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THE COURANT. Every Thursday, UARTKRSVILLE, GEORGIA. ■Dcial Organ Bartow County. Hoiirunt I*(illisliingr Company. ■ THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1880. H Savannah is being turned inside out week. fl I’mk condition of ex-President Arthur H reported as decidedly improved. - ■■—-■—• • - ■— I I’m: decrease in tlie public debt during Hpril amounted to about sll,->OO,OOO. ■ ♦ ♦ 9 Tiik fool-killer is sadly needed at Al ■any, X. V. An ovation would no doubt He tendered him and an engagement that Hon Id last several days. ♦ -♦* ♦ ■ run mint julep in Atlanta will hardly blossomed out in lull tins season ere Ho prohibition scythe will have leveled ■he festive plant to the ground. ■ ♦ ♦ * ■ Ax Atlanta correspondent says that ■‘Dr. Felton is up to something.” Well, ■\ e should smile. A visit to his well ■nanaged farm would convince any one II iat the Doctor is “up to snuff” in igrieultural matters. The Savannah Nevis is covering itself ivitli glory this week, This solid old )aper does not make much blow but it lias a happy knack of getting there all he same. It is one of the most readable ind solidest papers in the South. Thk Georgia press met in Macon last Thursday' and went through the usual routine ot business. A trip was had to Atlanta and Savannah, and it will take a solid month for the boys to settle down to their normal condition and to solid work. The pandemonium in the Kimball house arcade Saturday afternoon was a most disgraceful affair. Whisky seemed to be on top and was knocking things out generally. Such behavior on the part of friends do not help any cause however worthy. The lien Ilill statute just unveiled in Atlanta is remarkably life-like, but it takes a personal inspection to convince one of the fact. The horrible produc tions of some of the papers make the Georgian appear as if he was undergo ing the scalpel of the dissecting room. The New York World advertises for bids to supply it with SOOO,OOO worth ot print paper during the year. With that much money it is hard to tell what in the world l’ulitzer wants with a newspaper. It is exceedingly hard for some men to get enough in this world. A petition is being circulated in New York city for the pardon of James D. Fish with a pretty fair chance of beiaig successful in accomplishing its object. The stockholders of the Marine Bank have nearly all signed it and it is expect ed that President Cleveland will do so ' en presented to him. President Davis’ Visit. Saturday was a glorious day for At lanta as well as the South generally. Fully fifty thousand visitors thronged the thoroughfares of the city fo? the pur pose of witnessing the unveiling of the Ben Ilill statue and greet the lion. Jef ferson Davis, the first and only president of the Southern Confederacy. The grand old ehieftan, though weak and tottering under the millstone of time, stood the trip from his home in Mississippi re markably well. Such an ovation was never tendered mortal man and never was an ovation more befitting. Though it was a “Lost Cause,” the memory of the grand old man is undying, as was at tested in Atlanta Saturday by the hearty expression of patriotic feeling towards him. The “bloody shirt” screamers of the north may howl themselves hoarse — political poltroons may do all in their power to create campaign material out of the allair, but it does not diminish in the least the love we bear towards the grand old ehieftan. Noble old gentleman, and noble people who thus smoothes his path way adown the other side of the hillside of life. The Sou tii loves her Jefferson Davis as does the North loves her Abraham Lin coln and U. S. Grant. McCoy Convicted. Our readers are familiar with the his tory of the cold-blooded murder of Rev enue Officer Kellett several months ago and the capture of James McCoy under suspicion of having committed the mur der. Our townsman, Mr. H. C. Garrison, it will be remembered, was the sole spirit in causing the arrest of McCoy, and it was through his efforts that he was cap tured. McCoy was carried last week to Walker court by Marshal Nelms, where the trial came off. Mr. J. C. Maddox, the Senator from this district, volunteer ed his services in behalf of the prosecu tion and from those who were present at the trial we learn that no such argument was ever heard in a court house, lie feelingly referred to tlie horrible wounds of the murdered man sustained by him in fighting for the “Lost Cause,” and it remained for one of his own countryman to snuff’ out the life of a true soldier and noble citizen. The jury was brought to tears by the elegant language of the tal ented gentleman. Mr. Will Glenn de fended the prisoner but all his efforts were unavailing. The jury returned in a few hours with a verdict of murder in the first degree without recommendation to mercy, which means that a hanging will take place soon. A motion was made for anew trial which will be heard in a few days. Calvin Young, the prin cipal witness for the prosecution testified that McCoy approached him soon after he had murdered Kellett, and, levelling a double-barrelled shotgun to his head, made him swear that he would never dis close the awful crime, threatening, if he