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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MAY 8.1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
SAFE IN JAIL
: stated, and it was brought to Mhcoii to be ,
1 examined under the microscopes by Dr.
! Clifton. These spots are on the inner side
QUITE ROMANTIC.
GLADSTONE REPLIES TO INGERSOLL,
| The Great Statesman DIkcussch tlio Famous
Atheists Pagan Creed
The Alleged Assassin of Mr “ f , the !’ rCol n!i riffton^nnH^.P From the Penitentiary to : in the Mar number of the' North Amtr-
All v Hltegeu n&txlbbiu ut »r. „ brown in color. Dr. ClBon found the . •> jean Review, published to-day, W. E.
Sheffield, of Irwinton. spots to be blood, but wiietherof a hog or Matrimony. Gladstone defends the Christian faith
’ human he could not ssy, though he could ^ against Col. Robert G. Ingcr.oll’s attacks.
ARRESTED WHILE PLAYING A HARP.
Ho Makes a Statement Witch, if True,
Blakcs Him Out an Innocent Hoy,
liut the Evidence is Greatly
Against lltm.
Sheriff I. J. Fountain, sheriff of Wilk
inson county, and Deputy Simpson, ar
rived in Macon about 3 o’clock yesterday
morning with Will Collins, the negro
charged with the murder and robbery of
Mr. J. A. Sheffield in Irwiuton on Satur
day night. Collins was turned over to
Jailer Birdsong.
The sheriff says the account published
in the Telegraph yesterday morning, and
by the way the only paper containing any
mention of the murder, was correct in al
most every particular. The murder, he
says, was committed about half past 8
o’cloclt, and discovered just an hour later,
and occurred about a mile and a half from
town. The citizens were so excited and
outraged over the affair, that it was
thought best to use precautionary meas
ures to preveut what might have been a
lynching. The sheriff took the prisoner
through the woods for the distance of
twelve miles, and then boarded
the Savannah train for Macon.
The sheriff carefully concealed from
the crowd the fact that he had found the
vest with blood on it. 31ns, no doubt,
would have been the cue to the lynching.
The additional particulars brought in
by the sheriff arc these: Before the mur
derer had been captured, application had
been made by a number of citizens to
Judge Bate to recommend to Governor
Gordon that a reward be issued. This is
now unnecessary. When the body of Mr.
Sheffield was found nothing was found in
his pocket, though the satcnel was found
some distance off cut and robbed of its con
tents. A subsequent search of the dead
man’s pockets revealed $45.60. He fell
upon his left side. He was about forty-two
years old, leaves a wife and daughter and
they are weii provided I or.
Sheriff Fountain says some of the lead
■lugs had been removed from the fishing
tackle used by Collins while fishing Sun
day, and it is his opinion that these slugs
killed Mr. Sheffield. There is an idea pre
vailing in the town that Shade Coates,
who had a shoe shop in the rear of Shef
field’s atore, induced the boy to commit the
crime. He was released, however.
8 iThe citizens of Irwiuton have never
been in a greater state of excitement, but
when they found the prisoner in the hands
of Sheriff Fountain, they became quite sat
isfied that the officer would safely laud
him behind the bars oi a sale jail.
— xvn it cotxnra says.
Yesterday n Telegraph reporter visited
the jail for the purpose of getting Collins’B
aide of the story.
llie prisoner is confined in a,cell on the
lower tloor. When found by tno reporter
l.» ... .... to .
swear to its bnving been recently put on
the vest. In summer time or warm weath
er, blood coagulates or clots very rapidly,
and yet this had not time to dry, having a
moist, waxy appearance.
Odlin6 will be kept in jail here until
court convenes in Irwinton. Late in the
afternoon he was taken from the cell in
the forward portion of the jail and trans
ferred to the cage, where he wi 1 have no
opportunity to escape should he have the
iuciinatiun.
IN A SMUGGLERS' CAVE.
A BIBB COUNTY MAN’S MARRIACE.
Richard Davis Serves Out His Term oi j
Three Years amt Marries a Woman
Who also Served a Term la
the Penitentiary.
probably enjoying the fact that he was yet
alive, having escaptd from a lynching live,
lie is a youngish looking mulatto, and
•ays ho will bo eighteen years old next
June. He farmed with his mother, but
from what he said lie seems to have been
boss of the premises, doing about as he
pleased.
