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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XX.
THE GUY FAWKES PLOT.
The Xnfkjsou* Conspiracy to Blow Up the
Ho ass Of Lords Recoiled.
The recent explosions til
faitious ••gunpowder plot” of
which (m ur Fawkes was executeMn
Loudon. Jafr. 30, lflOfi. The event nss
already been a memorable one in Ihe
history of England, and Nov. 5, the
day ef the disclosure, was set apart as
a day af thanksgiving, and is religious
ly observed in England. The histori
cal features of the affair may be told
briefly. Guy Fawkes'was an adven
turer, who at Ihe time the plot ot
blowing up the House of Parliament,
and thus destroying the King, Lords
and Commons, Vas conceived, was
serving in the Spanish army in the
Netherlands.
Upon the accession ot James X, the
aavare penal taws ot Elizabeth against
the Romanists were again put ima
execution, contrary lo the expecta
tions of the followers of lhat faith.
The plot was conceived by Robert
Catcsby, a Roman Catholic of an an
ciant family, who vowed vengeance
against the English rulers fir the
Severity of the , penal laws. Guy
Fawkes was the fourth person admit
ted into the conspiracy. Jle with the
others took the oath of secrecy, and
the sacrament was administered by a
Jesu it priest. Among the other con
spirators was Thomas Winter, who
selected Fawkes to visit Spain and
solicit Ihe intervention of the King
in behait of the English Catholics.
Fawkes returned to England in 1604,
having been unsuccessful in bis mis
sion. Shortly afterwards Titos. Per
cy, another one of ilie conspirators,
rented a house adjoining the one in
which Parliament was to assemble,
and Fawkes, who was unknown in
Loudon, took possession ot it under
the assumed name ot Johnson. I’sr
liamant adjourned until Fee. 7. 1605
and on Dec. 11 fallowing, the eonspi
rators held a secret meeting in the
house. The work of excavaliug a
mine was begun, and seven men were
engwgeo in this ithof until Cflti-ln
a They never appeared in the up
per part of the house, where Fawkes
leapt a constant watch. When Par
liament reassembled the work was
abandoned, but finally completed be
tween February and May following.
About this time Fawkes hired a vault
beneath the House of Lord., which
had beeu vacated by a dealer In coal.
At night tliirly-six barrels of gun
powder were carried into Ihe vault
and covered with faggots.
The conspirators then adjourned to
hold a sonsultatien. A number of
wealthy men were taken into the plot,
among whom were Sir Everard Dig
by, Ambrose Roc-kwood and Francis
Tresliam. Parliament was to meet
again on Nov. 5, and Fawkes was ap
pointed to lire the mine with a slow
match. Same of the new men who
had been admitted into the conspiracy
desired to save their Catholic friends
in the two Houses. Lord Montcagie,
a Roman Catholic peer, received an
anonymous note caution
ing him against
attending the meeting of Parliament.
The matter was laid before King
James, and at midnight, Nov: 4, a
•earch was made of neighboring
houses and cellars, which resulted in
the capture ef Guy Fawkes as he was
coming from the cellar. Matches and
torchwood were found in his pockets.
Although put to toiture.]he refused to
disclose the names of his confederate).
A meeting of the conspirators was
convened and in the excitement that
followed tbev were either killed or
captured. Guy Fawkes and eight
others were tried, after which they
ware drawn, hanged and quartered.
Prohibition i. growing to be the
all-absorbing question in this slate,
and well it may; for liquor is doing
more to ruin the morals and finances
of the people of Georgia thD any
other agency possibly eoulil. Almost
ev.rywhere th. doom of the iiqnor
traffic is being pronounced, and the
time is not far distant when it. will
be driven from the slate. If for no
other reason, for the sake of tho wo
men and children wh. are the inno
cent victims of the ruin U brings 11-
qour-selling should be abolished. If
the money thrown away on liquor in
this state was well invested, Geor
gia would blossom as the rose, and
hard times would rarely if ever be
heard from.
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 188,5.
