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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 11 1872
T r E A TL A N T A SUN
SOUrilEKK NEWS.
For Whom yhonld IlM Vole of Ocorgn
this Day be Cast for President!
—The Mobile Board of Trade favor?
a canal to Florida.
—In Amite county, Miss., a fatuer
killed bis monied daughter’s spouse.
— A Mississippi editor has beeD
vMp >ed.
S veral Mississippi gin bouses have
alft been Bostonized.
Arkansas celebrates a larger than
UlE*l cumber of marriages this month.
— Mrs. Owen, near Pontoioc, Miss.,
Was killed by a falling tree.
—A. S. W»*ir, tired of life, poisoned
himself n<“ar Verona, Miss.
—The Columbna Democrat stands at
the head of Mississippi journalism.
—They have a postofBce now at Shal
low Ford, Abberville district, S. 0.
—Rpv. tl. Tbomasson, of Marion, S.
0.> is dead.
—Joe TnorntoD, of Virginia, has gone
fc) England after $5,000,000.
— The Koscinsch Leader tells of
§ r nd bear hunt in the Mississippi
wamp.
— A colored Farrowite was accident
al y silled in Anderson, S. C., a few days
aince.
—A Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad
engiue blew op near Grenada, and done
considerable damage.
—Miss Laura Elam, of Somerville,
T nn . is the champion dressmaker of
that State.
—A Louisville yontli lay on the rail
road truck near Jackson. Tenn., and the
cars west right along just as if be had not
been there.
This is a grave and imports nt qnes
tion which the College of Electors now
in session have to determine. The
death of Mr. Greeley has given an en
tirely new aspect to the subject. A great
I THE SEW IOmK PKBiS ON
GREELEY'S DEATH.
| A Touching Death-Bed Scene—Peaceful
Death of the Great Journalist.
From the New York Tribune.
So far as any of his associates knew,
Mr. Greeley was in almost as good health
usual wnen, on the day after the elec
CLIPPINGS.
— A man has been found at Wilton,
Coon., who declines a postoffice.
— Barnum’s ring men are the best
dressed ever seen in an American circns.
— Jones, the expected Senator from
Nevada, is worth $10,000,000.
— John Hay talks of starting an even
ing paper in St. Louis.
trust has Deen confided to the electors tb)D> be wrote the card announcing bis
by the people of the State. We donbt resumption of the editorial charge of
not they feel the fall responsibility rest- the Tribune.
, . .5 . HIS SLEEPLESSNESS
mg upon them, and in the discharge ot 1
. . . . Q ° 1 t ^ I worse7~but tor years he had suffered
ing bnt their own convictions, as to what more Qr f rom the same difficulty. It
will best promote the rights, dignity and ia now c j ear that sufficient allowance had
honor of the State. not been made for the intense strain
»«■- onr porposo to SSfC ttSRk*
views of onr own upon their delibera- ^ g , s u iaes& it soon became evident
tions, but in the spirit of one who wonld lbat ^ strength was
interchange counsels npon a matter of I unequal to thg habd task
so much general interest, we wonld eng- to which be s“t- himself. He wrote only
gest to those who are this day to decide three or four careful articles, nooneol
decided it, the propriety of casting their ««Concsluaion wherein be summed up
votes for Hon. Charles R. Bnckalew, of his views of the canvass. In all he fnr-
Pennsrivanial mshed less than three and a half col-
W. ^ ave or space at this too 3® 2
to give the maDy reasons which lead us tliree t j mes he handed hi3 assistant short
to this conclusion. Suffice it to say, that articles, saying, “There is au idea worth
Mr. Bu'kalewis, in onr judgment, every using, out I havu’c feit able to work it
way worthy the honor tnat wonld be thus properly. You had better put it m
conferred upon him; and in thus cast- 8 £ on Tuesday, the 12th inst, he
mg the vote of the State, the Electors abandoned the effobx
would most effectually sustain and vin-1 £q -yisi' the office regularly, and sent for
dicate the principles npon which they Dr. Krackowizer, the family physician of
were chosen. Mr - A - J - J ohnson, the friend with whom
mi x- r, o-an-r he was a guest, and in whose house his
The Democratic Convention o f G eor - Life had died. Every effort was made to
gia, in Jaly last, which put these Electors j induce sleep, but he
in nomination, declared its adherence I grew steadily wobsb
to those principles of the Party upon j until it became evident that bis case was
which its organization was founded.— critical. Dr. Geo. O. 8. Choate and
That Convention recommended the sup- others were then called in consultation,
port of Mr. Greeley in the late canvass- and finally it was decided to take him to
1JUUU. UU.V. * j ... Dr. Choate’s residence, two or three
not with any sanction of Jus principles; m iies distant from Mr. Greeley’s own
bat with the declaration of the belief country home ut Chappaqua. Here he
that his election, under existing circum-1 received the unintermitting atttention of
stances, would "conduce” to the ultimate P 0 *’ Choate; and hero Dr. Brown-Se-
* 1 . L . . • , mu* quard, Dr. Brown and others, were also
establishment of their principles. This j n consubation. The Insomnia
— St. Paul’s voters have increased but
twenty within a year. %
— The Prince of Wales is becoming a
a patron uf education.
