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SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
From tl« Toledo BUul.
List week,o'd Mrs. Betts, mother of
Dr. Betts, thirty three miles from Toledo
died suddenly. It was feared that some
doctor might be tempted to disturbs
remains to satisfy his professional curl
osity as to the cause of death. This as
well a, the fact that there had been con
siderable body snatching in that quarter
prompted the friends to place a guard
over the grave.
THE TKI E LOVER,
BY F. W. LORING.
Do you a«k me. starry eyes.
To describe the lover true !
Wonder not at my surprise.
Who should know as well as you ?
Think of all that you have seen,
All the lovers that have been;
He is true whose love is shown
For her sake, and not his own.
II.
What he does he does alone.
Vet he hopes it wins her thought
All that in his soul has grown.
To her sovereign feet; is brought;
To his soul her image clings.
She seems woven in all things.
And each thought that in him stirs
Is not for his sake, but hers.
in.
For her sake he will endure.
For her sake he will sacrifice;
Bravely bearing, her love sure.
Censure, slander, scorn advice.
If another wins her heart.
Sadly he wili from her part.
Sadly, bravely; true love is
For her s'
r sake and not for his.
tv.
This Is the true lover sweet—
True as ever I aru true;
For my love is all complete.
Perfect since it comes from you.
Darling, yet 'tin not true—no !
For I could not let vou go;
I must keep you where you’ve grown,
For my sake, aud for your own.
v.
For your own, lx-caii.se I love
More than any other can:
More than ever love could move
Heart uf any former man.
I.ook at me and then agree.
None have ever loved like me;
For whatever 1 may do
Is because I live in you.
VI.
Kiss, and so shut speech away.
When old age our life has spent,
’Twill be time enough to say.
What is love in argument ?
For the present all stars shine,
Vou are here, and you aJe mine.
Love makes light, and song, and flowers.
For whose sake 5- Dear love, for ours.
Georgia Affairs.
The report of the Finance Committee of the
city of Augusta makes a splendid showing as
to the financial condition of the city. From
the figures we have only space for the follow
ing compilation. The receipts from all sources
of revenue for the fiscal year, ending Decem
ber 31, 1877, were $458,891 19, and the disburse
ments for the same period, $457,329 19. leaving
a balance, cash on hand, $1,562. Included in
the above disbursements were $149,200 89, in
terest on bonds, coupons paid, and $119,354 92
paid bills, payable, running January 1, 1877.
Canal enlargement, $27,844 18. The Sinking
Fund Commission have received from the
Collector and Treasurer since the passage of
the ordinance creating the fund and commis
sion, $31,981 57, with which they have pur
chased city of Augusta bonds $36,500, casting
$31,875 75. The bonded debt of the city on the
1st of January, 1878, was $2,070,500, and the
city owes no floating debt. We congratulate
our sister city upon the favorable auspices un
der which they enter the new year.
During the month of December there were
thirty-three interments in the City Cemetery of
Augusta, thirteen whites and twenty blacks,
of which number twenty-seven died in the city
—eight whites and nineteen blacks.
The Mayor of Augusta, in his annual message
to the City Council, recommends the reduction
of the police force of the city to twenty men
and one white and one colored detective, which
reduction, together with other reductions that
can be made in the other departments of
the eitj r government, would save to the
city fifteen thousand dollars without in the
least impairing the efficiency of said depart
ments or diminishing the amount of protection
to property and life due to the people of the
city.
Atlanta now rejoices in the formation of a
Greenback Club, a number of prominent citi-
sens having met Monday night and organized.
Judge Daniel Pittman, Ordinary of Fulton
county, was chosen President, and each ward
of the city is represented ou the Board of Direc
tors.
It is said that the anti-nwimptionists of At
lanta will hold a mass meeting very soon to
show up their strength. They will command a
very large crowd.
A negro villain who amused himself last Fri
day night by throwing a huge rock through
the window of the passenger train of the North
eastern Railroad, five miles from Athens,
narrowly missing the head of a little child
passenger, was arrested and taken to
Athens and lodged in jail by conductor Hodg
son, who hurried the train to Athens, secured a
handcar and returning to the spot where the
missile was thrown made the arrest.
Joe Jefferson arrived in Atlanta the other day
on his way to New Orleans. He was met at the
depot by Mr. B. W. Wrenn, of the Great Kennc-
saw Route, who took him in one of Oliver Jones'
finest carriages all over the city and out to the
Barracks, where Colonel Black, the command
ant, ordered out the post band and gave Mr.
Jefferson a fitting reception.
On the night of the 5th inst. the store of Mr.
R. C. Powell, at Mulberry Grove. Harris county,
was burglarized of three hundred and forty
dollars and a great many goods. A notorious
negro thief is suspected, and & reward will be
offered for his capture.
Henry R. Goetchius. Esq., associate* editor of
the Columbus Times, is a candidate for Clerk
of the House of Representatives of the Georgia
Legislature.
W. B. Rail, one of the five prisoners that es
caped from the Rome jail on the night of the
29th of December, as mentioned in the Morning
News, was recaptured Saturday last aud re
turned to his old quarters. He is finder a
charge of passing counterfeit money.
The dwelling house of Mrs. King, in Rome,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday night last.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp,
and the flames spread so rapidly that but little
of the furniture could be saved.
Samuel Walker, the newly elected Mayor of
Milledgeville, lias been married four times,
showing that his popularity Kith the men is
only equalled by his popularity among the
women. It is said that^ he looks very much like
Mr. Hayes, but certain it is that there is no
fraud abofit Sam. Walker. What he says may
be relied ou as firmly as on the rock of Gibral
tar. He will make an excellent administrative
^*1 executive officer.
Last Tuesday the County Board of Educa
tion of Bulloch met in Statesboro and paid off
the teachers of the county.
Mr. M. C. Austin has assumed control of the
Berrien County Weekly, published in AJapaha.
It will continue to be edited by Mr. A. H.
Turner, who knows exactly how to conduct
that department of a journal.
A young lad named Jimmy Goodman, of Ber
rien county, had life* finger bitten off by a fiery
stallion he was attempting to bridle one day last
week. Moral—Put not your finger into a stal
lion’s mouth.
Several gentlemen met at Bay Point, Dooly
county, last week, and organized a branch of the
“Independent Greenback Party.’’
A young man in Gulletsville, Monroe county,
attempted to take morphine Christmas, to put
an end to his life. A friend saw him, took the
deadly drug from him, and thus prevented the
deed.
A fatal accident occurred on the evening of
the 21th at McMullin's mills, near New Market,
Monroe county. The miller, Bryant Ponder, a
colored man, while attempting to make some
slight repairs to the gearing, did not stop the
mill, but attempted to make the repairs while
the mill was running. The skirt of his coat was
-caugkt between the cogs of the driving wheel
and the pinion attached to the shaft, his body
passing beturen two sets of iron cogs which
run directly together, crushing out his bowels.
He lived several nunkuts, but ne v er spoke or
seemed to be conscious of anything.
Mr. George Garbutt, of Emanuel, had the
misfortune to have his planing mill and about
ten thousand feet of lumber destroyed by fire
pn Friday last. The engine was saved.
J. C. C. and B. 3L Blackburn, with the last
number of the Madison Home Journal, assume
entire control. Mr. H. C. Billings retiring from
the journalistic field. Mr. J. C. C. Blackburn
takes editorial charge, and will be assisted in
the literary department by his accomplished
daughter. The editor and his assistant are not
unknown to the newspaper profession, and we
predict for the Madison Home Journal an ex
tended career of usefulness under the new
regime.
Madison. Georgia, has shipped since 1st Sep
tember six thousand four hundred and eighty-
nine bales cotton, and has one thousand bales
in her warehouses, which makes the receipts
larger than any previous year, except last year,
when the yellow fever at Savannah increased
the receipts.
Dr. R. L. Madison, of Madison county, has
the watch that was worn by President James
Madison, which is quite a curiosity. It is larger
than the watches of the present day. with open
face, and so constructed as to strike the hours
by pressing a spring, telling you the hour by
night without the aid of light. It is made of
the finest material, and very seldom gets out of
order.
