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IHE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XX.
A MIDNIGHT DUEL.
A Romantic Story of the Lute nr
Vouched For Jby an old Soldier.
■'There is uo doubt” said an Old
solcVibV 10 a reporter of the Athens
(Ga) Banner, “that many siugular
tliings occur as we jojtrney .through
life; and he looked as though memory
was struggling with some sad feature
Of his existence. He sighed as he
continued : “I remember as though
it were yesterday the march of Hill's
■Corps a'ong the winding Shenandoah
up uo th /'amous Lurav Gap. Who
could ct ■ forget tliat march ? The
road wii ’ng with the beautiful river
and overhung with the ma jestic chain
■of Bine Bulge Mountain*, while
across the crystal water the niagnifi
celit:valley, with its clutnuing eot
tagqa (hilling the heanleotit land
with While-like hails of snow robed
in flowers. But the most engaging
and lovely objects paled into insigni
ficance besides the peerless woman of
this blessed country, and you may
well believe that when the camp was
struck the soldiers lost no time in
making their way to the surrounding
cottages. Soon the music of the
violin was heard and the Mmtfling
feet kept time t the music, while for
a time, the soldiers' face was lit vyith
old-time joy. At one of the collages
the belie of the valley reigned supreme
■while several Southern soldiers vied
with each other lit paying homage to
the qneeh. Among others wore two
young soldiers—one front Georgia
and the other from Mississippi—who
were especially energetic in their at
tentions, and so marked had tliis be
come that those present wa'clied the
play with constantly increasing in
terest fully beleiving that both exhib
ited a ease of love at first sight. This
.surmise on the part of those present
was only 100 true, as the tragic events
which followed fully proved. The
■Georgian seemed to have the lead on
the MUstssippian and when the dan
cers were called to take their places
liAiwTtWO Vni’s gf i£"\ valley to a
place in the set. At tins point tlieilfss
issippian was seen to approach the
couple and was heard lo claim the
lady’s hand for the dance. An alter
cation ensued, but belli were cool
bravo soldiers—two ot the best shots
in the army—who did not believe in a
war of words. So h was ended by
the Georgian dancing with the lady
and the significant remarked of the
Missisippian that “I will see you af
ter this set.”
••When the dance was over the
Georgian was seen to seek the Miss
issippian and together they each
called a friend from the crowd and
departed. When outside both claim
ed that an insult had been passed
which could only be wiped out in the
blood ofthc other, and that a duel
to the dcitit ■diOuitV be arranged at
at once. A full moon was just ap
pearing above the tops of til?, sur
rounding forest and I tell ten this
talk ofhlood In the silence of Ihe
night was anvthing but pleasant.
No argument, however would avail
with these two men, so it was
arranged the duel should take place
on top ofthc Ulue,Bidge,|icar Ihe cen
tre of the road that passes through
the gap; that 4hb weapons SbOtthl be
pistols at fifteen spaces, and to fire
at or between the words ‘one. two,
three,’ firing to continue until one or
both were dead.
■■The point was reached, the ground
measured off and the men took their
positions without a tremor. The moon
shed its pale light down on a
scene never to be forgotten. A mo
ment or two and the silence was brok
en by the signal. ‘One two, pistols
rang out on the midnight air. but the
principals maintained their. respective
positions. The Georgian s left arm
was seen to drop closer to t lit side but
the Mississippian was immovable
and still held his pistol to the front.
Again a pistol shot was heard coming
from the Georgian and the Missia
gtppian still held his position but he
did not fire. The Georgian protester!
that he did not come there to murder
him but no answer was returned.
The Mississippian’s second approach
ed his principal and found him derd,
shot through the eye on the first dis
charge of the weapons. Death it
seems had been instantaneous, so
muchsoas not even to disturb hi
equilibrium. I may forget some
things, but the midnight duel on the
top of a spur of the Blue Ridge with
lu attendants circumstances is uot
one of them.
