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CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1879.
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Washington, February 10.—The house ia
In committee of tlie whole on the legislative
•|»|»n»iiri*tlon hill. The point of order made
last night again*! the amendment offered by
M r.Hertart.of A latama, rer*al ing thejuron'
last oath, and regulating toe mode of draw
ing and llie i«y of jun»n, waa diMni.eed at
•owe length and overruled. Chairman
Blackburn, of Kentucky, deciding that it
wa* in older.
The committee then agreed by 127 to 83
to ii*e amendment offered by Mr. Herbert,
of Alabama, to the legislative appropri-
a ion hill fixing the pay and regulating the
luaiinr of aelecting juror* and repealing
the jurora’ teat oath.
Tlie question then amae ii|>on an amend
ment offered hr Mr. Southard, repealing
the section* which authorize the ap|*>int-
tuent of au|Merviwir* of election*. A long
and interesting detune followed. Mr. Hale
(Maine) and Mr. Garfield, both speaking f«>r
tlie republican party in the house, declared
every parliamentary
ro|MMea an
device to defeat the itmpmied amendment.
Tlie discussion was of an excited character,
a> .1 memijeni on both aide* earnestly de
clared their |rtirj*af to atand firm in their
views for or against the measure. As the dem
ocrats insist on its adoption tlie indication*
are iluii the hill will fail. Thla will ttreen-
•••air an extra a^ion. During the dehate
Mr. jW.ssi, of JlErJ York, rented the his
tory of the laws which were proposed to he
frjellnl. They were but a portion of a ae
ries of laws passed in order to keep the
southern stales asstij>cndinrie* of therepnh-
lim.i iwriy; that it had been intend, d for
the *oiitJi, it was now applied to the north.
The gentleman from Maine (Frye) a*-
auined to s|*eak for his |*rty. when he said he
Would resist by every means in his power the
repeal of these law-. He (Wood) could not
ape.ik for his |>arty, hut he could sjs nk for
one man when he said that he did not care
whut tautnie of the appropriation hiil*.
lie Indieved that it ws* a higher question
than tluit of the appropriation of money.
He could stay in the houm? as long a* any
gentleman, and the democratic party could
resist a- long as the republican |*arty. and
be would not consent to vote for a dollar
till this amendment should be engrafted
on the hill.
Mr. Garfield (Ohio) said that lie had not
aisdccn on the imini* of order because he
did not regard the question as one that was
lasing considered deliberately. Ordinarily
this was a hall of deliberation, but now
they were called on merely to register the
edict of a party caucus under the rule of a
person win was under orders to decide that
the amendment ratne in under the rule.
This remark mused an immediate explorion
of anger o » the democratic *ide and there
were calls to order and a demand that ob
noxious scnfenreM lie reduced to writing
ami read at the clerk’s desk, but Chair
man Black hum (Kentucky) ex-
presaed the wish that no jsiint of order
ahould Is* made,;hut that he, Blackburn,
ahotild lie |>crmtttcd to rescind, ami that
wish was acceded to. Mr. Garfield pro-
©ceded with his speech.exhibiting in its de
livery much feeling and detenuination. He
aaid: The chair will perfectly undersUmd
that I want no reflection on him persona’!y.
(Derisive laughter on the democratic side.]
What I meant to say is, when* a |«rty cau
cus resolves against the will of its own mi
nority that it-, whole party must act as one
manlier** without regard to it* opponents
In its own party, then it ceases to be free
deliberation and become* dictation from
outside, and not a deli Iteration of statesmen.
Mr. Bluekhurn having left the chair, ca ne
on the floor, and muling the objectionable
extract from Garfield's speech, asked the
latter if he still stood by that.
Mr. Garfield replied that the extract did
not show his full meaning; that all be said
and meant to-sy was that the dcnincrn ic
aide of the house, including the chairman,
was acting under moral durcas of caucus
dictation, and that in saying so he meant
nothing personal.
Mr. Blackburn then said he accepted tlie
explanation freely and ungrudgingly. He
denied, however, that he was acting under
any instructions from the caucus, ami staled
that he li.ul never seen or heard read the
amendments until they were presented in
committee, ami that no memlier was bound
by the action of the caucus. There wa
good deal of excitement throughout the
discussion. Mr Blackburn was frequency
apidauded on the democratic side, as Gar
field had been on the republican side,
fore the actual o|*eniug of the filibustering
proceedings, which ap|»car now to he inevit
able, the committee ro>e without action •
tlie amendment ami the bouae adjourned.
• THU • KNATK.
The senate passed the house bill to fix the
i»*> of letter-carrier*, and the senate l
Incorporate the 1’nited States railway
service mutual benefit association. The
senate then resumed the consideration
the peat-office appropriation bill.
When the Brazilian mail steamship sub-
aid v amendment was rrached a point **f
order was made. It was not germane to the
bill, bnt the senate decide*! ii was in onl -r
and anwaiderable discussi«»qjen»ucd, pend
ing which the senate adjourned.
BRISCOE’S RAISED CHECK ON TRIAL.
AUbwna, Kuril of North Carolina. Yocum "P\UIYT ftVR IVD SITV
of IVniMTlvMfa. and JoneaofTetraa. Tbe lHlAl V.UU Ail U OlA.
meeting ta arranged for the 22d in-t., and
waa determined upon at a convention of
green backers held in this city last Novem
ber. The leaders of the movement non
claim twenty-one members of the forty-
sixth oongrem, and the plan, it is said, is to
make a caucus nomination for speaker with
out regard to party politics, so as in hold
the balance of power in the organization of
the next congress. It is also dai rued that a
number of republicans will act with the
green backers, but the leaders of the party
are not anxlou-t to secure recruit* from this
side of the house, as they do not count 01
fight to weaken the democratic strength.
SOUTHERN EDUCATION.
WwHimiws, February 17.—Tlie Potter
committee met this morning. The chair
man laid before them the affidavit of Judge
11. t\ Ripley ami II. M. McIntosh. which
had l»een forwarded by Judge Cocke R»i*-
ley’s affidavit wa* to the effect that ove
morning during the sittings id the board «»f
state canvassers nt Ta'lnliiww, he called nt
the office of the attorney-general in the
state-house. He inct the attorney-general,
Hon. W. A. Cocke, at the door and he
seemed quite agitated. He stated to dene
nent that he had twi*e been to the office
of the secretary of state and
had (outul tlie door locked
on both occasions. While standing in front
of the secretary's thee they saw Governor
8teerna and Genar.il Noyes, of Ohio, con.#
out and walk acro-s to the governor's office.
At the time deponent wondered that ti e
E rernor and a citizen of a distant state
»uld he closete*l with the secretory of
state at the time unpointed for the meeting
of the returning t oar-1. McIntosh into:
poor* that lie was the Tallahassee corres
pondent of the Savannah News, and during
the canvasn of returns of the last preei den-
tial election he one day saw Judins
Cocke, one «f the three
bers of the returning hoard,
facing the door in front of the secretary
state's office in a nervous frenzy. In reply
to deponent's question, he said: "These
infernal scoundrels. Mcl.in and CowgUl, the
two other memlier* of the hoard, liave got
me locked out.” or words to «!»at effect.
McIntosh immediately afterward* saw
Governor Stearns, of Florida, and Governor
Noyes, of Ohio, leave the secretory’:
mom together. The affidavits were or
derrd to he placed on the record of ths
committee.
* ■JohnT. Coyle testified to his presence in
Florida, at the request of Colonel Pelton. 1
assist in obtaining the evidence that was
requisite to secure a truthful count.
ex|*ended shout ten thousand dollars, which
wa* used legitimately in procuring wit-
noses and in paving onlinary expenses.
Among the appropriation* made by the
general deficiency MU, as agreed upon by
the house committee, on Saturday, and
passed by the house to-day, are the follow
ing:
cor payment of the judgments of the
V idled States court of claims. $8,478,692.
For additional amount to be used in sup
pressing illicit distilling for the year 1879.
fcss.ooo.
For subsistence during 1879 of the sev
eral tribes in the Indian territory. #25,000
Tor expenses of the United States courts
for tlie year 187a. $1,100,006.
For payment of ihe traveling expense*
and general expenses of the army for the
fiscal year 1879, #700.000.
To supply a deficiency in theappropria
tions for tlie expensed of the District of
Columbia for the fiscal year, ending Jn e
Dr. Orr*e Addreaa Before the Liberal
and fVelentlfle Association.
Dr. Orr delivered his address on "the needs
of education in the south" Tuesday night in
the hall of the above-named association be
fore a select audience. In order to show
the educational work of the south before
the war he sketched the ante-bellum educa
tional history of Georgia, thus actingon the
latin motto, "ex uno, di>ce onnies." All
the ante-bellum constitutions of Georgia
contained liberal educational provisions
The same was true of the laws. Provision
ws* made for endowing the university as far
back a* 1784.
In 1821, #250,000 was appropriated to the
support of county academics, and tlie same
sum was set apart as a poor school fund.
This last sum, added to $200,000 previously
appropriated, made the jioor school fund
Tlie higher education of males was pro
vided for in the stale university s- *kfti
Oglethorpe ard Metre* universities, and m
Kniory college. These institutixis gradu
ated before the war 1,834 alumni. Each of
them gave partial education to at least
double its number of alumni, thus prefer-
ing about 5,500 men, more or leas, thorough
ly for the great tattle of life.
