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NEW SERIES-VOL. 11.
Cijromcle and Beurtnel.
y> BPIfgSPAT, AUGUST 15,1877.
Bklisarius and Homer wire “tramps.
The "Sick Man” is very lively after
aIL _
If figures do not lie the public debt is
now *2,060,158,223 26.
The withdrawal of “pap” has killed
the Republican press of Louisiana.
The World thinks there was a “strik
ing contrast” lately between the North
and South.
Mb. Hfukoeon cannot write sermons.
He goes into the pulpit and the sermon
comes to him.
A Kentucky gentleman who owns a
Longfellow oolt thinks of calling him
Poems—by Longfellow.
The New York Sun insists that Him
monh, instead of Toombs, “calls the roll
of slaves on Hunker Hill.”
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It may console Southern farmers et.
at., to know that Hungarian nobles pay
1,800 per cent, for money loaned.
Btabmpeli, a Hwiss diplomat, toasted
Grant as “the ablest statesman and
worthiest citizen of the United Statos.
To soothe the excitable British since
Grant's departure a guillotine that has
out oft'‘22,lKK) French heads is exhibited
in Loudon.
While thousands of Hindoos are
starving, the Maharajah of Gwalior is
constructing a garden that will cost mil
lions of dollars.
Lady Bakkb has seen the black races
in four quarters of the globe, and never
saw one single individual move quickly
of his own free will.
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A i.ittt.e New York girl, named Libbie
Grant, swam across Harlem river, the
other day, iu fifteen minutes. The cur
rent is very swift and the girl only eight
years old.
Mb. Bishop’s letter accepting the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Ohio is called, by the Cinoinuati Ga
zette, a “pastoral address.” It will rally
the faithful.
Fa'iheb Taft really wanted the nomi
nation iu Ohio, and could easily have
gotten it, had he come forth boldly and
unquivocally. His “questionable atti
tude” killed him.
Mb. Beecher rejoices to learn that a
Albany (N. Y.) man lived ou 10 cents a
day and died rich. What a glutton he
would have been had he lived on a dol
lar a day and died poor !
On* thousand cans of Massachusetts
milk become two thousand when thoy
get into the hands of New York dealers.
The deaths by cholera infantum increase
in about the same ratio.
The Republican candidate for Lieu
tenant-Governor in Ohio, is 33 years old
aud graduated in law iu 1870. Ho is
tid to have oome to America only eight
years ago from Germany.
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Pibrkepont’s explanation why he and
Uhant did not attend Mr. Motley’s
funeral amounts to this: “He snubbed
us when alive; we suubbed him when
.dead.” It was a dead cut sure enough.
The two glasses of Rhine wine im
lnlied by President Hayes at a Schuet
zenfest are expected to carry Ohio for
Judge West and the Republicans. Mrs.
Hayes must keep a watch on the Rhine.
The* are bringing up aguinst the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio that he was a Know Nothiug, aud
bis enforcement, when Mayor of Cincin
nati, of tho Sunday law. It is said the
Germans still allude U) “dot dry time
with Bishop."
John Hoey, the New York Express
mail, spends 840,000 per annum in keep
ing up his Long Branch property. Per
haps it was a knowledge of this that
caused President Garrett, of the B, &
O. R. R., tog< into the express business
ou his own hook.
Anrnt Mr. Stephens’ artiole ou
Junius, the Nashville American pleas
antly says : “Now, why will a man of
Mr. Stephens’ years go to springing a
dangerous issue like this, just before the
meeting of Congress, aud right on the
heels of the railroad riot?”
And bo the sweet singer, Adelina
Patti, is no better than she should be.
How pleased all her sister primmo
doune will be.at the intelligence. Per
haps, however, the sweet singer will
have oompauy in her misfortune unless
queens of opera eschew the society of
silver tougned tenors or follow Ham
let’s advice to the love sick Ophelia.
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Wb publish this moruiug a letter
written hy General M. A. Stovall,
President ot tho Augusta Cotton Ex
change, in to the commuuicatiou
of McDuffie, Vieh appeared in the
Chronicle and CosasyrcTiosALisT of
last Suuday, in relation to Hie agitation
in the National aud Internatiowa. 1 Cot
tou Exchange ef 'the subject of selling
cotton by not weight. The letter will
be read with interest by farmers and
factors.
JJr. E. A. Freeman contends that “no
vnaw w.as ever more emphatically n re
former itf tho history of his own age and
<iw.u Mahomet. No man was
.over more emphatically a destroyer in
the general history of the world.” This
■is a pretty way of saying that “what is
one mail's meat is another man's poi
wou." A religion good enough for Ara
bia is not good enough for Europe.
Perhaps. And yet some parts of Europe
are not any more religious than some
flirts of Arabia.
Mr. Wbioht said Mr. Hammond scout
d the i4aa of being “a funuel through
which the people speak.” Mr. Ham
mond said he never need the word “fun
nel. "It was, he said, Mr. W hjoht who used
it “su'd he desires to be the senseless
thing wu’h a small neck aud a broad
month, 1 hn T e desire to take away
from him tbai privilege.” Avery neat
retort that, aud sf.ortb being called to
order for. It is s.ain, .however, that Mr.
Whioht will reply to Mr. Hammond and
when he does the fnnnei probably gome
in again. Tis well.
Judge Wm. M. Reese, one of the Di
rectors of the Georgia Railroad Com
pany, publishes a card this morning de
nying the statement that he is opposed
to the payment of the bonds of the Port
Boyal Railroad, endorsed by the Geor
gia Road. If the reporter of the Chron
icle and Constitutionalist had not
beard the report from what he consider
ed good authority it would not have been
alluded to in this paper. If we under
stand Judge Reese’s letter, he does not
oppose the payment of the bonds be
cause he sanctioned the endorsement as
• member of the Board of Directors at
the time it was made; bnt says that new
.Directors, meaning Directors elected
since the endorsement, may act in the
matter “aocordink to their beet judg
tnent.”
FALSE ECONOMY.
The action of the Convention in re
ducing the salaries of Jndges of the Su
preme and Superior Courts, and in re
fusing to give the General Assembly the
power to increase them except by a two
thirds vote, is as nowise as it is unjust.
The Judges of the Supreme Court have
to live in Atlanta, and a man with a
family cannot live in that city on the
sum fixed by the Convention. Unless
the Circuit Judges are dead-headed by
the railway corporations, cases against
which they Lave to try in nearly every
county, their traveling expenses will
reach three or four hundred dollars per
annum each, leaving only sixteen or
| seventeen hundred dollars for the sup
port of themselves and their families.
This reduction is not economy; it is a
piece of absurd niggardliness, which will
be productive of much injury to the
most important department of the State
government. We are glad to see that a
large majority of the ablest and bebt
men in the Convention voted against the
senseless and mischievous proposition
rnisuamed economy. Among these were
Buchanan, Guerrard, Hammond, Hill,
Lawton, Lawson, Lofton, William M-
Reese, Augustus Reese, Simmons, Scre
ven, Toombs, Thompson and Tuqgle.
Though the same men who injected this
economy into the Constitution rejected
the motion of Mr. Hill to allow a ma
jority of the General Assembly to in
crease the compensation of Jndges,
there is yet a hope, though a faint one,
we confess, that two-thirds of the next
Legislature will see the folly of fixing
the salaries of the Jndiciary at starva
tion figures, and will give the Judges
sufficient compensation for their services
to raise them above the reach of tempta
tion, and prevent ignorance and venali
ty from obtaining a lodgment on the
Bench,
the election ok jiiikies.
The Constitutional Convention has at
last decided how Judges of the Su
preme aud Superior Courts shall be se
lected under the new Constitution. As
soon as the Convention assembled it
became apparent that the mode of se
lecting Judges would be a difficult prob
lem to solve. Three shades of opinion
on this subjeot found representation in
the Convention. One class of delegates
—aud deoidedly the smallest of the
three—favored appointment by the
Governor. A second class were on the
other extreme, and desired to have the
Judges elected by tho people, as they
were uuder the Constitution of 18C5.
The third class occupied a middle
ground betwoen tho other two, and ad
vocated the eleotion of the Judiciary
by the General Assembly. As is usually
the case in contests of this character,
both wings of the extremists were de
feated, aud a compromise for widely
conflicting viows was found in elec
tions by the Legislature. In many
States of tbe Union Judges of
the Supreme and of tbe Circuit Courts
are elected by the people, and we have
never heard of any evil consequences
resulting from the system. Between
1865 and 1868 the Judges iu this State
were chosen by the popular vote, and
the Bench of that time will compare
very favorably with the Beach of to-day.
