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! THE DEATH OF J. WILKES BOOTH.
The Pursuits and Discovery of Men Who
Killed Lincoln—Boston Corbett’s Shot
—Distributing the Reward—Some Inci
dents of the Chase Belated.
A reporter of the New Orleans Picay
une has recently interviewed Captain
Edward P. Doherty, who commanded
the detachment that captured Booth and
Harold after the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln, that of that officer's story
; of the pursuit and its insult appeared
in the Picayune of August 18. The
story of (he surrender of Harold and the
1 shooting of Booth in the barn near Bow
j ling Green is told as follows:
“After Garrett had designated the di
rection of the barn, Captain Doherty said
to Sergent Boston Cirbett: ‘Dismount
your men, detail a few to watch the house,
and bring the remainder here.’ Captain
Doherty then surrounded the barn with
bis men, and, going to the front door,
placed (lie lighted candle which he held
in his hand for some time, near the front
entrance of the barn, and in the vicini
ty of a large crack or opening. Unlock
ing the door, Captain Doherty called
upon those in the barn to come out and
surrender, but no answer was made to
this and subsequent frequent and loud
demands of a like character. Captain
Doherty then passed around among the
sentinels who surrounded the barn, when
he was informed that whispering and the
moving of hay had been heard from the
inside.”
“Captain Doherty then said:‘lf you
don’t come out I’ll set fire to the building
and burn jam out.’ As there was no
answer even to this, Captain Doherty or
dered Corporal Newgarten to pile some
shavings and hay in the opening and set
fire to it. While he was piling it up a
voice said to the corporal: ‘lf you come
back there I’ll put a bullet through you.’
Captain Dohertj r who was standing near
Newgarten, then quietly ordered him to
desist, and determined to wait till day
tight before making any further demon
strations.”
At this time a long conversation took
place between Captain Doherty and J.
Wilkes Booth. The former, after hear
ing the threat of the latter, called again
for a surrender, when Booth replied:
‘Who do you take us for V Captain Doher
ty responded: ‘lt don’t make any differ
ence who I take you for, I’m going to
arrest you.’ Then Booth said: “Boys
fetch me a stretcher, another stain in
our glorious banner.’
“Walking around the barn and return
ing near the door, Capt. Doherty heard
whispered conversation between Booth
and Harrold from the inside. Bootli
then said aloud; “I am crippled and
alone; give me a chance for my life;
draw your men up at twenty-five paces,
and I will come out.’
“Capt. Doherty replied - T didn’t
come here to light, but to capture j r ou. 1
have fifty men here, and can do it.
“In the meantime Harrold had ap
proached the door, when Capt. Doherty
said to him, ‘Let me see your hands,
when Harrold put both hands out
through the door, and Capt, Doherty
seizing them, handed him over to the cor
poral at the door.
“While this conversation was going on
and as Capt. Doherty was in the act of
taking Harrold out of the front door, the
barn had been fired in the rear. The
fiarnes burst suddenly forth. Booth,
who had left his position in the barn to
the right of the opening referred to above,
near the candle, took a position in the
center of the barn facing the door, and
raising his carbine, pointed it in the di
rection ot Harrold and Capt. Doherty,
when Sergt. Corbett, avlio was stationed
at one of the openings at the barn to the
left of Booth, observing the movement,
leveled a large-size Colt’s revolver at
Booth and fired intending to hit hi the
arm tor the purpose of disabling but the
ball entered his neck, about one inch from
the same point that Bootli shot Presi
dent Lincoln.
“On hearing the shot, and being at
the time ignorant of the movement or
intention of Booth, Captain Doherty
supposed that he had shot himself rather
that surrender, when the officers rushed
into the barn, and bj- the light
of the burning building saw Booth
with the carbine betwen his legs, one of
his crutches having droped, and Booth
in the act of falling forward, when Cap
tain Doherty caught him with both
arms around his body and carried him
out side of the barn and laid him down,
but tlie heat becoming too intense Cap
tain Doherty ordered him removed under
the varanda of the Garrett mansion.
“Soldiers were then dispatched in dif
ferent directions for doctors, but only
one, Dr. Urquat, could be found he ar- ;
riving about 9 a. m., and after probing!
the wound, pronounced it fatal, the ban
having ranged upward, cutting the vital
part.
