VOL. LI.
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WEDNESDAY, - - JUNE 27. 1877.
Wmmkv can practice law in Minnesota,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Pkesident Hates is going to the
White Sulphur Springs.
A French velocipedist has made a
trip of 151} miles in 23 honrs.
The peach crop of the North will be
enormous beyond all precedent.
It is said teat B. F. B. doesn’t be
lieve in the remonetization of silver—
spoons.
Babcock has become rich on a com
paratively small salary. He calls it
“rigid economy.”
'fa* inventor of the bath-tub is un
known. Hence be has no monument,
save the tub itself.
Sous of the American names of rivers
and mountains can, when pronounced,
cause even a Rnssian to die with grief.
The New Englanders brag that they
are uow giving Hates what Old England
cannot give Grant —a clam bake. Hap
py Grant !
m s sm
A son of the Green Isle refused to be
lieve in “ cheap papers ” because he did
not think they “ could afford to speak
the truth for the money.”
It is reported that Mr. Bchurz’s aver
sion to women in the Departments is
caused by the disposition on their part
to make fun of the Secretary’s long and
thio legs.
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The English wits regret that Miss
Thompson, the artist,shock! cease paint
ing war scenes, upon her marriage with
Major Butler. Sho may discover her
mistake in time.
It is wittily observed that, if “ the
pathway of fraudnlent elections is the
highway to national death,” then the
Bradley Commission was a Board of
National Undertakers.
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A recent decision of the Supreme
Court relievos Aikansas of 810,000,000
of curpet-bag debt. Powell Clayton’s
railroad bonds were declared unconsti
tutional, and therefore void.
They say that when Secretary Sher
man’s civil service reform rule pauses
before one of his own blood relations
the scythe makes a circumbendibus and
cuts down somebody’s else’s kin.
The New Orleans Democrat asserts
that tho proprietors of tho Times mo im
ported Northern or Western Republi
cans, who are running an extreme South
ern tiro eating paper, because it will not
pay to run a Republican paper.
The Atlauta Constitution, which re
cently discoursed by the “ highest au
thority ” about the United States Mar
,'halship, has made no reply to tho ques
tions asked it on that subject. Has the
“ highest authority ” given out already?
The l 'ross Agent at Washington thinks
Secretary .Sherman and President Hayes
cannot understand each other’s explana
tion of their financial policies. Wo will
do the Press Agent the justice to say
that r.hu muddle is complete in tho dis
patches.
The New York Bulletin seems to un
derstand Mr. Sherman’s poliey, enough
so nt least to predict that a financial
crisis will with difficulty be averted, in
case the Secretary proceeds with the
funeral arrangement. Congress is look
ed to for sncoor.
Brinkley, the wife murderer exe
cuted at Griffin last Tuesday, protested
to the last that he was insane. This is
very good evidence that, he was not. Ac
cording to the testimony of medical ex
perts, one of the characteristics of a lu
natic is a perfect belief in his sauity.
Cbmr is on the increase. East and
West. We sorrowfully call the attention
of the Republican editors of that regiou
to this fact. Some of their powerful
leaders upon the South, with a few
changes, would be mighty interesting
reading at home.
Mrs. Ruth Beaton, the largest woman
in the world, is dead. She was 54
years -of age, 7 feet 4 iuciu 8 h’K* l au( *
weighed 585 pounds. The local paper
states that it required eight men with
block and tackle to lower the remains
into the grave. Bbo was n kind, good
neighbor, a loving mother, and was be
loved by all who kusw her.
William M. Black, of Pennsylvania,
graduated at tho head of the first class
at West Poiut. Of the four others en
titled to distinction, one is from Illi
nois, one from lowa, one from Ohio,
and one from Kansas. A son of the
late General Frank Blair was No. 16.
The colored cadet was No. 50, surpass
ing twenty-six cadets, among whom were
a sou of Ben Butler, and a Georgian
named Frederick. When Flipper re
ceived his degree he was applanded,
beiug the sote recipient of that compli
ment.
The New York Herald writes an edi- :
torial obituary of the Democratic party, !
and upon its tombstone records these ,
melancholy words: “Hero lies the Dom- j
ocratio party, killed by Samubl J. Tin-1
DKwr, in the sixtieth year of its age,” j
The Baltimore Gazette thinks, very
properly, too, that the tying la all on the :
side of Mr. Brnnett's editor. It the i
Democratic party does not die until |
Tildes kills it and the Herald preaches
the funeral sermon, it will last a long
time
Russia wwets to borrow $75,000,000.
France and Prussia are trying to take it
at 30 per cent, discount. The Czar’s
public debt, a year ago, was $1,254,810,-
000, with $065,223,915 of forced paper
money circulation. Specie payment and
surplus are unknown. The average an
nual deficit has long been from $5,000,-
4)00 to $25,000,000. The coat of the
army per auuum, on a peace footing, is
$140,000,000. The best that can be said
of Russian finance ia that it Lardly sur
passes Turkish credit in rottenness.
Thk Cineiuouti Enquirer, comment
ing upon Chief Justice Waite's com
plaint that while ia Charleston not one
coeial call was made upoa him nor his
dangtitcr, says “the South displays
extremely bad taste in ignoring men of
prominence like the Chief Justice.”
Chief Justice Wait* displays equal bad
taste in complaining to the world that
he was ignored. The Charleston Jour
nal of Commerce says that ike gentle
men and ladies of Charleston would
have shown the “man of prominence"
ail the attention in their power had it
not been for his close association with
Bond, the Carolina Jeffries, and Cor
win, the carpet-bag District Attorney,
Axjlh the traducers and enemies of the
of the State. Callers upon the
-“man of prominence” wonld haro been
•obliged to meet these men, and Charles
rtoniaus of the better class are not willing
rto recognize them socially. The m. ol
•p. should be more careful in the selec
tion of his associates when he comes tc
the South.
! THE CONTENTION ANO THE CONNTI.
TI.TION.
There is no reason to doubt that the
people of Georgia have called a Con
vention for the purpose of framing a
new orgenic law or making such changes
i in the present Constitution as will adapt
j it to the interests and necessities of the
I State. As n general rule, able men and
; rapresentative men have been selected
as delegates. There will be less of me
diocrity in the Convention which will
assemble next month than in any body
that has met in Georgia since 1865. A
number of the delegates are men who
have given much of their time to public
affairs, and whose probity and ability
have won them Stale and National repu
tations. The framing or revision of the
organic law can safely be entrusted to
the men whom the people honored with
their confidence last Tuesday. There
were many who opposed the holding of
a Convention because they feared
wholesale and violent changes in
our system of government; that there
would be interference with the political
and civil rights of the colored portion
of the State’s popnlation ; that the com
mon school system wonld be abolished ;
that the Homestead law would be strick
en from the statute book; and that there
would be immediate and swoeping re
movals from office. The men who en
tertained sneli apprehensions will soon
discover their groundlessness. At a
time when no elections are pending, and
when tho State is wholly free from po
litical excitement ; when the relations
of tho two races are of the kindest
character ; when the great changes pro
duced by the war have been fully recog
nized and accepted ; when partisan feel
ing is allayed and party passions have
subsided ; at this time, when all things
arc opportune for so doing, the people of
Georgia meet in sovereign Convention
to make an organic law for themselves,
their childron and their children’s child
ren. Thoir counsels will be governed by
wisdom, justice and moderation, and
their desire will be to make laws under
which the State may flourish and all its
citizens prosper. These are some of the
things which, wo think, tho people wish,
and which, we believe, tho Convention
will give them:
1. The absolute equality of all men
before the law and equal political rights
for all classes and colors.
2. Such a common school system as
will allow tho children of every man, no
matter how poor he may be, to obtain, at
least, a good English education.
3. A Homestead law that will reduce
the amount of the present exemption,
allowed in the flush times that followed
the war, that will prevent fraud in the
taking of such exemption and that will
make it inalienable, so tbat the women
and children whom it is intended to ben
efit may be really protected.
