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J. II. EST1LL,
Savannah, Ga.
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The
Democ
Affairs in Georgia,
we are abusing Parson Felton let us
r, with gratitude, that he is not
be one hundred and eighteen mem-
Congress who are absent from
ut season is a good one for the
>f Georgia to teach their Con
gressional servants that absenteeism is not
to be tolerated. Just think of Democratic
Congressmen deserting their posts to
arrange the wires for re-election. Is
this a part of the duty of a Congress
man V
Judge Underwood, of ltomo, complained
r.ceutlv that s<»mo one had painted his nose
wrong. If Judge Wright, of Home, runs as
au independent candidate for Governor, he
will have no right to complain if he is paint
ed in the newspapers without any nose at
One of the editors of the Atlanta Times
goes up to New Holland Spring every Sun
day, an 1 every time he goes ho makes the
acquaintance of Col. and Mrs. Blank, and
the Misses blank, of Blaukville. Sidney Her
bert, in his letters, makes no mention of this
interesting family, but we know the 'Times
editor too well to even suspect that he is
attempting to impose upon a too confiding
public.
A little ripple was occasioned in colored
“society” in Macon on Monday, by an affray
between Joe Cox, a colored barber, and Jim
Franklin, a waiter at the Brown House,
which resulted in the killing of the latter.
It appears that Franklin was too frequent a
visitor in Cox’s family, a fact of which he
had been duly warned. On Monday, Jeems
repeated his visit, and Joseph laid for him,
as it were, shooting him twice—once through
the heart. Cox then gave himself up.
Julian Hartridge, of the First, W. E.
Smith, of the Second, and General Phil
Cook, of the Third Congressional Districts,
haven’t absented themselves from their seats
in Congress and their duty to thoir consti
tuents t j work for a re-election. This is a
good showing for this section of the State.
Wouldn’t it be a good plan for Middle aud
Upper Georgia to crush out absenteeism in
the other Districts? There is but one
remedy for it, aud that remedy is at the
polls.
To-day is the 16th, the day for the Geor
gia Radicals to assemble in convention in
Mac m. What are they going to do about
it ? Will & letter be read from any ambi
tious so-called Democrat statiug that he
haB concluded to run for Governor on the
independent schedule ? This, it is rumored,
n tu be the programme.
The Chronicle says there was exhibited at
the Augusta Exchange on Monday a hank
or No. 20 cotton yarn, which has quite an
interesting history. The cotton from which
the thread is made was in the boll in the
held, near Corinth, Miss., at 9 a. m., a few
days since, and at 3 p. m. the thread was
placed in the Memphis Exchange. The
thread was spun by the Clement’s establish
ment, placed on the ordinary gin. A mer
chant remarked that before many years
field hands will pick the cotton from the
bolls and catry it home in the shape of a
ready-made shirt.
The Forsyth Advertiser is informed that
Governor Smith desires to retire from
politics.
The Advertiser also remarks : “When the
Savannah News ventures to remark that
Colonel Hammond would, if elected to Con
gress, represent the Fifth District ably ;
and further asserts that Ool. H. would be
mure likely to defeat the Radical candidate
than any other Democratic aspirant named
for the place, the Atlanta Constitution calls
this outside interference with the affairs of
our district, and forthwith reads the News a
lecture for s
uch presumption. But when
in the Seventh District) says
Mr. Candler should be returned from the
HJi District, the aforesaid Constitution
1 • i ulu s the article and smacks its edito-
ia mouth over the sweet morsel. When
fids cosmopolitan journal does get off the
fence, it always falls in the mud.”
The corn crop of Monroe county will be
an abundant one.
( J " ^ ng-houae of Mr. Wyatt Alexin-
f lilakely, was fired by an incendiary
1 ie ot ^ er n *gfii, but the flames were discov-
UlJ bef i made much headway.
h who applied the match, iu or
der to make
rope.
sure of his work, cut the well
Aoram Smith, a highly esteemed old ne-
r>ro , di fct * recently in Spalding county.
The Forsyth Advertiser has an account of
au attempted murder by a negro. Mr.
ue - ,,rii bb ia an industrious aud bard
working farmer, living near Gladesville, in
_ as * )or Count y. Ho Las some land rentt-d to
* negro tenant, and on Thursday night last
J fc Wta * to the quarters of this tenant.
» eeing a strange negro in the yard he
C ° aiea kim, and asked what he was doing
there. Hie negro failed to give a satisfac-
t ans ' ver > and Mr. Grubb told his tenant
L° charge of the intruder, who was
ere, evidently, for the purpose of stealing,
r. (/. turned the negro loose aud started
! w en r *scal pulled a pistol and fired
-wice at him. One ball lodged in the arm
made a serious wound. The negro
Ind
ade his escape, and has not been captured,
io o loers of the law are on the watch for
ini and have notified the police of the
eigbboring cities.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says that the
estigation of the Jones-Treasury troubles
.commenced on Monday morniDg, in the
'dents room of the Senate chamber,
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
before the auditor, J. M. Pace, of Coving
ton. The records and vouchers will be
thoroughly examined and all available proofs
reviewed. The State is represented by At
torney General Hammond and Messrs. Mc-
Cay andTrippe and .Colonel Willis A. Hawk
ins; Captain Jones by Hill and Sons, O. A.
Lochrane, Gartrell & Wright and Mr. My-
natt. With such able counsel on either side,
the country may confidently rely on a full
development of the facts involved.
Hon. George H. Pendleton.
As an act of justice to Mr. PendletoD,
we reproduce the following lines from the
New York World, which are followed by
an extract from the report of the Clymer
committee of investigation, appointed by
the House of Representatives to look into
such charges :
[Extract from the World.]
But, besides its work in the conviction
of rogues, the committee has deserved
well of the country for what it has done
to vindicate honest men foully slandered.
It deserves the thanks of the country for
rescuing the fair fame of Michael C.
Kerr, threatened by a foul conspiracy.
Its action in establishing the pu
rity of Mr. Pendleton against
charges as malignantly urged as
they were wantonly and maliciously con
jured up is not less commendable. Never
in the history of this country has a pub
lic man been more unfairly or more wick
edly held up to general reprobation than
was Mr. Pendleton until this committee
by a full, fearless and searching investi
gation established his innocence of
charges brought against him in the fatu
ous hope of warding off in part the force
of the blow, struck in the exposure of
Belknap, at the administration. To have
vindicated the guiltless and chastised the
guilty is the highest praise the committee
could deserve.
[Extract from the Committee’s Report.]
THE CHARGE AGAINST GEOEGE H. PENDLE
TON.
