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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH established im ■^aSIngton. I MAC-ON, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1888.-TW ELY E PAGES. THOLHK’S C ASE. iminiit tee on Klcetinns'l akes up ill** C om* | test Ou*r Mr. C'arli•*!**'** Sent. •r’s Course Toward I WAM " N,iT " Ni •'" ,,uar - v »•«« « 1 f ’ ,u tin* House committee on elec- • of procedure VOL. LXII., NO. 39. ' :it . Speake Mr. Randall. full I tions r jTHE LATTER'S PROGRAMME l ti the Thoebe-Carlisle •tar.t Tlioelie w.-i> j.n snii with his A Hooker, of this to Vfhc •.tv. ObjMO°n _ lloiue CoroniUl.-o Ix-a.l Au _Tlu* IicutmLy C oiite-t I tin* Hlatr Rill j Thoeh i mittee < .i • formally represented the speake SyplM-r ' h.-ffan tlx- pr.-K.-nPition ..f ; 100 empl- •- lose mimed lately after the eom- ...).„ ... .* had been enlled to order, bringing up (Thoebe) easy; to let me know my ease was gone." | U ood also told him on several oeeusioiiK that j money could he made out of the ease. Other j persons had told him the sutne tiling. I Democratic workers, one of them witness' ' brother, had called upon him and had re marked that if he would not push the ease lie could make money out of it, and a thou sand dollars was a good thin); to have. If the ease were re-opened it would be found that lie was elected hv 000 majority, and 'dated Macon Tr.uwr.A 515 Fot'KTI'KNTIt P brief a Ire, nd wiiieli that the State elect! in tin- appointment submitted with the >111110, as the basis of j Washington. January 7, liscrimiMtins readers of these shave,perhaps,caught fore glim|»* p jjjp g real position in the matter of .Til istment. Mr. Randall lias been 4 higldy honored in himself and his ..in m in mittee appointments. He has .alimented by being called upon by i edefor advheiu concerns of party Some of the Speakers warm Vu Late doubted if this kind of treat- . 0 ( Randall would not re- , t , j u making him more 2 ; eked on the principle of more given Jr? demanded. But.Mr. Carlisle is very n*j minded, and moreover, is an astute . He «ees that if the Democratic r i> to get along with Mr. Randall at all U treat kirn with all respec t and deny do honor* and confidence that lie may be idcredby any large number of Democrats tentitled-io on the score of services and •i in. Afterward, it the Pennsylvanian ; A 1 himself unworthy of the trust re- ^ in hi*, a trust continued througli re ed irtf of treachery, the country would Astevery honorable anti rational means ! evu retorted to to secure the unity of Democratic party and the success of its litre is nothing disingenuous inCarlisle’s (■ratof the protection leader, lb* is a uif above board in his policy. It is a rVnf peace and good will. If it fail of d remit*' in the direction of persons ladwith consideration it mayor may tppointMr. Carlisle. It will not disnp- 'jine who have watched and distrusted HUH, but it will do this: it will leave i* r defenseless before the American . This policy cannot fail of good .itjtopen* the eyes of tin* people of unity to the enormity of Randall's mm; As to the course of the protec- 1'f.ltron tariff reform at this -mm, .. a* certainaa any statement could ihjc« i It may be imidieitl ij .. *fr. Randall will stij bill:. J v. lie -ommittec did •111 41 f bis e, he said, This infraction of the in ‘■utticieiit to warrant favo of Thoebe’s claim, blit if the f not agree in this view, lie was f present evidence to satisfy t client’s election. The rerun! ah 1 would not reveal the facts in tiu K was the duty of the eommittee to at once s send a committee to the district to ascertain the facts while it could be done. Already portant papers had been destroyed, as he »ared to prove by affidavits. ; up the details of the ease Mr. Sy- plier said that on the night of the election it liecanie apparent to the judges of election at Covington that Mr. Carlisle had been defeated by more than If,000 votes. At one o'clock they sent for Mr. Carlisle, and brought him in a carriage to the house of a friend. He (Sypher) could give the name of the friend that the Dei the House ai as against (Tim judges of sertiM) was , (T | 1 „ l .