Georgia was the first state m the union
and. (N-rhaiis. the first in the world, toe*
tahlish a college in which degrees were con
ferred on women. This pioneer female col
lege wa* the Wesleyan female college at
Macon. This institution sent out before
450 alumna*. It was chartered in
1836. Other similar institutions soon fol
lowed. The uumlier rose to nearly twenty
In ante-bellum times. Tlie speaker had no
means of knowing the aggregate ntrai-
their alumna*. He knew, how
ever, that at one time before the war there
were about 1.C00pupils in actual attendance
ti|iost them.
The weak point in our ante-bellum edu
cational system was the elementary educa
tion conducted in the "old field schools."
The teachers in these sclmol* were all in-
dc|.emlcrit—there was no system in their
work—they were without supervision—and
these inferior schools were really quite in
ferior.
In this grade of school work we were very
itich behind the states of the northern
>rtion of the union.
The speaker said that in thus sketching
Georgia, he draws a picture of the entire
south, for all the southern states ware alike.
He admitted, further, that in the higher
education we are not the equals of the tatter
f the northern states. Still he declared iliat
f we might judge l-y a single comparison,
the comparison of the men in public life in
the two sections, we were not so far behind
many imagine, for so long as the truth of
history is written it will he recorded that
the men of the south exerted a controlling
influence in the national councils for more
than half a century.
Tlie speaker then showed the great
changes wrought by the war. He drew a
general picture of the losses sustained by
the -outn in the freeing of the slaves, the
* -struction of other pro|*crty, and the hiot-
ng out of the currency.
Ho next *|H)ke of reconstruction in the
south and the manner in which new consti
tutions were adopted.
declared, however, that it was his
main purpose to show tlie effect of these
changes on education. Free schools were pn»-
ided for in all the newjcon.stitntiopsal the
mtilth, and laws have been enacted to carry
into effect these constituthmal provisions.
There were great obstacle*, however, to the
introduction of public solus»K The first of
these wa* in the great destruction of prop
erty and the great incrensein the number
of tl.r helpless to he provided for educa
tionally. He allowed by statistics
that in the fifteen southern state* the aggre-
q-ufo of all property wa* in 1870 only three-
fifth* of the same value in 1800, while the
utterly destitute at the former date wa*
one-hnlf of the whole |M>pulation.
The same estimate made for the cotton
states showed that that property was re
duced in the same decade to three-eights of
its value at the beginning of the decade,
while the number of helpless tobe pro
vided for educationally wa* two-thirds of
the entire |*>pulation. 'These figures showed
the greatest obstacle.
The speaker, however, spoke of others.
The first of them mu* tlie manner in which
the public school policy was put in the new
constitution.
The second wa* the slowness of people of
Anglo-Saxon descent to make change*.
A third was the lack of knowledge even
among intelligent men of the principles
upon which the public school policy rests.
A fourth wa* trie presence among us of
so large an element of fiersons of African
descent.
It was not hostility to this people that
made their presence an obstacle—no such
feeling is to he found among the mass of the
white imputation. It wa* a feelii g of hard
ship that, when so impoverished that they
could not provide for educating their
children, tney w«»re required to provide also
for the education of the children of tbo
who had been their pro|*rtv by thd law*.
Another rea«on that made them a hin
drance wa* a feeling of hopelessness in rela
tion to making useful citizens out of the
material* which this race furnishes
of these objectl.iw, e :ce 4 »t the first,
the greatly increased number of
helpless, and our diminished
ability to |»r«»vhlc for them, have been well-
nigh given up. That, however, still re
mains, and this stem, hard fact is at the
bottom of our greatest educational n«ed—
ore money.
The above is a mere skeleton of an ad
dress filled with strong thought* strongly
expressed. It was listened to throughout
with the most profound attention by tire
intelligent audience present.
OUR STATE TILLERS.
Aa Old Comaerclal feudal Called «p ia Coxrt-
Brisooe'a Venioa of tU Ckeqxersd Check—
Hr. KeGsire'a Beoellestiea AmUgo-
liM BriacWe Kearny, Etc.
One of the most interesting trials of the
year was commenced in the city court of
Atlanta yesterday morning. It is the ca*e
in which the state of Georgia is plaintiff and
the defendants are John T. McGuire, a well-
ki own provision broker of this city, and
the Citizen*' Bank of Georgia. The‘suit is
to recover #6.000, and is ta ed upon
THE fAJCM EA1SED CHECK #
discounted at the Rank of the State of Geor
gia, after having been, apparently, drawn
by McGuire and certified a*- *' good " by
Perino Brown, cashier of the Citizens' Bank.
It will he recalled that less than two years
n**> an immense sensation was created in
this community when the check wa* pre
sented to the Citizens’ Bank for payment
and such |»avment wa* refused Hpon the
ground that the check wa* originally drawn
#1,000 and had been raised from that
snm to #6.000. Rumors of all kind* fiHed
the air, and the transaction wa* involved in
seeming mystery to which no clue
a obtainable at the time. Column
after column of rumors and <*>n-
jertnre were published, and "cards”
and "statements* were published by ail the
interested i»arth s. The aCair was a nine
toy*’ wonder, and was discussed in all cir
cles of the city. An indictment wa* found
against Briscoe for "raising" the check, and
the controversy between the hank and
McGuire took shape in the suit which has
just come to trial.
It i* neither pertinent nor necessary to
recapitulate the succession of episode* it;
the transaction as understood when it wa*
first blown upon the commnnity, a* the
facts will sufficiently appear in the abstract
>f the testimony as we publish it.
nwrrws or the vautie*.
The relations of the parties in the affair,
as developed in this snit, are the same as in
the controversy as it came before the pub
lic. The Bank of the 9*ate of Georgia sues
uiiuii the check a* a bona fide check fbr
#6.000, discounted by them for value re
ceived and held upon the certification of
the Citizen’s Bank. Mr. Briscoe is absent
in New York, where he lias been for manv
months, l»u* his friends, as well a* himself,
contend for the genuineness of the check,
and are arrayed upon the side of the plain
tiff. The maker, Mr. McGuire, allege- that
the cheek as drawn wa* only for $1,000. and
that it was “ raised" to#6.OOfoafter he signed
and indorsed it. and Mr. Brown, of
Citizens’ Bank, alleges that he
certified it as a #1.000 check and that it
was "raised” to $6.000after such certifica
tion. They depend upon this plea and ac
knowledged liability only to the extent of
the alleged $1,000. The issue is to deter
mine the genuineness of the check for $6,000
and the liability of Mr. McGuire a* maker
and the Citizen*’ Bank a* certifier.
Tnx Diurrirp check
is the pivotal paper in the case, and upon it
will be centered the chief attention of the
E ublie. At ihe time the forgery was made
nown there was great interest to ascertain
the process bv which the check could have
been so skillfully altered from $1.(IU0 to
#•: 000 as to deceive the tank official* and
raise the serious question as to whether it
had, iit'truth, been "raised" at ail. Tlie
check is a lithographed one in green, and
as it stand* read.*:
Atlanta, Ga„ March 2ttb, 1W7.
CITIZENS’ BANK OF GEORGIA:
Thirty dry* after date, no grace, tat to or
der of myself oa order six thousand dollars.
$6,000. Jno. T. McGuire.
rinted in vajv
. .... .A the printed
form. The other wools and figures are written
in.)
The check is indorsed on the har k by
‘Jno. T. McGuire." and i* certified: "Good
April 25, 1877—Peri no Brown, oaehier."
Kntry of protest for non-payment, April
23, lA77, is also made by
. Bell, N.
The Fair Probable In .Vlaeon—Addrean
•f Governor t’olqnlf t.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Hawki.vsvillk. February 19.—A large and
unusually able delegation, numbering three
hundred,'are in attendance. Colonel Kib-
bee, the mayor, welcomed the convention
in an appropriate and polished address to
the hospitality of the citizens of Hawkinv
ville. Governor Uoluuitt, by unanimous
iiivition. addressed the convention to-day
on the policy of Georgia planter* and the
promotion of the state's prosperity, for
which he was thanked by a rising vote.
An aldtess by Colonel Charles J. Graves,
of Rome, lately of the khedive’s army, on
Fgvptianagriculture,elk'ited much interest.
The proposed amendment* to the consti
tution, retracing the number t*f delegate*
from a county and reducing the convention
to one each year, alternating between Feb
ruary of one year and August of the next,
were nearly unanimously defeated.
The state fair will probably be pirated at
Augusta, which makes a liberal offer. The
executive committee decides to-night.
BRISCOE * TESTIMONY.
The interrogatories and cross-questions pm-
|N»unded to Benjamin W. kriseoe were
offered by the plaintiff and objected to by
the defendants up on the ground that they
were not taken on a legal cause shown.
The defense insisted that a* Briscoe swore
that Atlanta wa* hi* residence and he had
never abandoned it a* such, and no pro|<er
allegation within tlie cede had been made
by the plain tiff a* a cause for taking Bris
coe’s testimony by deposition, said testi
mony should hot be received. After argu
ment the objection was overruled.
The defense then made tender in court
the $1,000 confessed to ta due utsin tlie
contested check. Mr. Perino Brown brought
out a crisp. $1,000 greenback, but the pie.in
tiffs did not give it that attention which its
worth apparently merited.
