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An attempt has been made to OS'
sassinatc the son of Col. Cash, the
South Carolina duelist
Daniel H. Chamberlain, who
onCC was known to fame as Gover
nor of South Carolina, has been
searching for his lost health in
It:* 1 '.
Ex-Gov.John Letcher, of Virgin
ia. who was a prominent figure in
national politics twenty years ago,
Inis almost entirely given away,
mentally and physically.
The great immaculate Boycottcr
„f the Georgia State Agricultural
Convention must have been read
ing upon Fenianism,Communism,
\ihili-m and Molly Magueirism, as
uc ll as Hoyle and Grangcrism.
The Governor of Alabama has
oilered a reward of $5,000 for the
arre-t of Vincent, the absconding
State Treasurer, while the bail of
Polk, the Tennessee defaulter, has
.. Cl n reduced from $100,000 to $50-
tx«>. lie could not give the latter
amount and was carried back to
jail, completely broken down.
The farmers of Clarke county, for
two \ ears, were represented in that
so-called State Agricultural Con-
M-ntion hr a New York dry goods
drummer. Now let President Tom
Hardeman blow his dinner-horn
and summons the sons of toil in
Georgia to crush out the State Uni-
\ersity, because of the exposure of
that body by the Banner-Watch
man.
the naughty noiitherner.
The Southern people since the
war have been slaves to the North
ern capitalists. Nearly every wind
that blows North carries something
with it to try and allow the North-
can capitalist to our sunny land.
The different water-powers have
been surveyed and written up to
attract his attention; the fertility of
our soil has been talked of to se-
ducc the coupon clippers to invest,
and our climate has also been rep
resented to them to cure even the
cuii'Uinptive. Yet they do not
care to come. These men who have
amassed the almighty dollar can be
caught only like a sno^v-bird—by
nuttii g salt on his tail. The North
ern c ipitalist cares for nothing in
the Smith that is not connected
with-teel rails and cross-ties. They
will invest their money in railroads,
hut it is always invested after the
mad i- built, and those who built it
are not able to pay interest or keep
the road up. It is then that these
Sh\locks will come to our aid and
l ike the main track and its branches
with a promise of accommodating
schedules and low rates. Can you
point out a single Northern capi
talist who has placed his 111011-
c\ in building up our towns
or miming farms and other kinds
of industries? Notone.
h i- true that some of these capi
talists have sent down their money
and put it in the hands of attorneys,
with instructions to loan it on good
bunded security and only pay out
<mc-thint of the value of the land;
and this kind of help is what is ru
ining ns. The most of these lands
will pass into the hands of the
blood-suckers and leave the farmer
without land and credit. Our
Southern people have only them
selves to depend upon, and we hope
•' l they will give the cold shoul
der to these men whom we have
been begging for years to come and
help us. by putting their shoulders
to the wheel and build up different
branches of industry and force these
capitalists to buy from us. We pre
dict that in less than two vears the
main trunk lines with their branches
in the State of Georgia will pass
into the hands of these Wall street
gamblers, and the roads will be run
and managed according to their
convenience.
W e have a good tovCn and a good
country surrounding it, and let the
voting men take hold and develop
it ami pay no attention to these men
who have made such frequent
promises of aid.
THE
NO. XXXVII.
-A/THIElSrS, GEORGIA,
POPULAR VENGEANCE.
‘ L. '
TWO SUCCESSIVE MOBS ATTACK
JAIL IN KANSAS.
THE SECOND ATTACK SUCCESSFUL.
THE OBJECT OF THE ATTACK, A NE
GRO FIEND, COMMITS SUICIDE,
BUT IS STRUNG TO A TREE.
Kansas, City, Mo., Feb. 9, 1SS1.
A special dispatch to the Times
from Paola, Kansas, savs: “About
eleven o clock on Thursday night
an excited crowd, chiefly colored
persons, in masks surrounded the
jail here and demanded the person
of Henry Smith. Smith, a notorious
negro, had the day before diaholi-
calically ill-treated a little negro
child nine years of age. The Sher-
ifl had prepared for the emergency
and warned them away, hut the
clamorous throng pushed forward
and forced open the door of the
building. The Sheriff struck the
foremost man over the head; then
the mob opened fire, to which the
Sheriff and his deputies replied, and
a general fusillade ensued. The
front windows and doors of the
building were perforated with shot.
Etl. Long, the Sheriff s son, receiv
ed a buckshot wound in the arm.
James McGraw, colored, was shot
through the head and instantly kill
ed. I wo other colored men receiv
ed serious wounds anil several were
slightly injured. The mob then re
treated and without effort to obtain
possession of the prisoner, dispers
ed. The Sheriff was supported bv
three or four deputies during the
fight.
At daylight this morning the ex
citement had increased and an im
mense crowd, numbering more than
a thousand, gathered about the jail
nnd began battering down its doors.
During all this time Smith was in
a cell where he could hear every
thing that was going on. The mob
called upon the Sheriff for the keys
f the jail, which he again refused to
ivc up and retreated through a
narrow entry. The attacking party
then used sledges and battered
down the outer door, and assailed
the second, which offered greater
resistance.
