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THE WEEKLY TELEGTRKPH: TUESDAY. MAY 1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
prohibit! >u and anti-prohibition will hard
ly be rushed into another conevntion soon.
THE PICKET COUNl'KD NINE.
It Was a Miscount at First, But a Gleam,
luff lliiecrr Made the Correction.
' M. Quad in Detroit Free Presa.
As the sun went down and darkness be
gan to cre-p over the face of the earth the
angry artillery died away and the crack of
mui-keirr was'lesa spiteful. For awhile
a of Prthlas Programme-Chan t c. the fight'ing on the extreme right hung on,
Atlanta National Itanh-Ea.t to sett le the question of who would occupy
the old earthworks, but at length dead si
lence fell upon the whole field,
j Silence? Not It was silence compared
| to the awful roar of the long afternoon,
j but it was a silence broken by the screams
! and groans and prayers of wounded men
NOT TO SWING.
Wm. Hopkins to Serve the
State for Life.
SENSATIONS OF THE CONVENTION.
nj of the Horae Guards’
Tournament.
Macon TxLXoaarH Bnaxau, )
No. SH Whitehall Steeit. >
ATLANTA. OA.. M*J 10. 18SS. I
. r\ i* t ...,"t „„ .t,te —hy the movements of wagons and artii-
^overnor Gordon issued an order lery-by the subdued voices of 65,000 men
morning commuting the sentence ot »ill- M j[ )e y camped for ihe night without fire
iani Hopkins, who murdered William al ,d anxiously debated the chances for the
Thomas in Rabun county, March 18. The morrow.
facts in the case are these: Thomas went
to Mount Common church, in Rabun
county, on that Sunday. He was a stran
ger in the community, but was approached
Tho sergeant marches off to the left at
the bead of half a doxen men. lie drops
a man at “Post No. 1” and gives him wlns-
r red instructions. It is the same at posts
3 ( 4, etc., until the last man has been
on entering the church by Joseph and ^ v i g j| 4nt wakeful men
William Hopkins, who asked him to take
tdrink o' whisky, but he refused. After
the services were over, as Thomas came
out, he was stoned by the Hopkins broth
ers, William Hopkins striking him on the
between friends and foe while the long
night wears away.
“Post No. 6” is under a great beach
tree. Shot and shell have scarred and riv
en its trunk, ami shot and shell have scat
tered and riven its thick limbs. A quar-
back of the head with a large stone, pro- ter of a century hence this tree will bear
ducing a wound which caused his death
shortly afterwards.
The two boys were tried in Rabun su
perior Court on Monday, March 26. just
eight davs after the murder. William
Hopkins, who is just twenty, was sen
tenced to be hanged on May ll at Clay'
ton, while Joseph was sent up for life,
r Below is the Governor’s order commut
ing the sentence of William Hopkins:
To the sheriff of Rabun countv:
Wbereas, William Hopkins was, at tne
March term, 1888, of the Superior Court of
Rabun county, convicted of murder and
sentenced to be hanged on the 11th day of
May; and, whereas, a petition asking that
the sentence of the said William Hopkins
should be commuted to imprisonment in
the penitently for life, signed by a large
number of the citizens and county officials
of Rabun and Habersham counties, and
endorsed by the judge who tried him, and
by the solicitor-general who prosecuted
him, has been filed in the
executive department; and, whereas, it
appears from this petition and letters filed
with it that the said William Hopkins is
a yonng man who has had no education
and ns moral training, and is, in fact, but
a few degrees removed from idiocy, and
(he public opinion of the best citizens of
«aid counties seems to be that said William
Hopkins did not intend to commit murder,
inasmuch ssthe only weapon he used was
astone, itisordered that the sentence of
(he said William Hopkins be, and it.'is,
hereby commuted to imprisonment for life
in the penitentiary.
The case is one which lias attracted
much attention and there has been consid
erable comment on it. The illiteracy of
(lie Hopkins family has given rise to some
strange reports. One, which has been pub
lished aii over the country, is to the effect
(hat old man Hopkins called on his son
William at the jail in Clarksville when he
was confined there, and wiien about to
leave the murderer asked, “Pap, will yon
come out to the hanging? The old man,
looking at the pasiing clouds, replied:
“Waol, if hit’s too wet for plowin’ 1 reck
on 1 will.”
