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VOLUME I.
SUCCESS!
SCROFULA CURED!
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Scrofula Patient!
My litttle boy now four years of age was af
flicted with the loathsome disease, Scrofula,
which exhibited external symptoms at about six
months of age. lie became very weak, his skin
presented a peculiar yellow' appearance—had no
appetite, became so very poor in flesh that lie
was really unpleasant to look at. Large swell
ings appeared under his right arm, and Anally
they broke and continually discharged the most
fearfully offensive odor—almost unbearable—his
mother could hardly bear to wash and dress the
deep-running sores. After the disease had gone
on for about a month, we called in our family
physician, a man who bore the reputation of be
ing a learned and skillful physician. After
treating the case for a number of months, he
told us that it w'ould take two or three years to
perform a cure. However, he continued to treat
the child, but with no manner of benefit as we
could see. Indeed, with the painful lancing and
unpleasant internal medicines the poor little
creature seemed to grow' more restless and a
great deal weaker.
About this time myself and w ife came to the
determination to change physicians, but were
greatly troubled as we then knew' of no one
whom we could trust w'itli more confidence than
the one engaged. Happily, through the advice
of a friend—one w r ho deeply sympathized with
us in our dire distress—w'c were directed to see
and consult Drs. Memmlcr & Johnsonf who had
established an Infirmary in Cartersville. Our
consultation with those gentlemen resulted in
our turning Over to them the treatment of the
little child, whom we deemed beyond the skill of
any earthly physician; but our love for the dear
child, who had gone through so much suffering,
prompted us to leave nothing undone that prom
ised the least relief. After thoroughly examin
ining their patient, Drs. Memmler & Johnson
began treatment. We had given only three
doses of their medicine, when we noticed consid
erable improvement, and every’ day thereafter
improvement went rapidly on. With nothing
hut internal remedies, no sore, no plasters, no
lancing was resorted to by the above named gen
tlemen. Simply their internal remedies, after
hardly three months’ treatment have performed
the cure which it was said required years to ac
complish.
And now, in conclusion, I invoke the richest
blessings of the Great Physician—who looks over
all things—to bless and prosper them, and to the
afflicted world we feel that we could wish them
no greater earthly blessing than to fall under
the care and treatment of these gentlemen. If
any desire to hear from me directly, they will ad
dress me at Cartersville, Ga.
Most respectfully,
his
NIMROD X HOWREN.
mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd
day of February, 1879.
J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P.
All Chronic Diseases Cured and
Surgical Operations Per
formed at the North
Georgia Medical
Institute.
MEMMLER & JOHNSON,
Proprietors.
CARTERSVILLE Ga
THE FREE PRESS.
THE ALSTON TRAGEDY.
The Southern View Fairly Stated by a
Prominent Citizen.
To the Editor of the New York Times
—I have seen your editorial upon the
Alston Cox tragedy reproduced in The
Atlanta Constitution. It is in so
many respects incorrect in its statements
and inferences—unintentionally of course
—that I ask publication of this letter in
your journal. lain a northern man,
was a federal officer, but for the last nine
years have been living in this city, act
ing as state agent of the Northwestern
life insurance company. My business
has taken me into all parts of the State,
and I feel I can speak of the people of
Georgia from full knowledge and experi
ence of them, and free from prejudice or
favor. The attempt to make this . un
fortunate affair a •sample of public cus
tom in Georgia, or to give it any event
the slighest significance is an injustice.
It was simply a private difficulty between
two individuals, such as occurs daily in
New York state, and which finds daily
narration in your and other of your city
papers, and which has no signifiance be
yond the innate and unniversal depravi
ty of mankind. Murders may happen
under all law's, governments and socie
ties, and this murder In Georgia has no
different characteristics from similar
crimes happening in your city and state;
for instance, those of J. Fisk and Wil
liam Poole. Such offenses are no more
common here than with you in propor
tion to the population, and they indi
cate neither a general propensity to
bloodshed nor a slack of administration
of justice. There is as much regard for
law here as north; there is a general aver
sion to disorder, and there are as faithful
efforts made to administer justice and
prevent crime. Nearly every issue of
your city papers recounts some tragic
murder, suicide, burglarly, or some
crime in your state and city, yet you
would consider it a rank injustice for
the judgment to be passed upon your
people, as a people, that these crimes
prove the slight value upon human life
in the great commonwealth of New York.
