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«J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
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J. H. EST1LL,
Savannah. Ga.
l ilK BEASTS lsAST VICTIM.
[From the New York Sun.]
p e a r d x u the wail of Wayne MacVeagh,
u . •'.■!; iu Benjamin Butler’s way,
' ',ior bin scalpel writhing lay,
] u0 v e.:k to fight and t. o wicked to pray ?
„■ r0 u the smile of Benjamin grim,
7‘ [ U . thrust his f-capel into him,
( ,-n • - him, cutting him, limb by limb,
\\ surgical grace and horrible vim ?
Ht-ird v u the victim's awful “Oh !”
. • t the knife to his gizzard go,
u ,-iit‘d that Packard were there to throw
ii iu :• t > the Gulf of Mexico?
0 v ef wrath 1 O terr ble day !
p,,r Simon's son-in-law, Wayne MacVeagh,
W.'.- ji tie fell i« B«*nj unin Butler’s way,
ini ler nii scalpel writhing lay,
, u vak to fight and too wicked to pray.
Affairs in Georgia.
.• ccral Robert Toombs and wife hare
return* (1 from Hot Springs, and are at the
Kimball House, Atlanta. Ex-Governor
j ilBep h E. Brown was expected home last
night.
rae Atlanta cnatom house is being
pushed ahead by Superintendent Healey.
Tlr.- fetin lation is Stone Mountain granite,
i with Maino granite, upon which the
ur. -N d brick walls have beon laid to the
i. _htof about ten feet. The trimmings
will Ik profuse and heavy, and will be made
0 f Maine granite, which is darker and more
suckled than the Stone Mountain granite.
The presses in three printing offices in
Atlanta are now run by water power, which,
it bought, will have a tendency to in-
flvase the price of lager beer in that city.
Ju ige Hillyer has set this afternoon at 3
: -u for the hearing of the “demand” of
IPih.jck and Blodgett for a trial of their cases
immediately. The “demand” will be ar-
-ued by General Gartrell, Senator Hill, ex-
Chicf Justice Lochrane and Judge McKay,
ai d i: s expected that their arguments will
b of a very able character.
TL* Brunswick fair commences to-day,
the i:i h, and will continue for three days,
and promises to be a success. The fair
committee have been working hard. On
Tbutvday the regatta takes place and will
fia;:ise a race for first-class boats, bat
eaux and a “tub race.” In the military
lii; the Mitchell Light Guards, the Floyd
Bides, Macon Cadets, of Macon, and the
Albiay Guards, of Albany, will compete for
the beautiful banner to be presented by the
ladies of Brunswick to the best drilled com-
pi v on the grounds. The presentation
will take place on the ball room floor Thurs
day night. The whole will wind up by a
brilliant ball, at which no doubt soft eyes
wi.l look love to eyes which speak again,
ai d all go merry as a marriage bell.
They have not yet secured a bank in
Brunswick, but the Journal is still hammer
ing away at the project. The only thing
that seems lacking is the money with which
to start it.
Bulloch county hag begun to ship apples
to market. There is money in apples just
now.
More than thirty thousand dollars worth
of dried fruit was sold for ciBh in Griffin
summer before last.
It is slated that iu Madison county the
cattle are dying of murrain or some other
equally fatal disease.
The Rev. Wm. M. Hayes, of Blackshear,
will deliver the commencement sermon of
the Bradwell Institute, at Hinaiville, on the
first Sabbath in July.
There are four negroes and one white man
quietly reposing in Elbert county jail, where
they will remain, if they don’t work out, un
til the session of the court in September.
A young man in Warren county, twenty-
two years old, has never taken a drink of
whisky, a chew of tobacco, nor 6moked a
cigar.
It said that Senators Gordon and Hill
have biih recommended Mayor Huff, of
Macon, for the State Marshalship.
In Hiuesville Gazette says that fish are
splendidly in the Altamaba, Dunn’s
Lake and the Old river. Parties go out and
come back loaded, aDd speak in glowiDg
terms of the excellent sport.
a Stockton, Clinch county, correspondent
writer that they are now in the midst of the
o&t harvest, which will bo finished by the
U’.li, with the best yield ever made In the
cjunty, and better preparations made for
stacking and housing. Of the wheat he says
suuie patches are turning out well, and with
prop, r cultivation by drilling and cot
ton seed as a fertilizer, a« good heavy wheat
cs: be grown in this section as in any other
in Georgia. The corn crop will be short
from the ravages of the drill and cut worm.
There has been no shipment of corn, how
ever, to the farmers of the county so far.
Cotton is looking well, though it, too, has
b-ea injured to some extent by the cut
worm, probably to the extent of five per
cent.
The same locomotive on the Central Rail-
rovj. -ays the Griffia News, has killed eight
cow- in one month.
Lie people of Henry county will petition
Lr the establishment of a regular mail
rouLe b -tween Hampton and Worthville,
kkiii^ in Locust Grove, Winn’s Mill and
Sandy Ridge. It is also proposed to have
ofiico at Lowe’s for the convenience of
tbe people in that neighborhood. The
mails are very irregular under the present
system, and much comulaint has been
made.
The Monroe Advertiser sayB: “After a
;r ught (»f more than four weeks, we have
btd two fine showers of rain, one on Tues-
' ia . v and another on Thursday. We need
mor •till, but a half season is better than
noue.”
The Eiberton Gazette says: “The water
’ii - s in the county have been so low that
V il hsh are obliged to etaud on thoir heads
m order to sustain life.”
Tbe Eiberton Gazette says : “A gentle-
miii from that n uhborhood reports the
* is to be afire about four or five miles
*’ of town. He says they have been
bUi ; ing since Saturday and will continue
Q nt;l it raihs.” Ab tbe rain has at la*t de-
^ 'led, we trust that tne fire has suc
cumbed to its power.
• Monroe Advertiser says; “Reports
* r °m .1 suctions of the county represent
l be wheat crop as the best for ten years
£ a ' : * The large acreage sown and the fine
-i.Gu insures bread for our people. There
‘ doubtless be thousands of bushel* sold
* 3 J shipped to the different flouring mills in
he !S:ate, and the various mills of our
county will prosper more than at any time
J luc,; war. Flour made from Monroe
ounty wheat at our home mills, should be
,. Cl * doubtless L, sweeter and better than
oou^hi’ flour.”
Hinesville Gazelle, under the head of
Best Sheep Country,” says : “The
& °f hilly country between the Ohoopie
a* ^‘mulgee rivers affords as fine pastur-
p for sheep as any part of Georgia, The
? eu woods, with here and there a running
g , ream the verdant hill-sides, make it a
7 ^ P country. It is suggested by some
have tested it that Bermuda grass
add greatly to the value of this sec-
j. • an d that sheep do well on this grass.
