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Vol. IV-
THE ATLANTA SUN
|t RKC'llllSAk OAUUHIV.
Every now then the world is
reminded by the Nor&ern press of
“bad spirit” on tbeprrt of thj Soutn-
orii peopie. We propose to draw a
contrast. The Washington corre
spondent of the Louisville Oourier-
Journal, of recent date, in one ot his
letters, said:
The approaching Cl remouy of rtec'»rat-
iag the giaves of the Udiod wildu-ni at
Arlington on the 30tn met., has given
opportunity tor tue usual display of
malignity »od exeitcmt-ut at n e idea
of floral tribnt-s to tne C-.ntederaU'
dead wlio an- buried inere. Tne Ex-
ecntive Coniniiti<e of .lie Grand Army
of the Republic, who have the Oelebra-
tion is cbarxe, have given notice tbal
i Willi attempt i>\ tiic trii-uua 01 the rebel
dead (to strew fi iwcre on their graves)
will not t>e tolerated.
In a recent speech, in the city of
Charleston, a Southern city, alway9
considered the stronghold of Sou th
orn feeling, called the hot-bed ol
secession, Gen. John B. Gordon, a
favorite of Gen. Lee, and one of the
most trusted and honored Con-
fedrate chieftains, spoke as follows to
an assemblage of gentlemen, from
both sections of the Union:
"I give you the heroic dead o? both
armies who fought for principle and
backed their conviction with their lives.
Let both be duly honored.”
The contrast is so distinct that
none can lail to draw a definite
conclusion as t# the extent of
malignity that prevails among a cer
tain class of Northern people. It is
but repeated evidence of a hatred of
the South and her people, her fallen
heroes and her martyrs to what they
believed to be the cause of liberty.
Numerous instances are upon record
where Southern women have laid
tender flowers upon the graves of
Federal soldiers, as they paid this sad
hut loving tribute to the memory of
their own dead.
IIow could a brave and magnani
mous people refuse such a sacred
office to the dead, of those sleeping
enshrouded in the grey or the blue ?
Cannot malignity subside ever the
grave, and throw the mantle of
charity and forgiveness upon the
humble mounds of those who fought
bravely for the right as they saw the
right? Is sectionalism sc bitter that
it must lacerate sores to bleeding
that only need time and the exer
cise of forbearance and forgiveness to
be healed ? Is national traternity
and nat.onal confidence to be
restored, and national prosperity to
be established and advanced, by
the uuwise and malignant course
of suen as constitute the Grand
Army of the Republic? Is
there any bravery or exhibition of a
disposition to forget the past by such
orders.
Does not the charge of “bad spirit”
upon the Southern people by the
North come with bad grace in the
face of such an order? No! no!
no! The wounds of disaffection and
alienation engendered by the late
war are constantly being reopened by
just such manifestations of “bad
spirit” by large bodies or organiza
tions of Northern people who claim
to be Union .people, but are anything
else than such. They malign and
dishonor the dead to express hatred
and contempt for the living.
If we would expect to lorget the
asperities engendered by the late war
on both sides, we should remember
that the dead of th? grev and the
dead of the blue are no longer ene
mies, but are resting in their graves.
No true, manly heart would or could
object to placing a few flowers upon
the mounds that hide their remains
forever from mortal view.
THB HLOKT OKA* H OHW. ' _
The feeling in Ohio on the Con
gressional salary grab seems still to
be on the increase, and will no doubt
enter largely into the discussions
during the ensuing campaign in that
State. One branch of the State Legis
lature passed resolutions sometime
since censuring the members who
accepted the pay, so meanly filched
from the Treasury.
It appears now, as we are advised,
that Senator Allan G. Thurman, a
leader of the Democracy in Ohio,
and one of the ablest men in Con
gress, said at the time that the
nefarious bill passed, that he would
not draw the amount coming to him,
but allow it to lapse into the Treas
ury as a part of the unexpended
balances. This, it is now stated, will
not be the effect, in which event Air.
