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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.