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Volume LY—NO 7
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New York, February 8.—The Super
intendent of Police say positively thene is
no truth in the rumor that a clue has been
discovered in the Charlie Ross case.
M.vucu Chunk, Pa.., Febuary S—Par
nell ami Dillon arrived here to-day, and
addressed a large and enthusiastic meet
ing to-night.
Troy, February 8.—Ex-Mayor Francis
X. Mann, Sr., died here this morning.
* The Catholic Churches here to-day con
tributed $3,244 to the relief of the distress
in Ireland.
Utica, X. Y., February 8.—Collections
in churches for people of Ireland amoun
ted to $1,000.
Lowell, Massachusetts, February
8.—The Irish Land League formed a
permanent organization here this after
noon. A committee of ten were appoin
ted to arrange with the Mayor to hold an
early public meeting for the purpose af
raising money for the distressed iu Ire
laud.
Knoxville, Texx., February 8.—On
Friday night three burglars entered the
bank here and bound the president, E. C.
Rankle, who sleeps in the building, and
after gagging, beating and bruising bis
feet iu a shocking manner to compel him
to give up the combination, departed, tak
ing $3,200 which bad not been locked np.
There was a time lock on the safe, and
Mr. Rankle was uiiableto give the combi
nation. Great excitement prevails. There
is no clue to the robbers.
New York, February 9.—The steam
ship Niagara arrived from Havana yester
day and reports that on the sixth, she fell
iu'with the German bark Christopher Co
lumbus in a sinking condition. The Cap
tain and crew were taken off with diffi
culty, a high sea running, and after on* of
the life boats had been stove to pieces.
The Christopher Columbus was bound
from Doboy for Marseilles and encountered
a heavy gale on the second day out, during
which she sprung a leak.
New York, February 9.—A Green-
Long Island, special says that the
yacht Coming, of the Atlantic Yacht
Club, supposed to have foundered in the
Sound in the gale of Monday night, is
reported moored off Peconic Cove. The
. Milclieu Case saw the yacht drifting off
the shore and brought it in. The cap
tain's watch was found on the floor of the
cabin stopped at 1:20.
The brig Guisborough that afterwards
stranded on Eaton’s Keck, while being
towed here by the tug Alert, together
with the Coining, had her hawsers parted
in the night, and neither of them could
be found in the morning. All hands are
believed to have perished. Three persons
were on the yacht and five on the brig.
London, February 9.—A Candahar
dispatch says reports have been received
of a second and more bloody struggle be
tween the rival parties at Herat. The
local troops attacked Cabul’s troops sta
tioned there and inflicted a heavy loss be
fore Cabul’s could bring their artillery to
bear on tlieir assailants. When this was
done the llerats were defeated with great
slaughter.
A Paris dispatch states there is serious
probability of Admiral Janquibbery re
signing from the ministry of the marine in
consequence of the budget committee’s de
cision to postpone the vote of 800,000
francs for colonial defenses until the
proper data forthcoming. It is said M.
Lepere, minister of the interior, will also
resign.
New Castle, February 9.—The match
race between the scullers William Elliott,
of Blythe, and Robert W. Boyd, of Mid-
dleborougli, for two hundred pounds a
side, came off’ here to-day over the Tyne
Championship course, and was won easily
liy the latter lburTengtlisfahead of Elliott.
Betting before the race, was five to four
on Boyd. ,
Dublin, February 9. — The theatre
Royal is burning. It is feared it will be
completely destroyed.
London, February 9.—Very Rev. Hen
ry llamilson, dean of Salisbury, is dead.
New York, February 9.—A special
from Los Vegas, New Mexico, states that
the cow boys, Jimmie West, John Dorsey
and Tom Henry, implicated in the shoot
ing of city marshal Carson at a dance two
weeks ago, were taken from their cells by
a mob of seventy-five men who hanged
We t and riddled the others with bullets.
Washington, February 9.—-In the Sen
ate the Vice-President laid before the Sen
ate the resolutions of the Louisiana Leg
islature declaring that William Pitt Kel
logg was not legally elected Senator from
that State, and that Henry M. Spofford
was legally so elected, protesting against
injustice done the people of Louisiana by
the recognition of Kellogg as Senator and
requesting that Spoffortl be admitted to
the seat now occupied by Kellogg. Prin
ted and referred to tlie Committee on
Privileges and Elections. '
Washington, February 9.—The House,
under tlie call of the States, referred tlie
following bills: .
liy Mr. Rice of Massachusetts, to estab
lish a board of commission on inter-State
commerce; by Mr. Ketchnm of Kew York,
to quiet titles to land patented by the
United States; b; Mr. Kelly of Pennsyl
vania, providing that the term of of
fice of chief supervisor of elections be for
two years; also for the issue of additional
con{H>ns to holders of redeemable United
States bonds; by Mr. Ward of Pennsylva
nia, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
to designate a United States'vessel to
carry contributions to Ireland free of
charge.
By Mr. Vance, of Korth Carolina,
amending the statues concerning the de
facement of United States coins.
By Mr. Kitchen, of Kew Jereey, to re
move the duty on iron and steel.
By Mr. Speer, of Georgia, to prevent
general legislation on appropriation bills.
It provides that after the passage of this
act, there shall be no clause in any appro
priation hill changing the existing law,ex
cept provisions reducing the amount of
expenditures already provided for by
law.
The President sent the following nomi
nations to the Senate: Edmund E. White,
Virginia, to be United States. Consul at
Ponce, Porto Rico; Charles E. Dailey,
Vitginia, Receiver of moneys at Florence,
Arizona; Assistant Paymaster, Reali Fro-
zer, of tlie United States navy, to be
passed Assistant Paymaster,
Washington, February 9.—After the
presentation of anumber of petitions, Mr.
Thurman, from tlie Judiciary Committee,
reported a joint resolution authorizing the
President to veto parts of appropriation
hills. Placed on the calendar.
Mr. Logan, from the Committe one
military affairs, presented the minority re
port on the bill for the relief of Fitz John
Potter. Laid on the table.
The hill to revive and continue the
court of commissioners of the Alabama
claims, was then taken np. Mr. Davis, of
Illinois, made a long speech in favor of
the distribution of thet part of the Geneva
award which remains in the possession of
our government, and insisted that the un
derwriters who paid insurance on cap
tured and destroyed vessels are as much
entitled, to reimbursement as the owners
of the vessels not insured.
Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Blaine expressed
the hope that tlie Senate would examine
the subject very carefully befere reversing
.he former action of Congress in exdud
insurers’ claims,
Messrs. Thurman
The debate to-day was only preliminary.
All the Senators who spoke announced
to speak again at length when the bill
should come np again for final action.
After a short executive session the Sen
ate adjourned.
In the House, bills were introduced as
follows: '*
By Mr Young, of Ohio—To create _
department of manufacturers, mechanics
and mines.
By Mr. Evans, of South Carolina—Ap
propriating $20,000 for a bronze statue of
General David Morgan, to be presented to
the State of South Carolina and erected
in anticipation of the celebration of the
battle of Cowpens at Spartanburg.
By Mr. Hammond, of Georgia—For the
relief of the State of Gootgia.
By Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky—To
appropriate certain unclaimed bounty
money to the education of the colored
youth.
By Mr. Sapp, of Iowa—To transfer to
the States title to all ^islands, beds )of un-
navigable lakes, etc., which were mean
dered at the time of the public land sur
veys.
By Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana—Allowing
the use of the Batou Rouge arsena l
grounds to the^Lonisiana University.
By Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, to regulate
the mode of purchasing tobacco forthe use
of the army.
By Mr. Buckner, of Missouri, to reduce
the import duty on paper.
By Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, from the
committee on public lands, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass a bill for the ac
quirement of titles to lots in the Hot
Springs reservation, Arkansas. Owing to
numerous objections, the motion was mod
ified so as to provide only for the consid
eration of the bill, and was then agreed
to. Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, gave the his
tory of the whole subject, and advocated
tlie passage of the bill.
The Senate in executive session to-day,
confirmed the nominations of the follow
ing: Postmasters, William B. ‘Green,
Huntsville, Alabama; Miss Lee H. Ran
dolph, Oxford, Mississippi; R. W. Fitz-
hugli; Natchez, Mississippi.
Washington, February 9.—Before the
Senate Exodus Committee to-day, L. H.
Lowry, colored Republican, formerly
commissoner of Lanocir couhty, Korth
Carolina,, testified that the sole cause of
the exodus from that county was the agi
tation originated by the man Perry, who
told the negroes they would get transpor
tation to Indiana and employment there
at one dollar to one dollar aud fifty cents
per day. There was no ill treatment of
negroes by whites in Korth Carolina.
Farm laborers there get from eight to ten
dollars per month with cabins, firewood
and subsistance thrown in. Skilled labor
ers like blacksmiths and carpenters get
from oue to two dollars per day. Negroes
and white meclianics work together. He
had by his labor acquired several houses
since the war. Some of his tenants being
white. He thought Perry’s object in in
citing the exodus was purely-mercenary.
L. H. Fisher, formerly a slave, now dis
trict school commissioner and owner of a
farm and city lots at Minston, Korth Car
olina, corroborated others statements as
to the good material and political condi
tion of the Korth Carolina negroes.
Washington, February 9.—In the
Senate executive session to-day the Cen
sus Committee reported back another in
stallment of supervisors nominations, in
cluding a number from Southern States,
adversely. The case of Simmons of
Georgia, has not yet been reported.
Dublin, February 9.3:30 p. m.—The
Theatre Royal is completely destroyed.
The fire is still burning,and buildings ad
joining are threatened with destruction. A
niblic Inspector and one woman were in
ured. The military are keeping order-
and-assisting the fire department.
Washington, February 9.—The bill
Introduced by Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, in
the House to-day to regulate purchases of
tobacco for tlie army, provides that all
tobicco for the use of tlie army shall be
purchased in Washington; that the Secre
tary of War shall advertise for thirty days
iu a daily newspaper in Kew York, Bal
timore, Richmond, Lynchburg, Pittsburgh, j
St. Louis, Louisville and Chicago forbids
for tobacco, to be accompanied by sam
ples of the; quality and kind proposed to
ie f imishetl; that two experts, selected
by the Secretary and the Commissary
General, shall decide upon the bids to be
accepted; and all tobacco so accepted
must be manufactured daring the months
of June, July, August and SeDtember.
Richmond; February 9.—Considerable
excitement was created at the capitol to
day. during tlie session of tlie general as
sembly, by a personal encounter in tlie
rotunda between C. IV. Archer, one of the
reporters of the Richmond State, and
James A. Frazier, a memberof the House
of Delegates from Rockbridge county.
The difficulty grew out of a letter written
by Frazier to the Rockbridge Enterprise,
charging the Richmond State with gross
misrepresentations of the proceedings of
the House.
Mr. Chamberlain, delegate from Rich
mond, one of the proprietors of the State,
called attention to Mr. Frazier’s letter
and denounced it as false, malicious and
slanderous.
Mr. Frazer in reply disclaimed any in
tention of reflecting upon Captain Cham
berlain, and said he referred to the re
porter of the Slate. There the contro
versy ended. Subsequently Mr. Archer,
reporter of the State, called Mr. Frazer
out into the rotunda and after some
words, struck him, when a fight ensued.
Members of both Houses made a rush for
the scene. Business was suspended and
great disorder prevailed. A squad of po
lice was sent for and all the parties to the
fracas were finally arrested and bailed to
appear before the police court to-morrow.
Washington, February 9.—Tlie De
partment of Stale will be prepared on and
after February 11th, to distribute tlie
fourth instalment of the award made in
favor of American citizens by tlie Mexi
can Claims Commission.
The sub-committee of the House Judi
ciary Committee to-day heard tlie argu
ments of several gentlemen favoring tlie
enactment of a new bankrupt law, and
authorized Mr. Stlbson, representing the
Boston Mercantile Association, to prepare
a bill embodying the recommendation of
that body, which appear to meet the ap
probation of the Committee.
The bill introduced in the House to-day
by Representative nammond for the re
lief of the State of Georgia, directs the
Secretary of the Treasury to pay the
State of Georgia the proceeds of all cotton
taken from the possession of agents of the
United States. Tlie House Committee
on War claims to-day decided to report
adversely on Hurbridge & Co.’s claim of
$40,0000, for sugar, molasses and rum se
questered by General Butler at Kew
Orleans. „ _
Kew Yobk, February 9.—Rev. Ed
ward Cowley, late superintendent of the
“Shepherd’s Fold,” was placed on trial
to-day in the Court of Gen-sal Sessions
on one of the twenty-five Indictments
found against him by the grand jury for
starving, illtreating and abusing children
placed under liis care. The greater part
of the forenoon was taken up., unng
a ^London, February 9.—A dispatch to
the Times fromDbu lin says the past week
added but little to the evidences of the ex
treme distress. While it has largely aug
mented the resources of tlie relief com-
lieard'a month or two ago. There are
still deplorable accounts from some dis
tricts, but there is generally a m ne hope
ful spirit amo ig the people.