^ w °uld seem to be an easy matter
Dair' Ve tile8e °P en woods converted into
no* - e * &n< * «'‘wing the Bermuda grass,
wo • la fields, but iu the unenclosed
b «!*’ tinder the pines. There is no under
in in t0 P revent l h e tise of a scooter plow
a f7 an T Pi&ces, and once the grass obtains
And vr spread itself. Tattnall
bpiri u atgomer y c °tinties would then be the
some 5 * 1 — country in the world. Will not
“Ranse Wright,” a c&niae named after
General A. R. Wright, died last week at
Eiberton, at the advanced age of nineteen
years. The Gazette gives the following his
tory of the auimal: “He was the property
of Mrs. Shannon, and well known iu our vil
lage as the attendant of Major Shannon for
ten years before his death, sinoe which time
the poor dog has seemed to care little for
his own existence, refusing food until
strongly forced by hunger, and prying into
the face of every one that approached him,
seemingly in search of his dead master, and
when he found himself disappointed, turn
ing away with every appearance of complete
despair.”
It is very evident that the long continued
drought in Griffin lias been broken by the
following, from the Griffin Sun: “A dry
spell of some four weeks’ daration was end
ed last Tuesday afternoon by tbe fall of a
copious shower of ram. Aud it was a glo
rious, grateful rain. The parched earth
leaped up in glad dust particles to meet it.
The trees clutched at it with their bough-
fingers. Old men smiled with thankfulness,
and shook hands with all they met.”
The Butts County Argus says: “Last week
Mrs. Y. Thaxton was at the spring engaged
in washing. Having occasion to return to
the house for a brief time, she left her little
daughter, eleven years old, at the wash
place. By some means the chili’s clothing
caught on fire, and she would have burned
to death if Mrs. Thaxton had not rushed to
her relief in answer to her frantic screams.
Although seriously burned, she will proba
bly recover.”
Moatg,
enverpriumg farmer in Tattnall or
ornery try ttiia plan ?*
Florida Affairs.
The commencement exercises of the Jef
ferson Academy, at Monticello, will take
place on the 21st aud 22J instant, on which
occasion the Hon. Coiambus Drew will de
liver the address. We are pleased to learn
that the past session has been a very success
ful one. Good schools indicate prosperity
and intelligence, both of which arc charac
teristics of the people of Monticello. The
Principal of the academy, Mr. A. C. Wright*
will accept our thanks for an invitation to be
present on the interesting occasion.
Seven new buildings have been pat up in
Falatka the present year, and several more
are nnder contract, and will bo completed
during tho snmmer, all of which shows pro
gress in the right direction. -
It has been forty days since a drop of
rain has fallen in Pensacola, and on Satnr
day last the thermometer marked eighty-
seven degrees in the shade. The Herald
says the gardens arc burning np.
Ocala is improving in tone—we mean
musical tone—as it is the intention of the
congregations of the Baptist aDd MethodUt
Churches to procure an organ for their
respective churches.
The editor of the Eatl Florida Banner,
with a view to encourage the cultivation of
watermelons and peaches, proposes to give
a copy of the Banner free for one year to
the person that presents him with the
largest melon or best variety of peaches
during the season.
Alachua county boasts of tho efficiency of
her new Sheriff, Mr. Poosor, who, since his
appointment, has been very active and vigi
lant in bringing into the meshes of the law
those who commit crime. He has recently
captured two escaped convicts, one named
Mack Montgomery. Mack was convicted of
wholesale stealing of cotton two or three
years ago, and was sentenced to the peni
tentiary, but escaped after remaining but a
short time. Abram Hawkins, the other
convict, was found in Orange county. Haw
kins stole some property in Alachna oonnty
some years agp, converted it into money,
stole another man’s wife and run off into
Suwannee county. He committed other
crimes there and was sentenced to tho peni
tentiary. Mr. Pooser has delivered both of
these offenders into the custody of General
Dickison.
The Sanitary Committee of Fernandina
has been instructed by tho Council to in
troduce a most stringent ordinance in regard
to sanitary matters.
It is reported that Dr. J. P. Wall, of
Tampa, has applied for the vacant position
of associate editor of the Key West Dispatch.
Mrs. Mooney, who was recently arrested
on a charge of inoendiarism of the Norwood
House at Fernandina, has waived examina
tion and given a bond of one thousand dol
lars for her appearance at the next term of
the Circuit Court.
At the instance of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, Sheriff Cone has seized all
the property of the St. Mary’s River Lum
ber Company of Woodstock.
The Pensacola Herald says: “On Satur
day morning about 8 o’clock, as a little col
ored boy, some twelve or thirteen years old,
was cutting at some timbers in an old honse
that had been rendered untenable by the
cyclone, the honse fell npon him and
orushed him horribly, his head, face aud
shoulders being terribly lacerated.”
The following from tho l’alatka Herald
ssems to point to a mystery which needs
investigation: “A few days since a patty
started out on a cow bunt in Polk county,
and camped on Gator creek, some distance
from the main road. In this desolato place
they found a saddle and bridle and saddle
bags, shovel and charts, wrapped np in a
bundle, with twenty prize packages. The
party numbered thirteen. They made dili
gent search, but made no discovery of the
man. They noticed the print of his foot
steps in several places near the edge of a
lake. They ascertained his name from his
papers to be F. Franklin. A large sorrel
norse was found dragging a rope that was
tied around his neck. The party sending us
the above item are anxiouB that this mysteri
ous affair shonld be made known. What
this man should be doing iu this wild part
of the country is certainly straDge, and his
disappearance very mysterious.”
The Monticello Constitution says : “ Gov.
Drew’s letter on taxation, recently publish
ed has exercised a very happy effect upon
the people. Hundreds who had been in
dulging in censure of His Excellency are
now his most zealous indorsers. The letter
was opportune.”
A writer in tho.New York Sun having
been poking fnn at Pratt’s big rattlesnake
with fifty-two rattles fie rises to explain as
follows in the Palatka Herald: “We only
saw ihe tail of the snake m possession of
Coi. DeVall, of this place. The Colonel
bought it from the Indians at Lake Winder.
This happened throe years ago. We count-
ed every rattle. If it was a put up job, it
was the most successful that we ever wit
nessed, for we could not detect anything un
natural about it.”
Fernandina Express : “ The Carrie, oa her
last trips dowu, which included the trip on
Monday, May 21st, carried three hundred
aud thirty-eight passengers. This includes
aii taken on hoard aud landed from bauforil
to Fernandina. but does not include chil
dren aud gives an average of fiftv-six and a
half passengers per trip. On the trip down
on the 21st she transported three hundred
and sixtv crates of vegetables, billed through
to New York.”
The Fernandina Eznress savs: “Owing
to the abrupt a
the Islander broke bib contract to run on the
St Mary’s river for Captain Billings, tbis
gentleman was compelled to secure the
services of the steamer James Gay ; bat this
vessel upon her return trip to this place was
attached by the officers of the law, and now
Captain- Billings is going to Jacksonville
Palatka whence he hopes soon to return
with bis former steamer, the Ooklawaha,
couioletely repaired and renovated. He has
2 arrangements to carry out the mail
contract.”
St Augustine is making exteosive prepa
rations ffir a hnge 4th of July celebration.
