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g H. Cabaniss, Rec. Sec’ty.
Affairs in Georgia.
He Columbus Enquirer ought to givens
jit for Squire Skaggs’s remarks. The
gqoire talks exclusively for the Morning
Jprs.
’ Savannah has a European tint to the aver
age Augustan.
Ibe Brunswick sandflies are not agrest
ic 1S (bey have been, but the ardor and
appetite of the flea are unabated.
Ibe Columbus Times prints an accurate
B ap of the countenance of the negro boy
,i,o was hanged in Talbotton the other
dav.
la Kimball's new Atlanta factory a thing
of the F ast or oi the fature?
Henry Grady is still engaged in trotting
oat imaginary independent candidates, dis
using impossible combinations, and
otherwise electing people to office.
And the Georgia editors, almost to a man
-piacing one hand upon their Saratoga
trunks and tho other upon their pocket-
books—said : “We will arise and journey
towards Savannah.”
William Henry Moore, of the Angusta
fonstiliU>onaUst—(we give bis full name so
that if there is a funeral we can turn to our
flasfor information)—makes this remark:
At the Eaton ton skating rink last week a
voting lady Btruck out; couldn’t turn;
started for the ceiling ; sheuted, “Don’t
yon lookturned a hand spring, aud then
sat down. The stripes were brown and red.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller is spoken of as a pos
sible independent candidate for Governor.
We don’t suppose there will be any objec
tion Ic this; but it seems to ns that the
Doctor, whilo he is running, ought to strike
lor the Presidency. He will have just as
tunch Inn.
Col. E. Y. Clarke, one of the eleven able
editors of the Atlanta Constitution, has
taken off his horse-pistols and again united
himself to the church, which he forsook
when he went out to shoot Bob Alston in
the left eye. We believe Alston himBelf
also withdrew from a church in order to
plunge a bullet into Clarke. It is evident
that in their opinion “religion never was
designed to make our pleasures less.”
Sidney Lanier, thG well-known poet, is
visiting his friends in Macon. We observe
lint the critic of the Nation is not alto
gether pleased with Mr. Lanier’s contribu
tion to the Centonnial. The critic, howeven
ays nothing in respect to the technical dif-
fculties and limitations with which the
young Georgian had to contend. To our
nmd it is almost a miracle that Mr. Lanier
hi§ been able to make the cantata even ap
proach the completeness and finish of a
poem, but ho has accomplished all this and
more.
J. E. Bryant, it is said, wants to be Gover-
tor very bad.
A church in Columbia county, which was
burned about two years ago and subseqnent-
lyrebnilt, was destroyed again by an inoen-
Ihryon the 28th of April. Governor Smith
•ill be requested to offer a reward for the
tppreheusion of the incendiary.
Mr. Oscar Thomason, of Madison, a mem
ber of the Legislature from Morgan county,
has been sent to the Lunatic Asylum in Co
lumbia, S. C.
The Columbus Times doesn’t believe in
•be rings some of the papers talk about.
Two oat grains have produced two hun
ted and ninety Btalks on the farm of Mr.
William Hardy, of Upson connty.
The question of a subscription of ten
iiOMand dollars to the Sandersville and
Tennille Railroad will be submitted to a
fete of the citizens of the former place
sometime this month.
Morgan connty boasts of a terrier which
bts adopted a brood of chickens. There is
nothing extraordinary in this. We can’t
ss* what is to prevent dogs from scratching
chickens, when they are so ready to
scratch for fleas.
The mailing-clerk of the Atlanta Times
evidently thinks that paper iB a semi-weekly.
We
received one copy some time last week,
tnd it ig almost time to get another one.
The wheat, rye and oat crops of Washing-
k® county are looking well.
The Augusta Chronicle delivers a timely
U( 1 well-deserved lecture to those rabid
nnfortunates who are endeavoring to create
‘Ggious dissensions in Georgia.
Torgyth has received 8,500 bales of cotton
“is season.
The Columbus Enquirer prints a touching
ter from Mrs. B. F. Abbott, who is a sis-
: of Itev. c. A. Kendrick, in which she
tees that the latter deserted from the
“federate army. If Kendrick is not en-
hardened and reckless, every line of
11 paru and devoted sister’s letter will add
iruing pang to his remorse.
Hineeville cow is the mother of twins.
e Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Mutionalist predicts that Attorney-Gen-
^ ■ Hammond will one day be Gover-
** are well aware that Col. Ham-
° ° a vising man, and for that reason
g t ^°uld like to know why he wasn’t sent to
l 0UI ” a “ a delegate from the State-at-
at ge.
cmor^ Q “ * : “ Col. Thornton’s organic
g: ' ''' have not yet subsided. His bed-
g, c *aims that he gets excited in his
^ aDd barks in his ear.”
kid, ° Ve ° f drunl£en negroes from Augusta
jj p ’ cnic at Aiken on the 1st.
te-L ° hu E ' Wa L Liberty connty,
down a birdofreednm with strych-
^ ‘he other day.
anq a r ' coa nty man captured a pole-cat
g ttleanalie in one hole recently.
% on U ° 6 ’ lUe Goaefte says that rice piant-
,et Taat 'f klfleeehee river is progressing
* more 18 aotor ‘*Y' Labor is abundant, and
% im mt ! derate Prices. The estimate is
Wlntfaj " CU lar 8 er oro P than usual will be
'‘‘‘“cea th' 1 '* UU< ' er more favorable eircum-
t»r !( ^ au aBt T e ar. A few of the plan-
f&c, 0{ j' er ’ disheartened by their experi-
i% r / st year > are preparing to plant
ft Ojj 8 ° me °f ‘heir rice lands.
^hara to asper coun ky man two hundred
I«d,, , J - Iua k ,; a u °ise in the court house
He V i °“ l “oollo the ether day.
‘Very vir.A 11 ^ ews " r “ os n P Atlanta with
pri v *eorou 8 quin.
—® ( ®4te iS (;rn, &Te a hanging next Friday.
the Gearn in /. The BUit for *‘bel
^ hy the lla nifl n* , f i ranr J e . instituted last
iill? 4 ’ “as been P ?„ b lBh j, nK Company, de-
‘'toiaBeq. n- n formally and definitely
jTtiirea to nrnrt, r * tore > h&Te Dot been
WB have P had in 6 ’ “ ope “ court> the
buih of the V, U . ° Ur Possession as to
onge, Tlle ...j.skatements made by the
in! !i ‘ rt of the ei U H r& ^ a ,. of the Bait > on
tel’i 0 aU intents mata 8 ei “ent, be-
!fl °aof their t-^ Porposes, a tacit ad-
v truth. We waged the fight
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
in the name of honesty and the public good
against fraud, deception and corrupting in
fluence. The issue proves that we were
right, and that a good cauBe will triumph in
the end, if its opponents are met with facts,
and vigorously handled.
