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GEORGIA PRESS.
.As an excursion party on Monday last
fiom Beaufort, on tbeir return from Sa
vannah, neared tlic quarantine station, the
blow a hole in the boiler of the
vessel, which detained them all night.
A revenue officer, while the steamer was
aground, went on board, and nosing
apcuud. found that the vessel had 190
more passengers aboard than she was al
lowed to carry by law; so there will be
»ore trouble ahead. ,,
Sr.uira. Ishmadite: The tide of lmmi-
erai.Vju is beginning to set in slowly in
Ohio direction. Every reasonable encour
age went should be extended to thrifty
Immigrants, who wish to cast in their lots
with. t .ir people, and labor to make the
ftature of Georgia brighter even than our
dreams. If they come for good, let them
eotae.
Aicumccs Republican: Major J. B.
Banter died at the residence of his brother,
Hites Hunter, in Screven county, Georgia,
so we are informed, one day last week.
Jlx\ir Hunter was well known in thissec
tion, f.r many years, as a man of sterling
qualities ? was of a just and upright char-
act.'.', and pure in his dealings with his
Ihltow men. He was over eighty years of
age, a;nl leaves an unblemished character
fbt his friends to emulate.
News of the 4th: We are
dandy pained to announce this morniDg
the death of another child of Rev. Mr.
CoTiev, which sad event occurred at Mad
ison, Ga., on Saturday last. The deceased
vein ihe youngest son, William Bames,
aix! '. is attacked with diphtheria at tho
as'We time as liis little sister, whose death
basl^en announced, but lived a week
longer. He was aged four years six
months and thirteen days, and was a
hrigl.t, interesting child. Thejlieartfelt
gyrnnathy of the entire community will be
extended the sorely afflicted family.
&PABTA Ishmaclite: Isn’t It about time
lor U ude Jona'.lian Xorcross, the great
examiner, to make another revelation ?
Isn’t ;t about time for him to begin to es-
(aili-su-tlie fact that he is the Moses of the
dispensation, if such, indeed, be the fact
la the case ? Uncle Jonathan should take
a ruuuing start and come to the front in
atvie.
TiiOM-S.svir.LE Enterprise: Harry
Cole,-!, an honest,, liard-working colored
man, was bitten by a rattlesnake while
polling fodder on the Pickett place, about
three miles from Boston, and died in a
very short time. The colored man who
came for the whisky said the snake had
•xteen rattles. We do not vouch for this
las-:, part.
Tub Columbus Times says it has been
informed that it is a fact that Mr. Wadley
isru bought the Savannah and Memphis
railroad. A gentleman of Columbus came
over the road Wednesday, and was told
by one of tbe officials that Col. Wadley
; 'i ! bought the road and would extend it.
He also'stated that the Central had se
emed the possession of the Western road
between Columbus and Opelika. This
stives tbe Central a through line to Good-
Atlanta Constitution: Yesterday
morning a box car containing fifty convicts
reached this city from Cedartown, on
their way to Macon. The convicts were
under the control of two white guards.
Th--.se convicts, as wo understand, have
for some time past been at work on the
Cherokee road, and will now be put to
work on the Maron and Brunswick rail
road.
Wabrenton Clipper: Blackburn, one
of t he Turner murderers, has made a full
cor.l ission as to how the plans were laid
ainl the deed executed. lie is a very il
literate tellow, and, it appears, was scared
Into taking part in the allair by others
tdiinzhloi that Turner liad threatened
his life and he wouid have to help kill
iuu\ in self-defense. Blackburn is im
prisoned iu the court house at Washing-
ten, and amuses himself principally with
his fiddle.
Augusta Chronicle: A crazy fanatic
•v.- its “the toiling masses” to go on a big
strike, ami, fasting for twenty days,
•“bring employers to terms.” We belong
to (he “toiling masses” ourselves, but, as
at present constituted, we shall take no
Tanner in ours. Till further notice we
shall take three square meals a day, and
thank God that there is something to toil
at like honest men.
Sparta Ixhmaelile: The contest for
Ui* nomination, in the Sixth district con
vention, was protracted to the 174th bal
lot, on which Mr. J. H. Blount was unan
imously renominated. He is, in our opin-
iou, one of our veiy best Congressmen.
Tlio people have nothing to gain by throw
ing overboard good, true and experienced
representatives, and placing untried men
in their places.
Talbotton Register: The Talbotton
railroad is an accomplished fact. Grad
ing will be completed in about a month,
when tbe ties and iron will be laid rapid
ly. Forty applications for the position of
engineer have been received by President
T'uomton. About one hundred and sev
enty hands are constantly employed on
Ike grading. Mr. Allen, near town, is
making good headway, and the depot end
of the line is now ready for the location
«T the building.
- Savannah News: A gentleman iu this
city yesterday received the following tele-
frram from a grocery firm in Macon:
“Send by express immediately six doz
en rice birds, four bunches celery and two
hunches blackfisb.”
Tbe Macon gentleman is evidently not
rested as to the seasons ior delicacies, or
Le would never have included in his or
der at tliis time rice birds and celery. He
was notified that he would Iiavc to wait
several weeks before liis wishes could be
complied with.
Thomasville Post: Colonel Charles
S. Rockwell, so well known throughout
( bis section as an eminent educator and
Jiethodist minister, died at his residence
in this city about 8 o’clock this morning.
For several years he had been afllicted
With paralysis, and for the last year or so
unable to attend to any duties'. He en
tertained very little hope of recovery, and
his friends saw with sorrow the gradual
wasting away of his fine physical powers.
Col. Rockwell served faithfully in die
Confederate war as captain of the Thom
asville Guard, was ever a pure-minded,
upright, Christian gentleman, and pos
sessed a solidity of mental powers and in
structive art very few can hope to attain,
ile was 07 years of age.
Albany Advertiser. We learn that Mr.
Ben Sykes, of Worth, who was recently
shot by his step-son, young Ford, rumor
ways, for abusing the lad’s mother, will
not die from the wounds, hut is fast re
covering. For the sake of young Ford,
(liis piece of information will be gladly
received in this city.
if the rejwrt be true about Mr. Sykes
beating the mother, because her heart
went out in sympathy to her son, and
t'iiat maternal love which has its exist
ence even in the brute creation prompted
Iwr to intercede in his behalf, young Ford
deserves to be honored for resenting tho
insult offered his mother, a defenseless
vveuiau, by the man of all others to whom
she should look for protection, and who,
bad at the altar, sworn before God and
r.>an “to shield and protect” her through
i'fe from ali harm. But if the report be
untrue, young Ford should be aught a les-
-~.on tliat he will not soon forget.
Marietta Journal: Rev. Dr. E. W.
Warren, of ifacon, preached an able ser
mon at the Baptist church Sunday night,
jji this place, to a large congregation. Ha
ti! one of the most jiopular ana beioved di-.
