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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MARCH T, 1871.
Foster Blodgett.
Upon the matter of the installation of this
worthy as Senator from Georgia, the Washing
ton dispatches in Monday's Herald have the
following to say:
On the 4th of March the term of Mr. Miller,
one of the Georgia Senators reoently admitted,
expiree. Foster Blodgett, who was elected by
the Legislators jWeceding that chosen last De-
oember rl» ; ™ a the seat as Senator Miller a sue-
oeasor. ’ Blodgett holds the certificate of Gov
ernor Bullock showing that he was elected a
Senator of the United States in a due form for
six years from the 4th of Maroh next The
legal point is raised against his admission that
the Gonstitntion of the State of Georgia pro
vides that United States Senators shall be
chosen by the Legislature elected preceding the
expiration of the term of their predecessors.
On this ground it is held that the successor of
Miller should be chosen by the 'Legislature
elected last December. The previous^ Legisla
ture, it appears, passed a law providing that
the one just elected should not meet until No
vember, 1871. Of course it could not elect the
Senator who is to take his seat on the 4th of
March. Blodgett being already elected,-it is
held by some of the best lawyers in the Senate
that he is the Senator and entitled to the seat.
There may be a contest over it, some Demo
crats bolding that the Senator shonld be chosen
by the new Legislature, which is Democratic.
It will be seen among the morning telegrams
that Mr. Hill yesterday morning presented a
remonstrance from members of the last Legisla
ture and the Legislature elect against the seat
ing of Blodgett; bat as the practical alternative
would be the seating of a Democratic Senator,.
the remonstrance is not likely to produce any
result. Doubtless, even the Badical Senators
would be glad to get rid of Blodgett, if they
could do it at a smaller price. He is not a de
sirable colleague—he is there by a snap judg
ment upon the people—by legislative intrigue
in defiance of the Gonstitntion and of justice.
The Senate knows enough of Blodgett to desire
no farther acquaintance, and there is a strong
indisposition to increase the amount of scum
already in that body as the product of civil
commotion and effervescence.
Bnt we will risk nothing, as matters stand,
on their ejecting Blodgett. Let ns rather say
this for Blodgett: he is as fair a representative
of the party which sent him there, as coold be
named. He lacks no moral or intellectual dis
qualifications for the position; and as a hun
dred of his constituents were to the Legislature
of Georgia, so is Blodgett to the Senate of the
United States.
Characteristic.
A Badical sheet pnblished in this city, prints
a list of members elected, to the next Legisla-
‘ tore, and opposite the name of Abram Tomer,
a negro, said to have been chosen from Pntnam
county to the House of Representatives, adds
these words: Killed by Democrats. This is
false. Tomer was shot in a personal quarrel,
and only one man was implicated in the shoot
ing. Politics had nothing whatever to do with
the affair. It was the result of a fend of loHg
Standing, growing out of differences entirely
foreign to politics. We make tins statement in
justice, not only to the party charged with the
killing, bnt the Democrats of Pntnam county
who are thus wickedly 8landered>by the Badical
sheet in question. And we may add that it Is
made upon the authority of a citizen of Put
nam county cognizant of all the facts, and who
is a straight Bepnblican in politics. If any of
the vermin who are swarming at Washington
before that congenial tribunal, the “Outrage'
Committe, have the hardihood to repeat this
falsehood, let some Democrat present make it
his business to nail it, then and there.
San Domingo Annexation.
A Washington dispatch says that leading Be
pnblican Senators give out the Domingo Com
mission will return by the 1st of April, and
Congress will remain in session long enough to
act on their report. This is the President’s de-
sire. MoMiohael, a bearer of special dispatches
from the Commission, arrived in Washington
last week, bringing a preliminary report of
what the Commission has done so far. The
details of these dispatches cannot be obtained
for publication, bnt it is learned that the com
missioners substantially confirm the hint thrown
out by the correspondents, that the greatest
obstacle to the annexation of San Domingo is
the threatening attitude of Hayti. That repub
lic is giving its moral, if not its physical sup
port to the revolutionary leader, Cabral, in his
incursions along the Dominican border. Hayti
seems to think that if San Domingo is annexed,
the United States will attempt to secure the rest
of the island, and thus swallow up that little re
public. It is intimated that she will fight first,
and thus compel the United 8tates to make an
armed occupation of San Domingo from the
ontstart. Otherwise the prospoot is favorable
to annexation, and the commissioners will prob
ably report in favor of it. -
“Filth.”—The Savannah News does not con
sider its insinuation that the Teixgbafh is influ
enced in its coarse upon men and measures by
such paltry advertising as is sent to it from the
Atlanta Executive Department, as a filthy in
sinuation l We, on the other hand, think it a
very dirty missile, indeed, to throw at gentle
men and a reputable preas—more discreditable
to himself than it can possibly be to ns. When
hesooopsnp snch filthy conceptions from the
cess pools to throw at ns, we hope he keeps
abundance of soap and water to oleanse himself
withaL
And in the same spirit he seis np the failure
to reprint a piece of anonymous malediction of
Bullock, as the test of our fidelity to principle!
His plan of assault is worthy of bis weapons.
If the Democratic press and party cannot at
tack Bollock with something more potent and
effective than the spewings of a more malig
nant temper and a fool stomach, they will win
nothing in the fight bnt the disapprobation of
all men of sense.
It will be the policy of the Democrats, as we
trust, to investigate with rigid scrutiny and im
partial justice the whole pnblio course of Gov.
Bullock, and to base their conclusions upon a
calm and righteous judgment of facts, and not
mere inane vituperation. In a word, we hope
Democrats will take oonnsel of reason, justice
and equity, and not of personal hatred, animos
ity and contempt; and we hold that the feeling
against Bullock is already sufficiently bitter and
inexorable to insure the public against the
smallest danger from a too lenient opinion.
Scmnzb, it seems, is not half so dead of an
gina pectoris as reported. He is preparing at
leisure a terrible broadside to be poured into
the President and San Domingo annexation.-
His radioal friends beg and remonstrate in vain.
Nothing less than a yard arm fight will content
him; and he even threatens to move for the
impeachment of Grant. Meanwhile, the har
monious are preparing to eject him from the
Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Eo
lations—a proceeding which will not mitigate
his hostility to the administration. Sumner, it
1b said, would deliver his speech some time tills
week.
New Novel nx Mabt Faith Floyd.—By an
advertisement in our paper t.M« morning it will
be seen that our enterprising friends, J. W.
