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FROM WASHINGTON.
Wastunoton, April 13.—In tho Senate,
Messrs. Plumb, Allison and Beck were ap
pointed conferees on the post-office appro
priation bill.
Mr. Cameron, ot Pennsylvania, present
ed a protest from the central branch of tho
Land League of America against the im
prisonment of American citizens in Ire
land. Iteferred.
The benale took np the bill for the 8d-
jnstment of claims growing ont of the de
struction of the United States private arm
ed brig General Armstrong, in the port of
Payal Azores Islands, in 1814. The com
mittee amendments specifying that the to
tal amonnt of the claims to be.passed upon
not exceeding $70,739), is tho amonnt
proved before the Conrt of Claims, were
agreed to. Mr. Pendleton eulogized tho
valor and skill of the officers and crew of
tho Armstrong in defending their ves-el
against tho attack of three British war ves
sels. He regarded it as one of the most
heroic and brilliant actions in oar naval
history. Mr. Platt briefly opposed the
measure. Tho bill passed—yeas 41 to
nays 13.
Mr. Kellogg’s bill to extend tho limits of
tho port of New Orleans, and for other
purposes, after $203,000 appropriation h id
Leon stricken ont, os recommended by the
commerco. was pagsdd*
Tho Intiian Territory railroad bill w> a
again taken np and a somewhat tedions
and desultory debate npon it followed.
Messrs. Sherman, Ingalls and Jones, of
Florida, opposed, and Messrs. Williams,
Call and Maxoy favored tho bill* Tho
pending amendment to require theoonsent
to the bill of the genoral council of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations before it
shall take ciTect was rejected—ayes 15, nays
39. Toe amendments offered by Messrs.
Plumb, McMillan and Banlsbary were ac
cepted by Mr. Maxey, in charge of the bill,
whioh then passed—ysas 31, nays 13.
On.motion of Mr. Kellogg, the hill ap
propriating six million dollars for the im
provement of the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers was taken np and laid over as unfin
ished business for to-morrow.
Mr. Plumb, from the committee on ap
propriations, reported, without amend
ment, tho House bill appropriating $80,000
to supply the deficiency in the current year
in subsistence of Arropahoe, Cheyenne,
Apache and other Indian tribes. He ex
plained th.it tho bill was substantially iden
tical with tho one recently originated in
and passed by the Senate, and was made
. nece-snry because tho House bad de dined
' to recognize tho right of tho Senate to
Originate tho measure.
Mr. Beck—" Wo do not concedo tho ques
tion, but waive it for a time.” Tho bill
passed*
Mr. Plnmb, from the committee on ap
propriations, without amendment, reported
tho House bill appropriating tho following
amounts to supply deficiencies in the cur
rent year: $*70,000 for printing stamps,
etc., for the revenue department; $25,090
for the manufacture of paper for the use
of tho Treasury Department, and $150,030
to continue work on the Washington mon
ument. Tbe latter appropriation being for
the next fiscal year, and to enable the per
son in charge to make his oontracts for tbe
coming year at this time, tho bill passed.
Senate adjourned. at
house.
. WAsnraoTon, April 13.—On motion of
. Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, the Senate bill was
passed providing for one appraiser and
two assistant appraisers #t the port of New
Orleans, instead of two appraisers and one
assistant appraiser as at present.
Tho morning hour hiving been dispensed
with ,the House, at 12:40, went into conf-
mitteo of tbe whole on the tariff commis
sion bill. Mr. Turner, of Georgia, oppos
ed the pending bill, contending that the
tariff neodod immediate revision, and then
nrgaed in support of a revenue tariff. Mr.
Updegraff, of Iowa, "and Mr. Brnmm, of
Pennsylvania, also spoke npon tbe measure.
Tho committee thea.rose and adjourned.
• • WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
search was made, but so far unsuccessfully, entation will toko place at tho Senator’s
THE LAST) LEAGUE. j rOOmS.
Washington, April 12.—In tho National [ bxeaxkb explosion.
Lund League convention to-day, Rev.! Chaeliston, April 13.—The steamer
*” * "" I I 1 — - irt, exploded her boil-
' after leaving the
, -ton, colored deck
ing the receipt* by States, Massachusetts ; band, was scalded to death. L. 8. Bosang
leading tho bit with $41,307.41. The re- ! and W. T. Aaron, mate and eng'neer, both
Washington, April Id.—Before proceed
ing with the SUipberd exanv'nation ta-tuy
tho committee on foreign affairs indulged
in a brief discussion relative to tho advisa
bility of revising the official reports of tbe
proceeding. The question was, bowover,
postponed f. r the present. Witness testi
fied that tbe offer of $23ROOO in stock to
Hurlbut was talked abouluy himself, Sen
ator Blair and Blaine on two occasions,
Witness admitted that Secretary Blaine
never oommitted himself in words, yet
when he (Shipherd) came away, anti
thought over seriously the drift of his sev--
oralinterviews he was alwatsprofoundly
impressed with the belief .tbit the Secre
tary was in nocord witb their wishes.
Mr. Blaine propounded several questions
with a view .o discovering who were tho
parti> s interested in the Peruvian Compa
ny that he (Sbipherd) had alluded to as
friends of Gen Great. The witness evaded
direct >nswer,bat finally said: “My opin
ion is that at that time there were gentle
men interested with ns who wore personal
friends of the Garfield administration and
there we o others who wore friends of Gen.
Grant and President Arthur. The witness
declined to state who these persons were
and said under no circumstances would he
present a list of the stockholders .in the
Peruvian" Company. Eiipherd said the
greatest surprise of his life wns Blaine's
letter of Deoember 3d, indicating a chango
of frout.” The witness continued: “My
explanation of the Secretary’s change of
attitndo is that about December 3d ho
become convinced that he could no longer
remain in tho cabinet, and fearing that
wbat bad passed between him, Senator
Blair and myselt might become public, ho
made np bis m'nd to finish beforehand and
to pnt upon record in the State Depart
ment this letter, which wonld indicate that
he always know Sbipherd was a fraud and
that the Peruvian company was a bubble
and a swindle; and, therefore, I say,” add
ed the witness, with much feeling, “Ire-
ard that letter of December 3d just as do
berate an attempt to assassinate a man s
actor and destroy a great interest as
. was known in history.”
/ashingtox, April 13.—C. H. Spencer,
Fort Orange, Florida, has been appoint-
mneiinten-ieut of the seventh life sav-
district in Florida. _ . ,
ndrew Devine, one of the two official
vrsphers of the Hunso of Represen-
\f u r committees, received to-night a
Aom tho Speaker of the House fin*
- to (ho one reoently received by the
• other official stenographer for the House
/ committees, (Mr. Hayes) informing him
that for "good and sufficient cause he bad
been dismissed, and that his services would
no longer bo required.” Mr. Devine has
been absent from tho Honso for several
days on- sick leave, and was in bed ibis
morning when the Speaker's letter was
handed to him. It is understood that the
dismi-sal of Messrs. Hajes and Davino
will bo brought up in tbe Honse for dis
cussion to-morrow by Mr. Stephona or Mr.
Randal'.
The refuel of the foreign relations com
mittee to proceed with the business yes
terday cn tbe discovery that tho official
reporter’s notes of the proceedings already
had in tho Sbipherd investigation were
inoorrect and practically valueless, u
made the tost for sharp editorials in seve
ral New York papers this morning. To
day r.ncther stenographer (official steno
grapher to some other committee), was in
attendance on the Sbipherd investigation.
Andrew Davino, the second stenograph
er dismissed by Speaker Keifer, wa3 for
merly for many years senior reporter for
tho A-soc'mted Press, and like Haye*, from
tho House graduated thence to the com
mittee room as official reporter.
VESSEL ASIIOKE.
Washington, April 13.—The signal corps
station at Smithvitle, N. O.reporis t-.e
schooner Minnie, from New York for
Charleston, ashore on lrying-1 an S.ioale,
end will probably be a total wreck. Tho
crew were saved.
defaulting casiueh.
Washington, April 13.—Cashier RuUi->
defalcation will probably nmount to $j->,-
tw or K80.00- 1 , bat the investigation has
not be-I/completed. In one ma'anra ths
Sank hns a credit of $14,000 with the Penn
sylvania Hank of Pittsburg, but Ruths had
checked out $12,000. He has been placed
under arrest for embezzlement on tue oath
of one of his bondsmen.
howoate escapes.
