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MACON GA . AUG, 1. 1879
IbU utiOKWIA JTttffiSta.
The Double Uubdie Neab Atlanta.
Wb find tti- testimony taken by the coro
ner in the Defoor murder case in the At
lanta Constitution, and giro that of Mrs.
Walker, the daughter of the murdered
cob{j1-» as embodying about all ths facta
that were elicited at the inquest:
I awoke about five o’clock this morn
ing. My dsugater in-law remarked to me
that grandma waa not up. Bbe ea.d that
something was ihe matter. Mirtm went
over, and as he did cot come bsck, I went
over and found mother and father deed.
Mother usually comes over to oar bouse
while we are at breakfast. A men came
to the gate yesterday while I was here.
Father went oat to tna gate where he
was. I oonld not hear their vo.oep, bat
when father returned he said be bad in
quired the way to Marietta. He looked
like a tr -mp and was in bia socks feet.
I saw two men day before yesterday, but
not good en-.Ut.-h to see nha* kind of m6n
they were. I h y bad a satchel of some
kind. Don't remember his bat Don’t
remember if the man yesterday had
whiskers or not. He eaw a man yester
day morning while be was attending the
milkiER. F.tacr taid the mau eoem-d to
be well dresoed. He .went to bed
between five and e*x. They did not go
to bed before sundown last night; I saw
mother about- dark last night for the last
time; I saw father for the last time yes
terday evening; J went up stairs yester
day cvenirg; mother bad said that she
hadn’t tea da dead-fall she had set for
rata in some time, but she waa too feeble
to go op there; I went up; everything
waa eilent th-re; did not notice whether
any orfe had been lying on the bed;
father atd mother rarely ever went up
ataiie; the ladder was sitting in an un
usual positior; it ia used for going into
the garret
[Here Dr. Drake, the coroner, and Mr.
James Oc-llier, foreman of the jury, went
upstairs with Sira. Walbor to examine
the bed end ladder ]
Mrs. Walker—I was up stairs between
1 ana two o’clock; thiak I would have
noticed dimp clott; don’t miss anything
about the bouse; don’t know where he
kept bis money; the boots were fatbeiV;
foned silver money; found pocket-book in
bureau drawer—it bad been searched; I
was shocked; I knew very little about
tho lamp.
The earns paper announces that one
o! the negroes concerned in the murder
has been caught about nine miles from
Atlanta. The blood-hound ran him ten
miles and finally bsyod him in a pile of
straw. He proved to be a powerful negro,
and resisted furiously, but was promptly
eabduded. The officers eccured him,
and on tbs way to town be confessed bia
connection with the crime, saying that
two other?, a white man and a negro,
were involved. He said that he held the
l%ht and procured the ax. The white
man did the killing. He is safely locked
i> jail.
"We credit the following to ‘.he Savan
nah Sira:
Hon. J. M. Brennan, member of tb e
Legislature from Bryan county., died lest
Taesday in that county, of consumption,
af er o three months iillnesL ihjy
Henry Bryan, a well-known and most es
timable citizen of Sivannab, died of the
ssmo disease last Friday at Loohoat
Mountain. He was formerly very prom
inent in business circles, and during tbe
war, a moat gallant officer, serving prin
cipally on Gen. Magruder’s staff.
The News also quotes the death, on
Sanday, of Mr.’Jaa. Mnrpby, downfreigh
agent of the Central Bulway, in whoee
employ hi had been for twenty-seven
years.
A fiih of the “ Bruits’’ species jamped
from tbe water and landed on the
deck of the steamer Boss as she was
on her way to Savannah last Friday. It
measured four feet in length, and weighed 1
thirty pounds.
Mb. Cabanis3, of the Monroe Adverli-
ur, writes to his paper from Atlanta that
the convict lease will not be broken by
the present Legislature, bat that "pub
lic opinion among tbe people of tbe State
is forming on this important question,
and by the time the next Legislature is
chosen, it may assert itself sufficiently
to compel that body to legislate to break
np the lease."
Mias Peooii UcGough and Mrs. Mon-
ne Clower, both well known ladies of
Monroe county, died last week. The
firmer waa ninety-four years old, and
lived with a brother who has reached the
age of ninety-eight.
- Comuektihg npon the Augusta News'
announcement that Mr. Stephens does
not desire to bo Governor, the Albany
Advertiser says: "Wo see no cause for
immediate alarm ever this thing. There
is curtainly no disposition npon the part
of the people in this section of the State
to take advantage of the old man and
force the governorship npon him."
Lauba Lake, a negro girl of ValdoEta,
who went to Liberia in 1877, retnrned to
her home last Friday. morning. She
gives anything bnt a cheerful account of
her life in that model African Bspnblic.
Among other things ebo says that "the
natives season everything very highly
with pepper, and when a child is born
among them they stuff ita month with
red pepper and gruel, and lay it out in
tho sun for an hoar. They say it will
make is etrong aad healthy. 9 Also
she eaja, ‘‘;be natives are very hard on
onr ptep'e when they commit crime."
She mentions the cose of one Reuben
Cayho, an emigrant from America, who
stela something from one of them, and
they caught him, tied a big rock around
his neck, and threw him m the river.
Tnat wis the last of him. She concludes
her recital by eaying: "I am glad to get
back, and am satisfied to remain in
America. Other colored people who want
to try foreign coantr.es can do so, and
learn by experience what I have learned.
I feel better since I have reached my own
white folks.”
Ala. Stephen's Speech.—Tho A’lanta
Pott says this of it:
He • poke about ono benroa national
issues exclusively. Two cf his leading
points were that tbs people demanded
financial relief and that the representa
tives cf tho people had a right to control
the appropriations. He was frequently
interrupted with loud applause. His
voice was stronger at the close than
whan be began. Mr. Stephens sat ia the
Speaksi’s chair.
The Stats House.—The Carcesvilla
Register Las tome remarks nnder this
head which may "rile” eotno folks. It
eays:
Quteaaum of hi papeia in this
State aro taking the position that the
members of tbe Legislature in looking to
ward the building of the Sta'.o Capitol
phon'd not bold Atlanta to tbe proposition
atm made when the people were to deoida
by their ballots where the Capital should
. be located, bat that tbe State should build
the Capi'.ol, and expect Atlanta to do
nothing more than her proportional part
in paying the Receral lex assessed for its
>,z Hmci While wo are as friendly to-
v V ard Atlanta as any , ?; .3 men who take
ibis position, we cannot view it In the
come light, but think Atlanta should do
Trhat she proposed to do, and we believe
sac will. She fs a great city, end can
will aff ord to keep gcoi ths promise she
made to secure the Capitol. Ton can call
it bribery, or whatever yon please to term
if, bat thousands of tie voters Id
the State of Georgia voted for the
location of the capital in Atlanta on .the
proporititn ehe made during the cam
paigu, and ro * they expect her to keep
good that promise. It is rather amusing
to hear some of the papers who 60 ar
dently advocated the olaims of Atlanta,
end to londly oried oat her propositions,
to rise at this period and Bay tnat it would
be a disgrace to tbe Siato, and n sivere
reflection upon her citizens, Jto even ac
cept Atlanta’s proposition if tendered.
It ia B'range that they did net think of
this during the osmpaign to locate
the capital when they proclaimed it so
londly in heavy black type. Wo did nit
tulnk then that it would be a refl-jotion
npon tbe State to aocept tbe proposition,
dither do we think so now. At least, we
are, with a large number of voters of the
State of Georgia w.-liing to risk the dark-
ne:-s of any reflection that will be oast
npon the Empire State of the South by
tbe fulfillment of this promise.