-iues in Georgia, lie preaches with great'
■aariMStnais, power and feeling, aud is at the
-ue time concise and pointed, never
f- lllng-to impress and rivet the attention
•T 'us bearers. There is always a warm
•• icoine in the hearts of our people for
experiments—were interchanged with the
utmost freedom, and the colloquial char
acter of the discussion imparted unusual
freshness to the proceedings. The exhi
bition of fruits was large and satisfactory,
and the result of the convention will pro
mote, even in a larger degree than the
friends of the society anticipated, the im
provement and progress 'of the horticul
tural interests of the State. ■
The convention adjourned yesterday
without day, but it will reassemble in
Atlanta next year at the call of the ex
ecutive committee of the society. We may
state, in advance, that while the session
that has just adjourned was successful, the
meeting next year will be conspicuously
so. The interest of the members will not
be greater, hut its influence will be more
widely extended. The objects which the
horticulturists have in view will benefit
not only the important branch of indus
try in which the society is directly inter
ested, but will result in the development
and substantial improvement of all tho
agricultural interests of Georgia. The
society, in fine, should bo fostered by
every citizen who has the material prog
ress of the State at heart.
Col. W. H. Woods, of Rome, died on
Tuesday evening last. He was one of the
most prominent citizens of Floyd county,
honored and respected by all. He was
about seventy-five years of age.
A whiter in the Atlanta Post is very
anxious to break up the harmony of the
Democratic party, aud have two political
factions. He fanatically argues that it is
the necessity of the hour. Of course, every
Radical believes that.
Atlanta Post: The fifth district
delegates decided in the caucus to present
Judge John J. Hall, of Spalding, for presi
dential elector, and Hon D. P. Hill, of
Fulton, for alternate. This selection ex
cites comment for the reason that the elec
tor inrthe last presidential campaign was
from Spalding, aud that county appears to
be having a little too much of a good thing.
If the gentlemen-on the ticket exchanged
places it would, perhaps, have suited bet
ter.
Cartersyille Express: A horrible
tragedy was enacted at Cedartown, the
other day. Jack Robinson, because of the
belief in the unfaithfulness of his wife, cut
her throat, and then, after two deadly
aimed shots at his own person, cut Jus
own throat from ear to ear. He was soon
dead, but his wife’s wound though serious
is certainly not fatal. The Advertiser
gave us an interesting account of tbe af
fair.
Savannah News: About 9 o’clock
yesterday morning Charles Brown, a sea
man on the schooner Island City, lying at
the Upper Press wharf, was accidentally
drowned. He was engaged at work on
the vessel, when he accidentally fell over
board and sank beneath the surface of the
water. Several persons who witnessed
the accident made preparations to rescue
him as he arose above the water but he
was not seen after he fell. It is supposed
that he was rendered partially insensible
by the fall and was carried away by the
tide. Throughout yesterday efforts were
being made to- recover the body, but with
out success. The deceased was a native
of Denmark, and was a hard working in
dustrious man.
Albany News: Yesterday’s Macon
Telegraph says: “Gen. W. S. Holt
presides over the Central Georgia Bank
during the absence of Col. J. E. Jones.
Gen. Holt contemplates opening a bank
in Albany.”
We sincerely trust that General Holt
will carry oat his intention. Albany’s
greatest commercial need is a well man
aged bank, aud snch an institution would
pay well. General Holt is a gentleman
of ample means, and a successful finan
cier, and under his charge the bank would
do a fine business. We hopefully await
the enterprise and trust it may soon be
established.
The following snake is according to
Hoyl of the Dawson Journal: A rattle
snake measuring eight inches in circum
ference and four anil a half feet long,
crawled from under Mr. A. J. Harp's
boose in this county, on last Friday. It
was killed, and on examination, it was
found to contain several young chickens.
These snakes are quite numerous this
year, and now that weeds and grass are
m yards dying, it is quite dangerous for
children to be allowed to play out of
doors alone.
j'jiBState Horticultural Society.
' Constitution: The session of the
horticultural society, which closed
‘■i tl'.i.- city yesterday, may be said to
:ika new era in the progress and de-
iojiiueut of one oi Lire most important
-niches ol industry In Georgia. The
■ liberationi of tbe convention, apart
: >.■<: i'ue na'ural interest of the members
lie- :-ocic:/, was marked by a degree of
tJiosiamn not generally boon in such
.'.e riiu,*. There was nothing formal
si the convention. The views of the
members—the n.-mlts ot experience and
The M. & B. Railroad.—Eastman
Times: “Starts nowhere and ends no
where.”—R. Too.nbs.
Mr. E. E. Wilkins, the railroad agent at
this place, forwarded on Monday last to
the office of the road at liacon„ $1.056—
his weekly remittance.
If Uncle Bob Toombs were to come
down this way and see tbe quantities of
freight being transported over the Macon
and Brunswick road, even at this dull
season, wonder if he wouldn’t elevate his
ideas a little of this section of Georgia?
And if he would just spare the time and
stop over a day or two with us, and let us
carry him around through the pine woods
and show him a few of the big saw mills
and turpentine farms, and our corn and
cotton fields, with our sugar cane and
potato patches, together with other farm
products and flocks of sheep and cattle,
we think it would tend to relieve the old
gentlemen of much of his biliousness
Griffin News: About three years ago,
one night, a negro man living near Bush
chapel this side of Flat Shoals, was called
out of his house and murdered by John
Lunceford, colored. After the deed was
committed, Lunceford disappeared and
the most careful search failed to discover
his whereabouts until a few weeks ago
Sheriff Bussey, ot Pike, who is also a
shrewd detective, got on his track and ar
rested him in Alabama. When arrested
Lunceford wa3 so greatly terrified that hd
almost fainted. He was brought back to
Georgia, and is now safely lodged in
the county jail in Zehulou awaiting his
trial.
Augusta Chronicle: While takings
ride near the city, a few days since, the
writer noticed thata large section of coun
try along the old Southwestern plankroad,
which was devoted to watermelons a few
years ago, is now planted in corn and
sweet potatoes. Not a melon vine could
be seen where once some of the finest
melons brought to tills market were pro
duced. The fanners in that section have
been compelled tostop planting melons on
account of the melon disease.
The Columbus Times of the 5th says’:
Mr. Wm. J. Barton, who was shot by
Mr. C. J. Willis a few weeks ago, died at
his residence in this city yesterday morn
ing about 11 o’clock.
Mr. Willis has surrendered himself to
the sheriff, and is anxious for an investi
gation.
The same paper makes the following
announcement:
Mr. M. Dancer, who resided in Wynn-
ton, died yesterday morning about seven
o’clock in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
A few weeks ago he came into the city
and when returning home and near
Springer’s opera house, his horse became
lrightened and ran away with him,throw
ing him out of the buggy. He received
injuries which caused his death. He was
a native of South Carolina and came to
this city about forty years ago, where he
has since resided. He was at one time a
member of the mercantile firm of Gamble
<Sfc Dancer and was in the dry goods busi
ness. Sir. Dancer was more or less in
the cotton business.
