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THE MACON* WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY", MARCH 9, 18S6.—TWELVE PAGES. SOME SCISSORED SPECIALS. LIGHT AND SHADOWS THAT FALL ATHWART TUB WORLD. llaabauitan'l Wife Nr lit Into Eternity— How -I umtio wmskinned—Senator Jones— A Itoat Race—An Holographic Will In the Rapids. Rochxstkk, N. Y., Febrnary 27.—The mail tier of skinning and mounting the dead Jumbo, which lias just been successfully accomplished here by l’rof. II. A. Ward, of this city, is very interesting. In the first place the skin was removed by slitting it along the belly and then making circular incissions around the body and taking it •ff in strips. It was then soaked for two months in a bath of arsenic and other in gredients nntil it was thoroughly tanned. Daring this period of time the bones were ■teamed and exposed to the sun to bleach, a treatment that not only caused all the flesh and ligaments to drop off, but caused much of the oil of the bones to exude and evaporate, until they are now as white as snow. Professor Ward bad taken the ipeaNure moots of the monster, and while the skin and bones were in process of treatment he had constructed a heavy wooden skeleton, supported and braced by steel roods, two •f which, two inches in diameter, support each leg. Jumbo's weight was about seven tons. The skin, when first taken off, weighed 1,5118 pounds, and varied from half an inch to an inch and a half in thickness. After it was tanned it was scraped and •leaned until it had a nniforn thickness of half an inch. The stuffed skin, platform and all, weighs about three tons. The skin is nailed to the wooden framework with 74,480 nails, and actually retains the folds and grooves ns natural ns in life. John B. Doris became unmanageable to day, while her trainer was endeavoring to teach her the see-saw trick, and after excit ing all the other animals by her roaring, until there was a terrific discord of noise, ran headlong against the side of the build ing, bursting out several panels nnd through the opening she made her escape. She did much damage on the exposition grounds, where the inter quarters of the show are, and finally forced an opening through the high fence surrounding the grounds. She ran against a barbed wire fence, on which the lucerated her trunk and breast in a frightful manner. Her keeper overtook her here, and, in trying to force her back to the gronnds, sunk in her ear a spear, which broke off, the head remaining buried in the flesh. She leaped over the barbed wire, tearing several long ugly gashes in her hide. After reaching Fall creek she demolished a small bridge over the stream. She was pre vented from coming toward the city, and, after two hoars of raging about, she volun tarily returned to her quarters again, forc ing her way through the fence and bursting another opening in the bnilding, where she quietly submitted to be chained. INFATUATED SENATOR JONES. An Ardent, Not Discreet and Useless I*ar- stilt of an Heiress. Dwit.oit, Mich., February 27.—The stay of Senator Jones, of Florida, in this city continues to be the theme of gossip. The friends of Miss Palms, the young woman upon whom Mr. Jones has persistently ■ought to force his attention, are becoming very indignant, and are planning to get hint to retain to his seat in the Senate, or at any rate to go back to Washington, A delega tion heuded by William 11. Moran nnd other £ [eminent Democrats called on Mr. Jones tondny night, but he refnsed to leave the eity. It is believed that Mr. Jones is com pletely infatuated, and is grossly deceiving -Jtimself. Hb has 'gone so far as to charge two Catholic priests here who have remon strated with him with conspiracy to pre vent his mnrriuge with tho view of keep iug tho Palms milliors nil in tho Church. Mr. Palms has written a severe letter io the Senator telling him that he could never hope to marry Miss Palms. Bishop Borgess, to whom Mr. Jones applied to have him use the influence of the church in hia favor, wrote him a scorching reply. Mr. Jones refuses to talk about this mat- Wlilskey Killed Him Uuickly. New Tort Herald. SxutM, Mars., February 27.-—Aten Bouil- lnrd, a French Canadian, employed in the Salem mills, went into C. Dionne’s saloon last night to meet a number of bis friends. After some good natured chuffing Iionillard wagered that he could drink twenty glasses of whiskey in immediate succession. Glass nftcr glass was drank, until the mnn fell in a state of utter insensibility to tho floor. When nn attempt was made to raise him he was found to be black in the face. He was taken to his home and French physician called, but Bouillurd censed to breathe between !l and ID o'clock. The matter wns kept seent until this fore noon, when Officer Shorten was notified. Just how many glasses Bouillurd drank is not known, but from all that could be learned the number was sixteen. Those present looked on the matter as a joke and nrged Bouillurd to win his bet, and none of them seemed to think any harm could re sult. Bouillard was forty-five years old and leaves a family. ter to newspaper reporters, and nothing on tho subject can be got from him. MO ESCAPE TO HE HOPED FOR. Clemency by the New York Herald N*w Obuuhs, February 27.