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LETTER FROM NORTH
GEORGIA.
NO. 33.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY* 9, 1873.
OLD SEBlF-S-yOLUME I.I.
NEW SERIES-VOLUME I.
■ • VI’;
A Day In Atlanta—'The Kimball House
—Gov. Smith—The Newspapers—
judge Trlppe—Marietta—Kcnneaaw
Mills—The Oinetary-Roswcli—.The
Iron Mi:ies'»Dinmonds*«Ilroken Down
Aristocracy—Miitnal Protection In
surance Company.
Bj.fr'al Curroponlence to North-Eist Georgian.
FA Hors Xorth-FA*t Georgian:—A
copy of your good paper seen to-day,
recalls so many charming hours, passed
in your l>eautiful city, that I am natu
rally reminded of your genial faces, and
of a promise long since made, to en
lighten you as to the progress and
prospects of Cobb county. It is proper
however to take Atlanta as a jioint of
departure, and speak in the first ii -
stance of that enterprising population
which goes to and fro, amid the virtue
and vice, the wealth and poverty, the
happiness anil woe, of the Gate City.
A DAY IN ATLANTA
is quite enough to satisfy an ordinary
mortal; a night would more than
render the “Gentleman in Black”
content within his own heated realms.
Aside from the incessant ringing of
l>olls, and whistling of passing trains,
many things combine to make night
hideous and drive away the “ sweet re
storer.” Atlanta is never quiet, “from
the rising of the Sun until the going
down thereof.” Aye, until it rises ngaiu,
a restless, busy throng may he found
upon each throughfarc, henton money
or mischief. Never upon the streets of
New York have I watched with deeper
interest, or seen more clearly depicted,
the excitement, glory, and misery of
mercantile life. Business men seem
never to walk, but go with a hop, skip
and a jump, as if one minute lost
could never be regained,and that in that
time the limits of the city might be
indefinitely extended.
THE KIMBALL HOUSE
is simply grand. No words can give
a fair idea of its beautiful proportions,
or its convenient arrangements. It is
too much, however, for even the hopeful
Atlanta, as is shown by the many
evidences of gradual decay. A system
of retrenchment is evident on every
hand, and that its courteous proprietor
finds it no easy task to provide for the
morrow, is apparent. He bears the
pressure courageously, and all wish him
success. A fair day presents the beau-
tit's. Yes, the place has pretty women,
though it has been denied by crafty
bachelors, once boys from AugnSta,
who seriously believe that the beauty
of the State is concentrated there. It
was my good fortune, as I sat quietly
luxuriating in a cigar, to see one
“Whose little feet, like smiles did creep
A little out, and then ;
As it they started at bo-peep,
Dili quick glide in again.”
1 am an old man, and long have 1
forsaken the company of the gentle sex,
but yet my heart did throb, only for a
moment, as I watched her on her way,
until she wns lost in the crowd.. She
was without doubt going to make some
one luippy ere those tiny feet rested—
but it wasn’t me. Littlo did she,
pretty creature, know the chords she
hud touched iu a stranger’s heart; little
does she know how one smile would
have thrilled a heart not often open to
cupid’s snalts. Indeed, I am sure she
would have cared very little about the
matter any bow, but nevertheless I will
see her again. Despite the bells, whis
tles ami the like, I’ll goto Atlanta again.
She would have redeemed >Sodom—At
lanta is’nt that had yet.
Tiie newspapers
present to me the greatest attractions.
How tho llrrald has grown is truly
remarkable, but yet when it is com
pared with tho other daily papers in
the State, we cease to wonder. That
it is the most popular paper in upper
Georgia is as certain as that it is the
liest managed. Its columns are, re
plete with readable matter for all
classes. Its editorials areuble, manly
and vigorous. I have repeatedly heard
the question nsked why some ene,-.jvith
enterprise, did not publish a nowsier
paper in Savannah. Another corps of
editors, such as the one controlling the
Herald, would arouse the Xeirt, Jtepuh-
lican and Advertiser, and givo.to the
I>eople of Southern Georgia a sheet
worth ten dollars per annum, ja was
fortunate enough to meet
c;ov. SMITH,
who looks as little like a roan who
could tell a lie, as some of his enemies
living not far from Athens bears re
semblance to the hero of the apple tree
*t»rv. Gov. .Smith is an old school
penileiuau; indeed a gentleman in every
of the word. He may ba no
lnlloyrand or Patrick Henry—to
■iiii'ie from the llcndd—but he surely
. *hc l*;st interests of Georgia in
VK ‘\v, and will not swerve from the
I'? 1 " °1 honor to answer the demands
ancient, broken-down politicians,
’ no,,e the more will he yield to the
< amor ol youthful office-seekers, who
.n'l* 1 1 ° l ! emove the old land-marks,
•>nd place in power those who, perhaps
honestly, believe “the Jubilee has
come.
Jl'DGE TIIIPPE
!i?'n 1 * 8 ? hivorabje appearance upon
it u U ' K and ' V 'N l* r ‘>ve an honor to
' ,i ls ,®- ve , ' s bright, his forehead
lionri ’’ i ' a "gunge perfect, and his
«»nii!» that ■ •• •
its suburbs, would be superfluous. The I
new Court House is a model. It is
luting erected upon the site of the old
one, but not after the same fashion.