Mr. A. A. Dixon, son of G. C. Dixon, of Scriven
count was accidentally shot by Mr. J.
Gross, during Christmas. The wound is con
sidered dangerous.
The new members of the General Council of
the city of Atlanta were duly installed on
Monday night, and the municipal machine
wound up and set agoing for the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Mayor
Angler delivered his annual message,
in which he discussed the State Fair, the
State capital, public schools, City Water
Works, finances, etc. In reference to the
capital question, he says : “The result has been
so gloriously triumphant that we are in the best
of humor with all: having naught of enmity
toward any one, and concede to all the right of
E reference, and those who have engaged in an
onest. fair opposition, have our high regards,
and all who sustained and aided us throughout
the Stab*, our sincere thanks. And we can as
sure them that as in the past, so in the future,
Atlanta stands ready to comply with every
promise she has made.”
We make the following extract from the
message of Mayor Meyer to the City Council
of Augusta at Its first meeting of the present
year: “The financed condition of our city*is.
am happy to say. most excellent Our "bonds
have appreciated. from $80 85 to par and
interest added. T1 e is the result <>f the econo
my which has been inaugurated and exercised
during the past yea,;, and by the establishment
and operate- i or the sinking fund created for
the paymenl of our bonded debt.”
The Atlanta Constitution says in connection
with the verdict rendered in the Bullock case:
“There were a numlxT of the friends of ex-Gov
ernor Bullock in the court room, late as was
the hour, and they joined iu hearty cougratula
tious over his acquittal.”
From the message of Mayor Angier to the
City Council of Atlanta we glean the following
figures, showing the financial condition of the
city, which presents a very favorable exit”* 1 *"
Assessed value of real estate. $12,400,000; re
turned value of personal property, $4,690,000.
Total amount of collections in 187f, $.'122,727 97.
Amount bonded debt of the city, $1,827,000;
amount floating debt of the city, $381,915 12
Amount of interest paid, $168,780 37. Kate of
taxation \\t> per cent., or $1 50 on every $100.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says: “On the
body of the man found killed at Opelika Friday
were found three letters—one to the Sheriff of
Lee county, another his confession. a.:d a third
to his family. He says he killed himself be
cause of remorse of conscience; that he had
killed no one. but had been a burglar for eleven
years, and his name was Foster. He said he
had a partner named Grady, who was to come
to Columbus. This partner had left him before
the suicide. The man added he expected to put
an end to himself and go to hell, and a good
deal more of such sentiments. He also stated
he was from Memphis, and hail committed a
burglary there of which other parties are now
accused.”
The Atlanta Tribune says: “We understand
that a meeting of the citizens of Atlanta will
soon be ea led to ask Senator Ilill to come
down and out, or in other words to resign his
seat in the United States Senate. Should thi?
b** done, our efficient police will have to em
ploy an extra number of men to garrison the
empty houses of those who are longing for an
opportunity to attend just such a meetiiig.”
The Milledgeville Union and Recorder says.
“While sitting at the dinner table on Sunday
last, Mr. Martin E. Edwards was suddenly taken
very ill, and on being removed to his bed, died
in a few minutes. We learn that his disease is
C supposed to have been paralysis of the heart—
rohably caused by rheumatism Mr. Edwards,
ad he lived until to morrow, would have been
seventy-eight years of age, ute greater part of
which long period he has spent in this place.'’
The Thomasville Enterprise says: “From the
l>est information we can get Thomas county
has raised a much larger per cent, of pork than
«luring any year since the war, and many who
have heretofore had to buy will have plenty and
to spare. This is a hopeful sign, and attests the
fact that the farmers are becoming each year
more self-supporting.”
The Augusta Evening News has this: “We
hava inadvertently omitted to make mention
of the very neat and greatly improved ap
pearance of the Savannah Morning News since
the new year. A*ways fresh, always reliable,
always prompt, there would seem to be nothing
left for improvement: hut the ever restless arid
progressive spirit of Mr. Estill has endowed his
morning paper with new attractions, which
places it in tne very front of all other Southern
competitors. TId- Weekly News to enlarged to
twice its old size, and is now without a peer in
its line.’’
The Sandersville Courier says: “Mr. Hiram
Mott, aged over eighty years, was found dead a
few davs since in Ogeechee river, near May’s
upper bridge. He was in the habit of going
fishing alone. He had been missing for two or
three days, and when found was dead, standing
in the water, with his arms and breast resting
on a vine which hung near the surface. It is
supposed, while fishing, he fell into the water,
and being unable to get out. was chilled to
death. Mr. Mott, in his younger days, served
Washington county for several years as Sheriff.
It is said his official life was so "correct that no
one ever complained or found ground to rule
him for dereliction of duty.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
STAGNATION OF THE ENGLISH
MONEY MARKET.
Congressman Waddell as a Lecturer.
THE
NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIA
TION.
F INTERN V.1R NOTES.
Notes from the National Capital.
The Russian Press.
A Russian newspaper proprietor must
first obtain permission to print, then
lodge twenty-five thousand silver roubles
as caution money; after which he be
comes subject to*a regime of “admoni
tions,” two of which entail a suspension
for a term of two months. Those who
cannot afford to lodge caution money—
which they are not likely to ever see
again, for it is forfeited in case the paper
is suppressed—have to submit to a pre
ventive censorship by sending their arti
cles to the censors three clear days before
hand. In provincial towns, where there
are no censors, and where a man does not
care to throw away £400, journalism is
non existent; but, even in the two capitals,
and in such large cities as Kiev and
Odessa, a proprihtor who had paid cau
tion money finds it prudent to let the
censors have a peep at the articles he is
going to print—or, at least, he submits
them to one or other of the great people
whom every Russian newspaper has lie-
hind it. Independent journalism, as
understood in other countries, does not
exist in Russia. There are at this mo
ment 475 daily, weekly or bi-weekly
jour DA? s in Russia. 377 of them being
published ?u native tongue. Of this
total 3fi are the property of universities
and colleges, 161 belong to trade guilds or
professional artels. 101 tiFe under the di
rection of provincial governors, aud the
remainder arc all in die hands of influ
ential magnates, who employ them more
to gratify private malice or ambition
than to serve public ends. The most
eminent of so-called independent papers
in the capital, the Golan (Voice), is the
organ of the Czar's intimate friends, the
Bariatinskis, and the liberalism it affects
has its source at court. The Journal de
St. Petersburg, edited by a Belgian and
published in French, is the pet paper of
Chancellor Gorttx hakoff and his friends.
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Washington, January 9.—While the
general tenor of the evidence of Colonel
Shatter and Lieutenant Bullis develops
no new facts, the impression is strength
ened that a Federal military force, both
on the part of the United States and
Mexico, must be m intained on the Rio
Grande border. Apprehensions of seri
ous complications between the two gov
ernments have been dissipated.
When the Senate reassembles to-mor
row there will be thirty-seven Republi
cans, thirty-six Democrats, and David
Davis. Two Republicans will be absent
without pairs, and Davis can make either
side kick the beam.
The South was not represented in the
Woman’s Suffrage Convention. Mrs.
Hooker advocated the reconstruction of
the police. She favored the introduction
of the female element on the force.
Mrs. President Sara Spencer, in clos
ing yesterday’s exercises, said: “The
Republican Senators were alarmed as
there was a dying party at the capital,
but they would gladly grab woman suf
frage or anything else if they thought it
would save them.” She gave notice that
the convention would make a grand
raid on the capitoDat ten minutes after
twelve o’clock on Thursday next, and if
they found both houses of Congress had
adjourned rather than meet them, the}'
would take possession of the building.
CONGRESSMAN WADDELL AS A LECTURER.
New York, January 9.—Hon. Alfred
M. Waddell, of North Carolina, Chair
man of the Congressional Post Office
Committee, delivered a lecture last even-
at Masonic Temple, before an im
mense audience, for the benefit of the Post
Office Mutual Aid Association. He was
introduced in a brief speech by Post
master James, and held the great audi
ence in close attention to the end. The
subject was the Two Americans, Morse
and Maury. On the platform were
William * Orton, Peter Cooper,
Joseph J. Couch. E. S. Sanford,
Berry Willis, William M. Fleiss,
Henry Y. Pearson, General Arthur, Gen
eral Merritt, A. B. Cornell, E. C. Cow-
dry, Anson G. McCook and Mayor Ely.
