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THE ATLANTA SUN
|>rrfiilonii of lli« Huprnnc C<»art tf
Ocor«l*.
Delivered at Atlanta, March 31, 1873.
From t lie Atlanta Conatitntlon.
Abt 1 1 <em<»n tt al. vs. .Jeukius and wife.
Equity from Henry.
McCAY, J.
Where there was a question ou trial be
fore a j lrv us to the validity of a gift aud
it wa» in proof that tbe maker of the
tbe deed was of excitable temper *ment.
that u« had lost one eye and was t*Aliened
with rueoma isin and could not get along
Weil, nud tiiat be bad a daugnpr by a
foi mer wife o whom he was devoted!}
a’t -obed a id ’o whom be was very indnl-
grjit, t.iat the tract o* land bad come
to him by her mother, who had drawn
it in ‘iie’S’ate Littery. and h« bad uni-
foru iv n fused to sell it saying that be
1L’ -odcd this land for this dau_,nter Uud,
in spite of bis wishes, rau nwa< from bitu
aud married, that this bad excited and
ai'.Oie.i him greatly. That for several
duye alter she left* bo continu d thus
excited and disturb'd, that be would
stamp upon tbe ground, erv aloud and
b at the giionnd witn his stick; that he
might lit u. a d during tue nigbt wvep
in < " > and ex. 1 timing t‘ a' he expressed a
m i ll that be could kill his daughter wit’'
b. r bos' ;unl, »u«l Uoit then some ope
might k>!i inm; that the deed in ques
tion was made during this period, givii g
tlu- land to his only daughter by bis sec
ond marriage an.i to three ebtl iron oi
bis brother, abaro and share alike; tbai
this brother wrote the deed, and wae
hi-s u-ual confidential aovh r, to uiiu lie
always resorted when in trouble; that a*
ti» time be mado a deed ot ail his negro
piopi-rty t, > bis n i e for life, remaindei
to lur daughter!-, remainer to the chil
dren of his lirother woo was made also-
teo to ins lafror deed, which he trus*
wrote; that together, these deedsjj»|
b>in with barely suflicient means to pay
hisdebis.
It wasin testimony by the hroti'er, and
by the gran*ees in the deed and by the
wi'e, 'H also by the witnesses to the deed,
aud by Home others, to at it was made in
fony-eigbt hours after his daughter left;
that he wept anil walked tbe room as it
was being read, but that be made it free
ly, and that be was fully aware of what
he was doing, and was fully competent
to act and contract at the time. On the
other hand, it was in proof, by five or
six w’tuesses, that for several days after
bis daughter left be was wild with ex
citement, not in bis right mind, doing
fool’nb things so as to attr-'ct attrition,
and they did tot at the time think him
competent to attend to business. It was
in proof, by Hie brother, that he advised
the maker of tbe deed not to make it,
but to make a will, which be could re
voke if he saw tit, and this advice was
also given him by one of the witnesses,
but that be persisted iu his determina
tion to put it out of his power to alter
his mind. The deed was delivered to
the daughter of his second wife—then a
child—who gave it to her ancle. It was
proof that, subsequently, tbe grantor
hail become reconciled to the daughter
of his first, wife, had got up the deed,
that it had been mutilated, that be had
made another deed giving the land to his
daughter, as had been his confirmed pur
pose before her marriage. It was also
proveD that the daughter, having lost her
husband, she had married again, and this
time also against her father’s will ; that
he hac 1 , after this, renewed and confirmed
.the d-ed to his second wife’s daughter
and to the children of his brother, that
after this he died leaving a wdl, made
shortly before, confirming this first deed
and leaving his first wife’s daughter noth
ing. On the trial a Mr. M ixwell was al-
lowrd by the *onrt to prove tha’ some
time between 1861 and 1K6 >, (the first
deed was made in November, 1861, and
his death was in 1866), he had beard
the grantor sa.v that his brother was try
ing to get h m to make a deed to the
brother's children of some property
wnich eame by his first wife, and he
asked witness’ advice about it; that at
the time the brother was present with
some papers he was trying to get the
grantor to sign. The Judge, among
other things, told the jnrv that if the
graufcoi of this first deed was at t .e time
laboring under monomnnia, caused by
the marriage of his daughter, aud the
deed tl’.e result of that monomania, they
should set it aside. Tho jury found
against the deed to the second daughter
«nd tli a children of the brother, and the
first wife.
