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The Bonanza Kings are whistling to keep
their courage up.
The news from New York grows some
what better. The Democratic State ticket
has probably been elected by a small rna
j -rlty, and the Legislature not so fearfully
Republican as it promised, at first, to be.
The friends of Gov. Tildes may claim that
he has been seotohed, but not killed, for the
Presidency.
The Spanish journals evidently believe
that the recent publications in this country
concerning “Or'NT’s Cuban policy,” and
the “equipment of a squadron for Cuban
waters,” are nothing but -he inventions of
speculators. God knows the Dons may be
right. The speculators seem to control
every wire on earth.
The Great Powers do not know what to
do with Turkey. If it were not for the
Ottoman bonds held by Christian money
lenders the solution would be less difficult
but not easy. If England ever undertakes,
as is threatened, to occupy Egypt, Russia
w ill commence her march on the road to
Byzantium. And then there will be a com
motion that shall shake toe globe.
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Gov. (Smith has reduced John Bard’s
fin to SSOO. We judge, from the Atlanta
pipers, that the ex-Governor of Idaho pro
duced the requisite ducats and took young
hopeful with him to Montgomery. Jt Is to
be hoped that “my son John” will not be
so quick with his knire on another occa
sion, remembering that he who liveth by
the sword shall perish by it.
.Minister Schenck: writes a letter to the
London Times, warning the British public
against the sale of fraudulent American
University degrees. What a pity some
body could not have warned the public
aforesaid of the sales of fraudulent Emma
Mine stock?
“ The river Rhine, as is well known,
Washes the city of Cologne;
But tell us, nymph, what power divine
bhall lioucefoith wash the river Rhine?”
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The Macon Telegraph records that Col.
Clisby met with an accident, the other
day. Hear ye local: “Mr. and Mrs. Clisby
were returning to their home in Vineville,
in their carriage Tuesday evening. While
going down the hill this side the branch,
the breast-yoke broke and the tongue of
the carriage dropped. 'I he carriage then
ran upon the horses and they ran to keep
out of the way. Mr. Clisby was thrown
from the carriage, but fortunately received
no other Injury than a contusion on his
head, which is not at all dangerous. Mrs.
Clisby, though she sustained a severe
fright, was not injured.” Does Watson
mean to say that Col. Clisby, by falling on
his head, saved his life?
Alluding to the Cuban question, now
being agitated, the New York Bulletin says:
“It is one thing when Spain undertakes to
fight her own subjects; it Is quite another
when she enters the field against a foreign
interference with her colonies. A foreign
war would tend diroctly to heal her home
troubles and arouse a warlike enthusiasm
exceeding anything that could be excited
as against domestic enemies; and the
st ruggle would not be that short and easy
thing that Washington lnditers of cheap
threats seem to imagine it to be. While no
d< nut can be entertained as to what the is
sue of such a struggle would be, yet, to
say nothing of the justice of the case, there
is every reason to doubt whether the cost
to our Government and our commerce
would be warranted by any advantage we
could possibly obtain by success.”
Speaking of the late action of the Epis
c pal House of Bishops, the Washington
( hronicle says : “Samuel I. J. Soheres-
.lEwafiY, D. D., the Bishop-elect to China,
is a native of Poland, and was originally a
Jew. He Is about forty-five years eld. He
came to this country a little more than
twenty years ago, to enjoy educational ad
sullages, with the intension of becoming a
Baptist minister, he having been conver
ted to that faith at homo. While in Pitts
burg, he becamo acquainted with Dr.
Lyman, the Assistant Bishop of Central
Pennsylvania, and the acquaintance ulti
mately led to his connection with the Epis
copal Church, After graduating, he went
to China as a missionary. While there he
translated the Bible into the Mandarian
tongue. This will bring it within range of
100,000 persons. The new Bishop is to have
his headquarters at Shanghai. He will be
consecrated as soon as possible, and de
part for his field of labor. Bishop Wil
liams, ids predecessor, goes to Japan,
with headquarters at Jeddo.”
A Baby Buried Alive.
On last Friday, Tboaias A. Lemmon,
who resides in this county, about six
loiles from this place, went out to his
barn to attend to some business, when
lie heard a cry as of something in dis
tress. He at first thought it was a cat,
but could not tell, and began searching
1* r whatever it might be that was mak
iug the noise. After looking for some
moments he went to a pile of logs that
were piled up under the eave of the
barn, and upon finding that the noise
e .me from them, he found a heap of
fresh dirt, and the cry (evidently from
a child now) seeming to come from
under the ground, and upon digging
the dirt away he was horrified to find
an infant about three or four days old,
which had been buried alive. It was
still alive, having been laid on its back,
a handkerchief placed over its face,
and two wide boards over it, so as not
to touch the baby, and the dirts on the
boards making a nice little grave. The
child is alive and well, and although it
is not certain, stiii they thiuk it is
known who put the child there, and
the work of investigation will continue
until a certainty is reached—[Cynthia
(Mo.) Democrat.
Masonic Presentation.
At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Masons, held in this city a year ago, a
resolution was adopted to present a
jewel to Past Grand Master Samuel D.
Irvin, of this city. The jewel was pro
cured, in accordance with the resolu
tion, and during the late meeting of
the Grand Lodge it was formally pre
sented to Col. Irvin. The presentation
speech was made by M. W. David E.
Butler. Both it and Col. Irvin’s reply
thereto are represented to have been
very felicitous.
The jewel is the handsomest one we
ever saw. It weighs nearly a hundred
pennyweights, and is elaborate in orna
mentation, including a great number of
ingeniously wrought Masonic designs.
The reverse side of the pendant bears
the following legend: “Presented to
M. W. Sam’l D. Irvin, Past Grand
Master, by the M. W. Grand Lodge, A.
F. and A. M. of the State of Georgia,
as a testimonial of esteem. Macon,
Ga„ A. L, 5,874”.— -Macon Telegraph.
