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Newspaper Page TextUgJ/fiV CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1879. VOL. XI., NO. 46 IIIS VENAL VETO-BRA A WHINE PRO SI THE V/ HITE HOUSE. Wkerela Colos*1 Eijm, «f tbe imf, Thinks • Deaocrst;o RidUr li tot u GaastitatkaaJ u ft A pUkftft R dtr-H • V.l* •f tbe Anay Bill. Washington. D. C.. April 29—The army appropriation bill wa* return*-*! tothe house L*»-*Jay witlM.m the presidential signature, •rrom|i«nied by a ine**age stating at lei.g11* bia rearon* f..r the veto. The president sey» if the bill Contained no other provision* than th*j**e for the »up|*ori of the army, it would rereive hi* prompt approval, but it Include* further legation and involve** qiie»tion*i of the gravist character. Here cites to the atatn'e r.o* in force embodied in sections 2002 a:.d 5528 of the revised Statutes, and ray-that the adoption of the pro|*'«*<rd amendment may be considered in taro a*|*cb*; first, a* it affect* the United States p»vernn»* nt to use a military force to keep tieare at the elect ions; second, a* it affects the right -.f the government by civil authority, to p .teet the elections from violence and fraud. He then quotes and c. da attention to sec lions 2ttU. 55.10, 56S1 and 55-12 of tberwl*f • latates, & *1 see:ion 15 of the army sp >ro nation hill, pained June 18th. 1878, to/et cr with the remark* upon the purjsise an-t ■ifhct of the latter, as stated inapeecheaof tl -enator* and ref.resenIn ti ves who *up|<o pii it. From the*e law*>, be aays, it aprea * there can he no military interference wl* t elccnom*. aud that conse quently then- i* m» ncceeity for the enact merit of section i» of this bill. He then calls attention tithe ext-ding laws fir the prevention of di criminations on account of race, color **r pi rvious condition of servi tude. and to pun *l» fraud, violence and in timidation at f »J ral election*, and says titcw law* it i the dutv of the execu tive deparnn-i t of the government to enforce. . lie intent and effect of the nixtli sex* on of this hill is to pro hibit all chit o I i-niof the United State*, under penalty, line ami Imprisonment, from employing any adequate civil force for this puc|ioa«r: t a place where tUeir en- forreunnt is in e* neoeamry, namely: at places where »r rre**iornn elections are fcehl. If tl *• pi » "wed legislation sliouhl lire tine law. th*-: i will tie no (tower vest e*l iu the army oflic - * of the g .vernincni l*. protect from viol -nee officers of the United Htaiea engaged in the discharge of their duties. Their rithta ami dutVs under the law will r* in mi. but the national government wii. l*e ptwerlcn to ei: force Its own -'-itntes. The state' may employ Im.iIi military and civil power to keen the |e.ire»M«l to enforce the laws at state elections. It is now pn»im*ed to deny to lire United 81.1)0* even necessary civil authority to protect national elections. No sufficient reason haa been given for this discrimination in favor *8 .'late and against nationn) authority. With regard to the manner in which it is sought to rep al the law authorizing the u-o «»f tr* **>;»* at the |r*lls, he says the object aimed at is altogether foreign to the purpose of an army appropriation bill. Tbe practice of lacking to appropriation hills measure* not ;ertinent t:»sm h hills di*l not prevail till more than fony year* after tlte adop* tkm of tbe constitution. It ha* become a com nun practice; all parties when in power have adopted it; many abuses and great waste of public money have in this way crept into appropriation hills; the puhLc opinion of die country is egaiu.ot it: state* which have recently adopted const itn’.t. ms have generally provided a remedy for the evil by enacting that no law shall contain more than one subject, which shall lie plainly expressed in its title. The constitutions of more than half of tlie states contain sub- stantially this provision. Thu public wel fare will tie protuoted in many ways by a return to the early practice **f the govern ment and tothe true principle of legislation, which require* that every measure shall stand or (all according to it* own merits lie saya this congress has ample oie p.rtunity and tuuo to pass the appropriation hills, and al-o to react any f*o!ideal measure* which may he determined upon iu M-|iera<e hill* by ti.e usual and orderly methods of proceeding Ihita majority *»f hod* Imuh-k have deemed ll sUht ailhwr to the principle* main tained iu the last congress by a majority of the house of repre*ei native*. nanu.lv: That the house of representative* has the side right to originate hill* for raising revenue and. therefore, ho* tin* right to withold ap propriations u|*oii which the existence of the government may dejmnd unless the ornate and presitleul -hail give their assent to any legislation which the house may see lit to at inch to appropriation bills. To establish tl i* principle is to make a radical, dangerous an*l an unconstitutional change in the char acter of our institutions. That a majority of the senate new concurs in the claim of the house, only aU* to the gravity of the situation, but does not alter the question at home. The new doctrine, if maintained. Will result in the consolidation of the un checked and despotic js»w»*r in the house of rrpre'eiitativcs. A t*are majority will no longer lie what the framers of the constitu tion intended—an equal and independent branch *if the government. The principle of this* hill pla«**s not merely the senate ami executive, but the judiciary also. Captain Zembeach, of the German navy, was ap pointed consul-general at Samoa, partly to push fi< nnan commercial tntmtwta la that quarter of the globe and partly to evtablUb a coaling station for German steamers, as already provided for by sp-jcia! made*. A dispatch from Cape Town dated April 8th, by way of Xaderie. aajs Colonel Pearson and tha Eknwe garrison reached Taffeta yesterday. Lord Chelmsford, commands:-to chief of t'»a Britikh f'lwet, and his staff', are an their way to Dnrhan. It is Stated that tl e Zulus now occupy Ekowe. to-t that King Cetewayo hlmstlf haa retired beyond the Hack I'mvalosl river. The rumor that the Boers inteadnl to detain fflr Bartle Frere, gov ernor and mmmander-ln-chief of the oulooy of the cape of Good Hope. Is unfounded. The death of Prtoreaa Christina, second child and second daughter of huke lie Mnitlpensier, slater *>f the late Queen Mercedes, and con’Jn of the present king of Sialo, (ccotTwl in Seville at 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon. King Alfonso goes to Hevtlle to day. The infanta's remains will be ¥ la*«d near tbise of theouern to the Cara rial, he court will go into three months’ mourning. Tirxova, April 29.—The Bulgarian assembly of exander, of liattenbun • throne of Bulga- things, get In endless line of rr, to the t ria, with the title of Alexander the Find. Previous to the eieuou of Pnoce Katienburg. 1'rluce iiondoukoff Korsakoff announced that no ttuwlan w*% eligible. Special dlspatcn u> The Constitution. I*axu, April 80.—The St. Petersburg corres pondent of the Univera, In a letter to the Journal, says: - The police arc openly arresting people by hap-hta at all hours of the day, whereas appre hensions were hitherto made at night. On the slightest suspicion sgaiutt a person, his whole family are arrested and domiciliary visits to all their acquaintances stopped, thus leading to farther apprehensions on the most free and frivolous ground*. Eighty-three furnished lodging-keej-er* are to prison for not reporting within twenty four bourn tha latest ar rivals. M. Gakorleff, a government official, living in the winter palace, and his sou, an officer in the guards, are amour the persons to cus tody. Baron Hstrum, deputy com mander of tha at. Petersburg garrison, and General Glides stubs, comma arise of the Mos cow garrison, have hash superseded / dent enthusiasm toward the new order There arc few pedestrians the streets, but an — (•orter* are sealed on stools every door with stout sticks. Covered prison ?*"* frequently pass with a police officer mounted beside the driver, and General Gourko drives round to an ojie. drunk?, eve rted by the Cos- sorts. cracking their whips. Tha Inhabitants are not accomplices of the nihilists, but are pathetic Hpectaton*. LoNhoM, April 29.—The Sportsman denies the Time*' statement that Mr. P. Lorrillard'a bay colt, Uncas, ha* gone ami* for Wednesday. A diqwtcft to the Standard from Cape Town, April Mh, says: The Zulu* appear to have re covered very rapidly from their defeat at Genge- lova. as Urge numbers are reported to he to the neighborhood of Ekowe. Hlcknem Is more or le*s prevalent among the Itrili'U forces. The Standard's dispatch from Gundezk says that serio >s disturb ance* are retried at Bariakashan. Ne- gaL.ik.es with Yakoob Khan are pro- urv*»ing /avomtdy. II b de-hive answer Is expected in a few days. The British have asked the cession of the Khyi>er and Kurau t*'***, and permission P* in.iintain a rerident at Cabnl. The Standard’s di*(alch froin T» ntova s-jn it Is stated on ipssl authority thet the pri.tce of Battenbaig stipulate* that Russians employed in Bulgaria shall reUln their poet flve yearn, and afterwards be naturalimd if they so desire. A dispatch to the News from Cape Town, dated the hth insmnt, says a strong British force will be dl'pat^hod fioia Tugelo for Cetewayo's kraal in a fortnight. It is stated from Pretoria that four thousand Boers have assembled near that place, and that hostilities may arise at any moment. They seem anxious to avoid dring the first shot. 1 he News* St. Petersburg dlxjwtch announces that a circular has been sent P> all the governors of provinces* dim-ting them to itnmedlau-ly rxe- ruu- the commands of the newly appointed gov- ein. rs-general. This order virtually extends the ndliury ngimen to the whole empire. The Gatoa report* that it la lutended to send twelve thousand pruHinerM, with their families, from Novgorod to r ilieri* during the summer. A Berlin db*|*atch to the Post says Prince \Val>lcmar’s candidature for the Bulgarian thnmo waa supported by England, but Russia determinedly opposed it. A UU I flP PtfDAPTTV Stark ville. Miss, gavs: On the morning of i? l Ur r liliUul 1 1. | the 24th a large barn belonging to Jordan ! Moore, who resides five miles south of this I city, was burned to the ground. Suspicion MURDER* pointed to a negro named Johnson Spencer, | who was in the employ of Moore, and w lm THEEBAU’S DEEDS OF . was arrested tor the crime, but Tbs Harder of His Belatioxs by tks liig of! amination was acquitted. Last night Bttrwsk—L Hsrrowixg Tala of Emauux FoSftcity—Victims of tkn Keifs, tb* Lash sad tko disk AN IMPENDING TROUBLE. under coercive dictation the house. The house alone will be judge of what constitutes the grievance, and al*o of the means ami measures of tv- drn* An act of e**?igre** t*» perfect elec tions is now the grievance complained of; but the lmu*e may on the same principle determine that a treaty made by the president, with the advice and consent of the senate, nomination or appointment to office, or a decision or opinion of the supreme court, i* the grievance. ar«! that the measure *>f redress is to withhold the appropriation- r» juired for tiie -npp the cnending lus.neh *»f the government. Believing that i.r* hill is a dangerous vi* lation of the rptr.l and meaning of the cot stiiutiou, 1 am c Mnpelle*! to re.urn it t the house, in which it originated, without my approval. Iloln houses of congress adjourned after asae**-tiling t*Mlay, in re»|«ect to the memory of the laic Representative Clark. Them is w do -peculation as to w hat eouoe the dent. < rane majority in congress will pursue win. reference ti* the vetn sage. Nothing a uh.