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MACON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1873.
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THE GEORGIA PRESS,
iiali military have begun
Rev. J. H. Allen has been appointed
Chaplain of the Lunatic Asylum at Mid
way.
Both th"e Atlanta lottery schemes got
a portion of the President’s message in
tneir issue of yesterday morning.
Mb. E. W. Callaway died in Milledge-
ville last Sunday morning.
The Baldwin Blues have shown their
now clothes.
An Americus negro child, during the
absence of its mother, attempted to roast
some potatoes and its funeral took place
Jus Snvnnn
v n r oTwration-* for the celebration of
AlirtlMay ,,f General Lee, which occurs next day
pthelft' 1 "i February. Several prize j George Rogers will not rob the mail
ps have h . n arranged. ! at Americus any more, as the Circuit
The eve- of Savannah are now turned Court at Savannah has enlisted him into
fiilie ve'mptnous scenes of the ever- the civil service of the United States for
(jjmrBB'-k Crook. . a term of years.
I,ie Savannah News has the following: John Hale and Will Carter had a dif-
iciong the cases tried in the United. ferenco of opinion in Lee county the
tedicted fw some °‘ her day ’ T ‘‘°' f « nner bled ***** when
j n connection wiLh the Presiden- i the latter had withdrawn his knife.
. .. on . hut which is simply given j Twenty five white couples and thirty-
.. .. cor.rt report, as we were enabled two. colored matrimonialized in Savannah
J;Z m the maUer j du ™* the moa *«J™ nher ' ,
' ,ni t in* f. Mowing particulars : Wm. Columbus paid $138,600 for cotton last
r : > k wsi- one of the managers of the! week.
■v- ! election at Lester’s District,) Janauschex does Macbeth in Colum-
f'.rt •■inty. After he had served as a bus t^ght.
■or ;«l>ont five hours, he remark- • _ &
t 1: ivlnk. and asked leave of j CoLUJrBUS mnst be in a had financial
ni-.angers to go and get a fix. The Enquirer says: " Almost every-
,.. r.-rmisfion was given, and body owes more than he can pay.”
I . k , . i t to a store about one hun-j ^hb young lady who was burned to
.remaining ten or fifteen' . ., ' ” . „ „ „ ,
r turned. While he was deatb at the Moravian College, Salem,
' nrg' of the votes counted j N. C., was Miss Sallie G. Tilkey, of Au
ra''-k has been indicted gusta. The principal of the college
Congress of IS <0, for not! wr jte 3 as follows about the sad calamity:
vot when m fact the i .. , , _ T , , ,
t 1 while he was absent, j About 1 p * M ’ 1 heara analarra; some
is ivked, is it ft crime for a * cried “fire” and others ran toward the
. tion to go off and get J school, so did I, and found a great panic.
dr -aid. as he was Mav- Upon inquiring I learned that Sallie was
. that he was “tired of , ... .
1 votes.” and itis stated j bl,rnm S'. ^ coming up stairs she was
which resulted in his rolled in blankets, from which the smell
The jury was out from j of burnt clothing still proceeded; she wa3
s it til-day to dark, and it r , u ite rational and wanted to be Laid on a
whether they have agreed ! , , n , , . . , ,
J | bed. Two do tors were at liana, and
■thol : c Church in Atlanta' dr033< ? d htr wounds. They do not think
•n consecrated ye terdav.! ahe con a : ecovo . r ' , n - r limbs, ,?ps and
J - arras are in a had condition. Ho^ she
: that < ol. I. \V. Awry, o,; eau^ht the fire she does not know ; she \
Vn t:iut : on, has £ont» to evidently carried a spark in h.c»r clothes*
**h a vi**w to becoming ! up Btn.T^i nutl did not notice it till her j
a. c at t»* I dress on the left side was buvmn*. She I
management of the Plca-I,,^ hlt0 tho neIt room> wh ’ re two
j girls tried to put out the fire with shawls, !
vuv M. Anslry, aged 11,'but could not, and ran for belli. Sallie j
— near Ea t Point last! to Jo ' - ed them and came down in j
i he was killed by an acci-
■ • of his gun.
. Gr.RTv. of Sparta, died
■l .1 .• xy lu st T u.-aday.
: -un, a Sj.artan youth of
lentally shot and killed
us gun la-t Thursday.
\ r ku, of Thomas county,
ii y. age
dvty.
i ■ ,-ville Times of Saturday
••■ring:
■: ! .—lay, Mr. Juniper Hall.
... !• u living on Mr. Henry
id.!-..tution, in the Duncanville
mist year, came to town, ac-
v four hands employed on
. I rnging with him and selling
. 1. Kubitshek & Brother, seven
•-.‘tton. The hands started
ufti-rnoon. Mr. Hall staying
: hour or two longer, attending
• !• -i:i.--s, when he left also. Not
that night his family be-
■ wiled at his absence, sent to
it ! have since been engaged in
. : ■ fia l the missing husband and
r. Yesterday evening we learned
• . ties just from Duncanville-that
■ • ■four hands who were in town
- lay confessed to having killed
H dl an 1 putting him in the cypress
-\ : ,i-t beyond the McLean place,
glit mile’s from town. This must
i~-n alwwt the plaee where Mr.
•vertook the wagons. It is sup-
i ‘hat the negroes thought Mr.
i v i-.-ived the money for his cot-
id killed him for that, or some al
ii. may have occurred, resulting
■ • bloody tragedy. When our in
■lUt passed up the road Dr. Robin-
i.l! a lir »e number of citizens were
t t«> the plaee indicated, for the
o of iinding the body. As we are
■a the ev • of going to press, we are
■ !•> *iv« any further particulars,
-i . K ibitshek .t Brother inform ns
'.’i -y did not pay Mr. Hall any
,-y m> Tuesday.
'nr. Pi rx.\m is playing in Rome.
‘u. F. iir.bridge Democrat publishes
■ "’loving death roll of those who died
1W fever in that town:
•a. T ir, - E. Bower, George Shwa-
"f. Mat Ho ver, Mrs. Sallie Cloud, H.
brl-n Sc. Lawrence Darden, H. J.
’ar-Tig.-n and child, ,T. H. Merri, Jesse
Mr-. Jesse P. King, George W.
