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FALCON
Sweeps Dowu On Two Mighty Men of
War—Pen Plctaree of Jack In calls
and Joe Brown, the Two Mm
tcra of Senatorial niillugsgftte
[Correspondence Louisville Times.]
Lexington. June 19.—1 see that
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, and Sen
ator Joseph E. Brown, of Geor
gia, have keen waking the echoes in
that monumental old sarcophagus at
the north end ot the Capitol, whete
the dust of public functionaries of the
Egvptian mummy order is uont to
drift about and sift itself with a half
leatherly uncliousucss over the corks
of whiskey bottles kept for private
use in the committee rooms. Mr.
Pickwick, unfortunately, never was
a member of the United States Sen
ate, but ovor since the time that Dick
ens gave the vi-tues of that angel in
gaiters and knee smalls to the world
ho has been the presiding genius of
that sanctified old dove-cote, and
words uttered there have been uni-
versally understood to have only a
Pickwickian moaning. So, although
there was a slight shock of an earth
quake all over this country and au
uneasy roaring of the British lion
wheu these two intellectual Gargan
tuan glared at each other, yet the
“business interests” did
a flurry, bpc a use the knowing ones
knew that the world would wag
along on its weary way toward the
groat French Horn Festival of Mon
sieur Gabriel—to bo held at Cincin
nati, of course, without being
bathed in the gore of either Ajax.
Mr. Ingalls “loftily,asked” whether
the honorable Goober Grabbler had
used such and such language, ami
the honorable G. G. said his distinct
recollection was that he had. There
upon the honorable Grasshopper
from Gopliertown accused the honor
able Goober Grabbler of forgery.
The galleries, of course, were breath
less with excitement, and the politi
cal friends af the spectacled old G. G.
implored him to “keep caol, Brown 1”
lie kept cool, and said: “I decline
ito reply,” thus by a fine exhibition of
lofty scorn paralyzing the Kansasian.
According to tho nimble reporter,
who was, of course, numerously on
baud, Mr. Ingalls‘‘glared fiercely al
Mr. Brown" for a while, and then
proceeded to hurl Pickwickian an
athemas at him until called to ardor,
and even thou did not desist.
‘‘Brown kept cool.” Ho was aided
and abutted by several of his col
leagues, who insisted that he should
keep cool." Finally he said: “The
motion being objected to, I will not
reply now," and the soul-search
ing bombardment of drastic itiuucn
dees will be continued in our next ‘‘to
morrow.” Mr. Ingalls bowed his
stately head, and the senate proceeded
to consider the item in an appropria
tion bill of 910.66% for establishing a
free bridge over Squashmagogui
spring IrfaliJH. i
But who aro these scarified old
roosters, anyhow, that the heart ot
the nation should slop beating when
tliry scratch up tho clods in the sena
atorlal muck heap?
Are they hamfetters from Hogtown
air luminaries from Lucidity ? Let
ais see.
Ingalls is a peripatetic gall bladder
who parts his iron-gray hair in tho
middle, and looks like he ought to gel
somebody to cut the martingale that
connects tho gills of his hawk nose
with the sinuosities of his cartilagf
lagiaous upper lip. He wears the
eyr-glasses of a dude and lias the
strut of a bantam cock as he walks
up and down the Senate chambci
buttoning a cloecly fitting Prince Al
bert coat about a body the shape ol
an early radish. He is Die apotheo
sis of attenuation, bis legs consisting
of a eouplo of algebraic| unknown
quantities enveloped in two tailor
made gum cases; in fact he would
hare been blown away long ago bui
for his judicious habit ot turning his
thin odge toward every Kansas cy
clone which happened to come his
•way. His countenance is decorated
with a supercilious smile, begotten of
aduoesque nature and a suppository
atatcsmaiiship—that smile sits upon
him like a pinch of early fro9l in the
withered petals of a forgotten holly
hock. Taken all in all,the Kansas man
is physically remarkable, and with a
pair of donkey cars attached to him
would present a striking resemblance
to a Kansas jack rabbit.
Mentally, however, lie Is anything
but asinine. There hangs about him
much ol the petty formalism of the
clerk of a sma'l court, with an ambi
tion for infallibility and a contempt
f the statutes of Jeofails. His vis
ion iscircumsertbed by the pages ol
iiis order book, and bis views of the
conduct of life much modified by the
ever present possibility ot eventual
costs inuring to his benefit. It was
tills abhoroncc of small inaccuracies
which lest him info his unseemly
quarrel with Joe Brown. The rec
ord had not been an exact transcript
•f the proceedings, and in the name
of a small consistency he felt bound
to protest. To this extent his Intel
: lcct is fragmentary, and he will nev
, r be able to the dignity of a momen
tous occasion. But the man who
picks him up for a fool had best wear
Ms gloves thickly padded or he will
get himself stuck for his rashness.
