Newspaper Page Text
8'
THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, EOK THE WEEK ENDING DECEMER 31, 1872
>u a
THE ATLANTA SUN
PERSONA L AND GENKSUU
Ilj SV
—A. A.’Low is in for $G,009,000.
— George Law is worth $6-,000,000.
Alexander Stewart :s worth over $30,-
000,000.
.—Pot,r Cooper is wor
003,000.
• —Daniel Drew can draw hii* • heck for
$i0,000,000.
—Naaby, the fanny man, is worth
$2i0,000.
—The Frown brothers qre worth $15.-
000,000 e&th.
—Madame Nils30U-Ilouzaud pays taxes
oa real estate la seven American towns.
—William B. Astor ^owns upwards of
three taomand hau-.'u la New Tort city.
— L'oca Hood, Jr., editor of the Lon
don lias been o.i . lbCiuitflg tour in Scotland.
A oust of Thnlbdrf* hits been pre-
ceutod bf Lu M’iduv/ to tiic city ai (ioneva, vtiero
ho was born.
—Mayor Ludlow, of Norfolk, Vu., b:ia
brought a iib<;\ suit JoUo I*. il4tiiAW»y* tdi*
tor of the JJay IS riz of thatciiy.
—Master Solomon David Deed, aged
«iovou y.:*v*. is serviega term a a \ear's imi.ris-
oumeut A7,th :.-rd Rtior. m NMAviUe, xetUiessee,
for burglary.
— Captain Frank Siauwcod, of the
Third Hi airy, U. H. A., di'elt at tl.o residence cf bis
liikdr, la r.eu rjiilay, of tousump-
tion.
Another California widow now claims
tho sympathy of Pacific jurymen on account of five
^r4iu*» of ntsyciinlttft, louna in Her a* ad huaoaua s
utonftch.
— Mr. William Roberts, of Sonerna
county, Cat., bas achievoa grea'.noW by msinfian
o* Wfigbint' 4.1MI i,oumi». How biyu be tailed
ittbe local chronicle onii.s to state.
A considerable homicide, in OflCn-
dagt, Kenvon Dy natuo, bayiay occtsion i j kill hts
biuUi0c*ui a i4^» aeUctt:.! vUo nti^hboib ioa of tuo
Idiot Asylum for tUu l .-.oa.ctioato jacl.-. i-etUetui.
TiutelUug oi a cji i.cr’ri jury.
The ltsv. Henry Austin, of Galves
ton, Ttua*', vrbi:e uki. : a ride in a central portion of
tbat bigtuy ciVilizedStaie, a lev.’ ui&litiiiigo, was at-
tteked by iudiatis, and sivod bis s.aip omy by
taking to the woods.
i —The property of Nathan Appleton,
Of 13 OB ton, BbuAtod in UsUeVuc ttvenuo in r.ewpon.
ivna atuebod on Triday by tba creditors of loo biult,
lag house of Bowles urotbers.
Tbo estitu :s rc-pt
rented to be worth $tiu,ouo.
— Mr. Darwin, will, we fear, scarcely
Ik prepared lor tbo tbock of learning tbroutiha
Wisconsin paper that the Itev. A. Constantine Barry
“cjplode* the liar win bin theory” In a lecture ou
.getuugy which ho is delivering iu the rural districts.
Dr. Mtyo, mi English surgeon,
wno was d recto ui the Alice Hospital at iiariuatadt
during tl t Tra iCo Prus^iau tsar, has received the
Order oi he .em-oian Crown, tbo *iCRnhin Order oi
Philip Vho u-ueroua, and the Barvarhia Cross oi
Uarit.
—Dr. McMillan, recently unseated
from tho Louisiana Seuato hs tiio lnaclnuatwaa of
the Custom-house clique* is a brother-in-law of ex*
Governor Dtunisun, oi Ohio, irozu which State Le
commanded a regiment ot volunteer** during tho
war-
—It is reported that M. do 3 ,esseps eu
tortains tho idea of cutting a ship cauai through the
Isthmus or Corii;tb, where excavating loss than hve
miles in length would upou communication betweeu
tho Gull of 1,'jpanto with the Gulf oi iigina and
snake kloroa on island.
—A monument has been erected to the
memory of Chopin, the musical composer, at War
saw, his native place. It is a timely act aud pre
vents tuat chop'iu of tho composer's aamo aud fame
which happens to oviry literary porisou or.musician
long after bis own time.
