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E BANNER, ATHENS, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 12, 1089.
THE FREE STATE FURNISHES A TEA
GEDY.
Shot Through the Head—Bill Finch Fires
the Fatal Shot—A Negro Row Over
Game of Cards—Can’t Tell
Whether it is in Clarke
or- Madisen.
England's Executioner Stands at the Head
of His “Profession.”
. Mr. James Berry, the public hangman,who
lives in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, is
genuine boss among hangmen. Mr.
Berry has succeeded a line of exports who
have some of them been famous. There was
Jack Ketch, Calcraft and Marwood, all of
whom made improvements on the old pro
cess, and now James Berry has come in for a
leather washer for the rope which outdoes all
other innovations.
Mr. Berry is not an easy man for a news
paper reporter to get at. Some time ago he
talked to a member of the press too freely,
and was warned by the government that if
he did it again he would lose his position.
This frightened him so that he has never
About three o’clock yesterday morn
ing Mr. Bill Finch, who has been Keep
ing bar for J. A. Fowler in Madison
county,came to Mr. George Booth’s and
.. woke him tip, and informed him that he
had killed a negro aud asked Mr. Booth
to help him or give him some advice
about what to do, Mr. Booth seeing that opened his mouth since, till lately a reporter
Mr. Finch was drinking declined help | of The New York Sun got bold of him, and
or advice unless he (Finch) was sober.
Finch left Mr. Booth’s residence aud
came down town where he was seen
early this morning eating his breakfast,
and stated that after he closed up the
bar-room he went dowu into the woods
where there is a regular gambling den,
and negroes play from morning until
' night, and from night till morning for
stakes ranging any wne:e from live cents
to one dollar. This place is in the
woods and the ground h(is been worn as
slick as an otter slide where the paste
boards are used.
Mr. Finch walked up to see th
games aud it was not long before two
negroes, who were playing for the high
stake of 50 cents fell out, and a tight
ensued, and rocks were used freely. Mr.
Finch seeing the trouble stepped back
in the woods, and a little negro boy
named Ed Pendleton, who had been
staying at Fowler’s bar called Mr.
Finch and he answered. One of the
negroes who had been in the r®w com
menced throwing rocks at Ed Pendle
ton, and one of the rocks struck Mr
Finch. This made Mr. Finch very mad
and drawing his six shooter fired hit
ting Ed Peudleton in the back of the
head, the ball going through and com
ing out just above his eyes. He died
immediately, and Mr. Finch left, and
is now probably in the mountains of
north Georgia.
Brown Barefield, the uncle of Ed
Pendleton came in yesterday, and is
after Mr. Finch; lie says the boy killed
is only 14 years old, aud gives a ditter-
ent version of the killing to that of Mr.
Finch.
It is a disputed point whether the
killing was in Clarke or Madison. The
coroner of Madison county withhold an
inquest.
Mr. Finch left Athens very early
yesterday and will be hard to find.
SUCCESSOR TO POPE LEO.
PROBABILITIES THAT THE CARDINALS
WILL SOON HAVE TO CHOOSE HIM.
S515SSSS phenomena of memory.
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DEMOSTHENIAN SOCIETY-
Mr. John R, Cooper, of Logransville, Elect
ed Anniversarian.
There was an exciting election on the
Campus as well as out in Athens yester
day. For several weeks the fight for
Anniversarian has been waxing warm
between Mr. John R. Cooper,of Logans-
ville, and Mr. J. It, L. Smith. Both
young gentlemen are very popular
young men, and .hence the contest was
very close and exciting.
Yesterday morning the society met,
when Mr. Smith withdrew his name.
Mr. W. H. Pope, of Atlanta, in a neat
and eloquent speech 'nominated Mr.
Cooper. The nomination was second
ed by Mr. E. A. Cohen, of Macon.
He was elected by acclamation,
and was warmly congratulated. Mr.
Cooper is one of the best debaters in the
Demosthenian Society and will reflect
credit on her name. He is a member
of the Law< Class, and has been in
attendance upon the college for three
years. •
The Demosthenian Society is in a
thriving£condition, numbering over one
hundred members.
Whatever tends to increase useful
ness, by banishing pain and suffering,
will certainly secure notice and approv
al. We allude to Salvation Oil.
Insure your life for 25 cents against
all the danger of a Consumptive’s death
by keeping a bottle of Dr. Bull’s-Cough
Syrup convenient. It is the best.
