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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY. JUNE 19.1888-TWELVE PAGES.
glkLEDBY LIGHTNING
How New York State Exe
cutes Her Criminals.
fHL HANGMAN'
FRENCH WRITERS.
S ROPE DISCARDED.
IBW which Provide* for the Ro.
th ' >e .1 of capital Offender* by Klee-
““u.dty-Vt.w* of tt. Author,
BIr. Gerry.
r the Chicago Herald.
r New York, June 8.—After the close of
a, present year no murderers will be
need > n this Stat6 ‘ GoTe, ' nor HlU has
. S .ned the act substituting death by elec-
diock for the nooBe. This law was
«de in consequence of the report of a
, ia l commission, the active member of
jfjeh was Klbridge T. Gerry, a millionaire
d philanthropist, who is especially
Vn«n to the local public as president of
,^Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
.Children. Mr. Gerry investigated all
l methods of killing murderers at pres-
i nracticed in civilized nations, and he
‘“i to the conclusion that every one of
,. a s unnecessarily barbarous. He
S^ided upon an electrical shock as the
humane and seemly means
oTdea'C and the bill which the
I«ulatnre passed was drawn up by him.
£ vourcorrespondents he to-day said:
mJ • en tirely definite plan for a machine
* ventured upon by the committee,
ffe simply convinced ourselves that a
stroke of lightning was instantaneous and
unrepulsive capital punishment, and the
Governor has agreed with us in that re-
. The law doesn’t specifically pro-
vide'ior the carrying out of its provisions,
snd it will be left to the sheriffs to deter
mine upon a method. own idea is
tint a chair, having a quite ordinary ap
pearance. could be so connected by wires
to a battery that the prisoner,
being seated’ therein, would take
his own life by merely placing
his hands on the arms, thus making a con
nection which would send the deadly, cur
rent through him. We became convinced
that dying in this manner would be per
fectly painless. The machinery essential
to this mode of capital punishment would
be very simple, and there is no possibility
that any patenting of a device wtil give an
inventor a monopoly of the ghastly busi
ness. As the law applies only to murder
ers committed after the 1st of next Jan
uary, we shall not have the ■first execution
by electricity before 1889. I confidently
expect that this example of progress set by
Sew York will be quickly followed by
other States, and then all other nations.”
Sherili Grant, of New York county, has
a rich and well educated mind. He said
to-day lilac he ww glad cf the chaste
Bade by the law; that hanging was in
truth a relic of barbarism, and that if he
should chance to be elected to another
term of office, one of the dreads of the
position would be removed. He has never
t ersonally had anything to do with a
anging. but the duty of strangling a man
to death or breaking his neck was a dread
ful thing even when performed by proxy.
He was asked if the culprits left under
sentence of death at the time of the law
going into operation could nevertheless be
hanged, and he replied that, in his own
opinion, the Legislature would amend the
law so as to make it apply to all execu
tions after January].
Governor Hill was vistted at Albany by
Your correspondent. He said: “The most
horrible reading that I have ever done, and
yet it has been so fascinating to me that I
have never avoided it, is an account of a
hanging. I do not agree with those senti
mentalists who believe that capital punish
ment should be inflicted in secret and all
the details kept from publication. T he ex
ample is required, uhd so I have never
thought, while believing that the spectators
of, * hanging should be restricted to a few
officials and reporters, that the accounts of
u should be meagre. But the noose has
always jeemed to me an unnecessarily bru
tal device, and I have been glad, therefore,
to sign the act substituting electricity.
