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The Sunday Constitutionalist.
We will, to-morrow, Sunday morning, is
sue an extraordinary edition, twice as large
as upon any other day. It will contain
telegraphic news from all points of the
world, correspondence, miscellaneous arti
cles, and the usual editorial commentaries.
This edition of our paper is well nigh uni
versally read by the population of Augusta
and vicinity. Three and four times the
usual number are sent out upon the trains
leaving the city and sold along the roads
leading therefrom. Advertisers will see
from this statement of facts the advan
tages presented of communicating with
ninety per cent, of the reading portion of
Augusta and the surrounding country.
The reports from Friar’s Point, Miss.,
are as contradictory as those from Herze
p ovina.
The telegraphic dispatches sent us last
eve ling were like the Charleston election—
a little mixed.
Gov. Smith having been prayed for by
the negro Convention, we may hear of his
taking to sackcloth and ashes in a few
days.
Harris, of the Savannah Neu>B, says the
total number of gin houses destroyed by
lire, last year, was ninety-eight and not
thirty-eight, as we erroneously stated a
day or two ago.
The irrepressible Turner thinks gold
can be gathered by the handful in Africa.
A man who talks such nonsense as that
ought to be sent to Milledgevillo previous
to a trip to the Guinea coast.
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George Spesr, a negro aged Ik), who had
a wife and live children, was hanged at
Fayetteville, Ga., yesterday, for a beastly
outrage committed last May. He died pro
testing his innocence, of course.
*
A two column article on the Mont
pelier Lottery swindle, from the Courier-
Journal, would be mighty line reading.
Hen Wood, of New York, could get up
something attractive on the same subject
in one or both of his papers.
And now we learn that the Herzegovin
ian leader, Ljiebobratich, is sick. His
dreadful name must have struck inwards,
just as it is said that Mr. Lincoln once
had a severe cramp colic by swallowing an
unusually bad joke.
The Peabody Fund Trustees have elected
Hon. Henry li. Jackson, of Savannah, to
succeed ex-Gov. Graham as a member of
the Board. The next meeting will take
place on the first Wednesday in August, at
the White Sulphur Springs, Va.
The News and Courier states that the
official vote for Mayor, in the recent
Charleston election, was as follows : Cun
ningham, 6.219; Wageneb, 4.017. Majority
for Cunningham, 2,202. Now that the bat
tle is over, the News and Courier says "let
us have peace.”
In refusing to honor the draft of the
“Tennessee Car Company,” Gov. Smith
acted in perfect accord with his adminis
tration from the beginning. It was a
swindling concern, bold and shameless. It
is too late by several years to collect a
bogus carpet-bag debt from the State of
Georgia. The man who expects to get
money upon such claicr s now must be a
born fool or a deliberate knave.
The colored conventioners seem to have
f rgotten that the black people have pros
pered more in Georgia than any other
Southern State. Even Mr. Nordhoff, a
Republican, admitted that. But if those
busy-bodies, Turner, Jeff Long, et al., can
persuade their brethren that there is a bet
ter place for them than Georgia, so be it.
All colored men or women who wish to em
igrate can do so. Nobody will prevent
them.
"Prester John” writes us an excellent
article on the cause of the ruin of cotton
gins, ana gives an ingenious reason for
many conflagrations. The Wilmington iN.
C.) Commercial makes the point that pre
vious to the introduction of the “improved”
machines there was scarcely such a thing
as fire in a cotton gin “supposed to be acci
dental,’’ or “supposed to be incendiary;”
and, further, that heretofore there was no
more risk to an insurance company in a
cotton gin than in an ordinary dwelling.
At present, however, it appears that it is
impossible to obtain insurance at all, the
‘ ’pick-faster-than-any-other” being regard
ed as dangerous incendiaries. Ordinary
gins, we are told, will run from ten to
twenty years without the least accident,
and in some counties not a gin has been
burned in all that time; but now it is coru
ifnoQ for live or six to be lost every winter.
<►
The “Hon.” Mr. Deveaux must be con
siderable of a wag, if he is the author of a
series of resolutions read in the convention
yesterday, returning a vote of thanks to
Gen. Toombs, Ben Hill, Gen. Gordon and
ex-Gov. Brown. He may be justly styled
the colored Mark Twain of Georgia. These
resolutions breathe such tender affection
for the Sage of Washington, the Eagle of
Atlanta or the Ninth District, the Lion of
Kirkwood, and the Fox of Bank Balances
that we are disposed to reconsider our
views with regard to the assumed hatred
Borne by the Rev. H. M. Turner and “Col.”
Th'omas Jefferson Long—“ Jeff” Long
for s.Vwt —towards the white people. But
as one test of fraternity is that of close
companionship in the same couch, as hinted
at by Turnx’vß, we presum® letters of re
gret and decollation will be returned by
Toombs, et. al., to these endearing senti
ments of devotion and high consideration.
It happened that Grant and Davis were
in St. Louis at the same time last week.
The St. Louis Times, whose comment we
give elsewhere, thinks the President-Gen
eral lost a great opportunity by not seek
ing out the ex-President of the Confederacy
and “shaking hands over the bloody
chasm.” It does look like that sort of con
duct would have been a stroke of genius
and true sentiment, but, as Grant has
neither the one nor the other of those quali
ties, ho may not be to blame. He let his
old war horses go, for a mere song, at pub
lic sale, to strangers, and ho never claimed
any grand inspirations beyond the power
<of hard knocks. There is something to be
said for the President-General, however.
He may have been doubtful of his reception
by Mr. Davis; his conduct might have
been misconstrued; and we presume that
he cordially hates the old Southern leader
and scorned ,to play the hypocrite. Be
sides, we know for certain that a slight he
received from General Lee, just after the
war, wounded him deeply and he has never
forgotten it. It seems that Lee visited
Washington in 1866. Grant, then General
of the Armies, promptly, and with the best
motives doubtless, called upon him as an
act of respect. Lee never returned that
courtesy, and Grant waa cut to the quick
thereby. What could have induced so mag
nanimous and noble-hearted a man MS Gen.
t to have acted in this manner, we shall
probably never know; but he chose to do
so. and it may be that Grant, remembering
that incident, determined that he would not
caught in a similar predicament again.