— Only fourteen lives have tbns far
been lost in the construction of the East
River bridge.
— All t to products of Miami county,
Kansas, for this year won’t begin to pay
her taxes.
—A thirsty farmer in Madison, Ind.,
has drank the value of a load of hay
once a week for sixteen years.
—A Louisville landlord turned away a
young woman recently on the single
ground that she appeared alone to apply
for lodging.
—It is proposed to build a ship canal
across Southern Michigan, following the
oourse if the Kalamazoo river, at a cost
of $6,000,000.
— Prince Alexander, of Hesse, form
erly a violent anti-Prussian, will devote
his two eldest sons to the service of the
German Emperor.
— The newsboys and bootblacks of
Buffulo dine with the Young Men’s
Christian Association Thanksgiving
Day.
GEORGIA NEWS BREVITIES.
—Spalding Superior Court is ad
journed.
—A te<im of Macon mules ran, at the
eight of Robinson’s elephant.
—“ Hipponusice” is what the Spar
tan’s call it.
—The loss of the Milledgeville fire is
now put down at $100,000.
—Sparta anticipates the arrival of 150
hoge.
—J mes H. Rogue, a former Sheriff
of Hancock county, with his family, has
gone to Texas.
—Tho inside “forms” of the Savannah
Hews “pied” while being placed on the
press, and a half sheet is the cunse-
qnence. Harris, it is enpposed, will now
satisfy his epicurean taste, bnt he will
come ont “three sheets in the wind.”
Deatba.
— In Harris county, Mary Sneer,
— In Talbot county; John B. Heath.
— In Henry county, Mary O. Hardy.
— In Monroe county, Kinchen Holt.
— In Talbot county, Mrs. Evaline S.
Wilson.
— In Houston county, George F.
Riley.
—In Dougherty county, Mrs. Abegail
Axline.
—In Hamilton, G. ., Mary M. Kim
brough.
Marriage*.
— In Monroe county, H. J. Winn and
Mary E. Bowmen.
— In Meriwether county, Wm. D.
Turner and Mattie G. Underwood.
— In Burke county, Robert A. Pon
der and Ella A. Gordon.
—In Monticello, Samuel Minafee and
Lizzie Joidon.
— In Jasper county, Samuel Hearn
and Carrie Wyatt.
— In Jonesboro, Thomas D. Johnson
and Emma L. King,
— H. F. Lester of Atlanta, and Misa
Juba H. Ivey of Monroe county.
— Near Cave Spring, James M. B.
Grisham and Eliza O. Pledger.
—In Polk county, E. Marbutt and
Lodocey Wharton.
— In Quitman county, Joseph Bailey
and Bethia Jenkins.
