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THE ATLANTA SUN
From The Pally Sun of January 5 , 1873.
CHAT WITH STATE PAPERS.
Bomb has been entertained by a $500
fire.
Mr. O’Neal, of Decatur county, is
dead.
Mbs. E. M. Clark and Mr. It. L.
Hunter, of Coweta county, are dead.
Judge J. K. Harman, of Macon, fell,
and sustained some severe injuries.
The Tournament Ball, at Savannah, is
pronounced “ the thing" by Harris.
A negro had his throat cut at the cir
cus in Columbus on the 31st.
The Columbus folks are agitating the
subject of closing barber shops on Sun
days.
The Covington .E’/i'erprisehusaBrosd-
At« Colamn—which is broad enough
sometimes.
The Savannah Republican says: “The
Flint river is much swollen.” How like
DeLeon's head!
Alfred Cherry in Savannali, beat his
little cherry dailiDg so that the officers
had to interfere.
Colonel Parker has presented the
editor of the Dawson Journal with a
“rooster” turkey, for which Weston gob
bles out his thanks.
Caft. John A. Roberts, of the Sa
vannah Fire Department, has resigned.
Itis said that Head-light Harris, of the
News, scared him off.
‘It is currently reported that Mr. Wil
liam BrowniDg, a well known citizen of
Homasville, was fonnd dead in bed on
Sunday morning.
The editor oi the Covington Enter
prise makes the observation that the slop
and mud around the town pumps com
pel the gals in black face* t:> hoist their
coats as they “go bobbing around.”
The editor of the Bainbridge Sun, who
belongs to the Johnson lamily, enter
tained his friends at a banquet, at which
the beauty and chivalry of that town
was tepresented. - \
Terrell county is to be governed by
the following officers: Ordiuary, W. G.
Parks; Clerk Superior Court, J. F.
Clarke; Sheriff, C. C. Brown; Tax Re
ceiver, J. W. Reddick; Tax Collector,
W. E. Sessions; County Treasurer, Wil
liam 11. Baldwin; Surveyor, J. H. Laing;
Coroner, John Daniel.
Mr. J. C. Kinsley, well known in this
community, was shot on Saturday right
by Mr. John Williamson, atempory resi
dent of Tockwottou. The weapon used
was a shot gun, loaded with buckshot.
The load took effect in the back, striking
the backbone, and may prove fatal.—
Southern Enterprise.
The Savannah News gives the following
as an exhibit of business at that port for
the month of December: Number cf ar
rivals, 130, representing 65,122 tons;
Hum' er of clearances, 5'J, representing
63,747 tons. Exports—Cotton, upland,
90,962 bales; sea island, 1,319; total,
101,279; lumber, 4,453,099 feet; timber,
301,000 feet; Btaves, 89,142; shingles,
26,000, and various merchandise. There
are now in port 2 steamers, 17 ships, 26
barks, 10 brigs and 32 schooners, making
a total of 87 vessels.
The Macon Enterprise thus recounts
an election incident: We learn that on
election day, last Wednesday, an unfor
tunate affray occurred at Irwinton, the
oounty town of Wilkinson. Our inform
ant states that the election for county
officers was being held, and it had pro
gressed quietly up to four o’clock iu the
afternoon when a quarrel occurred be
tween T. Etheridge, Jack Cross and.C. C.
Porter, which resulted in a fight. ‘ Eth
eridge struck Cross on the nead with a
heavy stick, fracturing his skull and
producing what was considered a mor
tal wound. He then struok Porter and
hurt him seriously. At last accounts
Cross was reported to be dying bat it
was thought Porter would reaver.
jcev* rMAicJU’/aA’s,
The Bible.
