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A QUEER SOCIAL lAUlDEiN’T. j RUN BY ELECTRICITY
the at l a n t a weekly s u n.
6.
How a
ill an Eloped with
Own Wife.
His
-V New Motive Power for Sew
ing Machines.
Late in July last the good people
in the town of Lyon, Oakland county,
Mich., were much excited by an ap
plication for divorce on the part of
the wife of Samuel B. Dolpli, a De
troit drover, on the ground of adul
tery. The wife was the daughter of
a wealthy farmer of their county
From the Xew York Globe.
A. T. Stew.irt is said to have fourteen
stores in different parts of the world. In
this city he finds employment for some
thousands of people. Many of these are
women who operate sewing machines.
” o are glad to learn that he runs these
machines by steam. It is well known
that a woman who has to run a sewing
machine in the ordinary
Everett by name, and naturally thev | ^ uine V* t4 ? e ordinar y manner, by
tove cW successive stages of j S&tVg
GEORGIA NEWS.
POLITICS IN KENTUCKY.
the contest with rapidly increasing
interest. Dolpli, who had been en
joined from removing anything from
a farm that was the property of his
wife, attempted to take possession of
the place, ejected the family living
upon it, and was arrested for riot. In
the meantime the family he had
ejected reinstated themselves, and
when he returned he found them well
guarded by armed men. Dolpli was
then arrested for adultery, and he
gave bail. Subsequently Dolph and
his father visited the farm and found
people cutting the crops, and for in
terfering with them, he and his father
were arrested for assault and battery,
but the younger Dolph was acquitted,
lie then caused the crop-cutters to
he arrested for assault and battery,
and he also commenced proceedings
for trespass, but the question of the
title of the farm beiDg interposed the
case went to the Oakland Circuit, and
lias never come to trial. Other suits
were brought by the wife, the elder
and younger Dolph, jmd by various
parties, and such legal gentlemen
as J. S. Woodman and A. C. Baldwin,
of Pontiac, Sylvester Larued aud Al
fred Russell, of this city, were re
tained on one side or the other to
take part in the controversies. The
suit at law embraced injunctions,
replevins, trespass, and pretty much
everything else known to the civil
and criminal calender, and the litiga
tions bid fair to extend through
several months, and perhaps years.
Dolph is well known, and has many
influential and wealthy friends, and
the same may be said of his wife; and
these frieuds, it appears, were strenu
ous in their efforts to keep them sep
arated. Mrs. Dolph remained se
cluded at the residence of some of her
friends in this city and a policeman
was employed to watch Dolpli, fears
being entertained that he might ab
duct her. Thus matters passed along
for several weeks, and a few days
since an arrangement was effected by
which Mrs. Dolph was to pay her
husband §3,000, and all the suits, ex
cept that for the divorce, were to be
discounted. The papers were drawn
up and signed, and the parties sepa
rated, Mrs. Dolph avowing it as her
determination never to live with him
again. Dolph, however, insisted that
lie loved his wife, and on Wednesday
last a friend volunteered to effect a
reconciliation between them. It is
not necessary to state in detail all
that occurred, hut to make a long
story short, we may simply announce
that the plan worked like a charm.
Mrs. Dolph consented to elope with
her husband, and Dolph to elope with
his wife. She returned to the place
where she was stopping in the upper
part of the Fifth ward, packed her
trunk, to be ready to move at a given
time on' Thursday afternoon, and
Dolph prepared himself for a journey
too. The friend referred to took a
carriage and obtained Mrs. Dolph,
and subsequently drove after Dolph.
The carriage was driven rapidly to
Ilamtramck, where it remained un
til evening, and from thence the
reconciled couple took passage on a
train that carried them many miles
away. Last night and to-day, tele
grams have been sent in every direc
tion, hut no traces have been discov
ered of Mr. and Mrs. Dolph. They
are out of reach of Detroit and Pon
tiac lawyers, who have pocketed fees
to the amount of §4,000, and they
have sworn to forget and forgive, and
hereafter live happily.
The following description of the
giddy mazes of the waltz, though
written 40 years ago, is still applica
ble:
On a signal given by the music
the gentleman seizes the lady around
the waist; the lady, scorning to be
•outdone in courtesy, very politely
takes the gentleman round the neck,
with one arm resting against his
shoulders to prevent encroachment.