The extent to which the landowners
had availed themselves of the opportune
ty of obtaining loans upon easy terms is
sufficient proof that the supposed barrier
of red tape has not been thought insur
mountable. During the last • week the
number of new applications hap reached
200 and the amount supplied £111,000,
which, added to the previous amount of
£263,000, makes an aggregate of £376,000
since Kovember 22.
London, February 9—Tlie attacks
made by Charles S. Parnell in bis Amer
ican speech upon the Irish relief commis
sions Other than his own, are condemned
even by his most ardent admirers.
The Irishman strongly disapproves the
language used by Mr. Parnell with re
gard to the Mansion House fund.
Kew York, February 9.—The follow
ing relative to General Grant’s position
will appear editorially in to-morrow’s
Times: “A near personal and . political
friend of ex-President Grant authorizes
the following as a correct statement of
the General’s position with reference to
the presidency:
He says General Grant is not now nor
lias he ever been a candidate for the pres
idential nomination, but should the Re
publican national convention nominate
him in the same manner as any other
candidate would be nominated, he would
deem it Ills duty to the country and party
to accept. Traveling abroad, he was a
stranger to the contest now going on for
the Presidency, and has written no let
ters on the subject to any person, and as
sertions to the contrary are without foun
dation.”
Few are aware of the importance of
checking a Cough or common Cold in its
first stage. That which in the beginning
would yield to a mild remedy, if neglect
ed, soon preys upon the Lungs. Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup affords instant relief.
THE COX-ALSTON CASE.
The Supreme Court Renders a Decis
ion iu the Case of Ed. Cox, Convict
ed of Murder, and Sustains Judge
Hillyer’s Rulings on Every Point
Disputed, Etc.
Cox vs The State. Murder, from Fulton.
Bleckley, J. 1. Upon a showing for
a continuance of an indictment for mur
der, one mouth and a half after the occur
rence of the homicide, (the prisoner hav
ing been painfully wounded by the de
ceased in the rencontre) whether the ex
cited state of the public mind is such as
to prevent a fair and impartial trial, and
also whether tlie prisoner’s condition phy
sically and mentally lias been such as to
fit him forcommunicatingsufficiently with
liis counsel and otherwise preparing for his
defense, and whether it is such as to ena
ble him to undergo, with needful strength,
composure and vigilance, a trial for his
life, are questions addressed to the sound
discretion of the presiding judge; and
mere strictness in the exercise of the dis
cretion and iu overruling the showing,
not amounting to abuse, will furnish no
ground for a reviewing court to interfere.
2. Jury commissioners, in fact acting as
such and recognized by an order of court
filling a vacancy in tlie board, though not
naming its members, and also recognized
by adopting in practice the list which they
have prepared and filled are commission
ers de facto, if not tie jure; and that no or
der of tlieir appointment appears in the
minutes, will not, on a trial for felony, be
cause of challenge to the array put upon:
the prisoner. Nor is it Jcause for such;
challenge, that in selecting tales jurors, jj
th2 sheriff consulted the list and took
names therefrom in the alphabetical order
in which they stand on the list, confining
tlie selection first to names all beginning
with one and the same letter. There is
no statute putting on the sheriff any re
striction as to what he shall take for a
guide in fixing upon the particular persons
whom he will summons as tales jurors, so.
that tliey .be qualified to serve.
3. When a juror, after answering the
prescribed statutory questions so as to ap
pear primafacie competent, is put upon
tlie presiding judge for further trial of his
competency, the judge may decline to al
low any other questions to be propounded
to the juror, and may confine tlie investi
gation to evidence aliunde and its effects.
4. Though a witness may know that
there was some indistinctness in his hear
ing as to the words or tlie sense of a par
ticular statement, he may testify to its sub-,
stance as he understood it, and his doubt
as to whether he heard correctly will only
detract from the force and value of his tes
timony, not render it incompetent as in
ferential rather than immediate and di
rect. i
5. Stenographic notes of testimony taken
down at the coroner’s inquest, and after
wards written out in ordinary character,
may upon due proof that the writing is a
correct minute of what the witness testi
fied, he read to show contradictions be
tween that testimony and the testimony
detailed by the witness from the stand, he
being first examined on the alleged dis
crepancies; and liis attention called to the
same. An objection to the introduction
of the paper, or to the reading of its
contents, on the ground that “it was not
sufficiently shown that the said (witness)
had sworn before tbe coroner as appeared
from this written report of his evidence,
and that he could not he impeached by
such written report of his evidence,” will
not raise the question whether only cer
tain parts of the contents,' and not tlie
whole, should have been submitted to the
jury.
0. Where two persons consent to fight
with deadly weapons, and by agreement
separate to arm themselves, both intending
to return presently and begin tlie combat,
and they do in fact arm themselves and
meet, though nof at tbe place appointed,
bnt near it in the same city and on the
same street, and only a little later than
the time contemplated, and actually fight
with the weapons thus prepared, and ono
of them Is slain by the other, the res gestee
of the transaction comprehend all perti
nent acts and declarations of the parties
(either or both) which take place In the
interval between tlie agreement to fight
and the consummation of the homicide,
such interval being very brief.
7. Acts arc pertinent as a part of the res
gestee if they are done pending the hostile
enterprise, and if they bear upon it, are
performed whilst It is in continuous pro
gress to its catastrophe, and are of a na
ture to promote or obstruct, advance or re
tard it, or to evince essential motive or
purpose iu reference to it; and declara
tions are pertinent if they are uttered con
temporaneously with pertinent acts and
sen e to account for, qualify or explain
them, and are apparently natural and
spontaneous.