▲T THREE SCORE AMD TEN.
A former Merchant Bamker and United
States Marshal to be Hanged.
The Supreme Court, says a Nash
ville (Teen.) special, sentenced Col.
William Spence, formerly United
Slates Marshal fur the Middle district
of Tennessee, to be hanged on March
13, for the murder of Col. Edward S.
Wheat, bis son-in-law, and sitoco sor
to the position of Marshal. Spence,
who will be 70 years old next mouth,
manifested no emotion whatever, but
sal upright in bis chair while the
opinion was being road and gazed
with unflinching eyes at the Judges
The court room was crowded with
his friends and acquaintances, but be
look no notice of them until lie was
being removed from llie apartment.
Then he merely shook hands with
several who came forward and ex
pressed their sympathy. While
Judge Cooper was pronouncing the
sentence Spence’s heart could be dis
lintictiy heard beating by those who
stood near him, but his lips were
pressed tightly together and no sound
came from them.
The court reviewed the evidence
presented at the trial in the criminal
Court and held that the detcnco had
utterly faded lo establish insanity, a
plea which was made as a last re
sort in behalf of the prisoner. It
was staled in the decision that the
long and honorable record made by
Spence while a merchant, banker,
government •ffleor, and private citi
zen, and the fact that old age and
poverty had weakened his naturally
strong mental faculties,entitled him to
a commutation of sentence. The
Court concluded by declaring that Ihe
Governor was thereby asked to ex
tend olcnnyicy lo the condemned
man.
Wliou the announcement was made
that the judgment of the lower court
was affirmed, Mrs. Dinks, sentenced
lo imprisonment for theft, who was
sitting near Spence, clasped her hands
and -£ Hiselv, but even
JL, ~
* • • - ■ m ■ 1 not
file Jei set uifon Spence, tie
was rein j ed lo jail, where ho said
comparatively little about the result
of his case. His friends will petition
ihe Governor to Interfere, and have
strong hopes that he will grant their
request. Spence, who was at one
time a very wealthy and prominent
citizen, was appointed United States
Marshal about 10 years ago, and
Wheat, who was Captain of a Michi
gan company in the late war, was his
deputy. Wheat married a daughter
of his superior, and when Spence re
tired as Marshal, Wheat became bis
successor. Troubles connected wit It
the Marshalship caused serious dif
ferences between the two, and the
enmity thus engendered culminated
in the killing of Wheat, who was then
a wholesale merobant, on March 11.
1884. Spruce, who had become poor
and drank considerably, claimed tliat
Wheat bad treated him unfairly.
Several days before the murder,
Wheat choked Spence, who on the
day of the crime, followed Wheat
down Church street and shot him in
the back. Wheat fell, and Spence
stepping in front of him, cursed him
and fired twice. Wheat dying in a
few seconds. Spence was arrested,
tried, convicted and sentenced to be
hanged on July 18.
A correspondent of the Sylvanis
Telephone writes : While out hunt
ing on the Savannah river a few days
since I suddenly walked up on a matt
eating acorns. When wiiliin a few
rods of him ho discovered me and
immediately sought refuge in the
deep hollow of a huge cypress. I ap
proached his abode of concealment,
and was immediately confronted by
him with a huge horseman’s pistol, of
48 calibre, (was probably used in the
Mexican wav). Ho greeted me with
such exclamations as “stand back,
Bir. Put your hand on me at your
peril. Take me if you dare. Oh, I
know vou; you are a detective from
North Georgia.” etc. This man was
about thirty-six years old, weighs
about 160, is about six feel tall, light,
sandy moustache and chin] whis
kers, has an unusally big foot, _when
skulking off had "”a mean, hang-dog
expression, never looks you in the
eyes, travels principally at night, feeds
on acorns, suckers and cornbread,
can frequently he found asleep on a
stump or beside a small creek or
branch.
A BIT OF HI3IORY.
Hew “the Colored Troops Eoug-ht Nobly**
for the Confederacy.