-ritative. Ikiwcv IrariMsk on the .-t.tijeet, excepting as liilitv of an early caucus to determine sell The coroniK of Internal revenue having »ecc»vo*l nuno run. 1* ten* In^m tobacco manufac turers, rvque>ii.*g kutn P» l**ue .'istccen <x*nt. statute after the close of timinews on the 30th haunt, has replk*! t i all »w*n* that he thoritv U\ d«» a*, i nt that sixteen cent, stamps DlffmarM Between the french Gov ernment and the Clergy. s, April 2G.—The demand for the irosecution <*f Monaignienr Forcade, arcli- i.slmp of A ix, for issuing n pastoral attacking *. Jule* Ferry's education bill, is the first ct in wliat promises to be a irritable culturkaiupf. It was foreshadowed by M. loqiere, minister of the interior,at a banquet at Auxerretwo days ago, when lie stated that lie would make (lie concordat respected by all the clergy, of whatever rank; that if a priest, instead of simply giving religious teaching* from the pulpit, attacked the institutions of country, or insulted the state functionaries or private individuals, his deviation must be repressed. M. Jules Ferry, likewise, speaking at Epinal on Wednesday, declared it to be the resolution of the cabinet, not only to pres* the uni versity bill, hut to enforce respect for the law. both on the irreconcilables of the left and the irreconcilable* of (lie right. A Note to the Khedive. Lo5Ho?f, April 20.—This evening's Pall Mall Gazette say’s it ha* reason to believe that England and France have addressed to the khedive an identical note which will >hably put a new complexion on atlairs. t sultan ha* already informed the khe- live that persistence in his present course will probably involve him in consequences disastrous to himself. A Paris dispatch to Reuter's company confirm* the report that England ami France have sent a joint note to the klie dive. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegram sav*: “The note sent to the kht- dive demands the aupointmeut of an Eng lish minister and a Frcn h minister to take the place of M. Rivera Wilson and M. Rlignieres, ami that they shall not be re moved except with the consent of England and France. If the khedive refuses this de mand strong measures will be adopted. Down Che Hut ban lenient. Special dispatch to The Constitution. Minni.KTowx, N. Y., April 26.—At three clock this evening some oil carton the east ward bound Erie freight train went down the embankment between Howell's and Obsville. Eight cars of oil took lire and the flame* spread to four freight ears and the frame buildings of C. if. A H. Olis. near by. The burning il gave forth flame* which covered a large area and the tracks were rendered impA**able for seven hours. {Several ]*a*sen- gcr train* were stopped on both side* of the wreck, including the way express, the New York express from the west, a portion of prohatii future i they m*y open obtain the aun> MofTO*. It U m.uiufucturvc* r | laru* of tiu .«Mt«telj alter midnight to- by the irvmury «>:&viaN tobacco, winch has caused _ URias off in the r \ -nue of fTc.Ott) as compared with :he like per:**! • l*»t y*r. win lncTcai*c the Uodiuv.1 by him * u the Uih instant iarnsniui th« efficiency »*i ti.e uatioual Laud of health rel ati\-e to the wvventioji or spread within the Ini ted States of eO:i ia«i iu* diseases. The thirteen tii arcti. n *>t t..e Mil heretofore aliinied to, which provide- tint ... .htiig tn tire act shall be con- atruedt.' *u|ers .e lire quarantine Uw of any state, was M*Uken out. The how< CMunintt on eleeii«ms to day thortard an adverse report to be made to ha use on the claim of K. S. Thaia. of >*>uih CAr- oUaa. for pay as a nn ml* r the tM co&grem Mr. Thain was not scale.! as * reprvsenative, but bares his claim on thejrtv-uud that he w» legally •nutied to the real. The ommlitee also, aflrr The senate »ub-rotcnti:tiv on the legislative Mil com pir led their con tide ration of it tin* afternoon fttod wiU men u to the full cv-ramittee uvmor* At a cabinet meeting ti>day. the quarantine ca ts Mi* hed at New Orleans by Governor SWehoL was dtsmreed at cons«.leTabte lengtiu Complaint t* made by ahlpaersof gram from the upper Mls- slaMppi valley that the regulation* adop «M ri aUr aasouul to au etubnrgo iq*»u. the shiprne.. grain to France* .d sjviln. Iu view of the tact 1 _ rougtew. ha* tiie soi.j«i l>ef*'re it iu tire form *d aatamal heaiih bill, u wa* u.a dcenKvi *uj. treble Aw Ure executive branch of the govemneut take any present action In the manor. St. Louis express l * ri.ii d fA't The Pope and the Kins- I .ox don, April 38.—A Brussels newspa per > tales that the king of Belgium wrote the pojre regretting the impending dis- iiaious in Belgium in consequence of the •preheitaion of the clergy a* to the effect the proposed revision of the edueati-*n law. The p**pe replierl that lie regretted necessity of any change in the law, but did not cvwisider that the proposed bill iouslv attacked the rights of character. He di-avowed the action of Belgian bislio|« m opposing the law. and said that Catholics ild be permitted to conform to that Frem ltot I via. Nxw Youk, April *26.—President Daxa, of Bolivia in a letter to one of bis friends, says, “I am going to Potosi at the head of 10,000 troops, and I oleiige my word that before sixtv days I will recover \utofag*s:a and onr nag will not only he replanted there.but elsewhere.” The officers of the Bo livian army, numbering 757—all above the grade of sub-lieutenant, have issued a pn»te>t against Chilian occupation of Boliv ian territory. They agree to renounce their salaries and live on thecomtupn rations of a soldier in order to |*erforra their oaths to avenge an insult. London. April 28.—The Rangoon corre spondence of tire Daily News gives a graphic account of the late horror* at Mandalay: The king'* fears continued to gain U|*ou him a* one after another of the princes pined away and died in the fr.gUtful under ground prisons of the palace, loathsome with the filth never removed since these dens were constructed vears ago. Fears of British intervention alone prevented hint from putting them all to death months ag*-. Suddenly the news of the disaster in Zuli.- lard reached Mandalay. That apparently decided him, and a work oi cold-blooded butchery began which will hardly find a parallel* in hivtory. At first the tua--acre was carried on according to old Burmese u*e and wont. The victims were led out of their cell* in two* and three*, brought to shekho to the king, and then disposed *.f in ordinary Buddhist fashion The bead of the victim was tied down to bis ankles, and a blow on the back of the neck from a heavy club put him out of pain. But this soon* proved too mild a sjrectacle for the fiendish mind of Thcebau. The Fhoti»zai prince, whose insolent bearing Eng!i«!i visi tors to Mandalay will remember, on being brought to do reverence to his young brother—the king is past twenty-one years —pr jfessed an utter acorn for what could ha done ti» him, and was flogged to death The late king’s oldest son—the truculent Mekhaya prince, who used to look upon all foreigners as so much dirt under his feet— turned craven and wa* taunted and driven to madness before receiving the low which only half stunned him when his writhing body was thrown into the gigantic trench itug to receive the victims. The mas-acre was carried on in a lei*nrely fashion ex tending over several days. fiendish ingenui ty being taxed to the utmost to devise fn-sh horrors. Monngoke, the governor of Rangoon when it was captured by the British in 1856, had bia nose and mouth tilled with gunpowder, alight wa* applied, and he wa* then (lung into the treuch to be stifled by bodies of succeeding' victim*. The daughter of the Nyonng Yan. young girl of sixteen, whs handed *r to eight soldiers of the rojul guard to be pitched insensible into these tie heaving grave when they had gratified their brutal lust. The wife of one prince, far advanced in pregtiancy, was ripped up, and the agonized husband was brought to sec his wife and child once more before he died. After some days of this sort of thing the executioners got weary and hurried through their task. Little children were put in blankets and swung against the palace walls, women were battered over the head, as taking less trouble than- tying them up, so as to £ei u blow on the neck. Together about ninety irersons are believed to liave been put death in this way. No one wa* al lowed to leave the palace while the massa cre was going on; hut it seems certain that Mr. Shaw, our resident,was inside the palace walls within a very short time of its com mencement. He had been to a concert given by one of the ministers. One object of this ¥ wai was to drown the cries of the victims. he remonstrance with Mr. Shaw, at the instance of our government, addressed to the king was received with the utmost con tempt, and he was told in as many word* to mind his own busiuess—that Burmese do mestic alluirs