The town clock is to stand within its
steeple, and like tho. curfew, will .toll
the thriving people home, or such of
them as may not be under it, for I
learn that the jail will be beneath,
where each criminal may know when
the time of his imprisonment expires.
Refined cruelty rather, but as Cobb is
the Banner County, as to agriculture,
she surely should be entitled to give
the aristocratic fashions of the common
wealth a lesson upon criminals as well
as cereals.
LAUUHERISMS.
It is said that there never was an
honest redbreast; he is always a rob
in.
Why is beer like a flea ? Because
hops arc the principal tiling in both of
them.
”1 his
' .*• which becomes the dignity
,,,, | l*" sl, i'»n. The citizens of Geor-
but ..'c 0 n,,l bii'g by his appointment,
thch 1,1 lnuc,1 ‘ has jierhaps not
in*, Warner, or the shrewd-
„f j t ; ‘ ,(# y. hut he has the intellect
interest , COn, k' ne< * w ' dl n proprietary
iieitl.r— 0 ," r common country, which
-rate h. ? 1 * others can feel. At this
™ve’r ' VCV ° r ’ Mg****- Editors, we will
. r 'cac.t c 0 l,b
Hun to
county, therefore,
marietta,
' vcl > known to the migra-
- odd that a description of it, with
THE KENNESAW MILLS
draw especial attention. Mogsrs. Cook
and Clark evidently understand the
matter of supply *and demand, and
seem so well to control each, that L felt
it my duty, as a fair minded raan, to
find out how they did ft- I found out,
but won’t tell. The Mills, however,
arc in perfect order, everything runs
ns it should, and the flour is perfect.
THE CEMETAIIY
will trouble a body. Poor soldiers
either lie unburied, or if buried, have
for their tombstones a blackberry patch.
Poor soldiers, poor Marietta. 1 passed
the cemetary a few days since. From
the point, 1 saw the stars and stripes
flying over the Union warriors; from
the same point I saw a wilderness of
brown straw and briars to mark the
place where our own have been laid
to rest.
Within one mile of each other vou
will find two places for the dead. The
one over which the Southern breeze
liears the Stars and Strijies giving
evidence of culture, refined taste, care.
The other, where lie our Confederate
champions, shows signs of neglect,
heartlcssness and fear.
The ladies of Marietta are good
enough, but the selfish men have con
trolled their anxiety to remember our
holy cause. But Marietta is not all of
Cobb.
ROSWELL,
with its Factory, is worthy of notice.
All of the buildings connected with
this Factory were burnt during the
war, and yet the Factories have been
rebuilt, the old ojieratives employed,
and now the dividends declared surprise
the oldest citizens. Ante helium
nothing was like unto it, aud the days-
of"prosperity will even return. Mr.
Harrell, the active President, will learn
the ropes, in lime, and then the stock
which now sells readily at eight hundred
dollars per share will bear a fabulous
price.
THE IRON MINES
are being explored successfully. The
indications of .iron abound upon every
hand. The Altoona ore does not
compare* with the ore which is being
brought to the surface in Cobb; there
fore we may look for an early change
in county statistics, and soon look for
a vacant section in vain.
A DIAMOND
comes up lo hasten matters. Yes, a
diamond of the first water reports it
self from the vicinity of Marietta.
The finder refuses to state where he
“gobbled” the precious thing, worth
a paltry million or two, hut ncverthc-
le.-s the tantalvziug thing is here.
BROKEN DOWN ARISTOCRACY,
are here too, mostly from South Caro
lina, but despite their poverty, the
fortune hunters yet take oil' their hats
to them. Poverty, pride, honesty,
treason, money, baseness, meet upon
every hand. There is a creature here,
who actually boasts of the services
which he rendered the enemy during
the war, and yet he. lives. I asked for
the general “ Cyclops ” of the count)-,
but he couldn’t l>c found.
Well, we arc a peaceable people, and
will let the matter drop. Capt. Jack
will fight it out.
THE MUTUAL PROTECTION INSURANCE
COMPANY.
has its headquarters here, and is fast
growing into public favor. It has been
organized upon the plan of the South
ern Mutual of Athens, and though it
has been in operation for only two
years, it is even now tho worthy rival
of that Company. Gentlemen of the
first character control it, giving an as
surance of good management as well
as certain prosperity.
the crops
are thus far in fine condition. Enough
corn is being planted, and enough cot
ton too. Wheat looks well. All hands
seem to work with industry, and upon
ever)* hand, for once, the farmers seem
to be happy. Perry.
Died, on the 7th ultimo, Mr. Jacob
James, much respected by all who
knew and dealt with him. As a man
he was amiable, as a hatter upright
and moderate. His virtues were l>c-
yond all price, and his heaver hats
were only twenty-four shilling each.
He has left a widow to deplore his los.-,
and a large stock to be sold cheap for
the benefit of his family. He was snatch
ed to the other world in the prime of
life, and just as he had concluded an
extensive purchase of felt, which he
got so cheap that the widow can supply
hats at a more reasonable charge than
any other house in town. His dis
consolate fiunilwill carry on the busi
ness with punctuality.