When asked to tell about the trouble he
was in, he said: “On Friday afternoon 1
took my steer and went about nine miles
to collect $35 that I wanted to pay a debt
vrith. I got back about dinner time on
Saturday, and then I got out iny fishing
lines anil went to tho creek to fish. There
was seme other boys at the creek
and when we set' our lines
jumped about over the field until it
got so dark we couldn't sec to jump. Then
1 went home, and after supper 1 told my
mother that 1 believed I would go over to
Uncle Joe’s and get thirty cents he owed
me. 1 went about fifty yards from tho
house when I decided that as Uncle Joe
had not got through helping Mr. Everett
at the store, 1 would not go. I then re
turned home and
WENT TO BED.
1 don’t know bow long after I went to
sleep that I was awakened by mother an
swering somebody who had come to the
house. Mother then got up and let in
Shade Coates, the shoemaker, who came in,
built a fire and set there, llo said ho set
there until the chickens crowed for day,
He was courting my mother. Next mom-
ing 1 went down to the creek and
saw. the boys, and we jumped
again. Then t went to Shade
Coate’s house and about 8 o’clock Mr.I’oole,
Mr. Carswell and somebody else came up
and as one of tho boys went out of tho
home Mr. Poole arrested him. Then they
came into the house where I was sitting
oa the side of the bed
PLAYING MY HARP,
and told me I could consider myself under
arrest. They then carried me off. When
wo got to my house there was a crowd of
people, and as we went along we met large
crowds of people. That’s all I know about
it I didn’t hear the gun fire, and didn’t
know anything about the shooting until
Snnday morning, when Mr. Poole told me,
and it looked like be didn't want to tell
me anything about it”
“What about one barrel of yonr gun
being empty?"
"1 shot it off Sunday morning, a week
ago, at a hawk. If anybody got ray gun
out of the house H&turdiy night I did not
knuw invthino aKnnt t» »»
“Where were you when you fired at the
llZWK? 1
“ftfght there at home."
THE TELLTALE WADDING.
"They say the piece of wadding found
where Mr. Sheffield was killed, and the
wadding in the undischarged load of the
gun were torn from the same newspaper.
What about that?"
"Don’t knorf }iow that was. If anybody
had the gun that nitht —"
jWluI about the blood on the gun?"
‘"Was there any blood on the gnn? F
don't know how it came there.”
"And the blood on the vest?”.
“Well, I can tell you how that came
there. Last week ( killed some hogs for
mother, and yon know von have got to be
mighty particular in kflling hogs to keep
the blood from getting on yea."
The prisoner talks in a measured way
and it rather bright for a country negro.
Hr seems to lie anxious about bis mother
and will write to her ever* day.
1 HE BLOOD ON THE VEST.
The vest taken from the prisoner by
Sheriff Fountain had a few -pot, of what
peared to be blood, as ha, already been
The Ailventure of a l'urty of English Hoys.
From tbe Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle.
At the south Side of the town there is a
rock projecting from the mainland known
as Nose Point, on the top of which is built'
the Vane & Seaham blast furnaces. Un
derneath is a large cavern, locally known
as the "Smugglers’ Cave,” which at high-
tide is filled by the sea. Among the boys
referred to the exploration of this cave,
and the unearthing of treasure of some
buccaneer of the pas?, had long been an
object to be nccorn, lished, and a determi
nation was at last come to carry
out the project at the first
fitting opportunity. Saturday was
fixed upon as the day of
search, and true to a given time the band
assembled. They started off in high
hopes, headed by a trusty leader, and pro
vided with candlis, lanterns, torches, a
pick and a shovel, they proceeded to the
scene. While, however, all requisite ar
rangements as they thought, had been
made, they had forgotten one important
point. Entering the cavern a low water,
the boys at once commenced to work, and
were so intent upon the object of their la
bors that they never heeded the turn of
the tide, and only when it was an utter
impossibility to get back by the way they
had come did they realize the dangerous
position in which they were placed. In
Mowing the tide sets around the cave in
such a way that, whilst inside there is a
large space of dry rocks and shingle, there
is outside a considerable de th of water,
which increases as the tide rises, ultimate
ly , filing the cave. So long
as there was comparatively dry
footing; tho boys were not
alarming, but when they found the tide
advancing upon them, and compelling a
refuge to be made further and further into
the cave, they realized their peril. Soon
the occupants of the cave found it impossi
ble to recede further. To avoid the rise of
the water s“veral of tho boys climbed as
high up the walls of the cave as possible.
