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VOLUME XX.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30,1885.
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Wfthfc<wxi or ill, with false- or true.
FORTUNE HUNTING.
“So you have really engaged your
self to he married, my love?”
“Yes, Mrs. Townsend.”
Francesca Vere looked up a little
defiantly into the(juiet, elderly face
of the lad.' who sat opposite to her.
Just nineteen, with soft hair, touch
ed with sunny (fold; eyes of th
feepest blue, and a fair, oval face,
pight with the velvety bloom of
'«trly youth, she was the very incar-
"irfSflon and embodiment of happy
maidenhood, as she stood leaning
agaiast the window, her dress of
blue cashmere sweeping the velvet
carpet, and a mist-like shawl of
white Shetland wool drooping from
her shoulders. An orphan and an
heiress, endowed, moreover, with
the rare gift of beauty, it is not
strange if Francesca was a little
spoiled, yet. there was something
very sweet and winning in her very
"willfulness.
“And to Fiske Kgerton?” went on
Mrs. Townsend, gravely.
“Yes, to Fiske Egerton,” Frances
ca answered, playing a little ner
vously with the fringe of her shawl,
while a deeper color crept into her
cheek.
“My dear, you are doing a very
serious thing!”
“Yes, ma’am, I know it; out it’s a
u ay girts have o( getting engngi d
and married!” Francesca said
with an arch glance at her mentor.
“Francesca, you mustn’t jest about
this matter,” said Mrs. Townsend,
earnestly. “1, am your mother’s
earliest friend, and, as such, I feel
it at once a duty and a privilege to
counsel you at this most important
stage of your life. Tell me about
this fin nee of yours.”
“lie is very handsome, very styl
ish, very agreeable,” said Frances
ca,"eagerly.
“Is he rich?”
“No; h-it,pardon me, 1 know what
you would say. lie is no fortune
hunter; he loves me for myself
a’one!”
She had Hushed crimson as she
spoke.
“I hope you are right, my love,”
said Mrs. Townsend; “hut, to tell
you the truth, I have heard less
favorable accounts of this young
man.”
“Then you have listened to the
false charges of some envious ene
my,” interrupted Francesca, with
sparkling eyes; “please do not re
peat them to me. I could not bear
them calmly, even from you, dear
Mrs. Townsend, knowing, as Ido,
their utter untruth!”
And good Mrs. Townsend took
her leave, pondering rather sadly to
herself upon the impossibility of
putting old heads upon young
shoulders, while Francesca sat
down in the shadows of the satin
window curtains to dream of the
bright future before her, and assure
herself, over and over again, of her
blessedness in being the recipient of
Fiske Egerton’s love.
Meanwhile the last engagement
upon the tapis of fashionable life
was being discussed in the reading-
room of a popular Fifth avenue
club.
“Egerton engaged to marry Miss
Vere! Nonsense—there’s not a word
of truth in it!” exclaimed Harry
Morton, indignantly, as the floating
on dit reached his ears.
‘But I teli you it is true, for I my
self saw the engagement diamond
on her Anger, and Fiske told me
so!”
“Then all I have to say is that he
; a great scamp!”
“I don’t doubt that fact at all,”
laughed the companion; “but, nev
ertheless, he has made a good thing
of it tiiis season. Francesca is the
richest girl out, and a very pretty
•one, into the bargain!”
As Harry Morton stood gazing
out of the club window at the gavly
dressed throng of pedestrians that
flowed to and fro., like contending
currents on the pavement below, his
thoughts were far away, beneath
the rose garland eaves of an old
farm house, in the golden glow of
the summer that was gone, where a
dark-eyed girl was watching the
wiudings of the road with feverish
impatience for Fiske Egerton’s
coming piesenee, while he, the true
lover of years, the earnest, deep-
hearted suitor, was utterly slighted
and forgotten.
“Can he have broken with my
cousin Elfrida?” he thought; “and
so soon ? I will go down to Wil
low Hill and discover for myself!”
The western windows of the old
fariv/house ait Willow Hill were all
ablaze with the dying glow of the
chill winter sunset when Harry
Morton arrived at his uncle’s honse.
Elfrida was si ting at the fireside,
her face paler than of old, and an
expression almost akiu to despair
in the melting black eyes, whose
beauty gave a dark Spanish type to
her whole face.
