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SATURDAY JULY 6, 1873.
COMPLIMENT TO A YOUNG GEOR
GIAN.
We understand that Mr. Samuel Bar
nett, a graduate of the University of
Georgia, and at present Instructor in
Mathematics in the State College of
Agriculture, has been elected Professor
of Applied Mathematics in the Univer
sity of Louisiana, with a salary of
$2,000. Mr. Barnett is a son of Mr.
Samuel Barnett, of Washington. We
congratulate our State University that
other institutions are selecting her
graduates as Professors.
This Louisiana State University is
the same institution over which Gen.
Sherman presided previous to the late
war.
We learn that all the Faculty of the
University united in recommending Mr.
Barnett for the Professorshij> to which
he has been elected.
THE WALWORTH CASE.
The manner of the termination of the
Walworth ense—a cause cclebre of the
criminal Courts—is another and striking
evidence of the reaction against murder
which is manifesting itself all over the
country. It is true that the offense for
the commission of which young Wal
worth has been convicted is one which
has ever been held in just execration by
savage and civilized countries alike.
Parricide has always been held infamous,
as no people and no law have been able
to conceive a justification for the willful
homicide of a parent. But the Wal
worth case was an exceptional one in
many respects. It was a parricide but
attended with circumstances which
stripped the crime of all its revolting
features. Frank Walworth was the son
of the slain, but it is hardly paradoxical
to say that Mansfield Tracy Walworth
was not the father of his murderer.
Since the early years of his childood
the father had been estranged from his
family, had been abandoned by his wife
after she had endured at his hands
every species of brutality which a cruel
and selfish nature could suggest. After
the separation his persecutions did not
cease but became daily more odious.
Insults the most vile and threats aguiust
herself and her children the most
atrocious were contained in his let
ters and those who have read these
disgusting epistles have had revealed to
them a heartlessness, a malignancy, a
•depravity which has never been attain
ed before. Frank Walworth, the idol
of his mother’s heart nnd loving her
with a devotion passing that felt by
most boys, even for a mother, grew up
regarding his father as the worst enemy
*.f h imself and his family, as the man
whom ho hail most reason to dread and
Jto hate. Day after day he saw his
mother terrified and made miserable by
the cruel outrages to which she was sub
jected by the cowardly scoundrel who
had been her husband. At last the end
came. Maddened by conduct which it
.seemed would never cease, determined
to free his mother from further insult,
he went upon Iris fatal journey to New
York. Whether he went lo extort a
promise from Mansfield Tracy Walworth
or to end liis brutality and his life to
gether we know not The jury which
sat in judgment upon liis act decided
that there was no premeditation of the
crime and doubtless their decision is
sustained by the evidence. Buttheparri
■cide’s conduct met with no execration
Because he was a parricide. On the con
trary, many attempted a justification of
ttlre act and predicted the acquittal of the
accused. A New York jury, however,
lias dashed these expectations to the
ground, and young Walworth—rightly
we think—has been convicted of mur
der in the second degree. Notwitli-
Ktamling Ihe provocation, notwithstand
ing the vile character and viler conduct
of the slain, there was not sufficient
justification for his death. Frank Wal
worth has no right to take the law into
his own ha ’ids. Having done this he
must pay the penalty. It would be a
dangerous precedent to establish had he
been allowed to go .tree, and had a jury
declared that a man m.iV murder ono
who insults and threatens another, even
though that other should be ids own
mother.
A DANGEROUS CUSTOM.
If the example set by the two young
men of Newurk the other (lay is to be
generally followed the most disastrous
consequences will result to the country.
Two cousins bearing the anything but eu
phonious names of Nadler and Bulcher
becamo enamored of a lady belonging to
that class of females of whom Mr.
Samuel Weller, Senior, entertained such
a profound distrust and deep-rooted
aversion—a widow. After paying their
addresses for some time to the lovely
o’bjeet of their admiration they at last
came to the conclusion, which would
have occurred to some minds sooner,
that there would be difficulty in both
of them marrying her—even sup
posing that she was charmed with each
—unless they should attempt the prac
tice of a sort of reversed Mormonism,
which the laws of the laud would scarce
ly countenance or tolerate. Having ar
rived at this point and neither being
willing to yield his claims in favor of his
rival, they determined to cut the Gordian
ilove-knot by mutual and simultaneous
suicide. Carrying out this sage deter
mination the affectionate lovers patrou
ized the juice of henbane and the root
of deadly nightshade, or the less roman
tic but more swift and certain strych
nine to such an extent that one of the
noodles —Nadler—succeeded in extermi
nating himself. Bulcher, with equally
good intentions, failed and is now alive,
sick and disgusted at present, but with
a fair prospect of making it all right
with the widow in the near future. But
whatever may have been the result in
this instance it is the principle of the
thing with which we must deal. What
is to become of the country if the ad
mirers of every beautiful girl or blooming
widow—sometimes ranging in numbers
from two to a hundred—are to act after
the silly and singular Newark fashion ?
The suicidal mania would stop all mar
riages and increase of population, and
materially lighten the labors of the next
•census-takers. If the contending par
ties were to fight over the matter that
course, though bad enough itself, would
be infinitely less reprehensible than the
conduct of the Newark swains, for in
that event there would certainly be a
survivor of the conflict, and the hand of
beauty would be the prize of the victor.
But there are no survivors of a suicide,
and the lady whose charms instigate
the self-murder is left desolate, and
from a multitude of admirers is without
even one. One must think of the lady
as well as of the men. For instance, in
the Newark case it is all very well for
Nadler and Bulcher, but what is to be
come of the widow ?
THE SUPREME COURT.
The Savannah Advertiser, of a recent
date, contained a well-timed and emi
nently sensible article on the Supreme
Court. There is no doubt that the
Court has become a very cumbersome
machine, and that it stands sadly in
need of remodeling. The Court now
sits fully ten months in the year, and
the docket is literally loaded with cases.
These vary in magnitude from twenty
five to thousands of dollars. Some of
them involve nice questions of law—
commercial and constitutional—but the
great majority of them have nothing at
issue which has not already been ad
judicated and re-adjudicated. Some
thing must be done—some law must be
passed—which will reduce the number
of cases. The Judges cannot stand
such arduous and incessant labor. The
Superior Courts can determine no case
where the litigant wishes for time, for
delay, or where he is obstinate and un
willing to yield. The evil is apparent ;
cannot a remedy be suggested ? Wo
hope to hear from some of our legal
friends on the subject.
