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From The l»a<lj Sun of January 15,1873
VERSOS A L AND GENERAL.
— A colony of Dresdenites will settle
in Michigan.
—Grasshoppers are conducting mining
operation in Texas.
—At the Christina* stock show, Queen
Victoria took the first prize for pigs.
The Oates Troupe left Savannah on
Sunday after a week’s engagement there.
\ wealthy citizen of Janesville,
Minn . was recently beaten by his wife, and after
ward fined $60 fur her assault.
A yonng lady at Rush River, Win.,
had her throat fatally cut the other dey, by a flylDg
portion < f an exploding kerosene lamp.
— Jesse Pearce, of Brandywine Hun
dred, Dei., recently died at tbe age of 113 years,
mft*r *ttrw± fifty of them in one family m a farm
The Macon Enterprise saya that Fort
Valley can boat of some of the prettiest and sweetest
ladies in Georgia, and her youug men are not to be
sneezed at.
—A nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte is
eald to be practising medicine at Marine City. Mich.,
and boasts that ho can kill people lister than hla
uncle ever could.
— Mr. Emmanuel Deutsch, of the
British Muaeuai, baa gone to Egypt to regain his
health, and mil there continue his Oriental and an
tiquarian studies.
— Mr. R. M. Johnston, the present
proprietor of the Batnbridge Hun, Las disposed of
nis entire printing Interests to Mea rs. Jobn U.
Hayes At Co., and the paper will hereaiter be run as
a Republican sheet.
—Colored emigrants from Virginia to
Illinois sre rttnruing to the Old Dominion. They
say they “liked Elenoy well enough, hut the shakes
was terrible." Hence their desire to be “earned
back to old Virglnny."
— Thos K. Wynne has sold his inter
est in Ibe Columbus Enquirer to the heirs of his
late partner. It will be published in the future by
Thos. England's Hons & Co. John U. Martin, Esq.,
continues the editor. Tho Enquirer deserves con
tinued prosperity.
An old gentleman in Alamance connty,
X. C., knows something scout the blessings of a
home and family. He has had four wives, eight
daugutera and oue son, seventy-three grandchildren,
four hundrea great grandchildren, filly great-great
grandchildren, fiiteun gr« at-great-great-grandchil-
dren, and nine great-gre^t-grest-great-graudchil-
tlren. He thinks cf marrying again.
— David Brown, a notable hermit of
Newfane, Yt., died recently. He suffered a disap
pointment m love wnsn young, which nearly un
settled his reason, and he developed an extraordi
nary pa—inn lor nooks, particularly hooks of travel.
When forty-four years old he married, and lived
happily for four or live years, when his wife died,
leaving an infant daughter. After this lie tnrned
hermit, and .or the last fllteeu years had lived in a
house alone, buying and reading books and writing
poetry. In his earner days ho wrote and published
five hundred copies of a email book called “Florence
Mangri v i,” and it is raid, though it seems hardly
credible, that at the time of lii- death he had the
larges’ collection of books and papers in the .State
— In Dickens’ American Notes, writ
ten In 1842, tho great novelist dwelt on tho melan
choly condition ol the convicts of the Philadelphia
penitentiary, who are compelled to pass their lives in
solitary confinement. Mr. DickeiiB instanced tho case
of one Charles Laugheimer.wko wts never permitted
to see anything but the cold stone walls ot his dun
geon, couj-ctured that he could not possibly live in
the cell more than five or six years, and entered in
his volume a prediction to that effect. But Dickens
is dead, and Charles laiugUeinier still inhabits the
uell iu which Dickens left mm. lie is seventy years
old, is well and hearty, has spent more than ba'f his
lite in solitary confiuemeut, and says he prefers that
manner of hie to any other.
Bearbnltm Ik Georgia.
The Memphis Avalanche, of the 12th
instant, has this paragraph :
Tha candidates for U. 8. Senator from Georgia in
crease in number. They bow lad tide Alexander H.
Stephens, John B. Gordon, Henry L. Bennlng,
Joshua HUi. J. W. H. Underwood. Herbert Fielder,
B. H. Hill and Heraebel V. Jehnaon. Ho little op
position to Mr. Stephens has been developed, and
even in Georgia it is evident that the Bourbon crust
haabeen broken.
Opposition to each and every one of
the gentlemen named by the Avalanche
has been developed, and Mr. Stephens
is by no means an exception. The ques
tion of Bonrbonism is not being made a
test of fitness for Senatorial honors by
the friends of neither of the above-named
gentlemen.
