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THE.WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, APRIL 10.1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
A GOOD MAN.
Sudden Death of Rev. C. W.
Smith of Wesleyan.
THE OLD COLLEGE CAST IN GLOOM.
Cutl><»n> In a Few Hour* After Hem-Ins
Itecltatlon*—Heart Disease Sui>.
jH«e<l to be Cause—A ltrlcf
nlceteh of HI* Life.
W. IV. PHELPS’N GItKAT LOSS.
His SplendW Mansion Burned—Art Trens-
ures and Hook* Nearly all Destroyed.
From the New Yolk Tribune.
The beautiful’ mansion of William Wal-
systenj he established; or there may be
some other way. Anyhow, thr Instruments
will only be leased.
I The graphoplione is an instrument
smaller than the ordinary type-writer. It
makes a permanent record of every sound
ter Phelps, Teaneck Grange, near Engle- transmitted to it, and can repeatthe sound
wood, N. d., with its. wealth of valuable at any subsequent period as many times as
one pleases. Mr. Levy, the cornet player,
for instance, played "fiome, Bweoi Hours’,
in four octaves to_ a grapbophone
over at Mr. Lombard’s otlice,
and now every stockholder or
other individual who is allowed to see the
grapbophone at work is favored with
Dr. C. \V. Smith, of Wesleyan Female
College, is dead.
Fur some time past he had been com
plaining of not feeling well, but he did not
think it in any wa£ serious and continued
his duties at the college. Yesterday morn,
ing he heard his recitations as usual, and
seemed to the young ladies to he in the
pest spirits. After the recitations he ac
companied one of the pupils to the union,
depot to see her aboard the train, and
shortly after ten o’clock left the depot
The reporter met him as he was leaving
the depot and he appeared to be in his
usual health, though at that time he was
not feeling well and returned to the col
lege in a hack; after transacting some bus
iness in town.
On hi» return to the college, he went to
his apartments and laid down, (shortly
after one o’clock he get up and walked
across the room, but fell in a swoon. His
wife ran out of the room and gave the
alarm. Dr. W. C. Bass, presi
dent of the college, was at
dinner, and he ran at once
to Dr. .Smith’s apartment, followed by a
couple of servants. He was found to be
unconscious and was taken np and placed
upon the bed. There he gasped once and
all was over. , , _
Physicians had been sent for and Drs.
McHatton, Moore, Etheridge and others
reached the college as quickly as possible,
but too late.
The news soon spread over the college,
and the young ladies were grietstricken.
lie was dearly beloved by all of 'hem and
the shock was so sudden and so terrible
that they could scarcely believe that he
who had been in bis accustomed place only
« very few hours before, was then a lifeless
corpse in the building.
Like a Hash the news went over the
city, and wherever it went a gloom was
cast. He was known and loved by all of
Macon, and in a short time the people in
every quarter of the city had heard of it
and were sorrowing.
Dr. Smith was sixty-five years of age,
and was born in Greene county. It was in
Greensboro that he first taught school.
He graduated with high honors at ttmory
College, and almost from that time he be
gan the work in the ministry. It was at
Greensboro that the friendship existing be
tween Dr, B**« am! himself, began, and
which lasted until bis death. Both taught
school in the academy at that place. In
1862 lie left there and took the position of
professor of mathematics in Wesleyan,
and was followed by Dr. Bass. For thir
ty-six years they were associated together
at Wesleyan. At the time of his death lie
was professor of mathematics, and secre-
Ory.
Dr. Smith had no enemies. lie was in
every way a good man, and a deeper schol
ar than the world thought him. I)r. Bass,
who knew him better perhaps than any
living man, spoke, yesterday, of his schol
arly attainments and said he was one of
the profoundcst theologians lie ever knew.
He was more like a father than a teacher
to the pupils of Wesleyan, and they loved
and venerated him. It wne to him they
went for advice and comfort. The thous
ands of women throughout the South who
have gone out into the world from under
the shadows of the grand old college, their
alma mater, will read the news of the death
of Dr. Smith with sincere regret. There is
not one that doe* not cherish the recollec
tion of his kind words, his patience und
liis love.
The cause of his death is attributed to
heart troubles. Some time ago, at a facul
ty meeting, lie complained of a “pain in bis
side,” as he expressed it, and the physi
cians think that it was the first symptom
of the disease. Yesterday he complained
of a |>ain in the chest.
