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Geonrla Affairs.
will remember that a short
Osr reaue Dub j.. lie( i an account of the es-
S * tlS [ jib Kowc, the murderer of Mr.
in Haralson county, as he (Rowe)
I 4 ® j ta ken to the penitentiary, to
rli been sentenced for life. It
-yed at the same time that he had
jtureii
It seems that this is a
1”* lie. Sheriff’s posse returned and
tiiat they had been unable to find
J^ C 1, blame is attached to the official
f. ..l irbose carelessness the escape was
fully made, and the papers of that
, r.n CO so far as to hint that he con-
N The Ce lartown Advertiser ex-
5 th«* opiniou that after the people of
Wan county had done all they could to
• ; h the crime of murder, committed
t jjeir county limits, to think that
*Tefforts should be thwarted at the last
“l.ent by the carelessness or iucompetency
[te officers of the law Is, to put it mildly,
‘ jijcouisging to lovers of law and
*)I«casin snakes must be unusually plen
um Jackson, Jefferson county, this year,
lit last hsuc of the Forest Xaas reports two
•res bitten by them, and mentions
the reptiles being killed which
fifty-two young ones. And yet
4 . v jj aTC a flourishing Good Templar’s
I/^e there in favor of the total prohibition
of the sale of whisky.
The DtK<db Count;/ Xem states that a man
cf that county has invented a lamp which
till effectually prevent young men from
tfivinir beyond a reasonable hour when they
wae to Lis house to visit his daughter. It
holds just enough oil to last until ten
oVock, and at that hour the lamp goes out,
ad the young man goes out also.
Mr. Thomas Kary Cole was tried for luna-
er before the Ordinary of Lumpkin county
list week, at Pahlonega. Several witnesses
were examined, and at intervals during the
trial the Mountain Signal says, “ he would
;o his feet and threaten to call down
th? vengeance of God upon some of the
witnesses who testified against him. He
also gave out an appointment to preach in
the court house on the first Sunday in Sep
tember next, and said I*ev. Mr. Bennett, of
Forsvth county, had sounded the sixth
trumpet, and that he was sounding the Sev
ern.” Notwithstanding all this the jury
stood equally divided, and Mr. Cole was dis
charged.
Tue Conyers WakJj says it has never be-
ire seen its merchants have such bright
faces, and large stocks of goods arc being
jondiased ia anticipation of a brisk fall
tade.
The meanest man in all creation has turned
npinAngusia. Hi* name is Green. A poor
negro woman there lost her child a few nights
since, and the man Green offered to see to
itibarial She put the body in his hands,
and gave him two dollars and a half to pay
for digging the grave. He took the money
m3 disappeared, and nothing has been
heard either of him or the body since. It is
thought that he either threw the remains in
tie river or buried them in some vacant lot,
ad decamped with the money.
Asa Green, the colored man of Atlanta,
charged with the Defoor murder, waived an
exnination on Monday morning, and was
sat to jail to await his trial.
Carles fieresford, the forger, and Ayres
Jraes, the murderer of Lieutenant Mcln-
tire, made an effort to escape from Fulton
county jail about 21:30 o’clock Saturday
tujiit. They were discovered, however, and
tieir efforts were frustrated.
According to the Atlanta Dispatch, a num-
Icr of the Senators and Representatives
Htc signed a request to Senator Ilill, asking
iim to address them and the public on
Kitional and State matters at an early, day.
Tbit paper learns that Mr. Hill will comply
*itb the request, and within a few days will
deliver an address in the R"nrcsentative
Hall. '
The State Agricultural Socfety convened
Jonesboro yesterday morning, an lit will
c-ffihoue in sessiou three days. A very in
teresting programme of proceedings has
feta arranged.
A car load of silver bullion passed
through Atlanta Sunday night, eu route to
*Vw Orleans.
Tuesday last eighty-eight negroes
* e ‘£ baptized in Iiayner’s fish pond, near
~ iD > making two hundred and forty-five
* o have received the benefit of the 6acra-
®cnt of baptism since the beginning of
P-otracted meeting now in progress there.
' tec ^ ve Bill -Jones, of Atlanta, liis gone
" Iata ma with a requisition from Go?.
’jMuitt for a man in that State whom the
‘•elective is confident is the real Defcor
murderer.
, A r ^ r * Was started in Augusta last Sun-
two c *^ 7 * ens °f that place had been
^ v muraer ed in Columbia county. Of
v ,' L " Sc tile fa ®fi»es of the reputed dead men
shocked by the intelligence,
0r ,f! atI T to l heir relief, the two turned
uv-d. ° 1C r ^ht on Monday, and de-
iKa i'° aitIvel >’ l hat there was any truth in
iherunior
} amlc * >ott5 » fair (?) pedestri-
» r ;^ r L ’ la P^uniary embarrassment, and
Atlanta - ^^ r * eans to her friends in
hr
tasking them to send her a few dol-
divt S ex P ects io he in Atlanta in a few
" ’ * en s ^ e hopes those who
) won money
°a her re 1 w no
pom-, fl 1 P e ^ e strian feat will give her a
of their winnings.
I «n*dtt t Il ntap0llce P ulIed a negro gamb-
. l ere 0a Monday night, and march-
^he Station hnnen
uu£t T station house twenty-five
A fir feay " am holiers.”
'*•> e . ln Marietta on Sunday night broke
outi n auuuay night br
° f Mr ‘ W - J - Kirliog,
bonau- airect ’ ana the entire inside of
p "as burned out. *
tbe
mated *t»», ‘'“ ,ucu °ut. The loss Is esti-
Thieves Jr*? 005 insur “« *350.
Iimtdo,,,® Sylvania stc,il anJ vwoa
Au^ngt, rt .
tT- 2 oelock"\r“, Sund ay morning
been wor' in^ 1 /' Pendleton, who
--- tcuuiei
: factory, was startled by
<Ty OUt on hrldorn hfl-
“«C!ntr Rntri Victor
!^ ! he Excelsior t \?n? Ut on the bridge be-
^ njnninl? 51 s * - Soon after * man
v^ 4 light an«?fiPL e factor y» where he
p f0Jk’ton L f „ e . n . be . a . dl0 ?K to. tbe floor.
k? >»fl bie?-dint- ent t® bim, but found Urn
l to Fnenl-^’ f and . to ° triehtened and
at r;heS M j|; ak -i Comlngto himself, bow-
tfHW his, on .hi two Parties had as-
,> »atc-h bridge, and robbed him
|S» *U4ea Si?!™ doll “™. The man,
fet, in ‘l-V tttne from New Rocky
Rf^tbis MMnf„. aonntT ' TOUld not teU
L e ^ was reru.-fkj 'J ere w hite or colored.
^Ported to the polTcemen. but
Iw 1 °0 c1,i<a \ , uie
brother " found * and the
|2?» *ent his > J V ^.° Se r narne we coold not
Iw,. Persons ar / y ; 11 se em8 that sospt-
around in ,5 0vr f re( l u entlv seen
|ten^ 5 V JQld be imm?lf . n . ei £hborhcod, and
SfTot&J &>“>: “Mr. Barnett,
JJ*" of Ecorn’hl 3 ° ae of!ictal to whom
-5 his cXr neT er pointed. While
P^ilivlngfef 8 “te dressing Hke
ii. wSk? 1 llaces upon small sala-
P See 1 dothca nnd°? n< ! ,lle 6tr eets In
111 1 & Tltneil. rents an humble co
iJUui'V a »onth w» V “ umDlc co>
miV^bas so n Wc honor an integ-
8;& f Atlan£ n 3 sfcood Hie test of the
„, *T who is"Vv,, ^hcre is a dwarf id*
U Solomon"'wS' ODe
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The usual cry among onr State px-
changes np to this time fas been good <StI
£ aaad P?« .The Cames^UeXS^
“Jetton of affairs. ItMyV
The outlook for crops In this county i«
mueffi better than any one thought several
weeks ago that it could possibly be. While
tbe cotton crop will not be near so good‘s
It was last year, it is thought, to take the
betted’ the Com a ~P wlu be m“h
Conyers Examiner: “Mr. John D. Mann
2?® oar mccessful farmers, in LoraJn4
55 1 ?; saV8 bc has twenty acres in peas
hv nt> h if h ;s He sa >' a , that be never intlnds
to use another pound of fertilizer so long
as he is a farmer, except that of his own
manufacture. This is a good resolution,
5“ ““Jonty of onr farmers will
adopt this plan, we win have one of the
most prosperous countries the son ever
shone on in a few years.”