Madison Home Journal: This sterling
daily—(the Savannah Morning News) un
surpassed by any other of the State de
serves a greater circulation than it now en
joys among the citizens of our town and
connty. It was here in Madison before the
late war that the editor-iu-chief of this
paper, Mr. Wm. Thompson, penned his
inimitable “Msjor . Jones’s Courtship,”
which has been read and admired by
thousands. He was then a resident of
our town and the editor of a news
paper published here by Mr. Hanleiter. Onr
older citizens who are personally acquainted
with Mr. Thompson have doubtless kept up
witn his history and are aware of his being
at the head of the News ; but a quarter of a
century works so great a change, aud so
many of us have grown to be men and
women who were but boys and girls when
Mr. Thompson was here, that we deem
it not amiss to Btate to all of our readers
that the author of “Major Jones’s Court
ship” is still living, and not a terribly old
man at that, and that by subscribing to the
daily or weekly News they can have the
opportunity of still reading from the pen of
one whose humorous sketches and truthful
sketches of real life, as given in the afore
said book, have so often afforded them
the liveliest emotions of pleasure.
The associate editor of the
News is Mr. J. C. Harris, who wag born and
educated in Putnam county. He is now the
acknowledged “M. Quad of the Georgia
Press,” enjoying an enviable reputation all
over the State. The people of Middle
Georgia, aud especially of Morgan and
Putnam counties, should strongly support
a paper edited so ably by men emanating
from their own midst.
Items from Boston.
(From an Occasional Correspondent.)
Boston, Thomas County, May 1.
The weather seems determined to re -
main dry, whilst planters and farmers
are wishing for and needing rain, especi
ally for the oats.
Business dull. Farmers are up with
their work, and cotton-chopping time is
upon us, to be succeeded by the harvest
ing of oats. Heretofore considerable
money passed hands during these busy
seasons, but we fear not this summer, as
many farmers cannot even furnish meat
to their laborers.
The Mercer Baptist Association (West
ern Division) held a Sunday School Con
vention, at the Baptist Church of this
town, commencing last Friday morning
and closing Sunday afternoon. The fol
lowing ministers were in attendance and
took part in the exercises: Bevs. F. M.
Haygood, C. S. Gaulden, James M. Bryde,
W. W. Bennett, E. A. Peeples, J. M.
Bushin, Bostick.
On Sabbath day at an early hour, long
before ten o’clock, the church was
crowded so much that it was deemed best
to divide the congregation. Thereupon
the bell of the M. Pi. Church called
together a congregation to hear Bev. —
Bostick, whilst Bev. Peeples held forth
in the Baptist Church.
A Sunday school mass meeting closed
the interesting and entertaining exer
cises. Addresses were made by Bevs.
Eaiford, Peeples, Bushin and Bostick.
Instrumental and vocal music added to
the pleasures of the occasion. There
were probably more persons assembled
than ever before in Boston, at least at a
religious gathering. W. K. N.
States’ Bights in Maine.—The New
York World claims that Mr. Blaine’s own
constituents in Maine are inclined to
agree with Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, in
the opinion expressed by him in the late
discussion with Mr. Blaine, that the State
could intercept incendiary documents in
their passage from the postmaster to the
person for whom they were intended.
The laws of Maine regulates the intro
duction within her jurisdiction of spirits
and the possession or sale thereof within
the State. They declare that all intoxi
cating liquors deposited at any place
within that State and intended for un
lawful sale, and the vessels in which the
liquors are shall be liable to seizure and
forfeiture. The question is stated,
what Mr. Blaine is going to do about it
if his constituents forward to him ac
counts of how small packages of li quor
come into Maine through the mails as
third-class matter, although liquids are
forbidden ? Mr. Blaine’s Bepublican
allies are said to be very good State
rights men on the liquor question, and
insist that a citizen of Maine is not ab
solved from his aUegiance to that State
and the obligation to obey its laws be
cause he is a postmaster in Maine, and
that whether one in that State shall be
permitted to receive bis liquor from a
postmaster, and thereby rescue it from
seizure, condemnation and destruction,
is an affair of Maine competency and sole
jurisdiction.
An instance of remarkable heroism was
displayed on the line of one of the rail
roads near Cincinnati a few days ago.
As the train was approaching the city,
those on the eDgine saw a young woman
jump on the track, evidently with the
purpose of committing suicide. The
engineer hardly bad time to sound the
whistle, when he saw another young wo
man spring to the rescue of the would-be
suicide, and drag her from the track.
The two disappeared behind the bridge,
but in an instant the first young woman
was again on the track, this time with the
engine almost upon her. The engineer
was utterly powerless to save her. He
nervously sounded the whistle, and saw
the other girl spring in the jaws of death,
as it seemed, clasping her companion
around the wajst, and draw her off the
track at the very last moment. As the
engine rushed along, the few spectators
of the terrible scene caught sight of a
picture not soon to be forgotten. The
saved girl was stiU firmly held by her
companion, and with both hands to her
face, was swaying backward and forward
in the agony of uncontrollable grief.
Foreign journals publish a romantic
story of an Arab girl who has been a
leader in tbeir combats with the Turks.
The girl was the daughter of a chief, and
was married to a warrior of her tribe,
who was murdered by the Turks. The
young widow made a vow to avenge his
death upon the soldiers of the Padishah.
The Emir, touched by the prayers and
tears of his child, called upon the tribe,
the whole of the Bedouin horsemen of
the Beni Kawas rising in consequence
against the domination of the Padishah.
The daughter of the Emir, armed like
the men, and carrying the banner, like
Joan of Arc, was always foremost in their
attacks upon the enemy, closely follow
ed by her father, the Emir, her brothers,
and the remainder of the horsemen. The
Turkish Government has set a price on
her head, in order to capture her and stop
the slaughter of the soldiers. The Ara
bian poets have made the heroine the
subject of their songs, and she is now the
•nest famous personage in the district of
Elder.
The Utica N. Y. Observer utters this
sound Democratic sentiment, which we
hope and trust wiU not be forgotten at
St. Louis. It says : “The day for com
promises with corruption or political
heresies has gone by. On the finances,
on the tariff, and most of all, on the
question of Administrative Beform, the
St Louis Convention must give forth no
uncertain sound. The candidate must
be taken from the thick of the fight—not
from the fence.”
A Belknap of the small fry species, has
been discovered in the Port CoUectorship
at Wilmington, Delaware. His name is
Nolen and he was a medical man before
he was ruined by politics. It is some
satisfaction to know that he is charged
with but $5,000, but nobody only knows
how much more it might have been.
The story of an unsuccessful attempt
of John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Mr.
Lincoln during the inauguration ceremo
nies in 1865, is now for the first fame told
in print. It is rather remarkable that the
occurrence has hitherto escaped publica
tion.
by mum
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. 1876.
T^AL
ESTABLISHED 1850.
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
ULYSSES, THE AVENGER.
He Lifts the Scalp of the Long-Haired
Custer.
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN NEW
ORLEANS.
Incendiarism in the West.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, May 2.—The Senate is dis
cussing the resolution of Hamlin to amend
the rules, so as to have the deliberations
of the Senate in impeachment trials in pub
lic.
In the Foreign Belationg Committee
Scheuck was asked whether he thought it
proper for an American Minister to bny and
sell stocks, and insisted npon a direct an
swer. Scbenck so far has confined his an
swer to tho assertion that he did not con
sider what he had done in the Emma mine
business a wrong.
The Committee on Banking and Currency
will report favorably the bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to exchange ten
millions of Bilver change for ten millions of
legal tenders, these legal tenders to bo
again exchanged for fractional currency,
which shall be destroyed.
In the House, a motion that the Commit
tee on the Beal Estate Pool be directed to
summon Hallett Kilbourne and examine his
books as proposed in his letter,created great
excitement and was tabled by a strict party
vote.