But men and violent are to be found every
where. Crimes occur in every com
munity, and it is a forced misrepresenta
tion Qf the facts that distorts this tragedy
into proof of general lawlessness in Geor
gia. The ill-feeling on the part of Mr.
€ox toward Colonel Alston had no con
nection whatever with Colonel Alston’s
official acts as chairman of the peniten
tiary committee of the Georgia legisla
ture, and the attempt to give such com
plexion to the matter is who.ly unwar
ranted. There is not a particle of evi
dence to justify such a conclusion.
Colonel Alston had, it is true, as a
member of the legislature and chairman
of the penitentiary committee, reported
upon certain alleged abuses of the peni
tentiary system, the result of which show
ed that public sentiment was so healthy
and vital on the subject that the mere
mention ot the abuses effected, as far as
possible, their correction. No system
of penal discipline is, or can be made,
perfect. The present Georgia system
is faulty, like other systems, and this
people have a sensitive appreciation of its
deficiencies, and has not tolerated and
will not tolerate abuses capable of reme
dy. Cox was in no way, as here un
derstood, a sufferer by Colonel Alston’s
action as chairman of the penitentiary
committee. He was not and is not even
a lessee, but merely a manager of convicts.
The camp in his charge has not been lia
ble to the animadversion passed upon
other camps. The difliculty was pri
vate, and not in any sense of the word
public. Cox wanted Alston, as Gener
al Gordon’s agent to sell Gordon’s inter
est in the convicts to Mr. Walters, who
was going to employ Cox, or in some
way befriend him. Mr. Walters had
refused General Gordon’s proposition,
and a Mr. Howard had then accepted it,
and the trade was closed. Cox was
disappointed, and wished Alston to re
scind the trade with Howard, and trade
w'ith Walters, which he felt he could not
do, and this, and this alone, was the
cause of the difficulty. It was an alter
cation in business, such as occurs every
day between men, and in no way grew
out of Colonel Alston’s efforts at peni
tentiary reform. It is not even correct
as understood here, as you state, that
Colonel Alston’s reformatory attempts
had induced General Gordon to give up
his lease. As 1 understand it, and I think
it is the opinion of others, General
Gordon did not have the time and op
portunity to give his personal attention
to the matter, and carry into operation
his humane view s, and therefore thought
it best to have nothing to do with it. An
other error you make is in intimating
that Colonel Alston did not sell to Mr.
Walters because lie was not a humane
and responsible man. This is wholly
incorrect. Colonel Alston desired to
sell to Mr. Walters, and first offered the
chance to him, and the only barrier was
Walter’s unwillingness to give the price.
Walters is a worthy, honorable citizen.
Now, Mr. Editor, Ido not desire to
consume more of your space, but I do
reiterate that your interpretation of this
frightful tragedy is w rong from begin
ing to end, and your arraignment of this
people on account of it is unjust and un
deserved. I would not anticipate the
sentence against Mr. Cox, but it is due
to say that the sentiment against him
here is universal and unqualified. Your
own condemnation of the killing, and
every feature of violence connected w r ith
it, and it is not a whit stronger or more
indignant than the feeling and judgment
of all classes here. I say it in justice to
these people, among whom I am an
adopted citizen from your state, that I
have never seen greater reverence for
law, and more earnest longing for peace
and quiet. Take the case of the colored
Julia Johnson, lately acquitted of the
murder of an old white lady in the coun
ty below. Julia is a bad w’oman, and
the prejudice of the people against her
guilt, was powerful, and yet she was
acquitted; and an attempt afterw’ard on
her life by the man since believed to be
the real murderer, has met w’ith wide
spread reprobation, and the w’hole
machinery of the law is now’ being
used to bring him to punish
ment. Here is a crowning proof
that a white jury, in the very tide of
high public feeiing, can do justice to a
poor colored woman even of bad repute.
