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and periodicals. Th°y take subscriptions for every
newspaper and periodical published.
Great bargains mi pock t and bill books, ladies’ and misses shopping bags, etc
They keep on h<n l a large slock of marbles, tops, balls, bats, school satchels, Inc k
straps, slates, pencils, ink, paper, b ><>ks, etc.
All orders by mail promptly attended to. Address,
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When you want Insurance in L rst-class companies and at adequ ate rates call on
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McCormick II rvesting Machine (’ npany, of Chicago, w hoses mac tones for durability
and excellence cannot be surpa-~ and. I have the exclusive right for the sale of the
ustly popular Glenn Mary Coil, and will always keep on hand a full supply during
ha coming fall and whiter.
Feeling very much one mr <g- and on account of your past patronage and soliciting
a continuance of the same, with a s- 11 greater increase, I am
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About twenty years sgn lu■ •• fed ft little sore on ray cheek, and the dottneprs-’
notmcea it cancer I have tried ber of physicians, out without receiving any perma
nent benefit. Among the numbe r v ; one or two specialists. The medicine tney applied
was ,Ui ® firu to the sore, causin'- i-t " ram. I caw a statement m the papers telling what
S. S. had done for others :i„. , ■ micted I procured some at. once Befc re t had used
the second bottle the rwU’hbn'- ■, notice that, my canc r was healing up. My general
health had been baa for two or ears—l hau a hacking conga ana ay it Wood contin
ually. I lied a severe pun ui r.r l . ;t> After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left
me I grew stouter than I had for several years. A;, cancer has healed over all but
a little spot about tlte size of a ! me, and it is rapid* di.-appearing. I would advise
every one with cancer to give S. a fasr tri ..,
Feb id 18WS. i?IM ' NA ' NrY '* Grove, T;;;pCanOeCo., I* and.
. . Swift’s Specific i< entirely •• ■, and , ~, f r^n „ ont the i| pn
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1886.
OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.)
COUNT DE LAVALETTE’S ESCAFE
FROM MARSHAL NEY’S FATE.
Racalled by the recent death of his Daugh
ter—How tho Brave Girl Conducted
Hor Father to Safety While the
Mother Stayed m Prison.
Paris, October ‘27.—The presence < f
Col. Nev in the United States as i: dele
gate from France, on the.occasion of the
dedication of the statue of libeity, lends
an added interest to the death of the
B noness tie Fuyet, which occured a
1 few days ago in thii city. When Col.
Jiey'a graadfither, Marshal Ney, ‘the
bravest of the baye,’ was shot iu T 5 with
i his c nnrads, for having given his allegi
,-ta2e to N ipoleo’.i, after the latter’s re
{U'-rr from the Island of Elba, the only
one win • escaped was the C >uut da La
vallettcr,- Either of the late baroness.
The bai.-me >s, who was a daughter of
Enilie de Beau liar main, niece of the
Empress J asep.'unc, was at that time
twelve year of age. liie t ither, who so
narrowly escaped de. t b wa3 prefect of
of the Itude in 1832, a/d was drowned
while fording the river All. QL i u 1886.
Horace Vercat, in his picture of
“i’Evasiou de la Couciergene* has im
mortalized the scene ii which 4 1( e late
baroness plave l so conspicinous a
(Ju the 20" h of November, 1875, Cous*
and . jfjivallette was condemned to death
by Tie jury of the Seine, and was to be
o cectr.ted’the following day for ids alle
g mcop .to Napoleon.
His wi/e, accompanied by lev little
and ilighter - , .the late Hu'cUtess, and a l iith
ful old femm odo chimbre, came to the
conciergerie at 3:30 p. m. aud asked per
mission of.the ia. lev to diue in the prison
with her husband before his execution.
Ciie jailer, who was ate oder-hear‘ed
man, assented, when the child begged tc
spend a last hour svitu her father. At
7 o’clock the child aud the old femme
de ciiamUio appeared at the prison gate
ad asked ihe jailer to let them pass.
