The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875, October 03, 1873, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 :\ orth-4' inBUSHEU BV — ■£, VT. «&T. ! - CA2fTT EDITORS AM. PKOPBISTO* 8 * •/V, ■»oUa>s ftrAn,mm, At jjj advance. iilK si.\M»KKER. >vr* its r«T5CT| M.ifort live, if* pursed by anguish • ure |»eac€ ran give. JS t O- 1. ATHENS, GEORGIA, .FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1873. OLD SERIES—VOLUME LI I NEW SERIES-VOLUME 11 LAUGHER ISMS, FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. f.iri isopen to conviction, , t r-Gues from sources pure ; ... .J »u«ler from his fallow, , „<b r> sorrow doubly sure. . . a y 1* ihe days and lowering, .-I m nnv the slander tall, . i, r< is a bright day coming. u!i • tirightness for us ail. •Ir«*je sparkle in the morning e i e sun has climned the skies, •• darkest, vilest slander ,* ti klv from the‘•true man" flics. r , .my l»e the fates, and fortunes nor rounds may deal the blow, i iiul torawhil may hide life’s brightness, list slander's fire m& i^ot always glow. In that bright gold tinted Ilesven, Wo re the angels sing ulwavs— Th ae we’ll know not slander** malice, For l.»*. divine <*r il role each day. • lit*re no *oul can live ami linger Hut whose iile h..n been free from guile, i'o *re no ianderer’s t<> gue can ever, Come j y’a beamy to defile. Mandril rs, iar belter le it, tneir tale, 1 tonne t Where no prayer can e'er avail. Kor a our tongue to re Thau to live in Uadis' 1. ,(»V Bit.MGS’ II 4BY 4VAS TREATED. Cool mornings and evenings in Au gust presage what bcfel Adam—an early fall. “iNsu go noc re dit nth isof fice,” is a line “to fill out” in the Havilah, Cal., Miner. What is the difference between an angler and a dunce? One baits his hook ; the other hates his book. Three scruples make one dram, and, if people would only indulge in the scruples first, they would take fewer drams. The great cotton balloon of the New York Daily Graphic has at last gone up. But unfortunately it has gone up the spout. A Western paper speaks of a new pa*er mill which “will be made of brick one hundred and seventy five feet long.” Widows who have lost two husbands are the only Indies who have as vet evident much interest in the “third term" question. An old lady thinks the bonds must be a family of strong religious in stinct, because she hears of so many being converted. “The strongest propensity in a woman’s nature,” says a surly editor, “is a desire to know what is going on, and the next is to boss the job.” A good manv people have expressed the belief that Professor Wise is half A few Words From this Oppressed Province. From the ('ouricr-Journal. l’HE YELI.OtV PLAGUE. cm parts of the city ; but as yet no fatality has attended them. For the Tlmma* Briggs, of Detroit, has a boy baby about ten months old, who is admitted at the beginning of this ar- licle to look just like his father and to , ,. ^ , . tie (lie smartest boy baby of his age in ^.v, but according to last accounts Detroit. Yet tenlny morning the child was sitting on the floor, playing with five »>r six big coat buttons on n string and taking an occasional nibble at an apple to bring out his first crop of teeth. Mr*. Briggs and a neighbor were talk ing as only women can gossip, when tin 1 Imliy hid the buttons under a mat nn.l started to finish the apple. A (•it of the skiu got in his throat, and he gave a cough and a whoop and pawed the air and rolled over on his head. 'Oh. them buttons ! he lias swallowed their, buttons'.” cried the mother, as -lie yanked him up and shook him. "Pound him on the back !” yelled the ■ tlier woman, trying to bold the baby’s legs still. “Hun for the neighbors I” cried Mr*. Briggs. “Oil, lie’ll die! he’ll die!” screamed the other, as she ian out. And the neighbors came in uni made liim I e oil bis stomach and c>u.h, and then turned him on his me. ami nil died his stomach, and jng- rd dim .vb mt all sorts ot ways until lie gut i.iad and lie went to howling. Th a a b >y tan for Briggs, and Briggs !■;«.. • r a dm"or, and the doctor came aid eli'ike I the baby, and ordered *v'C" id and i mustard plaster, and .•lid td-m to hold him on his hack. Every ho ty knew that those six hig but ton wire lodge 1 in the baby’s throat, i*t-o.iu*e lit* was red in the face, and bo- eau*e !:•• -ii..ii;.!ed as lie how Id :nl w..*ii Tie y poured down svviet oil, ml put uni-1:trd acro-s him, and wept • ■r.. m, nod toe mother said she •mil never forgive herself. Boys 1 . ■ i-.v •-■.:!I.*\o ••-hill wood for sale !” 1 ' • ■■■■-- >r* turn went by shouting i : . i op!” but that di-iies.-ed • d 'lie baby down and shed ..ver his whole length. The h oi ing ser *uis and Briggs ■ r h o. iG.it lie hadn't done any- ; il sirvc sue.; a blow, when one ■ w ■ri;. 'i pushed the mat mid dis- i .lions. Then everybody hi 1 and . niv-.