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0 he (Tme (fifizen. Sullivan Brothers, Publishers. Subscription Rates : Olio Copy one year - - S2 00 “ “ six months - I 00 “ “ three luonlhs - 50 P 0 S I T I V E L Y (' A S II. Recent dispatches about the star route cases, say, “Brady left the wit ness stand.” A sigh of relief goes ul> all over the country. There was a general apprehension that lie would take the stand with him. It is a way lie lias. “Oli! when this old trial is over.” Volume 2. Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, June 1st, 1883. Number (The (True (Citize Advertising Rales Tran sir n( ,rl \ para I tin i i, advance. 1 nnlrar! Jt• 1 \ a. ].:iynltlc <|li:irlrrl.r. i 'nil ii nil n iral lull:; l« »r pis'smml hr nr III will he rliai'rnl Inriis nilvs., pnviihlr in a'lvanrr. Advs. nrrnnyini! sprrinl position clmi-gcd 2a per rent, aihlil Innal. Nollrr-nmonir 1‘rinliii" limltrr Hi rrnls per line, rnrli Insertion. Not in > In 1 .oral A llnslness rnlinnn, next to reinllnsr, a rents per line each Insertion. All nit tees will hr planed llilliim.' mullin' mat (rr It* not speeliill.v i a dcivd ot her wise. Knr terms apply at thlsotllcr. I.KO.N A. I'll 1 till (■'KOItt: I V IIKtiniKNT. Cl.A I! K. l*rii|ioat il Ke-1 nlmi «f 11 I'liinoiix (ieoritla llody. (('onipetrnt literary rrllles Itavr pnmoniters 1 ! I hr l> (Howlin' poem a nsnr passed hy any ol Iter | Atlanta for. Sa vannalt Times, production of Its class In onr Inniiinure. It is t l,v I lie mi inn's t hat the Third petl'rri in rli.vmr, hrantlful in I'n'iirr and r.\-I 11,11 "> l>a|» 1 > llidl lIII • mill prrssion, and deserves a place in every one’s | (ieorgiil, pl’obllblv till' best regiment j of Georgia troops that ever fought The returns from the Virginia elections indicate that that State is about to return to the Democrat ic fold, where she naturally belongs, and that Malione will soon be rele gated to ojilivion, where he may ponder over bis well-earned and well-merited infamy. The French and Chinese troops have had a collision, ami the “French arc rapidly reinforcing. A bloody war between those powers is imi- nent. We hope that the emperor of China will have a use for every one of his rat-eating subjects, and will stop their coming to the United States. A letter to Americas, Gu., from Cincinnati, Ohio, says that Florida watermelons were selling in the latter city at ifl ol) each. It would veipiire the net profits on lot) pounds of cotton at present prices, liberally calculated, to buy one melon. Dear farmer, do yon see the river? The Lowell Citizen is mistaken, we think. The policy of State aid to private enterprises is a had one. There is no limit to that sort of business when it is once begun.— The Constitution of Georgia does not countenance appropriations for junketing trips to fairs—even when held in Massachusetts; but it will protect any citizen in the exercise of his right to go there, exhibit his wares, pay his hills and return in time to pay liis State and county taxes. At the Cedar Hill Catholic church, in Jefferson county, Mo., on the its111 ult., as Martha McDaniel and Amiel Durcntz were yesterday coming from mass, they were met hy Hiram Suelliiss, who carried a shot gun. As he approached, he shouted, “draw your pistol, Amiel,” hut without waiting a moment tired, killing Durentz on the spot.— He then discharged the second barrel at the girl, wounding her se riously, if not fatally. The murder er then reloaded, and fired killing himself instantly. The cause of the murder is not known, hut was probably jealousy. np hook.| Leona, the hour ilrnwetli nigh, The hour we’ve wailed so I mg For the angel to open a door through the sky, That my spir'd may break from its prison I and try Its voice in an infinite song. .7ust now as the slumbers of night (’ame o’er nu* with peace-giving breath, The curtain half lifted revealed to my sight Those windows which look on the kingdom of light, That borders the river of death. And a vision fell solemn and sweet, bringing gleams of a morning-lit land; I saw the white shore where the pale waters beat, And I heard the low lull as they broke at their feet, Who walked on the beautiful strand. And I wondered why spirits should cling To their clay wit h a si niggle and sigh, When life’s purple autumn is better than spring, And t lie soul files a way, like a sparrow, to sing In climate where leaves never die. Leona, come close to my bed, And lay your dear hand on my brow; The same touch that thrilled me in days that are tied, And raised the lost roses of youth from the dead, t'an brighten the brief moments now. A dispatch from Vuyeross, Ga., dated the 2flth ult., says: At Moon shine, on the Waycross and Jack sonville railroad, Saturday, a negro trickster while carrying on his an tics on a platform for the amuse ment of a number of negroes who had assembled on the ground, call ed out, “shoot mo.” One of the ne groes in the crowd pulled out his pistol and fired at him, the ball striking him in the forehead, and glancing upward, plowed up the tlesli and hair across his head.