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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & 00.. Prourietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 4, 1877.
VOL. III. NO. 45.
CU lili EX T VA Ji O BA VH S.
Atlanta, Oh., has a society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals. It
offers premiums for dray horses in best
condition, and in erecting drinking foun
tains for animals.
Lord Bbaconbrield is credited with
describing evening-dress as “a style of
costume sanctioned by society for en
abling ladies to display their natural
beauties with a profusion worthy of a
Grecian statue.
Ix France in 18(>9 eleven tons of to
bacco wen* made into cigarettes; in
1876 six hundred. The society of
young French women pledged not to
wed no man who smokes has a great
work yet to do.
Recent experiments at Antwerp for
lighting up the river and the harbor
with electric light have been very sue
cessful. It is belicwul that this mode of
lighting will now be generally adopted
for the lighting up of large spacer
M. Ferdinand de Lkhskps^recently
spoke in Paris on the three great enter
prises which occupy the attention of the
civilized world, namely, a railroad across
Asia, an American interoceanic canal,
and an inland African sea.
As a preliminary stop to the Red sea
expedition which the Khedive of Fgypt
recently sent out for the abolition of
' slavery, the harem of the Mofettish,
consisting of three hundred white slaves,
besides frhe blacks, was sold at aue at
Cairo.
The commissioners of agriculture of
Tennessee has issued a circular addressed
to the principle sheep men over the
*Latc, asking for all available information
concerning sheep and [wool, embracing
extent, quantity, quality, market rx-
pensej, profits, etc.
IRISH NOSH.
When ftmt I huw young Molly
Sthrltched beneath tin holly.
Faat lalecn, lorenlnst her nheep, wan dreamy i
tner'a day.
Wld daisies laimhln’ round hei.
Hand and foot I Ixuind her,
Then khwodheron her bloomin’ cheek, and n
stole away.
Rut as, will bliiHhe.4 hurnlti’,
Tiptoe 1 wn« turnin’
n sleep she Marts, and o
llahtulu' ray,
My foollnh, flowery fetter*
Scornfully «he matters,
like a winter Minbeaiu, ahe «
llWlH
Hut Love, young love, oo
UVr hit dulstea droopin'
ad oh l each flower, wld fairy-po
renews;
'Then twine* each eh
lu links of starrv lu
And will the chain, enchanting, my
pursues.
•, the rosy l*oy
In’ cluster
Musin’ melancholy,
downcast i
mendow-b
ng Melly
d startin’ nigh*,
AtjIi tho «4n
-rl Hi
senate being too small for Senator David
Davis, the one which was made expressly
for Mr. Dixon H. Lewis, a senator many
years ago from Alabama, was placed at
his desk. It measures in thereat thirty-
three by twenty-five inches.
Yccordino to observations mado by
Dr. Lawson Tait, the ear in women, as a
rule, can jierceive higher notes—sounds
with a larger number of vibrations per
second—than the ear in men. The
highest limit of and ability for the human
ear is somewhere between 41,000 and
12,000 vibrations per second.
The excavations at Mycemn have
ceased for the present. While digging
very carefully one day last week, trying
to get out a paper CDllar of antique pat
tern, Dr. Hchliemann broke his pick on
a Greek root. He tore the collar in two,
pulling it out, but enough of the speci
men was brought to light to show that it
had been turned twice and split. Those
were the grand old days of simple tastes
and rigid economy.—Hau'keyc.
The collections taken in the .Southern
Methodist churches for the relief of the
denominational publishing house
Nashville will not, it is feared, be suffi
cient to accomplish the object. A cor
respondent of one of the Northern Meth
odist papers writes from the south: “ I
thought at first that the collections
might aggregate $20,000 but now I in
ciine to the opinion that $15,000 will be
as much as our 700,000 members will
contribute to relieve the peril of
publishing house. The bishops said un
less it gets speedy help it will fail.” It
is to be hoped that failure may be averted,
The courage shown by the Southern
Methodists since 1805 in reorganizing
their charitable and other institutions
deserves the best success.
Ix announcing that the emperor of
Germany was shortly to celebrate the
eightieth anniversary of his birthday
the Berlin journals relate that on certain
fete days the emperor wears not less than
eighty-eight decorations and medals.
