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THE CXJHFEW HEROINE. “tTCBSTSW SHALL MOT BINCJ TO NIOHY-’ TOLD IK PROSE. The story tMt-is the basis of (he wcll-kuovrit poem, “Curfew Shall It lackey quite half an hour twenr fewtotfA Thkold bell jiwger earn* in irottt under the prattled roof of his , cot (age stMand stoe with *&■ ered hcfiiFmHie clear sweet scented air. Heed,gwwi Wind and deaf In the service, brit lis afm Was to till heavy metallic throbs of the*ca thedral bell. Old Jasper had lived through many changes. He had •srsrtrjns'js scarcely dry he had rang th* tiding* ’of th? ooronatkm of James. Charles I. had Been ciewsted, reigned, and expiated hia weakness England in Jasper’s time, and note he who under army held all the commonweaUblu thc hOttow of his ffa raagAl* mat § .faster Xril'll alone itow. ttWrry to **- $ Thmrnnatp^k;ymiw Srwomed so rs#Sßfttsrffjru that gene haters, that there teemed nt. Lima reckoned he that. Cronr ueor beyond the village—that Cbm* well himself rode with hi* guards men a league away ;he only knew that tee bell in th| teafer had #e£ tng when William the Conqnsrer made Curfew * law, had been spared by Puritan and Soundhead, and that his MeMr***-* - He was movte* with#* Mow step toward the gate, when ja woman came hurriedly iu the street and rtiaibeskle him; a lovely wOmau, but a ilk a Jaei m bla.hd that if seemed carved In the whitest of mar ble, Wfcb ait to roundness ami <Bu~ plea Her great, solemn eyes were raised to th# aged face in pitiful ap peal, and the lips were terming words thht lie could net under stand. - m„jjjg • s#§ fil'w hast “Speak op, lass, I am deaf and can not hear your chatter.” “Per heaven’s sake, Jasper, do not ring tins Curfew bells 10-nigld.” “What! na ring curfew? You must be daf?, las* “Jasper, for sweet heaven's sake form y saW—for one night in all. vour,lopg lift forget to ring the belt! Pait this once and my lover shall TTve, whom Cromwell sags shaft <£ ;d Curfew toll. Do you hear? My lov er, Richard Temple. Jasper,' shaft be yeufs fori) fie Surfew.” ' aM ‘ .“Would yon-bribe me, Lily De Vere? Ye're a changeling. Ye’re til the bipod of the ITantagenets ip Ye’re veins as your mother had. What, corrupt the bellringer under her majesty, good <peenJse*o? Isol for all the gold that Lady Maud ronld bring me! Babes hare been born and stiong men hare died before now at the ringing of my bell. Awa 1 Awar And out on the village green tfilb solemn shadows of the lengthening evening, over it a strong man await ed the curfew toll for UU death. He stood, handsome, and brave, and tall— tallar by an inch than the tallest pike man who guarded him. What had he done that be ahonld die? Little it mattered in these days, when the sword that the great Crom well wielded was so prone to fall, wliat he or others had done, lie had beau scribe to the late lord up at ttie castle, aud Lady Maud, fsrgettine that man must woo and woman must Whit, had giveu lier heart to him without the asking, while the gentle LtlyDe Vere, distant kinswoman and poor companion of her, had, without seokinf, found the treasures of his true love and hold them fast. Then he had joined the army and made one of the pious soldiers whose evil pass ions were never stirred but by sigh or symbol of poetry. But * Scorned woman’s hatred had reached him even there. Enemies and deep plots had compassed him about and con quered him. Te-uight he wan to die. The boautifhl world lay aa a vivid picture before him. The dark gfeeil wood above the rocky hijtl where Robin IlOod and ids merry men had d#eP; the rocky castle with Its drawbridge and square towers, the long stretch of moor with the purple shadows upon it, the g.-een, straight walks af the village, the birds over hsad, and even the daisies at hia fee: he taw. But ah 1 more vividly than all, he saw the great red tun with its liazy veil lingering above the trees.; at tbough H pitied him with more than human pity. , „ , fle was a God fearing and a God serving man. He had long made bis peace with heaven. Nothing stood between him and death—noth ing rose pleadingly between him and those who were to destroy him but the sweet face of Lily De Vcre, whom lie loved. She had knelt at Cromwell*! feet arid pleaded for hia life. She wearied heaven with her prayers, but all without W& US WWW ® " w 'f' es-r avail. Slowly now the grtat sun went down. Slowly the last rim was hid beneath the greenwood. Thirty sec onds more and his soul win be with God. The celer did not forsake hit cheeks. The dark rings of hair lay upon a warm brow. It was hia pur pose to die ais martyrs and bravt men die. What was life that be sheuld THE WASMIGTON GAZETTE. VOL. XIX. fwtre r rs 'Vrs ? T —* —i cling to U? He almost fait the air pulsate with the first heavy rail of Uie death knoll. But no sound came. Still facing the soldiers.jvith his clear grey eyesa poa them he wafted. 