Congressman Waddell returns to Wash
ington to-morrow, having given nearly a
week’s time to postal matters in this city'.
STAGNATION IN THE ENGLISH MONEY
MARKET.
London, January 9.—The stagnation
in the money market, says the Times in
its financial article, exceeds anything ex
perienced for a long time. The rise in
consols is partly due to the investment
by banks and others having the disposal
of large sums of money w hich cannot be
used in the way of loans. There seems
no longer any justification for the Bank
of England maintaining its present rate
of discount.
FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR.
Bucharest, January 9.—The Danube
is thoroughly frozen over.
The Russians in Bulgaria have only
three weeks supplies, and great difficulty
about forage is apprehended, unless com
munication is soon restored.
Belgrade, January 9.—It is under
stood that the Servians shall occupy
Sophia, transferring their headquarters
there.
The
NATIONAL BANK IN LIQUIDATION.
St. Louis, January 9.—The Second
National Bank of St. Louis, in liquida
tion, transferred its business to the Fourth
National Bank of St. Louis, where de
positors will be paid in full, but checks
must be presented to the First National
Bank for certification.
T1IE PRESIDENCY OF THE FRENCH SENATE.
London, January 9.—The Paris cor
respondent of the Times telegraphs that
it is now understood that reactionary
Senators are aware of the hopelessness
of opposing the re-election of the Duke
de Audifret Pasquier as President of the
Senate, and will not attempt it.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
Pera, January 9.—A communication
from London advising Turkey to open
negotiations with Russia through mili
tary commanders, was received here, and
Alleged Manipulation of the
Florida Mails.
Editor Morning Newt: In your valu
able and widely circulated paper of date
of December 19th, I notice an article re
published from the Key of the Gulf, an
obscure paper published at Key West,
Florida, in which is contained a men
dacious and infamous charge against me,
as Postmaster of Manatee, and as you
have given it currency I claim it as my
right’ hat you publish also my reply to
and refutation of the charge.
The following is the editorial article
republished by you, prefaced by you
with an expression of hope that it might
be noticed by the Postmaster General,
and also by Senator Jones:
“More Mail Robberies.—By the last
mail delivered here by the steamer Lizzie
Henderson, a member of the editor’s
family received a letter from Manatee
which had l>een cut open on two sides
with a knife. Its contents, doubtless,
were examined and afterwards re
placed. *****
This letter passed through but three
offices, viz.: Manatee, Cedar Keys and
Kev West. We were present when the
mall was distributed at this office, and
can vouch that the letters were taken
from the pouches and placed in our box
without any manipulation by the Post
master or his assistants. Hence the let
ter was opened at Cedar Keys or Mana
tee, and one or the other of those two
offices is responsible.
A serious charge truly, and made with
all the circumstantiality that would be
expected from a person who was present
at and had witnessed the entire opera
tion. Did it never occur to the
editor of the Key of the Gulf that jump
ing at conclusions was a very un
wise and dangerous action. Does
he, or does he not care that all his
charges against the honor and integrity
of public officers should be proven to 1m*
nothing more nor less than babblements
of lies and impostures that originated in
ignorance, stupidity or natural malig
nity ? And has he so soon forgotten
how, when he lately attacked her, the
dove of the Cedar Keys post office (Miss
Fowler) drove him in confusion, with his
long yellow legs, into the waters of the
Gulf, that he again comes forward, and
hisses through the columns of his her
maphrodite paper fresh charges against
her and others ?
Now, in regard to the letter that was
received by a member of the editor’s
(Crane’s) family, from Atlanta, in a muti
lated condition, a few words will dispose
of it and of said editor’s mendacious
charge against the Postmasters at Cedar
Keys aud Manatee in regard to it.
That letter, and its condinbn, I recol
lect distinctly; for it was a ques
tion with me, owing to its mutilated
condition when it was found in the letter
box, whether to mail it or to hold it and
endeavor to discover the writer of it and
inform him of its condition; but I con
cluded finally, as it had a stamp affixed
to it, with a liberal allowance of raw tur
pentine, and had also a legible ad
dress, to send it on its travels, believing
that by tying it up securely in a package
of letters adressed to Key West, which
would not be opened between this
and that office, it would safely reach its
destination anil the hands of the party to
whom it was addressed. And it appears
to have done so only to become the eagerly
accepted occasion for the publication of a
vile slander, not only against the Post
master at Manatee, who had acted accord
ing to his best judgment in the interest of
both the writer of the letter and of the
party to whom it was addressed, but also
against the Postmaster at Cedar Keys,
who never saw the letter.
The annexed affidavit of Mr. Furman
C. Whitaker, a gentleman of unques
tioned and unquestionable truthfulness
FIGHTING OFT AX OLD FEUD
One of the Bloodieat of the Ken
tucky Family War*—How the
Quarrel Between the Hills and the
Evanses Be "an -Roy* of Fourteen
Killing their Tien—Battling In
Tobacco House.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
St. Louis. January 9.—C. J. Fryer,
manager of the opera of Fryer, Poppen-
heim A Adams’ Opera Company, has dis
appeared, and took no baggage' Anxiety
is felt concerning him.
NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIATION.
New York, January 9.—The annual
meeting of the Bar Association elected
Evarts President and Tilden Vice Presi
dent.
THE TRUNK ROADS IN COUNCIL.
New York, January 9.—The Presi
dents of the trunk roads meet on Thurs
day to make a final effort to prevent cut
ting down rates.
THE LAST FENIAN RELEASED.
London, January 9.—Corporal Cham
bers, the last Fenian prisoner, has been
released.
The Effects of Varnishing the
Human Skin.—When an animal, such as
a dog or rabbit, is coated with an im
permeable varnish, the temperature of
its body falls, serious symptoms ensue,
and terminate in death. Suppressions
of the excretory functions of the skin is
usually stated to be the c^yse. or at any
rate one of the causes, of the phenomena
in question. It is often assumed that
similar results would follow varnishing
in the human subject: and the assump
tion is supported by the old story of the
bov who lost his life in consequence of
being coated with gold-leaf to represent
an angel in & religious ceremony. This,
says the Academy, h$s beep crucially
tested. Two healthy men allowed their
limbs to Ik* coated with impermeable
plasters, while the trunk was varnished
with several layers of flexible collodion.
Nearly a week was allowed to elapse be
fore these applications were removed.
None of the evil ctHiceouences invariably
observed in animals mad« ijp'ir appear
ance; there was no fall of temp**oiure,
no albuminuria, no exhaustion, no
dyspacea, convulsion or paralysis. We
must conclude that the gilded boy was
probably poisoned by some ingredient in
the material applied to his skin.
Women and negroes, it is proposed by
a bill now before the California Legisla
ture, shall hereafter be permitted to prac
tice as lawyers in that State.
Recorder Hackett, of New York, on
Friday sentenced George Robinson for
stealing law books, or attempting to steal
them, from ex-Governor Tilden. He is
reported as using the following language:
George Robinson, you have pleaded
guilty to grand larceny. You were
caught in the act of stealing law books
from the office of Mr. Samuel J. Tilden.
Now, it*was despicably mean for you to
steal from the gentleman from whom the
Presidency of the United States had re
cently been stolen. 1 sentence you to
two years and six months in State pri
son. 4
“Hold hard, I am Dick Turpin!” cried
one dark night not long ago to a gentle
man driving along a lonelv suburban
road in London a Youth of seventeen,
as he sprang from the ditch and seized
the horse’s head. “Glad to see you, for
lam Inspector Rowe, of V Division,”
cried the gentleman, as he sprang from
his carriage, knocked down the as
tonished highwayrfian and handcuffed
him.
Near Berlin there is a church which
will contain one thousand people, and
yet nearly the entire edifice, outside re
liefs, Corinthian capitals, inside statues,
roof and ceiling are made of paper—
being papier mache, made water-proof
by saturation in vitriol, whey, lime water
and albumen.
From 1870 to 1874 the profits to the
government from public lotteries in Aus
tria amounted to nearly $35,000,000.