had nothing whatever to do with the British government. The guard of thirty Sejioj., conceded to him arrived a short time afterward, but was not allowed land for a day, and the detachment for Mr. SSt. Darbe, at Bhorao, was not allowed to disembark at all, though that gentleman a* at Mandalay. There is no doubt that the lives of Mr. Shaw and all the English residents in Man dalay are in very great danger, and the act of one fanatic may brin£ about a general massacre. The most various accounts pre vail a* to the forces the king has at his dis posal. bnt probably he could not muster more than 5U,0h0 men, and of these the ma jority would be without firearm* of any de scription. but there is no doubt that the account of the disaster to the 21th at Borke’s Drift lias produced a profound iin- 8 ression, and the Burnians are convinced icy can easily repeat wlrnt “the ne groes,” for whom they have a con summate contempt, have done be fore them. There is a mast uneasy feeling in Rangoon, and should there Ire war with upper Burniah there would cer- talnly^ be riots here. During the last few days emissaries of the king have been going round the town summoning by sound of gong al! natives of independent Bunnali to return to their own country immediately, under penalty, in case of refusal, of the ex ecution of all their families. Whether the arrival of large reinforcement* here will have any deterrent effect remains to be seen. Tha fifty-fourth and forty-third regiments have arrived from Calcutta and Madras and proceed up to Thayetnivo. frontier, immediately. Three Madras regi ments have also arrived, but for these the Burmans care little. The kala is an in dividual whom they cordially despise. Nevertheless, the Nineteenth and Thirty- fifth Madras native infantry, which have already arrived, are a fine looking Lnlyof men and seem quite ca)iable of giving a good account of themselves. Her majesty’s ships Ruby and Wild Swan are in the har bor, and the flagship, the Euryalus, is ex pected daily, so that it would seem that a considerable naval brigade will Ire formed. Notwithstanding all these preparation* the Burmese decline to be overawed, and tiinily believe that the ti»-(iot-helmeted warriors of King The*- > hau will demolish our force* very sjreedily. The first detachment of the Fifty-fourth arrived late last Wednesday night and landed immediately, the band of the Eighty-ninth playing them up to their camping ground. An ancient Barman remarked: “English government plenty running. Bring troops dark time, make plenty noise, too much noise; only one hundred, two hundred men.'’ Some cadet volunteer companies have been recently formed at the sch*x>\* here, and these were oaraded a few days ago. The Burnian onlookers remarked that the Eng lish government was so afraid of King Theebau that they were even training the boys to go and tight him. Such thing* show the spirit of the people, and it d**es not seem at all probable that the mere dis play of force will be sufficient to bring the up-country government to put an en*l to the anarchy which is paralyzing all the trade of the country just now. To treat with Theehan is an impossibility. He i: now hardly ever sober, and his madness 1. becoming more and more dangerous t** al about him. A mission will be despatched to Mamlalay immediately, but whether it will Ire in time to save Mr. Shaw, the dent, and other British subjects in Manda lay is a matter that remains to be seen Moore’s other mammoth barn, containing wagons, provender, agricultural imple ments. etc., was discovered in flames. This time the incendiary was caught.who proved to be a negro named Nelvin Porter. He confessed, and also implicated Johnson Spencer and others. To-day about two hundred men wlio heard the confession, hung him to a tree. Providence, R.JI., April 20.—Mrs. Pearce, wife of the postmaster at Bristol, who was mysteriously shot in bed last week, made two attempts at suicide yesterday morning. The husband will recover. Memphis. April 29— Mrs. M Raymer, re siding at 150 Third street, committed sui cide on Monday evening, by taking an over dose of morphine. Cause, domestic trouble. New OKLEAKa, April 29.—In a row among the roustabouts on the steamer Hol liday to-day George Joues and James Glynn, colored, were killed and auother, name un known, junijred overboard and was drowned. St. Louis, April 29—Judge Cody, of the criminal court, ti»-<lar fined about fifty lot tery venders from $500 to $800 each for sell ing the tickets of the Missouri State lottery, and committed them to jail {rending pay ment of the fine. The aggregate of the fine* is about $3,500. New Yoke. April 29 —In the general ses sions, the grand jury made a presentment in court this afternoon, declaring that most of the crime* that came under their supervision were caused by intoxicating liquors, and calling on the police and excise authorities to enforce the Sunday liquor law. and recommend that future legislation shall cause licensed houses to close from 11 j. iu. to 5 a. m. Attention was called to the act that the Herald ami Express were vi olating the lottery laws in publishing lot tery advertisements, aud the grand jury recommend the matter to their successors, and also the question of safety on the ele- COLEMAN’S CRIME. THE BRUTAL CAREER Of A MURDERER •AL CAREER Of A MUR of He ore i 04 Art) Bell to t Ricn*r>,i>, April 20—A. M. B»i|.r, the oldest primer and publisher in this city, died to-day, aged 65. In 1839 he entered as an apprentice on the old Richmond En quirer, then under the control x>f the late lather Ritchie, and subsequently was in terested in various newspajreis as foreman, manager and owner. He was one of the or ganixers of and the first president of the Richmond typographical union. He was one of Richmond's most respected citizens and leaves a stainless reputation. Under Protest. Sax Fatxaaca. April 26.—The Alta's let ter from Samoa says that General Bartlett has been gazetted premier under protest from the German consul. Rev. Tho*. Gibnev. ivx-tor of St. Peter’^ church iRomnn CatluJie). and former vicar of tl*u arvli-diocese of San Fsanciso*. died this morning. CRIME AND CASUALTY. Chattanooga, Tens.. April 29—George and Robert Scott, who live four miles from town, came in and visited a house of ill fame. Being ordered out on account of dis orderly conduct, thev stoned the house and flourished pistols. Policemen Wiggins an* Davis came to the scene of trouble. Robert Scott ran away, but George Scott was caught and placed in the city jail. In the search for Robert Scott, the officers visited another house of ill-fame. While there a man. wh* is said to be Robert Scott, knocked at the doorand a-ketl for Officer Wiggins. Wiggins, in company with a man named Lecroix, went out, but when & few ste{ts from the house Wiggins was shot through the lungs causing instant death. The murderer fled. Four officers started at once for Robert Scott's house, reaching there an hour be fore he came. After a very tierce struggle, in which no one was hurt. Scott was hand cuffed. brought to the city am) lodged in jaiL There is much indignation. The jail is extra ruarded. Wiggins was a very j*op- ular officer, and leaves a wife and four chil dren who were dependent on him fora sup port. ar.d are now destitute Wiggins’s re mains have been taken |o Dalton, liis for mer home, for burial. vated ralrioad*. Madrid, April 29.—A large hill in Yeas, in the province of Jaen, caved in,demolish ing five houses. Thirty |*ersoiis were killed and fourteen injured. Spedal dispatch to The Constitution. Buffalo. April 30.—0. B. Howe & Son. leading grain and commission merchants of this city, have made an assignment Galveston, April 30.—A News’ special from Griffin. Texas, says parties from the neighborhood of the IVc*»s river report that the Kiowas are killing the herders aud driving off stock. Mr. Belcher and one of his men were killed Saturday, and another on the 23d. Feuia of a general massacre are entertained. The Indians number sixty. Cincinnati, April 30.—The Gazette’s I ronton. Ohio, sjrecial says Mrs. Gates, who is supposed to have died in child birth, ras buried at Proctorvilie, 20 miles above ronton, on Saturday. Two of her broth- ra who expected foul play asked for an in- estigution by the coroner and the arrest of Dr. Gates, lier hus-Kmd. The latter resisted, driving back the constable with a revolver. Gates then took to the river, and compelled the ferryman with hi.* pistol to carry him across, aud drove back a pursurer who at tempted to cross after him in a skiff. Gates escaped to Kentucky. St. Louis. April 29.—-The ai plication of If. Brown, manager of the Western Union telegraph office, for a writ of habeas corpus to release him from the custody of the city mar-hal for refusing to produce certain telegrams before the grand jury, was denied to-day by the court of uppeals; that tribunal deciding that the similarity between letter* and telegrams is not sufficient to give to telegrams the same immunity from subpeena duces tecum in the hands of the company as is given to let ters in the mail. An application will be made to the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus. Louisville, Ky., April 29.—At Frankfort, Kentucky, to-day. Judge McMananta ordered tne trial of Thomas Buford, charged with the killing of J .dge Elliott, continued until the third Monday of May next. The cause of the posi|ionemeut was the inability of several witnesses to attend. There was excitement whatever, although the court room was densely pxeked. The prisoner appeared calm and downcast. Hon. T. J. Hargis, elected to succeed Judge Elliott, n>-dav resigned his position as judge of the eighth Kentucky criminal court. Pirrsauau, April 29—Information has been lodged, charging the officers of the Standard oil company with a conspiracy to defraud the oil producers, by organizing a monopoly in the trade. Charleston, April 29.—Jordan Green shot his brother-in-law. Win. Casey, at El- lcrtnu, yesterday. The origin of the quarrel is unknown. Green is jailed. Walling for Transportation. St. Louis. April 29.