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THE ASHBLTUf CASE.
Statement of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
Atlanta, October 8, 1879. —Hon. Al
exander H. Stephens, Crawfordville, Oh- -
Dear Sir: —Since I saw you at the Kim
ball house, Major Wallace has published
a statement, which I presume you have
seen in the newspapers, giving General
Meade’s sayings in reference to the mili
tary court at the time the trial was pro
gressing, which, as you will see, corrobo
rates my own, as to the objects we had
in view. Now that this matter is up, if
it would lie agreeable to you, I would
like to have you state the communication
I made to you, in the presence of Dr.
Lawton, some years ago, in reference to
my contract with General Meade, and
my motives in the transaction, with any
thing else connected with the affair that
you may desire to make public. I pre
sume you have seen the reference to Dr.
Lawton’s statement, which was publish
ed in the Sunday Gazette, of this city, and
republished in the Constitution. All I
desire is that the truth go upon record,
and I have no fears that a just public
opinion will fail to render a correct judg
ment in the premises. I am, very re
spectfully, Your obedient servant,
Joseph E. Brown.
Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Ga.,
October 24, 1879.—H0n. Jos. E. Brown,
Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Sir—Your letter to
me of the Bth inst. was received several
days ago, and would have been answered
sooner but for causes beyond my control,
which rendered it opt of my power to do
so without groat personal inconvenience,
as well as discomfort. You will, there
fore, please excuse the delaj r .
Allow me now to say, I have seen the
statement of Major Wallace, to which
yop refer; also that of Dr. Lawton in
reference to the trial, by a military court
at Atlanta in 1868, of the ‘‘Columbus
prisoners,” as they were called, charged
with the murder of Ashburn.
I know nothing personally of the facts
stated by Major Wallace; what Dr. Law
ton says of the conversation you had with
me in his presence some years after the
trial agrees substantially with my own
recollection of the matter. The conver
sation was in the spring or summer of
1875. In giving my recollection of its
details concerning your connection with
the prosecution in that case, it is proper
for me to state, not only how the conver
sation occurred, but some other matters
germane to the subject not referred to by
Dr. Lawton.
Let it be borne in mind, then, that a
few days before this conversation, in
coming up from Macon to Atlanta on the
railroad, it was either about the 6th of
May or the 10th of July, 1875, and I am
not exactly certain in my memory which
(as I made two trips from Macon to At
lanta that year about those dates respect
ively, and it was one of these,) 1 met
with Captain W. D. Chipley, one of the
“prisoners” referred to. It was the first
time I had seen him since his discharge
in July. 1868.
I had, however, seen a pamphlet pub
lished by him upon the subject of the
trial, from which I thought he was un
der the Influence of an undue prejudice
against you, on account of what he sup
posed to be your feelings toward him on
the trial. I referred to this, and told
liim i Lori ponoon tv veueve that iic was
mistaken in that particular. I stated to
him what I had never had an opportuni
ty of properly telling him before; and
that was that on the arraignment of all
the prisoners, you, as leading counsel for
the prosecution, had evinced a strong de
sire, in conference with me, the leading
counsel for the defense, that I would de
mand a severence in the trial, and not
put all the accused on trial together.
When I expressed a determination not to
sever, /ou still urged, as a reason why I
should sever, that you were not satisfied
from the evidence submitted to you that
all the parties charged were guilty, and
referred especially to him (Captain Chip
ley) as one whose guilt you were not sat
isfied about; and hence your anxiety that
the innocent might not be endangered
by their connection with the guilty in a
joint trial. I refused to sever, as Captain
Chipley well knew; and I then explain
ed to him my reasons, which I had never
had an opportunity of properly doing
before, for not severing, which was the
occasion of a good deal of comment at the
time not very complimentary to my pro
fessional skill on the part of several ot
the friends of the accused, and especially
of the friends of Captain Chipley ; but I
patiently bided my time for its vindica
tion. I reminded him of a conversation
I had with him in prison just before my
final determination not to sever, which
determination, as lie knew, was against
the judgment of his special counsel, and
in which conversation I had told him that
I could not then give him the reasons for
my determination; hut as I was leading
counsel for all, I advised him to trust im
plicitly to my judgment in the matter,
and await explanations afterwards —that
I felt perfectly confident of the acquittal
of every one of the accused on the line of
the joint defense I had determined upon,
with which he was satisfied at the time.