THE BULLETIN BUSINESS.
AralnTaken Off by an Irreverent Scribe.
Gen, Grant and the colored nurse
Harrison, had a hard time with the
doctors yesterday. Dr. Douglas* was
awakened at an early hour by a fly
crawling with heavy feci over the
window panes, and he continued resi
les* for some time. (Jen. Grant *at
by ids side and smoked a cigar while
Ilarrisou gently fanned Dr. Shnuly
with a feather. At 7 :10 a. m., Gen.
Grant issued this bulletin :
“Dr. Shrady coughed twice this
morning. This is regarded as a bad
sign, and have .placed him upon a
feather bed so that it he sneezes the
shock will be broken. Dr. Douglass
is cheerful. He ate a toothpick for
breakfast and intimated lo Hariison
that he would like to whistle 'Sweet
Violets.’ He was at once drugged
with morphine.”
At i> :12 o'clock a seedy looking man
dressed in 'altered garments, and
whose uncombed hair hung upon his
shoulders, hobbled up to the Grant
residence and leaned wearily upon
his stall'. He told the cook who ctyne
lo the basement door that he had
walked all the way from Galena to
see Dr. Sliardy. lie was given a
heavy breakfast by the sympathetic
cook. Then he braced up threw the
stall'away and walked swiftly toward
Sixth avenue, saying;
“That Galena racket is immense. I
will now inform the Tramps’ I'nioit
of my success.”
Gen Grant read the newspapers and
smoked several cigars. Harrison
looked after the physicians, and is
-tted this bulletin upon his own re
sponsibility at 11 ; l:S a. in.:
“Dr. Douglass is less tractable. A
window Iwing open in the house
across the street he complained of the
draught and Gen. Grant went over
and requested it to be closed. Dr.
Shrady scratched his head at 10:11
ami exhibitsother signs of returning
health.”
levels' ifelcrs Tw. the physicians
were received during the day. Moat
of thatu contained suggestions fQr the
trestment of the doctors, and some
leading medical authorities were
heard from, Dr. Tanner wrote from
Cross Hoads, Tex., advising a diet of
pare air and announcing that he
would arrive in town to take a hand
in the case some time next fall, 't'his
•hocs,hold out. Dr. Landis, Ihe em
inent tragedian, wrote that eggs were
good for somnolency and offered to
furnish a few bushels free of charge.
A man in Poughkeepsie sent a pack
age of Infallible Cancer Cure, which
he requested should be administered
at once. Harrison administered it. If
the cat recovers it will be a miracle.
Bath doctors woke up at noon and
astonished Gen. Grant by aroqnost to
be taken for a drive through Central
park. With the perversity of a sick
man Dr. Douglass insisted upon a
team ofgoits being hired for the oc
casion. He was reasoned out of this
idea by Gen. Grant. At 2:11 p. m,
the two doctors were tenderly carried
down stairs by Harrison and Gen
Grant, and lifted into a carriage
which was in waiting. People
in rued lo look at thorn as they drove
slowly along the main drive, and a
small boy irreverently shouted :
•■Look at de skeltons from de dime
museum.”
After an hour or two they were
conveyed back. They showed a de
cided improvement in their condition
and the General remarked that he
would pull them though if It look all
summer. Policeman O'Flannagan
telda vtsitor who called at 4:17 p. m.
that Douglas had been given an “an
ecdotc”and the visitor said that it
served him right.
Things were quiet daring the eve
ning, and except the noise of an am
bulance driving up to carry away an
exhausted reporter nothing of inte
rest transpired. At midnight Gen.
Grant went to bed and Harrison hung
this bulletin out of the window with
a candle behind it:
“Thedoctors are convalescing. They
are now arguing upon the subject of
‘Who Discovered Pimples?’ and Dr.
