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VOLUME 11. New Spring 1 Goods!! I bog leave to inform ncy customers an<l the uqople of Bartow county and surrounding country to the fact that ray new goods are all in amt it is conceded by all that I have The Largest Stools, Tlae Handsomest Display, AND Th.© Lowest Prices That have ever been heard of in Cartcrarille. I have all the new styles and novelties In HATS uVINT> IJONINETS. < ome and sue for yourselves that J have decidedly the handsomest stock I ever had and am sidling cheaper than you have ever purchased such goods before. Thanking vou for your most lilierai patronage and asking for a continuance of the same, I am, Most Respectfully, MISS 10. >l. PADGIOTTTO. Over Mays A Pritchett’s, Cartersville. Come and make your selections before the stock is depleted. Aid. ABOARD FOR TH E NORTH GEORGIA Cheap: Furniture: House! UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. T would respectfully call the attention of my friends as well as the people generally to the fact that 1 have bought out tin; Furniture Store of Mr. Jas. 11. Gilreath, arid will continue the business at the same old stand* 1 will always endeavor to keep the very best goods iu the market as well as those that will suit parties of limited means. One thing is certain, lam offering goods cheap, at figures that will sustain the well-earned reputation of this house in giving bargains. Those Intending to Commence Keeping House Could do no Bettor Than to Give Me a Call. I Guarantee they will be Pleased at my Stock. 1 will also handle the “NEW HOME” Sewing Machine, which is guaranteed to glvo perfect satisfaction. The ladies should be obtain to sea this easy-running machine licfore they purchase. Have juit opened up a nice line of MATTINGS. Something new and and nice. ®@f" All I ask is a trial. S. L. VANDIVERE, Prop’r. IST. Oa. Cheap Furniture House. Attention Everybody! WE HAVE THIS DAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATLY! All Hopairs Will bo Loss tlian Heretofore. This is Done in View ol' the Hardness ol* the Times. We Keep on Constantly a HEAVY STOCK OF WESTERN WAGONS, STCDERAKEii, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we will Sell Cheaper than Ever Before. It Yon Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy The Celebrated JONES WAGON. Made hero. Quo and Two-Horse. SOLID STEEL AXLES, SAItVIN PATENT WHEELS. We defy the world to beat us in this line. These Wagons will last longer, run lighter, and 100 better Ilian any. ONE OF THEM. Come or write to us. 11. 11. Jones Ac Sons Altmf’g-. 00.. dio-ly CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA. Slightly Damaged Goods! Hundreds of Knives-Eighty Different Varieties, from a Ladies* Penknife to a Cowboy’s Toothpick. NINE IgNIVES & FORKS ! THE GOODS WILL BE SOLD DOG CHEAP — AT HALF NEW YORK COST. IfCorac and make your selections before they are picked over. R. M. FATTILLO. ROYAL. FIRE INSURANCE Cf>,, MERCHANTS INSURANCE CO., Liverpool, EnglamL Newark, N. J., Cuah Capital, - - #10,000,000 Caali Capital, - - - 4,000,000 BARTOW LEAKE, Insurance Afjciil, STORAGE Sc COMMISSION 1 MERCHANT • Insure Your Property in a Sale Company. n'UJE ROY VL INSURANCE COMPANY IS THE LARGEST AND WEALTHIEST IN THE f World, losses paid PROMPTLY and without diecouut. Insurance cU'ooted in Harlow, Gordon, l'olk and Paulding counties. Insurance at home and abroad respectfully solicited. J A. CRAWFORD, Georgia. R. N. HUDSON, Tennessee. Crawford & Hudson. CARTEUSVILLK, GEORGIA. SALE and I .IVKR Y STABLE. East of Railroad, Near the Courthouse. OUR TURNOUTS ARE STRICTLY" \ /& HORSES AND MULES KEPT ON OUK accommodations for DROVERS CANNOT RE SURPASS- All ot Clmgman’s Tobacco J lemedies arc sold at Curry’s Drug Store. Curry's Diarrlmm and Dysentery Specific is n sure cure for all l lowcl af fections. 25c a bottle. THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. Steam Fitting* ! Steam Fitting* ! ! V. L. Williams & Cos. are now prepared to furnish steam fittings and pipe. Do not send off when you can buy cheaper at home. CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1886. IN MEHOKIAM. FATHER KYAS. Out of the silence a song has been made— Out of the shadows is Hashed and is played harmonies, never before Perfectly blending, accordant and whole Given expression, except in the soul Out of the silence that ceaseß in Heaven- Out of that sileneo a song has been given, Filling the heart with a glad, sweet surprise; Never a lone of a wail of despair Mingles its sound with the music from there. Out of the silenee that once the heart filled— Out of that silence a song has beer, thrilled; Hope’s sweet fruition in strains divine voiced As the celestial, bright visions arise Fully revealed to the wondering eyes. Out of the silence, oh! Poet, a song Perfected is of the feelings that long Thou but in part couldst give tone; and the strain Hears, now, no sadness, or longings denied, Or hint of heari-cravings unsatisfied. The song that was craved of the deep silence dim, Where •‘eurlh-songs melt into Heaven’s sweet hymn,” Thine has become, Poet; silence is ours, Since died with thee, Soldier, Poet and Priest, Earth’s sweetest songs when thy soul was re leased. Hattie “Bonnie RuoOk,” Near Cassville, Ga. CAGED in THE WOODS. A Farmer’s Daughter Confined for Ten Years Like a Wild Beast. Wysox, Bradford county, Pa., May 23.