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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY,’ JANUARY 21, 1879.
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THE CONSTITUTION
Atlanta, Go,
, ' ATLAXTaTgA.7 JANUARY 21. 187a.
Mr. Stf.hik.vm took hto Meat in the house,
(or the firut time nine© his (all, on
Wwliwwlay of last week. He was warmly
congratulated on bis recovery.
A CAfcra of the democratic senators
woe held last week, at which the action
of the party upon the various phases of
living political qw»tiom was freely dis
cussed. It was Anally decided to appoint
a committee of seven to consider the mat
ter. This committee consists of Senators
Thurman, Eaton, McDonald, Morgan,
Gordon, Sautabtiry and Harris.
Tn* election of Vest from Missouri and
Vance from North Carolina to the senate
of the United States is a notable addition
to the intellectual strength o! that body,
Roth are among the ablest men in the
country, eloquent speakers, and experi
enced debaters. Either will prove more
than a match for ttie canning Edmunds
or the perspiring Blsfne, and together
- they will rep resent their states with all
the vigor of their patriotism.
oi tl..- whole country! Dufcrarewashextinorder. Here is where . and dear light. Tlic sncce» of the
“Times” lights is said to be perfect. A
,* me nxvgaop was «r.. v /The Dufaorf ministry came into office t writer says of it: “From gaslight we sud-
larger than in 1877-The cultivation] December lflsrT.to a compromise, after <lenly merged into wbat seemed aBood o
sorglmm received increased attention a long and doubtful straggle between the daylight, which came from six small
all parts of the country, and the to- president-marshal and the chamber of lamps placed at intervals nbouUhe room,
bacco crop was sc ored under excep- deputies. The premier is about eighty The light is exceedingly penetrating, as
tionaliy anspidous conditions of weather. I vears old, bat be has all his life been s has been proved in the mines of England.
Ti—oaaiitv is. .v—.t™. very fine. The! con-en ativerepnbikan. When lie made I There were aevgral-very important mines
eonditinM of bait growth during the i>aRt I np his cabinet, he' Appointed' 'GeSenJ'j TEkt dWM IhA U, I.O.UJ, heeauas of the
year were generally unfavorable, grapes, Borel mihiater of war, oral tills has been impossibility of luting them wtthoil
apples and peaiw alike showing grestiv I a sore point with the republicans ever I lamps. The introduction of the electric
decreased yields. I since, as the general is far from being I light made them accessible and bright.
The crop of wheat is not mentioned in I even a conservative republican, whatever and gave the workmen all the light that
Commissioner Dodge's December report; I that, phrase may mean. When the I was needed. In this country there are
but when that is taken into considers-1 ministerial declaration was laid before the I several large cotton and print mills that
reviewin'* the whole field, it must I asaembly.it waa ionnd that General Borel, j have adopted the Brash lamp and use it
be conceded that the Tear was. in all im- the chief enemy oi republican institu- to the exclusion of all other light The
portant r.-spools, satisfactory. It gave I tions in the cabinet, hail been transferred immense establishment of Wannamaker
na an abundance of food, not only for I to the important command at Rouen, and I & Brown, in Philadelphia, is also illumi-
hoine consumption, bat also for ihe par-1 that General Gresley, a milk-and-water I nated by electricity. The town council
pose of maintaining a heavy favorable man, had been given the portfolio of war. of Liverpool has also applied for permis-
balance of trade in nnr dealings with The cabinet had promised Gam-1 sion from parliament to introduce the
oilier nations We have more cotton, I betta, it seems, to appoint electric light into the streets of that city,
more wheat, more corn and more pork to 1 General Tarre, whom the president It will tints be seen that the use of the
sell to other nations than we ever had at I could not control. It is admitted that light is extending with great rapidity,
any one time in our whole history. Let ] General Gresley will do nothing to dis-1 While the most of the demonstrations yet
therefore, pat down 1878 as a red-let-1 please MacMahon, and this, of course, I made are mere experiments it must be
means that General Borel will be re-1 acknowledged that they are becoming
tained at Rouen, and that no important I very numerous. There seem to be two
changes will be made in the great mili-1 difficulties in the way. In the first place.
to secure the defeat of Incalls la Kansas. This
»e w here thieve* have fallen oat, yet the
chance of honest men getting their due in the
meantime is slim in
Conklixg pit ilia gaff in on the president
and sneak Sherman the other day. He doesn’t
exactly say they Ue about the Sew York custom
house removals, but he grazes one wheel against
the statement
IN GENERAL.
BILL ARP’S CU'tT.
fa Connecticut, New York, Ohio nnd Pennsylva
nia. Counting the senator* in these various states,
who hold over, you can see that it will he com-
^ratively easy to return five republicans to tho
senate in place of the tlemocrats who go out in
1S61. Now go to work and figure on that. Suppose,
U.r instance, that we do make this gain as con-
1 template*!. then we lose one and win five and the
i H.Q«m_Eo<ia.at 0v« tk.Good Lack.f G.«ral
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
IN WHICH HE RUMINATES AGAIN.
blkana. 37; giving them Davis, they will have
w a majority of two. That’s what this Corbin
movement mean*. If we seat him it will tie the
senate, under these circumstances and the repub
lican vice-president will have the casting rote.”
The scheme, at above outlined, has been incuba
ting for some time. As can readily be *een, it
solve* art! the doubts about 1S81 In favor of the re
publicans, and should this highly improbable
contingency come to pass, the complexion of the
la would* ~ * **
Governor Vaxck, who is to take the
seat now filled by ^senator Merrimon, in
no tyro in legislation. He has served
the legislature of his state, and in the
federal house of representatives, when;
he was gaining a high position when the
war broke out. He was elected to the
United States senate in 1870, bnt be was
not allowed to take his seat He will
in this time, and it will not be long be
fore the people of this country will know
a great deal more of Zebulon Baird Vance
than they now do.
The death of Mr. Justice Hunt, after a
•ervice on the bench of only six years,
gives Mr. Hayes power to perpetuate and
intensify the partisan nature of our na
tional returning hoard. He will do it
Ho will not hesitate to put an Ohio or
other extreme radical upon the bench,
although the sonth is absolutely unrep
resented, and there is only one democrat
among the nine, Mr. Justice Clifford, who
Is very old. Judge Clifford was appointed
by Mr. Buchanan, and all the rest of the
court are appointees of Lincoln and
Grant, except Judge Hmrlan, who was
appointed by Mr. Hayes. If Judge Hunt
bad lived until the fourth of next March,
the country would have gained some re
lief in the appointment of a fair-minded
man to reinforce the lonely judge from
Maine. Tho supreme court will soon,
however, be the only branch of the gov
ernment that the radicals can control,
and they know it.
Tbf Connecticut Kenaforalalp.
It is settled that Mr. Orville H. Platt, of
Meriden, is to be Connecticut’s new sen
ator, the republican caucus having se
lected him from five entries for the hotly-
contested race. His rivals were ex-Gov-
emors Hawley and Jewell, of Hartford
Mr. Henry B. Harrison, a defeated candi
date for governor, and ex-Governor Mi
nor, of Stand lord. Jewell had the big
gest lobby and made the most bluster.
He wanted to be; vindicated, General
Grant having kicked him out of ihe post
master-generalship once upon a time.
Lincoln once said of him that if you took
away his kid gloves and cut his hair short
there would he nothing left of lifm, and
this seems tobealsmt thesixe of the opin
ion that his neighbors have of him.
Hawley was the ablest aspirant, bnt he
bad been elocted to congress from the
doubtful Hartford district Minor was
not much more than a «lark horse. The
fight was, in truth, a triangular one,
Hawley, Platt, nnd Harrison being
the three who had good chances of suc
cess. The caucus selected the least known
man of the three. Mr. Platt is a country
lawyeT, who is state’s attorney for his
county. He is poor in health and in
purse, having of late been unfortunate in
financial affairs. His health is so poor
that it is believed he will not l>e able to
serve out the term of six years. The New
Haven Register, a democratic paper,
frankly admits that he is a nuns who
would be no discredit to the state in the
senate. Next to General Joe Hawley, he
was undoubtedly the best man before the
caucus, unless it was Mr. Phineaa T. Bar-
num, manager “of the greatest show on
earth.”
The Crop* ot 1*78.
A circular from the office of the state
commissioner of agriculture, just pub
lished, contains a summing up of the re
sults of the past year’s agricultural labors
within the state. These results are, in
word, full yields of nearly every crop
planted. The yield of com was two per
cent, better than in 1877, and the average
yield per acre was also slightly increased,
taking the state as a whole. In north
Georgia the average yield per acre was
fifteen bushels and a half, the average for
the whole state being only 10.7 bushels.
The yield of cotton last year was a frac
tion less than that of 1877. The yield of
ter year in the grand calendar of years.
