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TWAGON. JULY 5, -875
Thk Eu&ula public schools opened lsak
Monday morning. An unusual time, as
it seems to us.
Father To* Burke, the great Irish
Dominican preacher, is in very feeble
health, and it is feared bis disease is
cancer of the stomooh.
It is now very evident that the Fed*
end treasury will fall short this year by
over twenty million dollars of meeting
its expenditures, including the sinking
fund.
Ip you want to get around a Boston
girl tell her you understand her grand
father was killed at Bunker Hill. She
•will neither despise the lie nror hate the
liar. - j
The question is asked how a lady,
working an afghan, keeps count of all
the knits. The only supposition is that
she must carry them in her head.—N. Y.
Com. Adv.
Young women looking up picnic cos
tumes should try to find something that
will lo6k.sweetly artless and won’t wrin
kle. A woman returning from one of
those expeditions is the ugliest creature
known to civilization.
“A Council op State.”—A correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial wants
the Presidency abolished and a Council
of State established in lieu thereof—say
ten Presidents instead of one. It shall
be attended to directly after crops are
laid by.
Bishop Chknet, (Reformed Episcopal,)
of Chicago, has engaged a number of the
members of the BichingS-Bernard opera
troupe, which recently disbanded at Peo
ria, Illinois, to train and lead a choir of
one hundred Singers to furnish music for
his congregation.
"Good news,” says the Paris Constilu-
iionnel, "is being received from all tbo
wine growing districts. There is but
one cry of joy and admiration in the vine-*
yards at the magnificent appearance of
the vines. Since 1840 such a promise of
abundance had not been seen."
Waiting for a Verdict.—All Brook
lyn, up to noon yesterday, was still wait
ing for a verdict. Beecher, in our last
edition, was telegraphed a3 representing
that hut one juror held out against him.
Western telegrams say there are three.
Perhaps the jury Will tell us before go
ing to press.
Last year W. P. Ragsdale bought a
farm in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, of
128 acres, for which he paid $890, and
with the assistance of one hand he raised
on about five acres of this land a tobac
co crop last .season which brought him,
after payiiig all warehouse expenses, the j seven days was variable, but with
Tjmt Week’s Cotton Figures.
According to the New York Commercial
and Financial ChronicU of Saturday, 26th
Instant, the receipts at all the cotton
ports for the seven days ending the night
before, were 9,708 bales against 12.430
the corresponding days of last year. The
total receipts of the cotton year to that
date were 3,461.826 hales, against 3,752,-
566 for the corresponding period of the
previous cotton year, showing a decrease
of 300,740 hales.
The interior port receipts for the same
days were 2,993 bales, against 2,930 in
1874. Shipments 9,813, against 8,075.-
Stocks 30,105, against 61,115.
The Chronicle's visible snpply table
shows 2,617,469 hales, against 2,781,533
in 1874, and 2,646,011 in 1873, showing a
decrease of 164,064 on the stock of 1874k
and of 28,543 on that of 1873. Liverpool
quotations of middling uplands on Friday
last were 7 7-16.. In 1874 8} and in 1873
8fcL
The Chronicle’s reports of the growing
cotton crop are highly favorable. With
few exceptioas, warm and occasionally
showery weather is reported along the
whole line.
The mercury average is reported in
Galveston 86; Indianola 84; Corsicana
85; New Orleans 82; Little Rock 80;
Memphis 83; Nashville 76; Coiambus,
Mississippi 72; Mobile 83; Montgomery
80; Selma 81; Macon 82; Atlanta 81;
Columbus 83; Savannah 79; Augusta
78; Charleston 80;
The Galveston Cotton Exchange re
ports for June 120 replies from 69 coun
ties in Texas. 74 replies report the con
dition good, 10 very good, 3 fair and 7
poor. 57 report the condition better
than last year; 52 about the same, and
11 not so good. A large maj ority agree
in saying that the crop is from one to
three weeks later than hist year, and
generally small, but i3 clear of weeds
and developing promisingly. Rain is
needed in many sections, and there i3
some complaint of lice. Three counties:
report caterpillars, but so far without
serious damage.
Tho Mobile Erchange condenses 152
replies from 52 oounties of Alabama^
The weather has been generally favora
ble, but rather too dry. Stands good-
plant forming well, bat few blooms. As
compared with last year, the replies re
port as good to much better.
The Mobile Exchange also reports fifty-
^six replies from nineteen counties in Mis
sissippi, with substantially the same re
sults. Stands good, plants forming well,
but few blooms. Com cleaner, better
cultivated and farther advanced than
last year.
The Augusta Exchange reports sixty-
seven replies from twenty-eight counties
in this State. Stands invariably good
and forming well, but no blooms. TWen-
ty-tight replies represent tho crop as
from ten days to two weeks later than
last year. All clean and labor good.
The New York cotton market for the
snug sum of $2,160.
Wheat. — Tho Knoxville Press and
Eerald says white whfafc is a drug in
that market at a dollar. Dispatches from
the counties in the Cumberland valley
state that the grain crop will be heavier
than for tho past fifteen years. Not only
is tho quantity remarkably large, but
thejjnality is also superior to that of
many yeara past.
The Rej. C. B. Vaughn, who is so well
and pleasantly remembered by the Pres
byterians of this city, received the de
gree of D. D. at the late commencement
of the Washington and Lee University
at Lexington, Virginia. Mr. Vaughn is
now in charge of a large congregation in
Kentucky. We extend to him our hearty
congratulations on his new honor.
The Wat to Do If.—Unquestiona
bly the way for the Government to check
against the cigaf box stamps and coupons
is to require the smoker to deposit every
cigar stump in tho revenue office to the
credit of the box. Thus to enforce the
stamp act we need a stump act, and it is
supposed Secretary Bristow will look into
this matter at once.
A Celestial attended prayer meeting
at one of the churches the other night,
and eat directly in front of several small
boys. Jobn was observed to suddenly
rise and move out, wearing a very grave
countenance. Somebody at the door
asked him what was the matter, and
elicited the reply, "Too muchee pinchee,
heap needle, damn.”—Nashville Banner.
Tilton-Bexchxb. — An event which
may possibly produce some reaction in
favor of Beecher, is narrated in the tele
grams to-day. Loader was yesterday
arrested on the affidavit of his'accomplice
Price, that the whole story of their joint
discovery of Beecher’s criminality was a
fabrication got up on speculation at tho
instance of Loader, who considered it a
promising scheme to make money.