Woods, of Hawklnsville, lias aban
doned the gourd question, and comes to
the front with the following dog story:
Eighteen days ago last Tuesday, Mrs.
C. T. Goode, of this place, left home for a
trip to the springs. Before leaving she
instructed a colored girl to lock all the
doors of her dwelling, and turn the keys
over to a neighbor, ar.d at the same time
telling the girl to look after and take care
of a small dog of the terrier species. The
who will allow himself to be sacrificed in
such a manner. He who takes the field
against H. G. Turner will be sure to find
bis political grave in November.
The Oglethorpe Echo reports a serious
accident to Colonel Nash, of Madison
county, who, it says, was in the upper
part of the county—somewhere near a
Mr. Allen’s—when his mare took fright in
some way, and ran away, throwing the
colonel from the buggy to which she was
bitched. In his fall, Colonel Nash re
ceived several cuts and bruises about the
face and head, besides other injuries to
different parts of his body.
LaGhange Reporter: Mr. B. H.
Brown, of Harrisonville district, has some
land that has been cultivated about forty
years, on which he expects to make a hale
of cotton to the acre. The land is level
and he has been enriching it three years.
Rome Tribune: Four of the Germans
late.ly from the North came from Cedar
town yesterday. They complain of ill
treatment and represent that they were
badly fed and housed with convicts. It is
perhaps well to add that the superinten
dents both at Alabama Furnace and at
Cedartown are Northern men, hence their
treatment of these Germans does not rep
resent the South. Republicans who run
slander organs will do well to note this
fact.
Augusta" News: Mrs. Wodehouse,
nee King, of Georgia, who was recently
married to the Marquis of Anglesey, re
ceived as a bridal gift from her husband a
necklace of diamonds containing thirty-
five stones. It was originally owned by
the ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, and is
valued at about $20,000.
Barnesville Gazette: Last Friday a
rare and sail incident occurred at Zebulon.
Young Frack'Harrison liad been arrested
by Sheriff Bussey and Bailiff Jackson and
brought to Zebulon to be tried for bas
tardy. While the court was getting ready
for the trial a brother of young Harrison
secured a horse and placed him near the
prisoner without the bailin' detecting his
purpose. When au opportunity offered,
Harrison leaped on the horse and at
tempted to make his escape. Bailiff Jack
son-mounted his horse and pursued him,
Harrison getting considerable start of the
bailiff. In his desire to speed the horse
he pressed him too hard over rough road
and the horse fell to the ground, at the
same time falling on the rider and so in
juring him that he died in a short while
afterward. This was the second arrest
for - the same offense, the unfortunate
mother having consented to dismiss the
proceedings in case he would agree to help
her support the child. He agreeing to do
this, the case was dismissed. His failure
to comply with the agreement was the
cause of his arrest last Friday.
Christian Index: Rev. G. A. Nunnal-
ly, the able and popular pastor of the
Rome Baptist church, has been again
elected financial agent for Mercer Univer
sity. Ho lias declined this position sever
al times before, but the trustees, having
confidence in his ability and fitness, still
press the work upon him. It is not yet
known that he will accept, but if he does,
his talents and his business qualities and
great popularity will insure success. His
church is unwiiling to give him up, and
then there are other places of honor and
usefulness being tendered him. Which
ever cause he espouses will be fortunate
in securing the services of one of the
closest thinkers and readiest talkers in the
State.
Saxdebsyille Herald: From that
obliging officer. Capt. 1. Herman, tax re
ceiver of Washington county, we learn
that there are in the county, white polls
1,749, the number of colored 1,679. The
number of white defaulters as taxpayers
is 169 a larger number than the past
year.
The number of lawyers in the county is
IS; doctors 26; dentists 2; and the number
of working hands is 2,788.
There are in the county 107,869 acres
of land, valued at $1,S90,&07. Sanders-
ville city property is valued at $200,064.
The total value of county property is $2,-
697,467.
The increased value of property in the
countv owned by whiles, over 1677 is
$210,704.
The increase of property owned by col
ored this year over the last'is $17,769.
But few counties can exhibit a more
gratifying increase in population and
wealth than old Washington. We think
the returns will when fully known, show
Washington to rank about the fifth in the
State in population.
Oglethorpe Echo: After twenty-four
years of separation a once favorite daugh
ter was restored to the affectionate em
braces of her aged father. She was ac
companied by ber daughter and son-in-
law, neither ot which the grandfather had
ever before seen. She was discarded on
account cf making an objectionable
match.
After a grievous drought of fifty-seven
days onr parched fields have been flooded
witft Leavy rains. What effect it will
have on the cotton crop very few can haz
ard a guess. All agree that it depends
entirely upon the length of the rainy sea
son and lateness of the fall. Corn, ex
cept the late crop, has been cut off two-
thirds. Potatoes, peas and the fall crops
will be greatly benefited.
First District.—Quitman Reporter:
The Democrats of the first congressional
district will hold their convention Thurs
day, September 16th, in the city of Sa
vannah. We hope they will show their
appieciation for services rendered by
nominating Col. W. T. Thompson. There
is no man in the district more worthy the
confidence and esteem of the party and
none to whom the party is so deeply in
debted. It is true, it’s a debt of grati
tude, but that kind of a debt should be
cancelled as well as any other. Let it
not be said the Democratic party has
proven ungrateful.
Brunswick Appeal: The colored vo
ters of the fourth Senatorial district held
a convention at JeffeaontoD, on Wedne3-
pay last, the 28th, and nominated Joe
Green, colored, for the State senate. He
is said to be a sharp fellow, and popular
with his race.
On the same day A. Wilson, colored,
was nominated by the negroes of Camden
for the house of representatives. The
about in the vicinity, disappearing for a
while and then coming up again to tho
boat. This occurred twice, when Cap
tain Fonseca, fearing that the animal
would get away, determined to kill it and
secure the body. Accordingly one of tho
sailors, an experienced whaleman, hronght
out the harpoon, and watching a good
opportunity when tbe monster was com
paratively quiet and within proper dis
tance, sent the sharp pointed instrument
with unerring aim, striking it in the side
and penetrating the heart, killing it al
most instantly. Blood spurted, copiously
from the wound, and the muddy water
for a considerable distance around was
given a crimson tint. The sailors quickly
jumped into the boat, which was hauled
up close to tho vessel, and started for their
prize, which, after some little difficulty,
was secured and hoisted upon deck.
The skin, a soft glossy brown, was deft
ly removed, and the carcass was thrown
into the river. The captain desired to
save some of the bones, but found they
were of a soft, mushy substance, and could
not well be kept. Tho monster weighed
about 359 pounds and measured 7f feet
from the nose to the tail, and 4-J feet
across the back. Most of those m the
party had seen sea lions, and were con
vinced from the skin displayed that the
monster which had invaded the usual
placid waters of the Savannah was a sea
lion.