It is also said that the Hopkins killed
Thomas because he wore a ‘biled” shirt.
CONTENTION ECHOES.
How Senator Brown’s Nnine Canio In for
Hisses—Sir. Hiilyer** Disappointment.
Alii NT.’., May 10. The hotel corridors
‘look rather deserted to-day. A few dele
gates are still in the city, most of them
‘having left on the midnight and morning
trains. Of course there is much talk over
(ho proceedings of the convention.
There were two sensations in the pro-
•ccedingsof yesterday afternoon that con
tinue to elicit much comment.
The 'first is the hissing indulged in over
the mention of Senator Joseph £. Brown’s
name. Gen. I'hil Cook arose to second the
nomination of Hon. Patrick Walsh ns a
delegate from the Statu at large. In the
course of his remarkslie referred to Sena
tor Brown as having been pardoned by
‘Senator Colquitt while Governor and that
‘he was then received into the Democratic
■party; hut when Gen. Cook announced
that lie had a warm place in his heart for
the senior Senator from Georgia, the hiss
ing was heard. It was not loud, but
seemed to be general.
The other sensation was the cnndidacy
■of Qeorge llillyer against A. U. Cox, from
tlie State at large. Cox, it was conceded,
'would be put on as’Fulton’s representative,
and it is said was given to understand by
Hiilyer that lie would support him. It
'seems that Hiilyer wrote a letter to Dr.
H. D" Spalding, chairman of Fulton’s dele
gation, assuring him that^he would not op
pose Cox. Hiilyer had been a candidate,
but it ia thought that his reason for writ
ing this letter was that he had been given
tobelieve, in a quiet canvass of the dis
trict, that lie would be defeated. Later
on, liowcver, when the district met, and
Judge Hiilyer saw he had a majority of
the votes, he instructed Dr. Spalding to
withhold his letter and not read it at the
district meeting.
But Judge Hiilyer afterwards changed
his mind. One or two of the delegates
from Fulton, who were prohibitionists, it
seems began to think about J. J. Spalding
and A. If. Cox, both of Fulton, and anti
prohibitionists, as delegates. It struck
them that two antis were too many and
that the prohibitionists of Atlanta should
be represented on the ticket. A meeting of
the Fifth district was held and Hiilyer was
endorsed by two over Cot. The had
mo idea of any opposition from Hiilyer
■ after the letter had been sent to
Dr. SpMding. The issue was not
‘made squarely in the meeting
• at the district of “prohibition” and “anti-
: prohibition,” but it was whispered into
> the ears of all the delegates from the rural
districts that Cox was au anti and for that
1 reason he should not be endorsed, and be
sides J. J. Spalding, another anti, was
already on the ticket. This was thought
to be wrong, Hiilyer’* consent having
- been easily obtained to run, he was en
dorsed. It is said Hiilyer learned of his
endorsement in the district meeting, and
sent word to one of the delegates when the
' ballotting for State at large was going on
iD the convention that he would be in the
- State librarian’s otiii e, and that aa soon as
the result was announced, if they desired
ihim to speak, he could be found there.
But the Judge was left. It must have
: been a disappointment. Cox was elected,
-.and U> the fourth district the credit is due
for the result, and particularly Troup
.ouuty, his old home. The question of
witness to the terrible struggle of to-day.
“From this tree to the edge of that
thicket, and the countersign is ‘Justice,’ ”
whis, ered the sergeant, and as he passes
on the picket takes up his beat. He
counts as lie passes them by one, two,
three, four, five, six, sev«n, eight. What?
Corpses! They are lying on the grass so
near the patli fie travels that lie can touch
any of them with his foot. There are oth
ers to the right and left, farther away. It
was here that the enemy charged a battery
—hereour foieei rallied to preserve it.
Grapt shot and canister, bullet and bayo
net, found victims here. Some lay as if
asleep, worn out with the tremendous con
flict—others ra>*ed and prayed and cursed
God and man before death relieved them
from their sufferings.
The picket counts them as he walks, and
a sigh escapes his lips. To-morrow night
some sentinel may number his mutilated
corpse with others on the same meadow.
To-morrow night the autumn winds may
vainly seek to rouse him from his death
sleep.
From tree to thicket and turn. From
thicket to tree and turn. He must watch
and listen and lie on his guard, but by and
by he finds time to count again. One—
two—three—four—five—six—seven—eight
—nine! What! He counted only eight
before! Was he mistaken, or can the dead
of the battlefield creep and crawl? Six—
seven—eight—nine. Yes, there are nine.