A tOung, handsome clerk in Jersey
City was brave enough to propose to
Bessie Turner, and she accepted him, and
the orange flowers will bloom for Bessie
in October.
Poor fellow! Won’t ho havo a time of
it wakibg up this champion sleeper when
breakfast is ready and he wants his cof
fee made! Perhaps, however, ho rather
admires her extraordinary qualities in
this respect.
Beidoing the Feith or Foeth.—A
bridge, which will be bigger than that
now building between Npw York and
Brooklyn, and tho largest in the world,
is to be constructed over the Frith of
Forth, Scotland. The height will be 150
feet, and the number of spans 100. The
great span in the centre is to be 1,500
feet, or nearly one-third of a mile in
width, and the smaller spans 150; It
will cost about $10,000,000.
Inquiby into the Loss of the Schil
ler.—The Court of Inquiry appointed to
investigate tho loss of the steamer Schil
ler, have made a report. They state that
sheet copies of directions for approach
ing the English coast, and of instructions
issued by the Eagle Company were on
board the steamer, and both warn navi
gators of tbo northerly current near
Schillys, and enjoin the use of tho lead
in thick weather. In tho opinon of the
court, the solo cause of the calamity wa3
the entire neglect of this precaution.
Had they been used at eight, or even
nine o’clock on the night of the disaster
before tho steamer's, course was altered,
the error in reckoning would have been
discovered. It is hard indeed that so
many people should lose their lives by
the neglect of eo simple and ordinary
Jitytmuon.
general improvement amounting to a
quarter
Eufaula.
The name of our beautiful and pros
perous sister City of the Bluff, had, in
some respects, a striking origin. Once
she figured os Irwinton, and might have;
remained Irwinton to this day, but for a
slight circumstance which happened
there, one, day to the celebrated Chief
Uchee Billy, who never passed a whisky
shop without personal investigation.
Billy, one morning got a little more than
his aconstomed load aboard, and then ap
proaching cautiously and reelingly the
vergo of the magnificent Bluff whereon
the city is built, essayed to look over,
but took a sudden lurch and went down
headforemost, a hundred feet, (more or
less,) co-chunk into tho placid waters of
the Chattahoochee.
For a few seconds nothing but a wide
circle of wavelets was seen by the anx-'
ions spectators peering over from the top-
of the bluff; but suddenly old Billy re
appeared with a porpoise-like splash and
puff—mado for the bank, and then shak
ing himself, croaked out in his gutteral
way, "Ugh! ugh! Fall off," Hence
forward the bluff took the name of "ugh,
fall off,” which subsequently was euphon
ized into Enfaula, and spread inward
with a true inwardness^ so as to cover tho
whole city and displace the name of Ir
winton entirely. We refer the Eufaula
Times, for a more particular account of
this affair, to Dr. Twombly’s Gazetteer,
page 365,5th edition, title Eufaula, and
invite him to republish, with notes. But
that’s how it was a3 we understand it.
If not, tell us how it was, and how tho
city came to be Eufaula. <
Mr. V. I*. Wilson.
The New York World whets the poig-
nard of its wit and goes after Mr. Vice
President Wilson, whom it pronounces
"the stupidest person who has ever made
a considerable figure in American poli
tics.” Softly, Mr. World. Speak no
evil of dignitaries. That paper says:
It seems incredible that with his shal
low attainments and poor abilities ho
should so long have represented proud
and cultured Massachusetts in the Sen
ate, and should finally have climbed into
the second place in the nation.
Why should any body wonder at that ?
Mr. Wilson embodied a single idea in
politics, and Massachusetts, with all her
scholarship and attainments, for many
years did no more. Mr. Wilson is at
least respectable, but the samo idea has
made senators and judges and governors
who are not respectablo either in charac
ter or intellect.' It put the toga on bar
keepers, bootblacks, barbers and sutlers,
black and white, and clothed m the er
mine field hands -ftho did not know the
alphabet. Massachusetts no prouder or
more highly cultured than France,
and yet in a similar period of national
madness she was ruled by the meanest
and most knavish. A people possessed
by one idea have no use for men of cul
ture, discipline and balance. Her phil
osophers are fools to the people, and vice
versa the tools are the philosophers—for
they are fit representatives of tho domi
nant folly.
How is Tills ?
A Washington special to the Baltimore
Sun, of Monday, says that from tho first
of January there has been a decrease of
i National bank capital in nearly every
Southern and Western State, which is
very significant when taken in connec
tion with tho demand for more circula
tion, which comes entirely from those
two sections. Illinois alone has surren
dered voluntarily nearly three millions of
circulation. How is this fact to be re
conciled with the demand for more cur
rency that is heard all over the South and
West? Can anybody explain tho true
inwardness of the puzzle?
A Visit to Georgia's Ancient
Capital.
Cheap fares, the leisure of midsum
mer, an attractive programme offered by
the Baldwin Blues, a lovely day, and the
desire to view the green fields and im
bibe the pore atmosphere of the country,
if bnt for a few hours, threatened to
drain Macon of her resident population,
when tbo matutinal hour of seven o'clock
arrived on Tuesday. The car-shed pre
sented the spectacle of a dense multi
tude all eager and excited, and literally
clamoring, struggling and almost fighting
for tickets to Milledgeville. Here the vile
apothegm that "might makes right”
had its actual verification, and musclo
alone was competent to gain the coveted
prize. The weak fell out helpless and
disappointed. The strong succeeded,
and emerged from the throng after a
desperate contest hearing their trophies
with them.
Then followed tho rush on board, the
people swarming in like so many ants, and
occupying every foot of space in the cars,
and upon the platforms.
Everybody was in a good humor, how
ever, and as the excursion has already
been fully described and "written up”
on the other side of the paper, we shall-
not go over the ground again, but "retire”
the notes, which the midnight arrival of
the train made too late for insertion the
next day.
Justiae, however, to Milledgeville and
the noble people of Baldwin, causes us
to endorse and reiterate all that has been
said on the subject of their unbounded
hospitality, delicate courtesy, and gener
ous treatment of every son and daugh
ter of Macon who visited them on this
gala occasion. As to food, after feast
ing thousands upon barbecued meats
roasted "royally," vegetables in untold
abundance, lemonado in barrels and bats,
and countless loaves of sweet white
bread, there is, we regret to say, no
record of tho number of "basketsful, not
•of fragments only, but whole joints
which still remained.
