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dtejjEgis* im& Jxmcnal & Me^sama^K.
i3tf JTtUgrapU an« tHenseagw
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1882.
Amum chums to bavo tho handsomest
■p« in the South. Every AUanta man
me that to be a fact.
BotW'. Small hns sold ont his interest
fafaa Florida Union to his partner, H. B.
McCollum. Where next, Sam?
Oman Wilds might get him a good hand
espm or a set of bagpipes and spend tho
Manoo of the season in Georgia.
jBlxw Yobs abandons her recently com-
■weed opera house. A falling stock mar
ia! has frightened the investors.
fi-trrn»rt. continues to run for governor.
A man as little pressed, it would seem to
a, might safely walk occasionally.
OaansLD’H successor in Congress steers
eery close to the sentiments of the Morey
fa China the medical profession is not
egirilurl as resptctable. It is rather look
ed span as a humbug.
Am guests at Watterson’s free trade
inqnet numbered just 000. Cast the
, Henry, cost the medals.
fix-Gov. Marshall Jewell’s lecture on
^Basils” is delivered gratuitonsly. Tho
people are not spendthrifts.
lass Gibson boldly declares that the
fapata policemen have put on clean
drifts. To be frank, we don’t believe it.
fawwg as everybody refuses to rally
«b General Gartrell, we suggest that the
farieral go over and rally on Colonel R.
».a •
Tu prime duty of the new Colonel, ns-
BgMd to Brunswick, will be to see that the
w kales are allowed to coalesce with the
■ow party. ,
B sap all has been nobbing with Justice
VMd over clnret and hot water, and does
ns! admire the prim and proper Bayard.
Fanaow hns been appointed collector of
fas port of Brunswick. Poor, Brunswick!
this is a sad ending of a struggle of a half
■fa eentury to become a city.
Sdrob I.swis threw out a bait in an'
weaneing Stephens’ retirement, and tried
(•make it appear that the cork floated an
dter Elder Hook’s ncse by the merest
• tdauee in the world.
Tim is a spirit and dash about the lo
re is of the McDuffie Journal which lead
*t to believe thnt a twenty-four knrat jour-
a xfivtic nugget will some day be discovered
in Uiat neighborhood.
■ - ■ .
Tan Northern public is making a pro
Agioas nss of itself, over Sergeant Mason,
M tho Ohio Legislature leads the van in
an attempt to have him pardoned and pro
moted to a lieutenancy in the army.
Sons of our contemiKtraries are consid
erably alnrmed over the combinations that
are liable to be made when Georgia is re-
districted. As for us, unless Bibb county
is moved out of tire city of Macon, we shall
miss but little fuss.
A Mouse or Correction.
The paragraphers who kill time and
space with assaults upon the convict lease
system, which cannot be sustained by
facts or arguments, are content to air
their Ignorance and prejudice. They pro
pose to tear down, but not to build up.
Ready and gifted at fault-finding, not one
oftlieih has yet suggested a remedial
measure. Bat there is connected with
this system a wrong which suggests its
own remedy. There are several children
coDfinedin the penitentiary. When we
use the word children we mean youths
who have reached that age at which the
law, tho courts and the juries of tho coun
try have considered that responsibility for
crime commences.
This class of convicts are undergoing
punishment for violent crimes, some of
them for murder. The number of this
class is likely to be added to, lor the
rising generation of whites and blacks is
not so snbordinate as were their parents.
It is perhaps within tho power and
province or the State to reclaim theso
young offenders, or at least a fair per
centage of them. At any rate the expei l-
menl is worth the trial, and should
tbo early and earnest attention
law-makers.
It Is quite certain that if they are work
ed by day with a gang of hardened out
laws, and herded with them by night,
no reformation can be expected. The
young have an abnormal respect and ven
eration for those who have become famous
by deeds of violence and blood. Com
panionship can only increase the feeling.
The State should have a house of correc
tion, in which juvenile law breakers may
be confined, and tanght the rudiments of
an education and the necessity of honest
manual labor.
The waifs and vagabonds who have
been deserted by their parents or guardi
ans, or who have from various causes bro
ken away from tho restraints af home,
and have commenced careers of crime,
may be checked by the discipline of such
an institution. *
The State may in this way save to her
self those who may hereafter become in
dustrious and orderly citizens, and the
State owes at least the effort to this class
of unfortunates.
suits into our markets at a profit—batter
from Germany, cabbages from Germany,
and potatoes from Scotland and Ireland.
Isn’t it about time for the granger In j ...
homespun to turn lobbyist and plead for Clt ? Chicago on the 15th ult., and par.
The Free Trade Coaveation.
Under the guise of celebrating the
birthday of Andrew Jackson, a somewhat
motley assembly gathered Itself In the
The Treasurer’s Report.
Wo are indebted to Major D. N. Speer,
the efficient treasurer of the State, for a
copy of his report to the Governor, em
bracing the financial transactions of the
State for the fiscal year ending October 0,
1881. From it we extract the following
table, showing the total valid bonded debt
of the State of Georgia on October 1,
18S1; also the amount of liability of the
state, absolute and contingent, as endorser
on railroad bonds, and the amount of
property owned and possessed by the
State:
some little encouragement of oar infant
industry of agriculture?” ,
The Savannah News seizes npon the
above paragraph, and adds to it a few
idiotic utterances in the same strain. The
reply called for is furnished by Heyle’s
United States Import Duties. Farmers
are protected upon the following products:
Beef and pork, per pound 1 cent
Hams and bacon, per pound 2 cents
Chetse and butter, per pound 4 cents
Rice, per pound -14 cents
Lard, per pound. 2 cents
Oatmeal, per pound 14 cent
Hops, per pound 8 cents
Figs, per pound 2>£ cent
Tobacco, not stemmed, pcrpound.35 cents
Tobacco, manufactured per pound.CO cents
Tobacco snuff, per pound .CO cents
Cigars nud cigarettes, per 1,000 $2 CO
Whoat, pfcr bushel 20 cents
Corn and oats, per busliol 10 cents
Potatoes, per bushel 15 ceuts
Flax seed, per bushel 20 cents
Prepared vegetables 85 per cent
Canned fruits 25 per cent
OraDges and lemons 20 per cent
Jellies CO per cent
Bulbous riots 80 per cent
Brooms. 85 per cent
Hats and bonnets of straw, chip
or leaf 40 per cent
Live animals 20 per cent
Spirits turpentine, per gallon SO cents
Wool duties are for unwashed, bnt if
washed duties are double.
Wool, 32 cents or less, per pound. .10 cents
Wool, exceeding 32 cents, per
pound 12 cents
Wool, costing 12 cents and les3, per
pound 3 cents
Wool, costing 12 cents or more, per
pound C cents
In addition from 10 to 12 per cent, ad
valorum. —
Sugars are assessed per pound, according
to grade and quality-1%, 2, 2*, 2%, 3J*
and 3 cents per pound.
