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fp' 4 BRINKLEY.
Che Celebrated Brinkley Case
Aagain Before the Su¬
preme Court.
[What a Plucky lawyer has Done
in the Case.
(Atlanta Constitution.!
Our readers are familiar with
I the Brinkley case. On the 13th
[of [in May, the city li»74. of Nownan. he killed The his wife
par¬
ticulars wore given at. the time
in our columns, and presented a
case remamable for atrocity. The
[defence jfer pleads insanity. We re
to this case now because it is
again up before the Supreme
Court, and the remarkable course
lit has taken.
The murder was cm,milled on
It ho liiTh of ’May, ’ W-J. At the
[June [Coweta adjourned term, 1874, of
Superior Court, he was
[put on trial, and alter a hard fight
convicted and sentenced. The
[case [Court, was carried to the Supreme
and the judgment of the
Court below affirmed. A writ
[was Idinary then sued out before the Or
to test the question of his
Isanily. The jury made a mis
Itrial. A motion was then made
(before the Judge of Coweta Su
Iperior Court for a new trial on ex
[for jtraordinary the Code. grounds as provided
in The Judge re
[fused jtions to sign the hill ot cxeep
and a mandamus nisi was
sued out against him. The Su¬
preme Court refused to make the
rule absolute, overruling the de
cision in the Spann case, aiul liold
| ing that the motion cottld only
be made in term time. They in¬
timated at the same time that in
a case demanding , , interference . . of ..
i the r, Court, as the motion could ,,
not be made in vacation, it wa
the duty of the Governor to ex
tend executive clemency. Gov¬
ernor Smith, afler a careful re¬
view of all the evidence, granted
a resuite until the regular tern]
The motion for a new trial wa
then made, and and after lengthy nil ai|
gunient the reading of
merous affidavits, a new trial w;f
granted. The trial came off
187(1, vited and and Brinkley was again motiol coi|
sentenced. A
for a nex- trial was made and r<
fused. For the third time tli
case is up before the Supreml hear|
Court. It will probably be
on Tuesday
Public opinion seems divide)
|on his sanity. Eminent pliysi
cians testified to his insanity o|
the trial, and a large number
witnesses pro and con were eJ
amined. A board of physiciaij
were aupoint ed by Gov. Smii
to examine Ins condition, an|
Ithey reported him sane. The te
[timonv [ininous. in the case is very vol
being over 500 pages
Ifoolscap. Brinkley has been
(jail nearly four years, and is
1 I ported to be very much emaei
ted.
This case is a remarkable on
in view of its history. P. F. Smith
[his led leading counsel, lias exhibit
a perseverance against
Iwhelming odds and
[pluck 11hat in the conduct of the
entitles him to
las a faithful, firm aiid
Iself [advocate. He has devoted hi
to the case, and uo'iim:
[him [what the issue may be. it
as a lawyer in whom
can place implicit confidence,
I Will hand his name down
future generations as one w«*Iiy
of in,Hal ion.
Is Your Note Good,
A Boston lawyer was called on
la short time ago by a hoy. \\t o in
|quircd to sell, if lhe he had lawyer any waste had paper crisp,
a
[keen [and way of asking questions
is moreover a methodical
j man. So pulling out a large
drawer he exhibited his stock o t
waste paper.
“Will you give me two shillings
j for that ?”
The boy looked at the paper
doubtingly a moment, and then
offered fifteen pence.
“Done?” said the lawyer, and
the paper was quickly transb-rryi
to the boy’s bag. his eyes wc,^t\
ling as he lilted the f -'
mass.
Not till it was safely slowed
away did he announce that lie
had no money.
“No money!”
Not prepared to state exactly
his plan of operation the boy
made no reply.
“Do you consider your note
good ?” asked the lawyer.
“Yes, sir.”
“Very well; if you say your
note’s good, I’d just as sob?>
i' «U»
good, I don't want It.”
The boy affirmed that lie con
sidered it good ; v hereupon the
lawyer wrote a note lor fifteen
pence, which the hay signed !egi
b!y, and lifting the bag ot paper
trudged off.
Soon after dinner the little fel
low returned, and producing tin
money, announced that he had
come t H pay his note.
“Well,” said the lawyer, “this
is the first time 1 ever knew a
note to he taken up the jj
was given. A boy that \v
that is entitled to note and m’Tt^y
ton;” and giving him both, sent
him on his way with a
face and happy heart.
The boy’s note represented his
honor. A boy who thus keeps
his honor bright, however poor
lie may be in wordly things, is an
heir to an inheritance which no
riches can buy—the choice prom- 1
. ot (iod. ,
ises
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A Venerable Dead Letter Restssci
tated.
[Wasliinjrton to tlio Hultiiuon*
>1111. i
An application lias been re¬
Nellie’s Dream.
Among the converts in the late
revival at Kingston. New Hamp¬
shire, is a young lady about fif¬
teen years of age, who, a short
time ago. had a very interesting
dream, which, in her case, has
proved an incentive to right ac
tion, and may be a benefit to
others.