WE find the following particulars of
the capture and confession of Asa Mor
gan, cne of the Defoor murderers, in tbe
Atlan’a Post:
At ones "Lao,” one of Mr. Kreis’ blood
houi di, waa put upon the trail and before
long be ctm.-k it and bsgan to run it
down with a vim. No sooner did the
dog open than the negro, who wa* seat
ed near by, began a raos for life and
one which continued four honra and ten
minute.*, and covered abont fiiteen miles
or ground. Ex'ian-tation finally com
pelled the negro to quit the race and at
tempt to hide himseif. Upon Mr. Loo’s
place there is a gin-house and near it a
large pile of straw, and it was this which
offered the negro a temporary haven of
rest, ai d hrre ’twas that he wa3 caught.
Waen tue pursuers came up to the gin-
h-,use, they found "Lee” circling around
bn. in no way disposed to leave ths
gtraw pile. Mr. Brels beoame satisfied
from the dog’s actions that the negro
was eecreted in the straw stack, and so
said, bnt others thought that both Mr.
Kreis and the dog were at fault. So
thoroughly satisfied was Mr. Kteis that
he b -gan to search the straw for the fu
gitive. Before he had been long on the
pile he heard some cne say, "You’ve got
the wrong man. I’m not the man.” Af
first the voice somewhat startled the
valiant pursuer, but eocn he was down
in the Etraw grappling with the negro.
After a hard snuggle the negro finally
gave up aEd waa 1-d off loan adjacent
boasein which the officers wished to es
cape tho rain. Daring their etay here
they held constant conversation with the
negro, and little by little he implicated
himself in the terrible deed for which ho
must fioonst or liter pay the penalty.
His confessons was about as follows:
"He and another negro from Butts coun
ty met a white maa at Defoor’s Ferry on
Thursday last, aad that they then laid
the plan and remained in the neighbor
hood until Friday evening, when, whilst
the old couple were ont milking, the
white man went in the house and np
stairs and secreted himself until old man
Defoor and his wife were asleep, when he
oatao down aad opened the back door
ana let the two negro men in.
They then went to the blacksmith shop
and procured a hammer. Afterwards be
went a iress tbe etreet and got the exs
with which the deed was done. He held
the lame, the other negro watched at the
door, and the white man did tba cutting.
After their bloody work had been com
pleted they went through the chest,
trunks, etc., and got "lots cf money.”
The next morning they were sitting
down and had just begun a division of
the money, wnt-n the dogs which had
been put on them by the officers broke 10
and they separated. Since that time he
has not seen any of the other parties, al
though be gave Captain Starnes a very
accurate description of both.
Asa Morgan, as ha calls himself, is a
buily looking negro cf about five feet six
inches, and will weigh about 180 pont-ds.
He is of a ginger-bread color and a pow-
erfnlly-bnilc negro. His chest is broad
and full, and when seen causes almost a
fear to creep unsuspectingly over the ob
server.
The Senate has finally disposed or the
joint committee’s report on the Colqnitt-
Mnrphey matter, which recently passed
the House, a3 we learn from tho Atlanta
Dispa ch, which says :
Tne tubstiints of Mr. Grimes, to post
pone indefinitely, was lost—yeas 5, nays
32.
The substitute of Mr. Bower, to spread
on the minutes and take no aotion, was
lost—yeas 6, nays 1.
Oa this substitute, Mr. Grimes asked
to be exonsed from voting, wbioh was
granted.
The report of the committee exonerat
ing the Governor, was adopted.
Those voting in the affirmative are :
Messrs. Boyd, Bryan, Cabaniss, Cand
ler, Casey, Clark, Clements of tbe 15th,
Clements of the 44th, Clifton, Drake,
DaBose, Fair, Folks, Hamilton of the
21st, Harrison, Hawkins, Hodges, Hol
ton, Howell, HndsoD, Lumpkin, Mc
Daniel, tloLeod, Preston, Bussell, Si-
mons, Speer, Tison or tho 10;h, Wel-
born, Mr. President—39.
Those voting in the negative are:
Messrs. Hamilton of the 14tb, Head,
Holcombe, Staten—4.
Messrs. Bowers, Grimes. Camming,
Perry and Stephens asked to be exonsed
from voting on this resolution for the
ressoD that they did not think the Senate
had anything to do with it.
Mbs. Ja8. W. Walksb, a well known
and greatly esteemed lady of Aucueta,
died quite suddenly last Monday night.
The Augusta Chronicle says last Sat
urday night two attempts were made at
the 73 mile peat on the Georgia railway
to wreck a train by placing cross-ties en
the track. Fortunately tbe pilot of tbe
engine scattered them without damago
either to tbe locomotive or train.
The Augusta News calls up memories
of "anld lang syne” by reprinting the
following:
We have in onr possession an old party
invitation, dated in 1826, which is some
thing of a novelty in style compared with
the handsome invitations of the present
day. The invitation bears the names of
some of tho most .distinguished men of
Georgia of the long ago, and is as follows:
BIETHDAY OF WASHINGTON.
The honor of Mrs. Cummin’s compiny
id solicited at a Washington Ball, to be
held at tbe Mansion Hoase, on the even
ing of the 221 of February.
Drawing to commence at 6:30 o’clock.
Charles J. UcDjnald,
Washington Poe,
John W. Campbell,
John T. Lamar,
Eiwaid D. Tracy,
Managers.
Mtcon, 3d February, 1826.
We learn that it was the cas;om in.
olden times to "draw” for partners ror
the evening, and the lady who was draws
by a gentleman waa bonnd by all tbe
tales of propriety and courtesy to have
no other until the party was over.
The Borne Courser favors a registra
tions law “to keep negroes from voting,
as has been done in this oonntry and
waa admitted not long ago by a negro
who, talking to eevcral others of b’s raoe,
was oveiheard to brag that be wo- twenty,
two years old that day, but bad votsd
liras times for Dr. Felton. This fa no
idle tale bnt cn retail faot. Hew can
elcoiicns be honest and fair with each
voters as these V
One of onr Southwestern Georgia ex
changes pathetically reStok*, "there
ba3 been no Western corn shipped to thia
county this season, but cb! next year,
what it will be ?”
Alex. Scabbobough and Tim Wagnon
of Bibb county, have just been discharged
from tho penitentiary, having served out
their sentence of fire years each for hr
ceny. •
The Bev. W. O. Williams, rector of
St. Peters Episcopal Church, at Eome j
has resigned that charge, and his resig.
cation has been accapted.
A Bold Jump.—The Newnsn Herald
aaya last Monday morning as "tbe train
from Carrolton wa3 coming towards this
place, Boe, who it will be remembered by
many of onr readers, was charged with
the killing of a Mr. Lambert in Haral
son county about two years ago and who
was tried at the last term of the Superior
Court of said county, leaped from a win
dow of a passenger coacn when the train
stopped at the Chattahoochee river to
take on freight, and made his escape,
Toe guard pursued him a short distance
bat tbe pursuit was frai'less. He had
been sentenced to the p> nitentiary for
life, and was in oharge of two pcii en'
tiary guards.”
The Savannah negroes celebrated tbe
independence of Liberia last Monday and
tbe News informs ns there was "an im-
mcnie turnout and no serious distmb-
ance.”
The Colnmbns Times oomes ont etrong-
Iy in favor of the sale by tbe State of all
her railway property when fair prices can
be obtained. It bases its remarks npon
•he statement that W. JB. Aitor and other
New York men seek to pnrohase the Ma
con and Brnnswiok road, and goe3 on to
say:
Perhaps tbe prioe named may not be a
fair one, but advertise It and sell it at
ontory, and if no one else will pay more,
let it go at the million and a quarter dol
lars, and with the proceeds or sale pay
off a corresponding amount of the State's
deer. The income from the road, taxing
the amount received tor the last quarter,
by the average, is now $40 000 pur jeer,
though it is said that parttee will rent it
and give 570.000 p9r year for it We
suppose they weald; bat even that would
not be so favorable a disposition of it as
it would bs to sell it for $1,250 000.
