Newspaper Page Text
I
I
—
Mx.'mrg,
CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. JULY 29, 1879.
YOL. XU.. NO. 6.
THE SICK AKD DYING
THE SWEEP OP DEATH IN MEMPHIS,
A« Iasnai Iu*tw ii tfes 8 ek Urt-Extrtxs
B«*t1*as sf Ihm City Th# Fssfle
Lsavisg by Tbrasaads-Tk# Bod-
un FtuftU Dtftrsyid.
Muirau, July 21.—Throughout all of the
hurt two day* a steady stream of people
have been moving by every street, avenue
ai«I railway out of this fever-stricken city
It a Htaied tha* two tbouaand went by tbe
Louisville road alone, their baggage being
oiled in high tiers extending from Main to
beyond Second street on the company's
platform. There was. no excitement nor
stampede, sucb as prevailed when the peo
ple were atartled by the first announcement
that the yellow fever bad broken out, but
the ortiali was immense. On Sunday vehi
cles of every imaginable description
lined tbs highways, carrying peo
ple, bagrace, household effects and
«mp njittppag* into the country.
Within forty-eight hours the only remain
ing inhabitants will be poverty-stricken
people, unable for lack of means to leave,
negroes and men occupying places im
peratively demanding their presence. The
exodns Is in re«|<on»e to the announcement
of the press and authorities that they can
not tie fed or nursed here if taken sick, and
that tbeir lives depend on removal from the
city. Many have (led who went through
the scourge of lHift, and who are deemed
safe from another.attack. They say they
have no desire to witness a rcpeti-
tion <•( the trials and hardships,
and death scenes of last year. Although
tlieauthorities urge the evacuation of the
ciiy,it is thought it will be impossible to re
duce thf population below ten thousand. All
property owners, and nearly alt the leading
official* hare gone, or are going away. Some
twenty of the !waviest merchant* are
moving their stocks to St. Lon is and Cm-
rinnaiMhere to reopen am) continue bad
ness until November. Many • business
houses cl<wed on Saturday night and will
not open again until cold weather.
It is officially stated that ten new cases
were announced to-day and four deaths.
The sick, as a general thing, are getting
along favorably. William Thane, seventeen
year* in the ice trade here, has the fever
badly. H. N. Barford, roaster me
chanic of the Charleston railroad simps,
was taken yesterday, and is venr sick.
• Severn! others near the Charleston depot are
III. Thomas R. Kirnan, who was thought
to be dying last night, is better to day and
has some chance for his life. Coffinger at
lira, Mari I is, on Madison street, is better.
Deaths from yellow fever to-day included
II. Q. Ilrnmer, on the Hernando road, and
also a lad named Wheeler, Iliram A they
and one other. Samuel B. Moore and fami
ly are doing well. None arc thought to be
in a dangerous condition. The steamer
Coahoma loading with goods of several
tuefctiants leaves for St. Louis to
morrow. Dr. Thornton of the board of
health came home to-day.
The disease is slowly but surely spreading,
though the list of new cases is not large,
and nearly all that are now down are get
ting along well. Dr. J. C. Harris, dentist,
ass thought to be hopelessly ill last night,
but is better to-day, and has a chance for
life. Howell Robb, his mother and sister,
residing on Klhoti, near Desoto street, and
Charles Berlinisn, of Echols street, are
among the new rases. Letts than thirty in
ail have hern officially reported as yel
low fever, but over sixty are
sick, and their neighbors say
there is no difference in the ailment
except that many have it light. Cbief-of-
Police A they buried bis son Hiram Sunday
forenoon. Mrs. Rob!.Healer was buried early
8u.)day morning. Several cases on Jeffer
son street are reitorted, while scattering
sufferers are found in tl|e very heart of the
ch>. The majority are in the Bradford
an«l Clay atreeta neighborhood, and in the
es'ivnie northerly and southerly suburbs.
Tne origin of the fever this season Is now
believed to be privy vaults left uncleaned
«.from last summer. The excreta and filth
from the sick and dead of that scourge were
thrown into these vaults. Landlords and
bonne-holders were begged to clean them in
midwinter when there was no danger of
1 needing disease. They refused, and in
some instances enjoined legal enforcement
of cleanliness tnmngh the courts. They are
now reaping the consequences in tenantless
“ipertt.
Memphis and Paducah railroad
ceaM‘d running t ruins on Sunday.
Tim Avalanche, the Appeal and the
Ledger will from this dale issue only half
•been.
The fever at present is principally located
on Clays!rrat, in the extrema southeastern
port ion of the city, and on Bradford street,
lA the extreme northeastern portion of the
city. The distance between the points Is
about two and a half tuiles. These are
what might trutlif illy be called the Infect
ed districts, for there are twenty people all
sick within four squares of the Hosier
dwelling on Clay street, and all those sick
in north Memphis are within two square*
of the house wherein Mis. Tobin and her
husband died, rare
tion to these cases,
with the fever at the corner of Front and
Jefferson streets, which is in the center of
the city.
Fred llartliff, traveling agent for N.
Bchwakenberg, was taken suddenly with a
high fever and lien very aick at No. 18
Madison street, on which are located nearly
all the banks. Hi* c*ae has not been re
ported a* yellow fever, but is regarded a*
very auspicious. A prominent physician
asserted this afterimon that lie did not
doubt but that there wear fully fifty people
in the city sick with the yellow fever.
The future is anything but reassuring. The
city authorities recommend tie immediate
evacuation of the city. A number cl
.inent citizens have paid the passage
employes to other points, and every one
who can will leave. No little feeling »a>x-
preverd against the officials of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, on account of tbeir
refusal to make any reduction in fares to
Louisville. Under ordinary circumstances
pleasure parties could always secure cheap
rates, but now when the poor people are
flying for their lives and benevolent associa
tion* are furnishing the funds, full rates ate
demanded. A citterns' relief committee
will be organised and suggest some plan
whereby those poor people, »ho have no
means, can be sent to a place of safety. The
government will donbtleas be called upon
to aid the committee by furnishing tents
and supplies. It is the purpose of those in
authority to depopulate the city if sucb a
thing can be accomplished, but it is feared
the task will be impossible, as there are
hundreds who will not go and cannot be
•‘X
I*-:* !•■ 1 ^I.cnil outlook a:.ytl.in<
out cheering.
Upon the request of Hon. Casey Young, the
secretary of war will today forward to ibis ESTABLISHING A REIGN OF ANARCHY.
city 1,500 tents and rations lor a thousand
perrros for twenty days.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Memphis, July 2L—Twenty-one addi
tional cases were reported to the
board of health lbi» evening which
makes thirty-six cases reported for to-day.
This large increase is the accumulation of
several days, as most of the
Th* 8*.ats of Thing* Brenzkt About by Cowardly
Conrti and Governors In Texas—Family
Vendettas, and Appeals to the Hip*
Fockat—Ml»aEairik.«T*a Suicide.
Hemiwtead. Texas. July 22.—One result
have 1 of the corruption of the courts and the
ilfra a"Leon. Mrs. E Lackard and two 1 families in. some sections of Texas. One of
•hitdren, Eva Wood rock and tbw Web. urn j these vendetta*—and, so far, a mm* bloody
family. One death occurred this evening,
F. Intern.i, at the city hospital. The ma
jority of the sick are progressing favorably.
Tom Keraan remains in a critical condition.
The steamer Coaharaa, which departed
to-night bad 300 persons aboard who were
sent out of the city by the city authorities.
A large number also left by the Louisville
and Nashville railroad. The city begins to
present a deserted appearance. Many of
the most prominent retail merchants nave
followed the example of the wholesalers
and closed their places of business. The
Ancient Order of United Workingmen
and the Knights of Honor are also bending
members and tbeir families out of the
city, thinking it cheaper to
pay their fares' than doctors bills
and nurses here. Captain Lee, of the
steamer Coahaina. has engaged the services
of Drs. Willett and Brown, who left on the
steamer, and will remain aboard until her
,fe arrival at St, Louis. Nearly every town
along the line of the Louisville and Nash
ville and Memphis and Charleston railroads,
have quarantined against Memphis,.
Owing to this state of affairs, the banks
here request their correspondents abroad
not to send bills for collection to
them on any point outside of the city.
Over one hundred negroes trudged into
tl>e city from the country to-day thinking
free rations were to be issued to the inhabi
tant* and hoping to get a share. A man
named Laragan shot himself because he
could not induce his father and mother
leave the city. He said
J referred death to three
siege of scourge. It is thought he
wjll not die. The bridge over Nonconnah
creek, six miles south of the city, was de
stroyed last night by a squad of citizens
(night-hawks) thus cutting off communica
tion except by dirt roads.
The Howard association met to-night to
prepare for the emergency and It is thought
that the yellow fever will be declared epi
demic to-morrow or next day. An effort
is i*ei:ig made to establish a camp for the
fioor people near Huntsville. Ala. The
railroad companies offer to transport the
poor free of charge.
At 10 o'clock to-night Tom Keman was
dying and l.ia coffin had been ordered.
At a meeting of the state board of health
to day the subject of quarantine was con
sidered. A dispatch was sent to Memphis
ordering that the rules of the national board
be immediately put in force. The follow
ing was sent to all towns in west Tennessee:
The state board of health, now in session,
has declared quarantine against Memphis
for the whole state and It is now being en
forced Additional rules will be put in
operation to-morrow.”
Louisville Courier-Journal.
On the 3:25 train which arrived at the
Nashville depot, Louisville, about ten
o'clock last night, was Col. J. A. Forrest, of
Memphis, who took rooms at Alexander's ho
tel. Here a Courier-Journal reported found
hitu last night at 11 o'clock, ana questioned
him in regard to that all-absorbing topic,
the yellow fever in Memphis.