The letting in of the testimony of
Maxwell, tbe charge of the court as to
tbe mouomuni , and his refusal to grant
a new trial because the verdict was con
trary to evidence, were excepted to.
Held. That the testimony of Max ell
was properly admitted as though it was
of little WcikLt, yet it went to snow the
relation of confidence and infl ion- be
tween the brothers.
2. Tue ehuge as to moLumKnia was
not illegal, as wholly without auy thing
iu the evidence to justify it.
3 Ihe Vcr Let of the jury being the
decision of a tribunal appointed by law
to p-.ss upon t -C.s, and being not con
trary to, but rather supported by the
evidence taken altogether, ought not to
be disturbeu.
Judgment affirmed.
I). J. Buny, J. J. i. i.j\ ., cieurge M.
Nolan, for plaintiffs in error.
Speer A Stewart, Cincinnatui Peeples,
for defendants.
Thomas Hambriek vs. John Dick sy. In-
june'ion and demurrer, from Henry.
McCAY, J.
Iu I860, A bought of B a tract of laud,
near which he haa lived for some years,
paying part ot the purchase money)
giving his note for the remainder, and
going into possession and into use of tbe
land; and in 1867 permitted judgment to
go against him for the balance of the
purchase money; and in 1872 filed a bill
in equity, setting up that A, at the orig
inal sale, had falsely represented that a
certain portion of the land, which was
low ground, had been ditched and was
then in cultivation, was capable of being
kept dry and fit for cultivation, when, in
fact, as experience had proved, this was
tot possible, as after a few years it had
become unfit for use, and so continued.
The bill set up that B was insolvent, and
prayed that the execution which the bill
claimed was for no more than the damage
caused by the false statements of B
^fiht be enjoined.
Held, Tnat the Judge aid not err in
* t^pcrary injunction and in
dismissing the bill for want of eqnity.
Judgment affirmed.
r5n!l r tri 8 u W ? rt ’ ^P^nted by
P 6 Howell, for plaintiff in error.
J. R. Nolan, J. J. Floyd, for defen
dants.
to take the Confederate money when
Horton tendered it to him at any
time. Who the messenger was is
white or colored.
. „ T vc vTClarke Exeoutor. not stated, whether white or colored
Tniunctiou and De- male or female, and it is a significant fact
Dissolution of Injuncti u affidavit of that messenger was
mnirer, from Newton.
M When’ A. filed a bill in eqnity against
C’s administrator alleging that he (A.)
and B had during the late war, traded
lands ; that B. was at the time, indebted
to C for a part of the pm chase money of
the land, but C. was refusing Confederate
money, so that the debt could not be
• •aid that for this reason A. only gave
to B his bond for titles to the land he let
him have ; that B. aftrrwards traded the
land he got of complainant to D. and
transferred the bond ; that shortly after
this complainant received a message from
C., th- n in life, hat he might safely
m ike a deed to D-, as he, C., was now
willing to take Confederate money from
B. for his lebt; that know ng positively
that B. had the money ; nd was ready to
pay he (A.) in consequence of this mes
sage. made titles to D and took np bis
bond ; that he is informed that B. soon
after tendered the Confederate mon“V to
C. who refused it; that C. had died and
his admiuis’rator, the defendant, was pro
ceeding the levy, his judgment, which
was a judgment on the foreclosure or a
mortgage on the land. The bill prayed
a pprpetnal injunction againRt the mort
gage, and a temporary injunction until
tue trial. Tbe Court granted the tempo
rary injunction.
C's administrator, the detendant an
swered tbe bill, denying on his informa
tion and belief, the sending of the mes
sage and the tender of the Confederate
money, and moved to dissolve the in
junction and dismiss the bill for want of
eqnity.
The Court dissolved the injunction and
dismissed the bill.
Held l. Tbatas the statements of bill,
on winch its equity depends, were not
stated as in the complainant’s own knowl
edge, and was not supported <>y auv affi
davits of their truth, th~ Court did not
err in dissolving the injunction.
2 That tber- is equity m the bill, for
which complainant lies no reme.iy at Jaw
and ib t it was error to dismiss the bill.
Judgment dissolving toe injunction
affirmed, tbe judgment dismissing the
bid reversed.
J. J. Floyd, for plaintiff iu error.
Clink k Pace, represented by Peeples
& Howard tor defendant.
TRIPPE, J., concurred, but furnished
uo written opinion.
