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STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Hot weather will bring out cotton
wonderfully-
Commencement at Emory College,
Oxford, will begin on July Ist.
Geneva is working to. sccufe the
Talbot county lair at that place.
Cattle in Morgan county are dying
xJ a strange disease, which is spread
iDg-
Ainericus has produced a double
■egi* after the fashion of the Siamese
twins- ,
The costs in the John Jones suit,
■exclusive of lawyer’s fees, are about
$7OOO.
The bronze stature has been raised
upon the Confederate monument in Sa
vannah.
Kev. Dr. J- lb- Graves is lecturing
on Modern Spiritualism, exposing its
pretentions.
On the Telfare p’ace, near Savannah,
a negro killed another by a blow in
the abdomen with his fist,.
Mr. Herman A. Crane, a highly es
teemed citizen of Savannah, died Mon
day morning, after a brief illness.
Henry Harris, a colored youth in
Washington county, recently shot down
David Wright, also colored, and killed
him. -
Judge underwood says he has no idea
of becoming a candidate for Governor,
and never will be in opposition to the
organized Democracy.
The state lunatic asylum lias, three
thousand acres of land attached, a
portion of which is used for farming
and gardening purposes.
Mrs. Oralie Troup Vigal, the only
surviving daughter of Governor G
M- Troup, died last week in the Luna
tic Asylum at Milledgeville.
Rutland district, Bibb county, has
passed resolutions condemnatory of
Judge Simmons for suppressing a por
tion ot the grand jury presentments.
A novel and unfilial act of a father
swearing against his son in a case of
assault with intent to murder, was wit
nessed in the Savannah Superior Court.
The bridge at Milledgeville is to be
rebuilt with the county bonds to the
amount of SIO,OO0 —$1,500 payable
each year—and the bridge to be rented
for $1,500.
It is now believed that there will be
eight or ten companies in the camp at
Rome on the 27th of June. Apphea
tion has been made to the Governor for
100 wall tents.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
passed resolutions fa voting the open
ing of the Chattahoochee river to that
point. It will require $150,000 to
make it navigable.
The Milledgeville Union and Re
corder remarks that if the old saying
that a dry May is an omen of a good
■crop year lie true, then there is a line
prospect for 1879,
A dissatisfied set of lazy negroes are
reported to be visititing the various Af
rican churches in Og'ethropo county ‘
with a view to organizing an exodus
movement among the blacks.
The town council of Cedartown
offers a reward of SSOO for the arrest of
the party, or parties, who set fire to that
town last wee'*, and the production of
evidence sufficient to convict.
Xalbotton Register: There is not a
hoy in Talbot county who is taking
advantage of the free scholarship al
lowed him at the State University
Our hoys should look better to their
interest.
The Cuthbert Appeal found a negro
woman on the ground screaming, with
her husband and several negroes
around. Husband, to an inquiry, said:
“The old oonian is just got froo de
’ligion, and de spirit is shakin’ her up
a little. Don’t be ’larmed ’bout her.”
Stri tk by Lightning. —Augusta
Rvening News: Lightning struck Mrs.
Jas. Pryor, at Hollywood, Ga., last
week, and burned and blistered her
left side from head to foot. She
was very badly used up, but at last
accounts was in a fair way of a speedy
recovery.
Sumter Republican,: The first bar
rel of flour fiom new wheat was sold
in New York last week and brought
*21.00. The wheat was grown on
the plantation of Captain J. L. Ad
derton, near Americus. The Cap
tii'n donated the flour to the ladies ot
the Episcopal church of this city.
The Covington Star says: “The
helle of Rocky Putins District. Miss
C. Stone, chopped out over four
acres of cotton last Wednesday and
Thursday, and then came to town on
Saturday and purchased a stylish hat
at one of our fashionable millinery
stores, and other nice dressing to
suit.”
