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The Daily Herald.
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1873.
TUk HKKALD PliBLIHHISU COnPADiV,
AL.KX. ST. CLA.IR-AB11AM8,
IIKV IIY W. OKAOY,
a. A. ALSTON,
Cditon and Aaiugfit.
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TO-DAY’S HERALD
FIRST PAGE—Telegrams—Tbe Irish Catholic Union.
Foreign News—Terrible Deith— The Eufaula
Fair Over—New Adv* rt:seim uts.
Mother—An Unfaithful
FOURTH PAGE—Editorials—Oar Beloved Bullock—
The Case of Mr. das. Dunning—To tbe Atlanta
Pomological Society—Athens and Atlanta—The
“Duclieses” That School Fund — Post-Office
Embezzlement—Macon Department—Miscellany.
FIFTH PAGE—The South—Georgia, Alabama, and
South Carolina Items — Financial and Commer
cial—Adtisements.
SIXTH PAFE—The Story of Nelrion—Advertisements
SEVENTH PAGE—The “Osprey"—Advertisements.
EIGHTH PAGE—City Record—Religions Services To-
Day — Pencilettes—Court Record—Before the
Footlights—War Declared—Advertisements.
Those Northern papers keep taunting the
■Southern press with assertions that J. Wilke*
Booth is dead. Well, ain’t Lincoln dead
too ?
It is curious, but it is a fact, that when a
dry goods clerk is hid behind a pile of goods,
and you can see nothing but his head, you
can still see his “middle part.”
TO THE ATLANTA POMOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
We would suggest that an early and full
meeting of this society be held, and that it
shall modify its constitution by inserting the
word “Horticultural,” in the place of “Po
mological,” and thus embrace a larger class
of our people at all seasons of the year. The
importance of a larger supply of cabbage,
beets, carrots, potatoes, etc., is very appar
ent, and demands equal attention.
Fulton county certainly ought to supply
our own people with cabbage and potatoes.
ATHENS AND ATLANTA.
TI1K CASE OF SIR. JAtfKS DUNNING.
^ We have never recorded a case of defalca
tion, surrounded by sadder circumstances, or
fuller of deep thoughtful suggestion, than the
case of James Duuning, the money clerk in
the Atlanta Post Office.
If there ever was an honest man on earth,
it is Jas. L. Dunning, the father of the unfor
tunate young man. Some years ago Mr. Mc
Laughlin, then his money clerk, absconded,
leaving a deficit in his accounts of several
thousands of dollars. Quietly and heroically
the old man resolved himself to makegood
what had been lost to the government by his
employe. Being comparatively poor, the gov
ernment allowed him to commence payment
of the 6elf-imposed debt by instalments.
Since then no man has seen Jos. L. Dunning
at any public place of amusement; no one has
seen him speDd a single dollar for any luxury.
With astern resolve to wipe out the stain, he
has taken from his salary every spare dollar
(which otherwise would have gone to make
comfortable his declining life, and smooth bis
pathway down the hill), and devoted it to the
redemption of his obligation.
And now, after years of deprivation and
struggle, when he had paid all but about six
hundred dollars of the defalcation, and was
almost free from the bondage of the debt, he
finds himself, gray haired and enfeebled,
brought face to face with another defalcation,
and this time—by his own son. It is a hard
lot; and while Mr. Dunning has always dif
fered with us politically, and in most of his
views been obnoxious to us, he has our heart
iest and amplest sympathy.
And yet wo cannot find it in our hearts to
say much that is bard against “young Jim
Dunning.” He was ruined by being a “a
clever fellow.” There was no premedit ition
in bis defalcation. If he bad determined to
become a rascal, he would have acted more
prudently and on a huger scale. His books
shows the record. A littlo overdraft here,
and a little overdraft there; fifty dollars too
much here, and fifty dollars too much there;
all drawn doubtless with the intention of
settling up the whole score before long; then
the sudden coming of an investigating officer,
and flight and disgrace ! It is an old story,
and a suggestive one 1
Trying his luck at the faro table; over
drawing to-night to win wbat was lost last
night; running witn unscrupulous women
and overdrawing a little unler the influence
of their wiles; back to the gaming table
again, in a desperate effort to “get a turn of
luck and strengthen up,” and then at last,
the crash !
How many of our young America are fol
lowing in his footsteps ?
Don’t think you are safe, young gentlemen,
because you have never beea caught. No
man is safe who gambles at all, or affects the
demi-monde to any great extent.
“Cards and women” can’t bo supported
In an interview with Mr. Hart, one of the
engineers on the North Eastern railroad,
imining from hens to the Air-Lino road,
(intersecting it somewhere near Belton) we
learn that the grading is now finished to
within four miles of the Air-Line, and that
the iron will be laid, and trains bo running to ! lon S b * 'te income of a prince, much less Vy
That School Fund-
Mr. WARE COMES AGAIN.
HE INSITS ON KNOWING ALL ABOUT IT.