Away they go, about, and about, and
about—“about what, sir?” About
the room, madam, to be sure. The
whole economy of this dance consists
in the turning round and around the
room in a certain measured step; and
it is truly astonishing that this con
tinued revolution does not set all
their heads swimming like a top;
but I have been positively assured
that it only occasions a gentle sensa
tion which is marvelously agreeable.
In the course of this circumvoln
tion, the dancers, in order to give the
charm of novelty, are continually
changing their
now, the gentleman, meaning no
harm in
more use. Dr. Dio Lewis at one time
examined a large tailor shop in Boston,
and found that the backs of the girls
gave out in a few years. After that
they could only be turned out to die, or
worse, a3 they were unable to earn a
living. The peculiar up and down mo
tion of the feet at last produced a disas
trous effect upon the health. TVe hear
a new foot-motion for sewing machines
has been patented in Cleveland, Ohio,
which is a back and forth motion, much
like the act of walking. This is better
than the old style, bnt is not perfection.
The perfect sewing machine should run
independently of the operator, as do
those in Mr. Stewart’s large stores. Since
it is plain steam cannot become a domes
tic helper in families and small estab
lishments, some other power, which is
portable, cheap, reliable, and uniform
must be used. We are happy to an
nounce, for the benefit of all sewing ma
chine operating humanity, that such an
invention has been brought out. At
Parmenter’s sewing machine rooms, on
Broadway, a machine is being daily run
by electricity. As it stands in a show
window it attracts crowds of people. The
apparatus attached to the machine is
very simple, costing some twelve dollars,
and we learn that it can be run with a
small battery at the trifling cost of twenty-
cents a week. We see no reason
why this application of electricity may
not became universal. We - hail its ad
vent as one of the useful inventions of
the day for the amelioration of the con
dition of mankind and the saving of
much life.
The London Chemist and Druggist,
in a very appreciative notice of Dr.
Porcher’s “Resources of the Southern
Fields and Forests,” takes occasion to
say the following true words about
the Southern States:
If the Southern United States are
not the garden of the world it is
rather the fault of those who are
responsible for their cultivation and
development, than from any natural
inferiority to any other land on the
face of the earth. It occurs to every
mind that this is the home of the
chief products which civilization de
mands. Cotton, sugar and tobacco
are products of such immensity as to
dwarf those which other lands bring
forth, and yet these are not all. Vast
quantities of wheat and rice are ex
ported, and a luxuriant but unculti
vated vegetation besides testifies to
the immense resources which are
forthcoming. These Southern States
comprehend an area of territory equal
ing that of Great Gritain, France and
Germany. Watered by the grandest
rivers, and rich in every variety of
soil, with millions of acres ot dismal
swamp, yet unreclaimed, there is
future for this district which will
make it a territory to which all the
world will turn for its vegetable sup
plies.
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A Chinese Will.
A Chinaman died, leaving his prop
erty to his three sons, as follows:—
To Fum-Aum, the eldest, one-half
thereof; to Ku-Pin, his second son
one-third thereof, and to Ding-Bat,
his youngest, one-ninth thereof
When the property was inventoried, it
was found to consist of nothing more
nor less than seventeen elephants
and it puzzled these three heirs how
to divide the property according to
the terms of the will without chopping
up the seventeen elephants and there
by seriously impairing their value.—
Finally they applied to a wise neigh
bor, Sum-punk, for advice. Sum
Punk had an elephant of his own.—
He drove it into the yard with the
seventeen others, and said: “Now w
will suppose that your father left
these eighteen elephants. Fum-Aum,
take your half and depart.” So Fum-
Aum took nine elephants and went
his way. “Now, Nu-Pin,” said the
wise man, “take your third and git.”
So Nu-Pin took his six elephants and
traveled. “Now, Ding-Bat,” said the
wise man, “take your ninth and be
gone.” So Ding-Bat took two ele
pliants and absquatulated. Then
Sum-Punk took his own elephant
and drove home again. Query: Was
the property divided according to the
terms of the will?
A Singular Custom.
