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There is .10 denying the feet that Ithc above convention of so-called I Georgia fanners is nothing in the vorld but a political machine for [grinding out officers. While the [originators of this society doubtless |had a worthy object in view in its [formation, it was not long before [that hungry hoard of politicians ind olficc-seekers who infest Geor gia saw an opportunity todimb into power upon the shoulders of the tillers of the soil, and they invaded and captured this convention. It is true that the society ha* among it* members some bona fide and intelli gent planters who feel a pride and interest in anything that can prove [of benefit to their calling, and are (convinced that only in unity is there strength: but these gentlemen are lade to take back seats, and you rarely hear from them. The reins of power are usurped by office-hun rs. who are the loudest in their irrangues and resolutions. The presidency of this body is consider ed almost equivalent to a nomina- and election to some lucrative and honorable position, and past ipericncc has proved to the people Ithat it has been a most disastrous Stepping-stone for the welfare of the This position is held in rota tion. and the next in line of succcs- in looks to it with all the confi- nce and assurance of a crown ince, when the head comes in ssession of that heritage he so lg has sought Men who are in i manner whatever identified with agriculture, and have no more busi- * there than a bull in a China shop hog in heaven,have themselves elected delegates and are heard leclaiming on farming with an au- Incity only commensurate with their fchi-ck. Besides these old hoary rditicians who have fattened all ife on public pap and should bow be' tinned out to grass, the truss-road towns furnish their quota af voung lawyers, all with the same abicct in view—to get an office. M:mv of them cannot tell a cowpea 11 a cotton seed, but yet they |u-k the people to accept them as |he representatives of the sons of id of our state. As a natural con- ipiencc this society—which should .•the most honored and influential •dy in Georgia—is each year windling into insignificance and initeinpt. The people have been Imposed upon by it long enough. They honor and respect the men l.o feed the world, but when a ad\ of political tricksters and { ree- t ollice-liuntcrs band together— Spiked with only enough genuine blunter* to sugar-coat the conven- d di-guise their true mission -couuiie. yes, we will say con- Ipirc, to deceive the public and 1 ft themselves into power under , f.ijse pretense, that body will nat- rally perish ol its own unworthi- ss. The genuine agriculturists ot •orgia should hold their conven- ns. and its demands should he aril and heeded; but they will \er accomplish any permanent ml until they first rid their as- emhlage of those parasites that in- st their body. They should be kicked out of the hall, as an obtru- and uninvited guest would be [Mil a private gathering. Then let be farmers take all deliberations nto their own hands, and elect as heir officers intelligent and worthy jriculturists. Do not chose for President any man who is Down to be a chronic office-seek - but separate your body from olitics, only so far as to demand Bur rights and see that the men rho make our bread are not ignor- This body meets again next August, when an election forPresi- Bst take place, Lemuel F. Livingston only being chosen to fill be unexpired term of Col. Harde- kan. Why he was ever elected to bis position we can never see, un- ess it be that he was next in line of n. The genuine, simon are agriculturists of Georgia have their ranks many men who would fill this position with honor and dis- iction—and men, too, who are not iognized politicians and pap ekers. Take for instance Mr. P. Jcrckman, the great horticultur- of Augusta. He is a gentle |iin of rare intelligence and worth, his selection would reflect hon- [upon any body over which he is chosen to preside. It would be s first move toward the needed Iform, for it is a well known fact pat Mr Berckman would not ac- cpt any public position within the ft of the people of Georgia. It kotild be as much as saying to [lesc political leaches that have fas' ned themselves to this body, “We [•day wash our hands of you, for : farmers of Georgiy, and not thg jliticians,shall rule this convention future!” Let no man be admitted (a member unless he isknqwn tq 1 a practical agriculturist, or some Pcntific gentleman who has made > his study and caa enlighten your dy on subjects beyond the scope |a practical man. Cut aloof from : otlice-seekers, and the Georgia ate Agricultural Convention will Id its stock go far above par in the limation of all ' thinking and fair-, tided men. You can soon fill the bees of these creatures with hon- , sensible planters and find your [liberations ft SflurCP pf profit nqfl ktruction, and you will bp t}onoret) J 1 'bvitecj gupsts Yfhercytr yoq Pyefje- 'Any city in Georgia wilj ||dly open its bousps to thp farm* I qf our state, but qny hospitality psted by a band of adventurous Bee-seekers will and should he grudged. NO XXXVIII. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MLAJRCH 25, 1884. n rielitlw f>- i, •*«>; L-a J'sl gHhxuu tTrinq e Ja st!l *:o : miiarav.- cvrT nirt'fset.vpnM iv VOL XXX DOWN THE ROAD. YE EDITOR STARTS .0 GREENE SWITCHES OFF ON SEVERAL SIDE TRACKS. ' J ' J- ^*S*Wpt>tn|Ma«»^»imd«r>»|Ui» Country— Boyioad Darkeys In their Holiday Attlre-Hov Hnyor Dorsey Throw Crawford Out of aw— And All About the Boyt of that MetropoUe— Medicated LHaora-HlgMand Sea Slctowii- Tho stock Law and Cyclones—A Threatened Famine to a T&ifty TIUer of tho Soll-A Eam- hlln* Tattle Orer a Short Trip. We have for a long time been promising our friends, Messrs. Powell Davenport, a visit, and last Sunday availed ourself of the opportunity of paying the pleasant debt. We embarked on the terra pin train of the Georgia road, and were soon speeding on our way at the rate of five miles an hour. Gen tle reader, did you ever glance trom a Southern car window on a Sabbath morn and study the scene ry and various objects along the road? Even to one to the manor born it is not an uninteresting amusement. Yon will see the col ored citi7.cn out in all his glorvi and Solomon’s lily of the valley dwin dles into regular dog-fennel be side the dusky dames and damsels, rigged out in their holiday toggery. You will see them piled in wagons or dilapidated buggies, three deep, or mounted on spavined, sore-back ed horses or