There is a public honor, and the senti
ment of our best people is universally set
against the carrying of concealed weap
ons, and our courts have no sympathy
for a person proved to be guilty of this
offense against the law. The press all
over the state have strongly urged the
passage of a law prohibiting the sale of
pistols. I have deemed it due to these
people to make these corrections. Though
I have lived nine years among them, I
have ever acted independently, and have
•on many occasions differed with them a
to what correct action in public and pri
vate matters, and my views have always
been respected, if now followed.
William 11. White,
Late Surgeon, in the lowa Vol. in.
Atlanta, Ga.. Monday, March 17, 1877.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1879.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
important Communication from the Comp
troller-General.
According to the law passed several
years ago the insurifuce companies doing
business in this state, are required
to deposit w ith the state treasurer, $25,000
for the security of their policy-holders
in Georgia. Thefaw was deemed nec
essary because of frequent failures
among insurance companies. Nearly all
the companies doing business in the state
at once complied with this law, and the
comptroller-general published a list of
those who had thus complied. Besides the
deposit required of (life insurance compa
nies, both they and all life insurance
companies are required to pay a tax of
one per cent, on their income. The
present insurance regulations of the state
therefore are a stroiLr protection to the
interest of all who nave either fire or
life policies. As the list of life year has
been somewhat chained, Colonel W. L.
Goldsmith, the comjjteoller-geueral, has
issued the following; important letter:
State of Georgia, Comptroller General’s
office, Atlanta, Ga^April 17, 1879. —
The following fire jwut life insurance
companies have been examined by me,
made the deposits w ife the state treasurer
according to law s ai%d having received
the certificates of authority from this
office, and are alonW-eutitled to transact
business in this state rfor 1879.
I learn some companies are evading
the law by proposing to write insurance
and renew risks without submitting to an
examination or making the $25,000 de
posit. If so, it is dangerous to insure in
such companies. If they evade the laws
of the state, and pay no revenue into the
treasury, they might find away to evade
the payment of their policies when loss
comes to the insurer.
I think it would be touch better for our
citizens to patronize alone thoge compa
nies which have fully Complied with the
legal requirements of the state laws,
viz.
Fire insurance companies—New York:
Home, Manhattan, Cterman-American,
Williamsburg City, Germania, Hanover,
Phenix. Continental, Niagara, West
chester. Virginia: Petersburg, Sav
ings and Virginia, Virginia Home, Mer
chant’s and Mechanic’s Virginia Fire
and Marine, Lynchburg Fire. Alabama:
Mobile Fire Department Insurance
Company. Pennsylvania: Insurance
company of North America, Franklin,
Fire Association of Piutadelphia. Con
necticut, Hartford, Phenix. Canada,
Western, Assurance, British America,
Scotland; Scottish Commercial. Scot
land: Ham burg-Bremen. England
Royal, Guardian Assurance, Liverpool
and London and Globe, North British
and Mercantile, London and Lancashire,
Lancashire, Northern Assurance,
Imperial, London* Corporation, Queen
Commercial Union Assurance.
Georgia, Southern, Mutual, Georgia
Home.
Fire insurance companies-*-North
western Mutual, Wisconsin; New' En
gland mutual, Massachusetts; Southern
mutual, Kentucky; Penn mutual Penn
sylvania; Mutual, life, New York Massa
chusetts Mutual, Mass.; Hartford life
and annuity: Manhattan, New York,
Washington, New' York; Traveler’s,
vEtna, Connecticut; „Cotton States,
Georgia.
W. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller-Gener
al.
THE GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The body of able and ambiguous pro
pellers of the gray goose quill will as
semble at Cartersville the fourteenth of
next month. The Cartersvillians—don’t
like the sound of that last syllable, but
in too great a hurry to change it—are
making big preparations for the enter
tainment of their invited guests, and a
very larg-sized time may be expected.
A press association is verily a big thing.
There is, or at least always has been, a
large amount of rusty grip-sacks, a ple
thora of paper collars, a show’er of blue
ribbon rosettes, a vasty amount of chin
music, and no scarcity of free hash. If
there is any One thing to which an edi
tor’s soul ever turns with an unsatiated
longing, it is the fiesh-pots of Egypt, or
any other place containing free hash. As
the deer panteth after the w ater brooks,
or a politician thirsteth for red liquor,
so doth the soul of an editor hunger for
the succulent provender for w’hich he
hath toiled not, neither hath he spun.
