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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. XX. THE BEST SHOW. How an Arkansas Kan Slipped Into Bant Jons.* Qo.pel Tent {\rkeotaw Travels!.) Martin Griggs, known in eastern Arkansas as Bad Martin, veas in Lit tle Rock the oilier day. Ho did not throuirh evil deeds, gain this unenvi ble name, bnt won it by his parox ysms of rage and by his almost cease less habit of swearing. ‘•Martin’'said a friend “they tell me that you have professed religion V “Yes, Abe, it's a fact. I ain't cussed none fur more than two mouths. Wy sail, tuthcr day when the old spikctail boss bit a mouthful o’ hair outen my head, I gritted my teeth, qut I didn’t enss a sulphurous streak, but I smiled after awhile an’ quietly took the hair out .of the old Spike Tail's mouth. ‘Here, mother,’ said I, handin’ the hair to my wife, ‘you cau stuff you pin cushion with this.' ” “What was the cause of this great change ?” “Sam Jones and the Lord.’’ “You heard Sam, did yov?’’ ‘•Oh, yes. I went up to Nashville to make arrangements for soilin’ a lot of Arkansaw whisky foi Robertson county. I hadn’t heard a sermon since I was a boy. My wife, she couldn’t git me to go to church. Wall, the first night arter I got to Nashville I was walkin’ round and seed a big tent. ‘Hello! - thinks I, "here is a show. I’ll jest go in for I ain’t seed a peart house in a long time.’ My, I never did see such a crowd. Folks jammed agin ene another like they wuz a foe red thar wan’t goiu’ to be seals enough. I screuged my way along.hut couldn't find the tickot wa gon. 1 seed sich a crowd pourin’ in that I niout slip in an’ I done it as slick as a whisle. Hooked round for the animals but couldu’t see none, so .1 tuck a seat and waited fur the fun to commence. Putty soon a smallish sort of a feller hopped up. Thar’s the ringmaster, thinks I; he’s gein’ to tell us about the concert that’ll take place alrter the show is over, but bless you, he commenced to give out a hymn. As wicked as I was I could lit help but think that he was carry in’ the burlesque a leetle too fur, but what was my ’stonishmont when the fslks took up tha hymn and commen ced to sing it. I leaned over to an old fellow that sot close to me and whispered : T live out in Arkansaw whar a man that has the cramp be cause he wants to fight so bad can al ways find ’commodation, but they don’t jump up and fall down on the gospel this way.’ The old feller look ed mighty hard at mn, but he didn’t say nothin.’ Airier tho singin’ some feller put up a putty good sort o’pra’r I whispered to the old man an’ said that it was a blamed shame. The old feller looked at mean’said that if I didn’t hush he would have me put out. This riled me. I told him that thar moat be men enough in the show to put me out, but agin they got through somebody would ruther go home than to stay an’ laugh at the clown. Then he perlitcly told me that it was no show, that Mr. Sam Jones, the great revivalist, was going to preach. I thanked him for his in formation, tuck a chaw terhackcr an’ le’ut back, concludin’ that it didn’t cost me nothin’ an’ that I could stand it till they'passed the hat around. When Sam commenced to preach, I chawed my tcrbackor an’ didn’t pay no attention to him, but putty soon it appeared like he wus playin’ on a banjer. I stopped chawin’ and look ed at bim. Then be tuck up the pul tiest flute I ever beam. I flung out my lerbacker an’listened. The fust thing 1 knowed he bad put down the Ante an’ tuck up a fiddle. Laws a massy, I never heard sach music in my life. I commenced to git sorry that I|had ever swapped hosscs on Sunday, an’it twan’t long till I would give a putty ef I hadn’t p’izened Wel ler’s dog. I thought o’ things that I stole when I wuz a boy—thought o’ the thousand o’ lies that I had toie an’ the tears commenced to run outen my eyes. I thought o’ my wifo, how true an’how patient she had always been, an’ how often I had hurl her feelin's; thought o’ iny children—an,’ oh, Lord, the face o’ my little boy that I whipped a few days before he died come up belorc me. I couldn’t stand it any longer. I drapped on my knees an’ cried, “Oh, Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ I did’ut care who was lookin’ at me. I wouldn't have cared if the whole world had been thar. I humbled my self ill the dust, a’ deep in my Heart I vowed that never again would 1 do anyihiug wrong. A flash of warm light entered my soul. A great glad ness spread over mv heart, 'iliar standin’close to me, was Sam Jones. He retched out his hand an’ said : “Brother, the Lord has been klud la VOU.’ “I don’t know how I got outen that tent, but I know that while I was walkin’along the street, every body seemed to want to shake hands with me. I went straightway to the depot and tuck tbo fust traiu tor homo. When my wife seed me .cornin’, she walked slowly to meet me but, sir, the blessed woman, scein’ something in my face uttered a shout and rushed into my anus. Right thar 1 atoned for cvey time I had hurt her foeliu’a That was tbe best show I ever went to, Abe—it was a show whar every uifui had a chance. I ain’t doue noth in’ wrong since, an’ as told you, I didn’t cuss when Spiko Tail bit a han’ful o’ hairoffeu the top o’ my head.” THE CHEROKEE miOKIB. Milton Turner cx-United States Minister to Liberia, and a man ot note among the colored people has return ed from the Indian Territory, where he went by invitation to meet the Dawes Senatorial committee In be half of the Cherokee freedinen. He state that the committee met at Vin ceton ind examined a large number of witnesses as to the claim of 7,000 freedmen of the Cherokee, who had been debarred frem receiving their share of $300,000 paid to the Chero kee Nation by the government for land ceded to it by the Indians. The money was withheld from the freed men on the grouud that they arc not of Cherokee blood. Turner’* argu ment before the committee was that under the treaty ol 1866 freedmen have all the rights of native born Cherokee, and he says the committee, after making m thorough examina tion ol the whole questiod, will re port to Congrese next winter recom mending that these freedmen be paid their pro lata of the 1300,000, which amounts to SIIB,OOO. The same con dition of things exists In the Choc taw nation and the same action will be probably taken here. Turner also succeeded In getting an allowance of forty acres ot land to each of four thousand of Choctaw freedmen ar.d all rights ef citizens. These negroes will vote for the first time at the elec tion for officers of the nation which takes place nevt moth. JUST AB BIHDIHO. A colored brother removing from Coweta to Meriwether brought along hischurch letter. Settling near Rocky Mount he concluded to become r mem ber at Bethel, a colored church near him. It to happened that in the same pocket in which reposed the certifi cate of church membership was also deposited last year’s guano note. In handing In hi* letter to the church the brother made a mistake and gave his guano note instead. The church clerk not being a very good reader never detected the error until several months afterwards. Being at a loss what to do about the matter he call ed upon aleanied white brother in the settlement for ad vie*. Tim white man counseled that the matter be al lowed to strnd, saying that a gnano note was more binding than anything else in the world. It forbid him even to take B homestead against ills reli gion and if one lived up to the note’s requirements he thought the church ought not to complain. So the gnano paper entitles the colored applicant to full membership at Bethel.—Meri wether Vindicator. An old negro, from the Indian Ter ritory, passed through Acworth a few days ago, on his way home. He claims to have a large tract of land in the Choctaw Nation and he is going to take his family there to settle on it. He says the Indians are very good people to live among, but they want all the “sculla” (money) he makes. He is sharp enough, though, to keep what he makes, so he says. A 13-ycar-old girl applied to Lieut. Roberts for a place in the Guard* house, at Columbus Tuesday night, to sleep. She was drunk. WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1885. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. • r Our Clever Young Country Woman's Po eltion In London Society— list Downs And Dp*. A clever scries of articles, entitled “Societv as it is, by one who is in If," is now running m an English society weekly. The latest of these is devot ed to tiie now celebrated young lady who was Miss Jerome of New York. Says the writer: Among tho many American wives wno have been married into tlie En glish aristocracy Lady Randolph Churchill wasoueoftlic first. ’VVliteii now nearly twelve years ago Lord Randolph brought back his beauilftH wife it was still considered a bold* thing tor an Englishman of any nemo or position to marry an American and the old and wise beads were shaken over this new departure of the scions of tho English houses; but at the tinto Lord Randolph was quite a young man. He had not been elected to Parliament and was entirely un known except as a smart boy who had left at Eton the reputation of a cjieerv laugh and amiable manners and had brought from Oxford a rep utation rather for liveliness than a love of study. Lady Randolph was received in London with good man ners, which is indeed extended to all comers, bnt with a certain reserve held to be appropriate towards one who had Invaded the sacred precincts of the British aristocracy. She soon however,considerable way with those with whom she bccamo personally ac quainted for she was, as she still is extremely beautiful, very graceful, admirably dressed and possessed of a very ready and upon occassion, of a very bltlog wit and oflhe fullest ca pacity for using it to