“JElfrida,” he said, embracing the
first opportunity of being alone with
her, “when have you heard from
Egerton V
“Not in some time. I sup|>ose he
is very busy!”
“Very, indeed, I have no doubt.”
Morton’s lips curled ironically. “So
your engagement is broken off?”
“Broken off! Never!”
Flfrida’s flushed cheek grew pale
as ashes.
“You don’t mean to say that he is
still your plighted lover?”
“Certainly he is!”
“My poor Klfrida, do you not
know that he is engaged to marry
the richest heiress of the season in
New York?”
“I do not believe it! Oh, Harry,
Harry, t>eware how you deceive
me!” wailed Elfrida; “it is not true
—it never can he true!”
“His engagement ring sparkles
upon her finger; he is her constant
cavalier; it is the talk of the whole
city! Oh, Elfrida, do not look so
white and agonized—he was never
worthy of your love.”
“Stop a minute, Harry, said the
girl passing her hand, in a bewilder
ed sort of way, across her forehead.
“Let me realize wh.it yon are telling
me. Fiske Egerton is a vidian. I
am deserted for one who hears
the magic wand of wealth. And
she ?”
“She is one of the sweetest girls I
ever knew—worthy to be a mon
arch’s bride.”
“Then she cannot know—”
■ “Of this previous love-making of
tier precious swain. Of coarse she
does not know it. Francesca Veie
is too noble and true-hearted a girl
to accept her happiness at the cost
of another’s blighted life.”
“She must he undeceived, Harry.
When do you return to the city?”
“To-morrow.”
“I will go with you. My friend
Vlrs. Clare will gladly receive me
for a day or two.”
“I shall be as you wish, Elfrida.’’
And Harry Morton asked no
further questions on the subject, al
though he could readily conjecture
what was in her mind.
Miss Vere was surprised, a day or
two afterward, to receive a visit
from her friend. Mrs. Clare, accom
panied by a tall, slender young la
dy, whose dark eyes seemed to
glow beneath her veil like two coals
of fire.
“Miss Dale was very anxious to
make your acquaintance, Frances
ca,” said Mrs. Clare, after she had
introduced the stranger; so I ven
tured to bring her with me.”
Francesca held out her soft little
hand with a smi e of welcome and
>ne or two gracious words, but FI-
frida merely inclined her head.
“Miss Vere,” she said abruptly, “is
the rumor true that you are engag
ed to he married to Mr. Fiske Eger
ton ?’"
Miss Vere looked astonished, hut
she answered in the affirmative.
“Excuse me,” said Elfrida, with a
hard, bitter laugh, “but- I an un
sophisticated little country girl.
How many ladies is it allowable for
New York gentlemen to be engag
ed to at the same time?”
“I do not understand you,” Fran
cesca said, growing scarlet and then
pale.
“Because,” added Miss Dale, “Mr.
Egerton has been my affi meed hus
band for the last six months!”
Francesca glanced involuntarily
down at the diamond glittering on
her forefinger. Miss Dale saw the
movement of her eye, and drawing
>ff her own glove held up a slender
finger circled by a plain band ot
gold, where a ruby glowed like a
crystalized drop of blood.
“I too, have an engagement ring,”
she said, bitterly’. “Look!”
She drew it off, and on the under
side Miss-Vere could read in tiny
engraven characters:
“Fiske Egerton to Elfrida Dale,
July 4, IS—.”
“I can show you his letters, too,”
added Elfrida; “I brought them to
the city with me lest this ring and
my unaided word should scarcely
prove strong enough testimony."
“It is enough!” Francesca’s voice
sounded strangely hard and metal
lic. “You need say no more.”
“Nay,” interrupted Elfrida Dale,
more softly, “it was not to break
your heart that I unveiled the char
acter of the man we have both been
rash enough to love, hut rather to
save you from a fate too terrible to
contemplate—marriage to a false
hearted villian! We are sufferers
together, Miss Vere; let me take
your hand in mine!”
Francesca clasped the proffered
palm in her own, and drawing El
frida Dale close to her kissed her
lips. Sorrow-had indeed made
them sisters.
“Do not go,” she said. “Stay here
yet a little while.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I have sent for Mr. Egerton to
come here at once. Do yon dread
meeting him?”
“Only as I would dread contact
with a loathsome reptile or a deadly
viper. Love in my heart has died
out, utterly and entirely.”