In the darkness he made a mistake. Nine!
Well, what matters one more or one less
corpse upon a field of battle?
To the tree and turn. To the thicket
and turn. As he heads for the tree again
the ninth corpse assumes a sitting position
and looks after him. A moment later it
struggles up, and a figure goes creeping
after tue picket. The grasson the meadow
is thick and matted. His footfalls give ont
no sound. Softly—softly—silent as the
shadow of deatli—creeping—creeping, and
now he is close upon the lone picket.
There is a gleam of steel in the darkness—
a swift and powerful blow, and lie who was
placed to watch wii! watch no more.
Through the gaps the spies will pour in
and skulk about the camps; a regiment
will be silently advanced to the key posi
tion; the ghouls will scent plunder and
creep up to rob the dead.
The picket has counted, “seven—eight—
nine!”
There is no missing corpse. The number
has been made good!
Postal Clerk*' Demands.
From the St. Louis Republican.
St. Louis, April 24.—The Hon. S. S. Cox,
of New York, offered a bill (No. 8,072) in
th« House ul Representatives on March 5,
providing for the reclassification of the
railway mail service and the re-arrange
ment of salaries of the postal clerks. This
bill has the hearty approval of the clerks,
who iiave to work harder, apply them
selves more closely to study, and who per
form more hazardous service than any
other class of men iu the government’s
employ. No other brancii of the govern
ment has grown during the last six years
like the railway mail service, aud no' oth
er branch is of more public concern, and it
Is time for the hard-worked postal clerks
to have just consideration given tlism by
Congress. They richly deserve greater com-
|iensation for several reasons, chief among
them may be mentioned: 1, The
work i 1 almost double to the man com
pared to what it was six years ago. 2.
They are forced to apply themselves very
closely to study when off duty. 3. They
are constantly in great danger when oil
duty, often meeting witli wrecks, train rob
beries, and sometimes losing tlieir lives.
No one not actually iu this service is en
abled to form auy correct idea of its re
quirements, its importance nor its magni
tude, and why Congress has delayed this
long in providing necessary relief is surely
because the matter has not received proper
attention.
Politics should not be taken into consid
eration, in the least, in this measure, lor
the postal clerks are of both parties,
and some have no politics at all, their
chief aim being to serve ti e public to the
best of their ability aud at the same time
looking out for No. 1, on the quiet order.
It is tlie duty of both Democratic and Re
publican members of Congress nlike to give
this bill their united support, aud as
speedily as practicable.
Not only this is due railway postal
clerks, but in cases where they saciifice
the r lives in the discharge , of duty, Con-
gluu uugln to be oiimiiaike enough to
grant their families pensions, for they de
serve it os justly os any soldier that ever
fell on the field of battle. Relief of this
kind was offered in the last Congress and
sbly championed by the Hon. Mr. I’ctcrs,
of Kansas, and why it failed to pass is
something that is yet to be explained by
inconsiderate members who frequently
view just such claims through siuokeil
glass. The army of nearly 5.000 postal
clerks have their eyes in the direction of
tlie present Congress, and sincerely hope
and trust that the welfare of the railway
■nail service and its employes will be prop
erly provided for Wore July 1,1888, let be
President who mar. ’ C. D. T.
OUR BIG FAIR.
A Short Talk With Col. Nor-
then About It.
PROSPECTS BRICHTER THAN EVER.
Some of the Feature*—How the Enterpris
ing Preniileut Is Working—Tlie Old
Soldiers to Meet Again— 1 Tho
Special Premiums, Etc.
Col. W. J. Northen, president of the
State Agricultural Society, was in Macon
yesterday morning, and was in splendid
spirits over the prospects of the coming
State Fsir. As is known, Col. Northen
has his heart wrapped up in tlie agricul
tural interests of the State, and lie is always
planning and scheming to advance them.
He believes that Georgia is the grandest
State in the Union, and he offers to the
people of the world an opportunity of hav
ing it thoroughly'proved by attending the
State Fair. ,
Following up that idea, he will make
the fair a grand emporium of products—
a bazar where will be dispjayed si! that
can be grown in Georgia
soil and that which can lie made with
Georgia hands. He is giving much
time and attention to county displays,
and already there are twelve counties on
the list with three others almost ready to
decide. The premium offered by tlie so
ciety for the county making tlie best dis
play is one thousand dollars; but a plan is
on foot to increase that to two, three or
perhaps five thousand. It is in these
county displays that Georgia is best repre
sented in
AN AGRICULTURAL WAY.
