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DEATH OF A HERO.
A Sketch of the Lite and Public Service of
Gen. Hood.
New Orleans Democrat August 31.
One of the saddest domestic tragedies
it has ever been our sorrowful task to
record is the announcement of the death
of the heroic John B. Ilood, following so
quickly upon that of his loved consort
and occurring when his oldest child was
pronounced in extreme danger from the
same insiderous malady, so mysteroiisly
introduced into his household.
The General departed this life at 3:30
a. m. yesterday morning. When last
seen in public it was as chief mourner
for his wife in the funeral ceremonies of
Monday last, the 24th of August.
Greatly prostrated by this heavy afflic
tion, he bore himself with characters!ic
fortitude and heroism on this melancholy
occasion. The sympathy, so eloquent
ly' expressed, of his numerous triends
was received by him with grateful ap
preciation, but with that dignity and si
lence of a man whose bereavement had
been too profound, too irreparable, to be
alleviated, whose grief was too ordinary
vents of such emotions. He retired to
his family of little orphans, and there
sought and found in their childish lamen
tations for a larger source of consolation
and support, of his noble endowments of
endurance anil fortitude, against calamity
and suffering, than could be drawn from
all the eloquence of sympathizing
friends.
The exhaustion left by these drafts
upon his great resources of courage and
self-control, with his terrible mutilations
by wounds received in the wars in
which he had been engaged, made him
an easy victim and conquest of the mala
dy that seized him. And yet the dis
ease, with characteristic deoeitfulness
tnade its approaches, and not until yes
terday was it pronounced an attack of
yellow fever, and even then of a mild
form. The first specific symptom of
the disease was quickly relieved, and up
to night fall of Friday it was confidently
believed that its progress was favorable
and promising. So much so, and indeed
if it had been so, the noble veteran was
far more exercised about the condition of
his oldest child, siezed with fever at the
same time, than he was concerned for
his own chances of an early convales
cence.
Toward night however, the unfavora
ble symptoms, which had been relieved
during the day r , were renewed and were
followed by oilier even more distinctive
trails, and after hours of suffering and
fluctuation between life and death, de
pendent upon the caprices of this mys
terious malady for the issue of this con
flict, and just before the break of day, at
the very hour when the veteran soldier
had been accustomed to spring from his
lair and hastily hut on his armor to rush
to the front of the battle in the great
wars in which he had been conspicu
ously engaged, the call was made by the
Sovereign Commander and Ruler of all
men to surrender his valuable life and
enroll his own “among the immortal
names that were not born to die.” And
thus, a little before 4 a. in. of August 28,
departed John B. Hood, a hero, soldier
and patriot of unblemished and lustrous
record, of marvelous prowess, of the
highest virtues of humanity; a citizen, a
gentleman, a father and a husband, a
Christain without guile flaw or even
weakness to mar the beautiful harmony
of a peaceful character.
He was a native of Kentuckj', and em
bodied the highest moral and physical
characteristics of that race and blood. A
stalwart form, a dauntless nature, a che
valier bearing, were the characteristics
which he derived from his birth and
his youthful training. So distinctly
marked for a soldier, Ilood in his youth
secured an appointment to and pass
ed with fidelity and success through the
curriculum of our National Military
Academy at AVest Point. This term of
tuition and education embraced the pe
riod between July, 1849, and July 1853.
Graduating in the distinguished class
which included such renowned military
chiefs as McPherson, Schofield, Cragg
hill, and Terrill, and Phil Sheridan, so
distinguished on the Union side of our
great civil war, and of Bowen, Rich,
Chambliss and others equally prominent
on the confederate side, Hood entered
the army as Lieutenant of the Fourth In
fantry, in which he served for several
years on post and frontier duty. It was
not until IS6O that he was promoted to
the cavalry service as a Lieutenant in
the Second Cavalry, ot which Albert
Sidney Johnston was the Colonel.
Meantime he had been seen much ac
tive service on the Texas frontier, and
was engaged in several trying conflicts
with the Comanehes and Lipans. In one
of these, at Devil’s run, in West Texas,
lie gave signal proof of his coolness, cou
rage and address, by the skill and forti
tude with which he compassed with
only twenty-five men the capture of a
largely superior force of savages, who
had severely wounded himself and sev
eral of his men.