A miud essentially shrewd, agile
and acute, with a nimble logic and
/acuities for analysis keen enough for
<lce splitting of a hair, is his—and an
*eUve, efflorescent rhetoric furnishes
him with wreaths af garjands of fra
grant metaphor or thorny sarcasm,
as he wills, to use the one or other.
Keen and polished English seems to
be his by birthright, and for attack
or defense bo is always ready and al
ways dangerous, lie will never be
the man to originate any measure of
broad and deep non-partisan signifi
cance. but for such tilts as this he
has all the essentials of pre-eminent
success.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XIX.
His antagonist, the Honorable Jo
seph, ot the many-colored coat,is like
wise a man of mark. lie is a kind of
hilleiujah hoodlum, who knows the
main chance when ho sees it and
considers that it ought to be a very
cold day when any visible fat take is
not for Joseph. Joseph is a shifty
sort of saint; had he been the hero of
the Potiphar scandal wnuld hato
made a virtue of necessity and taken
a majority of the stock in the family
railroad rather than to have skipped
out, leaving his overcoat in soak.
Physically he is the incarnation of a
backwoods prayer meeting, and you
feel like finishing him ofi with a hear
ty “Amen” whenever you look at
him. Xlis face is mild and half che
rubic, smoothly shaven, topped with
gray hair, somewhat far back/as to
its starting point, and fringed under
ucatlf with long white beard f dug
out from the Adam’s apple on his
throat like au inverted aureole of
sanctity about the visage of a holy
mail' The calm peace of hallowed
imioccnco lingers about Ids eounten
nuce, ami hia benignant eyes look out
ai one through large round specta
cles, like the double moons a fellow
sees iu the sky when he is on a chron
ic hum. Nestling down half apolo
getically in his eurtilcchair, opening
his mail with Ungers so geulle that
ho seems to be fearful of hurting the
feelings of tlio envelopes as lie tears
tliem, one who knows him only ns lie
appears in tho Senate chamber
would think him a transverse section
of ethereal mildness, sugared over
thickly witli sifted sanctification. In
garb and appearance clerical, lie
looks like a patriarchal prcnchcr of
the Baptist ]>crsuasion from thclmck
settlements, and as he rises logo out
you wonder that he doesn’t throw
ovor his arm a pail of well worn sad
dle bags, with tho ucck of
a black bottle sticking out
troiu the northeast comer of the left
hand flap thereof, while tho other
side bulges with a Bible and a well
thumbed hymn book.
But there is not so powerful much
mildness about the old fellow as you
might Kui)pose. He has ns much hu
man nature about him as can well,
be packed into the space, and gener
ally manages to hustle himself to
ward tho front In ample ttmo to got
his name into the pot. Beforo the
war he was the bitlorcßt Secession
ist in Georgia, and alter the strife
began was a typical war savsHus un?
til he took it into his head Dial Go or-'
gia was a nation all by itself, and
could not afford to protect Die border
Statos; so ho made everybody join
the militia and stay at home till the
enemy came after them. When Sher
man came through his section lie was
quick to run away, and, witli his
usual thrift carried all his earthly
goods along, oven pulling up his gar
den truck and loading a train witli il.
When the war closed he was Dio first
and most zealous Southern Republi
can, and stood staunchly by tho old
llag and the appropriation till the
Democrats obtained control, when il
was all at once discovered that lie had
licen a niosshack Democrat all Die
lime and only fooling the Uads. Su
lie wrecked railroads and built up a
fortune out of the debris, and led the
brethren In prayer, and endowed re
ligious instil utions, and bought in
corruptible newspapers, and stumped
around among Die boys, and crcpi
along slowly into a Senatorial seat,
where he sits half dozing all Die time,
but ready at tho winking of an oyc
tid to Btir up a political Jehauncm,or
asks a blessing over a fresh bottle of
Bourbon, as the ease may be.
Joseph is the personification of In
tellectual piactlcalKy, and in brain
and force and energy as powerful ai
my man in the Senate. 11c lias not
the brilliancy, perliaps not the cul
ture, of Ingalls, but is broader and
stronger, and will more often carry
his point. Vanity, 1 think, he knows
aslittleofas consistency or moral
limitations; but he has pride and |>or
soveraneeenough for two men, and
is especially able in preparing Id
ground for the crop lie expects to
raise.
There will not be more than a bar
rel of gore spilt in this contest. It is
funny, though, to look al Die Kansas
lack Rabbit and Die Georgia ’Pos
sum making months at each other.
The Rabbit will jump higher; bul
the ’Possum will outclimb him, and
in the lot g run I think Joseph Brown
will bog Die persimmons.
Falcon.
Some nine years ago at a Christ
mas frolic given in the bend of the St.
Mary’s rivor in Charlton county.
John J. Thomas and Joseph Crews,
familiarly known as “Boney Joe,” met
and resumed a previous difficulty,
which resulted in the death of Crews.
