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Newspaper Page TextWETIEV1U.BGA. ■ |UUing*» W • | rtnilrciih’.nol) sdlfc m <$► lOTiHTJTJ KaSHTHM 3HT fcHaiKH'fl JBHh CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. APRIL 20, 1880. VOL. XII., NO; 45 THE QUINTUPLE KNOT THAT RINDS THE GBORCIA ROADS. GtxenU £. P. Alexander, of th« Geema Road. Git** HU Utdemaxdiag of tfce Be cent Railroad 8yndi:*t*-Tbs Eoad from Chtttuoo*a t) Rob*. We Heard on Tuesday a rumor to the filff: that Mr. Mom* Taylor, of New York, ha 1 purchased the Maooii and Brunswick r .ad. paving S350.000 advance on the price |►aid by R. I*. Wilson A Co. We could find no verification of this rrt- mur, but hearing it from twoor threeditp:f- riti sources, deem it of sufficient mu-red io five it Io the public It must lie taken just im we give it. depending for it* verification only on the fact that there are many reasons why it might be k*. Tltere were signs veatenlay of great activ ity iiytfce stock of in'* Central road, and our •dVice# from 8*«rannah show that it was in active demand there at |’ricca varying from (tQtoOH. The rsuseof the rise, is said to mi with the ratification of the late alliance contract I.y the IxmUville and Nashville mad—-or.*! heavy (illrchaees made by out- bid'! iiariir* in the ilock. It wav stated ime- , lively that Mr. Victor Newcomb laid bought 1,U*» shares for his own account, and i hat the tramfer must be made on the hooks in Savannah to-day. Other heavy Adders were received from outside point*, notably New York and Louisville, and it is raid th* 1 nn Atlanta gentleman has been in H%vaiin*h for several daye qiinwhe- bwyivig to fill these orders—but lias been able to get only a few shares. With the action of the Central hoard to day, the lad of the contracting parties to I In- new alliance will have acted, and the com hi nation so often tried in vain will he fixed at last! Augusta Chronicle. Get era! E. V. Alexander, president of the Georgia railroad, ass interviewed by a rep resentative of the Chmnfclein reference to the altianrr entered into by the Lmisville mid Nashville, Western and Atlantic.Geor gia, Central, and .South Carolina railroads. General Alexander cheerfully gave the in formation asked for. He said that the aili a nee meant that the five roads would work together in harmony fur their mutual bene fit. It would largely increase the freight bminws of all of them, and make tfie ■lockholder* rich. The parti*—to the alli- ar.ee will have a jiintoffice in New York for the IraiiKtirtion of ull business coot.cried with the carrying of freight between that city ami the set. Six steamer* a week will leave New York—three for Charleston and tfirre for Sa.'annnh. Two of these will leave every Saturday; one for each of the southern |tons nnimd. The through line of the alliance, from (’aim to New York, will he the abort cat in pro rating distance of any other, and it will necessarily do an imim roe hiisiiiess. The mink lines from the wosl to flic east have i o\v fir more than they can «h». and tills alliance, therefore, j while greatly increasing its business by f»;.s m of working together, will not inter - lerewith anv o’h*r. The I’rie railroad Inis ip.adrnple tracks, and 'cannot with Il;e>e carry «U the freight offered. II north ern road 4 , Ismded to the amount of eighty and a hundred thousand dollars n mile, can make money, much mote so s’wuild the southern roads, none of which are bomb d toagreiter extent than fifteen or twenty thousand dol lars a mile. I/misvitlc, said the general. Is row a greater tobacco market than Rich mond. and the alliance will tran*|»ort tobac co by the car load from l/miaiille to New York. Tbearni’igement between the roads will insure prosperity to all of them. The west,said the general, is yet but a baby, and ns it crown in |n*wer and iui|»ortanee It will reunlro greater tiai.sportutloii facilities. The Uhrorocle repmentative here asked if this was the case would not the Georgia and other roads have to buiid double truck*. General Alexander said it was his belief 1 that double tracks would have to lie built in less than fen years, in re*poii*e to a question about the Georgia Western tie said tb.it he was satisfied that the road would V*ot he built unless the bosinem between illantvga and Atlanta became too great r one road to. maiOura ,.* .« . _ * |W nrpceaentaHTf then eafceiT Oet.rral Alexander if anew line to the west \in Knoxville would interfere with the al liance. General Alexander said not a* all. tCincinnati was to.» far t*» the east for any Hue from that point to carry on a freight busiueas led ween it and northern rims, tiimS* Cincinnati was much nearer those towns by way of mads now in operation. He was not at all jealous of such road. Still he did r.ot believe the Cin cinnati Southern would make any c »nnec- lion with Knoxville. Cincinnati had al ready apent about na much money as it could f pare on railroad*. 1 *•*ides, the ob Ktttdes to t»e overcome in reaching Rabun Gao, fmm Knoxville, were enornn had been mb) by an engineer that it would cost a half million dollars to reduce the curves from thirteen to eleven degrees fora S distance only. The average curves on corgia railroad wore only three de- v Gen. Alexander said the alliance did not look to any export business t.v.m any of the management of the Loifhrville and Naahviile carrying all of it via Montgomery. In or der not to be despoiled of this business the J Chicago, 8t. Louts and New * Orleans propose to make common cause with theCir cinnati I Southern—the former to build a line from J Jackson, Tennessee, to Naahviile. and the I Cincinnati Southern to build a line from i Knoxville to Nashville. Such a line would enable the Chicago. St. Louis and New Or leans to maintain~t.be business enjoyed here tofore, and would make it, as well as the Cincinnati Southern, entirely independent of the Louisville and Nashville combina- PARTY POINTS. MARKING THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE. An Effort to Give Blaise the Second Place is Order to Control the Senate, and to Bale* gnu Bill Wheeler to the Lower Home—Senator Grover's Illness. The officers of the Chicago St. Loui* and New Orleans and the Cincinnati Southern are engaged in considering the project, and t be prospects are that the extension* will be | reuuti: made. If it is done it trill be a serious blow j Senatu to tbe Louisville end Nashville c lion, and Chicago and Cincinnati wi good reason to rejoice. THE DAY'S SPORTS. The Madison Square ( onlett -Tlir- Re ward of I he (ontnuut*. fin. Hart was horn at Port au Prim e, Hayti, and Peg rani li st saw the light at Petersburg, Virginia. I»*bler is not an Irishman, a# has been supposed, but is of German pa rentage. Howard was hern in Manchester, England, and Allen is al.*o a Briton, hail ing from Carlisle. Kb rone i* a Prussian, and Williamsi.*a North Carolinian by birth, ilanwaker ism New York Inker. Dobler is twenty-one years of age, and was a cattle boy in the west. All of these men, with the eole exception of Han waker. may he looked in any race, and Tliwell^ tlie b?therto in vincible hero of tbe tan bark, will have a more difficult task than ever lie undertook the next time he visits America. Unless there is more speed and endurance in his steady legs than he has ever shown Indore in a race, the A«tley belt is likely to he brought back and to remain on this side of the Atlantic. RECOlrDN EXCEEDIN' Hart. 1KH0 M3 Pegram, lssi) r»r. Ilovv.ir i, jw:» l»ohler, I SHI ....VU Allen, fiso Krolmc, JsNO | Murphy, !H7'J.. Hart, 1*7t> | K)ohn«*. Is?.*... I I nr nun. !*«*.)