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Tae fallowing lines, which are far above
, C III rit, were picked up in the
“ e *| ‘ :1 gentleman a jear or two ago.
S wrote them ?
. , 3 ! ir end, I love thee well,
trued doctors’ spite;
_ .... other clouds dispel,
Aud lap me iu delight.
, i n tike the man of worth, who gives
To goodness every day,
.... . . i whose virtues lives
When he has passed away.
When ill the lonely evening hour,
attended hut by thee,
oVr history’s varied page 1 i>ore,
Man's fate in thine I see.
H , thv snowy column grows,
ak« and falls awav,
, jew mi‘’ht realms thus rose,
i decay.
■, . - hut a leaf adroitly rolled,
■ me s the wasting breath,
t>’ e ! lie or early we behold,
i ,i\c.- a 1 to dusty death.
And what is he who smokes thee now ?
\ little movi-g heap,
'j r like thee to late must bow,
\\ pi, thee in dust must sleep.
But thou-n thy ashes downward go,
nee rolls on high;
, I must lie low,
y -I,all cleave the sky.
—Macon Telegraph.
Affairs in Georgia.
The mor. we think about it, the more are
we inclined to believe that Judge Pottle is
nght in saying that the buying of bread in-
cre43 e- rime, and we are willing to become
the recording secretary of any association
that may be established for the purpose of
bringing about a reform in this important
matter.
Sapiency is a disease in Covington. The
editor of the Star, for instance, announces
that the designation placed at the bottom
of one of Joey Brown’s advertisements in
the Mounin- News (ju!2G-lt) is our “private
mark.” As similar marks are used by near*
ly every paper iu Georgia to designate ad
vertisements, we probably ought te sue for
an infringement. We trust the Star will be
successful in getting away with the gnat at
which it is straining so convulsively.
We are convinced that Mossrs. Oglesby
ind Farrel, of the Augusta press, could be
prevailed up on to wade across the canal for
the amusement of the Western visitors
were it not violative of their sense of deco
rum to roll up their breeches in the pres
ence of ladies.
That sprightly weekly, the Waynesboro
Eii>ositor, makes this remark iu passing :
“The Mousing News has come out of the
lease ordeal with flying colors, and is to
day more than ever entitled to the support
and confidence of the State of Georgia.”
The editor of the Talbotton Standard
must be a cheerful man to board with. Ho
begins a column of “Squibs” with this par
agraph ; “Another week is gone aud you are
just seven days nearer the grave than you
were last Wednesday morning, this time.
Are you preparing to die ?”
The Fort Valley Mirror is blessed with
inquisitiveness, lf a farmer buys guano,
with cotton at lifteen cents a pound, and
does not make enough cotton to pay out,
tbe editor wants to know what amouDt or
money he will have after tho Ordinary sets
aside a homestead.
Joel R. Griffin, a wretched scalawag who
has haunted Houston county since the war,
has emigrated to Arkansas.
Mi. Jacob L. Maddox, a well-known citi
zen of Johnson county, is dead.
Au old negro woman was killed by a train
on the Georgia Itoad, in Warren county, the
other day. was partially deranged.
Rev. David Cook, an aged preacher of
Newton county, is seriously ill.
ifr. E. Douglass, a lawyer of Covington,
lias been adjudged insane.
The dwelling-house of Mr. S. P. Perkins,
of Burke county, was burned recently, Tho
loss is about three thousand dollars.
Mumfurd, of the Talbotton Standard,
*ho ig old enough to be a good judge, al
though he is quite a young man, ventures
this neat bit of criticism: “Our private opin
ion, publicly expressed, is, that tho Savan-
sah Mousing News is tho best daily paper
to the State.”
The receipts of cotton in Americas up to
the loth were 20,121 bales, a falling off of
bales as compared with the same pe-
r ’*°'l last year. The price has also decreased
four ceuts.
My. r Half, of Ms con, is putting Central
Ci, - V l >ar k in trim at his own expense.
Bishop Holsey, colored, is preaching in
Swdersville. Owing to the fact that he is
endorsed by Bishop Pierce, the negroes
k* Te &n *dea that he is a Democrat in dis
seise, and many refuse to hear him preach
^°or niggers!
The ^ayuesboro Expositor announces
*- 4 t a professor in that town is erecting a
aew ®'tsical wind instrument.
Mr. \\. x. Christopher, the editor of the
or * u Rey Mirror, has invented a sub-
Wr ipti m and mailing-book which, from tbe
■‘-scrip:j 0Dj W( . jm]g e t 0 De a graatdesidera-
in newspaper offices where the mailing
Q ichiLc has uot been introduced.
e c °l°red people are becoming more
live every day. A negro
6 duted in Fort Valley recently duriDg
the mar
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
r nage ceremony.
^old Indun
&4C0'
camping-ground has been
iv °red in Burke county.
- Te *r old,
ashington county calf, not quite a
“ weighed 321 pounds net.
on , nu:ul)er of Persons in Atlanta were pois-
. 'V 1 ollier day by eating pork, but none
wr, "d burglars are operating on smoke
house
Middle G
Georgia.
,i., r-1 N ottingham, a prominent physi-
C ^ of Macon, jg dead.
•• id body of an infant, in an advanced
r *ver decomposition, was found in the
day. Its color
of
A negro suggests that
^ L ”t be determined.
Crawford, an old citizen
on. , IJUnt - v - Was found dead iu his bod
0n : Dl Kht recently.
Hamilton Mirror.
it is the r * ■ 1
Uittj, r '" 1 c yclones that is ruuniog
4e U; , ' bl ; "’■•“torn graveyards. “Wbat’s
*naed lrua Iating a family unless do win’ is
eentiv 2\ ,lea(i iu Harris county re-
^ "hile at work.
■aid to i' C0UQ ty uian has silver plate
The i , ! ^^dred and sixty years old.
H°rriL.. 1 ^ t0Q ‘ Sar learns that a most
^hothi oimJ 1 1 Ut l* a Ppened near Snapping
proh*hlv 0Uday even ing laBt, which has
Mr.w • rfcsul ‘oder e this iu the death of
w . lnslon ^dair. It seems that Mr.
^wa sr 8 i retUrni ^ Home from plowing,
&Q d> wile 1D ^ uiule, with the plow gear
himofl became frightened and threw
m the L’t- 11 ^ He became entangled
thrt
“OUgh j. ^
bright, ' c Wo °d8, at a fearful speed, by
hUy torn i ' De . mu l e > and was almost liter-
fclb* Th Plece§ *
^Uoa w l0 \dle Enterprise says infor-
received in that city on Monday
a ud was dragged about a mile
morning last that the body of Mr. John
Lane, a worthy aud hard-working citizen of
Thomas county, had been fonnd in the
woods near his home, some nine miles west of
that place. Various rumors were soon afloat
as to the cause of his death, etc., but as wo
have had as yet no official report, we have
to give tho facts as we have gleaned them
from private sources. It seems that Mr.
Lane left the house of his son-in-law, Mr.
Tom Lame, on thp 29 th ult., and
nothing had been heard from him
by them since. This, however, caused no
serious fear to be apprehended by them as
to his safety, sinco he had frequently re
mained absent from home, at various times
being frequently unexpectedly detained in
town in working at his trade as carpenter.
On Sunday morning last his son, or son-in-
law, while walking through a branch some
distance from his house, was horrified to
disoover a human body, which he recog
nized as that of Mr. Lane, in a a fearful
state of decomposition. He immediately
gave notice to several neighbors, and on
Monday evening an inquest was held on the
body by Justice Jas. H. Hayes, of Cairo
District, assisted by Dr. D. II. Wilmot.
From an examination by Dr. Wilmot, the
fact that his throat had been cut, and that
he bad been shot in the side, was devel
oped—leaving no room to doubt his having
been most brutally murdered. From the
condition of the body it was the opinion of
Dr. W. that tbe killing must have taken
place some two weeks *go. This would go
to show that he was murdered on his return
from town on the day of Ifis leaving there.