— The skull was not fractured, and the man will recover, hut it is not likely he will indulge in any more such wild requests. The oldest living graduate of the military academy at West Point, is General Joshua Baker, of the Par ish of >St. Mary’s, in Louisiana, who \was on Jackson’s staff at the battle of New Orleans, lie graduated in ISIS, sixty-five years ago, and was twenty-four years old when he geminated, lie is still a hale old mini, who does not seei.ii over sixty. 1 Ie cun ride on horseback ns long as Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, who sits on his immense parade charger with the ease anil grmv pf five- and- twenty. I If the above statement, which we see going the rounds of the pa. pers, is correct, General' Baker was on General Jackson’s staff at New Orleans nearly three years before be graduated, as that battle was fought on the 8th of January, 18b). — F.i), ('it.I I thank Thoe, (Jivnt Father, for this, That our love is not lavished in vain; Fnch germ, in the future, will blossom to bliss. And the forms that we love and the lips that we kiss, * V Never shrink at t ho shadow of pain. Il.v the light of t his fait h I am taught, That my labor is only begun; I a t lie st rengt li of t ids hope, I have st niggled and fought With the legions of wrong, till my armor has caught The gleam of eternity’s sun. Leona, look forth and behold, From headland, from hillside and deep The day king surrenders his banners of gold, Tile twilight advances through woodland and wold And tlu* dews are beginning to weep. The moon's silver hair lies uncurled, Down the broad-breasted mountains away, Kre sunsets red glories again shall ho furled Outlie walls of the West, o’er the plains of tin* world, I shall rise in a limitless day. Oli! come not in tears to my tomb, Nor plant with frail Mowers the sod; There is rest among roses too sweet for its gloom, And life where the llllies eternally bloom In the halm-hreatliing gardens of (toil. Yet, deeply these memories burn, Which hind me to you and to carth; And 1 sometimes have thought that my being would yearn, In the bowers of its beautiful home to re turn, And visit the scenes of its birth. ’T won Id even he pleasant to stay, And walk by your side to the last; Hut tin* land-breeze of Heaven is beginning to play— Life’s shadows are meeting eternity’s day, Anil Its tumult is hushed in the past. Leona, gooil-hye! Should the grief That is gathering now, ever he Too dark for your faith, you will long for re lief, And remember the Journey, though lone some, Is brief Over low'land and river to me. A Moll of \\oitirii. Athens Cunirersih/ Heportrr: “G. K. Patterson lias the only “cul tivated voice” hi college, Losings the “air,” “base” ami “tenor,” ut the same time. This speaks well for Ids instructor. Dr. Wallace, of Waynesboro. Tin n Citizen please copy,” The projector of the above scur rilous paragraph, in the plenitude of his vanity, may imagine that he has perpetrat ’d something exceed ingly witty. As to the musical at tainments of -Mr. Patterson, we The latest from the mining dis tricts in St. Clair county, 111., is to tlie effect that work was to be re sumed this morning, May 28th, at the Rose Hill mine, near Wess Belleville, but when the men were about to begin work at a o’clock, a iaiiul of I'iO woirnm, wives and daughters of the strikers, marched two abreast, armed with stout elubs, appeared on the scene, and after some altercation, compell ed tin 1 men to desist, and work was not started. The Sheriff’s posse was driven back by the women, and the latter are now in possession of tlie mine. The military are assem bled ut Fast St. Holds, and a detach ment will probably be sent to re store order at Hose Hill mine, and protect the men who desire to work. After completing their work at Hose llill, anil leaving n guard there to see that their mandates were carried out, the women marched to Heinlek’s mine, No. I, three miles from Belleville, on the Louisville and Nashville railway, and being reinforced by u large number of strikers, drove out the men working there. The mohut this point is said to be increasing