Burke A Co., have secured the copyright of a
new novel, “The Nereid,” by Mary Faith Floyd,
a Georgia lady already known to fame as an
author of remarkable ability, whichwill be pub.
lished serially in the Southern Farm and Home,
oommencing with the May number. “The Ne-
reid’’ is arid to be a story of miipassliifl merit.
A Ghastly Triumph.
That was a ghastly, triumphal entry of the
Germans into Paris last Wednesday. The streets
of the quarter assigned them were deserted,
and nobody was. to be seen save now and then
a veiled woman, in mourning, hurrying to mass,
while the statues and public buildings were
draped in the sable habiliments of woe. Through
such a scene, the triumphal army moved with
measured tramp to the simple mark step of the
drum and the occasional bugle call among the
cavalry.
History records far different scenes attending
the triumphal entry of the French into Berlin,
and it might be a subject of interesting specula
tion and inquiry upon what differences in nation
al character, or in the condition and situation,
this contrast canbe accounted for. The Berlinese
turned out almost en masse to see the great con
queror and his invincible battalions, bnt the
Parisians closed doors and shutters and solaced
their wounded national pride by self-conceal
ment and darkness. Let ns suppose that the
mortification was less in degree. The Berlinese
had not tumbled from such a lofty height of
self-exaltation. They had not been accustomed
for seventy years to consider themselves inap
proachable in arts and arms.
Be this as it may, it was a doll triumph, and
we doubt if the Germans took any solid satis
faction in it. True, it was revenge, and re
venge is said to be sweet But, after all, it-is a
very ignoble soul that can take satisfaction in
the actual realization of vengeance. Sometimes,
under the irritation of wrong and injustice, wo
promise ourselves great pleasure in paying off
the score; hot when the time comes, and the
victim is before ns, and the infliction begins,
the promised joy becomes like the apples of
Sodom. We find no satisfaction in inflicting
suffering, although it may be deserved. -* {
“Few, fortunately, are cursed with those dead
ly and implacable resentments which find pleas
ure in the actual infliction of retributive injury,
oran witnessing the sufferings or viewing the
corpse. To most persons vengeance is disarmed
by submission, and this fact is recognized in
the universal assent to the meanness of “strik
ing a man after he is down!” The blood, all
on fire with the physical and mental fury of the
struggle, cools in a second when the adversary
succnmbsto defeat.
In the same idea, history is fond of making
all its heroes exceedingly placable and gener
ous to the conquered, and seeks to adorn them
with illustrations of a magnanimous self-repres
sion, and a romantic and chivalrous forbear
ance to the vanquished. Nothing, in fact, seems
so unwelcome to the human mind, or to evince
so thorough a mental littleness, as a boastful,
triumphant,overhearing and insulting demeanor
towards the defeated.
We will not pretend to say in what considera
tions of State craft, on the part of King Wil
liam or Bismarck, the triumphant march into
Paris may have been founded. It seems to us
to have been quite needless and worthless, bnt
we presume they know how the ease may be
much better than we do. At all events, we do
not believe there was a single gallantfellow in the
triumphal column who took satisfaction in wit
nessing the humiliation of .the conquered Pari
sians. The account of the triumphal entries
being now squared between the Germans and
French, we hope it is closed np forever, and will
never be reopened. There is no more degrad
ing and contemptible business on earth than
that of mutual devastation, injury .and insult.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Fannin vs. DnBose.
We find in the Augusta papers of Wednesday,
a long proclamation from Isham Fannin, de
feated Badical candidate for Congress in that
district, addressed to General D. AT. DoBose,
the successful Democratic candidate, giving no
tice that he (F.) intends to oontest his (DuB.’s)
right to the seat, and showing.very plainly that
he, the aforesaid Fannin, expects to succeed
too, though he don’t say so in that many words.
Fannin makes out just about snch a case as
Beard, the mulatto, did against Captain Corker,
which is now before the present Congress, and
we believe in totidem verbis, but whether Fan
nin first set the copy and Beard followed it, or
Beard set the copy and Fannin followed it, we
don’t know. We suspect, however, that that
lovely Skowheganite, Bryant, who is backing
Beard and expects to divide the spoil with him
got it np, as it is so very fat in lies, and as he
probably understands, better th&n either Fan
nin or Beard, what sort of food will be most
grateful to the Badioal stomach at Washington.
Fannin says there was intimidation and vio
lence on the part of the Democrats in all the
counties in his distriot except two—Greene and
Morgan—wMch two the Radi calsjearried!—that
the trooly loil were bullied, and beat, and shot,
and jailed, and otherwise maltreated to
snch an extent they were either “afeerd” to
vote “ de pnblikin ticket,” or were forced to
vote the Democratic ticket—that as the Badicals
carried the district in 1868 by seven ox eight
thousand majority, and the Democrats swept it
in 1870 by five or six thousand, of course there
was fraud, and DuBosa ought to have the Con
gressional door dint in Ins face! This is a fair
sample of Fannin’s argument and evidence, and
will serve to give a general idea of what he rests
his hopes upon. We suppose it is about as
strong as he oonld make it, in the absence of
the faintest shadow of truth to give it respecta
bility, and that it will be abundantly sufficient
for the trooly liAi -n-ho will decide upon it. We
suppose Gen. DnBose mil get in and stay
in awhile, and then the Election. Committee
will report against him, and he will have to va
cate in favor of Fannin. This has been the cus
tom heretofore in similar cases, and we see no
reason to hope it will be departed from in this
case.
We advise Fannin to “make his lack” this
time, for in 1872 he, or any other Badical, will
be bnried oat of sight. The Democrats of the 5th
district hold it in a grip that all the swindling,
and cheating, and tyranny Badicalism can devise
will fail to break. They’can and will repeat their
performances of last December at any time, and
go two or three thousand better. Fannin’s only
hope of serving more than oneierm in Congress
is in getting his fellow conspirators to pass a
bill disfranchising the white voters of the dis
trict and sending down an army strong enough
to enforce it. If he is ambitions of Congres
sional honors, he had be tier set about some such
scheme just so soon as he is thrust into his seat
The Southern Beooider, of Tuesday, says:
A Nabbow EsoAPe.—Last week Mr. George
Harris, of this place, was out hnnting, and while
walking around a tree looking for a squirrel, he
stepped into a deep ravine; his gun was dis-
chasged in close proximity to bis head, the pow
der burning his face and hair, and the load tear
ing the brim of his hat to fragments.
The Appeal says it is rumored that “i
member of Congress will shortly lead to the
altar one of Madison’s fairest daughters.”
Name, name.
Mrs. Georgia Mann, a well known and most
estimable lady of Madison, died Monday.