The qnestioDS that disturbed tbe unity
of the Democratic party lately, do not
enter into this contest at all, except so
for as it may be indiscreetly pressed by a
few tnrbnlent spirits like tbe Avalanche.
Tho Democracy of Georgia have re
solved to let past differences of opinions
rest in quiet, and to labor to the end of
promoting the unity and harmony, ana
the solidity and perpetuity of the great
and ever-living Democratic party, which
alone has the spirit and the power to pre
serve this country from the curse of
Centralism.
If there were more of the genuine
Democratic spirit in the management ol
the Avalanche, its power and influence
to promote Democratic success, would be
greatly enhanced.
The Old Mandard.
The Democrats of New Hampshire will
rally under their old name, anil around
their old standard, for tho election in
March. Their State and Congressional
nominations will be made this week.
From many qnarters of tho Union, we
see jnst such r uouncenieuts. To every
Democrat who would preserve the prin
ciples of freo goverment, the great and
high mission entrusted to the Democratic
party, these indications of a disposition
to return to the old standard of the party
are most cheering. What we desire to
see is that this spirit shall ever hereafter
actuate and control the actions of the
party throughout the wholo Union.
Ret the Democracy once more rally
nnder the old name and aronnil tlicir
standard, nnd firmly stand by their
ancient faith, and we will stake all wo are,
that a grand Democratic triumph will be
oar reward in tho Presidential contest of
1876.
What a glorious celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of American inde
pendence to see this country, after veer
ing in tho direction of Centralism, once
more restored to thefcontrol of the friends
of Constitutional liberty and freo gov
ernment 1
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AtiT” The Macon Enterprise, of Mon
day, spates that Rev. Mr. Pearce for
mally entered on his year of ministerial
duty at the First street M. E. Church on
.Sunday last. The Enterprise adds that
the house was well filled with an atten
tive and interested congregation. His
sermon was short, practical, and emi
nently orthodox iroiii tho good old fash
ioned Methodist standpoint. He makes
no attempt at display or oratory, but
(leak in language comprehensive to the
simplest mind. He is an earnest man,
und cannot fail iu acceptable labors.
—
Sunday last four funerals of
prominent and well known persons oc
curred in Savannah, says the Heirs.
Miss Anna Do Lyon, at the age of seven
ty-four, daughter of the lato Abraham
Do Lyon, and grand-danghter of Levi
Sheltall, paymaster in U. S. army during
Monroe’s administration; Mr. Thos. L.
Harrison, son of Gen. Geo. P. Harrison,
The Representatives from the K
Counties.
By a resolution of the House of Rep
resentatives yesterday morning the rep
resentatives from the four new counties
of Douglas, Dodge, McDuffie and Rock
dale, were admitted to seats on the floor
of that body during their stay in the
city. The following are the names of
the gentlemen referred to: F. M. Dun-
caq, of Douglas; Dr. J. M. Buchan, of
Dodge; A. E. Sturgis, of McDuffie, and
J. A. Stewart, of Rockdale.
Tbe citizens of these four new counties
being deprived of the right of voting for
a representative living in another coun-
tv, elected one from their own in com
pliance with an order from the Gaver
nor—the Governor forwarding the usual
blanks and certificates for such election
which were duly issued in favor of each
one of the above named gentlemen
They were all sworn in as tho other mem
bers on the assembling of the Legisla
tnre.
On yesterday a resolution was intro
ducod declaring the said new conn
ties not entitled to seats in the Houso of
Representatives. The resolution was re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee; the
committee sustaining the resolution, it
wan agreed to by the House. Mr. Me
Daniel then offered another resolution
in substanae as stated in the beginning
of this article, which was carried.
Tlie privileges thus extended are rather
indefinite, as these gentlemen may re
main in the city one day or Bix months.
If they Bhould go home and return, the
question would be whether they had for
feited these privileges or not.
Tlie Georgia. Frew Association.
nr. Stcplaeas (hr Senator.
The following article is inserted in
Thb Sex this morning by the Associate
Political Editor, at the earnest solicita
tion of tbe writer, and without the
knowledge of Mr. Stephens :
Messrs. Editors : The public mind
seems to be much agitated at present
npon the Senatorial question. The rea
sons why Mr. Stephens should, be elected:
First. He is one of the ablest living ex
pounders of the Constitntion of the Uni
ted States. His abilities, patriotism
and honesty iB admitted by all. With a
political record of forty years, not a blem
ish rats npon his pnblio or private char
acter. He has dispensed more charities
to the poor, and educated more young
men at his private expense than any one
in tbe limits of the State; im fact, his
whole life has been dedicated to the good
of the people with his noble charities,
nstead of hoarding his thousands by
political jobs—using his political influ
ence to advance his pecuniary interest;
in other words, be is the model of an in
corruptible statesman of the very first
order of intellect.