CMujustn Ccmsiitniionnlist
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Caught in the Act —A Bureau Man in
Default—Foreign Postage Regula
tions.
Washington, October B.—The Treas
ury Department has been officially ad
vised that parties in Cochrane’s Distil
lery, one of the largest in Chicago, were
caught in the act of withdrawing spir
its unlawfully from the cistern room.
Postmaster General Jewell has re
turned.
Action has been brought against G.
W. Balloch on a sixteen thousand dollar
irregularity in liis accounts as chief
disbursing office of the Freedman’s Bu
reau.
By a provision of the treaty of
Berne, packages for transmission
through the mails between the
countries embraced in that treaty are
limited for written matter to eight
ounces to two pounds and three oun
ces for printed matter and articles of
merchandise. This fact does not seem
to be generally known in this country,
the impression prevailing that the
United States limit of four pounds is
allowed. Packages weighing over
two pounds and three ounces are
daily arriving at the New York office
directed to European countries
but they can go no further
and are sent to the Dead Letter Office
in Washington, to meet the fate of
dead matter. Fifty-three packages
were sent to the Dead Letter Office to
day by Postmaster James, from New
York, only two of which the place of
mailing was known. One of these was
from Galveston, Texas, the other from
Richmond, Va., and the package was
directed to Judah P. Benjamin.
THE MISSISSIPPI SQUABBLE.
Chalmers Driving the Negroes—Al
corn’s Notes on the Situation.
Memphis, October B.—The latest dis
patches from Friar’s Point state that
Chalmers is driving Pease’s force from
Jonestown and had them nearly sur
rounded. Chalmers is determined to
capture Pease. This will end the dis
tuibance. Sheriff Brown is still at
Helena. He denies having incited the
liot, and has telegraphed Ames he
would quiet the disturbance. Senator
Alcorn telegraphed Attorney General
Alcorn the following; “Having read
several incorrect and sensational dis
patches touching recent race troubles
at Friar’s Point, I beg to assure you
there need be no alarm for the peace of
this county. Several hundred armed
negroes had been incited by an ill
tempered chief, marched on our town
and were rapidly repulsed by
the whites under the lead of
the most prudent citizens who
have been following the armed
band of negroes and dispersing them
with as little violence as possible and
urging them to go home. The mob has
been dispersed and I think will remain
quiet. There is no question of politics
in the excitement. The whites are to a
man for defence. Those of the negroes
who have been misled are fast being
reconciled. A community of planters
may be relied for kind treatment of
the labororiug class. The whites have
made no demonstration of hostility to
ward the negroes of this county, but
are anxious to cultivate the most
friendly relations. My name has been
most redicuously asserted in the mat
ter. I trust you will not give credence
to the share given me in this affair by
telegrams.
Respectfully, (signed),
J. L. Alcorn.
United States Senator.
End of tlie War —The Negroes Threat
en to Kill Brown- 11 Let Us Have
Pease.”
Memphis,, October 8. — The Friar’s
Point war is considered at an end. The
Ledger's Helena special says that Sher
iff Brown is still there, but says he will
not return to Friar’s Point, and that
the negroes there threaten to kill him
if he does. Many negroes from Coa
homa county are in Helena. Chalmers
is endeavoring to surround Pease and
capture him, if possible.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Hanging of a Murderer—A Defaulter
Brought to Taw—A “Fraud” in Limbo
—Destruction of a Foundry.
Boston, October 8. —Geo. W. Pember
ton was hanged for the murder of Mrs.
Bingham.
Montreal, October B. — A true bill
was found against the manager of the
Jacques Cartier Bank for making false
bank statements.
Chattanooga, October B. — Henry C.
Avery, arrested on the 6th inst. for at
tempting to defraud the Government,
waived an examination before the Com
missioner, who fixed his bail at §IO,OOO.
Failing to give bond, Avery was com
mitted to jail, to await the session of
the United States Circuit Court at
Knoxville, on the fourth Monday of
January next.
Ashland, Pa., October B.—J. &M.
Corner’s foundry was totally destroyed
by fire last night. Loss, §30,000. The
building and portions of the machinery
were partially insured. The conflagra
tion deprives a number of operatives of
work during the coming winter.
Pennsylvania Incendiarism.
Pottsville, Pa , October B.—An at
tempt was made this morning to de
stroy the Wm. Penn colliery at Shenan
doah. Before being extinguished the
saw mill attached to the colliery was
entirely destroyed.
Charles Dorr, of Orland, Me., went to
Bangor recently to buy a wedding suit.
He regaled himself on peaches and ale
on his way home, from the effects of
which he died the next day, the one set
for his marriage, and was buried in the
clothes he bought for his wedding.
Now that the negro leaders are agitating
the subject of emigration to Africa, look
out for an attempt on their part to collect
the spare cash of Sambo and Dinah. The
black man is very imitative, and a grand
co-operation society for tfe purpose of
civilizing their barbarous brethren and
scooping up “ handsfull of gold ” is now In
order. Asa preliminary to Ethiopian
evangelizatlou, Turner and Long will very
likely gather the duoats from conlidlng
colored folks on this side of the wafer. T ?
the black people give them a cent for any
such purpose they will ere long awake to
the truth of the adage that “ a fool and his
money are soon parted.”
Elsewhere, we publish the interview of
an Atlanta Herald reporter with Mr. Wal
lace Rhodes, touching Foster Blodgett
and his proposed return to Georgia for
trial. According to some mysterious
inklings, it is said tknt “Fos” will make
certain Democrats “squeal/’ Wo have
heard that lie kept due bills, correa pon
dence, etc, gathered during his day of pros
perity, and the a:legation goes that men
who publicly abused him privately shared
his spoil. Weil, be this rs it may, let him
come back and tell all he knows,
FOREIGN DISPATCHES
A $2,500,000 Fire in London—Herzego
vinian Losses— Crisis in Bavaria.