- Mr-. George AV. Pearce. Miss Ida
'i ..o .os J Williams, Hon. Ben
l- n. Mrs. Jesse Brocket, Green
: .v. I‘ tit.jl Iliiraphrey, L. B. Ehrlich,
'I s Eii-'el. Wallace Donalson (col.),
■''' Mor jun (col.), Capt. George W.
Mr-. George W. Lewis, P. W. An
's Jaoib Z 'igler, Mit Griffin, Au-
■:n. M -G.-iff, Prank Green, Mrs. W. J.
S"T. M.i -k Grass, W. C. Dickenson,
l • Warn, Mrs. Pipkin Mr. Jesse
r-^Mds Walter Dickenson, Mrs. H. H.
i ’ w i Col. James Wilson. Shade Bostick,
- B it.--, i{. h. O'Farrell Miss Martha
J ts Koliert Collier. Mrs. Bennett
"‘"t, Mi-s Mollie Sellers, Deaths
"'ir la«t i-sue: Mr3. Coley, Jake
i-vl.i, Bennett Brocket’s child.
>Uu.
came
.. blaze. Prof. LimLuuk just came, !
and severely burning his hands, sue- ‘
needed in wrapping her up and Lay
ing her down. Tnen came the blankets.
Scientific Augusta thieves now oper
ate with the aid of eh!oro r orm.
All the prisoners escaped from the
jail at Lumpkin Monday night of last
week.
Chsistmas trees have already began to
shoot forth their tender buds all over the
State. The panie dou’t 'mi to have
nipped them.
The Milledgeville U-.. f Recorder
says that the Medical Association of
the State of Georgia, held its annual
meeting in this city on Monday, 1st inst..
for the purpose of granting licenses to
physicians and apothecaries. We learn
that abo. t thirty licenses were granted to
those presenting diplomas, and that about
ten license? granted to those who under
went examination of competency. The
board will keep open its session during
the present month for the accommoda
tion of those unable to appear at its open
ing ; there will be a quorum present dur
ing thi- time. We will next week pub
lish a list of licenses issued up to that
time.
The Columbus Sun of Tuesday has the
following account of Malone’s funeral:
It took p'ace Sunday morning from the
residence of Mrs. Musgrove, the aunt of
the deceased. The coffin lid was opened
and a large number of friends viewed the
remains. The dead slept quietly. The
face was very natural and on it rested a
pleasant expression. The remains were
in a handsome coffin. On the solid silver
plate, furnished by Mr. DeWitt Sey
mour, of Atlanta, hut formerly of Oolnm-
bus, appeared this: “Milton -Malone,
bom in Columbus, Georgia, in 1841; died
in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. gstii. 1873.” In
coming from Atlanta the coffin was en
closed in a plain pine box, on the top of
which was written these words: “He
died as he had lived—a he.o—mourned
by thousand - and hated by but few ; the
sad, sad v'. tiin if a judicial murder; the
fatal deci on >* a self-loved executive, a
heartless, - ea, a marble hearted.”
“Bedell.”
This was written by Mr. Penn Bedell,
of Atlanta. The funeral procession was
composed of large numbers of citizens on
foot, followed by a long train of carriages.
Had the hour been a little Later the at
tendance would have been greatly in
creased. Rev. Dr. Key, of St. Luke s
Churcb, read the burial service. At the
house and grave the scene was most af
fecting. The demonstration proved our
people were sincere when th‘-y signed the
petition for a commutation of his sen
tence. They do not believe the deceased
committed murder, and our best lawyers
are of the same opinion. All left the
cemetery with saddened hearts—hearts
full of sympathy for the bereaved family.
“ No farther seek his merits to disclose.
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
(There they alike in tremblinir hope repose),
the bosom of his Father and his God.
Giuniug Cotton.
iii,., . ... A run among the cotton bales at Mo-
• -iiiia Talents welcome the incoming bileafew . ^vs ago convinced us that
n '!'? l.'- iving rocks through the win- ' many of our planters are too careless
” of tiie ladies’ coaches. I about the final management and ginning
Atlanta municipal election came , ^^ATw^tssea? to
„ 7'y- A " 'W'«al they have raised | £ y Btaina by snm Il quantities
r® i’-’illaballoo about a very small! Q f a j ower grade product that had been
V" r - | allowed to creep into them. .
** Blwk Crook will undress before One of the most
• Allan. . s . » .t 1 proviner the looks nnd £rarte of cotton is
to-a t ut tbe muWle of th . to sun it weil until thoroughly dry be-
. fore ginning. A good sunning removes
. rll vr ' is always getting up some- ’ most of the stains and adds very much
*' »««. Tlie newest is a centennial ’ to the whiteness of the stople. When
_ ‘ well dried the gin will take out dirt pet-
- '' a * W llc ^ ladies will appear ^ no t nap C r cut so badly, and in
made- after the style of a hun- addition will gin it much faster and with
V r ago. The Libiary Associa- | mU ch less labor. The saving in time and
„ for the labor of sunning it, and the bete
^ -'Aii anniversary ball of the Ger- • ter p rice obta ined of i to Jc. per pound
t A Fire Engine Company came j will be the profit on the operation.
n S Hannah Tuesdav ni«ht. I The assorting of cotton in tne gin
Tilt ” . _ . house is an important business. No bale
Uto- ' ‘cr hand of the Black Crook gho uld come to market with two quali-
^ l^mded the streets of Savan- ^ e3 or gmdes of lint in it. In such a
'’Wl <nday ’ and Ri'vv's has recorded ' case the whole bale sells for the price of
’■' i., n row 601110 to Macon and the worst sample drawn.
^ bear, in order that he i Each piling should be to itself, ana
"Ma to make him a cap like the red or stained separated from the
T _ * ' a Grenadiers. | bine, and the clean should, he separated
' C f " n ' r i1 of the late Willis A. Jone3, ’ from either. Onli ’
W took place in Atlanta on packages can the 1
aT for the nroducL—.
Only by care in putting np
the full value be obtained
for the product.—Mobile Register.
THE GRANGERS IN COUNCIL.
Mass-iueetinprof the Patrons of Hus.
bauilry in Atlanta,
The Convention of Southern Grangers,
which met in Atlanta on the 25th Novem
ber, resolved itself into a mass-meeting
on Wednesday, with Rev. D. E. Butler,
of Madison, as chairman.