Says the GainesyUle Eagle: «Mr. Thomas
nf Sf^ r °*’i W ^ IlTes ta the northern pJt
of town, planted some grape vines three
yMjs ago, and now he has grapes enough to
make a barrel of wine. Br. BenUey, near
oui fh,‘V”, eJard of a “te“ two years
old which Is very promising. Rev. Mr
Cleveland’s two vines, only about three years
old, have grapes enough on them for three
or four families. R. Palmour has several
young vines of different varieties very fall
of flne grapes. Many other citizens doubt-
less have fine vines and plenty of crancn
and why does
plant a vine c
for market? Grapes arequite aluxury! and
grow to great perfection tn this county.”
On the subject of Chinese labor in the
South the Atlanta Dispatch savs: “We be
lieve that the employment of Chinese in
Southern agricultural labor will be found
highly advantageous, and that if once it is
successfully started, it will increase as rapid
ly as the Chinese emigration to California.
Ihe largo Chinese colony now established
In South Adams, Mass., shows how rapidly
labor of this kind can be obtained when de-
sired. Only three or four years ago, a shoe
manufacturer there procured a few Chinese
workmen from California. He found them
handy and their work profitable, and now
the Chinamen there number over one hun
dred, and the number conld be prompt
ly doubled or trebled if desired. We
believe, too, that the employment of Chinese
will lead to a greater diversity of produc-
tion at the South—a cbfenge which cannot
be otherwise than beneficial. They will
bring with them their custom of making
every acre produce its greatest possible
amount, and their economy of living at the
least possible cost. These are both lessons
that our Southern people can learn with
profit. The whites of the South have done
all that they could to retain negro labor and
compensate it*to the extent of their means,
and now if the negroes are decoyed off by
unprincipled and heartless politicians, the
loss will be their own and not that of the
Southern planters.”
On account of the general interest mani
fested in the approaching impeachment
trial of the Comptroller General, a contri
butor to the Augusta Chronicle recently
furnished that paper Information In regard
to former Impeachment^ in the State, which
is condensed as follows: “Prior to the
framing of the constitution of 179S impeach
ments were numerous. In that instrument
it was deemed advisable to extend amnesty
in such cases, there being a section which
reads that ‘Convictions on impeachments
which have heretofore taken place are
hereby released, and persous lying under
such convictions restored to citizenship.*
Henry Osborn was impeached in 1791, while
Judge of the Superior Court, for some ir
regularities at a Congressional election in
Savannah. John Berrien in 1S00, an ex-St&te
Treasurer, was impeached on two charges:
First, embezzling $9,950 52 of the ‘Yazoo
deposit;’ and, second, opening the bundle
kuown as the Yazoo deposit, In violation of
his oath and duty as Treasurer. The im
peachment was dismissed. In 1808 three
Commissioners of Surveys were impeached
and convicted for frauds. In 1824 three
Land Commissioners, Lovering, Jackson
and Adrian, were impeached for embezzling
J ublic funds. They were found not guilty.
n 1832 Shadrack Bogan, a Commissioner of
the Laud and Gold Lotteries, was impeached
for fraudulent drawings in those lotteries,
lie was removed from office and disqualified
for twenty years. Major Berrien’6 trial
lasted ten days; the case of the three Land
Commissioners something over a month; in
the case of Lovering, Jackson and Adrian
three weeks, and in Bogan’s case two
weeks.”
A correspondent writing from Griffin to
the Atlanta Constitution, says: “Saturday
afternoon about four o’clock a jet black
cloud came up from the northwest, over
spreading everything with a dark and som
bre hue. When it had reached full mid
way over the city, a perfect torrent of rain
commenced to fall, accompanied by a very
hurricane of wind. People commenced to
imagine a tornado had struck us, and more
than one Griffinite, I imagine, prepared him
self for the cellar. Fortunately, however,
no material damage was done. During the
prevalence of the gale there was a heavy
display of electricity, and thunder rolled in
the most deafening peals. About half a
mile from the telegraph office, south,
a bolt of lightning came down and
shattered into splinters five tele
graph poles, laying the wire along the
ground for soveral hundred yards. At the
time ithe poles were struck a large crowd
was congregated In the post office, and
nearly every one of them felt the shock—
some quite seriously. The report was in
-*■— cracks,
three distinct and sharp cracks, like the
firing of a pistol, the flash being bright
enough to almost blind one. It is useless
to say the crowd ‘bolted’ at once. The re
cent heavy rains have proven more disas
trous in some localities than has been re
ported. Towaliga river was higher in some
places than has been known for years, over
flowing and badly damaging crops and
carrying away the bridge between Griffin
and Jackson. Flint river also was swollen
into a wild, rushing torrent, enough so to
sweep away a number of valuable bridges,
as I learn from gentlemen who have come
in from that direction.”
Florida Affairs.
The Pensacola Oazette, mentioning a diffi
culty between two negro boys of that place,
over some taffy, in which one was stabbed
by the other, states that there are about a
thousand such boys, more or less, loafing
around that place, who are utterly worth
less, and do nothing beyond creating dis
turbances, and making of themselves
nuisances generally. The Gazette wants the
city to take charge of them. The difficulty
mentioned occurred in front of the custom
house, which apparently is regarded as a
sort of asylum by the vagabonds.
Gibb Woods, an incendiary and cattle
thief, was arrested in Columbia county last
week, and afterwards his captors were com
pelled to release him by an armed mob of
colored men. This man has, it is said, al
ready served one term, il not two, in the
penitentiary.
A letter from Chattahoochee states that
there is at that point five hundred bales of
cotton ready to be shipped to New York.
The death of Mr. William T. Niblack,
from near Lake City, is announced. He was
one of the first white settlers in Columbia
connty. ,
Tbe Jacksonville Union says that a ride
about that city reveals the fact that the
population is steadily increasing, and that
new buildings are going up on all sides.
New settlements are extending more to
wards the west and northwest than in any
other direction, but In all directions there is
evidence of increase and prosperity.
The Lake City Reporter reports that a col
ored man, named Roundtree, a blacksmith,
was run over by the train on Friday of last
week, and crushed his leg just above the an
kle. It was several hoars before a surgeon
reached him, and he was placed under the
the influence of chloroform. This put him
into a sleep from which he never awoke.
He was buried on the Sunday following. He
was a good and worthy man, liked by both
white and black.
An alleged murderer named Gann went
off prematurely from the Ocala jail last
Tuesday, without waiting to be regularly
discharged by the court. Another one
named Rogers also escaped at the same
tim?. The East Florida Banner regrets this,
as it says that the crimes with which they
are charged are of the most diabolical de
scription. ‘
The Tribune claims that sickness has di-
miniflhed steadily in Twnpa every year, and
that it is now the healthiest place in the
State.
A party of men entered the jail at Madison
last week and shot a negro prisoner con
fined there on, a charge of attempting to
commit ad outrage on a lady of that place.
The wound isnot considered fataL It is not
known how the parties gained access to the
jail.
Shipping shells from the coast to the in
terior and the North seems likely to be quite
an industry in Florida. Mr. S. Jones, of
Tampa, will soon ship on two schooners,
thirteen car loads, among which will be a
quantity of paving shells sufficient for six
miles of a roadway at Chicago.
A young boy in Quincy was thrown from
a mole a few days ago, near that place, and
60 badly injured that he died that night. He
had tied the bridle around his arm, and
when he fell was unable to loosen it, so he
was dragged along and terribly bruised. He
was a son of Mr. A. M. Moseley, and was
only eleven years old.
The Starke Tdegraph has undoubted faith
in the future prosperity of Florida, but it
thinks that prosperity can only be brought
about by bard labor and unremitting en
ergy. It thinks, however, that first there
must be a considerable change effected, and
says: “ The great grandfather’s rock most
be tbrown aside from onr end of the bag.