But since 1865 tho former slave popula
tion of Georgia lias become voters, and
it was this fact wbich prevented tbe
success of the advocates in tbe Conven
tion of election by tbe people. It was
urged that the oolored voters would sup
port, aud might elect, incompetent or
corrupt men to Judgeships, and that it
would be dangerous to put such power
into their bands. It remains to be seen
how the new scheme will work, whether
well or ill. The principal objection to
it is that it will give new vitality to the
very objectionable practice of “ log
rolling,” but it would bo impossible to
devise aoy mode of selecting Judges
which would not have some defect.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Our speoial correspondence from At
lanta has given the substance of tbe re
port agreed upon by tbe Committee on
Legislative Department. Tbe Senate is
to consist of forty-five members, each
Congressional District to embrace five
Senatorial Districts. This plan may
work well enough, though we confess
we shonld prefer to have sixty
three Senators—nine to each Congres
sional District—instead of forty-five.
The Senate is too small and more nearly
resembles an overgrown committee than
a deliberative body. It shonld be en
larged at least onu-balf, and representa
tion should be based as nearly as pos
sible upou population. The counties of
Richmond, Chatham, Fulton, Bibb and
Burke aeuld each constitute a separate
Senatorial Disirigt. The oommitte report
in favor of retaining iiffi present number
of members of the House of Representa
tives; give each of the six largest
counties Chatham, Fulton, Rich
mond, Bibb, Burke, aud Houston
—three members each; the twenty-sis
oejt largest counties two momberseach;
aud tire remaining one hundred aud five
couutifis one wej&bgr pach. This is sub
stantially the old except {hat twen
ty-six instead of }birtsr-©AO cormiiea arn
allowed two members omit. This change
was evidently made to cover iij gases
of the five new counties—McDuffie,
Oconee, Douglas, Rockdale and Dodge
—which jsye been organized sinoe the
apportionment ai yonresentatives was
fixed by tbe Constitution of t&§§- The
Chronicle and Constitutionalist and
other journal* of the State have already
conclusively shown the absurdity of
such a system gf representation, or,
more properly, miafceprrsentation.
has been shown that un
der this system, is not based upon
population, the true basis of ail rep
i reseutatiou, or wealth, but simply
upon territory as embraced within
i county lines. But as the Convention is
; constituted we bate u o hope that the
injustice will be remedied, boiueinicg
can be doue, however, which will not in
terfere with the privileges of the small
counties which hare no population aud
pay no tax yet which will he a little
more equitable to tbe large and wealthy
counties. We make the suggestion in
the hope that the Convention will see
the propriety of adopting it.
1. Let the three most populous and
wealthy couuti.es of the State—Chat
ham, Fulton and Richmond—have six
representatives each instead of three.
According to the census of 1870 these
counties had a population of one hun
dred thousand—nearly one-tenth ol all
the inhabitants of the State. According
to the same authority the same oonnties
in owned sixty millions of property
nearly C n< f our,fi °f the property
owned in the ?**** <*nd paid nearly
one-fifth ol all the taxed levied for the
•upport of the State government. Their
population has largely increased since
1870 and they are certainly entitled to
this small increase in representation.
2. Give the oonnties of Bibb, Bnrke
and Houston fonr representatives each.
3. Give to the counties of Bartow,
Coweta, Decatur, Floyd, Monroe, Mus
oogee, Troup, Washington, Merriweth
er, Wilkes, Greene and Gwinnett three
members each.
The adoption of this plan will do mnch
to qniet the dissatisfaction that now ex
ists because of the wrong done the
large oonnties. It will make the
House of Representatives consist of
two hundred members instead of one
hundred and seventy-five, but with bien
nial sessions and the reduotion of per
diem and mileage, the additional ex
pense necessitated by the increase will
be very trifling. We hope the Con
vention will accept this or some similar
plan iu lien of perpetuating a system of
representation which does such flagrant
injustice.
THE EAVTEHN WAlt SITUATION.
It would be almost as unwise to con
clude that the late victory of the Turks
over the Russians would by a speedy
solution of tbe Turkish question as it
would Lave been to predict, as many
did, that the extraordinary Confederate
victory at tbe first battle of Manassas
would lead the North to desist from the
attempt to subjugate the South. A Rus
sian force of less than forty thousand
men is thrown npon a superior and
strongly intrenched Turkish force when,
by ordinary skill on the part of the
commanding general, he might have
concentrated two to one at the point of
combat. Tbe Russian rank and file
seem to have behaved as bravely as any
soldiery ever did. But one army corps
and part of another have been destroyed
for all present available purpose of war,
the Russian prestige temporarily lost and
Turkish confidence restored. Tbe mili
tary situation is rendered dubious and
uncertain, all that seems clear about it
being that the war will be indefinitely
prolonged. It is fair to conclude that
Russia will exhaust all her resources be
fore she will permit the inferior power
of Turkey, single-handed, to defeat her
aims. The danger of a European in
volvement,in tho event of the war being
long protracted, will be great,
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THE COST OK STRIKES.
The Chicago Tribune shows that 30,-
01X1,000 of innocent people were direotly
and instantly injured by the strike ; the
entire East sufleriug by tbe advance in
tbe price of some of the necessaries of
life as well as in other ways, and tbe
West also suffering by the interruption
of traffic. It figures the loss to Chioago
at fully a million and a quarter. The
valuo of live stock, grain and other pro
duce kept out of Chioago by the strike
approximates $2,300,000. The loss of
trade to the dealers in dry goods, gro
ceries, boots and shoes, clothing, drugs,
and other wholesale goods, is not far
from $3,000,000 more ; and the varied
manufacturing industries would have
turned out $1,750,000 worth of products
during the time they were kept in
forced idleuess by the mob. Here is a
total, in round numbers, of $7,000,000.
Ten per cent, of this would be $700,000,
wbioh is rather an under estimate of the
wages to workers and the profits to the
capitalists who would have handled the
property. Adding the cost of calling
out tho military and the special police,
with the value of the property that was
owned in Chicago but burned in Pitts
burg, and there is a total direct loss of
not less than $1,250,000, or an average
of $2 50 per head ef the entire popula
tion of the city.
STRANCER THAN FICTION.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Democrat recalls the gratitude of
Judah Touro, a wealthy Israelite of
that city toward R. D. Shepherd, a
Christian, who had saved his life at the
risk of his own. Mr. Touro and his
friend were under fire at the battle of
New Orleans, and tbe former was
wounded badly. We read iu the narra
tive before us that when Mr. Shepherd
repaired to tho spot in the open field
where the mutilated aud fearfully
wounded body of his friend lay, de
serted by surgeon and every one else,
and, lifting him on his shoulders, bore
him to a cart, iu which he brought him
to the city, he not only exposed himself
to great physical peril, but incurred the
displeasure and threatened arrest of his
superior officer for turning aside from a
public duty to discharge one of hu
manity aud friendship. Commodore
Patterson, whose order Captain Shep
herd was engaged in executing at the
time he was called aiyay to assist his
unfortunate friend, at a dinner party,
given some time after the evacuation of
the State by the British, said to Mr.
Sbekherd : “I ought to have had you
shot for not proceeding to bring those
stone masons 1 sent you for to strengthen
my batteries, but when I learned what
turned yon aside, I should, after shoot
ing you, have had a monument erected
to your memory as a faithful friend and
true Samaritan.”
When Mr. Touro died he left Mr.
Shepherd an enormous estate, the rent
roll of which V 43 least SIOO,OOO per
annum. This property, ylpch is °P
Canal street, is kuown as the “Topso
Buildings” and is fitly characterized as
“a monument of the gratitude of an
Israelite who was indeed without guile,
auj qf the fidelity of a Christian who,
at great to himself, rendered an aet
of kindness t,o a sjjppps.ei? dying man.”
Mr. Touro was a bnsefeptoy of fjiex
port, R. 1., and his charities to the
Christians of New Orleans wero with
out stint and without number.