On motion, a Committee on Business
was appointed, who, a ’tcr retiring, sub
mitted the following report, which was
adopted:
1. That it is the policy of cotton plan
ters to utilize the value of cotton as much
as practicable, first to manufacturing as
large a portion as possible of the staple,
and the balance to sell direct to the man
ufacturer.
2. Resolved, That we recognize the
moral obligation and the wise policy of
employing all practicable means to can
cel existing debts, and that the creditor
manifest forbearance, and that the debtor
exhaust alt available resources to respond
to the claims upon him.
3. Resolved, That we advise cotton
planters now embarrassed with debt to
seek the most favorable terms with their
creditors as to the sale of their cotton.
D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina,
offered the following resolutions, which
were adopted:
Whereas, Congress is empowered by
the Constitution of the United States to
protect inventive genius and foster the
development of the mechanic arts by re
newing for a term of years to inventors
the exclusive right to their discoveries;
and
Whereas, This protection often becomes,
now-a-days, hurtful to society because it
creates and sustains injurious monopo
lies; therefore
Resolved, That this Convention,
through its President, do petition Con
gress to so modify the existing patent
laws at their. approaching session, as
hereafter to require all articles covered
by a renewal of patent to be sold by the
patentee at not more than twenfy-five
per cent, above eo.t of manufacturing.
The Business Committee made the fol
lowing report:
Whereas, The Southern States possess
vast mines of coal and iron, which, for
need of proper development, are now use
less, and consequently valueless j and
Whereas, The miner mut be fed and
clothed as well as the manufacturer, ren
dering the farmer, the mu’ ■■■ — and
the miner mutually dependent on each
other, and every aid given to one of
these branches of industry is mutual in
its benefits. Therefore,
Re :olved, That we look upon the de
velopment of the coal and iron interests
of our section as a matter demanding not
only the attention of the capitalist and
fin mcier. but of every m in in our section
who desires our future prosperity and ad
vancement.
Whereas, It is a well established fact
that the surplus products, of all descrip
tions, are valueless to us without a mar
ket, and that to secure a profitable mar
ket, cheap transportation is of prime im
portance to the prosperity, n it only of
the agricultural, but of the commercial,
manufacturing and mining interests of
the -ountry; find
Whereas, Our present moans of reach
ing market are inadequate to our wants
aud the need of the country;
Resolved, That cheap transportation is
of the first importance to the country,
and that we wiil go heart and band with
our brethren ef the West in securing it.
Resolved, That we look upon the con
struction of the Atlantic and Great West
ern Canal, and the island water commun
ication along the Gulf towards the List,
as a matter of deep interest to the pros
perity of Georgia and the South, and we'
therefore earnestly request our Represen
tatives in Congress and in the State Leg
islature, to urge by every proper means
its importance upon the B’ederal Govern
ment.
Resolved, That the resources of our
farmers are large, and the recuperative
energy of the country great, and that a
return to the cash system as soon as
practicable would insure the prosperity of
the countiy on a solid basis.
Resolved, That we recommend the State
Grange at its next meeting shall appoint
a State Chemist, in order to protect Pa
trons of Husbandry against imposition
and worthless fertilizers.
Resolved, That we recommend the
Georgia Grange, an eight page weekly
published in Atlanta, as a suitable paper
for the conveying of information useful
to the order, and that we recommend the
Georgia Grange to Patrons of Husbandry
and planters in this and other States.
The first, second, third, fourth and fifth
resolutions were adopted.
A motion to table the sixth resolution
was lost by the casting vote of the chair—
the vi te standing 41 to 41.
The resolutions elicited a prolonged
discussion.
Colonel T. P. Saffold moved to amend
by making the entire press of Georgia the
organs of the order.
The committee were allowed to with
draw it.
The Special Committee on refunding
the cotton tax made the following report:
The majority report: Tnat we respec
tively request our Representatives and
Senators in Congress to urge the enact
ment of a law restoring to the legitimate
claimant the unconstitutional tax im
posed upon cotton crops of 1862 and 18C7
inclusive
The minority report is as follows:
The minority report recommends that
our Senators and Representatives in Con
gress be requested to urge the passsage
of a bill refunding the tar collected;
first, to the party who held the cotton at
the time of passage of the act in 1862,
and all the balance of the tax to the pro
ducer and no other person, under such
proofs and regulations as Congress in the
act may prescribe.
The majority report was adopted.
Mr. T. Smith, of Washington county,
offered the following, which was adopted:
Resolved. That the resolution, as passed
by the meeting of yesterday, relative to
proportioning the crop in planting next
year, that is, one-third in small grain,
one-third in com and one-third in cotton,
be taken by each member of this conven
tion to his constituents, or a delegate of
granges of Patrons of Husbandry to each
of their granges, State and subordinate,
and impress upon them the great im
portance of this resolution and urge that
it he carried out to the letter.
Mr. C. E. McGregor, of Warren, offered
the following:
Resolved, That the subordinate Granges
of Patrons of Husbandry in Georgia and
snch other Cotton States as may so de
sire, request the Representatives of their
respective ceunties to have the existing
arson laws so amended as to make the
malicious burning of gin-houses a capital
crime. Lost.
Mr. D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Caro
lina, offered the following, which was
adopted: _
Protection to home industry can be ad
vocated but for two reasons: patriotism
and revenue. If for patriotism, monopo
lies are created, extravagant offices are
multiplied, and revenue destroyed. If
for revenue, then foreign products must
be purchased at the sacrifice of home
manufactures.
Resolved, that it is the sense of this
Convention that Congress should so mod
ify the tariff laws that imposts be gath
ered from nothing but such articles as
are by common consent denominated
luxuries.
Mr. _ Russell, of Tennessee, offered the
following, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the presiding officer ap
point a committee of one from each State,
represented in this Convention, whose
duty it shall be to report to this Conven
tion the expediency of making arrange
ments whereby the planters may make
shipments direct to Europe of their cot
ton.
The President appointed as said com
mittee, Russell of Tennessee, Aikin of .
South Carolina, Bo >v dre of Mississippi,
Harrington of Alabama, and Paine of
Georgia.