—Samuel Case, aged 80 years, Is a farmer in comfortable circumstances, although he lives on an isolated farm some twenty miles baek through the woods from this place. The nearest set tlement to him is the backwoods village of Orwell, which is ten miles trom his farm. The farmers who live in his neighbor hood are also isolated, and but little is known of their domestic surroundings. A week or so ago a citizen of this county had some business up through that neigh borhood. While on his trip he stopped at Case’s farm to make some inquiries, llis curiosity was excited by a small out building, which stood by itself nearly 200 feet from the house, and still further from an old and unused road at the back of the farm. The building was not more than ten feet square and eight feet high. It had a window which was heavily barred, and a door which was locked by a pon derous nadlock and chain. Old man Case gave him no satisfaction when asked what use the outbuilding was put to, and the gentleman, feeling an irresistible desire to know, returned to the farm quietly by a roundabout way, and, reaching the building, stole up and peered through the barred window. • Across the inside of the building a number of poles were fastened in the floor and in the ceiling, forming a cage like a chicken yard. As he looked he was horrified to see rise up out of a box of straw in the cage an old woman, scan tily clad, almost llesliless, with high cheek bones and gaunt eye 6. Her head was covered with a mass of matted gray hair. The gentleman hurried away, de termined to have an investigation made of his singular discovery. He came to a house in the woods two or three miles further on and there he told what he had seen, and aeked if any information could be given him. Lie was told that the wo man he saw was old farmer Case’s daugh ter Thebe. She had lost her reason twen ty-six years ago through overwork on the farm and about the house. She was then 27 years of age. She had been al lowed to'have her own way about the place until ten years ago, when she be came so violent that her father put up the cage and confined her in it. She had never been outside of it since. The neighbors apparently thought but little of the case, and treated it as a matter of eourse. The gentleman who discovered the un fortunate woman at once notified the State Lunacy Commission. Dr. A. J. Onot ot that Commission came up last week to investigate it. Case at first re fused to open the building, in which he admitted that he had his daughter con fined, but finally unlocked it. The luna tic was lying in her box of filthy straw in the cage of poles. She had a remnant of a quilt wrapped about her head, and had but one tattered garment on her per son. She raved wildly when disturbed. For ten years, her father said, she had been fed by placing her food on a block, which stood on the outside of the cage within her reach. She remained in the place winter and summer, clad only as she was found. Case said he could not afford to pay her board in an asylum, and was fearful she would not be treated well in one. A physician who had at tended Case’s family for years was aware of the way the daughter was kept, but had never reported it. The woman’s mother died five years ago. The lunatic has been taken to the county house. Dr. Onot says that, with proper treatment and care when her malady first appeared, she could have been restored to her for mer sound mental condition. GENERAL GORDON. Col. I. W. Avery, editor of the Atlanta Capitol says: “The editor of this paper knows the facts connected with the resignation of General Gordon as United States Senator and the appointment by Governor Col quitt of ex-Governor Brown as Senator in his place. At the time it was charged that the whole matter was one of arrangement between these gentlemen for private in terest. They promptly denied it. The people have four times overwhelmingly declared rhe accusation false, by two elec tions of Brown as Senator, the latter al most unanimous, and by Governor Col quitt’s re-election as Governor, and his election as United States Senator. These tests would seem to be decisive in the matter. General Gordon’s candidacy for Gov ernor has revived the dead scandal. There never was less basis for a charge. The editor of the Capitol was at the time ot the resignation and appointment Sec retary of the Executive Department un der Governor Colquitt and knew every step of the transaction. lie knows two facts that utterly negative the idea of a bargain. 1. Gov. Colquitt was opposed to Gen. Gordon’s resignation, and tried to get him to withdraw it. 2. Gen. Gordon was opposed to the ap pointment of Gov. Brown. The resignation and appointment were entirely disconnected and independent of each other. The writer states these facts in the in terest of truth.” Curry’s Liver Compound is endorsed by our most prominent citizens. THE PRELLER MURDER. Getting at the Bottom Facts—The St. Louts Trnnk Mystery Being Solved. St. Louis, May 26.