Reporter—How many refugees were on
the train with yon?
Col. Forrest— There wCre probably a hun
dred booked for this place and a hundred
for Cincinnati. Many people were waiting
around the depot when we left, evidently
ready for flight.
Reporter—How many cases do you think
there are in the city?
Colonel F.—Dr. Bounders told me that he
alone had twenty cases, few of which, how
ever, have resulted ir death. The chief un
dertaker in Memphis told me a few days
ago that he had so few orders that lie
thought it must be a scare. Since then he
lias taken the measure for Mur fever vic
tims. I think it would be safe to say that
there are 100 cases in Memphis.
R.—Is rite sanitary condition of the city
g6od or bad?
Cot F.—The sanitary condition is good.
The city authorities, under the ener-
S etlc leadership of Dr. Porter, have
one all that could possibly be done. To all
appearances, the city is in excellent condi
tion.
R.—How are the people off for food?
one—is just commencing in this (Waller)
county. The thrilling tragedies it has
already engenderen have shocked the en
tire state, used as its people are to scenes of
blood.
In a neighborhood four or five miles west
of Hempstead, and near the Brazos, in the
midst of rich laflds, fertile plantations and
wealthy farmers, there are and have for a
long time been two prominent and leading
families—the Logginses and the Morrises.
The former is probably the most numerous,
about 150 persons belonging to the connec
tion in different parts of the state. A num
ber of the family have heretofore resided
near Hempstead, and in the same neighbor
hood with the Morrises. Some of them
were related to the former by marriage.
Both families were in fact mixed up.
Some time during 1*77. Thomas Loggias,
for a time, found it necessary to be absent
from his residence in the midst of a large
plantation. His absence was not only some
what prolonged, but Indefinite, and he sud
denly returned to his home to find his cou
sin—one* off.the Morrises—in hi* bouse,
and in close proximity to bis wife, Mrs.
Loggias. the enraged husband, in true
Texan style, drew his revolver, and,
leveling it at the head of
the Lothario, drew tneger, but
the cap burst and the barrel failed to fire.
Moms arose and fled through the back door
into the fields and escaped. Logcins, find
ing be could not “get his man,” shot down
Morris’ horse, which be found hitched at
the gate. After this Morris fled the coun
try. Logins threatened that if ever they
met the disturber of his domestic peace he
must die. A short while ago Morris return
ed, and bearing of the threats. Armed him
self with a double-barreled shot-iron and
proceeded to waylay Loggias, as the latter
rodeoatof Hempstead on his return to his
home. He was accompanied by a friend,
and as the two approached a large postoak
tree near a fence. Morris sprang from be
hind it,raised his guu and shot Lnggins dead
The murderer, having no fear whatever of
kangaroo courts, hastened to delivered him
self op to the aulboritier. knowing that he
would never be punished. An investigation
was had ami the murderer remanded to jail
without bail. Some of the Loggins’s cun
nection swore vengeance at the time: and
shortly afterward* Reuben Logging, his son
Henry, and a nephew, Wilford Logging,
held a consultation, at which it was deter
mined to avenge the death of their
kinsman. The bloody resolve was faithfully
carried out. Reuben Morris, a well-to-do
farmer, and excellent citizen, and justice of
the peace—a brother of the murderer—was
riding home not lonp since from Hemp
stead. As lie was passing through a long
lane in the Loggms; plantation, and iust as
be neared an old gin bouse.be was suddenly
confronted by “old man” Reuben Morris
and the two young men mentioned, who
deliberately shot him off his horse,
he falling to r the ground a corpse.
The three murderers were arrested on the
evidence of § negro, who saw the murder,
and had long been in one of the contending
faniilieA They are now in jail awaiting
action by the courts. They, also, have no
fear of the courts, and what with continu
ances and delays, new trials and executive
clemency, are pretty certain to escape pun
ishment. The people of the town and neigh
borhood are being forced to take sides with
one partj* or the other, and the prospects
tire a long a-id bloody vendetta of assassina
tion and murder, which the courts are
either too weak or too corrupt to nip in the
bud and put down in the beginning.
CmCAoo, July 22.—Miss Harriker, of De
catur. 111., drowned herself in the Saga-
mond river there to-day, in consequence of
a disappointment at the non-arrival of the
bridegroom to whom she was to have been
married this afternoon. Her mother, in
trying to rescue her, was also drowned, and
several members of the bridal party nar
rowly escaped the same fate.
MADAME LANGTRY’S COMING VISIT.
t free rations are served
them. This week will decide the matter,
and there will doubtless be witnessed again
the scene* of last year.
At the request of the local authorities of
Memphis, Cokmel John F. Catueron has
been appointed aid-de-camp, with the rank
and title of colonel, on the governor's staff,
to take charge of the local troope at Mem
phis in the event any occasion for their
services may arise.
. Bishop Feehan, yesterday, stated that a
place had been purchased for the orphans,
three or four miles out of Memphis, aud he
was now awaiting information as to
whether the premises had been improved,
and, if so, whether they could remain at
that point with perfect safety. At all
events they would he tenderly cared for.
The trains from McKensiegot intoNaih-
ville late last night, in «on*eouence of hav
ing to wait («*r the ov Handed trains oat of
Memphis. Persons on board say that Union
City ts enforcing a rigid quarantine, and
evidently don't intend to have the fever in
troduced in that town under any circum
stances. Inspectors with red flags stopped
the train 2S' mike west of the town and re
quired the conductor to hick the doors and
carry the train through at the rate of »x
mile* an hour. A good many citizens who
had been off on a visit were not allowed to
stop at home, bnt were farced to go on to
some other point.
On account of the yellow fever excite
ment now prevailing in west Tennessee. C.
T. Kelley. Grand Worthy Chief Templar of
the Independent Order of Good Templars.
ha» concluded to withdraw his appoint-
nuent» for that portion of the state.
The Woman Who Live* by Her Looks.
.......wv. „ New York, July 10.—The far-famed
CM. F.—There •renoTproVuioa, enough I Engli.h beauty Mrs. Langtry, has rent ua
in town to last over a week, as they have word bv a London correspondent that she
been ordered out by the planters. There Is will visit America this fall. The whole ob-
tuore Deed of food than money. j«t of •>" v "> 1 of course is to set up her,
II —The peopleare really panic stricken? shnne of beauty in Kaw York The inters
Col. F.—There is a terrible panic. Poorer eating question is will New Yorkers,like
people are begging help and trying to get I Londoners, go road over the • Jersey LilyT
nut of town on wagons, carts and even on 1 Mrs. Langtry is a professional beauty. She
foot. Their case is really pitiable. X think Uvea by her good looks. For two years she
that i»a day or two the fever will be de- has received homage for her beauty in
elared epidemic in Memphis The out- England. Her name has been handled as
break mens destruction to Memphis and I freely as that of any politician, actor or
her commerce, as well as a serious blow at I actres* in our land, it seems that she likes
Southern trade I it; and there is said to be a phenomenal
R.—Do the colored people share the gen- person (a Mr. Langtry!, who also likes it
end fright? I Her beamy gave her a celebrity, and she
Colonel F.—So far there has not been to I fanned the flame. She has not been ho
my knowledge a single case among them. I credited with much wit or sparkle, but she
They do not fear it atall. Last year about certainly seems to have managed herself so
ic negro dlrd to every five whites. | dextruusly with the London public that
It—Does the fever seek Blthy localities? when she cotnes hither she ought to give
Colonel F Strange to say. it has not. It some of our actresses a .ear bin la. If Mrs.
has attacked the best citizens. There are in Langtry oomes hither to parade her physi-
the city many laborrre, with their families, cal gifts it is probable that she will return
who occupy filthy hovels and tenement 1 wishing she had never cotue. New York
houses, woo have bogs and goats around I has a sovereign contempt for female im-
them to increase them filth. Tnese have I modesty, howeverattraettve to the eye, and
not been touched. The houses of the belter I It tanks naturally as demi-monde those who
citiiens have been entered without mercy, who transgress the rule of propriety. There-
Jndge Ray. who fella victim, lived in a 1 fore, a woman who has no other nnsuon in
nice, clean home, which you would have life than to let other people see how pretty
thought would have been the last place for she has been created may win admiration
the fever to obtain a foothold. One would I for the creation, but she cannot obtain
Mintsee that the foul places would be the I wholesome respect for the creature,
most fatal, but It is not so. In London Mrs. Langtry disported as a
1L—Is the fever confined to one locality? lioness until Bernhardt came, she knew
Col. F — It is not. New cases pop np all there was a curiosity to see her, so sne rode
over the town, and with a suddenness that I in the Row from 12 m. to 2 p.ro. robed in a
strikes tenor into all heart*. I was told by faultless habit, leading a troop of cavaliers;
some of the health officers that I had better I invif not riding, she walked on the prome-
leave, as there was a great deal more danger I nade. She next appeared at some fair,
than most people supposed. Her services were tu demand at every fiow-
R.—Some people report it as bad as last er show, for as a flower-girl rosebuds from
rear 1 her bands sold at fabulous prices. "Atone
Colonel F.—That is exaggerated. You I charitable exhibition.” one correspondent
cannot are the hearses plying through the says, ■introducuona to Mrs. Languy. good
streets as vou conld last year, and it is en-l for live seconds, sold like hot cakes. She
e.uraging to note that there have been bnt I visited the ecological gardens on Sundays
few deaths. The |**.ple along our route and was the cynosure of all eyes there
were so frightened that they refused to let I When she traveled in Scotland she was met
i stop at lhear towns. 1 at the depot by a great onnpany of cunous
Colonel Forrest gives a very calm, clear- I spectators. Think ol such an event in
headed view ol the state ot affairs ini this country! “She ventured into the
plague-struck Memphis Many of those streets a lilUe later and was mobbed initrue
who are in town are so frightened that they 1 London fashion.” Only tacaiae she has a
think there are four hundred eases, bat | pretty face! “A crowd followed her wher-
Colonel Forrest's estimate probably is near- ever she wem.” The polite attentmns of
the truth. the English to a lady! “She made the
I journey next dav down the Caledonian
Special to the Constitution. I canal and was mobbed in the boat.” And
_ . • * m Ti,resan,e.i«.! IMr. Langtry it’- “She stopped as
■‘>« t peop^.do *». *« the falls of lowers.