rap idly, and now numbers several him. dreds, including about one hundred women, who constitute the most unmanageable part of the crowd, and are beyond (ho control of the civil authorities. The Sheriff lias telegraphed to Governor Hamilton for military aid, It is known that work in tlie mine was stopped, and that some very ugly threats made regarding an attempt to resume. At Murissn, some fifteen mill's beyond Belleville, n crowd of miners appeared in the morning, and demanded that work limild reuse. Deputy Sheriff Hag- in Virginia during the war be tween the States, will have a re union nt Tallulah Falls,on July -4th. The Third Georgia was mustered into service at Augusta, in May, 18(11, for a campaign of twelve months. The regiment was com posed of tin* following companies: Company A — Burke County Guards, of Burke county. Company B—Putnam County Hi des, of Putnam county. Company C—Dawson Greys, of Greene county. Company 1)—Home Guards, of Madison, Morgan county. Company F—Wilkinson Hides, of Wilkinson county. Company F—Governor’s Guards, of I louslon county. Company G—Confederate Light Guards, of Augusta. Company 11 — Young Guards, of Covington, Newton county. Company I — Blodgett Light Guards of Augusta. Company K—Alliens Guards, of Athens. The regiment numbered twelve hundred men, and was commanded by Col. A. H. Wright, of Augusta, father, of Comptroller-General Wright, of Georgia. At the expira tion of the twelve months service, the regiment was re-organized and mustered into service for the war under an act of tin* Confederate Congress calling for all available troops. In July, 1802, Col. Wright was promoted to the position of Brigadier-General and put in com mand of a brigade composed of the Third Georgia, First Louisiana, Twenty-Second Georgia, Fourth Georgia Regiments and Second Georgia Battalion. When Colonel Wright was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-*JenoraI,Capt. A. B. Mont gomery was placed in command of tin* regiment. He, after a short time, was suc ceeded by ('apt. John F. Jones, now of the office of Secretary of State, who was promoted to the rank of Major. At the battle of Chancel- lorsville, the day after Gen. Stone wall Jackson was fatally wounded, Major Jones was wounded in tlie right arm so severely that it was afterwards amputated. Major Jones was then retired from service,and returning home to Newton county, was elected to the Legislature, Captain Claiborne Snead, recently Judge of the Augusta Circuit, being tlie ranking officer in the command, succeeded Major Jones as Lieuten ant-Colonel of tin* regiment. At Appomattox, the Third Georgia surrendered with a force of less than one hundred men. Comptroller General Wright is of the opinion that there will be about two hun dred members of tlie Third Georgia present at the reunion. [When the above writer says: “The Third Georgia was mustered into service at Augusta, in May, 1.801,” lie leaves the impression that the regiment was organized there. This is a mistake. Some of the companies were mustered into ser vice in Augusta with no regard to regimental organization. The regi ment was organized some three weeks afterwards, at Portsmouth, Va., anil Gen. A. It. Wright elected colonel. We were a member of compnyC, and know whereof we speak.—Ed. Cit.] Principality of llurkc. Travelling ('or. Macon Telegraph. < )nc of (Jcorgia’s most distinguish ed citizens said to me not long ago, in a conversation comparing vari ous sections of the State: “Burke county was once a principality, and with her rich soil, and intelligent and energetic population, has more rapidly recovered her prosperity than any portion of the cotton licit.” Having long known some of her best people personally,from war and watering place associations, and very little* of the character of the county, only from report, I gladly accepted an invitation, couched in irresistible terms, to lie present at the May term of the Superior Court. Hi the old days—“under the first empire”—Waynesboro, the county site, was only kept up as a place of residence for the sheriff and other county officers, and as a convenient point of mail facilities, the planters almost invariably residing upon their magnificent estates, which they occupied during the winter months as “shooting boxes,” and to superintend in a general way the marketing of immense cotton crops warehoused in Augusta. A few years since, Major Wilkins, Mr. Gray and a few other gentle men commenced business, which has proved most prosperous. Blocks of brick stores, occupied by solid merchants, elegant homes, provided with great