The quickness and certainty of the
new method will obviate all chances
of those awful miscarriages which
have attended executions on the scaffold
hen this bill of Mr. Gerry’s was intro
duced in the Legislature, a newspaper cor-
res|>ondent spoke to me about it. i asked
him how many hangings he had seen. He
replied that he had written accounts of
fourteen. ‘And how does the Bight affect
you? I asked, lie replied that he had
•onetime* felt that lie was inhuman, so
small an impression had some of the exe
cutions made upon him. The condemned
men had marched out so calmly, and had
wen hanged so uneventfully that it whb
hard to realize that they had been delib
erately killed in his presence,
nut there had been one exception
this was the hanging of three negroes
“ the Tombs. They had robbed and
murdered a peddler, in a wooded suburb
of the city o! New York, and had been
convicted of the most brutal and cold
blooded crime. There was nothing in
, r clwe to arouse pity, and the newspa
per man said that he went to the place ex
pecting to derive a sort of savage satisfac-
},.? J B eyeing them suffer for what they
ad done. Three nooses dangling from
e beam were adjusted srouna their
necks and they were, by the full of a
eight, simultaneously jerked up from the
* ,u nd. The middle one of the three
anaged to partially unloose his pinioned
bands, and „|„, ch th „ „„ ,t£ ? . h!.
cad. Thus he released the chokingat his
I • °, at ’ uttered a cry of auguish, and threw
»*egs around one of his companions.
fe*t r n he * 08t **is grip of hands and
,i *’, e away from those supports and
J atrangfed to death. The journal-
p 81 ™ cr iptiou to me was vivid, and his
pression of his own horror at the scene
h vividly to my own mind. I
J* , "Gut this case compelled me to
J “ ' for 1 ,r 7 ■•"ay* » judge of
(mil i Te nut* by their merits, and yet the
f : |f. Btr uggle of that poor black wretch
t ; , not out of my mind from the
act . U P ‘|l e engrossed copy of the
1 »igned my name to it. 1 bc-
f r , ® J we have made a humane step
c*H?. i n adoption of electricity in
I’ 1 ’*!,punishment, and I have no doubt
tui.n. .L St we ***1 he followed by govern-
toent » ‘lie world over.”
Coantjr Treasurer Short.
C,„:„? 8E f HrJ une 11.—Ex-Treasurer Harry
Or., ..I„ ****.“ discovered to be abont $*,-
hi. ~® rt °» hi» books and has turned over
sfe<.?in P *o y hi* bondsmen. At the lut
tkr.1 *”* Garter, who had been treasurer for
^'“"na, was elected city auditor. The
»7i.‘ ry w “ aaada in an attempt to make a
1EUJ®*** with Carter, who claims that the
tri«i» * **“• *° * mistake in nuking en-
expert book-keeper is making
"animation of the books.
Sketches of a Number Wlio Have Been
Successful#
There ar three categories of snecessful
writers, says the Atlantic Monthly, namly,
dramatists, novelists and polygraphers, or
as one might saj^writcrs-of-ail-work. The
princes of the first two divisions, men like
Dumas, Ssrdou, Augier, D’Ehnery, Al
phonse Daudet, Zola, Olinet, Kichebourg
and Montepin, are at the very top of the
ladder, as far as commercial success is con
cerned. 1 licit; lot is enviable materially,
and in some clines artistically—the reader
will make the distinction for himself.
Next after these men come the first-class
wnters-of-all-work, who are novelists,
dramatists, literary and dramatic- critics,
chroniqueure, political writers even,
historians, essayists—in short, brilliant
and facile polygraphee, to use an accepted
French term, whose names you see at the
foot of newspaper articles, in the index of
reviews, on the covers of ephemeral books,
on the play-bills of theaters—men who are
always on the lookout which way the wind
is blowing, what the public wants to jead,
what is the topic of the day. Such a wri
ter is the personification of the intellec
tual appetites of his epoch: his manifold
interests, his wide appreciation, his varied
powers of assimilation and his command
of the instruments of his craft put him in
communication with so many different sec
tions of the public that his pen and his
name are always welcome.
A man like Henri Fouquier, for in
stance, or Jules Claretie, realizes the
French type of the writer-of-all-work; and
while the former receives a salary of 30,-
000 francs a year for writing two articles a
week in a Parisian newspaper, the latter
lias won the prize of the poBt of adminis
trator for the Comedie Francaise and the
crowning honor of the French Academy,
where Fouquier is destined to follow him.
It is the number and the talent of the cs-
sayiBtB, chroniquers, critics and general
writers which render the Parisian press so
interesting and so different from any other.