Charley Willingham, the great un
tamed independent of the fiery seventh,
will be at the breech of the machine, and
aided by Cunningham, the sedate, sober,
organized democrat of the bailiwick, w’ilL
do the honors.
We will all be there. Estill the grave,
How’ell the jolly, Gregg Wright the pol
ished patrician, and 11. H. J., the victor
of a thousand well-fought and gloriously
won battles w’itli the knife and fork, will
be there. Henry Cabaniss the dignified,
Hanleiter the punster, Blocker the irre
pressible, and Shivers the solid muldoon
of the Warrenton Clipper, w ill be there.
Geo. Woods, with his latest improved
copper-bottomed curve-necked Montene
grin gourds, warranted not to rip, tear,
nor cut in the eye; Charley Pendleton,
with his gold-rimmed spectacles; and
Burton of the South Georgian, with his
undercut overstrung wrought iron bridge
and left-handed screw fiddle, will fringe
the edges of the occasion. Billie Chris
topher, and Dicky Bird Grubb, and Tuck
er, and Sullivan, and John Christian,and
Blackburn, and Hancock th£ fat and
short-winded colonel, and Frank Evans,
and Boyd, all will be there. And John
Gorman, the sweet daisy, will be there;
and Fatty Mumford, the sweet singer of
the glades of Talbot, will be there; and
Martin, the elongated exclamation point
of humanity will be there; and Mcln
tosh, the champion billiardist, will be
there; and Waddey, the tub of hunian
fat, and Perham, the free lance of the
South, will be there. And Jerusha Jen
kins, Hail Columbia, the land of the free
and the home of the brave, hi diddle
diddle, the cat and the fiddle, w r on’t we
have a time !!
But we will miss some old familiar
faces. Gene Speer will be a cherished
memory only, and John Waterman will
be gone North. Carey W. Styles, the
old Nestor, will not ring his bugle note
against patent insides, and the solemn
hush will be hard to bear. Ah, well,
every sweet has its hitter, and the cor
ners of the corridors of the ages are fili
greed with the cobwebs of recollection of
the great and good who have gone out
from among us. *
The balance of us will be there. Let
the free hash cauldron bubble right mer
rily. Tune up the buzfuz, sound out the
hewgag, and let joy be unconfined. —
Gainesville Eagle.
Grant went to see the dancing girls
and this is the way he took it: The
Moharajah and his Court looked on as
gloomy as ravens, w hile the General
wore that resigned expression—resigna
tion tinted with despair—familiar to those
of his Washington friends who had seen
him to an address from the Women’s
Rights Association or receive a delega
tion of Sioux chiefs.
GEN. RICHARD TAYLOR.
The telegrams announce the death in
New York on Saturday, the 12th inst.,
of another distinguished son of the South,
Gen. Richard Taylor. J?ome days ago it
was announced that he had contracted a
severe cold, which had developed into
pneumonia, but the immediate cause of
his death is said to have been dropsy.
Gen. Taylor was the only living sou of
ex-President Taylor, w hose soldierly and
statesmanly qualities he largely inherit
ed. He was, we learn, born in Florida,
but, some years before the late civil con
flict, was a resident of Louisiana,'w here
he possessed a great deal of influence.
He was a delegate to the Charleston dem-
convention in 1860, where he
exerteu himself to the extent of his abili
ty to preserve the harmony and unity of
the democratic party. When, how r ever,
Lincoln w r as elected in 1861, he was a
member of the Louisiana legislature, and
was subsequently a member of the con
vention L of that state which passed th?
ordinance of secession.
