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Volume 4.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1875.
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From the Quitman Reporter.]
NICK THOMPSON.
The Decision of the Supreme Court.
The Judgment of the Lower Court
Affirmed-
The Full Decision of the Court.
At last the case of Nic 'Thompson, the
murderer of Capt. J. II. Hunter, has been
argued before the Supreme Court of GeorJ i ness said by deceased, another witness
commit a felony on the person of defend
ant, and for that reason the request was
properly refused; it is no error to refuse a
request to charge unless the charge re
quested is a pertinent legal charge: code
3915. The remaining ground of error, as
signed in the motion as that verdict of the
jury, was contrary to evidence and con
trary to law. The evidence in the record
is conflicting. The evidence of the wit
nesses on the part of the State is substan
tially as follows:
That on the day of election the defend
ant’s vote had been challenged. Oue wit
A Few Facts-
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nized by business men having faith in
their new wares, as the most effective
means of securing for their goods a
wide recognition of their merits.
Newspaper advertising impels in
quiry, and when the article offered is of
good quality and at a fair price, the
natural results are increased rales.
Newspaper advertising is a perma
nent addition to the reputation of the
goods advertised, because it is a perma
nent ifluence always at work in their in
terest.
N jwspapor a dvertising is the most
energetic and vigilant of salesman ; ad
dressing thousands each day, always in
the advertiser’s interest, ceaselessly at
work seeking customers from all classes.
Newspaper advertising promotes
trade, for even in the dullest times ad
verlisers secure by far the largest share
of what is being done.—John Manning.
Color in the Keokuk Public Schools-
A special telegram to the Chicago
luirr Ocean from Keokuk, Iowa, Sep
<ember 6, says: At the opening of the
public schools to-day a number of color
cil children applied foi admission. The
school board some time since refused
this class admission to the various ward
Is occupied by the children of our
white citizens,inasmuch as a fine build
ing, with all the benefits, comforts, and
advantages, had "been erected and was
conducted under able teachers for the
especial benefit of the colored children.
I his. however, was not satisfactory to a
lew of the leading colored families, who
applied to the courts and were sustained
in their demand that their children
should be admitted to the various ward
schools the same as the children of their
w hite neighbors. Under the advantage
this decision colored children applied
to day fer admission to every ward
school in the city. The result, has
aroused considerable clamor in our
midst, the end is not yet. The color-
°d school was opened as usual, but the
attendance is slim to what it has pre
viously been.
Atoruey General Pierrepont-
The circumspect course pursued by
Attorney General Pierrepont in deter
mining the character of the response, if
®ny, to be made to the call of Gov.
-Miies, of Mississippi, for troops.because
o* some late local disturbances in that
j'tate is so m contrast with the policy
heretofore pursued under laudaulet
” illianis to indicate at once the dif
ference between an able, conscientious
jurist and a mere political and partisan
m*Ter. The case of Mississippi is a
suspicious one, it is true, as the pre
ponderance of the blacks over the
whites in that State is very large, and
11 seems singular that the Governor
should confess his inability to suppress
valence arising from the minority. He
18 nothing to sustain him io any de-
mnnd upon the General Government
®°*. as will be seen by the dispatches,
vitizens by the hundred having vol-
interred to aid him him in suppressing
1 ‘^rder. From all reliable accounts it
he difficult to discover any serious
‘"lurbance.—Baltimore Sun.
Death from a Singular Cause
The Eufaula Times says a bright mulat-
, man of that city, named Ed Holt, about
'"enty-tliree years of age, died Monday
m°miug last from a rather unusual cause.
kon»i
»nd
e time ago he attended church and, as
l '. some of the sisters got on steam
jj w ere surging and plunging about as
^mgardleaa of the safety of their limbs
^ Ed. who is represented to us
oa* ^ U ' ct ’ 8°°d boy, undertook to hold
bat ° f tije more violent affected sisters,
.^ 1 n 80 doing she threw bock one of her
k!* preat force, striking Ed. a most
^'lino-s- ac r oss his chest and nearly
v? outr 'ght at the time. He re-
t« Co “~ lightly however, but continued
Ht| 1 J l J II1 i and frequently he had hem-
tathfiT v ra tlle chest, or blood spitting,
wittn w 8 ... lingered until Monday last
d »ed, as above stated.
gia, and the decision of that august tri
bunal rendered.