I remember once meeting a distinguished
snd accomplished Frenchman in the read
ing room of one of the London clubs,'
where he had been looking over the moun
tains of daily papers and weekly literary
reviews. He was full of astonishment, as
well he might be. “How admirably in
formed they are 1” he exclaimed, “and how
terribly wanting in taste,” he added in an
altered tone. The French, papers, on the
contrary, are very deficient in information,
but they are brimful of talent: nor is this
state of affairs other than what we might
naturally expect. An average intelligent
Frenchman cares vcjy little about news;
he demands, rather, ideas, wit, suggestive
presentation, talent.
But outside these lighter categories of
literature what do we find ? M. Lolie tells
u* that moralists have not much chance
nowadays, and he examines the case of La
Rochefoucauld,, supposing that he were
living in our times.' The whole of the
Maxims, he calculates, would furnish about
euuiigh copy for two fcnilietons of « mod
em newspaper: the author, being a titled
nobleman, might obtain the ordinary price
per line, which would give him about 200
francs for the whole book. Thus a work
which makes the author immortal would not
produce enough to keep him for a fort
night. This is a fallacious argument;
similar paradoxes may be sustained con
cerning all classes, and with the same con
clusions, for literary mercantilism is of re
cent origin. M. de la Rochefoucauld, if
lie were living nowadays, and if lie were
still afflicted with the mania of emitting
maxims, apothegms and moral generaliza
tions, would doubtless give a gay turn to
them, develop certain maxims by means
of short stories, and write for La Vie
Pnrisienne, on whose Btaff he would find
several people of his own rank.
Arabtnn ltrautles.
The principal figure among the wash
ers was a comely young woflian of perhaps
twenty, with a bright intelligent face, and
as she swung her lithe body around I
could not but fancy her in pink silk tights
and satin slippers, writes a corres
pondent of the Boston Transcript.
Jacob selected this young person to exer
cise his Oriental imagination upon by
telling her tall yarns about my impor
tance, and I Boon found myself in for more
attention than a man of retiring tastes
would know what to do with. It was all
right when she felt oi my boots to seo
wnat tbev were made of, and by a deter
mined ellort of the will I kept quiet when
she took my hat off and ran her fingers
through ray hair; for awhile, of course, I
d d not like it at all, at the same time I
was afraid of lacerating the feelings of
this tender daughter of the desert, and sub
mitted, but when she found I had pockets
and commenced to go through them to see
what they contained I felt the time had
come for me to tell her there was only one
woman in the world who had a right to
go through my pockets for keeps, and
so I tried to change the subject.
Then she pulled one of my
gloves off, and put my hand on her. arm to
see which was the whitest, and I asked
Jacob, with a gasp, if he did not think the
mules were loaded by this time; but he
was*so busy Bneezing Arabic at a little
brown-skinned maiden that he paid no at
tention to me. Then my companion ran
over to Jacob and talked to him with
great animation, pointing the meanwhile
with many jesticulations, and Jacob in
terpreted that she had a small sister of
14 whose marriage price was a certain por
tion of silver equal to $10, and if I could
afford so high a priced wife I could have
I may say here that the marriage price
is always paid to the parents of the bride
at the Wedding, and the money is held in
Altered tru-t i nr <b* bride, as the laws of
Morocco on the divorce question are so
free and generous that all a man has to do
is to open his door and put his wife out
into the street, in which case she goes
back to her parents and lives in
dizzy luxury on her income of $6
or $10. Tho horror snd indignation
with which I heard this proposi
tion I will leave my poor, innocent fellow-
man to imagine, but I refrained from read
ing her a lecture on the enormity of trying
to inveigle an innocent man into bigamy
for fear she would bring down her cousins
aud aunts and I shouldfind myBelf the pos
sessor of a ready made harem before I had
been a week in the interior; so I called
Jacob and retreated in a hurry, first
pivimr her three empty glass bottles which
seemed to be of tremendous value in her
eyes, snd an empty tin can to a little girl
who waa playing with a half dozen other
little savages as naked as when they came
into the worlds By the way, their plav
wss the one bit of nature that makes the
whole world kin, for as I watched them it
did not take long to see they were making
long rows of mud pies snd putting them
into a little Moorish oven of their own
manufacture to bake, only, instead of ithe
dear familiar nightmare creations of New
England, they took the shape of Moorish
bread and zooekooe, which last to the
Arab, is what the holy bean is to Boston.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
HOW PATRICK HE TRY DIED.
rnaalug Awn/In the Comforts of Christinn
Religion, ami Without Pain.