—The board ef pardons for tho third time refused to- day to recommend a commutation of the death sentence of Patrick Pord and John Unrpby, convicted of the murder •f "Cap" Murphy Dooember 1884. Tho petitioners to-day aggregated 27,000, including the moat prominent mon in social, business and commercial circles in thia State, Mississippi and California. The gnilt of the men wai not in doubt, the argument of the petitioners being priori pally based upon the foot that the punish moot of the murderere of "Cep" Murphy was unequal. Judge Thomas J. Ford, the ehief actor in the conspiracy that led to the murder, and the man in whose inteiati his brother Pat, hia eonain (John Murphy i and hit two court officers, Buckley am. Caulfield, acted, was found guilty of man •laughter only, and sentenced to the pen! tentiary for twenty years, where ho ia now aerving out hia sentence. The petitionera insisted that Ford's tools should not, through a compromise in the jury room, be mode to toiler more than the principal criminal. FINED FOR HORSKWHIPPINO. A Drolhsr Chastises the Admirer of Ills Too Youthful Mister. New York Herald. Nsw Haven, February 27,—In the city •ourt to-day John Reynolds, aged twenty eourt to-day John Reynolds, aged twenty- throe, waa tried,fur horsewhipping Clarence H. Curtis aged seventeen. Thu plaintiff Dropped Dead at the Altar. New York World. Nkwwbt, Kv., February 27.—Yesterday was appointed for the wedding of James Murray and Miss Maggie Hutchison. The house of the bride-elect on Saratoga street was thronged with a happy company of of friends, when the expectant groom, ac companied by the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, en tered, and arrangements were soon ready for the nuptials. The bride was dressed in her weddiug outfit, and when things were about complete the bride wns asked if she won ready. Bho answered “Yes,” and at tho same time arose from her seat. She had no sooner gained her feet than she gave heavy sigh and fell over, a corpse. Tho quests could not realize the situation for a nw moments, and for a while it was thought that she had only fainted. When the fact of her death was auuonnccd, the guests who hud assembled to participate in the wedding festivities were soon mourning over the body of the bride-expectant. The supposition is that she died from heart disease. a famous moonshiner. Louis Redmond. The ltetlred North Carolina Distiller and Outlaw. An Ashville, North Carolina special says: The country has heard a great deal from time to time about the illicit distillers anil tax dodgers of this section of the Union. Among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, just across the South Carolina line, thero lives in retirement a man, now only middle-aged, whoso name waa once n terror to revenue officials, uud whose noto riety as a moonshiner of dauntless courage and cool desperation is still as wide as the fame of the illicit dow-drop which he and his accomplices, as well a« his ancestors, have for decades coaxed into existence. This celebrity is Louis Redmond, the outlaw a name in Western North Carolina synony mous with “smuggler" and redolent with Kept One of the Corpse's Eyes. Ci.KvEUNi), O., February 28.—Five weeks ago Alfred Smith pounded to death his wife and her companion, Mrs. Julia Wilson, both prominent spiritualists. The apiritnalists have taken the coae in charge, and one of their number, G. W. Make- >eace, has been appointed administrator of lira. Wilson. Yesterday he was sued for the burial expenses by Undertaker Heffron, whom he refused to pay on the ground that the charges, $218, were excessive. The un dertaker won, but in the course of tho le gal fight the fact was brought out that the undertaker had retainod one of Mrs. Wil son's eyes which the murderer pounded from ita socket with a hammer. The nn dertaker retaliated by proving that after the body had been placed in a vault some of Mrs. Wilson's friends reopened tho oof- flu and parcelled out ita lining for tome superstitions purpose. said that he waa walking toward Weatvilie, a suburb of this city, when Reynolds over took him with a team nnd asked him to ride. He gladly accepted tho invitation, but when they were near Weetville and he had got out of the wagon Reynold* horse whipped him and punched him in the month. Reynolds said; in bis own defense, that Curtin annoyed and followed hia little sis ter, aged 18 years. She had pointed onl Curtis to her brother as the one. The gill also testified that be had annoyed her on dif ferent occasions, and that she wa< very much afraid of him. Curtis, in rebuttal, aoid that he believed Reynolds was lured to horsewhip him by tbe Wcstvdle newsdeal ers, who wanted to break np tbe newspaper note which he was carrying. Judge Fickett said that, while the little girl'a story might he true, still Reynolds had no right to take tho law into his own hands, and he fined him $10. Reynolds has appealed tho case to the Superior Court Dligulstnc Herself aa a Hoy. Catcxoo, February 28.