Here, it is proper to say in passing, that
upon the receipt of a letter requesting me
to become the leading counsel of all the
prisoners, (fourteen in number), I went
immediately to Atlanta, and by the per
mission of General Dunn, judge advocate
of the court, (who evinced a desire to get
at the truth in the matter and nothing
more), I was allowed to visit all the pris
oners and confer with them privately,
each in his separate cell, and was also al
lowed every other facility in his power
to make a full investigation as to the
truth of the charges. In this way I be
came thoroughly acquainted with the na
ture and character of the testimony of
every witness upon which the proceed
ings were founded.
Through the aid of Hon. Martin J.
Crawford, one of my associates in the de
fense, who had derived his information
from unquestionable sources, I came in
possession of the knowledge of all the
facts attending the unfortunate homicide
ot Ashburn. I was, therefore, complete
master of the situation before the arraign
ment. I knew, or felt perfectly assured,
that not one of the parties accused was
guilty, or directly implicated in any way
with the killing, or with any intention of
the killing. I understood clearly how
the whole case had been worked up by
the detectives. The prosecution was
based upon an error between names and
identities. It rested upon idem sonans
without the idem personam. For in
stance, I knew there was a Duke at the
killing, but not the Duke arrested and
put upon trial. I knew there was a Hud
son at the killing, but not the Hudson on
trial. I knew there was a man at the
killing whose name sounded somewhat
like Kirksey, and under this idem sonatis
Dr. Kirksey had most probably been ar
rested. So of other cases. I knew per
fectly well that the conductors of the
prosecution, from General Meade down,
really believed that Duke was the head
center of the whole crowd in guilt. They
regarded him as the leader of the party,
etc.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1879.
While I knew perfectly well, from un
questionable testimony that could be
i brought out at the proper time, that the
{ fact would be established, bey cm and a cavil
or a doubt, that the Duke erroneously
suspected, and then on trial, was forty
miles from the place of the homicide at
the time of its occurrence, I felt assured,
from reasons perfectly satisfactory to m)'-
self, that every witness would on cross
examination swear stronger to the identi
ty of Duke than to that of any other one
of the accused. Upon his case, therefore,
I felt perfectly confident on joint trial of
breaking down the whole prosecution.
While I felt assured that no one of the ac
cused had any participation whatever in
the killing, yet the testimony as to some
of them could not be so clearly and fully
rebutted. Hence my determination not
to sever. But the reasons for this deter
mination I gave to no person but my as
sociate, Judge Crawford; for I appre
hended, if by possibility, the object of
my line of defense, and the reasons for it
should get out, success on it might be
thwarted, either by perjury under the in
ducement of high rewards, or by the di
version of the prosecution from the chief
point of their assault, wicrcb,y mejr migin
escape the inevitable defeat which, in my
judgment, otherwise awaited them upon
the whole case. I was very intimate
with Judge Crawford. With my other
associates, then present, I was not. Judge
Welborn and General Benning had not
arrived. Hence I confided solely to Judge
Crawford the reasons that governed me
in not severing on the trial. When you
urged me to sever for the assigned reason
above related, I told you that I was per-
fectly satisfied that not only Captain
Chipley, hut that all the accused were
innocent —not one of them were guilty;
and that the ease would break down.
You incredulously replied by expressing
a hope that it might he so, but with an
expression that clearly indicated your
firm belief that I was mistaken, and
would be disappointed. The facts above
stated were substantially related to Capt.
Chipley as we traveled fiom Macon to
Atlanta in 1875, as mentioned, with the
further fact, that when the testimony as
to Duke was closed, General Meade, who
was present at the hearing, came to my
quarters at Mrs. Simms’ in the evening,
soon after the adjournment of the court,
and frankly said to me, that in his judg
ment the prosecution was broken down,
and that he should immediately order the
release of all the prisoners from their
close and separate confinement, and have
them put in comfortable quarters until
the legislature should act upon the pro
posed fourteenth amendment to the con
stitution of the United States, which was
expected in a few days, and then dis
charge them subject to any action that
the civil authorities might institute in the
premises. He virtually abandoned the
prosecution, as I understood from him;
and I also understood from your bearing
and conduct that it was with your full
acquiescence, though you and I had no
direct conference on the subject. The
prisoners were all soon after discharged
upon the terms stated by General Meade.