... I Fit/ '«Ml(t. IV. I IIlIKtlf-S. v Williams, tsT’J .V»J' Howard, 1 Vaughn, 1s7s... m ^.VRi Rowell, 1*7'. i «T» Weston, 1*09 Vfir'i j Merritt, 18? Co key, 187s AZIJi | Jlnuel, 1870 oOU^ Ilazael can scarcely be numbered among the 500-iuile men, as the track on which the fifth contest for the As*ley belt took place was discovered to be short. Rowell and Merritt must be regarded, also, as having made their highest records, as above given, on the rame short track. It will he seen that seven men made . r *00 miles in the Rose belt contest, the saute number as those who reached the same figure in the present race. The result of this contest will be that the limit of -IV» miles which ?s at present prescribed to walkers in order to share in the gate money will have to be extended in future tournaments to non miles, and this figure will he regarded ai the lowest record entitling a man to enter into competition for a belt race. THK nr.WARDS or tub iostestasts. The receipts of the walking match which Waohisgtmt, April 13.—An interesting subject is whether .■smatorBlaine will or will r.ot accept the second place oo the repub lican ticket. Most republicans say he will not,but it is not so certain. There are several why it may be for the interest of Blaine to ruu for vice-president.. In nbina- j me nrat place his terui as senator expires in 1 have | 1&43, and lie knows very well that Maine is ; k doubtful state,and it is by no means a sure I thing that any republican can be sent to the senate in 1883. In the next place be doubtless already realizes the fact,which certainly is a fact. *hat the senate is no ‘place for him to iuak»t»olitical capital for himself. His forte is as a presiding officer, and a controlling power m the party management, and as a political manager! and he is not fitted to debate legal questions. Most of tbe debates in the n> mite arc legal, and he is not able to cope with his colleagues in these debates. As a senator he must remain in his present position, which is not iu the front rank of renators; but if the senate should be a tie after 1881, Senator Blaine as vice-president would he in a {tosiliou not only to exhibit his qualities as a presiding;officer, but also to again, control and dictate- tba policy of bra party, for every political question which came Itefore the senate would deficml on his vote, and he would be constantly brought before the people, and would be anything but a nonentity, which vice presidents usually are. Add to this that lie would bo in a position to do more with the social weajtons which he knows so well how to use than he now is, and that hi* salary as vice-president for four years would he .sii.UUU more than his salary as TenaUjr for iwo years, and it may easily be seen that there a-e >;** d and sufficient 'rea sons why Senator Blaine may decide to ac- cepta nomination as vice-president. There is tome talk iu renublican circles here about the probability of Vice-Presi dent Wheeler making an effort to secure a seat in lue lower branch of congress next fall. There is said to be a movement on f<>ot to iix his nomination in his old district in New York. The motive of the republi can leaders who are at the bottom of the movement is to m ike Wheeler speaker of » MILES. ..-•aw ('hath dosed Saturday night were $28,<iS3, ordmg to the agreement half the atnouni goes to the managers and the other half will be divided among the contestants Hart will receive $7,17.*. IVgrain $.1687, Howard $1.7113. IVjbler $8P»i, Allen $4i8 Krohne $221. Williams $112, and Han waker $.»•» Hart also receives sweep-takes $J»,00o, and $l,00ii ottered for beating Brown’ record. »*m the Herald * Report of the Walk lug-Match. If the walk was straightaway, say from Buffalo to New York, Hart would have reached this city before Jayl*ee ha I passed Syracuse. On the seventeenth hour of the miles behind Hart, and n gaining nstep. Mr. Jaybee, whose name as thus given was intended by him to l»e J. B , Iiis initials, is trained by his wife. She does more—she drives him on to the track with an electric battery. Jaybee, when he entered, worn long hair and a heard of pa triarchal length to match. Most of his hair Is cut off. Of trim figure and a repi: t house in case the republicans ob tain the control. They realize the fact that alter Garfield goes to the senate they will have no good speakership material left in the house; hence their desire to elect Wheeler next fall in order to make him speaker in the event of their party return ing to power in the lower branch. •SenatorGrover, of Oregon, is dangerously sick at Wilmington, Delaware. It is re- jHirtcd that he has suffered a shock of paralysis. The news of his serious illness lias excited conriJerable apprehension iu democratic circles here lie-cause of the fact that the Oregon legislature is republican, and would doubtless elect a republican, to fill bis term, which d.ies not expire until 18j<; and because the loss of another demo cratic senator would endanger the deiuo- cra ic supremacy in the senate after March 4. 1881. The senate now stands 4.'» demo crats and thirty-two republicans, counting David D.tvisas a democrat. In 1881, the terms of twenty five senators expire—four teen democratic senators go out and eleven republican senatois. Nine of the de cratic vacancies will doubtless be filled with democrats, to-wit: iliose elected or to be dected bv Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. In Ohio a republican has already been elected, and Connecticut. New York, New Jersey and Pennsy wul probably send republicans in me place of their four democrats now representing those states. In oilier words, the democrats are almost sure to lose live senators, and they will gain one in Mississippi, where a democrat is already elected to succeed Bruce. Conceding the Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and __ Denneyivania vacancies to the republicans, tation obtained :u fifty-two years of active 4j|& will stand iu 1881. thirty-nine l.#v, J»i-, a L,. -W»r4> WiMuecrats and lawyer, i am inclined to think that some such place as a seat on the supreme bench or attorney-general would ke much more to his liking than to be governor. And, besides. I think it would be quite distaste/ ful to him to antagonize Governor Colquitt, to whom he has been an untiring friend. But should events so conspire as to cause the nomination of the judge. I feel satisfied he would enter the canvass without hostili ty to Governor Colquitt or any one of the distinguished names mentioned in this con. ecrion. From the best information I able to obtain, thera is no objection to Governor Colquitt or bis administration in this section, rave what is incidental to him. or any other that is caused in by the muttering* of the outs. It is sad to think liow fast this model form of government of ours is becoming one of spoils. Tbe best judicial or executive officer is often abused like a pick-pocket. It would really seem to American citizens that there is no place in the public service where true merit is rewarded. Gove. Colquitt, is able, moral and conscienti* and has had during his term‘of service any thing bat a pleasant s-journ. and bei'g most fcrutiniz'iigly investigated, and come out of all this fuss anil {embers w out the smell of corruption on his gar me: Would it not be in the people of Oeoi a proud privilege to offer a reward of nitwit to a true good man and make him bis own successor? Cji.vttoooaI GEORGIA'S CREDIT. A QOLD FISH! OR TONGUE OF THE GOLDEN CALF. m ‘be Regies, cf the Argonauts — A Nugget c? tbe Yellow Stuff Worth $300 *A Rich Fiad in a Vegetable Garden — A Story From White County. section is the want of capital and enterprise, I There has bqpn only one attempt at testing the vyins with machinery and this came, to i grief through the death of Professor Brad-] ALL ley, tiie gentlemen in charge. The wealth is ARREST OF A JOLLY MURD1 now bied up in a half-dozen lawsuits. If I *• 1-r*? •»*. v--v y c* The Gcorgli* Ballronil. AugimaChiouicle. - The bi-monthlv meeting of thebo.ml of director* of the Georgia rai I road and bank ing company was held yesterday in this city. A full board wa* present, with the exception of Mr. M, I*. Stovall, who is at the north. Among other tilings submitted was i he statement of huriness, earnings and bonded condition of the company for the fiscal year ending March ;'.lst last*. From Mr, George I*. Butler, cashier of the Georgia Railroad hank, we have pmeured the fol lowing figures. which are of interest: NUT l!U‘BK\SX IS KAUSI.