4. A change in the tenure of office by
which, after the expiration of the term
of the present incumbent, the Governor
will be elected for two instead of
four.
5. Election of all Judges by the Leg
islature.
6. Bieunial sessions of the Legisla
ture.
7. Prohibition of all bonded indebted
ness by the State except for tho redemp
tion of bonds issued previous to the as
sembling of the Convention.
8. The adoption of such a system of
government for counties, incorporated
towns and cities as will limit indebted
ness and taxation.
CiOT. COLQUITT ANO THE BRINKLEY
CASE.
Stephen Brinkley, of Coweta county,
who murdered his wife uearly fonr years
ago, was hanged at Newnan last Friday.
The dispatch from Atlanta which gave
an account of tho execution alluded to
the extraordinary efforts made by influ
ential men to save him from the gallows,
and to the ground upon which theee
efforts were based. The fact that a
number of citizens of Georgia attempted
to procure a respite; that their attempt
was warmly seconded by the Governors
of Mississippi and Tennessee, by an ox-
Governor of Tennessee, and by Generals
Forrest and Jackson, with whom
Brinkley served during the war, and
j who knew him personally; and the
further fact that the basis of these ap
plications was the insanity of the pris
oner, may induce some people to think
that Governor Colquitt should have in
terfered to savo the wretched man from
the gallows. A little reflection will con
vince every man whose judgment is not
perverted by that maudlin sentiment
which so ofton rescues the criminal from
| the just penalty of his crimes that the
Governor acted wisely and justly in re
fusing the request of the distinguished
I gentlemen above mentioned, and in let-
I ting the sentence of the Courts beenforc
j ad.JJ.BiNKLEY was arrested and brought, to
j trial, t&tffped with the murder of hie
wife. The oojifence adduced upon the
! trial of the case— qyLjence which Lae
. since been published to the WmlJ —shows
conclusively that lie wad guilty. Tqe
; kiliiug was cowardly, brutal and Wholly
unprovoked by /either word or deed on
the part of the victim. I,t was a korri
| ble crime, unattended by f. sin
j gle extenuating circumstance. He had
the benefit of oonnsel— some of the ablest
criminal lawyers of the State having beet
j-stained in his behalf—of n uprighl
Judge a’ l *! impartial jury. But the tea
timony against him was so plain and s t
I convincing that the jurors under theii
| oaths were compelled to ren^ ar aver
; diet of guilty. The case was taken t(
the Supreme Court, and that tribunal
affirmed unanimously and without hesi
tation the judgment of the Const below
that be should expiate his crime with
death. When the day of execution ap
proached the plea of insanity was filed
axd Brinkley was respited until his
mental condition could be ascertained, j
The physicians appointed to examine
the prisoner found him sane. From this !
finding an appeal was taken, and this 1
appeal was also decided against the ac
cused. It is said that upon one issue
or another this man had no less than
! seven trials, and in every instance judg
ment was awarded against him. At last
all the devices au4 delays of the law
1 were exhausted, and the wife-slayer,
still stood under the shadow of the
scaffold. The only hope of escape
! was through an appeal to the clemency
|of the Executive. Brinkley had
wealthy relatives in Tennessee, and in
j duential friends in Tennessee and in
i other fiitste?. These united in an appeal
1 to Governor Colquitt to save him, on
the ground that he wau insane. The
Governor says that he read carefully all
the testimony in the case, and he was
nnable to find anything in it which
wonld warrant Executive interference
with the judgment of tiie Courts. The
application was refused, and Bbjnklby
has been summoned before the Great
' Judge of the Court of Heaven to
pay the penalty of deeds done
in the #esb, That Governor Col
quitt was right im this refusal no
right thinking man will deuy. If
Brinkley was insane of course he should
not have been done to death. But how
should his mental condition have been as
certained ? Who were the beet judges of
his sanity, the brother who, aotnated by
every feeling of affection and of family
pride, was striving to save him from an
ignominious death, and the officers un
der whom he served in the army not less
than twelve years ago, or the jnrors who
fat npon the case and the medical ex
perts by whom he had been so often
examined ? There can be but one an
swer to the question. The well being
and safety of society demand that the
murderer Nhall not escape the punish
ment affixed by the laws to his crime.
The escape of Brinkley would have
! had a bad effect throughout the
i State. It would have made peo
ple distrust the efficacy of the Courts
in repressing violence and have caused
men to take the administration of the
law into their own hands. We have no
doubt that Governor Colquitt would
have liked to have saved Brinkley’s
life, bad and brutal as the man undoubt
edly was. But Governor Colquitt, as
the Executive of Georgia, had a duty to
perform, and we rejoice that he dis
charged it as be did.
AN UNWARRANTED ACCUSATION.
Senator Hill is represented as saying,
in the case of Foster Blodgett, which
came up in Fulton Superior Court last
week, “that at the time these indict
ments were found, and for two or three
years afterwards, he haJ advised his
client not to come here ar.d submit
himself to trial, because it would be an
utter impossibility for him at that time
to get an impartial hearing. Mr. Blod
gett had repeatedly urged upon him
that he desired to come here ami have
the cases tried ; that he had replied to
him that if it wonld be at his own risk;
that ho gave it to Mr. Blodgett as his
honest conviction that in the then tem
per of public opiniou, it would be utter
ly impossible for him to have justice
done him.” We never heard before that
Mr. Hill gave his client any such ad
vice, and we regret to hear it now. The
statement contains a direct reflection
upon the Judges, the juries and tho peo
ple of Georgia, which is not warranted
by the facts. There has been no time
since Bullock’s flight from justice in
1871 when a man accused of crimo could
not obtain a fair and impartial trial iu
the Courts of Georgia. The people of
the State do not deserve such an accusa
tion from such a source.
PATRIOTIC FINANCIERING.
We find the following paragraph in a 1
recent Atlauta letter to tho Savannah
News : “The James sixes have all been
taken, except a few scattering bonds,
and the State of Georgia is thereby re
lieved of about 8280,000 of her bonded
debt, and Hon. John H. James and
Capt. Wm. Henry Woods deserve credit
for this measure of retrenchment.”
There are no such bonds, as far as we
are informed, as the “James sixes."
They exist only in the imagination of the
correspondents at the capital, who usual
ly have so many compliments for the
Atlanta banker. They could just as
properly be called the “Carlton sixes”
or the “Pay t ne sixes.” Mr. James, we
believe, did introduce the bill au
thorizing the issue of these bonds,
and that is all. As to the State
owing ; Mr. James and Capt. Wm.
Henry Woods anything on this acoount,
and as to its being “a measure of re
trenchment” with them, we think there
must be some mistake about the matter.
We have been under the impression that
the bill benefitted primarily the parties
who had bought at a discount a large
amount of the bonds of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, endorsed by the
State, and who wished to convert them ■
into a State bond likely to sell at a pre
mium. We have further understood
that both Mr. James and Mr. Woods,
certainly the latter, were among the
largest of theso operators. It may not
have been a bid trade for the State; it
certainly was a very good one for the
bond speculators. We have no doubt
that Messrs. James and Woods are emi
nently patriotic gentlemen, nor have we
any fear that their patriotism will ever
force them into a court of bank^iptcy.
J. WILKES BOOTH.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist
has received, with a request for ropubli- j
oalion, a copy of some verses written on i
the death of J. Wilkes Booth. The
author, it is stated is (or was, for the
verses were originally printed several
years ago), “a prominent citizen of
Springfield, Illinois, the home of Abra
ham Lincoln, and are founded on the
report that Stanton, then Secretary of
War, ordered the remains of Booth to
be taken to sea and thrown overboard in
mid-ocean.” We do not republish them
for several reasons. One is, that no one
believes the silly story of Stanton and
“mid-ogean.” In 1866 or 1867 the body
of Booth was delivered to his relatives
by the Government and interred in the
place of their selection. Another is,
that the lines are not good enough to
warrant their reproduction unless for
some special reason they were of value
or interest. Another is, that we do not,
and tho people of the South do not,
sjmpathize with any attempt to canonize
iS.urderers or to make a martyr of a man
who was uterejy an assassin. We fail to
discover any “patriotismsV ip what he
did. He committed a cruel and coward
ly act, and he richly deserv‘d to suffer
j the penalty of his crime. The true sons
| of the South loughi with the sword of
the soldier and not with the weapon o'
l the assassin. From a lower and politi
cal point of view the killing of President
Linooln was a blunder as well as p
crime. Lincoln wae an amiable and
kind hearted man, animated by a sip
?ere love @f the Union, but without
malice to any who fought against it.
