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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
Mi L> BURCH $ Editor & Proprietor,
THURSDAY, JUNE 0, 187a
JURY COMMISSIONERS.
Gentlemen occupying the position
of jtiry Commissioners in the several
counties, will do well to examine the
New Constitution, Sec. xviii, Par. 2,
which is as follows:
“The General Assembly shall pro
vide by law for the selection of the
most experienced, intelligent and up
right men to serve as Grand Jurors,
and intelligent and upright men to
serve as traverse jurors; nevertheless,
the Grand Jurors shall he competent
to serve as traverse jurors.’*
It will be seen that until the legis
lature meets and “shall provide by
law,’* juries are to be drawn as usual
under the code. Judge Pate so ad
vised one of the Commissioners of this
•county, and the juries have been drawn
accordingly.
PEACE IN EUROPE.
At last our exchanges furnish the
long hoped-for information touching
ihe vexed questiohs between England
and Russia. The peace congress will
assemble through the kind offices of
the German government, and we may
confidently expect an amicable adjust
ment of the difficulties which have
been agitating the world. The fol
lowing points have been agreed Upon:
1. There shall be two Bulgarian
provinces—one north of the Balkans,
under a prince; the other south of the
Balkans (not to touch the ACgean sea,
and its name to be chosen by the con
gress). with a Christian government,
and the government modeled upon
that of the English colonies.
2. The Turkish troops shall with
draw from the latter province, and
not re-enter it.
3. England deplores, but will not
oppose the retrocession of Bessarabia.
4. England reserves the right to
discuss in the congress all internation
al arrangements relating to the Dan
ube.
5. England does not consider the
possession of Batoum by Russia suf
ficient just fication for hostile inter
ference, atul Russia promises not to
further advance her frontier in Asia.
f. Russia will give up Bayazid to
Turkey, at the request of England,
but in exchange Tui'key shall cede to
Persia the province of Retour, close
to Bayazid. This has long been a dis
puted piece of territory, and the right
of it, Russia says, belongs to Persia.
7. Russia promises ueither to take
the money indemnity in land nor to
interfere with England’s claims on
Turkey as a creditor. The points as
to the payment of the war indemnity
to be discussed by the congress.
8. The congress will take st~*ps to
reorganize Epirus, Thessaly and other
Greek provinces.
9. Russia agrees that the passage
of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus shall
remain in etatu quo.
10. England will suggest at the con
gress that Europe reorganize Bulga
ria, and will discuss the questions of
Russian occupation of and the pas
sage of troops through Roumania.
It strikes us very forcibly that Eng
land has come out first best. Bea
consfie’d's star is in the ascedunt. We
rejoice at the pin bable solution of the
great controversy.
MRS. KATE SOTHERN.
It is highly probable that this now
notorious is fully installed into
her new position as an operative upon
the premises of Col. Jack Smith, the
distinguished agriculturist of Wash
ington county. We heartily wish for
her all the happiness, improvement
and consolatiou possible in her present
relation as a penitentiary convict un
der the most favorable auspices.
Furthermore, we earnestly hope that
with her domestication at Col. Smith’s
in the company of her sister, and near
by her husband, there may be a sur
cease of fiction, sensation and senti
mentalism in reference to her case
It would be well, at least, to let the
matter rest until something reliable
appears in reference to the testimony
in the case. Excepting one sensible
article that appeared in the Atlanta
Constitution, above the name of “Mrs.
Baggett,’* nearly everything that has
been said seems to have been based
Upon IT. W. G.*s letter to a Chicago
paper, giving a most romantic and
tragic account of the affair. Now,
after seeing him corrected at almost
every stop of narration in his letteis
on the “Great Duels of the South,**
and some important and radical chan
g< s in his account of the Sotliern af
fair, we are constrained to believe that
his brilliant pen aims more at effect
than authenticity, and we would great
ly enjoy a little silence in reference to
bloody Kate until some enterprising
pamphleteer furnishes us with a trite
copy of the testimony.
We shall not be surprised to hear
very soon of more than one devoted
wife, so-called, attempting a repetition
of the role that has given to Mrs. So
thern so unexpectedly such notoriety.
Sensational mania is at the bottom of
more than half the crime committed in
the Union. The pulpit, the people at
large, and the press have catered freely
to its behests, and are thus greatly re
sponsible for its growth and propaga
tion. Oh, fut a return to the realms
of truth, moderation and common
sense! Then we will be much more
likely to obtain that justice for which
so many frantic appeals are being
made just now in behalf of the unfor
tunate woman whose name Leads this
article.
Attempted Assassination of the
Emperor of Germany.