Hemp, per ton 825
FI nx, per ton......'. 820
Jnte, per ton $15
TIMBER AND WOOD.
Timber, hewed orsnwed 20 per cent
Timber, squared, per foot 1 per cent
Sawed to boards, planks, etc., per
1,000 feet 81
Other varieties, per 1,000 feet .82
Lumber, if planed, SO cents per 1,000
feet extra ; pickets, 20 per cent.; lathes,
15 cents per 1,003 ; shingles. 35 cents per
1,000; clapboards, $2 ; cabinet ware and
house furniture, 35 per cent.
It the pauper labor of Europe can real
ize a profit after paying the freight and
import duties npon any article named in
the list, what profit could the American
farmer make if be had to contend with
this “pauper labor” relieved of the duties
We still contend that tbo able economist
of the News labors like the homely Sisy
phus seen so oiten in the cmintry roads.
Total bonded debt
...*9,726,660 00
Tbs Andrew Jackson birthday party at
BAieago must bavo been a stnpid affair.
Doolittle made a s|«ecli on slavery, and
literal letters were opened and turned
over to the city press. “Old Hickory” does
act seem to have been present in spirit
Mi Lord Roscoe, Grant and Dan Sickles
want to Barnnm’s circus together. Dan
■rat have suffered for the tickets, for
ffoscoe does not unbelt for much money,
cd the “old man” would have been com
pelted to crawl under the canvas for the
Iksk of cash, or a free ticket
Tn AUanta Constitution says: “A pair
at match horses were so’d at Redd’s 6table
7Mtenlay for $2,500. They were iron
grays.” It dant make any difference abont
fas color, but the “genial and gentlemanly
acent of Humpty Dumpty” must have lost
his bos of advertising card i&oney in At-
riata.
Judob Blatchfobd, the newjusUce of
*U Supremo Court, is a lawyer. He is
said to exeel at a patent lawyer. He was
i protege and afterwards a partner of
Wro.lL Seward, is not much of a politician,
is resj set able, well behaved, and has inn
fared some decisions, as are calculated to
pat to shame some of his colleagues on tbo
bench.
Tk* sutlers and hostlers out on the
•fains used to call Grant “Sam,” when he
■as an unsteady and unpromising lieuten
ant. Old Jew Grant always called him
‘Lysa.” And now one of the sweethearts
sf his spooney days says she called him
■•Click" for sweet and short, when they
■anthunting honeysuckles down along the
branch. The fotivo broker called to him
"margin” last week, but he was a silent
Colons*ioxEJ<|of Agriculture Henderson
mjK “The decrease in the sale of fertilizers
fait year is surprising. There has been
tees sold so far than for (be same period
■t any time in the last eight years. The
•■tee varies in different localities, and in
Mime places standard fertilizers sell as low
an 400 pounds of middling cotton per ton,
Wears pleased to knew that as the Georgia
farmer grows economical, the commercial
fertilizer man becomes liberal. If the
Gaorgia farmer a ill use less commercial
fertiliser on cotton, which is a sun plant,
Bad more on smalt grain, which gets its
ralp growth in the wet season, the Geor-
farmer will eat more and better biscuits
•ad his mules will have bettor feed, lore
mad short
fiflCBETABT Kibe wood has ordered Agent
Armstrong to send 100 Indian children
ram the Crow agency, in Montana, to cer
tain farmers in Ohio, to be developed in
Blind and muscle.—Exchange.
We should be pleased to know by what
authority Secretary Kirkwood sends an
famdred Indian boys to “eeriein farmers
as Ohio” to work on their farms ? When
did the Indian become a slave ? And if
planting potatoes for "certain Ohio far
mers” will develop muscle, in what poisi-
Ifc way con an Ohio farmer develop mind?
Why should “certain Ohio farmers” enjoy
b monopoly in one hundred hands ? How
lung will it take to develop mind and mus-
ote ? Here is a first-class opening fora
C mgresaional investigating committee.
Ohio la protifio of ideas. Lotus have this
ace probed.
Ah Atlanta dispatch to the St. Loois
^-Democrat says: “The Liberals are
.*01 hint over the action of the Governor.
It ls darkly hinted that Gen. Gordon, the
Sovarnor’a bosom friend, will make the
ace for Congressman at large, and that to
redUtrict tho State before tho next election
isonid Lavo tended to shut him out.”
■Ehere's a nigger in the woodpile,
iteCACSS Mr. Persons nnd ourselves wost-
<mr patrimonies planting ootton, he ar-
gpts that tiie Democratic party must
Binut his plan of primary elections. The
premise is well laid bat the conclusion
fats not follow. The honorable sx-Con-
is as poor a hand at chopping j
Total endorsement on (seemed by
first Hen) bonds of South Georgia
and Florida railroad 461,000 00
Total endorsement on (secured by
first lien) bonds of Northeastern
railroad 260,000 00
CR.
Western and Atlantic railroad—138
miles—lease 10 years to run—annu
al rental . 300,000
Macon and Brunswick railroad—19>
miles—sold for el,125,000, of which
about ? 915,000 Is yet due. See act
1879.
Memphis Branch—5 miles—sold for
>9,000, dne January, 1881.
South Georgia and Florida railroad—
58 mlIes-(contingent)—has never de
faulted in paying interest.
Bonds Oconee Bridge/value.....™.......... 1,600 00
Bank State of Georgia—1,83.3 shares, no
Bank of Augusta—800 shares, no value
Georgia Railroad and Bonking Compa
ny-186 shares .25,000 00
Atlantic and Gulf railroad—10,000
shares—par *],000,000—(no market
valne).. ........
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph,
guaranteed by Western Union Tele
graph Co—MO shares ...10,000 00
Public buildings—not estimated
This showing is a most satisfactory one,
and accounts for the high financial stand
ing of Georgia in the money markets of
tbo world. The property held by the
State, if sold in open market, would
bring a sum sufficient to* wipe out her
entire indebtedness, and we should be
pleased to see an exhibit from any State
more sound and stable than this. For
those who desire to move to a country
where taxes ate light, where the soil is
good andttlie climate and products are
unrivalled, and where Haltering induce
ments are offered for almost every indus
try, Georgia bolds out inducements
that cannot be surpassed. In addi
tion to these advantages, the State
government is in the bands of
the best people of the State, and the po
litical machinations which have been set
afloat to wrest it from them and to turn it
over to a greedy, variegated and irre
sponsible mob, have no show for success.
