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HE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 31 1872.
TI-IE ATLANTA SUN
OEXERAL AAZ> PERSONAL.
Sidney Higdon, author of the Mor-
mon Bible, ib iltaJ.
— Petersburg, Yu., chips Christmas
' toys to Scotland.
—Virginia proposes to lease uer pcni-
ttatiary.
—American apples bring $10 a bushel
In Australia.
—The depositions in Marshal Bpzaine’e
trial number 8,0W) documents.
— An English paper attributes some
of tlio borrible zuord^o b«re to election excitement.
— Drying buffalo fakiiis cover acres of
ground at Wichita, Kansas.
— Tbe Nebraska Legislature meets
January 9 th.
—It is giveu out that Lucy Stone will
not lcctnro this winter. Her little boy is only four
weeks old.
—A gold spittoon is among tbo pres
ents lately sent to Queen Victoria by tbo- king of
Slam.
— A Kansas newspaper agent, in a col
lecting tour of a hundred miles performed on foot,
raised Si.
—The loss by disasters on toe great
Intel. an ’ st. Lawrence tbe past season has been
$2,988,000.
—Charles Kingsbury’s death at Keeue,
N. H., Is the Bret in a family of eleven children, the
youngest of whom is 4G.
— Rossini’s “Gugliemo Tell” has been
renamed ••Charles the Bold," In Bussla, whirh is
making rather bold with the author s idea.
— W. D. Thompson, an Arkansas plan
ter, wealthy, and spelling his name wi b a •*p," has
been arrested in Memphis for mule stealing,
—John Shoule, a ‘Wisconsin Germau,
In an attempt ht suicide, cut biwualf into fifty
pieces, but they will ail get well again.
—Mrs. Albaugh, who with her hus
band Uplayinu “Poverty Flat” around Now Eng
land, is a sister to Maggie Mitchell.
—A salmon lately caught in an Oregon
stream yielded a largo amount of good lutat and an
excellent silver watch.
— A Californian has discovered a meth
od of preserving dead bodies without iho aid of
chemicals.
— Ebenezer Childs, of Farmington,
Me., was wounded by .-.bayonet iu 1814, and has
since drawn $13,380 in pension money.
— An Iowa school boy has killed his
father for teiiing him to behave himself. Extenu
ating circumstances, certainly.
—Twenty-live mixed drinks gave John
Harrington, the New York rong’ , suiticient courage
to shoot poor Julia Smith, his young mi.-arena, It
is a wonder he didn’t exterminate tho whole neigh
borhood.
— Prinee Leopold, of England, dis
dains to advertise his nobility with the gold tassel
to his cap wlilcli young noblemen have b. on ncuu •
tomed to wear at Oxford. Ho wears the u^ual siik
pendant.
— Maggie Wilson, the daughter of ft
fish-tackle maker, has, after a fierce legal fight, been
Judicially recognized as the widow of tne late Major
Stewart, heir of the V.urthiey estates, one of the
richest iu Scotland.
— A young lady at a recent fashiona
ble church wedding iu New Vork seated herself on
the back,of a pew lor bettor observation, but seri
ously interrupted the ceremony by an involuntary
somersault ana attempt to stand on her head ,u tho
pew just behind.
—The Sultan of Turkey has confided
the instruction of his youngest t oo, Abdul-Medjid,
to Halil Pacha, Grand Master of Artillery. Hie Im
perial Highness, who is not five years of rge, will
commence Jus studies afier Biiram by dally attend
ing tbe gun factory, Tophaneb.
—The most successful collector of
coins n.,w living is Dr. Charles Spier, of Visalia.
California, who has been devoiing l-ltasolf to Ibis
speciality lor fifty-seven years, and has over 14,0uC-
pieces, dttmg back as far as the days of tne Pha
raohs and worth hundreds of thousand, of dollars
—Francis Preston Blnir, Sr., who is
the only man living tbat enjoyed close political and
social relations with President Jackson, is repre
sented as being the most hale andhearty man of his
age in the whole State ot Maryland. Hu it over
eighty.
— The teu fellows cf Columbus, O.,
who drew tbo capital prize ot $75,0011 in the Louis
ville public library drawing, arc all married men
and iu limited circumstances. Oun nt them is a
blacksmith, another a dry-man, and Alters mo sales
men, book-keepers, etc. They formed a club and
paid ton dollars each, no they will be “iu” $7,50b
apiece. Tbe goitres cf to thing didn’t seem in
clined to encovra ;e heme patronage, for not a single
prize . t any va.uo was draw u by a Louisville citizen
A club in tbat city that iuvested SI,260 drrv the
quarter of seventy-live dollar.. After it is divided
each member will bo entitled to a fraction over seven
cents. One geutlc men who hud three hundred ate
thirty-six chances did not stride a rumour. So, ui
together, one may plainly see the lolly and vicious-
ness ol lotteries.