Leaning on the arm of each was Mine,
de Lavallette, her face hidden in her
handkerchief. '‘.'lre child, who was cry
ing bitterly, kept the attention of the
jailer diverted from lu'v motuer. All the
employes ot the prison vero present and
saw the two women and the child leave.
Their “identity” was e.s Sttbhshed and
written iu the jail register.
A few minutes later the* concierge
entered the coll of Count de jL&sraiiette
jpid found there the condemn Ml man’s
ivdc pressed in her husband’s
“Ah' m • he exclaimed. ““I aa>
lost!” Midam e badjored him t<*
while to gain time, Uer <lau ' g j\ ter
was leading her lit/* 0 l ' i! \ * (> Sa . */* *
The concierge, on realiz
spread the news, and in a tew mometJ s
the gendarmes wore iu fui ' chae a tor
Count de Liveliette. But
accompanied by his little dough i * jV ’
m muted a c ibriolet and was ga. to. png
towards the Belgian frontier. .liter
hair-breadth escipes he reached Belgian j
territory next day. His s d'e arrival 'u
Belgium, he always said, was due to the- i
presence of mind oi his little 12-year-old '
daughter, tiie late Baroness.
When King Louis vVIIf, newly re
stored to the thrown and tilled with hate !
towards the Bouapartisfs, heard of the
Gout’s escape he remarked vo the Dub ;
de Dec zes, h's i,re:ect < f pol. ee: “IMme, ;
de Liveliette and her little daughter ;
uuvo only done their duty.” And after n
pause ho added: ‘‘But the Ciiaimber of
Deputies will say it was me who did it.”
Mine, de Luvallette, her daughter and
the femme de clmmbro were broitgbt to
trial aud wore and f moled by the th eu fa
mous 'lawyer, M. Dupiu. A curious feature
of the trial was that the three were ae
qm.lid by the sum jury that, had con
demed Cm it de Lava lette to the death
a couple < f days before.
The late liuronness kept Horace Ver
u et’s picture ( f the “Escape” in a con -
a; Re nous part-f her salon, Not 59 Rue
L i Jlocbefoucauid ia 1 many years. Op
posite was a splendid picture of the Em
press Josephine and her two children,
Prince Eugene and Queen Horteuse,
mother *•£ Napoleon 111. Among the
other ornaments of the salon w ere a white
marble bust of Napoleon used at the bat
tle of Austerlilz when directing his le
gions; the sabre of Mourad Bey., pre
sented by 1 iio then General Bonaparte
to his aid-de-camp, Count de Lavaih-tte,
on tiie evening of the day of battle of Tie
Pyramids.
Mme. de L tv.die to, mother of stbe
late Baroness, died in 1850, iu the same
mansion where her daughter died the
other day. The episode of her husband’s
escape haunted her all her life, anti a few
moments before her death she r< se from
her pillow and. addressing her daughter,
shrieked: “Quick! quick! I cannot,
detain the jni er mucli longer! ’ The
B ironoss de Foyet, though dtv.iys pain
fully mindful of the daring episode,
could never more be induced to talk
about it.
When Xopole -u Ilf came to the throne
he did not forget his cousins, the L
vallettes, but Mme. Je Livallette would
receive uo favors from him and would
have nothing to do wi h him. She never
even vis ted the Tuileries. When she
died N ipoleoa Iff. sent his aids-de-camp,
in fall u tiform, to represent him at the
funeral, f>r which tlie late 11 iron ess de
; Foyet simply relumed a formal note of
! thanks. The Baroness held a couspicu
-1 otvs place among the aristocracy of Paris,
! but was always noted for her aversion
j to luxurious di play. She was much no-
J ted for her wit, amiability and charity,
i and her iiuowleigo of politics brought
many politicians >f all parties to her sa
lon eu reception da^s.
A PETITION
From the Woman's Christian T’c-uif eranc
Union ortho state of Georgia.
