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'■]]]'$ IN GEORGIA.
U-MBKlt CITY.
V«»er itctter-ANew Steamboat
, j „ jiew Church, Etc.
Jane 24.-1 ho crop pros-
brisbter at this season in
now.
Oxforil-A Correction.
Uxionn, Jtpe 25 —I
than now. The mistake that was made in the mu,?.** 4 ?
S fine and farmers are well my report of the exorcises on nomi 8 ot
r " E£?k»». JS
mj work, end from present indi-
rilbara plenty to "sell and to
wueroelon growers in this
,10 disgusted with last yeur's
itat they abandoned the crop
There is very little oot-
frnit crop is good. The
being planted in large
|T e of onr farmers. The grape
Itiriog considerable attention.
Ljlacd horticultural intercsls
are on the upward tendenov,
„ mill business has de-
ence beautiful for-
they ore rapidly doing)
S of industry will then
IToorfino barren regions with
5her ■
par i J
the names of all o'f \ha'’senl^.!.‘° r 8 iv , in 8
spoken, and stating that "all of the an* 0
unusually good, and those of &
bers of tbo class as follows,” etc bnt
that Dr. Hopkins conferred the recnlar
degree of bachelor of arts on the two above
P“h° DCd Seni ° 18 '” eto " 'hereby lZ°Z.
ston and n 9D60D ^ Idea that Me/srs. John-
ston and Dixon alone received that degree-
whereas my statement showed that th? di
atoms, orchards "and vino- A mietako wmaiso 0 mndo 0 bv°me^n mention'
iethodist Church is,nearing lug R. A Redding, AtUnufamongThoeZ:
whom the degree of bachelor of arts had
decree ’ “ hedidnot receive that
U i] will be a model of beanty
j. We seem to have a regular
.a. Some five or six new
just completed, and as many
for occupancy by fad.
h £. Day will soon have his
.{he Lumber City" ready to
the turbid waters of the
llat Capt. Day has built in a
athe Ocmnlgee depot,'and bo
them successfully on the
is from six to ten thousand
!{1 tiia turpentine and luslu
i We every month.
John D. MoLeod, of tbia
rllesvera a few days for
fj the summer session.'
hi Benwick, who took the
eliTelfair's new courthouse,
ill) 000 brick have arrived
__ ran break dirt.
teBie has received a dispatch
Di F. B. McRae, of Thomas-
lit
me plentiful now on our
itrasge darkey is happy.
Prattsbure-Efforta to Get a Itallroad.
Pbattsburo, June 25,-During the last
fortnight onr citizens have been greatly
«. v* ^?| r r ^,i” p P Ter onr prospects for having a
This will make three new rallroa “ to traverse our midst. A road will
pass near us, und if money affords nuy in-
dueements the A. B. A G. W. R. R. will be
Seventy-flvo thousand dollars have
been already subscribed, and wo can easily
swell the sum to $100,000 if it becomes nec-
essary for us to do so. More than 5,000
bales of cotton are shipped from here alone
annually, and more when wo get the rail
ed' Real estate has enhanced more than
300 per cent, within the last month.
[IRROLLTON.
Hrttlth Not Improving^
toy Fine Crops.
to 21.—Judge Harris has
irk., and gone to Tate
Information has been re-
Mge is improving very
ilhkindest sympathy of his
here are ex,ended to him
hopes are entertained for
Me is having his entire
epriuted and otherwise re
hrhea completed will add
Ihuppeannce of thotown.
IcKrcuesof the publio sohool
Tima will come eff week
li a grand 'time is expected.
IWlege will have commence-
lien week.
lent the county the past few
(''ope, where the storms
filhim to be extraordinarily
pin that was in tho path of
Ibilly torn up that it will
7 good. Corn is coming out
|CHAt’XCKY.
Ulon amt Picnic at Tcm-
-A Robbery.
|'-ir 2).—Yesterday morning
ueeja citizens boarded a
on the Oomulgee and
^ n ® railroad con-
.JfdlflfiWiCo., twenty-two
tin the purpose of oarry-
wOeinnlgeenver. Temper-
itaileafrom tho Oomul-
1 "’'ot wu given * bar-
I i. f? on i c eelobration of
I U iUeadanee were about
pie Speeobea were mado
tastrong and Col. D. M.
, in w hich
SJ"?. 1 / a PP Ut >ded after
f^n dmner.of which there
everybody, there
gwihoM., four kids und
P*»ed for the oeeaaion.
Kkuket. full of ehiokeD,
pi prepared in different
EyT* “wie up a royal
I el‘*‘ J :, wUhon t dinner.
Btok.V .''P'drtd to a
BrJ' 4 ®"'/ a.hortUme
“• Then all
Itmi *° degreos of
fe>"hd up. and also
®f the gentle-
d8 y™. * U
“»• "tore-
House Creek, waa
An°T“ °>' en » Dd
g^^aeoonnu the
^SCSDAYSCIIOOLB.