A Good Man Gone.
On Sunday last Mr. E. W. Johnson,
one of the oldest and most honored citi
zens of Oglethorpe county, breathed his
last. He was a noble Christian gentle
man, and his long life had been spent
in good works. Mr. Johnson was a pil
lar in the Baptist church, and was hon
ored and beloved by all who knew him.
He was a father to Mrs. T. H. Olive, of
Athens, and an uncle to Judge Samuel
Bumpkin. He leaves a large number
of relatives and friends, to whom we
extend our deepest sympathy.
GotoJJester’s, 241 Broad street, for
Oysters, stewed, fried or boiled. Also
steak, fresh ham and eggs.
Fruits.
Oranges, apples, bananas, pears, ma-
laga and catawba grapes.
Cigars.
The finest brands of cigars in the city
at only a nickel. Spanish hand-made,
nickel auti and'many other fine brands.
Candies,
All varieties from 8cts to 75cts per
pound. It is strictly the confectionery
and fruit house of Athens. Wholesale
and retail. All at W. A. Jester’s.
d2twlt
Cal. McCarthy.
Mr. Dempsey of the Athens Athletic
Club, received a telegram from Cal.
McCarthy, the “Cyclone of New Jer
sey” saying he would arrive in Athens
to-day at noon,
He will meet Mr. Dempsey before an
. Athens audience soon for an exhibition
of scientific sparring. They will wind
up four rounds for points.' Lovers of
the manly art have a rich treat in store
for them in this entertainment.
^‘anexchange neatly puts it thus;
“Will Governor-elect Campbell, of
Ohio, be the democratic candidate for
vice president in 1892. Hill and Camp
bell sounds very well, but the demo
crats seem to be going to head tlirei
ticket with Mr. Cleveland’s name.
A flood of 30 full arc electric lights
will soon be poured down upon Athen
iu her inarch to prosperity.
I he Georgia Legislature will adjourn
next week, perhaps. It lias been a Ion*
and busy f ession, and many importac
bills have been passed.
by crossing his palm with a few shiners, in
duced him to talk about himself in a fashion
quite entertaining to all lovers of the horri
ble.
There are pathetic passages In the lives of
the lowliest—those most devoid of ordinary
sensibilitiea Berry told the story of how be
happened to become a hangman, and it is as
affecting, though not so horrible, as his ac
counts of the many deaths he has accomplished
in a professional way:
‘You see, when Marwood dies and the ap
pointment is vacant 1 makes application to the
’ome secretary at the same time with Bar
tholomew Binns. Father was a carpet spin
ner in Heckmondyke, about six miles of here.
’B owned a big mill and employed scores of
men until ’e lost ’is property through *is debt
ors being bankrupt. ’E ’ad twenty-one chil
dren, and ’e gave every one of us a boar Jink
school education except three. They was,”
said Mr. Berry, counting on his Angel's, “our
Herbert and our Sarah and our—no, it was
only two. We all ’ad a boardiuk school edu
cation but two.
My people was the most respectable peo
ple in Yorkshire, and when they ’eard as I
’ad made application to be ’angman, they
sent word to th’
'ome borfice that 1
was a lunatic and
subjeck to fits, and
they all begs me
not to bring dis
grace upon th’ fam
ily. Well, what
was 1 to dot I’d
been in the coal
trade, and I’d ’ad
to go in bankrupt,
and my brothers
never offered to
’elp me then. Arf-
ter that I was in
th’ butter trade, Jame3 berry.
and ’ad to pay my profits over to th* other
creditors, and finally ’ad to quit that busi
ness and go to work a’ making bootlogs in a
shoe shopi None o’ my respectable brothers,
as might well afford it, being in a good way
o’ business, ever says to ipe: ‘James, ’ere’s a
kindred pounds to gf yon anew start.’ 1
says: ‘It’s a ’onest business and it’s a paying
business—ten pun and traveling expenses for
each person what I ’angs, and fi’ pun in case
of a reprieve—and PU follow it.’
I goes to my solicitor and tells Tin ’ow my
sister ’ad sent word to th’ ’ome secretary as 1
was subjeck to fits—which I never 'ad a fit in
my life—and be tells me to get th' affidavit
of my family doctor as I was in perfick ’ealth,
which I did, and 1 gets th* appointment.