Thomas fled the state. An indict
ment was found against him at the
following spring term of Charlton
court for murder, and not until this
late day he has been arrested. He was
brought from Florida by Mr. Mans,
who arrested him in Volusia county
of that state, npon a requisition of
Governor McDaniel. It scorns to he
the misfortune of men who leave (or
crimes committed, that they render
themselves so unpopular where they
take refuge, that the people of their
sanctuaries become restless and leave
no stone untnrncd until they bring
them or cause them to be returned to
tho place from whence they came.
ALLAN PINKERTON.
DEATH OF THE FAMOUS DETECTIVE
IN CHICAGO.
How He Began Ills Llfe-Suse of the
Famous My steries He I’nrnvetod.
Ail." a Pinkerton, the famous detoe
tivc_ died in Chicago last week. His
dre was filled with startling ovonts.
He was born iu Glasgow in 1819, the
son of a small tradesman. He mar
ried young and immediately after
left for the western hemisphere, land
ing in Canada, jv now post village
in Bruce county, Ontario, is now
named aftor him. The young coup
le’s early struggles were a series of
hardships, and aftor many vicissi
tudes Pinkerton went to Chicago,
wliero he engaged in the cooper trado.
lie afterward moved to the neigh
borhood of Dundee, 111., whero ho
purchased a small fatal. This was,
as near as can be ascertained, about
1847. Piukertou was then about 28
years of age, and it was tlion that lie
made his first detective vouturcs as
an amateur. Ilorso thieves wero on
tho rampage iu those days, and Al
lan Pinkerton, after having been suc
cessful iu hunting down a rascal who
iiad stolen one of his horses, was em
ployed by neighbors until his repu
tation as a detective reached the ad
joining counties.
INVITED TO'OHIOAOO.
What gained him a reputation all
over the Stale, and oven farther,
was In exactly the same lino. At
that time there was very littlo ready
money in the country districts of the
Northwest, and this scarcity was par
tially supplied by the checks of tho
Milwaukee Fire and Marine Insur
ance Company (now MitchoU’s Bank),
which wore crude and easily imitated.
Pinkerton suffered by tho forgeries,
and ho succeeded in hunting dawn
one of the forgers—John Gray, a Ver
mont man. Tito merchants of tho
country employed him to run down
the forgers, and Pinkerton succeeded
in that. Ho was then invited to
Chicago, followed tho invitation and
was made Deputy Sheriff of Cook
caunty. This was iu 1849, and In tho
same year Pinkerton received Ihc ap
pointment as Special Agent of the
Treasury under Secretary Guthrie.
In this, and also in the position of
mail agent, he distinguished himself
by numerous brilliant pieces of do
tettive work.
The first established agency was
Vegas t>, * lOUJ. JtOglll
‘nliig wrtn a iiuniirul of iri.Vtiu cm-'
ployos, Allan Pinkerton stoudily in
creased his business until thoro arc
now “Pinkerton agencies” in all Die
principal cities of the Union, em
ploying thousands of men and wom
en ill every Stale of tho Union. Men
of good character are alone employed.
The various agencies at present em
ploy about two hundred first-class
detoctivcs, men and women, whose
pay ranges from $5 a day to to $5,000
per year.
ASCOItTINQ LINCOLN 'IO WASHINGTON.
The feat which grve Allan Pinker
ton a national reputation was to eon
duel Abraham Lincoln safely through
Baltimore to the inauguration in
Washington. Pinkerton knew of Die
plot to assassinate the President
elect in Baltimore, which was then
completely in Die hands of a rebel
mob. Riotous scenes and attacks up
on Federal troops were Dio order of
the day. It was said, though tlio
story was speediiy denied, that Pin
kerton accomplished ids hazardous
task witli the aid of one of his fe
male operatives, who occupied the
same seal in the car as tho President,
who wore a bonnet with a thick veil
which completely concealed his well
known fealnros. A shawl thrown
over tho knees gave “Old Abo” Die
appearance of an eidcrly lady, as
whose companion posed Pinkerton's
lady detective. The latter in buried
in a Chicago cemetery, where a space
is reserved for the Pinkertons and
Dicir employes. The graves aro doc
orated once a year. Allan Pinker
ton, although t<Vall ontward appear
ances a cold and unsympathetic man,
never forgot a friend or those who
served him faithfully.
When the warbroke out President
Lincoln sent for Mr. Pinkerton to
come to Washington and authorized
him to organize Die secret service di
vision of the army, the first govern
ment police force ever organized in
this country. This was done with
Mr. Pinkerton at Die head, under tho
nom de plume of E. 3. Allen. In this
capacity lie served the country dur
ing the war, leaving his Chicago of
fice in the charge of capable people,
and at tho close of Die war went back
to take charge himself.
SOUK 810 ROBBERIES.
Ilia first important ease on resum
ing his former duties was tlio robbery
of the Adams Express Company, near
Baltimore, by throwing the safes
from the train while in motion and
getting away with over $100,(XX).