|„., ha ,| ra,, i\"! for tin- lost Hire- Tati' J the location of the h/ww* L not do so unle-- the committee urged him to do so, ns lie did not wi-h to state all he knew at tins stage of the ea-e. After con sulting with Mr. Carlisle, they telegraphed to have the returns of outaide counties with held/* “Who are ‘they?*** inquired Mr. Heard. “They? why, mends of Carli*!*/' replied Mr. Sypher. A I. LEG KI> FRA V DS. Counsel said that it was a fact that the returns of six outlying counties were with* held for five days, and Mr. Carlisle had pub licly confessed that he was defeated. " Yju do not attach any importance to this point,’* suggested Mr. Heard. “No. 1 iu-t mention,” ii replied Mr. Sypher. ““Hayes, I think’confcsseu defeat at first,” said Mr! Heard. “Yes,” replied Mr. Sypher, “and I think he ought to have stuck to it.” Counsel said that in seven of eight precinct* of Carol I county the noil books were written, signed ing and it was evident that all of them must have been w riu«*n .mi r the election bv one man, a.4 lie could not have been in all the preei the affidavit J. Pi In the paper Pi support eulia of tin differ- Ct Jo •It.. Ill failed I ! I se nJUuctu lb.- nly r. Carlisle •gleet. I a Home preeini in ted until after:: o’eloe ally no ei.-.-lion hi hi i 1 on* ca-e ..111 \ tb«- thrv- w aunty “00 votes 1 rT.^ buu tbe raHra ^ when he had left his factory on Wednesday, yes there had not been a man not said that he knew was elected, but that it was NO good; oerats w ere in the majority in d would not give him the seat neb a man us Carlisle. He a strong Democrat, but four years had In*. n an Independent. If the committee refused to reopen the ease the workingmen would sav: “Had Tlioebe been a Democrat, or had fie been P. lawyer, theV Would have listened to him.” Let the committee show the toiling millions either that Thoebe was elected or not elected. That wan all they asked. Th* y wanted fair l>lav. If the case was decided against him lie would go hack to his factory and to work, but (significantly) he would not quit voting. Mr. Cooper—“If things are as you say, what is the use of voting?” Thoebe.—“That is what 1 say.” The commitiee at inis point took a recess for half an hour. After recess Thoebe’s counsel cited precedents to justify the com mittee in rc-opening the euse. Thev presen ted a resolution that the papers in the eas** be printed and referred to a select commit tee of -even members to be charged with the inve-tigation of the conduct of the late Con gressional election in the sixth districted Ken tucky. The eommittee then went into secret session. In secret session the proceedings were confined to the reading of w>v«»r»l affi davit.-, and w ithout an attempt to come to an agreement upon the propositions submit* ted by Mr. Thoebe and nis counsel, the com mittee adjourned until to-morrow, when some action is likely. A QUEER ACQUITTAL. The Ijiw Succeeded in Me Ill pills by a Ma jority Vote of the Citizens. Memphis, January 0.—'Thi* community was .startled by a sensation this morning ip the Criminal Court, when Attorney General Peters arose, just after court had been con vened, and moved that all indictments, ••ighty-two in number, pending against Presi dent D. P. liadden, l ire and Police Commis sioner Jas. .Lee, jr., Councilman John W. Randle, County trustee A. J. Harris, and Wharf master Patiik Kal. hr, be dismissed, w hich was don** without consent or knowl edge of these gentlemen, by Judge J. J. Dubose, in a prepared opinion, in w hich he said that he accepted the result of yester day’s election as equivalent to the verdict of a jury finding the above named persons not guilty «,f the offenses for which they had -evi rally been indicted. In expliuation of the action of Judge Du* l Mi*ei' it may lie said that at an election a rd’ay for taxing district officers,the oil * he will be prepared lUuctionou imported goods, •ftmall stre/i on the latter item inos- It u there will be little that can be re- riafterthe heavy cut in internal taxes. THE PLAIRBJLL.