The annual circular of the mercantile 1 tMr y eomm9n fa m The radical republicans, I it is hard to get a pure article of carbon,
agency of R. G. Bunn & Co., for the early l <i emaiM | a ncw cabinet—one I In the second place, it has been impossi
receipt of which wo are indebted to Mr. I w m put otl iy republicans on guard I ble, ao far, to divide the light into small
R. G. Harby, of this city, puts tie tota I ^ The conservative portion of I and portable lamps. Mr. Edisor
number of failure* in the United ..tatea I o tj, er hand, favor there-! claims that the carbon can be made
for 1870 at 10,478, widi liabihtxes amount-1 tont j on Q f t j, 0 Pufanre ninistry if it will | of any quality desired, and that he has
ing to $234,000,000. This showsan m-1 nja j te concessions that the people I an invention that will divide the light
crease over 1877 of 1,571 in number and 1 haye p^inly demanded and that the 1 down to one candle power if necessary,
$40,000,000 in amount. The gr* ua I Q f tj, e republic requires. Shall the I with only a trifling loss of power. If this
growth of these casualties js shown in the | fy. a vote 0 f censure, drive I is done the whole problem is solved, and
following statement for the BCT ® n ,/ c ^ ra I pufaure and perhaps .MacMahon out of I the electric light is a success beyond dis-
since 1872, with tbosnrerage liabilities for 1 letting inGainbetta, or shall the pute. In the meantime gag stocks in
ekeh jw- fal 4ver *tfl I &Kod. premier lie eustaiifbd in flie hope J Europe aip going up slightly, in anticipa-
LUMiftle*. UabfSEei. 1 that he will gradually carry out the I tion probably of the difficulty that will
^w’fiS’So I wishes of the electoral bodies—these arc I result in overcoming the troubles that lie
— jh’.02v j the questions before Prance to-day. | in the path of the electric light.
It “ to *h»tl Thx Aemocratsul the Lou* will find »m.
j Hambetta will do for that is what I ,i;ip cu ity in getting an appropriation to i
—StLouis has 700 lawyers.
—Mbs Gabrielle Greeley intends to
a convent.
—George Bancroft is all right again, and
it b feared that be will resume his history.
—The island of Saghalien is to be made
the Botany bay of condemned Russian
hilists.
—Before 1870 Germany had only seven
railway bridges over the Rhine; now she
has sixteen.
—General Grant did not resent his treat
ment by ihe city of Cork. There was plenty'
' Irish' whisky elsewhere.
—The best two of the customers of the
milliners of Paris are the princess of Wales
and the young queen Margaret of Italy.
The fashion plates that come from Pari:
are colored mostly in the prisons by female
convicts.
—The fines levied by the Prussian courts
against Cardinal Ledochowski, for infrac
tion* of the ecclesiastical law, now atuouu:
$50,000.
—The Chicago Tribune calls attention tc
the fact that of the twenty-six' republican
senators who voted for the salary grub, no
one has been re-elected.
—Now doth the slippery-footed m«
Oft do some sudden sitting.
And everv time lie sits him down, .
The boys ask, “Where's his knitting?
—Senator Bayard has pone to San Anto
*.io, Texas, as* one of the committee ap
pointed to escort thither the remains oi tin
late Representative Gustave Schleicher.
•The messenger, wlu»>e business it is to
1 ..e ll...-aaa'a little
Year. Somber.
IR78.
1*34
1*7.1..
UfJIMM
22s. u*o.ono
121,0*1,000
10 From the very complete tabulatt^l Irituation is in the lxst analysis. His I v^tjgatethe cipher dispatches. The repub-
.tatement which the circular contains, I sagacity in thc past is, however, a guar- Ucans nin bave none of it . Even Ben.
„ , lle following, indicating the ““to* that he will do nothing to senquidy nut i er has asked for time to make some re-
,. . a(i( . t . ong • which the Jail-1 <Jistttrb the business of the people or in-1 marks upon the proposition, and the repub
ireograpluca . I crease the dangers that beset universal I lican members of the committee refuse to
nrcs for tire I-ast year '**'* n 0 ‘’™ rT * 1 ' L u ffrmreandrelf^^overnmentinitoexiwrd rote one way or the other. Alter all the
with tire percentage, ate „ , ., I imentfl l years in his country. Ho is I shrieking of (he organs, the attitude of I he
each locality: J 2—1121 on ly forty years old, and if by waiting be | republicans is fnnny, if not remarkable
can thoronghly establish the republic, he | The Se« York Tribune, and the papers that
need not be in the least apprehensive ‘"htwiti. it. have for months past defied
•U-. V- _-ii 11 ,r,„ I I *he democrats to investigate the cipher dis-
that he will not reap all the honors that
patches, and now that the proposition
he can possibly covet. With the possibly ^ t ,\ e membtn oI tlie , ar „. o( f mud , re
exceptions of Bismarck anil Bcaconsfleld. J , he filst to t)miK obslade> i„ the way. ‘
is jK>»sible that Ben. Butler’s opposition
due to the probability that he, and not Or*
the world does not to-dav hold a mor<;
remarkable man than he who a few year*
ago was'an obscure lawyer pleading in
the police conrts.
ton, furnished the Tribune with the dis
patches in question.
Is the atmosphere of Boston, to allude
anybody as “one of the bloods,” is consid-
o r ored slangy and inelegant. And yet it
to soldiers of the Mexican and the | classic. Shakspeare makes Cassius say
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble
Bills. ,
The democrats succeeded, by a party
vote, iu having the bill providing for pen
sions
Creek, Seminole and Black Hawk wars,
taken up last Wednesday. The bill gives I b,oods *
“Tigs'' Andenoa—A Baa Bsckia Memory
to tks Bays «f Blood—OtktTtboaghts
ia the Old Maa'f Mi ad.
A SmI Snlclde—The Bell's Bend Bntcb-
ery—Another Pennsylvania Hang*
inf?, Ete.
Nashville, January 16.—Mias Rosa Solo
mon, a beautiful Jewess,* of Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, who had been ©n a visit to this
city, committed suicide. It is stated that
she was engaged to be married to a gentle
man of high standing of Cincinnati upon
her return home. She had frequently heard
BY HIS OWN HAND.
THE SUICIDE OF MR. R.W. JEWISON.
How tks Ds«d vu Committed—The Reasons -which
Led to It—The Boots Developed in the Coro
ner's If—l-IHs Es-ly Life sad
Subsequent Biography, Etc.
Written for The Constitution.
, A , nd “ r°“ Ti8c ” to f™ nl 1 fromT.im since her arrival here, but yester-
lf ln 7* a ', n , n 0 ” y . ,h “ ,he day evening she received a letter from him
Sn^r 1 umriZricuL SrA&S ,hoa ' I ’ 1 P?.ormushall theboys«.wa> stating (hat lle roaM Mt muTy lm shc
perfectly dm an* h " ^ ?. U> ' , ’ k 1 *"° K b "?\ 1 ** b ”" naturally evinced great distress, and went
jfflge^vL^ke ttJ "»w, «™““d « « «> «- '
outlook somewhat murky should a rigorous effort jun, a good-humored twinkle in his eye.
be made to draw the party lines. | jj e j a good marshal, I know, for lies
out of the house, as her relaticns thought,
to take some fresh air. Proceeding to R. E.
Page’s drug store, she purchased 20 grains
I finn ,,***?. W ° at .. b *.* fl " otrtiydraln., saying that she wished to
i,w * ***’’*' j poison rats. She relumed to the house and
Personal Politics.
“Gath” in the Cincinnati Enquirer. j xunnin the boys down for every little
I„h h n' P ^ OM Tige ured to j went to her room. About 9 o’clock some oi
iSSiirSSl iriS! mvecUSc SSStas. He I be a curious riddle to me. lie seemed to htrretativt ,
has hi* partialities, however, and it b almott im-1 l , ve life, and friends and good tilings Just I , •
like other people, but I dout think it ever ~
f k{J3“rf sSimem'cimkimi; | occurred to him that it wss a very sad mat-1 h „
in and found her uncon-
scums and in convulsions. Several physi
cians were sent for and Dr. Baxter arrived,
uu% , , , | but too late to do any good, tor she died
suoii losing interest in any but his immediate per- |Rer to give em up. or that a little prudence I u_ ut .q o’clock
snna! success. Hill has encouraged a sort o£ gush* 1 advisable in times of crest neril Care-1 . . ,. . . . ,
ins optimism in place of strons convictions, and. I was »“y^ auic In iwu. t-«re-1 The American of this morning furnishes
therefore, often thinks him«elf animated bv the I ful of hts men and of their comfort at all I the following additional particulars of the
highi-st purpose*, when he braeretyanmgonbiug I t j raCS yet he seemed utterly unconcerned I double murder at Bell’s Bend: The report
“ f -« be « f •<-*-1 ifjsi
I or an arm and being retired on a comforta-1 the dead mother’s breast.
! ble peusioti, why, that was perfectly splen-1 Too much horrified to think of making
.... . I did. I close investigation, they left things just as
, utYention and gabble here than I But, yon see, the volunteers dident make I they found them, hurried to town, saw
them of any othL-r state, , ^d jh* newspapent, | t | wt sort of a bargain. They hudent had I Sheriff Price am! told him of it. The sheriff
The Radical* Chuckling.
•‘A. W. R.” in Macon Telegraph.