did so, that he would kill him. Kellett had Young under arrest when he was so brutally murdered. Integer Vitae. It is seldom that the words in which the poet-laureate of the Eternal City described his noble friend can be affirmed of any mortal. To say that a man is “inter vitae scelerisque pttrue” is to ascribe to him in one breath all the vir tues of perfect manhood. While not coming up to the full measure ot this ex alted encomium (what human can?) one Georgian approaches it preeminently. Pure in purpose, noble iu character, lofty in motive and upright in conduct, the name of Campbell Wallace ranks with the bravest and the best. But it is on the latest work of this me morable life that his fame is most securely built. It is as chairman of the Georgia Railroad Commission that he has deserv ed the respect and plaudits of the people of thiscommonwealth. He has been just, Impartial and brave: just, in hearing the intricate-questions between the railroads and their patrons; impartial, in their de cisions; and brave in executing them. This article is suggested by the recent cases of John N. Dunn et. al. versus the E. TANARUS., V. Ga. R. R. et. al., in which some merchants of Atlanta made com plaint before the commission of the in jurious discrimination which the several railroad companies were making against Atlanta. These roads demurred to the complaint on the ground that the com mission had no power to interfere with the charges between points one of which was out of this State anti one in the State. After mature deliberation, the commis sion unanimously decided to hear the complaints, thus over-ruling the de murrer. This establishes tlie rule that the com mission will keep its doors open to com plaints of unjust discrimination. They will be henceforth open to the cry of the oppressed merchants of the State. No deaf ear will be turned to them. Long may the commission stand and exercise its benificent sway lor justice to the rail roads and the people, and deliverance to the oppressed! The strikes over the country seem to be increasing at a fearful rate. Every day new demonstrations are held in the northern and western cities. Imless some measure is adopted soon the work ing people of the country will be at the very verge of starvation. Arbitration seems to be the only recourse and it is hoped that matters will be adjusted soon. One tiling certain this state of affairs cannot last long. An Atlanta correspondent of the Au gusta Xeios writes that “it is rumored on the streets that if Gen. Gordon makes the fight for Governor, Judge Simmons will retire from the contest in favor of Major Bacon.” THE “GRAND OLD MAN.” Speech of Ex-Presiileiit Jefferson Davis at Montgomery. Ex-l’resident Jeflerson Davis’s speech at Montgomery on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the Confed erate monument on Thursday will be read with interest by every true Southern man and woman who is given the oppor tunity. Mr. Davis was preceded by Gov. Watts, who, at the conclusion of his speech introduced the Confederate Chieftan as follows: Now fellow-citizens I desire to intro duce to you this grand old man. I de sire to say to you why we love him. We love him because he has ever been true to constitutional government. We love him because he has ever been true to the people of the South, and we love him, above all, because in time of misfortune, in prison at Fortress Monroe, his hands were crossed and manacled for Southern blood, [long applause], and hence we love him. Now, (Mr. Davis here took his position besides the speaker), I desire to present you to our Alabama people, and you must permit me to say, fellow citizens, that in all my reading of an cient and modern history I have never read of a single man who possessed the sterling qualities of Jeflerson Davis. [Long and repeatedly renewed applause as ex-Governor Watts ended and Mr. Davis stood forth.] The scene as Mr. Davis arose and grasped the hand of his old Attorney General was affecting. It was some moments before he could proceed as the cheers were again and again re peated. MR. DAVIS’ WORDS. When there was sufficient quiet Mr. Davis said : It is deeply gratifying to me to be pre sented to you by one on whom I leaned for advice when ad vice was wanted, whose sterling qualities always made me sure that the judgment he was drawing was from the bottom of his heart. When you called him away a place was missing which he filled, and I have al ways desired to lay my hand on him again. [Doing so. Applause.] Thus it was when we met the other night after years of separation. Some people in the room gave a sardonic smile to see two old weather beaten men embrace, but our hearts were young, though our heads were old. Associated here, with so many memories thrilling and tender, I have felt that it were dangerous for me to attempt to speak to you as my heart would prompt me, not that I am always treasuring up bitterness against any one, but 1 am overflowing with love and ad miration for our beloved people. [Ap plause.] To avoid, therefore, anything which might be prompted by the fullness of my heart, for I believe I am case har dened in that condition of non-citizen ship, which leaves me very little to fear [applause] for the purpose