\Yo’d rather risk being swamped In a flood-
tide of innovation than smother in the mud*
dy rut of old fogyism. Let’s quit braying
around onr unbelief in our country’s future
prosperity, shuffle off the spirit of whining
doubt and lethargy, and don that of faith
and activity, and the first thing we know
we’ll be ‘booming’ along on the tide of
prosperity.”
Johnny, a little son of Mr. John F. Smith,
of Hamilton connty, picked one hundred
and eleven pounds of cotton on the 6th inst.
He is declared, by the Spirit of the Times, to
be the champion cotton picker of the
county.
The Baptists and Presbyterians of Live
Oak have each begun new ehuich edifices.
When they are completed, the Bulletin says,
that will be a city of cbnrcbes.
Key West Vidette: “Marriages have been
s of late. Mies Loretta 8aun-
on the Increase
ders was married on Tuesday evening to
Charles Dillon, and the following evening
Miss Ida Adams was given away to a fine
young fellow, Alexander German. More
are on the tapis for this evening and to-mor
row. By the way, we nearly forgot to men
tion that Miss Dora Page, niece of our wife,
was married to some Spaniard on Sunday
Live Oak RuUelin: “We have been In
formed that an old lady living in Ellaville,
one morning last week, picked up a ten-
E ound diamond. We suggested that per-
aps there was some mistake about the
weight, but onr informant said that be was
positive that it was a ten-pounder, and that
there was no mistake about its being a
genuine diamond.”
“ Putnam county, of which Palatka is the
county site, is,” says the Palatka Herald,
“extensive, varied, audhas more water navi
gation than any other county in the State.
The county extends up the river as far south
as Lake George—distance forty miles. On
the east side of the river, from Palatka up
to this lake, you will see beautiful orange
groves, respectable dwelling bouses, culti
vated farms, and very much that is attrac
tive. The scenery about the lakes is beauti
ful. In old Indian times the lake shores
were thickly settled by the aborigines. In
their locations the Indians always had an
eye to the beautiful, and never failed
homesteading good land, as is evidenced
now by tbe crops made on old Indian fields.
Not only in this direction in Putnam county
is the country inviting, but in several por
tions you will find good land, good water
and good settlements. Population is in
creasing and the business of tbe county may
be said to be prosperous. Those who com
bine farming with fruit growing will most
certainly succeed. The raising of one’s
bread and meat is sure to make a man inde
pendent. We never knew a man In this
country that made his own provisions that
did not have money, whether he was a large
or small planter.”
Tbe-wonderfnl alligator stories which the
Florida press have oeen telling of late
have arouseff the jealousy of the Palatka
Herald, heretofore without a successful rival
in that line. Hence In its last issue it fairly
humps itself and administers a scathing
rebuke to those who have presumed to
old Ocklawahi Captain, is a young
of energy, and knows no such word as fail.
What he don’t know about tbe wonders of
the Ocklawaba river and its reptiles is not
worth knowing. The Captain is a success.
But he met with a fearful encounter on his
last trip up the river. He had been warned
that for several days there existed unusual
commotion in the waters at Burnside Bend,
with noises much like that of the roaring of
alligators. Burnside Bend, on “the Ockla-
waha, is an unwholesome looking place
with undergrowth matted with slimy
marsh reeds and grass, with
heavy timbered trees overarching the
river. The place looks dark, even in day
time, and the old Captains hnrry through it,
and seem glad when they reach clearer
waters beyond. It was. night when nearing
this bend; the party of hunters, and others,
were quietlv looking out upon the weird
scenes of the river, when they were sud
denly startled by Rice exclaiming, * What’s
that ?* and the hair began to rise on his
head as he noted that the bend was literally
alive with alligators. The sight of the
Okeehumkee seemed to rouse them to
mad fury, and they roared and plunged in a
manner that was fearful. The
blockaded. The passengers begged the
Captain to tarn, bat the indefatigable Rice,
with his usual intrepid spirit, cried keep her
on, and yelled to the engineer to put on
more steam. The steamer ploughed into
the swarm with great force and was
brought to a dead stand. Such a scene
was enough to terrify the boldest; tbe
strength of the monsters forced the
steamer on her beam ends; the deck hands
fled In consternation to the upper deck,
fled In consternation to the upper deck,
while the passengers sought safety on the
hurricane deck—the steamer lay blocked in
as if bound by icebergs. While deliberating
about safety, and as good luck would have
It, a hunting party put in their appearance
chasing a large bear, which took water just
below the boat. This attracted the monsters,
especially the barking dogs, of which they
are very fond. The ’gators made a rush for
the bear and dogs, which left the steamer
free to proceed, to their great relief. The
party declared that they would never go on
an alligator hunt on the Ocklawaha again,
at this season of the year, without artillery.
We should enjoy seeing our new fledged
sportsmen, when they come down from the
North in the winter, engaged In such a
scene.” The Herald still wears the belt.
The Pensacola Uazette says: “ Mary
Ann Kelly, a Gvpsy, was arrested on
Friday last by Sheriff Hutchinson, on a
warrant sworn out by a woman from Mo
bile connty, Ala., before Justice Tate, of
thi* city, the woman charging the gypsy
with ‘obtaining money and goods under
false pretenses.' She was one of the gang
that has been in the neighborhood for some
weeks past. The artifice which she worked
in order to secure the money was flne and
decidedly gypsy-like, and withal quite ro
mantic. It was in substance as follows: In
May last, the said gypsy called at the bouse
of a woman about dnskone evening,and look
ing all around In a knowing manner, said
that there used to live in this house, long
years ago, before yon (speaking to
-* ' bora, an old 8[
the woman) were bora, an old Span
iard, who had light blue eyes, grey
hair and long whiskers, and who also
owned It. Jnst before he died he buried in
this lot *10,000 in gold, in a spot where no
one knew, and that she was able (thegypsy)
to And it and deliver it to the woman if
she would do as she was told. The woman
believed It all and asked what it would be
necessary for her to do. The gypsy replied
that it was necessary for her to procure *100
in gold, a watch chain worth *200 and a
small piece or nugget of gold. After she
had provided herself with the necesauy ar
ticles she was to sleep with them under her
pillow for two weeks, after which time—
which would be the 1st of June—tbe gypsy
would come back and be able to get
the *10,000 in gold and , deU «r *t to tim
woman. The woman, firmly believing all
that the gypsy had told her, complied with
her demands, or requests, and did all that
she was told. At last the 1st of June came,
but with it no gypsy; but on the 2d day of
June she put in her appearance, and gave as
her reason lor not coming ontbelttotJaim
that it was an unlucky day. and that neither
one of them could have scored the hidden
during her absence <*e
revelation concerning
sinsmts
the 20th of July to
n her hand le $100 in
chain: daring the time
ntU the 20ffi of July,
further
gold Mub*2O0 watch C
anif when a the*ajth of July should arrive
that she would return the articles to the
woman, and at the same time get the
*10,000 and give it to her. Tim woman, b£
— *- -*— • over
ileving all as before, turned over the gold
and the chain to the CTpay. who lefVThe
20th of July arrived, but with-it no gypsy,
nor did she turn up until Saturd»y morning,
and then in Pensacola in charge of Sheriff
Hutchinson, who lodged her in the county
JaR.”
Bays the ‘South Florida Journal: “Another
semi-tropical fruit has been brought to our
notice. On last Thursday Mr. F. G. Lind-
burg presented us with about two quarts of
ripe Japan (or red) guavas. These are the
first we eyer saw, and we pronounce them
first rate. He also showed us a sprig, the
stem of which was less than an eighth of an
inch in diameter, on which were clustered
twenty-seven guavas. Mr. Lindburg says
the bush on which those presented ripened
was about five feet high, and that it bore
about five bushels of guavas. Hie leaf re
sembles the pear, but is more waxy. The
ripe fruit resembles the guava that is com
mon here, except it is red; and ripens at
from a half to an inch in diameter. They
bear fn three years from Hie seed, and were
not injured by the heavy frost of two and a
half years ago. We set great store by the
fruit of the guava, and if this Japan guava
is sufficiently hardy to withstand the frosts
that this region is occasionally subjected to,
it will be a grand thing.”