While the decision of the higher court
is nulling more than wliat, from the facts
in. the case, our people expected, they
cannot but feel a relief and just satisfac
tion in having law again vindicated.
Let us dare hope that no more blood
shall flow in our county, at least at a mur
derers bidding.
Below we give the decision of the Court
in full:
Atlanta, Ga., Sep. 14, 1875.
NIC THOMPSON vs. SATE: Murder
from Brooks, Warner, Chief Justice:
The defendent was indicted for the of
fense of murder, on trial thereof the Jury
found him guilty. A motion was made
for a new trial on the several grounds set
forth therein, which was overruled by the
court, and defendant excepted. There was
no error in overruling defendant’s motion
for continuance, inasmuch as material
testimony of the absent witness was not
shown to the court by affidavit of the
defendant or any other person. The Court
did not err in refusing to sustain defend
ant’s challenge to array of jury put upon
him at trial, inasmuch as it does not ap
pear what was the grounds of challenge,
whether it was a legal ground or other
wise. There was no error in admitting
the testimy of Pritchard that deceased
had challenged the vote of defendant m
the morning of the day the fatal wound
was inflicted, and that about an hour pre
vious thereto that he heard the defendant
say that be damned if he didn’t wish every
white man was in hell. This evidence was
competent i8 connection with the other
evidence in the case as a circumstance,
tending to show malice on the part of the
defendant and towards disceased, who
was a white man. The defendant request
ed the Court to charge the jury if two
parties under a sudden heat of passion
from a mutual intention to fight and do
fight and one of the parties, killed the
other, the killing is not murder, but man
slaughter.
If the killing under the circumstances
was to prevent a committing of a serious
bodily harm, or the commission of a fel-
lony, the killing is justifiable homicide,
there was no error in refusing the first
part of the request in relation to man
slaughter, for the reason that it was not
applicabe to the facts of the case, as dis
closed by the evidence.
There is no evidence in the record of
any mutual intention of the deceased and
defendant to fight or that they did fight
in pursuance of any such m^ual inten
tion, and if the court had given the re
quest in charge it would have assumed to
charge on a statement of facts not autho
rized by the evidence and would have
been in error. Besides, there is nothing
in the request as to the exclusion of all
idea of deliberation or malice either ex
pressed or implied. The latter part of the
request, if killing under the circumstan
ces was to prevent the committing of a
serious bodily harm or the commission of
a felony,the killing as justifiable was also
properly refused because he did not assert
the law correctly as applicable to homi
cide on part of the defendant. Justifiable
homicide is killing a human being in self
fense or in defense of habitation or in de
defense of property#** iu defense of person
against one who manifestly intends or en
deavors, by violation or surprise, to com
mit a felony on cither a bare fear of any
of these before named offenses, to prevent
which the homicide is admitted to have
been committed, should not be sufficient
to justify the killing.
It must appear that the circumstances
were sufficient to excite the fears of a
reasonable man, and that the party killed
really acted under the influence of these
fears, and not in a spirit of revenge. In
new code, sections 4330—4331 the theory
of defendant's defense was justifiable
homicide under the evidence, and if he
had requested the Court to have charged
the jury that if they believed from the
evidence that the deceased manifestly in
tended or endeavored by violence or sur
prise to commit a felony on person of de
fendant, and if from the circumstances
disclosed by the evidence, they were suf
ficient to excite the fears of a reasonable
man, that the defendant really acted un
der the influence of the fears and not in a
spirit of revenge, then they might find de
fendant not guilty. Such a charge as this,
said by Wallace. But defendant was al
lowed to vote, and after having voted,
defendant, with others, was sitting on the
curb of a pump in front of the court
house, where the people were voting. De
ceased was going towards the court house
with a colored man who was going to vote,
and, as they were passing the persons sea
ted around the pump some one called
Wolf, and old colored man,and was going
to vote and had a conversation with him
in which he said he was going to vote the
democratic ticket and some of the colored
people objected, when deceased said a
man had a right to vote as he pleased.
Defendant then said it was a damned lie.
