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CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. ATLANTA, GA., TUL SDAY • JULY 22, 1879. A FALLEN SCAFFOLD, AND AN INJURED CROWD OP MEN. A SetffcH ea tbe S.w Bridge a: V'lledgtvills Fallt, E*?ersly Iij arise Us Wcrk»«n-A Fatal D.Scsltj Takes F.scs la a Bros ef I1IW, E a UtUMUKjtux, July 15.—I Art Friday a scaffold »»n tb« near Oconee bridge in ibis ciiv gave nay and precipatred fifteen men a distauro of thirty fegt into »b« river below The debris fell upon the unfortunate men, and many were injured quite severely. Mr. Allen, the contractor, who is one of the leading eilisens of MilledgcvilJe, had hia scalp hadly lacerated anu tom and bit wrist fractured. tine of the negro workmen wai badly hurt by a large piece of timber falling upon him while lie was in the water below, struggling from death by a watery grave. The men were all reacued after considerable exertion by tiwae who reside in the vicinity. Upon an examination being held, it waa found that none of the men were fatally injured, and it is thought that all will recover speed ily. Their escape was pd racuioua. MilledgeviJle has just been the scene of a fatal difficulty between Jesse Davis and Kelsey Tuttle. The former subbed the latter in a house of ill-fame, disemboweling him. TutUe. in a fit of anerr, jerked the contents of hlestomacb ouni Je of hia body, thereby hastening hia own death. Davis when a preliminary trial was held. upon an Investigation being held the iiiatice decreed that Davia was justifiable in Ida act ion. and tha defendant was discharged fioni further custody. Tuttla ia regarded aa a dangerous man. The cause of the difficulty originated about one of the in mates of the den. Fine ralna have fallen In Baldwin and ad joining counties during the past few dava i he crop* needed it badly. Rock Inland, I ia., July 12.—The town of Kdingtoti and surrounding country wa> thrown Into a state of the wildest excite ment l>y the news that Miaa Robbins had been shot by Lee Robbins, her brother, ami b-stantly killed, and that Lee Robbins shot himself in the head and was dead. As near ly as could be ascertained, the facts are as follows: Mise Matilda Rob bins, the murdered girl, had for aome time been receiving atten tions from a young man named Tom Ride ards, against the exnressad protest of her parents, and es|«rial.y her brother. 8he parsieted in allowing Iticliards to call on her, however, and an engagement waa an nounced. Her brother warned her that Richards should never marry her, and tried to persuade Ids sister to break the engage raeim but to no purpose, and to-day site was to have been married. Tina morn ing. about half-past five o'clock, while In her room getting ready to take tbj Mercer county train for Rock Island, her bn it her went to her and made another sp ited wot to marry the man Richards. 8he refused to break her word, and then he drew a pistol and shot her, killing her in stantly. Then ha placed the revolver at his head and fired, inflicting a wound from which he died half an hour afterward. The place where the murder and suicide happened is the Bolt- Ingham farm, shout three-fourths of a mile litis kid© of Edington. The only objection to Richard*, aa far as could oe learned, was that he was a drinking man and a rough sort of a fellow. Lee Robbins, who did the deed, was a very pleasant, respectable young man. about 23 yean old, and of a vary modest manner. He stood well in the community, and had hosta of friends. KVAHSVIM.K, In©., July 14.—Sbciety in Kvanavllle was greatly shocked this after noon at 3.90 by the suicide of Mrs. Dr. J W. Irwin, a lady moving in the highest widely here, and very warmly admired by a large circle of friends, I>r. and Mm. Irwin have been married only seven weeks, the bride having been Miss Htella Mat her, of Kashirin, 0 , daughter of Rev. D. D, Mather, of the Methodist church there. She was only about twenty yearn old. beautiful, ac complished and surrounded by everything to make her happy. Her husband is a very prominent young physician, who lavished large sums of roonev in fitting up an ele gant residence for hia bride. Since they moved hero tiiey hove lived in perfect har mony ami ap|«nuitly very happy. The tragedy mine like a thunder shock to all. At S.;w p.m. a servant girl heard a pistol shot in the house and ran into her mis- iresi.’ room, alarmed, to find the cause. Mrs I-win was standing in the middle of the mom, which was fell of smoke. The girl asked what waa tha matter. Her mistress ioukwd wildly, ami made an incoherent an swer She raised her hand, in which waa the pistol, and the girl, thinking she meant harm to her, ran out of the room. As she tied site heard another shot, and turned liack. As she reached the room again her beautiful mistress Hung the pistol upon the floor, put her hand over her heart and would have fallen, but the girl caught her in her arms. Nobody else was in the house. The girl asked her why aha had done it, hut lita only reply was an incoherent mur mur of the girl’s name, and sinking rapidly, she died in ten minutes, surrouuded by friends who were summoned. upper tide is covered with light, glossy, curling hair, about four inches in length. On the leftside of this protuberance, or tail, are indentures which are cJoee together and have the appearance of embryo human I features, whose development was suddenly I arrested. To the touch this part of the child feels like masses of small bones under the skin, as if the skull were inside, the parts of which were disarranged. Thaw were quire roughly bandied, but the little fellow made no outcry, and when asked if it hurt answered -No.” The pos terior por.ions are ill-ubaped, and seem to have merged with the upper or thicker por- tionof the protuberance. The “tail” can I* I moved at pleasure—like the wagging of aj dog’s tail, and when be aits down toe is not amiarently, inconvenienced in the least Many theories have been adduced a» to the came of this lusus natunc, but none, perhaps, come anywhere near the actual solution of it One ia that the motii- cr was bearing twins, and that the living child was too strong, developed too inucbj vitality for the other, and .monopolized its mate and finally the identity of the other Iwas entirely lent, save this monstrous ex crescence thus rudely described. What |makes this theory seem more probable is the (act that the hair spoken of is about the length that might be expected on a child of that age. | Whatever is the cause little Georgia Wrenn is cursed with a malformation that will cause him to be sought after by medi-! cal men, and viewed with wonder and as tonishment by all who behold him doubt this publication will cause the tors to look the mutter up.for the benefit of medical science. The odd re** of the party n whose care the boy now la' temporarily. Iwbfb* awaiting the arrival of his only liv- gin relative, a sister, who has been informed of the mother’s death, can be furnished by application to this office. ATLANTA GOSSIP. Whallbrj Have to Huy Abroad. Atlanta Correspondence Augusta Chronicle. L I Recently there has been a sport in thel independent movement here, or at least an eirort to get up an excitement on thef question. A well known |>olitician aaid to me the other day that he was sure there would be an independent candidate for congress in every district in this state next! year. It ia aaid already that, the rojies are laid for a lively canvass here. The friends of Col. W. H Halsey are urging biro to run against the nominee, whoever he may be. Mr.| Hulsey is a man of more than average abil ity; be is a popular sneaker, a quick wit ted manager, and, withal, an available candi date. If the independents bad put him up t te last time in piaceof Arnold, they would have done better than they . did. We cun tinue to hear the old talk of an independ ent candidate for governor There is m> I doubt that ceruin demagigues in thel seventh district, under preie.ise that the organization is corrupt, are trying to push themselves into office and note riety. Gen. Wofford and Judge Wright, bo h men of ability, are leaders of this fac tion in which the Ignorant masses are de luded by a few shrewd minds. Up there in the fce/enth district they have taken up an idea that a man cannot belong to toe organ ized and be honest. If there ever was a section completely ruled by men of narrow minds and selfish nrinciptoM it is this dis trict, represented toy the most overrated inan that ever went to congress from Geor gia. He seems to have the reins up ktlicre, and the only hope to “beat him is in the rashness which continued victo ry has inspired, and his exorbitant estimate of his own power. It becomes plainer and plainer that Governor Colqn'tt’s friends are going to urge him far re-election. The gov ernor is very cautions on this matter, and Confines hia plans to few even of his inti mate friends. There is no doubt that he would accept the office again if he could get it, and of all the candidates in the field, I believe him to be away ahead in popularity. ■ ”11. G. W.” in Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Stephens is expected here next week Hi a visit of several days, and speculation [is rife as to the effect of this advance on the capital. Atlanta lias become the center * of Georgia politics, and suppose that Mr. Stephens's enuring has reference to the campaign of inextyear. The name of the commoner ia freely mentioned in connection with the office of governor, and there is no reason to doubt that he will matte a strong race if he consents to enter for the prize. In conver sation recently with a very intelligent mem ber of ttoe legislature, wtoo is also a strong ly ”organized”.democrat, he confessed the strongest desire to have Mr. Stephens re ceive the democratic nomination, and was pronounced in the opinion that such a step 1 is necessary to the safety of the party in Georgia. He thought that if the democrats selected any other stand ard-bearer they would be in great danger of disruption and defeat. He is confident that the independents wonld not lopttoae hia election, bm wonld make a fierce I fight against any one else. Mr. Stephens's own views upon the subject have not been obtained, nor does any one know whether he would accept a nomination if it should be tendered him by the convention. When he reaches here something detiuite may her cer mined. _ A PAIR OF ACCIDENTS MARVELOUS MALFORMATION. A t’ssdsl Appendage Growing on a FIse-Year-Old Child Cincinnati Enquirer. Georgia Wrvnn is a rt ve-jear-old orphan— I and intelligent little fellow— THE WIFE’S STORY. WHY BURTON MURDERED RICKS. Mrs. Blest Writes a Lsttar to an Absent Brother, Wherein 8ho Bclatss tbs Fall Sir tory of tko Family Fend—A Hcartrendiiff S'.crj, Etc. It ia fresh in the memory of our readers that several weeks ago. in Meriwether county, James Burton shot down in'the public rood his brother-in-law. 8. T. Ricks, killing him instantly. The matter aroused a great deal of curiosity and interest, which the subsequent preliminary trial of the slayer did not abate, although he was bound over upon the nominal bond of $500 to appear at the next superior court of Meriwether county for trial. It was developed that the tragedy grew out of A BITTER FAMILY FEUD. facta of that feud developed upon the Jdflwj of the entire transaction, as written by the wife of the slain Rieka to one of her broth ers, who was absent and knew nothing of the affair at the time. The letter will be read with interest, as TOE WIFE’S STORY. Wabnermvicle. Meriwether cocxty, Ga., ilr a 1SPJ.