Wo have upon our table a publication
of the Bibll with the following an
nouncement :
THE PICTORIAL HOME BIBLE—Devotional and
Explanatory—containing the Old and Naw Testa
ments, with Apocrypha, Concordance and Mirginal
Beferenoea. The text conformable to the standard
of the American Bible Society: Trsnrlated out of
the original tongues, and with the former trans
lations diligenUy compared and revised, with
Companion Articles, written especially for this
edition, and founded on the Standard Evangelical
Authorities—the whole forming a popular Cyclo
pedia explanatory of the Scriptures. The Holy
Bible and its history, analysis of the Bible, books
of the old and new Testaments, Bibl# animals,
trees, plants, flowers and fruita of Sciluture,
Eastern manners and cuttoms, the forty years’
wanderings, Jewish worship, idols and idolatry
of the ancients, countries and nationa of the
Bible, the Holy Land, the city and environs of
Jerusalem, historical connection of the Old and
New Testaments, Bible prophecies SDd their ful
filments, Immanuel our Lord Jesus Christ, Mis
sionary travels of the Apostle Paul, the Bibre In
historical order, symbolical language of Scripture,
chronological index to the Holy Bible, key to
antiquated worda of Scripture, Jewish weights,
measures, etc.: By M. Laos Simons, editor of
<■ D’Aubigne’s History of the Great Reformation,”
People’s Edition, etc., with over three hum
dred Illustrative engravings on steel, wood and in
colors; sold by subscription only: Published by
William Flint A Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Cin
cinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga., and Springfield, Mass
Horace King, Thompsonville, Conn.; Watson Gill,
^Syracuse, New York; J. B. Stewart, New Castle.
Penn.: 1872.
We have examined this work, and
commend it to the public. We see that
Rev. Drs. SHaver, Harrison, and War
ren, of Atlanta; Rev. Drs. Williams, of
Greenville, S. C., and Birch, of the
LaGrange Female College; besides,
number of other clergymen of different
Christian Denominations, have given it
a like commendation.
‘•'1 HE HISTORICAL SOUVENIRS of MARTIN LIT
THER; by Charles W. Hubnkb,”
Is the title of a new work just issued
from the press. We have not had an
opportunity to give it more than a cur
sory glance. Everything, however, re
lating to the life of this most remarkable
man, cannot fail to interest the general
reader, withe it any reference to his pe
culiar religiotui views.
This contriiration to the literature of
tne country is the more interesting to ns
from the fact that it is the product of
a Southern pen. We hail with pleasure
every effort in the “field of letters” put
forth in the “land we love.”
This work is on sale at Phillips
Crew’s, in this city.
A. H. S.
Immigration from Georgia-
There is no feature in the affairs of
Georgia to be more deplored than the
great immigration from the State. It is
on so great a scale as to be a matter of
alarm. Our people are leaving by fami
lies, by the score and by the hundred.—
Nearly every train of cars leaving
the direction of the West, from
Georgia, are freighted with the “bone
and sinew” of this old Commonwealth.
Some go to Texas, some to Arkansas and
even some to the higher latitudes of the
West.
Why is this ? Is it the better induce
ments offered in the more productive
land3 at low prices in those States ? Is
there bo remedy by which this rapid re
duction of onr population may be arrest
ed ? Are there no inducements that will
keep our people in the State ? These
are serious questions, greatly affecting
the vital interests of Georgia. Our pop
ulation is leaving us, and onr State is
thereby becoming poorer.
After the late war, many of our peo
pie, inspired by the hope, of bettering
their foitune.-, invested largely
in the latest improvements
in farmiue implements ;:i*u »n fer
tilizers. IuBttnd of eircuuiseninng their
operations within reasonably bounds,
thousands of them nttempte i too much
and thus over-reached :it* ves and
have been reduced to p. vi i’y and hope
lessness. Now, they ar*> ov hundreds,
looking to and going West rs the Eldo
rado of their hopes.
If our people—we mean those of lim
ited means—would cultivate smaller
farms, using the improved agricultural
implements and the best fertilizers, only
to the ’imit of their means, we are cer
tain that their condition would be great
ly improved and they would become con
tent to remain in their native State.
Small and well-tilled farms are yet to
constitute the agricultural prosperity of
Georgia and the happiness and content
ment of the people. Thus we may re
tain and increase our population and
promote and strengthen the resources of
the State.
—
Captain \V. T. Newman.
The re-election of Captain Newman
by the new Council as City Attorney, is
a compliment worthily bestowed, as we
believe. The Captain is au energetic
and faithful officer, and we congratulate
him upon his re-election.
The Pint White Woman to A«rendtt>e
Mlnomri—The Story ot the FlrstSe t_
tlement of Kimu City — A Three
Month* Voyage In a Flat-Boat Sev
enty-Five Tears Ago—An Interesting
Reminiscence.