This case, like other cases of ttie same
nature, was a success, the thieves, six
in number, being arrested, tried and
convicted and the money ail recover
ed. Some time later came tho rob
bery of the Hamden fexpress Com
pany, in Baltimore, by which $20,000
was secured; tho thieves in this case
were also convictsd and tho money
recovered. The next important case
was the robbery of the Carbondalo
Bank, at Carbondale, Pa., in which
cate the thioves wero arrested and
the money, $40,000 recovered, Fel-
WASHINGTON, GA.; FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1884
lowing those came the robbery of the
Adams Express Company on tho
New York and New Haven Railroad,
oil January 0,18C6. The thieves, six
in number, including the brakeman,
entered the express car by wrenching
oif the lock and bursting tho safe.
Thoy secured about $70,000 from this
exploit. Through the efforts of Mr.
Pinkerton and Mr. Frank Warner
(the latter being at tho time
tendent of the New York office), the
thieves were convicted and the mon
ey all recovered but about $12,000,
tho most of which was afterwards re
turned through a Catholic priest.
The arrest and conviction of the rob
bors of Mylart’s bank at Scranton, Pa.,
next followed.
Tho next ease ot importance of
which Mr. Pinkerton had chargo was
the robbery by Morton and Thomson
from the express car of the Mcrchay/j>*
Union Express Company ou Hie
Hudson ltivor Itailroad of $390,000.
These tnou wore tracked to Canada
and there arrested, and in spite of all
that money oould do and the ltolp
which they rocoivcd from corrupt
government etficials they woro extra
dited to White Plains, N. Y. Thoy
afterwards broko from priseu and
raided Iho Boyislou Bank in Boston
and then fled to Europe.
THE'HKNO BItOTUKKS.
lii the same year camo the death of
the Itano brothers and Anderson, of
Seymour, Indiana. These men were
desperadoes of tho most pronounced
type. They robbed stores mid ex
press trains, burglarized safes, and
their very names hccatno a terror
along (lie railroad lines in that 9octlon
of tho country. Entiro discontinuance
of express service was seriously
thought of by tho companies. In
18C8, near Osgood Station, Indiana,
they robbed the Adams Express
Company of $97,000by boarding the
train, throwing tho messenger from
the car, opening tho safes and doliber-
ately appropriating thoir contents.
This caso was given to Mr. Pinker
ton, and Simeon and Bill Kono wero
arrested by Him at Indianapolis,
Frank Reno and Charlcß Anderson
tied to Canada, wero purstiod to
Windsor, Ontario, and extradited af
ter a long siogc of moro than throe
months. During tho trial which fol
lowed another portion of the gang,
for tho purpose of screening tho pris
oners and throwing suspicion from
fuWy udvlwj and prepA. -a■.
After one of Die men litid bcon shod
Diciest were captured, but boforo
awaiting tlio action of tho law the
indignant and outraged popuiaco of
the county look them out and hung
them within full view of the jail.
When Frank Reno and Charles Re
no were returned to tlio United
Slates they were thrown into jail at
Now Albany, Indiana, in company
with Simeon and Bill Itono. About
three weeks after tlielr arrival there
one hundred masked men marched to
Die jail, having como in on tho north
bound train, overpowered the Sheriff
and jailor and hung the three Renos
and Anderson, and Dial ended tho
banditti in Southern Indiana.
A MAN WITHOUT FEAR.
Allan Pinkerton was n man who
know no fear, and numerous are Die
exploits in which he teok his life in
his own hands. On one occasion, in
Detroit, he was so badly handled by
his adversaries that his life was des
paired of. A partial lameness re
mained to the last as the result of the
bloody on counter. Ho was a man
who detected at once what qualities
there were in a person that came, un
der his observation. A atrialng 11-
lustraDou of this fact is the career of
McParlin, the great dotcctite in the
Molly Maguire cases. McParlin was
a coachman lu the employ of a mer
chant who resides in Chicago. The
siahics of this gentleman joined
those of Pinkerton on Monroe street,
and “the old man,” then deeply in
volved in the study of tho Molly Ma
guire casos, came to the conclusion
that“ Mac” was IDs man. He en
gaged him ala high salary, in-’
structed him personally for hours ev
ery day, and finally turned him over
to the Philadelphia agency, which had
the special management eftlila great
case.
Mr. Pinkerton was tho author of
fifteen volumes of detective experi
ences. Hs lias left several volumes
in manuscript. He never could bn
induced to operate in a divorce ease
or where family matters were in dis- j
pule. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Joan
Pinkerton, tho devoted wifo who fol
lowed her young husband in his vol
untary cxiio to America and who
lias been Ida constant companion and
wise counselor through tho many
years and changing fortunes of (heir
wedded life. To them were born
eight children, only two of whom aro
living, William A., (lie eldest, In
charge of tho Chicago office and the
Western division, while Koberf A.,
is the general superintendent and has
immediate charge of the Eastern of
fices.
Mo one voted against T. L. Gant
for Alderman of the Second ward in
Athens, Wednesday. Mr. (lant is
justly popular.
The following is Polk county’s offi
cial vote at Wednesday's election on
the fence issue: For fence, 1,032; for
no fence, 201.
