GENERAL, NEVVfcj.
,tudyi colored men in Borne, Ga., are
for the priesthood.
Nashville, Tenn., forbids fortune
telling within its limits.
Many Mississippi planters produced
their own molasses this year.
They are making wrapping paper out
o£ gtra w and palm leaves in Georgia.
Eighteen counties in Georgia, have
abolished fences.
About three thousand tone of boras
die annually produced in Californa.
Jacksonville, Fla., is to be lighted
by electricity by a Pittsburgh company,
OVER 5,000.000,000 feet of long-leaf
bines are now standing in North Caro
Apalatchicola, Florida, is soon to
have an oyster canning house in opera
ton.
jj, Selma, Alabama^ forty-six leading
business houses, during the past year,
fljd » business of $11,814,850.
* A single pumpkin vine on the farm
bi Dr- W. M. Clark, six miles south of
{fasbville, bore sixty-nine pumpkins.
The rice crop just harvested is report
s d to be the larges ever made in the
parish of Jefferson, Louisiana.
The crop of honey for the present
leason at NewSmyra, Fla„ amounted to
130 barrels.
Eighteen thousand and eighty-six
homesteads have been entered in Florida
during the year.
Ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia is to get
$25,000 per year as President of the
Florida ship canal.
A Franklin county (Tenn.) farmer re¬
alized the past season $8,000 from eighty
acresof strawberries.
By the Mississippi overflow of last
year, Louisiana claims to have been
damaged to the extent of $60,000,000.
An impecunious old lady of Augusta,
Ga.,has subscribed $8 to mission work,
and expects to earn the money by wash¬
ing clothes.
New Op.lAns is preparing energeti
cally for the world’s fair, to be held in
that city from December, 1884, te the
end of May, 1885.
The last census of Alabama, shows
»n aggregate gain of 6,021 white, 5,391
colared voters in the last deoade that
Cannot read or write.
W. J. Barlow, of Live Oak, Fla., is
102 years old. His father lived to the
»ge of 106, and his grandfather, it is
Rid, was 126 years old when he died.
The whole number of postoffices in
the United States, at the end of June
last, was 47,863; increase during the
year, 1,632. Mormon
It is said that a thousand con¬
verts will leave Chattanooga next month,
for Utah. They are from different points
of the south
The total cost of transporting the
mails, by all methods, for the past year,
was $19,234,899, an increase over the
preceding year of $253,847.
The Chinese are swarming into San
Francisco and other points along the Pa
coast, upon “traders’ certificates” issued
to them by the Chinese government.
Chambers county, A’a., has a brag
dub of cotton pickers, which in one day
lately had a heavy game, scoring an
average of 300 pounds to each picker.
Agreeable to an ordicance passed in
Montgomery, Aia., the chief of police
has notified newsdealers that no litera¬
ture of an obscene character can be sold
in that c ty.
Three years ago, a dozen houses and
asmall frame depot building constituted
Big Lick station, fifty miles southwest of
j | Lynchburg, Va. To-day the same place
has 5,000 inhabitants.
Five hundred Catholic children at
Leredo, Texas, are about to be deprived
of educational advantages because the
Catholic clergy will not allow them to
I attend the public schools.
I The fossil tooth found in Alabama
I *e«entiy is declared by Judge Lawrence
I Johnson, of the United States Geologi
I Oal Survey, to be the molar of die prima
I tive elephant of America.
I The schooner Alfred Wilson gathered
I *o hundred and eighty bundles of
I I Pooges, at the mouth of the Osella
* Ter > Florida, last week. Her cargo
■wrought $700 00.
I Henpy Freicks, of Pennsylvania, is
| Puc ooking has for said a tea that farm tea in will the flourish South. in Le- Al
I tama and Georgia, and the experiment
ptobe made at an early day.
I The ship Silvertown, from London, a
l ■juss, e63e l °f 3,724 tons net, and 4,913 tons
whose length is 338 feet, beam 55
■Hand depth of hold 34} feet, has
I* l“ 1 ' 3 " passed the jetties and landed at
e ‘Jocks at New Orleans.