\«;s. Not Irtridiip- His wife thought so/ too. She thought more, and this is her story: •* For twenty- live years that man has been coming home at night, sometimes pretty laio, and telling me how far he walked, how many wrongs of insulted women lie has redressed, how many men he had vanquished in single combat, until I got sick and tired of his stories. 1 made up my mind when he talked about this walk that lie should walk anyway. Now he has got to go. I’ll have lmn give testimony as to his athletic qualities.'’ It furnishes no eml of amusement among the trainers to see Jaybee ;urned out of his tent. His wife lets him sleep a little while, and then bids him to get to work. He refuses. She gets the electric battery and gives him such a -hock that he is knocked clear out of bed and driven by the same power on the track. The scene is of almost daily occurrence. He left the track, however, before he had completed 460miles, a used up man. AJt 15 cm EXT. Mr. William 11. Vanderbilt on Thursday afternoon stood at I lie Madison end of the track while Hart was passing; taking a $-100 bill from his |»ocket. Mr. Vanderbilt handed it to Hart, who, utterly surprised, thanked him and hurried on. * THE KING OF SIAM >crats «mnJ ♦JUimvaevrn republicans— ..Ting Davis os a democrat; but if Sena tor Grover should die and a republican be sent to till his place, the senate would stand thirty-eight democrats and thirty-eight republicans, still counting Davis as a dem ocrat, and counting Indiana as a suie democratic state. From this it may be seen how precarious a hold the demo crats have up in the United States senate, and how much anxiety is felt by the dem ocratic leaders over the coining senatorial elections.' The democrats have some hopes of returning a democrat from New Jersey and some of getting a democratic senalor in Maine,and it is quite among the possibili ties that the democratic Mipremacy in the senate may depend upon the election of a democrat in Maine. SWEET PAl AVER. Redemption or Onlnlaniltni; Hondo to the Amount of $230,009.. % State of Georgia, Treasury* Department, Atlanta, Ga., April 12, 1S80.—Ilia Excel lency Alfred II. Colquitt, Governor, etc. Dear Sir: I desire to call your attention to the fact that there is now in the treasury at least $250,000 beyond what is necessary to pay the principal and interest of the bonds of the state maturing during the current year. This large sum of money will not be required for any public purpose during the present year. As this fund ims been set apart for any “pur pose not required for Imme diate use” it cannot be deiK.-sited under the provisions of the 10th section of the act of 1S7C, so as to be produc tive to the stale. Even if it could, the rate of interest which any solvent bank would pay, would be so small since the pas sage of the usury law, as to make it to the advantage of the state to ascertain if some disposition could not be made thereof that would be more remunerative. I am clearly of the opinion that this huge sum can he used under section 958 of the code to great advantage. All the 4 per cent bonds now outstandii g can at once be redeemed at par; and, perhaps, some bearing a larger rate of interest than that. The prompt re demption of the -I per cents will save the state $6,000 per annum until their maturity, five years hence, thus saving to the slate thirty thousand dollars. 1 therefore, respectfully request that you I*ass the proper order authorizing the* re demption of the 1 per cent bonds, and such other bond.# of the state as may he taken up at par, as prescribed by section 95S of the code. Very respectfully, J. \V. Renfp. ie. Treasurer. Executive Department. State of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga , April 14, 1880.—Whereas, It is reported to me by the state treasurer that there is now iu the treasury at least two Hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than will be required to inv the- principal and interest of the handed debt of the state becoming due during the current year, and all annual charges against the treasury; and. Whereas. Said sum can be advantageously applied to the redemption of the outstand ing four i*er cent bonds of the state, and. perhaps, of bonds bearing a higher rate of interest; and believing it to be for the heat interest of the state that such disposition should be made of the surplus in the treas ury. it is ORDERED, That the treasurer be and he hereby authorized to redeem to the ex tent of said sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars the outstanding four per cent bonds and such other valid bonds of the state, not due, as can be redeemed at l»ar. Alfred H. Colquitt. By the Governor. Governor. J. W. W.%nr.EX, Sec. Ex. Department. Notice to IIonillioHIers. Stcte of Georgia, Treasury Department, Atlanta, ua., Apnl.14, isso.—Persons hold ing four percent, or other bends of the state of Georgia, not due, can have them rtdeemed at par on presentation a r the treasury, or at the National Park bank, New York, to the amount ol $259,000. J. W. Resfroe, Treasurer. A GRAVE SENSATION I doubt if there is one Georgian in ten thousand who ka? any adequate idea of the resources of our gold field#! Once in awhile some gentleman with the dust of travel on his garments and the light of speculation in his eye, turns up in the cities and fishi/g from h s capacious pocket a brown paper parcel exhibits a yellow grain or two Hcked Pom a gold mine—“that is for sal«\” By such desultory outputs only, is our average Georgian reminded that otir kills are reamed and our valleys enriched with the precious metal that outweighs all else earthly. There is no subject that engages my pen ,60 readily as Georgia—and in no pha>e of liijs subject, so varied and abundant, have I found so much that is interesting as in occasional surveys of the gold-fields. I found fiiuch lo astonish me in their yield and more in their promise before the state survey wals ever ordered, anu when the only nmiers were natives that appeared, like rogs after a shower, and swarming on the bill-sides, crashed the dirt in pans, as the mallet branchy turned it up. Now, almost everv hili-side trjibe gold region|s gashed^. stam;*-nVnis crtisti the ore in every neigh borhood; and the total yield of bullion, as set by Dr. Little in his official reports of last year, is over ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER ANNUM. have never struck anything quite so re- maikabie, however, as an exhibition made yesterday and the story that supple mented it. Colonel Nicholls, of Nacooehee •alley, known all over Georgia as a gentle man of the very highest character, large fortune and intelligence, entered The Cok- «TiTrrioN office and stated that he had come to make his word good. It appears that a few days since Colonel Xicliolls wiote a letter for The Constitution, in which he noted the discovery of a very rich placer mine in White county near iiis resilience. As is usual when anything out of ordi nary is printed, there were souie I ersons who doubed the truth of the story, and Colonel Nicholls having to come to Atlanta on business, brought ith him verification of what he had writ ten. “I premife what I have to say,” he re marked, “with the statement that the mine from which these specimens are taken is not for sale. Its owners are wild over it, and I doubt if it could be bought for as much gold as would c iver every foot of its sui face. ' simply show the specimens that our peo* e lc may have some idea of the riches that jure buried in the soil of our old state.” it could only be released and put to work, X . .j;,: feel wire that the results would equal or Sale* of Corn in Alpany-A Dead Baby in surpass the best work done in anv of the * 1 * * " / other communities. C. D. Little has esti mate! that a yield of ten millions per annum might be taken from the Georgia ; mines for twenty years without exhausting •nlhs Ni t csmin ending in rtepurtmeiit, . ^ „ ... . _ _ SWUM 1 Net Increase S u,\ii: noNiuci* incur. Howled debt of the company xhow* rwliM'Uou wiilun 12 months, •mn *s follows: rods out'Undtng •’.u tiu« Rnsrunns IfcMUl* isMMU ' rents) f 272000 no . 