Georgia politics, or rather squabbles^
aoariiqt i “ A - —■
norm aim west are all havhig mc-lr wr very I t j me to wear t j |e edges of such I immediately informed Coroner Amlersoi
flre'Ji ^verv^ay they ranJiuid Suckling*lec-1 bloody-colored views. It’s true they hoi-1 Peebles, who, in company witli Justice
fully over the promised outcome. Thev Insist I lored for liberty or death, but they wasent I John G. Marshall, left for the spot, where
that an independent state movement against the I f u ||y reconciled to more Ilian liberty or | an inquest will be held. On account of the
dtrmocmcy in isso Usure to Include Independent I cr ij,pieJ. Their business wasent soldiering. 1 high water they were compelled to cross the
Uivas just to go in ami whip theftato aral river by ll.e .u>pensiou bridge and
me back home and stay there. To them I around by the W hues creek turnpike, and
a little episode—something J the coroner stated that be would not he
43 «.*»« ... ; - . „ . . K , auu , a.«vw..y a»d pocaitar—CHpecially iK-I back until this afternoon.
aJd tieonria to l culiar: a sdirt of amultitudmousduel which | Front Justice J. Bailey Brown who visite«l
eight dollars a month to soldiers who
served in the Mexican war sixty days,
Blaine is said to be the only regular-
built American statesman whq ever got his
and also to thpso wlio served thirty days j nos * 0,1 »level with Mulligan’s knee-pans,
in the Indian ware named in the bill. It I Wisdox's resolution to colonize democratic
also provides for the widows of these J negroes in republican strongholdsat the ex-
veterans, who have not remarried. Asj penseof the government is tbeopeninggnn
soon as the bill was before the house the uf 8 eamiaign which, if not checked by the
The agency states that “it is very easy I ™ P ^ f ’' , ? nS Jj‘^ 1 n to C1 . lbU . Sttr ‘°. rmli^IdydiLi.' i < trou3 <: to^the rights ind libcr-
to account for the increase of 1,571 fail-1 'todcfrat-The honas had wisely shut I tles of the colore a ro an. We say this ad-
urea among 700,000 busineam m#n within I a " further debate m committee of the I vjgediy. a late number of the’North
a year in which the circumstances have I whole, and the republicans were com-1 \ merican Review contained a very sttggest-
been peculiarly influential in encouraging I pel'e^ to resort to amendments. They I ; ve article advocating a restricted suffrage,
casualties of this character." These cir- proceeded to load the bill down with I , n a ,h e February number of the Atlantic
cutustances arc stated at five in number, I ridiculous amendments, until the house | has an anonymous paper on the same line,
as follows- 1878 is the fifth vear of a de- 11? 01 wear J' and the committee rose with- I which we propose to notice more at length
pression unparalleled in extent,character, I out mking final action on the bill. Tlie another day. It seems clear to ns that if
and duration ; the weather for the first amendments that were adopted make the the radicals cannot control the negro vote to
quarter of the year waa unseasonable,and bil1 “> “<d»de all those who served sixty ™lt their own infamous will
thus most unfavorable 8 for sales and col-1 da >' 8 ,n the ,ate war between the states, I en<lcnvor to l' !ace ccrta,n qualifications
tnus most tiniavoraoK tor sales ana col | «.. . - - - I either of education or property—npun the
lections; the discussions, in ami out of I
the
and also those who served in , , ,,
—» — — | Tr , i- „ * ici-. ni! -n.oco i I Iwllot. Failing in this, a* they are sure t«
congress, a* to financial matters and the InJ «an ware of l«w-G6. These amend- fai| ^ wi|1 then roake an effort ^
tariff, impaiml confidence for the time I ^ e J ts agreed to, owing to the al>- n|ie t j ie ' nepn , i n so nic of the territories «»r
being; the notable decline in the value I •enco of democrats from the house. In I - n ^friea—and they have selected Mr. Wi:>
of staples the world over; the existence | 8cnatc a s ' ,n ^ ar ^**1 met, on the fol-1 ( j OI1 , to ^ t |, e wav<
lowing day, with a similar fate. Senator '
Edmunds offered the amendment to give
of tlie epidemic in the south; and,finally,
more influential than all others, was the
“OLD SI.»»
repeal. The circular then proceeds
In view, therefore, of the peculiarities of tt
year under review, it is submitted that i
af How Xrsro Edi
SInst Proceed.
After a long ramble through the exchanges Old
abolition of the Itankrapt law and the to ever y ^rvivor of the civil war the
long delay permitted to elapse before its I 84,1110 I K ‘ nH ' on which the bill proposer, to I
give the survivors of the Mexican war, I
without regard to the question of physical I Si gathered up his bundle lor Sunday reading and
disability, and his amendment was agreed I prepared to go.
. n't ia * , , I “By de way,” said he, “I aeea tn dese publtkan
_ to. Tlicae results pnt an end, of course, I ^, rom ^ nori „ mon . rirmi , hc . po . riUn .
KJtoiioS.S’toS wt'rt'toSiiwrireum- to any hill in this congress for pensioning -bout eaaarashnn oh At niggci in de soul« do
stAiHvs nbove enumi-nued ns contribiiung to fail- j the Mexican Veterans. If the original I means ob sallashun ter depublikan party!”
bin had become a law, It would have ben- :;^‘7JXr:‘S!d”^'d™ t ^'"eddn t s
conditions an; present, which ought. In the izu- e fitcil alniut six thousaml survivintr Wel1, deT UUeT tend ? 0wn „^ 1<1 ,
ttusUmc fntmv. loro much improve burinem n* | 1 ** J 11 W* tnousanu suruvilig aol I *k unj d e nigger ar’ gtttin ’bout all de lar-
oiers of the Mexican war, about one Inin’he kin konvenyuntly tote now! De ’fecks
thousand widows of soldiers of that war, I ob book-nollidge on dis breed ob darkies atnt
A Prospective Republican Rnmpnv I abont two hundred soldiers or their wi.l- I dc higgotsorto’ dividends on deCUVO.-
The more stalwart a repnblican is, in 0 ws of the Rlaek Hawk war, and about ”'”vhydorou think»r-
these days of tribulation, the more nn-1 thirty-five htmdred soldiers or widows of I •'Pei.ek or plane, elver only kin sco hit rite!
easy he is. He dreams dreams.and sets I soldiers of the Creek and Florida wars. Now, lookatdoelitUenlggeis-ebcry oneobdem
diabolical visions in the small hours of A more deserving lot of citizens never! *>««'« big-nuff ter tote er primer kta outenraer
the night The white I.-aguers march L* ke ,l for help from the general govern-1
acniSH the foot of his beam ominous pm- j ment; hut the sectional hatred of the re- I somebody’s name ter de dry-good* sto’
: ... 1 1 -* ’ ‘ ■ pnbliean party refused them justice. 1
cession, the ku-klux howl in the close
and the rush and roar of a new rebellion I The fact that more southern than north-
“Throe are exceptions to the rule, perhaps.’
_ < ^ _ “Mebbedey is,’ceptln* dAttermyview.de *cei»-
are heard upon the night-wind. Tims I era men would be the'^tinefleiarire of I
disturbed it is no wonder that he gets up | the bill led to its defeat. It is as dead as | nntrtre read de bsnw. on er -lsebhnn ticket uv
de figgers on er greenback. Soon e* he gits dat he
feels like be done gradjorated at de head obhis
class:
in tlie morning nervous and out of sorts I a door-nail for at least a year,
and proceeds to vent his spleen upon the 1
southern people. To add to the misery
Tho Electric Light
No more interesting development has J' “Then yon are against the education of the col-
of his situation, he is just now confront- , V Vl eT - VttkZ tAui ored oWer*
... ’ . , .. . I>een presented to the intelligence of this I P®°P“ r
oil with a most perplexing problem—th
more perjfloxing because, nervous and
unstrung as he is, lie sees in the near
future the almost total extinction of tho
colored repnblican vote in the solid south
—and lie is even now casting about for a
remedy. The following from the Indian
apolis Journal, edited by an enthusiastic
stalwart, will give an idea of the nature
and extent of tlie trouble that is worrying
the implacables:
This is not right. The present baais of repre
sentation Is wrong. Instead of being baaed on
the electoral vote it should be based on ths num
ber of republican votes cast at the preceding elec
tion. This would give republican states their
sugarcane was remarkable, amounting j preponderance In eonven'ion. and prevent
to -o0 gallons an acre against 159 in 1S77. I the anomaly of a republican candidate being nom-
There was also a material increase in the
quality of home-raised pork, over tliat
of the previous year, which was likewise
abetter year in this respect than its pre
decessor. Wo raised last year four per
cent, more of wheat, five per cent, more
of oats, and fourteen per cent more
of pork than we did in 1877.
These gratifying results gave us at
the end of the year within seventeen
per cent of a full supply of provisions for
1870. Commissioner Janes is right,
in view of these facts, in considering the
agricultural prospect as encouraging. The
reports made to the department show
that the condition of our farmers is stead
ily improving, and that a considerable per
centage of them will go through this
year, despite the low price of cotton, on a
cash basis. Low-priced cotton is not an
unmixed evil, because, it tends to a re
striction of the cotton area, to a dimin
ished cost of production, to a diversified
agriculture, and to a general system of
economy. We must raise more bread-
staffs, increase our flocks, and make more
meat.