ItO.iSTJJVU HIS SMSTJEIl.
Horrid Instance of Juvenile Eutntional
insanity.
From tho St. Louis Globe, Tuesday.
A peculiarly horrible case of juvenile
depravity occurred yesterday, in e house
on South Twelfth street, opposite the
jail.
Mrs. Wright, occupying one of the
shanties, yesterday afternoon left in her
room au infant daughter, Mary, aged
one month, and her son, Pierre, aged
three years, for the purpose of obtaining
a bucket of water from a neighboring
yard.
On returning, she fonnd her infant
enveloped in flames, ana the boy danc
ing and laughing as though it was sport.
The mother extinguished the flames
bv throwing the contents of tho bucket
in her hand upon tho burning child.
The little sufferer was immediately
taken to the Health Office, where ail
was done tbat was possible to alleviate
tbe pain. It was found that the child’s
whole body was crisped, the face only
having escaped injury.
In questioning the boy about the canse j
of the accident, he seemed not to under-
stand that anything severe had happen
ed, but appeared pleased in tellifig now
he took a piece ot paper and lit it at tbe
fire in the stove, and then touched the
lighted paper to the bottom of liis sis
ter's dress as she lay on the floor. *• just
to see the fun.”
There is no hopes of the infant’s re
covering, as the iujurics are supposed to
be fatal.
Possible x rouble.
St. Petersburg, December 23.—The
Russian World, (newspaper,) in its issue
to-day, says the British Ambassador at
St. Petersburg has notified Prince Gort-
sebakoff that if the Bussian troops pene-
•tratethe countries between Khiva and
Afghanistan, England will be compelled
to intervene m support of Afghan inde
pendence.
Suicide in V liglnid.
In 1872 Mr. Wm. B. Shape, of Mont
gomery county, Pa., purchased the Leb
anon V) bite Sulphur Springs, iu Augusta
county, Ya. While in Pniladelphia on
easiness several weeks he wa, confronted
oy an old seennt -- debt of S10.000. He
himself 1 aa< l in despuirshoi
—The ceusus ot ib7u reports 72,459
church organizations in the United
orates, aud 63,082 edifices, capable of
aenun, 21,665,OG-^persons, and valued
at >,o4,483,851. '3 iiis includes Ml reli-
pe n-i— Christian tn d heathen, Jew.
Gentile and Mormon, Protestant and
1 ap i', orthodox and heterodox. The
hodists ara the wealthiest d-nomina-
t-hnr. h -Hroperty, owning $00,-
Brians come next,
' Cr.tL-
Ti.e Macon Telegraph.
We have not ?een the issue ol this pa
per ui the 22d inst., but clip from the
Columbus Sun of the 25th inst., the fol
lowing extract of an editorial of the Tele
graph of the day stated, with the com
ments .of our cotemi’ orar J of Columbus
upon it:
SOT ' BE MAX FOX SEXATOB.
If Mr. Stephens has been correctly reported to ns,
by a gentlexi: m jvho heard bia speech at Atlanta.
Friday ulgnt, he is certainly not the man the Geor
gia Legislature should send to Washington to repre
sent the people of this State in the Inited States
Senate. .,
According to onr informant, Mr. Stephens said,
in that speech, referring to Louisiana, that Grant
was right in sustaining Judge Durell’a decision;
which decision, it wUl bo remembered, overturew
the State Government of Louisiana by Federal bay
onets, aud installed in power the negro usurper.
Pinchfaack. Georgia cannot afford to send the snp-
r orter of euch a monstrous policy to represent her
in the Senate. She will do so at the hazard of her
own State Government, and of every attribute oi
sovereignty that tbe oppressions and outiages oi
the party in whoso interests Judge Durell and his
master act have left her.—Macon Telegraph, Tld.
We think the Telegraph should have
waited, and made its comments not on
the reports of informants, bat on the
speecL of Mr. Stephens when published.
Here is what Mi. Stephens did say, as
reported by Tut. Atlanta Sun ot the
22nd:
‘•I no return to tho Louisiana troubles And tho
reported interview between^Judge Campboll and
President Grant yesterday. This interview has
given me light upon the subject which I aid not
lutvo before. From this, it seems that Gen. Grant
has not assumed any illegal or unconstitutional Ex
ecutive power in the internal affairs of Louisiana
He asserte ho has authorized the employment
of th< military lorcea there only in tho enforce
ment of judicial process. This has great'y
relieved my mind. The trouble iu Louisiana
seems to have grown out or powers claim
ed undor the Civil Bights Bill, or some other
one of the reconstruction measures, so-called.
These measuret:, I need not assure you, I hold, and
CTer shall hold, to be utterly unconstitutional.
[Great applause.]
