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CONGRESSIONAL.
the HOUSE ADOPTS THE RFSOLU-
TIOS TO ADJOURN ON THE 2STH.
River and Harbor Bill Referred to a
T Couference Committee—Debate Re-
gumed and Continued on the
Reagan Commerce Bill.
THE MACON WELKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 27,1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
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Washington, July 21.—In the House,
for a final adji . 1
Reagan, while fie expressed his anxiety
for a final adjournment, thought the date
hied too early, and should the resolution
he agreed to the House would fail to per
forma tery important part of its duty. If
the date was fired aa the 1th of August the
House might be able to act upon tfie inter
state commerce bill and the Northern
Pacific land forfeiture 1 ill.
Weaver concurred in this view, and cited
the Oklahoma hill as another measurejwhich
should be acted upon before adjournment.
Dunn thought that the friends of the
river and harbor bill should not vote for a
day of adjournment wfiich would not give
ample time for the final passage of that
m jlayDe said Congress should stay here un
til the legislation demanded by the country
had been enacted into low.
Hepburn could see no excuse for adjourn
ment until CnngresB had passed upon such
measures as the inter-State commerce, the
bankruptcy, polygamy and copy right bills.
Willis thought it would be unwise to
agree to a resolution which would put it in
the power of a small minority to prevent
any action upon important measures. The
Senate was not in a condition to adjourn.
There were three appropriation hills pend
ing in that body, and the surplus resolution
remained uuauied upon.
In advocating the resolution, which he
said was nothing more than information to
the Senate that tho House was ready to
adjourn, Morrison referred to the surplus
resolution, and remarked that he did
not think it would be ever heard
of in the Senate. As to measures which it
was said should he passed, he directed at
tention to the fact that if members would
only cease talking and go to work they
could all be passed previous to adjourn-
ment.
Reed said the country was satisfied that
Congress had had a lull trial and that It
could do nothing better than to make an
attempt to find an adjournment.
The concurrent resolution was agreed
to—yeas 151, nays 36.
Morrison then called up the resolution
setting apart Thursday and Saturday of
this tree* for the consideration of the bill
for the increase of the navy, which was
adopted—yeas 192, nays 47.
The House weut into committee of the
whole (Hatch in the chair) on the Senate
amendment to the river and baibor bill.
The pending question being the motion
made by Hewitt, striking out the clause for
the improvement of New York harbrr, he
withdrew the amendment,being assured, he
■aid, that the object he desired to accom
plish would be accompliehed through the
uiedium of tho conference committee.
The committee then rose, and tho Senate
ameodment having been non-concurred in,
the bill was sent to a conference.
Then a struggle arose for priority of con
sideration between the inler-State com'
merce and the Northern Pacific forfeiture
kills, which was resolved—yeas J42, nays
90—In favor of tho former.
The Senate hill was read at length, to
gether with the amendment reported by
the committee on commerce, which i- to
•hike out all after tho enacting clause and
iunt the House bill.
then, amid much confusion, an effort
wu made to limit tho time for general de-
ksta Finally, Reagan moved that it close
st 5 o'clock, an 1 nn amendment was offered
ty Townshend, fixing i o’clock as tho time
for dosing tho debate.
Some disposition to filibuster against
Townshend’s amendment having been
"town, the amendment was withdrawn and
Bogan’s was agreed to—yeas 204, nays 24.
Reagan then took the floor and delivered
an argument in snpport of the House bill
»nd in the portrayal of the necessities whi' b
stilted for stringent legislation for the regu
lation of inter-State commerce.
The discussion was continued by O'Neill
of Pennsylvania, Davis of Mississippi, Hep-
knra of lows, and Hitt of Illinois. It was
•greed that general debate should be ex
tended, and a night session was ordered.
Turner, of Georgia, gave notice that on
Friday next he would move to discharge
the committee on elections from the further
consideration of tho Rhode Island contested
election case of Page vs. Pierce, and ask
the House to consider the same.
At 5 o'clock the Honse took a recess till
8 o'clock—the evening session to he for
g eneral debate on the inter-State commerce
H1L
A general debate on the inter-State com
merce hill continued before an audience of
half a dozen members until 11 o'clock, at
which hour the House adjourned.
Murat Halstead. He also read a letter from
DieuunsuMR.v.rnorK.nnrf, to himself
in which Kennedy went on to
say that Ohio was astonished at
the result of the vote, and that the tele
graph reported him (Logan) ns desiring to
keep tho vote secret. The writer did not
wonder much at that, that a man would
want to keep his vote secret when it was
purchased. It was but part of the eternal
fitness of things. He had lead tho letter
merely to let the country know this gen.
tleman s opinion of the Senators. If
Kennedy derived any benefit from it he
was entitled to it. He (Logan) had no crit
icism, to make upon it, except that he was
sorry that a man holding bo high a position
should make use of such language against a
man nearly as good as himself. It might
strike some people as strange that
he should read these newspaper
paragraphs and letters, but he did it for the
Pp r P ose of showing the malignity behind
them against certain Republican Senators,
and to show the character of the attack
that was made by Republicans upon Re
publicans for their destruction. The men
who would resort to such vile attacks were
men who did not desire the success of the
party, but rather deBire the de
struction of certain men who
would not bow to their
beck and call. He would not repeat the
words that were said to him as to what
would be done if he bowed to the demand
made of him and violated his conscience.