He gave Dr. Clapp, a Christian
! minister, the free use of a church which
! lie any, is this day, tbe memory
i of Hie liberal-minded nofjla Israe
lite is ehetiabci in a preci
, ons heritage. In Mr. Gharlss Ga?ar
-1 re’s remarkable book “Fernando de
! Lemos ,” there is, under X fictitious
na£.e ; a splendid sketch of Judah Touro
and the 1 pn_llia.pt and eloquent
recital of Jewish glory that ever, iu our
knowledge, came from Hie pe# <?f man.
We are glad that the Sew Qrieaea
press has revived this incident. It la a
: tiipely aud opportune recollection, when
the wpuqr/t who inherited A. TANARUS, Stew
art’s million* fcefcii fg a prejudice
agaiust a people who were tym earliest
possessors of the faith in Jehovab, and
from whose tribes sprang the God Man
whom the Christian adores and the Mo
hammedan respects.
lowa’s tramps number about as many
as the Radical majority.
The Evening Telegram, said to be a
tender to the New York Herald, re
cently alluded to Ooeola as “a Semi
nole chief who fought against George
Washington in Virginia in the last een
tnry.” This blunder is thought to have
been perpetrated by a fresh and green
i journalistic importation of Mr. Bkn-
I NETT.
Mr. John Swixton, a New York jour
i nalist, claims the possession of $7,000
in United States bonds and $4,000 “con
| version ” bonds of South Carolina. He
; values the latter at abont two cents on
. the dollar. He onos owned town lots in
a Kansas city, bnt preferred to forfeit
them rather than pay taxes. Mr. Swin
ton is a dangerous man to be at large.
In Massachusetts there are 60,000 more
Women than men; but there are twice as
many men aa women iu prisons, alms
houses and hospitals. Miss Jennie Col
lins, of Boston, who is famous for her
oharities and statistics, declares that the
world would be surprised if it knew what
a vast multitude of men are wholly sup
ported by the hard labor of women.
The world ought to know if that knowl
edge wonld shame those fellows into
work.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1877.
CONDITION OK THE CHOPS.
A Load Aei-onnt of tbe CropM i<i Richmond—
A Suggestion lo the Cnrolion Hnilroud.
f Correspondetice Chronicle and Constitutionalist 1
Richmond County, August s.—Fre
quent showers have brought out tbe late
corn amazingly. The prospect in Rich
mond county was never so good for an
abundant corn crop. Cotton looks well;
some few bolls opening, but not enough
to commence picking the fleecy staple.
The melon crop is all that coaid have
been wished for, but price in Augusta
are ruinous. They cannot be produced
at the present prices and realize any
thing for the producer. The pea crop
is splendid ; so with fruit. Many peach
trees are breakiug down with their over
bnrdened branches. Ground peas are
doing well. Tbe tobacco that I have
seen is looking well. Taking it alto
gether, I think the Richmond county
farmer has reason to be thankfnl for the
bountiful harvest which is so near at
hand, I see in your issue of Saturday
an excursion, to the mountains of Sonth
Carolina, to leave Augusta on Suuday
night. Why do not the authorities of
the Sonth Caroliua Railroad (,’ompauy
give timely notice of suoh excursions ?
Many of our people would avail them
selves of this cheap transportation to
visit their friends and relatives iu that.
State had they only timely notice. I
hope they will get up another excursion
soon, aud give ten or fifteen days to
spend away from home. Let the first
notice of the excursion be put in your
weekly edition ; many of our farmer
friends subscribe'for that issue. Then
follow in daily paper for benefit of your
city readers, and my word for it, the in
creased number of excursionists will
amply repay the increased outlay for
advertising, etc. Can yon nrtgetCol.
Huger to try it once? ' Farmer.
laelter from Wilke*—Appearance of the
Army Worm.
Centreville, Wilkes County, Ga., I
July 28, 1877. j
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Seeing you are solicitous in regard to
the farming interest iu different sections,
I thought 1 would give you the benefit
of my information iu regard to the crop
prospects iu Western Wilkes county.
We are now closing out one of the most
abundant grass crops I have ever seen.
The crops, both corn and cotton, have
withstood the advance of the enemy
(grass) remarkably well. If we have
good August seasons we expect an aver
age yield of cotton—corn below an aver
age. I have, this morning, been in
formed that the army worm has made an
attack on tbe late ooru crop of one of
my neighbors, destroying it entirely as
they go. We harvested a good wheat
crop, the best for years. Oats were a
failure. Tbe pea crop promises much
above the average. On nearly every
farm wo have the Chinese cane growing,
aud I hope to see the day when every
farmer will crib his own corn, garner his
own wheat, house his own oats and
make hia own meat. While upon the
subject I would like to give you the
mode by which oue of my neighbors cul
tivates his low lands. As early as possi
ble in tbe Hpring be beds his land,
very stifl flat woods land, on Dry Fork
Creek; just before planting, he rebeds;
plants his corn on the bed; when proper
size runs round with turn plow; bar to
the corn; iu ten or twelve days chops
through with hoe, and runs two more
furrows with turner, this time throwing
the dirt to the corn; chops through
again with hoe, aud at proper time runs
three more furrows with same plow,
splitting out balance of the middle,
making iu all his plowing seven furrows
to the row; his rows are four feet, and
no man in our section makes more corn
ou an average than Joseph Arnold. A
word about labor : So far as I know,
tbe freedmen have worked remarkably
well this season. Very resyeetfully,
yours, J, H. B.
Tlio Crop* in OnEetliorpn County*
Mt. Pleasant, Oglethorpe Cos., Ga., )
August 6, 1877. \
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
As you invite correspondence, I drop
you a few lines. Up to the middle of
July cotton in this section was remarka
bly small, early corn well nigh ruined,
and the later varieties and plantings
suffering very much for rain. We then i
had a few refreshing showers, whioh
made a wonderful change for the better
in cotton and tbe later varieties of corn.
It will be two weeks to-morrow since we
had any rain, and cotton and the later
corn are now suffering very much for
it. I consider the injury to cotton
permanent; for, if it rains iu a few days,
it will react ant} t|;row oflf an immense
amount of its present form, and the new
form, after reaction. Will oe too late to
mature. If it does not rain, as a matter
eff course the crop will be badly injured,
Iu the north and northeast portions of
this county, and the south aud south
east portions of Madison county, eorn
orops were, I suppose, never better. As
to cotton iu those sections, the weed is
fine, but I consider tbe form scattering;
they, too, are now suffering for rain. 1
think there is more eorn planted in this
section this year than has been any year
sinoe 1865; cotton about the same as last
year. There is an abundance of fruit,
of almost every variety, grown iu this
section. The peopje in thp .country have
about come to the .conclusion that our
Con.-Gou. will spend a great deal of
money aud do bat little good. The
friends of economy and reform in that
body are too few. J. J. G.
THE (IREBN’S CUT HOMICIDE.
The Icvestigation to be Continued Wed
ne*day.
The preliminary investigation in the
case of Charles J. Walker, charged with
killing John P. Miller, at Green’s Cut,
Burke po'nnty, Jjisl tyedneeduy, was
commenced Saturday before justices
Sims and Cox. Three witnesses were
examined. Their testimony was sub
stantially the same as the statement,
made by our correspondent in his ac
count of the affair. After the examina
tion of the three witnesses the investiga
tion was postponed until to-morrow.
Solicitor General Dutcher, A. M.
Rodgers, Rsq., apd j. J. Jones, Esq ,
represent tlmitate, apd ' jtidge H. D.
D. Twiggs, 4P<| Cjeij. Carswell,
the defendant. The prisoner remains
in the custody of Constable J. D.
Roberts.
Witnesses examined for the State,
Saturday, testified that Walker wrote
Jos. B. Miller a very abusive and insult
ing letter calling him a thief, and say
ing 'lie' ijfty dollars, and declar
ing that he had go&' in jjephzibah
Commencement to see him personally
and say the same things to him more
fully, but had failed to see him, as Mil
ler was not there. This was an open
; leitej, taul, LL:c?"b the mail, and mark
i ed • *£jnpsd o y,
i Joe Stiller walked' up to Walkter' at the
i handed ' hiid the' Utter,
saying; dij ybtf write this ?”