But in accordance with the views I have giTen
you, t o long as they are held to be laws, they should
b» obeyed, as they are expounded by those clothed
with judicial powers over them. No violent resis
tance should be mauo to them—they should be as
sailed only through the peaceful instrumentalities
of the Constitution. No earthly power could ever
make me say that they aro either right, just, or consti
tutional. [Loud applause.] My mode of assailing
them, however, is not by violence or by forcible re
sistance, but by appeals, first to the courts; just
where the appeal, it seems iu this case, haB beeu
made.
My mode of assailing is in the forum of Eeason
and Justice, and if General Grant shall never do
anything worse than to see to it, that tho mandates
and decrees o! Federal judiciary are properly exe
cuted in any part of this country, I shall have-no
quarrel with him. If the Judge in New Orleans has
made an erroneous decision it is subject of reversal
by the Suprome Court of the United States. In tbo
meantime, my advice to the people of Louisiana
would be to patiently boar tho ills incident to that
decision. Just as wo iu Georgia have borne ills of a
much more grievous nature, until their redemption,
as ours has been, shall be effected by the peaceful
workings of the established instrumentalities of the
Constitution.
First, let the issue he met in the courts below
and above; if the decision should be against them
iu both, then let them appeal in the ballot-box, not
only in Louisiana bat throughout all the States.—
The auerations in the administration of all free Gcv-
ercmtms, require time for complete rectification —
But tviih patience, perseverance, virtue, intelligence,
and patriotism,ultimcto rectificationjtvill be sure aud
certain- This is the extent of my ultra, impracti
cable, extreme, Bourbon revolutionary Democracy.
[Applause.] It rests upon the principle tbat wrongs
can nev6r be righted by a voluntary sanction ou
the part of a free people of notorious, gro<-s.
tlagiticus and admitted usurpations of pow
er. The late elections were sufficient proofs of
tins, if other evidence were wiuted. Upon what
giound could any Democrat in the late contoststand
• ‘n tlii Cincinnati platform with auy hope of success
against a Kadicai competitor? His mouth was
closed against raising a tingle complaint against the
unconstitutionality ot any of these admitted usurpa
tions. They were to he received as finalities—as
tne accepted results of the war!—though they were
perpetrated since the war for the Union was over—
never again to bo inquired into. This was a virtual
admission that their opponents were right anil they
were wrong in all fierce polititical struggles in the
last six years If this admission was honest, they
had but one coarse to pursue, and that was in sack
cioth and ashes to ask forgiveness for their error.
If dishonest, then it was but a trick and a ruse, and
not deal ug fairly by the people. Pardon me for
ttjua again alluding to the issues as presented by
the leaders if the Democracy in tho late canvas*.
The idea of electing a majority of Democrats, to
Congress, on a Kadicai platform of principles, I
trust will bo laid away and entombed forevc r
among tbe d6a<l issues, aud buried so deep that the.
hand of resurrection cm never reach it. [Great ap
piausc.] t
Besides what onr eotemporary of Co
lumbus so pertinently stiid in reply to our
neighbor ot Macon, we at this time
barely assure him tbut “Mr. Stephens
will be among the last men in the United
States, if not the very last, who will ever
say that the overthrow of State Govtra-
meut by Federal bayonets is right, and
among the last, if not the very last, to
give his sanction “to such a monstrous
policy” either in the Senate of the Uni
ted States or anywhere else.
Will our neighbor of Macon turn to
his files and refresh his memory by a
perusal of what he said, and the “mon
strous doctrines” he advocated in his is
sue of the 26th of May lost ? We believe
it was that article in which he declared
that if the Federal Judiciary decided
“that the sun rises in the West, or that
the moon is made of green cheese, and
the stars of Heaven are scintillations
from the cavo ,of Cyclops or the forge pf
Yulcan,” we should be bound to accept
it as a fixed law in this country.
Will our neighbor please reproduce
tbat article from his own pen and the
comments of “Mr. Stephens” upon it,
with “Mr. Stephens” late speech at At
lanta on the Louisiana trouble, that the
readers of the Teh graph may be able to
judge for themselves not only whether he
or Mr. Stephens is the most consistent
on these questions, but which of them is
the wiser as well as safer leader on them,
aud all kindred public matters, involving
the rights of tho people, as well as the
rights, honor and dignity of tne States,
aud the surest means cf maintaining
them under the Constitution.
A. H. S.
S3?* Tho Herald of yesterday calls Tbe
Sun a “miner paper of this city.” Now,
if we recollect aright the Herald has
proven the minor paper in cur recent
municipal settlement; at least, it was a;-
fliettd witu a bad attack of minority iu
the late election.
*■
££y~ Gen. P. M. B. Young leaves foi
Washington to-day. Our jovial adjutant
on the loeai page of The Sun yesterday,
noticed a telegram from our handsome
Congressman inviting a number of friends
from Atlanta to visit him before his de
parture. Oar best wishes attend Gen
X.-ung. He is very popular in his Dis
trict, und wo ixinct valuable services
from him in the high office to which he
received t-uc11 u cuuiplum-ut iry vote.