My object in stating these facts to Cap
tain Chipley, was not only to explain to
him the reason of the line of policy adopt
ed in the conduct of the defense, which I
did not think it proper to do at the time,
but to disabuse his mind of an exidently
existing impression upon it that you had
bhn^ r '' l Karlljr UJm Dei’SOlvillv
as well as towards the other prisoners.
In our conversation on the railroad
Captain Chipley requested me to give
him a statement in writing of the facts,
with a view of preserving it for the use
of his family in vindication of his char
acter against the imputation of such an
offense cast upon it by the proceedings iu
question. This I promised to do as soon
as I reached home, and did so do.
But in the meantime in the drive re
ferred to by Dr. Lawton, I thought it
proper to inform you of what had oc
curred between Captain Chipley and my
self, and to know before writing to him,
as I had promised to do, whether you
concurred in my remembrance of what
passed between us, as leading counsel on
opposite sides on an arraignment.
It was then that you entered into a
statement of the facts touching your con
nection with the prosecution in this case.
You commenced by saying that my re
membrance was correct, and went on to
give a history jf your retainer by Gener
al Meade, and your subsequent conduct
under it. r I he impression upon my mind
as what you then said, as I now recall it
to memory, was succinctly, hut substan
tially this: That you refused to be re
tained by General Meade for the prosecu
tion, except upon the express condition
that you were to have entire control of
the case —that the prosecution was to be
dismissed as to any one of the accused at
your instance, if from the evidence you
should not he satisfied as to the guilt of
any one of them; and that none ot them
should sutter the death penalty under the
sentence of the military court. In case
the state should, before final conviction,
adopt the proposed fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States, and thereby be relieved of milita
ry rule, and be re-established with all
the functions of civil government, that
they be turned over to the civil authori
ties. I understood yon to say that Gen.
Meade agreed to these terms.
There was nothing said in the conver
sation that made the impression upon my
mind that you undertook the case to “save
the prisoners” in the ordinary acceptance
of those words, but my impression from
what you said was that yon wished me to
understand that you undertook it to save
the innocent, if after the most searching
and vigorous investigation for the truth
you should not be satisfied as to the guilt
of any of them, and also with the view
and object of having the guilty (if after
such investigation you should he satisfied
there were any of this class) turned over
to the civil authorities for trial and pun
ishment, after the state should be reliev
ed of mititary rule by the adoption of
the proposed fourteenth constitutional
amendment.
In making this response to your letter,
which you are at liberty to use as you
please, I do not wish to be understood as
taking any part on the merits of the con
troversy between yon and Mr. Garrard,
touching your position as counsel for the
prosecution in that case, or the motives
by which you were actuated in the mat
ter. That is a point on which an impar
tial and unprejudiced public must judge
and decide now and hereafter.
I am now doing nothing but what I
deem an act of justice to you in conformi
ty with the Scriptural injunction: “As
you would that men should do to you, do
ye also to them likewise.”
In conclusion, I take occasion to say in
regard to the killing of Ashburn that no
one could have looked upon the event
with more abhorrence than I did; but in
mitigation of the seeming atrocity of the
act, and in justice to the perpetrators, I
deem it my duty here to assert that after
the most thorough investigation of the
whole case, made necessary from my con
nection with the defense of the prisoners
erroneously accused, my settled convic
tion was and is that no one of the party
present at the killing had any idea of
j such a result when they set out on their
ill-advised mission. Their object was
simply to seize him and to take him to
the lower part of the and to give him
a coat of “tar and feathers,” where they
had the materials prepared ready for this
intended^stigma of degredation. But in
this ease, as in thousands of others, the
'first w rong step proved to be the rueful
one. Ashburn, on their entrance in the
house where he was found, fired upon
them. It was then that the leader of the
crowd exclaimed, “Shoot him,” when he
fell mortally wounded on the discharge
of several pistols, fired under this sudden
excitement and unexpected Hash of pas
sion. Xot one of them, perhaps, would
have gone forth upon this enterprise if
they had had the slightest conception or
apprehension of its tragical termination.
Alexander H. Stephens.
Charleston, October 7, 1879.—1i0n.
Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta, Ga.: Dear
Sir—l am glad to see the letter of Major
Wallace in the Constitution. I remem
ber very well that General Meade be
came very impatient at what he called
the unreasonable delay of the legislature,
.wni tint iic sum lo me mat me ueiay was
embarrassing him by prolonging the
holding of the military court, and that
they ought to know that whenever the
legislature acted he would dissolve the
court and turn the Columbus prisoners
over to the civil authority.
Very truly,
Jxo. B. Peck.
IXGERSOLL ON ALCOHOL.
Colonel Robert Ingersoll, w ho has been
denounced an infidel, was lately em
ployed in a case which involved the
manufacture of ardent spirits, and in his
speech to the jury lie used the following
language;
“I am aware there is a prejudice
against any man engaged in the manu
facture of alcohol. I believe from the
time it issues from the coil and poisonous
worm in the distillery until it empties
into the hell of death, dishonor and
crime, that it is demoralizing to every
body that touches itjjfrom the source to
where it ends. Ido not believe that any
body can contemplate the subject without
being prejudiced against the crime. All
we have to do is to think of the wrecks
on either side of the stream of death, of
suicides, of the insanity, of the poverty,
of the destruction, of the little children
tugging at the breast, of weeping and
despairing wives asking for bread, of the
man of genius it has wrecked, the man
struggling with imaginary serpents pro
duced by this devilish thing; and when
you think of the jails, of the alms
houses, of the asylums, of the prisons
and of the scaffolds on either bank, I do
not wonder that every thoughtful man is
prejudiced against this vile stuff called
alcohol. Intemperance cuts down youth
in its vigor, manhood in its strength, and
age in its weakness. It breaks the
father’s heart, bereaves the doting moth
er, extinguishes natural affection, erases
conjugal love, blots out filial attachment
and blights parental hope, and brings
premature age in sorrow to the grave.
It produces weakness, not strength; sick
ness, not health; death, not life. It
makes wives widows, children orphans,
fathers fiends, and all paupers. It feeds
rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epi
j...,;* —
leuce, and embraces consumption. It
covers the land with misery, idleness and
crime. It engenders controversies, fos
ters quarrels and cherishes riots. It
crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes
victims to the scaffold. It is the blood of
the gambler, the element of the burglar,
the prop of the highwayman, and the sup
port of the midnight incendiary. It coun
tenances the liar, respects the thief, es
teems the blasphemer. It violates obli
gations, reverences fraud, honors infamy.
It defames benevolence, hates love,
scorns virtue and innocence. It incites
the father to butcher his helpless off
spring, and the child to grind the paren
tal axe. It burns up men, consumes
women, detests life, curses God and de
spises heaven. It stuborns witnesses,
nurses perfidy, denies the jury box and
stains the judicial ermine. It bribes vo
ters, disqualifies voters, corrupts elec
tions, polutes our institutions, and en
dangers the government. It degrades
the citizens, debases the legislator, dis
honors the statesman and disarms the pa
triot. It brings shame, not honor; ter
ror, not safety; despair, not hope; mis
ery, not happiness; and with the malev
olence of a fiend, calmly surveys its
frightful desolation, and unstained with
havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace,
ruins morals, wipes out national honor,
then curses the world and laughs at its
ruin. It does that and more—it murders
the soul. It is the sum of all villainies,
the father of crimes, the mother of all
abominations, the devil’s best friend, and
God’s worst enemy.”
DEATH IN A SERPENT’S COIL.
London Telegraph.]
One of the most intrepid wild-beast
tamers in Europe, Karolyi, a Magyar, of
collossal statue and extraordinary physi
cal strength, has recently fallen a victim
to a dread contingency of his perilous
profession, He was performing, before
a crowded audience in Madrid, the other
day, one of his most sensational feats,
which consisted in allowing a huge boa
constrictor, over twenty feet in length t©
enfold his body in his tremendous eoils,
when suddenly a piercing cry escaped
him, which was greeted by the public
with a round of applause, under the sup
position that its utterance constituted a
part of the performance. It proved,
however, to be the outcome of a strong
man’s death agony. The gigantic snake
had tightened its coils, and crushed poor
Karolyi’s life out of him with one terrfic
squeeze. As his head fell back and his
eyes became fixed in a glassy stare the
plaudits died away, and were succeeded
by the stillness of utter consternation.