—The prosecution in the famous Brooks-Preller case un covered an ambush on the defense. It was like the explosion ot a bomb at a man’s feet. The smooth current of unimportant testimony was broken by a sensation startling as an earthquake or a volcano on a quiet landscape. For the first time Maxwell may be said to have cowered. He stood the dragging out ot the stained trunk in which the body decomposed, and scarcely quivered at the sight; be threw aside with flip pant nonchalance the bundle of clothing that had been cut from Preller’s corpse; he viewed with scarcely a perceptible quickening of respiration the disclosing of his own drawers, found on the rot ting carcass of the dead man; all of these things were like twice told tales, and none of them moved him. John Mc- Culloch, a detective employed by the Gould system secret service, testified that by an arrangement with Mr. Mc- Donald, of the prosecution, a sham case of a forgery was got up and he was sent to jail under the name of Frank Ding felder, the forger. He was in jail forty seven days, and while there he became a confidante of Brooks, who told him all the details of the murder of Preller. He thought witness belonged to a notorious gang of forgers, and together they fixed up a plan to run some bogus testimony in at the trial of Brooks for his benefit. Brooks said he could beat the State if he could only get a witness who would swear that he had S7OO or SBOO when he left Boston. McCullogh thought that tills could be fixed, and agreed to get one of the gang of forgers to do the job. The result was that Brooks unbosomed' himself and told the detective every thing. Among other things, he said he was almost broke, and wanted Preller to lend him enough money to pay his fare to Australia, but he said he had only enough for himself. For his meanness, Brooks said, he made up his mind that he’d fix Preller. On Easter Sunday Preller complained of pains, and Brooks told him that he could cure them by us ing a hypodermic syringe. Preller con sented, took off his coat and vest, and Brooks gave him a good dose, as he ex pressed it. After he was asleep he ad ministered the chloroform, but found that he had not enough, and hurried out to get more. As soon as Preller was dead Brooks stripped him, took his mon ey and prepared to leave. The rest of the details are as have been given. This account's for the hypodermic syringe which was exhibited in court last week, and which created so much speculation. Witness also agreed to get Brooks a witness to testify that he met Preller in Boston last June, and that he spoke to him, and that Preller asked him not to say anything about meeting him ; that might prevent him and Brooks from getting the money they wanted, it is now considered reasonably certain that Brooks will hang. REV. SAM JONES AS A SMOKER. Baltimore Herald.J Certain New York and Chicago papers have published very unkind remarks eon rorning the Rev. Sam Jones and the to bacco habit, and we observe that the Minneapolis Tribune goes so far as to make a charge that Mr. Jones has broken a pledge. The facts are simply these: During ills visit to Chicago Mr. Jones both chewed and smoked tobaceo. But on the offensiveness ol the chewing habit being brought to his attention, he an nounced his intention of abandoning it, and we have his word for it that he has never chewed since. He never made any pledge as to giving up smoking; on the contrary, he has never abandoned smoking, even for a short length of time, nor did he pretend so to do. He smoked while he was at Chicago and after he left. lie has been smoking eyer since, nor has he made any effort to conceal the fact that he does smoke. We feel prompted to offer this plain statement on behalf of a man who has been maligned as one who voluntarily makes a pledge and breaks it. We have been told that some malicious persons in Baltimore have started these leports, in tending thereby to bring Mr. Jones into contempt, and to impair his usefulness as an evangelist. With the source of these leports, we have nothing to do. We are dealing simply with their untruthfulness, and we are safe in saying that in the mat ter of the smoking habit Mr. Jones made no pledge. Conceding that the use of tobacco is not a natural habit, and that the active prin ciple of the weed is poisonous, the fact remains that thousands of the best and greatest of men on the known earth, in the East and the West, the North and the South, have practically testified their adhesion to the practice of tobacco smok ing. Tiie habitually abstemious tribes of the Arabian and Syrian deserts use tobacco. The fanatically prohibitive Turk exempts the pipe from the category of forbidden joys, and the stout burghers of Holland and Belgium think so highly of the weed that they smoke continuously during the transaction of business in pub lic