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BILL ABB’S FEELINGS
FULLY AROUSED FOll TIIE TICKET.
Ho Throws Up His Hat for thu Man of Dos
tinv Tlio Happy Family 1,1 llu '
bovmith District. Vriwhiß for
tlio Victory of Nom nil'ir
’ How Dill Arp C'aiuo
bouth.
Ilm-rnh lor Hancock ! Hurrah for
English! I hail an abiding faith that
the convention would ilo right. Ive
lieen for General Hancock lor two
months, and t o has everybody else
1 hear talk now; but I’ve got the
dead wood on it; 1 writ it in a letter
to vou a gooil while ago. I want
yon to keep that letter for its good
documentary evidence. May be 1
will noed it when the t me comes, and
I waut an office, for I suppose the
General the first pick, lie has been
my choice all the time. In fact I
was lor him before I know him, for
my ancestors used to tell mo about
the huffily—a grand old family. His
great-grand-father was the first man
to sign the declaration of independ
ence, and just-look what a hand-writo
lie had. His signature is tlio big
gest, boldest and most defiant ol all,
of them. 110 is a military man, but;
then he believes that civil law is big-J
ger Ulan military power, and that’s j
the difference between him and gen j
oral Grant, lie said the Republican !
congress might wipe out all the laws
of Texas and Louisiana, but llnj
could not make any better code than
they hail already. Hu is a states
man as well as a soldier, and besides
that ho is a splendid looking man.
I’ve got lus photograph and that’s
tlie reason I was for him a long time
ago. Ho is a largo man—as big as
judge Underwood and almost as
good looking. He carries luniseli
liko a champion, and has a kind,
cbeeiful lace that inspires love ami
confidence. lam net afraid of luni
a bit and 1 don’t want him to be
afraid of me. Since his nomination
I have put up my sights a peg or two.
I’m bothered now about wliut office
I will take, for the truth is, I don’t
exactly know what kind of a "ne 1 m
lit for. I’m going to have that mat
t r with the general win n he gi ts ;n.
But it's glorious — the prospect is like
a beautiful vision, it is like ldnot;
being suddenly uslmivd upon a man
who has bem in ih • chain-gang lor
Jil*. i feel like sh *i;uiig I 1 llie day
of deliverance is at hand. I’lrt here
in Bome where, the boys are jul>i
].,lit u\s r the r Mill. They sent off
it telegram this morning to the g'U
oral, congratulating him, and he re
replied ill two minutes, thanking
them for lheir good wishes. Home
belives that she can ehet him. 1
don’t know whither he is poor or
lie’ll, but il he wauls any money to
have! around on just h than draw on
S .in Morgan for supplies. The cty
of Homo is on boom now and
throwing her snrp’us a: ound loose.
■Whenever she used lo want any mon
ey she issued a few bonds, but now
they have all got rich and pay the
money doffn. H. cry body is fal. ng
into line. 1 hear that Dr. Feb on and
all the Independents nr..-coming back
and going to; join the ngutars ovet
agnin; Unit’s all right. Hi kill a calf
or something and go to hoar toe cmc
tor preach every Sunday. Henty
Harper has just come in and says lie
endorses Hancock; that he don’t know
Lim personally but he met a good
many of his hoys at Shorpsbnrg and
Gettysburg Tin-1 any other burg,
and the ncci tion was very condition
both sides. Hem v says the general
lad lots of boys and they come to see
us little oltene'r limn they wcic want
cd. Says he, lam not personally nc.
ipiaintid v.iill him but 1 have evtiy
reason to believe that lie’s as good a
man r.s 1 am, and that’s saying more
than I usually say about any man.
This nomination is a thing around
■which Democrats can rally and re
joice. Wo will have no more dissen
sions now. Forsythe is coming back (
and John Keese, and I hear that
Zath Hargrove lias been a Hancock
Democrat for five years. Hut the
the poor darkies; I don’t know what
will become of them. Ii Zach quits
cm they will be without a keel or rud
der. May be he will bring cm along
with him, and then we will have a
solid south sure enough. Judge Un
derwood says he is for anything that
will secure Hancock’s election; that
he doesn’t know him, hut his record
is splendid, and as for Hughs , ho
friend ut Howell Cobb, ami Unit.
j \ ) /$&
I V. J. SINGLETON. M<o Prop'r.