- IkCaodler, who ia chairman . : :L• . m ike on education, has said, and repeats bf, that he will not vote for any hill “hfire* authority toan officer of the In- r Ik-jmrtraent to ouestion the State of pa whether she had or bad not ol>- •i certain requirements of the law to * her to draw her quota of money for / v , 7* * -- .. - -— — fhcichools. He will vote for a bill grant- °, no °‘.“ e I ,oU books after the signature* of [iid to schools without such condition or tI,e J uJ K c * been affixed. Counsel then [ wpeniiiou by Federal government be would itate something which he had 1 lu.-.it i-.iiul ! JGiid.mt I.. -iipp.M-. but wbieli ...iihl U l*ill be enacted. The committee is dead I proved by witneasea. After the it, and 10 is the President North Miction s«*ven of Mr. Carlitile’* M, often quoted us the most zealous I |nrt In conference at the Federal kin the South in behalf of the bill is I building to endeavor to wive him. They (jMjjually divided, with the measure **nt for an eiglith gentleman, a prominent ■k»r Uf..... -• and honorable gentleman, Colonel Nelson. OTED next day. runty there wo* practically no election. He could -how that voters had failed to goto the polls on election day, but when they found that Mr. Carlisle had been defeated they voted next day. Not only was this the case in Carroll county, hut also in every one of the outlying counties. Counsel quoted from the statement of J. J. IHakcly, who was, he said, a prominent Democrat and ...vm.v.« t „ w an attorney of Covington, to the effect tluit Vr qMto of' money Tor twenty.fou'r name. up|icamlto l.e n.Mcl to •, 1 .» • ... — I nnA ,.t tlu» t.i.ll Ititi.L* o 11 ItnF tli.k Liiriinltiro. ..t ll'/.il* tor * 1 * 1 * than n }c;ir ago. ™ r* lament of some of her members. »weetion* committee to-day decided to IJM con.ideration of tlie Thoelie. •Knonine week in order te pive Mr. | ™''' b / I>eru«al of the affidavit. Li~ J , b y.„ t,ie vontetant, to decide tfc H iii 'i nalke an,wer oraot. Uw 1 ."t likely to uonaume much more (lti. .1 .. 11 * introduce on Moi t< tn.V' t'J,*’ 1 ** ,rt rr |wal that li..r . S,alu,t * whieli laves Slate r' ltijf currency. l k1. °I Georgia memheni: ' v A* ‘I'! 1 Stewart are at* 418 Sivtli k\ : u- ■’ Slr - Gmdtorl* at llli> II W - C.W.H. ®0SW| CONTEST. < ' ato I’o.tpoae.1 fo.- "a-Utter From Mr. CnrlUle. 0T0 *> D. C., January fl.—Tlie f "remittee of the llouic met at noon r,“ cr "‘ r " i<m - —-«■ --..--I fctod «atn £j*5 lr **** e l 1Ir ' CuS.ll ® aturda y in order to I, Z SCf "Hr* * If U it* 018 tt ll uvl t. preaentod VI". ■ion There wo.; no r'llurrMU*? 01 ’ 0 m 1 "" 1 *°hinitted by tw&SSSt- to the [l* ‘flMr U.""? 1 '' WiU . noti * Iftowtd., ' , ™ r Jthec..imnittec next • I* SS fcSKg'y argto toted ,1. i , .retion of the com- *Ub0UlhJ,, n h ° ur . L loiw/* r* 0- **■ cAtu.mut ^jlowitig Utter wa. l a |,| before ,he ^onZlru ri ' P ’ Chairman Committee ; _ -'.in c,f ^‘ r: * ' p ani from the toissu,-* bjr ** and ii *° reopen l* to taken ** eddilional hirlance h.^n"" “ 1 h » v * had WDSTJra “ “••aahtovlu 1 toK leave ^■“r ZTy^rrir.r- examine the p.v 1 tot'loet uaon me Injimato any im- p'to". either hT!**** ** tthtomto I" read, n»-V. lori «« «S»r It [“*i>ih.r IhinmTn a ®'h«Tl», bat to... “** Wthe | J knowledge ami 1 tOlpn i™^. U, to n ,m ! i!‘ h ' mittee. »Uy* tonding 1, du„ Me 7*J •■»ii4g5Kg.w«WS y full lB ««wpecuVli They told him tliat Mr. Carlisle had been de feated, and they wanted him to confer with them to decide «ome means of changing the result. Thereupon Colonel Nelson took Ills hat and left, saying that if they were up to anything of tho; sort they must count him out. Mr. Carlisle did not contradict this. “This gentleman,” said Synlier, “is a Demo crat npd a Kentucky gentleman of a* high standing ns Mr. Carlisle.