—A telegram from Mattoon, 111., says that the city marshal there received a dispatch from l'ekin, 111., to arrest Inez J, Augustine, who left Fokin disguised in boy's clothing. Tbe dispatch was received too late, the runaway girl having gone over the l’eoria, Decatur and Evansville road and boarded a southbound train over the Illi nois Central for New Orleans. Yesterday her nncle, James R. Cooper, telegraphed to the officers at Milnu, Tenn., to inter cept her. She waa arrested at that point in the afternoon nnd ia held there to await her uncle's arrival. She is only fourteen years eld. She had but $15 and was trav eling by herself. She is a granddaughter of Mr. Cooper, collector of internal reve nue for the Eighth district. mous with Hwoet mash." His life from boyhood to the time of his apprehension in 1881 was full of thrilling interest, daring adventure and hair-breadth escapes from the clutches of vigilant and equally during revenue offi cers. His former home, far up on tbe Tennessee River, in Swaim county, this State, waa strikingly picturesque in its lo cation. The position of his log cabin was such as greatly insured the safety of the inmates. It won ou a bluff commanding a view both np and down the roaring highland stream, and was unapproachable from the overhanging mountain save by one narrow pathway along tho ledge of rocks around the cliff and away then among the wilds. No windows were cut in the huge logs of this moonshiner's homo, save three open ings, like port-holes, one looking down the river hunk, another up the stream and the third commanding an excellent view of the pathway up the mountain side. Equipped, os he was known to be, with a small armory of the finest make, with a cool conrage that death itself could not dimin ish, ensconced within his house of logs, he was for intervals entirely undisturbed by the revenue officers, who were ever Beekiug and generally, in thatsection, finding many moonshiners not so dangerous nor so well fortified nnd not so skilful in covering np all evidence of their unlawful operations. Redmond usually had about him several of hia subordinates and followers, who were ever ready to do his bidding. On one occasion, however, os a deputy marshal tells your correspondent, a posse of six revenue officers, under command of this marshal, found this famous moonshiner in a convivial rather than n watchful mood, and altar nightfall four of them came cau tiously np the margin of the river and threo down the stream and reached the yard in silence. They could hear tbe arch moon shiner within, cxilarated by the magio beve rage of his own distillation. Three of the posse forced an entrance at one door, while through the other rushed tho remain ing four. The wife of the famous distiller, liis two children and u harmless-looking mountaineer were the inmates. No search for seeret doors and io the nooks and cor ners revealed to tho somewhat eba- rgrinod officers any trace of the much- sought Redmond, save his half empty gmull jug which sat on the side-table with a gourd beside it, from which vegetable ves sel this child of the cliffs prefered to quaff the enlivening juice wrung from the vapor of mountain maize. Rut he was gone. It waa afterwards discovered that liis exit was made by way of tho huge, low chimney, up which and down which ho sped like a flash and was soon among the peaks and orags that were to him the faces of friends. It was in the year 1879 when Redmond established himself on the waters or the upper Tennessee tor tho purpose, as he said, of breeding and grazing cattle for the Sonth Carolina market, Thia statement coming to the ears of the rovenue officers wus not received with credulity, and their espionage in no wise ceased. It waa before he removed to the valley of tho Tennessee that Redmond earned the title of oatlaw. He then resided in Transylvania county, in the wildest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and near the South Carolina line. Into that State he carritd by wagon his contra band beverage. And while on these trips into the lowlands many were the adventures and escapes which tinged his career with the glamour of romance, tlo bad nnder his direction a number of willing confederates who though less intelligent and dariog than he, were always ready to risk their lives for their leader, whether the; were aiding in the distillation in the mountain fastness es or were cautiously supplying the wants of tbe thirsty cotton planter or the festive villager of upper South Carolina. Rut in 1879 while on hi* way to hia lowland mar ket, with his one-horse wagon laden with hie magic jnice of the mountain "nnhbin," he killed Deputy Marshal Duckworth, who, it ia aaid, endeavored to arrest the moon- shiner without a warrant. He tied then, and unmolested by any avenging Nomeais — follow a vicl tradition and be handed down in local I termined in hia pnrpose, and whatever he history aa the boldeat, iiiostdaring, dashing | made up his mind to do, drunk or sober, history as the boldest, mostdarmg, dasmng | made up ms miun to no, arucs or souer, opponent of what he considered a rcstric-1 no one could prevent him from doing. —‘ 1 ~.i' he was in liquor his dogs watched about him constantly. Once he came into tion of personal liberty—a namo that carry with it the titlo of Moonshiner Chief in western North Carolina at a period ..n illicit distillation of the inonntain dew-drop was mere extensive and when from the re mote ranges of mountains went np the curling smoke from a thousand stills. PROF. DANA ON EVOLUTION. for such things follow i GOETHE'S SWEETHEARTS. ALMOST SUFFOCATED. ' smothered. Boston Herald. Hihoaim, February 20.