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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. MARCH 23, 1880.
VOL. m, NO. 40
LIGHT READING
TO WHILE OPF THE AFTERNOON,
Prium Kebe'a Fim-Bera-A Laiy i Breach
! S| of Froaiao—Tht Birth of » King-Princely
Menace** — Jefferses'* Xusen
—A* Informal Vwit.
Philadelphia,March 12—What is claimed
t', be the first native American «!#phant
wai torn to-day In the winter stable
Coo|*r A: Hailey 1 * circus, in Ibis city. 1
which la in excellent health and
spirits, ia about the aize of a Newfoundland
yg- and ii a reduced model of the mother.
The youngster was named Princess Hebe,
Idhn., after her twenty-five year-old mother.
It weighed, two hours after birth, 213*4
pound*. ia thirty incites high, and measures
'“ty-fire inches from the base of the
ik to the root of the tail. The trunk
fifteen inches long, and the tail.
Which brushes the ground, is within an
~ h or (woof the length of the mother’s
is a thick covering of bristly hair
• inch long on tl*e sides and hark of
^— body. This h considered remarkable, in
view of the fact that the mother belongs to
the Indian’ specie*, which are netted for their
ant hair covenng. Hehr, jr . was not
ng in aacertaining the location of the
I over tlte head.
The mother was brought to tbia country
In intis, and for a long time was known as
the baby elephant Then ahe weighed only
l.ftOti pound*, and was lam than five feet
high. Now her stature ia eight feet, and
her weight four tonr. The keeper aaya,
that, aa a rule, it requires thirty
years for an elephant to reach matu
rity. hut the elder Hebe seems to be an ex-
• crpllon. He says elephants have rarely
. l»een known to breed in captivity. Their
I. |»erind of gestation is twenty and a half
months. A If hough they prove mmt affec-
», liquate parents, yet the young Mickle indi.n-
[ crirninately at any cow in a herd. This
ldrth, which haa been expect«-d for months
by the anxious owners, was heralded by
i theehrillrM trumpeting*, by the twelve fel
low-captives of the mother, they ap|»earing
to take the liveliest interest in the event.
While the attendants were handling the
J oungaier immediately after the birtli (Tama
lelie suddenly charged down tiiion aome
*|*cr tatorn. smashed the railing into splin
ters, and overturned a stove. The invited
guesta promptly scattered. Tlie attjnd-
ant«, however, stood and (|ineted the ma
ternal apprehensions with foothiiiR appli
cations. Hhe was then clrainod, hut con
tinued to protect and encircle the ixihc
with her trunk. However, no dinger was
feared. Zoologists are much interested in
the birth, ami are gathering therefrom as
much scientific information as possible.
jefferson'm maxkkrm.
When Jefferson became president he car
ried hia simple manners and tastea into offi
cial life. He determined that his inaugura
tion, ns the chief oflicer of the republic,
ahmpld lie as free from display as |stt.-ible.
1 tressed in plain black clothes, he rode on
horseback to (lie old cnpitoL without guard
or aervant. dismounted without assistance,
and hitched Ilia horse to the fence. On the
■tapa he was met by a number of friends,
whoaceomiwilled him to the senate chain-
Iwr, where he delivered his inaugural ad
dress. Durimr the administrations of Gen
eral Washington and John Adams the ses
sions of congms had been opened in a style
similar to that by which the English sov
ereign ojienit parliament. The president,
accompanied by n large esc »rt on horse
back, drove in Mate to the capitol. Taking
bis seat in the senate chamber, and the
house of representative* being summoned,
be r«ad Ins address. Mr. JelfVrxtn, to
whom such ceremonies were distaste
ful, swept them all away by
one act. He scut a written message
to congress, which was read to both houses
by their respective clerks, and mat practice
has t een olnrrved ever since. Against one
of liia reforms, however, the ladies of Wash
ington nm> up en masse. Mr. Jcffer.-on, dis-
~ lilnng the levees which had been held at
the w bite house, abolished them, lie estate
llalinl two jmhlic days for the reception of
<x»mitany—the 1st of January ami the Ith
of July. On other days lie was at home to
all of hers who rameon business or out of
courtesy. Many of the Washington ladies,
indignant at their s icial pleasures l*eing
thus curtailed, determined to force ih*
president to hold the customary levees. On
the usual levee day they resorted in full
<lrvas to the while house. The president
was out taking a ride on horsel»ack. On his
return be raw that the public rooms were
tilled with elegantly dressed ladies. At once
divining the plot, he np)»cared Indore his
fair guests Issued ami spurred and c ivered
with dust. 80 courteous was his reception
of them, and ao graceful his manners, that
the ladies went away dolightid with the
president, hut chagrined with themselves.
They felt that they had l*een guilty o. a
rudeness in visiting a guest who did not ex
pect them. It was their la»t attempt to
break through therulesof Jctrerson'shouse
hold.
A Willow’s RRRACR or TROMIsn
Augustus Frederick Fowke, an English
man, sued Mrs. Charlotte Hornby, n rich
Uindon widow (income $2i»,oon a year) for
breach of promise—da 111 ages $25,000. The
l*»r, who stood well axially, had known
each other as children, hut n casual meeting
in the |«ark was followed by an invitation
from the widow to luncheon. Soon the
widow gave Augustus the diamond ring of
the late Mr. llornby, while Augustus re
turned the courtesy by showering u)niu her
"some studs, which she proceeded to wear
suspended from her neck.” 8he wrote
him letteis in which she expressed con
cern about the fit of his shirts; ami,
when he had an attack of |*ralysis, she
symbolized her solicitude in presents of
beef tea. One of her letters expresses cer
tain pleading and commcndahle senti
ments: '•All I want is kindness and alTcc-
lion, with trustworthiness, and, if 1 have
not a bright prospect of that, I should
rather remain as I am. There is nothing hut
real affectum which can tuuke mirried life
happy, hut it must Ik* on both aides. Have
we that in store?” Augustus, during the
processor cross examination, did not shine
resplendent. He admitted having had
several sums of monev Iron, the widow,
amounting io$1.5tkt, ami would not swear
that it might not have htvn $2,ft*). Ho de
nied having threatened her with an action
at Waterloo station unless she gave hint
$5,000. lie did go to the station, ami ask
her whether she was disposed to find hint
He spoke quite politely and pleas
antly. He did say that unless this wa«
given he should bring an action against her
brot h«r-in-law for a wrong the latter had
done him. There was never any express
promise of marriage on the part of the
widow, but it was understood. The jury,
without leaving the box, found a verdict
for the widow.
raixcxi.T MRAXSKSS.
The duke of Edinburgh's meanness has
parsed into a proverb, and has done fa
mere to make him unpopular than the fac
of his marrying a Uussian wife. He g »u» so
savage at losing that he is a source of im
mense fun to those with whom lie play
1 heard a good, well authenticated story.
_ apropos of this weak side
duke's character, a year or two ago.
His royal highness had accompanied some
ladies to the theater or opera. If I re
member rightly it was the Criterion. After
the performance the party adj turned to
supper. The waiters, of course, recognized
his royal highness and expected a hand-
none gratuity. After the refreshments had
been partaken of the duke called for his
bill. TJ»« half dozen lackeys flew ro
more expectantly than ever. The wished
for document was produced, handed
to the duke on a silver salver,
in the orthodox fashion, and found to
amount to £0 17s. f*t His royal highness
threw down a £10 •’flimsy,** saying at the
same time, with the roval air of a man who
is giving away a small* fortune. ” Waitaha
keep the change, ah.” and the disgusted
waiters, who had looked for half a sover
eign apiece, had to content chemx»lve* with
the munificent sum of stout fifty cents
among six of them.
THE BIRTH or A KIR.
King Alfonso made his first appearance
in public at 3.45 a. m., on tue 28th of No
vember. 1AW, on a gold plauer ami without
any trappings of purple and fine linen
Such at least was the testimony furnished
t«» the czar by Prince Michael Galitsyn,
then Russian embassador at the court of
Queen Isabella. His excellency wrote as
follows: *“Oa the 28th of November, 1858.
1 was awakened suddenly at 3 o'clock in
the morning by a royal halberdier, who
brought me an invitation to betake
myself without delay to the
royal palace, in order to
he present at the delivery of her majesty
the queen. Within half an hour I entered
her majesty’s private cabinet, where 1
found numerous grandees and ioini>tcri al
ready assembled. A few minutes latex the
doon of the cabinet were thrown open,
the king consort, lVm Francieque a' As»i»i,
entered the room, bearing upon a gildcn
salver the new-born infant, Don A non so,
stark naked. Thus all present were en
abled to assure themselves that an heir tc
the throne had really come into the world.”
The Lire efa Western Edttar.
We have collected $15.50 cash during the
peat six months, and lived on that rum.
\Ve have given from fourteen to sixteen
bourn labor every day, including Sunday,
each week we have printed the ’’Bentoman.”
The semi-weekly contained, when printed
full, about twenty thousand emi. making
forty thousand for the week, which is the
average printer’s weekly work, without
performing any other labor. In ad
dition to this week's work at the
case we have looked after the chons
of the office, made op the paper, cut and
wet down the paper, washed the rollers,
worked the press, put up the mails and car
ried the paper. We have bought, begged
or stolen tbe firewood, and chopped it with
a borrowed axe. We have done our own
cooking and lived on one meal and a cold
lunch a day, never getting a good square
one except when a chance half dollar fell
in our way, and we would feel ao rich that
we would rush up to tbe California hotel.