The charge made before your commit
tee was that Geo. II. Pendleton had cor
ruptly used money in the prosecution and
collection of a claim, in the War Depart
ment, of the Kentucky Central Railroad
against the government, which was
brought to the DGtice of the committee,
not by the testimony of aDy witness or
order of the House, but by rumors
the
published and circulated in the newspa
pers. Mr. Pendleton promptly offered
himself for examination, and testified in
the most direct, explicit, and comprehen
sive manner that no corrupt or improper
means had been used in the prosecution
and collection of the claim. Many wit
nesses were examined, embracing the
officers and clerks of the Kentucky
Central Railroad, the owners of the
road and claim, the newspaper corre
spondents and those who circulated the
rumor, the persons with whom it was
said to have originated, the officers of the
banks in New York and Cincinnati, and
every person suggested to the committee
as likely to have knowle ige or informa
tion bearing on the case whose presence
could be secured. Their testimony not
only did not impair in the least degree
the force of George H. Pendleton’s state
ment, but did, in every particular, abso
lutely verify and confirm it. As bearing
upon the charge against Mr. Pendleton,
your committee examined fully into the
origin, nature, and merits of the claim of
said railroad against the government; ex
amined General William McKee Dunn,
Judge Advoc He General of the Army, who
passed upon the claim and recommended
its payment, and they find that said claim
was just and valid and fully establish
ed by the clearest testimony. Your
committee believe that, in the absence of
all fraud, the government or the public
has no interest in the question of com
pensation paid by the railroad company
to Mr. Pendleton; but as the amount
paid to him has been a subject of much
public comment, the committee deem it
but right to say that Mr. Pendleton freely
stated to them the amount he was to
receive, and that the proof was ciear that
every person interested in and owning
said railroad fully understood and ap
proved the contract with Mr. Pendleton
for his contingent compensation in the
collection of said claim, and that all of
said owners were then and are now .fully
satisfied with it, and cordially approve
the fimal settlement of the claim under it.
Mr. Pendleton is, therefore, in the opin
ion of your committee, fully exonerated
from all charges against him.
THE GREAT SCANDAL AGAIN.
Mr. Moulton’s Suit A&ninnt Beecher to be
Tried nt an Emly Date.
[From the New York Sun.]
Mr. Shearman yesterday served on Gen.
Roger A. Pryor, counsel for Francis D.
Moulton, Mr. Beecher’s answer to the
complaint in the suit of malicious prose
cution which was begun last December.
Mr. Shearman, after a consultation with
Mr. Beecher, determined to risk the trial
of the merits of the case rather than al
low it to go by default to the Sheriff’s
jury, that he might appeal from the judg
ment and test the question of his late
demurrer in the Court of Appeals. If ho
fails to outwit Gen. Pryor and Gen. B.
F. Butler iu the trial of the cause he
can go to the Court of Appeals on the
jury’s verdict. Iu Mr. Beecher’s answer
he denies every accusation contained iu
Mr. Moulton’s complaint that he, with
malicious intent to injure him in his
good name and credit, to bring him into
public disgrace, to cause him to be im
prisoned, and to subject him to trouble
and expense, had gone before the grand
jury, and falsely and maliciously, and
without any reasonable or probable cause
whatsoever, procured an indictment
against the plaintiff for having uttered
and published of and concerning the de
fendant certain criminal libels, which
charge the defendant knew was wholly
false and untrue. The answer admits
that the defendant did, on October 3,
1871, go before the grind jury and testify
that certain criminal libels uttered and
published of himself were utterly false.
Mr. Beecher furthermore denies that
the plaintiff was ready or anxious to etand
trial on the indictment mentioned in the
complaint, either at the time of pleading
to the same or for at least six months af
terward, aud the defendant has no knowl
edge nor information sufficient to form
a belief, as to whether the plaintiff was
ever ready or anxious to stand trial there
on. The answer in the third paragraph
denies that the defendant ever requested
the District Attorney of Kings county, or
any person whatever, to make any mo
tion, or take any step, corcernmg a
nolle prosequi, or concerning any matter
referred to in the paragraph of the com
plaint which makes such an accusation.
The defendant further answers that he
has no knowledge, or information suf
ficient to form a belief, that the indict
ment was transferred to the City Court,
or that any order was granted for the
entry cf a nolle prosequi, or that any
such entry or record was made as is de
scribed in the complaint. In conclusion,
the defendant avers that his testimony
before the grand jury was true, and that
the prosecution referred to in the com
plaint was founded upon reasonable and
probable cause.
The oath to the answer was made the
8th of August in Peekskill.
The case will be tried in the Supreme
Court, and will probably be on the Octo
ber calendar. The difficulty of getting a
jury in Kings county will doubtless lead
to a motion for a change of venue to this
city. Mr. Moulton expects to establish
the truth of every allegation made in his
published statement of the summer of
1874 , the charge involving Edna Dean
Proctor not excepted.
An old woman in California refused to
allow a railroad corporation to lay rails
through her property. The track layers
took advantage of Sunday—a day on
whioh she could not appeal to the courts
and put down the rails. She was out
witted, but not defeated. When the lo
comotive came along over the branch line
she took up a position on the track and
would not stir. The locomotive backed
and left her at her po?t. »
l>V TMRAI’ll
LETTER FROM LITE OAK.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
The School Amendment Defeated iu
the Senate.
POLITICAL
SPEECHES IN THE
HOUSE.
Justice in Florida—flow Courts are Con
stituted—The County Commissioner*—
Bryson and the School Fund—An Incen
diary Fire.
A MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN SPAIN.
Ex Queen Isabella ('nutting
Among (he Don4.
Trouble
THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, August 15.—The House
passed the bill authorizing the President to
raise 5,000 volunteers for the Indian war,
and appropriated a million dollars for ex
penses.
The Senate at an early hour this morning
rejected the substitute for the House
amendment to the Constitution reiatiug to
schools by a vote of 28 to 16—not two-thirds
—and adjourned at 2 o’clock. Both houses
met at nooD.
The situation of the school amendment is
as follows: Blaine’s amendment wa3 passed
by tho House. It was amended in the Sen-
ale by a majority vote, and the question be-
iog on the proposition as amended, it was
rejected for want of a constitutional two-
thirds vote. The original resolution falls
with the amendment to tho Constitution and
is rejected.
Monday night’s session of the House con
tinued until six o’clock this morning, most
of the time after midnight being taken up
in dilatory motions aud manoeuvres to pre
vent Cox from resuming hia speech in re
ply to Kasson. At last, about five
o’clock in the morning, a truce was effected
between ihe opposing forces, aud an oppor
tunity was afforded to both Cox and Kasson
to make due apology to the House and each
other for the exhibition of any angry pas
sion or the violation of any parliamentary
decorum that either might have been
guilty of.
