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H
Approach of Asiatic CHOb
t» 6A era.
. >cw York Herald says: The
■ * ,,1, r letter of the National Board
C ' r Health to the Governors of all
*L* uies, which we print else-
here. i» ;1 time'" warning that our
'online' 11 must not expect to escape
' «coiirge of Asiatic cholera. It
s reported some days ago that it
. .^pcared in South America, at
lluenos Ayres, in the Argentine
Kfiiuohc. where there isa large im-
r.tlion, in great part from Medi-
lmii countries, exceeding eigh-
h mi sand during the last twelve
NO XXIII.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, USTOYTEMBEIt 25, 1884.
VOL XXXI
armed neutrality.
niigr
t\ m
,onths.
The sid'iect of precaution is one
oixious interest 10 the inhabitants
\, t . w York, ours being the chief
rt ,,t 0 ntry in North America. It
ii-avuring that the Board is hope-
with proper care the dis-
.;,n he restricted and localized.
• , put pose, however, in con-
i,n ot the facility ot locomo-
, .11 the United States, a general
tor the piecautionary meas-
... needtnl. and accordingly all
. .. • ,ch do not possess a well
zed sanity service are urged
• vide one promptly, and the
, nii...is ate exhorted to bring
, „,eJ to the attention of the leg-
ijjtureS.
,\t i,e same time it is announced
,,n Washington that Secretary
U .i.ongh wih issue a circular
,. , to day. continuing the emhar-
j^.oiist nnpoits ot rags from in-
, [i ll-, and including ah Med-
,1.1: ein ports and French ports
,:-oi\ei m the Category.
civil sEi.vice.
y y . Herald: S um otlice hold
.. i O.mill.l wi I. tile past and
till I Hu Iiitu e, have mquir-
I Mi. t> W. L..n.. whcthci
I. .V I., ... I .1 .11 ii.dcIV pucheo
:i.i- .v i lien Cleveland
,„i - . li.ci. .mo Mr Cuilis .uliiiil-
1 i.i-ooemm Well, have
.1, .Kiui up ni tlie ret|uirenienis
; me Cml Seivict la*? If tney
..,. I tiie-» ari '.lie. 11 they have
in y ,,e .la..get Reasons
w ,. oe necessary now,
... I .lie 11... . e ,11.11 Uiey Were ac
ii Iii>.11.c ai■ s .uni worked and
t- 11 l.ii 1 .it in look to that
>pe.. .' lll.it |
m lor
them
actii
Gould
oncy through
mil when I
ail w ould be
the Western
g hot Blaine
nd hedge his
somewhat of
leceiving the
t even on
Mcrn Union
g ve hack the
d.spatches. as
was tradulent
n coulil be
meanest kind of
Ops and Downs of Journalism—Ttio “Dally Sand'
bagg«n" Two Editor*.
For some time back it has been
noticed by the citizens of Bang
town, Texas, that the usual gene
rous flag of extente cordiale in the
oflice of the Daily Sandbagger,
was somewhat congealed and jerk
ing in its delivery.
The editorial end of the estab
lishment did not seem exactly en
report with the red-headed business
manager, who opened the mail and
sold nonpareil advertising space at
the other end. Tnere were dark
and portentious mutterings floating
around in the atmosphere, while
anon, the echoes of a bad word
ould reverberate throughout the
corridors ol the journalistic ranche.
Col. Brown, the managing edi
tor, and Major Fink, the business
manager, had equal interests in the
capital stock of the concern—said
capital stock consisting principally
or a $6oo mortgage and $400 worth
of printing materials, and of a $5,.
000 libel suit. The managing edi-
or was a republican, and the busi
ness manager was a democrat.
Each believed that the other had
been subsidized by the party he be-
longed to.
Of course out of this grew a
most unhappy state of fermenta
tion, and its melancholy existence
created no little Action in other de
partment-ol tlie office, aside from
those of the two principal heads of
the concern. This vindictive and
unholy influence rapidly permeated
the confines of the composing
room, and in due time the foreman
luunil himself in the unhappy po-
-ition ot being whip-sawed and
ground, as it were beneath the up
per and nether mill stone. But ex
actly which was the upper and
which was the lower was a pro
trlem difficult to solve, as the tem
porary elevation of the managing
mg editor was immediately 'ollow-
etl by that 01 the auburn-haired
nu-iness luminary, and »nty were
both alternately on top.
Thus aflairs stood cne morning,
when the managing editor of the
Daily Sandbagger strolled into the
composing room, hung a lurid edi
torial on the hone, and calling the
attention of the foreman to it, re
marked:
“1 want that to go in to-day’s is-
onel s half of the paper as a “vilev
sheet.V The climax seems to have
been arrived at in the last issue, in'
which .Colonel Browq, by , publish
ing an affidavit and: .other cheerful
statistics, tried to prove that the cir
culation of Majo'r Fink’s organ was
visibly-falling off.'while his endr iof
the Daily Sandbagger was rapidly
increasing in circulation.
All ot 'which goes to show that,
for enterprise and vigorous origi
nality in conducting a newspaper,
the Western journalist takes both
lh» cake and the electroplated cake
basket.—Arkansaw Traveler.
CLEVELAND'S INTENDED.
My next letter will be Verona or
Cheyenne—I do not know which.
I’ve got to hear from Eli Perkins
first. ,We agreed to write from the
same place at the same time, for we
might get confused.
BLAINE’S BITTERNESS.
Ooulp S*y* Babto Marry Baits Lora, a Dasblng
Woman ot Buffalo.
A New York correspondent tel
egraphs as follows: An interesting
report comes to me, on good' au
tbority, from Buffalo, to the effect
mat society there had settled down
to the belief that Gov. Cleveland
and v iss Maria Love, a well known
-ociety woman of that city, are en
gaged and are soon to be married.
Miss Love is described as a dash
ing woman, 40 years of age or
nore, who tor many years has been
.1 fLure in Buffalo society. Years
ago she was at the head of a small
private school in that city She is
1 sister of Mrs. Thomas Carey, with
who-e family, her parents heing
lead, she lives-. ’ When Gov. Cleve-
I md visited Buffalo a few weeks
igo, the private dinner which was
then him was at the Carey man-
-ion.