A Michigan man has invented a
unique, poetical, and, to his mind, emi
nently practical mode of traveling rap
idly on horseback. His idea is to con
struct a cone shaped baloon, which is
to be laid lengthwise upon the horse’s
back. The animal and rider are then
to lie weighed, and the balloon filled
with just gas enough to lift all but a
few pounds weight of horse aud rider
from the earth, in order that the frisky
Pegasus may have nothing to do but
go ahead. The jiossihle sjiced of such
u contrivance is as yet beyond conjec
ture.
' “Do you want to buy a sewing ma
chine?” asked an agent of a farmer.
“No,” was the reply: “I always sow
my wheat out of a bucket.”
Query: Are the Michi-ganders
any relation to the l’ortu-gues, and if
so, how much and what?
“I don’t see what water always wants
to freeze with the slippery side up for,”
blubbed an urchin who had just veri
fied the fact.* t -r ]■_ ~
An editors pistol having been stolen,
he advertises that if the thief will re
turn it he will give him the contents and
Mquestion*asked.. ' ... 4 . - ,
A neighbor was asked the other day,
what made her gait so peculiar, “Oh,”
said she, “it’s a new edition of Bun-
yau’a Pilgrim’s Progress.”
The least verdict recorded was upon
a gentleman who expired in a fit of
inebriation. The jury returned:
“Death by hanging—round a grog
shop.”
From the Griflin New*
THE HOMESTEAD LAWS.
The Decision of the United States
Supreme Court on the Same.
From one of our leading attorneys,
who has seen the decisions of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court on the
Homestead and Relief Laws, we get
the following statements-and the points
decided. ~
The case was a suit brought by
Plaintiff Gunn vs. Hart,' in Randolph
Superior Court, in I860. Judgment
obtained, and execution issued tl.ee-
ou, and placed in the hands of the
Sheriff, with instructions to 'brake the
money. The order for levy was nqt
given uutil 18(18, the'fl^hrfff refused
to levy because the defendant’s proper
ty was covered by a Homestead, and
the plaintiff applied for a- mandamus
to compel him to levy, hut the presid
ing Judge refused to grant it, and the
Supreme Court of Georgia sustained
that decision. The case was then
carried to the Supreme Court of the
United States, who reversed it upon
the following grounds.
1st. That the homestead of 1868
. . P?P u * ar preacher thinks that hell | was greatly larger than the one in force
is within twenty miles of the earth’s ■ a t the time the contract was made,
surface in the latitude of Kentucky, 2nd. That the remedy to enforce a
ami his congregation have resolved not contract liecomes a part of the obliga
tion ; and they add that the ease un
der consideration is clearly one impair-
She Pays the Penalty ol Her Crimes.
Why GOTernor Smith did not Pardon
Her.f ' i
Americus, May 2, 1873.—Susan
Eberhart, ngod eighteen years, was
hanged at five minutes to twelve o’clock
to-day.
hree hundred persons wit;
execution, including some
who seemed sadly out
such a scene. * ,
I SUMMONED;. I, J |
Tnorfiing opened glooiriyi but
brightened up at ten o’clock.* One
hoiyr later the jailor, accompanied by
Mr; Bi.ll, entered the jail and ap-
Imrjbd Susan Eberhart. .
Looking'up to them, she remarked,
“I suppose my time has come ?”■
“Yes,’ : *Mr. Bell replied, “I have
done all I could for you, and have
failed.” *'
“Well,” she responded calmly, “I
am ready to go.”
TO THE GALLOWS.
The shey-iff then led her to his bug
gy, in which she entered without a - • , „„, . . , . = ,
word. She was driven*) the gallows, ^' nt * I i n< ? . tl,eu '! ont l .° a ! u ! nber
to do any more subsoil plowing.
The enterprising vagabond who is
organizing a brass band of twenty
women says that if they learn half as
many ‘airs’ as they can put on, the ex
periment cannot fail to be a success.
A little lady in Schenectly, recently
-ent word to her aged P. in New York
that she must l>e excused from writing
a longer letter. She had spent a
very restless night with a sick doll.
“Wife,” said a man. looking for
his hoot-jack, “ I have places where I
keep my things, and you ought to know
it.” “ Yes, I ought to know where
you keep your late hours, hut I don't.”
The question for discussion at a re
cent meeting of scientists, was: “Which
travels fastest heat or cold ?” It was
decided in favor of heat, as many pres
ent luid often been able to catch cold.
"My son,” said a refined mother to
her boy, “you should not use the word
blacl.-gard; it is vulgar.” “What
should I use in the place of it, lira ?”
“Whv, use—use—African sentinel, my
dear.”
Among the saddest episodes hi the
late storm in Minnesota, according to
a Western paper, was the freezing of
the hands, nose, forehead, everything,
except the cheek of a life insurance
agent..
Minnie faged six, to liearded papa,
who lias just returned after a five year's
residence in the Australian hush)—“ I
don’t like you. You are too rough; I
am sorry you ever married into our
family.”
Josli Billings says; “We read that
Esaw sold hiz birthritc for soup, and
many woundered at his extravagance ;
hut Esaw discovered arly what many
a man has diskovered since, that it is
hard to live on a pedigree!”