Without mentioning Prussian and Ger
man orders, he has, among others, all the
grand crosses of the different countries
of. Europe, comprising the Legion of
Honor, the orders of the Golden Fleece,
Knight of the Bath, Dorn Pedro I. of
Brazil, the Southern Cross of the same
country, the Eagle of Mexico, the
ancient orders of the Guelphs, Tuscany,
the Two Sicilies. Saint-Marin. Monaco,
the Nicbam of the Bey of Tunis, the
portrait of the shah of Persia set in bril
liants, the Moba-Wara-Bohru or White
Elephant of Siam, and twelve foreign
military medal*.
There are situations in the aggregate
life of the world which are properly
styled ejiochs. There are epochs—epi
demical epochs—financial ojiochH, in
dustrial epochs and commercial epochs.
Tbe one now dawing upon tin* world is
an industrial epoch) and its results most
deeply concern America ; and every man
of intelligence in America who has capi
tal ought to give to this new shaping of
events his earnest attention.
Let us examine tho condition of the
nations of the earth to-day. What are
they doing? Which among them are
making money, which among them are
drifting into bankruptcy ?
Russia desires to enter upon a career
as a manufacturing nation, and has al
ready forbidden any railway company
from using rails, dun, locomotives or
other articles which are not manufae
tured in Russia and of Russian material.
It is dawing upon the mind of the czar
that if he could honorably get out of his
difficulty with Turkey and use the im-
wbicb *M ■wilt* iKai poms*
would cost for the fostering of national
industry— mechanical industry— Russia
would, in a decade, emerge richer, hap
pier and much more intelligent and en
titled to respect than she would after a
decade of war with the Turks, even
though slje succeeded in driving tho
sultan out of Europe and acquired (
stantinopleand a largo slice of European
Turkey.
Russia begins to be impressed with
this great fact. She begins to realize
tho true condition of her enemy. Turkey
is a colossal mendicant. She has no re
sources, no manufactures, no intelligence
and no money, but plenty of extrava
gance, arrogance, ignorance and beastly
inhumanity. The agriculturists of Tur
key are slaves, the women of Turkey ar e
Himply concubines, and the religious fan
aticism rendered permanent by the pro
found ignorance oi the masses, makes it
impossible for Turkey to ever progress
out of her stagnated and decaying posi
tion as a nation of the earth. Conse
quently what could Russia gain were
she able to-day to annex all of European
Turkey to her dominion ?
Pass to Germany. What is the condi
tion of that newly created empire?
Every man of intelligence knows that
the grip of hard times has not slackened
since the payment of the French war in-
demity demoralized values throughout
tbe empire and by reaction caused the
worst panic that has afflicted Germany
since the war times of the first Napoleon
when Berlin fell before his victorious
arms. Germany is importing more than
she is oxporting and this, united with
the mad freak of changing the specie
basis of the empire—declaring that silver
shall no longer be money and that gold
only shall be money—is causing the bal
ance ot trade with foreign nations to run
heavily against her. Russia has closed
the door againsi. many German articles
in the iron way and has decreed that
such articles must be made at home and
out of home material. There are no
trade relations subsisting between Ger
many and France and in all other mar
kets of the world German manufactures
me.t with a competition which they find
it impossible to overcome and the conse
quence is her industrial pursuits lan-
enish.
Italy and Spain cut very little figure
in the industrial affairs of the world.
Both are heavily in bebt. Neither have
a reserve of undeveloped resources, and
better condition. A polar wave of finan
cial, depression has Hwept her from bor
der. to border and she is prostrate. In
18178 thore were in Vienna alone 294 joint
ffock companies with a paid-up capital
t>f 1,702,000,000 of florins. A florin is
worth 47A cents Americcan coiu; call it,
for the sake of convenience, fifty cents.
The paid up capital of these companies
would be $851,000,000, which, even in
America, is a good deal of monoy. The
panic in Austria was under pretty good
headway by the 1st ot January, 1878,
ami from that day to January 1, 1870,
185 of the above named joint stock com
panies were forced to go into liquidation,
and carefully made figures show that of
the 809,000,000 of florins which these
185 companies started with at least. 200,-
884,000 florins will prove an absolute
loss.