Quincy Star: “An evidence of the im
proved state of the country since the com
mencement of Governor Drew’s administra
tion is found in the fact that nearly every
farmer in this county is now endeavoring,
with fair prospects of success, to raise his
own bacon for another year. The coarts
have not had a single case of hog or cow
stealing before them for a, year or more,
while during the Republican administration
that preceded, It was utterly impossible to
raise a pig. until it was six months old for
the hog thieves. Now year-old meat hogs,
large and fat, may be seen running at large
wherever one goes. Don't this simple fact
speak volnmes for the energy of the Demo
cratic administration ? After this, will any
one believe the loud-mouthed Republican
speakers and papers who say the Demo
cratic party Is ruining the country ? They
are, and will continue to rain, the business
of thieves.”
Tampa Tribune: “We learn from Col.
Graham that since the rains have set in, the
orange trees In Manatee connty,which seem
ed to have been greatly injured by the dry
weather during the spring and early part of
the summer, have fully recuperated and are
as flourishing as ever. He says that the
trees bloomed out, and that he has seen as
many as nine different sizes of oranges on
the trees. These facts show that the orange
tree is as hardy in standing drought as it is
in withstanding a moderate degree of cold.”
LETTER FROM ARKANSAS.
A Hot Sunday in Helena—Tbe Tel-
low Fever—Tbe Bayou Gay oho The
ory Exploded—Health or Helen:
The Grope and Trade.
Helena, Ark., August 3.—Editor Morning
News: No school, no church, no Morning
News; so, after reading one of the bucolics
of Virgil, I feel somewhat In the humor of
writing. It is a good day to recline “under
the shade of the wide beech tree,” for the
rays of this August sun come pouring down
from the heated heavens, and the river
breezes blow lazily over the flats towards
the high hills of Helena.
Do those breezes blow health or do they
blow death—yellow death—that death which
has already, and far too 60on, commenced
its work In this mighty valley?
At the corners of the streets and In the
market places, yon hear the plebs and eveu
the freedmen discussing the “germ theory”
and malaria hematuria in a learned man
ner that would put to blush old JBscu-
lapius himself, and we feel as if we were
passing through the Thousand Islands down
tbe St. Lawrence, in a frail bark and with a
drunken pilot.
Where will It all end ? Will it go over the
valley and Into the hills, or will it linger
around its birth place, Memphis ?
We think that this fever is indigenous to
Memphis, but that it can be carried any
where. The bayou Gayoso theory of last
year is exploded, for those living alongside
that bayou of filth this year have escaped,
whilst Yellow Jack, like the demon Kni'ght
or the chess-board of Death, jumps when
ever and wherever he pleases. He jumps
over the slough, across the sewers of sin,
and into the halls of justice—lie skips the
purlieus of poverty where wan faces are
waiting to die, where fetid breezes sweep
through homes of filth, and captures his
royal game in marble halls, where wealth,
and beauty, and florid youth go hand In
hand.
Onr people in Helena feel no especial un
easiness, as tbe city is unusually healthy
and remarkably cleanly. Nevertheless many
have left for cooler climes. The better half
of this seminary is now in Qnitman, Geor
gia, perhaps chopping logic aim bacca regie,
who is no grossulariae acinus, but as witty a
disciple of Blackstone as ever cavil’d on the
ninth part of a hair or worried to death the
learned Judge of Brooks county. \
The cotton crop here has been injared
but very little by the late dry weather, but
the corn crop has been very seriously in
jured. Many countrymen, formerly trading
in Memphis, are now making their purchases
here, aud our merchants are doing a lively
business—some selling as much as two and
three thousand dollars per day cash. We
have had no trouble with the exodusters. If
a negro can’t make money in Phillips conn
ty, Arkansas, 1 don’t know where he will go
to make it. Billt Spott.
Bloody Instructions op the Enemy.
The St. Louis Times is angered with the
Courier-Journal for stating that North
ern Republican organs have advised the
Memphis negroes to kill the whites, and
denies that such is the case. We refer
the Times to the extract we printed from
the Toledo Blade, a few days ago, in
which the advice was freely given. We
also call the Tinted attention to the bloody
proclivities of the Republican editors as
manifested in the following murderous
paragraph from the Quincy (UL) Whig:
“Every Republican knows that noth
ing could happen to this republic that
would be of such advantage to it as gen
eral and judicious slaughter of the Demo
crats at the polls. For this purpose there
ought to be a Federal bayonet in every
county in the United States at the next
general election. There ought to be
more, but there are, unfortunately, ljp
more to be had. Every patriot, how
ever—and every patriot is a Republican
—ought to take a bayonet with him to
the polls for the purpose of assisting the
Federal army in the work of killing
Democrats.”
How is that for bloody murder?—
Courier-Journal.
Singular Affliction.—Last i
Septem
ber J. J. Clutter, a young man employed
on the Pittsburg Division of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, suddenly lost
his eyesight while dancing at a moon
light picnic at Connellsville. He recov
ered his sight in a day or two. We now
learn that Clutter, who is employed at
the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, at
Braddocks’, has had another similar but
still more carious experience. Aboat a
week ago he suddenly became deaf and
dumb, and the following morning he was
deprived of the sense of sight He re
ceived no attendance of & medical char
acter excepting Jrom local physicians.
He complained of weakness, but no
other feeling of illness, and was able to
partake of food as freely as when in
thorough health. About 8 o’clock last
Sunday evening he became repossessed
of aB the lost faculties just as suddenly
and mysteriously as he had lost them,
having been deaf and dumb for forty-
eight hours and blind for thirty-six. Af
ter his restoration he complained of
nothing except a
(ifd.) News.
Death of an Abandoned Woman.—
Mrs. Caroline Florenz, wife of An
ton Florenz, of Vienna, Austria, who
had eloped from , that city with
one Nathan Shuk, and whose abandon
ment and effort at suicide at a hotel in
Cincinnati were reported a few days
since, died on Sunday of her wound.
The case is a most singular one. She
shot herself in the head on June 14. A
ball weighing thirty grains entered her
brain after being severed into four pieces,
probably by contact with bones. Three
of these pieces, weighing nineteen grains,
were removed by surgeons, and the wo
man appeared in a fair way of recovery.
Since the shooting she had learned that
her husband was willing to forgive her,
and then she appeared anxious to live,
bnt daring tbe last few days she sank
rapidly, dying Sunday.
The late Robert Argyle, of Gold Hill,
the first '
Nevada, one ‘of the first settlers of the
Comstock, has left $40,000 to the city of
San Francisco to build a fountain. He
has ordered the foundation to he made.ol
refuse quartz from each of the Comstock
pijnfra.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
DIFFICULTY AT THE SPRAGUE
MANSION AT NABBAGANSETT.
A U8TRIAN.
AFFAIRS.
Onslaughts Against Germany In the
Bnssian Press.
GLADSTONE ON AMERICA.
Prize Fight In Massachusetts.
TUB CHOLERA IN TURKEF.
CALIFORNIA POLITICS.
Tbe New French Cable.
AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.
.H-ohdom, August Jhmkfc
from Vienna says: “The crisis in the
Austrian Ministry is on the eve of solution.
Count Taafe, the present Minister of the
Interior, will be the chief of the new
Cabinet, in which the Liberal party will pro
bably predominate. The rumor rela
tive to Ihe retirement of Count
Andrassy, the Austro-Hungarian Pre
mier, meets with less credence in
Vienna than it does in Pesth, where his
policy of occupation of Turkish provinces
is very unpopular. The Tagblatt believes An-
drassy’a retirement will be dne to his dis
sension with the Minister of War, who op
poses the occupation of Novi Bazar until
preparations have been made on & large
scale.”
Vienna, August 12.—The Ministerial
journal, FremdenUatt, says that, among
Count Andrassy’s friends the report relative
to his retirement is neither confirmed nor
denied.
A DIFFICULTY AT* TUB SPRAGUE MANSION.
New York, August 12.—The published
correspondence and statements of the prin
cipals in the affair of last week, at ex-Gov.
Sprague’s mansion, at Narragansett Pier, R.
L, assert that in addition to the difficulty
reported between the ex-Governor
and a German teacher, there was
a wordy encounter between the former and
Senator Conklins, who, as the first dis
patches stated, was a guest at the Sprague
mansion. Accounts vary so widely in re
gard to the affair, and the parties concerned
have taken such effectual measures to pre
vent the whole story from becoming public,
that it is impossible to ascertain the precise
factr.