GBANT’S REVENGE.
Washington, May 2.—A World special
dispatch says that President Grant has to
day relieved General CuBter from his com
mand. As is well known, General Custer
gave important testimony before the inves
tigation committees relative to pOBt trader-
ship fr^pds, and was subpmnaed by the
House managers as a witness in the im
peachment trial. When the news came to
Gen. Sherman and Secretary Taft, both went
to the President and protested that it would
not do. By the advice of General Sherman
and Secretary Taft, General Custer went to
call on the President, but was unable to gain
audience.
THE KING OF DAHOMEY.
London, May 2.—This morning’s papers
publish the following : The King of Daho
mey’s reported invitation to Commodore
Hewitt to come to Abarney and receive pay
ment of fine imposed upon him for mal
treating British subjects in powder and bul
lets appears to have been accepted. Orders
have been given for assembling a fleet at
Wbydah to take active proceedings if the
amonnt of the fine be not forthcoming. An
opportunity, however, will be given the
King to change his present attitnde, aud
hostilities will be postponed till June or
later.
DOM PEDRO.
New York, May 2.—A dispatch trom
Promontory station, Utah, May 1st, says:
“Dom Pedro is detained here by a singular
accident. A freight train is off the track
half mile west of Blue Creek. A bull stand
ing on the road overturned the engine and
eleven cars, which arc completely wrecked.
Two tramps who were i iding free were im
mediately killed, and a fireman and a
brakesman were severely wounded. The
Imperial party endure the delay with
philosophical equanimity, and are making
the best of what accommodations this way-
side station affords.”
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, May 2.—The defalcation
of Charles H. Barth, Quartermaster’s Clerk,
will reach several hundred thousand dol
lars.
The revenue agents have seized the Bay-
view, Oriental and Cnshing & Louderback’s
distilleries; Lunan’s rectifying establish
ment, and Kane & Olmay’s and S. Lyman &
Co.’s wholesale liquor houses for alleged
violation of the revenue laws.
The Chinese quarters in the town cf An
tioch are burned. There was no personal
violence.
INCENDIARIES.
Cleveland. May 2.—About two o’clock
this morning about forty masked men ap
peared at the coal mines north of Massillon,
Ohio, seized and tied tho watchman and set
the coal shafts on fire. Willow Bank mine,
Mount Bank, Lane and Bhodes & Co., are
now burning. The fire department of Mas
sillon have gone to the scene. These
mines were not being worked on account of
the strike, and no one was in them. Tho
incendiaries were ndoubtedly strikers.
EXPELLED.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 2.—E. J. Petraff,
a member of the Legislature from Philadel
phia, has been expelled. He had nego
tiated with the lobby to get fourteen votes
for the Boone bill for seventy-five hundred
dollars. Petraff did not receive any money,
and asserts that his object was to see
whether the money was spent, but the
House considered the negotiation improper.
terrible accident.
Port Jervis, N. Y., May 2.—While Orson
Boyd, the well known and wealthy citizen
of Reed’s Creek, was crossing the east bank
of the Delaware river, at Fisher’s Eddy,
yesterday morning, in a wagon with biB wife
and two children, an accident caused the
vehicle to overturn, and all of its occupants
were precipitated into the river and
drowned.
destructive fire.
Cincinnati, May 2.—A fire at Versailles,
Ky., Sunday destroyed Harrison Johnston’s
bonded warehouse and 1,500 barrels of whis
ky,valued at $75,000 and insured for $33,000.
The fire is attributed to incendiaiies, as tho
building was of iron and, stone and an explo
sion, as of gunpowder, occurred immediately
before the flames broke out.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, May 2.—The steamer Baltic,
which reached her yesterday from Liver
pool, lost one of her seamen overboard. She
rescued the crew of a sinking bark and af
terwards lost one of that vessel’s crew over
board.
Large quantities of arms are being ship
ped hence to Mexico and Havana.
thanes.
Philadelphia, May 2.—The Presbyterian
Ministerial Association and the Methodist
Episcopalian Ministerial meeting passed res
olutions thanking the Centennial Com
missioners for their action relative to Sun
day.
DEMOCRATIC. VICTORY.
New Orleans, May 2.—The Democrats
elected the Mayor and five of the Beven
Councilmen after a hot contest. This is the
first Democratic success since 1868.
BURNED.
Louisville, Ky., May 2.—The Deering
Machinery Manufacturing Works, occupied
partly bv J. Steele A Co., are burned. Loss
$85,000.’
CAVALRY FOR CUBA.
Havana, May 2.—The steamer from Cadiz
brought one thousand cavalry to-day.
The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune has a fresh budget of pre
cious gossip about royalty. The rumors
of a separation between the Duke of
Edinburgh and the Czar’s daughter grow
apace, and it is again roundly asserted
that the visit of the Duchess to Peters
burg, for which the death of her aunt
supplied a convenient pretext, was really
a polite means of effecting a separation
between the Duchess and her husband.
The Czar has got his daughter back again,
the Duke of Edinburgh has returned to
England, and Clarence House is shut up
—when to open nobody pretends to
know. The Czar’s love for his daughter
is one of the strong passions of his life,
and it is said that his feelings of resent
ment at what he believes the slights she
received from the English royal family
are very strong. It is also intimated that
the Emperor of Germany shares in the
resentment of his friend the Czar. Less
causes of affront among the Lord’s
anointed have ere now resulted in seri
ous consequences.
An Excellent Bill by a Colored
Man.—A Washington dispatch says: Jere
Haralson, the colored member from Ala
bama, who has the good will of every
Democratic as well as Republican mem
ber, has prepared with care a bill provid
ing for granting theproceedsof the sales of
the pnblic lands of the United States for
eduoational purposes, upon the basis of
the amount of illiteracy as shown by the
last census. The bill has so much merit
that Democrats have promised Haralson
to give the bill their support.
Eyeniiig Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.,
SUMMARY OF YESTERDAY’S CON
GRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
THE’
> OF HAR5EY RICHARD
BLAINE TO BE INVESTIGATED
ANY HO W.
The Methodist General Conference.
POKER SCHENCK GETS IN A CORNER.
Winslow, Gray and Bent to be Released.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, May 2.—In the Senate the
Finance Committee reported the Honse bill
for the appointment of & receiver for
national banka, with amendments. Placed
on the calendar.
The bill appropriating fifty thousand dol
lars for the Apache Indians passed.
Conkling, from the Committee on Com
merce, stated, regarding the steamboat bill
which had passed the Honse, that several
persons desired to be heard npon the bill,
for whom the committee were waiting.
A resolution instructing the Committee
on Commerce to inquire what legislation is
necessary to regulate immigration, and to
report by bill or otherwise, went over.
Robertson introduced a bill for the relief
of 8. P. Chisolm, of South Carolina.
Herrimon submitted a substitute for the
bill to prevent officers from soliciting or
making contributions to elections. Referred
to the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions.
The Japanese indemnity was discussed in
the Executive session.
In the Honse, Cox was in the chair. A
joint resolution authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to place a fully equipped
life-saving station in the Centennial was
passed.
The resolution instructing the Real Estate
PooljCommittee in the Kilbourne matter was
tabled by a vote of 138 to 83.