Editors or the Herald :
Gentlemen—I would not trouble you again,
but that I w ish to call your attention to a slight
misapprehension under which the Treasurer
seems to labor. Iu answer to some inquiries
made, I suppose, by some one connected with
tho Herald, he says “that the real cause of
the delay was tho scarcity of money. The
tax collectors have been slow in making re
mittances since the money panic.”
That Commissioner Orr was under the im
pression that the money to pay teachers for
service rendered in 1871 was raised by a tax
imposed aud partly collected in 1872, aod
that $74,000 was in the treasury, and availa
ble for the payment of the debt, on the 20th
of September just passed, seems to be im
plied in a circular addressed to the
county teachers of DeKalb, post-marked
September 20th, the first pargrnph of which
reads as lollowe: “ I hereby notify you that I
have just completed the apportionment cf an
other installment of the fund derived from
the tax levied under ‘An Act to provide for
the payment of tho debt due teachers aud
school officers who did service under the pub
lic school law in the year 1871/ approved Au
gust 19, 1872. The amount just apportioned
is $74,000. This covers the entire sum real
ized from the tax mentioned, from the time
of the first apportionment in December last,
np to the 10th inst. Tho pro rata of your
county i3 $000.02.”
While I have no donbt that the teachers
recognize tho duty of the citizen to bear with
out complaint any inconvenience or loss
which the necessities of the State may in
flict, endurance ceases to be a virtue when
discrimination, to the injury of a class, inures
to the benefit of individuals or corporations
only. Very respectfully.
D. D. Ware.
M-OIcg EiUent.
Rumored Defalcation of Jas.
Dunning Confirmed.
HIS WHEREABOUTS NOT
KNOWN.
tLo salary of a young man. The two spoiled
tho material of a good m\n when they ruined
Jim Dunning.
We are anthoiized to say that tho Govern-
Tho iron will bo laid ("n the ment will not lose a d >llar by tho deficiency.
1 Postmaster Dunning will replace every cent
that is lacking upon a fair and square bal
ance of the books.
Athens by next July. This will be a very im
portant road and will bring a deal of trade
to Atlanta, besides Lringing cs about forty
railc3 closer to our very pleasant little neigh
tor, Athens.
Air-Line end of the road first, and continued !
on to tho terminus cs fast as practicable.
We wish this enterprise a speedy and fall
caccess.
St. Loui3, Missouri, October 1,1873. 1
Editor Lexington Caucasian:
Please publish the following card:
I proposa to bet five thousand dollars ($5,-
000) that President U. S. Grant, unless he
dies from natural or other causes, will be as
sassinated beforo tbe tenth day of April,
1874.
If accepted, the money to be deposited on
or before the tenth of November next.
Parties desiring to wager larger or smaller
amounts, can address me at St. Louis, Mis
souri, or through your columns.
Respectfully, H. Clay Harper.
We wouldn’t be surprised if H. C. Harper
should kick Grant to death, himself. He is
evidently a jack-assassin. He ought to close
his bet on the 1st of April instead of the 10th.
A candidate that is not an office seeker-
Tlie Hon. John Collier.
THE “DUCIIESSES-’-NOTES OF THEIR
ORIGIN.
It is a source of gratification to know that
since the publication ot our hastily prapared
article on the recent sale of cattle, which took
place near Utica, New York, in September
last, of an interest unusual and commenda
ble among our readers, many of whom are
curious to know something more of the histo
ry of the “Duchesses,” or by another name—
tbe short horn breed of cattle.
Brief historical notes of this famous stock
are gathered from a recent number of the
Mark Lane Express. “The first of the fami
ly,” says the writer, “we hear anything of,
was bonght by Charles Colling, from the
Duke of Northumberland’s agent, at Stan-
wick, in 1784, for the modest sum of £13,
(about $05). She was a massive, short
legged cow, of a yellowish red color, with the
breast near the ground, with a wide back,
and was a great grower. She was descended
from the old stock of Sir Hugh Smithson, of
Stanwick. Thomas Bates bought from Chas.
OUR BELOVED BULLOCK.
For some time past we have seriously feared
that Rufus B. Bullock, our ex-Governor, was
suffering the pangs of impeenniosity. In
deed, we sometimes feared that this tender
political sprig had been cut off in its bloom
by the bleak winds of adversity.
Hence we were rejoiced to see tbo anuexed
extract from a New York paper, whi h shows
that the self-exiled statesman is .living in tho
enjoyment of at least a good share of this
this world’s goods:
Editors Union—Bufus Bullock, the well
known ex-Governor of Georgia, is making
Albion his home for tho present, and we think
he is inclined towards his native village for
his home in tbe future. The Governor is
a very portly personage; a person whom one
would at first sight note as a distinguished
individual. He is very fine looking, has also
a fine looking wife and two children. On any
pleasant day he may be seen upon our streets
driving a team of handsome black horses, at
tached to an elegant carnage. His coachman,
a negro, almost always accompanies him, sit
ting on the same seat with his distinguished
master, and sometimes taking the reins.
Mr. John B. Goodwin, candidate for Al
derman from the First Ward ; is a youDg gen
tleman of fine abilities, of unswerving integ
rity, a good Democrat, and deserves the
support of the people. He will inako a
capital Councilman, and we hope to see him
elected by a rousing majority. He is running
with no clique or ring, and will make the
race unencumbered by any promises, and
when elected will bo absolutely free to dis
charge all duties as hi3 conscience dictates.