assemblies and courts. While it is unnecessary to refer to the injury which the use of tobacco inflict on the young and the real danger of smoking to exces.? even to grown persons there has yet to be shown any reasonable argument that could prohibit the use of tobacco in moderation among men who, like the Rev. Sam Jones, have their mental faculties constantly strained by the demands of the public for new ideas and new impressions. The Augusta an<l Chattanooga Railroad. No railroad enterprise that was ever projected in this city are pushed to com pletion has yielded better results than are promised by the proposed Augusta and Chattanooga railway. The line traverses one of the richest sections of the State. It is, indeed, a natural line, and the road will do for Augusta and the side belt of country which it will under contribution all that the Georgia railroad has done for our city or the South Caro lina railway has accomplished for Charles ton. The road can be built—it must be built. The people along the line, and at the terminal points, are aroused to the ' importance of the enterprise. They see and feel that now is the accepted time to perfect the work so auspiciously begun. Augusta feels that it is her opportunity, and her people are responding right lib erally in furtherance of the project. The movants in this enterprise know no such word as fail. —Augusta Chronicle, 25th. THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Atlanta Correspondent Macon Telegraph.] A great many people have a very enormous opinion of the management and surroundings of a lunatic fsylum,”said a prominent Georgian to the Telegraph correspondent. “How so?” was asked. “Well, they think that the inside of an asylum presents a picture of a howling mob of crazy people, when the very reverse is the case. “1 have just come from Milledgeville, and while there visited the asylum and spent a day going through the various departments of the valuable and well managed institution. Instead of finding a violent mob of lunatics’ I found that the inmates were well-behaved, looking well-cared for, and seemed to be quite contented with their treatment. Some of them to whom I was introduced talked perfectly rationally upon certain subjects while upon others their views showed that their minds were of a disordered frame. For instance, l talked to quite an intelligent fellow, and would not have taken him for a lunatic or insane man, had I not been informed that he imagined himself a grain of corn, and was afraid that if lie went out into the yard the chickens would make a meal of him. Another male inmateevinced his insanity by imagining that a young lady who is confined in the asylum is a negro. He can’t be convinced otherwise, and thinks that it is outrageous that she should be allowed to mingle with the white inmales of the institution. In other respects this man seems to have more than ordinary intelligence.” “What is done by the management to direct the minds of the inmates from their condition and the surroundings?” “Oh, almost everything. The Super intendent, Dr. Powell, and his assistants are constantly engaged getting up some sort of amusement fur the inmates of the institution. For instance, last Wednes day night a big dance was given in the new building recently constructed at the asylum. A good band of music was on hand, and everything passed off smooth ly. Had a man fallen out of the clouds and landed in the ball-room, be would not for a moment have thought the peo ple who were dancing were lunatics. Every night they have a change of pro gramme. Sometimes they have instru mental and vocal concerts, then again they spend an evening by having read i igs and recitations, and upon other oc casions theatricals are resorted to. The main object is to get the minds of the in mates as far away from the causes which sent them to the asylum as possible. “Everything is done to make them feel that the hard hand of restraint is off, and the soft p’lm of freedom given them.” “How many inmates are there in the asylum ?” “About twelve hundred, and hardly one in a hundred is uncontrolable. They all seem to be happy, contented and in fine spirits.” A REMARKABLE MOUNTAINEER, Clark North, the Blind Mail Carrier of the Catskill Mountains. Clarksville, N. Y., May 25.—The mail between this mountain hamlet in Sullivan county and Big Indian, Ulster county, is carried by way of Denning, Ulster county. The route is twenty-one miles long, and is through the roughest and wildest portion of the Catskills. The road is so rough, in fact, that the mail is carried on foot, and the carrier is Clark North, who is totally blind. He has carried the United States mail over almost impassible Catskill routes for thirty years, since he was a boy, and has never seen any of the wild region through which he has travelled. His former route was in the wilderness region between Sliokan and Sampson ville, at that time an almost unknown country, frequented only by hunters and fishermen, yet the sightless carrier made his trips three times a week with the regularity of