— Of the 956 cotton manufactories iu
tho Uuited States, 191 are in MansaehuseUs, lo9 In
liliode Island, lfSin Pennsylvania, 111 iu Connecti
cut, aud 81 in New York, aggregating CG7, or more
•than two-thirds of the %vho.e. New Jersey has 27,
New Hampshire 3d, Maine 33, Maryland 32, North
Carolina 33, Georgia 31, and Tennessee 33.
— Daniel E. Bandman, the well-known
Anglo-Geunan :.utor, publishes a card in the Lou
dou Era of the 8th, which is exceedingly conipU-
meiitary to the late Horace Greeley'. He speaks of
Mr. Greeley as "one of the staunchest supporters of
tho legitimate drama,” a profound student of SliaUs-
pcarc, and a great admirer of Byron.
—Tho Presbyterian Synod of Alabama,
At its recent session in Tuskaloosa, passed resolu
tions recommending tho concentration of ad south
western synods ou one school, uud to this end they
appointed the Bov. C. A. Stillman, principal, and D.
I), b&ndersou, alternate, to confer with tho commio
Kionoxs ciother synods.
MM
Oar City Council Klcct. i
In onr local columns an exhibit is made
of tbo first steps made by our new Coun- j
cil for retrenchment and reform. We i
| are in full sympathy with every action
that the Council may tako for retrench
ment, which we may consider fair and
legitim ite. The' Sun supported the
election of the entire Democratic t ; cket,
because confident that it would prove
'ailhful to its promises for retrenchment
and reform. Bat there is a certain con
sistency which should be observed in all
things and the Conncil in its desire to
serve the city should not be deterred
from fairness and justice to any party or
parties.
The extreme position it has^ taken
against tho Police Department is, to onr
mind, both unfair aud unjust. A few
days since we commented on tho action
of the Conncil, reducing the Police force
from forty-five to thirty, and approving
that measure, but opposing tho proposi
tion which we understood was pending,
tn reduce the pay of policemen. Since
the publication of that article we have tak
en oain3 to examine the police register of
past years, aud looking at the same time
into the increase which has yearly been
making in the population and extent of
t_:o city, have come decidedly to the
conclusion that the reduction even in the
number of the force was too great. But
not only (if wo are correctly informed)
has the reduction iu namber, from forty-
fiveto thirty, been made, but the pay of
even the thirty has been reduced, while
the duty of lightiug the street lamps has
been added.
We bog to call the attention of onr
Fathers to the following facts:
No ertj in tha State of half the popu
lation of Atlanta, has so small a police
force as is now proposed for Atlanta.
No city pays its police less than $2 50
per day.
No city in tho State has so cold a cli
mate or such ragged and miserable
streets during the winter season.
No city has enlarged so rapidly in pop
ulation and extent, during the several
years that have succeeded the war, and
hence there is
hlo city which requires more arduous
service or harder endurance on the part
of the police than Atlanta.
Now, if it is expected that the mem
bers of the police force do their duty,
we insist that tho small pay of $2 50 per
day is compensation none too great.
While our respected city Fathers, and
the rest of our citizens arejsnoozing com
fortably, free from fear of harm these
bitter nights, the police have to endure
the inclemency of the weather outdoors,
in guarding their property and their
rest! %
Is this reduction of tha pay for their
bard service fair, we ask ? Is it an act of
humanity ?
GEORGIA StENATORSIlIP.
J.V JiTROCIOUV JnURnJBR.
Prom tho Atlanta ConstituUon, 25th December, 1872.
Important Correspondence on the TT. S.
Senatorsliip.—Letter from Hon. Her.
scliel V. Johnson in Kcply to State
Scnfttor Cain and Olliers.
Louisville, Ga., December 6th, 1872.
Eon. E. V. Johnson, Sandy Grove.
Jeffeison County, Ga: Deak Sib.--The
Senatorial election, so important to the
wel aio of Georgia, seems to be creating
it growing interest in the public mind,
aud among many others, your name is
extensively mentioned in that con
nection. Nearly two months ago
we addressed yon a note on the
subject. Your reply was private,
and we did not feel at liberty td make
itpnblic. We respectfully submit that
it is due to yourself, as well as to the
people of Georgia that yon should per
mit us to publish tha letter referred to.
or in any other way agreeable to you to
make known your position relative to
the Senatorship.
Please permit us to publish your reply
to this. Very truly, your fr.ends.
J. G. Cain,
M. A. Evans, „
.James Stapleton,
Latest Phase of Crime in the District ot
Colombia.
