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About Gallaher's independent. (Quitman, Ga.) 1874-1875 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1874)
GaUahct'ss fttdcpcn&nt. —-rr^^=r=r=r=r^ 1 .1. 0. GALLAIIER, Editor. SATURDAY, APRIL A, 1874. IS IT A PARTY QUESTION I J'iu.-uicw is HOW the principle queftfiou ot Congressional Legislation, heucc, wo Mhkiti A ft party question ? If so, is it Dwnocrstic or ll*Jiol measure, to increase t’ ie circnlnti mof U-dto.l States currency. ltl ,a thereby depart ’<iO litl> rdo > the WdbHv erpm&tWHV of o resumption ~f specie ’jmywcnl ? U? i 1 Jemocrafic , K-(uura isn’t it a manifest depart tiro from f lia Domacrnife principles of former ilayr t Bpeeio was the normal basis of tlio cur rency <>f the Uuitqd anil sp<<'t pivincn 1 was the principal plank in every *>nnioeratio platform anterior to the war, uu ,t the earliest possible resumption of r-Ho mvment lias been tlio corner stone „r TK.m.K’raey since the war. Was the pnn , i„le correct before the war, if "o has the j ..miciple changed? Wasn’t Ibmocrahc i iministnitjon under the normal system ft.,,*-sful. and ilid’t the own.try l-'osper ? tl.wn't the admiidafrptiim since the ww proved tube nnsuccewfiU under the paper currency, and hasn’t the Government p.-eu making rapid strides towards im-vitu Vde disaster and ruin ? The departure f omthe normal basis of currency was vi, r measure, and perhaps a war necessity, but the in ensure, if it was cxpndient at any time, has pertoimed its office and the ne cessity exists no longer. Specie. must necessarily be the basis of currency in our country us it is in nil others; because it has uueq.ua value in all countries, it has,, lined and miebuugabl • value. li is.thedob *, r the same yesterday, to-day and m long ns time shall hu t. It never appreciates or depreciates in value, nil ot her currencies ~iy fluctuate owing to its redundancy or ft.-areitv, greenbacks nor any oMier cur , nor Will ever be worth more than gold. Vut your gold on the market it may bring one and a quarter, one and and n half, or two dollars in greenbacks, but you only have a dollars worth. Gold is the stand ard, it has its real value. Greenbacks me petitions, with but a nominal or relative s-duo. The inproasa of a currency of lie llthns value will give a fictitious value to , ,cry species of property." It is goner ,.dy admitted that the Government will at some time or other resume specie pay- ; pient. Will any time in the future pit" ; ►uni n more favorable opportunity than • ,e present? Will it In; easier when hun .irftds of minions more of its issue my tola r sleemed than is now in circulation V <Vr I„inl.v not Then it must bv obvious n, every thinking mind the further we de part from the correctprinciples the greater iV,a oertainty of disastrous ream ta Air. Swedenborg in the year 17H1 pre sided to the House uf Nobles of Sweden (.‘Memorial upon the tluancid condition ol rust country w hich is oorlMnly rv uppli . .We to tho United States in its present cud prospective condition. This w wdmt ; lie said: , . “If the flo not. ilnrinff tins djet. Make some i.rnui^’MW v\ ir t!?•• i doiili oi the notes now ih . nmihili u, U‘ j tun substitution of purocuiu in their *.<• it itto be feared that the present Prevail denrnt*HM will constantly incivnso, ut til the country become* exhuub*d, when a national bankruptcy in rilw r money j Hist l*e tha e nue. laus naust trident to every ivlWtiutf person ."'her he considers, that a note of six dollars is now worth only tluc. dollars in />-"* (a former Swedish copper coin) in toreigr i trade, p,ml twyin domestic; audit Hie high prices still continue, it will probably ! down to one dollar. In such case, how can t „• niition be preserved frotn rum . 1 lay M-levous and dreadful events can only b, prevented by the restoration of a pur. meta’.ic currency. . , , , . •■Many plans might- b. devised am i proposed, to compel the circulation ot | lac notes at their original fixed value, am. t in* moot the high prices; bilk they must iUIWi little or no avail,with one exception, mid that, is, the restoration of a proper me t.lic currency, as it was formerly m Mwcdeu, and is now in every other country in the world. In money itself consists t lie value of notes, mil consequently ot nil kinds of goods If an empire could sub- Mat with a representative _ currency, P ; would bo an empire without its parallel in the world. • Km Swiu.exiioiw. in increase of the currency from three tmndred and eighty-two millions t. .'•mr hundred nidkoiis, which is now pto- po-ted will not be such an inflation os to work very great injury, neither will it be s ich au inflation us to do any pcreeptable good. If money is very scarce with a eir utilation of three hundn-d and eighty-t wo m 1 ons of dollars it .n mt in a great mid jiopiilous country like this be rendered very plentiful by the simple increase of eighteen millions ? It *tll nevertheless give, some spring to business of all kinds. Hie good will scarcely be apparent while tiie evil will be wholly impercoptabie and in this is the great danger, l! the evil winch must inevitably result from an inflated currency was at oncSß obvious to the public mind iui iiuinediate remedy would be dc- i rlaed. Tho evil so slow in its progress as j to render it impereeptable will superin dive further legislation, additional infla tion and departures from the only tr ie basis of currency, livery step is b ad- j lag us iu the wrong direction and furthei from the point that we desire to leach No good cjin be accomplished by cuhnuc ing the price of the property by tile in crease of a doubtful and rapidly depreei- ming currency. [fa pajvr currency kc have ami mini have, let every dollar he worth one dolin' in g*<ld. with the pledge id the Govern moot to redeem it with gold. Then when v at exchange your property for money you do it without fear of its depreciation Sip Uiitatprs and parties involved