Hewitt, of New York, then r.ook the floor,
and, in a speech which was rapturously ap
plauded by his side of the House, defended
Gov. Tilden from the assaults iiiade on him
by Kasson, and eulogized him as tho stand
ard-bearer of the National Democracy.
The House uou-concurred in the Senate
amendment to the bill authorizing the Pres
ident to raise five thousand volunteers.
The Senate amendment proposes to raise
cavalry companies to a standard of one
hundred men. It was shown by tho Chair
man of the Military Committee that the re
cent army appropriations bill gives tdie Pres
ident this power, aud five thousand volun
teers was really an addition. A committee
of conference was asked.
THE SERVIAN STRUGGLE.
London, August 15.—N. dispatch to the
Standard from Belgrade says it is reported
that the Turks have advanced beyond Bonja
and the Servians have evacuated an impor
tant pass without firing a shot. It is quite
possible that the constant rumors of Turk
ish advances and Servian retreats are exag
gerated, but it cannot be denied that the
prospect of tho Servians is becoming more
gloomy. Rumors of their evacuation of
defiles leading from Guergosovatz to Deli-
grad, aud from Saitschar to Parakin, though
unconfirmed, is highly probable. If the
Turks push forward, it is more than likely
that tho expected great battle at Alexinatz
or Deligr&d will never be fought. Tho offi
cials continue to assure the public of their
ability to beat the Turks, but nevertheless
consternation prevails on the streets, aud
must continue, as the number of runaways
increases.
A very unpleasant affair has occurred here
between the officers of the English relief
societies. Dr. Thomas, who is at tho head
of the Christian League, laid informa
tion before the Minister of War de
nouncing Dr. Lazeron, who is con
nected with the National Aid Society,
as a Turkish spy, and he (Lazeron) was
compelled to leave. This has paralyzed the
action of the English societies, which are
unconnected with the Christian league. Dr.
Thomas’s conduct has excited very strong
feeling among all English people here.
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY BILL.
San Francisco, August 15.—News of the
passage by’the Senate of the bill to carry
the Hawaiian treaty into effect was received
on 'Change with much satisfaction. Several
disengaged vessels in port will at once be
chartered for Honolulu on account of local
refiners.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS.
Columbia, S. C., August 15.—Tho State
Dem> cratic Convention to nominate a can
didate meets at eight o’clock this evening.
Delegates are arriving on every train. They
are enthusiastic for a straight-out Demo
cratic nomination. Wade Hampton will
probably be nominated for Governor.
CABINET CRISIS IN SPAIN.
Madrid, August 15.—In spite of 6tate -
meuta to the contrary, a Ministerial crisis
exists. The return of Queen Isabella bodes
no good. The removal of the members of
tho Cabinet who took part iu the revolution
against her is contemplated.
THE STRIKING BRAKESMEN.
Cincinnati, August 15.—The situation
along the track of the Ohio and Mississippi
road is unchanged. No freight trains are
allowed to pass. The employes at Flora,
Ill., on the western division, struck yester
day.
A-HOLIDAY.
London, August 15.—To-day being the
anniversary of the Feast of the Assumption,
is observed as a holiday at Paris and Ant
werp, consequently no markets are held at
those cities to day.
BALLOONATIC3 INJURED.
Paris, August 15.—It is stated that a bal
loon containing M. Fregnet and his eons
was torn by trees and fell rapidly. One son
was killed, aud Fregnet fatally injured.
prorogued.
London, August 15.—Parliament was pro
rogued at 2 o’clock this afternoon by royal
commission.
“IN SOAK."
Vienna, August 15.—A portion of the
crown jewels of Servia have been sent hero
as security for a loan of G2,000 florins.
DEAD.
London, August 15.—The Earl of Suffolk
and Berksherd is dead, aged 72.
A School Boy Murder—Camping with
an Assassin in Colorado—A Mother’s
Prophetic Accusation.—At Boulder,
Colorado, the trial of James \V. Yankee
for the murder of Ira Durrell, ended last
week in a verdict of guilty. In less than
an hour after Yankee had been returned
to jail his dead body was found suspended
by a red picture cord from his cell door.
The history of his murder is very peculiar.
Yankee and Durrell had been school
fellows in Missouri. They went to Colo
rado early in the spring of 1874. They
made some money, and were about to re
turn home in the fall, when Yankee pre
vailed on his companion to accompany
him over the Range to visit a brother in
Alma. They left Georgetown on the
morning of the 11th of October. When
last seen alive the two companions were
sitting at their camp fire half way down the
Range. Two days efter a negro found
Darrell’s body near Boulder with his
throat cut, an ugly gash on the
cheek, aud bloody finger marks upon the
face. In the meantime Jim Yankee re
turned home in Missouri on Sunday morn
ing, and as the people were coming from
church, he was met by Durell’s mother,
who went straight up to him and said :
“Jim Yankee, you have murdered my
boy!” Sure enough tidings came the
following day of poor Durell’s dead body
having been found. Yankee was taken
back to Colorado. He stoutly asserted
his innocence. The prosecution beat
down every barrier of defense which
Yankee’s statement opposed, and brought
into strong relitf the circumstance that
the track of a run down boot near the
body clearly corresponded with Yankee's.
A verdict of guilty was charged in the
indictment. The jury also found that
the murder was done with premeditation
and deliberation, a necessary qualification
for the infliction of the death penalty in
Colorado. Yankee was only eighteen
years of age.
Mrs. Robb, of Corpus Christi, is called
the “Cattle Queen of Texas.” She owns
75,000 acres of land, on which 15,000
head of cattle are fattened for market
each year.
Live Oak, Fla., August 13.
Editor Morninq JSews :
At the meeting of the County Com
missioners, on Wednesday last, an ac
count for $90 was presented for
FEEDING THE JURY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY,
that tried and convicted the girl Emma
Tilman of manslaughter. This account
was sworn to by the claimant before
Charles R. King, State Solicitor, as no
tary public, and was for feeding the jury
while they were deliberating upon the
case of a murderess who had poured a
spoonful of vitriol down the throat of a
sleeping infant to get rid of nursing it—
such was her own confession at the time
the offense was committed. Juries are
paid by the State, and usually feed them
selves in this State out of their per diem,
but inasmuch as this was a case of pecu
liar significance, being against a colored
individual, and an election coming off
pretty soon, it was probably deemed ad
visable to feed the jury at the expense of
the community where the murder had
been perpetrated, in order that they
might be taught better manners,and con
sequently better sense, than to attempt
to punish a negress, or any one of that
race, for murdering a sleeping infant to
be rid of nursiDg it. In any country
where the laws of God and man are re
spected this girl would have paid the
forfeit of her life for this offense, instead
of being sent to a so called State’s
prison to serve an apprenticeship in a
criminal school. Here in Florida, how
ever, the case is different: the courts are
in many cases the
WILLING INSTRUMENTS OF ESCAFE
from penalties which belong to of
fenses that are committed against
white people by negroes, and
lend themselves to these vile pur
poses. This case could have been tried
just as well inside of twelve months after
its commission as in twenty-four or
thirty-six, had it not been necessary to
give the negroes time to raise money to
pay to some person to help them screen a
murderess.