3,30t,V» C» . H4990OO *\:5f.o.0K> 00 To Join liar Great Grant Hippodrome In Jnly. New York, April 10.—A special from Fans gives on the authority of a corres- {mndent at Bangkok. Siam, itinerary of the proposed journey of the king of Siam. The king leaves April 23d on a Siamese man-of-war for Singapore, thence by a ls»at of the messageues maritime* to Marseille, thence to Berlin where he will arrive about June 5th, and be received by the German emperor. From Berlin he will go to Brussels and Txtndon. On July 1st be will embark at Southampton on the Ameri can man-of-war for America. He will be accompanied by a splendid retinue, among whom will be several royal iMinces, ministers of war and foreign'af fairs ar.d a dnzxn prominent noblemen. He will remain three weeks in America, going south as f«r a< Richmond and west a# (ar as Chicago. He will visit Lisbon late in Angust, staying at Rome in October, and returning to Siam in December. His visit to America is the result of an earnest invitation extended by Grant. THE EASTERN HORROR. In Whirl* Snperstlf ion Slay Play a Part. Decatur. Ala., April 14—A graveyard sensation has been on the tapis for several days and is much talked of among the perstilions and the^ colored |>eop! i i*'r 4JS.0 i oo Bonds outstanding April 1. issnt ^42,0X2.600 oo arum s show i kg Ra.aa*'*' profit and kaw acconni, April 1, - $ Ml,SOS 76 ltaUruv | rode and loss account, April L 14'0 - 1,007,744 « Inonwc in pnofli and hues or *u:pnu ihi* year— 175.938 26 the s (lowing is considered a very line one, and the imTtase in net earnings could have been greater, but being assumt that the bal ance sheet in Ikfembcr was to the credit of the road. General Alexander thought best to continue his purchase of new steel rails, hxAUiH»tives,aml 1 oevuillnue other improve- t ments which he had projected Concerning I be alliance between me Georgia Central and UmisvilV and Nashville nr.imads for the live years* eontract, nothing definite has ; been made public, but sufficient assurances are given that the authority given the pres- . idem by the hoard at a former meeting was followed up by a satisfactory acceptance of •he terms of agreement The meeting was * Iwrroontons and the result pleasing. LsiW tVr.ceqtiug the next dividend, to be de dared in June, there are reason? to believe •bat a three ami a half semi-annual divi dend will be declared, while at least two prominent members of the board favor a tour per cent dividend. The utmost confidence, continue*! and •leadfast, is exprvsMsl by the board t«n wards its president, Gen. Alexander With out crippling tbe efficiency of the road, be has bnmgiit its running expenses down to •he most *eononncal scale; wiiho it draw ing too heavily upon fheearninps he is car rying out a nuwt cmuplete svstem of im provement*. and without entering into sen sational combi nation* or striving for stu pendous alliances, he has compelled south ern connections ami western lines to ac knowledge the importance of 1ns road: he has harmonised and consolidated railroad m Georgia, and in adjusting differ- rival officials, has proven The Duke of America Expresses Ills Feelings in 3Icmplii». Memphis, April 13 —General Grant and party arrivetl this morning at 9 o’clock bv the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad. They were met at the depot by a delegation of the prominent citizens, headed by Dr. D. T. Porter, president of the taxing district. The latter, in a brief speech, welcomed General Grant in the name of all the citi zens of Memphis, without distinction of race, nationality or party, as one of the greatest military chieftains of any age or c tuntry; as twice chosen chief executive of the republic, and as a highly distinguished private citizen, “and may wenot,” he said, “through you, sir. thank the people of the United States for the princely charity that flowed in upon us from every quarter through three epidemics in such unabated measure as to mitigate, as much as might l*e, the terrors of that frightful pestilence which devastated our fair city and !illc*d our hearts with sorrow.” General Grant re sponded in a few appropriate words. At half past ten, tfie procession consisting of military companies, fire department and various societies with bands of music escort ed General Grant to the court-house square, where Colonel Josiah Patterson delivered the welcome address, eulogizing the general as a generous soldier, who in accepting the surrender of the confederate army had paused midway between victory and oppression and inaugurated the policy ot magnanimity and justice which exacted nothing front the vanquished but obedience to tbe laws of the common country. Gen eral Grant res;>on<ied as follows; “l can say to n»y friends in the south that there has never been a day when I was not as anxious for their prosperity as they themselves I see evidences of’a lietter feeling between the citizens of the different sections of our country, which I hope will continue to grow. I thank you, Mr. Chair- d citizens of Meninms, for this re r hardly decreasing the supply. ubered that t It must be remetu b this “find” more meiriHfcra, and since the lah? reorgatfl zation by Brother Oliver, G. W. H. chief of Gxrgia, they have had quite a revival. •' Albany. April 13—This section was vis ited by another heavy frost this morning, and much injury it is feared, will result to the young com and cotton. Com is looking yellow and sickly. It is rumored that the Southwestern Georgia fair association have about concluded a contract for tbe , renting out of the fair grounds here and privileges for the exposition in May, for Bainrriduf. A prill0.-*Tbe South Georgia the sura of $3,000 to a company of which distr et Methodist conference couvenfd • Warren P. Lovett is at the head. Tbe les- Garien-Governor Colquitt in Bainbrldgo ~4* to a Stolen Watoh •‘-Itemi of Int rest From Georgia. is but one of tbe frequent similar occasions here on the 8Ih insL Rev Atticus G. j sees are expected to deposit $1,000 of the ia the gold region. Tjie history of this one Haygood preached the opening.sermon t.» a • money, as a bonus, in a day or two. A live- has found its way into print, by a mere ac- large and attentive-congregation There is, ly * la Which Seven Hundred People are Buried Alive. Lmndox, April 12—A Rangoon dispatch says: Seven hundred men. women, boys, girls, priests and foreigners were buried alive under the towers of the city walls as a sacrifice for the restoration of the king’s ! ception." health. The panic in Mandala is frightful, I A nubile levee was then held, and a vast and hundreds are leaving the city. The j throng, estimated at 15.000, surged about king's illness is said to be leprosy. | the grand stand, anxious to shake the gen- A dispatch from Rangoon to the Daily I erai by the hand. The military companies News say*: The following is an explanation) at 1 o'clock escorted the genera! to his of the massacre at Maintain. When a ciiy | Hotel, is built in Bnrroab, human sacrifices are of fered up. A new monarch usually has a new capital. The evil spirits are irritated that there has been no change of capita! ar.d the virtue of the old sacrifices beirg g»-nt\ to appease them the astrologers declared it was nroeswary to offer up seven hundred lives. The sacrifices were made by order of King Thebau , Tt»e I ml inn* Dereatut. Special dispatch to The Gonstitutiou. Wash*soton. April 12 —The war depart ment has received a report from Colonel Tlie Henlth or Srw Orleans. Or.leans, April 13.