Probably the most remarkable sense
of humor ever known was that of the
German soldier who laughed up
roa-iousiy all the time he was being
Hogged, and, when the officer at the
end inquired the cause of his mirth,
broke into a fresh fit of laughter and
cried, “Why, I’m the wrong man I”
@!jc CUupistn | iCcmstituticnuilist
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Established 1799.
THE ELECTIONS.
NEW YORK.
Various Estimates of a Partial Demo
cratic Victory—The Legislature in
Doubt.
New' York, November 4.—The Times
concedes 23,000. The World claims
10,000 majority, with a chance for the
Assembly. The Tribune says the Dem
ocrats elect the entire State tickets by
7,000. The Herald gives the Democrats
a majority of 6,000. The Republicans,
to fill a Congressional vacancy, elect
their candidate in Chatauqua dis
trict.
Albany, N. Y., November 4.—The Ar
gus claims the State by 10,000 Demo
cratic majority. It makes the Senate
22 Democrats to 12 Republicans; the
Assembly, 66 Republicans to 62 Demo
crats, giving the Republicans six ma
jority on joint ballot.
Albany, N. Y., November 4.—The
Evening Journal says : “ Our table to
day makes the State Democratic by a
majority of between 8,000 and 9,000.
The Senate will stand 22 Republicans
to 11 Democrats—more than a two
thirds majority. The Assembly foots
up 72 Republicans and 56 Democrats—
a Republican majority of 16. We have
special advices from almost every dis
trict.”
WISCONSIN.
Contradictory Reports.
Milwaukee, November 4. —The Re
publicans elect the State ticket by 4,000
majority.
Madison, Wis., November 4.—The
Republicans concede the election of the
Democratic State ticket, except Gover
nor, and a Democratic majority iu the
Legislature.
Milwaukee, Wis., November 4.—Re
turns received here indicate the elec
tion of the Republican State ticket, ex
cept Treasurer and Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and a Republican
majority in the Legislature.
Probable Democratic Victory.
Chicago, November 4.—Special dis
patches to the Journal, Post and Mail
say returns received at Madison last
night and this morning have decidedly
changed the complexion of the election
in that State and created considerable
excitement. The Democrats claim
their whole ticket has been elected—
Taylor’s majority being small and that
of other candidates larger. The As
sembly is claimed by both parties. It
will undoubtedly be very close. The
Republicans still claim Ludiugton’s
election by about 3,000 majority. Fur
ther returns are awaited with much
anxiety.
MINNESOTA.
Probable Republican Majority.
St. Paul, Minn., November 4.—Latest
estimates make the Republican majori
ty 10,000.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Official Majorities.
Philadelphia, November 4. —Official
majorities: Pershing, Schuylkill
county, 1,338 ; Lycoming, 1,153 ; Hunt
ington, 59 ; Miflin, 140; Northumber
land, 878 ; Centre, 1,407 ; Burks, 6,569;
Cumberland, 706 ; Bucks, 287 ; Clarion,
1,055. Hartranft’s, Montgomery, 35;
Dauphin, 1,870; Delaware, 1,996;
Erie, 1,811.
FROM NEW YORK.
The Direct Cable O. K. Once More.
New York, November 4. —The super
intendent of the direct cable writes to
the Associated Press: “I have the pleas
ure of informing you that this com
pany’s cable was successfully repaired
this morniug. The Faraday reports
the cable, after fifteen mouths’ sub
mersion, in absolutely as perfect a con
dition as when manufactured. The
fracture, which was found in seventy
fathoms of water, was such as would
be caused either by an anchor or a
grapnel.”
A Financial Collapse Expected In Ger
many- Russia Threatened with Fam
ine.
New York, November 4.—The Lon
don Morning Post, of October 23, has a
Berlin dispatch of the 22d, saying the
depression of trade is felt so keenly by
the industrial classes that the Govern
ment has been requested, as a means
of preventing acute distress, to resort
to the measure successfully adopted in
the last two wars, viz: the establish
ment of loan banks. The Government
has not as yet shown much inclination
to accede to t-h% request. Serious
distress is anticipated among the in
dustrial working classes of Germany
during the coming Winter, and appre
hensions are also entertained of a cri
sis in financial circles. The same pa
per also says: “Russian correspond
ents to German newspapers give dis
tressing accounts of unparalleled fail
ures of this year’s harvest. Never be
fore, it is asserted, has a failure been
so general in Russia, both in geograph
ical extent and comprehensiveness,
with regard to crops affected. The en
tire cultivated zone is deprived of its
expected harvest and all crops have
suffered alike.
FROM CHARLESTON.
Gov. Chamberlain Makes a Speech.
Charleston, November 4.—Governor
Chamberlain made a speech to-day iu
which he declared he hold 9 his office as
a public trust, and said the great de
mands of the people are a reduction of
taxation and an honest expenditure of
the public money, and the people of
South Carolina ought to be and can be
relieved of one-third of the taxes they
have paid for the last six years. The
speech was entirely of a non-partisan
character, and was loudly applauded
by the large audience before w T hom it
was delivered.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Action of the Funding Board,
New Orleans, November 4 — The
State Funding Board adopted the fol
lowing rule : “That when bonds are pre
sented for funding with coupons de
tached new bonds will only be issued
with the corresponding coupons de
tached and cancelled as m the case of
payment.”
THE FINANCIAL WORLD.
More Failures.
Chicago, November 4.—Richard M.
Hooley, proprietor of Hooley’s Thea
tre, has made assignment.
Ira Homes, formerly President of the
defunct Manufacturers National Bank,
went into voluntary bankruptcy. Se
cured liabilities $361,000, unsecured
8112,000.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Cardinal Coming Home—Mr.
Sohenck as Pecksniff'—Destruction
of an Arsenal—Russia and Turkey
—Attempt to Flank a Bishop.
London, November 4.—Cardinal Mo-
Closkey embarks for New York on the
14th inst.
