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rp-pr-F! a h^t ■ A T\T r r A WEEKLY SUIST—FEBRUARY 25, IS^3.
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THE ATLANTA SUN
FramThe Dally bun of F< braur) 21,1873
TTTK PREStVENTS IRA VGVRAL.
A Washington city dispatch of re
cent date, states that:
“The President has uo* yet commenced
the preparation of hi* inaugural address,
and very lew speculations have been
made concerning it. It is believed that
its tone towards the Sonth will be very
friendly, and intimations are freely made
that tbe next Administration will be very
conservative.”
It is claimed by his friends that
Gen. Grant is a conservative man at
heart, and that lie does not approve
of the harsh treatment of the .South
ern people inflicted by Congressional
legislation. Whether this be so or
n«4. Gen. Grant now has an opportu
nity of winning popularity for his
administration. A majority of the
Southern" people in the late Presiden
tial contest give the most unmistaka
ble evidence that they will not be
hostile to a Republican administra
tion simply because it is Republican,
for the reason that they voted for the
most radical of Republicans for
President when they cast their ballots
for 11 orace (1 re lev.
Now let Gen. Grant’s policy to
wards tho South prove that a Repub
lican administration is no worse for
this section of the country wielded
by one man than it would be if wield
ed by another. If Gen. Grant will
make his incoming administration
conservative, adhering strictly to the
law, he will find moral support even
among the Southern Bourbons, so-
called.
SPIRIT OP THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Savannah News, of Wednes
day, referring to the various letters
that have been elicited from promi
nent men on the bond question,
makes mention of the anxiety of onr
The Chronicle and Sentinel of the
same date, has an article entitled
“The War upon the Mormons,” in
the course of which these pertinent
remarks occur:
‘It is astonishing that some of the
neighbor of the Constitution for the «£-«
MERCER UNIVERSITY.
At a meeting of the Board of Trns-
ees of this institution, on the 18th
.inst., it was resolved that its exercises
shall he resumed on the 5th March.
The Trustees also resolved
—“that Laving duly considered the re
port of the Faculty, and a number of the
most enlightened physicians and of a
committee of prominent citizens of Ma
con, and after the most careful personal
investigation by ourselves, wo are sat's-
lied that there is no longer anything in
the lioaltu of this city to forbid the
prompt resumption of the exorcises of the
college; and while we feel entirely assured
Unit the epidemic was in uo wise due to
local cause, and that there lias been
nothing in or about the iness-hail build
ing heretofore, and there is mthiDg now,
especially after recent improvements, to
render the occupancy of it for all the
purposes for winch it has been used, at
all unsafe, yet we concede, and especially
in deference to some natural apprehen
sions on the part of tne public, that it
may be advisable for the students to se
cure for the remainder of this term,
lodgings elsewhere.”
The late epidemic 1ms greatly re
tarded the progress of the spring ses
sion of this institution, which was
opened with such flattering prospects
—having entered upon its rolls aoout
one hundred and seventy pupils.
full and complete elncidation of the
vexed question, before definite action
upon it, says:
“ We have been nnder tbe impression
that the whole matter of Bullock, Kim
ball and Clews’ bond frauds had been
fully investigated by the last Legislature,
and that the action of that body in the
matter was based on the results of that
investigation. It is true that recent dis-
cuss'ois— uninfluenced by “popular
prejudice”—has enlightened the public
mind on the real merits of the sale, and
confirmed the general conviction of tne
propriety acd justice of that action.”
The same paper, in answering cer
tain questions asked as to whether
Congress would bring certain corrupt
Copgressmen to account for their
misdemeanors, asserts that—
“When villainy and corruption are the
order of the day, ana nobody’s hands are
clean, impeachment and expulsion are
out of the question. There is scarcely a
single It idical in Congress that is not as
deep in the mire, if the truth were known,
as either Co'fax, Caldwell or Pomeroy,
and if tlie game of expulsi n were to be
once commenced, no one can teli wheri*
it would stop.”
