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MACON, FRIDAY. APRIL 28, 1882. •'
VOLUME LVX-NO 15
. A XEGRO I.OVE-SOXG.
Track in de pair wliar rabbit bln play'n',
(Hey, my Lily! go down <lc road!)
Han* roe down my wallcln'-canc,
. (1U roy Lily! go down dc roail 1)
Hey, roy Lily, de cow done lowed,
(Go down aeroad—go down de rood!)
Hit's wet on de gram wbar de dew bln po'd,
(Hi, my Lily! go down de road!)
lane,
road!)
InMi^rain,
(Hi, my Lily! go down dc road'!)
llcy, roy Lily I de chicken done crowed,
(Go down de road—go down de road!)
8un gone down en moon done showed,
(My Lily! myUly! go down de road!)
SOCIETY IN WAR TIME.
what women of PROMI
NENCE DID IX RICHMOND IX
THE FIRST YEAR OF THE
WAR.
Wan' me down my walkln’-eane,
(Hey, roy " — '
uaj mij j nidown de road!)
Big owl holler: Jfo uso stay'n!
(Ill, my Lily! go down de road!
tote de little gal loud,
,Go down de road—go down de rood!)
Kaze too big a turn make nigger leg bowed,
(My Lily 1 my Lily! go down de road!)
Han’ me down my walkln'-cane.
(fio down de road—go down de road!)
En tome fMs ait so'at deg aint never grout J,
4ly! my 1"
(My Lily! my Lily! go down dc road!)
One man los* w'at 'n'er man gain.
(He;
You g
(Hey,
—Jott Chandler Harris ("Uncle Sevens”) in
•'The Centura.’'
TWEXTY-OXE KXIFE WOVXBS.
The Frightful Death Mary Lennon
nt the Ilfinda*of her Husband.
JVVw Fork Sun.
The people who llvo In the tenement
405 East Tenth street, were awakened by
tho shrieks of little Joe Lennon at 1
o’clock yesterday morning. A minute la
ter and the voice of his mother cried
“Murder 1” and repeated the cry again
and again. Mrs. Lennon was a tailoress,
working at Wo. 49 Mott street. Her
Sewing for Soldiers—First Shocks.
of Battle—Confederate Court.
Mist Matoaea Gray in Philadelphia Timet
It was certainty a cause for congratula
tion that from the first to the last tho war
bad its humorous side, and that the
Southern people, even m tho midst of
their greatest trials,were never too crushed
in spirit to appreciate the reflex view of
their mistortnnes. From our very neces
sities the mest absurd dilemmas and exi
gencies arose which would have been an
nihilating mortifications had we not had
the presence of mind to treat them as cap
ital jokes. I religiously believe that this
and this only enabled some of us to en
dure to the end, and in looking back now
to the vicissitudes of the struggle, I grate
fully confess to the fact that 1 never know
ingly neglected a single opportunity for
amusement of which the situation ad
mitted. My initial mortification came
early in the action, and made a deep im
pression on my youthful mind. It was in
the lecture room of St. Paul’s church,
when, without a misgiving as to my pow
ers, I volunteered to sew on trousers. The
sewing machines were all busv; numbers
were sowing by hand, and, following their
example, i, too, kept busy, and filially
presented my trousers to the directress
(as I thought nearly finished) for further
instructions. She looked at them rather
gravely for a second, turned them round
with a furtive smile, and then to my hor
ror held them up to general view. A
about of merriment lollowed. I had
drunken husband, thirty-five years of care f u i|y sewed the front of one leg to the
age, bad gone away last Thursday, loc»-q 0 f t jj e 0 m er * u j go joined the parts
|ng most discordaut unity. But for the di-
ing with the rear flats. To leave the
room by this door Mrs. Lennon had to
clamber over her head. Lennon is a
tailor, and together they once built up a
fine business in East Broadway, employ-
me a score oi people and making money
rapidly, but he took to drink and lost his
business. She left him once in a while.
Once she had him arrested for assault and
battery. Sot long ago he stabbed her in
the hand. For the last five years she had
supported herself.
On Monday afternoon, when she came
back thiough her neighbor’s flat aud
clambered over her bed into her own
rooms, bringing Joe, who bad been at her
sister’s two doors below, she found her
husband, John Lennon, awaiting her,
She prepared a supper for herself and he
ate it. In the eveuing she visited her sis
ter awhile, then went home again and
sewed on a new suit for her little boy.
Her husband, who was entlrelv sober, had
but little to say to her. Wb^he did say
showed that he was ill-humored. At 11
o'clock she put aside her sewing and only
partly undressing, lay down across the
foot or the bed. Her husband went to
bed after taking ofT only bis coat, waist
coat and shoes. He got up several times
during the night,and she lay and watched
him. At 1 o’clock in the morning he
arose and put on bis waistcoat and col
''“You are going out early again,” she
Slid*
“Mind your own business," he re
plied.
“This is too early for work,” she con
tinued.
lie went to the faucet and drew aglass-
ful of water, which he drank.
“If you don’t do better,” she said, “I’ll
tell the landlord and be will put you
out.”
“Is that so P ” he asked.
“Yes,” she replied.
Ho sprang at her from tho further side
the room. He dragged her from the
d to the floor and then across it. He
beld au oicn knife in bis right hand.
“I have*told you that I would cut you
to pieces,” he said, “now I’ll do it.”
Again and again he struck her in tho
breast, the stomach, and the legs. She
gained her feet and ran toward the ball
door, lie struck her down and stabbed
her with his Ireshly-sharpened, long-
bladed jackkuife as fast as he could move
bis arm.
length sho got the door open. She
hall, ran along it and reached
the lurtber end, screaming
’ As she ran, she flung her-
the door, and pounded It with
“Let me in,” she cried. “For
let me in I ”
who slept in the room within
Je heard no sound all night long.
Lennon had paused a minute when she
broke from him, but when he heard her
clamoring at the next door he followed,
caught her hair with one hand and cut her
throat. He cut it in front, then on the
lef. side and then on the back. She fell
iu a heap on the floor, and Policeman
John Colvin, who bad been from doer to
door tracing the cries of murder that he
had beard a block away, leaped up the
stairs, aud seeing Mary Lennon’s body
and the shadow of a man running from it
jumped over it and confrouted him.
“1 meant to kill her,” said the husband
a slight, mild-looklng man ot medium
height, with a pale face, black mous
tache and sparte beard, talking quietly
and acting coolly. “If you want the
knife I cut her with you’ll have to get it
yourself. It’s in this pocket. I cut my
thumb shutting it up, and I can’t get it
out without hurting my thumb.”
A neighbor held a light in tho hallway,
and the woman, lying as though she were
dead, caught sight of the people. “Ob,
thank God,” she cried, “there’s a police
man.” Her sister, Mrs. Patrick O’Leary,
came in, and tho suffering woman knew
her. She told Mrs. O’Leary to look be
tween the mattresses in her room and to
take tho money she would find there aud
that if I die,” she said,
to bury me.”