Schenck has written a letter to the
Times, exposing the sale in England of
fictitious American University degrees.
The Post has. special telegrams an
nouncing that the Carlists reoccupied
Orduna.
The arsenal at Reudesburg, in Hol
stein, was almost totally destroyed by
fire yesterday. Forty thousand rifles
were destroyed. The total damage by
fire is estimated at 5,000,000 marks.
The Pall Mall Gazette's Berlin special
says it is affirmed that Russia is not
desirous of acting independently in the
Herzegovinian matter. The three pow
ers continue in complete harmony.
London, November 4.— Pall Mall Ga
zette’s special from Berlin says Prussia
has asked Austria to prevent Bishop
Foerster, while residing in the Austrian
portion of his diocese, from exercising
any Episcopal function touching the
Prussian portion.
The Pall Mall Gazette Is authorized to
state that the Admiralty’s fugitive slave
circular will be withdrawn and new in
structions issued.
French Politics—The German Parlia
ment—Herzegovina Rampant.
Versailles, Nevember 4.—The As
sembly meets to-day.
Paris, November 4.—One of the first
acts of the Assembly to-day was the
unanimous adoption of M. Buffet’s mo
tion to discuss the electoral bill Mon
day next. The motion to raise the
state of seige will be discussed between
the 2d and 3d readings of the electoral
bill.
Berlin, November 4.—Parliament
has ratified a treaty of commerce with
Costa Rica. Herr You Delbruck stated
that, the Government iu tends sending
representatives to Central America for
the purpose of extending treaty re
lations.
Vienna, November 4.— Neue Freie
Preste says Herzegovinian Insurgents
have recently received 1,000 breech
loading rifles from Montenegro. The
“Waywodes” military commanders of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, have con
voked an assembly for the purpose of
proclaiming a national Government.
The Dons “Smell a Mice.”
Madrid, November 4.—The Epoca
says it knows nothing of America’s
Cuban memorandum, and believes re
cent dispatches greatly exaggerate the
affair. The Cronista, ministerial organ,
believes American filisbusters invented
the news of the equipment of sfrigates
f> >r Cuba in order to create complica
tions.
Spain Not Scared About Cuba—The
Carlisc Wai*.
Madrid, November 4.—There is no
foundation for the statement that Spain
has ordered the equipment of five men
of-war for Cuban waters.
San Sebastian, November 4.—The
Carlist batteries are silent. Gen. Trills
is concentrating his forces to attack
the Carlists who are besieging Hernani.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Shooting Rioters—Crooked Whiskey-
Liquor House Burned.
London, Sumner Cos., Ks., November
4. —Sheriff NeiJ, to suppress an election
fight, shot dead a desperado named J.
5. Turner, and badiy wounded two
other men.
St. Louis, November 4.—There have
been two new indictments against two
prominent citizens in connection with
the whiskey ring.
Cincinnati, November 4.—The liquor
house of Duckworth, Spence & Cos.,
was burned. Loss $65,000.
The Champion Monster —A Man At
tempts the Murder of Ills Family
and Commits Suicide.
Indianapolis, Ind., November 4.—The
Kokomo Tribune has the following:
“David Robinson came to town yester
day and bought a suit of clothes and a
revolver. After which ho went home
and showed the purchases to his fam
ily and ate his supper. Robinson was
in good humor aud appeared perfectly
sane. He remarked to his wife that it
would have been well if little Dan (his
sou) had died two weeks ago, and said
he had attempted to kill the child.
Then he drew his revolver, fired at the
second son lying in bed, then turned
and shot at his wife. Mrs. Robinson
ran out of the houso and the oldest
hoy eight years of age started to
follow, when the father shot him in the
face, but the ball glanced off without
hurting him badly. The father then
struck him on the back of the head
with a chair. The sou succeeded in
getting out with his mother. Robin
son then took a razor, approached the
bed on which lay his only daughter,
and cut her throat. Ho followed this
murder by taking the life of a son
whom he had first shot in bed in the
same manner. After which, Robinson
jumped ou his horse and fled. His
dead body was found this morning one
mile north of Jackson Station, on the
Indianapolis, Peoria aud Chicago Rail
road. it is supposed he committed
suicide.
FROM WASHINGTON. *
Mrs. Gaines and Caleb Cushing—Ap
pointment—The West India Mail.
Washington, November 4.—Mrs.
Gaines vs. Caleb Cushing, to restrain
Cushing from interfereing with certain
claims which he contends were trans
ferred to him for professional services
which had been pending in special term
a long time have been referred to the
general term to be heard by a full
bench.
Augustus S. Gaylord, of Michigan,
has been appointed Assistant Attorney-
General for Interior Department.
Mail for the West Indies, via St.
Thomas, goes by the steamer Oarondo
let from New York, November 6, at
3 o’clock.
Minor Telegrams.
San Francisco, November 4. —There
was a sharp earthquake at Yuma.
A special from Virginia City says
the mining situation is encouraging.
The water is falling and building pro
gressing briskly.
St. Louis, November 4.—The Globe-
Democrat, referring to indictments for
whiskey frauds recently found, men
tions Wm. McKee, principal proprietor
of that paper, and Constantine Maguire,
late Collector of Revenue for this Dis
trict. The Globe says McKee is ready
for trial and the public may rely upon
his complete vindication.
Hark! You’ll soon hear the British
liou growling because he’s got anothe®
royal baby to support.
AUGUSTA. GA„ FlilDA-Y, NOVEMBER 5, 1875.
LETTER FROM H - NCOCK.
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Dr. Hem an—Mr. Northern—Mount
Zion. $
[Correspondence of the Ooni|itutionalist. 1
Hancock County, Ga., No f ember 2d.
