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VOL. 111
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QUITMAN, - - GEORGIA,
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Office over Kay ton's store.
Dr. E. A. JELKS,
i
Practicing Physician.
QUITMAN GA.
Office : Brick building adjoining store
of Messrs. Briggs, Jelks & Cos., Screven
street.
R,i H. Robinson,
k
Physician and Surgeon
Having oponod an office opposite the
Mclntosh House, in tho building formerly
occupied by Mrs. Black, offers his services
to any who may call. Office hours from 9
to 12 o’clock a. m., and from 2 to 4 p. M.
Quitman, tia., Feb. 2, 1876. 3m
Dr. J. S. N. Snow,
DENTIST
OFFICE—Front room up stairs nverKay
ton’s Store. Otis administered for painless
ly extracting teeth.
J}?rohnrges to suit the times.
jan 19, ly
Carriage, Wagon and Buggy
Manufactory.
The firm of Knight and Scarborough lias
been dissolved liv mutual consent. The
liabilities will be settled by the undersigned,
who will continue the wheelriglit, carriage
and wagon manufacture as before. Thank
ful for past favors he still solicits public pa
tronage. Work cheaper than ever, and war
ranted Try me and be convinced.
- J, H. KNIGHT.
November 30, 1875.
From I’iilpil to Prison.
SAP FATE OP REV. C. A. KENDRICK—A TER
RIBLE INFATUATION AND ITS FATAL CON
SEQUENCES —THE UNSHAKEN CONFIDENCE
OF THE CHURCH GROSSLY BETRAYED
PROMINENT FAMILIES PLUNGED INTO THE
DEEPEST DISTRESS.
j [Special Correspondence of the Morning
News. |
Columbus, April 21, 187f>.
I do not propose to enter into any
of the grosser details of the terrible
social scandal which is now agitating
the minds of the people of this city,
and which has cast a deep gloom over
so rhanv hearts and homes, both of
tho members of the Baptist Church
and Christians generally. The ATorti
ling News does not gives its columns
to such details, nor does my pen ever
chronicle them in a sensational man
ner. My sole purpose in this epistle
is to give your readers a clear and
truthful statement of the case as it
now stands.
THE FALLEN PREACHER.
The Ilev. C. A. Kendrick is of ,
Northern birth, a nephew of Rev. A.-
C. Kendrick, D. D., of Rochester,
N. Y.. Baptist University, and Rev. J.
K. Kendrick, I). D., formerly of
Charleston 8. C., both eminent and j
learned divines of the Baptist denom- -
ination. His wife is the daughter of
a leading Baptist Sunday School
worker of South Carolina, and his j
own father is an honored citizen of j
Atlanta, where his brother a well j
known lawyer, and Mrs. Belle Ken- j
drick Abbott, the accomplished an-j
thoress, his sister, also reside. He ,
first graduated at Rochester Universi- \
ty, and then pepared for the ministry I
at the Baptist Theological Seminary!
at Greenville, S. C. He is about j
twenty-eight or thirty years of age, |
and has been in the ministry but a
comparatively short time. He was \
called to this city from Greenville,
Ala., and lias been here' some three
years. In manners Mr. K. is very
pleasant and agreeable, and from the
first hns been quite popular with the
members of all denominations in this
city. He is an accomplished singer,
a fine reader and an entertaining <eon
versationalist, which has brought him
much into social life. Ho lias also |
manifested a deep interest in the Sun-1
day school and the young people of j
the church, verv many of whom have ;
been converted under his ministry
and baptised by him. No young j
preacher had a more .promising fu- \
tore, and none eouM- have had more j
friendiy or a better field of labor. In j
personal appearance, Mr. K. is of;
rather slight build, easy and graceful j
in his movements, coixliaHn liis man-j
nors, has a pleasant mild voice, is of!
a sandy complexion, and at present j
wears a moustache, although he form- j
erly had sandy side whiskers and no j
moustache.
A BRIEF REVIEW OF HIS FALL.