Parliament Interested in the, r - omPro . f - Tvlcr ' 8Hi '- t : )ryofl ' ,itrlcltH<!n tr- 1
The disease of which he was dying was
Question of Invasion,
ESTIMATES OE THE ADMIRALTY.
Gro** Tonnage and Condition* Required to
• Land n Hundred Thonuutd Invaders
on tl,e Tight Little Island—
Frederick'* Condition,
London, June 11.—In the House of Com-
mon* to-day Lord George Hamilton, first
intussusception. On the 6th of June, all
other remedies haying failed, Dr. Cabell
proceeded to administer him a dose of
liquid mercury. Taking the vial in his
hand, and looking at it lor a moment, the
dying man said: “I suppose, Doctor, this
is your last resort.” The doctor replied:
“I am sorry to say, Governor, that it is.
Acute infiauimaltuu of the intestines lias
already taken place; and unless it is re
moved, mortification will ensue, if
it lias not already commenced, which
_ 1 fear." “What will be the ef-
lord of the'amiraliat/stated that'th/csjcn- ff r ct °f„ th i fl medicine?” said the old man.
“It will trtxra vnil imnirn itihi rnlwaf nr ••
lation made in regard to the number of
transports necessary to enable 100,000 men
to land in England and seize London by sur
prise, took into consideration only the con
ditions that such a feat was possible; that
the whole army could disembark simultane
ously and when landed that it would be ca
pable of rapid movements. Tbc estimate
that ships with a gross tonnage of 480,000
would be required for transporting the in
vading force, he said, waa on the assumption
that it would be equal to three army corps,
comprising cavalry and artillery. Childers
asked, seeing the interest which the subject
was exciting, that a detailed and authorita
tive statement be presented to Parliament.
Handbury asked whether the navy and
military departments bad consulted on the
subject.
Ieird George Hamilton replied that the
data had been obtained thirteen years ago
as a result of a joint conference, an J prom
ised to produce those of the transport de
partment, which satisfied him that the ton
nage referred to did not overestimate the
preparation necesaary for landing such a
force. Such an invading force from the con
tinent, he continued, implied the distribu
tion of the invader* in ports hundreds of
miles a part, with a successful voyage of not
less than a week, instead of a few hours,
and made without opposition from a hostile
fleet.
INGALLS AND 1IIS WAYS.
A Friend of the Senator Toll* Uovr III*
Command of Language was Acquired.
A party of gentlemen sat in the lobby
of the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, the
other night enjoying after-dinner smoke;
they were talking about orators, aDd the
opinion had been broached that, after all,
the great orators of the country were ora
tors by natural gift rather than cultivated
ability.
“That may ho no,” said one gentleman,
“but 1 know one thing which can be cul
tivated, and that is command of language.
I have in mind United States Ssnator In
galls. I know that rngalls acquired his
command of language by the most careful
and prolonged effort.”
The speaker was a general on the Union
side in the late war, a native of New York
State and a graduate of Union College,
lie emigrated To Kansas after his gradua
tion from college.
“There was a little crowd of us in Kan
sas City just before the war,” hecontinued,
“from the Eastern States aud graduates of
Eastern colleges. We formed a set by;
ourselves. Some of us were lawyers, some
bothering about real estate and town lots,
some practicing medicine—alt doing some-
tiling actively; all, I believe, have since
attained notoriety in some way or
other. Ingalls was a graduate of
William., i ■ • 1!■ i I' ..In .1 as la-
does now—thin and spare. He was ec
centric in hiB dress, and always wore
something striking. He used to love to
wear, I remember, a big red necktie. He
was a shy, reserved fellow, and had the
reputation of being very cynical. It was
said'tlmt he lay awake nights polishing
his Bitter epigrams. He wasn’t very pop
ular, and as a lawyer, though he was Con
sidered smart, he had only a fair practice.