Differing from most of Qour corres
pondents, Mr. Editor, I [propose to
make my short letter rather personal
than local or agricultural ih its charac
ter. I propose to notice (briefly, two
gentlemen who have ma;I: for them
selves an enviable reputation among
the citizens of our Stab! and other
States, and as they have foth retired
from active life, a brief mention may
not bo inappropriate or ifiinteresting.
Their names are not among the
“talkers” of our saucy little capital,
nor yet are they promine|it in the or
ganizations of the body-oolitic; but I
am bold enough to ventuiL the asser
tion that they have beei| the instru
ments of more real goo| than two
thirds of the politicians who at present
flood the capital. Sometimes, very fre
quently, a State may best po served by
private citizens in private |vays. He is
the truest patriot, who benefits a State
without the expectation *or desire of
public reward, and t,hat| country is
most intelligent and prospfrous which
cherishes deepest gratitude to her
modest, unassuming citizens who have
served her iu the private walks of life.
Although our information is far too
limited to attempt a full ?or lengthy
sketch, we feel constrained to mention
these gentlemen, kuowingKull well that
their very names will send* a thrill of
boyhood’s recollections to“ the hearts
of many now bearing life’s: burden “iu
the heat of the day.” t
Rev, C. P. Beman, D. D.
This venerable and |istingulshed
gentleman is still living. j'lis head is
whitened and his form {bent by the
snows of seventy eight winders, and yet
his faculties are uuimpaiied and his
mind vigorous. He was iforn in 1797
and is of Northern extraction. He came
to the South early fn life and
has ever since been identified with us
in heart and sentiment. *tt the early
age of eigiiteen he begXn to teach,
which profession he has Lade his life
time vocation, teaching injmany places,
like the good philanthropists, scatter
ing his guod gifts where\jpr he went —
at one time President c|‘ Oglethorpe
College, in the most flourishing days
of that institution, and filially settling
in Mt. Zion, of this count;|, which place
his name and sehool havV largely con
tributed to make famoiuj Dr. Beman
has been a teacher for fitly years, and
in that time his labors h[„ve been con
tinual and their results! wide-spread
and beneficial. Only tw* weeks ago,
his Increasing feebleness and a blight
spell of sickuess induced |iitn to “ rest
from his labors.” He nlay almost be
said to have died in the harness, for he
certainly “worked untillhis strength
failed him.” He still clinjs to his min
isterial duties and preq.eh*s somewhere
almost every Sunday, f His phys
ical strength is remarkable for
his age, and he [still rides
horseback to and froa* his duties,
managing his farm and.still rigorous
in his places and preparations for next
year’s crop. This venerable scholar is
one of the celebrities of ciir State, and
especially deserves the [gratitude of
Georgia, so many of whosV sons he has
educated and seut forth equipped for
tiie world. He is said to |>e a man of
dauntless courage aud Iron will. As an
instance of liis stern dbf ipline—illus
trating these qualities—l 4 mention the
following incident, for which I am not
personally responsible, having heard it
among the neighbors aid acquaint
ances of tiie Doctor: I
It seems that at oneJtlmo he had
among his pupils thijfje fierce (?)
young gentlemen, who, flu the true
spirit of defiant young fYmerica, de
clared that they were not-afraid of Dr.
Beinau, or any other mef i, aud vowed
resistance and fight against any at
tempt to punish them. Ifinally an op
portunity came to tes| their cour
age. For some offense*, they were
called up to receive corporal pun
ishment. Fearing to “go back” on
their valiant threats, the three boys
opened on the Doctor with their knives
and hacked aud gashed |iim consider
ably, drawing much blooq, but no pluck
from the fearless old frnan. Borne
movement among the |>ody of the
school convinced them tLSit the Doctor
had sympathy on his sid|<, and fearing
its outbreak, they broke j|ad fled to the
woods. The old Doctijr, streaming
with blood, as he was, wfuld not allow
himself to be approaches until his tu
tors had brought back [he fugitives,
and standing in his blofdy tracks, he
berated the young rascals as soundly
as they deserved and then dismissed
them to their homes, sink die— for re
turn. \
We hope this Incident Will revive no
unpleasant remembrances. It was
merely given to illustrate a quality,
and we never heard the ilames.
Few men have lived as jong and done
as much as Dr. BemCm, and few
raon can look upon \so rich a
harvest of their laborer How many
whose hearts have btibn hardened
by contact with the world’s unright
eousness” will read with a quivering
lip the name of this aged teacher. “He
has fought a good tight He has fin
ished his course, aud henceforth there
must be laid up for him a crown of
righteousness hereafter.?
Mr. W. J. Nort Uern
belongs to a later generation of teaoh
ers—our own generation; He too has
ranked as one of the moan distinguished
teachers of the State, having taught
with marked success to- many years,
and added much to ttu> notoriety of
Mt. Zion as a place of schools. Mr.
Northern taught for many years iri Mt.
Zion, but for some time past has been
well known as the able principal of
“Kirkwood Male School,*’ near Atlauta.
He has lately given up Ijis chosen vo
cation on account of a bficnchial affeo
tion which weakens his voice aud
renders him unable to undergo the
strain of the school-rooru. We under
stand that his withdrawal is perma
nent and he now cultivates his farm.
Mr. Northern’s abilities and success
as a teacher will be abundantly cor
roborated by many of the younger
generation of men, whose names are
rising into prominence and honor.
May his “good works” follow him.
Mouut Zioy,
the scene of the chiefesi labors of these
eminent men, is a small, unattractive
hamlet, situate seven miles northeast
of Sparta. Since the cl ~ae of its great
schools the place is lead—its few
buildings dilapidated, is voices hush
ed, and everything a-i still as the
shores of the “Dead Island.” The only
living thing in its decay i,s a small new
church, which stands undated and pe
culiar, like a green tre e in a dead for
est. It is a sad sight V see the dreary
gloom of this place, so edolent of clas
sic uismoriM, Here R< taauce weaved
her brightest, fairest web, and many
whose troth was plighted here,
“Have walked this world,
Yoked in all exercise of noble end,
Aud so, ‘across the wild which no man
knows.’ ”
Here, once sported in all the abandon
of boyhood’s grace and all the buoyancy
of boyhood’s spirit, forms that mould
ed into iron amid the later storms that
’compassed Georgia’s ship of state, and
intellects that have flashed like light
ning over the misty shadows of our
gloomiest councils.