Col. T. L. Snead informs our
neighbor of the Herald that its Wash
ington correspondent is misinformed
as to a half million dollars having
been distributed here for the purpose
of effecting the passage of a law in
favor of the holders of the Bullock
bonds. To this the Herald replies:
“It may be that our correspondent has
been misinformed, and we trim; that he
bus been. At the same time, ir, is due to
him to say that he ii always very careful
in gathering news to obtain his informa
tion from persons of reliability; hence,
if he has erred, the error cannot be at
tributed to him.
The Constitution thinks that the
bond committee last year did not
learn all things. Although they
“found out that lots of the Bullock
bonds were illegal, and so reported,
yet they didn’t investigate who were
and who were not innocent holders
of those bonds.” Savs it:
COTTON IN BOMBAY.
The cotton news from Bombay is
to the effect that in no previous year
has the cotton crop of that section
promised such excellent results. Un
less some unforseen accidents should
destroy whole fields of cotton, the
shipments from Bombay, during
1873, will aggregate not less than
1,250,000 bales—namely, an increase
of more than a quarter of a million
of bales above last year’s shipments,
1872. Great attention is being given
to the culture of’cotton in India, and
that accounts for the heavy increase
of the staple. As it can now be
shipped to France and England
through the Suez Canal, instead of
around the Cape of Good Hope, the
profits to all parties are greater, and
that fact will stimulate India to still
greater efforts in that field of native
production.
and to protest against the inauguration
of the President’s hostile policy. What
claim the saints and their monstrous be
lief can nave upon the forbearance of
Congress and the Executive we cannot
Discover. What right they have to set
at defiance the laws of God and of man
has never been shown. That this sect
has been allowed to exist—nay, almost
to flourish—in a civilized and Christian
country is a disgraceful commentary
upon our Jaws and Government. Our
Constitution allows the greatest freedom
of opin.on, and proscribes and punisht s
no cne for his belief or disbelief; but it
certainly was not the intention of the
tramers of tnis instrument that licen
tiousness should be elevated into a re
ligion, and tyranny, violence and blood
shed go unpunished.”
The Augusta Constitutionalist, of
yesterday, has a review of Hon. W.
P. Price’s speech on the Western a d
Atlantic Canal in Congress the other
day, and made this argument in favor
of it:
“The South cau never regain lur as
cendency in these markets witnout
cheaper food from the West. Cotton
can uo lougtr be raised as cheap as for
merly. The rain of thousands of cotton
planters, and the vast layers of mortgages
that shiDgle over and cover Southern
plantations are attributable directly to
the vain efforts to make cotton growing
profitable while paying enormous prices
for Western bacon, corn and mnlos. The
Southern States will Vainly sigh aud
strive for immigration while provisions
arc so hi;, i. Emigrants always nr grate
from cou.itries where living is dear, to
countries here living is cheap. This
mainly a« ouuts for tho tide of immigra
tion into me Western States. The South
can only hope to enter successfully into
the rivalry when prices become more
nearly equalized by cheap communica
tion.”
SBOChlJTtl MCRIiKR IJY .TORTH CARO.
AAJk'A.
spirits" at a nrxnnipm.
One of ike Famm Fox Girl* Married
xa laoado*.
From the London Time*.
On the 14th of- December last a wed
ding was celebrated at St. Marylebono (Fiom meWiimingtausur. February ia;
A Crlorcd Mon near Burgaw Murders
l»l« own XV if*—Particulars of tlir
Blno ty Deed.
SOUTI1KKN MiWs BKEVIMKsT
Culled from oirr Exchange.
NORTH CAROLINA.
—Vauce wili probably lecture in Tar-
Church, which in point of interest merits,
from the circumstances nnder which tho
marriage took place, special record.
The betrothal of Miss Fox to Mr. H.