—In regard to a report from Washington purporting to come from the national board of health, stating that yellow fever deaths had occurred iu New Orleans during tbe mouth of March. Dr. Joseph Jones, president of the board of health, in a dispatch to tbe national board of health, says up to the pres ent mo t ent no <*9sc of yellow fever has been reported to the board of health of Lou- iana, and no physician has had Wnilc the intelligent and thoughtful dis card any and everything like ghost s ories or the dead coming to life, only at the las! day, there are some things that have occurred which cannot be satisfactorily accounted lor only upon the absurd theory of the blatant sut>erstitionists. During the epidemic ol 1878, fifty odd persons, white and black, died here. They were all buried in the city cemetery The j»olicy practiced was to bury t as soon after death as possible, colored man, whose business was to inter the bodies, rays that on letting the coffin, which contained tlie remains of a man whom he knew, down into tbe vault, the supposed dead man turned over in the case, groaned and made other demonstrations of life. This story no one believed at the time, but recent alleged developments hav given color to it. A few days since the su- l>erintemlent of the cemetery employed a man to clean the ground off, as is the cus tom every spring. This man, a juried stranger to those buried here, commenced work, but soon became alarmed j IHirted that while working around the grave of a young lady who died with the yellow fever, she spoke to him, told her name and forbade him removing the tufts of grass that were growing near her resting place. He gives the true name ol the young lady, iKiiuls out with exact cer tainty her grave, neither of which he ever knew before he went there to work, nor had he any means of ascertaining between the time of going there and that of making this strange revelation. As before stated, the thoughtful give but Utile credence to these statements, while a large class fully be lieve all that is said. The result is. the superintendent finds it difficult, if not impossible, to get any one to do the work for which this alarmist was employed. Additional importance is given to this story by another that comes from a family burying ground m the county, where an old man was interred last year. Parties occupying the liou^e in which ii« died state that he has, in the last week, been teen after night walking about the f »remises, on two or three occasions; that he ays claim to the property, and is going tc send for his family, who returned north af ter his death. Quite recently a body was disintered here anu the coffin was found to be turned half over. It had been buried only a short time, and the under:aker is certain that it w not the result of carelessness in buryir . and as the vault and the pieces of timber on which the coffin was placed, were in proper position and a state of preservation, the means by which the case was turned is wrapped in mystery. With this, the colonel took from Iiis jHH’lvCt a silk handkerchief, and unrolling il handed to me a solid piece of gold as large three fingersof a man’s hand. The metal is absolutely solid, without a particle of gravel or quartz in it—as clear an ingot as ever come from crucible. Its color was bright yellow, and its surface smooth—-in dented only where the point of the pick had entered as it was turned over. Its hape was that of a fish, and its weight was over one |>ound—its value being $300. “This nugget.” said Colonel^ Nicholls, vas picked up just as you see it—from a little hollow in a slate bed. It is llie next to the largest nugget, 1 believe, ever found 'n Georgia, the largest being worth $520. tell my neighbors that it may >e the progeny of a gold fish vane hat I placed over ray spring h jure, or, per? haps, the tongue of tlie golden calf lost here by some of the wandering tribes of wor shippers. At any rate, it is a wouder, and if it were placed o; a table in the geld ex change in New York to morrow, we would have a thousand miners prospecting oyer our mountains iu ten days’ time ” Colonel Rucker, who spent years ir. Cali fornia mincs.says l bat it is t he second largest nugget he ever saw, and that it was indis putable proof of very rich mines uear by. More wonderful, though, than this great nugget was the handful of smaller nuggets llmt Colonel Nicholls exhibited- as having been found last week in tbe same placer mine. Ti;e:e nuggets, of exceedingly bright yellow and smooth surface, varied in from $5 to $50, and in size from the f a la ly’s little finger to the first joint of a man’s thumb. A HATFUL OF NCOURTS. Colonel Nicholls stated that tbe young men who arc working the mine bad taken out nearly a hatful of nuggets, large and small, aTid had just commenced on it. There are only three men at work in the mine—the three brothers who own it, I believe—and they have no machinery or stamp mills. With their ordinary wash ing pans and a little s’ream of water—the total cost of all being $50.75— they look out in nuggets in four and a half days of last week—the rest being rainy— 730 pennyweights of gold, worth over $700. In ore day they took out $380 worth In about fifteen days of work they have taken out $1,250, and the yield prow's richer the further they go. They have worked up so far only a square place as large as the man aging editors’ room in this office—about 10 feet tquare. In one “ pocket” not larger than a man’s head they found $150 worth of nuggets. The vein is about 100 feet wide, and has been tested for two or three miles in length, and may run 20 miles. A KALE OLD VEGETABLE GARDEN. The mine is on the old Richardson place, and is owned by the Lumsden boys. These young men are well known as active and industrious, and deserve the good luck that has befallen them. The story of the finding of the mine is a curious and interesting one. It must be known that there are rich g*»ld deposits all through the Nacoochce valley. Off the very farm on which this placer mine uml over §200,000 in gold has been ta ken—ail in placer-mining. 'ihcre is a h running north aud south, and the miners have generally worked along se. It lias always been found gold. In working it, however, when the miners came to old man Rich ardson’s vegetable garden, they skipped it. •deni, and the presumption 'is fair that there are others almost if not quite as re markable that are never noted iu the press at all. Gold nuggets make almost the only medium of exchange in north Georgia, and every country store keeper has as part of his outfit a pair of scales for weighing the pinches of tbe preciods stuff that the na tives bring them for barter. Much of the bulliqu finds its way to Atlanta in ex change, a large quantity is sent to the mint at Charlotte, and still more drifts direct to New yprk. The yield is constantly in creasing and new capital is being constantly jxjured in. While I was in New York a few days since I met Colonel Asbury, of Whiif county, i think, who had just*sold three Georgia mines to New York capital- its. In fact, from a two weeks’ bjut with the wreck of the Georgia Western, 1 find serene contemplation of the teeming gold firilWjjtn inn iimiina Ti’ a.y» dmtm4* ho vJT?