advantage. Bho did not, indeed become what is called a popular woman but there was no lady in London who was more ad mired for her personal qualities, and there is every reason to believe that she would have made a steady if a slow progress had it not been that for. a few years, in consequeuce of events to which it is not nceossary further allude, her husband became obnoxi ous to the se. which then affected to reign supreme in London. The rg suit was immediately seen. The beau tiful well-dress witty Lady Randolph was solemnly banished from the great circles in London, and it was only those who were so independent as to bn able to despise tlio flat of superior society, or to ignorant as not to know that the flat existed, who extended to her the reception which her position gave her every right to command. Lady Randolph accepted the situa tion with equal ease and dignity. Nor did she for one moment flinch, or ever give to others tho opportunity of winning a triumph orcr her. But now all this has changed. Lord Ran dolph, with his usual discretion, has bided his time, and with a courage even greater than his discretion has made hie way over all obstacles to a foremoat position in the Conservative party. Society has for some time foreseen his rise and the establish ment of his power, and gradually Lady Randolph has been fully reinsta ted into its host grace: bat it was not until quite recently that it had been seen, in this instance, how greatly succeaa succeeds. The personages and hostesses who four years ago did not dare to avow that Lady Randolph was on their list at all now vie with each other in professing their unbound af fection for her and seeking her good grace*. The whole situation is altered and Lady Landolph has taken up the position, which she is eminently fitted to aioro, of a leader of London Soci ety. It Is not a pretty chapter on our London liistoiy and it is all the less pretty because tho discredit of it lies with those native social authorities to allowed themselves to be governed by a dictarial set, and all tlie credit of it lies with tbe beautiful young American who had come over as a stranger and who with her brilliant qualitties found herself so long treat ed with coldness and even wife dis dain. Were Lady Randolph less dis creet than she is she might now onjoy an unmeasured triumph over those who formerly slighted her, but she is generous as well as beautiful, pru dent as well as willv, and it will be found that she will hear with a rare grace the new and splendid position to which she has stepped. No woman is more able than she to aid her husband career by lier own talents and abilities and though per haps she mav smile secretly at those who are now so anxious to pay her court, she will most certainly receive them with graee and favor and will add to the distinction ot Lord Ran dolph’s position the still further dis tinction—that he possesses a most beautiful and accomplished wife. BOUND REASON IN Q. Capital may bo put in labor ami manure without the slightest fear of loss and With great certainty of prof it. Iu England fifty dollars per acre is not an unusual amount,even for tenants who rent land, to expend upon one acre. There tho scarcity of land forces farmers to make the most of it —causes lavishness In the use of la bor and manure. In this country land and was formerly cheap,and labor not excessively dear; lienee the temp tation to utilize all tho land possible. Bnt now the conditions are changed; tho land has lost its virgin fertility, labor has become dear, though nomi nally cheap, and our true policy is to curtail the use ot tho latter by culti vating smaller areas, put money in manures instead of labor, and push the lattor (manures) just as far as pratlcable. AVliat matters it if the to anure put on an acre of land, is worth livo limes tho cost of land pro vided it pays! What boots it if the unthinking and tho uninformed cry out against the enormous sums paid out for fertilizers? Wo hesitate not to affirm, that with good judgment and prudence controlling their use,ten times tho money now spent for them might bo invested in them with handsome profit. Instead of $2 to $5 por acre, $lO, sls or S2O per acre in fertiliizers would be nono 100 much for profit after tho land lias been brought in condition to receive It. Many believe that commercial fer tilizers have ruined the country, that homemade manure is tho only reli ance. Wo indorse most cordially the value of tho latter theoretically and pratically, it lias shown us its great worth, and we take it for granted that every thrifty farmer accumulates all of it he possibly can. But wlieu he has done this he feels the neod of more manure than he has and it is just here where fertilizers comes in. They make home made manures go so much farther. The compost heap constitutes the farmer’s stronghold. Lay tho foundation in a deep soil filled with humus, and then have