McVille Georgian: We learn that
on last Wednesday morning at No. 5§,'
Macon and Brunswick railroad, a fight oc
curred between two negro men, in which
one was struck on the head and instantly
killed.
Henry County Weekly: Tenants could
be found for at least half a dozen store
houses in Hampton, and as many dwel
lings, if some capitalist would muster up
courage enough to make the investment.
Capt. Adair advertised a store house for
rent about two weeks ago, and received
four or five applicants before tbe week had
expired. Who will build them ?
Quitman Reporter: The population
of Brooks county according to the census
enumeration just made, is 11,780; the
population in 1870 was 9,342, making au
increase of 2, 438. Since our last report
Mr. Folsom, the enumerator for the town
district, has found additional citizens
sufficient to make the population of Quit-
man 1,540. So, dear reader, you see we
are fast climbing up on tbe 5, OOo claim
ed by our friends we would attain by
frost. Tbe fact of the busiuess is Quit-
man doesn’t propose to be outdone by
any place that is smaller than she is.
Greensboro Herald: On Friday morn
ing last, about 4 o’clock, the dwelling
house of Mr. Wiley Wright, near White
Plains, caught fire and was soon reduced
to ashes. The house was occupied by Mr.
Bennett Strozer and family. When the
fire was first discovered, the store room,
which was adjoining the main part of the
buildiug, was in such a sheet of flames
that it was impossible to arrest its course.
The cause of tbe fire is a mystery.
Rust in Cotton.—Americus Republi
can: We regret to chronicle the fact of the
rapid increase of this baleful blight to cot
ton. It is particularly noticeable on the
light and sandy soils. The continued
rains seem to Lave increased this disease
of the plant.
Cuthbeet Appeal: Rust has made
its appearance in cotton in tills county,
It seems that fate is against the farmer.
Caterpillars, too, are eating the cotton,
and in its present stale, young and ten
der, they will do much harm. The fields
on the road between Georgetown and the
Eufaula bridge, are full of worms, and
beginning to web up. We have not yet
learned of their appearance in cotton on
the hills and ridges, but wouid not be
surprised to receive • such intelligence at
any time.
Albany Advertiser: As we go to press,
we learn that little Miss Katie Lehman,
daughter of Mr. Fred Lehman, has hap
pened to a painful accident. Through
carelessness, in some way, she was shot
in the face with a parlor rifle, the hall
burying itself an inch deep in her cheek.
Columbus Times of the 6th: Yester
day afternoon about 4:30 o’clock a heavy
cloud came from the east and soon a
heavy rain began to tall. For nearly two
hours it came down in torrents and con
tinued raining until night, 3 35-100 inch
es having fallen. The sewer, which broke
daring the big fresbeti some weeks ago,
broke in the same place, in front of the
Columbus Iron Works, yesterday. The
caving in of the earth left the railroad
track exposed to danger and trains will
not pass over until it is repaired.
The sewer iu the street leading to the
upper bridge also caved in and persons
getting to the bridge were compelled to
go up on the sidewalk next to Col. Mott’s
residence.
In the eastern part of the city many of
the streets were flooded with water. This
was the case on Troup from Crawford
several blocks below. Forsyth was very
much in the same condition. In the
neighborhood of the jail the water over
flowed the streets and several negroes
there moved their families.
The colored public schools and the
colored churches were also sur
rounded with water, the sewer at the jail
not being large enough to carry it away.
The sand ditch was overflowed and the
water spread out on either side. The ne
cessity for opening up the sand ditch was
very forcibly suggested yesterday, and the
street committee should have the work
done before tho heavy rains of the fall
We heard of no special damage being
done to private property, only the spoiling
of flower gardens.
Last night the passenger train from At
lanta and Opelika, on the Western road,
stopped at Holland’s crossing and the
switch engine went out forthe passengers.
Hands were at work patting iu a new
bridge, and we learn that the work was
all washed away: No mail was received
by that road last night. We were
unable to find out the amount of damage
done to the road.
Owing to the damage to the approach of
the Mobile and Girard Railroad bridge by
the break iu the sewer, Mr. W. L. Clark,
the superintendent, has telegraphed all
trains on that road to Jay over till further
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race issue is proposed by these people, orders. The through freight from Savan-
and.tlie white people^may as well make j na jj i 0 Montgomery will stop here till
* morning, and that from Montgomery to
up their minds to meet it.
Bainbridoe Democrat: Joe Desver-
gers has a splendid livery stable, a fine
crop, and is about one of the best conduc
tors on the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern Railway. He only lacks one thing to
make him happy, now,
Send Joe up to Macon, and we can sup
ply that “one thing” which stands In the
way of his happiness, if it is only a wife
that he needs.
Savannah News: Tho party, compris
ing the sanitary commissioners and city
officials, who proceeded to Quarantine
Station yesterday morning on tbe tug J.
W. Lynu, on an inspecting tour, were
surprised to learn on reaching the station
that the brig Julia, now anchored there,
Had on board the skin oi a sea lion, which
had been killed aud captured a few hun
dred yards from the Quarantine wharf
early on Monday morning. The skin was
stretched on a- frame and was perfect,
showing the entire form.
Mr. G. J. Galiona, with Messrs. Tunno
& Co., to whom the vessel is consigned,
was ot tlie party, ami acted as interpreter,
obtaining from Captain Foncsca" the fol
lowing account of the capture of this
monster of the deep, the first of the kind
probably that baa ever been seen iu these
waters. Captain Fonesea states that dur
ing Sunday night the crew heard a singu
lar roaring noise proceeding from tbe
ship’s boat which was lying alongside the
vessel, having been in use for communi
cating with the quarantine station, and
girl _locked the house as directed, and • on looking closely discovered -some huge
missing the little dog, decided that it had object crouching in the bottom. Several
strayed off, and it was not until after of the sailors seized hold of the rope
eighteen days had passed that it was j which waif attached to thd boat and at-
fournl locked up in one of the rooms of tempted to draw it in closer to the vessel,
•the dwelling, where it had remained all when the animal, with a ’sullen roar,
that time without food or water. When arose and plunged into the river. Dur-
1 ! .b*rated the little dog was greatly ema- ing the remainder of .the night, however,
ciated from its long fast, but was still able it was heard again, and early Monday
to wag-its caudal appendv , and sue- j morning was found in the boat. It could
ceeded in lapping about a bslf gallon of then be distinctly seen, and was at once
water and eating a small p : ece of raw recognized as a full grown sea
beef. Let Dr. Tanner look ■<> liih laurels. * lion. Tbe captain immediately proceed-
Albany Advertiser: No iudependmt *
candidate for Congress bas made bis ap
pearance in this district as yet. We
don’t believe there’s a man iu tbe district
ed to take measures to capture the ani
mal, aud efforts were made to draw in
tbe !>oat. But the moment this was done
the lion took to the water and' played
Savannah will stop Id Girard. The in
coming passenger this morning will await
instructions at some telegraphic point
down the road. The supervisor of the road
has been sent for aud will be at the wash
this morning and the place soon made
secure, and by evening ui is probable all
trains will be running as usual.