—John Briscoll, a South Bcituate rumseller, ia in pretty hard lock. This morning in the District Court he pleaded guilljr to a charge of illegal liquor selling, and as he could not pay the fine of $15Q and coats which waa imposed, ha waa ordered committed to the tiymonth jail. Fending hia transfer to that placa he was given quarters in the town lock-u Several hours after ha waa placed in hia cell he was discovered in an almost insensible condition. Vigorona measures resuscitated him after a time. The atora in lha lock-op waa found to be defective, ao that coal gas aaeaped in large quantities, rapidly poison ing Uw air in the small room. Had Driscoll not bean discovered nntil n few minntca later, ha would have been past recovery. Unleae the lock-up stove ia repaired, the knowledge of ita powers in the way of anf- focation will very likely prove a mors effi- sient deterrent to criminal practices bare- i Kelley'a atari How a Master Flaved Willi Cupid's Darts as a Hash Hoy With lire HUngw Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in a Bacml Article. The lady-loves, so numerous—often suc ceeding each other without an interval be tween the old love and the new—how wor thy do they for the moat part appear in what ia known of them ! Each hsa her in dividual charm. The first, Frederika Rrion, is a blooming rnstio. The second, Lotte, ia a girl in higher position, gay ami sedate by tnrna, the betrothed of Goethe's friend, who bitterly resents the portraiture of both given to the world in “Werther." The third, fourth and fifth, Anna, Sibylla and Maximiliane, are leas known to us. The sixth, Lili, ia a city belle, the daughter of a wealthy banker, and something of a coquette. She waa the inspires of some of the poet's Best known lyrics, snch aa, Ucart my heart, what is this feeling Tbit doth weigh on me $o sore T Goethe follows her about to scenea of an congenial gayety, in braided coat, gazing at her “amid the glare of chandeliers." In his conversations with Kckerminn he calls her his first, last and only love, all others in comparison deserving only to be classed ss inclinations. When he says of this af- *»y« fection, “It has influenced my atyle," he pays her the ntmoat tribute that a literary man can offer to a woman. He loses, hut marries not.- The first attractions find him here, precocious in feeling, and mature enough n judgement to distrust himself. It costa him bitter tears to forsaks hia sweethearts. We can imagine that tha tear* abed hy them must have been more bitter, and can not put out of sight the disadvantage suf fered by these young girl*, when after every appearance of actions intention the brilliant youth flits from them, and leaves them in (to say tha least) awkward isolation. Tbe fact that ha did io leave them reminds ms of a humorous device in Offenbach’s "Orpbee anx Enfera." Jupiter, wishing to make love to Pinto's fair bride, descends in tbs form of a monstrous butterfly, and presently hands forward hie card, saying, ■Me ante le Baron da Jupiter.” The gnat Goethe, on the oontrary, comes like a lord and departs like a butterfly. Brow and boose rente in Chicago are higher than a year ago, while office rente are lower. ictim with dis cretion—he took up his abode in the remote picturesque section where his home has been described. Among these peaceful surroundings he pussed two watchful, anx ious years, his restless spirit in strong con trast to the scenea. lie had left behind him, in the wilds of the Transylvania monn tains,his faithful confederates, now disband ed, and would never again hear them wind their hnrna to warn him of danger, or see tbe curling smoko signal sent np from some distent elevation, telling plainly as words that a raid by revenue officers waa on. Snch servicea they akilfnlly, adroitly ren dered their lender, and thus kept him be yond the reach of the taw’H strong arms. 8ut in hia new home he had hoped to lead a life more quiet. The sleepless eyes of justice, however, werenpon him, and in the spring of 1881 he was apprehended by the officers of the Federal law. It seems that Redmond had gone np among the monn- tain sides in quest of squirrels for hia fami ly. He heard bis dogs, and thinking they had found name game, hastened to them, only to find himself in tho midst of a posse of revenue officers, who demanded his surrender. With characteristic coolness be brought his gun into position for firing, when it fell shot from his hands by the officers, and hi* body utmost riddled with bnlleta-seven which to-day are still in him—fell heavily to to the ground. lie wa* carried to his house, and though said hy the physician to be fatally wounded, assured bis friend* that he would pull through. In two weeks he was removed to jail at this place, where your corres pondent gleaned from him at the time much in regard to bis career. He was soon re moved from this place to Greenville, S. C., for imprisonment, aa it was rumored that a plan for his reecne was on foot among his former confederates; was tried there on •very coant known to bills of indictment for distilling, removing and selling illicit whiskey, was found guilty and sentenced to four yean* imprisonment at Federal prison at Albany. From thia penal servi tude he has recently been pardoued through the effort* of Senator Watle Hampton, of Sonth Carolina, on tha ground* of ill- health. Tha retired outlaw now Uvea in the nt moat quietude nnder tha shadow of the Bine Ridge, and from his humble cabin door ha can look np towards the nortweat and see in the distance toe blue moan tains which once ware tha scene* of hia wild, romantic life where tha peril* and the pleasure* of tha moonshiner's day* were strangely mixed and mingled and where has suffering aa ha ia with a halt-dozen stub born bullet wound* will never again rev# He Helleves With Darwin That Blau Slay Have Descended From Apes, Professor Dana's sixth lecture on evolu tion at Yale last Saturday treated ou the fundamental laws restricting and giving di rection to variation. He said; Plants and animals have structural po larity. A plant sends a root down os well as a atom up, and this must have been in volved in tbe plant's physiology and chem istry, sending