The prizes won by ticket holders in the
same period amounted to $16,500,000.
In Italy the net receipts of the govern
ment from lotteries in three years reached
$40,500,000, while tlje sum ^on by the
people was $20,500,000,
The very latest “Turkish atrocity” is
to be seen in Cheapside, in London,
where a peripatetic vendor of penny
wares is carrying about a trayful of
“ Bulgarian ears.’’ made of flesh-colored
India rubber and imitating, with fright
ful fidelity, a human ear severed from a
human head.
A Lockport woman tried to shoot her
self-because her husband, in a social game
at a party, kissed the girls with too much
apparent pleasure.
and honor, in regard to the condition of
the letter in question when it was drop
ped by him inio the letterbox of Manatee
post office, disposes of the matter at
once, and forever. Respectfully,
J. C. Vandeiupe, P. M.,
Dec. 31, 1877. at Manatee, Fla.
[copy.]
State of Florida, )
County of Manatee, f
Before me. E. M. Graham. Judge of the
County Court in and for said State and county,
personally appeared Furman C. Whitaker, a
citizen of said county, to ine well known, who,
after t>eing duly sworn, deposes and says: “I
am a citizen of Manatee county, Fla., and reside
with my father on Sarasota Bay in said county;
that my father, and the members of his family,
have, for a long time past, for the accommoda
tion of the people living in that neighborhood,
taken their letters to the post offlee at Manatee,
in said county, to be mailed: that a short time
since a letter"addressed to a party at Key West,
Florida, was left at our house to be taken to said
post offlee: that its envelope was of a flimsy char
acter. hut apparently intact when I first noticed
it: that I carried it to the post offlee at Manatee,
and was surprised to discover when I was in the
act of posting it, that its envelope was almost
entirely worn off it: that its mutilated condition
was (unless it was in that condition when it was
left with usi, caused simply by its being carried in
my coat pocket, and in no other way whatever;
and that I dropped it into the letter box of
Manatee post office without any manipulation
or attempts at patching it up.” He further
deposes and says: “I have read the editorial
article which appeared in the Key of the Gulf
of the 8th December, instant, under the head
ing, “More Mail Robberies," and that the letter
described therein was without doubt or ques
tion, in my mind, the identical mutilated letter
that was posted by me as above set forth.”
FURMAN C. WHITAKER.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31s.
day of December. 1877.
E. M. GRAHAM.
County Judge Manatee county.
- ■ ■ ■ ■
TURNING THE TABLES.
A Robber Hnrled from a Treatlework
by the Man Whom He \va«* Plun
dering.
From the Chicaqo Times.
Streator, III., January 1.—One of
the most daring attempts at highway
robbery tliat ever occurred in this section
of country was made about three o’clock
this morning. Charles H. Smith, agent
and operator of the Chicago and Alton
Road at Munster, was returning home
from a New Year’s party held here last
night. On account of the bad roads.
Smith preferred walking on the railroad
track. On reaching the river bridge,
half a mile west of here, he was met by
a highwayman, who demanded Smith's
money or his life, at the same time I
thrusting his hand, which was in an over
coat pocket, to Smith’s breast. Smith
was prevented from getting his own
revolver, and forced to throw up
his hands, when the robber took the re
volver out of Smith's pocket, and then
demanded what valuables he had. After
securing these, a pocketbook containing
sixty dollars, a valuable gold watch, anil
other articles of less value, he remarked,
“Well, old boy, you was pretty well
heeled.” and informed him he would take
what clothing he had. and ordered him
to “off with that overcoat,” then his
dress coat, next his vest, and as Smith
stepped forward to lay the vest on the
fellow’s arm. he made a desperate lunjre
at the villain, hurling him completely
from the trestle work of the bridge to the
ground, a distance of twenty-five feet. At
the same instant he started back to town,
where he obtained assistance and hast
ened baefc to the scene of action. He
found his foe lying unconscious, with his
ill-gained booty around him. He was
carried to the lock-up, and soon became
conscious. This morning he was identi
fied as Frank Whitney, who was released
from custody at ten* o’clock last night.
He had been’ arrested, charged with "the
theft of clothing in Joliet." He waived
examination to-day, and in default of
bail was taken to the Ottawa jail. He
had to be moved on a stretcher. His in
juries are serious, but not pronounced
fatal. He daims that his heme is at East
St. Louis, m.. and says his father i6 a
physician.
A man in Lowell. Mys., had 4 house,
but no wife to care for it In a talk with
a friend a bargain was made under which
he was to pay the friend $150 for procur
ing one. The broker introduced him to a
New Hampshire girl, a marriage was
made, and the man concedes that it was
a lucky matcl; for him; but he refused
to pay the broker, because that gentle
man saw fit to talk about; the matter.
Tlte ppurt has decided against him, and
the ease will go t$ the Superior Gourt of
Massachusetts ou appeal.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Lancaster, Ky.. December 30,1877.—
Garrard is almost as historic as Waterloo.
Wars and rumors of ware have made her
name famous. Many years ago a writer
of cheap literature sakf H was only nec
essary for a traveler to announce that he
was from Garrard county, Kentucky, to
procure all the room he wanted in any
part of the Union. This reputation had
its beginning in one of the most celebra
ted vendettas of modern times—the Hill
Evans feud.
A one-sided historv of the feud has
been written and published in pamphlet
form by Lieut. J. J. Thompson. Young
Thompson was a student in the military'
school. From Dr. Evans and his sou,
both smarting under the wounds received
in the then recent war, he derived the
very one-sided version which he pub
lished. He went to Tyree Springs, Tenn.,
where he wrote his so-called history'. He
afterward entered the Peruvian navy, and
during the early part of our late civil war
returned to his’father’s plantation in Mis
sissippi. There he found an immense
quantity of cotton that had collected by
reason of the blockade of Southern trade
outlets. He soon formed a plan for load
ing a ship with this cotton, running the
blockade and selling the staple in a foreign
market. The father's consent was obtained,
and a large wagon train was set to haul
ing the cotton to a landing on the Missis
sippi. While this transportation was in
progress, the father’s apprehensions as
to his adventurous sou’s honesty of pur
pose were aroused by some suspicious
circumstances. The hauling of the cot
ton was stopped, and an attachment
sworn out to get back the cotton already
delivered to the son at the river landing.
Before the senior Thompson and the offi
cer to serve the attachment could reach
the river town young Thompsou sus
pected the cause of the stoppage of the
delivery of the cotton, anil, arm
ing himself with a shotgun and
pistols, he set out for his father’s
house. Arriving there in a perfect frenzy
of rage, he shot and killed his stepmother
and a sister, and wounded another sister.
On his way back he met his father and
the officer, and shattered, with a load
from his shotgun, one of his father’s
arms, and would have slain him had he
not been disarmed and arrested by the
officer, who carried him to the county
jail. That night the enraged people took
him out and hanged him.
Dr. Oliver P. Hill, the one living of the
two principal actors in the HiU-Evans
drama, has a handsome home just iu the
suburbs of Lancaster. Though in the
sixty-third year of his age, he is still
hale and hearty old man, in the active
practice of his profession, and not at all
averse to telling the thrilling story of his
life. Macgregor and McPherson, Lan
caster and York, never fought a feud to
a bitterer end. and yet in no man is there
less bitterness to-day than in Dr. O. P.
Hill.
As to the origin of the vendetta both
parties agree in the main. On Sugar
creek, in the north end of Garrard, some
six miles from Lancaster, and one mile
out iu the hills that border the Kentucky
river, and on opposite sides of said
creek, there lived away back in 1835
John Hill, father of the Dr. Hill men
tioned above, and Hezekiali Evans. Hill
was the administrator upon the estate of
one Pollard, and hired Millie, a slave of
said estate, to Dr Evans. Millie ran off
and represented to John Hill that she
could not live with Evans, because of
brutal treatment. Here the two accounts
diverge. I shall follow that of the re
presentative Hill. John Hill started
back to Evans’ with the woman, and
stopped on the way at a blacksmith’s shop
owned by Hill. While there, Evans,
evii^utly’a hot-headed fellow, as were
probably all of the parties afterward in
volved, came riding up to the shop,
carrying a heavy hickory walking stick,
as did also Hill and all the old men of
the county at that day. Evans raised his
cane to chastise the woman, who ap
pealed to Hill for protection. “Strike
that woman and I will strike you,” said
Hill. Evans struck, and so did Hill. An
arrest for assault and battery and a
verdict against Hill. A verdict of one
cent and costs was the result of the suit,
and a bitter feeling between the Hills and
Evanses. John Hill died, but from sire
to son the hate was transmitted.