Dr. Smith leaves a wife, formerly Miss
Lundy, and several children. His eons,
Mr. w. G. Smith, clerk of tho county com
missioners; Mr. Lucicn W. Smith, sales
man for a Cincinnati house; Mr. Howard
M. Smith, with It. F. Lawton, and Mr
Cosby W. Smith, with Payne A Willing
ham, arc well known business men, and
their many friends share doubly in the
great grief of this community in the loss of
so good, so pure and so true a citizen.
The fuperal has been arranged for this
afternoon at half-past three o’clock from
Mulberry street church. Tho board of
trustees and the pupils will meet at the
the college at three o’clock and proceed
from there to tho church.
The resident memliers of the board of
trustees will meet at the office of Mr. H.
L. Jewett, at ten o’clock.
Drought Homo a Corpse.
A night or so ago a negro boy named
Jesse Sinclair, Bon of a drayman, left Ma
con for Atlanta. Wednesday night lie was
brought home a mangled corpse, and it is
supposed that while stealing a ride on the
truck* of a train fell off somewhere be
tween Sunnvsidc nnd Hampton and was
run over. The bucly was then placed on
the down train yesterday afternoon and
brought to Macon and turned over to the
father.
_ The fallowing is the Atlanta Journal’s
«» iiiO killing ,
I he accommodation train which arrived
on the Central road this morning brought
news of the killing of an unknown negro
.h°y at Hampton.
( A boy about seventeen years of age at
tempted to steal a ride by sitting under the
rear passenger coach, and when the train
Wovid oQ’lie was thrown under the wheels
and so badly crushed that lie died in a
•hurt while.
The name of the dead youth could not
be learned. He was poorly clad and ap
peared to be a tramp.
lien Butler** IVuslitngtou House.
Frnm the New York World.
Ben Butler is still trying to sell bis big
bejme opposite tho capitol. lie asks
■th 0,000 for it, nnd the appraisers who
were selected to appraise it estimated that
it was worth $277,000. Onc-thiid of it is
already rented to the Coast Survey for
*6,000 a year, and, dll told, the govern-
J"ent pay*, perhaps, $.8,000 or $0.000a year
•or tu use, inasmuch a* a number of the
committee* of Congra* are located there.
iaHS LStfifiitfiT
XKXK'AX MCsTAXO LINIMBUT cure* *11*11-
menUbf Itotsu. Uclas oml Cattia. Bab In t
paintings and luxurious equipment, was
totally destroyed by file last evening. The
fire begun about hall-past 6 o’clock in the
art gallery, where many masterpieces of
grea’t painters, living nnd dead, were
stored. A defective jet caused the escape
of a large volume of gas into the gallery,
and the explosive mixture of air and gas
was ignited hv an open grate fire. That
whole portion of the house was in flames
in an incredibly short time—so short, in
fact, tlintof all the art treasures only two
paintings were saved by a servant.
The fire made rapid headway, and, after
leaving the newer and more valuable por
tion of the mansion, in ruins, spread to the
older part. The attempts of neighbors
and servants to combat the flames were too
feeble to be of any avail. .
By 10 o’clock the entire building was de
stroyed. Most of the valuable furniture
was removed from the older part of the
bouse while the fire raged in the other
wings, but the loss of most of the contents
of Mr. Phelps’s library could not be pre
vented. Mr. Phelps was in Washington
at the time, Mrs. Phelps and Miss Phelps
being the only members of the family at
home. They were taken to a place of
safety in a neighbor’s house, and remained
there during the night. The total loss os
nearly as could be ascertained, was over
$100,000, but the value of rare hooks and
paintings, which cannot be replaced, is in
estimable.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE HOUSE,
Mr. Phelps’s bouse was unique, there be
ing nothing like it in that neighborhood.
It stood in the centre of a large park in
the middle of that great tract of land of
1,100 acres which comprises Teaneck
Grange, and extends from Hackensack to
the Palisades on the Hudson. Everything
on this beautifui spot, which is larger than
Central Park, has been brought to the
highest state of cultivation, and the place
is undoubtedly not only one of the largest,
but'oncof the prettiest country seats in
the United States. The house itself was a
rambling building, between 200 and 300
feet in length and ranging from one and a
half to three stories in height. The new
part was 100 feet long, and constructed of
Palisades Milestone.
The art gallery in which the fire began,
was a lofty room built of the same materi
al. A large portion of the rest of the
house was of Jersey brownstone, this part
including the original Jersey farmhouse
which Mr. Phelps bought and and to which
he made additions. Between the brown-
stone wings was a wooden portion neatly
100 feet in length.