Mr. Willis Allen, an old and highly esteemed
citizen of Wilkinson oounty, died last week.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Wednesday,
says:
A Lively Time at the Plantxbs’.—On last
night a good deal of excitement was occasioned
in the upper portion of the city by a difficulty
which took plaoe at the Planters’ Hotel between
a young gentleman of this city and a German
Count from New York, and the ex-Colonel of a
Virginia regiment—the two latter parties having
arrived in the city yesterday morning. The
gentleman above mentioned having beard that
his wife had been insulted by the Count and the
Colonel, repaired to the hotel last night after
supper and belabored them both with a walking
cane. The' Count sustained no serious injuries,
but his companion was not so fortunate, ant l
was so badly bruised that medical assistance
had to be summoned. The Count says that no
one had any idea of affronting the lady and
that it was all a mistake.
The Constitutionalist, of Wednesday, has the
following particulars of a bold robbery in that
city, Tuesday afternoon:
Bold Kobbeey.—Yesterday afternoon, about
2:80 o’clock, a white man entered the store of
Messrs. George T. Jackson & Co., 47 Jackson
.street, and professed to desire to purchase some
.flour. The difforent grades were shown him by
Mr. John T. Miller, who at the time was the
only employee in the store. Tho stranger de
clined to purchase, and walked out. He was
soon, folio wed by a second stranger, who pro-
leased to desire to purchase some oats. Mr.
Miller walked to the extreme back part of the
store to. show his customer the oats. While de
tained there, unobserved to him, a third party
entered the front door and gained access to the
counting room, where he entered the money
drawer, in which the key had been left, and
made a clean sweep of the contents, getting
$103 70, with which he escaped from the store
without the observation of Mr. Miller. The oat
purchaser made no trade, and left the store,
when Air. Miller came to the front, without
knowledge of the sharp game which had been
practiced upon. him. The suspicious beha
vior of the trio outside, previous to entering the
store, had, however, attracted the notice of
Air. Wm. McLaughlin, doing business on the
opposite side of the street, who had also ob
served one of them in the counting-room of
Messrs. Jaekaon & Co. Mr. McLaughlin making
his suspicions known to Air. Aliiler, an examina
tion was made, and the discovery of the robbery
made before two of the parties were out of
sight of the store. 'Pursuit was cautiously
made by several gentlemen, and the fact com
municated to the police office. One of the
three, identified by Mr. McLaughlin as one of
the sharpers, was arrested on Jackson, between
Greene and Telfair streets, and sent to the
guardhouse. Lieut. Purcell, of the police force,
succeeded in overhauling a second one, after a
short chase and considerable dodging, in an
out-house near the reservoir, in the act of
emptying his pockets of the stolen money.
One of the thieves gave the name of J. H.
Murphy, and the other that of Lee Whitehouse.^
The latter had a lot of skeleton keys and other
burglar’s tools in his possession. After the ar
rest of these men an attempt was made to ar
rest two others, evidently connected with them,
which resulted in policeman Lyons being shot
in the right cheek.
The Augusta folks are finding eels and snakes
in their water pipes, and are withdrawing from
the temperance sooiety.
The Sandersville Georgian says the only men
in that oounty who have surplus cash in their
pockets, are “the big crib and smoke house fel
lows.”
Mr. Joseph Downer, a native of Elbert county,
but for many years a well known planter of
Muscogee county, died Tuesday morning, aged
76 years.
Ex-Mayor "Willis Hols tea d, of Columbus, died
Tuesday. Mr. H. moved to Columbus from
Virginia in 1833, and was Mayor of the city in
1850, 1851, and 18G0.
Two hundred and twenty-four dozen eggs
were sold in Columbus Monday, at 15 cents a
dozen.
"We clip the following from the Sun of Tues
day:
Libel Suit.—We understand authoritatively
that yesterday Messrs. Park A Iverson com
menced a libel suit against the Piedmont and
Arlington Life Insurance Company, of Virginia,
for which they were lately agents, claiming
$20,000 damages. The suit arises in conse
quence of the late newspaper publications.
The Savannah and Memphis Raileoad.—We*
understand this road has passed into the hands
of the capitalists who have been advancing
money for its construction, and they intend to
push it forward as rapidly as possible. The
monied men who have it now in charge are Lan
caster, Brown A Co., of Baltimore, andFarmer,
Walker & McAnemey, of Bichmond and New
York. All the assets of the company have been
turned over to them. Among them is the often
mooted subscription of $64,000 from Columbus.
We are informed it has been placed in the hands
of Major Moses, who will institute suit if neces
sary to get the city bonds. We do not know
whether the old officers will be retained on the
road.
Its completion is now said to be certain.
Twenty miles baving been finished, the road is
now entitled to $16,000 per mile of State aid,
and the same amount whenever each additional
distance of five miles is completed. This alone
will push forward its construction rapidly.
BY
The Next Hoote of Representatives
Will meet and fully organize, most probably,
to-morrow—the 4th—at 12 m. On this point,
the Washington correspondence of the Tribune,
of Febraary 26th says:
It is probable that the next House will be
fully organized within a few days afterits meet
ing; though there is a desire in some quarters
to postpone the appointment of committees un
til next December. This was done four years
ago, when only a few committees were an
nounced, and those on a vote of the House di
recting their appointment. It is understood
that if one such motion prevails during the first
session of the Forty-second Congress, the Speak
er will oonsider that as an indication of the de
sire of the House to have the organization com
plete, and will announoe the whole. The Com
mittee on Elections will be appointed on the
first Monday of the session. Two hundred and
twenty-nine members of tho new House are
already elected, of whom one hundred and thir
ty-one are Republicans, and ninety-eight are
Democrats. Fourteen districts have not yet
chosen their Representatives, and of these seven
will probably bo of each party, making the
House stand one hundred and thirty-eight to
one hundred and five.
From Echols County,
Statestilux, Echols County, Ga.,1
February 27, 1871. j
Editor4 Telegraph and Messenger : The cele
brated and world-renowned pedestrian, CoL M.
L. De Malher, of Virginia, passed through our
village to-day on his way around the world. He
appears to be enjoying fine health and looks re
markably well. The history of his extraordina
ry travels on foot is already known to the read
ing public. He informed us that he started in
November, 1865, and that he had walked nearly
21,000 miles since. Such traveling on foot ap
pears to be without a parallel in the. history of
the past. ,
He stated that he had visited tins section at
the request of an agricultural society for the
purpose of ascertaining whether the pear and
other kindred fruits could be successfully grown
in this climate. He farther said, that after a
fair experiment, it had been ascertained that
the pear could be raised and matured in the
Southern part of Alabama in the lowlands that
had heretofore been regarded as worthless for
the production of fruit of that character, and
the society being informed of that fact, and
having learned that this region of country is be
ing well supplied with railroads, contemplates
introducing that fruit for the purpose of culti
vating it extensively.