The December report of the national
department of agriculture sums up the
crops of the entire country. The corn
crop of 1878 was an immense one, the
fourth of an unbroken series of large
crops. It was thirty million bushels in
excess of that of 1877, although the crops
of Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Kan
sas were considerably decreased. The
oat crop was the largest ever raised in
this country. The southern inland states,
however, showed a decline. California
produced an immense barley crop, mak
ing the total product of 1878 nearly
ten million bushels greater than
in 1877. The rye crop waa about one-
sixth larger, although the crop of the
south waa lees in quantity and inferior in
quality. Potatoes fell off forty-six mil
lion bushels, on account of the extreme
heat of last summer and late plantings.
inated by democratic state*.
As a matter of course we have no sort
of interest In the matter, hut it is a little,
surprising that the republican* should be
thus ready to admit the fact that their
party is steadily disappearing in the
south. It also strikes ua tliat the
proposition is a trifle unjust to
the leading republicans in the
south who have strenuously en
deavored to uphold the frayed and fnu
xled end of republicanism in this portion
of the political vineyard. Bnt we leave
even this part of the subject to be dis
cussed among the stalwarts themselves,
though it would appear from our point of
view that such a proposition is likely to
create considerable of a rumpus in the
republican camp.
In changing from a mixed government,
in part republican and in part military,
to one purely republican, France is ex
periencing an administrative crisis.i The
late senatorial elections transformed the
senate into a republican -body, and prac
tically handed France over to the men
who have patiently waited seven long
years for the complete triumph of repub
lican principles. When the two houses
met on the second Tuesday of this month
they expected, and had a right to expect,
that the government would he, made
tl-oronghly republican. It was the wit!
of the people, as far as they had had op
portunity to express themselves and the
left, therefore, demanded changed both
in the civil and military service to bring
the government into harmony with itself
and with popular sentiment The senate
promptly ejected the candidate of the
right, the Duke d* Audiffret Pasquier,
from the presidency of that body, putting
in his place M. Martel, who has been
an unqualified republican ever since he
became a deputy in 1849. This brought
the electric light has approached perfec- | m p\ 0 w deep and sow nought? keerlul wid ’em.
tion. The certainty that we are now very I De bes* way ar* logo on mil* like an’ keep dese
near the complete’adaptation of this light I DorIenci * deob dem
to ordinary use will render a reviewof |
the main steps of development timely
and interesting.
re$T*>nd to the tinkle of Mr. * Hayes s little
bell, says he has lo work tiiree or fourtuuo
as hard aince that barrel of crab-app!e
cider was rolled into the white house cellar.
—Emma Abbott has her age printed in an
advertising circular. She will be sorry tot
this twer.ty-flfi*wears fronunow when she
is announced os the “yotmc and charming
printa donnai”
—The minufacture ot jewelry from pure
blood ot the ox is flourishing iu Germany.
The blood is dried,reduced to a powder and
then moulded and polished. The orna
ments thus piodueed are capable of high
polish.
—Commodore John Guest, of the United
States naw, who died on Sunday last at the
Portsmouth navy yard, was a native ot Mb
souri, and entered the service from Arkan
>a» in 1837. One of his sons is a lieutenant
i the eighth cavalry.
—Paul Boy ton, the man-fish, plunged
into East river on Wednesday last, clad in
a swimming suit, and profiled himself
several miles among floating cakes of iee.
When he landed on his return, his uniform
was coated with ice.
—Hon. O. H. Platt is a representative i
the legislature, from Meriden, and chair
man of the house committee on state pris
ons. He is a republican, and it is said a can
unify and solidify the entile republican
party in Connecticut/*
—General Longstrect’s salary as postmas
ter of Gainesville, Ga.. will be $1.100a year,
which sum, the Petersburg (Va.)Index*Ap
peal ?ays, is more allowing for the differ
euce in currency than he received as lieu-
tenant-general of the confederate states.*
—The sledge in which Napoleon crossed
the Alps is still doing duty at Luusatme, or
rather tliat in which he rode from Martigny
to Bourg St. Pierre. It is gayly painted and
its sides are ornamented with .victorious
eagles.
—Gulls along the southern New Jersey
coast have discovered a new trick for get
ting at the surf clatu. They seize it in their
talons and ascending a hundred feet let it
fall. Striking the beach, one-half of the
shell breaks and all tlie gull has to do is
turn it over and help himself to the clam.
—The Princess Louise on Tuesday night
entertained the Sunday-school scholars of
St. Bartholomew's church of Ottowa, at
Uideau hall. Her royal highness and the
ladies of the viceregal household served up
a sumptuous supper to the little ones, the
regular servants being dispensed with.
—A new synagogue, said to be one of the
finest of its kind in Europe, and costing
$220,000, exclusive of the grounds, has been
ojiened in Warsaw Instead of the Jews
flocking to Palestine, they arc sa : d to be
gatlieriug in large numbers iu the Russian
cities.
—A New Orleans dispatch says Miss Umise
Pomeroy, the actress, who was injured in a
railway accident near ShrevejKirt on tlie 10th
instant, is re|»orted by the attending physi
cian to be very low. Miss Stella Willis is
improving, and the rest of the company,
who were more .or less injured, have re
covered.
—The Rev.' Dr. Je*er, of Richmond, told
this story at his own expense: “Many
years ago an artless stranger, whom 1 casu
ally met. said to me, ‘1 hear von preach
every Sunday. You are the greatest
preacher 1 ever did hear/ ‘Ah/ said I
‘you have not, I suppose, heard Mr. M.
preach/ (At that time Xlr. M. was attract
ing great attention by his sermons.) ‘Yes/
he replied, ‘I have heard Mr. M. several
times. He is a great preacher; but he is
not so great a preacher as you are. You
have the mounifulest voice of any man I
ever did hear/ “
—The English papers recently announced
that General Roberts had held a durbar; and
thereupon the Parisian journals printed
telegrams to the effect that General Roberts
had captured and was holding the city of
Durbar. Which was like the telegram to a
Connecticut friend during the war. sent by
a gentleman in this city, to say that a
vive at a dinner that was to lte,had the i
necessary r gredient for a gu bo soup and
wonld bring it with him. The innocent
dispatch, “Stuart has taken Okra/ 1
promptly interpreted by an oj«eratorus news
of the capture of an important town by the
famous rebel raider.
—As usual when John A. Logan
office, his talented wife is now doing the best
work of his campaign for the Illinois
torship. Eight years ago this lady
rightfully given tlie credit fdr electing her
husband toe scat in the senate; two years
ago she worked hard, but it was against fate,
and all her tact and pkill were unavailing.
She is again In charge of the Logan head
quarters at Springfield, assisted by a daugh
ter, quite as pretty and very nearly as skill
ful a politician as the mother. An obstinate
legislator who falls into these fair hands has
got to thaw out or retreat without unneces
sary delay, and there isn’t a reasonable
doubt that if Mrs. Logan were the candidate
for senator she would have an overwhelm*
»t g majority. Mr. Logan, however, is a very
* . -4 „ .» * .. . , . I through Patton Foster, who is Mrs. Whitte-
numbeitof the northern* people, notwithstand-1 pleasant agitation which is akin to fear, he I me y er ’ a brother, and Thomas Hulan. They
in g his conflict wiih Blaine. He was well regarded j niade no sign. Ive heard it said that all the l came to the sheriffs office* burning for
rare old army officer, was the same wav because Coroner Trebles, whom they wanted to hold
to some of his disappointmento in that emphulie I t j iev Wft3 bred t Q it. When they jined the I
rhetoric which he has in his portemanteau and I . , ,, , . . I was very meagre, and to the following ef-
sUn£ around without much notion of how it I army, it was i»art of the bargain that some I feet;
hurts. Just now the condition of Georgia and I ^ t b cre was bound to be a collisioit be-I Yesterday morning, about 9 o'clock, Pos-
SH^UnraTra th?^SS’tt3;^r“Smof tween something dangerous and their cor- < er ami » friend went over to the h«u»e,and
saga, Tute/have ^2"^ tEderey’ Porosity, «"d «hi. idea got to be a matter of ,“!££^Se^X wwJS^er /S
to run to personal leadership, and the best thing 1 course, and it wasent genteel nor military 1 his wife, both dead. Blood was spattered
Wr^rerouSra^PtSreStotoe «> dodge it if they cou.d_i„ fact, it wasent "ete^dotoinjThraeor fourlante
hitow.y»uSlcpoU« rUSe •“ »«ry d.shgreeable th.ng to d.e for ones ^d an ran
torn any puouc policy. | country> al ,d os for losing an eye, or a leg, j and her infant child was lying upon
that this combination will finely swluK tl
called IndopendeiiU into line with thin
national issues. They declare that such r. result I the —
Ls logically Inevitable, and that it will certainly I tr ra nd, gUx
add Georgia to the Jacobin column in November I ® u ij ar: a *
^M^i^7irt3taS W ’nntoSiS!fSS« had to be font, for though there was sur I the scene and1 returned to thecity last night,
in our s'ate, and bv men who seem to ba unusually I peons and preachers enough h»okin on. I a reporter obtained the following statement
well-in formed aa to the iuside of political and per^ I there were no seconds to see it fout fair 1 concerning tlie tragedy:
" ‘ j—i- have it honorably adjusted. Of course I Having been called id the neighborhood
that the first CT»ck to theirooi ffie ‘‘solid *on^ i it wafl ljaturai they'should ruminate over | on business, Mr. Brown arrived at Clees
Si’S* I their chances with agood deal of interest. | ferry about 11 o’clock yesterday morning,
what I do know, and whatour people ought even 1 But Tige, old Tige—he never ruminated. 1
to face, that thr ' *" * ‘ *" ’
presentid wld a full sute ob dose 'fore Friday pile
an* looks fer er six-year-ole darkey ter boun’ dc
Unhid States an’ «ay de 'mancerpashun prockly-
“Then you want education to regulate him it-
■elfr
“Dal’s ’bout hit! Ef dey's so fulanfropick es
Like all groat inventions, the incite- | m *^ up b * ck ’ ard * har ^ ’ fore de raumfs out!”