“From the time that Booth was shot, 5
o’clock, to the time he expired, two hours
later, he spoke but once, and that was to
Captain Doherty, shortly before 6o’clock
when he said to him, ‘Hands.’ Captain
Doherty lifted up his hands, when Booth
looked at them for an instant, and, ex
claimed, ‘Useless, useless.’ A short
time after this he became unconscious
and so remained until lie expired.
“Captain Doherty after wrapping the
body of Bootli in his saddle blanket, sew
ed the blanket together with his own
hands and having placed the body on a
cart which was obtained from an old
negro residing about two miles distant,
proceeded with the body and the prison
er, Harrold, to Belle Plain, where the
Ide was awaiting the return of the com
mand, which arrived at six p. m., when
the Ide proceeded to Washington, where
the body of Bootli and the prisoner,
Harrold, were turned over to the officers
of the U nited States iron-clad monitor
Moutauk, Captain Doherty having re
ceived orders from the department
commanders so to do. This was at 3
o’clock on the morning of the 27tli.
“In reference to the different state
ments that Booth was never captured nor
killed, and that he is still alive to-day.
Captain Doherty says that it is the sheer
est nonsense in the world, as in the first
place, Captain Doherty knew J. Wilkes
Bootli personally, and was in his com
pany at the National hotel in Washing
ton about two months previous to the as
sassination. In the second place at the
post-mortem, examination, held on the
27th of April, Booth was fully identified
by Dr. May, his attending physician,
who had performed an operation upon
his neck, and by Mr. Dawson proprietor
of the National hotel, where lie boarded
during his residence in Washington, and
also by well known citizens, to the full
satisfaction of the government.
“In the third place, after the body of
Booth was buried in the cell in tlie peni
tentiary at the arsenal at Washington,
the remains were delivered over to his re
latives four years later, upon application
to President Johnson, and now they rest
in the family vault near Baltimore, Md.,
thus proving that the members of his own
family recognize the fact that the body
lying there is the last mortal remains of
J. Wilkes Booth.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1879.
“Harrold was tried -convicted and
hanged with Payne, Atzerot and Mrs.
Surratt, in July 1863.
“*\ total reward of $150,000 offered by
the government, the city of Washington
and the city of Baltimore. The reward
of SIOO,OOO offered by the government
was paid, but those offered by the cities
of Washington and Baltimore were re
pudiated. Captain Doherty entered
suit in the United States district court
for the District of Columbia to recover
the $20,000 offered by the city of Wash
ington had no authority to offer the re
ward.
“Captain Doherty appealed the case
to tlie supreme court of the United States,
where it is now pending, and from whence
a decision i< expected to tie reached this
j'ear. In the case of the claim against
the city of Baltimore which ottered $30,-
000 for the arrest of the assassin, Cap
tain Doherty did not sue to recover,
the mayor and alderman telling him point
blank that they would not pay it as
tlie reward was offered under a previous
administration. This claim has now
elapsed bj r limitation.
“Of the SIOO,OOO offered by the gov
ernment, $75,000 was.paid on the basis
of prize money in the navy. The com
mand consisted of twenty-six enlisted
men, two citizens (detectives) and one
commissioned officer. The commission
appointed to distribute the money consis
ted of Judge Advocate-General Ilolt
E. D. Townsend, adjutant-general of
the army, who awarded to Captain Do
herty $?5,000; to each of the citizens de
tectives, $4,000; to Sergeant Wandell,
$2,200 each commission deciding that tlie
fact of Corbett having shot Booth did not
entitle him to more than the non-com
missioned officer of the same rank who
was also present at the capture.
“General Lafayette C. Baker, chief
detective of the war department was held
to be the same as an admiral, who detach
es a ship and orders it to another squad
ron. In stansitu that ship captures a
prize, and Captain Doherty being in
position as captain of the ship received
two-twentieths of the whole amount,
while the admiral, who in this case was
General Baker, received one twentieth,
or $3,750. The remainder of $75,000
was distributed pro rata among the men.
“Capt. Doherty was informed from
high authority that ‘a wheel barrow of
claims’ were put in for this reward, al
most every detective in the United States
representing that he was entitled to a
share. The adjustment of this mass of
claims occupied the members of tlie com
mittee a little over a year before they
could determine who were entitled to the
reward.”