Tarbox, of Massachnsetts, asked nnani
mou3 consent to offer a resolution reciting
the fact that the Union Pacific Railroad in
the year 1871 or 1872 became the owner of
certain Little Rock aud Fort Smith Rail
road bonds, for which the Union
Pacific Company paid a consideration
largely in excess of their value, and that
the directors have neglected to investigate
the transaction, although urged to do so,
and, therefore, instructing the Judiciary
Committee to inquire whetber such transac
tions took place, and what were
tho circumstances and inducements,
from whom such bonds were ob
tained, on what consideration and whether
the transaction was with corrnpt design or
in furtherance of any corrupt object. Unan
imous consent was given, and the resolution
was adopted.
Paine, of Ohio, from the Committee on
Banking and Cnrrency, reported a bill au
thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury,
under such limits and regulations as will
best secure a just and fair distribution of
silver coin throughout the country, to issue
the silver coin now in the Treasury to an
amount not exceeding ten million dollars
in exchange for legal tender notes, and
providing that the notes so re
ceived and exchanged shall be
reissued only on the retirement and destruc
tion of a like sum of fractional cnrrency re
ceived at the Treasury in payment of does
to the United States, and that such frac
tional currency, when so substituted, shall
be destroyed and held as part of the sinking
fund as provided in the act of 17th April,
1876. Blount, of Georgia, objected to the
consideration of the bill, and it must wait
the regular call of the committee unless the
objection is withdrawn.
THE METHODISTS.
Baltimore, May 2.—In the conference,
Bishop Scott presiding, a resolution of
thanks was offered to the managers of the
Centennial for closing the exhibition and
grounds on the Sabbath.
O. O. Fisher, of Georgia, is on the Com
mittee of Centennial Observance.
A resolution that the Bishop Bhall preside
in the Committee on Boundaries, and that
its divisions shall be final, was adopted.
Resolutions were adopted asking Con
gress to amend the postal law bo that an
nuals published by benevolent corporations
may paBs through the mails at the same
rates as other periodicals.
The conference was next notified of
nominations for members of standing com
mittees. A motion was submitted providing
for the appointment ot a standing committee
of twelve, to be named the Committee
on Judicial Proceedings and to consist of
one from each General Conference, and
nominated by the conferences respectively,
to which committee all questions of law
and irecord of judicial conferences shall
be referred. The proposition led to a
lengthy discussion, in which a num
ber of delegates took part. Bishop
Simpson said the Bishops would be gladly
relieved of the present responsibility of de
ciding legal questions. A substitute to re
fer the record of judicial conferences to the
Committee on Episcopacy was lost, and the
motion to appoint a Judicial Committee
adopted.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, May 2 Probabilities :
For the South Atlantic and East Gnlf
States, rising barometer, northeast to north
west winds, and slightly warmer, clearing
or partly cloudy weather will prevail, except
lower temperature in the southern portions.
For the Gulf States, high followed by fall
ing barometer, northerly winds, shifting to
warmer southeast and clear weather.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, higher
barometer, winds backing to westerly and
possibly southerly, and warmer, clear or
clearing weather.
For the Middle States, variable winds,
mostly from the east or north, generally
clondy weather, and in the former rain, fol
lowed by rising barometer, winds shifting
to northwest, and slightly warmer and clear
ing weather.
Tennessee river will continue rising.
Cautionary signals continue on the North
Carolina coast.
SCHENCK IN A CORNER.
Washington, May 2.—In the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, Schenck was Bhown his
original letter of resignation as a director
in the Emma Mine Company, also a copy of
the same in Park’s handwriting and was
asked to explain. Schenck said the let
ter of resignation was his own composition,
without aid from anyone. He did not know
how Park came to make a copy, bntwas sure
he did not copv the resignation from the
draft by Park. Schenck did not think he
sent his letter of resignation to Park.
Park was then examined. He said Schenck
showed to him the letter of resignation be
fore sending it to the company. He made
some suggestions to Schenck abont it, but
did not dictate a single word of it.
Schenck said any statement that the Park
letter was the original draft was false.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, May 2.—It was decided in
Cabinet not to deviate from the rnle which
has long existed, not to part, even tempo
rarily, with original papers in any of the
Departments.
The Winslow matter was discussed, but
the conclusion reached is nnknown beyond
the fact that the action of the British Gov
ernment, as conveyed by cable dispatches,
muBt be taken as an emphatic reason for the
abrogation of the treaty.
The Judiciary Committee of the Honse
have authorized the Sergeant-at-Arms to
employ counsel to aid him in prosecuting an
appeal before the courts in the Kilbourne
habeas corpus case.
THE WINSLOW CASE.
London, May 2.—The British Government
have informed the American Legation that
it will release Winslow to-morrow, and that
the two other prisoners, Gray, of New
York, and Brent, of Louisville, whose extra
dition is also claimed, will be released when
their terms have expired. Although this
notification has been given, the government
has not formally replied to America’s argu
ment, owing to the absence of Lord Derby,
caused by the recent death of his mother.
MCRTAGH AND DOUGLASS.
Washington, May 2.—Wm. J. Martagh,
of the Republican, testified that he had bor
rowed $1,200 from the Freedman’s Bank
and paid it back. 'He did not know who was
responsible for the article charging Chair
man Douglass with using money appro
priated for his committee to reward his con
stituents and a journalist. Douglass made
a statement under oath, concluding that
either the writer or his informant waB a
liar,
THE MEXICAN MUDDLE.
Washington, May 2.—The latest official
advices from the Rio Grande represent all
qniet. Diaz has made no forward move
ment. It is understood that the Mexican
Government is sending heavy forces from
the interior to meet him.
austbia and Hungary.
Vienna, May 2.—The joint conference
between the Austrian and Hungarian Minis
ters will be held to-day, at which the
Emperor will preside. It is believed that
the questions at issne will be definitely
settled.
OFFICIAL CHBOMOS.
Washington, May 2.—The portraits of the
Postmaster Generals, from Franklin to
Jewell inoloaive, hare been forwarded to the
Prosrra. «r the Case—The Proceeding, of
Priiaj and Saturday—Utter Failure of
the Prooecatloa—The Black Drilled
Wltaeanen Swear Wildly—Council For
the ProoecDtion on a Crow-Examination
Get more Eight Than They Sought For
—A Clear Alibi Already Established—
The End Mot Yet.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Febnandina, April 29, 1876,
Friday’s proceedings.
On Friday defense introduced seven re
putable witnesses, who gave some indis
putable testimony in favor of Harney Rich
ard, which, considered by itself without sny
corroborative proof, should beyond ques
tion be abundantly sufficient to vindi
cate the defendant from ail connec
tion with ' the killing of E. G. John
son. JohirtB. Jones and Harley Jones being
sworn, stated that they were in Nassau
county on the day preceding the homicide
and saw a stranger riding a cream-colored
mare, who inquired the way to Hart’s road.
They declared firmly that Harney
Richard was Dot the person and
bore no resemblance to him particniarly.
Mr. Braddock sworn, in effect confirms
the statements of Mrs. Higginbotham, taken
yesterday, in every material point. J. B.
Dial! was sworn, and said that he had seen
a stranger near Callahan, riding a cream-
colored animal, on the 20ih of July, making
his way towards Hart’s road. Witness af
firms positively that the defendant is not
the man he saw. E. Sauls sworn, said he
lived six miles from Callanan; on the Tues
day before Johnson was killed a stranger,
with a cream mare, passed the dwelling of
witness, and asked the direction to Hart’s
road. The remainder of witness’s evidence
was similar to that given by him before
the preliminary examination, and he swore
that the mare shown him in Jacksonville
was not the animal, and that defendant was
not the man. Witness had directed the
stranger to the honse of Mrs. Jones (Mrs.