Sandy Grove, Jefferson Co., )
December 7, 1872. j
Messrs. J. G. Cain, M. A. Evans, and
James Stapleton, Jefferson county, Ga.:—
Dear Sirs: I am in receipt of your
first note of the 6th iast., relative to my
position touching the Senatorship. In
reply I state briefly, that my position is
the same as indicated to you in my let
ter of the 18th of October, to
which you allude. In that letter I stated
to you that I had no desire to be a can
didate. This is still my feeling. There
are many others who I understand are
candidates and earnestly desiring to be
elected. I do not wish to antagonize
them, or any one of them, from whom
the General Assembly can make a selec
tion, as able and worthy, if not more so,
than I am. Recognizing, however, the
right of the State to require my sei vices,
and the correlative duty on my part to
obey hi • behest, if the General Assembly
should lender mo the Senatorship, 1
should .ecept it.
Your obd’t servant and friend,
Hekschel Y. Johnson.
TUB JPJBS8UJSZVJS JPISTO:
Erom tlio Tribune.
Washington, December 26. — The
latest murder in this city, that of the
Polish peddler Rogerski on Monday
night, is one of the most atrocious and
cold-blooded on record. The murderer,
who was arrested last evening, is a noto
rious colored rough, Tom Wright, who
resides in an old house soutL of Pennsyl
vania avenue, and about 100 feet from
any other building.
It seems that Rogerski, who was in the
habit of visiting that neighborhood to
sell cheap laces and fancy goods, carried
with him about $100 iu money, and v<a?
expected on Monday night. Wright, on
Friday last, asked his mistress who lived
with him when she expected the peddler
again. On being informed, he said that
he was going to rob him and get some
Christmas money. ^The woman Marga
ret says that the peddler came early in
the evening, and that she left him with
Jilted Girl Belxlnd It—Idyl of Rennie
ilupps and Ills Oigcrted Louise.
A New York paper says: For several
months Benjamin Hupps, of Katonah,
Westchester county, has courted Miss
Louise Conklin,' of. the same village.
Benjamin is about 21, and Louiso is 18.
About two months ago young Hupps en
gaged himself to Mr. Wm. Barrett, of
White Plains, as clerk. While there the
smiling face and elegant manners of Miss
Maggie Carroll won the attention of the
fickle Benjamin, and he gradually for
sook his Katonah love,
Benjamin, accompanied by his new
sweetheart, visited Katonah one Sunday,
and took special pains that Miss Conk
lin should see him riding with Maggie.
BeDj tmin met her on the street and re
fused to recognize her. On Tuesday
night. Miss Conklin journeyed to White
Plains, and on Wednesday morning sho
called Benjamin out of the saloon. Soon
after, Mr. Barrett’s attention was at
tracted by a commotion in the street.
SOUTHERN NEWS
Called from Exchanges.
TEXAS. $
—The banjoist and medicine
boring Waco.
—Col
e s circus humbugged the \r„
ites out of 554,000. ’ at -*
ex<
®edj
— -The Houston Union's steam
prints 2,000 papers per hour. *****
— The cotton crop ot Texas
300,000 bales this year.
— A coal mine has been
twelve miles south of Sherman.
—Senator Broughton is lyin', dan
ousiy sick at Sherman. " ° ^" r1
discovery
Wright while she went down the street says that Miss Conklin held Benja-
to make a call upon a washerwoman. mm . the col \*}' *»«; W* and
When she came Lome she found Tom presenting a pistol with the other, gave
engaged in washing up the'floor. On the terrified lover tho alternative oi for-
asking him what he had done, he said ^ing Maggie or permanently reposing
that he had “killed that d—d Dutch ped- in .“J® church-iyariu.
dler and put him in a closet under the * b c ]° anything—-you say, staxn-
stairs.” mered the ycutb, “only please don t
After dark, she says inrther, he took sb ° ot *” lbs kneCs knocked together
the straps from Rogerski** pack, fastened ^
them about the neck aud legs of the 1 ™
-A young white lady eloped W
Brenham with a negro a few day3 jJ/" 1
—A $20,000 bridge is to be put aern
the Brazos liver near Hempstead. 0S5
—The wife of Jacob Self was bm-vo
to death m Parker connty a few ^
—A man was run over and killedV-
train of cars ou the Central DotW
other day. L ’«»
figy* A portion of the one hundred
citizens, composing the delegation sent
on to Washington to r -present the Lou
isiana affair, was in the cicy yesterday,
en route for horns.
They were very severe in their denun
ciations of the turn affairs had taken, al
leging tho eatire overtnrow of the State
Government, without v/omuis or author
ity of law, aud that the Radical faction
of Louisiana has swept av/av the elective
franchise; that cue Radical State ticket
A Voice from Pennsylvania.
[The following complimentary notice
of Mr. Stephens we clip from the West
chester (Pa.) Jeffersonian, one of the
ablest Democratic journals of the “Key
stone State.” It appeared in that paper
on the 21st instant:
W,ill you marry me ?” inquired the
young lady.