At the same meeting of the Commis-
siouers a demand was made upon the
county by the Board of Public Instruc
tion for five hundred dollars, said to be
due that institution on account of taxes
due on the lands bid off for the use of
the county. The lands cannot be used
by the county, and the County Commis
sioners aud Revenue Collector wanted
them resold for the accrued tax and bid
off by the State, but Judge Bryson pre
vented the exercise of any discretion by
the county officers, and
PROHIBITED THE SALE,
aud the matter stands thus until to-day.
Now the Board of Public Instruction
demand the portion due the schools, and
intend applying to the Circuit Court for
a mandamus to compel its payment. I
am told that Judge Bryson has abandoned
the ugly habit of swearing, but when he
is asked for a mandamus, uuder these
circumstances, he will be more than apt
to think damn it, if he don’t curse out
right. I am inclined to think that the
Judge’s business is getting to bo like Joe
Brown’s politics—mighty mixed. I am
inclined also to the opinion, aud so ex
press rm self, that it will be a difficult
task for the Judge to hold these lands,
that they may be applied to the payment
of the Columbia County Railroad bonds,
iu which he is personally interested, and
that he might just as well, aud consider
ably bettor, for his good name, let them
alone.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
On Sunday morning at two o’clock the
sleeping portion of our community was
aroused by the alarm of fire, which was
found to be in the stables and crib be
longing to Major Henry A. Wyse, iu the
western part of the town, and adjoining
his distillery. The flames spread with
great rapidity, owing to the character of
the contents of the building. The loss
con isted of eight mules and one saddle
horse, two buggies and the contents of
the crib, amounting altogether to about
twenty-five hundred dollars. The people
at the fire succeeded in saving two wagons
and one of the mules, the latter so badly
burned that it is thought by many it will
not survive its injuries. The fire is sup
posed to have been the work of an incen
diary. nad there been any wind blowing
at the time, there is no telling where the
fire would have been arrested, bat owing
to the stillness of the atmosphere and
the dampness from the dew, the flames
were confined to the crib and stables.
Major Wyse does not belong to that
class who have three or four offices,
and are, consequently, be3’ond the reach
of damage from a two or three thou
sand dollar fire; he earns his money by
industry; therefore, the loss will be felt
seriously in these hard times. The man
or woman, white or colored, who could
deliberately injure another in this man
ner, must be as void of conscience as an
alligator.
A LESSON.
Levi Morgan, a colored fireman on the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, who was so
seriously damaged about the head by Ned
Perry, has recoyered sufficiently to be
carried to his home in Savannah, a wiser
if not a better man from this lesson in
the rough school of experience. There
are offenses which cannot be adequately
adjusted by law, and among those that
are onty to be reached satisfactorily with
a shot gun is tho intermeddling with
one’s family; this Levi has found out,
though an old man by this time. We
never get too old to learn, and Levi has
learned this lesson perfectly.
Figures.
The Very Mischief to Pay in Ken
tucky.
[From the Cadiz Democrat.]
Mr. Henry Johnson and family, who
have been living until quite recently near
ihe mouth of Little river, have been com
pelled to abandon their home on account
of the extraordinary and mysterious visi
tations to which they claim to have been
subjected for some time past.
The story goes that Johnson has been
thrice married, and that the spirits of his
departed partners are clamorous for their
successor to his bed aud board to make
distribution on the effects left by them
among their immediate descendants. A
few nights since, while one of the spirits
was revealing to a son the whereabouts
of a gold ring left among her earthly
treasures, and for which she had no par
ticular use iu the spirit land, the wife at
tempted to ovtrhear the whispered con
ference, when she was thrust aside by
the interpositions of an ice cold hand
laid upon her brow. The ghostly visi
tant informed the son that the ring was
concealed in the trunk of Miss Palestine
Fox, living near Lincoln, and who is a
sister of the present Mrs. Johnson.
These spiritual visitations are accom
panied with a number of demonstrations
of a most astonishing character. Cats
are seen to enter the house through solid
walls, aud make their exit in the same
mysterious manner. Gray horses come
dashing up to the house from Hillman’s
coaling, and disappear from sight into
the earth.
The conclusion of tho whole affair is
that Johnson and family have abandoned
the premises, and left the ghostly occu
pants in quiet possession.
Mary Bogardus, of Columbus, Ohio,
became insane when she heard that her
husband was killed in the Black Hills.
Imagining that she was Abraham, she
bound her little girl, placed her on an in
verted washtub, piled wood around her,
set it on fire, and would have burned the
child to death, but for the fortunate in
terference of a neighbor.
THE HAMBURG RIOT—ITS ORIGIN
AND CAUSES.
Review of the Aiken Testimony.
[From the Charleston News and Courier.]
The affidavits submitted to Judge Maher
at Aiken, on Thursday last, on behalf of
the persons accused of bemg concerned
in the Hamburg not, throw a flood of
light upon the affair, and will, it is hoped,
put it before the country in its true aspec*.
The witnesses are citizens of good char
acter and high standing. Iu any court of
justice their words would outweigh the
words of excited and alarmed negroes,
who, in many cases, are proved to have
made extraordinary blunders, if they did
not foully perjure themselves. In nearly
every case, it is proved that the persons
charged with the kiliiDg at Hamburg, as
principals or accessories, were far from
the place at the time that the crime was
committed. This will be shown whenever
they are brought to trial. Our more im
mediate concern is with the causes and
origin of the affray, as made apparent by
the testimony submitted for the defence
on Thursday.
The fight took place, it should be re
membered, on July 8. The parties were
a body of armed negroes, claiming to be
a militia company, aud a number of while
citizens of South Carolina and Georgia.
Johii^Lee (colored), of Aiken, swears that
Doc. Adams, in June last, told him he
was oiganizing a militia company at
Hamburg “to kiil the whites.” Frank
Taylor (colored) swears that he was told
the same thing, by Adams, at about the
same time. Both these witnesses are
Radicals. Edward Rumley swears that
previous to the fight, on different occa
sions, armed bands of negroes pat
rolled Hamburg, stealing cattle and
destroying fences. Other witnesses cor
roborate this. J. T. Butler swears th t
on July 3 an officer and two privates of
the negro militia halted him and tried to
pick a quarrel with him. Aaron Butler
(colored) swears that, on Ju1} t 4, Attaway
boasted to him that the militia intended
to kill the whites; and several negro wo -
men who w’ere present said the men
would shoot the whites and the women
would cut their throats. George Hender
son (colored) swears that, on the same
day, he and another colored man were
invited by Attaway to join the company
he was getting unto kill the whites. This
is evidence enough of the purposes of the
organization or reorganization of the
militia company. We now come to the
overt act which led to the fight on the
8th.