RUSSIAN GRIEVANCES AGAINST GERMANY.
London, August 12—A dispatch to the
' i Berlin saj *
Times from Berlin say6: “It may be affirmed,
judging from the violent and repeated on
slaughts against Germany in the St. Peters
burg press, that Russia thinks she has a
grievance against Germany. There is reason
to believe these onslaughts- represent,
though in a very exaggerated form, the
yiews of Prince Gortschakoff.”
GLADSTONE AND AMERICA.
London, August 12.—Gladstone, speak
ing at the opening of the art exhibition at
Chester last night, said: “ When America
learned to trust entirely to her own splendid
natural resources, the great genius of her
people and their marvellous proficiency in
the adaptation of labor-saving appliances,
in which she was at the head of the world,
she would be a formidable competitor with
the English manufacturer.” *
CALIFORNIA POLITICS.
San Francisco, August 12.—The Con
gressional Labor
evening.
6 arrived here last
The Democratic County Convention, after
declining a fusion with the Honorable Bilks
on the municipal ticket, met last evening
and nominated Gustav Reis for Mayor. Mr.
Reis is a German'capitalist and a member of
the Board of Fire Commissioners.
THE FREELT-M’GEE PRIZE FIGHT.
Boston, August 12.—James Freely, alias
Baldy Jim, of Williamsburg, N. Y., de
feated Frank McGee, of Boston, in a prize
fight ‘ * ~ —
ton.
were _
his nose broken, and In the last McGee’s col
lar bone was fractured.
cholera
TURKEY—DISTURBANCES IN
SAMOS.
London, August 12.—A Constantinople
dispatch to Reuter’s says: “Some cases of
cholera are reported here, but they are be
lieved to be sparodlc.”
It is reported that popular disturbances
have occurred in Samos.
TUB NEW FRENCH CABLE.
Liverpool, August 12.—A dispatch to the
Post from London says that up to yesterday^
the 11th instant, the steamer Faraday had
laid successfully over a thousand miles of
the new French cable.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRI
CAN SLATE TRADE.
REVIVAL OF THE IRON INDUS-
- TRT. .
Rumored Retirement of Count An-
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH
THE KRUPP GUN.
Grand High Court of Anfcient Order
of Foresters.
THE FIRST DALE OF ALABAMA
COTTON.
SARATOGA RACES.
Minor Telegrams.
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN
AFRICA.
London, August 12.—Latest letters from
Colonel Gordon,Governor-General of South
ern Egypt, report that Lieutenant Gessi, un
der his orders, has conquered the slave
dealers of Bargazcll district, killing eight of
their leaders in battle and hanging nine,
capturing a large amount of booty
and taking their chief station by
assault. He now proposes, after
disarming the inhabitants, to evacuate the
district and confine future operations to
keeping a close watch on the frontier.
Snllema Pasha,, however, leader of the
slave re who escaped after the last battle,has
mustered a new force and is poshing for
Darfur, where he will find plenty of discon
tented spirits to join him. Col. Gordon re
gards the situation so serious that he has
hastily returned to Darfor.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C..August 12.—Indications
for Wednesday: ~
In the South Atlantic States, east to south
winds, a slight rise in temperature, partly
cloudy weather, local rains and slight
changes in barometer.
In the Middle States, southeast to south
west winds, stationary or slowly falling ba
rometer, partly clondy weather and slight
changes in temperature.
In the Golf States, winds mostly from
east to south, slightly wanner, partly cloudy
weather, areas of rain and stationary or
slowly falling b
Tennessee
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, south
erly to westerly winds and partly cloudy
weather, with slowly falling barometer,
slight changes in temperature, aud in the
Ohio valley local r‘
valley
SARATOGA RACES.
Saratoga, August 12.—The weather was
fair to-day and tbe track in good condition.
The first race, Windsor Hotel stakes, for
two-year-olds, five furlongs, was won by
Grenada, Luke Blackburn second, GUdelia
third. Time 14B&
The second raee, Kenner stakes, two
miles, was won by Falsetto in the best time
ever made, viz: 3:35}£, with Spendthrift
second, Jericho third.
The third race, one mile and a quarter,
was won by Checkmate, Gabriel second,
8urge third. Time 2:11%.
Tne fourth race was a selling race, one
mile, and was won by Simoon, Charlie Gor
ham second, Edwin A. third. Time 1:44)£
REVIVAL IN THE IRON TRADE.
Morristown, N. J., Ai
furnaces and forges which have been idle
since the panic of *73 are being reopened
and work pushed. Forces in many places
are working night and day. New mines are
being opened and new furnaces built, nota
bly at Chester and Port Oram, and at all
' from Pbillipsbuigh eastward to
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE KRUPP CANNON.
London, August 12.—Experiments with
the Krupp cannon at Essen have had most
important results, which, if maintained, may
show that the whole English ordnance sys
tem requires reform. The Krupp cannon
has t iroved equal in penetration to the Wool
wich guns of twice their weight. In one
case at a range of 2,700 yards, horizontal,
tbe-deviation of the shot was only two feet
and ten inches, and the vertical deviation
nine and a half inches.
THE ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS.
St. Louis, August 12.—The High Court
of the Ancient Order of Foresters convened
here this morning In secret session. There
is a large attendance from all parts of the
country. This Order has over six thousand
courts, scattered over the world, and is
rapidly increasing in membership. The
High Court will be in session three days,
and delegates will be handsomely enter
tained by the local courts.
THE IOWA GREENBACK CONVENTION.
Marshalltown, Iowa, August 12.—The
State Greenback Convention met and or
ganized here to-day. Only thirty-three del
egates were present. There is no indica
tion that an independent ticket will be
in the field. The work of the convent
to-day has merely been to harmonize the
to-day has merely been to harmonize the
two factions of the party and inaugurate
a more radical policy for 1881. .
THE RETIREMENT OF COUNT ANDRASSY.
London, August 12.—A Vienna dispatch
to the Daily Telegraph says: “Count An
drassy stated two months ago, in a conver
sation, that he would retire as soon as the
Russian evacuation of Turkish
was completed and the Austro-]
administrations fairly established in
and Herzegovina.”
THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.
Philadelphia, August 12.—The second
annual meeting of the American Bar Asso
ciation, composed of members of the bar
throughout the United States, will be held
at Saratoga, New York, on Wednesday and
Thursday, August 20 and 21. The annual
dinner will be given on the evening of the
21st.
ANOTHER FIRST BALE.
Selma, Ala., August 12.—The first bale
of new cotton was received to-day. It was
raised by James O’Brien, of Dallas county,
classed as low middling, and sold at four
teen cents per pound.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS QUIRT IN MONTREAL.
Montreal, August 12.—Financial affairs
aye quiet. Exchange Bank bills are selling
at 95. The Stock Exchange is strong.
INJURED IN A RIOT.
London. August 12.—Twenty-two persons
were injured in a riot at Belfast last night,
growing out of a Catholic procession.
Exploits in drinking lager beer are re
ceiving the attention of the Cincinnati
newspapers, and some of the stories are
wonderful. A fireman drank twelve
glasses of beer while a church clock was
striking twelve, the time being about
half a minute. Dr. Noeffier drank eight
gallons in two hours, and his competitor
in a trial of capacity was not left far be
hind. Noeffier is regarded as the Cin
cinnati champion, but there are several
men in that city who have emptied an
eight-gallon keg in three to five houra.
An old employe of a brewery has drank
fifty glasses every day for eighteen
years. Brewers’ men generally drink
heavily. In one brewery they areal-
lowed from six to fourteen glasses each
per day, according to their age-and
work. Cards arc placed behind a bar,
and upon them the names of the era-
e ’es are written. A man goes to th$
and asks for a glass of beer, which i$
given him, and a hole at the same time
is punched in his card. When the nunD
ber of holes corresponds to the number
of drinks allowed him for the day, he
can have no more, though the day may
not yet be more than half spent.
Reported Shooting Affair in Vir
ginia.—It is reported that at Port Royal,
Caroline county,‘Virginia, last Thursday
night, a young man named Richard
Madison, having his jealousy aroused
by his wife being escorted to her. home
from church by Phil Travis, an unmar
ried man, fired four shots at him from a
revolver, one of which took effect in
Travis’ face and one in the right thigh.