“Yes, yes, I’ll marry or not, just as
you line, but please don’t shoot.
Mr. Barrett separated the couple, and
Benjamin ran into the saloon and hid
under the stairway. Mr. Barrett de-
mar ded an explanation fiom the young
lady. She said that Benjamin and her-
fess nothing, merely saying that he was I s «; lf !l atl been aud sbe dld
bad enough, but not bad enough to kill ak ? Benjamin’s idea ot courting another
or rob. Margaret was more talkative, f* 1 shewing (Louise) such dis
and said she was not present at the time re ®P ec V' . , ,
of the murder, but confessed that Tom , Benjamin denied that he had ever ex-
committed the act wide sho was absent, b^ted any special friendship forLouise,
and that she came home and found wbat andsaid * act [hat had regarded her as
had been done, and that tho goods be-1 a lrieml aad nothing more,
body and carri'-d it oat upon the com
mon, where it was soon after discovered.
Tne j olice, who had been working up
the case since Monoay night, visited the
Wright’s house last evening aad arrested
him, his mistress, a boy who lived with
them, aud a boarder. Tom denied all
knowledge of the deed, and would con-
HON. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
This distinguished Southern statesman
is a prominent candidate for United
States Senator from Georgia. We hope
the people of his native State may dC
themselves tlie honor of electing him.—
It would be a jnst tribute to an able man,
who has served them long and well. Mr.
Stephens is truly a representative man
of his section, and if elected would faith
fully represent the South, which for
years pas* has been so sadly and wickedly
has boon declared elected, placed in j misrepresented iu the Federal legislative
powor, and this, too, by a Radical State
Board having no official votes whatever
before them; . that the Executive
ana Legislative Departments of the
State nave been usurped, and members
of the Legislature declared elected who
were not even candidates before; that
this Legislature, formed of pliaule ma
terial, was used as the instrument to im
peach Governor Warmoth, and that its
action was ' justified by a decree of the
Judge of tlie Federal Court, who, by
■order, declared the bogus government
valid, thus overriding all State laws,
Tho State Courts, considered hereto
fore as competent authority, hud been
invoked. Tutir verdict sustained the
part of the true law, true government
and order; but its decrees were ignored
by tho power of Radical usurpation and
Federal bayonets.
halls. Ho would, besides, be an orna
ment to the Senate, wkere there is now
sneb an array of medium talent, and his
Ability and thorough knowledge ot the
principles and working of our govern
ment would enable him to command the
attention and respect of both that body
anti tho whole country.
E : s physical infirmities fer years past
have been such as to prevent his leaving
home, but he has so far recovered as to
be able to visit Atlanta a few weeks since,
and has promised ere long to address the
citizens of that place npon the political
situation ot the day and our future pros
pects. His political disabilities having
uei. n removed and his health improved,
he should by all means be sent to the
Uuited States Senate.
JS3?“ It is .estmmioii tnat tne recent
Hoods have damage Polk couuty over
$200,000. Bridges, mills, fences and
dams have all been washed away,
“drummer,” who is just from there, re
porta that on ono place he saw a bale oi
•ootton washed oat from the screw and
-swept away, together with the whole
•machinery. The big erqek near Cedar
Town, is biwher than ever known before
to
A recent estimate makes a total
of 7,000,000 bales of cotton, valued at
$400,000,000 in_gold, now consumed in
Europe and ik United States. By the
processes of manufacture, this raw ma
tonal is increased at least six per cent, in
value, leaving a given total of $200,000,
000 over and above tho original cost ol
production, to be divided among the
fiddle men.
Sayaanak Republican says
Mr. Stephens views, expressed in his latt
speech on the unconstitutional amend
ments, strikes as more than “twice told
Liles ’’
We kayo known dull children who had
to be told tale s half a dozen times, and
some times*lir.vo them switched too. ano
tched too, and
still they woulJn’t understand. Viae the
Republican,
The Secret.
From the Belton (Texas) Journal.
The New York Tribune of November
6th contained an editorial which gives
us a little insight into the political his
tory of this country. Ever since 1824,
says the Tribune, the party that has car
ried two of the three great States of
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiara, iu the
October elections, has invariably elected
the President in November.