mules, destined for mectin’. Every now and then the scenery is varied by the sight of a stick-and-dirt mansion, setting back some old field, and in the door are the occupants engaged in that highly refined and delightful pas time of carding or looking each oth er’s heads. A negro is in his glory- in the sun. He wouldn’t give you two cents per thousand for shade trees around his domicile, for he is a sun plant, and the hotter the day the greater his enjoyment. In these miserable shanties, surrounded by a numerous projeny anil a gang of half starved curs of low degree, abide the wards of the nation and Dr. Haygood’s brother in black. If the Doctor anil the Radical party can ever make fitting rulers of these people they will succeed in doing something that even the Cre ator of mankind has,not accom plished. If left to himself the ne gro is not only contented but hap py; but when you try to elevate him above the sphere for which he is designed by nature he is as a fish out of water and ii.ust soon perish. When the train reaches some sta tions on Sunday morning you will get a glimpse of another phase in Southern life. The mala inhabi tants all turn out to look at the cars and exchange a word with any ac quaintance that might be aboard. “How’s cotton?” is a stereotyped inquiry, for this is a subject that is always new and in order. You see strolling around, dressed in their best and looking as consequential as they feel disagreeable, the aver age town boy, his hands rammed into his new pants pockets, and his neck, encased in a collar and gaudy- cravat, feeling like the wearer had been sentenced to a day in the stocks. The boy is like the nigger. If left at his ease, with one suspender and pants that threaten to drop at every step, he is in his natural lelcment and feels happy; but rig that urchin out in clean raiment and fine linen and you make him an object of our deepest compassion. The church bells are ringing and the devout people going into their house of worship as the train moves olT with a jerk. As we roll by its door we notice a darkey going up the steps with a pitcher of water that some thoughtful sister has donated to tile minister when his throat becomes parched from a too vivid descrip tion of that burning lake. A train of cars is one object that never becomes old to tho country- people. It may dash by their homes a half do7.en times a day for years, but the whole family will quit work to go to the door anil watch the iron horse out of sight. This is cer tainly the most wonderful and in teresting contrivance of man, and we doubt, one hundred years hence, when we are navigating the air, if xrial ships will prove of half the interest as the old-fashioned, fogy system of terra firma navigation by steam. But there is one event of our little trip last Sunday that we must not neglect to mention, as it made a very deep-seated impression upon our mind. As usual, we iounil aboard two pious gentlemen, who were discussing the wickedness of running railway trains on the holy Sabbath, and decided that the same should be suppressed by the strong arm of the law. These parties had the subject all to themselves until a wicked Atlanta drummer, who was a quiet looker-on in Vienna and had not the fear of future punishment before his eyes, being hard-hearted and skeptical—put in his mouth and g ently hinted that the best way to reak up the practice was for peo ple not to ride on the cars on Sun- cay, as he was quite sure that the railroads would not tun trains just fqr the ftin of the thing. Those two old Christian Siinday-train-pro- hibitionlsts did not deign a word in reply. Tfiey gazed for an instant hearts. We remember one cold night, when Conductor Lombard was in charge of the train, upon its arrival at Union Point he found thir teen of the Crawford youths on tho platform. “How did you get here, boys?” was his query. The leader of the gang replied that they had found very comlortable accommo dations aboard Ills'train. “Well, I’ll watch you When I .start back to Athens, • and that passage money will have to comp.” The'boys con sented, but about five minutes be fore the train started not one of them could be found. Lombard felt convinced that they were stow ed away somewhere on his train, and searched every nook and cor ner, inside and out, for them; but not a hide or hoof could be found- A pall of gloom 'settledj.on his face at being thus euchred, and it was not dispelled when he drew up. at Crawford to find his passengers walking up the steps of the plat form. Lombard told us after wards that he believed they hid in the smoke-stack, for there was not another part of the train he bad not searched. Maxeyls was our jumping-ofT place. "The train we were aboard halted nlongside a mud-hole for the other to pass, and as the scenery there was not very inviting anil our sojourn promised to be long, we de cided to swell the dividend of the railroad by footing it to the depot. As we came abreast the office of Dr. J. H. Brightwell an irresistible desire impelled us tp halt. The Doctor was as genial and pleasant as ever, and after chatting awhile in the porch, we both, as if by ntui- tion, got up and walked into his office. The Doctor stepped behind his counter and got out a bottle la belled “Compound Tincture of Ip ecac,” but stayed the nausea arising in our stomach by explaining that the contents were genuine Maxey’s sweetmash, and as his ipecac bottle was empty had poured the bever age therein. “But. perhaps you would prefer a drink of old home made, anti-revenue peach brandy ?” he remarked, setting out another vessel labelled. “Arsenic—Poison.” “Don’t be afraid of it,” our friend replied, “for I rir.ccd out the bottle before putting it in. Here is just about a drink of the Gum Sprin rye,” (setting out a jar bearing the trade mark of “Nitric Acid.”) Wi stuck our uprobosis to the con tents to see that the Doctor was not drenching us on dynamite, and finally decided to try the ipecac bot tie, as it was the least dangerous looking decoction set before ys. But we were soon convinced that the poet told a premeditated and malicious lie when he said that rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” That word ipecac haunted us like a nightmare, and before we hail ridden a mile Toon Powell's landau we had a gen uine case of sea sickness, that lasted until the next day, Whether the name had its effect upon our imag ination or the Doctor had neglected, to wash out his bottle very clean will always be a revised edition of the fifteen puzzle to us; but we are rather inclined