Francesca’s lip quivered slightly.
“ Vou are brave. -Perhaps I, too,
shall learn the lesson in time.”
Mrs. Clare looked on at the strange JONE PEEP WAS ENOTJGE
scene being enacted before her,
scarcely able to believe that it was
not a dream.
Presently the servant advanced
noiselessly into the room, and an
nounced in a voice hardly above his
breath:
“Mr. Egerton!”
And Fiske Egerton folio .red him
a tall, handsome young man, with a
conceited way of carrying his head
and a confident air, as if quite cer
tain of the irresistibility of his own
charms.
“Francesca, my darling, you sent
for me,” he said, bending over her
hand.
“Yes, I sent for you!”
Mr. Egerton looked expectant.
“An old friend of yours is visiting
us. I wished you to meet her face
to face.”
She motioned to Elfrida to ad
vance, and the next moment Mr.
Fiske Egerton stood confronted
with the girl whom he hail so heart-
essly jilted for a more advan-
ageous match.
“Elfrida Dale!” He grew pale as
t sheet of paper. “What on earth
brings you here?”
“The determination to expose
.■ou!” Elfrida answered, calm as a
statue, while a slight scornful curve
rested momentarily upon her upper
lip. “You are unmasked, Fiske
Egerton! Hereafter, have the good
ness to remember that it is not al
ways safe to play a double game!”
“Francesca!” exclaimed Egerton,
turning to the heiress, as if deter
mined to cling to the last straw of
hope. But she drew haughtily
hack.
“No longer Francesca to you, if
you please, Mr. Egerton. Leave
my presence, and never let me look
upon your face again.”
And that was the end of Mr. Fiske
Egerton’s finely-woven web of
falsehood and duplicity. The heir
ess was lost, irretrievably and for
ever.
Elfrida Dale became happy once
tgain as the beloved and cherished
wife of Harry Morton, and in the
course of time Francesca Vere wed-
led a suitor far worthier of her
love than the handsome, heartless
fortune-hunter; bus Mr. Fiske Eger-
:on is still a seedy, shabby gentle
man about town, hoping against
hope that, some day he may marry
rich.
“I dare say,” returned the post-
mistress, ‘^Uilliomo «a nnt hie 1*001
It Broke Her Down.
In one of the justice courts the
itherdaya farmer was defendant
in a case of assault and battery;
the plaintiff had no witnesses,
while the defendant had his wife
and the plaintiff’s lawyer made up
his mind that it was a gone ease.
He was bracing up, however, to do
his best when the charge was read
to the defendent. The wife was
Iceply interested in every phrase,
ind her face changed from sober
to serious, and from serious to hor-
•or as the reading went on.
“Did then and there and with
nalice aforethought beat, wound,
irui.se, assault and greatly damage
“Hold on!” she cried at this
mint—“my husband never did that
n his life! I was right there and
iawitall. All he diil was to jump
rat of the wagon and hit him a clip
m the left eye and knock him into
;he ditch!”
“That’ll do—there! there!” put in
ler husband’s lawyer, hut she went
;li:
“ He just hit him once and only
once and I will swear to it!”
Half an hour later, alter her hus
band had paid $12 fine and costs
the woman was heard to sigh:
“I’in sorry, John, but when they
went on with that beating and
pounding and malice and afore
thought I was sure you’d be sent
to prison and it broke me down.
You can sell my cow this fall to
make up for this.”
She was decorating the room
with pictures and she perched his
photo up on the topmost nail. Then
she sat down to admire her work
and remarked quietly: “Every
thing is lovely and the goose hangs
high!”
An English lady who had been In
the far East was told that Hindoo
girls are taught to think of mar
riage as soon as they
can talk. She replied, “French
girls are not. They do not require
teaching.”
u A\ e FinD,” tellingly remarks, an
editor whose compositors have
struck, “tyA$ jae caN Get oxt owr
peyor withant thn aid of af ony of
these bes^y onion combosntois.”
There is nothing in the world like
self-reliance.
A lady teacher in & public school
was amazed, the other day, by
seeing a forest of juvenile Hands
fly up in the air and shake and ges
ticulate wildly. “What do you
want?” inquired the puzzled in
structor. Chorus-. “Yer hairs is fal
ling off.”
Always speak the truth. Make
few promises. Live up to your en
gagements.