THE SOUTH.
The Chicago Evening Journal says :
“It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain
the real condition of the South. Dur
ing a political campaign both sides are
tempted to misrepresent the facts, and
after the campaign interest in the sub
ject flags. For months very little atten
tion has been paid by the press to the
South, Louisiana excepted. The great
States which are free from any special
disturbance jog on unheeded.
“ A traveler, who has spent several
weeks in going about iu Virginia, Ten
nessee, Georgia and Alabama, writes
that although he took special pains to
listen to the conversation of groups at
hotels, in the cars, etc., he did not once
hear an allusion to politics. This
shows that the people are busying them
selves with the ordinary affairs of life.
The less prominence they give to politi
cal topics the better. The great mass
of the people will not, in a healthy state
of society, devote very much time aud
thought to politics.
“ The same writer says that the tone
and manner of the people indicate no
latent and irreconcilable bitterness in
the hearts so powerful as to stand in
the way of the most cordial co-opera
tion for the advancement of their ma
terial interests. They evidently begin
to seo that free labor, while it makes a
change of base in matters of industry
necessary, by no mejuis cripples the
material strength of thq South; but, on
the contrary, increases'it. It is earnest
ly to bo hoped that business relations
will unify the North and South, as they
already have the East and West.”
Honor to a Georgia Baptist.—A
Washington dispatch states that after
an exciting contest the Board of Visitors
of tho University of Virginia, near
Charlottesville, have elected Noah K.
Davis, President of Bethel College, Ken
tucky, to be Professor of Moral Philoso
phy. Tho new Professor, who is nn ear
nest Baptist, graduated at Mercer Uni
versity, Georgia, and at Yale. He was
recommended in the strongest terms by
Jno. S. Broaddus, the professors of
seven Southern co'leges, and a host of
leading citizens and scholars.
MARK TWAIN HETS OUT TO “IM
PRESS” THE “KING OF KINGS.”
Terrors of the Undertaking—Gloomy
Views ami Forebodings Leaving Lon
don Shocking Discovery at Dover—
Ostentations Remarks on Flanders
ami the Flounders A Freshet of
Children -Distressing Experience in
a Flemish Hotel—First Appearance
of the Boss Monarch and the Brim
less Stovepipes.
Uompon, June 18.—“ Would yon like
to go over to Belgium and help bring
the .Shah to England ?” I said I was
willing. “Very well, then; here is an
OrJer from the Admiralty which will ad
mit ;ou on board Her Majesty’s ship
Lively, now lying at Ostend, and you
can return in her day after to-morrow.”
That was all. That was! the end of it.
Without stopping to think, I had in a
manner taken upon myself to bring the
Shall of Persia to England. I could not
otherwise regard the conversation I had
just held with the London representa
tive of the New York Herald. The
amount of discomfort I endured for the
next two or three hours cannot be set
down in words. I could not eat, sleep,
talk, smoke with any satisfaction. The
more I thought the thing over the more
oppressed I felt. What was the Shah
to me, that I should go to all this worry
and trouble on his account? Where
was there the least occasion for taking
upon myself such a responsibility ? If
I got him over all right, well. But if I
lost him ? if he died on my hands ? if he
got drowned? It was depressing, any
way I looked at it. In the end I said to
myself, “If I get this Shah over here
safe and sound I never will take charge
of another.” And yet, at the same time,
I kept thinking, “This country has
treated me well, stranger as I am, and
this foreigner is the country’s guest—
that is enough. I will help him out; I
will fetch him over; I will land him in
London, and say to the British people,
‘Here is your Shah; give me a receipt?’”
I felt easy in my mind now, and was
about to go bed, but something oc
curred to me. I took a cab and drove
down town and routed out that Herald
representative. “ Where is Belgium ?”
said L “ Where is Belgium ? I never
heard such a question !” “That doesn’t
make any difference to me. If I have
got to fetch this Shah I don’t wish to go
to the wrong place. Where is Belgium ?
Is it a shilling fare in a cab ?” He ex
plained that it was in foreign parts—
the first place I have heard of lately
which a body could not go to in a cab
for a shilling. I said I could not go
alone, because I could not speak for
eign languages well, could not get np in
time for the early train without help
and could not find my way. I said it
was enough to have the Shah on my
hands ; I did not wish to have every
thing piled on me. Mr. Blank was then
ordered to go with me. I was not so
ignorant as I appeared, but I do like to
have somebody along to talk to when I
go abroad.
When I got home I sat down and
I thought the thing all over. I wanted to
go into this enterprise understandingly.
What was the main thing ? That was the
question. A little reflection informed
me. For two weeks the London papers
had sung just one continual song to just
one continual tune, and the idea of it
all was “how to impress the Shah.”
These papers had told all about the St.
Petersburg splendors, and had said at
the end that splendors would no longer
answer; that England could not outdo
Russia in that respect; therefore some
other way of impressing the Shah must
be contrived. And these papers had
also told all about the Shalistic recep
tion in Prussia anil its attendant military
pageantry. England could not improve
on that sort of thing—she could not im
press the Shah with soldiers; something
else must be tried. And so on. Column
after column, page after page of agony
about how to “impress the Shah.” At
last they had hit upon a happy idea—a
grand naval exhibition. That was it ! A
man brought up in Oriental seclusion
and simplicity, a man who had never
seen anything but camels and such
things, could not help being surprised
anil delighted with the strange novelty
of ships. The distress was at an end.
England heaved a great sigh of relief;
she knew at last how to impress the
Shah. My course was very plain, now
after that bit of reflection. All I had to
do was to go over to Belgium and im
press the Shall. I failed to form any
definite plan as to the process, but I
made up my mind to manage it some
how. I said to myself, “I will impress
this Shah or there shall be a funeral that
will be worth contemplating.”
I went to bed then, but did not sleep
a great deal, for the responsibilities
were weighing pretty heavy upon me.
At six o’clock in the morning Mr. Blank
came and turned me out. I was sur
prised at this, and not gratified, for I
detest early rising. I never like to say
severe things, but I was a good deal
tried this time. I said I did not mind
getting up tolerably early, but I hated
to be called day before yesterday. How
ever, as I was acting in a national ca
pacity and for a country that I liked, I
stopped grumbling and we set out. A
grand naval review is a good thing to
impress a Shah with, but if he would
try getting up at six o’clock in the
morning—but no matter; we started.