From the City Times.
There are many unwritten incidents
directly connected with the history of
Western Missouri, which, if collected
and properly recorded, would form a
volume of historical reminiscences equal
ly as interesting as those associated with
and growing out of the early settlement
of Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky.
The early history of the “first white
settlement at the mouth ot the Kansas
river is nidden beneath such a veil of
romance and mystery that it is only by
a close and keen research among the few
remaining children of the early French
settlers that the incidents connected with
the earliest white settlements upon the
extreme frontiers of Missouri are biought
to light. These incidents, handed down
through three generations, have never
before been published, although there
are people residing in Kansas City to-day
who remember the incidents related.
F**r Persons Convicted of Murder by
n Pnper-Gan Wad.
from the Austin (Texas) Statesman.
Ben. Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ball
Woods and William Smith, were con
victed of mnrder in the first degree, in
Burnet oounty, this week, and sentenoed
by Judge Turner to be banged ou Friday,
the L5th of January next The piosecu-
tion was conducted by Judges Terrill and
Walker, employed by the friends of the
murdered man. The one was one of the
most interesting in the annals of criminal
trials, and the evidence, though conclu
sive, was entirely circnmstantial. Ben
MeKeever, the m lrdered man, was shot
from his hone at night near the resi
dence of the Shelbys, his throat cat, and
his body carried on horseback three
miles and thrown into a cave in the prai
rie 150 feet deep. A large rock was
placed on the bloody spot where his
throat was cut and apparently every
nrecantion was taken to avoid detection.
The appearance of the rock indicated to
the keen eye of the frontiersman that it
had been recently placed there. Close
by it was paper wadding that had been
fired from a shot-gun. On examining
the gnn of Ben. Shelby* paper wadding
was found in it, and anoiher piece of pa
per that bad evidently been fired from a
shot-gun was fonnd nnaei Shelby’s door
step. In his house * as fonnd
the Chimney Comer periodical, and
u was ascertained by compari-
son that the three pieces of gun-wadding
naa been torn from that paper. A small
McKeever’s coat, of peculiar
\bloody spo\ re-
other circunu Knees pointing to tLe ac
cused persons as the murderers, but oue
deserves especial mention. On cart full*
Placing the oaper found where the b ood
had been covered by the rock, aud com-
P?™?g with the wadding found in Ben.
Shelby’s gun, the following enigma could
be read from one paper to another:
"With piece of paper or a slate,
•_ At round the fire both Isr*- and small;
‘Wte^make, annual an eigut.
vw Jou sec what covers a'L"
La Grange Reporter and Mr. Htrptaeng
The mind of our friend of the Reporter
seems to be greatly confused in regard
to that portion of the late speech of' Mr.
Stephens, referring to the Louisiana
troubles. Taking the position of the
Macon Telegraph two weeks ago, on that
point, the Reporter proceeds in a strain
of arguments, to show that Mr. Stephens
is not to be trusted. Now, if the Macon
Tel/jraph had not predicated its remarks
upon mere rumor as to what Mr. Ste
phens did say in regard to the Louisiana
troubles, which have been since met with
successful refutation, the Reporter might
be excused for a wrong impression in re
gard to the subject. Men sometimes get
wrong ideas into their heads and
amount of reasoning or argument can
convince them that they are wrong.
The Reporter is somehow impressed
with the belief that Mr. Stephens
pressed some very unsound doctrine in
his speech; and toe reading and publica
tion of the speech in its own columns
does not convince it that what Mr.
Stephens did say meant nothing more
nor less than that he had no quarrel to
! make with President Grant, if he never
did anything worae than to see to it that
the decrees of the Federal Judiciary are
properly executed in any part of this
oonntry. The Reporter will remember
that the Louisiana troubles grew out of
powers claimed under the civil rights
bill, or some other one of the reconstruc
tion measures. The President is
bound to see that the decrees of
the Federal Judiciary, rendered
under existing laws, are properly
executed. He eannot change these de
crees, as his powers are only executive,
and not judicial. The bad laws growing
out of the reconstruction measures are
like all other bad laws, State or Federal.
They must be executed and endured
until repealed in the Constitutional mode.
We do not see that there can be any
thing unsound in a man’s desire to see
the lawB of the country executed in a
legal manner, however much we may
condemn those laws.
