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“ NOT GUILTY”
THE VERDICT IM THE STAR ROUTE
CASE.
End of the Longest Trial on Record
—Scenes In the Court Room—How
Juror Vernon Feels To-day.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, June 14.—•• Yon can ask
that jury whether they have any communi
cation to make to the court,” said Judge
Wylie to the Crier, when the criminal court
for the hearing of the Star Route case reas
sembled this morning.
Crier Donaldson soon returned with a
message that the jury deaired to communi
cate with the ccurt. They filed into the
court room apparently none the worse for
their long confinement. When they were
seated Judge Wylie Faid: “Gentlemen of
the jury, the court has sent for you for the
purpose of inquiring whether you have
any communication to make.”
The foreman in reply stated that the jury
had agreed upon a verdict, and a painful
silence fell upon the court room, only to
be broken by wild shouts of applause,
when in a clear tone the voice of the fore
man s’ated that the verdict was “Not
guilty.” Immediately the decorum of the
court of justice was forgotten and cheers
resounded from all quarters of the crowd
ed room.
Mrs. 8. W. Dorsey sprang to her feet,
clapping her hands, while tears streamed
down her cheeks and there were many
ladies in court who were silently weeping.
Mr. Davidge quietly asked : “Has the
verdict been recorded,” which was done
while the deputy marshals were vainly
endeavoring to quell the tumult.
Messrs. 8. W. Dorsey and Brady were
recipients of many warm congratulations
and as they left the court room were
greeted with renewed cheers by the crowd
in front of the city hall. When order had
been aimewhat restored by reason of the
defendants and their friends leaving the
room, Judge Wylie turned to Juror Vernon
and asked Mr. Vernon, “How ar« you, this
morning?” Juror Vernon—“ First rate,
sir.”
The Court—” I believe we have nothing
further for the jury to do during this term
and thecouit is prepared to discharge you
finally. You Lave had a laborious task to
perform in this ca-e. You have been more
than six months engaged in this trial and
many of you have occupations of your own
which you have been obliged to neglect
during that period, and though your
verdict of course will create great
dissatisfaction to many, yet having
beta selected according to the forms of law,
and baring sworn to perform your duties
faithfully, the court is bound to presume
that you have faithfully performed your
duty. If you have done so, each one.ac
cording to the dictates of his conscience,
that will be satisfaction to you as long as
you live. Yon are, therefore, discharged
with the thanks of the court.”
In the ante room and halls the jury was
beset by a throng of interested persons,
Srominent among them being the defen
ants and Mrs. S. W. Dorsey and Mrs.
Peck, who thanked them for their verdict
with tears in their eyes. As the foreman
reached the side walk a large crowd assem
bled there and burst into tumultuous
cheers, which were renewell as each
inror made his way out of the court
house. The foreman stated to the repre
sentative of the Associated Press that five
ballots were taken by the jury. The first
ballot was upon the question of the exis
tenoeof a conspiracy, and the ballot resul
ted in a vote of three for and nine again
conspiracy. On the second ballot tie
nine was increased to ten, although the
vote was then upon «the innocence
•r guilt of the defendants. This vote re
mained unchanged until about eight
o’clock this morning, when an acquittal
was agreed upon. Mr. Ker was the only
representative of the prosecation in court
when the verdict was returned and
Mr. Carpenter, Dorsey’s counsel, con
gratulated him as the only one of the gov
ernment counsel having the pluck to show
up in the hour of defeat. Mr. Ker says he
was, this morning, informed by a court
officer that Mr. Ingersoll had said that the
jury would return a verdict of acquittal,
and he added that other indictments
against Brady would be passed, of course,
and it would be necessary for the court to
enter an order setting aside Reriell’s plea
of guilty.
What the Vanquished Counsel Have
to Say About the Matter—Mr.
Merrick's Expressioue—The
Verdict Expected.
Washington, June 14. lnformation
gathered from members of the Star Route
jury discloses the fact that several in
formal votes were taken in addition to
those already mentioned. The vote on the
question of the innocence or guilt of all of
the defendants, excepting Brady, stood
nine for acquittal and three for conviction
the latter votes being cast by jurors Har
rigan, Sheriff and Green. In Brady’s case
the jury t tood ten to two in favor of ac
q nit al —the two negative votes being cast
by Harrigan and Sheriff. Os the jurors
who voted far acquittal, Messrs. Evans,
Lowry, Gill and Renshaw gave as their
reason for voting in that way that they
failed to find any proof of the existence
of a oonspiracy. Juror Sheriff (who at
first voted for conviction) said that in the
minds of some of the jurors there was
doubt as to the innocence of the defend
ants, but after long deliberation the jurors
felt it to be their duty to find a verdict in
favor of the defendants. He thought that
if the government with ail of its power in
a six months* trial could not convict a
man, he ought to be aoquited. Sheriff
further eaid that the extreme length of the
trial, the large amount of oral testimo
ny and documentary evidence in the case
and the long -arguments of the eeunsel
seemed to have bad the effect of ‘befog
ging the minds of the jury, ee that tihey
round it a difficult matter to reach any
firm and fixed conviction. Bliss, Ker and
Merrick we*e found seated in the office of
'the last named gentleman, a
qphilosoptic&l frame of mind.
“What can I say for the government
aide of the case •*’ asked the reporter.
“Bas it any casa*” queried Merrick.
“Was it net kilted this morning?”
Kone of the government counsel ex
pressed any surprise at the verdiet. Mr.’