GENERAL TOOMBS.
[White Sulphur Springs Correspondence Rich
mond Southern Intelligencer.]
Here can be seen, also, men who have
helped to rule the destiny of tlie nation, i
Here, also, are men of heart and men |
of mind, men of wealth and men of!
worth. Among this varied collection j
is one famous among southerns, a man
Called, in familiar southern vernacular, 1
“Bob Toombs, of Georgia,” not seeking
notoriety, but conspicuous in presence I
and bearing. He kept himself rather j
close, but the writer, m walking along i
the piazza some days since lazily smok- !
ing a cigar, heard a round “By God, !
sir,” roll forth with an emphasis pecu- i
liar to some of onr “unreconstructed
rebels,” and turning rapidly, we stood
at the elbow of General Toombs. No
man can Help seeing him without a second
look, and no man looking can help listen
in to the “old man eloquent,” and so did
avc.
Carelessly graceful in posture, his
portly fojm rose six feet and more into
the air, rather a short, fat neck, upon
which sat, with an air of unsubdued
boldness, a massive head, long iron
grey locks fell about his neck and ears, j
producing a somewhat picturesque shag- !
giness of appearance; a black slouch hat,
peaked and with lowered brim, was
drawn down upon his forehead until it
touched the shaggy eye-brow beneath
which shines clear, fearless brown ej r es, !
which rested upon the listeners, with
flashes, carrying according t> the utter
ances of the talker. From between ;
these eyes springs a large straight nose
rather full at the end, and shelving off
into the wide, thin nostrils, which quiv
ering and dilating as the words rolled j
forth, showed the eloquence of the proud, i
strong lips, which never j'et learned to !
speak a submissive word. Beneath the !
wide, thick-lipped mouth is a broad, 1
heavy, double chin, wflteh rolls away be- !
neath the ample folds of an old-fashioned 1
standing.collar. Except for a thin tuft !
of beard between the two chins, the
face is clean.
Miss Rachel Snodgrrss, 19 years of age, !
of Westmoreland county Pa., dropped
dead one day last week under strange j
circumstances. Shortly before the oc- j
curence of the deplorable affair, it is said j
that a little niece of Miss Snodgrass had
strayed into the back yard of her aunt’s
residence, and presently wandered out
on a plank which had been suspended
across a deep well. Here the little ;
one, unconscious of its peril, sat astride
the board playing. A few minutes later
Miss Snodgrass, who had missed the
child, started out to look for it. Going
to the well she was about rescuing the
child, when it began to cry, and at the
same time made an effort to crawl off the
plank. This was so terrifying that
Miss Snodgrass was overcome by her
nervous excitement and fell the ground
and had already expired when she was
discovered by her parents. The child
was rescued without injuiy.
Rev. 11. Eggers, pastor of the St.
John’s Lutheran Church, at Pittsburg,
Pa., on Friday evening last attended tlie
rehersal of the choir in the church, and
in stepping into a side • room for a slate,
fell through a hatchway, which had been
left open, to the basement a distance of
eighteen feet. No one knew at the time
that he had fallen. He got up and went
up into the church and sat down on a
chair. On of the members of the choir
saw that lie was looking strangely, as
ked what was the matter. The only re
ply was that he had fallen. He was ta
ken to his home, and died of concussion
of the brain, caused of course by the
fall.
A peculiar case of trance has caused
great excitement in Hereford, England.
It is that of a young girl who had been
laid out for dead, and for whose inter
ment all preparations had been made,
when it was discovered that she was in a
trance. For three weeks before that
she had partaken of no food, and gince
her recovery from the trance she has
had her tongue protruding, the eyeballs
rigidly fixed, while the frame at times
been hysterically agitated.
Prof. Burnham, the astronomer, has
gone to California to select a point at
which he will locate the Lick Observa
tory. It is likely that a site will be
chosen in Santa Clara county, forty
miles south of San Francisco.
NO BULLDOZING IN GEORGIA.
Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has written
i a very emphatic letter of denial to Gov.