I’m- voting people of the Carey
n il R.im-ev families have inter-
named. and are all addicied to the
ushionable outdoor sports, driving
--\ listi turnouts, polo tennis and
'he like. The Carey hoys are
imong the Buft'tlo independents,
who worked zealously for Cleve
land’s success. Mis* Lnve is well
knnwri in Newpottand New Yo-k
-ocietv. am! ha- been abroad sev-
e al times. The family is said to
have a weakness for somewhat
startling social surprises that as'011-
ish more staid people, and Miss
Love inherits this tendency. She
i- said to have money and bestows
her attention upon polo marches
MAIMED SOLDIERS.
Olllc
id.
final speech ot the cam-
en. Butler sxul that if he
.. in hia profession, he could
,!e t-j to every $1 that he
running a sideshow foi-
lle however, does not
to what particular prol'es-
ll.idcs. lie is full of pio-
lle professed to be a
:ker. a republican, an inde-
h several other pre-
-till to hear from. The troub-
i.it he has not stuck to any of
-eland wiil soon issue a circu-
i r to the wisest editors in the
1 fur advice. There is no use
ciicuiat letter, ns this one
itat an editor owes to his peo-
d0 ins best to shape the ad-
■ iitlon !.\ advising the incom-
'lesident. They have never
known to accomplish any.
i i.t they still keep it lip.
. i.\,4. the e
• rated b) th
ee. North ti
A abuma In
ection of Folk was
• democrats of Tcn-
torgia and North-
a grand barbecue
onlites on Lookout Mountain,
now proposed to repeat the
Mediation, alter tlie lapse if
\e.tis, in honor of the election
fin press ha. already found out
will he in l’resident Cleve-
■n.d’' Cabinet, although the Prcsi-
l *-s... has never intimated who he
haic. 'The newspapers are
••uni! to tun this country anti the
i ei|might as well get educated
ti:.> fact as soon as possible.
The l|„n. Patrick Walsh is after
Dawson, of tlie Charleston
V-a-i \ Courier. Mr. Dawson
Mr. Walsh a bore and an igno-
Mmous. Before Pat. gets througn
" !■im. he will wish he had never
tieard tlie words used.
••very republican is trying to Ci-
I bet up the cause of Blaine's de-
; ••'■■ Some lay it to the Germans,
• 'me to the Irish; some to the inde-
■ vailem republicans, and others to
: heing a rainy day; but the princi-
i v reason is that he liked 1,107
Vo; i's of carrying New York.
S’.eie Elkins looked like he was
attcf.elmg th e funeral of his best
diad when he closed the front
■' -• <>f the republican iieadquarters
11 New Yolk, and told the boys
■ ! -v game had closed.
hk half breed in Wisconsin, nam-
e 1 Hat La Pracric, a soldier of the
"aisof this and Mexico, is now
’"h rears old. lie has, for ninety-
Viars, used tobacco and drank
•uin.
hi ohibition has received a little
SC1 hack by the failure to elect St
John s President. It would bebet-
,er to keep whisky out of politics
a ail work on it by counties.
hogan has lost his luck. He
!,1 '°uld get a rabbit foot. This will
probably bring him luck, if applied
r ‘Kht, so that he may get some kind
lj| ” a little office, but it is doubtful.
^laud S. and St.Johns have both
tttaie records this season. Maud Si
made a record of 2:09$ and St.
Johns made a record as a political
“tat.
“Yes, sir,” answered tlie fore
man. The managing editor glared
at him, and again said, fiercely:
‘A oil heard what I said?”
‘ Yes, sir,” answered the fore
man in a voice a way down below
concert pitch.
••Then why don't you speak up?”
| pursued the managing editor, caus
tically.
| “Don’t you dare put that editori-
i ul in the paper!”
1 This was a uew voice and a new !
I phase. The managing editor
j swung himself vis a vis with his
pink haired enemy, Major Fink.
The foreman toved sulkily with tlie
monkey wrench. Evidently there
was some kind of .1 crisis hanging
around that locality, and liable to
come down with a dull thud at any
moment. The pale-faced compos
itors also imagined they could per
ceived a large-sized focus looming
in the distance. Then the manag
ing editor again addressed himself
to the foreman. He asked him if
he was going to run in that editori
al. The foreman said he was, and
then the business manager asked
the foreman if he meant what he
said,’ and tlie foreman said no, he
was only trying to fool the manag
ing editor. As the last heartless
remark fell athwart the managing
editor's tympanium, he turned on
the foreman savagely, and demand
ed to know whose orders he intend
ed to obey. The foreman replied
naively in a sort of subdued d'hote
voice, that he should, of course,
insert the article as requested by
the managing editor, hut at the
same time he should reserve the
right to reject any or all bids, and
while Arduously striving to obey
the commands of the business man
ager, because the business manager
paid him off every t-ituni.v night,
and leave the editorial out altogeth
er, still, at the same time, as here
tofore said, he should feel that his
duty compelled him to insert “the
slush,” as he called it, even though
Ire was obliged to leave it out.
Then the managing editor said
that Ire should hold the foreman
personally responsible lor the ap-
pearance of the editorial, and the
business manager pleasantly re-
marked that, if the foreman ran it
in, he would skin him on sight,
dock him n week's wages and fire
him out of the office on the Euro
pean plan, and the managing edi
tor said that if the foreman failed
to insert it, he would boycott the
composing room, pi the type, tip
over the stone and murder the pale-
faced printers. Then he fetched
the business manager a wipe along
side the jowl with a brass column
rule, and the business manager
commenced bringing him up by
the hand. While the hilarious fore
man pressed the monkey-wrench
into the oisophagus of the business
managing editor, the pale printers
swarmed around the business man
ager and beat the devil’s dream into
him'with some old kidney cure
electrotype advertisement, top col
umn next to reading matter. When
everything on the programme had
been carried out, the two bruised
and battered heads of the depart
ments were also carried out on a
husk mattress, and laid down in
the business office to cool off. and
the city editor sawed Out enough
reprint matter to stuff the columns
of the Daily Sandbagger for two
weeks.
When the two gladiators recov-
ered, a mutual friend suggested an
arrangement that would prevent
further hostilities. The arrange
ment has been agreed to. It is a
sort of armed neutrality. Colonel
Brown has absolute control of the
first and second pages, and makes
his half of the Daily Sandbagger
deeply and intensely democrat,c.