The snake and his lifeless victim swayed
for a second or two of inexpressible hor
ror, and then toppled over on the boards
of the stage; but the boa did not in the
least relax his grip upon the corpse,
which remained for moie than an hour
imprisoned in its hideous thraldom, no
body daring to approach the lithe mon
ster, ot whose power such appalling
proof had been given. At length it oc
curred to one of Kayolyi’s attendants to
place a bowl of milk in a cage within
sight of the mighty serpent, which slow
ly unwound itself from the dead body
and glided into his den, irresistibly
tempted thereto by its favorite dainty.
A postmortem examination of the unfor
tunate athlete’s remains discovered no
fewer than eighty-seven fractures of his
bones, effected by the constriction of the
serpent’s coils. His death must have
been instantaneous, as the spine was dis
articulated in several places.
Stephen Zook, owner of the Green
Valley mills, Knox county, Ohio, was at
tacked recently by two men armed with
knives. Zook drew his pocket knife and
defeuded himself, killing one of the men,
John Parrott.
A COLORADO JIROR.
The dry, cutting satire, practiced so
much by the cross-examining lawyer of
to-day, is sometimes as dangerous in
court as it would be on the street. A
short time ago a jury was sitting on a
ease in southern Colorado. A woman
took the stand, and was somewhat un
ceremoniously treated by the lawyers.
At last a particularly dry and caustic fel
low began to practice on her with the
cross-examination. Now, among the ju
rymen was one gentleman, who was
drawn with apprehension and fear of
consequences. He was a free, wild mi
ner, with no more idea of the restrictions
of law and justice than a buffalo. He
had twitched uneasily while the woman
was being examined, and could only be
kept still by being provoked into a whis
pered conversation with the foreman.
As the cross-examination reached a par
ticular point, he astonished the court by
jumping up, thrusting his hand into his
hip pocket, and exclaiming to the law
yer: “Hi thar, Mr, Stiek-in-the-Mud!”
This from a juryman brought every eve
in wonder and amusement noon him.
He neeaeu nothing and proceeded:
“Jack McCabe won’t ’low no man to
talk to a woman In that shape: not while
he’s round !” The judge rebuked hon
est Jack, and he slunk into his seat, em
barrassed but mad. The lawyer, turn
ing upon him with withering scorn, be
gan, bombastically: “Of what weight
with me is the opinion of ail ignorant
juryman? I ’’ “That’s what I
thought,” said Jack, as, with one bound,
he cleared the rail and wound himself
around the lawyer. Before a constable
could reach and separate the struggling
pair, Jack had macerated the lawyer so
that he was obliged to give up the case
and go home on a shutter. The juryman
nearly cleaned out the court before he
could be placed under arrest, disabling
two constables and putting the crier and
the judge to flight. Another argument
against the jury system, —Boston Herald.
Artesians wells are becoming popular.
They have been found especially useful
in Texas, which state always suffers,
more or less, from drouth and the drying
up of Its streams and ponds. There is
hardly a part of Texas where artesian
wells cannot be sunk, and plenty of water
obtained at great ease and at small ex
pense. But it is not only the country
that use these wells. They have been
found equally useful in the large cities.
All the leading hotels of Philadelphia are
supplied with water from artesian wells,
and water of a much better quality than
that which the city provides. Even New
York, the city of the famous Croton res
ervoir, is digging wells. The waste ot
water in that cit> is so great that this ar
ticle of prime necessity has attained a
very high price, so high, indeed, that in
running a steam engine it costs two
thirds as much as the fuel used.
Remarkable presence of mind was re
cently shown by a miner near Pottsville,
Penn. lie was employed in a shaft on
Sharp Mountain. He had lighted a fuse
and was climbing to the surface by means
of pegs in the side of the shaft. When
within a few feet of the top one of the
pegs gave way and the unfortunate man
fell to the bottom, thirty feet below.
One ot his thighs was broken and the
uV'fitbiTOs.
ing his terrible injuries, he had sufficient
presence of mind to crawl to the lighted
fuse, which had burned within a few
inches of the charge, and smother it. If
he had not done this he would have been
blovm to pieces when the explosion took
place, lie then crawled back to one of
the earth buckets, got into it without as
sistance, and was hoisted to the surface.
The Chinese continue to pour into the
Hawaiian islands in such numbers that
the question of how to stop them is grow
ing to be of serious importance. They
constitute already over a fifth of the en
tire popolation, and are almost all males.