I Garcelon, of Maine, in regard to certain
reports recently circulated in the latter
| state, the burden of these reports being
that in the last two years a large number
of men have been lynched in Georgia be
cause they belonged p> the Methodist
church, voted tin* republican ticket, and
interested themselves in the education of
the colored people. Governor Colquitt
says:
“l might make summary work in dis
posing of this portent. ions "array of charges
so grave by giving you my word, wheth
er spoken as a plain citizen of Georgia,
or as an officer representing the whole
state, tllat a more unjust or inexcusable
falsification of the condition of things as
existing here could not have been fram
ed in words. But, to make mj’ attention
the more forcible to those not acquainted
with our true status, let me add that the
Methodist church, so far as members and
social position go, can hardly be said to
be second to any other denomination in
the state; that 73,000 colored children are
now on our school rolls, and the expense
of their education is on a very large
measure borne by the white tax paj r ers
of the state, and that we have in success
ful operation a college in this city, called
tlie Atlanta university, whose chains
give exclusive attention to the education
of colored youths. I myself very recent
ly appointed the board of examination to
visit this*institution at its last commence
ment, and am gratified to be able to tell
you that this board, composed of names
of the highest respectability, have made
a most encouraging report.
“As to intimidation and violence in
curred by reason of voting the republi
can ticket, let me assure you this is news
to us. We have two colored members in
the present legislature, and one of these
holds a seat which was contested by a
white man and a award
ed bj r a committee on elections every
member of which, I believe, is a white
man and a democrat. We are moving
on in peace, and the whites and blacks
in Georgia are working harmoniously to
efface the scars which strife has left. Can
we not be let alone in this good work ?
We beg to be let alone, if others cannot
find it in their heart to encourage us and
bid us God speed. While I have the hon
or to fill the chair of chief magistrate
there will never be cause in Georgia for
the weakest to appeal to a ‘foreign flag’
for the privilege of enjoying any right
which belongs to the citizens under the
law. Their rights all shall have without
fear or molestation. I make the prom
ise and give guaranty with the entire
strength of the public arm and public
opinion of Georgia to back me.”
“OH, CARRY ME BACK.”
Kansas City Times]
Independence, Montgomery County, !
Kansas, August 16, 1879.—1 am here :
and desire to return to my old home, !
Hazlehurst, Miss. I am a young man
with a wife and four children—oldest
child 9 years of age, youngest 1. I know
Mr. H. 11. Hogg and J. I*. Mathews,
they will remember me. This writing
is on account of seeing the great excur
sion in the Kansas City Times of the 15th.
L desire to return to mj r old home my
native home, my native south, where my
heart is and my affections will ever lin
ger. ‘
I am without means to return, work is
very hard to get, prices low, money very,
very scarce. 11l hid the means my
body would soon be in old Mississippi.
Please help me to return in any way, flat
car train, or any way. I do not wish
to winter here. OH ! help me. This
intended for Mr. Ilogg, Mr. Hubbard.
Mr. Mathews or any of the excursion
party, or any good perso.i who will
help a poor colored man in distress.
Very respectfully and humbly,
Brice Draper colored.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Vicksburg, Miss., is to have anew pa
per.
Small-pox is rampant in San Antonio,
Texas.
San Antonio, Texas, has a lady post
master.
Cotton is beginning to open fast in Ar
kansas.
San Antonio, Texas, has opened an im
migration association.
New York is raising money for the
Memphis fever sufferers.
Crops in Texas are all about twelve
days earlier than usual this season.
Mrs. General J. B. Hood died in New
Orleans last week of yellow fever.
The Amite river in Louisiana is to be j
surveyed, and will be made navigable.
The Sunday amusement in Baton
Rouge, La., is balloon ascensions.
This has been the finest season that
North Carolina summer resorts have ever
had.
A farm in Warren county, Virginia, j
assessed at $2,700 has just been sold for j
$6,000. t
The fruit crop of Winchester, Va., is j
the most abundant one for years.
Madison county, Ala., will harvest a
wheat crop of 100,000 bushels.
The Wesson factory at Wesson, Miss.,
pays out $2,000 per month to employees.
The earnings of the Shreveport, Vicks
burg and Texas railroad are reduced
about SI,OOO a week by quarantines.
North Carolina has 123 lodges of good
templars in good standing, with a total
membership of 3,610.
The new steeple of the First Presby
terian church in Wilmington, North Car
olina, is 160 feet high.
The salt spray thrown up by the late
storm at Beaufort, North Carolina, has
killed nearly all the trees there.