Two young men, on July 4, were driv
ing along the main road iu Hamburg.
Wnen they reached a point where a well
and a ditch cover half the road, they were
met by Doc. Adams’s militia company,
who cursed and abused them, spread
themselves across the road and refused to
allow them to pass. They were detained
fifteen minutes, when the militia broke
rauk*, and the young men were allowed
to drive on. The averment of the negroes
that the two white men interfered
with them, and would not pass
on, although they could have done
so, is rebutted conclusively by
the affidavits of the young men them
selves. They are men of character and
standing, and the conduct of the negroes
toward them was, as we have shown, con
sistent with the apparent purpose of the
armed negroes to force a collision with
the whites. Proceedings were taken
against Adams aud his militia company
for obstructing the highway. Tue hear
ing took place on the (Lb. Adams was so
insolent in court that he was rebuked by
Trial Justice Rivers and placed under
arrest, and the further hearing was
adjourned to July 8; The Rev. J.
P. Mealing swears that on July
fith, Attaway, after the proceedings
in the Trial Justice Court, walked np
and dowu the street, cursing the court
aud the whites, declaring that he was
ready for a fight, aud so excitiug the ne
gro women that they yelled out “Start it
now! start it now ! We want to hang on
some white man’s collar.” The same
gentleman swears that Doc. Adams said,
“D—n Rivers aud his court. While I
have a company no one d—d negro or
white man shall rule me.” Prince Rivers
corroborates Mr. Mealing’*? statement
concerning the conduct of Doc. A lams
and his arrest for contempt. This same
day Aaaron F. Tyler was cursed and
threatened by the armed negroes iu Ham
burg ; and Mr. D. S. Henderson swears
that he was told by ex Speaker Lee, pend
ing the trial, that Sparnick, the Radical
Judge of Probate, said that a good thing,
politically, could be made out of the af
fair of the 4 th, and that Sparaick subse
quently represented the State. It should
also be noted that Jerry Whitlock (col
ored) swears that, on the 4 th of July he
heard Attaway make threatening remarks
against Henry Getsen, who was riding
by. This Mr. Getsen is one of the two
youDg men who were halted and abused
by Attaway’s men in the evening.
fwo young men who were halted and in
sulted that evening ; that the negroes on
the titb defied the authority of the court;
that some effort was made to concentrate
a force o' negroes in Hamburg on the
8th ; that the firing was begun by the ne
groes, and that not a shot was fired by
the whites until after young Merriwcther
had been killed by the negroes; that after
the riot the negroes were louder than
ever in their threats against the whites.
No one in South Carolina justifies the
killing of the negro prisoners, but, with
the evidence before them, as we have
briefly* given it, the public must admit
that the whites were acting in self-de
fence in determining to disarm the ne
groes. The armed negroes were a stand
ing danger to the whites, whom the law
did not protect. They were forced to
take such steps as were necessary for the
protection of themselves and their fami
lies.
We have been particular iu reporting
aud analyzing the Aiken testimony, be
cause wo feel that the first accounts of
the Hamburg affair, as published b} r the
Augusta papers and ourselves, were un
just to the white citizens of Aiken aud
EJgefield, iu fui.'ing to show the measure
of the provocation given them by the
armed negroes. For the attitude of the
whites, as the evidence now shows, there
w*as good reason, if, indeed, the disarm
ing of the negroes w*as not an inexorable
necessity; and we trust that the newspa
pers which laid before the public the
statements of the negroes and the evi
dence trken at the inquest, will, in fair
ness to the accused, reproduce the later
developments at the hearing before Judge
Maher last Thursday.
HIE SCHOOL QUESTION.
A Letter from Art'hbishop Purcell.
The Mississippi Case.
Th< monstrous proposition of Senator
Bout Weil and his Republican colleagues
iu his select committee to “remand the
State of Mississippi to a Territorial con
dition,” is received by manifestatious of
scorn and disgust by intelligent and
peace-loving Republicans. As a speci
men of this feeling, which we believe is
quite general, we quote the following ex
pressions from the New York Evening
Post of Tuesday :
Nothing practical can come of the re
port. It is hard, therefore, to beiieve
that it has not been sprung upon the
Senate just now for a purely partisan
purpose. The report is accompanied
with a quantity of testimony which, when
printed, will fill from fifteen to
hundred octavo pages. ~ *
impossible to say
lished by this
ghteen
Of course it is
what facts are (stab-
mass of evidence—if it
really amounts to evidence. It is no
doubt true that violence and wrong
doing have occurred in Mississippi. The
minority members of the committee will
find it difficult to show that the most
amiable relations exist between the South
ern races there aud that perfect peace
pervades that sunny State. The actual
facts in the case, however, become
of small importance in view of the
conclusions of the majority report.
If there had been ten times as many mur
ders and as much intimidation as the ma
jority members assert that they have
gathered from the testimony, those con
clusions still would be monstrous. In
the blindest days of partisan passion
nothing worse has been offered the coun
try thau what Senator Boutwell presents
as the recommendation of all the Repub
licans of tho committee. We should ex
pect some of those Republicans to dis
sent from these views had they not all
silently acquiesced in them yesterday.
It scarcely can be that no Republican
Senator will be f^uud to reject the nar
row* and stupid conclusion. For they are
not only narrow in suggesting an
extraordinary poverty of states
manship—statesmanship which would
regard the Southern disorders as
symptoms of a political disease to be
treated dispassionately and calmly upon
broad political principles. They also are
stupid in a mere party sense. With what
face can the Republican party tell the
country that, after holding almost undis
puted power since the war, having en
forced at w’iil its plan of reconstruction,
by strength of numbers and arms, by
constitutional amendment, and finally
with the general consent of the people,
it can propose nothing better to be done
with a State w*hich it has reconstructed
and restored to the equal rights of Stab s
thai.(l) to re-enact Federal laws of pro
tection which have been declared uncon
stitutional by the highest Federal court;
or (2) to deny the State representation
iu Congress ; or (3) to “remand the State
to a territorial condition ?”
It is hard to discuss this monstrous pro
posal with patience. It needs no discus
sion, indeed. Simply to repeat it is to
expose its narrowness acd stupidity. In
credible as it seems, this is just what Mr.