We have lived on boiled beef
with an occasional turnip, and not un-
frequently a boi'ri frozen potato and
salt for dessert. We would then change our
diet to soda cracker.* and sweetened water
for a few days. There is nothing to condu
cive to health as frequent chinge of diet.
For the last week or two we have been gour-
niandizing on bnem and brans straight,
with crackers steeped in weak tea. What
tobacco we cannot beg we buy on credit.
We have not been in bed or lain on a mat-
trass since last May.—Benton (Cal ) Bento-
ntan.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
Arrival of tlaq Pioneer Hand In fills
Connery-Ttielr I’erallarlfleo.
Kcw York Timex.
The Australia, which arrived from Lon
don yesterday, landed 27 steerage passen
gers at Castle Garden, among them seven
women and one man, constituting the ad
vance guard of ’’The Salvation Army,”
organization of lav exborters founded.
England fourteen years ago by WiUiaxr
Booth, a Woswlngjr-lefgyman, and now
numbering over 100,000 jiersons. They
created quite a sensation in the garden anil
subsequently in the streets ,as they
proceeded to the lodging-house that
tad been provided for them. They
were all attired in a . uniform of dark
blue cloth, edged with bright yellow hind-
ing, and around tlieir hats were broad
bauds of scarlet riblion, inscribed with the
words, “The .Salvation Army,” in large, gilt
letters. One of the women, who hold* the
rank as captain, the other six being lieuten
ants, carried a flag of blue and red stuff,
with a large yellow snn in the centre and
bearing the title of the association. The
male member of the band, whose name is
George Itailton, is known as a commission
er, and will have charge of the future or
ganization in the United Slates. He raid
that the ‘ army" owed its foundation to a
visit made by Mr. Booth to London in
I>*»5. He was struck with the
mini tier of persons there
who never attend divine service
and resolved to devote himself to remedy
ing the evil. Gathering arouad him n band
of earned Christians, lie commenced a series
of c “
THEIR THROATS CUT.
A SHOCKING MISSOURI TRAGEDY
Tbs Old Man's Big Peneioa—Tk* Arrival of a
Qciet Btraager—Tbe 8eaffle Up 8tain—
Aa Uacle Bobs aad Cats tbe Throats
of Hia Two Hiocoa.
nucleus of what was ai first known os the
Christian mission. In 1878 the title of
"The Salvation Army” was adopted aa be
ing less calculated to repel the persons whom
it was designed to gather, and who do not
like to l»e tqioken of as needing mission ef
fort. In September last, according to a cir
cular furnished by Mr. Kailton. there were
in England 122 corps, under the command
of If A officers, using for services weekly 148
theatres, . music halls, warehouses and
other buildings, holding at the annual
rate of 45.000 ojien-air services and 60,000in
door services and preaching to 74,000 per-
*»ns indoor every Sunday evening and to
2.000,000 in the streets .every week.
Through its instrumentality 25/ persons
have become wholly employed in religious
work, and 3,256 others stand ready to speak
or labir in the cause whenever called upon.
The “army" is said to be approved by 23
mayors aud magistrates, 17.superintendents
of police, and 120 clergymen. Its funds
are raised mainly by collections taken
at tbe services. List-year there was rais
ed in this way £12,000, while the gen
eral fund only amounted V, £1,510. Mr.
Kailton soys that be and his colleagues will
deitend on what they can collect. Their
iras-agc was paid to this country by the
Iionie association, and this they are ex
pected to refund. They will endeavor to se
cure a hall, so as to begin indoor services on
Sunday. Mr. Kailton said that he had
written ahead to Mr. James Gordon Ben
nett to get out some turners for him, amt he
was then about to call upon that gentleman
ill regard to them. He whs mucl put
out when informed that Mr. IL-nrett is
in India. They will also preach in the
streets to whoever will listen to them. The
band gave a service of song in the garden
yesterday. It was noticeable that some of
their hymns were set to American tunes.
Mich as •* Way down on the Suwanec River”
and "Old Kentucky Home.” They are all
fresh, strong-looking young persons of
a!»out 30 years of age. A gentleman who
was formerly a member of the army
in England, and who emigrated
to Philadelphia, started an organiza
tion on a similar principle in that
city some time ago, but this is the first
genuine delegation that has ever come
to this country. They intend to spread
themselves fhroiighout the principal cities
of the union. Mr. Kailton explained
that the colors of tbe flag—red and blue—
signify the blood and purity of Christ, nml
he was extremely anxious to have the fact
published that the yellow had nothing to
do with orangeisiu.
THE PUBLIC MONEYS.
Uovrrnor Colquitt outl the Report*
from the Treasury Department.
Someone has discovered a mammoth
mare’s nest in the affairs of the state capi
tal, and of course lias given ft away to tW
argns-eyed press. This was right, for it has
given the opportunity for a full explana
tion of a mailer that is apparentIv inisun-
derate* id by the people. A floating item
started by an independent journal in tbe
lb district runs as follows:
who is to buhe?
The constitution of GcontU of 1*77. article :t,
-—- Jes iu follows: "No
the treasury except
seventh 1
section _
money shall be drawn
by Appropriation made by law.
Matement and account of the receipt ami cx|»cn-
all public moilcy shall la* published
(v months, and also, with the laws
;u*K*d by each session of the general S'somb.y.W
aud Resolutions of the General Assemld]
late of Georgia. 1878-7V. Compiled ano
’ublishcd by Auth«»rity, Atlanta. Ga. James 1*
Harrison. Public Printer, isft"
In li we find no Mich "statement and account"
as the constitution requires to be published with
Marsitficld, Mo , March 15.—News from
a teliablesource haa reached hereof a terri
ble tragedy which recently occurred in tbe^
southern part of Howell county, this state/
An old man had drawn a pen-ion. and #800
of the money remained In his possession.
He resided on a farm with his tjro grown
daughters. He had gone from home and left
the money, $PJ0 with each of bis daughters.
About dark of the night of the murder a
stranger appeared and desired lodging for
the night. The young ladies explained
tlieir lonely condition, and refused to en
tertain the stranger. He persisted, and, be
ing quite an elderly man of good appear
ance, the young ladies finally consented to
let him remain. At bed-time the young
ladies repaired to their apartment In the
second story and left the old gentleman to
aleep in a room below.
In the latter part of the night be was
awakened by a noise upstairs as if some one
were strangling, and being armed with a
revolver, he proceedel cautiously up the
stairs and to the door of the room in which
the young ladies bad retired. When at the
dqor of the room lie discovered tbe form of
1 in the room, and at about the same
the roan discovered him, started to
da him and struck at him
knife but missed him.
Then the old man fired and the intruder fell
dead. The old man then rushed out of
the house, beard chickens crowing, and ran
in that direction until he came to a house
where he found a woman sitting by the fire.
the fact* about public money? Will nomebody
who knows rise up and explain?—Free Press.
It is fortunate that the query has come
the above shape, as the tacts will put an
d to the unjust insinuation which sticks
in the tail of the paragraph.
If the writer of the paragraph had been
an attentive reader of Tita Constitution,
he would have found that all the require-
men t* of the state constitution, so tar as
the governor’s action is concerned,have been
complied with One quarterly statement
was published before the meeting of the
general assembly, one has been published
since, ami another will be published at the
end of this quarter, March 3lst, ’giving the
receipts ana expenditures from January
1st. up to that date.
Willi reference to the publication of the
reports "with the laws passed by each ses
sion of the general assembly” it is enough to
say That the governor doos’not publish the
laws. The general assembly provides for
that and if it has failed todoso.it is respon
sible for the laches. But the full reports of
the treasurer as made to the governor for
submission to the general assembly are pub
lished and circulated. They contain the
fullest information and as they are official
publications.it is probable the legislature
deemed that a publication within
spirit of the law.
It will thus be seen that the law !u»s been
fully complied with by the governor.
He explained his mission and what he had
done. Tbe woman said. “That is niy hus
band and the uncle of the girls; he went
there to rob them.” The stranger took a
fresh scare, and started on a run to find
another house, which he did in about half
a mile. The neighborhood was alarmed
and a posse gathered, and before daylight
they were at the scene of the tragedv.
The uncle was found dead on the floor
with the eight hundred dollars in one hand
and the knife in the other. The two young
ladies were found in bed with their throats
cut. The villainous uncle obtained en
trance by means of a ladder through one of
the upper windows.
Chkvknnr, March 15.—The bold and suc
cessful robbery of gold bullion occurred at
Sidney, Nebraska, while Union Pacific Ex
press Agent Snyder was at dinner. The
amount taken is variously estimated n».
$120,000 to $20o,000. Entrance was effected
though the floor of the express office. The
robbery was evidently planned in advance
of the arrival of the treasure-coach from
the Black Hills. The bullion had just
been transferred by Luke Vorliees, superin
tendent of the sriig** line, to tiic express
agent, and consisted of bricks and bars
from different mills in Lead City and Dead-
wood gulch. Robert Law, superintendent
of ^ the mountain division of the
Union Pacific, accompanied by Jelf Carr,
of the Rocky Mountain detective associa
tion, started from here on an engine at 3:30
p. m. to direct pursuit of the robbers, who
are reported to have gone in a northerly di
rection, well mounted. A telegram from
Sidney, just received, states that the treas
ure ha* been recovered except $13,000. It
was found under a pile of coal near the
Union Pacific track, where the trackman
had seen the robbers conceal something in
the afternoon. One of the missing bricks,
valued at $8,000, is from the Esmerelda
mine, Blacktail gulch, near Deadwood.
partly owned by Jlihbard, of the Chey
enne and Black Hills telegraph com
pany. Of the remainder, $2,000 is in an
express package, the rest bullion.