Having succeeded >U crushing secession
and restoring the Union, he would not
iia*e sanctioned the adoption of harsh
measures the Southern people.
He was powerful euoago y'Jix his party
to have defeated proscription and recon
struction, and if his life bad not been
taken there is every reason to believe
that the Southern people would not have
endured many of the evils with which
they have been afflicted since the ter
mination of the war.
The city of Cincinnati, not satisfied
with the Southern Railroad project,
wants a white whale, and will pay
$15,000 for one.
Because Lincoln’s grave was robbed,
a Washington paper calls for better pro
tection of the tomb of the Father of his
Gonntry at Mt. Tern on. No danger.
Over one-half the counties of Penn
sylvania have chosen delegates to a Re
publican Convention, and Venango is
the only one that has formally endorsed
the President’s policy.
Conklixg has gone to join Gbant.
The ex-sovereign permitted Rosooe to
control the swill tnb in New York. The
reigning President jfias stopped the sup
ply, and hence these squeals.
Pitkin is threatening to tell all he
knows abont the Louisiana fraud, but
the country is already satisfied abont
John Sherman and Eliza Pinkston,
not to apeak of the Returning Board
Rogues] _
Russia started oat to reeene Gjeek
Christians from the yoke of the Otto
man. And now we read that the Patri
arch of the Greek Cbnrch has ordered
prayers in all his conventions for the
success of Turkey !
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1577.
THE “ HOLINESS” OF WAR.
The comparatively longer purse and
undoubted superior armament of Rus
sia may cause the overthrow of Turkey,
if there be no outside interference. But
it is not so certain yet that the game will
be all one way. Be this as it may, one
fiction seems to have been exploded, and
that is the “ holiness” of the war, and
its consequent popularity among Rns
sian subjects. The London Times’Sloa
cow correspondent rather pricks that
bubble, and Prince Gortcuakoff's
note to England confirms the truth, al
ready more than suspected, that the
“ holy” part of the crusade was a mere
pretense and convenient sham. We
learn from the high source above indi
cated that there is not much euthusiasm
in the Muscovite domain, that the loans
are vigorously forced, that no real sym
pathy exists for the Bulgarian “ Chris'
tians,” and that the Czar himself was
coerced into hostilities by unscrupu
lous advisers. The 30,000 fugitives
from Odessa did not want war, nor did
the ruined traders or starving
families. What then were the causes
of the war ? Accord ng to the
Times correspondent, there were three:
“First, unconquerable ambition ; sec
ondly, impending bankruptcy; thirdly,
the existence of a Constitution in the
Ottoman dominions. The latter was,
perhaps, the most urgent. Although
coercive measures may be taken and are
taken every day to repress any discon
tent, it would have been impossible to
prevent all Muscovy from feeling that it
at least was entitled to the same repre
sentative government which is enjoyed
by every European nation down to the
‘brutal, savage, ignorant Turk.’ So
much for the cause of the war. Now,
what is its object ? It has never va
ried. It was and is Constantinople. No
body attempts to put any other object
forward. One of the most prominent of
the pro-Christian Russians admitted ft
undisguisedly to me the other day. The
proof is clear. If Constantinople is not
the object let Russia lay down a point,
a boundary—north of the Balkans, south
of the Balkaus, it mattors not, but au
immutable line, to advance beyond
which would constitute in itself a casus
belli. But to no such course will Russia
consent. Nay, she is already seeking to
pacify and ameliorate Bulgaria by laying
Asiatic Turkey waste. It lias often
been said, but I repeat it, this is a war
of conquest, and nothing but conquest.
The Emperor is powerless. Unless we
take early steps to defeat it, the object
of the war will be attaiued. It is Con
stantinople; aud the defense thereof be
gins not at its walls, but at the Danube.”
We dare say there is much truth in
these speculations. Indeed the verifica
tion of a larger part of them has
beeu officially substantiated. Prince
Oobtchakoff pacified England some
weeks ago by declaring that Rus
sia went to war to rescue the Christians
in Turkey. Now he admits that the
army will not tolerate a campaign that
does not include the transcending of the
Balkans and capture of the Ottoman
capital. He qualifies this by affecting
to declare that Russia does not want to
remain in Constantinople when she gets
it. That is a very likely story, and
would no doubt be subsequently quali
fied to suit the exigency of the ease.
The Eastern aud Western States of this
Federation invaded the South for the
Constitution and the Union, The world
knows the sequel; and the world is very
apt to know how much credit can be
given to Prince Qobtohakoff’s extraor
dinary affirmation, that to the victor—a i
Russian victor, too—the spoils do not
belong!
PRESIDENT OF THE CONVENTION.
When the announcement was first
made that ex-Governor Jenkins would
consent to serve as a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention, by common
consent he was singled out as the Pre
siding Officer of that body in the event
it should assemble. Newspapers in
every section of the State heartily en
dorsed the suggestion, aud not a single
word of dissent has been uttered. The
indications are that when the Conven
tion assembles next month Governor
Jenkins will be elected President by the
unanimous vole of the members. It is
eminently fit that such selection should
be made. Governor Jenkins is one of
the oldest and one of the most distin
guished members of the body. He has
had great experience in public affaire,
and would make an admirable presiding
officer, tipop the re-organization of
civil government in this State after the
war, lie was elected Governor. With
what zeal, fidelity and intrepidity he
discharged the important duties of that
high office is known of all men now and
will be known to history hereafter.
Swore? to support the Constitution and
laws of the State, hP maintained that
oath inviolable. When the bastard Con
vention of negroes and scallawags and
carpet-baggers, called by Gen. John
Pope, under tho authority of the Re
construction acts, met in Atlanta, one of
its first acts was to make a raid on the
public treasury. This raid Governor
Jenkins resisted and defeated. Because
] ot nis refusal to pay the demand made
1 upon him from tins he was
i ejected from ofi ice by Gen'. George
! G. Meade, and a Federal officer
! ed in his place as Governor of Georgia,
for this high-handed act of violence
and usurpation, the military satrap was
publicly thanked by a majority of the
so-called Convention, and another reso
lution passed disowning and con
demning Governor Jenkins’ attempt to
have the validity of the Reconstruction
iniquities tested in the Supreme Court
of the United States. It is, therefore,
meet that when the representatives of
the free people of Georgia assemble in
sovereigu Convention they should pay
the highest compliment iu their power
to one who proved himself so faithful
and so courageous in the midst of the
most trying circumstances.
It is scaroely necessary to add that
< the above was written wholly without
the knowledge of Governor Jenkins.
Hon. Henry R. Harris has been
rather unfortunate in the selection of
candidates for naval cadetships. His
youug friends have been all failures,
riurely there are plenty of bright boys iD
Mr. Harris’ district. Georgia has a
splendid reputation for native talent and
the seed should not ran out in any part
of the State.
Sitting now snugly camped on
Canadian soil, would make an excellent
inspector of the Black Hills. Tamed,
civilized and under Govern nent sur
veillance, he would purify the atmos
phere there. We understand that there
1 are several fugitives in the Hills who
| greatly need an interview with Sitting
I Bull.
Concord patriot predicts that
“Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks will be a
power id tips country at no distant day,
and that the Southern States, ip the
next Democratic National Convention,
will prefer him to any other Northern
man.” They will certainly prefer him
to that Northern man whom Senator
Bsc? describes as being as “ cold as a
d—<J cmrn,” and who sat sucking his
fingers in Grammercy Park while the
Radical leaders were joggling the Demo
cratic party oat of their constitntional
rights.