-d, and they kicked o.l i.ot;lc under the lied, ■ ' In: mustard planter at the doc- i Mr-. Briggs hugged the howl- - ;i. lier bosom and called him v.top-v hop-y dropsy popsv he isn’t by any means as fliyhty as lie T.onisvillo young ladies say to a bean who doe« not promptly offer bis arm, “Tip us ycr flipper, old fel. and don’t stand there grinning like* a baked skunk.” There is a “strike” among the Doc tors in one of the Swiss Cantons. The people are exceedingly rejoiced, and at last accounts all of them were in per fect health. “Ycr can’t stuff that ere down this chicken.” from a voting lady in Indi ana. meant that she did not credit her t aeher’* statement ‘hat the sun is larger ♦ban the earth. A Texan town was rneentlv visited hv a lergvmnn for the first time in its bistorv. and the hospitable inhabitant* nroposed getting up a horse race for his entertainment. The Allan Town. Independent was two davs late last week. Its prineinal eornnositor had eaten twenty-three ears of corn, and the doctor didn’t get him reconstructed in time. A New Orleans juryman was asked hv the .Tndge if be ever rend the pn- nors. He renlied : “Yes. vour honor : but if voiill let me go this time I’ll never do so nnv more.” A man lately learned what it was to ' av insult added to injury, in being first spared not of bis wits b*- bis horses runnio" a wav with him and then ar rested and fined for driving at an illegal rate of speed. Another claimant for the antlior- sL.p nf “Bet«v a dl Are Ont”npnenrs o;P West. Tt seem« that he frighten ed an old souire’s horse, which ran awav and spilled the old man and his wife Betsv from the buggy. EdilorsNorth-Eaet Georgian: I am seated, Messrs. Editors, quite alone, on the shady side of a broad old piazza, on this intensely hot day ; the hour meridian. Of my locality, I need say no more than I am within thelim*. its of what was once the State— now, the conquered, subjugated, down-trod- den, impoverished Province of South Carolina. The proud old Palmetto State How entirely have “old things passed away, and all things become new.” It is unnecessary to publish to you tlie particular locality in which I am “finishing my course.” In the olden time, you and I have shaken hands in many of the Districts of the Old—I never expect to see your face in any of the Counties of the New Carolina. Let it suffice that I am near enough to the wires to keep fully posted, from the “dailies,” as to all that passess; to know how often our Caesar “lights a fresh weed,” and leaves Long Branch for a Cabinet consultation; spends a day at Saratoga, or visits a friend further North—to know when Mr. Davis addresses the Historical Conven tion and utters sentiments, which, when free, we would have applauded, but which are now so distasteful to the Southern people—if we judge from the comments of the Southern press—and I 1 am sufficiently proximate to the Sa vannah to read your papers, and, oth erwise, to learn liovv far ahead of us is the great State of Georgia. I do not know liovv to class myself. I suppose I must be an “old fogy,” for I like not present things. It in ty b- that I am a “Bourbon,” for I dwell much in the past, and have no fan cy for the new departures—“But tiien.it is so much easier to accept the situation anywhere else than here, because “the situation” being much better everywhere else, is more readily acceptable. Perhaps, before I have finished you may be aide to assign me a position. I read weekly, and with much sat isfaction, your “North-East Georgian,” and never omit a thorough perusal of “Bob” Alston’s “Atlanta Herald.” What a first-class pa]ter that is, scarcely a year old, and already in the front ranks of journalism. 1 presume he must have able co- workers, but “Bob” Alston is a first- class man himself. It lias been many a long year since I first satv him in his earliest efforts to pull himself up the ladder. So many, that looking as youthful as he did the last time we inet, lie might not wish them-eompu BaOm, Bodies by llt l.ilg.it-- now in your city, I append the names Terrible Stories. and residence of those reported for „ , , I ' „ . . ., e burial to-day at the different un- Our readers have but a faint idea of derta kers’ establishments. the ravages ot the yellow fever from . the brief accounts telegraphed. Its A FIUIIT BETWEEN T1V0 LUX VTICS presence was first made known public- j ly on Saturday night last, when the We are iuformed that on Wednes- deaths for the proceeding six days day an old lady of eighty years, living amounted to thirty-nine, these includ- on Beacon street, iu this city, visited ingsever.il scattering cases that oc- the Insane Asylum, at Taunton. Mass., curred previous, and sitice then it lias with her daughter to see her son, who been gradually spreading in and out of has for some time been confined there that delectable locality known as Hap- for insanty frorujhe effects of a wound py Hollow. On Sunday fourteen received the war. On Arriving deaths-were reported,'and, without the there the mother was shown into the slightest doubt, at least five or six were reception room, when the attendant j and she mustbe crucified, her'hands buried without permits. It is even went out and looked the door. There and feet being bound to the Cross by- said that some of the dead bodies were happened to lie in the room THE ZION TRAVELERS. “Zion’s Travelers” are composed ot some forty negroes, owned in slavery times, principally by Mr. W. J. Whit mire an i Mr. Win. Sheldon. The leaders are Hal Whitmire, Martin Bo bo, Lou Bobo, (daughter of Martin Bobo} who is also the Prophetess, and Patsey Whitmire. Some time during the winter of 1871 and ’72 they brought themselves prom- A STRANGE STORY. Is W.lk s Booth Still Alive I orllj-f asf {hccrqimt. Our Cash Rates of Advertising. ©4T Advertisements, from this date, inserted at One Dollar per Square (of one inch) for the fir»t nsertion, ari l Seventy-five Cents per Square for each additional insertion. Funeral Notices atid Obituaries charged for at regular Advertising rates. No extra charge for Locator Special column Transient Advertisements cash. Othoc bills collected every ninety days. Liberal contracts made for any period over one month. end was a heavy gold medal, heavier than the Mexican silver dollar, bearing appropriate inspections, having been presented by the citizens of New York to Booth’s father years he ore lbs famous actor’s dctiih. aiel while he was at the apex of