by nek liis dealing don't care lipw cheap the cur leney is with which they propose to pin their debts. N'd w> with the laboriug cl.iasps. for they are not iuvolved. All the trritiug we can do yill have no effect upon the legislation of the country; but our ob ict is to point out the, dangers to our re vd *-a. of an inti it**d currency. It makes ns extravagant. we go largely in debt con- 1 mt that in-rncy i plenty mid easily oh tsiued but the crisis roust coroe, there must he a contraction and chut will come w non we are most involved and least prepared lift it. [From ♦HwHnvmuifih Morning ,Nkhh. 1 THE BLICKSiICAK HOHROH. ! SOME INTERESTING I’ACTri IN CON- Niit lION WITH THE MURDER. THE EVIDENCE UPON WHICH it. W. CARPENTER WAS COM MITTEi’, On Thursday last a reporter of the Hn j vonnail ilnrniiiy Jiuum obtained an inter j view with It. W. Carpenter, the allenged assasuin of young Walter J .. t 'ole. in the outline ol that, interview Curpenter elidenv o o 1 to impress the reports !' with the idea in.il a very lively pft judiee existed against j i him in Rlucksheur, and that the ground, upon which this prejudice was baaed were j wholly disconnected with bis sup|o;ed eoiuptieity in tho crime for which lie was committed to jail. This was embodied iu the report of the interview published in our edition of Friday. Since that time we have been put in posscision of AllliriioNA 1, EVIIIKMIK which would seem to still morocloacly con nect (.'arpenter with the startling crime for which lie is to be put upon trial. We j have also received a communication from Jihtckshcur signed, severallv, by A. M. Moore. Mayor, Messrs. D. E. Knobs, A. N. Smith, D. P, Patterson, deptlia L. Milton and Henry J. Smith, M. D., in I which they explicitly deny that tlio arrest i of Carpenter is the result of any personal j antipathy or prejudice. Tliesegentlemen. 1 over their own proper signatures, review and re.'tute the evidence upon which Car penter wius committed to jail, and show ooi'olutiively that no other feeling, nave n desire to bring the perpetrator of the foul murder to justice, actuated the citizens of HUckabeur iu the steps which they took to trace the criminal. Such a Riauvowid iu view of the evidence herewith appended, was scarcely necessary, anil we Uuded to it here simjiiy us hearing upon this KXUiAOIiDINAIIV CASK, A year or so ago, Walter L. Cole, the murdered man, was engaged in busbies, in Elackslieer with his uncle, Robert W C ipenter, tin. firm name being W. L oole A' Cos. It is presumed that the some what indefinite word "Cos.” hid the iden tity of Car, a ter, who w-s, at that time, t o real owner of the, business. II was n tudi,’ lough in iiis manner to young C ie, and EXCEEDINGLY EXACTING, .0 much so, indeed, ns to attract the at on; ion of nearly every one in the village, i'licy soon dissolved partnership, with the understanding, it is believed, that talk: was to leave the place. Instead of leaving, however, the young man bought another stock of goods iu the same firm name, (W, 1 ... Cole A Cos.) having gone into partnership with ,J. G. 8. Patterson. Phis new firm existed but a abort while, Cole continuing in business under his own name, and, as it Was generally supposed, with great success. It is known that, 'ole’s resumption of business in Black ihetir, subsequent to the dissolution of li is partnership with Carpenter, caused the luti-er to be exceedingly angry, and it is ilso well known that he endeavored to in ;me Colo’s credit w ith parties from whom Hie young merchant was purchasing his piods. Home of these letters subsequently :ame into Cole’s pos'.ession and he showed them to some of lus friends, remarking at die same time that it Carpenter continued (i ninny him, he would be under the no •c-sity of divulging facts in Carpenter's .liatory that would imiNG HIM TO Tin: OAI.LOW S. Some weeks ago, C .rpenter borrowed nine hunchc id dims from young Cole, aid shortly Fieicadrr curried bis wile, who is i.ii invalid, to her relatives la South Carolina. On Ids return ho dismiss'. ,1 his i ‘iviint, and, ns it is not known that he procured his meals away from home, it is presumed he did his own cooking. Right acre he seems to lmvu begun in’ earnest o carry out the bloody tragedy w hich he .ms plotting. Not many days after liis return lie requested Cole to accompany lim on nil expedition to arrest some par ses who, according to his account, in ,ended to break into some one’s premises. On another occasion, Carpenter proposed '.at-they should go to arrest some hur <liirs who intended to rob the mill-house ■f .Messrs. Johnson A l,ee. Oil still au .(her occasion, Colo was to meet t’urpcn t 1 in THE DI.AD HontS OF NIGHT and a very secluded spot near Dr. Smith’s plantation, but for whut purpose was never eleurly understood. Cole consulted; iiis friend, Mr. 'Patterson, in regard to his proposal of Carpenter s, and Mr. j Patterson advised him not to go. Once j Cole was asked if he was not afraid to no-1 eonipuiiy Carpenter on these solitary ex peditions. lie said lie was not; that his iiiieio always carried liis double-barrel gun, uni lie (Cole) lmd liis pistol. Taking into xmsidiTatioii the fact that Carpenter de ified his nephew to keep these extraordi nary patrol moverni ids A I'KOFOVXD .SECRET, aid remembering various other occur rences in connection therewith, much Hint was mysterious at the time lias been .innle clear by the dastardly assassination if the unfortunate young mini. On Sun day night- the night so fatal to Walter Col • -Carpenter attended church. This was a very unusual filing with him, and it attracted the attention of Cole, who ex pressed iiis surprise to a friend who was 1 sitting near him. Upon the conclusion >f services, Cole accOinpnVned a young la iy home. He was engaged to bo mar ried to this lady, and •iu:: l . M EMELATED MAKIII.VGE was bitterly opposed by Curpenter, though it is not known upon what grounds. Tile ;\yo men had frequently discussed the sub ; jeet, uud upon one ov two occasions lmd j unit hot words in relation thereto. When j Cole reached the young lady 's house, lie j went in and chatted a few minutes. While ! 