I,' 1® ^c: HE manufacture of starch is about
me a considerable industry in the
Bytity ■f toi of Seneca Lake, Fla. A starch
7 is to by started there, and sever
|'* libation Partie - are prepaping for an extensive
of cassava.
month the people of New York
'°te for or against the proposition to
Polish convict labor in the State pri
Last year the entire cost of main-
THE WEEKLY
VOLUME VI.
P * id ‘ ,Jthe
work of tii© convicts, *$}iq amount was
$415,660.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
silk culture Jias rapidly developed in
Louisiana, along the Gulf coast, within
the past eighteen months, and that the
product of the region around Thibo
deauxville commands the highest price
in the market.
In New Orleans, there is now on exhi¬
bition a bale of raw silk from cocoons
grown in Louisiana, and reeled at the
Louisiana silk spinning mill, which is
worth $7 per pound. The bale weighs
ten pounds eight ounces, and comprises
633 skeins, making 1,200,000 yards,
The growth ol Texas is marvelous.
The increase in her taxable property last
year was $130,000,000. New counties to
the number of sixty-eight were organ¬
ized, giving two hundred in all. Besides
this, there is a territory twice as large as
Georgia not yet divided into counties.
A Woolen-mill to cost $100,000 is in
course of erection in Habersham county,
Ga. The water comes tumbling down
in a eataract and furnishes the power
without a dollar’s artificial aid. It is
said that the stream, without artificial
aid, will turn $100,000,000 worth of ma¬
chinery.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
company offered to present their Alabama
exhibit, now at tko exposition in Louis¬
ville, to the city of Birmingham, pro¬
vided the board of trade will erect a suit¬
able buiding and irake a permanent
display of the exhibit, and the proposi¬
tion has been accepted.
It is unusual for a southern planter to
make a balf million by farming. Mr. L.
M. Hill, of Wilkes county Georgia, has
just died. He made seven hundred
thousand dollars by farming. In the
same county, General Toombs and his
brother Gabriel are each’worth a half
million, nearly all of which has been
made by farming.
Thu first arrival of new granulated
sugar at New Orleans from the parish of
Ascension, is pronounced by competent
judges to be the finest and hannsomest
ever brought to that market, and the
equal, in every respect, to the best pro¬
duct of the largest Eastern refinery. It
was in two lots, and one lost sold at nine
cents and the other at eight and seven
eighths.
The funds collected for the erection of
a monument to General Lee, in Rich
mond, new amounts to about $35,000.
It is suggested that the corner-stone
should be laid next October, and that
the ceremonial shouid be rendered mem¬
orable by a reunion of the Army of
Northern Virginia and by a ball at which
the men should wear the Confederate
uniform and the women dresses appro¬
priate to the sentiment of the occasion.
The stock for the first ostrich farm, in,
the United States has been shipped to
Florida. It consists of three pairs three
years-old ostriges. The destination of
the birds was Sylvan Lake, Orange coun¬
ty, Fla ; the mode of conveyance, the
Mallory line steamer Western Texas.—
The birds shipped weighed from 150 to
200 pounds, and stood about seven feet
high without any stockings. They are
natives of Nubia, in Upper Africa, and
they were captu-ed while very yeungby
the agents of Messrs Charles Beiche &
Brother, of New York and Hoboken,
who are proprietors of the projected os
strich farm.
Clay spring, twelve miles from Or¬
lando and three miles from Apopka, Fla.,
is one of the largest mineral springs in
the United States. The spring is situ¬
ated at the foot of a high bluff or hill.
The pool where the water comes up is
seventy-five to one Hundred feet across,
in the center of which the water con¬
stantly boils and bubbles. Enough water
comes out of the ground to form a river,
and steamboats have run up from St.