Merrick earoastie&ily remarked that they
had been informed autheritatively by the
counsel for the defense what they might
expect. “As to Rerdell/' said Mr. Buss,
“justice as well as technicalities of law re
quired -the government ooansel formally
to move that his plea of guilty be set aside,
and that he be released.”
Ex-Senator Kellogg and General Brady
will, on Monday next, be called upon to
plead to the indictments in their cases.
It is not probable that the trial of the Kel
logg-Brady eases will take plaes before
next autumn, as precedence will be given
to cases of local importance.
George Bliss, of the counsel for the prose
cation in the Star Route cases, was intar
terviewed to-day concerning the verdiet,
and said it had been a surprise to him and
his associate counsel. He did not think
the honesty of the jury should be im
pugned because of the verdict. Where
twelve men united on a verdict, no
lawyer would care to- say that they
Xad been improperly influenced. Be be-
lieved that the members of the jury had
been mistaken, but that was aIL Their
opinions must be accepted as honest.
Speaking of further proceedings against
the defendants who have just been acquit
ted he said he thought the cases against
Brady, Kellogg and other* who were in
dicted with Brady, would go over until
fall, as Judge Wylie proposed to bear cases
of much imnortance before agein taking
up the Star Route capes. Against Dorsey,
Vaile and Miner there were no more crimi
nal ca=es. One indictment against them was
on record, bnt it was one which had been
laid aside because of the fact that
initials and Vaile’s name were improperly
set down in it, and, moreover, it did not
differ materially from the one upon which
the jury had just rendered a verdict of
acquittal. As to the proposed civil suite
against the defendants, he could say
but little. He did not think
civil proceedings could be successfully
maintained against Brady, as he had not
received money from the government for
services in carrying mails. The proceed
ings in the civil suits would be for the re
covery of money paid to contractors in
properly, money for which no service had
baen rendered, or money paid for illegal
expedited service. He said he did not know
whether he would have charge of the civil
suits cr not, hut knew that he would not
take, the management of them if they were
to be prosecuted in Washington or at any
considerable distance from New York city.
He did not think the government
would want to begin any of the
civil suits in Washington. There was
a large gathering of the friends
of the defendants at Mr. Ingersoll’s
bouse to-night. Indoors the acquitted
men, their counsel and a large number of
their more intimate friends, many of them
women, met to exchange mutual congratu
lations. Oat in the street a crowd num
bering two or three hundred persons
had gathered, partly out of curiosty,
and paitly to express their sympathy with
the defendants. They cheered Inger
soll and the other counsel, as well
as the defendant and the jury, and
called for speeches. Messrs. Ingersnll,
Wilson and Carpenter spoke briefly,
denouncing the government for it?
tac’ics in the Star Route trials, eulo
gizing the jury which acquitted the de
fendants end congratulating the latter and
their friends. The crowd in doors and out
was in full sympathy with the speakers.
Inside the house the women waved their
handkerchiefs and clapped their hands
in applause, and the crowd outside
became hoarse in its enthusiasm.
Brady, J. W. Dorsey, Miner and
Vaile mingled with the groups in
Ingersoll’s parlors and received the
congratulations of their friends. Mrs.
8. W. Dorsey, Mrs. Peck and half dozen
other women, near relatives of the defend
ants, moved about chatting and laughing
with acquaintances. All of the men who
have been prominent as sympathizers with
the defendants were present in the house
and the crowd outside was made up of
people whose faces were conspicuous in the
court room during the trial. Mr. Ingersoll’s
speech was short and rigorous. He hailed
the verdict of the jury as a victory for
truth and justice, as a notice to the admin
istration that it could not terrorize a jury
by indicting jurymen, and a warning to
the President that he could not force a
verdict by turning honest servants out of
office. Jere Wilson, also of the defendants’
oouusel, spoke briefly, - congratulating
those present on the circumstances which
brought them togetner, and on the evi
dence which their presence gave, that they
approved what had been done by twelve
honest men of the District of Columbia.
Mr. Carpenter, another of the defend
ants’ counsel, spoke at considerable
length. He said that the occasion was
fraught with interest, not only to the
detendants but to the District of Colum
bia and to the Government of the United
States. If the government of the United
States continued to use meins such as
were used in these trials to trample upon
the rights of defendants and to convict
them whether guilty or not, a free govern
ment could not be said to exist. One
thing, he said, was stronger than this gov
ernment or any other and that was
the ’power of eternal justice. The
government had found out that truth is
omnipotent and public justice certain.
The prosecution, he said was conceived in
a conspiracy brought forth in porjury and
sucked in false-hood. At the conclusion
of the speech-making,Mr. Ingersolhinvited
the crowd in the housejwhere liquor refresh
ments were served. One of those who came
into the house was Juror Evans. He was
seized by Mrs. Dorsey and Mrs. Peck, who,
linking arms with him, enthusiastically es
corted him through the parlors, presenting
him to all as one of the twelve honestmen.
After an hour or so of handshaking the
crowd dispersed. Mr. Ingersoll, when
asked by an Associated Press reporter if
he had anything to say about the verdict,
replied: “Victory is the only revenge I
want. I think it is the most popular ver
dict that has been given in this country
for many years.”
SUICIDE FROM GRIEF.
Tbe Widowed Mother of Six Children
Kills Henelf—i Sad Suicide—A
Poor Woman Crated By Grief
Takes Her Life by Hanging.
(Chattanooga Times.)