But it is sufficient to know that there
was enough and to spare, and all were
satisfied. Better still, we were regaled
with excellent speeches from the Mayor
of the city, the gallant leader of the
"Blues” (literally par nabilefrstfntm), and
the peerless young lady who so graceful
ly and eloquently presented tho gorgeous
stand of colors to the Blues, their own
cherished corps of defenders. But al
ready their graceful utteranoes. have
been devonred by thousands of eager
readers, and we pass on.
The return of the Capital to its an
cient and honored site, is by no means a
dead issue here, or any where else in
Georgia. It would be dealing ont not
only poetic, bnt oven-handed justice toi
the military and carpet-bag usurpers of
our State government, to reverse tho ar
bitrary bayonet decision which trans
ferred tho Capital to Atlanta. But in
any event, tho people will tuv# rest satis
fied, until the question has been duly
passed upon at the ballet bos.
If the majority prefer Atlanta to tho
geographical centre of tho State, with
tho advantages of a rural community
and tho absence of tho corrupting
influences of a great city, let them so
decree, and the subject will ho set at
f rest forever.
If otherwise, then sell tho old play
hooso x^fcery at Atlanta, and derote a
portion of tho avails to repairing and
modernizing tho old Capitol and property
of the State, at Milledgevillo.
Tho site of the State Hoa30 is one
of the finest and most commanding in the
Union, and snsccptible of almost indefi
nite improvement. A cojnfortablo exec
utive mansion elegantly furnished is also
owned by tho State, besides tho peni
tentiary, etc.
A practical banker, and ex-member of
tbo Legislature declared, that half the
purchase money of tho wretched Opera
Hopsfc would suffice to ro-establish tho
capital at Milledgovillo again, on a far
greater scale of magnificence than ever,
and fifty years would elapse ezo another
dollar would bo needed in the premises.
Let the present General Assembly, then,
call a convention to remedy tho defects
in tho constitution, and consider the "re
moval question.” Outside of Atlanta, tho
opposition would n'ot be'formidablo.
< Milledgevillo is evidently on the up
grado in tho march of improvement.
Many handsome brick stores and edifices
havo risen from. the. aehes of the bnrnt
district, and the peoples, are sanguine, and
hopeful of the futftro of their picturesque
and salubrious city. With our whole*
heart wo wish them well.
It is with sineero regret that wo would
chronicle tho approaching end, probably,
of Hon. IrersSb L. Harris, who is re
ported to be sinking rapidly under tho
effects of his long illness. A purer pa
triot or moro incorruptible citizen and
jurist never illustrated the common-
'wealth. The death' of such a man is a
public calamity.
the rktcenteIp.
About night, after many abortive efforts
to ascend the steop grado which com
mences at the Milledgeville depot,and du
ring a brisk shower, tho long train pain
fully and laboriously began, inch by inoh,
to make its waybaskagainWitirits heavily
laden burden of precious human beings.
But tho engine was hardly adequate to
the task of surmounting tho slippery in
cline, and time and again it failed to
make headway. As stated, however, af
ter sundry tremendous jerks, which broke
one or two couplings niid shook the train
like an earthquake, wo got off, thankful
; to move even at tho snail’s pace of seven
miles in two hours. There was no water
on board, und tho crowd were not "hap
py.” But then all this must bo taken in
account when any one joins a mammoth
excursion, and can ride over sixty miles
tor fifty cents. Near Stevens’ Pottery tho
train was cut in two, and half of it haul
ed to that point and placed on tho "turn
out” until the remainder could bo brought
up. After this, there were no moro de
tentions save to await the cooling of tho
boxes, which were all heated nearly red
hot by the over-loaded coaches.
A half dozen additional boxes and an'
extra engine would ,hnve added greatly
to tho comfort of tho excursion, bat then,
it was impossible to know beforehand
that such an immense crowd would wish
to go, and the officials on duty doubtless
did their best. At all events, they land
ed their numerous -charge in safety,
though past the hour of mid-night.
Complaining is poor consolation at best,
so we can only say to our friends, “bet
ter luck next time.”
A new journal, to support Judge Kel
ley’s theories of expansion,'will soon, it is
said, be started in Philadelphia.
The Practical Issue of the Trial
The New York Tribune remarks that
whether Beecher is neither convicted nor
absolutely vindicated, there are some re
spects in which his trial has had a prac
tical issue. We have no doubt it has
broken np the mischievous little coterie
cf transcendential fools of which Theo
dore Tilton was the effulgent center. It
has exposed to the world tho hideous
selfishness and essential immorality of
those everlasting chatterboxes wh'o have
been poisoning the lyceam and the press
with an idiotic travesty of philosophy,
and dressing np lust in the robes of re
ligion. If it has torn away tho veil which
decency draws over a Certain class of
subjects, it has partly made amends for
this by turning out of the domestic circle
a set of men and women who would have
taught society that the family is only a
relic of servitude, and the home virtues
the fictions of superstition. Thero is
no place for these people any more in re
spectable houses. And on the other side
it has perhaps set afoot a much needed
reform in Plymouth Church. We shall
hear less henceforth of that horrible Gos
pel of Gush to which so much of the mis
ery of thiroase is directly traceable. Wo
shall hear less of the rant about true in
wardness, and songs in the heart, and all
the other mushy emotions which with
this new school of lusty mystics usurp tho
place of the old-fashioned virtues of faith,
hope, and charity. It will not bo esteem ed
the essence of religion to lova somebody,
and ladies and gentlemen, wo hope, will
not go about kissing ope another indis
criminately, oitber in the paroxysmal orin
any other style. A great reaction against
the old Plymouth pattern of sanctity is
inevitable, and we shall not be surprised
if Mr. Beecher himself take the lead in
it. He is undoubtedly a man of strong
feelings, of worm fancy, and, in a certain
way, of refined poetical apprehensions.
We say nothing of the errors into which
he may havo been led by these dangerous
gifts, but he can see for himself what his
poetry has done for a certain set among
the congregation. What is sentiment in
the pastor degenerates into slobber in
the parishoner; and healthy religious
feeling, honesti practical, manly life,
realization of tho hard daily duty of the
Christian, aro too nearly lost in the misty
contemplations of love-sick devotees who
wrap themselves in tho luxury of their
own emotions. Of course we do not
mean to say that this is tho character
istic of all Plymouth Church, or even of
the greater part df it; but that tho
preacher has managed to involve himself
with a little set of most unwholesome
pietists it hardly needed the revelations
of this scandal to .prove; and it seem3 to
be a good time How for them either to
como to their senses or else step doujn
and out. _
Not Any More, if You Floase.