Macon Telegraph : Four woeks ago last
Saturday a negro boy named Kit ltutlaud
was run over by a train on the Central
Railroad and fearfully injured. The car
passed over Loth of his legs, above the
knees, aud crushed them frightfully, forcing
the bone of one of them through the fLsh.
One of his hands was also crushed badly,
aud ho was otherwise severely injured. No
one who saw tho boy immediately after the
accident, had any idea he would live two
days. Dr. E. M. Newman, a physician who
has lately moved to Macon, was called
to attend the case, and has had it iu
charge to the present time, and so skillfully
has he managed it that the boy is now able
to sit up and even move about on crutches.
He will recover the use of both legs and of
his hand, with the exception of the little
finger, which is likely to remain still. This
case is a very remarkable one, as we
have the testimony of tbe boy, and of two
gentlemen who witnessed the accident, tliat
the car passed over both his legs. Indeed,
the scars which remain are sufficient evi
dence of this fact, and yet by skillful treat
ment, in the short space of four weeks, the
boy is able to walk about, with the aid of
crutches.
Thomasville Enterprise: In couversation
with an intelligent farmer on the subject ol
cottou planting, be said that he had made a
careful calculation, aud though he raised all
bis provisions at home and made a good
crop of cotton last year, it cost him nearly
nine cents per pound to make it, aud he
would not plant any at all if it wasn’t that
he needed a little credit every year to get
through, aud he could uot get the credit
unless he planted cotton. Now, if it costs
a man nine cents per pound to raise cot
ton who has made all his provisions, what
does it cost a man who buys provisions
on a credit ? We say again that we have no
wish to dictate to our farming friends what
they shall do or how they shall manage
their affairs, but we have come to the con
clusion, from a careful reading of our ex
changes and by closo study of all other
information that wo have been able to get
at, that a very light cotton crop in 1876 will
supply tho demand, and that the people in
the cotton belt seem determined to raise a
very large crop. Tho only result we can
foresee will be to make the price very low,
far below the cost of production. We sub
mit these facts to our people without fur
ther comment.
Milledgeville Union and Recorder: H. 1.
Kimball is appointed censor and keeper of
the morals of Atlanta. It is said Mr. Kim
ball will pay particular attention to the
morals of the press of that city, aud also to
the members of the Legislature whilst in
session, and will keep a very' sharp outlook
on the members of tbe Senate. Mr. Kimball
intends to banish such words as bribery ami
corruption from the language of Atlanta.
Hereafter when any individual or company
wishes to purchase tbe services of au
editor or to buy or rout any por
tion of his paper, he will intimate to
the editor that it will be very much
to his interest to take such a position as the
purchaser desires, and after he has taken it
the buyer will make him a present, say of
$5,000, or any sum agreed upon m this way,
aud then the smell of bribery will adhere to
the skirts of the editor. In the ease of
members of the Legislature the money paid
can be called a retainer or foo. Mr. Kimball
intends to have a code regulating all such
delicate business transactions, and also to
lixatiriffof prices for such services. Mr.
Kimball believes an editor should be paid
for the wear aud tear or his conscience, as
well as for the wear aud toar of his type and
press; therefore if ho is called oa to sustain
a very bad cause ho should be paid aocord-
iu S ,y *
South Carolina Affairs.
The Keowee Courier says George W.
Swepson, of North Carolina, has bought
the shoals of Conneross, known as the Tay
lor property, and expects to have a manu
factory established there. Tho property
has been incorporated under the name of
the Seneca Manufacturing Company. A
bank has also been chartered for Seneca.
Tho town police of Beaufort are doing
good service by arresting and bringing to
trial those who use profane ami indecent
language on the streets.
The pilot boat Albion was lost last week
at Georgetown, on the breakers. The crew
were saved.
James Green, a negro living in Charles
ton, has two wives, one of whom is Treasurer
of a society. Green stole the key of her
trunk, and made off with the charity box
belonging to tho society.
W. R. Thompson, the negro who mur
dered Mr* Hayne Reid at Pomaria last De
cember, was hanged last Friday at New
berry. He made a full confession. There
were about six thousand spectators, mostly
colored people.
Major F. F. Warley, of Darlington, lec
tured in Kingstree a few evenings since on
“Temperance.”
Two sons of the widow Mason who liv«s
in the edge of Spartanburg county, were iu
the woods felling trees. The younger, a lad
of fourteen years, was holding a small tree
to prevent its falling on the fence, while his
brother was cutting, when his foot slipped
and his leg was thrown up under the axe as
it came down, and his foot was cut entirely
off. Dr. H. V. Westmoreland amputated
the leg above, and the lad is doing well.
The Citizens’ Ice Company of Charleston
has failed.
The store and contents of H. C. Mark &
Co., at Greer’s, Greenville county, was
burned at 4 o’clock last Thursday morning.
Epstein, the resident partner, and his clerk,
were sleeping in the store when they were
waked by the smoke. They saw the fire in
tho garret above, and as they went out of
the door the roof was falling in, having
burnt through. Nothing was Bavod. In
surance—building, $1,000; stock, $9,000.
A horse was stolen from Mr. A. B. Camp
bell, at Darlington, the other day.
N'at Hanby, an old citizen residing near
Woodruff, Spartanburg county, attempted
to kill himself one day last week, shooting
himself four different times—three times in
the head and once in the body—without
succeeding in his object. Tho balls striking
the head glanced, and ran around the skull
without penetrating it. The last shot,
through the body, was aimed at his heart,
and only missed its aim au ipch or two. He
stated that he would have tried the other
barrel of his revolver, but grew too sick
and faint to discharge it, and savs that he
will make another attempt to kill himself as
soon as he gets well enough.
James Rowland, of Donaldsville, in Abbe-
viil« couDtv, a youDg man about twenty
vears of age, met with a most painful acet-
dent recently, which threatens to take his
life The facts are as follows : lonng Row
land tried to draw a load out of his shot gun
hnt failed, and, heating au iron rod nine
hiches in length and about three-quarters
of an inih in diameter to a white heat,threw
is
agony,Nnd'wM at the point of death atl««
Columbia Register: “The question has
been raised in Washington as to whether the
C. P. Marsh whose testimony was so fatal to
Belknap is not the same Marsh who figured
in South Carolina, ‘once upon a time,’ in
connection with the legislation for the re
demption of the bills of the Bank of the
State. There are said to be strong points
of resemblance between the Mr. Marsh now
in Canada and the one who did so profitable
a winter’s work iu Columbia. Tbe South
Carolina Marsh had been in business in
Cincinnati, and so had the Belknap Marsh,
aud it is the belief of parties in Washington
that they are one and the same. Either
Senator Robertson or Patterson could solve
the problem if they saw fit to do so.”
ARE WE A NATION l
A Little itHtlicul Herniation Scheme that
Miscarried.
In the House on Mouday Mr. Baker, of
Indiana, offered the following resolu
tion :
Resolved, That the people of the Uni
ted States constitute one nation and not
a mere confederacy of States or nations;
that the constitution was formed by the
people uctiug in their primary aud indi
vidual capacity, through their delegates
thereto, duly constituted; that the go\-
ernment under the constitution is one of
the people by the people and for the peo
ple; aud that in its appropriate sphere
the government of this nation is sover
eign and supreme; that in its nature it is
permanent and indissoluble except by the
action and consent of the whole people;
that no State has any right or authority
to judge of the constitutionality of laws
enacted by Congress, or to nullify tbe
execution of tiie same; and that all other
acts by any State or people thereof of se
cession therefrom, or of rebellion ogainst
the same, constitute treason, and that the
late war of the rebellion, for tbe dismem
berment of tbe Union, was causeless and
indefensible on any theory of right or of
constitutional law.
He moved the rules be suspended and
the resolution adopted, and he called for
the yeas aud nays, which were ordered.
Mr. Stone, of Maine, moved the House
adjourn. Rejected.