8. Generally, when part of a conversa
tion has been introduced in evidence, the
rest of it may be brought out by the oppo
site party on cross examination of the wit
ness. The prisoner having proved that
tlie deceased applied for the loan of a pis
tol, about twenty minutes before he was
killed, together with a part of what he
said at the time, the balance of what he
said at the the same time and place and
in the same conversation was within the
rule, and if not admissible on tlie princi-
mittees and provisions of the government | pie of res gestae, was admissible as the
tor meetinc the crisis, a beneficial effect remnant of a conversation opened up in
lor meeting i ‘ ti, a .lirort examination of tlie witness.
am. G ,rw n.«d. 31ajjj»• tfa’asSKrS “5fSSSS3£?SSSta
22 UlCiaj'Sl ^ ' press and’ tlie cessation af a cry of alanu'made trite tetflltte
were pending, and within twenty minutes
of the fatal collision, were so much in the
natnre of narrative, or mere recital as to
be of doubtful admissibility, or even inad
missible on the principle of res gestee, yet,
where the same declarations in substance
have been put in evidence as a part^f a
conversation into which the prisoner en
tered during tlie direct examination of hi*
own witness, (the balance of-sucU con
versation coming out' on the cross exami
nation), and where the prisoner has him
self proved substantially the same decla
rations on tbe part of the deceased by an
other of liis witnesses, or tbe State, with
out objection so far as applars, has proved
them by one of its witnesses, the subse
quent admission of evidence to the same
effect from another witness In bebalf of
the State is not necessarily cause for
new trial. If the jury already have be
fore them doubtful or objectionable mat
ter, and there is no motion to withdraw it,
the repetition of it by another witness,
though objected to, may be treated as
not sufficiently material to "require a new
trial. "•
10. When the evidence indicates that
the homicide was the sequel to a concerted
and pre-arranged scheme on "the jpart of
both combatants’to arm arid ineet for
mortal combat, tbe court may, as a start
ing point for further instructions, charge
tbe juty as to the legal consequences of
such a combat resulting in death, though
tlie evidence show that after the arming,
one of the parties ceased to intend and the
other ceased to expect, a meeting at
tlie place appointed, and though no meet
ing occurred at that place, and the scene
of the rencounter was, without any ex
press concert, shifted to another place in
the same neighborhood, t
11. In relation to whether there was
not a consent of both wills, or a - mental
concurrence between the parties, in meet-
ing where and when they did, though it
was a little later than they had contem
plated and at a different place from that
expressly agreed on, and consequently
whether the actual collision was not in
its nature the same as that which had
been prearranged, with no change except
in tlie scene and the precise time of * the
combat, the evidence admitted of tiro
constructions; and "for this reason also,
such a cliaigc as that mentioned in the
next preceding note was not inapplicable
to the case. Where two views are fairly
possible to be taken of the evidence, one
that notwitlistanding variations in time
and place from the original scheme, and
notwitlistanding an apparent abandon
ment of tbe scheme itself for a short inter
val, there was finally a return to it and an
execution of it in its main elements; and
the other, that the meeting, at the time it
took place, was designed by one of the
parties only, and the other did not desire
or intend it, it is allowable to submit to
the jury the law of each of these states of
fact. ,*
12. Tlie charge of the court, like all
other deliverances in human language, is
to be .construed together as one wliole,
and when one part of it plainly tempers
and modifies another, and the ultimate
sense and impression are correct, the true
standard of practical sufficiency is attain
ed. As long as jurors are sworn to render
true verdict according to evidence, it
cannot be errrorforthe court to instruct
them to do so; at the same time telling
them to give such force to the prisoner’s
statement as they think proper. The
statement may aid them in ascertaining
what the true significance of the evidence
is, but for tbe jury to render a verdict in-
conflict with the evidence because the
statement conflicts with it, wonld be to
lose sight of the terms of their oath. See
4S Ga., 163; 60 lb., 210.
13. The court committed no error in
denying a continuance, no eh-or, iu or
ganizing the jury, no material—if any at
all—in admitting evidence. Kor did it
commit any material error in charging tbe
jury. The charge as a whole was sound
in doctrine, clear and concise in statement,
fair in tone and spirit, both to the State
and the accused, applicable throughout to
the facts in evidence, and accommodated
to each and every theory of the prosecu
tion or the defense which the testimony
afforded any warrant for considering.
14. The verdict was justified by the law
dud the evidence, and was not contrary to
either. There was ho error in overruling
the motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
D. P. Hill & Son; Gartrell S Wright-;
Candler & Thompson; D. F. & W. R.
Hammond; R. S. Jeffries, W. R. Hodg
son ; J. A. Billups for plaintiff’ in error.
B. H. Hill, "Jr., Solicitor-General; nop-
kins & Glenn; Pat Calhoun; Duncan
Twiggs; Sam Hall; Hulsey & McAfee.; ;
Howard Van Epps, for tlie State.
Jackson, J., concurring, said: While,
as a circuit judge presiding in this case, I
might have ruled differently on the mo
tion for a continuance, yet I cannot say
that the court abused his discretion in the
ruling he made. He had the defendant
before him, and saw his condition; he
could judge of all the surroundings; he
heard the evidence pro and con; in the
light of all the facts he made his ruling,
and I cannot say that lie erred.
The meaning res gestee is the thing car
ried on. To show the thing carried on,
its beginning is as essential as its ending.
An enterprise is carried on by acts and
words. Indeed, whenever the internal op
erations of the mind are involved, words
become verbal acts, and are admissable
upon the same ground as acts. This thing,
this enterprise was begun in the barber
shop; it_was carried on all through the in
terval beiore tlie final meeting; it was car
ried on in that filial meeting; it was car
ried on in each shot that was fired; it was
carried on until Alston lay weltering in
his blood. Every act, every word from
the beginning to the end, which carried on
the thing, the enterprise, formed a part of
the res jestce. The intention of both par
ties was a leading question in the case.
The s ate of their minds was involved.
That state appeared by acts and by words
which took place while the difficulty was
jin progress; and the verbal acts of the
parties were admissible like their other
acts.
The entire charge is fair and legal—the
evidence sustains the verdict—and my
sense of duty demands that I affirm it. Most
gladly would I restore the living to free
dom and family—the dead to life and fam
ily, if I could; but these I cannot do.