Walker took the fetter, fooged at it, said
“Yes, I wrote ..it,” handed it liack to
Miiier, and fired at him,
I but wuubut effect. Miller then
| his pistol at Walker. Just at this time
fished up, saying :
‘lbis must stop,’ or word 3 to that
effect, aud grasped Walker’s pistol. Two
shots were then fired. One witness tes
tified positively that the third shot was
fired by Walker, but did not know who
fired the second. John Miller was
wounded, and Joe Miller, springing
upon Walker, beat him with his fist aDd
a rock. He did not know at the time
that his brother had been wounded.
The letter to filler, it is said, grew
out qf (he following circumstances:
Miller, the story goes, bad bought a
horse from Walker and paid him part in
cash and part in a note for fifty dollars.
Some time afterwards Walker, while in
Waynesboro, was arrested for disorder
ly oonduct and fined fifty dollars by the
Mayor. Walker didn’t have the money,
but he turned over Miller’s note as pay
ment of the fine. When the note reach
ed maturity Miller paid it and Walker
took umbrage at this, demanding that
Miller should pay him the amount,
which Miller refused to do, as he had
already paid it to the Mayor of Waynes
boro.
THE 31.48T1N lUM|I( IDK.
Verdict of Self-Defene.
[Special Bispalch to Journal of Commerce. J
Bbusbon, S. C., August 6.—The in
quest held over the body of R. J. Mar
tin was brought to a close this morning
and a verdict rendered as follows : That
the deceased, R. J. Martin, came to his
death by a pistol shot, fired by the hands
of T. T. Gill in self-defense. Signed
James P. Youmans, foreman. Gill re
turned last night and has surrendered
himself to the authorities. No warrant
has been issued against him nor have
the witnesses been bonnd over to Court.
Pnblic opinion is strongly in favor of
GilL
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
A GEORGIA WOMAM IN GOTHAM.
Tramps and Paupers—A Specimen Case—
Thn Strike—A Curious Result—New- York
Hospitals— Ignorance and Superstition—
The Docks at Night—Preseot Fashious—
Advice to to Shoppers—Buying Cloves.
[CorrespondenceChronicle and Constitutionalist ]
New York, August 5. —ln my letter
last Summer, I wrote of tbe gaieties and
glories of New York fashionable life as
represented at Saratoga. This year, I
have been struck with quite a different
phase of existence in Gotham which the
hard times have forced into nnusnal
prominence. New York has its fair
share of tramps and beggars at all times,
but now tbe streets are literally swarm
ing with them. You canuot walk ten
steps in any direction, without encoun
tering objects that appeal strongly to
your sympathies, in spite of the annoy
ance caused by the persistent impor
tunity with which they dog your steps
aud plead for charity. To gratify one
tenth of even the most pitiable of these
wretched paupers with the merest dole
that charity would prompt, is simply
impossible to any one not endowed witii
Fotunatus’ purse, and yet, there can be
uo doubt that a great deal of tbe misery
now seen ou the streets of New York, is
genuine, and calls loudly for relief. It
is not always the most wretched looking
that are the real objects of sympathy;
there are professional beggars, got up for
the occasion, whose rags and deformity
may deoeive the uninitiated, but the
really deserving class are comparatively
well dressed, decent looking laboring
men and women out of employment,
whom necessity has driven to a profes
sion which they regard as a slnme aud
degradation. Not loug ago a very de
cent man, having the appearance of a
Sixth Avenue salesman, came to the
house where I am staying ami begged
for something to eat. One of the young
ladie.s of the house ordered food brought
for him, and lie seized and ate it before
her face with the avidity of a famished
dog. Suoh oases are not exceptional,
and seem to me to bear a not inexplica
ble relation to the recent strikers’ riots.
While far from seeking to justify the
brutal violence of the insurgents, for
they were nothiug else, still I cannot
look upon the squalor aud misery that
underlies the magnifioenoe and luxury
of this great city without feeliug that
there is “something rotteu in Den
mark.” The solutiou of this problem
is one of the gravest of all the
knotty questions presented by politi
cal eoonomy for the considera
tion of mankind, and, like most
politico-eeonomioal questions, it is
one whioh legislation, in the present
advancement of society, cannot reach.
The relations of demand aud supply
had best bo left to regulate themselves,
aud any attempt at legislative inter
ference will only make things worse iu
the end by establishing artificial rela
tions which cannot endure. Our sup
ply of labor, at present, greatly exceeds
the demand, and consequently suffering
to the laboriug classes is inevitable.
The consideration of a remedy would
lead us to the delicate question of arti
ficial checks to the population—a sub
ject whioh it is not desirable to discuss
here.
The great strikes, fortunately, wore
themselves out before reaching New
York. We were blockaded for a few
days, provisions began to rise, there
were attempts at mass meetings, <fcc.,
but. tlio vigilance of the city authorities
was equal to the emergency, and the
silent eloquence of four stout field
pieces presiding over the first attempted
communistic meeting on Tompkins
Square, appealed to the mob more ef
fectually than the riotous demagogues
who addressed them. Gunpowder,
judiciously used, in an instrument of
mercy as well as of justice,
and a few well directed vol
leys in the beginning of a dis
turbance will save more lives, in
the long run, than they destroy.
It is merely another application of the
old proverb, “a stitch in time," ete. One
of the most ourious results of the strike
was to be seen iu the sudden resump
tion of travel after the railroad block
ado was raised. For two or three days
the streets leading to all the principal
depots were thronged with express wag
ons, carrying such piles of baggage that
if the conveyances had been a little
more primitive, I could Utmost have
fancied myself in a Confederate town of
fifteen years ago, whioh had just been
waked up by the rumored approach of
a Yankee army.
During my rambles about the dark
corners of Gotham, I have visited some
of the hospitals —jjqt daf]i corners them
selves, by auy meaqs, but yet pot gen
erally places of interest tp the pleasure
seeker. The moat prominent, and to
me the most interesting, pf tljeso is
Bellevue, situated at the foot of Twenty
sixth street, aud commanding, from its
back galleries, a prospect that fully jus
tifies its name. Those who imagine
that a hospital is necessarily a painful,
or even a disagreeable place to visit, are
greatly mistaken. Bellevue being the city
hospital, receives its inmates lrom the
lowest and most degraded elements of
population. Many of the patients, when
first brought in, are so covered with
filth and yepmin that fheir clothing
has tq lie Iqjrnej, pd' yyhaj is
not burned, it is geupiqlly pepeysary
to sprinkle with lime and fumigate care
fully before it oan bo admir.ted within
the wards. Yet, even here, everything
is scrupulously clean. About such a
place some disagreeable odors are, of
course, unavoidable, tbe most percepti
ble being the scent of drugs and disin
fectants. The only labor provided by
the city for scrubbing and cleaning is
that of ten days prisoners from the Po
lice Courts, women token up on the
streets for or di 3or derly
conduct, anij tbg like,'and )j:hen we con
sider the irregularity and inefficiency‘of
such servioe, the degree of order and
cleanliness maintained in the building
is really wonderful. In some of the
wards, the tables and shelves are taste
fully oruameuted with cut paper done
by the convalescing patients. Flowers
ara not a rarity, aud I am told that it is
a common custom with New Yorkers to
send the floral decorations left from
wedjinto Uai[ fifhcmls fo {fie
hospitals, (jue o'f tts a urges at'Relle
vue told me that she sometimes had
splendid floral designs costing a hun
dred dollars or more sent to her ward.
Among the class of patients who are
received at Bellevue there is, of course,
a shocking amount of ignorance and su
perstition, aDd one of the physicians in
ohargP related to me a ourious instance
of the ia'Ccer, 'uoneei mug a laige black
cat that was kept as a pet at the hos
pital. Pussy, it seems, had a fancy for
frequenting a certain ward, in which it
happened, from the nature of the dis
ease* cfcpjod there, I presume, that a
largfe proportion oi lafsl casee occurred,
The p’atifihtW fltohee began id associate
the idea’ of dhatji with’the' blafek'cat,
ans ecbfi came to regard him & the evil
genius of tfi'e ptecy.; bip's ffiat his
presence wa* a sure harbinger of cfeaili,
Canlared that ho would single
aud even r -landing beside
out the fated victim, t>.~- * ”
her bed and staring at her with
glaring eyes. The effect npon their im
aginations at last became 30 injurious
that it was necessary to make away with
the cat.