Jencken has been known to a select
circle of friends for 6ome time, both in
London and New York; bat the fact had
purpos dy been kept private, as it was
From a gentleman who arived here
bore.
fiom Burgaw, in this countv, yesterday i , r Gibbons lectured in Haldol,
b * • - fMd.1 Monday night on education. *>“
afternoon, we hav'e the particulars of th**
terrible tragedy that occurred near that —^ r - U. Smith sneeeeds Mr. Mills,
place on Monday, in which a colored man 1 P an S n as Express Agent at Tarboro.
by the name of Sam Perry murdered hisj —Messrs. H. Sclienck Ar Son will SO r
wife. Perry lived at a place called Lil-1 build a large cotton Urtory in Cleav
lington, a small settlement made np al-1 laud county. Ve "
desired to make the whole proceedings most entirely of colored people, about —Deacou Wyatt Cates, of
as quiet and accompanied with as little
ostentation as possible. Even the Rev.
Mr. Braitbwaite, the officiating minis
ter, was not aware who stood Defore him.
On the morning of tho 14th three car
riages might have been seen drawn up in
line ir. the inner court yard of the parisn
church of St. Marylebone. Who would
have dreamt that two souls were to be
united for life oefore the altar of God?
Eulering the church, there stood before
the altar Kate Fox—we cannot call her
otherwise. Under this uume she is known
throughout the length and breadth of
the States c f America. Yes, K ite Fox,
whose nami is fumsliar to every spiritu
alist. There she stood, in white and lace,
the wreath in her hair—the treacherous
orauge wreujtU that carries the symbol ot
flower and fruit within its foldings as tlqj
ureit spirit world bears in and our terra
firmu within the folds of its loving and
protecting mantle.
Pool Kate Fox ! Lc-r si nsitive lcmi-
niuc ieatur s agitated, pale, yet full of
r solve, for her chosen friend stor'd next
to her, and sue had to utter the words
“I will,” in response to the Kev. Mr.
Braitbwaite*s question imposed by the
marriage service. As the prayer was ut
tered ai.d the solemn words were spoken
both bride and bridegroom knelt, when,
lo aud listen’ 1 there came subdued
echoes from friends beyond the grave.
one mile and a half from Burgaw. borne j county, has gone era
time in the early part of last week a man I savs, he has “denied
living in the settlement carried home
two or three barrels of whisky, and Sara
immediately commenced indulging in liis
favorite pastime ot getting drunk, in
dulging to such an ex.ent that he was at
tacked with cteliriutn tremens and became
a teiror to the whole neighborhood. He
was finally taken in hand by Magistrate
John Penny, who locked him up for
three nays, but released him on Monday
on the promise of Perry, who was tUei
Orange
. because, as be
is Saviour and
cheated the orphans.”
•—The Tarboro Southerner savs; o n
Wednesday last the giu house of M-
John Warren, iu this county, was eni
tirely destroyed by fire, together with all
its contents. We have heard no expla.
nation of the orig'u or cause of the lire
The lo^s is suppose 1 to be about $l,eOo'
No insurance.
— The following prisoners
be
EXPORTS OP NAVAL STORES.
An exchange makes the statement
that, until within a very few years,
the exports of naval stores from the
United States were almost exclusively
through the port of New York; but
now the major portion of the exports
are from Wilmington direct. At the
present time there are no less than
forty-one vessels under chart from
that port to Europe with naval
stores, nearly till of them to arrive,
with cancelling dates mainly in Feb
ruary, March and April, though a
few extending to May. This trade,
like many others, has been revolu
tionized by steam and the telegraph.
The current rat.es from Wilmington
to Cork and Falmouth for orders to
the United Kingdom and Continent
are Gsm6s. 3d. 'f? 310 on »sin, and
8s.a8s. 3d. on spirits.
President Grant. has issued a
proclamation directing that all tracts
or parcels of land included in the San
Juan boundary award be withheld
from sale or disposal under preemp
tion, homestead or other laws of the
United States, uritil ^fier the claims
of the occupants shall have been ad
justed, and public notice thereof
mn.