Smith, the negro, waited until
the second door began to yield and
then he cut his throat with a jagged
jackknife, which the officers did not
notice when the man was searched
>11 entering the jail. After drawing
the knife across his throat the negro
braced himself against the wall,
watching the mob through the grat
ed door, and the blood from his
throat spurted out upon the men
thirsting for his life, until at last he \
fell over upon the floor a corpse. In !
less than two minutes afterward the
mob, with a wild roar, broke down
the last door and tying a rope around
the neck of the dead negro, thev
dragged him from jail through the
streets to the public square and
strung him up to a tree. All this
time the work of the mob was wit
nessed by many persons, and dur
ing the greatest excitement Judge
Waggstalf mounted a wagon and
called upon the mob to disperse; hut
Ins words were greeted only with
hisses, groans and laughter.
The sight was a terrible one, and
after hanging two hours the body
was cut down and a verdict render
ed by a coroner's jury that Smith
came to his death by suicide. The
affair, in all its hearings, is one of
the most exciting which has occur
red in the State of Kansas; hut pub
lic opinion upholds the mob.
ton. On Messrs. Childs & Nicker
son's place a very valuable diamond
was once found, that is now in pos
session ofthejarrett family. There
are doubtless other of these precious
SDAY, FEBEUABY SO. 1883.
t&jp&cp*.
SOL XXIX.
THE bEVlL’S PULPIT.
A Foist st Tallulah Falls that Ton Cast Got
Around.
“The cause of Dr. Hape’s trouble
stones here, but the mining of gold trying; to climb around the
THE CONQUEROR COMES.
Kmuto or Capt. Lampkln from tho Now Orloans
Tournamont.
Capt. Robt. Lumpkin reached
Athens yesterday evening from
the New Orleans chicken tourna
">vnt, in high spirits. His cocks
came out victorious, and he fs very
proud of their record. He fought
-,v tights and whipped 17 out of that
number. He won over and above
his expenses $2,355. He sold $625
worth of cocks, and also won a fine
buggy and marc, now on the roail
for Athens. He fought all the
htales, with Canada thrown in, and
sold cocks to all the raisers that were
at the tournament, including five
to breeders in Canada, and has
large demand for cocks and hens, to
l>e shipped. The Captain reports
the tournament as the biggest thing
on record. He last evening set up
champagne to friends.
pays better than searching for them.
Col. C. is now erecting comfortable
cottages on his property and will
spend his summers there.
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Rogular Meeting ot tho Dlroctoii—Tho Dividend
and tho Condition ot tho Property.
Autjurtu CkronieU'.
The regular meeting of the di
rectors of the Georgia railroad was
held yesterday at the hanking rooms
of the company on Broad street. A
very full attendance was had and
the usual business of the Board was
transacted. The quarterly dividend
of 2A per cent., payable 15th of
April, from the rental of the road
was declared. An investigation of
the condition of the road proved it
to he in Superb condition. The
road is transacting all the business
it can possibly attend to, and its
balances foot up handsomely
throught the year. The calculation
of the lessees to lose money on the
property during the first three years
of the lease will probably not he
realized; as the deficit grows smaller
every year, and in a short time it is
thought the property will be a real
source of revenue. With the re
laxation of the money market and
the revival of business there can be
little doubt the stock will run up to
a high figure. Yesterday’s meet
ing was highly satisfactory.
FEEDERS TO THE GEORGIA.
Accompanying President Allen
D. Candler, of the G., J. & S. rail
road, to the city yesterday, was Mr.
Henry Collycr, civil engineer and
general superintendent of this line.
This road runs from Gainesville
through Jefferson. Jackson county,
to some point on the Georgia road,
and will he when completed about
fifty miles long; has already been
ironed in narrow gauge twenty-six
miles. This line will probably meet
the Georgia railroad at Social Cir
cle, and it is now desired to join the
Walton County railroad at Monroe.
As this will he a very valuable
feeder, the officers of this new road
were anxious to secure some sub
stantial aid from the Georgia rail
road directory. The hoard yester
day passed resolutions confirming
their sympathy for and interest in
this line, and, although they have
not decided to endorse the bonds
oftheroad.it is thought that the
Central and L. & N. will do to, and
control this branch for the Georgia.
This will secure a vast amount of
business for the Georgia road and
i'or Augusta, which now goes up
the Air-Line and Richmond and
Danville to Richmond and Norfolk.
TlicG., J. & S. wishes about $160,-
ixu of its bonds endorsed.
CHILDS’ CLAIM.
Wfcat 1
Four Qualli a Day in thli Case.
1 he interest shown in the prob-
lem o( quail eating solved hv Mr.
Walcott has led to a wager among
Jersey City sporting men that Mr.
Henry Howie will he able to cat
hmr quails a day, instead of two as
»> alc.tt did. for thirty days. The
ttia. is being made in Durr & Ilol-
“ 'A s Kstaurnnt, on Pavonia ave-
*l ue - -«»• Howie vanquished his
first double brace of birds on Thurs-
. ' ' as *. ami yesterday finished his
sixteenth,pair. The average time is
dtccu minutes, and in this period
>c has include JftP consumption of
■e side dishes, yyhie'h are changed
*-'Utv day. His quickest time was
fi]adc o n Monday, when fie finished
>‘s birds with their accorapffttinicnt
mushed potatoes, boiled onions,
• er . v and pickls'd beets in just ten
To avoid any misundcr-
m K’ it is announced that the
!?*“? . ealcn in the contest were pro-
an.i j ' r 'i re th * ofthtmonth
and placed on ice. -
ah orncuL HntaoD.