Travis then made his escape from the
house, when, it is rumored, Madison
fired several shots at his wife, missing
te parties
are of good families, and the proceeding
drag
is much regretted. There is not the least
suspicion against Travis or Mrs. Madi-
Daking Rescue of Prisoners.—Two
prisoners, Denis Gillespie and John
O’Brien, escaped from Blackwell’s
Island, New York, Sunday night They
were in a guard boat with the keeper,
Stephen Kelly, patroling the riverside,
when a boat in which were six rowdies ap
proached and demanded the surrender of
the prisoners. The keeper.refused, and
the roughs upset his boat All thre$
were picked up and taken on board the
roughs’ boat, bat on Kelly’s attempting
to draw his revolver, he was thrown
overboard, and with difficulty saved his
life, being picked up half an hour after
wards by a pleasure boat The police
are on the lookout for the fugitives. i
Alice Oates, the opera singer, no*j
Mrs. Watkins, was dining with her hus
band in a Philadelphia restaurant. A
United States naval officer, described as
“a near relative of Poker Schenck,” sat
with a party at a table close by. Wat
kins sprang up and asked, “What do
you mean by looking at my wife?” “We
certainly did not look at her with any
disrespect,” replied the officer. “Then
what did you look at all for?” cried the
enraged husband, flourishing a bottle.
The officer thereupon struck Watkins,
and there was a brief fight, during which
the singer let out her voice in screams.
At the close of a prayer meeting in a
Methodist Church at Acton, Indiana,
brother Hamlin, Superintendent of the
Sunday school, announced that the ser
vices on the following Sunday would be
held in a grove near by. This was
really the result of a division in the con
gregation. Pastor Weaver Raid that, on
the contrary, the usual services would
take place m the church, and at once
pronounced the benediction. The two
then met in the aisle, quarrelled fiercely
and then had a fight, in which the cler-
thesi
gyman whipped the superintendent.
Mr. Crawshay, the iron master, left
property in England worth $6,000,000.
Ten years ago. it would probably have
been far larger. The comparative small
amount ($13,500,000) under which Baron
Rothschild’s personalty was sworn—less
than half that of the late Mr. Brasscy—
is doubtless due to a large proportion of
his wealth being in other countries. Only
two British personal estates have ever
reached $20,000,000, and there ii but one
instance of a direct legacy of $5,000,000.
The Princess of Wales’ gardens at
Sandringham are of considerable extent^
and her dairy U a thing of beauty, with
a lovely room luxuriously furnished for
lea parties. The usual Sunday afternoon
walk with all the guests, servants and
children comprises visits to the gardens;
the daily, the farm and the kennels, and
always finishes with the stables. The
company consists of very Dearly the
same persons every year—the “fast set,”
with occasional foreigners.
President Eliot, of Harvard, is repre
sented by the Rev. Lyman Abbott as
saying in a letter: “No one is a gentle
man or a lady who has not a refined and
accurate use of the mother tongue. That
attainment I find essentially my concep
tion of a gentleman or a lady. A gentle
man or a lady will have other mental ac
quisitions; but these will notbeessenl
as that is.” There will be some
cism of President Eliot’s
GLIMPSES OF NEW ENGLAND.
-Sights and See
Stock—The City
Under a Cloud—museum—Editor
Parsons, of llie Register-Mr. 1«. J*
Joyce—New England Character.
It is said that among the merchants
tending the summer at Nahant, Mass.,
holesalers never associate with retail
ers, and this unwritten law is carried so
far that a certain retail merchant and his
family are not welcomed into the circle
in which his son, a wholesaler, moves,
_ — - ^ ^0. furnishes the
New Haven, Conn., July 29.—Editor
Morning Hews: This delightful city is situ
ated on Long Island Sound, just seventy-
four miles from New York. It is one of the
most compactly built of all the New Eng
land towns, and for beauty of situation is
not excelled in all the land. Her industries
are varied, and as a commercial port she
stands high in the scale. Her wholesale
business is immense, while in the retail line
she surpasses some of her more pretentions
neighbors. Bat it is not my purpose to enter
into a statistical report, bnt only tc describe
what impressed me as I passed along the
street, or conversed with some of her citi
zens. That which would first
traveler,^weary and hungry, as he entered
the depot from the cars, would be the su
perb and attractive lunch, prepared by th^
restaurant keeper, who occupies the centre
of the magnificent building. It is the best
as well as the most extensive establishment
of the kind of any that I have found in all
my saunterings in this land. It is national
in its reputation, and for this reason I speak
of it.
Stepping outside the depot yon are met
by an array of liackmen, bnt they are less
obtrusive and more courteous than any I
have found elsewhere. There was no grasp
ing after baggage, or importuning you
to ride. There was a respectful solicitation of
yonr patronage; bnt if you had determined
to take the street cars, there was no inter
ference with your purposes, and & hackman
would politely and truthfully tell you to
what points the various street railroads
would carry you, as any one else to whom
you might appeal. This was so unlike hack-
My that it impressed me pro
men
foundly, and
most cheerfully record it as
a pleasing phase of New England life.
My love and admiration for a good horse
I think are innate. Here I was gratified b^
looking upon some of tbe finest teams
ever saw. Even the street car stock was of
a superb quality. This led me to the inquiry
if they reared their own stock. But I found
that they were dependent upon the West for
the finer and the better class of horses. They
had tried the Canadian stock, bnt they were
too *m*n to meet tbe demand. There Is
some risk in importing Western horses. The
severity of the winter season proves too
much for them, in many cases, but when
once acclimated their powers of endurance
are wonderful.
It was a rainy day that I spent in New
Haven, and the place can only live in my
memory as seen under a cloud. This I re
gret, for I am sure tbe cheering rays of the
son would have disclosed a thousand bean-
ties left nnseen. The impressions left upon
my mind are of the most pleasing character,
notwithstanding the clouds and rain.
One of the most attractive places in the
city is tbe Park, or old State House square,
wltii its magnificent elms and green sward,
its walks and drives. Refreshed by the
rain, tbe grassy plats looked most charm
ingly—the three elegant and massive church
edifices that grace tbe centre aisle add
grandeur to the lovely picture. And while
the old State House, In the rear, is not so
attractive for its architecture, it still serves
a most valuable purpose, being converted
into a museum of the Art and Industrial Asso
ciation. 1 spent a half hour or so in walking
through Its halls. This society procured
the entire Swedish exhibition which was
made at the Centennial at Philadelphia. In
tbe hall where fiercest battles In the politi
cal arena were fought, I found the Laplan
der and his reindeer resting In quietude. In
the Senate chamber was the Swedish cot
tage, and the affecting scene <?f a Swedish
burial, represented with life size figures,
quite In contrast with the scene when tbe
assembled wisdom of the nutmeg State met
to devise and settle the grave questions of
the commonwealth. It will he remembered
that Connecticut used to have a dual capi
tal, the Legislature alternating their sittings
between New Haven and Hartford, which
is thirty-six miles fartherup the Connecticut
river. Wisdom dictated a permanent loca
tion, and Hartford won in the contest, and
one of the most elegant as well as conveni
ent State Houses lu the Union was erected
In the city of Hartford.
II Hartford did succeed in carrying away
the Legislature, she did not deprive New
Haven of her thrift or intelligence. The
highly cultivated and beautiful flower yards
andelegant *
re finemeht.
residences evidence culture and
Some of these homes are most
charming in appearance.
Mystay was far too short to satisfy the
cariosity that had been engendered by a
longing desire to visit this place, and I take
my departure from it with the hope that I
may return under more favorable auspices
ana gratify this desire long cherished.
I had the. pleasure of meeting Mr. Par
sons, the editor of the New Haven Register,
one of the oldest papers in the S*ate, and
the only Democratic paper published here.
I found in him tbe cultivated, genial whole-
souled gentleman. He loves his work, and
prosecutes it with vigor and eminent success.
I am under personal obligations to him for
rartesies and attentions, and trust that onr
acquaintance thus begun may ripen into a
lasting friendship, and that I may have the
pleasure in our own Sunny South of return
ing the favors so graciously bestowed.