But we do not propose here to sketch
the military career of John B . Hood.
The task we hope, will be assumed by
some more competent writer with lar
ger space and 1 letter opportunity to per
form it satisfoetorily than we can now
1 command.
When our civil war broke out, Hood
resigned his position in the old army and
repaired to Richmond to offer his services
to defend his native and loved South.
He was appointed a Major of cavalry,
and assigned to the command of an ir
regular squadron of the mounted volun
teer, whom he drilled and organized for
service.. But the command was too
small, and the service too limited for his
zeal, ambition and energy. lie there
fore volunteered to aid in the organiza
tion and drilling of numerous companies
of Texans, which had rushed to Rich
mond to engage in the great struggle in
which the South had become involved.
These companies were organized into a
regiment which wisely selected Hood as
their Colonel. To him they owe the
great distinction won by this regiment in
the grert conflicts which followed. Even
their valor and prowess, without his ext
ample, military skill and direction would
never have secured them the large meas
ure of fame accorded to the brave Tex
ans through the stirring scenes of the
great drama enacted on the theatre of
rlie Old Dominion.
Beginning their carreer on the Penin
sular, at Elham’s Landing, by an effec
tive and gallant dash on McClellan’s ad
vancing and overwhelming army, which
arrested and checked the progress of the
Federal commander, the heroic Texans
and their lion-hearted chief performed a
prominent part in all the subsequent
events of the several campaigns of Virgin
ia—their commander advancing by regu
lar grades of service, achievements and
wounds from a Colonel to Brigadier, to
Major General, and Lieutenant General
1 but always clinging to his Texans as lbs
chief reliance in all the operations his
brigade, division and corps.
We cannot here, even superficially nar
rate the military career of General Hood.
He Mas always on band for any service.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 11, 1579.
the more desperate the more certain to
he executed with the highest displays of
devotion and bravery. In nearly all the
great battles it would be his ill-luck to
receive serious wounds. At Gettys
burg his left arm was so badly shattered
as to subject him to terrible and exhaust
ing surgical operation of two resections
of the bone, which ever afterward ren
dered that limb useless. This was in
the beginning of July, 1863. He had
not recovered from the effects of the
wound and operation when, with Long
street’s corp’s his command was trans
ferred from Virginia to reinforce Bragg
at Chickamauga. Hero with his ido
minitable division, he confronted the ene
my of largely superior free, with the
same dauntless vigor and valorand dis
regard of danger and physical infirmity
he had displayed in the Virginia cam
paigns, though crippled and exhausted by
the loss of blood with which he had
dreaned the soil of so matty battlefields.
With his shattered, still imhealed woun
ded and useless arm, buckled to his body,
aud with debilitated form and pallid face
he assumed his old position on the right
of his old division, with that fire and en
thusiasm that always niarsed his bearing
on the eve of a groat conflict, and which
he never failed to communicate to all his
followers.
It was in this conflict that lie received
the terrible wound which would have
closed the active career of fitly other chief
tain whose military service history lias
given record. The circumstances of
this fearful wounding wiye related by
the General and confirmed by his sur
geon who amputated hfg leg, that re
spected gentleman and eminent member
of our faculty, Prof. T. GJRichardson, of
this city. In the midst of trie struggle and
great conflict of the two armies at Chick
amauga Gen. Hood’s division occupied
the extreme left of Gen. Bragg’s army.
Observing some confusiori in that part of
the line occupied by his old regiment,
tiie Fourth Texas, Gen. Hood galloped
in that direction and called loudly to the
officers and men to rally to their
colors, which were held under a crash
ing fire by a gallant young Texan in the
position assigned to him. As soon as
the General was recognized by his old
followers—his “people,” as he always
called them—they rushed to the front
and aliined themselves on their colors |
and dressed with all the precision and
regularity of veteran regulars.
“Give me the colors”’ the General j
asked of the staunch young color bearer, j
stretching forth his right arm to grasp ;
the staff, and seizing his bridle with his |
teeth.