JEFF DAYIS’S HOME.
that she has made wares of her charms, and
they will be chary of receiving a lady who,
while bolding no professional or legitimate
business relations to the public, allows her
photographs to be peddled about London as
though she were a member ot the royal
family, or an actress, or allows a prince to _ . n , u _ .. t*
send her invitation, to midnight suppers
THE LITTLE COTTAGE AT BEAUVOIR.
which her friends
summoned, without the emphatic reproof
demanded by the circumstances. No lady
moving in reputable society in New Y» rk
would permit her pictures to be sold in the
shops. Some actresses are even too proud
to have their faces peddled about and made
to ornament cigar and candy boxes and co
logne hot lie*. So more would a represent
ative New York lady allow even the prince
of Wales to enter her doors if it was made
to appear that he did so with some design
beyond friendship. The notice taken of
Mrs Langtry's beauty by the prince of
Wales lifted her^uto that pre-eminence in
the social world in London which we may
hope, for the sake of our respect for our
English cousins, she would not otherwise
have attained.
When the prince of Wales’ relations to
pretty Mabel Gray, the London shop girl,
became common fame, almost every shop,
restaurant, coffee house, bar and reading
room in London was decorated with pic
tures of Mabel Gray. In many, private
bouses too, where the girl herself would be
regarded with the utmost averson. her pic
ture found a place, and was duly lauded
for its beauty.
Adelaide Neilson is an English beauty,
whom we will shortly gladly welcome. Miss
Neilson has made many conquest* in New
York. Her par.'ors in the Fifth avenue
ver without her admirer-, in season
able hours. She had a big husband named
Lee. He seemed more of a fac.otum. A
New Yorker fell madly in love with the
actress while she was playing as Rosalind
and Amy Robsart at Booth's theater. Every
night he was in an orchestra chair, with a big
floral emblem for her, and every afternoon,
after having obtained an introduction,
bearing more flowers. The charming actress
liked nothing better than to loll back on
the divan with a rich bouquet to pick at
while the admiring eyes of several gentle
men beamed on her from ottomans
and easy chairs about her. The love-lorn
young man was annoyed by the big fellow
who used to sit off in one corner, apparent
ly abstracted, yet ever too near to permit
any passionate declaration to be properly
made. The .big fellow smoked his cigars,
read hit foreign papers, yawned, looked at
his watch, but never left the room. He
was there when the lover came, and was
there when he went. Everything was
marked Miss Adelaide Neilson. The flow
ers all came to Miss Neilson. Her pictures
were labelled Miss Neilson, and tne lover
had never heard of Mrs. Lee. ' One day.
when he had spent enough on flowers and
presents to pay a winter’s l<oard, he
impstiently said to his adored actress:
“Miss Neilson, whr> is that stupid fellow
who is always banging about you? Why
don’t you send him oflT’ **Oh, never mind
him,” answered the actress? “he is only my
husband.” .The love-lorn young man
shoved the top of his opera hat oat, bowed
himself as graciously as be could underthe
circumstances, and shot out of the room
Probably he wrote Mrs. Adelaide Lee over
all the pictures of her he had purchased, if
he took the pains to preserve them.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons is another pretty
English woman, with a big. good-uaiuted
husband, who travels ah her protector. She
is a lady whose society Is sought by the best
families, and she honorably sustains the
prestige of her family name. In her recent
trip to Australia she passed through the
Sandwich Lslands. A native became so en
amored of her beauty that he offered her
husband a big bunch of bananas for her,
and seemed surprised that he could not
make a bargain.
We have, however, never had a beauty
who mader he own charms a subject of
common discussion in her presence. Yet
thejEuropean correspondence, so fulsome as
not to warrant the least sflsp.cion of insin
cerity tells that compliments to Mrs. Lang
try’s charms are not only well received by
her, but her beauty “is a safe, if not an in
dispensable, tonic of conversation with
Mrs. Langtry nerself.” Mr. George W,
Smalley dwells upon the delicacy of her
loveliness. “Traveling Britops,” he writes,
“say that this delicacy is more common
In the United States than here. Mrs.
Langtry’s complexion has stood the wear
and tear of London life, and late
hours and overheated rooms, and the peach
bloom on her cheeks does not fsde, nor will
it rub off She once offered her handker
chief to a gentleman who was sceptical on
ihis point, and had him to try. The mod
eling of the temples is singuhu'ly fine; the
arch of the brow ts delicate; the eyes are
sapphire bine, set in an orb of tender cflrre;
the hair, which is soft brown, is worn low
enough over the forehead to make the con
trast of color with the eyes, and when this
lady is amused her laughter rives an ani
mation to her countenance that is some
times wanting. 1 lie face has fanlts which
it is easy to criticize, hot the beauty of it
as a whole is bevond denial.
iisat of tie Osxfoders&o Stxtat Llvot ud
Whtre—1C a Dtvl s'*.Habit* and 8tur-
roBniiaf*—Jeff Davis, Jr*
Isolation In Yellow 5->ver.
New Orleans Picayune.
Rev. Dr. C. K. Marshall, of Vicksburg, a
well-known southern divine, aud Mr. Ed
win Booth, a .member of the LuiiiVana
board of health, were conversing u d • y <
two ago relative to the importance of U
tion in cases of infectious and confgiui
diseases, when Dr. Marshall advanced . «mr
arguments in favor of isolation, Instam h „
a notable case during the late epidemic of
yellow fever at Vicksburg.
Omtlik.from M f m 1 .h’U.rere S rrearo h»v« ^ rmuiti.ud* up'the
,.nowI«T«L.Oy'd.rfUaritRMo* * *t«p path which Irad* to them. The beg-
pnyritfimforewetyofU»uiri*n«prooounera ^WSoliueth. ru*d the next day lad
“ T* U °V IffiiJuSEIH. qumran-1gJJ aomething toa*yaboutMra. Langtry-
tincd against Opelika thtt eaentng. On the steamboat itaelf. passenger, appeared
_ rr” J. I to have spent tbeir whole time in adoration
ATOCTIX, Ox.. -The “P j before the Langtry shrine—to the utter nea-
quarsnhned against Memphis. ^l , “||ect of the wonderful scenery through
from that city cannot come under twenty which ^ tUuu boat passes for nearly the
days. I w.K.vlw lanretk nf Mnll **
I whole length of canal. ’
Such is the rage across the water over the
. 1 hare her pie-
profile face of a
; rather foil brow
rose, pouting lip* and pretty
days.
Naswtiujk, July 23.—This city has estab-1
■bed ' ‘ ’ ^
phi*.
Jacxroxvnxa. Joly a-Th. following | r^ESS^SJS: STS
ST >lul S!‘"holeof the features. There are prettier
That the board of health of the city °{I i n a Vassar class album. Maud
Jacksonville hereby accents the ratealand I ^SwStnhe’,, would sell for
regulations of the national board of health | n ,_. n > bnt even in Mrs. Lsnsrtrv's Dboto-
and that the same are adopted for »U gold-1 X here is a suspicion of piquancy and
*"“■* sauciness which partly explains the rage
Political | for her. To my exclamation of surprise
PwllUamI O^wewti •*. I the picture was that of Mra. Langtry,
Madisos. Wia, July A-Tbe " **®®^* n I ike English shop-keeper of whom I pur-
state republican convention was callcdto I -she hai a most wonderful
t'rder in the assembly chamber by Horace I complexion.” That don't show. She has
Ruble, chairman of the state committee, at I ^ photographed in about every cooociv-
10 o'clock tins morumg. There | »bie costa me. Simply as a beauty with a
Four miles from Vicksburg, In a south
easterly direction, Is a very spscions man
sion, erected some years ago by Colonel
Latham, of Madison county. Captain A.
Anter, of Vicksburg, rented that building
and grounds for a retreat from yellow
fever. He carried with him forty-three
white and five colored persona He laid in
ample stores for a long imprisonment. On
the day he entered the place, like the heroic
old river commander he was, he. took su
preme command, and laid down aud pub
lished the quarantine laws. Thev were
simple and easily understood, and, besides,
nobody doubted but they would be exe
cuted to the letter and on the spot,although
he might have to strike where it wounded
himself. The first article of his code was
about as follows: “No human being shall
enter these premises until the board of
health in Vicksburg says it*is safe for us to
return home.” The next thing was in the
same spirit: “Should any person violate
such order, Betsy, a superior double-bar
reled shot gun. is fully authorized in my
hands to execute a death warrant on the of
fender.” . .
The neighborhood was pretty thickly set
tled, and Captain A liter’s quarantine laws
were very well junderstoud, and while he is-
as tender-hearted as a woman, be is as fear-
Ic.-s as a true man, and no one questioned
the propriety of his purposes. He held in
bis hands the lives of fifty souls, who looked
alon*- to him for protection, and be reso
lutely stood up to the responsibility.