Mr. r ink has full P ro P rlet “ r >' ,nter -
est in the third and fourth pages
and he makes his end of the journal
so red hot republican that it would
Mister a democrat’s lingers to han-
file it. It is now tlirilhngly , n ter-
estingto the Daily Sandbagger’*
readers to peruse the ed.tonal, of
v * rK atile Colonel Brown, in
which he refers to Major Fink’s
the paper as “the subsidized
organ Vfa corrupt political organ-
°,5rion It and to the Maior s utter-
,za 5', ’ the “putrid effervescence
te d brain—the v/retched
driveling of «n uninspired idiot”
Thc M.jp'
Wi at 11 Slid of Bis Speech.
The New York Herald says:
“We believe that no patriotic citi
zen, be he republican, democrat,
people’s party man or prohibition
ist, will read the speech Blain made
at Augusta last night without thank
ing God most fervently for the le
liverance of the ptople of the Unit
ed States from the danger and dis
grace ol having such a demagogue
and incendiary for their president.
It is the first instance in which
Presidential candidate maddened
by defeat, has tried to inoculate his
country with sectional passions in
revenge for its choice of another
man. Unless we underestimate
the patriotism of the people, north
and south, they will greet it with
such scornful anger everywhere,
that it will be the last instance, as
well as the first, and no future dis
appointed miscreant will defy the
warning.”
The World under the caption of
“Vale Blaine,” writes as follows:
“Blaine organized the serenade for
himseif at Augusta last night, and
in response to the music of the
band delivered a carefully prepared
'peech, which may be regarded as
his solemn valedictory. It was a
speech full of cunning malignancy.
It was the doctrine of hate, inten
sified as preached by Blaine before
,the idea occurred to him that he
might, as a candidate for the Presi
dency, obtain a few votes in the
southern states. In this hour of
defeat and humiliation, Blaine re
sumes his warfare upon the people
of a section despised hy the helots
of the republican party.
Tha Times says: “Blaine took
occasion of the serenade at Augus
ta, last evening, intended as a per
sonal cmipliment by his towns
men, to deliver a most bitter and
mischievous sectional speech that ...
has been heard in the North for t ]ing for the rights of their native
1 many a day. An honest defeat j state and her people?
milar social amusements I seems to have extinguished all gen- 1 q.| Je state i las donated for this
Those who know her say that, if j erous sentiments which he protess- , p ur p OSt! s j nC e the war and at long
she becomes mistress of the White j ed to have when be penned his let- intervals—to a man with leg am-
House, as is generally predicted in 1 ter of acceptance, or rather it shows j putate d above the knee, $100: be-
Buffalo social circles, she will have 1 that the letter was paraded in the | ow t ] )e k neei arnl above el-
a brill'"nt reign. Thus far the sup- S hope of winning southern votes. — - ■
p »-ed engagement has only been 1 and having failed in that he shows
t ilked over in private, end \ make j hts real temper. A more unpatriot
ic, mischievous and bitterly sec
tional and narrow spirit than Blaine
exhibits in defeat is inconceivable,
and adds another to the many
causes of congratulation that the
country has been saved trom an
admini-tration dominated hy such a
spirit.”
The Battle-Scarred Veterans 0/ the Lott Cavee
Fast Declining.
Correspondence Augusta 2icwe.
It is a long timesince the “War
Between the States.” The South
ern people have had :* hard strug
gle to- r recover from the effects of
that bloodv contest in a four years’
war. The Confederate soldiers
who were so unfortunate as to be
ma’med for life, more or less seri
ously, in that struggle for what
they conceived to be a cause more
dear to them than life, have had
the hardest struggle ot all in main
taining themselves and those de
pendent upon them. Many of them
have hardly been able to “keep the
wolf from the door,” and some have
despaired because of their incapac
ity, physically, in consequence of
their deplorable afflictions. In the
battle for existence among their
fellow-citizens and comrades in
arms who luckily came out un
scathed, they have been unable to
compete, being deprived of a natu
ral locomotion by the cruel fortunes
of war. Many of them are fast
growing old and teeble, and will
soon he no more; and the youngest
of them can sing, around their
humble firesides,
“Dmrlirf, I «tn giowlnn old—
silver thread* among the sold'”
It is true the state ot Georgia has
already done something—perhaps
more than any other state of the
south—for these sufferers. But
cannot she do more than she has
done—something better and some
thing more tangible and reliable—
something that will be more of a
relief to tham in their old age-
something th't will come to them
mote frequently, and be a greater
relief to them and their families—
Something that will tend to be of
some benefit to them and their fam
ilies when ihey are dead? Do they
not deserve it? Is it wrong for
them to expect it? Would it not be
a generous act for a great state, rich
in resources and prosperous, to
grant it to those afflicted heroes,
who have sufferred so long and so
much for wounds received in bat
CABINET MAKERS.
the lumor public
worth.
for what'
BILL NYE IN ROME.
DEATH OF NAPOLEON.
.-The story Told by a Zola Chief 0
Cleveland.
Exhibition S'
Saveral Ri miBlscehces, s mo ot Which ai 0 Not
Fragrant
We arrived in Rome last eveni nj
vu the Rock Island road, and an
oM caitle friend of mine from Nor th
Park, who is staying Jiere, invite d
me to come and visit him during
my stay in the city. He is here, he t
save, to obtain that polish which he !• Cleveland. Nov. 16.—Among
is unable to obtain on the range. It i the number of Zulus now exhibit-
has long been his hearts dearest * ing at a dime museum here is Char-
wi-h to go abroad and complete an ]ie, the chief of the party, who is an
already thorough education. Hz . intelligent native, has picked up
was always pretty fair in arithme- considerable of tlie English lan-
tic, and could cipher the socks j guage, and has joined the Mesons,
right off our most eminent men, j In an interview last evening he de
but he was a little rusty on Rome. ! scribed the killing of Prince Na-
He says: . | pole-in, saying:
He has been showing .me the 1 “The English used us badly. We
town and telling me all about it. | knew the English could whip us in
Rome, he says, has been the coun- j Battle, and so v/e enticed them into
tv seat of this country for'lipwatL I the jungles, where we kept hid un-
of 2,500-years, and stilTthey have-1 til disease had taken many of us off.
n’t got a first-class hotel in the I They first sent out a regiment,
place. Romulus filed on Rome ; which we cut uj>; then five reg-
under the tlesert land act 600 years 1 imenls and then an army
before Christ, and built a lu italic j under Lord Wolseley. The Prince
Imperial came then. The English
asylum on the Capitoline Hill. In ^
those days everybody was hi; »hly | had -not seen a Zulu, although there __ .
educnled,-and every common 'ago 1 were thousands of us hid in the cannot a great state like Georgia
on the streets could talk the d iad ; lonjrgrass an d corn. About noon | donate as much as $100 per annum
how, $40. Truly, this is generous
ous on the part of our general as
sembly for donating even the small
amount lor that length of time, and
it is duly appreciated by the recip
ients, fori dan't think any ot them
ever refused to accept it. The last
was received last year about Christ
mas, and many a little one’s heart
perhaps was made glad over the
heaps of “goodies” they got and
were not expecting:
Thus in twenty years chese “dis-
t aided veterans” have received “in
round numbers,” the first named,
$300; second, $225; third, $iSo;
fourth, 5120. And as before said,
this is generous, indeed, and the re
cipients are thankful lor it no doubt.