It is, we think, very douoiful policy
on the part of a State to owe heavy deb's
and tax her people to pay installments
and interest, when she has property
enough, if sold, to pay her debts and stop
the tax and interest. Mr. Bintroe, tbe
State Treasurer, siya the State could, by
Gelling ont her stocks, pay her debts and
owe nothin". We are in favor of this
policy—not only because it is a sound
policy—not only because it is a sonni
policy ia itself, bat because the long ex
perience of tbe State in these matters
has shown conclusively that she cannot
manage them with financial success.
We say, then, sell the Macon & Bruns
wick road, and if purchasers want to
extend it to Atlanta, if satisfactory
arrangements for freight and passage
cannot be in id a with the Micon and
Western road, let them have a charter to
extend it.
Gubebnatobial Gossip at the Capi
tol.—It runs as follows, according to
Maj. Oraeof the Savannah Recorders
who writes ia a late letter, to-wit:
As to the Gubernatorial question, we
have talked with a number of gentlemen.
We are satisfied if Southern Georgia is at
all a unit as .0 some man from that sec
tion, and that man be General A. B
Liwton, he will ba the strongest man hO
far named. Wo would ratber have bis
chances to-day than any man that has
been spoken of. General Gartreli has
soma strong friends. Jadge Martin J.
Crawford, of Colnmbns, has popularity.
We like his face, and wo read a man’s
oharaoter in his face. We had a few min
utes talk with him at tba Kimball and be
impressed us favorably as a good man.
Bat we have no disguise in this mat
ter. Wa are for a man from onr section
of the Biate, as a sectional right. We
have not had a Govornor for over sixty
years, and Eectional pride demands that
wa should have. Cherokee is always talk
ing about her rights, and we "sorter”
feel that it is abont time to blow bard
and long onr sectional born. If a man
does not respect himself, how can he ask
others to respect him ?
If. however, we cannot get General
Lawton, or Lester, or some good man
from Southern Georgia, then we are for
Hon. Augustus Beese, of Madison, Ga
In onr opinion, one of the very best men
in Georgia, a gentleman of decided orig
inality. Agentleman who would be gov
ernor in every sense of the word.
As to Governor Colquitt, four years is
long enough, no matter how good or in
different u Governor he may have made.
As to abase or reflections npon bis ad
ministration, he must expect that. To-
try to please everybody would ho to de
clare himself s weak man and a dema
gogue. Decided mon have decided ene
mies, and yonr good, easy men, indiffer
ent f.iends or no friends at all, yet no
positive onemtes.
As to the capital question, that is, tbe
bnilaing of a new oapitol, it wonld be
folly at this time to entertain snoh an
idea. The present bnilding will do,
though as to structure, location and real
comfort, it Is no more fit for a capital
than the old espltol at Milledgeville
wonld be for and insane asylum. It oonld
be mads to do, bnt is not built for each
purposes.
When Georgia shall give in over $300,-
000,000 in taxable propeit/ then it will
be time enough to talk abont a new capi-
tol building, bnt tot nnt.il then. Tne
present building will do well enough for
tho next ten or fifteen years.
niiy U Has Declined.
Philadelphia Times ]
It is beginning to dawn npon this country
that the rdseon why the administration has
peremptorily destined to attend any agricul
tural fairs this season is that all its energies
will be required on the etnmp in various
parts of tho country.
It OlaUes Him Sad.
N. Y. Herald.]
Abont five hundred tons of fresh meat,
either alive or refrigerators. left thia poit
for the British Isloa yesterday—enough to
g ve a fail meal to every adult Britisher—
and this waa but a single d-y’e shipment.
No wonder the English farmer mikes wry
faces when ho looks towards the West.
Jshi is not Pioudi
Philadelphia Timas ]
Seoretary Sherman didn’t make any speech
ia Maine yesterday. It was Sanday, and he
improved tho occasion to visit tho water
works at Bangor and generally get a view of
the attractions white the city has to offer
illustrious men who are nominating them
selves for the Presidency. It is not a regu
lar thing In Maine to go ont aight-seri'g on
Sunday, bnt Secretary dherman is not prond
•» Jlarderers, Thieves and Bona-
tiers,”
Philadelphia Times, Ind.]
Tbs Congressional committee which lain
Cincinnati investi-tatlng the antics of tho
deputy United States marshals last fall, is
fiudiog out that ont there, as in Philadelphia,
ihi favorite material for the manufacture of
these cfllrials consisted of murderers, thieve-
and rounders in general. There was a great
deal of important woik abaut tho polls for
men of this kind, wh oh nobody eleo would
have tho hardihood to undertake.
A Crazy Woman Cared by a
LiglKnlug Strobe.
Waterbury (Bonn.) American ]
Lvt week the house of Jonas Buckirg-
lum, in JLiiford, wia struck by liglitnin,? end
w-s ecmiwhat damaged. The most remark
able ciiccmatacca in connection with it la
(hat Mr. Bcohinghtm, who his bcoa derang
ed for eeversl years, bad her reason com-
rloteiy reriored by tbe shook, thus showing
tho l eneflis of clect;lcity as a remedial agent
ia such casts.
Heavy Haifa lor Autfi,
N. Y. Times. J
Tba aleamor mail dispatched from this
pert yesterday for Europe was the largest
aver tent out in one dsy from tho New York
Poet Chi.-d. and comprised 72,976 letters and
123 trig* of nowriiipers, or 213 bigs In .all.
The number of lat.ua sent to Europe dmi g
tho week waa 160,E91. The Abyssinia on
Wednesday earned oat 193 bags of New Zea
land and AnslriUiu mail- TUs City of Ber
lin brought in yesterday afternoon 181 sacks
of mad matter for transfer to Australia and
Ni-.v,’ ZiaJf.cd via San Frincieeo, of wliieh
167 bags were from London, 22 from Dublin
and 2 from Liverpool.
STATE LEGI8LATCBE.
Atlanta, July 28,1879.
THE SENATE
met at tbe bonr of ten a K.
Tbe President in the chair.
Prayer by Bsv. Dr. Gwinn, of this
City.
The journal was read and approved.
The President appointed tho
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
of conference witn the House to consider
the proposition of the oitj of Atlanta rel
ative to a not? eita for the new capitol
building. Tee committee on the part of
the Senate consists of Messrs. Lumpkin
and Clark.
THE UNFINISHED BUSINS IS
of yesterday, which waa tne disonsslon of
the report of the committee on tbe en
dorsement of the Governor of the North'
eastern railroad bonds. Senator Bryan
held the floor.
Tha debate was continued the entire
morning, and the special order for to-day
postponed till the oonolnBion of the dis
cui&ion. Tbe disonsslon was oondnoted
by tha beat minds of tho Senate. The
spirit of the body seems to ba identical
with that of tbe Hon3e; to-wit, no one
questions the Governor’s pnrityjof Inten
tion, yet many reprobate, and some se
verely, his action in the matter, and all
are opposed to tbe practice of allowing
Stat-offioi> a otrafs is Mnrpby has done,
as disoioatd by ihe evidence.
Atlanta, July 29,1879.
THE HOUSE
met at the honr of nine. The Speaker
in the chair. Prayer by the regular
Chaplain, Bev. J. Jones.
Mr. McCurry, of Hart, moved a sus
pension of the rules, in order to read a
bill. Did not prevail.
Seats were offered Gen. P. M. B.
Young, and several other gentlemen.
Several reports of committees wero re
ceived.
THE SPECIAL OBDEK
of the day was taken up, which was the
consideration of the "Bill to be entitled
an aot to amend an aot to create the
office of State Geologist, and to provide
for a geological, mineralogioal and physi
cal survey of Georgia,” etc.
Mr. Tatnm, of Dade, moved to recom
mit tba bill to tbe Finance Committee on
the ground that it is a bill to appropriate
money.