If he had done that he would be a good fel
low, But he would rather lose his right
arm and never be permitted to let his
tongue lisp another word than he dr»wn by
a man behind a newspaper or elsewhere to
do what he did not believe was right.
In conclusion he said that he bad been
actuated in this matter, not by impulse,
not by being aggrieved, not by attacks,
but by a calm and deliberate examination
of the testimony and of the law in the
case.^ He had done his duty and would
Btand by it, ior his action was right and
just and proper. I Applause on the floor
and in the galleries. ]
Teller followed Logan on the same line
of argument, and after speaking some time
gave way to a motion to adjourn, holding
the floor to conclude his remarks to-mor
row. Adjourned.
ill 17 I V«T-m? C\V ATT \\ T TA bri<HUUr. Karr’e third wife. She ha* resided In
A-fil O LU Vj Ur AlLAlVI.il* Atlanta for many yean, and Is much liked by those
REUNION OF VETERANS OF THE
•I2D GEORGIA REGIMENT.
Henry Burwell, a Central Kailr»»a<l Car
Coupler, Falls Beneath the Cars and
Is Crashed to Death—Grass
In the Streets, Etc.
who know her.
Mr. Karr’s son, who is 60 years of a^o, and a
daughter and son of Mrs. Everett were among the
witnesses to the marriage. The couple will dis
pense with the usual marriage tour and will con
tinue to live In Atlanta.
A REMARKABLE CRIME.
THE SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
a Lengthy Ucbato on th. Proposed Payne
Investigation.
"’.isBixoTOjf, July 21. —The Senate at noon
proceeded to the consideration of tho re
vert in the matter of the election of Senator
*yae, and was addressed hy Pngh in
advocacy of the position taken by himself,
oanlabuty, Vance and Eustis, to the effect
that there hod been no expression of belief
JJ suspicion on the part ot any member of
the committee to the effect that Payne wse
connected in tho re motest degree, by act or
knowledge, with anything wrong, criminal
or immoral in his election, and that no fur
ther investigation of the charge should be
made.
, Poghjcriticised the views of the minority
( Hoar and Frye), and argued that they were
jn conflict with tho precedents of the Senste
[a former cases of a similar character. He
had merely desired to present tho esse
, ofly. and now, in the names of seven out
of nine members of the committee on priv*
ttsgss and elections, he moved that that
committee he discharged from further cou-
„ r *ti°n of the subject
Hoar addressed the Senate in snpport of
“* T)‘ws of himself and Frye, recom
mending an investigation of the charges.
tejgan took tho floor to reply to the argu-
jaent.of Hoar and sustain the views expressed
f. re P or * *>8 n «d bv himself anu Teller
AM hearts, to tho effect that the investl-
ohhon should not bo instituted by the Ben
ch 6 ' 8hat the committee should he dis-
*~£*8ed from it. further consideration. He
?*?., that th». smoke of the lamp
thuv ha discovered on any peroration
777 ?* would make, but lie would present
8i Proposition on the law and the facts,
ecu* S’ 11 tong speech, foil of his char
ier.?"' vigorous methods of oipretoion,
the action of himself and his two
publican colleagues, and devoted a large
stto!?*® of his time to replying to th.
of the Ohio Republican
. ' ??* Everts, Teller and himself.
rm*l from the Clncin
Ming Willie Sells to be Tried for Killing
Ills Parents, Brother, and bister.
Topeka, July 17.—The trial of Willie
Sells, aged sixteen years, for the murder of
his father, mother, brother and sister, will
begin nt Erie, in this State, on Monday.
The tender age of the criminal, the number
of tho victims, tho entire lack of provoca
tion, the manner of the killing, and all tho
circumstances make it almost unprece
dented in the annuls of crime. On the
morning of March 8 Willie made his ap
pearance at the farm house of a neighbor,
Mr. Mendall, and in an excited tone said
that a strange man had been at his home
during the night and he thought had
hurt his father, os he was lying on the floor
with blood on his face. As this visit of
young Sells was at 1 o'clock in tho morning
Mr. Mendall questioned him closely. Willie
said he awoke and saw a man standing in
the door between the room Willie and his
brother slept in and the one occupied by
the parents and sister.
1 got my clothes," said he "oil the foot
of the bed, and was putting them on when
tho man turned, looked at me, and then
ran out into the yard. I did not try to
aronse my brother, but put on my trousers
and went into the room where my parents
were sleeping to get my boots and overcoat
I saw my lather on the floor with blood on
his face, but thought his nose was bisecting,
as ho was frequently troubled that way. I
put on my boots and overcoat and went to
see if I could And the stranger. When I
passed out of the door he was standing in
the yard, but ran. i pursued him for half
a mile, when he mounted a horse held by
another man, and both made away as fast
as they could go.”
Upon hearing this story Mr. Mendall ac
companied Willie homo. When they ar
rived the boy remained outside. Mr. Men-
dall entered and procured alight He tound
the floor covered with blood. Old Mr. Sells
was lying on the floor with the back part of
his head crushed and throat cut Near
him, on the floor, wrs the body of Mrs.