WARNER, C. J. dissenting.
This was a bill filed by the complain
ant, against the defendant, prating for
an injunction to restrain the sale of cer
tain described tracts of land under a
tax fi fa., which had been levied thereon.
Tho injunction prayed for was granted,
aud afterwards, a motion was made on
the filing of defendant’s answer to dis
miss the complainant’s bill for want of
equity, and to dissolve the injunction.
On the hearing of this motion the Court
sustained the de.murrer to the eomplain
ant’s bill and dismissed it, whereupon
the complain nt excepted. Tue alleg
ed grounds of equity iu the complainant’s
bill are t at li« was tue owner of a set-
:lenient of land in Newton county
known as the Hammock, Gill
and Corly pla.-e, that one Turner
Horton was the owner of a settlement of
laud in said county, known as the Whatly
place; that on the uuy of eighteen
hundred and the complainant and
Horton agre d to exchange tho atoresaid
settlements of land, but oefore t.>e deeds
\v‘-ro executed. Horton informed com
plainant that, he had purchased his set
tlement of laud from Clark and that a
part of the purchase money due therefor
was unpaid; that Clark had transferred
his cla m to the money due therefor to
Dr. Conyers, then iu life, but now dead;
complainant then declined to execute a
title to Hortou for his settlement of land,
but instead tnereot, executed to him a
receipt in tho na.ure of a bond for title,
conditioned to make a title when the un
paid purchase money due for the land
should be paid bv Horton—complainant
taking a deed from Horton for his s.dtle-
iU'nt of laud, knowing, as the complain
ant alleges, tnut said Horton was fully
able to meet and discharge said liability
for the unpaid purchase money, went
into tue possession of the laud, sud has
continued iu posseasion of the same up
to the present .line, Shortly after the
complainaut had executed and delivered
his bond for title as before stated, to
Horton, the latter sold the land described
tuerein to Zachery, and transterred to
him his said bond for title. The reason
why the purchase money had not been
paid by Horton for the land, the com
plainant sta'ea from information and be
lief, was that Conyers was unwilling to
take Con'ederate money for the debt,
but complainant oeleved he had pro-
leeted himself by retaining the title i’>
himself to the land sold by Horton until
the purchase money tor the laud bought
by him fiom Hortou shouia be paid.
Complainant alleges that sometime about
tbe day of , in the year 1860,
lie received a message fiom Conyers
that he would receive from Hoi-
Coiifcderate money iu payment
of said claim, and" that he (com
plainant) might safely execute a deed
for the land to Zachery which he had
sold to Horton, and whicn the latter had
- old to Zachery; that relying on this
message from Conyers, and knowing that
Horton had the money in hand and was
anxious to pay for it, he did, on the
day of , eighteen hundred and sixty
, execute a deed for the land to
Zachery, and took up his bond for title,
and complainant has been informed, and
believes, that immediately after he had
executed the deed for the land to Zach
ery, Horton tendered to Conyers Confed
erate money sufficient to pay the princi
pal and interest due on the aforesaid
claim, and complainant believed the
whole matter was settled nntil the 29th
of October, 1868, when he was notified
that the Sheriff had levied the mortgage
fi. fa. on the land, which mortgage had
been given by Horton to secure .he pay
ment of tbe purchase money for the land,
and had been duly recorded.
Such are, substantially, the allegations
*n complainant’s bill. If the allegations
in the bill is to be liberally construed,
that the message from Conyers that he
would take Confederate money, was re
ceived by the complainant in I860, then
it wrs before Confederate money was is-
sned, bnt if it was intended to mean that
it was 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 or
1865, or in some one of those years, then
the time is ton uncertain and indefinite,
because it wonld be much more impioba-
ble that Conyers would hi ve sent a
message that he would take Confederate
money in 1864, or in 1862, or in 1863,
but there is no allegation that he refused
tnat the affidavit of that messenger
not produced on the motion to dissolve
the injunction, but, after all, the com
plainant’s a'legatious only amount to
this, that somebody told him, at sometime,
that CoLyers would take Contederate
money for Horton’s mortgage debt, and
that he might safely execute a deed to
Zachery. Whether Conyers ever told
anybody that he would do so, we do not
know, ana to charge Couyers, after his
death, with having discharged his mort
gage lien on Horton’s land upon the mere
say-so of a nameless messenger, would be
without a precedent in the history of ju
dicial proceedings. The allegation that
the complainant received the message
trom Conyers, as stated in the bill, nec
essarily implies that he must have re
ceived it through a messenger, in other
words, that messenger told the com
plainant what Conyers said, but that
nameless messenger may not have told
the truth in relation to the matter, aud
C- nyers would not be bound because that
messenger told the c mplainant he nad
sent such a message. As to Conyers, it
was only the declaration of some third
person, aud as to the complainaut, it was
only hearsay evidence, and nothing more,
especially as the complainant does not
allege that he believed it to be true. Tbe
allegation that the complainant received
the message front Couyers, necessarily
depends on the lact that the nanuless
messenger told him so; in other words,
I received the message from Conyei s. be
cause the nameless messenger said so, or
tolj me so, and that is all that llegatiou
amounts to.