A citizens^ meefng has been held and a pro-
gramme adopted. Tl.e programme will in
clude .a national salute at sunr.se and the
ringing of the city bells, a procession of
tousfics or horribles to «he depo o meet
the Palatka excursion at 9.30, oration oy
the orator of the day, y» cb ^^ace canoe
race* swimming matches, ruuuing matches,
buffalo’hunt byriodians, salute at midday
and at sundown, horse races, and a great
manv other sports, winding up with a gland
display of fireworks and hopin;tbe evening,
the latter to be tbe grandest affair of >- 0
tore ever before known in that city. Excur
sions from Tallahassee, Lakh City, Ocala,
Gainesville, Jacksonville and P olnt ! h * l °“ g
the St. John’s river will arrive on the eve
ning of the 3d and leave on the oth.
The Florida Agriculturist has the follow
ing interesting narticulars concermng ex-
treine Southern Florid.: “Mr. T. L. JacK
man of New York, who, with a few others
from the same State, wandered down there
and formed a settlement, have located thir-
ty-six miles south of -Miami, on a strip of
laud near the Everglades, from three to fif-
t ‘in miles wide. The seasons are a perpet
ual summer: frost is quite unknown. All
the tropical units thrive luxunantJy One
of the settlers near Miami, Mr. C. W.
Warwick had twenty-one coffee
treeT ifi bearing which the past sea-
son gave an average of five pounds
each of coffee. They were planted five years
ago from seed imported from Brazil. Gua
vas grow wild in the woods, and game of all
kinds is abundant. A great part of this
country about the Everglades is still a terra
incognita. No government surveyor has
ever visited it. Sir. Jackman reports that
there is a vast quantity of land that is capa
ble of cultivation. The Seminole IndiaDs
he calculates at six hundred in number. They
live on an island in the Everglades, and Mr.
Jackman has often been there. Thtir
village is laid out with broad Btreeta, aDd
the honses covered with palmetto thatch.
These Indians still retain their negro slaves.
A schooner from Key West visits the coast
twice a month and brings over supplies for
the settlers, the freight on a barrel of flonr
being only twenty-five cents, and in retnrn
the settlers send the vegetables that they
grow for sale in Key West. Miama is a
thriving settlement of about 200 honses, and
fast growing. Visitors looking np tbis conn-
try can get board at fifty cents per day in
families. Laborers are paid one dollar and
fifty cents per day.
A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
How- it Drove Frank, to Confession—The
North Carolina Jliirshalslilp King.
A Washington special of the 8th inst.
to the Baltimore Gazette says the sequel
to the recent arrest of Deputy Marshal
Franks, of North Carolina, is ready. It
seems that for some time past there have
been suspicions of doctored accounts in
the service in that State, aud Franks pre
cipitated his own downfall in rather a
curious way, evidently in a fit of nervous
fear that he would be detected. Recently
the District Attorney of North Carolina
was prosecuting some business at Ashe
ville, which required the attendance of
two deputies, Franks and Retd. They
were sleeping together over night, when
Franks suddenly started up, exclaiming:
“My God! They are coming,” and tell
ing Reed to take care of the papers in
his saddle-bags, he jumped from the
window and fled from his imaginary
pursuers in his night clothes. A
friend at some little distance
supplied him with clothes, and
he started for Washington to lay charges,
he said, against Marshal Douglass.
Meanwhile his saddle bags had been ex
amined, and were found to contain a lot
of certificates signed by Commissioners
Weeks aud Rogers for expenses incurred,
which Franks was to collect on pre
sentation to the Marshal. There is no
doubt these certificates were forgeries.
Large items of expense never incurred
are charged, and it is now believed a
great many of these forged certificates
are out through the northern regions of
tbe State. It is claimed in extenuation
that the fees of these deputies are so
small that they are driven to this dis
honesty. The' department has sum
moned Marshal Douglass and many more
witnesses from North Carolina to the trial
of Franks next week.
Frequency of Suicides.
The number of suicides in the United
States during the present year is said to
Bfe unprecedented in this country. France
and Germany, where infidelity has been
more prevalent than in almost aDy other
countries, seem about to yield their un
enviable distinction in this respect to the
United States. One of the leading causes
is thought to be the bard times, and, it is
remarked, “fathersjof families who have
been out of work during the whole
winter, and who have managed to sup
port their wives and their households ou
the little savings of years in the hope of
obtaining employment in the spring, find
their hopes blighted, and in a moment of
despair seek relief from the.cares of the
world in death.” There is nothing of
heroic character or of moral fortitude in
such conduot. It is rather cowardice of
the basest kind, because it deserts and
leaves to deeper misery the objects of a
man’s highest concern for the pusil
lanimous reason that he cannot bring
himself to share the fate of poverty and
ruin which he has been unable to avert.
It is, moreover, a crime against the Cre
ator, who gave life, and who- will take it
back when He, in His infinite wisdom,
deems it best; a crime against the family
of the suicide, which has a right to his
life and to all that he can do tot those of
whom he is the natural protector; and a
crime against himself, for he has no more
right to take his own life than that of any
other man. There are many things in
the world hard to bear, but whether they
can be improved by changing them for
the “ills we know not of” is a problem
which no one in his senses would like to
solve by self destruction.
Some writers, ancient and modern, have
defended this crime, but it may be
doubted whether suicide is ever com-
m-tted, except when the functions of the
brain are impaired and the mind per
verted into improper channels. As causes
of suicide—depression, failure, delusion,
unrequited love, drunkenness aud disease
may be enumerated. At the common
law, suicide was a felony, as felony is, in
common law language, any capital of
fense, and murder is the only capital of
fense which a man can commit against
himself, the man who commits this crime
is called a self-murderer, or one who
kills himself with malice aforethought.
It is held at the common law that if one
encourage and assist another in the com
mission of suicide he is guilty of murder
as a principal.
Judging from the experience of re
ligious countries a religious training of
the young lessens the number of suicides.
The philosophy of tbis is that the mind
is thereby trained to look upon the evils
of this life as of a transient and discipli
nary character, which, if submitted to
in a proper spirit, will result in perma
nent good and happiness. It is a curious
fact that many suicides repent of the act
when it is too late. Tnis was once illus
trated in the case of a noted character
who cut his throat during an attack of
cerebral congestion, which was relieved
by the loss of blood, and the normal self-
restraint, before lost, asserted itself when
the deed was committed, but as much in
vain as if the act had been committed by
any other murderer.—Baltimore Sun.
Adventures of a Texas Mustang
Hunter.—Bud Stewart, in pursuing a
bunoh of mustangs between Elm and
East Weedy creeks, was thrown from his
horse. He was senseless for some time.
When he came to himself his horse was
gone and his bruises hurt him so badiy
he could not walk; he crawled through
the briars and brush some fifty yards to
a pool of water, and remained at the
pool that night and the next day and
night. Not a mouthful did he have to
eat, aDd the water at the pool having
given out, he started in search of more
water. About twelve o'clock on the sec
ond day he says he was so thirsty and
hungry, and his bruises hurt him so bad
ly, that he could go no further, and
crawling to a tree, stretched himself out
to die. While thus contemplating death,
he heard the leaves shake near him ; he
turned his eyes in the direction of the
noise, when, lo 1 they espied a large rat
tlesnake making for him. The sight of
the snake banished his hunger, thirst and
pain for the time being, and raising upon
his elbow made an effort to scare his
snakeship away. The snake struck at
him twice and left him, and from some
cause he did not feel so much like dying.