Mr. Cox asked whether the resolution
was divisible.
The Speaker responded that a motion
to suspend the rules and adopt a resolu
tion wife not divisible.
Mr. Cox asked whether it was in order
to read from the constitution these
words: “Done in convention by the
unanimous consent of tbe States.
* ‘George W ashinoton. ”
The Speaker replied that that would be
in the nature of a debate, and was uot in
order.
The motion to suspend tho rules and
adopt the resolution was rejected—yeas,
91; nays, 72, two-thirds not li&vi'.g voted
in the affirmative. Very few Democrats
voted for it. Among them were Messrs.
Durand, Hardenburg, Jenks, New, Pot
ter, Phelps, Vance of Ohio and S. S. Wil
liams of Michigan. All the Republicans
voted for it, all tbe Southern Democrats
agrinst, and most all the Northern Dem
ocrats refrained from voting.
Before the vote was announced, Mr.
Baker called the attention of the chair to
the fact that many members were present
who were not voting, and he made the
point of order that th< y be compelled to
vote.
The Speaker overruled the point of
order.
Mr. Randall remarked that there was a
good deal of truth in the resolution, and
also a good deal of false principle.
The result of tbe vote was then an
nounced. The following is the negative:
Messrs. Ashe, Atkins, Beebe, Blackburn,
Bland, Blount, Boone, Bright, Brown of Ken
tucky, Cabell, Caldwell of Alabama, Caldwell of
Tennessee, Chandler, Cate, Clarke of Kentucky,
Cook, Cowan, Culberson, Debolt, Dibrell,
Douglas, Ellis, Felton, Forney, Franklin. Glover,
Goode, Gunter, Hancock, Hartridge, Harris of
Georgia, Hewitt of Alabama, Hill, Hooker,
House, Hunlon, Hurd, Jones of Kentucky,
Knott, Levy, Lewis, Lord, Meade, Mil ikiu, Mct-
cheler, uddull. Parsons, Payne, Phil.ips of Mis
souri, Piper, ltea, Regan. Rice, Riddle, Robbins
of North Carolina, Robbins of Pennsylvania,
Ross of New Jersey, Scales, Sheakley, Singleton,
Smith of Georg a. Stone, Terrv, Throckmorton,
Tucker, v'ance of North Carolina, Waddell,
Walker of New York, Ward, Williams of In
diana, Williams of Alabama, Willis, Yates aud
Young—70.
Mr. Cox, of New York, then offered
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the people'of the United
States constitute a natiou in the sense,
to the extent aud for the purposes defined
in the Federal Constitution.
Resolved, That the government of the
United States is a Federal Union, aud
was formed by the people of the several
States, iu their sovereign capacity ; that
the rights aud powers of tho United
States Government are defined and lim -
ited by the Federal Constitution, and
these rights and powers cannot be en
larged or diminished except by amend
ment to the Constitution.
Resolved, That tho rights of the States
have the same sanction of security in the
constitution as the rights and powers of
the Federal Government, and that the lo
cal domestic goyernment by the several
States within the limits of the constitu
tion, is absolutely necessary for the pre
servation of the liberties of citizens, and
the continuance of our Republican sys
tem of government.
Resolved, That the doctrine that any
State has the right to secede from the
Union, is in conflict with idea of a per
petuation, as contemplated by the con-
stithtion, and should be regarded as be
ing forever extinguished by the result of
the recent civil conflict.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, called for the
yeas and nays and they were ordered.
Mr. Blaine, of Maine, expressed the
hope that every Union Man in the House
would vote against the resolution.
The motion to suspend the rules and
adopt the resolution was adopted—yeas
150, nays 42. All the Democrats and a
few of the Republicans voted for the res
olution.
A House That Should be Haunted.
The Washington Chronicle notes the
gloomy associations surrounding the resi
dence occupied by ex-Secretary Belknap.
When Gen. Belknap first came to Wash
ington hs took apartments for himself
and wife in what is, and possibly will
always be, known as the “Seward House,’
or “Club House,” these titles connecting
it with two of the tragedies among the
many sorrowful incidents with which it
is associated. And the record of the so
journ in Washington of ex-Secretary Bel
knap adds other associations of a tragic
character to its gloomy history, though
his second wife did not die there, nor did
the present Mrs. Belknap pass more than
two months there. John C. Spencer,
when Secretary of War, resided there,
and his son was hung for mutiny to
the yard-arm of the vessel on which
he was cruising. A member of the Cabi
net who perished in the fatal explosion
which, during Tyler’s administration, con
verted a pleasure party on the Potomac
into ft funeral of statesmen, also had
lived in that house, though I believe he
was residing elsewhere at the time of his
tragic death. The attempted assassina
tion in that house of Secretary Seward;
the death therein of his lovely daughter,
and the killing of Barton Key immediate
ly • after he left its threshold, are some
of the other melancholy associations of
the old house, built with prize money by
Commodore Rogers, the father of the
wife of Gen. Meigs. It would seem as if
some terrible misfortune is sure to follow
all in official life who pass any time in
this mansion, which should be haunted,
if terrible associations could invite the
presence of ghosts.
The recent shower of flesh in Bath
county, Kentucky, has provoked quite a
religious revival among the colored popu
lation there. They seat themselves about
in litde groups, with their faces turned
upward, as if the heavens were full of
mutton chops, and sing:
“Kum set yere, hungry niggah,
Kara set yerc on de gronn’,
De Lawd he am a gwiiie
To trow de vittais down.’’
He was reading to his wife about an
accident, and casually remarked, “I dare
say there was a woman at the bottom of
it,” when something transpired that
made him grasp his head in both hands
and rub it deliriously as if there had
been a woman at the top of it
THE MORNING NEWS.
LETTER FROM TALLAHASSEE.
Noon Telegrams.
RETCR5S FROM THE SEW HAMP
SHIRE ELECTION.
ELECTION OF CHENEY, RADICAL,
BY THE PEOPLE.
A Cabinet Crisis Imminent iu Italy.
END OF THE KHEDIVES WAR ON
ABYSSINIA.
coboner’s verdict.
Baltimore, March 16.—In Woodstock,
Shenandoah county,Va.,yesterda,y tlie Coro
ner’s jury investigating the cause of the
death of the victims of the Narrow Passage-
bridge disaster on the Harpers’ Ferry branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio Road on Monday
night, March 6, rendered a verdict that they
came to their deaths by the breaking of
Narrow Passage bridge, and said breaking
of the bridge was caused by the unsound-
ness of timbers in the bridge.
THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.
Paris, March 16.—The inundations have
stopped work iu the government tobacco
factory and in the louudries of Alfortville.
Two hundred houses are flooded at St.
Maar. Sunday’s gale caused a frightful
destruction of life aud property. Eleven
persons were killed in Cambray.
The bridge of Austerlitz is closed. It is
reported to have partially given way under
the pressure of the water.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
Concord, N. H., March 16.—Returns
from 234 towns give Cheney (Republican)
41,240, Marcy (Democrat) 37,474, Kendall
aud scattering 419; which makes Cheney’s
majority 3,347. Ten towns are yet to bear
from, the vote of which last year gave White
(Temperance) 8, Cheney (Republican) 514,
and Roberts (Democrat) 602. The latest
count of the House stands: Itepublicans 207,
Democrats 178.
RAILROAD CONVENTION.
Cincinnati, March 16.—A convention of
railroad officials, representing the principal
railways of the United States and Canada,
was held at the Grand Hotel yesterday for
the purpose of arranging a summer
schedule. Last summer’s schedule was
adopted with a few uuimportaut modifica
tions.
THE ABYSSINIAN WAR.
Alexandria, March 16.—In the recent
battle tho Ab}'ssinians numbered 60,000 and
the Egyptians 20,000. In conseauence of
the Kiug’s suing for Deace, the Khedive’s
yacht Mahrous8a left Suez Tuesday with
dispatches to Hassan and Ratib Pasba. The
Abyssinian war is considered ended.