These have passed away. Some are
mingling la the great strife of the
world, perhaps unmindful of the decay
of spots ’round which memory weaves
her brightest charm.
Others sleep beneath the willow or
the wave, treasuring perhaps in the
last hour memories of boyhood’s purity
that brightened even death itself. The
“ Old Log School House ”
is standing yet, and to him who enters
the very walls seem to breathe proudly
or reverentially the names of Crawford,
Baxter, Longstreet, Chappell, McDon
ald, Jenkins, the Bemans, and others
now gone before.
But in all else but its memories the
place is as barren as Sahara and as
dead as the voices which once anima
ted it. Time’s changes are merciless
and sure. “ Fag aces anni labuntur”
spoke the Roman poet two thousand
years ago, and, to-day, catching up the
echo, we say, “The fleeting years
glide swiftly by.”
The Earthquake.
At ten o’clock to-night (Monday) an
earthquake passed through this county,
coming from tiie N. W., aud travelling
S. E. It shook the ground and tiie
houses and shattered furniture. The
sky was perfectly cloudless and the
stars shluing brilliantly. Everybody
is much excited, and the circus, to
morrow will be thinly attended.
Spar.
Mark Twain’s First Experience in
Journalism.
I was a very smart child at the age
of thirteen, an unusually smart child,
I thought at the time. It was then
that I did my first newspaper scrib
bling, and, most unexpectedly 7 to me, it
stirred up quite a sensation iu the com
munity. It did, indeed, and I was very
proud of it, too.
I was a printer’s “ devil,” and a pro
gressive and aspiring one. My uncle
had me on his paper (the Weekly Han
nibal Journal, two dollars a year in ad
vance—five hundred subscribers, and
that paid in cord wood, cabbages and
unmarketable turnips) and ou a lucky
summer’s day he left towu to be gone
a week, aud asked me if I thought I
could edit one issue of the paper ju
diciously. Ah, didn’t I want to try it?
Hinton was the editor of the rival pa
per. He was lately jilted, and one
night a friend found an open note on
the poor fellow’s bed, in which he stat
ed that he could no longer endure life,
and had drowned himself in Bear
Creek. The friend ran down there and
discovered Hinton wading back to the
shore. He had concluded he wouldn’t.
The village was full of it for several
days, but Hinton did not suspect it. I
thought this was a fine opportunity. I
wrote ail elaborately wretched ac
count of the whole affair, and then il
lustrated it with villainous wood cuts,
engraved on the bottom of wood type
with a jack-knife, one of them a picture
of Hinton wading out in the creek iu
his shirt, with a lautern, sounding the
depth of the water with a walking
stick.
I thought it was desperately funny,
and was densely unconeeious that
there was any moral obliquity about
such a publication. Being satisfied
with the effort, I looked about for
other worlds to conquer, aud it struck
me that it would make good, interest
ing matter to charge the editor of a
neighboring county paper with a gratui
tous piece of rascality and see him
squirm! I did it, putting the article in
the form of a parody on the burial of
“Sir John Moure,” aud a crude parody
It was too.
Then I lampooned two prominent
citizens outrageously—not because
they had done anything to deserve it,
but because I thought it was my duty
to make the paper lively.
Next I gently touched up the newest
stranger—the liou of the day; the gor
geous journeyman tailor from Quincy.
He was a simpeiing coxcomb of the
first water, aud the “loudest” dressed
man in town. Ho was an inveterate
lady killer. Every week he wrote
some “poetry” for tho Journal about
his newest conquest. His rhymes for
ruy week were headed “Mary iu H —l,”
meaning in Hannibal, of course. But
while setting up the price I was sud
denly riven from head to heel by what
I regarded as a perfect thunderbolt of
humor, and compressed it iuto a snap
py foot note at the bottom, thus: “We
will let this thing pass, just this once;
tut we want Mr. Gordon Runnels to
understand distinctly that we have a
character to sustain, and from this
time forth when he wants to communi
cate with his friends iu h —ll* he must
select some other medium than this
journal.”
The paper came out, and I never
knew anything to attract so much at
tention as those playful trifles of mine.
For once the Hannibal Journal was in
demand—a novelty it had not ex
perienced before. The whole town was
stirred. Hinton dropped in with a
double-barreled shot-gun early in the
forenoon. When he found that it was
an infant, as he called me, that had
done the damage, he pulled my ears
and then went away ; but he threw up
the situation that night and left the
town for good.
The tailor came with his goose, and
a pair of shears ; but he despised me,
too, and departed for the South that
uigiit.
The lampooned citizen came with
threats of libel, and went away in
censed at my insignificance.
The country editor pranced in with a
war whoop next day, suffering for
blood to drink ; but he ended by for
giving mo cordially 7 , and invited me
down to the drug store to wash away
all animosity in a friendly bumper of
“ Fahnestock Vermifuge.” It was his
little joke.
, My uncle was very angry when he
got back—unreasonably so. I thought,
considering what an impetus I had
given the paper, aud considering, also,
that gratitude for his preservation
ought to have been uppermost in his
mind, inasmuch by his delay he had
escaped dissection, tomahawking, libel
and getting his head shot off. But he
softened when he looked at the ac
counts and saw that I had actually
booked the unparalleled number of
thirty-three new subscribers, and had
the vegetables to show for it, cord
wood, cabbages, beaus and unsalable
turnips enough to run the family for
two years.
Providence, R. 1., November 4.
Thomas R. Jeukes is dead.
HENRY CLEWS & CO.
The History of the Cherokee Railroad
Case—Henry Clews & Cos. Get a Ver
diet for $167,000.