Washington, April 13.—Captain How-
gate, formerly disbursing officerot the sig
nal bureau, has escaped from Jail. It was
stit d u the new-papei s, some time ago,
that tie was allowed considerable Htertjrto
the way of visiting his home, spending Sun
day, etc., but the abdomen- was denied by
the officers in chargo of him. Ha-e thia
„ 0 nnrtnnr,‘mi!ut of his 05011183 IS
ceipls from the States in dotcil wore os
follows: California $50, Connecticut $11.-
996, District of ColdAbia $200, Illinois
j ilJLi.l, Indiana $175, Iowa $1,233, Kansas
i >90, Kentucky $1,289, Maine $335. Mary
land $2,027, Michigan $820, Minnesota
1)192. New Hampshire $1,050, New Jersey
$991, New York $10,131. Ohio $534, Penn
sylvania $598, Rhode Island $2,819, Toxas
I >70, Vermont $375, Wisconsin $369, and
1 rom Canada $106. These nmonute were
received by the treasurer from October
10,1881, toApril 1,1882. Thetotal receipts
since the formation of th > League were
$180,589. Up to the present time there
bad been remitted to Egan, treasurer of
the Irish National League, and Miss Par
nell $169,262. ,
The New York and California delegates
explained that their States would have ap
peared to better, advantage in the state
ment but for the fact that a greater por
tion of thei- remittances had been sent di
rect to Europe and not through this organ
ization. The secretary stated that the to
tal remittances, including these sent di
rect since the Buffalo convention, wonld
aggregate nearly three hundred thousand
dollari. The cininnr. i read a telegram
from Egan at Paris, aokno vie Aging the
receipt of $z5%000 fr >m America, and
thanking the friends t i Iro'uua in tins
country for their noble exertions.
Washington, April 11.—In the Senate
Mr. Lapham presented a remonstrance
transmitted to him by the Chamber of
Commerco of New York, from tho business
men of that city engaged in the China dry
goods, iron and cotton trade, and embrac
ing signatures of banks, bankers and in-
snrenoe companies, against the passage of
any law prohibiting Chinese immigration.
It sets forth that legislation is oontrary to
onr national policy and unnecessary af
front to a friendly nation, prejudicial to
the commercial interests of tbe country in
reducing, if not destroying, our growiog
commerce with China, which promises to
be of vast importance
Mr. Lapham said tha petitioners were
animated by that spirit which so univer
sally prevailed in his boyhood, and which
whs exposed in ono stanza in the sinj of
"Jefferson and Liberty,” with which all
were familiar*
"llcre, strangers trom a thousand snores,
Compelled by tyranny to roam.
Shall 5nd. amid abundant stores,
A freer and a happier home.”
Tho paper went to tho committee on for-
eign relations*
Mr. Maxey, from tho committee on
claims, reported favorably, with amend
ments, a bill to inappropriate and apply
tho amount appropriated by the act of
March, 1S77, to pay certain Southern mail
contractors. - ..
The Sehato then took np the oalondir,
and, on motion of Mr. Teller, devoted the
morning hoar to pension bills, of which a
number were passed.
At the expiration of the morning hour
(at 2 o’clock), the bill for the improvement
of the navigation of the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers, which coifie up rs the reg
ular osier, was temporarily laid aside.
Sixty pension tail’s were passed. After dis
posing of this business, the regular order
was agMn passed over, and Mr. Voorhoes
addressed the Senate upon the resolution
recently introduced by him, declaring the
conduct of tho State Department in rela
tion to tho arrest and imprisonment, by
the British authorities, of D. McSweonoy
and other American citizen*, is in violation
of American law, inconsistent with tho
value of American citizenship, and derog
atory to the honor of the United States.
He said the Secretary of State failed to
respond to the Senate resolution of March
9th, * peremtorily instructing him to re
port upon the McSweeny case at the earli
est day possible,.until March 29th, although
evory item of information transmitted on
the latter date was in 'he hands of that
officer when th** resolution reached him,
and conld have been sent in within twenty-
four hour* thereafter. The Amencau
State Department.ho asserted of lato years
Jind always proceeded very slowly when
appealed to in behalf of in American citi
zen in a foreign prison. He proceeded ns
follow.-!: "A gJvomment which is indiffer
ent to the fate of its own citizens, whether at
home oc abroad, which fails to respond
boldly and swiftly to their appeals for jus
tice and leaves them to was to away their
lives in prisbes, unaided and unconnected,
is unworthy of allegiance and ought not
to have, and will not long retain a respect
able position nmoog the iudei>endent pow
ers of the earth.” The speaker then re
viewed the case ot McSweeny: “A natur
alized American citizen, who wns arrested
by British authorities in Ireland, impris
oned on the 2nd day of Jane, 1881, und who
hA3 beeu in prison, without trial ever since,
notwithstanding the ropoatod appeals of
tbe prisoner and his wife to our govern
ment lor protection and redress.”
•• ii,o anmnnly and pusillanimous silenoe
of the State Department throughout the
whole easy was,” Mr. Vocrhees raid, “such
that every American head would be bowed
and every Amer caa heart filled with hu
miliation os tho tacts become known. Ho
(Voorhces) felt degraded in his pride as a
citizen when compelled to state—as ho now
did, with the communication of the State
lL. nn *4mnnt in Kia thflt fil- dil InOif
white, were seriously scaldrd. Two eo'qr-
od men wore slightly injured. Th 1 * Planter
had a cargo of merchandise, and twelve
cabin passengers; none of the latter are in-
e red The vessel and cargo are but slight-
damaged. Tho vessel was towed back
to the pier.
FUNERAL rAETT.
New Yobs, April 13.—A Port Jervis, New
York, special says the noon express tram
to day brought a funeral party to this vil
lage with the tody of Mrs. R. O. Gray, of
Surrey county, Va. The husband and
Mrs. B. F. Winfield, a sister of Mrs. Gray,
accompanied the remains. Mrs. Gray was
murdered by servants, who poisoned her
coffee. She was formerly a re idout of
ooffee. She was formerly a re ideas or ^truths, it is stated that I have attempt-
th-s village. Her husband is a well to do
Jhettcr from Mr. Emory spoor.
Atlanta Constitution.
Committee on Wats and Means—House
ot Represent stives, Washington, D. O,
April 10th, 1882—Editors Constitution: I
ask through the columns ,of your paper to
reply to the brutal at took on me in the M«-
oon Telegraph and Messenger of the "th
insta-t. I know that the policy of tho
Constitution is hostile to me and to my
representation of a Georgia Congressional
district, but I presume it will give me the
Opportunity to defend inysolf. I do not
ottec claim the attention of the public to
matters personal to me, and tho most un
justifiable and nnmanly provocation is my
excuse this time.
In his comments on the homicide of
young Mr. Ronntree, Albert Lamar, the
editor of the Teleoraph and Messenger,
declares: “We reoognize in this the legiti
mate conclusion of the partially successful
attempt of Mr. Emory Speer to Africanize
that portion of tbe State, to gratify his
personal ambition and vanity.”
This proposition contains two palpab e
Department in his hand, that for six long
and weary mouths to the prisoner, after
this * government |had received tho let
ter of Mrs. McSweeny—not a single step
wa3 taken by the authorities here for nn
inquiry into the circumstances of arrest,
and they wore then influenced to take ac
tion by considerations other than a just
appreciation of the claims of McSweo-
ny to protection.
Mr. Jones, of Florida, asked whether
McSweeny was in rrison now.
Mr. Voorhees said he uuders’oqd he was,
as no notice had been given of his release.
Copimcnttag noon the prisoner's recital of
his sufferings in j«il,he said “the picture
was one of wanton brutality, such as bar
barians alone inflicted upon prisoners,
whether guilty or innocent, and showed
that tho spirit of torture which for ms
many years blackened England’s history is
yet active, especially when tho victim be
longs to a government whoso administra
tion cares nothing for his safety and still
less for ito own honor.” Upon tho history
of the case, Mr. Voorhees charged that
there had been a gross and flagrant viola
tion of the act of July 27,1868, (section
2001 cf revised statutes,) for which some
body ought to answer at the b*rof the
Senato under tho articles of impeachment,
At the close of Mr. Voorhees’remarks,
the galleries which contained many mem
bers of the Land League convention, re
cently in seas on in thiscity, noisily man
ifested their apprec ation of bis effort*
Upon tho suggestion of Senator Sherman ’
fhe resolution of Mr. Voorhees was re
ferred to the committee on for
eign relations, with a view to inquir*
ing into ail the foots of the ease. The
Senate, at 4:50, went into executive ses
sion , and when tho doors were reopened
adjourned until Monday.
A BOOM IN GRAIN.