CABINET TROUBLES IN ROME.
Rome, March 16.— It is thought that after
tbe financial statement is presented to-day
Prime Minister Minghetti will demand a
vote of confidence, and the Cabinet will
resign if the vote is refused. Public opinion
is against the present government.
FIRE.
Nassau, N. H., March 16.—A fire in Mil-
ton, N. H., destroyed the Railroad House
aud Nowell’s block, and was still spreadiug
at last accounts. Assistance has been sent
from here to Milford.
DESTRUCTION OF COAL BARGES.
London, March 16.—It is estimated that
fully twenty coal-laden barges foundered in
the Thames during tbe gale on Tuesday.
ELOPED.
Chicago, March 16.—Hoyt & Bridges, in
dicted for whisky frauds, have gone to Lon
don, Canada.
The visit of the Prince of Wales to
Iudia has been followed by a fearful and
wonderful outburst of Oriental poetry.
Much of it is sufficient^ unintelligible to
be admired by the seekers of a new
“voice” in song, and for their edification
we quote two verses, literally translated
from & Persian poem of welcome :
Clouds pass swiftly the moon. If bis
intellect had not harrowed them they
would have fled more swift, as if the
predicate Major had passed to the subject
Minor—there being no consequence of
the first figure.
Now that the Prince has come, no
flower complains of the flower-gatherer ;
the bird is not afraid of the fowler’s net;
and the candle is in love with its snuffers.
Hydrophobia in Abkansas.—Some four
weeks ago an account occurred in the
Ledger of the biting of a white mao,
Jackson Saunders, by u mad dog at Hope-
field, Ark. On Sunday last the unfortu
nate young man was seized with parox
ysms and became wild. The spasms
were frightful, and tbe man bit at every
thing, gnashing his teeth like a rabid dog.
He died last night and was released from
his sufferings. Last evening a negro, who
was bitten by the same dog, developed
symptoms of madness, and he will also
die. Several cows bitten by the dog
have died within the past few weeks, and
those persons who have been drinking
the milk of the cows are terribly fright
ened, fearing the result.—Memphis Led-
qer.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de
clared void the bequest of Stephen G.
Griffith, who gave $50,000 worth of land
to the American Tract Society, the
Church Extension Society of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, and the American
Bible Society, on the ground that a for
eign corporation cannot hold real estate
in Illinois. Mr. Griffith made this dis
posal of his property in fulfilment of a
vow which he took several years ago
when he was in financial distress, that if
God would prosper him in his business
he would bequeath his property to reli
gious and charitable objects.
A Chicago woman, who lately read the
item that a New Jersey woman sleeps
with her feet out of bed so that the cold
air may awaken her if a burglar opens
the window, now insists upon doing ihe
sam6 thing. The bedroom was built
originally only in the usual Chicago style,
with a dome over the foot of the bed to
receive the upturned feet, add now the
husband of the woman with the new
freak has been compelled to add a lean-to
to the house, marring its architectural
proportions completely.
And now what’s to become of our
schools ? The President taught the na
tiou at Des Moines that the school ques
tion is the present great issue the nation
must meet, and, in the bewilderment of
the Belknap trouble, he calls to the
Cabinet a Judge who ruled the Bible out
of the public schools and was denied the
Gubernatorial chair of his State therefor.
Things are getting mixed, decidedly.—
Philadelphia Times.
“Mr. Grant,” screamed Orville’s land
lady the other evening, “there’s a police
man down stairs wants to see you.” And
notwithstanding the fact that Orville is a
member of the reigning family and a
brother of the President, ho promptly
crawled out the window, slid down the
water-lead and made for the woods like a
man who meant business.—Brooklyn Ar-
gus.
The result of counting the persons vis
iting public houses in Cork on Sunday,
gives the following rough estimate :
There are about six hundred public houses
in the city, and the number of persons
visiting them between 2:30 and 8:30 p.
m. is computed at 30,000. As many as
four hundred were seen going into one
public house.
According to a return recently issued,
there are at the present time about forty
new vessels in course of construction for
the British navy. They vary in size from
the heavy iron-clad of 11,165 tons to
small torpedo-boats only 80 feet long.
The cost of the whole is set down at
£4,370,000.
As evidence of the greatly improved
condition of Ireland it is stated that last
year the amoant deposited in the Irish
Savings Bank was an increase over the
previous year of £980,000. In ton years
the increase has amounted to £12,067,-
000.
*9ieoii County to Have a Fair-Gen. An
drew Jnckaon at Fort Saint Mark*— In
crease in the Sales of Stale Lands—De
lirious Oranges from Trees in Bloom —
The City Hotel in a Flourishing Condi
tion.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
City Hotel, March 13, 1876.
LEON COUNTY TO HA^E A FAIR.
The subject of bolding ; a County Fair
was discussed, and an efficient committee
—Col. Williams, Judge GWinn and Capt.
Houston—appointed to take tbe proper
steps to ascertain if the people of Leon
county will give a liberal and hearty sup
port to the project, that a fair may be
held next winter of which no one shall be
ashamed. The great success of the South
Georgia Fair was referred to in highly
complimentary terms, and the fact that
Leon county made a most creditable dis
play there was also discu^ed, as it fur
nished a strong arguuieu* n favor of the
ability of the people of this oounty to
make the proposed fair a really attractive
and profitable display of the agricul
tural, horticultural, floral and indus
trial resources of this section of Middle
Florida. Of one thing I am assured,
that Leon county is now in a far better
condition to make such a display than
she has been for years past. The new
settlers who recently caoie here from
Minnesota and other States, the most of
them experienced agriculturists, have
already made “the waste places to bud
and blossom as the rose,” and on every
side I behold to-day the most fruitful
and profitable “truck” farms. Several of
these parties shipped green peas to New
York two weeks ago, selling them at
seven dollars per bushel, and this week
they are selling them m the same market
for three and a half and four dollars per
bushel, thus clearly demonstrating what
can be done here in the way of raising
and shipping early vegetables. These
peas will soon be followed by shipments
of early cucumbers and other kinds of
garden “sass,” for which quick trans
portation and a ready sale can be bad.
New life seems to have been infused into
everybody and everything here during
the past few months, and the future
looks more hopeful in view of the present
successful results.
GEN. JACESON AT FORT ST. Marks.
Another subject discussed at the meet
ing to-day, and which was decided upon
favorably, was the getting up of an ex
cursion from Jacksonville aud other
points to St. Marks, on the 7th of April,
to celebrate the capture at that place of
Fort St. Marks, by Gen. Andrew Jackson,
on the 7th of April, 1818. In speaking
to the question this morning, ex-Gover-
nor Walker gave a brief but interesting
account of the exploits of “Old Hickory”
in connection with this transaction,
which at that time caused a heated dis
cussion in the United States Congress,
and also stirred up the powers of Spain,
Great Britain and France. Gen. Jack-
son marched his forces down to the coast
from Alabama, reaching St. Marks on
the 6th of April. The next day this
Spanish fort* was captured, as its
officers had been furnishing arms
and ammunition to fugitive slaves and
hostile Indians. In the fort was found a
man who claimed to be a British subject,
and Gen. Jackson took him along to the
Suwannee river, to which, point the army
moved, and where another fort was cap
tured. If I mistake not a Frenchman
was found there, and as neither he nor
the Englishman could give a good account
of himself, they both were executed on
the 29th of April. But I have already
written too much on this subject, as Gov.
Walker has been invited to deliver the
“Historical Address” of the occasion, and
being in posssesion of all tbe facts con
nected with this thrilling military exploit,
it is safe to say that he will make their
presentation a most agreeable aud inter
esting feature of the proposed anniver
sary. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Gov.
Smith, Gen. Henry It. Jackson, ex-Gov.