In* hi-ti ionic greatness. _ “seen a man”—not the man around ineutly before the public by chaining i the corner, but another man who has Our own opinion is that he is dead —dead as old Marlcv, or a door nail, or a nail in a coffin ; but-therc aie some who doubt, and would not believe even though his proper ghost were to appear and make assurance doubly sure. The Missouri Republican has A Number of Men a nil Boys Almost 8ui ACCIDENT IN 4 COAL MIX” •me old woman named “Darkey” two days and nights in an old house while they made a Cross on which to crucifv her, saying the Lord had spoken through the prophet (Lou Sheldon) and said Darkey got on the slick rock aud not having faith strong enough slipped off' at that thrown into the river, that being close time a lady who had gone there expect- at band. On yesterday the deaths ing to secure the release of her hus- numbered twenty, all telegraphic band, but for some reason he could statements to the contrary notwitli- uot lie discharged on that day. This standing, and to-day 17 are reported, was a grat disappointment to the wife, makinga total in three days of 51, but the effect upon the husband .vheu which, with the 39 previously reported, she told him was terrible. He raged foots up 90—quite a respectable show- and tore round the room in a perfect ing for a small-sized town and that, too, fury, smashing up a marble-topped with fair prospects of its countihuance table as if it was paper, and commenced and spread, a* the weather has turned operations on the clock. This lie had quite warm again during the day and got partially if not quite demolished, is cold at night. On Sunday, when the when the son of the old lady from tiie great Board of Health made a spread- city, who had been quiet up to the eagle announcement of its presence, the time, became excited and attacked the city was all agog with excitement, and infuriated husband. A rough and those who had their clothes prepared, tumble fight ensued, which must have left at once upon the noon train* for been frightful to witness, and the healthier locations and created such a tidings of those women, shut up in a bustle and confusion that for twenty- 1 o i w th two infurated in.-aiu- p-:- four hours the feeling all over the d. y sons, and unable to escape, can liardiv was one of panic. Merchants and be imagined. After a little fightin;, businessmen gene ally would huddle the husband, with a piece of the fur- together and consider the subject, the niturc lie had been demolishing, or invariable result of their consultation with his finger nails, cut or scratched being a sudden packing ot trunks and the forehead of the son, the departure. The ladies, poor things! frightful gash, from which lock chains, her feet being just three feet from the ground. They first went to Mr. II. T. Fer guson and told him the Lord had commanded him and two other white men to biml her. Mr. F. made them leave his house ; and they went and bound her themselves. On the evening of the second day Mr. Furgusou, having heard of the old negro being tied up, took his gun aud went to the house and told them to turn her loose .they refused. He said he was going to turn her loose and the first one that came into the house to prevent him he would shoot. Old Martin then got down and having piaved awhile said, “DeLord say turn iiei loose, turn lur loose.” The old woman was almost dead, having stood near two days and nights without food or water. One of her sons threatened to prosecute the whole party when, old Marlin went to him aud told him that “Gabriel had the trumpet in his hand ready to blow it and bring the world linking a i to an end if he proceeded," by which the blood f the fool negro was scared off Not long after this Hal Whitmire seen Booth in the flesh, since his body was administered upon by the Wash ington military commission. The story, as related to the Republican re porter, by an old sailor, is briefly as follows: fecateil in lice!big's Mines - :ne Lad Hilled, Last evening an accident which re sulted in the death of one person, but which might have occasioned terribh loss of life, and great destruction of properly, occurred at Keeling's coal works, at the head of Twelfth street, on the South Sid . It appeals that be tween four and five o’clock an engine was attached to tt train of twenty-four coal cars for the purpose of hauling them from the back pit to tie check. liou*e on the side of the hili fronting: Twelfth street. The track is carried; TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION. My name, said the narrator, is Car- roll Jackson Donelson, and I urn a blood relative of Andrew Jackson D >u- elson, who recently died at Memphis, Tennessee, (at the Peabody Hotel,) for which city I am now euroutc to a*sistinthe settlement of his estate., , During the war between the sections I 1 Biriiiyh the ‘ front hill by a tunnel was a captain in the Eighth Texas I liC ^ r - v a m l e 111 W lien, tho Cavalry, known ns Tciry’s Rangers, I tram , s!ar , tod ? nur . nh( *‘ r ‘"l' 11 "h' 1 and was at Terry’s side when lie ‘ full, j employed m the mines got aboard, with on the banks of Green river, in a thc lrU<:utKm ot n<hn ” t0 ll,c charge upon Willich’s Germans. At 1 ^ ,0l . Lse » as i* the usual custom, xhe* the close of the struggle I returned ! trainproceeded withoutacGulent until* again to thc sea, and in I860 lound ne , * Kli * through tnc tunnel, "d*cn. myself in San Francisco. . j a l eav )’ g nule " as encountered. Toe- There I shipped ou board the tliiit 1 ffigiiuccr put on a full force ofstiam, Kate Hooper, as first mate, having on j b , ut the engine was unable to.over, oaio