—Mr. Job Barton; l>ear Brother— requesting the particulars of the a Mas- edandIncorrectaccount. Brotherttaicllnju.. - is&m;^eSSS'Z“SS^ cruel bonds of a so-called guardian, but in husband. You know, brother, how much op posed all the family was to the measure, origina-1 ted and put Into execution by our eldest sister, of having mother arr Igaed on so false a charge. It U true sister Emma warned mother against our eldest brother, James; but what mother, such as i our*, would not have trusted her son? And if that son betrayed the tm*t of a confiding mother, I do not think she should have been the sufferer 1 then fo-. Mister Emma says she did it to protect mother from brother James. But If left alone, mother would have found out her mistake la put ting him to manage allairs for her, and she could Ivery easily navecWu aome one else to look af ter her fanning interests. You are aware that sister Emma and brother James hare been, and are yet, greatly at variance; and although brother Jamea seemed so bitterly opposed to what she I When convinced of the great wruug of these two, against their mother, I went with you to see the I governor, hoping to receive a redress for her wrongs. When the governor informed me that he was powerless to aid us, and advised us to car ry the case before the superior court. I immedi ately employed counsel for that purpose, Col. Methvin, of Senoia. He, being the one brother tones had previously employed to defeat the k-sure of sister Emma, bclievcdjtara hat be was entirely mistaken. Having obtained I fall control of mother's dower, and acting for his own interest, instead of hers, he refused all en- treaUss to release her. You will remember that J. A. McKnlgbt bought the reversionary interest iu the dower, and that brother James had given him and o. A. Thompson permission to take the timber, and have it sawed. They have already taken 4176,uC worth, not one cent of which, has gone on the dower or towards the support of mother. You know too, how brother James bolds possession of her borne against her wish; and in renting It, reserved the improvements, injuring the rent. Mother has not received but $14 wor.h of the cotton of last year's rent. Brother James, it is true.paid about forty dollars on the seventy she was owing. You are perhaps aware also, that hcraon sed brother John severny dollars for wnRtontbe form, and only paid him about twenty or thirty dollars of it. Some one told me that 1 ought to ask brother James to let me see I the books be had kept since he had been mother’s guardian. My husband and I had started to Griffin to see a lawyer, one whom I had employed before I married to release. If possible, my mother from under a guardian. I requested Mr. Ricks to drive by the I gale where mother lived, as I wished to ut ©■©■©■■ariK me s»e > 1*“’ bw«y is respoctiul [ |—| ■■■■■■■ 1 be allowed to see the books he had kept since he was mother’s guardian. He had Just started out at the back door: when I asked him. he deigned no reply, but loud an angry oath*; telling roe to eo to hell. etc. Mr. Kicks heard him. from where he was at the gate, and as I walked rapidly out of the house 1 heard Mr. Ricks call to him to come out there, and be would whip him, and that he should not curse ■ragfcatway. I do not know whether brother ■■■heard him or not. 1 think he kept on, and I went out the back way, but his children were listening. Mince I married Mr. Rieka he promised that be would not use profane language, which promise-he faithfully ke.rf, except on two or three ooosslons, This time be so far forgot I himself, as to use an oath, but I am C MHlive that not one threat of life escaped ■ Ups; nor ever afterwards did him threaten life. Aa we were on to Griffin, I found that Mr. Ricks was ■tor lnsultea, and tried to persuade him to let it pass and care nothing for 1L He replied that it was not in him to pass over such an insult unless bmtncr James would apologize: that he consid ered himself my protector and that he wonld not suffer any man to curse his wife in his presence. 1 toon found that he was determined to ask him about it and if he would not apologize that one ortheother would have to take a whipping.I After we returned home. I again tried by reason ing arguments, to dissuade him from his purpose and this time, I obtained his promise thst be a bright-faced w a hoe* mother died in the city hospital last Tuesday, and was buried in rotters field.! His father deserted his family some years ago, and Is now aaid to be in Chicago. For fcveral month* Mrs. Wrenn occupied *a small room in a tenement bouse on FiftlP street, opposite the Hamil ton and I lay ton depot. About week ago she left this place, taking little Georgia with her, and obtained shelter at No. 1*7 Longworth street. On last Thurs day week Mrs. Wrenn, who was very poor, waa ordered from the Longworth street place; and took up her residence in a hock room of a bouse on George street. This ranch by way of preface to the de tails concerning on© of the moat marvel ous malformations that has ever "been re corded. The boy waa horn in tliia city, and has always enjoyed excellent health. He grew to be quite a large child before anything out of ibe common was noticed about bim. One day when playing in tbs neigh borliood of hie former home on Fifth street, be got into some mischief near a trades man’s door, and the man told him that if be did not go home he’d "spank” him Georre took no heed of this and per aisud In hb annoyance. The man then- took the little fellow in hia arms and proceeded in inflicting the promised chas tisement. The "spanking" began, but at the first light tap of the hand tb* spanker came in contact with Ametbing that caused the astonished man to stop as if shot, lie then began an examination by feeling outside of the dross of tbs young ster. and then r when firmly convinced that he had hold of a child that had something remarkable about him, he put him down slowly add , thoughtfully. Then the story waa circulated that little Georgia Wrenn had a tail like a goat or a dog. Many were the conjectures that the circumstances elicited, and the story grew with repetition of it. Some aaid the tail was like a goat’s; others that the caudal appendaxr was exactly lik* a mo: key’s,but ail agreed that it was covered with hair, and that its owner could move it at pleasure just like an animal. Some days ago the wonderful story reached the cars of an En quirer reporter,who determined to hunt (he boy up. and by some means ret permission to make an examination for himself, assisted by some physician. This was no easy task, a* Mrs. Wrenn and her boy had moved from their Fifth street residence and gone to a house on l-ongwtwth street. Before the reporter had time to go there the parties hod gone away, and thus all trace was lost until a night or so ago, a woman, with whom the Wrenn* lived on Fifth street, was found and questioued, and her state ment corroborated in every particular the strange story. This seemed to settle the question, as the -woman seemed to talk in a matter of-fact way that left the impression that she was telling the exact truth, and the reporter’s exertions to find the wonderful freak of nature were redoubled. At length a trail was struck, which, followed closely, re sulted m a realisation of 'hb wildest imagi nation. by the finding of- the boy with a fail. An examination was madsby Hr- L. C. Carr, who, at the earnest solicitation of tlir n,n Mn, bmii of bi» < ln EJIjM (feorfrf* op to him tb. doctor beat bim over bio Wl knm. fo» downwmd. H* then robed lb. c!othin*of Iho child, ood woo otiuck with uuM-cakobl. ootooi.ha»Dt upon boboMing tbo IDmot.M* M tb. min. Urn. tbo nni moloonding. ant wr prawitrd. There *o tb* toil, oore MMiC, ..ml crowing in Joot tb. oun. preluoo «I1 the body oo dom tbot of a do. or any of tb* foor-tooted aw- but here ih. resemblance cm. Instead of being slim, it is more in the na- *«re of a protuberance, gradually diminish- *SLS 0ni whw »it begins on the spine to a •wcknessiif perhaps three mch« in diame ter at th« extreme joint. Tuis point oo the That Ahsw That Children are Nat ftafe Anywhere. We learn of a couple of accidents that occurred, a day or two since, that we think may be of good effect if put before the pub lic. They may serve as a warning. A mother in this citv, and a careful mother too, had her little gfirl in bathing in a large tub. She left the room for a mo ment, leaving the little one in the tab splashing about When she returned she found it badly strangled and perfectly help- lews in the hands of a small nurse that had reined it from the tub just in time to save it iron, drowning. Another mother, and both of these moth era are careful and attentive, mimed two of her children, and failed to find them afters search over the house. At length she heard some faint noises coming from a corner of the room. In this corner was standing a large Saratoga trunk, that had been used by the children as a play house. Upon ftring to this trunk, she found the two children locked up in it, and about exhausted. They had got in the trunk, and the top fitting down, it das|ttd the lock and locked them in. They were nearly suffocated when they were taken out of the trunk. We publish these, hoping to let the public know that there b danger in the bath-tub and trunks. THE HEAT IN MACON. Dentil of Mr, John Dnljr and Mr. Char les Heldt. Macos, July 14.