It serves to show the products, tlie re
sources, the woods and everything that can
be produced here. It puts these together
in good shape, and it affords tlie man from
the North or tiie West who comes seeking
for a home an opportunity of selecting
his portion of the State, because
every portion of the State is represented.
If one section is adapted to grain, the fact
is displayed at the fair, and so on through
the list, and in such a manner that the
settler may find his choice in the grain,
cotton, timber or turpentine regions. And
this, too, without going into but one city
of the State.
The railroad authorities are now waking
up to the importance of bringing peopie
from abroad to tlie fair. The railroad men
iiaving connections with tlie Georgia roads
have brought down excursions from the
West and dumped them in Atlanta to see
Georgin, Once there the people had to
travel about over gullies and look
through the brush thickets to see
the State, and then return, home with a morrow '
very unsatisfactory opinion. By bringing
those people down to Macon to the State
fair they are enabled to see Georgia in all
its glory.
VISITORS FROM ARROATJ.
Col. Northen is desirous and is working
to have a larger attendance of people trim
the North and West at tlie coming fair
than at any previous one. He is striving
to bring thousands of the people from
those sections to see Georgia and what the
can do. He docs not want Castle Garden
people who come with a can of dynnthite
in tlie hip-pocket, but he want* people *ho
want to he citizens and settle here.
Recently he has received many letters
from people living in tho cold epumties,
making inquiries. The other day he re
ceived a letter irom a man in Ohio who
said lie wanted to come to Georgia and set
tle. “Your climate is all right, the lands
are cheap enough, and the inducements are
good; but how about the Yankee? IIow
arc you disposed toward him?’’ This is
the way the letter ran.
The timid Ohioan has only to come
down and see what that disposition is. If
he is a reasonable, law-abiding, peaceable
anrt nt « mar, he will be so thoroughly
convinced of the geuuinness of
THE WELCOME THAT AWAITS
the good citizen that he will be ashamed
of himself for hnving asked the question.
All through Georgia men who fought on
both sides are now good n> ighbors and no
mure peaceful men do not live anywhere.
Right around Mncon are numbers of
“Yankee" farmers, and they have learned
to love Georgia as a native does. In tlie
city arc severnl business men who wore
tiie blue uniforms, and during a
long residence here have never had
had cause to regret coming here, so far a.
the blue uniform was concerned.
Mr. Glessncr, of Americus, who lias
charge of the advertising car which has
made one trip into Ohio, reports that lie is
in daily receipt of letters showing tiiat
there will be a large number of people
from that State to come down to the Fair.
Mr. Glessner goes out on the second trip
sometime in August, and will carry wit
him an abundance of advertising matte;
Beautiful wouiau, from whence onmethy
bloom,
Thv beaming eye, thy features fair?
W’nat kindly hand oh thee was laid—
Endowing thee with beauty rare?
“ 'Twos not ever tbuk,” the dame replied,
“Once pale this face, these features bold,
The ‘Favorite Preacriptioa’ of Dr. Pierce
Wrought the wouderotu change which you
behold."
■. ■■ ■ „ BAttOr
1 he different towns and counties of the
State are getting up pamphlets and books
descriptive of their localities and re
sources, and these will be distributed by
Mr. Glessner wherever he goes. The West
erner can thus read in advance gl the toil,
climate, products and i>eople of
Georgia, and can come to the State
Fair and see every statement verified. The
railroads will furnish cheap rates and it Is
expected that thousands of people will
come.
THE DATE OF OPENING,
The fair will open on the 10th of Octo
ber, on the same opening days of Atlanta,
Athens and Augusta. The opening davs
of the Columbus and Rome fairs have not
yet been fixed, but it is quite certain that
they will decide upon the 10th. With tlie
low fares one can make the circuit of all
the fairs in tlie week. Of course the great
center of attraction will be the State Fair
which will be matt* vha -I C«>i-
gia's products. It will be here that the'ag-
nciilture of the State can be seen in its
fullest and grandest. Everything will be
focussed at Macon.