I Atlanta Herald. J
Sometime ago Henry Clews & Cos.,
by their solicitor, O. A. Lochrane,
brought their bill against the Cherokee
Railroad Company, asking payment of
a claim alleged to be due for advances
made to tiie contractors to build the
railroad then known as the CarterSviile
and Van Wert Railroad, and for which
they hold the bonds of the company
endorsed by the State of Georgia. The
original bill also waived an injunction
and appointment of a receiver, and the
cancellation of a purchase of that por
tion of the road lying in Bartow county
by John W. Wofford & Cos. To this bill
answers were made by Col. Johnson,
setting up the fact that bonds were not
issued according to law; that contrac
tors had not completed the road ac
cording to their contracts, and denying
the liability. Mark A. Cooper an
swered, covering the same ground, and
Colonel Wofford denying any knowledge
of the acts, set up his title as purchaser
at sheriff’s sale. At the hearing
the injunction was granted and Mr.
Peacock appointed receiver. In this
condition of the case the Commercial
Warehouse Company of New York be
came parties, and alleged their owner
ship of Cherokee Railroad bonds, which
it was claimed had priority over the
Cartersville and Van VVeit bonds held
by Clews & Cos. The progress of the
case developed that the other credit
ors of the road had been bought up
and the coutest left between the Cher
okee Railroad Company and Henry
Clews & Cos. An agreement of counsel
in New York, submitting the amount
or existence of this liability to Clews &
Cos., was entered Into, aud made the
judgment of the court at Atlanta, and
the question at issue was left by con
sent to Logan E. Bleckley as special
master. Col. Whittle, of Macon, was
submitted in his place, and tiie case
proceeded with evidence before him.
Upon tiie trial before the master the
following facts appeared by tiie testi
mony.
Ist. That Clews & Qo. still held the
Cartersville and Van Wert Bailroad
bonds.
2. That Clews & Cos. had advanced
the amount of $167,000 upon them,
which went into the construction of the
road.
3d. That Clews & Cos. had an order
from Mr. H. I. Kimball as President of
the Cherokee Railroad Company, upon
the Governor of Georgia, lor the en
dorsed Cherokee bonds, iu exchange
for the Cartersville aud Van Wert
Road.
This in substance forms the case
made by the complainants—except we
may add that they presented the letter
of the contractors to M. A. Cooper,
President, asking an order from him
on Governor Bullock for one hun
dred of the Cartersville and Van Wert
Railroad bonds to be delivered to Clews
& Cos., which was ordered by Colonel
Cooper.
The defence insisted on the following
propositions :
1. That Cooper’s order only author
ized the delivery when the bonds were
endorsed “according to law,” aud as
the road was not finished, the endorse
ment was illegal.
2. That the bonds went into Clews &
Co.’s hands from the contractors, and
not from the company ; and in fact
they had never been issued by the
company.
3. That if they were binding on the
company they had been paid.
Even if not paid, Clews & Cos. knew
of tho reputation of the Cherokee
bonds, and lost their lien by their im
plied receiver.
These points brought out the testi
mony on tiie side of Clews & Cos., by
presentation of the bonds, order of M.
A. Cooper, order ou Gov. liuliock for
the exchange, and tho evidence of
several parties.
On the side of the defense by evi
dence that when Kimball brought out
the contractors he had on the Bruns
wick and Albany and Cartersville and
Van Wert Railroads on the 19th of No
vember, 1870. He had agreed to put
up, aud did put up, large additional
amounts of bonds to release them.
And that the Cartersville aud Van
wert Railroad bonds were then includ
ed and paid by these additional col
laterals. By the further fact that the
order of July 10th, 1870, on Governor
Bullock, it was intended merely to cov
er a guarantee to be endorsed by Clews
& Cos., for the cancellation of the Car
tersville and Van Wert Railroad bonds,
on the back of the order, as Clews &
Cos. had not then tho possession of the
bonds, and the order was written to
provide for that condition.
The defeuse further showed that the
date of the endorsement was untrue in
date, and that Clews & Cos. had charged
illegal commissions amounting to over
$200,000, aud kept false accounts, by
entries, etc., and iu support of the fact
that Mr. Kimball had bought out and
relieved his co-oontractors; copy of ac
counts, after the 19th of November,
1870, were shown from Clews & Cos.,
made out against H I. Kimball. It
was also proved that Conaut, one of
the co-contractors, had been iu a suit
between Clews & Cos. and a transferee
of an account by him brought upon the
stand, and Clews being also a witness,
upon Conant’s presentation of the 19th
of November, 1870, settlement with
Kimball, Clews &; Cos. withdrew their
claim. It was also shown that In 1874,
when H. I. Kimball went into bank
ruptcy, and put down his indebtedness
to Clevv*i & Cos. at $1,000,000, Clews &
Cos. telegraphed that Kimball owed him
only SIOO,OOO, and that amount they
held ample collaterals. This gives our
readers the character of the case pre
sented, covering an aero of paper.
The Master, Col. Whittle, found the
road indebted to Clews & Cos. in $157,-
000 with interest, and exceptions were
filed to tho report upon some nineteen
various grounds.
Judge Woods and Judge Erskine’s
opinion overruled the exceptions and
the case now stands for argument on
the decree to be taken, subject to the
judgment of the Court, on the opinion
pronounced.
Moody. —lu a conversation the other
day, Mr. Moody remarked : “I am the
most over-estimated man in this coun
try. By some means the people look
upon me as a great man, but I am only
a lay preacher, and have little learn
ing. I don’t know what will become of
me if the newspapers continue to print
all of my sermons. My stock will be
exhausted by-and-by, and I must re
peat the old ideas and teachings.
Brooklyn every Sunday bears a score
of better sermons than I can preach. I
can’t get up such sermons as Drs.
Budington, and Cuyler, and Taimage,
and many others who preach here
week after week, I don’t know what I
shall do."