H. V. Johnson, Gen. It. H. Anderson,
Gen. A. It. I$awton and other distin
guished citizens of Georgia and sister
States, will be invited to be present and
participate in tbe exercises. An official
announcement will soon be made, giving
full particulars of excursion trains, rates
of fare, programme of exercises, and at
what hour and place the picnic, which is
to follow the formal anniversary pro
ceedings, will be held. The occasion
promises to be a most attractive one, and
with reduced rates of fare on the railroads
a large attendance can be confidently
expected.
INCREASED SALES OF STATE LANDS.
I enjoyed a very pleasant visit to tbe
State Land Office this afternoon, where
I was most politely treated by Mr. W. L.
Apthorp, the chief clerk. In my letters
from the “Land of Flowers" I referred to
the “Florida Settler or Immigrants
Guide,” a handsome paper-bound volume
of 272 pages, which is mailed free to any
part of tlie country to parties desiring in
formation about Florida. I found Mr.
Apthorp busy sending away copies of this
book in response to letters containing
fifteen cents for postage, and learned
from him that its publication and free
circulation has increased the sales of
State lands from seven hundred to over
six thousand acres per month.
Other States desiring the benefits of an
intelligent class of immigration would do
well to adopt this excellent and successful
plan of making their advantages known.
The sales of State lands in January
footed up nearly five thousand dollars,
while those of February reached beyond
six thousand. This will give some idea
of the steady increase which marks these
sales. In some sections of Florida the
best State lands have nearly all been sold,
but in other portions there is no lack of
any desired kind of land, With prices va
rying according to quantity purchased.
Lots of forty acres are sold for one dollar
per acre ; between forty and eighty acres,
ninety cents; between eighty and two
hundred acres, eighty cents; between
two hundred and six hundred and
forty acres, seventy-five cents; over
thia amount, seventy cents per
acre; but all lands sold at less than
one dollar per acre must lie in a bedy,
and not be taken up in detached lots.
Any desired information in regard to
State lands can be secured at this office
through personal application or by letter
to the Land Commissioner.
ORANGES FROM TREES IN BLOOM.
As I was sitting on the piazza of this
hotel an hour or two ago, resting after
my delightful walk about the city, a negro
came up to me with his hands full of
small cuttings from orange trees, some
bearing ripe red fruit, aud all full of
beautiful and fragrant blossoms. A card
attached notified me that they were for
your correspondent, with the compli
ments of Capt- F. Houston, whose suc
cess in fruit culture near this city is too
well known to be enlarged upon in this
connection. At the meeting to-day Capt.
H. said he was “only a plain country
farmer,” but his excellent remarks and
polished manners prove being “only a
plain country farmer" does not prevent
one from acquiring the habits of thought
and refined culture of a professional gen
tleman. The guests of the hotel were
surprised to see this ripe fruit, untouched
by frost and as delicious as the oranges
that were picked in December, taken
to-day from a tree in full bloom. This
fact should settle the question as to what
can be done in this county in the success
ful culture of the orange.
THE CITY HOTEL FLOURISHING.
I should state, before closing this epis
tle, that there are a large number of
Northern and Western visitors spending
the winter here, some of whom are at
this hotel, and others at private boarding
houses. Among the latest arrivals are
ex-Governor Fenton and a son of ex-
Govemor Broome, of New York, and
Judge Van Dyke, of Minnesota. I
might add, for the benefit of the travel
ing public, that Captain Slussor and his
efficient business manager, Mr. T. B.
Randolph, have not failed in their prom
ise to make the City Hotel one of the
most pleasant and comfortable places at.
which Southern tourists can stop. Thor
oughly renovated aud refurnished, and
with a table well supplied with the luxu
ries of the season, it offers rare attrac
tions to tourists who desire to spend a
few days in this charming and quiet in
land city, where nature has scattered with
a lavish hand her choicest gifts.
Sidney Herbert.
important Suggestions to Vegetable
Shippers.
Editor Morning News :
As yours is one of the most widely-cir
culated papers in the South, especially
among the great rural population consti
tuting the “bone and sinew” of the land,'
I claim space to make some important
suggestions to vegetable shippers. These
suggestions are based upon an interview
with a gentleman long in the business,
who has made money by shipping to
Northern markets.
PEAS
should be picked as soon as The pod is
plump and full. Nevei allow to remain
on the vine until they whiten, as a few
such, put in a crate, would soon spoil the
whole. Spread on a cool, dry floor for a
day and night, to wilt. Ship in bushel
crates. Lay aside a handful as experi
mental sample. Watching these samples
from day to day, their condition will
pretty accurately indicate the condition
of the shipment at the time. Ship only
a good article.
BEANS
should be picked just before they lose
their brittleness. Spread out to wilt same
as peas. Ship in same size crote. Save
out experimental samples. Ship only a
good article.
TOMATOES
should be gathered early in the season,
when the weather is yet cold North* when
half colored from blossom to stem end.
Later in the season gather just as they
begin to color at blossom end. Save ex
perimental sample. Ship in bushel crate.
Ship only a good article.
IRISH POTATOES
have paid best when they reached North
ern markets just as the Bermuda was
going out, say from the 20th of May to
the 10th of June: should be planted so as
to be on hand for shipment about that
date.
CUCUMBERS
should be gathered when they have be
come plump and full at the blossom end.
Spread out and wilt on dry floor, as for
peas, etc. In bushel crates. Ship only a
good article.
WATERMELONS
bear transportation best shipped on stem
end, placed on appropriate platforms on
cars, resting on a bed of green moss. No
lighter weight than eighteen pounds will
pay to ship. It is ripe when the thumb
nail can net be easily forced into the
rhind—in other words, when the “epi
dermis” is easily separated from the rind
with the finger nail.
GRAPES
should be spread out to wilt, like peas
and beaus. Should be packed in two and
three pound boxes. Ship select fruit.
Such are some of many important
suggestions gathered from an interview
with one of the most successful vegetable-
growers of Florida. It is now too late iu
the season to make the publication of his
suggestions as to the best varieties of
seed valuable—the crop having generally
been put in. And tbe crop is an im
mense one. But, hardly a “drop in the
bucket” to the demands of the millions
to be fed in this grand centennial year.
Would that the thou-ands of disappoint
ed “cottou planters” all over Georgia,
who will not have a dollar in money until
“cotton comes again,” would take a lesson
from the thrifty vegetable and fruit
growers in Florida who are just
beginuing to get in the cash plenti
fully, from their large early vegetable
crops. They can all buy bacon and other
supplies for cash at very reduced prices.
Let the thousands of your sturdy sons
who are “out of cash, out of credit and
out of bacon,” from “over-cotton
planting,” learn wisdom by making sure,
first, of crops that never fail to sell for
cash. Berrien.
Samoa.
A dispatch from San Francisco gives a
meagre aud somewhat confused account
of troubles in tbe burlesque monarchy of
Samoa, where there seems to have been
something like a joint revolt by the white
inhabitants against the authority of Col.
Steinberger, and a forcible intervention
by the commander of a British man-of-
war. It is hardly necessary to say that
the collapse of the Steinberger scheme
will be viewed by this country with
serene composure. The absurd proceed
ings of this American adventurer have
given his countrymen from the first a
sensation of amusement not unmixed
with shame. The national sense of hu
mor was vastly tickled by the spectacle
presented under the palms of Apia when
Mr. Steinberger made a spread-eagle
speech to the naked islanders, and
brought them the blessing of pantaloons,
constitutions, and condemned cannon.
But it was not pleasant to reflect that the
extraordinary proceedings were sanc
tioned in a certain respect by our Presi
dent, and that the native chiefs when
they chose Steinb9rger prime-minister
and allowed him to make their laws really
imagined that they were placing them
selves under the protection and authority
of the United States. The action of the
American, German and British Consuls
has probably undeceived them.
Apia, it must be remembered, is prac
tically a foreign settlement, one-third of
its three hundred inhabitants being white
traders, and the trade is almost wholly iu
the hands of Hamburg merchants. It is
probable that Steinberger has come in
conflict with these foreigners, aud that
they have taken it upon themselves to
inquire upon what his authority rests.