Mr. G. Clifford Soiren, office No. 32 Cedar
street, is the agent of the Herald in New
r | ablo him to return to his post at the bank.
Collftgwne of the descendant* of this cow in ; York, nn d lg authorized to receive subscrip- j He states that when the doors were unlocked
1804 for one hundred guineas, and another
at Coding's sale in 1810 for which ho paid
183 guineas. This latter cow Mr. Bates
styled her Duchess First, and from her all
the present family have descended. Mr.
Bates tells ns that he was induced to select
this tribe from having found that they were
great growers, and quick feeders, with fine
quality of meat, consuming little food in
proportion to their growth, and also from
finding that they were great milkers.”
The result* of the Hon. Mr. Campbel*, of
New York, having selected the same family
of cattle, have been given in the Herald, and
the article hfts aroused a spirit of inquiry on
Hie blooded-cattle question among our
readers. There are other popular breeds of
oattle to which we would be pleased to direct
the attention of Georgia farmers at a proper
time. It is high time that tho “ sernb ”
stock of the Htate should give plac^ to im
proved kinds, and that onr enterprising far
mers should move in the matter without
delay.
A spirit and zeal, almost unprecedented, is
manifested tfy intelligent men on horticultural
subjects. Frnit culture is discussed with in
creasing interest This is wise and truly in-
couraging, in our judgment. The soil is the
source of all wealth.
Tho cows in Vermout yield an average of
$6,000,000 n year. Let Georgia farmers
ponder this fact, and adjust themselves
accordingly.
Arlington—National Cemetery.
To the Editors of the Herald:
Tho National Cemetery, at Arlington, tha
former elegant residence of oar distinguished
and deeply lamented General Lee, was estab
lished by tho United States Government,
May 13th, 18C4.
The record of interments shows the fol
lowing: Interments, 11,276; known, 7,199;
unknown, 4,077. At number 5,235, are de
posited the remains of S. F. Zeiler, of Com
pany E, Fifth Tennessee Regiment, who died
on February G, 1865.
Up to the 29th of September, 1873. the
record of visitors names shows that 57,855
had registered. The building and grounds
are kept in peifect order by the officers in
charge. *
Narrow Escape from Death in
a Bank Vault.
Detroit Free Tress.
A singular accident occurred at Griawohl-
street baukiug house Saturday noon, by
which one of the employes of tho establish
ment came near losing his life through suffo
cation. It appears that the gentleman who
was the 6ufferer had occasion to enter the inner
chamber of the vault about fifteen minutes
before tho hour for closing tho bank had ar
rived, when an assistant in the cish depart
ment, without cvoi as much as looking into
the vault (thereby neglecting to
turn off the gas which is kept
burning during business houis)
carelessly slammed the inner door and looked
it. Unconscious c*f tho fact that ho had im
prisoned a human being, lie forced the mas
sive outer dcor of tho vault into position,
turned the key, and depositing it in his
pocket took his customary position at tbe
j desk. In the business routine of this estab-
; lishmeut the day books are regularly posted
j before closing, in order that no interruption
may occur on reopening for the afternoon's
transactions, and the involuntary prisoner,
who superintends this department, not being
present to giro tho usual orders, au inquiry
was raised as to wliat had become of him.
After a few moments’ patient waiting it was
decided to send for him, and with this view a
messenger boy way dispatched to hunt him
up. The boy soon returned sayiug that he
bad made a diligent search but without re
sult. As th« man’s hat and coat were hang
ing on the rack it was apparent that he could
cot have gone far, and it wa3 decided to wait
for him until twelve o'clock before closing the
books. The City Hall bell soon tolled that
hour, and the gentlemen engaged in the bank
prepared to go to dinner, leaving one of their
number at the door in charge of the missing
man’s clothing.
In going out the teller remarked in a joking
manner that their colleague had been impris
oned in the vault. This caused the gentle
man who closed it so much uneasiness that
he at once decided, notwithstanding tbe burst
of laughter which his undertaking might cre
ate, to swing both doors of the vault and
walk in. This was immediately done, when,
to tho horror of those outside, he uttered a
shriek and called for assistance. To rush
into the vault and turn on the gas, which had
become extinguished, was but the work of an
instant, when the prostrate form of the jjoor
fellow w’as discovered in a position which re
vealed his sufferings, and showed bow hard
he had struggled to regain feis liberty. The
apparently lifeless body was carried ont of
the vault, and placed on a sofa in tb9 direc
tors’ parlor. Several physicians were imme
diately summoned, who, aided by the
bank employees, made every possible
effort to resuscitate him. Alter a half-
hour’s most assiduous labor, daring which
time proper restoratives were applied, they
were rewarded by perceiving unmistakable
symptoms of the return of animation. Under
advice of tbo attending physicians lie was
placed in a carriage and conveyed to his
home, whore he shortly afterward returned to
consciousness. Although very weak from the
effects of liis imprisonment, the care and
treatment which he is receiving will soon en-
ablo him to return to his post at the bank.