B •si tes, this mortgage debt due by
Horton for the purchase money of she
land sold by him to the complainant,
was an incumbrance on the land at the
time of the sale, and there is nothing in
the hi’l which goes to show that the
eouiolainant has uot au ample common
law remedy on his deed from Horton to
him for the laud, uo charge u* insolvency
on the pait of Horton. If the compl iin-
ant chose to act upon the information
of ihis naroleess messenger, which he
does not* even allege he believed to
be true, without inquiry of Conyers as
to the truth of his statements, ana make
o deed for Zachery, it was his own fault,
and a court of Eqnity will not assist him.
the more especially as he lias his remedy
on Horton’s Heed to him, if the laud pur
chased from Horton snould De made sub
ject to tbe payment of the mortgage
debt. Horton is the real party interested
to have the mortgage lien removed frftm
the land iustead of the complainant,
The allegations in the complainant’s bill
are to be construed most strongly igaiust
him ' specia ly when the process of in
junction is prayed for, aud if he cannot
recollect as to tue time when material
transactions took place, the Court
will not recall it for him
The demurrer to he bill only admits
such facts as, iu the judgment of the law,
would entitle the complainant to the re
lief which h<- s. ebs. Would the allega
tions in the complainant’s bill, if proved
at hearing, us therein set forth, entitle
him to a decree setting aside and can
celling Conver’s mortgage lien on Hor
ton’s land ? If they would, tnen the in
junction should have been retained, but
if they would not, and in my judgment
they would not, then there was no error
iu the court below in sustaining the de
murrer and dismissing the complainant’s
Pill for want ol equity.
J. H. Gianti n and H. W. Dallas, execu
tors, vs. Henry T. Heard, defendant in
ti fa; T. A. Frost, claimant. Claim,
from Troup.
TRIPPE, J.
Under section 3525 of the Code it is
uecessaiy that the purchaser of real
property should be in the possession oi
the same tour years before it caD be dis
charged from the lien of a judgment
against the person from whom he pur
chased.
Judgment reversed.
James S. Walker, represented by A.
H. Cox, for plaintiff in error.
B. H. Hill for defendant.
Eml of one of file strangest Careers of
Modern Times—A Aitneteentli Century
JMrssalina.
Tbe New York Sun notes the death re
cently at Damascus, Syria, recently, of
Lady Elleaborough. Forty years ago
she was one of the most noted women in
Europe, and her residence in the East
has loDg been a sort of scandalous ro
mance. The daughter of the late Admi
ral Sir Henry Digby, beautiful, witty,
and rich, she married in 1824 the Eirlot
Ellen borough, who was afterward Gov
ernor General of India, aud who at that
time was one of the most brilliant men of
the day. She was about seventeen years
of age at the timo of her marriage, and
Ellenborough, who was a widower, was
tnirty-four. They lived together some
six years, and her dissolute conduct was
a cause of scandal for some time previous
to the catastrophe of her elopement with
Prince Fchx Sell warzenburg, a celebrated
roue, theu Aus riau Minister to Loudon.
The event caused au immense sensation
iu tbe world of aristocracy and iashiou.