At Bellevue Hospital the doctors found
that she had been cut In twenty-one
places, and there was scarcely a cut
among them all that would not alone
have caused death. Coroner Brady was
summoned, and she told him what has
beeu narrated above. Dr. G. C. Bull,
who was attending her, had to shako her
and wake her up every now and then to
get her to talk, so rapidly was she sink
ing. “If you’ll come again to-morrow,’
she said to the coroner, “I’ll tell you all
about it; I’ll be better then.” She died at
10:15.
“Well, she got no more than she de
served,” said her husband, adding: “I am
only sorry for the little boy. I’ve noticed
lately how very kind aud good sho bos
been to me. She could not do enough for
Beefsteak and onions and nice
strong lea, and everything nice she could
gel for me. She always spoke so kindly,
too, yet I know that ali the while she was
tryiug to kill me with slow poison.”
Because he referred so often to her ef
forts to poison him, the police think his
defense may be insanity. He was com
mitted without bail.
“The man will not be banged,” said
Coroner Brady. “I have had just as bad
cases, and somehow they don’t hang the
culprits.” ■**
An Arkansas Phenomenon.
Rheumatism, disordered blood, general
debility and many chronfo diseases pro
nounced incurable, are often oared by
Brown’s Iron Bitters. lw
reciress I should doubtless have laced
them down, put ou the buttons by inspir
ation aud sent them oil to camp, when,
alas 1 the poor fellows to whom they fell
must evidently have marched two ways at
once in order to wear them, for as they
hung iu mid air the legs seemed positively
to step out iu opposite directions, aud I
think if the wearer had gone persistently
forward, oae leg of those trousers would
have stayed behind anyhow.
THE VIHsT CALL TO ARMS
The first movement of the military in
Virginia, moraeutous os it then appeared,
was the most absurd fiasco of the war. It
was on a memorable Sabbath, April 21,
’01, that the alarm bell at tho capitol
sounded at midday its first call to arms,
The churches were crowded, the com
munion aboutjto be administered, when
the dead sounus smote upon the ear. In
an instant all was confusiou, congregation
rose eu masse aud fled into the streets,
delicate women shrieked and fainted,
children were knocked down and ruu
over, while oue aud all in breathless ex
citement demanded au explanation. It
was promptly given. “Dispatches had
been received by the Governor of Vir
ginia, Mr. John Lecluer, that the United
Slates war ship l’awuee was moving up
the river to shell the city.” Hundreds of
soldiers—iufautry, of course, we liaa little
else then—were marched down to Dockets
to meet this terrifying vanguard of the
United States navy. Two long bronze
guns were dragged down Main street, one
of which broke down and was abandoned
in front of the post-oflice, aud every man
aud boy iu Kichmond, clergy and all,
armed indiscriminately with pistols, shot
guns, staves, rifles, iu short, every weapon
of defeuse that could be carried from a
pop-gun to au old fiiut-lock musket, fled
afoot to the expectant seat of war.
WHAT THE JJOJi-COMBATAMTS MD,
Lull to themselves the women aud chil
dren next took up their line of march and
flocked by thousands to the brow of
Church Hill, immediately overlooking the
river, in which position they must have
inevitably have received the full benefitof
the bombardment had there been oue.
The diy was iu a tumult aud the wildest
confusion prevailed until twilight, when
t was ascertained that the alarm was
wholly uutounded. The Pawnee did at
some time during her operations iu Vir
ginia waters ascend the James river to a
point some fifty or sixty miles below
that city, and the telegram sent from Nor
folk was said to have referred to the Eliz
abeth river, iu which the l’awuee did
make its appearance. The retreat
the vaiiiant army from the battle-field,
“bloodless os yet,” was very droll, and
those whose patriotic eyes bad actually
descried the dread man-of-war, and had
beeu able through their glasses to delect
bis movements were naturally a little
“touchy.” Neither Burnside, McClellan
nor Grant, with their “grand armies,”
ever occasioned so great a panic iu the
Confederate capital, aud I can but note
here the excitability of inexperience aud
the stolid confidence of ’02, ’03 and ’04,
when the people of Kichmond, refusing to
admit the possibility ol danger, would lie
down at night aud rest without a qualm
while the enemy thundered at our very
doors, ucar enough to be distinctly audi
ble.
THE GALA OATS OF THE WAB.
These were the gala days ol the war,
aud “May, the month of roses,” came
never crowued with richer beauty, or wit
nessed gayer scenes than iu the capital.
The camps of instruction were crowded
with soldiers. The cadets from the Vir
ginia Military Institute rendered good
service as drill masters. The Maryland
boys begau to gather into companies in
Richmond aud to form the Maryland line.
South Carolina sent her braves,Louisiana
her magnificent artillery, superbly
equipped. From the Lone Star State
oame her raugers, and as the different
banners floated in the air at the head of
their spoudid colurns they were cheered
pay it upon her life insurance policy. “So tc the echo. In all of this Mars aud Cu-
that if I die,” she said, “there’ll be money pid clasped bauds, aud mauy a “bud of
love” was lbeu first blown, which, ere it
proved a “beauteous flower,” was twined
In the funeral wreath. In a diary kept
at the time by au official in- the War De
partment I find this entry:
May 10.—The ladies are sewing every
where and are lull of ardor. Love affairs
are plentiful, but the ladies are postpon
ing all engagements uutil their lovers
have fought the Yankees. Their influ
ence is very great; every day they go in
crowds to the fair grounds, where the
First South Carolina Volunteers are* en
camped, showering upon them their
smiles and every delicacy which the city
can afford. They wiun them and dine
them, and they deserve it, for \hey aro
just from the takiug of Sumter, and have
won historic distinction. I was presented
to several very distinguished young ineu,
all of them privates, aud was told by their
captain that many of them were worth
from one hundred thousand to half a mil
lion. These are the men that the Tribune
thought would ail of them would waut to
captains; but that is only one of the hal
lucinations under which the North is now
laboring.
THE ARRIVAL OF MB. DAVIS.
On the 20th of May the government
was removed to Richmond, and a few
days after that there was an immense
popular furore over tho arrival of the
President. The Presidential Mansion, at
the corner of Twelfth, and Clay (now
a public school house;, had not been then
procured, and the President and his faru-
Spottswood Hotel. An immense con
course of people assembled at the depot,
and tbroDged the streets leading to the
hotel. On the way numbers ol bouquets
were thrown or banded into the carriage.
One thrown by a prettly little child fell
just short of its distance. The President
stopped the carriage, got out and picked
it up, amid tremendous shouts and ac
clamations. That night there was a
serenade and Mr. Davis spoke briefly from
the window of tho hotel. He was at that
time a very striking man in appearance,
tall, lithe and graceful, straight as an In
dian, dignified and reposed in manner,
but without hauteur. His address on
this occasion was extremely brief, scarely
more than an acknowledgment for the en
thusiastic welcome and a word of encour
agement, but the President was a beauti
ful speaker, the address was full of spirit,
aud was received with the wildest enthu
siasm. Senator Wigiall, of Texas, Gen.