But of course they would be still
more thankful if the donation was
at least more frequent, say annu
ally, if there is no danger of bank
rupting the state, whtch these “vet
erans” do not wish to see done.
Two months’ rental of the state
road would suffice for that amount
annually.
And why Should such a differ
ence be made in the donation be
cause one has a leg or arm off below
the knee or elbow? The depriva
tion and affliction is just as great,
and the one is discommoded just as
much in physical powers as the
other. Then why this difference?
To come directly to the point, why
SslsctlBg Fr*sld*at-Bl*et Ciawland’* Adrlsar*.
The democrats at the capital, says
a Washington special to the New
York Times of Nov. n, who are
constructing Grover Cleveland's
cabinet for him, four months in ad
vance of the time he will need it,
appear to be making it up without
stopping to think that Cleveland
may like to have something to say
about it, and regardless of the fact,
which they may leara, that he is as
competent to select his advisers as
most of the unauthorized political
Cabinet makers. These sell consti
tuted builders of the next adminis
tration are disposed to be kind to
the independents, and to maintain
that their work in the campaign
should be recognized by extending
a cabinet position to one of their
number, Mr. Schurz being named
as the most acceptable of all to be
so selected. A democratic ex-sen
ator is quoted as saying: “This is
not a democratic victory. It could
not have been won by the demo
crats alone. We owe the election
of Cleveland and Hendricks to the
independent republicans, and every
rule of honesty and fair play de
mands their recognition. Nothing
would be more unpopular than for
us to proceed upon the assumption
that it was a straight democrrtic
victory. Now, as to the sugges
tion that the acceptance of a posi
tion under Cleveland by prominent
independents would subject the lat
ter to the suspicion of htsving made
a bargain, or the other suggestion
that Curtis, Schurz and iheir
associates still profess to be repub
licans, and therefore could not con
sistently go into a democratic admin
istration. With all that we, as dem
ocrats, have nothing to do. Out-
duty is to offer them a fitting recog
nition of their services, and if they
decide to decline it then we will be
at liberty to go ahead and select
none but democrats tor positions.
It would be a blunder for us to ig-
uore the independents and reform-
ets who made the fight with us for
reform, and just such a blunder Ed
munds and other leading republi
cans, who are against Blaine, but
who still are for the old party, hope
to see us make.”
These democrats will probably
find out, perhaps to their surprise,
that the independent republicans
did not go into the late contest
against Mr. Blaine because they
wanted office. Their chances for
reward would have been suret if
they had chosen to fight under
Blaine’s banner.
Arkansas, one of the states that
stood so.M for Cleveland in the con
vention, is to be recognized, if the
Cabinet makers are correct, by the
appointment of Senator Garland as
Attorney General. Mr. Randall,
from the state which gave Blaine
80,000 plurality, is referred to as
sure to be pressed for the Treasury
portfolio, although it is admitted
that the office ought to goto New
York. It is said that Gen. Mc
Clellan is to be pushed forward by
New Jersey for the War or Navy
Department. Mr. Bayard seems to
be as unanimously picked out for
Secretary of State as Mr. Blaine
was by Garfield’s friends four years
ago.
RIDE AFTER A WOLFE.
Exdttnt Sport With Bars* sod Hounds Among
Snake River Letter in Cincinnati enquirer.
With seven hounds and four
hunters we left camp yesterday
morning at dawn for a day’s run af
ter wolves. When an hour out of
camp the baying of the hounds in a
coppice to the right of us told us
that something was started, and the
next minute a lank gray wolf, with
six cubs streaming after her, dashed
out into the open ground and ran
past us so close that we might have
killed her with a revolver; but
something like pity stayed every
man’s hand and we let her go ky us
without a shot. The cubs were
evidently 4 or 5 months old, and
kept well up with the mother, who
moved over the prairie like a gray
streak. When the dogs finally
broke cover she had disappeared
around the face of a hillock, to the
top of which we spurred our horses
in order to see the remainder of the
chase. In the course of a few min
utes it was plain to see that the cubs
were losing their wind, one of them
falling behind so rapidly that he
was almost in the jaws ot the fore
most hound, and the others, while
keeping ahead, giving every evi
dence of distress.
The mother wolf was not moving
at her best by any means, and if she
would abandon her cubs to the dogs
might easily escape, but instead of
doing that she suddenly wheeled
around, while the cubs kept on for
ward, and doubling square on her
tracks closed with the hound who
was in the lead, and not more than
ten paces trom the exhausted young
one. Before the dog could recover
from his surprise, she had h>m by
the throat, her long, white teeth cut
ting through skin and muscles, then
closing and tearing out wind pipe,
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
A German tailor cut his throat in
Macon with a razor.
Two inches of snow is on the
S ound in New York and is still
Jing.
A collision of two freight trains
on the Montgomery and Mobile R.
R. No persons hurt
Twenty-two deaths from cholera
in the city of Paris Saturday, and
50 in the hospitals.
Six of the buildings of the Wil
mington, Del., glass works, were
destroyed by fire on the night of
the 16th.
A double murder occurred in
Jones county. Col. Ben Beck and
son were killed by John and Ste
phen Stubbs.
Goldsboro, N. C., had a blaze on
Sunday that destroyed twenty-five
of the leading business houses.
Total loss over $250,000.
Joseph M. Vanarsdalen, a for*
mer member of the bar, who took
a conspicuous part in the Whitta
ker will conspiracy, died in the
Eastern penitentiary yasterday
from a stroke of paralysis. He was
sentenced in 1SS0 with his law
partner, Wm. R. Dickerson, to ten
years’ imprisonment for forging the
will of Robert Whittaker, who left
an estate valued at $800,000.