—Mr. John Daly, partner in the firm of D. Daly A Bro., became over heated oo Sunday and drank a good deal of ice water, which caused hb death almost immediately. Mr. Daly was one of the most reliable men in the city. 1 will state for the benefit of hb many friends in your city that Mr. Charles llcidt, engineer on the Southwestern railroad died on hb farm near Savannah last Fri day, Foot Charley went away in the ben of spirits feonyant and cay. and just to think he b now sleeping hb last sleep and the whistle of the engine, nor the roar of the train can now awake him again. Char lie; you have started your last run and your friends hope that the destination of that run witl he heaven. It b thought he died from sunstroke. There was rain enough from Milner, Ga., ed Green Wiggins, basely slandered Mr. Ricks, and then threaicned his life, Mr. Ricks had him arrested and brought before the justice of the peace, and when they did not Imprison him. and bound him over to keep the peace, he again threatened his file, and Mr. Kldts/w bohad not owned a pistol before, botuht him one for sell- protection. os be hnl appealed in rain to the law. When be went to Griffin this summer. In company with a minor boy of 19 years, a notorloudy bod man In Griffin attempt-1 ed to steal his cold watch, and was going off with It. when Mr. Kirks drew his revolver and ordered fim to stop. When the man denied stealing the watch and this boy told him be saw him, he dumped at him and knocked him down, and was striking fearfnl licks, when Mr. Ricks caught him jumped at him nU'l striking fearful lkuPI by the throat to choke him off; here again be was defending ! l-gr..w:i 1 the ■H|P j. and some of the witnesses for the defendant brought this in as a difficulty. As I soon os an officer came and demanded the peace, Mr. Rieka stood aloof and told him all right, but be could not see that boy lmjwre^HMm^ire Ricks v n of good coming court. When his father died, leaving his mother’s home unpaid for. he led his youngeri brother*, and together they labored and paid for their mother's home, before he would strikeout before be * killed, lonly mention this that r. uffinr that a mo-e malicious or false >Ln- erwas originated. Mjr husband, I am I proud to say, looked down with contempt on any man who would mistreat a woman. A kinder, truer, more affcgbmMig|mMI|©MPifl than Mr. Ricks. boost ol such an oue.1 ■ ■ My dear brother, you were right in saying that I have been deprived of my best earthly friend. My cruel brother wanted to charge me board in my own mother’s home, before J married and Mr. Ricks felt a love and sympathy for me so great as to cause bim to offer hi* protecting love the saw-mlil cabin with me, also Brother John. Mother says If her bouse cannot be my borne, neither can it be hers; for she is determined that THE BURIED *WCE. Sbfig&ta'&Jt inquiries. Mr. Prather could find no one vppfu who owned a flock of sheep in the direc- THE MOTHER BY THE ©O t.on which the cyclone came foVa diatai.o* Ot twenty miles, and where his Tb. End of tl.. W Ma V Trm “? re .. of _ * ™> s . ler r VOL. XH. % NO. 5. diligent A CAYE OF DARKNESS no one > ABOUT WHICH NASHVILLR IS WILD. Lumens# Crowds PrsMst—Friass Pion- Floa Chief Mourner—Frenoh Irrita tion at the Demonstrstiaa. ‘ cv ® r - A.t any rate, it grew to’ be a a • , , , v '‘•"'i 41 w uc u nne healthy sheep, and as the years passed • 11 "f 3 regularly sheared and the wool .ap- J pliaNJ to domestic uses. There were no ! other" sheep on the place, and it is doubtful * if . the lamb saw another- of its species since the memorable March , . . e winds took her upon its wings and deposit- Cni?el-1 ed h er safely in Mr. Prather’s yard. This night. ; has been over six years ago, ana the yield rt the 0 f wool from this lost sheep lias averaged Die annually about five j»ounds. Yesterday Loudon, July 12.—The the prince imperial, escr royal horse artillery, arrived hurst at nine o’clock on FrT The announcement is made prince of Wales, the duke of Fa I _ r l11llv , duke of Connaught and the crovraprince of Mr. Prather brought to town this year’s Sweden will act as pal 1-bearers attlfcfuneral: c |jp^ which netted six pounds, for which he of the prince imperial to-day. Various ac- i received 25 ' * counts mention that there is som4amount i f cents per pound. of ill feeling in France at the great dem stration of mourning in England fori dead prince. No member of 1 {■■HViHVPWI the French embassy in London . will be There was a social gathering of the farmers . .i t i .i. _ n .l a t \r. r a ti 1 i. A (rood Time ia the Country. Oak Grovx District, Ga., July 12.— your affectionate dzter. Maggie C. Ricks. . A NEW ROAD. The Low renew II le Narrow Go Branch Rood, Suwaxek. July 14.—The Messrs Sage and Foreacre of your city have been at our vil lage the past week, making the permanent surveys for the Lawrenceville narrow gauge branen railroad. This road commencing at Suwanee and terminating at Lawrenceville will be about nine miles in length. A bridge is to be built acrus the Chatta hoochee one mile from our village at a e 'int on the river where the line between ilton and Forsyth counties torches Gwin nett. Two men, William Scale* and David Little, will take one thousand dollars of the stock. There is no doubt of its being built when the railroad has been commenced. Our village will now build up. When the depot was located here, owing to want of foresight by land owners, in bolding their lands too high, purchasers went to Buford and Duluth. Suwanee has the ad vantage of being located in the center of one of the finest farming and most health ful sections of north Georgia. The valleys of the Chattahoochee, Suwanee, Level creek and Brush creek a;e all within two miles of the depot. The rains so far have been very favorable, and if they’ continue, this immediate section will make the best corn and cotton crop for ten years. Other |*arts of the county are suffering for want of rain. We have several very fine springs within a few hundred yards of the depot. One freestone, large and bold; one mild limestone, larger than Garner’s famous springs at Buford; one a mild chalybeate; one a combination of several minerals, re sembling in taste Ponce de Leon, but much stronger, and causing persous who use it for any length of time to lose flesh rapidly. For this cause your correspondent named it Anti-Fat. It must have most potent and mysterious effect, for Col. Acton, within forty-eight hours after having listened to a description of it, and without having tasted the water r seen the spring, lost seventeen pounds. The building of this road and the bridge across the Chattadoochee will bring much more trade to this place, the southern part of Forsyth and eastern part of Milton. Mr. John Broydon, of Atlanta, aud his brother of this county, will open a large retail store here in the fall. The annual celebration of the B. S. 8. A. will be held here the.first day of August, with Judge James Jackson as orator of the day. Yxlpbat. . THE LYNCHED NEGRO. do, although I did not deoire him to ever ■■ ItatalL On the morning of the 34th of Junel mother and I went to Greenville. Mr. Ricks 1 ■poke of going with na, as be whbsd to see a I gentlemen then: on badness. Mother and I were going to have witnesses subpernaed to testify to I her being being competent to manage her ownj affair*, aa brother James and his brother-in law,I jAmHM' Kiil^ht. a few days previous had ‘ ' her rt iru* from * divided that the to carry thn-e. but ■MMMHHMHMtertioiutc good-bye I and we biul started off, he told us H be could pro cure A bone he would come. As mother and I were going alone for some distance, I placed bis revolver In my irare||MremmmwmrodmjjMwfJ security while tr»vci|nfIBHe^JOuniiu!l!n and when within a few miles of home, a small colored boy we met announced the dreadful news that Mr. Barton had killed Mr. Ricks. When a I few miles further on we came upon the heart-1 I rending scene of the murdered body o! ray darling lying on the roadside, eold and rigid inj death; brutally murdered by the hands of a I I wicked brother. 1 was wild with grief andl wanted to go to him. but Mr. Glass, one of the officers present, prevented me from touching him. 1 then thought Jt was cruel to keep me away, but know. 1 fed thankful that be did. for some of mJ brothers friends are trying to pretend that »■■ one side a pistol from iiy husbands pants I pocket. Oh. brother, it Is shameful! The false and unjust means and way# resorted to by gMmnJ neighborhood. Mr. I left it H-cras hod ■■■■■mce, and before roinx bomMM I called by WarasevOle postoffice for the mail. On I returning home to the saw min where we lire, he met brother Jamas near VarnesvilJe. in front of Mrs. Lowe’s gate. The evidence given by Longiuo. a boy of 1« or 17 yean of age, who ■■ neerol the whole of it: and that of Mr*. Lowe and mer daughter IX or IS years of age, who witnrowdj [part of it, I will give as near correct as I rommle Lonrlno. says that they had father, and that Mr. Burton turned round shot Mr. Ricks, and then struck him twice with his gun. He was a short distance from them. He ndd that be did not see Mr. Ricks offer any re sistance, that he bad an umbrclUlamtamta and his hands were not put into t H xM I were haugteg down. MasWOUe VoweMHi heard loud word*, but could not Distinguish what was sakl by either: that she heard the report of a rogmmgtaam running to the door saw Mr. Burton i PMHcks with his .ghb : <•: . ran awaj (TtlaenM of Clisyton, and Not Fayette, Who £nt Him Through. The account of the lynching of the negro Neal Wimbush for an attempt U rape a lady, which was contained in our fu issue, had some mistakes as to the locality, which our Fayette county corres pondent inadvertently made. It appears that the offetae was commit ted in Clayton county, near Bethrada, church. Wimbush fled after making s devilish attempt, but was captured at the farm of Mr. William Betts near Jonesboro. He was taken under guard to the-locality where be had made the attempt on the young lady. While there he was seized by a crowd of citizens and taken over into Fiyette county, where he was found hang ing to a tree last Friday morning It ap pears that the people of Fayette county had nothing to do with this sum mary punishment of the negro. The outrage for which he suffered was at tempted on the daughter of one of the best families in Clayton connty, and indigna tion over the aflair was terrible in that county. Saturday a coroner's jury was summoned and sat on the remains of the deceased Wimbush. The following was their ver dict: ■Pthe body of Neal Wimbush, who was found dead on the morning of the lltb Inst, find that the aaid Neal Wimbush came to his death by be- lng hung by the neck with a hemp rope, to the limb of a tree, by the hands of unknown parties. | And we further find that the said Neal Wimbush was a citizen of • layt,m county, and that he hail been charged with an attempt to commit a rape tethe sola Clayton county .and had been arrested ■d was In the custody of on officer of Clayton county, and was taken from said officer bye body of men, and brought across the line Into k'ayette eoqntysm^bange^^^^Mvc^r^^jfic^M of /ayette county were iu nowise cognizant •r in any way connected with the traged- July 12th, 1879. A. E. Stokes, Foreman. J. E. II. Wake, M.D. J. M. Cakusle. road, to lay the dust. Slight rain here, which cooled the atmoephere considerably. The thermometer stood 106 here last Sun day. Tb# oldest citizens ray that this is the hottest weather and the “moatest of it” that they ever saw^ TROUP TOPICS. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■L Lowe, said she M-wing on her machine; that she heard words pHed, but from the note her machine model could not distinguish even the voire of brother] James—the only oo# that she was well acquainted with—that one of her children, in a frightened .manner, told her what was passing. Shesajsshel beard the report of the gun. and. she being hut to get to the door, aaw Mr. Burton with the gun I in his hand and Mr. Ricks try to get up, but I could not. She asked Mr. Burton twice before he answered, what be had done. He^B !■ he had killed Mr. Ricks; that he ■■ In the road for a difficulty and he ■■■■ get around him. Hs shot him through the heart, and wounds ware found on his head. Several other witnesses were sworn in. but these three arc the main evidence. John and James Me-1 Knight were the first to get there, as brother James had went on to the store and told IhU brothers-in law. Mr*. Lowe’s father arrived almost immediately afterwords, tben^to^re Thompson. Mix. Lowe testifies that I touched the body, aud & strict w* ch i | kepi A New Bridge—The North and South Hail road. LaGeaxgb. July 12.—-Our information from every portion of this county furnishes the and news that the ooru crop is almost a failure. There is no doubt of the fact that the heat has been more excessive than for many years, covering the same period of tire*. There is now no Indication of rain. Many planters declare that their cotton erased to grow. If seem* that this is true also front n any portion* of Heard and Mer iwether counties. We are to have a free bridge across the Chattahoochee, built in part by the county and by this city. Jit is a most remarkable fact that since the settlement of this county in 1327, nearly one-third of its area lies wad of that nm; yet the people on that side have never called upon the county to furnish them a free crowing of the river to mtv* ou juries, or perform other public duties, and daring this long period they have contributed tbeir share or the taxes to build many bridges across Flat Shoal. Long Cane, Yellow Jacket, Beech, and Flat creeks, costing in the a; x more than six bridges across th Our citizens are alive to the enterprise of clearing oaf the Chattahoochee and making it a national highway, and every facility will be afforded tor this purpose. We have assurance that the North and South railroad will be built soon. Slow it may be. but aura, is the sign of progress. There ia no jealousy between our people and others of adjoining counties and their towns. We act on the principle that what ever is for our good will promote the welfare of others. So help us in oar Chattahoochee river enterprise. C. did until propersuthori- Ore arrived. It was some time xn the night warn they arrived, and search being made, the following articles were all that was found the body of Mr. Ricks: a small barlow closed up. a watch^matebro. jdpe^aad keys. ^Qn was heard through that day, and f .. - •cnj.r.cvd, was hi* bsepoaed until thsHi J The state * evl.lcr.ce consumed one day. There day Friday and Saturday were talwrediH^^d - : mug* hi : taMbdmmuid ioaeof UnH ■■ with lawyer Fearj, mid Ua jW make it appear that the murder was committed insetf-defease: huto!uroll the unjust measure* resorted to. the ©'art pronounced a verdict oil votuaary man daughter. Brother, they brought upwjmesses^wbo said them could say*UuujSs||| be wA«u.-:fird ' itoadiffi •th-r V. I? t : 1 thel Rick* kl, tent, bMpoMd. ulpM ?Efn t£rB» oi ■ ■ bring in Acobls act as a, Ball nkre not tims or space to reooed all that I I will be proven at the superior court to befeMa. >r 1 am determined to vindicate the injured kmc of my husband by those best acquoicwd Hthhlm. , . ■ The trial before the superior court win oaxae off RnAugut. Before dostec. I have a little further to mTin reference to brother Jamea He testified I that J. B. Reynolds and James Yon Beaton. Jr, » ■ latter cl these is the ungrateful wicae*) told that Mr. Ricks had threareaed his life: also, them negroes, who I Mr R;.-kr threaten h:s present at the funeral. In the French sen ate, on Friday, the motion to pentpone the nomination of the committee on Jules Ferry’s educational bill, because of the ab sence of the Bonanartists was opposed by M. Pelleton. republican, on the ground that they were net absent because of a genuine sentiment of mourning on thein part. |but had gone to England in March of a pretender. The nomination of tfigpeamiit- ee was eventually postponed filr Tuesday next Marshal Canrobert has come to Eng-1 land despite the official prohibition against mis attendance at the funeral. ■When the coffin was opened yesterday (the features of the prince were much dis- [ figured, but we»e recognizable by the teeth. I The weather to-day ia fine bet cool. Crowds of people dressed in mourning, In cluding a large proportion of French, thronged the London railway stations as early as 6 o’clock this morning. The] entrance to the Camaen house is draped I with cream-colored tapestry. In addition to the royal personages previously an nounced, the following have arrived to at tend the funeral: Princess Beatrice, thel princess of Wales, Prince Christian and I Prince Edward of Saxe-Wei mar. j The funeral of the prince imperial look I place in accordance with the arrangements already announced. In addition to the notables heretofore mentioned, the Hus-1 sian. German, and Danish ambassadors tol England were present The body of Pans workmen viewed the coffin previous to the funeraL It is estimated that the various sym pathizers brought bouquets and wreaths sufficient to fill two vans to place on the graves. Madame Christine Nilsson Rousseand volunteered her services in the choir in the church of-St Mary. The funeral cortege commenced moviug at five minutes before 11 o'clock this morn ing. The princely pall bearers were in uni form. An immense wreath, bestowed by I Queen Victoria, was carried on the coffin, which was invisible because of v tbe mas* of flowers in which it was btfried. Prince Jerome Bonaparte and hia son followed next after the coffin. The British ministry was represented by Hon. Frederick Stanly and Sir Michael Hirk- | beach. The procession was Tbout three- quarters of a mile long. The rear was I brought up by the Second military band. There were present deputations of French imilitary students and workmen from Paris, iLille, Toulouse and other centers oCfrcn h industry. It is stated that ex-Empress Eu genie did not visit the coffin until 3 o’clock this morning. She remained over it In an agony of grief until 7 o’clock, when she fell asleep and was removed io her chamber. The favorite horse of the prince imperial was led after the coffin. At the conclusion ot the services in the church, Ithe members of the French senate and chamber of deputies in attendance, and the deputations of workingmen filed around the coffin, sprinkling it with holy water and immortelles. The Tennessee Cojpnlsts. Special dispatch to The Constitution. I Lowell, Mass.. July 14.—The Tennessee colonists organized formally to-night. About one hundred persons have signified their intention of emigrating from this city land Haverhill to Manchester, Coffee countyy. Tennessee. Twenty of this nuin | her will start to-morrow and the rest will follow in the fall. Colonies are forming in [other parts of New England. GEORGIA FACTS AND FANCIES. and friends of Mr. J. S. Heard at his farm, to-day. Mr. Heard offered the following prizes, io be awarded to his tenants for the best crops at this date: First best, $3 in gold; second, third and fourth best, $2.50 in gold each. Sqnire Seaborn Jones conducted the exer cises during the day. and appointed a com mittee of the following gentlemen: J. M. Green, foreman; S. Donaldson and Nathan iel Read, who awarded the above prizes. An excellent barbecue was prepared, and at_2 p.m. all those present were invited to join in and eat to their heart's desire. The committee appointed by Squire Jones pronounced the crop3 on Mr. Heard’s entire farm to be in a fine condition, and gave it as their opinion that the $10.50 was spent to a good purpose. After a close observation of eacli tenant’s crop the committee awarded the prizes to the following persons: Td the first best, $3 in gold. N. R. Heard, to the second best, $2.50 in gold, Evans and Jett; to the third best, $2.50 in gold, Henry Mitchell; to the fourth best,42.50 in gold, Hamp and Frank Chapman, colored. Everything passed off pleasantly and was enjoyed Tenr much by those who attended. Mr. J. 8. Heard has shown by his liberal ity that he appreciates the services of his tenants, and deserves success as an energetic farmer in all his undertakings. LIBERTY HALL. citL- A Storm-Blown Sheep and Its Histo ry—A Novel Case in Augnsta—The Silver Slnlees la Whitfield Connty. Augusta Chronicle. The court of ordinary, Hon. Anderson W. Walton, presiding, has been engaged for the last two days In hearing the case of James Thomas vs. Mary Thomas, administrator of Mike Thomas (colored). The plaintiff cited the administration to settle with him, at the son and heir-at-law of Mike Thom as. To this the administrator rnnlied that Mike Thomas and Lydia Thom as—the mother of plaintiff (an old slave of the estate of Mr. Edward F. Campbell) were never marri*^ onniMiumtio «i<» plaintiff was.an not inherit The plaintiff admitted that his father and mother were never married, but that he waa not thereby barred, be cause. although the form of marriage was frequently used among slaves, yet the re lation was not recognized by law, and there fore the absence of form of marriage could not injure him: that his fatherand mother lived together before and at the time of his oirth (forty years ago) in what was then regarded, among slaves, as a state of wedlock, treating each .other, as far as the . slave incident to a state of slavery permitted, as husband and wife, and tnat notwithstanding there was no marriage, he was the legitimate son Mike Thomas, his father, and in conse- S uence was his heir-at-law. A large mini- er of witnesses were examined. The plain tiff proved by Hon. Robert JJ. Bunch and other citizens that his ways acknowledged him as his son. By ***veral old negroes, former slaves of the Campbell estate, he showed that his mother and father bad lived together in apparent wedlock. The defendant offered the evi dence of a number of witnesses Letter from Hon. A. H. Stephens—111a Position ia (he Recent Session of Congress Defined. Liberty Hall, Crawfordyille. Ga., July 13, 1879.