During March Circuit Court iu 1850,
the Hills and Evanses met in Lancaster.
One of Dr. Evans’ sons and Jesse Hill,
Jr., got into a quarrel over the old diffi
culty, and Dr. Evans came out of the
Court House and shot Hill dead on the
public square*. This was the first death,
and, having tasted of blood, both parties
organized and began a war of extermina
tion. On the side of the Hills were en
listed Isaiah, Rus, Fred, Jesse and Wm.
Hill, John Brown, Evan Southerland,
Wilson Southerland, alias Bedster, Peter
Denton, Geo. Lambert, of Washington
county. Henry Sayarcy and Jo Murphy.
The whirlpool of passion drew in the old
enemies of Dr. Hill, who also joined the
enemies of the Evanses, and assumed the
leadership of their forces. On the side
of the Evanses were Dr. llezekiah Evans,
the leader, his two boys, Sam and Tom,
less than twenty years of age. Wm.
Murphy, brother to Jo Murphy of the
Hill party, Jack Ray, Moses Ray and
Sam Gordon.
Frem the time of the killing of Jesse
Hill in 1850 to 1862, a desultory warfare
was carried on between the parties about
their homes. Houses were* fired into,
parties on either side were driven from
fields where they were planting or reap
ing, and agriculture languished and
almost ceased in that part of the country.
A quarrel between Dr. Hill and Dr.
Evans over the treatment of a patient
made them the leaders of the respective
bands.
In 1852, as Dr. Evans and party were
going into town on the Lexington road,
a fight ensued between the antagonistic
bodies in front of the then and now resi
dence of Dr. Hill, just outside the town
of Lancaster. Dr. Hill’s forces were in
ambush; some of them according to
Evans’ statement, in a sliallcw well on the
roadside. A number of shots jyere fired.
Evans rode between the persons not par
ties to the feud, and to this fact he prob
ably owed his life, as Dr. Hill had to fire
too far to the front, and only cut the lap
els from Evans’ coat. The firing opened
up warmly on both sides. Dr. Hill was
using a rifle made by the celebrated gun
smith Mills, who, for his superior skill,
was afterw ard put in charge of the United
States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, and was
there when John Brown made his
famous raid. He is now located Li Lex
ington, and still makes the favorite
arms of the bluegrass sportsmen. The
rifle above mentioned was Dr. Hill’s pet
companion. With it. at the above fight,
he grazed Dr Lvuns' breast, cut the
coat, vest and suspenders on Gordon’s
back, and killed Jesse May as he ran
across the avenue to take the enemy
in the rear. For this firtit Dr. Hill and
Jo Murphy were arrested and ordered to
jail; but as Dr. Evans’ two sons and two
or three others of his supporters were al
ready in jail for the assassination of Nel
son Southerland and the wounding of
James Hill, the}' feared being killed in
the jail, and after suing out a writ of ha
beas corpus they fled without awaiting the
result, and were taken by the late E.
Lighter Hoffman, of Louisville, and con
cealed at the residence of a Mr. Vaughan,
three miles sonth of the city, until the
next term of court, when they Aciutned,
were trjed and acquitted.'
Previous to the above bloodv affair,
Tom and Sam Evans, two mere youths,
*roi into a fight in Lancaster, in' which
Tom, on the Evans side, was terribly
wounded with knives and pistol, and
Sam, with the assistance, as the Hills
claim, of some unknown party or parties,
shot and wounded Russell, ’ Fred, and
Wm. liiil and Say arc;.
In 1852. according to Dr. Hill s memo
ry. which is not accurate as to dates,
a tobacco bam. on a road that Joe Brown,
one of the Hill party, had to travel in
moving his family to a more protected
point. The Hill party escorted the wagon
train and passed in safety. Upon the
return, however, William Uhrisman and
John Sellers, the father of Will him Sell
ers, of later Lancaster riot notoriety, and
both of the Evans party were prizing to
bacco, together with Samuel Sellers"and
James Alverson. who were not belliger
ents. As the Hills came up, Jesse and
Janies driving the wagon and Dr. Hill
riding behind with Mrs. Brown, and the
others scattered along. Chrisman and
John Sellers fired with their rifles and
killed Rus. Hill. The doctor ordered a
charge, and gave his two pistols to the
drivers, Jesse and James Hill, two lads
not over fourteen years old. As the party
charged over the fence upon those in the
bam. Isaiah Hill, father of the boy Jesse,
was shot and killed. Samuel Sellers and
Alverson had escaped from the bam, but
were both wounded by Jolm Brown be
fore they could reach a house near by,
where they hid in the garret. After kill
ing Isaiah *Hill. John Sellers ran out and
took refuge behind a tobacco hogshead on
the outside. He fired upon the boy
Jesse, whose father he had just slain,
but a ball from Jesse’s pistol blinded
Sellers with splinters from the hogshead,
and another from the same source laid
him dead. Fred. Hill rushed into the
l»arn, and had a tuft of hair taken from
his head by Chrisman’s pistol. The two
closed, and iu the life and death struggle
that ensued Hill got the knife that was
knocked from Chrisman’s hand and slew'
him with it. This was the most desperate
fight of the series, and Dr. Hill remarked
to me, with a sort of grim expression of
satisfaction, “We suffered severely in it;
but we killed as manv of them as they of
though they had the advantage in
position. ”
A short time after the tobacco bam
fight, as James Hill, the boy who was
wounded in that rencountre, and Nelson
Southerland were going along the road,
they were fired upon from ambush,
Southerland killed and James Hill again
wounded.
Sam Evans came along the road and
met Dr. Hill returning from town, and
just as he w'as going in his gate. A num
ber of shots passed between them, but
Sam rode off, and neither was hurt.
The day that Henry Clay was buried
Dr. Hill and Sam Evans again met, this
time in Lexington, in front of Megowan's
house. Sam fired at close range, and
dodged liehind a buggy, iu which were a
man and woman. They leaned in oppo
site directions as the doctor tired between
them and through the hack rest of the
buggy. This was another bloodless bat
tie, and the last in w hich the doctor en
gaged. Jesse Hill, Jesse May, John
Sellers. William Chrisman, Isaiah
Hill, Rus. Hill, anil Nelson Southerland
hail all been killed, and a greater number
had been wounded. For about three
years they had been constantly under
arms, and their own pecuniary interests
had suffered, as had that of every man in
the county. Many arrests had been
made. State militia, then as now, had
lieen called in to guard aud protect pris
oners, but there never had been a single
conviction. Mass meetings of the citi
zens had been held to devise means of
putting an end to the fratricidal strife
and at last, wearied with the long con
test, the leaders offered a proposition of
settlement by which all were to laydown
their arms, and some of the minor char
acters were to leave the county.
Joe Murphy, one of the banished party,
returned to stand trial for killing a negro
woman, but while sitting iu one of the
hotels here, Jack May came in and blew
his brains out with a pistol. It was
thought that this would lead to a renew’al
of the war, but Dr. Hill refused to avenge
Murphy’s death, and in the following
year, 1853, left the State.
All the Hills then left the county,
going, many of them, to Washington and
Jefferson counties. The Evanses nearly
all left, too, and the difficulties were per
manently ended. Peter Denton was
killed in Lexington; Jesse Hill, who
killed Sellers in the tobacco-barn fight,
w’as killed near Louisville, it was charged
by Herk Walker, who w’as killed by the
Federal guerrilla, Ed. Terrell, who was
killed by the citizens of Shelbyville. Dr.