Mr. Adams, of Chatham, opposed the
motion.
Mr. Livingston, of Newton, also op
posed the motion in a speech of point
and power.
Mr. Miller, of Houston, favored the
motion.
Mr. Born called for the previous ques
tion, the call for the yeas and nays bus
taini-d. and tha motion prevailed by a
vote of 64 co 53. Enlightenment est mort.
Vive ignorance /
Tan uuSauutd businesi being the bill
to repast par. 5, section 3354 of the code,
tbe bill was recommitted to tho Judiciary
Committee.
BILLS OP THE TBIBD BEADING.
By Mr. Long of Oaarlton, to amend
the school law. Amended by tbe com-
mitteo and passed.
The joint committee on the part of the
House to take into consideration the
proposition of the city of Atlanta relative
to tbeloo>tion for a newoapitol bnilding,
was appointed by (he Speaker, and con
sists at Mesxra. Polmltof Jefferson, Park
and Cox of Harris.
BILLS PASSED.
A bill to provide for tbe sale of perish
able property by sbor.ffi constables, eto.
This bill passed some time ago in the
House and also in the Senate witu amend
meat, waioh amendment was oonoarred
in tbis morning.
A bill to provide for tbe compensation
of non-resident jurors. This bill is in the
same condition as ihe one above—passed
in the Hoase and sounded in tbe Senate,
and tbe amendments ooaouned in.
A bill to repeal sections 4387 and 4388
of oode. Passed in the House and
amended in the Senate. Tbe House
disagreed with the first and third amend
ments. Too bill was sent back to the
Senate.
EEPJKT OP COMMITTEE ON LtCAL LEGISLA
TION,
Its chairman, Mr. Hammond, of
Thomas, was submitted. The report
was read and, nnder the rules, was
taken up and acted upon in relation to
consolidated bills.
CONSOLIDATED BILLS.
A bill to provide for tne payment cf
insolvent cost of Solicitors General,sheriffs
and clerks of Superior Courts in Oconee
and Clark counties. Finance.
To establish criminal courts in the
counties of Wbitfield, Bookdala and
Montgomery. Judiciary.
A bill to exempt from j ary duty fire
men and certain militia min in Mus
cogee county.
A bill to repeal the Beta establishing
boards of commissioners in several coun
ties. Judiciary.
A bill to consolidate several bills reduc
ing the compensation of certain county
officers. Judiciary.
A bill providing for the payment of
certain coupons of the Maooa and Brans-
wick Bailroad. F.nance.
A bill to repeal certain sections of an
act to amend tho charter of tbe city of
jHlledgeville. Corporations.
A bill to provide for certain Banitary
regulations in tho city of Darien. Judi
ciary.
BILLS OF THIBD BEADING.
Mr. Hanks of Whitfield—A bill pro
vidieg and fixiog the compensation of
certain connty officers. Passed by sub
stitute.
A bill to amend seotion 4310 of the
code. Passed by snbstitnte
Bill to amend seotion 3796 cf Code.
Passed by subititute.
A bill to prohibit the sale of farm prod-
nots between snn set and sun rise.
Tbe yeas and nays were ordered and
the bill was lost by vote of yeas 50, nays
84.
A bill to prohibit railroads from par.
chasing other roads in this State, or par.
obasing stook in tho same.
The yeas and nays were ordered and
the vote stood on tho passage of the bill,
yeas, 127, nays, 8.
A bill by Mr. Bussell, of Chatham, to
regulate the duty of levying officers in
possessory warrant oases. Passed by
substitute.
By Mr. Hall, of Spaulding—To pro
hibit the giving or promising to any
State officer or official money to effeot
personal ends. Passed as substituted.
By Mr. Harris, of Bibb—To prohibit
railroads making contracts with their
employes, whereby said employes waiver
all right to sue for damages. Passed by
99 to 9 votes.
By Mr. Yanoy, of Clark—A bill to re
quire surveyors to take into orientation
variations of tbe magnetic noodle. Lost.
The House adjourned.
Oabolynn.
Atlanta, July 29,1879.
THE SENATE
met at 10 a. x. Tho President in the
chair. Prajor by Bev. J. Jones, Chap
lain of the Honse.
The journal was read and approved.
Oa motion of Senator McDaniel the
special order was aueptnded, and tbe
8ena>e proceeded to continue the discus
sion of the report of the Committee on
the Esdorsement of the Northeastern
Bailroad Bonds.
Senator Bowen spoke at some length.
The previous question was called and
ordered.
Oa motion of Sent tor Grimes to in
definitely postpone the vote stood, yeas
5, my a 33, so tbe motion was lost.
The substitute offered by Senator Bo
wen was pnt and lost, yeas 6, nays 31.
Senator Grimes was exonsed from vol-
ting on his own reqnest.
The question then was pnt on the re-
port of the joint committee, and tho vote
stood, yeas and nays, as follows: Nays
4, to-wit: Senators Hamilton of ths 15.h,
Head, Holcombe and Slater.
* Teas 30, to-wit, Senators Bsyd, Bryan,
Cabinlss, Candler, Casey, Clarke, Clem
ents of the 16*.b, Clemontaof the 41th,
Clifton, Drake, Dubose, Fain, Folks,
Hudson, Lumpkin, McDaniel, McLeod,
Preston, Bus°el), Simmons, 8pesr, Tyson
of the 101b, Wellborn and Lester (Presi
dent).
The following gentlemen were, at their
request, exonsed from voting, on tu<.
ground that they considered the matter
beyond the powers of the Senate : Sena
tors Bower, Camming, Grimes, Perry
and Stephens—5.
So the report of the committee was
adopted.
Tbe spsoial order of the'day was taken
np, which was ths consideration of the
bill against lobbying. After some do*
bate a motion was made that tha bill be
ieoommltted to tho Jndioiary Commit
tee.
The rales were suspended and bills who
taken np for the first reading.
By Senator Fain, to fix fees of ordina
ties, when not governed by law. Judi
ciary Committee.
By Senator Hodges, to prevent fishing
with nets or seines within one mile of a
dam, making it a penal offense. Judici
ary Committee.
A seat was teaderhd Hon. A. Moln-
tlre.
By Senator Tison of the 10-h, to estab
lish a board of railroad commissioners.
Committee on BUlroads.
Also, a bill to prevent extortion by com
mon oarners, and to prevent no just die*
crimination by them. Brilroada.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The Senate went into exeentive S6s
sion on motion of Senator Parry and con
firmed the appointment of Judge Biohard
H. Clark as judge of the city court of
Atlanta.
Upon retnrning to open session
HOUSE BILLS OF FIB3T BEADING
were taken up and referred to appropri
ation committees.
A bill to prescribe the manner of let-
tine ont tbe pnblio printing. Committee
on Pablio Printing.
To allow West Point to establish an
independent system of free schools. Ed
ucation. a
To augment ho powers of tax receiv
ers. Judiciary.
To appropriate $25,000 and t^e walls
of the penitentiary bnilding at Milledge*
ville to the use of tbe trustees of tbe Lu-
Bitio asylum. Committee on Lunatic
Asylum.
SENATE BIIL3 OF SECOND BEADING.
To provide for taking interrogatories
in certain eases. Lost.
Tbe use of tho Senate chamber was ex
tended the Southern Historical Sooiety
for Thursday night.
To lease the Macon and Brunswick
railroad. Bead the second time.
To prevent sending femateB to the
chain gang. Tabled pro lem.
To require a license tor deadly weapons.
Tabled.
The Sonato adjourned.
Atlanta, July 30th 1879.
THS HOUSE
met at the nsnal hoar. Speaker Bacon in
tho ohair. Prayer was offered by Bav. J.
Jones, tbe regular chaplain.
The j carnal was read and approved.