1 here ins manner attracted tiie attention of the household. He was exceedingly nervous and restless. He arose to go three . times, and eaeli time reseated himself. Fi ; naily, with an efiort, tie palled out his watch j .md saul he mtn t go, tuough now, of all other times, he felt reluctant to and 1 so, and then, as if with A PREMONITION OF THE FIENDISH DEED, si soon to be committed, he anoaneed to her that Carpenter, his uncle, was liis j deadly enemy, and the only one he hail !in the world.' All the actions of tiie young ; man while in tiie presence of her he loved, I go to show that he had ft presentment of the horrible fa? that was hanging over 1 him. T"o young lady was herself iiitiu ■liced by his fears, and slit' begged him not j to go alone if he had thoughts of harm. In ] the tone of one who had a duty to perform however great the risk, he replied, “1 must go.” As he left the young lady’s : presence, he showed her his watch mid j she noted tliut it was half-past el veil 1 o'clock. When with the young lady Cole ! wore a light colored cssimere coat and a light h it. He went to Ids store, changed : Ills coat aud hat waking las younger brother in doing so—aud went out again. ; About one o’clock a. in., lit : sor>m.N EIHING OF A GF X ', ; 1 .flew and by the noise of a severe struggle ittraet and th attention of several colored ! 'aniilies living near the scene of tho inur d'-r. Tluu there were cries of ‘ Oh, Imril several trues re)u ated followed by in einphutic command to •‘stand!" or i “stand still 1" then aio'her shot, with 1 gorging sound, growing fainter and fain trand finally oentbng altogether. Next morning, on going to the spot where the it us"s had been heard, the negroes found ! young Cole lying on his back lieud, about i seventy-five yards in front and west of j Felix Robinson's house. Ho was lying on Ihe grass and not in the road as lues been sated. His hat was placed carefully over j liift face, and his coat was carefully but toned, hiding his shirt from view. There | was NO m srir roN op CARI’VNTF.n. ! No one felt that he could have committed | such a dreadful deed, it was thought by all that Cole was killed by someone in a spirit of revenge for some real or imngin ry wrong; but every citizen felt it to be his duty to investigate the mutter carefully thoroughly, and impartially. Carpenter w.. consulted, and his advice was to let THE ATIIOCTOI.H OCOIIUIENOK go by ns quietly as possible. He intimated that Cole bod, through indiscretion, brought his fate upon himself by arousing the jealousy of some of the negroes, and that the revelations of those indiscretions that would follow an investigation would ; only add to the murdered man’s shame, j When a citizen suggested t hut every gun ' in tho village be seized for examination, Carpenter objected uu the ground that it would have a bud effect. He said that j Cole was now dead arid all that could be j done would not bring him to life, repeating \ that his nephew had brought it on himself. Notwithstanding this advice many of the j guns in the village were seized and among ] them that of Carpenter. It. was at once observed tlutt the gun had been fired off, | though it was then loaded with bird-shot. ■ Tho stock was crocked, and there were j many BLO01) MARKS ON THE liAIUIT’T,; sand and dirt in the crevices; tin* recently exploded cap in the lmrnmer of tli lock; the inside of the barrel fresh with burnt powder; the screw-hole in the end of the i stock filled with bltHJiI and hair, the latter these: a t counterpart of Cole's, mid blood Under the iron plate on the end of tin* stock. Carpenter was thereupon arrested, and his house searched. The shoes h - wore at church, the thick new soles of which lntd attracted the attention of a party who sut near him, were found in the cellar. The pants he wore on the same oc casion were found in tho loft of his kitchen with blood-shuns on them. In a tub of watt r were found bloody cloths and a handkerchief with all the appearanee of blood, dirt and powder-stains. Carpenter : denied having any buck-shot in his house and said die had had liothing of the kind I for months. The shot cut from the body of the murdered man, however, were of the size of tho IU CK-MHOT I’OI’ND IN OABTLNTEIt's HOCSE, wrapped in a piece of brown paper placed in a bucket under some dishes in his closet. The brown paper iu which these* buck-shot were wrapped corresponded in texture to tho wadding found on the ground and extracted from the wound of Cole, mid both paper and shot, had an ap pearance of newness. One of tho slats of Carpenter's gate had blood marks on it, showing the print of a man's finger. The pockets of the pantaloons that were found in the kitchen loft contained blood-stains, j its though A BT-O r>v HAND had been inserted therein. Carpenter we known to carry a large, new knife with which he trimmed liis vineyard and or chard. This knife cannot he found. These are llie facts upon which he was ar rested and committed. The citizens of Blackshear have never entertained an idea of molesting him. Tho jail there is not ; only badly ventilated, but unsafe, and it | was thought best that he should be brought to Savannah for safe keeping. It is generally believed iu Rlucksheur tlmt Carpenter decoyed Colo near tile house of A NEOKO WOMAN OF ILL-imITTB for the purpose of giving color to the in timations w hich lie subsequently made in regard to the developments that would be j made if the facts were investigated. It: will tie seen that the evidence, of which I we have given a tolerably dear summary, was at least sufficient to warrant tho com mitment of Carpenter. What other dc- j vclopment.s may be made in this most ! atrocious and dastardly assassination, il is impossible