On the first floor of the house was a li
brary forty feet square ; an office still lar
ger, containing Sir. Phelps’s law library
and business papers, a large drawing-room,
two or three bed-rooms, a smoking-room, a
dining-room, in which dinner eould be
served to thirtv or forty Vilest*, and the
large picture mentioned above. On the
same level, also, in the other wing were a
series of bed-rooms. The whole, building
was crowded with books, engravings, sou
venirs of travel, Eastern rugs and all man
ner of costly decorations likely to be gath
ered by a traveler of taste and means.
oems or the rivtuun oAi.iggY.
The picture gallery contained a large
landscape painted by Church,. of the
National Academy, on a commission given
by Mr. Phelps’s father, as well as a num
ber of other examples of the best American
nrt, together with modern pictures, Eng
lish, French and German, from the best
artists. There was a portrait of. the Empe
ror of Austria and one of his prime minis
ters, both of which were presented to Mr.
Phelps when he left Vienna after resigning
the office of minister to Austria. Many
other pictures in the gallery related to his
life abroad. An original portrait of Presi
dent Garfield, one of the best in existence,
was an ornament to the collection. An
other painting of note was a portrait of
General Grant, seated beside Robert Bon
ner, driving Maud 8.
THE GR4PBOPHNH.
Like tlio Phonograph—Ktlison nnd I
Said to bo Bctrind tt.
From tho Nciv York Sun.
Within two or three weeks the grapho-
plione, or perfected phonograph, will be
ready for the public. The instruments are
being manufactured here in New York.
Private tests and exhibitions for the benefit
of stockholders and others immediately
interested a* e now being made at 55 Broad
way, room 24. The exhibitions arc, for
the present, inclosed in a Chinese wall of
secrecy.
Three hundred initrumonts are already
made, Mr. Lombard is the gentleman in
charge of room 2-1. When 1,000 are made
the instruments will he given to the public
with a big hurrah aud much sounding of
trumphets. There will be a special pri
vate exhibition for the press, and then a
public exhibition. This is the programme.
In the meantime, the plan is that nothing
must be said about it in the newspapers.
That isn’t the whole programme, how
ever. There is to he a big law suit be
tween Prof. Ellison and Prof. Bell regarding
priority of the invention. The grapho-
phone, it is claimed, will be of much more
commercial value to the world than even
the telephone. There i* millions in it—
untold millions. Mr. Edison invented the
phonograph. Mr. Bell improved upon it,
made it commercially valuable, and gave
it a new name—the grapbophone. Mr.
Edison kicked mightily,and threatened the
invocation of nil the powers—the United
Slates navy if necessary—tostop the circu
lation of tlie Bell graphoplione. Mr. Bell
said: “Go ahead with your law suit. Pm
r-» “T Wn at law
Finally a compromise was effected. So
the story goes—tho story as told by a lead
ing stockholder. And the term of this
compromise Mr. Edison will go on with his
law suit against Mr. Bell. It will be a
friendly contest. It will advertise the in
vention. It will shut out all other claim
ants. It will probably confirm beyond dis
pute the right of the Bell monopoly to all
and suudry profits accruing from the new
invention, aud at the same time Mr. Edi
ion’s interests will be properly cared for.
This it it reported, is the graphoplione
programme. ... ,
The instrument* will be leased at $00 a
year each. leased, mark you. No person
will be allowed to own an instrument out
right. There seenol rea-on for leasing a
telephone instrument, for it was merely a
pail of a connected tystem and a -j useless
when disconnected. But the graphoplione
instrument is complete in itself, or seems
so. Perhaps the wax cylinders, which arc
it- chief feature, will have to be supplied
pci iodirnliy from a certain office, und in
that way a -ort of connected graphoplione
HliSraG U#iiȣNT
Home, Sweet Home,” in four octs
aforesaid. All Mr. Lombard has to do
when he wants a tune is to fake out what
ever wax cylinder happens to be in the in
strument at the moment and insert in its
place the wax cylinder that was there when
Mr. Levy wag playing. You just press a
button and the brass band begins to play.
In this way one of Patti’s $1,OiiO songs can
he repeated 500 times at pleasure. H»e
hundred is about the limit. After that
the wax begins to chip, and the graplio-
phone gets hoarse. And Patti’s songs can
thus be handed down to future generations.
The Washington Monument.
From Puck.