After several months litigation
between the Baltimore and Ohio
telegraph company and the West
ern Union telegraph company, in
volving the condemnation of Mor
gan’s Louisiana and Texas railroad,
between New Oileans and Ver-
millionville, for a new telegraph
line of the Baltimore and Ohio tel
egraph company, the case finally
came before the jury, who have
awarded damages to the railroad
languages like a’normal" %cl tool
graduate. Greek and Latin w ere
talked just as common at a pi ize
fight or church sociable in Ro me
among the middle and lower class es
as cigar-box Spanish in Southern
Colorado to-day.
Before the Christian era Ront'S
was ruled by kings who were elect
ed for life or during good behavior.
This was done to curtail^ campaign
expenses, so that the surplus funds
could he frittered’ away, on bread
and other Roman delicacies. There
was also a senate and a college of
Pontifices and two inch augers that
explained the will of Ije Rods.
These augurs became at last a g-reat
bore (Etruscan relic found near a
Roman corral.)
For many years there was a
subble between the'.partricians and
the plebians. The partricians were
people who had made a great deal
of money, and whose blue-blooded
daughters showed their proud and
high lineage by eloping with the
family coachman. The plebians, as
a rule, wiere not checked up so
high, but they generally got their
Eli with both feet, as a proud Ro
man told me yesterday as lie-"* sock
ed hisJRoman nose into a tumbler
of Roniau punch.
Rome got this term “jpletcialCjl
learn, from West Point in an early
day. v » , i, \ t (
the rrince Imperial, with- two or
three companions, -'rode about a
jnfie ahead of the rest, and dis
mounted in a spot surrounded by
tall grass anti corn. They evident
ly thought there was no danger, but
our scouts were hid everywhere,
and word was sent to our chief that
a dismounted party of English were
eating. The chief ordered 200 men
to surround and kill the party.
When we were close to them,
oue of our men exposed himself,
and they discovered us and ran for
■their-horses, while our men rushed
forward. The Prince’s horse plung
ed and broke its saddle, and just
then one of our men threw an assegi
that struck the Prince in the eye.
It was thrown so hard that it lifted
him out of the saddle- When our
men came up .he-was writhing in
agony on the ground, and one of us
run a spear through his heart. Then
ot hers ran their spears into him sev
er al times, and the body was badly
cutup.” Chief Cbariie said he was
present when . the Prince’s mother
visited the spot where her son was
killed and kissed the grounds The
Zulus are homesick, and are con
tinually begging the agent to take
them home.
HENRY WATTER80N ON THE RE
SULT.
THE EX-KING OF THE
SHINERS. ~
■j- v__- 1 i_- 1 . , y j . * . - ’ l
They had pretty hot times from I v __ ^aharieeton is. c.) Beat.
that on for 400 years more. Sonte-
MOON-
tfl delimits «> write ° f , Coloncl
Brown as “« sfpiirt” and of the Col-
times one was bn top and some
times the other. .T could give a lpjtg
and glowing resume of the history
of heathen Rpnqe ittW ° w n Abde
way if I had space, out. I have not.
The present Rome is buih over
forty or fifty feet of debris that is
between two and three f thousand
years old. "Those who have been
in Chicago when the street gang
was engaged in raking up(old per
sonalities and things that had been
accumulating for fifty years, will
remember the subtle odor of the
deceased past. (Excuse me a mo :
ment while I go and eat a little as-
safcctida to take the taste out of ray
mouth. Well, Rome is older, and
therefore It is worse. I hate to
speak about it, but when they are
excavating for a new building here,
and turn up a few discarded socks
of the time of Romulus, along with
other relics of a forgotten era, the
excavationists run and stick their
noses into the bosom of a Limbur-
ger cheese, and the people .flee to
the mountains till it is safe to come
home again.
This puts a kind of damper on
building, and real estate is rather
dead At least, it is not feeling
well. So they only build a new
house every fifty or sixty years.
Then it takes half a century .for /the
air to get fresh again.
I bsivc been trying for several
days to find some Roman' • candles
to take home with me, but have
failed so far. I should feel asham
ed of myself to make this long aqd
extensive trip to Rome, the very
hot-bed of Roman candles, and then
go home withont any.
Major Lewis R. Redmond, the
King of th£- Moonshiners, is now
engaged in the peaceful pursuits of
a pastoral life, and in the solitudes
of his native mountains, is building
up his broken body. 1 He is living
at Sunny Dale, in Pickens county,
and seems 10 have taken on a new
life and energy. Under date of No
vember j, in a letter to the News
and Courier, he writes in an ex
ceedingly hopeful view of his sur
roundings. He thanks the News
and Courier for the interest mani
fested in bis case—“the sending of
friend McKinley to interview me
when I . was a “wild man’ in the
mountains and styled an ‘outlaw’ by
the revenue clan.” Continuing, he
says: “Thank God I am a free
man to-day ; out of prison, out of
the dutches of the-law, and out of
tlie ravenue-or blockade business;
at home with my wife and babies
and surrounded bv a host of true
and tried friends! Breathing the
pure mountain air in the enjoyment
of improving health, I desire to en
gage id some honorable, legitimate
business for a support for myself
and family.” V
to each one ot these unfortunate
men, without regard to the location
of the amputation? Georgia is pros
perous and rich in resources; her
people are reputed to be generous
and philanthropic to the core; and
she is now destined to be more
prosperous still since Cleveland is
elected “beyond the shadow of a
doubt” and will surely take his
seat; likewise “the carpet-bagger
and scalawag must go,” and will
curse our soil no more forever. One
hundred dollars per annum would
be quite a generous donation. It
would greatly aid and comfort these
poor cripples—cripples for life—for
life—which means a great deal of
woe, heartfelt sorrow and bitter re
flections to them, for it is a dread
ful calamity, a great affliction, to be
thus deprived of a limb, and inca
pacitated to grapple with the hard-
ships and stern realities of fife as
other men, not afflicted, do, al
though received in a good cause. I
have often heard men say they had
rather be dead than be thus afflict
ed. All will admit that it is a de
plorable and grievous plight to be
in (it is so to them at least)—com
pelled, through fife, to “tackle” the
hard struggle of seeking a liveli
hood on crutches, or the peg-leg,
or the artificial limb, (hardest of
all) or with an empty sleeve dang
ling at one’s side. Think of it,
Messieurs of the general arsembly
and the good people ot Georgia.