Presently we reached the sea and came
to a stand far out on a pier; and here
was Dover and more history. The chalk
cliffs of England towered up from the
shore anil the French coast was visible.
On the tallest hill sat Dover castle, state
ly and spacious and superb, looking just
as it has always looked any time these
ten or fifteen thousand years—l do not
know its exact age, aud it does not mat
ter, anyway.
We stepped nboard the little packet
and steamed away. The sea was per
fectly smooth, and painfully brilliant in
the sunshine. There were no curiosities
in the vessel except the passengers and
a placard in French setting forth the
transportation fares for various kinds of
people. The lithographer probably con
sidered that placard a triumph. It was
printed in green, blue, red, black and
yellow; no individual line in one color,
but the individual letters were separate
ly colored. For instance, the first letter of
a word would be blue, the next red, the
next green, and so on. The placard
looked as if it had the small pox or
something. I inquired the artist's name
and place of business, intending to hunt
him up and kill him when I had time;
but no one could tell me. In the list of
prices first class passengers were set
down at fifteen shillings aud four pence,
aud dead bodies at one pound ten shill
ings and eight pence—just double price.
That is Belgian morals, I suppose. I
never say a harsh thing unless I am
greatly stirred; but in my opiontlie man
who would take advantage of a dead per
son would do almost any odious thing. I
publish this scandalous discrimination
against the most helpless class among us
in order that people iutending to die
abroad may come back by some other
line.
Most of the shops in Ostend seemed
devoted to the sale of sea shells. All
sorts of figures of meu and women
were made of shells; one sort was com
posed of grotesque and ingenious com
bination of lobster claws in the humun
form. And they had other figure made
of stuffed frogs—some fencing, some
harboring each other, and some were
not to be described at all without inde
cent language. It must require a bar
barian nature to be able to find humor
in such nauseating horrors as these
latter. These things were exposed in
the public windows where young girls
and little children could see them, and
in tho shops sat hairy lipped
young women waiting to sell them. It
was an excellent hotel; the utmost care
was taken that everything should go
right. I wont to bed at ten and was
called at eleven to “take the early train.”
I said I was not the one, so the servant
stirred up the next door and he was not
the one, then the next door and the
next—no success—and so on till the re
verberations of the knocking were lost
in the distance down the hall, and I fell
asleep again. They called me at twelve
to take another early train, but I said I
was not the one again, and asked as a
favor that they would be particular
to call the rest next time, but never
min i me. However they could not un
derstand my English; they only said
something in reply to signify that, aud
then went on banging up tlie boarders,
none of whom desired to take the early
traiu.
When they called me at one, it made
my rest seem very broken, and I said if
they would skip me at two I would call
myself—not really intending to do it,
but hoping to beguile the porter and de
ceive him. He probably suspected that
and was afraid to trust me, because when
he made his rounds at that hour he did
not take any chances on me, but routed
me out along with the others. I got
some more sleep after that, but when
the porter called me at three I felt de
pressed and jaded and greatly discour
aged, So I gave it up and dressed my
self. The porter got me a cup of coffee
and kept me awake while I drank it. He
was a good, well-meaning sort of floun
der, but ready a drawback to the hotel,
1 should think. Poor Mr. Blank came
in then, looking worn and old. He had
been called for in all the different trains,
too, just as I had. He said it was a
good enough hotel, but they took too
much pains. While we sat there talking
we fell asleep, and were ealled again at
four. Then we went out and dozed
about town till six, and then drifted
aboard the Lively.
Now the train was signalled, and every
body got ready for the great event. The
Belgian regiment straightened itself up,
and some two hundred Flounders arrived
and took conspicuous position on a little
mound. I was a little afraid that this
would impress the Shah; but I was soon
occupied with* other interests. The
train of thirteen cars came tearing in,
and stopped abreast the ships. Mnsic
and guns began an uproar. Odd-look
ing Persian faces and felt hats (brimless
stovepipes) appealed at the car windows.
Some gorgeous English officials filed
down the carpet from the Vigilant.
They stopped a long car with the royal
arms upon it, uncovered their heads
and unlocked th’e car door. Then the
Shah stood up in it and gave us a good
view. He was a handsome, strong
featured man, with a rather European
fairness of complexion; had a mustache,
wore spectacles, seemed of a good
height aud graceful build and carriage,
and looked about forty or a shade less.
He was very simply dressed—brimless
stovepipe and close-buttoned dark green
military suit, without ornament. No,
not wholly without ornament, for he had
a band two inches wide worn over his
shoulder and down across his breast,
scarf fashion, which band was one solid
glory of tine diamonds. A Persian of
ficial appeared in the Shah’s rear and en-
veloped him in an ample quilt—or cloak,
if you please—which was lined with fur.
The outside of it was of a whitish color
and elaborately needle-worked in Per
sian patterns like an India shawl. The
Bhah stepped out and the official pro
cession formed about him and marched
him down the carpet and on board the
Vigilant to slow music. Not a Flounder
raised a cheer. All the small fry swarm
ed out of the train now.
The Shah walked back alongside his
fine cabin, looking at the assemblage
of silent, solemn Flounders; the cor
rjepondent of the London Telegraph
was hurrying along the pier and took off
his hat and bowed to the “ King of
Kings,” and the King of Kings gave a
polite military salute in return. This
was the commencement of the excite
ment. The success of the breathless
Telegraph man made all the other Lon
don correspondents mad, every man of
whom flourished his stove pipe reck
lessly and cheered lustily, some of the
more enthusiastic varying the exercise
by lowering their heads and elevating
their coat tails. Seeing all this, and
feeling that if I was to “ impress the
Shah ” at all, now was my time, I ven
tured a little squeaky yell, quite dis
tinct from the other shouts, but just as
hearty. His Shahship heard aud saw
and saluted me in a manner that was, I
considered, an acknowledgement of my
superior importance. I do not know
that I ever felt so ostentations and
absurd before. All the correspondents
came aboard, and then the Persian bag
gage came also, and was carried across
to the ship alongside of ours. When
she could hold no more we took some
where about a hundred trunks and
boxes on board our vessel. Two boxes
fell into the water, and several sailors
jumped in and saved one, but the
other was lost. However, it probably
contained nothing but a few hundred
pounds of diamonds and things. At
last we got under way and steamed out
through a long slip, the piers on either
side being crowded with Flounders ;
but never a cheer. A battery of three
guns on the starboard pier boomed a
royal salute, and we swept out to sea,
the Vigilant in the lead ; we right in
her wake, and the baggage ship yi ours.