Others had no alternative but to stand
pressed up against the eud of the cav. rn
and allow the water to gradually creep in
upon them. Higher and higher rose the
water, and deeper and deeper the lads be
came immersed, until some of them were
covered up to the shoulders. They all
managed, however, to keep erect, notwlth-
utaniling thoir condition **ro*
duced by shouting for help and numbness
arising from being compelled to stand, in
the water. Now and again a broken wave
would dash in amongst them, rendering
their position still more perilous. More
over. the cave was nearly dark, all the
lads’ lights having been put out exceDl
one, which had. escaped tho wash of the
waves, and continued to give forth its feeble
illumination. All thought the inevita
ble had come, jret the commendable pluck-
incss of the bigger lads in cheering tho
lesser ones materially assisted their com
panions in not entirely losing hope. One
of tho boys at last, from sheer want of
strength, was VrSsucu from his homing, but
soon another lad standing near groped in
the dark, and with nothing but the cries
of his comrade to guido him, succeeded in
aga n restoring him to his fee'. In tho
meantime the lads had been missed from
their homes, and their continued absence
caused inquiries to be made. This resulted
Headers of the Telegraph will remem
ber that about three years ago, Richard
Davis, a young farmer a few miles out of
town on the Houston road, became in
volved in a difficulty with a man named
Millard Owens,.then working fur tho late
Asa Thompson, and stabbed him, from the
effects of which bwemt died. Davis was
tried and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary.
Th sequi I is told by our Atlanta corres
pondent as hallows:
Atlanta, April 30.—A very romantic
marriage occurred this afiernoon at 4
o'clock at the Woman’s Chr stian Home,
49 West Peter’s street The contracting
parties were Dick Davis, pf Bibb county,
a white man who has just served out a
Sentence of three ycarB in the penitentiary
for manslaughter, and Miss Isabella Roo
ney, who was sentenced from Clay county
in .September 1885, for life, for being an
accessory in a murder, but was pardoned
November 23, 1887, through the efforis of
Mrs. Harper of the Womans’ Christian
Home. Up to the time of her pardon she
was the only white woman in the Georgia
penitentiary. When Davis was sentenced
to the penitentiary hchnd a wife and three
children, all of whom died while lie was
serving his time out. The details of how
the couple became endeared to each other
are romantic. The two, (i»st met in the
penitentiary in the latter part of iSou uiiu
became very much attached to each other.
Davis’s »ife went out to the Chatta
hoochee brick yards last August to see
him, and while there was taken violently
sick. She was confined at the camp for
some time and Isabella Kooney nursed her
through her long sickness. This served to
increase Davis’s love for her. Finally his
wife died and was carried home to be hur
ried ; his children had died through his
confinement and Davis was all alone in
the world.
Mrs. Harper became acquainted with
the fact of Isabella Rooney’s case and site
plead with Governor Gordon lor her
pardon, stating that she would see to it
that tbe woman was taken to the Christian
Home and cared for. The pardon was
;ranted and Mrs. Harper went out to the
wick yards on the 23d of November to
bring the woman to Atlanta. Davis
learned of the nature of Mrs
Harper’s visit and asked
her what she wanted to take her away
from him for. “I love Belle and she loves
me," said he. Ho mnde known his desire
to marry her, and Mrs. Harper told him
that she would investigate his character
and if she was satisfied be was a sober man
and could support a wife she would allow
the marriage.
Investigation proved Davis to bo sober
and honest in every respect. She came to
•i —i—!—.t-ft., L u < _
»** v vvmv«u*i«u » as saw uu nuuiu uiano ncr u
good husband. She abo learned that lie
was a most obedient convict. To-day Da
vis’s time expired and he left tho brick-
ynrds, coming to Atlanta, and this after
noon the happy marriage occurred at the
Christian Home. Dr. 0. B. Stricklcr per
formed the ceremony. The bride is a neat
lookimr woman and m ahmit twenty g.ar.
old, while the groom Is ten years her sen
ior. The happy couple will reside in At
lanta. It is understood that Gov. Gordon
wilt antedate a pardon, restoring Davis to
citizenship.
in their whereabouts becoming known. ..
rumor then got abroad that tho boys had
been drowned, and soon fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, and a largo body of other
men, women and children rushed off in
eager haste to the lop of the cliff. There
was no way of reaching them from the
shore, . nor was there any? possibility
of going down the precipitous face
of tho cliff with ropes. Indeed, had
there been such an opportunity, the dark
ness which followed, after the carryiug out
all other suggestions had failed, prevented
such an undertaking, although there were
plenty of men willing to undergo the risk.
Nothing could therefore be dono by the
hundreds of peopiewbo had collected than
to wait in sgony and suspense until the
fall sf the tide would admit of access to
tho cave from tbe shore. All this time the
imurisoned and submerged lads had passed
a terrible time, but just when they thought
the worst had come tbe water stopped ris
ing. This was not a minute too soon, as a
rise of a few more inchee would have been
the means of drowning every one of thorn,
Slowly the water left the cave, and in
short time tho boys felt themselves in com
parative safety, although in darkness. It
was, however, 10:30 o’clock at night before
the lads wore rescued.