A special train with Superintendent Law
and detectives made the run to Sidney,
one hundred and two miles, in two hours.
Detectives were soon at work seeking a
clue. It was ascertained that the mounted
party going north were stockmen, well
known, and above suspicion. Superintend
ent Law lias now in active seatch for the
robbers every available man at that end
of the division, and ho;»es to bring the
guilty parties to speedy justice. The bul
lion was taken front a truck in* the express
office, which adjoins the telegraph
office The hole made in the floor of
the office must have been made by ex(»erts,
as no unusual noise was heard by the oper
ator, who was in the adjoining’room, dur
ing the absence of the express agent. The
immense weight of treasure—four hundred
and eighty (>ounds avoirdupois—prevented
the robbers from carrying it off’, and they
were compelled to conceal it at the most
available spot—the coal pile. Excitement
in Sidney is at fever hca», many being sus
pected of eouiplicity in the daring deed. If
evidence should prove strong against some
of those suspected, it is thought that Ne
braska will be saved the expense of a trial.
Cuit'Aoo, March 15.—The wives of the big
amist. Davis, will all be here in a few days,
and then that young gentleman will be
placed on trial. Before Justice Kaufman,
this afternoon, he was held in $8,000 bail to
await the arrival of his first wife from Bran
ford, Canada. It turns out that Davis is a
meml»er in good standing of the Freema
sons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and
other orders. His fattier and two brothers
reside nt Elkhart, Ind., and those who are
acquainted with his history say he comes
from bad stock. The wires have already
g'ven the names of the girl’s
whom he has ruined. Tbe saddest
of all the cases seem to be those of his first
wife and the young lady from Quincy. The
Detroit woman is the maddest, however.
8he believes that he ought to bo shot. The
superintendent of police to-dnv received
from a gentleman at Malden, N. V., a clip-
ping from the New York Sun of September
1. 1875, which slated that Frank or Fulton
Davis, then in jail at Poughkeepsie, had
three wives living. This is *uppo*ed to be
the same man. It is said that he has at
least a dozen wives, and that
many of* them have been married
to him under fictitious names. In
conversation with your correspondent to
day Davis said he knew he had made a
number of mistakes in life, but he was
honest at heart, and believed God would see
him through his trouble all right. He
thought he was too easily led astray by
women, and that it was their fault and not
his that he married them. I have been
polled to marry them, he said, in order
to keep liieir friendship. His case will
come up next Tuesday, when some lively
developments are expected.
John Kherman a Candidate.
The foltbwing letter received bv M.
Scudder, of Chicago, explains itself:
'••-sniNOTox. March 10.—My Dear Sir: Ii
of the 7lh ln»L, In which you express your
itmuff dissent to xnv retiring from the presiden
1t«L * *
occasions when she sent her ezird to me, and
one day when I was passing through the
corridor or lobby she undertook to stop me
about her bill. I refused to stop
or to hold any conversation with her,
and I did hear about that time that
she was threatening to get even
with all tbe senators who opposed the bill.
This. I suppose, is her grudge against me.
In that very letter she admits, in effect,
that she has failed to substantiate her first
attempt sgainst me, and therefore site
makes new allegations.”
This Is his story in substance. S>mc of
his friends, however, think that it should
not stop at this; that he should haul Mrs.
Lockwood before the courts and make her
sohstentiate her charge. There are persons
employed in several of the departments
who had their recommendation signed by
Senator Hill, but it cannot be learned that
fie has used his influence to get three mem
bers of one family into government places.
Postmaster General Key savs that it is not
true, as charged by Mrs. Lockwood, that
Bea Hill got a man appointed in his depart
ment. Mr. Key says Hill r.eTer has secured
the appointment of a single person in the
postotfice department, nor has he of late
yean made an effort to do so. He learned
from other sources, however, that the per
son referred to by Mrs. Lockwood is em
ployed m the post-office department, but
Ben Hill had nothing to do with bis ap
pointment. There are many circumstances
which seem to sustain Mrs. Lockwood in
her charges, and Hill can hardly avoid
giving more attention to them. Hill also
denies that be has ever had a page ap
pointed in .the senate,and brings the certifi
cate of the sergeant-at arms to corroborate
bis statement. But it is, neverthelets, a fact
that a brother of tbe girl Hill is charged
with seducing is a page in the senate.
Richard T. Merrick, a member of the
Washington bar, will appear as counsel for
Senator Hill iti the Raymond suit and all
other suits arising out of that matter.
A CORPSE'S FREAK.
THE GRANDEST YET.
A BIG BOOM FOR BRUNSWICK.
A Dead Man Rlaes Up, (StlfTnnd Rigid,
and the People Leave the Room.
Little Rock Gazette.
Several days ago Mr. J. McCloud, of
Faulkucr county, died of rheumatism of
the stomach. A large party volunteered to
sit up with the corpse, and when night
came many sad faces of many sad women
and men were seen, sallowed by the mel
lowing light of tallow candles. The minis
ter came, and entering the room remarked,
“Earth to earth and ashes to ashes.” The
cor|*e lay on the table covered with a sheet.
“He has gone over the road we must all
travel,” said the minister. A night bird,
with a mournful cry, answered. A daugh
ter of the deceased came in with an apron
full of tea cakes, which, with a slow shuttle,
she distributed around the room. “We
should prepare to follow him,” said the
minister, expletively blowing cake crutuhs
toward the corpse as though he wished his
words to waft away with winning sweet
ness. The night bird again cried out, and
*ie company sat silently chewing cake.
•*I thought I saw the sheet move,” said
one of the watchers. “sec if there is a cat
under it.”
The company sat still.
”1 am confident that the sheet moved.”
said the man.
The minister arose and lifted the sheet,
and standing, he looked at the’pallid face
of the dead man. The corpse's head left ihe
table. The minister fell back. Stiff*, stark
and terrible, tlie corpse slowly arose from
the table and attained a sitting posture.
The legs remained stretched out and the
arms remained folded. The women shriek
ed and ran from the room, aud the
stcr,reprimanding them for their weak
ness and want of confidence, climbed a
fence and stood in a turnip patch. When
ihe frightened people saw that the corpse
did not intend to follow, they went hack
into the house. The ror|»se still retained
the upright, rigid posture, stiff as tlie atti
tude struck by an amateur on the stage.
With fears somewhat allayed, the minis-
r advanced, and placing a hand on the
lead man’s breast, pressed him backward,
l’ropoitionately as his head went down,
his heels came up, and when his head
touched the hoard his heels were high 111
air. The cause of the dead man’s freak was
then discovered. The muscles of the
stomach, distorted by rheumatism, wore
contracting. It required the efforts of two
men to straighten tlie corpse. A gentleman
who was present declares lie never sjieiit
such a fearful night, and, with Clarence,
adds; ”1 would not pass another such night,
though ’twero to buy a world of happy
days; ao full of dismal terror was the time.”
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Hsvcoiab and Wilson Form an Alliance, and
Will Make Brunswick Their Port—Tbs
Georgia Western to be Built, and
Bewilderment Still Ahead.
Special dispatch to Tbe Constitotioa.
New York, March 16—At last the
the dawn breaks on tbe Georgia
Western, and I am justified in saying that
it will certainly be built unless there are
changes that caurot ba -dreamed of. In a
certain contingency, which is considered In
evitable by those in position, I have
the best authority for saying
that Atlanta will be treated
to the quickest railroad building ever seen
in America. Estimates, map*, and persons
acquainted with the Georgia Western, have
been telegraphed for, and will be here in a
day or two. I con only say at present that
the Louisville and Nashville is the coaipony
that is pushing the work, and that Victor
Newcomb is the Moses that leads Atlanta
out of bondage. He has been
consulting with R. T. Wilson and other
railroad men, and there are rumors of com
binations and trades even more important
than any yet made.
i A gentleman whose word is weighty, said
to me today: ••Events are rapidly shaping
fora more startling change than any we
S ive seen, that will make over the
Jlroad maps of the south. You will see
alliances broken and friends separated.
While antagonistic elements will be brongfit
together.”
The first step in all this will be the build
ing of tbe Georgia Western. Newcomb is
reported as saying that lie is about satis
fied that he must have his own line into
Atlanta and the sooner he builds it the
better.
It is said that the sudden activity devel
oped here is due to the purchase of the
Western and Atlantic lease control by
Wadlev, and furthermore that certain al
leged transactions of the ‘lessees will be
presented to the legislature for investiga
tion.
Later.—I called to see Newcomb
this evening and found that he
and Wilson had been to
gether all day and had gone to their
hotels. O11 the table in the room where
they had consulted were maps with the
Georgia Western route marked in ink and
scrap estimates of the cost of the road to
Blount Springs by Terrapin creek. The
figures were very satisfactory to me.