'Tfie criihson bannert" in the west were paliug to pink. The kine had ceased their lowing, and had been tethered into the rick yards. AU nature bed sounded her c*r yet bared, htd traversed'half the dis tance between bit cottage and the ivy-coveped tower when a form went snsttsd&ss&'s Urn lew western HgUU teuched and tinted as with a halo. “Ah, Huldah, -IWdrHM 9# man mtutered ;“hew swiftly she flies ? almost done." j, _ , sutßar* >, Huldah vh the good wv whe had gene teem him In her early womaghuod and for whom he had mourned all his long life. Bui the fleeting term was not Uuldeh’a. It was Lily I>e Yere, hurried by a sd deu and desperate purpose toward .the mSfuteri'ai^hls ‘feet aud plead.” • •9G-" She entered the ehureh yard. She wrenched from.,its, fastening the carved add werm Oaten door that to lho tower. She rifeended With' flying and frenzied tertthwetepej lifted up to Cod for Richard's deliverance from peril.. *Tfi*beuOiw. out aud shook the dust of ceuUtrlel from the black oarvipg. As she went up she caught glimpses f the interior of tlie great building, with Us grained roof, its chevroni and chutered 'columns; its pictured saint and cfcrved image of the virgin,which In the pillage# of ages had been spared to be dealt with bv time, the most relentless vandal olteil. ; gg Up—still—up—beyond the rfitti bow tints thrown by lha staiuodgjeaa across her death-w bite brow ;up—“till —up—past open arch, with griffin and gargoyles taring at her from un der bracket and cornice with aft the hideousness of mcdiwval earring 1 tkwsUtte, fight frailer beneath her young feet; now but a slender net, work between her and the outer world; but still up. tier breath was oomfttf shark' and grasping. She sew through aa optm B * B . 7 ‘%afS t, seconds ware treaaures which Crom well, with all Ills Mood bought com monwealth, could not purchase from hdff Up—*h—there, just above her with its great brazen mouth ami yyiekod tongue, the bell hung. A swMMatM block for a step, end one • mail white hand clasped Itself above the clapper—the other prepared, at the tremble, to rise and clasp its mate and the feet to swing off—and thus she waited. Jasper wasold and slow, but be was sure and itjesme at last. A fainfcquivcr ami Ibe young 'teet swung from their rest, and the tender hands clasped (or more than iho precious lifo tbe writhing thing. There was groaning aud creaking of the rude pulleys above, and then tbe strokes came heavy and streitg. Jas per’s hand had not forget its cun uing, nor kis arm its strength. The lender, soft form was swung aud dashed to and fro. But she clung to tud caressed the cold, cruel thing. Let one stroke come aud a thousand might follow—for it’a fatal work would be done. Siio wreathed her white arms about it, so that with ev ery pull of tbs great rope it crashed into the flesh. It lore wounded and bruised her, bnt there In the solemn twilight the brave woman swung and fought with the curlew, and God gave her victory. The old bell-ringer said to himself: “Aye, lluldab, my work p done. The pulleys are getting toe heavy for my old arms, my ears too hike failed me. t dinna hear one stroke of the cur few. Dear old bell! if Umy ears that have gone false, awl not thou. Farewell old friend.” And just beyond the worn pave ment a shadowy form again went flit ting past him- There were drops of blood upon the white garments, and the face Was like the face of one who walked bt tef sleep, aad her hands bung powerless at ter side. Crom well paused With Me horsemen andet the dismantled Maypole before the village green. He saw the maa who waa to dia at sunset standing up iu the dasky air, tall aa a king and beau tiful aa Absalom. He gazed with knitted brow *ii3 angry eye, bat bis lips did net gift utteranee to the quick commend that trembled on them, fer a firl came flying toward him. Pikemam and archer stepped aside te let her pass, bhe threw her self upon the turf at the horse’s feet; ■be lifted her Weeding aad tortured hands to hi# goze, and once more ponred out her praydr for the life of her lover; with trembling lips she told him why Bichard still lived — why the curfew had net sounded. Lady Maud, looked ent of her lat ticed window at the castle, saw the great protector dismount, lift the fainting form in his arms and bear her to her lover. She saw the guard release tbeir prisoner, and she heard the shouts of joy at his deliverance; then she welcomed the night thatsbwt li I v-n, ■ the scene out Irani her envious eye Mkd sculptured in its gloom. At the next matin bell -old Jasper died, and at curfew toll he was laid beside the Wire Who hd died in Us youth, but the niomorv of whom had been with him always. TP t m THX AUITATION IN CUBA# The St Louis Globe-Democrat Agm, reference to tbe Cuban question, and goes even further, predict teg, the suc cess of the present rebeftteu. If there] is any respectable number of men end giged in it, it aayS, and they are rea sonably well provided with arins.amlj ammunition, ilia conditions are ml in] MiSOUIMri M ISI-IMS boring,judged