Sells, with her head crushed and throat cut
A few feet away, in a bed, lay tho body of
Miss Ins Sells, with her skull crushed and
thro.it cut from car to ear, and in the ad
joining room, in the same bed in which
Willie had been sleeping, was the body of
Watie Sells, with a large gash in his fore
head, one of his eyes chopped out and his
throat cut
Air. Mendall found a large hatchet cov
ered with blood and hail lying on a chair,
and about a foot from the body of the
father was a butcher knife, which was tlso
covered with blood. After a hurried ex
amination Mendall returned to the yiurd and
told Willie what he had seen. The boy
said nothing and manifested no particular
feeling. He accompanied Mr. Mendall to
Mr. Rice's house, near by, where he went
to sleep, or pretended to sleep, until morn-
A ^he officers in,the morning mails an
examination, but found uo trace of the
stranger or horse tracks, although Willie’s
tracks were plainly indented in the mud.
Returning to the Sells bouse, a wash basin
of bloody water was found on the stove
in which the perpetrator had waabed
his hands. It was discovered that
Willie had washed his hands and wrists,
but above the wrist blood was found on his
arms. There was blood under his finger
nails also, and his underclothing was
stained with blood. There was a purse
containing $200 under Mr. Sells’s pillow
and two watches, hanging in plain sight,
were undisturbed, so that there was do
probability that the crime was committed
For the purpose of robbery. Previous to
the crime, the bor had borne a good reputa
tion, and to this day he stontly denies that
he was the perpetrator of the deed, and
affirms that, If he committed it, it was in
his sleep, or while his reason was dethroned.
It is said tnat he was a constant reader of
dime novels, and hail several times ex
pressed a desire to become a hero.
Atlanta. July S3 —A reunion of the 421 C
regiment took place at Ponce do Leon springs
At 9 o’clock the veterans met at the court
They were about .200 strong and presented
creditable appearance. The survivors organized
themselves into an association by electing Col. L,
P. Thomas, of Atlanta, who commanded the regi
ment at the close of the war, president, and Judge
W. L. Calhoun, of Atlanta, historian. Th© ( follow
ing executive committee was organized: It. F.
Maddox, W. H. Hulsey, W. L. Calhouii, B. F.
Walker, Thomas M. Armstead, J. M. Wilson, II*
Y. Snow, F. T. Stein, J. R. Simmons, John D)
Dameron. Major Hillyer delivered a short address
of welcome, which was responded to by Okpt. W.
T. Smith, of Buford.
Speeches were alio made by W. L. Cochran, W.
H. Hulsey and others. When the business meet
ing was over the veterans fell Into line with a brass
band in the lead, and marched to the street cars,
which they boarded for Ponce de Leon springs.
There the remainder of the day was passed in«n-
joyment and feasting. Long tables, covered with
everything that waa good, were placed befoie the
visitors, who were Instructed to make a charge upon
them, and never stop until the tables were e’eared.
The command was followed out to the letter, and
when a correspondent of the Telegraph visited
the scene the veterans were having a good time
around the tables. The Forty-second regiment
consisted of companies A and B of Gwinnett, O of
Milton, D of DeKalb, E and F of Newton, G and H
of Walton, and I and K of Fulton.
Xu the nueruouu iue veterans enjoyed a target
practice. The prize was a handsome portrait of
General R. J. Henderson, of Covington, who was
the first colonel of the Forty-second, and who after
wards was honored with the title of general. About
twenty veterans contested for the prize and some
fine shooting was done. The prize waa awarded to
Mr. Clower, of Gwinnett, although veteran Brooks
pushed him so close in the score they there were
donbts expressed as to which of the two should
have gotten the prize.
One of the features of the day was the floating of
an old battle flag of the regiment, which was the
company’s colors during the war. The flag, al
though it bore numbers of marks male by bullet
boles, floated in the air jauntily, and every inch of
)t looked game.
A noticeable wearer of one of the blue badges of
the regiment was “old Henry," a faithful colored
man, who passed through the four years of service
as the attendant of Dr. John 8. Wilson, surgeon of
the regimentHsnry, besides proving fsithfut and
trustworthy to Dr. Wilson in a thousand ways, won
the esteem of the entire command by bis willing
ness to do any favor for any member of tho regi
ment. Aa a reward for his faithfulness be has
been placed on the roll of the regiment. Tho' old
man seemed to take deep Interest in what was done
at the reunion and a merry twinkle came from his
right eye whenever be wae grasped by an old friend
the eight of his left having disappeared somo years
ago.
Suit for S-'tO.OOO Damage*.
Atlanta. July 22.—The Gate City Gas Light Com
pany has filed a suit against Hunnicutt k Belllugrath
for $60,000. The suit is brought to recover dam
ages paid to several peraons by the company who
were lnjuied by an ex plosion on Decatur street
about two years ago. Hunnicutt A Bellingrath’s
workmen
under Barry's grocery store when an explosion oc
curred. Injuring one or two workmen, killing a
negro woman and wounding Mr. Barry and several
members of his lamlly.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
WHAT WAS CAUGHT IN THE C AM
ERA OF AN AMATEUR.