— Me
taiued
United 1
***
■i «l , .*r.i wUmii a oei.t .iy 1 as at-
Eruitond 1 300,766: in tbe
ates. 2,620.531; total, 3,921,297
BISHOP POTTS.
Domestic Life in Utah.
BT MAX AD ELBE.
Bishop Potts, of Salt Lake City, was
tbe husband of f hreewivesaad the happy
father of fifteen interesting children.
Early in the winter the bishop determin
ed that his little ones should have a good
time on Christmas, so he concluded to
take a trip down to San Francisco to see
what he could find in tbe shape of toys
with which to gratify and amuse them.
The good bishop packed his carpet-bag,
embraced Mrs. Potts one by one and
Kissed each of her affectionately and
started upon his journey.
He was gone a little more than a week,
when he came back with fifteen beauti
ful mouth organs in his valise for his
darlings. He got out ef the train at Salt
Lake, thinking how joyous and exhila
rating it would be at home on Christmas
' morning when the whole fifteen of those
mouth organs should be in operation up
on different tunes at the same moment,
But just as he entered the depot lie saw
a group of women staudingin the ladies'
room, apparently waiting for him. As
soon as ueapproached, the whole twenty
of them rushed up, threw their arms
HDout his neck and kissed him, exclaim
ing:
“Oh, Theodore, we arc so-so glad
you have come back ! Welcome home !
Welcome, dear, dear Theodore ! Wel
come once more to the bosom <.4 your
family !” and then tbe entire score of
them fell upon his neck and cried over
his shirt front and mussed him
The Bishop seemed surprised aud em
barrassed. Struggling to disengage him
self, he blushed and said:
“Really, ladies, this kind of thing is
well enough—it is interesting *md all
that; but there must be some kind of a—
that is, an awkward sort of a—excuse
me, ladies, but there seems to be, as it
were, a slight misunderstanding aoout
the—lam Bishop Potts.”
“We know it, we know it, dearest,
they .exclaimed in cboius, “and we are
so gald to see you safe, safe at home.—
“We have all been right well while you
were away, love.”
“Tt gratifies me,” remarked the Bisk
op, “to learn that none of you have been
a prey to disease. I am filled with bliss
ful serenity when I contemplate the fact;
but really I do' not understand why you
should rush into this railway station and
hug me becaus9 your avers are active
aud digestion good. The precedent is
bad; it is dangerous !”
“Oh, but we didn’t!” they exclaimed
in chorus! “We came here to welcome
you because you are our husband.”
“Pardon me, but there must be some
litUe—that is to say, as it were, I should
think nor. Women, you have mistaken
yonr man!”
“Oh, no, dearest!” they shouted; “we
were married lo yon while yon were
away.”
“VYba;!” exclaimed the Bishop; “you
don’t mean to say that—
“Yes, love. Our husband, William
Browa, died on Monday, and on Thurs
day Brigham had a vision in which he
was directed to seal'us to you; and so ne
performed the ceremony at once b-’
proxy.”
“Tli-th-th-uuder!”observed the bishop
in a general sort of way.
“And, ciarlii g, wo are all living with
yon—we and toe d*ar children.”
“Children !children ’’’exclaimed Bish
op Potts, turning pale, “you don’t mean
to say that there is a pack of children,
too ?”
“Yes, love*, but wuly one huudred and
twenty-five, not counting the eight twins
aud the triplets ”
“Wha-wim-wau-tvhat d’ you say?"
gasped tbe bishop iu a cold perspiration;
“one hundred and twenty-five ! One
hundred and twenty-five children and
twenty more wives! It is too much—it
is awrit!’’ aud the bishop sat do.vn and
groaned, while the late Mrs. Brown, the
bride, stood around in a semi-circle and
fanned him with her bonuets, all except
'the red-haired .one, and sh« iu her trepi
datiou, made a futile effort to fan him
with lilt: coal scuttle. /
But after awlule the. bishop became
reconciled to his new alliance, Lnowing
weli that protests would be unavailing;
so he walked home, bolding as many of
the little hands of the bride as he could
conveniently grasp in his, while the red-
haired woman carried his umbrella and
marched in front of the parade, to re
move obstructions and to scare off small
boys.
When the bishop reached t e bouse,
he went round among the cradles which
filled the back parlor and the two second-
story rooms, and attempted with euch
earnestness to become acquainted with
new sons and daughters that he set the
whole one hundred and twenty-five and
the twins to crying, while his own origi
nal fifteen stood around and joined in the
cborns.
Then the bishop went out and sat on
‘the garden fence to whittle a stick and
solemnly think, while Mrs. Potts dis
tributed heiself around in twenty-three
places and soothed the children. It oc
curred to the bishop while he mused, out
there on tbe fence, that he had not
enough mouth organs to go around
among the children as the family now
stood; aud so, rather than seem to be
partial, lie determined to go back to San
Francisco for cue hundred and forty-four
more.