An English paper reports that July
25th was the day appointed for carrying
out the directions contained in the xvill
of Joseph Krill, of St Ives, a seaport
town in Cornwall. This gentleman, who
was formerly Collector of the Port prior
to his deatl^ hi 1783, made a most eccen
tric will, by which lie directed that an
relative situations; | obelisk should be erected to his memory.
Leaning no He also directed that every five years ten
the world, I assure you, | maidens not exceeding ten ^years of «ge,
carelessly flings
arm
two
madam, carelessly flings hi. ^ mon
about the lady's neck-, mtli „ .<Knfll’s steeple,
celestial impudence: and anon the 1
lady, meaning as little harm as the
gentleman, takes him round the
waist with most ingenious modest
languishment, to the great delight of
numerous spectators and amateurs,
who generally form a ring, as the mob
old women and a fiddler should
monument, now
The mai
dens ami the old women were each to
receive half guinea, and the fiddler one
guinea. In addition to these bequests
the oldest man in the parish who had
brought up the largest familey by his
own industry was to receive five pounds
After the ceremonies are over
sterling. I
— ... the trustees of the fund and the Mayor
do around a pair of amazons pulling M c ration of S t. Ives proceed .to
caps, or a couple oi lighting mastitis, .n^npr, on which, agreeably to the will,
Helmbold’s suicide was the poorest i uu uieuisu;ui:ui«uvn».— v ——± -
turn out” he ever exhibited at Long as a general holiday by the people of
a certain amount of money is spent
On the last celebration the day was kept
Branch.
I the town.
The Methodist Church at Borne has
received a new organ.
Savannah has received two bales of
new Sea Island cotton.
Polk county aggregates a total valua
tion of wealth, and smiles at being able
to count up $1,431,055 worth.
In a quarrel at the Howard boarding
hope on Sunday, says the Columbus En
quirer, a, Mr. Hugh McCann was cut in
the side by Calvin Bush. Wounds we
learn are not considered serious.
Mr. Whipple, of the Girard Bap
tist Church, says the Columbus Sun, im
mersed 42 people—27 women, 15 men—
in the pool near by, on Sunday. This
makes 57 he * has immersed in the last
two Sundays.
Hie Borne Courier learns that the Gov
ernor’s private Secretary went up to Chat
tanooga, Saturday, in reference to the
Chattanooga & Ala. R. B. difficulties,
and it was thought arrangements would
be made to commence running the trains
on Monday.
The Columbus Sun says: The report
come3 direct that the genuine caterpillar
has been found in the cotton on the rich
plantations in Oswichee Bend. They
were discovered only a few days ago. It
will be hard if they are generally added
to a disastrous crop year.
N. M. Kirby, of Lowndes county,
and J. S. Norman, of Colquitt county,
charged with raising or altering one dol
lar bills to tens, and tens to twenties,
were held to bail in $5,000 at Savannah,
on Saturday, to appear at the next term
of the United States District Court.
The Bainbridge Argus says: A negro
child died Sunday last—four miles be
yond the river, in this county—from be
ing bitten by a spider. Death was pro
duced in about twenty-eight hours. We
do not know what kind of a spider it was;
but it is said to have been a very large
one.
A Mr. John Harrell, of this county,
says the Bainbridge Argus, had three
shots fired at him one" night last week,
while passing from his kitchen to his
dwelling house. Suspicion rests dpon a
negro, with whom Mr. Harrell had a dif
ficulty a few days previous. This is the
only indication we have had of the Ku
Klux in this section yet.
We learn from the McDoffie Journal
that on the night of Friday, the 18th in
stant, the Sheriff and posse went out to
arrest Joe Hodo, Bad Perkins, Dick La-
zenby, and Walter Wilson, who stand
charged with an assault with intent to
murder Ephraim Gibbs, (colored) in May
last. Perkins and Lazenby were taken
in and sent to Augusta on Saturday’s
train, to be safely kept until a commit
ment trial can be had.
An Americus correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph aud Messenger of the
g2d, says: An attempt was made here
last night about 11 o’clock, to assassi
nate a Mis3 Cutts of this place, by some
one as yet unknown. The weapon used
was a pistol. The assassin fired three
shots through an open window, two of
winch took effect in the back. One or
two parties are suspected of having com
mitted this diabolical deed, bnt as yet
no arrests have been made.
The Bamsville Appeal learns that a se
rious accident occurred on the B. & A.