— In Randolph county, Allen Baker
and M. O. Pyles.
was the purport of their action. I had developed into
Now, as no such motive can operate, inflammation op the bbain
and as the whole subject, under the and under this the venerated patient
Providence of God is left with the Elec- At u he delirious;
, ... . . . ... at other times as clear-headed as ever,
tors, we submit for their most patriotic He logt flesh and 8trength with startling
consideration, in view of all the surround-1 rapidity; and in a few days the possibili-
ings and in view of the future, whether ty of his speedy dnath forced itself into
in the discharge of the responsible duty unwilling recognition, it was not,
.. ,. , I however, nntii Thursday last that his as
thus resting upon them, they can do | B0C j a t e3 and family brought themselves
totf- The Constitution of yesterday con
tains a long extract from the Macon
•graph J Messenger, strongly recom
mending Hon. A. O. Bacon, of Macon,
for the Speakership of the House in our
next Legislature. Tha Constitution pub
lishes the article without oomment.
Colonel E. F. Huge, our excellent
Representative, it is well Known nere,
Will be supported for tne Speakership,
We are not surprised that Macon should
this honor, bnt we beg to present,
of Atlanta, Colonel Hoge’s
connection.
better than cast the vote of Georgia con-1 » 0 admit it, and even then they still
fided in their hands for that distinguish- clung to their faith in the vigor of his
ed Democratic statesman of Pennsyl- constitution,
vania to whjm,we have referred. On We nes ay nig e
It was to-night, accor ing to appoint- failed very rapidly.
meat. „ were to address the citizens -
Atlanta on the present situation of pub-1 (j a y night lie slept very uneasily, mut
lie affairs. The time fixed for that ad- j taring occasionally and irequently rais
dress was purposely arranged to be after bis right hand. Toward morning*he
thevote oj to State should be c f t-not
wishing that anything we might say to I u^ndRion, which coutined, with inter-
have any influence npon that question— vals, through the day. His extremities
taking it for granted that it would be were cold all day, and 'here was no pulse
cast for Mr. Greeley. Since tnen the at the wn . st ; Tb ? actio “ of the be “ l
, . .. , , „ . was very intermittent, and was constant-
great change in tne aspect of affairs ou h y diminishing in foice. He had not asked
this subject, to which we have for water or been willing to drink it,
alluded, has taken place, and since his stay at Dr. Choate’s, bu during
hence what we have now ventured to be as ^ e d ^ frequently. On
offer in view of that change. In ref- j jjg suffered little,
erence to the appointed address to-night, , , . .
•it . id x j . and seemed to have no more than the
we will also add that our readers are al- ord i nar y restlessness which accompanies
ready informed that in consequence of the last stfge of disease. He made occa
he unfavorable and threatening aspect sional exclamations, bnt many of them
of the weather at the time we were to la consequence of his extreme weakness
. • , , , . 1.1 , and at parent inability to huiah what he
set out from our home for Atlanta, we I began / were uuiut(il l i: a bll x. Abontnoon,
did not tbink it pradent, in our on- rhowever, be said quite distinctly and
feebled condition, to make the adven with some force, “ I know that
tare. The change in the aspect my redeemer liveth.
of political affaiis. occasioned by Daring the day he recognized various
the death of Mr Greelev ako Wen P eo P le » nia daughter many times, the
the death of Mr. Greeley also lessen- membera of hia household at Chappa-
ed that interest we felt in delivering the qua> Mr. John R. Stuart, and Mr. Reid,
address at the time stated. We take Up to within half an hour ol the end he
this occasion to say to those who re- occasionally manifested in various ways
quested an address from ns, that we will, his consciousness of what was going on
at some time not distant, if health and mound him, and even answered in mon
strength permit, comply with theii osyllubles, and in'elligently, questions
wishes, should they or any of them, addressed to him. About half-past three
still be desirous of hearing from us upon he said, very distinctly,
any mutter connected with public in- “rrisdone"
terests. A. H. S. , , , „ ‘
► • and, beyond Y.-s or No, in answpr to
Not tne one Wanted. | questions, this was his last utterance.