Mrs. Julia Wheeler, living near Bridge
port, Ala., committed suicide by hanging
herself last Friday night, but the terrible
deed was not discovered until Saturday
evening. The cool and deliberate manner
in which she prepared for eels-destruction,
and the systematic execution of the same
is sickening.
Thursday evening she went into an or
chard near her house and selected a suit
able tree on which to hang herself. She
procured* ladder and climbed to a limb,
where she carefully pruned all the branch
es off. She then piled the brush about
the tree to prevent discovery from her
house, ana then went home to make her
final preparations for death.
Friday morning she called her children
together and bade them a long and affec
tionate farewell, and sent them to a neigh
bor’s house, telling them to return Sun
day. Before going they inquired of their
mother if she intended leaving, but her
only answer was to coverthem with kisses.
She made her toilet as carefully as possi
ble, using her best clothes. She failed to
procure a rope about the house and used
yarn, twisting several strings together.
This she securely tied to the limb of the
tree she selected, formed a noose, and en
circling her neck, sprang forward. She
fell five feet and died of strangulation.
Her body was not discovered until the
next day. It presented a horrible appear
ance, being splotched with perfectly blaek
Spots, the eye balls bursted from the
sockets and her tongue protruding several
inches.
The coroner’s verdict was that the deed
was caused by mental aberration. About
sixteen months since her only brother died.
This distressed her greatly and she was re
covering from his death when her hus
band died. Since that time her health has
been very delicate, and her grief so preyed
on her that her mind became unbalanced.
Mrs. Wheeler was about thirty rears of
age and wife of Rev. J. H. Wheeler, pastor
of the Christian church. She was an ex
ceedingly intelligent and agreeable lady
and was universally liked by all who knew
her. She leaves six children to mourn her
loss.
OMtwary.
Sam Fbancisco, June 14.—Ex-Senator
Eugepe Caseerley died today, aged 61,
GEORGIA.
The streets of Columbus are being maoad
ized.
Crawford ie adopting the anti-whiskey
policy.
Ameneus is to have a new Presbyterian
church.
The forests of Georgia cover nearly ten
million acres.
Seventy-nine dogs were poisoned in At
lanta last month.
There is an unusual amount of sickness
in Talbot county.
The liquor saloons closed their doors in
Dalton on Tuesday.
Io Dooly county crops are booming and
the farmers hopeful.
The frogs are accused of destroying
crops in Dooly county.
A number of Athenians will buy summer
homes in the mountains.
Peaches are selling on the streets of
Americus at $2 per bushel.
Tbe peaches have dropped from the
trees in Wnitfield county and the crop will
be short.
Gold is found in tbe gizzards of chick
ens and ducks killed for culinary purposes
at Dahlonega.
Valdosta is now enjoying a he#fthvrea! •
estate boom, and the Times gives a report
of a number of excellent sales, recently
made.
Mr John T. Howell, in Americus, ship
ped four bushels of potatoes to Chicago,
which sold for sl3. expenses amounting
to $9 05. »
An exchange says: “There is great de
mand fer empty barrels in lower Geor
gia.” Augusta’s barrel factory can supply
the demand.
Mr. James Jewell, who is now 78 years
old, is still running his own plow, and
boasts of the finest ten-acre cornfield in
Whitfield county.
In Elbert county there is a boy named
S. N. Haley, twelve years old. who weighs
130 pounds, and who can lift easily two
bushels of wheat.
Americus Republican : “On Friday, Mr.
George W. Horne, of the 28th district of
Sumpter, brought in two wagons loaded
with corn, which sold at fifty cents per
bushel. He has been bringing in corn all
’hroucfqthe year, but says he’ll bring no
more at that price.”
SOUTH CAROLINA.
An effort is being made to start a public
library at Bamberg, Barnwell County.
The stock of the Anderson'Buildiog and
Loan Association has been fully taken.
The Piedmont mills in Greenville coun
ty consumed 1.000 bales of cotton during
the month of May.
A cannon ball weighing four pounds was
nicked up in the old British fort, near
Ninety-Six, last week.
Mr. Ben Davis, of Barnwell, sold out
his potato crop on Monday to Mr. Mike
Brown for $3 per barrel. .
Mrs. Judy Cartee, of Williamston, An
derson County, is 92 years of age and can
read without the aid of glasses.
Tbe Greenville cotton seed oil mill is
still running night and day, and the de
mand for its product is undiminished.
A planing mill has been established at
Abbeville with a capacity to dress 30,000
feet of flooring in a day, or 14,000 feet of
other lumber.
More than thirty persons, white and col
ored, have been arrested by the town au
thorities of Anderson for the non-payment
of the street tex. ~
Mr.. J. T. Hill, of Union, cut last week,
. from one and one-eighth acres of land, 120
dozen of heavv bundles of oats, which is
equivalent to 100 bushels an acre.
The total amount of all liens given in
Aiken County to this date is $48,500
This amount is divided into 500 liens,
making an average of $97 for each lien.
A contractor, who has be\«)p resident of
Greenville all his life, says that more
buildings are now in progress and in con
templation there this season than for twen
ty years past.
The truck farms about Barnwell are
faring badly and have been cut short in
their yield. Melon vines hold out well,
and with favorable seasons the produc
tion will be large.
■ Three hundred itnd five crates of Deach
es have been shipped to date from Willis
ton, Barnwell county. Heavy daily ship
ments of cabbage and potatoes are being
made to Northern and Western markets.