He said once more, “I will try to reach
water;” in searching, about night, he
came to the road, aud could go no fur
ther. Next morning he was found about
two-miles from home, lying across the
road on his faoe, completely exhausted.
He was immediately carried home, a
doctor oalled. and at last accounts was
doing well.
Drouth in North Carolina. The
complaint of the dronth is vary general
throughout this whole section of the
country. It is seriously affecting the
crops The oats are scarcely a f(*>t high,
and is heading prematurely. Cotton is
scaroely visible among tbe clods, and
corn is beiDg burnt up. The dry weather
comes at the most inauspicious time—
that is, when all the crops are young and
unable to stand it. Unless there is ram
soon some serious results are predicted.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, June 6.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Rain at Last—Another fool Spell—Blod
gett After Bryant— Memorial Serviceo
—New Buildings— Minor Topics— “Mis
guided”—Convention and Capital Ques
tion—Bu'Iock, Blodgett A Co—No Trial
Cranted—Finn! Paragraphs.
[Special Correspondence Morning News.]
Atlanta, Jane 11, 1877.—A good rain
Saturday night and yesterday morning
has laid the dnst, cooled the heated at
mosphere, and made the crops look more
hopeful.
Oxford University did a good thing in
giving Grant the title of “D. 0. L.” As
he is loitering over the continent, no one
will deny that he should be dubbed a
“Decidedly Cheeky Loiterer.” Now for
“F. R. S.”—for “Free Bide Seeker.”
Somebody has got the cart before the
horse, or Jack. It is Blodgett who
has sued Bryant for slander, not Bryant
who has sued Blodgett. At first Blodgett
proposed to cow hide the Skowhegauite.
but his friends persuaded him to take the
legal course. Bryant, and not Blodgett,
is running the Republican.
Memorial services were held at the
First Baptist Church yesterday afternoon
in honor of the late Judge Cincinnatus
Peeples, at which there was a very large
attendance of our leading citizens. Brier
addresses were delivered by Gov. Col
quitt and Judge James Jackson eulogistic
of the deceased. Kev. Dr. Gwin, pastor
of the church, conducted the religious
services.
The Bank of the State of Georgia is not
the only institution that is to have a new
building. The Merchants’ Bank, of which
Major Campbell Wallace is President, has
broken ground for the erection of an ele
gant banking house, to be located oppo
site the First National Bank building. It
is very bard to feel that the country is
financially depressed in the midst of the
active and expensive building projects
now in progress of completion in Atlanta.
MINOR TOPICS.
“Misguided,” the Morning News serial
by Mrs. Anne A. Cox, of Gainesville, is
highly praised by your readers in this
vicinity, who are not only deeply inter
ested in its local references, but admire
the high moral principles which it un
folds and inculcates in striking incidents
and pathetic appeals.
The anti-conventionists are very sore
over Senator Hill’s speech, but they are
so few in number that their influence will
scarcely be felt to-morrow at the polls.
Ex-Governor Brown, telegraphs, as I pre
dicted, that he is in favor of a convention.
This knocks the leading names off the
anti-convention ticket, and leaves its en
dorsers in a bad fix.
The question agitating the city to-day
is, “Do you think the convention will
remove the capital ?” Suppose they do,
as Senator H:ll said, it is better tc meet
the question now, and settle it, than to
have it raised every year in the Legisla
ture. Like the convention question, it is
not one to be decided by Fulton county,
but is to b9 settled by the entire people of
Georgia.
For myself, I am in favor of keeping it
here; but with the understanding that the
convention shall so purify the corrupt at
mosphere by which it is surrounded, that
a more honest, economical and dignified
form of Slate government may be estab
lished and carried on here. Bullock is
out of power now, but the same influ
ences that made his administration cor
rupt and extravagant still exist in aud
around Atlanta. Would it not be better
to destroy these than to remove the capi
tal ? “I pau*e for a reply.”
BULLOCK, BLODGETT & OO.
The Superior Court of Fulton county-
met this morning, Judge George Hillyer
presiding. Tho attendance of lawyers
was very large, including ex-Judges Mo-
Ksy, Collier, Hillyer, Wright and others,
ex-Attorney General Hammond and Con
gressman Candler.
Attorney General Ely announced that
the State had no cases ready, whereupon
General Gartrell informed the court that
ex-Governor R. B. Bullock was present
and ready for trial. Senator B. H. Hill
also announced the case of Foster. Blod
gett as ready, and ex-Solicitor Glenn
stated that Judge Hopkins, counsel for
E. N. Kimball, was sick and not able to
be present.
In reply, Attorney General Ely stated
that he was not prepared for these cases,
and, could not set any day for a hearing.
Judge Hillyer then announced that the
civil business had been delayed, and that
he should devote the balance of the term
to civil oases, which would put these
cases off until some time in August.
Senator Hill, Judge McKay and General
Gartrell, opposed this delay in strong ap
peals, but in vain.
After consultation, how ever, they called
upon Judge Hillyer to put on record a
“demand for trial” on the part of
Blodgett and Bullock. The cases could
be disposed of in twenty four hours, the
parties and their witnesses were here a:
great expense, and they now demand a
speedy trial. But Attorney General Ely
objected to the “demand,” and Judge
Hillyer has taken the matter under con
sideration. It is safe to say, however,
that no trial will be had until the next
tsrm of the court.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Judge James Jackson, who has been
confined to his house for some time by
sickness, is now able to be out, and will
soon be entirely recovered.
Judge J. L. Hopkins, however, is still
in feeble health, although much better
than he was last week. He will seek re
newed health at the springs this summer,
and it is hoped that he will return fully
restored.
Senator Hill’s reference, in hie speech,
to ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins as the
presiding officer of the proposed conven
tion created marked applause. It is gen
erally conceded in this section of the
State that this distinguished Georgian
will crown a long and useful public ca
reer by presiding over the convention
that is to give to the Empire State of the
South a constitution made by her own
sons, and one calculated to bring renewed
peace and prosperity to all her great in
terests. Chatham.
BEAST BUTLER’S SECRET SERY1CE
HAYES A5D COLORED MEN.
The failure of the contractor to furnish
supplies to the Shoshone Indians, it is
said, came near involving us in another
war with our red wards. Fortunately,
however, the supplies were forwarded in
time, and the empty stomachs of the
Shoshones are full and their hearts are
good. At present ail of tbe Indian tribes
are at peaqe with the whites and each
other, and it is highly desirable that
DOthing should occur to change this con
dition of affairs. Fighting the Indians
is an expensive business. Within a year
past we have lost one of our bravest and
most accomplished general officers and
at least four hundred subordinate officers
and men of the regular army, while the
cost of prosecuting Indian campaigns has
been enoimous. Experience has fully
demonstrated the truth of the saying that
it is much cheaper to feed the Indians
than to fight them.— Washington Star.
Living in the Black Hills.—A Chi
cago Tribune correspondent who is doing
the Blaok Hills reports wages on the de -
cline, and men more plenty than work,
while prices for all articles of consump
tion are unusually high. On the 13th of
May at Dsadwood flour was worth $1G
per" 100 pouuds; on the 14th, $20; on the
15th, $25; on the 10th at eight a. m.,
$39, and at fourp. m., $35. That night
a heavily laden ox-team came in, and
next morning flour was back at $16.