Ike Zellner, colored, got mad with
his father-in-law, Essex McGough,
colored, in Monroe county, and on
Saturday, the 10th instant, went to
his father-in-law’s cabin, struck him
J'ith a stone on the bead, stunning
him, and then cut him in seven places,
lac wounded man lingered for a
''ceek in agony and died. The mur
derer made his escape and has not
Jet been arrested.
Ihe Recorder learns that a storm
passed over a small portion ot Sum
ter county last Thusday night doing
considerable damage, especially to
11 e premises of Mr. Joe. West. ' He
had several cabins blown down, his
mils scatrcred over his plantation, and
eft his crop tothe mercy of the stock,
hs mule-shed was destroyed, killing
0n " "mle ami so severely injuring au
-01 her as to render it worthless
The Americus Recorder says that
~n die place of Mr. Robert R. Howe,
j>e:n- Grangerville, Macon county,
ere is an everbearing mulbery tree
" 'jeh measures twenty-three teet
“ml eight inches in circumference five
p vt from the ground, and the foilage
measures ninety-four feet in a straight
m*- through the broadest part It
“des Mr. Howe’s entire house, lot
‘.'kittens hogs enough to do his
. ~le force upon the fruit. If there
!l l 'i> l' ort '°n of the country east of
y 1 Kicky Mountains which can beat
ls Wu would like to hear from it.
BY J- 1). IIOYL& CO.
COX'S COURTSHIP.
ROMANCE OF LOVE AND ELOPE
MENT LONG AGO.
How Captain Edward Cox Met His
Wife and How They Mairied.
Recollections of their School
Days in Delawaro.
[Philadelphia Times.]
W hen Captain Ed. Cox was a boy
he had a love affair that gives his histo
ry a tinge of romance to which the mur
der of Col. Alston, in Atlanta, Georgia,
is not an appropriate ending. When
Cox was a young man his father died,
leaving an estate of considerable value
and three children to share it. The
eldest child, a girl, married a lawyer in
Atlanta, and her husband became the
guardian of the affairs of Edward. At
the beginning of the fall term of 1849 of
Col. Hyatt’s Delaware Military Acad
emy, at Wilmington, Edward Cox’s
name appeared in the roll of the lower
class. On the 20th of May lie ceased
to he a student of Col. Hyatt’s school
and it was between the date of his arri
val at Wilmington and the2oth of May
the following year that he added the
romantic chapter to his life’s history by
eloping in the most approved style with
one of the pupils of the Misses Griin
shaw’s select school for young ladies in
Wilmington. Since Capt. Cox has be
come so prominent because of the mur
der trial in which he is the defendant,
the story of this elopement lias been
variously told, but those who drew it
out of the past evidently had the assis
tance of others on whose memory the
dust of years had fallen not lightly.—
From persons who were personally as
sociated witn the affair the story here
with given was obtained, and at least
two of the gentlemen concerned have
reason to remember it well.
COX AS A SCHOOLBOY.
When young Cox came to Wilming
ton he was nearly seventeen years of
age. lie was a great broad-shouldered
fellow, with immense muscular devel
ment, and he distinguished himself al
most immediately for his strength by
lifting 400 pounds dead weight to the
height of his shoulders. In manner he
was quiet and unassuming, but quick
to anger when he felt aggrieved, aud
reckless of consequences when aroused.
Col Hyatt at that time was the head of
a college in Releware, such as he now
maintains at Chester, in this state. Cox
was not far advanced in his studies, in
fact, beyond being able to read, write
and do a little elementary mathematics,
his education had been much neglected.
Nevertheless lie was a manly fellow.