board as passengers thirty Chinese wo- * 10 & raue * -^ 10 “ re . aian ™ el * P n> ’ men bound for Shanghai. Reaching! cc °ded to throw coal into the engine- Singapore we took in a cargo of ma- j as t0 ™ ise ™ 0 ;, c *’ 1 K ' hogany, sandal wood, rattan and sugar. It was in the month of September when we sailed lrom Singapore, i:i the strait of Malacca, south of Borneo, and the smoke from the stack filled the- tunnel to suffocation. The engineer I discovered that they would all be- I smothered to death before lie could who McFlimsev like, had nothing to flowed copiously, aud then catching ware, niadeliurried dry goods purchase* him by the throat, he choked him ! proved, and prayed, and they put the on Monday morning, but stopped til! his face turn >il purple. Doubt- not to get the material made up, but started forthwith. Hacks and omnibuses were busy day and night transporting people to the trains and boats and attending funerals. To make matters worse it seemed ns though each and every funeral passed along Main street, so frequent were they on less lie would have killed him then and there, but the old lady, seeing her son’s danger, went to tiie rescue, and after a severe struggle succeeded iu making the husband let go his hold. Fortunate ly the attendant came in, and a stop was put to the proceedings, though it required five men to secure the disap. unday and Monday. On Monday pointed and infuriated husband and your correspondent counted seven ; put him beyond tfie power of doing passed in a given point, in one hour, and in one of the hearses was two j coffin*—a mother and chill who died ; within an hour of each other. Mon-j (lav afternoon the city press, seeing; that the city officials were not disposed to take any a<-tion in the m ittcr, sug- j harm.—Providence Journal. I'NTS<11NG ililLYES. The Pari-h of Vermillion, Louisiana, has been for years infested with cattle thieves. The people have been unable “Tf Georco bad not blower! into fbe j in the saddle or the field—whether iu iniivzle of hG "iin.” si<died a rural the Forum, the widow, of the fuo"rnl of her late hus band. “Inst Saturday, he might have gested to his Honor, Mr. Johnson, that | to o .tain redress by process of law, and something be done, but yet the ttoo l WMi month they organized a vigilance and gracious city fathers heeded notTfiO^Iuiltteai^ijj fijulrerert. Notice was the admonition until the citizens organ- given to a largS hiftober of the thieves ized and compelled him to do so or and their confederates that they must ted and the result given, for his genial | forfeit the peoples’ g-wnl will; and to-j leave the parish within a specified manners and fine address must make j <I, V |, e has taken the first step by order-1 time ; but instead of doing so they him as popular with the gentler, as he I j„5 the streets and allevs “flushed.” armed themselves and threatened to is with the sterner sex, so that al- Think of that! Four davs meditation j destroy thc town of Abbe i le, win re- tliough lie is a husband and father, 1 ‘ brings forth an order to turn the water ! upon the vigilance pressed them and shall yet he silent on the point, and on- j ( ,ose from the tire pumps. The old they scattered. It is reported that ly say that, from that time out, it lias j Howard Association met and reorg n- i three of the gang were hung. One of given me pleasure to mark his onward J i zo d last night and went hard to work, j n party of the thieve*, who was endcav- and upward course. _ the gentlemen composing it working oring to escape, was arrested under a nearly all night to hunt up nurses for civil process at Brashear, and was the sick and solicit subscriptions for tikeu from the steamer Minnie Avery the relief of the tistressed. They have also opened an office whereup >n ap- It has fallen the lot of few men to show themselves so readily at ease un der different circumstances—whether the otfio rou’s Stolen Pass.—An irrishurg, lYnsylvanin lost t * it* railroad, and requested i> s cure the arrest of any man who slim'd pre*Fi'.« it. the 1 ext div ,. mi;; i tie pa** in the pock* t of his Sunday •: u-er*. and proceeded to taken tv p upon it. \* -non a* fv offered it to tie <Mnd u-tor, that fit fuS i ffl -er k • eke-! b in on thc head with In- i tern, call* d three biake- inen mid tin- baggage •• a-ter; drugged him. de-p tc hi* trim tie struggles, along the iir, into the b ieg 'ire ear, where a brukeiuaii *at upon him wliil - the con-iiietor battered him up a lot to keep him quiet ; and then they search ed hint to see what other thefts he hail been perpetrating. With exception »t a ticket to the circus, that man had upon hi* person absolutely nothing but railroad passes. He had passed over a" main roads and branch lines and fader* and sidings in the State of ‘ensylvania. He had free passes in ^'ern, southern, middle and western and four in the Territories. He j' 1 '* Pass over a railroad from Yeddo ’ "' il| h»ma, and another from Cnl- , )ri \ }° Bengal. He had a letter hint one on a netv road a,.,) ' 1 l!i proposed in Terre Del Fuego. wrnt, ni i nuwr 'l‘ t pufi’ whioh he had he sl„. i"n ,llan who had assured him "hicli'iil sa; i V u ft f' a 1 over the road dev t| lc \ . Ilfi Was about to run un- ft,ilv ‘ 10 ' le rranean from Africa to Juir.v 1 ,,uiit - T,,e greatest U ‘ ,e ' 1 he had caught the ever «... ." e ^pfomaniao the world Harri l,, , when he got back to And now r V ° " as ‘’ x l ,| "''ied. Ameri™ ’ i 1 a '*y one editor in " W l ° ^ completely »ick of itnr rU; i""-- V c " ml "etors,” that ed- i.i-a. '• s l he .State of Pennsylva- Ati ttlier e)... , deceived I,.