Henry A. Wise and others addresfed the
crowd, and the evening was tar spent be
fore tho city was quiet.
MRS. DAVIS AND HER BEARINO.
During the speaking Mrs. Davis was
seen near the parlor window, when she
was vociferously and persistently cheered
until she advanced to the window, and
acknowledged the compliment by bowing
to tho immense concourse assembled to
welcome her. No Presidential mansion
in America was ever graced by a more
brilliant woman than Mrs. Davis. She
was of commanding height, with dark
eyes, hair and complexion, aud with
strongly matked and expressive mouth.
It was a tine face, indicative of intellect,
energy and strength of character, yet
beautifully softened by the gentle ex
pression of her dark, earnest eyes. Her
manners were kind, graceful and affable,
her conversational powers brilliant, and
her receptions were characterized by a
dignity very properly belonging to the
drawing-room receptions of* tho Chief
Magistrate of a republic. Her talent and
accomplishments as a member of society
was never displayed to greater advan
tage than on the evening of February 22,
1803, that dark, rainy day on which Mr.
Davis delivered in the Capitol Square the
inaugural address of the permanent gov
ernmental Richmond. It was a dark day
indeed for us all. Roanoke Island had
just been captured, Donelsou had fallen,
and the President was doubtless depressed,
but at the reception beld at the mansiou
that evening his despondency was pain
fully manifest in the uuusual gravity of
his manner, while Mrs. Davis was never
more brilliant or in braver spirits.
TUB FIRST SHOCKS OF RATTLE.
Not yet had we experienced the shock
of contending armies, but we felt that, it
was soon to come and were sonl-sick with
apprehension. On the 10th- of Juno the
first fight occurred at Bethel. The loss in
infantry was one man, a gallant North
Carolinian, Henry L. Wyatt, who was
the first Confederate jail led on a baltlc-
<«eld. Ou the 11th of July, in Western
Virginia, the first Confederate officer of
rank was Gen. Garnett, of Essex, Va.
His body was brought to Richmond en
route to his home, aud our hearts were
hushed into a dread repose as we listened
to the mourufnl music and ths muffied
drum of this first Confederate funeral.
On the 18th and 21st of July we received
our first national baptism in blood on the
fields of Bull Ruu and Manassas. The
excitement in Richmond during the after
noon of that memorable July 21 was not
only intense, but serious. The dispatches
were ot a most conflicting nature, and as
twilight deepened into night the War De
partment was thronged with eager and
anxious inquirers. At length Mr. Benja
min returned from the Spottswood Hotel
and announced that Mrs. Davis had re
ceived a telegram from the President de
claring a victory. The telegram was
promptly given to the press, and for the
inomeut, as was natural, joy ruled the
hour, but the demonstration was quiet;
no bonfires were kindled, no bells rung,
no cannon fired. The only national rec
ognition of the event was the passago of a
resolution by the Provisional Congress,
recommending a thanksgiving service in
the churches on the following Sabbath.
By daybreak on the morning of the
22d the ladies of Richmond, in conjunc
tion with the authorities, were preparing
for the deail and wounded, and there was
work for all. At that time wo had liter
ally no hospital accommodations, but in
stantly every house was thrown open aud
every woman was ready and willing to
nurse. Then and there was begun iu its
magnitude that labor of love in the
Southern hospitals in which it wa3 per
mitted to the women of Richmond to dis
play an earnestness and a self-sacrificing
zeal than which no clime, or cause or
country ever gave a grander exponent or
displayed a more heroic love. The peo
ple ot the North, in the midst of every
comfort and appliance for the sick aud
wounded, and with a rich government be
hind them, cau never approximate to a
knowledge of what this service iu the
Southern hospitals required. If the sick
and wounded in the Northern, hospitals
suffered for want of care there is no ex
cuse for it, but in the South how different
was the picture. All that we could do
from tho very start was wholly inadequate
to the peed, and many is the noble hero
who, stretched on his pallet of straw in
Richmond, has breathed bis life away in
agony tor the lack of human means to
save it. Never can I forget the miseries
of the summer of 1862, after a winter so
mild as to afford no cropof ice. The suf
fering consequent upon this terrible need
can scarcely be depicted. It has its living
witnesses iu the sufferers who survived,
and iu the women and surgeons who be
held it, but it is a picture which no pen
nsr tongue could portray and which has
not more than au ideal counterpart on the
grand cauvass which Gustave Dore has
made immortal with bis frozen sea of the
“Inferno.”
The next popular furore in social circles
was knitting. Everybody had then old-
fashioned needles and was knitting sol
diers’s socks. The autumn was very gay
and the first Christmas of the war was
not without its good cheer. Previous to
the war it was not the custom iu the
South for ladies to hold receptions on
New year’s Day. It was an uudispnted
holiday for the servants, and the period
of any change to be made in the domestic
arrangements for the coming year; but it
bad always beeu customary for the Gov-
ernorof Virginia to hold a reception on
that day, and Governor Letcher enter
tained as usual on the 1st of January,
1802. There was no champagne, thanks
to the blockade, but the giant punch
bowl, redolent of roasted apples, betrayed
the aristocratic toddy, and many of the
participants were for the time being ob
livious of their woes.
THREE DAYS GIRT WITH ICE
TIME HEREOD’&JESCAPE FROM
A XORTH AT LAX TIC FLOE.
WALL STREET’S INVALIDS.
Drifting Into Peril In i
snow Storm—Saved hr • Halk-
bend—Steaming l.lOO Miles with
11 Feet or Water In the Held.
Neto York Sun.
The Danish steamship Hermod, Cap
tain Hein, is at Pier 40, East River, with
her forehold full of water. In the star
board bow is a bole two feet Wide by four
feet long, broken by Ice 1,100 miles from
New York.
Sbe left Havre ou March 30, and on
Saturday afternoon, April 8, run into a
northeast snow storm m latitude 40 de
grees 80 minutes, longitude 40 degrees 60
minutes.
“About 3 o’clock in the day,” said Chief
Officer Lassen, yesterday, “we discovered
on tho starboard side a field of ice, tbe
limits of which to tho northward we
could not discern. But, indeed, we could
only see a little way from the vessel then,
tbe snow was so thick. To keep away
from tho ice, tbe vessel was headed
southward aud we weut cautiously. At
7 o’clock in the evening the snow lightened
up, and we saw that we bad been en
trapped into a seemingly boundless field
of floating ice. We tried our best to
force a way out, but made little or no
progress, and as darkness settled down
upon us, bad to stop our engines aud
wait for daylight. Fortunately, we bad
got into an open space of considerable
size, but wo did not know at what mo
ment a movement of the ice might set in
that would crush the Hermod like an egg
shell.