That self-confidence so natural to the
Southern youth ; and he was the chosen
companion and friend of his instructor
in Freucli and Spanish, an ex-army of
ficer, Captain Jefferson Nouis, whose
native state is Virginia. When young
Cox came to Wilmington his younger
sister, Mollic. come also, and entered
the select school of the Misses Grim
shaw, where she had for a room-mate
Miss Louisa Watkins, from East Ten
nessee. Miss Watkins, although not a
beautiful girl, is described as being one
of those toward whom all persons she
came in contact with were irresistably
attracted. Bright and winy in conver
sation, graceful and pleasing, she formed
acquaintances only to make friends.—
There seemed to he only one bar between
her and beauty, and that was the pres
ence on her face of a large mole —so
expansive, indeed, that it destroyed the
contour of her right cheek, and there
fore, in form as well as color, was a
blot on an otherwise lovely face. Lou
isa—or Lula, as she was more generally
called—was a romantic girl, and her
French exercises and tasks in botany
were often neglected that she might
peruse the novels that about that time
fell so abundantly from the pens of
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Marion
Harlan 1 and Caroline Lee Hentz. Ala
ry Cox, her room-mate, was also of a
romantic turn, and a lady in this city,
now married and the maternal head of
a large family, but who was a school
mate and confidante friend of the two
Southern girls, relates that it was Miss
Uollie who proposed the match between
her brother and her room-mate.
noW HE MET IUS WIFE.
Young Cox had frequeut meeting
with his sister and had entree to the
strictly select school of the Misses
Grimshaw’s and was thus afforded an
opportunity of meeting Miss W atkins
as often as he chose. lie chose to meet
her at frequent intervals. His sister
and the lady now in Philadelphia, who
wishes her name withheld, jcalously
guarded these interviews from outside
eyes and curiosity. They acted as
scouts in this campaign of love and
were entirely successful in protecting
their charge.
THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
It has been stated and published that
Cox and Miss Watkins had a love af
fair in the South before they came North
to school, and that Cox having been
sent away to break up a possible match,
the true-hearted girl discovered his
place of withdrawal and so adroitly
managed affairs that she, too, was sent
North to school, to the verv town in
deed to which her lover had been ban
ished. Much as such an incident adds
to the interest and romance of the story,
the faithful narrator must pronounce it
in variance with facts, for Miss Lula
and Mr. Edward were strangers to each
other until they met in the little parlor
of the select school for young ladies
which the MissesGrimshaw kept. But af
ter that the course of true love ran smooth
until one day—the 20th of May, 1860-
young Cox, walking with Capt. Nouis,
said : “I want to entrust you with a
secret, and I want yon to give me your
word of honor as a gentlemen that you
will never devu'ge it
“Well,” said the Captain, smiling at
the earnestness of his favorite pupil,
“as I take it for granted that you
havn’t murdered or robbsd anybody
nor committed arson, I suppose I will
have to promise silence.”
“On your word as a gentleman, prom
ise,” insisted Cox, and laughingly the
Captain promised and Cox went on :
“I am going to marry Lula Watkins
to-day.”
“Nonsense, you are not going to do
anything of the kind. Why, I shan’t
permit jou to make any such a foolish
step —at your ago, preposterous !”
“Well, to stop me you will have to
tell somebody, and you are a gentleman
and dare not break your word,” replied
Cox, doggedly and all expostulation
was useless to shake him from his resolve.
“If you do try to stop me, why I
will take her on the train to Philadel
phia. Nobody can kinder me from do
ing that,” and so the hot blooded, im
pulsive young fellow went on.
A FRIEND INDEED.
His friend, seeing there was no use
of trying to desuade him from his pur
pose, wisely concluded that if the thing
must go he would see the girl properly
and legally married before the couple
left the city.
It may be mentioned here, as showing,
perhaps, that Cox had difficulty in in
ducing Miss Lula to go with him, that
she had had experience in elopements,
or at least in arranging them. Twice,
before her path crossed that of the
young man she presently married, had
her affections centered upon another
young man in her native town. Twice
had it been arranged that she and her
lover would fly to some place
where distance would render parental
opposition ineffectual, but before that
point of safety had been reached, in
both Instances, the young woman had
been drawn under the domestic wing
at home and snugly detained there.