.^ h Ct r .y. K " ,,tlUn “*
i. 0 «.L i ‘ i , b ® «o overjoyed
^•day.andoth^so
that all
C ? J enlion ‘bis
U rt C h d ? 11 ,hl11 no ‘
„ r “ h “ l * turned out
It,!?® 13 b»»e been
il tto s ChUd 7“ “d
l!r* In Ions
^■^“^“•Poak with
»l£^ 0YiD 8 lon an< I
itr *wrie cent of Ma-
*ete weary and
.but chock full of
* “«• were de-
..'bde the grown
,‘^‘ipmue 0 \ yo “
^“Uoui end 1 the
^ T * 4 They left
i 2“d not the
.“lone. Wh.n
"W,!!L Whe “ they
*» the A 00 * bun-
«*«» to do and
“‘F rest as-
J pready ap-
the thanks
*** *«
b*tc«m *' faded
P* Wo’U
tVoumlcd by
1
Jbat
ttehA 0 , Bulloch
•* wT?„ b » ®ne of
iUdft K d , ‘be
.. ..a
m; no
and M °? t of »
ftbia b ’ J»ni>y
*. b* which the
sergoantB and four corporals of thoSylvuuia
Rifle., which reeultcd in tho elcotlan of
Wm. H. Gross,;flrst sergeant; D. B. O.
Nunnally, second; Wm. M. Hobby, third;
Hobert Arnett, Jr., fourth; W. F. Britt,
fifth; and for corporals; H. It. Krup, first;
D. S. Eddcnfiold, second; J. F, Bozeman,
third, and James S. Tsylor, fourth.
Spring Itlll-Dcntli of Hr., Wall.
Bi'uiso Hill, June 25.—Mrs, Martha L.
Wall, wife of Judge J. M. Wall, died yester
day in her 70th year. She waa tho last to
die of twelvo children of the Rev. Wilson
Conner, a noted Missionary Baptist preach
er of fifty ycara ago. Dr. ltyals, of Mercer,
is a nephew of Mrs. Wall, and Mrs. Chan
cellor A*. H. Mell, of Athens, is a niece.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
WST-TWELVE PAUgs
0Mh h e e b b ” O aUe a ^: n hav 0 e r cSd 1 C m I b ^
services to Col. Griner In oS lh le R al
sbonld see fit to prosecute ^ e on ? Vent ho
AUGUSTA.
A Battle with Knives—Baptism by the
Salvation Army.
Augusta, .Inne 26.—The old family fend
b , el theflarieyand Howard families,
of West Eud, this afternoon culminated in
a free fight between the Howard brothers
and Harley brothers. Knives were the
weapons used by both parties. The How-
ard boys proved to bo experts in tho ass of
the knife and succeeded in carving up both
of .he Harloys promiscuously. They then
fled to Carolina, thus eluding arrest. Both
Harleys were quite scrionsly injured.
i he Salvation Army this afternoon bap
tised forty-three candidates in the river at
the mouth of Hawk’s gully. There were
fnlly five thousand people on the bank to
witness the proceedings. As each one that
had been baptized emerged from tho water
he was greeted with oheers by the members
of the army, who were drawn up in lino on
the bank.
M1LLKDGKVILLE.
Mnrrlago nt tho Edwnnti House of Mr.
Wilson anil Alts. Miller.
Miujsdoiviu.*, June 28.—This morning
at 8 o olook Rev. I). McQueen was sent for
to marry a couple at the Edwaids House.
On arrival he found a few relatives and
mends waiting to witness the marriage of
Miss Willie Miller, of Wilkerson county, to
Mr. Frank Wilson, of this city. Miss Willie
is the daughter of Captain A. J. Miller,
former Representative of Wilkerson, and a
graduate of this oollcge. Mr. Wilson is a
popular young merobant, a partner of the
well-known hardware store of Whilden A
Wilson. Aftor the happy oonpln w.ro
bound by the beautiful and solemn cere
mony they left for Atlanta on the 8:30 train
to spend their honeymoon. Cougratula- State. She is the grandmother oif Mrs”
lions ate extended them by all. Jes. W. Johnson, of tbia city. Mrs. Jack-
Sylvunla—Nou-Coininltaloned Olllcem of
the Itillee.
Syltaku, June 25.—By order of Captain
M. M. Potter, on election was held on yes
terday afternoon at tho oonrt house for five
There l h8t " tend the road to Clayton.
Ihere was considerable opposition, bnt the
third« tl0n —, ado P, ted b >' “ or ® thau a two-
thirds majority.—Athens Banner-Watch-
mfn U l^ b M tE , Dt ^ prisc: A party of gentle
men on Monday lowered a bottle attached
to a cord into tho artesian well hole «peet-
lu? t0 , fi “d " ater »tui standing at a reison-
able depth. Alter spinning out something
over one hundred f^et of cord tho bottle
IZll* f huI !2 on J k hat waa supposed to he
f i* nk There is no water in tho
nolo, and it is very oertain the 1 000 feet
has about filled up with mud.