“There was no apparent change in our
condition at daylight on Easter Sunday,
except that it was not snowing. At noon
we were in latitude 45 degrees 20 minutes,
longitude about 48. Very soon ’.after
noon the wind arose to a gale from the
northeast, and the ice under the Influence
of a heavy swell, got In motion. Much of
the ice was very heavy, but here ana
there were apparently thin places and
narrow open places, practicable for a few
minutes at a tins, and then closing, or
opening out in new directions. Very
slowly wo kept on, poking our way grad
ually toward where we hoped to find a
southern edge to the field. At some time,
we could not tell when, tbe vessel got a
shock or a pinch that started one of her
plates, and at 4 o’clock that afternoon we
found water m the forehold. The leak
gained on the pumps, and by 7 o’clock In
the evening it was up to the ’tween decks.
The vessel settled so much by the head
that her screw began to bo useless, and
fearing that the pressure ol the water
would burst through the main bulkhead,
we set to work lightening her forward by
heaving out cargo. At the same time,
we did everything that was in our power
to brace and; stiffen the bulkhead. We
knew that if that main bulkhead should
give way the vessel would very quickly
sink, and with the faint hope of saving
some lives in that contingency, the small
boats were made ready. All this* w&3
done at night. It was a night oi darkness
and constant terror,but not a man showed
feir or fatigue. There never were braver
or bitter sailors than our Scandinavian
boys.
“By 0 o’clock on the morning of the 10th
wo had heaved overboard about 150 tons
of cargo, mostly beans, yellow ochre, and
something in casks, I don’t kuow what.
We had no time to make any selection.
If we had, those five big cases of sponges
that we have hauled out since our arrival
here would have left us that Monday
morning, I think. Tho gale had in
creased, and we seemed to be surrounded
by icebergs that looked 1,000 feet long
and from 500 to 60C feet high. I don’t
say that they were that high, but I am
willing to swear they looked all of that to
us. Thanks to our work that night the
steamer got her head up somewhat, and
we could use our screw in making au ef-
fortto reach some open water that we
saw in the southwest. Again aud again
we were foiled by ice closing in before us,
and once by our propeller becoming in
some way injured by the ice. At day
light we could, not Irom the mast
head make out any end to the ice
field in any direction. It seemed to sur
round and overtop us hopelessly. On tho
ice we saw hundreds ol seals. When we
got into a little open space of water, we
lowered a couple of boats and spread the
foretrysail over the leak, but it broke
several times and was finally washed
away. Then we got an awning of heavy
canvass spread over it, and that stayed
until it was torn to shreds. Meanwmle
we kept on striving to make our way
southward out ol the ice, and by noon on
the 11th succeeded in doing so. We
were then in latitude 44 degrees,longitude
49 degrees 20 minutes, say about 1,100
miles from New York, with eleven feet of
water iu our forehold and a leak in our
bow that was too much lor onr pumps.
The distance to Halifax was much less,
but the vessel in her crippled condition
rolled too heavily in a cross sea for us to
attempt that voyage. So the captain de
cided tostiffeu ths main bulkhead as much
more as possible and make tor New York
For four days we had severe westerly
gales. Then, fortunalely for us, tho
weather became fine. The large fields of
ice seemed to end in platitude 44 degrees
10 seconds.”
Why Imr SmM sad Omntr Started
•addMly Da Manh mt Health.
Mr. Jay Gould’s ruling passion It not
for legislative investigations, and hie heart
goes out in such earnest sympathy to bis
dear friends Westbrook and Ward that,
unable to look calmly upon their sorrow,
he has suddenly betaken himself to the
far Sontfa, or the far West, there being
two stories on the subject. And with Mr.
Jay Gout4 has flown Mr. Jay Gonld’s
next best friend, Mr. Washington E. Con
nor. Bat Connor, less tender hesrteJ,
perhaps, than Mr. Jay Gould, has satisfied
bis sympathetic nature with a trip to the
tea snore at Atlantic City. The average
Wall street msn has laughed heartily at
the expense of Gould and bis partner
within the past week or so. When Mr.
Gould and his man Morosini, two or three
weeks ago, loaded down the desk in Mr.
Gould’s private office with $53,000,000 of
alleged securities for exhibition, Mr.
Gould was in most vigorous health. Bo
also was Connor. When Yanderbilt was
billed to appear in the market as fellow
unto Gould there was a strength in Gould
and Connor which would have driven an
athlete mad with envy, and as the market
pegged up the scale day alter day Gould
and Connor grew livelier and livelier.
But of a sudden prices went all to smash,
aud the pretty promises which Gould and
his partners had made to their army of
“friends” fell into Incongruous heaps of
worthlessness. Men who had pinned Im
plicit faith in Gould-Yanderbilt points be
gan to swear with a healthy vehemence;
the beats clawed the market to pieces, and
on all sides was heard weeping, walling
and gnashing of teeth. But this was not
all that was beard. The announcement
was promptly forthcoming that Mr. Wash
ington E. Connor had suddenly fallen
side. Just what was the matter with
Washington nobody seemed to know
precisely. One of his office people said
ft was a “cold;” tbe same youth tbe
next day was confident it was
“worse than a cold—something very,
very bad.” Mr. Morosini looked austere,
and, with a sorrowful shake of the head,
said that Mr. Connor bad been overcome
by bard work—work against the wicked
bears, work in the interest of the dear
investing public. So that Connor escaped
the racy interviews which some enter
prising members of the stock exchange
had carefully prepared for rapid utter
ance. But the street failed to fully ap
preciate tbe “racket” until next day. As
the market slipped further down the
scale it was announced that Mr. Gould
also had been stricken and was receiving
no calls except from his physicians. The
brokers realized then that an occasional
sick bed was a mighty good thing for a
Wall street operator. The “physicians”
who were admitted to the Gould
mansion were men who knew more
of Western Union and Pacific, market
“rigging,” and price “washing” than they
knew or pulse or pills or potions, aud
Wallstreet was duly notified that Mr.
Gould was the liveliest sick man in exis
tence; and auti-Gould.folks were threat
ened with all sorts of prospective punish
ment. The tumble in prices, cried the
Gould clacquers, came all through the
sudden and. serious illness of Mr/Gould
and Mr. Connor, sickness having obliged
them for the time to stop short in their
upholding ot the market. But the great
men were almost ready to come forward,
and the entertaining story was whispered
iu office hallways that Mr. Gould had em
phatically declared that before the mid
dle of May prices would go away up be
yond any point which had been touched
In the “pegging” lime of thirty days or so
ORIGIN AXD HISTORY
ago.
lie Sever Told HU Wile Cnlll
Mr. B. L. Holt, who lives near Quitman,
sent to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.,
abont three weeks since in a letter a dollar
biU. lie was advised by mail that his tick
et had drawn $15,000 in the March draw
ing of The Louisiana State Lottery, and
ho drew his money by express. He was
carefol to say nothing aboat it to his wife
nntil he foand oat bo was a lucky man.