VOL 5.
is all he wants to know. It’s creden
tial enough. Howell Cobb said that
English was one o! natures noblemen,
and he would trust him with his wile
and children and sacred honor. The
Judge in running for Attorney Gener
al and says Lo loves everybody and
wants everybody to love him; that
General Celqniit is a noble man and
Lester is a splendid gentleman, and
Hardeman is fit to be a king, and
Gartreli would make a second Bis
mork, ami lie lias reasons to believe
there are many men in Georgia who
would make a good attorney-general,
but lie knows that he would, and
knowl. dgc is better than faith, lie
says he is liko Alexander Stephens,
In" is going to tote his own skillet and
tota if carelu.ly at.d not sling il
around and break a leg oit if ho can
help it. I hope tho judge will get
the nomination, for yotusee that will
make a vacancy and I always did like
vacancies. If Judge Warner would
resign it would boa power of good;
and it scents to me be ought to do it
considering tlio relations of supply
and demand.
But all this is foreign to the boom.
Hurrah for Hancock! I say. E. P.
Powell has got tense anil discern
ment. He has been for him all the
time. The Constitution has been
consistent, and done a good deni to
shape litc destiny of the reaction.
IPs wonderful what little things ef
fect such great revolutions. Major
Bingham, of North Carolina, made a
speech on the subject Iteic in Home
t!:c other night, at the Shorter Col
lege—a grand speech, and all taken
Irotn history—and I was talking with
RonrtsiivillP, and he told mo that Ai
mer Stillwell saw !rm unload a feiv
sacks of wheat about twenty-!! c
years ago, and was pleasid with the
way he handled ’em, and ml vised
him to come to Rome at.d rot ent
pbymcnt, which tie did, and that cir
cumstance lah .S,u; and hi.- destiny
ami Iff- oil. Lit 11 nit t him t > unborn
.leu t ii ms. and i told lit in as how
uiy f;it!i came out ftoui .'.a.iSfictiu
sells t' Savannah with a load ot
; |,;iek and got wrecked upon the coast
!;iial ciuvdn’t get back, and married
a southern girl and east his fortune
with tae South some sixty years ago
’jut if he hadn't lost the brick ami
had gone back and married some
other woman, then where would I be
today? It is sad lo contemplate,
1 for I might have been some other
fellow, which would not have been
agreeable —either to him or me. 1
might have been Ren Butler or Ifcn
j:y Ward Beecher, or some other fel
low of like conduct and persuasions,
and brought upon myself a power of
trouble.
Hurrah for Hancock and Em.il L !
I like, the sound of the thing. It s
better than Garfield and Arthur.—
Manif st destiny is upon ns. If we
don’t elect our tan I shall lose all
| fuitli in all subloonary things and try
and tit ntystlf for heaven and quit.
Yours, Bill A up.
]V,’XKING PHOT Oil PA PUS.
Winking photographs are said
to bo produced in ihe following
manner : One negatives tire print
-1 ed mi opt ositc sides of the paper,
•‘registering” exactly. Held be
! loro a flickering lamp, or other
! varible source of light, the coin-
| bined photographs show rapid
winking.
. -*•*-*-
A mule is no physician, but he
well understands the art of heel
ing.
ercise it, he shall never more ho a
slave, bin he shall boa voter!”
An Illinois gill testified in a brrecli
of promise suit that it was the usual
thing for girls to show their love !et
ti rs to some fifteen or twenty other
gnls in ordci to make them jealous.
_A_ ID IE MOGH ATIC li’YY L-gllX/LT IST E'W SI? /A P.'Jxv.,
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ JULY 14, 1880.
'Tt I lit THEN MUIIUEBES.
CURDIE,TILE ATROCIOUS MURDERED,
Acquitted in Spite of the most Con
victing Evidence—Judge Booty
Delivers mi Explicit anil
ami most Excellent
Charge.