To the Honerable Senators and Members
of the House of Representatives iu Gen
eral Assembly met:
Gentlemen —At the last meeting of the
State Convention of the Woman’s Christ
ian Temperance Union, which was held
in the city of Macon, Ga., during the
month of April of the present yeir, the
following resolution was utianim uslv
adopted:
“Resolved, That the Oman’s Christian
Temperance Union of Georgia, in - ss:cn
assembled,respectfully request the each
local Union shall memorialize the next
Georgia Legislature in behalf of the
woman and juvenile criminals confined
in our jails and chain-gangs, that they be
separated from the older and more haid
ened criminals in the State. \Y e leave
the remedy for their consideration and
good judgement, and especially insbt that
it shall cot be mingled with political
platforms or used for political < tfect.
We reserve to ourselyes ti.e priviuge of
indicating reforms in everything pertain
ing to the welfare of our race, and we
ask the careful, prayerful conside ation
of a matter so vital to our humanity,
Christianity and civilization.”
It is unnecessary to consume time in
pleading for the need of this change in
our convict system. Nobody disputes
the admitted Tacts in the case. It is cruel
to chain young offenders to adults In
crime and it is barbarous to confine wo-
in the same prison-pens with a horde
of desperate ruffians who respect nothing
under Heaven, and who only follow the
leadings of beastly proclivities in such
dens of vice. The last published report,
dated Oct. 20th, 1384, shows the ab solute
demand for a change of m (hods, f r the
female conyicts are as helpless with the
gjard.s or overseers as with tho men who
wear Ac chain. Read the report and ask
yyes whether this old r- lanon
wealth can tol' ra!e a system iu which
such atrocities are possible.
Georgia has been a J&ggard i n this
woTk. The session of the Ib ison Con
gress, so lately held in the city 0* T n^a
evinced progress and philanthropy * n fl l‘
but ten States, of the Union. Of that Pdm
ber all wure Souihern Klavas but 0.-c. • ,
Georgia is the lawful gpavii n of
nearly sixteen hundred criminal.-. She
cannot shirk her responsinility. vhe
world holds the State responsible. The ;
lessees have only a money inter t in
the convicts. So long in a toiwu; ia
strong, able bodied and Willing, he i too
valuable to be punish ed for crime. ■ hen
I lie is weak, sickly anc. 1 worthless, li may
j escape, or die under dhe lash, n'lio ob
-1 ject of all penal servitude is therefore
defeated.
The present system is .a servitude, h
PLofAs a fraud on the taxpayers, hose.
lreSfT>ks(t burdens grow o tit dti n \ pense
!of eourte,/juries and Jail Jees. i . :ce is
defeated, beegu&a there is iuf puni -.rent
! for crime. Kefoi gotion is air im] Ani
lity, because tue prison c o.iraetor
bought the body and -not the sc u i Ibe
violator of the law, aml,;tCa*d the k. to has
‘ deluded itself win 1 the belief tha a pit
t , ' > oe oi hire was c-uough for the worn ol
*" , v dy—with the immortal eou' ‘own
the 10l J t
in as too
arc allowed , ters as '
avarice may si. fc
But the time' A V eo *** *' <*gi&
must wake up or be . 4 '‘d'- u^~
lie opinion will force n '•
abuses of the Georgia lea.- q L’-' 1 are
becoming national, for it has tio
abroad and but few at home, p;V *dc ,q,f
lessee influence. For fiJiteen yW: -
shown itself a cankero'tis sore ;T1 -i l6
body politic. Every ihegisuitue has
seen it poulticed and plastered to h le
deformity, and it lias been snr>rtT At
with powerful influences and lobby
money; but it. grows more an more
distasteful year by year.
Extirpation will be tho only o. Active
remedy, and the Legislature shorn seize
it with a strong hand and an outsb ‘tcln-d
arm, and wipe off the si -.ln 1 u her
honor.