An exchange says that “it Terre
Haute maid of 13 is six feet and one inch
tall, and still on the rise.” She may at
tain her perfect bight and still be suscep
tible of getting on the rise.
We have received the number for
the current month, of Morton’s Monthly,
published at Louisville, Ky., by John P.
Morton & Co. It is a neatly printed and
well-filled magazine.
particular
Many papers are very
in having the word weekly in their head
ings; but, unfortunately, in maDy cases,
too often misspelt.
JssrBsl nt Telegraph.
We have received a copy of the second
number of the sixth volume of this in
teresting journal. In it appears an ably-
written defense of the Western Union
Te!egra[ h Company against the argu
ment of Postmaster General in favor of
the General Government taking charge
of the telegraph. The article in ques
tion is well writteu, by some one well
versed in the subject, and on both sides
of th° question, aa bia lucid explanations,
tables and calculations contained therein
show.
We regret the want of time and space
neoeeeary to reproducing some of the
most important paragraphs relating par
ticularly to the requirements of the sig
nal service bill and upon other points.
Many of onr exchanges come to
us in mourr fnl strains of the dying year.
Now, if they will dry up their tears,
they may rejoice in the birth of the New
Year.
Tile Constitution of the United States.
' From the Columbus Sun.
It is stated that the number of amend
ments to the Constitution of the United
States now pending in Congress will, if
adopted, make that document about
twicers large as it is at present.
We once read of an old clergyman who
always wore a pair of silk stockings. He
was poor, and practiced economy to such
an excess as to have his stockings darn
ed (not damned) with wool and cotton
so often that, at length, they lost their
original identity. The Constitution of
the United StateB will soon be darned
and damned, too, with patches, so that
the very fathers of it would disown their
dear offspring.
We see no necessity for all this trouble
and expense about amendments when the
President and Congress can do when and
what they please “outside of the Consti
tntion.” A celebrated English lawyer
once remarked he could drive a coach
and four thrr ugh a statute loosely framed
by Parliament. We could truly say after
the Badicals have done their flimsy patch
ing of the United States Constitution
that any drunken President and servile
Congress conid driye ail of John Robin
son'* elephants together with B imam’s
whales,tides and cows, through and around
it and never touched a thread of canvas.
It is already like the fairy’s gift which
coold be donbied up like a fau and then
be spread wide enough to shelter au ar
lay. Louisiana, Alabama aud Arkansas
now tell us with no .orked tongue and
iu plain language, that our Consti
tutions are the thinnest of all pa
per walls and can be pierced at any
Line with impunity by the sword. We
Live under a despotism and even the
forms of local government and a confed
erated representative Republic will per
ish with the spirit which alone is posessed
of hie aud strength.
t&C The Courier- JoumaT'a statement
that Mr. 8*ephena » year ego termed
J Liberalism “the «um cf nil Ridical in-
j fumit-s," is simply a bold, ...tk. tl uutrutl,
l and howevi-r Mr. cheptimis may L»v*
j condemned the mis aV*»o noiiey, neoould
not think it i*n infamy sneh^ts this mis-
; statement of tne Conrier-J-.u r U.
t&~ Tte press, type, aud material, be-
louging.to the late Herald, ot Chattanoo
ga, Governor B rd’s paper, is advertised
by the Sheriff of Hamilton county, for
sale on the' 18th instant, to satisfy an ex
ecution in favor of Cincinnati type-foun
ders. It consists of one printing press,
two imposing siu-oo, Thirteen composing
galleys, forty cases nud type, six boxes
containing sorts, one 'ot of e> r r s in pa
per, three ben“ng shoves, two s vt n-vo!-
nmn forms locked in chases, one bundle
of newspaper, and one lot of type.—
Nasheile Danner.
Withdraws.—lieu. Lucius .T. Gurtreii
withdraws fiO-u the race for U. S. SSen..-
fcor, in favor of Hmi. A. H. Stepum-,
wii **e election he adv.ioatea in a letter
viiK'U S..OW- .rue p..wiu'i8L> in..! UtaSclhsii
MADAME GRANDLOCIS.