from, the standpoint of any American nation, are ftiHjr suf ficient to justify separation from tee mother country. The Cubans hive been unmercifully taxed, not only to sustain a local corrupt' government b> ignd revenue to Spain. M fairs have bsen mismanaged until general bankruptcy impends. Nor is tbe home government in a condition to cope with a rebellion, tbe Globe-Democrat thinks.... The Spanish Ministry it weak, wavering and repeatedly changing, and the general unsatisfactory condition of alfatrs in Spain prevents it from ta king strong and determined measure* against the insurgents. As for these insurgents, they are claimed te be more than a mere filibustering expe dition from the United States, and ap pear, instead, to be 4 wide-spread or ganization, existing in Sau Domingo and Various other quarters. “If tbe re is a general uprising,” say* tha Globe-Democrat, after re viewing the situation aud finding ev idence that the present uprising is, or soon will he, general, “the sympa thies hot only nf ike people of tlie UnitM) Slat#** but nnlmsu* af b*aHv —— aa* a man kj §n —o —— —— •wi , -iWw e* wvUs . 2?a *3 pnirt, Urnl oe Warntfij euliiiel m ae cause of the iiisuigehts. With the eyeeptien of British North America, Which i. virtually independent and dees not ask fop separation, .Cuba is the only \ thi aside ofthe Atlantic. baa several time* made vigorous efiwfs to free herself, and it isenly a questien Of time ae to when she will succeed. Possibly that time i* at- hand new. - “ WIU prooawy not require any thing more than the establishment of •ilair cltfitu ua tlte pain “of Ute HWtpi gents to bo acknowledged a* belliger ents te induce’ our govern men t te grant that reoegnilion.” ■ -Si* ■"■ TKIOHIHOT7B FOUL The appearance of several canes ef trichinosis In tlie Western States has called attention to the provalance of trichina; In hogs. The Amoricsn hog, it ia claimed, is freer from malady thau those of Getnuany or any other ceuntry. The swine in spection te (lie Castle District el Ger many feu ml last year sixty-eight *ca sespf trichiu* in domestic or Ger man hogs and only three in Ameri can hog products. r* Tbe reports on the snhject have show* that the trichina; arc less fre quent in the hogs of the South than those of any other portion' Of the Un ion, and most frequent in the Wes tern States. Indiana stands pre eminent in thierespect and seems to he the oeatne of infection, 16 per cent, of its bogs insiiecled being pro nounced trichinous, while only two fifths of one per coot, were found so infected at New Orleans, and one half per Cent, in Texas and Georgia. The latest medical reports Wear lei- tiiuony to the fact (bat there is no danger whatever from this disease unless Pork . i, s oalei. raw or cooked ; and even when eaten iu this* condition and affected by triebistv the danger is much less *han is usu ally imagined. Trichinosis in a mild form is a very common disease, es pecially among the Germans, but It is not in ihe least troublesome. It is enly when the system of a person is thoroughly infected by the trichina' that the disease becomes painful and fatal. From the Government reports, therefore, It io evident that no hog south of the pbtomac can cause this disease, even if it be eaten raw. Whatever danger there is, comes from Western bogs.—Now Orleans Times-Democrat. — ~nr~- - . reio. . A MOUNT issue of the Pall Mall Gazette contains tho following almost incredible record made by a school girl: “A girl fumed Alice Akermau, sged 14, daughter of a laborer, lias just completed tor education at Lang ley School, Bucko. She baa never utiased being present since tho school was opened on October AJ.B7S.Mid in completing her 3,451 attendance is said te have walked 6,000 mUes. She has passed every standard successfully and in tha three subjects in fli st grade drawing obtained “excellent,” prizes in free hand and medel, as also in the three stages of the specific subjects, literature, domestic economy and an imal physiology, and in ono stage in physical geography. She bas also ob tained- twenty-six other prizes, for good attendance, sculpture, sewing, knitting, e. n - ref# SMITH’S WORM OIL is the l%*r. mr Washington, ga.A Friday, may a, 1884. CONE’S LECTURE. The View* of fleUSSfon Entertained by and Kan of th* World—“lngersol- | I Th'sQo|owfug ds te synopsis oL m lecture o"n rf fngerson!ste” delivered! by Thuodssp at the Young Mori’s CTimtiirnAs#oeratloi\ building] in New Tforl^-ciftr, a “few evening* ago. Mr. Cqne is a Georgian, son of Hon. Prank,Cone, a lafityer pf .great ability, who prgoOced in Middle Ge<u gir a bout 90 wgo. An able wVite f aad"<:ritio W*ft> heard the 100-' tiire wrolo a criticism on it. He placed jtfr. Cone in the front rank of led n- I rera. The crjilclsru appeajvd ill tin; Nati naV Itepnl>lsoa£ Mr. Cone's cf- U*rt was a logical and effort# — —qp theut ln silpport of the established be-- ltefk of the Christian world, without I appealing to