At the outbreak of the war, General
Taylor was commissioned colonel of a
Louisiana regiment, in which capacity
he distinguished himself for gallantry at
the first battle of Manassas. In October,
1861, he was promoted to be brigadier
general and was attached to the command
of General Stonewall Jackson,w ith whom
he served with credit in his memorable
valley campaign. In 1863 he w'as trans
ferred k to the department of Louisiana
with the rank of lieutenant general, and
here he won fresh honois in his success
ful movements against Gen. N. P. Banks,
w r hom he badly routed in the Red River
campaign. At the time of the surrender
he was in command in Alabama, and at
Citronelle, in that state, surrendered, on
the Bth of May, 1865, the last organized
forces of the confederate army.
After the war Gen. Taylor made a trip
to Europe, and since his return, has spent
much of his time in New' York, where
he has actively exerted himself towards
securing the success of contemplated
works of internal improvement in Louisi
ana. His fame won in the service of the
Confederacy, Ills brilliant personal talent,
added to his high social position (he be
ing a brother-in-law of ex-President Da
vis, as well as a son of ex-President Tay
lor) and coinlortable pecuniary circum
stances, gained him the entree to the best
society, both at home and abroad, and
enabled him everywhere to shine pre
eminent.
He w r as also a gentleman of decided
literary ability, and contributed a good
share to the war literature of the country
since the close of the civil conflict. He
had but just published a work—from
which we have already made several ex
tracts—entitled : “Destruction and Re
construction; Personal Experiences of
the Late War.”
He w’as, in a word, a distinguished sol
dier, a man of unusually brilliant attain
ments, and a perfect type of a southern
gentleman. His untimely death w'ill be
sadly deplored not only by his immediate
relatives, but also by a large circle of
friends, with whom he was a general fa
vorite.—Savannah News.
SOUTHERN UIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY.
The state of Georgia is now being exer
cised considerably by accusitions and
counter accusitions between Senator
Gordon and Dr. Felton and wife. Gor
don nccuses the Feltons of coquetting
with radicalism, so as to supplement in
dependentism in Georgia by the black
element, or, in other words, “A black
line of battle, officered by white faces.”
The Feltons accuse Gordon of participa
ting in various swindles since the war,
and particularly with that gigantic swin
dle called “The Southern Life Insurance
Company,” with which so many of our
Barnwell citizens are, to their sorrow,
too well acquainted.
With regard to Gordon’s charge against
the Feltons, we have this much to say,
that Georgia is now a battlefield of war
ring democracy, in which the blacks are
slipped in unscrupulously by both fac
tions to further their ambitious projects;
and without passing an opinion upon the
character of the Feltons male or lemale,
we can only say that so far as Gordon’s
charge is concerned they are only “doing
at Borne as Rome does.” But with re
gard to the counter charge against Gen.
Gordon, we are very much afraid he has
got the worst of it; for we know that at
the very time that he and the weak mind
ed governor of Georgia, Colquitt, were
lending their hitherto honored names to
bolster up this wretched, infamous bub
ble, which impoverished so many of our
people, they were well aware that the
Augusta branch was in the hands of the
notorious, unscrupulous adventurer, J.
H. Miller; that that officer was a defaul
ter for a year or two before the explo
sion, to the amount of $40,000; that the
Atlanta branch held a mortgage and oth
er leins upon all the assets of tliis Augus
ta branch and its renewal premiums,
that the carriage and horses even of the
forger Miller, by which he dazzled the
eyes of the community with a fictitious
prosperity, were mortgaged to the Atlan
ta branch, and that at any moment the
whole affair was subject to disaster. If
Gen. Gordon or Governor Colquitt deny
this knowledge, then we charge them
with a crime almost equal in moral, if
not in legal turpitude; a crime, alas! too
common amongst our people, viz: that of
assuming for filth lucre positions of grave
trust and responsibility, for which they
not rendered competent either by
previous training or natural ability.
On the other horn of the dilemma we
gore them. It is a hopeless task to inquire
as the News and Courier does, for a satis
factory explanation of this detestible
crime. It will ever stand against them
and their children as a blot upon their
fair escutcheon. —Barnwell (S. C .) Peo
ple.