Higginbotham). A. D. Carroll testified that
he resides three miles above CallahaD, in
Nassau connty. A few days before he heard
of Johnson’s death he saw a stranger with a
cream-colored mare,which witness here gave
a description of. The animal which witness
had been shiwn at the preliminary exami
nation was not the one rode by the
stranger who passed his house. W. R.
Yonells testified that he had long known
Harney Richard, and was working seven
miles from Callahan a few days before John
son’s death,when a stranger riding a cream-
colored animal passed by, going towards
.Hart’s road. The stranger positively was
not Harney Richard.
The testimony of the above mentioned
witnesses is merely summarized, and no ef
fort baa been made as will be apprehended
to follow their details. It will be seen, even
by the sleuth hounds howling for the blood
of an innocent man, that the prosecution
have been attacked in their
very stronghold, and have incurred a mis
erable and unquestionable failure. It re
mains to be observed whether they will
quietly acquiesce in the evident result or
provoke further unfavorable criticism and
just denunciation by resorting to the chi
canery and diabolical gyrations which ad
here to politicians like the shirt of
Narcissus. The ghost of Banquo hav
ing learned by icrial intelligence that
Smith, the gudgeon npon whose reported
testimony the indictment against Bichard
was obtained, was at Bald win,paid a spiritual
visit to that locality, and succeeded in elicit
ing the information that the inventive or
maligned Smith had yesterday bounded
upon a rapid steed and lied to Georgia to
avoid appearing at the trial. It is credit
ably related that Smith asserted that
the Radical conspirators had secured
an indictment against an innocent
man by misrepresenting him (Smith), but
that he (Smith) would see them “in hell”
before they could make him swear to the
falsehood. ’ Why don’t they besiege Georgia
and capture this refractory rebel? Wby?
It will bo remembered that the nigger,
Joseph Gibbs, 6Wor9 positively on his cross-
examination that he had not seen Fred.
Williams for over two months, whereas the
fact that the two had met anyhow one
month before is susceptible of easy proof.
The defence have a number of other
valuable witnesses to introduce, but even at
this stage it is as patent as a wart on a
dowager’s nose that they have undoubtedly
defeated the machinations of the prosecu
tion. Still another day, and more.
Centennial.
SATURDAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
Febnandina, April 30, 1876.
Saturday was the seventh day of the ex
amination of witnesses in the case of Har
ney Richard, and still the affair is approach
ing an early conclusion. The list of wit
nesses is immense, and although the dishon
est prosecution in appearance agreed not to
foist more than two more hirelings into the
matter, there are strong indications that they
will endeavor to evade this agreement
by committing a rUBe on the rebuttal, and
thns insinuate into the question as many
niggers as they may have drilled in the
interim. It is momentarily becoming
alarmingly manifest that tho prosecution
are far from being influenced by a desire to
admit the truth unreservedly, and their
absurd objections and inane boorishness
attract the thoughtful attention of observers
frequently. On yesterday morning the
defence began the ceremony by the in
troduction of
SIMON chaires, colored.
This unbought negro said that he was
working three miles from Callahan, and no
ticed a stranger riding in the direction of
Hart’s road, with a cream colored animal,
on or about the 20th of July last. (Witness
here described the mare according to his
observations.) The stranger was a slightly
rnbicund person,with sandy hair and beard.
There exists a great difference between the
stranger and the defendant—the latter is
inclined to be more sallow, and has dark
hair. To the beBt of witness’s knowledge
the defendant is not the man he saw near
Callahan.
JOSEPH M’lNTOSH SWORN,
says: “I live in Nassau county, about twen
ty-five miles west of Hart’s road; remember
hearing that Dr. Johnson was killed on the
21st of July last; a stranger came to my
house next morning riding a small cream-
colored mare; he enquired the way to Lang’s
ferry on the St. Mary’s river.” Witness,
after describing the man and mare gener
ally, said: “The defendant is not the man I
saw at my honse on the 22d of July last.”
JAMES CARROLL, SWORN.
Resides twelve miles from Callahan, near
King’s Ferry road, on 8t. Mary’s river,
which separates Georgia from Florida.
Saw a stranger on the 22d of July,
abont 11 o'clock a. m., mounted on a
cream-colored animal, who eame from
the direotion of Callahan. One direction
leads to King’s Ferry, another to Baldwin.
Witness then gave a description of the per
son he saw, corresponding precisely with
that given by Dr. Allen Brown, and said that
he had known Harney Richard for abont
eight years. He was here asked to look at
the defendant, and said firmly, “He is not
the man that passed my honse, I know.”
JAMES C. THRASHER, SWORN.
Before prodneing Mr. Thrasher’s evi
dence it may be proper, in order to render
the contrast complete, to present an ex
cerpt from the promptings of the perjured
nigger, Amos Robinson. Here it’is: “The
creeter was a yallar cream, with dark mane
and tail. I am positive about the animal
having black mane and tail. I did not see
J. C. Thrasher at all at Baldwin or any
where else.” Mr. Thrasher testified in
effect that he had met Amos Robinson
at Baldwin in September last, and that
then AmOB Robinson had informed him that
the animal which he (Amos) had seen at
Hart’s road was the same color all over—
legs, body, mane and tail—that they were as
near one color as anything could possibly
be. The prosecution here began a cross-
examination of Mr. Thrasher, and asked
him if he had not at some time or other had
a conversation with John W. Howell abont
the late Dr. Johnson. Defense objected to
the putting of the question, but witness in
sisted npon answering and exclaimed, much
to the dismay of the conspirators, “Yes, and
I said that Johnson was a
SCOUNDREL AND A THIEF,
and that any man who acted as he had done
ought to die; I said this during bis life time,
however.” Witness then explained that
Johnson had stolen some horses and run
away with them from North Carolina, sell
ing them to him, Ur. Thrasher, and that a
few days afterwards the notes arrived for col
lection. Johnson kept postponing the day
of reckoning, month after month, for two
years, and suddenly executed a flank move
ment upon witness by disposing ot all his
property, except a few horses which he car
ried to Jacksonville. Witness sned ont an
attachment against the horses, bnt abont
that time Johnson web inveigled into the
Florida Senate and the Radical Judge dis
solved the attachment and threw the coets
upon witness. Banqao’s untroubled ghost
rerret8 exceedingly that the prosecution
did not institnte further inquiries into the
corrupt conduct of a certain Jndge in IBS
instance, at it is suspected what Mr.Thrash-*
er*s reply might have 1msd. (This allusion
is not pointed at the Judge of the Fourth
Judicial Circuit'). Mr. Thrasher said that
all such man as Johnson who turned trai
tors did not deMrre to exist,
that Johnson was a thief and scoundrel.
The prosecution fell into a grave error, and
elicted more from this plain-spoken witness
than they bargained for. The scene was of
the liveliest description imaginable.
WILLIAM T. SHEPPARD
was introduced by the prosecuting conspi-
rors, and simply gave a rehash of his testi
mony before the preliminary investigation
at Jacksonville, stating that the animal was
abont six years old when she was at Hc-
Clenny’s stable in Jacksonville, and that her
feet had been recently trimmed. She was
brought to the stable by McMurray, and
Amos Robinson came to look at her two or
three days after her arrival.