The oat crop in Darlington county will
average 60 per cent., cotton 90 and corn
98. Tbe late rains have made the spring
oats, and given corn and cotton a splendid
start. Crops are generally well jvorked
and clean.
The Carolina Spartan says that the wheat
crop is better than reported last week.
The grain promises to be very plump and
heavy, and tbe yield good. Cotton is grow
ing slowly, the weather being too dry for
a rapid growth.
The Georgetown Enquirer says: “Some
of our rice planters have finished planting
their crops. The protracted and unsea
sonably cool weather has done much to
retard the growth of the pknt, but with
the warmer suns which we are n jw having
its development will doubtless be rapid
and vigorous.”
ALABAMA.
Crops are reported very good around
Carrol ton.
The oat and wheat crops are said to be
very promising in Blount county.
Some enterprising gentlemen about Tus
caloosa are introducing Jersey cows.
Four brick yards at Gadsden have de
mands for all the brick they can make.
Tuscaloosa ie to have a cotton seed oil
mill, which will be undertaken and com
pleted by July. ,
The Oxford News says : There has with
in the last six weeks been eleven dwelling
houses built in our town, and others are
wanted.
Eufaula is now engaged in raising $lO,-
000 for the organization of a fair as-ocia
tion. Her leading business men are en
gaged in tbe enterprise.
Mr. Logan, a perpetual motion man, is
building a large and substantial house at
▼ance’s. Greene county, in which to put
and test hie experimental machinery.
The Eutaw Mirror says: “A gentleman
in Pickens county drives a large brindle
bull to his buggyZ It is better to drive a
bull that is paid for, than a 2:40 horse with
a mortgage on him/’
TENNESSEE.
Fayetteville claims to be a very orderly
town.
Williamson >«ounty is having trouble
about its poor Louse.
Musical societies are being organized vig
orously in portions of the State.
Covington thinks a bank there with a
small capital would pay handsome divi
dends.
Trenton, West Tennessee, says the Gkbe,
siiows signs of vitality that it never showed
before.
White county is preparing extensive fair
grounds near Sparta to have an agricultu
ral exhibition next fall.
A car load of marble, the first, was ship
ped over the new road direct from Knox
ville to Cincinnati last week.
Over ten thousand telephone poles have
been shipped from Murfreesboro, and con
tracts are out for as many more.
■ " ■
Rollins Renominated.
Concobd, N. H., June 14.—The Repub
lican legislative caucus, to-night, renomi
nated Hon. E. A. Rollins for the United
States Senate.
A(J GUSTA, WMBWFDNKS DAY. JUNE 20, 1883.
THE AVENQgIMPEARS.
YOU.Vjt NUTT . HIS
F ATHEAgAAfER .
Dnkea, the
Death at the Aven
ger—Four or
(By Telegraph to the Sferunicle. )
Uniontown, Lawyer
Dukes, who wrote letters
to Oapt. Nutt daugh
ter and who subsequently killed him
when he demanded'SrtK/bxßlanaticD, was
this evening shot anflQjpleltly killed by
James Nutt, the
Pittsbueg, Pa., June I^—The Post's
Uniontown special Nutt, son
of State Treasurer, .ffi|c. Nutt, de
ceased, shot and W Dukes, his
f .tier's murderer, th» evmßpg. He shot
five times, all the balUsiigj|fagect. Dukes
died instantly. Dukeshjta Ma frequently
warned of the danger of string in Union
town and he had Ohat he would
either stay there orTHs
said that ife had exp*W?n’jj&*. 'of tbe son
of Captain Nutt and was neYer oii/tK® J
the street after night To-aay, James Nhtt I
was seen practicing with a revolver at his
home, and this evening about half past
seven he was standing near the post
office when Dukes came along. As
Dukes was passing be turned his
head and noticed young Nutt just as he
stepped from the door-way and fired a shot
taking effect in Dukes’ side. Dukes started
to run, when Nutt followed and shot
him again. By this time Dukes was on
the post office steps, when he received an
other shot and tell inside the door. Nutt
followed and fired two more shots into
Dukes’ prostrate body, one taking effect in
his neck. Dukes was dead before any one
could get to him. The revolver that did
the work is the same that Captain
Nutt carried on the morning of his
death. Young Nutt gave himself up
and is now in jail. He was calm,
but pale as a sheet. The coroner’s
jury’is now sitting, and the excitement is
running high. Dukes, it will be remem
bered, was a frequent visitor at the house
of Capt. Nutt, where he was received as a
friend and treated with the utmost hospi
tality. For some reason unexplained he
wrote letters to the captain disgracing hie
daughter, and when the latter went to
Dukes’ room at the hotel to demand re
traction Dakes shot him down.
’Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury—Re' aining
Counsel Lawyers Declining to
Prosecute Nutt.
Uniontown, Pa., June 14.—The coro
ner’s jury, to-day, returned merely a for
mal verdict, that SL L Dukes came to his
death by shooting at the hands of James
Nutt. Popular feeling runs high in favor
of Nutt and against his trial by the tribu
nal which acquitted Dukes for the murder
of young Nutt’s father. It is said Nut.t
recently told his mother that Dukes had
met him on the street and had laughed in
his face. Upon Dakes’ body was found
the same revolver with which he killed
Captain Nutt and a large bowie knife.
- Hon. H. W. Playford and A. D. Boyd,
both prominent lawyers, have been retain
ed to defend young Nutt. Duke’s friends
sought to retain Hon. Charles E. Boyle,
to prosecute Natt, bat Bov’ It
seems doubtful whether any member of
the b r in Fayette county will appear
against Nutt, and the task will fall upon
the District Attorney.