When the Yazoo sv indlers pri" .vied in
Georgia , there were similar agen in em
ployed to perpet late wrong-dt i , but
a Georgia LegLi dura was equal > the
State’s extremity, aj-.d the fr.'.ululent
grants w r tre demolished in asiui'.l -ion.
And their is in your Illustrious b j the
same philanthropic, patriotic p tincts
which overturned the Yazoo fraud in the
year 1790. Georgia had noble sires; she
has also noble sons.
For heinousness of inst ption and Laiit
ful results for evil, the ].resent 1 . * s}'-
tem will compare very favorably w li the
Yazoo swindle. There can be no apology
fora system which places tiie Lvh and
the musket in irresponsible hands, vhich
substitutes vicious criminals for guards,
which chains to ether all grades of con
victs, which has neith r meniy for child
hood nor prot ction for tho sex ot
females, where no elevating te> encies
are encouraged, where no refor .atory
influences are allowed, and where orutal
instincts arc given tail play, w vided
the work of a brute be puiuima..
The condition of affairs was : it the
natural sequenc of the lease a f vhich
become a law in February, 1876. That
measure was intended to be hunur e. In
section 3, itw'as made the dub of the
Governor to require the establLh.; nt of
a centennial penitentiary with .table,
permanent enclosures and stool Ts on
an island, or o' uer satisfactory cation
if an island coni not be obtained ( ‘om
fortable buildin s, a m ideut sician
and chaplain, ,hr-e sal-:ric3 t State
expected to pay, we*e to be also,
anl in thiaccn'nl camp the very young’ j
the very old, the women and the sickly
convicts were to be confined at such labor j
as suited age, sex, health and strength. ;
The able-bodied, stalwart criminals were j
to be assorted b\' the physician and kept j
iu mines, canals, brick yards and on
railroads at hard work. Reformatory in
fluences were to be inforeed by the
chaplain, with Bibles, tracts, etc., the
Governor to exact the fulfilling of the
law.
It was the pervation of the lease act — j
the substitution of another scheme—that
became the parent of such a fruitful off
spring of abuses. Three promiscuous camps
were authorized by Executive order, and
no explanation given except “impractica
bility.” Unless impracticability to the
lessees, it was evidently not impractica
ble to the State. Fr< m the sturt the whole
authority and power of State officials Ins
appeared to be enlisted in behalf of the
essees and against the financial and moral
interests of the tax-payers of Georgia.
Unless an “Executive order” ranks higher
than the law-making department of the
government, there is an opportunity for
relief, and an open door through which
the State of Georgia can recall to her own
control these unfortunate criminals, to be
punished and protected by no lower
authority than the State itself.
The State may barter away their work
for sl6 per capita per annum, but she is
unable to trade off her interests in either
their health or their morals; and the Wo
man’s Christian Temperance Union
makes an earnest appeal to the State Legis- j
lature for a legal provision or amend- j
anent to the bona fide lease act, by which ;
the 137 little boys now in prison camps j
may be screened from association with
vetron convicts, and the women convicts
protected alike from villians on the chain
and villainous guards with the lash in
their bands.
If from some far-away heathen land the
report should come that a legalized
“Black Hole of Calcutta” was the method ■
of dispatching the enemies or criminals of j
that country —whose iron doors* were j
clamped on a struggling mass of men, :
women and children —where virtue had !
no ray of hope, and sickening filth lay j
deep on dead aud dying humanity— ho w :
our hearts would respond to a call for help
and succor! How Christendom would
thrill with appeals for money and men!