“Auotber thing the committee didn’t
investigate was as to the effect of these
bond complications on the State's credit,
aud what was best to do to pay our uebta
and not gnud the people down or depre
ciate property, or sutler irreparable in
jury. And men who have the State’s
honor aud interest at heart will inquire
into and reflect upon these matters.
Aud men who seek to muzzle investiga
tion aud dragoon public sentiment will
receive the public condemnation. It
will indeed be a pretty pass when malice
shall be able to taiture free and honest
aud necessary enquiry into a crime and,
wheu base aspersions attach to simple
investigation.”
The Macon Telegraph, in real mar
tial spirit, discusses the provision
question in a most masterly manner.
The truth is, brother Clisby is a very
practical man iu everything except
politics, in which he sometimes gets
a little slack. When it comes to
“ meat and bread,” and other previs
ions, no man understands better to
discuss such questions. Taking the
long distance to our base of supplies
and the recent blockade ou the State
Road, as text for his remarks, he ap
peals to our farmers to see to it that
they have their base of supplies at
home. He is most emphatically right
on this line. He concludes his arti
cle thusly:
“ Onr peril is extreme. We ought to
think seriously over it. People in towns
should lay it to heart, and ut the same
time lay in three months’ supplies of
corn, floor and meat. People in the
country should rest not until they have
created a well-stored family commissary
from the frnits of their own soiL Let
the wives and children of the Georgia
farmers appeal to their hnsbar ds to neg
lect this reasonable precaution no longer,
bnt begin at once to stow away provis
ions for a siege. We are fighting the
battle of life on wrong principles. The
odds are against ns. Even if determined
to adhere rigidly to the practioe of bring
ing our food supplies of all kinds from
Missouri, safety demands that we should
follow established military usages and
accumulate stores ahead.”
The Bamesville Patriot, speaking
on the absorbing subject of the bonds,
thinks that if they
—“should be paid, they shoold be paid
although onr people are to groan more
loudly under aoonmnlated taxes. Should
they be adjudged illegal and fraudulent,
by a oompetent committee, then we say
pav not a farthing, although the credit
of the State he bankrupted.”
The Eatonton Messenger discuss
ing the same subject, says:
“ The State of Georgia has taxable
property sufficient to raise $2,500,000 an
nually, for the support of the Govern
ment at the low tax of 1-7 of one per
cent. State, and the same for county tax.
This is all that is required for annual ex
penses. Double this tax and there would
be $2,500,000 to be applied to whatever
indebtedness the State may owe—this
done from year to year until every dollar
of borrowed money is paid would be a
much lighter tax than that which we
have been paying for the last several
years. This too would supercede the ne
cessity of Donds, Mr. Nutting’s bill, or
any measure looking to toe issuing of
bonds which only opens the way for
speculations. We say, away with the
present bond question, and bonds alto
gether, then there will be less specula
tion, less lobbyism and fewer riDgs seek
ing to control every department of the
Government.”
ZST* The Fort Valley Mirror re
flects its enthusiasm for “J. N.’s” lec
ture in this dazzling way: “Let there
be a crowded house on that occasion
—let the hotels resign its inmates,
the hearthstone give up its votaries,
the office send forth its tenants and
the pavements be silent save when
they resound with the multitude hur
rying to the lecture room.” Can’t
somebody crack that glass ?
The Washington Chronicle
says that Secretary Boutwell states
that there is no “hitch” in or about
the Syndicate as l as been reported,
and that everything is working
smoothly. He will be perfectly satis
fied if the Syndicate is ready to take
8100,00( ,000 of the new bonds by the
1st of March.
Z-W*' The Savannah Advertiser
wants to know “ How far is a man
responsible for the acts of his rela
tions ?” That depends upon whether
he lias a mother-in-law or not. That
sort of responsibility is very indefinite.
23^“ An Augusta love-stricken
poet is asking, in the rythm of his
affection, through the Rome Courier,
■* Why do I love her ?”