The Sr. Louis Dispatch says the tone
and persistent reiteration of the Liberal
Republicans and Independent newspa
pers make doily more and moro apparent
the fact that theso two elements in poli
tics, whatever their standing or strength
may be, mean to make a-tremendoas ef
fort to control the next national Demo
cratic convention. They will not suc
ceed. Tho successful carrying out of
such a programme is impossible. Tho
Democratic party has already repented
in sackcloth and ashe3 for tho self-
inflicted wounds of Cincinnati where,
suddenly overcome with admiration for
the supernatural statesmanship of Mr.
Charles Francis Adams, it got down on
its knees to kiss hi3 feet, and would havo
kissed them slobberingly but for the au
dacity of Grata Brown, and the prairie
manhood of tho Missouriafls. Shamed
slowly to an erect position again, and be
fore tho wrinkles wero fairly out of its
back, it had tho special gratification of,
hearing Mr. Adams, when he came to
New York to deliver the eulogy upon Mr.
Seward, declare that the principles of tho
Democratic party wero a conspiracy
against human rights, and that as an or-*
gamzation it ought to be put to the po-’
litical sword.
No—no moro tinkering with the -old
party by new comers, apprentices, no
madic reformers, transcendental, moun
tebanks, and the cossacks of caucus and
convention who have each as baggage to
bring into tjio organization only a bag
of oat3, one spear, a saddle fit solely for
a barbarian, and a kind of hairy raiment
that in addition to its grease and dirt,
contains also the traditional nine kinds
of lice. They made tho platform be
fore, they named tho candidates, they
conducted tho campaign, and a corporal’s
guard of recruits led a whole Democratic
t army to utter and complete defeat. It
k is enough.
A Lucky Son-In-Law.
One of the gratifying evidences of tho
usefulness of having a powerful friend
at court is shown in the caso of Lieuten
ant Hooker, of tho navy, tho son-in-law
of ex-Senator Stewart. This talented
young man has not seen a day of sea
duty sinco May, 1873, and, since his mar
riage to Stewart’s daughter has been as
signed to aaties that would enable him
to follow tho Stewart family about
wherever they have to go. When tho
family went to the seashore last summer
Hooker followed, being always assigned
to some special duty in that direction.
During tho family's residence here in
this city, Hooker had duty here. This
spring the Stewart family went to Cali
fornia. Immediately Hooker received
an assignment to duty at Maro Inland,
California. Tho old officers in the navy
,have borne- this favoritism very well
without any serious grumbling; but a
recent order in Hooker’s favor has des
troyed the last shred of patience, and up- >
oh every hand thero is tho fiercest,
grumbling. Tho Stewart family have
decidedUpon a European tour, and'" tho
favorite Hooker has been granted a year’s
leave of absence, with pay. This ca30 is
only one example of Robeson’s demoral
izing system of favoritism. Tho pets of
influential politicians are tho only one3
that thrive in tho army or navy. In
Hooker’s caso tho working officers say
that he ought to resign if ho does not in
tend to do sea duty, so as to make way
for a man who will take his share of the
work.—Washington Letter.
Liko master like man. Grant set the
example of taking care of hi3 kin at tho
putfiic expense, and Stewart very natur-'
ally follows it. Stewart while a Senator
was one of Grant’s mo3t obsequious and.
servile henchmen, and has his reward.
If Hooker 13 wise ho will resign hi3 com
mission bofore March, 1877, if he doesn’t
iwish to do his share of work liko other
■officers.
Reposts frbm Arkansas are that “the.
white and colored people arc all busy
with tho crops, and no violence of any
sort is heard of. In fact, tho State has
never been so free from, all disturbance .and make epuio marvelous changes in po-
a a waiw ** Snomfilw Ann mow o rrr\ mvlaw illi! — 1 a 'j.1 T»
as now." Scarcely one year ago, under
carpet-bag misrule, Arkansas waspractic-'
ally in a condition of anarchy, and t^ere
was an utter prostration of every material
interest. No better evidence of the suc
cess of Governor Garland’s conservative
administration could be desired than the
reports of peace and prosperity which now
reach ns from Arkansas.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Atlanta Eerald learns that Mr.
John Williford, former postmaster at
Athens,, will sticced Mr. R. A. Taylor,
present incumbent of that office, on the
1st of July. We avo sorry to hear that
Williford has gone Over to the Grant
gang. It doesn’t seem likely that he
should get the office if he is still a Dem
ocrat.
The Savannah News learns from Clerk
McPherson, of the Federal Court, that
the following were filed in the bankrupt
court last week-:
Petition in voluntary bankruptcy by
John H. Webb, of Thomas ton, Upson
county, Ga. Final discharges granted
in chambers to the following parties;
Mitchell Boley & Francis X. Bingel, co
partners under the firm name of M. Bo
ley & Co., involuntary bankrupts; Ed
ward Kutner, of Dawson, Terrell county,
Ga., involuntary bankrupt; Elishua
Douglass, of Damascus, Early county,
Ga.; Andrew W. Asbell, of Bullard Sta
tion, Twiggs eounty, Ga.
The dwelling-house of Mr. H. M.
Walton, of Wilkes county, was burned
last week by an incendiary."
The Washington Gazette has the fol
lowing timely and sensible remarks upon
tho practice of white people listening to
the gossip of negro servants:
No one can estimate the incalculable
harm which has been and « still being
done by negro servants carrying tales
from one house-to another. We all know
tho negro’B lore for the marvelous and
the sensational. We all know the negro’s
utter disregard of the truth. We all
know how Utterly worthless as house ser
vant the vast majority of them are. We
all know how depraved and how vile
most of them are. We all know, too, the
ways in which they always seek their re
venge for their fancied wrongs. Ven
geance i3 always sought in an under
hand, cowaf dly maimer. The most com-
|Tnon method, particularly among the fe
males, is by attempting to blacken the
characters of those agafiSst whom they
feel a spite. No tale is too preposterous,
too vile, or too false for them. A word
spoken in the house by a member of a
family where they are employed, never
escapes them, and whenever they can
find a listener, they can tell ef many
my&terious family troubles, of in
numerable short-comings on the part
of the most worthy and exemplary
members of the community. It seems
strange that these creatures can find
those who will listen to them, who will
even allow them to allude to their friends
and-neighbors in a disrespectful manner.