In some respects the Austrian empire
resembles the United StateH. It is a
debtor country, but is struggling hard
to reduce its debt. It 1ms a paper cur
rency, and silver yet bears a premium of
5A per cent. It is an exporting country
and for the first time for many years it
exported more than it imported last
year. Here the parallel ceases, for the
United States is a free country. Austria
is a despotism. In the United States
the agricultural and mechanical classes
are mainly educated; in Austria they
o mainly ignorant. Tho United States
a gold and silver producing country,
while Austria is not, to any great extents
Tho United States has a wonderful re
servo of undeveloped resources. Aus
tria has not. Austria will very soon be
distanced in tho coming race of indus
trial supremacy.
France is the most industrious and
economical nation on earth to day—-that
is to say, she excels all the commercial
nations in this particular. Franco is
more prosperous than Germany is-—ns a
nation—but how strong will she be in
competing for supremacy as the manu
facturer of the world’s goods? Her
masses can not read and write. How
THE CHICO MASSACRE.
Full COHf>mlon «/' the Assassins.
The following is taken from the San
Francisco Chronicle:
“On the night of March 14, 1877, In a
shanty on Chris Lcmm’s much, two
miles east of Chico, on the Humboldt,
road, five undisguised white men en
tered, and, covering six Chinese occu
pants with pistols, seurched them for
money. They then shot them, spilled
coal oil through the shanty, fired it and
left. . Three Chinamen were killed out
right. " Of tho wounded, one was liiirt
but Hlightly—only in tho arm—and when
the murderers left he hastened to the
shanty of a white woodehopper, half a
mile away, on the same ranch. The
chopper and he went to Lemm's, hut
lvomm and others were afraid to go to
the Chlneso shanty that night. Next
morning the Chinaman brought word to
Chico. The coroner and a jury went
out and held an inquest. The verdict
was, " Murdered by unknown parties.”
On March 10, three suspected boys were
arrested, but discharged. Tho citizens
formed a meeting of one hundred and
fifty, appointed an executive committee
of twenty-seven, who formed another
committee of three. Sheriff Schneider
and his deputies took as little interest
as if they had never been here. Ex*
Sheriff Daniels took an active interest in
detecting the murderers.. Col. Bee,
agent of the Chinese companies, sent here
R. B. Hall, head of Hall & Co.’s private
detectives. < )n hoard the train ho met
detective James Hamilton, of Han Fran
cisco. Hall and Hamilton arrived here
on the 18th, and consulted with Daniels.
The three agreed to work together, and
this night they fully completed the most
thoroughly and promptly worked out
criminal mystery of California. By
their instructions the drop-box of the
Chico postoflice was kept cleared and
watched by F. C. Radcliflo, clerk of
John Bidwell. A suspicious letter was
dropped : p adcUffe_ rftp^cut the beck
ih«y to win the moo Jrom morn in- followed Ahe young ttnsuwuo Cherts and John Hpangior went
lelligcnt competitore ? It run not bo
done. England admits that intelligence
iB the card that is going to win, and
America holdB that card.
Ab Biiro aa the world endurea the na-
tiona of the [earth will find that of nil
expensive thingH they ever attempted to
maintain the ignorance of the massca
carricB off the palm.
Switzerland cries out thlit American
watches and American boots and shoes
are selling under their very noses for less
money titan the home-made article can
be manufactured lor.
Why is this?
Intelligence, on the one hand, makes
machines to do its work cheap and woll.
and ignorance on the other slicks to tho
old, slow, laborious and expensive
methods, and is beaten, of course.—St.
Louis Republican. •
TH 71 CKNTRNXIA I. DBCIHIOX.
Tlte decision of the supreme court in
the centennial case will compel the man
agers of that national exhibition to fork
over to Uncle Sam the full amount of
the money advanced by tho national
treasury. The stock ol the concern
which was yesterday quoted in the
eighties, has fallen to twenty-five centH
on the dollar. The judiciary at Phils
delphia also gets a set-back, inasmuch
as the (appeal of the government
from the decision of the circuit
court of Philadelphia, which de
cided in favor of the centennial comfiTil-
sioners, is overruled by the unanimous
decision of the full bench, iiad the de
cision of the Philadelphia court been
sustained, not a few who speculated in
the stock would have made a good haul.