Chicago, April 13.—There was agenuino
boom in all kinds of grain to-day, and
the only explanation seemed to be while
that a good many speculators who study
statistics closely are short, the country at
large, small scalpers and a few very prom
inent deaters aro long, and are bulling the
market with great pertinacity and success.
The news, which inordinary times would
tend to depress prices, seems now to have
no effect whatevor.
a victim of the golden cm
Msmthis April 13.—Captain Scovil’e re
turned this evening on the City <>f Provi
dence with the remains of the little girl
found in Uie rivor thirty miles below here.
Tho child was tho daughter of W. H.
Stowe.
NEW ORLEANS RACES.
New Orleans, April 13.—At tho soco-d
day’s races, the weather was partly cloudy
and the attendance light. The first race,
Withers stakes, two-yoar-olda, half mile,
was won by Iztkelann Ella (by Groat Tom);
Exeter second; Vinoettavia third. It wns
won by two lengths. The traok was heavy.
Time 53)£. ,
The second raoo—selling race for all
a.-es—purse $250, mils and one-eighth, was
won by Maacotte; Ada second; Eli third—
beating Bowling Green, George Hakes and
Eva. Time 2:l2tf. Atter worrying a long
(lm ilnn finally fell, bat tho judro did
farmer, living near Dispertantio.
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION CASZ3.
Charleston, Abril 13.—In the United
States Circuit Conrt to-day in tho Acton
election case, testimony for the defense
was opened and closed, and the testimony
in reply for the prosecution was closed.
Dallas Sanders made the opening argu
ment for the prosecution, and Col. J. C.
Haskell opened for the defense. One of
ths counsel on each sido will be heard to
morrow and the case then will so to the
jury. A witness for the defense to-day
denied point blank the charges made by
the government’s witnesses, nndjswore pos
itively thnt Kano the United States super
visor, had been allowed far more privilege
than he was entitled to under the law.
They te-tified that the ballot box had been
opened folly and displayed to Kaao before
tho election began and that ho expressed
no dissatisfaction; that Kane had been
caught twice with his hand in
the ballot box and .it was
shortly aftor one of th03e occasions that a
handle of tickets had been found in the
box. Tbe defense also pnt up a number of
witnesses to prove the reputation of the
government’s witnesses. Ono wa3 shown
to be a gambler and to have been tried for
larcery nr.d murder; another, a colored
school teachar, was shown to have forged
E ay rolls an 1 swindled a bank in Coin lu
ll, and seduced some of _hfa pupils ;
another was shown to have swindled a col
ored woman oat of a tract of land, and
testimony was introduced which, wont to
show that every witness examined by
the government bore a bad reputation in
the community in which he lived, and to
bo nnwortby of bo'ief on oath.
Fatal boiler explosion.
Baltimore, April 13.—By tho explosion
of a boiler in the corn chop mill, corner
Fremont and Fratt streets, this evening,
it is reiiorted that there were twelve per
sons killed. Five bodies have been recov
ered. The machinery had been idle .for
some time, for repairs, and a fire had jast
bean started to resume work, when tho .ex
plosion occurred. A portion of the boiler
was propelled northward, entirely, demol
ishing two two-story brick dwellings on
King street, and throwing a side wall of
tho rear building adjoining. At the. time
the explosion John Addison, eoginoer,
Harrison Waters, colored! fireman, and
Andrew Cooper, machinist, who had been
making repairs, and Frank Kraning, a boy
of fifteen years, were in the engine room.
All were killed except Cooper, and ho was
so badly scalded that hiS 'Hfe is despaired
of. In a honso, No. 173 King street,
Georgia Fontz, aged 19 years,, was killed,
nnd Ida Rosenberg had ono of her legs
broken; Ellen Rawlins, a colored servant
woman, was aaverely hurt by tho walls fall-
ing upon her. In No. 171 King street Graoe
Gray, aged 20, was killed; in the yard ad
joining the factory, Abraham Hopbrnn,
colored, unloading a lumber wagon, was
struck by a flying -missile and his skull
fractured; James Roden, aged 15, had his
skull fractured; Edward Callahnn had a log
broken; Mrs. Margaret Kanf, living at 451
Fratt street, adjoining the factor?;, was
standing at her wash-tab in her kitchen
whon ehe was struck by flying bncks and
killed; C. W. Gates, at work in
a granite yard, a square distant,
wns struck in tho face by a brick
aud severely hurt; Edward. Kelley!
one of the employes in the building had a
log broken, and several others were less sa
ri »usly hurt. The building and machinery
and dwelling houses are owned by Richard
Cromwell, Jr. Several-bodies aro sup
posed to be still under tho rains, including
those of tho engineer, fireman nnd the boy.
The flremon arc at work to rescue them.
The damage to property nnd machinery is
estimated at about $8,000. There was a
similar explosion in the same, building
twelvo years ago, when five persons lost
their lives.
SUIT FOB DAMAGES.
New York, April 13 -lOrlnndo B. Patton,
owner of the old World bnilding recsnMy
destroyed by tiro, has been sued in the Su
preme Conrt by tho proprietors of tho
Turf, Field aiul Farm for $59,090 dam
ages for losses they sustained in the burn
ing of the building of which they were oc
cupants. Tho complaint charges negli
gence against the defendant in having
failed to provide properly against fire,
LABOB TROUBLES.
Lawrence, Mass., April 13.—At the Pa
cific mills this morning thirty-two nddi
tional weavers and ten spinners were en
gaged. More than one-half of the cotton
spinning machinery at tho lower mills is
now in operation; also 744 looms. The
total number employed this morning wa«
244 weavers and 23 spinners,
Fall Riveb, April 13.—Fourteen spin
ners at the Shoal mill stmek this noon.
Complaints concerning low wngos canned
tho strike which was ordered by the Spin
ners’ Union.
SEVERE BAIL STORM.
New Orleans, April 13.—A severe rain
aud hail storm visited Opelousas Tuesday
aft irnoon. Hail stones larger than a hen’s
egg fell in a heavy shower for twenty min
utes, smashing window gln-s, cutting vege
tation to pieces and doinggreat damage to
crops for miles south and west of tho
town.
evening the announcement of lus escai>e
nnd* from police headquarters. .
Marshal Henry explains tomg'.t
Cai>:aio Howgate has several tunes been
permitted b. order of .the oourt, in compa-
f,v „f th - bailiff, to visit h s home for u few
hour,* To-dsy Judge Wylie gave the order
permitting Howgate to go home for two
Sours. Shortly after the arnval there tita
bailiff’s attention was for a momcnt dis
traded from his charge by one ot the la
dies of the family, and when
himself Howgate was gone,
time, the ling finally fell, bat the judge
not tap the dram, and all except Mascotto
had ran nearly a mile before the re
call bell was tapped. Thu loft Mascotte
fresh, and she won by two lengths.
The third race, purse $300, mile heata,
resulted as follows: Lida Stanhope 1—1;
Dukoof Kent2—2; Watobman3, dutan led;
General Rowlotte distanced; Tevian du
tanced. Time 12ilJ(—1:515(.
COMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS.
New York, April 13,—The Irish Nation
alistsof New York city, will this evening
present Hon. Chas. _W. Jones, Umtdi
States Senator from Flonds, with a hand-
of resolutions through Ldwtird
-jintMi iu G. Byrnes, who is now in Washington as
Diligent | delegate from the land league. The pres-
BTOBM ACCOUNTS.
New Orleans, April 15.—A special to the
Times from Morgsa City gives the follow
ing nocoant of damage dono by tho storm
Wednesday night. On Beer’s Island a su
gar honso was blown away; on tho lower
Atchafalaya the dwelling of W. F. Gallon
nnd Mrs. Moore wore destroyed: on Little
Wax Bayou the houses of John Frammen-
thal, Louis Kolb and Jean Fitz were swept
away, and mu oil other damage was dono at
the Alice plantation, near ^Jcane Rotto
a colored church was driven over to the
west side; at Cyprcmert a nogro chnrch
wss blown down; at the Will’s Linden
place a warohorso was turned O7or; on tho
Bayon Bccuf n largo honso was seen float
ing during tbo storm. It wns found next
morning lodged against I be bridge, but tbo
occupants disappeared and it is supposed
were drowned, tho honso of Eugene Tom-
plica and a cooper shop also were found
against tho bridge. Tho residence; of
James Pennison floated^ three miles*
Reauy Pennison’a store with its contents
wss swept away. A kitchen and all of the
cabins were swept away from tho Pandely
plantation. Jesse Simmons’ residence
with its contents is a total loss. Orelean
Comonr’s rcsidonco wa3 destroyed and the
stores of Alox Fennisoa nnd Jules P. Fel-
lot were swept away: all tho cabins occu
pied by colored poople wore carried away.