The deposition of Briscoe wa* then read
to the jury by Judge Met .’ay. The witness
identified the copy of the check, as to his
memory, a correct copy. He then gave a
full history of the transaction from hi*
standpoint? saying that on the 28th of No
vember, 1876. a check was drgwn by Me-
Guire. and indorsed by McGuire, upon
ihe Citizens' Bank for #6.000; that it was
certified to by Perino Brown, cashier of the
Citizen*’ Batik. It was due ninety day
after date, and he, Briscoe, carried it
to the Bank of the State of Geor
and it wa* there discounted,
receiving for it* money to the
amount of $3,000, less $240 discount anil
$100 that he previously owed the tank,
a draft on New York for $3,000 |»ayable to
the order of Jame*' Bank. Just tab
check became due he went and replaced it
with another one drawn by McGuire and
indorsed by him. certified to bv Brown, aud
for a like amount at thirty .fays. He re
turned the old check, cancelling th® part
containing Brown’s name in In* presence
ami the part with McGuire’s
also cancelled in McGuire’s presence.
So with the second check. They were for
#6.000 and the first one wa* certified by
Brown U|m»ii an agreement that he was to
pay Brown from the proceeds $2,500 that lie
then owed him. Brown also said to wit
ness that he. Brown, was in a tight place
and might want him, witness, to hypotlv
cate a check for him for a few tbonsai
dollars for a few days. He paid Brown
#2,5<0 out of the proceeds of the check and
S id McGuire $1,350. probably the same
y. He paid some small debts of his own
with i«rt of the balance.
fir
Hawkinsville, Ga . February 19—The
state fair this year will he located at Mavxi.
beginning on the 27th of October.
Tlie Esrape «t James flail.
At the last term of Muscogee superior
court, one James Hall was convicted of a
murder which occurrel in 1876. Ther
seemed to be a very strong case of eircum
stantial evidence against him. The jury
heard all the evidence and found the pris
oner guilty. He wa* sentenced to be hung
in March, and it seemed that all was over
with him. All :hc while he protested his in
nocence. and maintained that at the time the
murder was committed he was in the peni
tentiary and could not have done the aeed.
At last*he elicited some sympathy in hi-
behalf, and hi* friends sent for Mr. Gentry,
one of the guard* of penitentiary camp No
3. who. Hall said, knew that hi* story wa*
true. A dav or two ago Mr. Gentry reached
"THE CHECK NEVES WA* IUISKD.”
which witness gave Briscoe on which to bor
row the first $1,000 remained in the
Citizens' Bank while Briscoe was
New York. When Briscoe came back
he proffered to reloan witness the thousand
dollars. Witness needed the money and
gave Briscoe bis check on the Citizens’ Bank
fdr$1,000. Briscoe that evening gave wit
ness $1,350. He had said he would let wit
ness have more than the $1,000 if he could
raise it. Thinks Briscue left that night for
Florida Sometime after he rune
and got another check with which
to take up the first one. This second was
also a check for $1,000 on the Citizens* Bank
Is wa* a sight check also. Kept no record
of the dates, a* it was a matter of accommo
dation. Sometime after he came again for
third check to take up the second. At those
times be would bring the half of eheck
bearing witnesses’ name, but with no figures
or writing on it. They were on the
other end. These ends were destroyed
Witness thought he had a $1.00o
check out until he wa* called
in by Coker and Bell and asked if he signed
this $6,000 check. Witness replied that it
was his signature bnt when it was signed it
wa* a $1,000 check. At the time of this
transaction witness was not worth much:
had uo property. It was in 1874 and 1875
that he loaned money to Briscoe, a* much
as $4,000 at one time. At the time of this
last transaction does not know what prop
erty Briscoe had. No changes were made
in this check in my presence or by my con
sent.
A SEARCHING CROSS-EXAMINATION
of the witness was then conducted by J udge
John L. Hopkins, the details of which are
too voluminous for repetition here. Wit
ness and Briscoe became acquainted in
1871-2. They were intimate, personal
friends; great confidence existed between
them. Remembers when West, Edwards &
Co. failed. Briscue wa* put in prison in
New York; he was in bankruptcy.
Witness during that time, Oc
tober, 1876, indorsed note of $1,000
for Briscoe and took a mortgage on prop
erty of Judge Han mock. The paper be
longed to Bell’s tank. The money wa*
furnished by the State Saving's Bank.
Gave his check for other other sums on
Briscoe’s account about the same time.
Prior to the time of drawing this November
check for $1,000 the Citizens' hank held hi*
eheck on James for $1,000 drawn for his
benefit and discounted by Briscoe. It was
drawn in May before Briscoe went
to New York. That check was
never presented to James. It was held
by tlie Citizens’ tank until Briscoe came
tack from New York. Briscoe brought it
tack to me. I hud paid him bark the
thousand dollars before he went to New
York. It was brought back after the No
vember check was made. Briscoe was then
in bankruptcy, and had just returned from
the debtor’s prison in New York. At that
time witness wa* pressed for money. Con
sidered what Briscoe did for him a* a great
favor. At the time witness had no money
on deposit with Citizens' bank; only
the sight check on James. Had nothing
there on February 23d, 1877, that witness
had put there himself. lines not know that
he had anything on deposit there. It was
tatween November 28th, 1876, and Feb
ruary 23d, 18*4, that the old James check
was given up to witness by Briscoe. On
November 28th that wa* only thing with
which witness was connected that was on
dep*wit there. Witness put nothing on de-
(Nisit tlieie between that time and Febntarv
23d, 1877. Does not know that the tank
held that check as an evidence
of indebtedness against witness;
supposed it was against Briscoe.
Witness had liquidated that debt with
Briscoe. (Witness here produced some
checks, among them four $1,000 checks
which lie had at times let Briscoe have.)
Witness wa* interrogated a* to certain state
ment* made in a card published by him in
The Constitution on or about May 1st.
1877. As to the Janies check, he owea Bris-
coe and Briscoe owed the tank. He paid
Briscoe. Never agreed that that
check should remain with the
Citizens’ Bank a* a deposit to meet
his November check. Simply a«ked Mr.
Brown to let it stay there. It was there in
the spirit of a deposit. That was before
Briscoe returned. He told Brown to keep it
because he. witness, might want to use
$l,0UOaguin and it would not be necessary
to make a new check. That check was re
turned bv Briscoe and was daato yed a* It
iWffulur check. Witness explained
how the torn ends of the checks were pre
sented to him by Briscoe. He ex
amined liis signature and then tore
them up. That occurred at each
venesal. The original check was for wit
ness* benefit; the other two for Briscoe’s.
Witness paid hack the $1,350 in various
ways; paid it in checks on his bank, which
were tiaid ami returned to him. Thinks he
'mid it back before thejfirst renewal. Is sure
read the first check when he signed it.
Never told Judge Hammock next day that
he had signed a check for Briscoe without
' Miking at the amount. Did not sign any
such check. Could not have made such a
statement. Does not know that words in the
other checks were in like places as they are
in the one in suit.
WHAT THE BANK WO.
Judge Perino Brown, now president, but
then ca*hier. of the Citizens’ Bank, was
called for the defense.
He testified that the 'Check in suit when
certified by him was a sight check for $1,000,
and had since been changed to a time check
for $6,000, by writing on it "thirty days after
date, no grace." and by changing the word
‘one" to "six,” and the figure "1” to a "6.”
The words "Good on April 23d. 1877” were
added over his signature. He only put his
name: "Perino Brown, cashier.” This was
the third check of $1,000 that he had certi
fied. Mr. Briscoe came in to have it re
newed the 23d of February, and brought a
new check signed and indorsed by McGuire,
and I cert fied it and he took up the other
check. He brought the other check and
tore it half in two, and took the half with
v name on it and tore it up,
and said lie would take the other half
to John to show him that he had taken it
up. The same thing occurred at the second
renewal. McGuire was not there either
time. It was at my deck in the back office
i»f the qld tank. About as much light there
is we have here. I was to receive no bene
fit from it. He came in and said he had to
$1,000 that day to pay at Bell's hank;
that he wa* expecting money from Nicholls
at JackM>nviUe. and asked if I would cash
McGuire’s rtack for $1,000 and hold it
few days. I said I would
ami he went and got it I was going to
give him the money, but hesaid to certify
it, a* that would *do quite as well. We
never certify time checks. I certified this
one nod it* was a sight check. They are
certified as a matter of convenience. I had
for security McGuire’s sight check on John
II. Janies in case I had to pay the certified
check. He (Briscoe) had raised $1,000 on it
in April and had paid it iu May, 1
think. He told roe to keep it
a* he might wan*, to raise more money.
homewIrd tokning.
THE OLD RED HILLS OF GEORGIA
Lifted Cnoe Vote late the View of the Exile ia
i Li A Chance'for the Killed Georgians to
ht Hoae Again—The Hew Ttetnrn
Hates'’—Hi Place Like Ecsa.
"I believe that 20,000 people have emi
grated from Georgia and the Carol inas to
Texas in the la*t five years!" Thus spoke a
prominent gentlenkm to a C’onrtitctiok re
porter on yesterday. Before the reporter
had recovered from, the shock produced by
this statement, the*.gentIonian went «»ti to
say: "And I taliAe that 10,000 of this
number arc anxious to get back home—and
would come if thejri could get hock on the
>aine terms they wore taken out." Theee
remarks caused us t4 think the thing over.
But before we had uta te up our mind, the
gentleman went ot* to say: "Now see
wh t it would d& for the state if
these men and wome# were brought back.
In the first place, it would fill up many a
waste place and put n|any a new hand*to
the plow, and put roafcy an acre under cul
tivation by i»rin*';* g these people tack.