Ellenboiough procured a divorce trom
Parliament and never married again; but
his runaway wife soon separated from
Schwarzenfcerg, and in 1832 married Ba
ron jVenningen, a Bavarian. Tiring of
him presently, and with her grtat wealth
and personal faseinationg having little
difficulty in procuring divorces under the
laws of Germany, she was married in suc
cession to five other individuals; but as
none of these unions met her expecta
tions, they were all dissolved after a short
duration. In 1848 she was living in
Athens with her eighth husband, a Greek
colonel, Count Theodoki; but without
waiting to become a widow she had this
marriage also dissolved, and set out for
the Levant. During a journey from Bey-
rout to Damascus she found a new affin
ity in the person of an Arab camel driver,
known as Sheikh Abdul, whom she mar
ried after the Arab fashion, and who was
the ninth and last of her conjugal part
ners. For a whole year she accompanied
him on his journeys between Beyront
and Babylon, faithfully fulfilling all the
duties of a camel driver’s wife, even to
milking the camels. Tiring of this no
madic life, she ouilt for herself a charm
ing palace in Damascus, where she has
since lived in her own style, a great ob
ject of cariosity to all European travel
ers. Abdul, continuing in business as a
camel driver, was always hospitably en
tertained by her whenever he came t .» the
place. And now she is dead, having com
pleted nearly three score and ten years,
leaving a collossal fortune to her rela
tives of the Digby family in England,
and a memory of warning and of shame.
— The two schools in Senoia are in a
flourishing condition.
— Four gin houses were leveled to the
ground by Tuesday’s storm.
— Bread in Elberton is nsiug a bakery
naviDg Dean established there.
— Reuben Smith, of Wilkes, lost his
kitchen by fire Monday night last.
— Spalding and adjoining county farm
ers are done planting corn.
—The town of Cartersville is now night
ly illuminated by street lamps. /
— Elberlon has about made up suffi
cient money to connect herself with the
Air-Line Railroad by rail.
— A magnificent cotton factory, to be
run by steam, is to be erected iu Colum
bus soon.
— The preachers in Columbus must
fare sumptuously. One firm in that city
sells 600 chickens every week.
—Charles J. Brantley and George B.
Smith, bo’h of Washington died of men
ingitis a few days ago.
—Macon is down on cock fighting and
the city fathers refuse to Lcense cock
pits.
—The case of young Phil. West,
charged witn the killing of Mr. Raley,
Lee couuty, was continued to next term.
— Mr. Stephens was invited to address
the people o: Wilkes county during his
recent visit to Gen. Toombs, but declined
to do so oh account of indisposition.
— Griffia is to be r. -surveyed, and the
Court House is to be the centre, it is
supposed that will take Fitch in as a city
tax payer.
— Fitcu has opened his eyes to the
novel sight of two- Superior Courts in
session at tue same time in the town of
Griffin.
—Mr. Jack Geiger, a well-known citi
zen ol Albany, has been confined to his
bed for several days with paralysis, aud
has lost the use of his leit side.
—Mr. J. W. Reade, a painter employed
at Woodstock iron works, near Rome,
fell from the drop-house Wednesday
evening, and broke his right leg just
above the ankle.
—The Albany News gives notice that
Wm. Henderson, Deputy Sheriff of
Worth county, is indebted to chat office
for legal advertising, and refuses or neg
lects to pay.
—S. P. Armstrong, teller in the Cen
tral Railroad Bank, at Albany, has re
tired from the positiou and is succeeded
by Capt. Y. G. Rust.
—A little colored girl had a kerosene
explosion in her hands the other day in
Macon while in the act ot using the oil
for kindling a fire. Her life was saved
by prompt assistance.
— The Standard says Talbot county is
still on tne guano sceut. Numbers of
wagons continue to pass well laden with
the precious stuff. Our plantera have
almost forgotten the time forcoru platt
ing.
—A party of dusky damsels from
Bridge Row in Augusta the other even
ing made a descent upon their sisterhood
in the neignborhood of the Waynesboro
depot. “Nobody nurt.”
—Tnis is from the Rome Commercial:
Tho machinery at Woodstock iron works
was moved yesterday for tbe first time by
steam. These works will soon be under
full headway, aud will turn out from six
to ten car loads of iron per day.
—A German confectioner named
Charles Bo.swilliwold, disappeared from
Mhcod last Saturday very mysteriously,
aud if is believed by his friends that dur
ing a temporary mental aberration, he
wandered off into tho woods somewhere
around Macon, where he still remains.
— Tuesday’s storm at Talbotton was
light. So reports the Standard. The
heaviest part passed to the North. Glass
was broken, aud fences overturned. Hail
stones as large as hen eggA The front of
the Wilson store was blown off.
—The lately appointed postmaeter for
Savannah is experiencing some trouble
in procuring sureties for the little seven
ty-five thousand dollars bond required
before entering upon the duties and en
tering the pleasures of his new office.