Oil last Sunday afternoon while the
ruler of the first power on earth w.is
taking a ride along one of the stately
avenues of Berlin, one Dr. Nobeling
tried to put an end to his sway by
shooting him with a double-barreled
shotgun from the window of one of
the houses where he was passing.—
Thirty small shot took effect, and he
was also hit by one buckshot. He
was carried at once to the imperial
residence, and the surgeons proceeded
to extract the missiles. This, it is
said, his royalty bore with true hero
ism, although he suffered much from
pain and loss of blood. Nobeling is a
professor of philology, a writer on ag
riculture, a social democrat, and, wn
add, a crazy fool, lie fought Iko a
demon when they came to arrest him,
and at last tried to take his own life.
It is thought he has succeeded and
that he will die from injuries inflicted
by himself upon Lis own person. lie
did not pretend to deny the act, and
when pressed fur a reason for his con
duct replied only, that he thought the
country would be better off by the
death of Emperor Wilhelm. Our
readers will perhaps remember that it
is only about a month since the Era
peror was shot at on this same street.
COMMISSIONER OF AGRI
CULTURE.
We gather from our exchanges that
Dr. Thomas P. Janes* term of office
as Commissioner of Agriculture will
soon exp’re, and will thereby involve
the necessity of anew appointment by
the Governor. Already the “Colonels*’
are making suggestions as to who is
the best man for the place* The name
of Dr. E. M. Pendleton is mentioned
in this connection by a correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution. Dr. P.
is a good man, and one that is in eve
ry respect fully competent fur this im
portant trust, being a thorough chem
ist and scientific agiiculturalist. Mr.
Henderson is also spoken of in this con
nection ; and it was thought also that
Col. Livingston, of Newton, would be
an aspirant. But as the last-named
gentleman is to be the independent
Candidate for Congress in the sixth
district (a pathway full of thorns and
thistles, Colonel) we suppose that his
time will be fully occupied, and that
he will not urge his claims for the po
sition of Commissioner of Agriculture.
Dr. Thomas P. Janes, the present in
cumbent, is also mentioned, and we
can see no good reason why he should
not be h‘s own successor. In our
judgment he has tilled the position as
ably and [satisfactoiily as any man in
Georgia could have done. He too is
a good chemist, and has for years be
fore the establishment of this agricul
tural bureau, as well as since, been
experimenting largely in scientific ag
riculture. He is a man of indomitable
ene.gy and perseverance, aud we think
has sustained himself in a way b that re
flects credit upon himself and upon the
Department.
Since the above Was in type, we
have beeu icquested by Hun. J. M.
Buchan, our Representative elect, to
sign a petition requesting the re ap
pointment if Dr. Janes as Commis*
sioner ot Agriculture. We were not
aware of the ( x'steuce of this petition
at the time the above was writteu, nei
ther were the movers in the same aware
of our portion of this question. So it
seems that our people are all agreed
that Dr. Janes should be Ids own suc
cessor. The petition is signed by
many of our best citizens, no one de
clining.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Own Correspondent.]
Washington, D. C., May 31.
The question of adjournment still
keeps Congress on the qui vive, and
the probability is that there will be a
hot fight over it. A large number of
members on both sides are quite anx
ious to adjourn on June 17th, and con
tend that all the important business in
arrears can be settled before that time,
but this is contested by the other half
who propose to stay and, in the words
of ex-President Grant, “fight it out on
this line if it takes all summer.** it is
asserted by those in favor of early ad
journmenn that the Committee on Ap
propriations can get ihrough all its
work by the date named if night ses
sions are held ngulaily. Mr. Atkins,
chairman of that c >mmittee, says the
work before them could not be dispo
sed of if eve~y hour of the time be
tween now and the 17 th of June were
given up to the committee Mr.
Springer, who has occupied the chair
for four or five days while the House
was in Committee of the Whole, and
hence has a good idea of the work to
be done, told me this morning that it
will be impossible to pass all the ap
propriation bills by ihe date named.
He called lay attention to the fact that
duiing the last six days of the session
any member can move a suspension
of rules. The resu.t is that every mem
ber has one or more bills which he
wants passed, and consequently no
regular business can be transacted'
“Why none of the appropriation hills
have come back from the Senate,* con
tinued Mr. Springer, ‘and here are the
sundry, civil and the general deficien
cy bill yet to be reputed. Take off
the last six days—which, as I said,
cai/t he counted for regular business
—and you see there would be only
about a woi k left for all this work. 1
anl in favor of staying In re till the
business of the country is in proper
shape.* A prominent Republican Sen
ator said yesterday that if Congress
adjourns without making an appro
priation to pay the fisheries award,
Mr. Hayes c> uld cull an extra session;
so this adds another bid to the list
that must be attended to.