An intelligent American and an ignor
ant Briton sat together in the senate gal
lery at Washington on Tuesday of last
week, and the American was explaining
to tho Briton the workings of our enlight
ened system of government. Senator In
galls, of Kansas, was making a few re
marks. “The nomination and election of
Grover Cleveland,” said he, "have made
the pretentions of any American citizen to
the Presidency respectable. There is no
man in this country whose ignorance is so
profound, whose obscurity is so impenetra
ble, and whose antecedents are so degraded
that he may not justifiably aspire to a
Presidential nomination liy the Demo
cratic party.”
“Who,” inquired the Briton,” is that—
er—gentleman?”
“Ingalls, ol Kansas,” replied the Amer
ican.
“Don’t you think it warm in here? Y'ou
haven’s seen the statue of ”
“•Isn’t he speaking about the President?”
further inquired the Briton, uninterested
in the statue.
“Yes,” said the American, “the rotunda
is worth—”
“But I thought you people elected your
President by popular vote,” went on the
Briton.
“So we do.’ - .
“But do your people like to hear your
President *t> Iked about in that way?”
“Why, no,” said the American, some
what uneasily; *‘1 don’t suppose so.”
“Then why does he do it?”
“Ah, well, it’s only Ingalls—nobody
minds Ingalls.”
“But isn’t he one of your Senators?”
“Why, yes, lie’s a Senator.”
“Did the Kansas people elect him?”
“No, the Legislature elected him.”
“But why do they elect him if he does
such things?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said .he American
unguardediy. “i guess the Kansas Legis
lature is a pretty tough lot.”
There was a pause in the conversation
before the ignorant Briton spoke again.
“I fancy you’re right,” lie said.
“Wouldn’t you like to go and see the
Washington monument?” asked the intcl-
itrmnt American.
“Why, certainly,” replied the Briton;
“is the Washington monument particu
larly interesting?”
“Well,” said the American meditatively
“it doesn't talk.”
THE ERA OF DIVORCE.
Want of Mutual Forbearance Is Much t
lllnino In Mnny Cases.
From the San Francisco Call.
In Continental Europe a divorced wo
man usually fetches up in a convent.
Hamlet advises Ophelia to betake herself
to that refuge of the distressed, and proba
bly more peace of mind can be secured
for a desolate heart within the peaceful
ureclnts of the cloister, far from the busy
din of society, than the haunts of the
world could aflord. But we imagine
that few young brides propose
when they throw off the orange
blossoms to substitute the veil which
means life-long seclusion. Thev do not
look so far ahead. They merely study
their case in view of its present surround
ings. Thev declare that they cannot en
dure a union which is hateful, and so,
with no thought in thfir mituls but a
yearning for separation and freedom, they
take the leap madly, and a good nianv of
them find they have hopped out oi the
frying pan into the fire.
We read constantly that men arc not
marrying ns they used; that matrimony is
so expensive that young men cannot afford
it, and our sympaties are invited for the
old maids who threaten to crowd our so
cial halls inconveniently. But, perhaps,
if the truth were known, there are rather
too many marriages than too few. Cer
tainly the fact that in the city of Chicago
there is one divorce to every thirteen mar
riages would seem to imply that the num
ber of improvident marriages contracted
there is too large, and probably the pro
portion of divorces to marriages is quite as
large here as there. It is not a wholesome
indication that the divorce cslend.li
should be so long.
It implies a want of mutual forbearance
and reciprocal consideration on the part
of young married people. It means that
they are not reasonably tolerant of each
other’s defects and weaknesses. Possibly
if many ladies who apply for divorces re
alized exactly how they" would feel six
months after they had got their decree,
they would be less impatient with their
husbands j and if men appreciated the total
wreck which in a majority of cases follows
the issue of a decree of divorce, they, *oo,
irritation ami broils.
The True Democratic Party,
From the Milledgevillc Union and Recorder.
The Democratic party favors the policy
of reducing the surplus of a hundred mil
lions, or more, which annually accrues and
arc not needed, by taxing the luxuries aud
reducing the taxes on l no necessaries of
life. Governor Brown favors the rqieal
of the internal ri venues and leaving the
tariff taxes o i the necessaries of life as
they are. lie speaks of the immense bur
den of these internal revenue taxes upon
the | eoplc of Georg’a. The official records
of 18$6show that internal taxes amounted
to $116,0 0,000. Georgia’s portion was
$303,384.24, less than a third of a million
■if dollar.. The whole of the Soothers
Stale s united (.aid $7,25.8,035.10, while the
other States paid $108,742,965. Thus it
will be seen that all this cry about Geor
gia’s oppression is abeuid and foolish. Un
der the protective tarili tin* 1 eople of
SUSTtKO lWil.cn.