Sheriff Weir went out quailing,
hiH. Sda > n . f,crnoon > and killed thirty
,. »> thirty minutes, and ate them
entrr r * Uppe r that night. We’ll
cn,cr h "» Against Walcott
A then* Capitalist Is Doing In Nacooctaes
Valley.
On our return from the falls last
Saturday, wc met on the train our
esteemed fellow-citizen Col. A. K.
Childs, who was just getting home
from a protracted visit to his gold
mines in Nacoochec Valley. We
took a seat beside the Colonel and
delibcratclyprocecded to pump him
dry. Co). C. tells us that, together
with Capt. Reuben Nickerson, he
owns 500 acres of mineral land, sit
uated about two miles distant from
the valley. It was formerly the
property of the Jarrett family, who
made considerable money by wash-
thc dirt along the branches, hut
having very crude machinery did not
undertake to work the veins. The
great lack to this property was a
sufficient water supply, anil as soon
as the mine .passed into the
hands of its present owners they he
gan to build a canal, seven miles
long, leading from near the foot of
Anna Ruby falls, which renders
subject to them all the mines on that
side of the river; This canal is now
nearly finished, and they will soon
be ready for business. It will fur
nish an inexhaustible supply of wa
ter, and enable dirt to -be washed at
only a cost of 25 cents per ton.
There arc 'five distinct veins run
ning across their property, and they
are all rich and will pay handsome
ly. But they will at first only wash
the loose earth, and not attempt to
work the ore until they are better
prepared for it. There is not a foot
of ground but what contains a great
er or less quantity of gold, and even
a rock found on top of a mountain,
upon being tested, proved to he rich
in the precious metal. Col. C. was
last week putting up a chiVnnev to a
house that he is having erected, and
the mason collected a pile of rock
from a ledge near at hand that he
thought suitable for the purpose.
The Colonel, who has always an
eye to business, broke off'a piece of
one of the boulders and pounding
it up in a mortar was surprised, upon
washing the gravel, to find that he
had accidentally discovered another
rich vein, the existence of which had
not before been known. The idea
or building a chimney out of gold
seemed rather extravagant, but as
all the stones on the land were rich
in the same metal he told tho hands
to go work, as he didn’t care for ex
pending a few thousand in such
luxuries. There is no doubt about
these gentlemen owning one of the
richest in Northeast Georgia.
They have alre^y refused a large
offer for the property, JstjJ have de
cided to work it themsjeives, 4* t]hcy
h*V$ plenty of weans. Cd. CfeRds
showed m & Of iff gold that h£ had
taken out of Wo fW# pfqrp, whifh
had always been £0#*i4pr«d too
poor to work. ■ There ane WPP B0W
making money in the valley by
working ore that don’t payfx per
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Tho Damages Occaslcnod.to 3 Professional Beauty
by an Obitroperous Elephant.
1*111I.ADKLP1I1 A, Feb. 9, 1SS3.
Miss Louisa Montague’s third suit
against Mr. Adam Forcpaugh came
up before Judge Arnold to-day.
The court room was jammed with
people, nine-tenths of whom are
connected with cirsuses. Miss
Montague was the first witness. She
testified that in Illinois the elephant
she usually rode in the pageants was
taken sick and she was ordered to
mount another. She did so, hut
the new elephant had a sore spine
or something of the kind, and when
she sat herself in the houdah the
brute began walking on his hind
legs. The beauty tumbled out in a
very undignified way. and declares
she was badly injured internally.
Some days later, in Iowa, the same
elephant threw her, and she was so
badly hurt that she could not take
part in the street parades for several
weeks. She says Mr. Forcpaugh
refused to pay any of her expenses
while she was recovering from the
effects of the elephant’s playfulness.
When cross-examined she said she
was a singing actress at various
times. She had been known ai
Miss Louise Montague,” Mrs. Key
ser,” “M iss Laura Keene Stewart”
and “Polly Stewart.” She admit
ted that she was a member of Mine.
Rentz’s female minstrel company
and sang at a number of variety
theatres. The case will be contin-
ueil on Monday.
’ Later in the day Mr. Adam Forc
paugh brought a civil suit against
Mr. James H. Heverin for slander.
Mr. Heverin, who is one of the
counsellors for “the beauty,” in his
argument in the breach of contract
case is alleged to have said that Mr.
Forepaugh had been charged with
all the crimes in the calendar from
murder down. On this assertion
Mr. Forepaugh bases his case. Mr.
Forepaugh declares that he has
never been arrested, indicted or
charged with any criminal offense.
Devil’s Pulpit,” remarked Mr.
Young, proprietor pf the hotel at
Tallulah falls, to us during our late
visit to that resort.
“It is such a difficult undertak
ing?” we asked.
“It is an impossibility,” was the
settling response. “The night be
fore Dr. Hape’s adventure I remark
ed to him that he need not attempt
this task, for it could not be accom
plished unless a man has wings. It
looks easy enough to do from a dis
tance, but when you attempt it you
soon find out your mistake. There
is a precipitous cliff that no living
man can scale, although it has been
more than once attempted. Sev
eral years ago I decided, together
with a friend, to try and find a path
around it. and the experiment near
ly cost us both our lives. We be
gan the descent between two stone9
near Lover’s Leap, and at imminent
peril slowly and cautiously worked
our way around to the Pulpit, cling
ing to the edge of the precipice
like flics. Although the distance
we traversed was short, it was near
ly dark when we got to the Pulpit,
and had succeeded in working our
way directly beneath the overhang
ing rock when further progress was
impeded by an abrupt cliff'. We
were standing on a narrow shelf of
rock, 200 feet above the water, and
could not go a foot further. We
were certainly in no enviable con
dition. The only way to the top was
to retrace our steps,which we would
not have time to do before night,
and to attempt the feat in the dark
would be suicidal. But something
must be done, and that quickly. At
last I noticed a tall sappling grow
ing not far from me, its roots being
sustained by some earth caught in a
crevice in the clift, and I thought if
I could spring to that, and it would
bear my weight, that I could swing
from its top to terra firma. I braced
myself anil leaped directly for it
over the brink of the precipice and
just succeeded in catching a hold.