Efforts are being mido to get a boat to go
to tho Bsyoi Bui if to aid tho people. At
Lako Rilourdo everything is guuo.
SOUTH AMERICAN NEWSi
Panama, April 15.—The concession grant
ed General Dauiel Bntterfield, of New
York, for the construction of a railroad
from tbo capital to tho gulf of Fonseca,
has bean approved by tho Salvador Con-
^Nicaraguan communities are much inter
ested in the Into of tho bill now before the
American Congress asking the incorpora
tion of the Nicaraguan canal company.
Fierola and Freda havo arrived hero,
Pierola goes to live in Paris. During
Pierola's stay in Lima repeated efforts
were made to unite the leaders of tho Pe
ruvian political parties. Tho effort was in
vain. The Pierola party is the most pow
erful and host organized, nnd was also the
most popular. The adhesion of the Civil-
tos to Pierola would havo mado a strong
combination, able to expel a foreign ene
my nnd submit to tha loss of the territory,
but Pierola nod tho Civiltos were too far
asunder, and any attempt to unite them
only proved that the fact of reconciliation
wss helpless, and Pierola is understood
to have withdrawn to allow the
formation of a great national party,
untrammelled by the presence of any of
the old political chiefs of the country".
Just at this juncture, howovor, Genoral
Prada returns to the coast. Bo leaves fir
Guayaquil to-day, but hinted lie will go di
rect to Lima and place himself in accord
with the members of his old party, which
is of considerable importance, nnd secure,
if possible,the co-operation of tho Chilians.
What was refused to Garcia, Calderon and
Pierola, ho thinks may bo accorded to him,
acd consequently the hero of Los DeMayo,
seriously thinks of returning to bis coun
try and once more appearing as its saviour.
cd to Africanize that portion of the State.
No act or utterance or ambition of mine
can be truthfully held to show such ata
tempt. My independent candidacy and
election to Congress had and oan have np
snch effect. Again, the deplorable death
of Mr. Ronntree had no connection with
a political cause. “We should feel better
about tho matter if wo might justly lay tho
blame of the entire transaction to hi3 (Mr.
Speer's) door,” writes Mr. Albert Lamar.
This genial and Christian wish serves to
show the cordial feeling of Mr. Lamar to
ward Mr. Speer, but tho troth is Mr. Speer
is no more connected with the death of
Mr. Ronntreo ithan was any other mem
ber of Congress with any other breach of
the peace in Georgia daring his term of
service. No more, for instanoe, than was
the representative of the Savannah district
with the regretted but still remembered oc
casion when, in that city, Mr. Wayne Rus
sell. with tho palm of his hand, buffeted
Mr. Albert Lamar on the face. I am no
more responsible for tbe bloody tragedy
in my city than was the Savannah repre
sentative for the bloodless ex parte encoun
ter in his. *
Mr. Lamar continues: "But it is true,
and it is about time for the people of Ath
ens and the surrounding country to awaken
to a knowledge of tho fact that they who
have npheld and sustained this young man
(Mr. Speer) in his anything but admirable
career, may hive to bear a part of tho re-
Rpou-ibiliiy for tho results which have fol
lowed."
Noun tbo animosity of Mr. Albert Lamar
towards me is well understood, and is gen
erally ascribed to tha fact that he was dis
missed for inoompetency by the Demo
cratic clerk of the forty-sixth Congress,
and to the farther faut that my cousin,
Mr. Eugene Speer, was appointed to tho
vacant position, and held it while the
Democrats hold tho House. I have been
informed also that Mr. Lamar announced
his purpose with Mr. Hanson’s paper “to
drive me from public life.” To accom
plish this ambition, ho charges mo and the
men who havo voted for m-i with
blood-guiltiness. Mr. Lamar should re
flect that in this statement he is doing a
cruel injustice to a community who are not
in “public life,” and at whom he strikes
with a viow to wound aud cripple me. He
states that Mr. Rountree was killed by a
ccmplo of negro politicians. Ho was per
haps justifiable in this, as an Athons paper,
the Banner- Watchman, made tho same
statement, or rathor stated they were great
“independent politicians.” This is untrue.
The boy who did the killing was only nine
teen years of age, and had never voted.
His coadjutor came into the county and tho
district einoe the last election. How indq-
fonsible, therefore, is it to ascribe this
crime to indepondentism in the ninth dis
trict ? With the same propriety the rather
frequent homicides iu Maoon for several
years past maybe charged to the organized
politics of that district, and if Mr. Lamar
can find in his spleen to me and my family
the justification of his slanders, what ex
cuse has he to assail the high-minded and
orderly people whom I represent ?
My “career,” in the opinion of Mr. La
mar, “is anything but admirable.” I oon-
fses thnt I oftsn think, in looking back
ward, that I might have done better, and I
do not boost of my career. Such as it is,
however, it is infinitely bettor and higher
than that of Albert H. Lamar. I havo
never been discharged by my own p irty
from public office for incompetency, nor
have I used the powers entrusted to mo to
glut a detestable malice toward a man who
had never injured me. The britliaut cor
respondent, Mr. George Alfred Townsend!
declares that Mr. Lamar said in a recent
interview, that he, with deliberate purpose,
mixed tho liquors whicii palsied tbe brain
aud tongue of Herschel V. Johnson, when
in the convention ho was pleading for the
nuion against secession, and thus the pow
erful aavocato of peace aud union was
stricken down at the crisis of onr
couutiy’s fate by the man who now
traduces me and the people among
whom I live, l’n.tok God my career does
not seem admirable to Mr. Albert R. La
mar. Let him not charge me with blood-
guiltiness when I am innocent, while the
furtive hand with which he held the stu
pefying cup to tho lips of Herschel V.
Johnson is stained with the torrents of
blood in that terriblo wnr which tho latter
was seeking to avert
“Give rein,” says Mr. Lamai, “to tho un
bridled ambition and passions of Mr.
Speer nnd hi3 followers, and the classic
walls of the university, within which now
lies the bloody corpse of the first oflits chil
dren murdered by negro, polititiora,
will be spattered with tho blood of others
in an effort to save them from tho hands
of a mob of Afriotns, raised to murderers
by the eloquence of Mr. Speer, in the re
cital of his and their wrongs.”
This is indeed “fine writ-ng.” It is mag.
nificenh I am inclin'd to think that be
fore penning this final and supreme para
graph of his defamatory article, Mr. La
mar must have borrowed information from
some sonree—from what source those who
know him cau judge. I quote it to show the
vindictive recklessnoss of the man. No one
can be imposed upon by it. I am a grad
uate of tho University of Goorgin, nnd I
love my Alma Ms ter. I am one of tha
trustees. My father, beloved and re
spected by all who knew him, an honored
minister of Christ, is ono o'
its professor®. The dead young
man was my club-mate, bound to mo
by saored tie*. Bnt a few days before his
lamentable death tho students of the uni-
versit?*, I am informed by the papers, had
seloctedmeto preside at their champion
debate at commencement. Can it be true
that any man in a lucid interval, witb the
facts before him, can believe me capable
of tho atrocious crimes imputed to me by
this malignant enemy? I lovo my State
and my home, aud I am true to my lin
eage, my kindred, my friends, and he who
asserts otherwise shall, if it be tho last act
of my life, have the falsehood flattened in
his teeth. Esiorx Steer
IX THE COVXTRY.
Am Interesting Letter From Bake
Ctmty.
Special Correspondence Telegraph an l Mes
senger.
In compliance with a promise of long
standing to my friend, Col. Reuben Jones,
I left Macon on Saturday last for a visit to
his home in; Baker oounty. A few
hours ride on the Southwestern railroad
brought me to Albany, Ga., where I was
met by Rev. A. M. Williams, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal chnrch at that place,
and after dinner at the parsonage, Co!.
Jones took charge of me and we left for
Baker. Tho Colonel drove a beautiful
span of bays, and wo bad a delightful
drive. On onr way out we stopped at tho
artesian well nnd sampled the water. U is
good, and slightly mineral. It is being
analyzed, and the analysis will soon be
liven to the public. It is a success aoy-
iow. and guarantees a bountiful suppl® of
good, healthy, sweet-tasted water. The
stream, which gives 30 gallons per minute,
comes out like a bold, vigorous mountain
spring. It is over 600 feet deep. Albany has
need to bo proud of the artesian well, and
we believd she is.
The road from Albany to Col. Jones’is
through the best portion of Dougherty and
Baker counties and runs through a succes
sion of large and well-managed planta
tions. The recent cyclone crosse 1 the
road about seven miles from Albany, utter
ly demolishing houses, fences, trees and
everything in tta way.