To close, we would ask if the
state has not within its borders large
areas of wild lands belonging to the
state, ot which a certain portion
might be donated to these unfortu
nates for a homestead for them
selves and their families, in perpe
tuity’ exempt from taxation, and
thus fulfill a generous and noble
act, and a duty towards those who
have suffered, and will continue to
suffer all their fives, from wounds
received in fighting for a cause,
though lost, was dear to the hearts
of all true Southrons. H. R.
As for myself, I can truly say
that I have had no private stake or
feeling in the result. To me, per
sonally, the election of Grover
Cleveland can bringnothing but the
embarrassments and discomforts
of the state of responsibility to
which—individually small at my
share may be—I have too much
reason to fear that T shall be inade
quate. For twenty-five years I
have been on the opposition. For
the first time I find myself on the
winning side, and but for the belief
jhat the ship of state has weathered
the perilous headlands that stood
out across the fine ofits passage, I
should feel a most depressing sense
of the difficulties which the triumph
imposes upon my political associ
ates and party. In proportion as
our triumph has been in the nature
of Providenca shall our duties be
serious and binding. It will be no
easy task to sweep the floors and
put the house in order. It will be
no easy task to satisfy the expecta
tions of the country. In every na
ture of the case there must be a
deal of disappointments, because,
the outgoing of the republicans is a
good thing, the incomiqg of the
democrats cannot fetch with.it a
millennium ready made and cut to
fit all wearers. The adage says,
it’s a long lane that has no turning,”
hut twenty-four years of lane
—twenty-four years of muddy
lane, as straight as a ramrod, not a
crook anywhere and hardly any
sunshine, fox fi r e in front to lure us
into pitfalls and ditches, and the
devil in the rear picking off the
hindmost—that is the sort of a lane
Conductor Hewett, on the Sa
vannah, Florida & Western rail
road was killed while trying to
cross to his engine.
Atfcpitfefrug known as blackleg
has ofoKcn out among" the young
cj^Sf jgjggggg Pa - y'y
Augusta its troubled with a gang
A STRIKE COSTS MILLIONS.
Columbus, O., Nov. 15.—The
Columbus Board of Trade to-night
heard reports from a committee ap
pointed to investigate the losses
sustained by the strike in the Hock
ing valley since June 27. The loss
of trade to the members of the
board and to the coal companies
has been $i,6oo,ooq. The loss to
business men outside of the board
has been $550,000. The loss of
freight to railroads centreing here
is $1,100,000. The loss to furnaces
in the valley is $225,000. The ag
gregate losses are $4,011,000. Of
this it is estimated that the loss to
Columbus is $3,500,00a
The American Woman’s Suf
frage Association began its annual
session in’Chicago on the 19th.
T
Maysviile may look out for
wedding soon. Charlie has been
down buying a fine suit
jugular vein and gullet. It was only I company of $2,100, which has been
a single bite, but the spread and I deposited with the court, and the
strength of her jaws as well as the work of building the competing
sharpness of her teeth made it fatal, line begun.
Then she humped up her back and p AK i S , Nov. 18.—The weather is
in ten bounds had regained the lost warmer to-day and the conditions
ground and was again in full retreat a *. consequently less favorable for
tn the center of her family. In the stamp i n g out the cholera. There
nature of things, nowever, the cubs were thirty-six deaths from cholera
coffid not stand the killing pace; in p aris yesterday, all but it of
they fell behind in ones and twos, I w hich occurred in the hospitals,
and the result was a foregone con-1 j n J2 hours ending at noon to-day,
elusion at least it was so until the there were 2Q deaths, 15 in the hos-
mother adopted a new set of tactics. pi ta i s an( i r outside. From mid-
She started off at a right angle with I n ight to 6 o’clock this evening there
the line, pursued hy the cubs, swerv-1 have been eleven deaths in the city
ing in her course so as to bring her- an d 19 deaths at the hospitals. At
self very near to the hounds, appar- Oran four deaths were reported to-
ently with the purpose of attracting d ay. No deaths have occurred at
the chase to herself. Three of the Nantes to-day.
dogs accepted the invitation, and 1 ’
presently were out of sight in the 1 PARIS’ STALKING PEST.
rough country to which she led 1
them, while the remaining two bus-1 a Dscrsas* in UtsMtuabor ot Dosttis Motlcsstilo
ied themselves with the cubs now | in too Boporti,
left to their own devices. Paris, Nov. 15.—The Municipal
At a rattling pace we set off across I Council yesterday, after a heated
the country in the direction taken debate, rejected, by a vote ot 50 to
by the old wolf, and presently from 11, the proposal to grant 5,000 francs
an elevation discovered the chase to the Bretenil Asylum for old peO’
not far ahead. The dogs were rap- pie, where the cholera has created
idly gaining on the prey, and We serious ravages. The resolution,
spurred on in order to be in at the however, was adopted^hy a vote of
death. In its essentials this method 24 to 23 which spoke in deprecation
of hunting wolves is similar to the I of subsidies to monasteries, but ap
English sport of fox-hunting, large- pointed a committee whose duty it
ly depending for its pleasure upon will be to see to it that all suflerers
good horses, fleet, sharp-nosed from cholera in such institutions
Bounds and the spice of danger al- receive proper attention. The
ways attending a break-neck ride Council likewise voted an appropri
over a rough country. But our I ation of 50,000 francs for the fur-
sport was not marred by any senti- therance of the adoption of sanitary
mental pity for the victim, as the measures in private houses. It is
killing ol wolves is a utilitarian ser- now alleged that the outbreak at
vice, appreciated as well by hunters the Bretenil Asylum was due to the
as ranchmen. They not only kill stoppage of the supply of broken
and maim enormous qualities of victuals, which has come about
wild game, but do not scrapie at through the prevailing anti-clerical
entering a ranchero’s barnyard and fanatacism. A nun who had been
carry away young hogs, sheep and faithfully attending the Patient’
even young calves. The eastern Asylum, succumbed to the deadly
method of getting rid of trouble- epidemic yesterday,
some domestic animals is in vogue The daily record of deaths from
here against wild beasts to a great cholera since the outbreak of the
extent, and thousands of wolves are epidemic in this city is as follows
yearly killed through devouring First day 1, second 14, third 33.