to. take the latter side, of this question, and feel profound ly gratelul that we did not sample his old peach from the arsenic vial. VVc can never be made to believe that imagination would make a fel low feel like the very soles of his shoes had got hung in liis digestive organs and it was necessary for re lief that they be gotten through his throat. We were met at Maxey’s by a ve hicle manned by a Zulu, and but for the Doctor’s highland, home made case of seasickness would have enjoyed our ride amazingly, after tackling Dr. B’s medicated sweetmash we were in a con dition to enjoy iL We felt like w# liad an army contract on hand to re plenish ourself, and. use hole we inttde in outside of the big fat gob bler set'before'us would have caus ed a stampede in the poultry yard qnd made a Methodist circuit rider die from sheer envy." When we pushed ljack our plate and awaited desert Toon casually remarked that to make the 11 o’clock train next day we would have to start before dinner. We replied that we had no desire to make a train next day, so not to give himself the most mi nute particle of worry on that ac count He said “Certainly,” and then turned the conversation by saying that he wanted to leave one gobbler to’ raise from, and talk ing about the great failure crops were last year, but hoped if they had plenty of rain next summer that we would visit them again some time in the dim and distant future. Not to disappoint him we at once placed the time for the first week in May. Toon appeared in a deep study for a minute, and remarked that it was too bad, but he expected to be absent from home at that time, and before we could fix an other engagement -began to talk about cholera among his poultry. GOOSE BACON. A Nsw EiUbls Rapidly a rowing in Popularity. “As a feature of my business,” said a Harrison street packer to a reporter for the Tribune, “I am in troducing smoked geese breasts.” “And do you find it profitable?” was asked. “I do, very.” “Will you tell me what you mean by smoked geese breast?’’ “Smoked geese breast? Why, it is a kind of delicacy, I suppose, but there are places in the world where they are as common as bacon. It is not always easy to make the busi ness profitable, owing to the high price of fowls. We can only pre serve the breast and legs. When tlie legs are preserved,” said the mar., smiling blandly, “they are called hams.” “How do you dispose of the other portions of the fowl?” “Well, some of it we are compel! ed to throw away. Other portions can be used in making goose-lard. That, you know, sells at forty cents per pound. We get from one to two pounds from each fowl. This is a small yield, you must under stand, but we do not hunt for fat geese in buying for the trade. We want those that seem to have plenty of meat, but as little fat as is consist ent with tlieir health and flavor. The breasts, when smoked and dried weigh on an average about three- pounds. Three and a half pounds is about as heavy as we can get them generally. They are cured al most the same as pork hams except that we add a little garlic to the su gar and salt. When offered for sale the meat is as dry as beef, and is chipped and eaten raw. To tell you the truth there is nothing better in the way of dried meats. I ship a -great deal of the dried meat or “goose-bacon” to New York, and some I sell here, where the other material is always disposed of. The only product sold in its green or fresh condition is the livers. These I sell under contract to one man, who pays me fifteen cents apiece for them. You know they are very small. All healthy livers are, though the most unnaturally enlarg ed ones bring the most money.” “You speak only of geese; do you distinguish between them and the ganders?” [[Oh, no! there is only a trifling notwithstanding the road was one difference, if any, in the flavor, and continuous mud-hole nine miles j w , e P a y. no attention to sex in re long. We had a fine landau all to 1 P'‘■'mshing our stock of fowls, ourself, and we made the most of' " * 1 ° are vour natrons?” it, too. But everywhere we looked that word ipecac met our gaze. Our experience was only equalled by Toon Powell’s the next day, when he ate an onion for dinner. Toon explained to us about night that in the last six hours he felt convinced, from the small beginning, he had eaten no less than a peck of this odcrous vegetable, and he very se riously contemplated cutting down expenses by feeding his convicts on onions; that a man with good, heal thy digestive organs could eat a spring onion for dinner and raise from a quart to three pecks by night, and fatten on them, too, without any other food. We found that the farmers along the road were already tearing away their fences, as the stock law goes into effect on the ist of April in Oglethorpe, while in Greene county it was fired up in February. No one knows how it helps the looks cf the country to tear away these unsightly worm fences. It is like putting a new dress on old mother earth. The people seem all con tent with the revolutionizing ag ricultural change, even its oppo nents accepting 'the inevitable as a man would a blup pill when he is billious- 0,ur colored. Jehu said the darkeys in the employ of Messrs. Powell & Davenport all voted |for “no-fence,” as “Mars Toon said it was money in his pock ct, and he has always been a mighty are your patrons?' “They are divided chiefly among the Jews and the Germans, and by both goose-bacon is considered a rare delicacy. You would be sur prised to see the kind of people who buy of me. I have people who come here in carriages to make pur chases and leave orders. I often have more orders than I can fill During the last cold spell I was un able to do much business on. ac count of the high price of fowls. The price always advances, by the way, whenever it grows .cold- enough to ship the dressed fowl east.” DIDN’T KNOW IT. on the impertinent drummer, when j good fren’ to us.” lie said the The house of representatives of lie Massachusetts legislature.passed [bill providing that wife-beaters hould be publicly wtalppcd. Tbit a good bill and antral, pgorv rimes might have beeniddpd to his which is nearly aa bad as wife T^ e 1 SnSltafil un ivc him thirty-nine good bard cks with a paddle or Cowhiclthhd will have a better effect an, the owd than sending him to the pen- eotiary to get away. 1 their eyes met in pious resignation and with a look that plainly said, 1‘Ephriam is joined to his idol—let him alone.” i When we reached Crawford— that centro of temperance and pie ty—judge our surprise