But unfortunately it is a fact that there
are those, ev«n amongst cur most re
spectable families, who not only will
listen to these negro gossips, hut who
seek suoh sources of information and
who encourage servants in the narration
of any amount of scandal; who will lis
ten to and drink in and (to their shame
be it said) believe every word they utter
against decent, respectable people, whose
lives have been without reproach. We
cannot admire the character of any one,
Ho matter how apparently respectable,
who takes any pleasure in the society or
conversation of their servants. Their
tastes must be depraved indeed, and
their hearts cannot he pure when they
listen to and credit the vilest slanders
against ladies -and gentlemen by spme
villainous, revengeful negro wretch,
whose only ground of real complaint or
dislike is that these ladies and gentle
men demanded of her that she should do
her duly and keep in her own proper
place, which is not in the society of de
cent white people except to wait upon
them as their servant. Wa warn, our
readers against this disgusting practice,
which does prevail to a greater extent
than most suppose. No one knows the
heart-burnings which have been caused
between qpighbors and friends by the in
famous falsehoods carried back and forth
by these disgusting and depraved black
scandal-mongers.
Mb. Asahbl R. Smith, father of Major
6. H. Smith ("Bill Arp”) died at Rome
last Saturday, aged SI years. He was a-
native of Springfield, Vermont, but had
resided in Georgia between fifty and sixty-
years.
Feoji a circular recently issued by
■Commissioner of Agriculture Janes, we
t learn that up to May 1st there here had
sold in Georgia 47,648 tons of fertilizers
for this year’s use, averaging a c03tof
$51 per ton, aggregating a cost of $2,
481,048! The cireula* says: "The best
acid phosphate can bo purohased at $40
iper ton. Using 500 pounds of acid phos
phate to the ton, composted with cotton
ueedand manure, it will bg necessary to
purchase only one-fourth the commercial
material to make the samo number of
tons of fertilisers of equal, agricultural
value. Only 12,162 tons of acid phos
phate would, therefore, be required to
make all the fertilizers used in Georgia,
which cost $40 per ton, Would involve an
outlay of only $4S6,4S0, instead of $2,-
4S1.048! This’ Would bo a saving to tho
farmers_of Georgia of $1,994,568 in thef
cost of fertilizers for the present crop!
tAdd to thi3 tho froight which would bo
sawed on tho 36.4S6 tons, the purchase of
JwEch would fhu3 be rendered unneces
sary, at $5 jier ton (which is perhaps less
'than an average), or $182,430, and wo
have a total amount Baved to tho farmers
of the State, by the composting systeni,
of $2,176,993, or an average of $15,833
-to every covtoty, or more than $50 to
every farmer in Georgia. It is moro than
the aggregate taxable property of 102 of
the 137 oounties of tho State 1 It is
more than twice the annual State tax of
Georgia. It would pay the wholo debt
of Georgia in four years! It is seven
pgr cent, of the vholo cotton crop of
Georgia.”
The New York Sun seems to think,'
says the Augusta Constitutionalist, "that a
Centennial hurrah and jubilation will
pacify and heal thd South, though tho
laws that insult and mortify her still re
main in force upon tho statute. This is
dreaming vain dreams. Nothing can
“cure that terrible wound;” nothing can
re-knit tho torn muscles of the sections;
nothing can fill the veins of tho country
with healthy'blopd but an extirpation of
the diseaso itself. All tho banners, brjr
gles, kettle drums, trombones and jollifi
cations in the world aro mere humbug,
so long S3 tho illegitimate results of the
war and the moitotrous usurpations of
Congress unshakenly remain. A man
may have a tender heavt and yet he par
alyzed in his wholo body. Let the North
remove tho cause of paralysis in the
South and the wholo country; then tho
heart will take care of itself and beat re
sponsive to a genuine deed of justice and
fraternity. The South is very apt to
slop-over amid Centennial gleries, full oB
banners, champagne and Delmonico deli
cacies, forgetting even Burnside’s bitter
taunt, Sherman’s oracular vulgarism ajfd
'Beast Butler’s pomp, and circumstance.
If the sentiment of Mayor Cobb and Sec
retary Bristow shall como to be of gen-
eral acceptance at tho North, tho era of
good feeling will probably como about
bers of one of the churches here, there
were scarcely one hundred and fifty who
were regular attendants upon divine
worship, and that out of nearly three
thousand white people in town there were
hardly pne-third of them who ever made
any, pretensions to going t<jbh*roh at alL”
'' Jackson county jail was broken open last
Wednesday, and three prisoners, all there
were, escaped.
The dwelling house an'd kitchen of J.
L. Williamson, tax collector of Jackson
county, were burned last Thursday, as we
learn from tho Jefferson Forest News,
The Irwinton Southerner says there is
a marl bed on Turkey creek, in that
county at Chapman’s mill, which rises to
the proportions of a mountain and in
whose bosom lio embedded huge phos
phate rocks.
Religion as a Business Investment.
Mr. John H. James is reported in the
Atlanta Eerald, as having delivered him
self as follows at a late "experience”
meeting in that city:
Whenever he had made money and
used part of it in building churches, or
other benevolent works, he was always
blest. In every instance his business
prospered afterwards. At one time, how
ever, he was considering a business trans
action arid thought he could make by it.
and he promised the Lord that if he
would prosper him in it, he would use
half to build another church. This time
he signally failed. At a later date still
he had freely bestowed his money in aid
of a revival meeting, and in a few dayB
the Lord had wonderfully .blessed him,
he had made two or three thousand dol
lars in a single transaction.
Jas. R. Randall, of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist, is announced as the South
ern agent of the wonderfal Japanese
long fibre corn, and also of the still more
extraordinary Kelly motor. Communi
cations addressed to him at Augusta will
reeeiv* prompt attention. With Harris,
of the Savannah News, os agent for the
"Torpedo Chicken” and Randall repre
senting the above named, we may he as
sured they will be pretty thoroughly
ventilated in Georgia. We wish all par
ties great success.
Mb. Charles Nobdhoff, Southern cor
respondent of the New York Eerald, is in
Atlanta and will write that paper all
about Georgia and what “reconstruction”
has dono for her.