He exhibited a specimen of peat that had
been taken from the lower part of the Okefen-
okee Swamp, which he said was superior for
the manufacture of gas to any that he had seen
in Europe, or in any other portion of the Uni
ted States, and gave it as his opinion, that there
was an inexhaustible supply in that swamp, that
would be worth millions to any enterprising
company that would gather and prepare it for
market. *
The subject of constructing the St. Mary’s
and Western Railroad is now being considered
by the citizens of Echols. That road will pass
through the lower portion of the swamp, run
ning west to Statenville, and from there it will
connect with the Golf Road at or near Valdosta,
which will afford any oompany an opportunity
of testing the merits of Urn case. Besides, it
will develops a heretofore undeveloped Beotian
of Georgia. The lands lying along the lower
portion of the swamp, on the Suwanee and its
tributaries, are known to be the best in the
State for the production of long cotton and su
gar cane.
Upon the whole we found the Colonel to be
an agreeable, interesting man, and certainly the
greatest walker of the age. B. W. P.
The weather oontinues clear, balmy and pleas
ant and Is just the thing for prepairing the
ground for the next crops.
The Entry Into Paris.
State Depabtment, Pahis, noon, Maroh 2.
To Secretary Fish, Washington ;
The German entry into Paris was peaceful
and quiet. All calm in the city.
(Signed) "’—J~ ■ Washbubn.
Bordeaux, March 2.—The Assembly voted
for the ratification of the preliminary treaty by
■HifUtt — -“vy . '■*?-,-
Pabzs, Maroh 1.—At ten o clock 30,000 Ger
mans entered the city with 96 pieoesof artillery
and the usual proportion of cavalry. The zone
surrendered to the Prussians is nearly clear of
French people. It commences at,the extreme
southwest corner of the Enciente, which forms
a point and rnns in the shape of an irregular
triangle, of which the Seine forms the east side;
the Enciente, from Font da Jour to the Porte
Dee Tonnes the west side, and the Faubourg
Honore, the Avenue des Formes from the Bue
Boyds to the Enciente, the north ride or base.
The only points within these limits retained by
the French are the bakery establishment of the
army of Paris, the Quai de Belly and the Pont
de Jena. Few people on the streets—most of
the women out were in mourning going to mass.
The Germans used no music, except drum and
trumpet tor signals. The Germans were aston
ished at the mournful aspect of the city and the
desertion of the streets. The statues in the
Plaoe de la Conoord were covered with crape.
Versailles, March 2.—The Emperor has re
turned from Long Champs, where he reviewed
the army entering Paris.
London, Maroh 2.—The barricades in the
northern and eastern Faubourgs of Paris are
only precautionary, and will be used if the
Germans should overstep their assigned limits.
New Yobk, March 2.—Arrived, the Russia.
Washington, March 2.—In the House the re
peal of the income tax was defeated by a decis
ive vote. The Georgia contested election cases
will not be decided this session. In the Senate
the House bill for collecting debts due the Gov
ernment from the Sonthem railroads, passed.
Air. Hill presented a communication from mem
bers of the present and former Georgia Legisla
ture remonstrating against the seating of Foster
Blodgett. A conference on the Southern Pa
cific* Railroad will vote in an hoar. Nothing
definite has transpired, bnt it Be6ms to be con
ceded that New Orleans will have her branch.
The Senate confirmed Osgood as postmaster at
Savannah, Ga.
' Washington, -March 2.—The last acoonnts
from the coal regions represent the laborers,
operators and parrying companies as equally
stubborn.
J. R. Smith was nominated as postmaster at
Meridian, Alisa.
The President will receive no visitors dnring
the balance of the week.
The next Congress will have the nomination
of forty cadets.
The members of the High Commission have
visited the capitoI, which event elioited.several
stomp speeches.
Senate.—The bill which passed the Senate
and goes to the President regarding railroads
is as follows: Whereas, certain suits are pend
ing in the United States Courts within the State
of Tennessee, against certain railroad corpora
tions in that State on account of property sold
to said corporations by the government, which
suits are contested by the defendant corpora
tion ; and whereas, it is for the interest of the
government to speedily adjust and collect the
claims of the United States, while avoiding
litigations and loss by the insolvency ot any
such railroad; therefore, be it onaoted, that the
Secretary of.War, be, andis hereby authorized
and required, if he shall deem it advisable by
and with the advice of the counsel of record in
such suits for the United States and Attorney
General of the United States, to compromise,
adjust and settle the same upon such terms as
to the amount, and the time of payment as may
be just and equitable and best calculated to
protect the interests of the government.
The Cincinnati and Southern Railroad bill
comes np for the third reading to-morrow. The
appropriations were resumed at the night
session.
House—A bill passed providing for three Com
missioners to examine the claims of the loyal
citizens of the Southern States for army stores
furnished during the rebellion, including the
use and loss of vessels employed by the Gov
ernment The Commissioners, not to be resi
dents of the Southern States, Shall hold a ses
sion at Washington, and then adjourn to such
places in the Southern States as they may select
and report the proceeding at each session to
Congress. A bill passed restoring James Bel-
ger to his rank as Alajor and Quartermaster, and
goes to the President A bill removing the po
litical disabilities of 71 KentnokianB, which
passed the Senate in July, passed and goes to
the President Adjourned.
The Conference Committee on the Texas Pa
cific Railroad have agreed upon a report; and
favor a branch from New Orleans to Marshall,
Texas, via Baton Rouge and Alexandria, and a
trunk from Marshall to San Diego, and a
branch from Colored river,near the thirty-second
parallel. Parliamentary courtesy requires that
the House must act first on the report. The
House adjourned and the Senate will take no
action to-night R. Clark was confirmed Assess
or for the First Georgia Distriot
Washington, Alarch 2.— The Democratic
caucus to-night nominated Gen. Morgan, of
Ohio, for Speaker of the House of Representa
tives.
Result of the Republican caucus: Blaine,
McPherson and Burton, were nominated by ac
clamation. Ordway 76; Herron 22; Stokes 20;
King, postmaster, re-nominated.
Synopsis of Weather Statement.
Was Dep’t, Office Chief Signal Offices, >
Washington, Maroh 3,1871. )
The pressure has been diminishing gradually
sinoe yesterday evening. On the Golf and
South Atlantic coasts it has been variable. On
the East Atlantio it has diminished rapidly.