Col. R. A. Alston off ere i the following.,
which was adopted:
r
Whereas, The present system of in
spection in Georgia has proved utterly*'
worthless to this end.
Resolved, That the Pr> sident of this
KACFMANN AND THE KHAN.
Tbe Big Barbarian's Formal Surren
der to the Little Russian—A Despot
on His Marrow Bones.
Khiva Letter in New York Herald.)
Angels Unawares.
BY M. L. EVE.
When the lights are out. and the play is dime—
The great and sorrowful drama of life-
fended with his council; that this was
the very way he himself was governed;
that even the Great White Tsar himself
never took any measure without first
asking advice' of ministers. The Khan _ „
entered into the arrangements with great ‘ know it by heart, and knowledge is sad.
, In my last letter, giving you an account zest, as the business had a charm of nov- j ° fife^ ** * now, m i o mm an
of the capture of Khiva, I spoke of the elfy to him. During his reign the Khan' For we’U never know what it is, my friend,
fact that the Kahn, under the influence has been governed by a Persian favorite, j we Te P'ayed it out to the bitter end.
of Russian shells tumbling into his pal- who possessed the authority of his king- j p 0 r there are sad things, if we did but know,
ace, had taken counsel of his fears, and, dom, and to whose counsels he owed his But we shut our eyes, and dream they are not.
with a few Turehman horsemen, had misfortunes with the Russians. A pros- T te >,are k i *t 0 r'vrongs.andterrible rights;
escaped to the desert. Finding refuge lamation was issued freeing the slaves; e wot ; ros s g i. re are rs
in the Turcoman country, he awaited the old Prime Minister, the Persian fa-
Gen. Ktofman’s response to his offer of vorite, was locked up by the Russian
surrender. That commander sent him I General^ and no intercourse allowed be-
word that if he returned within a week tween him and the Khan,
he would have nothing to fear from the j the kahn and his revenue.
Russians, hut. if he would not return, I learn that the private revenue of the
then the Russian General, who could not Kahn is .£50,000 a year; Luxury is un-
allow the country to remain without a known to him, although he has a, large .. . , . . .
Whereas. It is ever important that government, would set up another prince household and a good many wives; yet ^ ^ ^ne whorfithev ™nnot know;
farmers should be protected from tae lm- m his stead. Soon the 14th of June, the themannerof lifeis simplicity and fru- That we’ll see the print of their feet someday,
Khan, in answer to liis summons, re- gality itself. The only expensive luxury | _ ,A- Ul1 know that an angel has widked below-
turned to Khiva, accompanied by his one he can indulge is an occasional new wife j ThroatFie wSrv 0 '" 0 ’ w - ho - lms m,vse * 1 . hl ? w »y*
hundred followers, and was conducted , and an addition to his stable of Turco-I
ii V! * me. ' 1 T 1 a .V i ,1. _ rri ;
And things that are sadder even than tears—
For the tears may scald, but the iron scars.
There are some who sing when the world’s asleep,
In a maudlin dream of its golden gains.
And souls that are dumb, because they are great;
And lives that are set to the noblest strains;
But there’s so much noise that noliody hears,
And the world is deaf with its hoary years.
r length oi a summer’s day.
into the presence of his conqueror. The man horses. I heard that the Khan re- * irFVTTTrii V 'l'T? a i-priv
. , _ — f army had by this time left the town, and ceived a supply of wine from Russia every 1 u l,JV A a a .
Convention appoint a committee of five, was camped outside in a large garden year, upon which he frequently got ex-
who shall be charged with the duty of ..belonging to -the Khan. This gar- cecdingly drunk; but as the soldiers
framing such a law, to be presented to den was filled with fruit trees, and found no wine bottles I am disposed to
the next Legislature, as shall more effec-f^nder some noble elms the Rus- doubt this, story. I take it that the
tually meet the necessity. yrian General had pitched Ms tent. 1 whole revenue of the State Ls £50,000,
The Chair appointed as that com mitt eej-jjhere was a little fountain—not much in and that out of it the Khan has been
Colonel R. A. Alston, T. P. Saffold, O. P. Wts way, but a wonderful comfort after compelled to support his army and pay
Bell, L. F. Livingston, and T. J. Smith. ) -fir desert experience—and a pond, with for the execution of justice. The treaty
The Committee on Direct Trade re-. .luck and geese and monstrous pelicans, of peace, signed by the Khan before
ported hack the resolution referred to ' Here Kaufmann lived; here he first met the departure of the Russians, stipu-
them without recommendation. t tho Khan. As soon as the arrival of the lates that the war indemnity shall
The report of the special Committee on ! Khan was announced we all gathered be paid in the following manfaer:
Direct Trade was taken up. i about the Russian General, curious to The first two years £15,000 a year;
Mr. E. T. Paine, of Cobb, read an elab-<rsee the despot who had made so much a 1 the second two years £17,000 a year, apd
orate paper on the practicability and ail- - figure in the Russian mind. He rode so on, iricreasing £2,000 every two years,
vantages of direct trade; the cost per» humbly enough into the garden, where a until it readies £30,000, at which figure,
bale of transportation to Liverpool was I few days before he had been supreme, it is to remain until the whole sum is
ten dollars, and the profits eighty dollars. [ followed by about twenty soldiers. When : paid. Interest is to be paid .at five per
Manufacturers were anxious to see this j he came to the end of a short avenue of cent., and the whole sum, principal and
movement carried to success. ^poplars that led to the Russian tout he : interest; is to be defrayed in twenty years:
~ .. Kaufmann’s reason for increasing
payment wa3 that commerce will'ad-
sheopskin hat he bowed low, and, I van-e so rapidly after Khiva is open to
fered the following, which was adopted:
Whereas, Tho cotton planters of the
South are, in many instances, embar
rassed, and consequently will be forced
to have advances for the year 1874,
Resolved, That by combination they
should make such acceptance as will he
A Fatlicr and Two Sons Lying; Bend
lu One House, and In Another a
Father and Ills Two Sons Lie
Wounded—All the Terrible Particu
lars.
Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.)
Harrodsburo, Ky., November 27—Our
town is in a terrible state of excitement,
caused by. the difficulty wMch happened
in the Court-house yesterday afternoon,
and which resulted in the killing of three
men and the wounding of three others.