All places have their peculiarities;
now that of Dalton was discourse—
that species of discourse, which
Johnson’s Dictionary entitles “con
versation on whatever does not con
cern ourselve .” Everybody knew
what everyone did, and a little
more. Eatings, drinkings, wakings,
sleepihgs, walkings talkings, say
ings, doings—all were for the good
of the public; there was not such a
thing as a secret in the town.
There was a story of Mrs. Mary
Smith, an ancient dame who lived
on an annuity, and boasted the gen
tility of a back and front parlor,
that she once asked a few friends
to dinner. The usual heavy antece
dent half-hour passed quite pleas
antly; for Mrs. Mary’s widows over
looked the market place, and not
scrag of mutton could leave it unob
served; so that the extravagance or
the meanness of the. various buyer s
furnished a copious theme for dia
logue. Still, in spite of Mr. A.’s pair
of fowls, and Mrs B.’s round of beef,
the time seemed long, and the
guest found hunger growing more
potent than curiosity. They waited
and waited; at length the fatal dis
covery took place—that in the hur
ry of observing her neighbor’s din
ners, Mrs. Smith hail lorgetten to
order her own.
It was in the month of March
that an event happened which put
the whole town in commotion—the
arrival of a stranger, who took up
his abode at the White Hart: not
that there was anything remarkable
about the stranger; he was a plain
middle aged, respectable looking
man, and the nicest scrutiny (and
heaven knows how narrowly he
was watched) failed to discover
anything odd about him. It was
ascertained that he rose at 8, break
fasted at 9, ate two eggs and a piece
of broiled bacon, 3at in his room at
the window, read a little, wrote a
little, and looked out upon the road
a good deal; and then he strolled
out, returning home, dined at
smoked two cigars, read the morn
ing paper (for the post came in of
an evening), and went to bed at 10.
Nothing coulilhe more regular oi
unexcetionable than his habits; still
it was most extraordinary what
could have brought him to Dalton.
There were no chalybeate springs,
warranted to cure every disease
under the sun; no ruins in the
neighborhood, left expressly for an
tiquarians and picnic parties; no
fine prospects, which, like music,
people make it matter of conscience
to admire; no celebrated person
had ever been born or buried in its
environs; there were no races, no
assizes—in short, there was “no
nothing.” It was not even summer;
so country air and fine weather
were not the inducements. The
stranger’s name was Mr. Williams,
but that was the extent of their
knowledge; and, shy and silenti
there seemed no probability of learn
ing anything more from himself.
Conjecture, like Shakespeare, “ex
hausted worlds, and then imagined
new.” Some supposed he was hid
ing from his creditors, others that
he had committed forgery, one sug
gested that he had escaped from a
madhouse, a second that he had
killed some one in a duel, hut all
agreed that he came there for no
good.
It was the twenty-third of March
when a triad of gossips were assem
bled at'their temple, the post office.
The affairs oi Dalton and the Na
tion were settled together; news
papers were slipped from their cov
ers, and not an epistle but yielded
a portion of its contents. But on
this night all attention was concen
trated upon one directed to John
Williams. Esq., at the White Hart,
Dalton.” Eagerly was It compress
ed in the long fingers of Mrs. Mary
Smith, of dinnerless memory; the
fat landlady of White Hart was on
tiptoe to peep, while the postmis
tress, whose curiosity took a sem
blance of official dignity, raised a
warning hand against any other
overtact- of violence. The paper
was closely folded, and closely writ
ten in a cramped and illegible
hand; suddenly Mrs. Mary Smith’s
look grew more intent--she had
succeeded in deciphering a sen
tence. the letter dropped from her
hand “Oh, the monster !” shrieked
the horrified peeper. Landlady
and postmistress both snatched at
the terrible scroll, and they suc
ceeded in reading the following
words: “We will settle the matter
to-morrow at dinner, but I am sor
ry you persist in poi-oning your
wife, the Horror is too great.” Not
a syllable more could they make
oat, but what they had was enough,
“He told me,” gasped the landlady,
“that he expected a lady and gentle
man to dinner—oh the villain! to
think of poisoning any lady at the
White Hart; and his wife, too—I
should like to see my husband pois
oning me!” Our hostess became
quite personal in her indignation.
I always thought there was some
thing suspicious about him: people
don’t come and live where nobody
knows them tor nothing,” observed
Mrs. Mary Smith.