In accordance with a promise made on yesterday
morning, we give all the news attainable in reference
to tbe deficit cf Mr. Jas. Dunning. We ignore street
rumor, and only give what wo obtained from authen
tic souroe*. A Reporter called on Mr. Js«. L. Don
ning, postmaster, by whom he was courteously receiv
ed, and the following interview was proceeded with:
Reporter—I feel a delicacy in calling on a father to
ask for intelligence which will probably injure a son,
but wishing to give reliable information, I ca.led on
you for it. Can you give me any information regard
ing the affair?
Judge Dunning—What I say will be as postmaster,
not as a father, and no circumstances will I shield
him. The matter is still nnder investigation. There
is no doubt in mind but that James Dunning has
defaulted; but for what amount lam unable to say,
as we have not finished footing up the account#
Reporter—Who were his bondsmen, cr did he have
any ?
Judge D—He did not have any bondmen. I am re.
f$on&ible as postmaster for tho deficit, be it vhat
it may. I will pay it some way, as I did Me.
Lauglilin’s defaulting matters. The port-office depart
ment was very lenient with me, and allowed me to vaj
in installments. I have paid tho whole amount, excep^
about $703. To do it I have been forced to sell reaj
estate. Neither myself nor wifo have been to any
place of amusement since, and I have spent only such
money as was requisite for the necessaries of life and
to dress comfortably and decently.
Reporter—At what time was the defalcation sus
pected ?
Judge D.—We only discovered a deficit about 12
o’clock to-day, and from tho review of his books I
think that a 1 the discrepancies have occurred within
the last thirty days.
Reporter—Have you any idea of his where bouts ?
Judge D.—I have not the slightest idea of where he
is, did not when he left town, or In fact if he U out of
town; only know that he has not been at the office for
the past two days.
Reporter—now was that—Yon employed a money
Order Clerk without bond ?
Judge D—After McLaughlin defaulted I was io a
dilemma about fiiliDg tho appointment, I thought
surely I could trust my own son, so I gave him the
appointment.
Reporter—Can you give us any additional informa
tion ?
Judge D.— Not to day; but so soon as the investiga
tion is concluded, I will give all the facts In detail.
Thanking him for what information he had fur
nished,and expressing a solicitude that a development
of facts would mend matters, we withdrew.
The reporter then called on P. H. Woodward, and
asked Mm If he could give ns any news of this un
fortunate; affair. He stated that as the matter was
still under investigation, be thought it bad policy
to make any statement, but three things wero un
questionably true. They were to-wit: That Dunning
had defaulted and lLat he had absconded to avoid
detection. Ho promised to give other facts on Mon
day. As far as we can learn from reliable sources
the amount of the deficit discovered is in the neigh
borhood of four or five thousand dcliars.
A private telegram was received on yesterday from
Macon, stating that Dunning passed through Mcccn
on Thursday. He went do vn tbo Mecca &i d Bruna-
wich road.
Suicide of Mieliaei Collins.
MACON DEPARTMENT.
«. C. STEVENSON
CITY EDITOR.
MACON, GA.. SATURDAY. OC1. 18, 1873
TJie Herald Office
has been removed to Bawlston’s Block, Third s
first door onthe right.
THE FAIR.
HOW THE OLD THING
WORKING.
The Chicken Display.
IS
A Nonpareil Circus.
As the season for the Fair approaches, everything
and everybody i« feverish with excitement. Huff,
the indomitable and impressible, is serene through
all the confusion, and with an executive ability that is
rare and wonderful, is hand ling its vast end infinite
affairs with skill and ease.
THE POULTRY SHOW,
will be, without exception, tho finest ever seen in the
South. There wil* be over five hundred coops on ex
hibition, some of them holding one hundred (fowls.
Mr. R. H. Allen, of New York, will briDg cut several
trains filled with chickens, cattle, horses, etc. There
will be a good chicken auction after the exhibition.
THE MILITABT DISPLAY
Will be unique and superb. Fifty tents have been en
gaged from New York for tbe bene fit of the visiting
soldiers. The Cadets of your city will be entertained
by tho Macon Volunteers.
THE GREAT EASTERN CIRCUS.
One of the hugest attractions of tin whole season No change
will be the Oreat Eastern Circus, which shows for j
thfffcdays inside the grounds. At drew Haight, the
troupe played to * small house last night. The per
formance was clever throughout, but the audience
was tco slim to realize for the chart !y to which the
proceeds were to beapplL-d. Tbe expenses, not in
cluding salaries, were $13.50 more than the receipts."
The truth is, it failed to get the indorsement of the
Herald, and therefore was a failure. The Telegraph
manfully cimo to the reacu-, cahootDershiply and lo
cally. but tbe thing wouldn’t go. The Howard Asso
ciations of Memphis and Shreveport will please no
tice the deficit of thirteen dollars and fifty cents, and
take measures to balance tha account.
The town wasn’t large enough for Lulu to perform
iu, sud besides this slight circumstance, at least six
Colonels of the Telegraph endorsed her. and that was
enough to kill anything.