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 78
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Griffin News: The agony is at last
over. The G., M. &M. R. R, a work
projected under such favorable aus
pices, went to sale yesterday to satisfy
its accumulated indebtedness. The
sale includes the right of way, grading,
cuts, &c., along the whole line from
this city to Madison. About thirty
three miles, estimated, is graded and
ready for the superstructure. Quite a
number of the stockholders, all the of
ficers and some of the creditors were
on hand. The bidding was very tame
for so important a work, and the road
was finally knocked off for $5,000 to
Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta.
Rome Commercial: Judge A. R. Wright
generally excels in whatever he under
takes. He is eminent as an affable
gentleman, a successful lawyer, an in
dependent minister, and an entertain
ing and forcible speaker. And now let
him be registered among the successful
fathers, one distinguished as the head
of a “numerous family.” Judge Wright
is the father of eighteen children, six
teen of whom are living. One of them
is only about 12 months old, though
the judge is some sixty-two or sixty
three years of age. He is the grand
father of some twelve or fifteen grand
children. When the family all get to
gether, which they do about once a
year, there is no larger or happier
family circle anywhere. Truly has the
Judge been favored by Providence.
Griffin News : Monday night, at 10
o'clock precisely, those of our citizens
who were astir, and many who had re
tired, were startled from their occupa
tions and slumbers by two distinct
shocks of an earthquake, preceded and
followed by strange rumbling noises.
Family circles were hushed to silence,
the gay ceased their laughter, the
grave looked graver, and every one
gazed into the white faces of com
panions for a solution of the strange
phenomena. The earthquake was a
prolific theme of conversation yester
day, and many were the personal ex
periences related. We can offer no
solution ourselves beyond the fact that
we are as much entitled to an occa
sional “shake up” as other less favored
sections. Probably it/s the forerunner
of the big ground swell preparing for
Centennial year, that is to swallow up
and bury official corruption in high
places, and give us an honest adminis
tration of affairs. If this be it, shake
again.
The Herald says: Judge O. A. Loch
rane, who is probably the most suc
cessful civil lawyer in the State.Jhad an
unusual streak of luck last week. On
Friday he gained for Alfred Austell, as
one of the trustees for the bondholders
of the Air Line Railroad, in a case in
volving upwards of four million dol
lars. On Saturday lie won in the
United States Court, a case for Henry
Clews & Cos., against the Cherokee
Railroad, where $167,000 was at is
sue. In this case the opposing
counsel was retained regardless
of expense, and when it is re
membered that such men as Hon.
John E. Ward, of New York, H<m. B.
H. Hill, Judge Lyon, Judge Jackson,
and Col. Abda Johnson, of Georgia,
represented the Cherokee Railroad he
ought to be proud of his victory. On
the same day he gained, in the Supe
rior Court, the appointment of J. H.
Fisher, of New York, as receiver of the
Air Line Railroad, despite the efforts
of the ablest counsel that could be re
tained—Judge Marshall, one of the
most distinguished members of the
Virgiuia Bar. It is said, and is doubt
less true, that J udge Lochrane’s fees
in these cases were huge, and the best
of it is that nobody begrudges the affa
ble Judge any of his good fortune. He
deserves all, and everybody is glad
that he got it.
McDuffie Journal: Justat ten o’clock
on Monday night, almost our entire
population were startled by a dull,
rumbling sound, followed by a terrible.
quivering of the strongest buildings.
At first the noise resembled that of a
slowly moving train of cars, but it in
creased in violence until every one was
convinced it was something super
natural even before the buildings began
to shake. There are different opinions
in regard to the direction wiience the
sound came, but we are inclined to rely
upon the judgment of Rev. W. T.
Hamilton, who was on the street at the
time, and says he thinks the sound
was from northwest to southeast.
Telegrams from Atlanta, Union Point,
Athens and Augusta all report the
shock very severe at those places. * *
On Sunday evening last it was adver
tised that Howe’s London Circus would
leave Augusta for Macon via Thomson.
How Thomas Harris, (colored) had not
seen his wife for some time, and con
cluded lie would go with the show as
far as Thomson. When the train ar
rived here Mr. Howe forgot Thom,
was on board, in fact he may not have
known it, and having no other business
which claimed his attention at this
point his train was dashing by at the
rate of 20 miles per hour. Thom,
did’nt want to go any further, and just
as the train was opposite the crossing
he squared himself, took sight at a
cross-tie, and it is thought if it had not
been for a box car loaded with cotton
he would have knocked the track to
pieces. He has not been able to see
iiis wife yet.
Washington Artillery of Charleston.
It was announced a short time since,
that General Wade Hampton had been
invited, and had consented, to delffer
the oration before this corps in Charles
ton, on the 22d of February next. It
will afford gratification to the entire
community to learn that at the last
meeting the Artillery the following
letter was received by them from Gen.
Stephen D. Lee, accepting the com
mand of the parade on that day. Gen.
Lee was the first captain of that por
tion of the Washington Atiilery which
was afterwards known as Hart’s Bat
tery, but his gallant record during
the war has rendered his name dear to
all our people, and ne will meet no
warmer welcome anywhere than he
will find waiting for him in Charleston.
His letter is as follows:
Anderson C, H., S. C., Aug. 25,1875.
Messrs. Augustine T. Smythe, Louis
Sherfesee and others, Washington Ar
tillery Corps:
Gentlemen:— l am in receipt of your
favor of the 7th instant, inviting me to
be present at your celebration, Febru
ary 22d, and to “command the column”
of troops on that day, composed of
your corps and other organizations. I
thank you for the honor conferred. I
see no reason now why I cannot be
present. Nothing could afford me more
pleasure than to mingle with former
comrades and friends in Charleston
again, and I accept with thanks your
invitation, and if nothing unforeseen
happens, I will certainly be with you at
the appointed time.
I am, gentlemen, truly yours,
S. D. Lex.
, [Charleston Courier.