MEXICAN MUSTANG T.INIMKN T. I^tu lr.it- *
lo tho Very !*>»*«.• / V^udyrfu.! Tu/irl
83.3
27.0
87.5
169.2
65.0
110
*1.6
21.1
28.4
148.9
31.2
15.3
teen millions of dollars. IIow salutary,
beneficial and blessed is tho protective
i tariff to those who have iron and coal and
all the articles that are taxed from 40 to
100 per cent, or more.
Drink, ut none and Abroad.
From theSprlngtleld, Musi.. Union.
I There is no doubt hut that a refined pub
lic sentiment is making itself felt in this
country upon the drinking habits of the
community. .Statistics show that our
present population of about C0,000 ; 000 ac-,
tually consumes less ardent spirits than |
did the population os 31,000,000 thirty
years ago. This is due, in some |
measure, to the introduction of malt
liquors, which havedriven out thostronger
leverages; but while malt beverages seem
to be iu very common use, they are much
less used among us than in Great Britain
and most of the European countries. The
temperance agitation which has been kept
up pretty vigorously f r forty years or
more lia,. had its effect In toning up pub
lic opinion on the drink question,
and in very many communities
making it actually ’disreputable to
use intoxicating liquors. In most
of the smaller towns in the older sections
of the country prohibition is easily en
forced, nnd total abstinence is the rule
among the people, whereas, within the
memory of the present generation, those
towns contained numbers of moderate 1
drinkers, who were not ostracized as lo’g 1
as they were not downright drunkards.'
To-day in such communities to say of a
man, “he drinks,” is to cast a shadow upon
his reputation from which he will not re
cover, unless he reforms hi3 habit*.
There may be no proper satisfaction in
knowing that other people are worse than
we are, but it should be an encouragement
to do even better, if we find we are on the
mend ng hand, as compared with others.
Official statistics recently gathered in
Switzerland, where wine-drinking and
drunkenness have increased to an alarm
ing extent of late, show that we of the
United States fall behind the Norwegians
only in the amount of strong liquors con
sumed. The following table gives the con
sumption per capita of spirits, wine and
beer in the countries of Europe and the
United States, the figure expressing liters:
Spirit*. Wine. Beer.
Denmark 18 9
Holland 9.8
Switzer nnd 9.4
Belgium 9.2
Germany 8.6
Sw den 8.1
Russia 8.0
France 7.2
Austro-H ngary 5 7
Great Britain and Ireland. 5.3
United States. 4.8
Norway 3.9
The average amount of a^oliol in these
drinks is given as follows: Inspirits, bran
dies, etc., 50 per cent.; French wines,
12 per cent.; Swiss wines, 6 to 11
per cent.; ordinary beer, 3.5 per cent.;
German export beer, 4.5 per cent.;
English and Belgian beer, 5.7 per cent.
By comparing and combining these figures
the reader will discover that we ot the
United States are far from being the hard
est drinkers in the world, and yet as a very
large proportion oi us do not ijrink at
«!!. some nsna]* fnnst lie drinkiner * greet
deal more than is good for them, to bring
up the average consumption per’capita to
five quarts of whisky, three quarts of
wine and nine gallons of beer.
TDK SOUTH IN XiiJi LEAD.
From the Courier Jonrnul.
An official of the Louisville and Nl-sli-
ville road says, regarding the increasing
Southern traffic, that it lias been a sur
prise to all the lines engaging in it. The
roads had expected that the California
lines, as for years past, would again secure
the most valuable part of the tourist busi
ness; but the roads west of the Missouri
river have this year found that the tide
has turned toward Florida. The reason
assigned for this is the suicidal policy that
the trans-continental lines have pursued in
the matter of rates. At the rates in force a
year ago the roads were all doing well, and,
judging from previous years, the business
would have continued prospering through
out the season had not rates been raised
twenty-five per cent, about January 1. The
California business, lie said, was nourished
bv cheap rates, the Southern roads knew
tfiis, and when the advance on California
business was made were not slow to use it
to their advantage.
lllnckgunnl Gould*
From tho New York Times.
The morning newspapers of New York
reached, (terhaps, their lowest deep of
degradation yesterday morning when all
of them, with the single exception of the
Times, allowed Mr. Jay Gould to use
their columns for a virulent personal at
tack upon Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the
propretor of the Herald. The Herald it
self printed Mr. Gould’s letter in order to
show its contempt for him, we suppose.