clockwork. He travels his present circuit of forty-two miles three times a week, and has never missed a day either in winter and summer. Snow drifts nor floods seem to be no barrier to him. He has never met with an accident. In spite of his long life of exposure to rain, snow, cold, and heat he is wonderfully vigorous in health. He is a walking encyclopaedia of the region through which he travels. Its vital statistics for more than a quarter of a century past are as an open book to him. Marriages, births, deaths, relation ships, the pedigree of stock, ownership and titles in property, are fixed in his mind with marvelous accuracy of date, name and circumstance. Any disputed point on these subjects is settled at once by appealing to Clark North. His decis ion is final, and no one would ever dream of appealing from it. Although unable to read, he industri ously gathers from others all information on the current topics of the day, and, as he never forgets anything, is probably the best informed person on general subjects in this part of the Catskill region. Kind, honest, industrious, re liable, 00 citizen of this region stands higher in the estimation of all classes than Clark North, the blind mail carrier of the Catskills. GORDON'S POSITION. General Gordon is opposed to the sale of the State Road, and opposed to it being leased to the East Tennessee Road, be cause he wants the people to have a com peting line that freights maj r not be extortionately levied on the people. Major Bacon is the Attorney of the East Tennessee Road and the Pullman Palace Car Company at a salary of SIO,OOO per year, and he is very likely to use his influence in behalf of his railroad friends. Gen. Gordon is In favor of the Railroad Commission that the people may not be discriminated against and oppressed. Major Bacon wants the Railroad com mission modified. General Gordon is opposed to convict labor being brought in competition with free labor. He is squarery committed on these questions, and being the gallant soldier, the Chris tian statesman and pure patriot that he is, he should have the support of the people irrespective ot class or calling.— Marietta Journal. If old records are to be examined and invoked, wiil the Marietta Journal and Rome Courier inform us what kind of a record Mr. Clement’s was making when Judge Fain was getting shot to pieces— with face to foe when proud patronism was piling up monuments in the dead bodies of liberty’s sons?— Calhoun Times. Curry’s Liver Compound relieves eon -1 stipation. BRIDAL PREPARATIONS. The President Wants Privacy And Will Go to the Altar by Special Train. New York World.] Washington, May 24.— C01. Lamont has found the weight of the President’s matrimonial confidences too much for him. He has gotten a week’s leave of absence and left for Cortland, X. Y. this morning. A denial that the President told Dr. Pierce, Mr. Hendricks’s brother in-law, when he was to be married was given out yesterday. Dr. Pierce could have had no interest in misrepresenting the President. He called at the White House Saturday for the special purpose of finding out about the marriage, and the very moment that he left the Presi dent with the happiest kind of triumph ant flourish, he made the announcement which was printed in the World last Sun day morning. Later in the day he re peated the story of the discovery to Col. Irwin, of New York. Dr. Pierce left Washington for New York yesterday. It is believed here that the President will refuse to publicly commit himself concerning this interesting topic up to the very day of the wedding ceremony. If he should pursue the policy which he has followed concerning this subject the marriage will take place in secret and all fact relating to it ever after w ill be suppressed. A gentleman who is well ac quainted with the President says that Mr. Cleveland is not as good-natured about the gossip over this matter as some of his friends think. He turns off the casual remarks that are made about it from time to time in a good-humored way, but in reality lie says that the Pres ident is angry and really resents all of the talk about it in the newspapers. He resents it to such a degree that several days ago he wrote a long lettr to a New York member of Congress who had been guilty of making some comment upon the possibility of the marriage in a spec ulative interview. In this letter the President complained in severe terms of the prying aDd per sistent impertinence of the newspapers. He thought the question of marriage purely a private one which did not con cern the public in the remotest degree. It is said that when Mr. Bissell was here he completed all the arrangements for carrying the Presidential party from Washington to Buffalo. He ongaged a special car from the Pennsylvania Com pany. This will leave Washington and pick up the Folsom family at Baltimore. Thence on, the car will be run up over the Northern Central road and go to Buffalo via Williamsport. It is probable this car will have a commissary attached to it, and the two will be made up as a special train. With all