I think I came to be as intimate with
Ingalls as any of the boys were, and I
remember hia telling me one night,
as we sat in my room smoking
together, the manner in which he was
working to secure command of language.
He said that it was his practice tor an
hour or so each day to open Webster’s dic
tionary at random and run down a column
or so of words, carefully studying the
meaning of each word ana hunting up in
the lexicons its derivation and so forth.
You know that in explaining the meaning
of a great many words the dictionary
f ives a line or a couplet from
’ope or Johnson, or from some
one or more of the classic authors, aud
these quotations Ingalls would often (ora-
mit to memory, especially if they hap
pened to appeal to his imagination. Then,
too, he would look up in Crabbe’s syn-
onyrrts the words which meant the same,
or nearly the same, as the word he had in
mind, and he would study carefully the
nice shades of difference between them all.
He told me that so far from finding this
work tiresome or disagreeable, he took
the greatest pleasure in it, and that he
knew it did him inestimable benefit. He
considered this practice far superior, for
the purpose of giving one command of his
own language, to the old traditional one
of translating the Greek and Roman clas
sics into English and of then translating
them back again. 1 met Ingalls years
afterward, anu he told'me was still keep
ing up the practices I humosc he ia keep
ing it up now, and that’s where his facility
of expression comes from.”
HISIIOP NEWMAN.
An Uncomplimentary Sketch or the New
Hilltop,
From the Waterbary (Conn.) American.
Bishop Newman is known principally
to the general public as a political orator
who never let slip an opportunity to out
rageously puff the Stalwarts when
that faction was in power; as a placeman
who had a sinecure office created for
his special benefit by President Grant
that he might make the tour of
the world in style at tne government ex
pense; as a pastor who broke up a Congre
gational church in New Yorkby the wretch
ed quarrels springing up from his filling
its pulpit; as a eulogist who received ail
enormous fee for traveling across the con
tinent to deliver an address at the funeral
of a voung man, a son of Senator Stanford,
earning his money by comparing the im
mature lad with Jesus Christ, rather to the
disadvantage of the latter; aa a vulgar
peddler oi great men’s ucatu-lss* gossip at
ao much a column. These are a few sa
lient points in Bishop Newman’s career.
In electing him, the Methocist conference
hardly showed a proper appreciation of
what should lie the qualifications for fill
ing a bishopric as laid down by St. Paul—
to say nothing of the implied compliment
to the other four gentlemen elected with
him—or to an office that lias been filled by
a man of the standing and character of the
late Bishop Bimpson.
“It will give you immediate relief, or—'
the kind hearted doctor could not finish the
sentence. His patient took up the word:
“You mean, doctor, that it will give im
mediate relief, or will prove latai immed
iately?” The doctor answered: “You can
only live a very short time without it, and
it may possibly relieve you.” Then
Patrick Henry said: “Excuse me, doctor,
for a few minutes,” and drawing over his
eyes a silken cap which lie usually wore,
and still holding the vial in his fond, he
prayed, in clear words, a simple, childlike
prayer for his family, for his country and
for his own soul then in the presence of
death. Afterward, in perfect calmness, he
swallowed the medicine. Meanwhile Dr.
Cabell, who greatly loved him, went out
upon the lawn, and in his grief threw
himself down upon the earth under one of
the trees, weeping bitterly. Soon, when
he had sufficiently mastered himself, the
doctor came back to his patient, whom lie
found calmly watching the congealing of
the blood uuder his finger nails and speak
ing words of love and peace to his family,
who were weeping around his chair. Among
other things, lie told that he was thankful
for that goodness of God, which, having
blessed him ihrovgn all his life, was then
permitting him to die without pain. Fi
nally, fixing his eyes witli much tender
ness on his dear friend, Dr. Cabell, with
whom he had formerly held many argu
ments respecting the Christian religion, he
asked the doctor to observe how great a
reality and benefit that religion was Mo a
man about to die. And after Patrick
Henry had spoken to his beloved physi
cian these few words in praise of something
which, having never failed him in all hjs
life before, did not then fail him in his
very need of it, he continued .to breathe
very softly for some moments, after which
they who were looking upon him saw that
his end had come.