A Paris correspondent of the Philadel
phia Press writes: “ The power whicli
to an American seems to lie behind all
French politics is the bayonet. In this
bright and beautiful city—gay, smiling
and debonnaira in its Sunday attire—you
meet the soldiery everywhere. Infantry
men pace in front of every theater, with
musket all ready at * right shoulder
shift.’ Sentries stand at a thousand ports
with fixed bayonets. At the cafes and on
the streets you meet everywhere hel
meted and horse-haired dragoons off duty,
with the dull, bourgeois face of the coun
try conscript; and I have not failed to
notice that the platoons of soldiers, when
relieving guard through the city, march
fully equipped and armed for the field,
with cartridge boxes, knapsacks packed
and blankets across the shoulder. When
ever it may be necessary to put down a
riot or back up a revolution in Paris,
there will be no question of overcoats to
delay action or impede a coup.”
Marshal MacMahon at least did not
make money in office. On the contrary,
while president he expended SIOO,OOO
annually of his private fortune, and his
fine estates are all mortgaged. Notwith
standing this fact he has resolutely re
fused a gift from the national exchequer.
TABLE ETIQUETTE.
Bread should be broken, not cut; but
if you don’t like bread “cut” it. In
“breaking” bread use a curb bit.
Do not fill your mouth too full; rather
allow some of the food to get into your
moustache.
Split a biscuit with your fingers, in
stead of opening it with your knife, like
an oyster. If the biscuit be hard, a bee
tle and w'edge are admissible in the best
society.
Do not pick your teeth at the table.
Pick them at the dentist’s, if he has a
good assortment to pick from.
Salt should never be put on the table
cloth, but on the side of your plate. If,
how'ever, you want to pickle the table
cloth in brine, you must put salt on it, of
course.
Do not rattle your knife and fork. A
knife and spoon will be found more mu
sical.
Eat soup from the side of your spoon,
either inside or outside.
Do not take game in your fingers.
This, however, does not apply to a game
of cards.
Do not rest your arms op the table
cloth. Stack your arms in a corner of the
room beginning dinner.
When asked what part of the fowl you
prefer, answer prompth*. If you want
the whole of it don’t hesitate to say so.
Do not drink with'the spoon in your
cup; put it in your pocket. Forgetting
it, you will be so much ahead.
It is bad taste for the host and hostess
to finish eating before their guests. It is
better to move their chairs so as to .finish
behind them.
Never leave the table until all are
through, without sufficient excuse. The
sudden entrance of a policeman witli a
warrant for your arrest is generally con
sidered sufficient excuse in polite circles.
Pay no attention to accidents or blun
ders on the part of servants. If Bridget
blows herself up while encouraging the
fire with kerosene, keep right on eating
just as if you had never (kero) sene it.
Never help yourself to articles of food
with your knife or fork. Use a harpoon
or lasso.
When you have finished your meal,
lay your knife and fork on your plate,
side by side, with the handles toward the
right, a little south by sou-w est, bearing
northerly, w hen the wind is off the side
board quarter.
For the dozen or fifteen offices at the
disposition of the secretary of the senate
there are very nearly as many hundred
applicants. From the time of his en
trance in office the present secretary of
the senate has not had a waking hour
that has not been monopolized by
cants for office. Senators rush into his
room with their proteges and make al
most peremptory demands that they shall
be given a place immediately. Colonel
Burch, the new secretary, is a man of
even temperament, but under the pres
sure which has been brought to bear on
him the signs of weariness in his counte
nance are quite perceptible. It is learn
ed that the secretary has had several con
ferences with the vice-president in refer
ence to contemplated removals in his
office. The vice-president, after consul
tation with several of the leading senators
on the republican side, informed the sec
retary that he would decline to approve
of any removals without good causes
were produced for the same. While the
vice-president, inspired by his party
friends, thus determined to take partisan
advantage of the rule which makes re
movals dependent upon his approval, his
interview's with the secretary of the sen
ate on the subject w r ere of an entirely
pleasant and cordial character, and he
intimated that the democrats w r ere only
following the custom of parties in desir
ing to bestow the senate offices upon their
own friends. In consequence of the po
sition taken by the vice-president, the
question w ould have in a day or two been
presented to the democratic caucus
whether it was not expedient to abolish
the rule conferring upon the presiding
officer of the senate supervisory pow'er
over the appointments, unless the demo
cratic office seekers were willing to w ait
until the first of May. At this time the
vice-president had proposed to go to his
home in New York, and not return un
til next December, and the democratic
president pro tem. of the senate to be
elected in his stead w r ould then hold the
supervisory pow er over the appointments.