The Old-Fashioned Hair.
Oh tbe old-fashioned hair of the sweet long ago
Is the kind I shall always love best,
And the laces It framed with its beautiful nice
Of the deer ones tons sluce gone to rest.
There were trusses, and ringlets, and long braid
ed locks.
There were beautiful bonnle bright curls,
And high combs aud side combs, and fair shin
log colls,
That were worn by the old-feahjoned girls.
I remember tbe roach tost my grandfather
wore,
Brushed back from hla broad, honeet brow,
ThLuIh
And my grandmother 1 ! hair—snowy white, hid
away
Neath a hi ad dress of dainty whitelaoe.
Curving down from her brow In a smooth sltrer
DADu,
Framed a queenly and beautiful face.
As|the proud, noble face of my great ancle
George,
Looks down from tbe canvas at me.
With the “old ttmey" stock and tbe *ne pow-
_ dared wig-
'Tie at handsome and grand as can bet
But the deareet and loveliest hair in the world
Is my inniner'* soft, beautiful brown.
" 1th a touch of the gold, and glint of the eon.
And away to her knees fatting down.
And it tells Its own story of womanly grace,
And the old fashioned modesty, too. .
LI that sweet in.Wrtbsbie beau.r ef sen!.
And tbe mother's love, tender ana true.
For tbe angel that related the rainbow wold
find
Hot a tint «o exquisite and rare!
Oh the wca'th of luxur'
Of my mother's brown,
The ex-Preraier describes himself as listen
ing from across the broad Atlantic to the
clash of arms in the combat between Col.
Ingen oil aud Dr. Field. He pleads
guilty to not having “the per
sonal knowledge winch assisted
those doughty champions in ■ making
recijirocal acknowledgments, as broad as
could be desired, witli reference to personal
character and motive, hnch acknowledg
ments are of high value fn keeping the
issue clear, if not alwayB of all adventi
tious, yet 6f all venomous matter. Desti
tuted the experience on which to found
them as original testimonies," he says,
“still, in attempting partially to criticise
the remarkable reply of Colonel Ingersoll,
1 can both accept in good faith what lias
been said by Dr. Field and add that it
seems to be co sonant with the strain of’the
X I have before me. Havingsaid this,
'1 allow myself the utmost freedom in
remarks, which will be addressed exclu
sively to the matter, not’the man.
"1 do not remember ever to have read a
composition, in which the merely ideal
coloring of particular, and even very lim
ited sections of Christianity wak more sys
tematically used as if it lia 4 been available
and legitimate argument against the whole
than in the reply beforeus. Col. Ingersoll
writes with rare and enviable brilliancy,
but also with an impetus which he seems
unable to control. Denunciation, sarcasm,
and invective mavbe said to constitute the
staple of his work ; and, if argument or
some favorable admission here and there
peep out for a moment, the writer soon
leaves the dry and barren heights for his
favorite and more luxurious galloping
grounds beneath. * * ♦ The paper,
noteworthy as it is; leaves on my
mind the impression of a battlefield
whore every . man strikes at every man,
and a!! la noise hurra add confusion Rat.
ADVOCATES FREE TRADE RELATIONS
Hotiveen Tier and the United Staten—The
JFrolmhllity of a Union of tho Two
Countries-Seine Curiosities of
• Railroad Building.
and a!! is noise hurry and confusion. Bet
ter, surely, had it been and worthier of
the great weight and elevation of the
subject, if the controversy had been waged
after the pattern of those engagements
where a chosen champion on cither side,
in a space earefully limited and reserved,
does battle on behalf of each silent and
expectant host. The promiscuous crowds
represent all the lower elements which en
ter into human conflicts; the chosen
champions and the order of their proceed
ing signify the dominion of reason ovor
force, and its just place as the sovereign
arbiter of the great questions that involve
the mnin destiny of man. • • *
“I do not deny that a person who deems
a gi- en religion to be wicked may be led
onward by logical consistency to impugn
in strong terms the character of tho auth r
and object of thnt religion. But he is sure
ly bound by the lnws of social morality
and decency to consider well the terms
and the manner of his indictment. * • •
Are not such methods of proceeding more
suited to placards at an election than to
disquisition on these most solemn subjects?
Oil R SISTER REPUBLIC w*
miles, or a full day’s journey. It run. .