“Pretty bad under foot to-day,” said
one citizen to another as they met in
the street. “Yes, but it’s fine over
head,” responded the other. “Truo
enough,” said the first, “but then very
few arc going that way.”
A little negro waiter was sent to call
a gentleman to dinner, and found him
using a toothbrush. “Well,” said the
landlady, when the boy returned, “ is
becoming?” “Yes, mistios, d’rec’ly ;
he is jes sharpen in’ his teeth.”
“What a temper that boy has !” ex
claimed a mother to her husband. “ I
don’t see where he got it; not from me,
I’m sure.” “No, my dear.” replied
the meek husband, “he didn’t get it
from you, for I’m •sure you’ve never
lost any.”
A Vermont woman was for years
tormented by the nocturnal irregular
ities of an eccentric husband. A short
time since she followed him to the grave,
remarking, as she wiped her eyes, that
she had one consolation—she should
now know where he spent his evenings.
A gourmet of brilliant inventive
powers has originated the charming
idea of utilizing tadpoles, or “ polly-
wogs,” as an article of table luxury.
He Iras fried them and finds them
better than snails, shrimps, nr any
nther such “small deer” usually reck
oned as luxuries.
A German peddler sold a liquid for
the extermination of bugs—“And how
do you use it?” inquired the man after
he had bought it. “Ketch te pug,
unt drop von leetlc drop into his mout,”
answered the jicddler. “The deuce
you say!” exclaimed the purchaser.
“I could kill it in half that time by
stamping on it.” “Veil,” calmly said
the German,” “dat is a coot vay, too,
to kill him.”
The latest little joke on Cincinnati
—coining, of course, from St. Louis—
is that the Pork City is building a
Brobdignagian sausage for the Vienna
Exhibition. It will require the Great
Eastern to tow it across the ocean, af
ter it has been floated down the Mis
sissippi to the Gulf. It is to he made
in sections in a railroad tunnel, the
hogs being driven in by the hundred
and then subjected to hydraulic pres
sure.
A Vermont man recently laid a
wager that he would woo, win and
marry a young lady, whom, with his
companions, he had just seen arrive at
the hotel where he was living. He
introduced himself to the damsel, she
smiled upon his suit, a minister was
called in, and they were married with
in an hour. The wager was handed
over to the bridegroom, who left with
his bride tlic following day. It was
afterward discovered that tlie couple
had long been man and wife, and that
they had been travling around play
ing the same trick at various hotels.
ing the obligations of contracts, if not
entirely annihilating it, [See'4 Dallas
R. 388.]
3rd. That Georgia was one of the
original thirteen States, and never
went out of the Union, though the
lawful authority was at one time in
abeyance.
4th. That it is true that Congress
passed upon the Constitution of Geor
gia when it was “ rchabitated,” but it
did not necessarily sanction thaHome-
stead clause in so doing.
5th. That the Congress canYiot by
authorization or ratification authorize
a State to pass a law in conflict with
the Constitution of the United States.
6tli. That a State cannot pass a law
impairing the obligation of a con
tract.
7th. That the Constitution of Geor
gia, aud the laws thereof, which tend
to impair the obligation of contracts,
or destroying their remedy, was un
constitutional.
8th. The judgment of the Courtis,
that the Supreme Court of Georgia be
instructed to order the Superior Court
of Randolph to reverse the decision
and order the fi. fa, to proceed.
In tho ease of Walker vs. White-
head : This was a suit brought on a
note before January, 1N70, the con
tract being made before June, 1865.
The defendant moved to dismiss, as
no tax atfidavit had been tilled under
law of Georgia, and the Court
SUSAX EBERHAllT.
dismissed it.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, after giving the whole acts of
the Legislature, held—
1st. That the Tax Act lrad a penal
ty act in existence when the contract
was made, and that the object of the
act was not to collect old tax, hut to
“renounce” old debts and defeat their
collection.
2d. That the law at the time a con
tract was made, enters into and 1k>
comes a part of the contract, and that the
means of enforcing the contract, be
come a part of the obligation.
3d. They hold that this act impairs
the obligation or a contract, and is one
of the clearest cases of a violation of
the Constitution.
Mr. Justice Swayne delivered both
of the opinions.
TIIE FENCE AND STOCK LAW.
In 1872, the Legislature of Geor
gia passed a law in regard to fences,
and the question seems toobc exciting
a good deal of attention just now in
various portions of the State. The law
provides that upon tho petition of fifty
free-holders, the Ordinary shall proceed
to order an election. In the event of
a counter-petition from fitly free-holders
the Ordinary shall proceed no further.
Noticfe of election is to be given in due
form, and the poll upon the question
is to be had on the first Monday in
July next.
Under this law tho boundary line
of each lot or parcel of land is to be
considered a lawful fence, aud no ani
mal used or fit for food and labor will
be allowed to run at large beyond the
limits of the land of the owner.
Many counties are moving in the
matter, gnd it is very likely that in
some of them the law will he adopted.