Yesterday was Decoration Day and
the principal point of attraction was,
as usual, the National cemetery at
Arlingt *n. The President spent the
day at Gettysburg, accompanied by
Mr. McCrary, the Secretary of War,
Postmaster-General Key, Attorney-
General Devens, and Secretary Sehurz,
General Butler, aud other distinguish
e 1 politicians. For past two or
three days, flowers by the cart-load
have been soul to the Congregational
Church, which was the headquarters
for the committee of the Grand Army
of the Republic having charge of the
arrangements, an 1 one literally waded
knee-deep in roses, geraniums, japon
icas, and other delicate flowers; offer
ings for the graves of the fallen sol
diers. Unfortunately, that patriotic
sp rit which has of lute years mani
fested itself both in the North and the
South in the decoration of all graves
alike, without regards to whether
those who sleep below wore the Blue
or the Gray, does not extei.d to this
latitude, and on ] y the graves of Union
soldiers are permitted by the Grand
Army of the Republic) who on that
day has exclusive charge of the prem
ises, to be decorated on the thirtieth
of May. Nature is less paitial, for
she clothes with her velvet verdure
the mounds of all, and the dews of
heaven ia.ll on the resting places of the
Boys in Gray who slumber here, as
b untifully as on those of their bro
thers in death who wore the Blue.
Their dust m ngles tog tner and lheir
souls are wi;h Him on II gli, and yet
we carefully draw a line over the
g. een turf on one side of which no
flowers are permitted to bo placed;
This does not harm the dead; but how
about the bviu-?
Ihe clerks at the Interior Depart
ment are in a stew owr a recent order
pi omulgated by Secretary Sehurz to
the effect that no employee of that
Department shall be permitted to leave
the building, except oil public busi
ness) duiing office-hours, or from 9 A.
M to 4 P. M. The gentle men who
take umbrage at this order have been
in the habit of leaving their desks at
lunch time and proceed to a
ing restaurai t or bar-room, where tuey
would someUmes r* main for hours to
getbcr, chatting, smoking and drink**
ing, instead of attending ter the public
business. This finally came to the
notice of the Secretary who very prop
erly concluded to put a stop to it, and
hence issued the order referred to.
As there are abundant facilities for
lunching within the building, it is re
ally no great hardship on the clerks;
only they have to wait for their beer
till four o’clock, instead of taking it
in the middle of the da}".
On Wednesday last, “Judge” Belva
A. Lockwood's bill granting to women
the privilege of practicing before the
Supreme Court of the United States,
was called up in the Senate by Mr.
Sargent, who remarked that his sole
object was to find out how many
Senators were in favor of it. Mr.
Thurman objected because Mr. Ed
munds was not present, and Mr. Ham*,
lin objected for the same reason,though
it is understood that he is in favor of
the bill. Two adverse reports have
been made on it, each one of which
declared that the authority to de
cide who should practice before them
rests only with the court itself. On
the roll call as to whether the bill
should be considered or not, there was
a tin vote —26 to 26. But it was in
no sense a party vote, or a test vote
as to the strength of the measure in
the Senate. Judge Lockwood was
interviewed on the su'ject last even
ing, and she contends that ov< r forty
Senators have personally stated to her
their intention to vote for this bill,
and among them are several who voted
against its consideration day before
yesterday. \s the pioneer in this
movement in behalf of female lawyers*
she feels determined to win, and talks
as though she really thought it her
mission to lire ik through the harrier
to the last L gal right in courts of jus
tice denied to her sex.
The papers all over the country
have had a great deal to say over the
leccnt little “spat” between Mr. Pot
ter, author of the famous “Potter Res
olution” and chairman of the investi
gating committee, and the venerable
Alexander 11. Stephens of Georgia.
The correspondence winch passed be
tween these two gentlemen having been
published, it does not appear that the
trouble amounted to more than a dif
ferences of opinion and th*ir personal
relations are* just as friendly s ever.
Mr. Stephens has announced himself
as eandinate fr re-election to Con
gress from the Augusta, Ga., dist;iet
at I lie next regular congressional elec
tion, and has telegraphed to his friends
in Georgia to that effect.
Fashionable circles at the Wed End
were agitated a couple of evenings
ago by Urn intelligence of the recep
tion of a telegram from Ensign Fre
mont o the navy, stating that lie had
been married in New York the day
before, to Miss Anderson of G street,
northwest. This event was totally
unexpected. It is believed here that
the young coup’e happening to meet
in that c tv. (the groom being about
to sail for Paris, where he is ordered
on duty, and the young lady with her
mother having also engaged passage
for France,) they, without consulting
friends, concluded to marry at once
and spend their honeymoon abroad.
