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GEORGIA. TELEGRAPH BUILDING-
THl FAMILY JOURNAL.—NlWJ—POLITICS—LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
Established 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY, APKIL 4, 1876.
Volume LXIX—No. 38
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Hon. Warren Aiken is very ill of ty
phoid fever.
Mbs. S. D. Linton, a former resident
of Augusta, died in Greensboro last Sun
day.
The slaughter pens of Mr. S. Funk,
near Augusta, were burned Sunday
night. Loss $1,000.
The Constitutionalist, of yesterday,
cays:
The temporary repairs .at the Oconee
bridge on the Georgia railroad, which
was recently burned, have been com
pleted, and two locomotives with twen
ty freight cars, which had been waiting
at Rutledge, passed over yesterday morn
ing for Augusta. Dispatches received
daring tho day announced that day pas
senger trains, for Atlanta up, and Augus
ta down, bad also passed over on sched'
ulo time. I be night trains went out
last night, and all trains will hereafter
run on time.
A hiohway robbeiy was committed in
Atlanta about five o’clock Sunday morn
ing upon the person of Mr. B. J. Davis,
ticket agent of tho Western and Atlantic
railroad. Mr. Davis lost a leg in the
war, and goes on crutches. The Consti
(ulionof yesterday gives the following
facts of tho crime, substantially, as de
tailed by Mr. Davis to his friends:
He had at his bonse last Saturday, up
wards of $4,000. These funds were lock
ed up in a desk in bis bed room. Daring
Sunday muht he was frequently aroused
by bis wife, who told him that she heard
some one moving around the house. He
attributed these fears to an idle alarm,
and paid little or no attention to them.
Yesterday was his day for settling up his
accounts with his company and trans
ferring his cash. He got up about four
o’clock in tho morning, and opening his
desk took ont the money he had on hand.
He placed $3,358 15 in a package, which
he deposited in the breast pocket of his
coat, which he buttoned securely over it.
Another sum in money and a check
amounting to between six and seven hun
dred dollars, he placed in the rear pocket
of his pantaloons. The counting of tho
money occupied nearly an hour, during
which time the room was lit up, and it is
possible that a person on the outside
could have looked in through the window
and seen what was going on. Mr. Davis
told his wife that he would carry the mon
ey to bis office as it would he more secure
there, and then started out. In addition
io tho money, he had on his person a re
volving pistol. As ho opened tho door
he remembers hearing a low whistle near
by, but he di I not think it any cause for
alarm, and advanced on to the gate. This
he opened and passed ont. Day was then
just . oginnin>» to break-, and it was im
possible to discover objects at any dis
tance. Immediately after he bnAr>afiffld
by tho fence he felt somebody pull at
one of his crutches. Almost at the same
instant his sound 1-g was violently
jerked from under him and he fell to the
ground, with his aggressor, whoever he
was, on tc>*. A violent struggle en=ued,
lasting a few moments, during wnich .
time Mr Davis in vain attempted to get Royal and Beaufort, Tuesday morning, of
his pistol out. Finally ho succeeded in I hemorrhage.
cause his death. He has been speechless
since he received the stroke. These gen
tlemen live in this county, and are citi
zens very highly thought of. It seems,
as all of the circumstances were narrated
to ns, that an old fend had existed be
tween them for thiee years, perhaps, on
account of M. having shot a cow of W.’s,
which had jumped into his (M.’a) field.
W. said that if he ever met M. again he
would kill him; and tho above has been
the result.
The Mirror says: “Fort Valley, like
most Southern towns, has loafers enough
within her borders, white and black, to
make one hundred bales of cotton and
five or six hundred bushels of corn.”
Then why don’t you enforce tho vagrant
law ? That will pnt them to work more
quickly than a dollar a day would.
The Mirror, speaking of tho crops in
Houston says:
The farmers inform ns that they will bo
compelled to replant their corn crops to
secure anything like a good stand. Un
der the genial influence of the sunshine,
some of it will sprout ont, bnt nothing
like a stand. Many farmers have com
menced to plough up and replant al
ready. Birds are pulling it up at a fear
ful rate on some plantations and the
farmers are poisoning them by the
hundreds to stop their depredations. Mr.
Glenn Visscher found one hundred and
seventy-five dead birds under one tree in
one of his fields a few days ago. Black
birds, dove3 and crows are tho most
troublesome.
Everybody in Fort Valley is in favor
of having tho Sunday-school May festival
at the Central City Park,.
The last issue of the Thomasvillo En
terprise reports five burglaries.
Capt. Thomas L. Wallace, son of
Major Campbell 'Wallace, of Atlanta, in
tho 36th year of his age, died in Thom-
asville cn the morning of the 27th inst.
The Montezuma Weekly says: “Mr.
W. W. Davis, of this county, states that
on last Menday night he prepared to pro
tect a bed of young tobacco plants from
the severe cold by spreading a woolen
cloth over tho bed, which proved to bo
tho very thing that was needed in the
way of security for the tender plant”
This will be valuable information to
planters end gardeners, as they have
nothing to do but buy enough broadcloth
to cover over their plantations and gar
dens, and hold it in readiness to be spread
every threatening night. How would it
do to construct awnings of it, say over
each field. It would be so convenient,
you know, to just let them unroll when
ever their services are needed.
Farmers in Macon county are plough-
they have decided too badly damaged
by the recent cold spell to risk for a
crop.
Mr. William McCabe, formerly of
Augusta, died on the up passenger tram
on the Port Royal railroad, between Port
partially freeing himself, and drew his
pictol. In endeavoring to fire, the first
barrel went off before tho weapon was
brought to boar upon tho robber* Tho
scoundrel instantly started to rnn, and
raising himself from the ground, Mr. Da
vis seat two balls after him as ho was
speeding along James’ alloy towards tho
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impre-sion was that the effort had been
made to rob him of bis pocket hook, and
placing his hand behind him, to his in
tense relief he found it safe. He next
thought of the package of money in his
breast pocket, and upon examination
discovered that his coat had been torn
open and the pocket ripped, and the
{3,35815 gone. He made his way hack
to the house and told of his loss. In a
short timo the matter was public, tho
police notified, and many friends called
to sympathize with him. A singular cir-
entrstineo is that io 6udden was the at
tack, Mr. Davis knows very little about
his assailants. Ho does not know
whether there was one only or more than
one, whether the man with whom ho
struggled was white or black, and only
that he had a smooth face. Mr. Davis’
be.'’- impression is that he was a dark
mulatto. Whoever he may be it is evi
dent that- ho was well posted as to Mr.