It remains that I administer the law im
partially as I understand it, and that leads
me clearly to the conclusion that the de
fendant lias had a fair trial; that he has
been legally convicted, and that the judg
ment should stand.
was also entitled to defend his own case
in^ the Court, in person, by attorney, or
both. From the evidence in the record, it
is manifestly apparent that the_ defendant
was not in condition to exercise his con
stitutional right to defend his own case,
and by forcing him to trial in that condi
tion he was deprived of that right, for it
was his undoubted-constitutional right to
defend bis own case in person, by attorney
or both. The spirit of the constitution, as
well as the ends of justice, required a con-
tiniiAnre» inf tliA OMflirV . .
Wagner, C. J., dissenting: Whilst
public excitement alone would not have
been sufficient to authorize the continu
ance of the case, still, when that public
excitement is aggravated by inflammatory
newspaper publications calculated to pre
judice the public mind against the defen
dant, as set fourth iu the record, coupled
with the fact of the defendant’s physical
condition resulting from wounds received
in the then recent difficulty as established
by his attending physician,and not denied,
to wit, having received apis."ot shot wound
in his mouth, knocking out three upper
jaw teeth and four lower .jaw teeth, and
indenting one of his teeth in his tongue,
and had another pistol shot wound in liis
left hand and wrist; that his tongue was
so lacerated and swollen that the saliva
was constantly oozing from his mouth,
and in the opinion of the doctor he was
unable to confer with his counsel fully
and prepare his case for trial. By the con
stitution of the State the defendant wa3
entitled to a trial by an impartial jury, and
tinuance of the case.
In my judgment, the court erred in ad
mitting the declaration of Alston, the de
ceased, to Renfroe and Helms, as con
tained in the 6th and 7th grounds of the
motion for a new trial, in so far as the
same related to the acts and sayings of
the defendant in his absence, which are as
follows:
“ 6. Because the court erred in allow
ing J; W. Renfroe, a witness for the pros
ecution, in answer to questions by the
State, and over objections ol defendant’s
counsel .to testify to a conversation had
with the" deceased from five to ten min
utes before the difficulty ending in the
death of Alston commenced, and not in
the hearing of the defendant as follows
He (Alston) stated to me, ‘this is an awful
thing to have a man hounding you in this
way.’ * I asked him did you not met
Cox? ’ He said ‘no, he is gone up stairs
hunting me.’”
7. Because the court erred in admitting
in evidence, over the objection of defend
ant’s counsel, a conversation between J.
W. Kelms and the deceased, which oc
curred twenty minutes before the killin'*,
in a different part of the building and m
the’ absence of Cox, as follows: Alston
told roe he had like to have had a difficul
ty and wanted a pistol. I told hinf to
come and sit down and tell me about it.
I asked him who he was about to Lave a
difficulty-with, he said with Cox. Said
he, “Nelms, he carried me in to .take a
drink with him and I would not drink
with him and took this cigar, (he had a
cigar.’in hls.hatid,) and then, he-took me
into a hack room of a’ barber shop and
shut the door, and said, Bob, I want to'sec
that power of attorney you have to sell
Gordon’s interest, and I said I would not
show it under compulsion, and Cox said
I ani going to see it before you leave this
room. Aud that he (Alston) said, aint
you a nice great big rascal here with your
knife, when I have not got a piece of
steel on me, to try and force me to terms.
And he said go and arm yourself and I
will wait for you, and he said he is wait
ing for me now, and lie asked me' again
for.a pistol, and I said my pistol was at
home.”
The illegal part of Renfroc’s testimony
was in proving by Alston’s mere declara
tion “that the defendant had gone up
stairs hunting him.” The defendant had
a perfect right to go upstairs in the capi
tol building, and there is not a particle of
evidence in the record, either by word of
act, on the part of the defendant himself,
going to show that he had gone upstairs 1
hunting Alston, and surely he ought to 1
he judged by, and held responsible for,'
his own acts and declarations, and not byj
the acts and declarations of other people
made behind his back, the more especially
as in this case, Alston was not in the
capitol building when the defendant en
tered it, but was standing at Berron’s, in:
full view of the defendant as he passed
along the street going into the capitol
building, where it was said he was hunt
ing him. Is the law so unreasonable as
to make one man responsible for wliat an
other man may say he is doing, or going
to do r behind his back, when he has no’
opportunity to deny or contradict the
statement ? Such has not heretofore been,
my understanding of it. The hunting of.
the deceased by the defendant was a most"
damaging fact against him on his trial, ;
and how was that damaging fact-
proved? It was proved by tlie'
mure declaration of tbe de
ceased to Renfroe, behind his hack,'
when lie had no opportunity to deny
or contradict it. And the same re-
marks are applicaDle to the declarations!
made by the deceased to Nelms in regard:
to tlie acts and sayings of the defendant at;
tbe barber shop. But it is said this evi-i
deuce was admissible as res gestte. Wliatj
is res gestte as defined by the law of this*
State? Declarations accompanying an
act, or so nearly connected therewith in
time as to be free from all suspicion of
design or afterthought, are admissible in
evidence as part of tlie res gestte. Code,.
8773. The declarations of Alston when;
he applied to Kelms for his pistol would
be admissible iu his favor in explanation;
of that act, and perhaps his declarations 1
to Renfroe might be admissible in his fa-,
vor in explanation of his own acts and-
conduct at tlie . time as part of the res.
gestte, but liow Cox, tbe defendant, can;
be made responsible by Alston’s state-!
ments made-to Renfroe andNelms behind:
his hack, andbCiised in evidence to lnjU-i
riously affect the defendant-as part of any
res gestte accompanying any act of his, or
connected therewith when the declara
tions were made, is more than lean un
derstand. In my opinion, it was a total
misapplication of the doctrine of res gestte-
to admit tlie evidence complained of in'
the sixth and seventh grounds of the mo-i
tion as against the defendant.
The court charged the jury amongst
other things: “It wonld be unlawful foif
twp persons to deliberately conspire, oij
agree together to procure deadly weapons
and meet again to fight therewith, and if.
in the heat of blood, they do agree, it
would be the duty of both of them and
each of them to heed the voice of reason
and humanity, if there was an interval
sufficient for that voice to be heard, and
to reconsider the matter and decline sucli
hostile meeting, and’if one of them does
so reconsider and decline such meeting
and the same be communicated to the
other, it would be the duty of that other
to acquisce therein, and if that other re
fuse so to acquiesce and persist in an orig
inal hostile purpose, and if pursuant
thereto he, anned with a deaclly weapon,
seek his adversary with a deliberate in*
tention of bringing on such difficulty and
of using such weapon therein, nothwith-
standing the other’s refusal, and if he does
so bring on the contest, and in such diffi
culty he slay his opponent with that
weapon, it would be murder in such
slayer.”