The Democratic party had control of
a’l three of these States before the Octo
ber elections, and the leading men in
the Radical party saw the hand-writing
on the wall and* knew that their over
throw was inevitable unless something
could be done to avert the blow. This
is the seciet of the New Departure poiicy
and the Greeley movement-, which were
intended to poison the Democratic
party — to accomplish in an under
handed way wbat could not have
been done in a fair and manly con
test. These conspirators succeeded in
their designs, aud hence the monopolists
continue to swindle the people out of a
billion dollars per annum through the
protective tariff policy; the bondholders
get a hundred and twenty-five million
dol'ars in gold per annum as interest on
the bonds, when the bonds themselves
ought to be paid o.l immediately in
greenbacks in accordance with the con
tract with the bondholders at the time
the bonds were issued; tha men who
own and control the National Banks oper
ate with a capital which is not subject
to taxation and bear none of the bur
dens of tne Government; and soulless and
heartless railroad corporations will con
tinue to lake advantage of the corrup
tion of a Radical Congress to obtain nn
conscionable subsidies from the Govern
ment both in land and money. No won
der that capitalists are opposed to a
change in the administration. They
know that the success of the Democratic
party would result in the overthrow of
monopolies, the downfall of the national
-banking system, the payment of the
bonds in greenbacks, and a stern
refusal to subsidize corporations
for any purpose. Hence capital has been
nsed and will be used to perpetuate the
power of the Radical party. Newspapers
and public men have been and will be
corrupted and bribed to worship the
golden calf. Everything will be done
that can be done to cause dissension in
the Democratic party. And therefore
we would imoress upon the minds of the
people the doctrine of the “safety of
distrust.” Let us put no confidence in
those who do not belong to our political
household and show their faith by their
works.
After a little more sparring across the
oom, Miss Conklin departed anu mailed
the following letter to Mrs. Barrett, to
establish the validity of her claims on
Benjamin. It was addressed to Miss
Louise Conklin:
White Plains, October 26, 1871.
My Dearest Girl: Bennie takes
this time to Pen You a few Lines to Let
longing to'tho peddler were concealed in
.s shed in the rear of the premises.
After a thorough search the peddlar’s
pack, containing all his goods, was found
juried aoout three feet deepiu the shed.
Ihe hatches with which the murder was
committed was found under the bed.
Marks of blood were found on tho door
aud on tho wall aud in the closet where , , r . _ „ . ^ _
tbo body had been placed. Tho floor iou ™ how 1 am ^ el i a ‘ ? XCe P;
had been carefully washed, but on re . won X have a vety Bad Cold and I can t
mo.iug some of the bncks of the heartu bartb y ®P eak ' ® ear £olhe I would
they were found to be stained with blood. kke See you now her Bennie tombs
On Tuesday following the discovery of maak ot you my Dear Dollie Pet,
the body the officers went through this 0h lfc se , fcms to „ m ® tj be ve ^ Lon f
bouse aud into the closet described, but £ am ll dovv T r } be . re ad my Dear pet.
as it was a very dark corner the marks of B ear Dol.ie, My Dear I have been all
blood were not discovered at that time, *7“? to t , l »y Boss om,
aud Wright offered to assist the detec-1 can’t malce it out but I am Going
live in upturning everything in the B've it Hopes if I die in Despair,
house, and afterward askedif he was sat- ^ Dear Doll if Bennie had you down
isfied. During the search about the I hear i W0I l ld sneeze you bait To Deatli.
f'm* llinnfl m-jrL'a r Pnm WOS ]
g ev I To-dav is Friday but wait untill more
—The editor of the Quitman V. ..
Mr. Hogg, has rooted up a five nomj
turnip. e ™
—A man had his pocket split and
extracted, in broad day‘light last vJ-
in Sherman. *>
—DenisoD is within 32 l ours run 0 f
St. Louis by rail, and 32 seconds by \a
egraph.
—It takes only $5 25 to ship a baler*
rotten from McKinney to New York bv
way of Galveston. ’ ™
—Mose Eurlev and two other taen
were arrested in Erath county a feweb-a
•imo Ivnoiiin>» n man *
among th^ rest, with a bold front.
eral circumstances in connection with
this murder suggest important questions
of social science. No less than 14 mur
ders have been committed within the
District of Columbia during the current
year. Three executions have taken place
within the past six weeks, and another
is appointed for an early day next
month. Wright, the latest murderer,
week and 1 one more day rolls By, then
Bennie will see Ms dear Dollie Pet sweete
Girl I Bet I will my Dear Dollie Sugar.
“Bennie Hupps, ) This is our name
Louise Hupps, J my dear
Bennie.”
Hupps has left White Plains. He
failed to leave his address with Mr. Bar
rett.
has been greatly interested in all the Harder and suicide Dy an KugiisDman
lata murder trials, and was a witness of !
two of the three recent executions.
Tragic Affair in Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford Falcon, 20th.