Shrady stood up half a minute un
aided. Drs. Sands and Parker arc
in perfect accord with my treatment
of this case, and I think I’ll start out
as a horse doctor when I get through!
with it.”
Warren Campbell, of Gainesville,
has three cyclone pits on his premise*.
WASHINGTON, GA., TRIDAY, MAY 1, I*ss.
TIIF. CIC.AW FIKND.
A stntphmnii visits the White
House amt tin lids Out a Few
Frssrnut Ilnvanns.
(From the Chtcaso Hews )
"Daniel,” asked Mr. Cleveland of
his private secretary, “did you notice
the gentlemen from Ilinois who was
admitted to my presence this af
ternoon ?"
"The fat gentlemen with the bounti
ful complexion? Yes,liegave me a ci
gar and lie seemed to be a \ cry clever
person,” replied Mr. Lament.
“His name is Welch —Andrew,”
said Mr. Cleveland, “and, in addition
to being a member of the Illinois leg
islature, lie is the proprietor of a.
largo agricultural implement store at
Yorkvillc. He is as pleasant a man as
lever met and what especially pleased
me was the fact that he had no favors'
lo ask of me. lint what I spoke to
you about him for was his extraodl
nary generosity with his cigars.”
“Yes, he gave me one as lie passed
in and ho handed another to the jani
tor.”
“You see,” said Mr.Cleveland, that
Vilas and Endicott were with me
wh.it he clinic in. After shaking
hand, with me ami being introduced
to the others lie pulled some cigars
out his pockets and asked us lo smoke
-1 have these made especially for me
by our leading Yorkvillc tobacconist,
he said. They were long, fat cigars
and were as fragrant as a bottle of
ylang-ylangperfumery. Wethanked
him and lighted the cigars. We
asked him about the Illinois Legisla
ture and he told us a good of raws
especially about the Speaker. Pres
ently Bayard. Lamar and Garland
came in. When they shook hands
with Mr. Welch—Have a smoke?”
said lie, and out came threo moro ci
gars from the same vest pocket.
This made six cigars—ves. seven (for
he was smoking)—which lie had tak
en from the same vest pocket.”
"Nine,” interrupted Mr. Lamont,
“for he handed me and the jjjWtor
two in the hall.” j
“Yes. nine,” resumed Mr. Cleveland
“But the marvel did not end here,
tog pretty soon Whitney came in with
a delegation ot thirteen New Yorkers
who were no sooner ini rod need than
the Illinois man wbiped out moro ci
gars—enough to go around —and all
from tins same vest pocket. That made
twenty three cigars in one vest pock
et!”
“Wliewl” cried Mr. Lamont, in
blank amazement.
“Hi* conversation was quite as as
tonishing,” said Mr. Cleveland. A
more generous man I never met. He
insisted on making me a present of a
thtesbing machine, and when I rc
spectlully but firmly declined lie in
sisted that 1 should at least take a
tior.-erake. Ho seemed to take a spe
cial taiiey for Bayard and Lamar, and
before leaving heannouneed his inten
tion of shipping them from Yorkvillc
a cultivator and lawn-mower respec
tively.”
“Grover” said Miss Cleveland, bust
ling into the room at tliis moment,
“I do believe the house is afire. I can
smell something burning.”
“I detect no unpleasant odor,” re
plied the President.
“It smel a like the burning of a car
pet or rags,” Well, now Ido believe
its that you’re smoking.
“I’m sorry to hear you say that,”
remarked Mr. Cleveland, quietly, for
just before leaving the Y'orkvillo gen
tleman drew another handful of
cigars from that same remarkable
pocket and laid them on my table
saying: 'Here, smoke these after
supper this evening.’ And before I
could remonstrate ho was gone. I
looked out of the window and saw
him handing out cigars to people
as lie passed down tire front walk.”