raent of the electric current to light has f
its foundation in despair and death. The
first i«tent ever granted for an electric I dey sea, let ’em jess sen’ down de munney an'
light was applied for in England in 1845.1 dereselb oaten de ring. Wbenebber eddika
* shun ar* fix’d no dat hit Jess sokes inter de nigger
- I nacber’ly he’ll ’gin ter blossom out rite, but dis
Cincinnatian. His plan was very simple. !„•<* puttin' sr born.' tw nuke leerre wither
He simply proposed to illuminate con-! when be gits out to devrurV! Eddikadtun, yer
mought er notic’d, don’t cum ter er nigger on de
Ugbtnto’ ’spress tranel”
J^The lecture thus wisely concluded, the curtain
tinnous strips of metallic and carbon
conductors by a rapid transmission of
electric currents over their surface. He I waarungdown.
also proposed to heat conductors by the
same method. He explained his patent
to Mr. George Peabody, who advanced
the yonng American money with which I
to complete his projects. His first expo
sition of the method was to build a metal
FOSTSCP.JPT.
Noeth Carolina will add-Yaoce to the
Thx remains of Schuyler Colfax arrived
and ate dinner in Chicago the other day.
. .. . It is not expected tliat Major Reno's char-
tree, which l.sd twcnty-sixbnmch«,e^, „ rUle rautt-umttWuow
one being named for one of the states, | trying him In Chicago.
:md tipped by an electric light covered by Sxckktakt Schcrz ought to go to Texas,
a glass globe. The lights worked perfectly, I That is the only place where Phil. Sheridan won’i
and Professor Farradayand other eminent | pu I!, ue
scientists pronounced it a thorough
success. The young inventor j
went to h : 8 room in high spirits and was
Tonnd in his bed the next morning stark j the T«
The Berlin mission business is rather
lagging. Can it be that the patriot* of Ohio are
going to let this matter go by default?
Gove&xok Marks's inaugural address to
i legislature i
> one of the brief-
dead. The terrible tension on his brain
killed him—and thus the electric light
claimed its first victim.
_ For several years there were no further
cat and happiest of th*
LlECTEX A XT-Got KKXOR DoSSHEXXES is tO
receive the democratic vote for United States
renator in the New York legislature.
CosnacATios by means ot quartermaster
developments. Various experiments were j certificate* is what European countries facetiously
made, but no teal progress was scored. J forced foana.
There was always some defect in either
the generator or the light. The possibil
ity of applying it to practical purposes
does not seem to have been considered
until within^ the past few years. The
first public streets ever lighted by elec
tricity was the Avenu de l’Opera in
Paris. These lights were put on at about
the opening of the international ex
position. Tlie city of St. Petersburg at
once adapted them for the lighting of its
streets. Two globes of electric light have
lately been placed at the Billingsgate
wharf in London, and while there are
some needful modifications, the general
result is perfectly satisfactory, and the
light famished is really splendid. The
river is flooded for a long distance with
an enchanting glow, and with a few ad
ditional globes can be made as light as
day. The surest test to which the electric
light has been pot is in the printing of-
THEaraeer must have been snowed up
fluriuc the late cold spelL We have beard noth
ing of him since new year’s.
Bonanza Macket, having saved Senator
Jones from bankruptcy, ought now to hire a
French cook for him.
Senator Ben Hill is said to look like
Unde Joey MediU. If this is true. Senator Hffl
deserves the fullest sympathies of the country.
The Ohio legislature to trying to pass a
bfll to punish bribery in the nomination and
election of public officers. Is this a covert blow
at the rights of del tn political conventions?
Tux Young Men's Library association of
Atlanta is doinc a noble work for Georgia in col
lecdng authentic and aeeuml* portraits of her 11-
Logan, lias succeed ad in capturing the
caucus nomination for the senate In Illinois,
he is aa anti-Hayes man tt may do good to have
John to the senate awhile.
Eli Perkins has discovered a remedy for
drunkenness. It to unfortunate that he could not
fice of the London Times, as is well known
the two chamber* into harmony, and * ' the setting of type is the most trying of ing
— of the ministry of M. exercises, and demands a perfect, steady
one at high noon to the public road.
Old man Foote has entrenched himself,
seemlnaiy. securely to the New Orleans mtot-
an asylum for Hayes’* “old-line whig*.” the buUd-
w The* ferry was stopped, but i>eraons were put
tt danger I knew be dident, for one day as we were I across the river by the ferryman by means
wise and resolute | ^ten on the bank* of Hazel river the ever- J of In crossing the mer he was told
lasten Yankee* were behind a mountain on I of the murder which had occurred the night
the other aide, and every now and then I before. Being a magistrate of the County,
. tliey sent a sizzon shell over among us to I Mr, Brown considered it his duly to go to
Mr. Rogers, chamberlain white hotwe, I keep us reminded of the devil and his at;- I the place aiui hold an inquest. He *ccured
oPthe^tlakta I g*-‘I*- old Tige was a lying down under the J a horse aodstarced for Whittemeycr's house,
Co n sr NTrh(Tan’thOTf »f that street poem. I shade of a tree, and while we were all a I three miles distant, and arrived there about
•• win the Summer Come Again?” was now living | chatten and our hors- s a croppin the grass, | a*, hour latter. Tpon his arrival he found
In comparative neglect. Mr. Uayre read the poem I a stray bumb dropped down among us like | Justice M. S. fraig of tliat district had al
and wiping from his immuwi 1 a thunderbolt and busted. Not a fragment I ready organized a jury and was making a
sndHtcniry mei^Sreafter ”” Before^ nlgffhe I touched us, but a piece about as Mg as a I thorough examination of the premises, the
telegraphed to Mr. Small offl-ringhim the position | Mexican dollar took the ginenil’s horse I toshe* having been removed by the jury to
of keeper of the seals iu Alaska at a salary of H'JO I right stjuare in the head and killed him. I cooling boards.
per ttuuuin. The colonel, upon investijmtijm, I That was the only time I ever saw' him I Justice Brown did tint make a personal
I ,nai1 reason. Language tvas used I examination of the wounds, but was told
in tvere \?ar and that the only p*totabl?drink 1 that to too numerous to mention. If it ever | that tlie man received a heavy blow ovci
up there that would stand the temperature waa I occurred to him that old Tige had made a I tlie head with what was believed to be the
the broiu-destroyiug “ Hoochinoo,” invented by I narrow escape nobody knew it.and our regret I |»«»le of an axe. The right side of the face
iich C ”*11e io «*"tnxrr°H»v^*h1 was that if such maledictions was oblige<l | and the right eye wore terribly mangled,
declination, --—_—. .
ferred to make less money and sing htt songs. —. .. . • .. , . . .
where the cypress and the vine sadly wave and I ceive em. About tlie same time one of lit* I the left side of her face and entire jaw was
where a linen duster could be utilized all the year I men had an arm broke by a spent ball I crushed; the other ami was also severely
round. I while he was a lying down, and a fool doc- | bruised, looking as if tlie man had been
ThA ______ _* «_ I tor who had just been assigned for duty to I killed, and the woman, on being awakened
Tn * * ‘ * * I one of the regiments cut it off and bungled I wa-* caught by the arm and had made re
.... „ I it up and it broke lose agaitt and the poor 1 sistauce. The two small children, one. i
Washington Special to Baltimore Gazette. I fellow* was about to bleed to death, ana Dr. I year and a-hulf and the other three, vears
The congressional delcmition that accompanied I Miller was sent for and had to cut it off [ old, were untouched, and another child, five
ot'Se ‘W 3 ”' hi .K 1 ' i , r U P. and! think between th«l yean, old lmd Moved with iu grandmother
a omvlm-ingargument against the claim that the I blunderin doctor and the medical board I that night. Justice Brown also heard the
negroes of Georgia are bulldozed or dissatisfied. | that sent him there and the yankees who 1 evidence of a brother of Mr. Whittcroeyc-
Theeutirenilorudpopulation turned outtowitness I killed lito horse old Tige that dav nnd night I a boy nine years of age. The bo.
i h m ^ f i h - I wore out all the worst words in the dictionary I staled to the jury that about 7 o'clock Unit
Sade request t/*tbe-committee o?m- and ri ht »»"»« tiiata never been compiled, morning lie Had gone to Mr. Whittcmeyrr’
rangcmeni.** that they be aflowed to participate. I 1 rememlwr as how at another time when | house, and, the dour being cIommI, li
The request was gntnte«l at once, and the troops I his headquarters was at the Price house be-1 merely pushed it open and went in. He
turned out armed and in full uniform, and made I i uW Richmond just a day or so before the 1 walked ,u» the fire-place, where he stood
lffi%i.lh iJiii & I Llg fight with McLellan, old Tig, savs he, I fora few minutes, and thinking the people
i for htt'wlti^nd U Sro ride round to the olher end of were nzlccp, he went to work and made
children. | the hue and see how the land lays, for the I lire for them. After building the fire, h
devil will be to pay here soon and we must I sister came down to the house, and finding
know* what we are about.” So we pale nnind 1 them still in bed, she w'aiked over to it and
. with the curve of the woods al>out three I pulled the cover back nnd discovered that
Agnra Jenks'ssoliloquy over the political corpse I miles, and after the general was satisfied he I tbev had both been murdered. The two
Lt—* nsu «#.n I remarked, carelessly ^“Its three miles found | children were still asleep. So terrified was
The community of Macon was terribly
shocked on Thursday afternoon by the in
telligence tluit Colonel R. NY. Jem toon, an
old and respected citizen and city-attorney,
had taken his own life at his family a|»art-
ments, near the comer of Second and Cher
ry streets. The Telegraph. and Messenger
brings tlie sad details at length, from which
we quote:
THE VATAL SHOT.