The parties, engaged in the affray were
Phil. B. Thompson, Sr., an old and dis
tinguished lawyer of our town and broth
er of ex-Senator J. B. Thompson, and Ms
three sons, viz : D. M. Thompson, Phil.
B. Thompson, Jr., Commonwealth’s At
torney for tliis district, and J. B. Thomp
son, Jr., County Attorney, against Theo
dore H. Davis, U~q., and his three sons,
Theodore, Jiv, Laure and Caldwell.
Circuit Court has been in session for sev
er 1 days, and was at tae time this shoot
ing occurred, with Judge Wieklilleoa the
bench. The'petit jury had just retired
for a few minutes, when'all of a sudden
through their own agents, ship and sell
direct to Europe said cotton, tho proceeds
thereof to be applied to the liquidation of
said claims.
The follo wing, offered by Gen. George
W. Adam, was adopted:
Resolved, That It is the sense of this
meeting that as i-oon as proper arrange
ascending the little platform, knelt down the Russians that the Kalin will bo bet-
before Kaufuiaun, wiio was seated on a ter able to pay £30,000 in a few years’
''amp stool, aud offered to kiss Ms time than he can pay £15.000 now. My
-land. This the Russian General re- own thought is that long before the siim
[♦fused. Ho withdrew a little fur-* is paid the death of the Kahn or some .
•filler on the platform and remained 1 local and political event will enable the a pistolj shot was heard, followed by
♦kneeling. It should be observed Russians to find a pretext for quietly .twenty-nvo or thirty others simultaneous-
bank of the Oxus, as [fy inside Jot’ the house, wjudi was crowded
without re-
so become
whole of the KhL
if reased upon the ground flat. In this j van dominions.
Lonture they eat, drink and converse, so j -———»■•••
that the kneeling was not an evidence of j Love and Suicide.
• umility. In years he was about 30, with I cllieilS0 Ti , lle(i . St Louis letter ] .
, plea-ant expression of countenance when j In the DlU . w j nian ascent from the
:-ot darkened by tears, as at present; j owel . an p Jla i s the organism seeni3 to
-urge full eyes, slightly oblique; aquiline
a thin black beard shading the
meats can be made the pi inters are ad- face; a mustache covering a heavy, sen-
viied to send a portion of their cotton to
European markets.
Mr. M. F. Berry, of Miss., offered the
following, which were adopted:
Resolved, That this Convention, when
It adjourns, will adjourn to meet under
the call of the President on sixty days
notice through the newspapers of the
Cotton States at su *h time and p'aoo a
riiai month; in lio ly, powerful; six feet
V-ireo inches high, broad shouldered and
-* nghing> I should say, between ‘J-M and
fiOti pounds. His raiment .was a robe of
brigat blue silk and the tall sheepskin
have retained a large share of the imi
tative element of the monkey, and where
one man voluntarily goes off the hooks
ot ers are likely to follow, until the thing
be omes epidemic. The most recent
victim belonged over in Lafayette eoiui
ty. He wanted Miss Dalton and sh re
fused him. The young lady is the belle ■ morning and expired about ten o’clock,
ftttliibtime. The excitement was intense.
Men tumbled headlong out of the .win
dows and doors. Doetol-s, lawyers, citi
zens and the judge himself rushed for a
place oi safety, piling one up,on top of an.
A German Story.
In pursuit of information and in order
to perfect our acquaintance with the Ger
man language we occasionally, say once a
month or so. visit one of those places
where the Teutomc beverage is dis
pensed, not that we like to drink boer,
but simply to improve our mind. On one
of these occasions we heard a story which
is worth publication, and so we translate it.
Once upon a time there was a man
whose poverty was his means of support.
He had letters of recommendation and
had a regular begging route, with a list
of his regular contributors upon the
toute, and the amounts which each were
expected to contribute, once or twice a
year. Now this old man had a pretty
daughter, to whom a young man of Ms
race made love vehemently and was ac
cepted. So he went to the old man to see
what dowry he would give tho daughter.
The old man was pleased with the match>
and felt disposed to be liberal. So he
showed him his begging route, and as
signed to him a sufficient number of sub
scriptions to make Mm a right comfort
able support.
All was satisfactory, and the marriage
was solemnized in due form. After a few
days the young man found tho larder'
growing scant, and started out with his
begging list. The first man approached
was one who^e subscription was put down
on the list at six guilders, or about three
and a half dollars. He presented his pa
pers of recommendation, and the good
man handed him five kreutzers, or a little
less than ten cents..
He gazed at him in silent amazement.
“ How is this ?”' ask,id he. “ Last
year you gave my father-in-law sir guil
ders, and that, ne told me, was your reg
ular subscription!”
“ It is true, but I have liad bad luck
this year. I am no longer a rich man.
I engaged in an unlucky speculation and
lost nearly all my money, and this the
very h/!st I can do now.”
“ Speculation!” exclaimed the angry
beggar, “ What the devil business had
you to specu’hte on mg money ?"—Chatta
nooga Times.
ii,:. Guy Fawkes.
It turns out that tho young Guy Fawke3
in the London Zoological Garden is a fe
male Mppopotamns. Wednesday, Nov. 9
was lier birthday, she being just one
year old, and the English naturalist,
Frank Buekland, called to wish her “many
ha ppy returns.” He writes in “Land and
other, secreting un lev and beuind ben, dies j Water, using the masculine instead of
and pillars. Tlie stove-and court-house • t |, e ■f eln ; h me gender, po-dhly for the
walls were literally riddled witu bullets, j ro;u;on tilkt th ^hame is masculine :
"dale two men lay dead on the floor one „ t to call at breakfast time,
other mortally and three other* Miglitiy A was fo .. tllnat<J 0110J to witn( , s , the
wo unded lheodorc Dans, Sr., was s.ot ! t5on of „„. k ,^he water in the
through tne heart an l died immediately, b ! ltu , ras tt!l cWr a ” s orv-tal. and I waa
and his son, Larue Davis; a ter receiving ; able tot(W . rV( , everything that went on.
tour bullets in me .body, ietl, and died m ! The motU0l ., her6 ‘, lf down on lier side,
Piff
he may designate. Delegatescorajtesiugi Turkestan; this famous Tarim Padishah,
said meeting shall be appointed by the
State Granges wh- n in session or in va
cation by the Masters. Each State shall
be enti tied to one delegate for each Rep
resentative and Senator they are entitled
to in the United States Congress and the
Masters of the State Granges, and that
tiie State Agricultural Society of the
Southern States be requested to send del
egates to said Convention.