London, October B.— The Garden
House iu Queen Anne’s Gate, St. James’
Park, was burned. Loss, half a mil
lion sterling.
Specials state that the Herzegovinian
leader, Ljiebobratsch, is sick with
fever at Ragusa. Estimates place the
Herzegovese loss at 1,000 killed and
wounded during the campaign. They
still have 2,500, as determined as ever.
A special to the Daily Telegraph from
Vienna says news has been received
from Munich that the King of Bavaria
refused to accept the resignation of the
ministry, and a dissolution of the
Chambers is probable.
Munich, October B. —The Ultramon
tane party introduced a violeut address
in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies,
and are calling for the dismissal of the
present ministry.
Synopsis of Mexican Affairs.
City of Mexico, September 30.—Con
gress met for the iirst time under the
restored regime since 1857. President
Lerdo de Tejada, in opening the ses
sion, said: “We may congratulate our
selves upon the undeviating progress
of our institutions. Onr relations with
the friendly foreign powers are satis
factoiy. A Minister to the King of
Spain has again been accredited. A
treaty adjusting the boundary line be
tween Mexico and Guatemala will soon
be concluded. The Chihuahua and So
nora Investigating Commission have
brought their labors to a satisfac
tory termination. The election of
members of the Supreme Court
has been held, and the result awaits
the confirmation of Congress.
The Federal District Courts are to
be reorganized; and the subject of pub
lic education will receive especial at
tention. The ordinary payments of the
Administration, eivil and military, are
made with regularity. Peace prevails
throughout the Republic, internal im
provements are going on, and the har
bor works at Mazatlan, Tampico and
Frontera are progressing. The Presi
dent’s speech was well received.
■
FROM NEW YORK.
Moody and Sankey to Smoke Out
Brooklyn Sinners—Arrest of a Sup
posed Murderer—Duncan, Sherman
*fc Cos. Withdraw Their Proposition.
New York, October B.—Moody and
Sankey commence in Brooklyn on
Monday, October 31st, at the rink.
The Fire Superintendents adjourned
to meet at Philadelphia next year.
A thief, twenty-six years old, was ar
rested on the charge of the murder of
Mr. Noe. He pawned Mr. Noe’s watch
the day after the murder.
Ou motion of Tweed’s counsel for
further delay, the court gives the de
fendant seven days to prepare.
It is stated that Duncan, Sherman &
Cos. have withdrawn the proposition
made to creditors, only a few having
accepted.
Run on a Bank —Sentence of a Mur
derer.
New York, October B. —There was a
run on the German Savings Bank, cor
ner of Fifty-fifth street and Third
avenue to-day. The President says
the bank is sound, and the run was
caused solely by the collapse of the
Third Avenue Savings Bank.
Henry Rex, the watchman who shot
and killed John McKenna, aged twelve
years, for calling him “Fritz,” was
convicted of murder in the second de
gree to-day, and sentenced to imprison
ment for life.
English Stockholders and the Erie
Railroad.
Judge Donohue, to-day, granted an
order sanctioning the conclusions
reached by the English stock and bond
holders of the Erie Railway, sent over
to confer with Receiver Jewett. These
conclusions are that the bondholders,
whose interest is in arrears, should
have a voice in the expenditure of the
net earnings, and that the foreign stock
and bondholders should have some
representation in the Board of Direc
tors and that the Receivership should
be terminated as soon as possible. The
court authorized tiie Receiver to take
such measures upon this basis as he
deems advisable.
SPORTING NEWS. 9
New York and Nashville Races.
Jerome Park, October B.—ln the first
race, one and a half mile dash, Picolo
was tiie winner ; Josie B. second, and
B. F. Carver third. Time, 2:45%.
In the second race, two and a half
miles, Aaron Pennington was the win
ner ; Willie Burk second ; Shylock was
beaten off. Time, 4:15%.
Iu the third race, mile heats, Ilhado
manthus won. Time, 1:48, 1:48%.
In the fourth race, live furlongs, for
two year olds, Y T irgiuius was the win
ner. The mile heats were won by
Weathersby ; Fairplay second. Time,
1:45%, 1:46%, 1:47%.
In the third race for beaten three
year olds, a dash of three-quarters of
a mile, bailie Gardner was the winner,
Sue Wynn second, and Vindicator third.
Time, 1:16%.
Nashville, October B.—The first race,
for two year olds, was won by Gard
ner’s chestnut filly ; Plenty second,
and Clemmie G. third. Time, 1:46.
Minor Telegrams.
Chicago, October B.—The Board of
Missions held a final meeting, which
was devoted to short addresses, devo
tional exercises and leave-takings.
Philadelphia, October 8. —The mo
tiod for anew trial of Vandervelt was
argued. The opinion was reserved.
Nashville. October B.—The Tennes
see Central College iu this city opened
to-day. Rev. Dr. Rusk presided, and
Bishop Bowman delivered the address.
Memphis, October B.— The Memphis
Cotton Exchange has offered a pre
mium of §I,OOO for the best bale of cot
ton of the present crop, grown in any
country tributary to Memphis, for ex
hibition at the Philadelphia Centennial.
Death of Contoi?, the Millionaire
Confectioner. —John H. Contoit, a
French confectioner, and for many
years proprietor of Contoit’s Garden in
Mew York, died in that city on Saturr
dav, aged 88 years, leaving an estate
valued fit §3,000,000, which he had
amassed iu his business, to an only son,
Mr. Contoit was exceedingly economi
cal in his own spendings; yet he was
far from being a miser. He arose daily
at 4 o’clock and made his own fire. His
food was of the simplest kind. He
neyp? kept a coach, but preferred the
democratic He said the jolt
ing was good exercise. Jfe pever trav
eled fifty miles from New Ybfk city,
add fop the last ten years of his life did
not cross eitbej.’ of the rivers. He had
a particularity of always having aheut
fifty thousand dollars in the Pacific
Bank.