In consequence, liow r ever, of the sudden
illness of his sister, the vice-president has
already been called home, and Judge
Thurman*elected as president pro tem.
of the senate. This removes all obstacles
as to removals, and it is probable that the
axe will be set to work in a few r days.
Mr. Paul Geddes, one of the assistant
executive clerks, with a salary of $2,200,
received notice that his services will be
dispensed with after Monday next, and
notice will be served upon others in due
time.
A correspondent of the ThomasvilleAw
terprise writes from Boston to that paper
as follows: “Perhaps the and
most heart-rending scene was witnessed
in the neighborhood of Grooverville on
Friday afternoon that this section has
ever know n when the body of Mr. W. R.
Lee w'as found dead in a w r ell on his
mother’s plantation. Mr. Lee left the
house on Thursday morning about eight
o’clock, as the family thought, to see
about some of the farm laborers, and
they paid no attention to his absence or
suspected anything out of the usual order
of things until late in the afternoon.
When he did not return they began to
grow' anxious about him and to make
search, but he was not found. On Fri
day morning great excitement prevailed
throughout the neighborhood. By search
ing in every conceivable place, they at
last came to an old well, about half a mile
from the house, w here by the use of a
pole, the body of Mr. Lee was found sub
merged some ten feet under water in a
standing posture. By the aid of a pair
of steelyards the body was taken out and
examined. He had a razor in his pocket,
his hat was w r added and put into his
pocket; also his shirt collar unbuttoned,
his lips and teeth clenched and there
w r as no water in the body. There were
no marks of violence on his person, and,
though he left no positive evidences of
his intention to end his life thus, circum
stances w ill warrant the assertion that it
was premeditated. And yet no reason
can be assigned for such a rash course.
Mr. Lee is of one of the best families of
Brooks county—in good, easy circum
stances, and recognized by all who knew'
him as a perfect gentleman.”
“Boys,” said Allen Carson the other
night, “ talk about fast railroads—l rode
on the New York Central once and the
engine had no whistle on it. It’s the
honest truth, the cars run so fast that
they outrun sound.— Gazette.
“Pshaw! that ain’t nothing,” said an
old “yarner” in our office. “I was on
the Cherokee railroad Once when they
had to stop every three miles to let the
reflection of the head-light get in front
of the engine.”
In Burke county a negro bit off anoth
er’s nose.
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THINGS IN DIXIE.
Key West cigar factories are in full
blast.
j An Aspalaga (Fla.) man caught over
700 fish in one day.
Pneumonia continues to prevail in
Memphis.
. Ten thousand tons of ice have been
| received at Memphis.
The San Antonio water-works have
been completed and work well.
The Norfolk papers say that vegetables
have not been injured in that section.
Since the sth of March 2,700 negroes
have left Mississippi and Lousiana for
Kansas.
The large flouring mill of Hancock,
' Lester & Cos., of Florence, Ala., has been
f destroyed by fire.
There are over 4,000,000 acres of public
laud in Alabama subject to entry or
homestead.
Colonel S. T. Suit, of Marlboro, Md.,
recently sold 300 gallons of his celebra
ted old whisky at sls per gallon.
An average of two hundred aud eleven
ddßfirs per annum is paid county super
intendents of public instruction in Ten
nessee.
Some arithmetician lias been figuring
the Texas debt, and says it will take
$2.50-from every man, woman and child
in the state to pay it.
New* Orleans Picayune: People who
talk and disturb an audience at a theater
are better fitted fjr witnessing chicken
fights than good plays.
A Bumcombe (N. C.) county man said
in Asheville the other day that he
vears old, wrote a readable hand, but
never wrote and never received a letter
in his life.
In Arkansas there are 1,859,821 acres
of improved lands, 3,910,325 acres of
wmodland, 1,827,150 acres of other unim
proved lands, and 33,405,720 acres of
United States public lands.