But I have not reached the lowest
depth yet. if you would see tfie bottom
layers of New fork life in ajl theif de
formity, you must go to tfie docks. For
reasons which can be of po ipterest to
the readers of this letter, it was my f° r *
tune, not loug ago, to spend a night on
board a steamer at a North river pier,
and the experience is one which I would
not advise the most curious investigator
of human nature to imitate. Imagine a
mingled odor of spoilt eggs, hydrogen
gas, bilge water, rancid machine oil,
coal smoke, sewerage, with any other
particularly inodorous substances you
can think of, and you may form some
idea of the scents that pervade the New
York docks at night; and fancy all pan
demonium broke loose, or a village
band practising for tbe fourth of July,
and you will stjll fall short of the noises
that make night hideops along the piers.
To make matters worse, the sailors on a
big Liverpool steamer, under whose
bows we were moored, got into row
with some canal boatmen about a tow
line, and the language that ensued it is
beyond my powers to describe, In
short, if a single night in the New York
docks does not make one a first honor
graduate in the entire vocabulary of bil
lingsgate, it is because he has not the
capacity to take an education.
lam afraid my lady readers will be
disgusted when I confess that I have
scarcely bestowed a thought upou the
fashions, and cannot even describe a
new mode of arranging tbe hair. The
fact is, there is not much fashion in New
York daring the Summer, and I shall
have to postpone a fall consideration of
that important point till after my visit
to Long Branch. In general, verv sim
ple styles of coiffure seem to prevail.
French twist, a single plait down the
back, or a small round knot done high
on the head, are the styles most fre
quently seen, though anything light
and simple will pass muster. The hair
dressers display frizzled false fronts,
looking very wiggy and ugly, which
they assure me are indispensable, but
thus far. all the ladies I have seen have
the good taste to dispense with them.
Iu bonnets, the Normandy style is al
most universally worn for half dress,
and is very generally becoming, but for
full dress, the most elegant is the Dani
soheff—a large hat with the rim flared
up in front and on one side, with a reck
less profusion of pendent rubber
flowers about the face, and a
cart load of plumes aud gauzes out
side. It is very dressy aud looks well
ou slender figures, but I would advise
women who are inclined to be at all
stout to beware of it. The style is too
pronouuced for tljem, and gives them a
vulgar, fly-a-way look that is anything
but prepossessing. Aud now let me give
my fair friends a word of advice about
shopping iu New York. In the first
place, don’t shop too much. The only
idea many women have of New York is
that it is a convenient place for shop
ping, and they waste their time aud wear
themselves out running about after
cheap dry goods when they might be
much more pleasautly and profitably
employed in visiting the art galleries
the museums, the parks aud thousands
of other objeots of iuterest with which
the city abounds. The best plan is to
set aside two or three days when you
first come for shopping, so as to get the
tiresome business done with and off
your mind. Spend the first day on
Broadway, looking about to see what
is stylish aud elegant, then, if you
canuot afford -to lay out your
money there, go over to Sixth Avenne,
where you will find ruanv things as good
as on Broadway, and a g'reat deal cheap
er. The best shopping is iu a short
range from Nineteenth to Twenty-third
streets, and includes every conceivable
article of apparel, so that you need not
waste tme going to out of the way
places to find something a little oheaper.
Cheap shopping is about the most ex
pensive thing I know. Only the other
day, as I was about to pay twenty cents
for some trifle, a friend stopped me
with an excited exolamation of “Dou’t
buy that here; you can get it up town
tor eighteen cents.” On inquiring more
particularly, I found that “up town”
meant some fifteeu blocks off, and we
would have been obliged to spend ten
cents each car fare, and from a half to
three-quarters of an hour’s time, to
save two cents. And this is the case
with most cheap shopping. You lose
more in car fare, time and worry than
ten times the money is worth. Sixth
Avenue is becoming such a popular
shopping ground, that it bids fair to
rival Broadway, and you not unfre
queutjy fiqd things cheaper on
the old thoroughfare. There arc
some articles wfiicU it js absolute
folly to purchase anywhere else,
kid gloves, for instance. You can get
them cheaper ou Sixth avenue, of
course, but cheap gloves are the moat
expensive things you cau possibly buy.
Go straight to Harris', the great kid
glove emporium, on Broadway, whore
you will find the article in question In
all styles and at all prices, from one dol
lar up to—l am afraid to say how muoh
—but no matter what price you give,
you will be sure to got the worth of your
money, aud will always seoure a good
fit. The fashionable glove house is
Fortune’s, on Fifth avenue, opposite
the Brunswick, where you will find
everything extremely elegant, prices not
excepted. The walls are fitted with ele
gant hangings of brown buckram, tbe
windows heavily decorated with lam
brequins of the same, the glove counter
ditto and, in short, you find yourself in
a little brown leather paradise presided
over by a little brown genius of kid
gloyes. On approaching the counter a
dapper little Frenchman accosts you
with the inquiry, “What si?eqf gioflfdo
M’amselle wear ?”
Now, if you are an elderly lady, con
scious of having a goqty husband, and
five or six grandchildren at homo, it is
very gratifying to be addressed as
“M’amselle.” You never suspeoted you
were so young looking before, and im
mediately determine to take at least
one pair of gloves at any price. With
some misgivings, as you remember, vari
ous pairs of gloves burst and ruined in
the attempt to stretch them over your
fingers, you give— say 6J as your num
ber. Then our Frenchman looks sur
prised, and requosts to see your hand.
He regards it with the air of a con
noisseqr anj
“Ah, that is much too large for
M amselle. Ze Amorioaiu kuow not
how to fit gloves. M’amselle’s hand is
suit for ze small gloves—6 will fit per
fect.
You secretly determine to take two
pair of gloves. You make a modest
protest, however, about the size, and
are requested to rest your elbow ou oue
of the brown velvet cushions placed at
intervals along tbe counter. Your band
is first covered with a delicate perfumed
powder, and then the glove drawn over
it for you so easily by the expert sales
man that you wouder what magic has so
suddenly altered if 8 proportions. The
secret is 4 yefy 'sjgips qV 'ilortgue’s
gloyea aye q iqU larger thaq any
other make,
The safest plan in shopping is to avoid
extremes; at the very cheap places you
are apt to be taken in, and get inferior
goods; at tbe very fashionable establish
ments, you pay a large per cent, for
style. Elzey Hay.
UNIVERSITY OF UEOKUIA.
Annual Aleetina of the Board of Trustees—
Chancellor Tucker Retained—Cof. C. V.
Jones, Jr., Elected P.rofessor of. b(iy |(H
--sje£ref B)jeiiuie;
[Atlanta Constitution.]
The trustees of the University of
Georgia completed their work on Fri
day night after a long and anxious ses
sion. Contrary to very general expecta
tion, Col. Leroy Bronn was not recalled.
It was the idea to bring him bacf: by a
call to tjio cjmir qf physics. When the
elecjiiop Tor ; tins' chair camo off there
was qo’ejiscugsi'on af qlj. Itr. Sfepheus,
sitting in kis chair, namihateil Mr, C.'
C. Jones, of Augusta, a gentleman of
well known culture, for the chair, and
supported his claim in quite a forcible
manner. To the astonishment of many
members of the Board, Mr. Broun’s
name was not put before the Trustees.
Notwithstanding this fact he received
eight votes out of, we think, pjneteen.
Oue Vote was given to Sjr. ham. R'ar
nett, of Wilkes county. Mr. Jones was
elected on the first ballot. There was
no discussion on the merits of the
present incumbent, Montgomery
Gumming; Wn underßtam} 7 fhaf lie is
a '’igogt' abb 'and' qulturfcd 1 gentleman,
aud’we febrn that ’ the'iVuesfioh of Ins
removal was only spoken of because he
happeneej fo occupy (be ohauj tq
Col. Rro„u most cqllhd ii he were
called at all. His removal on any other
score was not considered, and we do not
believe the Trustees will find themselves
sustained in their action in this case.
It is understood {hat Dr. Tucker will
remain in the chancellorship. The or
gaumatiwq qf fhp faculty remains un
changed), Bave iii'iue 'parwoular alluded
to aboye. '
Two or three years ago thq Trustees
of the University passed a resolution by
which jt was proposed fo abolish the
secret efubh then Nourishing in pollagq.
The resolution required that the stifdent
should take an o%w ythen lie mnGicqlat
ed that he would not join any secret
club While he was in college- The boys
who were devoted to their clubs, flanked
this prohibition by joining a secret plnb
before they matriculated, after which
they oould take tbe oath with impunity.