Grass Paper.—San Francisco capital
ists have now taken in hand the erection
of a mill for the manufacture of paper
from Tule grass. Experiments made are
satisfactory as to the quality of the
“news” made therefrom, while the supply
of tbe raw material is practically inex
haustible. The vast and increasing use
of printing paper on that coast as well
as elsewhere renders this enterprise of
importance as well as feasible.
iiUConntanr Kotrlayuical otDetectiveH—A
Book of Private IntormarloD—How Thin
Koowlrdie Han Been L'sed in the Past,
and tlnwii May be Toed la tbe Fntnre.
I Washington correspondence Hartford Times 1
Ben. Butler’s letter to Wayne Mac
Veagh, the son-in-law of Simon Came
ron, the man who owns and manages
Pennsylvania, is not as much of a crusher
as was expected it would be—indeed, it is
said that Ben. threw it out as a bait to
draw MacVeagh on, and then to wipe him
cut altogether. Butler is thought to be
possessed of information the publishing
of which would be very damaging to the
Camerons and MacVeagh. The hist let
ter read like a labored effort, aDd was
altogether unlike that to “Dear” Pitkin.
Butler can beat the world in slinging
mud, and if MacVeagh gives him a
chance he will gladly accept it. Proba
bly there is no man better posted
on the inside and personal affairs
of the public men of this country
than Butler. His sources of information
are unsurpassed. For years he had the
detective Whitely and his whole corps of
secret service operators of the Treasury
Department in his employ bunting np
things that public men desire to keep in
the dark. Then again, Jayne and San
born, the special agents of the Treasury,
who had the opportunity to learn the pri
vate business matters of many of the
leading men of the country, gave Bntler
all the “points” they could gather.
Whitely told me once that Butler kept all
his information in a systematic manner.
He keeps a book, two or three pages of
which are left blank for each man whose
history he wants to keep, to be filled up
as he gets tbe facts. He has several large
bocks of the secret archives, and he is
ready at any time to slay most
any one who interferes with
him. Butler don’t go out of the
way for a fight, but when he gets into
one he moves heaven and earth to get the
best of it—and he generally does. His
fight with Charley Foster, the man who
represents Hayes’ district in Ohio, was
one that will never be forgotten by
many. It will be remembered that Butler
had Foster “shadowed”—to use the de -
tective's phrase—so successfully that he
knew everything that Foster did. Butler
had Whitely and two other men on this
job. They followed him about day aDd
night, and managed to see nearly every
letter that Foster wrote. Whenever re
ference was made to Butler the
contents of the letters were made
known to him. One of these letters
in which Foster spoke of Ben as “old
cock-eye” was too good to let go out of
his bands. He kept it until one evening
when he answered the many attacks that
had been made on him and Jayne and
Sanborn, whose contracts with the Trea
sury Butler defended with uuusual ability
and determination. The House of Re
presentatives was crowded to its utmost,
aud applause followed nearly every sen
tence of the speech. Finally, when the
time came, Butler drew forth Foster’s
letter, which he requested the clerk to
read. I never will forget Foster’s looks,
but he, being a brave little fellow, did not
wince so much as some others would have
done. When asked by Butler whether ho
wrote the letter, Foster answered in the
jffirmative, but charged that Butler had it
stolen out of the post office. Butler said
he had it, and would make no further ad
missions. Foster never knew exactly how
Butler got the letter, aud will probably
never know. Just before that, Butler
sent out to Foster's district a half-dozen
Treasury detectives (o work againet Fos
ter’s renomination. When the trick was
discovered, the detectives tried to make
it appear that they were there for the
purpose of looking after a fifty cent
counterfeit plate, which they said was in
the possession of a gang of counterfeiters
in that section.
It so happens that, some months ago,
a Treasury detective was turned over to
Simon Cameron for the purpose of hunt
ing up evidence to destroy the character
of the Treasury widow, Mrs. Oliver, who
has sued the gay Simon for a breach of
promise to marry her. She wants $100,-
000 damages. ' Tbe trial will come off this
fall. The detective who is working up
the evidence for Cameron, happens, it is
said, to be one of the men who was in
Butler’s employ when Whitely had charge
of the secret service division. He has
leaked sufficiently to Butler so that he
now knows all of the inside history of
that case, which is destined to make
a sensation in two or three months
—unless the Boston idea of arbitration
is adopted, or it is compromised in some
other way. MacVeagh has figuredalittle
in the case of Oliver vs. Cameron, and, if
Butler is forced, he may tell the public
something about it. There is some talk
about Butler being employed as counsel
iu the case of the fair, fat and forty plain
tiff. If that happens, then a great deal
of fun is assured. Simon Cameron, when
Secretary of War, received a quantity of
affidavits in regard to Butler’s doings,
which he has never let go out of his
hands, notwithstanding that they are the
property of the government. He may
give the use of these affidavits to his son-
in-law, MacVeagh, for the purpose of
giving Butler a black eye without appar
ently taking a hand in this fight, and for
which Butler is, as he says, no ways re
sponsible.
John M. LaniRtta Receives Positive As
surances of Favor.
The Suit for Arlington.
In an editorial article on the suit re
cently instituted by General G. W. C.
Lee to eject the persons now in posses
sion of the Arlington estate, the Cincin
nati Enquirer says:
“It is well understood that the Com
mander and the Superintendent of tbe
cemetery there are the Richard Roe, and
that the real defendants are the eleven
thousand dead who lie there. If it is
decent in a great government to put and
to leave its dead in a position where they
are liable to be vexed with summonses
before their time, the question does not
admit of discussion. Ii is almost certain
that Lee will win. His mother’s for
feiture could not extend beyond
bar own life. There is something
in the Constitution almost specifi
cally providing that no woman's at
tainder for her husband's fault shall
work forfeiture beyond her own life. As
life-tenant she was bound to pay all law
ful taxes, and her failure so to do cannot
take away the right of another owner
whose title was to begin at her death,
and who had no previous duty to perform
in paying taxes. If he had he still is not
liable, because there was no assessment
and no proceeding' against him. The
only serious question is whether, when
he recovers, the government will agree
with him to pay for the land, or will con
demn it for a national cemetery, or will
remove its dead to some more hallowed
place, where visitors will perforce recall
the memories of this stain put upon
these men who died in fighting men and
not in litigating with women.”
Plethora of Money at the West.—
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: “Seldom,
if ever, have we seen the summer ush
ered in on a duller and more unsatisfac
tory money market than exists at present.
Business at the banks is utterly spiritless,
and j edging from indications they are not
earning expenses, much less dividends.
A prominent banker remarked to-day that
he never before saw the time when there
was so little demand for money from
those who had anything to give for it.
If, however, money is plenty and cheap,
credit is not, but on the contrary it is
dear; in other words, banks are more
than usually cautious in regard to the
character of the paper and securities
taken. This caution is perfectly natural,
as the channels for employing money
where it can be made profitable to the in
vestor are so few that lenders want the
most unquestionable assurance that the
borrower is all right before his applica
tions are regarded with favor.”