Within fifteen minutes everybody was
well acquainted ; general jollification set
in, and I was thoroughly glad I had
come over to fetch the Shah.
Mask Twain.
“OUIDA.”
Tlie Wild Franeo-Brltlsh Woman and
Her Ways—Also Her Dnds mid Her
Dogs.
Louis de la Rame, for that is her
name, says a writer in the Han Francisco
Bulletin, passed much of her childhood
in France. It was there that she picked
up the name for herself— Yes, indeed !
Onida —that afterward became her noin
dc plunie. She speaks that language
with groat volubility, and is also mistress
of German, Italian, and several other
modern tongues. The father is said to
have been a Frenchman—her name would
signify that —and although he may be
living, it is probable that he is at least
dead to his daughter, for she never
speaks of him, and is thought by those
who know her best to depend nlmost en
tirely on her own literary work for a
maintenance. Her mother, an English
woman, retaining few, if any, traces of
youthful grace and beauty, still resem
bles her dauglitersuftlciently to leave no
doubt as to their relationship. She is a
patient old lady, ns attentive to the
whims and caprices of her distinguished
and somewhat spoiled darling as any
doting American mother with her hotel
reared, wayward, hot house flower of a
daughter. Mrs. de la.Rame may be an
old lady of wonderful talent, but she
never asserts herself. She has the air of
01*3 who has all liar life been frowned
down and sat upon. She is meeker far
than Moses ever could have been, for is
she not a woman ?—one has only to go
to Salt Lake to see what an infinite
capacity they have for being snubbed
—and milder than the fairest May morn
ing that ever dawned upon her in her
own fair laud. She lias many virtues,
no doubt, but she certainly did not en
dow her offspring with the talents that
have given her her wide-spread noto
riety, and as the latter could not have
existed without a father, wherever or
whoever that mythical personage may
be, to him wo must ascribe the genius,
or that portion of it which she pos
sesses. Some have said that ho was a
spy ; others a conspirator, a high Gov
ernment official, and that he lost his
life mysteriously in the service of his
country. Whatever he was his daugh
ter inherits from some one plenty of
audacity, courage—even fool-hardiness
—a wonderful gift of language, sort of
grim, fantastic humor, aud a vivid and
picturesque, if somewhat “ barbaric
style,” as Matthew Arnold might say.
But it is not Miss de la Rame’s merits
or faults as a writer that are under con
sideration now ; it is the lady herself—
as she appears through her books—her
personal appearance, her habits, her
surroundings. Two or three years ago
she lived, as sho doos now, probably,
at the the Langham Hotel. Although
she spends a good share of her time
on the continent, she prefers London as
a home. She clings with true British
tenacity to English soil aud to English
ideas. Indeed, .though looking as un
like one as j ossiblc in every particular,
her astounding toilets excepted, she
seems a thorough English woman ; at
least, one would never suspect her to be
of any other nationality. Her accent
and intonations are English, her ges
tures, her modes of speech, her daily
habits. She dines at eight o'clock in
Summer—a little earlier in Winter. She
drives out daily in a brougham—hired
by the month—pays a visit or two, and
brings up at Rotten Row some time be
tween twelve and two. There she finds
acquaintances—not many ladies—but
an officer, perhaps, of the Guards, some
young literateur, some old diner-out, or
some diplomat. She whiles away an hour
listening to themusio, assheloungesbya
friend on one of the seats that line the
walk, or takes a turn with tne promena
ders, aud then she drives home. In the \
afternoon she wAtes. Her manuscript
is odd in its way as Theopliile Gauthi
er’s, But if his sign manual was micro
scopic, hers is monstrous, and “ he who
runs may read,” to misquote, as has of
ten been done with the passage before.
A few lines only sprawl over an entire
page of foolscap, but it is very legible
—more than can be said for the most of
English handwriting of the present
period. At 8 o’clock, as I said before,
Miss de la Rame and her mother dine in
the public eating-room of the hotel.—
Both ladies, be the season what it may,
are decolletee, and there is generally
great sameness in their toilets. The
younger woman, like her mother, is of
ten attried in black, but she is extreme-
Iy partial to white fabrics—generally
silk, the froufrou of which always
heralds her coming. She has laces
floating about her, not perfumed or of
rare costliness anil delicacy like those of
her heroines, but of imitation or Yak—
flounces and shawls that stream out on
the wind as she marches down to the
dining room with her trailing skirts
tucked, English fashion, under each el
bow to prevent their becoming soiled by
contact with the matting of the corridor
—black silks trimmed with white lace
and ribbons, white silks trimmed with
black nnd blue ribbons, always—and all
ways, literally, sashes at her belt, bows
at her corsage, and rosettes and narrow
streamers of blue above each ear. Her
hair, which is neither luxuriant nor
wavy, is left unbound. It falls to her
waist behind, but is rolled high above
the forehead in Pompadour rouleaux.—
It is dark brown in color, and, arranged
by a Parisian coiffure, would materially
improve her appearance. Perhaps, how
ever, she agrees with Saint Paul that
“if a woman have long hair it is a glory
to her, for her hair is given her for a
covering.”
Her features are good; her eyes are
fine and expressive—large, dark blue,
and well shaded by strong lashes. Her
mouth is well shaped, but the expression
of her face is unhappy. It haunts one.
It says as plainly as words could say, “I
have missed everything that life is worth
living for.”
She is slender to thinness—below the
medium height, and has hands and feet
of the most diminutive proportions ever
seen out of Andalusia or America; for
the French say their smallest gloves and
a market in the United States.
Unlike most English women, she is
always bien gantee—bien chaussec. In
Louis Quinse slippeis of black satin and
stockings—l suppose I should say silken
hose—of pearly tint, her little feet are
absolutely faultless. They have the
same trick that all pretty feet have—
they will “peep out like mice beneath her
petticoat;” and, speaking of mice, we are
reminded of her eccentricities, which
was far from agreeable to her friends.