Hence it was that despite the resolution
the clubs flourished. At the meeting
just adjourned the trustees seemingly
bent upon their reform, passed a resolu
tion requiring that when a student ma
tripulates lip shall agree qqt to atfepd
any secret club meetings during his stay
in colfege. This action has had the re
sult of detrmioing several of tbe stu
dents not to retqru tq the University.
- -'-mi wan- . —-
JIUBQERA? BRIDGEPORT.
The Priest Atteudin* the Dying Wan Falls
Dead.
Bridgeport, Conn., August fi.—Da
ring a quarrel between a man named
Conklin and George Allen, on Saturday
night, at Fairfield, Conn., Allen shot
Conklin, cansing injuries which resulted
in his death early yesterday morning.
Rev. Father Mullen, a Catholic priest,
was called to attend the dying man, and
when returning to his house fell dead in
the yard of the murdered man. Cause
supposed to be heart disease, superin
duced by exoitement.
GOVERNOR JENKINS.
His Position In Regard to the Bullock Bonds
—What He Thinks of the I'oustllutlou.
Ex-Governor Jenkins, President of the
Constitutional Convention, after spend
ing two days at his home in Summer
ville, returned to Atlanta last eveuing.
A reporter of the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist interviewed him at the
Union Depot just before the train left.
The following conversation ensued:
Reporter: Yon saw the extraot from
the Athens Georgian aud the editorial
of the Chronicle and Constitutional
ist thereon, did you not, Governor ?”
Governor Jenkins: Yes, but I care
nothing for what newspapers say about
me. The truth is three parties in New
York wrote to me as President of the
Constitutional Convention, asking me to
lay their communications before the
proper committee, whioh I did. These
parties were holders of “Bullock” bonds
and asked that they be allowed to place
their claims before some judicial tribu
nal for adjustmeut.
Reporter: Did you go before the com
mittee in reference to tho Herring and
Branch bonds ?
Gov. Jenkins: Mr. Branch asked me
to go before the committee and make a
statement, which I did. When the reso
lution of 1872 was passed by tbe Legis
lature, declaring certain bonds valid,
Mr. Branch came to me and asked me if
I thought it would be safe for him to
buy those bouds. I told him yes; that
the Legislature would hardly go back
on their own action. He then bought
the bouds. It was this statemeut of
fact whioh he wished me to make to tho
committee, and whioh I did make. He
wished to show that he had acted un
der advice. I made no argument before
the committee.
Reporter: What is your opinion of the
new Constitution so far. Governor?
Gov Jenkins : It bids fair to be the
most absurd and ridiculous Constitu
tion that ever was drawn up. The
Convention is entirely too large a body.
Every man seems to think that he must
offer something aud that his measure
is the most important of all. They are
really making a code of laws instead of
a constitution.
Reporter : Do you think the salaries
of the Judges too lew ?
Gov. Jenkins : They have certainly
been placed at too low a figure. Judi
cial offioes should be filled by the best
meu.
Reporter : How loug will the Con
vention ho in session, Governor ?
Gov. Jenkins : Probably two weeks
longer or it may be prolonged beyond
that. The speakers, however, have
beeu curtailed to ten mimites each aud
that may shorten matters,
THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU,
A Review of tlie Co'nmltmionerta Ci'l-loun
Arithmetic'
Editors Chronicle and ConstUutionalist:
In circular No. 42, reoeutly published
by Dr. Thomas P. Janes, Commissioner
of Agriculture, for the benefit and infor
mation especially of planters—l find
on page 26, “the new law” whioh will go
into effect first September, 1877, will
give even more favorable results. Here
tofore the fees for inspection, after pay
ing for the analyses, inured to the bene
fit of individual inspectors. Uuder the
new law, the fees will be paid into tho
Treasury of the State. Tho fee, under
the new law, will be uniformly fifty
eents per ton. The fees for inspecting
75.824 tons will be $37,912. Nine thou
sand dollars will pay all expe.ises of in
spection and analysis, leaving $28,912
to be paid into the Treasury.” Who
will pay the large salary of the Commis
sioner and the salaries of his five clerks
and assistants, which cost the §tqtp last
year $14,000 ? who nqya the chemist his
$3,000?. who pays for tags, office rent,
traveling expenses (for most of the in
spections are made in Charleston and
Port Royal), inspectors’ assistants, sta
tionery, bottles, etc. ? Those seyeral
amounts, yyith what fie admits as
necessary for inspectors' salaries, $9,-
QflO, will aggregate at least from
$35,0Q0 to $40,000. Now the Com
missioner has promised to pay into
the Treasury $28,019 out of $i17,913,
when the expenses foot up from $35,000
to $40,000. And should the trado vary
as it has done, and only 50,000 tons be
brought into the State (not at all im
probable), he would have but $25,000
for receipts to meet an expense of $40,-
000. If the results and working of the
Department of Agriculture are so doubt
ful as to require to be built qp qqd
strengthened by
rect iu (qaqy particulars, and apparently
with the intention of imposing upon the
credulity and confidence of the people,
the sooner it is abolished the better.
The inspection of fertilizers has been of
great benefit, and may be a necessity,
but if so, it can bo agiyeUftnd thorough
ly dqnp wiUloilt tqe Ahi'ioultural Bureau
as with it. Planter.
TWO MEN BURNED TO DEATH.
They and Five Ollier* Are Dropped Into a
Furnace MhafE.
f From the Pittsburg Post, August 4th.\
A frightful accident oocqr.recj yester
day at the jiucy f.qreace 4* tfie corueT
of Fiftieth street aud the Allegheny
Valley Railroad, by whiqh two men
were almost instantly killed—Julius
Hardin aud Michael Cusick. Patrick
Cusiek and James Turney were fatally
wounded, and John Ward’, Jamos Hart
and John Boyle wero very painfully
though not dangerously injured. The
managers of the furnace Y,a,Vdetermined
to have one qf Uu* .i,aeks' re-lined, and
for th.qt purpose let the fires go out on
: Monday morning. A scaffold was
placed crosswise near the top of the
stack, the ends resting upon thq taside
wall, which is nearly fctlt thick.
Yesterday roofhjng"tt was thought the
stack had became cool enough to permit
the men to work, and ton laborers were
detailed to remove the fire-brick liDiug.
Standing on this scaffold, nearly fifty
feet from the base of the stack, the
workmen loosened the fire-brick from
their places and allowed they) to
fall to the bottom. At o’clock
seven of the meq standing on' the scaf
fold qnq three on the projecting inside
walls, de(acheq a large tnasa at flre
brick above unfor
tunately, fell its full force upou
♦he ceatt'e of the soaffold. The platform
broke with this additional weight upon
it, and the seven unfortunate workmen
were precipitated headlong fifty feet to
the bottom of tbe stack, alighting among
the cinders, which were still nearly red
hot. The three men npon the wall es
caped unhurt. The crash of tfce falling
walls and thp qfie* pi ffie workmen who
escaped uniumfed attracted the atten
tion of bther workmen about the place,
and they excitedly rushed to aid tlpeir
unfortunate fellow-labore^
There is an af typ b,ase of
the stap.k, aud hbl 6 W®. arrived in
time to sfie the fire pommunicate tft the
tiihber’which hat) fallen fflmr pom
rades. Thp qn|aßduafip ’ W-P Bad by
thuj timph,egdh tp, reqlipp. the danger of
their horrible sit'datiuu, and they Bent
out lusty cries far help. The men as
sembled about the stack urged Manager
Gurry to throw water upon the blaze,
but the latter refused, knowing that the
walls were still nearly red hot, and
knowing the disastrous consequences
which must have followed to the livinv.
Then some of the n>en entarpd thp aper
ture above tbe hearth cdnslWoted for
the exit ol molten iron, and one by one
the wounded’ who' were able to help
themselves a little were extricated from
their fiorrible situate,p, Thp pm'cp was
hot tq sqopbhihg, and tfie smoke was
sulocating. Ju™ PsMohs \jere Soon
rescued, hut these stated tWB
were op the When the crash
came, and WH Ef fip king under the tim
bers, The smoke cleared a little, and
Julius Hardin aud Miohaol Ouaiek were
dragged forth dead. It was at first
thought they had died of suffooation,
but further examination showed that
their death was far more horrible than
that. The flesh on Hardin’s bodv
burned to a blackened ojiiy m -'many
place; while Uisick aetually los( his
nose ahd both hands’by the fire of the
furnace. The body of Cusick was taken
to his boarding house. Gq vmb a single
man, aged. ab.Hht. ypsrs.