Pittsburg has had a modern comedy of I ms lounger daughter,
errors. A young wife suspected her lord Miss Gabrielle, was with him through
cf too great au intimacy with the comely Thursday evening. Throughout Friday
mulatto cook, and so one night, when he I the elder daughter, Miss Ida, was in con-
acted suspicious, she laid for him. Send- stant attendance, as she had been during
ing the cook off, she covered her head the wholo of his illness, and of Mrs.
with a snawl and waited in the kitchen j Greeley’s before him. Other members
for the confirmation of her suspicions, of his Chappaqua Household were pres-
Some one rapidly entered, shortly after, e nt, with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart and a
and she felt an arm around her waist j few other friends. Nothing that science
and warm kisses on her lips. Then she 1 or affection could suggest was wanting
threw off her disguise to transfix the to
villain on the spot, but instead of her J ease the last houbs.
husband, she beheld the biggest, black- The wintry night had fairly set in,
est negro in all that city. It was the when the inevitable hour came. With-
cook s sable “ particular,” and he had out, sleighs were running to and fro,
kissed her. Oh 1 She no longer suspects I bearing to Chappaqua, the nearest tele-
her husband. graph station, the latest bulletins widen
—;—-—► • * the tnousands of anxious hearts in the
—The Wilmington, N. C., Slar, of Sat- great city, nea r -by, kept demanding,
tirday, the 30th inst., says: “Detective Within, the daughter and a few others
Henry May, of Charleston, arrived here stood near the dying man; in the adjoin*
yesterday with a requisition from the I ing room sat one or two more friends
Governor of South Carolina for the ar-1 anu the physician. At ten minutes be-
rest of one Cooper Rains,colored, charged j fore 7 o’clock tne watchers
with having set fire to a cotton gin at
Florence South Carolina., in October
laoi, which resulted in the destruction of from the bedside. The great editor was
a large amount of property. On appli I gone—-“in peace after so many strng-
cation to Justice J. J. Oassidey, a warrant gios, iff honor after so much obloquy.”
was issued fot the arrest Of the alleged I From the New York Times of sota Nov.
culprit, which was placed in the hands I Mr. Greeley died shortly before seven
of Deputy Sheriff A. H. Morris, who, in o’clock last evening, and there is not a
company with the detective, went in man in any part of the country who will
search of Rains, who they bad reason to not receive the news with sorrow. Mr.
believe was somewhere in this city. They Greeley has made a great mark in Amer
were absent on their mission but a short ican history, and his loss in journalism is
time when they returned with theidenti- one which cannot be replaced. When
cal individual in their custody. _ He was | people spoke of the Tribune, they meant
thereupon lodged in jail to await the re- Mr. Greeley, for he was the life and soul
turn of Detective May, who left for of that journal—without him, it as an
Raleigh last evening to obtain an endorse-1 empty shell. We present elsewhere a
meat of Governor Caldwell upon the re-1 fair review of Mr. Greeley’s life—his
quisition for the return of the prisoner name and reputation are no longer in
to South Carolina.” any danger. Fall justice will be done
■ ■ » . I to him, and if he fell into errors—as who
—“Gath” says that “FrecLDonglass has not ?—they will not be remembered
comes from the Eastern shore of Mary- j now. The incidents of his last sickness
air. overtasked was his streugrii, and so Ut
terly broken down seems to Lave been
bis constitution. The labors and excite
ment of the cxinvass were more than his
body or mind could bear. Dr. Ham
mond, one of the most distinguished
surgeons in the laud, told a reporter, on
Thursday, that he had heard “Mr. Gree
ley became demented even before the
election.” It would seem incredible that
bis friends should have kept this fact
from the pub'io knowledge," if we did
not know that they concealed the equally
important fact of his mental aberration
and fatal illness until Wednesday last
This extraordinary coarse is only too
characteristic of the utter lack of judg
ment and proper feeling which Mr.
Greeley’s friends have displayed in ref
erence to him for months past. The lot
of the surviving chlldr. n of the great
journalist is peculiarly mournful. With
in a very few weeks, they have lost bot
their parents. Sorrow has descended
npon them as in a whirlwind. One ot
them, at least, has neen called npon to
pass through trials, in the course of a
young life, such as are sometimes spared
even those who survive the allotted span
of three score years and ten. To this
faithful daughter, afflicted far beyond
her strength and years, the heart of the
American people will go out in earnest
sympathy; and they will hope that if
human friendship fails to alleviate her
heavy sorrows, sne will find consolation
in tnose immortal promises which alone
oan render tho onrdens of this world tol
erable.