Between 3 and 4 o’clock r. m„ last,. . , . . „ .
Saturday, we were toid that shooting in E^° at, ^ a R , ® al .aAMr whichtookplace
i , i j , ° I in tltA l/iilo fvl o umnft I a tiitoiilh n/v i« fhn
was heard down the street, and rumor
at Naples
A Neapolitan correspondent of the Pali
Mall Gazette, writing on the 31st inst-.,
says: “Yestefday, at about 11 a. ai., the
whole quarter of the Riviera di Chin j a
was thrown into violent commotion, ow-
in the Villa Nazionale, rssultiug in the
death of Miss Ada Schiassi and of Mr. J.
H. Gordon. Mr. J. H. Gordon, for
merly of the British Indian Civil
Service, had been for some months
3cF“ It is the duty in the future of the
police to light the street lamps. It is
likewise his duty to atrest and take to
the station house, offenders against the
city laws. We will suppose a policeman
engaged in lighting the lamps away out
in Frank Rice’s^, neighborhood, when
some drunken rowdies rowing demand
his escort to the calaboose. Which shall
policeman do — continue lighting the
lamps or arrest the law-breakers ? If the
latter, who will light the lamps ? If the
iormer, who will volunteer to act as
guard over the arrested ? Will Frank
rise and exnlain ?
The Eighth. Congressional District.
Mb. Editor: The death oi General
Wright renders necessary another elec
tion in this (the Eighth) Congressional
District, to fill his place. We want a
man of courage, intellect and integrity.
No man in the district has these quali
ties combined in a higher degree than
Capt. John C. Reid, of Lexington, Ga.
He served with honor and distinction
:s an officer in the EigJfh Georgia Regi
ment during the entire war. Since its
. lose ho .has risen rapidly iu his profes
sion—the law—until he "is the peer of
almost any lawyer in either of the three
circuits in which he practices — the
Northern, Western and Ocmulgee. Po
utiealiv he has been the bold, uncom-
; romising enemy of Radicalism where
ever he fonnd it. Diet the people nomi
nate ard elect him. They can’t find a
better man. - 8essx*
said a man had been killed. We went
over to the Mayor’s office, where we
found the city marshal with a man in
custody, and asked for information,,,. . . .. . , , . , _ T
whereupon the prisoner drew a heavy bv [ n S. a ^ ^ b ® ^B^nsion Auglaise, No.
(six-shooter, flourished it in the air, and 1M Riviera di Chiaja, kept by Mme. Sclu
told us he did the shooting and we 1X8S1 - Among the four daughters of Mm
would find his victim at tho house of Schiassi were Ada and Louisa, (twins.)
Vosiiij, near the negro church. We, in Some time a 8° Mr - Gordon became at-
compuny with a friend, were not many teched to Ada, and proposed to marry
mirotasin reaching the house, and oh, ,,er » but tbe offer was re-used by the
ho what a spectacle! There lay I mother, as the young lady was already
weltering in his own gore a human i en 6 a 8 ed 1° a naval officer, Since then,
being, whose shirt, breeches, bed ana Mr. Gordon (who was about fifty year*
bedding was so thoroughly saturated, ot tagemm a widower) thought fit to an-
that the whole presented one clotted n °y Miss Schiassi wita his attentions to
mat of blood, the terrible, revolting such an txfc ®nt that the mother was
sight of which we hope never again to ° bil 8 ed to request him to change his
see . quarters as soon as possible. This seems
Upon inquiry we learned that the to have g rieved Mr. Gordon very much,
dying man, “Billy” Long, from Attala, and to bav ? ? aused bim , to commit the
was a boarder at Voahay’s and the mur- cnme of which you have heard. Yester-
deter, one J. D. Whittaker, of Alcorn da y. mornin S» • ab out 10}, the twins,
county, although forbidden the house, Louisa and Ada Schiassi, went to the
Uad called, and Long having assessed gardens of tha Villa Naztonale for
damages to the amount of one dollar ou \ heir usual “orning walk, where
Whittaker for breaking the mainspring tbe y were , m T et . b y ^ Ir - Gordon,
of his pistol, they became involved in a wbo accosted Louisa and asked her
quarrel, when toe latter drew his six- ^ tbe y Wlshed L to S et * ld ° f hl “> aU!l
snooter and shot the former down, there aki ° [ be reaso “ .why her sieter Ada rc
in the house in the midst of all its in- * * used *-° entertain his sui-.
Marriages.
ago, for lynching a man.
—Cotton is arriving at Jefferson at
the rate of 250 bales per day, and coins
off at 12 acd 14 cents.