Yet, here iu Georgia, the Empire State
of the South, the foremost star in tbe
brilliant Southern crown, the birth-place
of meg whose names will never die in the
annals of ike good and great, here, in our
midst, we find a “Black Hole,” establish
ed for twenty year* in which there
enters no gleam of hope, every court
thrusting in fresh victims, where hard
ened brutes know no terrors of the law,
- gave the lessees’ frown, where children are
trained, tutored and graduated in sin,
com’ u S out ever and anon, to ply their |
trade in crime, from petty pilferers, ad- j
vaucing to expert thieves, burglars, ?*
pists and where desperate,
hardened women, under t!ie lash an ■
lu*f of vicious guards, g r ow into demons
of lt fiercest grate, where inlanio are
born op the chain, and the toiTUO nM ot
the loft ,osig raffed into innocent fiouls,
all by the .neglect, the indifference and
the apathy of the fepjysentativis of
Georgia, whose duty it is to protect thu
lives and property of the honest .citizens
of the State from violators of law,
*ustead of repressing crime, we propa
'l . ' Instead of punishing cnqup.tls
gate it. t oetter) we stimulate them
to make L.. '^{ u y and blackey <seqds of
to expert yiln. u lfe with cou
sin. W e begun t gip safely prom.
\icts to hire. Wc no prison-pens
ise the slave-owners of. , v .. un n
1600 and upward if coi. * n •>[
1899. For all this shame, this n v
duty, this cruel abandonment of ht._ y
wretched, sin-cursed human beings, v>c
receive yearly about 13,000 as hire, per-'
p aps not so much, after all the keepers, ;
pin 'aiciana and chaplains are paid, ami j
other expenses are settled out of £he
State’s pittance of money.
TennessOCv w’itii 1,800 co.vvict?,
SIOI,OOO as re uta!* North Carolin'* meet3
all her with the hire of life * c< n *
victs. Putting tsidc other considerati. ' U:>
both States majee the State pay so much
hard cash in roturrr for their compromise
for wrong-doing and neglect of duty.
Poor Georgia, let'.n in purse and beset
by sharpers, finds herself, not only swin -
died in the trade, but minus either money
or reputation. She gets no more for 1,600
than for 900, nor will her profits increase
a dollar if the number runs up to 3,000,
.
but more keepers, more physicians, more
expense and greater loss will be inevi
table to the tax payers, while the gig mic
monopoly will increase in strength until
it will dominate every .’material and po
litical Interest in the State, if we have not
already reached that unhappy crisis.
To snrn up the glaring evils of the lease
system—*ts injustice, Itsoutpour of expert
villians, its infection snd its hideous,
degration of women and childpen-= would
require the genius and skill of Georgia’s
ablest intellects, but the remedy is simple
whenever Georgia’s repress Natives resolve
to restore to the State her righthd author
ity. There was no difficulty in settling .
the \uzoo fraud when the resolve 1
taken. “Vested rights’ geared nobody, ,
but “vested wrongs” cried aloud and the .
call was answered. Speed the day when
the. Christian churches shall thunder
against this abomination of desolation, and
welcome the hour when a Georgia L ads
lature shall rebuke the money-changers*
and restore to humanity its “vest.-ihg
rights and to the State her lawful rsf r
nueg. "With great respect,
Mk*. W. H. rs****' 1
SWINGS BV 808 INGEKSOLL.
JE (tract* From au Addrvss Made lit Him in
Nw York Sunday Evening.
From the New York Sun. November 13.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoli talked
hoarsely and interestingly to about a
thousand well-dressed men and women
at Chicker'iDg hall for about a. i hour lust
night. The laughter and applause were
pretty nearly continuous. Among other
things he said were these:
If nobody has too much everybody will
have enough.
I would like to see this world so that a
man could die and not feel that he had
left his wife and children a pray to the
gretd or avarice or necessities of mankind.
There is something wrong in the system
when idleness is burdened with wealth
and industry with famine.
Get out of your minds that old nonsense
about man’s free moral agency. A man
is no more responsible for his character
than for bis height, or for his acts than
for his dreams. Then you will have
charity for the whole human race.
Wealth is not a crime, nor is poverty
a virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good—human hap
piness.
To do right 13 the bud, blossom aid
fruit of wisdom.
No perfectly civilize! man could be
happy while there was an unhappy being
in the universe that he knew.