Quite auamuslugepisode occurred
in the grand jury room at Americus,
Wednesday. One of the meet clever
and prosperous farmers of the coun
ty was brought before the grand jnry
to testify against some youug men
who had been indited for playing
poker for money. lie provsd to be a
perfect “know nothing.” At the con
clusion of his testimony he asked to
address the jury. Drawing from his
pocket a hand book be stated ho was
trying to organize a Sunday school in
in his settlement,and he wanted each
of the earnest workers for morality
present to give him 25 cents toward*
advancing the good cause. He says
he did not meet with much encourage
ment to assure the success ofliisSun
day school venture,
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
The country is about to experience
the periodical “cvival of interest in
physical culture in common schools.
LecWros on thy subject are being
delivered in various parts of the Un
ion, and it is being discussed in ncivs
pnipers, magazines, am( journals de
voted to Health and education. All
the Arguments and illustrations that
haVOTiociimd hoary with age arc bo
iug repeated, and the athletic clubs
ot the colleges are being assailed ami
praisfcd. While' almost mtmbes less
suggestions as lo plans of physical
citilnn* are being made, many of
tbelli evidently by persons who don't
know anything about t'te .subject.
Whatever may be said in favor of
or against aliiietie clubs, they are not
withoht their uses. It is true that
some Of (hem hate very objectionable
features, but valuable lessons may be
learned from them whether they arc
conducted according to the most ap
proved ideas of prudence and moral
ity or not. The principal odjemions
to theft are that they generally lend
lo fcncfitrage 'belting, which even
tually f \ leads lo Worse forms of
gaming. They also encourage over
training, which is injurious, and
they ofion lead to inexcusable extrav
agance.
Calisthenics and various other exer
cises which are-intended for phviseal
culture have long been practiced in
litany, educational institutions. In
few shools. however, have judicious
systems of phviseal training been
adopted, just, as it is true that in tew
of them has the mental training
been adopted to the peculiar and
special talents and requirements of
different pupils. Every you ig mind
as well as every young body is us
ually mado to conform to an arbitrary
curriculum and a rigid set of rules
and nodoubt the educational methods
ofto-itny are as far short of the
Idea! as they nre superior to the
I lot he boy# Hall tnetlrods of the
*<•
it will doul/lW a- lie years
however, before physical colln,,- pan
be iiuulo a part of common school
education. There are practical and
economical difficulties in the way of
the accomplishment of this desired
end which for the present appear to
bn liusurniouutahlc. Parents liavo
neither iho time nor qualifications nec
essary to attend to the physical cul
ture of their children. The only
practical hope for the meeting of
the demand in this respect lios in the
establishment of special schools, in
which competent instructors shall de
vote one or two hours per day to lec
tures on the subject, and to (X’fcise
adapted to physical development in a
judicious manner. It is not difficult
to imagine what influence such
schools would have, not only oil the
health and physique, blit on tbe men
tal vigor of the rising generation.
—Savannah News.
LEE ON GRANT.
Grant's Generous Aolton In Lee’s Sur
render Described by General
Lee.
“I wish,” said General Lee, “to do
MinplejtiHticc to General Grant when
I say that his action toward my army
it is without, a parcllel in the annals
of nations. When my poor soldiers
witli famished faces having neither
food nor raiment, hungry anil foot
sore, came before him in the hour of
sui render, it was t hen when that Gen
eral Grant immediately Issued the hu
mane order that forty thousands
rations should he given to them.
And that was not all. I wasgiving
orders to one of my subordinate
officers who was making out the list
of things to be surrendered. I told
him include the horses. At that
very moment General Grant who
seemed to be paying no attention to
what was going on quickly roso
from the camp-Btool and said: No,
no, Generjl Lee, no surrenderor the
horses. Not one, not one. Keep
them all. Your poor people will
need them for the spring crops.’ It
was a scene never to be forgotten.”
As Lee spoke he paced the room,
and with tears streaming down Ids
cheeks repeated two or three times
this inciderit of the surrender.
I tlienasksd him whom he thought
to be the greatest of Federal soldiers.