A miserable, wretch in Toxas'nann
od Currie, committed a most attro
cious murder, lie was tried and ac
quitted, though proof of guilty was
overwhetiffing, mil no extenuating
fact was even pretended. The twelve
jurors who acquitted him wore not
only guilty of perjury, but, wore ac
cessors alter the fact to the crime of
murder; each one of them is its guil
ty as the min they acquitted; and
j should be commit other murder they
will be accessories before tlio fact,
! and tf other persons commit murder
under the encouragement of t'j'u ver
dict, these same jurors will be ac
cessories to all such inurih-rs. In
the name of law they made them
selves outlaws; and while pretending
to protect society, they have made
war ou it lo the knife. The thirteen
murderers all deserve the same fate.
—Christian Index.
As this is a case of universal inter
est, we copy Judge Booty’s entire
charge to the jury to show the danger
which society is now undergoing:
‘'Gcntloimm of the Jury:
The defendant, James Currie, is
on trial before you, charged by in
dictment with the murder of Benja
min C. Porter.
I give you the following ili.fi me
tfons, which contain, and you will
consider as the entire law of this
Case I
Murder is defined as follows: live
ry person with a sound memory and
| discretion, situ!! unlawfully k'tl
any reasouab'o creature bo
!■ ing within this Slate, with malice
j
afort thought, eit h .•!• express or lin-
1 1 lied, shall be deemed guilty of mur
der. Murder is rii t inguiahable front
I ev.*ry utlicr species of homicide, by
the aßst-nco of tlio circumstances
which reduce tin offense to nogli
| gent homicide or in ansi a ugh tor. or
: which excuse or justify the homicide,
i And homicide is the destruc
j lion of the life of one human loo
ping by the act of another.
From the abore definition of murder
you will sec that the killing ot a hu
man being will not bo murder, un
less the killing bo done with malice;
and you ate instiucted that all mur
der committed with express malice
is murder in the first degree.
Express malice is win none with
a sedate, deliberate mind, and form
ed design, doth kill another; which
formed design is evidenced by ex
t rnal circumstances discovering or
showing that inward intention, as
laying in wait, antecedent menaces
or threats, funner grudg s, and con
ceited schemes to do the person kill
ed sumo bodily harm,
The words “sedate, deliberate
mind,” which indicate what must tie
the state of the mind when the de
sign is formed, do not mean that the
mind must bo absolutely calm and
unruffled, without any character of
mental excitement whatever; but
they mean that the mind is sufficient
ly calm, composed, and undisturbed
| lo admit of reflection and considera
|on on the design. They mean that it
il is in a condition to cotnpnh r.d
and understand the nature and char
acter designed, and its probable con
sequences and results. The act must
not result from a mere sudden, rash,
and immediate design, springing
from an inconsiderate impulse, pas
sion, or excitement, however unjusti
fiable and unwarranted it may be;
for in such case the “sedate,-deliber
ate mind” is wanting, and there can
bo no express malice, and without
express malice there can be no mur
der in the first degree.
The design formed must bp to 11
xlie diseased, or to do seri
ous bo lily injury as m iy probably end
in depriving tlio patty against whom
tlm design is formed of life. The
length ol time tint intervenes between
formation of the design and the exe
cution of it is unimportant. When
such design is once formed, the hast ■
with which il is put into execution,
in no way nfleets or mod lies the char
acter of the act, or the degree uf
one moment would be the same as an
hour or even many months. But in
this connection, you are instructed
that when the design to kill or do
other great bodily harm, such: as
may produce death, has it; first in
flamed and excited mind, not. suffi
cimitly clam, composed, and undis
turbed to admit oi’retl action and con
sideration on the design and to un
derstand its probaf lo cotlsequc-nce
and results, and when that design is
carried into immediate effect, before
there has been codling tithe for pas
sion or esc dement to abate, and the
mental Composure to bo restored, the
killing under such passion or excite
ment may h ive arisen wheth ;r trom
drunkenness or other ca-uss, can not
be murder in the first degree.
Express malice is a question ol
fact, to be found and ascertained by
the jury, and to warrant a convic
tion of murder in tlio first degree, it
must be proved ! •*— any other fact
in the case, by such evidence as is
reasonably sufficient to satisfy the ju
ry of its exi- tence.