The bridegroom is a popular young
officer of the navy, the son of Gen. J.
C. Fremout. It will be remembered
that Gen. Fremont, the path-finder,
married his wife—a daughter of the
late Senator Thomas 11. Benton—un*
der somewhat similar circumstances.
Mrs Hayes, accompanied by Mrs.
W r oodworth, Miss Fannie Hayes, and
Mr. Dickinson, Vice President Wheel
er’s nephew and private secretary,
hare gone to Martin's on the Lower
Laranac Luke, N. Y., trout fishing,
and have, it is said, been quite suc
cessful. It is their intention to remain
in the woods for a week or ten days,
and on their return Mrs. Hayes and
daughter will spend about a week with
the family of the Vice-President aL
Malone N. Y. Alpha.
KEROSENE EXPLOSION.
Why will persons continue the dan
gerous experiment of attemoting to fill
kerosene lamps while burning, with
the numberless nev\ spaper accounts of
kerosene explosions caused in this way?
The following account of a shocking
burning to death of a mother and two
children in Meriwether county is now
going the rounds of the press.
Soon after supper on the night of
the 22d, Mr. Folds and his oldest boy
went to part the cow and calf, leaving
h s wife and other children m the
house. A screaming soon called him
baci to the house, to find his wife, lit
tle daughter aud babe in flames, and
kerosene burning all over the room,
lie rushed in, took up the babe
and ran out of doors with it, but by
this time it was burned to a crisp and
dead. lie rushed iu agaiu with a buck
et of water and threw it on the little
girl, and at the same time threw a
quilt over his wife's head and told her
to run out to the well, where there
was a tub of water and get into it, he
grabbing the little girl aud carrying
her out. The wife got out the door,
but the air added fury to the fl imes,
and with a (ew steps the poor woman
fell, to rise no more.
The disturbing cries soon called in
the neighbors, but all in vain—the
work was done. The little babe died
instantly, the little girl, aged eight,
died yesterday at 11 o’clock, a. m.,
and the wife and mother at 11 o’clock
last night, and the three will be bur
led to-day in the same grave.
Mr Fold's hands and arms were se
verely burned in his noble efforts to
save his loved ones, Mrs. Folds re
mained conscious until noon yesterday
ond gave the following account of how
the explosion happened :
It was a brass lamp, and on light
ing it she found the oil was out, and
without blowing out the wick, she un
screwed the burner and held it a little
to one side with one hand, and at
tempted to pour oil into the lamp from
a jug with the other hand, her two
children silting by looking on When
the oil igmted, both jug and lamp ex
ploded, and the sad sequel is the re
suit.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
A Murderer Respited on the
►Scaffold with Rope Adjusted.
Abbeville, S. C., May 17.—Jeff.
Davis has been respited until Jn ie 14.
The respite was read the condemned
man on the gallows, after the rope had
been fixed about his neck. He stout,
ly asserted his innocence to the last,
and was completely overcome by the
respite. The respite delays the exe
cution one month. No additional ev
idence has been discovered. David's
crime was the murder of George and
Drucilla Franklin, an aged brother and
sister, who lived alono in a small house
in Abbeville county. They were over
sixty years old, an I their penurious
hab tsg.ive rise to the brief that they
were in the possession of a considera
ble sum of monev. On the morning
after the murder a colored b<*y in the
employ of the couple found the body
Mr. Fra flkiin lying on the flu.r of his
house, with the arm thrown up to the
lie id, as if to defend himself. Two
blows upon the back and side of his
head had crushed his skull, and the
floor Was bespattered with blood. In
a bed room was found the body of
Miss Franklin with its skull also crush
ed in. She had evidently been attack
ed iu the sitting room and had fled in
to the bed-room, Iron) which she had
vainly attempted to escape by way of
the window. Her hands were p ace
lully folded across her chest, showing
that death did not immediately follow
the assault. The marks of bloody fin
gers upon the various articles of furni
ture showed that the house had been
searched, but how much booty the as
sassin secured has never been ascer
tained. Over SI,OOO were left in the
house, hidden in matchboxes and the
pockets of old ejafs, and sewed up in
the lining of the old lady's gowns.—
A roll of greenbacks amounting to
SSOO was found in a trunk, and nine
ty-three silver half dollars were found
quilted in an old skirt, each coin quilt
ed in by itself. The murder had been
committed with a persimmon club,
which had been cut in a thicket near
the house of Jeff Davids, who lived near
the murdered couple. Tracks which
correspond to his shoes led from his
house to this thicket, and also to the
house of the Franklins. Moreover his
knife bore on it stnii.s of the sap of the
persimmon tree. In court the experi
ment was m..do of cutting this pecul
iar wood with anew knife, and the
stain which resulted was similar to
that on Dav d‘s knife. The evidence
was purely circumstantial, but the
jury of nine whites and three blacks
found him guilty.