Her parlor, on the ground floor of the
Langham, was near enough the dining
and store-rooms aud pantries to make it
exceedingly accessible to mice, and
with a little encouragement in the
way of cheese crumbs and other dain
ties she had succeeded in taming a
perfect army of them. To say no
thing of the misery of having a
dozen or so of these small creatures
scampering around your feet and run
ning up your trousers legs, if yon
were a man—or your petticoats, if you
were a woman—the odor from them was
far from agreeable. In spite of the
many boquets and the perfume of the
cut flowers with which her pretty bou
doir was always filled, the peculiar
mousey smell prevailed; it was only
equalled by the boqtiet de Newfound
land with which her favorite dog scen
ted room whenever he was present.
Owing to his having stolen so many
times, because of the large rewards of
fered,-Aus mistress had been obliged to
deny him his daily bath in the Serpen
tine, and the consequence was that the
poor beast became unclean—not to say
foul—and it was almost impossible for a
stranger unaccustomed to the odor to
remain in the room w ith him. The dog,
the mice and a musical canary were all
the pets this singular woman had. None
of them were really objectionable, but
the mice, for the poor Newfoundland
was a splendid, great fellow, aud, in the
country where he had his freedom and
plenty of water, challenged the admira
tion of everybody. Miss de la Home, al
though a brilliant talker, although an ac
complished, well read, traveled and ob
serving woman of the world, is not an
ageeable companion, and has few friends.
She entertains, now aud then, her
dinner parties, though hardly the ban
quet “Idalia” presided over in point of
spleudor, are yet thoroughly enjoyable
aud Hex parlor, filled with the
workJof art, her walls lined with pic
tures, her tables covered with the latest
books and periodicals, is, barring the
mice, a charming place to lounge in.
She is always hospitable, aud her im
pulsies are warm and kindly. She has
the real Anglo-Saxon hatred of a lie; she
is ardent and courageous; she would de
fend a friend fearlessly and with her last
breath ; she has muuy good qualities,
aud yet she has few, if any, to love her,
and none to warmly praise.
DONE BY A LUNATIC.
The Biggest Case of Emotional Sanity
On Becorti—A Putnam Countv Offi
cer **ut Into the Utica Asylum by a
Crafv Man.
the Putnam County Courier.]
Utva, June 25. —This morning I no
ticed It woof your citizens get off the
caf tkif*-»pluo«—Abraham M'ller aud
Sam«x, Berry. Glad to see anybody
from Ipome, I naturally hastened to give
them a cordial greeting, after which Mr.
Millet took me aside and said he was
taking Berry to the asylum. Imagine
my astonishment when Berry also took
me aside and informed me in a very con
fldentisl manner that he was taking Mil
ler to the asylum. Perceiving no mark
ed traoes of insanity in either, I was
perplexed which to believe, or whether
to believe either. After turning the
subject over in my mind once or twice, I
resolved to stay with them aud see the
thing out. Wo first went to the hotel,
procured some refreshments, and while
there Berry called for pen and ink, say
ing that he wanted to write home to his
wife. Having prepared a letter, he call
ed a porter, and dispatched him to the
post office, as I then supposed, but, as
subsequently appeared, lie was sent to
the asylum with a letter, of which the
following is a verbatim copy :
Thursday, J uno 5, 1873.
Superintendent of Insane Asylum:
Dear Sib—ln about one or two hours
from this time I shall bring to your in
stitution for treatment a young man
from Potnnm county. His insanity has
peculiar modes of manifestation, and
during lucid intervals is not perceptible
at all. While on the cars last evening
he abstracted from my pocket the papers
given me by the authorities upon which
to enter him in the asylum, and now as
serts that he is going to lodge me in the
institution. I thought I would write
you in advance, in order that you may
be able to properly estimate his talk
when we arrive. Yours, truly,
Samuel Berry.
After dinner I accompanied the boys
to the asylum, where we were met by
the polite physician in charge and con
ducted to the reception room. Almost
as soon as we were seated Miller rose to
his fcetfwrith quite as much dignity as
any envoy extraordinary ever presented
credentials to the oourt of a reigning po
tentate. Drawing from his.pocket Judge
Wright’s order and acoompanyingpapers,
he handed them to the Superintendent,
upon whose face gathered a pleasant
but rather incredulous smile. After
placing them on the desk he glanced at
Berry, who returned it with a significant
wink of the left eye. That silent but ex
pressive language soon “settled the
hash” of poor “Aby,” who was soon
condncted to the apartment for new
patients. Jn vain did he attempt to ex
postulate and explain. The doctor’s
only answer was that he understood his
case, and advised him to remain quiet—
that excitement was injurious and would
only delay his recovery. Having at
tended to our business Berry and I
started for the depot. On the way down
he explained to me the facts of the oase
and said he would have a big thing on
the Brewster boys when he returned.
Deploring the unoomfortable position of
poor “Aby,” and desiring to right mat
ters as far as I could, I induced Berry
to return to the institution with me
under pretense of saying something to
“Aby” before leaving. When we again
reached the asylum I explained the true
state of affairs to the superintendent,
who seemed to disbelieve all of us. To
extricate himself from the dilemma he
telegraphed to Brewsters, and upon the
receipt of the reply • immediately ex
changed the positions of the parties.
In South Acton, Massachusetts, Fri
day, Geo. Curtis, a lad of eight years,
enticed a boy named Lane, aged three
years, into the woods and then beat him
with a club in the most shocking man
ner, leaving him insensible. He was
soon discovered, but died of his injuries
in twenty-four hours. The muderer fled,
but was arrested last evening in Cam
bridge.
John Dennis, a driver of a market
wagon, was found fatally beaten in his
wagon at Jamaica, L. L, on Friday,
having been robbed by two negroes, to
whom he gave a ride on his way home
from market. The people of Jamaica
turned out and scoured the woods yes
terday for the murderers, but they are
not captured yet.
BY TELEGRAPH.
TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES AND
MINOR TELEGRAMS.
Specie shipments yesterday, $248,000.
Five fatal accidents in Rochester, New
York, on the Fourth.
Vessels on the Vistula are submitted
to a rigid quarantine.
The report of an outbreak at Chalesa,
Munich, is contradicted.
One brother-in-law killed another at
Greeusburg, Indiana, yesterday.
A new trial has been refused in the
Picayune libel suit in New Orleans.
The laying of the cable of 1873 was
successfully completed yesterday morn
ing shortly after midnight.
In Memphis there were thirteen
cholera interments yesterday. The dis
ease is spreading in the country.
Juo. Long was arrested in New York
last night for fatallv shooting John
Hearring. Both are boys of seventeen.
Numerous cases of sunstroke occurred
in New York on the Fourth, including
several militia during the morning pa
rade.