—The colored peo ple’s uatioual immigration board has re ceived information that several thousand negroes are now at different places aloug tli banks of the Mississippi river below Memphis ready to start north so soon as tnuis|Hirtntion can be procured, or, in other words, are preparing to leave their homes for St. Louis and beyond. One party of nearly one hundred are now at Lakeport, Chicot county, Arkansas, almost destitute, and it is said steamers refuse to transport and that the whites in the viciuity refuse sell them provisions. About two hun dred of these refugees have been sent west since Sat unlay last. It is understood that Jay Gould has offered free transportation tor them west of Kansas City, and they will probably go to Lawrence, Kansas. Logan's Swell-Head*. Special dispatch to The Constitution. Chicago. April 29.—-The Union Veterans held a large meeting la*t night at the Grand Pacific hotel, and unanimously adopted the following resolution: “Resolved. 1 hat the Union Veterans club, or Chicago, most heartily approve the manly, moral courage exhibited by our dis tinguished comrade. Senator Logan, in de clining to ac- ept the code duello a* the means of refuting a vile calumny which needs no refutation, and thus setting at de fiance a harharous custom by one whose personal courage has been so often demon strated in the defense of his con try.” A High-Toned Karrlage. Cincinnati. April 28.—The most aristi. atic colored wedding ever known iu this country took place in Allen chapel to-night. The groom was George Jackson, a colored school teacher, and the bride, Miss Virginia Gordon, daughter of Robert Gordon, i wealthy colored coal-dealer. Mr. Gordou v worth several thousand dollars. The bride’s presents from her father consisted of $60, 000 in bonds and a handsome residence. At (he Walking Jffateb. Lonpon, April 26.—The spectators at the walking match numbered 11.000. At 6 o’clock Brown was 532 miles, Huzel 485, C-orkey 467. Weston 437. There are 10,000 people in attendance. Ths Haider of Mourning Aon j Bell in the Main tains of Tenneoeo—Ckssa and Captor* of tk* Criminals—0kU1aUI$ Betv* a Civil and Military Courts. ——^ ’ i There arrived In this city on Sunday af-j temoon a hand-cufled and guarded m one event of whose tragic history has gii ri*e to one of the most ir* * * ever made, by the supt United Stated—a decision tion of questions never that tribunal befo're, and tothe military authorities w criminals n».jr confined in different states. This man is Pryor N. Coleman, of Knox ville, Tenti., whose soul for fourteen years has been Muined with the murder of a no ble and heroic young girl, and who now isl awaiting sentence to exptflw his atrocious crime. A few fact* from his history will be necessary to an understanding of the present status of his ca*e In February of 1865, when the war was scarcely over, the first Tennessee federal cavalry, of which this Cod-man was cor poral, wa* stationed in Knife county, Tenn.' No great distance from ficir camp, up among the mountajns, lived a man named Bell, confederate In hi* principles, who owned au illicit still. One tiight Coleman and a private of his cuvpany, named Chambliss, made an excursion to this distil lery with no other intention*!! wouid be hu manity to presume, than that of obtaining liquor; but, when their 1 “p hs<» become heated with the new whisky, ana in conse quence avarice and a spirit of malice had supplanted in their hearts the instinctive regard for human life, they conceived the idea of |>aying a visit to lfoll’s home near by—where, it was a subject of common re port, the old man kept a large sum of money—and frighten him into disgorging ft. They effected an entrance into the house under the pretense of being travelers and seeking hospitality— a pretense always successful among the unsuspecting, simple hearted and generous country people. They sat quietly down before the broad, flaming fire-place' and with a nonchalant air told the old gentleman that they had come to relieve him of his hoarded wealth. Bell avowed that there was no money on the premises; that he kept his money in Knoxville. Time and again he reiterated this statement to their threats. Finally Chambliss seized a stick of wood and striking Bell over the head swore' that be would kill him if he did not reveal the hiding place of his money. The scuffle aroused the fumily and a daughter. Mourning Ann Bell, noble in spirit and as strong in body, fearlessly rushed to her father’s assistance. She at tempted to wrest the stick from Chambliss’s hand but was pushed aside by Coleman, who seized and attempted to restrain her. •Strong and well-formed as an amazon, Coleman, finding iu her his superior, cried out: ’’Chambliss, I can’t hold her; wliat shall I dor “Shoot the wench.” was the cowardly and curt reply. Villainous as the tnan who suggested the , he pushed his pistol into the very face the young girl and fired. She fell a corpse. A noise on the stairway and the cries of women now announced the hasty { >roach of another daughter and the e. Coleman, already a murderer, threw himself against the stairway door to prevent their entrance. Finding it a difficult ask he deliberately fired the remaining •ails of his pistol through the door, hoping o thus kill the defenseless women whom lie dared not meet. The shots were without ef fect. In the meantime Chambliss, by blows from the stick of wood, had felled *Beil to the ground. But the old gentleman, pluck}’ ~ *-* daughters, struggled to arise. A final across' the temples, just as Cole- fired his last shot, seemed to have killed Bell, and the women, fearing soldiers, tied. The next morning the whole surrounding country wa* wild over the news of the mur der of Miss Bell and the attempted murder her father. The citizens organized in uads and-searched every nook aud corner of the mountains. They found in a few [lays various hiding places of the murder ers, though they could not lay hands on the en. Fiually, one night they stationed a uad of men at each one of these hiding places and waited for results. Noon the murderers came stealing into one of their haunts and wore immediately attacked. They drew revolvers in each hand und, swearing they would shoot the first man that moved, backed off into the night and escaped. In a few minutes afterwards Chambliss entered another haunt and, as soon as he was recognized, a squad of men -losed round the house yelling with delight it the capture of their game. Chambliss ran around the corner of the hoase, drew his pistol and began wildly tiring at the men who there confronted him. They returned the fire—never ceasing until Chambliss lay literally riddled with bullets at their feet. In a few days afterwards Coleman—a man of less pluck—was captured with but little resistance. Such was the crime of Coleman, horrible i every detail. The circumstances to which that crime gave rise are of intense interest, and will explain why he is Atlanta to-day. The enpturers turned Coleman over to the military authorities; by them he was court-martialed and sentenced to death. He soon escaped from custody, however, and fled to Kentucky where he remained until the year 1874. Thinking that the war was now over and that, since the army had disbanded, he would uo longer be held answerable for his crime, he returned in (hat year to his old home. To his surprise he was immediately arrested by the civil authorities on charge of the murder of Mourning Ann Bell. When his trial came up his counsel did not pretend to deny that he was guilty of murder; of that there was no doubt. But Coleman at the time of the murder of Miss Bell was a soldier in the army of the United States; and the question was whether he could be tried by a state court. Coleman’s counsel argued that no uuion soldier could be held to answer in the courts of the seceded states for any offense by him committed in those states while a soldi- r. The criminal court A Suit to Enjola tks P»i»oio*l Ksspsr of tko Pen- itertiary from Assigning tks Long-Termed 1 ' Z?btas to Camp Ho. 1—Tha It j auc tion Denied by Jcdgs Hilljer. promptness, but judichti^ordera jrSKWER THE CORPUS. court to court with painful slumishuc -, ■ So when Captain Day presented his order* . tothek i. ivUlesheriif— that Coleman bo transferred 10 him. a milisarv officer—tha sheriff refused on the ground that be had received ,-, such orders from the supreme court Ti.e sheriff knew, very well tod that be would not receive such orders for about three mouths, the custom of the L mted Siatee snpreme court being to trans mit orders like this to the supreme courts of states at the close of it» session. There seemed to be no hope lor Captain Day but to set quietly down and await the close of the session. An order eras finally ob tained, however, through the efforts of Captain Day.from the judge of the supremo orurt, ordering the sheriff not to await the final mandate, but to turn Colciuan over to the military authorities now. In this way the unwieldy formality of law was dispensed with. The rode. Knoxville Chronicle. It f* a dixenwe mat this m called code of honor en driven from our shores long ruder times, it has no home In Instead of being a bravepro- Mt to the extreme, not a me ” cum le** criminal than murder. It b only elevated sort of description of mnrder. E*n*ri«l- ly b tius conduct disgraceful when the challenger b a representative of the people, and a law maker. It might PcwtiDljr be excused if it bail occurred be tween two deqtfradoe* on the frontier, but it can not when coming from a man bolding as exalted a place as Mr. Lowe. Two important criminal rials commence to day. that of Buford, at Frankfort, Ky.. for killing Judge Elliott, and that of Edward Cox. at Atlan ta. 6a.. fur killing Colonel Robert Alston. Both of these cases have attracted unusual attention, and the progress of the trials will be watched with lively interest by the entire country. Emi —*—* -been - - - attorney* have been retained on both sides tWWiarr Sbonnau made a statement a* V' the action of banks and ratrfuhsts in «*-ortng tne re- fa:.ding of cvrtihcafc* utlvudcd u» be disinMited among the pcoplr. It was the seucral opinion that there could be no method adopted that would secure the object sought to be attained by the secretary, a* there were so many methods by watch the orrtlltau * could l<e obtained by the atomy ed cUa a itiwut any mi faction of law. FOREIGN FLASHES. The Anarchy tn 11 Christina. Taars,April 29.—A dispatch to the rnicer* front IU. iVtanoaRT. reports that two rr*i:u.