Evans was assassinated in this county on
the night of the battle of Perryville, in
the fall of 1802. Jack May died a natu
ral death. Dr. Hill, after spending two
years in Oregon, California, and South
America, returned in 1855, and bids fair
to live many years yet. Sam and Tom
Evans live in Texas, and two others that
were too young to take part in the family
war live yet down on the battle ground.
AARON BURR’S LEASES.
HIS BOG AND HIS BRIDE.
Last nTght,
11 o’clock, the
Another Search for an Enormous j
Fortune In the Heart of New York j
City.
.4 Young Huibaml \vho»e Affection*
Seemed to be About Equally Di
vided.
A citizen of St. Joseph, Mo., writes |
the Sun that to three brothers named Ed
wards. who emigrated to this country I
from Wales before the Revolution, a o ^
grant was made of thirty five or forty I knew that laughter and weepfng^evcr
acres of land, situated north of what is | went well together, except at weddings.
I saw the bridegroom, happy. laughing.
Erom the Burlington Haiekeye.
On Wednesday night a bridal party
boarded the train at Elizabeth, New Jer
sey. I heard laughter and weeping, and
now* Canal street, anil west of Broadway.
This land was leased in 1760 by Robert
Edwards for ninety-nine years* at the |
expiration of which it w’as to
revert to the heir*. The lease having
terminated. the letter continues,
the heirs of the three brothers, living in
Missouri, Kentucky. Iowa, Nebraska
and Virginia, arc now moving, with the
aid of able lawyers, to oust the present
possessors of the property anil obtain
their rights. The communicator con
eludes with the announcement tliat there
ha** thus far been no notice taken of what
will become a cause celebre by the New
York newspapers, for the reason that the
metropolitan press is bribed to keep si
lence.
This letter a reporter for the Sun laid
before John P. Jayne, of whom it is
said that what he doesn’t know about
real estate in New York is not worth
knowing.'*
‘You will find the first mention of
that Edwards claim here," Mr. Jayne _
said, opening one of his many scrap I the sleeper, then there was a scene
books and pointing to an extract from a 1 ....
Gadsden, Ga.. paper, dated July, 1868.
The extract runs as follow’s:
“Two of the descendants of Robert Edwards,
living in Gadsden, have received information
that a large amount of valuable property situ
ated in the city of New York, on Canal street,
estimated to he worth $82,000,000, will come into
the possession of the heirs of the said Awards
upon their proving their identity. This prop
erty consists of an estate granted by George I.
of England to Robert Edwards about the same
time the grant was made to Trinity Church,
which to-day, by reason of that grant, is the
wealthiest ecclesiastical corporation in the
world. Robert Edwards leased this property,
as did the trustees of the Trinity grant, for
ninety-nine years. This lease has expired, and
the persons now in possession recognize the
fact, and will be compelled to give possession
when the heirs prove their identity. General
Edwards, of LaGrange. Ga., known over the
Southern States as a great railroad man. has
employed Ben Hill and Judge Bingham for the
heirs, and they will, we understand, immedi
ately institute suit for possession. We learn
further that the occupants of the property are
so well satisfied that the title of the heirs of
Edwards is vaiid that they will not contest it.
except so far as compelling them to prove
themselves descendants of said Robert Ed
wards."
"Have you copied that? Here's an
other.” said Mr. Jayne, showing the fol
lowing paragraph from a Tennessee paper
of some time in 1871
“The Rev. J. S. Edwards, of Marshalltown,
Tenn., is said to have inherited a great estate in
England. In 1..2 Robert Edwards, his grand
father, leased to the crown a valuable piece of
land for 99 years. The lease expired on the 17th
of last July, and Dr. Edwards has received no
tice through Boardman. Brown & Williams, of
Marshalltown, that he, with thirty-four other
persons, was heir to the estate, which has now-
reached the almost fabulous value of $82,000.-
009! Mr. Edw '
dist Episcopal
“Those will do for samples,” Mr. Jaynel
began. “I have others of the same sortj
but it would be only duplicating what
|you’ve got to copy them. I have also!
you see, entries |
from Edwardses
bridegroom, happy, laughing,
fussy as an old hen with her last lone
chicken, holding a black-and tan dog ten
derly in his amis, and clutching his bride
bv the elbow, to help her on the car.
The brakeman shouted:
‘Hold on; take that dog to the baggage
car.”
Dismay, consternation, terror, came
out and sat all over that young man’s
face, but it brightened up again with a
happy thought. He dropped his bride’s
arm, and folded l>oth his arms about the
dog of his heart.
No you don’t.’’ he shouted; “no vou
don’t. I’ve got letters for that dog. I’ve
£ot a letter tor that dog from the super
intendent of the division. This dog goes
with me. ”
And he danced up and down the plat
form with excitement, while the brake-
man helped his bride on the train, and
then the young husband followed, cling
in^to that precious dog.
But when the party came back into
The
porter looked at the dog uneasily, and
said he “allowed it was kind of onregu
lar, totin’ dogs into de parlor cars.
Whatever misgivings he may have had
on the subject were* speedily cleared by
passenger, a testy old gentleman with
back as broad as a county atlas, and
breath so short that he breathed thre
times in speaking a word of two sylla
bles, an old gent w’ith the baldest head
that ever mocked hair oil. a head with
fringe of upright, bristly hair all round
it.
His bare feet spread out on the floor,
his suspenders dangled down behind him
his fat face glowed with rage, and he
roared out to the porter:
“Out with that dog. No dogs sleep
where I do. I ain’t "used to it. and
won’t have it. Trundle him out.”
Hold on there,” cried the confident
husband, “that dog’s all right: I’ve got
letters ”
“Blast your letters,” roared the old
party. “The whole United States Post
Office Department can’t crowd a dog in
on us. Tell you, young man. it ain
right, it ain’t decent, and, by gum, it
ain’t safe. Body of a man in tlie bag
gage car now, on this very train, that
was hit by a lapdog two weeks ago while
he was asleep, anil died just eleven
days afterward. Country’s full of mail
do^s.”
This was a lie aliout the dead man
but it woke everybody in the car, set all
the women to screaming, and armed
tne almost laoulous value or $.82,1*10.- I . .. . . *P’ : 1
■. Edwards is a minister of the Metho- I PUOllC sentiment against the dog.
copal Church." "But I tell you the dog isn't
. „ nmd,
persisted the owner, "and he’ll have to
stay in here. I have letters from the
superintendent of the division—"
"Blast the superintendent!” roared the
on my books of inquiries I asthmatic passenger,triumphantly. "He's
from .fcilwardses in Virginia and other got nothing to do with the steeping car.
States relative to the estate once supposed Take the dog into a day coach and shut
t A lut Au-norl CAln 11 timo In (lin 1.1 -• f non I fitltl till in o tva/ 1 v. .v T l........ X. 1
to lie owned some time in the last cen
tury by Robert and George Edwards, and
leased by them for ninety-nine veurs.
Now I will tell you the secret of It all.
About 1795 Anneka Jans’ claimants
made quit claim lieeds and leases of
certain land to no less a person than
Aaron Burr, who gets possession of ail
he ran under pretence that he will prose
cute the claims in their interest. Instead
of doing so, he leases the same to John
Jacob Astor for a long term of years.
That lease expired in 1886, and William
B. Astor turned the lease over to the
Trinity Churchy corporation. The prop-
him up in a wood box. Throw him
overboard, I don't care what you do
with him, but he can't stay here."
■But, my dear sir,” pleaded the young
man.
"Don’t want to hear nothing!” yelled
the fat passenger. “I don't travel with
a menagerie. Nobody wants vour dog
in here!”
No. Nobodv! Nobody wants him!”
came in hearty, fearless chorus from the
other berths, the chorus carefully aud
modestly keeping itself out of sight, so
as not to detract from the power of the
solo who was gasping out the most ter
erty leased by Burr embraced about fifty- rifle denunciations of all dogs in general,
acres of land between Canal and Christo- and especially this one particular dog.
pher streets, aud running from Macdou- | ‘ 'But my dog," the young man wot
gal street to the water. Among the
claimants so deeding to Aaron Burr were
some persons of the name of Edwards,
and this is the whole foundation of the
Edwards case.
my dog," the young man would
plead.