From tho New York Herald of 80th November.
The history and the enduring rewords
of Mr. Greeley’s industrious and useful
career ar6 full of encouragements to
young men who, witnout capital, perso
nal influence or powerful friends, have
the battle of life before them. He is
only oue of many examples of this char
acter; but few against snoh obstructions
have achieved so much as he in substan
tial and enduring honors. If he was
ambitions his was that lofty ambition of
generous minds, whose highest aspira-
tsons are the good of their fellow men;
if he had his eccentricities they' were
tht.se of the genuine Amerioan repub
lican and the ardent pbilantbropist; if
bis political course is marked by some
strange perturbations, they only bring
into bolder reli. f bis general consistency,
strength, earnestness and intrepidity of
character. As a teaober of the practical,do
mestic economies Ue may well be called
“our later Franklin; ” as a champion of
equal rights he was an advanced disci
ple of Jefferson; as tbe advocate of bis
American system he was an advanced
disciple of Henry Clay, while as a teach
er of the scieuce of agriculture his name
has become a household word in every
farmhouse in tne country.
To the adopted citizen fresh from the
trammels of less lioeral governments
across the Atlantic his name has been as
potent as his wholesome advice and gen
erosity were proverbial. When a mis
taken fanaticism preached death or al
most death to the foreigner, Mr. Greeley
was ever to be found in th-.s, as in other
things, on the side of tbe bumble and
oppressed.
’ His character- as citizen, friend and
neighbor, is “sems peur. saris reproche. ”
As his life was admired, bis death will
be regretted by a countless host of
friends in both hemispheres, and of all
creeds and races of men; and Lis enemies
will be disarmed in striking tbe balance
between bis merits and his failings. In
that broad field of journalism wnich eu-
oraces liberty to the slave, relief to the
sick and untortunate, comfort to the
poor, knowledge to the ignorant, and the
general elevation of the human family,
we recognize in tbe luss of Mr. Greeley
tne loss of a powerful public benefactor.
To sum up his merits in a word—he has,
in the battle of life, fought a good fight
—he leaves an honored name behind
him, and the high reward of an encour
aging example as un American journalist
and a sidf-m ide man.
Letter l>om Taliaferro.
Messrs. Editors Sux.: It has been some
time since you have heard from your
correspondent from this place. Allow
him now to give you a few itoms of local
interest. The crops of corn and cotton
ar« generally gathered. These have both
been larger than usual. The people of
tbe county were never more prosperous
and happy. Health generally prevails
among the people; merchants, carpen-
t ers, workman, and all classes, except
lawyers and doctors, are thriving. The
horse sickness, however, has made its
appearance, which has created some un
easiness and alarm amoDg the farmers
and planters; only a few cases, however,
have terminated fatally as yet. The
most interesting event in our
village for the last month was
the closing scenes of Capt. Sanders’
school, which took place last Thursday
night. These were enlivened with sweet
strains of music and by tbe votaries of
Terpsichore. The pupils of the school
gave & dancing soiree in the Academy.
The attendance was sufficiently large to
make the occasion one of genuine p eas-
nre and social enjoyment. Many of the
fair ladies of the town were present to
add charms to the occasion, and attest
their appreciation of the efforts made
for their enjoyment by Messrs. A. H.
Reid, J. D. Rhodes and T. O. Holden,
the Committee of Arrangements. No
incident occurred during the evening to
mar the pleasure ot those who, to a late
hour, were engaged in tripping the
'light fantastic toe.”
This school, under the excellent dis
oipline of Captain Sanders, has secured
both a good reputation and patronage.
Clarence.
From the New York Tribune.
TUB BELGIAN MURDER CASE.
Carl Vogt Discharged and at once IIe-
arresttd.
THE OLl) LOVE. ““
I met her, she was thm and old
8he stooped and trod with totterine fee*.
Her .ocks were gray that once were ’
Her voice waa hsrah that once waa„w,', t .
E L r nnnaeuand her ey*«“ 1
Robbed of their girlish light of joy
Were dim; I felt a strange Burnriu^ ’
strange Burprisa'
P0-
DREW BACK IN REVERENT STILLNESS
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.