Thurman will except his share of the
plunder and immediately refund it
into the Treasury.
We make this statement with
pleasure on the authority of a friend
of the Honorable Senator, who is ad
vised as to the fact, and for the
reason that it is refreshing in these
times of corruption and barefaced
thievery, to know that even Ohio
has one honest mau in Congress.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
We have received the annual cata
logue of th'.s noble and grand old
institution of learning, which shows
it to be in a highly prosperous con
dition, there being three hundred
and twelve students in attendance
Of this number fifty-one are pursuing
a'classical course; twenty-four, sci
entific; nineteen, elective; one hun
dred and fifiy-one, State college; fifty-
one, sophomore, and sixteen in the
law school.
The University of Georgia is an
institution which every Georgian
may feel proud. It is one that has
given to our beloved old State the
greatest number of learned statesmen
and influential citizens. From her
halls have gone some of the most
eminent men of the last half century
or more; and he who would educate
his son well, and at the same time
honor his State, should send him to
the State University.
As this is emphatically a State in
stiiution, it is to be hoped the people
of Georgia will ever give it that lib
eral patronage it so well deserves by
reason of its thorough curriculum
and the high standard of scholarship
necessary to graduation.
doidimu »*w».
Georgia. Ium,
Maoon will have a new poafanaater on
the lat of Jane.
Macon haa a ease of mall pox every
now and then.
Encouraging crop reports come from
Brooks county.
The Savannah regatta is the absorbing
topic in that city.
The Chattooga county crops are in fine
condition.
The City Council of Columbus has pur
chased a Champion Fire Extinguisher.
Mrs. McMichael, aged 74 years, died
in Griffin on Saturday last.
Cotton is either grassy or dying, or
tnere is a bad stand of it in Heard
county.
It is said there will not be enough
wheat raised in Spaulding county this
year to feed the people one week.
Ida de Lons, is tne title of a new story
just commenced m the Rome Commer
cial
The bavanuab Journal, the last Radi
cal organ in the State, has ceased to ex
ist
Rev. Dr. Williams has for sixteen years
been Secretary of the Episcopal Conven
tion, am 4 an excellent one be makes.
The priu mg nod bookbindery istab-
hsbuieut • f J. W. Burke & Co., at Macon,
employ upwards of sixty persons, at a
oost of over a thousand dollars weekly.
Forty-eight hundred and twenty-live
postal cards wete disposed of i ■ less than
forty-eight aours at the Savannah p. s
office.
The Georgia Historical Society has
purchased hlty copies of Col. G. G.
Joues’ work oo the “Autiquili- s ot the
Southern Iuuians.
The work on the Northeastern Railroad
is progressing rapidly under the skillful
and judicious management of those who
nave the control of it.
On the line of the Rome Railioad, be
tween Rome and King-ton, the cotton,
corn ard clover crops are looking remark
ably well.
The Griffin News says the Bankrupt
Court is in fall blast in (hat city, and
that the business will be very heavy dur
ing the summer.
Horace King has taken the contract
for replacing tne bridge at FrankliD, for
tne bum of $3,500. Horace is a respect
able colored man living in a two-story
eight room house in LaGrange. His
word is as good as his bond, and either
are as good as anybody’s.
WIl.li OF CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.
The will of Chief Justice Chase,
filed and entered for record in the
office of Register of Wills for the Dis
trict of Colbmbia, is dated Novem
ber 19th, 1870, and appoints Henry
D. Cook, sole executor. After pay
ing all just debts, the interest on six
thousand dollars at 7 per cent, is be
queathed to his niece, Jane Auld,
during her life, and if her daughters
survive her, the principal thereof to
be paid to them equally. Ten thou
sand dollars each to Dartmouth Col
lege and Wilberforce Institute, and
the amount due him by his late
brother, Edward J. Chase, is remitted
to his widow. The residue of his
property he bequeaths to his two
daughters, Mrs. Senator Sprague, of
Rhode Island, and Mrs. Hoyte of
New York. The real and personal
property of the deceased is estimated
at $250,000.