COURT CALENDAR.
Cases Set Down Yesterday tor Trial in tlio
Bibb Superior Court.
Monday, June 18.—A. P. Collins vs. W.
W. Lemon, trustee. Complaint for land.
Hill A Harris and Gustin for plaintifl.
Love vs. Central Railroad and Banking
Company. Bayne, Hardemtm & Davis for
plaintiff; Lyon A Estes for dflendant. Mrs.
Florine Holt, administratrix, vs. Johnson
A Harris. Injunction. Hardeman & Da
vis for plaintiff.
Tuesday, June 19.—Mary E. Thompson
ct al, vs. the Macon Gas Light and Water
Company. Relief, etc. Lyon & Estes for
plaintiff; Gustiu & Hall, Hill A Harris for
defendant.
IV. dm sday, June 20.—Mary J. Murry
vs. C. C. Wilder. Bill. etc. Peeples A
Hunt. Bostin A Hall for plaintiff, it. A.
Burnett vs. George Burnett. Divorce. Gus
tiu A Hall for plaintiff; J. C. Howland for
defendant.
Thursday, Jtins 21.—Lorine House Co.
vs. J. 8. Stuart—Warrant to eject tenant
Dessau and Gustin for plaintiti. Bacon A
Rutherford for defendant. Nancy A,
Howard vs. B. P. Gilbert, administrator of
J. p, Gilbert.—Bill in eouitv. Bacon A
Rutherford, Minter Wimberly for plain
tiff, Hardeman A Davis for defendant.
Iona B. 1 ioward vs. B. P. 'Gilbert.—Bill
for relief, etc. Bacon A Rutherford for
plaintiff, JIardcman A Davis for defend
ant.
Friday, June 22—Alex. Reynolds vs.
Jas. A. Davis. Complaint. Gustin A Hall
for plaintiff; Bacon A Rutherford for do.
fenasnt Edwin T. Gray vs. Geo. 8. Qbear,
Bill, etc. J. C. Rutherford for plaintiff;
Lanier A Anderson, Gustin A Ilall for
defendant. Georgia Southern and Florida
RaUaoad Company vs. Covington and Ma
con Railroad Company, et al. Equity.
Gustin A 11 all, Bacon A Rutherford for
plaintiff; Hill A Harris, Lanier A Ander
son for defendant. Ellen Davis vs. East
Tenne-.-ee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
Company. Damages. Gustin A Hall for
plaintifl!
Decoration Day In Mexico.
From tho New Orleans Picayune.
About 5,700 lio n were killed and wound
ed during the Mixican war and many died
from disease. How many sleep under the
soil of Mexico is probably not known, but
they amount to thousands. Numbers of
them are buried in a cemetery near the
city oMfoko, where a handsome monu
ment stands to record their devotion and
valor. On the 30th of May—Decoration
Day—the United States Minister to
Mexico, General Edward S. Bragg, accom
panied by his family and Mr. E. C. Butler
of the Legation, went oat to the national
cemetery at Tlaxpann. and the Minister
decorated the soldiers’ monument
with two magnificent floral
designs, made expressly for the occasion
under his direction in the matchless gar
dens of Han Angel. One piece was a
wreath, the other an anchor,hnd both were
exquisitely constructed with white roses,
t asmines, musk roses, orange blossoms,
loneysucklcs and tuberoses, interwoven
with bright green ash and oak leaves, ail
combined in perfect taste by tho Indian
fiower girls.
The Mexico Two R,-publics, from which
this information is obtained, says: “It was
an act at •• ice unique ar.d thoughtful, and
was prompted by chivalric admiration of
the brave soldiers who carried the Ameri
can flag in 1847 np into this wonderful
valley, and who fell here under its sacred
folds.”
The Qaaan aud Her Daughter.
From the London Figaro. "
The Queen has gone to Balmoral, and it
ia expected that prior to her return to
Windeor she will \ isit the Glasgow Exhi-
bition. It is saiil that the non-appearance
of her majestv at the hut drawing-room
was due to the nhs.-i.. a of Prince** Be
atrice. Tin Q uen, it is alleged, is so
much accustomed to tInj, Princess’s pres
ume ami In rul support, ami -.1 r. tv. i.-ly
afraid of appearing in public without her,
that she de dared mid not go through
the trial oi another draw lug room alone.