On the lakes foul weather has prevailed. On
the South Atlantio threatening weather, with
light rains. On the gulf and lower lakes rains
have fallen generally. On Lake Miohigan and
the country south and west of Ohio, fresh south
westerly winds are reported. From the Gulf
to Lake Ontario there are froth and brisk north
erly winds—on Lake Miohigan and in the ex
treme northwest. Probabilities: It is probable
that the rains weBt of the AlleghanieB will, on
Friday, extend generally along the Atlantio
coast, with fresh and brisk winds, and that
fresh winds and cloudy woather will prevail
on the upper lakes.
Montgomxby, March 2.—The Legislature was
to adjourn to-day, but holds over a few days.
There is much interest taken in a suit on
trial to-day wherein the extraordinary spectacle
is presented for the locality,—United States
Judge being the defendant. The suit grows
out of an order of United States Jndge
Busteed, rendered lari June, imprisoning the
Auditor of the State for alleged oontempt in not
conveying the order of Court restraining the
collection of tax from the Express oompany. The
auditor sues Judge Busteed for libel, and lays
damages at $250,000. Both parties are leading
members of the Republican party.
Charleston, March 2.—Arrived, baric Colum
bia, Savannah. Sailed, steamer South Carolina,
New York.
Savannah, March 2.—Arrived, steamship
Vicksburg, Boston; Bhip Chance, Liverpool.
Cleared steamships Gen. Barnes, New York;
Saragossa, Baltimore; schooner 0. S. Graves,
Charleston. Sailed, steamship Alhambrio, Bos
ton; bark Irene,'Cameroon.
London, March 2.—Paris dispatches state
that several battalions of Germans entered the
city at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, to prepare
quarters. At half past eight the Palais D’Indos-
trio was occupied. Some battalions soon after
wards paraded in the Plaoe de La Concorde.
Bata small number of inhabitants were present,
and no demonstrations were made. There was
soon a line of German troops along the Seine
from Pont da Joar to Palais Bonbons, while on
the right bank the French National Guards
stopped the passage of all persons in uniform:
Horse patrols circulated and occupied their
quarters.
No acta of depredations were oommitted. The
main body formed at Long Champs and in the
Bois de Boulogne where a review was held, and
entered Paris at noon. The Emperor’s staff are
quartered at Palace of the Clize. Gen. Kamacke
oomtnands the army of occupation. The Pros-
sian military commission, established to receive
complaints of inhabitants who deserted, occu
pied quarters in public buildings. Those who
deserted and closed their houses, the Emperor
declares shall not enter the city.
The Crown Irinee will review the German
morning a Spanish offioer came aboard to ar
rest Casanora. The Captain resisted. Subse
quently a small Spanish boat with Caaanora’a
daughter appeared to bid her father good-bye.
Casanora without suspicion stepped aboard,
when orders were given to shove off; Casanora
leaped back upon tho Colombia. Daring these
events Casanora was robbed of a thousand dol
lars. Casanora's friends represented these-
things to the American Consul, who replied :
“My time is wholly engrossed with argent bus
iness, but I have detriledon assistant-to dis
patch with all speed your protest, and hope to
transmit it to the Department of State at Wash
ington by the outgoing mail ifpossible.”
San Francisco, March 2.—The Russian cor
vette Bayarin has completed repairs at Store
Island Navy Yard, and is ready to sail. There
are four ships here under oontraot to load with
wheat The receipts for wheat thiss eason is
4,400,000 centals, against 5,542,500 last year.
The bull movement in stocks is very strong
and many small dealers are badly burnt
The steamship Great Republic, for Japan and
China, carried only a few Chinese, and eleven
cabin passengers.
The Japanese crew which was' rescued from
tho wreck by the ship Anna Small, were sent
back on board the Great Kepnblio.
The shipment of treasure by the Great Re
public was $320,000.
New Yobk, March 2.—A Telegram special
from Paris, dated March 2, states that the in
habitants maintain the same quiet, sturdy inde
pendence they showed on the morning of the
entry of the Prussians. There were no demon
strations by the people, and the troops prepar
ed to bivouac on'Ohamp Elysees and neighbor
hood, withont any apparent excitement. The
French troops who guarded the barracks and
bridges behaved admirably, and, under great
provocation, restrain their temper and keep
cool. There has been no disposition on the
part of the officers and men of the Prussian
army to wander beyond the barricade limits.
Even with a military uniform, Prussian soldiers,
if discovered in some parts of Paris, would be
attacked by an angry- mob.
5. Alegacy in a will to legatees capable of | real and personal r»ron«it77'~~^~
taking it at the time the will is made, and also | try; that said will has
at the time of the death of the testator, is not ted to record accordingtot? P i r ° TtI > 1
void, because there was a period intermediate 1 try; that the property con
between the making of the will, and the death J exeept the specific bequest* r* 1 by *2?
of the testator, when the legatees were incapable tioned, consists of lands «,!■? ^P»&>
of taking such legacy, and the same was illegal l located in the State of (W- - J
and void. - of the casein the court beW 8 ^ °»tk
6. Parol evidence is inadmissible to show of I the jury, “that if they balm ’ j
itself the revokation of a will; such evidence mony in the case, the testatri • fro ® i?
can only be introduced to explain and show the I made said paper writing ans - m ^ th
intention of equivocal acts, by the testator, or to the same, that then
by his direction, destroying or arbitrating his 1 *■ '
will.
Judgment affirmed. i w«ou uie propounder of , 7 n
Peabody A Brannon, H. L. Benning, Jas. M. Hdd, That a nuncupative tCe N
Russell, for plaintiff in error. the law, is one which derwvlc M
Ingram A Crawford, Williams A Thornton, evidence, being declared^
Ramsey A Ramsey, M. Blanford, for defendant. I tremis, before at tht* tes ^'4.
-— , nesses, and afterwards rednSS
John Pate vs. 0. : A. Lochrane, trustee for thirty days, under the croviB' W
Mrs. L. M. Lamar. Action at law to make after the speaking of thn cl!i SI0D
I H 5 -no same: !
Decisions of the Supreme Court of
(Georgia. .
D ELITES ED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, FEB. 28, 1871.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
Jas. B. Huff, et al., caveators, vs. Warren
Huff, propounder. Caveat from Muscogee.
Lochrane, G. J.—Where the testator signed
his will below the attestation clause, and the
court charged the jury that if it appeared that
the will was signed by testator below said clause
and if the jury believed from the evidence that
it was so signed by testator, with the intention
to sign it as his will, then in law it was a good
signature of the will:
. Held, That such charge was correct under
section 2379 of the Code of this State.