FACT OR FfCTION.
A STRANGE STORY OF A CIRCIS
ATTACHE.
t
A New- Version of the Sparta Tragedy—Sol
emn Declaration Tliat the Rozier .Murder
ers Are Yet at Large—They Are Now at the
North—Have Inooceot Men Been Convict
ed e—A Queer Story From Queer Parties.
Perhaps all of odt readers have heard
of the Sparta tragedy. Oa the night of
Saturday, February 10th, iu the preseut
year, Mr. H. F. Rozier, a prominent
merchant of Sparta, Ga., was robbed
aud murdered upon the highway iu that
town. Saturday night, about half-past
ten, Mr. Rozier, who kept, a store on
the maiu street, not far from the Court
House, left his store with his lantern
burning, to go to his residence, about
one hundred and fifty yards further
down the street. Ou Lis way he drop
ped in at anothersmall store and chatted
a few minutes with three or four gentle
men friends, then biddiug them good
night, proceeded towards home. Some
very few minutes afterwards he came
staggering back into the same store, aud
the gentlemen (whom he had just left)
now saw that something was wrong with
him. He could not speak, but from his
wild and incoherent manner, together
with some blood iu the face, they at
once inferred that he had beeu robbed.
They asked him if such was the case,
and he nodded his head. “How many
were they ?” interrogated his friend,
and, unable to speak or move, he held
up his thumb. They theu went with
him some 75 or 80 yards iu the direction
of his residence, aud he indicated to
them that that was the plaoe, aud here
they found his lantern badly broken.
He further indicated to them that they
had his store key. He then became un
conscious and was carried to his home,
almost in the very heart of the town,
where he lingered until ten o’clock Sun
day morning and died. He was robbed
of about one hundred dollarp, his watch
and pistol, aud also his store key.—
Medical aid was at once called in, but
bis skull was found to be badly fractur
ed on the left side, as though he had
been strnck three or four times with
some deadly weapon, probably a slurg
shot or billy, and, what is most remark
able, not notwithstanding tho skull
was badly shivered, thi skin was not
broken or even marked, nor did it show
any bruises.
The tragic occurrence naturally cre
ated
luteuse Excitement
Iu Sparta, aud no efforts were spared to
detect the guilty parties. Ou the 15th
of February Rev. M. O. Boddie, pastor
of one of the colored churches in Han
cock county, was arrested, it beiug
thought that some ciicumstance pointed
to him as the guilty party; but in a pre
liminary trial before the County Court,
and after a full and impartial investiga
tion, ho was discharged. A few days
later a sensation was caused by the ar
rest of N. Y. Griggs, W. R. Lovett aud
Cjlumbus G. Barnes, well kuown citi
zens of Sparta, on the oharge of having
murdered Mr. Rozier, Griggs was town
marshal of Sparta. On the Bth of March
the prisoners were lodged in the Augusta
jail for safe keeping until the time ap
pointed for their trial. On the
Griggs was tried, convicted aud
recommended t.o the mercy of the
Court, as the evidence was circumstan
tial. The Court sentenoed him to im
prisonment for life in the penitentiary.
W. R. Lovett was tried aud convicted
in Hancock Superior Court for compli
city iu the murder, ou the 6th of the
present month, and recommended to
the mercy of the Court. The case against
Columbus G. Larues, the third party
charged with the horrible crime, has
beeu continued until the regular session
of Hancock Superior Court, to be held
in October oejft. Griggs and Lovett
have both filed motions for new trials,
which, if overruled, will go to the nejt
term of the Supreme Court. The evi
dence is entirely circumstantial. The
prisoners were returned to Richmond
jail and will spend the Summer in this
city. Now comes the
Strangest Part of llie Affair*
Some time ago a muu who gave his
name as John Eoriglit, and stated that
he was au attache of Howes’ Great Lon
don Circus, made a remarkable state
ment to a merchant of this city. He
said that a short time before the Rozier
murder two men, one of whom had
been attached to Cole’s Circus, told him
that they hsd found out Where they
could get some phoney, au, l proposed
that be join them in the u tide* taking.
He refused. The two men then left the J
city and stole a ride in a box car to
Sparta, They seprpte/1 themselves near
that place for twenty-four hours, and on
the night of the 10th of February left
their retreat and assaulted Mr. Rozier
ou the street in Sparta, with a sand hug
which they had provided especially for
the occasion, intending only to stun
him. After knoekiug him down they
robbed him and fled. One of the par
ties was afterwards arrested in Jackson
ville, Florida, on the charge of picking
a pocket. Enright declared that tjie
newspaper statement ip regard to
the pistol and the money was in
correct. He asserted most positive
ly that he had stated facts, and
that Griggs, Lovett and Barnes were
altogether innocent of the mbrder of
Rozier. The story was so remarkable
that the merchant spoke of it to others.
A. M. Dußose, Esq, leading counsel for
the accused, hearing of the matter, came
to Augusta and obtained the merchant’s
affidavit, setting forth the story as told
by Enright. This affidavit Wilt be made
use of on the motion for anew trial. It
has been ascertained that a man named
John Enright was attaohed to Howes’
Circus, and foreclosed a laborer’s lien
against the property at the time it was
stopped in Augusta by the creditors.
His stpfemppt is tpe more important
from the fact that the evidence against
Griggs, Jjovett and Barnes was purely
circumstantial. He can probably be
found ap4 bis eyjiencie qbtaiped in per
son at gome jutijn day. It' remains to
be seen what ejjject thjs testimony will
have upon the cam,
An eel skin fllhd with sand is said to
be thefavorite weapon of New York burg
lars and robbera It kills the victim
withont leaving any external mark or
brnise. This, at will be seen from the
premises, was the case with Mr. Rozier.
Notwithstanding the skull was fractured
the skin was not broken, or even marked
or
CROPS IN iIKEN COUNTY.
The Wheat ami tyat Crops Twenty-Six
Bushels to the Acre—Large Area in N|ifa)l
(■rain—No Corn %o Buy—Not so Much Cot
tou Planted—A Narrow Escape.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Aiken, S. 0., June 18, 1877- — After a
protracted drouth, which was com
mencing to tell unfavorably, especially
upon the corn crop, we have had for the
past week a season of refreshing rains,
which has been extremely beneficial to
everything, particularly as the crops
were clean and in nice condition. The
oat crop has beta harvested in beaqtiful
order, and the yield has been fair, though
not as good as it would have been if we
could have had more rain at the time of
heading. The vheat crop ha 9 been a
splendid suocesi, and is now being rap
idly harvested, free of rust, and the
yield is unusually fine fop this climate
and latitnae. I have just seen the
wheat threshed out from a measured
acre on the farp of my neighbor, Mr.
Louis Bradweli, and it turned out (26)
twenty-six bushels; and he has twelve
more acres of the same sort. It was
manured with lixty bushels of cotton
seed to the acre, but was not planted
until December As our climate is not
thoroughly adapted to wheat, this is a
magnificent yie.d, and will compare very
favorably with crops of the same kind
raised farther Jlorth. The area planted
in both oats and wheat has been very
large. * 'Jibe attention paid to these
eereals by the people‘of county is
annually Qn the increase. The area
seeded to Indian corn is much larger
than usual, mauy farmers having turned
in, when the European war became a
certainty, and planted land already pre
pared for cotton ii corn. Aiken county
generally makes all, or nearly all, the
corn she uses, bit this year I think will
make a considerable surplus. The cot
ton area has necessarily, from these
causes, been coisiderably diminished,
but the crop is wfl manured and gener
ally fcndef gorici cultivation, 'though
backward from he prdtracle(j drouth
whiefi we have just passed. ' Bard times
and low prices fgr gotten are gradually
forcing upon the minds of our‘people a
more intelligent aystem of farm econ
omy. More atteitiou is being paid to
the food question in all its departments.
More grain and nore meat will be raised
iu thio county this year than at any time
since the War. fib w tnat ve have a good
government, them is no reason why a
man can’t raise at many hogs as he is
able to attend to.