He maintained his quarantine for three
months, and during that time until the
place was abandoned not one instance of
yellow fever or any sickness whatever ap
peared within the premises. Outside of his
tence and all around him the yellow fever
prevailed, and from the upper window of
his abode, an observer could see the grave
diggers at work; physicians were seen hur
rying to and fro, and the cries and lament
ations of the bereaved ones were heard in
every direction.
Yet no harm disturbed, no sickness pros
trated a single individual ovei whom Cap
tain Anter executed his purpose. „ No owe
suffered for the want of anything. Vicks
burg was kept employ**! through its How-
Atlasta, July 1G.— A short time
ago a paragraph announcing that Mrs. Sa
rah A. Dorsey wan dead and had left her
home as a legacy to ex-President Dav’
went the roundsm the press.
About two years ago l had telegraphic
orders from a New York journal to find Mr..
Davis as soon as possible, for the purpose of
obtaining from him certain desired infor
mation. I at once went to Memphis, then
his nominal residence, only to find that he
was not in the city—that his wife and
daughter were in Europe, and his son-in-
law in New York, lie then had the presi
dency of the Mississippi Valley insurance
company, a sort of sinecure. I think, pro
vided for him by his friends i * the crescent
city, and it was .thought probable that he
was in that city. J went down the river,
applied at the office of the trading company,
bnt found Mr. Davis absent. No one could
tell me where he was, but I was informed
that he was very busy at work upon his
history of. the war, and was hid away at
some quiet ret real, his locatioy being‘un
known to all but hif most intimate friends.
I discovered, that his letters from
hi* wife were fo* r .ran«-d to-Mississippi City,
a fashionable fflftering place near New
Orleans, on the Mississippi City line. To
this point I took myself.
THE EX-PBESIDEXT IN A SNUGGERY. X
Making my way unguardedly into a pair
of railings that opened like a funnel at the
depot, and then narrowed into a plank lane
that led inevitably to an old-fashioned, cool
looking hotel, I stepped up to the register
and asked if Mr. Davis was in Mississippi
City or its neighborhood. Mine host replied
that he: had not seen Mr. Davis, but he bad
heard that he was “stopping at Mrs. Dor
sey’s.” He further Informea me that Mrs.
Dorsey was a sort of literary woman—that
she was rich, and that her residence was
known as “Beauvoir,” and spelled as
“Boevwah,” and that for a consideration J
could seenre transportation to the same. In
half hour I was on the way.
I never had a more melancholy ride than
tliat which followed. The road led through
heavy pine forests. The tall* brown trees
rose straight and monotonous from drifts of
white powdered sand—the moan of the
wind through their tufted heads, mingling
strangely with the swishing sound of the
waves of the yellow gulf as they rolled
ceaselessly on the beach.^ At almost every
turn of the road we came upon old houses
—of imposing size, character and surrouud-
ings, but thoroughly dismantled and deso
late. Worm-eaten and decayed piers ran
out into the water—roofless boat and
bathing houses were scattered along the
shore; broken-down fences of fine pattern
barely hinted the shape of former inclos
ures. There were mansions, dead-looking,
deserted; with grass growing on their very
roofs; there were stables and carriage-
houses, and pigeon-cotes, all disused and
tenantless; handsome grounds choked up
with weeds and sand urifts. Occasionally
there was sure to be seen some pert attempt
at reclamation that only set off the genera!
desolation more vividly. I was traveling
through a strip of country formerly one of
the most fashionable and celebrated. It
was here in the old days that the million-
iares of New Orleans brought their friends
and families for the summer, having estab
lishmeut* here that in splendor and luxu
rious appointments equalled anything to
be found in this then prodigal laud. Wttli
the gulf rolling at tbeir feet; with strong,
saline breezes driving the heat-waves hack;
with the best of surf-batbing, yachting, fish
ing mid bunting; and with a society bril
liant, well-assured and knit together by the
memory of half a dozen generations, they
bad all that they desired. I learn that in
the past few years, this gulf shore has re
gained much of its lost glory, and that
songs and laughter once more fill these des
olate houses, a**d yachts and sailing boats
■ ] more speck the yellow waste of waters.
THE HOUSEHOLD OF BEAUVOIR.
At length a house of noble proportions,
situated on the crest of a - matchless bit of
beach, approached by handsome aud well-
kept grounds, confronted me. My driver
stopped and notified me that this was where
Mrs. Dorsey lived. A gentleman was sitting
on the piazza with a large table, covered
with papers, by his side. A large dog was
comiug down the walk, and 1 turned jo
look at the waves that curled up the beach.
The barking of the dog at the fence detei-
rained me to remain in abstracted medita
tion on the gulf, until the gentleman, who
my driver confidentially informed the back
of my head, had started to meet me, could
reach the gate.
“Did you wish to see any one, sir?"
A kind, but grave voice—a tall, slender
man, with brown hair and whiskers tipping
out gray—clear eyes, calm brow, erect car
riage—an indescribable air of dignity and
sadness—’here was the first and last presi-
nituf i:se confederate states of America!
Upon 'presenting my credentials, Mr.
welcomed me warmly, aud shaking
y baud gravely led the way to the house.
.3 we walked up the high, broad steps of
he piazza, a small lady, with black hair,
ru as Mrs. Hayes wears hers, and looking
larkauly like Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, the
well-known authoress, came out of the front
door. This was Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, one
ot the most noted * omen of Louisian a and
the benefactress of Mr. Davfe. She is an
authoress of sonle note, having written
Panola,” a hovel, and I think ajSiography
of one of Louisiana’ „
owned valuable river
and was
governors. She
plantations,
i&M of
furnished, and contained a fine miscellane
ous library, with an immensely full collec
tion of works of southern authors. Mia
Dorsey spout the most of her time in this
cozy little retreat.
The grounds about the place are very
handsome. There b an orange grove, a fine
vineyard^, orchards, lawns and some superb-
groves. The climate is almost tropical, and
there b a profusion of ^bright and fragrant
flowers. I was struck with a drove of pea
cocks, that made the woods gay with their
fine feathers. These were Mr. Davis’s es
pecial pets, and it was a pretty sight to see
him feed them, which he did regularly
twice a day.
mr. Davis’ forthcoming history.
It is impossible to over-estimate the
caution and carefulness with which Mr.
Davis has worked upon his hbtory of the
rebellion. • He feels that his will be the
authoritative defense of the cause of hb
people, and he fully appreciates the gravity
of his task. It b two years since I saw him,
and he was reported then to be finishing up
his work. I discovered that he had hardly
begun it, having spent years in simply ar
ranging the material for it. Mr. Davis b a
most systematic worker, and b possessed of
great enduranoe. He is a rapid writer, and
is a ripe scholar. It is thev argument and
the facta on which he has pondered so long.
No idea can be formed of the scope of the
coming book. It b certain, however, that
an unexpected space will be given to the
discussion of the motives and necessities
that led to the war. It will not be a vehicle
of the prejudices of the writer, but it will
be very decided upon certain of Mr. Davis's
critics and enemies. I asked him if he
was going to be severe upon these persons
m his book. “\Yell,”'lxe replied, smiling,
“they say a man gets ill-natured as he grows
cld. I don't know what I may write!” In
conversation he seemed to be bitterer to
wards Mr. Stephens than anyone else. He
di-cussed Joe Johnston freely,aud expressed
himself vigorously as to Governor Brown,
but said little of General Toombs, and
seemed to care less. -He was warm towards
Senator Hill, and inquired affectionately
after him.
The book will be published by the Ap-
pletons, and there b no doubt tjpt its sale
will be enormous, probably exceeding any
history ever published in America. Mr.
Davis has attended to none of the business
THE STORMY WAYE.
A TERRIBLE NIGHT ON THE WATER.
Th* Wrack of the Steamer 8tat* of Virginia off
* 8ableItlaad—Tha Desperate Efforts to Hfaok
the Shore—Wivea and Ohlldram
Straggling in th* Waters.
details of the publication, and knows little
about them. The?e have all been managed
by Major Walthall, of Mobile, a most ex
cellent man for the purpose. As Mr. Davis
could command his own terms, and as
Major Walthall b devoted to bb interests,
it b pretty certain that he will make a large
fortune out of hb book: I understand that
the copy b now in the hands of the Apple-
tons, and the book may be looked for
speedily. It will be a volume that in point
•»f composition and the excellence of its
English, will stand by the side of Gibbon
and Macauley. I doubt if the south has ever
S reduced a more thorough scholar than.
[r. Davis. His book will represent the
steady, devoted work of his best and ripest
years, and it will be a pride to the south no
more as a indication than as a classic.
Mrs. Dorsey was of no direct kinship with
Mr. Davis, but the • two farailiq* had fre
quently intermarried and had always been
intimate. It will be remembered that" by a
decision of a year ago Mr. Davis recovered
a very large plantation that he had los*.
This, added to the legacy of Mra. Dorsey,
makes him one of the largest landed pro
prietors 'in Mississippi, and puts him and
lib family in affluent circumstances.
H. W. G.
COLONEL M*GOOPLE , S ADVENTURE*.
Tlie Clalvalrle KechlesHnesa of an At
lanta Man Gel* Him Into Trouble—
The Vision that Mr.*. Bedzer Snw.
Last Friday night, when Colonel McCoo-
ple, who lives some distance out Whitehall
street, reached 'home he found the doc rs
shut and the windows closed, although the
weather was somewhat sultry. The front
door was locked. After fumbling with the
lolt a moment, he heard the voice of hb
wife:
“Is that yoti, William?”