THE COUNTRY BOY
AVko Has Developed Into tho Sub
stantial Cltixen.
Its most astonishing how onr folks
arc getting along. Here is this big
frolic at Home—this military fandan
go that makes a man feel like every
body down sou til was rich and bravo
>ami just have another figlit as
not. Our people are getting on a
swoil. Thoy are fooling their oats
and getting braggislt. If they can’t
rj.de patch they can out walk all crea
tion, andarc bolting on that. Itjooks
like tho old Roman spirit of sports
and games is coming over our people,
and I reckon it is a sign that our boys
ntu prospering. Only a few days ago
v.-a went about like a dog who dident
i“/vo spirit enough to wag his tail.
J 38 whole country was desolate and
£iu*pcople ail hnckod. There were no
cows or hogs or sheep or roosters to
crow, no fences, no wagons,no cotton
prussos, no traveling threshes, no
hulls or parties or picnics, no excur
sions, no Christmas or fourth of July,
no time of day. no nothing hardly,
'j'lieie very chaps who aro parading
around in uniform so big wore, most
of them little boys when the war
brake out, and they never know any
thing but trouble and hardship in
their youth. They had to oat roots
ond drink branch water and go bare
head ad and bare-footed, and wear ono
pidltts breeches and sleep three or four
in a bed, and go hungry half the time.
They never saw a circus for ten years,
nor rode on tho cars, and all tho
ifihooling they got was in the cornfield.
But them sort havc como to tho frout—
they have —and lots of them have got
rich. I was sitting down talking to
Ithodc Hill about it the othor day, and
Rhode said that mighty nigh every
rich man in Atlanta was raised a
poor boy. “There goes one now,”
mild he, “who is worth a hundred
thousand and lives on Peachtree. He
iited to plow barefooted over troad
safts and dewberry vinos. Ho never
wore a shoo until ho was twelve years
old. He liasent got nary nail on his
big toes. Slumped ’em off, I toll you.
Dont you see how aortor clumsy he
he walks. And there goes another
one worth a hundred and fifty thous
and, and lie couio from this same
barefooted stock. I toll you what’s a
fact; Bill, mighty nigh nil these
Peachtree nabobs are Die same sort of
Wtf*- They havent got any bigtoo
f MBs'. Y?hen one of those poor
boys stuiiftw in*
before tlioy got well -stumps ’em
again, and keeps on stumpen and
until tho nails slough otil by Die roots
ho looses thespriugof IDs walk and
goes stiff-liko over tlioso paveinonts
and I can tell one of ’em as far as I
can see him. There goes another one
who lias made his jack. Tlioy are
all going up .to dinner now. That
man carries one shoulder lower than
the other, and that como from cavry
ing bark to cook with before he was
big enough to stand it. Ho begun to
carry hark and old rails w’ou ho was
about fire years old, ni . pulled
one side of him down L utile. lie
liasent got any biglee nails oiDicr, and
Pm inclined to think tlioy aro gone on
the noxt toes too. Borne of Diem fel
lers have the second toe longer than
tho big-toe, and tho second nml third
toes tied together about half way up.
When you como across ouo of them
sort do you look out for yourself, for
if you trade with him Ho will get you
shore.”
I've been thinking about that. Dr.
Darwin says that man bofore ho de
veloped and cvoluled dideirt have
any fingers or toes. His hand was
like a mitten with a thumbs and a
grabatl and IDs foot had one bigtoe
and the elliers were all glued togother.
Bo I reckon that some of us are evo
lutlu yet, and some of my own ances
tors away back must havo begun late
or traveled slow, for there is a pair of
my toes that liavcnt got entirely di
vorced. I’ve heard it said that if a
woman’s second toe is longer than the
first sho will rule her husband shore.
I asked Rhode about his own youth
Vvfien he used to rough it up in Chat
tooga, and lie said that was v hat was
Die matter and why Ho talked that
way about other iieoplc, for ho knew
nil about It from experience, and
wasent ashamed of it either. Rhode
jwuscut raised in a hand box. lie
never wore knee breeches and long
stockings.' I don’t think ho wore any
sort for a good while after lie came
into tide subloonary world. Tho first
j time I over saw Rhode lie was clerk
ing down on the river bank ut Home,
and it was a dull time and Rhode not
up a bet of half a dollar that he could
hide a hen’s egg on Shorter’s Jake
whore nobody could find it, and he
agreed to give Jake a dime of tho
money if lie won it. And so lie put
the egg on tho back of his nock just
under his collar, and the boys limited
all over Jake and then give him a
slap that broko tho egg, and that was
, the Joke of it. Jake got the Jimeand
the boys laughed and took onaraaziin
and I did too. Rhode lives on Pcach
treo now, and wears slippers in his
store and is happy, and grows old
about as gracefully as anybody, toe
nails or no toenails.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
King Willis, a negro who has a
store in Cooleyvillo, a suburb of Co
lumbus, while drunk accidentally
shot his nephew, a boy about ten
years of age. Willis was arrested
and lodged in jail. The boy will
probably, die.
