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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 _____ 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."