Senor Romero Talks of Hex-
ico’s Possibilities. £ hr .W '}’«»*. and connects b a jth^L*
lexas and St. Louis narrow-guage sv.-nn,
and then gets on to New York. Tins
passes through some of the best country of
Mexico, and along itc lines arc ....i,/,,
forests and sugar and coffee
Then Stanford and Huntingh ave X
a road tow ards Mexico, and are roX ‘
ing will; the Mexican Central and J[ CI :
can National, but they ask for no subside
and they do the work, so to speak /’
their own hook. They rclv A®*
part ot their profits Off their coal irant.-Vr
tation, which they arc thC enabled to
send much cheaper to Mexico City tL„
otherwise. In addition to these a number
of smaller roads have been built thromrb!
out the country and cousHjerablu building
is now going on.”
the people'™ ilr0ad boildill « P°P“1« with
“ Yes, though it causes at first great pri-
valtons and hardships. The building
railroad through a settled country, which
has for years carried on its transportation
mother wavs, and whose-people undin
dustrie8 liave been accustomed to the
wagon road and to have their domestic
markets on|y, is far different from opening
up a new country like the United States
Here, for mstapee, is a region where the
larmers have been accustomed to rely upon
these people as the consumers of their
products. They know just liow much they
can get for their grain, and how much of
certain articles will be wanted. A system
of transportation lias grown up, and there
is an army of men engaged in fetching and
carrying. Then comes in the railroad, and
it transports goods to the country at a
cheaper rate than the people have been ac
customed to paying. It carries theirgoodf
from one place to another quicker and
cheaper, and for a time there, is a great
disturbance in the old methods of business
n °w and trade, and of course distress. This
must cause. some dissatisfaction, and it
takes some time before the people can adapt
themselves to the new arrangements. But
it is surprising to see how soon the Mexi
can people have adapted themselves to the
new order of things. There is not the same
growth along a Mexican railroad that
there is along an American
one, for tlie reason that the
country in Mexico is comparatively
developed. But the roads tend to develop
tiie material resources of the country, and
nacr
•ft"
The Chief Justiceship.
From the BL Louts Republican.
Hon. Edward J. Phelps is an eminent
lawyer, whose ideas of the American con-
stitntion and of the rights of tho citizen
and of the States under it are eminently
correct. He has held to these same ideas
from his vnuth nnwards, when K. chang
ing them he could have obtained the linu-
orB with which tho Republican party de
lighted to reward able men who accepted
its heresies. Unless it be Mr. Bavard,
no one of those who have beta
mentioned for Chief Justice is so
well fitted for the dignity and re
sponsibility of tbs position as Mr.
I helps. He has done nothing to incur the
enmity of any Irishman, and if his ser
vices as minister to England have made
him unpopular in Ireland, no one in that
country or out of it can point to a single
act in his record to justify the dislike or
excuse the prejudice. Moreover, our su
preme justices are appointrd as guardians
of the constitutional rights of our own
lH-ople, and when a man is found who can
be relied on to do this, it is not wise, not
patriotic, not safe for ns to pass him over
because of the unreasonable prejudi'-e con
ceived against him by partiea to a foreign
qnarrei. 6
Wa believo that Mr. Cleveland can be
relied on to make the best possible selec-
tion, anil that in doing it he will not con-
stder anything that is foreign to the point
of finding a man who is faithful to the
constitution; who understands it and
knows how to interpret it; who is above re
proach in private and public life; who has
b £ responsibility, and found
equal to it. Such a man will be welcomed
by all true Americans as the right man
for a place which cannot be filled by the
Wlt ] 10 “‘ danger 'o the liberties
of America and of the world.
Mr. Arnolu-. Jb'antt Disease,
f ' r S!» the British Medical Times.
ihe life and death nf Me i..u ,
“I venture on remarking that the doc
trine of evolution has aequired both
praise and dispraise which it does not de
serve. It is lauded in the sceptical camp
because it is supposed to get rid of the
shocking idea of what arc termed sadden
act: sf creation; and it is as unjustly dis
praised on the opposing side, because it is
thought to bridge over the gap between
man and the inferior animals, and to give
emphasis to tho relationship between them,
“As in ordinary conduct, 60 in consider
ing the basis of belief, we are bound to
look at the evidence as a whole. Wo ha re
no right to demand demonstrative proofs,
or tho removal of all conflicting elements’,
either in the one sphere or in tho other.