—The Conference Si the African
Methodist Church was in session at
Houston last week—some thirty minis,
ters present.
—Horse stealing is on the increasik
Grayson county. Three fine horses were
stolen from the city of Sherman a few
nights ago.
—A passenger hack be) ween Paris and
Boggy Depot was the other day over
taken by fire in the prairie, and theteam
considerably scorched.
—It is said the laud owners at Fort
Worth eacU carry a pointed stick in his
hand all day, to mark iu the sandauda-
plain the localities of his various tracts.
—A man full ot benzine laid him dovm
to sleep in the streets of Sherman last
week, aud woke minus his watch and
pocket book.
—The Gainsville Gazelle saystke fron
tier people are iu favor of the fence law
that our next Legislature is going to en
act.
— Tbe Texas Pacific Railroad Compa
ny has effected a loan of sixey-tkree mil
lion iu Europe, and engaged” 15,000men
to work on the road.
— Robert Rudolph, a printer iaitht
Enquirer office at McKinney, and a son
of Rev. R. M. Rudolph, -has the small
pox.
— One of our cotemporaries lias a
man in its town who is so bow-legged
his pants have to be cut out with a circu
lar saw. '
—A somewhat fuddled individnal call
ed at a drug store in Paris the other day
j and inquired for a bottle of Mrs. Sooth-
low’s Wmsiing.
—Last week as 'the jailer went into
feed the prisoners at Sulpher Springs,
they rushed out over him and escaped.—
Joe Parker, tho murderer, is among the
escaped.
—A tornado passed over the South
eastern portion of Cherokee :ountjr on
the 27th ult., tearing down timbei fences
and houses. Several persons were fieri
ousiy injured.
—Four robbers entered the office of
the banker at Denison last week, and
drawing their shot guns, made the cash
ier “shell out” $809, all the money he
had. They then mounted their horses
aad rode away.
VIRGINIA.
—Wytheville has a steiyn lire engine.
—The Directors of the Commercial
Bunk of Suffolk have elected Judge T.
S. Garnett cashier.
—A colored boy named John Hol
combe, aged 19 years, was found dead
Tuursday morning iu Lynchburg.
An old colored woman, known as
Aunt Cely, said <.o be nearly one hun
dred years old, was burned to death on
Tuesday evening, on the lot of Hu-
Woodward ui Suffolk.
Oa her re-
From the line of the Georgia Railroad
are reported the following:
— At the residence of Jndge V. M.
Barnes, the bride’s father, on Wednes
day, 18th instant, bv Rev. Thomas B,
West, Mr. R. H. Pearce to Miss Mary
H. Barnes, all of McDuffie county,
— At the residence of the bride’s
brother, Mr. John R. Farr, on Tuesday,
December 24th, instant, Mr. Peter Jenk
ins to Miss Mollie Farr.
—In Thompson, Tuesday, D°c. 24th,
inst., by the Rev. J. S. Jones, Mr. Henry
Scott and Miss Ann E. Collins, all of Mc
Duffie county.
—At the residence of Wm. EL John
son, Esq., on
inst., by Rev,
George \Y. Rogers, of Jefferson county,
to Miss Arabella Johnson, of McDuffie
county.
—At the M. E. Church, on Tuesday
morning, 10th inst., by Rev. R. W.
Hubert, Mr. J. L. Cox, of Tennessee,
and Mrs. Atm D. Wallace, of Warrenton.
—At the Methodist Parsonage, on the
morning of the 10th inst., by the bride’s
father, Rev. W. F. Smith, Mr. Willie H.
Latimer and Miss Hattie E. Smith, all of
Warrenton.
mates. Whittaker thfin started for the fusin S to , . liate * to m h ®S
gate and Long having managed to reach aPP^hmg Ada, commenced upbraid-
the door while Whittaker was yet in the ber ’S I? sliTwnvauf
yard, several shots were exchanged,some
of those fired by Whittaker passing
through tne window where Mrs.
Voshay, another female, a child,
and perhaps others had gathered,
Fortunately none were hit save Long,
who received a ball in the arm, one in
her to follow him, whica she naturally
refused to do, upon wnich he, stepping
back a couple of paces, pulled a revolver
from his pocket, and firing two shots at
Ada, which entered her back, turned the
revolver upon himself, fired two other
ebots and fell down a corpse. The po-
the thigh and another in the groin-the I ! lce c f ro ?; d J ere
latter nassimr tor on ah the lower bowels, immediately on the spot, but all efforts
were useless, as both the assassin and his
victim were dead. At the in
quest this morning Ada was found
to have been shot through the
In Gordon’s case death was
latter passing tnrough the lower bowels,
wnich coupled with the copious hemor
rhages of other wounas, of course pro
duced death.