t'QTetatipn v The lecturer took on thttiharaoter of a man of ti,o world, ani mgjjqd fyom the stand point of a seareher after truth, who sought to satisff’hie luind with the deductions offeiuon, rather than by# the exercisfl Of jllf tecußy of faith. Mr. Cone begunMaiecturc with the remark thaLthe man vrho bespeaks tlie attention of the “public ought to make haato to-gHrefa rofsoti why lie has the aulllclfy th seJif a hearing. Tiris wpultflfc ten* efetrif flic sub ject were trifling, but it must gather weight with the importance of the matter disenssedrawd is overwhelm ing wli.n lie dares to Itako up tliat subject which is ever recurring, al ways enduring; that subject which has most profoundly engaged the world’s master minds—which ha‘ given birth to every theology; that subject of subjects—God, soul and, immortality. Everyone recognizes the ‘“ e l ,ast few years there has* peeii a agitation on spiritual subjects, a dis cussion which Isas heated the public until it boils and sputters. It is the privilege and daty of every well-wish er of humamff, the man of the world as well as the scientist aud the philoso pher, to do his best te discover the (rue form of belief for human happi ness. By a man ofthe world Is mean' I on# who has gone on his way wishtep Eel! to the world, an aar&st man depiendeut will and mid,"yho hn thought his own thoughts and live’ his lift in his own way, without at feelatieua, shams, or make-beiiev< one w*o 114s been an Uouest douhite; af revetetien and earnest searehc after th* truth for his own IHi H ft: iil .ht .-'J~ _■ Lj, f which heAsetfld aet uiwn th ffc most' solenanaffalfsoriife. Thole<*turer -wanted It understood at .be obt*et that lie did not intend to invade the pulpit. He had not the ability, the inclination nor the spirit to preach, nor was there any preten sion to piety in his discourse; it was not a sermon, but simply an argument addressed by a man ol the world to men of tlie world and to all doubters, to what*oover school they may belong. .The religious need no argument; -their safe assuruncc is from within and about. He proposed to deal with the facts of nature, without any aid ftom the faculty of faith. In dealing with the question of scleuce and the Bible the lecture gave some account of the five geological epochs into which scientists have divi ded the earth, and their several sub divisions, arriving finally at the period when, according to the ovolntions, a structureless speck of protoplasm lay in the misty seas. From this.gwrm, as they insiutaiii, the high cst form of organised life has eonie, a thinking ami. Prof. Haeckel ascribes (he origin of life ton chemical pro cOso, iu Which inorganic carbon com binations produce the material sub stance called primeval slime, ill which all vital aclivities are imbedded. 'Bach individual living particle of tbit structureless mass ho calls a inoiieron, the oldest inoueren origina ting iu the sea from ‘lapoiilaiieoas generation.” Here is a break ip ihu universally observed law of cassation. The appearance of life on earth is the Miracles. Hpontaneous generation is tile uncaused effect of all the woudbrs of creation. Wliat is this but a demand on the part of science that 'we~&3# believe 111 a miracle, which far snr-, passes all ihe recorded miracles. Ma terialism denouuceaall other miracles a* unworthy of belief, but when we come with tho ultimate inquiry and demand to know the orign of life we are told that a miracle has been per formed by matter. At this point scien tific materialism is obliged to give up her dictum of “I know,” and to rest hor whote fabric on tho shadowy foundation, “1 believe.” When we come to demand the exact knowledge which science ever claims to have in the presence ot the miracle of life, she raises her nerveless hands and cries, have ZoUb, not in God, not in omnip otence, not in a great first cause, but in a process purely chemical—in pri mary organic com bins lions.” “A destroyer of old systems and a brilliant pro pounder of new ones,” was the topic next treated. Me has solved all mysteries in the light of his great intellect. By the beacon of his wise declarations mankind is tobe gui ded ia- tiie one true way, 4’roni this diZcriptioiibut one form can emerge, the author of “liigersolMsßi.” Said the lecturer: ‘While I have not (he pleasure of a persona! acquaintance whh this gentleman, I folly accept, believe,and re-echo all that his dearest friends say for him personally, and this is to declare that he hits' hotftstv of purposc,a,great,good lueatt; a high ordlr of intelligence, and unequaled eloquence ; all that goes to make up jjh attractive, brilliant, aud loveable roan. But in regard to his theorios 1 cannot speak with the fame respeot. For, after a careful study of all that ho has enunciated, I must' say, vvfth all thoforce that languta&ca'h convey, that there Is neither reason nor learn ing, science nor philosophy,’ common f sense nor sound conclusion in a word ! that