the part which needs the light above tbe ground. Cephalization is the predominant bead structure of the un- irnal. When the tadpole matures it loses its tail, legs grow, and there is also a bead- ward and progressive movement of the force. When the caterpillar passes to a butterfly it loses a large part of ita body, and the wings develop. All these animals lose the anterior portion of their bodies in changes, as the caterpillar to the butterfly and others, ns they mature. Darwin holds that man descended from a species of apes now extinct, lint other naturalists hold that tbe different races of men came from different species of apes. We agree with Darwin, that all men must have descended from one species. The lower races of man occupy the least inhabitable parts of the 6arlh. The likeness of man to the ape in structure is so murked that it is evident that both may have descended from tbe same ancestors. Man has an erect struc ture, which the ape has not, and the ape lias muscles in the back of ita neck to allow it to hold its head horrizontal. Tbe form of the head of the onraDg outang is uoarly like that of an infant. In the ape the brain reaches its perfection long botore that of man, but the size of the brain is tbe most marked difference. If man has descended from apes, it must have been from a long series of ancestors. The links in this chain have been qsgeriy sought for, and man has been traced! jack far beyond his su] existence, “Geology shows nothing sure in the pro gress of species. The creation of a being with a soul must have required a di vine fiat, although by evolution mnn may have come from lower animals, bnt needed help fiom God to complete the work. Living beings have come forward with some law which corresponds with the geological changes, and it is shown hy geology that the genesis must have been for a very long time a distinctly appointed son of progress. If it can he shown that progress went for ward by nature, it would lie a strong argu ment for the evolutionist. We plant seeds uud expect to patlier the same kind of fruit. The difference between varieties nnd species is only a difference of degree. Permanence of species make the variation of spocies by natural luws very doubtful, and some species are known to have lasted a great length of time. How long would it take, then, to evolve from tho lower animals to man? Darwin says the geological record is broken sometimes for millions of yearn, and here he is right Of marine life tho rocks give bettor no. connt, bnt many of the rocks are now sub merged, aud no give us no help. There are no true marine rocka on tho Atlantic coast and therefore we have to look for nnr marine record to the Rocky mountains. The geological record is nil against the de gradation of species. Tho mammals were early of great size, and appear in tbe'same strata of rocks. We know nothiug of their ancestors. Genera and aperies stand as far apart in geology as they do in nature, but do not pro*o that through variation species have been produced. The cases of gradual transition hronght to our view by goology are few, and go to prove the theory of evolution. Geology does not give ita support to gradual variation, as it ought, on ccount of ita broken record. Darwin im- { ilies that creation by Divine intervention s creation without any apeeial order. The existence of food eaters to correspond with the devonrera of planta ia very essentia). Nature has ita peesimistio side which trouble* men. One theologian said, ‘God may have left hia work to be finished by apprentices.' How could an elephant, for instance, have been created? We might say we cannot measure God's power, but it is better to say that animals may not have been created from dead vegetable matter, or evolved from lower specie*, hut by a special Divine dab The fact that the gen eral system of progress in nature was n ays- tern of evolution is shown by the change ACCIDENT ON THE CENTRAL. tho old Egypt clearing and got drunk. He had live dogs with him. A big hnshwhacker named Elijah Hoar was there, also drunk. He was quarrelsome, tyrannical and brutal. On thiB occasion ho tried to Btir up a qnar- rel with unoffending ,Jo6h Cobb, and finally struck him. Instantly all tho dogs were upon the bully. He fonght his way out of the barroom, and, as he went out of the door, shot and Killed one of the dogs, Josh's favorite, named 'Grad.' Josh got sober next day. He had the dead dog buried, but never said a word or made any sign in dicating that he had anv feeling in the mat ter. He shouldered his rifle and went back to the woods with his few remaining dogs. “The day that- Josh left the clearing Elijah Hoar bad gone back to his bark job, over ucarNeho swamp. He didn't come into the cabin that night, nnd next morn- ing one of the men on the job went out to see wbnt the reason was. He found Hoar lying on bis face by the stump of a big hemlock tree. He wus dead, with a rifle ball through bis heart There waa never any evidence discovered that warranted the arrest of any one on the charge of bavini killed the liark-peeler, hut no ono ever ha: any doubt as to who it was. Josh Cobb had avenged the death of hia dog as sure as the dog wna dead. ‘ ‘Old Josh's last hunt was in the month of Febrnary, 1856. That was a favorite coon- hunting month of his, or rather coon-killing month, for, as ho knew where he could go any time and get the game he wanted, there wam't much hunting about it. About that time of year the coons are still huddling to gether in their winter nests in