Mr. Yancey, of Claike, moved, after
doe notice, to reoonsider tha aotion of
tbe Honse in rejecting, on its final pass
age, a bill to provide for snrveys to ba
made witb reference to tha msgnetio va
riation of the needle. The motion pre
vailed.
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, moved tore,
consider the bill r<-jecced yesterday, pro
viding for the advertising of oonnty mat
ters by ordinaries, sheriffs, eto.
Mr. Tatnm moved to table ths motion
to reconsider.
The yeas and navs were ordered and
the vote stood yeas 64, nays 31. So the
motion to table was lest.
Tho question then recurred on the
motion to reconsider, yeas 63, nays 73.
Lost.
A -resolution requesting the United
States Commissioner of fish, P. B. Per.
gesou, to lecture before the Ganeral As
sembly on the subject of fish cnlturo.
Agreed to.
THE SPECIAL OBDBB
was taken np in the committee of the
whole, Mr. Chambers, ohairman, it bo
ing the bill to establish the Middle Geor
gia Military and Agricultural College at
Milledgevillo, with a provision for an ap
propriation. The committee snbmilted a
eu< stitnte.
Tho sum of $5,000 annually was sag.
gested to fill the blank left in the bill.
Mr. Jordan, of Wilkes, offered an ad
ditional section providing for improving
tno male pupils of said college. Lost.
The Committee of tbe Whole, by Mr.
Chambers, ohairman, reported that they
bad said bill nnder consideration, and
that tbe bill do pass.
Tho Hjuse then proceeded to consider
the bill as reported back by tho commit
tee.
Tbe seotion appropriating $5,000 for
tho enpporc of tbe colhga was agreed *0.
Mr. Miller, of Houston, to amend by
making said sntn payable from tho land
script fund. Not agreed to.
Mr. Hanter, of Putnam, called for the
previous question oa the passage of the
of the bill. The call was sustained.
The substitute as amended was adop
ted.
The report of the committee recom
mending the passage of tho bill by a sub
stitute was adopted.
The question then reonrred on tbe pas
sage of the bill by tho snbstitnte as
amended.
Mr. Harris spoke in favor of tho pas
sage of the bill, and said that Georgia
owed a debt to Milledgevillo, and now
was the time to pay it. The bill was
constitutional. It was not a transfer of
State properly for educational purposes,
the measure appealed to the common
sense of every one. North Georgia bad a
oollego st Dahlonega, attended by the
yomh of the cdjsiuisg counties, now
give South and Middle Georgia a place
where we can send onr sons cheaply, and
not all tbe way to Noitb Georgia.
Mr. Miller, of Houston, called for the
yeas and najB. The call waa sustained
and the roll sonnded.
The vote stood yeas 72, nays 77, so the
bill was lost.
A seat was tendered Hon. W. H. Fel
ton daring his stay in the city.
Leave of absence was granted to a
number of gentlemen.
BEFOBTS OF C0MHITTEE3
were received and read.
The House, having extended the time
of tho session to allow Mr. Harris to com
plete his speech, adjonrned till 9 a. m.,
to-morrow. Cauoltnn.
airs. Domuj’s Will, diving Sir.
Davtsail Her Properly.
N. O. Pioaynne.)
Be in vore, Harrison do., Mi;s., Jab. 4,1878.
L Sarah Anne Dorsey, of Teueas Parish,
Ls, being awaie of the uncertainty of tile,
and bain* ia souad health in mind and body,
do make thia my last will and testament,
which I write, sign and seal with my own
hand, in the preeenoe of three competent
witnesses, as I possess property in tho State
of Louisiana, Miaiuippl and Arkansas.
I owe no obligation of any sort wh stover
to any relative of my own. X have done ail
I could for them Outirg my life. I therefore
give and bequeath all my property, real,
petsoral and mixed, wherever located and
situated, wholly and entirely without hin
drance or qualification, to my mo’t honored
and esteemed friend, JefforBon Davis, ex-
President of the Confederate i8:»toj, for hia
own sole mo and benefit, in fee simple, for
over; and I hoieby constitute him my solo
heir, executor and administrator. It Jtffer
son Davis should not survive me I giva all I
have bequeathed him to hie youngest daugh
ter, Yavinia. I do not intend to share In
the ingratitude of my oonntry towards a man
who ie, in my eyes, the h gbeat and nobleBt
in ixietenoe
In testimony whereof I s'gu this will,
written by my own hand, in the presence of
W. T. Waltha l, T. F. Hewce and John O.
Craig, tnbecribing witn eases, reiident in
Harrison county, Miss.
Sar.h Anne Doses?.
Copious Bain.—Tho moat downright
and earnest rain 0! the season fell yester
day—at one time so heavy as to darken
daylight and fill tho largest sewers to re
pletion. At present writing, lain is still
falling, and witb promise of abundance
more.
> >« ■
Hon. John Welsh, United Stales
minister to tho Court of S'. James, has
resigned on account of family affiiotions
—his resignation to take effect 20th A* •
gust.
. iMk Up, Not Down X
Life, to some, is full of borow,
Half is real, half they borrow—
Full of rocks and fall of ledges.
Corners thorp *rj catting edges
Though ths joy bells maybe ringing,
Not a song you'll heir them Binging—
Bering never makes them w se.
Looking out fiom downcast eyes.
All in vain the snn is shining,
Waters sparkling, blossoms twining,
They bnt see, throngnth.se earns torrows,
Bod to-days, and worse to mon owe,
Bee the olouds that must pass over;
See the weeds among the clover;
Everything and anything,
Bat the gold the sunbeams bring.
Drinking from the bitter fountain,
Lo 1 your mole hill seems a mountain.
Drops of dew and drops of rain
Bwell into the mighty main
All in vain the bless ngs chower,
And tie meroiee fall with power.
Gathering chaff ye tread the wheat,
Bich and royal, r neath yonr feet.
Let it not be so, my neighbor,
Look np, as you love and labor,
Not for one a’one woe’s vials;
Every man has cares and trials.
Joy and pain are linked together,
Like the fair and cloudy weather,
May we have, oh, let as ptay,
Faith and patienoe for to-day.
Governor Colquitt’s Adminis
tration Vindicated.
At the request of a friend we copy the
following defense of onr excellent Gover
nor, extracted from a late artiolo in the
Atlanta Constitution.
Time and again have we reiterated
maay of the same facts, not, however,
from a partisan standpoint, bnt as a sim
ple act of justice to tho Executive of the
State, who was tno chosen leader of the
Democracy and Is a goed Christian, and
true man:
He is charged with the loss the State
may suffer through ex-Treasurer John
Jones. Governsr Smith had turned Col.
onel Jonea out of office before Governor
Colquitt was elected. Since then the
case against him has been managed by
General Toombs, Colonel Hammond and
the attorney general.
He is ohargrd with ths lease of tho
conviot8 and all that is cairied with it. He
has never been interested in any way, di
rtot or Indirect, with that lease, which
was ordered and exeouted before he was
made governor.
He is charged with having signed the
Noriheastern bonds when he should not
have done so. Ho noted on tbe urgent
advice of Senator Hill, Governor Brown,
General Toombs, and others, and upon an
interpretation of the meaning of the leg
islative act famished by tho legislative
officers.
He was charged wiih having sigutd the
bonds nnder improper icfiaence. After
an investigation, indignantly demanded,
and of axhaustlees inquiry and ornel re
search, he wi.8 nuanimon-ly exonerated
by tho committee and the charges against
him denounced in both reports as slan
ders and oalumnies.
Ho is charged with the Garliaglon- Al
ston fee. He simply carried cut a con
tract that was made—a most wise and
advantageon3 one for tbe State.
He is charged with having paid a fee
to Colonel Toggle for which there was no
necessity. By his contract with Colonel
ruggle,$62 000 waa paid into the treasury
and not a cent taken out. It may be
said that our Congressmen might have
collected this claim without coat to tha
State. The claim is over forty years old
and no Congressman had ever yet been
able to collect it.