he utters.” The same Idea un | derlles all liis leotnres, as not only I the same idea, but the identical form, | figures of speech, aud c|en‘ words as ! peer in all alike. Th me pWllc6 ter of,lectures .by comtKteins that Li lift diaeussron of the press reports they have been maimed and mutilated by “orredox malice,”'and-W ftirUfer' sayg TftsS nothing can oxooed the mendacity of the religions press. Mr. Copo said that Mr. Ingereotl coiila havo no sucli causa ofcompteteft tec he wSnlftqnote cHfly fto|l and authorized eiul!ori”onrls lectures. Tt does no good to call hint “bab ] Wing Bob," as one groat clergyman j did in a public lecture; epithets ans wer nothing. His premises aud con utive, illogical, and teHH ho babbies beautitiiily, and tliis lias given him a large following and wide influence among cerluin classes of minds. It is cletir to any man that roads him that he has never pulled the Jahoi'lnfJ^pabfUariSitßdy aud honest investigation. Asa denouncer of everything he lpis real genimt, On religion lie charges tnoshof'Ute mise ries and many of the crimes of man kind. 1 Did lie ever hear of any crimes being commit ed in the name of liber ty ? Does that make liberty any less sweet and dear? Prayer he pronounces a species of flattery offered to God with a.view to wheedle a favor of ignorUnce and in sanity. “God,” he says, “man has always had, and he has made Ihgm put of everything, but all these havo dis* piie a red with the first daw* of science, except Hie big God, who. Is fast doming otif.” ! *‘Nq god,’’’Me fin-, liter fi ys, “was ever in advance ofthe Milieu that created hint.” In all this Hierc is not the least attempt at "are gumeut. It is simply bold, audaci ous assertion or flat denial. Ilis p<V iol ‘ '* unique, and apart from all m iheea noii;W%o WflcHftkimlftb a kirir#!- edge of all the mystcrios that surround u®. There havo been oilier men. who worshipped nature but there have been none who did not reeogatee a keglon of the unknowable. The Whole his tory of philosophy, from Aristotle to Kant and Spencer, has been to deter mine the limits of tbe fiilito human 111ilid. Slid to shoiy ila nlfer |n£npyj ty to.deal with the inliiiito a|d |ii tlnilted. He stand* aloni, the Incar nation of destruction, the genius of more assertion, and So in philosophy he postures as tho colossus of Die grotesque. Mr. ConeUifcn took up the Ingcrsell philosophy, amt showed its- alsmrdi tlcs. Garriud to its logical ctfliMMftdfe* it would destroy society, govern nrefri? law, science, justice, etestltv, uIL the hopes of mankind liiiA/cisfywa'tioo. Abolishing a hell heiWWiy fieWsifl(t give all these to tjps lurid hell right here aiul right now. C)ut of the meridian outajldoiwpf Iris, phi* losopHy threre'%taWl hg gaunt l*r;n •I this sickening conclnsfoif— a* sham and thought a tllpisy fraud., Mr. Cdnc suggested' a nc>v title for, tho In gersoit'philosophy,;.|| should bq called, “Man consider*! M) t ton* pin.” Nature sets tis up on the alley of life without auy purpose. Death bowls us down without regret, and* w* return tatorheeh-urrW o#tbo earth. The very worst that can hap-, pen to us—hell—is that we may come Up a bmipl'le InjsJvT the Tory jbest— heaven—is that we may bloom in the roses. ~ , , <mg*MW % “Give me the stakin' amf fempesf of thought, and action, rather thb the dead calm of ignoranco aud /ai-tb; Ttti, me from Kdeu whoa you wili bat first lot me oat of flic fruit of Hus tree of knowiedjfdr w rhfj‘ across die tide page of Mr. Ipgersoll’s book. It invites all to search tvlflitii,' if thoy would .fil'd that knowledge, which lias baeir gamed by one who lias prepared “lfie tempest pf thought to the dead eaim of ignonludr,” abd who was ever ready to stfffer banish- ment for the apple of knbwedgc. We who have looked within know what it nmoqnts 10. We know, to briefly sum it up, that it is no vast and gene ral dental of that which rife mass of ■nankins have alwaysiiSld'tbhe truth* while on the other hand it is the arro gant abortion of a khc knowl edge (ifValrUiaf is.” U 'ft The gifted founder/i>CJUo phy of Assertion lias don# and will continue to do great harm. By the vicious, who have been Mdo jn-oHH" restraint hr the whole,.,me dread of hell fire, lie is hailed as the apostle of liberty; the liberty to do as you-please, that liberty which follows Oic denial of God and immortality, ofhell and heaven, and whjdh ds a deflgncb of conscience; that liberty, which is nono other than a license to appelWe as an immunity froth the fearof punishment for wrongdoing; that liberty, v^fliicU Ben Franklin meant when no said, •‘Don’t umhahi the tigcii” PATRICIDE IN WALTON. A FATHER AND SON LOVE THE SAME WOMAN. The Son Marries Her arid the Father TriflS to Fill Him and Is Himself Killed. (Walton County Correspondence Macon Telegraph.) The details of tho homicide of Wil lis R, Gunn by his son, Jesse Guan, is one of the most revolting tragedies ever chronicled in Georgia. The cir cumstances are about as