taste and expenditure of adornment, which with u new hotel and modern features, gives Waynes boro a solid prosperous look as is worn by any Southern town oftliesame dinientions. Informer years it was malarious and unheal thy, but drainage lifts driven fever and ague almost entirely away. Dr. Whitehead, a lending pliysi- Hln-Nciirreil Sulillors. Six officers of the army and nav.v have been involved in disreputable practices that have recently been made public. Hieutonnnt-Col. Mor row, Paymaster Wasson, Paymaster Smith and Col. Ilges are accused of dishonesty, while Col. Nickerson and Commander White are in dis grace on account of domestic scan dals. Those in power, both in the War and Navy Departments, are seriously concerned about the state of things that these exposures indicate. Colonel Ilges was allowed to re sign when, by the rules, lie should have been court nuirtialed. lie was charged with having obtained mon ey by duplicating His pay accounts, and lie preferred to resign rather than meet the charge. Major Was son is a defaulter, as the govern ment thinks, though lie excuses Ids shortage by saying that he took the money as a forced loan, which lie intended to return through the con science fund. The amount taken is believed to be about •'[•'),()(Ml. Ma jor Wasson was a poker player. Paymaster Smith of the navy will be court martialed in a few days on a charge of dishonesty. Colonel Morrow’s ease is a pecu liar one. lie lias been one of the most dashing officers on Sherman's stuff. Since lie lias boon in Wash ington lie lias been living well, and was a most popular member of the army set. Some weeks ago he went to Secretary Lincoln, said that lie was deeply in debt and asked to be sent back to his regiment. He believed that lie could save money enough to pay his debts if lie was allowed to do so. The Secretary consented. It appears, however, cinn, relates a wonderful experience that Colonel Morrow had done in favor of drainage and cleanli ness. When tlie place had three hundred inhabitants, very few es caped ; now, with fifteen hundred inhabitants, fever is very rare. The looks of the people explode the slander that Burke is unlieul- something worse than getting into debt, lie had duplicated his pay accounts; in fact, triplicated them. The government had been no loser, and had known nothing of it, for Col. Morrow luid managed to take up the vouchors ns they became thy. It being Court week, I met all! due in the hands of the broker classes from every section of the county, which embraces an area as large as three ordinary counties.— The planters look as if they were prosperous, and enjoyed good diges tion. Take Tom McKlniurray and “Pink” Thomas, as samples. Where will you find two better preserved men? Toni lias a young wife, and dashes around with a wild horse, and with li is hat on looks about as lie did thirty years ago, so people say; and “Pink” owes his youthful ap pearance to the care taken of him at home. In riding through tin* country with my special friend, Dr. White- head, to whom I am indebted fora great many kindnesses and courte sies, I was surprised to find iron ore of a very fine quality on the fa mous old “Ivanhoe” plantation, whore a very rich vein exists. The court was presided over by tin* young and handsome, Judge 11. C. Honey, who is milking an en viable reputation in his circuit. The able and fearless solicitor, Mr. Boykin Wright, being too unwell to give active attention to his duties was represented hy Mr. M. P. Car- roll, a shining light of a brilliant bar. However, tlie litigation was of such a nature as not to permit of any great display of forensic ability by either the able local bar or prom inent visiting attorneys. 1 could not leave Burke county without being impressed most favorably with its people for kind- know nothing; hut us regards tin sneer ut Prof. Wallace, it is entirely vvlio was present with a civil •superfluous. It' thg writer of tin* 1 1>0S Mt*, t«»l«l that (lll.v interior- above quoted paragraph would cm- with the working of t!n> mim ploy himself in “cultivating” hit* | would result In bringing nut flip brains, and eradicating his egotism,; military force, who would arrest all it might redound to Ills future bene-j disturbers, lie then advised them lit. lie may, however, expect to n ,tire, and they did so, drihio through life hy the rule of ....... a tool tor luck. 'Vhtn tin pi otis- o) ^ i in| / e,i „ ( .