The Accident to tbe Forms of the Morn
ing News.
The Savannah Morning News tells all
about its recent mishap as follows. Mr.
Estill is a man of excellent newspaper
qualifications, and publishes a paper
that is not excelled in the South:
An explanatory notice appeared in our
yesterday’s issue of the delay in getting
tne News out, but we deem the occasion
worthy of other comment, as it resulted
in a display not only of the resources of
the Nous office, but of tbe excellent
management, energy and enterprise ol
its proprietor, Mr. J. H. Estill.
The accident occurred at half past five
o’clock a k., when only one impression
of the inside form had been taken. The
forms passed under the cylinder all right,
bat in retarnirg, a portion of the press
furniture which was insecure, slipped
beneath the chase, and in the reversion
the form was drawn entirely from the
bed of the press, and striking the floe r,
the type crnmbxed into what is known in
typographical parlance as “pi.” Infor
mation of the accident was at once sent
to the residence of Mr. Estill, and in a
short time he was at the office, and re
alized at a glance the extent of the cala
mity.
Many men, under similar circum
stances, would have relieved their leel-
Carl Vogt, the alleged murderer of
the Chevalier ae Bianca, the Belgian
nobleman, appeared before Judge Fauch-
er in tne Supreme Court on Saturday, in
obedience to a writ of habeas corpus
granted a few days since. Attorney'
General F. C. Barlow and A. S. Sullivan,
Assistant District-Attorney, appeared in
behalf of the people, while the prisoner
was represented by William F. Kiutzing
and Charles M. Marsh. Tbe Belgian
Government was represented „by F. C.
C- udert Brothers.
Council ior prisoner stated to the Court
that the accused bad been in custody
since the beginning of April ; that on
April 24th an indictment had been found
against him for larceny, in stealing cer
tain bonds .nd bringing them into this
country and into this State ; but upon
tti’s indictment be bad never been offer
ed the opportunity of a trial, altuough
for the last seven months he has tried to
get a trial. He insists.! that upon the
Governor’s warrant Vogt stood dis
charged by the action of the Court of
Apueuls upon the larceuy. He there
fore asked his discharge from the in
dictment found aga'ust him.
Mr. Sullivan briefly reviewed tbe facts
of the case and / pronounced the killing
of Chevalier da Bois de Bianca one of
the most atrocious murders on record.
Tbe prisoner, he went on to say, now
stood in Court with his hands red with
bloi.d and his garments crimsoned. Ot
tabs crime be goes unwhipped of justice,
as he cannot be sent back to Brussels,
where the crime was committed, m con
sequence of there being no treaty be
tween tBelgium and the United States.
Shall he be discharged now for the lesser
offense of larceny ? There is a law upon
our statute book whieb says that any per
son who shall steal in a foreign co <ntry
and bring Such property into this State
shall be guilty ot larceny. For this
offense Vogt stood indicted by the Grand
J ary. He had not br en brought to trial
upon th<s indictment because the author
ities hoped the Court of Appeals would
reverse the action of the Court below,
and then he womd be sent back to the
conntry whose laws he bad violated.
Ever since the decision of tbe Court of
Appeals the authorities had made every
effort to fetch these witnesses rom Brus
sels, but he must confess so far he had
failed, and he coaid not say when they
could be obtained.
Mi. Kintzing saiu that after this state
ment certainly the prisoner was entitled
to his discharge, as no citizen, however
humble or guilty, can be detained in
prison for an indefinite period.
Judge Fancher said that he agreed with
counsel, and that, however it was to be
regretted that tbe ends of justice should
be defeated, still he had only one duty 10
perform under the circumstances — to
discharge the prisoner.
The writ was Landed to the Judge,
and he indorsed his decision on the back
ot the writ. Vogt, who, in the mean
time, had occupied a seat in the back
part of the court-room, and by the side
of whom was the young woman who lias
clang to him daring his long incarcera
tion, immediately npon the news being
communicated to him by the interpreter
of the Court, jumped up and seizing the
hand of bis counsel, imprinted upon it
seven-, kisses, and thanked him for what
he_ «<». doie in his behalf. After the
pria >'»er left the Court he was taken into
custody under a civil order of arrest.