Finding that it rests upon nothing at all
they have concluded to put an end to it,
and the sailboat which he armed and
commissioned as a man-of-war has been
summarily sold for cruising under a flag
which did not belong to her. But
the serious statement is made in the
San Francisco dispatch that when
Steinberger was called upon for an
explanation he exhibited “a commission
from the United States.” Will it not be
advisable for the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs to inquire what this
means? “The United States” has given
Steinberger no commission. He is not
recognized as an envoy or officer of this
government. So far as the United States
has any knowledge of him he is a private
person operating among the bread-fruit
trees on his own account. If he has any
document purporting to be a commission
from the United States it is fraudulent,
and the country ought to know whether
he concocted it himself or got iz from
some unauthorized person in Washing
ton.
The President has probably given him
some kind of a letter, but the President
is not the United States, and has no right
to commission restless Americans to tit
out armed yachts aud go and rule over
islands in the Pacific. It is understood
that Gen. Grant took the extraordinary
liberty of supplying Mr. Steinberger with
government property for the fitting out
of his expedition; a vessel of the navy
was detailed to carry him and his guns
and other traps to the point of destina
tion : and the officers stood around in
uniform and imparted tone to the pro
ceedings when he took virtual possession
of the kingdom. Perhaps it would be as
well to ask what he has been doing, and
to call for a copy of the ‘‘commission
from the United States.”—New York
Trdmne.
A telegram has been received from
Cairo to the following effect: “Two
splendid sphinxes, with inscriptions, hare
just been discovered at Rhamses. Further
excaYatkuifl are being proceeded with.”
WHAT CRAZED MRS. MARSH.
Fashionable Life in New York and Wash
ington—Tbe Veraelous Ell Perkins Tells
All He Known About the Slamhes. and
Likewise About Mrs. Belknap nnd Her
Two Husbands.
[From the Indianapolis Sentinel.]
Eli Perkins passed through the city
yesterday eu route to Kokomo. Know
ing that he had spent much time at Sara
toga, as a correspondent and author, the
Sentinel tapped him for an interview on
the subject of the late Secretary of War
and his successor, aud the women who
had brought about the crisis and the
change. In an informal interview the
following facts and fancies were gleaned
from the genial little gentleman :
“ Did you know Mrs. Marsh ? n a>ked
our reporter.
“Yes, very well, sir. The Marshes live
in a most beautiful brown-stone house on
Fifty-seventh street, near Fifth avenue
and Central Park. For years Marsh and
I had the finest suite of rooms in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. Her carriage and
footmen are the most stylish in the
Park.”
“And the lady herself ?” «
“Beautiful, sir!—one of the most
stylish ladies in New York. She is petite
in stature, and has a head of silver hair
that Mother Washington would have en
vied. All the ladies in New York ‘go
wild’ ever Mrs. Marsh's gray hair. She
wears it pompadour, and displays it with
pearls and diamond dust on all ball occa
sions, and, goodness! when she rides in
the Park, or promenades at the charity
ball, don’t the people stare! ”
“The Marshes ore rich, then, Mr. Per
kins ?”
“Yes, Caleb Marsh is a rich man. They
don’t live on less than $25,000 a year, and
never have while iu New York. To be
sure Mrs. Marsh never went in the best
society. She went in a respectable but
in a second rate set—a set of moneyed
aristocrats—a last set, who live in Europe
summers and live in opera boxes and at
the big public balls in winter—anywhere
they can be the focus of fashionable ex
citement and the centre of wondering
eyes. One thing peculiar about Mrs.
Marsh, she seldom went with her hus
band. Caleb most always stayed at home
or floated around the outside of a ball
room, while Mrs. Marsh generally ap
peared in society resplendent with dia
monds and toileted in the richest of
Worth’s dresses, but hanging on the arm
of some dashing society bachelor. She
liked to be admired by gentlemen. She
had no lady friends—didn’t want them ;
but when it came to young beaux, why
Mrs. MgFsh just took them right away
from the young ladies.”
“Perhaps that was the trouble between
Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Belknap?” suggested
our reporter.
“Yes, that was just it. Mrs. Marsh
was stylish, but personally cold and self
ish. Mrs. Belknap was not so stylish,
but she was full of sentiment. Her figure
was well rounded. She always wore her
dresses low. And with her personal
charms she could and did win gentlemen
away from Mrs. Marsh, who only held
them by her stylish ways and beautiful
>md costly toilettes. Men were proud to
escort Mrs. Marsh with her diamonds and
Worth dresses in a big crowd, while they
were glad enough to get Mrs. Belknap in
a side room aud flirt with her.
“One day,” continued Eli, “some one
spoke to old Z-ick Chandler about Mrs.
Belknap’s low neck dresses, when the old
fellow remarked : ‘Humph ! yes, pretty
low, but I like it—outside of my own
family.’ ”
“What made the fass between Mrs.
Marsh and Mrs. Belknap ?”
“It was jealousy. Mrs. Belknap got Mrs.
Marsh’s gentlemen friends away from
her—more'especially a certain Baron de
Martini. Both ladies wanted him for an
escort in Paris, but Mrs. Belknap cap
tured him. This brought about a cold
ness, and though the two ladies went to
Europe together, they returned in sepa
rate ships—and when Mrs. Bower mar
ried Secretary Belknap, she put, as she
thought, the last nail in Mrs. Marsh’s
coffin by not inviting her to the wedding.
This set Mrs. Marsh crazy. She sought
for revenge. She put her husband up to
kill Belknap in order to get even with
Mrs. Belknap and satisfy her wounded
pride. Yes, sir! Caleb Marsh killed Bel
knap to please his wife. Or, in other
words, Mrs. Marsh ruined the Secretary
of War, broke up her own family, and
raised the whole row just so she could
snap her finger in her rival’s face.”
“Who was Mr. Marsh formerly?”
“Why, Marsh,” continued Mr. Perkins,
“was one of the best men Cincinnati had.
He was once in business with Mr. Pro-
basco—the richest man in Cincinnati.
Marsh got rich honestly in the iron busi
ness. He could draw his check any time
in Cincinnati for fifty thousand dollars,
and the banks would cash it. All the
‘swell’ people in Cincinnati knew the
Marshes, the Pendletons, Groesbecks,
McLeans, and all of them.”
“How does he look?” inquired our re
porter.
“Well, Marsh is about forty-eight
years old. His wife is about forty. He
is tall and slim, has gray hair, prematurely
gray, like Mrs. Marsh. They are both
brunettes. Marsh wears a dainty, gray
moustache. He is a very stylish man,
looks about as Fernando Wood did
twenty-five years ago.”
“Is he honest ?”
“Yes, Marsh is honest, hypercriticaily
and hypocritically honest. He is a cold,
calculating, icebergy man. He never
laughs, never melts, never talks much.
His forte is to stand around and let peo
ple look at him, and see people admire
his wife. He likes to get on the
box and drive a span of horses around
the Park—likes a front seat at the Jerome
races, and always has a front seat or none
at all. Marsh would feel it his duty to
tell the truth (if he could make a dollar
by it) if it should kill the President and
his entire Cabinet. He is a cold, selfish,
man-despising and woman-hating man of
the world. Marsh wouldn’t lie to make
a dollar, but he’d sacrifice all the personal
friendships in the world to carry a point
—to please his wife, whom he loves with
love undivided, they having no children.
Marsh wouldn’t lie, but he’d run so near
to a lie that the truth would be disgusted
—and he wouldn’t tell a square truth un
less he knew he could hurt somebody by
it.”
“How about Mrs. Belknap ?”