** THO HUE’S AFFIDAVIT. Thoebe’s affidavit wo* next read, wherein he uceuses Wood of delaying the taking of iotimonyvuid with telling Jiim(Tlioebe)thaL there might he money in it for both of them if he would withdraw the contest. Sypher declared tluit there was -enough evidence in hi* brief to warrant the committee in seating his client, but if it did not think so, certainly there was at least sufficient ground for the reopening of the case. It could be done in thn»* ways: First, by special committee, us in the Butterwortli case; second, by reopen ing the case de novo, as in his (Cypher’s) Louisiana contest in the 43rd Congress; thin], by summoning witnesses here to testify. f The Speaker, lie said, was the third officer m runk in this country, but Ju* was not big enough to occupy that scat upon a /raiidu- lent title, nor was the Democratic' parlv strong enough to maintain him in that posi tion. *If Mr. Carlisle is the hone.-t man I think he is.” said Sypher, “he will come down out of his seat and ask for the appoint ment of a eommittee to go to Kentucky and search the case. With what is 1m.* (Carlisle) here before the committee? Nothing, not even hi* certificate of election, lather he knows lie has no case, or he is going to throw himself upon the merry of the court. He has trifled with the case since the beginning. He trifled with his election, or he would have been elected.” , * p conclusion he warned the eommittee that it was known to those interested, that . , °/ old parties Imd been coquetting with the industrial party, both seeking its votes for the ne: •amp; rn, and the . i. : t.« in' 'king man (Thi re* lie luid ma ke) mittee could not nffn gate the claims of thn in the face of the disc the eommittee. HFKKCIl BY T1IK COXTElfTAXT. The cunt,.taut, Tlioelie, wn. next allowc.l a ten min He Mtiil with the to make mittee. county ago. ,. After the eleeth if he had not emni the seat; In- wonl tics, and if Mr. Cs than lie had, be oi after the elec Ton heard uinm tin* ■« w thirty- n Wood s led that n -tat* nient to the bom in the • forty-three of sixty indictment* funds and had not spp own use one cent. The conduct of Judge Dulx by the indicted officers and the * generally a* unprecedented, but i as u coinple vindication and end clash which has existed here fo year between the Criminal Court and the taxing district government. A few days ago Wharfmnstcr Kalliher pro duced documentary evidence which con vinced the at to nicy-general that he was in nocent beyond the sliadow of a doubt, and hence the dii—*— 1 “* - 1 -*- *— *- ainst him. THE WOOLFX)LK PROPERTY. The Prospect for Long Legal Fight ns to the Heirships. The lawyer* think there is a prospect of a long light over the Woolfolk property. Ordinary McManus granted-an order to Mr. C, W. Howard to administer on the estate of his sister, the late Mrs. 1L F. Woolfolk, and to sell the land and stock belonging to that estate. The daughters by the first wife of Cap tain Woolhdk, Mrs. Edwards, of Macon, and Mrs. Cowan, of Hawkinsville, anil sisters of Tom Woolfolk, who was con victed of the murder of his father, object to the sale, declaring that they are the lieire to two-third* of the estate, and that the administrator so appointed had not tdiown that a sale was necessary for distri bution among heir* or for the payment of the debts; and therefore asked througli their attorneys, Hardeman d Davis, for a writ of certiorari. The motion was heard yesterday by Judge Richard II. Clarke, Judge Gust in being disqualified. The writ was granted on the ground that there was no proof before tin* ordinary that the sale was nec essary. This of course brings the matter before the Superior C’-ourt when the ques tion of heirship will he heard, the sale being stopped in the me ntime. In con versation with a lawyer yesterday, he said this proceeding would necessarily in volve the several parties in a long litiga tion, unless the taw’s presumption gov erned the ease, lit* mentioned the old English law presumption in connection with man and wife l«.