[ u |, culled “The sor takes a “lid” for a pupil, lie u l- qvurful.” They meet everyday ways selects one with a musical und see who cun weep tin* longest Meat. ] for I he departed, When it was decided that he should rejoin his regiment, Col. Morrow called his creditors together, told what he had clone, and proposed that the accounts in* pooled and placed in the hands of a broker in pay accounts named Middleton, lie further proposed to have enough of his future (my accounts hypothe cated to take up the old ones. The creditors consented, provided an order should he issued hy Paymas ter General Rochester to all pay masters to pay no accounts of Col. Morrow. This was intended as se curity for the brokers. The Pay master General consented. Tlie order was issued, the crooked ac counts straightened out in that way, and Colonel Morrow went to his regiment. Secretary Lincoln knew nothing of this, hut has now learned of It, and it Is expected that lie will order a court martini. Commander White resigned from the navy a day or two ago, and it is charged that he did so to avoid exposure of a scandal that occurred ut Norfolk. Colonel Nickerson is accused of procuring a fraudulent divorce that lie might remarry. There is little doubt that the temp tations ot Washington life have led officers to violate their honor, and there is less doubt that gambling in the army lias ruined many officers. Secretary Lincoln inis announced his determination to put a stop to gambling in the army, and the best field for Him to begin his campaign (TKKKXT (1I.KAXIMIS. All Old Court House. The court house in the centre of tin* square ut Bumpkin was built about 18:1(5, at the time of the In dian hostilities In that section. The lumber was on tin* ground when tin* news was received of tin* burn ing of Roanoke some twenty miles distant, upon which the lumber was hastily improvised and formed into a block house for the protection of tlie women and children. A Message from tlie Sen. Savannah Times. P. C. ('arter, while off Martin I nihis- try Lightship in his boat on Satur day, saw a corked bottle Healing on the water and secured it. He saw it contained a piece of folded writ ing paper, and brought it to the city. The bottle was opened here and the paper found to contain the following, written in a scrawling hand: “Bark Maud lost in latitude 17 deg., longitude -12 deg. All hands on Jboard gone down.” “PETKlv IIITCIICOCK.” The Punishment ul’ Colorado Convicts. A dispatch from Denver, dated May 2i>th, says: The penitentiary investigating committee, created hy tlie last Legislature, lias filed a re port. The system of punishment is shown to he exceedingly cruel, in some eases resulting in insanity.— The hose hath has been a favorite me tli oil of punishment. The victims are tied to a post and a stream of cold water from a half inch uozzel fifty pounds pressure thrown in the face half an hour at a time with only short intermissions, to prevent them becoming insensible. A Hideous (<iimo (if Dull. Piukajh-’.kj’Mia, May 28.—The Rnorkey and Hopper base hall clubs, composed respectively of one-arm ed ami one-legged men, played a match game of hall for the crip ple championship to-day. Four of tin* Snorkcy team had an arm off at the shoulder, one a paralyzed arm, and each of tlie rest of the nine was minus a hand. The Hoppers were in worse trim. Their first baseman had an artificial leg, the centre and right fielders chased the balls on cratches and the others of the nine traveled on peg-legs. The two-leg ged-one-armed side hail an easy victory over the two-armed-one- legged crowd the score standing III to 11 at the end of the fifth inning, when tin* game ended. HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS. At A 11> OP A t II KNS. Mold of Atliens, we must }iiirt, I I tour jour IntlitT— 1 must slicl; lie’s broken of midnight rest; Discretion on my pnrl Is best; IM better till. Mold of At liens, ere I go, Kiss me once, for luck, you know; Your flit iter’s foot Is oil the Stull’— None bul the brnvo deserve tlie full’— The gns nln’t III. Mold of Athens, just once more— l.lttle ships must hug the shore. Ilnrk! the dog bus broken hlschnlu, Zounds! I’m In lull'd Iuok iignln— (irent Scot I! I'm hit. —( 7iinif/n Tribune. The man that will invent a fire- escape for the next world catches our trade. The publisher never existed that wouldn’t prefer a new spring suit to a libel suit. A girl lias been with three tongues, been decided that hook-agent. horn out west It lias already she shall Ik* a lb-interment of Confedernte Soldiers. The Richmond State says that the remains of twenty Confederate soldiers were taken up Monday from the Seven I’ines battlefield, placed in coffins, conveyed to Cem etery Hill, in Hollywood Cemetery, and buried near the grave of Gen. George E. Pickett. One of tlie bodies of the soldiers exhumed was evidently that of an old man.