Two honrs and a half behind the spank
ing bsys brought us to the oomfortable and
most popular home of Col. Reuben Jouee,
one of tho most usefnl and successful men
iu southweetern Georgia. Ho is one of
the planters that raises his own provisions,
His corn crib is never empty, and he has
cotton, too, unsold. If etery farmer and
planter in tho South had pursued suoh a
jolicy, this sunny laud would to-day be far
lappter and oar own entire losses by the
war would have been made np. Order
art of this plantation—to
another car coupler.
THE DOUBLE MURDER.
By m Mysterious Stranger—m* Sec
ond to Conceal tbe First.
Jtichard IT. Clark, is Snnng South.
Every lawyer of many years’ practioe,
and every circuit judge who has served as
much 03 a full term, can recall some one
or more cases, either cinl or criminal,
whioh were of more than ordinary interest,
because of their dramatic or romantic in
cidents. Of such, sumo are tragic, while
others are comic. I have heard Mr. Ste
phens say he would like the opportunity to
write a book, to be entitled, “My Cases,”
that he might thus perpetuate tho many
interesting conrt trials, in which he had
been counsel, during his long professional
experience.
When the writer of this was jndgo of the
southwestern circuit of the State of Geor
gia, in which was embraced nearly all the
counties roi: making the Alban? circuit, he
had bis lnrgest experience with murder cases
iu the county of Mi chetl. Among the trials
in that county at which he presided, was
one where the prisoner—a farmer—shot
another farmer, a prominent citizen of
the connty, in tho broad day of light at his
own door, with a double-barrel gun. An
other, in which a highly respected citizen
had snot in oold blood a young physician
for a suspected interference with nis do
mestic rights. Another, iu which a son
had killed his father in a fight that«he o'd
man of sixty five bad been premoditatodly
provoked into, by a conspiracy of tho son
with his sister, who aided and abetted, to
prevent his contemplated marriage. In
the cases first and last mentioned, tho pris
oners were found not guilty, and in tho
second, there was a mis-trial. But it is
not about either of these cases I propose to
write, but yet of another of darker hue iu
which two murders ha t been committed at
different times, tho second as a means of
concealing the first.
There resided at the then small village
of Camilla, the county site of Mitchell
county, Ga., not very long ago—but yet so
long, tent since, children have been born
and married, aud have had children born
unto them—an otderly widow nam«d
Woolley. Her humble abode was in the
northern edge of the village. But humble
as it was, it was he. own, and there she
lived in all the comfort she deured, sur
rounded by her cows, her pigs and her
poultry.
Another citizen cf Camilla wns tho “vil
lage blaoksmitb,” an honest and _ hardy
son of tho Emerald Isle, named Timothy
O’Bryan. Timothy, somehow and some
where, had tho misfortuno to loso ono of
his legs, for whioh he bad substituted a
reigns on every part or this plantation—to
trouble about labor—plenty of it—and tho
best. Good fat mules and norsee. Plenty of
good milch cows, nnd milk and bntter
without stint. All the early vegetables in
great profusion. Indeed everything in tho
louse, as well as out of it, denotes good
maungement. Mrs. Jones, though an in
valid, is a splendid housewife, and neat
ness and order ara seen everywhere.
Sunday morning, at an early hour, wo
left for Newton, five and a half miles away,
where Qol. Jones and his neighbors have
about the best- Sunday-school in Georgia.
Though not large, yet it is well managed,
and is doing great good. Col. Jones is su
perintendent, end has been for about fit- rull6 * 0 " oden onC| , n dthus the “even tenor
teen yosrs, rarely ovor missing a Sabbath. I , u- ~always roughened by tho
Ho also teaches a very law B bto cUre, M2?«odton leg/
and at tho cloao of tho school OltSohi*M tho I Thero had between Timothy
little on-s. When there is no P™^r an lT h r 0 0 ^ d d 0 ^Xing no doffbtarom their
present uo sometimes addresses th° J mo tual sympathy in their loneliness, nn
gregation on the lesson ofth9dsy or some of a platonio or friendly na-
?K h ? r »,» Q ji e ?ir .r h?s P tnre * At Iettsf * from the kind fo - linE 1 ^
that he is ia dangor of mixing his doo- vi u RB0r3 jj ad f or both, it was seen only in
trines, as he frequently holds meeting, in I y,nt light, except with some "ovJ disposed
v : w* C :'nn’« f0r perron^’ would vonture an insinuation, for
Methodists, Baptists ana Presbyterians. _ j j, e wa3 anra pj bo reproved in such
whom I did not have some pity—however [
criminal he may hare been. When the j
law get suoh creatures down, they stand
helpless in the presence of its vengeance.
Taylor was executed ns soon as it could !
legally lie dono ou the spot where he buried
his victim, poor Mrs. Woolley. On tho
scaffold be denied that murder, bnt in n
general way confessed to many others Ke,
however, gave uo account of himself, or
clue to the ascertainment, nnd to this day
it is not known where he came from, what
had boon his business, or any other of his
antecedents. It is not known that his
name was Taylor. Tbe supposition is,
that he was pome man steeped in crimes,
who was hiding from justice—porhnps nn
escaped oonviutDAnd it is these facta
which gives to his horrid crimes the tinge
of romance.
Wo havo opeuo.i iu ihe front p.:*i of*
whole <?.le store a
Retail Department,
complete in every respect. V\ . .-s'j
none but
Gentlemen "Who Und erst p.nd ih?
Drug Business,
COOK AXO CUISP
..homo of one was ... ....
this stream at tha mill now owned I *xj,oy interfered with no one, did all tho
by Crunch & Co. It ia a splendid good they could, and nobody disturbed
water power, enough to turn all the facto- I them, ' — “* :
ries at Lowell, yet there is nothing on it I peace
but an old-fashioned grist and saw mill, j hours _. „
They were sawing lumber to be rafted I y. 9 plows of the planters, or welding their
down to Flint river, and tlienoe down to j broken axles, the widow would be working
Apalaobicola, where it is shipped in vea- I , n ber garden, or attending to her various
eels to all parte of tho world, ne diued I domestic matters. It wns suspected by
with Mr. J. H. Boddifeia, a plain farmer, I g^e that she, by a life of thrift and econ-
but one who lives at home. He has plenty I oajy bad somewhere secreted in her houso
of corn aud meat of his own raising, and a I the traditional stocking filled with coin,
beantitul home. I Such was the condition of these two hum-
Retuming we stopped, by appointment, I bio citizens when Satan entered their rus-
and spent tho night with Thomas w. Flem- I y 0 paradise, and entered it not to tempt,
ing, Esq., a gentleman well known as a | bnt to destroy.
prominent member of tbo ^Presbyterian | Suddenly, without nows of his coming,
• arnlnnofirtn flf'jir Vita rtATTlint?. thflffl 1111.
this rime the Invention of n Macon
Man.
Of late years tho attention of inventors
has been directed to the perfection of a car
coupler because of tbo great dangor to life
and limb consequent npon tho operation
of those now la uao. Upwards of two
hundred kinds have been patented and
onco thought to be the safest and host. As
accidents from ooupling cars happen daily
it is but fair to prc3ama that so far each
inventor has over estimated the safety of
his contrivanoe. ... ....
But a Macon mechanic has, wo think,
hit upon tho right idea, and while the prin
ciple is not original, it is evident that it is
forty per cent, cheaper Fran any cthe-, and
yet combines the very best life and limb
saving advantages of all tho others.
The idea of thiB now invention, is tho
regular drawhead, with a spiral spring
whioh works aping or trigger, and this al
lows tho link to be set to any anglo and tho
cars to bo coupled automatically. This
spring fits in any bumper, and can be
made nt a cist of about soveuty.fivo cents.
We have received a nest model ot this
coupler from tho inventor, Air. Jessie Jor-
dnn, a machinist at the Macon and Bruns
wick railroad shops, and it is eimplo and
effective in its operation. It is destined to
euperseds ail others on account of *its
cheapness, and being easily adapted to the
standard drwh eads now in use on nearly
all the railroads in the United States.
The inventors oontempla'a putting it on
two hundred and fifty of them on all the
new Gill ca-s at this end of tho East Ten
nessee, Virginia nnd Georgia railroad at
their own oxpense, if they can get tho con-
sont of the authorities, as soon as the pat
ent is perfected
Mr. E. H. Gillon, nn exporionced engi
noer, is associated with Mr. Jordan in the
patent- The ooupling has indorsement of
all who havo seen it work.