Deceased then raised a small walking
stick in front of his face with both hands
in the middle of the stick. When deceas
ed raised his stick the defendant arose and
deceased made three efforts to strike de
fendant, holding stick as before described,
Deceased fell back ten or fifteen feet, de
fendant pushing after him. Defendant
put his left hand on deceased’s shoulder
and cut him with his knife, held in his
right hand in the left breast, and as one
of the witnesses states, made a lunge at
his left breast. The blood came out of
the wound as the knife was withdrawn.
There was a large number of persons
present at the time, and much confusion.
Deceased was a small,feeble man,weigh
ing about 1G0 or 115 pounds. One of the
witnesses for State says that deceased
struck defendant threw up hi* arms, and
parred the lick off, deceased retreating all
the time.
The evidence for defendant is in conflict
with that of the witnesses for the State in
relation to the damned lie being given by
defendant to deceased; that is to say, they
did not hear the words spoken by deicn J-
ant, but heard him say to Wolf“01d man.
I have always been a friend to you, and if
you go to the Court House and vote the
Democratic ticket our friendship is
forever done.” That deceased struck the
MARY E. SURRATT-
The Harder of Mrs- Surratt—Andy
Johnson’s Share in it-
The Harder Described by an Eye
Witness—The Confessional and the
Scaffold—The Expected Reprieve
The Prayer and the Death—The
Besponsible-
[Brooklyn Sunday Sun.]
It was beneath a Aright summer sun
that Mary E. Surratt was murdered. The
press of the United States was amply rep
resented. A majoritv of it applauded the
cowardly crime. When the improvised
trap fell, and swung back, and left her
heavy body dangling lifeless on the fatal
rope, there were present Generals and of
ficers of the nation bearing its uniform
whose buttons and shoulder straps glitter
ed iu the bright rays. Save good Father
Waite's, no voice uttered “God bless
her !” as she fell. The soldiers that paced
the top of the surrounding walls made no
sign. Sevtral turned away their heads,
sickened by the sight, and awed to see a
deed done in the nineteenth century that
in the fourteenth would have been dele
gated to the secrecies of a dungeon or the
knife of a solitary bravo.
Women have been murdered before—
jealousy, drunkenness, despair, a maden-
ed cupidity have all in turn murdered wo
men. Never before was a hero called in
the bright and open day to see such a deed
done, Hancock was. He obeyed the call
and saw that the hangmen were protected
that the assassination was not interrupted.
How his spirit rebelled at the task that
was written on his broad face. The wri
ter saw it there as in a hook.
THE 8ITE OF THE MURDER.
It was in the old Arsenal Penitentiary
yard, in Washington, in the inner yard,
that they strangled this woman. The
Arsenal and Penitentiary face and term!
nate Four-and-a-lialf street, which stretch
es to it from the City Hall. They have
erected there since then a statue of Lin
coln. Were it the man himself he might
see the site of the murder committed in
his name from the palty pedestal on which
it is raised. The outer gate of the Arsen
al faces that statue at the other end of the
long, wide street exactly. From the gate
to the old ■Penitentiary, where the mock
ery of the trial was plaj'ed, runs a broad
and and graveled path. This
path turned around the Penitiary walls,
and led to the gate of the yard where
stood the scaffold. The walls of the Pen-
defendant three times with his stick and as [ itentiury formed two sides of the yard,
he was about to strike the fourth time de- | an d the other two were walls built to in-
fendant. cut him with his knife. Evidence
does not show that there were any wounds
or bruises on the person of the defendant.
The 4674 section of the code declares that
on trial of an indictment for an assault or
an assault and battery the defendant may
give in evidence to the jury any approbious
words or abusive language,and by the prose
cutor or person assaulted or beaten, and
such words may or may not amount to a
justification, according to the nature and ex
tent of the battery; all of which shall be de
mined by the jury. Assuming that defend
ant did call deceased a damned liar and that
deceased did strike him, he would have been
justifiable in doing so under the law, provi
ded battery was hot disproportioned to in
suit offered by opprobious words. In view
of that evidence under the statute the strik
ing of defendant by deceased could not be
considered as such considerable provoca
tion under the law as would rebut the pre
sumption of malice on part of defendant in
killing deceased. If the Court charged the
jury correctly as to the law applicable to the
evidence, and we are bound to assume that
it did, as there is no exception taken to the
charge in the record, we cannot say as a re
viewing Court that the verdict is either con-
trary to law or evidence iu criminal cases.