H. W G
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Nr.w York, Marcli 17.—The Georgia
Western project is still being busily dis
cussed and apparently heading up rapidly.
Captain Gloster was to-day ordered by tele
graph to proceed at once to a survey of the
route to Blount Springs by Terrapin creek.
Mr. It. T. Wilson intimated that to build
this line, which will be 110 miles, will cost
exceeding two and a half millions, and
11 strike the rich coal and iron region.
The general report here is that Newcomb
lia* formed an alliance with Wilson and
McGhee, who will use tlie Georgia Western
connect their Memphis and Brunswick
tem, and that Newcomb will make
unswick bis port rather than Savannah.
He will go south about Saturday, and will
doubtless make formal propositions to At
lanta at once.
Under these rumors Nashville and Chat
tanooga stock has fallen from 124 to 85, as
** Louisville and Nashville freights will
carried beyond it and delivered into At
lanta by tlie new line, if it is built. The
!x)uisville stock has gone up «teadily, as the
Georgia Western is a favorite project with
those most interested in this stock. The con
ferences between Cole and Newcomb here
terminated, it is said, in disagreement and
Governor Porter takes the presidency of the
Nashville and Chattanooga line. The Lou
isville people to-day signed papers giving
them actual possession of the Southeastern
road. H. W. G.
Special dispatch to the Constitution.
New York, March 18.—There are no de
velopments in regard to the Georgia West-
this morning, but there is activity in
circles that are discussing it, and it is
said that preparations arc rapidly being
and Nashville headquarters in this
city this morning Irani a prom . What u-'as done there, or how much col
inent official of the road, who is now in lected I cannot ra}’. At any rate, nothing
tial race, is received. 1 never fora moment have
cimtemyUled such a ooume.
speak of was no doubt promptly denied. The iirst
s in the refer-
^■^■ptly <
public mi-nUon of my camliaacy MMHMMOTVI8VI
once drawn fiom my letter to don. Mr. H&skin.
of New York, in wnich I stated what I would
^^to do ia case of my nomination and election,
■c that time I have been considered br the I
people *« a candidate and have so regarded my-
hell, with the purpose neither to press any one to
5Ut»porl me nor to decline such friendly aid as is
ottered me. This position I intend to occupy am
the end. I do not think it neAssary for me BM
[belittle or arraign General Grant. Senator Blaine,I
■ any one else, nor will I u*e my official position
promote my candidacy. Verv t uly yours. ■
John Sreoman.
NOW WB HAVE IT.
An Inventor Who Appears* lo Gel
A way With i:<li«on.
Nrw York. March 18.—The residence
No. 226 Wot Fifty-fourth street was a jack-
o'-lauteru this evening by reason of the elec
tric light inside. Mr. W. E. Sawyer, the
most conspicuous rival and critic of Mr.
Edison, there exhibited tbe lamp which he
and Mr. William Sawyer had invented.
The doable parlor was furnished with six
of tbe lamps, each of which gave a pure,
steady light of twenty seven candie-power.or
about double tbe brilliancy of the average
gas jet The electricity was brought from
a generator a quarter of a mile distant.
The lamp burned pencils, or car bon, in glass
inclosures of nitrogen, the principle of *
candescene being the same os in all of the
electric lamps.
The novel devices were a switch attached
• each lamp, by which tbe light could be
raised or lowered without affecting the oth
ers; a new cement, by which the glass was
claimed to be hermetically sealed without
danger of breakage through expansion; and
a contrivance for automatically feeding up
the carbon pencil as fast as it is desired.
Tlte inventors figure*! the oast of the lights
away below that of gas, and nobody under
took tt gain my them, nor was any fault to
be found with the working of the appa
ratus aa exhibited.
Marietta, Cl, March 15, 188).—The
members of the democratic executive com
mittee of the state are hereby called to as
semble in the city of Atlanta, on Tuesday,
the 30th of the present month, for the
transaction of inqiortant business connect
ed with the interests of the democratic
party and the people of the state. Matters
'"ime importance are to be considered
cted utKtn, and it is, therefore, desired
that there should l»e a full meeting of the
committee. Let us have no proxies, but
let every member be personally present,
ready anu faithful todischarge the duties im
posed unon him by the preference and confi
dence of his party friends and associates. The
place of meeting will be the commodious
and elegant breakfast-room of tbe Kituball
bouse, which the proprietors have gener
ously tendered for the accommodation of
the committee. The hour of meeting will
be 10 o'clock m. m.
append hereto a full list of the com
mittee. Geo. N. Lester, Choirman.
E. Y. Clarke, Secretary.
For the state at large: H. P. Bell, Forsyth coun
ty: John C. Niuholls, Pierce county; J. L. Warren,
Chatham county; L Y. Clarke, Fulton couuty.
First district: J. J. Jones, Burke county; Jose
phus Camp, Kmanuel county.
Second district: A. T. McIntyre, Thomas coun
ty: W. A. Harris, Worth couuty.
Third district: James R. Hinkle, Sumter coun
ty: Marshall J. Hatcher, Macon county.
Fourth district: M. II. Blandfonl. Muscogee
►unty: J. T. Waterman. Troup county.
Fifth district: W. T. Trammell, Spalding coun
ty; W. L. Guun, Houston county.
Sixth district: J. M. Pace, Newton county: W.
W, Turner, Putnam county.
Seventh district: P. M. B. Young, Bartow coun
ty; J. A. W. Johnson. Whitfield countv.
Eighth district: Miles W. Lewis. Greene c
ty; Paul C. Hudson, McDuffie county.
Ninth district: G. M. Netherland, Habersham
county, deceased; W. E. Simmons, Gwinnett
county.
Democratic papers of the state please copy.
HE WON'T HAVE IT.
Georgia, in which it was stated that
l*irt had been published in the Georgia pa
tters that the contract between tbe Louis-
ille and Nashville aud the Central road had
ir.t been ratified, aud could not be. The
official telegraphed that he had investigated
the report and was satisfied, front an inter
view with an official of the Western and
Atlantic road, that Governor Brown was
practically dictating the policy of
Central, and that he was
open hostility to the Louisville and
Nashville road, and determined to impose
upon them conditions that they could not
BELVA AND BEN.
Ex-Governor Seymour v?lll Stick to
Ctiee«e.
New York World, March IS.
A statement having been published yes
terday at Washington to the effect that
Governor Seymour had expressed a willing
ness in certain contingencies to be named
a candidate at Cincinnati, the World at
once telegraphed to Utica to a*?ertain
whether there was any foundation for such
a statement, and received in reply the fol
lowing conclusive telegram:
that his name might go before tne nexz imtlcnal
democratic convention as a pre>i<lential candi
date. He states in reply that he has no recollec
tion whatever of any conversation on the subject
with anyone in which he could have conveyed
any such impression or idea. He has never in any
way expressed or entertainc I the idea of allowing
Tbe Georgia Senator Denonnees
Lockwood's C harges aa^a Miserable
Libel.
Cincinnati Commercial Washington Special.
•The female lawyer. Mrs. Lockwood, is af
ter Ben Hill's scotp, aad is causing the sen-
. 1 of annoyance, os well aa
giving tbe gossips fool for conversation
fihe publicly accuses him of having ruined
a sixteen year-old girl in this city, aud
then, to compensate the family, got the
father a position in the po»tutiice depart
ment. the young brother a place as page in
the senate, und the sister a place in tbe
census office, la brief, that Senator Hill,
after accomplishing the ruin of one mem
ber of a family, got all the rest positions at
the public crib as compensation.
Mrs. Lockwood said to-day that this was
all true ar.d she could prove it, and she in
vited tbe senator to go into the courts if he
disputed it. She acknowledges that Miss
Raymond has 'failed to sustain her charges
against Hill, having cleared out and let iLe
matter drop. But Mrs. Lockwood does not
propose to let him escape again so easily.
She makes very damaging charges, and then
dares him into court to <uear his skirts.
Senator Hill, in conversation to-day. pro
nounces the let ter and charges of Mrs.’ Lock-
wood to be utterly and entirely false. " It
is a miserable, desperate libel,” he said,
'•and the woman must be crazy to write
such a letter. It is outrageous to refrr to
persons ia the general way she does
and attempt to scandalizs whole fam
ilies. I have never put but one per
son in any position here oatsxde of
the capital. I did get the public printer to
*vean old whig friend of mine, aa old
in tiny
lowing
his name to be presented to the people as a candi
J ‘‘ ” ’ r will he allow
instances what-
lt will be seen from this emphatic declar
ation of the ex-atvernor, which is perfectly
in keeping witu everything that he has
heretofore said upon the subject, that as he
will not be a candidate upon his own a
count, so he does not mean to he made
cat's-paw by any other candidate. Mr. Sey
mour has more than once allowed hi* name
to be used in order to rescue politicians .
a meaner kind from tbe results of their own
dy selfishness. In the canvass of 1880
Seymour evidently means to let them
bear in person tbe penalties of their ov
action, and not to let them use his name
order to bring enthusiasm and harmony out
of their labors in the service of strife.*
mg office. I have not enough influence with
this administration to get offices for persona,
r- a- M __ j Now. I don’t know why this woman Lock-
Das Moines, Iowa, March 18 —The senate ! wood pursues me in the way sio* does, an-
^^j .^*° Xt l P** 5 *? * joint | less it is because I opposed her bill when it
before tbe senate. 1 not only voted
resolution to amend the constitution ao as
to grant school suffrage to wouxrn
»against it, but refused to see her on several
The IIale Report.