Hoinethiuff About Fred’s Jersey Cattle and
His Flaws—Wlmta Good Country Din
ner will Do for » Man—A Kandom
Reporter’s Report, Etc. ’
Macon, July 22.—The amateur photo
grapher is abroad in the laud. Science has
. . ... taken tho camera out of the art gallery, re-
^ ** I duced it to tho tizo of a whisky drummer's
r/vw»rv q a .An »n «Tti nm nn nn. ^ ft nd Under the UID Of the
amateur. The droll character* you see on
the streets, the quaint houses, the dainty
bits of scenery, whether it be fields of wav
ing corn stretching away in the distance to
bo lost in tho shadowy outline of hill or
forest; crumbling ruins of old mills mourn
ing on the edge of rippleless ponds while
whitened branchless trees lock on mutely,
or whether it be views of silvery streams
moving lazily over pebbles under tho shade
of the green foliage that dips into the cool
waters, and then thread their way iuto the
beyond—no matter what it is that strikes
tho artistio eye—it is all caught by the am
ateur with tho quickness of thought.
And the other day when I hopped npon
the Savannah train, with a ticket reading
Griawoldville, I found an amateur aboard.
Ther« vm bis* -am-va in a Rtnall box, three
slim legs which ho called a tripod, and a
small grip containing his blank plates.
Thus equipped, he could bring back frag
ments of landscape that would bo a fean
for any eye that loved the beautiful. An
when ho talked and told uie what I have
been telling you, I was anxious to bo with
him, and to see him catch tho scenes that
were painted against tho sky by the Great
ALL ABOUT TIIE STATE.
Fresh News-Items From the Outlying
Towns and Counties.
—The Savannah river at Augusta is to be
spanned by a handsome new bridge, which
is being built by the South Carolina Rail
road Company.
—Mrs. John H. Kelly,the wife of one of the
leading merchant* of Monticello, died Wed
nesday, after a short illness with fever. She
leaves a husband and three children.
—Dahlonega Signal: Messrs. Howard and
Worley have bought a five stamp mill, and
will soon put it up near th«ir newly discov
ered gold mine. This makes two new mills
within the past few weeks.
—A sewer burst in a suburb of Augusta
known as Rollersvillo Saturday night on ac
count of the pressure brought to bear on it
by the heavy rains. Sixteen houses and as
many families were washed out.
—On Friday night last tho boarding house
his read
N r — , - o * . unswoumtte. it was hick ior mo, ami 1
by four railroad men was visited. Several
watches and various articles ot clothing
were oarried off.
Tho Atlanta and West Point railroad
Horrible Death of a Car Coupler.
Atlanta, July 22 — At tbo Central railroad yard
this morning, Henry Burwell, a fireman and car
coupler, loet hi* life in a very sudden and horrible
manner. About 11 o'clock he was attempting to
cut loose two flat can loaded with lumber. He
stood on the rear end of one of tho cars and drew
the coupling pin, bnt Just as he did so ho lo-tt his
balance and fell down between. The wheels of the
*xt the engine ran ever tho Tatddlo ot J »
> try lita;if oevenug it. Death, of course,
resulted almost instantly, and a more ghastly sight
is rarely aeon. ■■
■The remains wen tenderly taken up by fellow
employee and removed to the platform of the
I Central f night depot, near by. The place was vis
ited by quite a large number of railroad mon. who
seemed to kteply regret the occurrence, and by the
|usual large crowd of apectaton attracted to the
scene by men curiosity. | I
The coroner was at once notified of the death,
and aa soon as a jury could be summoned proceed
ed to the depot and held an inquest The particu-
|lars above given wen pnt in evidence, and the ver
dict wae substantially in accordance with these
facta. No blame wae attiched to the road.
]The railroad authorities were prompt in render
ing every attention to.their dead employe,and after
the inqueet arranged all the burial details. The
body was removed to the home of the deceased,
Urber* live his mother and a brother.
The deceased was betweeu thirty and thlrty-flve
yean of age, and had been in the service ot the
Central for twelve or fifteen yean.
THE WRECKED GATE CITY
Lying In the Same Condition—Saving tho
Cargo.
CortxoE Crrr, Um, July 21.—Tho
steamer “Gate City" remain, in the same
condition. Two tug* with lighten, arrived
nt the wreck at 5S» yeeterday, and im
mediately began lightering the perishable
cargo consisting ot watermelons and other
Southern products. The water waa smooth
last night and this morning.
Boston, Joly 21 .-The following state
ment waa signed by all the P*s«ngen res
cued from tho steamer Gate City, on the
can from New Bedford to Boetou on Mon
day. and will be sent to Captain Hedge, of
the unfortunate steamer:
W. Um andenkaed. pM«cntpr* per .toam.r
-Oma Cllr ” from Haruinah to Bcloo. »Uh to
.lore.. ..mmul.y to Capt lledg. and hlsoOeera
SlSSJUtoK U„t. fofabfch wa caaMUcheo
bnS. lo th^i. tbr wm» dUkMtlJ ntending to
•wLdmi.. titr-i.1 our thinks to the
„ ws<l from the Cincinnati Commerehtl j u,m3r nMtoB tonnl
* *°®e of these attacks, which he sai l . - . t^i
tntended to bully hima. lf and hU two It is about time for a m. ..oi
into action contrary to thur hi k ».ata to ri.eupan.1
“** Of duty and right, and lie made a I mckquito bar. ttto the ca
*‘-r attack upon the poh'i .i* record of * out of w hole cloth.