The jury are made the judges of law as given
them in the charge by the Court, as well as
facts. It is the peculiar province of the jury
to judge of the credibility of witnesses when
their evidence is conflicting as in this case,
and to believe those who in their judgment
are entitled to most credit, taking into con
sideration circumstances under which they
testify as well as consistency and probable
accuracy in their statement. In our judg
ment there is sufficient evidence on the
record to sustain the verdict according to
repeated rulings of this Court in similar
cases. Let the judgment of the Court below
be affirmed.
James Atkins, W. C. McCall, for Plaintiff
in error; R. G. Mitchell, Solicitor General,
H. G. Turner, for the State.
“The James Boys.”
Huntington, W. Ya., September 6.
Our city was a scene of the wildest excite
ment to-day upon the announcement of the
success of one of the most audacious robbe
ries ever perpetrated in the State. About
two o’clock, while the President of the bank
was at dinner, and matters left in charge of
the cashier, four mounted men rode up in
front of the bank, two of whom dismounted
and entered, the others remaining on guard
outside.
The invaders at once jumped over the
counter and demanded the keys to the safe,
if it had been requested, should have been j -phe cashier resolutely refused to deliver
riven and doubtless would have been. ! them for a time, but the robbers drew re-
The InHer part of the ch„ge .*«* j S^SSftXJtS}
omits to say anything about the defence j ficer Th# Plains succeeded in stealing
of the defendant’s person against manifest- | about thirteen thousand dollars. They then
lv intended or endeavored by violence or ! left the bank, mounted their horses, which
iy mivu ; bold at the door by their confederates,
surprise to commit a felony on the person j ^ ^ y of four Sloped off, taking a
of defendant, and if, the circumstances ; goul j, er fydirection over the hills. Officers
disclosed by the evidence, were sufficient { an( j e itisens started in pursuit at once, and
to excite manifest intention and endeavor 1 the police at all adjacent points were advis-
ofteUed by violence or Mrprto. .0 ri fib. **»*■•
close the yard, and there stood some fif
teen feet high. Upon these walls sentries
were placed.
Fronting the wall that ran at right an
gles with the end of the penitentiary,
stood a strange, weird-looking structure.
The one end of it had a ladder that reach
ed the ground, beyond that end, some
twenty yards, was a small iron door that
opened into the penitentiary—in one of
whose lower tier of cells, beneath a raised
and replaced flag, were rottingthe remains
of John Wilkes Booth. This wooden
structure was
THE SCAFFOLD.
It consisted of a platform resting on
square wooden posts. The front part of
the platform was attached to the back
part by hinges, and this front rested on
posts which its weight alone held in place.
Along the back and solid part of the plat
form weie four chairs.
Around this yard lounged the corres
pondents, were ranged some soldiers, and
right in the middle of the yard, when the
writer entered it, stood the tall and ample
form of Hancock in full uniform.
“General, may I go in once more and
see the prisoners ?”
“No, sir- One moment—Orderly !”
“Yes, sir.”
“Mount your horse, go to the outer gate
of the Arsenal. Don’t dismount, but ke^>
your eye along Four-and-a-half street.
Should you see a mounted soldier riding
this way, then ride here and tell me. Stay
there till you are^relieved by the sight of
that soldier, or by order.”
“Yes, sir.”
The orderly sped away.
“No, sir, I cannot permit it. They are
with ministers and priests, have but a
few minutes to live. I have refused
every other correspondent.”
“Do you expect a reprieve, General?”
“I expect nothing. That woman, how
ever, shall not lose a chance of life, if I
can help it. That’s why I sent that or
derly to the gate.”
He did expect a reprieve, and his face
showed he did.
the procession.
The eyes of most were now fastened on
the iron door that led into the penitentia
ry. It looked like a postern in a fortress,
heavy, sullen and pitiless. My eyes wan
dered back to tbe scaffold. I then notic
ed, fer the first time, that above the plat
form, resting on two firm posts ran a beam.
From this beam hung four ropes. It
sickened to see them. The sun in the
meanwhile shone down on the whole
ghastly scene as fierce in its unclouded
splendor as ever it shown on the hot sands
of Syria.
A sudden movement, a murmer, a low
exclamation :
“Here they are!”
There they were, issuing, one by on*,
from the little door, preceded by soldiers,
flanked by soldiers, followed bv soldiers,
accompanied by men in civilian dresses,
the priest, the minister and the hangmen.