Mbs. L. M. Wilson, formerly Miss
Augusta Evans, passed through Atlanta
on Monday. The Eerald says she has
another novel nearly ready for publica
tion, and that it will be issued in the
fall. -She has not yet given it a name.
We quote these additiopal items from
the Herald:
The Scenes in Purifoy’s Cell.—We
should probably have said nothing farther
concerning the disgraceful scenes enact
ed in Purifoy’s cell the day before his
death, were it not that we hear just as.
had a story concerning the death bed or
Casey, the man whom Parifoy murdered.
From the lip3 of a preacher, directly and
positively, we learn that; while Casey
was dying, two men of God engaged in
a quarrel over his prostrate body, and
that ono of them raised a chair with
which to strike the other. We learn
that a similar contention—though not so
prolonged or violent—was begun over
the caso of Aring, who was hung some
weeks ago.
The Hon. John A. Cuthbebt.—We
publish this morning a letter in response
to the Committee of Invitation on the
Fourth of July celebration in Atlanta,
from Hon. John A. Cuthberjt, of Mobile,
but formerly of Georgia. Mr. Cuthbert
is probably the oldest living Congress
man—certainly ono of the very oldest.
He must be near on to ninety years of
ago, having been elected to Congress
from Georgia in 1817, and being at that
time not less than thirty years of age.
He represented Georgia in Congress in
the days of the Missouri compromise, his
colleagues being Thos. W. Cobb, Wm.
Terrell and R. R. Reid, in the House,
and Mr. Walker and Stephen Elliott in
tho Senate. All of these are dead, and
Mr. Cuthhert.alone remains.
The Constitution says P. A. Farring
ton, a jeweler of Atlanta, has been ar
rested on tho charge of arson. He occu
pied a room over Spsigle’s store, which
was burned a few days since.
We learn from the same paper that
iMr. Meador, of tha firm of Meador Broth-
, wholesale tobacconists, of Atlanta,
m farming, and is married. A railroad
nine within nine miles of .hi* place; He
thus write* on May 8th. from Peahade
Mogy Mirim: "This is a fine country
and healthy climate. I have a fine term,
plenty of coffee, oranges, pineapples,
lemons, baananas, and a great variety of
fruits. Besides, I have hogs, cattle,
horses, and plenty to eat. La fact, I am
well fixed up—splendid dwelling and out
houses, negro houses, sUgar houses, and
everything well arranged to mike money,
if the Lord spares me and gives me
health.”
The Rtveb Ikfbovement.—The dam
erected at Woolfolk’s bar has had the
effect to deepen the channel at that place
and it goes on deepening. Council pro
poses, in a short time, going down to
examine .into what has been done. As
soon as the capstan is repaired the Clara
Dunning goes again down the stream to
continue the work of improvement. In
quite a number of places the benefits
are apparent to the most common ob
server. Moccasin Sluice now affords
good boating. The United States Gov
ernment thus far has appropriated $85,-
000 to the improvement of the Chatta
hoochee,Flint and Apalachicola rivers.
Among . the cotton represented in the
Columbus stock are some 150 or 200
bales which have lain there nearly three
years.
The total through cotton via Colum
bus for Savannah and New York since
September 1st foots up 41,780 hales of
winch 36,885 bales came over the West
ern Alabama Railway. Only sixty-five
’boles have been brought from New Or
leans this season by that route. Mobile
is credited with 4,262 bales.
Frank Webbeb shot and seriously!
wounded Doc Camp in Floyd county last
Saturday afternoon. It was an old
grudge. Webber was concealed when he
fired the shot.
Crops in Jones.
Hickory Grove, June 29,1875,
Editors Telegraph and Messengers A
few notes from our part of the "moral
vineyard” will not be ont of order. The
crops, I think, are moderately fair. Com
is small generally, though has a fine
color. I think with rain a plenty from
now on, the yield will be a good one. We
have not suffered very materially for rain
up to now though the farmers are begin
ning to be alarmed. We have so much
cloudy weather and such little ram.
Some sections have been blessed with
copious showers, and consequently have
not suffered any. Cotton, I think, is
promising. Stands are good and the
crops very clean, and the weed has a vig
orous growth. The showers have been
sufficient to keep it growing. The area
about the same as last year. I think,
judging by present prospects, the yield
will be much greater than last year. But
cotton has disasters to encounter which
may ruin the crop yet. The small grain
crop i3 rather poor, especially the late
crop which was badly injured by the rust
and our country is not well adapted to
small grain because it is so subject to
rust. The negroes are working remark
ably well where they are not left to con
trol things entirely themselves. But
for fear I may trespass too far I’ll close.
Respectfully,
Rustic.
P. S. We had cotton blooms as early
os the 24th.
In Iowa, a man named Henry Thomp
son has been convicted and sentenced to
prison for marrying his stop-daughter,
there being a law in that State which
classes such marriages as 1 incestuous,
though tho degree of consanguinity^is
no closer than that existing between ai
man and the sister of hi3 deceased wife,
A similar law exists in Michigan.
•litical movements. Even if the Bum-
side view should have prominence, there
will be -marked effests upon tho next
grand campaign. But one thing remains,
in any event, and that is the well-founded
assurance that a prosperous South is es
sential to tho existence of a prosperous
North, and every blow struck at us will!
rebound, as t all blows have rebounded,
upon tho soiiter.”
Another cor load of wheat was shipped
frofli Forsyth tp Augusta, last week.
During the same week Messrs. G. M.
Dews & Co., of Forsyth, shipped 2^4
pounds of collard shed to a Western city.
The Griffin Nines hears it "authoritative
ly stated that out of four hundred mem-
■carae near lasing his life on Monday,
from being stung by a swarm of bees.
Raw brandy saved him.
A few days since, says tho Chronicle
t and Sentinel, a young man from Lexing
ton, South Carolina,, endeavored to steal
away tho daughter of a citizen of Rich
mond county, near tho sixteen mile post
on the Georgia railroad. He was detect
ed by the young lady’s mother, who de
termined to foil lumf She therefore
dressed up one of her boys in a woman’s
dress and sent him out to meet .tho gay
deceiver. The latter, however, smelt a
large sized mice and fled on the hoy’s ap
pearance. He was followed by a couple
of pistol balls. Ho was pursued after
wards by four men, but without success.