GEORGIA EDITORS.
The correspondent of the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, in a letter
from this city to that paper under
date of the 20th inst, giving an ac
count cf the Convention of Gov
ernors here, says of the Georgia edi
tors:
“The Georgia Press Association, in
session here, has been authorized to en
roll their Lames as delegates, and the
convention presents a very fine ap
pearance."
We take the compliment for the
editors, instead of the other mem
bers of the convention, according to
the construction of the sentence
quoted. Without the presence of the
editors the convention would not
nave presented “a very fine appear-
we are to take the
judgment of the Courier-Journal
man.
another minister fallen.
Rev. Robert C. Smith, a faithful
Presbyterian minister, died at his
residence in Yineville, as we learn
from the Macon Telegraph, on the
23d inst., aged 63 years. Up to the
time of his > illness, which was only
three weeks before his decease, his
labors were devoted to three vacant
churches in different parts of the
country. For many yeais he wjs
identified with Oglethorpe College,
until it was removed to Atlanta,
when he devoted his entire time in
preaching the Gospel. He was
good man in the true sense of the
term, universally beloved and re
spected, and his loss to the chnrch
and community is one which cannot
be easily filled.
The Semi-Centennial Anni-
fcgf The authorities of Augusta
are justly p<oud of their beautiful
Cemetery, and do not allow visitors
to abuse their privilege with im
punity. For pulling flowers in that
sanctuary of the dead a few days
since, a party of young ladies were *
mulcted in the sum of fifty dollars, 1 resolution
and two gentlemen (?) ten dollars Dieee^. t. Menu r
each lor the same otteuse. uli . A U J
versary Convention of the Episcopal
Church of Georgia, held last week at
Savannah, was quite largely at
tended. The opening sermon on the
“Antiquity of the Episoopal Church,
was delivered by Bishop Stevens, of
Pennsylvania. The annual address
was delivered by the Bishop of Geor
gia. Bishop Stevens of Pennsylvania,
Bishop Howe, of South Carolina, and
twenty-six min sters were also pres
ent. Fifteen churches were lepie-
sented. Bishop Stevens presented a
from the Pennsylvania
i jni*»iiMii«iiie.
o ■-... ■ at ion
Miscellaneous Items.
Harrison county, Mississippi, has not a
dollar in its treasury.
Galveston claims to be the best coffee
market on the Gulf.
Cleveland girls answer “ you bet!”
when marriage is proposed.
The editor of the Anstin, (Mies ,) Re
publican is advertised as lost by his
dev»l.
The Mississippi Radical papers are di
vided between Ames and Powei fo. Gov
ernor.
The prisoners in the Helena jail exact
a» initiation ree from all new comers
quart of whisky.
Morocco am. France will not go to war,
as the good offices of England have re
stored amicable relations.
Wm. Cullen Bryant counted eighty-
eight sharks in the month of Indian river,
Florida, the other day.
The Wilkinson county, Texas, jail has
been vacated by its inmates. A party of
torty thieves assisted in the escape.
Silvan Commarzier suicided at Little
Rock last Monday. Twenty-five cents
woith of morphine put him to sleep.
,T. H. Pulleu, of St. Lou’S, with $10,-
000 in his pocket, mysteriously disap
peared at New Orleans the other day.
To kill a sparrow is a mean thing, bnt
to kill four hundred in a day, as a Grif
fin, Ga., man boasts he did, is really bar
barous.
Gbattanooga has voted down six propo
sitions for internal improvements, where
by the city debt would have been largely
increased.
Mrs. Leslie cowhided Mr. Frazer on
the streets of Dec ltur, 111., the other dav,
and the citizens made up a purse of $100
for her.
Somebody asks: “ What is home with
out a cradle ?” Hang tne cradle. It’s
the little cuss in the cradle that maxes
home howl, if anything does.