-nu of guards and (a brigade of artillery, have Lot so many othcris by amst that they have been obliged to draw officer* from other regiment*. Poor thousand and seven hundred political ‘ mm were removed from Fort 1‘stropaul >rtiti s (tight, to Kasun barm toff and other ‘ The Manchester Guardian's London correspond- •at states thst the action of the privy counsel has a* alarmed the tier-man agricultnrw* that they are getting up a petlUuo praying their govern ment toabsolutriy prohibit ihe Importation of * TSSadlNnto* to Urn rail Mall GaaMtomya An Imitation. IfoMK. April 26—It is stated that the pope will shortly publish a document inviting all the European govtirnmanta to unite in purging society of the evils which at pres ent U—et if, and join in an endeavor to stamp out socialism. Dsctsr Reilly. DuciorF. W. Reilly, lata managing editor of the Chicago Herald, and one of the best known of northwestern journalists, is in the city. He.is traveling for hia own health and the health of some of his friends and ac quaintances. ■r. Schulta'a Qncstlew. Ottawa, Ont.. April 29— A special dis patch from Washington to the St. Paul Pi oneer having stated that it had been de cide*! by the secretaries of war. state and interior that Sitting Bull is a British sub ject, Mr. Schnltx, M. P. for Manitoba, has given notice that he will, on Wednesdav. ask whether the government baa any knowl- • lge thereof. San Francisco, April 29.—W. F. Ca-*e- hanu. find assistant city treasurer, com mitted suicide ye*tcrdav afternoon, by shooting himself through the head. He left a note addres-ed to the coroner, stating that lie bad been led into stock speculation by Alex. Austin, late city tax collector, who also suicided, and was a defaulter to a large amount. He had l««st $35 «XK> in >pecula- tk>n; had t:*>«d $20,096 of the ci:y% money to cover margin*, and being unable to make it prod saw no resort but to follow Austin’s example. He had always borne a good name and could not bear the disgrace of public exposure and prosecution. Experts nave been recently examining the city treasurer's accounts, but have not yet re ported. The deceased was a native of Ger many and was fifty years of age. Mxjmns, April 29.—The mutilated, de composed remains of a negro were found a few days since in a swamp ten miles north of this place. The body is supposed to be that of Bill Gilmer, the negro who shot Attorney L. J. Wood six weeks ago. When discovered two bullets were found in bis Mnrrxn April 29.—A persevering counsel then sued out a writ of habeas corpus in the federal coart Knoxville on the ground that the state court had no right to try Coleman. They carried tlieir point, but the sheriff still continued to hold Coleman on the charge of assisting a man to break jail. Being thus retained in custody, he was brought before the supreme court of Ten nes*ee on his apj>eal from the Knox crim inal court. This court disregarded the de- islon of the federal court and ordered Cole- to be hung. His counsel, nothing daunted, ap(»ealed to the supreme court of the United States. The case remained there for two years, but was at last reached. The case attracted a great deal of attention, no similar one having never been in the su preme court of the United State* before, and it has just resulted in a lengthy decision, of which the closing paragraph conti * ence: •It follows from the views expressed” (In the appears not only by the evidence in the reciSff of the case, but in the record *>f the proceeding* of the court-marti.-tl, a murder, too. committed un iter circumstance* of great atrocity, aud as he was —The preliminary papers have been served in the suit of which Mr. S B. Chittenden d General B F. Butler * greed shtmld be brought in order to test the validity of the reissue of the United States legal-tender notes in time of peace. This suit has been brought in the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York, and is founded upon a cotton transaction be tween Augustus D. Juilliard and Thomas S Greenman. O-.e hundred bales of cotton were sold for $5,121.90. in payment for which mere tendered twenty-two dollars and fiftv cents in gold coin of the Ynited States, fo-ty cent* in silver coin, a United States note of the denomination $5,000, numbered “A106, series of 1878.” and a United States note of the denomination $100, numbers 1 “A17.015, series of 1878u’ The ro tes were refused, and the snit is brought to recover judgment for the amount. Whatever the decision may be, the case will be carried to the United Mates supreme court. The plaintiffs attorneys are Butler. Stillman A Hubbard. Senator Edmund* will be aasooiated with Mr. William Alien Butler in arguing against the validity of the reissued notes. The de fendant is represented by Mr. James McKeen. General Butler, it Is understood, will make the principal argument for the telegram from defense. iced to death, and as it appears by hi* idea d judirraent wa* dnly approved and stil tins without any action having been tr .on it. he m*y be delivered up to the military authorities of the United State* to be dealt with aa required by law.” Orders were forthwith telegraphed to At lanta. the nearest military post to Knox ville. to send a detachment to take < 'ulemati charge. Captain Day, of the fifth artil lery, had command of the *letachmcnt and yesterday landed tlie murderer at McFIier- son’s barracks. Five years ha* Coleman been iu custody and though he avows that not he, but Chambltae, killed Muss Bell, he has often during his confinement implored the jailor to take him out and hang him. thus putting an end to .his misery. The inactivity of long confinement has so enervated and ema ciated him that he could yesterday scarcely walk from the jail to the depot.’ He will be held at McPherson’* barracks to await hi* sentence from the highest judicial authority of our government Coleman, who for the past two years lias begged to be killed now lives in hope that his sentence will be commuted. Atrocious as his crime was, there is no law that metes out severer punishment to a condemned man than death. Bur should this man now be hnng, be will have suffered not only the penalty of death, but also five years of really illegal imprisonment—imprisonment that has left him emaciated ana nerveless and by its loneliness and horrors has kept his mind for years in a chronic state of yearningfor the death which he himself has been powerless to inflict. The ray hope that now steals though hia past spair seems to be a hope not without cause. His sentence will, in all probability, be commuted at least to imprisonment for life. IN GENERAL. —Mr. Edison’s income from his patents is estimated at $60,000 per annum. # —“Dat’a de man wat eats rebels for break- tost,” is wliat the little negro boy says in Washington of Senator Hoar. —The man who can make' something out of nothing should go to Leadville.—Detroit Free Press. —Lord Ashburnham is said to be the no bleman who will make a well known lordly named widow his lady bride. —The southern Baptist convention to be held at Atlanta next month wiU.it is now known, have a large delegation from St. Louis. —‘‘Gath” is said to have $48,000 invested » Washington mortgages. He made it all by writing. He has made the money while Don Piatt has taken the lickings. —The first meeting of the general execu tive Association of the Woman’s missionary society, M. E. Church, south, ha* been offi cially announced to be held at Louisville, Ky., on the 16th of next month. —A correspondent of the Birmingham Post writes that at two of the churches in that town certainly, and he believes at four, the use of the Atnanasian creed has been dis continued. —Following are a few quotations from Leadville: Shingles, $7 per thousand; common lumber, $45; Chicago flooring, $110; siding, $65; ceiling, $70; stock Ixiards, finishing, $140; doors, 2x6, 6x6 inch, $2.75; same, 1 3x16, $3.25. —Much excitement was occasioned among members of the British house of commons on the third of April by the suicide of Isaac Fletcher. F. R. 8„ member for Cock- mouth. He shot lniuself through the head Morley’s hotel, in Trafnlgar-square. —There is only one object in the world which will attract a young lady’s attention from the handsomest young man whom she meets on the street, and that is another woman with a hat two laps ahead of auv style she has yet seen.—Bradford Era. —There was never but one duel fought in Illinois. One of the belligerents was killed on the field. The survivor was tried for mur der. was convicted and hanged by the neck until he was auite dead. General Logan may have heard of this scrap of history. —The democratic committee of Okolona, Miss., have washed their hands of the Oko lona States, whose rabid Utterances have been frequently quoted recently in congress by the republicans. They ray it in no wise represents the- sentiments of the people there. —The whole line of the Erie canal will be ta*ly for busiuess by the first of May and will be officially declared open as soon a* vessels begin to arrive from the upper lake*. About four thousand men are now engaged what is called ‘‘bottoming out” this great thoroughfare of transportation. —In view of the proposition to enact an in come tax law it is worth noting that during the eleven years of the operation of such a law—from 1863 to 1873, both inclusive—the amount realized was $346,768,349. In the year 18G6 the income tax yielded $66,014,- 429, a much greater amount than during any other year. —The late itoss Winans seven years ago built 112 dwelling-houses for working peo ple in Baltimore. They were built in fiats tor two families each, and though they bad modern conveniences, and wire cheap as rent, flats were not popular in that city. They have just beenoflered for sale, but the sale was withdrawn with only 9 of the 112 houses sold. Wilheltui is great friends with the art ists in New York city. He visits their stu dios and smolres a friendly pipe with them, and has been a guest of the Tile club. Wil liam M. Chase either ha* painted oris going to paint Wilhelmj’a portrait on the back of his violin. It is to be painted like a minia ture on a gold background. Gernumber. of Astoria, formerly of Astor Place, has just completed a violin ordered by Wilhelmj. —The Silver State, a Nevada newspaper, ublishes the following lively card: “My husband, Jim Barney, the ugliest man that ever lived, has left my bed and board with out any justifiable cause. I used to do all 1 could to make him pretty comfortable, and in spite of all my wishes lie would cut up like the devil and run after women. Now, want a’l the women to notice this act of mine. I won’t pay a darned cent of his debts, and I hope no one will return him to me, ’cos I don’t want him. Maria Barney, Big Meadows.” —What does your anxiety do? It does not empty to-morrow of its sorrow; but, ah! it empties to-day of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it when it cornea It does not bless you to-morrow, and it robs you to-day. For every day has its burden. Suf ficient for each day is the evil which prop erly belongs to it Do not add to-morrow’s to to-day’s. Do not drag the future into the present. The present has enough to do with its own proper concerns. We have always strength to bear evil when it come*. We have not strength to bear the foreboding of it.