ot guarding others rather than myself. I have pre pared some notes that I might read which would not contain anything that would be constructive or hurtful. [Voices —“Go on; say what you please. You are in the House of your friends.”] A SACRED TASK. My friends, partners in joy and in sorrow, in trials and suffering, I have come to join you in the performance of a sacred task —to lay the foundation of a monument at the cradle of the Confed erate government which shall commemo rate the gallant sons of Alabama who died for their country, who gave their lives a free-will offering in defense of the rights of their sires, won in the war of the Revolution, and the State sover eignty, freedom and independence which was left us an inheritance to their pos terity forever. These rights the com pact of the Union was formed not to de- stroy, but better to preserve and perpet uate. Who so denies this, cannot have attentively read the articles of confedera tion or the constitution of the United States. The latter was formed and de signed better to effect the purpose of the first. THE EVENTS OF THE WAR. It is not my purpose to dwell upon the events of the war. They were laid be fore you yesterday by that great soldier in so able a manner as to require no sup plement from me. They were laid be fore you by one who like Aeneas “cuneta quorum vidi ct magna pars fui .” Gen. John B. Gordon was a soldier who, when our times seemed darkest at Pe tersburg was selected by his Chieftain, Lee, as the man to lead the charge to repel the b esieging army, to make a sortie and attack in the flank and re verse, to double up Grant's army and if I may say so in his presence failed, but his failure was due to the failure of his guides to carry him where he proposed to go. CALLED AT API’OMATTOX. Again, that man and gallant soldier was the one person whom Gen. Lee called at Appomattox when he wanted to know whether it were possible to break the line that obstructed his retreat towards the mountains of Virginia. He answered that it was impossible; that after four years of hard fighting his di vision was worn down to a fragment. . It being then impossible to break the line that obstructed his march to the moun tains, Gen. Lee, like Gen. Washington, without showing perhaps that Gen. Washington ever used the expression, said if lie could reach the mountains of Virginia, he could continue the war for twenty years. But when he found that the line which obstructed his retreat could not be broken he said there was nothing to do but surrender. lee’s WORDS TO GRANT. Be it remembered that Lee was not a man who contemplated surrender as long as he had power to fight or retreat, and when he came to the last moment of surrender he said to Gen. Grant: “I have come to treat with you for the pur pose of surrender, but, Gen. Grant, un derstand, I will surrender nothing that reflects upon the honor of my army.” Gen. Grant, like a man, said he wanted nothing that would have that effect, and that Gen. Lee might draw up the papers himself. It is not my purpose either to discuss political questions, on which. my views can elsewhere and in other times been freely expressed, or to review the past except in vindication of the charac ter and conduct of those to whom it is proposed to do honor on this occasion. STANDING BY HIS COLORS. That we may not be misunderstood by such as are not willfully blind, it may be proper to state in the foreground that we have no desire to feed the fires of sec tional hate, while we do not seek to avoid whatever responsibility attaches to belief in the righteousness of our cause and in tlie virtue of those who risked their lives to defend it. [Long applause and cheers.] Revenge is not the sentiment of a chivalrous people and the apothegm that forgiveness is more easily to the injured than to those who inflict an injury has never had a more powerful illustration than in the present attitude of the two sections towards each other. Policy, in the absence of mag nanimity, would have indicated that in tlie restored union of the States there should have been full restoration of equality, privileges and benefits as they pre-existed. Though this has not been the case yet, you have faithfully kept your impoverishment have borne equal burdens without equal benefits. PROUD OF HIS I’EOrLE. I am proud of you, my countrymen, for fc this additional proof ot your fidelity and pray God to give you grace to suffer and be strong. When your children's chil dren shall ask what means this monu ment there will be the enduring answer. “It commemorates the deeds of Ala bama’s sons, who died that you and your descendants should be what your fathers in the war of independence left you, Alabama asserted the right proclaimed in the declaration of independence as be longing to every people. CAUSE OF THE UNPLEASANTNESS. She found that the compact of the union had been broken on one side and was, therefore, annulled; that the gov ernment of the United States did not an swer the ends for which it was instituted, and with others of like mind proceeded to form anew confederation, organizing its powers in rhe language of the Decla ration of Independence in such form as seemed to them most likely to effect their safety and