The gallant young color hearer shook j
his head and said :
“General those colors have been in
trusted to me with orders never to yield
them to any body as long as I have life
in my body. I will bear them where
ever you order me, but 1 cannot surren
der them to any one.”
At the very moment of this colloquy
the General received the wound which
fractured his right thigh. A minnie
ball had penetrated the flesh and on
coming in contact with the bone explo
ded greating a frightful wound. With
the wounded leg danglingly helplesslj',
and only held together by the remnant of
flesh which had not been severed by the
explosive, holding of the bridle between
his teeth and resting his right arm on
the pummel of his saddle, he gentle sli
ded to the ground, where he was quickly
surrounded by some of Ms veteran Tex
ans who procured a stretcher and bore
him to the rear. Amid all the agony
of his painful wound the heroic chieftain
could not forbear an exultant shout when
informed that his “people” had swept
the enemy from the field.
On the examination of his wound, the
surgeons decided that owing to the ex
haustion produced by his still unhealed
fracture, and the terrible drain of the two
operations of resection to which he had
been recently subjected, that amputation
would involve certain death.
“But is there not a single chance for
me, say one in a thousand ?” he asked of
Dr. Richardson.
The doctor replied that there was.
“Then cut it off; I’ll take that elmnee
—T must fight this war through.”
The doctor before administering the
chloroform, asked if he had any communi
cations or dispositions to make, in view
of the imminent peril of death under the
operation.
“Nothing, except that my remains
should be buried in the soil of Texas,
Avhere my strongest affections and most
glorious associations are centered.”
He survived the operation, and indeed
recovered so rapidly from its effects that
he appeared in the saddle and at the head
of his invincible division before the ex
piration of an ordinary furlough. Though
thus fearfully mutilated, deprived of the
use of two of his limbs—his left arm and
right leg—he was never absent from his
post of duty but fought through the
whole campaign of Johnston’s retreat
from Dalton to Atlanta, taking part in
every action. Assigned by President
Davis to command the movement of the
remnant of Johnstons army against the
enemy’s rear, he undertook, and Avith
wonderful energy, marched his army into
Tennessee and struck the entrenched
forces of General Thomas, at Franklin
and Nashville, with desperate, dauntless,
but unavailing vigor.
This strategy and movement, which
were adopted and ordered by the Con
federate authorities, have been and are
uoav the subjects of criticism and discus
sion. General Hood had written an
elaborate history and defense of his cam
paign, and was preparing to take it to
tiie North for publication when the ill
ness of his wife arrested his purpose. His
friends, however, Avill take care that
this cherished design is carried out. The
whole Avorid will accept it as an honest
and truthful narrative, and a more relia
ble history than lias yet appeared of this
desperate enterprise.
When the war closed General Ilood re
tired to Texas, the scene of his earliest
exploits, which lie determined to make
the theatre of his energetic efforts and la
bors in civil pursuits. Engaging in' the
life insurance business, he prosecuted it
with such activity, tact and popularity
of manner and address as to realize very
handsome results for the company of
which he was great agent, and in the
way of commissions to secure quite a
eompenteney for himself. In 1868 he
married Miss Anna Marie Hennen. one
of the most accomplished and elegant
ladies in this State, whose lamented de
cease and beautiful character are imper
fectly sketched in the Democrat of Tues
day last. Ten children born of this
happy marriage survived their parents,
forming a group of little orphans, whose
care and guardianship should devolve as
one of the most sacred duties of popular
gratitude and patriotism upon the State
with whose glory and honor the name of
Join) B. Hood must be indissolubly as
sociated as the heroic chieftain of that
famous division which he led through
our great civil war with such renown,
and as the youthful defender of her peo
ple against savages who raided her bor
ders in the infancy of her settlement.
Upon the great State of Texas should
fall the honor of the charge, care and
education of the orphans of the heroic
chieftain, who achieved and suffered so
much to shed lustre on her character,
her arms, and the patriotic devotion of
her people.
TIIE RAILROAD BILL.
The Opinion of General Robert Toombs
on this Important Question.
Atlanta, Ga., September 4. — Editors
Constitution: I have been requested by
a number ©f members of tiie general as
sembly to present my views of railroad
policies in Avriting.