The instructor and his pupil walked
up the street that day, in May, 18G0,
talking over the important matter that
Cox had engaged in. the hot-headed
lover turning a deaf ear to all remon
strances of the older and wiser man.
It does appear, however, that the exar
my officer was not lacking a spice of
romance that in this case was a fellow
feeling and made him wondrous kind to
to his pupil. “How shall I get the li
cense I’ queried Cox. “I guess you
can get it there,” said the Capt. di
recting the youth to the proper office,
and presently, the legal paper being
procured, the couple strolled up King
street. A little furthdl on they met
the young lady who is now a Philadel
phia matron. She, too, was a party to
the scheme.
“You will be expelled for this,” said
the Captain.
“I can't help it if I am. lam going
to see this wedding through.”
THE KNOT TrED.
Presently the two met Miss IV atkins
and Miss Cox, and the quintette thus
formed proceeded so the house of an old
and well-known Methodist circuit rider
of that day, the Rev. William Barnes,
irreverently called ‘‘Billy ’ Barnes by
the Academy hoys, whom he used to
exhort wherever aud whenever he could
find them. -Mr. Barnes examined the
license, pocketed his fee, tied the knot
in due form, and so the pair were mar
ried. Mr. and Mrs. Cox went at once
to the depot, where the husband wrote
a note to the Misses Grimshaw, of the
select school for young ladies, which
ran in about these words:
Ladies: I was married this after
noon to Miss Louisa Watkins, one of
your pupils. My wife and I leave on
the train for the South on our wedding
trip. Very respectfully,
Edward Cox.
This note fell like a bomshell in the
select school for young la< les, and a dis-
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1871).
We havo received a letter from Dr.
J. M. R. Westbrook, of Andersonvitle,
detailing a terrible affray between Josh
ua Renew, a white man, and Jim Giles,
colored, at the mills of Messrs. Burton
and Collins, in the eastern part of this
county. It grew out of the discharge
of Giles by Rurton and Collins, and
the employing of Renew in his stead.
Giles was so enraged at this that he made
several attacks upon Renew On Fri
day, the 23d inst., he went to the mills,
and a knife in hand, cursed and abused
Renew. On the Monday following, he
again appeared at the mill, and the
difficulty was renewed. Giles first
struck Renew with a si.ick, knocking
him to his knees, making an ugly
wound 6poll his head, breaking the
stick to flinders. Giles then gathered
a gun sitting near by, and attempted to
shoot him, but Renew had fortunately
regained his feet, caught the gun bar
rel and prevented the muzzle from got
ing near his person. Now commenced
the struggle for life. Both parties were
active, strong young men—the struggle
was that of giants—each party straining
every nerve and muscle to get possess"
ion of the’gun. Out of the mill they
\ven f , struggling, writhing, twisting,
wrenching,.as only two strong, deter
mined men, bent on destroying one an
other, could, Renew, covered wish his
own fast flowing blood from the terrible
stroke, Giles, unhurt and maddened by
the sight of the blood of his eremy,
struggling t with a purpose to conquer.
All over the yard, timbers, etc., up and
down and across, the pitiless tussle went
on, every step marked by the blood of
Renew, whose strength was fast failing
Finding that his enemy, would wrench
the gun from him, Renew pulled the
triggers of the already cocked gun ; the
two loud reports were heard, and the
bullets flew harmless through the air.
This was a happy thought for him, and
saved his life. With renewed energy
Giles went to his work : Renew growing
weaker from loss of blood, feels that he
is unequal to the contest. Giles hurls
his huge body upon his foe, encouraged
and exultant, gives a powerful wrench
aud the weapon is his. A moment with
his glittering, revengeful eyes flashing
on his helpless victim, and the gun
comes with crushing force upon the
head of Renew, felling him to his knees,
the wood-work splintered and broken
up, the barrel falling close by bis side.