What guides us sufficiently in matters of
common practice has the very same au
thority to guide us in matters of specula
tion; more properly, perhaps, to be called
the practice of the soul. » • •
"The reasoning faculty is, therefore,
wholly extrinsic to our foreign nature,
and no influence is or can be received or
imparted between them. • • • It is not
difficult to see that whilo the reply aims
at uplifting hnman nature, it in reality
plunges us (p.476) into the abyss of degra
dation by the destruction of moral free
dom. responsibility and unity. For wo
are justly told that ‘reason is tho supreme
and final tost.’ • • • Let us try this by
k test case. A father who lias believed his
son to have been through life upright,
suddenly finds that charges are made from
various quarters against his integrity. Or
a friend, greatly dependent for the work
of his life on the cooperation of
another friend, is told that that comrade
is counter-working and betraying him. I
make no assumption now as to the evi
dence or the result, but I ask which of
them could approach the investigation
without feeling a desire to be able to
acquit? And whatshnll we say of the de
sire to condemn? • • • According to
the reply, it must be a mistake to suppose
that there is anywhere in the world such i
tiling as bias, or prejudice, or preposees
siun; they are word* without meaning in
regard to our judgments, for, even if they
could raise n clamor from without, the in
tellect B.ts within, in an atmosphere of
serenity, and. like justice, is deaf and
blind as wrll as calm.
“In addition to all other faults, I hold
that this philosophy, or phantasm of phi
losophy, is entirely retrogressive. • '■
With complication, introspection has
largely extended, and I believe that, os
observation extends its fields, so far from
isolating the intelligence and making it
autocratic tends more and more to enhance
and multiply the infinitely subtle, as well
as the broader and more palpable modes,
in which the interaction of the humau
Special Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Washington, April 25.—The relations
of Mexico to the United States become
more intimate year by year, and the great
railroad development of the past five years
brings New York within a few days of thg
Mexican capital. The Mexicans as a peo
ple sceui to have taken great strides in the
marcli of civilization within the past de
cade, and the Yankees were surprised at
their extraordinary exhibit at the New
Orleans Exposition. They there showed a
surprising advancement in art and educa
tion, and tljeir display of the wonderful
resources and possibilities of Mexico was
the comment of all visitors. Here at
usliington the Mexican Legation stands
high in tho diplomatic circle, and its new
mansion, which it occupies for the
first time tiiis year, is surpassed only
by the barn-like palace of the representa
tives of John Bull. Honor Matins Romero,
the Mexican minister, is one of the most
noted men in Mexican history. He has
proved himself an able diplomat, and his
every effort has been to push Mexico to the
front and to bring about the most intimate
trade and other relations between her and
tiie United States. Senor Romero is now
fifty years old. He is a Mexican by birth
aim a diplomat by nntnre and training.
He entered the Mexican office of foreign
affairs at eighteen, and he is a lawyer a3
well as a statesman. He first- came to
\Yashington in 1859, at twenty-two years
of age, as secretary of the Mexican Lega
tion, and at twenty-four he was appointed
charge d’affaires. Upon his return to
Mexico he became a colonel in the army
of General Diaz, who was then
commanding a corps of the Mexican nrmy,
and, in fact, he and President. Pisz were at
college together. He was again here as
minister from 1863 to 1868, and he was for
a long time Secretary of the Treasury of
the Mexican Cabinet. He strengthened his
relations with the United States by marry
ing an American girl, aud his wife, who is
one of the leading ladies of society here, is
a descendant of John Hart, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, and also of the noted preacher,
Jonathan Edwards. Senor Romero is a de
cided brunette. He is of about medium
height, slender in form, and his long, thin
face is covered with a full biack beard.
He has a broad fnrehenit 1.1-inl- I,-;- l-J
► parkling black eyes. Hii ronvcrTaiionls"
animated, and he speaks English as flu
ently os ho docs Spanish and French. I
had a long conversation with him la-t
night about Mexican matters, in which he
expressed himself freely.
THE MEXICAN LOAN,
lie referred to the Mexican loan of fifty
million dollars, or ten million pounds,
which the government is now about con
tracting with German capitalists, and lie
told mo, in response to a question as to
whether it would be wise for the United
States to reduce its surplus by loaning its
money to Mexico, that he did not think
Ob Ibt wea'th of luxurious, rippling wi
•ruwa, beautiful balrl
So!bettortbabalr«>{ tbmlonxt*o.
Whether lilrvr, or duikjr, or (air.
For il briogt back dear (aoee. and good, haneat
heart*—
1 lore It— the old fohioned balrl
—Margaret Andrew* Oldham.
faculties is carried on. Who among us
J'X 0f b0 P**"-lwarni„g for"^ la^ °“ a,Ion
number who suffer from heart disease.
Twenty.fiTe jeara ago he consulted Dr.