and horror to find the citizens pursuing their usual avocations of life. Investiga tion established the fact that Mayor Dorsey had been so regular in his pilgrimage there on Saturday night that the good end confiding people of Crawford tore up their almanacs and accepted in lieu the wepkty vent ef AftfW’ foots Wnym: as their regulation for Sunday. Ife t*ad ne\’er failed, qn(l they had as joon expect to s'ep’thc sun rise in the we*t as for thp 3 o’clock Saturday’s train to roll iff and Mayor D. not disembark. Last Saturday some thing detained Doe. at home, and Crawford accepted it for granted that either the railroads had tak-' en the job of regulating Sunday aa well as time,or there was a hitch in the calendar somewhere, and so decided to fall in . with the proces sion. Dorsey stock is now way be low par down there, and he has been supplanted by one of Greer’s Almanacs. A Crawford bt°Y rather ride on fh e ears’'than gt» to church any day,. From the t Imo they can tod dle they are stealing rides on plat- formsand bumpers, and His cer tainly a merciful dispensation of Providence that the male popuU-, tion is not kept thinned out and the hands had been given good pastures fqr their stock and were entirely satisfied. ' Mr. Davenport tells us that he made a rough calculation of the benefits of the stock law, and finds that enough can he raised on hedge rows to run any plantation where fences are abolished. This is a surprising statement, but John figured it out to our entire satisfac tion. ' ’ * A ” . * t We passed aldng that sectior, (ip. Agoairing Accident at a Brooklyn Social Gath ering. New York, March 17.—In Brooklyn, to-day, Miss Celia Renny, seventeen yearsofage, was visiting the house of John Cassidy, on Sixth avenue, Brooklyn. While Cassidy’s ramily add guests were chatting in t t “ e M .P a ll° r after dinner, Dennis “eillj, thirty years old, one of the party, drew a revolver ftflfl pointed it at Mary Cassthfy, $t\yii^g that he would mesmerize her, when she ex hibited symptom? of fear. He laughed and turning around Impl ied the weapon at Afiss Kenny’s -lead and pulled the trigger, A loud report followed, and without utter ing a word Miss Renny fell for ward upon the floor dead, the bul let having pierced her brain- The screams of Mrs. Cassidy' and her daughter aroused tho neighborhood and Reilly, who made no effort to escape, was handed over to the po lice. He seemed utterly overcome with horror and said that he thought the revolver was empty. Upon ex : animation it was found that all th8 chambers had been unloaded BODY SNATCHING. ts tta Otiauoc "Burkin*-. »«* in rm-s— . ■' ^^tioq. at the The Avondale “burking” horror has been the main topic of discus sion all over the state where I have been recently. On every ear, in every hotel and in every office yon hear, “What a horrible murder that was at Cincinnati.” Yesterday a Cincinnati physician who knows the ins and outs of the Cincinnati medical, colleges, and es pecially ot the Ohio medical, gave me a long talk on the stiff raising business. He began by telling me that in 1878 it was customary for the pau- per dead to be taken out from Ha- big’s to the Potter’s Field at the in firmary. It was common to put them in a stable over night and bury them, the next day. The stiflf hunters found this out, and soon it was a common thing to find the EMPTY COFFINS in the stable the next morning. There was no doubt but that the ghouls had taken the bodies and “si lently stolen away” under cover of night It was also suspected that they had a confederate who was connected with the infirmary. A body was occasionally taken for which friends would call the next day to see decently buried. To prevent trouble the infirmary au thorities resolved to stop the steal ing, and set a watch to catch the robbers, This was when Robert Bell, brother of John E. Bell, was superintendent of the infirmary. Well, the watch didn’t work. The ghouls came out for their bodies and took them. A fight tor posses sion was had, but the ghouls were mightiest and prevailed. For. the next attack Bell strengthened his forces. He had an ambuscade fixed at a point in the road which the rob bers would pass when returning with the bodies. Several men were armed with shot guns loaded with buckshot, intended more to wound than to kill the depredators. It was about midnight when the wagon came along with a well known physician of Cincinnati rid ing in front with the driver. The _ party were smoking cigars and enjoying themselves, when the ambuscade arose with “Halt there.” The driver showed no disposition to halt, but tried to drive ahead. In consequence A VOLLEY WAS FIRED, and the wagon was stopped. The physician, wh'o was then and is to day connected with the Ohio Medi cal College, was found to be wound ed. He had got a load of shot in his shoulder and neck. His wounds were painful, but not dangerous. He was, however, compelled to lay up for repairs sev eral weeks at a’country house. Dur ing the shooting one of the robbers Lmped up and HELD A DEAD BODY before him as protection from bul lets. The bodies were recovered, the robbers released, and the matter hushed up. The story was current about town, among physicians and others, that it was Dr. Cilly who was shot, but this was not proven. In fact, interest in the matter soon died out. Not long after this, I believe, a report was current that a negro resurrectionist had been caught robbing coffins at the infirm ary and was shot in the leg so badly that it was afterward amputated by some of the physicians for whom he was getting “material.” “These body raisers,” said my informant, “are always on the look out for bodies. Go to the health of fice every day and you will find them looking over the death record and finding out where and when bodies are to be buried. They es pecially watch for those who die of peculiar diseases. They thus know now, when and and where to go for their prey.” “Well, do these medical colleges here need as many bodies as gotten “No; but certain people here are acting as “body brokers,” and are speculating in cadavers. Why, L know a few years ago, when there was a scare over grave robbing, it was customary then to trade bodies with other colleges, east, west and south. By that way, parties calling to identify dead rel atives would always be “left” This was discontinued when the period ical scare was over and crave rob bing ceased.” “That was right after the Scott- Harrison case, wasn’t it?” “Yes; and that was another good “ad.” fof the medical college. .The papers at the the