Tho Sun, Tribune, World and Star had
no such motive or excuse; and in giving
space to a man of Gould’s monstrous in
iquities to attack a member of their own
craft they fixed a standard of debasement
which “Judas”and “Ananias,” though an
imated hr more than their present detes
tations o:l each other, will strive in vain to
reach. *
WORTH A RANSOM*
Some Valuable Jewels Worn
by Prominent Women.
STARS FOR THE HAIR
A Hittliiey iiaspactable Family.
From the New York Tribune.
Here is a strriglitout Democratic ticket
of St. Francis county, Mi-onri:
For Representative—Johu D. Ilighley.
For County Court justice—John \v.
Ilighley.
For prosecuting attorney—Luke Higbloy.
For collector—T. C. Ilighley.
For treasurer—James Ilighley, Sr. J
For assessor—IL It. Highley.
For sheriff—James Ilighley, Jr.
For surveyor—J. N. Iligluev.
For coroner—John B. Highley.
They are all vouched for as highly re
spectable.
Sad Deatlni in Jones.
A sad affair came in fiom Jones county
Wednesday morning. Mrs. .l.|W.|Brii(IIey,
Jr., daughter of Mr. John Greer, and Mrs.
Jos. M. Mr re; r lived shots* two miles from
each other in the county, and were warm
friends. They have been sick for two or
three months, and sent daily messages to
each other. Both died on Tuesday night
within four hours, and yesterday the two
coffins were sent out together. The funer
als will occur to-dav.
1 he caskets were sent out by Undertaker
(lay, who sold five caskets' within ore
hour vo-terduy morning, all of them to go
out ol the city.
Death of Mr. Taj lor.
The death of Mr. Johu K. Taylor oc-
curred Yesterday afterm on, ut his resi
dence on Elbert street, after a long illncm
Mr. Taylor a well known machinist, s
on m In r of tin- Floy .Giles, and had *
large olrcle of friend The funeral notice
RUSTAMS! L'amiiftikJlT
M'XICAN MU xT VSG 1.1., 'MKNT. f. r Man and
UtALr. Greatest C\ruUv€ ever made*
5Irs. IIL*ks-Lord's 50,000 Necklace—A
Marvellous Collection of Emeralds
and Other Gems—Some of the
French Crown Jewels.
Special Correspondence Silicon Telegraph.
Wasihnoton, April 5.—Now that Lent
is over capital society has resumed its ca
reer of gaiety. Many of the social heavy
weights of the metropolis have returned to
Washington for the past Lenten season.
Mrs. Ilicks-Lord created a sensation at a
reception the other evening by appearing
in an armor of jewels. Washington society
lias never seen anything to equal it in the
way of personal adornment. Her famous
$250,000 necklace encircled her throat.
She wore a pair of car-rings probably not
equaled in this country. Her bodice was
a perfect mass of jewels. Her gems glit
tered in the gaslight like raindrops iu the
sun. The design of many of them was
unique. One splendid spray represented a
cluster of wild roses, five petals of each
rose being five diamotidsof similarsizc and
shape. Another was a spray of fuchias
formed of hundreds of small and large dia
monds, about a dozen huge stars and almost
as many crescents. She also wore an open
fan covered with diamonds, in her hair.
Tilts is described as a chef d’ oeuvre of the
goldsmith. Each side of the fan shows
fifteen raised plaits and tho whole is
studded with diamonds beauti
fully matched in color and
size. The gems fn the' raised plaits are
larger than those which enrich the de
pressed ones, and stones on the corr.b range
in size from one to five carets each. I am
told that this lady is also the possessor of a
valuable bouquet bolder shaped like a
trumpet. The materials in its composi
tion are chased Etruscan and red gold en
crusted with miniature blossoms of gold in
different tints, upon which are scattered in
dainty profusion gems which resemble dew
drops. A well known lady inform f me
that Mrs. Lord owns a fan’ of the finest
white point d’Alencon combining flowers,
leaves aud lyres in a manner anything but
conventional. The stocks are of white fig
ures enriched with gold ornamentation,
the outer wide, being embellished with
hearts, lyres and other designs in gold of
different colors. The fan is to be worn
suspended from a chain of diamonds and
pearls. Her salts bottle i4 a dainty little
piece of work in rich yellow gold. It
hangs suspended by a cold chain fastened
to an ancient cameo brooch.
fondness of American women for jewels is
better exemplified than in Washington.
Of course the Patriarch’s hall in New York
presents a magnificent array of jewels, blit
they do not nave the wives of Western
statesmen to shed their radiance upon the
scene. I am told on good authority that
tiaras are no longer popular. Mrs. Delan-
cey Kane, of New York, possesses the finest
tiara in America. They must be worn by
women who have a certain amount of regal
presence and carriage. They arc mucl
more common in England than here. Mrs.