Quick as thought Renew had the iron
barrels in his hands, was upon his feet,
and with a mighty, triumphant sweep,
brought them down upon the skull of
his foe. It was crushed, and he fell
like an ox. This was the only blow
received by Giles, and it was enough.
Parties arrived soon after, and found
Giles stretched upon the g r ound and
Renew reclining upon the timber, bloody
and exhausted, looking like a huge ti
ger that had been revealing in the blood
of a victim.
Giles, up to last accounts, had neith
er spoken nor recognised any one.
Mr. Renew had atrial before Justic
es Glover and Westbrook, on Tuesday,
on the charge of assault with intent to
murder, and after hearing the evidence
was discharged.
patch to the train conductor brought
back the answer that Mr. and Mrs. Cox
had left the train at Ilarvre de Grace.
The Chief of police of Wilmington, who
went after them ha been dead many
years, but before he was laid away in
final rest lie often told the story of his
meeting Cox at the hotel in Havre de
Grace. The young couple had arrived
about three hours ahead of the officer
an 1 had occupied rooms at the hostlrie
nearest the depot.
Cox responded to officer Moody’s call
and with a smile on his face, said: You
are too late; besides, what business
have you got to interfere with me in
Maryland ? You had better go home”
Moody takes up the story : “I couldn’t
say nothing. I looked at him and he
gave me a bad sort of .laugh, so says I
tr myself, says I, ‘all right,’ and I says
to him, says I: ‘I ain’t agoing to in
terfere.' And I didn’t, and I conic
home.”
In a day or two Cox returned to
Wilmington with his wife, and stopped
at Allmond’s Hotel until lie got money
from home. Then he lett for the South,
and has never visited the North except
once, and that was when, as a Captain
in the Confederate army, lie fought at
Gettysburg. 11 is marriage is reported
to have been a happy one, but of all those
who were intimate with the very early
history of his wedded life not one knows
anything definitely of him or his affairs,
except the tragic story of the fatal
shooting affray for which he is now on
trial for his life.
A Terrible Kern-outer.
[Sumter Republican.]
ASPECTS OF NEGRO LIFE.
The Kansas Emigrant and His Creduli
ty-—General Grant, the Troops
and the Gunboats—A Class
Sui Generis--The Rous
tabouts.
[Correspondence Boston Herald.]
Newtown Landing, Warren Cos.,
Miss., May 10, 1879.—There is some
thing almost pathetic in the recent ludi
crous manifestations of negro ignorance
and credulity. The simplicity of the
mass of negroes is hardly to be credited.
Just below here is a camp of negroes
who have squatted on the Louisiana
bank of the Mississippi, waiting for
some boat to take them to Kansas. The
river boat Captains refuse to take them
and their little stock of money is almost
gone. The boat people say that it would
be cruel to take these miserable people
to St. Louis and leave them to starve.
Some of these negroes were well-to-do
fellows, owning a little stock. One man
sold anew wagon, for which lie had paid
$75, for §5, so as to raise money to go
to Kansas.
Another chap sold two good horses
for $25 each, and I know of cows hav
ing been sold for $6 by these reckless
and improvident people. A mule worth
$159 was got rid of for $lO. The dark
eys believe that in their Kansas para
dise they will receive 180 acres of land,
a mule, farming tools and subsistence
for a year—all from the generoiis hand
of the UnitocfStates Government. ‘Cot
ton,’ said one old darkey, gravely, ‘cot
ton grows better in Kansas than here.’
•Whar is Kansas V asked another.
‘I reckon it’s a day’s ride from lieali.’
replied another geographically ignorant
fellow.
Under a shabby tent on the levee I
noticed a singular pair, a blind octogena
rian negro and his wife, an enormous
woman, weighing 300 pounds if an
ounce. She would require a turn table
to face her about. Sajs the old man,
‘l’se had a wision from de Lord, and I
shall git back my sight.’ ‘Bat is de
truf,’ says the old fat woman, corrobor
ating.