J. B. BUFORD
was then examined by the defense and said
that he knew Amos Robinson, and saw him
near Callahan as he was going to attend the
preliminary examination at Jacksonville.
Amos Robinson then told witness that the
animal had a light or flax mane and tail.
CAPT. JOHN C. RICHARD SWORN,
says he resides abont 25 miles from his
brother. Harney Richard went to school in
Sonth Carolina and Georgia for four years
prior to the war, and came to Starke, Flori
da, in 1861, then being aged 21 years, and
enlisted in a company which witness was
then organizing, and which was shortly or
dered off. Harney Richard remained with
the company all the time with the exception
of three furloughs of thirty days each, until
the surrender at Appomattox C. H., on April
9th, 1865. The defendant was a sergeant
in the company ot his brother. This
testimony effectually disproves the in
credible falsehoods of Joseph Gibbs, the
snborned fiend (if any one ever believed
anything he said), who swore before the
jury that he had lived near Harney Richard
for seven or eight years previous to the
close of the war, and that during that
period he had seen defendant two or three
times per week regularly, and often thrice
a day. He is the nigger, is Joseph Gibbs,
who identified Harney Richard as a man he
saw at Hart’s road in Jnly. Imprison Joe
Gibbs at once for perjury.
JONATHAN H. WEEKS,
for defense, says he resided on the 21st day
of July last near Mikesville, in Columbia
county. Has known the defendant, Harney
Richard, fifteen or twenty years, and saw
him at Keno, near the line between Alachua
and Columbia counties, on the 21st day of
June, 1875. Hart’s road is abont 85 miles
from Kodo, judging from having ridden
it several times, having been stationed there
dnring the war. The mare that Harney
Richard rode to Keno was the same one
witness saw at Jacksonville during the pre
liminary investigation, and the same one
that witness sold to defendant himself.
Witness said : “I am positive that I saw
Harney Richard, the defendant, at Keno on
the 21st of Jnly last, at abont eleven
o’clock a. m. Court adjourned again at
6:20 p. m. until 7:30, having opened at 3 p.
m., after adjournment at 1:25, and the de
fense pat Mr. E. L. Dasher on the stand, to
prove that the nigger, Jerry Jones, had
made a different statement after testifying
than the one to which he swore. The pros
ecution objected to the introduction of Mr.
Dasher until Jerry Jones had first been re
called, when defense announced that such
had been their intention, but that Jerry had
contemned the subpoena, and departed with
his smell. Defense then withdrew Mr.
Dasher for the nonce, and asked for an at
tachment for the recalcitrant and recusant
nigger, Jerry Jones, which waB granted.
ROBERT C. MARTIN
testified that he resides in Columbia
county, near Ellisville, and has been
acquainted with defendant some fifteen
years, and saw him at Keno on the 21st day
of July last, at about eleven o’clock a. m.;
recollects distinctly that this was the 21st of
Jnly, because Roberts, the Tsx Assessor,
and Keen, the deputy, came to witness’s
house on the evening of the 19th; on the
20th they proceeded to Mikesville, and on
the 21st to Tuskenoga to assess taxes pur
suant to advertisement by written notices.
Witness went in company with them to
Mikesville, purchased some corn and car
ried it to Keno to be ground at Whetstone’s
mill; “I shook hand with Harney Richard
on that day at Whetstone’s store.” No
alibi was ever more indubitably established.
GEO. A. CLARK, SWOKN.
Lives at Sugar Grove, about six miles west
from Newnansrille, and has known Harney
Richard as long as he can recollect. Saw
tho defendant at Live Oak Pond, about a
mile and a half from his house, on the 21st
of July, 1875, at about sunset. “I am posi
tive that 1 saw the defendant there on that
day, and spoke to him.”
FIGHTING AGAINST JUSTICE.
Court adjourned at abont ten o’clock on
Saturday night, a considerable portion of
the time having been consumed by the ver
bosity of the proseention in the matter of
silly imbecility dabbed by courtesy cross-
examinations. Falstaff Pattison launch'd
such an inundation of incomprehensible
absurdity as to suggest forcibly that his
fund of hired eloquence was about to be ex
hausted. In fact Goaty Pattison’s insane
prolixity is immeasurably affecting and
amazingly stnpid. The following selections
are made at raudom, in order to convey an
impression of the nature of the interroga
tories propounded by Fatty Patty, with the
assistance and connivance of Uncle Tod,
and another who assimilates Meekly. Look
at them :
CROSS EXAMINATIONS.
Question by Patty Fatty—‘‘How did you
get ont of bed on the 20th of December
last, feet or head foremost?” Answer—
“I do not remember.” Q. by P. F “Did
yon get out of bed on the 15th of Jnne,
1825, and pick vonr teeth without thinking
of a bantam rooster’s terminating feathers,
and how old were yon then, and how many
years ago was that; if bo, why ?” Answer—
I don’t remember.” Q. by P. F.—“Can
yon state to the jury what were the dimen
sions, diameter and circumference of the
ants and flies that intruded into your
butter during the year 1840, and if
so, how?” A “I can’t.” Q “Can you
skin Irish potatoes, or sweet ones either, in
mid winter without conjuring up an image
of a red fox’s proboscis?” “I don’t know.”
Address by Patty Fatty: “I simply put
these questions to the witness in order to
illustrate the defectiveness of his memory.”
Now, if these questions are not represented
accurately they are suggested to Fatty Patty
as a decided improvement npon those he
hourly inflicts upon the spectators.
LENGTH OF THE TRIAL.
The performance, owing to the devilish
persistency of tho pail plotters, will not
have been terminated for several days—
meaning two, three, five or seven—yet
Fatty Patty and Meek, it is understood,
are employed by the administration, so
also are McDonnell and the “Jedge.”
Banquo.
LETTER FROM FORT MASON.
Almost a Traced?—A Boat With Promi
nent Gentlemen Capsized on Lake Eus-
tis—Their Rescue—The Railroad—The
Last Frost—A Hew Enterprise.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning Ijews.]
by Captain Milton Haynes, and the two
entered a small boat at the landing and
rowed for the point where the other craft
had been. Nearing the point five heads
were observed above the water, and on
coming by the entire party were found
hanging to the boat which had capsized.
Major Drake and his father, who were
men of delicate build, were both very
much exhausted, having been immersed
nearly three hours. They were first
RESCUED
and taken ashore, after which Messrs.
Ballard and Haynes returned and brought
off the others. Major Drake lost a valise
containing important memoranda and
railroad papers, but he thinks they can
ail be duplicated. A live alligator, boxed
up, also went under, and some other per
sonal property of small value. None of
the party experienced any serious incon
venience beyond fatigue. Their escape
was a most fortunate one. But for the
fact that the men at the store had con
tinued to look for the boat after Lanier’s
departure, they would all have lost their
lives. The cause of the boat upsetting
was an nnskillfnl attempt to put up a
pole for the purpose of hoisting a sail.
The boat capsized in abont thirty feet of
water. Messrs. Ballard and Haynes de
serve the highest praise for their conrage
and coolness in making the rescue, as the
boat they had (the only one at the place)
is anything but a life-saving craft. Bal
lard’s hands were much blistered by row
ing, and he doesn’t care abont fishing any
one else out of the lake until they get
better.