“W*»y, of course it b, Matilda. Open the
door.”
Mrs. MeCoople opened the door carefully
and assured herself of the identity of the
colonel before she would allow him to en-
r.
“Why, good gracious, Matilda! what does
all this mean? Windows down, doors
shut, aud the house hot enough to melt a
ton of talc! What the Blazes—” The
colonel looked at hb wife as though a sus
picion that she was deranged had. ventured
cross his mind.
“Well, I declare to gracious. I’m glad you
came, William,” said Mrs. MeCoople, draw
ing a long breath. “I’ve been bearin’ some
very queer noises in that out-house there by
the kitchen.”
.‘Stuff, Matilda! you’re * nervous. Let’s
have some air. I will be hanged,” continued
the colonel, os he unfastened the blinds and
flung the shutters hack, “if there ever was
a woman that wasn’t incontinently eaten
up with superstition. Between the bloody-
minded robber that they never find under
the bed and the ghost they never see. they
have a terrible time. Hang me if this house
ain’t as hot as the smoke
stack of the rolling inilL” And
with that, the colonel pulled off hb coat,
unbuttoned hb collar, and sat down tofiu-
bh reading The Constitution.
Presently there was a uiutiled noise in
the direction of the vacant* out-house, fol
lowed by several distinct and deebive raps.
The colonel looked up, but hb wife was
steadily pursuing her sewing, which she
had resumed when he came in. She was
serenity itself. Before the colonel could
find where he had left off reading, the raps
again made themselves heard, followed by a
clattering noise.
“What the deuce is that, Matilda?” he
asked.
“Nothin* but your superstition, Wil-
41141 . . a , , • ,iT a ® • °, | liaro,” Mrs. MeCoople calmly responded,
uiy visit, deeply Interested1 in the project „ N rll ^ blan ] ed if it f 3 " ^claimed
of national levees for the Mississipm. bho I *u fi colonel
w» a thorough student-companionable He laid his paper aside, and listened
^ Mr ; 1 D », rU - r f,tently for a few moments, but as there wa3
berthat with au assured atr of protector-1 repetition of the noise, he again ad-
sbip she superintended any allusion that 4f him „ The CoxsTiTUTlds, and
the ex-pres.aent made to public aflairs-:i I d j nlem iptedlv for several minutes,
kind censorship thathe humored, if he did j T1 , en , here , wlmd as of some one
n °irVe r r W,e,t, Mr. Davis has made s '^„ ,he "alls of the out-house with a
Beauvoir his home, daring the time he wai l D *»
engaged on hb book. Accepting thb invi
tation he had quie.Iy dropped out ot the leave
Halifax, July 21.—The government
steamer Giendon arrived here at 9 p.m,
from Sable bland, with 79 persons from the
wrecked steamer State of Virginia, being all
the passongera on board of her and the fire
men. The wreck had not gone to pieces
when the Giendon left. Captain Moody and
hb crew remained on the island to endeavor
to save property. The vessel is filled with
water, but if the fine weather continues
some of the cargo may bo saved in a dam
aged condition. The following is the sub
stance of the statement ot the passengers
and crew: The steamer left New York on
Thursday, the 10th, at 10 Ain. All went
well until 7:50 p.m. on Saturday,
when the ship was felt to strike
something. The engines were at once
stopped and reversed at full speed.
The leads were drop(>ed over the side to
ascertain the depth of water. A boat was
necessary. But the decadence of the repub
lican party is attributable to a far deeper
and more dangerous cause .in our political
affairs. It b the same cause which over
threw that honored and glorious organiza
tion called the old whig party. It is the
same cause which has, overthrown every
conservative party, and every free and con
stitutional form of government, except our
own and two or three others, since the be
ginning and elevation of civilized society
It b the same cause and disease which has
attacked and attempted to overthrow all
law and safety for life and property in every
country on the face of the earth. It is that
hatred and spite against law, against
good order in society, and against
the rights of individual and communities
which animates half or nearly half of man
kind, augmented, intensified and brought
into orgauized operation under the word
democracy as a party shibboleth and name.
The word democracy, os a party name and
incitement, has been found by, experience
in all ages and countries to be the beat
fitted, the best adapted, for the organization
of treason, stratagem and crime, of any
word or name found in Greek, English, or
any other language. Under the word
democracy as a party name and organiza
tion, kukluxism, white leagueism, ballot-
box stuffing, false counting of votes aud
false returns, have extensively flourished in
our midst, and met the plaudits of the
lowered and sounded all around the ship, j party rather than the punishment the per-
a ... *«»** »t.— petratora deserved. Aud here, too.
A kedge was ruu out astern to assist the en
gines, but it was of no use. The passengers
remained quiet, bpt refused to go below.
There was no burry or confusion of any
kind. The crew started to getting the boats
out and the anchors ready. The cargo was
then thrown overboard until about high
water, when an endeavor was
made to heave the vessel off,
but was of no avail. Boats were then got
ten ready to land the passengers, the surf-
boat from the shore having already landed
one boat load and returned for another.
The surf-boat again started with another
lot, two more boats following it with the
intention of having the surf-boat to land
the passengers of all, since the ships’ boats
were unsuitable for such a shore. In
attemping to . land, however, the
surf-boat capsized and disappeared.
In a moment the people could be *-een strug
gling in the water trying :o climb upon tlTe
bottom of the boat. Several of the gentle
men passengers in the ship's boats, which
were following, seeing their wives and chil
dren in the water, began to cry out, wring
their hands, and some of them tried to have
the ship’s boats pull into the surf, but the
officers in command w'ould not allow it. and
returned to the ship. All the boats were
then provisioned ana started to go round
the island to the land on the north side,
but the fog settling down densely again,
they were signalled to return. Every one
then lay down to pass the night as best they
could. All were more or less worn out,
having been at work since Saturday night.
On Monday morning the boats again lefr.
although the fog continued. The west end
of the island was safely sounded, and the
boats, under the direction of a man who
appeared on shore, found their way safely
to the middle station where the passengers
received every attention at the hands of the
governor of the island and his family.
Monday night life-boat No. 2, w'ith the
purser, thijji officer and nine men, started
^r the main land.
The passengers say they were well treated
i Sable island, and passed resolutions ex
pressing their appreciation of the kindness
of the officials. Capt. Moody declares tliat
he took all the usual precautions against
danger. The steamer was running about
twelve knots when she struck. The passen
gers are comfortably quartered in the ho
tels here and will go to England by the
Allen Une sli'anutr Ifiltpri.Kiii ThpciI.iv
s steamer HiberuRut Tuesday, ■
Allen #f
by a State line steamer which is Jo call
for them.
Halifax, July 21.—Her majesty’s ship
Griffin has arrived from Sabie island. The
wrecked steamer still lies there full of wa
ter. Her captain and crew are trying to
save part of the cargo. An unknown
schooner sailed up to the wreck yesterday
and carried off the piano and a large part of
the cabin furniture. Three schooners, with
divers and apparatus, have left for the
scene of the disaster, and will save all of
the cargo possible. The wrecked steamer
passengers sail for Europe to-morrow in the
PROSPECTS OF REPUBLICANS.
Obstacle* to Saecew-Xesra Fidelity
to tbe Party—Tbo Independent*.
Correspondence New York Times.
Atlanta. Ga., July 16.—Norepublican in
Georgia has more influence or is more high
ly respected than Mr. Jonathan Norcross,
of Atlanta. He was the last 'republican
candidate for governor, having entered the
field against Governor Colquitt, the present
executive, in the canvass of 1876. Mr. Nor
cross has held strong republican views since
the war, and was an avowed union man b<
fore fbe war. He . is highly respected ii
Atlanta, where he owns a large amount of
real estate. Yesterday a correspondent of
the Times bad a long conversation with
him on politics, * in which
he spok-i his views freely.
After saying that he thought the condition
of the republican party tn Georgia very
gloomy and discouraging, be was Asked if
the party would he organized for the guber
natorial campaigu next year. “That de
pends very much ot» the course the inde
pendents may pursue,” he replied. “I
think they have It m their power to oi^an-
izeand put forth a platform of principles
which might induce the co-operation of the
republicans, and seenre to them the govern
or and the state-house officers, at
well as h majority of the mem
bers of congress. Should they hesi
tate to do this, as quite likely they
will, and lapse back, into the bourbon
ranks, the republicans will feel compelled
to organize and adopt all possible measures
to swell tbeir vote for tbe presidential can
didate, and for some other purposes. No
power on earth, not even a redoubled reign
of kuRlaxism, white leagues, and shotgun
brigades, could keep the colored people
from taking an active interest in the presi
dential contest. Should their present recog
nized leaders decline to act. new* ones would
spring up, to instruct and lead them t
polls. However dark the prospect of
let tne mention that under this
name and organization, that at the very
head-center of the party, the Swartwouts,
the Prices, the Hoyts, and the Tweeds were
enabled to commit the most stupendous
thefts the world has ever seen. Ic is not
strange, then, that under such a name and
organization, and its ripened results, the
treasury of a great and rich nation was
bankrupted, and a most wicked and absurd
rebellion was begun and conducted to its
legitjmate end, but which, through the
providence of God, was crushed out by
the moral sense and force of tlie Virtu
ous aud liberty-loving portion of
onr countrymen. It is not strarge,
it mav be surprising, therefore, that the
hatreds and rebellious spirits fostered by
this name and organiration, and still cher
ished with its vile, dishonest lactics, prac
tices, and proscriptions, the republican and
all other opposing parties have gone down
before it. And the south has become, as it
were, politically solid under this demo
cratic bauner.