the President’s sensitiveness upon the subject of being married, it is hardly probable that he w'ill want to be at the mercy of any curious people or wicked reporters, who w’ould seek to take passage upon the train if it were not a special. Miss Folsom Wealthier than Mr. Cleve land. From the Buffalo Times.] The public are at liberty to gossip until they are fully satisfied regarding the Folsoms and the corning marriage of President Cleveland, but no one need lose sleep because of the poverty of the family. The Folsoms have for many years ranked among the wealthy and influential people of western New York. The father of Miss Frances Folsom, the late Oscar Folsom was not a prudent man in financial matters, and died poor, but he was the exception in a large fam ily. Benjamin Folsom, the Buffalo at torney, who is now in Europe with Miss Folsom, has already inherited a quarter of a million dollars, and will doubtless receive a large addition to this fortune from the estate of his father and other relatives. The senior Benjamin Folsom was for a quarter of a century or more a resident ot Attica, N. Y., where he made a large fortune as a railroad contractor. Western investments rendered him a millionaire, or nearly so, and Benjamin Folsom, Jr., receives at least one-half of the estate. He is a bachelor of quiet, though refined tastes, and the present European trip is being made largely at his expense. The father of the lamented Oscar Folsom is still alive. His wealth is about half a million, and Miss Frances Folsom is one of his heirs. The popular young lady will be rich in her own right in a few years. In fact she and her widowed mother already enjoy a portion of the wealth which Col. John B. Folsom has willed to her. Miss Frances Folsom is already the virtual possessor of a larger estate than Mr. Cleveland has ever been able to accumulate. . + • State’s Evidence. An old negro, much alarmed, went to a judge and said : “Jedge, dar’s er lot er hangs been stold down in ray neighbor hood lately an’ fust thing yer knows somebody’s gwine ter be errested. I know who tuck ’em an’ ef yer’ll let me me turn State’s eyerdence I’ll tell yer.” “You were concerned, eh?” “Yas, sail, an’ ef yer’ll let me turn de eyerdence I’ll tell yer zackly who took dem haugs.” “All right.” “Wont’t do nothin’ wid me.” “Not a thing.” “Will yer sw’ar it?” “Yes, if necesary.” “But will yer put it in writin’?” “Yes.” The judge drew up an agreement and when he had read it the old negro said: “Dat soun’s sorter like it. Sho’ dis docky mint’ll stan'?” “Of course it wiP- Now tell me who stold the hogs.” Won’, do nothin’ wid me?” “No.” Wall, jedge, I stold dem hangs by merse’f, Good day, sah. I thank yer fur yer kind ness.”—Arkansaw Traveler. Carrolton Free Press : There has been one of the greatest mysteries discovered in the way of snakes near the Black Jack mountain that we have ever heard of. The facts are as follows: A Mr. Hill, a tenant of Mr. J. H. L. Benford, was cutting and splitting rails and cut down a post oak about two feet in di ameter, and cut off a cut, split it open, and to his surprise he found a chicken snake about three feet in length right in the centre of the heart. The tree was entirely sound where he cut it off at both places, all but one little decayed spot in the stump. The tree had been deadened four years ago, and the snake must haye got in before it died. The question now is how long it had been in there and what did it live on ? A CHILD TOSSING IN ITS SLEEP indicates worms. An army of them are at eating the vituals away. One dose of Shriner’s Vermifuge will destroy them and sr.ve its life. The Buckeye force Pumps and Iron Turbine Wind Mills, the best in the mar ket, lor sale by V. L. Williams & Cos. NUMBER IS CHICAGO ANARCHISTS. Startling Revelations Made l>y a Police Officer. Chicago, May 25.—A morning paper published what purports to be the tes timony of Captain Schaack before the grand jury in relation to the instigators of the recent Haymarket slaughter. This testimony as printed is sensational in the extreme, but not incredible, and it is anticipated that the developments of the next few days will prove the truth of much of it. Captain Schaack is Slid to have told the jury the following facts resulting from the investigations of police department: He had witnesses to prove that the prisoner Lingghad manufactured a num ber of dynamite bombs from material obtained at Uni office of the A rbeitqgt Zeitung. Three persons were associated with Lingg, one of whom was under arrest. The second section of the Cap tain’s testimony, it is said, was listened to with breathless silence. “1 think,” said Schaack, “I have got to the bottom of this business. In a couplo of days I will have it all. But I want a little more time. Then l can prove beyond a doubt that this Anarchist conspiracy has ex isted here for years. There are two divisions in it. One is an agitating sec tion. Money is set apart for its purposes. This is called the Socialist section. Be sides this there is an armed party, an Anarchist section. These drill