The trutli is, there was a centennial
ring, which included in its membership
nearly all the owners of the Philadelphia
newspapers, and about all the commis
sioners. Tlie game was worked quite
adroitly. First it was announced that
thejshow would ire a fail lire, would not pay
expenses, etc., until those who wercin the
ring boughts tock at a low rate, and then
commenced to bull it up. Those on the
ground floor bought it in at fiftv cents
on the dollar; and after the government
appropriation, by liberal newspaper
laudation, shot it up to eighty. Now
that it has dropped to twenty-five, the
peaceable citizens of the Quaker City
Chinatown. Henry 0. Wright first sug
gested it, about February lfi. I am
confident that A. M. Ames, president ol
tho Labor Union, was cognizant of the
intended burning. The night following
Wright told mo that lie and Jonea, the
carpenter, went to Chinatown ami laid
in wait to fire it, but aeveral men wore
at omul and they thought they were de
tectives, so they didn’t do it. The night
indwell's soap factory was burned I saw
Wright in the crowd. He called me to
one Bide and said that lie and three or
four others had “ dono n little job; ” he
did not say who the others were. On
March .Id, John Slaughter told me Hint
his brother Clinrles, Henry C. Wright,
the carpenter Jones and Thomas Stein-
brook were to burn both Chinatowns,
when, lie did not state distinctly. When
tho lioys' intention was mado known to
me, I wanted to turn hack, hut dared
not, believing then and now that they
would have killed me. I mnkc tills
freely, voluntarily and without fear,
menace, or hope of reward. This state
ment is sworn to, on oath, the same as
tho verified complaint, on Mnreh 24,
1877, before A. Hallett, justice of the
peace. The detectives then had tho offi
cers arrest the Slaughter boys, Stein-
brook and Roberts. The jail having
only three cells, tho dotectives billeted
tho prisoners around in private rooms,
witii keepers to kcop them separate.
htkiniirook’h confession.
The next confession was Stolnhrook’s.
His confession was sworn to also, on tho
24th of March, and coincides exactly
with the preceding one. The additional
facts aro as follows: 1 live in ths houso
noar Slaughter's, which I rented from
C. M. White. At 7 o’clock, on the
evening of the 14th, I, John Slaughter
and Fred Conway wont from Slaughter’s
house down Eighth street. Shortly after
wo went out on tho Humboldt road
and met Eugene Roberts nnd Charles
Slaughter, who joined us, We then
went up the road, and turned towards
the Chinese camp. At Lemm’s Ranch,
dropped it to tho house of the Slaughter
family, in town. The letter was thon
taken to the person addressed,epened,
and found to lie one of a tlircatening
series. On tho morning of the 10th
city marshnl Steward arrested Fred Con
way, the man who dropped the letter,
and confined him in tho city prison. By
thb direction of the detectives no charge
wts made ngainst him. On tho night of
Thursday, the 23d, Conway made a con-
don, which was taken down by dc-
tive R. B. Hall, and subsequently
signed and sworn to by Conway. It is
follows:
CONWAY’S CONFESSION.
My name is F. E. Conway. The cir-
instances of the murder of the four
hinamen at Chico, on the evening of
Ihc 14th, aro these: Myself, Charles
laughter, John Slaughter, Thomaa W.
teinbrook and Eugene Roberts, all
hloo residenta, living noar together,
tarted out, not knowing myself what
we were going to do. John Slaughter
asked me to go along. They did not
tell me what they intended doing till
near the cabin, when Roberta said:
“ Unless we kill the Chinamen, we will
be arrested.’’ The first object was to
rob them of their money, as it was lie-
lieveil they bad some about them. When
we entered, there were six Chinamen
there. Roberts and Charles Slaughter
examined the cabin and the person of
each Chinaman, while the rest of us
held our pistols to them to keep them
quiet. I don’t know whether either of
the lioys got any money. Roberts, be
lore the shooting commenced, scattered
coal oil broadcast over the cabin and
the Chinamen from a bottle of the liquid
which he carried in his pocket. I don’t
know as any one set fire to the cabin
After scattering the coal oil, all fired,
each selecting a Chinaman. Home of the
crowd fired more than once. Knur
Chinamen wore killed, aa We learned, by
our allots, and two were wounded who
are alive. As soon aa we fired, wo left
in haate, following down the lumber
company’a flume, through the wooda,
and separating near Mr. Roberta’a house.