There was a hangman to every prisoner.
Atzerodt came first. Payne came sec
ond. Harold came third. She came last.
Father Walter was talking to her all the
way to the scaffold, all the way up its
steps, and on it, when she took her seat.
They sat in the order in which they had
come.
The poor woman could scarcely walk
and they assisted her to her death very
tenderly. As she sat down, I could not
refrain from looking to the yard gate,
thinking of the orderly at the outer gate
beyond. There w:is po sign, I looked
at Hancock, his eyes were turned the same
way; his usual florid face was the color of
ashes- I could see his hands open aid
close nervously. He looked at his watch
and the chain oscillated at the touch of
his nervous fingers, usually as calm as is
the hand of a heavy lympatchic man, for
Hancock was both.
Mary E. Surrat was praying to the cru
cifix held before her by Father Walter.
Each of the others was listening to the
minister. At length Father Walter pray
ed aloud, and I reporting the prayer, for
the time, forgot the orderly. The prayer
over, I looked gatewards again. No sign !
Hancock’s eyes were riveted on the gate.
The arms of each were being pinioned.
They were told to rise, and they aff four
rose. Each hangman placed the noose
around each of their necks. I look again
at the gate. No sign! Hancock was
looking at his watch. Turning again to
the scaffold, I saw the straw hat of Payne
blown by a sudden, unexpected breeze
off his bead, as if to make way for the
white cap. Detective Roberts, his hang
man, was about pulling it over his face. I
turned to see her. She bad lost the power
to stand. They had to hold her up while
they pulled down the cap. Great God !
can a thought be more horrible.
Still no one at the gate !
They were told to walk forward upon
the front and treacherous part of the plat
form.
There they stood. Atzerodt swaying
with fear; Payne Jerect and firm as the
gladiator which he resembled, when
awaiting the fatal fiat; Harold, still. She
lifeless to all appearance. The sentries
had ceased pacing. You could hear a pin
drop.
“Good-bye, my friends we’ll all meet
again,” exclaimed Harold.
Atzerodt said something I could not
hear. From under Atzerodt the platform
dripped with water on the ground be
neath.
Still no one at the gale !
Hancock closed his watch.
The men who upheld the lifeless wo
man stepped back on the solid half of the
platform. She was falling when sudden
ly the supporting posts in front were
knocked down, and all four dangled and
swung —the most ghastly spectacle man
ever saw !
She never perceptibly moved. Her
petticoats aud dress had been gathered
with a string about her ankles. She bung
a dead weight of flesh, not less than two
hundred pounds.
Payne writhed and twisted for several
minutes.
Beneath Atzerodt there had gathered
quite a little pool of water.
There was no shout. There was a shud
der went through all present—through
soldier and civilian—nothing more.
Again I looked at Hancock. If ever he
wore that frightened look on the field, his
soldier fame is a lie.
WHO WITHHELD THE REPRIEVE ?
Who withheld the reprieve ?
Holt says Andrew Johnson did. John
son said he was never asked for it. Holt
admits that an official application by the
murderous conclave of troopers, called
the Court, was made to Andy for a re
prieve. Andy said Stanton withheld i*.
Each threw the blame upon the other ;
but whosoever was the blame, the deed
was done, in face of day, under the shad-
dow of the flag of the United States, by
the authority of its President, the acqui
escence of his Cabinet, the signing of the
Secretary of War, and under the actual
supervision of a Major General of its ar
mies.
Of all the more active participants in
that murder, Holt alone remains to face
the strange fates that have overtaken his
associates therein—dubious and sudden
death.
Stanton died quickly after. He died
suddenly, and suspected of the suicide of
remorse.
King drowned himself. And men do
say he drowned himself from inability to
face the constant memory of his unsolic
ited share in that woman’s murder.
Andrew Johnson, whose demise recalls
Uie whole of that awful story to the mind
again, died suddenly. But not, we think,
because of this crime, of which a passing
weakness alone made him a passive ac
complice.
Johnson’s hands were tied.
The Radicals who found in the blood
of Lincoln the fertilizing stream of their
despotic power did not forget one maxim
of Machiavelii’s : “If you would know
who perpetrated a crime look to see who
has profited by it. ”
The death of Lincoln made Johnson
President. And dark hints were thrown
out which could scarce fail to reach the
ear of Andy. The first whisperings of
the coming fight between Andy and tbe
Radical Congres had already been issued
by J. W. Forney,before Mary E. Surratt’s
murder was determined upon. Brave in
all things else, Andy’s nerves failed him
here. He did not care to save the woman.