Siie dreamed she had been left
; alone in the opfen air, and was
: ‘ bo,,t ,lie ’ and had leanefl for
» l»rge tree that
Looking up she saw
three Angels arrayed in all the
•purity and splendor of Heaven
coming toward her, each with „
j crown in his hand. These crowns
; wer ^ a |j very beautiful, but there
| was plainly a difference in then,.
The angel who had the most
beautiful crown came to her and
said: “This might have been
i y 0U r’s, had >ou performed every
cross: but as you have not it
j mustbe given t * 0 another.”
The angel with the crown next
in beauty then came and said:
“This might have been your’s,
but you have not been faithful
enough for this even, and another
ruust wear p >»
The third angel then came up,
i and holding out the crown he car¬
ried, j said : “Of this you are wor
i thy take it. it is vour’s. l’hough
there are some duties you have
left undone, yet in many things
von have been faithful. And
more than all, your trust has been
in your Saviour. lie loves ybu,
and has sent you this crown as a
token of His love.”
The dream was one of those re¬
markably clear presentations that
never fail to make an impression
upon the mind, and Nellie awoke
,'#-y ♦tv ?:"!< ! nriii.ftioA io^wear
| the brightest crown her Saviour
j has prepared for her.
! As illiterate peasant girl, sef
j vant in a prominent family of
i South Maitland, Australia, has
, lately inherited a million and a
j halt of francs, has or $300,000. descended The
golden shower on
the heiress from the will of a dis
(ant relative, of whose existence
s |u‘ was ignorant, but who had
made a large fortune ill America,
; and left it to this girl and her
Jjrotlicr h in equal portions. The
Fbrother b is a stable hoy in a
wealthy family near 1’aris. Both
are utterly without education,
not even knowing how to read.
! The lady with whom the heiress
I continues to live white the affairs
uf the defunct relative are being
settled; is vainly trying to give
the gir* some clear notion of the
importance ot the fortune she has
fallen into; hut it seems impos¬
sible to make her see either the
responsibilities it will entail or
the necessity of turning it to use¬
ful account. Her sole idea in
•omietition with her improved
farf’ine is to have “a little house
m the country and a good lot of
•^v's.’’ She stubbornly refuses
to r°ad or write, declaring that
she can look after “the little
house and the fowls” without
either. “But how will you man¬
age vour servants,” urged her
mistress, “if you do not take the
trouble to iisipmve yourself and
oeuuire a better idea of things t
“Servant* /" answered the girl,
with French gestures of amaze
ment and disgust, “Do you think
j would have servant*? Why,
what should 1 do if 1 had ser
) vauts to do my work? No, no ;
I no servants lor me. I want no
1 to meddle with little
one my
I douse and my fowls. I shall take
re of them mvself.”
■ “Father, did voa ever have an
tther wile lie-ide; mother ?” “No.
■ m r ’ boy; what possessed vOu to
ask such a question ? “Because
I Caw in the old family Bible that
you married Anna Domini, 1836 •
that ain't mother, for In-r name is
Sa'ly Smith
i' ■ ■
Josh Billings on Alligators.
The alligatoris an original krit-l
ter contemplate of the old block, and as ugly|
to az a Congo dar¬
key. They are residents of Flor¬
ida, and grow twelve feet nine
inches and then halt. Their teeth
are all tushes, and their mouth iz
az full of then, az a buzz saw it.
Their eyes are sot up and down
in their bed like a Chinaman’s;
and they hav an appytight equal
to eighteen distrikt schoolmas¬
ters. They are the krokodiles of
America, and lay eggs az easy az
a hen duz, but don t kackle when
the cum odIi from the nest. They
are grate kowards, but ain’t
afrade 07 young pork or little
turkeys, and kan eat the time or
go without eatin’ az long az a
gold fish kan. The alligator was
made for some useful purpose,
but like the musketeer, the bed¬
bug and the cockroach, their use¬
fulness has been karefully hid
from us. You can shoot a hun¬
dred alligators in a day on the
St. John’s river, but you can’t bag
one, and there ain’t enuy more
game m them than there iz in a
rotten log. They are long-lived,
and liv, if memory serves ine
right, four thousand years, and
their grate strength lies in their
tales. They hiss when they are
angry like a tea kettle, and want
az much room to turn round in az
a fore and aft schooner.
Black Hills ^toriesi
[V Irginia City (> (enterprise, j
A party of miners in the Black
Ililis recently compared eyes and
ears over a camp fire One said :
“When I was coming to the Hills
I looked for Indians until I Could
see AnotiJer a mosquito a mile awaja"
said'his eyes were weak,
but he Could hear knats jumping
around on the rocks tour lliiles
off. Tile next man had listened
for Indians until he heard the
mountain sheep light on their
horns in the Big Dorn meiintains
three hundred miles awaC. The
fourth with his head on his pil
low, had strained His ear until he
heard the Chinese nailing up tea
boxes. The tilth, in crossing the
Rock Mountains, had found it pet¬
rified forest—big trees turned
into solid stone. As he loitered
on tile edge, a deer stalled across
the valley and was transformed
in a moment into solid stone. A
bird flew past him, and perching
upon a branch, began to sing.