This charge of the court was error in
view of the evidence in the record, inas
much as it did not present the defendant’s
theory of his defense for the consideration
of the jury. The evidence shows that the
agreement to meet and fight at the barber
shop had been abandoned. The deceased
had, however, procured one of the best
self cocking pistols in the city, and while
landing at Be .Ten's talking with Govern
or Colquitt, saw the defendant ge into the
capitol building, and said that he did not
know that he did know but that it was
his duty to his family, to take
a double barreled shot gun and
shoot him whenhe saw him; said he
hat’ istol then. Shortly thereafter, the
dec Iwent into the capitol building
wb»-, ne had just seen Cox, the defend
ant go, and went into the treasurer’s office,
where the difficulty occured—Alston fir
ing the first shot, having Kelms between
him and the defendant at the time. Al
though, the deceased had sent the defend
ant word that he would not meet and fight
him at tlie barber shop, whether he was
willing to meet and fight the defendant in
the treasurer’s office and was seeking him
for that purpose, where his friend Mur
phy,who had furnished him with the pistol
and his other friends were, depended upon
the acts, aud conduct of the deceased,
as disclosed by the evidence. The defen
dant’s theory "from this evidence was that,
although the deceased had declined t*
meet aud fight the defendant at tbe bar
ber shop, still lie was willing to meet and
fight him in tbe Treasurer’s office where
his friends were, and was seeking Cox
with a hostilo intent for that purpose; that
being a lawyer, as the evidence 6bows,
his declaration to Renfroe that this was
an awful thing to have a man hounding
you iu this' way; he is gone upstairs hunt
ing me, was made so as to justify himself
incase he should .meet Cox and should
kill him in the recouuter; that he was ap
parently seeking Cox by following him
into the capitol building, where lie had
just seen him go. Whether this theory
was true or not, the defendant was en
titled to have had it submitted to the
jury for their consideration under
the evidence " in the t case. The
deceased evidently was not endeavor
ing to avoid Cox when he followed
him into the same building he had just
seen him enter, instead of getting his din
ner as Governor Colquitt had advised him
to do. It is quite certain that if Alston
had not followed Cox into the capitol
building, into which he had just before
seen him enter, armed with his self-cock
ing pistol, the fatal difficulty in the Treas
urer’s office would not have occurred.
What was Alston’s intention in following
Cox into the capitol building just after lie
had seen him enter" it, might have: been
iuferred by the jury from. Governor Col
quitt’s evidence, under a proper charge of
the court in relation to the defendant’s
theory of the case. That evidence is that
Alston said a very short time before the
parties met in the Treasurer’s office, that
lie did not know but it was his duty to
his family to take a double-barreled
shot gim and shoot him' (Cox) when
he saw him. This declaration
the deceased clearly shows what was
the stats of his feelings towards the defend
ant at that time aud in a few minutes
thereafter. When he • did next see him
was in the capitol building, and in the
rencounter which took place there between
the parties, the deceased fired the first
shot. r This is, in substance, tbe evidence
in support of tlie theory of the defendant’s
defense, his side of tlie case, which be was
entitled to. have had submitted to the jury
in the charge of the court. The defend
ant may of may not he guilty, but wheth
er he is or is not, he was entitled to a fair,
impartial trial, as provided by the consti
tution and the laws of his country, and
not believing, according to my best judg
ment, that he has had such a trial, there
is no power on earth that can extort from
me, as a judicial officer, a. judgment af
firming his conviction.
Among the bills introduced- in the
House yesterday is one by Mr. Kitchen,
of New Jersey, to remove the
duty on iron and steel. Tbe duties re
cently imposed on foreign productions of
this character have been the cause of the
boom in iron, and their removal would
bring an immense amount of English and
Norway iron into tbe country. High prices
could not, under the unalterable law of
supply and demand, continue to rule, and
a depression in tbe market value would be
forced to follow. Under the recent rise
furnaces, which have been dormant'for
mauy years, are now in full operation.
The PresB on the Eelton-Simmons
Scandal
It is greatly to be deplored that such a
scalawag and ignoramus as Parson Sim
mons should be the means of disturbing
tbe harmony of the representatives from
Georgia inthe-National Legislature. Rear
what his neighbor, the editor of the North
Georgia Citizen, says:
Dr. Felton ought not to have said that
Simmons was one of the best men in the
district, for Dr. Felton is the only man we
know of, who knows Simmons, that would
have made such an assertion.
And again: “Mr. Simmons is said to
be a preacher. This is true, and so was
the betrayer of the Savior of man
kind. A good and true preacher
of the gospel is an honor to any
community in which ho lives. We
are not deposed to do Mr. Simmous in
justice, hut to those who are acquainted
with his social and Christian standing in
the community where he lives and has
lived, his special pleading in liis letter of
the 30tH ult., to the Atlanta Constitution
is not a matter of surprise. Ask the
members of a certain fraternity, both in
Whitfield and Gordion counties, if Mr.
Simmons is a member of their order.
They will promptly answer no; but don’t
ask them why, because they will not tell
yon.” ' ‘
JSjThat able and influential journal, the
Savannah News, also makes the following
deliverance: . . '
According to our Washington dispatch,
Messrs. Hill and Stephens are making
common cause with Rev. Mr. Felton in
his efforts to secure the confirmation of
Parson Simmons. ■ These genltlemen may
have satisfactory reasons moving them to
insist upon the confirmation of Parson
Simmons, an ignoramus and vilhfier of
Georgians, as supervisor of the census, but
surely a faithful representation of, or a
proper regard for the wishes and feelings
of flie people of Georgia are not among
those reasons. It may be that they, have
chosen this opportunity to test the strength
of the so-called Independent movement
in our State, but it looks very much as if
they were actuated more by personal hos
tility to Senator Gordon than by any es-r
pecial appreciation of the peculiar claims
or qualifications of Simmons, who: has
shown himself to be incapable of writing
or spelling English correctly, and whose
only claim on the appointing power is
that he made himself active in the last
Presidential election in distributing Hayes
tickets among the negro voters of his dis
trict, and desires the appointment mainly
as a “victory” over the “corrupt secession
traitors,” as he characterizes his Demo
cratic follow citizens.