#re titan one “boom? to your bow! ' H. W. G. ' Political conventions. \ THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION. Nrw Orleans. April 12. — The demo cratic state convention to nominate dele gates to Cincinnati met this morn ing. ■ Lieutenant-Governor McK sery wa-i chosen temporary chairman. Resolutio is were adopted declaring that the democracy of Louisiana hear with the deepest regret that certain democratic members of tbe United States senate have made objections and placed obstacles in the way of the adop tion of the majority report of the commit tee Report on privileges and elections in the matter of the illegal and fraudulent claim of Win. I\ Kellogg, who now occupies the sealift that body justly and legally due to II. il. Spofford. The resolutions further urge all democratic senators to seat Spof ford, and thank Senator Jonas for his vindi cation of the claim of Spofford and the right of the state for due and legal representation on the floor of the senate. Five hundred and three delegates were prefent. Tbe convention decided to elrct tour, delegates for each congressional dis trict. A resolution was adopted favoring General Winfield S. Hancock for president; lmt the delegates go tninstructed except to vote as a majority of the convention may decide, ®nd for the maintenance of the t-wo-ihirds rule. il, IOWA. HRs Moines, April I I.—-The republican state convention assembled this morning with 8G5 delegates in attendance. Every county in the state is represented. All the delegates met before the assembling of the convention, in district caucuses. Each caucus selected two names to present to the st*e convention for delegates to Chicago. The Blaine men carried every district and selected none but'pronounced men. The „ . . fair may be expected, should the lease a large attendance of clergy and laity. Rev. j be consummated. It will open on the 19;h Mr. Clark, of Srfvantiah, delivered an inter*] of May and continue three days. The Al esting lecture .to the body and citizens at • bany fair has not been a slow one hereto- the Methodist church to-day, on the life ; fore under the present home management, and writings of John Wesley. Governor . hut in the hands of a company of abundant Colquui arrived this morning and delivers means and resources, and with every in- di-cntirj* to-morrow to the Sunday eentive to exertion, the coming spring fair —.i —* — -* *•— f - : • will doubtless eclipse all former ones. The committee of citizens selected by the grand jury last week, to inspect a rt-poxt upon the condition of the convict camp and convicts under the control of 11. G. Lockett, _ lessee, in this county, are at. their work this seemed week. This commission was amhorized liv gardens, an act of the last legislature (page 140 of itricts, but a decided Blaine majority was given in each of these. After a recess the Hon. John W. Chap man, editor of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, a strong Grant man was selected by the Blaine majority as permanent chairman • The committee on resolutions, with ex Senator Harlan as chairman, then reported. The resolutions indorse Senator Blaine as the choice cf Iowa, and the best man for tlu* party to nominate and instruct dele gates to Chicago to vote and use all honora- ,4)le means for his nomination, and to cast tt:e vote of state as a unit. The tesoltuions were adopted, five-sixths of those present voting in the affirmative. The delegates chosen in the district caucuses were then unanimously elected as delegates to Cni cago. KENTUCKY. txjuTRVi LI.E, * A pril 14.—The republican state convention was called to order to day by Geo. Denny, jr.. chairman of the state committee. The call o: the counties show ed the representation to be larger than u-ual. John W. Lewis, of Washington, was elected temporary chairman over John J. Land rum, of Gallatin county, the vote standing 800 to 500, the former figures showing Grant’s strength in the convention. Mr Lewis on taking the chair made a strong speecli in favor of General Grant, which wits loudly applauded. A resolution pledging every delegate to support the nominee of the Chicago con vention created a long and hot debate be tween the friends of Grant aud the oppo sition. The resolution was finally declared adopted, amid loud protests. The committee on resolutions reported in favor of instructing for Grant, but before the rej>ort was adopted a minority report was presented and received with wild ap plause by the anti-Grant men. THE SITUATION IN EUROPE. Batch, dalcd San Andrras Mountains, Sih. I y*» ow *'-T er ,hc P«*«» >“ r - The giving the particulars of his recent fight telegraphic report purporting to come from with Victoria's band of Apaches Colonei }•» “'l 1 "** boiirJ o£ « without Hatch rays the Indians were iu force nura- I -Oanuatton. bering upwards of two hundred fighting ’ men. including somej Mescal eras, and were j Diamond Robbery. April I3.—At Neenab, Wi* himself most business like and conservative —tfce greatest of them all. T«B CtRClSNATI SOUTtlKKX. Chicago, .April 14.—It has transpired that thj recent tour of inspection of President U-boru and General Manager Clark, of the J There is Chicago. St- Louts and New'Orlta * road, is alien its 1 with mure than ordinary signili- probablv under the personal d Victoria. They were thoroughly whipped,'*] early Sunday morning, three masked bur- and cave way on the night of the 7:h. Cole- j giars entered the residence of Mrs. J. L. nel Hatch's loss is one officer. Captain Car- • Coats, and with pistols at her head, de roll. and seven men wounded. He was to married her money. She refusing, they start on thetHh in pursuit of the defeated j beat her into insensibility, ransacked the Indians. ' house and made off with $4,000 worth of « — • diamond*, war. he?, jewelry, etc. Mrs. A Slew Ensiantl Murder. | Coats is in a critical condition. Two other Special dispatch to The Constitution. * women were in the house a: the time. Wackuigton. .Um, April 13.—A terri- i “• ble moider occurred at Huntington this I A Word froiy Ctvtisogs. morning, the victim bring Percy B. Hutch- j inson, an aged and wealthy bachelor who lived alone in -n isolated locality. His throat m as cut from ear to car, and'several j contusions were found on his bead. The The Freeze. The too early spring received a sudden set-back night before Ja*t in a freeze which put a thin cru?t over the water and gave the air a nipping coldness. There was r.o frost because of the steady wind. Yester day general apprehension'for the fruit crop was felt, and a reporter of The Covsrrmox called on several prominent fruit growers to ask their opinions as to the effect of the freeze. They all agreed that the trees are so well leaved that the tender buds are protected rom what would have been a fata! change in tbe weather a few days sx*ner. Flow had been takeu .from pits anu set out yards, and last night they were wrapped and c v*rei to protect them from tbe cold. Tbe temperature had become much milder, however, and no serious results are feared. ami commenced work on tbe other side of They supposed, of course, that if there wa? any vein in it, it wound parallel with the branch, and little dreamed running east and west at right angles to the branch was i, covering almost the entire width of the garden, ami richer than any they had ever worked. A short time ago the old man Richardson, who is still living, but whose mind is al most gone, told one of the boys that the garden had never been tested for gold, but that the miners had always skipped it. The young man, therefore, determined to give it a slight test. IIj took a pick, a shovel and a pan, and digging among the surface earth, lie tried working the gravel for gold. He soon discovered a nugget or two, and then went to work in earnest. It was soon demonstrated that there was a placer vein of one hundred feet breadth and indefinite length, and the brothers turned a stream of water on the garden and began serious op erations. A SLATE r.ED THAT SPARKLES. Their plan of procedure is very simple. They dig away the surface earth t> the depth ox about two feet, when they strike a stratum of gravel. They loosen this up and wasli it away through the stream of water. Beneath the gravel which is about one foot thick, there is a Jlat bed of slate. In this slate bed there are frequent dips and breaks. In these dips and hollows the miners usually find the shining nuggets, their yellow bodies contrasting sharply with tlie dark nooks in which they were nestled. The mining is carried on quietly by the brothers, but cre ates the greatest excitement among the neighbor^, who gather in crowds to witness the finding of the nuggets There is no limit that can be set yet to the amount that may be taken out of this old garden. It will be well turned over, however, as there is more money in raising the carats than the other carrots to which it has been hereto fore devoted. The mine has been tested ii several places for two or three miles and i found to be rich. Tlie People iu Turkey Rejoicing; over Hie Tory Defeat. Special dispatch to The Constitution. London, April 10.