I know his “history of the late War
Between the States,” ho has vindicated
the justice of the cause of the Southern
States, which no man has done before or
6ince the war. Since Mr. Stephens’
name has been brought foward for Uni
ted States Senator by his friends, some
few feeble objections have been urged
by his opponents to his election—only
two or three of which it is neceessary to
mention. The first objection is
his “old foggy notions” in not keeping
np with the progress of the times, which
seek to undermine and utterly destroy
the C .institution" of the United States
and the liberties of the people. This is
tLe “progress” he warns his people
against. But there is a “progress” Mr.
Stephens favors. That is to preserve
our Constitution in tact, as handed
down to us by our fore
fathers. The excitement of the
late war having greatly subsided, and
the people capable of self-government
and tenacious of their liberties, and
whenever the true issues are made they
will preeerve that Constitution. This is
the kind of “progress” + hatMr. Stephens
looks to for the salvation of his country.
He does not wish to recede from the
rights obtained for the States and people
secured to them by the Constitution of
the United States. Some urge
objections to Mr. Stephens for his
course in the late Presidential elec
tion. The results of this election
is sufficient' to ju6tiiy his judgment and
wisdom without any further argument
While Mr. Stephens may sometimes difler
with his party, he is never captioas on
minor pcints. His course in regard
to the late Gubernational election of this
State shows very plainly bis devotion to
the principles of his party by supporting
tbe regular Democratic nominees.
Notwithstanding ho disagreed with
some of the measures and policies
of Mr. Davis’ administration in some
things, and time and results having prov
en the correctness of his positions, yet
he yielded and gave it his cordial sup
port and co-opperation until the end of
the war. Members of the'Legislature,
in casting their votes for United States
Senator, should cast aside all prejudice
and personal preferences, and look
alone to the good of the State
and vote for the individual who they
think can best promote the interest
of tho State, and then they will have
fully discharged their duty. In this ar
ticle it is not the intention of tbe writer
to disparage or diminish the merits of
Mr. Stephens’ competitors, for they are
all men whom Georgia would be proud to
honor. Vox PoruLi.
jama. bmbb.wjjy'8 co.ybbbsiojy.
The Connecticut Borgia Confesses to
Poisoning Two Husbands and Poor
Children—Her Third spouse Poisoned
by Mistake—Narrow Escape of tbe
Murderess from a like Pate—Method o(
Dispatching Her Numerous Victims,
Etc., Etc.
New He Ten (Jen. 7) Special Correspondence of the
Hertford Courant.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman was arrested in
June, 1871, at New Brunswick, N. J., on
the charge of having murdered her hus
band, Horatio N. Sherman, in Derby, in
this State, iu the year 1871. She was
also charged with murdering two of her
children, but was on'y tried for the first
crime. Besides these she was said to
have poisoned two other husbands and
numerous of their children. The trial
occurred iu March, 1S72, in New Haven,
and was noticeeble among “poison trials”
for the very clear testimony of Prof.
Barker, of Yale College, who had exam
ined the remains of the three
first-mentioned victims. His evi
dence was as conclusive as cir-
cumstancial evidence could be, and there
was none of tbe doubt about the case
which was brought up in the Wharton
trial at Baltimore, and which is always
attempted to be thrown upon medical
experts. The only question was as to the
motive that coaid lead a sane person to
such a step. The trial resulted in a ver
dict ot murder in the second degree, the
jury uniting in considering her guilty,
but allowing that the circumstantial na
ture of the evidence permitted of a “rea
sonable doubt,” and so did not call it of
the first degree. After she was found
guilty she was sent to the jail in New
Haven, and she will bo taken from thence
to the Superior Court to receive her sen
tence, some day this week or next. Ru
mor has it that it will be on Thursday,
but it rests with tue State’s attorney,
Judge E. K. Foster, to decide, and he
has not yet expressed his determination
as to the date.
Another Horrible Death.
From the Detroit Free Frees.
One of those horrible accidents which
always end in the death tc the victim,
occurred a short distance from the Granu
This body assembled in the ball-room
of the Kimball House yesterday morn
ing, in greater numbers, we think, than ^ Trunk junction yesterday forenoon—a
has ever before attended the meetings man named Rafferty, in the employ of
of the Association—Mr. Estill, of tho ’
Savannah Heirs, President, presiding,
and Mr. Christian, of the Lumpkin Tele
graph, acting as Secretary pro tem. We
are glad to see our brethren of the press
manifest ing, more and more, an interest
in this organization, which can be made
so useful in the promotion of the interest
of tho press of Georgia.