poisoned meat prepared for them by fourth 69, fifth 98, sixth 89, seventd
the farmers. 81, eighth 75; total for eitht days
The run was but a short one, and 4 60 - a daily average of 58 nearly,
before one drew near enough for The total number of deaths from
the effective use of our shotguns the cholera in this city yesterday was
dogs had dragged the tired animal 5 6 « a11 but 16 of which occurred in
to the ground and were tearing at * be hospitals. In the 12 hours end-
her throat. Wolf skins in the fron- in S at noon to-day there were 29
tier market bring from $1.50 to $3 deaths. There was one death from
each, and as every pelt we captured cholera at Nantes to-day,
during the hunt was to fall to the From all the indications the situ
share of Jim, our cook, he was prob- atio “ to-day is slightly improved,
ably the most eager member of the The ,rost - however, has not check
chase. He rode into the thick of ed tbe epidemic as much as was ex
the fight, anfi kicking the dogs to P ecl{ d.
the right and left, had the skin strio- One death from cholera has oc
ped from tlie animal before the curred at Toulon since last report,
blood had done flowing from its The Russian embassy announces
throat. that a quarantine of 21 days will be
In the course of the morning we required at the Russian frontier in
ran down three other gray wolves, the case of all persons arriving from
and succeeded in shooting a coyote infected, countries. Many officials
as well as an antelope for dinner. | a ( e P a y* n fl visits to the cholera hos
pitals. There was a sharp frost last
GENERAL NEWS.* '
f r ■ ■
. if,) 1 if. % •
Major-General Hancock will re
tire inTebruary, 1888.
A Philadelphia parson has
thrown his house open as a sort of
exchange tor his poorer parishion*
ers.
Eleven studentsof the Free In
stitute at Worcester, W*»»-i have
confessed complicity in putting a
horse in the chapeL
A carload of -young carp is on
the road from Washington to sup
ply applicants in the northwestern
states and territories.
The Tichborn claimant proposes
to lay his case before the public by
means of public meetings. Many
influential men in England still be
lieved him to be the veritable Sir
Roger.
The Washington Sentinel warns
the public to look out lor fires in
the Executive departments, intend
ed to destroy the records which
show republican corruption and
ptealing.
Mr. James Russell Lowell, the
American minister, and M. Wad-
dington, the French Minister, have
accepted invitations to be present
at the dinner ot the Scottish’’cor
poration of London, which will be
given December 1. , •
The largest medical fee on re
cord was recorded last month. A
Colorado physician obtained $2,-
000,000 from a wealthy patient, who
unfortunately did not survive the
treatment The physician was the
only nephew of the patient
The grand jury of Westchester
county has found an indictment
against William E. Fluellen, a tar
mer living in Newcastle, who is
charged with inhuman treatment
of a boy whom he had secured
from the Temporary Home for in
digent Children.
Galveston, Nov. 14.—Meagre
information has been received here
of a terrible railroad accident early
this morning on the Houston and
Texas Central railway at Hemp
stead. A north bound night ex
press was precipitated into the
Brazos river, the engine alone keep
ing the rails. Ten passengers are
reported killed and fifteen wound
ed.
Last Monday night the office of
the County Clerk, at Pensacola,
was entered, the desk broken open
and the election tally-sheets and
returns for the county stolen. The
enterprising individuals were too
late, however, for the theft to have
any effect on the election, as the of
ficial count had been made and for
warded to Tallahassee, and, besides,
the County Judge has his set of re
turns secure in his safe.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 14.—
During the Democratic celebration
at Wellington, Kane county, last
night, Mrs, John Schnarr was
struck in the eye by a sky rocket
and instantly killed. Another
rocket erroneously placed went
driving into the office of the Phil
lips House, striking the night clerk
in the mouth and coming out be
hind his ear. His condition is pre-
carions. W. H. Hood, of Pittsburg,
Pa., a guest of the hotel, was also
seriously wounded in the lace.
A YOUNG LADY HERCULES. ni S ht *. Il is thought that this wea
1 ther will have a good effect on the
Th* ciiriou* F*au of * Fonru«-Y«ar-oid otrl. epidemic. M. Demiire, Police In-
Six well-built, powerful men bP ector . died this morning. Dr.
- i I WervAit Rati Kao n.r.ttnn n S/v
stood in the centre of a room near ^ arren bas written a letter
..... ..... . Ninth and Arch streets last even- ‘ be P a Pe[s >n the same tenor as that
we have been traveling. Wei. it ing , a „d grasped a billiard cue with “dopted by M Gavin in his letter
has come to an end at last, bless the a if their etrergth, three standing on Galignat’s Messenger. He thinks
each side of the sieuder stick. A 1 j 1 , e ‘ s no occasion for strong
pretty little girl, fourteen years old. an , !j ea . ^ people to take fright
with rosy cheeks and a wealth of Id . e from .!*,. c *ty-
Titian red tresses, placed her hands . m, dnight> and 6 0 clock
lightly against oue end of the cue. to-night, there were 18 deaths from
A number ol men stood about and cholera in the city and 27 in the
awaited de\eIopti.euts. hospitals. Six deaths to-day were
“Now hold on with all vonr re P orte< * at < ~ >ra , n ; ,
might,and don’t let the cue move,” THE WRONG CLEVELAND,
said one of the bystanders. Thesix I -
men set their teeth and well ni^.h Jfon «w»a itc.-ord.
crushed the sti.-k with the grips A gentleman going out of town
they brought to bear upon it. For the other day met an old negro
a moment all went well. Then the from Schley county, and he said *"
cue began tosway and the arms of I the darkey:
the six men swayed with it They “Well, old man, Cleveland
turned pink, then scarlet, then pur- elected President.”
pie, in their struggles to hold it still. “Is dat so, boss?”
but all in vain, lor the cue was as I “Yes,” said the gentleman, “that
hard to hold as a three year old '* latest news that has been re
thoroughbred frightened at a loco- ceived in town.”
motive, and alter a minute of* so of “Well, boss, lse mighty glad ob
frantic bui unavailing efforts to dat. He is a good man wid a house
keep the bit ol wood in oue position ob children, an’ he’s had to
the vanquished half dozen gave up 1 wjork mighty hard wid dat ole
tha attempt quite exhausted, while I mulcy-headed ox to make boF enes
the little girl merely smiled and “icet. Yes, boss, I’se mighty glad.”
said never a word. “But, old man,” remarked the
Suo was Miss Mattie Price, ‘‘the I gentleman, “you must be laboring
Lord, and we can step upon the
solid terra firms of the nation’s high
way. Thereon we take up our line
of march—right in the middle of
the road, too—and if they ever
catch us in the bushes again they
may swing us to the nearest sap-
pi ing. The next time there is any
foolishness in this country it wifi be
on the north, not on the south side
of the fine.