When the testator went to the warehouse of
certain parties for the purpose of executing his
will, and two of the witnesses were present, and
one absent, and after waitingsome time, one of
the parties remarked to the testator, as A came
in, that he would answer as well, and testator
was introduced to A by B, and B remarked at
the time that testator wanted him to witness
his will, and they all went to a desk and execu
ted the paper; and under these faols the court
charged the jury, if they believed from the evi
dence that one of the witnesses was suggested
to testator, and testator assented to snoh sug
gestion, such assent was in law a request, or
equivalent to a request:
Held, That such charge by the court was not
error; that the law provides no special formal
ities about the witnesses to a will; it is suffi
cient if they attest and subscribe the will in the
presence of testator, the law implies the request
in the consummation of the act, and no speoial
request by the testator is necessary.
Where a witness to a will was not acquainted
with testator before the execution of the will,
and the court was requested to charge the jury,
that if the' witness knew nothing of the testable
capaeity of the testator, he was not in law an
attesting, thongh a subscribing witness, and
the will in that case was void, the Judge reply
ing that is the law gents; but also added, I
charge you, that if he was introduced to him
and looked at him, the law implies he knew
whether or not he had testable capacity.
Held, That the word attest in the Code does
not imply relation to the capacity of the testa
tor. Attesting means witnessing, and sub
scribing, that such witness shall sign. The
faotum of the execution being the objeot of
such attestation and subscription, the inability
of suoh witness to testify to the mental capaeity
of the testator, did not render the will void, but
only went to the credibility of such witness, in
case he was called on to testify about the sanity
or mental capacity of the testator, and the court
ought to have refused suoh charge as it is not
the law.
Held again, TThat the addition of the Judge
to such charge under the facts of this case was
not material to the issue involved in the trial,
and only expressed what is a plain prinoiple of
law, that all men are presumed to be sane, and
being introduced, and seeing testator could only
strengthen the presumption.
Judgment affirmed.
Smith A Alexander, Pon A Little, for plain
tiffs in error.
H. Ii. Benning, Ingram A Crawford, for de
fendant. . > ‘r . . |
army.
New Yobk, March 2. - Inoeenoio Casanora, a
wealthy American citizen, formerly a native of
Cuba, where he owned three million dollars,
arrived in the Columbia from Havana, whither
he went to look after his property and visit his
family. Bearing a passport from the United
States Government, upon arrival Casanora re
ceived an official permitfto disembark, bnt was
arrested npon landing and replaced npon the
steamer which brought him, and was abont to
sail for Vera Cruz. Casanora escaped in a small
boat to the Columbia during the night In
Glenn. Dufield & Co. vs. Samuel O. Salter.
Complaint, from Houston.
Loohbans, C. J.—Where tho court below
granted a new trial npon the ground that the
vWrdiet was contrary to the evidence, and it
appears from the record that there was conflict
ing evidence in the case, and sufficient testi
mony to have sustained tho finding of the jnry:
Held, That while this court will reluotantly
interfere with the province of the court below
in granting new trials, yet that it is important
to the fair admit Jfl'ration of justice that in all
cases where the verdict of the jnry is not strongly
and decidedly against the weight of evidenoe,
new trials on this ground ought not to he
granted.
Where daring the trial of a cause in Coort,
two jurors go into a grocery to take a drink
with a third party, and meet one of the parties,
plaintiff, in the grooery, and the other party is
called in, and takes a drink, and, before leaving
the party, defendant, thus called in, treats to
cigars, and one of. the jurors takes from his roll
of money a twenty-five cent piece, and hands it
to the bar tender, and the same juryman also
takes off the bottle of whisky, all this being
known to the plaintiff, and transpiring in his
presence:
Hdd, That suoh conduct by jurors is repre-
sensible, and the exoulpator affidavits filed do
not relieve it of all obnoxious appearanoes.
Yet, as the plaintiff was cognizant of it, and in
formed his counsel, and no motion was made in
the premises, bnt the oase went on to verdict
without objection, the granting a new trial on
this ground was not authorized under the rules
of law.
When the Jndge charged the jury that whilst
it is true, as a general rule, that two or three
witnesses are better than one, and will be more
readily credited, yet in this oase upon the point
of what this contract was, if the jotyr believed
that the oontraot was made between one of the
plaintiffs, Mr. Wright, alone, and the defend
ant, it is witness against witness, and the plain
tiffs cannot sustain their version of the contract
withont additional proof:
Held, That snch charge was error, that the
witnesses being both of them parties, the ease
ought to have been submitted to the jury to de
termine the credibility nnderall the facts and
evidenoe of the case, and that the court onght
to have granted a new trial on this ground.
Judgment affirmed.
S. D. Killen, Hall & Brown, Nesbits & Jack-
son for plaintiff in error.
S. Hunter, Lanier A Anderson for defendant.
Sophia W. Hargrove, et al., vs. James K.
Redd. Caveat from .Musoogee.
McOay, J.—-X. The Circuit Courts of the Uni
ted States have no jurisdiction over the Probate
of wills; and a proceeding before the Ordinary
of this State propounding a will, cannot be re
moved to the Circuit Court by one of tho cave
ators, who is a resident and oitizen of another
State.
2. An admission in writing of oertain mate
rial facta, for the purpose of being used in the
trial of a cause cannot be^recalled after the trial
has commenced.
3. Where a testator, by his will made in 1852
directed certain of hia slaves to be sent,'after
his death to a free State and there to be eman
cipated, and bequeathed to them, when free, a
large portion of hia estate, and before the death
of the testator the slaves were by law made free
in this State, and the testator died, leaving his
will nnrevoked, this is not snoh a change of the
relation between the testator and legatees as
makes the will inoperative.
4. A will doly executed, and making disposi
tions according to law at the time it was made,
is a good will, notwithstanding, after it is nude,
a law is enacted making such dispositions illegal,
if, before the death of the testator, said law is
repealed or becomes obsolete, and the testator
have done no act expressly, or by implication,
revoking or recalling his wilL
a woman ana ner oauuren, huu uy mo, wins oi i witnesses, would have been . w
the trust the husband was entitled to the annual under the law of this
income for the support of himself and family, I was attested and subscribed b , ^
.— —— —-—j> Buu suoscribed b-
withont account, and an action was brought at | nessesses, does not make it ; n £ 0£u J l H
law to make the trust estate liable for necessa-1 law; a nuncupative will altbnn2*
ries furnished the benefioiaries and the trust es- the last sickness of the test,?- 1 * i
tate, and it appeared that the husband, owning a before her death ; the more ' “'j
plantation side by side with the other, worked not appear from the eviden-V 7 *'-
them together as one place, and dnring the year that at the time the paper writ- m
supplies were furnished him, and goods sold to by the testatrix, she was in q
the hands on orders from him, as an advance on legal execution of the written 1
their part of the crop, and the share of the vented by any Budden surnri« ap4tT “'
hands was at the end of the year, to the extent cause. If, after the will had
of these advances, retained and sold with the dictated bv the testatrix, and 2? ^
general crop, and the jnry found for the plain- name, and' before the requisite r S**
tiff the full amount claimed : I nesses could hare subscribed tb« i * ,| <
in granting i
jury found C
Judgment affirmed.