A Charleston correspondent of the
same papgr writes as follows:
Chamberlain is losing ground very rap
idly here. The letter which he address
ed to Kimpton, and whioh appeared in
the New York Sun some weeks since,
showing hi3 conspiracy to steal tho en
tire railroad system of tho State, has sat
isfied tho better clas3 of Conservatives
that Chamberlain is only pretending to
reform so as to gaia a new lease of pow
er, when schemes of publio plunder will
be brought forward, and onr poor people
robbed as never before. Chamberlain’s
negro Treasurer, Cardozo, has just com
pleted the erection of a palatial mansion
on Sullivan’s Island, at a cost of $45,000.
It contains twenty-nine rooms, with all
modem appliances. His wine cellar is
stocked with the Tintage of 1846, and al
though a preacher, ho rejoices in the
possession of a stud of ten horses. Car-
Vdozo has been in office about three years,
on a salary of $3,000 per annum, jet in
aothe way ho has managed to accumulate
a princely fortune. In his troubles with
tho negro Legislature last winter, he ex
pended large sums of money, and on the
night of tho trial greenbacks wero a3
plenty as pins in the pockets of the mem
bers. Ono item of high expenditure was
*$12,000 paid to his counsel, Messrs. Mel
lon and Porter.
Then and Now-—Tho Constitutional
ist says during tho war Mrs. Lincoln re
fused to see a sister of hers who was on
tho Confederate side, saying, “I would
not let any ono who was an enemy of my
’country- croa3 my threshold.” That sis
ter, if alive, would probably bo welcomed
by the poor woman who has gone from
the White House to an insano asylum.
The Columbus Times says the entire
State and county tax of Muscogee county
will' be only eight-tenths of one per cent,
this yfearj and the probability is that the
county tax next year will bo only two(
mills. The county does not owe a dollar.
We find theso items in the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun:
An Ex-Confederate in Bbazil.—
There aro many readers who will remem
ber Lieu£, John. J. Rjink, of Columbus, a
gallant officer £ the Third Georgia Cav-
«ry, a nephew of Captain C. A. Klink,
and when the Confederacy went up, Ad
jutant General on the Btaff of General
Crews, the captor of the Federal General
Stoneman. He is now in Brazil, engaged
Vindicating Themselves.
A Mercer boy, who has read " Lula’s ”
indictment of one of his number for not
responding to her love, sends us the fol
lowing, by way of vindicating the good
name of his fellow-collegians. Wear®
much gratified to hear that Lula's sap-
head of a lover is sui generis.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In
your comments upon the story of “Lula”
and a " Mercer Boy,” appearing in the
Sunny South, you seem to think Mercer
was not well represented by that timid
youth. Now, we do not know who of our
number is possessed of so faint a heart,
and unless he makes himself known we
will be compelled to class him.with the
newly initiated—probably a Fresh, who
has not yet learned to recite the alphabet
of love or the art of sealing his claims
with his lips. He is certainly not
member of the older classes. They hare
long been familiar with the rudainents of
lore, and have learned to appreciate
those winning graces so characteristic of
tho Wesleyan beauties. Who has ever
known a Senior, Junior, or aged Soph to
be derelict in response to the calls of
Venus?
P. S.—Our correspondent should not,
however, spell rudiments with an “
It doesn’t look well even for “ a Fresh.”
iSsissnSssj*.
ten Criminal Court, Judge Oh.-T ***
day rendered the foUoSL? h »to.
the case of the State vs J v in
Susan D. Gilbert, SSwttlSfS
bom Regarding the various^ JS a,c *’
of the statute together, it seen?* STf® 8
on all-fours with the common k»- 8Uni
gard to the effect of the atoeaS oil^
monial forms upon the validlt, °®*-
riages. If either of the L®*’
m«mge regard it as a unSSh *5
shall not be either SS** 4
voidable because the requirement**?
statute in regard to the license or £
nizatum havo not been com P Ii4 iS*
and it seems probable by the nm*
section 8. that where tjJjXSSfe£
a mamage license, and acting u n d?Jiff
license, appear before MypewmJSJj
nounce by and through him an awiT 0 ;
to become man and wife, the SaSuS
will be mlid and the parties heldfcT
contract, without any regard to the
the parties may have entertariedf
regard to ite legality, especially
lowed by cohabitation. Butth/d^;
of this proposition is not neceaW?
the case m hand. The defenSlfi
out a h«aue and in the presence of
tarn witnesses themselves solemn!**?:
ceremony of marriage, and took eaeffi
er for husband and wife, re<meeti™i
using each the form of words
set out, without the interposition Sm
other persons save the persons wW
peared in the character of witn«2.
The only portion of the formula usedT,!
the defendants in this portion of the
emonytowhich an exception i 3t Z D
is that embraced in the words: "SoW
as the union of lovo and life shall kS5
But I do hot think these words areit,
significant, nor that they or any 0 tS
words which may be employed in a mi?
mge ceremony, touching the dnratiosJ
of the contract, are of any le^al tore*
or in any way qualify the contract!?
the parties agree to be husband wa
wife, and presently thereafter assume
the statute, the law settles the nature
and duration of the contract, and anr
stipulations tho party might make in re-
gard thereto would be mere idle wonk
or mawkish Eentiment.
The court is of opinion that their
agreement to dissolve the contract, hr
their own consent, in case theirrespectire
love natures fail to harmonize, is in lav
void and in morals vicious; that if the
parties should act under this stipulation
for the termination of the marriage oon.
tract, and thereafter enter into a similar
contract and relationship with other par-
ties, they would be guilty of bigamy, and
that good morals and sound political
ethics, as well as the statute law, require
that they shall be held firmly to the mu-
nage contract they have assumed, and to
all the duties and responsibilities the lav
attaches thereto, and, therefore, the par.
ties aro not guilty as charged in the in
dictment.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: “Mer
cer Boy” feel3 an exuberance of grati
tude to the critical genius of your excel
lent staff for his kindness and courtesy,
The orthographical blunder noticed in
your edition of yesterday, certainly de
manded correction; bnt "one good tnrn
deserves another,” and with the utmost
cheerfulness I undertake to requite tho
favor. I proceed to instruct the afore
said editor, thusly:
The spelling poignard for poinard, (see
paragraph “Mr. V. P. 'Wilson,” in yes
terday’s paper,) is obsolete. If tho writer
of tho paragraph should respond to that
word in a "spelling bee,” with an i and a
g in the first syllable, any of the little
girls of the Macon grammar schools
would turn him down.