MOHR ROOM FOR DI8PLAY.
Tlie prospects are euch as to require ad
ditional buildings. An art hall will be
necessary. Col. Northen is of the opinion
that 11 oral Hall will be insufficient for
the merchant aud floral displays, and that
a separate hull must he erected for the art
department aloue. WBiie intending
a necessity. It should be remembered and was not q”ite thirty years old. She is
that this exhibition will be under the di-( a native of Macon, Ga. Her former name
rection and auspices of the Georgia State was Mrs. Kate Small. For several years
Poultry and Bench Association, and will be- she held a position as clerk in the Agricul-
mrde by them all that is attractive and tural Department. It was reported re-
complete. , cently that her first husband was not
the reunion OF veterans. j deed, as had be-n believed, and this fact,
Colonel Northen desires that the reunion her friends think is what caused her to
of Confederate veterans should be kept up end her own life. Upon an examination
year after year. He proposes to have the ot the records at the city hall a Star re-
most distinguished living chieftains of the porter found that there was a divorce case
lost cause present to deliver addresses, and pending before the courts in which Mrs.
it is probable that a lie adsomc and appro- kate Small appeared as complainant and
pritte banner will he presented to the Janies B. Small as defendant. Messrs,
county bringing the greatest number of, Gordon & Gordon first filed the suit, but
veterans. It is the programme that this Mr. Carrington was subsequently called
banner is to bo presented by Miss Winnie into the case, and lie appeared as counsel
Davis, who has already promised to be j for plaintiff until her death,
present. When asked about the case Mr. Car-
general 1'itusi’EUTS. I rington declined to say any tiling about the
The condition of the people of Georgia J suit, but being assured by the reporter
is better than it has ever been. There_ is ! that Mrs. Christian was dead he produced
more interest taken in diversified farming the complaint filed in court asking for a
and industries than ever before. Tlie
farmers are meeting together and coun
seling. “We make cotton because we have
a market for it." “We don’t grow pota
divorce. The suit was filed January 26,
1884. It set out thq facts that on Novem
ber 5,1880, in
THE CITY OF MACON,
toes, because we have no market for Blie was married to .Tames B. Small, and
them." “We burn our timber because we I that Bix months thereafter he deserted her.
can not utilize it.” These are some of the j The paper, Mr. Carrington said, temaiued
questions being discussed among them. ! in court for some time, and before the de-
They are reaching out to find'a market for | crce could be obtained the young lady
products other than cotton and which the j learned from the most reliable sources that
soil of Georgia produces lavishly. They | her first husband had died, and so believ-
are establishing smnll industries. The ‘ ing she married her present hus-
timber they have to get out j band. Some time after her second mar-
oj the way can be made; riage the news of her first lius-
into bedsteads, chairs, wagons, etc., right
here at home. In Sparta, for instance, a
wagon made there out of Georgia timber
is sold to tlie farmer for $70. That $70 re
band’s deatli was contradicted, and since
that time she has been greatly exercised and
has suffered terribly. Mr. Carrington
said that since the contradiction of the re
mains at home instead of going to Michi- J ported death of her first husband lie has
gan, and the men who made tlie wagon arc j worked hard to get the case settled and
creating a demand for tlie products of the
purchaser.
Altogether Col. Northen was in the best
of humor, and this was brought about at
the splendid prospects of the coming State
Fair.
SPECIAL PREMIUMS.
Tomorrow Mr. R. A. Nisbct and Mr.
Clark Grier will call upon the merchants
and business men to book such special
premiums as they may he disposed
to offer. It is necessary to do this now as
the premium list will soon be issued, and
all special premiums should be incorpor
ated in it.
There are a number of merchants and
business men who have already signified
their intention of offering special pre
miums. To these the committee would
say, select the department or feature and
have it ready for them when they call.
These special premiums encourage com
petition aud serve as fine advertising me
diums. A sewing machine, for instance,
that goes into a family as, a premium to
some member of it, lias made that family
a friend forever of the liberal man giv
ing it.
It is hoped that the committee will meet
with a liberal rerponso when they call to'
A NIGHT IN A CANEHltAKE.
lteturn of
i FIslilug Party (Ylio Went
Down tlio Itlver.