There is opposition however, in some
sections, aud the fight will be hotly
contested. While there is much to be
said in fovor of such a law, there is
also much to be said against it. It in
volves a radical change which is pure
ly experimental. It is a question as
to whether farmers shall fence out
their neighbors’ stock, as they have
been in the habit of doing, or whether
they shall fence iu their own, as this
law requires them to do. It seems
to us that the enactment, while it will
not materially interfere with the large
planter, will put small farmers to a
world of inconvenience and trouble.
While the former can pasture his stock
on his own domain, the latter dau no
longer allow their cattle to graze as of
yore in the pleasant piue-fields that
arc spread around in tempting useless
ness. The question is an exceedingly
interesting one in all its details, par
ticularly to the agriculturalist.—Savan-
wjJi Xeu't.
A terrible calamity occurred in
Lawrenceville on Monday last. Eleven
young ladies of the Academy, during
recess, had congregated in a small
house near the school, a thunder storm
prevaling at the ti ine. A flash of light
ning followed, and the entire party
were prostrated by the electric shock.
A Miss Roberts was killed instantly,
and all the rest stuuned or scorched.
Upon the arm of one of the girls was
imprinted the perfect picture of an oak
leaf and blossom. The aflair -created
great excitement is Lawrenceville.
a distance of soni# two hundred yards.
The crowd followed in on orderly man
ner, and no demonstrations whatever
were made.
A PRAYER TO GOD.
Arriving at the scaffold, which was
the same used iu the execution of
Spann, and around which was posted
troug guard of seventy-five citizens,
Susan Eberhart, with the assistance of
the sheriff, alighted from the buggy.
She then seated herself on the second
step of the gallows, and the clergy
man, with much emotion in his tone,
offered a prayer for her soul. Up to
this time she had been calm and ex
pressionless, giving no outward* evi
dence of fear or concern. But now,
as the voice of the good minister fell
in supplication upon her cars, all of
callousness and indifference—if her
calmness was really such—departed,
and for the first time she became visi
bly aflected; her form swaying with
emotion and the hot, scalding tears
trickling down her cheeks.
A LAST GOOD BYE.
The prayer over, Susau Eberhart
rose to her feet and look around her,
as if to take one last glance at the
world she was about to leave. The
day had brightened, and the sun shone
upon the scene. Iler youthful coun
Iterance, wan and [rale uS it lrad l>cen,
flashed up for a moment as with
shame.
Then turning to the good minister
she shook hands with him, aud next
with the prison officials, thanking
them all for the kindness they bail
shown her.
“Good-bye,” she said, for the last
time addressing them. Then once
more she looked around upon the
scene, drinking in, ns it were, a long
and eternal view of the earth that
seemed so bright and beautiful now
that she was about to leave it.
TIIE LAST WORDS.
She ascended to the top of the scaf
fold without trepidation. When ask
ed what she had to say, she replied,
in a clear, calm voice: “I am wil
ling to go, and liojie to be in Heaven
soon. There I ho|ie to meet you all
some day.”
Then turning to the Sheriff, she ad
ded :
“Fix the rope so I will die easy—
don’t let me suffer long 1”
She seemed to fear that her neck
would not he broken, and that her
death would lie a long one. As she
spoke to the Sheriff there was not a
tinge of bravado in her voice. Her
calm confrontation 'of death bordered
upon the heroic.
ON THE BRINK.
circumstahes of almost unparalleled
atrocity. _ , . . .
The reasons suggested for mitigating
her punishment are: Th^t she had
been reared in ignorance; is not sensi
ble of the weight of jher moral obliga
tions, and is a woman. The evidence
shows, beyond all question, that she
was sensible both of the moral and le
gal guilt of the crime of murder. If
allowed by my duty to the public to
base my official action upon my feelings
as a nran, I would not hesitate to in
terpose executive clemency to save a
woman from the extreme penalty of
the law; but as a magistrate, whose
sworn duty it is to sec that the laws
are enforced, I cannot intervene to.
prevent the execution ol the judgment'
of the courtin this case. I am, dear
sir, -• .. —i !'
(•I ' TYours, respectfully, v ±i
James M. Smith.
NEVER TURN AROUND IN THE
STREET WITH A LADDER ON YOUR
SHOULDER.
Old Mr. Watson, on Nelson street,
has got a nice little bill to pay. He
sent a man down town for a pot of
paint and a ladder. The nran got the
after a ladder. Then he tied the paint
pot on the end of the ladder, and put
the ladder on his shoulder. This was
a very smart arrangement, aud the
man himself admired it very much.
He started for home this way, and
didn’t find any trouble in getting along
the first block, because jieople had an
impression that a long ladder with a
(tot of yellow paint dangling on the
end of it wasn’t exactly the thing to
trifle with, so they balanced along on
the curbstone, or rubbed up against
the buildings. Pretty soon the man
saw somebody in a store he knew, aud
he turned uromnl to speak to him, and
drove one end of the ladder into a mil
linery case, and knocked the crown
out of an S18bonnot. Then he backed
off' in alright, and knocked down two
sewing-machine agents with the other
end. Then lie started to run round,
and an old gentleman, who was desper
ately endeavoring to pull his Wife out
of danger, saw the peril, and shouted
out, “Hi, there!” But it was too
late. The pot struck against an awn
ing post, tipped to one side, and the
cutiiecnntents went over the aged coup
le. This so startled the man that he
whirled completely around, smashing
in an entire store front, frightening si
milk-man’s team, and knocking over
sonic thirteen persons who were active
ly dodging about to get out of the way.