This is the sixth time he has invested, and
once before came within four or five num
bers of the capital. Holt’s haul is a good
one.—Marycille, Mo., Democrat, March 23.
As a valuable remedy for indigestion,
consumption, dyspepsia, weakness, fever,
ague, etc., wo can recommend Golden s
Liebig’s Liquid Extract of Bsef and Tonio
A youko New Orleans artist, who has
just entered Julian’s school of painting m
Paris, semis home the following account
of his initiation by the mob of jolly artists:
“Alter a thousand impertinent remarks
about tbe noveau they ali set to singing.
Guo, with mauy salutations and ceremo
nies, placed an easel where I could not
see the model, and invited mo to set to
work; asked my age, whether I was mar
ried, etc., aud retired. Then another
stepped up, bowing, and informed me it
was customary for the noveau to pay for a
punch. I agreed to do so. Then another
stepped up aud begged the honor ot or
dering it lor me, stating that 25 francs
would be sufficient. 1 objected to paying
so much, when he agreed to order one for
15. Meantime a vote was had to decide
whether I should sing, and it was decided
that I should not. Tbe hot punch came,
and everyone was served. One mounted
a stool and led tiie studio song: “A la
sante du noveau.” They made a thun
dering noise aud became very jolly and
sociable with me—all touching glasses
and wishing kind wishes. This was my
initiation to the noisiest, nastiest set of
grown-up boys, middle-aged aud white-
haired boys that I ever met. They are
very good-natured, full of nilrtn and wit,
but of such a nasty sort as only Paris can
create. Their mouths are never shut;
they never say a serious thing or utter a
refined sentiment. They are simply
shockfog. Lately an American girl had
tbe courage and nerve to enter the
school for men. She drew from nude
male and female models,and bore all the
vulgarity and smoke of these Frenchmen,
aud was soon lar ahead ol them with her
brush. An auburn-haired English girl
entered into this crowded room. She
worked hard and appearea to hear noth
ing.”
Blit coincident with these pleasant bull
prohecies, and just as the street was ready
to welcome Gould and Connor back to
No. SO Broadway, there came from Alba,
ny the report that Mr. Gould’s jndical
friends, Westbrook and Ward, were to be
officially investigated, and that the Man
hattan scandal’s true Inwardness given to
the public. The regained strength of the
big bulls suddenly departed once more,
and Mr. Connor was sicker and Mr. Gould
was sicker than they had ever thought of
being in time past. And when it was
made known that the investigation com
mittee was Invested with power “to send
for porsons and papers,” it became evident
to thej Gould-Connor “physicians” that
in the dark, noxious atmosphere of the
metropolis neither of the great men could
ever hope to regain his strength. Where
fore Wall street is now notified that Mr.
Gould has either started toward the sun
ny South or the health-producing West,
and Mr. Connor is to breathe tho bracing
air ot Jersey marshes. How long Mr.
Connor is to remain away, how long Mr.
Gould is to remain away, are matters of
which neither Iriends nor foes of
cither great man know anything. In
the interests of the sufferers it has been
suggested by philanthropic gentlemen in
Wall street that this health-destroying
investigation commltteo hasten to an ad
journment. A St. Louis special says:
Jay Gould, wife and daughter, In compa
ny with A. L. Hopkins, first vice presi
dent of tho Wabash road, andH. F. Clark,
superintendent of the Illinois division of
the same line, arrived at the Southern
hotel to-day, direct from New York.
Their coming was unexpected at the
house, the dispatch notifying the hotel of
their intended visit and requesting apart
ments not being received until a few
hours before their appearand*. The par
ty at once retired to tboir rooms, where
they remained until dinner. That was
followed by Mr. Gould and his family ta
kiug a carriage for a drive to the princi
pal points of Interest, returning between
five and six o’clock. It is the first time
Mrs. and Miss Gould could have been
West, and they were desirous of having a
full view of tho city. In tho evening,
after tea in the ordinary with
Mr. H. S. Hayes, senior vics-
president of tho Gould system, Mr. Hop
kins, and Mr. Clark, Mr. Gould gave an
hour to the reception of several friends
and acquaintances, during which time be
was approached and questioned as to his
route and business. “This is a pleasure
trip only, and you will have to excuse
me,” was his reply. “I left New York to
get away from business and to have a lit
tle pleasure trip over the road to show my
family what ttere is to be seen. I am
not even talking business with any of the
officers of the road. Wo shall probably
leave in tbe morning.”
From Mr. Hayes it was learned that
Mr. Gould bad not given tbe slightest ex
pression as to his route or tho length of
the time he intended to be away. The on
ly thing Mr. Hayes said he had heard was
that the party would continue their Jour
ney to-morrow morning. As Mr. Gould
bad said, ho seemed to do on a pleasure
trip solely, and, so far his conversation
was concerned, had no thought except of
enjoyment.
That Husband of Xlae.
Is three times the man’ he was before he
fly were temporarily provided for at the, rally,
Inviaerator) in pint'bottles. Ask for Col- began using “Wells’ Health Henewor.’’ f 1.
den's, lake no other. Of druggists gen- Druggists. Depot—Lamar, Rankin & lin
den’s, lake no
Beware ot Hnbstltnlw.
The pubiio should bear in mind that im
itations or substitute), ot a standard medi
cine are offered., not toe any benefit to
health, but to sell something that has been
bought cheap; and not daring to criminate
themselves by exact copies, their object is
to get as near to it ns is necessary to de
ceive. The remedy to detect frauds is in
your own hands. Buy no Simmons Liver
Regulator unless encased iu a whito wrap
per having a large red Z in the centre and
the signature of J. H. Zeilin & Co. on the
side.
Of lira Flats of Ike awiiMni
federaey.
Written for the Telegraph and Messenger.
On the fourth of last month, twenty-one
years had elapsed since the first flag of the
Confederacy—the “etars and bars," was
adopted by the Provisional Congress at
Montgomery, and seventeen years the
present month, have passed siuoe the laet
Confederate flag and the battle flag were
folded forever. Since the origin of these
proud historic ensigns .a new generation,
fully grown, has appeared upon the land
where they onoe so triumphantly floated.
At the request ot many young friends the
writer hat promised to publish the history
of these flags.
The Congress of the seven States that
first seceded assets bled in Montgomery,
Ala., on the 4th of February, 1861, and
formed a new constitution under
the name of the Confederate
States of America. After the election
of a President and Vice President and the
performance of many other acts, numer
ous designs of a flag were made .y many
persons—mostly the ladies—from several
of the States and sent to tbe Congress for
adoption. Congress appointed a commit
tee, with the Hon. William Porcher Miles
as chairman, to seleot a design for a flag.