to say, but it is to be hoped that the guilty party, whoever ho may be, may have swift and sure justice meted out \ to him. , C AltFEN'Tiat H SECRET. Since w riting the foregoing, we fn l in the Valdosta Timm sornp information bearing upon the secret which young Cole threatened to divulge, and which lie as serted would bring Ids uncle to the gal lows. The information is to the effect that Carpenter cauie to Blackshear soon ; after the war. Shortly afterwards, u Cap tain Brunt, who had previously known ; Carpenter, also came to the village. Brunt was subsequently murdered by un known par-ties, and all efforts to discover the perpetrator failed. It is the impres sion now that Carpeiih r had been pen itentiary convict, nod that this was known to .Brunt. Carpenter, at this time was a ; candidate for the Georgia Legislature, and it is supposed that iu order to lll'RY HIS SECRET, he either murdered Brunt, ov caused him to be murdered. It is thought that Cole was aware that his uncle had li oin con viet, and that he was also cognizant of the killing of Brunt. If this is true, it was unfortunate for him that he was. perhaps, the unwilling depository of those unhappy secrets. All this, however, is mere surmise, uud we give it as such. -’*■ Christianity in Mexico. A fearful outrage was perpetrated by a mob at Ahualtteeo in the Htate of Jalisco last. Sunday. In the morning a priest delivered an incendiary sermon, in the course of which he advocated the extermi- ! nation of the Protestants. This so excited his hearers, that an armed mob of two hundred persons gathered in the evening and proceeded to the residence of the K >v John Stevens, a Congregational minister sent out by the Boston Board of Foreign Missions with cries of “Long live the priests. ” Thev broke into the lions?, and seizing 1 the clergyman, smashed his head to a jelly i and chopped his body into pieces. They 1 afterwards sacked tho house and carried , ! off everytl itg of value. After muc i delay I the l'i. twas suppressed by the local un it orities. The Government has sent a detachment of troops to the place. A j rigid investigation has been set on foot. Orders have been issued for the arrest of all the priests in Ahnnlueco and the neigh boring town of Teshilau. A mob in Sagayueo, acting under simi lar religious frenzy, attacked the small garrison of the town, burned tlio public arebieves, and pillaged the houses of the authorities. Many, who. in onr days of wealth, wo deemed that heartless churls, have iu on distress shown themselvis friends. [From the Chicago Tkines. J MR. STEPHENS. The (iforgU NiuitHiiiun'i lld Health— 111* View* of the Itegro Problem. Mr. Stephens lias not been insido of the Capitol for weeks. His total lack of any ! thing in tjio shape of health, has been a • world’s wonder and pain for years. The ; great soul lives without any body to speak of, and would bo better unannoyed ■by even the trifling corporate moiety to which it i i hinged. Though always the sickest man alive, there are grades to even Mr. , Stephens' illness, and he has recently en j dun (1 the most miserable of ils phases, f really suppose that he dies on such occa sions, anil after a brief rest in death, ebbs hack into mortality again. To see him when he culls himself well, crumpled into ! his chair in the House of Representatives, it is impossible he can look and feel worse, | and remain with the living. .1 am sure tuy theory is correct, and that he is perennial ly engaged in making a Lazarus of himself. Ho wius twisted iu n pile of cushions in a pleasant front room, beside a table mixed with books, tobacco, papers and medicine, and tnpg and at a cheerful pipe its he talked. I told him it was a rainy day, and im parted other valuable preliminary infor mation, then demanded something in re ;turn. “You wish to know," answered Mr. (Stephens, “what the near possibilities are : lof the intelligent natives of tin (South le ; Burning their political asoo*nluey ?” "Exactly.” “That is a subject, tny friend, involving; i many serious and complex questions. Ii j requires to be treated philosophically and j thoroughly, and can hardly lie fairly din posed of in a conversational way.” 1 remembered Mr. (Stephens’ ix column editorials and four hour speeches, and in timated that to torture a man in liis condi tion with n request for polished elaboration was not my base design. “In the States where the negroes arc in j a minority," said Mr. Stephens, “you will find that affairs are righting themselves j faster than where the colored vote has the preponderance. Georgia, Alabama uinl Kentucky are. nearing their old-time pros perity much more rapidly than (South Car- j olina, Mississippi, Florida, and, notably, I ionisii.ua, ” I asked if, in the more favored (States, the colored voters were beginning to learn it, was for their last interest to repudiuti the rapscallion foreign element which had managed them since the war. Mr. (Stephens was certain that in Geor gia many of the intelligent negroes hail al ways voted under the advice of their for mer masters. They bud seen that the cock-and-bull sto ries drilled into them by the “loyal league” were not vs rifled by time, and were slowly understanding what was really best for them. in answer to a question touching the probable effect of the proposed civil right, law, Mr. Stephens s lid he was not prepar ed to Hiipcrftoiaily di, cuss that subject for publication. He referred me to bin ad dress of January 5, and then passed to an i interesting review of some <>f the ports' contained therein. Tim published eon- I druS'ttions of this speech afford but a mea gre idea of the thoughts and study which - it einl o lies. Editors and others who cure to get a Southern statesman’s accurate and complete ideas of the great question eati, and should, put themselves into communi cation with the Government printer, uf licial copies will bear broad-cast distribu tion apa scrutiny. As