Tbst 1 had loved her when a boy.
But yet a something ia her air
Restored me to mr youthful prime-
al j heart grew yonng and saemed to vm,
Tne impress of that long lost time-
I tooa her wiltea hand in mine, ’
Its touch awoke a world of joy-
Kissed her with a reverend sigh, ’
Fcr I had loved her when a ooy.
SOUTHERN NEWS
. — Chattanooga lias five colored
licemen.
A row the other night netted
city treasury $100 in flues.
— The gentle ox is making himself
useful in a general way.
The Alabama and Chattanooea
Railroad Company has paid its
ployees to dat ?.
Mr. David C. Shelton, a young ’ aw .
yer ol Columbia, died at bis father’s re^
idence in Nashville the other day.
— Thirty-two persons are buried in
the cemetery of Newton, Kansas, onlv
one of whom died a natural death. 3
— A man named Kirtland was shot,
and, it is thought, fatally wounded, by
John Haley, near Ruckwood, Roane
county, on Sunday, Nov. 24.
— Tuesday night, November 26, at
Gill’s Station, near Memphis, W. E,
Raynor was attacked and robbed in his
bed-room by an unknown white man.
— Several hundred horses, bought for
the Southern trade, are held by parties
in unper East Tennessee, their sale be
ing prevented by the epizootic.
— Three fires occurred in Mobile on
Sunday last. Not more than three hun
dred dollars’ worth of “stuff’ was burnt.
Lov.g difference between that, and ths
“Hub.”
—The Knoxville Board of Trade are to
coriespoud with the Boards of Trade of
Nashville and Memphis o urge a united
effort to secure from the Legislature an
appropriation to further the interests of
immigration.
— Mrs. Collier, the aged widow of tho
late Benjamin Collier, was brutally mur
dered last Saturday niplit, at her resi
dence near Orion, Pike county, Ala..
The house was burned afterward, to con
ceal the crime. The murderer has not
yet been discovered, notwithstanding
vigilant seaich.
—The Wilmington Star says of Hon.
Augustus S. Merrimon, who has been
elected from North Carolina to the U.
S Senate, to succeed Juo. Pool. He is
a gentleman of fine abilities; and while
not a strict party man, is a Comervative
iu feeling, and will disappoint those
Reoublicans who contributed so largely
<o his election.
—A car load of cotton on the eastward
bound accommodation train, on the Ala
bama Central Railroad, was discovered
to be on fi*-e near Bellevue. Four Dales
were totally destroyed, and eighteen
«thers bauly injured, being about one-
fourth burned. Fourteen bales' were
saved without damage. It is supposed
t at the fire originated from sparks from
the locomotive.
—The Charleston Courier states tbst
all of the newly elected officers of that
State have been qualified, except Lieut
Gov. Gleaves, wi>o was absent from the
inauguration, being very sick and stop
ping at Beaufort. Of the address of
Gov. Moses, it says: “ Tbe inaugural ad
dress was frequently interrupted with
applause, and that portion referring to
his intending to be the Governor uf the
whole people was heartily cheered by
both sides of the house.”
ings by the indulgence of the impulses w ^ ^
of human nature, but Mr. Estill’s keen issued a few days ago at the instance of
innffmont him fnof vwmnVit Al l • _* .i u «
land, and haa a good, oyatery nature
about him. He opens up welL
— Mary Short, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
shot her mother for a joke, the other
day.
were peouliaily distressing, ana from all
that we can learn, liis reverses during
the late campaign cannot alone account
for them.
Had he been successful, the probabili
ties are that be would not have lived, so
judgment convinced him that naught
could be gained by deploring the un
looked for mishap, and “accepting the
situation,” he at once formed his p'ans
for the prompt issue of the News. Boys
were put to workga<hering up the “pi,”
messengers were dispatched for the fore
man and the various compositors, the
single sheet that had been printed cat
apfor “copy,” and by half-past seven
ihe entire regular force of the composing
room, which had “knocked oft” work
only three hours previous, were at their
cases, hard at work, re-setting the entire
inside pages, advertisements and all.