—Editor Augusta Evening News: Your kind note of the 11th instant, calling my attention to a letter to the Savannah News from a correspondent of that paper at Washington, under date of the 8th instant. Was received yesterday. Upon the subject of that letter X can now only briefly say that the statements, in so far as thev relate to myself, are utterly without foundation. Never have I, on any occasion, aaid that “in the next campaign all other issues on the democratic side would have to subordinate themselves ..to one which shall stand pre eminent—that of state rights.” My whole course in the fete extra session of congress, as well as In the entire preced ing congress, is directly averse to such a position. Mv speeches in the democratic caucuses at the extra session, and the dem ocratic platform submitted by me therein, for the next campaign, which were exten sively published throughout the country, north and south, a-e utterly inconsistent with the statement attributed to me by the correspondent of the Savannah News. In my speeches in the caucuses I held that, while a free ballot should be main tained, yet the great and all absorb ing issues -mow before the country, were the financial, currency, tariff, internal revenue and taxation ques tions. In the matter of the controversy be tween the president and congress upon the subject of the use of troops at (be polls, and the use of United States deputy marshals in connection with elec tions, my position after the ve toes by the president of the bills re pealing the acts authorizing such use of troops aud deputy marshals, was that while congress would not be justified in with holding all appropriations and stopping the operations of the government in all its functions, because of said vetoes, yet it was not only right, but the duty of “Congress to designate and specify the uses to which the money appropriated by them should be applied. The power to appropriate means the power to specify and limit the objects to which the moneys are so set apart. While, therefore, congress could not repeal the acts authoriz ing the use of troops and deputy marshals over the president’s veto for the want of two-thirds majority, yet I maintained they had the perfect right to limit the appro priation to the army by expressly declar ing that no part of the money so ap- priated should be applied to the payment or use of troops so employed at the polls; and in like manner they had a * ■ -*- L -I—*—-* ^ Amuses , raent 1 their regular and ordinary duties in the execu tion of the mandates of the courts in the administration of the civil and criminal laws of the land, with an express prohibi tion that no part of the money so appropri ated for marshals and their general depu ties in the administration of justice should be applied to the payment of special deputy marshals for services connected with elec tions. The controversy between congress and the ^resident finally narrowed down to these istinct issues—the army bill was passed with this restriction upon it The presi dent signed it and it is now he law- of the fend. A bill appropriating six hundred thou sand dollars for the payment of marshals and general deputies (which was-all that was asked) with a like restriction in sub stance (that no part of the money so appro priated or set apart should be nsed for pay ment of special deputy marshals to run. >assed by congress. This Aa Adventurer Finds a Hew 0*v« la Tsnnsase Whioli Promises to Outrival Kentucky's Mammoth Hole—the Result of a Re cent Exploring Expedition. .Kashtiiis, July 15.—Xevra reached this city a few days ago of the diacovcry of a new cave at Newsom’s station, seventeen miles out on the Northwestern railroad. Many were inclined to doubt the truth of Hjf JWJS a 4. the wonderful accounts of tha lnurior, _iesterday, w i th four of tile neighboring farmers, a newspaper repro- sentatiire made a visit to thecaveaiida he ? IpIor ?. Uon - l‘ » about amilc up Mr Hofion 11 °n the farm of a Mr. Hutton. The entrance opens on ?. country road, runningaround the foot of an immense hill four or five hundredfeet high, opening is about 18 almost coveredbv r ^ e ,k° w ‘r. ^Two meu passing along the road noticed the hole, and through cu riosity enlarged it sufficiently to admit of r P ^ §e ^ nd e3C P ,ore ? the cave aome dis tance. They reported their find at the sta- tlon, and ih a day or two parties for mile around came to see the wonder. To^ay the exploration was made under most favorable auspices. Preparing them- sehes with lanterns, candles and ropes, the party of five started on the expedition, l’or tw t ii£ fi 'i. e ,? ar<i3 the vassage was so small that they had to crawl on ali-fonrs. Then it grew larger, widening into large charn- “era. the roots of which could not be seen nor struck with rocks thrown upward. All along the sides were beautiful formations, white and sparkling in the dim light. A mile from the entrance there was a fork in the passage, one branch leading north and the oilier south. Selecting the northern route first, the par ty proceeded something over a mile, when they came to what seemed to be the end. At! along walking was easv. and no idea could be formed as to how high the roof was in places. Retracing their steps they next took the southern passage A mile from the fork italso divided into two branchea Taking the right-hand branch, the explorers advanced some distance, coming at last to a large lake of the coldest and sweetest water. No at tempt was made to proceed beyond this, but going back they started on the left branch. Which they explored i early a mile without finding any prospect of an end. The fur- »her they advanced in the wider and larger was the passage, and the more frequent the chambers The finest formation of .talar- utes was found in the utmost profusion. Several specimens were broken off and brought to the city. The rooms were im mense in size, and weird in outline, fantas- tio formations being scattered over the floor and along the walls. Frequently runniug 23£*Sij"5r*j!* Stwwing of a rat on granite, and w." g ,‘™ 5’ ou th e right to tax rifthta between man and man. HyonrfctMatoir „ tdobig a fool to see this t “ rn . h ™°nt and put in a nigger. Our constitution of Georgia catl'nM, ‘“ r »H «1» good we want and the trL„ ’ no l Prevail against it.” - s Pesker eloquently spoke of the “552* Y 1 scien< *- ‘‘The old P 52“K' T, hose I'ps were touched with the th» L. re ‘ erclalmed: -Who can hold . in , Ius , hands?' and Morse comes to make it do the bidding of man.” , „ then spoke of railroads beginning hi Georgia, and said; ‘T was ^ grown hrat railroad was finished in Georgia They began as poor beggais and received benefits of public indulgence I do not accuse the wisdom of the fathers which granted them such indulgences. But they want the same now. Talk about the good and charity of railroads. You can put and i“i“„ ndreJ "r, u in • corporation ana the morality of the woMt ThoVdl. 1 h e ihe morality of the cor]>oration. JfSS do charity, but refuse to pay their He f°- 5 '“ e Ceutral read that has not paid a cent lh twenty years, and I have been struggling in vain before yoursupreme S?““‘ a “ d tb ,° supreme court of the United & ?.,“£* “«■ P»y, Uieir just debts. ? are robbing you. A set »t ai J- 2ff , meet the fall at the Kimball house and imDo:6 a tax on the people which you must pav. I*° r ; poorer, poorest Not a sun has set since Johnston surrendered hut it tounii the people of Georgia poorer than when It rose. [Applause.] One of the cur -es is the railroads. Once in a while yon 1J neb a poor negro for some sin. I arii no j opposed to mob law. The newspapers are for t hey are afraid they will be hung for their ains. [Laughter.] But your greatest one: rniea you allow to go on m their rascality* Your superior courts are too often the in struments of their villainy. [Applause.1 " 8 81 fist have a remedy for these evils, for eyjcry to heaven. The railroads tax you, d there Is no power to save you but the legislature, xou must remedy this evil.' If you can’t ret a way to do it resign and go Dome and let them send a nigger in your place. You are a fraud. (Laughter.) You can remedy. You may defeat these bills which public justice demands- but the day you do .so will bo. the last day of the political life of the man who votes against it. You can remedy this evil, ^ou can appoint railroad commissioners to regulate the maximum charges and to shut the ,5»y to oppression. The World has studied this question for t wen tv years. England has solved it France has solved It Sixteen states have P®"*! laws regulating it. There is no difficulty in your way. The duty you owe to the people is plain, and there is nothing to keep you from it but the power and bribery of railroads.” [Applause.1 The general was frequently applauded during his speech, and seemed to be in his best humor all the time. m COURT AGAIN.' streams of water were crom^l, fenixrkabli tor their almost more tl»n icJt.cJTln..