It affords us pleasure to notice the fact
that tho treasurer has conducted bis of
fice on strict business principles, and is
deserving of all of tho encomiums con
tained in the following report Irom the
joint committee of the Senate and House:
of Representatives of tbo General Assent
bly:
The Joint standing committee on finance
have examined the accounts and vouchers of
the Comptroller General and Treasurer, os re
quired by section 186 of the code, and respect
fully submit that the books of these officers
have been neatly end correctly kept, and their
annual reports are sustained by the condition
of (he offices. The report of the Treasurer
showed a balance in the treasury, October 1st,
1880, of -.688,865.97, which amount is shown on
the books, and on the 10th day of November,
1880, J. W. Renfroe, the former treasurer, tam
ed over to D. N. Speer, the present treasurer,
the sum of • C65.59i.97, which amount we fonnd
on the books, and tho same agrees with the
books of the Comptroller-General of that date.
The books of the Treasurer showed a balance
on Septembers, 1881—the day yonr committee
began lu investlgation-of r782,88434, which
amount your committee found In the hands of
tho Treasurer and tho State Depositories, an
temUcd account of which la hereunto ap
pended.
In the opinion of yonr committee the treas
urer deserves the gratitude of the people of
Georgia for his conduct In the matter of the
State's fands In the Citizens' Bank, as well, also,
as for his efficiency and the good management
of his office.
He fonnd In this bank when he entered the
office, *332,432,75—more than half of the whole
amount of the State'e funds at that time. He at
once began drawing from this bank to meet
all the demands of the State, so at the time of
the suspension there was on deposit in said
bank only $103,218.46; thus, as we think, savfng
to the State & large mm. of money.
CURBED AND BLACKENED.
The Farmers asd Protection.
Says the Boston Post: “Surely farmers
ought to have an equal chance, but we be
lieve those who have been moetinfluential
in the protection cause have not looked
out quite as closely for the farmers as they
have for those interests in which they
were more directly concerned. As a con
sequence, what do we see? Why, the
pauper labor* of Europe Reading Its rc-
Findlng the Remains or R. u Wat
son, who Perished In the Flames,
The work of clearing away the debris of
the fire on Fourth street nnd searching for
the remains of Mr. R. B. Watson was com
menced early yesterday morning. A crowd
of people had collected and all eyes were
turned on the pile of cinders and ashes as
the bricks were thrown aside one by one.
It was known that Mr. Watson occupied a
front room on the left in the third story,
and beneath this room is where tho work
men confined their labors. The key to tho
front door of the store was found on
Wednesday on that -pot, a fact that had
mnch to do with building tho theory that
ho had not left his room.
About half-past eight o’clock a pair of
eyeglasses were fonnd, and as Mr. Watson
used them and kept them attached to his
vest, it now became a settled conviction in
the minds of those directing the search
that he was lost in tho flames. Soon after
the finding of the glasses, a charred and
blackened mass wa3 taken up and the oft-
repeated question was settled. The trank
with the limbs burned entirely off, was stil
smoking when fonnd, the fire not having
burned the internal organs.
The remains were then taken to the ware
house of Flanders Brothers, corner Fourth
and Poplar streets, and acting coroner Dan
Adams notified. A jury was impaneled,
and the verdict given that ho perished in
the flames. The friends of the deceased
had the remains carefully placed in a neat
e sket and taken to Olay’s coffin store, cn
Mulberry street
Beneath the charred remains was fonnd
some straw, probably from the mattress,
which soes to show that the theory advanced
yesterday is exploded, and that Mr. Wat
son was in bed at the time of the fire, and
was no doubt suffocated by smoko and
Sever knew the cause of his dea’h.
CMr. Watson, whose quiet life had such a
tragic en ing, was born in Georgia, but
the exact locality is unknown to bis friends.
He commenced his business career, when a
boy, as a cotton marker inrapnrelicnse in
Colambas, moving nfterwanflwo Apalachi-
col, FJn.n, at that time the outlet for tiie
trade of the Chattahoochee river, and a
market for about 150,000 bales of cotton
yearly. After serving a long apprentice
ship with Mr. .James De lilois, a largo
commission merchant, he succeeded to the
business on the deah of bis employer, the
now firm being Waison & Dester, which
continued in basiness until the war. After
the war he was a partner in tiie firm of
Epping & Hanserd, Columbus, until he
came to Macon abont 18G8, and formed a
partnership with Mr. W. T. Lightfoot, tho
firm being Lightfoot & Watson. On the
death of Mr. Lightfoot he continued bnsi-
ne.=s in bis own name, bnt his business here
was not prosperous. New ideas and ad
vanced modes of transacting business had
come to the frost, to which he tailed to
adapt himself, and the world gradually
pas-ed by him.
He was a man of generous impulses, and
when in the time of his prosperity, sur
rounded himself and family with every
Inxnry- -It was bo who brought to Macon
the famous horre Gray Eagle. Ho hns in
time been wortli upwards of n hundred
thousand dollars. For several years he
has been separated from bis family, who
now reside in a Northern city. He was a
man of great pride and fine sensibilities,
and it is thought that whei. his reverses
came he sent his family North to their rel
atives,who aro wealthy,that they might not
suffer, and began agtin the battle of life
alone. We learn that he has a wife and
three grown children, who may nerer
know the fate of their father.
Tho fancral notice appears in another
column.
It seems that Collector Wade has no
been able to ehske that “nigger” yet.
t
Thx to jr and the man have met. Tho
ytoia as at Chopping cotton. Takeafreehj late unlamented Hayes has teen rn.de platform carpenter may
gf Henry, and try again. I pre aidant of a savings bank. | with.
. Toe Republicans of tho United Btatej
arc numerous enough, aided by the Lib
eral onti-Bonrbou, elements of the South,
to control the country politically if they
ire patriotic enough.—Washington lie-
publican.
As may be seen from tho above extract
from Gorham’s paper, the administration
organ, the last and only hope of the Re
publican party for a continuance of its
power is aid from the Southern coalition
ists. Without this aid tho control of tho
next House of Representatives is lost, and
it is a question of short time only when
the scales of power will be tamed in th'o
Senate. Tho patriotiiin of the Republican
party is being beautifully exemplified just
now by the stnlwart wing, which enjoys the
palronnge and power. In order to sustain
Arthur nnd to crash out the influence of the
friends of Garfield, the pre&s of that wing
of thatjparty'is industriously engaged in
besmirCTting the fame of the lately de
ceased President.
The ghouls have dug up his freshly made
grave, and all in his life that should have
been covered by oblivion will now be drag-
gill out to serve the purposes of the parti
sans who could not control him to their
base uses when he was in life. The Inde
pendent-Liberal coalition is to take part
in this dirty work, and are to bo paid for it
in such spoils as they may be able to gain.
This is the real meaning of the new move
ment in which the honest and respectable
people of Georgia are requested to take
part.