In my ;:ote of yesterday to Hon. A. C.
Westbrook 1 promised to give these views
a somewhat fuller expression, kis not
to no wondered at that considerable un
certainty and confusion obtain on this
subject; indeed, confidence is rather a
mark of ignorance than of knowledge,
unless this be the result of long and care
ful consideration. After having given
the subject such consideration on my
part, I distrust my own opinions, and
prefer to follow the guidance of expe
rience—not my own views, originating
in mere reflection, but those derived
from the experience of other countries
and states, form the basis of my opinions
—the gradual developments of some
years of thought. There is evidently a
general desire on the part of the general
assembly to do right in the premises, to
fulfill its constitutional obligations and
the public demands Avithout injury to
any interest.
There are three points:
1. Action is imperative.
2. A clear vieAv must be had of the ob
jects to he accomplished.
3. These objects are best attained by a
properly constituted commission, with
powers wisely adapted to its ends.
The fir9t point is a short one. Action
is required by the constitution, by these
existing state of facts and by the uni
versal public demand.
The objects to be accomplished is also
sufficiently plain. The object of all laws,
is the regulation of relations. The rail
roads have very numerous and impor
tant relations.
1. To the state.
2. To citizens.
3. To cities and localities.
4. To other roads, viz • To connecting
and competing roads.
5. Express companies, sleeping car, tel
egraph and other companies.
6. To bondholder and other creditors
and parties contracting with them.
All these are external relations. Be
sides these they hrve importont inter
nal relations.
7. To stockholders.
8. To employees managing and operat
ing the roads.
All these are actual and important re
lations, and so intricate that to under
stand them is really a profession. That
profession is understood by railroad man
agers and the public interests require
equal knowledge and skill on the part ot
those who protect them. The object of
legislation is to provide adequately to rep
resent these various interests and rela
tions involving directly $60,000,000 of
capital, and exerting an almost bound
less influence, concentrated and controll
ing, upon all other capital. The degree
of concentration is not merely into the
hands of stockholders but of a much
smaller number of managers almost in
dependent virtually, of the stockholders
as of the general public, and capable of
putting down one man or community or
setting up another, as their judgment
or caprice may dictate.
Consider tiie importance of having the
state itself as an organized community,
represented by experts capable of under
standing her interests. Under this head
take the single subject of taxation. The
act of 1874, amended by that of 1876, fur
nishes an illustratian of the inefficiency
of ordinary means to deal Avith this prob
lem. The amount of back taxes, unpaid
and now due, would far more support a i
commissioner in perpetuity. There are
now pending, suits and settlements, tiie
magnitude of which would much surprise
those who have not investigated the sub
ject, and the interests of the state in tiie
same matter remain hereafter to be pro
tected.
The general duty of the state in the
protection of citizens, can only be dis
charged wisely by a knowledge of the
condition and operations of the road—not
now possessed or attainable. No adequate
provision is made for information on tiie
part of the state, as to the violation of
charter; as to excessive rates; as to un
just discriminations; as to the extent of
exemptions from taxation or other com
mitments to the railroads by the state; as
to embarking in new enterprises by cor
porations not authorized by law, nor in
general for such knowledge of compli
cated and intricate facts as must form the
basis of wise legislation.
Yet more important are the direct re
lations of citizens to the railroads. Here,
indeed, lies the chief matter to he regu
lated. Complaints here are universal—
not so much of exortation as of unjust
discriminations against individual citi
zens and communities. The complaints
are loud and general, and come from all
sections of the state. The constitution
expressly requires the regulation of the
railroads in these matters. To avoid
harsh and excessive action, as under the
grange movement in loAva, it is best to
settle all these questions in an orderly
and dispassionate way with judicial im
partiality and sobriety.
Under each of the other heads similar
views might be presented. Any one of
the several relations is sufficiently
important to deserve careful con
sideration, Avhether the relation be to
state, to the citizen, or community; to
competing roads or connecting, to credi
tors and contractors, or the interior rela
tions, (usually less considered) to stock
holders and employes.
Undoubtedly the best means of the
needful regulation, is a properly consti
tuted commission. Higiily specialized
facts and conditions need special agencies.