They ought to pay that deficit—that thirteen fifty.
But wo grieve to notice that thia Telegraph—this
great “Roman Hippodrome and Balloon," has’otyet
fallen in love with tho Herald. It still speaks cf
‘•our territory," and claims that it is the only witch
entitled to come upon this heath. Th9 following
comic sceno was witnessed thia morning:
Time 5:20—Herald Train blows at VineviHe—Her
ald newsboy, in livery, appears nad<.r an editor’s
window:
Newsboy Loq—Hero’s your morning Heu -alx>!
Tno Colonel (from balcony aloft, and without hat,
coat or pants}—.Have you got the Telegraph ?
“No, salt!” Tbe press is broke. Twcni bo hero
for two hours yet
The Colonel, retiring, say* something which sounds
very much like “hell!’’
The Grangers Meeting on the *8 ill.
As announced in the Herald yesterday morning,
tho Goorgia Sta’e Grangers will meet here on the 28th.
We suggest to Mayor Huff and his board of Aldermen
that a suitable hall be provided for them. As the
number of delegates will no doubt be overwhelmingly
large we have but one hall largT enough, and that is
iu the Grand Lodge building.
Produce Market.
We quote c"e*r ribbid sides I0;^c; shoulders 9\c;
white com e«»rce at $l»l 05; m>al $1 10; standard
hams IG. ialTc; 2’ 4 bagging lG,' a c; India, 14c for 2>*\
That Railroad Sale.
We think tho Brunswick Appeal very much mis-
be.t circa, m.n.ger in the world. offered Huff S2.0CO j uk( , n m BU(ing ,. tt , Mtn „ Widle , hid . ,p r In the
to mllow him to ehow just oulr.de the grounds, but Lamp” ,» tho «,| e of 1!ie Bruo.wick end Albany tail-
Huff was too sharp to allow an oppo.ition fair to set | roa4 . He> with the chk , msgMtea of the Central,
up just outside his gates, refused, letting Haight show
i in Macon that day. One of them was questioned
inside the grounds free. It will be one of tbe biggest j i„ regard to buying tho real, and bio reply was: ‘ The
attractions of the whole week. First, there Is the free J Cnn i ra i has got enough broken down roads on its
balloon ascension, which of itself would draw hun
dreds upon hundreds into the grounds. Then there \
is tbe immense procession of animals and curiosities— j
We don’t want any more.’’
Sprinkling Carts.
It is suggested that our streets ought to he sprinkled.
without any doubt the largest and moet brilliant lhat . TLat is wel! nigh impossible. They are from 125 to
ever paraded in the South-which, as it daily files into al0 fee i wiJc , aii j it WO uM tb .. r „ fo . c uliB , 4 , l y
the gates, will carry multitudes with it. Then Mr. lay of half the waler in tho Ocmulgee river to koep
Haight has
1HHF.E MAGNIFICENT BRASS BANDS
which will tend to enliven the inside scene with their j
drums aud fifes and bugles. B2sides thia, the twelve |
enormous centre pole tents, tho flags, and caparisons, 1
the two hundred horses aud the threo hundred pec- j
down tho dust.
Robbery of a Countryman.
Yesterday, R. H. Harris, of Crawford county, came
into Macon with two or three bales of his cotton, a* d
several of his bands. After selling out, he stepped
with them into Burdick Brothers for the purpeee <
pie which occupy themselves with this show, will ( dividing out the money. Whilst doing so his pocket-
do much to fill the grounds up with a lively, interest- j book, containing $148, was stolen. The whole party
itself, is | seemed to be att
•’ ; of pick pock tts
tions and contract for advertisements.
on him he cried at the top of Lis voice with
but a fuint hope of being beard. He shook
the inner door until it rattled on its hinges, but
all in vain, and after Laving resorted to every
means in his power to liberate himself from
his tomb, exhausted by exertion and stifled by
tho close air of tho vault, he fell helplessly
to the stone floor to meet his seemingly in
evitable doom. He soon after became insen
sible, and but for the timely discovery of his
whereabonts, the escape ot gas and the fetid
atmosphere of his bermetrically scaled iron
coffin would soon have consummated their
deadly work.
On Sunday, tho 5;li instant, a party
person* made a friendly call at the farmhouse I
ci Michael Collins, near Buncombe, in Du
buque county, Iowa. The party consisted of
Richard Ferrell and his wife, John Delabanty
and a Mrs. Phelan. Collins and bis wife show
ed their visitors over the stock yard, but after
a time Mike said something to bis wifo which
caused her to cry, and complain to the four
visitors that she was “afraid to live with him
any longer, he had threatened her life so of
ten.” Mrs. Farrell told Mike that
Ihe was a “good fellow,’’ and
asked him what Ellen—his wife—had
done? Mike said: “Nothing!” and felt sorry
for abusing her. Then Ellen cried again, and
said 6hehad “always done the best she could
for him, and it was hard to bear.” Then
Mike appeared to excuse himself; he knew he
treated his wife badly, and he was now go
ing out, and they would never see him any
more. “ThcD, Mrs. Farrell said, they didn’t
come there to hear about Mike’s difficulties,
and the party of four got into their
wagon to go home again and Mrs. Col
lins got into tho wagon with them. Just
as they wero starting, Mike Collins, from
the house, called to Delabanty to “come
here,” and when Delahauty went there, Col
lins had swallowed enough strychnine to kill
off half of Dubnque county. “Mike,” said
Delabanty, “sure, you wouldn’t do the like of
that?” And poor Mike said, “Yes, it was
done now, and the bottle was in the stove.”