*-t at. sea. The law presumed that the wife being the weaker died first and hence her property went to her husband who was the stronger, and hi* heirs, not here, were entitled to the i*c, unless this pre sumption shall govern, or some other rule, it must be proven whether Gnpt. Woolfolk or liis wife died first. If the former, then the wifeV heirs an* entitled to the property, and the three children by the first marriage, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Cowan and Toni Woolfolk receive nothing; but, if Capt. Woolfolk died last, then the three persons named are entitled to the property. In view of the fact that this question must be determined, and that ko far there is no evidence bearing on the matter, thq opinion of the lawyer* that there is a long litigation ahead seems to be well founded. i ahead seem* to be w Macon btio}>|ilni;. Miss E. M. Ke rely Worn! that 1 not want I technicali* | } • seat. So xjunre Coltl tn Montana Belgrade, Mont.. Jai Merda iff should the pre will be heavy. i cat for! en Wood, I don’t ki ut cold snap c< YII freight tr* eager train* g* * to thirty-six h * la iturrli Ci *!. GREW,SOME WORK- Queer Patented Coffins and Graveyard Appliances. ANTI-RESURRECTION Kx-Kciintor Fmnerojr 3I.-tk<>«a Mummy of a l*lg—I>i*\ li'i". for Preventing tin* Steul'ng of Rodies- Patent Cov- «*i fit by Ezekiel I., 1«. gB | —r* Special ( orresiODdencwto MrteonTelegraph. \\ asiiim.ton. D. C., January 0.—I met him coming down F street, toward the Pen sion Offiee—a I'.-unii, pink, cheerful, elean- shaven face, bald bend and abundant figure somewhat iitiiiiliar to my eye. 1- it?—no!—yes it is! Samuel C. Pomeroy, cx-Semitor from Klnsas, afleetionately called “Sum” l»y his friends and alluded to as “Old Subsidy" by hi - enemies, who wanted to de prive the Pnciti.- Mail Steamship Company of its needed nourishment. * Under his arm he carried « newspaper package as big ns a good-sized baby. uud. us \n* m.-i l... u,:* around in front of him and paused. “(iood-bve,” I said; “you are going nwa to s|)ciid the holidays?” he towSnrirti; f! it isn't ‘oaggnge. “May I know its name?” I asked. “Pig,” he remarked, briefly. “Pig?” “Pig!” ' “What for?” “Come with me.” TIIK MEM MI FIF.D IMG I mutely obeyed the tory summons, and the quarter* of the health < on Fouranda Half stri age was unr'*Ho<i* It wa. corpse, tucii, our oc vj of his torm, weighed tit, hi* only seven jmumi.Im. The I still there, but it was a nir vou prefer, a pigikin. Th been drawn away i which the creature was ex; of t lie bodv had I: Th flax, the bone* like “We took the pig to trv the experiment with,” said Mr. Pomeroy, “and the success is absolute. In the new mausoleum and sa/c deposit for the dead the human body 1* placed where u blast of hot nir will move across it for a few sveeks, and the dedication is then perfect, the body i* as thoroughly mummified os those which have lain in the Tliebeau catacomb* for centuries. Thu* they will remain forever. It will protect society against exorbitant charges, against profana tion, against premature burial and against disease from poisoning the air.” Dr. Townsend being appealed to, declared that the mummified suckling was now com pletely innocuous; »o dry us to be inordor- ous and,harmless anywhere. “This method will he used by'many who are shocked by cremation,” said’ the projec tor: “und the cost of operation and a place of deposit for all time will be about $50 each. We snail immediately erect a mausoleum in crowded New York capable of holding 10,- 000 bodies, and so arranged that warm air will move over the remains ever)* day. It Is now obvious to everybody that the graveyard must at once he abandoned.” I visited the crude and simple dessicatorv where the pig had been slowly baked over a fire and the extracted gases had been wafted I'ttup tin* I'liiimiey tin*'. 11 li.i-l bn ii .-gr ille hre for two Week*. Pomeroy’* idea that “the graveyard must at once oc abandoned” doe* not seem to have permeated the Patent Offiee very thor oughly* a* yet. I called on Commissioner Hall, who, though not an expert, is a very intelligent and efficient head of the big bureau, and he armed me with a card to one of hi* devoted chiefs, to whom I applied. “Anything new in coffin*?