follows: It is said that the old man and the young man both liksd the same wom an, aud she was a niece of thp Old man and a cousin of the yoang one. The son only recently came to tliis i county and married the girl, and was livlngwlth his mother-in-law, who is a -widow. The father lived with thi# lady (his sister) last year, but ’fc&iie time ago got into a little difficul ty aud loft tho county, and was not here hia squ aml the girl were married, if seems that he notiflod htsteu.however, not to marry .her. anti oh learning that they wore mar ried, became very much enraged. He wrilf W Ms son from iferrilrethor county, telling him that lie was com- ing to kill him and that he might look, oqt for him at any time. In the letter he told him that, “ps it was generally understood that hd was a sa*irsK*wm ting, cool sober, ana ho vieant what pp said.” This caused the young man great alarm, and he came to Jownand sworfut a peace warrant far his father, but as lie was not in this county the warrant was not "SSImwAJ creafter, the son received another letter from his fa- ther, saying fliat at tlie tkfle he wrote tlie other letter Ids brath'was mad dened with whisky, and that he did not mean what he said—told him ho did nut want to hurt him, and would not come, as stated in his former let ter. " tatel ahgfcMwi WI The mofher-in-law of tho young man wem.to her father, Mr. Gunn,of Morgan county, who is a good oili zen, and at one timo owner of tsomiid eraU(e property, who is also the.father of thekmiH’dei'ed man, for the purpose of getting the diifionlty settled. AVUilo she was there the deceased caiiio . to the place. She at once wrote to the awi.in this county that Jds father was lht>i,s ‘put timt sfie ltad not lta4 a ehanee to talk with Li™, closing with this retna#k>: “You know wkat I moan,” ltsoomi that utter staying around there for a day or two he de asanpsnrvc fwtneiGlifeati. lft ! wriifHo liilr!fl ther’s field, took a horse from one of the hands, borrowed a gun—double barrelled —from a neighbor, and on leavingliikfatherit told them hfe want ed to be httried there by his dear sis ter. lie went first to Madison, had the gun loaded with 12 buckshot, oach barrel, and put one load in his pock ets. His sister, the mother-in-law of the young man, at onoq left lier far, tlior's, nccotapaplod by or twp men, for the purpose of either slop- ping Uic father ftenfcfaio rash deed or putting the young’man on notice. On tho way she aird her companions were overtaken by the deceased, who was making direct from Madison te where ilo lived in this county. He passed before them and told tfrem if tUpy fyUoflttdJdm lie would kill the nf. iyKpjgyched hie eon's lidifsein avTOmtJniis pursuers, and demounting, hitched his horse two huimrfed yards from the house ana be- Kkv sHfiiping up*he back way. - The young mart and his family Wefe lit fttfufft-, twit a little girl who was put feeding chickens run in and told the young man a mau w ' l ** a gun was slipping up to the house. The young man at enco knew wlio it was and went for hie jfiliol. (fn rdtpraing tn’tbe eßting MrfK’tyj a gun was poked Into the window (the window having only a wooden shutter mid il being open), that he could not see the faoe of the party holding it and only about hatf the body, but he was sure it was Ills fa- Oio££ho him in the shoulder; ho says he knows he hit him for he saw him flinch and almost droplfi&gffß > be says he tired again * ronnd ,h ® window facing, find put a ball in the centre of hlsforehiad, from which he at once died. He savs his father was telling him all the time to dome oet and give hiin a fair show lag. 'fbe intrscr* of the old m*fi Irriyod ofiorf-. ly after the tragady. The young man came at once and gave himself up to the sheriff. The coroner is hold ing an inquest to-day. It is thought they will Juetjtfy the young man. He is about 87'or ears old. The father has been in this county for eue or. two yoays.past and was a most notorious dnirttard and worth less character. The young man lias only been here a short time and seems to have conducted himself very well, ft is bnfjnst to Mr that neither of the parties properly belonged to this county, and while wc mav get credit of another wp do not claim it.’ This UOmwierriblWStery as told by the young man himself and other eyo Witnesses. ------ Mcßjude A Ctr. Atlanta Ga„ can give to dealers hot tom‘prices oh show' leases, looking gUaser, orookery, glass ! wgre. bar fixtures lamps of all kinds fly fans, Beth Thomas clocks and Mellvllie atmos pharieftultjar. " NO. 18. AN INNOCIENT MAN AT, NO ST CON VICTKD. Dori*T Viera* Lout Hunt for the Man He wan Accused of Mu rderi i> K . An Akron ,Ohio, correspondent of the Detroit Free Press tells a remark able story of the experience of Dorsey viers; one of the poineers of Summit county, Ohio, who died recently at the age of 94. Early in 1826 Viers and his wife re ceived to their cabin in Nerthficld Township •an Englishman named Rupert Charlesworth. lie was a jelly fellow, with plenty of money, and he became vcry pcpnlar in. the neighbor hood. Suddenly he dropped out of sight, lie was knewn to havo gone to Viers’cabin the night of July 23,- but tho constable who went there early the next morning to arrest him ihrjpassing counterfeit money eeuld not find him.?