A postoffioe has ]ust been established
at Jamestown in Virginia, the first it has
ever known, and exactly eight genera
tions after the place was founded.
Ay uug New Yorker has obtained
twenty-seven different card photographs
of “ future wives” who are in store for
nim, obtained from as many differem
sources.
Mr. James Smith, an Australian jour
nalist, has received a spiritual commu
nication that the world is to be “ burned
black as a forgotten toast by a wave of
fire,” within a year.
Queen Victoria’s .chief physician says
that housework is admirably calculated
to preserve a robust woman, and to
strengthen one who is weak. An hear
in the laundry u better than a vial of
iron.
Captain Jack has $800 in a Yreka
bank, and sinoe be cleaned out General
Canby’s pockets has a few more dollars
which he desires to salt down to enjoy
when he gets old and unable to pall a
triager.
Cairo, Egypt, has over one thousand
restaurants or cafes, and nearly one hnn
dred pnblio baths. The former are
dingy and musty, ana the latter far from
attractive. At many of the ca.es Eng
hah waiters are employed.
Tne people of Byraooae are emigrating
from that city to seek homes in the far
W st “It is well,” says the Commer
cial Advertiser, “a city of the size of
Syracuse that ean’r sho » more than two
ruutders - year is no place to bring np
children in.”
Boston is making additions to the
number of its pabho baths this year.
The cost last year for these provisions
for hatning was $4,565. t ire ot these
houses this season are forgo la and wo
men. Boston means to be clean and
healthy.
Tne new planet, whose existence seems
now to be plaoed beyond a doubt, will
bear the name of VuItii, after Ventu’
ill-favored husband. Its orbit lies within
ii.-.i .nt M. ir ot. hi. I r* '•••volu-ii n about
. v- "Hii> , *>hV'i in iulij-lour
wjo fctanU OC/U.A aawU.O,
This Is how a country exchange puts
it: The sad effects of matrimony were
never more terribly depleted :han the
other day, when a meek-eyed man who
had been married abont a year patrolled
he village street all day, trying to swap
a meerschaum pipe for a second hand
cradlb.
That was a good, though rather a se
vere pun, which was made by an Edin
burgh student, (and he was not oue of
the brightest ol the class, ei'her,) when
he asked, “Why is Prof. the great
est revivalist of the age?” and, on all
“giving it np,” said, “Because, at the
end of every sermon there is a great
awakening.”
A I ondon reporter finding the te.e-
graph offici door closed and porter asleep,
while the operator was at work beyond
t earing the knocker, in an upper story,
procured entrance by telegraphing from
another office to a clerk at Glasgow, w ho,
in turn, sent the message back to Lon
don. The double process occupied buta
veiy few minutes.
It is stated that Prof. Rich, as the le-
sult ot extensive investigations into the
disinfecting power of various salts, when
applied to animal and vegetable solids
and fluids, sewerage, etc., h is deter
mined that the hydrochlcrate of
ala-’ dia, supplemented by a small qn-in-
tUv of chloride of iron, is the most effi
cacious and generally applicable disin
fectant.
Iudiano iolis police officers find pistols
in the streets, and then the Imtianopolis
Journal advertises the fact, at the same
time making the statement in regard ro
the acapon that “any one claiming it
will be prosecuted for carrying concealed
wcanons. ” Of course no inquiries for the
pistol under such circumstances, and so
the officer sells it, and then goes off and
gets drunk on the proceeds with the
Journal nun.
The town of Londonderry, N. H.,
holds its charter on the condition of
giving the Governor of the State a peck
of potatoes every year, and pay s the pen
alty of its corporate existence regtihuly.
It is an old custom, derived from ttie
mother country, and though perhaps
more honored in t-iie breach than in the
observance,” is kept as if the weliare of
the town and of the Governor’s tamily
depended on it.