Mr. Estill’s energy and pluck seemed
to be infused into every one, a ad in a
brief time he had the satisfaction of
seeing everything working smoothly.
Then, and not until then, did he retire.
We mention this with no desire to flatter
our worthy proprietor, but such evidence
of newspaper enterprise is not often
seen in the South.
Within six hours from the time the
forms were “pied,” the paper waa reset
and oni. tor distribution.
—-A drove of hogs soared a Provi
dence gentleman’s horse, the other day,
and damaged thing* thereby one thoa-
aaad dollars worth.
the heirs of the murdered or.evalier, who
will endeavor to recover some of the
stolen property, it being said that the
prisoner took away with him over $100,-
000 worth. He was conveyd by the
Sheriff in a carriage to Ludiow street
Jail, where he will doubtless remain
during farther legal delay before trial.
Rural Southerner.
The December number of this agri
cultural monthly—the final number of
its fifth vomme—is on onr table.
The Southerner is tbe best dollar agri
cultural monthly published in the United
States. Its Departments are varied
adapting it to the fireside), as well as to
the field and farm. It should be in
the house of every Southern farmer.
Its editor, Mr. A. C. Yau Epps, is at
once an able writer and practical agri
culturist.
The current number is printed in the
best style of the Economical Job Print
ing House. J. Ben. Wilson is the pub
lisher, to vqob subscriptions should be
addressed.
PERSONAL.
-M. Michaelis, the literary agent ol
Sardou, and oi other French dramatic
writers, is engaged iu an effort to estab
lish a copyright treaty between France
and *be United States.
— Count Sclopis, the Italian member
of the Arbitration Board, has presented
to the University Library, at Tnrin,
copies of all the documents i onnected
with the Geneva Conference.
— It is stated that Dr. Le Baron Ras-
sell, of Boston, and other friends of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, gave the philos
opher a purse of $10,000 just before lie
left Boston, on his voyage to Europe.
—The will of Horace Hawes, San Fran
cisco, who left $1,000,000 to found a col
lege. has been broken—on the ground
that tne testator was insane—and his
heirs have inherited the proreity.
—Mr. Edmund Yates, we read, has
written to a friend in London “that bo
is delighted with the overpowering recep
tion given him by all classes of literaij i ^
and professional men ia the State.” ^ ’
—Here he is again: “Mr. R. Phillip 8 *
of New Hampshire, aged 99. has voted
for all the Presidents from* Washington |
to Grant.” What an instinct lie mus.
have possessed for the winning side l
— Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, daughter
of the late Rt. Bev. Bishop Otey, «
Tennessee, is prosecuting an inquiry, w
the U. S. Courts, as to the rights «
women as voters. A minor cannot T0te>
at any rate.
Mrs. Carl Formes, wife of the singtfi
will leoture. This lady, we read, ^
Laura Rausch, daughter of a notary, ^
Cologne, and was the first female g ral * Al
uate of the medical college at Vienna, iu
We are deeply impressed by the prints |
statement of a rapture-smitten co i r i^*
pondent that Madam Lucca’s voice h
not a flaw or a scratch in it, and is P"’
warm and ethereal as a rosebud m 1
Northern light.” . .
— Colonel Rice, formerly a proniin e ?_ . |
citizen of Richmond, Va., afterward, i
the rebellion, leader of the “Black
Cavalry,” and, since the war, tue sec Y
sive resident of an old barge at 1 ortr ■
Monroe, has there committed suicide*
— The Hon. Samuel Alfred F°°j
LL. D., of Geneva, N. Y., an old g
distinguished lawyer and. Judge,
lately ppt v into private circulation u
diary for many years, and his arg ume ®^'
addresses, and miscefianeous comp ^
tionB, in two volumes.
u
— Old Uncle Jeft Fort,, an oldneg^J
whose hair is perfectly white, ana * .£]
at least seventy years old, has ^
year, without any assistance wa
seven boles o cotton and.over one .
dred bushels of corn, besides cutting
wood fcr his employer’s premises
feeding and attending to the
good size plantation.—Lumpkin