We were extremely glad to greet our
brethren of the “Fourth Estate” in such
goodly numbers.
Douglas loanty.
When this new connty was organized
in 1S70, it was intended to be named in
honor of Stephen A. Douglas ; but when
it came before the Legislature it was re
corded in the journals of both Houses as
Douglass, after Fred. Douglass, the negro
orator and politician, instead of Douglas.
It is to be hoped that tbis new county
shall be known by its proper name. It
is due that it sLonld be explicitly known
that the county was named for Stephen
A. Douglas, and not Fred. Douglass.
£stf"General Wade Hampton visits Sa
vannah the present week, and will he the
guest of Col. E. C. Anderson. He goes
to Savannah to deliver his address on
“General Robert E. Lee,” on the birth
day of that illustrious cnieftain. The
I Heirs says: “The celebration will be a
1 grand and imposing affair. Most of onr
i military companies have received their
of that city; Samuel Ccchraue Cathen- 1 un jf orms and arms, and those that have
wood, well known as a good and useful. notw ^ parade in citizens’clothes. The
citizen; and\\ m. L. Laker, another good j occas i ou £ a one c f deep interest to every
citizen. , true-hearted Southerner, and the annual
ter The Mayor’s election in Barn- °“ F ^
, ...... ‘loved Chieftain will be a feature in our
bridge, on Saturday last, resulted in the , ijj s torv
election of Mr. W. J. Bruton over Dr,
the Central Road, being instantly killed.
Three or four days ago the man, who
was of a jolly joking temperament, be
came suddenly serious, and all nis com
panions’ jokes and jeers failed to raise
his spirits.
He finally told one of his friends as a
secret that he had a presentiment of
death. He had heard for sometime a
bell tolling as if for a funeral, and as no
one else had seemed to notice it, he had
come to the conclusion that it was a
warning sent to him alone. The man
laughed at him, telling him that he had a
cold in the head ana i t made his ears
ring, but Rafferty insisted that he was
going to die. Soon after going to work
yesterday, he suddenly ceased to labor
and asked: “There 1 don’t you hear it?”
The men thought he referred to the
coming of a train, and made no reply.—
In a little while after, he moved Jowu the
track to remove a plank which was lying
across the tack in front of an ap
proaching locomotive, it was a heavy
pl&nk, and Rafferty worked in fear that
he could not get it off before the engine
came up. He had the plank almosr off
when he slipped and fell on tbe track
and the locomotive struck him. His
right leg was cut off, his arm broken, and
he was otherwise injured. He was tateD
up and carried to a house, hut lived only
a few minutes. Jnstice Button empan
eled a jury, and the inquest was ad
journed until to-day. The deceased was
a widower, having a son six years old, and
was stopping with his sister near the
junction.
REHOUSE AND CONFESSION.
Since she has been imprisoned, her
mind has been seriously troubled, and it
has been evident for some time tnat she
was brooding over either her past of
fences or her present ills; and recently
it has transpired that sho was under
going a sort of penitence, and she has
made a full confession of her guilt, and
ex dressed herself as much relieved there
by. On tbe ‘28th day of December, 1872,
she began her story to the jailer, Capt.
W ebster. Mrs. Sherman is a very ig
norant woman. She can scarcely write
at all, and, like many people who have
done less than herself to make history,
she is unable to remember dates with any
accuracy, so that in parts her narrative
is vague. Ail through her trial, in Court
and to ber own counsel, she positively
denied ever UaviDg poisoned anybody,
and she begged to be allowed to take the
stand and swear thereto, but she was not
allowed to by her counsel.
HUSBAND AND TWO CHILDREN POISONED,
Mrs. Sherman’s story is as follows
She was born in New Brunswick, N. J.
in 1825, and was early left an orphan.—
At the age of 17 she joined tho Methodist
church, and at a love-feast there met
Edward S. Struck, whom she subsequent
ly married. Struck in time became
policeman at Yorkville, one of the sub
urbs of Now York city. One night there
was a row in a saloon on his beat, and
detective was killed. Struck was oft
without leave. He was reprimanded and
disgraced, it troubled him very much
and finally it weighed so on his mind
that he became crazy and had softening
of the brain. He then was discharged
When he recovered it was only to be very
feeble physically and unable to get any
work, so that he was only a burden to
his wife. One day a male friend of hers
suggested to her that she could get rid
of the man by poison. She toolc kindly
to ttie idea and gave him arsenic in his
food, and she also with the same poison
killed their two youngest children, so
that they also should not be burdens to
her and should not have, as she says, to
grow up to life’s cares.