The tree swayed back and forth,
carrying me iar over the brink of
the precipice, and I expected to see
its roots tear loose and hurl me to
the rocks below; hut there was no
chance now to gfct buck, so I made
one more effort for safety. I climb
ed to the very topmost hough,
throwing my weight on the side
next the precipice, and thus was
carried within a foot or two of the
Pulpit. I then gave a spring and
landed on the rock, pretty bad
ly scratched and bruised, but safe.
I was never as badly frightened in
mv life, and to this day tremble
every time I look at the. spot. My
companion followed my example,
hut came near falling over. But
even Dr. Hape’s and my experience
won’t deter fool-hardy adventurers
from attempting this same feat, and
I look for some one to he killed at
this point before the coming season
is over. Certain men have a great
ambition to attempt some feat that
no one else has accomplished, and
they will unhesitatingly risk their
lives for such empty honors.”
;m utually w ithdrawn.
Tho ArUcloi Written By Meun. Howell and
Speer to or Concerning Each Other.
Washington, Feb. 12.—It his
been known in the city fora day or
two that Messrs. E. P. llowell and
Emory Speer had adjusted the dif
ferences between themselves and
were on friendly terms once again.
It was understood that mutual
friends made occasion ofMr. How
ell’s visit to Washington to bring
these gentlemen together. Where
two brave and honorable men are at
difference, it is easy to effect an ad
justment. The following card is
furnished for publication hv Senator
Barrow to-night, and 1 forward it
to you:
Washington, D. C.,
S, 1SS3.—At the instance
quest of our mutual frienj
Barrow, we each of us withdraw
offensive communications and pub
lications which have hitherto been
written by each of us to or of the
othe*\ " Emory Speer,
Evan P. Howell.
SINGULAR WEDDING.
A BRIDAL PARTY.
A Tatooed Mon” and a “Bearded Lady United
in Jlarrlage.
Philadelphia, Feb. 11, 1SS3.—
In the suburb of Frankford, this
city, the winter residence of circus
people artel side show curiosities, a
wetiding of an unusual character
occurred last evening. R. R. Mof-
fitt, a tatooed man, and Miss Leo
Hermandez, the “Spanish bearded
lady,” were united in the bonds of
marriage. A large number of no
ted “Freaks,” as they arc called in
the profession, witnessed the cere
mony. The bride has a black
heard three inches long, and the
groom is as handsome a piece of
Mosaic work as there is in Ameri
ca. Miss Leo is twenty-six years
old and her husband has passed for
ty. His first wife was the “Russian
Giantess,” a five hundred pound
Venus, who died of dyspepsia in
1SS0. Before the season ended
Moffitt married a “Circassian beau
ty” of Milesian extraction. She
died last summer, and before the
Barnum show concluded its season
the tatooed widower was madly in
love with the “Spanish Bearded
Lady.” Although bearded she pos
sessed all the coyness of her sex,
and Mr. Moffitt was compelled to
use all his eloquence to persuade her
to accept him. John Geary, the
sword-swallower, is the stepfather
of Miss Leo, and he gave her away.
Miss Leo wanted to have her beard
shaved ofl' in honor of the occasion,
but Mr. Moffitt, who is of a practi
cal turn of mind, opposed on the
ground that she might not be able to
raise another crop, in which event
her value as a “curiosity” would be
totally destroyed. Mr. and Mrs.
Moffitt went to New York on a wed
ding tour.
HUMAN SAUSAGE MEAT.
A Stranger Ground to Pleou Hoar Romo, Ga.
Rome fouriei.
When the accommodation train
on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad reached* the city
last night, it was.reported that it had
run over and killed a negro man
near Ridge’s Valley. Nothing defi
nite could be learned as to how the
accident occurred, except that he
was lying on the track. It was not
known whether he had been mur
dered and put there, o* had lain
there and fallen asleep. The engi
neer, Mr. William Thomas, did not
see the unfortunate man in time to
stop the engine. As soon as possi
ble the train was stopped, but this
could not he done until the last! voung Jewish drummer for a
coach had passed over him. After I waukec clothing house, who was in
the train was stopped and ail inves- j with the gang and he gave the
tigation was made, it was found that' chambermaid $3 to loan him an old
the victim was so horribly mangled ! dress so he could play chamber-
to baffle recognition* Indeed, i maul- When my wife told me that
Pak'i Sun.
“Sav, what kind of a hotel jloyou
keep?*’ said a green looking man, as
he stepped up to the counter and
registered' his name, and added “and
wife” after it. “Can a new married
couple settle down here for two or
three days and have a quiet visit
with each other and not be scared
out of their boots?” .
The hotel mart said they could
go right to their room and stay
there three days or three weeks,
and never come to their meals if
they didn’t want anything to eat.