—Anon. —Mr. Mackey writes to the Pall Mail Ga zette on the meaning and origin of the word “caucus.” He says: “In default of any other suggestion, the derivation of the word front the ship calkers has been unwil lingly accepted. 1 venture to assert that the true root of the word is to be found in the language of the early Irish and Scotch im migrants into the United States, and that it is no other than the Celtic ‘cornin' (pro nounced ‘oo’X a prefix implying concord and agreement with, and ‘cuis,’ signifying cause, affair, concern, business, procedure, etc. From this comes ‘co-cuts/ or caucus, a meeting of those who agree with the bus iness in mind, whatever it may be, a packed meeting, in fact. Very many words that are clearly traceable to the same Gaelic source exist in the American vernacular.” —Russian princes seem to be a very pe culiar kind of |>eople. Not long ago Prince Yusupoff one of the richest men of the country, wa* first fined and then sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on account of the fearful amount of dirt of the most disgusting kind which he had allowed to accumulate in his palace, and which pois oned the atmosphere of the whole neigh borhood. Now. the *.a*t St. Petersburg pa pers announce that Prince Sergii Michael- owitz Galizyu died in Odessa March 1st of starvation. He lived in a dark, damp room in a basement, so small that there was not room for the coffin, and for several mouths he had nothing to eat hut bread and a little fruit. Meanwhile, liis mothei lives in the grandest style in Moscow. She has erected several chapels, founded several nunneries and monasteries, and is now spending what most people would consider There is quite an interring matter be fore the courts just now growing out of the raw lease of the penitentiarv convict*, which went into effect on thefirst day of this month. There is a controversy between the penitentiary company No. I, presided by ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, and tentiary company No. 2, presided over . Colonel B. G. Lockett, of Dougherty county, the latter company complaining of the assignment by which a portion of the convicts heretofore held by it have been transferred to the control of the former company. frayinu for an injunction. Company No. 2 filed a bill in equity In Fulton superior court setting forth all the. various stages of legislation relating to the leasing of the convicts and of its own part in the transactions under the aforesaid laws, and then it recites * that the principal keeper of the penitentiary, under the uew lease of June 21st, 1876, taking effect from April 1st, 1879, is proceeding to take away from complainants certain convicts anil transferring them to'the control of company No 1, at the l»ade coal mines, contrary to the contract of lease. Complainant** pray for an injunction restrairiing the principal keep er, John W. Nelms, and company No. lfiom the urocecdings complained of; also, fora construction of the lea*econ:ract to theend that such interference may not be hereafter pursued and persisted in. THE FACTS IN THIS CASK, briefly recited, appear to be that there are three companies combined in the contract of lease, aud that prior to the 1st of April, when the contract between them and the state went into effect, they with others held the convicts in pro rata shares, without reference to classification, but taking them they came.” Under the new contract conqtany No. 1 was to have 3‘jO a’ole- liodied long-term men, selected from those sentenced for life or for terms of five years or longer; this number to be constantly kept up, and the remainder were to be divided enually between the other two companies. When the lease went into operation the 1st of the month, there were only 110 long-term able-bodied men in the pos*ession of company No. L These were assigued to it, together with 117 other such convicts from among those held by other parties to expiriug leases. The prin cipal keeper, acting under direction of the governor, and not being able to make up the {quota from the jails, sent Dr. Raines, (lenitentiary physician, to the camps of com jinnies No. 1 irfid No. 2 to select able-bodied, long-termed con victs to make up the deficit of 73 men to company No. 1. Of those in fienitentiary No. 2 only 36 were adjudged such convicts as would fill the contract with company No. 1. but company No. 2 resists their transfer, and claim that these convicts have been al ready assigned to them, and tliat it is not the letter or spirit of the lease that the quota of No. 1 shall be made up fro u its men or kept up by continued drafts »i|*on its force. Company No. 1 con tend* that such i* the contract aiul lias answered the bill jiraying for an injunction, and defends its interpretation of the contract, as does the principal keeper as well. TUB IS JUNCTION UEFUSEP. Judge Hillyer granted the temjior&ry in junction and the prayer came on for hear ing Monday at chambera After argument hud been beard upon the allegation* made and proof produced of the hardships and damage to complainants by the course at tempted upon the part of the principal kee)>er and Company No. 1, Judge Hillyer decided to refuse the injunction. He did not see that he was authorized to inter fere in this manner with the discretion of the governor and the principal keeper, in making the assignment of convicts under the contract made in confo *mity of law. The t omplainants secured a supercedes* for the time being, and the case goes at once to the supreme court for review. It is an interesting controversy and the decision of the high court will be important in more views than one. Messrs. Lyons and Gresham represented aU there fa el It.. He fobnried. hh friend* mount hfaUjsoand hi* .slayer will plead that the great crime Was done In srif defense-and another odi ous, ineffaceable stain of degradation fa added to tbetong list under which Vicksburg already We know of no killing that will compare la brutality to tha slaying ot[this unless it be the shooting of Judge Elliott recently in Ken-, tuqky br Tom BufonL Both of thews In fiendish- neta.ana brutality are worthy of the savage* of the treat or the Basbi-Bazonrks of Turkey. Buford killed Elliott for deciding a law suit against him— wane little plea at least, for it is quite unpleasant to have a law suit decided against one; our cap tain of police (swallow the dose. Yicksburgers), killed hia victim to “let his pistol jump.*'' While Brereton's weapon was jumping, a grown boy happened to be iu the way of two of the strikes, and got killed. Unfortunate. wasn't it? What fa to be done? This, readers, is a grave question. Some have spoken of a resort to lynch law. After a full and careful reflection on the situation and fully impressed with the responsi bility that rest* on us. we say to our citizens that no such course should be Countenanced. We are convinced that there fa a sentiment in this com munity strong enough to secure the enforcement of tiie laws: and to punish crime legally, fa ten fold more desirable and efficacious than to pun- ise it violently in the h* at of passion. Let us patiently await the conviction and p inlshment of crimes b* the properly constituted authorities, ti hen this shall have been done It will be fol lowed by our permanent disembodiment from this damnable humiliation. Tiie Richmond Verdict. Baltimore Sun. In the second trial of John E. Poindexter, in dicted in Bichmoud, Va., for the murder of young Curti*. the jury yesterday brought in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, and determined that the guilty man should spend two years in the peni tentiary as tiie penalty for his crime. This ver dict marks an Immense advance in public opinion In Virginia, where it has always been most diffi cult to convict any one for breach of the law In cases where any of the complications which be long to this particular afTtay existed. In one way or another It haa been the usual practice of juries in the old dominion to aoquit the violator of the statute whenever he had the defense that hia per son had been outraged by blows from weapons in the hands of another, or when ever females to anced had been exposed to; but it wa*also shown that he had invited the blow for which he took 1"fl _ lady in question. Practically, the jury declined to permit Poindexter to take advantage of his own wrong by treating the assault upon himself as the beginning act of a new series of in juries, whereas ft was merely continuous of an aiwaultin which he struck the first blow. Behind nil however, the important fact I* that a jury has been found in Virginia willing to co"^*** ■ of manslaughter for using dcadly “— 1 ■ ““ -**-—*-i than in * strict 6clf-de- Czarlam Iu America. Washington Post. The claim set up by the republicans as to the scops of the veto power is, practically, nothing leas than that all bills shall originate at the other end of the avenue. If a president, dc jure or de facto, is to veto bills because the arrangement of democratic republic. They are in faror of the one-man power. They distrust the capacity of the people to govern themselves. They regard the whltfbouse as a safer repository for legislative authority than the capitoL They are, in theory, monarchists of the absolute type. They have got beyond the Englb-h system, and are about ready for the Russian methods. Eltfacr None or All Hhould Carry Con cealed Weapons. Chicago Times. The public security requires that no man should have license to cany hidden weapons. Experience has amply demonstrated that in quite nine hundicd and uinetv-nine instances out of a thousand the use made of them is criminal. The way to stop that criminal use of carrying conccal- * weapons is to punish in the most exemplary fashion every man found carrying them, if that cannot be done, then it is in order for every man to arm himself at his own discretion, llut to license the carrying of concealed weapons would be simply to give color of. lawful authority t murderous practice. 