This gentleman, through his paper, has
on more occasions than one 'defended the
South against the calumnies and falsehoods
of those who call us barbarians, and who
would remand ns back under military rule.
He wields * ’ ”
lelds a graceful as well as a vigorous
pen, and is doing yeoman service in the
I met here, also, Mr. L. J. Joyce, of the
firm of Joyce & Co., shoe dealers, who
do an extensive Southern trade. I found
in him the true gentleman, who knows and
appreciates our Southern civilization, for he
has been often among us. There is a wide
difference between our habits and manners
and those of New England. Mr. Joyce un
derstands and appreciates this fact, and met
me with something like a Southern cor
diality.
As the result of my study of New Eng
land character, I have this much to say:
There is a marked difference between the
New Englander at home and as seen from
the hotel piazza in Jacksonville, Fla. This
difference may arise largely from the fact
that those with whom I have met here may
belong to the “stay-at-home” fraternity,
content with home comforts, even amid the
rigors of their protracted winters. There are
many things in common of course. We are
indebted to New England for many things,
but toleration and generosity are not among
that number when applied to opinion or
tnt. To differ from them in either is
a great crime in tbeir estimation—the result
of Ignorance or false civilization. Thai
there ever was an honest, conscientious
er is an Inconceivable fact
to them. That there should be any honest
THE BEQUEST TO HB. DAYIS.
An Unanswerable Reply to AeanSa
lon. Innuendoes—A Sharp Letter
from the Connael or the Lute Kira.
Doraey—Her Character as i
man—The Legatee Vindicated fro;
any Improper Action In the Mat
ter.
St. Louis Republican.
New Orleans. August 4.—My atten
tion having been called to a communica
tion in yonr paper dated New York, July
29, relative to Mrs. Dorsey’s bequest to
Mr. Davis, I am induced by the many
misstatements it contains, to pat yon in
of the facts, in tbe hope that
possession
those facts will somewhat abate the
pacious rage and silence the slanderous
tongues of her disappointed relatives.
Having known Mrs. Dorsey from my
childhood, and having been for several
years previous to her death her solicitor
and legal adviser, I claim to speak with
some degree of authority in the matter.
In the first place, the extent of Mrs.
Dorsey’s estate has been enormously ex-
rciated. Instead of being a quarto;
a million, THTrfy'lIiousand dollars is
the extreme limit that can be placed on
its value. As far as personalty is con
cemed, Mrs. Dorsey had comparatively
nothing. She owned no stocks or bonds
of any kind. She had no money in bank
(except a few hundred dollars), and none
at interest Her only source of revenue
was the rental of her plantations in. the
parish of Tensas, and this amounted to
about $2,500 a year—hardy sufficient to
give her a support These plantations
were once valuable, but, like all proper
ties situated in the alluvial parishes, an
nually threatened with disastrous over
flows, they have depreciated to one sixth
of what they were worth before the war,
when the levee system was perfect, and
the labor was tied to the soil by the chain
of slaveiy. I should consider it a bad
bargain to give $20,000 for them now.
The lands in Arkansas may be set
down as absolutely worthless. They are
uncultivated swamp lands, for which
there is no market, even at fifty cents an
acre. Indeed, if I mistake not, they
were all sold for taxes years ago.
The only other property that Mrs. Dor
sey leaves is the house and grounds near
Mississippi City, known as “ Beauvoir.
Whatever value it has was given it by
Mrs. Dorsey, w bo purchased it some years
ago for, I think, about $3,000. She has
improved it to some extent, but its pres
ent value is dependent upon so many
contingencies as virtually to deprive it of
a market price.
The disposition of Mrs. Dorsey’s will
and the motives which induced her to
make it were communicated to me by
her own lips early in the year 1878, and
very shortly after the will was written.
These are the circumstances under which
this communication was made. Mrs.
Dorsey came to New Orleans with the
intention of undergoing a severe surgical
operation for cancer, under which she
expected to die. and from the effects of
which she finally did die. She sent for
me, told me of the will, its contents, her
motives for making it, her anticipations
of death, and gave me directions os to
what I should do in that event. The
operation, by the advice of her physi
cian, was postponed a year. She subse
quently brought the will to my office,
and left it there to be deposited in the
Canal Bank, which deposit was made by
my associate, Mr. F. D.dRng.
The motives which Mrs. Dorsey gave
lor making Mr. Davis her legatee were
in substance those set forth in the body
of the will itself—given, however, more
in detail and expressed with that fine
earnestness of manner that was peculiar
to herself. She said that she was child
less; that she had done ail for her rela
tives that they deserved and that she felt
bound to do; that tbe small fortune she
possessed came to her from the bounty
of her husband, who had also made pro
vision for his own relations; that she was
daughter of the South (her rum de
plume was Fdia) and loved it—its history,
its deeds, and its cause—with all the en
thusiasm of her nature; that she regarded
Mr. Davis as the embodiment of this
cause; that maligned and abused even by
his own people, unassisted and in
straightened circumstances, he was de
voting the remaining years of his life to
the vindication, through history, of tbe
South; that she was in intense sympathy
with this work, the progress of which
she had watched day after day with her
own eyes, and towards which she had
been graciously permitted to contribute
what personal aid she conld give; that
she had known, honored and loved Mr.
Davis from her girlhood with the affec
tion of a daughter, and that she did not
know where her property conld be more
worthily bestowed than upon the ex-
President of the Confederacy.
If Mrs. Dorsey’s relatives—especially
the Dahlgren and Ellis branches—ex
pected to get her property, they were
“waiting for dead men’s Bhoes” in vain.
Aside from the personal relations that
existed between them, I speak authorita
tively when I say that her idea was to leave
it to some literary or scientific purpose.
Previous to the formation of this design of
leaving it to Mr. Davis, her intention
was to establish and endow in some
American college a chair of Sanscrit
language, literature and religion—her
own profound studies having been turned
in that direction for many years to such
an extent that her friends would laugh
ingly accuse herof being a worshipper
of Brahma.
At the time of the conversation above
Southern interests and cherished ideas, tbev
believe to be impossible. They deem all re
sistance thereto tbe result of prejudice and
false conceptions as to tbe truth. They
believe that the civilization of the Puritan
Fathers mnat triumph in the end—that it is
tbe only, one under which tbe arts and
sciences, culture and progress, can be ele
vated to their proper level. And I frankly
confess their honesty in these opinions.
They are thoroughly wedded to their Mol.
Remembering their early history, one wonld
have thought that toleration for the opin
ions of others wonld be the one virtue
above ail others to reign supreme and
ed natures. But, alas,
for opinion’s soke, In
persecutors. This is
of Intolerance. Sirs an
eminent writer: “It liberty of conscience
cime over in the Mayflower it was a portion
of her perishable cargo, and was soon dis-
sed of, and never afterward imported, or,
imported, was confiscated before land
ing.” History folly justifies this criticism.
Notwithstanding this intolerant soirit,
and the assumed dignity, which in some
cases reaches coldness and austerity, this
people possess some most estimable trait* of
character. I discovered afterboring through
this crust of self complacency and reserve
many a warm streak in their nature. Their
Mtthies, when aroused, are foil and
idant in their flow. When their confi
dence is once obtained nothing trivial will
sever the attachment formed. Strong in
their prejudice, they are. also strong in their
convictions as to duty. And what we would
term their impertinence in expression,
arises in a great measure from the strength
and decided character of their convictions.
Hence their boldness in their advocacy of
skepticism, of a false philanthropy and a
vitiated philosophy.. -They espouse these
heresies with all tbe energy of. their ragged
n stares; bat down deep in their hearts is a
love for home, which is most charming in
its development. Their love of conn try is a
cardinal virtue with them, and their devo
tion to their section is marvelous.
Thus J have endeavored to give what
business.
the son carries on ter.
a of Nc
alluded to, I jokingly asked Mrs. Dorsey
what would become of her professorship
of Sanscrit, and she answered that she
was doing the greatest service possible
to her country and her people in placing
Mr. Davis in a position where, unpinchea
by the res angusta domi, he could finish
his work and his life in peace and com
fort
In the second place, I wish to advert
to the grounds upon which it is proposed
to attack Mrs. Dorsey's wilL The testa
ment being perfect in form, the testatrix
being capable of giving, and the legatee
capable of receiving, it is said that it
will be attacked as having been made
through undue influence, or on the
ground that the testatrix was insane.