* v ~ ’ '-tert' One day, a good while after, a hun ter found a human skeleton under a logiii the woods near Viers’ farm. The discovery helped te jog tho mem ory of a man who had heard a rifle report at Viers’ cabin the night of Ohales-worth’s disappearance. An other suddenly remembered that he hhd seen blood on the bars in Viers’ lane, near the woods. Viers was questioned. At One time he said that the Englishman had jumped from a window and ran away; at another time he said he knew nothing about tho lrian'e departure, as he was asleep at the time. The constable who had geno early in the morning to Viers’ cabin te arrest Charlesworth, remem bered that at that unusual hour Mrs. Viers was mopping the floor. For five years the gossips talked, but nothing was done. Finally, January 8,1881, Viers was arrested on charge murdering ltupcrt Charlesworth. The hearing was before George Y. If all ace, Justice of Peace, and for seventeen days tho rude court room was ctowed with witnesses and listen ers from miles around. Circumstances were as plentiful as blackberries pointing to Viers as tho murderer of his boarder. Statements that had not been heard before wore adduced in testimony. A hired girl who was working at Viers’ cabin when Charlesworth disappeared said that a bod blanket used by tho Eng lishman was missjinjg the morning he left, anil that it was afterward found coucealed under a haystack with largo spots eu it resembling clotted blood. A dosen neighbors testified to Cliarlesworth’s reputed wealth, and others told S( The auddon ovi dce Vt prosperity that had been apen about Viers’ premises iF'tfe, shape of ancwßoffSe audio ffie’puN <4>ase of some blooded stock. Viers and his pionem' wife grew sick at the prospect. But an'iiitoXpccfed deliver ance came iri Hie.last two days. T?wo men from Northwest Ohio took t|ie stand andgavo positive evidence that they had seen Oharloaworth sub sequent to ibis disappearance froin jNoythUeld. This turned the scale in Viers’ favor, and ho was discliargsd. Three-fourths of the community still believed, hswever, that Viera Was a murder; 8b great was the excitement following his discharge that lynch law was proposed, but tho material to carry tart snch a? Seheino couldn’t be founHifcniongttto Church going Northfleklors. Viers detSr tpinea the "fldfy %y the ground from which it had sprung. >'Sf ll fed toftndstho man whoso blopiLbad been laid at Ms door -he had, to devote bis life to tho search. In He next few years Mrs; Viers wrste hundred! of letters to public o®cai;s and others in all parts of tho fidu *‘fo r - Viors flnalty started but on Ins apj earently hopeless qnoot. Fol lowing the cine given him by the two witnesses who had saved him. at the trial,.ho traced his man from town to. totyn Jn the Westland finally learned Charlesworth had returned to England. To England went tho rcs lohite searcher, only to find that ©|at;los worth had re-embarked for thclTpited Slates, with New Orieans as ( his destination. Back came Viers and went straight to Now Orleans, bijt Charlesworth was not there. Viers follo wed up the river .visiting every town im to Cincinnati. Thus the search was kept up by let- te and travel for uine years, till in Viers entered a tavern in Dclrist and asked if gjiy tiune had knowledge ofpnc Rupert Charlssworth, an Eng lishman. A man, bearded and rough, dipw him aside as ho left the place a,l j d Mvegici ldjusclf as- the long sotighj-fcu; rnaj,. His story was quick ly told. Having passed a counter feft bill on a citizen and fearing arrest, lie. had secretly left tho house, of his friend mid gone West under an as sumed name. He agreed to goto Ohio and show himself to htt old cronies on condi tion that his present place of residence should he kept secret. So fourteen years after the alleged tragedy, Rupert Charluaworth and his reputed mur derer visited Northflchl, Heston, Ak ron aid ether points in Summit coun ty. The Englishman conversed with a large number of persens, and was recognized by them. In a few days he Returned to Michigan. No soonef had ho gone, however, than the story wont around that the mart wae not Rupert Cliarlcswortli, but a cousin resembling him clesely, Iwhom Viera had hired to serve his end. Thia itory was Industriously circulatedlby Viers’enemies, and was believed by many. Viers was almost sick of life. He found that his vin dication was not yet accepted, so, two years later, in 1842, he went to Michigan again and brought Charles worth back with him to Ohio. He put up handbills in Northfield, Bos ton and adjoining townships, slating that a certain day Rupert -Charles worth would