The Nine Club have returned from their
fishing excursion down the river.
i'iic ciub was organized on May 1st with
the following members: J. T. Riddick,
J. T. Baldwin, J. E. Dodson, S. T. Cal
houn, J. N. Riddick, William Cronin, Jr.,
T. J. Jones, R. Smith, William Vining
and two cooks.
They supplied themselves with an abun
dance of everything good to eat and drink,
and then went out a short distance from
town by private conveyance. Tlieir boats
were then launched into the Ocmulgee.
They were floating down seven days, and
then they returned to Stone creek, where
logs were cut and a camp struck. On tlie
mil they made a star! to go to Bullards, on
tlie Hast Teinu—Virginia and Georgia
railroad, but found Blizzard Roost instead,
aud then they concluded to go back to
camp. It was then about half past six
o’clock, and they were os wet as men could
be without being drowned. Then they
were lost. No one could give tho least
idea as to where they were, and all so med
excited. They were mad, quarreled with
each other, said eacii other
was crazy and finally landed in a
denic cane-brake where they could not see
each other. Fearing to move further they
sat down among the canes and there they
remained from about 8:39 that night until
about 7 o’clock next morning. It rained,
thundered, grew cold and there waB plenty
of lightning and such darkness as was
never experienced before. Many prayers
were said and there were some who never
expected to sec home again. The brake
was full nf wild cats, and to keep them at
a safe distance pistols were fired nt inter
vols. Every man in the crowd lost his hat.
When morning came tlie came the camp
was finally found, but the wind had
blown away the tents, and the water was
rising fast.' They had caught up to this
time over 1,300 fish The party moved
away, and, as they paddled up the river,
found fishermen everywhere along the
banks of the river and creeks. One man,
a Mr. Phillips, who lives neur Reid’s, hau
500 pounds of catfish.
At each meal from 75 to 100 fish were
cooked nice and brown. Eels were nu
merous, and ducks and squirrels were
plentiful. Home of tlie boys ate frogs,
which were very tempting.
The trip was to last fifteen days, hut on
account of so many of the party being
Central railroad employees and susjtendcd
for only fifteen days, the party was com
pelled to return yesterday. They now feel
as though they had worked hard during
that time, and not one will ever forget the
night spent in tlie cane brake.
JUMPED FROM A STEAMER.
The Sad Suicide of a Lady Formerly a
Resident of Macon.
The Washington Star contains the fol
lowing account of the suicide of a lady
well known in Macon. She was the
of Mi. II. C. Liiiiugs, of the nrm
of Billings & Tinker, printers:
As tlie Old Dominion steamer Luray was
crossing Hampton Roads, from Norfolk to
Old Point, Saturday afternoon, a lady who
had been sitting on the forward deck arose
and taking off iter hat, put her pocket-
book in ft, and handing it to a strange
gentleman, got over the railing of the boat
and jumped or fell over into tlie water.
The captain of the steamship Guvandotte
. seeing Iter jump off, stopped nis vessel, and
| tlie two steamers put down boats, but were
discover any signs of the body.
rellection. on the present building there is unable to di
a complaint among art exhibitors of Floral The wheel struck the body and caused it
Hall for tlie purpose of displaying pic- to sink instantly. On looking in her
tures. A beautiful picture loses' much of pockelbook a pass was found which proved
its beauty by being placed against a white- her to be the wife of Mr. E. Dudley Chris-
washed board wail, and by inferior •"*- tian, one of the cashiers of the Ilygeiu
Mountings. ’ ’ W
I‘i*purpose to build a handso
art hall where work* of art may be dis
played to advantage, and thus swell this
department.
There will also be built a house lor the
display ol poultry. This feature has grown I
to such mammoth proportions that a bolid-
tng devoted to poultry alone is now I
Hotel. She hrd been married about
nar, and haano children. Mrs. Christian
bad been to Norfolk shopping. Mr. Chris
tian when informed of his wife’s death
fainted. He is from Lynchburg, and be
longs to one of the oldest families in Vir
ginia.
REPORTED CAUSE FOR TIIE SUICIDE.
Mrs. Christian was a handsome blonde,
would, no doubt, have obtained the decree
this month. Persons who were intimately
acquainted with the lady speak in flatter
ing terms of her good character, and are
firm in the belief that the second marriage
was made in good faith, she supposing that
her first husband was dead. Her maiden
name was Kate Billings.
INTOXICATED TURKEYS.
The Result of the Visit of a Temperance
Plan to the Country.