“Well, she’s the bad egg. The Ken
tucky Tomlinsons are bad blood. Her
first husband was a rebel Colonel. He
was a red-faced, red-nosed whisky samp
ler. I’ve seen him many a time sitting
around Saratoga. He always used to
come there every year. H6 wore a fine
Fisk velvet coat, drank S. O. P. brandy,
sfnoke^ Henry Clay cigars, and abused
the d—n Yankees. He was gouty, and
when he died Mrs. Bower was a happy
widow. Everybody said ‘Old Bower is
dead; now the widow will shine it!’ And
she did shine. She mourned two months
and went to Europe. She laid siege to
every mau she met whose bank account
was over $300,(XX). Mrs. Marsh says
Mrs. Belknap caused scandal in Europe
and disgraced herself. But Mr?. Bower
was too smart to be caught in any scan
dal if she was engaged in it. No widow
in a play ever flourished like her as soon
as the grass grew on Colonel Bower’s
grave. But failing to marry a fortune,
she came home and made up her mind to
scoop in a Cabinet Yftnister and make a
fortune. Any smart rebel woman can
carry off an honest man—if she sets about
it. Belknap hadn’t seen much good so
ciety, aud he fell a victim at the first fire.
And she brought his ruin.”
HOLD MASKED BURGLARS.
A Cjrpntlruinn and Ills Wife Bound nnd
C*SEued — Property Valued at Thirty
Thousnnd Hollars Stolen.
[From the New York Tiroes.]
The inhabitants of Farmer’s Station,
on the Dollytown Road, about twenty-
five miles from New York, on the line of
the Northern Now Jersey Railroad, were
thrown into a state of excitement on Sun
day morning on discovering that Mr.
James Crosby, a wealthy farmer, had
been robbed of money,jewelry aud silver
ware to the amount of about thirty thou
sand dollars by a band of masked rob
bers. As far as could be ascertained,
the following are the particulars of the
daring robbery x Mr. Crosby and his
family, consisting of his wife, three chil
dren and a female servant, retired early
on Saturday night. At about 1 o’clock
Sunday morning the gentleman was
awakened iu a rough manner and bound,
a dark-lantern and revolver staring him
in the face. The man who held them
was masked. “ Mr. Crosby,” said he,
“there is no use in making an outcry.
We have come here for the purpose of
getting your bonds, money and jewelry.
We mean to get them as quietly as possi-
ple, but if necessary force will be resort
ed to, and if you open your mouth I’ll
blow your brains out.” While the man
was speaking five other masked men en
tered, and after a short talk one was
placed on watch outside, while the others
compelled Mr. Crosby to get up. After
permitting him to partly dress, they bound
and gaggrd him, and after some hard
usage compelled him to not only give up
the key of his safe, but to work the com
bination himself. Meanwhile two of the
gang proceeded to the servant’s room,
compelled her to dress, and brought her
to Mr?. Crosby’s room, where both the
women were gagged and tied to the bed
posts, one man keeping guard over them
until their work of plunder was com
pleted.
The safe being opened they rifled it of
its contents, and afterward forced Mr.
Crosby to show them where the silver
ware was, and this they carefully packed
up for removal. From their general ap
pearance and tone of conversation Mr.
Crosby is convinced that they are ex
perienced thieves. Before going, the
ringleader, addressing one of the gang,
said: “I’m sorry you hit the old man so
hard; but it can’t be helped now, Bill.
How is this for high ? The newspapers
will have it, ‘More New York Tramps.’
Well, we do come from old Gotham, any
how, aud let them make the best of it.
We have what we want, and might as
well be moving. Don’t forget that bill at
the Shady Side Hotel, Pleasant. Valley,
you know; it must be paid.”
The thieves, having packed up the
plunder, went to Mr. Crosby’s stable,
took out one of his most valuable horses,
hitched it to the buggy, and drove off in
the most careless manner, having bade
good-bye to their captives, but |swearing
that should they make an alarm within
an hour, they would be instantly killed.
Mr. Crosby describes the six men as be
ing well-built, strong and muscular.
The masks they wore were of plain mus
lin, with holes made for their noses, eyes
and mouths. They were fashionably
dressed, and, on the whole, seemed to
treat the matter as a good joke more
chan anything else. They told Mr.
Crosby tnat the times were so hard they
were compelled to resort to extreme
measures, and not to be astonished if he
heard of a number of his rich acquaint
ances being served in a similar manner.
Mrs. Crosby’s description of the thieves
is similar to that of her husband. She
says that they were courteous throughout,
and were candid as to their purpose.
They permitted the children to roam at
large, and beyond striking her husband,
no indignities were offered. The suppo
sition is that the thieves crossed over iu
a boat from the Shady Side Hotel, Pleas
ant Valley, but fearing detection, crossed
the country to some point where a boat
was in waiting for them. Up to this
time the thieves are all still at liberty,
and no trace of the horse or buggy has
been found. A general alarii; was sent
out in Jursey City, as well as in this city,
yesterday, and the authorities Iiere, from
private information given the ai by Mr.
Crosby, are sanguine of arrestiug the en
tire gang very soon.
THE CRIME OF A WIFE.
The destruction of small birds has been
so merciless in the north of Italy and in
parts of the Tyrol that their protection
has been made the subject of a diploma
tic treaty between Austria and Italy, and
these countries are also endeavoring to
agree with France and Switzerland for a
law forbidding the destruction of all in
sectivorous birds. Since the wholesale
destruction of swallows, nightingales,
etc., caterpillars and insects have in
creased so numerously ma
mischievous enemy to agrv
A llusbuud Slowly Killed wiili J’oisou—In
Sins Sine for Life.
[From the Roc&uster Democrat.]
Our readers will recall the Cool-Wimple
murder case at Little Valley, and that
Cool was sentenced to be hanged, but his
sentence was suspended until after the
trial of- Mrs. Wimple. Her trial made
clear that she deliberately murdered her
husband, and she ^as taken to Sing Sing
last Thursday for imprisonment during
her life. The sentence of Cool has been
commuted, and he has made the follow
ing confession: He says Mrs. Wimple,
about the middle of February. 1875, told
him that she aud Wimple had had a fuss,
and she was going to get some poison and
put Wimple out of the way. When
Cool was going to Salamanca she asked
him to buy some arsenic to poison rats.
A few days after Wimple was sick at
the stomach, and he was satisfied that
Mrs. Wimple had been giving him some of
the arsenic. On March 6th Mrs. Wimple
sent by him for five cents worth of strych
nine. He told her she would get him
in trouble. She said if there was any
trouble she would stand it. She said the
arsenic would not do what she wanted of
it. He bought the strychnine, brought
it home, with some other thiDgs, and laid
it on the pantry shelf. Mrs. Wimple
took care of it. On March 14, Cool and
Wimple were sawing wood near the
house, when Wimple felldo*n in a fit.
Cool carried him into the house and laid
him on the bed and rubbed him. Mrs.
Wimple expressed no surprise at the sick
ness, and did not help to bring him out
of the fit. Cool sat up with Wimple that
night, and went to Little Valley the next
day and got some powders of Dr. Buck-
lin. When he returned Wimple seemed
worse. Mrs. Wimple told him she had
given Wimple some of the strychnine in
some berries and also in his tea. Cool
says he tried to have her stop giving
Wimple the poison, but she said she was
going to put Wimple out of the way
before he did her. Cool then went up
stairs to bed, and Mrs. Wimple sat up the
rest of the night. About 5 o’clock CodI
heard Wimple groaning and got up and
went down stairs. Wimple was having
cramps and severe pain. Cool accused
Mrs. Wimple of giving him more of the
poison. She said she had given him
some in the powders sent by Dr. Bucklin.
She had been giving small doses ever
since Cool brought the poison. She gave
him some of the arsenic, but he threw it
up. Cool says he told her not to give
Wimple any of the poison while he was
there, as it would get him into trouble.
She promised that she would not. On
March 19 Cool went to Little Valley.
When he got back Mrs. Wimple said she
had tried to give Wimple the strychnine
in a cup of tea, but that it made the tea
so bitter he would not drink it. Just at
night Cool went to the barn to do the
chores. When he came in from the barn
Wimple was having spasms. Mrs. Wim
ple said she had given him all the poison
there was left, and enough to kill him,
she thought. He died soon afterward.