Delabanty evidently didn’t believe Michael
Collins, for he was going to leave him. Mike
then said, “the stomach was eating out of
him,” it was “tearing him to pieces,” and
then he said his legs were getting weak, and
called to Richard Farrell to catch him, and
then he fell back stone dead.
While all this was going on, Mrs. Farrell
Mrs. Phelan and Ellen Collins, tbe wife, were
sitting in the wagon waiting for the two men
to drive them away. The sudden death of
poor Collins, however, slightly interfered
with the programme. Mrs. Farrell got out
and helped to lay out the corpse, bnt John
Delahauty drove Ellen Collins, tho widow,
and Mrs. Puelan, poor Mike's mother-in-law,
to his house, two miles away, where things
wero made more comfortable than if they had
remained to grieve over the presence of the
stark clay of what had once been Miko Col
lins. Nobody seems to understand why Mike
took it into bis bead to empty a bottle of
strychnine into bis stomach, but the jury
said: “Death from strychnine, while under
great mental depression,” and that was very
near the truth.
ing, and picturesque grouping. Tbe
one of the best ever eosn, aud the only one that
gave a double ring performance at once. In this show '■ ^Lould be very careful about their
while a company of acrobat* are tumbling in one ring, valuables,
a party ot jugglers will Do showing in another just by.
While one ring is filled with leapers, the other wlil be
filled with equestrians, and there will be something to {
please and be admired every moment cf ths fair hours
spent under the great world of canvass. Toe Watson
Brothers (the original Ilanlops,) Jerome Tuttle, the:
Miaco Brothers, make the ring lively, while au unex
ampled corps of rider.*, including fiv3 cqu
display the magnificent stud of horses.
Altcgothcr such a display cf artnic talent was i rata
bly Lever before brought together in tho United
States, and Mr. Haight, always foremost in his ino-
ft Bsion, seems to have spent all l.is energies and all
bis fortunes on this Ptupendorrcntcrprlfc.
We have watched this show with great prido aud
co the first day it siarted oat. It or-
Atlanta on April let, 187J, and siarted on
Thou a small, one.
iccoss, Col. Haight,
talent, and
wintered in
panned out"
loss to know who got it. As a gang
known to be in town, every ot o
mey and olher
f four i r™ 011
eventful and magical career. Thci
tout show, it traveled with great succoc
resolving to Lavo nothing but firet-ch
sticking to his resolution. He
Selma, and male a second tour which
even better than before, and lefc Colonel H. an im
mensely rich man. lie then went into winter quar
ters at Solma, Alabama, for the winter, aud organized
the piesent Great Eastern show. Ho absolutely spared
or expense to make bis show the
BEST THAT EVER TRAVELED,
and Ui6 results were wonderful. The show left Solma
in February, and started North. Since then its
progress Lai been an abiolute ovation.
Thousands upon thousands have flocked to its
wonderful tents; other receipts of the season have
doubtless been up into the nei {hborhood cf tho mil
lions. He journeyed through the North, the East and
the Canadas, and fought an the while a powerful com
bination of Northern 6Urs, who banded together ,to
kill ont the presumtuous young Southern show that
had bearded Barnum, Robinson. Rice A Co. in the r
dens. But Haight just rolled aloDg quietly
TAKING IN THE YANKEE DOLLARS,
The City.
The dust amounts to the greatest nuUance. It is
intolerable. It is in extent without a\arable iajho
history Gf the c : ty. A great many people are hoars)
from breathing it. Our housekeepers are in a state
cf positive disgust. Nothing cau be kept clean. The
city at twilight very much resembles London in a fog.
You can’t see half way across the streets, cor is there
enough dew falling at night to settle it. to that when
we wake up in the morning there is about tho fame
quantity as tha evening before on the air.
Police Matters.
Everything is very dull. Oae or two anests pti day
is about the sum total.
Macon CotlonStateiu nt.
it-- ’.I!’.!!!!!! c.u
11 ... J previot! -y n o::—12,370
Stock on hied this evening 6,08)
LATER.
Cotton closed firm at 14c. R.'ceipts 503 biles; tales
700 la'.ea.
Personal Mention.
S. T. Jenkins and A. A. West, of Atlanta, are at the
Brown House; C. D. Hill,* of Athens, 'and A. L. Hurst,
of Baltimore, are also there.
Meeting of Mexican War Veterans.
Macod sends greeting to the surviving soldiers of
the Mexican war, and will welcome them there during
the Fair. It is proposed to hold a reunion here some
where about the 30th. Glad to know that those oil
soldisrs will be here. As many of them live in Ma
con, it would be well for them to hold a meeting, aud
we heartily second the motion.