Their mere muscle would be a power in re
generating the old state. But, aside front
this, they would cheek Utterly and
lutely the tide of rtivj^mlviei
kou
”*y.
tried Texas and have
and you could never start anybodv else* to^
wards Texa*. Well Texas is all that Geor
gia has to fear. Break down that fever, and
our people will stay at home. The greatest
benefit that will cotne of ail this is that it
will soothe the feeling of uneasiness and
restlessness among our people. It will make
them contented and ho|>eful and easy. As
sure as you are bom, young man’’’—and
here the old veteran tapped us affection
ately on the shoulder—"the great problem
for Georgia is bow to get the people who
have been misled into Texas tack at tame
once more."
After hearing this conversation we put off
at once to see Major \V. J. Houston, the ef
ficient general passenger and ticket agent of
the Charlotte & Richmond Air-Line, to see
what his line, which had been foremost in
thi g«*»d work, had done in the
way of getting low rates for return
tickets. We found Colonel Houston in that
earnest and agreeable humor for which bets
distinguished, and he stated that the late
convention had done more than many of
those at work expected it to do! It was a
very full convention and a harmonious one.
Colonel Houston gave us a circular contain
ing the full action of the convention, which
we condense into tlie following genera)
terms:
The tickets from Georgia to Texa* for
emigrant.* are now held and have been for
years at $24. There are no emigrant tickets
from Texas to Georgia, and the price of a
regular ticket is about $36. By a combina-
nation of the roads at interest in the
late convention, the rate of passage from
Houston. Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia, and
intermediate points was put at two cent*
ner mile. This makes the price of a ticket
from Texas to Atlanta $16.25—much less
than the rate from Georgia to Texas. This
rate has not only been established but
THE MOST EARNEST EFFORTS
will be made to carry the news to
the ears of the people for whom it
was intended. To show that the road wa*
in earnest they agreed to establish an agency
for the canvass atidsale of emigrant tickets,
and to allow the general agents to appoint
assistants. The allowance of $600 tier
month was made for the expenses of this
canvass and agency. The Messrs. C. A.
Whitney it Co., of tlie Louisiana and Texas
Railroad and Steamship company, were au
thorized to appoint this general agent. They
appointed Colonel W. J. Houston, of thts
city, a* the general agent—a most admirable
appointment. This arrangement is made for
year. Upon this subject Colonel Hous
ton says:
"I received my appointment, and I de
termined to go to work in earnest and see
that every Georgian in Texas who wished to
come home should be canvassed personally
happen to us. is t<i have the rates put up to
$24. I do not think the Texas man can de
mand anything more than this. Our
friends should certainly never yield any
more. 1 do not exactly understand the po
sition occupied by the Texas men. They
claim that there is nobody in Texas who
wants to come tack to Georgia Then, why
do they object to putting the rates down?
If there is noliody to avail themselves of
the rate*, the rates will do no harm."
Colonel Houston thinks that there is no
doubt that the work of bringing the Geor
gians home must be commenced in earnest
very soon. He is confident that he can suc
ceed through his own work ami that of his
agents, in bringing thousand* of these peo
ple back to the old red hill*. It is almost
impossible to conceive of the thoroughness
with which the states of Georgia and the
Carolina* have been canvassed by the agent*
of Texas and the Texas railroads. The
states have been flooded with circulars in
which it is slated that two hundred farmers
are "wanted immediately" to rent lands,
where the landlords furnish everything but
the provisions needed by the tenants, ami
divides the cron equally with the tenant.
The average product of the acre* is given,
and is given in liberal figure*, averaging
twenty bushels ol wheat to the acre, thirty
bushels of com, two-third* of a tale of cot
ton, one-half hogshead of syrup, etc. Other
circulars state that "five hundred colored
families are wanted at once” to rent farms,
of course, of surprising value. Under the
influence of these circulars and of glib rep
resentattons, thousands of persons who were
really not aide to move, put their
last dollar into railroad tickets ana set out for
the promised land. They are now anxious
to get back into the midst of their friends
ana kinsmen, and upon the old ground
once more. If Colonel Houston can estab
lish a methml by which he can enable them
to come back, he will have done tne state a
service hardly to be measured In words.
said, "You had better interview that man;
he has a curious story." It seemed a little
hard to attack such a forlorn looking fellow
with an auger, but "business is business"
•ttd we began by speaking to the victim.
He turned slowly around and replied to the
greeting with an air of gentle politeness,
which was not in keeping with his appear
ance. His face was made rugged by an un
shared beard, but it had an expression of
manliness about it which would have re
deemed the man in a legion of professional
tnuups. The reporter was at once interest
ed beyond the mere extent of obtaining an
item and questioned the stranger further.
"I learn that you are going home from the
"Yes, sir; I hare been going a long time."
To further inquiries he promptly replied,
f"® *n waponse to a request to give the de
tails of his western experience, he siiokeas
folows:
**My name is C. M. Ray; I am a native of
North Carolina; was born abo'ui forty miles
from Charlotte, where mv mother now lives
on the old family farm. ‘Seven rears ago I
was doing.well in Charlotte. \VWk«-d in a
bnck-yard, and made a good support formv
family. I thought I could do better in Ar
kansas and took my wife and two children
and started, after selling all the pro;*eriyl
had. I went to the northern part of the
state and bought a farm. I never worked as
hard in ray life, but the land wa* im* r.and
I hat from the start ^
"Three years ago I lost my wife, and
things seemed to get worse. All I could do
did notkeepoff misfortune, and I saw that
would starve if I stayed there, so 1 re
solved to come back home. I .started in
August, 1877, eighteen months ago, bring
ing these two boys along with me. I had
no money and had to walk and work at
first one place and then another to make a
living for myself and children. I worked
ra Mississippi two months, picking cotton.
Then I came on across Tennessee and
worked at various things; at anything I
could find to do. It was slow work and
sometimes I felt like I would never get tack
to North Carolina; at last I got into Georgia
and felt nearer home. I walked across until I
struck the railroad at Cartersville this
morning. I had $7 in iny pocket. It cost
me $4.90 to ride down here and bring mv
boys. When I reached the city I went to
Mr. Houston, the ticket agent of this road,
and told him how I was situated, lie at
once gave me a pass to Charlotte and I will
be there to-morrow. I am going to work
there, never to leave again. I hope." His
language was remarkably correct. He told
the story in a frank, straightforward wav,
and yet seemed so affected by it that lie fre
quently wined the tears from hi* eves. The
boy*, aged 0 and 6. were lively, happy look
ing children, who seemed delighted at the
idea of getting back to "grandma’*.” There
was something pathetic in the Incident
which attracted numerous spectator*. We
hone the poor fellow ha* gone back to Iris
old home to find that all his meandering*
have ceased and that henceforth the world
will not be so hard to him a* it has been in
last seven years of gloom and sorrow.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
$0 1879, $46,653,323
This amount, taken in connection with Ihe
one million two hu> dredand fiftr thousand
dollar* appro; riared l>r an act of Juna 20,
1878, lor the general expenses of the , J ^
District of Columbia being over fifty per • c«>!umbu> and identified Hall a* the
eentnmot ex|>en*c* ol the district govern- who, *n July 1st. 1872. was convicted in
merit for the fiscal j ear ending June Aft. 1879 i Muscogee superior court of horse stealing.
For public printing and binding ami i and was sentenced to the penitentiary for
printing Congressional Record, etc.. $350,000. ] fifteen year*. On the first of February,
For compensation of postmaster for 1878, ' 1877. he escaped from a convict camp on the
$24,192,137 The total sum recommended I “* ** "* 1
by this bill i* #257.9fH,0»T. !
Witness was present in Atlanta on the
day the check was presented and protested
‘non-payment. Was here the next five
sis days after. Did not conceal himself.
*> not know that Mr. Co
warrant for hi* arrest, and did not go to
Coker and tell him that he dared not prose
cute him. Never had anything
i say to Coker about it.
Does not know that Coker became at once
his defer dor. supressing the warrant and
writing rani* for the repers in his, Bri-
coe’s, defense. Knows of no money paid to.
or settlement on aecount of this check with
Uoker. bv witness or his friends. Witness
is under’indictment, he believes, for raising
this etieek. He is in New York and can
not come to Atlanta to stand hi* trial in
April for want of funds to pay the cost of
his defense. Means to do so when beget*
the monev. Is agent for a railroad in Aratli
America ‘and gets a salary of $125 per
month. These, with other statements trot
necessary to repeat here, are the deposition
made by Mr. Briscoe.
The check and certificate of protest were
Introduced, and the check read to the jury,
whereupon the case for the plaintiff waa
announced closed.
MV.riRK’s SIDE OF THE AFFAIR.
Mr. John T. McGuire, the drawer of the
check, was the first witness, he being oneof
the defcndxms. He testified in substance
He identified his signature to the check,
aud stated that the words "thirty days after
There are hut two appropriation bills to 1 o»nhl not have heen the roan wLo dnl , f j| e ?
ie passed by vheh<>u*e, namely, the legisla- •*- -A oew trial will donbtkas be granted *#nn»i
lative and judicial, (which i* pending), and *" * 'be d »>rocd man^thus saved. , *Vquai
•undry civil bills, which will, in all prota- iivmeueal News. ! he had ofte
was the basis of this certification. McGuire
often accommodated him that way. When
Briscoe paid me the $2,500 sometime
December he took it np and left $l,<i00 to
l«y thi* eheck. I gave him the check and
put the money in an envelope. That is the
time it parsed out of my possession. Before
that 1 bad no security except the check on
Janies: after that i had the money. When
I speak of myself I mean the bank. At that
time I wa* not a rich man, bat I was easy.