1680 to 1900. New York ti’orld. Suppose, then, that both parties agree that tho election of 1880 shall be deemed conclusive till 1900, and that if the successful candidate dies be fore the end of the centurv, the presidency shall pass in remainder co the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten? The future will be rendered clear aud certain, and we shall be saved the peti tions. GENERAL NOTES. A Good Platform. Washington Post. Summing up, the following is the Post’s demo- -nybody can better it, he shall , it. If anybody is opposed to It, let us hear from him: Impartial juries. Memorial and decoration day In North Ala bama 10th of May. The financial condition of the municipality of Charlotte. N. C., is satisfactory. The contract has been let for the erection of a new theater In Houston, Texas. The Alabama river is rapidly approaching a i miner stage. Mr. J. B. Cosper, near Wedowee, Ala.hasagoa which has four kids all living. The cotton receipts in Montgomery, Alabama, for the season, foots up 127,804. Total amount of city tax paid by all colored An honest count of the votes east. Economical administration. Peace between sections, and prosperity. The Boom or Davis. St. Paul Globe. Judge Davis’s great speech in the senate against radical tyranny makes him loom up against the horizon aa a possible presidential candidate. It fa Add that up with the “solid south’’ and the thing in Conecuh county, Alabama Hoo cholera continues to kill up the hogs in Autauga county, Alabama More shad have been caught In the Catawba river v ’—"—”— **-• — ’ fore. Twenty-five dozen terrapins, the first of the season, went to New York from Galveston this week. Thirty-four head of fine Kentucky stock, thoroughbreds and trotters, were knocked down at Lexington for $5,140. North Carolina Is one of the five states in the American union that has always refused the veto power to her governors. Parole, m Ten Broeck «m imiuiuuic, iuu receuuy wuii mice taCCS i England against all the crack bones of Europe. Commissioner Kiiaebrew, of Tennessee, says that the thirty-six Swiss immigrants who last week went to Grundy county, are to be followed by questing shippers ol rattlesnakes to pull the teeth out of the things before mailing. He says he has been bitten twice already from neglect of this ‘ ind and it fa growing monotonous. The largest whale ever killed olina coast was killed on the rehead City, by Messrs Willis c i rixty feet long; the bone was eight feet three bes long. The blubber was from eighteen to nty-three inches thick. They saved three thousand six hundred and seventy-eight and a lay to Mr. Thomas Daniel*,of New- Twro of Our (Strong: PoIntN. Fort Gaines Tribune. The Constitution fa the sprightliest, newsiest daily in the south. making a total of 82.4: that we have heard of, who will oppose legisla tion to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons. * carry a pistol, if he so de- He wants every „ , sires, to keep cowards from shooting him in the back. The general’s theory is that the cowtrds will carry weapons anyhow, and that good citi zens should be allowed the same privilege to pro- have a derriuger in your pocket, he will . smiling, with a proposition to bury the hatchet. Such bullies make it convenient to go around armed men, and to exhibit their braveir to the in offensive non-combatanta” Cowards, if they are nrmed. seldom trouble peaceable, quiet cPizena handsome little fortune to have masse* read for the soul of lier son. —Lord Chelmsford has under him two officers of great exjierience who are doing good service in the persons of Lieutenant- Colonel Evelyn Wood. V. C. t aud Lieuten ant-Colonel Bedford Buller, C. B.. both of whom served under Sir Garnet Wohdey in A shun tee, and the latter was with him als*. in the Red river trouble*. Colonel W od is nephew to Lord Hatherly. ex-Lord Chancel lor. His grandfather. Sir Maubew, was a celebrated lord mayor—having twice filled that office—whose name fifty years ago wa* a household word in England in connection with the trial of Queen Caroline, the un wife of George IV. Lord-3fujor was one of her majesty’s most vehe ment supporters, and the Mansion house ir hia day was the rallying ground of the anti- Carlton house party, at a time when party spirit was at boiling point. Colonel Buller is a man of 40, a bachelor with $75,000 a year, and great estate* in Devon and Com wall. He is the head of an ancient, afflu ent and influential family. On his moth er’s side Colonel Buller is of the family of the Duke of Norfolk. Colonel Buller, if be survives this campaign, will write “Sir” be fore and “K. C. B.’’ after his name. Bale of Four Per Cent*. Special dispatch to The Constitution. Chicago, April 30.-r=Forty-eight tboc sand dollars worth of ’our per cent, certifi cates were soidat the sub-treasury yesterday. This is a many times greater amount than has been sold in any one day heretofore, and tbe reason for the Increased demand is the speculative margin which this purchase The turning over of Coleman from the 1 affords to capitalists. The greater portion civil to the military authorities reveals in a I has been taken by bonks, and the line of rather amusing way how unsmoothly the applicants was largely made up of bora, cogs of the wheels of government run to-1 To-day these certificates will only be gether. Tbe military order* of the gov- sold from ten to two o’clock. Toombs on Pistols. Monroe Advertiser. General Toombs is the only man In the state. i great objection to carrying pistols i* that good men sometimes disagree, and if armed they may commit an act that might deprive family of a protector, and which would cm their whole lives. !f unarmed, so blows might result; but no irreparable damage Logan and Lowe. Washington Letter to Baltimore Sun. The unpleasantness between Senator Logan, of Illinois, and Keprceentative Lowe, of Alutama. would have been the proper and gentlemanly approval. r , .— — — in courage conk on General Logan in this connection, fat bravery has been too often aud loo well tried to be called In question by any one. As to the main point at issue, it maybe that General Logan neither raised three regiments nor three compa nies of troops for the confederate service, but as to his sympathies, like those of a good many others who are now among the most Utter and unforgiving toward the southern people, being at the beginning la favor of the southern confeder acy, the fact fa too patent to be worthy of dispute. The Ready HlftaPoeket. Vicksburg Herald. When onr citizens read the Herald Sunday morning they saw a brief account of one of the house by a man powerful enough to have taken j that you swallow the bitter dose drees that a diseased community may be healed. This lad. born and reared amongst you, * never did a mortal a wrong, whose greatest < was an exuberance to youthful spirits, wai •nd before his Maker en a i wkh a Vicksburg bullet in his brain. The testi mony goes to show that the whole affair waa ut terly causeless as far as he was concerned. He naturally fait aggrieved at his brother being struck In the eye, and expressed himself sharply. Then he was led off; then be was killed. That Is ATLANTA’S VISITORS. THE UNION’S PIVOTAL POINT. Atlanta 1 * Growing Importance as a Center of Pab- lic Interest—Tke Coming Week and tks Gatherings it fa to Bring ns—The Preacher* and the Doctors. Next week will be one of the greatest sea sons ever known in Atlanta There will probably be more visitors here for several days than we ever saw before for so long a time. Already hundreds of rooms are engaged and are being j»aid for by persons who are thus sure of a com fortable place in the great rush, and are willing to pay vrell for such an assurance. Every day the proprietors of the Kimball and Markham houses receive telegrams and letters from tho*e who are coming here next week asking that accom modations be saved for them. The causes of this great rush will be the meeting of the largest medical body in the world, and also the gathering of one of the principal religious bodies of America Tne doctors will begin to come in this week. On Friday there will be a conven tion of all the medical colleges here. Al ready delegates have begun to come, and scores of others will come all aloug until the day of meeting. The editors of medical journals will meet here Saturday. Early next week the national board of health will come to see us, and on Tuesday the great convention will assemble. The number of delegates cannot be estimated exactly, but there will be six hundred at the lowest estimate, while some expect as many as eight hundred. The ablest men in the profession will be here. Every state in the union will be represented in this gathering of the wisdom and dignity of a great profession. Tiie con vention is so large that it will require six halls for its meetings. All the depart ments will convene at a certain hour ot the day in the central hall, which will probably be the opera house. The session will last at least until the end of the week, and all the smaller meetings to he held before next Tuesday will merge into the great central convention. Atlanta is the smallest city that ever had the honor of this con vention. Tho choice fell on Atlanta in preference to some of the largest cities of the north and the west. Of course the good people of this city will do all in their power to make their visitors enjoy the stay in At lanta A sumptuous banquet will be given in their honor, and other entertainments of interest will be proffered during their con vention. THE SOUTHERN BAPTI8T*CONVKNTI0N, the general council of a great denomination, will meet nere on the 8th, two days after the doctors assemble. This will give us the two