They are useful on the sugar plantations,
but they do not assimilate with the na
tive population, whose extinction they
threaten at an early day, and whom they
will hardly replace satisfactorily as loyal
subjects and citizens. The government
is trying to get the needed labor supplies
from the South Sea Islands, but the own
ers of the Hawaiian sugar estates, who
care only for their own business inter
ests, are perfectly willing to take the
cheaper Chinese. ‘ Over 2,000 Chinamen
arrived at Honolulu in the second half of
last year, which, considering the scanty
population of the islands, is pretty heavy
immigration.
The commerce between Brazil and the
United States from 1859 to 1879, inclu
sive, aggregates $709,870,337, or an aver
age of $33,804,144 per annum. Of this
trade $570,021,293 have been products of
Brazil sold to the United States, and
$133,849,044 are domestic and foreign ex
ports from the United States to Brazil.
Thus in the course of these twenty-one
years the United States have bought four
times as many goods from Brazil as they
have sold to that country. The excess
of imports over exports, amounting to
$442,172,249, has been paid for by the
United States in bills of exchange on
England, and lias afforded that country
a valid profit on all the business of ours
during the whole course of these years.
A young man from Rutland, Vt., at
tended a seance at Spirit Vale recentlj 7 '.
He sat in a circle around a table in the
usual way, and the lights were turned
down. Presently he felt something like
a human hand fondling his ears and nose.
He attempted to withdraw his own hands
from those of his companions, for the
purpose of investigation, but failed.
Finally, the “spirit” hand began caress
ing his knee, and he elevated his foot
withs o much suddenness as to bring
further manifestation to a close. When
the lights were turned up it was discov
ered that the medium was bleeding at
the nose.
Mr. O. F. West, recently a member of
the legislature from Tate county, Miss.,
died at his residence in Senatobia, on the
16th ult., from hydrophobia. He was
bitten in the left hand on the 4th of June
by a dog not known to be mad. He was
called to the yard by the barking of his
own dog, which was fleeing from the
strange intruder. The dog sprang upon
him. The wound in the left hand was
dressed and the “mad stone” applied.
The wound heated promptly, but on the
13th ult. symptoms of hydrophobia de
veloped, and after an illness of only
three days he died.
The attorney-general of the post office
department has decided that stamps on
misdirected letters, stopped in the office
of deposits and returned to the sender for
better direction, shall, provided the let
ter has not been transmitted through the
mails, though cancelled be accepted as
good for forwarding. Also that stamps
on letters for foreign countries requiring
prepayment that are stopped for deficient
postage, shall be regarded as an install
ment of proper prepayment.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of
One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and
Fifty Cento for each additional insertion.
CONTRACT RATES.
Space:. 1 mo. 3 inos. 6 mos. 1 year.
One inch, $2 50 |5 00 $7 50 $lO 00
Two inches, 375 750 12 50 18 00
Three inches, 500 10 00 17 50 25 00
Four inches, 25 12 50 22 50 82 00
Fourth column 750 15 00 25 00 40 00
Half column, 15 00 25 00 40 00 80 00
One column, 20 00 40 00 60 00 100 00
NUMBER IS.
A representative of the heirs of Henry
Clay was in Boston a few days ago nego
tiating for the sale of the famous Clay
vase, bought by the contributions of ar
dent whigs in 1844.
It Is possible that the electoral vote of
Louisiana will be decided at the election
for members of the legislature this year.
The legislature to be elected will have
the power to select the presidential elec
tors, should it so decide.
From intimations received in Washing
ton the belief is expressed that the recent
statements in reference to General Grant
iaking the presidency of great railroads,
etc., were inspired by Mr. Blaine and
other rival aspirants for the republican
nomination for president of the United
States.
There is rather a melancholy prospect
for the winter in France. The price of
bread, already high, was raised lecently.
The potato crop is exceptionally bad; the
vintage will l>e deficient in quantity and
quality. Many vine3*ards will not be
worth the expense or gathering what
few damaged grapes there are.
Miss Miller, of Ferris, 'Texas, chloro
formed her father’s dogs and eloped with
the young man whom her father had for
bidden the premises. The probabilities
are that about a year hence she will con
clude that her life would have been less
miserable if she had chloroformed the
young man and eloped with her father’s
dog.