ArGCfTA, Ml. March IS.—The Hale com
mittee on the counting of the returns
the recent election has made its report.
finds that deliberate attempts were made to
count out tbe republicans by erasures.alter-
ations and forgeries in the ^returns and by
allowing surreptitious corrections of the
returns from fusion towns, while denying
the same privilege to republican towns and
by failing to apply the same rules to both
of these fraudulent acts. The committee
say they must have been known to Gov
ernor Garcelon and his council and such
practice*, if nnrebuked, will prove fatal
the future prosperity and progress of
state.
The Virginia Jmlges.
LvacaerR*:. March 18.—State Attorney-
General Fieid. in view of the recent deci
sion of the United States supreme court
sustaining Judge Rives in the matter ‘
county judges indicted ia his court for
legrd failure to have negroes on juries, has
withdrawn from the cw 3 a.« counsel for tbe
indicted judges, stating that he did not
wish to appear as placing himself and state
in the attitude of resisting federal laws and
decisions of the supreme court. All the
cases were therefore continued till next
ville has secured, besides the alliance with
Wadley. ihe following among other ob
jects: First, the cessation of work on the
Owensboro and Nashville road, adangei
rival, which Colonel Cole had arranged to ex
tend directly into Louisville: second, the re
fusal of the Owensboro and Nashville road
and tbe SL Louis and Southeastern road,
offered here to the Louisville and Nashville
week before last by Colonel Cole and his
directors; thii^i, such a hold on ColnelCole
that not only could he do nothing oL dan-
S r to the Louisville and Nashville, but he
d to yield his friendship and agree, in
order to be left to work out a part of his
p!ans,!to act in conjunction with ihe strong
er company. Colonel Cole and Mr. New
comb went on to New York together, and
hare been together ever since. Having
gained so much by means of the Nash
ville and Chattanooga, the theory con
tinues, the Louisville and Nashville has
now found it to be the best plan to drop
it and again take up the Georgia Western
road, thus to get into Atlanta entirely over
its own lines. The road can be built in
eight months; the route by way of Mont
gomery to Wadley’s system at Macon to be
used in the meantime as it was previous to
the purchase of the Nashville and Chatta
nooga. That the Louisville and Nashville
stock has been unloading its Nash
ville • and Chattanooga stock is
not an unlikely theory to account
for the tremendous break in the price,
which has not reached a point below that
at which the Louisville and Nashville
bought.
dr fusiak talks.
Louisville Courier-Journal, 15th "
A Courier-Journal man went to see Mr.
Fred de Fuaiak* last night in reference to
the statements made in yesterday's special
dispatch to the Courier-Journal regarding
some culminating stroke 00 the part of the
Louisville and Nashville management. Mr.
De Fnniak said that he could only say
that in his opinion the report was correct
in so far as it is stated that it was likely
that the Georgia Western would be built
very quickly. Further than that he could
only say that the expected coup did not
mean that any effort was being made to
buy theO. and M. road.
DROrriNQ MONEY IN WALL STREET.
New York Star.
In the ups and downs ot Wall street, oc
casionally some of the shrewdest operators
are badly squeezed, and pools formed to
eutrap the unwary come to grief. The
most notable instance of heavy losses re
cently is the syndicate of Wall street bro
kers, which was organized to manipulate
crt. Louis, Nashville and Chattanooga stock.
These shares early in the week sold up to
128, and closed-on Tuesday at 124. On
Wednesday morning a big break occurred,
and from 120 the stock fell to 111, and re
acted, under manipulation, to 115. It broke
on Thursday to par, and yesterday it sold
down as low as 81, closing at 86>^a87?^, and
showing a decline in less than ten days of
44 points, the pool suffering a loss of 22,000
shares, or about $200,000.'
THE MAJOR'S AMBITION.
Xa&hville American, 17th.
Major Lockhart says Georgia Western
railroad stock advanced twenty-five points
in New York yesterday. Atlanta is jubi
lant. The Lockhart monument may yet
be built.
THE HOOD CHILDREN.
lYhat has been Accomplished for Their
Relief nml Ttaeir Prospect* for the
Fntnre.
The New Orleans States, of March 5. pub
lishes an account of an interview had by
ne of its reporters in that city with the
president of the Hood fund relief commit
tee. who spoke as follows on the subject of
the children of the late General and Mrs.
Hood :
At present the outlook for tbe children is
not cheerful. They are ten in number, and
for their benefit nearly seventeen thousand
dollars, as said before, have been subscribed.
As fast as the money came in. the commit
tee invested in United States four percents,
which investment brings $680 per annum—
a small sum with which to raise, educate
and establish ten young people, it will
readily be acknowledged.
‘‘Is there no money outstanding which is
yet unreported?” asked the reporter.
”i do not know,” replied Mr. Lyman;
‘‘when we started out soliciting; we were
told that a commit tee had been formed in
St Louis. Mr. John It Reavis, I believe,
appointed chairman of the committee.
opinion from a survey of the field
ia that nothing short of the build
ing or the Georgia Western would give the
Louisville and Nashville protection and im
munity in its southeastern business, and lie
urged that steps be taken at once for the
rapid buildiug of this road. The opinion
of this official has great weight with the
Louisville and Nashville people, and con
firms the policy which the force ot circum
stances already seems driving them to
adopt.
\our correspondent saw Mr. Newcomb,
who was naturally reticent under
the circumstances, and in ref
erence to the contract of the Georgia
Central, he stated that it was true that he
had never ratified it, ai<d in fact he had
never so much as presented it to his board,
owing to the incorporation by the Georgia
Central of certain conditions which he said
be could not afford to advise his company
to accept. Mr. Newcomb is deliberate in ar
riving at conclusions involving such heavy
resiKmsibilities as these, but it may be safely
said that he is now thoroughly iu earnest,
and that-circumstances will shortly force
t tbe policy that will lead t
tbe Georgi'a Western road.
Mr. Wilson says that be and Mr. New
comb have come to no definite understand
ing as yet. H. W. G.
THE AIR-LINE IN THE FIELD.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
KdSNATi, March 18.—It is reliably re
ported in railroad circles here that the At
lanta and Charlotte Air-Line has purchased
the road from Knoxville to Maysville, and
that the long contemplated road through
'tabun, Ga.. will be built at once.
Louisville Post and News, 15th.
During the past few days att expectation
has prevailed that we are to have another
inq-ortant development in the Southern
railroad situation,and not a little uueasiness
has been felt that perbaj»s the Louisville
company would come out second best. The
oau'-eof the agitation was the rapid decline
in Nashville and Chattanooga stock, made
ominous by a concurrent decline in Louis
ville and Nashville stock. The former stock
tumbled from 123 to 83% during the last
week, while Louisville and Nashvilie went
down gradually from 1G0 to 152%. The
lowest figures were reached on Saturday,
but Nashvilie and Chattanooga doted at 83
and Ixmisville aud Nasltvi le at 155. A lit
tle light was thrown on the situation this
morning by the following not very clear
pedal di-patch published in the Courier-
Journal
yet has been received from that commit^
tee. We learned, too, that one thousand
dollars was collected in San Francisco.
Every little helps, and we would like to add
that sum to this fund, if the persons who
collected it would hand it over.”
•'Has tbe sale of the group-picture of the
Hood family amounted to much?”
"Yes,” Mr. Lyman replied; “but not to
much as we could wish. There was a
great furore about them at first aud orders
came in front everywhere. One man in
California wrote us he could sell twenty
thousand to the soldiers out there. We sent
him five hundred copies, and that was the
last of hint. Others tint were sent out are
now coming back, and every day or so we
have to redeem a quantity of them.”
“Then, I suppose,” said the reporter,
the committee will be forced to let the
children be placed in the (amities of friends
* the deceased general.”
“Some of them have already been so
placed,” replied the chairman of the com
mittee.
Did not the committee announce, some
time back, that it would keep the children
together?”
"Hiat is a point which I would like to
make clear. The committee is charged
with raising a fund, and Mrs. llennen is the
tutrix of the children. When applications
of adoption came in so numerously just
the general’s death, it was thought
a declaration not to serrate
the children should be made, and
Col. Flower authorized Mrs. llennen to
make it. At that time it wan thought the
fund would become large enough to enable
the tutrix to keep this determination. Since
then, however, the prospects have become
less bright, anil it is now felt that it would
have been well to have suffered the adop
tion to take place, especially when several
parties were offering to adopt all the chil
dren together.”
How is the matter now settled?”
‘By letting such of the children as Mrs.
Hepneu thinks best be taken by persons of
known character and resources. So far. it
has been deemed advisable to accept only
•o of the offers. A gentleman and lady
New York have adopted the six-year old
twins, and a lady in Columbus, Georgia, has
adopted the baby. They do not desire tbeir
. lone. Certain charges secretly made in rail
road ownership tuay serve to coalesce an taxon i»tic
interests and drive apart those heretofore allied.
I am cot at l!ber:y to disclose the nature of these
negotiations, but will notify yon as soon as they
— - -col^
noun col as definite. Mr. Newcomb is very busily
engagoi, and in conference daily with leading
capitalists and railroad men. The statement is
south and west.
THE FAVORITE THEORY.