Boutwell seriously suggests to the Senate
of the United States; and reasonable Re
publicans, who will soon be heard
We have now brought down the narra- | throughout the country asking for their
! party a continuance of public confidence,
tive to July 8, when tho final hearing , . . , , ,
the case waste have taken place. Tire 1'sten to him without protest. The coun-
try has had enough of politics in Congress.
w’hite.s who knew then what the public
only know now, had every reason to ex
pect an attack of some sort. Mr. Mealing
swears, however, that at the opening of
the court only seven white men were
present, and but two of these were armed.
Colonel A. P. Butler swears that ho drove
to Aiken iu a private carriage, and not at
the head of a band of armed men, and
that during the riot which occurred, he
and General Butler did all they could
to restrain the mob from violence, and
he swears positively that he did not lire
a gun or pistol or order the killing of
a single man. On that very day a color
ed courier rode from Hamburg to Horse
Creek, told the colored men there to
hurry over io Hamburg, and went on to
Beach Island. At midnight the same
courier went back to Hamburg with ten
armed negroes. These facts are sworn
to by Mr. R. E. Carroll. Aud more im
portant than all that goes before, Wm. F.
Flint, the watchman on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Bridge,
swears that, on the morning of the 8th,
John Thomas, one of Adams’s c?mpa
ny, passed him on the bridge, with
a large pistol in his hand ; that ha
said that Adams had been arrested, but
“the boys were not going to allow* him
to be tried.” The deponent fuither
overheard Doc. Adams that afternoon give
orders to his men in the armory to fire
upon the Butlers as they came round the
corner from Prince Rivers's office. J. H.
Lamar swears, also, that a few* days be
fore the riot he heard two negroes talk -
ing in the woods about meeting on Friday
night in Hamburg, and telling each other
that they wanted every man at his post.
Another link in the chain is the testi
mony as to the status of the militia com
pany. Charles Harden, the colored As
sistant Marshal of Hamburg, swears that
Rivers said that the company was not a
regular militia company, and their arms
were taken without his knowledge. This
is corroborated on oath by Prince Rivfrs
himself, and by Stephen Whiteman. Not
being a regularly organized militia com
pany, the surrender of their arms w*as
demanded by the whites. Then the ne
groes swore that they would not surren
der them, but would die arms in hand.
And fifteen responsible white citizens
swear that the firing was begun by the
negroes in the armory, and that Mr.
Merriwether had been killed by the ne
groes before the whites had fired a single
shot.
What w*as the temper of the negroes
after the riot ? Mr. J. H. Corley swears
that on July 9, Williams and other ne
groes told him of the tight, and said the
negroes intended to have revenge—they
would kill the whites in the night, hide
in the day, and begin again the next night
in a different place. On the same day J.
R. Randolph met a band of armed ne-
gToes, who said they intended to murder
the whites, burn their houses and have a
country of their own. There was much
other testimony of the same sort.
Reviewing the Aiken testimony, we
find that the militia company was con
fessedly organized to threaten and intimi
date, if not to kill, the whites ; that its
officers and members were insolent and
riotous, and bullied the whole neighbor
hood ; that threats were made on the
morning of the 4th against one of the
We suspect that the Republican candi
dates have had enough. A better cam
paign document could not bo furnished
the Democrats than Boutwell has given
them; and his absurd report so violently
contradicts the letters of Messrs. Hayes
aud Wheeler that they w ill feel relieved
when tho adjournment of Congress makes
any more contrasts of the kind impos
sible.
A Cnrions Story of Life Insurance
The Memphis Appeal tells the follow
ing story : Two or three years ago a
man named C. A. Folk, who then live 1 in
New York, insured his life for § 10,000 in
the New York Life Insurance Company.
One cold night in January, 1875, Folk
left home on a hunt, but did not return,
and the next day his wife and neighbors
went out to search for him. They fol
lowed his tracks in the snow till they
came to a frozen stream. There they
found Folk’s hat and gun on the ice near
the edge of a hole, and they concluded
that he bad been drowned. Mrs. Folk
applied to the New York Insurance Com
pany for the $10,000 insurance on his
life. Mr. S. H. Carney, the agent of
the company, believed tho drowning
story a fraud, and refused to
pay. Mrs. Folk brought suit and obtain
ed a verdict, but a new trial was granted
and she again obtained a verdict, but was
prevented from getting her money by a
stay of proceedings being granted. In
the meantime Mr. Carney went to Mem
phis and learned from Chief of Police
Athy there, that a man corresponding to
the description of Folk had come to that
city in 1875 under the name of R Rus
sell, and remained there six or seven
months. Chief Athy placed the case in
the hands of Detective Harry Craumer,
who found that Folk, alias Russell, bad
gone to Arkansas, and was living ob
scurely, under the name of J. It. Sloan,
with a negro named Wyatt Huff, near
Surrounded Hill or Fredona Landing,
Prairie county, Arkansas. Chief Athy
telegraphed to Sheriff H. O. Williams,
of Prairie county, Arkansas, to arrest the
man and he would get one hundred dol
lars reward. The Chief also sent a pho -
tograph and description of the man to
tlit Sheriff. On July 31 Chief Athy tele
graphed to the agent, Mr. Carney, at No.
347 Broadway, New York, that the man
had been caught and was held by the
Sheriff of Prairie county. The Sheriff
had telegraphed Chit f Athy that he had
Folk at Devall’h Bluff, Arkansas. The
Chief telegraphed the Sheriff to bring
his prisoner to Memphis, bat the Sheriff
telegraphed back to the chief that W. S.
Hiil and Mr. Carney had telegraphed him
(the Sheriff ) to take Folk to Little Rock
instead of Memphis. Sheriff Williams,
being puzzled, went to Memphis himself,
saw Chief Athy, and returned to Devall’s
Bluff, where he had left the prisoner in
jail. Folk has confessed and will be sent
back to New York.
Over a thousand men, disappointed in
obtaining gold in the Black Hills, are
about to leave for Eastern Montana on a
prospecting tour.
Chicago will kill and pack nearly half a
mi 1 " ?n hogs this summer.
Cincinnati, August 11.—The following
are the main points in the letter of Arch
bishop Purcell on the school question, to
wh ch allusion was made this morniDg in
the Associated Press dispatches. The
letter is addressed to the people of the
United States. The Archbishop says:
The enemies of the Catholic Church as
sert that the bishops and clergy of the
Catholic Church are hostile to the public
schools of the country, and are leagued
to destroy them. Americans, read our
declaration, and learn our true sentiments.
First. The Catholic bishops and clergy
have no intention whatever to interfere
with your public school system. Build
as many schools as 3011 wish, we will
never s&3* a woid against it, and we will
leave to 3*ourseives the care of your own
children.
Second. You wish your schools to be
free from all religious influence. In other
words, 3 0U wish them not to be sectional
or sectarian i-; any case. The episcopacy
of the Catholic Church says, in this re
gard : do with your children as you please.