"Devil take your dog, sir,” the old
passenger would gasp. "What is your
dog or any man’s dog to my comfort. I
say I shant sleep with’hiin in this ear. He
can't stay here. "
A Statue of King Robert Bruee. I Well, the upshot of it was, the dog had
A statue of King Robert Bruce, or as ^ emigrate into a day coach, and it is a
he is more familiarly known, Sir Robert S° s P e * t that man, just married,
Bruce, the hero of Bannockburn, has W! ,. e prettiest bride that has been seen
been erected in the esplanade of Shirling 'J!, , s , coun,r -' (>;‘ n< -' e eight years ago)
Castle overlooking the battle field where du,n 1 know whether to sit in the day
Scottish independence was won. The F oa , , an< ‘ 1<> ( his dog all night or stay
• , . . . .1 Itn/.lr in tlio elanrui* will. I.i . *C it
statue was paid for by popular subscrip
tion, and it was unveiled three weeks
RUINED BY WHISKY.
Tlie Son of a Late Governor of New
Hampshire Commit* *YIurder.
From the Cheyenne Sun.
Murrav was a soldier of Company F.
Fifth United Statei Cavalry, Captain
Payne. Will Baker, the man who thrust
the fatal knife into his bosom, is a son of
the late Gov. N. B. Baker of New Hamp
shire, and is only fwenty-one years of age.
About two and a half years ago he came
to Cheyenne, and being a smart, active,
and so far as known, a reliable young
man, he was made one of the bailiffs un
der Sheriff O'Brien, and acted as such
during the greater part of May (1876)
term of tlje District Cqu^t here. * Subse
quently he went to the Hills, or on a sur
veying* party, and after a time, taking a
fancy to a* military life, he* enlisted in
Company F, Fifth Cavalrv, but soon
grew* tired of his bargain, and through the
influence of his friends in Iowa, he not
being of age, he was discharged from the
service. Since that time he has lieen ra
diating betw’een Cheyenne and the Hills,
and lately has been at Fort Russell,
most of his time, seeking again to be
taken into the United States service.
During all this time whisky, etc., had
lieen. gradually demoralizing him. On
Friday, December 21. Baker and Murray
had an altercation in the barroom at the
sutler shop. Finally Baker went out and
bought a butcher-knife, came back to
where he left Murray, sprang upon his
victim, and with his knife struck him
three terrible blows, the last one penetrat
ing into the region of the heart. 3Iurray
died m about ten minutes. Baker then
backed up into a corner and threatened
others of the bystanders,w ho made no at
tempt to arrest him. He then ran out
with the knife, and before he was secured
he attempt^ to -tab two other soldiers.
The murderer is now in irons. On Mon
da}’night, December 24, eight masked
men seized the guard of the Federal Mar
shal's office at Cheyenne, and demanded
the key to the jail where Baker was con
fined for murder. But the guard did
not have the key, and the Sheriff, in
whose possession he was, was out of
town, and so the scheme to lynch Baker
was frustrated.
ago.
The work was entrusted to Mr. An
drew Currie, the Border sculptor, whose
monuments of Hogg and Mungo Park
are so greatly admired. The statue of
Bruce, w hich is of stone, is eleven feet
in height, and the w’arrior King is repre
sented as clad in complete chain and
plate armor. Over the shoulders Is flung
a royal robe ingeniously draped, and a
plumed helmet, clasped * by a crowu of
back in the sleeper with his wife. He
trotted in and out from one car to the
other until nearly midnight keeping
everybody in a fidget.
A SON’S WEARY VIGIL.
Wtlihlng by th«* Grave or a Father
whom He Believed to be Alive.
From the St. Charles News.
iuuiwu Mvuiivt vtwo ^ ^ ww t A Swede, aged about seventy years,
goTd,' (lccorates ’the"head.The”features i and , hi3 . son ' of thirty-five or forty years,
have an expression of fiigniiy, and eon- I Jn - a( < 1 . . ir i K,me m a rude hut on the side
vey also n sense of repose. " The King
looks toward Bannockburn, the line of
the eye resting on the Boresone. Behind
the statue is a Scottish shield, on which
rests the crosier of St. Fillan, !>omc
by the abi*ot of Inchaffruy as Jie sig
nalled the troops tq aa act of de
votion Wore the battle of Ban
nockburn began. Against the shield
lies the King’s battle-axe. a blow I root
which felied tho adventurous Boliun.
of the bluff a few miles northwest of
town, near Elm Point. Missouri. They
could speak no English, and were very
poor. Mr. Williams, the bee man, w'ho
lives close by, supplied them with food
occasionally. Finally the old man be
came ill, and on the morning of Friday,
the 22d, between four and five o'clock,
was reported dead. He had certainly
ceased to breathe, but the hands, limb's
and neck did not become rigid, and the
Shield and battle-axe are surrounded by I ,h ‘U his father was not dead-,
nia.ii nt *i... i. . “ I but jh a trance. Mr. rilratliman, of the
furniture company, who have the
contract for burying poor per
sons, took out a coffin, in which
plants of the Scottish thistle—the na
tional emblem. The stone from which
the statue was cut weighed seven tons,
and the pedestal, which is ten feet high
and six feet square, is formed of eleven
blocks. On the centre block, which is
jour and a half feet in height, there is a I ln ®
Scottish lion in bus relief, without sup- ' ,eft beslde the
port or motto. The whole work re
st about
grave robliers appeared.
, T', le ™ an w,1 ° J'" 1 Wn placed on guard
kail left his post for a short time, but soon
he heard a wagon approach and stop be
fore the cemetery fence. The burying
ground is but a short distance from the
village. He hurried to the spot and
looking toward the grave, he could see
three men standing near it. He ran and
when within pistol range fired five shots
in rapid succession at the robbers. They
ran out of the ground, but as he fired the
last shot he saw one of the men fall and
heard him cry out to tho others “I m
shot—don't leave me !" The guard gave
the alarm, and soon scores of men were
in pursuit, but the men had driven
away in the wagon, and had ts-
cap'll When the robbers left
the cemetery one. hastened to the
wagon—a single, spring wagon—and
drove down the road, while the wounded
man. assisted by hiscompanion, hastened
to a point near a creek not far distant,
where they took the wagon. The
wounded man bled terribly, it iieing pos
sible to track him over his painful route
by the blood stains, and to see not only
whcrc he fell, but also where at the creek
he washed his wounds. The men had
not yet begun to dig at the grave, but
Were prepared to take out the Is sly in
short order. A lodge was in session in
the town, and hardly three minutes after
the alarm was given the cemetery and the
road leading thereto was tilled with
men. It would not have been safe for
the body-snatchers to have been captured
then.
<6rorrru$ aud gronsious.
NAVY AT 31c.
PILOT AT 4e.
LARGE STOCK OF
BAKERS’ FLOUR!
On hand. I will guarantee to sell
CRACKERS and CANDY
AS CHEAP AS CAN BE LAID DOWN
FROM ANY OTHER MARKET.
1. II. RllWE’S lltkERY,
7S, 73JS & 75 BAY STREET. *
Branch House, St .Julian A Bryan Sts.
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FLOUR, FLOUR.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
Sew Georgia Flour
PUT UP EXPRESSLY FOR OUR TRADE.
WHICH WE ARE OFFERING AT THE
FOLLOWING PRICES:
Half sacks Foley & Co.'s Choice $2 15
Ouartcr sacks Foley & Co.’s Choice 110
Half sacks Foley & Co.'s Choice Ex. Family 2 00
Ouar. sks. Foley & Co.’s Choice Ex. Family 1 00
Half sacks Foley & Co.’s Choice Family .. 1 90
Quarter sacks Foley & Co.’s Choice Family 95
We have also just received the celebrated
TOWN TALK BAKING POWDER, equal to
Sea Foam. For sale by the pound.or.less.
M. F. FOLEY & CO.,
decS-Tu.Th&Stf 27 BARNARD ST.
STJG^AR !
11 pounds Extra C Sugar for $1 00
10 pounds A Sugar for ... 1 U0
BRANCH t COOPER’S.
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—FOR—
POULTRY, EGGS, BUTTER,
GAME, ETC.,
—AND—
HOKE FAMILY (J
LilJ
Orders delivered with promptness and free of
drayage.