THE RAILROAD
is getting on finely, the work of grading
and laying the cross ties progressing
rapidly. Major Drake informed me that
the prospect of its early completion is
good, but that a large proportion of the
stock is still untaken, which, if taken at
once, will enable the company to build
and equip the road without owing a dollar.
Except as a property holder,near by, I
have no interest whatever in it, but I re
peat here what I have said in a previous
letter, that when completed it will be the
most profitable railroad in the United
States. Over its twenty-three miles will
pass the freight required in two hundred
miles of territory—a territory containing
an already large and constantly increasing
population. Major Drake informs me
that his great desire is to complete it
without issuing mortgage bonds, and I
think that the monied men of Savannah
might give the enterprise a helping hand.
There is no possibility of the stock
proving a loss, and there is every
certainty of large dividends, as the road is a
monopoly and puts a large section of the
State in direct communication with the At
lantic seaboard cities. Savannah can secure
a heavy addition to her business if her
capitalists and merchants are alive to
their interests. The work of grading
and getting ready for the iron will be
completed by the first of September. In
anticipation of its speedy completion,
parties are already making arrangements
to enter into business here.
TWO NEW STORES
opposite the depot at Fort Mason have
already been contracted for. There is
no doubt that a largo business will be
done here and at the Lake George end of
the road. Where the Lake George ter
minus will be has not been decided, two
sets of men owning eligible sites being
engaged bidding for it. Mr. Wm. Astor,
of New York, owns some land at one of
the sites, but he also owns a consider
able tract on the St. John’s river south
of Lake George, aud he will not give the
road any monied aid unless the terminus
is placed on the St. John’s river on his
land. This is impracticable, as it wonld
subject the road to the caprices of the
weather by requiring the steamboats con
necting with it to cross Volusia bar,
which does not, in summer, contain
water enough to float large boats. At
either of the sites selected on Lake
George there will be an abundance of
water in the dryest seasons. Mr. Astor
is exceedingly selfish, but I doubt if any
millionaire was ever anything else.
THE LAST FROST
has put us all in high spirits. Yon have
already published that it did great dam
age to the early vegetable crop in differ
ent parts of the State. On the Wekiva
river, fifteen miles east of us, and on
Lake Munroe it destroyed the crops, but
it did no damage whatsoever here. Peas,
beans, corn, watermelons—in short, every
thing—were uninjured. It is claimed,
and the late frost seems to prove the
claim well founded, that this section of
the State has nothing to fear from the
hoary destroyer. There have been years
when Jack Frost has killed vegetation at
points considerably south of ns, while
this region of the Oclawaha lakes was not
hnrt in the least. As a consequence, it is
certain that the completion of the rail
road will be the signal for raising heavy
crops of early vegetables.
A NEW ENTERPRISE
will be inaugurated here in a few days, in
the shape of a brick kiln. I fancy that
some of your readers will smile at the
idea of anybody making bricks in Flori
da, when so many thousands are imported
into the State. There is, however, an
abundance of excellent clay here, needing
only labor and capitaI*to convert it into
good, durable bricks. Mr. L. M. Ballard
is the gentleman who will start the kiln.
He already owns a steam saw mill and a
grist mill, giving employment to a num
ber of hands. Mr. Ballard is brimful of
energy and pluck, and is a fine specimen
of those native Floridians who labor to
develop the resources of the State with
out waiting for Northern or foreign capi
tal. He is a good Baptist, a hard worker
—a pleasant companion and, I need not
add, a regular reader of your paper. His
brick yard will be a decided success, as
there is great demand for bricks.
Sandy.
ANOTHER ORESTES.
Fort Mason, Orange County, Fla.,)
April 20, 1876. j"
If, in the bustling town of Jacksonville,
your correspondent complains of a dearth
of nests, what must I say of this locality,
where everybody is horribly virtuous ?
Of course, it would be no difficult matter
to write page after page of words, but I
am not inclined to speculate on any sub
ject whatsoever likely to interest your
readers. My purpose in these letters is
to send yon local news, nothing more.
ALMOST A TRAGEDY.
This evening I have some local notes,
and so I will write. On arriving at the
post office this morning, I found the
group gathered there very much agitated,
and my friend Byrne exceedingly nervous.
A meeting of gentlemen interested in the
railroad was to have been held at the
camp of the working party, some twelve
miles from this point, and Major Drake,
the President, Dr. Drake, his father,
Captain Phares, and two young men,
started in a boat from the Major’s place,
on Lake Harris, for this point, where
they expected to meet Colonel Lanier with
a team to take them to the camp. Lanier
waited until the morning had far ad
vanced, and, nothing of the boat being
seen, started without the party. A few
minutes after his departure the boat was
seen on Lake Eostis, some few miles off,
making for Fort Mason. It had not been
sighted long before it
SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED.
As the day was clear and calm, it was
not possible for waves to hide it from
view, and the only conclusion was that it
had suddenly sunk or by seme means
capsized. The prominence of the par
ties known to be aboard, added to the
seriousness of the matter, created much
I excitement. After a brief consultation
Mr. Louis M. Ballard volunteered to go
l and hunt up the party. He waa. jewed
Culmination of a Horrible Tragedy—A
Husband Accidentally Klllfi Hitt Wife
in Self-Defense Against Her Father and
Then Commits Suicide—The Old Gentle
man Hangs Himself.
Roseville, Pa., April 26, 1876.—A six
months’ old domestic tragedy has had a
melancholy sequel in the snicide yester
day of William Russell.
William Rnssell came to this vicinity
about ten years ago from England. He
brought with him his wife and two
children, both girls. Buying a farm, it
was not long before his industry and in
tegrity placed him m a leading position
among his rural neighbors. Three years
after becoming a citizen of the commu
nity a sad casualty left him a widower and
robbed him of his youngest daughter.
A BUBAL FEUD.
The remaining child was ten years old
at that time. Her name was Hattie, and
being an extraordinarily bright and active
girl, despite her tender years she took
almost entire charge of her father’s house
hold,a servant gir), named Lizzie Sockett,
being her only assistant.
At a party in Roseville last spring, the
motherless girl met a young man named
Horton Hurd. His father had formerly
owned a farm adjoining the Russell
homestead, but about five years ago a
dispute arose between him and Russell
as to the location of a line fence between
certain of their fields. The dispute led
to a bitter qnarrel, and finally to long
and extensive litigation, which resulted
in the defeat of Russell. The decision of
the court was taken deeply to heart by
the English farmer, and his hatred for
Hard became general against every mem
ber of his family. Two years ago Hurd
died, and Horton Hurd, as the only male
representative of the estate, endeavored
to obliterate the feeling held by Rnssell
against the family by offering to make
certain concessions, but only succeeded
in aggravating it. The Hurd farm was
leased to other parties, and the family
removed to Roseville.
LOVE AND SEPARATION.
between Miss Rus-
Hurd ripened into an
'action, and the two met
village. Although she
: eye^t to oonoeal her choice of
weeks before he was awave of ihe i*IU
macy that had sprung up between the eon
of bis old enemy and his daughter. He
at onoe and emphatically forbade her ever
again meeting or speaking to Horton
Hurd on penalty of hia severeet dis
pleasure. Loving her father devotedly,
Mia Bussell sacrificed her own happi
ness to hi* will, and wrote to her lover
that all future Intercourse between them
must eease, and she thenoeforth daolinad
all invitations and solicitations to the
merry social parties for whioh this section
la noted.