That night it was In all the papers in Brad
ford, ‘A Yorkshireman appointed public
’angman,’ and what does one of our neighbors
do, as is in Bradford, but be takes a paper
out to Heckmondyke, and he finds my mother
a standin’ on the steps o’ our ’ouso. He
shows her th’ paper, and she just looks at it
and says: ‘My James th’ hangman,’ and falls
backward In a swouud.
“Well, they sends one for me th’ next day,
and tells me the mother is dying and wants
to see me. 1 goes to th’ house right away,
and finds her in bed. She sends th’others
out th’ room, and then she puts her arm
around my neck and cuddles me down to her.
‘James,’ she says, ‘it’s not true thou’et be
’angman f Thou’rt too affectionate,’ she says.
‘Mother,’ I says, ‘if it’ll save thy life Pll nof*
be ’angman.’ *Ay,’ says she, ‘ft’ll save my
life.’”
The hangman’s tone had softened a trifle as
he related this instance of filial devotion, and
he went on in a more brusk tone, as if dep
recating the follies of earlier daya “So I
sends in my resignation, and Bartholomew
Binns, he gets th’ appointment, but it don’t
do no good, for the mother dies before she
gets out of bod, and I was sorry enough, 1
can tell you, that I’d been such a fooL”
There is something singular in contemplat
ing a human being who had the heart to give
up tho inestimable privilege’ of hanging peo
ple to save his mother’s life, and regretting
that he’d “been such-a fool,” when she for
whom he made the sacrifice died notwith
standing. However, he got the position after
all, for Mr. Binns, who got appointed, botchod
an execution, and the tender hearted Mr.
Berry was soon put in bis place. It takes
nerve to be an executioner, and perhaps
Binns didn’t have sufficient. Hearing of the
botch, Mr. Berry resolved to try again.
“I was a member,” he said, “of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, and I goes right
over to that waiting room and sends word to
th’ sheriff In Scotland without even telling
my missua I tell th’ sheriff as ’ow I might
have ’ad th’ appointment before, and what
was my qualifications. He sends ms word
back to get papers from the chief constable
in Bradford that 1 am th’ right man, and not
to breathe a word to nobody about it. Well,
sir, I didn’t even tell the missus that, and
when I wont to Scotland and did th’ Job, mo
and th’ chief constable and sheriff in Scotland
and th’ ’ome secretary was th’ only persona
as knew I was ’angman until 1 come homo
after. It was reading that in th’ paper that
was th’ beginning that my father and brother
died of.”
Mr. Berry has assisted 178 persons Into
eternity, and takes great professional pride
in nevei yet having made a botch. “I
breaks their necks all to pieces,” he says,
"inside, that Is, and leaves a beSutiful corpse
always. Some of my corpses you couldn’t
tell if they died a natural death, as many of
’em seems smillngand happy in their coffins.
I consider as it’s th* bounden duty of a
’angman to make it ns pleasant as possible for
Is man, and to leave os nice a corpse as pos
sible for ’is friends.”
Mr. Berry has often had difficulty in get
ting, to the prison where he is to perform a
job without being recognized. Many a time
he has shaved off his whiskers and put on a
woman’s dress. Putting his straps and ropes
under his clothes, he goes in through the
crowd unrecognized. “ That’s the way I got
into Dublin jail,” he says, “ aud that’s the
way I’ve done many a job.”
Then ho opened a wooden chest aud took
out the ropes aud straps, aud pulling tho
straps about himself and adjusting a rope
about his own neck, threw the end over a
beam and directed his interviewer how to
proceed to illustrate a hanging, thus present
ing a fearful temptation to servo him as he
had served so many others. But tho inclina
tion was resisted, and Mr. Berry still lives to
»ond new souls out on their dork journey.
The largest university is that of Oxford,
3ng. It consists of twenty-five colleges aud
five hallg, .
PABOCCBL
He Will Be an Italian, and Probably
Cardinal Parocclil—How Far
Reasons Are Allowed to Influence—Meth
od of Electing a Pope.
# Pope Leo XIII is in failing health: it is
conceded that, under the most favorable
circumstances, his life cannot be greatly
prolonged and so another pope must
soon be chosen, and this fact brings into
special prominence two ecclesiastics.
One Of these is Satolli, papal delegate to
the Catholic centennial at Baltimore,
whose prominence at this great Ameri
can assemblage is thought by some to
have a special bearing on the question as
to whether the pope shall leave Rome.