The Commercial Advertiser says:
“Speaker Randall is a billiardist. He
must have got his cue from Cushion's
manual.” Oh, “carom me” out.—Boston
Post.
Colored representatives of different
States, among them Henry Burch, of
Louisiana; W. J. Wilson, of New Jersey:
C. B. Purvis, of Pennsylvania: J. F.
Quarles, of Georgia: N. E. King, of Ken
tucky; J. A. Emerson, of Arkansas, and
M. M. Holland, of Ohio, recently ad-
j dressed a letter to John M. Langston,
now of Washineton city, in which they
say as no other colored man has been so
pronounced in support of the policy of
the President as himself, and as his pub
lished utterances contain some very ex
plicit statements, they are warranted in
the belief that he has assurance of the
good intentions of the President towards
the colored people. Therefore they ask
him to state frankly whether their belief
is well founded, and if so, the exact na
ture of these assurances; whether they
go to the extent of the protection, pro
motion and proper recognition of the
colored people by the present administra
tion.
Mr. Langston replies at length, and
among other things says: “After reading
your letter, while considering its con
tents, that I might make no mistake in
my reply I called upon the President,
aud explaining the object of my visit, re
ceived from his own lips the most posi
tive assurances that it is the purpose of
his administration to secure by any and
every legitimate means wichin its power
and control, our protection, promotion
and recognition, flis words were plain,
earnest and satisfactory; but as if deter
mined to convince me beyond any con
ceivable doubt which might hereafter
arise in my mind, he proceeded to tell me
that his last official act for the day was
the appointment of U. W. Gibbs, of
Arkansas, to an important office in his
State; that he was thpn engaged in
preparing a circular in which he directs
the various office holders of the general
government, among other things, to
observe in dealing with persons of our
complexion making application for posi
tions under them the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments of the Constitution
in their spirit, as well as their letters.
And continuing, said he had directed
every Postmaster and Postmistress
whom he had appointed in the
South to see to it that the claims cf col
ored applicants. be duly respected, and
that colored persons be appointed to po
sitions in such offices. Iu referring to
the appointment of tho Postmistress at
Louisville, Ky., he said that he had di
rected that in organizing her office she
must have the colored citizens represent
ed, and it is within my knowledge that a
few weeks ago, when the Indian Peace
Commission paid their respects to the
President, he asked, among the very first
questions he put, whether any colored
persons'had been employed as agents
among the Indians, and whether there
was any reason why such persons should
not be employed, thus showing the drift
of his mind on this subject.”
State Senators T. B. Stamps and Du
mont, James D. Kennedy, Louis M. Ken
ner and Rev. A. M. Newman, the delega
tion of colored men from Louisiana, had
an interview with the Piesident this even
ing. Gen. Conly, of Ohio, introduced the
delegation to tbe President and Secretary
Evarts and Mr. Kasson, the Minister to
Spain, who were present during the in
terview. The delegates spoke of the ne
cessity of the President recognizing the
colored element, and wanted some practi
cal evidence of his friendship for their
people. The President replied that he
bad heard of the committee and wanted
to see them before acting. They pre
sented the name of Col. Lewis for Naval
Officer at New Orleans, and of General
Chester for Minister to Liberia ; also tbe
names of other colored men for several
positions. The President said that he de
sired to give a fair share of the patronage
to the people whom they represented,
and, in answer to a question, said that
Col. Lewis’ appointment would be made
immediately. He gave assurance that
Gov. Antoine and Mr. Joubert would
be taken care of, but did not indicate
what positions they would be appointed
to. The delegates said Mr. Parker was
entirely satisfactory to the community as
Postmaster of New Orleans, and the
President very emphatically said that
gentleman would not be removed, as he
was a most efficient officer. Chas. W.
Ringold, Appraiser of Merchandise, will
not be disturbed, but Assistant Appraiser
Fairfax will be removed. Mr. Pitkin was
urgently pressed for the Marshalship.
Senator Dumont presented a long peti
tion asking for Pitkin’s retention, and
spoke of his good qualities as a public
officer. The committee then called at
tention to their open letter to Collector
King and his reply thereto, and the Pres
ident said the colored people would re
ceive proper representation at the hands
of Mr. King, and he intended to tee that
they were represented iu every depart
ment. Senator Stamps called the atten
tion of the President to the necessity of
having him urge upon Congress in his
annual message a recommendation for an
appropriation for building the leveefe.
The President gave no direct reply, but
said that he was glad to know that they
camo to look after internal improvements
as well as recognition in the way of pat
ronage. At the President’s suggestion
the committee will have another inter-
Soul and Substance.
[Thomas Hitchcock in the North American Re
view.]
Science thus far may be said to have
dealt exclusively with the world of the
senses. Concerning things which con be
seen, touched, weighed, and measured, it
has accumulated an immense store of in
formation. By the aid of the telescope
it has sounded the depths of the starry
universe, and with the microscope it has
examined the minutest forms of insect
life. It has computed the bulk of the
planets, tbe dimensions of the ultimate
atoms of matter, and the length of tbe
waves of light. It analyzes the com
position of the sun as it does that of the
food we eat, and explains with equal
clearness tbe tides of the ocean and the
circulation of the blood. But of the
vast inner world with which the soul is
immediately concerued, it has as yet dis
covered nothing. Our knowledge of the
realms of thought and emotion is no
greater than was that of Plato and Aris
totle, and the term metaphysics is now,
as it always has been, a synonyme for
baseless speculation. The result is, that
multitudes utterly deny the existence of
anything within and above sensible mat
ter, and refer all mental action to modifi
cations of the bodily organs, while the
belief of others in regard to the subject is
rather an inherited superstition than a
conviction of reason. Is there any hope
that this ignorance may be dispelled, and
a way be found out of the darkness
which surrounds us ? * * * *
The simple fact that the body yields,
as we know it does, to the soul, and is
used as its instrument, goes to show that
there is a community of nature between
them. A man is sitting quietly in a
chair, and it occurs to him that it would
be pleasant to read a book which lies on
the table at his side. He accordingly
reaches out his hand, takes the book,
opens it, directs his eyes to the printed
page, receives the impression of the
words, through the retina, on. the Drain,
and, finally, translates those words into
ideas. The physiologist explains all the
steps of the operation, from the first mo
tion of the muscle to the final modification
of the brain-cells, and there, as we have
seen, he stops. * * * * *
There are facts tending to establish the
existence of finer atmospheres, which
serve the same purpose to the organs of
the soul that air does to the ear, and the
luminiferous ether to the eye. What is
called animal magnetism and hyp
notism is now generally conceded to
be not altogether a delusion. Mind
affects mind oy other instruments than
merely words and signs. This is attested
by the familiar experiment of causing a
person to turn round by merely steadily
looking at the back of his head, and tbe
equally familiar experience of suddenly
thinking of a friend supposed to be far
away, and the thought beiDg followed by
his approach. Two persons also, sitting
together, will both break out, without
previous remark, into speaking of the
same subject, indicating a silent coutmu
nicatioD of ideas from one to the other
Or, one will think of a musical air, and
the other at once begin|to whistle or hum
it. Women have the faculty of divining
the thoughts aud feelings of those with
whom they associate in a more marked
degree than men, or, as it is said, they
have more tact than men. * * *
It is worthy of note, too, that all the
stories of apparitions indicate that they
are produced by impressions from within,
and not by objects from external space.