There stood in the present channel of
the MifBonri river, opposite the junction
of Fifth and Bluff streets, twenty-five
years ago, a small rough log cabin. The
site of tbe cabin has leng since disappear
ed by the encroachments of the Missouri
river. The cabin was occupied at the
time mentioned (1847) by an old French
Creole woman named Madame Grand
louis, then about seventy years of age.
She was discovered by the present pastor
of St. Mary’s church, the Rev. Father
Donnelly, soon after his arrival at this
place in 1845. He visited her, and from
her learned the story of her first coming
to Jackson county, nearly fifty years be
fore, which must have been about 1798
or 1800. This woman was the first white
woman to ascend the Missouri river within
sight of the present sire of Kansas City.
CORDELLING THE MISSOURI IN A FLATBOAT.
Madame Grandlouis s story is full of
peculiar interest, and was told with that
simplicity and brevity so peculiar to tbe
early French settlers, who followed close
in the foot steps of the Jesuit mission
aries. She was a native of the French
settlements of St. Charles, and married
Monsieur Louis Grandlouis, when about
twenty or twenty-two years of age. Her
husband had heard of the new settle
ment made by the Chouteaus, who had
established a fur trade among the Kaw
Indians, near the mouth of the Kansas
rivpr. They determined to ascend the
Missouri river and join the new trading
post, and with that intention joined
party of voyageurs who were
about to ascend the river. Iu those
days steamboats were unheard of,
ana stage coaches and wagon roads un
known in Missouri. Tbe only way to
reach the Chouteau trading-post with a
family and stores was by means of flat
boats which must be propelled againBt
the stream by Bweeps and lopes drawn
by men upon tho bars and shores of the
river. The rope walking was called by
the voyagers cordelling. After three
months’ hard toil, varied by many ad
ventures and incidents, the party arrived
in sight of the present site of Kansas
city and landed at Randolph bluff in the
bend below the city.
JACKSON COUNTY IN 1778.
Madame Grandlouis described Jack-
son county at that period as the home
and hunting grounds of tbe Kaw Indi
ans, who claimed exclusive right
aud jurisdiction over the country
now incorporated in Layfayette,
Cass, Johnson and Jackson counties.
Their villages were located on the Little
Blue, which on account of the high, rank
grass found in its bottom lands and which
they used to cover their tepees or wig
wams they called C‘ibin„Grass Creek.
The country then abounded in elk, deer,
bear, catamount, wolves, geese, tnrkeys
and other small game. The bottoms,
known as Gooseneck, was a favorite re
sort for elk and bear. As no white per
sons were allowed to enter the Indian
reservations without permission, and
that coveted privilege being unattainable
at that time, Grandlonis and his wife
landed npon the rook at Randolph bluff,
where they spent the day.
EARLY AMAZONIAN PASTIMES OF THE MIS
SOURI.
Soon after the arrival of the first white
family at the Randolph bluff the winter
set in, and then Missouri river closed
over with ice. The colonists at Ran
dolph were then enabled to cross over
the river upon the ice and make hunting
forays into the Indian reserve in the
vicinity of the Gooseneck and the mouth
of Blue creek, where they killed as much
game as they chose. One day, during
the absence of h6r husband and her
companions, Madame Grandlouis saw a
large black bear approaching the cabin,
It was walking directly toward her, across
the ice from Gooseneck, and had nearly
reached the centre of the river, when it
paused and sat down upon the ice and
proceeded to lick its paws and conduct
itself as quietly and decently as bears are
wont to do when perfectly at home and
nappy. Madame Grandlouis, young and
athletic as a fawn, rifle in hand, started
forth from the cabin to meet the visitor,
aud succeeded in reaching the scattered
mass of huge rocks now seen npon the
verge of the river bank where tbe North
Missouri railroad skirts the rirer. Here,
concealed from the unsuspecting bruin
she took aim and fired, aud killed the
monster instantly. Thu, said Madame
Grandlouis, was uo unusual occurrence
iu those days, as both men and women
were equally proficient with tbe rifle.
