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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,