AUGUSTA.. G A.. AT IT III) AY. OCTOBER 9 1875.
COMING TANARUS(! JUSTICE.
I
Foster Blodgett < ning Back to At
lanta to Give Hiiluielf Up—A Noto
rious Case Aheal for the Georgia
Courts —Will it W qtee Anybody Up ?
[Atlanta H< -aid. Bth ]
A Herald report! r called upon Mr,
Wallace Rhodes lasi; night to get some
information concert ing the notorious
Foster Blodgett, win , it is said, has de
termined to come b; sk to
Mr. Rhodes sayi : “I saw Foster
Blodgett a week ag< last Sunday, and
I feel authorized in laying that before
the Ist of Novembef he will come back
to Atlanta and delf/er himself up to
the officers of the < iirt, and announce
ready for trial undtf the indictments
now pending agains;|t:im.”
“You are certain tint he will come?”
“I am. It is his dfliberate and fully
made-up plan. He Ays that he is now
ready for the test, a%i is not afraid to
go before a jury. HI feels that he can
not move one way o | another as long
as these indictmentsliang against him.
The time of his colling will depend
somewhat upon liis {lrivate affairs; but
he will be here before the Ist of No
vember.” j
Mr. Rhodes furth- said, laughingly:
“He might come w ,h impunity, if he
didn’t choose to tnal a himself known.
He is as gray as a h st year’s badger,
and his best friend >r worst enemy
wouldn’t know him.”j
Another View o the Matter.
There is another v ew of Blodgett’s
plan, and the cause i that induce it,
which lead to the suj position that his
return is not altoget! er voluntary. It
is said to be known to a few gentle
men of Atlanta tha some time ago,
Mr. John Pool, a pro ament citizen of
South Carolina, and ifodgett’s father
in-law, came to this city in quite a bad
humor with Blodgltt. It is said
that he consult* a leading
lawyer here and | made certain
points against Blofeett, and ask
ed the lawyer if !& thought that
Governor Smith would make a requisi
tion for Blodgett, string that Cham
berlain had agreed t| deliver him to
Governor Smith upoi>|i requisition be
ing made. It was presumed that Gov
ernor Moses would jU.ve declined to
surrender Blodgett jujpn demand, and,
under this assumption it was thought
Blodgett was resting secure.
It is said that now, ,-*:tice Chamberlin
has agreed to give hin| up, and Smith
is liable at any time |,o demand him,
Blodgett has conceh&d the idea of
voluntarily Burreuder|ig himself and
winning all the grace |L at such a sur
render might give. Biipdgett’s friends
say that Pool is mad because Blodgett
is suing him for §25,00% loaned money
with seven years’ interest; this, how
ever, does not alter th 1 case.
A prominent politicuju, in discussinc:
the matter with us last [light, remarked
that if Blodgett can 8 back, deter
termined to make a ; asty fight, and
tell everything he knee: , that he would
raise a howl from one ; ud of the State
to the other. Some little excitement
was created some time ago bv a state
ment advertised ei .ensively that
Blodgett would pubic ) in the Green
ville News “the unwritten history of
the Bullock regime.” lit is said that
his appearance on tni witness stand
( with his mouth widcf open and his
tongue oiled will make filings noisy for
a month to come. i
A Little Game Til “ Draw.”
[Virginia (Nev.) Gfroniele.]
It was a pleasant an* right sociable
little party that sat arolnd a little piue
table in the rear of a (g ; street grocery
night before last. Thefe were five men
in the party, and on candle
boxes, end up. A illuminated
the board, enabling tlf. reporter (who
had dropped in to ge% i pound of su
gar) to see that each i*an had a num
ber of white beans ii * front of him.
They were playing cf'rds, .and kept
pushing from one to sie other a big
jack-knife, which tlufjr called “ the
buck,” probably from the fact that it
had a buckhorn han*%\ maybe, per
haps. One man seemed to be doing
most of the talking. Mis name was
Sam Griggles. He talkll like a philos
opher, and the reportei sat down on a
beer keg and listened tqihim.
Griggles on Wedlock.
I tell you there’s no i§;e talking. The
best thing a man can d”is to git raar
tied. Gimme three an| bet you five
beans. Bein’ single Fas its advan
tages. See it and raisiLyou six. But
the comfort a man tail s in havin’ a
wife and a home of h® own can’t be
told. Raise me ten, *gr? See it an’
call. Dammit, you’vqp got the pot
agin, Jim ! Put a bit oLice iu mine an’
a dash o’ bitters. Yes.poys, a wife’s a
good thing, you bet youffeottom dollar.
Whew! Ten to conic;“n! Ail right,
Jim; straddle your bli||l. Now, when
a man gets through hi.“|*lay’s work an’
feels tired an’ worn outfevhat’s nicer’n
to go home an’ find a %ood little wife
waitin’ fur you readyfio throw her
arms round yer neck an| —Oh, Lord ! ”
Wedlock ou Giggles.
A hush fell upon the corner grpeery
as she walked in with afffiawl over her
head and brought him cape on the side
of the head that sent Sis cards flying
and upset his cocktail. llpither of them
spoke a word, but hejooked as if he
had lost one foot of hi six as he fol
lowed her out. Event the subdued
snicker behind him coulln’t make him
look meaner. |
In Earnest. —We dim# the other day
at a plantation. A litf[e boy, three
years old, had been out- admiring the
cattle on the place, /yglass of milk
was given him, wdien, |rith a counte
nance full of earnestnesf the little fel
low asked, “Grandma, tnis steer’s
milk?” “Hush! my chil<| you must hot
talk at the table; chilcgen should be
seen and not heard.” A|ter a while he
asked for a glass of buttermilk, and
taking advantage of a fell in the con
versation, he resumed I
know now; cows give gQr®etmilk, but
steers give buttermilk; : $s this steer’s
buttermilk?” It was use-fss to attempt
gravity; the child literally overwhelm
ed the whole party by tjfis precocious
earnestness. — [Columbus^Times.