** he repeated. “Well, there’s always something new la this tjuciT department. Clime of iue iuvtruinms ure so grotoque that it seems a* if they must have been made merely for amuse ment.” And he took down a package from a pigeon-hole, and run o^cr the file with his fingers, adding, “And a good many arc merely queer.” “For instance, here’s ‘the Butterdish Cof fin,’ ns it is called, because it is cylindrical and the top rotates in under, out of the way. This hud ouite a run from 1870 to 1880, hut it is since largely superseded byotherform*. For of course you know—if not, any under taker will assure vou—that fashion lias quite as much to do wftli funeral rite* aa witii any other department of human life. “Here are two colliua known to the trade as the Proud Man’* Coffin. The first is wholly* made of solid French plate glass, furni'.liing an absolutely trail-parent recep- taele, througli w bii li the i* naut r.m l>« »••• n to the very lost from all directions. The other is even more expensive and elaborately constructed—solid rosewood, with heavy silver handles—hut it has the peculiarity of of never being left at the eemeterv. It is greatly admired bv the friends ol the de- cen-Mtu and the* mourners vtlio follow it to g vault, but when they hi other, so that it enough for n • short- the whec ri- me wncel* were lifted up over against them mil for the spirit of the living creature w an in the "TIk- third, the i'amrfen nnd Amhoy coffin, loft most decutdfy.'"^^ 'tllo' ^McifirationK M.mdt of Indm Hd.Wr, m twelve sections, fora recently invented patent coffin the !ill h ,^ ‘.i n v e v“n. l, . 0t . h ,!'. r ’‘Y • £* Tel *?* ? e,1 S“*r wrote in Urge «ci?pt: -Life-nreserv- whi< drinking cup. When thus shut it can be iirricd in a hand bag, and it got its mum , „. v .. from the inference*thnt it would be carried j torv only by passenger* who expected to be killed on a railroad and wanted to be ready. No, I believe there is not much demand for this brand of coffin.** I inquired if there were many inventions to prevent grave robbing. ing Coffin. To be Used in Doubtful t’ai Actual Death.’ I forget whether the inven- an Irishman or not.” W. A. Croffot. 4 the: bell tower grave. “Any quantity,” t-aid the Patent Office. Since Stewart’s body was stolen these ap pliances have multiplied. Here in an ar rangement by whien the coffin is firmly unchored into the earth. Here ie one by which it is deposited in a huge block of granite or cement that weighs a ton. Thin is coiled the Anti-resurrection Coffin. Here is a simpler and cheaper device for anchoring the corpse into the coffin so that it cannot be poring that final decision may bv d drawn out—bracelets around the ankles and for some time. J chained to n rook being supposed capable of resisting the body snatcher who tries to ex tract it by the head. Here is a contrivance for sending a con stant electric circuit through all the graves in a cemetery, so that if any grave is dis turbed a belt in the steeple will ring.” ‘There is another discouragement to body snatchers,” said the man of patent*, after • •• . iij. • * *-»- — - — awhile; “itla known as the Torpedo Coffin, and a good many* of them are said to be sold. It is the connection of a deadly torpedo with the coffin in such a way that it is exploded whenever the latter is’disturbed.”' And he showed me a picture of it, which I send herewith. I inquired whether the mountains of cof fins tended toward increasing permanency. “The tendency is in exactly opposite di rections, toward* the two extremes—towards greater solidity and permanence on the one hand and towards greater pcrishnblencss on the other. MU. LAM All RESIGNS. Ills Letter to tlie President nnd the Latter 1 * Reply In Ari'mtuito®, Wahiiinoton, January 8.—Secretary* La mar yesterday tendered to the President his signation as Secretary of the Interior and it was accepted by the President. Formal resignation, it is understood, will not go into t until noon of Tuesday next, in order to enable the Secretary to close up some routine business. Following is a copy of the Secretary’s letter of resignation and of the President’s letter of acceptance of the same. Department of Interior, Washington, I). C., January 7.