— Around his neck was an old-fnsh- “Lie? Well, I guess he does lie,'’ said his neighbor Jones. “Why, lie’s so fond of lying that-lie won’t let a clock strike right in his house.” Constitution: A Pennsylvania man lias broken his neck and still lives. If this tiling Continues it will Ik* necessary to shoot Republicans instead of hanging them. Some one lias come to tin* con clusion that the shape of tin* hats and bonnets this* year has been in fluenced by tin* unsettled condition of opinions, political, social and re ligious. At n breakfast the other morning a New York dude declined a piece of shad. He had been told that fish food made brain, and he didn’t want to unfit himself for the position lie occupied in society. “As we go to press,” facetiously remarked the young journalist, as he put his arm around her waist. “You do not make a good impres sion,” she replied, as she slapped his mouth.—Oil City Jiiizsanl. Elderly philanthropist to small hoy who is vainly striving to pull a door 1)1*11 above his reach: “Lot me help you my little mail.” (Pulls the hell.) Small hoy: “Now you hud better run or we’ll both get a lick ing!” “Who was the first man?” inquir ed a young lady of one of her Sun day school scholars. “My pa,” an swered tin* youth. “<) no; your pa was not the first man.” “Well, ho was the first one 1 ever saw, any way.” They were courting: “Don’t sit so near mo,” she said. “1 ain’t near you,” said lie. “You are.” “I ain’t.” “But you will be.” “No 1 won’t neither.” “Then, you had better go home, A Shower of liii'ils. Davenport (Jazcttc. A remarkable phenomenon oc curred at Independence, Iowa, dur ing a heavy thunder storm on tlie night of the 1st inst. Many were aroused hy a pelting against the windows, and supposed it to Ik* hail; others thought it was caused by hats. But the next morning tlious- mds of birds were found nil over tin* city, some dead and some alive. Wherever a door had been open the place would be full of thorn, It was a literal shower of birds, and how and whence came they? In size tin* birds were n trifle larger than u snow bird, and their color much like that of a quail. No such bird was ever seen there. One theory is that they were drawn into the vor tex of u Hmithtfflt cyclone, and cur ried its far as Independenuo, where they were dropped. Hon. S. S. Cox, mem her of Con gress from New York, it is said lias announced himself a candidate for the Speakership of tin* next House of Representatives. Mr. Cox lias u Congrcjssjomil experience of a quar ter of u century, and Inis always been u consistent Democrat, und we know no reason why he is not as milch entitled to theSpenker- sliip as either Mr. Randall or Mr. Carlisle. (Subscriptions arc positively cash ness and a genuine hospitality to j is rif ,. ht ll0P0 in Washington. The strangers. In the past, when llicy who advance money on laid moie time, v, non the land was officers’ pay accounts at a ruinous covered with vast estates, any one | ,< s i ti* of interest know perfectly well of which would have been the envy, that were it not for the gambling ol an English landlord, 1 have been j that prevails hero their business in assured that these people spent most | this direction would he greatly enr ol' their time in social pleasures of a high and elevating character, es pecially when they met at Hie fa mous summer resort of Bath, a company composed of men and women who would have added ad ditional lustre to any civilization on earth, They were brave, hand some, polished and wealthy Geor gians. tailed. This gambling in the main does not take place at tin* public gaminghouses. It is done lit clubs. There is tin* best authority for saying t|iat there is an army poker elut) here that numbers some distin guished officers who have made a business of fleecing officers just ar riving in town from their regiments. Of course, these men do not play Atkanta, May 2(1.