—Tlie Constantinople correspondent of the Times telegraphs that the elections in England have produced on all classes here a profound impression, and at the palace almost a panic of wild specu lations are atloat in regard to the conse quences of thg coming change in the Brit ish ministry. The Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, and Christians generally, have long regarded Beuconsfield a-« their most powerful opponent, and rejoice at his fall. Tlie more sanguine of them assume that Gladstone will immediately form a cabinet amt prepare to cirry out Iiis famous “bag and baggage” |K>licy, that is to turn the Turks out of Europe, bag and baggage. The sultan and his advisers are thor oughly. alarmed. We already one practical result of his tears in the sign ing of the irade, settling the Montene grin question. The Turkish public, usual, is indifferent and apathetic. Lord Harrington's recent declaration that the liberals would do all in their powf r to cre ate European coalition for compelling Tur key to introduce reforms, has produced much comment, and it is said with truth that for months pa*t the porte has been unintentionally doing all it could * create such a coalition. Never before has shown such an arrogant and.defiant attitude towards the |*owers, and the consequence has been that we have at this moment the extraordinary phenomenon of all em basics of legations working heartily to gether on several important questions, in cluding the case of Colonel CommerofPs as sassin. Never since the time of the Constantinople conference, has so much unanimity been seen in the diplomatic world of Pera. It is confidently expected that a change :n the ministry of England will extend this unanimity to the Greek frontier question, on which the porte ha3 hitherto counted on British support. Hbctau’M Snit. Special dispatch to The Constitution. New York, April 10.—The suit of James A. Whelan against General Phil Sheridan for $120,000, the value of the personal prop erty on the large Kiliona plantation in Louisiana from which he was ejected by General Sheridan’s military order, has been appealed to tbe United States supreme court. The Lucky Nambers. New Oele.vn-, April 13.—The principal prizes drawn in the Louisiana state lottery to-day were: Number 41.5115, $30,000; num ber 40,040, $10,000. Both were sold in New York. Number 32,770 drew $5 000, held New Orleans. Numbers 51.082 and 85,1 drew $2,500 each, both sold in New York. Let the South Speak Out. New York World. The southern states to-day are in the union, Summksville. Gl, April II—Editors Constitution: During tbe past week we had a heavy fall of snow. Had it not been for the snow. I think, would hare * “ - * - juu.iu un ins umu. rue ' i __ .i i ifL _ bod v was concealed under* pile of bagging ‘ ‘ wo . or *kr*e inches 7-^*.**' house set on lire, but theriam£ pearanc* w still uamendly. and indications and the h«w were subdued and the body recovered, clue to the murderer. ouvrr, and U likely u» prove of great inter est alike to Chicago and Cincinnati Be fore the Louisville and Naahviile trooped iu the principal southern roads all tbe bu»i nms mat went over tbe Nashville and Chattanooga road from Nashville to New Orleans passed over tbe Chicago, Jrt, Louis and New Orleans road. Under the preseal condition of things •be lattec road cannot hope to get anv bust- utm from Naahviile to New Orleans, tbe are favorable for a protracted cold snap. Great tears are entertained for the wheat ar.d fruit. Such a calamity as tbe loss of both these crop? it i? hoped ruay be averted. There is but little talk on polities. Some James hints in tue papers and some exchange of Tfxai Amusement*. ] Special dispatch to The Constitution. 1 Galveston. April 12.—A dispatch to the i News from Brenharp state? that on Satur day night William P. Ralston fatally stab bed Robert Ficklin, who attempted* to dis suade him from attacking an officer who bad a few hours before arrested him for disorderly conduct. A dispatch from Waco to the News savs that last night Will Hardwick killed John French, his rival in a love affair, and then committed suicide. school and citizens, at the fair ground? on :tie subject of Christianitv. He is the guest of William H. Crawfonf. A large concourse of citizens from Thoniasville will be present to hear the distinguished gentle man. A severe frost paid visit last night, but to do no damage to our It killed out the young cotton. As there was but little up the damage cannot be very great Our planters are experiencing great difficulty in getting cotton seed to plant. They find, upon examination, mo#t of the seed they bad saved is rotten. Al though ilas oaferop bax-tmprovfd greatly within tbe last week, our well informed for mers say there will not be more than half a crop made. Governor Colquitt held a levee in the large parlor of the Sharon house at 5 o’dfcck a. m., at which a large number of gentlemen and ladies were pre sented to his excellency. The cornet band, finding be was there, gathered their instru ments and gave him a serenade. The music brought together a large crowd, who, upon learning that the governor was in tbe par- \ called lustily for him. He responded their call, and was introduced by Hon. A. Russell. His remarks were graceful, d appropriate to the occasion. Harmony Grove, April 12—Io The xsTiTCiioar of the Is* inst., in ihi ol- umn “All Around Us.” your conet- pondent from Covington tells about Castle berry, a mute, stealing a gold watch and $15 from Mr. Samuel Avery, another mute: and goes on to tell about Castleberry giving his name as Holland, from Harmony Grove, etc. Again in your issue of the 8th inst., your corresiMindent from Cass Station tells ahout Castleberry, alias Holland, stopping with Rev. B. B. Sullivan, who knew Castle berry, and who bad seen your article in your paper of the 1st inst., and after inter viewing Castleberry procured tlie watch, but did not get any money, etc. These two pieces taken together exhoneratea Alonzo J. Holland, the mute from near this place, "iow at the deaf and dumb institute Springs. I have just seen a letter from W. O. Connor, principal of the deaf and dumb institute at Cave Springs, ad dressed to James H. Holland, tlie father of mute, Alonzo J. Holland, in which Pro fessor Connor states that Alonzo J. Holland has been in the .institute all of the present term. From the?e facts n«» suspicion can rest on Alonzo J. Holland, notwitli- landing some of our citizens have orders o arrest Hollan-1 should he make his appearance about Harmony Grove. Mr. James H. Holland, the father, and Alorz t Holland, the son, are b >th me .ibers of c Baptist church at that place. The former is a deacon of that church, and the family are highly respected iu this commu nity. Alrany, April 12.