|Ij This was the third party that had gone "any distance in the cave, and all who had been to the Mammoth • cave declared that this wonder rivaled it Somfi two hundred yards up the road there to another cave, dhcovered during the war. It has a large entranoe, and consists of one large chamber several hundred feet long and a hundred feet or more liigb. At the end is a well, the bottom of which has never been touched, A party in the new cave the other day heard noises like a striking of stones, and it is supposed fmm this fact' that the two'caves are connected. Other explorations will be made in a few days. The proprietor promises to coramenco Im mediately enlarging the entrance and pa- sages, The location is a beautiful one, high up on a hill overlooking the Ilarpeth river and valley. The discovery has created great interest in Nashville. YELLOW FEVER NOTES. SAM HILL’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. The Counsel for 8am Hill ICeko Application Bator* Fnlton Snnorlor Coort for a Hew Trial—The Ground* Upon Whioh it le Aiied— Inianity How. Alleged. Yesterday morning the motion fora new trial ill the case of the State vs. Samuel H. Uul, was in order, having come over irom the preceding day. The case was sounded and the counsel a»sked if they were ready to proceed with the argument of the motion. General Gartrell of counsel for the de fense said they had some amended grounds to offer In addition to those already of file. He proceeded to state them to the court, and they were, in effect, as follows: 1. That Morris Rich, one of the jurors, was not and Is not a naturalized citizen of the state or United States, aid therefore not a qualified juror. 2. That the juror, Meyers, on oath now states that the letter in a disguised hai.d- wnting’ alleged to have been sent to Mrs. Hill by Simmons, the deceased, was seen by said Meyers iu the possession of Sim mons before it was senh and that he Sim mons, told affiant that he wrote it and was going to send it to Vlito girl.” 3. A plea having for its intent and pur pose the establishment of the fact that at the time of the killing elections), was passed . bill was vetoed by the president, and con to the contrary; or, at least, that gross adjourned without passing any other *" “ * ' billon the subject. All the other appro priation bills were passed and duly signed. The issue, therefore, on this matter, now before the country, to as I have often said and again repeat, not one of THE EXD or THE “SCARE.” The yellow-fever sensation has collapsed in Memphis, all the industry of the board of health and physicians of the city failing to discover a single new case or any other old case bearing any symptom of the dis ease. In fact the doctors^ are now wrang ling over the four cases reported. Dr. Saunders, former president of the board of health, and one of the physicians of the city who is regarded as authority, de clared that, after rigid investigation, he has discovered but one case that he is wil ling to risk his.reputation on in declaring a genuine case of yellow fever, and that one was Mnlbrandon, who died Wednesday. He took particular pains to trace the cause of this case, whioh he relates as follows: Mulbrandou’s wife lost several relatives in RR8 of the fever whose household effects came by inheritance or otherwise into her possession. The artiolea not used In house keeping for her own family were last winter packed away in boxes or otherwise without any regard to disinfection. Since the hot season set in these articles have been un packed aud exposed to the atmosphere to be aired. The neighbors say that dark spots were noticed on so.neof the bedding, which Dr. Saunders says must be stains of negro vomito, contact of which no doubt caused poor Mulhrandon’s death and the subsequent hellaballoo about the spontane ous outbreak of yellow fever, which has re sulted so hurtfuliy to the commercial inter ests of Memphis. Other leading phyricians agree with Dr. Saunders as to the character of the case, and say that other sporadic ca>*es will no doubt appear daring the season, but they are now almost satisfied that no epideraio to probt able.* The prevailing unusual hot temper ature since Mulbrandon was taken has not caused the disease to spread, aud they have no fears that it will do so. Many citizens who had prepared to leave with their families were to-day offering their tickets for sale, having concluded to await further developments. Every little burg within a hundred miles of the radius of Memphis* has established quarantine against us, and until it is satisfactorily de veloped that th* fever will not become epi demic, business will be as flat as a collapsed B. H. DORSEY. Jolts L GRATES. Thomas W. reowxxe. TIi* psrpef-BAftere Oirsnlzinr WaUUngtaa Rat. The carpet-bsjacen of the so-oh are beginning to organize for the next presidential campoizn They oo not propose, so they say. to be **ieff again, na they were in the counting in of Hayes; that in the next convention they Intend to make their inflame© felt, and cinmaand from the nom inee what they coaaider themselves entitled to. A meeting, or conference, of leading carpet-bag- gen was held at Old l\>int foiaf -r t.» ut’.k over the m-xi proiden-Lil« icide upon a candidate and policy present were Jorgensen. Malt and Stowell. of Yir- «n>i of the*a^H MHHbn statea. Kelfoge. too, was rep re- I seated, and the condation reached was that Sen ator Blaine is the candidate for the corpet-b»g- gers. It was urged that he, os president, would Lara all the power of hU office to .. d stealing for lhe?c odorous i— , south. The conferee e was secret, and of all the proceedings in detail cannot be had, but the Past has o.*certained the most material > poUticians in the decided, with great unanimity,that he would not I do as a candidate for tiie carpet-baggers, lie rag- owned entirely by Wail *ti power had not evinced any bagger* to it was said. It 1 agreed that the a crowd should begin to hurrah for Hayes ■MBS *1 np for a few lead him to believe that he i they never knew of the fact, and that plaintiff was regarded aa illegitimate. Yes terday the evidence was concluded, and arguments were made by Ju lge Writ. Mi-Laws, who represented the defendant, and S. F. Webb, Esq., who was counsel for plaintiff After argument, the court ruled that the evidence snowed that the plaintiff was the legitimate child under the laws of the state, and was therefore heir-at-law, and entitled to inherit the property of his father. Judgment fer the plaintiff. Pulton HeadUghp For twenty-five years it has been told in a careleas-like way that the Indians claimed that the richest silver mines on the North American continent were located between Cedar Ridge aud an old puncheon bridge, which crossed Con- 11 asauga river. Like most such stories, the matter would be enthusiastically discussed and then forgotten again. But our old friend J. E. K. Ketchum, living in the im mediate range of the traditional bonanza, was first attracted by the peculiar surface outcroppings known by miners as “sliver blossoms,” then by the discovery of one or two shafts sunk deep into the bowels of mother earth. From the surface down, down into the almost fathomless pit. every evidence of expert mining of a rude character shows itself. Mr. Ketchura has blasted down for several feet, and the further It* goes the more plainly do the large grains of some bright metal show out. The sperimens which we have examined are similar in every respect to such specimens sbewu balloon. THE WATER VALLEY CASE. I result in - ■■B to kill off John bhennon in the interest of Blaine, and the most effective way would be to inspire the Fraud with a belief that be coaid be renominated, and thus lead him to antagonize his secretary ol the treasury. Grant was talked of. but was discarded in spite ol a few who warmly advocated hiss. The argument actin'* him was that should h* ha re-efeoted h* I would -throw off” ou the old crowd and endeavfl or to win the eoufldeoce of the coca try; that be would fed It nrpwiry to seporeMiMjMMd [all the influence* that brouahtSPHHiPH ■■former administratio*. and this would leave carpei-h-crcr* out la the coil. After canvoss- I the whole n«rld, itiaine was selected as the ■b most likely to stand by the carpet-bagger*. I wad the oooierence adjourned after swearing to| ’state rights,” bat one involving the right and duty of congress to control its own ap propriations, and to specify the uses to which the public money shall be applied. This is a greaf issue, but not involving the question of state lights or state sovereignty at all. but a great question between the relative powers of two co-ordinate depart ments of the federal government. By the constitution, congr* as alone has the power to tax the people and raise money for any federal purpose; and white in this country congress may not as the parliament in England, withhold all appropriations until there be a redress of grievances, etc., for reasons I need not repeat here, yet con gress has undoubtedly the clear right to imit and designate the uses ti* which the taxes of the people shall be applied. This, at least, has been my position thei»e questions from the beginning, and I supposed it was so well understood through out the United States, that I am amazed at the ignorance or audacity of any one who would attempt to misrepresent it. In the democratic caucus, on the opening of the late session of congress. I argued with all the power and zeal ( could command, that the paramount qnestion which should engage the attention of the democracy, now that they had come into power in the senate, as well as in the house, was not the appropriation hills which concerned chiefly the salaries of those in office—those should be treated as side tonnes—but that attention should be given immediately to the vital questions of financial relief, which concerned the tax payers, the great body of the producing classes of the country. This was and is my view of the para mount question in the present and coming political issues. How any one can be mis taken in it, who has paid any attention to what I have raid aud done, I cannot con ceive. Very truly, yours, Alexander H. Stephens. Water Valley, Miss., July 14.—There has been but one case of yellow fever at this place, that of G. Cogin.who died Friday, lie a as an employe in the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans railroad shops at this E l ace. He came from Whistler, Ala., where e says he bad yellow fever last year. He was boarding at a house where we had our last, save one, case of fever during last year’s epidemic. The case presented all the phases of yellow fever, dying on the fifth day. The seed sown here last year most have germi nated this case, as there could have been no chance of imnortation. Considerable uneasiness exists and many AlUsU’s ‘‘Crrat Hally.