Several months ago it Was rumored j
that a young girl, a member of a re-1
spectable, but not prominent or;
wealthy family in the church, was in i
the habit of going to the pastor’s |
study in the rear of the basement of I
the church edifice. A few members j
looked into the matter under the full;
conviction that the pastor was inno- ;
cent, and nothing, of course, resulted !
from their ex-parte action. Recently
however, these minors were revived, j
and became common talk in certain
circles but when mentioned to mem- j
bers of the church they scouted the j
idea that there could be any truth in
them. In the mean time matters j
were reaching a crisis, and on I
Wednesday afternoon tho girl was j
followed and watched on her way to ;
the study, which she reached through
the back gate and rear door of the
basement of the church. Rev. Mr. Iv.
was also seen to enter the church,
and the young men of the watching
party soon after proceeded into the
enclosure, and turning the blinds of
the study window, discovered the
guilty pair and alarmed them. The
pastor was soon after found in the
front part of the church by one of the
members, who had been brought
there by tlie alarm which was speedi
ly given, but the girl could not be
fonnd. It seems that she remained
locked iu the study, and when, at a
late hour, the police came to search
for her, she escaped up the pastor’s
private way to the pulpit, and hid
under the pulpit stair’s. After dark
sho left the church, and the gate be
ing locked, she was seen to jump the
fence by a friend of her father, who
took her in charge and carried bei
home. These are the simple facts of
the exposure, which, it seems, quite a
number of persons were expecting, as
the pastor and liis victim seem to
have utterly disregarded public sent
iments, so infatuated liad they become
with their guilty intercourse with
each other.
HOW THE CHURCH AND CITIZENS FEEL.
I have as yet conversed with but
one person in or out of the church
QUITMAN, HU, THURSDAY’, MAY 4, 1876.
who is of tho opinion that Rev. Mr.
i Kendrick is innocent. There are a
few others who feel this way, but all
; the deacons, members and citizens
whojn I have met, and I have spent
au entire day in a thorough investi
! gation of the case, feel compelled to
I accept the testimony of his guilt as
1 positive. They do not do this cheer
fully—for it is a terrible blow to their
church and the community—but cir
cumstances and facts compel them to
reach such a conclusion. The citi
zens, I should say, manifest a deeper
sympathy for the accused than do the
members of the church, for the blow
falls less severely upon them. All,
however, desire tho release of the
prisoner and his safe withdrawal from
tho city. They feel that tho family of
the ruined girl can gain nothing bv
exposing their daughter in a court of
justice, and the disgrace which has
fallen upon tho destroyer of her vir- j
tue is deemed sufficient punishment
for him. On yesterday, learning that j
this course would probably be settled
upon, the accused expresed his pur-1
pose to demand a legal investigation !
and thereby prove his innocence.!
This proposition does not meet with ;
favor even among the officials of the |
church. Much as they desire to see j
their paster exhonorated from the!
terrible charge, they fear that the
most fatal results would follow the
carrying out of this plan of defence.
In some particulars it is perfectly re
volting, as he purposes to attack the
character of his own victim, and to
endeavor to impeach tho testimony of
the voting men, on the ground of a
conspiracy to ruin him. The girl is a
member of his church, baptized by
him, and for months past has been al
lowed free access to his study in the
church, and was not forbidden this
privilege after the first reports were
circulated in January. She states
most positively in regard to the com
mencement and continuance of their
intercourse, and that her pastor had
accomplished her ruin months ago.
There is other proof back of that
which the young men offer, and any
attempt to impeach them would sig
nally fail. It is doubtless true that
the accused can modify, ai'd perhaps
extenuate, some of the circumstances
By wliicli Iw io uui-roundvd in tliia
matter, but that he has been suffici
ently imprudent and criminal to de
stroy his usefulness as a minister and
depose him from that sacred office,
there can be no shadow of doubt.
Like a drowning man, he is grasping
at every straw that tloats within his
reach, but he cannot save himself.
It is in deep sorrow that I-write this,
for my pen lias often written good j
things of him, and my tongue has re- 1
peatedly spoken in liis praise. I have I
esteemed him very, very highly, as a j
true and devoted servant of Christ,
and during the past twenty-four
hours Thave spared no effort to get
at all the points in the case, and to
tlie pulse of the church and the com
munity. My purpose was not to pa
rade the story of his guilt before the
public, but simply to satisfy anxious,
praying Christians of the real condi
tion of tho accused. On yesterday,
as I sat in his large and interesting
Sunday school. 1 thought of him in
his cell at the jail, and of the stride-1
en family whose children were also
shut up at home, secluded m deepest
distress and grief from the gaze of the
world. And when at the close of the
exercises, there being no preaching, |
the brethren of the church assembled j
for consultation, it was a scene over
which angels could have wept. How |
they had loved and trusted that pas
tor even after scandal first settled
upon him, and yet ill that sacred edi
fice, and beneath the very pulpit
from which lie preached, he had dis- j
dishonored liis Saviour and brought j
.reproach upon tlie church. And there,;
with sad, sorrowful hearts, they were
dumb in the presence of tno over
whelming conviction that their pastor,
under the most favorable showing,
was lost to them forever, and a stain
left upon their church membership
and bouse of worship. A few days
will develop the final result of the
| whole affair. If the prosecution is
j dropped and the accused withdraws
from the community, all will be well;
but should he attempt to carry out
the plan he proposes for his defense,
the most dreadful results can safely
lie predicted. Already he has been
once saved from the fatal aim of the
father’s deadly weapon, and from the
swift vengeance of the community,
and while the excitement has abated,
(here is, if possible, a deeper feeling
pervading the hearts of the people.—
Should he arouse it by an attempt to
impeach the character of his victim
and the testimony of his accusers, the
consequence will be fearful.