Williams is not his real
name.”
“I don’t know that,” interrupted
the landlady;“Williams is a good
hanging name; there was Williams
who murdered the Marr family,
and Williams who burked all those
poor dear children; I dare say he is
some relation of theirs; but to thins
of his coming to the White Hart—
it’s no place for his doings, I can
tell him ; he shan’t poison his wife
in my house; out he goes this night
—I’ll take the letter to him my
self.”
“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ru
ined, if it hecomes known that we
took a look into his letters:” and
the postmistress thought in her
heart that she had hotter let Mr.
Williams poison his wife at his
leisure. Mrs. Mary Smith, too, rep
robated any violent measures; the
truth is, she did not wish to be mix
ed up in the matter; a gentlewoman
with an annuity and a front and
back parlor was rather ashamed of
being detected in such close inti
macy with the postmistress and the
landlady. It seemed likely that
poor Mrs. Williams would be left to
her miserable fate.
“Murder will out,” said the land
lord, the following morning, as he
mounted the piebald pony, which,
like Tom Tough, had seen a deal of
service, and hurried off in search of
Mr. Crampton, the nearest magis
trate.
Their perceptions were assisted by
brandy and water, he and his wife
had sat up long pAst “the witching
hour of night,” deliberating on what
line of conduct would be most effi
cacious in preserving the life of the
unfortunate Mrs Williams; and the
deliberation was to fetch the justice
and have the delinquent taken into
custody at the very dinner table
which was intended to be the scene
of his crime. “He has ordered soup
to-day for the first time; he thinks
he could slip poison into the liquid.
There he goes; he Iqoks like a man
that. hAs something on his con
science,” pointing to Mr. Williams,
who was walking up anil down at
his usual slow pace. Two o’clock
arrived, and with a black chaise;
out of it stepped, sure enough, a la
dy and gentleman. The landlady’s
pity redoubled—such a pretty
j young ri-;if.u.-e, not above nineteen.
“I see how it is,” thought she, “the
old wretch is jealous.”
All efforts to catch her eye were
in vain, the dinner was ready and
down they sat. The hostess of the
White Hart looked alternately out
of the window, like sister Ann, to
see if any one was coming, and to
the table to see what was doing. To
her dismay she observed the young
lady lifting a spoonful of broth to
her mouth! She could restrain
herself no longer; but catching her'
hand exclaimed:
“Poor, dear innocent, the soup is
poisoned!”
All started from the table in con
fusion, which was yet to be increas
ed. A bustle was heard in the pas
sage; in rushed a whole party, two
of whom, each catching an arm,
of Mr. Williams, pinioned them to
his seat
“I am happy, madam,” said the
little, bustling magistrate, “to have
been under heaven the instrument
of preserving your life from the ne
farious designs of that disgrace to
humanity.”
Mr. Crampton paused in conse
quence of three wants—want of
words, breath, and ideas.
“My life!” ejacuated the astonish
ed lady.
“Yes. madam, the ways of Provi
dence are inscrutable—the vain cu
riosity of three idle women has
been turned to good account.” And
the eloquent- magistrate proceeded
to detail the process of inspection
to which the fatal letter had been
subjected; but when he came to the
terrible words, “We will settle the
matter to-morrow at dinner; but I
am sorry you persist in poisoning
your wife,” he was interrupted by
bursts of laughter from the gentle
man, from the injured wife and
even from the prisoner himself.
One fit of merriment was followed
by another, till it became contagi
ous, and the very constables began
to laugh too.
“I can explan all,” at last spoke
the visitor. “Mr. Williams came
here for that quiet so necessary for
GENERAL NEWS.
the laborers of genius: he is writing
a melodrama called ‘My Wife’—he
submitted the la3t act to me, and I
rather objected to the poisoning of
the heroine. This young lady is my
daughter, and we are on our way
to the seacoAst Mr. Williams is
only wedded to the Muses.
The disconcerted magistrate
shook his head, and mattered some
thing about theaters being very
immoral.
‘Quite a mistake, sir,” said Mr. Wil
liams. “Our soup is cold; hut our.
worthy landlady roasts fowls to a
turn—we will have them and the
veal cutlets up, you will stay and
dine with us—and, afterward, I
shall be proud to read ‘My Wife
aloud, in the hope of your approval
atleast,of your indulgence”—and
with the same hope, I bid farewell
to my readers.