THE ARRIVAL OF *Tat>amw CHOTRAU
Although Madame Grandlouis Wus the
first white woman to reach within view
of the Kaw’s mouth, she was not the
first woman to settle here. The Grand
lonis family remained at Randolph Bluffs
until tbe lollowiLg August, during wliMih
time Madame Marie Berenice Chouteau
arrived bera from St. Louis aud took up
her abi de at the trading post be
low the present gas works. iu
August, when Grandlonis arrived
acre with permission to locate
upou the Indian reset Vaiion, she
was rt joi ed to find another white woniau
already nere. What joy must those two
Fret.cn women have felt to meet each
other tker-, in the then wild solitudes of
the Upper Missouri couotiy ! Tueirlove
lor each other lasted for life, for when
discovered by Frther Donnelly in fcei
bcven’u-ih year a lovely widow, she was
the pro ege of her uioie wealthy frijnd.
Mjdtnie Chouteau never forgot her
early friend and fellow-pion-t.r. Mud-
Grandlonis liven in this vii init
Disinterment of King Charles the
First—Strange and Truthful Sketch.
In some remarkable instances, where
the location of the bnrial places of cele
brated personages has been in dispate,
tbe work of identification has been ac
complished by the discovery of what
were plainly perceived te be the remains
of the individual in question. In other
instances the body has been completely
identified by the close resemblance of
the face of the oorpse to extant pictures,
basts, or coins. The identification of
the remains of Henry IV., in Canterbury
Cathedral, after the lapse of nearly four
centuries and a half, is an example of the
first-class of cases. The identification
of the remaips of Charles L were com
pletely identified by the striking resem-
bloce of the countenance, notwithstand
ing its disfignrement, to its portrait, and
by the faet that the neck was found
smoothly divided across. We have the
following particulars of the excellent
condition, after 165 years, of a body
suddenly deprived of life, embalmed,
and interred in lead:
On removing part of the lead coffin an
inner coffin of wood, much decayed, was
exposed, and within this the body,
wrapped in cere-cloth, into tho folds of
which an nnctnons matter mixed with
resin had been poured to exclude the air.
The coffin was quite full, and on remov
ing the covering from the face tbe skin
was found dark and discolored, the fore
head and temples well preserved, the
cartilage of the nose gone, the cnaracter-
istic pointed beard perfect, the lift ear
entire, and the left eye open and full,
though it vanished on exposure. The
head was found loose, and was easily
taken out and held to view. It was heavy
wet with a liquid which gave to writing
paper and linen a greenish red tinge, the
textures of the neck were solid, and the
back part of the scalp was perfect and of
a remarkably fresh appearance. Tbe
hair of the head was a beautiful dark
brown, that of the beard of a redder tint.
Tbe divided muscles of the neck had re
tracted considerably, and the smooth
surface of the divided vertebral was
visible.
In the same vault in which Charles I.
was interred Henry VUL was deposited.
The leaden coffin, which had been en
closed in a thick elm case, appeared to
have been beaten in, so us to leave an
opening large enough to expose a mere
skeleton of the king, with some beard
upon the chin. Tho body of the king
bad then been interred 266 years. To
the preservation of bones it is impossible
to set any limit of time. The bones of
King Dagobert, disinter 'ed from the
church of St. Deunis a.ter 1,200 years,
others from Pompeii after 1,800 years,
aud others—as parts of Egyptian mum
mies—full 2,000 years old—attest their
permanence.—Philadelphia “To-Day."
Affecting Scene lu a OeatliChumbiv
Clipped from Exchanges.
KENTUCKY.
— Henderson is killing a
Last week a very amiable young lady
of this city died after a long and linger
ing illness, with that fatal disease, con
sumption. She was iu full possession of
her faculties, and conversed with her
relatives almost to the instant when she
peacefully fell asleep. She was a girl of
over twenty years of age, and had always
borne an exemplary character; and for
her death had few terrors. Some
months ago, an aunt, to whom she was
greatly attached, died, and half an hoar
before this young girl died she said to
her weeping friends, who were around
the bed: “ Aunt Maggie was here a few
minutes ago, but she is gone. I want
to go and be at rest, but I can t leave
until she returns to go with me. I can’t
leave till she comes back to mo.” Sue
conversed calmly with those about her;
gave directions relaiive to the memorial
gifts to her relatives and the manner ol
her burial, and then, with eyes bright
ening ns if recognizing some loved one,
to all others present unseen, her spirit
passed from its earthly tenement.—Bal
timore American.
A Terrible Homicide.