faith and nerve to put money freoly in manures. That briefly describes the road to prosperity. IN THE SPRING. The country school tcaelicr had been telling her scholars about the seasons and their peculiarities, audio impress their youthful minds with the facts, she questioned thorn on the points she had given. She had asked several questions, and finally reached the bad boy iu tho corner. “Well, Johnny,” she said, “have you been paying attention?” “Yosum,” lie answered promptly. “I’m glad to hear it, Johnny. Now can you tell me what there is in the spring.” “Yesum, I kin. but I don’t want to. “Oh, yes. you do. Don’t be afraid. You have heard the other scholars. Bea good boy, now, and tell us what there is in the spring ?” “Wy—wy—mum, there’s a frog, an’ a lizard an’ a dead cat in it, but I did put '9m there. It was George Win ters, for I seen him do it.”—Merchant Traveler. A PASTOR FIGHTS A DSI EL. (Oaligiißni’ii M*tHeirr, July 8) A Protestant pastor, M. Duclaud, Republican deputy for the Charente, fought a duel yesterday on the Bel gian frontier with M. Rulhiere, editor of the Suffrage Universal, a Bonapar tist journal published at Angoulemc. His seconds were MM. Lockroy and Clcmeneeau, those of his adversary being MM. do Loquiessie and Barbo. Tho weapon selected for tho encoun ter was the sword. M. Rulhiere was wounded on the right forearm, and ho is now suffering from severe hom orrhage. M. Duclaud, who is sixty five years of age, was congratulated by hiscolleaguog on his reappearance in the chamber yesterday. This is tho first lime we have heard of him iu public, and wo heartily congratu himupon his feat of arms, which, wo trust,are fully in accord with his Christian principles as a minister of the gospel. KRB.KATR OH ABE SPRAGUE. Some Recollections of That Pemone Been ty. Her Only Aot of Indiscretion. [Prom the Connell Bluffs Nonparsll.l The despicable efforts of certain journals to continue the unjust perse cution of the lady whose name heads this article are constantly meet ing with rebuke. An old Washing ton detective who was in a position to know the inside of this matter, both political and social, furnishes the Nonpareil with some facts in the cel ebrated divorce case which at one time attracted so much attention. When Chief Justice Chase succeeded in marrying his accomplished daugh ter Kale, to Governor Sprague, then United States Senator. Sprague was suppose! to bo immensely rich and soon after commenced house-keeping in grand stylo upon a farm owned by tho Chief Justice a few miles out from the city of Washington. An attempt was made to imitate the landed aristocracy of England in the management of this rural retreat. There was a head farmer or steward, with a large force of understrappers, and the farm was polished up like a lawn at a summer resort. There was a lodgokeeper, a butler, a house keeper, a head chambermaid, a gov erness, a musical instructor, a hostler, a stable boy, a head gardener, etc., a forco of more than forty persons. The farm soon became the favorite resort of socioty and literary people, as well as of .politicians. Mrs. Sprague was a charming hostess and her house was a sort et refuge from the noise of tho city and tho vexation of political lifo. Senators, Judges, men of all science and letters wore daily visitors, but no persons were there at frequently as Carl Schurz, Conk ling, Bayard, Kernan, Thurman, Pot ter, a member of the House from New Jersey, ene ot tho purest men in Con gress at that time. When the divorce rase was commenced skilled detec tives were employed by Governor Spraguo’s attorneys to intorvlew this army of domestics for the purpose of breaking down the character of Mrs. Sprague. Nearly Ml of tho entire force were at different times ap proached and importuned both with monry and with promises of po litical preferment by Sprague’s agent, who represented to them that Sprague was a man of great wealth aud that by hoipiug him as witnesses in his suit they would get good pay and that he would give them contin uous employment at double tho wages they were then getting. One man who had married a German girl that had been Mrs. Sprague’s maid and had travelled with her when abroad, was offered three thousand dollars to swear that Conkling and Mrs. Sprague hail in Boston and other places been guilty of indiscretions. The miserable husband tried to pur suade his wife to swear to all they wanted, but her sturdy German character revolted and she refused to be a party to the perjury that was asked of her. And to the credit of the honesty of the entire army of servants working for the family, not one was to be found who would or could testi fy to a single exception, and this one testified that on one occassion she had on one occasion she had seen Mrs 1 Sprague—for a moment enly— sit on Carl Schnrz’s lap, which act was too ridiculous for belief and was only cal culated to provoke an incredulous