An Innocent Question. —“Father,”
asked a Vicksburg boy Vt the dining
table the other day, ‘|ire you a big
man?” “Well, I dunn,” musingly
answered the parent; “Wily ?” I
heard some man talking over at the
hotel, and they said yoif were one of
biggest men in town,” feWell, I sup
pose I do stand pretty jfcigh,” replied
the parent, looking ple;| ed and oon*
sequential. There was ijfef a minute
of silence, and then th%- boy added :
“They said it was a wonder how you
carried your feet arouiKj!” The boy
can’t understand yet wl%* he should
have received a box on fee ear which
made his head roar for long hours.
Vicksburg Herald. ’f
A New York boy has in come insane
from reading burglar anu&irate stories.
WHAT RUINS COTTON GINS.
[For the Constitutionalist.)
Mr, Editor: Thousands of cotton gins
are needlessly injured, if not entirely
ruined, by one single cause. That
cause is permitting moat or lint cotton
(that is, cotton that has been once gin
ned,) to be mixed with seed cotton and
passed through the saws a second time.
Such lint cotton catches in the teeth,
clogs the saws, dulls the teeth, and
bends or breaks them. It also bends
or breaks the ribs, wears the boxes,
and strains the whole gin so as to make
it produce a bad sample, and speedily
become almost worthless. It likewise
increases the draft so as to distress the
mules propelling the gin, and creates
so much friction as often to set the gin
house on fire. Thus can be explained
the burning of many a gin house by the
supposed spontaneous combustion of
cotton.
Hence every owner of a gin house
should be very careful about where his
inoat cotton is placed, also about per
mitting the “flyings” or “hangings” to
fall on his seed cotton. Above all
should he bo particular iu preventing
the ginner or his assistant, when re
turning from the lint room, after “pack
ing the cotton back,” as it is called,
from having any lint on his cloth
ing. The usual assistant at a gin
to hand seed cotton and “pack back”
lint is a playful urchin, who delights
first to wallow in the lint room and
then, without divesting himself of the
lint adhering to his clothes, next to roll
on the seed cotton. Oftentimes every
boy, black and white, on a large plan
tation, after a general frolic in the lint
room, will immediately emerge there
from and continue their wrestling, roll
ing and romping over the seed cotton,
with perhaps half a pound of lint stick
ing to each one’s ragged or woolen ap
parel. Such play is of course delight
ful to the boys, but it is dear sport to
the owners of the gin. In many gin
houses too, while pacning cotton for
market, much lint is mixed with the
seed cotton, either by carelessness or
by the wind.
A gin is a costly machine, but it is
not a delicate one, or easily put out of
order if previously ginned lint is kept
out of the saws. In fact a good gin
rightly managed, should with but little
sharpening and small repairs pick fifty
bales of lint a year and last a planter
of average longevity his life time,
whereas most gins become useless or
nearly so iu perhaps five years from
the simgle cause I have indicated. No
child ever ought to be allowed to enter
a lint room where it can well be pre
vented. Your readers may possibly
hear from me again now and then,
ou whatever subject inclination may
prompt, if you shall feel at liberty to
publish this scrawl of
Prester John.
A Stunning Welcome to tiie Seminary
Girls.
The Staunton (Va.) Vindicator “pokes
fun” at the girls returning to the
schools of that lively town in the fol
lowing exasperated style:
i Addrooo of welcome by the Vindica
tor Seminary.—Dear GUIs —You nave
returned to our, so to speak, parental
care for another session. From the
erect and prim parlor border to the
liveliest little romper among you all.
(Don’t scream, it’s only figurative.) You
have returned from a world full of piu
backs and other suares for the uuwary,
but here you are safe. Within these
sacred walls you may pin your dresses
back until you stop the circulation and
the unhallowed eye of man shall not
gloat over it. (Man generally has
two eyes, but you will find in your
composition that “•eye” has a bet
sound.) Every arrangement has
been made to secure you against
the intrusion of these pests of
seminaries. No man shall enter these
hallowed premises unless he brings a
cast iron certificate from a presiding
magistrate that he is your father or
mother, or at least your aunt. At
every interview the cook will be pres
ent with a double-barreled gun, and at
any attempt to hold your hand, the
reckless invader will bo shot on the
spot. Any day scholar who speaks to
you of the German, or of the club, or
shall mentiou to you she has a brother,
will be expelled. With these precau
tions, the Principal hopes to prevent
the entrance of the fell destroyer.
Your Principal cannot refrain from con
gratulating you that you have not lost
your appetites. Whatever you may lost
during your absence, you have to
thank Providence that they have been
spared to you. And after all, my
dear childron, what is geometry or
trigonometry, or any other ometry to
a good appetite. And then to think
how many of the trials of life you are
rid of by being in this sacred and pious
institution. Other girls outside have
to sit up and dance till 3 o’clock in the
morning, and crimp their hair with
red hot irons, aud cover their faces
with powder aud their cheeks with
paint, and take moonlight walks witli
the boys, while you have only to sit
here in quiet aud survey the placid
features of your beloved principal.
Separated from the world you have
time for serious thought and to reflect
on the follies of our fellowmen, and to
remember that “man is born of women,
is full of sparks and flies upwards,” or
words to that effect. You will find it
in your catechism.
First class iu Physical Geometif’,
stand up! _ _
Alluding to the failure of ttie Solo
mon bank at Coulmbia, the Register
suggests that some reputable taxpay
ers might take steps to secure a rigid
investigation into the matter. State
Treasurer Cardozo has written a letter
to the Coulmbia Register in which he
explains how he came in possession of
Mr. Hardy Solomon’s interest in the
Union-Herald. He states that the pa
per was owned by himself, Mr. Solo
mon and three other persons, and that
in April last Mr. Solomon, at his sug
gestion, offered to transfer his interest
in the paper in satisfaction of a claim
of §3,000 which he, Mr. Solomon, then
owed him. This offer, being agreeable
to both parties, was accepted and the
transfer made.