“Indeed, sir judged by Napoleon’s
test of ‘Who did all that ?’ General
Grant is the greatest of living Amer
ican or European soldiers.” _
FiII?ITS OF VIVISECTION.
Modern Improvement* In Abdominal
Surgery the Itesult of Kx per linen In
on Animal*.
(Dr. W. W. Keen in Popular Science Monthly.)
Wounds of the abdomen, especially
gun-shot wounds, arc among the
most fatal injuries known to surgery.
A small, innocent looking external
pistol wound may cover multiple and
almost inevitably fatal perforation of
the ahdotnin alcotilenls.The recoveries
from 3,717 such wounds during the
late civil war only numbered 444, and
and ot those witli escape of the Intes
tinal contents the recoveries says,
Otis, may he counted on one’s fingers.
Tito prevailing treatment, as laid
down in our text-books have been
purely conservative treating symtoms
as they arise. The briliant results
achievod in other abdominal opera
tions have led a few bold spirits, such
as our own Sims. Gross, Otis,Mc-
Guire, ami others, to advocate the
opening of the abdomen and the re
pair of tlie injuries found.
In May of last year Parker, of
Chicago, reported to the American
Medical Association a series of sys
tematic experiments on thirty-seven
dogs that were etherized, then shot,
the abdomen opened and the wounds
of the intestines, arteries, mesentery,
etc, treated by appropriate surgical
methods. The results confirmed the
lieliet awakened by earlior experi
ments and observations that surgery
could grapple successfully with mul
tiple tind formidable Wounds, by sew
ing thorn: tip in various wavs, or even
by removing a piece of the bowel and
united the cut ends. Hard ttpftn (he
heels of tliis important paper, amt
largely as its result, comes a striking
improvement in practice. And re
member that this is only the first
fruit of a rich harvest for future time
in all countries, in peace and in war.
November 2, of hut year a man
was brought to tho Chamber street
hospital., in New York, with a pistol
shot wound in the abdomen. Under
careful antiseptic precautions, and
following ;ho Indications of Bakes The
abdomen was opened by I>r. Bull, toil
after csil of intestine* was drawn out
the bullet was found and removed
and seven wounds of the intestines
were successfully discovered and
properly treated, and the patient made
an unterrupted recovery. A recov
ery after so many wounds, auv one of
which would necessarily been fatal
under (ho old mothods of treatment,
shows that wo have now cnlored upon
a proper and successful method of
treatment for such frightful acci
dents.
PUNISH THE CRIMINALS.
The following timely suggestion by
tho Gteenvillo News is reproduced
for the consideration of judges, law
yers and jurors of this section. The
News says: “It would bo well if
somebody could devise somo ligisla
lion to prevent the compromise of
criminal casos. It is very common
for men who commit assaults to es
cape punishment by paying the per
son or persons injured a sum of
money and the costs. We cannot
blame either party to these transac
tions. A man who lias committed
an offence is very natural anxious to
escape the annoyance of a trial and
tho possihlo punishment, and tho
sufferer, if he is a poor man general
ly finds that it will bo to his advan
tage to accept some substantinl cash
compensation and avoid the loss of
time incident to his appearance as
a witness boforo the grand jury and
and the courts. No special harm is
done while tho criminals are persons
of moderate means, who foci the loss
of the money they pay enough to
make H a punishment to them and to
induce them to bo care'ul in their
conduct. But the principle is bad.
Avery rich man for instance, would
probably feel at liberty to maltreat
any poor citizen while ho knows
that lie can ‘pay out’ of tho conse
quences of his conduct with a sum
wiiich would be a trifle to him. Tho
entire system tends to give immunity
to wealthy offenders while the poor
man must suffer tho full legal pun-,
ishraent fdr his crime for the lack of
a little cash.”