Cardinal Maria Parocchi, vicar general,
on the other hand, is a prominent candi
date, perhaps the most prominent, and
is just now especially noted for h is pro-
nounced views on the relations of the
papacy and the kingdom of Italy. He
is young for a cardinal, having been
bom in 1833, is a man of iron will and
clear aims, and probably the ablest ex
ponent of the policy of resisting the
secular Italian power at every point of
its encroach
ment. While
bishop of Mantua
he boldly espous
ed the cause of
the Jesuits dur
ing the struggle
between them
and the so called
liberal Lombard
clergy. Ho was
made bishop of
Padua and then
archbishop of Bo
logna, but to this
last the Italian
government objected, and Parocchi re
signed and went to Rome.
About this time Pope Leo developed
his policy as one of resistance to the sec
ularizing tendencies of the civil govern
ment. So Bishop Parocchi was made
vicar general, and wielded a power sec
ond only to that of the pope. In fact,
it was soon recognized that affairs of the
Vatican were confided to Cardinals
Rampollo del Tindaro and Lucido Maria
Parocchi When the electoral conclave
assembles, the power of Cardinal Paroo-
chi will be supreme in all the arrange
ments, and he will be supported by all
the priests of conservative views—those
whom the Italian politicians affect to
stigmatize as the “black party.” Many
shrewd observers in Italy look upon his
election as already certain.
Others spoken of are Cardinal San-
felice, of Naples; Cardinal Alemonda, of
Turin; Cardinal Battaglini, of Bologna,
and Cardinal Monaco. The situation is
so peculiar that it is thought out of the
question to choose a Frenchman or Cor
man, as, in spite of its spiritual character,
the papacy is necessarily interested in
European complications. Spanish, Eng
lish, American and other cardinals are
not subject to the same disability, but
none of them are prominently spoken of.
The Italian cardinals outnumber all
others, and, in view of the peculiar rela
tions of the papacy and the kingdom of
Italy, it is conceded that the next pope
will be an Italian.
There is a curious lack of information
among non-Catholics on thi3 matter of
the relation of the pope to the local gov
ernment, and they often assume that
the conclave is not free to choose, or is
in’ some way unworthily influenced in
choosing, with any reference to the sit
uation of France, Germany, the United
States or other semi-Catholic or non-
Catholic countries. They forget the
many instances in Scripture where the
people were told to choose rulers accord
ing to their temporal needs, and God
then accepted their choice as the divinely
appointed, and that the pope is both
spiritual head of the church when he
speaks “ex cathedra” upon doctrine and
a temporal adviser in Christendom, as
free to decide upon policy as any ruler.
It may interest such people to know
that the first Catholio bishop in the
United States was really chosen by Ben
jamin Franklin, who would now be
spoken of as a deist. Father John Car-
roll and Franklin went to Montreal to
gether during the American Revolution
and became fast friends, so Franklin suc
cessfully urged the claims of Father Car-
roll to the first mitre sent to the United
States by the Holy See. By thi3 ex
tremely democratic feature in the Catho
lic church the
the last created
nuncio at Paris) is
lying point of the opposition to Cardinal
Parocchi, as Cardinal Rende is thought
to be a believer in the most pacific pol
icy.
On the death of a pope the cardinals
are at once summoned by one of the
Political s secretaries of the sacred college, and
within ten days after the death the bal
loting begins. A number of small rooms
or recesses open upon a corridor in full m. ,
view of alL In these rooms the cardi- ' varieties of memory are as re- ,
nals sit after their orders. A solemn “J? There is,.Tor l
mass of tho Holy Ghost is said to the '°" d '“ fto-
Vatican church, and thence the cardinals " s a esman, an a certain .
BO to procession to the conclave; the . £P"?' ““
, ,, j .. . .... , , tne same faculty In each. It is said of ;
halls and entire building are then closed „ , . \r.
to the outside world. There are a few , *? uhr that he remembered everything
to the outside worm, mere are a tew he had read at any period of his.iife; |
PEOPLE WHO NEVER FORGET AMD
SOME WHO COULDN’T REMEMBER.
Mezzofantl Was “A Walking Polyglot” and
Master of Languages—Curious Instances
of Memory In Sleep—Tho Impressions
an Average Brain Holds.