Mb. Wattebsox declares that he would
not make a platform without “a tariff for
revenue only” plank in it. It does not ap
pear to have dawned oiion Mr. Watterson’s
enthusiastic son), that his services as a
be faspsMsed
took of the hospitality of the “Iroquois
Club,” a new social organization, which
wetted its spoons in public for the first
time.
We are informed by wire t bat “the vis
itors were about the city during the day
and later in the afternoon a very impor
tant reception was held, where political
questions were avoided. At 8 o’clock this
evening, the clnb and its guests, including
a large number 'of local Democrats, not
members of the club, assemble^ in'the
large dining room of the Palmer Home,
which was appropriately decorated, and
partook of a superb banquet.' The
speeches, while necessarily linked with
pol itlcal matter, were in reality not polit
ically significant.”
As to what that “very important recep
tion” was “where political questions were
avoided,” is left to conjecture. But the full
glare of the gas lights was turned on the
feast where politics reigned supreme, from
the time Mr. Hendricks made the opening
announcement that his sympathies were
with the stalwarts, until the wild Western
orator, Carter Harrison, closed the brandy
decanter and the ceremonies with a long
and sonorous yawp. The distinguished
men of the Democratic party were con
spicuous by reason of their absence. The
notorious ones were all present when the
covers were raised, and the popping of the
first champagne cork gave signal for the
assault.
Mr. Tilden put in a cool Rnd polished
letter, Horatio Seymour contributed a bi
ographical, or perhaps more correctly, an
historical sketch of the Iroquois Ciub, and
Sam Randall sent in his own hand-writing
copious extracts from the inaugural ad
dress of Thomas Jefferson.
But the features of the occasion, to
snatch an expression from the carte de
menu of tho cook of tho Iroquois Club,
the pieces de resistance were the twin ef
forts of Henry Watterson and Frank
Hurd. We say twin efforts lor the reason
that Mr. Watterson declared in favor of
“a tariff for revenue only,” and Mr. Hurd
asserted that this in its length and
breadth meant free trade.
It is a striking circumstance that two
gentlemen, each on the sunny side of the
meridian of life, should, at the celebra
tion of the one hundred and fifteenth an
niversary of the birthday of Andrew
Jackson, attempt to attach his name and
fame to a doctrine that did not secure
the sanction of his judgment, in life
It is no more settled that Andrew Jack-
son smoked a corn-cob pipe, swore by
the Eternal, and destroyed a National
Bank, than that he was in favor of pro
tection. We quote his words, and human
ingenuity may be safely defied to torture
them into any other meaning. Writing
to his friend, Dr. Coleman, of North Car
olina, he says:
Heaven smiled upon and gave us liberty
nnd independence. The same Providence has
blessed us with tho means of national Inde
pendence and national defense. If we omit or
refuse to use the gifts which he has extended
to us, we deserve not tho continuance of this
blessing. He has filled our mountains and our
plains with minerals, with lead, iron and cop
per, and given us a climate and soil for the
growing of hemp and wool. These bring the
great materials of our national defense, they
ought to have extended to them adequate «uid
fair protection, that our manufacturers and la<
borers may be placed in a fair competition
with those of Europe, and that we may have in
our conntryla supply of those leading and im
portant articles so essential to war.
If, as Mr. Hurd contends, “a tariff
for revenue only,” as advocated by Mr.
Watterson, “is equivalent to free trade,'
then we have a brace of young disciples
who have wandered from the faith and
teachings of Andrew Jackson, and who
aro using their brilliant talents and great
opportunities to lead others to disaster
and defeat, in tho same direction. As
each is endeavoring to reach a common
goal, on parallel lines, we will follow Mr.
Watterson, who drops the roses of rhet
oric, fancy and truth by the wayside.
Referring to tho unhappy fact that the
Democratic press of the country is not the
equal of the Republican, he says
Fint of all, then, the Democratic press must
realize tlirt there has been a detnge. Old
things have been swept away. He who looks
backward shall share the fate of Lot's wife; he
alone who looks forward shall live, move and
have a being. That the Democratic party has
survived tho deluge Is of good augury. It tells
us that itsexlstcnec has been, prolonged for
some great purpose. It Is for the Democratic
press to understand that within that purpose
are bound up no reactions and no revenges.
The Democratic party cannot come Into power,
and it ought not to come into power, as an
nvenging deity, still less a destroying angel. It
must come in, If it comes in at all, os the party
of action, ;iot reaction; the party of reform, not
redress; the party of to-day, not of yesterday,
applying its energies to the adjustment of tho
country and itself to tho new and cxtraordl
nary conditions which modern science, Invon
tlon and research bavo wrought wherever the
tinkle of the telephone Is heard and the sparkle
of the electric light is seen.
Mr. Watterson seems to be oblivfous of
the fact that the press has been made
aware of the deluge, and that it Is the
party leaders who. fall to appeciate tbo
fact that when the political floods subsid
ed, from the summit of Ararat in 1830,
a country far greater than that of 1800,
teeming with millions {of men aud wom
en, might be seen. He seems to forget
that the great section onco givon to agri
culture alone, aud then aud now given to
the pure principles of Democracy, cannot
aflord to have its progress obstructed by
clinging to such traditions a! free
trade, aud by tearing down the barriers
which are to protect industries yet In their
infancy.
Crippled as tbo Democratic press may
be In tho machinery necessary- for tho
collection of nows, and the support it
should receive from the people, it has
performed its duty so far as the means it
could reach would avail. It has kept up
the courage and hope of its readers, has
preserved the Integrity of State govern
ments under trial, temptation and op
pression, and has constantly pointed and
led towards the dawn of a now era.
Combatting ignorance from abroad and
deep rooted passions and long cultivated
prejudices at home, the Democratic press
has brought that, portion of the party
which has the controlling votes,up to the
point of drill and efficiency that only re
quires a leader of skill and courage to
lead to victory. The requirements of tho
times is a Jackson to lead them. They
followed Mr. Watterson’s “tariff fdr reve
nue only” to defeat, and the brilliant
mind, the magnetic eloquence aud the
large fortune of Mr. Hurd could, not save
him from common burial in a grave with
free trade, in au Ohio Congressional dis
trict.
Geu. Hancock, while marebiug onward,
master of the situation, stumbled over the
tariff plank in Mr. Watterson’s platform
and fell. His army, dispirited, demoral
ized and scattered for the time, is taking
on courage again, and onlr awaits the
word of command to fall in linq for
another campaign. Hut the leader who
beg leave to suggest to our Savannah
friends that they can and it is im
peratively necessary that they should, re
ceive active and iintpediate outside sup
port, |
The South is so situated in the House
of Representatives fast she could com-
The hyphenated offioe-seekers are look
ing for a man to beat Gartrell. Gartrell is
about to chase his party back into thq
Democratic ranks.
calls must avoid the errors of the past, mana her full share of appropriations, if
Tax present address ot Uliok Grant’s
j banking capital is Wall street. A letter to
that address would reach it; bnt be it ob-
He must have the wisdom to form a poli
cy, the ability to enforce it on the coun
try, and the courage to seize, to hold and
enjoy the traits of victory.