I was in no close place for money and wa*
in a position to get it better than to do
so from Bri*coe As to roy telling him that
I might want him to hypothecate a check
for me for a few thousand dollars for a few
day’s, there is not a word of it true. No
statement he makes there of that character
is true.
Judge Hopkins proceeded to cross-exam
ine Jndgt Brown in the most rigid manner,
and was thus proceeding at the time of tlie
adjournment of the court. This examin
ation brings out some of the heretofore un
known links in the transaction, and when
completed will be of great Interest to those
who have followed the history of the
Judge Brown will testify farther this morn
ing.
The case is attended by a few of the in
terested parties and is not developing any
considerable cariosity upon the part of the
public. The inclement weather of yester
day kept the court-room chilly with its
emptiness.
...no, ..... McT.y A Tripp. .nd Hopkim A
ESSli. 1?« £n S . of hU iSd! ! J"-!** Pondl..™ forth, defends
check, and now it i*a#6.W*»check. \\ hen be j
signed it. it wa* a sight^ check—now
We have received a beautiful and ornate
w _ a | engraved invitation to attend the celebra-
time check. "Thirty days after date, no tion of Washington’s birthday by the Few
grace," has been aided, ‘and it has oeen [ Literary society of Emory college, Oxford,
TOE GEORGIA SWISS COLONY.
While we were conversing with Colonel
Houston upon the subject, a handsome,
fresh looking couple (evidently man and
wife) entered his office. A short but broken
conversation with the really handsome
woman disclosed the fact that they were
Switzers, who had come over about six weeks
ago and settled at Mt. Airy. They were
members of a party of about twelve that
came at the solicitation of the Air-Line
railroad agents aud settled along the line of
road. The husband just purchased on yes
terday a place of 600 acres near Mt. Airy
on which wa* an orchard of 1,600 fruit trees
and fifty acres of good cleared land. The
couple visited Atlanta for the purpose of
buying furniture, implements, etc. Tlie
couple were in the best of spirita and were
highly satisfied with the general outlook.
The wife stated that her father and two or
three brothers were coming over in a short
time and that others would follow. Mr.
Houston told her that if she would let him
know when her friend* were coming, he
would ku to New York and meet them and
bring them out to Mt. Airy.
"You have no idea,” he said, "how these
immigrants are received at Castle Garden.
They are just carted ofl in squad.*, and sent
to the northwest, without being allowed to
give the south a single thought. I feel that
with the proper representation a great
many immigrants who come to New York
might be brought to Georgia—and that on
the other hand, many who really desire to
come south, are turned off to other sections
almost without their own volition. The
Air-Line railway now ha* a regular agei
in New York, whose whole business is
look after immigrant*, and see that the ad
vantages of the rich lands lying along <»ur
road are laid before them. When T went
on to New York some time ago. he could
not get into Castle Garden. We soon made
arrangements by which be could go
into the steamers and have an equal
chance at the new-comers. We tape that
he will do much good
Another thing that we feel aaared of,
that even- immigrant that we bring to Geor
gia will in turn induce more to come. The
advantages we offer here in climate, soil;
etc., are e xtraordinary. We hope to be able
a short time to report many more Swiss
coming in :o Mt. Airy." .. . .
The reporter had hardly left the Atr-Ltn#
office before the following telegram arrived
and wa* sent to The Constitution office. It
is the first trickling* of what will be a great
flood rouring into onr noble old state:
New York. February 14,1879.
W. J. Houston. G. 1*. and T. A. Rich
mond Air-Line. Atlanta Ga—The steamer
arrived here this morning with twenty
Swiss immigrants for Mount Airy. Ga
lative and jn<
sundry rivt! bill*, which will, in all prota-
hiliiy, b© ready to rej*»rt by the time the
**?fr*^KmnAol 1 |£ 4 of^Vew York viz at his Dr »**** «■»“«■. in oxiora, ux, Mr. j. i*
<»» forth? service I Moon, of Cartersville. was married to Mize
own request, excused from further service i .. ThomJl . of o.fonb The hanov counle
ax’’ in> • vl of " one’’ in both the i Ga, which will occur at the Few hall. Feb-
words and nun ala It was given about j rusty 29th. at 10M o’clock a m. Mr. W. R.
the date it purj^rts; he kept no record of 1 Hoyt, son of 8. B. Hoyt, of Atlanta b the
regarded Mr. Bri>one as a very 1 chosen orator for the occasion. He Isa
courre of voting man of brilliant talents, and will do
, .... acquaintance with Mr. Briscoe : Lnu-elf honor. This suciety ha* celebrated
Hymeneal New*. j he had often loaned Briscue money: a* Washington's birthday for many years past.
Yf>i.nUv at it*- iwidroc* of j much, upon on* occwion. a* H‘*». Toofc j Tlie roMturn of orator on thi, occasion ia
the bride’* father, in Oxford, Ga, Mr. J. L. “ " ----- - * '
C. Yingling. our emigration
start them for their destination Monday
evening. J. L. Waldrof,
General Eastern Agent.
nmittce.
Lizzie Thomas, of Oxford. The happy couple
came to Atlanta yesterday afternoon and
are at the Markham house.
A DlilUfad.
New York, February 19.—The directors of
Dr. De La Matyr. of Indiana who is so- <
jouruing In Florida is expected here on 1
tiatuiday next to attend a meeting of green- _
backer*'to Be held in this city on the2Id the Chicago and Northwestern railroad cotn-
iosr. Those who are expected to attend are , piny met here to-day and declared a quar-
La id and March of Maine. De La Matyr of | t«rlj dividend of 1*« per cent, on preferred
In liana Smith of New Jenwy, Ford of Mis- i stock, and decided to pav quarterly divi-
goari. Weaver and Gillette of Iowa, Law of | dends on shares hereafter.*
__ note, check, or other writing to evidenor j one of the highest honors in the reach of an
the debt. In April, 1876, witnesses wanted ( Emory college student,
about $1,000. and went to Briscoe for it. 1 We have also received an invitation toat-
Brisroe didn t have it, but told witness to ! tend J he anniversary celebration of the Phi
give hb check for it and he, Briscoe, could . Gamma Literary society of Emory college.
arrange it. He gave hb check on John H.
James for $1,000. It was a sight check.
Briscoe got the money on it for him.
Some days after Briscoe came and said be
was going to New York and would like 40
The celebration will occur in the hall of the
society on the 8th of March, at 1©M o’clock
a m. Mr. William W. Seals, of West
Point, b the anniversarian-elect. The in
vitations are beomifullv engraved with a
have the $1,000. [Witness went on to state J fa- simile of the society hedge at the top.
some other transaction, which was ruled , iheo-casion will doubtless be -very pleas-
oul] In the meantime the check for $L000 ant.
RACHEL’S WAITING.
SY MRS. J. J. BTJSSEY.
ew York, February 18.—There is an
other social scandal in the Vanderbilt fam
ily. Thb time it is over the clandestine
marriage of Frederick, the son of William
to the divorced wife of Daniel Torrence,
wealthy resident of Fifth avenue. The
young man's father is very angry with him,
and refuses to receive the bride, who is a
very beautiful blonde and much Fred.’*
senior. Her divorce was procured in Rhode
Island to avoid scandal, she acquiring a le
gal residence in that state for the special
purpose.
Springfield, February 18.—Although the
facts have been carefully concealed, it was
learned to-day that the secret-sendee officers,
have made one of the most important cap
tures of late years. The arrest of Mrs. Martha
McCartney,wile of Pete McCartney, the cele
brated counterfeiter, ha* already been noted
in these dispatches, and it grew out of this
capture. It seems that Tete had left with
his wife a large amount of "coney" u nde
by htmseU and Tom Berdond on ‘the cele
brated $20 United States treasury-plate
made by Boyd, which the government
ha* for a long time been making special
effort* to capture. Pete expected
this plate to buy his way ont of the
penitentiary. During the past six months
the secret-service detectives have been
pressing Mrs. McCartney so closely that
she feared the plunder would be turned up.
Accordingly, 8he dug up the mo’ney and
plate, wlucli had been buried on her place
at Neoga, and. driving to Etna, turned the
stuff all over to Jake McCartney, a cousin
' Pete, for safe-keeping. Jake soon learn
that the officer* were liable to find it in
possession, and, to save himself, turned
over to the government. He gave up the
long-sought-for twcnty-dollar plate, j-er-
hatis the best ever made, and $21,000 in
well-executed counterfeit $50 treasury
notes, and 1,000 of the well-known tralers’
tive-dollar counterfeit*.
Vicksburg, February 19.—A difficulty oc
curred at Johnsville, Mis*., yesterday be
tween Colonel Holman and Dr. Lowry, Dr.
Walker and Mr. Arnold. The fight began
by Holman shooting Lowry in the side.
Arnold shot Holman, wounding him, and
then shot Walker, killing him instantly,
and was shot by Holman. Arnold and
tawry have since died. Holman ha* been
arrested.
Huntsville, February 17.—For sometime
Refus Irving, a colored man, has been jeal
ous of his wife. In a fit of rage to-day he
deliberately drew a pistol and shot her* hut
not fatally. He fled, but stealthily returned
to see if she was dead; finding her still alive,
he shot her again. To make sure tne
ne murderer *cized.« razor and drew
it across the woms^JJr.Troat, almost sever
ing the head frora-'ihe body. The blood
spurted on the floor and against th6 walls,
making a ghastly spec table. She fell over
dead. Irving then drew the razor across his
own throat and fell hgside his wife, but did
not expire, and attempted to get up. At
this juncture his wife’s brother, aged ten
years, seized a gun, and nutting the muzzle
to Irving’s head, literally blew his brains
out.