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MACON & BRUNSWICK R. R.
ACCIDENT.
We learn from a geutleman who was
ou the train at the time the following
particulars :
The accident occurred at the four
teen mde post at 8 o'clock at night.—
The train was running at the rate of
sYteen miles an hour, when the en
gineer discovered just ahead of him a
drove of cattle sleeping on the track.
The whistle was blo wn and brakes put
the distance was so short
discovering them that the train co„| ( |
not be stopped Eight head of cattl e
were killed outright.
The engine was not thrown from the
track, but passed over the bodies of
the dead cattle. Four boxes and one
stock car were thrown from the
however, some of the wheels retin
outside and half way between the
rails.
Not a coupling was broken or loos,
ened and the cars were uninjnred.
All hands were set to work imniedi.
at<dy and by 8 o’clock the next morns
ing the whole damage was lepaired.
After the accident the engine was
run to Jessup, and telegrams sent to
Macon. At Jessup the road had a
large force of hands, supplied with
tools, who were immediately sent to
the scene of action.
The passengers bore the inconveiis
•once and delay with great patienie.—
The train was brought to the city by
the same engine, at the rate of tweu
ty-five miles an hour.
On the train was the efficient Super
intendent of the road, Col. George W.
Adams, under whose experienced di
rection the damages were repaired
with great dispatch.
The Brunswick is most excellently
managed, and accidents are extremely
rare, and when they do occur they are
of a kind which no care or watchfnk
ness of the road officials could j>re >
Vent.
The cattle ran over were woikin" >
O
stock which had been turned out to
graze, and sought the railroad track as
a dry place to sleep.— Telegraph.
A m st horrible t.agedy was com*
milted in Sumter county on Monday
evening last, an account of which we
haqojust read in the Telegraph and
Messenger, and from which we glean
the following: A man named John W.
CaldweT brutally murder his wife,
three of his children, his sister-in law,
and then commits suicide. He killed
his wife with a smoothing-iron, by
beating out her b*ains, and then, with
the same weapon dashed out. the brains
of three of his children, lie thou rushed
into the garden where his sister-in
law, Miss Frances Mitch. 11, had fled
for safety when the bloody work first
commenced, seized a grubbing hoe
and with repeated stokes mutihted
her sku’l fearfully, killing her almost
instantly. He then climbed upon the
roof of his residencj and began to
scream for help, when some negroes
who were working near by saw him.
They hastened toward him, hut as
they approached they saw him leap
Irom the house top. lie full on his
breast and body, and was taken up
insensible and c trried into the house
where the ghastly sight of the mur
dered mother and children met their
gaze.
He recovered from this, however,
and then climbed to the top of the gin
house, and in view of his son, who had
just reached home, and others, he
plunged head foremost to the ground,
aud died in a few moments. Four of
his children*were absent in the field.—
One little daughter made good her es
etpe by running three-quaitera of a
mile and giving the alarm.
Two theories of the cause of the
murder and suicide have been formed
—one that he was insane at the time
of the tragedy. Our latest advices
however, assure us that it is clear that
he was not insane, but the cause of the
great crime was his improper rcl ttions
with bis sister-in-law, who was found
to be in a critical condition.
WANTED! WANTED!
15,000 lbs.
CLEAN HAGS.
WHITE OR COLORED.
& to 3 cents per Pound Paid.
A. RINALDI,
ROSiNDALE,
Three miles North of Eastman, on tbe Macon
20 and Brunswick Railroad. tf
G O A. T S !
WE have eight (8) thoroughbred BUCK
ANGORA. GOATS, from one to six
years old, and will sell at lrom $25 to 140, or
exchange for others of same quality to avoid
breeding in and in. We also have a fine 1°
of Buck Kids, from one-half to thoroughbred,
for sale at from $5 to $25, according to grade
aud quality. This is a rare opportunity lor
those wish to purchase. Addrtss,
JOHN W. URIFFIN,
May30.78-tf Eastman, Dodge co., Ga-
WOOL AND HIDES.
THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID
for W 7 ool and Hides iu any quantities.—
Address, before selling elsewhere,
M. Y. HENDEttSON,
ap!2s lrn 180 Bay St., Savannah, Ga.