So the bishop repacked his carpet
bag aud t egan again to bid farewell to
bis family. He tenderly kissed all of
Mrs. Potts’ who were at home, and start
ed for the depot, while Mrs. Potts s ood
at the various windows and waived her
hankerchiefs at him—ail except the
woman wiili the warm hair, and she, in a
fit of ahsent-miudednesa, held one of the
twins by the leg, and brandished it at
Potts as he lied down the street.
The Bishop reached San Francis .-o,
com pie: ml his purchases, and was jnst
about to get on the train with bis one
hundre t and fort, -four mouth organs,
when a telegram wvs handed him. It
contained information to the effect that
the su 1 *” Mr«. Potts had just
had a daughter. This induced the
Bishop to return to the city for the pur
pose of purchasing an additional organ.
On the following Saturday he returned
home. As he aporoiched his honse, a
swarm of young children flew out of the
front gate and ran toward him, shooting:
“There’s p«! Here comes pa! Oh, pa,
but we’re glad to see yon! Hurrah for
p3!” eta, * tc.
The B'shop looked at the children fts
tlipy flock**' 1 around him aud cluDg to
his legs and coat, and was astonished to
perceive that they \v»-re neither ins nor
the late Brown’s. He said: “You
youngsters have made a mistake; I am
not your father;” and the Bishop smiled
good-naturedly.
“Oh, yes you are, though 1” screamed
the little ones in chorus.
“But I say I’m not,” said tho Bishop,
severely and frowning; “you ought to
be ashamed of yourselves. Don’t you
know where little story-tellers go ? It is
scandalous for you to violate the truth in
this manner. My name is Potts.”
“Yes, we know it is,” exclaimed the
children—“wo know it is; and so is ours;
that is our name too, since the wed
ding.”
“Since what wedding ?” demanded the
Bishop, turning pale.
“Why, ma’s wedding, of course. She
was married yesterday to you by Mr.
Young, and we are all living at your
house now with onr new little brothers
and sisters.”
The Bishop sat down on the pavement
and wiped away a tear. Then he asked:
“Who was yonr father?”
“Mr. Simpson,” said the crowd; “and
he died on Tuesday.”
“And how many of kisjinfernal old
widows—I mean how many of your
mothers a^e there?”
“Only twenty-seven,” replied the chil
dren, “and there are only sixty-fonr of
us, and we are awful glad you have come
home.”
The Bishop did not seem unusually
glad; somehow he failed to enter into
the enthusiasm of the occasion. There
appeared to be, in a certain sense, too
much sameness about these^surprises, so
he sat there with his hat pulled over his
eyes and considered the situation. Fi
nally, seeing there was no help for it, he
went to she house, and forty-eight of
Mrs. Potts rushed up to him, and told
him how the prophet had had another
vision, in which he was commanded to
seal Simpson’s widow to Potts.
Then the Bishop stumbled around
among the credles to his writing desk,
where he felt among the gum rings and
ratt es for his letter-paper, and then ad
dressed a note to Brigham, asking as a
personal favor to keep awake until after
Christmas: “The must take for a found
ling hospital,” he said/ Then the Bishop
saw clearly enough that if he gave pres
ents to the other children and not to the
late Simpson’s, tbe bride (relic M Simp
son) would probably souse down on him,
funibJo among his hair and make things
warm for him. So repacking his carpet-
kag, he started again for San Francisco
for sixty-four more mouth-organs, while
Mrs. Potts gradually took leave of him
iu the entry—all but the red-l.aired wo
man, who was up-stairs, and who had to
oe satisOed with a screeching good-bye
at the top of her voice.
On his way home after his last visit to
San Francisco, tbe bishop sat in the car
by the side of a man wuo had left Salt
Lake the day before. Iu the course of
the conversation he remarked to the
bisuop:
“That was a mitchty pretty little affair
up there a* the city on Monday.”
“What affair ?” asked Potts.
“Why, that wedding; MtGrath’s wid
ow, yon know—married by proxy.”
“You don’t say,” replied tbe bishop.
I did not know that McGrath was dead.”
“Yes; died on Sunday, and that night
Brigham had a vision in which he was
ordered to seal her to the bishop.”
“Bishop!” exclaimed Potts. “Bishop,
what Bishop ?”
“Well, you see there were fifteen of
Mrs. McGrath and eighty-two children,
aud they shoved the whole lot off on old
Potts. Perhaps you don’t know him ?”
The Bishop gave a wild, unearthly
shriek, and went into a hysterical fit,
and writhed upon the floor as if ho had
hydrophobia. When ho recovered ho
leaped from the train and walked back
to San Francisco. Ho afterward toon
the first steamer to Peru, where ho en
tered a monastery and became a celibate.