smile. Ono and all said Sprague was a drunkard. Isaac, an educated an intelligent colored man who was Sprague’s body servant said that he had known Sprague to have drunks of three days duration, and that when able to walk he would follow Mrs. Sprague about the premises, using to ward hnr vulgar and indecent epi. theta, and that her usual custom was to simply get out of his way. What a foarful penalty has this poor woman paid for her father’s towering ambi tion. The longest cotton row in tho coun try, and probably in the world, says a Tarboro, South Carolina, paper, is on the Shiloh farm of Messrs. Slaton A Jeffries. Tho row begins in the center of a hundfod acre field and goes round and round, spiral like, un til tho entire field is gone over. To side up the cotton on one side requires only five and a half days. In this field Air. Jeffries estimates that he will, during the cultivation of tho crop, save at least tlie use of one horse for three weeks. NO. 31 A BRIDEGROOM'S SUICIDE. doing np Into a Mountain. He Shot Him self In Bight of His Bride, Sheakdoah, Pa., July 12—Sunday suicides are alarmingly on the increase at this place. Not more than a mouth ago Miss Jennie Yarnell, an accom plished young lady, shot herself through the heart in her bed-room at her residence on Coal Street,dying in stanUy.Thrce weeks prior to this two died by their own hand, and to-day Charles Dver, an outside foreman for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, committed sui cide on the Kingtown mountain by shoo'ing himsolf through the heart. Dyer was a young man of much promise, and had been married a few weeks only. Eight months ago he came here a perfect stranger, and to all appearance was an industrious young man. He soon obtained em ployment as a waiter and bar-lcnder at the Merchants’ Hotel, which place he risigned to accept a foremanship at one of the neighboring coilierie*. He mingled in good society, and soonr made the acquaintance of Miss Lizzie Warnick. Several weeks ago they were married, and their affection for each other indicated extreme happi ness. Early last week Dyer became downhearted aud complained of feel ing ill. Nothing was spared to revive his drooping spirits, but without ef fect. He remained in doors all the week, but this morning he felt some what better. Just before dinner he embraced his bride, and, after kissing her, he said; those are the last, dear Lizzie, you will ever get from me.” Ho smiled and jokingly addd: “I am going to take a walk to the mountain. Yon remain at the deor and I will wave to you.” Tho unsuspecting woman was so overjoyed at the change, which she thought was for the better, that she forgot the remark he had previously niade and watched her husband walk through the garden to a hillside a few hundred yards distant. When he readied the point where he was going, two ladies happened to be sitting there, to whom he said: “I am going to do it now.” Ho stood up erect, waved his hand kerchief three times to his wife, who stood in the doorway, drew from his pocket a revolver, pointed it to his breast, and deliberately tired, killing himself Instantly. The two ladies were so overcome wi*h fright that they were unable to move from tho •pet, while the wife ran wildly to her husband’s side. The neighbors quickly gathered round and took charge of her, while the dead mam was removed to his home. His wifa soon entered the room, knelt by his side, and piteously implored him to toll her why he had broken her heart* was ne response and the half distracted women was removed. When tho excitement was over an an examination proved, to the sur prise ef evory one, that Dyer had another wife with four children im Port Carbon, who had instituted le gal proceedings against him. This was jvhat preyed on his mind and drove him to suicide. Tho deepest sympathy is felt for the unfoi tunato bride, who has not yet attained her twentieth year. Dyer was about 33 years of age. ACOKBT OOMINQ. We take the following from a lato issuo of the Courier-Journal: “You may look out for a brilliant comet in the Southwestern heavens early In August or the latter part of July," said Prof. John M. Klein, Kentucky’s as!romenter, “Upon what theory do you base such a prediction ?” I asked. “Well, the fact of the matter is I have noted for several nights the unmistak* able path of tho comet. Look IDo you see that great streak in the heav ens resembling somewhat the milky way ? It is the path or orbit of a great comet and that streak of light is the gaseous matter that tollews in the wake of a cemct. It is impossi ble to see it at present, as it travelein the orbit of the sun, whose brilliant light during the day prevents the hu man eye from seeing it. The deflection by the latter part of July or August will however, bring it aboyo the hori zon during the early evening hours when it will bo plainly visible and when it will be of the first magni tude.”