time gave Qhipf of Police Tom Sholhaker a, good deal of credit for sharp work in finding Harrison’s body hanging in the hatchway. Pshaw! It was a laid up job that he should he found just that w«y. ]f the professors had wanted that hody they would have ^akinned Ik* or hid It so it pould not havo been found by any body. Let me tell yon that the professors like any big ‘ads’ of that lrinrl ■fnr frVinir tncfiftitinne ** ied in th’e pauper grounds, a young woman was buried at the same time. She .had died of consump tion at the hospital- Tfieghouls found ont when the thsiealttere buried. They had to be put under ground for their friends went out with the undertaker. The “stiff raisers” wanted the girl’s body, as she was lean and fitted for dissec tion. They made' a mistake and dug up tne negro. They got him half way up, when to their disgust they found out their mistake and let him set straight up at the head of his grave, his feet hanging down in the hole. The girl’s body was then taken. The next day the ne- jroe’s relatives raised money to take lis body out of the unconsecrated ground and bury it elsewhere. When they came they found him sitting up big as life, and they were fatal shot was fiqpA coroner ‘nyestfgxtion, '‘•SOMETHING?TO EAT, 1 * wijh their upturned clay roots, look like a vast national cemetery. But the peopte at last realize that cy clones «ro getting to be most regu lar, unexpected and unwelcome vis itors, ana are preparing for them. We hear of men all over the coun try digging pits, but with the single exception of Will Davenport, at the Glade, they all Claim that the 'exca vations are for storing fiesh meats in the summer. Will says his is a genuine cyclone pit, and he don!t care who knows it It is truly sur prising the sudden mania people nave taken for dry wells,> ana they always select a place, too, right at the nearest door of exit. We see a big-bank oCred earth in the yard of George. Hall, down at Crawford, bnt we believe George is too iion- «sta fellow to plead the dry .vyell act- •[ •' , . • About 2 ifdock we' reached our destination, and found the finest . . . .. . ■ J| dinner We ever.sat down to await- girls forced to import their sweet- ing usy and .you may judge tin** ’■ '' r„, , r * •- | 4H. .»» :.i.r. ■ ' Alt* / Atlanta, March »8L—A dis tressing occurrence has happened m connection with M r - James ,P. Harrison, one of our beat cjtiaens, that has excited a profound inai nas excited a profound sympa thy in Jbe .whole community. On Sunday his little son "Zeddie, • 13 years old, disappeared and was gone until dusk last night, when he sedf denly came home- and exclaiming “something.to-eat,” fainted fri his mother’s arms. He was at i church in the morning and went 4tome be fore dinner and got something to eat out of the pantry, and was not heard of until his retnrh thirty hours afterwards. He was seen «• the afternoon going down the, Georgia railroad. His family were alarmed and spentan tin easy ddy and night tryitagto learn of him. His return, rdieyed their anxiety as to bis safe ty. He * He is a-good boy and has had no bad companions or habits.' His leaving was a mystery and the phy sicians allowed no interruption of his rest to question him and the ex planation had not been learned. , ’ -1- ' . Richmond. kind .for their institutions.’ “Well, do you think there are many bodies buried in the potter’s field?” * “No. The skeletons of. bodies taken there are scattered all over the counfry. I don’t think, either, Apt manylbodies*which leave the undertaker’s to be .buried are ever PlafflhFrfcWw&r ye»» -that one of 1? city undertaker's • employees which was jht' back to the — Jand sold for fie. You can s6c tfiattho loss of a ^1.50 coffin don’t compare with the vkfue of a stiff,” WHAT ELLIOTT SAYS. In connection with the same sub ject I interviewed William J. Elli ott. no w editor of the Sunday Cap ital, Columbus. He was once sec retary of the Cincinnati health board, and was late stqte supervisor of printing linden BBshopi •Elliott branched out on the ' cus tom of the city uadettaker in his day in taking ont bodies to the pau per burial grounds, leaving the coffin, buying it, and taking fhe body to the medical college. *3)nce we set a watch on the. city under taker, and found that several of the. • ' . ! ' COFFINS WERE BUSIED EMPTY. “The claim .was made hy the un* dertaker that ghonls .had robbec the grave But the Coffin ‘ id naT ISLAND SHOALS, GEt>R GIA. SCARED HALF TO DEATH. We investigated, found the girl’s body gone and accused the jhouls of it. They didn’t deny it But said “we made a mistake and got out the old nig fust—d—n him,’ and that was all we could do with theca. You must remember that then the law gave colleges the bod ies of paupers not claimed by friends. It was as much against the law to take them as to take the stiff of a rich banker buried in stately style. I used to have lots of trouble with the stiff raisers. Dr. Minor, who was health officer then, agreed with me that they should be kept out of the health office. I know once a body was missed which had been buried, and I sent a sanitary officer to see old Cunningham, the famous old resurrectionist of the Ohio col- eee, to see if he had gotten it. Old “Cunny” swore and cussed, but we finally searched his stable across the Rhine, and FOUND SIX BODIES, stark naked and covered with straw. Of course we had them buried and old “Cunny” lost his fees. He was mad and even threatened the officer, saying: “I’ll Burke you, and hang up your skeleton in a week.” This makes me believe that the CRIME OF BURKING has been going on for years in Cin cinnati. The remark of old Cunny makes me think so. I know that often at night the young district shysicians used to gather in the lealth office and tell stories of stiff raising, and what sort of bodies were dissected in the Ohio medical college. I remember that Coroner Muscroft and a red-haired doctor were among our district men, and they were both active in telling yarns of ghastly sights. I remem ber they often told how bodies were brought in with their SKULLS CRUSHED IN. They told how women’s bodies were brought in which, showed that they had been purposely • ALLOWED TO DIE In order that their cases might be considered' under ' the dissecting, knife. It was common talk that persons were ‘burked,’ and it shows plainly that the-right kind of super vision is not exercised.” Apropos of the . ghastly tales of j roung doctors^ EUiott told the fol- - owing: “A young, green country boy en tered the Ohio medical college, and as usual the older - students agreed to initiate him-Vrith a joke in the dissecting room. The body of a young girl was laid on-« dissecting table. A mustache was placed on her lip. Then, fixing' the body, the boys said to the new student: ‘Come along, now, and ’ get acquainted with the stifl.’ He came up, took one look, rushed forward, jerked the moustache from the lip, and shriek ing FELL FAINTING ON THE CORPSE. When he came too, he told that the ;irl was his half-sister, who had ived in an Indiana village near Cincinnati. He had been brought up away from home, hut recognized her body at once. Well, of course apologies were profuse, the hody was recoffined and taken back for burial. The affair was hushed up and never got in the papers.” If, as Elliott thinks, “Burking” has been practiced for years in Cin cinnati, an explanation is furnished for the hundreds ot persons myste riously missed from time to time. G. Island SiIoals, March i.L—On ail adjoining farni Mr. Samnel Mc Daniel, a young farmer, waiin the field plowing. His plow caught in some obstruction. Urging the mule he fonnd thrt the plow had caught in the handle of.a five, gal* Ion jug, which was slowly .pulled out of the ground. The jpg nad a cork stopper, sealed, with sealing wav, and a piece of tin doubled over it, with a wire fastened round it, making it perfectly secure. Mc Daniel was anxious to. know what was in the jug, so taking his hscl- screw off his plow and twisted off the wire. This enabled him to take out the cork. He then placed the jug on a . stump, and applyihg his lips tasted the best brandy he had ever sampled. So captivated was he that he drank several times, and at last the liquor overcame him, he slipped down asleep at the foot of the stump. Failing to come to din ner his mother went ont to the field after him, when he was about The bank of Americas has been 1 appointed a state depository. A negro convict split another’i hca^l open with a piece of iron . ir Secretary of War Lincoln says he had rather, resign than reappoint Fitz John Porter.. The Supreme Court says that Leonidas Johnson, the Henry county murderer, must hang. Mr. Watterson urged the passage of the Newspaper Copyright bill before the joint library committee. Later advices tram the Soudan confirm the reports of the enemy’i bravery and persistency in battle. The Nashville people believe that the death of Marshall T, Polk, the defaultihg tteasurer, is a bogus an nouncement. Col. Cash, the South Carolinian, thinks his days are numbered; that he has ruptured a blood vessel, and that he is. fast failing. waking up. Together they gave the jug another examination, when Mrs. McDaniel’s attention. was a tv*-.-... »»u 1VUIWTG UUU1 traded by Its great weight Aw USr only living statesman, investigation showed the tfteseniefe' of 1,900 five dollar gold pieces, making a total of $9,500. ' ' The mystery was .cleared up in a singular manner. McDanieVs grandfather was a captain in the Florida war. It was known 'that he was wealthy before Ije left. On news of his death in one of’the bat tles with ihe Indians, his heirs could find no trace of his money. The fact that years after his only grandson and heir should have been the one to find his fortune is a sin gular incident The finding of this jug leads to the "hope that there may be others and the plowing of that field is watched with interest. A COLLEGE KNOCK-OUT. FIGHTING IN SOUDAN. SlaUt New Haven, Conn., March 12. It is probable that Oliver Dyer, Jr., of the class of’86, of Yale college, ■will die from the effects of the blow dealt by Robert B. Williams, of Au gusta, Ga., an ’S5 man, and colored, with whom he was contesting a sparring-match at the Yale Athletic meeting in the gymnasium on Satur day. _ It is now freely said that he was intoxicated when he entered the ring, an(i was in no condition for the fray. Before the first blow was struck it was evident that Dyer was fearful of his opponent. Williams' blows were vigorous' and rapid. Dyer parried many of them, but be fore the first round was over, he re ceived a heavy blow under the chin, which was followed by anoth er knocking him senseless. He fell and his head struck a cleat 'indicat ing the boundaries of the ring. It was nearly half an hour before he showed any signs of consciousness, and three hoars before he was re stored. Dr. Foster” says there is a partial par-'ysis of the optic nerve. Williams fe .Is very badly over the results of the blows. There was no malice, and Dyer may blame him self tor his injuries, for he was ad vised not to enter the ring by those who knew tha! he.ww^inno-CjC)I “ tion to do so,- an4- had violated the rules of training-on Friday. 1 affair has created much excitement in the city and on the campus, and it is fea’ ed will be a death blow to Yale athletics this season. THE GREAT EXPRESS ROBBERY, Oram Dlgna DtfMUO,—Spurt and Against Bepsatlng Blttos, Suakim, March 13.—At 5 o’clock the revile sounded the British camp, eleven m»ps from here, and alter hroafcfot the order to march vv*|S given. The men were formed into a square, Gen. Graham and staff being in the centre, with all the stores and camels. Before a half mile had been covered hordes of rebels, who were hidden in the trenches and pits, opened fire on the British troops, still the latter kept pushing on closer and closer to the rebel quarters never waver ing for a second, but keeping their formation steadily and accurately,' as though on parade. Finally, about 9 o’clock the Brit ish troops were ordered to open fire on the enemy, and the fighting commenced. Probably there were not more than 3^000 heads before the British troupes in front, but hundreds were seen on the rear of tho squares. As the British ad vanced men sprang up, sometimes within aoo yards of them, armed with spears and brandishing huge shields. . They would charge upon the British ranks without hesitation at breakneck speed; until the latter’s bullets laid then} low. The British stormed the works where the rebels were in force. The gallant blacks, with no thought of flight or surren der, held out their shields and spears against bullet or hxyoaef until: the . trenches around looked tike one grave. Then after three hours of hard lighting the rebel position was taken, and Osman Digna was de feated. The fighting was more se vere than in Ted. The British loss is 70 killed and 100 wounded, while the rebel .loss is reported at more than 1,00a The battle commenced at 9 o’clock this.morning and lasted until noon. St. Louis, March 17.