-n> »dfcjtto «» “keu of aa
g the
ik tbi “
BpaignUt, i-i
Little Minnie Lassiter’s Long Journey.
Atlavta, July 22.—A few months ago a seven-
year-old girl passed through Atlanta on th* wey
from her home In Mississippi to New York city.
She was traveling alone, and owing to this fact th*
local press gave her much prominence. To-day
■he egain appeared in Atlanta, fibe wu returning
to Mlsaiaelppt. where her peronte reside.
Atlluta. July 22.—The young traveler, whoa*
name waalearoed to be Minnie LaeelUr, wae ac
companied by H. T. Rolaton. an elderly gentle
man. who fa her grandfather.
It seems that about twenty year* ago Mr. Bola-
ton’s daughter nn away with a man named
Lassiter and married him. The
father wae so much
out by what bad happened that he refused to have
anything to do with the couple. Lassiter and hla
wit* went to lliseiseippl and took up their resi
dence there.
Horn, month, ago the old mu', heart melted,and
• comapondmeo grew up between him and hla
daughter. TbU correepondeuco finally mulled to
a itroog de.tr. to m hU granddaughter, and little
lflnnte mad* th. trip to New York to gratify tho
old gentleman', wi.be.. To-day h. waa on hU way
hla daubster. All different*, hay.
.moothed oyer and pear* will again reign In the
Rolaton household.
Gnu. In th. Street*.
Atlanta, July n.—The Item publlahed In the
Tzutonaru aey.nl week, .go netting the fact that
than waa a healthy growth of grau In the middle
of ai.h«m» .treat created con.ld.nble comment
at the time that th. fact waa mad. public. Th.
prohlblttonlata did not Ilk. to M. th. paragraph
about th. graas in point; aa It had been stated dur
ing th. local option campaign th. alwrttou of th*
dry ticket would bring about dull tlm«a and
gnaa to grow upoa tho prominent thoroughfare, of
Atlanta. They grappled the aubject ao Mlloualy that
a day or two afterward, th. gram dlaappeared.
To-day the .abject ot keeping gram ont of th.
atnata and off of th. atdewalka la again brought
prominently baton tho footllghte. Th* prominence
referred to I* an ordar i»«ced by Chief Connolly
the police force ordering th* member, to make
cam. again.! all peraons who allow gram to grow
on lh.tr eidewalkn. What tho Tzi.gon.ni pub
lished aa »joke teems to bar. been accepted by the
city antherttlea ae a serious matter. Whether this
he eo or nob the band will continue to play aa the
gram mowing brigade la making hay.
T h. Ilrl.lrgrii.-m 11. th- tin,I, ■
Atlanta, duty 21.—A novel social svclL made
from th* f1 of the age of th* par’d-- tnurreted,
occurred yeeterday afternoon at No. li Magnol
street. This waa the marrtage ot Oeofge W. Kart
hire. Jolla P. KyyretL Ur, Karr I. 11 and hit beta
CA. Tho wedding b '. pU. - .t p. m., and th*
will have the iongeat m lot-pi tig cut litre in
tho world aftoi tho first of October. A
family aleeper will then be put on this line
which will run from Atlanta to Sab Vnun*
cisco, 3,000 miles, without a change, hy way
of New Orleans ami the (Southern Pacific,
George Taylor, a seventeen-year-old aon
of George Taylor, of Pike county, was
drowned in Martin's mill pond Iasi Monday
morning. He, with other companions, had
gone to tho pond for tho purpose of bath
ing, and whtlo in tho water wa* seized with
cramps and drowned before he could bo
rescued.
—In Webster county a young man found
a rabbit nest in the field the other day and
set a steel trap there to catch the rabbit.
He went to it Thursday and found a rattle
snake hard and fast It wa* 4 feet and 4
inches in length and 8 inches in circumfer
ence. It had eleven rattle*. It wo* dead
when found.
—On Monday last, nn unknown wbito
man giving his name as George W. George,
was found in n dying conditio., in a honse
in tlio suburbs of Waycroso. He was car
ried to a house near hy and died in a few
hours. Nothing could ho learned from him
as to who ho was, or his business, Uo
looked like a respectable man. Ho was
buried at the expense of the county.
I —Brunswick Advertiser: The Ocmulgco
and Xormandalo railroad is a genuine nar
row gauge railroad, with four cDginea and
a complement of box and freight cats,’
superintendent, etc. It carries freight and
passengers, and has Us regular schedules.
The road proper is twenty-four mili-s long
road will, in courso of time, bo built towards
Dublin to develop tho lands ol tho company
in that direction, Xormandalo being about
the contro of the company’s property.
—Dawson Journal: Mn.Kocna Hasty,relict
of Dbodiah Hasty, has eighty-six descend
ants. She is tiio mother ot seventeen chil
dren and has fifty-one grandchildren and
eighteen grest-graudcbildren. Mr*. Hsstv
is now 76 years old, and walks two miles to
chnrch onco every month. During Mr.