Divis* hours nnd tho whereabouts of
the money The plan was deep laid and
skillfully executed. Detective Jones has
been working hard upon tho case the
whoV of jf sterday, end it is not without
hope he may yet get on tho track of the
money.
I>urgl\R3 entered tho store of Mr*
Wrn. Crittenden, in Griffin, night heforo
las'-, through a broken plate glaB3 and
helped themselves.
The Griffin Nevus, of yesterday, relates
that a few days ago Mr. Jarrett Pounds,
a young gentleman of this county en
gaged in cutting some wood, when a
large chip flew up and struck him over
the eye. A few minntc3 after receiving
the blow he made an effort to blow his
n so, and actually blow his eye complete
ly on* of its socket, leaving its central
attachments. The eyo was replaced by
some friend, but tho young gentleman
sxn after tho accident, became insensi
ble and had several convulsions. The
eye was examined by Dr. J L Stephenson,
of this city, who states that the sight is
no? impaired and it is firmly fixed in its
place again.
Tas same paper says: An old negro
nsan, John Puller by name, a blacksmith,
living a few miles en, t of the city, was
foun-t dead in a field on a farm belonging
to Mrs. Smith. Xo marks of violence
noted on the body and the coroner’
ii rli -t was that he died a sudden but
BHnrul de*tti.
Mn. E II. Fugue has oecomo one of
tU proprietors of the Augusta Consltfu-
btnalisf.
f nE Romo Courier says:
Wn regret to see the namo of our dis
tin-.'niahed ex Representative, General
* M. B Yonnff, in 6uch closu and dam
: association with tho ring theive3
^ 17i-V.ington. The explanation in the
tiiT,-rsyii!o Express doe3 not help him
the scrape. Wo fear that he is
too <Wp j Q tUo infamous pool ever to be
*«ged out alive. That salary grab
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of yester
day, says: The store of Messrs. Norris &
Co., at Thomson, was burned early yes
terday morning, with its contents. It is
supposed tho store was first robbed and
then set on fire.
Some timo since the Augusta Constitu
tionalist published the following adver
tisement :
I caution every man’s wife not to tell
Richard W. Maher where their money is,
for my wife told the same and in half
hour my money was gone.
Henry Lehman.
out alive. That salary grab
f * millstone that sunk him to tho
“M’OUI
Tub Columbus Times of yesterday saye
hist Friday, Messrs. Burrell Williams
i-i McRae, who had been enemies for
or three years, met upon horseback,
* a <l dismounted to settle tho difference,
“^Iveen them. Williams made at Mc-
with his knife and cat him twice,
, he, McRie, wa3 hacking towards a
, c5 - e close by. Oa reaching the fence
?'"ized a rail an 1 dealt a blow upon
66 c, 'ad of Williams. This will likely
The said Richard W. Maher now cornea
forward and sues that paper for ten thou
sand dollars damages
The Columbus Enquirer of yesterday
keeps up its emigration statistics as fol
lows
Last week only 183 negroes left for
the West. The emigration figures now
foot up -4.753 by the Western road and
200 by tho Mobile and Girard Railroad-
total 4.953—all of whom, saving about
200, aro negroes. All left this section
within a radius of fifty miles,
The same paper has also the following
on the other side of the question:
A negro returned from Mississippi last
week, thoroughly disgusted with Ilia
country. Ho had walked from near
Vicksburg to Montgomery, Ala. Thence
he had just enough money to coxe by
rail. A prominent citizen asked him why
ho came back. He eaid ho arrived on
the plantation on which ho had been en-
ga^ed, and Sunday morning about three
o’clock he heard tho horn blow. To hi3
enquiry of what that meaift he was in
formed it was.for all hands to go to work,
they were never allowed to stop for Sun
day. “ By golly,” ho added, this was
enough for him. and made tracks for old
Georgia and Eastern Alabama, where
they let a darkey go to meetin’ on Sun
day. He was promised his expenses out,
provisions, clothing, house and a piece
of land, but ho found he would find no
timo to cultivate tho latter. He also
states there are hundreds who went
West who would gladly return,
It is interesting, says the Enquirer, to
note how manufacturing has increase
in Columbus year after year. Thus, in
1S71-72, wo find tho homo mills took
6,830 bales; in 1872-’73 this amount was
increased to 7.428; 1873-’7t showed still
larger, tho total footing up 8,952; white
in 1874-"75 9.628 made the purchases.
The total thus far this season fa 9,133,
with tho prospect of far exceeding last
year. Tho increase in four years was
2.793 bales. When tho new mill of tho
Eagle and Phoenix Company is completed
Cofnmbu3 will take annually 16,000 bales
of cotton. Taka tho value of the raw
staple and multiply it by three, and an
idea can he obtained of the immense
sums of raonev which these enterprises
have brought to Columbus by means of
Southern capital.
Bishop Beckwith will he in Athens
next Sunday.
The same paper also has the subjoined
item: After the funeral of Mr. Ben Bar-
row, last Friday evening, a dark form,
apparently stricken with grief, was seen
bowed down near the gate of Capt. Pope
Barrow. Inquiry developed the fact
that it was a colored boy who waited up
on the deceased during his illness in
Milledgeville, and that tho faithful fol
low bad spent his last cent to he present
in Athens at the funeral cf bis young
employer.
The Hamilton Journal says:
A little negro died on tho plantation
of Mr. Robert Johnson a few days ago, who
was thirteen months old and weighed
only one pound. It was once a healthy
John Watson, colored, confined in the
Savannah jail on the charge of murder,
was found dead in his cell Taesday
morning. Heart disease.
Mrs. J. B. Robinson, formerly of Sav
annah, died in Baltimoro last Thursday.