(now Sir Andrew) Clark, and was told that
he had valvular disease of the Wart, but
w *f, that if he exercised eare it
need not interfere with his career. For
S'l? he rl 8idl? adhered to the rcC
ro L?" “ t °a^ g ! ,Utn anJ ««tion
given to him, and it is interesting and
encouraging for patienu having hSrt di-
that nearly
an ma serious work in
*dn~tion and theology waadone
within the lut twenty.fire fearR. &iw*h •»
life is a striking proof,h« C.rt
even of the iyne generally accounted scri-
oua—for Mr. Arnold had disease cf the
fcre^ith n ?h?r£ T * ,W “ ncf ’ 1 n, ’ t int«-
i h Ub ° r 7 > J°? m ‘’ , >t of £ IOC-
msful career, pror ds 1 only the limita-
tiona and moderat re rietion* to which
wimi'Jd "‘ibS’ u * re ,ra ‘ lklT
recognized. Kmloideied by impnnitv
L’T” ‘ ’ h*' 1 *’ 8 lhal t& ’
h** 3 'inner*™.7 and l
relax their vigilance at the very time when
the approach of old age renders all liabl
U weakoes* cf the heart.
♦ lint On mL . ....
n inuwuin) uuuiu ever oe put
throngh Congress, as there is no precedent
in our history for such an action. This
loan, ho tells me, comes out in government
bonds, which bear 6 per cent, interest and
which are to rnn 100 years. I asked as to
the roilroad era of Mexico and as to the
condition of Mexican railroads. Senor
Romero replied:
“Our great era of railroad building was
between 18*0 nnd 1884. Then came the
panic and tho road stopped. They are
now picking up again, however, nnd the
building of roads goes on in Mexico al
most as actively as in the States of the
West. We have a number of large roads.
The Mexican Central, running from El
l aao to Mexico City, is controlled by
American capital, and it is practically an
extension of the Atchison, Topeka and
banta Fe system. The Mexican railroad
runs from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexi
co, nnd it has a branch to Puebla. Its
length is 200 miles, and it was the first
great road built in the country. It cost
$10,000,000 to build it, though it could
now be built fer one-fourth of that sum.
It pays about 5 per cent, on this immense
cost, and this would have been equal to
an immense dividend had the road been
built to-day for one-fourth that amount
The question is often raised in
the United States as to whether Mexican
railroads are profitable, and this Vera
Crnz road is cited as an instance of their
not being so. When it is considered how
it was built it is easy ,o see that this is
not a fair way to estimate it. In the first
place, the highest interest was paid for the
money used, and it took thirty-six year,
to build the road, during which time the
companies were constantly changed. Then
the road was commenced at the City of
Mexico, instead of at the seashore, ana ail
ot the rati, locomotives, cars and other
materials were carried 200 miles over the
mountains, and this was nearly ail the
way up hill. Again, the road was turned
out of its natural course because tiie lost
grantee owned certain lands that he wanted
tmproved by it, and, lastly, some millions
TL. “7 TT. for thc concession.
The roads lately built in Mexico have also
been extravagantly manured, and ..
... . to observe, in tbe economical basis, every one of them would
course of his experience, how largely the make money.”
intellectual power of a man ts affected by
the demands of life on his moral pewcis,
and how they open and grow, or dry up
ami dwindle, according to the manner in
which those demands arc met.”
S'lnhes Everywhere.
Front the Anu-flens Ri corner
A gentleman from Webster county was
in the city. Meeting the reporter he took
him asfde and said. “We’ve got ’em for
you. If you want any snake steries just
come out to my neighborhood. My place
is inf-i>ted with them. We fintf them
everywhere and they are all shapes and
sizes. There are none very large, but tiie
number of them makes np for thffc My
children are afraid to go outside of the
house, as the snakes are under nearly
every bnnch of grass in the yard."
J«U Pleads Guilt j.
Atlanta, April 24.—A new trial was
granted Drew Jett, who was tried and con
victed of the offense of aaaanlt with intent
to murder William Rex last week. Jett
then entered a ph-a of gniity of stabbing,
ami a fine of $2'0 was imposed, whirh
Jett says he will be able to pay.
HOW MEXICO AIM RAILROAD BUILI'INO,
i “T\ e Mexican goverment does not grant
lands for this building of railroads, does
it?”
“No,” replied Pc nor Romero • “bat rail-
road building lias been aided by snheidies,
and the Mexican Central received more
than ,15,000 a mile as a subsidy from the
government, and it had the right to import
materials for construction without duty-
far fifteen yean. It fa exempted from
taxation for fif y yean after thc comple
tion of ail tiie lines of the system, but at
lha end of ninety-nine yean it goes into
™ hands of the Mexican government.