On tbe 4th of March the committee agreed
upou the design, had the flag made, and at
abont hair-past three o’clock p. m. of that
day, when Mr. Lincoln had just concluded
his first inaugural st Washington City, tbe
“stars and bars”—the first flag of tbe Con
federate States—was hoisted over the oipi-
tol of Alabama, where the Congress of the
young Republio was in session, and receiv
ed an artillery salute of seven rounds.
The writer was present on the ococsion.
and he now reproducer a published record
of the events from the Montgomery (Ala.)
Advertiser of March 5,1861:
mo or THE CONFEDERATE STATES.
“The fourth day of March was an event
ful day in the provisional capital of the
Confederate States of America, as well as
in Washington. At half-past three p. m.,
on yesterday, the flag of the Confederate
States of America was flung ont to tbe
bieeze from the staff on tbo capitol. and as
its proud folds gradually uucl raed, it seem
ed to wave defiance to the Northern wind
that came rushing down from the Pc^smao
laden with threats of abolition coercion.
A large concourse of spectators had assem
bled on capitol hill, andthe number wonld
doubtless have been trjpRbd had it been pos
sible to have given earlier announce
ment of the ceremony. Miss L.O. T. Tyler,
one of the fair descendants of the Old Do
minion, and a grand-daughter Ot tho ven
erable ex-President of the United States,
had been selected to perform the principal
jart upon this occasion. When the time
md arived for raising the burner, Miss
Tyler steadily and with heart throbbing
with patriotio emotion, elevated the flag
to the summit of the staff, cannon thun
dered forth a salute, the vast assemblage
rent the air with shouts of welcome, and
the people of the South had for the first
time a view of tbe Southern flag. Ere
there was tijpe to take one hasty glance at
the national ensign, the eyes were upturned
to gaze at what would perhaps at any time
have attracted unusual attention, but on
this occasion seemed really a Providential
omen. Scarcely had the first report from
the salats died away, when a large and
beautifully defined circle of blue vapor rose
slowly over the assemblage of Southern
spirits there assembled to vow allegiance
to the Southern binner, rested for many
seconds on a level with the flag of the Con
federate Stales, then gradually asoended
until lost to the gaze ot the multitude. It
was a most beautiful and auspicious omen,
those who look with an eye ot faith to the
glorious future of onr confederacy, could
not but believe that the same God that
vouchsafed to the Christian Emperor the
cross in the heavens as a promise of vic
tory, had this day given to a young nation
striving for liberty a divine augury of hope
and national durability.
“The fla r of tho Confederate States was
the work of the committee appointed by
Congrees, none of the designs sent by indi
viduals as models having been thought
suitable. It consists of three bars of red
and white. The upper red, middle white,
lower red. The lower bar extends the
who'e width of the flag, and just above it,
next to the staff on the npper left band
corner of the flag, is a blue union with the
seven stars in a circle. The design is sim
ple, easily recognized and sufficiently dis
tinct from the old Gridiron. Long may it
wave over n free, prosperous and united
P ^)rUhe 5th of March the following repo, t
was made in Congress:
Mb. Miles, of 8. G.—In consequence of
having omitted to attend to the matter on
yesterday, I beg leave to submit tbe follow.
1J “Tho committee appointed to select a
proper flag for the Confederate States of
America, beg leave to report:
“That they have given this subject duo
consideration, and carefully inspected all
the designs and models submitted to thsm.
The number of these h«s beeu immense,
but they all may be dividod into two great
cissies. First, Those which copy and pre
serve the principal features of the United
States flag, with slight and unimportant
modifications. Secondly, Those which are
very elaborate, complicated or fantastical.
Tho obj'e -tion to the first class is that none
of them at any considerable distanoe,
could readily be distinguished from the ono
which they imitate. What attachment may
be felt, from association for “the etars and
stripes*” (au attachment which your com
mittee may be permitted to say they do not
all share,) it is manifest that in inaugnr it-
ing a new government, we cannot retain
the flag of the government from which we
have withdrawn, with any propriety, or
without enoounterfog very obvious practi
cal difficult es. There is bo propriety <a
retaining the ensign of a government
which, in the opinion of tbe States compos
ing this Confederacy, had become so op
pressive and injurious to their interests as
to require their separation from it. It Is
idle to talk of “keeping” the flag of the
United States when we have voluntarily
seceded from them. It Is anperflaoui to
dwell upon the practical difficulties whieh
wou’d now from the fact of two distinct
and probably hostilo governments, both
employing the same or very similar flags.
It would be a political and military sole
cism. It wonld produee endless confusion
andmistakes. It wonld lead to perpetual
disputes. As to “the glories of the old
flag,” we must bear in mind that the bat
tles of the revolution, about which our
fondest and proudest memories cluster,
were not bonght beneath its folds. And,
although, in more recent times—in ths war
of 1812, aud in the war with Mexico—the
South did win her fair share of glory, and
shed her lull measure of blood under Rs
guidance and in its defence, we think the
impartial page of history will preserve and
commemorate the fact, more imperishably
than a ipere piece of striped banting, when
the colonies achieved their independence
of the “mother conntry ’ (which up to the
last they fondly called her,) they did not
desire to retain the British flag or anything
at all similar to it. Yet under that flag,
they had been planted, and nurtured, ana
fostered. Under that flag they had fought
in their infancy for their very existence
gainst more than one determined foe.
Jnder it they hnd repelled and driven baolc
the relentless savage, and carried it farther
and further into the decreasing wilderness
as the standard of civilization and religion*
Under it the youthful Washington won his
spurs in tho memorable and unfortunate
expedition of Braddock, and Americans
helped to plant it on the heights of Abra
ham where the immortal Wolfe fell covered
with glory in the arms of victory. But onr
forefathers when they aepr sated themselves
from Great Britain—a separation not on
account of their hatred of the English ooa-
stitntions aro of English institutions, bat
in consequence of thet yrannical and uncon
stitutional rule of Lord North’s adminis
tration, and because then destiny beckoned
them on to independent expansion and
achievement—cast no lingering, regretful
looks behind. They are proud of their
race and lineage, proad of their heritage
in the glories and genias, and language of
old England, but they were influenced
by tbe spirit of tbe motto of the great
Hampden, “Veetigia nulla retronum.”
They were determined to build up a new
ivower among the nations of the world.
They therefore did not attempt “to keep
the old flag.” We think it good to Imitate
them in this comparatively little matter,
as well as to emulate them in greater and
more important ones.
“The committee in examining the repre
sentations of tbe flags of all ocmntriee
found that Liberia and tbe Sandwich Is
lands hedaflaas so similar to that of the
United jMtee,that it seemed to them an
additiofm if not in itself a conclusive re i-
son, why we should not “keep,” oopy, or
imitate it. They felt no inclinations to bor
row at seoond hsnd what bad been prefer
red and appropriated by a free negro com
munity and araoe of savages. It moit be
admitted, however, that something was
conceded by the committee to whsteoemid
so strong and earnest a desire to retain at
least a suggestion of tbe old “Stars and
Stripes.” So much for the mass of models
and designs, more or lew copied them, or
assimilated to the United States flag.