- ti," ' r 1 ' c ? ,,emui has lieen rej .iei„„ • j p hydrants. He was ilniiv. ofi!!!) e , r , ,he ,nfl " f nee of 1.000 while h ,te ra u "gainst a hydrant Imigitude* ‘ ,} working long the li V (i r .|,',, /■ happened to mistake me. ’nrini, .. ':. hoy. “Bcuse Li-,..,,, , ’ Didn’t run you down «ti;i l,o a y V. W r' 8 . 8 ''lack. Grow up (hie) fl.ii-; n,v Yn ’ ,1 ,' ,,an (hie). Imitate ' i uart^V -u, ,ple -, A , nd he Wl a ! 'M.ter heart"««* 'hat be had made e<'t nlentv of snifirrels, it was such a eond dnv for them.” A Michigan rlerevmnn wrote to a lntterv agent; “I do not approve of lotteries. I regard them as no better than camblin" schemes. Mv son bouebt ticket No. 5 in vonr drawing, but if he drew anything don’t send the money to him, send-it tome.” “I think.” snid a farmer. “I should make a good Congressman, for I use their laoruinge. T received two bills ♦ be other day. with requests for imnte- d'rt • mvment; the one I ordered to be 1-id nn the table, the other to be -'ad that dnv -ix month A Poutb Carolina man couldn’t die ' annv until hi* s*>n bad shot a neighbor no-ni-st whom th'-re was an old grudge. “Did von hit him plumb centre?” n-ked the dving man, and upon receiv ing nn nffirinative reply he fell back and death’s cold smile covered lus face. r Thc New Orleans Herald relates how a pet mnnkv in that city, seeing that a little child was on the point of Wing run over by a street car, rushed into the street and wrenched the little one from the jaws of death. That beats any monkey-wrench we ever heard of b'fore. A John Bull, conversing with an Indian, asked him if he knew the sun never sets on the Queen’s dominions. -‘No,” said the Indian. “Do you know the reason why?" asked John. “Because God is afraid to trust an Englishman in the dark,” was the savage’s reply. A Frenchman being about to re move his shop, his landlord inquired :h* reason, stating at the same time 11 at it was considered a very good stand for bossiness. The Frenchman replied. ‘‘Oh, yes, hr’s a very good stand for de business. Me stand all dnv, for nobody come to make me move.” A barrister, to avenge himself on an opponent, wrote “rascal” in his hat, The owner of the hat took it up, looked ruefully into it, and, turning to the judge, exclaimed: “I claim the protec tion of this honorable court, for the op posing counsel has written his nanto in my hat, and I have strong suspicion that he intends to mako off with it." A country editor was desirous of gaining the good graces of the new parson, and, in describing his first entrance into the church, wrote: “He is a most venerable sample of antiq uity.” To his astonishment, however, and to the amazement of the inhabi tants, it came out next morning in the Forum, the Hustings., or the j plication, nurses are detailed and funds “Sanctum,”—whether his pursuasive [ provided, eloquence be employed at the Bar, or | t „ it n :,.i lf ,i.» in the interest of ‘Life Insurance, or 1 ^ ” Grange Organization, and whether his instrument be the tongue, the pen, or the sword. Take up which he will, you find it controlled by a master— and yet knowing all this, I acknow ledge myself surprised at what thc en ergy, enterprise, courage, talent ot “Bob” Alston, and his co-editors lmve already made the Herald. May suc cess equal their efforts. I know of no better wish to make hint. Perhaps you have not the pleasure of knowing Col. Alston personally. Like your senior, he is a horseman, and it you could have seen the ease with which he used to throw himself in the saddle, and manage his chesnut, in the days long since, you would have ad mired him. Your admiration would have led to acquaintance—and there, it must have followed, “as the night the day,” acquaintance would have led to admiration. I see that Col. Rnndall.is at the head of the “Constitutionalist” of Augusta— a brilliant man and able writer. It should not lie forgotten at the farther South, that with the first gun, this no ble gentleman, addressing to his “moth er State,” “My Maryland,’’joined him self to our fortunes, and true to his principles, has shared them ever since, little es we have for such as him to share. In the refined aud intellectual city of Athena, you have found a resting place, have flung your banner to the breeze, and the *•North-East Georgian” is competing for Fame and Honor. May you find both. It would not lie proper that I should say any thing of your otlorts in this communication. You have been long enough in the chain to feel at ease. I wish I could say that I expect “ to come shortly unto you and to see your face,” and not your face only, for you have written so much about the “ beauty of Alliens,” that I am in tensely curious to see more- beautiful faces than your's, “ that I should see them for inyself, aud that my eyes should behold them, and not others.’’ Not that I should be iu the least un willing to share the pleasure with others. * 1 only desire to be one of the party beholding. But the day is so hot that I can’t write any more, and I have written so much more than I had expected, that you cannot spare me more space in this, and will gladly postpone me to another issue. For the present, then, adieu, Believe me, yours truly, An Old Fogy. at Jcanerctts by a squad of armed men and hung in front of Dr. Dun- neon’s residence, three miles above that town. h< art and the satisfaction ■ paper—“He is a most venerable 6am- one poor soul happy. | p l e of iniquity.” Dawn’s missing lynx may be found in America. gas was permitted to escape from every street-lamp all night as a disinfecting expert, and barrels of tar were burned in Happy Hollow as well as on Promenade and other streets in the northern part