KEEP THE BALL IN MOTION.
Editors Chronicle:
I have been a subscriber to the Chroni
cle for a long time. Its weekly visits al
ways meet a hearty reception and it is
eagerly read by the members of my family.
I was very much pleased when I read the
communication of your correspondent,
“Augutte,” suggesting the idea of a nar
row gauge railroad from Augusta, via
Btellaville, Pope HiP, Spread, &3 , to San
dersville. T>e citizens along the proposed
route are destitute of railroad facilities and
doubtless desire the road. I can speak
more definitely for the upper part of Jeffer
son county. We have long desired a closer
and more rapid communication with your
city; our fathers traded there and we
wish to continue cur trade there. We
tried to get the Georgia Railroad to
extend tbe Goodrich Branch from
Dearing out into our county, but failed.
Now, we like the proposition of “Augusta”
better. The route will be shorter and
more direct tbdn by Dearing, through
McDuffie, Columbia and Richmond to get
to the city. I have had no experience in
constructing railroads, but if the estimated
cost of the narrow gauge be correct, or
nearly so, as stated Ly your correspor dent,
and the citizens of the your city will be as
liberal to this proposed road as they have
been to others leading to the city. I shall
feel encouraged to hope that the read will
be built. We in the upper part of Jeffer
son will do all we can to help it along.
The most of the e'tizens that I have confer
red with will give tbe right of way and take
shares to the extent of their ability, and I
suppo-e the citizens all along the line will
do the same thing.
We are not particular about laying the
road-bed; we will let the engineer do that;
so it is near the route proposed by your
correspondent it win suffice. We want the
road to pass through our section for the
benefit of our people, and I hope some
live men will take the enterprise in hand,
procure a charter and commence operations
towards building the road. Jkitebson.
Pope Hid, Ga., June J Ith, 1883.
JOHN L SULLIVAN.
He Distinguishes Himself By Knocking
His Wife Out in One Round.
(Chicago Inter-Ocean.)
New Yobs, June 10.—The Herald special
from Boston says: “The police of Boston
are looking for Professor John L Sul
livan, the champion pugilist. They have
a warrant for the professor, who is
charged with a serious assault »n his
wife. They have hunted high and
low for him for the last two days,
without succe-s. ProfeaEor Sullivan, dur
ing the past few months, has bad more
money than he knew what to do with,
more than he ever had in his life before.
The result of all this is that Professor Sul
livan has had a good time, and has been
more or less under life influence of liquor
while having it. At a late hour on Thurs
day night last he wound up an extensive
spree, in which champagne formed a large
element, by going home in adecidediy ugly
frame of mind. The champion began to
abuse his wife in language which was for
cible, but extremely shocking. Mrs. Sul
livan did not relish this treatment. She
was not accustomed to it, and so informed
her irate husband. He appeared unable
to appreciate the fact, however, and be
coming more angry proceeded to maintain
his reputation by squaring off and knock
ing her out in one round. It is under
stood that the professor is at present at a
private retreat a few miles from Provi
denc, R. I. It is also understood that the
officers left this city this evening to bring
him back. It is sad to remark that Pro
fessor Sullivan is on probation now for a
similar offense, and it is more than likely
that it will go hard with him if he is ever
brought into court again.
A Few Cannon Shots.
Guayaquil, June 14, Via Galveston.—
A few cannon shots were exchanged be
tween the belligerents yesterday, but to
day there has been very little firing.
THE CAPTIVES.
What Is to Be Done With Crook’s Cap
tured Ho«tiles.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, June 14.—The Indians
captured by Gen. Crook in Mexico will be
held as prisoners of war until such time as
the Interior Department is prepa ed to take
charge of them. Two considerations will
have weight in determining where to put
them: First, the importance of locating
them at such distance from the Mexican
border that they will be unuable to repeat
their periodical raids and, second, to
avoid bringing them in contact with
other tribes who are now well disposed
and peaceable, bnt upon whom they
might exert an evil influence. Upon this
subject Secretary Teller to-day sent to
Secretary Lincoln a letter in which he says:
I understand that General Crook will soon
return to the vicinity of San Carlos agency
with a large number of renegade Indians
who are guilty of murder, theft and
other crimes. I do not think these
Indians ought to be allowed to re
turn to the agency. Such I know has
been practiced. There can be no perma
jieptjgeace. if these Indians are allowed to
murder people, steal stock and then
agency tobesupported by tbe goyornfnepfc I
I think WtoWkuninals snofira be held ihb
prisoners ana punished for their crimes.
The children should be taken from their
parents and put in schools. I think we
can accept and call for children of school
age.
Gen. Croat’s Movements.
Tombstone, Arizona, June 14. —General
Crook left Silver Creek, yesterday morn
ing, and after several hours’ march be
camped at a place called Joyce’s. To-mor
row he expects to reach some point on the
Southern Pacific, which will place him in
telegraphic communication with the mili
tary authorities and permit bim to send
back the Mexican women and children to
their homes. Among the articles found
with the captured Indians was an album
recognized as belonging to Judge Mo'.'o
mas.
THE PiTH OF ll’.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
—lt is again rumored in London that
Earl Spencer intends to retire from the!
Lord Lieutenautacy of Ireland.
—The prisoners charged with complicity
in the murder conspiracy in County Mayo,
Ireland, have been committed for trial.