RAIN AT OTHER PLACES.
Mr. Cook, tbe mail rider from Flor
ence, itiforms us tliat the rain all the way
from Jamestown was very heavy. It be
gan raining at 12 o’clock and rained on
him all the way to Columbus.
It began raining at Union Springs about
two hours before it did in this city. The
rain was also heavy at Seale and points
along the Mobile and Girard railroad.
At Geneva it began raining about two
o’clock and a young flood was poured out.
Thus far, the only damage of which we
have heard is the wash on the Mobile and
Girard road in this city, and on tho Wes
tern road at Holland's crossing
The burgomaster of Ober-Ammergau
protests against the practice of some of the
English tourist agencies in selling tickets
for the Passion play and making definite
promises as to the hours of performance.
He says: “We do not wish the spectacle
pf Our Lord’s passion, now presented
here for two hundred and thirty years, to
be made a scheme for money making by
foreign speculators.” He protests also
against the profanation of the intention of
the play. It is not a money-making en
terprise or a common show, but it is a
common exercise which has descended as
a vow from the ancestors of the present
dwellers of Ober-Ammergau. The people
itf the place have done their best to make
odgers welcome and comfortable at a
reasonable price, but seem to be some
what annoyed by the rush of crowds of
the irreverent, who are simply sigbt-seers,
and who fail to form a proper conception
pf the spirit in which the play is per
formed.
Hancock’s Letter to Sherman a Model
- of Simplicity and Statesmanlike
Force of character.
A correspondent of the New York
World, wbio visited Senator Thomas F.
Bayard at his office in Wilmington, Del.,
Monday, to ask his opinion on General
Hancock’s letter to Gen. Sherman, writes
as follows:
Mr. Bayard said that the first thing to
be noted in the letter was the quiet and
unconscious force of character displayed
in it. “Letters,” he said, “written with
an object are like all prearranged affairs
open to the suspicion that some things
are deliberately suppressed and others
made unduly emphatic. This letter ex
hibits Hancock, the patriot and soldier,
writing out his unpremeditated views
upon a grave, political crisis. The letter
was called out by repeated letters from
his military superior. He did not origi
nate the correspondence, as the
opening sentences show. To ap
preciate its full force and meaning you
must have seen and known, as I did,
what-was then going on In Washington
and at tbe war department. Troops even
then, under Cameron’s inspiration and
with President Grant’s approval, were
being moved towards Washington. The
army liad overthrown already the Louisi
ana election, for Wells and Anderson and
their negro colleagues would not have
dared to pervert tbe returns unless they
had been backed and protected by the
military arm of the United States govern
ment. Florida and South Carolina had
suffered the same fate, and the work only
remained to he consummated at Washing
ton in February by a repetition on. a
national scale of the frauds committed in
New Orleans and elsewhere in Novem
ber.”
“How do you think the letter will affect
the popular judgment of Hancock’s politi
cal abilities.”
“It will dispose forever of the pretense
that he is a mere soldier, a “namby-pam
by” sort of man, with no ideas concerning
polities and civil government. He has as
distinct views concerning public affairs as
any man I know, and he gives expression
to some of them in this very letter with a
simplicity and directness that - make his
presentation as strong as any that was
made by any man of his views on these
subjects before Congress or the electoial
commission during the pendency of the
electoral dispute. Contrast his language
concerning tbe decision of the South Car
olina Supreme Court with Gen. Grant’s
answer to Senator Randolph, who cited
that decision to him, and was bluntly told
by Grant that he cared nothing for the
decision of the court. Indeed, Gen. Han
cock’s views of public duty form the most
decided contrast to those of Grant. “How
can I, a soldier, best sustain a govern
ment of law ?’ always seemed to be Han
cock’s inquiry. ‘How can I, a soldier,
best assert my military power, despite the
restraint of laws ?’ seemed to be the usual
thought with Grant.”
“What do you think of his allusion to
the proper mode of settling the count of
the electoral voice ?”
“Having given the constitutional ques
tions connected with the election of Presi
dent and and Vice President and the con
trol of the two houses ot Congress much
thought and study, I must freely confess
that General Hancock has emphasized in
his letter the true meaning of the consti
tution in such a way aud with such force
as to give me new and stronger light upon
the subject. He presents with great clear
ness the idea of the separate deposits of
power in tbs House of Representatives
and in the Senate in the case of the ina
bility of the two houses in joint session to
to unite iu a declaration that a majority
of the electoral vote? have been delivered
for any candidate. In tliat case the duty
ot choosing a President immediately de
volves on the House of Representatives,
voting by States, while the duty of choos
ing a Vice President devolves on the Sen
ate. Tliis line of separate action is con
tinued in analogy by the separate power
given the Senate alone to elect as Presi
dent its own presiding officer in the event
of the death of the' President and Vice
President. In that election the House of
Representatives has no voice.”
“You think, then, that is the best part
of his letter?”
“No, I will not say that. The golden
sentences in the letter, in my judgmen’
are these : ‘The army should have noth
ing to do with the election or inauguration
of a .President.’ ‘The people elect the
President.’ ‘The Congress declares in
joint session who he is.’ ‘0.ur system does
not provide that one President should in
augurate another; there might be danger
in that, and it was studiously left out of
the charier.’ Here is the keynote of the
difference between Hancock and Grant-
ism. If Grant Lad held the doctrine of
Hancock’s letter there never would have
been an electoral commission or any need
for one. It was the threat of Grant that
he would inaugurate as President the can
didate who he decided ought to be inau
gurated, and that he would do it by force
if necessary, which made it requisite that
an unusual device should be adopted to
preserve the forms at least of law infilling
the office and to prevent a storm in which
our system of government would have
been wrecked.”
Mr. Bayard spoke freely of his recent
visit to Gen. Hancock, and said that,
though he had often met the general be
fore, his recent conversation had im
pressed-him more strongly than ever with
his knowledge and correct judgment of
public affairs. “Anybody,” he said, “who
imagines that Hancock will depend on
some one else for his ideas of civil admin
istration will have to surrender that opin
ion on reading this admirable letter,
written out iu Missouri, where he had not
even the aid of a clerk. Furthermore,”
said the Senator, “Gen. Hancock has, in
this letter, presented the great Issue raised
by the fraud of 1876 to the American peo-
pel with the force which really belongs to
it, and divested of all that may have
tended to weaken or obscure it. It is an
issue we should never lose sight of,
for our country cannot with safety endure
a repetition of such grave wrongs as were
successfully perpetrated in 1876. Our
people would cither abandon all respect
for and interest in their elections, or they
would take up arms to make them re
spectable.”