‘Why, auntie, you can’t work; you’re
too fat,’ one exclaims.
‘Well, de Lord has called us, and lie
will pervide,’ she replies.
DAVIS TAKES MEMPHIS,
One day the camp is greatly excited.
A negro with news has arrived ; ‘Jeff
Davis has taken Memphis with ten
thousand Loops and four gunboats, and
is a-goiu’ to send'b ick to s'avery cbery
darkey who tries to go up de riber.’
This is consternation until equally
trustworthy news is brought in by a
special and self-commissioned courier of
sable hue.
‘Deve is good news,’ he says, ‘Gen.
Grant has got ter Vicksburg with six
hundred troops and a heep of gunboats,
and is a-goin’ to take us all up de
riber.’
Many of these waiting negroes daily
expect that mythical government steam
er is going to take them free of expense
to their one hundred and eighty acres
and a mule in Kansas.
BCOI NDREI.S FLEECING THE NEGROES.
Recently some white scoundrels have
gone through the northern Louisiana
parishes selling the credulous au 1 easi
ly duped darkeys tickets to Kansas
price five dollars each. The ncgr es
have gone to the levee and tried to
board the'boats, showing their tickets.
And then did they learn that they had
been ‘sold;’ By this time the white ras
cals had ‘lit out of the country,’ as the
phrase is.
One of the meanest games played up
on the negroes was on the part of some
white men from the North, who traveled
through these parishes carrying trunks
filled with tiny American flags, sucli as
seil in Boston toy stores for a penny
apiece. The negroes wore told that if
they bought tliese flags and planted
them in the ground the government
would in the fall give them the land.
The negroes bought the flags at prices
ranging from two to five dollars apiece.
When the planters heard of this scound
relly transaction, they endeavored to
secure the persons of the rascals, but
they had ‘skipped.’
POPULAR TALKS.
You will often hear a Kansas bound
darkey saj : ‘General Grant has ordered
us to go to Kansas, and lie will take
care of us.’
I listened to the conversatien of the
stokers on the steamer Natchez for a
half hour. ‘Kansas’ was the topic. A
big negro, busily loading up one of the
furnaces with cottonwood, was the cold
water thrower, and not at all popular
with his companions. ‘Go to Kansas,’
said this chap, ‘go there and starve. It’s
fearful cold there ; heaps of snow.’
A young negro answered: ‘I knows
better. Can’t we stand the cold ! Gol
ly, it was cold ’null' in ole Yirginny
VOL. 16—NO 13.
can’t be any colder in Kansas, I reck
on.’
And here added another : ‘Well, we
might as well starve in Kansas as starve
here. We ain’t any of us getting rich.
Yah! yah! yah!’
Said an old darkey : ‘We can git a
livin’in Kansas just as well as git it
lieah. A man’s got to work anywhere.’
PICTURESQUE XItSERY.
The deck of a Mississippi steamer
with a party of Kansas emigrants on
board is the scene of picturesq :e mis
ery. The illustrated papers, particu
larly Harper's Weekly , by the pencil of
Mr. Moser, of Vicksburg, have done
what the pen Cannot do—graphically
picture the tout ensemble.
Here is a gray-wooleu negro, his
mfich younger wife and three pickanin
nies, wretched children, nil sleepy
with the drowsiness of childhood. Here
they sit or lie on the hard deck-, pillow
ing their little wooly heads on their
pudgy arms. They wake up stiff and
sore, and cry for ‘mammy.’ A young
negro man takes off his coat, goes up to
a toddler of four summers, lif s him all
asleep from the deck and spreads under
him the coat.
The little chap sinks into the torn
and dirty garment with the same delic
ious sensation of perfect comfort with
w hich the white child, after a day’s play
nestles in his clean bed. Poor pariah
chi'dren of poverty ! going, they neither
know nor hoed whithof, looking to
these dusky and simple parents in the
unquestioning trustfulness of child
hood. The blind leading the blind,
and shall they not both fall into the
ditch ?
