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Bill Strong. Jerry Little. The two Chiefs of the Breathitt County Clans. ‘Full many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark, unfathomr d caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower was born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.’ ■Gray’s Elegy,’ she said when she had read it. •Yes,’ I answered, ‘and how often applicable.' R h e blushed and after a moment’s pause, re marked: ■1 snail have no effort in remembering your name, William Henry, because that is brother’s two given names. We are soon to part,’ she said and again paused, then looking up into my face as she closed her album, said: ‘Shall we ever meet again ?’ We went away. Long years after, at the Green Briar White sulphur springs of Virginia, narrat ing to a lady this incident in my wife’s pres ence, she clasped her hands, exclaiming: 'Oh ! we have met again.* She was still beautiful and by her side was a daughter of nineteen the type of what she was when first we met. The wife of a distinguished gentleman of the far away west, she was on a tour of pleasure. She still lives, but widowed, and now resides in Tennessee with her son-in-law aDd that brother is one of the first men of his State. Onward to Little Bock we took onr way. Not many days did we remain at Little Rock, suffi ciently long however, to equip oureelves forour long march up the river to the mountains and thence across the plains to Red River. When all was arranged we left, two of us to brave the hazards of the wilderness. Lay after day we toiled, occasionally staying a day for rest by some pretty spring or rippling rill, again to renew our inarch when rest and monotony wearied and a desire revived to plunge yet deeper and deeper into the then un- expioreu and unknown regions of the Red and Arkansas rivers. For many days we traveled without meeting with any adventure or a hnman being. Fatigued aDd foot sore, on the tenth day from the rock we diverged a short distance from our liue of march, and in a small, but se cluded val.ey, and not a great way from the riv ers, we came unexpectedly upon a little cluster ot huts, and were announced by a dozen lean and snarling curs, in a moment half a dozen stalwart half-breed squaws came from their huts, only to look and Indian like, to steal back into their dens. These were succeeded by two flue specimens of Indian men, they too, were half breeds. They were reticent, but dia not retreat fiom our presence, and to onr astonishment, spoke English. They told us their father was a white mao and this was his home, and piloted us to his hut. We found him very old and re ticent. We asked for water and one of his sons piloted ns to the spring. It was noon and we proposed to dine here upon same of the venison we had roasted the day betore. Refreshed, we lay down upon the grass, whioh grew in abun dance on tne hill side which sloped to the spring It had b6en clouding up all the morn ing and was threatening rain, and having iound shelter, we concluded to remain lor fair weather. (TO BE CONTINUED.) THERIVAL "CLANS of Breathitt County, A Medieval Romance in Kentucky, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, Where is the Scott to celebrate the bloody feud between the two rival factions of Breathitt county Ky ? Almost equal to that long and fatal fight to the death between the two bitter-blooded High land clans described so graphically in the ’Fair Maid of Perth’ is the feud between the two fact ions of Strong and Little in a dim corner of the • State ■ f the Dark and Bloody Ground.’ An account of the long contest, together with the portraits of the two chiefs of the opposing clans have been sent us for publication. Toe County seat of Breathitt is Jackson, a town in the heart of the hills, in the great loop formed by the north folk of the Keutucby River, it has a population of less than two hundred, three stores, four o.’ hve taverns, a court-house, a log jail, ami a post-office. The population is not large, but gambling, horse racing, eye-gouging, and whiskey utinking are among the least harmful of their amusements. In the ranks of the heroes of Breath itt stood Capt. ‘Bill’ Strong, a Republican and Unionist of reputed bravi ry and impudence. Luring the late unpleasantness, Strong organized an inuepemlent force which was pledged do us S.rung sa d, and support the imperiled cause of the Uuton. When the war was over, Sirong failed to rtcogujze the fact that the bloody chasm had been ciostd. He is raid to have paid no attention to the poclamation of peace, but ‘kept it up’ un til 1874, when a neighborhood vendetta engaged his attention and commanded the weapons of his band ot loyal Kentuckians. In that year, one ‘Jerry Little circulated reports unfavorable to the chaiacter of Miss Cockerel, a lady of f ir repute in Breathitt county. The brothers of the lady foimed an offensive alliance against Little, and they were reinforced by the brothers Jett, one, Curtis Jett, having previously been killed by the aforesaid ‘Jerry’ Little And it bhould be