“There are at least 40,000 old whigs and
their descendants in this state now acting
with the democrats, who despised democra
cy and its ways. There are at least 20,000
white republicans in the state who abstain
from .voting when politics ran high, for fear
of having their business destroyed and
families proscribed, which proscription
these bourbons manage to keep alive and
active through unreconstructed women.
Besides these, as before remarked, at least
ninety-nine hundredths of the colored men
would vote against the democracy and in
tavor of the republicans on every favorable-
occasion. All these classes, making, as they
do. a large majority of the voters in Gcoi-gia,
will rejoice with exceeding great joy
: *the republican candidate shall be elected
the presidency in 1880. What, then, I
would A«*k, sbou d or can be done for the
defeat of the democracy on' that occasion<
who are now straining every .nerve to hold
the south in solid plmlanx for that contest?
Again, what will be the condition of the
republicans, both white and colored, if the
democrats, through their usual tactics and
crimes, ami through tlie supineness ami
poltroonery of the northern people, they
are enabled to place their great trickster at
the head of the nation? Gloomy, indeed,
will it be for at least one-half of the people
of the south, approximating in their
suffering and oppression to ante-bellum
days in brutal tyranny aud oppression,
obliterating, as it were, through the
means of tue solid south, republican prin
ciples and the entire results of the terrible
four years’ war. It is unpleasant, it must
be confessed, for those who are southerners
by birth or adoption to be compelled to re
joice over the defeat of what may be made
to appear to be tbe wish of a majority of
our section, but we must, as republi
cans and.patriots deprived of our most
sacred rights and privileges through
fraud and pidscription at home,
hojie, trust, and pray that the people of the
north will have too much spirit and self-
respect to allow the men who fought to
overthrow our great and good government
to take it under their exclusive manage
ment and control. One more great victory
by the union men, and the way will be
clear for the permanent security of politi
cal liberty and equal rights throughout our
entire country.”
AS GOOD A WAY AS ANY.
A BROKEN'CROWN
IS WHAT PRINCE JEROME WANTS NOW
The Evil Genius of the House of Bonaparte A*-
sums the Re ins—An Important Conclave
of the Faithful, at which Peace is
Declared all Around.
“Why, I'm blest if they ain't trving to ces5 may be, they will keep striking for
i»v*x». ..v. .j v.v*.. «*. v**- , - ire in the building, exclaimed the colo- l their constitutional privileges and rights,
world. I have never seen a more delight- nel, starting to bis feet. 3till Mrs. Me- I As to the candidate, I have no doubt that
ards and others in ministering to the neces
sities of the people outside of the enter in-
closure. and it era* a public relief to have
fifty leas sick people to nurse, and many
less, in all probability, to be buried.
One gentleman became worn out with
what be conceived to be tbe monotony of
tbe retreat, and took leave, teturning to
Vicksburg, only within ten days to taktf
the ye : low fever and pay for the privilege
by a narrow escape from the grave.
fill'household than-that gathered at Beau-1 Coople said nothing, but when the colonel
voir at this time. Besides Mr. Davis and I went out on the back-porch, in the direction
Mrs.. Dorsey there was young Jeff, a most I of the out-house, she followed him to the
agreeable and earnest young fellow—a boy I door.
relative of Mrs. Davis from j -‘See here, now!” said the colonel. e!e-
tbe _ north, who with Jeff, Jr., was I V ating bis voice somewhat, but allowing it
reading law under the ex-president, a smart I to retain the emphasis of blandness rather
and courteous youngster, and Mr. Davis’s I than of anger; “see here, now! You might
old colored body-servant, who is passion-1 as well come out of there. No
ately attached to him. This made up the J tramp allowed around here. Get ou t and go
family, and there was a friendly interest I 0 f£ f don’t want to have to come and fetch
and easy eloquence in alk the intercourse, l you. Get out!” But nobodv came out and
whether it ascended to th6 tremendous af- there was no noise. On the contrary, the
fairs in which the leader had been involved silence that ensued when the colonel ceased
or dropped to the affairs about the farm. J speaking was so painful that the chirp of a
There was no stiffness or artificiali ty in the j cricket sounded like a boy beating a tin-pan.
conversation, but at once a charming abau-1 The colonel was perplexed. He turned and
don and decorum—whether it was sitting in I vvas going back in the house, when the noise
a group on the piazza watching the gulf, was repeated—bang, bang, upon the walls,
while the strong salt breezes blowing from j was so sudden that the colonel gave a
S ice land, fanned our faces—or walking jump and Mrs. MeCoople uttered a little
rough the orange grove with Mr. Davis j scream.
.ndthe ix>y 5 -or5au ? (ye..5con«<lwithMr. „ F h me Matilda." raid th*
to e ’ r briehL y tan^voc n , E t M?o t ^ tumid h« » «W««W3355 last him to the end of hi*
SS&iSiXSis Je h *Tx?n e K Tfi l> iSif h by‘ut d e'SE
the UggrraBtin building a boat, and I d j advanced* to the door of the building,
the president halted us for a half-hour tn * ^ moment he seemed to relent.
discussing with his son the prospects of the „ “ ., . .
venture. The boy was studious, well-strung, I “Now look here, he said, yon.re pot to
robust—having the feature* of his mother, 1 come out ol there, and it
but many of hia father's characteristic!- quietly and peaceably I sban t hnrt yon
. ■ »• • — *■ • 0 r I but if I have to fetch you I'll lam f he «tnff
j I nf rnn A to vnn rmmfn’?** Then
altogether an admirable boy. He died
■J*deletes present. A j^rraanentor^an-l .j, througn tier hat. arithadrre
isatima — M effected by the etecti ,v n ot I - t a morning costume; in
11. B. O-ady, of Rock, as president. | costnme; erith * Japanese umbrella
Ten near cases acre reported to the board Governor Smith was nominated for.got^Morer her right ahooider; with a Japanese
of health to-day. asi fajlowa; Jauwa \> hrtan, nor on the first ballot, and tbe na>mnauoo| an ,breJlaor»rher left shoulder; in a con-
» made ananttnoo* by aresatnattoo. Jm*. I f ram( d in tropical plants; on the
Hiram A they. J. C. Biermaa. Harry Ray.
Mrs. B. F Miller, Henry Miller. Loui* b.
Otto. Fred lorentt. Clara Bethel, William
Alexander, tlie two last being colored.
.Four person* hare died of fever since last
nirbt—Hiram Attaey, Louis Bmmood.
James Whelan and Loui* D. Otto. There
are several other cam* of fever in the e»ly,
which will be repotted to the boetd of
heel th tomorrow. The *atboriiiee are •end
ing the poor people oat of the city, having
made arrangement* to get half fare rates
over the LouUviU* and Kashvillatailroad.
IW. Dudley D. Saunders, acting praddent of
th* board of health, say* tba fiver is not an
malignant *s last year, and yields more
rewdUT to treatment. The citiiens continue
to leers in lug* number*.
Fifteen case* of (ever reported to tbe
b-wrd of health on this (Monday) morning.
The most prominent are W. C. Coppingrr
and wife. J.C lUmga weH-kaowndeolnt,
Chan. Phi*moot and wife,Geo. Sail and tbe
two Misses Raja. Two deaths have occur
red-Dr. J. a Harris and W. C Conpinger.
The exodus of the citi^fos is in full pro-
The Boy Soirkfy.
New York Tribune.
The Cincinnati “bor with a tail," George
Rehn, excites considerable interest at the
west. The medical examinr tion states that
the appendage is fourteen inches long and
covered with silken glossy hair, and that it
grows exactly where the tail grows oa tbe
average monkey of the period. The boy is
M. Bingham was then nominated for lien I ^^^hore. by the tad sea waves, painted in
tenant-governor, H. B. Warner treasurer, i white on a stretched canvas, with
Richard Guenther, attorney-general. I a blue cur ain for the sky beyond. Then
HA*RX*acaG, Pa , July 2S-—Tbe republi- [ ^ |u» been painted by three ar-
.jb state convention met This morning tn I eacll ^ «rbom deemed the task a priv-
tbe ball of the bouse of reprerautauves I u she was the original of Millais’s pic-
«Uh a full attendance of delegates. ture, *TTbe Lily of Jersey,” and Poynter’a
organization was effected by the election ot I has been engraved, and is now for
Hon. Galusha A. Grow permanent chair-1 4 print. Then she is said to have sat
man. Samoa Butler was then nominated j ^ or one c f the maidens in Poyliter’s large
for state treasurer by acclamation. I canvas of Xattaicaa, and her companions
fThe platforms ol both conventions ap- \ parting at ball, but the costume of the fig-
that the tail cannot be” removed without I
endangering the child’s life, on account
of its being articulated with the backbone,
lit b so strong and tough that the toy can
lose it for support, as the kangaroo uses hia,
and when seated “can, by tbe aid of the
tail, spring to hb feet without tbe use of
bb bands.” The announcement b made
that Chicago has executed the flank move
ment foreshadowed the other day, and has
obtained possession of the boy. When the
newspapers began to print column ac
counts of “Georgte,” hb father, hith
erto indifferent to the fact that
1 the child was being cared for by the Cin
cinnati medical college, suddenly appeared^
^ _ _ _ «tuff-
yeUow fever last year, and with him died I it*’ out of yon. Are you cornin’7” There
the last of thb kingly line was no response.
_ , ,, 1 “ Mavbe there’s a gang of ’em in there,
a REAL ’scholars' reteeat. William. I wouldn’t go in,” said Mrs.