of the city. The same experiment trill he tried to-night, as it is recommend ed by several leading p ysidans. Happy Hollow, the locality in which the disease first started, is just north of Market street, on the river hunk, and there in hovels and rudely con structed shanties, reeking in filth and mixed up promiscuously with goats and i hogs, dwell nearly one thousand negroes and low Irish—or they did live there before the pestilence visited them— getting their subsistence chiefly by stealing, and there it was, too, that when the police or detectives desired to find a thief or pickpocket they soiiirht him, the scenes in this locality since the “cropping out” of thc lever beggars (Ascription. In some instances whole families have been stricken down, and one by’one have fallen victims to it* prey, wherein other cases the parents of'iarge familes’of children have been carried away by death, leaving their little ones to the tender clmri- ti"6 of thc. world. One case came under my personal observation last uight, ns with other# seeking to assist the needy we i aid a visit to the “Hol low.” In a low, dinuy sliaotv which we entered the father, an Irishman, sat in a chair stone dead, with his head dropjied upon his bosem, and in a rudely constructed bed lay the wife at the point of death, and on each side of her was a girl—one about ten and tin- other eight years ofag —all down with the fever and not a soul to nu- e for them: in fact, the eldest of tin girl* stated that they had eaten nothing in thirty-six hours. All of them died during the night, and were buried in the Potters Field. Hundreds of simi lar cases might porhaps be told, were the particulars in each case known, but now, thank God, they will all receivo at least some little attention. Our physicians are nearly worn out with their arduous labors and two of them are down with the fever, but are not believed to be dangerously ill. To night it is reported that the scourge has broken out in several other por tions of the city and aiu jun-r a respect able class of the community. One report has it that there are half a dozen cases in Chelsea, a northern suburb, and two cases are repor ed near the house in which Captain Mike Shaney died. Three more mild cases have been reported at the Poplar street toll- gate, a haif mile east of the city limits, and scattering cases are mentioned on Monroe and Madison, as well as on Shelbv and Vance streets, in the east- Thereis a droll story of how a man lost a wager in Pueblo, Colorado. Stepping into a large liquor shop he offered to bet ten to one that lie could, blindfolded, tell t e name ofany liquor or wine in the nouse, or any mixture of liquors, by the ta*te and smell. All went well with him at first. He named all the celebrated brands correctly. Then they ffanded him a glass of water. He tasted, he smelt, he tasted and smelt again, and at last, completely non-plussod, he gave it upso. “Well, boys,” he said, “you have got me. It seems to me as if, years ago, I struck something of that bind in the States, but it was so long ago I have entirely forgotten it.” An amusing joke is told epon Bob Duke, the Democratic member of Con gress lrom the Lynchburg (Va.) dis trict. When the retroactive salary bill had been passed and become a law Bob, (who had been a Confederate officer of high rank,) walked around t6. the sergeant-at-arms, and drew his extra pay, and turning to a crowd of Congressmen near by, remarked, as he pocketed the snug sum, “ By- gentlemen, this just pays me for three of luy negroes.” A story is told of a man in Con necticut who fell from the roof of a five- story building to the sidewalk; but as he struck on the thick soles of his rub- bh.hints, he bounded back witliiu a quarter of an inch of the roof, and so continued to bounce, the distance de creasing by only a quarter of an inch at each jou rney. He subsisted on hash enclosed in rubber balls, which he managed to catch on the bound, and at the end of a month, was stopped and restored to his family. A# cool a [Ktrson, under the circum stances, as was ever heard of was a voting nobleman, who, in a frightful railroad accident, missed his valent. One of the guardians came up to him and said, “My lord, we have found your servent, but he is cut in two.” “Atv,is he?" said the young man with a Dundreary drawl, but still with anxiety depicted on his countenance. “Will you be gwood enough to see in whioh half he lias gwot the key to my carpet bag?” A man in Cornwall, Canada, recent ly dug up the coffin of his wife, who had been buried ten years, to refute an absured story which had gained cred ence among his neighbors, that he had sold his wife to nn Indian chief, and prophetess to propl.e*ying, and she told them the Lord commanded that four of “Zion’s Children” should carry him in a “snow white sheet” where she would direct. This they did, she lead ing the way, made them carry him nearly three miles; finally, laying him down at the meeting grounds, and such shouting aud yelling as they had would put ( ATTAIN JACK AND I*IS WARRIORS TO THE BLUSH. Ila! was then married in the spirit to Lmt, (the prophetess), bv Jesus Christ, and took the first seat in Heav en, even by God himself. These dis graceful proceedings were carried on till the 1st of Juh last, at which time the prophetess was trken quite sick with cramp colic, and said the Lord spake and said, “Silas Norman poison ed her.” Now, Silas is a quiet, honest negro, who has sense enough to keep out of such company. The prophetess also said that S las must die by the hands of Zion Travelers. Now this kinder scared Siia*, who taking the advice ol’Mr. R. M- Davis, his