How to Weigh a Load of Coal.—
Weigher: “This load is too heavy;
jump on there, Patrick, and take off a
few baskets.” Patrick jumps on the
load and shovels off coal qntil the
weigher cries “stop,” and the purchaser
of the coal pays for 160 pounds of Irish
man which he does not receive.—[Pick
ings.
mm* • >tmi
It would seem the era of damphool
ery bad reached its climax in this com
munity, when a person could induce
the Governor of the State to lay the
cornor stone of a piggery, and com.
memorate his own marriage anniver
sary by a pork-#nd-beans reception.—
[Boston Commonwealth.
A married man, aged 18, of Rye
Beach, N. has eloped with a girl
aged 16.
CAPTAIN WARD’S WILL.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
How a Great Capitalist Lived and
Died—A Money King Possessed by
Spirits—His Monstrous Perversions
—A Hideous Picture of Family
Taints aud Discords—The Curse of
Gold. *
[New York Times. |
Capt. Eber B. Ward was a man who
would have been ranked by any one
who knew him in his public relations
only, as an excellent type of the enter
prising, energetic and successful Ameri
can capitalist. He built up a thriving
and busy little town ; he owned or con
trolled smelting works, rolling mills,
and steel works, all of a very exten
sive character ; he owned piue
equal in extent to ten times the area of
this island ; and he was either the sole
proprietor or the controlling stockhol
der in mines of iron, lead, silver, cop
per and corundum in Michigan, Mis
souri, Utah, Arizona and North Caro
lina. He was a ship builder and ship
owner, a president of two railroads
and sundry industrial enterprises. H* j
was the favorite candidate for Secre
tary of the Treasury during the anti-
Johnson movement, and was recog
nized as a power in politics up to the
day of his death, Altogether, Capt.
Ward seemed one of the highest em
bodiments of the practical, pushing
spirit of our people—a man who had
contributed as largely as any one liv
ing to the material progress of his age,
aud who had achieved deserved suc
cess by sheer force of working energy
and capacity for organization.
In January last Capt. Ward fell down
dead in the streets of Detroit. The
breath was hardly out of his body
w T hen two of liis sons by his first mar
riage hastened to secure the services
of eminent counsel to contest his will.
The case was opened last month, and
after some ten days of legal fence and
judicial rulings on preliminary points,
the private life of the Michigan mil
lionaire is being revealed on the wit
ness stand. It appears that Capt.
Ward came of a family stroDgly taint
ed with insanity: that he had both
legitimate and illegitimate children who
are confirmed lunatics. It has beer,
shown that he procured a divorce from
his first wife by gross fraud, and that
two months after that achievement he
married the young lady who is now his
widow and the legatee of two millions
of his property. There is, perhaps,
nothing very surprising about the fact
that this great industrial chief of the
Northwest should have been a man of
low passions and impure life. But it
does seem a violent contradiction to
the ordinary ideal of such a character
that he should have been an abject
slave to the delusions of spiritualism.
The services of mediums were in
voked by Captain Ward, not only iu
regard to the affairsfo liis family; they
were his constant recourse in matters
of business. When he wanted advice
on railroad affairs, he procured a con
sultation with the spirit of Dean Rich
mond, and none of his numerous min
ing ventures were undertaken without
an interview with the spirit of a Ger
man geologist, who answered to the
euphonious name of “Cabbage John.”
This appears to have been Captain
Ward’s iamiliar spirit. At the dicta
tion of the deceased German, he sent
out expeditions in search of silver, and
he obeyed orders from the same source
iu opposing the re-election of Senator
Chandler. In the course of cross-ex
amination the other day, a female me
dium went into a trance in the witness
box, and made some remarks iu Ger
man, though she swore ou regaining
consciousness that she did not under
stand a word of that language. It may
be inferred that this seizure was due
to the interest which Captain Ward’s
favorite Teutonic spirit, still persists iu
manifesting in liis affairs.
Had the deceased millionaire not
taken the advice of the spirits about
his will, his intimate relations with the
unseen world would probably not have
been revealed to the general public.—
Ho certainly had fair warning while
that instrument was iu preparation
that there was trouble ahead. While
the spirits of certain deceased relatives
of his second wife wore engaged in dic
tating the will, the spirit of his first
wife seems to have come, unbidden,
and interrupted the process by exclam
ations of indignant protest. This lady
had some reason for making herself
disagreeable in ghostly circles. The
spirits not only conspired to cheat her
children out of their inheritance, but
attempted to blacken her own charac
ter. A floral wreath was painted by a
blindfolded medium acting under the
usual influences, and in the symbolical
representation of Capt. Ward’s family
therein given, one sou was omitted on
grounds of illegitimacy. Ou the strength
of this artistic piece of spirit business,
the credulous millionaire repudiated
the son iu question, and drove him to
suicide. .
, The trial which has furnished the oc
casion of these extraordinary disclo
sures is still iu progress, and a good
deal of similar, if not more unsavory,
matter is in reserve. The bitterness of
feeling excited by the case seems to
have extended to the lawyers engaged
on either side. The leading counsel for
Capt. Ward’s widow made a somewhat
scurrilous personal attack, the other
day, on the chief counsel opposed to
him. That nothing might be wanting
to complete the sensational details of
the case, Capt. Ward’s eldest son, a
confirmed lunatic, was with difficulty
prevented from assaulting one of the
lawyers engaged in opposing the claims
of his branch of the family. Altogether,
the story which is in process of revela
tion at Detroit is one of those narra
tives which would have been called
monstrously improbable in fiction, and
which has certainly no parallel in real
life.
The of a Milwaukee audience
stood right up the other night when
Prof. Gunning rang out the following :
“ Time was when sloths of elephantine
bulk browsed the trees of South Amer
ica, and troops of mastodons and mam
moths of more chan elephantine bulk
roamed over North America, and mam
moths and mammoth elks and tigers
and bears iu Europe. At once,
everywhere on the globo these great
dynasties began to wane. The blood
in the veins of nature seemed to be
drying up. The megatherium of South
America died out, aud its family lapsed
into the little ant-eaters and armadil
loes and sloths. The great cave bear
faded out of Europe and shrqnk into
the grizzly of the Rocky Mountains,
Mastodons and mammoths perished in
Europe and America, and their dynasty
dwfndled into the smaller elephants
which live to-day in Asia and Africa.”