He is charged witb tho responsibility
of the trouble ia tho wild land depart
menf. That department is in tho hands
of the Legislature, managed by it3 laws,
and officered by its election, and he has
no power to touch it or interfere wich it.
He is charged with whatever there
may be, it anything, against Comptroller
Goldsmith. He never appointed tho
Comptroller, and baa no oontrol of his
affairs, and his relations with Mr. Gold
smith have been purely official. The
Legislature elects the Comptroller.
And then, as if nothing was too tender
for the use of his assailants, ho has been
charged with the responsibility of tho
murder of his friend Colonel Alston^ The
testimony showa that he left Alston in a
plaoe of perfect safety and went immedi
ately to find Alston’s enemy and reconcile
or control him. Alton’s own father
could not have done more for him.
And as nothing was too sauted for their
pnrpcso, they have assanlted the govern
or besau39 he has seen fit to giva coun
tenance and'encouragement to the cause
of morality and religion. If ever a man
on this earth went to the altar of God witn
humble and honest heart, that man waa
Governor Colquilt—and yet his enemies
nave found in even this, canso for sneers
and innendr*.
This is the list of the charges brought
againet this man. How contemptible and
puerile they seem nben contrasted with
the grand, practical results of his ad
ministration. Here they are. Let hon
est men contrast them with tbe charges
and insinuations against the Governor,
and then decide whether ho should
be blam'd or honored. These aro tho
results of Governor Colquitt’s adminis
tration :
1. The Seating debt of $350,000 has
been entirely extinguished.
2. The rate of taxation has baen re
duced one-third.
3. Over $200,000 has been collected
r jm old claims and put into tho treas
ury.
4. The credit of the Siito has so im
proved that tbe New York banks offer
ber money at Are per cent, whbre she has
been paying six or seven—her four per
cent, bonds go off readily at par, where
she was formerly forced to issue sevens
and eights. Her credit iB incomparably
better than that of any other Southern
State.
5. The expenses of all the Slate insti-
tions are diminished. On the lunatio
aejlam alone $20,000 per annum has been
saved, and on tbis saving the State
will enlarge the nsylum.
8. Tho expenditures in every fond, the
contingent, the pufclio printing, the pnb
lio building, were diminished before the
late convention met, until they wero le-s
than ever known before.
7- Profound peace and good order rcles
througnout tha State. The people are
prosperous and contented.
These are the aotnal works of the ad-
miniatrition.
Ills Occupation Gone.
Had the Arkansas "dootor” that "tapped”
the fat man, thinking he bad drop;y, bnt
finding no water pronounced it "dry dropsy,”
lived to-day, he wou d, like .Othello, find
“bis cccupalion goat," for AlUn’a Atli-Fit,
a purely vegetable remedy, safely, butpoti-
tively, reduces corpulency from throe to six
pounds per week. Bold ty druggists.
Christine Nillson.—A Londin corres
pondent of tho Now York Tribune, who
interviewed Christine Nillson at the close
of her recent triumph In Lcndon, reports
her as tondering her love to America and
regrets that she can’t come over till next
year. The great songstress went into a
burst of enthusiasm over this country
and styled it “the greatest and moat
beautiful country in the world.” Accord
ing to him Nillson filled the great Albert
Hall in London with ease—a feat which
has never, been accomplished by any
singer before. She ia now proceeding to
fill an engagement in Madrid.
Costs no more than a weigh beam and
beam, and aBswt-is for bolb; a $50 Five
Ton Wagon 8cale, freight paid. Adc rese
Jones of Binghamton, Binghamton,New
York.
A Lut Talk.
—‘How may ‘airivals’ to-day and n’gh ?’
asked onr reporter of a night olerk at one of
oar leading hotels, ‘Ntryad—d out! Yon
thoald ask how many ‘lefts’ there are.’
Ocme out in tbe garden and talk with me
While tbe dancers whirl to that dreamy
tune,
See! the moonlight silvers the sleeping tea,
And tbe world ia as fair as Knight in Jane.
Let mo hold yonr bar d as I used to do;
This is tbe last, last t me you know,
For to-morrow • wooer oomes to woo
And to win yon, though I love you so.
You are pale—or is it the moonlight’* gleam
Tha* gives to your foes that sorrowful look?
Wo must wake at last from our summer
dream—
Wo tv>Te come to tho end of our tender
book.
Love, mo poet, has written well;
He baa won our hearts by hie poem sweet;
And now at tho end we must say forewe'l—
Ah 1 but the summer was fair and fleet.
Do you remember the n’ght we met?
You wore a roce in yonr golden hair,
Closing my eyes I can see you yet,
Jns: as you stood on th; topmost stairs.
A flatter of white from bead to feet,
A cl aster of bads on you. breast. Ah, mil
Bat tbe vision was never half so sweet
As it is to-night in my memory.
Hear the viols ciy, and the deep bxesosn
Seems eonbiug out in its nnderto e
Some sorrowful memory The tune
Is the saddest one I have ev r known.
Or '8 it bucauob we must part ro-night
That the mudo mm bs sad? Ah, mel
You ore weeping, love, and your Jips are
white,
Tho ways of life are a mystery.
I l*ve you, love, with a love bj tine
Thu m cumicg yean I shall nor forget
The beautiful (acs a d the die m 1 knew,
And mem’iy always will hold r.gret.
Ielioil standby tre eod os we stand to-nLht.
And thick of the summer tthoee blossoms
(Ltd
When tbe frosts of fate fell chill and white 0 ' 1 ^ mns °F Viu'eyui
On the fairest flsircr of the.ummer-tide thnr. ^.?3f?H? n -? t0ao * 9 l °*he.
They aro colling you. Mna. 1 let you go ?
Moot X say good-bye, and go my way ?
If we u.uat port, it is better ro—
Good-bye ’nucha sorrowfol word to say!
Give me. my dir.ijg one last sweet kiss —
to we kiss our dear ones, and sea them
diet
But death holds no part Dg so ead as this:
God bless you and keep yoi—and so, good
bye.
ZIotv Women Wonld Vote.
Were tbe question admi ted to the bal
lot, and tae women were allowed to vote,
every woman in the land who has need
Dr. Pierce’e Favorite Prescription would
vote it to be en unfailing remedy for all
the diseases peculiar to her sex. Dr.
Pierce has received hundreds of gratetul
testimonials 10 its curative p.-uver.
Iowa City, Iowa, March 4, 1878.
Dr It. V Pierce Buffalo, N. T.—Dias
Slit: For many mouton 1 was a great suf
ferer. Poynici.es c.>uld afford me no re
lief. In my despair I commenced tbe
use of your Favorite Prescription. It
speedily effected my entire and permanent
euro. Yours tnankfally,
Mb-. Paul B. Bax-ram.
Jim Will stay at Home,
Boston Herald. |
Blaine will not go to Chi 1 to make spoe:k»
es for Footer. He has written to Washing
ton to intimate that Maine is quite as much
as ho feels able to t-ke cor<- of this year.
itonga ou itadieal Orators.
Dstrrit Fr o Preai ]
When Sherman refers to ihe immenre csb
t n crop raised y tbe Suuth ia Xc78, bo
cits the gromd from under the feet of the
Bepublicaao. stars wnopoclaim morevig
oroasly than etequentiy, that tbe principal
occupation of .he uontn consists in ** raising
h—L”
Kt> Longer King.
Washington Scar.]
A computation made at the bureau cf s'.a-
tietio< for tbe eleven months ended Ms; 80,
1879, discloses tho fast that for tho fiiet
time in the history of the country, tbe tx-
partation cf bieadsivifj has exceeded in
value that of cotton and t bacco, tbe two
staples of iha 8 nth eombinud.