They are described as appearing and dis
appearing instantly, and in disregard of
physical laws. The angels, in Ihe Bibli
cal record, do not come flying through
the air, and approach gradually, as if
from a distance, but manifest themselves,
as we are expressly told in the case of
the shepherds of Bethlehem, “suddenly.
Thus the eyes of the young man who was
with Elisha are said to have been opened,
in compliance with Elisha’s prayer, and
he saw the mountain full of horses and
chariots of fire rcund about Elisha, whioh
previously he did not see. So St. Stephen
and St. Paul had visions which were in
visible to their companions, and St. John
prefaces his Apocalyptic utterances by
saying that “a door was opened in
heaven. ” The supposition does not de
tract from the truth, of which these
visions were symbols, but by rendering
them creditable to the scientific mind,
adds to their practical value.
An astonishing account of spiritualistic
performances by Mrs. M. F. Delaney is
published in the Banner of Light, over
the signatures of Dr. Mathew Howard,
of 721 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, and
three other residents of that city. Mrs.
Delaney lives in Bricksburg, N. J. The
four witnesses aver that in her seances
they have heard “ raps, knockings and
concussions in various degrees and from
all surrounding objects—from the tiny
rap to powerful blows which shook ihe
house and threatened, seemingly, to de
molish the snbstance which received
them ; imitations of various sounds, such
as cannonading, the rattle of musketry,
drum rolls, bugle calls, the measured
tramp of infantry, sounds of cavalry-
charging, Indian war danoes, imitations
of the hnman voice, fife and flute sounds,
cars and steamboats in motion — tho
latter being perfect in tbe imitation
of the rattle of machinery and the
quivering of the hull of the vessel.”
These wonderful noises, so say the four
witnesses, appropriately precede commu
nications from spirits. Thus, the military
sounds denote the coming of a soldier,
aud the music that of a musician. Mrs.
Delaney does the things ordinarily done
by mediums, such as producing material
ized forms, written messages from the
spirit world, and rappings in great va
riety. It seems, however, that nobody
except believers are to witness these mar.
vela, for the four witnesses say : “It is
time that the tables should be turped. It
is the self-sufficient scientist, the skeptic,
and the bigot who should be put on their
good behavior hereafter. They should
be made to prove their own worthiness
and honesty of purpose before beiDg al
lowed to approach the sanctuaries of the
new dispensation.”
An Interesting Problem.—A friend
informs us that a question founded npon
the following highly intellectual proposi
tion is being discussed by acolored debat
ing club in theFifth beat, Monroe county:
Suppose a man has an unruly dog, which
he has kept tied for a period of five years;
suppose tbe dog makes bis escape, and as
he passes along the road he is hissed at
by a goose ; and suppose the dog, mis-
takirg tne sign as coming from his mas
ter, springs fiercely npon a hog that is
wallowing in the gutter close by, and
tears it into mince-meat, who shall be re
sponsible for the damage, the owner of
the dog or the owner of the goose?—
Okalona {Miss. ) News.
The Louisiana Sugar Planter notices
several plantations in Iberia which are
this season planted in cane for the first
time in many years; also that a mill is
being erected on Isle Piquant Prairie for
manufacturing sugar only, the many
small planters in the neighborhood to be
relied upon for cane and fuel.
The Camden Gorilla Abroad.
The Washington Star says : “T. G.
Campbell, ex-SeDator of the State of
Georgia, lectured in the John Wesley
Church last night. - He gave an accounf
of bis sufferings in the South, stating that
he was arrested four times in one day
upon trumped up charges; that he bad
business iu Washington in 1875, and
when he returned home his family-was
out of doors, his house burned down, and
he was arrested on a bogus charge. The
Judge charged the jury to bring in a ver
dict of guilty; they did so; the Judge
would not accept a bill of exceptions, and
the speaker was sent to jail for two years
and twenty days. He described how they
got up mobs in Georgia, and said the
colored people of that State never did
have any protection; they have none to
day. He spoke well of General Grant,
aud said that to him he owed his life.
The colored people of Georgia were to
day in the hands of their enemies, to do
with them as they chose. Colored min
isters were put in jail for merely preach
ing the Gospel; he had told this to the
President and the Chief Justice cf the
United States. He called Georgia ‘The
Empire State of Rascality in the South;'
said it is a house of bondage; that the
bondage of the present day was more de
grading than it was in thedaysof slavery,
for then their masters protected them;
now they have no protection whatever,
and in some sections of Georgia did not
dare to say they were free.”
At Uitenhage, Cape of Good Hope, in
Sonth Africa, a magnificent meteor was
seen on March 16th It came out of the
eastern horizon, and traveled slowly
across the sky in an oblique path to the
westward, sending forth streams of fire,
as from a hundred rockets, and then was
beard a low rumbling noise as of thun
der in the distance. The meteor appeared
to be nearly, if not quite, as large as the
full moon, but not round, more of an
oblong shape, and while traveling through
the air it very muoh resembled a large
turpentine ball. It gave forth a bright
bluish light, which lit up the whole sky,
and everything around for miles could be
seen as plainly as in the daytime. Hot
tentots and Caffres who happened to be
in the streets were so terrified that they
rqshed into the nearest houses for refuge.
They thought the last day had come, for
they had never seen anything like it be
fore. A party of Hottentots who were
coming in from “Hankey,” a station be
longing to tbe London Missionary Socie
ty, state that the driver of the wagon was
struck down in the road, and that they
ail felt a glow of heat as the fire ball
passed them.
Old Virginia Twins and Bachelors.
—The Richmond _ State, of Saturday
afternoon, has the following notice of a
pair cf Chesterfield county, Va., twins:
“Messrs. James and John Martin are
twins, and have lived in the Skmqnarter
neighborhood for these three score
years and ten. They are bachelors. One
cannot be distinguished from tbe other in
i ppearance, and it is said by those who
know them that they are quite eccentric.
When brother James asks a man a ques
tion brother John repeats it, and when
brother John takes a swallow of old rye
brother James takes one too. They are
honest and well meaning, but plain and
frugal in their habits. To-day they came
to Manchester in a wagon of old-
fashioned build. It is the first time they
have teen seen two miles away from their
home for ten years.”
Alligator as a Steady Dm.—The
shooting of alligators in the swamp, in
St. Charles parish, Louisiana, is of more
frequent occurrence now than formerly,
the colored people preferring the meat of
these animals to that of any of the wild
game in our woods. They assert that it
is more sustaining than beef, and more
tender and savory than chioken or fish.—
Courier-Journal.
ST. LOUIS KUPFUMSK.
A Wlfe-Beater’a De* perms sbMilac
Hatch with aa Oflieer.
[From the Globe-Democrat.]
The trouble had its origin in an old pro
pensity of Flaherty’b to beat his wife,
who resided in the locality Darned. Mrs.