Chatham.
A riot occurred on the 18th at
Leavenworth, Kansas, between the
| striking coal miners, and the import
ed negroes. There were no fatal re
sults.
Using Manure.
Many persons follow tho same rou
tine in the application of manure
from year to year, never stopping to
think how it ought to bo done, or
whether their way is right. Undoubt
edly it is necessary to uso judgment
in this matter as well as iu others, and
what may be right in one place, or at
one time, may be entirely wrong at
another. Some apply only in tho
spring other u in the fall. Manure is
seldom fit to apply iu the spring ns it
is not usually sufficiently well rotted,
and a loss is entailed thereby, but
where it is well rotted tho spring is as j
seasonable as any other time. There
is no difficulty, however,about spring j
manuring, and that is, the weather j
may be dry, and manure being of a j
heatin,, nature is liable to help the !
drouth in damaging tho crop; but if
the weather is wet it aids in d'ssolv- j
ing it and thus fitting it to be absorb
ed by the rootlets of tho growing j
plants. Manure that is properly treat- 1
ed is usually in a more decomposed
condition if left until fall, and then
i the rains and snows and freezing Up
of winter have the power to disinte
grate the component parts and set
i them free to become food for the va
■ l ions crops.
As regards plowing manure under,
or using it as a top dressing, care
must he had to the position of the
land and the kind of it to which we
are to make the application. On hill
sides vre would always plow under to
prevent washing away by rains. On
sandy soil which is not very retent
ive. the application on the surface
will answer, as such soil is not suffi
ciently retentive to Hold the plant
food contained therein until it is ap
propriated by tho crops. On lands !
well under-drained this same fact may [
exist; but as it is clayey or alnmnious !
soils that a.ve under-drained they are j
not so porous and the plea for sur
face application is not so apparent. j
In undrained clay soils we strongly j
recommend plowing under of all i
barn-yard or similar manures, as the j
soil is cold and retentive, and conse i
quently the food will last longer and j
benefit the crops to a greater degree.
For a similar reason we would gener
ally apply it to wheat in tho fall, for
If applied on tile surface In the spring
much of the v olatile ingredients will
MkKet afloat by the rays of the sun,
ftpd will only be washed down by the
ram, benefit lands other:
than those for which they were in- j
tended and, at great distan- j
ces away. In this we have only been
speaking of bulky manures, those 1
which are concentrated may be ap
plied directly to the roots of growing
crops, and the same may be said of
liquid manures. We should aim to j
keep manure dry, or at least in such !
positions where nothing will flow off
in a liquid form, and where we can
save all the excrement of animals
both solid and liquid, and apply it in
this manner to crops.
Zeb Grummet's Curse-
Dedicated to tlie mail who won't pay tlie
Printer. j
May your eggs be rotten at break
fast, your meat stink at dinner, and
yon go supperless to bed.
May the bed bugs pull the comforts
over your head on hot nights, and
walk off with every rag of clothes in
the winter.
May your wife be cross, your ser
vant girl prudish, and your neighbor’s
fences high.
May your dreams be varied 1m -
tween the embraces of crocodiles and
the acting back stop to the hind end
of a mule.
May you have steel filings in your
eves and be obliged to use chestnut
burs for eye stones.
May you lie speechless and be ob
liged to shout for cocktail.
May the ghost of starving editors
and printer’s devils, gaunt, lean and
hungry haunt you constantly.
May your boots squeak and run
down at the heol, and pinch your
corn terribly.
May your horse be balky, your cow
give sour milk, your chickens get
lousy and your pigs have the scurvy.