II;S Desv Disgust
Boston Ho:aid ]
lucre ain’t no demand for fancy drinks
no more,” said the barkeeper of a New York
fashion.ble saloon, with a tone of disgust,
" and there won’t be nobody benind bars bnt
bear* Jetken, if this kina ol thing goes on
Why, I ain’t made a mint julep or a milk
punch to-day, and only tinea or four claret
punches. Even temona .eB ain’t much of a
go. Everyb.dy goes for baer. Five years
ego a beer keg hadn’t no place bihind tbis
bar. and, on a d.y tike ibis, thire'd be fonr
or five 01 us a tearing mixed oriaks for 15 to
25 cents a glass Now it’s all beer, and they'd
mob ns ir wj chanted more’n 5 cents. O,
there ain’t much mote call for a skilled bar
tender.’’
Ihe Champion L'ead-IIe&d
Advertiser.
Washington Star.)
It is new definitely announced by the Lon
don correepo 'dsntof the N-w York Tribune,
who appears to be one cf ber literary agents,
that kiue Btnbsnlt is to c;ma to America
in Septem er, 18SJ. We ora so.ry she isn’t
coming sooner. Tbeamountoff.ee adver
bs ng ehe will b9 able to get in those thir
teen lot g months wi 1 be simply appalling
As a dead-bead advertiser Bernhardt can
giva Clara - orris eixiy points in a game of a
hundred and beat he.*. To bo sure, tbs
hasn’t any husband to make her miserable,
and never ha 1 Bat ebe has all the other
trials ns.-.rily eDjoytd by French women of
great genius iacladmg four stoat, health,
children, that m gut bs worked up as items
of Lvjiy interest in on emergency.
A C hurch In Fawn.
N. Y. Herald.)
Wesleyan Methodism took root in a New
ark, N. J.. Just abont the close of the Revo
lutionary War. Robert Olond bad charge of
tbe First Methodist Mission then—in 1788.
In 18CG tha first Methodist church was built—
Wesley (jhapel, on Halsey street. In 1SS1
the chunsu had grown so that a second place
of worship bad to be provided. There was
built the Franklin street Methodist Church,
(hough it was not dedicated until 1836. It
is now, together witb ihe parsomgi belong'
ing to it, in U10 hands of tne Sheriff, and is
advertised to be sold on the foreclosure of a
mortgage on tba 20ihof August. Tbe mort
gage is held by tbe Newark Savings Institu
tion, tbe total .mount, including interest,
being about $:6,0e0 Tbe church people
exoress hope that before the day of sale a
settlement will bo obtained.
The Hind ofisun "Billy” ITants
Courier-Journal.)
Mr. W. E. Chandler, duritg a converts.-
tionat Omaha ths o her day, said: “I do
say that, with a negative man, or a man
whom tbe party and pablio sentiment have
got to cdacate up to doing his duty—with
such a man as a candidate, I should not o pal "part "of the sicknets iflonCl»7 *£|
care to repeat tho efforts made in the cam- wAniti -trAsta. in tbe southern part ollM
paign of 1876, etpeciaily those made after
Mr. Hayes was seated. However, if, as I
expect, the Republicans ucmicate a strong
party man, whoee abilities are equal to the
task before him, I tball lend every effort in
my power to secure ths success of tbe tick
et.” It is 6Ti .en*. that “BUly" thinks that
he hod to engage in a little too much steal
ing and generally disreputable woik for
H.yes who has disappointed him. He wants
a man “whose abilities are equal (0 tho toek
before h'mthat is, equal to the perpetra
tion of any amount or fraud.
Iu a nursery wherein ail is life and
laugh instead cf fretting and crying,
there is suro to bs found Dr. Bull’s Baby
Syrup. Prioe 25 cents a bottle.
Lltite Johnny’s Story of Old
Duller. -
Son Francisco Argonaut)
And now for a story- about olo G.fT-r
Peters.
One day Jack Brily, wich fa tbe nicked
ctiler, swears and everything, ba was gom
by old Gaffres house, and be fouu him d'igin
a well, and a boy waa pulin up the repks in
a bucket with a wrnlass. Bo Jack be gi? tbe
boy 2 bits, and sed: “ You go and git sum
candy, and He pull up for you til. you git
back, and the boy done it Then J.*.ck ue
pats bis ball dog in the backet, ,'nd ie* it
down, and the dog it jump out in the wel
. . -
Spring, correspondent of tba^ii h ^®
Dispatch writes that paper that Mr n
o<m obliging oleik, effers to ehmL a *i Bl ‘o,
Pnnoe N.poleon’a demise T hl ? a9lC80 f
lived on subsidies sent from , ehi <flr
which (he tx Empress basco i?/* 6 ? u,6t -
oo^tmuing for the bra tfit 5£«£of
of X te m u/ t
dared Eads to be piid theT^ mfcrit or-
000 p-ov.ded by tee law. M * 5jU ."
tee channel, there will be if™* S***®!
amounts coming to hm hearrittr ^ Uoa * 1
—A ruga number or Jswiah
according to the Hebrew
reoeived at Ooetle Garden. { ^“! ub ’ e a
were mechanics, and ev c rv nn°* 1 mea
money (o begin life with £re R UlUs
going West and a small Mr?; «V?\J er »
for the facifio coatt tEmIii" e , e , boan 4
being removed from the C6(lia
tee Kas.ian Governmcn* Pptottm eWl Jcf
But hold on a litre Wa b B,>
yet. Memphis is not de“d Bh« w
rise from ail her calimitiee it 6, Jet
nL“ XC Ifui t0 fM8 SE“«it»We withctiS
1116 ’nS "l&g
“*OwWBbaa Ohio keen
Wlty f-r use tnha office,
body begins to tolls htma £S
story, ha aaya, Jaat talk it into tt,a instil
meat, and I’ll listen to it by and by.’
—A party of Baptict c’.eigvmen. s»vs fi.
off ^“tea’s Yiubjutf
the other day. A qatstion aro a a &s to ihe,
Wecimen woareohy »blus
fish. We call on Baptists ’said a natiw
fisherman Ths Baptidt ciernman rathw
esgerly asked why. ‘Cose they sp.le vo tom
aiter they re taken out of tee water.’
tho city never.
Suhilsby Discipline fobHizbo Stcbers
—A dispaten ' from W.aning on s»«. ‘ai
ths Cabinet meeting Tuesday tee in-'e-t
of hiziDg at West Point and Aunapunawli
discussed, and it was determined .huths
iniquitous praotice should be era bed ont it
boih piaoes No plan was agreed upon. fio»l
aotion being deferred until the m.etitg on
Friday n< xc. Among t ie plans that eeoj,ei
to and most favor with themembeis present
was one presented by ihe ee jetory of sru
to rednoe all hazera to tbe lowest ranks la
tno academy. It is quite likely this plan mil
be adopted. It la safe to »*y that winterer
plan Is adopted wiU be rig diy entoroea ’
—A great sensation has been caused in
Sheffield, England, by the annoan«m“nl
that a firm ol cutlers ia. the town, tbe chief
portion of whose tr&d* is m America, an
about to abandon their work in butffield asj
commence operations in tee Uui:eu eitttei.
The statement is teat they are punning tkj
step simply to eecape tee p'ch.buoiy due
levied upon English goods. Abuut oaehm-
dred ohtffirid workmen are, it is aide!, n>
moving with teem, and s much larger nui.
ber of Germans has oho been engaged, i'j
names are, however, yet given.
—There ain’t no demand for fancy drink
no more,’ said the barkeeper of a hew York
fashionable ealcon, with a tone of diigun,
•and there won’t be nobody behind bar. tel
beer-jark-ra if this kind of thing goem
Why. X ain't m.de a mint jutip or a nit
punch to day, and only three or four elm:
punches. Even lemonadts ain’t much cl»
go. Everybody goes lor beer Five yen
.go a beer keg hadn't noplace behind ttii
bar. and, on a day 1-ka this, there’d be foy
or five of us a tossing mixed diinke for A',
teen to twenty five cents a p’a»* No? la
all bear, and they’d mob ns if wc cuugtl
more’n five crats. O, there ain’t mnehan
oail for a skiikd bartender.’