Hasty's lifetime they “lived at home" and
made their own provisions, and since his
death Mr. Hasty lto* continued on the Bamo
line, looking after her affairs with the
energy and zeal of a much younger person,
—A ntgro boy named John Jones, be
coming insulting to Ernest Dickinson, a aon
of his employer at GriIBn, the latter struck
him with a stick. A fight ensued, and the
combatants were parted by Emmett, a
brother of Dickinson. The brothers then
turned to walk away, when th. negro
licked up a atone and .truck Emmet with
ton tho back, of tho head, nearly killing
him. The negro was brought to Grlifin
and bonnd over to await the action of tho
grand jury.
—Darien Gazette: Charlotte Dolton, tbo
old Degress, a county pauper, whoM death
was mentioned by us several weeks ago, was
a native of the West Indies, nnd at the time
of her death, by her statement, waa 116
'rear* old. She bos quite an interesting
liUtory. During the insurrection, of
hundred years ago, she being a young
;irl, together with her father, old All, Lo
unged to a Dr. Bell. Daring the outbreaks
many of the West Indian planters were
killed. Dr. Dell being one of the unfortu
nate killed, his people were brought to the
United States and aold. The cargo waa
purchased by the Hon. Thomas Kpaldinj
and Mr. Couper. Mr. Spalding bought oh
Ali and Charlotte with a great many others.
They wero all Mahomedans, and old Ali
died in tho faith and his koran was bnried
with him. Onco daring tho revolutionary
war Mr. Spalding asked old Ali if ho
thought hia negroes wonld go to tho Drit-
ish, and he replied: “Ali can answer for
tho Mahoinetbuis, but not for tho damned
Christian dogs.”
Mr. K*
j Bav.
wentr
SAVANNAH.
Death of Davlit McIntosh—'Fred Wright,
Who shot Him, Held for Murdei
Savannah, Ga, July 22.—David Mc
Intosh, who was shot by Fred Wright,
near Thunderbolt, last night, died to-day,
He was shot through tho body with t
charge from an old army musket. Wright
was charged with murder by the coroner's
jury. His wife flatly contradicted his
version of the cause of the shooting.
S. A. Darnell, whose term as United
States district-attorney, expired Sunday,
to-day received an appointment to fill the
office ad interim from Justice Wood.
AUGUSTA.
A Colored Girl Fearfully Gashee a White
Boj—The Grady* Defeated.
AtocrrA,Jnly 22.—T. V. Rhodes, general
merobandine, U reported failed for about
There are no new developments in the
strike.
The Henry Gradys were defeated by tho
Augusta amatiurs by A score of 13 to 1 here
if*
(■!(
mulberry tree. For a pair of ont V: ! .|
ml he can get only two dollars; for a pail'*'
the* other kind he can get lifieen dolforo. '
mo slight difference, you see. Thee
again for (-arrie B., a three months old
for, which hy the way in the prettiest
tiling ever done up in cowhide, he has been
offered and refused throe hundred and fifty
dollars.
g tho cattle in their cb .m > :id well
kept stables, wo were led to a ]*• Cento oear
orchard of 1,800 trees. These would ; ield
from ten to forty bushels of pears, whenjold
rI.W
fearfully gashed
A :-':.nll Whit* hov w;i
by a colon-d girl in Role
to-day. Th.. little fellow will prol.
cover. Th»* girl s ntill at large.
A Frenchman ha*
a f».-w drops of gljc
coruvrn ot the «.-y*-*
lifelike appearance i
found that by p
rine and water in
I ifl
» reatorc
2~
offered to carry the legs of his camera. He
was agreeable, and in twenty minutes from
the time we sank into the scat at Macon wo
were at Griawoldville looking at the rear
end of the trair that was speeding on its
way to Savannah.
Ho took up tho camera and tho grip and
took up tho legs. To tho right of us was
tho homo of Jim Van Baren, to tho loft on
■hill was the old Greer place. A herd
mild-eyed Jereeys, fat Yorkshire pigs and
pear orchard, togother with big fields «
millet and corn and all sorts of grossee, had
given the place a new name. It is now
Bermuda Park, and the monarch of tho
thirty-four acres ho surveys from his back
vemuda is Captain John D. Frod. And
when I asked the amateur if he was there
catch somo of the scenery that meets tho
eye at almost every turn, ho turned on mo
with a withering frown and said “Nawt” I
said nothing, hut held on to tho legs. If I
was a seeker after knowledgo I must bury
my interrogation point in 6ilenco nnd watch
the legs.
It was not long before tbo amateur was
ready for work. Upon the legs I had sur
rendered, ho placed his camera, pointing
tho lens at as pretty a rustio view ns you
would care to see. Over a fence tho eye
struggled through tho dark foilago of somo
trees. The sun glistened upon tho lenves
and brightened up tho view of n hill that
ran up into tho pretty blnosky beyond, and
while ft farm houso or so peeping up from
over tho tree tops lent an additional charm
to the picture.