The driver, or rather, the editor of the
Central City, Col., Coach, gives the fol
lowing warning u* su'senbers: “The
writing editor of the Coach carries his
office in his hat, and will always befouna
at home. The fighting editor will De
around every Saturday evening to settle
all difficulties. The financial editor has
gone to the Vienna Exposition. No bills
will be paid until he returns. ’
Political Items.
Congressman John H'll, of New Jer
sey, is called by the Trenton Gazette
“the postal reformer of the age,” because
of his having “originally introduced the
act authorizing the issue of postal cards,
and zealously labored in behali of their
introduction until his efforts were crown
ed with success; and served, furthermore,
as the maiu worker in the repeal of the
franking privilege,”
President Grant annonnees his Intention
to sin a all personal and p .rty considera
tions in the appointment of a successor
to Judge Chase on tue Supreme bench.
We hope so.
The Democrats and Liberal Republi
cans of Onio hold their State Convention
at Columbns, on the 5th of August.
There are 2 123 member* of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows in Mis
s iuri, and 4,907 in Indiana.
The Tux Payer’s League, of St. Louis,
last week preferred eh"' g-s ol gross mis
management in the afiuus of the Insane
Asylum in that city.
Lttttr from Eaton ton.
Eatonton, Ga., May 23, 1873.
Editors Daily Sun.: At the last regular
term of Pntnam Superior Cousin March,
Nick Boeswell, colored, was tried and
convicted of the murder of Robert Gad-
lin, colored.
The evidence in the oase, as brought
out, was substantially this: The relation
of the prisoner and deceased had not
oeen pleasant for some time. In the
month of January there was a grand re
union of the negroes of the neighbor
hood where the parties lived—all the
men bee - me more or less intoxio&ted and
daring the night a melee arose and Nick
Boswell took advantage of the occasion
and ran up to Robert Gadlin, and with a
large knife cat his entrai.s out Gadlm
lived a day or two and died.
The above condensed testimony was
given oy witnesses and corroborated by
the dying declarations of the deceased.
The veraict of the jury seemed to make
no impression upon the prisoner. His
Honcr, Judge Bartlett, in sentencing
him, tried apparently to arouse
some feeling of emotion in the bosom of
the culprit, out he utterly failed and Nick
stood mute ami to all appearance, un
concerned. He does not seem to realize
at alt his; awful situation. An effort a as
made by his counsel to have his sentence
commuted to imprisonment for life in
the penitentiary. But Gov. bmith re
fused to commute.
So nothing ■ t-mains but the carrying
out the sentence of the Court, and today
was set apart for the Hanging of Nick
Boswell by tho ueex until he is dead !
dead 1 dead !
Since the above was written, Nick Bos
well has been executed When the hour
ot twelve arrived the sheriff, with a guard
of about forty men, proceeded to the
jail and carried the prisoner to the scai-
lold erected on the suburbs of the town
for his execution.
N*^withstanding it was the direct or
der of the Court that the hanging should
be strictly private, there were a large
number of people, white and black, on
the ground near the awful place o.' de
struction, anxious to witness tne last sol
emn scene.
But the officers, in obedience to in
structions, permitted only the guard,
ministers, newspaper reporters and the
relatives of the prisoner to go inside ot
the enclosure which contained the scaf
fold.
The occasion was the most serious and
solemn we ever saw. Nick Boswell war
as calm ard composed as could be, and
apparently satisfied with his fate. He
said he was willing and anxious to die,
and knew that he was prepared and
ready. As scon as all became quiet, he
arose to his feet and requested his friends
to join him in singing the hymn “ Why
do we mourn departing friends,” which
he himself interlined and sang through.
This done he bowed down and delivered
a fervent and touching prayer. He ex
horted all to look upon him as an exam
pie aud never be guilty of crime. The
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church here then saDg “ A charge to
keep I have ” and led in prayer. Then
the prisoner with firm step ascended tue
platform and said “I am ready.” Just
as “Why should we start and fear to die”
was raised the rope was cut, the platform
went down and Nick Boswell’s neck was
broken. His pulse ceaseu to be«t in 15
minutes, and his body was taktn down
in 22 minutes aLd given to his friends.