Our worthy Sheriff, M. T. Holley, and
his lady, made a narrow escape from
death a few days since. His horses ran
away while descending a steep hill, in
conseqneuee of some portion of the
harness breaking, when the wheels came
in contact with a tree, and they were
precipitated violently to the ground
many feet in front of the buggy. Mrs.
Holley was severely injured and is now
under the care of a physician, but Mr.
Holley escaped with only a few bruises,
aud is attending to the usual duties of
tho office he fills so acceptably.
C. E. R. D.
S.MITII-C'OI.QUITT (?) COKHESPONU
ENCE.
Editors Cfyonicle and Constitutionalist:
The evident self eauiplaoeucy of ex-
Goveinor James M. Smith as tohis open
letters to Governor Oolqnitt recalls an
amusing correspondence of Mr. Clay
with one of his ardeut Georgia admir
ers. Mr. Clay’s Georgia friend was, of
course, a Whig, and was somewhat im
bued with the popular Whig delusiou
that when Mr. Clay died, the country
would go to ruin; aud iiis admiration
for Mr. Clay only exceeded his own
self-complacency.
“ Well, boys,” said our Georgia friend
to a group of his admirers, “ I have
just had an interesting—a very interest
ing and instructive correspondence with
Mr. Clay.” Our friend, then discoursing
at length about the character and scope
of the correspondence, and its possible
influence upon the destiny of the coun
try, made his own importance second
only to that of Mr. Clay. When he
paused, an eager listener asked how long
this important correspondence had been
going on. “ Only a few weeks," replied
our friend, “ 1 believe I have written
two letters.” The inuooent, but over-cu
rious listener then pressed his inquiries
to learn how often Mr. Clay had written.
Finally the reluctant,answer was given :
“Well—oh—to tell the truth—Mr. Clay
hasn’t answered at all, but I am expect
ing a letter from him.” G banger.
AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
Tlio Career of (ienernl C. F. UcnnlngHeu—
His Service in Spain—With llie Circassian
l’roiiliel—ln NicnruKim.
[ Washington Republican.]
General Charles Frederick ffeuping
sen died at his rasidenoo on Capitol Hill
yesterday at the age of (13 years, The
deceased was a native of England, but
of Swedish descent; a man of good
birth and high social standing, aud who
bad had an extensive acquaintance with
men of high rank in England aud on the
continent. His military life commenced
in 1834 in the British Legion in the ser
vice of Don Carlos in Spain, in whioh
Legion he was captain of lancers, and
served under the celebrated Zumalacar
regui until his death in June, 1836. Of
this canjpaiga lie published au account
in 1836, under the fitfe qf “ The Most
Striking Events of a Twelve Mouths’
Campaign with Zumalaoarregui in Na
varre and the Basque Provinces.” At
some time between 1839 and 1845 he
served in the Caucisus with Shamyl, the
Circassian Prophet, against Russia, aud
in 1848 and 1849 iu Hungary with Bern,
aud in indopendentcommand of an army
against the Austrians aud Russians. At
some time during this service he \yeut to
St. Petersburg and rem lined there for a
time qn a secret mission. At the close
of the \yar he look refqpo in Turkey, aud
traveled over npteh of Turkey and in
Tartary.
In 1856 and 1857 ho served with Wal
ker, in Nicaragua, and during the early
part of our civil war he commanded an
artillery force iu the Confederate service
in Virginia, having before then married
and resided in Georgia. At onetime he
was about to enter the Cuban service,
aud went in a small boat, with one per
son oply, from Florida to Cuba. Dur
ing the last eleven years of his life he
resided in (fen. Hepning
sen was tall of Rtatiire, ereot ami spare,
of prominent features, a keen eye and
striking soldierly appearance. He was
a man of varied and vast information, a
scholar well-read, writing French as
readily as Lnglitiii, author of several
works, among which weW) 1 ‘ The White
Slave” aud “Revelations of Russia,”
and an accomplished man of the wortd,
intimate with aud favorite of the Duke
of Wellington, aud with the right of
etjtrfe at Almacks, when that privilege
was coveted in vain by Marquises. Com
ing to vvaiit iii' the late years of his life,
he bore hardships with equanimity, ask
ing aid of no one; boro a long illuess
with surpassing patience, and met death
with the quiet fojrtjtuqfe ojf a eqjqier,
without fear and witpopt reproach.—
Aipid the iljs of life he wearied po one
with complainings, uttered po invectives
against fortune, and never became mis
anthropic or despondent.
J. WILKES BOOTH.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
As yon kindly invite discussion lipon
all v qucstions of public interest, I re
spectfully submit a few remarks Onyaur
editorial of hqnday, headed V'j. Wilkes
Rqotli.” There pan, of eburge, bp no dif
ference af opinfop between us &a regards
our abhorrence of murder iu every pos
sible form. lam certainly no apologist
of orime iu any of its phases ; nor do I
propose to take issue with you upon
your characterization of the killing of
Lincoln as an assassination. I will even
go farther still, and agree with you, that
tho manner qf Mr. Lincoln's death was
not only unfortunate for the South, con
sidered as to its political consequences,
but that the deed itself was morally
wrong. While I concur with you in the
above general views, I am constrained to
think that Booth was actuated by what
he conceived ba patriotic) motives in
taking the life of Mr. Lincoln. How
ever criminal the act, it was, in my
opinion, prompted by a desire (mistaken
though it was) to serve his pquqtrjf. Ho
far as I haye lipsqd, it has been in
tiniated fhat Rooth’ entertained any per
sonal animosity toward bisyictim, nor, I
believe, lias it ever beep pffarged that he
hud spy splfish cud tq accomplish by
committing the act. What, then, could
have been his object iu,thua destroying
the life of a fellow-being aud rushing to
almost certain death himself ? It is
said (and I have never seen the state
ment contradicted) that as Booth leaped
upon the stage, after firing the fatal
Qh.it, he exclaimed, “iip ifemper Tyran
nis !" The use of this phrase at this
Juncture would seem to indicate beyond
a ‘i ~'’cstiou the feeling that moved ‘him
to the act. It is evident, it seems to me,
that he regarded Mr. Lincoln as not only
the representative of, Opt perhaps the
controlling spirit in ' the Goyerhtpent
that had crushed the effort of his people
to secure their independence, This we
know wps only type in part. For my
self I have no doubt Booth's atage edu
cation had much to do with the drama
tic conception and accompaniments of
the tragedy. His professional training
had familiarized his mind with the rep
resentation of death ; and to an enthu
siatic, fine strung' natnre.there was but a
short step between death for a sentiment
on the mimic stage, and death for a sen
timent on the broader field of human ac
tion
For one, I have never sympathized
with those conspirators who, rnshing
npon Caesar from behind and overcom
ing him by their numbers, struck him
down with their cruel daggers. J have
always regarded that as a cowardly as
sault, unworthy of the great Homan
people and the cause of liberty, in whose
name the deed was done. Rat hisfory
has handed down the example of Brutus
and Cassias for the emulation of all
ages ; and the sentiment of liberty-lov
ing people throughout the world, and
especially in America, concurs in assign
ing them a lofty place among the heroes
of the past.
Perhaps Booth, recalling the familiar
story of Caesar’s death, and ofc.aerying
the sanctify with which posterity has
clothed the memories of his slayers,
aspired to enroll bis name with theirs
upon the pages of history.
Such, it appeals to me, were probably
some of the motives which led Booth to
commit the deed whioh has given him a
greater notoriety than his acting could
ever have done, world-famed as it was.
I will not occupy yonr spaoe or weary
your patience with my views upon
Booth’s conrage or cowardice as display
ed in the great tragedy. Suffice it to
say tb*t I canoe,] agrae tyith you In
your ojffnionß'updn thispoirit. Sigma
Ob, dreadful, dreadful ! The United
States Entomological Commission has
broke iqfjtee in Nebraska and'h'as got after
the grasshoppers and is raging around
most reckless, and they do say it is nip
aud tack whether the United States En
tomological Commission will immolate
the grasshoppers or the grasshoppers
will get awa f with the United States En
tomological Commission. The Governor
of Nebraska has called upon the Presi
dent for troops.