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159 CONGRESS STREET.
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FLOUR, HAMS!
YI7E have jus
GLV FLO
follows:
UR, which we will retail as
the remains were placed and con
veyed to the cemetery. But the son
opposed the burial, and' U*e coffin was
open grave, where it was
watched all night by the patient mourner.
lownoa Soott’s forit of sugar creek stood
Danger i>- the Peee.—It is a very
bad habit to eat orange peel. Nor is the
juvenile habit of eating apples with the
peel on to be recommended, either. Pa
rents who do not care yet to correct these
evil propensities will perhaps be more in
clined to do so when they hear that the
little black speaks which may be found
on the skins of oranges and apples that
have been kept some time are clusters of
fungi, precisely similar to those to which
whooping-cough is attributed. Dr. Tscha-
mer, of Graz, who made the discovery,
scraped some of these black specks off an
orange and introduced them into his
lungs by a strong inspiration. Next day
he was troubled with violent tickling in
the throat, which, by the end of the week
had developed into an acute attack of
whooping cough.
The street car companies of Chicago
propose to heat their cars by placing a
red-hot ball of metal in a metal casket,
deposited in the car, which will warm it
for two hours, after which more red-hot
’balls will be applied. This might pro
duce a pleasant warmth, but there would
be the mischief to pay should the balls
roil out of tne caskec
The Chinese in California refuse to
work on Sunday, but spend the day play
ing poker.
presents the patriot as he left the I t,ie rain aIld c '?ld with heroic
battle field of Blannockburn, sheathing „ r ?, tade ' and ' va ,! found next . morning
his swo:d with the ease of a satisfied " e , t *kr' ,u .gha nd through sustaining with
undiminished ardor his dreary vigil.
|victor. Resting on its massive pedestal,
the outline of the statue can lie discov
ered on the adjacent plain, and not in
distinctly from the Wallace monument on
the Abbey Crag, a mile and a half' to the
northeastward. Better Weather for an
out-door demonstration
! dreary vigil. He
had taken off own thin outer garment
to keep, the corpse warm, and an old
blanket which the sexton had given him
to protect him from the cold was devoted
to the same pious purpose He had evi
dently walked back unrt forth all night,
could scarcely ! ;- ' s amt tuna an n;g
have been expected, especially at this I ^, >adl
season of the year. At two o’clock a
procession formed of the various mu
nicipal bodies or titerling, including the
Coumv Volunteers and "representatives
from Dumliarton and other towns, left
the council chambers. The grand mar
shal, walking in front, carried the two-
handed sword which King Robert used
at Bannockburn, and which was sent by
its custodian, the Earl of Elgin, to grace
the occasion. On the procession reach
ing tlie esplanade it opened up, and the
Provost and Magistrate of the burgh,
and the members of the Bruce Com
mittee, including the London deputa
tion, passed forward tp me platform
erected in front ot the monument. Major
General Sir James Alexander, who pre
sided, requested Lady Alexander to un
veil the statue, and, this having lieen
done, loud cheers were raised by the as
sembled multitude, while a royal salute
was fired from the Castle guns.
Trenton. N. J., is the possessor of a
hen with a wry~; en jgg p was run over
‘*J h passing coach and was given up for
dead until the eipcut of its Injuries was
found to be only a broken leg. Amputa
tion became necessary and after some
days the fowl recovered, but could not.
walk. AVith loving ingenuity-i^, owner,
Mrs. Dooley, secujJy attached a piece of
stick to the upper pirn of the hen's leg,
and the bird walked forth rejoicing.
There are 46,000,000 acres in England,
and 82,000,000 inhabitants, and only forty
per cent, of these are fed with British
food. The sixty per cent, would be with
out their bread, and a good deal of their
meat, butter and cheese, but for foreign
imports.
The Chicago ministers’ meeting dis
cussed all the morning, “The Final
Doom of the Wicked,” then went, good
jolly fellows that thev are, to the Grand
Pacific Hotel and haila royal semi annual
dinner.
bud traveled was worn deep with his per
sistent footsteps.
On Saturday morning the sexton came
to town to see about the matter. It was
suggested that the corpse be brought to
town and be kept in some safe place to
await results. Finally, Dr. Weems, who
was busy, sent out Dr. Bailey to examine
the remains. Dr. Bailey reported the
tpan dead, and the interment took nlacc
on .Saturday evening. Afterward there
was some talk about the propriety of ex
huming the bed)-, but the suggestion was
not ><:■;,,) upon. "We have no doubt the
man Was quite dead. The name is An
derson.
Half sacks BEST FAMILY at $2 IS.
Hair sacks CHOICE FAMILY at SI 90 and $2.
Quarter sacks BEST FAMILY at SI 1"-
Quarter sacks CHOICE FAMILY at 95c. and $!.
Best sugar-cured HAMS at 14^c. per pound.
A. C. HARMON & CO.,
31 WHITAKER STREET.
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PLANTING POTATOES.
XAA BBL8. fine Vermont EARLY ROSE PO-
JUU TATOE8.
100 bbta. JACKSON POTATOES.
100 bbls. PEKRLESS Pi>TATOES.
100 bhi* CHILI POTATOES.
100 bbls. EARLY GOODRICH POTATOES.
100 bbls. PINK EYE POTATOES
300 bbls. PEACH BLOW POTATOES.
100 bbls. NORTHERN APPLES.
1,500 FLORIDA ORANGES.
50 boxes MESSINA LEMONS
50 bbls. RED and S. S. ONIONS.
1(» bales EASTERN HAY.
30 bales WESTERN HAY.
CIDER. BUTTER, VINEGAR, NUTS, DATES
FIGS, etc. For sale D y
P. U. WAKD & CO.,
dec29-tf SAVA NY AH.
Cardinal Hohenlohe, whni» mentioned
as a possible successor or I’ius IX., is in
great di«fav«r with the Pope, and was
requested by him to absent himself from
the last consistory. He is a Bavarian,
and a friend of Bismarck, which states
man is reported to d«*»re his election to
the chair of St Peter.
The debt of Maryland on September
30th, 1877, was $10,7o8,678, whilst the
value of the sinking fund securities was
$4,362,355, leaving ihu net debt $6,396,-
322. Thf Mate also holds $20,000,000
unproductive securities as an offset to
the debt.
The Boston Globe sums up the events
of the old year just passed thus: “Elec
toral Commi-sion, President Hayes, Wil
liam E. Chandler, Turno-Russian war.”
Only thirty-five Chinamen remain at
Sampson's shoe factory, in North
Adams, Muss., and these are at work by
the case, "allee samee as Melican man.”'
Nearly $2,000,000 worth of buildings
were erected in Providence, R. L, last
year.
Osman Pasha has seven wives and ex
poses himself on the battle field with a
reckless disregard of life.
C HEEK and WHITLOCK S FLOUR.
BELLE OF LOGAN FIJI fit.
DOOLEY S BAKING POWDER.
A choice assortment of GREEN and BLACK
TEAS.
PIPER HEIDSIECK CHAMPAGNE.
NORTH CAROLINA APPLE BRANDY.
CHAMPAGE CIDER on draught.
Agents for KRUG & CO.’S CHAMPAGNE.
Howe ci F”bbeil's WELCOME WMBET.
Also, a choice assortment of GROCERIES,
ALES, WINES, UQOURS and CIGARS, at
jas. McGrath & co*s.,
ocfca)-tf 17 WHITAKER STREET
SUGAR.
Ttv« Hundred Barrels Sugar.
For sale by
C. L. GILBERT & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
janO-tf S. E. cor. Bay and Barnard stg.
COFFEE.
5 000 BAGS C0FFEE ’ American brig
David Babcock, direct from Rio de Janeiro.
Now landing and for sale by
janS-tf WEED & CORNWELL.
SYRUP.
100 Bbls. CHOICEFLORID.V STRIP
H.
sepl2-tf
FOR SALE BY
MYERS &
BROS.
VRXSTOS Cl'X.N INGHAM. ™- ®- HIVES.
CUNNINGHAM & HE1VES,
Grocers&Ship Chandlers,
Corner Bay and Drayton Street*,
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