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attendants, of course, the arrangement and „ „ ui] ot [he r „ er<!nd d ^ tta ,
having a general analogy with these of forgo , Lo , Md been , Imtricd witbil) M
ls hour or two of the interesting event,
i John Wesley had a remarkable mera-
.... „ , . | „ . .. ory, and at 85, even, it was still vigor-
identity,” “credentials,” etc., do not - - - 6
other small electoral Ijodies. Food
served if necessary, but no written com
munications are received. The forms of
. . .. , _ : ,ous. Andrew Fuller could repeat a poem
differ materially from those of a senate. ; 0? five hundred linra afte / hearing it
The seats of the cardinals inside the rail- . read OQCe or twi could redte , jrba * im
ing are significantly decorated, and on
election all the canopies are lowered ex
Fntures.
January- February
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® a sermon or speech, and enumerate‘the j
Liverpool Market
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Sales 12, 00. 4 >
cept that of the newly created pope.
The balloting proceeds by each car-
j names of the shbp signs from the Temple
to the end of Cheapside, with a descrip
tion of the principal articles displayed
dinai’s advancing to the altar, praying a ln each sh window .
short time in silence, and repeating aloud i Before the davs Q f shorthand report-
in Latin this oath: ; it ' ing, “Memory Wood fall” used to attend
‘1 call to witness our Lord, who shall the house of .commons, and, after listen-
be my judge, that I am e.ectmg him j n g ^ a de b a te, would reproduce the
who, before God, I think ought to be ( whoIe without t^g a single note . The
elected. j same power was possessed by William
He then deposits his ballot in the re- ; Radcliffe, the husband of Mrs. Radcliffe,
ceptacle upon the altar. Two-thirds are t he novelist.
necessary to a choice, and there are rigid j Bot h Macaulay and Sir Walter Scott
rules for long intervals between the bal- ; had prodigious memories, yet neither of
lots. If any cardinal receives exactly a them could compare with Beronieious,
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two-thirds vote, his ballot is opened (they
are marked, but so folded as to be count
ed without exposing the voter’s name),
that it may be shown that he has not
voted for himself; for no cardinal can
cast a decisive vote in his own favor.
ENGLAND’S NEW WAR SHIPS.
The
Most
Armor Clad Victoria Is the
Powerful of the British Fleet.
The British are getting out war ships
notw Ithstanding the fact that they have
quite an effective navy already. One of
Brittailia’s late productioc 3 is the armoif
clad Victoria, the most powerfully
equipjied British war ship afloat. How
different her appearance from any of the
late cruisers built for the United St&tes!
With a very low hull and high built
amidships she resembles one of the steam
ers plying between New York and Al
bany on the North river. Those two ugly,
lean looking barkers that shoot out from
the turret in front weigh 110 tons each.
Those smaller noses projecting from the
openings on the side are five-ton guns.
There are box on each side of the vessel.
Aft on the upper deck there is a gun
weighing thirty tons.
choosing pov
may consider all
secular and
spiritual, politi
cal and civil rea
sons for choosing
any man, but
once chosen and
inducted he be
comes spiritually
supreme within
his functions.
Nor is it claimed
that tho choosing
powers are ex
empt from error, but it is believed that
they have a measure of divine guidance.
Much is said in France just now of the
uncompromising attitude of the quirinal
(meaning the Italian court) against the
papacy, and the extremists, Renan being
their chief spokesman, predict a speedy
removal of the pope from Rome; but as
that class of men have so predicted at
intervals for some 400 years, it need ex
cite no present concern. It should not
be forgotten that the pope is bishop of
Rome, as well as head of the church.
Pursuant to the democratic principle
above set forth, the election of a pope as
a purely business proceeding is conduct
ed with as scrupulous regard for fair
ness as that of any official in the world.
Each pope creates many cardinals, their
terms being usually short, as they are
generally old when appointed, and Leo
XIH has in eight years almost entirely
recreated che conclave, for of the fifty-
eight cardinals only sixteen were creat
ed by Pius IX. It should be added that
H. M. S. VICTORIA.
The Victoria is very large for a war |
of Middleburg, who knew by heart the
works of Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, Homer,
Aristophanes and the two Pilnya. If
this was an example of “rote” only we
have in Mezzofanti, the celebrated lin
guist of Bologna, one of the most strik
ing instances on record of what, by dis
tinction, we call intelligent memory. He
was described by Lord Byron as “a
walking polygot, a master of languages
and a Briareus of parts of speech.” At
the age of 50 ho was thoroughly versed
in fifty languages—perfect in pronuncia
tion, idiom, grammar and colloquialisms
—and before his death lie added twenty
or thirty more to the list. He used to
say himself that lie never forgot any
thing that he either heard or read.