The killing occurred about 6 o’clock^ as
near as I can tell. We separated abdut
9:30 land went home to Slaughter’^,
where we have been living for a few
'months past. When the murder became
known, Mra. I’olmantier, the mother of
TitUTHS AND TRIFLES.
..Man is moro than constitutions.—
Whittier.
. No man is so grant an mankind.—
Theodore Porter.
.. Grace is to Hie body what good sense
is the mind.—Rochefoucauld.
I don’t believe in the goodness of
disagreeable people,—Oreille Dewey.
Men’s evil manners live in brass;
their virtues we write in water.—Shat-
rpeare.
Virtue itself offends wlion coupled
witii forbidding manners.—Rithop Mid-
dlelon.
There is nothing so good to make a
horse fat aa the eye of his mnstcr.—Di-
offence.
Never marry hut for love, but see
that thou lovest what is lovely.— William
Penn.
Nothing so prevents our being natu
ral ns the desire of appearing so.—Roche
foucauld.
.. Mnrringe is a feast where the grace ia
sometimes hotter than the dinner.—Col-
toe
..The mind ia itt own place, nnd in •
itself can make a heaven cf hell, a hell of
heaven.—Milton.
It is vain lor n man to be lorn for
tunate, if ho be unfortunate in ids mar
riage.— Dacicr.
We menauro minds by their stature
it would ho better to esteem them by
beauty.-- Joubcrl.
I think few peoplo aro aware how
early it is right to respect the modestyof
an infant.—Ifarriet Marlincau.
.. Mennro generally more careful of the
breed of their liorsoB nnd (logs than of
thoir children.— William Penn.
.. The proprietor of a young ladies’
academy utterly ruined his business by
causing to be insorted in a largo number
of newspapers a picture of the building,
with two girls standing on tho balcony
with last year's lints on their heads.
,. Fashions for tho kitchen: Cook-Lor’
June, I wouldn’t be bothered with them
and got over the fence into the field,
where thoy stepped and talked about
who should lead into the camp. Roberts
agreed to. John Slaughter first entered,
nnd then all rushed in. Roberts proi
posed shooting but I and Conway ob
jected. When the other boys entered I
stood outside.' None were disguised.
Roberts gave me the word to shoot first.
When I first heard of the intent I was at'
the fence. When Roberts and Slaughter
proposed tho robbery, near the camp,
Roberts proposed killing, I think, for
safety. Roberts had n bottle of kero
sene, the contents oi which ho threw
over the Chinamen. When the firing
commenced, some ono asked: “Which
one do you want?”
The five confessing to murce: are the
two Slaughters, Roberts, Stoinbrook and
Conway. The other confessions are by
Holdenbaum and Wright, of incendi
arism. H. T. Jones, a third Slaughter
lioy named Pleasant, and John Mahoney,
are in jail ns incendiaries. These have
not yet confessed, hut doubtless will.
Wright says ho and Jones fired the soap
factory. The three Slaughter boys,
Conway nnd Jim Fay, burned the Chico
creek laundry and Mrs. Roberts’s barn
and tho Chinese tenement near Chico.
Holdenbaum waa arrested ih a lumber
camp thirty-five miles from here. Fay
and Pleasant Slaughter were arrested
here. The two Slaughters, Conway,
Iio’.denbaiini, Wright, Stoinbrook and
Mahoney were taken before Justice Hal-
lct and waived examination. The fiv
murderers were held without bail. The
incendiaries were held to bail in #3,(100
each, and were committed in default.
will indulge in cuss words and bewail the the Slaughter boys, accused me and the
ingratitude of the American republic. ] boys of having bad a hand in it. Rob
erts was the principal man and talker.