The Abbeville Medium of the 30th,
contains the following: The heart chills
with horror at the Dare contemplation of
the bloody and terrible tragedy which
was enacted in the upper portion of onr
county last week. The tragedy is one of
fiendish atrocity—that of a brother slain
by the hands of a brother. The parties
to this deed of blood are Archibald Petti
grew and his brother Robert, and the
circumstances of the case as related to ns
ife follows: Archibald and Robert Petti
grew, on last Tuesday morning, started
ogether from the house of James Henry
Wilde, were gone bnt a short time when
Archibald returned, calling for his
borther. He was told that Robert had
gone off with him, and then said if that
was the case te had killed him. Search
was made for Robert, who was found in
tne road not far from Wilds’ house fatal
ly stabbed, the knife having pierced the
right lung. The unfortunate man ling
ered until Saturday and died. Snch an
event eannot too deeply be deplored. •
Compulsory Voting.—The idea of
legislative enactments, both State and
National, providing for compulsory
voting, has been broached at var'ous
periods for several yean past, particular
ly in tbe Nor»li. A new impetus has
been given to it of late from the recent
Presidential election returns, which dis
close the fact that hundred'* of thousands
of voters, including multitudes in many
of the most popmar States, abstained
from exercising what is considered tbe
most sacred right oi American citizen
ship. The oropriety of ca.ling npon
Congress to pass a law providing fines or
imprisonment for those who neglect to
vote is now being more seriously agita
ted than would be imagined. Speaking
for the fnture by the light of the past, it
is bard to say what Congress may or n ay
not do.
A New York letter says: “No one
here believes lor a moment that Post
master General Ores well will be able to
devotion to tue lniereo.il oi lilts euxle. | aine
G-.-u. G*»riiell ol .<ji* county, j until >bcnt seven yea s ago, wuen slit-
wiitr- '.i» *. re*-r ..s a Organ,
is o'n-. u uj m -i y s iu> i 1 whi ni
Win.s ..m4 oui:*** it* i»e proud.— H’
inrtijs. (Jaztt'e, "tl in si. | ..VeUU**,
He i Ji«*h after attaining the ripe old age ot
oil! ; nearly 100 years. She is buried in tL«
old Catholic graveyard on Pennsylvania 1 . t • . m
carry through Coi-grees bts proposed
acb< me of postal telegraph. So far as I
can learn the people are radically op
posed to this plan of placing the tele
graph hues under government espionage.
It -a true that the Western Union is a
great aud gru ping monopoly, ‘but new
inventions in tne art of telegraphy will
ere long bre ik down this monopoly with
out tbe aid of government interference.”
^Contested Election iu Arkansas.—
Wn. Si. Harriaou, candidate ou the re-
t >:-m State ticket at the recent euuuon
i .r uascc.aie juKtice of the Supreme Court
.*i ad. tfsab, pi'u>.- foi an injunction to
Lrpnblicau candidate fioui
._aina the t>eut.
hogs at $3 60 per 100 lbs! gross
— A gang of boy-ttreves in FranW
rob the public schools of books m
etc. ’ pen °ik
A sna ^ e » alive aggressive,
killed on the snow m the yard of
Anderson Corley, near Lebanon
Friday. ’ *•«
— Col. Jesse E. Peyton, formerly
Kentucky, but now of New Jersev •
entitled to the credit of being thefi*!*
“ to suggest and urge the propriety *2
necessity of celebrating the centenrl i
anniversary of the birth of American iT
dependence.” ln "
—An exchange says that a rumor is <*,
rent that another prominent farmer r
Mercer county, Mr. Fred Nicholas h
absconded, leaving a large amount
debts unpaid. Joseph E. Thompson
who absconded some time since^ l e ft
Nicholas to pay some mutual debt!
amounting to 815,000. Nicholas made a
cash sale of his farm, and left for part*
unknown.
—The Paris True Kentuckian m Tes
the following account of a gallant ex
ploit: “On Christmas eve a brilliant party
was given at Ashland by Regent Bov.
man in honor of the marriage of hii
niece. Miss Sue Harris, one of the at
tractive belles of the city of Lexington
while standing near the fire, had her
kowing dress of light material caught by
the flames. A number of gentlemen
who stood near to, and conversing with
the lady at the time, made
an effort to reach the blazing
gossamer costume,- but Mr. Smith Me-
Cann, of Mercer, who sat at one side of
the fire-place, snatched the honor from
us by being the first to promptly spring
forward, and by rare presence of aind
gather up and smother the flames from
the. burning folds and rescue the im-
periled lady. His presence of m*nd
taking in the situation at a glance, and
his prompt action, prevented the dames
from enveloping the lady, and the party
breathed freer and deeper.