Flaherty bad separated from her husband
for his brutality, and was endeavoring as
best she knew how to escape hia atten
tion. His persecutions, however, were
regularly applied aud were known to all
who knew the family. He wan foimerly
a member of the police force, and, it is
alleged, was dismissed therefrom for this
especial failing, having acquired tl.e title
of “wife beater," which the Board of
Commissioners would not permit an offi
cer to hold. About eleven o’oleck last
night Flaherty's abuse of his wife attract
ed the attention of a neighbor, who took
it npon himself io provide means for
stopping the nuisance. He succeeded
in finding near at hand officers
Quigley and E. Maher, who, after being
notified of the facts, proceeded to the
work of suppressing Flaherty’s innate
playfulness. Arriving at the house they
were told that he had arrived himself,
and gone into the yard. Thither tne
officers went together. They found
Flaherty standing in a dark corner, and
did not perceive him until within a few
feet of him. Maher, who was acquainted
with him, addressed him by name, aDd
said: “What does all this mean?" The
response was quick and unexpectedly
pointed. Flaherty raised a pistol tkltke
had in his hand, unperceived, and saying,
“I’ll show you,” fired, the ball ntrlking
Quigley in the right side, betw .en the
seventh and eighth ribs, and rendering
him, of course, helpless. Maher had his
revolver out in an instant, and “blazed*
uwsy at Flaherty, the latter firing a
second shot at the same instant. Maher's
shot took effect, but to what extent is not
known. Flaherty was seen to totter, but,
recovering himself, made off while Maher
was, naturally enough, devoting his at
tention to his wounded comrade. It i$
thought by the officers, though for what
reason is not stated, that Flaherty was
shot through the left leg. A dispatch
was received at the Chestnut street sta
tion at two o’olock this morning stating
that Flaherty had been arrested and
lodged in the Fifth district station.
The Solid Sonth Not Sectional.
Extreme Republicans are fond of point
ing to the South as still solidly sectiouuL
It offers an apparent justification to theft:
own efforts to rally in opposition and to
concentrate the North into a party of de
termined opponents of everything South
ern. The mistake made is ti> bake unity
for sectionalism. The distinction is a
very important one. If there is no sac-
tional party at the South, then there is
no excuse for and no reason for the for
mation of a Northern party. No Northern
sectional party can be formed if there is
not such a reason existing, either as a
Soutnern sectionalism or a strong practi
cal reason for the independent creation
of a Northern party. The latter ih re
is not, and no pretense that there ia.
The only reason then alleged is a retali
atory defensive measure to oounteraot
a Southern sectionalism. There is, how
ever, nothing in the solidity of the South
to indicate seotionality. On the contra
ry, there is no question upon whioh tho
South can have an opinion which is not
a national one and of equal interest to.
the North. There is no sectional ques
tion on which the South could rally. Tbe
issue at the bottom of this solid Demo
cratic organization is the one of State
rights, local government, equally interest
ing,equally essential to the people of Mas
sachusetts and of Louisiana. Their solid
alignment is an accident. Tbe essential
thing is that they are aligned upon a dis
tinctively and broadly national issue—one
which appeals as much to the North as to
the South, and which cannot, by any pos
sibility be perverted into one of sectional
bearing.
The South has no more interest than
the North in the determined preservation
of the Federal system. Indeed, it is not
hard to realize that, with the well known
more rapid increase of population in
Southern countries, taking the well known
decline in that respect in New England,
the South will have in a few years the
least interest in the dootrine of State
rights. She is to-day fighting the battle
for New England, upholding a doctrine
New England would gladly preserve a few
years hence.
There is then no sectional party at the
South. There is no sectional issue of
general interest. A solid South does not
in any way grow out of any sectionalism,
but out of an enforced alignment npon a
national interest, a > rinciple iu which all
are interested. Then there is no excuse
for a Northern party, and no reason for
one, and there can be none of any conse
quence.—Nashville American.
A young gentleman, of Blandon, Pa.,
has made some fearful disclosures. He
has discovered a class of folk who extract
the light (which is electricity) from their
victims' brains, surcharge themselves
therewith, impart it to other victims and
then control them for criminal purposes.
They agree to cease troubling their agente
if these will do their will, and tbe temp,
tation is so potent that the ageDts always
submit The resident of Blandon, Pa.,
says: “These tormentors accomplish
their foul work in this way. They have
two buttons, like acorns, made of some
thing like wood, but I think they are not
They are joined together by two metal
links. They are called Negative and Af
firmative, or Sympathy and Antipathy.
These, in tbe hands of the operators, are
dangerons weapons on the subjeots of
their displeasure.” Altogether it is s
very thrilling story, though possibly the
reader’s enjoyment of it may be marred
by tbe announcement of the resident of
BlandoD, Pa., that he will shortly publish
a complete expose in book form.—N. 3,
World.
A Little Girl Capturing a Thief.—
Joseph McNally, twelve years of age, en
tered Mobin’s cigar f tore, in Paterson, on
Wednesday, and asked for a pipe. Mr.
Mobin’s little daughter, also twelve years
of age, was alone in tbe store. While her
back was turned young McNally seised
three papers of chewing tobacco and ran
out. The little girl chased and overtook
him in the street. She held on
his coat tail and called for
the police. The young thief then
turned and knocked her down. 8be fell
in the gutter, but pluckily clinging to >'er
assailant, dragged him down with her,'
Her father and others then ran up and
caught McNally.—N. Y. Sun.
A Bold Robbery in Pennsylvania.—
Ou Thursday night four masked men
forced an entrance into the house of Levi
W. Pennock, in Chester county. Pa., by
boring the lock out of the door. They then
bound Mr. and Mrs. Pennock and a carpent
ter who was in the house, in the second
story, and locked Mr. Pennook’s two sons
in a room in the third story. Placing a
pistol at Mr. Pennock’s head, they forced
him to teil where hl3 money was, which
they procured and then departed. They
only obtained about one hundred dol-
dars. They had driven to within half a
mile of the hous6 in two wagons.
A horrible suicide was committed In
New York on Thursday last. The vic
tim, William Asbell, aged thirty-one, a
fruit peddler who had been drunk for sev
eral days, and who was suffering from
delirium tremens, deliberately cut his
throat with a pocket knife and prepared
to bleed to deatfr. Some persons went to
his assistance, and he repeated the at
tempt. A policeman then went to aid
him and took the weapon away, but be
fore he arrived at the Eleventh precinct
station house Asbell was dead from hem
orrhage. Asbell had-neither friend* nor
home.
A suddenly rich couple not a thousand
miles from New York gave an upholsterer
orders to furnish their newt house from
top to bottom, and make it as magnifi
cent as possible. A few days later he
told them of one of Church's famous
pictures which could be bought for
twenty thousand dollars, and advieed its
purchase. They consulted, and the next
day informed him that they liked the
painting but agreed that the prioe was
too high for a “second hand” picture
Ex-Secretary ChaDdler oomplains that
a considerable quantity of his best wine
went down the throats of tbe truckmen
who carried his household effects from
the depot to his residence in Detroit.
Zach says he does not care a
— for his good name; but,
if he could get hold of the
who stole his good
wine, he wonldn’t leave enough of him
for a ten thousand Radical majority in
Louisiana.—Boston Port