—In Augusta Thurday morning an
old colored woman Darned Dilsey Bell,
who has been in feeble health for some,
was fouid dead in her bed, on the prem
ises of^Mr. William M^Carroll, on Lllis
below Lincoln street, where sue was em
ployed as a domestic.
—The Albany News says that the re
cent rains have damaged planting se
riously. Tlie washing is unprecedented,
and vast areas of corn and cotton will
have to be replanted. A considerable
proportion of the cotton crop was put
in before the rains, aud we learn from
good authority that uearly the whole Mill
have to be replanted. Corn, wliere it is
uot washed is looking finely and is in
good condition.
—About the last of January a lady
named Mrs. Alary Scott, accompanied by-
two children, a boy about three years
old and a baby aged aDout one month,
went to Savannah trom Hardeeville, S.
C. She was iu very bad health at the
tune, and it is supposed she was taken
sick aud died there. Mrs. Saran Lively
states, iu an advertisement in the News,
that any information concerning this
lady, will te thankfully received.
A Thousand Dollaks.—Tne finest set
of chamber furniture ever seen in Atlanta
is now on exhibition at the store of Platt
& Co. It is magnificent. There are two
huge French mirrors belonging to the
set, which the “handsome Charlie’’ has
placed in position, and is continually
surveying his obese proportions before
them. The set is priced at 81,000. It
is worth a visit to their ware room to in
spect it. There are other magnficent
chamber and parlor suits just received,
but costing not qnite as much.
TELEGRAPH TO TBE DAM SI.
New Yobk, April 5.—The men em
ployed in tbe New York Gas Works, on
the foot of 21st Ea t River street, quit
work at noon, and forming in procession,
marched to th* Mntaal Gas Light Com
pany, on the foot of lUh .street, where
they endeavored to indace the men there
♦o strike. In this, they were not success
ful, bnt claimed, however, to have as
surance that the men wonld leave off
Monday. The strikers then marched to
the Works of the Manhattan Company,
at East 14th and West 11th streets.
The men in these. Works refused
to join them at present, but premised to
consider the matter. The march was
next to the Metropolitan works at West
42d s‘re>-t, bnt no accessions to their
ranef were obtained there.
This strike was not unexpected to the
Gas Company aDd the men. had hardly
walked out of the New York cas works
when fifty-four Italians and Swiss took
their places. This act stirred up the ire
of the strikers and they threatened to
annihilate the Italian fc’reet sweep -rs in
the neighborhood bnt tbe prompt arri
val of a detachment of police preserved
the people.
Strong details of police arc stationed
in aud around the gas works, and pre
vent the strikers from gathering in the '
line lens is the size of an ordinary S'
d.mbie-eonvex. held in the J nt - e ’ t
the eve bv ligaments. In i t8 nat °
condition it is perfectly transparent 8 o
that the rays of light which are admitted
through the pupil must and do
through it before they c»n reach the on
tic nerve and its fibres, which enter thl
eyeball from tbe (posterior) back part of
the eye; and when thia crvatalline lens
loses its transparency, as it does in that
condition of the eye called Cataract, then
the rays of the light cannot pass through
it; hence blindness ot the eye must be
the sequence.
Cataract may appear suddenlv, bui
generally comes on gradually. The pa-
tient fir-t begins to see things indistinct
ly; then objects assume a sm">ky appear
ance; then things look clondv; finally
tbe opacity of the lens becomes conmlete
and quite ail the light is excluded from
the sense of vision, and the patient is
blind. This m «v come to pass in one
eve or bo’h. When one eye becomes
blind from this ^auso, the other is apt to
take on the same condition.
-Manv persons have a taint
neighborhood. The men are ke;it con- ,n blood which produces Cataract, (a
staDtlv working, and up till evening no P Pcn ; ,a ^ diathesis); it, is caused by me-
figi ts had taken place. Buuks and cook-; 0 ,aT1,< ’ , l injuries of various kinds; it is
ing ranges have been arranged in the cans ™ ^' e irqndioions and ignorant
works where the strike occurred, so that nse of dyugs applied to ihe eye; it is
L-ette-on Cataract by Dr. J. A . Jon
By the majority of mankind poiT*'*
is supposed to be seated on the o ^
of the ball or outside of th e eye-T
is within, near the middle o* l’he Ln
and is an opacity of the crystalline 1.
or its capsule, or of both. The “mi?
the men have no occasion to leave the
premises. The strike is for eigiit hours
and 83 25 per day forstakers, and 82 50
for helpers.