The Smith murder trial was brought to
_.i abrupt termination to-day. owing to the
discovery that one of the jurors wa* insane.
It appears that this man has been greatly
affected ever since the exhibition of the
bloody clothes on Friday last, and labored
under the hallucination that he wa* going
to be hung. There is no doubt that the
sight of the clothing and the terrible lan
guage used by the prosecutor toward the
accused widow turned the poor fellow’s
mind. The jury was discharged to-day, and
new trial ordered for March 3.
CHAPTER III.
Bertie Beck told me all that followed in
the dreary years—of Rachel’s i>atiem wait
ing, of her strength of purpose, which ne
er failed, and of her cheerfulness always.
In this, the nineteenth century, our trag
edies are not the blood-and-thnnder event*
that they were in olden times. We wrestle
with our dearest hopes all through the long,
still night, make graveyards of our hearts
and burv therein our most idolised treas
ure*. Then, next day we comedown to
breakfast and play with our coffee and eggs
just as all tbe mortals about us do. We
"die ami make no moan" tiow-a-dav*. We
hug a deadly sorrow to our breast, and draw
our mantle the closer about us that others
may not see the blood the struggle is cost
ing. And all that is right. Why trouble
others with our griefs? The heart of the
multitude is full of its own sorrow; there
•» no place in n for any of ours. So we go
on. We langh and jest, and make merry
all day long; then in the long night watches
we cry to God for strength, and yet a little
more patience.
That wa* Rachel’s life and mine: she liv-
ng at home, thinking first of others, a* she
hail always done, and never of herself; I
far away In hot, sickly India, inspired
every year by the Tantalus-hope of going
home tne next, and every year disappoint
ed.
Dashing, beautiful Bertie had married—
as a happy wife and mother, and Rachel
was the fife and light of her home, a* she
was of her father’s.
After ten years Rachel’s father died. In
December, just fifty years after his marriage,
and on the very day he had brought his
wife, a blushing bride, to be the joy of hi*
home and heart, he went to meet her.
Bertie said it was not like any death she
ever witnessed before. It was more like
the gradual putting off of the "old man"
nud the almost visible putting on of the
"new." Almost daily he grew weaker;
then his mind began to wander. He would
for hours holding Rachel’s hand and
talking with his wife long c*ead. At first
they thought he wa* calling Rachel, lint
they s»>on discovered that it wa* his wife.
R:ichel*bore her mother’s name, and wa*
much like her. He would ait for hour* and
talk of the happy years long passed when
•ere young and life wa* *wcct; would
call hi* children, and especially their eldest
boy, Walter, tlie first to go from them;
would imagine they jvere all about him—
his fine, bright, beautiful children, and his
wife the star and flower of the group. At
times he would s(>eak of the time when
there had been just three of them—before
tbe other children catnc*—and then he
would call Rachet first his w J fe and then
his darling boy.
He never grew so weak that lie missed
the family devotions. One night his hoy,
the noble son who for years bad tame his
burdens, read for their evening lesson that
chapter beginning, ‘ For we know that if
our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, we have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.” After prayer the three, Bertie,
George and Rachel, gathered around him.
bogging him to go to rest—he had been un
usual ly active and restless ail day—bnt no.he
would not, hesaid; he could not go home
vet—he must wait for Rachel. Then, an if
nearing her at his side, he put out his hand,
catching his daughter ami attempting to
rise, said feebly:
"Now, come, wife, we will go home to
gether;" and with these words he crossed
the river and stood before his God.
They told me nothing of Rachel’s grief.
I did not need the telling. 1 could see her
in nTy mind going about in the same gentle
way, stooping a little from the very heavi
ness of the bnrdens laid upon her, with
lips compressed.as I had seen ner that hitter
day when she threw down her love and tlie
hoj>es of happy ivifewood, and lifted up her
heavy cross instead.
Then followed ten more dreary ye
Bertie’s children were almost men and
men. Ten year* of labor harder than the
ten that had pine before. My father,
old man of ninety years, hod been spared
to see his indebtedness honorably met, and
his |x>sition once again made good, as of
old, in business circles. The ho|»es, tlie re
sults of all his life, which had been snatched
from, thank God. were returned birn with
added glory, through my efforts and strug
gles.
I could return home now, a worn-out
man, aged beyond my years—a man with
the weight of hilf a century of years, and
twice a* much sorrow resting upon his
heart, yet to a certain degree a happy man.
I tell you, my friends, self-sacrifice has in
it something sweeter and holier than any
thing else left to us. Through Rachel I
had learned this—that sweet saint who had
]>erfected my manhood, and to whom 1
ve every p»o<l thing in my character.
At last, after many weary years, I stood
once more in Overton. How like a grave
yard it seemed to me! How changed the
place! The little wooden church was a
pretentions brick building which frowned
grimly down upon me. The streets were
wide and paved, and I lost my way among
them. I could not find a single familiar
object upon which to rest my eyes.
Staggering under tlie weight of thi* sad
newness I went into the little burial-ground
behind the church. Surely I would find
the dead the same! But no! The gra*s
had grown over the old marble slabs; the
moss and ground-ivy covered the faces of
the tombs a* effectually as the mould cov
ered the faces of the sleej>er*.
.1 sat down under my willow—that, too,
had changed—and though! of the sweet
8ahl»«*H morning lung agqBawhen first I had
carefully noticed Rachel. nTall my thoughts
of her I had imagined no change. I wasan
impulsive man, you will remember. It
was natural that in thinking of her I
should let ray mind have its own sweet will,
and remember her a* I saw her last—fresh
and young, and better than beautiful, stand
ing in the open meadow waving me fare
well.
Brick and mortar mvered the meadow
now. Gray, and worn, and faded was Ra
chel. Nothing but the long farewell was
left me—nothing but a memory sad as life
and sweetly sad as tlie love wherewith ’
still loved her.
After hours of hitter, hitter thinking I
went to find her. She lived with Bertie
now, so her last letter said. Father, broth
er—all were gone, and she alone of all that
merry party wa* left
Inquiring my way, I went to Bertie’i
The servant showed me into the parlor,
wa* glad to see that Bertie had around her
all the evidences of comfortable living-
even wealth. In the old days she ban a
fondness for these thing*. 1 wa* glad her
life had been no disappointment
jrtU of hravra mil the wishes ot the holdeteof
ttebood.oJ the iteteof Tcnnraere in reference
«otte*ttIementof thiigraee question: therefore,
V^* h ? u *® 01 repi««>uUTee,The:
ft* tail of the house he tendered to the
T " A - D - the house ia not In
!2*? n d. Uut he ta *y enlighten the members of the
legislature now in session as to tnelr dutieatn
£?■?*** d ' b * 10 Particular, to the
end thateeld legislature mej- escape the wrath of
beat en end that the ministers of the gospel, for
whom the bouse entertains the treeteet respect
end re Terence, by virtue of their holy office, may
mlJd^eX m0re tranquillity ol
Upon the passage of this singular res
olution. Mr. Poston offered a companion
document a* f tllows:
Nuwary debating society of
the cjty of Trent* n. In the peace of thi* state, har-
exerci*e*l itselfoverthe proposition,
viz.: “Resolved, that Governor Albert STUarks
“ fchotnbnf!" and.
VYherea*. the said city of Trenton has, up to the
time ot entertaining such a monstrous proposition
“ • for debate, sustained a reputation,
be"^ and!* none ' * or to "the powers that
Whereas, the discussion of such absurd and out-
ra^eous propositions is mischievous in the ex-
*225® and highly reprehensible, calculated to
throw cold water'* on tbe spirit ot "^repudiation
“nltttea^nMreMIr 1 " B th *
this question, or its charter
will be indignantly abolished by this awembly.
This gave rise to a bushwhacking debate,
which finally resulted in the reconsidera
tion of tho vote of censure upon Mr. Hoyt.
This action has been the occasion of a
great deal of comment, in which tlie pulpit
crjtib of the legislature conitf in for univeiv
sal condemnation.
through'georgia.
D*ftSb or General rhllton-Fonnd
Dead—Thr Lynch Cbm In Augusta.
Columbus, Ga., February 18.—R. H. Chil
ton, adjutant-general of General R. E. Lee,
and since the war president of the Colum-
lms manufacturing company, fell dead of
apoplexy while sitting alone at his desk
tins afternoon. He wa* over slxtv years of
age. and graduated at West taint from Vir-
ginla. He wa* promoted to major in the
Mexican war and was paymaster in Texas
prior to 1860.
Rome, Ga.. February 18.—Francis Weeks,
Davis Mill, near Rock mart, Ga, was
found dead iu the woods near hts house. It
• supposed he had heart disease.
Tlie report in a New York journal. Feb
ruary 6th. of the suspension of the Bank of
Rome was a mistake. The old corporation
simply sold the hank and the charter to a
new organization. The bank is running as
usual.