* Nome Biff Figures In Regard to IU Value. Mr. MoreUead, the president of the Mississippi Valley cotton planters’ associa tion. gives the following about the cotton crop: “A crop of 5,000,000 bales, averaging three acres to produce a bale, would give us 15.000,000 acres at eight dollars per acre, $120,000,000. * One male or horse to twenty-five acres 800,000 mules, at ninety dollars, $72,000,- Implements, harness, etc., and machine ry, $50,000,000. Showing permanent investment of $242,- 000,000. Averaging three bales per head, would re quire 1,60G,GGG laborers to feed and clothe, which for a year with their dependents would average fifty dollars each, $82,CG9,CC*.. To feed team at forty dollars per mule, 800,000 mules, $32,000,000. Cost of bagging and ties at one dollar and forty cents per bale, $7,000,000. Cost of marketing crop at one and a fourth cents per pound, would give $25,- 000,00a Working capital, $146,777,777. Average price expected for present crop, eleven cents for 2,000,000, $220,000,000. Recapitulation—Now we have—perma nent investment of planters, $242,000,000. Working capital, $146,777,777. Total capital invested exclusively in cot- r cultivation, this estimate being made the share system, and not for wages, $388,777,777. Amount received for total crop, $220,000,- 000; which to divided equally between the planter and laborer; planters therefore re ceive $110,000,000—from which deduct feed for team, chargeable to planters $32,000,000;' half cost bagging and ties, chargeable to planter, $3,500,000: half marketing crop, chargeable to planter, $12,500,000; twenty >er cent in loss and decreased value stock, : >14,400.000; tweuty per cent in. loss and de creased implements and machinery, $10,- 000.000. Total $72,400,000. Repairing fences, houses, etc., at 10 per cent, on permanent investment, $12,000,000. Taxes on permanent investment, 3 per cent. $7,200,000. Deduct these amounts from planters* share of crop, $110,000,000, which shows planters’ profit on total investment for cot ton alone is about A l A percent, provided we get 11 cents for cotton, make 5,000.000 hales, and the laborer pays his accounts in full. Laborers’ share of crop. $110,000,000. Amount chargeable for food and clothes, $8 '.CG6.CC7. Showing a profit for the laborer of $27.- 333,333. It will thus be observed that the laborer receives $27,000,000 on investment on noth ing bnt bis muscle, while the planter re ceives $18,000,000 on 1 he investment of $388,- OO0.0OO and his services. Now, we will omit the details of the num ber of slices that are picked by the way- side, and supposing our crop has reached the factory, simply saying that about $55,- 000,000 more has been added thereby to the price to be paid by the manu facturer since it landed at t port from the planter. . Oar 5,000,- 000 bales now begin to loom up-and assume some importance, for they run 12,500,000 spindles, which require nearly $1,000,000,- 000 in buildings, machinery and working capital, and employ nearly 800.000 opera tors and employes. The manufactured goods are sent to every part of the known world, creating a trade reciprocal business that can hardly be estimated, but without doing which, as can easily be seen, it will reach into the billion*. Liverpool Cotton Market. Smith, Edwards <& Co.’s Circular. Liverpool, July L—The prospects of ihe mar ket remain very much as we described them in our last circular. The deficiency in our supply is still so great as to threaten us with something like a famine in the autumn, and the only ques tion U*whe her trade In Manchester will keep so bad os t» stop sufficient machinery to tide ' the defendant was insane, and not of that sound mind and memory that enabled him to discriminate between right and wrong, at least so far as the act in question was concerned. In support of .this ground was read the lengthy and intensely interesting narrative of the 'Condition of the defendant’s mind' from his birth up to the time of the homi cide and since. Dr. Stout, who to the blood-uncle of the defendant and a physician of the very high est repute in the state, gives a long series of facts which lead irresistibly to the conclu sion that the defendant has not been for the greater portion of his life free from & serious species of emotional insanity. Hto mother has been insane ever since the. year 1853, and since 1864 has been an inmate of the insane asylum of Tennessee. The insanity is hereditary in her branch of the family, having descended for several generations, it' is of an intensely emotional character and the insan ity of the mother first manifested itself in the delusion that this son, Samuel H. Hill, was the victim of unjust prejudices, and therefore a subject of especial protective care upon her part. At the age of three years The defendant was the subject of a severe iinfiammatory complaint, peculiar to children, and from it became alllicted with a . mental dormancy that it was feared would amount to total idiocy, and which lasted through a space of several months. His mother nursed him back to comjiarative recovery from this stupor of the faculties, but his recovery was never deemed complete and perm 1- nent Whfa he became of an age to be-af- fected and influenced by the mental troubles of hto mother, it was deemed ad visable to separate him from her and he was sent to school and remained there until the war broke out. Samuel H. Hill ran away from school and enlisted in the confederate armies, but was captured at Fort Donelson and his person secured by his father, who then lived in Nashville, ana he was again brought under the influence of his mother. This did not tend to strengthen the regular and normal operations of his mind. His mother, in 1864, was sent tp the asylum, and soon after his father died. He was then taken charge by his relatives but refused ■ take a comfortable home offered him by his uncle, the affiant, and left under the delusive idea that he was able and qualified, aud that it was his duty to make a support for his five younger sisters and brothers. During all this period his mental abberatious have been growing more patent and fre quent, and affiant several years ago, while on a visit to Chattanooga, ^ave his medi cal opinion to Jesse T. Hill, defendant’s brother^ that defendant’s insanity was rapidly growing upon him and that, whenever the symptom were sufficient to warrant the verdict of a jury, the defendant SHOULD BE 8ENT TO AN ASYLUM. Affiant has made a careful and strictly medical study of the condition and opera tions of the defendant’s mind, and believes his insanity to be so clearly defined in the emotional life of the dcfemtani leave no room for a doubt, when unco examined. Had Mr. Spinks informed affiant prior to the mar riage of defendant to his wife that such a union was contemplated, affiant would have taken all possible measures to have pre vented it, because of the insanity in ques tion. The bent of this insanity is wholly emotional and particularly prominent in all matters that appear to the defendant to have a cliivalric character or to be in favor of weak against strong. Affiant proceeds to give illustrations since the incarceration of the defendant of the irr -gular and delu- ' sive operations of defendant’s mind, par ticularly his exaggerated and unalterable belief in the purity and virtue of his wife, and hto various asseverations and threats consequent upon the doubts of others upon that topic. Affiant states to the court that he ha.8 been NOT A WILLINGLY SILENT WITNESS ; this branch of the case, was compelled to that course the dissension between coun sel for defendant as to the propriety of enteriug a plea of insanity in’the case. Af fiant, with hto other relatives, believe it their solemn duty arid due to the proper admintotration of justice to make these facts known to the court. We mention here that a portion of the counsel desired on the former trial to rest the defense upon the plea of insanity, but were overruled by the leading counsel who deemed the case strong upon the plea of justification. It was only upon the very moment of the sounding of the case yesteiday that it was agreed to enter the ground of insanity as a reason why a new trial should be allowed in the case. We regret that wc are not able to lay before our readers this morning the full text of the interesting and important affidavit above outlined, but in consequence of the refusal of General Gartrell to permit ita publication, we are left no alternative but, to remit it to a subsequent issue. are leaving the country. No other ca>es of feve»‘ in our town presents any symptoms of yellow fever thus far, hut we fear the worst. Qar sanitary condition is not per- can only allow the present level of price. It is pos sible that It may, but we rather doubt it. W through it at MU have five months be* we can receive effectual relief The Atlanta CoMirrrao*. freatCbtrccy and sparkling, now reaches Tbomasrille oo the ©Ten-1 tec of the same day that it is israed. This is a] loo* stride ahead tor that cosmopolitan Journal | and should malt in a large »uUrrir.Udn mm here. They rive full accwuuie-the f=tie*t d the pcoeeedia«s of the InrsUture. :i n w« this trrv-L-i—c femture The CY.