The Antecedents of Belknap.—Some
years ago a prominent citizen of Carlisle
sent to Mr. Belknap, then a practising
attorney at Keokuk, eighty-five dollars, to
pay taxes on lands in that city. Belknap
acknowledged tbe receipt of the money,
and our friend thought his taxes were
paid. What was his surprise, therefore,
to learn that his land had been sold for
non-payment of taxes.
He was obliged to redeem his property,
and sued Belknap for the money sent
him. He Recovered thirty-one dollars,
being told by his attorney, also practis
ing at Keokuk, that more could not be
made out of Belknap. It is small wonder
that the petty^hief grew to such mam-
when opportunity
rrincely
tempted.
itouiain Sew p r . ud . A ,_
po« - *»
&££?§&
“ t,! ISO*, when it wae d^overrf t°hft
‘kf , most gigantic frauds had been nrac
tioed upon the State. prac -
and M;! 0ttery syst6m was ‘hen adopted
as it were roPer M °/ the “““onwealth,’
as it were. Rambled away, tc its la.tino
disgrace and pecuniary injurr 8
. Ihe dividing line between the head
i ‘, uJ l0ttery lands » defined on
Wv m r 0 “f 1 ’ ° f G . eorg,a ’ foll °wa :
W.l ,‘T Ie " ond that portion of
to thooH 1 < i arlt ? u “'“ties westward,
rides of llUe ’ hoing the eastern
sccond acd ‘hud dis-
Charlton and Wayne counties,
together with all the lands east of tho
Altamaha and Oconee rivers, np to the
mouth of the Appalaeheo river, up that
stream to ns source, thence by a small
dotted line to Hog mountain, thence to
the State line of South Carolina at Tug -
alo river, to the mouth of Panther creek
were all disposed of by head rights, be
ing a little over one-fourth of the whole
area of the State.
All the territory west of the above line
was divided out by a system of lotteries
to citizens of the State only.
Hon. Absalom Chappell, in his •■His
torical Notes on Georgia,” exposes very
fully the enormous frauds which were
perpetrated under the head right system
Thus the following extract made from
the statement of the Surveyor General to
the Finance Commission composed of
Judge Berrien, Judge Wm. W. Holt aud
Mr. Chappell himself, oonveys the fol
lowing astounding results in the five
counties we shall quote from :
Let us first give the actual area of the
counties referred to—
Montgomery county contai, s, acres... 407 680
Washington •• .• 416 ; 79)
Franklin •• ..
“ “ “ «3,«0
Wilkes “ *« 323,^i
Total actual area 1,700,880
Now look upon thia picture. There
were issued grants for each of these coun
ties as per maps aud records on filo in the
proper office, in acres, for—
Montgomery county 7
Washington county . . . * ’ ”5
Franklin county .*5'
Glynn county ...*.* .l'
Wilkes county . . . . .2
436,97ft
016,068
126,048
,178,375
,224,720
Total amount of acres granted 20,984,866
Thus were grants sufficient issued for
these five counties alone, to cover more
than half of the entire territory of tho
Slate. The total of the fraudulent grants
was 18)301,256 acres.
The bulk of these frauds occurred from
1785 to 1795, and the bogus grants bear
ing the genuine seal of tho State, were
disposed of abroad to ignorant or thiev
ing purchasers, and some of them are at
this time being manipulated by parties in
Georgia, Baltimore, New York, and per
haps other places, and put upon the
market to the prejudice of the true head-
right grants, and to the lottery land
grants, which are known to be genuine
good titles.
This villainous imposition upon the
State, brought about (in the language of
Colonel Chappell) by forgery and cor
ruption, is only equalled by the great
Yazoo fraud which took place about the
same time, and should have shared the
same fate, aud the “records destroyed by
fire from heaven drawn with a glass from
the sun." And no doubt Governor Jack-
son would have thus dealt with them if
the tares could have been extracted from
the wheat—the legal titles taken from
the fraudulent ones, which had been
cunningly intermixed. We caution par
ties abroad against these spurious
land titles, and recommend our
citizens possessing true titles to hold on
to their timber lands. The time is com
ing, and is indeed near at hand, when
they will realize a full compensation for
the taxes paid out for the past half of a
century. The shipments of pine timber
and lumber from the Georgia porta during
the past ninety days have amounted to
about 100,000,000 of feet. The port of
Darien has cleared seventy-one cagoes —
about 23,000,000 of feet of lumber and
timber—during the months of January
and February. Immigration is setting
in largely from North Carolina of good
citizens, to engage in the manufacture of
turpentine and naval stores. The former
has ad\anced in price seven cents per
gallon during the past two months.
We learn that several adventurers,
some of whom it is reported are destitute
of means, are now seeking to contract
with the owners of the timber lands of
Georgia for thousands of acres of their
real estate at mere nominal prices, and
even require the sellers to execute titles
and place them in bank, subject to be
taken or rejected by the purchaser.
This is not saying “turkey” to them
once, and we trust our citizens will see
through such transparent attempts to
obtain possession of their broad acres.
GEN. INGALLS TO BE REMOVED.
The Mukt Horrible of All ihe Revelations
That Have Bees Jin tie.
The Washington correspondent of the
Hartford Times says: “The National
Cemetery ring is the vilest of the whole.
It is the strongest that has located about
the national capital—though Heaven
knows the others are strong enough. It
had its origin just after ihe close of the
war, when they cot contracts to remove
bodies from the battle fields in the various
Southern States to the several national
cemeteries. Of all the frauds in the
world, this shocking scheme is one of the
most, wicked. The contractors received
a certain sum for removing each body,
and to make the job profitable, they ac
tually cut the body into pieces, and made
several of it, thus increasing their pay
Often, where a great number were found,
buried in one ditch, they would take out
a half dozen bones and nail them up in a
box, and get paid for it as one body.
“I do not telegraph this on hearsay
evidence. I have positive knowledge
that these things were done—were of
daily occurrence. A rule was afterward
made that nothing less than nineteen
separate bones would be paid for as a
body, but this did rot break up tbe fraud
carried on at tbe graves of our hero dead.
Tbe work of burying these bones was an
other job, by which many thousands of
dollars were robbed from tbe government.
This finished, then the furnishing of
headstones came, and it is estimated that
the money out of which the government
was swindled in these transactions counts
up in the millions? And yet these chiefs
of the cemetery rmg are allowed to retain
their ill-gotten grins: aud if one word is
said against them, the old cry of dis-
loyalty is raised. .. .
‘‘Knfus Ingalls, the present illegal
Quartermaster-General, who made the
Dreseut to Mrs. Grant, ha3 a fund of
knowledge on these frauis, and it is to be
hoped the Committee on the Expendi
tures of the War Department will make
hiS divulge, or force him to raapi from
the position he now holds. He w ill, it is
'said, be relieved by General Meigs within
two* weeks General Meigs having been
ordered home from Europe.
Fbom Pbisox to a Tbaoic Death.—
Th th m Tra?k b of t the r0 SstTenn W ^ee 1 and
for the larceu} of three years.
and a Bible, jtul j e his wife anil
During his ‘ hteri oue of whom is a
family of d 8 tterij helpless cripple,
confirmed and utterly P d bj . thfl
have been mostly M
charitable people of Mary • WO nld
He had ™«en M^bat^ ^
bring home to the w h e n his
articles of h . ls . 0 J n “heie were found in
body was-paired 1 h three small
aiss.-SrSa’S".
something is the fact that
recital, bul; sadde stm clung to and
, th ® father in his disgrace, now that,
loved the father 1 meang of support,
they are left wthn ^ charjty , to pass,
must become ob] the house of
in all pwhjaWj^. of correction, and
charity to the er where their
finally wind Zr nearly finished his-ia -
unhappy %ilUriaOQ‘ l T ‘" tea -
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fact t
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