Grant’s Missouri farm runs him in
debt. He ain’t as successful raising
stock as salaries. In fact, Grant stock
was never lower than at present.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 56
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Marietta Journal: A sermon will be
preached by Catharine Schertz on the
•‘lngathering of Israel for the redemp
tion of Spirit, Soul aud Body, to enter
into Life Eternal,” at the Court House,
on next Sunday evening, at 3 o’clock.
We would be much obliged to Col.
Styles if he would send us a copy of
his paper we can read without the aid
of a telescope. We have no telescope
and must, therefore, insist upon the
paper being printed better.
Gov. Smith having received a peti
tion from Coweta county to pardon
Brinkley, the uxorcide, under sentence
of death and to be hung on the 29th, on
the ground that he was insane, has
directed an inquiry to be officially
made in the matter. A counter-peti
tion has been received, asking that the
execution proceed.
McDuffie and Warren counties have
had a prize fox chase, in which Mc-
Duffie won. The next chase is to be
McDuffie against—Augusta. In the
chase just ran there were thirty-five
men and horses aud twenty dogs. A
correspondent of the Journal says it
was the greatest sport they have had
since the war.
Covington Star: A young lady going
to college in Covington, aud whose
“papa” has the “stamps,” put on her
calico dress and a homespun apron,
and during the sickness of the lady of
the house, cooked all the meals for a
family of four for two days, besides do
ing the entire household duties, such as
making up beds, feeding the chickens,
dogs, pigs, etc., and learned her Junior
lessons well. Young man, that girl is
a jewel. She is worth her weight in
gold.
Gainesville Southron: Col. Candler
is pushing the fine residence of Gen.
Longstreet right along. It will be a
splendid building, situated in full view
of the Blue Itidge Mountains, where
the General and his family will get the
full benefit of the breezes. Gen. Long
street arrived home from New Orleans
Saturday night, looking well and as
brown as au ludian chief. He was
equipped with gun, spade, grub hoe
and a whacking big black Newfound
land dog. This looks like he meant to
hunt, kill and bury some of the unhal
lowed old fogy prejudice hereabouts
against him aud some others.
Atlanta Constitution: The Supreme
Court having affirmed the judgment of
the Superior Court of Fulton county,
in the case of the State vs. John Bard,
found guilty of assault and battery
upon Wm. Spencer, Esq., and sentenced
to pay a fine of SI,OOO or serve twelve
months upon the public works, the
only relief that could be sought was to
petition the Governor to remit the fine.
This remedy was sought by ex-Gov.
Sam Bard, father of convict, who sent
a very urgent petition to the Governor,
praying that his son be relieved of the
line imposed by the court. The
Governor, however, after examin
ing the case as presented, and
after the successive judgments of
the Superior and Inferior Courts, found
no warrant for any interference, and
yesterday refused the petition for a re
mission of the fine. John Bard is now
at large, and is presumed to be in Mont
gomery, Alabama. His bondsmen are
responsible for his appearance here,
and it is the duty of the sheriff to have
his body in custody in default of pay
ment of the fine. It is probable that im
mediate steps will be taken for his ar
rest and return to this State. The end
of all other proceedings except com
plying with the judgment of the courts
is reached.
Speaking of the Elberton Air-Line
Railroad, the Gazette says: Some so
licitation lias been felt aud expressed
in behalf of this enterprise, because of
late we have had nothing to say con
cerning it. In making a trade amount
ing to $150,000 or $250,000, it is very
natural for the parties interested to
move slowly and cautiously. It is the
same with railroad corporations also.
Negotiations for iron have been
pending for several months, and are
still pending, for the purpose
of procuring iron for this rail
road. A great deal of time is
necessarily involved in a transaction of
this nature, and success is not always
the result; but we think a point has
now been reached where the friends of
our road may entertain hopes of its
final completion at no very distant day.
Of this we can assure its friends aud
its enemies no efforts will be spared by
its officers until the purpose for which
the road was commenced has been fully
accomplished, aud the remotest idea of
failure is not entertained.
GLORYING IN THElll SHAME.
Two American Women who arm At
tracting Attention in Paris,
[Paris Correspondence of the Philadelphia
Telegraph.]
The weather continues to be perfectly
charming, and the Bois de Boulogne is
rapidly recovering its lost gayety. The
drive around theiakeis thronged every
fashionable afternoon, these being
Tuesdays and Fridays. The live vic
torias and elegant landaus of the demi
mondaines are, of course, among the
most remarked. Prominent among
these is the superb equipage of the
heroine of the Russian diamond scan
dal,the notorious Mrs. Blackfort and her
equally beautiful but less oelebrated
companion, the heroine of a recent New
York divoroe suit. Nor the honor of
my country, I grieve to say that these
two handsome, painted creatures are
the most marked and talked about of
any ladies of the same type in Paris.
Mrs. Blackfort has already avowed her
intention of dethroning Cora Pearl, and
of succeeding to her evil sovereignty.
Her portrait is in the window of every
prominent photographer in Paris, and
her faultless figure, long, almond
shaped eyes, refined, half-melanoholy
expression and painted lips, are al
ready familiar to all loungers in the
Bois de Boulogne on the Boulevards.
She will be setting the fashion (heaven
save the mark !) for all virtuous Chris
tendom in a few months \n all proba
bility.
The clerk of the board or oounty
commissioners of Greenville reports
the indebtedness of the treasurer
Ruuion) to be $9,720.01, lost in the
South Carolina Bank and Trust Com
pany. To be compelled to pay it over
again, as the Enterprise and Moun
taineer says, it is au almost insufferable
burden to the county. The greatest
hardship falls upon the teachers of the
public schools. It is stated that the
county commissioners will institute suit
to recover the amount on the official
bond of the treasurer.