Now Mrs. Dorsey was a citizen of
Louisiana; she died here, her will
probated here, and the hoik of her prop
erty is here. Under onr beneficent sys
tem of law which suppresses and
countenances scandalous litigation of all
sorts, no such contests over wills can
take place as disgrace the Surrogate
Courts of New York. Article 1,492 of
the civil code provides that “proof is not
admitted of the dispositions (inter vivas
and mortis causa) having been made
through hatred, anger, suggestion or cap
tation.” So much for the first ground.
As your article states that the heirs are
looking for a contingent fee lawyer, I do
not think any shark in the profession—
for contingent fee lawyers are generally
marine monsters of that species can be
found who will be fool enough to hurl
himself against tbe prohibition contained
in article 1,492.
But even if the law were otherwise, I
do not hesitate to declare boldly from
my personal knowledge of the facts and
the parties that all statements and sug
gestions that Mr. Doris exercised a par
ticle of influence over Mrs. Dorsey to
induce her to make him her legatee are
of greed and hate—the filthy
sy of the ami sacra fames—and
bora
progeny
contemptible.
To those who knew Mrs. Doraey, this
senile and juvenile babble about undue
influence is equalled in absurdity only by
the statement that she was rendered in
capable of making s will by mental de
rangement. She was a woman of no or
dinary type and of more than extraordi
nary attainments. An omnivorous reader
and an intense student, her memory re
tained, and her strong, clear mind digested
what she read. As a conversationalist
she appeared to better advantage than as
a writer—a fact dne to her
of theaat of conversation,
she was a strong advocate of
.A.7A suffrage and
stnoy, ..
»’* "SMS,
speak with admiration of the brilliancy
of her talents and the profundity of her
learning, they can also say with heart
felt emotion that her heart was golden.
Would to God that her lustrous eyes
could wake from the lethargy of the
grave and pierce with their scornful
glances the fool ghouls who, under the
guise «f relation ship, seek to blacken her
noble reputation, and to dim the halo of
honor that shinea around her name.
Edgar Howard Fa
THE CHOP PROSPECT
Consolidation or the Report, forth,
month orjtlr, 1S79.
Department op Agriculture, f
„ .
Atlanta, Ga., August 8,1879.
COBN.
This crop continued Steadily to fail
from the date of last report until the rains
set in—at dates varving from the 15th to
the 24th July. Tabie No. 1 shows the
condition, compared with an average
crop, in each of the counties of
the State from which reports
were received. The recapitulation and
comparison at the foot of the table also
show, by sections, the prospect as com
pared with the prospect on the 1st July
last, and the 1st of August, 1878. It
will be seen that the decrease in prospect
in the several sections, since 1st of July,
varies from G per cent, in Southeast
Georgia to 16.2 per cent, in Southwest
Georgia. North Georgia still leads In
corn, though the prospect is but 3 p*
cent better than in Southeast Georgia.
In the State at large the crop has fallen
off 11.5 per cent in one month, being
only 72 on 1st August against 83.5 on 1st
July. The table shows the condition of
the crop in sucli detail that comment is
unnecessary, farther than to remark that
a considerable deficiency in the 9upply
of com is evident. It' should be the
propose of every farmer to supplement
the com crop by such resources as may
be mode available on the farm itself,
instead of relying on Western granaries.
' COTTON.
The cotton crop is now at a most
critical period. The backset, occasioned
by the unfavorable spring in every sec
tion except North Georgia, has not been
entirely overcome. The plant is still
later than usual, and superadded are the
casualties of rust, which is reported in
many counties of Southwest Georgia;
caterpillars (also reported); and in North
Georgia a possibly early frost. The crop
is very variously reported in the several
counties of the State. In North Georgia,
since July 1st, it has fallen off 4 per
cent.; in Middle Georgia, 12; Southwest
Georgia, 8.4; East Georgia shows an in
crease of 2, and Southeast Geor
gia, 3 per cent In the State at
large the prospect compared with
an average is 85.8—a decrease of
6.8 per cent. Under the head of “Notes
from Correspondents” will be found,
from most of the counties in the State,
short letters which represent the condi
tion of the crop, and also the hopes and
fears of the writers.
It is too early to estimate with any
certainty what the final yield will be,
but the indications point to a decided
falling off as compared with the crop of
last year. The prospect is not so good
by 3.2 per cent, as it was at the same
time in 1878.
miscellaneous crops.
Rice, sugar cane, sorghum, field peas,
cliufas, and sweet potatoes, all show the
effect of the disastrous drought and heat
of the early summer. With favorable
seasons, those which have not yet ma
tured, have time in which to make fair
returns. The drought of this year began
much earlier in the season, and, though
of longer duration, ended earlier, leaving
a longer period before frost, in which
these crops may recover in a large degree
from its effects.
SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS.
The aggregate yield of com in the
State will be much less than last year—
lees than for several years,
supply will be abundant in some
counties, barely sufficient in others, and
in some hardly enough to run the far
mers till the end of the year. It be
hooves every farmer, but especially those
who are deficient in a supply of com, to
economize in every possible way, utiliz
ing everything on the farm that can be
used for food.
Economy should be the rule at all times.
necessary food for work animals. They
should be generously provided for at au
times, and least of ail, should ani
intended for the slaughter be stint;
slaughter be stinted in
food. Tbe economy should consist in
feeding from the com crib only as may be
absolutely necessary, after using np such
food material os is usually allowed to go
to waste on mo9t farms. ' The com tops
from the fruitful stalks, the unfruitful
stalks entire, grass from wet places, etc.
should all be saved and fed to the stock.
Much can be done in the way of sup
plementing the com crop, by sowing rich
TURNirS, BARLEY, RYE, ETC.
It is not too late to sow rutabagas in
the southern part of the State. They
should be sown in very rich ground, and
left to stand rather close, the object be
ing to make np for the smaller size of the
increased
roots by the increased number. Other
varieties of turnips may be sown through
out August and September. Rich lots -
sown in barley or rye during the latter
part of this month will prove a valuable
aid.
FALL OATS
most he the chief reliance in making this
crop “meet the next.” If sown early,
they will mature in time to meet the
wants of most farmers next spring. An
abundant supply of rust proof seed oats
should at once be secured, or assured,
and sowing should commence in Septem
ber in the northern portion of the State;
in October, in the middle and southern
portions. There is perhaps no crop on
which commercial fertilizers will pay
better than on oats. A few acres, at
least, may be sown ss early as maybe
deemed prudent, and well fertilized with
an ammoniated potash surperphosphaie.
There are several important advanta
ges in favor of oats as the general stock
grain of the South, and it is to be hoped
that Georgia farmers universally (as a
few have done already) will soon adopt
the system of farming which embraces
this feature. These advantages may be
briefly stated as follows : 1. The soil and
climate have been proven to be perfectly
adapted to oats ; and with the rust-proof
oat, now so generally known, rust is ho
feared. 2. The chief labor of
growing the crop is included in
the sowing, which involves little
labor than would be expended
in the bare preparation of the land for
com. 3. Sown early in the fall, the crop
is rarely injared by winter freezes, and
matures a certain crop before the spring
drought sets in. 4. Oats arc a less
heating and a more muscle producing
food than corn, and therefore better
suited for work animals daring spring
and summer. 5. It costs less to produce
oats than an equal food value of com.
These, besides other advantages, are suf
ficient to decide the question in favor of
the food crop for working stock.
Thomas P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture:
litters.
“For sinking spell*,
t&tion and low sp
its, rflj on Hop E
“Read of,
and use Hop
and you wilt be
strong, healthy and
^ do 700
be
healthy i
ful? Then use Hop
_ _ *, stomach
blood and lirer regu
lator—Hop Bitten."
For sale by
for
“$500 will be paid
•r a case that Hop
^•HopBitterabQihfa
cures continually
from the first dose.’’
Fair skin, rt_,
cheeks and the
Uri-
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“Sour
tick headacheknd
HiTrin**» [ Hop Bit
ter cures with a few
“Take HopBii
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and you will ]
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