Third. We Catholics on the other h ud
are under the conviction that children are
sent to school not only to be formed into
citizens, but also and especially to be edu
cated into good men and Christians, and
the church believes in all earnest with
Guizot, the celebrated Protestant staVs-
man of France, that education can by co
means be separated from religious influ
ence. Therefore, while leaving 3* ur
schools and their management in peat* • in
your own hands, we claim the same right
on the plea that we are a religious b >dy
in this free country, whose Constitu on
most solemnly guarantees the free exer
cise of religious belief to all citizeus, and
the fullest personal freedom in regard to
the dictates of conscience.
Fourth. There is not a more essemial
or more precious liberty than that of
parents to educate their children in the
manner which they think will make them
happy for time aud for eternity; th >*e-
fore the Catholic people, with logical
sequence, claim the protection of the
government so as not to be molested in
their schools.
Fifth. We say protection. No doubt
justice and equity would entitle the C .th-
olic people of this country to exemption
from taxation for the support for the
schools or to a share of the public school
fund iu proporiion to the number of j . 0-
ple in their schools, but even this we are
disposed to waive in yonr favor.
Sixth. You can have no reason to fear
the effect of our system on the common
wealth, because experience has proven
that students of our colleges, academies
and schools are as good and useful citi
zens as those who come out of your in
stitutions. And if in every other branch
of human instruction you admit the prin
ciple of competition and believe in its
beneficial influence, why should you ex
clude it from education and deprive your
selves of the benefit which education
would produce ?
Seventh. We fear that, notwithstand
ing this sincere, precise and solemn de
claration, there will 3et be found fanati
cal men and political speakers who will
endeavor to excite their hearers by assert
ing the imaginary opposition of the
Catholic clergy to the public schools of
the country. It is one of the misfortunes
of this world that it cannot rid itself of
men who, like Don Quixote, are perpet
ually fighting against windmills, under
the plea of imminent dangers to their
fellow men. Such men do not wish to
know the truth, and though we re
peat it a thousand times that we do
not oppose their schools any
more than we adore images or trust
more in the Blessed Virgin than the
merits of Christ they will a thousand
times renew the charge aud sw*ear that
we do. We do not expect to silence such
men, but we appeal to all fair-minded
citizens not to be led astray bv* the big
otry or igDorant ranting of men who
would blind them for their own political
end. We ask no favor or privileges. All
we ask is to be let alone in following the
distates of our own consciences, and you
cannot refuse this without undermining
the Constitution and preparing the way
for the loss of some freedom for your
selves. Americans, we are willing to rall3*
with 30U under the flag and mai Uain
them with our blood as we have done
heretofore, but we cannot help fearing
that both are in peril while a larpe
number of our fellow-citizens in and
out of office allow themselves to be
influenced by fanatical or self-interested
politicians or by infidel and revolutionary
foreigners who come to the United States
with the purpose of teaching us what re
publican government is, about which
they know nothing themselves. All we
ask is that you will not go to such men
to learn what wo aim at or what arc our
sentiment-. Give us a fair hearing and
receive this declaration as the sincere ex
pression of our true principles, which we
make before God and man, actuated by
no other motive than one desire for the
welfare and progress and perpetuity of
our country, such as the fatheis of
seventy-six made it, and intended that it
should remain.
Your sincere friend and lover of the
American republic,
John B. Pubcell,
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio.
What Does Mr. Boutwell Mesa}
In the report which Mr. Boutwell has
presented to the Senate in regard to Mis
sissippi affairs he gives as a remedy for
disorders in the South the following
recommendation from his committee:
‘States in anarchy or wherein the affairs
are controlled by bodies of armed men
should be denied representation in Con
gress.” Auother recommendation is that
“if these disorders increase, or even con
tinue, and if mild measures shall prove
ineffectual,” the United States will be
required to “remand the State to a Terri
torial condition.” Does the sweeping
proposition, for which there is no just
cause, mean more than is seen on the
face? May it not also mean that
the electoral votes of Mississippi
and other States arej to be thrown
out in counting the Presidential ballots
on the pretext that the Southern States
“are controlled by political organizations
composed largely of armed men, whose
common purpose is to deprive the m groes
of the free exercise of the right of suffrage
and to establish and maintain the supre-
mac3* of the white line Democracy, ’ as
the report sajs? If the administration
leaders dream of such an interference
they will be rudely awakened. But the
Boutwell report seems to equint tow*ard
such arbitrary interference, and thtre are
Senators euough who would gladly per
petrate this outrage if they dared.—Ne\o
York llerald.
The History of the American Dollar.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
There seems to be a general misnnder *
standing in regard to the present lega
status of the silver dollar as affected by
the different acts of Congress in relation
thereto.
It seems to be conceded, however, and
is really the fact, that from the founda
tion of the government until the passage
of the act of February 12, 1873, the silver
dollar containing 37l£ grains of pure
silver, with more or less alloy, was the
unit of value of the money of the United
States. Until 1837 the weight of the
dollar was 416 grains of standard siver
of the fineness of 902 7-9 thousandths,
but by the act of January 18, 1873,
the standard fineness of the dollar of
the United States was fixed at 1,000 parts
by weight, cf which 900 parts were of
pure metal and 100 parts of alloy, the
alloy to consist of copper. The weight
of the sliver dollar was fixed at 4124
grains, and the dollar of this weight con
tinued until 1873 to be the money unit
of the United States, the value of gold
coins being adjusted thereto and determined
thereby. There was in all this legislation
no double standard established, nor was
there ever a gold dollar coined until snch
coinage was authorized by the act of
1849, “conformable in all respects to the
standard of gold coins now (then] author
ized by laic,” and its weight was fixed at 258
grains of the fineness of nine hundred
thousandths. This did not establish a -
double standard, but the silver dollar con
tinued to be the unit of value until the
act of February* 12, 1873. That act de
clares as follows : “The gold coins of the
United States shall be a one dollar piece,
which, at the standard weight of twenty-
five and eight-tenths grains, shall be the
unit of value. * * * “The silver coin
of the United States shall be a trade dol
lar a half dollar, a quarter dollar and a
dime. The weight of the trade dollar to
be four hundred and twenty grains, troy.
The standard of fineness for both metals
is fixed at 1.000 parts b3* weight, 900 parts
of pure metal.
No other gold or silver coins to be is
sued except as set forth in the title. The
act also provides that “the gold coins of
the United States shall be legal tender^,
at their nominal value,” and “the silver
coins of the United States shall be a legal
tender for any amount not exceeding five
dollars in any one payment.”