Yoil are now instructed that there
is another kind of malice than that
ol express malice, which has in the
above iu.-tt actions been defined to
you. This other kind is called im
plied malice. You have all ready
been instructed that express rnaliee
is a fact that must be piovcn like any
other fact in tae case, by such evi-
I dene ■as is reasonably sufficient to
; satisfy the jury ol its existenc •. But
I implied malice is not. a question of
fact to be found by the jury, It, is
an inference or conelns'on founded
upon particular facts ami circum
stances, which ate ascertained by
th • jury to be true. Implied mal.ee
which theliw inters or deduces from
the proof of ti \oluntaiy homicide,
committed under such circumstan
ces as fail to slrow that the killing
was done in pursnranee of a formed
design, of sedate, deliberate mind,and
committed under such circumstan
ces as also fail to show that the kill
ing was done under the immediate
influence of sudden passion, arising
from a sudden and powerful provoca
tion, as a violent blow, or the like,
and committed under such circum
stances as also fail to show that
the killing was justifiable or ex
cusable, But while the law implies
malice on proof of a voluntary homi
cide, it does not impute, express mal
ice. Express malice being a fact to
be proov* and by the evidence.
You have been already instructed
that all murder committed with ex
press maliiee is murder of the first
degree; and you are now instructed
! that all murder committed with im
plied malice is murder of the second
| degree.
Now, it you believe from tho evi
dence in this case,beyond a reasona
ble doubt, that in the county of liar
risoh and Stats of Texas, at any
time before the seventh day of May,
1810, the defendant, James Currie,
did, with express malice, a3 herein*
before defined, shoot with a pistol
and thereby kill the diceased, Ben
jamine C Porter, tlun you will find
him, tho said defendant, guilty of
murder in the first degree: otherwise
you will not.
If you believe from the ovidcnco in
this case, beyond a reasonable doubt,
that in the county of Harrisson,
stale of Texas, at any time before tho
seventh day of May, 1879, the de
len.hnt, James Currie, did, with im
plied midice, us heroiiibofc.i'o tiffin al
shoot with aj i -10 l ami thereby kill
Mho dec ascii, Benjamin C. Port-r,
j then you will find tho deffndmit
guilty of muni, r in the second degree;
otherwise you w 11 not.
You are further instructed that
homicide is permittee! bv law in the
necessary defence of one’s person,
when inflicted for the purpose of
preventing murder, when the killing
takes place under the following oii
custance.: Ist. It must reasonably
j appear by the acts or by word*coup
led with the acts of the person killed,
that, it was the purpose and intent of
such j erson to commit. Ihe offence of
murder. 2. id. Tim killing must lake
place while the person killed was in
the act of comm ttmg tho offence, or
alter some act done by him showing
evidently an intent to commit such
uff.'iice.
You arc further instructed that if
you believe from tiic evidence that at
tho time of the. killing of deceased by
ilcfemlcnt, if you find that he was
killed by defendant, tho deceased
alone, or acting in concert with an
other, war, ju the act of shooting de
fendant with a pistol or pistols, or of
drawing a pistol or pistols, and that
defendant from tho nets of deceased
alone, or deceased and another, then
being done, had a reasonable expec
tation or iear of death or serious.bod
ily injury then about to be inflicted
upon him by the deceased, or decea.--
ed anti associate of deceased, and
that defendant shot and killed the
iTccast-d iu order to save and protect
himself’from said injury, then about
to be inflicted, and not in pursuance
ol ti design theretofore termed by de
fendant, you will find the defendant
not guilty.
You are father instructed that “no
act dene in a state of insanity can be
punished as an ottVneo” against our
law; but every man is presum-d to be
of sane mind until the contrary is
shown, and is also presumed to pos
j scs.s a sufficient degree of reason to
1)0 responsible lor his crimes until the
-contrary is shown to tho satisfaction
of the Jury; audio, establish a de
fence on tiis ground of insanity it
uni t clearly appear to the jury that
at the time of committing tho act the
defendent was laboring under such
defect of reason, from dieease of the
mind, as not to know the nature arid
quality of* the act he was doing, or*
il lie did know it, tie did not know he
was doing wrong.