Mr. Davis could not have selected a bet- l MeCoople. But her entreaty was of no
ter place in which to perform the great a rail. The colonel advanced Into *he build-
work upon which he is engaged. The house Ung, and bis wife breathlessly awaited the
at Beauvoir is an Immense, roomy iuar«-1 result. She didn’t have long to wait. She
sion, built in the old-fashioned southern heard tbe colonel exclaim in a suppressed
style. The hall b widei than an ordinary I yoke “ You wouldn’t come out, would
room, and covers mere space than tbe yoa y» * n d then there was a whack, a rattle,
whole floor of a tenement house. It was a rush, a short scuffle, a yell of agony. *
laid with light matting, and in the centre b | v j s j on of something white sailing by, and
a large circular damask sofa, the centre piece j MeCoople sank down* in a swoon,
rising above the seats ami holding a large I Wien ahe came to henelf, the colonel was
trav of flowers. The rooms are very large, fitting on the steps rubbing himself and
and tbe piazza probably 30 feet wide, and feebly calling her name,
nms all around the house. Tl» parlor*. It m gnch a ridiculous affair that the
duUDS r tro°£.S?\ are furnished, as thif. McCooples resolved to say nothing about it,
pq»gqf culture I gg fbe lady wa« in hopes that none of the
neighbors had heard the racket.
Early tbe next morning,
General Grant b the favorite of nine-tenths
of them, and next to him would stand Sec
retary Sherman, who would, if he should
be the candidate, command all the republi
can votes that the democracy would allow
to be polled.
•‘The negroes.as a rule,are unquestionably
faithful to the republican party; they will
be for thb and for the next generation. In
my opinion, if they could be allowed to
organize, and be left to their own colored
leaders for guidance, 09 out of every 100
would, other circumstances being favorable,
vote the republican ticket. For the past
few year* the sagacity, with which they
have voted for their friends and the best
men in local offices has astounded and dis
appointed many a democrat who has at
tempted tn purchase them with tobacco
and mean whisky.
I think the independent movement lias
weakened tbe democracy in Georgia, but
as yet it is impossible to tell to wliat extent.
If the independent leaders (and there are
among them several strong men,) show good
nerve, and make a reasonable exhibit of pa
triotic and national sentiments, the repub
licans may, in the main, be induced to fore
go separate organization iu 1850, and vote
with them, iu which case the bourbons
would go to the wall, and an entirely
new party would come into power in the
state. The record that the bourbons have
made since they came into power in the
state, in plunderings and losses of the treas
ury, is enough to overthrow any party but
a democratic party. There are also other
causes of complaint against them, but it
remains to be seen whether crimes and
blunders will strengthen or injure the
democracy, even in our local affairs. I am
not sufficiently familiar with the political
condition of the ocher southern states to
Paris, July 2L—It is reported upon evi
dence apparently trustworthy that Prince
Jerome has not only formally declared him
self the legal representative of the Bona
parte family and its legitimate chief, but
has also entered into confidential relations
with some of the imperial leaders, who,
since the temporary retirement of M.
llouher from politics, found themselves
without a recognized head. The prince is
unpopular with his own party,
but every one perceives that it *
is impossible to pass him by and select his
son Victor as the immediate standard-
bearer in bis stead. Paul de Cassagnac him
self said ‘hat such an agreement would be
the seal of*the dynasty. The imperialist
bully has written a letter to Ronher, offer
ing, m view of the emergency of the crisis,
to postpone all their differences upon minor
points and concentrate their efforts upon
the fundamental idea of Bonapartism and
the restoration of the empire. The fact of
the transmission of the letter has leaked
out, and is causing the greatest excitement.
No one believes In Jerome’s sincerity in his
professed predeliction for a republic. It is
called as noHow as hia physical and moral
courage. Movements are on foot for are-
publican demonstration in Montmartre, and
fetters have been sent to Lyons and Mar
seilles, requesting the presence and the as
sistance of prominent radical republicans.
Apart from the expressions of opinion by
adherents of the extreme left the general
opinion here is that Prince Napoleon is
simply biding his time to enter into a for
mal agreement with the imperialists and
pave the way for a succession, either in his
own person or that of his son.
A meeting of the Bonapartists on Satur
day to determine the policy to be pursued
in consequence of the death of the prince
imperial was held at the residence of M.
llouher. It consisted of Bonapartist sena
tors and deputies. Neither M. Bouher nor
M. De Cassagnac were present M. F. Bar-
rotpresided. M. Cazeaux, Baron DeMackan
and other speakers dwelt upon the neces
sity of Prince Jerome Napoleon giving
guarantees, but a resolution declaring that
by the death of tbe prince imperial Prince
Jerome Napoleon became head of the Bo
naparte army, was ultimately passed with
only two dissentnnts. M. Barrot and Prince
Joachin Murat, followed by most of those
present, waited on Prince Jerome Napoleon
with the resolution.
Tbe Standard’s Paris correspondent says
that Prince Jerome Napoleon expressed
great satisfaction when the resolution
adopted at the meeting of the Bonapartists
on Saturday last was communicated to him.
The Times in a leading article says MM,
Rouher and DcCassignac wouldjhavc opposed
the recognition of Prince Jerome Napoleon
if they had seen any chances of keeping the
Bonapartists organized together under
another leader. DaCassignaca organ, the
Pays, says it will not discuss the resolution,
but it is evident that none of the grave
questions or immense difficulties of the
pending situation were settled at the meet
ing. Other Bonapartist papers approve the
resolution.
The journals here copy from tlie Parid
Globe reports of aspeech purportine to have
been delivered by Prince Jerome Napoleon
to the deputation of Bonapartists ana to be
a manifesto of his political policy. The
Constitution el and Soleil, of Paris, however,
deny the authority of the Globe's report, in
which no confidence has been placed from
the first.
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY,
How the Bftjtien* Mix Things np Oc
casionally.
Kayasa, July 23. —Advices from St, Do
mingo to the 12th inst. report that tran-
onility prevailed. The work on the newly-
discovered gold mines will probably begin
in October or November with ten thousand
laborers. The mining company has receiv
ed a liberal concession from the govern
ment . Au Engl is u mail steamer arrived
to-day from St. Thomas with Haytien ad
vices to the 12th fully confirming the re
ports of the riots at Port-au-Prince. -The
trouble which began June 30th was caused,
by a bitter party conflict between the lib
erals and the nationals. A session of the
chambers was broken up by the shots fired
r of liberals at General Canal,
tbe president, while in hb seat.
Fierce fighting then began in
the streets. The nationals had the palace.
The liberals erected barracadcs and forti
fied houses The minister of war was kill
ed while trying to disperse the mob. At
the request of President Canal the British
d United States representatives held a
conference with tlie rebels but they reject
ed the proposition of the government and
fighting' continued. On July 2d,
another attempt at negotiations was made
but failed. The president then ordered out
the artillery ana threw shells into houses
occupied by the rebels until the whole
quarter was ablaze and. the
liberals scattered and dispersed
The fire soread rapidly and
it was. extinguished 130 houses, in
cluding the finance department, with all
its documents, were in ashes. .About 300
men were killed daring the fighting. While
the riots at the capital were, in'progress the
towns of Gonaives, St. Marie and Aroahaje
revolted, and at last accounts were in
the hands of the rebels. President Canal
has dispatched troops to those towns, and
it is expected wPl subdue the insurrection
there shortly. The southern provinces
continued apparently quiet. Cape Haytien
and neighborhood has been the scene of
constant fighting. Many rebels have gone
to St. Domingo.
PUT TO DEATH.
A Mormon Apostle Find* Himself In
• Hostile Country.
Ringgold. Ga., July 2L—About lOo’clock
this morning'there occurred near thb place
a homicide which is deeply regretted by the
community. The victim was Joseph Stand
ing, a Mormon preacher and elder.
About a week ago Standing and two other
Mormons came to Catoosa county and went
about proclaiming their doctrines and try
ing to work up a colony to partake of the
wide freedom and matrimonial liber
ty which prevail* in Uiah. . The
men went down into Whitfield
county and tried there to arouse au inter-
An Opellkn Affrity, In Wtilcli Three
Men are Worsted.
The information reached the city by
Tucalay’s West Point train that a terrible
shooting affray had occurred the evening
before at Opelika, Alabama, and which
would result probably in a double tragedy.
The parties to tlie affray are well known
in Atlanta. The party doing
the shooting was Mr. Samuel G.
Grasty. who has been long connected
as a railroad soliciting agent in thb city,
and latterly traveling agent of J. M. Lewis
& Co., of New Orleans. He was a large,
handsome man, typically southern in looks
and manner, and, remarkable for fine edu
cation rand large experience in travels
abroad and at home. He has many friends
in the city to whom he was always a most
genial and acceptable companion. He was
a gallant soldier in the confederate army
and subsequently traveled over a great por
tion of Europe and North America. Of
late he lma been absent a good deal from
the city.
The other two parties were a Mr. Itead
and son, Samuel, formerly of this city and
more latterly of LaGrange where, they
kept a hotel known as tlie Read House.
They are now residents of Opelika, but are
well connected here in the city.
As far as we are able to gather the par
ticulars they are ns follows:
It seems that Mr. Grasty was In Opelika
and a guest of the Sledge house.
He was in his room up
stairs Monday evening, when the elder
Read came up to the portico of the hotel
where he was soon joined by hb son, Sam.