The poor imagine that the rich live in
Paradise. I know that the most of them
live in a gilded bell.
No man has the genius or the brain to
own $5,000,000. The money owns him.
Fie is the key to a safe. Yet these men
go on accumulating. It is a sort of in
sanity. Imagine a man—a good, intelli
gent man—with 2,000,000 coats [laughter]
6,000,000 or 8,000,000 hats [cheers] a
billion neckties [laughter and cheers].
Then get up at 4:30 o’clock in the morn
iug and work hard all day to mans'
another necktie. | Prolonged applause.]
Great wealth is the mother of crime.
The gull i3 growing wide between
Lazarus nd Divise, only the two have
changed places—Divise is in Abraham’s
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contempt for
the poor; the poor envy and hatred for
the rich. There mast be some way for
the loving poor and the sympathetic rich
to get acquainted. If there is anything
t. nt should bring mankind together it is
a common belied, but iu this Christian
country th -re is no welcome in the velvet
for the rags. I would think much of any
religion th at would allow the rich and
the poor to clasp hands, if only f-.-r one
instant Oi.ee a week.
All m n are not capable of getting a
living now. Some are not cunning
a-, .ugh, not strong enough, not stingy
enough.
M " of machines have been invent
e 1 to shso labor, but the labor does not
own tin- uivhine. The machine owns
the lab r.
N. mil should be allowed to own any
land th: i ->e does not use; but I would not
take m • hof land from any one with
out payb ..; for it.
If it w ; c possible to bottle the air there
would b- a great American air bottling
as?oci>di. before sundown to-morrow,
nd milk.' .3 would be allowed to die for
the want >f breath if they were unable to
pay the monthly air bills.
I won: * not only seehome3 made free
froty u merit for debt but free from taxa
tion<*(. Then we would have a nation
uf tir- sd- fcn-f .5- nation of patriots.
The”' something about money that
dries n o ifectiong. I suppose that, one
1 .reason tor it is that %e *somegt a maul
1 ;Qts any money there are so many trying
To fc -t it ;• way from him that he thinks
the wiv'i rape are his enemies.
I don’t blame fpg rich, mind you; they
nrc the natural product q{ tiie system.
Blame me system. ,
'"he tirs t great remedy is the ballot.
'*-■ r re in the majority. If the law
i\ p%. l mm it is ther fault. Tney
opnr a -i- ‘h“ fife and drum of some
have toll Orf?d -nld go with a party
party. No ms-U. sh, t r_
unless i ! going hjs W;, , ver W ant to
A cuvibzed man will Tit, -ortli, nor
sell a thing for more thfn jt is>.. than
-;iU be w at to buy anything far K
•• 1* it is worth,
Look rnr f'bi'dren of .tike -non. - -
God! wU " a rosing
neopj. -v> 11 staxid oppression to a eetUin
point, and file t?m* (r/l ‘ 1
- - -MN. -Tilth.
CHllfrTfcß ALLAN a,.
F. r ‘ {i - Atlanta Constio tion,
On a- Sunday afternoon in Jan
uary 1*8.5 it v^ 3 !*)}’ privilege to visit tfi.
White H use a Southern senator
who w s me ol the most intimate friends
of Preside-it Arthur. We were received
in the President's private parlor and re
mained there two hours. The president
and the senator conversed freely" on a
number of public questions, especially
the condition and prospects of the South
I remnmb r distinctly the earnest inteest
with whicu the president inquired con
cern;ngt- c social and political problems
ot t. is s-ction; and then how kind s v he
spoke of Is people and how hopeful were
hi< view* of their future. It woo a sub
ject ot fr quent remark during j\fr Ar
tlnir’s a 1 ministration that his favorite
compansx.iS and his most intimate fiends
were -on hern gentlemen. IWn -• verhe !