em ployer, took out a peace warrant and til them bound over to keep the peace. This rather enraged the Zion Travelers, lid they put the prophetess to proph- >ying. She said : “1 hub had a long talk wid de Lord, and he say he is iek and tired oh de way de Zion Chil- en hub been treated, amldat he will p’int out a way to de promised land, flowin’ will milk and honey, and bread upon the trees.” She also said the>- would also find wings and fly as the angels do; that the land was just one hundred and sixty miles in a north westerly course, and that they must leave on a certain Thursday. They all met on Wednesday night, to leave in a body en the morning. During thc night THE PROPHETESS ROUSED THEM, telling them the Lord had appeared tnd said they must be off before day light. They all arose and left, leuv many valuable little tilings in their hurry. They sold cows with calves for one dollar and it half apiece, iogs at one dollar, worth seven or eight, and other things in proportion. The last nows from them they were crossing the Blue Ridge. Their an swer to every question as to their busi ness, etc., was, “We are Zion’s chil dren, gwiue home.” Rumors reach here that they are ill in jail in North Carolina, for kill- one of their number and eating her. It turns out the sickness of the prophetess was caused by a large bait of hard-boiled eggs, stolen from a neighboring hen-house. Mr. H. T. Fttrguson, a gen tleman of undoubted veracity, gives ine the above as a true story. It is also authenticated by several other prominent citizens. rounded through the Molucro isles, avoiding the monsoons, and passing on thc western (?) side of the Pole tv is lands, a small group north of the equa tor, and near the tenth parallel. We landed on the island for water; and found a tent there occupied hv white men. Five men and women made their appearance from the tent. The first one that advanced toward me and extended his hand was J. Wilkes Booth. There was no mistake as to his identity, as I had been an in timate friend of his in Montgonur , Alabama, years before. He directed my men where water could be pro cured, and then entered into a confi dential conversation with me, asking that I should not reveal his name to my men, nor to any one for a period of one year; besides, said he, “the world would not believe you if you were to say that J. Wilkes Booth lives. I have lest my identity among living men. A great government has killed me. paid its reward, and I live a new and original existence." ; v His conversation with me was long and earnest, he stating that but one person in his party knew that he was Booth, and that was the female who accompanied him. “And she,” he said, “is my wife.” How he made his escape from the United States he did not. reveal, except that he did not leave Washington city for thirty days after the assassina tion. During his wanderings lie had been in Mexico, South America, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, and latterly in China. While in Rome he met John Surratt In China he entered the imperial ser vice under Ward, the American Irish man who commanded the Emperor’s iiirces against the rebels of Tartar brce i, the latter being under the command of an American from New Orleans of the sobriquet of “Peacock.” While under Ward he was engaged in many battles, and fast gained the Emperor’s favor, when an accident served to cause him to leave the country hurriedly by com mand of Ward. A Young Girl Scalped Alive. —While Amelia Grimiel, a young girl, was working last week in a shingle mill in Oshkosh, Wis., under a shaft which was going at the rate of 200 revolutions per minute, her hair, which was very long, caught in the knuckle joint, and in an instant it was toin entirely from her head, taking with it all the flesh and muscles on her head. “Front a line,” says a local paper, “drawn around from each eyebrow, her skull was left white and bare, with out a trace of blood or fle-dt. The strangest part of the accident is that she felt little or no pain, declaring that when it was being torn off all that she realized was a tickling sensation in her head. She coolly walked out of the room and waited patiently’ for a buggy to take her home. Her only regret was the fright it would give her muther. The scalp, with its beautiful long locks of hair, was curled and entwined around the shaft at the joint, and when the mill was slopped it was taken down, hut no onehed sufficient presence of mind to place it upon her head. It is nearly perfect, and the doctors have determined to tan it with that the coffin was only filled with olay. the hair on, so that if the girl recovers, The remains of the deceased woman it may be used as a wig. The case is were found well preserved, and the j one of the most remarkable on re silly Canadians were satisfied. 