Mr. Bayard concluded tlic interview as
follows: “General Hancock’s letter is in
the highest sense a state paper, though
not intended to be one. It is devoid of
the formalities which attach to official
communications, hut it deals witli a most
difficult problem of constitutional powers
with wonderful clearness aud force. Tho
mau who shall hereafter deny to Hancock
tho meed of having ably dealt, and in a
high spirit of patriotic statesmanship, with
the most serious and difficult crisis in our
recent history, will stultify himself. This
letter puts an end to the cry of the ‘mere
soldier.’ Mr. Schurz will have to make
liis campaign speech over again, for Han
cock’s letter ha* destroyed its point.”
Hancock’s Sherman Letter.
The Philadelphia Press (Independent)
says of the letter:
It is most fortunate for General Han
cock and equally fortunate for the coun
try, that partisan organs have so distorted
this letter as to make its publication a
public necessity. That it will be a cam
paign document of priceless advantage to
General Hancock is his just advantage,
for he merits all the considerate approval
that such a letter must command from
both friend and foe; but the great benefit
of the publication will be to the country,
as a chart for the people and for disputing
partisans in future conflicts. The whole
theory of our free government is summed
up by General Hancock in the following
brief paragraph:
“The army should have nothing to do
with the selection or inauguration of
presidents. The people elect the Presi
dent. The Congress declares in a joint
session who he is. We of the army have
only to obey his mandates and are pro
tected in so doing only so far as they may
be lawful.”
Politicians may quibble and organs may
defame, but the people of every faith be
lieve in law and order aud popular su
premacy and the subordination of the mil
itary to the civil power; aud they will re
joice, regardless of their purpose to favor
or oppose Gen. Hancock’s election to the
presidency, that he has thus bravely put
our reckless politicians to sbame by his
clear and statesmanlike elucidation of the
rights and duties of our civil and military
rulers.
* _ There will he no more taunting inqui
ries about the authors of General Han
cock’s orders or letters. It will not be
disputed that he wrote the Sherman let
ter, and none but the blindest or stupidest
of Garfield leaden will deny that Repub
lican folly has brought .to fight the most
superb campaign document ot the day. It
will be read everywhere; what is more
important, everybody will fully under
stand it, and what is most vital to General
Hancock and General Garfield, everybody
will approve it from the making of fences,
cutting down trees and repairing build
ings, to the lucid interpretation of the rel
ative prerogatives of statesmanship and
the sword in maintaining and administer
ing free government.
WoRMs in Horses, Cattle and Hogs can
be destroyed and expelled by the use of
Foutz’s Celebrated Horse and Cattle Pow
ders. a4.2w
Horrible Brutalities.— A Lima
letter says of the taking of Tacna, by the
Chilian troops: “Only one street escaped
the sack, and this good fortune it owed to
tho circumstance that Gen. Baquedano
had his headquarters in it. Hundreds
of wounded and prisoners were slaugh
tered in cold blood. Not one wounded
was found alive on the field the day suc
ceeding the battle. Women and girls of
tbe tenderest age were violated and many
killed. The farms near by and their in
habitants shared the common fate
with tbe town. Every day six, eight or
ten murders are committed, while the
bodies Of victims are allowed to remain
Unburied, until tbeir removal becomes a
piatter of necessity. Arica suffered more
than Tacna. Ail thn house* are either
totally or partially destroyed. Out of
1,800 defenders only 000 survive. Those
of the 1,200 who did. not fall In the fight
were subsequently massacred in cold
blood. It is a well authenticated fact that
49 soldiers, who had thrown away their
arms and taken refuge in tbe United States
Commercial Agency, over which a flag
was flying, were taken up and butchered
an the sti jet.”
Farmers ought to give Foutz’s Cele
brated Horse and Cattle powders to their
stock during the changeable weather
, of winter and spring. They will prevent
disease. 2w
Fastine Without Miracle.
The religious press does not seem to be
impressed with the dangers to which
Christianity may be exposed by the success
of Dr. Tanner in going forty days with
out food. It is argued in some quarters
that it will remove the superficial objec
tion that the Savior’s fast was a physical
impossibility, for if Dr. Tanner can ab
stain from food for forty days, Jesus
Christ could Lave performed the same
feat unaided by supernatural means.
The Methodist says: “We have no
special anxiety to see the breadth of mi
racle reduced, but its reduction would not
alarm us. The supernatural element is
too large and various in form to be de
stroyed by such substructions.” The
same journal points the minor moral that
those -people who every year fast forty
days by changing their food, should learn
that the real tiling, of which they perpe
trate a sham, is possible, and they should
be induced to do a little real fasting next'
year, say for five days, or by eating only
one frugal meal daily.
The Baptist Weekly facetiously remarks
that Dr. Tauner’s endurance is really en
couraging to congregations who believe
that a pastor should live by bread alone.
“That old minister,” it adds, “who knew
that a church would not support a pastor
and thought they had better pray for Ja
cob's ladder to let him down from heaven
every Lord’s day, and take him back after
the services of the day were ended, might,
if he lived now, see, by what Dr. Tanner
has endured, that such a miracle as he
proposed is unnecessary.”
The Buffalo Christian Advocate will
be in a most embarrassing position if Dr.
Tanner survives bis fast, for it takes this
nariow view of the case: “ne who creates
and performs miracles could, if He should
so choose, miraculously keep a human
body in such a condition that the soul
might remain in it for forty days without
food. But that any man without divine
interference could live for that length of
time is not according to experience or
reason. Waste must have supply or life
become extinct. Dr. Tanner must in some
way have nourishment, a miracle be
wrought, or before forty days he must die.
AN EIGHT-POUND BAT,
Being One or Elgin Hundred and
Nineteen Bats Killed in a Beer
Yanlt.
The Cabinet and the Whittaker Case,
The cabinet has a yellow elephant on
its hands in the Whittaker case, which
it had determined to dispose of last Tues
day, but whether it did so or not is un
known. A World dispatch says :
It will be remembered that the admin
istration and the Republican party—the
latter through dignified Senators on the
floor of the Senate Chamber, and the
former by District-Attorney Martin
Townsend and Assistant District-Attorney
Fiero—supported the negro cadet as an
embodiment of virtue, and treated the
West Point authorities as little better
than savages. When, after Mr. Townsend
bad deserted tbe case because Professor
Greener became satisfied through the ex
perts iu handwriting that Whittaker him
self wrote the note of warning, the court
of inquiry, after a patient hearing, report
ed that Whittaker mutilated himself,
it was thought that the case Was
at a satisfactory end. Few persons
believed that it would be long considered
at Washington, but few persons thought
anything of the careful way in which Sen
ators had expressed themselves as to the
merits of the case, and had thereby made
it a Republican campaign issue. When,
later, the academic board found the negro
cadet deficient, the people and the pres3
no longer bothered themselves about it,
lor they thought that if Whittaker, with
a mere bodkin punch in his cars had not
given himself his quietus, the academic
board bad finished him. Little do such
unsuspecting and honest folks know of the
Republican political methods. They had
no idea of giving up the negro so easily.