E. B. Waters hu suspended oper
ations at Elmira cotton mills In Tay
lor county, on account of dullness of
tho times. More than a hundred
hands have been (brown out of em
ployment at this factory.
NO. 18
AN OLD ORIME RECALLED.
The Similarity Between the Colt-Ad.
doma and the Maxwell-Freller
Murders.
(Freni the New York World.)
“The assassination of C. A. Prcllcrin
St. Louis recalls to the recollection of
old New Y'orkeis tho Colt-Addoms
tragedy, than which no murder ever
caused more excitement in this city,”
said an old business man lo a reporter
yesterday. “The prominonco ot the
parlies involved and tho sensational
nature of tho details of tho crime,
made it a suject for discussion for
many years after it happened, for in
those days—somo forty years or more
ago—New Y'olk was much smaller
than at present, and such episodes
made a more lasting impression than
they do now. Ask some men about
it who can remember that far back
and you will find that about half of
them believe the murderer escaped
the others will assert he committed
suicide. Colt was a brother
ot tho man who became fa
mous through his revolvers.
Addoms was a prominent merchant.
'lhe crime was committed in Colt’s
room, corner of Broad way and Cham
bers street. The rnorchant had o-one
up to try to collect a hill. A dispute
arosed and Colt brained him and bat
tered tip (he body fearfully. He tried
to hide the crime by placing the
body in a trunk and sending it aboard
a vessel hound for Ihe South. The
ship was detained several days louv
er than was expected and th* body
began to decompose. The trunk
was burst open and the ghastly dis
co ory of its contents were made.
Colt was arrested ami blotches of
blood were found on the walls and
floor of his room, which ho had vain
ly tried to hide by smearing ink over
thorn, no was tried and condemned
and when the morning fixed for his
exoicutieii came Dr. Wainwright, who
subsequently became Bishop, entered
Ids cell in the Tombs, and was
shocked to discover a dead body ly
ing on the cm. That morning tho
dome of the Tombs caught fire, and
during‘•jhe Incident excitement, it ia
alleged that a man looking liko Colt
was seen to emorgo from tho prison,
dressed like a fireman, and enter n
cab, which was hurriedly driven
away. Many people believe it to ba
(be murderer, and this story received
a wide credit, as did subsequently tho
theory ofMrne.Buakello’s escaped by
a similar ruse.”
LINCOLN’S PROPHETIC DREAM.
(From ■•Carpa” Waalilngton Lotter.)
I tell tho story in President Lin
coln’s own language as ho told it to a
friend some time after it occurred:
It was after my election, when the
news was coming in thick and fast
all day, and there had been a great
•hurrah boysl’so that I was well tired
eut, and wont home to rest, throwing
myself upon a lounge in my chamber.
Opposite where I lay was a bureau
with a swinging glass upon it; and
looking in that glass, I saw myself
reflected nearly at full length. But
my face, I noticed, had two separate
and distinct images, tho tip of the
nose of one being about three inches
from tho tip of the nose of the other.
I was a little bothered, perhaps
startled, and got up and looked in
the glass, but tho illusion had van
ished. On lying down again I saw
it a.sceond time, plainer if possible
than before, and then I noticed that
ono of the faces was a little paler,
say five shades, than the other. I
got up and the thing melted away,
awl I went oft’. In tho excitement of
the hour I forgot all about it—nearly
hut not quite, for tho thing would
como up every once in a while and
give me a little pang, as though some
thing uncomfortable had happened
When I went home, I told my wife
about it, and a few days after I tried
tho experiment again, when, sure
enough, the thing came back again
if anything more ghostly than before.
After this, however, I was never able
to bring the tiling back again, though
I tried once very industriously to
show it to my wife, who was somo
what worried over it. She thought
it was a sign that I was to he ulocted
to a second term of office, and inter
preted the paleness of the lower face
as an omen that I would not see hfo
through my second term,”
Columbus lias just pulled a 300-
pound sturgeon out of the Chattahoo
chee.