Then he dropped the ladder and tied
into the country, shouting “murder”
and “lire” at every jump. A regular
ordained painter is now engaged on
Mr. W atson’s house.—Courier-Journal.
Front the Sumter Republican.
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EXPERIMENTS OxN A SUBSTITUTE
FOR PERUVIAN (JUANO.
More affected than the condemned
woman was, the sheriff approached
and pinioned her arms. The rope w as
next placed around her neck and tho
cap adjusted. As the last named ar
ticle was drawn over her face a slight
shudder convulsed her frame. It
was, however, but for an instant. The
next, it had disappeared, aud shestood
calm, erect and motionless.
A FRIGHTFUL STRUGGLE.
At five minutes to twelve the signal
was given, the drop fell, and the qody
of Busan Eberhart was dangling in
the air. Her fall was five feet. The
apprebensktps of the unfortunate crea
ture had been realized. Her neck ivfts
not broken. , ,,
.She struggled convulsively, drew
up her body and arms, and swung
completely round, making fearful ef
forts to free her arms- Her hands
opened and shut repeatedly.
The sufferings of the poor creature
must have been as terrible to her as
they were painful to witness. A per
ceptible shudder passed through the
spectators, who were till greatly af
fected. It was altogether a frightful
scene.
DEAD.
She gradually ceased to struggle,
and after hanging nineteen minutes,
her pulse and heart ceased beating,
and she was soon after pronounced
dead. Her body was then cut down,
and given to her friends. The crowd
dispersed, and the tragedy was over.
We deem it proper to add to this
report, the substance of the letter writ
ten by Gov. Smith to Hon. Sampson
Bell upon the subject:
I have examined with great care the
various applications made in behalf
of Miss Eberhart, hoping that I might
gather therefrom some reason which
would justify mein interpoJng to save
her life. Under the law, her guilt is
fixed by the verdict of the* jury, and
the suggestions oilered in her favor do
not create even a suspicion qf the cor
rectness of the finding.
The evidence submitted upon her
trial shows that the offence was com
mitted by Spann and herself, with
In experiments made by Prof. Jor
gensen with phosphate offline (Baker
guano) soda, potash, sulphates of mag-
liesie, lime, aud ammonia, and stable
manure, iu different combinations, it
was found that, with barley, the best
results were obtained by the simulta
neous application of sulphate of ammo
nia, phosphate of lime, the alkalies,
and sulphates of lime and magnesia.
About the same followed the use of
stable manure. The preparations of
sulphate of ammonia and phosphate
of limn came next, the nitrogenous
matter’seeming to assist iu the solu
tion of the mineral ingredients of the
soil. The results with other combina
tions were no better than on unmamir-
ed portions. The average results wore
very good, as the soil was naturally
good one, had been well manured in
previous years, was thoroughly drain
ed, and kept clean, and it was only
in the last years of the experiments
that the aliovc differences manifested
themselves. In one - particularly dry
season, the portion treated with stable
manure was most productive, and the
untnanured portion next; nitrated ar
tificial fertilizers lrad an injurious
rather than a beneficial effect Stable
manure, on the contrary, seemed not
only to generate moisture in its decom
position, but also to attract moisture
from the atmosphere. With beans,
the second best crop was obtained by
the use of alkalies alone, or combined
with other manures. The general re
sults seem to substantiate the observa
tion that the use of. a mixture of all
the fertilizers essential to plant growth,
especially of the three in which the
soil is deficient, viz.: nitrogen, jiotash,
and phosphoric acid, is better than em
ploying them separately ; since one, by
reason of the soil, mav not lie able to
exert its full effect. The author con
cludes that it is possible, by a mixture
of the active ingredients of Peruvian
guano, to produce a substitute for
that fertilizer.
Disposing of a Duelist.—A case
which is likely to call forth all the
emotional resources of a French jury
is told as follows: “A young man
having accepted a challenge from a
noted duellist, goes home and tells
his mother all about it. The good
lady rushes off distracted to the house
of the duelist, whom she finds practic
ing with a pistol iu his garden, and,
what is worse, hitting the mark every
time. She implores mercy, but is
coldly repulsed by the marksman, who
declares liis intention to kill her son.
Thereupon, in her wrath and terror,
the poor woman snatches up a pistol
and shoots the duelist dead. The
chances are that 6he will be acquitted,
and indeed it is difficult to imagine
any case which offers more, or more
genuine extenuation. A jury of moth
ers would not deliberate long on their
verdict.”
This was General Grant’s speech to
tho whole of Kansas City,- which had
turned out to meet him: “I am very
glad to meet you on this my second
visit to your growing and thriving city,
We have spoken qf some of the’ In
evitable social evils Involved in any
system of education, like that propos
ed in the public schools; designed to
extend equal advantages to all ranks
of ,80ciety. Wiil you look for a mo-
ment at some other radical features of
this hydra-headed monster, which we
are called upon to bow down and
worship; if we would not incur the
risk of, having our pn : rotism,—
yea, eveirour Christian- philanthropy
questioned.