About two o’clock those near the comer
of Cherry and Second streets were startled
by the report of a pistol, the sound of
which came from the stairway leading to
the apartments of Colonel JcutUon and fam
ily. Several rushed up the stairway im
mediately and uime face to face with death.
The unfortunate gentleman was lying on
his back in the i*assage-way, on which
the suite of . rooms o|>ened. lie
was stretched at full length, one
foot drawn slightly up, one hand across his
breast, and the other lower down the body.
From each side of his head, from two
ghastly orifices, where tlie bullet had plowed
its i*ath, the blood and brain were oozing,
and had formed a large pool on the floor.
Under bis left foot, almost concealed, was a
silver-mounted Derringer pistol. The bsnly
lay with the head toward the street en
trance. Respiration had not quite ceased
when he was reached, and he was removed
to his bedroom and expired in about twelve
minutes, unconscious after the fatal dis
charge.
CAUSE or THE RASH DEED.
It seents that Colonel Jemison has been
some time in bad health ami impercep
tibly reason has been losing its sway. This,
however, was not noticeable by hto mast in
mate friends at tlie time. He lias been
melancholy and depressed for some time,
although, to outward appearances,that flow
of spirits which marked tiie man was not
wanting, and to within an hour of his death
he was telling pleasant anecdotes to his
friends. Yesterday he partook of a very
slight dinner, rose suddenly from the table
and walked into the hall. Here he drew
the pistolfrom his pocket, and without any
premonition to hto tricuds fired. Mrs. Jeim-
son, who turned to look as she he, rd the re-
port, saw him fall and immediately rushed
to his assistance, and was the first to reach
his side. She has regarded him as partially
deranged for a week or more.
ms son's testimony
different kind of a man.—Philadelphia
Tunes.
—On leaving school, Gambetta betook
himself to the study of the law. and in 1859,
in his twenty-first year, he was duly called
to the Paris bar. At twenny-eight he was still
briefless, but confident of his own i*owers.
At last his chance came. Retained to de
fend many of the victims of political per
secutions, the defense of Defescluze, the
editor of the Rcveil, waa intrusted to him.
He forgot hto client, but he overwhelmed
the empire with an irresistible i*owcr of in
vective. “Bench, bar and audience were
spell-bound. The daring advocate proceed
ed without Interruption to the end of hto
scathing impeachment of the government,
ami when at last he sat down, exhausted and
dishevelled, it waa felt by all that a new
and incalculable force had oeen introduced
into the politics of France. Next morning
the orator of the Cafe Piocone awoke ami
Ion nd himself famous. Desuny had clearly
marked him for a great statesman, and * I
told you so’ was on every Bohemian lip.”
Among the wedding presents which
Princess Tliyra received, the most costly
was a complete garniture of diamonds from
the emperor of Russia; the most beautiful,
a jewelry case from Danish ladies; the
most curious, an enormous kringle, or
wedding-cake from the baker apprentices
of Copenhagen. The jewelry case consists
of a rectangular box, made of silver inlaid
with gold and emaille, mounted with bands
of sapphires, and bearing on tlie top of the
lid the name of the princess in large
diamonds. The box rests on the necks of
four dragons with diamond eyes and teeth,
and ugly enough to frighten away any thief
who might approach tbesbrine. The Kringle
was brought to the plaee an hour before the
wedding by a deputation of five young
entered the room in her bri<
subdued, but nevertheless audible excla
mations she answered with a quick little
laugh, and promised the baker-* that the
kringle should be served the next morning
at her break fast-table, and. according to old
Danish custom, every one belonging to _ her
news household should have a piece of it.
What tire Corbin Contest Weans.
Washington Special to Baltimore Gazette.
Within the next few days, possibly to-morrow,
unless antagonized by Senator Anthony’s de
mand for the calendar under his Tuesday reso
lution. the committee on elections will again pre
sent the Bntl?r-Cnrbin i-ane in a report r.rh'g
the rest n Corbin on the merits of the
this will bring to a head a srheme that has t«e.i
developing for some months in the brains of the
shrewdest radicals in the senate. It invoices
nothing leas than a possible control of that br<dr
in 1*1- The figures sre rather startling and it
closely analyzed it will be found that they pre-
— ; features to rive the democrats unesJd-
This was tlie shrewdest Ohio man of all.
All the conspirators, save only he.
Let their iu« cars stick through their lion’s skin,
And were content to \«ocket trities. _
He, only, itruck the Comstock lode ofllaycs-s tltev cant hit us a ruilniit,
favor. ■
And. in the common greed oi gain, made
them
His life was “crooked,” and the elements
So mixed in hint that if Daiqe Nature kuoW
One-teuth of that which I knew of bis share
Stand up and Kay to all the world.
but only one mile across this open field to 1 the boy at the sight tliat he could tell
the Price house; then yunkce batteries arc I nothing more. Mr. Marcus, an intimate
a grinnin at us. but lets give em a dare, for J friend and neighbor, had been there before
cant hit us a runnin.” He never give I the girl, but, seeing the sheet spread over
y time to discuss tlie propriety of the 1 the bed, he thought that Mr. Wnittemever
thing, hut away he went, and our horses I was outat hto barn, Mr. Whittemeyer mi’lk-
before the coroner's jury gives the affair its
true explanation, doubtless:
“ Mr. S. H. Jemison sworn, nnd says that
he know the pistol to be one that he had in
ltis iHwsession ten or twelve months. It has
been in tlie drawer of his bureau for tlie last
four or five weeks. I noticed that it was
gone out of my drawer on last Tuesday or
Wednesday, and made inquiry of mother
and the jiers-ons about the house as to where
it was, stating tliat it did not belong to me,
but was a Inirrowed one, and for that reason
l was especially concerned about its being
misplaced, and stated that it belonged to
Sam. Townslcy. Her an wer was in sub
stance tliat, l need not give myself any
trouble about it, as Townslcy understood
where it wan. I wok not especially concerned
about it. He had been particularly dis
turbed about tity recent difficulty, and I
thought he had only taken it out of my
drawer, thinking that he hod thereby re
lieved roc of a temptation to comroit vio
lence upon some person. This 1 think was
purely in imagination, as were many things
which I have noticed in the recent past.
[Pistol was shown witness.] If this is tho
pistol found lying by hint, I have not tho
slightest doubt that the result was the. work
of hisown hand. I know of nolivingcrea-
tttre of any age or sex, of any race or color,
of any shade of political opinion, who en
tertains the least animosity toward him,
and I can't supjHise for a moment that any
person sought to take his 4ife further than
himself. For a considerable time he has
been morbidly morose, and beyond
any question, to tny mind, non compos
mentis. I know of no reason other than
tlie ordinary vexation of life tliat could
contribute to bring about this mental con
dition. For forty years l have always under
stood, and since 1 have been old enough to
remember, I have known of niyown knowl
edge that he has l»ecn the most terrible
sufferer from that fright ful disease, dyspep
sia, tliat I have ever kno.vn or heard ef.
• fifteen or sixteen years it has been a
complete mystery to roe bow he ever lived.
Witness descrilvctl the manner in which the
deceased was aficcted.”
After the evidence was considered the
jury made up the following verdict:
We, the jury, find that Colonel R. W. Jem bon.
r! MC nsm, UIIU uur lioracs I mMuu»Bn*wuniii, .'ll. 11 uiiiciucici I
| were followin as fast as they could before I ingi and only the children in bed.
; had time to think about it. Well, them j therefore, left the house without liecomiug wound through hto head, flred by his own hand.
yankce guns wasent four hundred yards I aware of the crime. The cxaiuinaiit
front the line we rode, and shore enough 1 the premises by the jury showed tliat the
they opened lire and shot at us every step I h>P bureau drawer was open. Whittemev-
o! the way. The cauuou balls whizzed over | era pocketbook lay open and empty. H«
[ us, and behind as, and plowed up the ground I had been to town on Saturday and obtained,
| all around us. but our time hadent come to I it is said, from $65 to $100 and placed it it
step down and out that way. I dout know I this pocketbook. A new overcoat, which
- . -----— ----- . for serttn that a man can shrink up and get 1 he had purchased on Saturday, and ft hla i
thiTffi iSSoF? k** 11 1 smaller under tryin emergencies, hut I’ve I dress coat were the only things missed fro i
"V 1 Mkior Ayer l. wk eJ a <!>« tow. All iron wedge and *veml tarj.il
A ?Ia«l Ifoosier Bearing Down on
Chlcngo Times.