The conditions in this ease are so compact
as to never have been solved on mere
first principles but only under the gui
dance of experience. The inadequacies
of old methods has led to constant efforts
at improvement. Direct legislation lias
in all cases been afailme. The knowledge
required, is as really a profession as law or
medicine. Let each legislator ask himself,
“Have 1 sufficiently mastered the prob
lem to risk the public interests on the cor
rectness of my opinion?” Fortunately,
however, a man who can choose a doctor
who feels he cannot doctor a case.
A commission is, in my opinion, indis
pensable. The common-sense argument
for it is all-powerful. It is the result of
the gradual growth of experience and
failure of other means. It has grown up
in England like the English constitution
—from many years’ “experience. That
practical people struggling for truth and
light, as exigencies arose, after trying
many methods have settled down with
: satisfaction upon this. As lawyers con
sider the old law the evil and remedy,
so have they studied this problem. When
,one remedy proved inadequate they
adopted new means to the residual evils
felt unctired. It is now generally ac
knowledged in Engloiul by thoughtful
lima representing all interests of state,
people and railroads, that the commis
sion as far surpasses the paw of the boar,
or perhaps the horse’s hoof, in adaption
to all the necessary and complex func
tions to be discharged.
The experience of eighteen states of the
American union is confirmatory of Brit
ish opinion. We may be very sure that
these results of enlightened and cautious
experience lead us in the right direction.
To adopt the old means now were like
preferring a primitive road wagon to a
finished engine, with all the improve
ments suggested by trial and experience.
In my own judgment, as already stated,
no better model for legislation can be
found, than in the England act of 1873
(in w hich the act of 1851 and 1868 are in
corporated by reference) under the oper
ation of which, with perfect satisfaction
to the public, ihe value of railroad prop
erty has immensely appreciated by a
sum more than double the aggregate val
ue of all the property in the state of Geor
gia. I shall furnish a copy of this act to
the railroad committee with modifica
tions to suit our circumstances, as em
bodied provisions which it it is safe to
follow. We can safely trust our smaller
fortunes on a bottom capable of bearing
such weight.
The action of the committee itself will
furnish the next legislature the needful
light for modifications exactly adapted to
our circumstances. The following fea
tures in the constitution of the commis
sion will command general aqniescence.
It should command the confidence of
both sides, and all interests. It should,
therefore, be unpolitical and impartisan.
Its duties are in some respects analogous
to a grand jury. As the grand inquest of
the state over corporations, it should dili
gently inquire, and true presentment
make, as the facts of their condition and
operation, for the benefit of the state, cit
izens and stockholders. It requires an
expert to understand the facts; an expert
to explain them. There should be con
siderable stability in the commission,
dependent simply on good behavior.
It should not act as only sentinel, but
also as arbitrator as between the citizens
and railroads; communities and railroads,
and between the railroads themselves. It
should aid the state in those functions
which receive special training in all its
departments—executive, legislative and
judicial. As an expert, it aids the attor
ney-general as to matters of taxation
heretofore, too, so intricate that the state
has met much harm and loss. It relieves
the judiciary department of a class of du
ties requiring much special knowledge of
law. To the legislature it furnishes the
basis of intelligent and constant action.
Its special functions bear chiefly upon the
general public interest. Tt is an exchange
tor getting and disfusing the knowledge
of laws and facts very important and
very inaccessible.
In one aspect its benefits have been lit
tle appreciated. As between the man
agements of the railroad and stockhol
ders, it is a safeguard in which the stock
holding public have an interest not at all
inferior to the general public. The man
agement holds the helm quite at arm’s
length from the shareholders. Nominal
ly dependent, but really independent, it
can wreck them or carry them into new
ports, defying their opposition. Not
more important is a probate judge in the
relations between a guardian and an in
fant, than a well constituted commission
between the mangement of a road and
its stockholders. These are absolutely
at the mercy of the organized “powers
that be.”
These valuable purposes have been
served in the experience of other states.
The commission is a tribunal with spe
cialized functions, requiring special train
ing to meet peculiar exigencies, for which
ordinary legislation and judicial decision
areas unfit, as for the practice of phar
macy or the management of the tele
phone. Yours, very respectfully,
R. Toombs.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
A Lexington (S. C.) watermelon
weighed 80 pounds.