Then a little cow named Dido was brought
ont and placed beforo tho camera. Dido
was a Jersey beauty with a sad look out of
tho oyes. felio was of u fawn color vjtl
white dainty legs, long hiil and a pedigre
an idistinct and an valuable an that of a
race horsT*. Ih i butter record was a
mathematical problem, for it wart puzzling
how so small an animal conld givo so much
milk. No wonder Captain Fred w*as proud
of her and stroked her head with tender
ness. Bat tho amateur was gotting his focus
ready. A pesky gnat s * ung her cats to and
fro and threw her long tail over her back,
but the amateur minded it not. lie aimed
his lens and drew forth his plate. There
was a sharp click, tho light with its
pretty picture bail been thrown on tho sen
sitized plate os quickly ns tho
lightning flashes, and then *tho photograph
was token and Dido was on glass.
Tho man-of-all-work about the place car
ried Dido back to ber boudoir nud out
camo another beauty. Aim was token
again, the light flashed upon tho plate and
one more Jersey was caught Aud eo it
was with tho full herd, reserving for tho
lost and best tho picture of Prince Victor,
one o! the proudest grandest Jersey
bulls in Georgia. Tho amateur
could not help feeling hia inability to man
age so fine a picture. An aninml whose
worth ran up into tbo thousands, whoso
pedigree called for the finest blood known
for half a century, and whose contour wns
beauty itself, seemed too great a subject to
be caught up by an amateur; but be over
came hu ecruples and the sharp click of the
trigger soon told that tho camera was richer
by one more picture.
By this time the sun was directly over
our beids, and the heat was fearful. The
tapping of a bell that brought to mind some
country church hid away in a grove of oaks,
told the hands that were in the field talking
whoa and get up there to big sleek mules
that dinner was on the table aud that there
was an hour to rest.
The amateur doted lot camera, gave mo
tho legs, aud in a very few minutes we wero
under the wonderfully cool shade of Captain
Frod'i bock veranda. You have, &t some
time or other in yonr lifetime, sat in just
each a place to cool off for dinner. You
know how delightful it U to lean bock in
the big rocker, let tho breezes blow over
yon, and while yon are enjoying tho breeze-
bath, look out on the little bantam chickens
that scratch and peck around in tho yard.
It is here and only here that you are truly
convinced that life U worth the living. It
U here that you forget that the sun bliine*
hot; that there are cares and troubles’, and
that the world U wicked. You ait there
and wish you could cool off forever, right
there. But our fair hostess was anxious
that we should taste her delicious
soup and ber custards, and as carrying the
legs nn the bill hod whetted my appetite to
razor-like sharpness. I lod the van into the
dining-room. A country dinner i* the per
fection of dinners to the city man, even if
be be accustomed to the fat of the land, bnt
what is a country and city dinner com
bined? It U incomparable, especially when
it has for adjuncts a bottle of excellent
claret and a fifty-eight poand melon.
And after wo had voted gold medals to
Mre. Fred for her superior cooking, G’apt.
Fred told us about Lis Bermuda Park. If
the wine did not wreck my memory, this is
about wb&t he said: Ho has thirty-four
acres on the place, and his object in buying
it was to benefit hia health, live well and
entertain hia friends. If tho products
of the place will pay ita expenses,
all wall and good; if not, the
recovery of his health ia worth more than
all the money he will lose. He believes in
having the Dcet of everything—it pays In
the long run. His herd of Jcrseya are ex-
, j pensive, but they are worth ali he gave for
.| them or all they eat. He gives this a* an
: illustration: In two pen* a.-h .h a lot of
I common *:very-d«»y rn/or-backed Georgia
•? ; ptg- and* lot of thoroughbred Berkshire
c pig-. They receive th»* same attention, are
r l f*l with to- food iimi «t th- same
i time, aij-1 both live under the shade of the
enough, but this is not what Captain Fred
ants. He goes over them, strips away the
under leaver and branches, pinches off all
but a bushel <»r so of pears, sud then when
the timeoomert he gathers an average of one
bushel of much larger than ordinary pears
from each tree, making a total of 1,800.
bushels, which will bring at least $1 per
bushel. But pears are not all. Ho ban
every kind of fruit you can think of, and
lots of other things that will either
bring money in the market or go
toward making up a fin ■ bill of
faro for tho Jerseys. But it would tuko a
couple of columns or more to tell about all
these things, so we rise from the dinner ta
ble feeding as if we owned a couplo of
worlds. Then I take hold of the legs again
and onco more the camera in in position.
Tho amateur fires away at the old stately
building that crowns the hill. Then I carry
the legs again and wo halt in front of Van
Barents old-time comfortable porch. Tho
littl- i|u—ii of tlii-lioim-hold, a brown-eyed
miss ot two or three years, sits npon the
porch in her rock-r; Ituff, the big, black,
sensible dog crouches beside her, play
things lay scattered about, aud the pioturo
in complete. The amateur git/.«*H lgngtr
than usual through tho lens because tho
picture is a sweet one. Then there is a
t I., i; and the little lady, dog, playthings
and nil aro locked up in the dark box.
Tho amateur sweeps his eye over tho
hill- for cue mere view,but ever to the right
ho sees something that causes him t<> simp
up the camera, fling tho legs into my arum
and hasten to tho depot. Tho cars. ro
coming and it stops only loDg enough for
us to get aboard. Then* r. sound like that
of a whirttlo winds about through tho tr- oh,
and in twenty minutes wo aro again in
Macon, camera, logs and all. No man
regrets a day in the country, especially
when his name in in the pot for a big
dinner. It goes a long way toward making
him happy.