In glancing over, a daily paper pub
lished in a neighboring city, Iqst week,
we notice the Superintendent ” 1
Instruction 8tal^, Ijbjjit Jjiej'j)a'
public schools of that City;
charge of about twenty teachefcs;n£et
he advocates the claims of the "Schools
to public favor, on what appears to us
on the preposterous and untenable
ground that they are promotive of mor
ality. Our figures may lie slightly
erroneous. We read the article very
carefully and without expecting to re
cur to it again; hut it left on our
mind the impression that the average
number of pupils to each teacher was
nearly fifty.
If we mistake not, this very gentle
man, pure and pious and exemplary
as lie is himself reputed to be, has not
failed of meeting in the, associations of
sonic public schools, teachers whose
own moral character was more than
questionable. Can men or women m -
toriously bad he relied on as conserva
tors of public morals?
But glancing aside from such cases,
which, let us hope, are remarkable for
their rarity, where are we to look for
any poor finite human, who could, by
any conceivable stretch of his or her
capacities for high aud pure moral in
fluence, exert a controlling force on
forty-five or fifty young people entrus
ted to his earc, and these too, in many
instances, drawn up from the deepest
sinks of pollution ? Again, if this ratio
of pupils is to lie assigned to each
teacher, how can any one of ordinary
capacity become familiar)* acquaited
with the character and conduct and
social influence of each pupil, so as suc
cessfully incentive and restraint, in
struction, motive aud correction accor
ding to existing eniergincies. The
task is certainly hopeless. To secure
all who enter the schools purely virtu
ous from the inevitable contamination
of the profane and polluted is more
than the most* assiduous endeavors
could be expected to accomplish. I
would as soon turn a child into a peni
tentiary to he trained in morals as into
a public school.
.Another mod objectionable feature
in these instructions is the time allotted
to a thorough course. Seven years,
we are told, must be consumed iu these
graded schools, before the pupil can he
entitled to a certificate of completeness,
and two years more arc requisite to fit
him for college.
And this is the system of education
provided for the poor. We say pro
vided for the poor, for though it is
claimed that it is adopted to meet the
wants of all, and the better classed are
urged to sanction it by entrusting the
education of their children to its pro
visions. Who can be so blind as not
to see that the primary motive urged
in its favor, originates in the scheme to
compel the rich to bestow on the poor
the same advantages they give to their
own children. A large amount of
talent and ingenuity Iras been expend
ed iu arguments to convince tho tax
payers that education will be so much
more economically conducted in these
crowded arenas; that what is extorted
from them by the tax will enduente
the whole community without costing
them more than they have been in the
habit of expending for those for whom
Providence has made them personally
responsible.
Now the question arises: How are
all these poor children to be supplier]
with the means of sustentation while
pursuing this seven years’course of ed
ucation? Who is to clothe and feed
them meantime? Can their own par
ents bear the strain on nerve aud
muscle? Or is a Spartan public
table to be the next proposition ? If
it is a duty to educato all, will it not
ere long be claimed that it is a duty to
feed them while they are dovoting
their time to study ?
Bishop Pierce rcferied us to the prac
tical workings of the Free School Sys
tem in New England. We do riot know
how they manage such affairs thdre
now, but in former years it was assumed
in all their social arrangements, that
a'child at the age of ten years is enpa-
bleof self support. Not only did they
refuse to maintain children as paupers
in their public institutions, after they
reached that age; but we have heard
fathers, especially in the farming dis
tricts, talkingabout their children being
“ old enough to relieve the parents of
the burden of their support”—or
“ old enough to'begin to pay back for
what had been done for them, in their
helpless years;”—in terms which would
have inspired an abolitionist with holy
horror, had they been uttered by a
slave holder, and predicated of the
slaves he had fed ana clothed from in
fancy The New England schools of
that day, were vacated during the labor
presang seasons of the year; that boys
and girls could be left free to contri
bute their share of toil to the planting
and harvesting interests of the countiy.
No Buch arrangements seemed to be
dreamfed of in our system of Public
Schools; which is.therefore, that much
more pernicious; for how is it possible
for people who live by daily labor, to
feed and clothe an ordinary family of
children during a seven years course of
3tudy. Many, no doubt, will solve the
question by s ealage, but for those who
desird to live honestly, it cannot be
other than a problem of serious magni
tude.
Pardon me if suspicion seems to lurk
in the idea, that the whole scheme ftp-
worthy of such position^; ..than
interest of the youth entrusted to their
charge.
A greed of gain by the
propriation of pub!id funds; luriMoi
sorts of pretexts, has assumed an f
ing magnitude in our day. , T
be admitted even b/the rrfost
astic advocates of tho Public
System. And whihfWe reckon
them some of our “warmest \
friends;->who, paid or unpaid 8
personal agency in the instiiatioiy^dMr
above siispicjorjJn r§
we .think if they vuLil
amine the ruati
that thfrscheiitebf*
tien involved aidgtra tqfmm i
ertewAbe.!' * * *
which manual labor <vroolft %e* degfd»*
datiqn; rather than the promotion at
the best good of the great body'politic/-,
And where is the tiling to end?