NORTH CAROLINA.
—The Governor’s Inaugural was very
brief.
—Hon. A. M. Scales has moved his
residence to Greensboro’, where he prac
tises law.
—Mr. Rogers and son have died with
the small-pox in Franklin county since
our last report.
Wm. Rogers, one of the oldest farmers
of Alamance, died at his residence near
Graham on the morning of the 28tn ulL
—Cape Fear river has been frozen
ac ross at Fayetteville akd at several places
as far down as Kelly’s Cove, within the
past week.
— Fayetteville has not had snch a
spell of cold weather in twenty years,
the thermometer having been as low as
six degrees above zero.
— The News says a little white boy,
living in Eastern Ward, Raleigh, while
pitting with a companion Wednesday,
fell and dislocated his left shoulder.
— Robert Love, of Chatham county,
says the State, is building a spoke and
hanche factory on Haw river where the
timoer is more abundant than lands on
the sea shore.
— Rev. Ur. Brantley York was pre
sented with a gold medal by the students
of Ruffin-Badger Institute, on the occa
sion of his leuvmg the t school to take the
chair of Logic an J Rhetoric at Ruther
ford College.
—The Greensboro State learns that the
residence of Joseph Hoskins, at Brace’s
Cross Roads, about a week ago, took fire
from a defective fire-place and consumed
one end of the house. Most of the fur
niture was removed
—The Sentinel informs us that Mr. T.
M. Vestal, a member of the Legislature
of 1868, from Yadkin county, froze to
death the night before Christmas. He
lived only a few miles from Yadkinvule
and was touud leaning against a tree.
TENNESSEE.
—The country newspapers, with hardly
an exception, did not make an appear
ance daring the holidays.
—The Lydia Thompson tronpe willbe-
the attraction at the Memphis theatre
next week. The blondes will be suc
ceeded by James Robinson’s circus.
—Memphis has organized a relief com
mittee for the benefit of the poor of that
city.
—A skiff was found adrift in the ioe
floes some thirty miles below Memphis a
few days since, in which three men
were frozen to death. No informa
tion could be obtained uo to whom they
were or where they came from.
—Anderson Ward, a colored mail, lay
down in a pile of cotton seed at the Mesa-
phis Oil Works tue other day, and did
rot get up again alive. The warmth oi
the seed enabled him to sleep soundly*
duriog which the pile above him toppl e “
over, nnd he was smothered.
—The Memphis Appeal has this sug*
gestive remark: The county jail is begin
ning to fall up once more. We are better
able to support a penitentiary in this pad
of ti.e State than both the other sections
together.
VIRGINIA.
—Senator Lewis is very ill at bis home-
—The Washington Chronicle says that
Col. Daniels, editor of the Stale Journey
is said to be a candidate for the clerk*
ship ot Congress.
—The harbor at Norfolk was fr°*®
over on Saturday night last, the ti* 8 *
time of such an occurrence in fifteen
years.
—Richmond (Va.) papers state that
Miss Sallie Benner, danseuse and comm
actress, who shot herself with a pistol m
Richmond some weeks ago, mysteriously
disappeared from her boarding house
about 2 p. m. ou Christmas day, leaV^R
her infant child behind hei, aDd has not
since been heard from.
— On Friday night last a negro m»n
named Grafton Banks was waylaid new
CLiarlottsville, and stabbed and robbea
of twenty-five dollars, which he had upO“
Ms person. Tue stab was in the 1° W ®J
• os person, xue siao was in mo -- ,
part of his abdomen, from the effects
which he died on Sunday. From 8 6 e
tieman who reached here from Cn ^
lottesville on yesterday, we learn tha
negro mau is under arrest, charged
the murder. His own statements. nl8( ,
before the coroner’s inquest, furnish sn *
ficient proof for his detention a*
guilty party.—Lynchburg Republican-