They preferred even to have the acade
my—tho school from which were gradua
ted Grant and Sherman and Thomas—
brought into disrepute than to lose one
point in the political game. Whittaker in
uniform still struts pretentiously around
West Point, apparently enjoying his un
enviable notoriety.
And to-morrow, as I am well informed,
tbe cabinet in special meeting is to discuss
the Whittaker case, the merits of which
stand just in this way. The judge advo
cate general has approved the findings of
the court of inquiry and the secretary of
war has approved the report of the aca
demic board. But still 'Whittaker is at
West Point. Why he Is there is a mild
subject of speculation at West Point, and
likely to-morrow-at least to prove a rather
tempestuous question of discussion here.
And, bad enough for the discussion in the
cabinet, matters are complicated by a bill
for $700 which Mr. Martin I. Townsend,
district attorney for the northern district
of New York, has put in against the war
department for services rendered in the
court of inquiry at West Point. Why this
hill should not be at once rejected is ex
plained by a person who knows in this
way. He says that there i3 no doubt that
Townsend was sent to West Point with
specific instructions to make political cap
ital. To offend Townsend would proba
bly provoke him now that he sees the cer-
.tamty of the Republican downfall into
“giving away” the administration on this
disreputable transaction. Those tfho
know the facts wonder what the amount
of the bill will be rendered by Assistant
District Attorney Fiero.
A country doctor presented his ac
count to a patient who had been quite ill,
but was now well. Tbe ex-patient listen
ed attentively to tbe account be>'ng read
by the medical man as follows: For med
icines, so much; for visits, so much. Fi
nally, with an air of generosity and can
dor, lie says: “Well, doctor, I have no
money now, but will pay you for the
medicine next fall. The visits I will try
and return.”
Franklin, Pa., July 31.—Twenty
years or so ago Herman Minnich owned a
brewery along French creek, in this place.
A storage vault or tunnel belonging to the
breweiy was excavated in the hillside
nearly two hundred feet in length. There
was a great flood in the creek in 1865, and
the water threatened to fill the vault. A
large quantity of beer was stored there at
the time. In attempting to save the beer
from being carried away Brewer Minnich
was drowned. Phillip Grossman now
keeps a saloon near the vault, which he
uses to store cheese, bologna, and beer in.
The vault for some time has been over
run with rats of an enormous size. They
frequent the tunnel in such numbers and
are so bold and aggressive that Grossman
has long found it necessary to take some
one along to fight the rats away while he
takes out cheese or beer. The cheese Is
kept covered with tinjeases through which
the rats cannot gnaw.
Among Grossman’s children there are
two boys—Pliilly 13, and Eddie 8 years
old. They are both extremely fond of
Swiss cheese. A few days ago they deter
mined to make a raid on the stores of
their favorite cheese in the old brewery
vault. They knew it would be necessary
to figbt an a:my of rats in order to.secure
the prize they coveted, but that did not
deter them. Philly armed himself with a
heavy piece of hoop iron, and the two
boys entered the vault, the younger one
cariying a lantern. They had gone a few
feet only when the rats began to dispute
their passage. Rats scampered about
thorn on every side, and it was with iiffi-.
culty that Philly kept them off of himself
and brother by active wielding of his piece
of iron. Some of the rats were of enor
mous size, and the army kept the boys en
tirely surrounded,moving along toward the
further end of the tunnel with them, and
keeping up a loud and fierce outcry as
they marched. Several times one of the
rats, more bold than his companions,
would jump savagely at one or the other
of the boys; but these invariably met
death or were disabled by blows from
Philly’s iron. The younger hoy wanted
to go back after a rat had leaped up and
caught him by the sleeve with its teeth;
but his brother quieted his fears and told
him that the rats were only playing.
By the time the boy3 reached the end
of the tunnel, where the cheese was kept.
the rats liad gathered by hundreds arourul
the children, covering the cheese boxes
and running over the boys in
spite of the efforts of the
cider to keep them off. Philly took off
his coat and wrapped it around his little
brother, to protect him from the rats, and
then proceeded to uncover a cheese. The
rats puled upon him and all about him,
as though frantic with the prospect of
getting possession of the cheese them
selves. Philly beat abont him right and
left, but finding it impossible to drive the
rats away, so that he could get a box
raised, ho’told his little brother to go hack
and tell his father to come into the vault
as soon as possible. The little fellon
hastened out, leaving Philly alone in the
dark, battling with the rats, which were
gradually getting the better of him. He
placed his back against one side of the
tunnel, and wielded his weapon continu
ally, killing or disabling a rat at almost
every blow.
When tho younger child carried the
news to his father that Philly was in the
vault surrounded by the rats, Grossman
and the two neighbors armed themselves
with clubs and hurried to the rescue of
the boy. The army of rats seemed to
number thousands, when they reached the
scepe. The men joined in the contest, but
so numerous and persistent were the rats
that they were more than an hour in con
quering them. Dead rats lay piled on every
side,.and their^ number was so greatly re
duced that the survivors were finally driv
en to their holes. Eight hundred and
nineteen dead rats were carried from-the
vault. One of them weighed over eight
pounds. The carcasses filled a two-horss
box wagon, and were a good load for a
team to draw away. The combined
weight of the rats was over a ton.
the buggy went to Bowline Green. Next
morning a happy couple left on a South
ern-bound train. They are now hi this
city. To-morrow they will leave for
Texas.
Strengthening the Voice.
Signor Alberto B. Bach has recently
evised and introduced in London a sim-
devise
pie appliance called a resonator, for
increasing the volume and power of the
human voice when singing, in the course
of a recent lecture, Signor Bach described
the mechanism of the vocal organs, and
explained the modes in which their power
could best be developed, and among other
points he directed attention to tho office
performed by the hard portion of tho
palate, this acting as a kind of. sounding
board when the mouth is open for singln".
It is for the purpose of increasing the
efficiency of the palate in this respect that
the “reasonator” has been designed.
The instrument consists of a gold plate
fitted to the roof or the mouth, close above
the upper teeth—much in the same way
as the gold palate of a set of artificial
teeth—the plate having attached to it an
other gold plate which is convex down
wards in both directions. A hollow
sounding board, as it may be called, is
thus formed, which has a remarkable ef
fect on the volume of sound produced by
the person wearing the instrument. The
resonator appears to have no prejudicial
effect upon the distinctness of articulation,
and Signor Bach states that it can be
used without the slightest inconvenience
after a moderate amount of practice. It
will not give a good voice to one who
does not already possess that gift, nor will
it eradicate any faults in singing, but
properly used, it is reported to have a re
markable effect in increasing the power
of the sound which a singer can produce,
and this without deteriotating iis quality
or increasing the effort required.