both are groping in tuch intellectual
darkness and bigotry that all the more Juncsville (N. V.) has a girl worth I don’t know who suggested the robbery,
enlightened nations have passed them in courting. She was sitting with her loverj John Slaughter first mentioned it to me.
the race for industrial excellence and | when she heard a mysterious noise in the! Roberts told us that H. C. Wright would
domination. iThey count for nothing, house, excused herself, found burglars I swear we were ail at the stable that
They are dead to all of the magnificent up-stairs, got the old gun and blazed night at the hour of the murder. His
achievements of the future. away—and not till then did the lover statement concerning the tires is that
Austria can hardly be said to be in a suspect anything unusual waa going on. | there have been several attempts to fire
“ Yeh, Doctor," remarked Mrs, Par
tington, “nnd a few days previous feel
ing somewhat predisposed, and having
a groaping pain in the abandon, I took
some patent medicine, and I (cel i
vinced that it seriously repaired my
constituent. I sup-iose I’m of an ex
ecrable temperature, for I’m always
a worrying ever since Betsy Smith had
congregation ol‘ the lungs, or some toil-
aoral affectation; hut, to tell tho truth,
I’ve always dreaded an Infernal rumor.”
r dnv t I r,t-l«
SondaySf Jane—ThalmIjMfl!f*1!firy?hf? -
cook, but for my part, I likes to be a lady
week days as woll ns Sundays.
You didn't laugh at my stupidity
before we were married; you always
said I waa a duck of a lover,” grumbled
a complaining husband. “ Yes, that’s
so,” replied the wife: “and a duck of a
lover is always sure to make a goose of a
husband.”
.. It was an agricultural editor who, re
ferring to potatoes, wrote “Eastern
Jacksons.” And it was an intelligent
compositor who, setting it up, made it
read, “eating jackasses.” The intelli
gent compositor is now seeking a i>osition
as a Now York harbor pilot.
An Iowa youth inveated #1 50 in a
New York firm to discover “ How to
appear in society.” The receipt he re
ceived by return mail waa short, simple
and easily understood: “Always keep
your nose clean, and don’t suck more
than one finger at a time.”
..Hip-pocketsforlapdogt^aro thelatott
innovation in ladies’ dresses. With a
dog in her pocket, a seal on her back, a
bird in her hat and kids on her hands
and feet, the well dressed lady is but
little short oi a walking menagerie.
.. The will of the rich man ol tho future
will read: “To tho respective attorneys
of my children I give my entire estate
and wordly goods of all description
Personally to the children and to my be
loved wife I givo all that remainB.”
This instilment will satisfy the family
and save the trouble of proving the old
man insane.
. ."Three hundred years ago forks were
unknown in England, ar.d a man could
scoop up all the green pens he could
carry on the flat of his knife and shovel
them into his mouth without having bis
wife stamp on his corns, or nudge his
elbow and spill the peas all over where
his napkin ought to be and never is, and
soy in a hoarse, reproachful whisper,
‘ Why, Bartholomew ! ' ” — Hurlhtfflou
Hawheijc.
A sap case of a little hoy being fright
ened to deatli occurred at Astoria, Ful
ton county, Illinois, last Thursday,
About nine o'clock in the evening a son
of Mr. Rowland, sixteen years ol age
passing along tlie street of that
Bayard Taylor apeaks disparagingly
of the pop-corn and withered figs upon
which the, train-boy feeds the American . was P a68in K along tlie sircio oi sum
traveler. If Mr. Taylor had been read- to*'" alone, when another hoy, son
ing“Red-headed Mike,” or “The Hunt-' ^ r - William Toler, who was ressei in a
Bride,” either of which entertaining nideous costume, and playing in 8
he might have bought of this *'«>nt yard at home, seoing the little lei-
er r
romances
same train-boy, he would not have so l° w passing, played the part of a ghost,
much time to find fault with his victuals. an ^ jumping out suddenly upon t e t
tie fellow, at the same time making a
SORE NOSES, Catarrh, Sore Throat, strange noise, so frightened him that he
a sure cure is Dr. J. If. Mel*aj's Cularrh fell prostrate on the pavement. He
faiis!* up quickly and ran a lew rods,'
Lean, 311 Che‘tout st., St. Jjouis, Mo, | when hp again fell; this time a wrpw,