Augusta, February 18.—W. R Lynch,
charged by the Southern Express company
for failing to account for twenty-five thou
sand dollars entrusted to hint as messenger,
had a hearing before the judge of the su-
K rior court this morning on a writ of
beas corpus for his release. Tlie judge re
fused the writ and the prisoner wa* re
manded to jail. Lynch had been mes
senger of the com pan v for many years, and
allege* that lie lost the money out of his
car tatween Charleston and Augusta in No
vember last. The case excites great interest
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Railroad Smiah-lp on the Keltna,
Rome and Dalton Railroad.
By Associated Press.
Selma, Ala.. February 18.—Tlie north-
tauml passenger on the Selma, Rome and
Dalton railway went through a rotten bridge,
thirteen miles from Selma, at 6 am. The
entire train, except the engine, was wrecked.
One white man and two negroes were killed;
two whites fatally wounded. Mr. Stanton,
general superintendent of the road, was on
the train and is believed to be fatally hurt.
Ten or twelve persons were slightly and se-
erelv hurt. It is reported that Georee
Evans (white) and four negroes were killed,
and that Superintendent Stanton and Con
ductor White were fatally injured.
The following are the killed: George R.
Evans aud two negroes, unknown. The
following are talieved to ta fatally injured:
M. Stanton, general superintendent; Cap
tain White, conductor, and N. Y. Hunter,
mail agent. The following are severely in
jured : Albert Pitner, brakeman: John Shoe
maker, baggage-master; H. A. Reynolds,
express messenger; John Rivers, colored
brakeman; Jordan I^e, colored porter; Miss
Welsh, Miss Graham, and Miss Bradford,
of Talladega; Nathan Kahn, or St. Louis;
A. Meyer, of Baltimore; I. G. Pulliam, of
Savannah; Ben. Schuster, of Selma; Mra
Postis and two daughters, of St. Louis, and
four negro passengers, unknown. A car
with sixty hales of cotton, mail, baggage
and express car, and one pa-oenger coach
totally destroyed by fire. The bridge was
perfectly rotten. Tne scene is heart-rend
ing.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
St. Louis, February 18.—The Globe-Dem
ocrat’s Fulton, Ma, special says that a most
daring and atrocisus outrage was tan *
trated there to-day on the person of Mi
Georgie Arthur. jTta young lady is clerk
in the post-office, and while- assorting the
mail, about one o’clock, a very large man
entered the office, locked t' e cfoor, and not
withstanding the girl’s ds*i»erate struggle*,
accomplished his vile purposes and escaped.
Tlie whole town was aroused. Men and
women ran through the streets in wild ex
citement, and a large number of men
started in pursuit.
New York, February l®.— 1 Captain Blair,
of the Fifteenth infantry, to-day brought
his trial on the charge of bigamy to an al»-
rupt termination by pleading guilty. In
the pl«* he does not admit that at the time
ot liis marriage he had been legally married
in Scotland, and claims he L* therefore
guiltless of intentionally doing the great
wrong charged. Yet he d*»es no* deny
acting solely upon his conviction in so grave
a matter. He committed an error of such
serious consequences to others that he is
willing to make whatever re)taration of
atonement there may be in the acknowl
edgment of the wrongful act and awaits full
sentence of the court
NEWS AT THE CAPITOL.
Presently she came down, proud and
beautiful still, with her forty years resting
like a crown upon her. She did’t recognize
me at first, hut when she did, she welcomed
me eagerly, and I caught, for the first time,
a rare glimpse of tbe old impulsive, warm
hearted Bertie.
At length, hearing a step coming down
the stairs, she arose, and, a* she opened the
door going out. she revealed to me Rachel.
We stood in silence looking at each other.
The long twenty years lay like a clia*m ta-
tween us. Long and silently we gazed;
then I opened my arm* and she came to
me. laying her tired head upon nry breast,
which* was it* rightful resting place. Mitre,
to have and to hold for all time. The years
which lay behind us were many and full
of trial. The years which stretched out be
fore us. in all probability, could be but few,
but they were to spend together, and no
grief that could come to us now seemed un
endurable, for we were henceforward to go
through joy and pain and all of life to
gether.
Our lives were nearly ended, but God
had given us a little breathing time before
we were called to lay time down and walk
into eternity.
THE END.
Mr. C.Faiscloth will contest the election
of Mr. J. T. Lewis as treasurer of Ernmnnel
county. The governor ordered a second
election in this county owing to the re
signation of Mr. Lewis, who was treasurer-
elect. The governor will hear the case in a
day or two.
Yesterday Colonel J. W. Nelms, the
principal keeper of the penitentiary, as
signed the following colored convicts from
Burke county to the Old Town convict
camp in Jefferson county: James Harrison,
sentenced for ton years; Steve Williams,
sentenced for five years; Mit. Williams,
sentenced for five yean; Thomaa Timmons,
sentenced fas two yean; AugustusEvaijs,
sentenced for two years. The following
convicts from 31 useogeecounty were sent to
the convict camp in Taylor county: Lewis
Bell, colored, sentenced for five years; Chaa
Gabriel, colored, sentenced for seven years;
Ras Collins, white, sentenced for ten years ;
Fagan Averett, colored, sentenced far four
rears. The aggregate of these sentences Is
fiftv years, or an average of about five years
and a half for each of these nine prisoners,
who go to improve the internal resources of
the state.
▲ Challenge.
The proprietors of Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup
herewith challenge tbe Doctors of the
United 8tates to prescribe a remedy which
The Tennessee Legislators
Upon Their Honor—A Ninsrnlar Reso
lution.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Nashville. February 18.—The debate
upon tbe arrangement of the public debt
EXCITABLE STATESMEN.
TWO DOLLARS A TON!
A TUMBLE IN THE COAL BUSINESS.
That If All that Atlanta Factories Can Pay for Coal,
And Unless they Get it at That Price they
Must Close Up—The OnlyRonteby
which This can be Looked For.
Texas ha* a state debt of over $5,000,000.
Memrni* wa* never in so filthy a condi
tion a* at present.
The Mississippi river now approaches the
bight-water mark standpoint.
Waco, Texa*, is about to decide to have a
magnificent »|>era-housc.
Vicksburg decides the school question by
reducing the teachers’ salaries.
trovKRNoR Hampton had presented to him
recently a pair of deer dog*.
Jkff. Davis has two daughters, his only
children now living.
On Yesterday a gentleman, closely-shaven
ana business-like in all, his movements,
quick-eyed, alert and intelligent, came into
Tux Constitution and introduced himself
—a useless ceremony, as he was known be-
fore—as Mr. Haiiuan, of the Haiman agri
cultural works. Mr. Haiman owns and
manages one of the most important manu
facturing enterprises in Georgia. He works
about 140 men per day, and makes in one
item of plows alone over 6,000 points per
day. His enterprise is ably-managed and is
flourishing. With little delay, he struck
straight at the heart of hla business as fol
lows: _ •
'^tia seldom that I go about a newspaper
offlcw.Tmd I try to never intrude, but I feel
to-day that I have in my possession certain
faata that ahould be laid before the people,
for they involve the prosperity of our citr.”
Encouraged to proceed Mr. Haiman went
on to say: "It is acknowledged on all tides
that Atlanta's growth in the next ten years
muit come mainly from manufacturing in-
teresta Her commercial supremacy ia cm-
tablisheri, but her commercial dominion
has about found its limits. She mustdepend
in a very great degree for her rich growth
upon manufacture*. Now, the prospect’was
never so good as it is at present for new
enterprises of this sort. The factory folks
of tho north, almost without exception, are
looking to the south as a new and inviting
field for manufacturing. They have
such close competition ra the
north that they want to come south
where they will ta virtually without
any competition. It is a new field to ta
worked, and one that ia rich in yield and
{ promise. Its advantages of climate, cheap
obor, etc., all add to the inducement of
little competition, and when I was north a
short time since I was consulted daily bv
leading manufacturers a* to the probable
result of their moving to the south. At
lanta seemed to ta tlie favorite point with
them all.
"Now, this all looks bright, for you will
say: *We shall very soon have an influx of
new industries.’ So we would but for one
thing. I pledge my word as a man of bus
iness that I could bring one million dollars
of active capital here within the next two
years if we could only overcome the one
obstacle. I allude to the lack of cheap
coal. Atlanta has to pay so much for coal
that it is only by superior industry, enter
prise and tact that her factories can com
pete with other factories at all.” —
"What do we pay for coal here?”
"We’pay from $4 to $5 a ton. The Chat
tanooga factories pay from $1.50 to $2. You
will perceive at once what an enormous
percentage of advantage that gives the
Chattanooga people over us. Ah! you say,
‘but we ought not to publish tliis fact,’
Why, air, if we could keep it hid we might
lie foolish to publish it—but do you think
any manufacturing man, who is worth hav
ing, would be foolish enough to come here
without looking into this matter of fuel?
Of course not It is the very basis of man
ufacturing. No! the true way to do is to
acknowledge that this trouble exist*, and
then go to work to remedy it bravely and
intelligently. I am
VERY DEErLY INTERESTED IN ATLANTA.