Amerious Recorder: Mr. J. W Burke a
J iTi °« near Warwick list avaV
bio horse in a rather peculiar manner two or
thrre days ago. He was riding along in his
field when suddenly, and without any ap pa .
fal1tn M 8eWh 6 a er L hiS h ° r8e *">B b wKSd
fell to the ground, breaking both his fore
was n° d f “ Ug , in tho The ground
was po-feotly level and there .was no hole
near for the horse to have stepped in. Mr
Bnrke had the animal killed.
Gainesville Eagle: A fine field of wheat
anS r i° Wn becn cnt an d shocked,
waiting for the thresher ti
como ana thresh it out, happened to lie in
the path of the storm that passed near here
laat Monday evening. The farmer to whom
it belonged, on go ng to the field, found
that every bnnole had been blown away.
Many of them were found scattered
through a piece of woods nearby, butmuoh
of it was so badly Boattered as to be com
pletely lost.
There are now standing around Athens
three trees from which men were Iaunohed
into eternity, being tried by JndM Dycch's
court. One of these trees can fas'seen from
the car windows of the Northeastern train
wbilo the other stands on the sido of the
Athens branob. There is a superstition
connected with them, too, and the parties
on whoso land they grow would never let
them be felled. In this connection we will
state that the gallows near L xiogton, on
which Jones, the wife murderer, was exe
cuted, is still standing, a ghastly relio of a
most horrible affair,
Dawson Journal; Monday Sheriff Mar
shall received a telegram from the marshal
of Sbellmnn to urtai Paul Priceformurder
Price is a railroad hand and the sheriff
found him between this place and Shollman
with the gang. He was placed in jail and
on officer came up Tuesday night and took
mm to Cnthbert. Price, we learn, was od
the cannon ball train Sunday night ooming
to Dawson, and when it stopped at Shell-
man he stopped out upon the platform and
discharged bis pistol, the bail taking effect
in a negro man near by and killing him al
most Instantly. The prisoner claims that
he did not know anyone was In the direc
tion in whiob he shot, it being dark, and
that the killing was purely acoldeutal.
Sumter Republican; A few days ago a
negro man was on the streets with a live
rattlesnake, which he proposed to let bite
him for ten cents or a drink of whRky
Some one give him a bottle and told him to
drink, which he did, and then pulling out a
snake, with ten or twelve rattles on bis tall,
he held his wrist where the roptile conld
strike. He then ealled for more whisky,
and filled up. He allowed the smke to
blto hi* arm several times, when ho got so
drunk that he tumbled in a heap. Tho
snake wra examined, and it was found that
the fangs had been extracted, and in strik
ing it was impossible for it to make a
scratch. Some of the deluded parties
tnrned it looro to get even with tho sharp
Digger.
Greensboro Herald : Mrs. Rachel Jaok-
sod, living near Hastings, in this county, is
one of the most remarkable ladies in the
fluttering account of the outlook. He
brmgs back several Lotties of oil and a lot
of sand which is almost oil itself. Dvna-
2w M tT d If tfftr n P the rocks,'and
each blast showed that the prospects bright
a f ±.„ A . pi . tWR f Bnnk ,0 ,bo depth of six
or eight feet and tho direction of the vein
located. Mr Rickards is fully convinced
that oil will be found in abundance. V
loverA,f tP TM ° f I*" 8 " lba als0 wa " dis-
covercd. This substaDco iB largely used.
is valuable whenever transportation
fucilitics can bo hail, and it iq nnt uirain
Shoals' 65 Lmirt b6 * ’° g wantin B at Anthony's
Shoals. Laud owners along Broad river
“?„!***“*• deep interest in the present de-
thIrtnsp I e a nffid7oU^ 0 win b r y cap b6 grt
Brunswick Advertiser: Yesterday at noon,
when the sun was shining its hottest, Mr.
FTnnkino ® gitl CaUie 0T ® r to Hr.
?“ pki , n .** i? at ‘"oss tho street, to let him
know that his sidewalk was afiro. Upon
inuL°b^ r ' HnpWns fonnd a blaze com,
Ing np between tho cracks of the plnnka.
othff ha<1 h ? pnt il ont lhan bo noticed
other places smoking. He then commenoed
i^ P . e —“Hf 8, T bmTa ? b* draw his
rilE INSIDE OF ATLANTA. I ‘W" Ticnlion and the Gov-
fivofv “ answer to it was tho occasion of a
lively and somewhat heated tilt between
EVIDENCE BEFORE MR. HtTFF'ri IN
VESTIGATING COMMITTEE,
foot across the plank it would tnko^tire^'a P n ' tb ® rais tb ® *ub. Granting tfca‘t there
dogs traok on the walk would lmmi.st.ui- ja crookedness, which is by no means es-
I'arsgrapha Clipped from tho Telegraph'*
State Exctiuoge..
There will be a reunion of tho Confeder
ate soldiers of Laurens county on the 22d
ot July to enjoy a barbecue and patriotio
speeches.
Chas. 8. Blun, ot Savannah, who was
convicted in the Superior Oonrt laat fall of
keeping a gambling house, and who jumped
bis bond and tied, hss been arrested in New
York and will be returned to Georgia.