The revised civil code of Texas has
gone into effect.
Six county fairs will be held in Arkan
sas this fall.
Columbia, S. C., boasts of a genuine
Neapolitan violin, which is one hundred
years old.
Memphis is now a city of watermelons,
canteloupes, pears, flowers and fever.
The colored people of Gonzales, Texas,
have recently had a tournament.
Kentucky summer resorts have not
found this a profitable season.
There has been 102 marriages in Graves
county, Kentucky, since January 1.
Twelve years ago Texas sold but 75,000
bales of cotton. Last vear it footed up
1,000,000 bales.
Arkadelphia, Arkansas, is taking in
itiatory steps for the establishment of a
cotton factory.
Three newspapers in North Carolina
are owned and edited by colored men.
In Alabama 96,000 whites and 93,000
colored children have enrolled in the
public schools.
Knights of Honor have died wit h yel
low fever in Memphis this season.
The Charleston News pronounces the
new custom-house in that city oue of the
handsomest buildings in the United
States.
Crops are twelve days earlier than usu
al in Texas, and a week later than
usual in other gulf states.
A Baltimorean advertised in Philadel
phia for twenty-five beautiful ballet girls
and received 600 applications.
Colonel Wood, of St. Mary’s Maryland,
has raised on one hundred and sixty
acres this season, 4,000 bushels of wheat.
By “messing,” the students at the
university of Virginia manage to get
board at $lO a month.
Several thousand republicans of Louisi
ana have issued an address to be presented
to General Grant on the day of his ai rival
at San Francisco.
The number of bushels of shell oyster
taken this year from Virginia waters will
be 3,000,000, and more than one-third of
this amount is now handled by the pack
ers of Norfolk and Portsmouth. The
value of the oysters handled yearly in
Norfolk reach $350,039, and m >re than
a million dollars for the state.
—.> . ■
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, having been
asked about his book, “The War Betweeu
the States,” replied: “I wrote it with a
view of having the facts as they were
truthfully stated, and without any pecu
niary view. 1 have received, however,
thirty-five thousand dollars as my royal
ty on the sale, or twenty-five cents a vol
ume.”
During the month of August the total
receipts of the government were about
$25,000,000, while the expenditures were
about $18,000,000. A saving of seven
million dollars.
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NUMBER 0.
MRS. SPRAGUE’S FLIGHT.
Supposed to Have Been Spirited Away in
a Mysterious Yacht.
The Sun special from Xarraganseti
Pier says: The people of the Pier are in
excitement over the escape from C’anon
chet of Mrs. Sprague Saturday night.
Mrs. Sprague claims that ever since she
returned to Canonehet with her children
she has been subject to many annoyances
by the governor, which culminated on
Saturday by an actual outburst on his
part, lier friends say that the governor,
coming home on Friday morning in an
intoxicated condition, suddenly went in
to the room where the nurses were dress
ing the children, and seeing Mrs. Sprague
there, said: “I’ll show you who is mas
ter here,” ami without any further warn
ing, took hold of her arm and shoulders,
dragged her around the room, and at
tempted to throw her out of the window,
saying, before witnesses, that he would
do so. He was prevented from carrying
his t hreat into execution by those pres
ent. The children were half dressed and
were screaming with fright.
Mrs. Sprague began quickly to make
preparations to leave the place, and Sat
urday afternoon, about half past five,
quietly took her departure, accompanied
by her three children, their nurses and
her luggage.
When Conductor Hale’s train arrived
at Kingston the governor was standing
on the platform, with mud bedabbled
coat and excited face, watching for sign
of the missing party. He accosted Con
ductor Hale with: ‘‘Have you lugged off
my children?” Mr. Hale told him he
had seen nothing of them ; and after look
ing through the boat train, and inquir
ing of the officials at the Kingston depot,
the governor started back to the Pier, as
was supposed, as all traces was lost from
that point. Willie, bis son, who has
sided with his father during all this un
happy affair, was started off on the road
to Tower Hill and Wakefield, but relum
ed unsuccessful in nis search.
The general impression is that Mrs.