David Dixon and Mary Swinton were
to have been married at two o’clock in
the afternoon, at Embarrass, Wis. An
hoar earlier he and others were in her
room, where the finishing touches were
being put on her toilet. An old pistol
lay on her bureau. He supposed it un
loaded, playfully snapped it at her, and
shot her dead.
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The law of Connecticut makes the hus
band responsible for his wife’s debts
contracted before marriage. Recently a
Hartford man, engaged to a widow
whom he knew to be in debt, bought up
all claims against her at twenty cents on
the dollar before he applied for license
to marry. Most people would rather
have a widow without a mortgage on
her.
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The postmaster general has ordered
that an actual daily count be made in all
the post offices of the United States, from
the first to the seventh of November, of
all letters, packages, postal cards, etc.,
deposited for transmission in the United
States mail. Publishers of newspapers
are requested to furnish postmasters with
the number of papers mailed by them
within the limits of the time specified.
The largest cotton crop ever gathered
in Texas ni one year, before the war, was
200,000 bales. The crops this year will
reach 1,000,000 bales, and the increase is
due to white labor, as the emigration to
that state since the war has not included
any negroes. The total cotton crop of
this year is estimated at 5,000,000 bales,
and it is claimed that more than half of
it is the production of white labor.
A desperate attempt was made to rob
Sargent
days ago. A man stopped the stage in
the woods and commanded the driver,
Freeman Grindle, to give up the mail
bag, and he refusing, the robber fired at
him, the bullet passing through his hat.
The driver returned the fire, which
frightened the horses so that they broke
way, leaving the assailant standing in the
road.
The Alabama papers are beginning to
call the attention of the world to the gold
resources of the state, which they say are
inexhaustible. It is stated that, with the
same labor and machinery, more gold
could be taken from the Tailapoosamines
than has been secured from many of the
best known diggings on the Pacific coast.
In for mer years these mines were work
ed, unskillfully, indeed, but at that they
yielded many thousand dollars’ worth of
the precious metal.
At Pomeroy, Ohio, Win. Tucker sued
the board of education and recovered
thirty-five dollars damages for depriving
his daughter of the privileges of the pub
lic schools. The board had decided that
all the pupils should study drawing.
Tucker notified the teacher that his
daughter must not study that branch,
and the board in consequence expelled
her. If this decision stands, the studies
arranged by the board will not be com
pulsory upon the pupils.
A singular fatal accident occurred at
the residence of 11. Fardouski, boot and
shoe dealer, of Norfolk, Va., Saturday
night. His infant daughter Dora was
left by the nurse a short time in a room,
placing her for greater security in a
child’s patent chair, which has a movable
leaf in front for toys. After the nurse
left, the child slipped oft the seat, and,
the leaf turning, was caught by the neck
between the edges of the leaf and seat,
with her weight suspended, causing the
pressure to bear with fatal effect. The
nurse returned soon, finding the child
black in the face, and examination
showed that life was so far gone that
there was no hopes of resuscitating it,
death ensuing before assistance could be
rendered.
Two Illinois farmers, who had a large
crop of wheat to sell, went to Chicago
and frequented the board of trade rooms,
which is a resort lor speculators in pro
duce. Their attention was attracted by
an old man who constantly talked and
gesticulated all by himself. They made
his acquaintance, and he told them that
his strange conversation was with spirits,
who kept him informed as to the future
of the market. He said that he lacked
the money to take advantage of these su
pernatural points, but would sell them at
a reasonable price. The farmers at once
put him on a liberal salary, and only lost
taith in him w'hen he stole a diamond
pin from one of them. The fact that he
had swindled many other speculators
was then divulged.
They have a kindergarten school iu
Peoria, 111., conducted on the most prac
tical system and manner-of-faet manner.
No books are used, no lessons are taught,
but the teachers and children converse
together on evety day subjects, ask each
other questions, and tell stories. It is
supposed that children drink in knowl
edge trom these conversations and carr} 7-
it away wfith them. In this school noth
ing is hard or difficult; even the most
tiresome, is made pleasant and attractive.
The most unique course of all is geogra
phy, the instruction in it being by means
of mud pies. The children are taught
the forms of countries and the relative
positions of cities by these very mud pies,
and thus, w hile enjoying one of the most
delightful amusements of childhood, they
are learning a difficult and usually un
pleasant lesson.