happiness. This was not a revolution, because the State government having charge of all domestic affairs, both of person and of property, remained unchanged. To call it a revolution is gross solecism, [applause] as sovereigns never rebel, and as only sovereigns can form a national league. If the States had not been sovereigns there could not have been a compact of union. [Ap plause.] WAR NOT WANTED. That the South did not anticipate, much less desire, war, is shown by the absence of preparation for it. as well as by the efforts made to secure a peaceful separation. The successful party always holds the defeated responsible for war. But when passion shall have subsided, and reason shall have resumed her do minion, it must be decided that the gen eral government had no constitutional power to coerce a state, and that the State had a right to repel invasion. It was a national and constitutional right. [Ap plause.] From the early part of the cen tury there had been prophecies anjl threats of dissolution of the Union. These began at the North on the question of preserving the balance of power and culminated during the war of 1812 on the decline of their trade, though the war was waged for the protection of sail or’s rights. WENT TO THE NORTH. In the course of years the balance of power passed to the North and that the South, despairing of a peaceful en joyment of their constitutional rights in the Union, decided to withdraw from it, this without injury to their late asso ciates. The right to withdraw was de nied and the North made ready for war. The distant uautterings of the storm were readily understood by the people of Ala bama. Gray-haired sires and beardless boys, all unprepared as they were, went forth to meet the storm ere it burst upon their homes and their altars. NO LEADERS NEEDED. It required no Demosthenes to arouse them to the duty ot resisting the inva ders, no Patrick Henry to prepare them for the alternative of liberty or death. It was the people, not the leaders, who re solved and acted. One sentiment in spired all classes, yet I believe there were very few who did not regret the necessi ty which left them no alternative between fighting for their State or against it. Mothers, wives and daughters, choking back their sobs choeretr them on the path of honor and duty. With fearless tread these patriots, untrained to war, advanc ed on many battle-fields to look death in the face. Though Alabama, like Niobe, must mourn her children in death, yet is her woe tempered by the glorious halo which surrounds their memory. DEAD ON THE FIELD OF HONOR. For more than a century after his death it is said that Phillip Delagone’s name was borne on the roll of the Grenadiers to whom he belonged, and when his name was called it was answered from the ranks: “Mort snrle cham d’honneur.” Long, very long, would be the list which would contain the names of Alabama’s sons whose valor and fidelity would jus tify the same response. To name a lew would be unjust to many. They are all therefore left where they securely repose, in the hearts of a grateful people. This monument will rest upon the land for which they died and point upward to the father who knows the motives as well as the deeds of his children and at the last resting in the land where justice may be rendered which may have been denied them here. DUTY OF THE HOUR. In conclusion, permit me to say though the memory of our glorious past ever be dear to us, duty points to the present and future. Alabama having resumed her place in the Union, be it yours to fulfill all the obligations developing upon all good citizens seeking to restore the general government to its pristine purity, and, as best you may, to promote the welfare and happiness of your common Country. [Long continued applause.] Citizens of Alabama and ladies [facing the ladies on the stand], for to whatever, side you may belong it is your sex that has been true always in war and desola tion, we hear of the valor and virtues and enduring names of Spartan mothers, but tell me where in all the history of nations was ever such a spectacle seen as was witnessed in the valley of the Shenan doah? OUR BRAVE LITTLE BACKERS. llow the tide of war ebbed and flowed. Sometimes the Confederates retreated and sometimes they pursued. Those peo ple who claimed to be our brethren had burned everything except the fences —.” [Ex-Gov. Watts (interrupting): “And they would haye burned them had they not been stone.”] Mr. Davis turned and smilingly con tinued : And why do you suppose they did not burn the fences? Because they were stone. [Loud applause.] And yet there never was a time when a Confederate body of troops marched down that valley that the ladies did not hang out little Confederate flags from their windows and give bread to the hungry soldiers. [Tremendous applause.] I have promised I would not speak extemporaneously and I will not do it. God bless you, one and all. I love you all from the bottom of my heart, and give you thanks now for your kindness. [Tremendous and long continued applause and cheers.] Latest News. Prohibition has been defeated at Richmond, Ya. Birmingham expects to get a free delivery system of mail soon. The Knoxville cotton millg were formally opened