John and tied up directly over the open¬
ing, where tge water comes from the bow¬
els of the earth. The water is strong y
impregnated with sulphur, and probably
with other minerals. The spot is a fa¬
vorite resort for camping parties, who go
mere to bathe in and drink the waters.
The report of the naval advisory
board as te the number and class of ves
sela which should be commenced at once,
in order to cany forward the work of re¬
constructing the unarmored fleet, recom¬
mends one vessel similar to the Chicago,
oauthrized last winter and now under
construction, to cost $1,295,000; one sim
ilarj to the Boston and the Atlanta, au¬
thorized last winter, to cost $936,000; one
to cost $482,000; two costing $516,000
each; two light draught gunboats to cost
$269,000 each. The total estimate for
the seven vessels, $4 283,000. The board
also recommends the completion of the
CONYERS, GA.. NOVEMBER 9. 1883.
monitor. Puritan, Amphitriie, Terror,
and Manadnock, at a cost, respectively,
of $785,000, $797,000, $874,000, and $1,*
141,000,
Sanford (Fla.) Journal : The contract
for the sale of the crop on the old Speer
grove, a mile and a quarter from San¬
ford, has this week been signed up and
the forfeit deposited. The grove embra¬
ces 650 trees, covering six acres, aud the
estimated crop is 600,000 oranges. Two
dollars and a quart r per box, on the
trees, is the price paid At 1 50 per box,
600,000 oranges will aggregate 4,000
boxes, which, at $2 25 per box, will
yield $9,000 We learn that the expense
of the grove this year will not exceed
$500. Gen Joseph Finnegan, who has a
grove near here and one down the viver,
has sold the crop cn both groves at $3
per box, delivered at the railroad station
near bis home place, aud at the warf at
his river place. The estimated yield of
both groves is 1,4000 boxes, which at
53 per box, would amount to $4,200.
TDITOejM. notes.
The loss by fire in this country and
Canada is rising to startling proportions.
In the first six months of this year there
were 6,175 reported fires, involving a loss
cl nearly $48,000,000.
Germany has five hundred mills ror
the manufacture of wood pulp. &ucn a
degree of perfection has been attained
in "the treatment that even for the the
bettor qualities of paper the wood pulp
is substituted for pulp made from rags.
It constitutes seventy-five per cent, cf
the paper stock used throughout Ger¬
many.
Thus far this season the representa¬
tives of the Dwyer Brothers’ stable have
won forty-eight races and $132,300 in
money. Of this, amount Miss Y/oodfard
has won $52,085; George Kinney, $39,
015; Barnes, $17,945; Bootjack, $9,610;
Burton, $7,775; Wandering, $2,380; Ec¬
uador, $1,389; Hartford, $1,360; King
Fan, $475; Carlcy B., $L5, and Gieen
bush, $100.
Tiie South Carolina railway is the
most remarkable railway in the United
States. It is the first railway built in
the south, if not in the _ United T utates;
its mileage has not been added to or
duced since its completion; it has never
of its stockholders; «»* «< and has ««r always so r' been
successful and profitable. FromCharlcB
ton, South Carolina, to Augusta, Georgia,
»d fen to Columbia aro U,
lines.
The Southern immigration society, or
ganized in Louisville, last month, pro
poses to build immigrants’
houses at southern ports, and
Switzers and Germans over direct.
instance a Switzer who sold his forty
nine acre farm in Switzerland, on which
he was eking out an existence, for enough
money to buy one hundred and fifty
acres in America, pay his way over here,
stock his farm and run it one year. That
vras a good swap.
Experiments in the direction of using
cotton seed oil as a substitute for dis¬
eased hog’s fat have resulted in the man¬
ufacture of an article called olive butter.
This substitute is a pure vegetable oil.
It has a pungent, but not unpleasant
smell while cooking, and this may be
moved by a pinch of salt.
oysters, pancakes and fritters fried in
olive butter, by a good cook, have not a
particle of greasiness about them,
no taste whatever of the medium in which
they have been fried.