“But what is the matter? Have
you been annoyed?” asked the hotel
man.
“Annoyed? That doesn’t ex
press it. Wc were married day be
fore yesterday at St. Paul, and went
to a hotel. I live about six miles
west of St. Paul, and the traveling
men put up a job to make me tired.
There were about a hundred of
them snowed in at St. Paul, and I’ll
be darned if they didn’t keep us
awake all night. They knew we
were a bridal couple, and they
bribed the bell boys and porters to
let them act for them, and when we
rung the hell for the bell boy a
drummer for a Chicago cigar fac
tory came in anil wanted to know
what was wanted. I ordered a
pitcher of ice-water, and a Milwau
kee drummer for a grocery house
brought it in, and he looked at my
wife, who is bashful, and made her
feel real had. I didn’t know they
were drummers until the next day,
or I should have killed some of
them. I rang the bell for coal, and
traveling salesman who posts
railroad cards around and works up
excursions, he came in and fixed up
the fire, and he stayed and poked it
for half an hour, and he had more
gall than I ever see. He asked so
many questions about how long wc
had been married that I wanted to
thump him, but ray wife said we
didn’t want to have no row the first
day we were married. I rung for
a chambermaid to clean up the room
and bring some towels, and it was
about half an hour before she came,
anil I went down to the office to
see about my trunk, and the cham
bermaid stayed about half an hour
and was very interesting, and my
wife said she wasa real pleasant, af
fectionate sort of a creature, far
above her station, anil I tell you I
was mad when 1 found out that it
was a smooth-faced, handsome
Mil-
KILLED BY PLAYMATES.
Tho Horrible Death of a Boy Near Ringgold.
Chattanooga Times.
Luke Dunft, a ten-year-old son of
David Dunn, a substantial farmer
living near Ringgold, met a horrible
death Saturday evening at thejiands
of his innocent companions. A
party of boys aliout his own age
were playing near an overturned
wagon and conceived the idea of
imprisoning one of tliteir number
under the lied. Luke volunteered
to serve as prisoner, and was placed
flat on his hack near the bed, and
the hoys proceeded to turn it over.
While' it was descending Luke
shitted his position, and the heavy
lied fell with terrific force across his
neck. He uttered a stiffed cry, but
before the load could be removed
he gave a final gasp and expired,
his neck having been broken by the
blow. The boys were unable to
lift the bed from his neck, and his
death throes were horrible to wit
ness. His tongue protruded several
inches, both eye-halls popped out,
and bipod flowed freely from his
cars and mouth. The thoughtless
hoys arc well nigh beside them
selves with grief over the horrihle
death of their unfortunate compan
ion. and the sad affair has thrown a
pall over the. entire neighborhood.
A Brava Mother.
S. Madison, of Troy, N.
arrived in Cleveland about two
weeks ago with her three small
children, whom she had hauled on a
handsled. in the bitter cold and
stormy weather, all the way from
Mcadville, Pa., to Elyrial, (jhio, on
her way to Niles, Mich., the home
of her parents. In October her
husband, a laborer, died at Troy.
The mother disposed of the house
hold effects and with the cash thus
obtained—some $50—started for her
paternal home. On the way she
got on the yrong train and landed
in Mcadville. where her pocket was
picked of all the money she had,
except some small change, and, be
ing unable to obtain assistance, she
purchased a cheap handsled with a
part of the “widow’s mite” that re
mained, and wrapping the little
ones up as best she could, and seat
ing them updn. the sled she took
the babe in her arms and proceeded
on her weary way. Between Mcad
ville and Elyria the babe died and
was buried by strangers. The
mother again started, trudging her
weary way through the snow, haul
ing the surviving members of the
fatherless family behind her. In
Elyria she received assistance and
was furnished transportation to
Cleveland.
the conductor, Mr: Frank Foster,
informed us that his body was so
badly torn up by the car wheels
that fragments of flesh and hones
were scattered for a distance of a
hundred and fifty yards. The body
was left where it was run over until
the train came to the city, and a
squad of men sent out on a hand car
to bring it into town. They came
in with it about half past nine o’clock
At that hour a reporter of the Cou
rier repaired te the East Tennessee,
Virginia and|Georgia road’s depot.
On reaching the platform a most
horrible spectacle met our gaze.
Wrapped in a blanket and lying on
a hand car were the terribly muti
lated fragments of what hail been a
very powerful and muscular human
frame. The flesh had been literally
torli from his'facc, so much so that
it could not he determined whether
he was a negro or white man. His
hair—that portion of it that had not
been torn off, skin and all—was so
straight that it was first thought he
was a mulatto. Further investiga
tion, however, made it very doubt
ful whether he was really a negro.
His hair and the color of his skin
indicated that he might possibly he
an Italian tramp. He had a valise,
hich had been torn to pieces, but
" are unable ' to obtain any clue
rom this as to who he was or where
was from.
The remains were placed in a
rcight car until this morning, when
an inquest will be held. We learn
that he had a bottle of whisky on
his person when found. It was the
opinion of some that he was drunk
and lay down on the track, falling
asleep, only to be run over anil kill
ed in the horrihle manner stated
above.
Editorial Controvanlai.
Mobile Register.
The editor of the “vile and ve
nal” Times, as the World calls its
contemporary of that nanny, has
been chosen President of the New
York Associated Press, and the
editor of the World voted for him.