HAMPTON AT AUBURN.
THE CAROLINIAN’S SPEECH AT
THE SHIELDS CELEBRA riON.
An Knthuslaatic Welcome—Speech of Gov
ernor Hobinsou Hampton's If espouse
Review ot the Struggle—The Canvass in
Carolina—The Two Races—Patriotic Senti
ments Loudly Applauded.
Auburn, N. Y'., June 20—Governor
Wade Hampton urrived this morning
and was escorted to the Ross homestead.
Governor Robinson, iu his spoecli of
welcome to Governor Hamptou at the
Shields celebration to-day, dwelt large
ly on the contest in South' Carolina, in
which the latter had takeu so promiuent
a part. Governor Hampton, iu the
course of his speech in reply, said :
“ Your distinguished Governor has been
pleased to allude to the contest iu
South Carolina. That, my friends, was
not a political struggle. It rose far
higher thau any such contest ever waged
on this Continent. It was a contest for
civilization, for home rule, good govern
ment -for life itself. It was a contest
waged by the people of South Caro
lina, not as demagogues would tell
yqg against Northern men. It was a
e<est waged against carpet-baggers;
and when I say “carpet-bagger,” I
mean by that “thief!” We do *not,
call any Northern mau, any Irishman,
auy German, auy Englishman who set
tles iu our midst as au honest citizen a
carpet-bagger. We welcome such with
open arms. We tell them to come to
our genial skies aud fertile soil; come
one, come all, aud I pledge them iu the
name of the State a hospitable, warm
hearted reception. We do not ask
whether they are Republicans or Demo
crats. I want to impress this upon
your minds, aud will do it by one illus
tration. What was done by the Demo
cratic Legislature of South Carolina in
almost its first action ? A vacancy oc
curred on the Supremo Beuoh of the
State. A Chief Justice was to be elect
ed. It was a place which had been
filled by men of the very highest
reputation in our Commonwealth. The
names of honored sons of Carolina, who
would have done honor to any beuoh iu
auy country, were presented, but that
Democratic Legislature elected to the
Supreme Court a citizen of New York
who Cfjmo tq the State gs a soldier and
who is a Republican. What further
proof do you want tfiat wp aye not gov
erned by proscyiptive feeling ? Does it
not show that wo have fulfilled pledges
and promises made through the last
canvass to make no distinction on ac
count of race, color or party ? We
wanted to show you people of the North
that we were actuated by tho highest
and most patriotic feelings. We did
not wage a political canvass. We were
fighting for every interest dear to
freemen, aud thanks to the brave
and true men and glorious wo
men of SqqtJi Usjpltha this way
for good government was successful.
They have established it in every de
partment of the Stato government.
They have accomplished this, aud they
now propose to fulfil to the very letter
the pledges I made, and appealed to the
high Heaven to witness that they should
be oarried out. I declared that if elect
ed I would be Governor of the whole
people of Carolina; that I should
know no race or party, no color; that all
men who stood on tho soil of South
Carolina, native or foreign born, white
or black, efioqld bp eqiiQl before the
law, aud 80 help me God it shall be
done, lam glad to say the bitterness
which marked that strife is passing
away; and I say to you, men of New
York, as I say at home, I owe my elec
tion to the colored men of South
Carolina. Thousands of them yoted
for me, (nay I "hail been
a good friend of the race; knowing
that I was tho first man a. ter the war
to recommend that they should be giyeu
the right of suffrage, and I have never
yet changed Opinion on 'this sub
ject. Knowing this, they sustained mo
in large numbers, aud I am happy to
say that all the fears of the more igno
rant are passing away, they r “are
satisfied they will lie dealt with ‘iu all
respects as oitizens of South Carolina.
We intend to try and elevate them, edu
cate them and show them the responsi
bilities as well as the blessings of liberty.
We want them, as other citizens of
America aud South Carolina.to be worth
the great boon of citizenship of' this
great Republic. My friends;' I must
again tiiank yon for this most oor-lial
greeting, doubly gratifying if is
the voice of New Yorfc ypyerkeyjßig to
Soufh yqyqljqa. J pome, as I said, to do
honor fo rny distinguished friend Gen.
Shields. He wore the blue and I wore
the gray; but we oau lot the ourtuin
drop over those years aud go back to
that time when that flag home by him
waved over the South aud the
North, and we p.au look ihft]
who,i that i flag shaii $ a V over a 7ree?
united and prosperous people. FAp
plause.] I say tfiis to yoq as a Southern
man, a “rebel,”- toy when I fought, I
rougfit as hard as f knew how against,
you, and J say also that if that flag
floats as it should do over free and equal
States, if it shall be the symbol of liber
ty and equality and justice ull the States
and every man of the South will honor
it and lovo it as of old, aud the time may
oome once more when New Ifork aud
South Carolina shall stand shoulder to
shoulder ssainst tiie common enemy and
their blood mingle upon the soil. [Ap
plause.]
My friends, I shall bear this cordial
greeting back home with me to the lit
tle Palmetto State, aud assure quy peo
ple that your hearts here throb kindly
for ua. I trust (Jod tliat a better fu
ture is before tlie whole country, and
that we shalj have peace, prosperity and
liberty to every maU npoii the continent.
[Applause. ],
\yA.'SIHN(iTO,\ NEWS AND) UNSIP,
Tins “tlarivrV Tvylihi'U Alinses h Place—
Urt\i>( a “(Baer UiuD'Tlmii Old Vic—Amer
ican (llilccra ut the Seat of War—Political
Complication!* in North Carolina—All the
Desirable Coagulates Filled.
Washington, Jane 20. S. B. Packard
has reached Chicago in search of health.
Secretary Sehnrz said to ex-Senator
Twichell that there was no > vacancy in
the Louiaiau i Pension Agency. There
is some indignation fhat a man who had
lost Rot!) arms and was feeble in other
respects should not have what ho want
ed, but they say, ‘.‘What can he do ?” is
more pofent than “What has he done?”
Cfraqt fia* written a letter to George
W. Dkilds, pi the Philadelphia Jpedigfir,
from Londop. ft is an elaboration of
the famous letter Itobi Fitzhugh in
Washington to his friend in Texas, say
ing that he was a “biger” man than old
Vie.
The President, accompanied by Secre
taries Evarts and Thompson aud Post
master-General Key, has gone to Annap
olis, to be present at the giad. t .u(i.ng ei
ercises of the Academy." Lieut.
Greco, of ifie Engineer Corps, has been
detailed to report to the American Min
ister at St. Petersburg, and Lieut. 001.
Chambers, Twenty-first Infantry, has
been detailed to report tq the American
Minister at Constantinople. These offi
cers will aet as military attaches to the
American legatidns, and' will’ undoubt
edly go to the front and observe the op
erations of "the hostile armiefj (hq
Danube,
The Republicans of North Carolina
are nqt harmonious. Maj. W. A, Smith,
ex member of Congress, protests against
the appointment of Hyman as Collector
of the Second District. Secretary Sher
man does not favor Hyman but his bond
is good and the President seems to de
sire that Hyman should qualify. Hy
man is a colored ex-member of Qon
gress. The of internal
Revenue nesircsthe retention of Powers.
John L- ‘Raily, of North Carolina, de
clines the Consulship to St. Paul de
Lorendo in Lower Gninea.
It was supposed that (he appointment
of young Fish fo Switzerland would
close the door to St. James against Ham
ilton Fish, but it is explained that the
Mission to the Swiss Republic has been
reduced to a charged’affairs.
Secretary Sherman’s view regarding
the four per cent, principal and interest
it is said is endorsed by the President
and Cabinet, * " ■"
• kWsident to day commissioned A.