Mbs. Henry L. Davis died in Savan
nah Tuesday morning.
NOTES.
“The identical chairs and desks of
Cass. Calhoun. Webster, Clay, Douglas,
and Benton still remain in tho Senate
chamber, and are in daily nso.” But,
alas! who use them! To what baso uses
have they come at last I
“Senator Jone3, of Nevada, is prepar
ing a great speech on silver.” Of course
the reporters will supplement it with “it
had tile ring of true metal,” and will
probably add that it was refined. But if
Senator Jones should make a failure, he
will probably sigh,“It’s all ore with mol’’
The Baltimorean says: “Montaguo is
32 and married.” Now who the deuce is
'{Montague ?”
Conklino has not spoken to Blaine
in ten years. Thi3 must tend to chill
Blaine.
Everything is "crooked” now-a-days.
Even the war on tho Indians is conducted
Crook-edly.
The two-mile-and-repeat race at San
Francisco, was won by Chance, though
the fastest horse took tho stakes inten
tionally.
Miss Geoeciella Lay, of Milwau
kee, aged thirteeh, can write Centennial
poetry,” says the Courier-Journal. Miss
Lay’s lays mnst be very lazy, as they
have never traveled far from home yet.
Tns Herali says “Shakespeare’s plays
are being translated into Polish.” The
opinion has heretofore been that they
already had plenty of polish.
The Hi raid says: "Dana might fur
nish a pun for the rural newspaper when
the Senate gets through with him.”
Anything tho Senate gets through with
unfit for a genteel paper to handle. It
now proposes to ban Dana to wipe ont
the little decency that the Executive is
disposed to observo in making his nomi
nation.
It has been scientifically decided
that rust causes lire.” Rusty-c fences
then are unsafe to have about one’s
premises.
Don’t steal” is not the injunction to
new appointees to office, bnt “don’t get
caught” is tho word.
“struck oil.”
Minister Orth has been banqueted
ureparatory to leaving Vienna to enter
the canvass in his native State, where he
a candidate for Governor. After the
campaign is ended it will be Orth-entic-
ally stated that it would have been better
for him to have remained ia Vienna.
The Herald calls Diaz’ revolution in
Mexico “disorder." No doubt the chief
tain would Diaz soon as bo so styled.
Schenck, when ho gets out of his lit
tle trouble, will advocate a reconstruc
tion of Virginia, whose laws punish
poker-players.
The Herald says Geo. Wm. Curtis “has
not been treated well by the Republi-
1 If so, it hut adds another fact to
the charge that "Republicans aro un
grateful;” for if ever a man served
party faithfully, persistently, pertina
ciously and incessantly, through thick
and thin, through evil and good report—
mostly evil—in season and out of season,
that man is the editor of Harper’s Jour
nal oi Demoralization.
Aimeb is coming back in June, and each
of her admirers exclaims, “Ay, me !'
Albert Grant received $100,000 for
putting up tho Emma mine job. Ho
claims io bo no kin to tho President, hut
“actions speak louder than words.*
The Washington Chronicle says “Cam
eron is setting it up for Conkling,” and
the Democrats will soon ho knocking it
down.
An exchange says : “Somebody wants
to know who invented whisky. His
name appears to have been forgottoa,
This country is prone to neglect some of
its brightest and greatest men.” Wo
supposed the whole country knew, by
this time, that it was Babcock who in
vented it.
BOBBERY OF THE DEAD.
Belknap’s Gigantic Tomb stone Job—
Hoar tbe Fraud was Manipulated—
A Clear steal of About Two Huh-
dred Thousand Dollars—Hoar an
Honest Han Was Snubbed.
Special dispatch to .this Baltimore Gazette.] .,
Washington, March- 24.—Trafficking
in post-traderships was a trifling trans
action compartnd with the stupendous
job which the late 'Secretary of f W*r en-
BEOBOAN1ZATION OF THE ABUT.
Important Changes Proposed—De
duction of the Number of Officers—
The War Office—Post Traders, etc.
Tne Committee on Militixy Affairs on
Friday agreed upon a hill to reorganize
tho army, it being Representative Ban
ning’s bill with some amendments, and
ordered it to be reported favorably to the
House. It does not reduce the present
effective force of tho army, bnt reduces
!«? <■*>
(Bridges), of Keokuk, Iowa; to erect
from ten to eight, thus reducing number
headstones over the graves of the Union | of infantry officers fifty-five and cavalry
soldiers interred at different place* ■ «®e«r3 fifteen,and increasesthe size of
throughout the country. Tho history is
briefly and plainly stated from the evi
dence now in possession of the Commit
tee on Military Affairs. In 1872 Con
gress authorized the Secretary of War to
companies and regiments. It does away
with the regimental organization of ar
tillery, reducing the field officers of ar
tillery seventeen.
It consolidates the quartermaster and
commissary departments into one, deslg-
contract for furnishing durable head- J ^ the department of supplies]
stones. Nearly one hundred bids were * * 3 1 * T ‘
opened in October, 1872. Belknap
rejected them all, and the fol
lowing March a definite appro
priation of one million dollars was
made. The information gained by the
first proposals enabled Belknap’s friend,,
Bridges, to ascertain precisely what the
work could be done for by tho mo3t re
liable firms, and so when the second
proposals were asked for Belknap and
his friend were in position to become
masters of the job. On the day the last
bids were opened Quartermaster General
Meigs attended till the entire number
(eighty) had been scheduled. Among
them was Bridges’ informal and irregular
bid to furnish the whole number of stones
for $900,000, which bid the evidence
shows was not deposited until after th.e
hour for receiving bidB had passed; and
which, if it had been properly filed and
had been in due form, should have been
rejected, as the bid wa3 not accompanied
with a sample of tho marble it- was pro
posed to furnish. It was that informal
and irregular bid that Mr. Belknap ac
cepted, against the protest of Quarter
master General Meigs, and the original
of which will confront Mr. Belknap in
the impeachment trial. Under Bridges’
making a large reduction of officers; It
provid-s fora board to examine officers
for the discharge of all worthless and in
efficient officers, and for an examination
of the condition of retired officers. All
officers who lose their places under the
bill are placed upon a list of supernume
raries, and are permitted to resign with
one year’s pay for each 8 years of service,
or remain in service to perform such duty
as they may be assigned to. It provides
for the education of non-commissioned
officers and soldiers by the commissioned
officers, and for the promotion of non
commissioned officers to commissioned
officers.