The K«ar«M Rising.
The recent debate in the United Stales
Senate, in which the negro was so r unmer-
cifully handled by his peculiar friends,
Senators Edmunds, Teller and Jones, has
aroused the colored elemeut of the Re
publican party. At a meeting in Wash
ington, preliminary to arrangements
for a grand display in the way of a parade
and public speaking, the following resolu
tions were passed:
Be it resolved by this convention, composed of
colored men of this Union, That we denounce
tho speech of the Hon. John P. Jones, of Ne
vada, delivered In tho United States Senate
March 9th, 1882, on the Chinese question.
Be it further resolved, That we deny that
there ts any law above tho human law that
makes the Caucasian race above the African.
Mesolved, further. That history falls to show
that any other race has within the same length
of time made the progress that the African race
has made within the lost twenty years—the
Jewish theocracy not excepted—and we will
never retrograde the moral injunction of God,
whom the honorable Senator neither believes
in nor respects.
~ Little Rhode Island Has also been heard
from. The colored voters of Newport,
have addled a resolution that In their
judgment “the Republican party at Wash
ington should refute the imputation it is
open to, namely, that it is of the opinion
that there are no colored men of the North
capable to fill prominent offices of trust io
the section, or that it designs to maintain
the color-line in the distribution of the
same;” and that “the best interests of the
party and of all people and sections de
mand a recognition in the North of the
merit and ability of colored men residing
n that section; that it will have a stimu
lating effect, increase respect for the col-
iored people in all sections, and create a
conciliatory sentiment North and South.”
Just at this time the negroes in Wash
ington are demanding that the color-lino
in the public schools shall be abolished.
The “colored contraband” was quite an
amusing curiosity in Washington during
the days of the war, He has not been
quite so interesting since he learned to
carve folks with his little razor, and if he
persists in demanding office, his peculiar
frien'ds, who deprived him of the ballot in
the District of Columbia, may find it
convenient to colonize him.
Watterson’s Free Trade Frolic,
Mr. Watterson’s organ, the Louisville
Courier Journal, fairly blooms with an
account of the doings and sayings of the
free trade frolic at the “Iroquois Club”
rooms in Chicago. From it we gather
that the feasting and fun ran into the
small hours, and that there were really
here and there in the dismal desert of
priggy letters and post prandial orations,
an oasis or two of eloquence.- It is but
fair to say, and it was' but in accordance
with “tbo eternal fitness of things,” that
Mr. Watterson bore off the palm.. nen-
dricks and Doolittle were prosy, and
the effort of Mr. Vilas, though
occasionally rising to the snorting
and colicky, was generally vapid. There
was a lack of blue-grass oratory of the
Joe Blackburn style, the Mr. Breckin-
rldgo of the multitudinous names having
failed to put in an appearance by reason
of a delayed train. But under the glamor
of the feast by night, the music, the bright
lights, the wines and viands, there was
still the free trade convention. The floral
decorations smothered the cakes, the
frnits, the jellies and the bonbons, but tho
asp was concealed among the roses.
The Courier-Journal account says:
“The powerful and convincing arguments
of Hurd created the most hearty enthusi
asm of the evening, and thoueh long after
midnight when be had completed, the
effect of this great speech shows certain
evidences that ‘tariff for revenuo only’ is
to he the shibboleth of the renewed and
reawakened Democratic party.”
And further on observes: “Mr. Wat
terson received a tremendous oration,
and there was great applause at the close
Of every ringing sentence, especially at
every point emphasizing the tariff for reve
nue only doctrine. At its close the entire
audience rose and cheered him again and
again. Democratic leaders interviewed
regard Watterson’s rematSs as the key
note of tho champagne.”
A mischievous but intejllgeut composi
tor in the office of tho C.-J. spoils the In
tent and effect of the paragraph by a mis
take in the last word, but Watterson’s
banner with “a tariff lot revenue only” is
much more likely to wa7e over champagne
frolics than over camp or citadel of the
National Democracy.
The wine did its work as usual, for be
fore tho breaking of day the company im
agined that Duke Gwynn was a striking
prototype of Andrew Jackson. The body
of the Burgundy must have been hefty,
when it Is remembered that Andrew Jack-
son was tail, spare-made and angular,
while the Duke of Sonora is broad, burly
and stoop-shouldered, ruddy as a winter
applo, and bale as a chrysanthemum at
Christmas. Watterson kept his feet, aud
regained his head readily, as tho follow
ing paragraph from the C.-J. illustrates:
Sportively speaking, the showing ot Demo
cratic hands at Chicago last night ought to sot
any number of Republican chip piles to totter
ing.
Improvemeut ol Nnvwnnali If arbor.
On the 10th alt., Senator Brown intro
duced a bill appropriating $320,000 for
the improvement of the harbor of Savan
nah. We can find bnt a single okjecticn
to this, and that is in the amount. The
Senator should have made it a million, for
while the government could well afford to
give this, and the South would still be far
behind in her just quota of the public
funds, so directed, there would be a mar
gin for the paring down which always
takes place in a committee of conference
over such bills.
Savannah is tho second cotton port in
the United States, and is rapidly advanc
ing la her shipments of naval stores. By
reason of tho great system of railways
which debouch at Savannah, and the fact
that the great staple of tho South tends
to the Atlantic ports, It is oi the highest
importance that this harbor should be
placed iu the best possible condition lor
tho outgoing and iucomiuz commerce
which will seek it. The river and harbor
bill of the present session will perhaps
embrace within its provisions not more
than ten millions of dollars, aud there
will be a hot scramble for every cont of
her Representatives were united in senti
ment, but some are still clinging to an old
and threadbare political dogma about in
ternal improvements by the general gov
ernment, while others are disposed to
handle a fat treasury with the same econ
omy which superiors their individual
bank accounts.
The improvement of the harbor of Sa
vannah is of prims importance to every
interest in the State, and white.we would
be pleased to see all the rivers and har
bors get something, we are tree to say
our great port should be first and most
liberally served.
Georgia has not dealt fairly by her
great seaport, for during a long term of
years tho results of her industries were
mainly emptied into the lap of Charles
ton. This policy was wrong and should
be ^abandoned. Every onergy of every
Georgian should bo stimulated by
bis State pride sufficiently to make him
labor to make Savannah the port, not
only fora large coasting trade, hut for lines
of steamships to England, the Continent
and South America.