The young man and woman who went
over Niagara Falls were to be married
yesterday. Their bodies have not been
recovered.
In Brownsville, Texas, the first bale
of cotton raised on the Rio Grande this
year was brought to that market on
Thursday.
The Shah made an unofficial visit to
the Crystal Palace yesterday. Immense
preparations are making for his recep
tion at Paris.
The Hnmilton Woolen Mill at Cincin
nati was struck by lightning Friday.
Loss, SOO,OOO. A falling roof killed one
or two persons.
Twenty-five or thirty small fires oc
clured in New York yesterday—the
damages done varying from fifty to one
thousand dollars.
The lightning burned a house and
killed a woman at Wolfboro, N. H.; and
four men out fishing were drowned at
Deer Island, off Eastport, yesterday.
Thirty-one nccidents to persons from
carelessness in the use of fire-arms and
fire-works occurred in New York on the
Fourth, and nearly as many in Brook
lyn.
The Paris correspondent of the / Tines
telegraphs to that paper that the trial of
Marshal Bazaine will probably take
place at Compeigne in the latter part of
September.
Several accidents happened in Chicago,
on the fourth, the most serious of which
was the shooting, and it is thought fatal
ly wounding, of a boy by a young man
who was shooting at a mark.
Martin Evans, attached to the United
States Signal office, was shot and in
stantly killed, in Wheeling, West Vir
ginia, yesterday, in an altercation with
a man who was visiting a lady to whom
he (Evans) was paying attention.
A dispatch from Bombay brings intel
ligence of a rising among the Hindoo
peasants in the district of Poonat. Tlioy
refuse to pay their rents, and have plun
dered and burned several houses. Two
bands have been dispersed by the po
lice.
There wore large gatherings of farmors
at Springfield, Galesburg, Pontiac
Champion, Knoxville nnd other places
in Illinois, Friday, who celebrated the
day by listening to speeches upon the
farmers’ movement and the railroad
question.
In New York two cases of cholera
were reported yesterday—both fatal.—
They were reported as asiastic cholera
by the attending physicians, but the
doctors attached to the Board of Health
say both wers aggravated cases of
cholera morbus.
In Binghamton, during the display of
fireworks I relay evening, Welford
Thayer and his son, of Montrose, Were
probably fatally injured by a runaway
horse that went through the crowd.—
Three children and a woman were also
hurt by the same horse. Mrs. Charles
Carman was drowned in Little Chocnut
creek while returning home from the
celebration. Her husband was drunk
and drove into the creek.
THE STORM KING.
Terrible Tornadoes in the West—Trees
and Houses ISlown Down —'Telegraph
Poles Shivered by Lightning Hosts
Capsized—Twenty Persons Drowned
—General Destruction.
Cincinnati July s.—The storms of the
past three days have seldom if ever been
equalled in severity in Ohio and Indi
ana. Hurricanes and tornadoes, with
floods of rain, liavejfollowed each other
in rapid succession. This city and its
immediate vicinity escaped the fury of
the storms. The country north of this
and parallel, in Indiana, suffered severely
by the furious storms which passed over
it on the 2d, 3d and 4th instants. The
telegraph wires have been generally
prostrated. At Springfield, Ohio, it is
reported that the telegraph poles were
blown down across the turnpike so
thickly in some places as to entirely ob
struct travel east of Springfield. On
the Pacific and Atlantic telegraph line
there were more than a hundred poles
down. Some of them were struck by
lightning and others prostrated by the
wind. Passengers from Logansport say
the storm yesterday levelled trees nearly
all the way from Logansport to Rich
mond, lud. In Richmond trees were
blown down in the streets. At Wash
ington, Indiana, the storm was exceed
ingly fierce. Spears of wheat were
scattered about wildly and carried
many feet in the air. At Colum
bus the storm was very severe and
destructive. The general prostration of
telegraph poles is without parallel in the
history of the telegraph. An alarming
ly large number were shivered to pieces
by lightning and totally destroyed, while
others were partially destroyed and
many prostrated by the wind. To-day
will be a busy day in repairing these
lines. By to-night they will bo ready to
tell their history of the storm.
Dayton, 0., July 5.—A terrific storm
of wind and rain passed over this city
to-night, blowing down trees and chim
neys. In the oountry damage to grain,
fencing and sheds is said to be exten
sive. The Miami river is full and still
rising.
Milwaukee,July 5.—A terrific storm
passed through Wisconsin yesterday,
which proved very disastrous to pleas
ure parties at Green Lake, Wisconsin.
A number of pleasure seekers on the
lake were struck by the storm, their
boats were oapsized anil twenty persons
drowned. The following are tlie only
names that could be obtained : M. ti.
Russell and daughter, of Berlin, Wis.;
Jennie Olin, a child of Mr. Allen; Mrs.
A. P. Corwin, Mrs. Geo. Harding, Wm.
Bearham, wife and child, and Mr. John
Bain, all from Hartford.
Chicago, July s.—The weather to
day is clear and beautiful. Meagre re
ports received from the various points
in the country show that the storm of
the last two days has been one of the
most severe kind ever experienced here.
Au immense quantity of water fell, and
there has been a good deal of damage
done to telegtaph poles by lightning and
wind.
New York, July s.—During a heavy
shower in Andover yesterday afternoon
the lightning struck old South Church,
and stunned Rev. Mr. Abbott, who was
delivering the oration, and also Mr.
Carter, the tenor of the choir. Both
recovered in a few minutes. The church
was not materially damaged. Several
other buildings were also struck. It
was the most violent storm experienced
here for fifty years.
Portsmouth, N. H., July s.—Several
houses here and in the vicinity were
struck by lightning yesterday.
CIROLEVII.I.E, Ohio, July s.—The
Sciota river has overflowed extensively
the broom corn fields in this vicinity,
probably ruining some live hundred
to a thousand acres. Broom corn is
flattened down and washed on, so that
much of it cannot riso. The stream is
so high that the roads are impassable
between here and Columbus. No trains
hare arrived from the East since Thurs
day.
PULL PARTICULARS OF THE
. RHKTT-COOLKY FIGHT.
The Preliminaries—Quick Work on
the Field—The Sceue Described by
an Eye Witness—Bearing of the
Principals—The Fatal Fire—The Re
turn.
Col. George W. Carter and Mr. It.