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letters, or articles written on both sides.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
“5$ Fin. for hitchin. hear,” is the way
a sign on a fence at Honea Path reads.
Incendiaries destroyed the barn of
G. A. Crowen, at Edgefield, last Sunday
night.
The Abbeville Cornet Band has or
dered anew set of German silver in
struments.
The barn, stables and corn cribs, fill
ed with corn, belonging to Col. D. A.
Hawthorn, at Due West, were destroy
ed by incendiaries last week.
R. N. Pratt, of Level Land, made
eighty-two bushels of corn on one acre
of bottom land, and two hundred aud
sixty bushels on flv eacres of upland.
Mr .Eugene Cramer, the scenic artist
of the Opera House in Columbia, has
made a contract to paint the arms of
the State on the cap of a pillar in Inde
pendence Hall, Philadelphia.
Miss Elsie Broadway, a respectable
lady, seventy odd years of age, living
about; five miles from Sumter, was
most cruelly beaten on Sunday night
last by an unknown colored man.
Abbeville Medium: The Anderson
County Fair was a brilliant success,
fully up to the expectations of the peo
ple aud equally as good as any previ
ous exhibition of the kind. The dis
play in all the different departments
was very good and especially so in
horse flesh. One of the mwst attrac
tive features of the occasion was the
cooking contest on the fair grounds be
tween four of the up-country belles.
The dear little creatures were as much
at home among the pots aud kettles as
if theyhad been giving audience to
“ love’s young dream ” in the parlor or
under the gaslight, aud their cooking
simply glorious.
There is a dyke of great interest on
the estate of the late E. G. Palmer at
Winnsboro. Imbedded in this dyke
are angular fragments of hornblende
and slate of various sizes. The rock
resembles a coarse breccia which would
prove a beautiful ornamental building
material. On the same plantation there
is a highly fissile mica slate having the
planes of stratification so even as to
leave the surface quite smooth, and
would be valuable as flagging stones
for cities. These facts are particularly
interesting to our enterprising neigh
bors at Ridgeway, who are developing
so rapidly in other directions. N. B.—
The same plantation abounds with an
abundance of the fluest crystals.
In an address to the people of South
Carolina on the fourthcoming Centen
nial at Philadelphia Governor Cham
berlain says : “On the 4th day of July
next, the first century of our natural
life will be completed, and the event
will be marked by a centennial celebra
tion and exhibition in the city of
Philadelphia. It is now clear that the
occasion will be observed in a manner
commensurate with its significance to
this nation and to the world. If among
the many communities comprising our
nation there are any which have stron
ger reasons than others for patriotic
interest in that occasion, they are the
original “thirteen” states which joined
in the declaration of independence.
South Carolina was not behind the
foremost in the great events of 1776.
Her right and her duty to join in our
nation’s centennial celebration cannot
be disputed.”
A NORTH PLATTE FIGHT.
How They Carry On a Discussion in
Nebraska.
[North Platte Nebraskian.]
Just as we were going to press last
week, we received news of a fatal cut
ting and stabbing affray that occurred
at Bosler’s ranch on the North Platte.
The parties engaged were a Texan
herder and a Spaniard, who also came
up the trail this year. There hail been
bad blood between them for sometime,
but owing to the interference of friends
the cow-punchers had been kept from
doing each other injury. The fatal
meeting was in camp, where the Span
iard was temporarily engaged as cook,
ami was over the tire preparing a meal,
when bis enemy came upon him with
evil in his eye and strong yearning for
blood in his heart. The Texan sa
luted the Spaniard with :
“ You black cow-puncher, I’ve got
you now, aud I’ll let some of your black
blood out of you,”- and rushed at the
Spaniard with a camp butcher knife.
The Spaniard defended himself with
a frying pan which he was using in
cooking flapjacks. The first pass made
by the Texan was parried handsomely,
-and in return Spaniard gave Mr. Texan
a wipe on the jaw with the bottom of
the pan, and the hot grease went into
the Texan’s face, burning him consid
erably aud raising his fury to a red hot
heat.
Now the conflict raged furiously, the
Texan striking and slashing with his
knife, and the Spaniard parrying the
blows and getting in a slap with his
pan whenever he could. For a time
the fight progressed without any par
ticular advantage being gained by
either party.
The cook hugged the camp fire, and
endeavored to keep iiis assailant on the
opposite side of the fire from himself,
by which stratagem he succeeded iu
keeping his enemy from closing iu on
him with his knife. But, unfortunately,
the Spaniard made a misstep aud fell
across the fire, which placed him at the
mercy of his heartless euetuy. He was
no sooner down than the fatal knife
was pluuged to the hilt again and
again. As soon as tho Texan had done
lus bloody work he mounted his horse
and fled, leaving iiis victim to roast in
the fire, aud lias not been seen since, ex
cept by a party of herders further up the
river, where the murderer stopped and
got something to eat. He boasted of wlrnt
he had done, aud narrated iu particulars
how they had sparred at each other
over the fire, aud how he had finally
“punched” bis man aud left him to
bake iu the fire like a Texas yam. The
fleeing oow-punoher seemed to have no
regrets, but rather enjoyed the recol
lection of what he had done.
A short time after the above scene a
couple of herders belonging to the out
fit came in for their dinner, aud were
greatly moved at finding their cook
roasting iu the fire. Alter taking him
out of the lire, one of them hurried to
Sidney, auil notified the sheriff of the
circumstauce. The sheriff summoned
a coroner’s jury and proceeded at once
to the oamp aud after mature delibera
tion,, brought iu a verdict according to
the above facts.
This is very sweet, but if we were
Susan’s big brother we would thrash
Joaquin for sayiug that she had a
mouth that was handed down “by
angels on a stair of stars.” An open
ing that would require as much ma
chinery as that to get it down here,
must be bigger than the mouth of
Penobscot Bay.— [Chicago Times,