Some shrewd heathen in Hoosterland thinks I for aertin that
I flicks were found in the house, but there
hath made him mud.
beside himselfwith the’ joy ofhib^d-1 little thinner in that ride than I had
' the pulpit. Much honor | known him, and as for myself it was the I was nothing to show that tiiey^ had been i
4 ast time l went foolin along after old Tige ] used in the tragedy. No bloody instrument
on his recognizances, as he called * ' 1 * " -
Old Tige was wliat vo
call
Ia Generally Bead.
Cummlng Clarion.
1J4 . . ,, _ _. a — exemplary soldier,
rtMtad*.S£2SI. *» .»•»*
wcajHin of any kind was found, and that
might I with which the murdererdid the deed must
1 have been carried off, thrown in the river or
otherwise disposed of. Two large axes and
CoxwrrcTios. Tho only dllftciiltyalioittitlztiiM like Havelock or Stonewall Jackson, bat lie oneomall one were found, but there w
His 80 generally Trad that one h*s to fight a lit'le \ was always ready to obey orders. When | mood on
. came front headquarters lie ne. .
criticised or questioned, but went righ
I strait to executin. If they cotue in th<
either of them. After the mur
derer had completed hto work of death,
washed hto hands iu a basin, and le.t t
blood-stained water in it. He also stopped
the* storm, it was I to eat some preserves, as two half etup
t ^ ( 1 night, or in the rain, . b .
Tn. th. Bii.r 1 * 11 tiie same. He never grumbled, imt I jam were found on the table.
Jninever“wtaSiM ™“ scd “P the »«<« Uibv was just like . The house ini which Whittemeyer lived
ijenend SJierman at the time he marched through I him—always ready and always willen. He | a rude log cabin, with one small window
Georgia that he bad far better go around. i »—ri ’ • 1 ““** “— - ,J '— L: * * •— -
, .A Complete Family Paper.
Conyers Examiner.
The Atlanta Constitution is a complete fam
ily paper. It is edited with skill, and tt one of
had no patience with a commander who I an <* ® large, old-fashioned fire-place, with a
demoralized hto troop* by raising issues * J - 1 - *
with a superior officer. One day a brigadier
r newsiest journals.
Growing In Popularity.
Miulisou Madisonian.
The Constitution Is one ot our best daily
changes, and is growing in popularity every day.
A Great Newsgatberer.
Carroll County Times.
Tiie Constitution takes the lead among aouth-
ern newspapers for its enterprise in gathering
broad shed used as a kitchen. It stands
. near the top of a high hill, with a rail fence
coroe along and says. “General, what’s your | enclosing it, and to within three hundred
opinion about this squabble we’ve got into | yn^s of the house of Mr. Foster, the father
with General Lee?” “Wnat squabble,” says I of Mrs. Whittemeyer, and a similar dtotauce
Tige; “I didn’t know* that sort of a thing] from the residence of Mr. Bloomsteiu. The
could be did.” “Why, the issue whether | °»dy furniture iu the 1 house is an ordinary
tlie companies sliall elect their own officers ] cottage bedstead^* bureau, a table, chairs
carpet. The
to fill vacancies, or do they go up by
:-1 motionT* “I’ve no opinion aliout *it,'
i the floor, and the
BUGLER AND DAVIS.
Ben. Tell* Why He Voted Firty.i
Times for JelL In the Charleston
Convention.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The following letter was received a
days ago by a gentleman of this city:
Boston, Mass., January 5, 1879.—Dear
Sir: I do not know as I ought to tvrite y
to decide a bet, because you ought not to
het. Rut to set you right in a matter of
history in which you seem to be interested,
allow me to say that in the democratic con
vention at Charleston, South Carolina, in
the year 1860.1 voted fifty-seven times, as I
says Tige; “I never have an opinion in the | twin was in a disordered condition,
face of a general order from my superior | the circumstances point to a negro
officer.” | named Knox Martin m* tlie
Well, I knew that he was saved for some |
good purpose, or he would have been killed j
forty times and over, according to the cal-1
culation of chances, gnd I’m glad lie’s in a ] .... :—•
position to make himself useful and provide ( **5
| lor his family. Our heroes cant all be the murder of W hittemeyer and
Special dtojiatch to Tbe Constitution.
Nashville, January 17 —Knox Martin,
caused by temporary mbeirattoQ of mind.
SKETCH or THE DECEASED.
Robert W. Jemison was horn on the 21st
of April, 1820; was reared in this county
and educated at Ogleihorjie university,
bearing off the first honors of his class;
shortly afterwards he was married in Bald
win county and removed to Monroe county,
and afterwards to Ouehita parish, Louisiana,
where be practiced laxv and attended to a
large planting interest until his entire prop
erty was swept away by the effects of the
late war. Atter the close of the war he re
moved with hto family to this city; liecatne
senior partner iu the practice of his pro
fession with the late Captain Samuel Hun
ter, the father of Captain Hunter having
married the widow of Henry Jemison.
Mr. R. W. Jemison lias pursued tlie
practice of law since his residence here,
and has been the attorney of tlie city for
the last four years, and was recently elected
to the same office by the present council
for the next terra of two years. Colonel
Jemison was in his sixtieth year. While
he resided in Louisiana he* was a large
planter, and always took a i active and in
terested iiart ' in politics. He always
stumped lito district for tlie democracy, and
cauvusssd north Louisiana with Hon. Ju
dah 1*. Benjamin when Wickliffe waa
elected governor of that slate.- He was so
licitor-general of his circuit for two terms.
He was a member of a number of state con
ventions. and was also register of the land
office under President Buchanan. The re
mains will be taken to Milledgcville for in
terment. The city council of Macon will
pay suitable honor to the remains and mem
ory of their late associate.
THE FEDERAL FOCUS.
wife.
even a life insurance I Cincinnati, January Id—A dispatch from
when tk/ »■**,!? ^ | Dutre.t says there is some ezeite,pent there
the number of cases of infanticide
J govenora and members of congress. But a
umrehal'a place or even a life insurance
agency to dignified when they accept it.
in, and their
few I buck rations threwd i
FOREIGN FLASHES.
iritl. I w ' u " ,u "t-”* rewuiiy, isuruig me
if wfT dont I twenty-four hours the bodies of five riew-
’ I Wn infants were found In various quarters
uu art. of to wn in a«h barrels and barns. In one
case a dead babe was found in a snow-bank
i a principal street.
Weston’* Great Walk—English News- | „ PWnnrtLLE. Pa., January 16. —Martin
Ttie Ht earns hip Constitution. I * ier R n was hung at 10:40 to-day, for the
4--T n.-KUward
Weston has wagered Sir John Astlcy £100 I nineteenth Molly Maguire bung for ruur-
to £500 that he (Weston) would walk 2,0001 d" *» this state.
remember it, for Jefferson Davis, of Missis-1 miles in 1,000 hours on the public roads of! Washington, January 10.—The signal
sippi, afterwards president of the confed-1 Eneland He will take tl.e Muitli I cor ( w at Kitt y Hawk station reports the
crate states, * as candidate for ‘ < <? Captain Habeiy, owned bv
the democratic party for presi-l England, passing around the coast to Com-1 George F. Yewel, from Wilmington, N. C’.,
dent He was not before the I wall and back to London. He will not I loaded with naval stores, bound to Ham-
convention as a candidate, for my vote and I w *ig on Sunday. He agrees to deliver a lec- I burg, sunk seventeen miles south of Kittv
tliat of one of my colleagues were the only I 5 _ ■ - , , , . , I H»r fc —» • L - fri *
ones he hod. I believed him to be a n V rl I f ure ,n * ach P nn<3 I‘* 1 town through which she
of tlie srmtb, and subsequent I be passes. This requires a little over fifty I aih<
repre
sentative man of the south, and subsequent
events hav* shown that I was right And 1
believed then, and believe now, that if he
could bave been nominated for president
and elected, the war would have been saved,
ahd the attempted disunion prevented, for
he would bave been chosen to be president
over thirty-two states, rather than fifteen,
and my experience has been that the north
always got more consideration on questions
of human liberty from a southern statesman
as president before the war than it did from
a northern doughface, and that remains true
down to the present time.
Benj. F. Butler.
and 1 independent, Senator Da-rfs,
of Illinois. If the Mat aboukl be riven to Corbin
tt would stand 41 democrats. ** republican* and
l Independent, making adamortaiic majority of
fioverall. In 1881 tbe temsof Bruce, Randolph,
Eaton. Kenan. Wallace and Thurman, among
tbe rart. will expire. The refoW Irani- of course,
coated* a democrat in th* ptaoe of Brew, but
that is all they do concede. “You see.” said one
of tbe most prominent to-rtsy to tb* G
respondent, “we propose to coxrjtbe
dency and to secure tbe tori
year In Ohio. Pennsylvania, Jl
i« xt preri-
Tbe Case of Hr. Land, of Forsyth.