As a Macon invention wo aro proud of it,
and hopo to seo it used on ail the rail-
roads.
As all the tickets tor the 43rd popular
monthly drawing of the Commonwealth
Distribution Company, which takes place
iu Louisville, Ky., April 29tb, will proba-
bly be sold, purchasers had better secure
their tickets at once. Address R M.
Boardman, Louisville, Ky.
church, and a member of tbe Quor- I or explanation after his coming, there np-
gia Agricultural Society. He ropro- I poared among tho honest and happy vil.
sented Baker daring tho war, having lived I lagers, a-man who called himself Jehn J
formerly near old Midway church, | faylor. He was a large, rough man, with
in Liberty connty. Ho has a beautiful I oat an attractive quality of any sort that
home, and a tovoly household. Wo rarely I con i d bo seen. But nevertheless, from tho
ovor spent a more plosBant evening. Mr. I foundation of tho world evil spirits have
Fleming has a great quantity of thegonn- exercised a controlling influence over good
ine I* Conto or sand pea®, whioh hs 1 and tho evil spirit of Taylor charmed
brought from Liberty oounty. He has some I the good one of O’Bryan, and won his
very largo trees which »bear great qnantt- I friendship and confidence. As a conso-
tios of tno elegant fruit. Ho hns young I nnenoe, he was given sh“Itor and food at
trees to soil and persons interested can ad- I *h 0 home of tho widow, and there for a
dress him at Newton, Georgia. Wo shall I „hort period tho throo lived in apparent
not soon forget tho cordial welcome wo harmony.
met in this family of strangers. Wo talk- Tho month of October or November,
ed till a late hour, and it was a question I cam0 j n the round of time, and found
which git the best of it, for tho neighbors I this to bo the situation, but a separation
said it was rare to get three greater talkers I goon took place by the departure of O’Bry-
together than Colocel Jones, Mr. Fleming 1 an,on a mullet fishing expedition,ns was his
and the writer. I yearly habit, to tho Gulf ooa*t of Florida,
Tuesday morning wo turned our fnoes I w hioh preceded tho deeply tragic events 1
homoward; got back to Col. Jones’ to dm- nm to relate. O’Bryan and the widow by
nor, after which, ho sent a boy with me to I thus time h«d every confidence in the
Albany, where I arrived safely, oxpeotmg 1 stranger, and O’Bryan left him in charge
to toko a night train for Macon, but found 0 f his business until his return at the end
ithadboen taken off for the summer, so 0 f the month. Not long after O’Bryan’
we contentedly and pleasantly spent a day departure, the neighbors missed Mrs.
and night in Albany, which was not hard I Woolley. Thiscontinned fiomday to day,
to do In tbo family of Parson Williams I until a cariosity, filled with apprehension,
we found good cheer. Met many friends j sought an explaration from Taylor. He
on the street, among them our former fel-1 nt Mrs. W’s request he had taken
low citizen Benj. 'i. Hunter, who has a fine I her to the village of Newton, ten
echool in Albany. miles distaut, where she had taken
But, Mr. Editor, lam at home nowand I the etago for her former home iu
must close. J. W. B. I South Carolina, and had loft him to sell
. I her effects, and forward proceeds. Taylor
Now Publication*. I WR g selling all tho property he could find
How Bob and I Kept House. Bessie Al- | purchasers for. At this juncture O’Bryan
bort. A pleasant little story of early mar- I 70s written of tho startling change in nf-
• if* c * in* Q 1 fairs since lus departure. Ho came back
ried hfe. Satchel senes. Price, 10 ceits. I ^ j lis t a? he could, and Tailor mado him
W. B. Smith & Co., 27 Bond street, New the same exp'ana’ion. ■ O’Bryan satisfied
York I himself that this was false, and then Tay-
... J lor tolJ him other stories, bnt finnlly said
Hofffnstein. A collection of hnmorous J ha had taken ber to a certain house in the
sketches, from tho pen of Joe Aby, of the 1 upper portion of Leo connty, Georgia, jnd
New Orleans Timc3-Dcmocrat. A satchel Hamtodhe ehffi^’whh tomato Leo
pamphlet, but a trunk-full of fun. Fnce, find Mrs. Woolley, and they
10 cents. W. B. Smith & Co. I started on the journey. Alba y, in Dough-
. vr „ t n.,i I erty county, was on the route and the two
Agatha. By Mrs. Augusta L. Ord. An-1 pa3S0 d through that town on thoir way to
other good novelette from tho Satchel I Xjoo. On the next day in the afternoon
Series. Price, 15 cents. W. B. Smith & I they camo again to Albany on their return,
P „ Vnrb and whiio there, O’Bryan having, ns somo
Lo., New xors. 1 h ro ther Irishman termed it, “the failing
Chemistry of Coo kino and Cleaning.— j g0 common to his countrymen,*' went with
By Ellen H. Richards. A useful codo of I Taylor to a bar-room to drink. While
instructions to housekeepers, and a very there, u’Bryan got & 0
necessary one for those who are ignorant ap p earftn(J0 0 f Mrs. Woolley, and
of the first prinoipleB of chemistry. Estes I kept up a semi-quarrel with Taylor. Fin
ds Lanriat, Boston. ally* the time camo when they most leave
t-u....- a fln«i4Art* I for Camilla. On crossing the bridge over
Agricultural Review.—A quarterly pjj nt r j rrj lll0 road to Camilla in a very
publication, containing tho journal of the I short distance turns directly to tho right,
American Agricultural Association, pub- I while the road to Isabella, in Worth coan-
lishod underthenarnegiven at 2CUniver- toTriLumstan^of
siiy place, New York. Tha volume before their loavin g Albany had ceased to be talk-
us is full of interesting matter and valua-1 ed of, a citizen coming to Albany by tho
bio suggestions. Price, $3.00 per year. Isabella road, discovered about six mites
t .... I., * * a t , i* mn in- fr*i._ nra -0 1 from tho former, a ilock ot buzzards
Litteli, s Living Age. The numbers of p^j^a on a j og a f ew hundred yards from
tho Living Age tor March 31st and April | (be road, and on going there foand a body,
8th contain Sir Charles Lyoll, Quarterly; I which proved to be that of O’Bryan. It
Mo.,.,,, ..a U» .f m F». to JESgja ££* 23
the Moon and the Earth, Contemporary; I Taylor drove down to Camilla, nnd there
Miss Ferrior’s Novels, and tho Yellowstone I explained the absence of O’Bryan by an-
Geysers, Nineteenth Century; How Gilbert other Ue. Tho finding ot OViamA^i body
_ ' , „ , ... . lecl to Ins immediate arrest, and imprison-
Sherrard fared in the Flood, nnd tho pco- mcat> T ho people of Camilla were then
try of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Fraser; De- J satisfied ho had murdered Mrs. Woolley,
wood; Juno Austin, Temple Bar, March lj a tbink 0 f, but without avail. At last, on
in the Country, Saturday Review; On tho ] a g a bba!h afternoon while a few citizens
While Fishery of the Basque Provinces of | ware taking a walk through a smdl field on
itotor.; 1FJ
mous Quukor School, All the Year Round, 1 gonj a sro aii area of ground witnout stub-
with installments of “Tho Freres” and bio and that had tho appearance of having
“Robin,"and tho usuil amount of poetry, been
The Tradesman, published on tho 1st I 3lft i OOSO) w ent a little farther, and in
and 15th of each month, at Chattanooga, I gotn o two feet of tho top, found the head
Teun., is for salo everywhere in the South I of a corpse, which proved to be that of
» m-wta»*-«i«>i- !ff I £2!SS"Sto,“'g&rTB
col novelties aro a featnre in this progress- 1 g e [ d wa3 j n a directly opposite direction
ivo journal. I from Mrs. Woolley’s house, wiili the village
“Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins,” with her trials intetvoning, and a adtojftWWM ™»
_ „*,„ supposition was that ho bad murdered
with them in tho morning, noon, after- I night had carried her body
noon and evening of ono day, by John I ar ound the village, a distance of a mile and
Habberton, author of “Helon’s Babies,” a half. As Mrs. Wooley’s body had not
, . , i>B#iA s . _ I been found, aud as there was no positive
has already passed to a aecona edition. I e ^ QnC Q n^ainet him, and as neither had
The New York Sun, in an editorial notice I an y relations in the county, ho argaod t at
of it, says s is a most interesting, | if ho would kill O’Bryan and success-
wholesome and in,tractive pteturo ot cer- fully hide hte^body.^he would ^havo
tain rha303 of married life. We commend j eacaie detection. Besides, knowing
t to tho thoughtful attention of all young 1 bo hid murdered Mrs. Woolle?’, if he took
husbands. No hotter book has ^>eon put- I O’Bryan back, he would persist in the in-
, . ... ,vr,. iinvhnm’M I vestigation as* to her whereabouts, until
listed this year than Mrs. M ®y bn ™ 8 her body might be found, and the murder
Twins,' by John Habberton. All wives thus discovered. The murder of O’Bryan
should own it, and all husbands should was in tho county of Dougherty, but tho
profit by it.” For salo by J. W. Burke & I Superior Court of Mitchell coming on first,
Co., Macon.