—The village of Valloires, in the depart
ment of Savoy, France, has been destroyed
by fire. The inhabitants barely escaped
with their lives. All the live stock in the
place perished.
—The Mexican House bill authorizing
the President of the Republic to settle tbe
public debt has passed the Senate. The
government has authorized the construc
tion of a railroad from Apizico to Huachi
nango.
—A Tallahassee, Fia., special says that
James McDaniel, one of the oldest residents
of that city, was shot and killed on the
street, to-day, by 3ohn Skipper. No cause
is assigned.
James Carey, the informer, has been
permitted to go out of Kilmainhara jail
occasionally of late, but this has now been
stopped, as the police decline to hold
themselves responsible for his safety.
—The recent action of Germany respect
ing the May laws and ecclesiastical legisla
tion has occasioned much difference of
opinion at the Vatican, and there is a grow
ing tendency in favo/ of accepting the
concessions offered by Germany.
—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from Berlin says it ie reported
that differences have arisen between Herr
Von Bretticher, Secretary of State of tbe
Imperial office of the Interior, and Herr
Scholz Minis‘er of Finance. It is also ru
mored that Dr. Maybach, Minister of Pub
lic Woras, is about to resign.
lt is believed that the police are cogni
zant of the fact that a society has been re
cently formed in Ireland for the purpose
of removing the informers who testified at
the recent trials, particularly James Carey.
It is also stated that the houses in which
the society has had its meetings have been
closely watebed, and a raid was made re
cently on a house where it was supposed
a meeting was being held, but no arrests
were effected.
—The committee of the Lower House of
the Landtag, who are sitting during the
recess of this body, have adopted the first
three clauses cf the church bill. The
third clause was amended so as to transfer
the right of raising objections to church
appointments from the central govern
ment to the governors of provinces. Clause
four, giving the power to the government
to reject the nominees on civil, religious or
educational grounds, was rejected. It is
thought probable that the clause will be
allowed to drop.
THE FEVER.
The Disease Which is Prevailing at
Vera Cruz.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Viba Cbuz June 14.—1 n respect to the
report published yesterday in New York
that a maglignant type of yellow fever
prevails in this city and that large numbers
are dying, it may be stated that tbe fever
which prevails here is eolentura. This is
a local fever and is not akin to yellow
fever. It is, however, unusually severe this
year. The local authorities have always
prevented the publication of tbe number
of deaths occurring here, so that the fig
ures on that point cannot be given. The
death rate at Vera Cruz is generally high,
owing to the fatal effects of this disease
among tbe unaeclimated troops stationed
here. In the years of 1881 and 1882
fully seventy-five per cent, of the deaths
in this city were among the troops. The
Mexican Telegraph Company has thirteen
employes stationed here, all foreigners,
only one of whom has had the fever this
season, and he is now convalescent and
ready for duty.
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THE BAPTISTS.
A Busy Atlanta Man—Centennial of the
Baptist Church in Georgia.
(Atlanta Journal.)
Meeting Dr. M. B Wharton, tbe inde
fatigable Baptist worker, on the streets
this morning, we had a hurried conversa
tion with him about the grand enter
prise that denomination now has oa foot
for raising $100,003 for Mercer Universi
ty next year. Dr. Wharton has been first
to call prominent attention to tbe fact that
next year is the 100th anniversary of
the old Georgia Baptist Association, or
ganized mainly through the instrumen
tality of the nor sainted Jesse Mercer, and
the mother of all the Baptist Associations
in the State. He has hit upon the happy
idea of making it a memorable year to the
Baptists of Georgia, and his pet scheme
now is to raise an endowment fund of one
hundred thousand dollars for Mercer Uni
versity during the year. He has many let
ters from prominent ministers and laymen
of the church endorsing the movement
and pledging hearty co-operation.
Don’t Buy Your Lard From Chicago.
Chicago, June 14. The Board of Trade
Committee investigating the alleged adul
teration of lard by Fowler Brothers, heard
a number of witnesses this afternoon. Two
of them, formerly employed by that firm,
testified as to secret pipes leading to the
lard touks, and that they carried quanti
ties of taiJow and cotton seed oil into the
room from which these pipes ran.
IN ARDUIS FIDELIS.
THE END OF GOV. JEVKINS’ CA
REER ON EARTH.
Death of Hon. Charles J. Jenkins at
His Home in Summerville Last Even
ing—The Noble Roman Gone to
His Rest—Sketch of His
Life and Services.
Last night at ten minutes past ten o’clock
Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, after a lingsring,
almost painless illness, departed this life
at his residence in Summerville near this
city. For several week? he had been
waiting between life and death,his ailment
being entirely nervous prostration, and
for some time his death had been looked
for as an almost hourly possibility. His
last hours were calm, peaceful, unevent
ful. Surrounded by evsry comfort in his
old age, he was attended in his last illness
by those of his family whom Providence had
spared to illumine with affection his clos
ing hours—and, apparently without a
groan or a strangle, passed “from the re
pose of sleep to the repose of death.’’
Lastaummer Gov. Jenkins sustained the
’•f k-ng his wife, and since
that time the vapetabie had
retired more than ever to privacy.'whieh
his increasing physical infirmities aided
him in ma'ntaining, and he had seemed of
late to live entirely with the memory of
his beloved dead, if, indeed, his life was
even animated with memories of its historic
past. The members of his immediate
family had passed from him and were at
rest. His neices to whom he was devoted
ly altached had married and gone out into
their own households, and he seemed to
court rather than to resist that dissolution,
which should sunder all earthly associa
tion. At his beautiful home among the
seft shades, his life went out last evening,
with the quiet tremor of the winds - with
the gentle play of the lightning in the sky.