(Lochrane, C. J., did not preside in this case.) j
Lanier A Anderson, for plaintiff in error.
A. O. Bacon for defendant.
would have Seen
But, inasmuch as the facts stated b, a 016
facts stated
and admitted to be true, (and twin
conflicting evidence,) do not, in
manf olionr 4l>#>A iL A a * < • ' “ a
ment^show that the testatrix at uA*
William Perry et aL vs. Robert M. Gunby.
New trial, from Muscogee. I of the law, in extremis, so'^tTn^ "
Wabneb, J.—A case was brought np to the mme to be established as her n 7, r . ^
Supreme ConrFby writof error, alleging oertain nn der the law applicable to that
specified grounds of error to the ruling, and i am of the opinion that tb n ;r/^ : ''
charge of the court below, and refusal of the court below ahonld be affirm^ nfel" 1
court to charge as requested, and the writ of the court oharged the jury that if
error was dismissed^in this Court, on the ground | in her lifetime made said paper ^ ^
that the original bill of exceptions and the | signed her name to the same^if»««^
not transmitted from the nuncaoative will: the v«rd;’ n i
record therein were
court below within the time prescribed by the
nuncapative will; the verdict is i.i.J
™ ... , , , i .. - the law applicable to the facts staled!-'-,
rate of this Court, and the judgment of the cord, that is to say, the statement22
court below was affirmed, as provided by the mitted to be true, (there beincM ^f
Constitution of this State. At the term of the evidence,) are not sufficient in lav
court at which the remUtUur from this Court the paper writing propounded, toW*
was made the judgment of the court below, a\asthe nuncupative willof thatesUlrW?
motion was made for a new trial, on several the charge of the court on the poSl
grounds, under toe provisions of the 36,0th the will may have been too restrict ?
section of the Code, which motion was over- admitted facts would have auttoriwi,'
ruled on the ground that the dismissal and af- to have found a different verdict, W W
firmance of the judgment of the court below, 0 f the court been otherwise uroa tint,*
was_a bar to the granting of a new trial: _ _ _ | the case. ™
Judgment affirmed.
Lochrane, O. J., concurred as follow:
[The opinion came too late for this is.
Held, That the- defendant was not concluded
from making a motion for a new trial on any
legal or equitable grounds, except those speci
fied grounds of error taken in toe bill of excep
tions whioh was dismissed; as to each of those I McOay, dissenting.—Where atthart-s
grounds he was concluded, by the affirmance of a cit izen and resident of Georgia, a
the judgment under the provisions of the con- w h 0 was temporarily in Prussia/a coaa
stitution, but not as to other grounds not con- 0 f i te officials was appointed by a ooct-s
traband in the bill of exceptions which was dis- 1
missed.
Judgment reversed.
Chappell A Russell, Moses, for plaintiffs in
error.
H. L. Benning, for defendant.
S. D. Irvin, administrator, vs. creditors of
James Bond. Equity from Musoogee.
Wabneb, J.—When a bill was filed by an ad
ministrator to marshal the assets of an insol-
conntry to take the “immediate depodsa
as it may be, reception of her last wifi,"®
which commission was designated n -
Counsellor” or “Judge” of said court, et
other as “sworn Recorder of tire mientes.'
said commission convened at her lodgira
amined her landlord us to her identity tit
time of her stay with him, were then tin
to her room, where they examined in
state of her health, her mental condi!«
residence, her condition in life, and tax
vent estate, alleging that there were conflicting from her a confirmation of her havingnci*
his I their annointmenK and therennon she M
rights as to the distribution of the assets in ms | their appointment, and thereupon ate is
hands, and that the affairs of the estate were so to them, by word of month, her t&tiraa
complicated that he could not safely administer dispositions in detail, one other witaea ti
the same without the direction of the court, and present besides said commission, and tie ii
upon hearing the bill read, the court, on its own I G f aa ;d proceedings were reduced totii
motion, dismissed the same, for want of equity, I headed, “Proceedings Held at the Ii
and because the bill was multifarious. Springs Watering Place Hotel, SepUri*
the I IkSR. 11 ond tvata Hi cm Art Affiwftllvhv “1
Held, That the allegations contained in toe I jgeg > r and were igned officially by wd“l
complainants bill made such a cause as would eorder,” and by said “ Counsellor" or "M
authorize a Court of equity to entertain it for 0 f sa id oourt, and also by the testntmi
the purpose of marshaling the assets of the es- WM at the time confined to her bediail
tate and directing the administration, as to toe condition, and had been informed brbef
distribution thereof; that the remedies given I scum that she did not have longtoEm
by law for the protection of the administration, I ^tio died within a month of said diiesi
wero not as adequate and complete, aocording I said minutes were transmitted to Balltm
to top statement of faots set forth u the record, a record thereof of the verbal d'tpoiitUii
as in a Court of equity, and that it was error in testatrix.
the Court below in dismissing the complainant’s Held, first, That on the trial befonife
bill- j an issue formed upon toe propounding
Judgment reversed. will, ss a nuncupative will, it wag error i
Lyon, DeGraffenreid A Irvin, for plaintiffs in Co^t to charge the jury, that if tie fca
er i?, r * _ . . _. . I signed the writing proposed to be atg
Fleming A Rutherford, Peeples A Stewart, could not be set up as a nuncupative tu
Lamer A Anderson, N. S. Howard, for defend- 2. That whether the said will vis at
ant8 ' I the last sickness of the deceased, sad via
_ , _ _ ... the other requisites of the statute tepa
E.U. Goley ©fc &1 M vs* John. Heury, Executor. J nuncupative wills had been complin* 1
Complaint from Dooly. . _ x _ were questions of fset for the jaiy,^
>\ abneb, J.—A suit was instituted on ft prom* j Court having, by its charge* withdraw: i
isory note in favor of H., as the executor^of S. facts from toe jury, a new trial ondti
against R. T. Coley and Y. A. Coley and West- granted.
brook as security, dated November 1, 18C6, I 6 Ingraham A Crawford, R. Toombs, for?
which purported on its face, to be ia renewal of tiff in error
of a note given by the Coleys to Westbrook for Smith A Alexander, Blanford &Tho®»
a tract of land, and the defendants filed a plea defendants,
in which they alleged that the defendant, West- —
brook, on the 13th day of December, 1859, pur-1 “Thbow Physio to the Dogs"—aid 1
chased a traot of land of Smith, the plaintiff's absence of such physic ss strychnin# ot««
testator, and executed his note therefore to S. mnnlv of
for the sum of $10,000, and afterward, on the we 8 ? gge L t * * .