In secluded parts of Mt. Olivet Ceme¬
tery, Washington, but far apart, are thi
graves of Mery E. Surratt aud Wirz, the
keeper of the Andersonville prison,
Wirz is buried under a tall hickory tree,
in which squirrels chatter and gambol.
Tall, rank weeds and unkempt grass sur¬
round the spot, and the simple wore
“Wirz,” on a small block of marble at
the head of the grave, is the only thing
to denote bis resting place. A small,
plain headstone has simply the name.
“Mrs. Mary E. Surratt.”
It is claimed that the cotton picker
just invented by Mr. Neason, of Sump¬
ter, South Carolina, differs from all pre¬
vious inventions of the kind in the very
points where they were deficient. The
teeth of the new machine are so sensi
tively set, it is said, that they will not
clutch anything about a stalk of cotton
but the open boll. A stalk with a dozen
bolls open and twenty unripe can be
robbed of its rcaJ v cotton and left
-
jur f\ Ex P enments have been made
with the machine, and farmers who saw
it work sav it will do.
ThE American consul at Crefeld, Mr.
0 o tter. lias busied himself in tracing out
sequel to thirty-one marriages be¬
tween Ameriosn girls and titled Germans.
He has ascertained that with one solitary
exception they have resulted in abandon¬
ment, separation, divorce, or some other
conjugal disaster. It would be interest¬
ing to know how ths other American girls
who marry abroad fare. A writer in the
Graphic suggests that if the consular
service generally would follow the ex¬
ample of our representative at Crefeld,
a curious and useful chapter on sociology
might result.
The progress of the Panama canal
should be a source of congratulation to
all who take an interest in permanent
works for the convenience of mankind.
When M. Je Lisseps broke ground be
bad 109,000,000 cubic metres of earth to
remove. He has already taken out about
2,500,000 cubic metres, and after the first
day of December he expects, through an
increased force of men and machinery,
to excavate 4,000,000 metres a month.
This would enable him to finish the canal
in 1888. The workmen are negroes from
the West India islands, and all the pre¬
dictions of disease and death among
them have been negatived. The com¬
pletion of the canal within five years is
well assured.
The growth of the South continues to
astonish the people of the sluggish east¬
ern and middle states. When wealth is
accumulating in the South at the rate of
$160,000,000 a year; when the railroad
mileage is keeping pace with the increase
in wealth, and when the number of spin¬
dles has boen doubled since the census
year—when they read about such facts
as those, they begin to think that the
South has a future, and to wonder how
such things can be out of their own sec¬
tion. Then, too, they see that southern
cotton mills aro dividing from fifteen to
twenty per cent, on the capital invested,
when their own mi Is are struggling to
keep out of bankruptcy. Altogether, the
gou q, em 0 f the country is looking
up. —A tl anta C on stitution.
Fought for His Freedom.
“ I fought for your freedom,” said a
gentleman whom a negro policeman was
conducting to the lock-up.
“You needn’t try ter fight fur yourn,
cap’n, fur if yer does I’ll hit yer.”
.sxtT«T‘ f " * m,n
,, j aln > t gteadyin’ ’bout dat, cap’n. E
yer had enuff sense ter fight fur my
freedom yer anghter had enuff ter ’liabe
yer know- dat ’ll ring so loud dat de fire
engines will come out. Yer -own«free
d om see ms ter bodder yer much more
den mine ."-—Arkansaw Traveler.
once in a while.
Tbere ^ a t{me when yon cotl]d
har(lly g0 amigs of j t> but now it is only
once in a while that yon catch the wran¬
gle of voices from some back yard:
“It’s my knock!”
“It isn’t.”
“You missed the arch !”
“I hope to die.”
“You moved your ball! ’
“I never did.”
“ I don’t care! You are a great
cheat!”
“And so are you !”
“I won’t play !”
“Don’t, then.”
“And don’t you ever speak to me
again as long as you live !”
“Pooh ! Who wants to?”— Detroit
Free Press.