Meantime Lizzie Sockett had grown
from a healthy, chnbby girl of thirteen to
be an attractive and tidy young woman
of twenty. For a year and over Mile
Russell had notioed that her father’s con
duct toward the housemaid was not that
which is usually supposed to characterize
the intercourse of the rich head of a
family with his kitchen servant. Her
father was nearly fifty years of age, and
the girl twenty. He was a rich widower,
she the daughter of a poor laboring man.
Miss Russell at once made np her mind
to speak to the girl and warn her of the
impropriety of her conduct. She did so.
The girl told the father, who commanded
his daughter to confine herself to her
household duties, and not make herself
over officious about his affairs.
DISMISSING HER FATHER’S PARAMOUR.
The familiarity between Russell and
the Sockett girl increased, and the daugh
ter saw with pain that her father’s affec
tion seemed not only alienated from her,
but that her position and authority in the
house were being gradually usurped by
the servant. Smarting under this injus
tice, in July last, during the absence of
her father, Miss Russell ordered the gir!
to leave the house, and in such decided
terms that she did not dare disobey the
command.
When Russel returned home that night
and was told by his daughter that she
had discharged Lizzie Sockett his rage
knew no bounds. He went away and re
turned with the discharged girl, reinsta
ted her in her place and forbade his
daughter using any authority in the house
thenceforth. The poor girl determined
to remain no longer under his roof, and
hastily penning a note to that effect
she left it in her bureau, walked to the
village and sought the house of a friend,
where she found shelter. Next day she
obtained a situation as seamstress in a
family in the village, and set to work to
earn her own livelihood.
THE CROWNING INDIGNITY.
The affair, of course, was soon spread
through the entire community and occa
sioned great scandal. The indignation
of the neighbors finally became so intense
that Russell was glad to send the Sockett
girl to her father, and begged his injured
daughter to return home. She consented
to again take her place at the farm.
About the middle of August she ascer
tained that her father was making .fre^
quent visits to the Socketts. She at once
remonstrated with him, when he re
marked that his visits to the girl were
honorable, and that he intended to marry
her and bring her back to the farm. This
was the crowning indignity.
During her brief stay in the village,
after leaving her father’s house, Miss
Russell had been visited by Horton Hurd.
She would not consent to a hasty marriage,
but assured her lover that she would give
him her hand the coming fall. Recalled
to her father s honse, she resolved to
bring him to agree to her marriage. His
subsequent avowals showed her the at
tempt would be futile; bnt when she
found that he had no care for her com
fort and happiness she determined to wed
Horton Hurd, let the consequence be
what it might.
TWO WEDDINGS.
On the 20th of September last Farmer
Rnssell, after eating his breakfast, dressed
himself carefully, and then told his
daughter that he was that morning to be
married to Lizzie Sockett; that they
would be back to the farm for dinner.
Crushed and dumbfounded at this sudden
intelligence, the poor girl could make no
reply, and as her father drove away she
fell faintiDg to the floor. When she re
covered consciousness it was 9 o’clock.
Dragging herself to her room she dressed
herself and packed a valise with a few
personal effects. She then wrote a note
to her father. Leaving ths house she
came to this village, where her story was
soon known. Horton Hurd visited her
at once, and she consented to his pro
posal of immediate marriage. They pro
ceeded to the residence of a sister of
Hurd, where the Rev. Mr. Conyne mar
ried them.
About twelve o’clock that day Russell
returned to his farm with his former ser
vant, now his wife. He found no prepa
rations made for his reception, and
greatly enraged, at once began a search
for his daughter. He found only the
note in her room. He stormed and swore
like a madman, and started post haste for
Roseville. He went to the house where
were the newly married couple. He
seized Hurd and attempted to stab him.
All the inmates of the room, except the
young wife, fled at the sanguinary ap
pearance of Russell. The young man,
driven to desperation, drew his pistol and
warned Rnssell to desist, but the latter
seemed crazed with fury, and redoubled
his efforts to kill his son-in -law. He at
last raised his pistol/ The young wife,
wild with terror, sprang between her
father and her husband at the moment
the latter pressed the trigger, and the
ballet crashed into her brain. She fell
to the floor and died without a moan.
Russell retreated in horror toward the
door, and the husband kneeled by the
side of his wife’s corpse and frantically
called her by name. Seeing that his
bride was dead he rose to his feet, and in
an instant shot himself through the
temple, living but a few seconds.
Russell was apprehended at once. He
could be held only on the charge of dead
ly assault, and he was admitted to bail.
THE CULMINATING TRAGEDY.
Russell went home, but it was seen
that his mind was deranged, and it be
came necessary for a constant watch to
be kept over him, as it was evident that
he would destroy himself. For three
months he gave no sign of even a glimpse
of sanity, hut finally, by degrees, re
covered his mind. His wife had been his
constant attendant, but when he began
to regain bis reason he evinced a repug
nance toward her which culminated in her
being compelled to seek her father’s
house. Since January Rnssell has at
tended to his business matters as before
the tragedy, and it seemed that
he had entirely recovered. An
indictment was found against him nt the
last term of court, and he was
to be tried this week. Yesterday morn
ing John Coleman, a hired man ol Rus
sell, went to the. barn to feed the stock.
On entering the haymow he was horri
fied to see his employer hanging by a
rope to a beam. He was cut down, but
found to be cold and dead. His bed had
not been disturbed during the night, and
doubtless he had hanged himself early in
the evening. No paper of any kind has
been found setting forth his reasons for
suicide, but they are sufficiently evident
to every one. A will has been found in
Russell’s writing desk, dated March 15,
1876, by which his property is left to a
brother in England.
An inquest was held on the remains of
the farmer, after which they were buried
by the side of his first wife and youngest
daughter in the family graveyard on the
farm. The only mourner at the funeral
was his discarded wife, the promotion of
whom from the position of servant to
mistress led to the bloody tragedy and its
shocking sequel—to the complete extinc
tion of a once prond family.
The
sell
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Hands that Were Equal.—It occurred
last night. Perkins discarded one and
drew. Tomlins did the same. Both
looked at their hands disappointedly, and
then gazed sadly at each other. The
chips represented twenty-five cents each.
Go you one on what I’ve got,’’said Perk,
contemptuously. “Raise yon a couple
on this lay out,” said Tomlins with a
sneer. “Might as well see yonr couple
and go yon five more,” said Perkins in a
reckless, don’t care sort of way. “Won’t
be bluffed if I do have hard luck,” said
Tomlins; “raise you ten.” “That
touches bottom,” said Perk, wearily.
“I call. What have you got?” “WeU,
my reekleis friend,” said Tomlins with a
smile, “I; happen to have an ace-high
flush,” am -he threw down the papers.
“So have drawled Perk, with an un
easy affectation of nonchalance. Then
they compared, and each had ace, king,
ten, nine, and fonr—Tomlins of spades,
Perkins of diamonds. “Don’t happen
once in a thousand years,” exclaimed the
former. “Not in a million,” sighed the
latter.—Toledo Commercial.
It seems almost impossible to find a
sound spot in Grant’s administration.—
New York Sun.
A great mistake, Sun. Every time an
inveatigating committee tape it it bring*
i a ring.-
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