Look around at the baggage of these
people. A basket of tins and crockery,
a bale of two of bedding, often a bed
stead with the slats tied up with a rope,
perhaps a chest. For lunch they eat a
corn-cake and drink from a pail or river
water. The old man falls asleep, sit
ting on his box, his gray head and
wrink'cd face buried in his hard hands.
The children cry and he wakes from
his nap,
The white men who come and tell
them that Kansas means want and mis
ery to them are not believed. They
reason that the whites do not want them
to go away, and, therefore, mils bo ly
ing about the earthly paradise of their
daily hope and nightly vision.
The boat makes a landing An ath
letic young black men runs down the
gangplank. The negroes on the levee
cry out, ‘Good-bye, Sam,’ ‘Hope you'll
havo luck in Kansas.’ A sweet
heart on the levee looks sadly at Sam
as the boat swiftly backs cut info the
stream.
Such scenes might be pictured ad in
finitum.
l>cicrato Shouting Affray.
[Hawkinsville Dispatch ]
The Rost tells of a most desperate
shooting affray which occurred ten miles
below Dublin about eight o’clock on
Monday morning (the 12ih inst.,) be
tween J. W. McDowel and John Pry
or. Tt seems they had been making
threats about each other until they
both deemed it unsafe to be without
their double-bai reled guns. On Monday
Pryor went to Me Dowel’s field where
lie found him hoeing. They passed
sumo words when McDowel
s ruck Pryor with his hoe. They each
then jiut in one shot with tlie'r guns,
Pryor receiving the full load in the
cheek and McDowel in the leg. Though
only one barrel of each gun had been
discharged, they Stopped shooting,
clubbed their guns aud beat each other
over the head until the breeches of their
guns were broken off. They now stop
ped, sat down and opened a conversa
tion. Wm. King, a neighbor, who was
expecting something of the sort, hearing
the shooting, hurried to the scene of
bloodshed. Ile found them as a above
described. He heard Pryor say he
was satisfied, but McDowel replied
he was not—that he intended to
prosecute Pryor. Pryor walked home.
It is not thought either will die.
Rattlesnake.
On Tuesday morning Mr. Jesse
New was looking for his Turkeys and
found them in a ditch, he started to
drive them home, and discovered an
enormous rattlesnake in the ditch with
them. He immediately got his gun
and shot the snake twice, and then
had to call to Mingo Glaze, a colored
man, for assistance in killing it. He
cut the snake open afterwards, found
inside of it three turkeys and a chick
en. Says the snake eight or nine
feet long and about two feet in cir
cumference. It had twelve rattles,
which we now have in the office. It
was an ugly customer, and Jesse says
that he now intends leaving Georgia,
for when he finds such snakes in two
hundred yards of his house he does
not belive it healthy for himself.—
Sumter Republican.
Letter From New V drk.
New York, May 23, 1879.
Editors Dawson Jovrnal :
America has at last invaded Canada
The thirteenth regiment N. G. S. N. Y.
of Brooklyn left yesterday amid the
Wiving of handkerchiefs and shouts of
a Imiring applause. No fearful, anx
ious tears dimmed the glance of fond
mothers, or bright eyes of Brooklyn’s
beautiful daughters for the fate of gal
lant lover, brother, or son; ho wife
turned lo her little ones and wept, as
she witnessed the departure of theft
father-—her husband. Tire bright Spring
sunshine, the chirping of sauey spar l
rows, the strains of gay
dhl any army set out under more happy
auspices, or to surer or more glorious
victory. One hundred, fifty, or ten
years since, if any one had prophesied
that a day would come when loyal citb
zen soldiers of these United States
would leave their Country for that of a
province of Great Britian for the pVft*
pose of commemorating the anniversary
of the birth of England’s sovereign
personally great, good, and virtuous
though that Ruler be—they Wohld ha\fe
been shunned ns unpatriotic, or scoffed
at as visionaries.