For the life of us we can’t account
for it, except upon the hypothesis that
she’s a woman.
S3F An exchange says: “ A black
and a white man practice law to
gether in Columbia, N. C.” It is
nothing unusual in Radical circles to
see such associations at the bar.
CSP 1 The Herald thinks The Sun
would fill the hill of heir in case that
paper became mated with the Con
stitution. It would certainly shed a
needed light in the household of so
musty a couple.
23^“ An exchange says: “ A Wor
cester landlady puts on male attire
to look after her boarders.” We can’t
think of a better protection to female
virtue than the rightful possession of
such clothing.
IIAF, RAP, RAP,
fell gently on our ears as tbe prayer con
cluded, “Amen!” From the altar the
party entered the vestry; here again
came the spirit signs of approval, as two
of the friends, Dr. Frederick Tomkins
and Miss Ogden attested the certificate
of marriage of the newly wedded
oonple.
The group that stood around the table
was of singular interest. Mr. H. D.
Jencken and his friend. Dr. Tompkins,
with their high, massive foreheads, look
ing grave and deeply moved; then Mr.
H. C. Ptnnel, the poet, whose every
feature told how deeply his sensitivesoul
was worked upon by what was happening
around him; and then the true friends
of Kate Fox, Dr. Bird and Miss Ogden,
the latter singularly, tastefully and richly
attired in black silt and while point lace.
Who would have thought that this lit
tle group included elements of interest
to the world at large ? Well, from the
vestry room to the luncheon room, at 15
York street, Portman square, the few
select guests were soon seated at the
breakfast table. Silence preceded the
merry chit-chat that followed. It was as
though
A VOICE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
had Lushed the busy num of men. Wheri
the spirits again manifested their pres
ence. the sparkling friends, the true
Cliquot, soon, however, broke in upo
the silence. A merry interchange of
greeting now took the place of former
reserve. Toasts came as freely as if they
had been prompted by unseen powers;
when, lo ! there came spirit messages ot
love, congratulations of sanction and ap
proval.
First came a message from the de
parted mother of Kate Fox, addressed to
Mr. Jencken—a message of love and sad
ness. The terrible cruelty of her child
had experienced at the hands of those
whose duty it ought to have been to have
shielded her, appeared to thrill through
the very words as they came echoed by
tho spirit telegraph.
Then came a message from J. B. Tay
lor, whose watohful presence had follow
ed poor, defenseless, sensitive Kate Fox
through the dark pathways and laby
rinths of this great Babel—London.
“We were with you at the altar,” Baid
the messages; and after dwelling upon
matters of private interest, concluded
with greetings more in harmony with the
feelings. “Jencken is no longer his own
master,” was then spelled out, and a
volley of raps responded to the merry
laughter of the company.
Again and again the spirit friends
joined in with those of the body, and
assented to kind greetings byloying mes
sages; and finally, when every glass was
raised to a toast to onr invisible friends,
th9 breakfast table, thongh groaning be
neath a richly served and handseme laid
repast, and a huge wedding cake, was re
peatedly raised off the floor.
The luncheon finished, the young mar
ried couple soon prepared to take their
departure. In their journey through
life the sincere wishes for happiness and
welfare of many friends will follow them.
Harris, of the Savannah News,
is certainly a young man of parts.
His distinction is boundless, and his
head is encircled in a halo of redolent
glory/
IaAVIcUo* of tbe Doaal Criminal*.
Paris, Feb. 19.—The Trial at Dooai
of toe men accused of rape acd murder
has terminated in a verdict of guilty.
Tbe prisoners were sentenced to varionn
terms of imprisonment at hard labor, the
longest term being twenty years. The
journals generally express dissatisfaction
at the lightness of the punishment.
—1 rince Bismarck has lately been car
rying on a lawsuit in the doable aspect
of plaintiff and defendant. As Minis
ter Resident he prosecuted the Governor
of Lanenbnrg (himself) to establish the
liability of that dnchy lately ceded to
King William by Denmark to contri
bute toward paying the debt of the
Danish Kingdom.