Based on the decline in tbe stocks and the
abjve dispatch the favorite theory of those
who are watching the situation is as fol
lows: The purchase of the Nashville and
Chattanooga road did not give tbe L and N.
\ he control of the Western and Atlantic road
1.from Chattanooga to Atlanta) as expected:
but it led to a five years’ contract with Wad-
ley. of tbe Central, by which he is to run
his lines as a unit with the Lonisville and
Nashville lines, the latter to fix the rates.
Wadley is met at Atlanta and in getting
that point the L. and N. of course wants „
work entirely over its own lines if possible,
which is out of the question by way
of Chattanooga, so long as the Western
and Atlantic remains independent. Before
the purchase of the Nashville and Chat
tanooga wa> projected, the plan of the Lou
isville and Nashville to get to Atlanta was
to build the Georgia Western line from At
lanta to a point on the North and South
Alabama rood, a part of tbe Louisville and
Nashville system, and to revive this project
AGRICULTURAL
THE F1BLD S THE FARM, THE GARDEN.
Flowers — Action — Chalks—Farm Notes — About
Leaves—Strawberry Culture —Horticultu
ral Notes—The Farmer’* Home—A
Grain cf Wheat-8tock Notes.
THE FARMER’S HOME.
Whnt kind of a home have you reader?
Do you have for your wife any flowers and
plants in your yard—pretty emblems and
tender reminders of a happy girlhood. Does
sboierow them that her home may prosper
with the peace, love and contentment which
their beauty and fragrance betoken? Is
there a pleasant ornamentation of lawn and
shrubbery? Is it not true that stray cattle
browse off the stunted plants in your yard,
•abd that unregenerated hogs in their'deep
rootings speed devastation, in what should
should be the pleasure groun.-I of your
wife? Does your house look out upon the
cow lot, and do mellifluous odors from a
too convenient hog pen. regale your senses,
ap you would enj jy the breezes on your
front porch? Do you have shade trees, or
<|Des the broiling sun in summer bake your
house; and wintry winds, whistle, and play
R requiem to the happv name of hnmt*?
It will add but littl
labor to beautify your hom<
as with faith and courage you greet another
season’s crops with glad hearts, not only
have better farms and better stock, im
proved and labor-saving faint implements
-^emblems of your progressive spirit—but
out
also let the improvement* about the house
and yard keep pace with the additions and
advancements about the farm. Beautify
your home, and as your sons and daughters
grow up and go out into tlfe world, they
will look back on the old home with the
most tender recollections. There lived
health, peace aud honor, and thence went
those who, because of the home likeness of
the dear old place, shall ever revere the
name of their parentage and the fireside of
their childhood.
ABOUT LEAVES.
We have before us two letters making in
quiry about botanical names.
Deciduous means falling off, and is ap
plied to trees that lose their leaves every
published, as such an action would
subject them, they fear, to tlte inquisition
of the curious.”
The children retain their family name,
of course?”
“Yes; ar
thoroughly acquaini
whereabouts and movements. The other
children are here in this city, still in charge
of that estimable lady, Mrs. Hennen, their
grandmother. All have been benefited by
the trip to Texas, and are in excellent
health. I have been to see them frequent-
’ ’ ” ad that though they do not have
ild wish my own children to have,
they are fairly comfortable in their circum
stances.”
THE FRENCH JESUITS.
Preparing: to Keek lloinc* Elsewhere.
London, March 18—A Paris dispatch
says it is possible that the difficulties in the
way of applying the Ferry educational bill
will compel the government to submit a
new* bill. Thanks to the vote of confidence
in the chamber of deputies. Ferry will es
cape for the present from resignation, which
ultimately is inevitable.
A dispatch from Koine to the Pall Mall
Gazette says: The papal nuncio at Paris
has telegraphed to the Vatican That the
French government Las decided to expel
the prohibited religious corporations and
xhat the government will advise the pope of
tbe particular measures contemplated/
The La Telegraphe says the principal
Jesuits are ro persuaded that Premier
DeFreycinct is in earnest that therr no lon
ger hope to remain in France, ancl are pre
paring to emigrate to Spain and Belgium.
The Crops of Kansas.
Leavenworth, Ks., March 16.—The
Times will publish to morrow the county
reports in full from this state, showing that
the acreage of the fall wheat is twenty per
cent greater than last year; that the condi
tion thereof is fifty per cent better, and
that the yield tbia year will exceed thirty
million bushels.
Iu botany a parasite is a plant that grows
on another plant—to be more particular,
a plant without the means of providing
nutriment for itself, which obtains nourish-
ishment from other plants to which it at
taches itself. An epiphyte is a plant tha.
grows on other plants, but does not pene
trate theirsubstauce, nor ab-orh their juict s.
as moss, etc. In entomology (the science
which treats of insects) parasites are insects
which eat the bodies of eggs of other in
sec s. In zoology the term is applied to
animals which live on the bodies of other
animals, lice, etc.
Cryptogams are flowerless plants; mar-
ticulate, applied to plants, means pointed;
epidermis is the outside skin or hark; cor-
ticle means belonging to the bark; matrix
is a place where anything is generated or
formed; pustule is the cavity that contains
seed or fruit; sjtores, the seed of llowerless
plants.
Ovate means egg-shaped. The notch-
ings in the leaves are termed serraturCs.
The leaves of the grapes are termed lobed.
An accuminate leaf has a long projecting,
and tapering point The term primate is
applied to leaves grouped on one stem like
feather.
. FARM NOTE 1 ?.
—If your horse is troubled with scratches
mix up a little saltpetre and lard and out
upon the sore part; renew daily uutil-cured
Keep clean by using castile soap.
^ —If rats are troubles about your house
find their holes and scatter copperas around
them. A few grains will drive them away.
For watermelons—a mixture of ammo-
mated superphosphate of lime and bone-
dust is said fo be the best fertilizers. A
large handful to the hill, which must be
thoroughly incor|K>rated with the soil be
fore the seed is uropped.
—An English game-keeper found an owl’s
nest with one young bird in it. lie visited
it for thirty consecutive mornings, and in
that time removed front it 105rats, -Iff mice,
2 robins arid 1 sparrow.
—A Wyoming wo.uan keeps her liens
ree front lice by giring them once or twice
a week a large loaf made of Graham flour
in which a handful of sulphur has been
mixed.
—When poultry are first attacked with
roup, a mixture of cayenne pepper and lard
about the size of a bean should be given to
the fowl about twic: a day. A cure will
be effected in a few days.
—French and German authorities recom
mend the use of salt at the rate of 150
pounds per acre for leguiuinious plants; for
w’heat 2-50 pounds, and for barley and |»ota-
toe-t 300 pounds; to be sown broadcast in
the spring before the herbage has attained
any considerable growth*
—To kill lice on animals—Melt hog’s
lard, and in it dissolve salt one-third of the
bulk of the grease, take os much grease
as will be.required to smear the animal all
over and into the mixture pour kerosene,
nil and stir it up. Two gills of the kerosene
would be sufficient for a cow of ordinary
size. It is also excellent for galls and sores.
HOW TO J IT DOE A HORSE.
The weak points of a horse can be better
discovered while he is standing than while
moving. If he is sound, he will stand
firmly and squarely on his limbs, without
moving any of them, the feet planted flat
upon the ground, with legs plumb and nat
urally poised. If one foot is thrown for
ward with the toe pointing to the ground
and the heel raised, or if the foot is lifted
from the ground and the weight taken from
it, disease mav be suspected, or at least ten
derness, which is a precursor of disease. If
the horse stands with his feet spread apart,
or straddles with the hind legs, there is
weakness of the loins, and the kidneys are
disordered. Heavy pulling bends the
knees.
Bluish or milky cast eyes in horses indi
cate moon hliudness or something else.
A bad temjiered horse keeps his ears
thrown back. A kicking horse is apt to
have scarred legs. A stumbling horse has
blemished knees.
When the skin is rough and harsh, and
does not move easily and smoothly to the
touch, the horse is a heavy eater and his di
gestion is bad.
Never buy a horse whose refp^ratory
gans are at all impaired. Place your ear at
the side of the heart, and a wheezing sound
is heard, it is an indication of trouble. Let
him go.
FLOWERS.
Spring and summer will soon be here and
e shall see the wondrous beauties of the
bright-eyed pansies, the marvellous color
ings ot the variegated leaved plants, the
glowing shades of the zonale and double
geraniums, inhale the fragrance of the mig*
nonette and the lovely heliotrope, not to
eak of fuchias, petunias, ;
tlox, stocks and zinnias.
Have you planned out in your mind
flower beds and have you made them bril
liant with colens, geraniums, salvias, fra
grant clusters of alysstim, gorgeous verbvnas
and petunias and odorous sweet j»eas‘
It takes but a small amount ot money to
make a good show of flowers, if it is*
pended in annals. Of course their culture
demands more care and labor than that of
bedding out plants which need only to be
transplanted and dally watered to give
profusion of flowers. Yet their very c:
makes them dearer.
Light, loamy soil is the best adapted to
seed culture; and if it is baked in an old
f>an in an oven, it will kill all the lar
vae of worms and all seeds of weed-*. Let
it cool a little, then mix with it a greater
part of common sand, stir it in well. Plant
seed, and at proper time transplant.
Verbenas raised from seeds will blossom
much fuller than those raised front cuttings.
Few plants will bear intense shade.