to the chance fornn tir,mediate eman cipation of the colored men from the moral rule of carjiet-baggoi'S, Mr. Stephens was of tie opinion that it would take a few years more to aeeouqlisT the work. The quicker interference from Washington ceased, the quick- r this most de iruble re sult would be brought ab mt. The negro, always credulous, was easily made to be lieve that the Federal Government kept the soldiers and special officials in the South solely to protect him from the wick edness of the former slaveholders. With draw those soldiers and special officials, entirely, and the negro would soon find who were his truest political friends. Come, tiling Serious. T received a letter the other day from ail unknown lady living iu Lottiaiaua, and she asks: ‘•Why don’t you write something seri ous ? I like your ‘notes, ’ but they are all intended to make people laugh, while it is but light that people should sometimes be serious, if not sorrowful.” J have been pondering over that letter and its request, and in order to oblige the lady I'm going to write something very se rious. , 1 hope it will touch the heart of e ery reader, and remind him that the pleasures and gaieties of this world are but dross. Here l go: “It wius a cold winter evening in tho year 1855. The winds howled dismally around the frail tenement occupied by the widow O’Grady, and the heal th had long since been cold. She sat rocking to and fro, and tho wild wind’s sorrowful moan isilled up in tier sad heart bitter recollec tions of otlur days. She rem. inhered standing by the bedside of her dying hus band, and wiping the death dew from his forehead, as tho angel of death hov ered ” No, hang me if she did ! I won't lie about a thing anyway. The truth is, her husband was killed by an old shanty tail ing on him, and his wife didn’t see him HUtil he had been dead sixtsa u boms. 1 can't sav that she w iped the d"\v of death off his face, and go on and tell how pov erty came, the landlord threatened and the children died, when the facts in the ease are, that she married a butcher within six weeks after the funeral, mid now weighs a trifle under 200 pounds. But, I want to oblige tho lady, and I’ll try something else. “It was a lovely face, even in death— the face of Georginnu Middlefield. The angel of death had turned away and left a smile on the cold, white face, and those who stood around the coffin could scarce believe that she slept tho sleep which. knows no waking. Poor giri! Light | hearted as the summer breeze, joyous as j : sunshine, every heart loved her, and every ; eye kindled at her approach. A long, : bright future seemed assured her, when ' she was suddenly ” I won't do it--I’ll die first. The facts | are that Georgiaua was au old maid with | a Roman nose, milky eyes niul a cork limb, and any one who could swear that he had eve r seen a smile on her face would 1 have received t?st) reward. No I as much as I want to oblige that Louisiana lady, I’m not going to go on and tell a deliber ate lie. Georgiaua didn't die. either i though everybody was always hoping she would. She still lives, and if there’s a i family with.h sixteen miles of her who j . have any secrets that she basil t found out j they ought to have a pension. You see, my dear w mum, its er.sy enough to feel sorrowful, but its hard to ) write a sorrowful article. Yon might cry ov*r an old pair of shoes, but did you ever hear of an author's writing a sorrowful ar ticle Under the head of “leather and find ings?” X could go on and say that a , mother we„ t as klr? came across the bun ue oi play liit.gs which had once amused* her peel dead buy, but how do I know fthe did V How do I know he’s <fpad ? Per haps, when I came to get ut the truth, 1 and j find him a young man of 18, swelling ! around with a diamond pin on, or beloug : wig to a hose company and in debt for liis j washing. I’d like to make the aged tear trickle down the briny check," and choke every i bosom with grief to such an extent as to i burst, vest buttons and corset strings. But I have to die some day, and i don’t ! propose to have folks say of me as 1 go jby: “He was a pretty good citizen but an j awful liar.”— M. <Juml, in Our KiresiUe ' b'rirnd. Affairs of the District The Investigating Committee. I Washington, March 25.—The result | of to-day’s work by the District Investi | gating Committee was the establishing j of the following points: ; First That the Board of Public Works : has, since the commencement of the pres ent inquiry, procured contractors to sign ! contracts and execute bonds for work I done months and years before, on the 1 mere verbal order of Shepherd. Second—That over two millions of dol lars worth of work hud been done without any written coDtiHCt, which is in plain violation of the organic act. Third—That under the old corporation ! grading was done at an average cost of; fifteen cents per cubic yard. In IK(>81 anil lWiil, when laborers received two dol lars per day, grading cost from ten toj eighteen cents per cubic yard. Now, J with labor at one dollar and fifty cents per day, the board pays fifty cents per cutiic yard for grading. Fourth—That in numerous instances contractors carried off old material, and projierty holders were never allowed for the same. When they attempted to ob tain draw becks on their special improve-; meld bill.) from the board of public works they received no satisfaction. Grange News. The F.xeciftive ("mwittee of the Na tional Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry are maturing u plan for the formation of u Statistical Biireftu in connection with the National Grange, for the collection and dissemination of information in regard to the, condition of the crops throughout the country. ’The new Bureau will be located at Washington, I). ( ~ mid w ill be in charge of]). W. Aiken, (secretary of the Htate Grange of South Caioiiu.i. Subordinate Granges will report directly to the State Grange all information' of interest relating to the crops. Different State Granges will report by telegraph to the Statistical Bureau of the Order at Washington. Tin- Bureau W ill complete and summarize these reports of croj> in all sections of the coun try. and will aiihultanooiißly transmit the report by t I. graph, monthly, to all the State Granges, which in turn will furnish it to every subordinate Grange witliiu the jurisdiction. This information will not be furnished the press for publication, it iteing intended exclusively for the benefit of the members of the Order. 