said here that the cause of Curtis Jett's death was ‘a loan ot buckshot’ fired by Ltitle- On Little's side were the Combs , brothers of his wife, also ‘Bill’ istiong, who cast in his lot with the Littles, be cause they had befriended a negro who had sub sequently been killed by one Flinchern, au adher ent of the Cockerel faction. It will be seen that a woman was at the bottom of the whole difficulty, as usual; but the subsequent events hinged on race prejudice, politics aud local scandals. When the war bpfcued, Several men on either side were killed. ShiEri -Bill’ Strong seized the Breathitt County Court-House, and announced his intention of deal ing oul justice to suit himself. The governor of the State sent five companies of the Kentucky militia to the scene of Hostilities, and the usurpers took to the mountains. A truce was sounded and shere was peace for a space. But in August, 1878, a local election came on, and the opposing factions of Breathitt were once more arrayed in the bloody field. One of the candidates for County Judge was Edward Strong, whose kinsman, ‘Bill Strong, would have supported him if his old lriends, but present euemies, the Littles, had not publicly es poused the cause of J. W. Burnett, the opposing candidate. After a bitter and exciting canvass, Barnett was declared elected, and, as may be sup posed, the feuds previously existing between the families of Breathitt were not thereby cured. In fact, the anti-Burnett, or Strong Faction, began open hostilities. The Baptist Association of the neighborhood met, and during its session the house iu which Burnett boarded was attacked and fired into by the opposing party. A scene of confusion ensued, and civil justice for a time bade Breathitt county farewell. But the Circuit Court began its sessions on the 25th of last November, and the presiding justice delivered a charge which was pointedly directed to the lawlessness then prevailing in the county. As if to emphasize the force of this charge, during a recess of the court, a party of the Little men, under John Aikman, dashed into town and opened fire on Strong and his men. One man was killed and seveael wounded, and the assailants took pos session of the county court house. Subsequently there was much confusion, owing to an attempt by the sheriff of the county to arrest Jason Little, one of the belligerents, on a charge of wife-murder. Burnett, the newly elected judge, volunteered as one of the posse comitatus, as no process could be executed with ordinary means. He was killed in the first skirmish, by a bullet through the heart. Tom Little, a brother of Jason, was also killed in the encounter, and one of the Freemen brothers, who fell in the middle of the street when shot, was force 1 to lie there for two hours, his friends fear ing to effect his removal during the strife. At last accounts, the feud between the families of Little, Cockerel, Strong, and Burnett had cul minated in two or three violent deaths and many serious woundings. The original cause of dispute —a woman’s reputation—had disappeared in the confusion which politics, race, prejudice and per sonal hatreds had evoked. Finally, the Slate Mtli tia, which had been waiting for their uniforms to be completed, marched to the scene of hostilities in a glorious array of blue and gray, Emboldened > by the presence of these warriors, the court re turned its sessions in the Temple of Justice, at Jackson, and proceeded to indict a brigade of riot ers. At last accounts, the county was in the pos session of the military —not the Array of the Uni ted States, but the McCreary Guards State Militia, There is not a rod of telegraph wire, nor a mile of railroad, in Breathitt county. And, though it may be in a state of siege, it may be assumed that the county has returned o that state of pastoral simp icity when the Strongs and Littles cun shoot each other from behind rail-lences without inter ference. THE CELEBRATED KATE COBB MURDER CASE. We give the portrait of Mrs. Kate Cobb, tha woman whose recent trial in Norwich, Conn., for the murder of her husbanti by poisou has created intense excitement and tilied^he court room daily witu au immense crowd. The trial has just ter minated iu a conviction of murder in the second de gree. Ten of the jurors stood out for a verdict of murder in the tLsL degree, but the persistent pro test of the other two prevented the decision. The principal witness against Mrs". Cobb was Wesley li shop, her partner iu guilt, who, it will be re membered, killed his wife by poison at the sant3 time, the object of both beiug to free themselves of any obstacle to their marriage. Bishop s trial comes oil next month, when he will undoubtedly be condemned to death. Mrs. Cobb heard the verdict without the move ment of a muscle oi the shedding of a tear. Her mother and friends burst into tears, but she walk ed in charge of the officer from the room with as firm and elastic a step as she had done during the whole trial. Eloping on an Ox.