and are trained in the use of explosives. I think I can prove that there was a well-laid plan to sack and burn districts in Chi cago on May 4. It would have been carried out, but that the Anarchists lacked nerve and were unprepared for the vigorous action of the police. The men were told to set fire to certain houses in the northwestern portion ot the city, and others were told to throw bombs into the police stations while oth ers were to use bombs at the meeting if the police attempted to disperse it. I think l can connect every man of the Socialists now in jail with this. The houses to be burned in the northwestern section of the city were to be selected in discriminately. The purpose of the burning was to attract the attention of the police to that section, and to draw them away from the main points of at tack, the Haymarket Square and the police stations. The early dispersal of the crowd in the square, the premature throwing of the bomb, for it was premature, and the determined resistance of the police frightened the would-be in cendiaries, and those who were to attack the police barracks in detail.” A joror asked where the witnesses to prove the conspiracy were. “In the lockup of the police station,” Schaack replied. “I can produce as many of them before the grand jury as may be deemed wise and necessary. They have confessed their complicity to me. I have explained to the Stite’s At torney, and I am acting under his in structions.” A YANKEE POSTMISTRESS. The town of Somerset, which lies on the back borders of Windham county, and teems with a population of G 7 souls, 17 of whom are voters, is trying to make trouble for the spunky new postmistress, Mr3. Sutton, who has planted the post office in a box by the kitchen stove, and insists on locking the house and going visiting just when she pleases. In short, she has made the proclamation that tho post office will lie open only on two days of the week. Post Office Inspector L. B. Samson has just been over thereto per suade the woman that nothing but ten hours a day would do for the service, but she simply told him that two days in the week was enough, and that she didn't propose to tie herself up to that post office or stay at home if she wanted to go a vis iting—not for Mr. Chase nor for Mr. Samson nor for the United States Post Office Department. Mrs. Sutton thus defies the United States government and all its agents in Windham county: and not only that but she bids defiance to all classes of society in Somerset, the rich as well as the poor, the seventeen voters as well as the fifty other people about her. But she has little to fear, as Somerset is in a wild mountainous regeon, about thirty miles from a good road, and not likely again to be visited for some time by a govern ment inspector. The sixty-seven souls of that town have got to fight it out alone with the plucky postmistress. Among other traditions of the Gov ernment printing office at Washington is a story told about a boy sent with some proof slips of an important decisions to Cnief Justice Taney. He appeared at the office of the Chief Justice and asked him: “Is Taney in?” “I presume,” was the dignified reply, “you wish to see the Chief Justice of the United States ?” “I don’t care a cuss about him. I’ve got some proofs for Taney.” “I am the Honorable Roger B. Taney.” “You’re Taney, aren’t you?” “I am not, fellow. I am the Honora ble Roger B. Taney.” “Then the proofs are not for you,” and the unceremonious messenger would have gone oft’ with them if the Judge had not admitted himself to be Taney simply. —Pen Perley Poore in the Boston Budget. There has been a good deal said about General John B. Gordon’s business trans actions, but we have just heard of a little incident that shows the true character of the man. Squire J. D. Fuller, of Mer ritts district, in this county, relates that General Gordon owed his brother three huudred dollars before the war. The war came on and the debt was not paid. After the war General Gordon had no money but told Mr. Fuller that as soon as he got the money he would pay it. That time came in the history of General Gor don and he hunted up Mr. Fuller and paid every cent of it. —Marietta Journal. Chattanooga, May 25—While an en gine was pulling two flat with 170 kegs of powder aboard up the mining incline at Reichburn late last night the powder exploded, blowing the cars to pieces and killing three men. Engineer W. T. Lloyd disobeyed his orders to push the cars up, and put them behind the engine. A spark from the engine dropped on one of the kegs, causing the explosion. Not one of the men had a stich of cloth ing left on them when found, and their bodies were black with powder. The East Tennessee and the Western & Atlantic roads are not dwelling in har mony. The passes in the hands of Wes tern and Atlantic agents have been de manded by and returned to the East Ten nessee officials. The pilots of the port of Atlanta have not yet adopted a schedule of prices for bringing schooners over the bar, after the liquor quarantine goes into effect. — Sa vannah News.