OIIARI.IB ROSS AGAIN.
The Quincy Wair Tells His Strange
Story to Mr. Rosa.
A Philadelphia special of Jaly 2 (o
the New York World says: “I am
Charlio Ross, and I’ve come all tho
way from Quincy to seo my father,”
said a small, neatly but poorly clad
boy as he entered the Central Station
tliia morning. To tho Chief of Polico
the little fellow, who is very bright
related a circumstantial story of his
capture by two men, who removod
him in a wagon, cutoff his long ourls
and kept him a prisoner under threats
of death if he attemped to oscapo. Ho
gave a most minute and apparently
straightforward account of his wan
derings until he escaped and made
his way to Quincy.
Shortly aftor his arrival the boy
went alone to tho residence of Chris
tian K. Ross, father of tho long-foal
Charlie, In Gormantown, whero Mrs.
Ross and Mr. Ross looked at the boy
carefully, and interviewed him for
some lime.
“Wliero wero you taken from by
tho meu ?” inquired Mr. Itosf.
“Why from tho back part of tho
house.”
“Can you remember liow you wero
dressed at the lime?”
“Yes sir; in dark clothes.”
“What color wero you pautuloons?”
“I didn’t have any, I was too small
for pantaloons and woro a dark
frock.”
“Do you remember anything about
your home?”
“Yes, 9ir. There was a very large
tree just in front of the houso.”
“Can you remember anything
else ?”
“I recall a colored boy named Dipps,
who made mo a present of o how and
arrow.”
“Who ? what was that nanio ?” eager
ly asked Mr. Ross.
“Dipps, sir, I think that was his
name.”
“Anybody else.”
“Yos, a man named Allen.” _
“Can you recall anything else about
your homo ?”
“Yes, I remember that my father
taught mo to sing ‘What a Friend I
Have in Jesus' and ‘Happy Day.’ ”
“Unfortunately,” said Mr. Ross, “I
never sing.”
When tho child had told IDs pitiful
tale Mrs. Iloss sobbed and Mr. Ross’
eyes wore wet with tours.
“Do you think you are my mother?”
tlio buy, asked, looking up into Mrs.
—
“My little man,” answered Mrs.
Ross, in quivering tones, as she wiped
a tear from her eye, “your story is
very interesting, but you are not my
son.”
It is rognrdod as a somewhat singu
lar coincidence that this day nine
years ago (July 2,1875,) Charlie Ross
was abducted, lie would now be
about the age of the boy who reached
hero to-duy. Tlio little fellow was
sent to a public institution.
TWO BAD MABKSMKH.
A Lover and HU Prospective Pathor
lo-Lsw at Pistols.
An ardent young lover and an irate
old father, soys a Baltimore special
of .July 1, had a lively duel with pis
tola this morning in tho northwoslorn
section of Die city. It was not a duel
aflor the style of the Virginia code,
hut a regular fusilade. It was all on
account ot the father’s pretty daugh
ter. Frank Bouchat loved Ada Smel
zinger, and she returned hit affection
with all the warmth of her sixteen
year-old German heart. John Smol
zingor, the father of the fair one,how
ever, did not look with favor on Bou
chat, ami ulso thought his daughter
too young to marry. Accordingly he
forbado Bouchat tho house. The lov
ers continued to meet, as lovers al
ways will. Last night they met and
walked and talked till late. When
she returned her fattier scolded her.
Her lover’s residence is right oppo
site to her father’s house. After scold
ing his daughter the angry parent last
night went over to tho young man’s
house, saw him sitting dreaming on
the front steps and awoke him from
his love bliss by a blow on tho head
with a pistol. Frank was stunned by
the blow, but recovered and went
into tho house. This morning early
Flank bought a pistol. He no sooner
made his appearance In front of tho
house than the duel began. Who
fired the first shot is not known. Tho
father stood in his dorway and blazed
away; near him was his pretty
daughter begging him not to shoot
Frank and screaming to Frank not to
kill her father. Aftor firing several
allots at each other across the streol,
Bouchat retreated into the liouso with
a ball through his coat sleeve. Ho
ascended to tho third story and fired
down on the old man; but lucky for
tho two, although a dozen shots wero
fired, noithcr of tho bad marksmen
wero hurt. They were overpowered
by the neighbors and both 'arrested.
It is reported that Ada declares site
will marry her Frank.
Prevent serious sickness by taking
occasionly one of Emory’s Little
Cathartic Pills, a wonderful appe
tizer, an absolute preventive and cure
of Hiliousness, pleasant to take, sugar
coated. Ask your druggist for them
and take no other.—ls Cents. July.
The rain gauge in Cedarlown
allowed that twolvo inches of rain
(ell In June.
NO. 28,.
PSYCHIC FORCE.
A Racy Description of r,ula Hurst and
Ron. Scab. Reese.
(H. W- J. Ham in GalnosvlUe Eagle.)