Not long ago a man w r as run over and
killed by the cars at Evanston, in the
neighborhood of Chicago. The body
was identified as that of Josiah Hill, a
resident of South Bend, Iml., who had
been at w ork on a farm at Winnetka, five
miles from Middletown. The widow* and
daughter were inconsolable and quite
broken down after the coroner’s inquest
(which found that “Josiai>Hill came ac
cidentally to his death,”) and the burial
in the graveyard at South Bend. Several
days later Mrs. Hill mustered up courage
enough to go to Winnetka for her late
husband’s effects. Lo and behold ! when
she approached the farm house there was
her husband quietly at work in the barn
yard.. She fainted several times, and
could With difficulty be induced to be
lieve that it was only a very strange case
of mistaken identity.. As for Hill him
self, it w r as the first he had heard of his
own death. .
The following list of representatives of
the present congress, w hpse seats are to be
contested, together with the names of the
contestants, was furnished to the house
on the 17th instant by clerk Adams and
submitted by Mr. Randall just before ad
journment :
From the. .6th Massachusetts—Benton
vs. Loring.
20th Pennyslvania—Curtain vs. Yo
cum.
Ist North Carolina—Yates vs. Martin.
2d N. Carolina —O’Hara vs. Kitchin.
2d South Carolina—Mackey vs. O’Con
ner.
4tli Alabama—Haralson vs. Shelley.
3d Louisiana—Herbert vs. Acklim
3d Louisiana —Merchant vs. Acklin.
2d Arkansas—Bradley vs. Sletnons.
2d Florida —Bisbee vs. Hull.
3d Minnesota—Comdly vs. Washburn.
State of Oregon—McDonnel vs. White
acre.
A singular story comes from Collamer,
New York. A farmer named Bostwiek
some little time ago lost his wife, and be
ing a devout spiritualist, anxiously waited
for a message from her, but none came.
The idea that his ow n taking off was
near at hand took possession pf him.
With this solemn thought in his head he
contracted with the sexton of the ceme
tery to dig his grave, paying out ten dol
lars for the labor. One day last week he
made a trip to the nearest undertaker,
and on paying dowui ninety dollars
closed an agreement with that personage
to properly inter his bones. On the way
home Bostwiek fell from his w'agon and
died, and on Friday last he was buried.
Captain Fads says there are now' 27
feet of w'ater the entire length of his
Mississippi jetties. He has strengthened
the sea end of his jetties by a concrete
capping which stands two and a half feet
above average high tide. The capping
is made in seventy ton blocks of cement,
sand, gravel and broken stone, which are
mixed in moulds and left till they harden.
They are then placed on the willow mat
tresses Which form the jetties, and pro
tected on the seaward side by stone and
gravel, driving all the water down the
channel, and forming a wall that w ill be
permanent.
A movement is on foot in the commer
cial circles of England, as distinguished
from the banking or monetary circles,
to have silver remonetized. The Liver
pool Chamber of Commerce recently pass
ed resolutions urging the Government
the necssity that existed for the protec
tion of the manufacturing and commer
cial interests of establishing a bi-metallic
standard similar to that of the United
States.
When the federal troops entered South
Carolina at the close of the w ar, they
took possession of a memorial shaft which
the State proposed to erect to the mem
ory of General Stonew*all Jackson, and
it is now in charge of the war depart
ment. In response to a letter from Rep
resentative Evins, of that State, the Sec
retary of War w'rites that he w ill make
no objection to its return to Governor
Simpson.
Of the $1,000,000 donated by Mrs.
Stone to educational institutions, she
and Rev. W. H. Wilcox have distributed
the following amounts to the universities
named:
Fisk University $ 50,000
Oberlin University 50,000
Welsley 100,000
Andover University....sso, 000 to 100,000
Atlanta University 50,000
and various*sums to southern institutions
of learning.
Not a single republican candidate for
any city office in Cincinnati, last week
received an absolute majority. The only
official elected by a majority is a demo
crat—Judge Wilson, of’the police court.
The United States supreme court will
be 750 cases, or tw o years behind, when
it adjourns May 12. The court is not gain
ing on its calendar, either, as the number
of cases involving constitutional ques
tions is growing larger.