Nice Distinctions.
Some of the Western judges draw
ra ;i ie r nice distinctions. An Arkansas
has decided that it is not arson for
a man set ^ re Lis own house, while
by an Indiana tribunal it is held tnat to
constitute the crime of arson the house
itself, and not merely its late contents, California must de¬
be set on fire. But a
cision is more unique than either. The
Supreme Court reversed a conviction
for perjury on the ground that the false
testimony given by the offender was not
material to the case, and therefore could
not be perjury. Truly this is drawing
it fine .—New York Hour.
too high priced.
Fessenden was terrible angry. He
rushed up to Fogg and with clenched
fists exclaimed, “What do you mean,
sir, by insulting me as you have?”
“What dp I mean, Fessv?” replied
Fogg, quite coolly. “What do you
mean, rather? You said I’d sell my
soul for a shilling. That’s what I
mean.” “Did I? Well, I’ll take it
back. I don’t think you would, Fessy.
You might offer it at that price, but
there wouldn’t be any takers.” Fessen¬
den turned on his heel, and Fogg took
three or four pulls at his cigar before
remarking that it did make a fellow feel
contented with himself to apologize for
uttering a hasty word against an old
friend.— Boston Transcript.
Our Forests.— Professor Rothrock,
of Philadelphia, Pa., says that at the
present rate of destroying American for¬
ests the country will be without wood?
lands thirty years hence.
NUMBER 33.
THE JOKER’S BUDGEL
WHAT WE FIND IK THE HUMOROUS
PAPERS.
DIDN’T WANT A TITLE,
“Cap’n, please. don’t put To my name in the paper,
If you me it is a foolish caper
For a man to come and drop a hint
Merely to get here his name the old in print.
X live out on Giles place—”
And he mopped the sweat from his ruddy
face
On an exchange, “An’ thought I’d call
To give you the condition of crops this fall.
The drouth has greatly injured the cotton,
Corn iB fair but potatoes are rotten
Or watery—not more than half a crop.
I'm fattenin' my hogs on corn an’ slop
That I get from Muggles who runs the still—
Nothin’ brings ’em out like swill.
“Cap’n, jes’ make a note in your sheet
That Jonathan Macks, that you met on the
street,
Was kind enough to furnish the points,”
And lie lazily arose and stretched his joints.
“I’m knowed out there, you know, as colonel,
In Arkansaw this way infernal
Of titlin' every common man
Makes a sensible fellow sick,
An’, blame it, the title to him will stick
LiSe the name he inherits at his birth—
Alas, for vanity on this earth.
Now, cap’n, when you speak of me,
Call me mister, for, don’t you see,
I very much object to pander
To such a taste, but,, blame it, yander
Where I live—” and he feigned to sneeze—
“They call me colonel, so if you please
Say that all o’ these here valuable facks,
Were told by the gentlemanly Col. Macks.”
—Arkansaw Traveler.
THE SCHOOL TEACHER IN HIS ELEMENT.
They met on the crowded avenue
yesterday in front of the City Hall. One
was a young man of about twenty-two,
the other, a man about sixty years old.
One lives in the northern part of the
State, and the other in the southern.
Fate had brought them together. There
was nothing cordial in their meeting.
They didn’t cry out “Put it thar !”
and pump-handle each other like a couple
of old friends. On the contrary, the
young man grew red in the face and
breathed hard and stammered out:
“Ten years ago I went to school to
you i”
“Yes, you did,” was the calm reply.
‘ ‘And one day you licked me almost to
death for an offence committed by an¬
other boy !”
“Well, you were always in need of a
licking.” continued the
“And I swore,” that young if
man, “aye I registered a vow,
I met you after I bad grown up I would
have my re venge ! Prepare to be pounded
to a lifeless mass !”