last Saturday. Cut worms are doing a great deal of damage in corn Helds near Nashville. The old home of Grier, the almanac man, is near Sharon, Wilkes county. During the past week $5,881.91 was paid into the Alabama state treasury. John Hicks, of Kentucky, 86 years old, has served 36 in the penitentiary. Seventy Alabama postmasters have been re moved from ollice since March, 1885. George G. Graham was lynched Tuesday at Springfield, Mo„ for murdering his wife. A negro of Hamilton, Ga., nearly died from a slight bite on the hand inflicted by a dog. The first child lorn in Birm.ngham, Ala., was named Ann Alice McDonald. It died. Charles Martin of the Birmingham police force is a brother of Congressman J. M. Martin. Father Ryan the poet-priest, was buried at Mobile with impressive ceremonies last Tuesday, E. T. Moss, of Murray county, Ga., wa9 ar rested at Scottsboro, Ala, for horse stealing but was discharged. A man wUo hauls wood into Anniston claims to have solid over eight hundred dollars worth during the past yoar. An infant was accidentally strangled to death the other day at Anniston while swallowing a dose of laudanum. Boston Corbett, who killed John Wilkes Booth, took up an eighty-acre claim near Concordia. Kan., six years ago. The diamonds shipped by A. S. Mandevillc’ of Athens, Ga., and stolen, haye been recovered. A little negro girl had them. Sam, W. Small the Georgia evangelist, was licensed to preach in ths Methodist church at Atlanta Wednesday night last. Dr. Smith extracted from the throat of a New port woman, Wednesday morning, a pin whic had been lodged there over four weeks. The directors of the Eagle and Phoenix cotton manufacturing companies, of Columbus, Ga., increased the wages of their employes 10 per cent yesterday. Martin Irons was in Kansas city last week, and said the labor strikes would soon end in favor of the strikers. The socialists at Milwaukee have ordered eleven hundred muskets and threaten a revolu tion. The North Alabama Conference paid its preachers last year $49,784. This includes pre siding elders. The sale of the Mississippi and Tennessee rail road to the Georgia Pacific will be consummated in a few days. Two tramps stealilig a ride on a freight at Goodlettsville, Tenn., were caught in the wreck of the train and crushed. A hogshead containing the remains of a man and woman, was found at Clarksville, Tenn. They are supposed to have been dro .vned by the flood. James Cox took a walnut log to Jonesboro which weighed 5,744 pounds. It took six horses to pull the load, the weight of which, including the wagon, was 6,596 pounds. Webb Purdam’s house was entered by masked moonshiners at Manchester, Tenn., and Purdam and several of the moonshiners were shot. Pur dam will probably recover. Mrs. J. L. More, aged nineteen years, living about live miles from Fayette, Ala., gave birth to three girls infants Monday. The mother and children were doing well when last heard from. Monundy Jones a notorious negro was killed by a mob near Auburn, Ky., on Tuesday night. He had entered the room of two respectable ladies on Monday night and attempted to chlo roform them. A crowd of lady prohibitionists recently sur rounded a saloon in Ipswich, Dakota, and threatened to hang the proprietor. At last ac counts the unfortunate man was in a state of seige. A Grand Jury in St. Louis has found a bill against the Deputy Sheriff who recently Ifted upon a mob in East St. Lonis, Illinois, and who killed a man while retreating across the bridge into Missouri. A strike occurred at Athens, Tenu., among the students of the Grant Memorial University because the faculty wouTd uot let them celebrate General Grant’s birthday. The late freshet washed up on J. J. Scroggins place near the Terrapin creek bridge in Chero kee county Ala., human bones and a large stone pipe. Oa it the figures 1443 were carved, indicat ing the pipe to be 443 years old. Mr. Scroggins was offered $25 for it and refused the ofler. An alligator eight feet long was killed at Black’s brick yard in Macou Thursday by some hands at work. They ran after another, but it £o get away. It is possible that these alligators made their wav to the lakes during the freshet. Louisville, April 23.—A Father Abram J. Ryan, the “poet priest of the South,” died at the Franciscan monastery at St. Boniflcuis, in this city, last night. He came here a mouth ago from the Catholic Institution at Reading, near Cincinnati. He intended to make his re treat and then finish a life of Christ which he had undertaken. He became ill within a week with organic heart disease, and grew steadily worse. 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We tried everything we could read or hear of, and took advice of eminent practitioners without any benefit in the way of permanent relief. I was induced to try Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure a short time ago, although I had lost faith in patent medicines and nostrums, and considered her case incurable, “The effect was magical; the pains have entirely vanished; the swelling and distortion of her joints have disap)>eared, and the disease has been, I verily believe, eradicated from her system. She is still using the medicine as a precautionary m< asure, as her general good health is being restored by it. I can honestly and fearlessly recommend Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure as thu liest medicine for rheumatism and the blood upon the market.” Is the Best Spring Medicine and Blood Cleanser! Hold t>y all Unig-gists. $1 a Bottle. J. M. HTTNNICTOTT - <& COMPANY, Proprietors, ATLAISTTA, GrA. ROYAL FIRE INSURANCE CO,, MERCHANTS INSURANCE CO., Liverpool, England. Newark, N. 