—When Prentiss Tiller was arrested in Mil. waukee, by the police, he confessed saying: “I am Prentiss Tiller; I took the money, about $125,000 in all. I went from St. Louis to Chi cago and remained a week, and thence to Milwaukee. I will go to St. Louis without a requisition, and think I will plead guilty. • No one was with me when I committed the robbery. Wh«t I did was sponta neous and not premeditated.” It has since been. ascertained that Tiller’s accomplice took charge of the plunder. The arrangement was evidently that the accomplices should divide the spoils and send Tiller’s portion to him by express to Milwaukee, addressing him, of course, in an assumed name. Tiller reached Milwaukee,'but forgot the name he was to assume, inquiring tor express package. He telegraph ed McFStdderi, at Sherman, Texas, asking what was the name the va lise was to bear. The telegram was intercepted and McFadden arrest ed. Tiller is quite jovial and takes matters easy. He says that he is twenty-fou- years of age, and was bom in Louisville. He has been in Chicago and then came to Mil waukee. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. John Jacob Astor is the third rich estman. . .tj.-I The condition of Mr. Gladstone is reported as getting worse. His death would remove from England $2^900 coufFHouse. — A new hotel at St. gimon t « , fii£tn<f is nearly completed’. Walker county ‘wni fikvtf ’iir court .house insured. —- Several Marietta' h6/s^Eav£*V? turned from,Tex ? s Xr , Bucket letters' have commenced tb proptigite Ih‘Macon.' r 1 r nl -^ FVW i It, 1 content- The Gaines plate going to ] Hign art pictures are still &e rage in the Gate City. A great many visitors are passing through Savannah to Florida. Placards have been posted about Skibberecn county, Cork, announc- ing the outbreak of a civil war ip March. The police have removed them. The legislature of Virginia is cur tailing the power of the sta.e exec utive by decreasing the number of appointed offices. Forest fires are raging in Putnam county, Florida, and co.isiderable complaint is caused, although no se rious damage had been reported at last accounts. Two prisoners in the jail at Sand wich, Ont., while making their es cape, killed the jailer and seriously Injured another official. One of the fugitives was recaptured. A strong effort is being made l>y the friends of Baker Pasha in Eng land to induce the queen to restore him to his former rank in the British army. The belief prevails that the queen will ignore the petitions. Trichin® is doing an alarming amount of damage in Germany, and all can be traced to the German bog. The natives may yet find their only relief in America.! pork. ' New York, March 15.—Sched ules in assignment of McGinnis Bros. & Fearing, brokers, to James C. Young, were filed in court to day. , The liabilities are $423,898, the nominal assets $676,084, and the actual assets' $175,475. Captain William Stamper, of the steamer Dorset, which left Bristol on February 11, and arrived here yesterday, gives a thrilling account of his experiences for twenty hours among huge icebergs. A curious fact is that he encountered a current of warm water in their vicinity. ' A special from Greenville, says: of New York, committed suicide here last night by taking ten grains of morphine. His last words were: “It takes more courage to live than to die.” A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. Washington, March 13.—E. F. Hedburg, from New York, on his way to Macon, Ga., was victimized by a confidence operator on the Bal timore and Ohio train which arriv ed here at S.30 yesterday. He says that shortly after leaving New York, an elderly man, with gray beard and well dressed, took a seat beside hint and they engaged in conversation. By the timo they en tered tho suburbs oi Philadelphia he had eveiry confidence in the stranger. Then the stranger pre tended to have no change, and remarking that he. owed tne bag gage-master some money, he asked •Mr. Hedberg to change a $too bill. Mr. Hedberg counted out $100 in small bills, and looking at the note offered and seeing a large “C” anti “too” on the corners, placed it m his pocket. After the departure of the stranger, whom he never saw again, he examined then $106 bill, which turned out to be a patent medicine advertising circular. Morgan Commack having turned state s evidence in the famous Texas Prcificcolton swindling case, has been, released on $1,500 bail. He immediately handed the Dallas national bank for the Pacific rail road $20,000 of the money stolen on the fraudulent bills of lading. Lynchburg, March 18.—A tele gram from-Pocahontas states there are no new developments concern- onc ing the mine disaster, except that instead of frying to smother the fire it .has been determined to flood the mine. Harrowing reports of destitution among the families of the victims are denied by represen tatives of the company here. Miss Sarah Dorrett, of Dallas, has instituted a suit for $10,000 against Major B. B. Toy, of Galveston, Texas. The young lady, who is very pretty and accomplished, has been engaged to Toy for three years and the marriage day has been appointed three several times, but on each occasion the Major found some excuse for deferring the sol emnization of the nuptials. Carrie Hanson, a young Danish girl, employed as a domestic, and who had only been in this country four ironths, jumped from the sus pension bridge into the Ohio river, at Wheeling, and was fatally injur ed. She was taken out by specta tors and a physician summoned, who found her face terribly cut and bruised by the fall. * The fast night train on the Ala bama Great Southern road struck a broken rail Sunday night near Steeles station. The engine, ex press and baggage cars passed over, but all the passenger coaches and sleeper were thrown from the track and rolled down the embankment, turning completely over. The pas sengers were badly bruised and frightened, but none killed. Two negro boys were drowned in the swamps below Augusta, The Macon tournament promises to he the biggest ever held in Geor gia. A dangerous negro is try ing*to excite a race riot 111 Washington county. Fort Jackson, below Savannah, has had its name changed to Fort Oglethorpe. In Blakely a buggy trace applied to a negro for stealing caused him to join the church. The Central Baptist church, ol Atlanta, wants a twenty thousand dollar building. »_The Walker county authorities are going to have the court house in sured for $S,ooo. A colored man, in Henry county, Ga., got fifty-seven possums out of one hollow tree. The Mormon elders are ’ duping some of the