1 cord.” A MOST ROMANTIC STORY. While iti Shanghai, which has three divisions or settlements of foreigners— Americans, French and English--his old passion for the stage returning, he and several English and American naval officers and residents, with the countenance of Ward, organized a dramatic club, and Booth lx-ing the leading spirit, was cast in the character of Richard, in the play of Richard III. All were astonished at the grace and bearing of the youthful actor through out the performance, until the little scene where Richard and Richmond fight with such terrific, energy, when astonishment gave way to a wild storm of applause, and high over all the tmiult came the ominous words. ! “ Booth ! Booth!” meaning, very like ly, the elder Booth. The name, the situation, and the startling words, so pierceingly distinct caused him to he come forgetful of where lie was. Per haps the recollection of thc burning hate with which his name was heralded throughout the world, caused him to poite his sword and glare like a tiger at the audience. The excitement proved too much for him, and the curtain fell upon an unfinished play with a living Richard. HE IS STARTED ADRIFT AGAIN. Ward waited upon Booth the next day and informed him that a lurcher and crew awaited him. No explana tions were given, and he set sail for the Carolina island as a temporary place of abode; but hard winds aud had weather caused him to put into the’ Pelew islands, where I found him. On leaving Booth he gave me a token which he said his brother Edwin would recognize. My departure from Booth was hur ried by the booming of a gun from our ship, warning us that a breeze had sprung up. I did not reveal the secret of having met him until thc expiration of the year, aud when it was told it gitiucd no credence and was treated as the trivial fiction of a seafaring man. After the event of the Pelew Islands, while on the coast of New Guinea, 1 learned from Americans that the lurcher de scribed had been sighted on that coast. That is the last I heard of Booth. The token spoken of by Donelson was produced for Mary’s inspection, get up enough steam to draw the- whole train, ran back, and, we un derstand, uncoupled all the cars blit two, which lie left attached to the- engine, and then drawing the throttle.- valve, thc iron horse, relieved of the greater part of its immense weight,, shot off into the darkness and toward, daylight. However, before the lresli- air was reached, the engineer, in charge, James Barclay, and the fireman, John Buchanan, both fell senseless and ex hausted in the cab of their engine. The locomotive kept on its course toward the outlet, and when about turning off to the outside track, a laborer named Ackerman, who is employed there, saw nobody on the engine, and think ing something must be wrong, be jumped upon it and partially shut the^ throttle. At this juncture the regular engineer, Joseph Bivins, seeing the engine apparently deserted, also leap ed into the locamotive and stopped- itr entirely. He was not a moment too soon. In another second the engine wouhMiave crashed through theoheck house and gone on over the precipi- tions hill with the unconscious eugineer and fireman on board, and the result of thc leap would have been terrible.. As soon as the engine was checked, it was found that the engineer and fire men were lying against the 1 oiler, and both severely but not dangerously - burned. They were taken out aud restoratives applied by othrr hands, while Mr. Bivins took charge of the' engine aud went back into the tunnel to bring out the remaining coal cars and their freight of human beings. Whether the men and boys were dead or alive, it. was an impossibility then to tell. The entire train of coal wag ons was finally brought out into the light of day, but one bov, George McLain, a lad of some twelve years, was killed in the operation. Samuel Palfrey, one of the coal diggers, who ’ was on the fourteenth car from the engine, said that re heard young Mc Lain, who w: s three cars in his rear, give a short, sharp shriek ; he heard him fall, and the next sound that greeted his ears wins the crushing of bones, ns one of the heavily loaded:' cars passed . over the upper part of the boy’s body. It is said that his head was almost completely cut off He was a son of i’eerge McLain, an operator in the lire a arm telgraph of fice of this city, aud lived with his grandfather,’ll. McLain, Esq. who re- o des near Allentown. Wedded Bliss.—You know her. She live- on your street. Her features a:e eitLer pinched, or full and frowsy. Her dross is wet, ill fitting end of no particular pattern; her slippers are broken down ; her hair is uncombed; her voice is either shrill or coarse. You have seen her stand out iti the hack yard, and put a bare arm up to her eyes, and under it peep out to the fence or barn, where a man in an ill fitting coat is searching for something, and have heard her shout: “John, can’t George bring me some water?” And you lmve heard him cry back: “If lie don’t get that water 1 will take every inch of flesh front his hones !” And when you have looked at her again does it seeiu possible that those angry eyes have drooped, iu maidenly’ reserve, or raised in coquetish light to the face of thc man in the ill fittirg coat ? Can you, by any possible . wrench of the imagination, couceivo of his tenderly passing peppermints to her, of his taking that hand in his and bashfully squeezing it ? But it was so. Many a “God bless you” has been uttered above that bare head ; many a kiss pressed on that uucontbed hair. The tightly compressed lips have lov ingly framed tender invitations to him to take another bite ofenke and pickle. The bauds that are now par-boiled and blistered and marked with scars from thc bread knife, and scratches from the last setting hen, were once twined lovingly about his neck, and the nose which is now peaked and red, and locked as if it would stand on its hind, legs and scream with rage, once fol lowed the figures of his vest pattern, or bore heavily against hisjugular vein. As little probable as this seems to yon, it seems less to her. She has forgotten- it. She won’t hear it talked of by others. She cannot bear to see it acted by others. Two lovers are to her “n- E areel of fools.” And-r-George is rub- ing his head, rind we turn aside while- our heroine readjusts her slipper.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875, October 03, 1873, Image 1