“I’m prepared,” replied the oldschool
master, as he spat ou his hands, and in a
minute the fun was raging. The young
man rushed upon him with a war-whoop,
but his nose struck something and lie
fell down. He got up aud rushed again,
and .this time he was flung down,
rolled over, stepped on and left with a
number of loose teeth and a splitting
headache. The police took him in, but
when they came to hunt for the old man
he was across the street trying to pinup
a rent in his coat and saying to some of
his friends:
“Ah ! it brings hack all the memories
of the old red school-house to get my
hands on an unruly pupil in the first
reader class again.”— Detroit Free
Press.
THE MODERN boy’s SEVEN AGES.
Mr. Shakespeare says that a man has
seven ages, but to my opinion a boy has
about ten of his own. He begins with
his first pair of breeches and a stick
horse, and climbs up by degrees to toy
guns and firecrackers, and slingshot and
breaking calves and billy goats, and, sure
enough, guns and pointer dog, and look¬
ing-glass age when he admires himself
and greases his hair, and feels of his
down beard, and then he joins a brass
band and toots a horn, and then he
reads novels and falls in love and rides a
prancing horse and writes perfumed love
notes to his girl. When his first
kicks him and begins to run with an¬
other fellow he drops into the age of
despair, and wants to go to Texas, or
some other remote region, and sadly
sighs: ■ show,”
“This world is all a fleeting
Boys are mighty smart now-a-days.
They know as much at ten as we used
to at twenty, and it is right hard for
us to keep ahead of ’em. One of these
modem philanthropists was telling my
kinsman the other day how to raise his
boy. “Never whip him,” said he.
‘ ‘Baise him on love and kindness and
reason,” and then he appealed to me for
indorsement. “And when that hoy is
about twelve years old,” said I, “do you
go to him and if possible persuade him
not to whip his daddy. Tell him it is
wrong and unfilial and will injure his
reputation in the community.”
The modern boy is entirely too bigity.
—Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
A CRUSHED PORTER.
We are happy. The porter of the
parlor car has been crushed.
“Beg yo’ pawdon, sail,” he remarked
with impressive grandeur to one of the
occupants of his car. “Dat was a trad
doilah yo’ handed me a minute ago.”
“Ah, was it?” replied the plebe, as
he took it from the outstretched hand
and examined it. “Take this for j oar
honesty, my friend,” and pocketing the
dollar the traveler handed the astounded
potentate of the road a lead nickel.
The insensible body of the porter was
left at the next station, and after physi¬
cians had worked at him for two hours,
he recovered sufficiently to murmur in¬
coherently. pah’lyzed
“It wa’nt de money what
me, boss; but he called me ‘my freri !’
Boss, dat done tuk me down offul!”—
Oil City Blizzard.
HE HUMORED HIM.
A New York stockbroker, who was on
his way to Buffalo last week, observed
that one of his fellow-passengers was
closely regarding him, and after a time
the man came over and asked:
“Didn’t I see you in Chicago in 1879 ?”
The broker wasn’t in Chicago that
year, he replied but thinking to humor the stranger,
in the affirmative.
“Don’t you remember handing a poor
devil a half dollar one night in front of
the Tremont ?”
“I do.”
“Well, I’m the chap. I was hard up,
out of work, and about ready to commit
suicide. That money made a new man
of me. By one lucky shift and another
I am now worth $25,000.”
“Ah ! glad to hear it.”
“And now I want you to take five dol¬
lars in place of that fifty cents. I can’t
feel easy until the debt is paid.”
The broker protested and objected,
but finally, just to humor the man, he
look his $20 bill and gave him back $15.
The stranger soon withdrew, and every¬
thing might have ended then and there
if the broker, on reaching Buffalo,
hadn’t ascertained that the “twenty”
was a counterfeit and that he was $15
out of pocket.— Wall Street News.
HE SUCCEEDED.
“This drawer never comes out right,”
said old Mr. Brown to his wife the other
morning, as he took hold of the knobs
of the lower drawer of the bureau.
“You don’t pull bard enough,” re¬
plied Mrs. eh?” Brown.
“Don’t,
“No, you don’t.”