The largest peach crop of Maryland
this season was that of the late Colonel
Wilkins—7o,ooo baskets.
The New England Colon}* which will
be started in Tennessee, will settle on
50,000 acres of good land.
A force of 100 men now patrol the
suburbs of Memphis day and night to
watch out for thieves and incendiaries.
Hancock county, Ky., farmers who
posted their lands two years ago have j
their corn crops literalty eaten up bj T
squirrels.
New Iberia, La., is running mills, fac
tories, foundries, and cotton mills are be
ing put in order ready to gin the new
crop.
The drops along the Alabama great
southern railroad are in splendid condi
tion. Corn looks unusually well.
The New Orleans mint is now turning
out silver dollars as fast as the coin ma
chine can be run. About 350,000 of tlie
dollars will be coined during this month.
Tlie Georgian who opposes the inves
tigations now going on in Atlanta, need
not apply for office. The people will be
afraid to trust him. —filporta Ishmaelite.
ANNA BERGER MARRIED—NO BELLS
BUT WEDDING BELLS FOlt HER.
j Dramatic News]
Miss Anna Teresa Berger has for sev
eral years past been the princi
pal attraction of the Berger Family, one
; of the most successful combinations which
| travel. She is a comely little lady, well
informed, very clever, and a general
fovorite among those who know her. Mr.
Leander 8. Linch, better known as Leigh
Lynch, is on the other hand a well known
agent, and a man of indefatigable indus
try. For two years and a half Mr. Lynch
sincerely loved Miss Berger, and for
some time Miss Berger has returned the
affection. As this affected ripened and
grew the other members of the Berger
Family became alarmed. The did not
want to see Anna Teresa married, for if
she left the company it would mean the
loss of their prestige. They therefore
set about investigating Mr. Lynch's
character, and found that in some places
and to some people he owed money.
This fact was exaggerated into a crime,
and everything that could be detrimen
tal to Mr. Lynch was carried to Miss Ber
ger’s ears. The course of true love in
this instance ran smooth, and the brave
little woman, instead of lending an ear to
to the stories against the man she loved
turned a deaf ear, and proclaimed her af
fection for him. This of course, made
poor Leigh Lynch tabooed in it, for even
his visits and his letters were intercepted.
But love is miraculously ingenious, and
in spite of all he succeeded in occasional}'
seeing her and writing her as well. Af
ter a long tour Fred Berger and his sis
ter, Anna Teresa, arrived in this city a
little over week ago. Lynch was in
Chicago. lie saw her. lie wooed and
and finally won. On Tuesday after l
noon Anna Berger left the hotel in a
carriage. At Dean’s on Broadway, she
met Mr. Lynch. A mutual friend was
sought, and the three got into the car
riage and drove down Seventeenth street
to Second Avenue, alighting at the
house of the Rev. Mr. Gooasell. In
ten minutes he made them one. In her
little jacket and plain summer-dress few*
brides can look prettier than Miss Ber
ger, and few brides went more bravely
through an ordeal which, in this case, re
quired an extra amount of courage. The
parties then drove to their new residence
on Twenty-ninth street. —Mrs. Lynch
leaves the stage henceforth, and she not
only leaves the stage, but she makes no i
demand whatever on her family for the
amount she has earned as a member of j
the Bergers. This course was the ad
vice of her husband, and who said other
wise people might say he married her for
money.
I hear a great deal of talk here about
annexation. This question has already
been lightly discussed by the press in the j
Tinted States, but you would be surpris
ed to know how seriously it is discussed
here. They discuss and compare the
two forms of government; it is not a rare
thing to find Canadians more democratic
than the “statesmen,” and they are not
at all backward in advocating annexa
tion. Indeed, it is talked on the streets,
and I have seen it hinted at in the press.
Men have, in my presence and hearing,
pictured In glowing colors the benefits
that would follow annexation, and have
strongly and openly advocated it. I
think if the people of the United States
only knew how ripe and ready is the sen
timent in Canada for annexation, my
compatriots would be moving in the mat
ter, I think I can safely say, from the
observations I have thus far been able
to make, that Canada is ready. —Bob Bur
dette's letter from Canada.