THREE MORE VICTIMS.
use the confession against Mrs. Sher
man, and her sentence will be merely to
prison for lif&
maqeb mew took reporters.
One of the New Haven papers has se
cured what it calls her complete confes
sion, and proposes in the course of time
to publish it as a serial. It is rumored
to-night that three New York reporters
have been promised copies of the com
plete oonfession for $100 each. How
ever, it must be borne in mind that Mrs.
Sherman is a thoroughly ignoiant woman,
and that any long confession would be
written and spun out by some one having
in view only the elaboration of a sensa
tion. I think that all the tacts and lend
ing incidents of the narrative as I have
sent them are correot, although they are
not copyrighted.
JUJUS E'OU A BL.BE01.-YU BliJtMT.
Sympathizing J«ry Give an Indiana
Jilted One fS.SOO—The Ststy of her
W range.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel, Jan. 3.
The interesting breach of promise snit
which has been on trial in the bnperior
Court for several days, in which Miss
FloreoceL. Johnson, living near Morris
town, Shelby county, sued Alouzo Tyner,
formerly a resident of the same looahty,
but now engaged in the grocery business
in tbis city, for $10,000 damages for
wounding her womanly pride and lacer
ating her heart, was given to the jury at
the opening of the Court yesterday
morning. The parties to the suit are
both well connected, the plaintiff belong
ing to one of the beet families of Shelby
county, and the defendant being related
to Hon. James N. Tyner, member o f
Congress from the eighth district.
They have known each other from
childhood, and the friendship thus ex
isting between them ripened into a warm
uffection which was mutually confessed,
and an engagement of marriage made iu
the fall o! 1872. Extracts from the let
ters which passed between them, which
wero read during the trial, showed them
to be a very affectionate pair of lovers.
The history of their love-making, as
brought out by the evidence, would do,
with a change of n.imes and localities,
for at least six courtships out of ten,
though it concluded very differently from
the average of such affairs.
They had thexr quarrels and reconcili
ations, their jealousies and confidences.
The green-eyed monster seems to have
Desperate
Struggle to
Freedom.
£L S. Jones, by a small majority. The
Sun states the manner of holding the
election being illegal, Mr. Bruton and
his Board of Aldermen reiused to qualify;
consequently, another election has been
ordered to bo held on the lGth instant.
tGF We regret to learn from the Bain-
bridge Sun that the Court House in the
town of Colquit, Miller connty,Vas en
tirely destroyed t.y fire Monday night
last. The records of the Superior Court,
Court of Ordinary, and the papers be
longing to both officers were destroyed.
ftay* The youug men of Fort Talley
are to give their masquerade party on the
30th, and it is said will eclipse anything
they ever had in that line.
Tk« Press.
— C. D. Brigham is another of tho
lucky newspaper men. He went to Pitts
burg in 1SG1 without a cent of money,
started the Commercial on the backing of
friends, and has just sold his interest for
$100,000. Iu the meantime he has made
the Commercial a first-class paper, un
doubtedly the best in Pennsylvania. Not
long ago he talked of going to Philadel
phia.
Burlington, Yt., January 6.—Edward
Shiette, a noted burglar, who broke jail
here a fortnight ago, was recaptured alter
an exciting chase at Colchester Point,
last night. He crossed Lake Champlain
twice yesterday with great risk to life,
over ice only two inches thick.
The body of Cluck, the Indianapolis
murderer who committed suicide and so
cheated the gallows, was buried in a pau
per’s grave, or at least all that was left of
it after the doctors had got through with
it. The body was pretty thoroughly ex
amined by the medical fraternity, for th6
benefit of “science.” Tbe stomach and
entrails were taken oat for the purpose
of ascertaining by what kind of poison he
died. His brain was removed, and pro
nounced by the highest medical author
ity the lightest ever taken from the skull
of an adult; his neck was cut into and a
thorough BTamin^ion made of the suc
cess of the treatment given him for bis
throat, that he had severed with a razor
iu his former attempt at suieida
Ska was not suspected of tnis murder,
and soon after it went to Litchfield, in
this State, to live. Here she met one
Dennis Hurlburt, and married him, but
she did not get along particularly satis
factory to herselt with him, and so she
poisoned him. Soon after his death she
was told by a friend that there was a man
in Derby, named Horatio N. Sherman,
who had a plenty of money, and hadlost
his wife, and that by skilifdl manage
ment, if she wanted a third husband, she
could prooably get him. Accordingly she
went there and applied to him for the
place of housekeeper in his family, and
he engaged her, and subsequently she
succeeded in marry iDg him. He had two
small children, Ada and Frankie, and
these she determined to poison and did
poison, but sho did not plan to poison
Sherman. She intended to employ the
arsenic upon rats in her house as well as
to kill the children, and she purchased it
in New Haven, at Peck’s drugstore, with
the first mentioned object. She took the
package home and put it cn the shelf be
side a similar package of salseiatns. Mr.