William Canadv and A. 0. Kemp, two
good citizens of Emanuel county and tor a
long time trienda, became involved in a dif
ficulty one day last week and Canady was
shot iu the breast end seriously wounded.
Monday, at Goggansville, Stephen Col
bert, thirteen years old, attempted to cross
the railroad while ajreight train wu (tend
ing on ihe traok. me train started while
lie wu between two can, and bie right leg
wu so badly crushed as to necessitate am*
putation.
During the progress of a Salvation Army
meeting in Augusta Friday night Mrs Lan-
ham, one cf the looal workers of the army,
wu struck in Ihe forehead by a brick
thrown from the outskirts of tho crowd and
very seriously wounded. The criminal has
not been caught.
On Friday last, fourteen miles north of
Blackshear, at Kelley's turpentine still, Mr.
G. B. Line, superintendent of Mr. W. O.
Jackson's still, of Savsnuth, wu stabbed
twice, ones near the heart, and the other
wound about four inches lower down, by a
negro employe. Mr. L. is In a critical con-
diuoD. The negro is still at large.
The diseovery of oil ia Wilkes county is
exciting a good deal of interrst. TheWsih-
ington Chronicle says there is no question
of the discovery cf a most excellent duality
of petroleum oil aod the gu can be easily
discerned ono hundred feet away from the
sonree. We look forward with great iiiter-
eat to the further development of the dis
covery,
Dublin Gazette: It is reported that Tom
Tipion, who was killed by his acoomplioe,
Joe M. Weaver, in the attempt to a.tas»inate
old man Joe Perry some time ago, made bis
appearanoe to his wife and children on one
dey of last week. The family followed him
all around the premises and through the
neighborhood. There is great excitement
in the neighborhood over the dead man's
return.
^At a meeting ot the stockholders of the
Northeastern railroad at Athena Wednee-
*“oa.M , dey, a resolution wu adopted donating the
pied, , northern end of the rood, from Cornelia to
a tor | Tallulah Falls, to W. B. Thomu, on con-
sou waa horn in London county, Va., on
the 15th day of March, 1701. She wm
married March 11, J810, removed to Geor-
ia in 1817, and joined the Salem Creek
iipUst church, Hancock county, Ga., Octo
ber 15, 1827. Mrs. Jackson is the mother
ol ten children, has thirty-one grandchild
ren and eighty-one great-grandobildren—
making a grand total ot 122 descendants.
She is still in good health for one of her
advanoed ago, and ia oa spry as many wom
en much younger. Tho husband of Mrs.
Jackson fought in the war of 1812, for
which aetvlce ahe draws a pension from the
government
The Banner-Watchman aaya that a few
days since a large abed on Hon, James M.
Smith’s farm, at Crawford, beneath which
were four fino separators, which coBt from
$300 to $500 each, hts plantation' small
wagona and a miscellaneous collection of
farm imnlements and machinery, wua blown
down daring a severe wind storm, totally
demolishing everything beneath it. Tho
top of the shed waa made into a loft and
filled with fodder and cotton seed, that
broke into splinters ever} thing beneath it.
From the wreck CoL Smith collected the
remnants of two separators, but the drums
and on* or two bits of iron wero all that
wu left unbroken. Mr. John Smith, the
Colonel's nephew, went to work with these
remnants and has succeeded in rebuilding
two of the separators that do os good work
os those froh from the faotory.
Early County News: A dog belonging to
Mrs. Martha Perry, who lives fonr mile)
above here, jumped up on the well curbing
oce day last week to qneneb bis thirst from
the well bucket, Wnile thus eugaged ho
lost his balance, and down into the well ha
went The well is thirty-five feet deep.
He toon sung out for help, which brought
Josh and Jim Perry to his rescue. They
procured stops and let down to tho dog
which they soon succeeded in getting him
to take in ms mourn, when they began to
pull, the dog holding on, bnt he had not
got far when his hold gave way, and Dock
into the wnier he felL The second pass was
made with the same result. Tho third
time he swung on to the rope with his teeth
until the top was reached, when ho bopped
off, a wet, but wiser dog. HU name is
Henry G. Tamer, which perhaps accounts
for bU good sense in holding on to the rope,
to free himself from his perilous position.
LaFayette Messenger: When Henry Pope
wu tried all felt that bis fate depended np.
on the evidence of the young lady. If that
was against him oonviotion was certain.
This wu bnt natural. Thedeepresentment
felt against the foulest cf crimes swayed
the community. All were anxious to see
the nntrsgo wiped ont in blood. When
Miss Kendrick said be was the man convic
lion speedily followed. Bat since the trial
the pusion of the hour hu passed. Cool,
sober, second thought has rolad, and the
strength of an unshakable alibi, proved by
six disinterested, reliable and separate wit-
m s.es was recalled, and to-day lolly two-
thirds of the people of Chattooga are con
vinced that the wroDg man hu been found
guilty. So overwhelming is this sentiment
that It ia said that tho sheriff and deputy,
sheriff, good and true men, will resign rath
er than execute the mandates of the law np-
on ono whom they believe gmltlws of the
orirne. Chattoog.'s duty b plain She is
miking her record, but it will be a (air one.