Editors are like Congressmen
arc happy to say only in this one
thing—they are by no means as
angry with one another as they
seem to tie. We remember a case
in point: It was in the good old
times of Mobile, when the Whig
and Democratic papers were thun
dering at one another, and the-pub
lic was anxiously looking for gore.
The able editors, in the meantime,
used to meet* surreptitiously nearly
every night, and have a quiet game
of cards. One day the Democratic
editor got sick, and he couldn’t “go
for” his hated contemporary. He
therefore dropped him a note ad
vising him of the fact and asking
him to write the article himself.
This the Whig editor at onte did and
pitched into his own paper and
himself in fine style to the extent of
a column or more.. Thus was the
great controversy kept up and the
public bamboozled.
i the chambermaid patted her on the
check, and said she was the sweet
est bride that was ever in a hotel*
and asked for a kiss, and my wife 1
said she thought it would be no
harm to kiss a poor chambermaid,
and encouraged her, I wanted to
kill him, and I went down to the of*
lice the next morning, but the
smooth-faced cuss had gone to Far
go. It was all the landlord could do
to hold me. Well, while we were
at supper somebody got into the
room and put cracker crumbs \n
our bed, and we found a cold oil
cloth -floor mat over the top sheet,
enough to freeze anybody. But the
worst was at night. We had just
•got comfortably in bed when there
was a knock at the door, and I got
up, and the watchman was there,
and he said he wanted to point out
to me the fire escape so I could get
out in case of fire, and I went out
into the hall and he took me way
out to the end of the building to
show it to me, anil while I was look
ing out of the window my wife came
running down the hall and begging
I me to save her. I asked her what
was the matter, and she said as soon
as I went out a man that looked like
a porter came in the room and told
her to fly and save herself, and to
follow her husband. She felt awful
when she found there was no
trouble, and we got back into our
room half froze. I have got them
fellows down fine. The fellow who
called me out to look at the fire es
cape is a drummer for a Philadel
phia millinery house and the one
that scared my wife out of her wits
travels for a hearse factory at Roch
ester, N. Y. My wife, says she
would know him, because he has a
big gray mustache, and wears a dia
mond colla'f button in his shirt. She
said she thought he was pretty
stylish for a porter at the time.-
They woke us up several times in
the night to tell’us what to do in
case we were sick, and in the morn
ing, before wc were up, a waiter
brought up our breakfast. He said
the landlord sent it up, and he just
" e stood around until we had to sit up
in bed and cat breakfast. I thought
:it the time that it was kind in the
landlord to send up our breakfast,
but when I found that the waiter
who brought it up was a traveling
man for a reaper factory at Rock
ford, and remembered how darned
impudent he looked at my wife, I
could have murdered him, but the
clerk said he had gone to Winni
peg. It was just about as bad com
ing down here on the sleeping car,
and I think half the passengers on
the car we're those same drummers
that were snowed in. It was cold
er than Alaska, and I would order
extra blankets, anil they" would
steal them. I had more than twen
ty blankets put on the bed, and in
the morning there was nothing but
a sheet over us. And every time
there was a blanket spread over us
there was a different porter put it
punched us and said it was time to
get up, as all the passengers were
up and we would have breakfast in
fifteen minutes. And then we hus
tled around and got dressed as best
we could, lying on our backs and
kicking our clothes up in the air
and oatching them on ourselves as
they came down. I got my pants
on wrong side before and lost every
thing out of my pockets, and my
wife lost her hair and -had to tie a
handkerchief around her head, and
then we had our berths made up
and sat still till daylight, and the por
ter found my wife’s hair and pinned
it to the curtains of a berth occupied
by a preacher of Oshkosh, and he
kicked, and got mad and talked
about it, and wondered how it came
there, and he swore about it, and I
think he traveled for an Oshkosh
carriage factory. Oh, I never had
such a night, or two such nights, in
all my life, and what I want to know
is if I can be quiet here and get a
little.sleep, and not be annoyed.”
The hotel man told him if any
body came around to bother him to
knock them clear down stairs and
he would be responsible; and the
bridegroom took his satchel and his
wife, and the colored man showed
them a room, and they have not
howeil up since. It is confounded
mean in traveling men to get snow
ed in and form a syndicate to have
fun. They will cause themselves to
be disliked if they keep on.
FED TO BEARS.
A Story That a Gypsy Mother Sold Her Dead in
fant for a Bod Shawl.
A New Brunswick telegram says
two weeks ago a band of Hungarian
gypsies, consisting of four men and
two women, passed through this
city on their way West. They had
with them horses laden with camp
kettles, and one of the women car
ried a puny infant only a few days
old in a hag slung over her shoul
der. The men exhibited three train
ed bears, while the women begged
from door to door. On being threat
ened with arrest they continued
their journey. For several days
they camped in a wood in the vi
cinity of Kingston, a few miles from
this city. There they nearly starv
ed, but they were assisted by some
persons who went to have their for
tunes told.
One of these visitors on his sec
ond trip to the camp, noticed that
the infant was missing, and 011 in
quiry he was told that it had died of
pneumonia.