East Macon has a very strong temper,
ance lodge, and it is doing a vast amount
of good work for the cause. One reason
for its success lies in the fact that the'
officers never lose an opportunity to work
upon tlie weak wherever found and induce
them by moral suasion to abstain from the
drink that brings so many to ruin.
Sergeant Subers is a resident of East
Macon, and while a good friend of the
lodge, tells this on one of the officers who
occupies one of the high chairs:
It seems that this officer went out into
the country a short time ago to make a
visit, and the good lady of the house at
which he stopped offered him among other
tilings a glass of very fine brandy cherries
of her own hrandying. The officer felt
called upon to deliver a sort of temperance
lecture, and finally, as he pointed out the
evils of intemperance, waxed quite elo
quent. He pointed out to the good house
wife how the young are led astray bv be
ginning with such inviting and insidious
things as brandy cherries, and iu oilier
ways sent pangs into her tender heart.
After the temperance man’s departure,
she went to her well-filled pantry and took
therefrom twenty-one jars of brandy cher
ries and emptied them out at tlie window.
Now it happened that the lady’s flock of
turkeys, some twenty-five or more, saw the
cherries roiling about on the ground, and
supposing it was some new kind of patent
food, went to work on them, and suiting
tlieir tastes exactly soon cleared up the
lot. In a short while there were appar-
•nUy dead inrkeys mllortlr the yard. The
lady saw them and supposed that some
plague had enfiladed their ranks. Being
uf an economical turn she had every ene
of them plucked so as to save the 'feath
ers and then had the bodies carted off.
Imagine the lady’s horror when evening
came to see the flock of turkeys, nude
and dejected, coming up to the
house I They had sobered up to find them
selves picked clean, and to save their lives
they didn’t know when or how it happened.
Being warm weather the lady has hopes
of saving the turkeys, but the * next tem
perance man who calls at her house may
expect to leave with his head picked as
clean as the turkeys.
WONDERFUL SURGERY.
Tying a Man's Bones Together With Sil
ver Wire.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
When the sun was setting toward 0
o’clock last evening its parting ravs fell
ihrough the cupola of the amphitheater of
the Good Samaritan Hospital on the seem
ingly lifeless form and pale, corpse-like
features of a young man, to whom several
surgeons were just applying the finishing
touches of an operation which had kept
the patient for almost three hours on the
operation table.
The man on whom this tedious opera
tion had been performed is Joseph M.
Donaldson, a laborer, aged 32 years, from
Rardon, O. In December, 1886, Donald
son, by some accident, broke his left thigh
bone about midway between the knee and
groin, nearer to the latter than to the for
mer. The injured man was taken under
medical treatment in his pince of resi
dence, kilt from some reason or another
the broken limb did not heal. A second
physician was called in, nnd the two medi
cal men tried every kind of bandage and
splints they could think of, but to no sat-
isfuctory end. 'I h« patient remained in
bed cighty-live days.
All swelling and every trace of inflam
mation had disappeared, and the general
state of his health was good, but the
femoral bone did not unite. Donaldson,
after the lapse of eighty-five days, got up
not the much better as far as the useful
ness ol his left leg was concerned, and a
man much disgusted with surgical art. He
was obliged to walk nn two couchcr, aud
was unable to attend to any kind of labor.
The next thing Donaldson done was to sue
his two doctors for $20,000 damages for
malpractice. The case is Btill in the courts,
and lias not been decided yet.
A few days ago Donaldson came to Cin
cinnati seeking help at the hands of Drs.
II. L. Taylor and J. Rickets.. After the
condition of the patient had been exam
ined, an operation was decided upon as
the only means by which (he patient could
be benefited. The doctors jjwere of the
opinion that the broken ferau had united
hy ligamentous instead of hy bony union.
In this dreaded accident, which sometimes
happens even under tlie most careful treat
ment, the fractured bone does not unite bv
calcerous, hut by fibrous union, an arti
ficial articulation being formed, the limb
in consequence being perfectly useless.
Yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock, the
time set for the operation, Donaldson was
placed, undressed, on the operating table
at the Good Samaritan Hospital, and an
anaesthetic was administered to him by Dr.