Her citizens have never f.iled her when
duty was the question of the hour, and
they will keep her honor ..right.
The Washington Chronicle prints the
following as the latest news from the oil
region of Wilke* : Mr. EL A. Richards
returned from '.he oil region yesterday. Mr.
R. went down on Monday for the purpoae
of making farther teat*, and give* a moat
o."-~~T.— -““Walk would immediately
* blaa0 - No place on tho sidewalk
would gnite from this friction except that
where tho snu had power-the least hlnzo
? reTent “• Tha blaze as de
scribed to ns was similar to that of
brandy afire—a sort of bluish cast. As
Mr ' Ho P kina ba< i satisfied himself
,5 at lb ,“®. T ' r ® matches or sulphur on
tho wala. he sprinkled the melt
and thus put on end to the phenomenon.
rlS "’.•day b ® visited the scene and
tried sovera 1 oxp -nminta, bnt could gain no
results like that of yesterday. Wo saw,
however, the charred places on the side
walk cansed by the phenomenon of the
day before. One peculiarity about the
nitih .mM 1 fc l 5 H** dry plank free from
“?*•**« flr ®- Tnose out of whioh
the pitch had been drawn would not igoite.
phenomenon?** eXplal “ thia
There was considerable shooting at tho
^ n il y ' S . 6Ten m ‘, le post on th « Bruuswick
and Weatrrn railrcad Tuesday night. Spen-
cer Bros., who leasedn sawmill at that
point from W. A. Prontioe, hu Bhut down
‘ ba “ ll l<m account of‘rouble In the
oonrt. When Mr. Prentice yesterday took
a gang of men and took possession and be
gan cleaning np, Mr. B. Spencer, who wu
at home, attempted with his pistol in hand,
to order the Prentice men away. One H
W. Carene stepped up to him and took bis
pistol from him and ordered him away
Spencer left Prontice in possession, bnt the
next train brought hts brother, and the Spen
cers together with a orowd of their triends
were holding a consultation, when sudden
ly a load of buckshot wu fired into them.
Four persons were hit. John Steele receiv-
cd two bullets in Ins right hand and ono in
ins left arm. Elijah Jacobs received feur
bullets in Ms back, and tho 8penoer bovs
u"® 8llR , h A ly b bnt not seriously injured.
William WigginB stood behind opost, while
sixteen shots were fired at him. He was
not touched, tho post protecting his body
He returned the fire from this position
Brother., John Steels and
William Wiggins were arrest, d and takon
to Jesup, Wayne county, for proscoution.
Prentice is in possession, bat it is feared
moro troublo may result later.
i ^ b * Eagle gives the particu
lars of the killlog of William Callaway, a
desperado of Union county, on Monday
Jut, by a sheriff's posse. It appears that
this men Callaway was under indictment
by the grand jury for some crime, and that
a oapiaB wu In the hands of Sheriff Well
born, of that couuty. Callaway wu a des-
psrato character, and had boaatod that ha
would not submit to arrest. The sheriff
and his deputy, Mr. M. J. Williams, ol Gad-
diatown, determined to execute the warrant,
however, and took atepatodoso. Etohof
theso officers summoned a small posio
and proceeded to tho residence of Calla
way. Deputy Williams was Brat on the
ground, and found Callaway and two of his
sons at work iu a field, all heavily armed.
On going up they were soon discovered by
Callaway, who instead of flurreuderiug as
ho was ordered to do commenced firing on
the deputy with a pistol. Williams return
'd ‘ha fire without efieot Callaway then
made for and succeeded in getting hold of
a ahot-gun, and wm In tho very act of
shooting Williams, when one or two of
the p.ase fired on him and brought him
down. About this time one of Callaway’s
sons, who was srmod with a rifle, fired on the
posse, wounding ono of them in the arm.
The other aon in the meanwhile was making
for another gun, which they had with them
in tho field, bnt was cat off by tho sheriff's
party and arrested. The one that used the
rifle mode his escape, and had not been cap
tured up to last acoounts. The man Calls,
way only lived about half an hour after be
ing shot down by the officers. It wu in-
deed a fight with desperadoes, and Mr.
IV illiams and bis usisUnts aro to be con
gratulated on their escape.
Valdosta Times: Lang Howell and J. Q
Roes, both respectable colored citizens of
thia town and county, went up to Thoma*.
ville last Wednesday morning on a matter
of business. They boarded tho east bound
Albany express on their return to Valdosta
and took a seat in the car reserved for
white passengers. VtLen Ooodaotor Mur-
roll cams through the train jaat after leav
ing ThomMvillo ho informed Boss and
Howell that the rules of the company forbid
Mlored pa*senger* riding in that coach ■
.uui too same w.a tor the exclusive uso of
the White* and th-t they must move np to
tho coach reserved for their race which
wu eqoal in every particular to tho
car they had token. Rossreplied: "Wchave
paid tho regular fare, and we don't intend
to leave thia car. It eults us very well and
we will remain here." Conductor Murrell
again remonstrated with his colored parsen-
gers, but to no avaiL He doted the con-
vernation by laying that ha would expect
them to change cars as he had requested.