New York, April 5.—W. S. Andrews
after delivering a lecture before the
Young Men’s Christian Association last
produced every day by old fogies, char
latans, and other similar persons who
style Themselves Doctors; and even some
good family physicians, without a knowl
edge of the anat my of the eye, with
more temerity than science, appiv nitrate
of 'silver, aud many other remedies
night, was arrested wnd taken to Ludh w , as injurious, which may
uot only produce Cataract, bnt gen-
leaves the
Personal.—Among tho nnmbez of
guests who are at present stopping at tne
Kimball are Col, W. J. Whaling and
lady, of Virginia; Wm. H. Toombs, of
Washington, Ga.; F. A. Frost, ot La
Grange; Col. W. C. Buchanan, Belle
ville, D).; Mrs. and Miss Barbee, Mrs.
Spear, Miss Cook, Mrs. Hubbard and
Miss Blood, of Chicago; Mrs. J. W,
Abert and Miss-Snsie Abert, of Newport-
Kentucky.
Over four thousand volumes of “Clif
ford Tronpe” have been sold within the
last three weeks.
Street Jail ou charge contempt of court, j ,,
in retaining some three thousand dollars 1 em v
which he had beeu ordered to pay over
to a woman in a bankruptcy case.
Among the saved from the ill-fated
Atlantic. S. W. Wick. North oorolina,
and a Frenchman named Simou Cama
cho, had tl eir legs badly frozen. They
were in the rigging eight hours. Pas
sengers repoit that from thr«e to five
hundri d passengers on the Atlantio must
have perished within ten minutes after
boat struck tbe second time.
In conversation with a reporter
yesterday evening at Halifax, Capt.
Williams said he spent most oi
Thursday night at Mars Hill and
personally examined the bodies
but, found none of them mutilated, but
believes many of the bodies have been
robbed. He said the Atlantic was suffi
ciently coaled before leaving Liverpool
if it had not been for the three days of
heavy weather experienced. We were
ont of our position solely on account of
the current, which must have had a
northerly set as well as w esterly, and he
allowed eight degrees eastward to offset
it, bt lieving that to be ample. On Monday
he was quite sure of his position, both
barometers agreeing, but. the northerly
set proved greater than was allowed for
For t wo or three days preceding he had
found the ship set to southward and
eastward of her position. Captain W.
was in his room on the saloon deck, less
than thirty feet from the bridge when
the ship struck all the leads and lines
that were in order, but they bad not
been used, not deeming them necessary.
He considered officer \\ etcalf, in charge
of tbe deck at the time of the disaster,
thoroughly competent.
Columbia. S. C.—The fire fiend is at
work in the State. On the night of the
1st several stores were destroyed in
Walli; 11a. Last night the Western Union
Telegraph and Southern Express offices,
depot and adjacent stores in SViDnsboro
were burned.
Marion, Ala., April 5.—Gov. A. B.
Moore is dead, aged 68 years. He was
Governor when Alabama seceded, and
was universally Deloved and honored.
London, April 5—Afire lamp explo
sion in Monmouthshire county killed five
and hurt many persons.
Fh t ladelphia, April 5.—The Su
preme Court against MissBronbam who
claimed the right to vote.
Macon, Ga., April 5.—B. A. Wise, a
prominent merchant, is dead.
Memphis, April 5. —R. W. Coleman
killed Ins brother-in-law, Jolm Newell.
It appears that Newell was a dissipated
man, and wrote a threatening letter to
his father-in-law. Coleman has not been
arrested. The father-in-law of both of
fers to surrender Coleman if the authori
ties will accept a 850,000 bail.
For Oar Country Friends.
Ourat'entiou has been called to the
condition of McDonough street, out near
the city limits, as being badly in need of
repairs. This street is one of the Fading
thoroughfares to the country. At *be
place designated, near tbe limits of the
city, there are some very high hills that
the rains of the past winter have very
mnch washed, making deep gullies and
holes almost impassable. The expense
of repairing the street will not be con-
aidoraole, and at this season of the year
cannot be permanent. We hope, for the
benefit of country visitors who have to
travel this route, that it will be done.
The street force cannot be more profita
bly employed for a few days than in
fixing np the streets leading to the coun
try.