>-t IHfoa perfect reflex of the world’s doimaH &*i£sszg&s^M the mart bntiiant and pungent wr.ters of the] day. We doubt if they or# surpassed in any edi torial corps, north or south. Thatprinoe of nara- friplit*, nsnli familiar name in south Geor- rio—flashes hia wit and ia every i«*ue. ll k a itiPHHHHI proud and (art growin* gale city of the south, Atlanta, It may be. and 1 hare no doubt but» hat they did excite the f«ar* of brother James in this war. but notwtthstandlac I do not think that Justified him to murder. W ben Wesley Whittle, who murder- ®»« ky Owe. New Hareu Register. The storr that Robert Toombs, of Georgia, said he would lire to call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Htii.is statedly him to have been fancy lie star ted^by^ Jack Hale, erf New Honp- from Colorado mines. Every o!d miner in ibis section*, and there are hosts of them, claim that it is the richest surface develop uent of silver that they have ever seen. There are parties now living who have been told by the Indians ihat the mine in all its wild richness existed in that immediate neighborhood. That mining has been carried on there, every evidence substantiates the fact. That some kind of metal exists there in most abundant profusion, is self-evident, and there is no humbnggerv about it. Whit field county is richer than the wonderful cave where Alladin became a bloated dia mond king in the twinkling of© jiffy. Augusta Evening News. Everybody of a mature age and sound mind, in this section of country, will remember the terrible cyclone which passed over middle Georgia in March, 1873, and which w© particularly noticeable for its violence and destruction, especially in Warren. Glasscock, Hancock. Columbia and Richmond counties- It will be remembered that houses were blown down, forests uprooted, and much damage done to life and property. On that memor able day in March, and while the blasts But there came a time and occasion were getting m their strongest blows, and when her daughter set her heart scattering things right and left, taking up upon her mother’s addressing a gentleman men and animals from wbete they be- stranger correctly." All through the day of longed, and setting them down where they the evening on which he was expected, the were not at home, a small white laoib.no daughter could be heard to say as she fol- larger than an ordinary sized boose cat was lowed her mother from room to room, safely deposited, among other debns in the -Now, remember, his name is Mr. Cowdry!” yard of Mr. Dan Prather, an old gentleman j to which the mother in every instance who lives near Berzelia, on the Georgia road. I would reply. “Yea, dear; I am sure I know As soon as the lamb was discovered some of' it. Cc — — feet, hut hetter perhaps than at this time last year. As In the oleanliness of the streets and private premises, ours would compare favorably wttli any in the state. Tho authorities did all in their power to have the bedding of last year’s fever pa tients destroyed, but many poor and un scrupulous person* failed to comply with the order and much bedding was preserved. The above are the facts in the **ie; each one can draw hto own conclusion*. New Orleans. July 14.—Dr. a a Herrick, who went to Water Valley as inspector of the national board of health,.reports the case there as extrenie’y questionable, inas much as ita history to incomplete anil the observations made by the attending physi cian were imperfect. Dr. Herrick says there is no other suspicious case at Water Valley, and the people are recovering from the panic. raiLosoniY or the panic. week from this port, running stocks at the some ' mg > the verge of exhaustion. We doubt if so a pressure on consumption can be main tained without the spur of a still higher price. We do not think our spinners hold almost any 1 serves of stock; the very small buying of the last six weeks nuw have nearly exhausted their I *uppUe»—■certainly that is the opinion in Man chester—and when we consider that they ended 1 last year with unusnajjragM^fogrtHiMMrij have only taken from larger stocks than they do now, as also tho*einl France, Germany, and over most of the continent, excepting Russia. The reduction In the deficit of visible supply, my from 50),000 to 250.000 bales, is entirely accounted for by the diminished stock* in Nashville American. The Memphis refugees are not disposed seriously doubt the sporadic character of the fever in that city, but they each and all, with one accord, are determined not to I sporaded upon After conversing with _ few. we have found out lhat each one would regard a sporadic case upon his own person as quite equal to an epidemic. None wants to be the sporadic person, and there’s sense iu it. ■aemberert. Bat Tir fated a Little Boston Transcript, Newport Letter. [ know a lady who keeps a boarding 1 s charming woman, always solicitors of the comfort of her household, but with a peculiarity. 8he “remembers faces, hut not names.” Now it never mattered to me that with every cup of coffee or tea that she crave me I was rechrxstined. On the contrary, I found it very entertaining. But this did distress her daughter. All in vain she labored with her mother, who smilingly weat on in her own way in spite of her. RAILROAD POLICY. A Speech by Hen. Robert Tooosba the Capitol Tandajr Night. General Toombs addressed the legislature Tuesday night on the subject of railroads and . . _— —. . - - -, it- Cowdry?’’ The stranger took his seat Mr. MWllmll; ran ont, picked it up at the tabl-. That blessed woman, with a ana carried it into the boose. Where it smile like an angel’s, and with a }*elf-pos9e»- came from no one knew, but it was fed and sion I have never seen surpassed, looked wormed and nurtured, and became a great sweetly across the board and inquired, “Mr. pet in the household. In fact, Dry-cow, do you take cream and sugar?" their regulation by the state. The hall of th* boose of representatives was well filled, nearly all the legislature and many visitors being present. The general ap peared in fine trim and spoke with vigor and with evident delight in a theme which has been one of hto hobbies for several years past. IT to speech was full of characteristic remarks and pleased bis hearers to the point of frequent applause. In beginning, he extolled the const! tut ion and said it vraa the safeguard of the people; said he “stand by it. It allows you all the nghta you want. It gives the last cent to the public good, even to the soap- gourd of the nigger. [Laughter.] It to destined to stand And* hea 1 * T* 111 ? °J et £ er Clow. \elaw?”" " , "" t " W * 1 ” *' It is founded little to meet the scarcity of American ia I tb; autumn. The real deficit of service- able cotton is as great aa it ever I thiVAtened to be this year. The American and Bombay crops have run out Cuter than expected, and there ia no quarter to which we can look to rtUwittilswa till; lb* ©ext American crop arrives; that crop is al*o believed to be at least ten days later than la*t, which was a very early une, so we cannot expect an import of any Quan tity till the middle of November. 7 H under these dreuDrtancca nothing but extreme caution oo the part of the trade, combined with a most extensive resort to short time can prevent this market rhdtnp .-Should an active demand *prlns up for India goods, bo as to brin-spinner* ■Into our market a.rise would be ceruin—if, on the other hand, any accident happened to the American crop so as to stir up speculation, the some thing would happen. At present we think the Amenc&n crop u getting on well, and its prospects lie between 5 and 5% million*. We must remember that last seaman's crop was a remarkably fine one, and it will be hard to beat It. On the other hand, the Increase of acreage Is probably larger than the bbureau puts it at. We see the Chronicle calls it aj-;, per cent., but call it even 5 per eent., and sup pose the season as fine as last we can scaicelyl lreach V4 millions. -Kroin present appearance* Ods wfiibe a scant supply for next j ear. The consumption of the world thin season has appa- lreally outrun the supply hy a quarter million of bale*, that U to sav. we have been consuming at tiie rate of 5% to 5>£ millions American. ^No doubt next year we may expect a much CRAZY ABOUT HIS WIFE. Dr.\Y.R.D.Thomps< n makes affidavit that 1 the Monday after Mrs. Hill fled from her home, in company with Simmons, the de ceased, he met Mr. Hill, who was then following Mrs. Eliza Phillips, (the pertinent and Impertinent witness on the trial) in search of his wife; defendant re lated lus troubles and acted in such an ir rational and incoherent manner as to im press affiant with the strong belief that he was crazy; so much so did the affiant believe it that he actually discredited the statement of defendant that his wife had desertod her home. In the opinion of affiant the defendant was then out of hto proper mind and in a state of lunacy. Captain J. S. Nall makes affidavit of a long and intimate acquaintance with the defendant, but says on the morning before the homicide he encountered the de- dendant at Day’s ice-house, while defendant was sitting there; he noticed particularly the vacant, unconscious like stare of defend ant and his utter abstraction; hq was hag gard and pale and seemed oblivious to hto surroundings; witness accosted him some three or four times before defendant - recognized , him ; in witness’ opinion the defendant wasmot then a rational man, but a lunatic. L. D. Spinks, father-in-law of defendant, makes affidavit that for several days and nights before the homi cide defendant was in his company at hto room aud slept with affiant; . rather defendant did not sleep at all, but remained ewake and restless, and was constantly giving utterance to 1 amenta over the wrongs jmt upon him and the troubhs put upon him in connec tion with hto wife; he was then not, in the opinion of affiant, of sound mind and memory, but a lunatic unable to control himself in his thonghta and movements. — hardly remain — Lkid in Europe for another year. We think, there fore. that a very large American crop is urgently -i,ano if anything arises to cast doubt on will be speculation in next neanon’s »hip- Thera uwe ‘'“—“— about G%d' which TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Mr. Hoke Smith, acting for the state, replied to these offers of amended grounds that counsel for the prosecution were surprised by them. He and hto asso ciates were prepared to fully meet and argue the grounds first as signed by the defense, but they must ask time to meet tbese new grounds and affidavits. He asked until to-morrow (Fri day) morning. Judge IIilIyer said it was proper the time should be allowed and would do so, but he 'desired the counsel to understand that the court contemplatiid.compleiing the bearing, without farther delays, on Friday. muitt. These have been ruling for some time about trjyi, which doe*. .1 not seem a very high price, all things' considered. At the time, so foag below the price months, it 1 they are offered so much the spot and the autumn 1 temble drag on the mar- An^ heaven’s loot thunder shake the world the beautiful principles ntoifMttda lucrouKU'lorre'to rarry u* tirougfl’me iutuma \ newspapers on my month* without occasional ipurta. . ooerst ket and kills busiaew -ia Manchester. not for this drag there can be iitt’ that the prenent statistical position would force prices much higher, and it will need that the drug be applied pereisteutly—perhaps even with * * through f Bast for the Crops. Augusta,G a., July 1C.—There has been no rain in this section to do any good to crops for two months. Corn in many places is literally burnt up, ami will not average a quarter of a crop. The cotton i* very much behind, and the weed very small, yet it is fruiting very well for the size of the stalk. This has been the hottest and driest woolli er since 1836.