r gM from the nrw of„ffice
thev now Invariably araang Hie f ow in
viii< aaa swtao shared lih hours of rest
at. r-nt merit. I suppose that the three )
m-tr v,-ti. aw most of him socially our i
in? *;s '-sidenoy were Senators fliit'er /
of youth urolina, Vest, of am
, fail; on if North Ciroiina. Tiiey *
, ail Ti i p Southerner*, though
ferent r :n each oth-r in *h m ifie Jeatst
respect. Not one of „ president,
ro Iricrii yuipatYacTose them as his
and the A ths* ji^ da w . fl9 ouo of the
w .1... 'p’bis liberal nature A man
j
, uc* ,be fraud north or south. A
■ v utler and more genial disposi
tion T ' eldom found anywhere. His
kindly f lings toward the south wero a!
the mvit appreciated by those who knew
NUMBER h)
mm,because they were never paraded in
his public utterances. Tie was a partis.-tu
win honestly believed that in the su<v< -a
of his party lay the best interests of all
sections, and be gave little official recog
nition to those of the opposite political
faith. But he was too honest and x
sincere to bid tor popularity by cheap and
empty flattery. There is a species of th *
genus politician, north and south, wbod.-
lights in extravagant gush and magnaa
mous protestations when his heart is
warmed with social influences, and who
relapses into narrow and vindictive sec
tionalism as soon as the champagne h s
evaporated. Mr. Arthur whs a higher
style of man, £ truer, though l< ss demon
strative friend, a manlier and more t fiVe
tive opponent. Ue was the first pr. i
dent since the war who, in his uvssa
to Congress,made no distinct allu.-ion to
the south. He regarded the union as
fully restored, and recognized no s ■-
tional divisions. llis whole life w 3
marked by an honest conservatism and ; ;i
unpretentious devotion to principle. lie
h (l been for years the be.-t organ iz< r f
ins party in New \ork, vhen he was
nominated for vice-president, and the
modesty which had kept his importance
obscure from the pubbe eye was main
tained during a heated campiign in
which others had made the fuss and
claimed the glory, while he did the roil
and effective work. The popular im
pression that Garfield pulled the ticket
through was never shaded by those who
knew the facts of that remarkable cam
paign. It was Chester Arthur’s p it' t,
knowledge oj New York politics and
•tis great personal popularity which car
ried the pivotal state and defeated Han
cock. Yet nobody ever heard him claim
the honor of the victory.
A man of less steady mental balance
and of less fixed moral purpose, would
iitve failed miserably under the f* .trial
stress which he endured on his accid 'lllll
promotion to the presidency. How he
sustained himself officially and personally
is a matter of history The presidency
was as fatal to him as it was to G irfield.
1 The arduous duties of the office wen; dis
charged by him with a patient and un
flagging deyotion which completely un
dermined his constitution. For years
before he had led a life of comparative
leisure in the enjoy arm t of those ameni
ties of life which a considerable private
fortune, had afforded him The sudd n ;>
sumption of the heavy harness was too
much for him, and before he laid it off i •
1 himself perceived that ttie strain had bi on
j too great; When be delivered to his ue
.lessor the high office he had so faithfully
tilled he looked twettty years older than
when he appe-.r and four years before as he
took the chair in the Senate. The hand
of death was already on him and he re
alized it. Our public men rapidly rise
and are"soon forgotten, but there was
much in this man's life and character
worthy of grateful remembrance. We
have had few presidents whose public
career was more holiest or more honor
able; few whose private life ■’ ar
closer scrutiny, F. H. R.
TOO MAM MISTKIAL3.
Uemark* of Judge Tan on 1 5 -
u Jury.
Coimuutlon.
Judge Yaa Epps *. > disc 1 urging the
jury in the case of Moore vs. her yes
terday, which nad been kept out ail
plight' said; *‘Before diaouaigh.g t e
jury I want to make a word of explana
tion. I desire 10 say to the jury that
they have be* u . pi together for *0 long
a period after uintuie Cumcdmadoa.