Haydip if as a married man, and leayea a
wife and child.
Qf the wounded men, who are all sin
gle, John Boyle was taken to his home
near by. The remainder were taken to
the Bt. Franciscus Hospital gpd there
attended by thp physiaiqn o| the institu
tion. James Turney and Patrick Cusiok,
the most seriously injured, will proba
bly die from inhaling fire and smoke.
Some of their bones are also broken,
and their flesh is badly seated. The
others are very seriously injured, but
are expected to recover. Coroner Thom
as was summoned to hold an inquest
yesterday afternoon. He impanelled a
i' ury, who viewed the bodies, examined
he soeue of the aocident and adjourned
until 9:30 o’clock this morning.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PATD
A horrible murder.
A) Dastardly Deed iu llaralMOM family.
[Cartei-sville Express ]
At about eleven o’clock to-day church
services were interrupted aud the con
gregation appalled by the news that Mr.
Washington Golden, a young man about
eighteen years of age, had shot and
killed Mr. Lee Pierce, an old man about
fifty years old, both citizens of this
county. It appears that you ug Golden
aud two other youug meu had been ac
cused by Pierce of baviug shaved the
maue aud tail of a horse bolougiug to
oue of Pierce’s friends while bo was
speudiug the night with Pieroe, aud
Pierce and Golden had had some words
about it. To-day Mr. Pieroe's two
daughters and little son had gone to
church, leaving the old mau at home.
When found he was just inside his gate,
dead. Oue pistol ball had entered be
low tbe left breast aud ranged through
the heart, tho other being just above
and ranging through the luugs. Pow
der staius on his shirt showed that Gol
den was just outside, only the gate be
tween them. By Pierce’s side lay his
shot gun, with the hammer pulled back,
an old load in the gnu and an old cap on
the tube, and betwoen the body aud the
house lay some papers, proved before
tbe Coronet's jury to have beeu Gol
den s. The Coroner beiug at the church
ns well as the Sheriff and Deputy, they
proceeded at once to Mr. Seaboru Gol
den’s and arrested young Golden and
carried him to Buehauau jail. Two of
young Golden’s brothers testified before
the Coroner’s jury that Wash told them
that he had killed Pieroe.
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A WOMAN’S HEROIC FIGHT.
Three Pioneers MnsHneretl hy Imliuiin in die
Black Hills.
[MUwanfoe Sentinel ]
Deadwood, July 23.—A wagou drawn
by two yoke of oxeu, and carrying two
men and a woman, with their effects,
left Deadwood on Monday morning des
tined for Bismarck. They camped on
Centennial Prairie on Monday night,
aud on Tuesday night passed through
Crook City. An eye witness, who was
eutting hay within a quarter of a mile,
tells how it occurred. He says that
hearing a succession of rapid shots fired
over the bluff from where he was mow
ing, he got up ou a high timbered eleva
tiou and saw about, twenty Indians en
gaged iu a fight with two meu and a
woman who occupied the ox train. The
meu defended themselves gilluutly
against the great odds. They were welj
armed, aud fought, as only men fight, for
their lives. The Indians, instead of
coming up iu a body, broko iu every di
rection and surrounded the wagou,
keeping up a qoustaut trail of bullets
upon the poor unfortunates. Three of
the oxeu wero the first, to fall. Waggo
meu, the owner of the outfit, amftlia
husband of the lady, next was shot,
through the head. Mrs. WaggomeH
seized her husband’s revolver aud dis
charged tbe contents among tlio In
dians, who were now close upon the
wagon. After she had emptied the
weapon she flung it, full iu the faoe of a
burly savage, wbo was reaching over
the wagou to grasp her. Ho reeled
baok, bnt others took his piano.
Mr. Tyner, the other mau, was quick
ly finished, aud there remained but tbe
lady to deal with. The Indians had
since the beginning of the conflict, been
careful not to injure her, aud their bul
lets were direoted chiefly toward the two
men. The poor woman, knowing her
probable fate, fought bke a tigress,
clutching an empty gnq U J striking
right aufi left, but to no avail. She was
finall) overpowered and brought to the
ground, but the woman fought so hard
that they procured some tent stakes
which were iu the wagon aud staked the
limbs and body of the poor woman firm
ly to the gronqd. After they had ac
complished their horrible deed they
took her scalp aud horribly mutilated
her around the breast, qu’d then dis
patched her, The shrieks of the woman
could be heard distinctly where my in
formant waa lodged, powerless to help
and almost dead with fear. When tho
savages began saoking tho wagou thoy
observed the witness of their cruelty
standing on the bluff, and two of them
started in pursuit. He, however, made
good time, aud succeeded in reachiug
Crook, about nine miles off, without
falling into their oßpohoj. fciaau after
the massacre (fia Rismarck stage rolled
by the fatal upoh There wero no In
dians in sight, aud the passengers were
horrified at seeing the sight before
them. Both of tlio two meu had been
scalped and their ears and noaqa qqt off.
The woman was horribly, mutilate,l, her
brains and qn.trmkl being scattered over
holies of tbo poor
unfortunates were taken to Crook and
there interred, They belonged to Brain
ard, Minn., aud had come into the Hills
early this Hpriug, made their little
stake, aud were on their way home when
the fatal accident befell them,
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THE pNIHAN WAR,
*'|R- t'l'-Hiun ul -tusiqili mi,l Gen. Howard
A Eemute Cawlvo Made an Indian’s t'aiicn
kiue.
Helena, Montana, August & —Mr,
McCormick, of Messoula, writes to Gov.
Potts, on the 6th, instant, us follows:
“A courier uriwed from Gen, Howard
at aolock this afternoou. Ho left
Howard Saturday morning last, and
thinks that Howard will camp near the
summit between tbe Lolo and tffe Men
roster to-night. He i% distant about
fifty miles frq.us iim month of tlio Lolo.
The reports that Joseph, with
! moxo than one-half of liis fighting force,
has gone to the head of the valley by
tho way of the Elk City trail, and will
form a junction with Looking Glass and
White b;r,l near Ross' Hole. Ha says
Howard has 750 men tynd 450 puck
mules, aud is rapidly as pos
sible. Adipew Haui the Upper Ritter
Rqql qay the Indians will camp io-uight
in Ross Hole. Gen. Gibbou in follow
ing them rapidly. Qtfior advices say
the Indian# stiff at Doolittle, nix
teeq miles above Qorvellss, and that
Gibbon expected to strike them on the
morning o| the 7tb, before they broke
camp. The courier says tho liostiles
have Mrs. Maunel with them, as tho
property of a petty chief called Cucaso
nilo. Her sad history is fami,liV to. the
public.
Another Troops lie.
,eil .V('4 Vft Ifemp-rHeyere boss Inflicted,
(Juiqaoo, August 8, —Official iufurma
tion has just beep. received at military
headquarters cftpftrmmg the rumor re
ceived b.pra a (osy days since regarding a
Uglit between the Indiana and United
States troops in Texas, ita ascertained
that a disastrous cuwftuter was had on
the Staged f’Jaip, ip, which tUeic were
two oncers pud twpntY-#ix enlisted
soldiers filled. Tim remnant of the
party continued its march, after having
suffered thin loss, and has since reached
Fort (fonder with an additional loss of
five privates and forty horses and
mules. The unfortunate command was
without water for eighty-six hours, and
the suffering they endured iu conse
quence was terrible. Further particu
lars concerning the disaster ajo wanting,
the dispatch by% very brief. It is
thought full details will be received iu
the course of a few day, when the names
of the killed an<J tvcWled will be
learned,
A VTiUUt.t.*,,
(fifty ACWMWwat Troops Needed iu
(oka.
Kev West, August s.—The following
news has been received from Havana:
The last Spanish mail brought an order
for the release of the persons imprison
ed for frauds in the Intendepcip pdli
taire. This was a bloyj he face of
Captain General jo cellar, arid sanctifies
the opmmitted pnder the yaltr’a
-Bda, Concha administration* Ru
mors are’ current that .Jqycthy; prill re
sign and be succeeded by Qeu. Elpnco.