4* “Farewell, Eyes.” A Worcester, Massachusetts, oculist wtr called upon by a tough old customer of sixty, whose eyes showed plainly that brandy and water was no stranger to him, and his breath corroborated plainly the statement of his eyes. The doctor exam ined him and suggested that ardent spirits might have something to do with bis con dition. “Oh, no," said the old fellow, “I don’t drink enough to hurt anybody. 1 take something stimulative when 1 get up, and then again just before breakfast, then only once at eleven o'clock and ft little before and after dinner to help digestion—don't take anything mole until four o'clock, and only a little more l f"re and ..fier supper , and just before I g" to niv bed." “That, all ?” said the doctor. “Never take any more unless somebody asks me,” said the man. “Weil sir,” said the doctor, “1 think 1 can cure your eyes, but it will be neces sary for you to leave off drinking m tirelv I” “What,” said ho, in amazement, “can’t 1 take just a little V" “No sir, not a drop: and if you do not leave off drinking you are liable to become blind.” “Then farewell eyes,” said the old toper as he sieved his hat and made for the door evidently afraid the doctor would prescribe for him before he could get out. s-ft. Burglars in the House. Yon tay de odder uide I vr.s awoke in mine shlecb von I dink I vas hear a pur glar drying to get mine viudor in, midt py sbinks ! 1 got me so skardt like ter tuse. mult shake mine vrow put I dont got some answer py her, she vas fast aside b like she vas gone died. Den I dink vel I fees dot feller mine self; so I slumps der ped out mult go so shrill like some leedle mines to der bantry vere dere vas a pig pologno sausage vat. mine vrow pied mitder putc-h --er shop yesterday; 1 krubs me dotpulogna in mine hniidt uudt goes pack pv mine room ven pv ehi minettv krisriuus ! di re vas mine vinder vide open uudt 1 see some- . ding tressed mit vite elotheses on stooping tow npy dev pedt vere 1 keeps mine mon ish unater der edge of der carpi t ; so 1 raise .lot pologna ub uudt pritig him town so hard its 1 can onto .lot feller uudt oh mein gott in himmtsl 1 how dot feller didt make some noises, uudt how der pologna tiilt fly aromult dot room, ven der folks in der house ub sliiaii-s dey eoomes rushing town mitt candiies in der hunts uudt eoomes der room in mit der lidrs den I ree mine vrow lv ng ■ n der floor all in n leedle punch mit m r pologna shattered all old like id vas raining kats uudt togs. 1 toldt you I vas madtveu I limit oudt dot I limit peen glnpping mine vrow, uudt ven der man ub siitairs he grab me unit say he vas going to (look me to der statshen house up. 1 vas yoost like n loouadick houses—pudt mine vrow she eoomes ridte away quick to der resense uudt say dot dere vos a mens at der vinder veil she voked up in her shleeli. He limit der vinder up uudt she shurnps der pedt oudt uudt del' mens he runs avuy limit den she goes to see ouf der shtamps vas all liglitd, uudt don 1 cootues along uudt she doridt knew somediug any more until der lidtes eoomes der room in. Den l explained to der folkses vet I heardt, uudt how l gott dor pologna, uudt how der vinder vas ub veil I eoomes pack, uudt how I dink mine vrow vas der purgier, uudt how I makes der pologna fly der room aronnilt. Den ve all been satisfactedt 1111111’ shooked baudU ail aroiaidt uudt set der r .t ouf ili r uidteub and ying to make our uroubles schwim mit lager bier. Mine vrow says dot she dondt like to sit town so mooch like she used to on account dot her sehairs vas so harilt like ter tense. Hans Naooleschmidt. One who had the reputation of being a great philosopher, and experienced man of the world, a profound thinker, and as acute observer, with a deep insight into human nature, has left on record the ex pression of his firm conviction that, no man. however gifted, however fortunate in his domestic relations, however succes fnl in his public undertakings, can be 'pronounced happy -whose trousers bag at tlio knees. HON. MORGAN RAWLS. He Wa> Convicted of Democracy anil Vn acatfid, The Washington correspondent %>f the j Atlanta (\.. <i i1u1i.... .. u> describes the closing scene iu Mr. Rawls’ ease. Being permitted to say a few words iu his own defense, Mr. Rawls said: “Mr. Speakt r, if there is no objection I ; would like to go over on the other side of ! the House, for it is a mutter of business with me now, [Laughter] and I want to i speak to gentlemen on the other side, j [Fa sing over to the Republican side of the House.] i believe tliut it is the custom in this country, in all trialft before any erim j inal court, to allow the accused at least to plead liis innocence or his guilt. J fear that tiie charge iu this case l is that I am gailty of Democracy. 