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Norfolk jackets of Jersey cloth in blue, scarlet, black, ecru, tan and white will be worn with skirts of all colors. Long-waisted dresses seem increasing in favor, the best Paris models being in this style. French modistes are reversing the or der of things, and are making dark overdresses with light skirts. Shoulder capes will still be worn. Anew berge has a clear diagonal line. Lace zephyrs have plush stripes in groups of three, and are made up over self colors corresponding to the ground of the stripes. Crepe moresque has a broad oriental border in rich, harmonious colors. It is to be had in four different styles—em broidery on pale cream for evening dresses; on yellow, indigo blue and In dian red. Some of the silk fabrics show canvas effects, lace stripes and figures. Among the new colors in silk are ser pent, a peculiar green ; pistache, almost the color of 'he nut, opal, translucent gray; sevres, a gary blue, and Bagdad, a sort of brick-dust tint. Some of the cashmers are embroidered with plush and chenille, and also with open-work embroidery. Anew sort of braid is cylindrical, hav ing go’d thread run through it. It is used for trimming dresses and jackets. Sleeves are of medium length and somewhat narrow, though not as tight as formerly. Materials with irregular stripes are used to give variety to dress trimming. Spanish bodices are to be in favor for light summer goods. Fichus for young persons are rounded at the back. The front is fastened over the shoulder, whence it falls down the front of the bodice in full folds, where it is draped under a bow at the waist and then forms a pannier over the right hip. Mantles this year are cut very high in the neck, and the sleeves are set in full, lace or jet epaulettes being frequently used. A handsome long mantle is of black and white striped cloth, with wide black yak lace set on full in back and front. It is loose in front, but fits snugly behind. In DeKalb county, on Saturday night, Bud Nash and James Weeks brothers-in-law, quar relled on their way home from Atlanta, and Weeks struck Nash over the head with a bottle of whisky, killing him in a few hours. Chattanooga, April 23.—An unknown tramp saved a night express on the Cincinnatti Southern railroad and nearly two hundred pas sengers from an awful fate to-night by heroism and presence of mind. He was walking up the track in a mountain defile, when he fouiid a large steer wedged in a cattle guard on the track. The animal was lying across the rails in such a way that it would have certainly have wrecked the train and sent it down a steep em bankmeut. Just as he reached the spot the tramp heard the night express thundering through the mountains. He lighted a torch and started down the track before the approaching train. Waving his flambeau he succeeded in stopping the train at the peril of his own life. Fred Douglass has written a letter to Hon.F. W. Bird, of Boston, in which he refers in com plimentary terms to the President, adding that “he was brave enough to invite him and Mrs. Douglass to all his fine reception,’’and conclud ing with the remark that “whatever else he (the president) may be, he is not a snob, and is not a coward.” Msss Palms, the Detroit beauty whom Senator Jones has been in vain pursuing, will marry a New Yorker. A Special to the Constitution from Americu s reports the arrest of an old man named Jesse Gaines Edwards, who is accused of having mur dered his wife 32 years ago, in Marion coanty. The charge is made by a negro, who was thena slave and could not testify. Mrs. Fdwards was found hanging dead in her kitchen, and it was then pronounced a case of suicide. Miss Anna Buckles, of Paducah, was locked in her room by her aunt to prevent her m. rriage with a young man named Smith. The latter swore out a writ of habeas corpus, and while the lawyers were squabbling over the matter Miss Buckles climbed out of a second-story window, was joined by her lover, whom she accompanied to Metropolis, 111., where she speedily became Mrs. Smith. The habeas corpus business has been indefinitely postponed. At Green Bay, YVis., three brothers named Delande quarreled and fought over property in terests, one of them being killed and a second probably fatally injured. WOMEN Needing renewed etrength. or who ouffer from Uflrriitlei peculiar to tlielr eex, should try fpa H lliw! BEST TONIC. This medicine combines Iron with pure vegetable tonics, and is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to *7 omen, and all who lead sedentary lives. It Kn rlebea and PuriUee the Blood, Stimulate* the Appetite, Strengthens the Mnaetea end Nervou-m fact, thoroughly Invigorates. Clears the complexion, and makes the sldn smooth. 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