—To the President—Sir: When some months ago yon invited me to accept the vacant judge'ship in the Supreme Court of the United States, you expressed a wish that, as the court was not in session, I should postpone resignation of my present office until tin- n:r. ting Ol Ci.tign-ss allowed you iu ray nomination to the Senate, as there were certain matters before the De partment of the Interior, inaugurated by me. which it was therefore dei reihl* that l should close before leaviqg, t nd as I would have been very reluctant to take a place upon the bench until your nomination had* been confirmed by the Senate, I cheer fully consented to your request. My nomination hfl9 now been submit- the Senate and recogniz ing both their right nnd duty to subject its fitness to most critical examination, 1 would Htill wnit in my present position their de cision, but I tillnk 1 nin warranted in Hup- nominated both my successor ia this depart ment and hia successor in the post-office de partment, this delay may, to some extent, at t, embarrass tire almini.strntion of public business in the departments affected, and to avoid such embarrassment, which is my duly to you ;md tin- emintry, to h ave !•* fore tlie Senate in its final judgment upon my nomination the sole question, of my fitness, for the position, disassociated from any other imnination and unaffected bv any other con- iderations, I now respectfully ask you to ac cept my resignation as Secretary of the In terior, whicli I hereby tender. In terminating my relation* with yon as n member of your oificial family, 1 desire to express the grateful sense of obligation I atu under to you personally for the considera tion and kindness which have always char acterized your treatment of me, and’for the generous confidence and support which you li.t\< - i'i ■ - ■ 1 I ■ II.. ill l!:.- t,-\ ill,' : I! i • I ar duous administration of this dei slinll always he proud to iui ated with the honorable record you will leave upon the page of your country's his tory. ."Min i rr:\ and respectfully, L. (.>. \L Lam w. TIIT. I'UE.sldent's lettkk- t]\ki i ti\ s. Mansion, Washington. My Dear Mr. Lamm : When I !«mil!aj£jrj^fe(ijc position arted ho pened at rd* the beautiful sket 'ontaining the huiiibi back by id again take of it i hit Ii iou> external indcrtaker, to NO ATTRACTIONS TO BODY SNATCHER*. “Some cofiins are of granite and some of brass, some are lined with zinc to he water proof and sonic with nsphaltum to be fire proof. \\ftiat good will that do? “On the other lumd some patent coffins are of wickerwork, so as to collapse and perish soon, and some of glue or some other soluble material, so as to fall to pieces at once.” “ ‘Are there often infringements of patent in this melancholy realm?*’ 1 asked. “(), yes, indeeu, as often as in stoves or plows.* About once in six months the terra cotta coffin is reinvented, with perfect honesty—now by a man in Maine, now by a Texan, now bv a man on the shores of Super ior. It was freshly invented a few montliH ago by a man out West; and when we refused to grapt him a patent, and ussured him that the very same coffins were used in Greece, ,ii■ • 1 tli.it a. i• -till find tin mi in the Lgvptiuti catacombs, where they were placed by the citizens of Thebes thirty centuries before Christ, lie indignantly replied that the idea was originally his und that whoever hail shown that sort of coffin nnywhere in the world stole the invention from him.” “You have, of course, safety devices of all sorts to prevent burinl alive?’' “Yes, a multitude. A simple invention for coflins to be kept in vaults connects tlie thumb of the occupant with the lutch that holds down the lid, mi that any movement of the hand unfnstenR the iid.“ “Another arrangement provide* for a little tower on the top of each grave, on the upper surface of which is a dial witii movable hands that indicate any movement on the part of the dead beneath. It would be u ghaMly pastime, I should think, to walk around tnrough a cemetery and inspect the dials on the graves to observe which of the denizens were still alive! “If anything of this sort lius any value, it would be .perhaps what Is called the tun Coflin. Tins hut> two open chimneys leading from the face of the buried to the outside air. At the top of one of these is a fan ar rangement, with a wire leading down to the hands of the deceased, and whenever these move the fan start* and drives fresh air down into the ‘narrow tenement* and out the other shaft.” “What is the model marked ‘Cocktail Coflin?