1 frar that the im pression upon that matter Ims had a good I deal to do with the feeling and finding in ! this case. To that I must plead guilty, ! but enter with the plea my protest against , the criminality of the fact "I believe that I have been legally elected a member of this House; I believe ! that I have been fairly elected. I have , i I veen cli ct< dby the legal voters of the j 1 (State of Georgia, a Htate new in full har ; mony with the government, with all its de-; part meat ft in full arid ample. Operation The vote was made up and sent to the office of tiie Secretary of State, end.connted and sworn to by tfuit officer, a Republican, whose testimony, in tho record of this case, shows me elected by 1,340 votes, j This legal majority—a majority made up ! by the people of Georgia, competent man- ; igors of their elections—is attempted to be overcome t>? counting outside precinct*; that lire not included in the returns, und precincts w hich I deny to have an existence under tiie laws of Georgia; precincts which, even if they do exist under a strict construction of the law, did not practically ; exist nt that election.” Mr. Rawls then went over the testi mony in detail, aud, presented his ease with decided ability) In concluding, he let fly a shot at iiis enemies in these words: “Mr. Speaker. I do not know that what I have said or that which any of my friends have said is going to do any good in this case. lam afraid that much has !• 11 said bore that 1 could not hear: that much influence lias bceu brought to bear upon members that I could not reach. J have no iufluence with his side of the House; 1 have sought none outside of as polire and as p r.l 111 111 conversation ns 1 ild make to request some of them to look into my case and give me what I am entitled to." When it comes to voting on tiiis question I know it will lie a difficult j matter to get Republicans to vote for a Democrat. 1 think that for my safety my my friends bad be ter be content with ' rising vote, for upon this question the Republicans will be stronger in their von s than in their stomachs. It it comes :o pulling a Democratic vote out of u itopn. - liCiiii by tiie years and nays, 1 think it would take a cork-siew to draw i( out." Here the'time allowed Air. Rawls ex pired. and the hammer fell. Sloan now had the floor and started off as follows: “The honorable gentleman . from Georgt Mr Rawls) in Hie begin ning of his remarks, said that lie would cornu over on tins side of the House. He took it for glinted I presume*, that his; own side was committed to him, and he would address his remarks to this side .done. I shall endeavor to address miin to the entire House for their consideration and exaniihfttion. .Sloan was very presy r.ml long-winded;; hud few listi r.ers, I'.ud certainly did not; help'bis ensb. Mr. Woodfoid, of Niv Yolk, followed 011 tile same side, and win 11 his time expired aflkeil to lie allowed ;0 continue. Mr. Blount objected, Tiiis made Woodford nod, and he said: “Allow ran one moment. For thirty days it fell t" my lot to hold military command in the city of Savannah, and never during that time did I willfully or knowingly do otherwise than extend the utmost courtesy and generosity to those of my misguided fellow-countrymen who were on the wrong side in tint great struggle, and who, with t ie capture ol Savannah, fell under our military control. I thank the gentleman for the courtesy which is now extended me by the Representative of Georgia on the floor of tins House, and yield-my request for further time. " Air. Blount- -“It is the same courtesy that was I Xtended to me. ” Air. Smith, of New York, closed the; case for the prosecution, and Mr. Rawls was found guilty of Democracy 1 y a vote! of 131 I 1 77, and declared not eligible to a scat in tin* House, and then by a vote of 135 to 74, Mr. Blonu was declared worthy to sit among the elect. As soon as the last vote was declared, Whiielev took Sloan by the arm and marched him down ; the main aisle to be sworn in. Whiteley elevated his own right hand and looked j as it he wanted to be sworn iu a second 1 time, but he merely tickled her more and then dropped his paw. Aleanvvhile AI:. Rawls was busy removing liis books aud papers from tiie desk he had occupied, , surrouuned by pages and syn p Thizing j ,friends. After being sworn, Sloan walked ; over mill shook hands with Raw ls, the lat ter milking some remark about going home There is a good deal of-sympathy for Raw Is, who has certainly been ili treated, and newspaper men here all pro nounce Sloan “a weak sister.” A pack of Card. ,—'pnnf He number, of cards iu a pack, and there fifty-two, the - number of w. oks in a year; thine are also four suits, tiie number of weeks in a mouth. Count the spots on a pack of cards, and you find three hundred and j sixty-five, as many days as there are in a year. There are twelve picture cards in a pack, representing the n amber of months; in a year; and counting the “tricks.” there are thirteen, the number of weeks n a quarter. TLurlow Weed pays liis 1812 pension money to a widow named Mrs. Cretin, with whose mother lie boarded sixty years ago, while lie was learning the printing trade. Daniel Crew h.d his name enrolled in February. 1871, as a warrior of 1812, but has not yet drawn ad< l ar. Unless he ; appears at this payment liis name is to 1 e dropped from tiie list. Young Alen, Beware. —The ways of women are past finding out. It is said that the young ladies of Jacksonville. Term., have a fashion of tying up their taper fingers when young gentlemen are expected to call, and when they very naturally ask the cause, they blusliingly reply, “I burned them broiling steak this morning.” The result, us chronicled by tiie local paper, is that sevi a young gen tlemen have burned their fingers by be ieving the story. The California Democrats.— San .Francisco? April I.