Air. .1. B. Briggs, of Brlggsvllle,
Ky„ (Muhlenberg county), says tbs
Louisville Times, is possibly the only
person who commanded colored
troops lit action on the coulVderate
sitla during the war.
Mr. Briggs was Captain and As
sistant Quartermaster of llto Fourth
Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cav
alry, C. S. A., and served during
the war with Wheeler and Forrest.
His regiment was considered the
crack cavalry regiment from Tennes
see, and was possibly the fullest regi
ment in the Southern army at the
surrender, mustering over 700 meu.
This was tine lo the fact that Tennes
see was in ihe ha lids of tlto Union
army during the latter years of th#
war, and when recruits canto out to
the Confederates, which was of fre
quent occurrence, they generally se
lected a regiment of note in whiuh to
enlist. The Fourth Tennessee thus
secured a full share of these recruits
and was always comparatively full.
At the battle of Cltickamatiga llie
Fourth Tennessee Cavalry was dis
mounted lo fight as Infantry, every
ton ft It man being told oil' to bold
horse. These liorso-holders, siul
also all of the colored servants, were
kept in Ihe rear. The colored men
numbered about 40, and having been
in service a long time, bad gradually
armod themselves. Some of them
were even better equippod than
their masters, for on successful raids
and battles they ceuld fellow in the
rear and pick up those things the
soldiers had no time to secure; so
lhat these colored servants could each
boast of one or ttve revolvers and a
fine carbine or repeating rifle.
During all of the early part of the
bailie of Chtckamaugn, the Fourth
Tennessee Cavalry had been lighting
as infantry, and as it becamo evident
that a victory was to be won, Col.
Me Lemore, commanding, erdired
Capt. Briggs to return to the Itorse-
TtoldeiT, and after placing* the horses, 1
teams, etc., under charge of the seiv
vmits, to bring up the quarter of the
regiment in charge of the horses, so
that they they might take part in the
final triumph. Capt. Briggs, on
reaching the horses, was sur
prised lo find thecolored men organ
ized and equipped, under Daniel Mc-
Letnore, colored (servant to the Col
onel of the regiment), and demand
ing the right to go into the fight.
After trying to dissuade them from
this Capt. Briggs led them up lo the
1 1 tie of hal l lo, which was just then
preparing to assault Gen. Thomas’
position. Thinking they would be of
service in caring for the wounded,
Capt. Briggs held them close up In
line, but when the advance was or
dered the negro company became en
thused as well as their masters, and
filled a portion of the line of advance
as well as any company ef the regi.
nient.
While they had no guidon or mus
ter root), the burial after the battle ot
four of their number and the care of
seven wounded at the hospital, u
the tale of how well they fought that
dav.
A NOVEL WEDDING.
Rev. T. W. M. Brown tells us of a
very novel marriage. It is as fol
lows: David Esters, of Meriwether
county, catne to the homo of Mr
Brown a few days ago and told him
if he could find a hardshell Baptist
lady that was smart and poor, and
about 40 years old, he would marry
her. He asked Mr. Brown if he
knew such a lady. Mr. Brown told
him that a lady a few day befoie had
told him if he could find a hardshell
gentleman she would matry him. Mr.
Esters asked where the lady lived,
and Mr. Brown told him, addiug he
would go with him if he would wait
till lie could do a small job of work.
They soon started and arrived at the
home of the hardshell lady.
The gentleman and lady were intro
duced to each other by Mr. Brown
who explained that the gentleman
“just filled the bill” for her. Mr. Es
ters and Mrs. Mary Leatherwood had
an interview for a short while and
returned, stating that the trado was
made. A few nights afterwards Mr.
Brown joined the two in holy wed
lock, and thev boarded the train at
Bremen on Monday morning for the
native homo of the bridegroom.—Ex
change.
TOOMBS.
, ■ 11 1
A lion, liarmlesa to the weakest lamb.
Yet fiercely scorning any lauib to
bo ’
His ruling passlou (o be wild and
free
As winds and waves, with no enforced
calm
Save God’s. To God alone lie singeth
psalm.