THE SENATE COMMITTEES.
The following are the chairmen
of the various committees in the
senate:
Hon. T. B. Cabaniss, Judiciary;
Hon. Robt Falligant, Special Ju
diciary; Hon. John S. Davidson,
Finance; Hon. F. H- Colley, Rail
roads; Hon. W- B. Rankin, Corpo
rations; Hon. E. A. Russell, Inter
nal Improvements; Hon. Fleming
Jordan, Banks; Hon. J. M. Smith,
of the 30th, Agriculture; Hon. B
A.Northeu, Penitentiary; Hon. W.
J. Northen, Education; Hon. L. R
R;
natic Asylums; Hon. W. A. Ti-
f nor, Academy for the Blind; Hon.
’. L. McElmurray, Deaf and Dumb
Asylums; Hon. John W. Maddox,
Military; Hon.R. G. MitchelLt’ub-
lic Property; Hon. J. M. McBride,
Enrollment; Hon. Mr. Clarke, Au>
diting; Hon. Mr. Brown’, Pnnting;
Hon. Mr. Smith, of the 32d, Mines
and Mining; Hon. Mr. Taylor, Pe
titions; Hon. Mr. Allen, State Li
brary; Hon; Mr. Ridley, Privileges
of the Floor; Hon. T. L. Lewis,En
grossing; Hon.L. C. Hoyle, Tem
perance; Hon”, H. H. Carlton,
Rules.
The last brick was laid on the
Kimball Honse Saturday.
Georgia Wonder” and “Magnetic I un( ^ er a hallucination, and—”
Girl,” wha wifi give an exhibition! “What’s dat, boss?”
of her strange powers at the Arch “* I ? ean y°. u must have gotten
street lime museum during the y° ur ideas mixed concering the
wetk, u 1 who after each .perform-1 man who h ” been elected Presi
ance wilfully and thoroughly ex- dent - The Cleveland who has been
plain the mystery, so that it is I elected President fives in New YoTic
claimed that any one possessing the state. Besides, he. has not got a
same physical powers will be able to 1 house full ot children—he is a bach-
peiform the tricks that she shows I elor.”
»•'“ u t“ n -* \fioo — I «\Vp11 wpii •».. dat do settle it.
it was old man
,JP „ lives up yer in
strong men npptar as week as babes, Schley county.”
apd it will be interesting to hear I The gentleman moved on and
her tell how she accomplished it. I chuckled to himself at the ignorance
,— p . . I of the old man. And so it is with
,In the Swain coprt martial to I race. They may know how to
the the first specification he plead-1 wield a hoe in a; cotton patch, but
ed not guilty. . . .. 1 their political ideas are vague.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
T. M. Furlow will be an appli
cant for the position of postmaster
of Americus.
Blind Tom has a sister and brother
in Macon. Burrell Wiggins, the
brother, has been working at Wil
lingham’s warehouse for several
years. He is not musically inclined.
Rome Courier: George P. Bur
nett, whom Arthur appointed post
master at Rome several weeks ago,
failed to give bond, so Postmaster
Hargrove says, and will therefore
never get a pull at the post-office.
Marietta, Nov. 15.—William
Moore, a notorious thief, was ar
rested near here to-day for robbing
a drunken man of a small sum a
few days ago. He has appeared
before the courts often on similar
charges.
Camp & Calloway, of Atlanta,
have purchased several desirable
lots at Indian Spring, in Butts
county, and are now raising a stock
company and will build a $50,000
hotel there. These are the gentle
men who contemplated leasing the
hotel property at Tallulah.
At Dubois a little colored child
fell in a stump hole where the
woods have been on fire and was
burned to death. Its cries were
heard by a neighbor, who got it out
of tlie hole and took it to its mother,
which was the first of her knowing
ot its being away from the other
children about the yard.
Three white men visited the
house of a negro named Hardy
Odum, in Butts county, and beat
him severely, demolished his cabin
and seriously maimed his stock. It
is supposed they were under the
influence of whisky, as they were
not disguised and were recognized
by tlie negro, who has issued war
rants for their arrest.
Dalton Citizen: Mr. Richard
Wilson, whose son is to marry Miss
Carrie Astor this month in New
York city, is reputed to be worth
$8,000,000. Wilson was once a
resident of Dalton and had a small
stock of goods in a little dilapidated
wooden shanty on the site where
Denton & Lynn’s warehouse now
stands. He was an awkward coun
try boy, but possessed a remark
able business tact. His principal
start in the golden path to success
and great riches was made in Louis
ville, Ky.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The
poisoning of the Biggers’ and Mr.
Burgess and wife is still the subject
of a good deal of comment. The
announcement of the death of Mr.
Burgess and wife and Mr. Jos. ’ W.
Biggers created a profound sensa
tion, and there was a general desire
expressed that the guilty parties
should be brought to speedy pun
ishment. The elder Mtv Biggers
was reported dead Saturday after-
noon, but thq report was incorrect.
He was still alive late in the even
ing, but his condition was very
critical. It is 1 thought he is suffer
ing more now from nervous pros
tration and g rief at the Iobs of his
son than- from the effects of the
poison. The remains of Mr.’ Bur-
f ess and wife have been taken to
^est Point for interment iiThe
stomach of Mr. Burgess will be an-
alvzed. The remains of Mr J, W.
Biggers were interred at J3 o’clock
Saturday afternoon. Officers are
endeavoring to apprehend the per
son or persons who administered
the poison. Last Saturday night
they came into the tity With Mary
Davis, colored, whom cji;cuingtanr
ces led them to suspect as the guilty
party, and lodged her in jafi. She
lived on Mr. Biggers’ premises and
was charged,by him a short time
ago with stealing meat from,, hia
smoke-house. Ills thought she ad
ministered poison in the milk; She
will have.npreliminary trial on Fri
day. The family vof Mr, Biggers
have offered a reward of $500 for
the finest of the guilty person ; or
persons, with evidence to convict.