As time passed Andy felt he should have
done so, and in his agony uttered the cry
that none had asked him. This threw the
whole"responsibility on Holt and Stan
ton. TJJiey insisted that they had, the one
sent,the other handed.th^ so-called court’s
application to him* Less than two years
ago Andy and Holt called again for pub
lic decision on the matter. The proof on
both sides is wholly unsatisfactory, and
remains a question of veracity. But tak
ing it as a question of veracity, what man
could believe Holt to disbelieve Andy
Johnson?
Andy has gone to tell his audit where
proof is needless. He has gone unsuspect
ed of any other wrong—honest amid
thieves, true to his convictions amid a
crowd that had none.
Holt from the first thirsted for the wo
man’s blood, showed liis thirst in insult
of her counsel, an honored lawyer and
statesman; showed it in his treatment of
the chief witness against her, Woichinan;
showed it in his whole co’ duct of the case.
It may be taken for granted, therefore,
if Johnson sinned, his sin was the sin of
weakness, not of bloodthirstiness, of a
weakness to increase the dastardly sus
picion against him, by boldly reprieving
from the gallows, unmasked, a woman
doomed without true trial, and shorn of
counsel by the men who were at once her
judges and accusers. A. R C.
Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, in a conver
sation with a Philadelphia Times reporter
said this upon the financial situation :
“The financial issue wipes oul all other
matters. When I was in the AVest re
cently I was surprised to see the stiong
feeling on this subject in favor of expan
sion. The Democrats will have to meet
it. I have my own views on the subject,
but did not feel like expressing them.
Here lies the ‘contingency’ which may
arise to give the President the opportuni
ty mentioned in the third-term letter.
With the 137 delegates from the South
ern States sure, fas they are composed of
office-holders who wiil have to support
Grant to make certain of another year’s
patronage, and who may have a chance
of four’years more, they can reckon on
forty Northern delegates under Conkling
and Morton, who cannot face the power
of the President. The bondholders, etc.,
will feel confident that Grant will sustain
them, and thus may come the issue be
tween them and the people, who do not
feel as if they are able just yet to pay
their debts, and want a more mobile cur
rency.”
ed Rijah.
“What paper?”
“That ’ere twenty-five ”
Ho stopped there. Some one had sneak
ed up the alley and slyly stolen both scrip
and peach-stone.
"Never mind,” condoled the boy, “it
handn’t any intrinsic value.”
“It hadn’t, eh?” growled the old janitor ;
“I just want to catch the wolf who absorbed
it!”—DetroitFb-ee Press.
Cataleptic Rooster-
The Scientific American describes the 'phe
nomenon which it says lias been observed
for aboat two hundred years, but never fully
understood, as follows: Place a daik table
near a window where a narrow streak of
sunshine will fall across it. Catch a rooster
and place him on the table, hold his beak
against tbe table in the line of the streak of
sunshine, and then slowly draw a piece of
chalk from his beak, in the streak of light
to the outer edge of the table. By the time
the chalk is too feet from the beak, the
rooster will be in a cataleptic state,perfectly
rigid and motionless, and will remain so for
an indefinite time. Hens can be influenced
in the same manner, but are not so suscep
tible as the male chicken.
ATLANTIC & GULF RAILROAD.
mu*
Change of Schedule.
U'NERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, 4
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, v
Savannah, May 1st, 1875. J
On and after Sunday May 2nd Pas
senger trains on this road will run as
follows :
ExritEss:
Leave Savannah daily at. 4 00 p.m.
Arrive at Live Oak daily at* ” ” '2-56 a. m.
Leave
at Thoniasville
Bainbridge
Albany
.4:45 a. m.
7;15 a. in.
9:20 a. m.
4:10 p in.
■ 5:15 p. m.
.8:20 p, in.
10:05 p. m.
8:50 a. m.
“ Bainbridge ‘
“ Thoniasville *
“ Live Oak *
Arrive at Savannah ‘
Connect at Live Oak with trams
on J., P, & M. Railroad for and from Jack
sonville, Tallahassee, etc.