Hhen the train reached Boston the canduc-
tor says that ha thought no more of the
matter, believing the two men would follow
their better judgments and take seats in tho
car providea for their accommodation. Be
fore the train left Boet in three men boarded
tbe carin which Boss and Howell wero
seated and wslking up to them, ask
ed what they were doing in
the white people's couch and
demanded their immediate exit. Boss, who
is a bright mulatto snd quite an intelligent
man, g.ve vary much the same answer he
had made to the conductor. Whereupon
Roes received as*rare blowon theh.ad knd
was carried to the door by his unknown
escort,. Ling Howell in the nuantime had
ltlt the car. No ono seems to have known
the men, but it is thought they are reeidents
s. 1>.,.. UU . uuenli-jss reached the smok-
hil "oondu, from
which the blood was flowing Ireelv Con.
doctor Mnrr.ll appeared and (tpreaUd^ his
.urpm. at what k -d happened, lie rui hl
l’d ®®'know the partie. who Lad made the
SAQlt upon Uom.
Tb. lever at Key IV...,
k«ilVr , ,T'Fu,J M , 28. '2here have
been four new c^e* cf fever vesler-
d ^ hH - , ' a ® »«oid no*
\ U a ' T ? t81 “a*" 10 d* 1 ®. <2; death* IS
■tek now, 14; drachargad. 10 ’ '
Senator Drown Makes an Interesting Wit-
ness-The ChargM of Cruelty Fall of
l*roof-Tho Public School'* Close
—Personal Notes, Etc.
Atlanta, June 21 —Tho pending invest!-
gation which i s being made by a special
oommitteo ot tho House is ouvering a great
deal of ground and bringing out miacelUnc-
ous matters of considerable Interest, bnt
' b8r °‘ 8 . do ? bt H anything ha9 ye . bw ' n ao .
complishcd or will bo accomplished ill the
way of discovering abuse or 111 treatment
of oonvicta by tho lessees cr those under
thrm in authority. The chairman of the
committee, Hou. W. A. Huff, of Bibb is
shrewd, sagacious and anspicicu). He is
hostile to the leue law and tho convict ays-
tem, and if there ia southing orooked he
may be relied on to prize
it out, _ if it can be prized.
tablished, the committee is confronted by
° e ?“'® r Brown, president of No. 1, and
OoL V. B. Lowe and Capt. J. W. English,
who are at the head of companies 2 and 3.
They ore well able to take care of them
selves in anything like an investigation into
their bnsinosa affairs.
to pat’s toocbidisos.
Capt. English was put on ihe stand again
this morn.ng. He has been examined at
some length before, and much of his
testimony hu been already n ported. He
was quci tinned u to the polioy of improv
ing the unblio roads of tho Slate with con-
viot labor. He thbnght it would bo impos
sible to even approximately oatimato the
benefits to the 8mt3 of good publio roads,
but ho waa of the opinion that they oonid
bo worked with freo labor much more
economically and with decidodly better
results thau with the convicts. The man
agement of oonviols by contractors is
always less expensivo than when they are
worked by the State, os is well estab
lished by the history of Georgia.
The only advantage tho tjtate
would havo in working the
convicts is in the matter of labor, which
would be more than counterbalanced by
other chorges. It would bo tho same Id
working the convicts on farms. Captain
English sa d if he worked tho oonviats at
farming, there would have to bo one guard
for ovury six laborers, ono mule for every
two bands and other expensive equipment,
and th© cost for food, ctothibg aod guards
would be at least 45 oonts n day for each
conviet. It would oost tho State more to
feod tho convlota, because publio sontiment
would probably cause them to be fed better
—to be given more luxuries. He could not
see any profit in the business.
BESATOU SHOWN TALUS,
Senator Joseph E. Brown's carriago pull-
ed np at the Mariotta street ontranoo to the
oapitol at 10 o'clock, and in a few minutes
that distinguished statesmau entered the
committee room and calmly submitted him
self to examination.
Thoro wm nothing in the Senalor’a ap
pearance to Indicate feebleness or 111 hoaltti.
He looked hearty and strong, and If the
ambitious gentlemen iu Georgia who have
of lata begun to take an interest in his Sen
atorial shoes oonid have seen him thia
morning it would oertalnly havo made them
weary. All tho members of tho eommitteo
in addressing him used the old title of
"Governor," and your oomspondent will
fall into line.
Governor Brown informed the oommitteo
that he is president of penitentiary oom-
pany No. 1, tho Dado Oo.d Company, being
the lessoe. His first connection with tho
oonvicta was under the act of 1874, when
the Dado Coal Company leMed ono hun-
dred for five years. Iu 1878, under tho eot
of 1878, the Dade Coal Company became
penitentiary oompany No. 1, and took
under tho leMe oontract 300 able-bodied,
long-term men. No. 1 has also purchased
an interest in No. 2 snd 3, owning 12J pei
cent, of No. 2 (Lockett’s) and onedoorth
of No. 3 (Grant A Alexander's). Governor
Brown is the largest stockholder in the
Dade Goal Company. Tho others are Wm.