Resolved, That in view of making our
farms self-sustaining, by sowing down
one-third of the available lands in small
grain and grasses, and plant one-third in
corn and one-tliird in cotton, we hereby
recommend the Masters of the respective
Cotton States Granges submit this policy
to the subordinate Granges for their
adoption, and that the Masters of subor
dinate Granges he requested to urge
voluntary pledges thereto, and report the
result to the Masters of their State
Granges, who will then report to the
President of this Convention the number
of subordinate Granges in each State that
have pledged themselves to this policy,
and such information will be diffused
through the public press by the Presi-
ident.
Colonel R. A. Alston offered the fol
lowing :
Resolved, That a standing committee
be appointed by the President, who shall
enter into correspondence with all the
Granges of Georgia and other cotton
States, and obtain from them the pledge
of the amount of cotton of the present
crop they will furnish for shipment.
L. F. Livingston offered the following,
wMch was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee of five be
raised by the chair looking to the comple
tion of all necessary arrangements for
the direct shipment of cotton to Europe,
with Gen. Colquitt as chairman.
The President announced that he would
make out the committees and hand the
list to the chairman of each committee.
Meteorological.
Below will be found Mr. Boardman’s
weather observations for the past month:
Macon, December 3,1873.
The mean temperature of the past
month has been:
At sunrise .....46 deg
At noon 6o deg
At sunset 56 deg
The rainfall has been 3 90-100th inches.
The mean temperature for November,
1872, was:
At sunrise 46 deg
At noon 58 deg
At sunset 53 deg
Rainfall 5 34-100th inches.
As the rainfall - for October was not
very intelligibly reported, allow me to
restate it. Twenty-six hundredths of an
inen fell in 1873, and forty-hundredths of
an inch in the same month in 1872.
Very respectfully,
J. M. Boards!an.
Her Front Name.—The daughter of
Don Carl03, of Spain, is a very charming
young lady, but her visitors have some
difficulty in making themselves under
stood when they caU, because of the di
mensions of her name. More than one
hire 1 girl has caught and gone into a
galloping consumption by keeping the
front door open while young gentlemen
callers, ask if SenoritaBlanche-de-Castile-
Maria- de - la- Conception - Therese -Fran-
coiso - d’ Assise-Marguerite- Jean- ne-Bea-
trice - Charlotte - Louise -Fernande- Adel-
gonde-Elvire - Idelfon.se -Regino-Josephe-
Michelle-Gabrielle-Raphelle is in; and
one servant girl called the police because
she thought the visitor was swearing at
her. It took eight able-bodied clergy-
ment to baptize her, and her visiting
card is made as large as a cellar door and
carried round on a push cart. Her mon
ogram is said to resemble a handful of
fishing worms, and when she has her
name put on her umbrella, the engraver
begins at the handle, and works up on
one side, over the end of the ferule and
down the other side in order to crowd it
all in. She was named after an entire
orphan asylum.
t .. . . ,,,| - ’ ,. T , The mother lay herself down on her s
1 a tew minutes* liicO voro David. Jr., s x • .
«v i A-rawo, »turning over like a hu*_re bacon
•was shot through tne »>oay una also i i ' .iv, .4Z..1 fv
. . v - tt. v \ ... ,, . a leep. 1 lieyoinnj one stood on all ic
— f w - , i at the bottom^ the Uuk. and took _
cap ot the Kin van country. He was pale, j of Xabor> ^ ha3 * ^ 0 re war talk SnSkedfromtheLurthou^ tothe I food very mnch aftor the fashion of a
an I s it patently wore tne General, . am0Q g the youn<f men of the neighbor- j . Express oiHoe after he was shot i calf * * Ie stayed under water from half a
rear lelv daring to look him in the face. hood ” tll;ll / tho Virginias capture has ^1^16 ^ 1 UJ:UUtC to a winuto and three-quarters;
at last, this Governor of ! aurn „ Cuban ^ .Whence goca } ^ Sl^TlSti, ^ i b * ^ took a deep
to church a pious whirlwind seems to , was 8 hot through the right thigh. J. B. ! and sank again as cjmet as a
sweep the neighborhood, carrying all! nil .i u; s brother P B teprJ wrmndtul ' . wa f interesting to see with,
susceptible young men to the doors of j 4ifrhtlv anil several holes shot through > spkish or noise these gigantic
the sanctuary wJ ere she worship.. {M anotJmr Wlmr ! creafcures can H£t ^eir heads to the sur-
Among the most enthusiastic of her ad- ! a | o;0 bad his clothes perforated with bill * ! * ?ace wa ^ er * * ie finished
mirerT was Louis Irving, the son of a I f if? ** One baU n^sed tliroo^lThis hat* i b .’ 8 b ™kfa8t. Prescott, the keeper, en-
wealthv* farmer. The <?irl showed him Lh.^Li. 4i 1 W ^8 mother out of
r I s«dden;w^not7hM^| the little one is as tame,
as a kitten. We made
six feet four long,
no .iwoM Invor. bul he tall, etroet. it „„ s „ n e r . lU , k „„„£ | “f J*V
“ d ssysfTT?...
and be ready to quell any disturbance
that might arise, and to “nip it in the
bud” at all hazards However, when
the difficulty did begin the danger
was thought to have been over,
happiness up and down his spine. He
told her the condition of his feelings and
she rejected Mm. A sympathetic friend
laid it down as his opinion that a wo
man’s nay means aye, and Irving, on the
strength of it, got a very emphatic sec
ond rejection. This used the poor fellow
up completely; he took to his bed and
read melancholy rhymes. I ait Sunday
he crawled to the church door and, as his
divinity came out, begged her to listen
to him. The thing was growing monot
onous to her, and she flatly told him
never to address her again. Irving said:
“You will never see me alive affain. ( Dav jg for -$ 2 , 50 0. Davisliwore
Men sometimes die for the things they ) that he ha(l pai(1 the money> and produced
love but never can possess. He started j (- be note as evidence, and Mr. Thompson,
home with a friend, and on the road ; Sr > coutL m d ed that the note had not been
drew a pistol and said: I am tired of | p a id and that it had been surreptitiously
hfe; I can t hve without her; I know I Obtained from his desk. S- cb. I am in-
am going to hell, if the Bible is true and | forme l> was ia substance the origin of the
there is a hell, but anything to get nd of difficu i ty wh ich terminated so Seriously.