CbESAB had his Brutus, £ bar lea the
Fun ms Cromwell, and every cough and
cold in this country will find a conqueror
in Coussens’ Honey of Tar, the unrivalled
cough medicine.'' Price 50c. For sale by
Lamar, Rankin & Lamar. >juyl6
The Bomance of a Tramp.
About four years ago, says the Little
Rock (Ark.) Gazette, Miss Emma Roland,
of Galveston, visited au aunt in Warren
county, Kentucky. It was summer, the
season was, and one evening the girl sat in
the yard, half reading and half regarding
the enormous bumblebees buzzing about
her. A footstep didn’t arouse the young
lady. It was a voice that said, “Can I
get a drink of water?” Two arms and
the chin of a tramp leaned on the fence.
He was dressed in the tramp’s garb, a
wardrobe at once so describable and in
describable. “I say, can I get some wa
ter?”
“Yes,” said the girl.
“Must I go around to the gate or climb
over the fence?”
“Both, if you choose.”
“That’s the way I like to hear^people
•talk,” said the tramp, climbing over and
approaching. “Now where's the water?”
“I’ll bring it.”
“You’d better bring the well, for I’m
dryer than a barrel of bromophyle.”
The girl went to the house and returned
with a bucket of water. When the man
had finished drinking she did not think
that ho had exaggerated his thirst. In
fact, she did not think that this compari
son had been adequate.
“What book are you reading?”
“Mill on the Floss.”
“Overrated. I never liked it. All depth
or no depth, I don’t know which. Strained
characters or no characters, don’t know
which. The novelist has tried to write a
story without a well-defined plot, and has
failed. Goldsmith’s success as a plotless
and charming writer was a bad example.”
“You shouldn’t tear my favorite book
to pieces. I like George Eliot and all her
works.”
“You don’t like ‘Mill on the Floss.’
You have been nodding over it for tbe last
hour. You only pretend to read it because
you imagine that in doing so you develop
literary taste.”
“I think, sir, you are impudent.”
“But truthful. Here’s a book you
should read,” and tbe tramp took from
liis ragged coat a tattered copy of Burton’s
“Anatomy of Melancholy.” “Dr. John
son said that this book was the only work
that could induce him to get out of lied
mornings, sooner than his regular time of
rising.”
“And that’s why you like it,” remarked
the girl, taking the book. “If Dr. John
son hadn’t made that remark yiu would
not find the work so charming.*’
“That’s all right. Give me some more
water.”
The conversation was pursued until the
tramp accepted au invitation to supper.
His idea of Burton and Johnson was soon
covered up with batter cakes. The tramp,
Mr. Preston, remained all night. Next
morning, when he announced his inten
tion of leaving, the girl accompanied him
to the spot wiiere she sat when he hailed
her.
“Why do you tramp around; have you
no home?”
“Yes, as to the home. Don’t know a3
to the tramping.”
“Whisky?”
“Whisky.”
“Why don’t you quit?”
“I will.”
“When?”
“Now, on one condition. That you
will consent to be my wife. Meet me un
der this tree four years from to-day.”
‘•I will.”
“Good-by,” and he climbed the fenoe
and was gone. No correspondence was
carried on between them. The manly,
handsome face of the tramp hung before
the girl like a portrait. Deep, earnest
eyes, a merry laugh accompanied the
tramp. Several weeks ago the young
lady visited her aunt. One evening last
week she sat under a tree in the yard
where four years before she nodded over
a book.' Bees buzzed around; the same
bees seemingly. On herjap lay “Mill on
the Floss;” near her a tattered copy of
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.” A
buggy drove up. A man alighted and
climbed the fence.
“Mr. Preston.”
‘‘Miss Roland.”
There was no indication Of a tramp in
the handsomely dressed gentleman. The
clear, earnest eyes showed no lurid light,
kindled by Satan’s breath. That eveifing
New York, August 6.—A special from
Americus, Ga., gives the following partic
ulars of a crime committed in Webster
county, twenty miles west of that place,
on the evening of August 4th. It states
that Woodson L. Gunnells, a well-to-do
farmer, left home to visit a sick neighbor,
and returning, found his wife and nine of
ten small children in a horrible sleep,
from the effects of morphia administered
m lemonade by Mrs. Gunnells. There is
no doubt she prepared the fatal beverage
and administered it to the children, and
drank oi it. herself with fatal intent. Mr.
Gunnells was married to this, bis second
wife, seven years ago, anc. bas by her four
children. The other six were by a pre
vious wife and, as far as known, the step
mother has been a dutiful and kind pa
rent to them.
Mrs. Gunnells Is from a highly respect
able family. A note in the handwriting
of Mrs. Gunnells was found under tho
moiphia bottle on the table in which she
stated she had deliberately administered
moiphia to the children aud herself with
the intention of destroying them all, and
that she was not actuated by any domes
tic trouble.
Owing to the lapse of time before medi
cal aid arrived Mrs. Gunnells’ case was
hopeless. She lay on her back on the
bed in an unnatural sleep, produced by
the fatal drug, and all efforts of physicians
and sympathizing friends to restore her
were futile.
The children’s cases were not so hope
less, and by unceasing efforts of the phy
sicians some of them showed signs of re
turning consciousness. All of the step
children and some of the younger chil
dren are now thought to be out of danger.
Tbe youngest, an infant of a few months,
was saved by the fact that its mother
could not introduce enough of the fluid
down its little throat to destroy life. It is
probable that three of the children will
die. These three are presumed to have
drank more freely of the deadly beverage
than the others. -
The dispatch concludes that all evi
dence taken negatives the idea of insani
ty and points directly to a cool, deliberate
determination on the part of the hitherto
quiet and kind hearted lady to take away
her own life and tliat of her family, and
at the same time conceal from the world
the cause of her act.
ANew Engine fob Mb. Edison.—
There is now in course of construction,
says the Philadelphia Record, of July
27th, in this city, an engine upon the re-
su’t of the workings of which a great deal
is staked relative to the success or failure
of the electric light of Professor Edison.
In making his numerous experiments with
the light, Mr. Edison found great difficulty
in procuring an engine that would run
the dynamo-electric machine sufficiently
fast and steady to procure a good light.
Up to this time none could be found, and
the desired revolutions have been made
up in a manipulation cf belting. This
has proved decidedly unsatisfactory,
because the belts make the light un
steady, and therefore uDfit for the pur
poses designed. Some time ago the
Southwark company, which manufactures
a high-pressure engine—the Porter-Allen—
received an order from Mr. Edison to
manufacture an engine that would make
600 revolutions per minute. This is to be
of 100 horse power, and if it proves suc
cessful, then the great trouble which has
encompassed the Edison light will be
overcome. Last week, before tho first
engine was well under way, another or
der was received for a 120-horse jfcwer
engine. The highest number of revolu
tions heretofore attained by any one of
of the Porter-Allen engines has been 500
revolutions per minute.
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Walter A. Taylor, of Atlanta, says
‘I have.been pushing the sale of Brewas
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Columbus, Ga., April 12,1878.
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