On the loth iust. Mr. II. J. I-and, former
marshal of Forsyth, was arrested in this
city u;*on instructions from Mayor .Leary,
of the former town. The facts at hand at the
moment were meagre, and in the form pub
lished failed to properly present the trans
action which was tlie cause of Mr. Land’s
detention. In justice to him we present
the facts as they are avouched to ua.
Mr. Land was marshal of Forsyth and his
term of office expired on Friday last. He
left the city the same day and cannot be
said to have deserted hto duty. He had
during the week collected some money for
the town council and lost it, and he left
Forsyth and came to his friends to borrow
the sum necessary to cover this lost. The
council knew of this deficit, but as Mr.
Land had left Forsyth at the end of a pre
vious term and quickly returned and was
reappointed, nothing was at first thought of
hto a!««*:icc. When he did not return the
rext night, however, as promised, becan-e
of mix-ins th»* train, the mayor and council
out of abundant caution liad Mr. (.and de
tained here in'Atlanta until the matter was
iu shape for explanation. The affair is
thoroughly understood, we believe, by the
S ies in interest and has been fully ad-
ed. The council had reappointed Mr.
d for a third term on the day he left
home. This statement of facts is given to
do justice to all parties concerned.
neetieut and New learj. -’•ref*
have reached its proper destiny. Jc^rw^onlyelectodby OMmaJaritr. and tbe *>_P, ure . anu smJD S
Old Subsidy Pomeroy has gone to work legfalaiure now to orerwhebaJagty republican; go quired for its purpose.
—There’s one article no good grocer to ever
without, and the public demand it inces
santly. We speak of Doolet’s Yeast pow
der, long since determined to be the best of
its kind. All bread, biscuit, rolls, cake, etc.,
made from it are nutritious, healthy and
delicate. Another thing to be remarked to —
«nin New ^ iat t * ,e 01113 weight, and the now- coroe to Berlin for the o|«niug of the reich
r and tee d"so pure and strong, that leas of it (a re- stag they will be expelled in virtue of the
r - —f—»*-«• existing state of siege.
Hawk on the 15tli. The crew were saved.
She was in a Linking condition and run
. ashore. She is now sunk about three hum
miles n day for six daya each week. If Wes-1 d f *d y*rd« from the beach.
is «strong ss wh e n be tramped from Ue KIIImI chrtdrra u. Wool,
Maine to Chicago, tt is thought he may get I Babbit*
He^ttarted'frum tUe‘’loyoi ExchattmTtivc 1 The rnsn who said he committed nine
journey is to Folkestone, a distance of'81 ■<« Omaha Bee,of Ueccenlier W:
mil.ee. The judges travel in a conveyance.
He passed through Chatham at8;30 </clock I STS-J 1 '. and tI / e P rwba * >, * ,, y
a. m. when it was snowing heavily. Earlv I S*??^SV ,r ? T ^ expectaUoii, he
this morning rain fell but the atmosphere I 'i * m 'i if a**” 1 , , ln
becoming colder it turned to lislf frozen I tiie vicuuty of ;Ue
sleet, and about 9 o’clock this gave place to SllEriS r *? tlo "u for
snow, which continued falling heavily I ***• cborcbes together. Ail
rhronghout thu morning. Traffic in id | ^Stal
terview the prisoner. The jail where he
apparently uninjured. $o damage. She ( f „ !w 225° ry ftt ° ne
will sail in a few days for New York. T?i rfUSir £5F\f«. t*
St. I'ZTEfcrai aa, Jinaary 18._The Agence J'‘f »!‘vnn;qnd.hUtarmfr occupy the .,-c
Ruste says the po>p<*sal to extend the func-1 ^ P ^MoL n, i a fT uM
tions of the commission for the organiza- ,\<u,rn W »nA ba^I’ tVU
tion of es.tean Roumelia ha, received the I T} -
assent of all the pokers, and that and. pm- mmriv tor L^reaW {S/*
longation does not constitute a violation of 1 _j» in „ ,M
the treaty of Beriin. The Kasdan ndmh -* - Cavil ?- ironed ,n a f «'e feet by W ven
totratfon of the government o
nielia is thus prolonged till
organization by the comtniwiion arc
eluded.
The Middlesboro, Rosedale and Ferry Hill
company have failed. Liabilities, £270.000
ts, £350,000.
feet. He seems cheerful and cor it.-
with any one w!m» will talk with hi
act* its if he cared nothing about his awful
crimes. It may be remembered that about
a year or so ago Nixon.alias Underwood.one
of the Big Springs Union Pacific express
The United Sutra .hip Constitution tal *“ co, “ iwd «" th “ i oil
making three inches of water tier hour. I ■,* .f' *_
n i cur. ior.lt oronirris* lltn ft.tit \fri.irtatt A I _ — 1 *
Jail at the same time was Mrs.
| Harlson’s husband, who was waiting trial
for stealing lumber. One morning both
-•~»r>neni were miwdnp. Imving wrspctl by
ving through the cell-doors, which were
made of heavy Uuler iron, aud afterward
rf, a Vi,.f i.»« va I “wing through the iron hars of the win-
_, ril 3 w7rd h if.if I dow "* Bichards now states that he helped
ward Mathew Ward.^ painter, cut his men to escape, and furntohed them
with saws and pistols. Hartoon has ever
since been afraid to come home, and
bis wife and children were compelled
to be alone, thereby becoming an
easy prey to Richards, who also -states
that at the time he killed Mrs. Hartoon and
her children breakfast had been prepared.
After he killed them he scrubbed the blood
marks from the floor, then washed hto hands,
ate his breakfast, and went to Hastings on a
visit. He stated that he cared no more for
killing the children than if they had been
youngjack rabbits. He waived preliminary
examination. It to likely Judge Gadin wifi
hold a .special term of court immediately for
his speedy trial
Divers will examine the hull Monday,
considerable quantity of chain cable had
to lie jetsainea before she floated.
Stockholm, January 18.—The brain
fief of the Gottenbc-iger commercial
paiiv has suspended payment.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Rerun, January 19.—The Post (semi-offl*
rial) in an article upon the commercial dis
tress in England, after enumerating the re
cent success of England in her foreign pol-
*To maintain her rank In the
world, she must now enter upon a commer
cial struggle- Protective agitation has
already commenced in England.”
Other journals state, under reserve, that
soon as the socialist democratic deputies
Proceeding* In the Iloa*e—The Gen
eva Award Bill-Bed Cloud** Arrival
—Department Moles.
THE HOUSE.
Washington, January 18.—The house re
sumed as the regular order of husiness the
Geneva award bill. After considerub.e de
bate, at half |iast five it was passed bv a vote
of yeas 113 and nays 93. The bill as )»o«ed
revives and continues the court of conunis-
sioners of Alabama claims, fixes the num
ber of judges at three and limits its exist-
«>>« to eighteen months. First-class claims
will be for damages directly done
by confederate cruisers on the
high seas, although within four miles of
shore. In cases5of whaling vessels, ten
menus heretofore rendered in favor c.
ing vessels; that the second class claims
be for additional interest cm former judg
ments, and on all judgments hereafter ren
dered the interestallnwedtobeidx percent;
that the third class claims be for the pay
ment of premiums for war. rj*k8,jm<l de
ductions to be made of any sums paid back
in diminution of such premiums, so that only
actual loas shall be allowed. The secretary
of the treasury to directed to pay, and with
out further adjudication by anv court, the
10 per cent upon whaling vessels and tlieir
outfit, with six per cent, interest, and on
awards heretofore made, and also to pay two
I»er cent additional interest on all judg*
ment* heretofore made. Judgments ren
dered in the first class to be paid first, then
tbe second class.
If the money to not sufficient to pay all
of the second-class tliey will be paid pro
rata, and a like rule will atoo apply to the
third-class. No foreign horn person will
be excluded if he to residing or doing bus
iness in the United States or waa railing
under the United States flag. The act shall
not be construed as renewing or continu-
tiig any of the commissions of judges or
officers of the former court. Anv balance
remaining shall be a fund from
which congress may hereafter au
thorize the payment of other claims
thereon.
THE COMMITTEES.
The house committee on coinage, weights
ami measures ha* decided to prepare a bill
for tlie redemption of the trade dollar at
t^tr aud to prohibit any further circulation
in the United Stases. They have not de
cided whether coinage for ex)w>rt will be
permitted in future. Mr. Vance was au
thorized to report Air. Cummings's bill for
tbe redemption in legal tender of subsidi
ary silver and for the reissue thereof. Tho
house committee on foreign affairs held an
informal conversation on the Japanese in
demnity fund bill, hereto ore reported.
The committee will press the passage of the
Red Cloud arrived at Fort Robinson last
night. The Qgallalas request that all the
women and children now widows and or
phans held as prisoners be turned over to
them to take to tlieir homes and care for
th «?' ' J be request will be granted.
The house committee on printing has
agreed to report, with a favorable recom
mendation, the bill to reduce tbe expenses
of public printing and binding. The bill
provides that the regular documents to be
printed shall comprise the journals of the
two bouses, the president's messages, tho
annual reports proper of heads of depart
ments, together with such condensed state-
mem# as are absolutely necessary to explain