Or Ho wot h down, ormaketh prayer
or plea;
Tp none but God hath ever bent the
knee,
Or incense burned, offered bull or
ram.
His mind is Space in human spirit
swung,
Fibril in it Reason’s sell encased
in bone.
His ejiCfch the Summer Storm with
human tongue,
A storm of logic thundered front a
throne.
O’er all our hearts his scepter might
have hung
lAad he but learned lo tame and rule
his own.
L. E. Bt.KfKr.RV,
Clnyi-ptville, Ga., January, 1885.
IK Hit WOMBS Of IHJIJOTOAT -
A SMft-SubN Revolt Ajrnj Jolt Clllnon
mull the fnr West.
A Qnijotoa dispatch says: Quljo
toans do not take kindly lo llie Chi
nese. A Chinaman recently went lo
Logauu.o.lart a wash-house, but was
notified to leave. The prime mover
intheea.se were several women who
do washing for a livelihood, and
fearing a loss of occupation In case
the Mongolian went into business
they combined against him. They
waited on Jiim in a body and presen
ted htm with a paper, upon which
was drawn a Chinaman hanging from
a gallows, while underneath the scaf
fold was a coffin containing the body
of a supposed defunct Celestial. John
refused to frighten at the pictures, so
his assailants adopted something
more practical. On the night follow
ing the women visited
the bouse, under the
leads, s!ii|i of Mrs. King, who carried
a noosed rope, and demanded admit
tune*-.- iucei ving no reply they broke
thedoorand window, but John was
not to be found. If lie had been lie
would e rsainly have been maltreateo
if not hanged, that being tho avowed
intention of the would-be assuilants.
Next morning lie turned up again
and received a deputation from tho
hostile faction. He told them that he
did not under I lie circumstances care
to remain, as there was not money
enough in the camp, hut as times im
proved and money became plentiful
he would return and begin bittiness.
A LIFE OF MYSTERY.
A Wealthy Man, About Whom nothing 1a
Known, Die. In South Carolina.
A recent dispatch!from Chester, 8.
0. ssys: C. C. McCoy, a man of
mystcrisus antecedents, was buried
hero to-day. lie died in tho Central
Hotel, in Charlotte N. C., yestesday
morning. McCoy went to Charleston
on Ihe 25th of December, and was ac
companied by bis faithful colored
servant, but never left bis room until
taken out a corpse. He was a very
wealthy man being worth about SOO,-
(XX), and there is a mystery about bis
lile which no one lias ever been abls
to solve. If he lias u wile or any liv
ing relatives it is not known. lie
came to Chester witj the Federal
army, but where he was from was
never known. Jlc catne Into promi
nence as local superintendent of the
Frccdmen’s Bureau, and was after
ward county clerk, and fees that are
■ iw 15 cents were $2 -
50 in those days. For
a long time he was the only white Re
publican in Chester, hut he received
full reward for his fidelity t. that
party before Chamberlain’s rule was
ended. On retiring from office Mc-
Csy turned liis attention to raising
fruit, and made a success of it. lie
had been in bad health for a year
past, but it was not until ho made a
trip to the Chicago Republican con
vention last year that he entirely
broke down. “He has never been
himself since that convention,” said
his servani in speaking of his master.
McCoy received every attention possi
ble while here, and had the best of
everything that could be provided for
him. Ho was informed by his phy
sicians that his end was near, but
he persistently refused to express any
wish or leave any directions. It is
believed that he has left a will
bestowing bis wealth upon his servant
who lias been his sole anti constant
attendant for twelve years past.
Xj_ W SI3VCS,
SUCCESSOR TO SIMS, IRVIN A CO.]
Tho Firm of s/me, Irvin & Cos. having dissolved, I will continue
to keep alwavs on hand
LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS,
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS,
BRIOK, LIME,
AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIAL.