They were both retained Ku-Klux wit-1 {Y /*
nesses in attendance upon the Feder- \ a - eflta ™
alConrt-here.no doubt, to swear 1 sh ° ts h * vw 8 c ° m
muww it iu. jul. uvuu-v away the liberties oi some of our worthy se I ered * b 3 ao f ta * Gn Gordon
Thursday evening, 19th citizens. But, Whitaker is in jail, and I a good watch, Albert oham
■. James S. Jones, Mr. Long is in—the ground ! “Vengeance IT' 1 . 8mab g°M wmstle, and locket con-
is mine, sayeth the Lord,” and we leave ! a . m i n £> a Portrait, supposed to be that of
them where they are, and tarn from the . 1S , \ a ! e w “ e > 011 lbe little finger of his
sickeniDg subject with mingled feelings PS^t hand an onyx signet ring wit a his
of horror and disgust. I mttasb, T. H. G., and inside the gold of
the ring were the words ‘Sophie,* Oct,
Tragic Death, of a Ktnmcky Bcaaty
Louisville, December 23.—A special
dispatch to the Courier-Journal says: In
Owensboro, Ky., to-day Miss Amelia Pe-
gram, daughter of W. B. Pegram, acci
dentally shat herself through the' heart
with a pistol. The young lady was wide
ly noted for her beauty, amiability and
intelligence, and was engaged to be mar
ried in two weeks to Mr. Weir, eon of
the President of the Owensboro, and
Russellville Railroad.
—A woman in Leavenworth, Kansas,
has brought a suit to recover $100,000 for
for the murder of her husband. Hus
bands are a commodity whose value it is
hard for any jury to fix, since the owners
thereof place a wholly fictitious price
npon them. Some are eager to get rid
of them for a merely nomirfil sums
while others profess to hold them above
all value. As the Kansrs woman’s own
price for her’s is $100,000, the jury might
safely allow her one-tenth of that sum.
»-•-«
Mr. Gladstone, the British Pre
mier, finds time amid the cares of office
to daily read and relish Homer.
Mr. James Alexander Henderson,
proprietor of tue Keics Letter, hi a been
elected Mayor of Belfast, Ireland.
—, 1866; a parse containing 375 francs
in paper, three sous in bronze, and one
silver sixpence. Gordon had taken the
precaution to destroy all papers which
might lead to his identification, and it
was only through hi3 bankers that the
authorities have been able to find out
anything about him.”
—Rev. Di. Buck is traveling ever the
State as Git-od Lecturer for the Gooi
Templar*.
—The E’lt tula Times says the rush of j
emigration n-orn toat region on to Texas |#
still continues.
—Montf-ouery, on theco&l question, [j
is iu a coi.viuLui similar to Selma. There
is none ther v -or sale.
—Selma pays $10 per ton for coal, and
has a very scant supply at that Tis
Times thinks a good opening for a per
son willing to go into i he coai trade on a
large scale is presented there.
—There was a rumor afloat in Selma a
few days ago that a petition to place tee
Selmu, Rome & Dalton Railroad mtc
bankruptcy trad been filed at Montgom
ery, and tnat Jndge Bnsteed would hem
the case on the 27th inst.
— Providence hasn’t yet done afflict
ing the Massachusetts people. Right
alter the Boston fire comes the announce
ment that Beast Butler is to be the next
Governor of that State.
JS&“Maria Horga, the “Chamber Ghost,”
has been sent to jail for a year on a charge
of petit larceny.
^ En-
The Bishop of Litchfield,
laud, has been “down in a coal mine”
holding a religious service.
NORTH CAROLINA.
—Halifax has married 30 couples this
December.
—The Roanoke was rising rapuR!
Wednesday morning. u x..!
— Mr. George Williams, Raleigh, ^
married in Warrenton, Monday, ®
daughter of the Rev. Turner M.
President of the Warrenton Female uoi
lege. • ,
— Mr. R. W. Daniel showed tlm '\ ei ‘
don News a freak of nature on yesteraa^
in the shape of two sweet potatoes, cu
of which had grown through the c *
in such away as to form an exactly u-
ting collar.
—Mr. A. J. Partin will manage tue
National Hotel in Raleigh.
—Mr. John C. Smye, late of
nut his tjilrAn nnmtinn on the St.UI
tinel, has taken a position on tin
the Raleigh News.
—Murders, robberies and house bun^
ings are becoming ulurmiugly f re fl
in Halifax county. . .
—Vessels on the Sound aud B 1 -®
Swamp Canal have been disabled o
count of tlie severe freezing weather.