F.
»N
a hurridokfdof blood.
■rder.<l •» the !£▼„ ef
WUNMlfioro^, hym |tr ;--
ffbm Memphis Avmlsnch*.
In the still dark hours of the niok*
eral noura before dawn of vesterda 8 ^ Se7 ‘
tag. ,» ..f„l deed „1 btaffiS*'“•*»'
formed on boatd the steamer tmttt
whik. on her voyage Irom Friar’* p
this eity. The
steamer arrived at it;
port near sunrise yesterday, shortlv ab
which the following particulars of*
THB REVOLTING MURDER
were obtained. At Friar’s Point am 0 n*
□ O took nncoo*• . »
other persons who took passage for .si*
bv y a 7* a ^ , E - Mor * au SSSfiS
by a lady, to whom n is reported he
f 00 ? 1 to _ be ^ m ^ d iD marmge. Morg^
had ^ recently been a farm hand m q
employ of Dr. Childress, of LaGra-L
I.'uuessee, wno haa a plantation m th £
neighborhood. About 11 o’clock i u «T
day night, at Bledsoe’s Landing Arkan
sas, some fifty miles below this port th
John Cauuon, who has b eu a sUimI
keeper for Charles Edwards at the above
landing for some time pa-t, ame on the
boat, somewhat under the influence of
liquor. Cauuon engaged passage for this
city, and deposited something over $400
for safe keeping in the banciBot the boat’s
clerk. Before the boat left Bledsoe’s
Cauuon took a few drinks with hisem.
ployer and others. He remained up after
tbe boat got under wa., aud w>-nt aoont
acting in a ratiom i manut r until Idlewild
landing was made, a few mihs above.
WANTED TO KILL SOMLISODT.
Here he threatened to kill a young
man, an acquaintance, with whom not a
cr« ss word had occurred. The threat-
ened person believing from his move
ments that he was in earnest, wrested a
derringer from his hand. Cannon soon
after recovered h.s weapon, went to the
office, demanded aud obtained his money
from the clerk, turned about and noticed
Morgan reciimug carelessly in a cnair a
few paces behind tue hall stove, stepped
up to within a few paoes of him, and
said:
“ SIR, YOU ARE A D— D FRAUD.”
Tou are a liar, sir,” retorted the
otuer, and “ Dang,” went the ilerriDger,
tne ball passing through the victim’s
left eye and urain, almost at the ir stant,
and before he could rise from the chairs
upon which he rested. But two or ihree
persons witnessed the inhuman atrocity,
These were so shocked at the revolting
spectacle that for a few momen s they
were transfixed with astonishment.
Judge Handy, apissenger, w is walking
up the cabin at the time, and was the
first to approach the murdered man, who
gasped his last breath before a hand
could be laid upou him.
An Arkansas Fend— * lie Last Male
Member of a Family Killed.
From tie Hot Springs (Ark.) Courier.
We a*-e fuformed by a gentleman dir* ot
from *’olk county that John Flynn, the
Ust male member of the family, is killed.
It will be recollected that about one year
ago a trouble arose between the Wymber-
lys and Flynns aoout a Horserace; that is,
oue of the Wvm lerlys whipped one of
the Flynns at lie race, and the next day
two of the Flynns—father and sod, the
former an ex-Sheriff and the latter then
acting Saeriff—went to Wymberly’s
house ami shot at Wymberly.
Wymberly returned the fire aud
succeeded iu killing both ot them.
Blackwi-U, a sou-in-iaw of Flynn, Sr.,
then took out litters of administration
on his father-in-law’s estate, and the
Flynn’s were opposed to his stlling the
property and shut Blackwell. The Flynns
wvre then arrested and ore of them im
prisoned, whil the other proved an alibi,
but was shot as he was co jiing out of tbe
Court House. John Flynn, the last one,
broke jail aoout Christmas, aud has been
lying arc and SDd making trips back and
forth in the Indian Nation. On Satur
day last they beard of his being in the
neighborhood, and procured a warrant
tor his arrest and went in search of him.