—Last night a conven tion of Old Line Democrats was held at Sacramento, at which resolutions were adopted denouncing the administration, inviting the independent Democrats to re turn to their allegiance and adhere to the party in future as the only hope of saving the country. The attendance was not very large. BREVITIES. The Rochester F-rpress ascertains that j Nebuchadnezzar was the first Granger. Many ladies give an excuse for murrving for mon fly that they seldom find anything else in a niuii now-a-days worth having. am dying for lute,” said a ulula: J ehnly young man, as he put the coal black fluid on his moustache. Bad temper is said to bite at both ends —it makes whoever gives way to it as mis : erable as it does other people. “YVho is that with Miss Flint?” said a i wag to his companion. “Oh, that is a spark which she lhs struck. ” The majority of women are little touched I by friendship, for it is insipid when they | have once tasted of love. When told that a certain measure was i illegal, a (St. Pancras vestryman bawled ! out, “Hang tho law ? Let’s have a show of hands.” One who know how it is herself savs: ' “The man who is awfully urbane to iiis wife before strangers is also her bane be hind their backs. The Burlington (Iowa) Daily speaks of a couple “resolving themselves into a com mittee of two, with power to increase the number.” , Weddings often leave the old familiar hearts and places as haunted and empty as funerals. They are the funerals of old associations. Vermont has a young lady six feet seven inches high, aud when a yumg man jue ceeds iu kissing her they say he i3 “gona^ up.” “I say,” said a rough fellow to a fop with conspicuous bow-legs— “I suy, don't you have to have your pantaloons cut with a circular saw V” An Irishman was once asked if he had ever seen a red blackberry. “To be sure I have,” said Put, “all blackberries are red when they are green I" Fai.l lie: “Will you marry me?” He and she: “I iHhink ot it.” .Said he: “Y< u hav. sud so two or three times before. Said she: *M ell, the more I think abcut it, the more 1 think I won’t marry yon. g “Wife, do you know that I have got the pnemOuia ? " “New mouio, indeed I Such extravigunee ! Yon re the spend-thriftiest mau l ever did see, to go aud lay ont . money for such trash w hen I need anew bonnet so much ” A\ el s'er’s Dictionary contains over fifty thousand words. Jones says when ho came home, late the other night, in tho span of fifteen minutes his wife applied them all to him,including some extra ones, and the fire-shovel. Tin* I ‘ W;t Ij**L r In IH fH “O lee PTI ft Jaw ng Hurt baggage-smashers. The p laity llir lV(*ii,v:>,„ if iiqlll.ll.ji n. JUKI f not less than fifty dollars, nor more than ne hundred, and imprisonment uot n*' reeding thirty da; s. Tie* town -S’,'.i'. n few days ago, to p.'ipetuate n joke, published on account of tin* finding of immense deposits of pro to-oxide of hydrogen on-tbe banks of tiff r.ver mar that city. Sc vend wise jour nals, like the Chicago 7riAvs'e, ‘-bit.” noh knowing tlirt proto-oxide of hydrogi a-, bo-' trig interpreted, meant ieo. “Mother, T g to dir*, nnH wh>n l am no nor I wish the and mtor to cut uio open and look ai my siouiaeh.” Tile I *> ten)id mind was filled with awful forsbou i! g . all I 1 1 e maternal heart asked wliut it mount. “I wish it to be known,” he uu -m and “that I died of starvation.” Tbn small la v * triumphant, and retires to his little bed gorge 1. A darkey in Natchez was boasting to grocer of the eheapiiess of ten pounds off sugar In' had purcliasi and at n rival store ■ “Let m • weigh the package," said the gro-" eer. The dnrkev assented, and it * found two pounds short. The colored gentleman looked perplexed fora moment, and then said: “Guess ho didn’t cheat dis chile much; while he was gittiu’ the sugar I stole two pair ob shoes.” An old bachelor in Orleans County, Ver ment, thinking over the subject, and par ti,"darh the expense of maintaining a family, set the table in bis lonely abode with plates for himself and an imaginary wife and live children, lie then sat down to dine, and as often as be helped himself to food he put the same quantity on tach of the other plates, and surveyed the pros pect, at the same time computing the cost. He is still a bachelor. Somebody touched off twenty pounds of powder under the par on age in East Ca mian. Conn. There was a great fizz and a great flash, but no damage. The good minister was calm, but iiis hired man lieube. coming down stairs four steps at a jump in night clothes, shouted: “There I know’d twonld come fore I was ready for it !” He thought it was the end of the world. The minister tried to pacify him, but he continued: “O, its all very well for a Christian to be easy bout it, but I'm such a cussed sinner !” Between Kenosha and Milwaukee, says a Wisi’om in paper, an ageiyt of a traveler's insurance company entered a car, and, having issued tickets to several of the pas sengers, approached an elderly lady, who, it afterward appeared, was deaf. “Madam, would you like to insu e against accident ?” inquired the agent. “I’m going to Oshkosh to visit my dar ter. w lio is mamed up there and has got a baby !” The agent raised his voice a little: “Would you like to insure your life against accident ?” “She’s married two years and a half. It’s a gal !” Agint, still louder: “I’m an insurance agent, madam. Don’t yon want y our life iusured against acci dent ?” “Oil! I didn’t understand you!” said the old lady. “No! Her ra lie is Johnson. My name is Evans, and I live five miles from Kenosha!” The agent vanished. Concerning the colors which will most prevail in ladies’ dresses this season, fashion writer says: “The mingled tints of the last few seasons are disappearing, and at, ndeney towards the most positive colors which w ere formerly in vogue is ob serve’ ile. Still there are shades' and tints in infinite variety, and the silks which are exhibited for spring wear are delicate and beautiful Silver gray is predominant, but browns will, to a great extent, divide the popular favor. Chesnut and m’abog auy, w hich are the favorite lines, include all grades from the deepest and richest to the palest and most delicate. Bronze and olive tints, which were so j opal r, have almost entirely vanished.” One of the chubby class of four-year o’d Sunday scholars, when talked to by his teacher about the sins and frailties of the body, was asked: “Well, my son, what have you beside this sinful body Y' Quick as thought the little fellow respouo* and: “A clean shirt and a nice new pair of breeches.