After a moment’s conference they proceed
ed up-stairs to Grasty's room. What oc
curred there is not known to us at this
writing, but the parties who were down
stairs heard a noise as of parties scuffling
and then three rapid pistol shots
rang through the halls and star
tled the inmates of the hotel
and parties in the neighborhood. A rush
was made for the room of Grasty, vhence
the sounds proceeded, and there a ghastly
sight presented itself. The three men were
found in the small apartment, surrounded
with the evidences of a sharp and desperate
struggle.
Mr. Grasty stood there bleeding from the
head and hands, and holding .the yet
smoking revolver in his hand, hb eyes
flashing wrathfully upon his late adversa
ries.
The old man Read lav bleeding and
groaning from a terrible pistol shot in the
abdomen and one in the eye, the first of
which had evidently ploughed its # way to
the vitals and already ue bore the impress
of a doomed man. .
His son, Sam, was holding hb reeking
hands to his.riglit jaw, just under which a
pistol bail had entered and to the left
check where it had) made its exit.
He was coughing and spitting the blood
from his wound and unable to tell anything
of the horrible affair.
Mr. Grasiy was found to have been se
verely cut across tbe front of tbe head, the
right arm and fingers of the left hand by a
thb to be a ration, not a confed- J .| lJlt Langtrv posed for more than the
eraev. and other i evolutions of stmtUr tm- j bea j an j
. — I Mrs. Langtry’s visit to thb country willl burst into tears, snatched him to hbhosom,
A Fatal Fall. \ be devoid of social importance. New York j and fled to Chicago, “without giving-Geor-
PxTEESsrao, July 21—James Charles and ! needs no lions or lionesses to keej»up sooal j gie time even to get hb hat.” That emo- ***7 -rr | h b horns
- -- 11_. * while it may be saud to tbe credit I tional lather evidently Unnks tbe boys says that ^Jj^beep engaged for | t
and wealth; but there was a better assort
ment of large chairs than I ever saw before.
On the right hand of the house b a small | '7 M rs. MeCoople
tWo-room boase. built for Mr. Davis’s e*- C { nf , {rom the dining-room to the
prasl .“»■ ,T£ U » » 0 *H 10 P- °“® Wtohel, she in hailed by Mrs. Badger,
room is hu library. Thists hijnl to the h lived next door, and had herhesd
ceding wrtbbooks, a steplsdder being nee- ^ o( , window.
— T S e u th, colonel this morning?”
asked Mra. Badger vith affected solicitude.
1 “I hope he ain't braised bad. Et I was yon
ous books, ana sneers ot paper. A Jarre U’ biro. I'd hsre drat riqbjlly. ffgj*
engraving of a sacred character surmounts I Bloxbum skilled. y
thlmanteL The next room b intended nient in the ne^rW he s mto it I
for resting in case Mr. Pavb should desire I seed him Mnk muc h
to lay down. Mr. Davb says that colonei-whichI!houe.hejunthtutmur*
h.« K.U. .„ „n%on.i:,d I —an’when he clomb the lence (a.maing.
blatter of coarse, to the agile Sir Wil-
h&s probably an unequalled
library of reference, for the greet I —
subject in wh-'ch he b interested. g» liangtat) K ?SS5frfSSS5S
h« h*s for in I bis horns a wavxn like a lourtn ot July nag.
more*;
hb aon and Alex. Nugent, painters, were interest, while it may be said to the credit I uonal father evidently thuma me uoy a » amja «*— *— — *«-«* *«* v—*** 1 , Kn _ t. e ever c*ot
nreciDiuued into the street Mr the giving ‘ of this beauty, that although she has been I heed of comparatively slight importance, r getting u^ether all the material that be 1 »n how n go
way of scaffolding to-day in front of the in* position of trying publicity, she has The capital fact is that Chn ' " * ‘ '
ron. O. ... r r Chicago hs< added ! conld probably need, and he is now ready know-
oi-era hou-e. Charles difti in a abort time, never imd the tongue of eavioaa scandal to I the bjy to her other notable possessions.: for work. On the left hand side |of the I Is i. .
irteel oundition, and whL.per a word against bet name, yet Xew ) Are requisitions and habeas corpus* nn- boose u * similar binding, which was Mrs. now war be tween^the McCooptai ifthe^one
? ' York families cannot get rid of the feeling knownrn the queen city f | Dorsey's study. This was most tastily I part and the Badgers of the other f*rt7 ^
Is it necessary to remark that there
i badly hurt.
publicanbra therein, but I do believe
that the political sentiments and doctrines
of the republican party will and must pre
vail before many years in the southern
states, or the democracy will, as Mr. Toombs
indicates in some of hu late utterances, get
up another rebellion. As to the chief causes
ot the decadence of the republican party in
tbe south, that is a big question, and quite
too large and complicated for a humble
and private individual like myself to an
swer. yet I may give you some hints on the
points involved. Of course, among the chief
causes must be reckoned the rebellious
spirit and hatred of the general government
and the republican party still lingering in
tbe breast of tbe white population of the
south, and which utterly excluded the re
publican party from the southern states
before the war. And yet it m tut be con
fessed that the emancipation and enfran
chisement of 4,000,000 or 4,000000 slaves
albeit tbe result of a great war, constituted
a series of events but too well calculated to
astound and bewilder the southern people,
and shatter the claims of a party that had
accomplished such an upheaval. But the
shock of this great revolution and tbe heav
ing of the waters caused thereby have
calmed down, and universal freedom and
equal righta have come to be a part of our
national system, and consequently
no longer legitimate subjects of
discussion, except so far aa tbe
means of perfecting them in practice are
est in their religion. They met wilh cold
comfort all around here and were about
giving up their project when tbe fatal af
fair of this morning took off one of them.
The fact that these men were proclaiming
tlie doctrine of Mormunism boldly in this
community put the men very much
against them, and it was proposed more
than once to take them out and after giv
ing them a healthy lesson to warn them
not to linger in this delightful atmosphere.
This morning Standing and one of his
companions were coming along the road
when they were met by a dozen men. They
stopped the Mormons, and told them they
wanted to whip them on the spot. The
Mormons tried to argue the point, and in
the consultation one of the party of regu
lators laid down his pistol. Quick as
thought Standing leaped fonvard and seized
the weapon. Cocking it he turned
toward the party and demand
ed that every man surrender.
Just as he said this one of the party fired.
The ball entered Standing’s temple and he
fell dead in the road. His companion was
not touched. Standing’s remains were
brought to Ringgold and givsn in charge of
his Mormon brother, who will carry them
out to Salt Lake City to be buried. • The
other Mormons will leave here at once.
The governor has been telegraphed to about
the matter. _
Tlie African Fever.
Wilmington, N. C., July 23.—The bark
Indiana. Capt. Evans, from New Calabar,
Africa, is at quarantine, with one ot tne
crew dead and two sick of African fever.
The steamer Regulator, which struck ob-
■+nsetiona inside the bar yesterday, was
towed to the city to-day. Her cargo ts un
injured.
knife wielded with ferocious energy by the
younger Read. The elder Read, it was
thought when our information wa
sent, will die of his wound,
which is in a vital ^ part,
and from which be has not the constitution
to revive, even were there ordinary, hope.
Mr. Grasty remains at the hotel in custo
dy, and very much prostrated by his
wounds. He refuses to talk about the
causes or circumstances of tbe affair. The
Reads were conveyed to their home.
The cause of the affray is said to be of a
delicate nature, and certainly is not suffi
ciently developed and authenticated for
statement now. The investigation will
doubtless bring out the ruth.
Special dhpatch to *~e Constitution.
Ofelika, Ala., July 22.—About 8:30
o’clock last evening a shooting affair oc
curred at the Sledge house, in this city,
which resulted in the death of one and the
serious wounding of another of the parties.
A traveling man, Samuel Ot Grasty by
name, has been here for a week or two stop-
ing at the Sledge house. He has been r _
ping at tne sieugc nouse. ue nas oeen vis- .
iting the home of Mr. J. J. Read. Last
evening Mr. Read called at his (Grasty’s)
room, at the hotel, and told Grasty that he
wanted him to quit visiting his house.
Grasty took Mr. Read by the .beard, and, in
an insulting way, said “he would quit his
visits if Read wished him to.” He struck
Mr. Read on the face and Mr. Read struck
him on the head with a stick, knocking
Grasty down. At this juncture Sam Read
came into tbe room with a knife and in
flicted a wound on Grasty’s wrist. Grasty
reached over and obtained an old pwol
that was lying on his bureau. With this he
shot Mr. Read throogh the abdomen and
Sam through the neck and face. Further
firing w*s stopped at this time by Captain
A. A. Srott, a gentleman who happened to be
passing by and heard the shooting and a cry
ofmurder and come in to see what was the
matter. Mr. Read, an old man, died to-day
about one o’clock. Sam Read is not fatally
wounded. C.
BalnbrJdge In the Eftf Business.
Bainbkidge, Jaly 22.—Mr. William Bren
nan, living one mile from here, has an am
bitious hen who not ouly lays peculiar
shaped eggs but numbers them. Her last
edition is an oblong ovate numbered 1,139.
Mr. Brennan has not been able to find the
back numbers.
A, YaliisU* Gold Ml«e.
Gnira, July 22.—A. aery valuable gold
mine baa beendiaooreredmboutthirty miles
above Atlanta, and it baa been pnrehaaed by
tbe Doreeji, of Henry oounty. Cropa are
much improved byihe recent rains, and
flattering proapecta are rewried from all
tbe country adjacent to Gnmu.
A Harvest f ailure.
London, July 22.—The correspondent of
the News at Pesth telegraphs that the har
vest in Hungary is a total failure. The
Standard, in its financial article, says the
failure of Price, Bousted A Co. i* accom
panied by rumors of further disasters.
•fTC—