Gen. Martinez Gapipps has sent dis
patches to (he Ijiing explaining the situ
ation and 'campaign, and stating that
the insurgents are so well supplied with
information by spies, and their facilities
for disbanding when pursued we such
that it requires five hundred soldiers to
look after ten insurgents. Gen. Cam
pos < therefore, requires fifty thousand
more troops to crush the insurrection.
Gen. Campos further says that the in
surgents will only surrender on receiv
ing their independence, and recommends
the Spanish Government to adopt one
proposition or the other. A great many
sick soldiers have arrived at Havana
from the interior.
Moses A. Wheeloak, Chairman of the
New York Btook Exchange, resigned
yesterday and announced that he was
unable to meet his contracts. His
liabilities are not large.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AM) THE PAPERS.
Crops iii Washington county are suf
fering for rain.
A colored child in Savannah was killed
by falling from a bed.
A lodge of the Ancient Order of
Workingmen has been organized in Ma
con.
A little white girl only eleven years of
age was married in burke county ru
oeutly.
One of the orphan girls at White
Bluff was drowned last Tuesday while
bathing.
Mr. Wylie Pope, of Wilkes county,
58 years of age, is the father of nine
teen children.
Pike connty has 2,363 polls, white
and oolored. Aggregate value of prop
erty, $2,327,751.
Samuel Wilmot, oolored, killed Jacob
Terrell, also oolored. near Cartersville
last Wednesday.
Washington Golden, eighteen years
old, killed Lee Pierce, aged fifty, in
Haralson connty.
Mr. S. E. Bothwell, formerly of Au
gusta, expeots to commence business in
Savaunah in a short time.
Thirty-two marriage licenses were
issued by the Ordinary of Chatham
county during the past month.
During the past week the crops in
Burke county have improved. A great,
deal of the corn, however, is past, hope.
Hart county cau take tho belt. She
has succeeded in producing 53 peaches
on a section of limb 22 inches in length.
A negro man was taken from his
house, in Screven county, on tho night
of the 26th of July, by three white men.
who shot him to death.
Win, Clark A Cos,, of Hart county,
threshed this seasou, in twenty-six days,
about 7,000 bushels of wheat, and oats!
A few days ago they threshed 15bnshels
oats in six minutes.
The abundant peaoh crop has de
veloped among other things an Elber
ton man's capacity for punishing this
fruit, which is truly wonderful. He
ate forty the other morning before
breakfast.
Henry Chester, colored, died in the
Bnrke jail last Sunday morning, from
the effects of a pistol shot received while
being captured and returned to tho
ohain gang, from which he had escaped,
some time since.
LaGrange Reporter : "Mr. Gosey,
about seventeen years of ago, residing
in Troup county, was thrown from u
mule and dragged by the plow gear un
til he was killed. His whole body was
terribly bruised, and his skull' was
crushed.”
The Dalton Enterprise says: “Coal
oil has been discovered in a well near
Dalton. The well is only about seven
teen feet deep, and at times the water is
so impregnated with oil that it is im
possible to use it. Home of the water
lias been at this office.”
A difficulty occurred at Graysville,
six miles above ltinggold, on Saturday
last, between two white men (Winn
Gilleland and George Jenkins), in
wbioh the latter was seriously, if not
fatally, shot by tho former. At last ac
counts the wounded man was still alive.
There is a natural curiosity iu Miller
oounty, nine miles south of Camilla,
known as the “Blowing Cave,” so called
becanseit draws the air in, iu the fore
noon, and blows it out iu the afteruoou,
thus there is a perpetual alternate blow
ing of wind inward and outward. The
seiontiflo Hummer tourist should iuves
tigate this phenomenon.
Maoon had an incendiary fire last
Monday.
The Conyers Grays are to be reor
ganized under anew captain.
A Newton county man claims to have
6,000 watermelonsin his patch.
Conyers had only $46,005 worth of
merchandize on the first of April.
Covington still continues to improve.
More new houses going up. Thus we
grow.
On Friday last a little boy fell out of
a high tree, in Athens, and was pain
fully injured.
Mrs. Busan Martin died at the resi
dence of Mr. Fletcher Foster, on the
28th ult., aged 85.
A son of Mr. James Carter, who re
sides near Walnut Grove, died from
bleeding at the nose, on the 23d of July.
The Butts County Volunteers, who
were with the Sixth Georgia Hogimonl,
had a grand re-nniou at Indian Spring,
last Wednesday. About 3,000 people
were present.
A sad affair took place at Brice’s
mill, in Crawford county, last Saturday
in whioh Mr. James It. Math
e.ws was shot and killed by Mr. F. M.
Abbott.
Mr. James Bone, an old and respect
ed citizen of Athens, died on Saturday
last, and was buried Suuday. He hail
been iu bad health for some time past,
and was, we presume, near 80 yoars of
age.
Dr. J. B. Hendrick performed a most
skillful and delicate operation, last
week, in removing a splinter from tho
eye of Gus Berggran, a Hwedo, living at
Mr. W. F. Herring’s, near Covingtou
depot.
A party of ladies and gentlemen left
Covington, last week, for Tocooa amt
Tallulah Falls, and other points of in
terest in North Georgia. They wont by
private conveyance, and will be gone
several weeks.
THE CHITON CHOI*.
Report f Ike Norfolk Colton Exchange From
Viminln noil North Carolina.
Norfolk, August B.— Thirty-seven re
plies from twenty-five counties in North
Carolina and Virginia report on the cot
ton crop as follows : Seventeen replies
report the weather favorable, twenty un
favorable on account of excessive rains
and cool nights, seven report the weath
er favorable, seven about the same and
eighteen less favorable than last year
owing to too much rain. Twelve report
stands about the same as last year and
twenty-five less favorable owing to the
cold, backward Spring. Twenty-two re
plies report tho plant blooming and fill
ing well, fifteen not filling well. Four
report the condition of the crop as about
the same as last year, thirty-two report
its condition ten days to two weeks later
than last year, the plant being full of
sap and growing rapidly. Tho plant is
reported larger than last year at this
time, owing to the very hot weather and
the heavy rains of the last two weeks. A
few letters report shedding of bolls and
rust.
I.IKE IN DRADWOOU.
[ Jj-tter to St. Lou in Hepublican.\
Among the most noted of the club
bouses here are the Cabinet, the Senate,
Morton’s olub house and the Melodeon.
The gaming is carried on here on the
ground floor iu open view. The rooms,
are crowded with hundreds of uJten.soine
waiting for a chance to take a hand,
some busted and waiting for a stake,
some too drunk to participate in the
games, others too busy getting drunk,
while many are putting up and trying
their luck. I walked into Morton’s the
other evening and took a few points.
, Near the door was a roulette outfit,
I with a man spinning the wheel
around and asking the “gentlemen” to try
their hand and make their expenses while
in Hills. He was out of luck that eve
ning, or the crowd was a little off rou
lette, for the wheel spun around without
a single bet. At the next table was
seated an old man, hair closely cropped,
but with a long, gray beard, ot rathei
ohin whiskers. Before him on the table
was au oil cloth, on wb.ioh were painted
a star, a diamond, a heart, a olub, a
spade and an anchor— representing the
four suits of cards, with the addi
dition of the star and the anchor. He
hzd tpxee dice—on each face of which
was one of these six emblems—and an
apparatus shaped like an hour glass,
about iix iuches high, opening at both
epdp. Into tne top of this he threw the
dice,, and then called upon the playera
! to. make their bets, which they did by
placing their chips on any of the figures
on the oil cloth. Ho lifted the funnel,
either paid over the money to the one
who had been so fortunate as to pnt his
chips, sm the winning emblem or em
blems, or raked in the ehips from those
that lost. This man is a curiosity, and his
speech, which he repeats over and over
again, made a lasting impression on me.
“Bets all made, gentlemen? There she is
—two anchors and a spade. Oh, Lord !
Oh, Lord 1 Everybody wins and the
old man loses.” One youDg man Ims a
good run on the anchor; doubles the
bets and wins again ; doubles and wins
again. “ Ob, Lord ! Oh, Lord ! Every
body wins and the old man loses. That
anchor is a serpent; I know it—going
to out him off to-morrow.” Another
throw and the yonug man is cleared out;
but still that monotone, “O, Lord !
O, Lord ?| everybody wins and the old
man loses.” I noticed, however, that
the “ old man ” was quietly absorbing
the gold dust of the players.