It abolishes tho office of judge advo
cate, fixes the pay of first sergeants at
$40 per month, makes the headquarters
of the general of the arm7 at Washing
ton in time of peace, and provides that
he may act a3 Secretary of War in tho
absence of the Secretary or temporary
vacancy in the office. It provides that
sutlers and post traders shall be first
elected by a conncil of administration,
approved by the department commander,
the general of the army, and appointed
by the Secretary of War. It reduces the
staff of all general officers, and requires
iu. ■uiuw-.uu,™. u uuer onuges . the genera] of the army to report reforms
straw bids were two other bids, both! *° Congress annually, and to look to
straw, and yet theso three men, Jones, ® c ° n °“y m aU branches of tho army.
Morgan and Bridges, were awarded toe Tha * 1Bftp P roved by tho testimony of
headstone contract. Subsequently ! man y o' the best officers of the army. It
Bridges got possession of the entire job ' 8 reduction of about two hundred offi
at his own figures. He then went about
to see what ho could make out of tne
contract; and being only a tailor, he
found that ho and Bo. knap had shoul
dered an elephant,for it would be useless
for him to attempt to fulfill the contract
under the specifications that had been
fixed for tho second bids. Belknap then
modified them until there was certain
cert, and proposes reforms which, if
adopted, will, it 13 claimed, add greatly
to the efficiency of tho army.
A Sad Story or Canine Sagacity.
St. Johns (Newfoundland) correspondence of the
New York Evening Post.]
About an hour before dawn on January
„ v _ „„„„ 24, a lather and three sons, named Par-
to“be“ neariy'a dollar‘profit" on'’every i tridge.set out on a wood-chopping ex 30-
headstone of tho 250.000 to bo furnished, a* 1108 ;*«>•» the town of Placentia, New-
The shape, thickness and lettering were i *p a udand # which lies we3fc of Sfc. Johns,
all changed to make the cost as small as ! ^ uc “ «?peditions aro made with Esqui-
interfere 1 , ., . . . ’ j'lSPcunt of their resomblanco to the rafts
reserved the right under the law to have !the . r cimir ciM . islanders nso and
tho stones faithfally inspected at the , tban j t for E0V eral days u*..—
cemeteries, and in exercising thi3 ngnt i an( j - n eTer y way it seemed favorable for
rejected a largo number of worthless j tlj0 W00(J calters . but before 8 o’clock a
stones. This was at tho cost of the con- terrlfic enow s t 0 rm wa3 raging through-
tractor, and to prevent further Ios3 Bel- I oufc xcentia Bay, and at noon great
knap ordered that the stones should be 1 banka 0 c a ,. 0W drift had blocked the road
.nspeeted at the quarries. Again. Gen. j m m directions. In such circum3tan-
Meigs’ faithful officers found a lot of in- 1 C08 tbcr0 ; 3 extreme anxiety in tho homes
ferior stones ready for shipment-, which j p eraons w ho are absent cutting wood
were rejected, bnt Belknap sent an in- ( j n j b o forests, as the gloomy records of
spectorte the quarry in Vermont, who many a winter tell of skeletons found
accepted them, and for a time tho fraud - , -•——-
went gloriously on. At this juncture it
was evident Meigs would make trouble,
which would involve tho Secretary of
War, and he must be got out of the way
of Bridges, or tho job would prove ruin
ous, tho accepted guarantors would he
found worthless and tho administration
exposed to a terrible scandal.
The fall elections of 1874 were at hand,
and several of the President’s friends
wero asked to urge General Meigs to go
on tho retired list. The effort- failed, and j
the next step wa3 to induce General Me
TnE Confederate Dead at Gettys
bubo—A bill has passed the Senate of
Pennsylvania directing tho Treasurer of
that State to pay over to a trustee, to be
appointed by tho Governor, tho sum re
planning in the treasury appropriated by
act of May 27,1871, for the removal of the
Confederate dead who fell in the battle
of Gettysburg.
The meeting of the stockholders of tho
Bank of the State of New York early
next month is looked forward with great
interest. It is learned from a reliable
source that the prospects at present are
favorable to a dividend to the stockholk
ers of about 33 per cent. The stock was
offered on Friday at 55, without bringin-
out any bids. The last bid was 20.
A Railroad Feat.—Mr. C. L. Cole,
Supervisor of engines on tho Valley
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, has raised the locomotive that fell
through the Narrow Passage bridge on
the Gth of March. It wa3 raised to the
track up an ascent commencing at nine
hundred feet to the mile and ending at
one thousand one hundred feet. Tne
feat was accomplished ia one A ay l»y the
aid of seventy-four men,
If the Centennial Exposition costa $7,
500,000, the amount claimed to complete
if, the Philadelphia Ledyer computes that
in order simply to realize thU sum it will
be necessary for 15,000,000 people to visit
it once at the price cf admission, fifty
cents, nnd as the time is confined to 158
days, from May lOlh to November 10tb ;
deducting Sundays, on which it will bo
clcsed, it will require the daily attend
ance of over 94,900 people. From these
figures may ho formed some idea of the
child and weighed t w elve or fiftwn anJ bu3t , e ; n lh;lt cU auiing the
pounds, bnt was stricken with paialysts , .
and dwindled down to a perfect skeleton, six months succeeding the 10th of May.
A "WILD BEAST STORY".
A Remarkable Encounter on a Lone
ly Hielsb-Rlde in Saratoga County.
A correspondent of the Saratogian
writes from Conklingville, Saratoga
connty, one of the most remarkable sto
ries of encounters with wild beasts that
has lately been told. In brief it i3 as
follows:
A man by the name of George Hinck
ley was, on Friday night, February 25,
driving from Corinth to Conglingvillo
somewhat belated. There was no moon
and the road was uncertain, owing to the
rough weather which had prevailed in
that section for two weeks or so
past. He was' in a light cutter, well
protected from the cold by robe3
and blankets, and was driving a
spirited horse. It was 11 o’clock, and
he was nearly at his journey’s end. The
road lay through some undergrowth of
woods. 'VYhilo the horse was jogging
along at a moderate trot, suddenly ho
stopped, threw his ears forward, gave a
furious snort, and refused to go farther.