In consequence of the large amount of
money seeking profitable investment, I he
mania for speculating in railroad and
mining stocks and in “futures” in cotton
and provisions is almost epidemic. Now
and then a fortunate man hits the mar
ket just right and secures a handsome re- I
turn, but in the majority of the cases the
inexperienced speculator finds his mar
gin exhausted and his money lost. Most
of this speculation is pure gambling, with
the chances less in favor of the player
than in lottery invesments. And in ad
dition to the risk or loss the business is
demoralizing, as is strikingly shown by
recent disclosures in Fall River. Those
fortunate people with money to invest
are wisest who are content with the
small but sure returns of good bonds and
mortgages, or who buy desirable real es
tate at tbe present low rates. — Hart ford
<?onront.
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An asylum for aged domesticated ani
mals has just been opened by an inhabi- !
tent of Gonesse, in France. It already
contains a cow thirty-five years of age, a
pig aged twenty-five, and an eighteen j
year old goat. The senior member of
this family is, however, a mule. lie is j
forty years of age. Ndxt comes a spar
row, whose summers number thirty-one; 1
twenty-eight years of life have been
granted to a god fish, and a guinea fowl
and a goose have respectively reached
the ages of twelve and thirty-seven
years.
The republicans of North Carolina
want to send one of their number—a col
ored man named Harris—to Ohio to take j
the stump and follow up Gov. Zeb Vance
in his campaign in that state. Harris is |
said to be very glib with the tongue, and |
a rip-roaring stump orator. The repub
lican committee in Washington is willing
that Harris should go, but no response
has yet been received from the republi
can managers in Ohio to his request.
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Since Queen Victoria’s accession to the i
throne, sixteen women have been hanged
l in England. Only one teinale has been
executed in America during that time, ;
| and her hanging ruined half a dozen
| statesmen’s reputations. American gal
lantry is as conspicuous upon the gallows
as in the street cars.— Pioneer Press.
The Pineer Press evidently refers to Mrs.
Surratt. But Georgia had a case of this
kind during Gov. Smith’s administration.
Susan Eberhart was the woman’s name.
i The commissioner of internal revenue
I reports that the tax on matches produced
Ia revenue, during the last fiscal year, of
; three and a quarter million dollars —an
' increase over any previous year. From
| five-eighths to three-fourths of the price
j. of matches is due to the tax. We import
no matches now, but are exporting them
to a large extent.
Congressman Reagan, of Texas, has
| serious fears that the greenbackers will
I carry Texas at the next election, although
| Gov. Roberts swept the state last year by
a majority of 80,000 in a total vote of
about 237,000. This is strange in a no
toriously hard money circulating state.
An Ohio correspondent of the New
York Herald sums up the political situa
tion thus: There is no telling about the
! legislature; the democrats have as fair
I chances for that as the republicans. But
j the democratic state ticket has at present
a tinge of indigo.
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NUMBER 8.
THE FARMER’S JOKE.
Tramp! tramp tram! and a farmer with
solid okl-fashiond feet, and hands big
: enough to cover a Sunday school excur
sion, came into the editorial room of this
paper to say:
I “Howdy ? I’ve walked down from the
market to give you the pcrtiekelcrs of a
good joke.” '
“All ri gh t—jiroeeed. ’'
“Yen know them lightning rod fel
lers?” observed the old man as he dropp
ed into a chair.
“Yes—heard of them.”
“Well, you know they're purty tutt
sot. Been after me more'll twenty years.
I've got signs out all along the road
warning ’em to keep oil' the plack, but
t’other day one of the ehrps driv right up
the gate, big as life."
“Did, eh?”
‘,Yes, he did, and 'fore I could git my
tongue to going he find about a thousand
feet of rod out of the wagon and was
ready to put it up on the barn.”
“What cheek 1"
“I guess ’twas, but purtv soon 1 went
for him. I had made up my mind to kill
him right there. The old woman she
came out and sailed in with me, and the
two hired men ’Supported me on the
flanks.”
“And you jammed him to pieces, ot
course ?”
“That’s where the hull fun comes in,”
answered the old man. “That ’ere fel
ler squared oft', shed his coat, and he
licked the hull four of us in loss’ll two
minutes by a wig-wag clock !”
“Did, eh ?”