An investigation showed that-Sa-
lina Margeleans, the mother of the
dead child, after its death asked
King Max, the chief of the camp,
for a bright-colored shawl in his
possession. He agreed to give it to
her, it is alleged, on condition that
she would allow her dead child to
be fed to the bears, which were be
coming desperately hungry, having
had little or nothing to eat in sever
al days. The mother consented, it
is said, and the remains were cut
into small pieces and thrown to the
ravenous brutes, which quickly de
voured them. The chief, it is fur
ther alleged, fearing lest the affair
should be discovered through the
presence of the bones, took them
into the woods, where they were
buried. The gypsies arc still in the
neighborhood of Kingston, and will
probably be apprehended.
Another account of the story is as
follows: “The reports are confirm
ed concerning the Hungarian gyp
sies feeding their trained bears
with the body of the babe. The
mother of the babe is Salina Marge-
leans. King Max. the leader of the
hand, owned the bears, and the wo
man gave her child up to him after
its death for a red shawl. The hones
have been found. The gypsies have
struck camp and officers" are in pur
suit of them.”
BAUD Of COTTON.
Ttye ^fprthcrn press is complain
ing abouf $,qif*|fprn farmers pack
ing so nju ( cq gapfj tfjeir cotton,
tye are just returning to ff(pn) a
small part qf the gravel they sljip
us ip guapp,
Solid WhlikJ to bo Canted la tho Volt Pocket.
J.ynrhcurg ddirrfwrr.
An AUeghaney county distiller
has filed appheatiun for a now pro
cess of distilling whisky which he
claims will revolutionize the busi
ness. At a recent exhibition of the
new process, he succeeded in manu
facturing, in the space of about one
hour and a half, a solid substance
which on being dissolved in water
was pronounced by judges to be
the best of rye whisky of age on the
market. The new material can be
carried in the pocket like, tobacco,
and in a few minutes can be trans
formed into as good grade of whis
ky as can be procured over the bar.
The inventor guards his secret very
closely, but expects to obtain letters
of patent in a short time, when he
will divulge the secret. He has al
ready refused an offer of Siofioo for
4 Rne-fourth interest in his raven
M°»*
MR. SPEER PROVIDED FOR. j , :
President Arthur has nominatHh
Mr. Emory Speer district attorney 1
for the northern district of Georgia,
which office pays, together with
perquisites, about $10,060 per an
num, we arc told. Mr. Speer has
the ability to make an able officer
and wc arc glad to hear of his nom
ination. We hope that he will be
confirmed without opposition. In
a few days this gentleman will be
only a private citizen, and until he
again enters the political arena the
public have no rigjit to handle his
name except with respect. Wcdid
our best to defeat him, and now ex
pect to let past issues rest until
again an occasion arises for a po
litical war.
I on, and I think they were all travel-
BOUGH ON RATS.
The county chain gang tore down
an old stable at the court house and
killed 150 rats, and it was not a good
day for rats, either.
A STRANGE ACT.
A Man In Jackson County Cuts His Mals’a Throat
and Lmitss His Wagon and Load In tbs Public
Road.
A gentleman named Wood, from
Jackson county, was in the city yes
terday, and says he passed about
five miles from Jefferson, in the
Delaperriere settlement, a mule
hitched to a one-horse wagon, with
its throat cut. The owner had left
his coat and trunk in the wagon,
anil disappeared. No one knows
his name or cause for the rash act.
The matter is veiled in mystery.
Some suspect foul play, while oth
ers think it was done ii» the heat of
passion. The mule was dead and
no one feels authorized to take
take charge of the property.
Two Falsa Fropbots.
,V. r. Sun.
In the fall of Wiggins, the proph
et Snormstedt should not be wholly
forgotten. The latter is a Cincin
nati sage, who in December predict
ed for iSl^and 1884 a financial pan
ic; the downfall of Church and
State; a destructive whirlwind, for
the particulars of which he referred
to Joel; seven great comets, one of
them plunging into the sun anil in
creasing its light sevenfold; and
earthquakes of an unheard-of char
acter, the whole winding up with
the millennium. The place to es
cape from the impending calamities,
according to Mr. Snormstedt, is the
great pyramid of Egypt; but per
haps he might be induced to com
promise on the obelisk in Central
Park.
mg men. Every little“while some
body would pull open the curtains
and sit down on my berth and be-
gin to pull off his boots, and I would
tell him the berth was occupied,
and that he must have made a mis
take, and he would look around at
us as innocent as could be, and ask
our pardon, and then go out and
damn the porter. Once I felt some
body feeling about my berth, and I
asked what was the matter, and the
fellow said he was looking for my
wife’s shoes to black. Then about
cverv fifteen minutes the conductor
would open the curtains and hold a
red lantern in and ask for our tick
ets. I think they punched my
ticket sixty-five times. Any way it
looked like a porous plaster when I
got up in the morning. I think it
was tne traveling men who were
playing conductor, but I was sleepy,
and I thought the best Vray was tq
let them punch it Well, qbqut ’ 3
o’clock in thf ffiPTiV'llS somebody
BffocU ot Too Much Quail.
yew York Herald.
Patrolman John Condon, of the
Oak street police, on Saturday after-
noqn saw a middle aged, well dress
ed man leaning against one of the
elevated road pillars in Chatham
street, overcome by iiquor. When
the man was taken to the station
house he gave the name of William
S. Walcott, forty-five years of age,
ofForty-second street and Seventh
avenue. He was then identified as
the quail eater, who recently figured
at Gabe Case’s. In the Tombs
Court yesterday Walcott was dis
charged by.Justice White.
The Lee Arlington estate litiga
tion has been finally settled. The
government will pay the Lees $150,-
000 for the property, the Lees to
pay back- taxes amounting to $20.-.