The driver urged him to go, and finally
struck him with a halter, the strap end
of which wa3 tied to the cutter in order
to prevent its dropping out and becom
ing lo3t. The horse jumped forward in
a frightened manner, but before he had
taken three steps a huge panther sprang
from behind a low evergreen close by
tho track and leaped into the cutter.
As it struck tho cutter its foro paws
came with great force against Hinckley’s
breast, and with one blow with it's pow
erful nails tho man’s clothing wa3
stripped clean from his skin. Hinckley
had tho halter with which he had
just struck tho horse still in his
land, and instinctively he laid it with
all his might over tho head of his assail
ant. By one of the blows the headstall
lassed over the panther’s head. It be-
ng a slipping noose, the next effort to
strike drew the noose tight about tho
panther’s neck. Then a desperate, hand
to hand, as it were, fight ensued. Tho
man struggled to throw off the beast,
but succeeded only so far as to prevent it
from fastening its powerful jaws upon
his now baro neck. The panther gra'bbed
the man’s left arm, which it bit through
and through, the blood which flowed on
ly seeming to mako it more furious.
With hi3 strong right arm, Hinckley
tightened the slipping noose about the
animnl’s throat. So tight wa3 it drawn
by that strength that tho panther was
chokeu so that it let go his hold on tho
man’s arm, and gasped at tho same time,
stripping its victim’s clothing and lacer
ating his skin with its sharp claws. With
the first spring of tho panther, accom
panied as it was with a wild, fierce growl,
the horse took fright and ran at full
speed, everjr ltap fairly lifting the cut
ter from the track. Thus, while Hinck
ley was struggling for lifo in the cutter,
the horse was running away. But tho
running away of tho horse proved to bo
tho salvation of the driver, for in mak-
beneath the snow in springtimo—of men
who had left their cabins in fair weather
severattnonths before and were overtaken
by great snow storms.
When Monday evening came and the
woodsmen cid not roturn, tho wife and
mother of the absent men grew very so
licitous for the safety of their relatives.
They should have been at home—no
matter how bad tho roads or heavy their
loads—at 6 or 7 o’clock Monday evening,
had nothing happened. But tho wild
snow storm was still sweeping over the
bay, and thero wa3 every reason to fear
Dowell to retire, accept the mission to 1 th ' t tbo , YOret btt(i befallen.
St. Petersburg, and give the President | Abou t dawn tho next morning Mrs.
tho right to order Meigs to too command j p ar t r i,jg 0 an( j her daughter were aroused
of tho department of the South. McDow- , by tb0 fowling of dogs, who pawed tho
ell was approached, but he declined to be I t b rC ahold and pounced upon the door in
trapped, and Meigs declared that the | a jjjqjj -vehement manner. Mrs. Part-
only inducement tha; would tempt him - a t first rejoiced, believing that her
to vacate tbs quartermaster corps would busband and sou3 hod arrived. When
bo tho rank of major general McDow- i ^ oor ^yas opened tbo dogs would not
ell would not retire, and there the mat- j en ^ er> however, but continued to whino
ter rested for a few w^eks, when the ■ &n( j p aw j bo g roun d impatiently. The
President hit upon the happy expadient! ol( j woman then went to the wood yard to
of ordering Meigs to Europe. This was call ber husband and boys; but the only
conceived in March, 1875. Bridges was - answcr given was the piteous whining
fulfilling the contract very slowly, and 1 anc j yelping of the dogs. After a while
unices General Ingall?, tho pliant juanyof tho neighbors gathered around
tool of the President and Belknap, could ^ b0 cabin, and most of them knew too
bo put in charge of the Quarter master we ji the harrowing 6tory that the poor
General’s bureau, the head ston- contract brutes could tell had they tho faculty of
would be exposed. Accordingly tho gp^h. The dog3 wero implacable;
President by vir’ue of hi a position, or- - ne ;tber food nor caress could quiet them,
dered General Meigs to leave the coiin- One old fisherman said he would test tho
try and not return "until January, 18/8. jj 0 g a by moving in tho direction of the
by which time it was expecto 1 the job wo(x j g . He had no sooner called them
would be finished, tho money paid, and ' an( j started in that direction than they
Meigs would be harmless to interfere. ; bounded past Lim and led the way, look-
It will thus be seen that from 1873 down 1 j a tjack every few paco3 to make sure
to the departure of Meigs in July last for tbat be was following. Four young fish-
Europe on a tour of inspection, tho lato ermen then voluntorred to follow tho
Secretary of War exercised every power : <3o „ 3> and wcra to t b 0 p ar fc of tho
to invest Bridges with full authority to wbe ro tho men lay buried in the
make the mo3t ho possibly could out of 8n0w>
the contract. The evidence further ; p r ^jj g i ous banks of show piled on the
sliowa that in tho first placo tho pqual ? regular road mado tho way to tho fatal
division of the contract among the three i ° t c ; rcu ;tou 3 and difficult. On the
alleged lowest bidders was $40 000 in fa- . 6 j de 0 f one mountain of drifted snow four
▼or of Bridges over Jones and Morgan, \?gro found yelping dismally and
The next fact shows that in changing the digging the snow with their paws. The
shape of tho base of the stone after the j volunteers went to work, and after
award had been made, the contract was j a bouttwo hours’ search with snow shov-
made $75,000 in favor of Bridges over all elg recovered the bodies of all the men,
tbe bidders, and in reducing tho depth j bnt too j ato to resuscitate them,
of tho letteringand the number of letters q<lri 3 remarkablo instance of sagacity
there was a further saving of over $20,- ! an d fidelity in the trained draught dogs
000. Now that Bridges is the entire of Newfoundland is not without prcco
owner of the contract, the modifications d en »;. About four years ago a young
made in headstones and blocks for the man j e f t Heart’s Content with one dog
graves of the unknown has put the side a jjd a catamaran for the woods It was
partner of Belknap with an advantage of a w ; ni jy day, and the man was killed by
over $200,000 over the seventy nine bids the f a m ng 0 f a tree which he had been