N. Dockerjr Consul to Leeds. This ap
pointment fills the last vacancy among
the salaried consnlates. The faiy con
sulates now vaeftnt are a few in v South
America and, oh fhe African coast, which
are paid by fees amounting annually to
not more than two or three hundred
dollars per annum. Very few vacancies
are likely to occur in salaried consulates
between now and tfie assembling of
Congress, and it is understood to be the
intention of the State Department to fill
all such vacancies by promotions for
merit and experience in the conanlar
servioe.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
HUNG WHEN DRUNK.
A HORRIBLE SCENE Al’ THE SOAP
FOLD.
Execution of Au Ohio Murderer—The I'on
deutueil Man Intoxicated—A Drunken
llnranaue—A Shame to Manhood and a
Disarace to Civilization.
A man named Ham Adams was ex
ecuted in Dayton, Ohio, last Friday for
murder. When he reached the scaffold
it was apparent that the wretched man
was hopelessly drunk. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer tells the
shocking story as follows:
The doomed man came forward and
stood on the trap. His arms were bound
behind him. Around his n<ek huug a
brass crucifix suspended by a piece of
blaok tape. His face was pale; his eyes
rolled wildly; his bearing was horrible,
and in an iustautaueons flash tho fearful
suspicion went to every mind that
Adams was drunk! He'was! Sheriff
Beebo stood behind him, with the death
warrant in his hand. Deputy Sheriff'
Freeman stood at his left, acting as
master of ceremonies at this dance of
death. Father Murphy stood by the
post on the left. Father Nichols by the
post ou the right. Adams held iii his
bauds a brown silk handkerchief. After
the agonizing pause, he began the de
livery of one of the most pointless.
maudlin speeches that ever fell from thi
lips of man. It was painfully evident
that he was beastly drunk. He had eatet
nothing for two days. He had left hii
last dinner untouched in his cell. Whis
ky had been given him in abundance oi
an empty stomach. The fumes hat
flashed to his brajn, and he was a hap
less idiot. The first two sentences cann
calmly and even eloquently from hit
lips. Then lunacy set in i Suoh £
speech I God pity poor, weak human!
ty ! Angels must have looked dowu ami
agonized over the scene ! Strong met
cried ; some found more relief iu oaths
others turned pale. Great beads ol
sweat stood on brows that looked liki
marble. All the imps in hell must havt
held their sides with laughter at thje
“glorious exposition of Christian oiviii
nation !”
“Gentlemen, I never knew wiial
Christianity was to man until within
the last few weeks. I wish I had kuown
more about it. I’m going lo die a
Catholic. I’m going to die, aud I want
to tell you the truth : I didn’t kill Mul
haren; Jennie Smith killed him. She
got $2 50. I took $1 80. I plead guilty
to pick-pooketiug. That’s all I done.
For that they could seud me up for six
months. Now I have to die. I didn’t
do it. I want to tell you, from begin
ning to end. Now, from beginning to
end—from beginning to end. I took a
dollar and sixty cents; no, a dollar and
eighty cents. I’m guilty; no, I meau
I’m innocent! I’m innocent 1 J’m iuuo
cent! Jennie Sfjtfi him with a
dagger sfie fiad a week before to kill
another lady—l wean woman. Trouble
was, she was wail at me because I went
with Lou Huffman and wouldn’t go with
her. [Sheriff gets nervous, Deputy
whispers to Adams to stop]. No f
must go on ! No, no ! I must m.* it' I
must say it! [Sheriff: "Qo an, Harry-”
Father Murpby Sioikmed to him‘to
hnish. , Ho, T iainst have my say out.
[lt was evident that he was trying to
talk against time.] There is only
two who told the truth ift my be
°“ V, 10 Huffman and
Gfncef lleinugey. The rest swore
false. Rill Hayes ought to suffer for
this. Jennie Smith killed him; I took
the money out of his pocket, walking
along the sidewalk. I waut to tell vow
all, from beginning to end. \ promised
to keep still. They fedd wo not to tell.
I have ooHl iow, I kept my word. But
from beginning to end. [More interrup
tion.] No, I must say it; yes, I rat }
You see, I was respited. Mr- Young
Governor Young-go,t letters from Bick
ham, of the Jgytrnah Bickham told
him I njiust die; that I wus the fewfnl
est, ternblest murderer eygy was. [Sen
sation. People whispering, ‘ O.li, fr
God s Huke._ jpjp, him !•’) I must say it
out. Loin beginning to end.
" i would have been pardoned if it
had not been for Mr. Bickham writing
false letters, but I forgive him. Mr.
Biokham said that Father Carey Bgi<,) by
Murphy hanging it might Adams’
neck, but Father. says Adams’
case ia xyoryq than Morphy’s, and
he thought Jim, Graham ought to he
ciearwl and, AJanis ought to bo linqg;
but o®,ifey did not sav so. It
was My, W. D- Bickhamown say bo,
aut] not Rather Garay’s. I want to tlmnk
everybody for their kindness. I thank
..heriff Beebe and all who have been’so
kind to me. There is one who did "do
right by me about thifl jail, bi\fc wife
was kind to me. Ti<* alk’.’. And a
1 Up from every
, Yk'? Sheriff stepped forward, and in a
"-ear voice read tfeo legacy oi the State
to Adams—death. YVken he read tho
words “hang by the neck,” Adams
started and staggered forward. The
Deputy Sheriff steadied him and squared
him upon the trap. Tears came to his
eyes. He raised his bound bands and
hid his face in the handkerchief. As
the Sheriff proceeded he clasped his
hands convulsively, and interlaced his
Angers with g grip of despair that al
most buried the nails in the flesh.
The reading of the death warrant fin
ished, Father Nichols began reading the
prayer for the dead. The Deputy
stooped and tied the legs at the V,oee ;
the noose was slipped beam
and dangled at fiis back ; tho black cap
was fftfed sp. the head, Adams assisting
to adjust it. “Jennie Smith did it,” he
muttered it—all was ready, the officers
moved back, and the trap was ready,
but Father Niohqls was on it. “Back !
back!, the Sheriff motioned. The
pries] whispered a fast word, “I will,
Father,”' came in a faint response. The
moving) bolt groaned—bang ! slap 1
thud 1 A startle aud shudder ran
through the crowd. The deed was done.
The man never moved.
THE SHADOW OE THE GAI.EOW*.
The Executions In Pennsylvania
Hanging the Molly .lln^uirc.
Pottsvilhe, L*., June 19.—The pre
parations for the executions here on
Thursday are now complete, tho gallows
baviog been taljen to the iail last night.
They are massive structures of yellow
pine, built expressly for these execu
tions. Tfiere will be but few persons
present, the sheriff only allowing his
jury, the legal officials and his deputies
admission. A few newspaper men will
be admitted, but they will he made
deputy sheriffs for the day, anil must act
as such if called upon. The coal com
panies have issued an order that any
man quitting work that day will be dis
charged. This is to prevent trouble
and to preserve order. The fact of two
regiments of v)u,a,rdg being
ready any emergency satisfies the
peooie, ami] they feel secure from trou
ble or rioting. To-uiglit everything is
quiet, although the town i's full of peo
p.e. The condemned men arc prepared
o die, and all W, 4" rffl by
P elr . ,J ]VO second regiment of
militia have been ordered
to fiold themselves in readiness to move
to irottsville at two hours’ notice in ease
of any disturbance,
' Mgi i % .am i
M&HK LOUISIANA KOTTUNNEMH.
A Kadi Gal Ex-Auditor Iu Jail aud Hi* Hooka
ill iaeing.
New Orleans, June 20.—Ex-State
Anditor Johnson has been sentenced to
pay a fine of SSO, and to be imprisoned
in the parish prison ten days for re
fusing to produce pertain books and
answer pertain questions as to their
contents, propounded by the grand
jury. Johnson says some of tRe miss
ing documents haye been destroyed,
and others were taken away when they
were expecting an attack by the White
League in January laat. in a petition
ito the Court, he says he could not
answer the questions for fear of crim
inating himself.
A HEAVV SiIMSH.
Cotton Speculation)! I'an-.i*- Failure fur Over
$ IHhUou.