—A decidedly new thing in elopements is reported from Trigg county, Ky., where a lover and his betrothed fled from the pa ternal mansion not upon a steed of any breed known to romance, red-roan, berry-brown, coal- black, milk-white or other, nor yet in a Gretna Green postchaise. No; the lovers departed on a saddle ox spectully trained by the swain, who had taken a leaf out of the history of the Puritan maiden Priscilla. The stern parent took down his shot-gun and pursued the fugitives, whom on his fiery charger or sure-tooted Kentucky mule he soou overhauled, aud though the maiden Ciung desperately to the horns of the ox, as if they had been those of the hymeneal altar, he tore her away and left her hapless lover lamenting. A F athee’s Teeeible Crime,—Mi*. Ward, an elderly larmer, of Indiana, vent with his two sons, boys nearly grown, to town, (Columbia City] and returned at night iu a state of iutoxication. After puttiug up the horses, the old mau went i to the bouse and abused his wife shamefully. The boys remonstrated, and as their father did not de sist, they beat him unmercifully. He then left the house and soon returned with an ax in his hands. He attacked both the boys. The elder, Frank, es caped; he then buried the ax in George's head. He fell dead, his head being nearly cleft in two - Tne murderer surrendered himself to the officers, and was taken to jail at once. He is in a terrible state of mind over his crime, as the decetsed boy was his favorite son and they always got along well. He is reported rich. Bulldozing a Stebn Paeent.—A western lover stole away his bride betore dawn, married her at day breaks loaded his trusty shot-gun and appeared as the breakiast-bell was ringing at her home, and ‘covering’his unwilling father- in-law conveyed the first intimation of this runaway or rather, stand-up-to-it match in the words, “Old man, Susan and I have been mar ried; what are yon going to do about it?” Thus taken at advantage, what could the ‘old man’ do bat offer (from beneath the table) his blesslDg, which was duly conterred, the bride coming in from the entry and the griom keeping the finger of prudence upon the trigger of promptitude. Highway Robbery in New York.—A highway robbery was attempted tne other day in New York, just in front of A. T. Stewart’s. Just as two ladies left the place in their carnage, a burly man sprang in through the door ot the vehicle, and would have despoiled them of their jeweiry, eto., had not they been cool and made a determined resistance. As it was, the strug gle kept up for five or six minutes, and it was only after the coachman had stopped the car riage aDd a crowd was collecting that the ruffian gave up his aim, and coolly walked away. Surely, New York is advancing steadily in rep utation for daring crimes. HUMOR. Darwin acknowledged himself sold when his little niece asked him, seriously, what a cat has that no other animal has. He gave it up, after mature deliberation, and the sly little pass an swered, ‘Kittens.* Two sweet little girls sat nnon the sidewalk in front of the Elko post-office, one of them nnrsing a large wax doll. Her companion asked, in tones of deep earnestness. ‘Dies ’oo have much twonble wif ’oor baby?’ Oh, doodness, ves ! was the reply. ‘She owies mos’all’e time. She jes’ ewied and ewied ever since she was born. I don’t fink I’ll ever born anymore.’ The following is told ns by the lather of the little one mentioned: The little daughter of a clergyman, who had been absent from home, came to him at night to say her usual evening prayer. Daring his absence she had been taught an addition to her prayer, which she hastily re peated, and immediately rose to explain: ‘Oh, papa,’she exclaimed, ‘I’ve got a new pat;h on my prayer.’ Little Anson has a pair of doves of which he is very fond. One morning, as he was feeding them, one of the neighbors came along, and seeing Anson, thought to bother i im by ex claiming, ‘Weil, them are the poorest, scrawniest chickens I’ve seen this year.’ Anson did not say anything, but turned his head, went into the house, and exclaimed to his mother, ‘Bro Nimrod just insulted me. Called my pretty tittle doves, scrawny chickens, the ill-mannered man !’ ‘Have yon got your lesson to-day ?’ asked a Brooklyn Sunday-school teacher of a little maiden, whose head was bandaged in red flannel. ‘No ma’am,’ said the child, ‘Well, then, have you got yonr catechism ?’ ‘No ma’am,’ again aswered the child. ‘Well, have you got your hymn ?’ The child drawled out, ‘No, ma'am.’ ‘Well, then. I d like to know wbat yon have got ?’ impatiently continue * the teacher. ‘Please ma'am. I've got the mumps,’ patiently responded the little unfortunate. A sweet little lady of four years occasionally brightens onr borne by a visit, exciting the marvel and merriment of all by her previous witticisms. A few days since, in paying a long- deferred visit, she was helped to some rich fruit cream which was on the table. After disposing ot one plateful, she naturally craved another. Her request was met by my wife with the remon strance, ‘I am afraid, Bessie, if I give you another it will make you ill—and you cannot then come and visit me. ‘ To which she promptly replied, ‘That need not matter, Mrs. L ; I should certainly come as soon as I got well!