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VOL. 111 The Qnitmaa Reporter It #UBLXRHKD BYKIIY THURSDAY BY T.'A. HALL, Proprietor TJ62R .M ifili One Year Six Months 1 Three Months ,r^ All subscriptions must be paid invariably in advance -no discrimination in favor of anybody. Tb paper will bo stopped in all instances at the expiration o r die time paid lor, unless subscriptions are previously renewed. rates op advertising. Advertisements inserted at tli rate ol SI.OO per square -one inch -for first inser- ( tion. and 7o cents for each.' subsequent in- j Hortion. 1 All advertisements should be marked for ( a specified time, otherwise they will be charged under the rgle of so much for the first insertion, and so much.for each subse quent insertion. Marriages, (Obituaries and Tributes ofße spoct will be charged same rates as ordinary advertisements. WIIEX BILLS ARE DUE. All bills for advertising in this paper are j due on the first appearance of the advertise ment, except when otherwise arranged by contract, and will be presented when the, money is needed. Professional. S. T. KDJGSBERY, Attorney at Law, QUITMAN, - - GEORGIA, J&O-OFFICE ill new Brick Warehouse.-S3; I Business before the XT. S. Patent Office j attawlad to I. A. Allbritton, Attorney at Law, QITITJIAJI. - - - - CA. .WS-OFFICE IX COURT HOUSE. w. a. s. Humphreys, Attorney at Law, QUITMAN', - - - - - GEORGIA. I ZS- OFFICE in the Court Home "ft?s HADDOCK Ik RAIFORD, Attorneys at Law, QUITMAN, GEO. Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their care. 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.