Tne grow earnings of the road for 1885
were abont $3 400.000. end for 1886 they
were abont $100,000 more.
“The Mexican National railway, a nar-
row-gange line running from the City of
Mexico to Laredo and with a branch to
the Pacific, received li sn'eidv of more
than $10,000 a mile, with about the tame
conditions at to the rood going into tbe
hands of the government at the end of
ninety-nine years. They are working now
on tiie completion of this road, anil it will
past. Troops can be transported from one
part of the country to tiie other in a few
hours or in a few days, as the case may be,
and by the telegraph the government has
its hands upon tho whole country.’’
THB GOVERNMENT AND 1TH TELEGRAPHS.
"I see that yppr government of Mexico-
owns n majority of the telegraph lines?”
“Yes,” replied Mr. Romero. “About
two-thirds of our 13,00(1 miles of telegraph
line is owned by the government, and there
lines have been largely constructed by
government and. We have a very fair tel
egraph system, though our rates are, I
think, high."
“It has been through you, has it not.
that a better postal arrangement lias been
brought about between the United States
and Mexico?’’
answered Mr. Eomcrc. “I wss
very anxious that there should be a postal
union between the two countries, nnd wo
now have the same regulations as far as-
mails are concerned. Tou can send a let
ter from Washington to the City of Mexico-
with tho same stnmp that you use to send
it to Baltimore or New York, and I look
for the time when we shall bo ablo to send
largo packages by mail as well. Mexico
and tiie United States ought to have the-
closest of friendly ud trade relations with
each other, and there ought to be practical
free trade ns far as possible between Mexico-
and tho United States. There is no reason
why, as Gen. Grant said, the United
States should not . buy all its
sugar and coffee from Mexico, who
trades with the United States, instead of
from Cuba and Brazil, who do not bny
much frpm the United States. The United
States pay about S160,COO.OOO a year for
sugar, coffee, tobacco and other " tropical
ill /,V. Mexico could famish thrsennd
if it did Us exporters would carry back to
Mexico just this much of American mann-
factnred products. Tho trado between the
United States and Mexico is, I think, in
creasing, but the United States, it seems to
me, doe* not pay as much attention to the
subject as its interests demand. The
United States and Mexico ought to be to
each other as two brothers, aim their rela
tions should be tho closest und moat friend
ly in every respect, with a duo regard to
the preservation of tiie autonomy of both
nations." . Fuank G. Carpenter.
Tlio Wlno Tux Blit 1-nasril.
London. April 26.—In the House of Com
mons to-night Sir Jamea Ferguaon, parlia
mentary under foreign aerretary, announced
that the French ambassador had protested
against the bill for laying a taxon bottled
wlnea During the discussion which fol
lowed, Mr. Gladstone opposed the tax as be
ing prohibitive of cheaper wines and the re-
inlroduction of protection into the English
fiscal system, which would have nn injuri
ous effect on England’s relations with
France. The bill was adopted by a vote of
246 to 121. ' 1
At> iut the 6tao ot It.
From the Decatur Chronicle.
Sam Fleming, a blind devil, dropped in
Atlanta, from nobody knows where, and
succeeded in convincing one of the Gate
City’s fairest daughters, that he possessed
untold wealth, and induced her to marry
him. Now it turns out that he is not only
a pauper, hut a bigamist. So long a*
women will sell their bodies and souls for
“filthy lucre,” they may expect to be
footed and deceived, «ud do uot deserve
much sympathy.
lljr alt Means, do It.
From the Cedartown fitandard.
How would it do to eliminate the “w
and call it “Cedarton?”
Ttion Hast Dove's Kyes, My Beloved.
(Bong of Solomon.)
In the olden days King Solomon wrote
Thesweeteetof songs e'er sung;
An-t Its echoes are answered dole for note
Whenever love's thoughts find tongue.
Thus in fancy's caverns, clear and strong,
I list to the dearly loved.
Ever new words of the sweet old »onr,
“Thou bast dove's eyes, my beloTsd.
The olden Ume and tbe new clasp bands
O’er a span oi three thousand years.
While love tits weaving bis rosy bands,
Aud listens with eager ears.
But not to the poet nor present belong
The themes so dearly loved,
Thc fat are iball sing the same sweet .song.
“Thou hast doves eyes, my beloved."
For song and words sre but links of a chain
When love binds the hearts of men:
Amt we stoop to the fella's again and again.
At Solomon bowed to them then: .
For down through the ages still roll along-
In rythui so dearly loved.
The eehoee ot tho sweet old song.
"1 h .11 hast dove's • yea, my beloved.'
—Charlui K. Lawismee-
New Brighton, 8. L