hollow trees. Thirty years ago coon-skins had a good market valne, and old Josh always made a raid toward the end of the winter. Taking his dogs one day he went over to Nebo swamp, and in a short time located eight trees, each one of which hia woodcraft aaaurcd him contained a family of coons snoozing away in the hollow trunk. He cut down one tree after another, nnd his dogs soon routed out the coons and made short work of them. Josh had felled seven of the trees, and for ty-two coons were lying about on the snow, ready to be gathered by him and skinned! He set to work on the eighth tree, which was what was known as a ‘pepperage’ troe. It was dead and hollow. One big limb stuck out from the trunk forty feet from the ground. Josh worked away with his axe at the trunk and had the tree nenrly ready to fall, when tho big limb snddenly separated from the trank and fell with a crash. Josh could not get away in time, and the heavy branch strnck him on the head, and he dropped to the ground with a crashed sknll. “Tho singular howling of Josh's dogs at tracted tho attention of a mule driver who was returning from the backwoods by tbe road on tbe outer edge of tbe swamp. He followed tho sound in to tbe tree, and found Josh lying senseless. He carried him to the wagon, followed by the whining dogs, nnd took the wounded hunter to the clearing. Josh never came to, and died during the night. As no one 1> now of nny relative of his he waa buried at tbe clearing. Uis dogs lingered about tho spot for several days, upd their howling was bo distressing thnt it was resolved to shoot the poor creatures, hut they disappeared before the resolution was carried into effect. Whatever became of them no ono ever knew. Their end was enveloped in os much mystery us thiir be ginning.” No Lives tost, bnt Herlous Damage Donum an Engine and Several Care. At;i o’clock Monday night a disastrous accident occurred at station No. 12A. on ih* Central railroad. No. 12J is the meeting point for the fot night passenger trains between Suvannuh and Atlauta. It is also the meeting point for those trains and a north-bound tlirouuL freight Ten minutes previous to the accident the freight entered the side track. A train hand wan left to reset the switch, so ns clear the main track. A few minutes after the southbound passenger arrived, and en tered the side track just above the freight In the meantime the north bound pasKen- ger, No. 5:i, was approaching at a speed of thirty miles an hour. The train hand at the switch in rear of tho freight either went to sleep or forgot that he had not reset it When No. 53 arrived, it ran upon the side track and dowhed into the freight. The en gine forced its way through the cab, demoh lshing it, nnd derailing and tearing to piece* five freight cars. The express car next to the engine had its forward end knocked out and telescoped the tender. When the accident occurred, Conductor Martin, of tho freight, waa in the cab. He was thrown out, a distance of about fifty feet. Beyond a slight bruiso on the heat} he escaped uninjured. Engineer Goolsby and Fireman Jackson, of No. 53’s engine were literally covered with coal from tho tender, but both escaped from the wreck without injury. The express messenger also escaped without injury, as did all of the passengers. The tire from the engine ignited the cab, and, in spite of efforts to prevent their de struction, the cab, one freight car, uud ull the wood work about the engine, were entirely consumed. The exact amount of the loss is sot known, bnt it is large. The line was cleared in a few hours, aud lost night trains arrived in Macon and de parted as nsual. No. 53 was brought to Macon by the en gine of the freight, arriving at 7:45 a. m., four hours and twenty-five minutes late. Public Sale*. Yesterday being the regular monthly sale d»y, tb$ following transactions took place: Deputy United Hute* mantUal Locke koM l.tt: acre* of land Wing in Dongherty county, the prop erty of Johu Walter*, to Mtlsfjr a judgment in favor of March. Price * Co., of New York. Tliepric* paid wm $1,000, uud Mr. 8. U. We*Von, of AUmny, wm the pirn'll oner. Sheriff Weidcott sold one horse and three nmlet, receiving therefor $‘2o0. lie also sold two bale* of coiton st seven cents per pound. Justice Freeman sold a fot in Tybee for $100, to perfect title. Chief of Police Wiloy sold several pieces of city property to satisfy tax flfM. The County Commissioners. At the regular monthly meeting of the count; commimdoner*. yesterday morning, tho followup buHines* was traimacted Tho Academy of Music company wm relearn] from tho psyiucnt of county tax on theatrics! ]*r forumnccM for the period of one year. Charles Welch petitioned for damage* on account of injuries received by a horse belonging tibia the horse having fallen through on* of the Hem bridge*. Tho petition wm referred to a rpeca.' committee. A license to sell whisky in Warrior districts* granted to 11. Wright. It wm agreed to meet architect D. II. Woodruff os the ltoff Home property, next Thursday. Tlie Whittle Library. Mr. Humj Whittle having declined to atnlj law, he, in accordance with the will of bis father Col. I*. N. Whittle, formally notified Librarian Charles Ilerbst, of the public library, of the feet Yesterday, Librarian Ilerbst removed Col. WbiUlt't Uw library to the library rooms. The books wtr* placed in tbs cheM room. They number ab»u BONDS OF TUB CONFEDERACY. twelve hundred volumes. Undsrthe provlnions of Col. Whittle's will, d* library will be subject to the uee of the