An aged man has fallen—a sufferer released
from all physical affliction; but upon his
people and his country the man has left
an impress deeper than the wind racks in
the rocks—brighter than the electrical
pencilings upen the midnight cloud.
CHARLES J. JENKINS.
Personal and Political Career of the No
blest Roman of Them All—Sketch
of His Life and Illustrious
Services to the State-
Charles J. Jenkins was born in the coun
ty of Beaufort, 8. 0.. on January 6, 1805
His father moved to Jefferson county, Ga ,
in 1816. and Charles, the son, was educa
ted partly at the Georgia University and
nartiy at Union College, Schenectady, N
Y., where he graduatad in 1824: afterward
studied law and opened an office in the
city of Augusta, Ga. In 1830 he was elected
to the Legislature; in 1831 was elected
Attorney-General of the State, which po
sition he resigned before the expiration of
his term of office/ and was again returned
to the Legislature in 1836, which position
he continuously-held from 1836 to 1850.
ranking amongst the ablest and most elo
quent of the House du ing all that period,
and being Speaker thereof whenever his
party was in the majority. In politics he
was reared in the Jeffersonian States
Rights school, but supported Harrison for
Piesident in 1840, and Olay in 1844 He
was a member of the Union Convention of
the State in 1850, and, as chairman of the
committee on resolutions, was the author
of the celebrated Georgia platform adopted
by that body. In 1860 he was appointed
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
of the State to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Hon Linton Ste
phens. This position he held until the
close of the war. He was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of the State
called under the rroclamation of Presi
dent Johnson in 1865, in which body he
acted a prominent part, and in the same
year was elected Governor of the State
without opposition under the new Consti
tution so formed. This position he held
until he was superseded by Gen. Thos H.
Ruger of the United States Army, who was
appointed Provisional Governor in 1868
under the reconstruction acts of Congress
He also had been one of the most active
and inflaential members of the board of
trustees of the State University since 1839.
IN ARDUIS FIDELIS.
Presenting to Governor Jenkins a. Fac
Simile of the Great Seal of State
Preserved by Him—The Crown
ing Honor of His Life. s
The crowning honor in the life of this
great Georgian was the presentation to
him by the Legislature in behalf of the
people of the State, with the sac simile of
the great seal of the State perpetuated by
him and preserved during the military
usurpation and Republican despotism in
G.orgia. The following is the official act
of the Legislature :
Resolved, That his Excellency, the Gov
ernor be authorized and instructed to have
prepared and in the name of the people of
Georgia to present to Hon. Charles J.
Jenkins a seal to be the sac simile of the
one preserved and -restored by him, ex
cept that in addition to the other devices
it shall have this inscription: “Presented
to Charles J. Jenkins by the State to Geor
gia;” and this legend, "in arduis fidelis ”
When General Meade removed him from
his position and detailed an officer of his
staff to act as Governor because Mr. Jen
kins refused to surrender tbe key of the
treasury to a convention, irregularly called
and unlawfully assembled, there was no
reason to believe that Georgia would ever
again be a free and independent State
Unawed, however, by the gloomy prospect
before him, undaunted by the threats of
power, unintimidated by the bayonet force
which held the State in tbrall, Governor
Jenkins refused to surrender the sacred
charge which had been entrusted to his
keeping. He refused to give up the public
funds, or to disclose their whereabouts,
hut applied them to the liquidation of the
just debts of the State. He refused to
allow the archives of the State
to pass into hands not authorized to re
ceive them, or to leave
Tbe Great Seal of the State
To attest the acts of robber? and usurpers,.
but kept them until the voice of the people
was again heard, when they were delivered
to the rightful successor—the true Gov
ernor of Georgia. Baid a noted chronicler
of the day: “He kept the Treasury from
speculation; preserved the great seal from
desecration —and this at the risk of suffer
ing personal indignity, or arbitrary arrest,
or imprisonment which might have ter
minated in death. But after years
of waiting, time bought vindica
tion and compensation. The long
night passed away and the morning dawn
el, bringing hope and consolation to many
a weary watcher for its coming. The heavy
hand of oppression was lifted from the
State, her shackles were broken and cast
. from her limbs and Georgia was again free.
When this great work had been accom
plished the first man in the affection of tbe
people was the Governor who had perform
ed his duty so fearlessly, so nobly, so well.
TERMS—S2.OO A TEAR.
In arduis fidelis. And among the first
acts of the first legal Legislature
which had assembled in six years was a
recognition of the fidelity, the intrepidity,
the heroi a of Charles J Jenlins Well
do we remember the day on which those
resolutions—so brief, and yet so compre
hensive and solicitous—passed the House
of Representatives. Well do wo remem
ber the effect upon the House when the
Speaker, Hon. Jos. B. Cumming, de
scended from his chair and read
the resolutions which he had fram
el— the unanimity with which they
were passed —even the Republican mem
bers allowing their admiration of the
man to obliterate party lines and sink p f r.
ty bitterness—and the thunders Os ap
plause which shook the Capitol upon the
announcement of the vote. The medal
which Maj >r Cumming presented to Gov
ernor Jenkins, in the name of the State
of Georgia, is the fruit of these resolu
tions, and when he received it, the latter
might well pay that his ‘cup was full to
overflowing.’
LAST PUBLIC SBRVICHS.