It is recorded of La Fontaine, noted
for his absent-mindedness, that he once
attended the funeral of one of his most
intimate friends, and shortly afterward
called to visit that friend. ; When re
minded by the astonished servant of the
recent • death he was at first terribly
shocked, and then remarked, "True; of
course, I recollect now that I went to his
funeral.”
A curious instance of memory in sleep
is related by a Frenoh writer on dreams.
He says he once saw in a dream a num
ber of men passing out from a feast.
He observed them all very attentively,
and the face of one struck him so much
that he remembered it after waking.
Exercising his thoughts as to where he
had seen the face before he at
ollected having seen it some days
ously in a book of fashions, which he
had carelessly glanced at and cast aside.
Reichenbach, a German writer on
mental phenomena, says:
“Waking,* 1 cannot with whatever
' effort recall the features of my wife, who
died some twenty years ago; but if 1
think of her in a dream, and her image
Futures.
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Stock at all U. S.l’orts
, to
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063,634
352-33) ;
Athens Provision
ket.
The following pricelist isc
corrected daily, and every effoi
to secure the exact selling price ]
Apples: $3 to $4 per barrel. ’
Beeswax : 1234c.
Butter: Ordinary 15c: choi
best Jersy 25 to 30c.
Coal: Tennessee 5.50:Alak
Anthracite 8.00
shin. She is 340 feet long, 70 feet beam, j w represented. 1 get the same with such j
and draws 26 feet 9 inches. Her dis- i accuracy that 1 have again before me ,
placement when equipped is 10.500 tons. \ e 7, el 7 expression of her fine features in pound.
She has twin screws, each driven by j a L,V UHr ove ln , < \ H8 '
There are endless stories of the hiding
places of missing deeds, and so forth,
being revealed in dreams. Let us take
one as typical.
A landed proprietor in England was
involved in a lawsuit in consequence of
a claim upon his father’s estate, which
he was firmly convinced had been dis
charged. Judgment, however, was about
to go against him, as no voucher could
, part'll
and Mica 27c.
Cheese: Select cream
cream 12o.
xt ed Fruit: Apples sun 1
apple evaporated 8c; peaches 1
5c; peaches pealed 10c.
Eggs ; 15c per dozen.
Feathers: Priroe goose50c.
Field Seed : lied clover 7.<J0;|
thy 3.00; Blue grass 1,25; Bedn
Orchard grass 1.75; Lucerne2
triple expansion engines, collectively in
tended to develop a force of 12,000 indi- j
cated horse power, giving her a speed of |
16} knots. Her manipulation through- j
out is effected by hydraulic power.
COMMODORE FRANCIS M. RAMSAY, j
Ho Has Been Given Charge of tho Cultod
States Bureau of Navigation.
The promotion of Commodore Fran- j be found. But one night, in a dream, his
cis M. Ramsay, of the Brooklyn navy- • father appeared to him, aud said that the
yard, to be chief of the bureau of navi- ! papers relating to this affair had been
gation of the United States navy is a placed in the hands of a solicitor he had
proper reward for long and faithful not generally/ employed, but who hap-
service, and is an appointment highly : pened to be engaged for this particular
praised by New York men of all parties, j business. In the dream the father said
His career has been a peculiar one, as he that if this person had forgotten a matter
was made midshipman just thirty-nine which was already rather old he would
years and a few days before his recent be reminded of it by the mention of a
promotion, and during all that time has Portuguese gold coin, concerning the
been in the naval service of the United value of which there was a dispute at the
States. | time. The dream was curiously verified,
Francis Ramsay was born near Wash- ' as tho solicitor only did recollect the cir-
ington, April 6, 1835, and was appointed cumstance on mention of the gold coin,
midshipman from Pennsylvania, Oct. 5, He was then able to produce the missing
1850. He served
first in the frigate
St. Lawrence, Pa-
c i fi c squadron,
and was promot
ed to passed mid
shipman in June,
1856. Qe was
then assigned to
the Brazil squad
ron, and after
wards to the frig
ate Merrimac.