W. P. Hill of Troup county,
nephew ..f Hon B. II. ID!!, afti
examination has been admitti d
c ■ the | r ictice of law in the Fuli<
•Superior Cou’t. The coniniittei
■peak in the highest terms of him
The reports of suffering in Vir
ginia appear to lie exaggerated. A
special from Richmond stys that
in response to enquiries made by
telegraph at all i mportant points
in southwest Virginia, the reports
are that while the grain crops are
very close no suffering preyails.
The Atlanta Journal is right
the following: Count Taafe, the
Aim r can minister for foreign af
fairs, objects to the a •pooiutinent
of Charles Jon as, of Racine, Wis.,
as consul to Prague. He says that
while editing a paper in Ricine,
Mr. JonAs gave expressions to sen
timent hostile to Austria.
Well, let Austria understand at
once that we want none of her taf
fy. We hope that our government
will promptly teach this arrogant,
hidebound Austrian aristocrat that
a free born American citizen has
a right to express whatever opinion
he pleases about Austria or Tiin-
buctoo, or anything or anybody,
without asking anybody’s permis
sion, or running the risk of being
deprived of the privilege of hold
ing an office under our govern
ment.
Bedioe’s or Bedlow’s Islan 1, New
York, where the Liberty
stature is to be erected, has a cu
rious history, which makes it an
appropriate place for u memorial
to liberty. Its own -r was Mr Isaac
iedlow, an I in Ii>70 the governor
if the state issued an instrument,
declaring that for and in consider
ation of valuable improvements
made by Mr. Bedlow on his island
it should in the future be known
ms Love Island, anil should be
a privileged place, where no ar
rest could be made or warrant serv
ed, except by special consent of the
Governor. The people did not take
to the change of n line; the island
continued to he known as Bedlow’s
and this has been in recent time
misspelled Bedloe. In looking up
the history of the island, deeds
were found to the most valuable
part of New Yor-k, on both sides of
Broadway, which was sold to Isaac
Bedlow about two hundred years
ago for one dollar an dere.
There is a growing fear in well
informed circles tnat trouble is
looming up in Afghanistan. Russia
is continually picking up little oc-
curances here anil there on the bor
der of the disputed territory, and
making them matters of complaint,
seemingly for no other purpose
than to enlarge her grievances and
keep them before the eyes of
Europe. The Russian officials
now protest against the fortifying
of Herat, and the massing of troops
by the ameer on the frontier of
Turkestan, asserting that this dis
play of military vigor by Afghan
istan at the present moment is un
called for and ha3 the appearance
of direct menace toward Russia.
A mild warning is also conveyed
to the ameer that he and his offi
cers should exercise a little judg
ment in regard to their military
maneuvers, and should not try the
temper of the Russian troops in the
disputed territory too severely, as
did the Afghan commander at Pen-
jdeh recently.
This series of bickerings on the
part of Russia has created a feel
ing that she is endeavoring to ob
tain a plausible excuse for a quar
rel with the Afghans, and very few
persons in London would he sur
prised if Russia took advantage of
the present political deadioek in
England to make another move
forward, at least as far as Herat.
Judge Twiggs, counsel for Wil
liam S. Roberts, ex-Presidenl of
the Bank of Augusta, says the
Savannah News, was at the Scriv-
en House yesterday. He says
that Roberts is still confined to his
bed and very weak. The gash in
his throat heals so slowly that
scarcely any improvement is per
ceptible.
Judge Twiggs was called a very
few moments after Roberts cut his
throat. He describes the gash as a
frightful one,extending from ear to
ear. The blade struck the bone
and turned aside from the jugular
vain. Had it not been for this the
wound would have been fatal. The
Judge fears a more successful
attempt rather than be taken to
New York. The decision of the
court in remanding him to the New
York court worries him a great
deal, and retards his recovery.
As soon as Judge Speer granted
the order directing Marshal Wade
to take charge of Mr. Roberts and
report his physical condition from
time to time, Judge Montgomery,
his counsel, with the energy and
dispatch which hAs characterized
the defence in this remarkable case
left for Alabama where Jndge
Woods was ana presentented to
him papers already prepared, ask
ing an appeal of the CAse to the Su
preme Court of the United State-
Judge Woods promptly allowed the
appeal
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