received in 1873. Gen. Meigs on his re- popping. The dog being unharnessed,
turn will substantiate all tho evidence a8 all fi raU ghs dogs aro on reaching the
which has been circumstantially develop- W00( j s> cam ° 0 bomu alone at night, refused
ed by the witnesses before tho Military fo£)d> and gav0 tbo usual dismal wara-
Committee, and the evidence to convict • ^ suc b as yelping and pawing the
Belknap and Bridges in the job will be „ rovm fi. This ammafalso led the way to
made known in a few-dav3. Among other ^ be Bpot v/bere hi 3 master’s corpse lay
statements furnished is one that a largo : res t; ng
marble dealer in the "West asserted that j 5
if he received the contract Mrs Bowers ; Hon. Montgomery Bhair, of Mary-
was to have a fourth interest in the profit, land, in a recently published letter de-
— clares that the success of tho Democratic
Scarcity of Change Bills.—ThcBal- pu'ty in tho approaching Presidential
timore Sun says business circles in New election depends upon its ability to rein-
** - t
fractional currency; that is a currency t ; cn 0 f Gov. Tilden, of New York, will, of
that is not all rags, and which one is jtself iorce this issue and make the elec-
almost afraid to put in his pocket from tion turn upon it. He says Gov. Tilden
fear 01 •**>., *»1 aU-.. Ap-
plication to the banka ana i.o the treas- m an of tho idea to which the Demo
ury are met with tho reply, “No new cr atic party so emphatically pledged it-
currency.” self in 1872, and his nomination wonld be
TnE Turkish Redsllion is undoabt- 1 accepted, not only by the Liberal Repnb-
edly covering an immense amount of Hcans who then acted with the Demo-
^ ° .. cra tie party, bnt by thousands who then
finessing among tue powers on tho be j d as a sure guarantee that tbe
Eastern question. No wonder the Prince pi e ,ig 0 would he faithfully redeemed;
of Milan wants some “ fraternal advice.” and bis war record and his financial views
They will all want it before they get would effectually prevent diversion by
through. false issues.
FROJt WASHINGTON.
Editorial Correspondence, No. 30,
Washington City, March 27,1876.
ENTER MRS. CALEB.
I had another vigorous tussle Friday
last to get a good look at this dainty
little/emms 03 she swept into the com
mittee room to tell what she knew of the
now famous Kentucky railroad claim,
which had so completely knocked Mr.
George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, ont of
time as a possible Presidential candidate.
The game wa3 worth the candle, for of a
verity she is comely. She is a regular
pocket Venus, folly but most symmet
rically formed, with an oval face illumi
nated by large, liquidly lustrous, and
deliciously mischievous eyes, and an ex
pression that would make most men feel
like imitating Captain Scott’s coon did
when ho saw the Captain aiming at him.
I take it sho must bo somewhere between
thirty and forty, but her hair i3 very
grey, which adds strength to the battery
oE her chatnis. For the benefit of the
ladies I may add she wore a black silk
dress, black hat, trimmed with beads
and ostrich plumes, and her petite hands
were cased in white kid gloves. Alto
gether a woman entirely fitted to plav
tho deuce with the average masculine
heart. What she said you doubtless
know already through the medium of
the press reports. She was calm as a May
morning, perfectly self-po3se3sed and
easy, and answered all the questions
asked her without the slightest hesitation
or embarrassment. In short a model
witness, and evidently the mental su
perior of Caleb. You may rest assured
she never would have “ peached ” unless
it entirely pleased.her to do so.
A SPECIMEN MAIL CONTRACT.
Among other witnessc < last Saturday
before the Post-office Committee, was Mr.
S. S. Huntley, of the big firm of C. C.
Huntley & Co., mail contractors on North
western routes. Hi3 story was exceed
ingly interesting, as showing what a
“ bonanza ” is sometimes found in con
tracts of this character. He stated that
tho entire cost of stock, coaches, expen
ses, etc., on a certain route from Helena
to Missoula, in Montana, was paid for by
five month?’ profits, and that the route
from Redding, California, to Roseburg,
Oregon, was let to one J. P. Goddard for
$24,000, who very curiously “failed” in a
few months,and that he (Huntley) by buy.
ing off other bidders.got and still holds the
same contract at $72,000 per year 1 This
is rather fat, bnt it is only a sample of
how the machine i3 run by that Connea-
tieut Jewell. But, as I said in my last
letter, what’s the good of it all? The
report of such rich spoil, such savory and
appetizing swindles, will, I fear, only
eerve as recruiting devices for tho Rod
ical party, and move the so-called “ In-
ing n short turn in the road the cutter ’•dependents ” to flop off the fence in
oprtaMied, dumping driver and
tha halter being fasU5uoa r C0 ,: eJ)» enow,
and tho other end tight about the wild
animal’s neck, tho litter was dragged
after the flying steed, its body jumping
and bounding along the road. The run
ning away of the horse saved Mr. Hmk-
ley’a life. He was left by the roadside,
whence he. in course of time, found his
way to a habitation. The horse ran till
ho got loose from the cutter, and then he
went to Conklingville. The cutter, badly
shattered, was found half a n-ile from
the spot where the panther leaped from
behind the bush. The animal was dead,
choked to death, and badly bruised. The
substance of the correspondent’s story is
given above, and we forbear from casting
any doubts on so tragic a tale.
LASHED TO THE RIGGING.
TUeTruc Story of Admiral Farragut
In noblle Bay.
Bear Admiral Jenkins in Appleton’s Journal. 1
At 3 a. m., August 5.1864, that portion
of Admiral Farragut’s fleet which had
been previously selected to pass ForU
Morgan and Gaines, and to attract tho
Confederate iron-clad Tennessee and
gunboats in Mobile Bay, got under way
and proceeded according to orders. As
tho leading vessels got within rango of
the guns of the fort, water and light
house batteries, and both side3 had
opened fire, Admiral Farragut ascended
the starboard mfazen rigging (shrouds)
of the Hartford, to about midway be
tween the mizzen and top hammock rail,
or poopdeck of tho vessel. Tho star
board sido of the vessel faced the ene
my’s batteries, while the enemy’s vessefa
wero nearly ahead, and firing raking
shot.