Of the Third CongreMiional District.
r Amebicus, Ga., April 15,1882.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger .*—Wo
incloso an article clipped from tho Ameri
cas Republican of this date, aud respect
fully ask yon to publish it. And in connec
tion with this request, pleaso allow us to
say that we have read the remarks of the
editor of tho Republican, in which ho sb-
serts that yon have no right to express any
opinion upon matters connoeted with the
Congressional race in this district. This
seems to ns a very untenable position. A
Congro sman is not a local officer, whose
official acta only affe.t tho people of iso
lated localities. His acts are national, and
therefore affect all the people of the na
tion.
This being true, it follows as a sequence
that whenever a gentleman aspires tithe
position of Congressman, he comes a
natiogV figure aud is liiblo to rsceivo na-
tionaWiten’.ion. Rut the c we of Hi 1 Tkli:-
gHaiti and Me3sengui is even a stouger
one. It will hardly be gainsaid that an
editor’s duty is to concern himself in ail
matters intimately connected with tho
welfare of the rea iers of his paper, and wo
feel enre that there is not a county in th9
third Congressional district where the
Teleorafu and Messenger has no readers.
We have no figures at hand, bnt do not fear
successful contradict ion when wo assert
that your paper has a larger circulation in
the district than any journal published in
either of tho fifteen comities composing it.
So much a3 lo jour opinion of your rights
and duties in the matter mentioned t\ e
taink the inclosed arlic’e discusses ques
tions which concern tho welfare, _ and
enonld engage the attention of every intel
ligent voter in tho district, henco wo ask
for it a plica in your columns.
Respectfully, H.
•*Jfr. Editor:—Wo are in yoircolumrs
from time to time, communications, clip
pings and comments concerning "too con
test between Cook and Crisp for the Con
gressional nomination ia this district. Wo
have a few ideas on tho same subject we
wish to ventilate, and respoutfull?" ask
ppa'-o in your columns to disseminate
thorn. We*liink wo uttor truth whon wo
say that there is a large number of voters
in tho district, warm friends of both tho can
didates, who deeply regret to see them
contestants in this race. Many of them
will doubtless warmly advocate tho ro-
nomination of Gen. Cook, not on account
of any personal objection to Jndgo Crisp,
but as a measure of publio good nnd party
policy. Gen. C'iok nos been neiriy tea
years in Congrora. He has be on tho only
representative from tho third Congres
sional district as at present organ*zed, and
if Ka ®!j.xri'. d he returned this fall h«- would
also bo tho last, as tha State will bo rodis-
trioted before another election. Thu
crowning tribute to a faithful public serv
ant wo think is due Gen. Cook, and should
bo aw arded him. . .
“It is a source of prido to tho friends of
General C »ok that, during his long service
in Conzress, ho has never cast a vote or sd
voca'cd a measure which refloated upon hu
honor, called in questiou bis fealty^ to his
party, or required explana'ion to his 9on-
stituenta. And tho fact that ho fa a poor
man to day furnishes proof (if an?" were
needed other than his well earned title of
“Hcnost Phil”) that ho has not been con
nected with any of tho disgracelnl jobs,
which bespatter tho records of Congress
and Congressmen. Being fully convinced
that hs can nnd will serve us faithfully as
any man in tho district, wo urge the fur
ther reason for his reuomination that wo
belivo him th9 strongest candidate that can
bo placed before tho people this fall by tho
organized Democracy.
“Cho fact that the counties on tho east
side of the river have always Bent delega
tions in his favor, even when an “eist-ndo
man” was in the field, shows his strength
in that pa*t of the district.
“Why do wo want the strongest man nom
inated is a very pertinent question. Any
one who has watched closely tho politics!
signs of tho times, present and recently
past, must know that the nominee ot the
Democratic parly for Concree3 this full
will bo confronted by nn Independent can
didate, backed by the concentrated influ
ence of the national administration.
“We repeat that General Phil Cook offers
our best chance to win. U« is thoroughly
converant with all the political machinery
of the district and can better concentrate
tho forces of the party than Judge Crisp.
Is U desirable to wi-. ?
aud as wo buy ccaobut th*
Purest and Best Drugs
to be found, we are sure that yor. -.ml fee
pleased with us. We soil five oonW jrfcti
as cheerfulty as we would £vt-&3are
worth, as ws aro not disposed to iaii i on
any one buying trjjre than t'log netfi b--'
wo do wont to soil yon ALL YOG NEED,
no matter bow much.
Come to see us opposite the AUOTHJH
HOUSE and DOLLAR STORE, cat ml
for Dr. Goodwynor Dr. Daniel, who laic
charge of oar Retail Department. Bn-
epectfully,
Lamar Rpnkln & Lacnar.
rjEOItaiA. I'lBS COUNTY.—Where** r. 8
VTnnuI. H. Johnson, executors <>! tk eaaaa
of F. 8. Johnson, 8r.,havo ruide applies ."Joa tor
letters of dUmisdun from sold estate.
This is therefore to cite and admonish *9 per-
*qns concerned to bo and appear at tkti
ofoijUnaiyof mid county on the Bnt)
day In June next, to show cause, Uiar .
can, why sold application should not be ft-
60. »
Witness mjr hand and official slgnahm. m%j
March 4.1S& J. A. Mc.V ANUS,
ma53mos° Oral no.
GEORGIA, CRAWFORD COUNTY.—J. W. kx
administrator of estate of W. K. Tbaas-sun.
deceased, ol told count?’, ha* applied tori Aon
of dismission from raid trust. This is the. . «
to cite all persons concerned to show uu. n
any they have, by the first Monday tr May,
18*2, why said application should notbegru*
ed and letters dismissing granted to toMasoO-
cant.
Witness my hand officially, February UA,
1882,
febStd VIRGIL 8. HOLTON. OrJiamT-
GEORGIA,JONB*OOUNt¥.—I .
R. V. Hanlemm applies to mo for discis
sion from administration, with wifi an
nexed, of estate William Wheatley, datfd :
These are to cite and admonish all pea-
sons conosrnod to show can -o at this «Saa
on or by the first Monday in May next, iff
a*>y the* have, why the same shall not be
granted. Witness my hand officially Jan
uary 17,1882. R. T, KO$?, Ordinary,
jazlflwtd
GEORGIA, JONE3 OOUNTY.-Wiwwoa
Isaac Hardeman, administrator oa aeiz *e
D. Is Pit s, deceased, baa apphtd to cm
for dismission from said admiutatra&Mx
These are to oito and admonish «U per
sons concerned to shorn canso at this office
cn or by ihe first Monday in May next, fit
any they have, why the same shall not bn
granted. Witness my hand officially Jma-
This ary 17,1882. R.T. BOSS, Urdiaav.
WBlSwtd
WTTP. HURT, Donttat
AMEBICUS, GA.
JgLEVEN years residenoe in Amt das.
Continues to offer his services to ths paw-
pi 0 Southwest Georgia. CorrespoadoMt
solicited. uiar23dh*tt
or any new man.
We go further and fay it fa a necessity.
Those who are familiar with certain recent
events in other parts of fho State, well un
derstand onr argument. The eiooess of
the Independent party in Georgia this fall
will monace the financial standing of the
Btato, jeopardize the personal safety of tho
better classes of onr peoplo and rodowp to
tho injury of all tho people. As a citizen
of Macon connly said to ns the other day:
“Wo are far Cook and Crisp; Cook for
Congress and Crisp for judge.”
Old Sumter.
Taylor was there pnt upon his trial lor the
I murder of Mrs. Woolley, and was easily
convicted. • . ..
Thera was E3 incident of his trial worth
Mortuary Report*
Tbo board of health reports four deaths relatin';, except that when asked why fen-
for the week ending the 14th inst., two tonce should not be pronounced upon h.m,
white and two colored, as follows: One ho cliarged the murder upoii a respecUblo
white female, aged forty-five years, inan-1 citizen of the county as tho perpetrate.,
ition; one white female child, aged eleven j aided b^one or two others. Horrified at
months, con ” * *’ ’ ‘
ored female,
of tho bxoi
aged twenty , t
brain, and one stillborn child, colored.