Savannah herself should send at once a
delegation of her best citizens and mer
chants to Washington. They should go
with pyrses prepared for elegant hospital
ities, and to meet tiie expenses of a trip
of several weeks. The most important
work in the way of legislation at the Na
tional Capitol is done through the medi
um of social channels, and by energetic
and intelligent expositions in commiltef
rooms.
This delegation, besides being armed
aud equipped with facts, fig-ires and sta
tistics, should carry with it a capacity to
seek and arrest the attention of members
of Congress from other sections, and to
enlist their sympathy and co-operation.
The delegation should know the way to
Welckeris, Chamberlin’s aud Wormley’s
as well as to the capitol; should have as
familiar acquaintance with wines and ci
gars as with cotton, rice and rosin, and
should know as few of the professional
roundors and jobbers of Washington as
possible.
A Tribute to the Catholic church
The Philadelphia Record, a journal of
the staunchest Protestant proclivities,
pays the following glowing compliment to
the Catholic church, iu sn editorial on
the political surroundings of the Pope. It
says:
Thousands of liberal and enlightened Prot
estants throughout the world look upon tho
Roman Ca’hollc church as, after all, the great
fortress of the Christian faith. Every well-in'
formed and candid student of history acknowl
edges that the Papacy, notwithstanding Its oc
casional errors of administration in secular af
fairs, was the one great harmonizing and civil
izlng agency in Europe during the middle ages.
It restrained the reckless tyranny of kings, mit
igated the hhrshness of Irrepressible autocracy,
defended right against might, and interposed
the spiritual power of conscience and religion
again and again in behalf of international
equity and the rights of man. Under its benig
nant influence the principles of just and hu
mane government were rightly wrought out,
s') that the merciful civilization which Is today
our heritage was in a great part its gift. With
out it Europo would have lapsed Into barba
rism and Christianity would hare been a fail
ure.
served the letter will be a bigger man than
Ulick.
Hknby Wattebson’b free trade speech in
celebration of Andrew Jackson's birthday
was about as appropriate as a speech from
Ell Perkins at n George Washington cele
bration.
“Mb. Beecher says he thinks no more of
death than he does of Ling on his right
side or his left side.” The trouble with
Beesher is that he is not particular about
his position, when he lies.
The Peruvian guano business seems to
have perfumed some Congressmen. Ship-
herd says he has letters from them, but the
committee would not call for them. The
scent can’t be stifled in that way.
Keo-eb on the floor was ignorant and
impudent, Keifer in the chair seems dis
posed to be insolent, but Messrs. Money,
McLane and Kenna read him a lesson in
manners that he may not soon forget.
If it is our turn to roll another pun
down into the abyss reserved for puns, we
beg the spectators to stand aside while we
remark tbit it was simply a pleasant rival
ry—the brokers tired and the government
retired Uliok Grant.
That “tariff for revenue only” whioh
Mr. Watterson laid in the last Democratic
platform, seems to have been sawed out of
doty timber. Whon General Hancock nnd
Senator Randolph stepped on it, it gave
way and lot the whole concern down.
The Independent party of South Caro
lina has received n severe check. J. T.
Henderson, one of its leading statesmen,
is in jail for the trifling offense of burning
another man’s corn-crib. These little ac
cidents interfere very severely with the
success of the movement.
“The Colonel” is the next drama book*
ed for Macon. Unless the play presents
somewhere the newspaper fiend treading
over the Colonel’s pet exchanges and
pointing out “a good thing” for publica
tion, the press stands ready to denounce
the affair as a realistic failure.
TalboMon Notes.
Talboxton, March 16.—We are glad to
note the presence of Col. R. L. Gentry, cir
culating among our people and adding
many new names to the subscription book
of the TEuyoBArn. The Colonel has
happy smile and k ! nd word for all whom
he meets. He expresses himself ns highly
pleased with our people and town. How
ever, this is not his first visit among ns.
Court is progressing finely. Tuesday at
noon tho case of Slade & Etheridge vs. W,
O. Paschal and McCormick Neal was taken
up nad was given to the jury at 5 o’clock
yesterday evening. In this caso Neil filed
a plea of non est factum; Paschal filed
no plea. There is a large emount of
money involved in this case, and
all during the trial of the same, tiie court
room was crowded with interested specta
tors. Messrs. Blandford & Garrard and J.
H. Mnrtin represented the plnintiffs nnd
nnd Willis & Willis and Col. Peabody the
defendant. We disremember whether the
caso hss been taken to the Supreme Court
once or twice. It will doubtless be taken
up agaiu, let the jury find either for the
plaintiffs or defendant. No verdict has
been rendered at this writing.
The criminal docket, i. c., the esses in
which Judge Willis is disqualified, will be
taken up to-morrow. Judge Stewart, by
his able aud impartial rulings, it giving
general satisfaction to the bar. He knows
tho law. knows his duty and performs it
iidinirdbly*
Yesterday morning a memorial on tho
death of Judge Edmund H. Worrill was
read by J. W. Hall, of tne Talbotton bar,
nnd short speeches made on the occasion
by Colonel John Peabody and Colonel M.
A. Blnnford, of Columbus. Judge Stewart
made some happy remarks on tho life and
labors of the deceased brother, and com
mended his noble life and achievements to
the bnr as weir worthy of consideration and
emulation.
The Thornton House, W. T. Pasclial
proprietor, is quite popular. Every avail
able department is occupied. This is oue
of tho best kept hotels m the State, as is
the general encomium prouounced on
“mine host.” Gonial und attentive, Mr.
Paschal pleases all who stop with him.
We would like to say that Col. Charles H.
Smith, “Bill Arp,” is in town, but fear
some one would think us doing the distin
guished Georgian a grave injury by men
tioning his name publiuly.
The jury in the caseof Slade & Etheridge
vs. Paschal Neal remained ont all night,
nnd up to this writing, 10 a. m., they have
not agreed on a verdict.
Politics are beginning to crop out in
this county. We wili have several “aspir
ing” gentlemen before our people, to repre
sent asinin the State Legislature.
More anon.
_ Correspondent.
_ i this. While we feel assured that Gov.
alrarat in fail sight of tk* point which, i Brown and our Congressional delegation
wbira Mfatf wtil# te—• ■ jfa htra 1 do their fail duty in this matter, w 0
e
A Sumteb county boy writes to know if
the Teleobaph has a poet’s corner. Well,
we should chatter! And tho hair-trigger
trap-door in the poet’s corner is the only
thing which keeps the Emperor of China
from looking right np through onr dry
well and discovering nil onr sanctum se
crets. Oar old&t office cat went over in
tho oorner tho other night, and the Empe
ror had her for dinner next day.
Hints fob toe Youno.—My son, never
shake a red handkerchief at a professional
capitalist, whether he be flush or busted.
Tho other day some brokers accused Jay
Gould of bluffing, and he emptied his ohipa
on the contro-tnble and called the roll.