U. Morrill, Julies L. Brown and Jacob W.
Heaver, of Boston.
Governor Brown said tho State has sub
stantially kept her coutract with him In ro-
Rurd to the 300 convicts. Owing to the
expiration of terms of scntcnco it has been
difficult to do this literally, and sometimes
he hM had lees than 3,0; at other limes
more, but tho effort to oarry out its oon
tract Lm always been honest and he has
heen sutlstled. Ha Lm no partnership
liability with the otheroompanies, althongb
interested in them. He is not chargeable
with their bad management, nor credited
with their good management of the
convicts, nor liable on their
bonds. He did not remember to ever
have made an estimate aa to tho fntnre in
crease in tho nnmbcr of oonviols, hut
probably did do so. He certainly never
mado an estimate that the number would
reach 3,000 during tho period of the present
l-S'.
vat.cz or Tea convicts.
The Governor was very frank in speak
ing -1 the vaino cf tho lease tohiscom;iany.
Ha thinks bis mines and iron interests
conld bo worked profitably without the con
victs, but to much greater profit with them.
Even in the one item of avoiding strikes
—c convicts arc vact.y neore vaiuabie to
the company than free labor. His company
employs some free labor, bnt work convicts
almost exclusively in the minds, Thero
they have only two or three hired laborers,
to whom they pay about $1.50 a day.
ronvriTXD LEASES.
The committee desired the Governor’s
opinion m to the duty of Governor GordoD,
under tho taw. in the event he declared the
leue of either of the companits forfeited
say No. 3. Gov. Brown thought it would
be clearly tho duty of the Governor to re
lease. The convicts would not have to be
offered to the other companies. However,
the law provides an alternative penally for
a violation of the contract. There would
not necessarily be a forfeiture, os tho law
provides that tho Governor may,initead sue
for and recover $5(x) for each subletting,
eta Of course, a forfeiture would alT#;ot
the interest held by Nob 1 and No. 3, which
in case of an absolute forfeiture would be
lost, although he thought that would bo
reasonably and equitably adjusted. On
another question upon which the committee
has laid conhitierable stress the right of
lessees to pell or tranjfer their interi-Ht*,
Gov. Brown paid it was abiolately clear
that the atockholdr rj had a perfect right to
** n The companitH have no such riuht.
the Governor amt Mr. Huff. In comi“
insisted th«t t n k 0, i r "'forward Mr. Huff
't * ha ‘ bo ha, > the Governor if
Ihft hJ nber ° f ““vein had fallen so low
hnnnrt to d .‘!, n l Ret 100 ’ if h ® feel
, b h 0 ''“d'o.pay the State the flxtd hire, and
,? OT8rnor ri 'l' T li "l b ® should refuse to
sneh answcr\" ra0r Brown 8ft *d, "I made no
Mr. fluff— “You certainly did ”
t Ss» { I did not. What
takeLfln t mt tb ° ICSH0B 00l “* ra ®t was to
“5? f, 1 “i 0 c °nvicf*, whatever the number,
on »ii *^ ero H dterennc the
would be bound for the $25 000. If th«
UDd’erarn*! 8blB bo , ai ®d. long-term men fell
pay the f?xe<7too ” k ° ^ tb6r6 W, ‘ 8! ‘" d
asked yonfo.overnoT" 8 ^ ^ 1
Brown—“Tken I did not un-
dtrstand your qneatlon, and I desire the
answer recorded as I hnvo just stated it.”
ff. a T * Pbe stenographer’s notes,
then, will show who Is oorreot"
fc®"Urawm—"Oh, well, print It just
Lae j ju want it; bnt that is tho answer I
mHdo to your question." f
# vK Hoff—don’t propose to print any-
t nlLg. I wouldn’t have asked such a foolish
question as you say I did.”
Governor Brown: "Well, I would not
navemade such a foolish answer as yon said
nm be . GoT ? rnor allowed himself to got a
llllle testy, bnt tho troubled waters were
800n H illed nnd (ho Inwaatj^.il^ *
smoothly. Tho stenographer was'nnahle at
tho moment to Settle the little controversy
by reference to his notes, hut they will be
eubmitted to both gentlemen to-morrow.
REPOBMINO THE CROnNALS.
While there is some littlo effort made at
, ca ®ps toward tho reformation of con
victs, Governor Brown does not think there
is any great hope in the reformation of any
of then), although the vory worst might bo
reclaimed. Tho company pays a preacher
to preach to tbe convbta, and Dade county
pajB one. Besides tho convicts are sup
plied with tracts, and efforts made to got
them to read them. The negroes who were
born and raised in slavery, aro
mucu better subjects for r
formatinn—eftflier to teach than the
town negroes who aro hopelessly hardened*
The Governor thinks it would bo hotter to
separato tho different grades of criminals as
• k ut the great difficulty is iu
classifying them. He would bo glad to bo
nd of the women, children, and imbeoiles
but the State cannot toko them uway with-
out tho consent of the lessors. On tho
question of oounties working their own
oonvicta tho Govornor sni:l that cv. ry oon-
vlotcd relon belonged to the leasees and tho
taw would see that they got them. Ho did
not bolieve In working oonvicta on farms,
and would not oxpoot to make money farm
ing them. If ho farmed witli them lio
would want Rood land,at least $10 per acre
allowing an average of twontj-flvo acros to
each convict, half as many mules ns hands
—a plow to each hoo. With twelvo or fif
teen hundred oonviols and tho necessary
grounds added, os wtll os tho food and
clothing, it is easy to boo what kind of an
investment tho Stato would ho required to
mako.