The story i- not ridiculous, hut it sounds
improbable. I’he sovereign is understood
to he enjoying excellent health, and, more-1
over, if -lie felt that the presence of tlo*
Princess I'-.-ntricc w., indispensable
would she ml have requested her royal
highness t; lie in attendance?
Unbmied Seventeen Year*.
The following story comes from Vance-
burg, Ky., via the Pittsburg Commercial-
Gaiette: “Perhaps one of the strangest
burials in history occurred on Wednesday
at Sandy Springs, across the river. Three
children of A. J. L. Scott, of Rome, O.,
were placed in one grave. Two of the
bodies have been corpses for many years.
In all this time they have been in the
grave. Seventeen years ago a sou of Scott,
who then lived near Portsmouth, died.
Being about to move, and not wishing to
leave the body behind, Scott embalmed
and placed it in a coffin and took it along.
It was not buried for some reason. Two
years later another child died. He treated
it in the Bame Way. Scott moved about
from place to place, all these years carry
ing the bodies along. They had become
dry and looked like mummies. Six weeks
ago a third child died and was embalmed.
Having resolved to settle permanently at
Rome, Scott decided to bury the .children
at Sandy Springs.”
Ingersoll Hay* He Didn’t Do It.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The charges 01 ptagairism whicii have
been made against Colouel Ingersoll iiave
at last made him angry. Colonel Bob is
mad. He says that the similarity between
Buckle’s essay on pride and his own para-
praph in the Conlriing eulogy is simply
accidental. He says that lie never stole
anything from Mill’s “Essay on Liberty,”
because he never saw the book. He has
issued this characteristic challenge: “Now
I will a k you to take a copy of that ad
dress. Read it for yourself. If you can
find a sentence in it that was ever written'
anywhere before that address was written
by me, I will give you $10,000. What I
cannot understand is how people can be so
mean os to write such lies. Nobody but
the pious could be so mean.” It is, of
course, happy for the Colonel’s defense
that lie never read the book from which he
is said to have stolen; but we would sug
gest that the apostle of freedom of thought
might learn something by reading what
Mr. Mill has to say about liberty.
The Name In Home Other Places.
From the New York Tribune.
An old settler tells this story about New
Mexican politics: When Francisco Man-
zanares was running against Tranquilana
Luna for delegate to Congress some years
ago I happened to be present at a meeting
in Silver City, where Luna delivered a po
litical harangue in which he compared his
immaculate honesty to the alleged corrupt
methods of Manzanares. “Fellow citi
zens,” he said, “I do not come among you
to buy your votes. I want them to be giv
en to hie honestly. I am not like my op
ponent, whose loaded wagons, filled with
goods of all kinds to be given for your
votes, encumbers every trail and road in
the Southwest.” He aid not get further in
his speech; the crowd yelled themselves
hoarse with cries of “Viva Manzanares.”
He was the kind of delegate they wanted.
The sign over the store read* a* follows:
“Books, Stationery, Drug* A Medicines.” He
went fn and asked for a lopy of "Croup ln Chil
dren" and the clerk naudeu him a uotiie
Dr. Ball’s Cough syrup.
IIow llufliilo Rill Ilounced Connell.
From the New York Sun.
Charles A. Connell, a young New York
er, attempted to make himself familiar
with the Indians at the opening of Buffalo
Bill’* Wild West Show Decoration Day.
The red men resented his overtures and
drove him out of their quarters on to the
show grounds. He was ordered off there,
but refused to go. Buffalo Bill, who yras
on his horse at the other end of the
grounds, saw Connell running around the
course, pursued by a number of cowboys.
Putting spurs to his horse, Buffalo Bill
swooped aown upon Connell while still on
a run, caught him by the collar slung him
across the horse’s back, and rode-off to the
gate with his astonished prisoner, amid the
wild cheer of the spectators. Yesterday
morning Connell was arraigned before
Justioe^HuIsebus, who discharged him
with a reprimand.
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