great conventions together. There will be at least six hundred delegates to the Baptist convention, among whom will bo tho highest lights of the church and its most influential laymen. The conven tion will meet in the First Bap tist church, which is large, com fortable and centrally located. The session will continue at least one week. A num ber of Baptist ministers from the state con vention are in the city, and will remain here until the general convention meets. Of coarse, both these great meetings will at tract crowds of vistora here, not only from all parts of Georgia, but from all over the south. It is no exaggerated esti mate to put the probable .crowd at twenty-five hundred visitors who will stay a week, while on particular days we may look for as many as five thousand. There is nothing so elastic as hospitality and no matter if twice the anticipated number comes, Atlanta will be ready, willing and glad to see them and will do all she can to make them enjoy their visit here. r party i object to this. If Grant the man the nation derives, it cannot have too THE CUTICURA REMEDIES. Facta Regarding Them—ttbo Makes Them and What la Thought or Them by tha Drag Trade—Interview or a Times Reporter with Peter Vi Schaack, Esq. From the Chicago Times. To enable the Times to furnish ita read ers with some.reliable information regard ing the Cuticara remedies, which are now attracting so much public attention, a re porter railed yesterday upon Mr. Peter Van Schaack, of Vau Schaack, Stevenson &. Co., wholesale and retail druggists, comer lake and Dearborn streets, when the fol lowing facts were elicited: R.—Will you oblige the readers of the Times by a swering a few questions regard- S tbeCuticura remedies? r. Van S.—Certainly; lire away. R.—Do they sell well? Mr. Van 8.—The sale of the Cuticura, Cuticura Resolvent, and Cuticura Soap have been unprecedented. R.—What reasons do you give for so large sale? Mr. Van ST—I give four reasons. First, they ore original and revolutionary in their composition and mode of treatment. Sec ond, they undoubtedly possess great cura tive properties. Third, there are thousands upon thousands of sick and suffering who have tried and found wanting the usual remedies and modes of treatment, und who are readv to welcome a really great aud uccessful medicine. Fourth, the price of hem is within the means of every invalid. K.—Are your large sales of these medi cines through your agents? Mr. VanS.—No; they are legitimate mail urdevs. We employ no travellers on the road-*-are fundamentally opposed to that way of selling goods-—the retailer has to «tand such excuses, and such staple goods as these require no one to force them off U.—Do you class them as patent medi cines? Mr. Van S.—I do not. They are proprie tary, so for as their names art. concerned, these being held as traie-iuarK<: but in formation regarding them as you WiM learn from this circular, may be obtained by any regular physician who desires to .u>e them <u his practice simply by applying to Weeks A Potter. R —Can you tell us something about this linn? Mr. Van S.—Week* A Putter are im porters, wholesale druggists and chemists, und for twentv-iive years have been the foremost Lome iu the trade in New England. 1L—It i* popularly supjiosed that adver tising will sell must anything, regardless of merit. Is it true? Mr. VanS—No. A remedy falsely ^claim ing to |iotwe*9 virtues of which it is in fact destitute, will surely fail. No reputable firm—aud druggists are the most compe tent judges—would think of risking fame and fortune on any medicine unless it had, under tiie most trying circumstances, itself tonoasess extraordinary med- ,-alue. The expense attending the Introduction of such remedies is enormous. A fortune must l»e spent before any return can be expecte*L If, after a wide distribu tion, they are found to possess the virtues claimed for them, those who have been cured will recommend them one to an other, and thus make them re ..unerative. When a man backs his statements with his own money, you may generally rely upon American Bible Society. This well known organization is perform ing a large amount of benevolent work in supplying iioor families in the south and west with tne Scriptnrea Under the direc tion of Rev. J. L. Lyons, tiie society’s agent in Georgia, several colporteurs have been employed the past winter in canvass ing some of the more needy counties in various parts of the state, and with the fol lowing results: Number of families visited, 10,149; num ber of families destitute of the Scriptures, 3,288; number of such families supplied, 2,408; number of individuals supplied in addition, 987; number of volumes dis tributed, G,805; of which 5,591 were sold and 1,214 donated. About two-thirds of those found without the Scriptures are colored families, all of whom evince a strong desire to obtain tiie Bible—those who could not read promising to have it read to them. The society cer tainly deserves tbe support of all good citi- Deatb or Ell Hborter. Eufacla, Ala., April 29.—Hon. Eli Shor ter, a prominent member of tbe 34th and 35th congress, and an eminent lawyer and politician, died this morning of Bright’s dis ease ; aged 56. 102 Years Old. Ch to ago, III., April 29.—Sac Osterman, a native of Germany, who served with Na poleon Bonaparte in his Russian campaign, who came here in 1850, died to-day; aged 102. A Royal Fellow. Rochester, April 26.—Professor Lewis Swift has been elected Fellow of the Royal astronomical society of England as a token of appreciation of his discoveries. us some wheat over four feet high which he had taken at random out of a fine field at his home in Marietta There are four acres fully as well grown, which will make a handsome yield. Mr. Myere L* a member of the lunior class of Emory college, but he keeps up a fine crop on his home place at Marietta. His wheat was highly admired yesterday. Death or Uhrlatlna. Bnecial dispatch to The Constitution. LoNitoN. April 20.—A dispatch to the Standard SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. Georgia legislature who will be instrumental in getting tiie present penitentiary lease system abol ished will do his state and humanity a great ser vice. Albany Advertiser: Now that the “perni cious habit of carrying concealed weapons ’ has had ita run. would it not be well enough for the Georgia editor* to have another picnic on the Mheep-kming dogs? R — Have they ever before prepai ediee for popular use? Mr. van S.—I believe not. They are like ourselves, agents for a great many, but we think these are the first that they pre pare them?elves. It is but once in a life time that a discovery is made of a remedy taat such a firm a* Weeks & Potter are willing to stake reputation and fortune on. H.—Are their prospect* flattering, or otherwise? Mr. Vau a—Very flattering. As I said before, tbe remedies undoubtedly possess great merit. And besides, they treat blood and skin diseases according to a new and thoroughly rational plan, that must take a firm bold on the confidence of thoee who suffer from chronic diseases of the blood, skin and scalp. of the Maeon Telegraph, live* in a glass house i Washington, and should curb his fondness f&i throwing stone*, ltut if he baa seen last Wedne*- day’s Atlanta Constitution, this suggestion will be entirely unnecesmry. Augusta Evening News: If W. O. Tuggle turn nerved the state by collecting $72,000. how much greater service has he done by erasing a debt of Sl.iMKJ.OTl) against Georgia, and thla, too, without (ay? Verily, Tuggle is made a hero, and haa dona more to save the state than any of the boy*. Bainbridge Democrat: If the northern aboli tion isu and fanatics had ever dreamed that the Kutith would regain her former position in the union, the war between the state* would never have Been. The south would have been allowed to depart in peace with the radical blessing thrown Iu mipposing that Senator Hill it angry with the secretary of the senate for giving a place to Mr. J. I. Sneed. It i* known in Geoma that Mr. Hill wrote Mr. Sneed to come on to Washington. The latter i* a firm friend of the former, and it was doubtless through the senator's influence that the (MAsitiou was obtained. C’CTHBERT APFEAL: THE ATLANTA CON*ITTU- tion continue* to harp upon the subject of a dog tax, apparently without ever considering the fact thata“dorg” l* about all the live stock a large class of suffrage alingen* possess in Georgia, and all the mem»*ers of every legislature since the rev olution expected or desired to return. They will never cut off their political head in that style. But few voter* own sheep. • Rome Courier: I>r. Miller may lecture on •Jenkins’s Ear” in Augusta but he will never— .an never—repeat the lecture he delivered in Rome. There is no audience outside of the seventh district to which It would sound like it did to the people here—no audience where a wink, a nod. ana peculiar intonation of the word ‘•organized,’ 5 for instance, haa so much meaning- It is impossible for Augusta to have a repetition of the lecture. The surprise at its shrewdness and w»phistnr. and their unexpectcdncaa. made a great part of tbe affair. This aurarfaeWillnever. can never affect hi* hearers again, for they will be prepared for and expect what they get. Fort Gaines Mirror: The fact of a congress u*an from Georgia voting against the abolishment of the southern ebum* commission should aevwr be forgotten by his constituents. The bill creat; lag Ibis commwon was passed In the interest of a few scalawags who remained south during the war and were too cowardly to take up arms op either side, but alter iu close tried to lustily their Litions by proving by each other their loyalty to the union, when really they had about as much love or loyalty lor the union as they exhibited for the confederacy. H the radiesl party fa the unfon or government then there might bo some justice In paving them, otherwise there can be none. We consider Georgia as an integral part of the union, and protest against being made a party to the pay ment of any such fraudulent claim*. Roller flam. We have reduced the price of Godfrey’s Boiler Gum from 35c. to oOc. per lb. Send in >^ar orders for Rollers, or for the Gam. Can supply either. Constitctiom, znch2 dixwtf Atlanta, Go,

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