Mcßea Self were selected as the seconds
of Judge Cooley, Col. liliett being rep
resented by Col. Charles Roman, his
brother-in-law, and Dr. Brnns, formerly
of Charleston, S. C. On Sunday it was
mutually agreed between the seconds
that the meeting should take place after
the motion for a new trial in the case of
Hawkins vs. the New Orleans Printing
and Publishing Company had been
made. Judge Cooley, thoroughly en
grossed in his legal business, and con
trary, we learn, to the earnest solicita
tion of his seconds, made no preparation
whatever. He had been suffering some
what severely with an injured foot, and
according to the same story required all
of the time not necessarily devoted to
business to lest. Col. Rliett, who is
represented as an excellent marksman,
we hear devoted some time to practice,
making, we are told, some excellent
shots.
When the train stopped twelve or fif
teen persons descended. lam not per
sonally acquainted with all. They
seemed to be friends of the two gentle
men, but a majority camo more in the
capacity of spectators. Upon their land
ing it was intimated quietly by one of
the seconds that, according to the terms
of the agreement, no one but those im
mediately interested should bo admitted
to the grounds, and, of course, in obe
dience to this suggestion, a majority re
mained quietly at the station house.
The party brought with them two col
ored servants, who carried two sets of
double-barrelled guns, the ammunition
and other accoutrements. They moved
to a spot between eighty and one hun
dred yards distant from the station, and
about twenty yards to the right of the
road, that is, on the side nearest Missis
sippi Sound, which is probably a mile
and a half away. The site chosen is an
ordinary strip of piny woods land, with
little or no peculiar characteristics.
Upon a toss Judge Cooley won the word
and choice of position. And very shortly
afterward Colonel Rhett was placed
by his second with his back to the rail
road, and, as seemed to me, near a pine
tree. Judge Cooley was placed forty
yards distant, with his back to the bay,
and facing Col. Rhett. Two of the
seconds then occupied positions facing
each other, and equil-distant between
the two contestants, but outside of the
line of fire. The other seconds, I think,
took positions near their principals, but
I was so deeply interested in watching
the others that I did not particularly ob
serve them. The two gentlemen stood
gazing at each other with the breeches
of their shotguns drawn up to the shoul
der, and the muzzles pointed to the
ground, while Dr. Bruns, in a clear and
audible voice, rend the articles of agree
ment which had been previously signed
by the seconds. The Doctor took some
little time in explaining clearly what was
required of each, and seemingly was
very desirous that no possible mistake
should occur. So excited did I become,
that I did not catch the exact words
used, but my impression is the Doctor
cried, “Are you ready ?” "Eire.” “Ono,
two, three, halt.”
At tho wonls “ are you ready,” both
weapons were slightly elevated, at tho
word “ lire” they were brought to a
level, and betweeii the words “ one”
and “ halt” both weapons were dis
charged. Judge Cooley, I think, fired
at the word “ one,” but Colonel Rhett’s
weapon was seomiugly a littlo hard on
tho trigger, and was discharged between
tho words “ one” and “two.” Neither
party being hurt, the friends of Colonel
Rhett demanded auother shot, which
was promptly accorded, and the seconds
at once reloaded the pieces.
At the seoond discharge the same for
mula was repeated, and both guns were
simultaneously discharged. With a con
vulsive turn to the left, Judge Cooley
fell. The friends and spectators, who
in the meantime had remained at the
station, now approached. The seconds
of both parties publicly proclaimed the
fact that everything hud been conducted
in strict accordance with tho terms of
the written agreement, and without any
attempt at unfairness on either side.—
Saying this, they shook hands and part
ed. On behalf of* Col. Rhett, his sec
onds tendered the seconds of Judge
Cooley the use of a carriage, but it was
declined, and that party retired in the
direction of Bay St. Louis. When
I reached Judge Cooley’s side I
found him lying on his back in
sensible, and gasping for breath.
His face did not appear to be dis
torted with pain, but ho was evidently
dying. The ball, a musket ball, one
ounce, IJ-lOOths of an inch in diameter,
penetrated his left side about the region
of the heart, and ranging upward. Dr.
Holliday was leaning ovor him, and ice
and a little raw cotton were being ap
plied to his wound, but it was evident
that all medical aid was useless. He
remarked, before I reached him, to Dr.
Holliday, “lam shot in the breast.”
These were the last words he spoke.
He expired in a very few minutes. A
messenger was dispatched to the neigh
boring house for six yards of cotton
cloth, with which they enveloped the
body, and it was then borne on a door
to the station, where it romained until
the train to New Orleans arrived. The
duel took place at thirty minutes past
ten o’clock, and the train arrived at one.
Remembering the scene as I do now, I
am under the impression that the injury
to Jndge Cooley’s foot placed him at a
terrible disadvantage. 1 observed that
he sat down while the seconds were
measuring the ground, and I do not
think he could bear the weight of his
body upon his foot without feeling acute
pain. Both gentlemen, however, exhib
ited the utmost coolness throughout,
and not a nervous tremor from first to
last could be detected in either.
THE PARRICIDE.
Termination of the Walworth Case—
The End of the Case—Graphic Ac
count of the Proceedings -Waiting
for the Verdict—The Closing Scenes-
New York, July 3. —Long before the
Judge showed any signs of concluding
his charge the jury had several times
gazed wistfully at the clock, but the
Court continued, and the jurors were
fain to fan themselves frantically and
rock desperately in their chairs, when
at a quarter past four Judge Davis,
without any warning, said: “ Now, gen
tlemen, I think that is all I have to
say.” A sigh of relief was plainly au
dible and everybody craned his neck to
find out how long his Honor hud really
spoken. Mr. O’Conor, just before the
jury retired, asked the Court to charge
on certain points, and Judge Davis hav
ing requested the jury to bo specific in
rendering their verdict, they filed out
of the Court room at twenty-five min
utes past four. Judge Davis put on his
hat and walked away, and the counsel
immediately set to work to fill three
carpet bags with legal documents that
lay strewn about the desks. Young
Wulwortli was led into an adjoining
room, his little brother following. Then
the ladies stood up and had a secret
session, very decided opinions being ex
pressed, if facial expression is indicative
of sentiment. The Court room emptied
slowly, but a number of persons
anxious to secure desirable seats, so
as to be near the prisoner when he heard
the verdict, remained and whiled away
the time by smoking and chatting with
each other. Judge Davis, before going
home to dinner, left word that if not
previously sent for he would come down
town again at 11 o’clock. When the jury
had been out for two hous and a half a
flutter of excitement ran through the
Court room and corridors, and it was
whispered that the jury had agreed.—
Some unfortunate individual had wan
dered up to the top story of the Court
House, and from the small room in which
the jurors were locked up sounds of
wrangling and discordant noises were
heard to proceed. Each juror was ad
dressing his follow' in a speech, and this
betokened disagreement. A rumor to
this effect spread among those in the
Conrt room, and another gentleman vol
unteered to play the eaves-dropper in
the Court House attic. Then came the
report that the jury stood nine for mur
der in the first degreo and three for
murder in the second degree, and that
there was no possibility of agreement.