The late Capt. Percival Drayton, then
in command of the Hartford, and at the
same time Admiral Farragut’s chief of
s’uff, observing the position of the Ad
miral in the mizzen-rigging and nearly
over his head, and considerinf tho posi
tion a very dangerous one, owing to the
great liability of tho rigging (shrouds) to
be cut from under bis feet or above where
ho w is hoi ling on with one hand, very
quietly ordered tho signal quartermaster,
whoso station in battle was near him, to
get a piece of small stuff (small lino or
rope) and go up and pas3 it around tho
Admiral’s body and some of the shrouds.
This duty tho quartermaster performed
so quietly and easily that the Admiral
was not at tho momsnt aware of what
was being dono for his safety, These
droves The people* of the North and
West have been so fearfully demoralized
'to 6buiA«atrine3 and devices of the Rad-
end fa a question that mo nrpfor
ican citizen hardly darc3 answer, even to
him3e’f.
akerman’s little games.
Did you notice the testimony given
Friday before one of the House commit
tees by that notorious wretch, Whiteley,
of “ sweat-box” infamy, in regard to some
of his exploits while Akermau was Attor
ney General ? In brief, Whiteley swore
that in 1871 Akerman gave him an un
limited order on tho treasury to draw as
muo hmoney as he wanted to procure tho
arrest of so-called kuklux in Georgia and
South Carolina, and that he made one or
two trips to those States and came back
well loaded with stories of outrages that
had been committed. He further sworo
that detectives were sent to those and
other States to work up outrages, each
ono of whom was supplied with from
$1000 to $2000, and with instructions to
set up barrooms or grocery^ stores and
uso them as a blind to get information
about the K. K. He added that very few
Centennial Exhibition on the 10th of May
will be a Cantata, the words of which aro
by our gifted friend and townsman, Syd
ney Laniqr, E=q. So far as I can judge,
the programme is very well chosen, in-
deed, except as regards a very extraordi
nary omission in the list of specially in
vited guests. Not one of the employees
of the House is named in the list. X
presume, however, this was an oversight,
which will be remedied hereafter.
The “Gentlemen’s Gallery” of the
House is a lovely bower. A friend of
mine told me the otner day that coming
and therefrom, after an hoar or two of
martyrdom, he found his coat sleeve,
from elbow to shoulder, fairly alive with
vermin; and another victim, af.er a stay
of only ten minutes, brought away on his
olothes one of the fatte&b bed-buga he
says he ever saw. This is positively
sickening, bub it is as true as daylight.
What a pity the loathsome creatures who
are responsible for the presence in the
gallery of theso filthy negroes* could not
bo forced to sitalongside them every day
for a week or two.
Whether Colorado gets into the Union
before the Presidential election or not,
is a doubtful question, but there is no dis
count on the wisdom, on some points, of
thoso who made her constitution. It
positively prohibits all subsidies for any
purpose whatsoever, and declares that
“ State, county, city, township, town, or
school districts shall neither directly or
indirectly pledge their credit to any indi
vidual or corporation.” That Is short
and sweet—to tax-payers, at least.
The rain Friday night and nearly all
day Saturday, vras one of the heaviest I
ever saw. If yon had a tithe of it, all
complaints of drought must now be out
of order. I judge, however, the late oold
snap fa your present grievance, as I see
it ha3 slaughtered green things remorse
lessly.
I almost ran into the Presidential arms
on Saturday, while turning a corner,
and yon can imagine my confusion at snch
a contretemps. I touched my hat, and tho
Government touched its hat, and so we
parted. The Government was taking a
walk with Ulyss-.-s, Jr., and I had an op
portunity to sec that it was slightly bow-
1 egged and considerably pigeon-toed, and
and that it was rather stoop-shouldered.
Also,- that it has a small, very well
shaped foot, and that its boot3 fit beauti-
foTly.
The IIouso is evidently warming up to
work. It voted this afternoon to have
three night ses3ion 3 per week, so as to
better rid itself of all superfluous gas
that might otherwise retard publio busi
ness during tho day. Another reason is
that tho Democrats, without some such
programme, can’t find time to folly un
cover the Radical rottenness and rascali
ty that is constantly making itself nasally
manifest.
The Hendricks men hereabouts are tan-
usually lively, but so are Thurman’s and
Judge Davis*. If the Greeley medicine
hadn’t been so nauseous the latter’s
chances would be decidedly cheerful.
Even as it fa, ho has a very strong fol
lowing which seems to be decidedly on tho
increase. If anybody thinks Judge D.
is a Grant Radical, that somebody ought
to hear him talk. If hfa heart is as
sound as his tongue is outspoken he’ll
_ The Democrats might
m —* ,,nnl worse,
A SUort Ghost Story.
On the shore of Lake Ontario, there
once stood an old fashioned stone man
sion, more like a castle than anything
'else, that was said to he haunted. In
deed, its very appearance would suggest
such an idea to a believer in haunted
houses. It stood on a lonely point of
barren land that ran out into tho lake
about three miles from the village of
St. c—• You might look the whole
shore over and over and not find half as
dreary and lonesomo a spot. Not even a
tree or shrub, nothing of the kind, bnt a
rocky footpath leading to the main road.
It had been neglected tor many years,
as no ono would live in it on occoont of
tuo many strange stories told of it. Tho
roof was covered with moss, and tho
walls looked old apd rusty. An old story
_ was current that an heir had been mar-
of theso spies ever reported to him after- j dered by an uncle that ho might possess
wards, and that the niformation they did 1 tac estate, who, after enjoying it for a
send was wholly unreliable. In all, he time, was so annoyed by strange nofae3
spent about $150,000, but how much ho
appropriated to his own uso he wholly
neglected to tell. Pretty business, wasn’t
it, for an Attorney General of the United
States, bnt very characteristic of the ven
omous little creature whom even Grant
conldn’t stomach a3 an official associate.