At an exhibition in Washington Cily,
after much persuasion, handsome’
stalwart Scab. Reoso, of the Georgia
delegation, buttoned his dress coat
lightly about his manly form, and
strode to the centre with an expres
sion upon his face, which said plainly
that ho was willing to give himself to
glory and the gravo.
There was a fiorco dare-to-do-and-
die expression in his eye which seem
ed to say: “If I fall in the couflict
toll them I died with my taco tf the
foe.” Miss Lula requested him to hflid
a chair., To use one 6f Uncle Rices’
oxpressiWl never knew before how
“sooplc’iTie was. lie cut tho doutrfe*
shutile,topped an.f crossed over'
and jnAWjprofert of his agility in a
way that would have made a country
nigger at a cotu shucking die with
envy. When he finally got loose from
tilts furniture after it had crawled
all over him, and bumped him un
der the chin, battered him iu tho ear,
pulled his whiskers, and tore up his
dignity generally, and breathlessly
prospiringlv, admitted that it was
about the hardest work he had ever
did. The wiiolo entertainment was
a most pronounced succoss and the
audience, scientists i minded, came
away completely mystified as to what
tliis wonderful and peculiar force
might be. It has certainly boon a
bonanza for Mr. Hurst, who has al
ready realized nearly ten thousand
dollars, and his manager is now
paying him six hundred dollars per
week and ail travelling expenses of
himself and family. They give five
performances at Ford’s Opera house
this week. Candor compels mo to
say that Miss Lula is not handsome,
hut she will have that which is of
more moment—dead loads of “root of
all evil.” She will have no trouble
in finding some young men brave
enough to undertake the contract of
helping her spend it. I would like to
see the picnic the first tiiuo ho departs
from tho parallel path of conjugal
correctness. I havo my doubts if he
will ever know wliat hit him. She
would simply lay her lily-white hand
caressingly on Die lapel ef IDs coal,
will in her mind that ho should be
annihilated and he wonld walk up
•‘beyond tho river whore tlio surges
coaso to roll." It will take a man
with more grit than I have to run tlio
I,\ n (It
of conjugal teiuie r 119 88, in other words
I have no ambition to prank with a
woman who is loaded.
LOG A N AND IIAIUIISON.
How Blaine’s Nomination was Besaiv.
ed top Thom.
President Arthur, Senator Edmunds
Senator Sherman, Secretary Lincoln
and Postmaster-General Gresham,
says a Washingtou letter, accepted the
result of the Chicago Convention qui
etly and gracefully. But tho smug
faced Ben Harrison and the heavy-ey
ed Black Jack Logan were dissatisfied,
. and could not conceal their dissatis
faction. They aro not very skillful
diplomats, and what they think is
very apt to come right out. Both of
them wore seized with a very pecu
liar beliof. Harrison thought tlio
fact that ho was the grandson of Wil
liam Henry Harrison entitled him to
servo out that soldier-statesman’s
term. Logan thought that the fact
tliat he had posed for twenty years as
the soldier’s friend entitlod him to
bo tho nation’s Chief Magistrate.
Each of them took- tlio action of tho
Chicago Convention as a personal
slight, which justified some growling
at tho ingratitude of Republics. Lo
gan was very sore. He owes his nom
ination as Vice-President to a bargain
ooucludod with Blaine last winter.
Ho could not had even that nom
ination in any other way. Yet lie al
ways regarded that bargain as a pure
ly conditional affair, and the condition
as voijy unlikely to occur. If Lognn
could not be nominated on the first
two oif threo ballots, then he wrs to
throw his strength t > Blaine. BulLs
gan put it this way: If Biaino is
not nominated on tho first two or
threo ballots (and ho will not be) then
I will he nominated.” Mow, it didn’t
como out in that way, and so, very
reluctantly, *t the last minute Logan
sent u telegram to Blaine telling him
that he was about to carry out his
stipulations, and then a tolegram to
his lieutenants at Chicago tolling them
to voto for Blaine, and then he turned
to his friends here with with the re
mark : “I have nominated Blaine.”
But it was not a joyful act. He growl
ed all day,and ho grumbled all night.
Ho was grumbling when young
Walker Blaine called to present his
(attier’s congratulations. Theso wero
fuel to Logau’s flame. He kept on
grumbling. Mrs. Logan comforts him,
howovor, with tho sensible remark
that half a loaf is better than no bread.
But ho Is an unwilling ox at the
Blaine feast.
Vigorous health is man’s finost es
tate. If weak and nervous, sond for
circular and (reo trial packago of
Pastilles —a radical cure. July.
Harris Remody Cos., St. Louis Me
Captain Allbright has paid $6,000
for the Warren gold niiuo, near Ili
wassce, Towns county, and It Is de
veloping vory rich.
HEV. SAM JONES.