Tiie practice of janes failing io a, a
upon r verdict aid forcing the court to
iwurd a mistrial and to older anew near
ing, is growing to an niurmin b extent.
Juries lti too many insia cos seem to
forget the purp.,: ua u which they ur.o
been selected and empanelled in a cause.
JL’ucy are charged with a ease, not f 1*
die purpose of disagreement, but to
I igree upon a verdict. Alter muon cm
; .-adoration I determined tuat th.- jury
ought to have held together, and ail ad- l
every apportunity to adjust tlrnir eilh r
euces and to aeCv>mplish the lesult i r
which they were brought togelh.n'm ike
! jury box. This ese involves at toe v ry
! most three hundred dollars. It has b i
three times tried, and I make no quc 3 -
tiou, it Lots cost the county frota ... o
nundred to live bundled dollars; .. and t
tlie issues are simple u.*d tiie loots are
,t no speClcd aiiiieuity. X. > auunf li to
oe misuied it id again entail up > i tho
public and the ptri es too ex. I so of
villi another tnai seems a misiuiin o jy
tog close on u 6 om'der-lauu oi calamity,
\Vaen a case has once beau patieuii / e:c
iniuied as to u facts, a.d ..n i>. " fuUy
and faithfully .-Hivered to tiie jury, m is
tue duty of tlie.tto to, i* p ip. o
apou a verdict and to toe iiix if
litigants, and the depletion of the county
t easury by repeale t trials, i cant... v
a cose where one or two jurors ui. /
.tiller with t .eir fell >ws, ad nimu.vl
stand iirniiy to then* convictions to tue
last, but it is re yv the case iif ;t ivil
’si that such an uuoompi*oaii>i . g
O . JU t in a trilling minority of the jar, is
■uytkulft more than pugnacity of dog
minsuir Another case iieie lias no. ,
tavoivjag aboUl i haudrea uouar.., (k.-
1 feciiy Af Ob ini VW" i icts v was m .si.- i
[ ov .in iutelhge-t J-Ity aru anew uul
l d-dcied. Indeed mtbtnais are too lie
->t. Tuat e.se had already la i
•*•4. and will now c st tue coumy
| qat ulaiutiff ciaiuis m t ie ati
tned otic 'naif win ill\e ..1..0
more than tn, 'ouasel. Silica a
‘ion, and the :u a of
left after he piy/hi-s w
E iUt o i' Uy b^
t Justice. It couJU uut otherwise i
~ but that twelve men whole '
e -’-e.l to a muss of tes-im ouy "sq"
dia “ ,ent .1
f when fir*' at
‘beva-T ,0r °J tue * a *y :t
, l !! ' a ,Loi ' J tor the purnu?e H
•U-ltlOU auu i.'armoaiJuh liH-u •
as Vlell as jure;*; a-e -
beers and the. mn-c * P** {3 ' jau !
a dooiaioa not niih<>n *** 1
they readily fniimv tii Ji^ il ‘ i;: •*
lX T'* ■ UV iSht^be
'Jt “r"'
a,id rTeir dtiferinq w. i
men. Ul,ii , . r 1
• ••* h
fftei ip I, there i 0 at lea.-d a t i
j pi’CSUUipflO l- O.t Uie PI” S-J.y J.J v.. /
Luid th .. the ad of tho ~.jJ ilL>) Ls tfiS
rood of justice. If there is G-. ;it y
concession ia the jur, room , u .e t n. ..
aro that, there will be no r
proportion ns juii '- fan * lo a-rce tK '
tem of jury uLls i* i etfhue 1
obstrue ive iv, ..or than prom ;r-y. '• f V ,
emse of rig • ..ml justice. Lei „ iJ
<iini bo ix tViir Cm, the jur v i ! >c’* i'
*- ,f °. '*nil I have VU U u i iu*
touustl as a r. iit utiouof this jurv . r v.v
otuor, but o. iy to cmj.h;t!=-e the t jl f
mistiiaii m case.”