HERE YOU HAVE IT.
Fetrlilml HaftOver Thlrty-I ive
Feet Loii|{ Found In s Coni Minn.
DonmxH, W. Va., July 20.—Several times
pieces of stone have been taken from tho
mines hero that had tho appearanoo of lin
ing a portion of a Knakt* Yesterday M r. P.
G. Sullivan, a grocer of Wheeling, reported
tho finding of a huge snake, entire, in tho
Davis mine, at Davis, Tucker county, thm
State. Tho snake, according to his report,
is porfect, save having been broken in sev
eral pieces in removing from it* incre
ment. It seems from tho shape of tho
head to have been a rattler. Tho scaly ap
pearance is nearly, it not quite, perfectly
retained. While it ha« been slightly
flattened by tho immense weight that has
rested on top of it. It won taken from the
top of tho largo vein of coal, is thirty feet
long,8ix inchcH through at tho biggest point
and weighs 200 pounds. The fossil \h cer
tainly a very curious one,aud thereby hangs
a curious tale.
Too climate must have been of a different
character when it was entombed from what
it is now. A snake in this part of the State
f any kind whatei
Green laio itnelf iH not freer fnan thei
Tho
The ProlitliltlonlMtn Defeated by »it Ov, -
whelming; Majority.
Tiiomasvim.k, Jnly 22. Thomas county
went wot to-day by nearly l.txm majority
out of a total voto of a little over z,«hh>.
Official returns from all the precincts Lave
not yet been received.
The Flmt Bale of Cotton at Albany
Albany, Ga., July 22. Tho first bale of
now cotton was received to-day by s. U.
Weston A Son. It waa raised by 1*. W.
Jones, of Baker county; classed low mid
dling, and sold at nuction to Captain E. L.
Wright for 1-1} cents.
A FORTUNATE ENOCH ARDEN
THOMAS OOFr? WKT.
Heitnrrd to Ills Wife Aftsr Ht»«\ Hslfovlng
Him Dead* H»(l Married AfCftlit.
Lowell, Mass., July 10.- A strange
Enoch Arden case, lacking only the nod end
ing of Tennyson's poem, wah 4 cousuinuiut* d
!.• r- t«. ilny. Hy the aid of a New York de-
t< cti\c Ft U\ II. S.idl-r, of Columbus, () ,
was restored to his wife,’whom ho left in
1801 to light for his country and had not
soen since. The re-united couple left for
ohl-», and whih- waiting at th- depot Mrs.
Stull, r related to an neqiiaiuL.oe- tho
strango story of their Hepai.ition and re
union. When the war broke out Mr. K ti
ler enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment.
Through somo misumleraUuding he was
reported among the milling after on- of
the great battles, and when ho returned to
his former home he foand his wifo lmd r—
mio\-d to home New England town. He
made inquiries and advertised in some of
the leading journals, but faihd t" obtain
an answer. Hu then r* moved to New York
city, and obtained a position in the cunt-.m
honse, nnd subsequently in an insurance
olliee. Tin years afterwards he removed to
Ohio and purchased a largo farm. Here he
resided most of the time, 1 tit occasionally
went to New York city on business. Dur
ing 1-u.t spring h- learned from an acquaint
ance that a widow resided in Watertown,
Mush., during the winter whose tirnt hus
band’s name was Sadler. On further qu. h-
tioning the acquaintance informed Mr
Sadler that the lady stated she remain< .1 a
widow until 1870, when she married RufiiH
Derning in Charleston, and by hitn she had
two children. In conversation with her
friends she often alluded to her timt i.in-
band as having been a Pennsylvania soldi-i
(Ynfid-nt that he had at la.it obtained tr.u o
of his long-loht wife, Mr. Sodi-r started tor
Watertown, bnt after a search n that
vicinity gave it up as fruitier. H- re
turned to his Ohio farm to tranaact some
n.1-11.try bunim-hh. H- again w-nt to New
York about a fortnight ago and wa* allowed
one of the members of a private detective
firm to attaint him in the search. Hy th-
aid of olli—rtt in th-Minaller New England
cities the New York officer waa enabled to
Have Mr. Sadler considerable money in
traveling expenses, as all answers to in
quiries were directed to Boston. A few
days ago the New York officer learned
that Mrs. Derning had engaged a cottage in
Dracntfor thottummer. With Sadler, the offi
cer went to theDrecut residence to-day, and
though the conple have aged considerably,
they recognized each other. To her ac
quaintance Mrs. Sadler-Doming said sho
was going to return with her children to her
husband s home in Ohio. It was learned
from another source that Mrs. Derning was
left considerable money by n-r second mu-
band, and the added* to h. r income by
truing f.. r magazines, aud wm otY. r.-I *
situation in on*- of th- l-admg dressmaking
establishments in I.owa)1 r —ntly.
The!
ot alu
xury «.
m km
to the world.
t-rtiting f i«-t of th- season it may be m-n-
tioned that iu VAfj Cardinal vVobdty Unit
c /mimed strawberries with cream.