Bnt our debt of gratitude is not yet
discharged. In the same column but a
few lines above (see paragraph “Eu-
faula,’’) tho word guttural is spellod/gui-
teral. Now, “it doesn’t look well for'a
Fresh” to spell this word with an e, and
even an editor ought to know better.
Moral—People who live in stono
housea oughtn’t to throw glass.
After an exhaustive scanning of oar
columns tho “critical genius” of Mercer
finds the above joints in tho orthographi
cal armor of the Telegraph and Mes
senger’s. But theso joints do not be
long to the critic who objected to spelling
rudiments with an a. So far as ho is
concerned, “Mercer Boy” has, in this in
stance, hit what tho boy shot at. a
Thb Cincinnati Commercial says tho
magnificent clerk at 'the Parker House,
early in the morning, when tho President
and Cabinet paused in Boston, en route
for Lexington, was accosted by a Demo
cratic politician, who asked tho imperti
nent question:
“For which branch of the Government
of the United States was that gigantic
gin cocktail prescribed, that I just saw
in tho bar-room ? It was three inches
solid gin.”
The clerk gravely snubbed the anxious
inquirer, saying he would havo to go else
where to get the valuable information he
was seeking.
The Democratic politician passed away
rebuild and abashed, when the clerk
winkdQ at an amiable “staff correspond
ent” of a truly loyal Bheet, and Bmiling,
softly said:
“It’s nono of his business, but that
cocktail was made upon the highest au
thority in this country.”
Coweta County*
A well informed and reliable corres
pondent says: “Crops in this county,
both corn and cotton, are unusually fine
up to the present time. If the seasons
should continue some four weeks longer,
I think as good or perhaps better Crops
will be made this year than any one since
the war.”
Journalistic statistics show that dur
ing last ye£r the sum of at least $8,000,-
000 was lost in newspaper enterprise in
the United States.
AN ALLEGED POISONING CASE;
A Prominent Pennsylvania Citizen's
Wife Dies under Suspicions Cirean.
stances.
Wilkrsbarre, Pa., Juno 25.—At no
time, even during the great coal strike
just ended, ha3 there been such excite
ment in this city and neighborhood as
now exists over the sadden death, under
most suspicious cireumstances, of Mrs.
D. T. Bound, wife of the Superintendent
of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg rail-
way.
The domestic relations of Mr. and Mrs.
Bound had been unpleasant for some
months in consequence of the intimacy
that existed between the former and a
Miss Severson, and the manner of Mrs.
Bound’s death, coupled with the above
facts, has given rise to the suspicion o!
foul play, and if the chemical analysis
of her stomach, which is now being
made in New York, results in the finding
of any trace of the poison that is allege!!
to have been administered to the deceas
ed, tho surveillance that is now being
kept over the Buspected parties wS os
followed by their immediate arrest. The
deceased lady was the second wife of D.
T. Bound, ami was a highly accomplished
and cultivated lady.
Mr. and Mrs. Bound took np their res-
idence in Kingston, opposite this city,
and it is said they never lived happily
together. It is certain that during the
past ten years the conduct of the former
has been a source of constant scandal.
His relations with the young woman
mentioned were notorious. But a fez
months ago, during tho absence of this
wife, who was visiting friends, he deEei
publio opinion by actually installing Miss
Severson in his wife’s place in his house.
When Mrs. Bound returned she at once
indignantly dismissed the woman from
tho house. Bound immediately escorted
her hack again, and told hi3 wife that
Miss Severson was to remain there, ani
if she (Mrs. Bound) did not like it she
might leave.
Before retiring on Friday night Mrr.
Bound ate a dish of strawberries and
cream. An hour or so afterward she was
seized with intense burning in her stom
ach, violent convulsions aud_ profuse
vomiting. She remained in this condi
tion until midnight, when she died. fo‘
[jrangementa were made for her bnriri;
which wa3to he in the cemetery at
ford, Pa. Before tho corpse was earned
to tho train, however, an offices f ;0 -
Scranton arrived in Kingston with a
rant, authorizing him to detain tha body
for post-mprtem examination.
Drs. Mackey, Corse and others heida
post-mortem examination before Aider-
man Watraa, of Scranton, and the
ach wa3 found to be in such a state tuai
authority was, asked and granted to 05-
tain a chemical analysis of it. it
sent to New York on Tuesday, and tne
report of the chemists i3 awaited wiB
intense anxiety by the public. Heron-
THE INDIANA LYNCHING*
Particulars of the i.ynclilnsr Affalrio
Indiana—A Negro Hanged at Mid*
night by an Infuriated Mob.
Indianapolis Special to St. Louis Republican.]
William Keimer, a negro arrested a
few days ago for ravishing the wife c.
(William Vaughn, of Hancoc* county,
was lynched at Greenfield, twenty
east of this city, shortly after midmgW
on Saturday. The rape was P«PM2"*“
on the wife of Vaughn on Tuesday wbns
she was alone in her husband s farm
house. Pursuit was at once institute
by the husband and his neighbors, wan
fired at him as ho fled from them, one ot
the shot3 carrying away part of tnevu
Iain’s ear. He wa3 caught and morcer
ated first in tho Rush county jau.
from there removed to Greenfield i
better safety. One hundred and sua.
armed men from Hancock, Rush
Shelby counties met early on
evening and marched into G recn .r _
at midnight. They forced the keys
the sheriff, broke open the jail
took charge of Keimer, who made a o -
perato resistance and severely wouna
ono of the lynchers with a heavy 1331 "!
they came into tho cell. The negro
taken to the fair grounds on tho ver S‘* *
Greenfield by tho avengers, a rope -
thrown over a rafter of the floral hall an
tied around tho villain’s neck.
wagon was hacked in he simply e ’
“Men, you are doing wrong,” _and t".,
submitted stolidly tQ his dreadful * ■
The wagon was driven out from nn .
him, and he swung at the rope’s 04,
feet only a few inches from-the g ros '
At the end of twenty minutes
dead. When the deed was over the ewe-
pinned on to the negro’s coat-the fou ■■
mg verdict: “It is the verdict ol
hundred and sixty men of Hancock, * ’
and Shelby, that his life is inadequate
meet the demands of justice. T c
leader turned to the men and.
“Whoever discloses what ha3 osuirre
hare this night meets the samo fa*. ^
the same place, whether he be ^ h ‘
black. This is done to protect tbt. co
of cur wives, anil we believe «
justify us in the deed.”