We have been informed that.n certifi
cate of a complete course in mUF’VP
these public schools; entitles the pupilc
who receives it, to iv registry .of his qf')
her name as a candidate for appoint
ment to the firjt vacancy that ooeurif
in the corps of teachers, without ther
formality of any examination. How-
huge the proportion of this social evil,
when hundreds, nay thousands of tbgfch
would-be professional men, .shall
their idle stand point beside jheaeprew.
of briefless lawyers ; claiming that
lents like theirs would be Wasted if c
listed in any sphere of active mu
toil for subsistence. .. : “ g-::i
, f ^*GRXT.* :Hii
MANUFACTURE OF ICE. * :>i
you.
and regret I can not stop to see
your city by daylight. 1 hope to come f
back some day and stop longer with pears to bo fitted rather for the support
as teachers, of a class of men deemed
The beautiful aud ingenious procear
of manufacturing ice by the application*
of fire to chemicals, is a puzzling pro*
blem to unscientific mind& Evert;
with all the explanations furnished,
the spectator, as he looks at the opera
tion of the French patent machine/
the wonder does not diminish that such'
seeming contradictions cart bo wrought-
by applied science. • .. imb
The following statement of the pro
cess, which we find in nine of omr ,Ǥ/
changes expresses the principle And ex
plains the process with a“pleasif;^ smM
plicity, clearness and brevity." ■ Madqpdfr
how art can extort from rslqqtaj^j^
ture fo:ne ot the most pleasing surpriz;,
cs, and give to the rnost torrid regions*
luxury which a* savage would look'
upon as the fruit of a miracle'. If if
possible that in time ice machines may
be so simplified and reduced in qize'
and cost that each person in his rural
home, fnr removed from cities, may
become his own ice-maker i '
“An invention 1 rased upon thechem**
ial principle that, if all the befit is ex-*
traded out of any object, it becomes
entensely cold, is now successfully nj^
plied to the prod fiction of iee; A
small steam engine, by means qf tsrqf
pumps, subjects carbonie r.cid gas tag
pressure sufficient to liqrtiufoe ft. Irf
a liquid state, this gas has lost it hed#5
hut recovers it again w!hm> converted
into gas. . Accordingly/ a simple ,tm
paratus is contrived by \thith t|iq K ac[d
in a liquid stntc is made to' surround
small tubes filled with far&r/ The
acid then returns to fee gaseous eOridP*
tion, and in doiiqr^MghMfatitfMfe mV
the caloric out of tin. water, jpwiPflqft
solid icc. There u no limit to-Tilt
number of these tubes lit apairttnents
of water, and consequdritly a large'
quantity of ice can be funned at t
time, the operation bcipg a rapid onto
and the cost comparatively small.” ,
—-
Length of Wh ales.—Mr. Scores^
by, a very high authority on the sUb*'
jeet, declares the common whalo sel
dom exceeds seventy feet hi length/
and is much more frequent under six
ty. Out of three hundred and twenty-*
two whales^ which he assisted personal-*
ly in capturing, not one exceeded fifty-
eight feet, and the largest or which he'
knew the reported measurement W btf
authentic came up to only sittyrsevetf
feet. T wo specimens of the rorqual of
razor-back whale have been i
of one hundred and five feet iWei
One of these was found floating R.wv—
in Davis Straits, and the skeleton oof
the other was seen by jjkirke in the
Columbia river, and most, tail and
all, when alive, have nrcas'fired onp
hundred and twenty - feet.
specimens have measured -a hundred)
and many others from eighty to ninetv
feet. One cast on store at North
Berwick, Scotland, and' preserved ‘ nt
Dr. Knox, was' eigbtyahree fe£t^4pt
length. These instances seem tosfifr-*
tablish the, average, . arid exjutom
length of these animals.', Bot "Vita
considerable credulity in ocfrlrer"
counts, Baron Cuvier, (he erriirtent
naturalist, says stoutly, there ii qfitf.
doubt whales have been seen at c#ff
tain epochs and iri certain seas Upward*
of three hundred feet .long or ouemfri-'
dred yards iri length, • ' ”
Fashionable female pickpocket if#
Gotham now put on a third arm at-'
tachment when they go oat for gamer
A gentleman in a Broadway stage, cat
a recent evening, felt a hand gropiotf
in his pocket on the side next to a wetf
dressed woman. At the same time f
neat, gloved hand rested on her lap oh
the same side, and seizing this aa ihe
was leaving the vehicle, he pulled her
arm off.
The following anecdote has pufli ved
its carley youth, but it still reads well.
John Phoenix tells the stoiy that ne
was one day leaving San Francisco by
the steamer. Evrybody ahg was taking
leave of friend-but he did not know at
soul in the croud. Ashamed' of hie
loneliness, as the boat sheered off he
called out in a laud voice 4 <Goodd)jev
Colonel!” and 4o his great dtdight extf
man on the wharf took off Ms hat a^|
shouted, “Colonel, good-bye!* ,. s
A friend the other day called a thin
young lady a spare girl. There are sev
eral spare girls in most huge unmarried
families.
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