President of the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1877—His Rquipoite and His
Three Great Speeches.
The last appearance of Hon. Charles J >
Jenkins in public life was in 1877, when
hf* was chosen President of the State Oon
r?r No* man could
more appropriate^'o eetipy.. .
officer’s chair over *a..|feßy of #>'*(» -
ed to revise the orgiriielW
State now fully redeemed from mis
rule and corruption, and no man
could have discharged the onerous du
ties of that position with more dignity,
breadth and power. His grat-p of parlia
mentary method, his conception of the
duties and limits of the convention, and
his open advocacy of general principles of
organic law are luminous points in the
history of that memorable body. Three
t : mes did Gov. Jenkins descend from the
chair to discuss public questions. Once
against the proposed ordinance to place
the election of judges with the -people;
once against the ordinance of General
Toombs, formulated upon the the
ory of State regulation of railroads,
and again, favoring the payment by the
State of the Herring bonds which he had
considered binding upon the people and
the Treasury. His last appearance in pub
lic life is thus pictured in the closing
hours of the Constitutional Convention,
just after Governor Jenkins’ farewell ad
dress.
An Affecting S«ne.
“The scene now was most effecting.
Generals Warren and Toombs were visibly
moved, and not a dry eye was in the hall.
For several seconds no sound could be de
tected, everything seemed to be covered
and overcome by the wave of deep'emo
tion, which welled up on all sides, and
which did not subside until long after the
Speaker’s voice had ceased. Mr. Reese’s
motion now, at twenty-one minutes past
11, a. m , to adjourn sine die, was renewed
and carried. Governor Jenkins, after
making his bow, retained his position in
the aisle, where hundreds of delegates and
visitors lingered around to press the noble
Roman’s trembling hand. It was a grand
consummating hour—if such ’twould prove
to be—to a life well spent indeed.”
Gov. Jenkins’ Order of Ability .
Gov. Jenkins was a close, consistent rea
son er; a solid, convincing speaker, who
carried with his argument so much earn
estness, and at times illum'ned
his efforts with so much fire that he WM
almost resistless before a deliberative as
sembly. Gov. Jenkins was distinctly a
Georgian. He never held office outside
the State, and seemed to have no ambition
beyond serving the Commonwealth. So
dear had he become to the people of Geor
gia. who had learned to trust his granitic
honesty an£ unswerving patriotism, and
to admire his splendid abilities, in which
shone no trace of the demagogue or double
dealer, that he was universally spoken of
in this State as “the noblest Roman of
them all.”
Relations in Augusta.
Governor Jenkins was at one time—just
after the war—President of the Planters
Loan and Savings Bank. He was a large
stockholder in the Augusta Factory, of
which institution he was for a short time
President. He was a trustee of the Au
gusta Orphan Asylum, and was at the time
of his death a vestryman of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church of this city.
Gov. Jenkins was a gentleman of the
old school; a Jeffersonian Democrat; an
uncompromising lover of liberty, and in
intellect and heart was a pure patrician
while bis whole life stamps him ineffaoea
ly as one of Nature’s noblemen. Gov.
Jenkins’ immediate family consists of three
nieces: Mrs. J. Gardner Montgomery, and
Mrs Walter M. Jackson, of Augusta, and
Mrs. Wm. W. Thomas, of Athens. Due
notice will be given of the funeral arrange
ments.
GREEWB ACK-L A BOR.
Convention of the Party in Ohio—The
Platform.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Columbus, 0., June 13. The State
convention of the Greenback-Labor party
met here, to-day. About forty delegates
are in attendance. The platform charges
both the great parties with bribery and
corruption in securing nominations and
elections; with fostering monopolies and
with extravagant use of the taxing power.
It demands abolition of the National
bank system and the substitution of
legal tender paper money for the present
currency ; insists that the railroads be re
quired to reduce their extortionate rates;
favirs a postal telegraph system; demands
restoration to the people of public lands
recklessly appropriated to corporations ;
declares that all men have the right to a
part of the land, and that the general
prices depend upon the amount of cur
rency in cixculation, and calls for temper
ance reformation and the abolition of the
contract convict system.
The following ticket was nominated :
Governor, Charles Jenkins; Lieutenant-
Governor, Wm. Baker; Supreme Judge,
short term, H. A. Chamberlain; Supreme
Court, long term, James B. Grogan; Clerk
of the Supreme Court, Wm. Bentz; At
torney-General, Lloyd G. Tuttle: Auditor
of the B’ate, Col. J. H. Rhodes; Treasurer
of the State, John Seitz; Ccmmistimer of
Public Schools, J. M. Case: member of the
Board of Public Works. John J. Scribner.
THREE FATAL SHOTS.
Atrocious Murder iu Alabama—Murder
er and Murdered.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Columbus, Ga., June 13.—A report of
one of the most atrocious murders ever
known in Alabama reached this city yes
terday. On Tuesday at Rockford, Coosa
county, Ala., a negro named Jordan Cor
bin entered the house of a peaceful citizen
named Benjamin Carden and shot him
while he was lying on a bed. His wife
jumped up and the negro shot her down.
Carden’s son started to the door to give
the alarm when the negro also shot him.
All three were instantly killed. Carden’s
daughter, abcut 14 years of age, made her
escape and gave the alarm. There was.no
provocation for the murder. Scouting
parties are out hunting the country for
the fiend.
For the Construction of Railways.
Buenos Aybes, June 14, via Galveston.
A loan has been neglected for the con
struction of national railways.