Suddenly stone.' thS bird was changed
to The song she was sing
ing was also petrified, hanging
down from the beak of the bird
—a cold; cold stone.
—---- m m , . , i..i i
“My son,” said a pious father
out on South llill. to his hopelul
son, “you did not saw any wood
for the kitchen yesterday as 1
told you to, you left the hack
open and let tlie cow get out,you
cut off eighteen feet of the
clothes line to make a lasso, you
stoned Mr. Itobinson’s pet dog
and lamed it, you put a hardshell
turtle in the hired girl's bed, you
tied a strange dog to Mr. Kobin
son's door bell and painted red
and "reen stripes on the legs of
old Mr. Polaby's white pony, and
.’ „ sis ,„., iuslle „ f
the . front .............. window. Now, , what .......
am I to do to for such conduct ”
“Are all the counties heard
from ?" asked the candida*e.
The father replied sternly, “N,,
trilling, sir; no, I have yet sever¬
al reports to receive from others
of the neighbors.”
“Then,” replied the boy, “you
will not be justified in proceeding
to extremes until the official
count is in.”
Shortly after the election was
taken into the House, and before
j half the voter were canvassed, it
was evident, from the peculiar
| intonation of applause that JBur- the
boy wa= badly beaten.—
lington Havckeye.
■4:-‘ ■- • ■
eir presence. We cannot
too true, too pdrte, too honorable';
if we want to stand upright be¬
fore fi good woman or a good girl
—yes, while I'm about it, I’ll add,
or before a little mite of a girl
babv, with her soul iresH frdm
Heaved.
1 only know of tine otiief before
whom We ought W be just as par¬
ticular, if not mote so. When Dte
is not aroiind, my boys, ydii cad
safely do just about as yOu piease:
But when you’re id Iiis prfcseneb
—and, to my thinking, we are all
there, or thereabouts pretty mucH
all the tints—have a carfe! Don’t
offend the deepest love, the whit¬
est purity; the grandest liouor df
All.
.
Keep Straight Ab^dd
Pay no attention to Slanderer*,
df gossipmdngers. KeCj) strai^Jj
id your course, and let their I
lutings die the death bf lies
What is the Use of lying
at night, brooding over tliel
mark of soihe false fHtend fl
nibs through your brain like for^x
ed lightning? What’s the US^S Of
fretting over a piece adoat bf gossip
that has beeii set to youf
disadvantage by some meddle ;
soihe busybody who has inoffi
time than character? TheSB
things can’t possibly meddle ydti
udless, indebd, yod lake ntffibd
of them, and in combatting tHbtti;
give then, Character and Stand 1
ing. If whdt is f-rtitl about Voti i«
true; set yourself right at wit once;
if it is false; let it gff fo< ; fit it
will fetch. If a bee slings yod
would you go the hive and ffb‘
si«my ,t i Would dot d thousand
oodi>? Upon you ? It is wisdom td
say little respecting tlie* injilribs
you have feceived. We arff gen¬
erally losers in the end if wefitbp
to refuse all backbiting and gos¬
siping we ftilty hear by them.
They are anhbying it 15 true, but
not d.ihgefous so King iiS tVe do
not stop It? bpOstdlate and sCtilrh
Our characters ifiti formed and
sustained by ourSelVeS, alld bf
our own actions aiid piifphSfeS;
and not by hi hers. Let us alwiiJ’S
bedr in mifid that calumniator
may usually be trusted to tirfit^
and the slow but steady jus
of public opinion.
A D.ous’ ofOurOwiuj
Next, to being married
isrtn ,h .
, l M ‘ c '* ™
, .
, ‘ ,n, 1,1 on< s l-< ‘* S ' d
der one's own foof There ifi
sometliihg mote tllitii it poetioit!
charm in the expresSifitl of fi wifti
writing to a friend, Who said i
“We hate our oos£ home; it ifi
thrice dear to us because it i?> rliif
own. We have liOugli* it rtuth the
savings of o?tr earnihg'i Many
were tliC soda fnuutaiils; 11:0 coii
fOctionerv saloons and lhe nOccC
fiarios of market we hail lo p^ssj
fiiany a time my noble husband
denied himfielf of the cbm ort of
tobacco, tlte refreshing draught
bf beer, were his old Clothes, and
even patched up hobts; arid tj
oh, me ! made my old bonnet do.
wore the plaihest clotht«:did
plainest cooking, saving tVas the
order of the house, and to hate A
house of ouV own IiAd been out
iinited aim. Now We have’ It
There is no landlord troublinj
with raising the rent, thej as
changing this or that,
tear harbored in dtir bd
in Sickness Or old a£e
thrown out of house a#
and the money which otl
would have gone to pay
to keep comfort ifi the k-idl
days of life.”
“Johskt, have you learned fii if -
thing during the week ?” adked fi
teacher of a five-year old ptjpil:
“Yeth'm.” “Well, what ifiilf”
“Never to lead a stfiall trrtfffjf
when you bold both borers."