‘ A celebrated clown once produced on the stage a rusty sword. ‘This,* said he, ‘is the sword with which Balaam struck the ass,‘ One of the audience replied: ‘I thought he had no sword, but only wished for one.* ‘Yon are right 1 re joined the clown, ‘and this is the very one he wished for. ‘ At a schoolboard examination the inspector asked a boy if he could forgive those who had wronged him. ‘Could you said the inspector, forgive a boy, for example, who has insulted or struck you? ‘Y-e-3, sir, 1 replied the lad. very slowly, ‘I—think—I—could; 1 but he added in a much more rapid manner, ‘I could if he was bigger than I am.‘ One day ft olergyman dined with the family, and Willie asked to be allowed to say grace, which he did, with bowed head and clasped hands, in these words: “I’m a little turly head, My faver is a pweecher; I do to tool e’vv day, And always mind my teacher; For Twist sake. Amen.” Beautiful, beautiful!’ murmured the guest, solemnly raising his head. ‘I fear yon don’t understand Willie,' said his mamma, much an noyed. ‘I did not,' replied the clergyman, ‘but the angels did.’ a gentleman who is no longer yonng and who never was handsome, says to a child in the presence of its parents: ? •Well, my child, what do you thinkcf me, eh Tne little one makes no reply, and the gentle man continues: ‘ Well, so you wont tell me what you think of me. Why wont yon? ' ‘ Cause I dou’t waut to get licked.' Elegy in an Irish country churoh- yard over heard last week. Sorrowing ‘widow man' has just erected the invariable draped urn in mem ory ot the late plaoens uxtr; t > him critical old lady, having duly inspected the same. ‘An il- lgant monument, so it is, sor; as nate a pattern ed water jug as iverl see, and acleau white tow el reposin peaceful like on thetopavit. Well, well, it’s herself was the orderly woman, the heavens be her bed! ’—London World. Dan Rice's hoise ‘Exoelsior’ h is died. This year he die t about a month earlier than he Has for tne past twenty years. These annual win ter calamities to circus men are what makes the profession successful in summer.—New York Gdpptr. Society U osSip. The prettiest bride of the season is said to have been Miss Annie Biker, of Baltimore, who was married last week to Mr Greenleaf Johnson, tho Superintendent of the Maryland Sunday- School Union. Tall, queenly, and of a superb brunette type, she wore a heavy steel colored silk, enfraine, white bonnet and diamonds. At the marriage reception of Miss Bellefonte, of Beilefonte, Tenn., to Mr. Callaway, of Balti more, nearly two hundred guests sat down to a costly collation. The bride wore claret colored silk and a velvet bonnet of the same shade. A marriage has just been celebrated in Ne vada and elsewhere where the bride stood in Nevada, and the groom in Utah, and the c ffioiat- ing clergyman straddled the line. A new wrinkle in fashionable female society, just at this moment,is knitting—no: the woolen socks and mittens of onr grandmothers, oh, no! but a much daintier and costlier fabric- silk stockings in ail the new, delicate shades. When I tell yon that one spool of silk for this purpose cos's two dollars and fifty cents, and it takes from four to five to knit a pair of hose, you will uncerstand the economy of those ladies who do their own knitting. Kilted skirts for little bovs are sewn on sleeveless waists, with a vest of the sicue mate rial as the skirt. A sneque with straight cuta way front is worn over the waist. I The summer calicoes are exquisitely pretty I to look at, and utterly absurd and inartistic as dress materials. They have light grounds, cov ered by bright figures, and are made with bor ders which can bs usod for trimming. The ladies who bang their hair have encour agement from an unexpected quarter. Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, wears his coal black hair binged on his forehead aud braided be hind. Joseph is a fine specimen of the savage. Kentucky has received a very marked com pliment in the selection of Mrs. Sallie Ward Armstrong, of that state, to personate Lady Washington in the grand national celebration on the 20th. Wrappers will now be worn in the house more t l au before the introduction of the short walk ing dress. Party dresses for little girls are cut low necked and sleeveless, and are worn over white mnslin waists. Men dress to please themselves; ladies to displease each other. At least, so says a bach elor friend at our elbow, The Parisian dandies have adopted the fash ion set by the prince of Wales, of wearing a large pin in the front of the shirt for fall dres3. Cheap woolen materials are of two colors, combined in the weaving in tiny checks and fine stripes. The woolen materials imported for summer costumes have what is called the flannel finish, and are very soft. Some are plain, some basket woven, and some have Darrow stripes of two shades. The colors are black, wood-brown and moss. The one hundreth anniversary of the First Inauguration is