"My business lias prospered here, and I
like the city and its people. And Isay
this; If I had to establish a factory to-mor*
row, there are advantages peculiar to At
lanta that would probably make me choose
it in preference to Chattanooga We have
here no sickness, no yellow fever, no
floods, etc. But Chattanooga has an
immense advantage in the matter
of cheap coal. To be frank with you, I have
found tnat it will be necessary for me to en
large my factory to three times its present
capacity. Unless I saw some chance of
having a cheap and full coal supply, I
would not feel justified in putting that ad
ditional factory here. Manufacturing can
not stand paying 34 or $5 per ton for coal,
especially when a near competing city gets
it at one-tbird of that price. I nave a let
ter ltere in my hand
FROM ONE OF THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS
of Pennsylvania, in which he writes that
he has determined to come south. He adds
that he would much prefer Atlanta to
Chattanooga, because he would like to en
joy life and health a* well as make money,
and is afraid of Chattanooga, while he is
confident of Atlanta’s salubrity and health
fulness. but he does not see how lie can
stand the difference in the cost of coal as
between the two cities. Thi* is the way
with them all. I tell you, if Atlanta in
tends to go ahead with her wonted energy
she must have cheap coal. It is the key of
the situation. She must have it”
"Can’t the Western and Atlantic railroad
give qs as cheap coal a* we need?"
"It cannot Tbe road has already done as
liberally as can be expected of it It is u
plain proposition. After’the coal reaches
Chattanooga it most ta bailed about 140
miles further. Until this can be done for
nothing we cannot hope to have as cheap
coal an Chattanooga Indeed, we can never
hope io get it much cheaper than we get it
at present as long as we have to rely on this
ohe resource.”
"Wbat, then, is the remedy that you pro-
North Carolina streams have been
stocked with 589,000 salmon.
Negroes ataut Vicksburg, Miss., are pre
paring for a general emigration.
Tne state medical societv, of Kentucky,
will meet in Danville, April 28.
John McCullough is booked for Houston,
Texas, on the 25tU inst.
A large number of bears have been
killed in Hardin county, Texas, this winter.
Mobile is fifty-nine years old, and has
had twenty-nine mayors.
Eight hundred white couples have mar
ried in Bath. Ky., during the post year.
T. G. Barker has been elected president
of the South Carolina jockey club.
Surf-bathing in the gulf at Galveston
ha* commenced.
TnE two street railway companies at Gal
veston have consolidated.
Since July 125 foxes have been killed in
Hart county, Ky.
The cotton mills of Natchez are very
prosperous.
A Mississippi paper says the whole county
of Hinds is for sale “at cost”
The Moffett bell punch has been defeated
in the Florida senate.
Fox-iiunting is the leading Mstime with
the farmers of Elk Neck, Maryland.
Tiie oyster trade is becoming quite dull
has created a great deal of bitterness. Yes
terday. however, the quarrel reached the
point of absurdity by the house of represen
tative* actually passing a vote of censure
upon the Rev. T. A. Hoyt, a distinguished
Presbyterian divine ot this city. It seems
that the reverend gentleman in a recent ser
mon spoke of the necessity of public in
tegrity,asit exercise* a great inflnenceon pri
vate honesty. Tbe sermon was an able argu
ment for honest dealing, and was highly
appreciated. Tlie members of tbe legisla
ture. however, construed it into an nttack
upon themselves, and on tbe meeting of
that body. Mr. Hall introduced the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, which were
assed:
Whereas, it is charged that ignorance ha* gained
powesriott ot the government and *
legislation of the state, and tT * "
in Maryland.
State Sunday-school cotutention of Flori
da, in Gainesville, on the Sith and 27th in
stant.
Stables and chickens from Charleston (8.
C.) have gone to New Orleans, and will par
ticipate in the dispute in the Crescent Uity.
Rev. John L Martin, Presbyterian min
ister at Denison, Texas, has been dismissed
from hi* church for internperance.
The number of delegates in the nextdern
ocratic state convention of Texas will be
530.
A Texas preacher lost three-fourths of
bis deacon* by |ceaching a sermon against
horse-racing.
An Alabama farmer, now past eighty, has
plowed one . f his fields for sixty-two
secutive years.
Grand lodge of Virginia Knights of
Pythias will convene in Richmond on the
18th inst.
Ufwarps of 3,000 Adored men voted the
democratic ticket in the South Carolina
election.
The Texas State Dental association wil
hold it* annual session in Galveston Febr u
ary 25th.
A BEiE ha* been killed near Wytheville,
Va, which weighed between four and five
hundred pounds net.
Rev. Da Sylvaxcs Landrum, of Mem
phis, ha* been called to tlie pastorate of a
Baptist chnrch in N» w Orleans.
The Reformed Epbeojiel chnrch of Talla-
BUltD THE GEORGIA WESTERN RAILROAD,
and push it through to the Alabama coal
beds. ' It does look incredible that with
these inexhaustible beds of coal within fifty
or sixty miles of the city-beds of better
coal than that we are now using, and with
twenty of these fifty miles already graded
and onr growth stop for the lack
a few miles of railroad. I
op, sir, we cannot compute the growth
J# city if we only had that cheap and
abundant coal supply. With coal, abund
ant in ; Atlanta at $2 a ton, the city would
literally double itself in ten years. There
Is no doubt of it It would bring millions
of capital here almost at once. As it is,
our future growth is not only threatened,
hut our supremacy itself I* ondangered.
We have very much the advantage of Cbat-
■ nooga, and. indeed, of all competing
lints at present—but we may lose it. The
...ffereuctf in the price of coal represents
the margin for which most manufacturers
are willing to work. If sharp and capable
competitors in Chattanooga were willing
to put the profits down to this margin, they
could came very near freezing us ont”
"How do you propose that the road
should be built?"
“I do not know. I understand that there
is a company ready to take the road and
push it right through, if Atlanta or the peo
ple of Atlanta will give them the twenty
miles of- graded road and $100,000 tanus. It
seems to me tluit this is aclose chance at it.
I myself would ta willing to give $1,000 of
tbe amount needed. I think the money
could bd raised. I understand tlie graded
road can be purchased for about $30,000, so
that for $150,000 we con get the road built
at once, and put it Into operation, if the
proposition I hear of is a reliable one. I
think it would pay a company to com-
A TIRED EMIGRART’S STORT
Scarcely a day passes that does not bring
to light in Atlanta some new experience id
the emigrant business. All sorts of Uiadj
have been told by returning emigrants, and
nearly every phase of misery.basbeen[pre
sented In their worn and dejected appear*
ances. But yesterday afternoon the repor-
ter found in the pessenger depot acaac
angular for its radnera.
the Air-Line tiain, just before it waa -«jay
to leave, be noticed a man in tattered
clothes sitting with two bright Btttejbqya
1 bv this siebt hi cheaper, more effective and which can give ""Vberea». the neabaiot thsho^t _
1 SSSeooe tapped him o?Se shoulder and greater satisfaction than theira 213 sen tattre* are desirous of betn* in formed m to the of Kentucky.
tbe creditor* of tbe state and the majesty
heaven, by the ignorance and dlihoneaty of t
———dtnm’
will fit up the National Freedman's
bank a* a church edifice.
The people of Madisonville, Ky., have a
growing disposition to invest their surplus
money in the importation of fine stock into
their ixranty.
A young man in Cecil county, Maryland,
lias trapped this winter fifty muskrats,
three coons, three skunks, one weasel,
twelve opossums and one fox.
All over the country farmers are protest
ing against the price of fertilizers as ar
ranged by a oom hi nation of the manufac
turers.
— \ Louisiana paper says: We bear very
little complaint, so tar, among the fanners
a* to scarcity of labor. The river plantations
mence that road and build it through and
operate iu The opening up of those mines
would make Atlanta tire distributing point
forooal for the whole south from Richmond
to Mobile. From this point we. could sup
ply the Carol inasj Flonda, Georgia and part
of Alabama. It would develop at once an
immense industry in east Alabama where
we have really the best coal beds in this
country.; Besides thi*, the new road
would prove Immensely valuable to
tbe Georgia railroad or the Central
railroad on this sidt, or the Louisville and
Nashville on the other.- It would give them
a new line to the west, and would immense
ly benefit them. It *eeras to roe that either
of those roads could easily afford to take
hold of the Georgia Western and build it
I think that very much of tbe needed money
could be raised along the line of tbe pro
posed road. It in a good country, I under
stand, and one that nerds developing.
"But, without being able to give
yon a detailed plan this morning,
I think; it would be well to put
theee points before tbe people and let
them consider as to what shall be done.
Here we are. We need cheap coal, and most
have it. Inexhaustible bed* of tbe best
coal He right mt our doors. We have a road
graded nearly hslf the distance. A trifling
sum, comparatively, will open the min« to
us. With these opened our growth will be
marvellous. Without them our very su
premacy is threatened.
"Now,” said Mr. Haiman, rising to leave,
I am no sensationalist. I do not seek no-
orieyi but I avoid it. I am » i^aln busi-
iiess man, very much interested in the fuj
tureof our city, rtell you the dangers I
have awoken of, and even worse ones,
threaten us certainly if we do not obtain
tbe relief I have indicated. Factories can
not pay $4 to $5 a ton for coal in Atlanta
and then compete with Chattanooga and
Rome. No mathematical truth is more
certain than this, and it will only take a
few years to demonstrate it. Good morn-
*« f * irl , r “PP'W, while the hill
ChrSnUthe dtJ ot NuhTiUe, hare S?too! I ne«rfy their full quoM.
strained by virtue of their office, u an ambuss-1 Mrs. Captain Bates, the giantess, who was
dor of tbeerom, to look after the interest of the I w ;th Cole’s circus lait season, recently gave
^S^!SS££SSfSH^^SS:S£ ^ °“ t ' Wrth to the largest babv of modern timee.
• — - ■ repre- > It was bom in lie prolific blue-graaa region
r^emrs
** And he was gone—and he left ns with a
great deal to think about.
—Insure your life for 25 cents against all
the danger of a Consumptive’s death by
keeping a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
convenient.
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