The Pay- Train.
The Central pay train was in town yesterday, and
remained until noon to-day. It disbursed the usnal
and sending them South by tho bushel. They playid , amount of greenbacks among its employees, and at
all around him, ahead of him, behiud him and on his ! twelve o’clock to-d»y went down the Southwestern for
the purpose of making other sou’s happy. Ws hope
that train will never get off the track.
Later.
Tha dwelling, kitchen, smoke and one other house
belonging io S. C. Kub, in Hutlaud district, burned
to-day. Th^ fire proved a total destruction to every
thing except oae or two beds. It originated acciden
tally in the kitchen. Loss $1,8)0. No insurance,
Goods for the State Fair are arriving hourly. Tte
buildings and the grounds are ready for their recep
tion.
flanks, but the old vet‘ran never “pulled up a stand, ''
nor broke an engagement, but kept square along, aud
brought back to Dixie about $70,000 in clear money,
that had been taken out of it^io former seasons. When
he struck the South, which was his home, his re
ceipts were marvellous, tnd his shows perfect jams.
We were shown by an agent, the t legrams received
from the treasurer of tho show, giving the daily re
ceipts a^various points, son:3 of which we append, as
interesting reading:
Culpepper, Va $4,400
Lynchburg 5,600
Portsmouth 4.500
r.t'eigh 0,500
Goldsboro 2,500
Kingstou 4,000
Rockingham, October 17 4*.roo j tery, acid, or thick and tenacious, mucous,
Charlotte 4.180
Norfolk 6,0*0
Henderson, N. C G,C00
Fayetteville 8,006
Newbern 3,700
Magnolia 3,800
Lsmberton 8,400
This reads like a fairy t*ie, but we have every rea
son to believe it is the truth.
The highest ambition of a “wool hat boy”—-
To scrape enough money together to buy a
beaver.
Georgia Farms and Fanners.
There are eeventj-five planters in Putnam
county worth each over *5,000, and thirty-
five worth over $10,000 each.
Putnam county cultivated thia year 24,064
acres in cotton and 18,180 in corn.
Eighty-five planters in Putnam county
cultivated each over 100 acres in cotton;
thirty-four over 200 acres, »nd ten over 300
acres.
W. T. Hearn, of Putnam, cultivated thia
year COO acres in cotton and 400 in corn ; J.
S. JBeid 325 in cotton and 200 in corn ; N. H.
DeJarnett 300 in cotton and 200 in corn ; D.
T. Singleton 400 in cotton and 200 in corn •
Napier Skelton 450 in cotton and 200 iu corn;
W. C. Garner 500 in cotton and 100 in corn ;
and J. T. Dennis 500 in cotton and 250 iu
corn.
Pike county cultivates this year 28 000 acres
in cotton, 21,000 in corn.
Forty-four farmers of Pike county cultivate
each over 100 acres in cotton. t
J. 8. Lavender, of Pike cdtinty, cultivates j .Verr York Sun.
this year 300 acres in cotton, 200 in wheat, 45 . „
iu oats, and 130 in com. 1 Anna Garrett, colored, of Plymouth, North
n i r" ,, ' I'rother of our fellow-cllizon i Carolina, who, becoming angry at her gran
Col. J. D. Waddell, is oae of the leading child fur stealing seventy-five cents, wfiipp,
a The reckless slaughter of buffaloes on the
plains continues, aud the borders of Kausas
and Nebraska are dotted with carcases from
which not a pound of meat has been taken.
The sktoners, as they are called, go in parties
of from two to ten in number, and destroy
whole herds with their repeating rifles. Two
men who were met recently on the line of the
Kansas Pacific stated that they had killed and
skinned four hundred bnff’.-ilo ou two small
creeks not twenty miles long. Over a thou
sand pounds of meat is left to rot upon the
prairies for every animal slain, and the price
for each raw hide is r dollar and a quarter
only. It is evident that measures must be
taken to stop this wicked waste of valuable
J food, or the buffalo will soon be exterminated.
■■ . . — leading
planters in North Georgia, and among the
very first in Polk county. He cultivated this
year 400 acres in cotton, and about 250 in
oats, wheat aud com.
ut3’-five cents, whipped
the child to death, then greased it. and was
caught iu the net of tossing it iuto a tire, y
to be banged ia December. She is rigbis
j airs of age.
Feminines.
A critic says that no English woman of cul
tivation wears her garter below her knee, as it
is ruinous to the calf.
Laura Fair read a poem on self-culture in
San Francisco the other evening. Laura cul
tivates her crop with her little pistol.
Dr. Eliza Walker has resigned the post of
house surgeon to the Bristol (England) Hos
pital for Women and Children. In conse
quence of her appointment, all tho medical
officers resigned. In her letter to tbe com
mittee she says she is convinced that her res
ignation alone can relieve the management of
the hospital from serious embarrassment, and
enable them to obtain the services of sufficient
honorary medical officers. She regrets that
she is compelled to take this step, not so
much for herself as for the cause she rep
resents.
The following is^the latest style for fashion
able ladies who go on pilgrimages: The Car
melite mantle is loosely cat, with sleeves so
arranged that the hands may be crossed like
those of the Sisters of Charity iu pictur< s.