His carpet-bag was sent on to liis fam
ily. It contained the balance of the
month-organs. On Christmas morning
they were distributed, and iu less than
an hour the entire two hundred and eight
children were sick from sucking the
paint off them. A doctor was called, and
he seemed so much interested in the
family that Brigham divorced ihe whole
concern from.old Potts and annexed it
to the doctor, who immediately lost his
reason and would have butchered the
entire family if the red-haired woman
and the oldest boy had not marched him
off to a lunatic asylum, where he spent
his time trying to arrive at an estimate
of the number of nis children by cypher
ing with an impossible combination of
the multiplication table and algebra —
Philadelphia lo-Day.
For Congress.
Messi-s. EdiUrrs: The death of the la
mented Wright has left a vacancy which
it will devolve on the Democracy of the
Eighth Congressional District to fill.—
We do net know what names are likely
to be presented to the Convention which
will doubtless be called to make a nomi
nation. We will fake the liberty, how
ever, of suggesting the name of Whitson
G. Johnson, of Lexington. He is a young
man, but has a fair lecord of which an
older man might be proud. For several
years before the war lie was a member of
the Augusta Bar. After serving with
credit for the greater portion of tbe war
he located iu Lexiugtion, where liis
perseverance and energy have won for
him an honorable positioi. We make
no comparisons; but we feel assured
that if he should be given a place in onr
National Legislature, ne would worihily
represent our State. L
£5?* From tbe Washington (Ga.) (Ja-
zelle we clip the!following:
We have been informed that John C.
Reid, Esq., of Oglethorpe county, will
he a candidate for Cocgress, to fill the
vacancy ma^e by the death of Gen. A.
R. Wright. Mr. Reid is a lawyer who
stands at the head of the riMua oar He
is a man of remarkable ability, sterling
integrity, devoted to bis section ana
S'ate, a tree ana tried Democrat, firm in
bis advocacy of right and justice and
fearless iu his opposition tt* wrong. He
was a brave Confederate soldier, serving
four years and enduring all t he hardships
and participating in all tne battles of the
famou-t “hit,ody” Eighth Georgia Regi
ment. His gahautry was conspicuous
and he was ranked amontret. the bravest
of the veterans ol tbat distinguished com
mand. He is a man who will be an honor
to liis State in the councils of the people.
If tne report of his candidacy be true,
we know of pn man m the District bettei
.v.iited for t'.e position, nor of anytoVoe
whom we would more williugly give our / n it
Support. * he.r i
GEORGIA NEWS BREVITIES.
Clipped from Exchanges.
—Fudge is to bo found in Thomasville,
and deals in stoves.
—A colored Savannah girl has beeu
kerosened.
—A Savannah policeman has mur
dered one of his comrades.
—Dr. Kollock, one of tho oldest citi
zens, of Savaxyiah, is dead.
—Francis Grimm, of Savannah, last
Thursday night, mistook his way and
walked into the sea, where he met grim
death.
—A sad and melancholory incident oc
curred in Cnrist Church on Christmas
day. During the morning service Bishop
Beckwith administered the rite of con
firmation to several candidates. AmoDg
these was a young lady of Savannah,
Miss Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of
Mr. William H. Spencer* and on return
ing to her pew after the ceremony,
she leaned her head forward, with
her pocket handkerchief to her face,
and fell to a kneeling posture. Some
friends at once went to her assistance to
b°ar her from the edifice and to her
home, but by the time the party reached
the vestibule the pulse of their lovely
burden had ceased itB beating, and she
was dead. A few months ago Miss Spen
cer’s mother suddenly died under an at
tack of heart disease, and the daughter
has thus fallen beneath the blight of the
same fell disease. —Sav. Republican.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Clipped from our Exchanges.
TENNESSEE.
—Dandridge has twelve hundred in
habitants.
—Knoxville is out two thousand dol
lars on the Louisville lottery.
-Sambard’s salary as Postmaster of
Chattanooga is fonr thousand dollars.
—Oakdale is the name of the contem
plated new village near the Roane iron
■works.
—The Athens Post and Marj ville Re
publican are reduced in size, but not in
quality.
— Only one horse died of the epizoot
ic in Knoxville, though the disease is
spreading rapidly.
— Hogs sell at Loudon for three and
four cents gross, and at Chattanooga at
four and a half cents..
— George Nosely was sentenced to
the penitentiary for fifteen years, at
Kingston, last week, for rape.
— Dr. Breaker, temperance lecturer
from Philadelphia, is making a break
for old topers around Kingston.
— James Hunnicutt, the miner who
was crushed in a mine at Careyville last
Tuesday, died on Wednesday from the
effects of his injuries.
VIRGINIA.
—The small-pox has made its appear
ance in Middlesex county among the
colored people.