14th of December, sold toe Bame to the Coleys ejected with sufficient force from «trcsjl
for the sum of $12,000, taking their notes for Any device that will suffice to rid thecitj*
tho purchase money, that the defendant, W., thousand and one bench-legged floe
prior to the 1st of November 186C, had paid of curs with which this community is infest
the original consideration for the land toe snm be hailed with delight by every goca <>
of $5,000, and that on the day and year last And while upon the snbject we would J
aforesaid, the Coleys, with Westbrook as seou- have the pater familias of this
rity, renewed said note for the balance due for trict inform us why the canine distuiben*
the land, and gave it to the plaintiff,which is the nocturnal slumbers are permitted torow
note now sued on. The defendants also plead I free and make night lrideous with
loss of property sustained by the war under the earthly howls? Come, gentlemen, en/ow.
provisions of toe relief aot of 1868, and offered ordinance and collect your tax on “
to surrender back the land to plaintiff, and to numerous pests or, failing to accomp®?
rescind the oontraot upon his accounting for the end, in toe language of the poet ve eItJJ
improvements made thereon, and toe purchase | Policeman kill that dog,
money already paid therefor. The plaintiff de- Don’t mind abont hi# hair,
marred to the defendant’s plea, whioh was sus- Pull outyonr pistol out
- “ -- - — - And shoot him anywhere.
tained by the court. The defendants also moved
the court to suspend the trial of the ease under
I Argument of No. 3,
Southwestern Railroad Comp# 0 !'7“
I DeBorde—was resumed and oonclaaea.
Lyon, de Graffenried A Irwin for p
I error. Nisbet A Jackson and
I mons for defendant in error. .. ■*
Upon motion No. 8, Macon Cue®
Mayor and Alderman of Sayann^L*
Stephen Collins et al.-was withdrawn!?
tne oourt to suspend toe trial ot the oase nnder I “V"
the resolution of toe General Assembly in the Supreme Court of Georgta-
year 1870, suspending the proceedings of toe I Term,
several courts of this State on debts and oon- | Wednesday,
tracts, made prior to toe 1st of Jane, 1865,
which motion to suspend toe trial th6 court
overruled:
Held, That the resolution of toe General As
sembly was not a law binding on the court,
and that there was no error in toe court be
low, in overruling toe motion to suspend the
trial.
Held also, That inasmnoh as the defendant’s
plea did not set forth an equitable ground of
defense to toe plaintiff’s .action by connecting
toe plaintiffs, or Ms testator, in any way, with
the loss of their property, the demurrer to the I error by Gapt. £. O. Bacon. g,
defendant’s plea was properly sustained by the I Pending argument in No. 4, %
oourt below. '
Judgment affirmed.
S: Hall, Pate A Ryan for defendants in error.
P. Cook, R. F. Lyon for defendant
Bel for plaintiff in error. —
No. 5, Macon Circuit-John W. ^
[ Charles Strobeig—was argued tor p
Pending argument in r«o. v s
the Court adjourned till 10 0 c ‘ oc *’
I morrow.—Atlanta Fra, 2 d.
Retribution.—The Wheeling
j Intelligencer, a Badical paper, grc»ns f*
over what toe Democrats are
I fn thaf Knofavil ATtrl IIIIOODS^*^"
B. O. Ellington vs. James B. Dilliard,. et. al.
Devisavit vet non, from Muscogee.
Wabneb, J.—A paper writing was propounded
in toe oourt below, to be sffinitted to probate ss . anticipate some ngmeua- &
a nuncupative will, npon the foUowing agreed enomtities of. tyrainy and
statement of facts, to-wit: “That toe tests- whioh have so long been practiced1 BP
trix was a native of toe State of Georgia, where Democrats. It is a miracle of geoj *
she resided until she was of age, that u the sound practical statesmanship which g
year 1866 she went to Berlin, in Germany, for 1 people who have felt the stingol «
the purpose of completing her education, with ^ oppression from inflicting it wbe “
the intention of retiming to Georgia when her I t j,e power,
education should be oompleted, and remained I s -
in Berlin eighteen months, tost being in bad I Facts fob the juadusb.—^ ■ -.. !rtee n
health she went to Lipp Springs, in Germany, I er A Wilson Sewing Machine: v VnSSal
and on the 8d day of September, 1868, she was constantly in drese-making, < " oa V7not
informed by her physioian that she had the I and heavy work. The maohine hes ^
consumption, and oonld not live long, was there one month during the time, anil nev ^
oonfined to her room and bed, ana on the 3d J repairs at all. I would not exebang 9
day of October, 1868, she died, having never machine, and I have examined all.
recovered from said sickness 1 that on the Sd I Xenia, Ohio. ‘ Mbs.
recovered from said sickness; that on ton 3d
day of September, 1868, she invited to her room
one Spanken, and one Sauerland and one Ger
trude Sohlosser, who was her female attendant
and none, and who was present in the same
room during the entire transaction, and then
and there in toe hearing and presence of the
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Richmond Chain Gang.—The
that the Riohmond chain gang co “®f‘“ st
forty-two men. The gang, when V*
on toe streets and cleaning the s# ^
, 0 t eity, ia employed on the south side
said throe witnesses she expressed her purpose 1 in breaking np granite for the unpm ^
to make her will, and then and there she dio-1 the streets. When the fuff <j or Pf ^ m
tated the several items in said paper, purport- they break from sixty to sixty-five to^r
ing to be her will, and the same then and there I — —*—■ •"*«!«"* **»ver the iw*
reduced to writing by toe said Bpanken and |
and Sauerland, who signed toe said I
paper as. official witnesses, and the | In the active pursuit of 0 fts
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said testatrix then ft&d there also signed 1 Inestimable blessing of *
her name to the same. Allot which testament-1 gotten, until di#®*s* i# fi™jy . i
vulaerableP
tne recitals therein referred toand toe facts there- J most penwu*, ;
in recited; that said paper writing was executed in j polht involves aknort toe w u
substanoe and form according to the laws of I the reason why under tiro -ffljctioJ
force in that part of Germany, where toe same j enumerated such a 0-^1*101 1
was executed, and by the laws of that country, I we claim the Simmons Liv
would be a good testamentary disposition of I remedy for them all.
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