When the leaves of the calla begin to
look old and dead, take yonr scissors and
trim them off, so as not to alter the form.
Roses will do well in any ordinary garden
soil that is free from standing water. The
soil should be friable by the applicati
not wet—is all that is necessary to root cut
tings successfully.
CULTIVATING PEACH TREES.
Experiments demonstrate that bearing
peach trees should be differentlv treated
from those that are too young‘to bear
Young peach trees will keep on growin * un
11 late in the fall. It is best not to allow
this, and one way to prevent it 13 to stop
stirring the soil at mid-summer. The rest
of the season is to harden up the young
wood for winter. In fact the growth of tbe
tree should be controlled, and it requires
skill and experience to do it. Perhaps Au
gust is the best time to stop cultivating the
young ]>each tree. Should the ground be
very rich and the trees seems inclined to
keep on growing, the leading branches may
bo pinched in. After pinching
a new growth will start, but
pinching in must be resorted to again. Ri
pening up thorouzlilv the new growth of
the young tree should be the aim of the
peach-grower. Where the soil is poor, lets
care is required in ripening in the new
ra»d. Bearing peach trees should be culti
vated. The soil at all times should be kept
loose. There is no danger of stimulating a
late growth, for the fruit consumes all the
late sap caused by cultivation.
To grow large peaches, and of unif orm
size, the tree must have either its bearing
branches shortened in or the fruit must be
thinned out. Shortening in is probably the
least expensive operation of the two'.
STRAWBERRY CULTURE.
Strawberries will grow in almost any lo
cality, but a steep hillside, where the soil
is apt to wash, is not the most suitable
place; nor do they succeed well near large
trees, at they draw the moisture out of the
ground to a great distance. The soil should
be rich, moist, but not wet, for while it re
quires moisture, it will not flourish in a wet
place. Where the soil is shallow, mulching
will prove beneficial The soil for straw
berries should be plowed deep, without
bringing up any poor subsoil, and the more
thoroughly it is pulverized the better. Well
rotted stable manure is about the best, and
it should be harrowed in after plowing. It
is iimportant to Lave the surface rich.
Wood ashes are excellent,and may lie sown
on the surface at any time. Amongconnner-
ctal fertilizers, perhaps bone dust, at the
rate of 300 (tounds to the acre, is the best.
Bone dust and wood ashes are as good as
anything a strawberry bed needs.
In setting out plants, it is a good plan to
put them in a pail with water enough to
cover the roots, taking out the plants as
needed. Set the plants as deep as they grew
before, being careful not to cover the crown.
The roots should be spread out and the
earth pressed firmly about them. After
setting out, the ground should be kept
stirred, as it keeps the plants in a growing
condition, and prevents the ground from
drying up. No weeds should be allowed to
grow among strawberries, to rob them of
nourishment andntoisture. No cultivation
should be given in the spring before the
fruit rijicns. After# crop, all runners, dead
or rusty leaves, should be removed, and the
space between the rows be thoroughly cul
tivated. Every farmer ought to raise a
good supply for the table, as he is without
excuse for depriving his family of this deli
cious fruit
SWEET SIXTEEN.
SO FAIR AND YET SO FRAIL.
n» Delicate Daty DerolMd Dpon C*pt»in Flynn
-The Lnly-Uke Faaengernnd Her Secret'
Somrr—Escorted to Prieen by Prony
-The Gey and Distant Loner.
Shot la t!a« Act.
Memphis, March 16.—Last night near
Seuatobia, Miss . Calvin Roberts, colored,
was shot by City Marshal Lane while plac
ing obstructions on the track of tbe Missis
sippi and Tennessee railroad. Within tbe
past three years several attempts have been
made to wreck trains at that point. Several
buckshot.struck Roberts, but hewill
cover.
Shot Tb rough the Breast.
Memphis. March 18.—Joe Castello, a young
Action is as necessary a watchword for
the farmer os for any other man in business.
Action, and what would it do with some of
the farms of Fulton county? Some of them
now present an undesirable appearance,
broken fences, leaning barns, gatcle^s fences,
broken {>eacti trees festooned with broken
plows, gullied hillsides, unditched bottoms,
aud a dwelling house with a leaning chim
ney, and wiudow-sash stuffed with old
clothes or hats. And what would action
make out of it? Order would be brought
out of it all, barren fields would be changed
to fertility, harmony would come out of
discord, cheerfulness, comfort and thrift
would take the place of despondency, pov
erty and shiftlessness. Work, active hope
ful work, will bring steady gains to the
farmer, and is the only sure basis of profit
and success. Fanning, dull and unprofita
ble, says one; away with such nonsense;
goto work with action; adopt intelligent
Ians; have a definite end in view, and you
ill find the farm routine a pastime and its
labor a joy.
Farmer, under your present management
your place is incapable of yielding the re
quisite supply for your family. Now, be
active, and bring the poor, exhausted soil
into condition to aflbru your family a sup
port, gnd something more. Be active, not
running to town to find«out how the Hill-
IUymond ca e stands, or who is to be nom
inated for tlie presidency, or to loaf on tlte
street comers. Subscribe to The Weekly
Constitution; it will tell you all the news.
There is no wisdom or profit in running of
ten from home; work, work there will bring
you more gold than running over the coun
try to hear news. With your work add ex-
—priments, write to and consult with Mr.
enderson, of the agricultural bureau, and
find out all the information desirable as to
discarding old notions and processes and
adopting new ones. It is his business, and
he will cheerfully aid you in the analysis
your soils, plants and feeding material of
ery kind. He can advise with you as to
ie adaptation of fertilizers and seeds to
soils, of feed of farm ahintais accord
ing to tlieir use, and the suiting of
the general plan of cultivation to
the market location and requirements.
Be a healthy, live, wide-awake farmer, be
active and pursue your cailhtg with honor
and success. Read sensible books and pa
pers on farming, experiment and learn from
the experiments of others. Quit grumbling,
bring your wits and muscle to bear on wise
planning and telling blows. Labor and
skill will make your fields fertile, will
bring out your buildings from tlieir sbabbi-
ness, make higber and safer your fences,
will pick up your gate from the ground and
bang it with hinges, and will remove lice,
scragginess and leanness front your cattle.
Go read what wise old Solomon wrote about
the relations of idleness to poverty and in
dustry to wealth. And the 1 take the wise
man's advice, you will find your soil en
riched, fine cro(>s will grow for you, your
stock will look fat, your place will look
thrifty, your family will improve, and your
home will become the abode of culture,
health and plenty.
8ECURK GOOD SEED.
tr Georgia farmers ever test their
seed before planting them? It is a good plan
to test the vitality of seed before commit
ting them to the ground, as it may save
much labor. Tbe heaviest seed are always
the best. If you bay your seed, weigh* a
small quantity from different places, and
buy tbe heaviest. This does not test the
germinating properties, but if the heaviest
germinates well, then it certainly is the
best.
successful farmer, of Thoniasville,
talked with the editor of tbe Enterprise,
and i 1 is experience was that good seed was
worth more to a farmer than commercial
manure or any other kind of fertilizer.
That if the seed was defective, a good yield
could not be obtained.
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
—All the fancy varieties of fruit are more
apt to sport than the inferior or natural
varieties.
When there is great abundance
ebards, those who destroy one half of tlieir
young fruit to increase the size of the rest,
are generally tbe ones to make a paying
crop.
—If ground is made too rich when voting
trees are first planted, there is apt to\>c too
rapid growth, and the wood does not well
rq»en in the fall, thus inviting disease and
insects.
—Biles of trash left in the garden are cer
tain to be made harbors for nests of cut
worms, and should therefore be removed
and burned at this season. Clean culture
is the best remedy for cut worms in the
spring.
—Blight will not trouble pear trees,
where the rough bark is si-raped off and the
trunks are painted with linseed oil as high
up as can be reached.
—To produce strawberries of extra size,
heat, water and manure in almost unlirni
ted quantities are necessary.
—A sftoonful of coarse, powdered saltpetre
to a pail of water, is a good remedy for
About noon Wednesday,# dispatch was re
ceived at the police headquarters in this
city from T. M. Buckley, of Augusta, au
thorizing the arrest of his daughter, Miaa.
Eliza Buckley, who had left Augusta for
Atlanta by the morning passenger train of
the Georgia railroad. The telegram also
contained a request that Miss Buckley be
held in custody until the arrival of her
father, who would come to Atlanta by the
next train. The dispatch was given to
tMptain Hynn of the force, who was in
structed to look into the matter and make
thearrest in compliance with the request.
When the passenger train of the Georgia
railroad readied Atlanta at 5 o’clock in Ute
afternoon. Captain Flynn was at the depot
to cany out the instructions contained in
the dispatch.
The young lady for whom the officer was
on the lookout was the last passenger to
come out of the car. She was a shapely
brnnette,of rather prepossessing appearance,
and bore an expression of refinement upon
k® r taco. Captain Flynn at once approach
ed the young lady and made known to her
Ms instructions. She expressed herself both
surprised and disappointed at the turn that
matters had taken, and stated to the officer
that she would not walk through the streets
with him, as it would attract too much at
tention. Conductor Jim Johnson, who came
up with the train, volunteered to walk with
her and allow the officer to lead the way.