—The Orange, Alexandria and Manas-
sss Railroad discontinues its freight
trains lor Christmas. Happy thought.
-Mf: Edmund J. Hill has been ac
quitted of the charge of shooting Win.
H. Reynolds, iu Amherst county.
—A negro named Henry Collins has
been arrested iu Norfolk, on suspicion
of the murder of young French, some
weeks ago.
—An unknown whiteman was knocked
down ami very seri.r jsly hurt by: the cars
of the 1 Virginia & Tennessee Railroad,
near Martin’s Monday night.
—The two citizens cf Appomattox
county, Messrs, diaries Abbott and Wm.
Cawtiiorn, arrested for alleged violation
of ihe enforcement act, were• honorabiy
discharged after examination before the
Commissioner at Lynchburg.
—The Petersburg Appeal- ays Stoier, of
the Piedmont Virginian, is the devii
and we believe it, for he digs his par
tridges from potato hills, and gathers his
rabbits from ehinquepin bashes, and
never .sends his friends any, but brags
over tnose that can’t even say “Christ
mas turney.”—Alex. Sentinel.
—The suit of Mayor John R. Ludlow’
vs. Mr. John R. Hathaway, editor and
proprietor of the Norfolk Day-Book, for
the publication of an alleged libel in that
paper, was called in the police court,
Justice John A. Rossen presiding, yes
terday morning, and was postponed un
til Thursday morning next, in conse
quence of the sickness of the defendant.
Mr. Hathaway was represented oy his
counsel, Capt. George D. Parker.—Jour
nal, 24 th.
NOKTH CAKOLINA.
—Milton has two clubs; sport and hop.
—The Citizen tells us about an Ash-
ville sportsman who killed six wild tur
keys at one shot.
—Mr. E. H. Pullen was announced to
lecture in Raleigh last evening. He is
highly spoken oi as a lecturer.
•The Newbern Daily Liberal learns
from Beaufort tbat the youngest son of
Mrs. Mary E. Somers wus fatally burned
one day last week.
— The Raleigh Sentinel says a snail
wooden tenement in the Eastern Ward
took fire Saturday morning from some
hot coals lolling on the floor. The
flames were extinguished before any seri
ous damsge was done.
— A little son of Rev. J. W. Wheeler,
of Statesville, swallowed a whistle a few
days since. Ir. lodged in ihe windpipe,
but was removed afrer considerable diffi
culty, and the sufferer relieved. This
we condense from the Intelligencer.
—The Milton paper chronicles the
following fires: Mr. Alexander Daniel,
residing near ihe Red House, had his
dwelling burnt by fire on Sunday, the
8tu. The fire wus accidental, and none
of the family were at home at tne time.
All the furniture and bedding were eon-
.-umed- Loss $1,500; no insurance. The
neighbors rained $i20. The dwelling
hou.-e in which Mr. Phil McSherry lived,
on the N. M. Lewis plantation, near this
town, was destroyed by fire about 9
o’clock on Wednesday night of last week.
Tite luniily barely escaped, and lost
everything in the honse. The little:
child tn’s shoes were not saved, and they
had to flee barelootc d. It was.a bitter |
cold night. Sixty bushels of wheat and
a quantity of meat weie consumed. On |
the same night the widow Shaw, living
in tins county, near the Alao\auce line, j
wt lu-r d welling by fire -»■ opposed to be
ii>ik ol* itn inceri.i ary. Everthing
iDfJnilii R Sl.bvKi just coll* ctfd by j
her son, consumed.
SUNDAY UKADllro.
—Wo can do more good by but
than m any other way. 1
—Every letter of the alphabet
“g ' is contained in the 21st ve.ll
7th chapter of Ezra. * e « £
—The members of the New
ferencs pay thirty cents apiece ^
support of aged and infirm mS*
—The Presbyterian churches of pt,
delphia raised over a million
church purposes, during the ja? for
— A religious census of Paris a
ed the fact that only two p et a2 s V
willing to declare themselvea
thinkers^” «ee-
— The Rock River Method^ Cntl ,
ence, Illinois, has voted toforhrt^'
r“e5^“ Kmmie6i,> W"8^S
lions, 308 ministers, and a memh^
of about 50,000. eot *i8lup
—There are 6,486 churches in tboaui
of Ohio, including 295 Roman (£* r
capable of seating in all 2,084,386^5*'
or nearly one church for everv
the inhabitants. ^ 1,000 of
—The General Committee of tha
dist Church Extension Society Jl 6 'T
tributions to the amount of oi ^- coa ’
enable them to carry out their niZv 0
the year 1873. P ansJ °r
—There are 624 ministers in ti-eTTni
ted Presbyterian Church iu thisennnri -
They differ from the
Church, North and South, in/cS
but their psalmody. “^8
— The Memorial Baptish Clin*,.
Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Henson, m
which was formed five years ago withm
members, uow numbers 550. and th!