exhibit himself at one of the eltnrches and all persons who bad known him were invited be to present. Tho meeting attracted a great crowd. Charlesworth took the plat form. from which through the day he responded to interrogatories. The examination was chiefly conducted by one of the shrewdest attorneys at tho baref Akrpa, Not only did Charlesworth readily recognize and name persons he had not seen for sixteen years, hut he related incidents known only te individual questioners and himself. He refreshed the mem ory of an old farmer with regard to a spree iu which they had been partners, recalling the curious circumstance of their having boiled their, whiskey. Late in the afternoon a vote was taken as to whether tho man before them was Rupert Charlesworth. The audience affirmed with one voice that that mail stood before them. Tho reputation of C*M-sey Viers was fullv vindicated. His nino years’ search had imporer T tshed him, but he afterward amassed a competence, and his last years were passed iit comfort and peace. WITHOUT A SKULL. A UtU| Wonder iwnta Birmingham While the Age reporter was,in Dr. Eubank’s office yesterday, for the pur pose of seeing the dentist's clinic, Dr. Chisholm touched him en the arm and said, “Would you like te see a living wender ?” Of course the reporter assonted. Ho was led into the hack room of Dr. Eubank s of fice, where he was introduced to Dr. W. B. Woodall, a young dentist of Hartsell, Alabama. Dr. Woodall led the reporter to a corner of the room, where sat an old gentleman about fifty years of age, with his head, oare iully covered with a shawl. “This is my uncle," said Dr. W., “Mr. T. P. Woodall, of Hartsell, and (uncovering a box he held in his hand) and here is the skull that once rested upon hie head.” The incredulous look of the repor ter caused tho doctor to ooutinue, “Come with us to Oxford’s • photo graph gallery, where wo intend to have my undo’s photograph taken, ami you can see for yourself.” While on the way to te the gallery (lie following story was told by Dr. Woodall. “On the26thday of January, 1882, my unclo, who had boona(flictod for many years with epilepsy, was sit ting in a room alone, when he was at tacked with an epileptic fit and tell, his head lying on the glowing coals in the fireplace. At tho lowest calcu lation frrjgQ’ in tjpa. position fifteen !<• ** WZa first discovered I*, (ft waa in the last stage of consumption, and,, though vory weak, succeeded in drag ging liis head front (lie fire. “A physician was summoned, who, upon examination, found the skull'so badly burned mat ho pronounced tho trijtides fatal. The left eye was de stroyed and a portion of the left ear burned to a crisp. My uncle contin uid (o live, arql in a short while his reason was restored, In four months at which time his wife died, he was able to walk arodnd the house. The skull had lost all vitality, and severe months after the accident, it began to separate from the head. The physi cians refused to remove the skull. Knowing that death would bo cer tain if it remained in the cenditionjt- Wftson the head, I promyietPaflle and saw, and remoWii* the skull In pieces, as'tfleydiecaiue joosened. The woil ivas commenced In December, IBp2, and was eitopfeted, in March, 1883. As the skull became loosened a membranous substance formed, and now serves, in a measure, to protect the head.-'; *’ jfj*" ' “Sfy tir.cle is now fifty-five ytitrs of agm And appears to enjoy good health. Hi can see very well with his reraatu in j eye, and suffers no palu from the re nova! of tho skull.”/; At the photographer’s gallery the old gentleman was placed in position, and the bandages removed- He wore a cloth next to the head, and over this two caps and a shawl. the membranous substance which had formed underneath the skull cojtld be plainly seen. It resembled an unhealed burii, and where the skull had been removed from over thb left eye the fleah looked as if it was still bleeding. In the centre of th head just above the forehead,were two holes probably half an iuch deep. When tho photograph was taken the skull, which had been put togeth er with wax, was held in the right hajtd. The Rknll was removed from the head by Dr. Woedall alone, and it was an oporatiou for which many aw eminent physician, had it been per formed by him, might well claim re nown. It U truly wonderful that the old gentleman lived—that he is new alive mid has had his photograph ta ken. while holding his own skull in hishand. It is more wonderful still that his mental faculties are perfect; that the brain retained its life and reasoning power, after the skull had been literally burned from hie head. —Birmingham Ala., Age. We have the largest and moat varle assortment of lamp goods ever brought South, Parlor and hall Lamps Glass and Brass Lamps, Reflector Lamps and Lantern Shades, Burners, and Chimneys. You save a good profit in freight and our prices are as low a ny market. lj-lv jMcßiude A Cos., Atlanta G*