Macon Uw denes that the Booth London Speculators Who Anticipate Keep ing Fortunes from the WorthleM Paper. A Washington correspondent, writing to the Pitts burg Post sejs: It has been often noticed end com mented upon that et thie dete. when the war he* been over for twenty yearn, end the Bombern Con federacy le known only to the history of the peet, that in London Confederate bonde ere held et a value, even though that value le so low ea of 1 per cent Timid people of the North, who have reed the epeechte of Logen end Bouts lie in the Congreselone) Keconl, or who heve heard John Kbertoan npon the etump end etlli believe In the vengeful fiction* that eurround the bloody shirt, mey perhaps take these bond quotations a# an other evidrr strutted ■ semblance for the Mleelaslppi aeem strange that the securities of n dead Confed eracy should have a valne except as relics. A bond ia presnmably good for nothing if there is nothing behind It, and why should I*ondon bankers, who have the reputation of being the most conservative financier* in the world, iuvsst In thsso bonds, even At so low A rate m half a cent on the dollar? The truth ia that although the BoutUem Confederacy hM paaaed ont of existence for all time, and tha war ia only being carried on in the halls of Congress and upon the stump, there ts in existence a large amount of money denoaited In Eu ropean banking house# credited to th« Confederate KUtes, ami no one had tha authority to withdraw when the Confederate gove nrnent ex Association. One Hundred Years Old. Yesterday morning an old negro man went to A city hall, seeking food end shelter, lie said that ha name wm Arm*toad Armstrong, and that he wut» be 100 years old on the 10th of Mey next Armstrong stated to Btatton House Keeper newj Armstrong stated to Btatton House Keeper Hew) that ha had been a long time in the hospital in L* county. II* hM a son living in HmUhviUe, wltki Mr. Halter, the sheriff of the connty. Monday noon Mr. Belter geve Armstrong a ticket to M*n placed him on the train and told him that th* I* con city council would provide for his want*. It la altogether probable that Armstrong will sent back to Lee county. still* and that it only keeps up e re of loyelty to get appropriation* iisslsslppi river. At first blush it doe* ’Wait's the matter, BIT Yon are not loot well." "O, nothing, only a slight cold." I ye after th* above conversation "Br wm ■ick with pneumonia. Had he at first taken i of Bmilh'a Bile Beans (I bean) he would hev* I enrolv cured without harm. A cold i Beans will relieve a cold quicker t *dy, m It relieves the congested part st < mIs by all medicine dealers. Price, Mel from the lower to the higher. The living pired. This amount l* variously estimated at from forma of tho younger world correspond — “— ww — with tho young of the modem world." JOHU COBB AND 111S DOGS. An Kreentrlfl Coon-lluntor'a Ufa nnd Hud- tie a Death. "There never was a greater coon-hunter than old Jonh Cobb, who belonged every where in this part of the State, and yet no where in particular," said an old-timer,who remembered hia subject well, to a corre- Hpondent of the New York Timra at Rocky Bill, l*a., recently. "Ah for that, there never won a better banter in the ahape of wild gAiuo than Jonh was. Hia long, single barreled ritle, hia tall, gaunt figure, and the hkarp-oyed yellow dogn that alwaya trailed at hw heelH were object* familiar in every town, village and camp from the Lehigh to the Chemnng and the Delaware to the Susipub:*nna thirty or forty yearn ngo. Thera wak u mystery ubout hia vellow dogn that no one coaid ever solve. People in those day* who hod known Josh for forty yeora and more, never huw him without the yellow dogn following close in bin tracks, and they knew thut the dogn could not l>e the name one* year in and year out No one else was known to have a dog of the Name breed an Josh’s. It wm long-limbed and long-haired, with an eye oh wild and nhorp m a wolf*M. Josh’s dogs never made friends with :nyoii* bc-aide* himself. When he stopped they atoppe 1, and never moved on until he di<L During the aixty yean that Jo«h traveled about in the woods these yellow dog* were hia constant com- paniona. "Naturally in all the years the hunter must have had at least six different genera tion* of doge, and they must have all been bred and rained Homewhere by himnelf. What became of the animal* aa they grew old and tueleM and mode way for aucces- ton identical in appearance, nature, anil name, and where the successor* came from no one knew. The secret died with tho old hunter, for since hie death, a quarter of a century and more ago. no each dogs an his mysterious, wolf-like yellow ones have ever been eeen in this region. They were equally useful oo the deer trail, in the fox chase, after bear, on the labbit track, in the pbea* tnt hunt, or after the wily coon. They would never hunt with a party oqIcm Joah was in charge of it Joan never had lean th\n three of tbeee strange, unfriendly animals at hia heel*. Frequently he had six or seven. Sometime# he would not be aeen in anv of tbe villages for months at a time, and his appearance in town after these long ataye in the woods waa alwaye signalized by hie going on an extended He had but few words ftfo.ooo.nuo to fam.oou.onu, aud it rertainly 1* not * than the flr*Vmentioiir«l sum. During tha closing months of the war all the money that tbe officers of tho Confederacy could ecrape together wm *ent to London, Paris and Drus*el* to pay for equipments, arms aud ammunition, and it l* a we.l known fact that a Belgian firm had completed, onl the very day that Lee surrendered, an order for l.