*** I inquired. “Ah, yes,” he said; “I came pretty near , forgetting that. That is one of those things i so absurd a» to seem a mere ghs*tly joke. This coffin is about three feet high—high 1 enough for the occupant to sit up in if lie feels like it. If he suddenly comes to life the wire attached to his hands rings the bell in the little bell tower above the grave and keeps ringing it till succor comes. 'Hie bell rings pretty easily: but it is pleasant to hear that oniv tine of ’the numerous bells erected had cm r rung, and that wo.* caused by the deeouipositiio. of the corpse.** “We have a patent called by the inventor the ‘Preserving and Canning Coflin;’ and all *.ort» i»t ib'viei - an* r.'iiivi'iiti'd < i« ri Er l*' while. An application for a ‘Coflin Cooler* has always so in our official relations aei'i pt tin- n Hirnalioii that it ouly anticipate; the discharge of hlghe functions than those n What I have thus ft formal; indeed, I iutei »ptng your entrance upon and more congenial >w relinquished, r written seems very led tills, because l am clarions sure that the close confidence of positive affection which lias grown up De- tween us, m ed no expression <>r interpreta tion. And yet 1 find it utterly imposMblrv for me to finish this note without assuring vhich harm the po- ill your chief, ii-itude u that the thir terized your conduct, and 1 sition from which you no' devotion to your country all your sell-sacrificing e: tor pul.li«- interests, all the benefit which your official service has conferred upon your fellow countrymen, and all the affection and fiindne.-s so often exhibited towards me per sonally, I shall eoD'tantly remember with tenderness and gratitude. Yours very sin cerely, Grover Cleveland. A HANGING GOVKRNOK. Governor llartleit's Successor Refuses to Interfere With the Iaw. h’AN Francisco, January G.—Nathan B. Hutton was hanged ut Oakland to-day for the murder of Alex Martin, a ranchman, in Sepr tember 18*SG. Strenuous efforts wan behalf for conimutntio Governor Waterman t Mince Governor Wuterrn by tlie death of Gove months ago, in this State made in Sutton's 1 of sentence, but fused to interfere i acquired his office nor Bartlett, four utions have token place 1 although efforts in behalf of tlie condemned men hav every case, the governor im or enmmutatior When Sutton day he made a i admire tho firm bet efus made in *d pardons icaffold to- han take i th daccd on the m ti in which he said: “1 ! Governor Watermen i r of granting coinrau- rdonx. If In- will hold bis unity will hold hit reg.iV.Is th. show ing Till LSK. c.l bt ell-kii" efrige was identic r M.i- n-, ; putt lit l-i ith Continued to Monday by Consent Mr*. (Us Hurt on Prc-int With ||«»r Evidence. Atlanta, January 7. The trial of Ben Burbfh on the charge of bigamy, w hich v.;i- -< t t'-r tlii- morning at 'J o’cloi k la'fore Justice Tanner, did not conic off. The case, by mutual consent, w a- postponed and will Ik? called for trial Monday next at 11 o’clock. The woman who calls her-i lf Mr-, lilts Burton, and who charges that Ben Burton marrfiil her-everal years ago at Ib-mer.. was present with a duplicate eeititieate of her marriage to F. Ilill, ordinar rifled to by \VU that he perforr i-ember 17, 1 >>“ i tlia she ned bv T. ;>f Banks county, and wr- m Ashe, J. 1\, w bo saya 1 the ceremonv on 1H- The Homer Mr's. Burton i product* a- many wit- alled by the pate the Knock- pelled bj at Ho show lived together Banks eountv. that after the two halve* of it shut into each wheel in the middle a whtcl Killed lli- l>auKht«-r ttud llini»«-lf* t'AMDKS. January 7.— Isaac M* rriek tiii* afternoon shot hi- y-ung daughter dead nt tin ir hem'- on Central avenue and then turned the weapon on himself with fatal effect. No cause ha-, as vet, been asccr-^ mined fur the terrible tragedy.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The weekly telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1885-1899, January 10, 1888, Image 1