Sherman used to drink a great deal of
cider, into which he would put salseratus
to make it foam. This was his favorite
drink. Tho salseratns and the arsenic
on the shelf became mixed in some way,
but sho dici not mix them, but saw they
were so.
SHE GETS A DOSE HERSELF.
One night some friends were present,
and they had some “toddy” to drina.
Her husband invited her to take some,
but sue chose in preference to drink
some of his cider prepared to foam.
Soon after she took it she went out of
tne house to call upon a neighbor, and
was taken auddenly very sick, so badly
that she was utterly unable to do any
thing for herself, and had to be carried
into the house. But , she rallied in a
little while. She thinks that this sick
ness was due to the arsenic that had been
mixed with the salmratus, and that when
he died it was because ol taking more of
a similar preparation at a later period.
In nc other way did she know of his ob
taining poison, and the talk of the prose
cution about ner putting arsenic into his
tea and into “slings” and other hot
drinks was all expended on a wrong
track. This was not, theiefore, such a
clear case of murder as the others. In
fact, she merely neglected to warn him
of his danger, and th&t she did not
always remember it herself, is shown m
the fact of her having taken some of the
cider. It is carious that the only death
for which she could not be held account
able, according to her story, should be
that for which she has been convicted.
The Register of this city says tnat the
State’s Attorney, JaJge Foster, will not
preyed very frequently upon the senses
of Mr. Tyner, as the evidence showed
that he acted very unpleasantly on sev
eral occasions on account of trivial
causes. His sweetheart very properly
did not consider herself bound to obey
all his behests, although desiring to act
in accordance with any reasonable wish
of his, and as he was somewhat exacting,
several quarrels occurred. Their differ
ences were of short duration, however,
and up to last June it seemed that love
would finally obliterate the discordant
elementa in their natures, and a happy
marriage follow. But from some cause
or other, the flame of love iu the breast
of the young man went out as suddenly
as a candle in a gale.
For some time he had played the role
of tbe ardent lover, when, to Miss John
son’s great astonishment, he came to her
one day the early park of last June, and
informed her tbat he would not marry
her, as he no longer felt any affection for
her. * As only five or six days previous to
this she had received a letter from him
containing the warmest professions ot
love and constancy, the surprise of the
yonng woman was natural, but it finally
gave way to a proud indignation, and she
gave him his release.
Tbe engagement was reported as bro
ken off, but the little world in which the
parties moved went on as usual until
about the 1st of last October, vvuen flu
marriage of, Mr. Tyner to Miss Emma
Elston of Milroy, Ruch county, was an
nounced. This produced considerable
feeling among the friends of Miss John
son, as it appeared almost a direct insult
to her for him to many so shortly after
breaking faith with her. Stung to the
quick by this culminating net of disre
gard to her feelings, she determined to
sue him for damages for a breach oi
promise, and accordingly instituted pro
ceedings in the superior court, Tyuer
having become a resident of this county.
The case was very ably managed on
bo to sides, Voss, Davis and Holman ap
pearing for the plaintiff, and Porter, Har
rison and Hines conducting tbe defense.
Both parties have been in attendance
throughout the trial, sitting but a few
feet apart, aud a number of their friends
have manifested great interest in the pro
ceedings. The jury letired yesterday
morning at half-past 9 o’clock, and re
turned about the same time in tbe even
ing, being out nearly twelve hours. They
returned a verdict for the plaintiff, award
ing her $2,500 damages. Tbe defendant
is worth about $5,000, according to cur
rent repons, so the division is pretty
equal. The sympathies of the majority
of the spectators were on the side of the
vivacious looking little brunette from the
beginning of the trial.
Notice.—Ii an pears irom tbe docket
of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, for tha
January Term, 1873, that, the order of Circuits, with
the number of caaea from each county, la aa foUowac
Blue Ridge Circuit-Da weon, 1; Forsyth, 1; Fan
nin. 1; Lumpkin, 3; Towns, 3.