Mr. Chairman, Young, of the Street
Committee, shall we soon hear that the
iniative is taken in this matter ?
cornea nebulous,
causes the tunics to adhere, leaves
specks on the eye, blunts the conjunc
tive, produces thickening ’if the lining
membrane. We can cure Cataract in
some cases by absorbents; other cases
require an operation, which we perform
inside of two minutes, and with no more
pain than tbe pricking<>f a pin. Specks
on the eye are the result of inflammation
of the mucous membrane, and the usual
severe r» medies applied to cure it.. Our
method of removing them is original,
without pain or danger. Finally, with
the superior advantage that we possess,
the aflections and diseases of the eye and
ear are removed, and cured with a suc
cess hitherty unknown.
Dr. Jones has expended his stay at tho
K.mball House, in tlm citv, until the
10th of May. On hF way to New York,
he will pra dice t the Stanton House,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, from the 10th
to tho 13tli of M ftV . His address, after
the last named date, will bp, Dr. Johan
nes A. Jonew, M. D., New York CityP. O,
Be^Letters containing 81 answered.
Dr. Goodwin’s Lecture.—We heard
the desire expressed by quite a number
of gentlemen yesterday that this gentle
man should repeat his lecture delivered
Friday ou Science. It is spoken of in
the highest terms by those who hoard it,
and we join Mith a city cotemporary in
the belief that “if the lecture could be
repeated at a more central point, we feel
confident it would attract a much larger
audience, and know it would afford in
structive enjoyment to all.
The suggestion is presented to the
mind that ii a hall in a central portion
of the city could be sec.nred and provided
with philosophical and scientific appara
tus as a permanent fixture, for the use
of lectures on scientific subjects, it would
be of great benefit to the city.”
Personal.—Mr. Freeman, one of the
editors and proprietors of the Calhoun
Times, called to see us Friday. Mr.
Freeman is an ex-Atlanta boy, having
served with distinction in the oid Intel
ligencer office. Tho Times, uuuer his
manipulation, has improved very much,
and now takes rank with the best coun
try papers in tne State.
Summer Heat.—Yesterday at 3 o’clock
lie thermometer denoted 88 degrees, in
tLe Library. Ten days ago. ou the 26th
’>1 March, ice a quarter of an inch in
tuickucsH Wat- loruied in the same spot.
Just one taotitii u&u, he ei Match,
between the Library and the buiidingon
the oppo-ite side of thera Iroad, the boys
were skating on ice for a whole week.
United States Court.
The United States Court was occupied
yesterday in hearing the argument on
the demurrer filed in the eqnity case of
Rigdon vs. R gdon on a bill for discov
ery. The demurrer was sustained. Sev
eral criminal cases were continued for
the term.
Forty Days.—A negro woman who
was a witness in a case in the Police Coart
yesterday morning became very much
excited while stating what she knew
about it, aud “ bullied the Court” in it-
very presence. Being ordered to keep
quiet, she only aired her tongue the more,
until the Recorder sent her to the lock-up
for forty dayB for contempt. He thonght
this was “ patting her where she would
do the most good.”
The sun came down so strongly yester
day that the asphaltum walk in trout of
the Franklin Printing House became as
soft and pleasant as a new Brussels car
pet. Towards evening Col. Prather was
speaking of stcloning O car Martin in
iront, in order to poll out the litt’e girl*
who “stuck.”
Smart Thief. —List night, just be
fore closing hour a sneak thief went in
John M. Hill’s i.quor . tore, xv Lile Mr.
Hill was in tue rear part, and stole out a
box of cigars. Some parties gave him
chase but did not succeed in capturing
him.
A Fire.—Yesterday alternoon it was
reported that there was a fire on Marietta
street and “Blue Dick’s” bell rang the
alarm. We could not find whether it
was or not. We know one thing certain,
if there was a fire then or any other
time, “Blue Dick” is sure to have some
thing to do with it.
Street Improvements.—Our venerable
city fathers are making commendable
efforts to render navigation on the prin
cipal thoroughfares of the city without
the aid of mud boots next winter. Broad,
Loyd and other streets are now under
going substantial repairs. Besides, sev
eral flag crossings have been laid last
week. Go on gentlemen, don’t weary in
well doing.
Does a swallow make a Summer ? We
would suppose that this is true ufter no
ticing the announcement in one of our
city cotemporaries of the arrival of one
of these far famed birds, and then re
membered how warm a day yesterday
proved to be.