weak-minded women up in Paulding county. The Comptroller General is ship ping digests to the tax collectors of the different counties. Commissioner Henderson says he does not think the spring oats were hurt by the recent cold. Alf Doyle, the Griffin murderer, stands a good chance to get a new trial on newly discovered evidence. Col. I. W, Avery has purchased a lot on Peachtree street, Atlanta, for $3,200, and will build a residence on Samuel D. Irwin, Jr., committed suicide in Albany by shooting him self. No cause for the deed is given. Rome is knocked out of a .hang ing next Friday. The Governor has commuted the sentence of Free man to imprisonment ."or life. The Recorder states that the peo ple of Webster county want a rail road to Americus. There is one very sure way of getting it. The Butler Herald of Tuesday ■says: “A remarkable incident took place at the depo. in Butler last week. Master Willie Russ, son of Judge J. D. Russ, has two goats that are in the habit of lying around the depot at night. In the early part of the week a boxcar had been un loaded and left standing near the platform. The two goats seeing the open car on the following night entered it and proceeded to lay down in one corner. The next morning the agent reported the car empty, and the same was locked up ana carried to Savannah. . _ GENERAL NEWS. Griffin wants a park, Bartow county wants prohibition. The wheat is looking well in southern Georgia. The largest city in Japan is Osa ka, which contains 1,585,695 inhabi tants. It is stated that a railroad is now completed from Mexico to the Rio Grande. Jumbo is said to have increased five inches in height during his stay in this country. Canada is having trouble with her provinces. Manitoba and On tario both threaten to secede. Oxford University, England, has decided to grant women the same examination as is given to men. Gen. Grant finds “Old Point Comfort” misnamed, so far as he is concerned. His rheumatism still continues. Money has been offered in New York within the past few days at i£ per cent, for approved paper, with no takers. When the “Book of Mormon' was published , in 1S30 there was. published with it a certificate of which Subse- founB, trailed ’down tight. How, nounced Mormonism and declared ghouls drf not take off coffin lids, their testimony:false. They breakin the top and take the t * T *.— v ’ . -1 'I : -' body out.* .Y ".”A I Over five > hundred people were -,.j A bad mistake. —converted under Rev. Bam Tones’ “I remember once,” said Elliott; preaching, daring tU late visit to “when a big pussy negro was bur- Memphis. THE THEATRE TRAGEDY. Galveston, 'March 13.—A'n Austin special, says:, “The remains of Ben Thompson, the desperado killed at San Antonia arrived at Austin yesterday afternoon'. A great crowd of curious'people as- sembled at the depot A delegation of the Knights of Pythias took charge of thebody, which was car ried to Thompson’s late reiidence. 4 large. mual*r of carrisghs, some empty, followed |the hearse. The Sherat and Chief of Police were ob served'in the procession! Many ' etieve that Thompson Vras decoy- d t6 San Antonip b[f Kinfe Fisher, e other desperado slain in the 1 lee. 'Ah dye witness sayg-that nei* son had recently been suffering from insomnia; aad - wits daily be coming more dissipated find: reck- less.”2* i " £2 *' A new trial has been granted Alf Doyle, the Griffin murderer. A NEW LICK AT LIQUOR. Walton Newt. To-day a very important trial will take place in Jug Tavern. Blakey & Smith* several months ago, established a bar-room there, and it is said that Ben Smith’s dis trict and the upper edge of Walton tried themselves the day the bar was opened, in drinking whisky, cur»ipg and swearing. The citizens pf Jug Tavern haVe employed Messrs. W. E. Simmons and C. H. Brand to have the bar abated as a nuisance. The bar-keepers have employed Rav & Walker to repre sent them. Deputy Sheriff NoweU has summoned a jury, and the ques tion of nuisance e» no nuisance will be tried to-day by 13 freeholders. A -great deal of excitement exists over the matter, and quite a number of citizenskave gone from this place to witness the trial. THE LONGEST^|ENCE IN THE The longest-line of fence in the world wiilbe the wire fence extend- BigB^n theltidiaa Tbmtory weat ^handle and thirty : five miles into New Mexico, "iircowr.ii he in the line of the If Lincoln should be nominated for President New York will spring the name of Fred Seward for Vice-President. A good republican platform: Re solved, First, That wc keep up the war. Resolved, Second, That we keep up the war taxes. The Comptroller of Chicago is going to New York to sue the es tate of the late A. T. Stewart for back taxes due Chicago. An explosion occurred at Poca hontas, Va., in a coal mine, and it is feared that all the miners, of whom there p.re 120, were killed. St. Louis, March 15.—Prentice Teller, Pacific express company robber, is still housed at the Lindcll hotel, in charge of the express offi cials. : j Prince Bismarck explained to the Reichstag his motives regarding the Lasker resolutions and endeavor ed to say a pleasant word about the United States. Miller and Mulkin, two of the Pawling, N. Y., dynamiters, were sentenced yesterday, at Poughkeep sie, to imprisonment for life, having been found guilty of murder in the second degree. V h i-JI 1 mat 1 sitl uo w< ^ .nyer.attdits purpose isto stop the drift of the northern cattle. • !?-* •«'? aac * splendid enterprise, and will pay a large percentage on the investment. The tence will be .over two hundred miles long. SIM f Mr. Lincoln’s largest professional fee was one of $5,000, paid him for twice arguing the case of the county of McLean against the Illinois Cen tral railroad company. Italy is about to strengthen her* coast defences with ten steel guns, each fifty-five feet long, weighing i2i tons, and capable of sending a projectile ot more .than 2,000 pounds’ weight. The survivors of the Sinkai butchery, who arrived at Suakim, report that the rebels tore the body of Teivfik Bey into pieces and de voured his liverin accordance with their superstition. The first state election, in this Presidential year wffi occur in Oregon comes next, Jupe -2d. But the first real test will he tHe ! Maine state election in September, m Hon. John Q. Adams, of Wash ington, was tecently poisoned with some foul beef which he boughi from some negroes.’ The caw was killed accidentally, and when the' negroes skinned her they concluded'- to seli some of the beef. The neg.oes were prosecuted and convicted in* the county court.