Fashiop note: Mrs. Nature is don
ning brown, trimmecl with red and yel
low.—-j Boston Post.] Yes, but it’s the
same old dress she had on last year.
Mrs. Nature must really take a back
seat and read Jennie June.
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PERSONAL.
San Francisco has 352 unmarried fe
male teachers.
Grant has sold his mules. He didn’t
even reserve one for the Interior De
partment.
Frank Moulton sticks to his frfends
closer than a brother. He managed to
make it convenient to drop into Til
ton’s lecture in Boston, though he had
heard it before in New York and
Brooklyn.
The rival oystermen in Connecticut
are making b-oysterous demonstrations
against each other.
Dawes has gone to stump Ohio. He
stumped Massachusetts for an an infla
tionist last year, you know.
Sunday shaving is prohibited in many
Illinois towns, but the law will permit
a man to take his seven dogs and go
hunting on Sundav.—[Detroit Free
Press.
Miss Hatchett, the Illinois poetess, is
being ridiculed by the punsters on
having no handle to her name. What
of it? Her verses are first chop.
We arraign the Democratic party for
its peculations. It has stolen Republi
can principles.—[Lowell Courier. Bosh !
You never had any to steal.
A Cincinnati husband who firmly
contemplated suicide as soon as dinner
was over, got fearful mad because his
wife spilled some hot coffee on his
knees.
Mr. Coleman, who is mentioned as
Delano’s successor, recently presented
to the President a number of Holstein
cattle, which have been shipped to the
President’s farm.
Grant, for the first time had a chance
to realize the dullness of trade, in sell
ing his St. Louis farm stock. He fluds
a big salary, with perquisites, easier
than a horse-farm.
The Detroit Free Press thinks it the
best way not to make a will at all. If
you do make one the lawyers will
prove you au idiot or a lunatic, and
take the property for proving it.
The Rev. G. Hugh, of Vermont, de
livers his sermon in verse, and “dives
luriously” at the sinners with dactyl
and spondee, trochee, anapeest and
tribrach. No sleeping under him.
The three wonders of the world at
present are: How fluff accummuiates in
vest pockets, where the pins go to, and
why, when a man comes out of a saloon
he looks one way and goes the other.
Marshall O. Roberts, of New York,
aged 73, is to marry next Wednesday a
beautiful young lady, whom he met six
months ago on an ocean steamer, when
conveying the remains of his former
wife to their last resting place. Jenny
June says the wedding is thought by
New Yorkers to be in bad taste, to say
the least.
Two sisters, named Challis, have
bought a newspaper in Martinsville,
Pa., and are publishing vigorous edi
torials urging the young men to marry.
“Who will be the first,” inquires the
Pittsburg Dispatch, “to put a Challs to
his lips ?” It will be a ca’less fellow.
G. Washington Childs neglected to
write an obituary for Ned O’Baldwin,
the Irish giant aud prize-fighter. The
great obituary editor could not truth
fully say, “He has climbed the golden
stair”; but he might have said some
thing neat and appropriate to the occa
sion without meaning auything in par
ticular.
Bishop Hare, of Nebraska, is about
to marry a Miss Wolfe, said to be one
of the wealthiest young ladies in
America. Of course it was proper that
he should get an heiress; but is it not
unusual and unlawful to furnish a Wolfe
with Hare? Of course this Wolfe did
not take this Hare without being asked.
I am dying, Jacob, dying.
But my policy’s ail right;
I am ready, yes, I’m ready—
I have fought out the good fight,
I have always done my duty—
Mr. Jacob, ain’t that so ?
I would like to see the person
Who is readier to go!
I’ve refrained from advertising,
And I've stood in no one’s light;
Wben I went to the amusements
I’was alone on Friday night.
I am dying, yes, I’m dying—
( What’s the meaning of those yells ?)
I am passing over the river
Please to ring the fire-bells!
Solving the Sectarian'Question
The question of sectarianism in the
publio schools of Chicago, which has
oaused a good deal of bitter feeling in
that city, was decisively acted upon a
few days since by the local board of
education. One of the rules for the
management of the schools provided
that the morning service should al
ways begin with appropriate singing,
reading of the Scriptures, and tne
Lord’s Prayer. This was objectionable
to the Jews, who are numerous and in
fluential in Chicago ; to the Roman
Catholics, who do not recognize the
Protestant version of the Bible,
and to the non-sectarians, who do*
not want religion mixed with secu
lar education; and all of these classes
maintained that the reading of the
Scriptures was contrary to the spirit of
the constitution. Last week a motion
was made to abolish this rule and sub
stitute for it one that provides for ap
propriate singing only, omitting the
Bible readiog and the Lord’s Prayer,
and it was oarried, with but one dis
senting vote. This has called forth
energetic remonstrance from some of
the religious leaders, but several Pro
testant clergymen, among them Rev.
Dr. Swing and the Rev. Robert Collyer,
sustain the action of the Board, some
on the ground that it is only just that
the feelings of those who conscientious
ly oppose the Bible in the public
schools should be respected, and oth
ers (n the belief that the complete
secularization of schools is the only
safe policy.
Chicago may yet acquire enough
money to pay off those mortgages. The
Indianapolis Herald says.: “It is esti
mated that the Chicago grain gamblers
have beaten Indianapolis and Northern
Indiana out of a million and a half of
dollars since the first of January last.”
The store of F. Schmitt, the post
trader in Coulmbia, was robbed again
early Saturday morning of cigars and
other goods, and, it is said, the trader
himself was beaten. The Union-Herald
thinks it passing strange that this store,
located only thirty yards from the mili
tary post, should be robbed so often.
A college of hair-dressers has been
instituted at Madrid, and a California
contemporary asks if graduates receive
a back-hair-laureate aegree.
In Ohio, the other day, ex-Governor
Woodford made a “ stirring appeal for
hard money,” but not a man offered
him a oent.
Thaddeus Fairbanks and Charles F.
Chickering are the only Americans who
have liver accepted the nonsensical title
of Sir.