Than were present just $53,000,000. Aud
then Jay cocked his hat on the tip of his
off oar, stepped outside and inquired if
Wall street was for sale. Whan it cornea
to n question of put up or shut up, it is
best always to shut up und put np. If you
enn’t put up.anything else, put the shutters
up-
A Hepuulican caucus has decided that
taxation mast not be reduced. Loud, en
thusiastic aud long continued applanse in
tho lobby.
V.'e tne l Mr. Persons’ farming panacea,
and he gives his constituents the result. If
they take his political paauoM they will do
,t with their eyes open.
fore he can produce the perfumed notes of
the Peruvian guano correspondence.
The Hon. Mr. 1 Persons .complains th a
when we both quit grangering he had noth
ing and we had a wheelbarrow. There’s
nothing small about us. He may have the
wheelbarrow to poddle his panacea.
Pleasant^ did draw Wade ont of his
chair os a prize in the “lottery of assassin*
ation,” but what comfort is this to Pleas
ants? A Savannah white man, and a Bour
bon, too, dx yon hear it? drew tho fiftaen-
thousand-dollar prize in the New Orleans
lottery. a
Oca poor Senators and Representatives
grieved over Girfield to the amount of
seven thousand dollars. Feeling a little
rocky after getting away with seventeen
hundreed dollars worth cf champagne,
brandy and cigars, it took three hundred
dollars'worth cf.cocktails to brace them up.
The Congressional drank must have been
simply colossal in proportions.
If Mr. Watterson coaid havo convinced
Sam Randall'and his appropriation com
mittee four years ago that there had been a
political deluge, a-d that the public funds
were not deposited to their personal eo
counts, the “Iroquois club” might have
been spared tho necessity of holding a free
traiTe convention.
The Et*m larttr,
Through the kindness of Mr. J. 8. Stew-
ill, the liberal anu enterprising stableman,
our reporter rode 9U* i<> !suiqn»erfiel<j
yesterday morning to gather nny ad
ditional particolnrs thnt might have come
to light concerning the fiendish murder
perpetrated in that locality Wednesday
morning.
The fire mile post stands about half a
mile this side of the store in which the mur
der was commit ted. The place consists of
only a few houses, but Uncle Sam baa
thought it of sufficient importauoa to es
tablish a port-office there, of which Mrs.
Stone, sister of the murdered man, is
postmistress. It was iormerly known as
Howard’s, and Mr. Evans’ store hA3 been
standing since the Macon aud ttestern
railroad was built. The wagon road that
runs through the place tries hard to be
sandy, bnt patches of red clay crop np like
crab grass in a field, and on rainy days the
wheels of vehicles cut np the day into
sticky crimson mud.
The store,louse where tke murder was
committed is built of logs, with old fash
ioned weather lioarding, and observ ing the
same old fashioned way of b iving no win
dows. It fronts the railroad, from which
it is not more than twenty yards distant,
th e store is small and uncoiled, and a rude
partition cuts off the back room in which
Mr. Evans slept. To the right of this
department is a small shed room which was
probably added tong after the store was
built. Aero*., tiie roiid, to the right of the
store, is a small log blacksmith shop, ran
by a colored tntu named Bill Carstapben,
who Bleeps in tho shop on the forge. To
the rear of the store, abont fifty yards, is
another log house occupied by a colored
man named Hoary Hill, nnd bis family.
These are the only buildings in tiie imrne
diate vicinity on the right hand side of tho
railr'tnd. On the left hand side there are
a few residences, and a railroad depot far
ther ap.
Onr reporter leisurely took a survey of
the surroundings, and thou hunted up
those who were first on the ground on the
fatal morning, and who knew more than
nny except those who were in side the
house. We found Bill Carstarp hen, the
blacksmith, in his shop, and he told us
that he was' awakened from his a 'cop by
the train passing by at 3 o’clock. He lay
awake some time, and while trjiog to go
sleep heard tho cry of “Oh Lordy r pro
ceeding from the direction of the store.
He got up, unlocked the shop door,
and while crossiug the road
heard several dull thudding blows,
nnd more groans. He hurried to the
tho store and watched both back and front
doors, thinking all the while that there was
some oue scuffling with Mr. Evans on the
inside. After a few minutes lie called for
Henry Htli, who lived in the log house
mentioned above as being in the rear of
the store, and Henry first ran out in his
Washinoton malaria knocked Mr. Blaine nightclothes. He went back aud dressed
d. r a,ttrU„ ^ aarJSi.'SS
and now it has prostrated Shipberd .be* ^ r?ce> w ho lives near tiie five mile iK>st.
Mb. IVattebson eloquently observes “or
if yon most go back, go os far back as the
lost traditions of Jefferson and Jackson,
and return clasping them to yonr heart.”
We have stepped back in search of the lost
traditions of Jefferson and Jackson and
have picked np one of them. Jefferson and
Jackson were in favor of protection.
When Secsr Jtobeson g6ts well loaded
with Jersey lightning and eloquence, he
swings his arms abont like tiie flails of an
old-fashioned wheat thresher. lathe heat
of debate a day or two since, he gave ihe
Hon. Mr. Hazleton, of Wisconsin, a side
winder full in tho month, and the Hon.
Mr. H. has been mistaken for a brother of
Faddy Ryan.
In view of Gov. Colquitt’s refusal to con'
vene the Legislature, it is surmised here
abouts that the Hon. Cope Winslow in
formed him that he coaid not be absent
from home longer titan nine days at a time
in the spring season, and that Dr. Ben
jamin Duggar’s stock engagements in the
monntains daring the month of May made
it impossible for him to attend.
John Chamberlin's famous club house
in Washington has fallen into the hands
of the Young Men’s Christian Association.
Cold tea, iced lemonade, sherbet and
sponge cake, will usm p the places of the
deviled crabs, the*famons mutton chops
and tho sparkl'ng wines of the tasteful
c_ohn’a larder. We fear John, like his
friend Grant, has had a rough deal.
Skeptics who hoot at sympathetic affini
ties should call at this offioe, now that tiie
season is opening up, and bo converted.
Tear we the enveloping shroud from off
an installment of spring poetry ever so
gently, somehow the verses will canter
acrois the desk, And, falling upon the
bosom of the motherly waste-basket, min
gle their sobs real audibly.
Col. Thoenton’s imported editor 6tops
clipping state specials from the Washing
ton Republican long enongh to suggest
that we manufactured au Atlanta letter.
Great heavens! to publish an Atlanta let
ter is as mnch as the Teleobapii dares to
impose npon its patrons and readers.