to be held in New York, at the Academy of Music under the most dis'^ngn sn- ed auspicies. The ceremony of the First in auguration will be exactly reproduced, the par ticipants to be chosen from the lineal descend ants of those who prominentlv assisted in the original event. Mrs. Sallie Ward Armstrong, impersonating Lady Washington, will be of oonrsethe central figure of the illustrious gronp. The oelebration will be in the interest of a sea side sanitarinm for children, and an immense snm will be realized. At one of her recent reoeptions in Washington, the OctoroonJbtide of Senator Bruce— the col ored senator from Mississippi—wore a magnifi cent black velvet dress, made for her by Worth and very handsome diamonds. Miss Nellie Hazsltine, the alleged St. Louis belle, seoured several nice notices for her soTap book by attending the opera last week and oc cupying a box. One newspaper remarked that she looked real pretty, and ventured the opin ion that if Mr. Tilden could have seen her in her black-blue princesse, heart-shaped corsige, elbow sleeves, opera cloak and white hat, he would have laid his heart at her feet. Journal ism is on a high plain in St. Louis. Two youths of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, loved the -ame youDg maiden, and proposed to settle the question with pistols according to the code, when she decided the issue by marrying another fellow. “FEDDERS,” We were talking to a mission school on Darins throwing Daniel in the lion's den. We made as dear as we oould the fact that Daniel had a bet ter time that night than the King, slept more svreetly, and all because he had a quiet con science. ‘Darius couldn’t sleep, could he?’ By unanimous consent, ‘No, sir.’ ‘And why couldn't Darius sleep?* ‘Because he was bad. ‘ Having thus developed the conscience point, we launched our final question with a good deal of confidence. ‘Well, now, dear children, what is it makes the bed soft ?‘ Q tick as a flash from a four-year-old ceme the reply, 'Fodders. ‘ That closed the ethical dis cussion. A Woman's Logic.—“It is useless to take ntedi cine. I shall leel better to-morrow. Besides, I need the roo ey to get that lovely ueiv hat. My old one is suc'i f. tght, and people will look more at my bonnet than uicy will at my face. I will wait ti 11 feel worse be fore I spend any money for medicine.’’ The new bonnet is purchased a id fifty other feminine necessaries in the form of ribbons, laces, brooches, etc. Meanwhile the lady's face becomes every day paler and thinner, and her body weaker, until disease has gained so firm a foothold in her system, that the most thorough, and oft-times a longand tedious, course of treatment is necessary to re- stoie her to health. Ladies, at end to yourhealth before you even think of apparel. A fresh, blooming la e iu a plain bonnet ib niucu handsomer and lar more attractive to your gentlemen frienos, thau a pain vvoru, diseased face i, the most elaborate and elegant hat your milliner could device. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip.ion is every where acknowledged to he the standard remedy for female o .mplaiuts and weaknesses. It is sold by drug gists. OPgBA BOTBE. ONE NIGHT ONLY, FRIDAY, FEB. 21tli, 1879. Return of the favorite EMERSON’S CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS ! AND THE ORIGINAL **■ BIG k ■®* SMITH, WALDRON, MORTON and MARTIN, Headed by the acknowledged Prince of Minstrelsy, Billy Emerson, With an entire change oi programme and new faces,anda Uot“i ie of Twenty Artists ! THE MUSICAL WONDER OP THE ,9th CENTURY Don Ferreyra the Man Flute; Leo Brimmer, the King of Baujoists ; Burt Steppard, the lcadug Burlesque Pritna Donna. Price 50 cts. ant $1.00. Reserved seats at Phillips & Crews OPiaTzxoul& TUESDAY, FEB- 18th. The undersigned have the honor of announcing to the music loving citizens of Atlanta, one Grand Coneert by the celebrated MENDELSSOHN QUINTETTE CLUB, Of Boston, (organized 29 years), assisted by the dis tinguished vocalist, MRS. H. F. KNOWLES. We promise our patrons that this will be the grandest musical event of the eeison. Tickets includingreterv&d seats ONE DOLLAR. Seats are now on sale a Puillips & Crews. CREW & CAPWJKELL, Managers. 0PEBA SmSE, GRAND FASHIONABLE EVENT ! Kate Claxton, The great Emotional and beautiful actress, will appear for the first time in Atlanta, on her way to New Orleans, WEDNESDAY FEB. 19tU, Supported by the favorite actor, CHAS, A. STEVEN SON, and her own New York Company, In Chas. Reade’s powerful and exquisite play 1 , pro nounced such by the whole press and pub.lc. of THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, in another one of her celebrated plays. Admission $1 00 and 50 cts. Reserved seats 25 cts extra, for sale at Phillips & Crews. COLLEGE TEMPLE NEWNAN, GEORGIA. For a quarter of a century devoted to the Eleva tion of Woman, now offers a more extensive course of study, including Printing and Telegraphy, at less cost to the patron than aDy other Institution of similar grade in the South. For iuformation, address, M. P. KELLOGG. A. M. President.