The front breadths of the skirt are embroid
ered with flat ornaments, in the Gothic style,
borrowed front tho binding of the missal.
Tho bonnet is iu black straw, with quilled
tulle between the edge and the face. The
roses on the left side are toned down with
black Chantilly, and the vail, which is short
in front, is very loi g and full behind. En
veloped iu this becoming la robe « /aprie-Diue
as it is named, it would bo hard for suscepti •
Lie bachelors to abstain from making confes
sion to the saintly pilgrim.
Symptoms cf tntanh.
Obstructions of nasal passages, discharge
Wilmington........’V.V.V.V.. 4’,ioo falling throat, sometimes profuse, wa-
~ ~ ' ’ * ’ * 1! tery, acid, or thick and tenacious, mucous,
purulent bloody, putrid, offensive, etc. In
others a dryness, weak or inflamed eyes, ring
ing in cars, deafness, ulcerations, scabs from
ulcers, voice altered, nasal twang, offensive
breath, impaired smell and taste, etc. Few
only of above symptoms likely to be present
in any case at one time.
tr - .... . , . , . , 1 To cure—take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Uuff played a wlDfilng card when he got Height and D ; sc carnesl ly, to correct tile blood and
h,a aoperh ,h°w ia.lde the Fair Ground.. It will j avstcm , which are always at fault, also to act
draw better than a mustard plaster, and wdl .how tte j S o cciflcaU _ Vi ns it doc ,8, npon the diseased
people 01 Georgia a magnificence In tent-rliowing they glands and liuinR membrane of the nose and
have never aeen before. i jf s communicating chambers. The more I
Deep Sop at the Telegraph and Jlee.en- ! see ot this odious disease, the more positive
ger Ollier.
i.’ SMOKED n \M FRIED 1
is my belief that if we would make treatment
peifectly successful in curing it, we must use
scpHOMORicGRKA&E. I constitutional treatment to act through the
The attention of this hungry Bureau “has been j blood, ns well as a soothing and healing local
called to the following’’ beautiful poetic lines in the I application. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy,
Telegraph and Messenger newspaper:
PROLOOCE.
“Among the m >st pleasing of the recollections that
will sometimos arisS like au incensa from the mould
which covers the long a-gone daya of boyhood, to
link together a brief but pleasant while, the past and
present, are memories of tbe country-cared, home
made, hickory-smoked hams, which naed to hang in
substantial rows in the smoke-house, and the savory
odor of which naed to be eo grateful an announce
ment of tbe fact that supper was about to be ready. It
was a rude iconoclastic fate which knocked the gablee
out of the old smoke house, and allowed the hinges
to rust off the doors—thero being no more hams to be
preserved from the iutruder. and substituted there
for 'canraMsed* aud ‘sugarcured’ apologies, which fail
(o greet the nostril-i or the palate with the savor or
the tasto of the haras of our youth."
Part II.—U*ci Cooked aud Ready for Breakfast.
“These memories will come up once in aahile, aud
since they w:ll come, it is pleasant to have them
called up by something as real and tangible as that
country ham sent us the oilier day by Messrs. E. Price
A Sou*. It seems almost like a fable, but it is never*
thelcss a fact, that these ueutlemcu bought, on Tues
day, a wagon loal of sound aud sweet country hams,
raise 1 and cured by Mr. Win. M. Clark, a citizen of
Monroe c
far from the line of the county of Bibb. W » should
be reluctant to rujk- such a statem >nt as this were we
not ba 'kid up by itie beat k>ud ot proof—which proof
is one of the ulce»i barns in the lot."
AVIsy the Lulu t umblaafloa Fatllrrl.
TaeTdeg tobat l Me isanger auaouucaa that “thi«
when used warm and applied with Dr.
Pierce’s Nasal Douche, effects cures npon
“common sense,” rational and scientific prin
ciples, by its mild, soothing and healing prop
erties, to which the disease gradually yields,
when the system has been put in perfect or
der by the use of the Goldeu Medical Discov
ery. This is the only perfectly safe, scientific
and successful mode of acting npon and heal
ing it.
So successful has the above course of treat
ment proven that the proprietor offers $509
reward for a case he can not core. All the
means sold by Druggists. R. V. Pierce, M.
B., Proprietor, Buffalo, N. Y.
oct9 deodlw.
The Boston Post’s Washington letter says.
“There is most excellent authority for au
nouucing the engagement of Lieutenan
Fred. Grant and Miss Kitty Cooke, daughte
of H. D. Cooke, now iu a state of suspense
The authority is originally that of a youn
lady iu Chicago, to whom Lieutcu.vnt Gran
confided the secret, aud it has traveled to
your correspondent through two or three
sources. The confidant kept the secret until
she found that several others had likewise
been told the same in confidence, so she now.
uu'y. iu tim state of Georgia, residing not , g 0 oms, considers herself released from her
* promise.
j Bismarck's wife, who lately died, w-s he:
husband's secretary, clerk and messenger. All
private dispatches were first read by Frau
Bismarck.