This suggestion was* accepted by the
.. 1,10 party went to the
Air-Line house. Mr. Hightower, the
proprietor, provided Miss Buckley
with a room in which she was to remain
until the arrival of her father, who was ex-
l>ected in the merning.
During the course of a conversation
which she had with an officer. Miss Buck-
ley stated that"she was dissatisfied with her
home in Augusta, and that she had left for
l 7u P^P 080 of 8°' n K to SL Louis. From
other persons who are in a position to
know, we learn that some time since Miss
Buckley committed an error of a delicate
character and an attempt was raad^ by her
relatives to force a young man by the name
of Roberts, son of a banker,
restdtng in Augusta, to marry
her, he having been the cause of her un
wise step. Roberts refused to comply with
the request and a brother of the young
lady, armed witti a shot-gun, made an at
tempt to find hint.. Roberts heard of tho
danger he was in of having his brains blown
out, and left Augusta in a hurry, it is
thought going west. A few days since
Miss Buckley. it is said. re
ceived a letter from Roberts
asking her to come to him at once, stating
where she could find him. The letter con
tained a sufficiency to purchase a ticket.
Miss Buckley as soon as she received *1he
letter packed up her trunk and left for St.
Louis where it is thouglit that young
Roberts is to be found. Wednesday nighta
dispatch was received at the police headquar
ters from J. T. Buckley, a brother of the
young lady, stating that his father had left
for Atiauta^aud wouldget here in the mottl
ing. An effort will no doubt be made by
the father to get his daqghter to reconsider
the step she has taken and go back to Au
gusta with him. From what we can learn
all parties concerned are well connected iti
Augusta and the affair is greatly to lie re
gretted. Miss Buckley is said to be about
sixteen years of age and in appearance docs
not look to be more than that.
When Mr. Buckley reached Atlanta
Thursday morning he visited tlie Air-Line
where he found hia daughter in her room.
He used every argument to persuade her to
return home, without success. Miss Buck-
ley stated that she had left home with tho
full intention of going to St Louis and that
she was going there and no where else.
Finding that argument would avail noth
ing Mr. Buckley at last gave up in despair
and allowed Ills daughter to leave Atlanta
yesterday afternoon by tbe passenger train
of the Western and Atlantic railroad. She
goes, we believe, to St, Louis where it is
said she has a married sisier residing. It
is also stated that young Roberts is located
in St. Louis awaiting her anivaU
Mr. Buckley having dom all that a lov
ing and devoted father couiddi returned
to his home iu Augusta Thun Jay after
noon.
ALL ABOUT WOMEN.
. . , .. ■, , from Bowling Green, Ky., broke into
and drop the Nashville and Chattanooga is the houae of William Sbuttleworth. a pain-
the point of the theory now being stated, ter residing in Inring block, at 2 o’clock
By means of the control of the Nashville I this morning, and was shot by Sbuttleworth
and Chattanooga, the Loom die and Nash- 1 through the breast. He will probably d
wood and coal ashes, lime, stable manure,
etc. If tbe soil is sandy or too light, give
it body with leaf mould, muck, etc. When
roses are planted in the spring, if the soil Is
ordinarily rich, it will be better not to dig
in much manure about the roots, but rather
apply it as a surface dressing. Cow manure
is perhaps the best fertilizer for roses. In
cultivating roses, faded flowers should al
ways be removed; this checks tbe tendency
to produce seeds and encourages new
growth and fresh bloom. Climbing roses
should be pruned in the spring before
growth lias commenced. Take out all dead
wood, and cut back as mnch as necessary to
keep tbe plant in good shape and within
tbe limits desired.
Geraniums are easy cultivated and pre
sent such a great variety of colors. Some
double varieties are very perfectly formed,
resembling tbe ruse; others have elegant
foliage, all shades of greeu, gold, red and
bronze, while still others are sweet scented,
with fine cut leaves. Geraniums are readily
rooted in sand. Cuttings from the lower
Part of the plant root the soonest, while
those from the upper branches bloom the
earliest. Light porous soil with one part
sand, kept to a certain degree of moisture—
invigorates all plants, and is especially
good for roses.
—We have heard that sprinkling finely
ground black pepper ujton the plants, when
wet with dew, is a sure cure for the cabbage
worm.
—To tell when fruit buds arc killed by
frost, select tbe buds that are roundest at
the point, aud split them open from point
to base with a sharp knife. If the germ in
the center is black or brown, the fruit
dead: if light green, it is alive. Select from
different parts of the tree, both exposed a^id
protected.
DAIRY AND STOCK NOTES.
—When cheese ha* once been cot...
should be kept in a tight tin box to prevent
its drying out and becoming bard and
tough*
—From 7.0U0 to 8,(XX» pounds of oleo
margarine are made at Boston every day
—Professor Dana says a cow will make __
tons of manure a year. This includes both
solid and liquid, and is worth from $1 to $3
a ton.
—Highly bred animals are ret ely as even
ly and perfectly develojted as natives. In
well bred cows can often be found defective
teats, crumpled boms, but ofeenest a want
of vigorous procieative organs.
Murders, Abortions, Rapes and Defalt
cation*.
Washington, Marcli 18.—Another horri
ble tragedy was brought lo light to-day by
the discovery of John and Jane Riley, mail
and wife, dead in the husband’s apartment
over a stable in the rear of No. 1311K street
northwest, tbe residence of Mr. Ben Holla-
day. the prominent mail contractor. Rilev
and his wife were respectable white people,
and owned a little propcrij' in another sec
tion of the city, where the woman resided.
Her husband, who had charge of Mr. Hol-
laday’s stable, generally slept in an upper
room of that building at night Both hut-
band and wife have always appeared on the
best of terms, and the latter visited Riley
regularly, and when last seen alive
was when she called at tlie stable and went
out with him for a walk last night. This
morning John Muir, the hostler, not find
ing Riley al>out the stable at t he usual hour
for beginning work, went up tu his room to
wake him. Though, he knocked and called,
he received no response, and as the door
was locked on the inside, Muir became
alarmed, and informed Mr. Holladay.
Shortly thereafter the door was forced open,
and a startling spectacle was presented.
The body of John Riley was found on his
bed, stretched at full length, and the body
of his wife on the floor beside the bed. both
dead. Riley wa3 clothed only in his draw
ers and undershirt; his wife hail all her
clothing, except her shoes aud bonnet.
There were no signs of violence, no blood,
nor any other evidence ot a struggle, or that
they hail committed suicide by poison,
as no nhials or bottle showing
evidence 01 having contained poison were
found in the room. The police anil coro
ner made an investigation, but could reach
no conclusion. A post mortem held later
by Drs. Hartigan l McArdie and others in
the afternoon revealed indications in the
stomachs of the man and wife of an irrita
ting poison, the nature of which cannot be
stated until a chemical analysis is made.
No one can say whether they were poisened
by accident or design, and the affair Is
wrapped in mystery. One theory is suicide;
that they took poison while out walking
last niglit, and returned to die together.
Another, that they were poisoned by some
secret enemy upon whom they called; a id
a third is, that they drank poisonous
liquorof some nature, not knowiug its
danger.
Boston, March 18.—Ilomer Wellington
lately withdrawn from the firm of Uttey <fc
Boynton, commission merchants, has tern
arrested at the instance of his father-in-law
on charges of being a defaulter and forger.
Wellington’s family has been seriously sick
at times, tlie disease being called gastric fe
ver. An infant son and his wife recently be
came ill. She secured some porridge which
her husband prepared,end an analysis show
ed arsenic sufficient to kill ten persons. In
the possession of Wellington when arrested
arsenic was found. He is said to have made
a confession. The police sav that h:s in,
fatuation for another woman was the cause
of his crime.
Cincinnati, March 18.—Watkins, Mrs.
Oates’s husband (No. 3), was the occasion of
considerable excitement in the Enquirer
editorial room. Offended at some humor
ous paragraph connecting his name with
that of one of his predecessors, Tracy Titus,
he raided the office, with the avowed deter
mination to make a general cleaning up.
Sam Jack accompanied and was to assist
him. They tackled McCormick, one of the
handiest men in the profession with his
fists. For about five minutes there was a
lively set-to. ending in Watkins aud Jack
being passed down the stain gieat’y de
moralized and somewhat disfigured.
St. Louis, March 18.—Conrad Hilman,
who lives at the corner of Broadway and
Wright streets, in this city, while in a fit of
deliriem tremens last night attacked bis
family with a large knife, stabbed liis wife
to the heart, killed the babe in her arms,
stabbed bis brother’s eon. who, however.
ped death by running, and finally stab
bing his brother, who attempted to seize
him, made his escape. H«
arrested
this evening on the outskirts of the city. .
still raving of demons who he said were
pursuing him.
Nashville, March 18.—Deputy Coroner
It. K. Adams held an inquest late Tuesday
afternoon upon the remains of a new born
colored infant, found in an outhouse on
South College street, near Demonbreu n. A
verdict of death from strangulation was re
turned by the jury. Sis Starnes confessed
that she was seized wilh the pains of labor
while in tbe building, gave birth to the
child, and left it there.
PontiAc, March 18.—Johannes DeBoer
was hanged here to-day. His crime was
peculiarly atrocious—the murder of Miss
Ella Martin, a girl of 17, whom he first at
tempted to outrage as she was going
from church, and failing in that, kicked
and beat her so severely that she .died the
next day. The body hung seventeen min
utes.