London, Jane 20.—The Time,s' finan
cial article says a statement of the af
fairs of Alexander Barclay & Cos., Got
tenburg, has been submitted
tq the creditors. The assets are jwffd,-
00Q,; liabilities, $1,340,0QQ, Q-f the
largest foreign creditors three are in
London and pme in Liverpool. Their
aggregate claims amount to $300,00b
The difficulties of the firm arose from
cotton speculations in 1875 and 1876.
The telegraph informs us that a Turk
ish detachment has entered the Russian
district of Acholich. This may doubt
less be very painful to the Russians, but
that is no way to spell co.lic, qU the
same,
THE JJTATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Oglethorpe county is without a jail.
The Crawford brass band is now iu
trim.
. Gne of the Taliaferro county triplets
is dead.
Florida watermelons have arrived at
Savannah.
I lie Wesleyan girls are in commence
ment array.
A moonlight marriage took place near
Decatur recently.
A colored cenennarian luxuriates in
laliaferro county.
Twin calves are cavorting around in
Oglethorpe county.
Hog cholera is exterminating swine
around about Crawford.
Louisville, Ky., is trying to get the
army barracks from Atlanta.
A species of Cameo spider has been
discovered in Grawfordville.
Hon. H. H. Carlton delivered the ad
dress at Rabun Gap High School.
A colored LaGranger consumed eight
plates of ice cream the other night
Two btUegirls with their little brother
are cultivating a ootton patoh near Ray
town. J
Mr. A. R Watson, city editor of the
quite HI Tt esrraph and Messenger, is
Mr. Claude Nesbit had bis leg broken
while wrestling at Stone Mountain the
otuer day.
„ iVo f erS ,° n . °°? nty fa ™cr has harvest
id 720 bushels of oats this year from
twelve acres.
An Upson county man manured his
watermelon patoh with fifty pounds of
rats last week.
An eleven-year old boy, living near
West Point, was drowned iu th c , Ckiitta
hooohe last Monday.
The commencement exercises of La
~3:wT a , , t e .Sf g<> we " ! b ' iU “ ,l
The press are emphatically on the
8 "! 0 . for holding out against
fho wife murderer
Bishop Gross aud Father O’Brian will
5? I ®. at the Catholic Church at
oUaron, Taliaferro county next Suuday.
a i German cigar maker was found
dead in Sweetwater Creek, a short dis
tance from Andersonville, the other
day.
Governor Joseph E. Brown has re
turned from Hot Springs, Arkansas,
very much improved in health and
spirits.
Mrs. Patterson and daughter, of Ala
bama, were*seriously hurt in Deoatur re
cently, by being thrown from a wagon
ami run over.
Tv?' Carlton, young man of
great ability and high moral character,
is successfully conducting a sohool in
Madison county.
Hon. Henry R. Harris has appointed
an examination June 28th, at LaGrange,
to determine a candidate for the cadet
ship at Annapolis.
The commencement sermon of the
Luoy Cobh Institute was preached by
Dr, C. W. Lau, in Athens, last Sunday..
We shall notice the exercises to-morrow*
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Culture is so cheap and plentifnf in
New England that when a professor
died of hydrophobia the majority of the
Boston papers side with the dog.
“The new political test is beer.”—
Hartford Courant. “Then we may ex
pect to see ambitious politicians at
lager-heads.”— Worcester Press.
Spriggins says that he once prevented
a severe ease of hydrophobia by simply
getting on a high fence and waiting
there till the dog had gone away.
“After all,” philosophises the Boston
Transcript, “telling the naked truth is
the only nude departure that is going to
bring on the political millennium.”
The other day an American newspaper
correspondent met the Czar at army
headquarters and called him “Aleok,”'
and the Czar was just the maddest man.
“How to Toil a Mad Dog,” is the title,
of an article that is going the rounds
We haven't anything to tell a mad dog
that we couldn’t send him on a postal
oard.
A poor man remarks that the onh ad -
vioe he gets from capitalists is to f‘live
within his income,” whereas the only
diffionlty he experiences is to live with
out an income.
The Hawkeye thinks that the right
kind of a bpv, with a pea-shooter, can
take a man'd xmud off his business trou
bles aun politics quicker than anything
else iu this bleak, cold world.
“Six feet in his boots !” said Mrs.
Partingtop, “and what will the irnper
auoe of this world come to, I wonder P
Why, they might as well tell me that this
man had six heads in his hat.”
The green peaoh wakes up and
scratches its head, turns over, ripest
side out, and gets down off the tree to
stand sweetly and innocently in the
path of the little boy whom the gods,
love.
“Nilenee in the oonrt !” thundered u
jndioial Dogberry the other morning ;
“a half dozen men have been convicted
already without the Court’s having been
able to hear a word of tke testimony !”
A tramp who waa ordered out of town
by the polico yesterday paused when he
got beyond the corporate limits, and
raising his hands to heaven, suddenly
annonnoed his intention to join the new
Whig party.
It was an Irish pilot who, being asked
if he knew the rooks in the harbor, re
plied with confidence, “I do, yer honor,
ivery wan av them. That’s wan,” he
added calmly, as the ship struck it, fill
ed and sank.
At the marriage of an Alabama wid
ower one of the servants was asked if his.
master would take a bridal Wur. “Dun
no, sah; when ole missis "a alive he tnk
a paddle to ’er; dunna if he take a bri
dle to de new one o? not.”
“Will tho counsel for the plaintiff
please speak more distinctly ?” remarked
the Judge, leaning forward and plaoing
his hand to his ear. “ Can’t, your
Honor,” was the reply; “like all my
well-read brethren of the bar, I’ve got a
code in my head.”
Secretary Evarts the other day sent a
sentence to China, and the Emperor has
had it printed in all the sohool books as
an American puzzle, with the remark
that SIOO will bo given to the person
who will point out the exact spot where,
the middle loop begins.
The architect who discovers a plan
whereby a double house may be built so
that you can bear all that is said next
door without the people in the adjoining
house being able to hear a word uttered
ih ywt side, will have no reason to com
plain oi a stagnation in bnsinesa.
Unto the good little boy shall bo given
the pio-nio ticket, but the wicked son
shall recline on hia mother’s knee.
Verily, in the Jay when she waxeth it to
him with her slipper, his heart will be
full of repentance, and his howling shall
disturb the neighbors.
Grant’n son, Jesse R., writes “poet
ical effusions.” He recited several dur
ing the trip to England, and the captain
of the ship reports “more sick people
than I ever knew, sir ; everybody was
dreadfully sick but the Grant family,
but maybe they are used to it.” Draw
your own inferences from the honest
tar’s report.
The oh.lef cook oi the Carlton Clnb, of
London, has recovered £25 damages
from Vanity Fair for intimating that
dinners eaten at that clnb spoil diges
tion. It is a poor rule that will not work
both ways, and we suppose it will now
be in order to recover damages from
cooks whose dinners do cause indiges
. tion.
Be kind to the book agent. He has a
father, perhaps, and a mother, who
knew him in his innocent youth. Per
haps even now, in some peaceful New
England village, fond hearts arc beating
for him, and for his welfare. Therefore
lay him down tenderly, fold his hands
peacefully on his breast, and close his
eyes geußy as you put him to rest under
the branches of the weeping willow,
where the birds carol all through the
Hummer days their softest songs. But
plant him deep—plant him deep !
Night in a New York newspaper office:
Special European Correspondent—“Mr.
Scratchmeout, I’ve jnst finished writing
that cable telegram; hadn’t I better say
the information is from Ploejesti ? *
Hcratoh—“lt doesn’t make any differ
ence, But how many of the Turks have
you killed V Special—“ Well, I thought
I’d put it at 17,000, being as yon* paper
sympathizes with Russia.” Scratch—
“O no, that will never Jo.. We musn’k
go too strong at ffrst. We really
musn’t impose upon the public. Gall ifc
2,500, and then, you can write up a tele
gram about a slaughter of: Circassians.
It'a variety that the public wants.”’
Special correspondent retires to hia’
bloody work beneath the flaming gas.—
Courier Journal,