Sunday-school 600. Ce
—At the late National Unitarian Asso.
ciation a speaker expressed the belief tb- 1
the failure of their church in
ton City was owing to the preaching of
politics. *
—Thomas Brown has beeu Seiton of
the Second United Presbyterian Chord,
Alleghany City, for the last thirteen
years, during which time he has never
been absent or unable to discharge fis
duties a single Subbath.
—Those whose faces are only seen and
whose voices are only heard in seasonjof
religions revivals are' like the flowers that
bloom in the morning and fade in the
evening without producing frnit They
arc not the ever-greens of the church.
—The Rev. C. William Camp, late
Secretary of the Episcopal Convention
of the Diocese of Florida, having remov
ed from that State, tho Bishop has up.
pointed in his place the Rev. Riverius
Camp, D. D., of Monticello, Fla., for
merly of Connecticut,
—According to tbe recent action of
the Board, providing for visitations the
coining year, to Methodist, mission fields,
Bistiop Bowman will go to Sonth Ameri
ca, Bishop Foster to Germany ana Italy,
Bishop Harris to Indio., China and Japan,
aud Bishop Simpson probably to Mwtuh,
—Father Morrill, on the occasion of
the seventh anniversary of St. Albans’
(the extreme Ritualistic episcopal
Church.1 in New York, stated that the
communion had been administered
about two hundred times iu the congre
gation during the last year, anil with
toe exception of the summer mouths,
tueve have been two services daily.
— The following statistics show War
saw, Poland, to have a larger Jewish
population th-m auy other city in the
world: in 1871, Warsaw numbered 264,-
476 inhabitants, of whom 155,541 were
Roman Catholics, 16,805 Protestants,
6,821 Greeks, 211 United (Greeks,) 30
Georgians, 56 Mohammedans, and86,685
Jews. Almost one-third of the popula
tion is Je wish. Vienna comes nest in
order, with 60,000 Jews.
— Tne first colony of Jews in New
York arrived in 1610, the city beiUgat
that time still under tbe rule ol the Dutch.
In 1706 the first Jewish congregation was
tanned. They built tne first synagogue
in 1721. In 1844 there were fonr syna
gogues; in 1854 there were twenty; aud
as present there at least forty snagogues
•a New York. Tee whole number Jewish
houses of prayer ;u tne United States is
about. 220.
T1L.1 ii Hit i* JtJV .VA IIT/W COVA‘1V-
A Negro Killed.
From a prominent citizen ol Covington we lave
tire particulars of the fatal shooting of a negro mm.
a former servant of Mr. Thomas Usher, of Sewton
county.
On Christmas day a negro man (wheso name oar
informant could not give) came from Cedar Shoal*
to Covington in a buggy. On the way a white mar.
who was walking, asked the negro that he might ride
with him. The white man partook of an overplus
of the “fiery fluid,” and in the afternoon when the
inclination to return homo possessed him. ke tods
possession oi the negroe’s buggy and drove to Codar
Shoals, leaving-its possessor in Covington. When
the negro, tired of Covington, and sought hla ImggJ
he found that it had been driven off by the nan
whom he had taken on beard in the rnornirg.-
Walking to Cedar Shoals, the negro in making com -
piaint of the conduct of the man who had driven off
his buggy, Incurred the anger of some parties wn* 1
whom he soon became involved in an altercation-
He knocked down two men and then fled.
At night some parties (names not given) visit* 1
the house of the negro who had been engaged in tka
difficulty of the afternoon, and called for nim. 12
his absence, a nt gro visiting the honse, appejf***
the door. Ihe vi>.tors supposing him t J be **
against whom the visit was made, fired up° n “
Throe pistol balls pierced his body, killing him. ro
parties who did the shooting, wo learn, bare nea -~
couatry. innC .
We regret very much this occurrence. An m-
cent negro, well esteemed in the community’ .
unintentionally murdered. Whisky was at W*
tom of the tragedy.
A Terrible Tragedy.
A communication to the Chroni'le and
Sentinel gives the facts in regard to a
trage iy, which resulted in the death c
a Mr. Kennedy, at Sylvania, Ga.
Coroner’s inquest shows that dete^
came to his death from a stab inflict
by the hands of his step-son,
Bragg. David Lancy, r. brother-in*l aW 0
Bragg’s, was arrested as accessory to t L ®
acr. After a legal investigation, i>ra=S
auu Lnncy gave bond for their aPP^ 11
antv, at the n^xt term of the Snpe* l0r
Cunri.
Cause of the difficulty—whisky.
i.ef* Peter SSuxe, brother of Joh Q ^2
drives mules across tbe plains. Jonn ”
drives the Muses—well, almost any
where.
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£- y* Lady Milton and
Baron Ferdinand von Wm-ngel aie ^ f)3
sengers in the Olympus homBos.oui
Wednesday.