May your creditors never let up on
you, jour friends be sent to an insane
asylum, and your enemy prosper.
May your wife run away with a
circu*, your business to ruin, and
you go to Chicago.
am • mrn
Ida Lewis, the famous maid of the
light bouse, has just lost her husband.
He isn’t dead; he only got a divorce.
Their married life was not happy,
and whenever they had any discus
sion, Ida would just spit on her hands
and knock him clear over the house
as easily as a Yassar girl could skin
the cat. That is why he got a di
vorce.
Counter claims -Your wife’3 shop
ping ,bills.
The Shades Deepening.
A (treat Dismal Swamp *f Administra
tive Corruption.
The paths of the investigating com
mittees descend and deepen iu som
breness and gloom every day. They
strike new siuks of iniquity with everv
advance, and the sic ns of hard and
solid ground become fewer and few
er. The prospects are that they must
bring up at last in a bottomless mass
of irredeemable public disorder and
i corruption. If Prender’s statement
! in the Sunday dispatches is true, then
we suppose there can be nothing al
all reliable in any of the financial
records of the government. It will
be impossible to tell, with any ap
proach to accuracy, what the govern
ment owes; what circulation is out
standing. and how much of govern
ment paner recorded as destroyed is
still outstanding and in circulation.
All the Treasury Department figures
are a lie, and the more they are stud
ied the more will they mislead.
The whole concern is a Great Dis
mal Swamp, of unfathomable, black
corruption, none seem to have touch
ed tlie public moneys, accounts and
credils'but todisorderand to steal. The
man Premier is a terrible fellow—a
fate—a demigod of universal distrust
and confusion if he is not misrepre
sented. We hope he is—we trust he
cannot prove all the St. Louis Times
says he can. It will be proving quite
too much. Even the Great Dismal
Swamp boasts of some hard standing
ground, and in the worst part of it
one can take to tree. But there’s no
hard ground—and no lofty umbrag
eous trees upon which public honesty
can call a halt or gain a momentary
repose, if Prender states the facts.—
All is morass—all is rotten.— Moron
Telegraph.
A Lawsuit the Results of a Sneeze.
A sneeze delivered bv a draper’s
assistant on the ‘2Bth of January led
to an action which was tried before
the Lamberth County Court in Eng
land. The plaintiff was in the service
of the Army and the Navy Co-opera
tive Stores, Westminster, in the dra
pery department, of which defendant
was manager. About 10 o’clock at
night, when assisting to take stock,
having a eold in his head, he .was
compelled to sneeze. He sneezed j
rather loudly, for defendant came up
to where the plaintiff'and others were
at work and demanded to know yho
sneezed. The plaintiff at once mag
nanimously admitted that he was the
sneezer, upon which the defendant
told him that the next time ho want
ed to sneeze he must go qntside and
do it. Shortly plaintiff
felt himself impelled to sTOeze agitoi,
and, putting on liisovercoat, sniißo
defendant, “Please sir, lam going
out to sneeze.” He was thereupon
told by the defendant that if he went
outside he must go altogether, and,
upon his proceeding to do so, the de- j
fendant insisted on his returning the
week’s wages he had received a few
hours previously, the week’s work not
expiring until the afternoon of the
next day. As he declined to comply
with this demand, the defendant took
him by the collar and pushed him
down a spiral staircase a flight at a
time. He was subsequently marched
off the premises between a policeman
and doorkeeper. He claimed dam
ages for the injuries he had received
by his rapid descend down stairs.—
After several witnesses had been ex
amined, and the defendant had given
evidence, the jury rendered a verdict
in favor of the sneezer, for twenty
pounds damages.
Odd Thoughts.— A helping hand to
one in trouble is like a switch on the
railroad tiack—but one inch between j
wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
Sleep—death’s younger brother;
and so like him that I never dare
trust myself with him without saying
my prayers.—Sir Thomas Browne.
Riches are the baggage of virtue.
—They cannot be spared or left be
hind; but they hinder the march.—
Bacon.
’Tis with our judgemet as our
watches. None nre the same yet
each believes his own.—Pope.
Women remark manners far more
than character. The mental force
that might be compressed and point
ed into a javelin, to pierce quite
through a character, they splinter
into tiny darts, to stick all over the
features, complexion, attitude and
drapery.—John Foster.
Friendship may and often does
grow iuto love; but love never sub
sides into friendship.—Byron.