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Cartcrsville American : One of tho
most extraordinary men in Georgia
to-day is Rev. Sam Jones, of Carters*
vil'.o. In every homo and hamlet in
tho South his name has become a
household word. From an obscuro
village boy of dissipated habits and
reckless speech, he lias grown to bo
one of the foremost Methodist divines
of his day-. Twelve years ago, Sam
Jones made fifty cents a day in Cartcrs
ville, and at night spend it carousing
with the “boys”at the bar-room* and
around tho billiard table. By the re-
fining influence of the Christian ro
ligion, he is to-day the instrument
in God’s hands, of accomplishing moro
good, perhaps, than any othor man iu
Georgia.
Sam Jones is a wonderful man. Ho
is not what is commonly called elo
quent, ho is not strictly logidal, lie is
iiot profoundly theological, but ho
knows how to stir the heart and suc-
cessfully play on the chorus of human
sympathy. It is impossible to bo in
the sound of his voice and not listen
to his words. It is impossible to hear
him and not be impressed. His origi
nality is very striking, his earnestness
convincing, his illustrations forciblo,
his arguments unanswerable.
Xus kiyle is liqnjlectcd uniUtiht lan
guage simple, He is the same plain
blunt man wherever you find him ;
whether he preaches on the street, in
the log church or iu the gilded tem
ple, ho is still Sam Jones.
His work for the past ten years has
been a grand one, and great good has
been accomplished. He is not a
“Whitcwasher” or an opologist for
anybody’s faults. It seem to be ins
espscial delight to strip bare tho ele
gant and refined vices of the day, and
show tho insido rottenness of those
“whited sepulchers” of sin. Conse
quently, ho makes enemies, and there
are men who call him a hypocrite,
but there aro thousands of men and
womon iu tho South to-day who aro
ready to rise up and call him blessed;
there aro hostc of orphan children
who arc ready to sing Ids praises, be
cause of wants relieved and suffering
alleviated. “By their fruits ye shall
know them.” This grand truth
should put to silence all tongues that
charge Sam Jones with being a hypo
crite. Gwo honor to whom honor is
due.
M OTHIN Q but DEATH CAN BTIB
HEB.
N. Y. Ban.
For several yoars it has boon tho
habit of Congress to insert Die names
of favorite employs in the body of
appropriation bills, In order that they
may not be exposed to the danger of
removal by officials to whom they are
directly subordinate. The practice
has until this year licen confined to
tho employes of the two houses of Con
greea, bui Vn VYv \o\v3kVnß bm ox
cut!vo branch, jevaded.
wtoHugvaaAA tijurk ill I lie ilo!Ui
letter office, appears to bo tho only
one of tho 80,000 employes of tho
government whoso services are so
valuable as to bo especially provided
for iu an appropriation bill, and
whose tenure of office is certain for
at least one year, regardless of tlio
wishes of tho.Presidont,who alone has
the appointing power uuder tho con
stitution the Cabinet and tho Civil
Sorvico Reform Commission. In
(act there is no power but death that
can removo Jennie M. Hunt from
tier position in tho Post-Offieo De
partment it tho House hilt passes.
The Senate comraitto has recommend
ed that (his extraordinary provision
be stricken out. Miss Hun! is said to
boa cripplod lady, who was appointed
on Die recommendation of Col. R.
G. Ingersoll. ,
Thoi’o are seven persons so pro
vided for in Ihe Legislative bill. Tho
other six are Amle Swith, the keeper
of tho Senato document roam, who
knows every bill that has been in
troduced or passed, and every report
that lias been made in Congress for a
century; 11. IL Smith, the journal
clerk of tho house.*whoso business
is to extricate tho Speaker when he
gets tangled up in parliamentary
snarls; George A. Bacon, who tends
door when the Democrats havo a cau
cus, and sees that all the members aro
on hand when a vole is to be taken ;
J. T. Chanccy, who occupies a simi
lar relation to ths Republican side;
John J. McElhoue, the official re
porter, anil C. IV. Combs, who
handles documents for,tho statesmen
of Die lower House. All theso gentle
men aro considered too essential to
the welfare of tho House to bo ex
posed to the whim of the elerk and
sergeant-at-arins.
BLAIXB’S SOW PRODDING THE DE
PARTMENTS.
(Washington DUpatt'U to tho Now York Son.)
Yesterday and to-day Mr. Walker
Blaine spent in going through sorao
of tho departments, especially tho
Treasury and Interior. 110 inquired
if thare were any persons iu the de
partments who were disposed to kick,
bolt or.be lukewarm, and be was told
that there did not seem to be any
very great enthusiasm. When Mr.
Blaine asked for the names of tho
more prominent officers iu tho
departments who were disaf
fected ho was unablo to got them
from the chiefs of bureaus. Howev
er, by diligent inquiry he was able to
makequitoa list. Those men will
cither havo to chango their tactics
and simulate an enthusiasm they do
not feel or they will have to go next
March, if Mr. Biaino is elected.
G. C. Adams cut down on Greg
ory’s branch, in Nacoocheo valley,
rccontly, tho parent chestnut tree of
all that section of country. It was
twenty-one foot and threo inclios iu
circumference, and from lour cut*
632 largo rails wore split.