They came upon him about daylight last
Sunday morning. He drew his weapon
and made fight, and lueu the posse fired
upon him through the body and through
the uead.
At a recent sitting of the Eng
lish Court of Exchequer the Lend Chief
Baron created Mr. Arthur Cohen “the
Tabman of the Coart.” It is a queer
and rather ambignoas title; oat after all
has nothing to do with the Coart’s abla
tions. Iu fa^t, tbe position of aTnb-
Facts—Not Theories.
Here are a few plain facts that are
worth more as a basis for the action of
manufacturers with capaial to invest, than
all the gas, and all u.e fine-spun and
plausible theories the combined press ol
the South could publish in a twelve-
month: The Columbus, Georgia, facio-
rit s have taken thus far this year six
thousand two hundred and eight bales of
cotton, against four thousand nine hun
dred and eleven last year. If this cotton
had been sold ac eighteen cents per
pound it would have realized five tun-
dred and fifty-eight thousand seven hun
dred and twenty dollars. It was ass* d
through the Columbus mills, its value
trebled, and soM to the country North,
Sonth, East and West for one million six
nundred and seventy-six thousand one
hundred and sixty dollars. Thus, Co
lumbus cleared one million one hundred
and seventeen thousand four hundred
aud forty dollars, and retains the money
there, because she has the spirit to erect
and maintain iactories.
And her people have not only shown
the pluck and enterprise to bniid theBe
cotton factories, but have demonstrated
that such wolks pay by declaring round
dividends to the stockholders, while the
averagd wages paid are a shade hight-i
than those paid to operatives at tbe
North. And this difference iu wages is
more than saved in the aving of freight*.
It is a very plain proposition that ir tho
manufacture of cotton in the New Eng
land States is profitable, nothing but
igm ranee of the business rr bad man
agement can nuke it a failure in the
South.
If the owners of Trion factory, who
have to wagon everything they consume
or manufacture fr^m twenty to thir’y
miles over bad roaus, can, as they have
done, make the manufacturing ot cotton
yarns and goods pay, what is to hinder
Chattanooga from realizing a larger
profit?—Chattanooga Times.
ESCAPED TO THE WOODS.
Tbe murderer hid himself from view,
aud at Harklercde’s, wbeie tbe next
landing was made, he took to tne woods
aud suddenly dLuppea-ed in tbe dark
ness. The remains of the murdered man
were put ashore at the same landing,
and left with law officers to hold an in
quest over and i’lter. And this is the
story of the b.oody work of a man evi
dently crazed by a too free use of mean
whisky.
A RECKLESS LIFE.
Cannon is a mau of some thirty-five
years, and was raised in this city, where
his relatives now reside. He is a native
of Middle xennessee. A lew years back,
during rhe war, lie is said to have figured
conspicuously iu numerous daik and
lawless deeds in the vicinity. Some years
since, while outiu Texas, he was married
to an accomplished young lady of that
State. Becoming dissatisfied with the
region, to which a vast emigration has
been constantly mov.ng, Cannon drifted
back to the scenes of Lns early exploits.
A y*-ar or more since, while under the
influence of strong drink, he is reported
to have fired at his own sister, who nar
rowly escaped witn her lite.
At Bledsoe’s landing, where he hasie-
cently lived and prospeied, and where
his wite resides, ue is said to have been
very attentive to duty, and was well
thought of by those who have had busi
ness or friendly intercourse with him.
The demon drink could have been the
only cause that instigated the dreadiul
murder, as he bau never met the victim
of ins wrath until the Allin came up to
B eosoe’s night before last, and two houis
ueiore the killing had never seeu him.
Doubtless, to this moment he is ignorant
of the name of the murdered mau.