Tho afternoon session was occupied in
the examination of Dr. Houck, who was
* or ttn ^ ft years physician
n \[ fn °j dt0 . WD » lb® plantation camp
or T. L- James. Tho only miatreatiuout
and cruelty ho witnessed daring that period
was during Juno, July and Angnst of last
year, by Whipping Boss Simpson, who
cruelly and brutilly whipped the convicts.
Two or throe of them died from tho effects.
The whipping was ho outrageous in August
that bimpson was discharged. Dr. Houck
•aid he wm diaokargod us soon us James
heard of hUcoudnoh
Tho oommitteo adjourned to July 6th
the day the Legislature meets. The ooml
mittco will Yiait tho Chattahoochee camps
to-morrow morning, at invitation of lossees.
Tli# Governor'* Hair.
Atlanta, Juuo 25.—Governor Gordon re
ceived a very pretty note to-day from a
oharming young lady in Thomaston askioa
for a lock of hU hair. His Bzcelleney felt
rather dubiously among hiB gubernatorial
locks and finally wroto to the little miss
that ho had been married most too long to
be able to comply with her request, but
would send a photograph insUiut. When
lira. Gordon reads this in th.i Teleobu®
to morrow ahe will have good grounds for
giving the Governor a very plo-jiant Sunday
at the Mansion.
Nearly every week brings the Governor a
letter advising him that his name has boon
conferred on some very juvenile Georgian
A letter to-day from a household heretofore
hi* Hn<-d with five girl babies rejoiceH that
the hiilk visitor is a bouncing boy, and
nothing will 6uit the occasion but that he
shall be named aftor tho Governor. I am
twdiMy informed that tho oomspondsneo
of this character at tho executive oflice is
the only thing that approaches in numbers
tho lotters received on tho subject of par
dons. r
sell.
The Supreme Court, has wo^htld in the liti
gation betwthn Nos. 2 and 4, aod the Mari
etta and North Georgia railroad, and the
.State Legislature Las no power to interfere
in the matter.
A hHORTAOE JM THE NUMBER.
Governor Brown was a»ked with some
emphasis, aa though a question of some im
portance, what he nhould do if he did not
get his 3M) oonvirts at any time -«ay only
1'^ whether he would be bound to pay to
the State the fixed hire.
The Governor said he did not think the
Bute would act in such bed faith with Hitn
A Vagrant .Mado Happy.
Atlanta, June 25.—Ono of the official
acts of the Governor to-day was the pardon
of LUa Laugstone who waa convioted at the
May term of the Superior Court, of Musco
gee county, of the offense of vagrancy, and
sentenced to air months in the chain-gang.
The county physician mado an affidavit that
the woman waa suffering from heart dis-
AiUA ( whi^h would wltaVU — Ia a . ••
unless ahe was nl*M«£ Xh e j’li.ige' olthe
oonrt an l a number of the county offloials
jorneJ in the petition for her pardon
t.leu,"i.iy in tt Case (-f.tl.i9 kin I is njibing
short of humanity. °
Cured liy h Slndil...,
Atlanta, June 25.—Stephen Carr, the
young white nun who was bitten several
days ago by a marl dog is happy. Ho se
cured a mad:,tone, which was applied to the
wound three times. Tho first time it stuck
tixty minutes and fell off. The second
time it stuck five minnteu an dropped and
tho third timo it did not adhere at all a
sure sign that all tha virus h*d been ex
tracted. The young man f.-eU well nnd
hM been pronounced ont of danger.
The Convict ra.ru | n the City.
Atlanta, Juno 2tk—Oa the Markham
Homo MBtster to day appeared the name ef
"James M. Smith, Wintervilk." Colonel
hrnlth is the convict lessee whose Ogle
thorpe camp wm last woek the subject of a
big sensation. It wm fortunate that an of-
flciAl Investigation so promptly and thor-
ouglil) exploded tho grave charges which
reached the publio, as it enabled a com-
plfcte correction of tho reports as well as a
complete vu.dication of the lessee. Colonel
hrmtb was naturally inffigoaut at the char
acter of the attack maJe on his manage
ment of the convict*, but he still shown up
as clever and genial as ever. He won
called on to-day by numbers of friends who
congratulated him on tie result of the in
vestigation. Among the viaitors this after
noon we* T. Ia. James, one of the lesacec,
whoee Oidtown convict camp was severely
bandied Friday by I)r. Hauck, a witness
before the investigating committee.
Colonel Smith Li just from Wmterville,
and is on his way to Macoo, to look after
some business interests in connection with
his railroad contracts.