Ogden Mills, of New York, recently wore
a set of magnificent sapphires, consisting
of earrings, necklace and pendant, at a
state reception. The sapphires were zplen
did stones, that in the pendant being
nearly as large as a liazlcnut. The setting
of the pendant is peculiar. It Is sur
rounded by diamond spikes that are about
an inch long and that liave a dazzling
effect.
Mrs. Marshal O. Roberts wears the best
pearls that have ever been seen iu Wash
ington society. She lias three strings of
pearls in three sizes which hang round the
neck apart from each other. Mrs. Roberts
also has a ruby pendant let ill diamonds
that is one of the most beautiful pieces of
jewelry in the country. Another very
handsome hut curious piece of jewelry
owned by this lady is a lizard with a ruby
head, an emerald body and diamond legs.
Mrs. William Star Miller wears five dia
mond stars in her hair, the largest in the
center. Mr*. Griswold Gray’* jewel case
contains some very handsome emeralds,
So has Mrs. Evart's and Mrs. Stanford’s.
Almost every large diamond or large
jewel of any kind has a story or tradition
attached to it, though iu many instances
the jewel has changed hands so ofteu that
the story has been lost or forgotten. Two
possesssors of historical gems have lately
been in this country and both are bache
lor*, so the stone* lie in safe-keeping at
the hankers. One of these men, the Duke
of Newcastle, owns a /diamond that is
among the twenty-fourlargestin the world.
It is pure white and emits the most won
derful and dazzling blue rays. It weighs
forty-five carats and was brought to
England from the east by Mr. Hope, the
grandfather of the present Duke. It had.
it is said, once been the eye of an idol and
is stained with blood yielded for it* j>os-
session. The Earl of 'Dudley owns^ the
diamond known as the star of South
Africa. It is a little off color but is a
beautiful gem. Foster Coates.
IIE WOKE Ut*.
A Negro’s Long Sleep nml How He wna
Aroused.
It la probable that “Dog,” the negro
whose long nap was mentioned in Wednes
day’s Telegraph, will he sent to the asy
lum at Milledgevillc.
As has been stated, Dog went to sleep
Sunday afternoon, and in spite of every
effort made to arouse him, even by physi-
cians, be remained asleep until 8 o’clock
vesterdav luorning, making his nap about
sixty hours long, llis awakening at Roll
Home was signalled by a whoop, followed
by the breaking of a bedstead, windows
and everything in the room within reach.
The inmate* of the Home were terribly
frightened and old cripples who had been
hobbling about for years ran away nim
bly-
As soon as Superintendent Harman
could get to him lie was bound, and about
Sotloek was brought to town by two
strong men and lodged in jail.
At the jail effort* were made to induce
him to talk, but there was no talk in him.
lie leaned against the'cell door and -t ired
into space. In the afternoon lie said he
was siek, hut that was all he said. It is
probable that if he continue* in this coa
lition he will he sent lo Milledgevillc u- ;•
'untile.
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OLD SVfU J. C *K£D UHKAjrri-aU INFLAHJIATIU*. .
I SUl'KKMK COURT OF GEORGIA,
Decision* Rendered Wednesday, April 4th—
Reported by Henry i . Fee pies, Esq.,
Supreme Court Reporter.
Spier et. al., commissioners, vs. Morgan*
Motion to set aside decree, from idling-
ham. Local legislation. ' Constitutional
law. Before J ndge Atkinson.
Blandford, J.—The act of December
13, 1871, (acts 1871-2, p. 222) the title of
which is “An act to create a board of com
missioners of roads and revenues in the
counties of Flpyd, Berrien. Effingham,
Schley, Sumter and Greene,” is not in con
flict with art. 3, sec. 4, par. 5, of the con
stitution of 1868. There is but one sub
ject-matter referred to in the act, and that
is the creation of a hoard of commissioners
for the counties named; and that subject-
matter and no other is dearly expressed iu
the title of the act. Judgment reversed.
J. G. & L>. H. Clark for plaintiffs in er
ror; Denmark & Adams contra.
Charleston aiid Savannah Railway Com
pany vs. Moore. Complaint, from City
Court of Savannah. Railroads. Con
tracts. Misrepresentation. Before Judge
Harden.