“With reference to tbe seoond clans of de
signs—those of an elaborate and compli
cated character—(but many of then shov
ing considerable artistic skill and taste)—
the committee will merely remark that,
however prstty they ma^ be, when made
of a fair lady’s
up by the canning
fingers la silk, satin nod embroidery, they
are not appropriate as flags. A flag shoal i
be simple, readily made, and, above all,
capable of being made up in painting. It
sbonld be different from tbe flag of any
othar country, place or people. It shonld
be readily distinguishable at a distance.
The colors should be wall contrasted and
durable. And, lastly, and not the least
important point, it shonld be effective and
handsome.
“ihe committee humbly think that the
flag which they submit oombines these
requisites. It is very essy to make. It is
entirely different from any national flag.
The three oolors of which it i» composed-
red, white and bluo—are tbe true republi
can colors. In heraldry they are emblem
atic of the three great virtues of valor,
purity and truth. Naval men assure ns
i bat it can be reoognized and distingnished
at a great .distance- The oolors contrast
admirab'y and are lasting. In effect and
appearance it must speak for itself.
“Your committee, therefore, recommend
that the flag of the Confederate States of
America shall oonsist of a red field with a
white space extending horizontally through
the centre, and equal in width to one-third
the width or the flag. The red spaoes
above and below to be of tho same width
as the white. The union bine extending
down through the white space and stop
ping at the lower red space. In the centre
of tbe union a circle of white etars cor
responding in number with the States in
the Confederacy. If adopted, long may it
wave over a brave, a free and a virtuous
people. May the career of the Confedera
cy, whose dnty it will then be to sapport
and defend it, be suoh as to endear it to
onr children's children, as the flag of a
loved, because a just aud benign, govern
ment, and the cherished symbol of its
valor, purity aneftruth. Respectfully aub-
mitted.
Wx. Bonanza Miles, Chairman.
“Mb. Warn ees, of S. C.—I move that the
whole of the report from the committee
on the flag be entered upon the journals as
having been presented on yesterday.
“It was so ordered.”
This flag was afterwards sent to General
Beauregard at Charleston, with orders to
be hoisted over the ramparts of Sumter in
the event of the fall of that fort; but dur
ing tbe excitement on the redaction of Fort
Sumter tho Montgomery flag was mislaid.
The Charleston Mercury ot April 14th, in
its detailed description of the bombard
ment and fall of the fort, contains the fol
lowing paragraph:
“The flag of the Confederate States and
tho Palmetto wore raised on Fort Sumter
simultaneously—the former by Col. Jones,
chief of Gen. Boanregard’s staff, and CoL
Fergoson. The flag of the Confederate
States was manufactured in this city. It
was the intention to have made use of the
flag that was fln*t hoisted on the capitol, at
Montgomery, but unfortunately it had
been mislaid. The flag-staffs were about
fifteen feet high, and were lashed to two
of the big guns by Commodore Hart-
s tone.”
The first battle in which the standard of
the Confederate States appeared was an
nnpreeadented victory, ana in a response
to a telegram from Washington city in
quiring the sentiment in Montgomery,
Ala., Jonce Hooper, the hu norous author,
so'id editor and efficient clerk of Congress,
telegraphed the curt answer: “Sumter is
ours, and 'nobody hart.’ With mortar,
paixhan and petard, we tender Old Abe
onr beau regarde.”
The writer has preserved thsso incidents
in relation to the original stars and bars
that they may appear on history's page. He
has been unable to find any record of them
in any published volume. He acknowl
edges his indebtedness to Nathan M.
Hodgkins, major of the Seoond Georgia
Battalion at Macon, and a veteran himself
in the Confederate army in Virginia, for
the use of his neatly bound volumes of the
Southern Historical Society Papers, pub
lished by the Rev. J. William Jones, D. D.,
secretary. Richmond, Ya., for much of the
information wrhich, in a condensed man
ner, is now given, -together with material
obtained from other reliable sources, of
tho changes made in the flag and the oi
of the “battle flag.”
The battle flag wasoonceived on the field
of battle and proudly borne on every field
from Manassas to Texas. “It was not the
flag of the Confederacy, but simply the
banner—the battle flag or the Confederate
soldier. As such it should not share in tbe
condemnation which onr cause received, or
snffer from its downfalL Thewhole world
can unite in a chorus of praise to the gal
lantry of the men who followed where their
banner led.” It was the consequence of the
difficulty, in tbe first battle of Manassas, of
distinguishing tbe Federal oolors from onr
own—the sitgilari^j, «rt a distanoa, of tho
uniform and oolors carried by the Oppos
ing armies and the olouds of dost made it
almost impossible to decide. A column
was seen at a distance by Generals Beaure
gard aid Johnston, bnt ss the air was still
they could not tell from the developing ool
ors whether the oclumn was that of troops
to reinforce the Rebels or Federate. Dar
ing their anxiety a puff of wind spread tbo
colors to the breeze and then was reoog
nized as the Confederate flag—the stars and
bars! The'mysterious column was Ear
ly’s brigade, ooming from the right to the
help of Beauregard. Gr iers were soon
changed andrin an hour afterwards not an
enemy was seen sooth of Bull Bun. It was
here that Gen. Beauregard determined
that the Confederate soldi jr must have a
flag that would never again endanger his
caose on the field of battle, and soon after
the battle he consulted with Col. Wm.
Porcher Miles, who had served on his staff
daring the day, and proposed a flag with
blue field, red bars crossed and gold stars.
Col. Miles thought the arrangement con
trary to the laws ot heraldry and proposed
that the ground should be red, the bars blue
and the stars white. The change was ap
proved by both Beauregard and Johnston,
and all of the officers at headquarters.
The flag was submitted to the war De
partment and approved. The case is sim
ilar to that of St. Andrews. The first three
battle-dags received were made from
ladies’ dresses by the Misses Carey, of
Baltimore and Alexandria, and presented
respectively to Generals Joe Johnston
Beauregard and Van Dorn.
The stars and bars continued to be used
over arsenals, all other pubiio bnildings
and on vessels, until the flag was aban
doned by Congress It was found_ that it
too greatly, especially when drooping, as
similated the stars and stripes, and par
ticularly on a calm day at sea. On May
1st, 18(55, Congress adopted the following
la That the flag of the Confederate States
shall be as follows: The field to be white,
the length the doubis width of tbe nag,
with the Union (now used as the battle
flag) to ba a square of two-thirds the wulth
of the flag, having the ground red; thereon
a broad saltier of bine bordered with
white, and emblazoned with white mullets
or five-pointed stais, corresponding in
number to that of tho Confederate States.