A father and three sons were arrayed
againsta father andthree sons, and whilst
I write, a father and two sons lie dead in
permission, had gone home. The
16th of December has been set for the ex
amining trial, and until then no further
particulars will be brought to light. The
cause of the fight was about a suit wMch
had been brought by one Meux against
as he is called all over Central Asia,
crouching ut the feet of this Minister of
tbe Czar, was the the terrible Khan of
K in. The two formed a curious con
trast. Kaufmann, very small in size,
looking sturinglv, almost with a smile of
.satisfaction, upon his enemy, formed a
picture of the superiority of mind over
brute force, and civilization over barbar
ism.
INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE KHAN AND THE
RUSSIAN GENERAL.
General Kaufmann said to the Khan:
“I have come to see you at last, as I wrote
you I would do three years ago.” The
Khan answered, “Allah has so willed it.”
“No,” said General Kaufmann, “you are
mistaken; this is not the work of Allah,
it is your own. If you had listened to
my counsel three years ago and answered
my just demands, you would not have
seen me here. If you had taken my ad
vice, Allah would not have so willed it.”
“Tho irieasure,” said the Khan, with an
Oriental bow, “of seeing the Tarim Pa
dishah is so great that I could wish noth
ing changed.” General Kaufmann, with
an ironical smile, answered, “I assure
you the pleasure is mutual. Tell me
what you wish to do?” “That,” said the
Khan, “I leave to you to decide in your
great wisdom. If I could wish for any
thing it would be to become a subject of
the Great White Tsar (the name given to
the Czar in Central Asia).” The General
answered, “Very well! You shall
not be his subject, but his friend,
though all depends upon yourself. The
Great White Tsar does not wish your
throne; he only wishes yon to under
stand that he is too great a Tsar to be
trifled with. He cannot take revenge;
having shown you his might he is ready
to forgive you, and let you retain your
throne under conditions which you and I,
Khan, will discuss another day. “I
know,” responded the Khan, “I have
done wrong in not granting the just de
mands of the Russians, but I was igno
rantly advised. I will know better in
tho future. I thank the Great White
Tsar and you, illustrious Tarim Padishah,
for your kindness and forbearance, and
will always be your friend.” “You may
return, then,” said the General, “to your
capital. Re-establish your government,
and let the Minister of Justice preserve
order. Tell your people to return to
their work, and they will receive no
harm; that we are neither barbarians nor
robbers ; that we do not come to carry
off their wealth nor offend their women.”
Thus, with some few questions and
answers of courtesy about each other’s
health, ended the interview, the Khan
saying, as ho left, that he thought the
Tarim Padishah was a great and good
man, and he should always love Mm.
THE KHAN BEGINS TO GOVERN.
After this there were other interviews,
at one of which the Khan reviewed the
Russian troops. It was curious to ob
serve the astonishment with which he It is only left for me to believe blindly, tractor is making quick work of it.
watched the filing past of the Russian implicitly in the overruling wisdom and •
-— ~ J * *-“* justice of divine providence.”- Sun. Attempt to Break Jail-A Persuasive
oura
his
back is a slaty black color, but Ms
cheeks, chest and legs are of a lovely
pink salmon color. We calculated his
weight to be nearly one ton, and his
mother would make and weigh about
tliree little Mppos. He eats and sleeps
and the Sheriff, with the judge’s | wellf a nd besides his natural nourish-
the present. Good bye.” Before his
friend could interfere, Irving put the
muzzle of the pistol to Ms head and fired,
scattering his brains out upon the road- Chouse, wliife a father andVwo sons lie
slde ’ ^ wounded in another. Both families live
BEECHER’S UNLUCKY BROTHER. ba ttle, To^suclTit ^nay^be ^Ued, was
j short, fierce and decisive. There was no
All Illustration of the Impossibility flickering. All the parties were cool and
of Interpreting Divine Providence, determined and not a shot was fired at
“My brother Charles and I were twins,”
said Mr. Beecher, in his last Friday’s
lecture, “or at least we should have been
if he hadn’t waited a couple of years. We
were twins in everything but birth, and
yet we were very unlike. He had appa
rently a better head than I, and promised }
to make a shrewder man. If an accident I
happened to anybody, it was sure to be !
random or without aim. The dead will
be buried in one grave to-morrow, and
Wednesday, the 26th of November, 1873,
will hereafter be known as the “Bloody
Wednesday” in the history of Harrods-
burg.
Self-Loading Carts.
The Courier-Journal tells about some
to C'harles. It was Charles that broke I ae lf-loading carts in use by one of the
his leg, that had a wMte swelling on his i , . “ . ... .. :
knee, that was blown up with gunpowder, j extractors in that city for gradmg
that fell down stair3 and cut a gash on‘streets:
Ms cheek, and then, as if symmetry was ] Each cart is drawn by three horses
needed, fell down and cut his other one.! driven by a man who is seated on a small
He grew up and had a lovely family. His I seat like that of a reaper and mower. On
oldest son was shot in the rebellion, hob- ; tho front axle is hung a gang of plows or
bled back and was shot again, and then , scrapers, and when the cart is put in mo-
went into the regular army. On tho tion the earth taken up by the scrapers
border he was surrounded by Indians, passes up a revolving web, as in a bead-
und killed, and the judgment day will ing machine used on farms, and falls in
have to search all over the plains for his the cart wMch is attached behind. Each'
bones. Now, my boy went through the . cart has a holding capacity of one and a
war, and came out with only a bruise. , half cubic yards. The driver can regu-
My brother Charles had two daughters, late the dip of the plows by means of a
They went sailing on a lake in the very lever. The cart is filled in an incredibly
sight of his house, and were drowned, short space of time, and for such work as
Why ia my brother thns dealt with, and that on Broadway seems to be a perfect
not me ? I haven't the slightest doubt success. The run made is about fifty
but that it will all come out very plain by yards, and is accomplished in about two
and by, but I cannot understand it now.' minutes and a fraction, and the con-
army, with it3 solid, regular tramp, short,
quick shout, moving like machines, with
out turning their heads At a second in
terview the Khan was informed by Kauf
man that he could hold his throne upon
condition of paying an indemnity of
about £300,000; possession of the right
bank of the Orus to the Russian do
minions ; the complete abolition of sla
very, the liberation of 40,000 slaves; the
proclamation of free trade in the purest
sense of that term; the withdrawal of
all custom-house duties, and the removal
of all disabilities on Russian merchants,
who should enjoy the same rights as the
KMvans themselves. To these condi
tions the Khan readily subscribed, only
asking for time to pay the indemnity.