Messrs. Felton, Hill and-Stepbens will
find that in antagonizing Senator Gordon
in such an issue they will gain no laurels,
while, by advocating the confirmation of
S'mmons, they virtually endorse his vile
slander of the best people of Georgia, and
thus demonstrate the true animus of so-
called Independentism in Geoigia.
Why does Dri-Felton, in all conscience
we ask, persist in foisting that individual
upon the countiy when he has actually of
fered to withdraw his application ? If the
Doctdr calls himself a Democrat, then a
plague say we upon all such Democracy.
Ho Red of Roses.
The third term aspirant, we venture
to say, despite his jnnketting with the
representatives of royalty in the “Ever-
faithful Isle,” and the exchange of tele
grams With AlphoHso himself, the king of
Spain, does not enjoy an hour of rest o’
nights. Something even worse than tar
antulas, vampires and cobras disturb his
repose. It is the tick, tick, tick of the tel
egraphic operator, as he samples the in
telligence by wire, and reports what the
people in the “States” are doing and say
ing concerning his 'nomination. Listen
to a few deliverances. The Baltimore
8unsays:
Sir. George W. Curtis, In the last num
ber of Harper's Weekly, continues to de
nounce this one-man rule in the Republi
can party. " He is. .quite as much opposed
to the nomination of General Grant for a
third term as he was to the nomination of
Mr. Cornell for Governor of Now York:
He cites the figiires'of the last Gubernato
rial ejection to show that if New York is
tbe “pivotal’ State in tlie Presidential
election, it is also a doubtful State, and
that no" one blit a Republican who tcan
unite the party and inspire it with enthu
siasm will be able .to carry it against a
harmonious Democracy. He is of
opinion tliat tlie divided sections "of tlie
New York Democracy will bo brought to
gether again before the meeting of .the
-State Convention, and that nothing prer
vents their reunion now but the hostility
of the Kelly'wingto Mr. Tilden.
The Philadelphia Telegraph (Republi-
can)'says: “ Itia no longer the strict party
men who carry elections, but the indepen
dent voter bolds the balance of power and
compels victory or- defeat. The Grant
movement is a direct challenge not only
to the independent voter, but to the Libe
ral Republican, the anti-third-term Repub
lican,'the Conservative Republican, and
to that vast army of German Amer
ican Republicans, whose bitter expe
riences at home make them suspicious of
a man whose greed of power knows no
limit, overthrows precedents, disregards
sacred traditions, and by liis ambition for
indefinite rule reminds them ol the rule
from which they have escaped.
“It is perfectly clear that General
Grant cannot be the next President of the
United States unless he be nominated,
and unless the people vote for him. He
possibly can be nominated; but by no
earthly possibility can he.be voted for by
enough Republicans to secure his election.
In every close State, in all States where
success demands the concentration of the
vote on the candidate,he will be ruthlessly
slaughtered by the Independents, the Lib
erals, the Conservatives, the aiiti-third-
termists, and the Germans.:: The States
of Ohio, Wisconsin and Kew York, with
their enormous German Republican pop
ulations, which we must carry or lose the
Presidency, cannot be carried, for General
Grant’.' • ; •
New York Sun: The, attempt to elect
Grant a third time will decide whether the
people are tired of their own government
—tired of governing themselves. If they
are, they will elect Grant. If they are
not they will reject him.
Concerning tlie Harrisburg convention
the Kew York Tribune thinks that the
“result must be- a severe disappointment
to the friends of General Grant, and a
hard blow to the movement for his nomi
nation.” The majority of twenty it
thinks too. narrow.
The Philadelphia North American ad
mits that the result of tbe work at Harris
burg is a personal victory, for Senator
Cameron, but says that there are victories
which are more disasterous than de
feat.
The Press says that “all observant pol
iticians must admit that the Grant move
ment has met its ’Waterloo.”
The Inquirer winds up a long article as
follows: •••.•■
“Mr. Cameron lias won, as he said he
would, at Harrisburg. But Harrisburg is
not Chicago, If lie. can win there," popu
lar elections need no longer be held; con
ventions would be superfluous; electoral
colleges an impertinence; for Mr. Came
ron could choose our President for us.
But Mr. Cameron will not win at Chicago
—that is, if he plays for a third term.”
The only note sounded in favor of
Grant is by the New York Commercial
Adtertiser, which says: “No man who is
not blinded by his prejudices in favor of
some other candidate can fail to s»e that
General Grant will be the candidate of tbe
Republican party for the Presidency, and
the man who doubts that ho will be elec
ted is short-sighted.”
We could go on quoting scores of. such
paragraphs from other papers, but the
above will suffice to show that there is in
reality no Grant boom, and we hope there
never will be.
that the dispatch to our Savannah contem
porary, is; at least, premature, and per
haps without foundation.
- We are assured that there is good reason
to believe thatjtlie lease or purchase will be
consummated agreeably to the terms of the
law: The hitch, or difficulty growing out
of the. existence of the .second mortgage
bonds, it.is said, has been successfully dis
posed of. One other question only, is
under abeyance, and. that is, whether the
lessees, .if they elect to become purchasers,
should be required.to give the $500,000
bond as" lessees t There is a contrariety
of opinion on this point, and the matter
has not been definitely: settled. All that
can be said on the subjoct is that the
probabilities are infavor of the successful
consummation of the purchase.
In the event of failure, then it is
claimed that Messrs. Bullock & Kimhaji,
the next highest bidders, under" Governor
Colquitt’s previous ruling, will be enti
tled to lease or buy the road if inclined
still todo so. Some, hold, however, that
they could only have come in if the Coup-
«r& Vibbard.bid had been rejected as
illegal on the day the lease was auc
tioned off, and that it is too late to do so
now.. ; ,r .
The whole matter, so far as anything,
positive is known, continues to be.
wrapped in impenetrable mystery. For
tunately, however, the denouement is at
hand. On Thursday. the agony will he
over, and the lease either confirmed or
declared vacant. j ; -
In the meanwhile Mr.. Paine, who fa
vored this office with a call yesterday, is
lying like a rattlesnake in wait, ready to
strike the party to whom the lease may
be awarded.. i.