An Omaha bride was married bare-foot
because her lover’s kinfolks dressed that
way, and she did not wish to seem prond.
— Mrs. Holt, of Sumter county, Ten
nessee, during this winter’s cold weather,
rode on horseback, unaccompanied, to
visit her relatives in Indiana—a distance
of 8200 miles.. She says she enjoyed her
ride.
jerfettly sober, that he would
himself and not drink any
whisky. Immediately upon his release,
however, he went to his house, seized a
loaded rifle, and shot his wife (who bad
.‘CCompaun.d him home) through the
breast, killing her almost iust*utly. Mr.
Penny and others heard tue report of the
weapon when it was discharged and
hastened to Perry’s house to see what
was tue maiter, appreheusivo that some
thing terrible had happened. Upon ar
riving there, thej found the poor woman
weltering in lur blood, but the murderer
had disappeared, and when our inform
ant left Burgaw yesterday, no trace oi
him h id bet-n discovered, though every
effott was being made to find out some
indication of his whereabouts.
Bam Perry is about torty years of age,
his wife having been some five years his
semoi. He is a native of South Caro
lina, having come to this county with
Shei man’s army, and is dark complex -
ioned, of medium size, about live feet
four inches high.
No inquest has as yet been held over
the body of the unfortunate woman, but
it is presumed that Coroner Hewlett will
go up for that purpose this morning.
Lave * rf U1 j-«l Tarboro Sunday morning",
more lturu from the Southerner: J
I~0UIJ001S.il K.l.TlP.IN'T.
Conjuring Extraordinary.
Quite a Sensation.
From the Macon Eater^nsc.]
Some time ago a shade of bitter feeling
escaped
as
ou
Wmste.id, sentenced to six months un-
prisoumeut at the list term of the court-
Swift, Charles Cutohin, Wilsou
Pete
Rogers, Levi Fas on, committed
charges of larceny—ail colored.
upon
disturbed tho domestic felicity of man
aud acting wife in a well-to-do colored
family residing iu the muiv respectable
outskirts of the city, tho immediate cause,
of course, being tho unfaithfulness of
the mau, he finding among!-1 his lady
friends one whom he loved, and conse
quently made terms with her immediate
ly—notwithstanding the protest cf the
regular wife, who in a threatening look
retorted, “dat woman will do yon no
good and you will do her no good,” but
he took her, not seeming to regard her
protest.
One day last w eek wife No. 2 was taken
sick, aud a root M. D. of the coloreu
peisuasion was advise 1 with, and^iving
her an emetic, she was constrained to
paitwith something for which all the
wisdom of the profession have in vain
searched for a name. She did not long
survive this, aud her death which took
place last Friday, was noticed, and intel
ligence of it received with terror and
consternation, they openly declaring the
doctor a complete conjurer, mnd that he
caused her death.
We could not find out the name of the
doctor iu question, but we doubt not he
is still carrying on his nefarious practice.
But strange as this is, it went further
still. The woman who made the threat
died at tho same hour (she lived near the
first one) and last Sunday, as though to
complete the programme of this (to the
colored community) terrible drama, both
funerals took place at the time, and both
were buried within two or three steps of
each other.
Murder.
Salt Lake City, Fen. 16.—Charley
Benson shot and killed David Crockett,
jr., at Logan at 9 last evening. Benson
has not been arrested.
A Flacky Girl’* Anxiety for a llasband
And now 111 tell you a story of the
plnckiness of an American girl. She
was nineteen years of age or thereabouts,
and was engaged to be married to a hand
some young fellow, an offioer on one
aide of the Paoifio mail steamship*. SBe
resided in New York city, and was to
meet him, by appointment, od the re-
torn of the steamer at San Francisco.