Sprague left in a steam yacht, and that,
too, from the pier of the Newport boat.
A strange looking and very fast yacht
was seen hovering about the pier in flu*
afternoon, and suddenly went tip to the
Newport boat dock, and after waiting
about ten minutes then steamed rapidly
away, perhaps with Mrs. Sprague on
board.
It has been said that Gov. Sprague at
once directed that the servants should
receive no orders from Mrs. Sprague, that,
all telegrams and messages to her should
be submitted to him, and that his wife
should be limited to oue room in the up
per part of the house. When she went
out driving a trusted servant always ac
companied her. He denied admission to
many of her friends and even to her coun
sel. But thfs, he said, was to keep her
from influence that he believed would
not be for her good. His reasons as giv
en for this course were that he desired
Mrs. Sprague to make up her mind as to
her future course unpiased by outside ad
vice from outside parties; that if she ever
left the house again, she could not return
to it, and that in any event she could nor
take the children with her. The rigid
espionage established was to prevent her
from abducting the children.
Mrs. Sprague’s friends say that she was
in constant fear of some sudden outbreak,
when neither her own life nor the lives
of her children would be safe from the
ungovernable anger of the husband and
the father. The children are four in
number —Willie, aged thirteen; Ethel,
aged nine; Kate, aged five; and Portia,
aged four. Willie remains with his fath
er. The three little girls Mrs. Sprague
took with her. Gov. Sprague will un
doubtedly exhaust every means to dis
cover the whereabout of the children,
and will as certainly use every legal
means of recovering them. A suit for
separation, brought by either husband
or wife, will probably be at once insti
tuted to settle the right to the control of
the children.
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JASPER CENTENNIAL.
After the laying of the corner stone of
the Jasper centennial monument in Sa
vannah on the 9th of October next, to be
participated in by most of the military
organizations of the state, a second day’s
celebration of fun will follow, consisting
of rifle matches and a regatta. The fol
lowing is the official programme of the
second day’s doings:
Headquarters, j
Savannaah Rifle Association,
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1, 1879. \
A rifie centest, open to all military
companies, will take place on the 10th
of October next, at the Isle of Hope.
Teams—To consist of five men, bona
fide members of their respective compa
nies, and who have been such for at least
six months prior to this date.
Weapons—Any bona fide military rifle
with open sights, minimum pull of trig
ger six pounds. *
Rounds—Five rounds per man.
Targets—Creedmoor pattern.
Distance —Two hundred yards.
Position —Standing.
Umpires—Each team will be allowed
one umpire. The decision of the board
of umpires - to be final.
Uniform —Teams will shoot in the full
dress uniform of their respective compa
nies, dispensing with the dress hat and
epaulettes.
Entrance fee—No entrance fee will be
charged.
Prize—To the successful team a hand
some gold medal will be presented.
Shooting will commence punctually at
12 m.. at which time all entries will
close. R. 11. Anderson,
President Savannah Rifle Asso’n.
RETATTA OF SAVANNAH YACHT CLUB.
First class yaeths—Purse, a silver
pitcher.
Second class yaeths—Silver goblet.
Third class, or shad l>oats —Silver gob
let.
Batteaux class —Purse, $lO.
Entries will close at the secretary’s of
fice at 12 o’clock on the Bth of October.
The course will be open from Isle of
Hope to Cabbage Island, thence to a
buoy, placed above Isle of Hope, and
back to a buoy off Yellow Bluff, then to
starting point at Isle of Hope.
The course tor batteaux will be to Cab
bage Island and back to buoy off Isle of
Hope and thence to starting point.
Wm. Hone, Commodore.
F. C. Wylly, Secretary.
—_—- • ♦ —• —
According to a Washington correspon
dent of the New York World, Hon. A.
11. Stephens said the other day that the
committee on rules has unanimously
recommended changes in the parliamen
tary procedure irrespective of partisan
movements, which will greatl> facilitate
legislative business. Mr. Stepheiie be
lieves the Georgia democracy to lie against
Tilden, and he is himself in favor of Gen.
Hancock for president.
Carlotta Patti has married Ernest De-
Munck, The Marquis de Caux was one
of the witnesses.