THE RADICAL CAMPAIGN BATTERRIE3 OPEN
ED ON GEORGIA.
I quote, herewith, and commend to
your notice the following from the Grant
organ — the Republican—of thfa city,
which appeared m its issue of last Sat
urday. You will observe that the miser
able liar who penned thfa libel places
one of these outrages near MaCon. But
here is the fa tho article in full 1
“Kuklux at work again.—Private
letters from Georgia convey tho startling
intelligence that kuklnx organizations in
that State have again commenced to
practice their deeds of blood. In tho
connty of Columbia two negroes were
killed last week, and over a dozen were
taken from their homes and severely
whipped, four of the number having been
tortured by having hot sealing-wax drop
ped upon -their naked bodies. In the
counties of Burke, Jefferson anil Chat
ham similar outrages have been perpe
trated in the past fifteen days, and in
tho vicinity of Macon three negroes were
found hanging to trees in the neighbor
hood of a leading Democrat. These in
details were I “ y a £° ! humanities were evidently impelled by
friend, Capt. Drayton a few hours alter “ t tv Vm,
the action in Mobile Bay ended. The
gallant and lamented Capt. Drayton is
not alive to verify hfa narrative, bnt it fa
probable the cool old signal quartermas
ter fa yet alive, and I doubt not, ii he bo
alive, that he will confirm what I have
related. ,.
It fa well remembered la the navy that
in 1862, when Admiral Farragut in tho
Hartford passed, with a part- of his then
fleet, tho Confederate batteries at Vicks
burg, he took about the same position in
the mizzen-rigging of the ve?eel which
he subsequently occupied in the action
in Mobile Bay, on the morning of August
5, 1864. and that daring the action a
raking shot or shell struck the forward
part of the shrouds below the Admiral,
catting away all of them but two or
three. Had all of tho shrouds been cut
away at that timo, the Admiral would
almost certainly have been knocked into
the river and drowned, or on board and
probably kill.d by the fall It was,
therefore, very natural that a considerate
and careful officer, like Capt- Drayton,
knowing, as we all knew, the Admiral s
upparent total obliviousness of his own
risks and dangers, should have kept a
watchful eyo upon the Admiral’s move
ments about the vessel while in action.
the recent Democratic defeat in New
Hampshire. Somebody in the state of
Georgia must receive the vials of
wrath, and they are poured out
upon the heads of inoffensive colored men
and women, whoso only crimes aro that
they belong to a despised race and are
Republicans. Hundreds of negroes are
annually offered np as sacrifices to Dem-.
ocratie hate in God forsaken Georgia, and
yet only a few of tho instances are known,
a3 Democratic Newspapers aro careful
not to give publicity to such facts, and
the two or three Republican papers there
seem to be afraid to allude to them.
History presents no in3tanco where the
peasantry of a country wero ever subject
ed to Buch inhumanities a3 aro the ne
groes of the South, especially in Georgia.
Robbed of their labor and all its fruits,
they drag out a wretched existence, and
in many instances it is a real relief when
these victims are taken from their homes
by painted ruffians and pnt to death.
Thus, on the eve of the twentieth centu
ry, in tho midst of a country which
boasts of its liberty, American citizens
ore treated, and yet we are told by the
wily Lamar and the philosophical (?) Gor
don that the kindliest relations exist be
tween the races in the South, and that
the only thing needed down there is for
the Government to withdraw its protect
ing arm and allow peace and qmet_ to
reign. Alas for suoh peace and quiet,
for it will be that of death 1
odds and ends.
I was greatly gratified to see a day
The Harrisburg ReDublican platform
demands “honest men for office, with
brains enough to know dishonesty when
they see it.” That ia the strongest pro „
nunciamento against a “third term” that' two since that a part of the original pro
ve have seen. gramme of the opening exercises of the
in the mansion ho retired with an un
easy conscience and soon after died in
England.
A few years ago the property fell into
the hands of a gentleman who— nothing
daunted—determined to make thfa man
sion hfa place cf residence.
It was a wild night in November, a
fierce storm wa« raging on the lake and
the wind howled and shrieked liko a
score of grisled witches on some mid
night raid. It was twelve o’clock,
midnight; a low monrnful sound ran
through the apartments. He was awak
ened by tbe so und, and immediately ris
ing, took a pistol and a brilliant light
and descended the stairs. On coming to
tho ground floor the light cast a
gigantic shadow of himself on the wall.
Here he stood and listened. Presently
a hollow moan ran through the long ball
and died away. Thfa was followed by
ono of a higher key, a sort of scream,
which seemed to come from the cellar.
He descended the old rickety stairs and
proceeded to examine it. There was
nothing there but a few rotten plank
and an old chest, which he was in the
act of looking into, when he was startled
by a low, deep groan, and then a scream,
Thfa time it was above, and he hastily
ascended the staira and examlsed every
room in the house. Once he thought ho
heard persons conversing in low tones
in a recess, bnt on examining it he
found it entirely empty. The storm had
nearly passed away now, and hearing
nothing more he retired to his room and
waited until morning.
Tne next day he examined every cook
and corner from garret to cellar, but his
efforts were as fruitless as, before, for he
found nothing but dust and cobwebs.
Almost every night for a month he lived
in ttie*mansion and heard these noises
and tried to solve the mystery, but at
last moved out and declared that truly it
was a haunted house. As neither him
self nor anybody else would live in it, he
sold it to a gentleman who took it down
and drew the stone to the village to be
converted into a dwelling house. -
The workmen were employed in taking
down the wall under what had been a
sort of piazza, when lo! in a kindoi a
recess lay the fragments of a chapel organ
and the square pipes that had been made
for hallowed sounds were used as props
to stay the floor. Tho ghost that had
been the cause of tearing down the man
sion wa3 nothing but tho north wind
which had found its way to the groaning
pipes through a crevice in the wall.—
Sherbune Keiss.
The London Times of tho 7th says:
“The difficulties which the Atlantic
steam shipping companies have to en
counter in tho present depressed state of
international trade may be judged of
frem the fact ihxt the large Atlantis
steamers are stated to be losing equal to
$20,003 a voyage.”