So, accompanied by a lady companion,
a cousin about her own age, toe went by
rail to California. For some reason or
other, however, the steamer to which
her lover was attached was detained in
the J apanese waters, and another steamer
made the trip from Yokohama to San
Francisco in her place. This steamer,
however, thongh it did not bring the
lover to meet the intended bride, yet
brought the next best thing—in the esti
mation, probably, of the yonng lady—to
him, namely: A letter, setting forth the
reasons of his non-appearance, and im
ploring her to extend her trip a few
thousand miles farther over toe ocean,
in the steamer that brought his missive
tc her, on its return voyage, and join
him in Japan, where they would be
united immediately upon its arrival.
Tbe two young girls took a tew days to
consider tho matter, then telegraphed
their friends at home their decision, re
packed their carpet-bags, did up their
back hair a. la Japanese, aud went aboard
the steamer en route to Yokohama, where
they in Une time arrived, and the day
aftei ward the marriage of the sailor and
his plucky .young sweetheart took place
on tne quarter deck of the vessel in the
presence of the high officials thereof.
Whether the cousins, who accompanied
tho would-be bride, will meet with a
similar fate, remains to be 3den.—New
York Correspondent Courier-Journal.
Blurder in tbe Second Degree.
Morristown, N. J., February 15. —In
the case of David Moore for tho murder
of his wife at Dover, the jury returned a
verdict of murder in the second degree.
Conviction of a Murderer.
Chicago, Feb. 15.—The trial of John
F. Osborne, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Matthews at Yates City, III, in
August last, was concluded at Galesburg
this morning, the jury rendering a ver
dict of guilty and fixing the penalty of
death by hanging.
Fatal Affray.
Memphis, Feb. 15.—A special from
Sardis, Miss, says: William Bavles, a
farmer living near Batesville, was at
tacked yesterday by a party of negroes,
one of whom shot and dangerously
wounded him. After Bayles fell, he
raised himself on his elbow and shot the
negro who wounded him, then fired npon
another, killing both instantly.
Terrible Dl*a*ter.
New Orleans, Feb. 15.—The steam
boat Henry A. Jones, from Houston for
Galveston, with a cargo of forty-one
bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire
this morning in Galveston bay. Twenty-
one lives were lost, including Captain
J. J. Price, first clerk, and James B.
Hogan, second clerk, both well known
steamboat men.
Suicide.
Nashua, N. It, Feb. 17.—This after
noon a man named William Dame com
mitted suicide by hanging himself in a
stable in the rear of his residenoe on
Water street. The deceased came to
this city about a year ago from Laconia,
and has been employed in Eaton &
Ayres’ bobbin shop. He has been sick
during the winter with rheumatic fever,
and it is stated that the rash act was the
result of despondency. He was 62 years
of age. and leaves a son and daughter.
Rumored Attempt to Poison
Bismarck.
St. Louis, Feb. 16.—The Democrat
to-morrow will publish an extract from a
private letter from Berlin, wliicu says
the report is quite prevalent that Bis-
mark’s continued indisposition is owiDg
to numbers of poisoned letters he has re
ceived. He is so troubled with dizzi
ness that he scarcely leaves the house,
and his wile, who always reads corres
pondence with him, is suffering from an
unaccountable feebleness. Tho palace
ALABAMA.
— A soap factory is being established I
iu Selma to work cotton seed oil.
— A petition is circulating iu the Ala
bama nvtr towns asking a re-establish
rnent of the river mails.
—The Selma Times is wroth because
of the guapo iu that city—its editors
don’t like the smell of guauo.
—Toe proposed cotton factory ou Pea
River, iu Barbour county, is now a fixed
fact—they are to have it, sure.
—There was a fire in Eufaula oa tho
morumg on the 15th, destroying a build-
iug which had been occupied as a ma
chine shop, aud which still contained a
steam engine and considerable other ma
chinery.
MISSISSIPPI.
—Meningitis is still in and around
Louisville, though it seems to be abating
somewhat.
—Corinth is agitating a railroad from
that point to Hamburg, on the Tennes
see river.