This was subsequently ascertained to
have been the condition of the jury for
some time after being locked up. Shortly
after eight o’clock a movement in the
lobbies denoted that some decision had
been arrived at, and the renewed activ
ity of the Court officers betokened that
Judge Davis was about to take liis seat
on the bench.
Slowly the procession entered, the
Judge, accompanied by Mr. Sparks, his
clerk, leading. Then the jury filed into
their seats and everybody awaited the
coming of young Walworth. In a few
seconds Frank, his mother and brother
had taken their accustomed seats. Con
trary to expectation, the female friends
of the family came into Court, followed
by the prisoner’s counsel. During an
unbroken silence, while every one held
his breath, the clerk called out suddenly,
“The jurors will answer to their names.”
Young Walworth turned deadly pale,
then turning in his chair, he braced
himself up and gazed fixedly at the
jurors. His mother raised her veil, dis
closing a set of features white as marble,
and with her lips tightly compressed,
looked resolutely at the faces of the
twelvo men who were to decide the fate
of her son. The little boy craned his
neck, and, with staring eyes ami hands
tightly grasping the chair in front of
him, seemed unconscious of everything
passing around. In a firm voice each
juror answered to his name, and then
the question “ Have you agreed upon a
verdict ?” was asked. The foreman, in
his nervousness, answered. “We have—
a verdict in the second degree ?” “Os
what?” “Os murder!” Mrs. Walworth,
who had sat rigid while this conversa
tion took place, turned in her chair and
smiled upon her son. Frank’s breast
heaved, and, taking three long breaths,
he threw his head back suddenly and
seemed about to faint. He recovered
liimßelf, however, anil looked straight at
the Judge, expecting his sentenco.
Charles O’Conor, with his head bowed,
advanoed, and when within a few feet of
Judge Davis asked that sentence might
be deferred. The Court was inexorable,
but General Davies and ex-District At
torney Garvin joined in the plea, and
Assistant District Attorney Rollins hav
ing interposed no objection, Frank Wal
worth was led from the Court room to a
carriage and driven to the Tom ns.
New Yobk, July s.—Frank Walworth
was to-day sentenced to the State prison,
at Sing Sing, at hard labor, for life.—
Judge Davis, in addressing the prison
er, said he had fearful doubts whether
his case did not justify a conviction of
murder in the first degree. The prison
er stood the trying ordeal with firmness,
without moving a musdeof his features,
and left the Court with his mother im
mediately after tho Judge had conclud
ed.
New York, July 5, night.—While on
his way to tho Tombs after sentence
hau been pronounced, young Walworth
retained tho self-collected appearance by
which he was characterized through the
trial. He remarked to the deputy
sheriff, “I am glad that I did not have
to endure tho long lecture I had expect
ed that Judge Davis would inflict upon
me. I thoroughly understand my posi
tion, and did not desire any instruction
in relation thereto. I simply wish time
to arrange my affairs, and I shall then
submit myself to my fate with all the
equanimity I can command.” The dep
uty sheriff had previously received in
structions to take throo convicted crimi
nals to Sing Sing on Monday, and it
would be impossible for him to return
for Walworth before Wednesday. Be
sides this, the sheriff is disposed to
grant the wish of Walworth’s friends
and relatives, who are extremoly anxious
that lie should not be removed before,
in order that he may settle his affairs.
Mr. O’Conor, it is understood, intends
to move at an early day for a now trial,
or for such farther proceedings as may
give tho case a new phase; and, in addi
tion, to move that Walworth may be
pcnmttod to remain in tho Tombs till
the questions raised shall have been de
termined.
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
Observance of the Day.
Wilmington, July 4.—Business is en
tirely suspended and the streets almost
deserted. A largo proportion of the
population are absent on excursions and
attending; a regatta on the sea coast.
No business will be transacted until
Monday.
Washington, July 4.—AH the mem
bers of the Cabinet were out of town to
day, and no public celebration was held.
The Oldest Inhabitants’ Association, in
accordance with their usual custom, met
and had appropriate ceremonies. Nu
merous pic-nic parties passed the day
in neighboring groves. The Knights of
St. Patrick paraded in full regnlia, and
marched to the Sohutzen Park, where
they held a pic-nic, which was attended
bj a large number of people.
The Colored Sunday School Union
held their annual celebration at Lincoln
Hall, and the Catholic Colored Sunday
Scho >1 celebrated the day in the White
lot, south of the Executive Mansion.
There was a fine breeze blowing all day,
and the weather was much more com
fortable than yesterday.
New York, July 4.—The day was very
quietly observed to-day. Business en
tirely suspended and will remain par
tially so until Monday. There was a
fine parade of the military this morn
ing and the usual anniversary exercises
by the Tammany Society. There are dis
plays of fireworks to-uiglit at various
points in the city.
CUBA LIBRE.
Oerrltt Smith on the Cuban Cause—
The Administration Arraigned—The
Resolution Passed.
Syracuse, N. Y., July s.—At a great
Fourth of July celebration hero yester
day, Gerritt Smith, in his address,
touched on the Cuban question, arraign
ing the Administration for its coldness
towards the cause of Cuban indepen
dence, while allowing gunboats to be
fitted out in New York for Spanish use.
Cuba, by maintaining sucoes-ful resist
ance for nearly five years, had earned a
recognition of her belligerent rights.
He hoped that sinco the Government
hesitated, the people would tako up the
Cuban cause and force the Government
to act. A resolution was adopted ex
pressing sympathy with Cuba, and call
ing on the Government to acknowledge
the belligerency, if indeed not the inde
pendence of Cuba.
Nashville, July 5. —There were only
four deaths from cholera in this city to
day.
Memphis, July s.—But two deaths
from cholera occurred in this city to
day.