We wear our teeth out in the hard
drudgery of the outset, and, at
length when we do get bread to eat,
we complain that the crust is hard,
so that in neither case arc we satis-
I fied.--Scott,
Gen Santa Anna in hia Old Age.
He lives iu the city of Mexico, in n
third-rate house of two stories, with
| courts of not more than twenty f ee t
square, the pavements out of repair
the whole telling the story of poverty.’
Ho was seated upon a much-worn
sofa, atteuded by a smart-appearing
Mexican of middle age, and rose, with
some difficult, in receiving us ' Ho
complained considerably of hisjwood
en leg, and also of blindness.
He is an old man of eighty years,
very decrepit, yet in full command of
Ins faculties; has a good head and
face, not unlike the pictures of Hum
boldt in old age, with broad temples
and an abrupt, square nose, and at
the time, good eyes. Ho had little
to say bnt appeared pleased at our
visit; and, as we told him of the four
or five general officers of the Mexican
war still living, he listened with in
terest, but showed no special recogni
tion until the name of Pillow was
mentioned, whom lie remembered
perfectly.
Over the Sofa where Santa Anna
sat was the picture of a beautiful wo
man m her fullness of youth and
hotoTTil T , h 'i WftS L ‘ B wife "ten
both led the fortunes of Mexico As
wo passed out the court our attention
vi aa called to the figure of a woman of
i fty in the window opposite, in plain
U a *“ d i7 o,d of an - v interesting
attribute. This was she whose pic
ture had so interested us, Mrs Gen
eral Santa Anna. -Cor. Cincinnati
inquirer.
Mr. Blaine would doubtless have
made a good lawyer if he had devoted
himself to the study and practice of
law As ho did not do so, however,
i he should stop trying to discuss eon
! stitutioual subjects. It is a popular
j delusion to suppose that mere cheek
iis all that is needed for an
j argument on such a question
as the privilege of the writ of habeas
I ™ rp ™' . T , h,s "as shown clearly in
! 1 1 1 ~l un? 8 failure in his encounter
with Randoph Tucker. All that au
dacity and eloquence could do he ac
complished; but in debating certain
j issues a little knowledge is essential,
tucker has been a practitioner and It
prufiosso r. Ho is at once n pox erfnl
and ready debater and an accurate
scholar andtaay be pronounced tho
most dangerous antagonist rff con
gress. After his experience with La
miH, Blaine should have known
enough to let law professors alone.
" rap yourself in the folds of the
bloody shirt, James G., and mount
the American bird. You are a child
of freedom, and your bright home is
m the settin’ sun. —New York World.
Maladies of the Churches.— A
church entirely healthy is a spectacle
quite as a man entirely sound in limb
and organ. There are distempers lo
cal and peculiar; alas ! there are also
general epidemics. Here, perhaps, it
is emaciation, there it is the opposite
trouble, a corpulency that makes the
body nnwieldy and sluggish. In this
country, the first is by far the most
common complaint! the latter is moro
rare, but much more serious. The
corpulent church is naturally a
gouty church brought on bv high
living with indolent habits, 'in al
most evarv church there is more or
less trouble with the organs of vis
ion, but there are very few in which
a faded silk escapes notice, where tho
preciso hue of bonnet and exact
shade of ribbons cannot be discerned,
even on the darkest Sundays. All
the miseries and benightedness of the
heathen are vividly seen, but there is
no sight for the paganism of the back
streets and slums of their own cities.
Oats as a Fertillizer.
A Kentucky farmer writes to tho
New York .News, on the subject of
oats as a manure, as follows:
I have seen frequent inquiries how
to reclaim old and worn out lands. A
quick and cheap plan is to sow the
land in oats; plough them under in
October—or if South, the first of No
vember; then sow rye, graze in the
spring, and feed down; when ripe
plugh under, and you will see one of
the finest rye fields you ever saw; or
if you wish sow clover on the rye tho
first spring—it is effectual and cheap.
I saw the above tried in Tennessee
when I was a boy; the land was so
worn out that the oats did not exceed
knee high; they were ploughed under
when ripe, and again in November.—
The land was planted in corn the
next year and made a large yield. It
was before the days of clover. I have
tried it repeatedly since, with good
success.
“Minnie has been to see me to
day,” said little five-year old, “and
behaved like a little lady.” “I hope
you did too, “said her mother, “yes,
indeed, I did; I turned somersaults
for her on the bed.”
No. 10.