—Several planters in the neighbor
hood of Suubuta are putting in good
sized patches of sugar cane.
—The planters of Wayue and Clarke
are beginning work in earnest, bnt they
are extremely backward.
—The Meridian “Mercury” of last
Tuesday tells of a horrible affray between
three friends named Sam. Lookey, Tkos.
A. Shedd aud Tkos. Walker, in wLich
the latter was cut to pieces with a pocket
knife. Whiskey was the cause of it of
course.
— There is a rumor curreut iu the
counties of Amite and Wilkinson that a
company of capitalists iu New York
contemplate the construction of a nar-
row-guage railroad from Woodville to
Liberty, and thence to tho New Orleans
and Jackson road. At Woodville con
nection would bo made with the Bayou
Sara road, and it is also proposed to cross
the river at that point ami connect with
the Baton Rouge and Vicksburg road,
the latter being a collateral of the Texas
Pacific.
KENTUCKY.
— Mr. Meyer Weil has been ro-nomi-
nated as the Conservative candidate for
Mayor of Paducah.
In a shooting affray in Fulton county,
one day last week, between Noel Steven-
berger on one side and two men named
McClairaDd McGuire on the other, eight
or ten shots were fired and Steveuberger
received a very severe wound. The other
parties escaped, l ut it is thought that
McClair was wounded also.
—A large grindstone weighing 1,500
pounds burst at the plow factory of Mul-
drow, Small & Laurie, iu Paducah, the
other day, and narrowly missed killing a
workman, who had just finished grinding
a plow on it.
—The Bolivar (Tenn.) Bulletin eays :
“The lessees of the Mississippi Central
Railroad are extending the same north
ward as rapidly as possible. By the first
of July cars will be running to Milan,
and Defore 1873 expires to the Ohio
river, where direct communication will
be made with the Illinois Central Road.
TL.NN ESSEE.
— The Columbia Mail notes considera
ble emigration from Maury county to
Tex is.
— J. N. Epperson, of Jefferson county,
ia uuder arrest, charged with passing
counterfeit currency.
-John W. Cruze was elected to fill a
vacancy in the Knoxville Board of Aider-
men Saturday.
— Norman’s distillery, in Anderson
county, was soiz?dby the United States
on the 13th. Norman himself succeeded
in escaping.
— The Knoxville Chronicle says that
“sweet voices were heard in the days
gone before, when the wing down the
river is fair.”
— The jury at Memphis, Satorday,
found Lewis Sturgeon guilty of murder
in the first degree for killing young Joe
Murphy last summer.
— Two brothers had a fight in Nash
ville Saturday last because one of them
had been furnished with clean sheets and
the other hadn’t
— Tho Columbia Mail speaks of “rock-
ribbed” Susan merely from “the eternal
Firness of things.” Fie, yon didn’t take
her measnre, did you ?
— Hatcher, of the Columbia Mail, has
forgiven a Virginia mail robber—which
is very angelic, but calculated to encour
age stealing from the Mail.
— TaeJ Gallatin Tennesseean reports
that Silas Smith, a colored Baptist
p-eacher, has been found guilty of adul
tery by tbe colored Baptist churches
there, and has gone to Kentucky.
—Two Memphis servant girls (colored),
named Mary E. Thom and Matilda L.
Dnffey, according to the Avalanche, got
huffy, and Mary, with her little hatchet,
cut Matilda’s thumo off in a jiffey.
—The Union and American says that
Saturday night at the theater a section of
plaster, about the size of a bed-blanKet,
fell right on the heads of a group of
State Senators who occupied 6eats to
gether.
—Tbe Banner telis of a young Nash
ville lawyer, married a year, who was
has been closed during the entire winter } congratulating himself that he had set
on this account, and neither Bismarck ; tied all his debts on the 1st of January
nor bis wife have participated in the i aad didn’t owe a dollar, when a bill was
coart festivities at all. ‘ sent in of 8400 for dry goods.