—‘American Uaio i Telegraph Ccmpaay’ii
reported to be going ah, a<l in a way that
mu.ne basinets. Work on the line is alrea
dy completed fiom New iork at? to fciouta
ge, and is being rapidly pressed foiwardta
Uanoda, by way of bt Albans. Tbe oo tract
for the latter portion cf (be work was sn
ooted on Friday last, and the lines to Met-
treaiaretobacomp.eied within sixty days.
The company has obtained a lease of tbs
Dominion UompxDy’s tines, which ore no?
spre.d like a net-work all oterthe Brithh
p OscctaiODs In tbe direction of Philadel
phia and Washington tbs line will be c:n-, I
pibted inside cf a month. The oompary, 6
ia said, propose to sent messages a. stout
25 per cent less than the present rates.
Tee Floeida Incuts —Lieuicn.ai.ta Fnu
and Browne, who went down to ees and re
port upjn the condition at the Indians in
South Florida, have returned They found
the Indians friendly, very wtllcff end con
tented. They do not like "white man’s waji,’
however, and declare that they wJl tivoasd
die fo lowing the Indian enroma of that
fathers, and tee o’.drr chitfs even opjxw
the ' conger Indians learning Ecplitb It is
probable that no new po.iay will be adopted
bv Hie Government until the old chiefs ltd
warrior* who were in tho Indian wars are
gone, wheD, it is thought, the yo:nger mea
will be more manageable ana moo wiJio;
to advanoa. It is estimated mat .ta Indiana
in that seotion number bat throe hundred
men all told.
Ten Teocs.nd Miles Fbou Her*-A
Washington Spatial to tbe Cucmnafi Ac
quirer says, amoDg tbs witnesses wbower?
brought here from China to testily before
the congressional Comaitlee ItTcttiA'ing
tee charges against Minister LuW-rJ. tier:
B. 1; Lewis and J. J. Ctffoy. Ccmu'iirclerki
at Shanghai. A’ter the investigation closed
they were ordered by the rilate Department
to return to China and resume thdr duties,
out the ways of this Administration andol
alt connected with it at to-**-- and abroad
are peculiar. The State Department's cider
amounted to nothing. Upon their arrival »t
S-auguoi Ibete young men were infemw
by Gonial General Bailey teat their eemcei
were no longer reauireu at that ComnUta
They have thus, by obeymgan order cfll*
department which ha* been disregarded I?
tbe Ocniul General, found themselves, u
ona cf teem writes, ‘10,009 miles away from
home with nothing to do and no fanda*
A Huge Gbizzly Bsvu.-Tho Amwor(Cil)
Ledger, says Charley Ginoccbio, ia retcror;
from Silver Lose, cams upon a huge ten
near Corral Flat Tho animal, when first
seen, was lying in tl.e road bsekirgisttj
sun G.noooh'o was driving a team, pi
fearing tbs horses would take fright If they
caught sight of the bear, be tu'oed tbeu
heads towaid Silver Lake, anddrovu back*
considerable distance from th3 point of din
ger. He then unhitched and mounted or:
horse and rode toward the gtixhly, tsdCf
shouts and gesturos ecdervortd toM*[J
b uia from tho path. 'Th- monster merd/
raised himself on bis le^s and roared K*
two hoars Gluocchio, who was alone oto
without weap-CFa cf any bird rss ertamra
by this living' obstacle. Ac last ths grCT
moved Ieisnrely down the fciil i T ’to tbs m ° L f'
and Ginoccbio drove ei> Ona borME"
they approached tee epot, scented toe brav,
and became almost notaaraveawa w*
miles further on bear tracks were SK** 3 **,
with, and the tetm again evinc-d
of fear.
What Msarmi js Sax of theRvO"
The St. Louis iiepublicau says ih»f
Bayou Gayoso ucj hotly abased. Toe pwj
o pal part of the sicknets ia on Q»7
South streets. In the southtm put pJJ
city, more than half a mile frou l^r-r^p
oeo The bayou drains a large eitew
ountry and readies miles ab vo tne
and consequently whenever there fa ara^
ia thoroughly waste t out, Bw i5
tog through in a huso tomtit. 0#"*T
sides of the bsytu, within the
there are many huts and have's, ij,
people Jive, without much regard «e «v f
cess, but not a single one ef yriw* t
had occurred mj where tlsi no—
Tba water-works supply bat a a mail [W
of the oily, and the rest of the WJ ‘j s
taiued fiom cisterns, which ore ees ■
twenty to thirty feet deep ing*
with Gaffer, W Itii hou Xsd wild, and tee deg saw that it read, ‘Mias. J. Bbik, ““ij-ia
too. Then Jack he cot ole Gtft'er.es cat aua ebe called out, ‘You h.(e go; ?e <?v■» * s
pitch that down, too, and the dog tackled **— —■* — r ’ — * — 1 "
the cat batwtoa Goffersee legs, —i the cat
run it up Gaffer tike ho was a tree, r.^d all
yellin’toko Id j ens, there wiseut never su:h replied
a file 1 Aftar a while Jack he lei the bhiket handt?' ‘las. eir
(town and hauled ole Gaffer up with the yoaloit ihe’ ton.-
violas, lookin m ty beat ani his cloo to.e think that aw
bad. Fere Gaffer cud get hia breth Jack ever oud not loi: ;h
atd: “ Tell yen wot, Gr.ff.-r, if 1 had set means a m-.: .
c mo along juie had a pretty rcu^;. urn - of m.-ace a woman who
i; I gen, cob that boja gone for a other e\*.’ and is 5onug enor.yli
Tusn G»ff ir he bslpel Jock gis <be dog *ud only je-.tetet-y
out wich hfd kud tha cat, and Jcck and !h
There is roam enough in a comer of eve y — - - - . .
traveler’s writing detk to carry the toursto d:g they went sway, aed wen tneboj c;tae i
friend—Dr Bull’s B.ltij.ore Pills. Price 25 jin Bile Gaffer he met turn morn_ h ..et w -y
bscemo leaky, i> j tnero Is no
tic sewtre. Privy v«uU. arc Me tr---
-he same strnner asefatern*. - 'i 1 ,1,, ty
become leaky. Many 'hick thuri* ^
aiping of the privy couioms lino
that is engendering tec fever by P-‘"J c! d
the water. It is sui to have btenK ^
that no one has token ihe fcV« 0J»
that used hydrant water exrias.vej. ;3
are a number Of private « rwets 'o reii ^
where there ate no citterns, an. »*’ ,,i
residences the toaatei have this i»*
ma unity from th e lover. ^
—A woman who cpenr 'i 8 ' nll! ' r '^? 1 n (X*
in tho western part of ili“ city. j^i
change, engage! a printer 10 V s * : . ta yi
tVken it came h. o “ J «rJ
Mtm. i.
the
sign.
Mrs, ODd you EUit piiat tn? '’““toTtl?
again.’ The eaw thOOHUy Jan
did not want ths job cf cOtrec nEjwJjJjj,
Madam. t«vc “
- ycr, aid
JeacaUr?.?**
,r 13 .’ A nd tIO .
■ cn a:rj! r; K
ir. till-•
- »..tow-
mat
tf
aw.
,v. . 5 married »8 ^
r.ch ch' coon
* cents
and licked him till h : wjb eick a bei.
onr chop, and said if he tovl
wo: e bear! free bo'd ccme up
o 11 an nail u^ibe tign,’ the in-®’
n I it is there to d y.
any id®*
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