*«j 000 sUnd of arms for the Confederates, the money for which was ready aa sojn m they wete plaeed on shipboard. . - *pw«. He had but few wdrda to say to and ramble. But hit name will pue into anyone even when drunk, but he was de- The European bankers kuow where it is if any does, and as long m this money is In existsnee Cou federate bonde will have a nominal value, even though the goverment that issued them hM forever passed from view. How they expect to get hold of it and convert their bonds into available assets is kno.ro only to themselves, but that they expect to accomplish it some time and by some means is very patent U may be asked, why does not the United Htates attempt to collect it for damages sua- L ned Curing the rebellion? In reply it may be stated that Benjamin H. Bristow,whan HerrcUry of Tt’ie reMury, conceived this idea. He sent special ageuta to tha European capitals to find out where the funds of the collapsed Con federacy had been deposited and in what amounts. They were very successful in obtaining the objects of their mission, and their reports are now in the secret archives of the treasury department. When the matter wm broached at a cabinet meeting atlf HampoaX tli-n Attora.y llen»r»l.«u»«.tod tlut ... . th. I nitotl HUto. tunm.d to collect tbs mu of put tho bmnc jj the ch* 0 ? the l*te Cohf<wl,nu*y tt wuulil then become liable for tu debt*. That Nettled tbe matter, and do fur ther .ltrui|>! hs. ever been made In that direction. ha. n rlifbt to tbe money It would " ' of tbe bond. .1 o.-.l'l re.-vU. it, hat m the bond, base tong aiuo paced out of &n>t hand, and are now tn tbe band* of .peculators It i» » matter of llttl* roturqueoce from the itaodpotnt of juatkw what become* of lb Willow Tew. Tla tab! lt.it all Tout, from China now brio. Willow, tew willow, tow willow. Which in imr ratiuiatiou ia Dot the right thing, Wllluw, to* willow, tea willow. And ton, ujoa toua of leavae plucked from thia tens llnv. ben Died nnd dUgutoed by tha heathen Chi- To palm off on thl, country aa genuine tea: But it's willoe tea, willow tea, willow. —hew ITav.n Heroin, h'.wn- What an Ail. In lh» Telegraph Will Do. Aa la wall known, tho Southern Hand Company la on. of tha Tnuuin.rn's moat Hberal patron, when to wlvertulng. That their gsnaroatty ha* i yesterday from tha | ■gar rreei.ml an order for tow-1 from Uonnlu.c, the capital of on* of the ttawalan Island*. In the PeclSc Ocean. The ord.r wsa *i.:> I hy a money order covering th* as.oust of the bill. Thin trans action wan quit* complimentary both I* tbs South- era Baal Company and to lb* Tsussern. else* the alienl*emeat appeared In tbta etdeni la only ana of many that eonl and MTTse to forcibly lllwstrats tbe fact that aa ad- vertimment properly glared la this, columns w " always press nn Intnrm taarlagtnnsra.nl tot C adesrttosr. Tbe TsLmreara Is eagnssfl dally ts spfswdmg before she woridthe mevtmer ih§| * nnd repeetesr* baa Uagti that a better oe sal—** could not be nmpleyad by any beilam firm. IVizocxrra annry the greet crowd* that go to h*ar Ravi relist Joaea ia Chicago. RAILROAD RACKET. Items of Interest In Railroad Cirri. Gathered From Vnrlona Honrcea J. O. Scott, the train dispatcher of Rome railroad is quite sick with them tiara. The 8aTanuah, Dublin and Western load Company tn negotiating fot 2 tons of steel rails. Track-layiug on the Marietta and X Georgia railroad h ut progressed ss Whitepatb Springs. A. Pope bos been appointed » freight agent of the Norfolk and IV Railroad Company ia place of C. P. 1 resigned. The Rome and Carrollton road is ■ be doing a very fine freight and pa* business. It will he completed to Ci ton at an early date. The Darien Short Line Railroad Corn] bat been organized with Mr. R Walker aa president and Judge Harden as secretary. Tho road-bed of tbe new Am*? 1 Preston and Lnmpkin road is first-elans condition. Lumpkin is i al over ita completion to that town. The work of laving ateel rail* . Athens branch of the Georgia greasing. New passenger coaches I bra: pun Moo Ke | Hi. [toot It Oor: itieiei Rir.s nm • All kept - it lr Uiir the i th r. ) ia ex, pUa gaugoinJune. A committee of bnoineoo men of 1 basoee were iu Savannah, batnrJar. m interests of the proposed Thoinaara*! Tallahassee branch of the Savannah da and Weetern road. A bill is now before the Virginia tore forbidding tho use of It-JH passes by judges and members of o» ■stature. The indications are that meet with an ignominious defeat The office of the general p****„ ticket agent of the Missouri P <cl , ,, has been removed from Galvestonw^ Tex. Communicatiooa for the I eenger and ticket agent will, hereafter addressed to that ikhdI * Ron,| 8»tu: . loo r 0inc *ill n fPecteJ raid • in f y, ".r-i.-H He of Hi Mol, ftirmit ■ ■» < c osi Mh< The vacancy caused by the p- p Mr. T. 8. Davant to the OenenOi. Agency of tho East Tennessee. Georgia railroad ha* been fil!«-l ' „ pointment of Mr. C. A. Des-an*^ Aeeiatent General Psaaenger Ab road at Memphis, Tenn. Nelson Robinson, of New the principal stockholders of th* Deuce, Virginia and Georgt* ia now in Jacksonville; **;* l ^*L,n rengemente for tho reorgno 1 *—pj company have been oompl—— new company will take ch» r **fjjj the fall. Hi. Bobinaooi* tbe^2| Georg* I. Haney, sod is tW E t an end to the Stockholm- losvilla teal November ■ li r *“k. P*I| I * Worm F“*r- *0.j »W l, * nn place 1* th* praxis* of * msjority are. ."bpmii "* sad '*•1* *6d i Saw y<