B. B., on Friday last, near Millwood.
The engine encountering a wash, turned
a complete somersault, crashing the leg
of the conductor, Mr. Stockin, and seri
ously injuring a fireman, whose name we
have not heard. These parties were on
the look-out for a wash, but unfortunately
its existence escaped their vision until it
was too late to avoid accident. We are
informed that the wash is not extensive,
and that the track has been repaired.
A subscription of five thousand dollars
to the High School of Cuthbert, made by
the City Council, was ratified by an al
most unanimous vote of the city last
week—only three against it.
The McDuffie Journal says: A rattle
snake was killed a few yards in front of
the Methodist Church, on Monday last.
He had nine rattles, and measured about
four feet in length. He had just crawled
from under the Church, when espied by
his slayer.
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From “Hopkinsville (Ky.) Conservative.”
The Lexington (Ky.,) Daily Press,
of a recent date, says, and very ap
propriately, too: |We recommend to
the consideration of the Democracy
the following extract from an edito
rial of Hon. A. H. Stephens upon our
late election:
“It will be_ found that the banner
of the party in Kentucky to-day, as
it was in Georgia last year, has been
least tattered where it has been borne
highest and boldest in the conflict.”
The returns of our election show
that Mr. Stephens rightly apprehend
ed the condition of affairs in our
State. Where our banner was borne
loftily and proudly by gallant hearts
who scorned compromise and surren
der, we find it covered with that old
en glory which gladdened the droop
ing spirits of our less fortm: ate breth
ren in the Southern States. Where
we hid away our colors and attempt
ed to sneak to success within the'lilies
of the opposing party, we have met ir.-
, glorious defeat or a success even more
humiliating than defeat. As evi
dence of this fact we have but to
point to the election returns, so far
as received, as contrasted with those
of last year. Take as examples this
county (Fayette) and the city of Lou
isville, where the milk and water pol
icy of the half-Radical New Depar
ture lias more advocates than in all
the remainder of the State. We suf
fered a bitter but not unexpected de
feat, while the Democratic majority
in Louisville was decreased by a Re
publican gain of about 4,000; yet in
the country districts, where the issue
was sharply defined and the banner
of Democracy was borne by men wbo
had no concessions to make to the
bravado and fluster of Radical effront
ery, these losses have been more than
made up, and Leslie gains largely
upon the Congressional race in the
;gregate vote, as far as heard from
r. Stephens is right. Our banner
“has been least tattered where it has
been borne highest and boldest in the
conflict.”-— ll HopTcinsville (Ky.) Con
servative,” Aug. 19 th, 1871.
politics in Vermont.
THE ATLANTA SUN.!
The Brig Evening Star, from Baltimore
for the Baltic, has arrived at Fortress
Monroe. While laying at anchor
Lynn Haven last night, six of her crew
robbed the Captain of $200, and his
watch and chain, seized a boat, and left
the ship. The vessel was brought in by
the crew of the pilot boat Slicer.
GEORGIA NEWS.
COLUMBUS.
The following paragraphs are from the
Enquirer of the 23d :
Our community was startled yesterday
by the announcement of the death of
Mrs. S. Wilkins, who died at 2 o’clock
Tuesday morning, after a very few days’
illness.
The Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company of this city, now have orders
from D. H. Holmes and other merchants
of New Orleans, for the shipment of 1,200
pairs of their celebrated cotton blankets.
The Watchman of the 23d has the fol
lowing :
The drought still continues. Every
thing is drying np—corn, fodder, cotton
garden vegetables, and everything else.
A had prospect for turnips, potatoes,
peas, and other Fall crops.
On Saturday night—or, rather Sunday
morning—about 2 o’clock, the stable of
Dr. H. B. J. Long was discovered to be
on fire. The firemen repaired to the place
promptly, bnt the flames had gained such
headway that they could not he extin
guished. The horses escaped, but we
learn a carriage was burnt up in the build
ing.
MACON.
Three items from the Macon Telegi'aph
of the 23d:
An interesting revival has been pro
gressing during the present week in the
First street Methodist church, under the
eloquent and powerful ministry of Rev.
Dr. Hicks, the pastor.