Verily, tbatLease Act of our sapient
legislators seems to be a very vulnerable
document, and a veritable bone of conten
tion.. . . £
We do not give up the ship, however,
but have reason to hope and believe that
the affair will be successfully consumma
ted. •“ - . ■
AKY DnUiURl' WILL TULL YOU
wh»t un know- «bout tte n.erit cf shtinti’a
Imlun Y.rmifufto too popular remedy
The Pros and Cons of the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad-
We were not a little surprised to see the
following dispatch in the Savannah.
Morning News, from that sensational
town, Atlanta, dated February 0th: .-j-
Tlie most reliable reports say tbe Macon,
and Brunswick lease will npt.be consum
mated, and it is doubtful if the Governor
will again advertise its sale. Able law
yers decide that the six hundred thousand
dollar bogus bonds will have to be paid
when the road goes out of the control if
the State. Also, many persons are of the
opinion that it Avill be impossible for any
one to comply fully with tbe requirements
of the present lease act.. Anew act will
be asked for from the next Legislature.
In another column of tbe News appears
an editorial, a portion of which we re
produce, to-wit:
It has been evident for some days past
that there was a hitch iii the proceedings,
and that the lessees had experienced
greater difficulties in complying withlho
requirements of the act of the Legislature
authorizing the lease than they ever ex
pected. The $600,000 bogus bonds of the
road, which the .State has refused,$p pay,
it seems,"is tlie main cause of the trouble.
These, in the opiiiidrl r of- many, will be a
substantial lien upon the road the mo
ment it passes into private hands. No
company could afford to build the exten
sion from Macon tp Atlanta, comply with
the onerous provisions of tlie present lease
law, and pay tlie State besides tlie enor
mous rental of $196,000 a year, at
which the road was Tfcased. What
ever company' takes the" lease,
therefore, must really become pur
chasers, and the very moment this is done
the holders of these bonds—who cannot
sue the State—will begin action against
the company, and thus the corporation
will find itself engaged at the very outset
in a long, tedious and expensive litigation,
with the chances of a disastrous result;
since, though the State can justly refuse
to recognize these bogus bonds, a private
corporation will be,unablc to do so upon
tlie holders thereof making out an equita
ble case.
The best possible answer to this argu
ment, is the fact that the amount realized
from the sale of the road at the price af
fixed by the Legislature, will fall consid-
ably short of covering the indebtedness
for which the first mortgage bonds were
hypothecated. This clearly violates and
renders nugatory the batch of second
mortgage bonds, ($600,000.) Thus, if A
the owner of a house valued at $6,000,
and raises $5,000 upon it by a first mort
gage, and afterwards executes a second
mortgage for $1,000 to B, on the same
property, then in the event that A fails to
meet his engagements, and the first mort-
gare is foreclosed and does not yield but
$4,000 on sale of the house, and the title
to the property passes into other hands,
what remainder will be left for the satis
faction of B’s second mortgage? The
answer is obvious. Simply less than
nothing.
But we have advices from a source
i deemed e ntire authentic, to the effect
The Supply of Colored Field labor.
We had hoped that the experiences of
those colored emigrants, who have visited
tlie promised land in tlie West, and then
returned home foot-weary, forlorn and
destitute, would unpose • a check inconti
nently upon any further exodus.
But, sad to say, the poor creatures have
still to be convinced t lat the soft; climate,
easily tilled soil and generous productions
of the South, make jt, by far, the most el
igible habitation for them on earth.
Here, with the least amount of labor, a
comfortable subsistence may be earned,
and the provident never fail to acquire
homes and farms of their own. They also
enjoy equal protection under the laws,
and,indeed justice oftener leans to mercy’s
side-when the colored man is on-trial,
than in the instance of his better instruc
ted and more responsible white brother.
It is safe to say that not one half of
the thefts and oflenses against the peace
and good order of the community, com
mitted by the negroes, ever find their way
to the court room. The cause, therefore,
of this insane desire to remove en masse
from the scenes of their labors and nativ
ity, to a distant and inhospitable region,
can only be explained by the known cred
ulity and superstition of this simple-mind
ed race. Interested emissaries and emi
grant agents, for their own gain, and in
behalf of the Radical party of some of the
doubtful States of the West, have drawn
coleur derose pictures of the fertile prai
ries and valleys of that region, leaving in
shadow the fierce northers and deep
snows, which fbf long months would cur
die the blood of the semi-tropical blacks,
if exposed to them. And with the same
facility that they yielded to the carpet
bagger after the wal-, have many of them
surrendered to the plausible talk of the
agents above mentioned, and, abandoning
all -their home comforts, followed their
lead like sheep to the slaughter. If our
colored friends persist in this madness,
then will the farmers of the South be
forced to look for labor among the starv
ing Irish, the-thrifty Scots, and the indus
trious German and Swiss population of
the old country. •
On this subject the Kew Orleans Times
makes the following Sensible remarks:
“There is only one thing to be done.
That one thing is to get white immigrants
in lieu of the colored emigrants. The
remedy is obvious enough, and the state
ment of it extremely simple. The sub
stitution of white land-owners—small or
laige fanners, as the case may be—in lieu
of improvident and inefficient eolored
‘hands,’ will' revolutionize the farming
business in Louisiana and double the tax
able wealth of tbe State inside of ten years.
Everybody t is extremely willing to have
the white hands substituted. The univer
sal desire is for immigrants who are able
and willing tp own and cultivate land.
The preference is, furthermore, for those
who can buy small tracts and cultivate
the same for themselves. The desire is
to see the average plantation divided into
ten or more small farms, each one culti
vated by its owner.
As to health, it must be remembered
that that occasional epidemic iu the city
does not touch or endanger the farmer.
Summer and winter on the Louisiana
farm are both healthy in a very marked
degree. The Louisiana farmer is less ex
posed to disease the year round, than the
farmer in any of the Northern or Eastern
States or in Europe. There is no yellow
fever on the Louisiana plantation, no
fever and ague, no diptheria', no catarrh,
no seeds of consumption.”
It is estimated that 500,000 foreign Ia-
lorers could be provided for in the valley
of the Mississippi. But our people have
no desire to drive out the blacks. On the
contrary, they prefer their field labor to
any othor. But it is well for them to un
derstand before it is too late, that if they
will emigrate, their places can,and will be
supplied on the farm, and then, should
they essay to return, there will be no room
for them.
A crying baby is a bore to the whole
neighborhood and the parents should be
forced to keep Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup
bandy. Price 25 cents.
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