—There is a I dishonestiy, or, at least, are suppos- shortage of cusii in tlie Atlanta tMl to l‘ la y l»ut they gene- postotfice of several thousand ili>1 -1 •'ally \\ in. ( uses are known where 1 ill's, and Assistant Postmaster Joe ^ u ‘ officers who have just come to Nall is supposed to he in trouble, I "’1th U»e savings of a year or ioned silk handkerchief, which had j for I linin’t got no use for you,” decayed and fallen apart, disclosing two nice gold sleeve buttons. Where the side pocket of the Con federate jacket would have been a hriarwooil pipe was lying with its late owner. The remains of anoth er limn were evidently those of an officer of a Louisiana company, as shown hy his buttons and the pro fusion, of lace on the sleeves of his jacket. His hones indicated a statue of six feet six inches. There are supposed to he about one hun dred bodies more on the battlefield. Although the pastoHIce otlleials are decidedly reticent on the subject, most of the facts in tin* case have leaked out and become public prop erty. The shortage aggregates nearly $8,ono, and Its publicity is attendant on an investigation made hy special agent Sharp, of the De- two, have had tin* whole sum swept away In a single sitting. Then they turn to their pay accounts for ready cash, and then comes the tempta tion to duplicate these accounts. There is litile doubt tlint tin* iutlu- ence of some of tin* members of this dub lias been used to shield officers, partnient ot Justice at \\ ushington. | driven to desperation hy their |t|ssa|d that IJiPi'o s nu Hiispl- L 1 . , /. . , ,. *, clou of crookedness on Mr, Nall's hisses, have duplicated their nc- jiart, and it is further alleged, the investigation hits revealed no crim inal offenses. On Thursday he was endeavoring to negotiate a loan of $(),()()(), mid it is expected that every cent of the deficit will he made good. counts and been detected ut it. The club has been fearful tlint should tin* officers he driven to extremity hy court-martial, they might ex pose the practices that make dupli cation so common. Killed liy a Stray Shot. Hampton, 8. t’. f (Juimllan, On last Thursday afternoon a col ored wonmii’was killed near Yarn- villo, under tin* following circum stances: Messrs. Goo. llentz, Tom llentz and Willie Connor, wishing to have some sport, took a small villi* and went to tin* woods near the residence of Dr. Goethe to practice ut a target placed against a large pine tree. They tired several shots, and Mr, George llentz firing last, missed the tree. While examining the target they heard some one cry ing out ns if hurt. They ran on about oil yards through the thick woods, anil coming to a path lend ing toward town found two negro women standing over tlio prostrate hotly of Mary Ann Simmons, who had received the bullet In the centre of the breast. Dr. Goethe, the hu mane and skilful physician, heard the outcry and hastened to the spot, blit could do nothing to save the woman’s life, and she expired in ten minutes. From the place where the bullet was fired to the path where tlie woman was found tin* distance is about one hundred and fifty yards, and between the target and No cards Constitution: Speaking of cows, Evan Howell hail an old-fashioned one that went through the war with him. Led behind one of the cais sons of his battery slu* was In near ly every important battle of the army of Tennessee, and, to her credit be it said, no matter how thunderous the roar of battle, nor how sulphurous the air her milk never curdled or ceased its gentle flow. At night around the camp fire she would yield as sweet a pail ful of milk ns was ever distilled from clover in time of profoundcst 1 ponce. Slu* surrendered with her j battery nt Macon, walked homo i with her master, and lived and died in honorable retirement. Her grand daughter is now queen of a West End clover patch and looks at visi tors as If she would say: “My grand ma 111 in the war.” A correspondent of the New York Sun writes the editor: “1 am a great big fellow; my better half is hardly half my size. Our baby took after its lather in physical propor tions. Attracted hy tin* tine weath er last Sunday, we thought wo would take the hope of the house out, and it was agreed, after he had been carefully wrapped up in Ids cloak, that 1 should carry him, I received nil necessary instructions regarding Ids being properly held to prevent his taking cold, and everything went well enough until we heard n passer-by remark to a companion: ‘How funny to see u big man carrying n small baby!’ And after that my wife Insisted that 1 must surrender the baby lit once to her. Now, the baby, by comparison, looks small with me. patli there is a belt ol very thick hut very big with her, und we laid woods. An inquest was held over not gone far before we heard this the body of the deceased hy Coroner j remark: ‘Look at that big fellow J. C. C. Matthews, and a verdict ; loafing along and letting his pom- rendered in accordtinee with the little wife curry that great big filets. Mr, Rent/, is very much do- baby I’ .Now, wind I want to know pressed nnd deeply regrets the tin- Is, who should curry the baby?’*— fortunate occurrence, i C/tivuyo Tribune.