000. The Lees have accepted the
proposition.
A Canadian haa invented a bomb
shell whi^h creates such an odor
for Ijalf a mile - around when it
hursts that whole regiments will be
suffocated in the most beautiful man-
n*rl
There are forty, Versey farms in
Georgia.
Charles Hooper, a negro ,,112
years old, died in Albany.
The new court-house in Sparta
will be finished by next month.
An inexhaustible he^jcf kaolra
has been discovered in Towns coun
ty- . 1
• in Morgan county pppe jgigpo
killed another overa game Qfseven-
up.
_ Several large bar-rooms in Geor
gia have failed within a few weeks
past.
The negro who killed a man with
an axe near Canton last week was
drunk.
Strawberries are to he offered in
the Atlanta market this week at $10
per gallon.'
Miss Julia Hollander, aged 16,
died on the cars between Macon
and Atlanta.
Two rattlesnakes, near Albany,
attacked a wounded partridge, shot
by a sportsman.
Alexander McAnthony, an old
man near McVille, was killed by a
kick from a horse.
A Bible was stolen by a man
named Sherman, in Augusta, on
last Wednesday night.
English sparrows will eat the
blooms from peas and destroy the
crop. They never eat bugs and
worms.
The new city directory gives At
lanta 17,450 new names, and 49,517
inhabitants—31,105 whites and 18,-
412 colored.
Two murder cases will be tried
at the March term of Hart Superior
court, and whisky was the cause of
both of them.
Moses Ackeridge, a Morgan coun
ty negro, was poisoned by a wo
man he hail hired for a nurse.
Mose is dead and the woman is in
jail.
Miss Willie Galloway and Mr.
Willie Coley, both of Baker county,
were married last Wednesday. The
bride is fifteen and the' groom
eighteen.
A Wilkes county farm'er says that
he raised on thirty acres of land
$771 worth of corn, peas and pota
toes at a cost of $234.35, a clear
profit of$536.65. He used no guano.
John C. David, a popular young
man of Kingston, killed himself a
day or two ago. He had only been
married two weeks. He wrote a
letter to his wife, but she will not
divulge his secret.
During a thunder storm anil tor
nado in Terrell county, Jenny Tal
bot was whirled through the air as
she lay in hed, the house being de
molished. She was set down sixty
yards away without being hurt.
. The Atlanta Constitution tells of
a Georgia hoy, just a little over
eight years old, who last year culti
vated with a common goat three-
quarters of an an acre of land and
made 233 pounds of lint cotton.
GENERAL NEWS.
Alabama's new treasurer is a na
tive Georgian.
Gen. Grant proposes a trip to
Europe next summer.
In one shoe factory in Lynn arc
thirty divorced wives.
The Cuban sugar crop last year
was the largest ever known.
Mr. W. J. Harper, of Tiptonville,
Tennessee, has a white coon.
A fifteen-year-olil school boy in
Union City, Penn., weighs 235
pounds.
A man in Winston, N. C.. carries
$150,000 in matrimonial insurance
policies.
Material reductions in the taxes on
snuff’, cigars and manufactured to
bacco were agreedto by the senate.
The indictment against Prince
Napoleon has been quashed, and
he has been released front prison.
Mr.J. M. Harris gathered from
one tree in Sumter county, Fla., last
week oranges which he sold for
$86.90,
Proctor Knott thinks that the
isthmus canal schemes will yet in
volve this country in a war with
Europe.
The annual rental of Queen Vic
toria’s private estates amounts to
over $100,000, and she is a close
collector.
Miss Lotta Galloway, of Balti
more, former member of tjie Meth
odist church, has espoused the He
brew faith.
Cotton ties and the duty on them
were somewhat hotly discussed in
the house, but no reduction in the
rate was agreed to.
A young man named Freeman
while eloping with a girl from
Roxanna, Mich., was overtaken by
her father and shot dead.
April 1, this year, was fixed by
the senate as the date for the new
tariff to go into effect and goods
stored in bond are to pay the new
duty.
Livermore, Cal., posts the names
of habitual drunkards in every sa- *
loon in town, accompanied by a
prohibition of the sale of liquor to
them.
In Lamar, Bartow county, Mo., a
dissipated son-in-law, whose cruel
ty drove his wife back to her fath
er’s house, shot the latter dead for
protecting her.
The number .of Roman Catholics
in Great Britain is rapidly increas
ing. In England and Wales there
arc l,iSS churches, 2,112 priests
and 17 bishops.
A long-lived mule, said to have
seen service in the war of 1812* and
to have belonged to Gen. Scott’s
father,, was recently raffled off at
Richmond, S. I..
Col. James Courtier, a member of
the Tennessee legislature, wears his
hair like a \vonian, bangs and all.
the switch dropping to his fi'aist
when the hairpins fall out»
Some idea of the magnitude
of the railway traffic of
Peoria, Ill., may be had by the fact
that something over two hundred
trains a day arrive and. depart on
the various railway lines.
The negroes in Raleigh, N- G,
were so much alarmed over a ru
mor in circulation, last Wednesday,
to the effect that medical students
were robbing the graves, that a stal
wart darkey died from fright
At a recent execution in Japan
thirteen strokes of a sword were
necessary to behead the victim.
The edge of the instrument had
been blunted purposely, so that the
agony ot ,the doomed might be as.
great as possible.