If the defondeut while sane made
j It inis if intoxicated, and while intoxi
cated shot and killed tlio deceased,
when not necessary for his own self
defence, then he cannot be acquitted
on tho ground of insanity; tlrftt is to
say. if tho defendant, under the im
mediate influence of intoxication, shot
and killed the deceased, he cannot be
acquitted on the ground of insanity,
no matter how drunk he may have
-been, or how uucoscious ha rimy have
been or what he was doing. There
is a difference between that madness
•or unconsciousness which results
from a mere fit of intoxication or
which is tho immediate effect of
drunkenness, and delerium tremens.
And you are instruct! and that if yon
l’ lievc ftom the evidence that at the
time of the killing the defendant was
labeling under a fit"of delerium tre
mens, the remote cause ot which was
intoxication, and by leason of so la
boring uudcT delerium tremens the
defendant did not know what ho was
doing, or if lie did know what he was
doing - , did not know that ho was do
ing wrong, then you shahid acquit
the defendant on the ground of insan
ity.
The state ot mind of tho prisoner
at the time of the homicide as to bis
knowledge ot right and wrong is the
important inquiry, and his state of
mini! in 'his respect at any other time
is only important iu so far as it may
ANNUAL SUnSCItIPTJON , $2 00
aid you in nsci running Ids state ol
mind in this respect at the tme ofj
Die homicide.
You arc the exclusive judges of the
facts proven and of the weight and
credit that are due to tho testimony j
of the witnesses, including the expcit
and non-export witnesses, and if yon
should think therein con diet, in the
testimony of the witnesses, then it
will bo your duly, il you can, to rec
oncile said conflict so as to give cred
it to the whole of the testimony, but,
if you can not do this then you may
credit or discredit the whole or any
part of tho testimony ot any witness
who tins testified in the cause, accord
ing as your minds may lie impressed,
that the testimony is or is not worthy
of belief.
It you find the defendant guilty of
murder you will stato in 3*oll r verdict
whether yen find him guilty of mur
der in the first or of the second de
gree.
If yen find the defendant guilty of
murder in the first ciegiec you will
assess his punishment at death, or at
confinement in Hie penitentiary for
life, as you may see proper.
If you find the defendant guity of
murder in the second degree, you
will assess lik punishment at con
finement in the penetentiary for any
time you see proper, not les's Ilian
five years.
If yon find the defendant not guilty
on the ground of insanity you will
so state in your verdict; and if
you find him not guilty on any other
ground you will simply say that you
find him not guilty.
Tho law presumes "the defendant to
be innocent until his guilt is estab
lished by legal evidence; and if you
have a reasonable doubt that lie is
guilty ot murder iu the first degree
you will not convict him of that of
fence. And if yon have a reasonable
doubt that he is guilty of murder in
the second degree, you will find him j
net guilty.
A. J. BOOTY, Judge.
Skin Grafting from tire Dead,
Dr. o '. H. Gardner, house sur
geon at Bellevue Hospital, lots j
obtained some remarkable and!
valuable results in skin grafting j
dureing the past year. One pa
tient who required such tr atment
refused to furnish grafts from his i
own arms or body, owing to the!
pain involved ; and, unwilling to
ask another to subject himself to a
pain which tiie person to be bene
fited was unwilling to submit to,
Dr. Gardner tried tiie exnetintent
' f taking skin grafts from a corpse.
Tho doctor says:
“I cat a piece of skin from a pa
tient who died in the wards a few j
hours before, first taking care to j
inquire whether the cause of death j
was due to a poisonous disease or
not. I then cut the cuticle into
small pieces, which I laid on tiie
granulated surface of the ulcers,
and bandaged tho leg up very j
fittnly. in three days tiie graft
began to show signs of life, a per- !
feet union having taken place, and
in a week a spendid skin, smooth
and clastic, lmd grown over the
uleroated part, making a complete
cure and leaving no sear behind.
Since that time I itavo treated up*-
ward of fifty cases with invaria
ble success. I have grafted tlio
skin of an irishman on a negro,
and I have grafed tho skin of a
negro on an Irishman with ease,
in hot . cases the skin lost its orig
inal co'or and changed its iuro to
suit the wearer.
To •Rk.movb Mildew. —Make a
very weak solution of chloride of
lime in water (about a heaping
teaspoonful to a quart of water),
strain it carefully, and dip the
spot 011 the garment into it ; and
if the mildew docs not disappear
immediately, lay it in tlio sun for
a few minutes, or.clip it again into
tiie lime water. The work is ef
fectually and speedily done, and
tho chloride of lime neither rots
tlio cloth nor removes delicate col
ors, when sufficiently dilluted and
thu articles rinsed afterwards ip,
clear water.