The model of this new flag, which was a
very large and elegant one, was mace un-
Clerk of the Boom of Representatives,
and w«s intended to be unfurled from the
roof of the capitol at Richmond, on Mon
day, the 11th of Mar; bnt it bad a more
honorable, though lamentable, ferries to
perform. The remains of Stonewall
Jackson, who expired on that mourn
ful Sunday, tbe 10th of Mar, were taken
to Richmond on the lltb, ana before they
were fully prepared for the tomb, Presi
dent Davis directed CoL Lamar to send
the new flag as the gift of tbe country to
be the winding sheet of the filostrioua
dead. While the government shrouded
the oorp»e with the flag of her country, the
women vhronded the coffin with crxotioa
and baptized them with their tears.
The third and last flag of the Confeder
acy, not in rinding Um> battle flag, was de
signed by Major Arthur L. Rogers, while
disabled for active dnty, in February 1865,
and was adopted by an act of Coagrees,
to-wit: That the flag of the Confederate
States shall be as follows: the width two-
thirds of its length, with the Union (now
as the battle flag,) to be in width
three-fifths of the width of the flag,
and so proportioned as to leave the length
of the field on tbe side of the Union twice
the width of the field below it; to have tho
ground red, and a broad blue saltier there
on, bordered with white and emblazoned
with mullets or five-pointed stars, ms.
a;K>uding iu number to that of the Confed
erate State#: the field to be white, exoept
the outer half from tbe. Union to be a red
bar extending the width of the flag.”
• The objections to the second flag were
that it was not properly proportioned; that
it contlined too much whits and, when
drooping, was liable to be taken for a flag
of truce. It was claimed for the laet flag
that “it gives correctness of proportion,
distinctness and character, renders it fit
for practical use and presents a beautiful
standard, which, under no circcmsianoee,
can be mistaken for a flag of truoe, or for
tbe flag of any other nation on earth. It
relieves the flsg < t its pale faced appear
ance and makes it look more martial.
This, the last flag of the Confederacy,
bad bnt two months existence, os it was
adopted by Congress in February, and it,
with the war-worn battle flag, was folded
from the world, exoept in song and story,
in the following month of April. J.E.B.
How He Come to Kill HU Wife.
Hartford Conrant.
It is not often that a more remarkable
story Is heard in a coiut-roxn than was
told last week by Lawyer C. J. Lansing,
oi Eureka Nevada, on trial for killing
his wife. When he took the witness
stand the grief on hu face hushed the bar
and spectators into a pitying silence. He
began by saying that he had consented to
say what he would have to say about the
dead only upon tbe urgent requirement of
bis counsel,and for the sake of bis daugh
ter. Then ho gave the juty tbe history of .
his married iifo. Ever since 1864 it had
been, he said, wretched in all ways. His
wife took to liquor. She was a powerful
womin—fully his equal In strength.
When drank she was violent, ferocious.
SUt! repeatedly attacKed him, threatening
to kill him, and as be believed at tbe tune
meaning to carry out her threat. Sbe
threw stones at his head, poured boiling
water on bim, and tried on several occa
sions to stab him with the carving knife,
once at least drawing blood. She followed
bim into court,making such a disturbance
that the police had to removaherby force.
She bum Into bis office and beat him over
tbe bead with a rawhide until tbe blood
streamed down his face. She beat bis
little daughter with at iron poker. “I
felt like luittog loose all bolds,” be said,
“aud I drank heavily, too.” Once or
twice he decided to leave her; once he
bought poison, and was on tbe point of
swallowing It when he thought of bis
daughter aud threw it away.
Last year mattere grew worse, until a
night came when be did not dare to sleep
under the same roofwitb her, and called
In a neighbor. They tied her wrists and
ankles with silk handkerchiefs. “Fit kill
you for this, sure,” she screamed. At
daylight she promised to behave and tbey
unbound her. At her request he sent out
for two bottles of champagne for her to
“sober upon.” He wandered about all
day, shunning bis acquaintances, trying
to straighten himself up. “I could not be
still in “any place,” he said. “I could
neither stand up nor sit down—had to
walk all the time.” At dusk he went
hone. The Chinaman had finished hit
work and gone for the night. His wile
came through the kitchen aud went down
cellar, as he supposed to get whisky; “she
often hid a bottle down there.” On her
coming up he spoke ol going down town.
“Yon —,” she screamed, “I’m fixed for
{ ou, and* you shan’t leave this honheJP’ "4 11 ■'f
[e tried the door; it was locked. He
turned aroand, bis wife wav right in front
of him, her hand pressed to her hip. “I’ll
kill you. I’ll kill you,” she cried. In a
frenzy of utter nervousness and terror he
caught up something—it was a kit than
chair—aud struck her. He s»w her lying
at his feet. Then he found hifoaelf out
in the street—ha b» no recollection of
how he cot there—looking up a', the dark,
windows oi his neighbor’s house and aa«
riding not to wake film Up. Then all is
j„ a [ tl j a hit mind until a later
hour, when he was standing in front of
thesheritt aud uttering the words: “I
have killed my wife.”
The Jury were out twenty minutes, and
when they came in their verdict was “Not
guilty.”
COLOXIZZXG AFRICA.
A Church VeellMC ’.to Forward tbo
Needing pf Colored Mess to 14-^
lipid.
The meeting held in the Brick Chureh
In Fifth avenue last night topromolethe
opening of Africa to commerce, civiliza
tion and Christianity, was opened by tbe
singing of Bishop Heberts missionary
byrnu*.
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand.
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Boll down their golden sands.
William E. Dodge, who presided, said
that they had met solely in tho interests
of the American Colonization Society,
which has been in existence for over fitly
years. Tbe fatal climate of Africa had
practically closed the conntry to the
whiteman, but now many colored men
are showing a disposition to educate
themselves, and the Colonization Society
finds foritself a bow work In providing
means tu send colored missionaries
there. _ .
The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs, or Brook
lyn, said that it was putting a slight upon
the colored people or the United States to
assume that they were t ,er to share
with the whites civil and religious liberty,
but ho understood that now half a million
colored people were eager to cross the At
lantic to labor among their ancestors, if
only the means can bo supplied. Tho
greatness of ths field has only been ap
preciated within the past few years. Be
sides a large country and a numerous
population, there are inexhaustible min
eral resources. It is a country which the
commerce of the world is to take hold of
and develop within the next half cen
tury. The question Is, Shall Christianity
go with commerce and get permanent
lodgement there ?
The Rev. Thomas G. Aadiaon, of
Washington, said that the hour had now
come tor new effort in Africa. Where
hundreds of dollars have beeu given,
thousands arc now asked for. The so
ciety had established in Liberia a free
republican government, and it was re-
I ported to be flourishing, aud promising
large results. It was said also that it was
easy there not only to secure a living, but
I to accumulate wealth.
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