This act worked a complete revolution
in the relative status of gold and silver
coins. It deprived the silver dollar both
of its legal tender quality aud its unit of
value qualit3*, and transferred the latter
quality to the gold dollar. It also abol
ished the old silver dollir of 4124
grains and substituted therefore a trade
dollar of 4*20 grains. At the time this
was done, the silver dollar was worth
more than the gold dollar, and it seems
to us that the bondholder* might then
have complained, anil with good reasoD,
that the act was one of repudiation. The3*
were entitled to have the silver dollar
continued as the unit of value; and had
gold, instead of silver, depreciated in
value, we should have a howl from them
over the bad faith of our government.
They would, no doubt, have demanded
that the letter of the bend should be com
plied with, and the status of the silver
dollar restored, iu all respects, as beforo
tho act was passed.
Now, have not the people, who must
pa3* these bonds, the same right to com
plain and to make the same demand ?
But suppose silver should be remonetized,
and silver dollars coined for all who
might bring bullion to the mints of the
United States. Is it probable that the
bondholder class would be so terribly
injured thereby ? If the demand for fifty
millions for subsidiary coin has sent sil
ver up in the market 7 or 8 per cent.,
would not a demand for two or three
hundred millions have the effect to bring
the value of gold and silver very near to
gether? Who, then, is to be injured by
it ? By all means let silver dollars be re
stored to their original status, and our
financial problem will be solved, spe
cie resumption will be easy, public
confidence will be restored, business will
revive, and the country will enter on a
new era of prosperity.
During eight years of President Grant’s
administration the net ordinary expenses
of the government have fallen at tho rate
of $4,000,000 a year, about one per cent,
annually. In a single year the Demo
cratic House of Representatives has re
duced the net ordinary expenditure of
the coming year by $31,000,000, cq lal to
the total reduction during the whole of
President Grant’s administration. The
House of Representatives has accom
plished this in the face of the Senate, in
the face of the President, in the face of 90, -
000 office-holders. During seven years of
Republican control in this State,from 1800
to 1807, the Republican party increased
the State tax from $5,440,000 to $12,-
017,000, and in the last year of Republi
can control the State tax rose to $15,-
727,482. Under a single year of Gov.
Tilden this tax has been reduced to $8,-
208,000, the tax of 1860. In one session
the Democratic House has equalled Re
publican economy during eight sessions.
In one year Governor Tilden has re
pressed the extravagance and reduced
the taxation of the Republican party to
the figures of ten years ago. If the
country will put Governor Tilden at one
end of Penns3*lvania avenue and a Demo
cratic House at the other end, it will
double these results. It will gain the
lightest taxation since the war broke out
and the most rigorous economy the coun
try has seen.—N. Y. World.
A Marriage in the Surf.
Recently an elderly Baltimore gentle
man, proud of his wealth, discovered that
his daughter had dared to love a young
man far beneath her in the estimation of
society. A week later the Baltimore
mansion was closed for , the season, and
the names of father and daughter soon
after appeared on the register of one of
the hotels at Narragansett Pier. There
was with them a companion, outwardly
treated as an equal, but in reality a paid
spy over the 3*oung lady's actions and
correspondence. But before a fortnight
had elapsed the young lover at Baltimore
received one morning a big envelope con
taining a dainty little note which filled
him with joy unspeakable. He had a
friend who was a clergyman, and before
the sun had set that night two had a long,
earnest conference, which resulted next
morning in the departure of the twain
for Narragansett Pier. The old gentleman
was forbidden by his physician to bathe
in the surf, aud the spy hated the sea as
the devil is said to hate ho)3* water. The
young lady enjoyed her bath exceed
ingly, and, as the most infatuated
lover is apt to be temporarily dis
enchanted by the appearance of his
ideal in a bathing dress, the father and
the spy concluded that no possible harm
could come to the “dear child” in the
water, and so the spy only sat upon the
bank and watched. The lover and the
minister reached Providence in due time
and speedily won a young Iaw3*er over to
their cause. The lover then went to the
pier, and, keeping out of the way of the
spy, suddenly appeared before the happy
girl in the water. A few minutes sufficed
for him to propose that they be mar
ried the next day in the water, and the
lady promptly consented. Back flew the
enraptured lover to Providence, legal for
malities were quick^* arranged, the lawyer
invited a confidential friend as a witness,
and the next day, when the water was
full of people, a party of five might have
been seen a little apart from the other
bathers. The marriage ceremoD3* had to
be suspended every few seconds on ac
count of the breakers. Then the foam
leaped to claim the first kiss from the
lips of the bride, but the jest of the little
company relinquished their privilege on
account of the attention such a proceed
ing might attract.—Providence Journal.
What Ails the Sultan. —Dr. Karpole-
one, the Saltan’s unusually communis
tive ph>>ician, writes the following ac
count of the state of his Sovereign’s
health to the correspondent of the Afessa-
gerduMidi: “The Sultan is lost. He
has delirium tremens. I attribute this to
the abuse of intoxicating l quors, and in
particular to that of ab.-inthe, which he
drank habitually before his accession to
the throne, when he lived in Pera; to
his debauchery and his depraved tastes;
to the remorse which constantly haunts
him and reminds him of his uncle poi
soned and his family massacred, and to
his fear of seeing the Russians enter
Constantinople, or the Mussulman fanat
ics invade his palace. His faculties are
dulled, he is almost imbecile, h s head
rolls, he has lost his hair, aud yet he con
stantly calls for raki, for preserves, and
for the ladies of the hurem. He does
not sleep, and his malady gets worse every
d*y. The abuse of baths has weakened
his limbs to i-uch an extent that he suffers
from the slightest touch, and sinks down
as soon as he attempts to move.”
A Wisconsin editor has faith that Ti’-
den and Hendricks will be elected, and
he manifests it by publicly advertising
the following offer: “Any citizen of Mon
roe county, not a subscriber of the Mon-
soe county Republican, aud considered
responsible for two dollars, can have this
paper mailed to him, commencing July
4, 1876, to be paid when Tilden and
Hendricks are elected President and Vice-
President of the United Sratss. No Til
den no pay! This means business. Walk
right up, gentlemen, and don’t be afraid
of beating us out of the paper.”
Among the objects recently found in
the excavations aL Rome are a large block
of amethyst, numerous amulets in the
form of animals, a bag of chalcedony,
thirty-one stone coffers containing iron
weapons, a woman’s head, life size, well
modeled, m terra-cotta, on which are
traces of painting, and a little statue in
Greek marble representing the figure of a
man lying down asleep, with his head
covered with a pienula.
Salmon, which a few years ago sold in
the New York market at one dollar a
pound can now be bought for eighteen
cents. This great reduction is due to the
fact that since the opening of new rail
roads enormous quantities can be put, at
a low figure, in eastern cities by re
frigerator cars, which bring the fish
directly from their native rivers in Maine
and the British Provinces.
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