TUE ROUXTIiEE MATTER.
A University Ntuaenl’* View or tho
Tragedy.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
It seems thnt tho unfortunate killing of
Walter Rountree by a negro has been con
strued in some parts of tho State, and es
pecially in Macon, as the outcome ot tho
bitter feolinj existing between the races
here. There is, and has been no trouble
in this city between tho whites and blacks.
There fa. and has been no trouble betwoon
tho students and tho negroes. During a
four years connection with tho University
in the capacity of a student, the writer has
never seen ■ any disturbance between a
member of tha college and a negro, and
has heard of bnt two during that time,—
ono, a trifling matter; the other, tho lato
unfortunate and unforeseen calamity. In
regard to tho latter, Messrs. Editors, os it
has been remarked, it was aa affair likely
to occur in any city in Georgia, and had it
oocnrred cny where else it would
have provoked tho samo outburst of
indignation as this has; but it te a great
mistake to suppose that bad b.oou exists
botweon tho races here on that aceount.
Th? murderers have been lodged to jail;
no attempt on the part of whites to lynoh
them, or on the part of negroes to re
lease them has ever been made. Tho night
of tbe shooting some fifty or more ne
groes ntsem’a’ed in tho jail j'ard, bat they
made no demonstrations of any descrip
tion. Tho town has been qnict and will
remain so; no one oxpects an outbreak,
and if one occurs the authorities are well
prepared to put it down immediately. The
ne"rocs have, possibly, made idle threats,
but no one lias {riven their utterances seri
ous attention. Tho men of Athens are
law-abiding, peaceful citaens, but when
the majesty of tho law fa violated, or at
tempts to disturb the peace of tho city are
mado, (ho citizens will put such attompta
down, quickl?*, promptly and quietly. Not
ono single student lias left tho University
because of this difficulty. Two have boon
sent home, the faculty believing that homo
authority would do much more towards
reforming these two than collego <-;*c:p-
line. What is more, none will leave. The
strfdenta smile when they seo and read tho
ssnsttional stories relative to the late ca
lamity, and all regret the impuJonco of
the authors of these pieces in laying them
before tho public. They do no good, and
thev will eventually, unless they are cor
rected, do tho University of Georgia great
harm. The students are prosecut
ing thoir studies here quietl?; aud profit
ably; everything fa progressing as well
as at cnyitime in tho past; the town ta as
quiet as it ha3 ..been ft r years. Your pa
per has declared th»t it wishes the pros
perity of our venerable institution of ioaru-
in~. Then correct these sensational sto
ries which will result in harm, for the
writer, who is acquainted with tho particu
lars of tho lato difficulty, can nsiure yon
that it was not tho result of any political
movement, or the outcome of any pouti-
cal feeling between the races, but was sim
ply an unfortunate occurrence which
took place between nn insolent negro nnd
an impulsive student. A Student.
Particular Notice.
All U10 Drawings will herouftar toe
under the exclusita supervision and otza
trol of Generals G. X. BEAUREGARD
and JUBAL A. EARLY.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WTR
A FORTUNE-. FIFTH GRAND DIS
TRIBUTION, CLASS E. AT NEW OM-
LEANS. TUESDAY, MAY 9m, I8S2,1
MONTHLY DRAWING.
Louisiana State Lottery
Incorporated in 1868 for 23 yeorekyC
Legislature for Educational n n’ Him Aa
bio pm poses—with n capital of $' “
—to which a r***ive fond of over
ba» since boon added.
By an overwhelming popnler vote
franchise wis mode a part of the pi
State Constitution adopted DeceutL
A. D., 1879.
ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER
bigs will take place monthly.
It never scales or postpone.-,
tho following Distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE $30,0001
100.000 TICKETS AT TWO DOLLUSS
EACH, HALF TICKETS, ONE DOL
LAR.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 Capital Prize
1-Capital Prise KL"2B
1 Capital Prize &HB
2 Prizes of $2,500
S Prizes of
20 Prizes of
100 Filzes of
200 Prisas of
500 Prize* of
1000 Prizes of
hjm
1,009.
ioo!’.!!."”..”!.*I wjrao
60 15JSB
20 ffijsS
10..... UtEtO
APPROXIMATION P.tlZES.
9 Approximation Prize/, of
9 Approximation Prizes of $200. tffD
9 Approximation Pr\zee of $109. < J3
1,857 Prizes, amounting to $U3ja9
Responsible corresponding agents vnrfir
od at all points, to whom liberal
eation wUl be paid.
- For further information, write etexrfy,
giving full address. - Send order* hp-ee
press or Registered letter or ttamhrhrsx
by mail, addressed only to *
M. A. DAUPHIN
Now Orleans, la
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
127 La Salle Streot, Chicago,IX,
cr M. A. DAUPHIN,
607 Seventh St, Washington. H-tL
The New York office fa removed to Chicago
N. B.—Orders addressed to Now Oriocsr
will receive prompt attention. ;
The particular attention of the pwriia
called to the fact thnt tho entire r.-nnfas
of tbe Tickets for each Monthly Ltawin®
fa sold, and consequently all tbe r-rizrain
each drawiny are gold and drawn andprfW.
Reliable nutt lual«iten*able.
Atlanta, Ga., August 13, 1881.—Dear
Sir: I have been using Sanodine in iny
gtab’.o for some time, and find it dors all
you claim for it. It is a reliab’e and iii-iis-
pensabta remedy about horses Yours
truly, J * *• R™d.
Lamar, Rankin & Lamar, Wholesale.
HOUSES’ LXNIMEST,
OR, TUB
MOTHER’S * FRIEND*
One of tlic greatest comforts to those expect
ing to be confined is a remedy upon whicii im-
pltdt confident can be placed—one Uot via
produce a safe and quick delivery—one
will control Lain and shorten the duiatSva si
lahor. Such is “The MotuerM Reuxf.** ta®
Hand see what
A blt ssingr it is to Su Serin 2 j: eirutiw,
This Lini&unt when ured two or three . trios
before confinement produces n won.icrit)
feet, causing a very easy and quick htkar. wife
comparatively little pom, nnd leaves the
er in a condition to recover quickly—or to oSfe
cr words to have n good getting up. CrAss Hs
use, labor will ordinarily occupy moth tea
than the usual time, and the sui'.-nncbcdtoSta
^TheconditionForwhlch thUgemedytoffi$T
fcredlsofsucha character os nr forbid a iaqg
array of certificates. Those intern-led ia Ht
use are respectfully referred to tl he sired*
who have us-.-d It.
READ TUB TESTIMONIALS:
„ I must earnestly entreat every female mjitiS
Tbe log to be confined to use “The MuruEas ttn
lief.” Coupled with the *ntreaty, I«.”
that during a large obstetrical practico
four veais), I have never known U to tad sr>
produce a safe and quick delivery.
1 H. J. HOLMES, M. Atlanta, Om.
A lady from one of the countlaa trf a.*b*e
Georgia, who has been actingae nridsCete
many years, writes: “I have dlsx.<s»:i *Cad
Tue Motukb’s Relief you sent me, sm-i i osj
PEUGUTED WITH it. Iu every i!.stance n tang
has been used its effects have been c3.
could ask. I coxsipek it a great bldissk.*-"
A gentleman writes: “My wl& used , ml
Mother’s Keliet at her fourth
and her testimony to that she p**aed*.hnj;.ta> C.
with one-half of the suffering of either J-.usr
former confinements, aud recover, ’. fr---.:
much less time. She also recommend?! :
lady friend who wns about to be «rf.wl iar
the' first time, nnd she says: ‘I have ,i*
SEEN ANYOXX FA*TH*QEUKT :■ ! ASTSOU.
WITH SO MVCH EASE AND toUKiXim
The name-, of all these, and many olhaa, -j®
he ha,l by calling nt my o21oe.
Having had the foreg- nr: rc-’.y Ta xmosw-
ly Tested in Atlanta and vicinity l non -eflto
it to my patroniasjxKRcv-i:> .’.'.\ri«r .meata,
I nm permitted alM> to refer : ' 11...■ -chairs
well-known citizens of Atla::!;.: c S. y. resin.
William >i. Crumley, Jr., tv. A. t.rcggasda.
Bain: all cf whom crc ready iu teuij tofibe
merits »f the preparetion.
I Price, 81M per bottle.
1 l*rcpared by J. BR.tDrll-.Lr>. be'..- Prop'it
For sale everywhere by
ry merchants.
nta. On.
Druggists and OWE
laarfinedfav