Blandford, J.—1. Where boxes and
bundles were delivered to a railroad com
pany to he transported bv it, with the
statement that they contained household
goods, and they were so received and re
ceipted for by the company, but in fact a
considerable portion o^the articles deliv
ered were ,3welry or ornaments ami wear
ing apparel, and it appeared that the rate
of freight for household goods Was lower
than the rate for the other articles men
tioned, a verdict for the full value, of the
articles in favor of the consignee, who
sued the railroad for non-delivery, was ex
cessive.
2. The misrepresentation mentioned
above was a fraud upon the carrier, who
did not undertake to carry anything but
household goods; and hence, it 'was liable
only for the nou-delivery of such house
hold good*.
3. The value of the household g mds, as
shown by the evidence, was mu o.«r $100;
and the court below is directed to require
all over that amount to be writteil off, and
that the judgment for that amount be al
lowed to stand. Judgment reversed on
terms.
Chisholm A Erwin and Win R. Leaken
for plaintiff in error, J. ti. <St. D. H. Clark,
contra.
Mohr vr. Dillon. Assumpsit, from City
Court oi Savannah. Auctioneer’s memo
randum. Ambiguities. Evidence. Lega
cy. Title. Before J udge Harris.
IIlandford, J. — L An auctioneer’s
memorandum as follows: “Sale in front of
store, June 18,1886. Dillon,' (Mohr Bros.),
A. Mohr, 100 acres of land, fronting on
Waters road, at 15 3-4, $L,575;'I Ixfing am
biguous onj its face may. hq, explained by
parol evidence; and, in this case,such evi
dence showing that the land wh!i bounded
in a certain way and fronted on-* Waters
road, that the D. R. Dillon referred to was
the owner of the land which was sold for
him by the auctioneer, and that the A.
Mohr named was the purchaser, was prop-
crlv admitted.
(a) At common law and i - ’i. Giy of the
States of the Union such evidence* would
not have been admissible, but. under our
code it was undoubtedly proper Code
sections 1950, 2030, 3S01 and 2757.
2. The rule as to the admi.4i\iflity of
parol evidence to explain a patent ambi
guity in a deed to land, applies ^ith equal
force to an auctioneer’s memorandum of
the sale of land.
3. Where a testator deviled land to a
certain legatee, nnd the land was*.turned
over to the legatee bv the exccatoir, it be
came the property oi the legatee. .If other
legatees bad any complaint to indite of the
manner in which the estate was adminis
tered, that would be a matter between them
and the executor. Hence, that {legatees
under such a will sued the executors,
claiming that certain expenses should not
be put on that part of the estate willed to
them, to which 6uit the legatee firs* named
was not a party, would not cloud the title
of the said legatee to the lands turned over
to him. Judgment allirined.
Denmark & Adams for plaintiff ip error;
J. R. Saussy contra.
A maU»PBWKU FOOT.
Twenty Thousand Poltnn Ashed for It—
A Divorce Suit*
Another damage suit was filed in the
office of the clerk of the *Superior Court
’i Imi'il iv, tiii- tilin’ lor
Cave Cooper sets forth that lie bought a
ticket at Eastman for DuBeis on.Septem
ber 20, 1887, and gave his ticket to the
conductor. He then took his scat and fell
asleep. The station was passed a .short
distance and he was aroused and kicked
from the car by the conductor while the
train was in motion. He was thus thrown
under the car and his left foot Bp badly
crushed that amputation of tiie leg below
the knee was necessary. He is thus made
a cripple nnd wants the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia to pay him $20,000.
The suit U brought by \V. IL Wylly,
Lofton & Moore.
There was also filed a suit for divorce—
Oscar Johuson vs. Maria Johnson, through
his attorney, J. L. Hardeman, Esq.
When used persistently, Salvation Oil n^vco
fails to cure rheumatUm aud neuralgia. Prior
15 cent*.
April.
April U here!
There'* u *ong in the maple, thrilling and new;
There’* fhuh of wings of the heaven’s own hue;
There’* a veil of green on the nearer hill*:
There's a burst of rapture in woodland rills;
There are htar* iu the meadow dropped here
and there;
Thero’* n breath of arbutus in the air;
here’s a da*h of rain, as if flung iu Jest;
There'* an arch of color spanning the we*t;
April is here!
—Emma C. Dowd, In St, Nicholas.
Hnr XVin.l*
I heard the wind* with umeeu feet,
i'avs up the long and weary street;
To sweeten lnnc, and street, aud aquarp,
Aud lighten all the dusty air.
The hill* from which we c«me lie bright
Jn something of a richer light.
The long, deep glens and woodland* lie
l UB IUIIKi Uws|* i
In softer shadow* to tr
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