Do. Gray, one of the prosecution in the
Gniteau caso, has been shot in the face by
one Henry Reinishaw, who thinks he is an
embassador cent from Heaven by Gniteau
to remove Dr. Gray. Perhaps the learned
pundit wilt change his opinion about in
spirational insanity,
Youn Uncle Joey B., has found out
how to do it in Washington. He gives
dinners that are works of art from tho
opening Chateau Yqnom, down to Haban
eras at tweniy-flve cents a pieoe. His last
effort as compared to Watterson’s free
trade banquet, was as “pate de fois gras”
and “Cloe deYogeont,” compared to fried
sausage and Milwaukee beer.
A sldc-leoobd, rib-protrnditig, scraggy-
necked cow stood ont in front of Bnrkc’s
book store, yesterday, and bellowed her
ridicule of the cow orbinanee for an hoar
and a half. In the meantime, a police
man, with his hat tipped over hie ear,
strolled along within a hundred yards of
her,his eagle eye fixed npon the poor hack-
men, whose vehicles were backed np near
the sidewalk.
Or the letter assailing the character of
Garfield on account of his treachery to
Rosecrans, the Washington Post says it
is' ready to make pabtio the name of the
writer whenever any member of President
GarSeid’s cabinet calls for it. It was npon
ananfaretending o| fan! Awrfaflw*
This gentleman answered tho summons at
once nnd took his gun with him. On going
to the store they woke up Mr. Thomas
Tucker, living a short distance from the
B*qrc, and tho party then surrounded the
house to await tiie approach of day.
Whon daylight appeared they called for
Emma, tiie little twelve-year-old girl, who
slept, as they knew, in the store that night,
to open the door. For a long time they
received no answer, and Mr. Grace was on
the point of breaking in the door when it
was opened by Emma, whose clothes were
covered with b'ood. The child told them
of the murder in an incoherent mauuer,
being nearly frightened out of her wits.
The party, which consisted of Graoe,
Tucker, Bill Carstarpheu aud two other
colored meu, then entered the store, bnt
saw no evident) of-anything wrong until
they went into tho back room. • Here they
found Mr. Evans on the bed with his skull
crushed in as detoribed in yesterday's
issue. The axe was then found with blood
upon it, aud_ showed thr.t the blows had
been deqttfwith the fiat side, “clearly a
woinaji’s wont,” as Mr. Grace afterwards
said to onr reporter. This gentleman cock
ed his gun and stood ready to fire npon nny
one who might spring out, and ordered the
men to search every hole and corner. In
the corner of the bed-room was a large pile
of cotton seed, and in it the woman's shoos
were found, with her apron and bonnet, all
stained with b'ood.
The men upturned all the seed, but did
not find her. They searched the store, and
were about to conclude siie had escaped
when the tittle girl pointed out the shud-
roorn nnd told them she lud gone in there.
Tho sea-ch was made, and soon the men
saw what looked tike a pile of dark cloth
in oue comer.' They took hold of it and
found the woman. She was jerked rather
than pulled out, and taken outside of the
Store. Judge Tucker then formally arrest
ed her, and she was soon conveyed to the
residence of his son, Thomas Tucker,
just across the railroad, where she wa-
bound nntil the city officers took charge of
tier.
The little girl Emma is a mulatto, and
told her story to the reporter in a plain,
straightforward way. She said that on
Tueadny night a crowd of negroes were in
the store listening to a banjo picker, and
she thinks Carrie must have secreted her
self in the store daring that time.- Mr.
Evans was not fee'ing well, aud sent far
Emma to sleep with him so he could bo
waited on daring the eight. She went in
the back room to go to bed shortly after
the train for Atlanta passed by, about 9
o’clock, nnd slept until the train boond for
Macon passed by, which was abont 3
o'clock. She was awakened, she say*, by
a bad dream, and when she opened
her eyes she saw tbo wo
man for the first time, with
a lighted candle, standing near the bed on
the side occupied by Mr. Evans. The wo
man did not sso the child and did not know
of her sirarence in the house. The child
was horrified at seeing a strange woman at
that hour of the night and could not make
au outcry. A minute or so after the tight
was put ont. Emma hear® the ticks rained
upon Mr. Evans’ head, and she hid un ler
the cover and was speechless with (right.
She heard Mr. Evans cry “< )h, Lord I” aud
soon all was still. The woman then relit
the candle nnd went into tho store. Emma
heard tier pull out the money drawer and
heard the ciiiukiug of filver money. The
child lay in bed afraid to cry out, nnd list
ening to everything that was going on.
She heard Bill calling her from tiie out
side, but was afraid to answer. The wo
man put out the tight when she beard the
noise outside, pn'.babiy not thinking that
the store was guarded, as she frequently lit
the candle and blew it ojt whenever she
heard much noise out. ide.
Daylight was fast approaching and the
woman was*rying hard to get out. The
old-fashioned bolts on both-back and fide
t'cors were nailed down, and escape by
these exits she fonnd was impossible.
She was endeavoring to nud an
outlet other than the door when
Emma mustered up courage enough
to run to the front door, and knowing
where Mr. Evans kept it, secured the key
an 1 was in the act of unlocking it when the
woman saw her for the first time and
rushed at her with the fero ity of an «ffi-
raged tigress. She evidently thought better
of thus, for she then ran to the back room
and secreted herself in the corn iu the shed
room where she was found. The girl’s
story tallies with that of Bill Carstarphen,
connecting a lactly, and leaves no room for
doubt as to the woman’s guilt.
The remains of Mr Evans were taken to
the house of his sister, about a quarter of
a mile through the woods to the left of tbe
store, and placed in a handsome casket. A
grave was dug in the Samtrerfleld bury
ing ground, near the graves of hia brother,
father and other relatives, and on yester
day the body was lowered to its last rest
ing place in the presence of a number of
the citizens of the d'strict. Many colored
people were also present.
Mr. Evans had been keening store at the
place for abont 8 yeans. He had acquired
considerable property, being worth be
tween twenty-five knd thirty thousand dol
lars. It is supposed that he left a will
which has sot yet been found. His effects
are now iu charge of Mr. John Carr, who
will probably keep them nntil a legal cus
todian if made or appointed.
Carrie Massey, tbe murderess, is confined
in a oeti at the jaiL Daring her recent
incarceration she occupied a portion of
the oell of Phillis Williams, also colored,
who was serving ont a sentence for
petty offence and who was arretted at the
instance of Mr. Evans. It is thought bv
some that daring that time, whonthev
were together, Phyllis induced Carrie to an
and Mil Even*, knowing that CwriA
sentence would soon expire. Canto, in
statement, says thatshe rode to Samm«!
field on tire trarz. There are a combes? at
colored men oat there who in
into tirat aftirawav
, 0»Wedne8«tey,«tthejriI,
indifferent as to the affair, a
Mm to realise in the sbghtwft
enormity of the crime. Ye '
ever, she cried nearly all dm
fatly dented committing thT
Is no earfui
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