Mj prices will be low and CASH mnst accompany all orders. Call and consult
me before buying elsewhere. Will store Guano and other articles at my warehouse and
deliver the same; Charges reasonable. A small stock of Builder’s Hardware at COST
lam authorized to aettle all claims due by or to the old firm. OFFICE AT ARNOLI>
OUS E sepl2-6oi
L. W. SIMS.
1884. COTTON BUSINESS SEASON.
W. IT. MERCIEU,
COTTON FACTOR.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MARBLE. "
A. R. ROBERTSON, Athens, Georgia.
MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF
Granite and Marble Monuments & Tombstones
A large lot of finished work on on hand ready for lettering. I will pay
half freight on Monuments and Tomb Stones delivered in Washington, Ga.
1-ly A. R. HOBBRTSOW, Athens. Oa.
NEW STORE!
ISTEW GOODS!
NEW PRICKS!
B. M. WINESTOC K,
Formerly of Greenville, S. C.,
Informs the citizens of Washington and Wilkes county generally, that he hat
opened at tho store on tho west side of the public square, formerly
occupied by Mrs. Stewart as a millinery store,
a well selected stock of
Clothing for Gents, Youths and Boys,
FROM THE CHEAPEST TO THE BEST.
——A Good Assortment of •
Shoas, Boots, Hats, Caps, Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
JEANS, Cassimeres, Umbrellas, Trunks and Jewelry. Large lot of Underwear. Toilet
Soaps in great variety. Suspenders, Silk, Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs, Hosiery
and Gloves. A nice lot of Ladies’ Cloaks, all of which we guarantee of Latest stylos, and
at prices to astonish the natives. These Goods we offer to sell cheap for cash. Mb. G.
THOMAS POPE is with us and will be glad to see his friends and neighbors and lt them
have Goods at VERY LOW PRICES. 39-0 m
B: M. WINESTOCK, AG’T.
THEODORE MARKWALTER’S
MARBLE WORKS;
BROAD STREET, (NEAR LOER MARKET) AUGUSTA, GA.
lin TOMBSTONES All MAKBLB HLMEMLII
always on hand or made to order. A large selection ready for lette andring
delivery at short notice. Several hundreds ef new designs of
The Most Modern Style of Monuments,
FINE PLYMOUTH ROCK
CHICKENS
FOR SAXsE.
They aro pure breed rod extra fine
The Plymouth is is very popular be*
cause of their many superior quali
ities. PRICES REASONABLE.
Address
L. L. CHAPMAN,
Talbatton, Ga.
Citation for Letters Administration.
GEORGIA, WILKES COBMTY:
TO all whom it may concern. Whereas,
Thomas A.Shank, haring in proper form
applied to me for permanent administration
on the estate of B. G. Paschal, late of said
county, this is to cite all and singular, the
creditors and next of kin of B. G. Pascha
to be and appear at my office within tho tim
allowed by law, and snow cause, if any the
can, why permanent adrninUttation shoul
not be granted to Thomas A. Shank on B. G
Paschal's estate. Witness rnv hand and
fficial signature this Dec. 9th, 1885.
24t GEO. DYSON, Ordinary W. C. .
NO. G
JOHN McPOLAND
Contractor & Builder,
Plans and estimates furnished a
short notice. Strict attention given
to all orders entrusted to me. All
orders for stone and brick work in
any part of the country promptly at
tended to. Address
101 CARRIE ST., COR. MILLER
AVGUSTA. GEORGIA
Citation for Letters Administration.
Georgia, Wilkes ceuirrr.
TO all whom it may concern Mrs. Sally
Terry, haring in proper form applied to
me for permanent letters of administration
on the estate of George W. Terry, late of
said county, deceased, this is to cite all and
singular the creditors and next of kin of
said George W. Terry, to he and appear at my
office within the time allowed by law, and
show cause, if any they can, why permanent
administration should not be granted to
Mrs. Sallr Terry on George W. Terrv'a
estate. Witness uiy official signature, this
Dec- 2, 1884, GKO. DYSOX,
49-4 t Ordinary W. C.
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