Under the orders of the Russian
commander, a divan, or council of
state, was formed to discuss the
ways and means of carrying out
this treaty. This council was composed
of the Khan and three of his ministers,
together with three Russian offic ers well
versed in Central Asian affairs. This
council was^not only to carry out the
treaty, but to advise the Khan up m the
future government of his province, the
best way of collecting taxes, and to raise
money for the indemnity. Kauffmann
told the Khan that he must not be of-
The Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts, I Argument in the Shape of Five Kegs
wMch at last has been bored completely j Fowder.
through the mountain, though not yet I Little Rock, Ark.. November 28.—On
completed for use, is five miles long. It Tuesday last the prisoners in Clarksville
was begun in 1857, sixteen years ago. jail overpowered the guards and took pos
its estimated cost wa3 $3,350,000, and a 1 session of their arms. The alarm was
contract was made to excavate the tunnel given before they got out, and the citizens
and build a double track railroad through ' of the town surrounded the jail. One of
it for that sum. In reality it has already the prisoners, Sid Wallace, sentenced to
cost $12,300,000, and it will require the
expenditure of about $800,000 more to
prepare it for traffic. These facts are of
interest in connection with the project to
tunnel the Alleghany Mountains in order
to extend the James River and Kanawha
Canal at the national expense, so as to
make a connection with the great natural
water courses of the West. Judging
from the experience of Massachusetts in
relation to the Hoosac tunnel, it would
require about thirty-two years aud an
expenditure of some $25,000,000 to con
struct the propose^, tunnel through tho
Alleghanies, leaving altogether out of the
question the cost of the canal proper.
Western farmers who place their reliance
for increased prices for their crops upon
the construction of this canal, if there
are any such, must prepare themselves
for a great exercise of patience.
be hung^m the 23d of next month, fired
a double-barrel shot gun at two citizens
in the street, severely if not fatally
wounding both. The citizens then took
possession of the first floor of the jail,
put five kegs of powder in. it, laid a train
for some distance, and notified the priso
ners* that unless they surrendered in
tMrty minutes they would blow up the
building. After a little parley they sur
rendered, throwing their arms out at the
window. As one of the guns struck .the
ground it went off, slightly wounding
three persons. Wallace and another of
the prisoners were brought hero last
night and lodged in the penitentiary. He
will be taken out and hung next month.
He has killed quite a number of men,
among them the'late Hon. Elisha Merse,
Circuit Judge, and is the m>st desperate
character in that section of country.
rnent his meals consist of chaff, bran,
mangel-wurzel, scalded oats, biscuit,
and sugar. He is very fond of anything
sweet. He has already learnt to beg for
food; he puts his head out between the
bars, opens his mouth, and pricks up his
little ears when he wants to beg. The
gape of his mouth is about eighteen
inches; he has already a most lovely set
of white teeth, and the tusks begin to
project out of Ms pink gums. His mother
is very watchful over Mm, and if she
thinks any one is about to disturb her
child, Msses loudly like a big snake.
Every inormng when it Ls moist and wet
he and his mother axe let out in the bath
outside; when it is dry and frosty they
are kept in the house, as the frost would
crack and parch their delicate skim.
When in his morning bath he is very
playful, and plunges about like a por
poise. The pair of heppos sleep on the
straw all night, but they spend a great
portion of the day in their bath in the
house in a sort of semi-sleep. They float
up to breathe apparently without azt
effort, like corks rising to the surface.
When under water they keep their eyes
wide open after the manner of crocodiles.
When the mouth of the young one ia
wide open, it will be seen that the tongue
is arched directly upward so as to form a.
compact valve, wMch prevents the water
going down the gullet. The old father
in the next den talks to Ms wife and child
by nieajis of sonorons gruntings, and
they answer him. The father’s face is
much longer and sharper than that of his
wife, and his eyes and nose are much
more prominent. I understand from Mr.
Bartlett, who kindly allowed me a private
interview with the hippos, that another
baby is expected about next April, and
that Bamum is most anxious to obtain it.
I doubt if he will; let him go and catch
a wild baby hippo for Mmself. The ex
cellent health and condition of the three
hippos does Mr. Bartlett and Prescott,
their personal valet, the greatest credit.’*
Benefit of One Advertisement.—If
there is one man on this continent above
another who appreciates the benefit of
advertising it is Orange Judd. A number
of years ago, when he and his wife spent
their evenings in putting up packages,
and a penny had its full value to them,
he sent a boy with a check for one hun
dred dollars to the Herald office, with
instructions to pay what was due and
leave the rest for future advertising. Thu
boy being dull of comprehension did not
understand Mm, and told the bookkeeper
to use one hundred dollars for one dav.
The next morning what was Mr. Judd^i
horror, on taking up the Herald, to sou
“Read the American Agriculturist**
repeated for nearly a whole column. Hu
rushed down to the office for an expla
nation, and found that they only followed
instructions, and there wa3 no help for it.
“We are ruined,” he said to his wife,” a
whole year’s advertising gone in a day.**
But instead of being Ms ruin, it was the
be ginning of his success. Immediate^
subscriptions poured in from all parts of
the country. The Agriculturist soon
became an institution, and its proprietor
is one of the richest men ir New York.
Mr. Judd has continued, from the day of
his lucky mistake, to be one of the mo t.
extensive advertisers in theeountry, and
he has his reward.
A Vassar College statistician an
nounces tuat the young ladies drink 160'
quarts of milk every day, and swallow 50t
pounds of butter and 40 pouuds of sugar
for pudding sauce for one dinner.