Then Mr. Brown said he would pull
harder than he ever did before. So he
braced himself, and yanked upon both
knobs with might and main, and the
drawer flew out, and down went Brown
on his back, and the next instant he was
busily engaged in prying various arti¬
cles out of liis eyes, ears, mouth and
nose.
“That’s right,” said Mrs. Brown,
smilingly, “I knew you would get if.
open, if you only pulled hard enough.
Whenever you want to open that drawer,
only pull on it half as hard as yon pull
on the bottle, and you will get it open.”
And Brown kicked the drawer over
on the sofa, anti jumping waiting suddenly up,
flew down town without to-put
his collar on.— Puck.
QUICK CONSUMPTION.
Little Mary, who is very much inter¬
ested in studying the “laws of health,”
since school began, had been asking Mr.
Battler all sorts of questions about dis¬
eases aud their remedies.
“Now, papa,” she continued, “if you
neglect a bad cold you lay a foundation
for the consumption, don’t you?”
“Yes,” answered her father.
“And consumptives aro thin and pale,
aren’t they ?”
“Yes.”
“What other signs are there in—well,
injjquick consumption, papa?” queried
the child.
“Five minutes for refreshments,
posted in railroad stations,” responded
B. The examination closed.— Boston
Courier.
Death of Marwood.
Marwood, the executioner, died at
Horncastle, England, from congestion
of the lungs and jaundice. He was
sixty-tliree years of age and had held
his post for twelve years. He leaves a
widow, but no son, as has been stated.
Some incidents of his life are narrated
by a local correspondent who was per¬
sonally acquainted with Marwood, and
who had a long conversation with him.
shortly before his death. He says:
“There were many attempts to get a
portrait of Marwood, hut he always re¬
fused. An enterprising photographer
offered him fifty pounds one day for a
sitting, but he declined, his explanation enjoyed
being that one of the things he
more than anything else was to go to a
town by an earlier train than he was ex¬
pected, and mix in the crowd that was
waiting his arrival. If his correspond¬
ence has been preserved it will be very
curious. Quite recently he showed which me a
sword of a Japanese executioner
had been sent to him by a certainly gentleman of
from Brighton, and it was
intrinsic value. He had contemplated,
he said, putting another story on to his
shop and making a kind of museum,
where he could show his friends and
neighbors the peculiar things he had
collected during his experiences as an
executioner. Once only had he an inter¬
view with Calcraft, and that was when
a party of Americans had asked to be
allowed to visit Calcraft. Marwood
went with some official to ask Calcraft
if he would receive the visitors. He
used to declare that previous to the
execution in Ireland, when a prisoner’s
arm caught in the rope, he had never
had a single slip in his work. With
regard to the Durham execution, con¬
cerning which he was summoned to the
Home Office, immediately after the
question had been put in Parliament,
he stated that the and prisoner fainted at
the last moment, that that was the
cause of the rope catching in his arm,
and he was particularly careful to men¬
tion that at the inquest and satisfactorily
cleared himself. His opinion was that
in all future executions a warder should
stand on each side of the prisoners on a
plank extending over the drop, and the
loose portion of the rope be tied up to
the beam by a slight cord, which should,
give way by the weight of the body,
and he declared that he should neve»
undertake an execution again without
these precautions being adopted. Many
of his Irish experiences were a source iff
great amusement to him. An escort
used to meet him at Chester and accom¬
pany him across the Channel. After
some of the early executions connected
with the Phoenix Park assassinations,
Marwood had to proceed to Glasgow,
and he related how an escort which
was to accompany him were disappointed
when they found that he declined their
company and intended to move about
England without any protection while what¬
ever. It was at Glasgow, he was
preparing the prisoners on the scaffold,
that a letter was received by the Gov¬
ernor of the jail which might have been,
a respite. The Governor signaled ta
Marwood while he read the letter, which
proved to be on other business. Mar¬
wood received very few threatening let¬
ters.”— London Standard.