Editors.—The Macon Enterprise
has it that a conductor on the South
western Railroad had to strap one of
the editors down to his seat in order
mas is one oi Borne honor, and one to J to prevent him Bitting on the ice-
which the Shakespearian querry “What’s j coo i el .
in a name?” peculiarly applies. There
are two ranking barristers in the English
Court ot Exchequer. The one is the
senior counsel, called the Postman, at
present the Hon. Mr. Tbiesiger; the
other is the Tabman, who is the coun
sel next in dignity to the Postman, ai d
even on some occtsions has a precedence.
So after all Mr, Cohen did not maze a
bad thing of tt in being created a “Tub-
man.”— Baht more Gazette
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota,
says ne hai eight Episcopal churches in
his diocese composed of Indians, and
four of the clergymen a~e Indians. That
of itself is a plea for tolerance to the sav
ages. It is of no uae to plead for the
Modoos, even if anyone were inclined to
do so. Their fate is sealed—when they
are caught. But then let the evil that
they have done “ be interred with their
bones.” The good that these Chnstiau
li.diitoH <•! Dr. Whipple will do wtl .»*<-
That’s nothing. Editors are human,
like u-her folks. We have seen small
editors strapped in onr time, and
more extraordinary yet, we saw one
not long since with a brick in his
hat. 6ud fellows, these editors.
How He Disposed or His Back Pay.—
A Congressmen who had drawn that ex
tra pay, called by some of the papers the
salary grab, said he intended to give
w hat he had drawn in this way, to ike
poor of his district; and remarked that
he teas the poorest man in it.
From tlia Marietta Journal.
The Atlanta Herald for several days
past has oeen engaged in what u calls
an exposition of a “great outrag*',” in
which ex-Guv ruor J. E. BruwD, Presi
dent of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, and Geu. McRae, bupenut* mlent
of said road, have been represented to
be at enmity, owing to Brown conducting
the road, as alleged, m the interest of
self and to the detriment of Sco ield’s
Ir n Foundry, of Atlanta, an i the Ken-
nesaw Mills, oi this place, and others.
With this matter we nave nothing what
ever to do, only that Mr. Brown in a
long letter denies these charges, and that
CooE & Cheek state Fiat they have not
been “victimized,” bat the Herald,
in its Sunday issue, suffered to
appear, with editorial matter, a
communication from Marietta, signed
“E Pluribus Unum,” the content* of
which do great injustice to Mr John H.
Boston, depot agent at this place, also
member of the firm oi Boston &
Gilbert. It is true Mr. Boston is J. E-
Brown’s brother-in-law, but this is no
crime and i-hoiild not cause the enemies
of Gov. Brown to make accusations de
rogatory to Mr. Boston. As depot agent
he is eminent!* qualified, having bad
connection with th© road long before
Gov. Brown assumed control, and his re
tention and assignment to the depot
agency at this place is a compliment to
mtri* and efficiency. He is acc* mmoda-
ting. and gives genera 1 satisfaction, and
“tyrannizes” over nobody, aDd the
cnarges preferred against him as agent
and merchant are unfounded in fact.
, The business house of Boston & Gilbert
is conducted on the most honorable basiSi
and we candidly confess that we do no
admire the “ spirit” or the “ enterprise
that seeks to injure the honorable b rru ' u
conducting a legitimate and honorable
business.
J9*A conference of Republicans assem
bled at Birmingham, England, last week,
adopted artsoiuuon uitavoro. a Fed
eral Republican form of government for
tbe empire of Great Britain. It will be
a difficult matter to change tne conserva
tive Engliso from their settled admns-
Uuii oi uons.ituiional monarchy.
Mrs. Gen. R. E. Lee is soon to
pay a visit to her relative, Mrs. FitzbagDi
of Alexandria. Mrs. Lee nas been an
invalid for years, but is said now to do
in better health than for some tinu P 18 ''
She is now with her eon, Gen. W. H* *•
Let. Lear Whit* House.