Otto Juettner, one of the house physi
cians of the institution. The physicians,
Drs. Taylor, Ricketts, 1L Stewart, and oth
ers who were prompt to assist in U.M I',
cult operation decided .u, K .n tl,*„
ready, and scalpels, saws, bone „i" * 1
scrapers and other deadly-looking jS?*.
incuts were promiscuously spread
The first step was to drfv e P ,he bC*?'
of the limb to be operated up™, . h u?
was done by the application «! „„
Esmarch bandage. After the blood 1*
driven out of the leg a strong rub cr
was strapped around the groit, to
the return of tho vital fluid. Nexiln tnl
■ cision about niue inches wide
, on the outer side of Z "ft
thigh, opposite the place where k
fracture was situated, bv Dr. Tavh.r ,
I performed the chief part of the onewiT *
j Tlie skin, the subcutaneous tivmJ
| muscles were divided until the bone
! come visible to the eye. When the
uon had progressed so far the true sta e
affairs was easily learned, and it beean
manifest that the natient most probabl!
had been actually the victim ot a case nl
bad malpractice. The fractured portion
ot the bone had not even united by
mentous union. They had slipped b,
each other, and h»d not united at all ft
took quite a while before the bone*.!
clearly resected out of the surrounding
tissues so that its relatiens could be com 8
pletely recognized. 11 was then found that
the muscles of the left thigh, in consequence
ol the lack of exercise, in connection
with tlie destruction of continuitr
in the osfemoris, had c ntracted to
a high degree. To overcome this eon.
traction, which prevented the ends
of the broken bone being approzi-
mated, the muscles were forcibly stretched
This was done in the following manner-
Gne folded Bheet was passed between the
thighs of the patient, while another was
knotted around the thigh of tlie left leg.
On botli the most powerful traction waj
made, three doctors pulling in opposition.
When, after continued efforts, the musclei
were stretched to a sufficient extent, Dr.
Taylor introduced tho scraper iuto the
opening, and the ends of the bone (rough
ened by the inflammatory process which
followed the fracture) were smoothed.
Then the lower segment was ro rotated
that its end protruded out of the opening
froin which, in spito of the litigation of
the limb at the groin, blood was constantly
oozing out. Tlie ragged end was then sawed
off by the bone saw. Under its strokes
the patient on the table groaned and
moaned several times in a most
pitiable manner, until a more abundant ad
ministration of the anesthetic made him
insensible against even the most painful
steps of the operation. The next tiling to
be done was the trimming of the upper
segment, but os this could not be brought
entirely out of the opening the ragged end
had to be taken off by tlie chain saw.
After both ends of the fractured bone were
vivified by tiie above described process it
took considerable time and labor to trim
them in such a manner that they were
neatly and perfectly fitted together. How
ever, this was done, too, and now came the
most difficult part of the operation, viz.:
the execution of sucli juxtaposition as
would permanently and firmly unite the
segments.
This is generally done by driving ivory
plates between the two fiagmeuts. This,
however, in Donaldson’s case, was not
available, and a more ingenious arrange
ment had to be resorted to. Into the low
er fragment, near its edge, were driven
transversely, by means of a barer, two
holes into which small ivory pegs of a
conical shape were driven in such a man
ner that tlieir cases were still projecting
about an eighth of an inch out of the sub-
stnnce of the bone. The upper fragment
of tlie femur was likewise perforated near
its end by the borer, and through this hole
a very strong silver wire was passed. This
wire was then wound around the project
ing ivory pegs, the two fragments
drawn together and kept in
position by twisting tho wire ns tight as
possible. This done, tlie operation was
virtually performed, because the rest of
tiie steps were only to close the wound and
bandage the broken limb. To this end the
wound was washed antiseptic-ally and
closed by fourteen stitches; iodoform wu
then sprinkied and oiled silk and cotton
spread over it. A plaster of Paris band
age was then applied, nnd in order to irn-
mobolize the fractured limb completely
this bandage was carried from the knee
over ihe groin up as high as the umbili
cus, inclosing almost the whole abdomen,
nnd thus compelling the left thigh to rest
os absolute as possible.
Tlie operation successfully performed on
Donaldson gives him the best chances to
recover ngain tlie entire usefulness of his
left leg, though it will under all circum
stances be not inconsiderably shortened
for the rest of his lifetime, it is not often
that fragments of n broken bone are bound
to each other by silver wire, and an opera
tion of this kind lias not been performed
in Cincinnati for quite a number of yearn.
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