Our worthy and spirited Mayor re
turned from Atlanta quite unwell on
Monday last, bnt nevertheless, endeavor
ed during the day to look after the work
going on at the Fair Grounds. The con
sequence was that he was taken very sick
late in the afternoon and has been con
fined to his bed since.
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From the Burlington Democrat.
Kentucky Election — 45,000
Democratic Majority 2—13,000
Gain since last Year !
The result of the election in Ken
tucky is truly gratifying. The Radi
cal journals boasted too soon over
the result. Because there was a fall
ing off of the Democratic vote in
Louisville, the point first beard, from,
they flattered themselves that the
magnificent Democratic majority of
former years had. been nearly wiped,
out. The Tribune was willing to
concede to Gov. Leslie but 20,000
majority, and disingenuously com
pared that with the majority given
for Gov. Stevenson in 1868 two
years before the negroes voted for the
first time in the State. Later returns
bring the Tribune and the rest of the
braggarts to grief. Total vote for
Gov. Stevenson 115,889. Total vote
this year wilFhe 120,000 Democratic,
and a little over 70,000 Republican
the larger part of which comes from
the negroes, who did not exercise the
right of suffrage until last year, and
who this year came out for the first
time in full strength. Taking the
last census as a basis, the negro vote
in Kentucky must he nearly if not
45,000. Harlan has therefore received
but 25,000 white votes—a heavy fall
ing off from the vote of Baker (Rad
ical), who in 1868 received 39,466
white votes for Governor. In other
words, while the blacks have swollen
the Radical aggregate in Kentucky
45,000 votes, 14,566 white men have
abandoned the party in disgust and
gone over to the Democracy. If the
Radical organs can get any comfort
out of this they are welcome. If the
late election shows anything at all,
it shows that in the Presidential elec
tion next year, when every vote will
he called out, the Democratic can
didate will receive the old-time ma
jority of 70,000 to 80,000 in spite of
the black recruits for Radicalism.—
Burlington (Vt.) Democrat, 17 Aug,
1871.
A dispatch published a day or
two ago gave a rumor that General Mc
Cook had retired from the Gubernatorial
canvass in Ohio. The rumor probably
had its origin in the fact that he has been
so prostrated by the labors of the canvass
during the hot weather that he is obliged
to withdraw from active participation in
the canvass.
jB® 3 * Dick Yates is to deliver a course
of lectures this winter. They are not
temperance.
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The Presidential contest for 1872 wiH be the most important in the lilstorv of America
volved are momentous, and all that patriots hold dear is at stake. J
Our Weekly is a very
The issues in-
tmh sun will endeavor
correct principles-laboring earnestly and zealously NOW, BE-
iUKLii w LATE ; utterly repudiating the do-nothing, gay-nothing, be-quiefc, dead-asleep policy
auvocatea by some, while we are being rapidly borne down the current which is rushing into the whirlpool
of Radicalism, Centralism and Imperialism. *
The Radicals, with the aid of bayonets, have thrust upon ub the unconstitutional and wickedly oppressive
measures of the so-called 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and the Reconstruction Acts of
the majority Faction in Congress. The Radicals have asked us, as Democrats, to pledge ourselves to ac
cept, indorse, stand by, defend and bnild upon these measures forever. Those Democrats who give this
pledge of course must “depart” from the faith of their fathers. Soma of them have already gone over
to the enemy s camp ; and while they and the Radical cohorts which they have joined are calling out lus-
“V, for ns ml to go with them, a few others are advising us to hold our peace lest we disturb the harmony
and distract the counsels of the Democratic Party!
\ erily, if we should hold our peace, “the stones would cry out.” We cannot remain silent. We cannot
thus counsel our people to accept and welcome their own ruin, and thank God for the privilege !
“ 18 °f the utmost importance that these issues be discussed now ; for the adoption of a timeserving
departure by the General Convention of the Party wiH be, not only wrong in principle, but in our
jodgment it will be fatal in policy. - °
Fidelity to the Constitution is the true test of Democracy in every State of the Union, and we recognize every
one who isa true friend to that sacred instrument, as a co-worker with us in the great cause of American
liberty. The rights and Uberties of the whole people are jeopardized—not any more so in the South than
in the North; and we of the Southhave no interests at stake in the momentous issues of the day, which
are not common to North and South, alike.
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