General News.
Forney says 1(10,000 Hop 11b Ica
will vote for Hancock.
A sov.'i'o epidemic of Sin ill Pox is
prevailing at Christiaan.
It is thought that lndi ufti will lo
tho political battle field Ibis year.
The Republicans at Hie North am
said to bo depressed, while thu Dem
ocrats are in high spirits.
’The Cincinnati is said to
lino left half a million dollars in that
city.
Tlio splendid China dinner and t**
service ordered for the Pras'.denl’s man
ion recently consists of live hundereds
peaces, and cost §3,000.
Three hundred thousand dollars
have been appropriated by Congress
for tho survey of public lands.
A Dr. Turner, of New York, lias
agreed lo fast forty days and night 1
for a purse ol SI,OOO. He lias enter
ed the work.
At Greenville, Mich., n broken
down New York drr.mtnor. shot and
killed his wife, and lin n killed him
self.
'The oldest teacher in the world ts
believed to be Abraham L> vi Dick
stein, of Germany. He lias been ac
tively engaged as an active peda
gogue for over fifty years. His aver-,
age annual compensation bis been
about S3O.
A Cologne dispatch says it is of
ficially announced from St. IMers
burg that tlie rindopCbt is raging in
lorly-tiuec districts on the shores of
the Black sea. The sumo dispatch
reports a groat fire raging in Iliazon,
Russia. Sixty houses are destroyed
ami the flames rapidly spreading.
Two bull dogs wandered two years
ago from the ranch ot Bratt & Cos.,
Nebraska, and joined a pack ot rov
ing wolves. They never returned,and
now a species of dog-wolf infesting
that section are more dreaded than
the Common prairie wolf, being more
bold and savage.
In the year 187S alone four lruu
droed thousand dol’ars worth of silk
was furnished to the Chinese imperi
al palace. It is believed that much
more than halt of 1,300 bolts furni*h
ed for imperial servants was stolen
and sold. The gorgeous and expen
sive robes of the empress are not in
cluded in tho above amount. Many
of them cost $5,000 each. The an
nual dres3 oi tho empress cost not
less than $500,000. To complete tho
folly of those people, when one of
the royal ladies dies her costly ward
robe is buried with her.
On the sth inst. a duel was fought
in Soth Carolina between Col Wm M
Shannon and Col E B Cash, in which
the former was killed. Tho difficul
' ty grew out of an exposure of a fraud
j lent transfer of property to Cash’s
wife, in a case in which Shannon was
employed as council against her. Cash
became enraged because in exposing
the fraud his wife was shown to be
connected with it, she havng nominal
control of the property. Cash chal
langed Shannon for a duel, but ho
declined on the ground that it was
against his principal to duo!. Then
; ho published Shannon as a villain and
coward. For this Shannon challeng
ed Cash, and was killed.
NO 43
The New York Sun: 31. Sell
eurcr has discovered the remark
able fact that the fermentation of
bread causes the complete digest,
tion of meat lie found that a beef
steak cut into small pieces, and
mixed with flour and yeast, disap
peared entirely during tiie process
of pacification, its nutritive prin
ciples becoming incorporated with
the bread. 2ho meat would al
so appear capable of preservation
for an indefinite period in its new
state, for Haves of meat-bread
made in IST3 we e submitted to
the French Academy of science,
when not a trace of worms or
mouldiuess was observable, At
the beginning of his experiments,
M. Schourer-kestner used raw
meat, but the meat-bread had a
diagreeable sour taste, which was
avoided by cooking tho meat for
and hour with sufficient water to
afterward moisten the flour. The
meat must be carefully deprived.of
fat, and only have suflicbiif salt to.
bring out the flavor, as s§Jt f by ab
sorbing tho moisture from,the air
would t.end to spgif broad. Tho
proportion eminent to flour should,
not exceed so as to in
sure, complete . digestion. Bread,
nguki with a suitable proportion of,
veal is said to furnish excel!cult
soup for the sick and woiirtyl^dp