Rising rapidly FRANdS M. RAMSAY, i
rank after the civil war began, he was
finally made lieutenant commander,
July 16, 1862, and given command of ley of the shadow,
the ironclad Choctaw of tho Mississippi
squadron. As such he took part in the
engagements at Haines Bluff, Yazoo
i papers, and the eon gained the suit after
alL
Both Plato and Aristotle have noted
that in old age the recollections of child
hood are renewed; and it is recorded of
Kant that, in his old age, when general
memory was decayed and Infirm, he had
vivid recollections of his youth. .
Most of us, probably, have witnessed
some affecting instance of an aged per
son living in the scenes of the long past,
with a mind almost blank to the present.
This is latent memory reawakened, but
with powers of consciousness limited by
an enfeebled brain.
Even at the very entrance of the “val-
the memory plays
Fruits : Oranges 4.75 @ 3.00 per |
lemons G.OO @ 7.00 per crate; B
1.75 @ 2.00 per bunch; grapes
pound.
Flour: Full patent 5.30;
fancy 5.00; extra family 4.25.
Foreign Dried Fruas:Our
raisins 3.10 @ 3.75 per box;
8c. *
Hominy and Grits: 3.25.
Hay: Choice Timothy lS.SOp
country 50 @ 75c per hundred;!
son’s hay 1.00 per hundred. I
Hardware: Iron 2>jc; fteej
nails 2.35; axes 5.50 @ 7.09; bor
mule shoes 4.00 @ 6.00; paiutedb
1.35 sheet 1.25.
Hides : Green 3 @ 3j£c;
6c.
Lime and Plaster : limel.Wp
rel; plaster 3.00.
Molasses and Syrup:'
@ 40c! sugar syrup 40c;
Mill offal brand: olft
Nuts: Assorted varieties
Oils : Kerrosene L> ®
30c; lard oil 1.00; ncatsfoot
seed oil 75c.
Paints : White lead 7c. ,
Poultry : Hens 2oc;
@ 18c; geese 40 @ 50c; « u ®
Provisions: Hams canv
16c; clear ribbed sides Re
sides 6)4e; prime steam Dra x
Rice:
Sugar:
Salt:
per dozen boxes.
Tallcw : 6c per pound.
Vegetables: NewInshPJl
per bushel; onions 90c p*r ,
bage 2%e per pound, s
50c per bushel.
Per sack 68c; table •
strange tricks. Goethe told Eckermann
that no once knew an old man who in
hia very last moments began to recite
City, Liverpool Landing and Milliten'a I sentences. Those,ho had
Bend, and to the siege of Vioksbius. j }gS3S8fci8S«£: & "
From that till late in 1864 he took part
in many minor engagements with field
special purpose, but for fifty years
had not uttered them. They were there
in his memory, though, all tne same, and
batteries and guerrillas on the Black and j some unexplainable cerebral action sud-
Ouachita rivers.
. In 1864-65 he was in command of the
gunboat Unadilla of the North Atlantic
squadron, and was in the engagements
at Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson and other
places on the Carolina coast. When tha
war closed he was put in charge of tho I
denly gave them form and expression.
It 13 computed by scientists that, since
! one-third of a second suffices to produce
| an “impression,” in 100 years a man
must have collected in his* brain 9,467,-
l 280,000 copies of impressions; or, if we
| take off one-third of the time for sleep,
6,311,520,000. This would give 3,loo,-
department of gunnery at the Naval j 760,000 separate waking impressions to
academy. July 25, 1866, he was pro- I the man who lives to the age of 50 years,
moted to commander and again sent on
cruising service, and so continued for
the most part till made commodore,
when, last February, he was put in
charge of the Brooklyn navy yard to
succeed Rear Admiral Bancroft Gher-
ardi. .
yei
Allowing a weight of four pounds to the
brain, and deducting one-fourth for
blood and vessels and another fourth for
external integument, it is further com
puted that eachgrain of brain substance
must contain 205,542 traces or impres
sions—All the Year Round.
ORDER TO peB J E< ^
TT aSpI^R^G *°westaW<(®
IthaSheriff, in theabo'® stst^
defendant does not reside^*,
it further apP® ar Sf,lfoi« o« !cre
this State: It is theretoi
that service be perfe{ :te “ der one* .
the publication oftlusoia wna oj
fourmonths,
in the Athens Bann^ Lj. ; ^
in Clarke County. Georg'*- petiuo
v. L. Hutchins,
Judge
£33isSM&
the minutes of
Nov. 12,1880.
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