The thirteenth regiment left yester
day for Montreal attended by its chap
lain, the Rev. Henry Ward Beeches,
to cole',rate the anniversary of the
Irrthday of Queen Victoria, it has been
left for this handful of men—repri-ftent
ing America—to ms onip’ish in a single
day that which the combined forces of
the world have failed to do in a thou
sand years, a complete victory and un
conditional surrender of hearts and af
fections of every Englishman.
A sensation has been created here
by the public avowal in the belief of
spiritualism of School Superintendent
Kiddle, who has published communica
tions received from the spirits of Shake
speare, Byron, Prince Albert, and other
notable-. Mr. Kiddle is “very far
gone” on the subject as it is proved by
tie' j’. tof his resignin; l his position of
sc’.' 1 )! superintendent, which is worth
$ ),225 per annum. r ihe school board
in accepting ttie resignation, leudered
its regrets, and expressed in highest
terms their ape veeiah h of qualities
displayed by .Mr. Kiddle in fi ling the
position helms h Id for the hist twelve
years.
New Yorkers are again presented
with a story of horror) indeed with shell
are the c lumns of the newspapers of
this city chiefly filled; this last is
styled the Silver Lake horror, and for
absolute atrotity and depravity ii can
not be surpassed. Edward Rhienhardt,
a German, on the 24th of November*
1877, married a pretty, refined Irish
girl, named Annie Degnan, Oil or
about the 19th of July last Mrs. Rhien
hardt disappeared from the neighbor l
hood in which she resided, her husband
stating she had gone away and would nttt
return. Some time after, Staten Island
ers were much excited over the finding
of a body of a yourig pretty woman*
who had apparently been killed at the
time of giving birth to her child. Crain*
mod into a barrel and buried in the bed
of a small river, in a lonesome spot oft
Staten Island, the action of the water
had washed the earth with whicn thft
barrel had-been covered, and two boyS
at play discovered it. Rhienhardt whft
is on trial for the murder, w 7 as seen on
the day following the disappearance of
his wife wheeling a barrel on a barrow
from his home, and witnesses have been
found who identify him as the mail
whom they met at different stages of
his journey wheeling the barrow with
its awful burdeil. Another men swears
that he saw the prisoner digging tliC
hole in which the body was found, and
lhat lie enquired what he was doing-, tft
which Rhienhardt replied he “was dig l
ging the hole to bury a dog.” It has
transpired that Rhienhardt some few
days before the death of his wife* mar*
ried a German girl, named Poulinft
Dirman. He admits to burying hi*
wife, in the manner above described)
but claims that he did so in consequence
of his wife dying the victem of mil
practice, and that he feared being pros
ecuted as a party to that crime, and
sought to hide the manner of her death.
The weather is so like summer, that
we of the city are beginning to pant
for green fields, ocean breezes, and
mountain air. A. J. W.
A True Gentleman*
‘lbeg vout pardon,and with astni'e
and a touch of his hat Harp Elmo*
handed to an old man, against whom
he had accidentally s'umbled, the
cane which he knocked ftomhia hahd
‘I hope I did not hurt y >n. We were
plaviug almost too roughly.’
‘Not a bi*,’ said the old man, cheer
i'y. ‘Boys will be hoys and it is heat
they should Le. Yuu didn’t harm
me:”
“I a>n glad to hear it,’ and lifting
his hat again, Harry turned to join
die playmates with whom lie had been
frol eking at the time of the accident.
‘What doyni raise your hat to that
old l*dlow foi?’ asked his companion,
Charley Gray. ‘He’s only G.lea, the
huckster.’
‘That make* no difference,’ raid
The question is not whether
he is a gentleman, but whether I am
one.’