IVuten Circuit—Clark, 3; Gwinnett, 1; Walton, 9.
Sorlhcm Circuit—Elbert (1 continued) 3; Ogle*
thorpe, 3; Warren, 1; Wilkes, 3.
Southern Circuit—Lowndes, 3;
Oconee Circuit—Pulaski, 3;
Albany Circuit—Baker, 1; Calhoun, 1; Decatur, 1$
Dougherty (one continued) 11.
Soulhwrtten Circuit— Lee, 4; Macon, 3; Schley,
Sumter, 13; Webster. 5.
Pataula Circuit—Clay, 3; Early. 3; Quitman, 1|
Randolph. 7; Stewart, 1; Terrell, $.
Chedahoockee Circuit—Chattahoochee, 1; How
oogee (39 continued) 60; Tsylor, 3.
Macon Circuit—Bibb, •; Crawford, 1; Houston, 4g
Twiggs. 6.
VUm Circuit—Henry, S; Newton, 3; Pike, 3; Rock*
dale, i; Spalding, 1; Upson, 3.
Ta’l.-poosa Circuit—Coweta, 5, Fayette 1; Merri-
wetber, 5; Troup, 3.
Atlanta Circuit—DeKalb, 4; Clayton, 1; Fulton, Da
Rome Circuit—Floyd 38; Polk 3.
Ch iokte Circuit—Bartow, 7; Whitfield, 4.
Aii'.usta Cireuit—Burko (3 con tinned) 3; Rich*
mond (5 continued) 9.
M ddle Circuit—Tainal), 2; Washington, 1.
Ocmulgee Circuit—Baldwin (one continued) 3;
Greene, I; Jasper, 3; Jones, 1; Morgan, 3; Putuam,3
Eastern Circuit—Bullock, 1; Chatham, 3; Liberty,
1; McIntosh, 3.
Brunswick Circuit—Appling.1; Camden (continued)
1. Glyun, 2; Pierce, 1; Wayne, l.
Z. D. Harrison, Clerk.
The Atlanta Bair—At a meeting o
the members cf tfco Atlanta Bar. held at the City
llall, January 14, 187.1, to take actiou lu it ferenco to
the departure of Judge .InhuD. Pope lor his new
home in the West, on motion i f i ; . P. L. Myimlt,
Gen. L. J. Gartrell was called to the chair, aud T.
P. Westmoroland tejneeted to act •» secretary.
Tho Chairman explained b-o utlet of tho meetw
ing, and on motion of Col. L. i . llleckley appointed
a committee, consisting ot the following gentlemen,
to-wit: Col. L. E. Bleckley, .Indue John Collier
Colonels N. J. Hammond, S. 11. Spencer and John
T. Glenn, to report suitable resolutions.
The committee, through their chairman. Col. L. E.
Bleckley, reported the following resolutions, to-wiU
Wueueas, The Hon. John D. Pope has for many
years resided in our midst and has held the poaitloa
of Judge of the Superior Court and United States
District Attorney for Georgia, and has long been •
practicing attorney at this bar.
Resolved, That In each of said positions he has
discharged his duty with fidelity and ability, and^
now that bo leaves this field of labor for a new ona
in the West, we take pleasure in testifying to his
sterling worth and merits.
Resolved, That, while we rogret his departure
from Georgia, we hope that he will find a more in
viting and broader theater for his talents and ability,
and take pleasure in expressing assurances of out
kindest regards and best wishes for our friend.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed
by tne Chairman and Secretary of this meeting, be
furnished Judge Pops.
On motion of Capt. E. P. Howell, the foregoing
resolutions were unanimously adopted.
There being no further bnsiuess, tho meeting ad
journed. L. J. Gartiiell, Chairman.
T. P. Westmoreland, Secr-tnrv.
The High School.—Daring a short
visit on yesterday to Prof. HV.lnn, he kiudly invited
us to witness the exercises iu calisthenics, which
were then going on. It was the first time we had
ever seen his school, and a more pleasant and agree
able sight is rarely met with anywhere. Some fifty
or sixty young misses, with wands aud dumb bells,
using them with all the grace and ease imaginable,
with a precision and promptness that would put to
bush the best trained Zouave regiment in the world.
t.very motion is accompanied by appropriate airs
from the piano, executed by a charming little miss,
whose very looks wero music itself. Every muscle
is exercised during the lessou, aud its benefits aio
at once seen in the rosy cheeks and lithe steps of the
young ladies. This is quite a feature iu tho High
School, and is bound to work an important change
in school tactics as heretofore practiced.