“You bet he did, and he drunk up a
hull pan of milk and drove off whistling
’Yankee Doodle hum ’ When l got
out ’o the catnip whar’ he piled me and
saw one ’o the men with his nose mash
ed flat, the ’tother with three teeth knock
ed out, and the old woman jist crawling
out from under the old bob-sled, 1 begun
latfing and didn’t stop till midnight. 1
I !”
lie slapped his leg and uttered a “haw !
haw! haw r !” which echoed clear to ( ’ana
da, and in his contortions he broke the
back off iiis chair.
“But the joke was on you,” said the
perplexed journalist.
“Sartin—sartin, but am l such a dod
rotted fool that I can’t la If at the way
we four sailed in on him, calkerlating to
mop him all over the barnyard, and lafV
harder at the way we all started in on
the Lord’s prayer afore he had fairly got
the rust og his elbows! When 1 saw
Hanner clawing up from among the
bobs I !”
And he went off into another fit and
choked and gasped till he went down
stairs with his collar hanging by a single
button.
A telegram fr6m Raleigh, X. C., Au
gust 14th, says: “The Mormons and
their apponents are having lively times
in C lay and Cherokee counties. This
sect has multiplied amazingly in those
counties. A few days since the people
of the county turned out en masse , and
going to the Mormon settlements, gave
them thirty days in which to leave North
Carolina. If they did not leave, they
were told that they would be made to.
As soon as the party lett one of the Mor
mon elders dispatched a courier with a
letter to Gov. Jarvis, bitterly complain
ing of this abridgment of their religious
liberty, and requesting the governor to
interfere in behalf of this people, espe
cially the new converts. The governor
has instructed the solicitor of the dis
trict and sheriffs of the two counties to
see that order is preserved. A big row
is expected.”
The fight against Conkling in New
York has some elements of honest oppo
sition to the senator and his machinery.
In general the hospitality is inspired by
the jealousy of cliques, which only seeks
the opportunity Conkling has had. The
masses opposed to Conkling are in gener
al, it is true, actuated by proper senti
ments; as to their leaders, it is very
largely a fight as to who shall rule in
Conkling's place. New York has had
far more of personal politics, of factions
led by prominent men, than any other
old state in the Union, and the eon
test is to a very large extent a war of fac
tions, but it is also a war of ideas
and a protest against the tyranny of
Conkling and his machine and their meth
ods of rule.
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The New York World claims that at
the recent meeting of New York state
democratic executive committee at Niag
ara Falls, the friends of Mr. Tilden had a
majority of three, and that the call for
the convention, which is worded so as to
he an endorsement of Gov. Robinson’s
administration, is a decided triumph for
that gentleman over Mr. John Kelly and
his Tammany followers. On the other
hand, the New York Express claims that
the selection ot Syraeus instead of Sara
toga as the place for holding the state
convention was a defeat of the Tilden-
Robinson wing, and predicts the nomina
tion of Judge Sanford E. Church for the
governorship by the coming democratic
convention, which will be held on the
10th of September.
The mosquito plague on the eastern
shore of Maryland must be very bad. The
superintendant and train hands of the
railroad near Cambridge declare that
the ntosquitors have been so thick as to
obscure the light of the sun, and that,
lighted lamps have been necessary at
mid day in tlie stores and counting rooms.
A newspaper correspondent writes:
“Never in the history ot Tyaskin have
the . mosquitoes been so thick as they
have been during the past week. There
is no rest night or day; our only remedy
is smoke! smoke! And we have smoked
so much that our old women and young
women, too, look like dried beef on the
hoof.”
Some twenty-three miles distant from
Knightstown, Ind., in a German settle
ment, there is a beautiful young woman,
about 21 years of age, daughter of Cas
par Schmidt, who is, to all appearances,
quite dead, having been in that state tor
the past twelve months. She awakens
regularly at ten o’clock every night, and
remains awake about twenty minutes,
when she relapses into somnolency. She
eats very little. The physicians are
puzzled.
Imprisonment for eight days a little
bo} nine years old because he “willfully
damaged a tree growing in Battersea
park, the property of her majesty’s board
of works,” is the latest piece of judicial
atrocity in London. The police justice
who inflicted the sentence said that “the
prisoner was old enough to do mischief,
which must be stopped. He was a little
fellow, but it was necessary to make
an example of him.”
A steel steamer is to be placed on the
Hudson river. The weight of a steel
boat is said to be considerably less than
that of an ordinal*} wooden hull, and its
capacity for fast travel is proportionately
greater.