No change of cars between Savannah and
Albany.
Close connection at Albany with trains on
Southwestern Railroad.
Mail steamer leaves Bainbridge for Apalach
icola every Sunday evening.
ACCOMMODATION—WESTERN DIVISION
Leave Dupont, Sundays excepted 7:00 a. m.
9:00 a. m.
.10:15 a. m.
.12:15 p. m.
. .2:10 p. m.
.. 4:08 p. in.
. .5:28 p. m.
7:80 p. m.
Touching off a Mammiferous Battery.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says his
head was about the shape and size of a Bul
litt county watermelon, and he was so black
that charcoal would make a light mark on
him. The goat was asleep, leaning against
the side of a house. The darkey was smoking
a decayed cigar. He espied the goat, looked
at the lit end of the cigar, grinned, then at
the tail end of the goat,‘grinned louder,’look
ed all around to see that nobody w.s i.iukiug
and touched the lit end of that cigar to tin
tail end of that goat. The go.it turned a
hand-spring, and the negro opened his hi,
mouth to laugh, but the goat butted hiui s*.
quick between his chin and bi.-< breech,
pockets that his jaws came together making
a noise louder than the report of a pun. The
negro’s hat, boots and cigar lay in a pb -.tvn
feet off, while his body was curled u ( > like a
horse-shoe in the mouth of a sewer-o-»eaiug.
When he “came to” he looked around at
each one in the crowd, and disper-ed the j
crowd by saying. “Will some u!>’ you gem- |
men’ shoot me wid a pistol? A uigga dat's
as big a fool as I is ain’t got no busine-s
libin’ no how.”
Arrive at Valdosta
“ Quitman
“ Thomasvile
Leave Thomasville
“ Quitman
“ Valdosta
Arrive at Dupont ^ _
Accommodation train—albanv division.
Leave Thomasville: Tuesday
Thursday, and Satur-
, . da y at 8:10 p.m.
Arrive at Caminilla: Tuesday,
Thursday and .Saturday at. .5:40 p. m;
“ Albany: Tuesday Thurs-
day and Saturday at 7:50 p. m.
Leave Albany Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at 9:20 a. m.
“ CammiMa: Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at ] 1:17 a. m.
Arrive at Thomasville; Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday 1:45 p. m.
Cannect at Albany with night trains on
Southwestern railroad, arriving in Aloany
Tuesday, Thurday and Saturday, 7:45 a. m.
H. S. HAINES, Gen.
Superintendent.
Arrest of Counterfeiters in Alabama-
Nashville, Tens., September 12.—A
special from Decatur, Ala., to the American
to-day says that United States Marshal Ba-
ner arrived there this afternoon with J. C.
Graham, of Gainesville, Sumpter county, R.
S. Nell, of Alexander, and Geo. Sampsons
and Jno. Henler of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who
are charged with counterfeiting. B. B.
Bowers, now under arrest for counterfeiting,
was foreman of the last grand jury of Greene
county. Stewart, of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, and superintendent of aSabbath
school, was also arrested- Bowers had on
his person one hundred dollars in counter
feit fifty cent fractional currency, and $800
in counterfeit fire and twenty dollar legal
tenders. Bowera is socially and financially
prominent, and can give bonds for twenty
thousand dollars. Dunn and Garner, of Tus
caloosa county, in charge of a deputy mar
shall, are en route. A delayed train was the
cause of their non-arrival Deputy United
States Marshal Wheat, from the middle dis
trict, arrived to-day, having in custody W.
W. Gordon, of Lynville, Tennessee. Gor
don, in his section, has commanded the re
spect of the community. He had evaded ar
rest for several days and was particularly
wanted. It is claimed that his connection
with the counterfeiters is important.
Bijah on Currency •
“ Well, bub,” replied Bijah as he finished
hanging up the broom, “this currency ques
tion bothers many besides you, though its
clear enough to me. Yon see that twenty-
five cent, scrip, don’t you ?”
The boy remarked that he did, and Bijah
placed it on the window-sill, weighted it
down with a peach-stone, and continued:
“That bit of paper is marked “twenty-fire
cents,” but is it twenty-fire cents? Is it
anything more than a piece of paper?”
“I dnnno,” solemnly replied the boy.
“Has that bit of paper any real value
beyond its being a promise to pay?” deman-
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