We also spent a few moments In the room pre«
sided over by Miss Clayton, where everything pro-
grossed like machinery, and the Loautiful girls ap
peared happy and hoalthy. Miss Clayton stands
very high with the Board as a young lady oi unusual
acquirements, and her scholars all attest their good
feelings for her by a studious attention to hooka.—
We hope to see more of the systorn of our publls
schools before a great while.
Business.
—Only one person iu thirty-six is
comfortable in England. Comfortable
means $600 a year.
—Paper money is to be abolished in
Hayti, where a dollar gold piece brings
$400 m currency.
—Fortv-five fires cost New York
$1,557,760.
—Cincinnati gets her wood sawed by
convict labor.
—St Louis applies to Pittsburg for aid
in establishing steel works.
—Immense amounts of real estate are
being offered for sale in all parts of Penn
sylvania, particularly farming lands, the
present owners of which intend going
West.
—The Philadelphians are grumbling
over their $2.15 tax rate. Some of the
manufacturers are trying to escape this
neavy burden by moving their establish
ments to Delaware.
— James Gordon Bennett will return
from Earope in March and marry a
Brooklyn lady.
— Sothern has made np his mind that
he can edit a daily, and is seeking to buy
the London Post.
— Two gentlemen have ottered a prize
of 250 guineas for tbe best, and 150
guineas for the second best, essay on
“Ti e Temperance Beformaiion ; its
claims npon tbe Christian Church.” In
quiries are to be addressed to Messrs.
Hodder & Stronghton, Paternosterrow,
London.
Police on the Qui Vive.—The police
have been for a day or two past making a good many
arrests of draymen who are doing business without
the proper license, and the Recorder has been put
ting the blistering to them as they come. Yesterday
the drayman connected with this office was started
out to precure the necessary papers; but on hia way
to the City Hail he saw an opportunity of hauling a
load or two, but it was a fatal job for “Ned." Just
as he made the last trip an enterprising policeman
failed to discover his number, and poor Ned waa
hustled off to the calaboose, imid vociferous pro
testations that ho was drayman for *‘de Sen office.”
When discovered be was peepiug through the iron
bars, ana showing the most magnificent mouthful
of ivory imaginable. If the week’s profits on that
dray are not added to the sinking fund of the city
this morning, then we will be agreeably surprised.
Hon. J. M. Arnow.—This gentleman
represents the 4tli District in the present Senate,
aud is an active industrious member. Mr. Arnow
resides at St. Marv’s, Ga., and was for several years
in the State Senate of Florida. Ho has some excel
led views in regard to the interests to be fostered
by our Legislature, and will be found in the van.
pushing these interests forward. Mr. Arno v is now
Chairman on tne Committee of Education Tice Col.
Nicholls, resigned. He introduced, on yesterday, a
preamble and resolution on immigration, embody
ing some interesting ideas on the subject, which we
will publish at an early day.
His District may rest assured that their interests
will be well protected, by his watchful care.
Judge D. F. Hammond.—The follow
ing notice oi our excellent Recorder is taken from
the Griffin News. His fame as a dispenser of justice
to evd-doers has gone out to neighboring cities,' bat
none of them have, as yet) produced anything like
him as a regulator. He is worth a well jorganlzed
vigilance committee to any unmoral community.—
Hear Speights:
Judge Hammond, the Recorder, or better known
as “old ten and costs," is the best officer in tha
State. His lectures to criminals are very pathetic
and full of good advice, and his fines are such as tc
give them a reverential dread of being drawn
through nis mill again. Youarerght, Judge, for
nothing short of such a faithful discharge of duty
wih ever keep the vagabonds from running rough,
shod over municipal authority.
Sudden Death.—From a business let
ter received st this office on yesterday, dated Ring-
gold, Georgia, Janaary 13th, mention is made of tha
su lden death of a Mrs. Susan Smith, wife of Joseph H.
Smith,Esq., residing about thirteen miles from Ring-
gold. It says Mrs. Smith went out to the wood pile
to gather up some chips, and while doing so drop
ped dead. Mrs. Smith ia represented as having
been one of the best of women, and the entire com
munity deplores her loss
Convention of the State Agricul
tural Society.—The Secretary of the Agricultural
Society stales that the county societies throughout
the State are taking an unusual Interest iu the ap
proaching convention to be hold on the 11th proxi
mo, at the city of Augusta. Lists of delegatee ap
pointed are being received daily, and from a glance
itis seen that the selections are good. Many of the
ablest representatives of agriculture in this
will be present. The me - ting promisee to be 1
attended, and a moat intereating