—Welch & Bacon’s sales of western corn for this year are ex pected to reach 40.000 bushels. Last yeat they sold none. This would appear to be a gloomy outlook for 1880 if the experience »{ one of this firm, himself an extensive danter, was not at variance with common- received ideas on the subject. In 1874 sold large quantities of tbe shipped corn, and it proved to be an excellent crop ear. In 1875 they sold little or none^ and rops were poor; and so it turned out for each alternate even and odd year uo to the present, from which he sagely predicts an abundant crop-for 1880, all present indica tions to the contrary. Tbe theory is that, having to buy all his corn and supplies at the start, scares a farmer into habits of in dustry and economy. At any ra»e, it is some little grain of comfort, no doubt, to u planter when lie signs a 2J4 per cent, crop lien he might have raised at borne. Tbe dwelling house of Jno. M. CutlifF, one of our old citizens, was discovered to be on fire at about 12 m. to-day, and, in spite of every effort to save it, was totally consumed. !>ortion only of the furniture was saved a damaged condition. The fire was sup posed to be accidental. The house, we team, was insured for $3,500 No frost this morning, but the weather is still un seasonably cool. Albany^ April 11.—Along the line of the railroad front Macon to Albany, the grain crops, with hardly an exception, loo* badly. Wheat and oats, and even the rye, in some places, is about ruined with rust. Some of the farmers are plowing in their oats and replanting the land in cotton Most of the corn would average about six inches, and looks pale and sickly. Imme diately around ana below Albany, howev er, the com crop is looking well, and the stands are good. The oat crop in this vicin : tty, has improved remarkably within the' past 8or 10 days and fully half a crop is now predicted tor Dougherty Lee. Worth and Mitchell A tolerably heavy frost ft*l tlie official volume) and is composed ot six of the best citizens of the county. Their retwrt will be read with interest. We may yesterday (Saturday) morning, but does not appear to have done any injury even to tbe gardens about town. Not enough cot ton up to be seriously damaged. The su preme court will continue in session during this week and next. The state docket will be taken up next week. Judge Wright will preside during tbe whole term. One or two murder cases will be called and probably tried. Governor Colquitt came down on Friday last, to look after his planting and other interests here. Kxstman, April 10.—As we were coming down the road on the night passenger from Macon last night, the two middle cars, con sisting of a baggage car and one passenger coach, ran off the track at the 1GG mile-post. The cars were considerable damaged, but noneof tbe passengers were injured. The engine was cut loose and sent down to the next station for help, by which means we started off about G o’clock this morn- w . A negro was sent with a light to warn the approaching train of danger, but he fell asleep on the track and was run overby the train,for which carelessness he lost a portion of one of his legs. -The man who was killed at Baxley on Wednesday night last was named Thos. Jones. In attempting to leap from the platform connecting two cars, while the train was in motion, he fell between the cars and was badly crushed and mangled. The brakeman caught him when he fell and held him while he was dragged for some distance. When taken up life was almost extinct. We noticed a heavy frost this morning along the Macon and Brunswick road. Griffin, April 13.—Our two fire com panies will go to Macon Thursday morn ing, to take part in the great firemen’s con test which occurs there that day. The boys arc having daily practice, and if the Augusta and Macon t>eop!e do not wide awake we will bring back th honors. There will be eight.steamers contest, and it will take the entire day to finish all the races. It will be a gala day, loo, for Macon and her guests. The Presbytery of Atlanta will meet in Griffin, at ~'A o’clock tbis evening. The body is composed of all the ministers and one rul ing elder from each church within the bounds of the presbytery. TUE TERRIBLE THUD sustmnbAby SR.-Mil. SAYRE. A Distressing Aoddcntto tfceSoa ef 3 Distic»n».h- «d Physician—A Shocking JUrdea in thsi Missouri Penitcatiwy and the Killing of the Murderer. New \ffHMftpril 8.—A terrible and prob ably fatal accident happened to Dr. Jl. U. . Savre, son oFYhc well-known surgeon. Dr. Lewis A. Sayre. He was driven in a coupe to theGilsev house, got out and went to the entrance, wherestood Detective Heidleburg, to whom he spoke. He then made a step toward the door of the hotel, but appeared to reconsider bis intention to enter, wheeled around briskly and walked across the broad stone step, as if he intended to de scend the steps again. I)r. Sayre is very quick in his movements, and as he Came to the corner of tlie stoop nearest to Broad way he wheelei^again as if about to walk to Ins coupe. In wheeling he was so close to the stone border in which the stout iron railings that border the area are inserted that-his heels caught tlie border and he fell backward. At this point there is a space of about three feet between the street, and Un- hold. Twenty feet below is the flagged area outside the billiard room of the Gilsey house. Although the chances of any one _ . , - falling through this narrow space were U. Westbrook, member front Dougherty, in small, Dr. Sayre plunged, back ward aruUirod tire late-tegisiature, and that »t was made dowmvard into tv.e area. As he fell Detec- the subject of a very clear arul pointed charge to the grand jury lost week by Judge Wright Gbiiffin,* April 14—William McEHiany is a young printer, a native Griffin l»oy, who has seen some twenty-one or two sum mers roll away. He has worked in nearly every printing offic.- ever established here, and is a good tvpe-stttcr. But he is an un fortunate fellow. 11caredy think his mind is well balanced, for he is often suspicioned of doing wrong and evil deeds. Last .Sat urday Captain John Hill came down from Sunny Side on horseback and tied bis ani mal over at the brick warehouse, just in front of the Sun office. Some hours later the horse was not there. Officer Branch B iwdoin mounted another trusty steed and started the trail, succeeding in bringing up the miscreant some miles in the country. Wil liam McElhany, poor fellow, was the ;uilty boy. That night he was lodged in Jail where he has been languishing until yesterday, when a preliminary examination was held before Justice White, binding him over in the sum of $250 for simple larceny to the next session of the county court. McElliany’s counsel pleaded insanity and I presume they will plead it again. The city is otherwise quiet, save the hurry the boys aie making preparatory to taking the prize in Macon Thursday. Ahout 200 will go from here. Cuthdkrt, April 12 —The weather for the past three days has been very cold, with considerable frost each morning. The veg etables have generally been killed, atxl seri ous damage ui the corn and cotton that has been planted is apprehended. Tbe farmers availing themselves of the recent warm spells were in the main through planting cotton. If it is killed by the recent cold snap, there will not be seed enough to re plant. There is already a great complaint on account of the scarcity of seed. Some fiend in human shape attempted an outrage upon a little white girl in this cMinty dur ing last week. He is now securely lodged in'jail, and having confessed his crime, will meet—and he certainly merits more—the lull punishmentof the law. The students of the South west Georgia agricultural college have organized a military company, and now appear in military costume.* They have procured arms, and will soon be in excellent trim. The c>!lege is nourishing and has enrolled over one hundred and seventy-five students. Andrew female college, with its excellent and indefatigable president. Dr. A. L. Hamilton, is progres sing finely and in a'prosperous and flour ishing condition. Dahlonega, April 12 —The su|»crior court of Lumpkin county was opened to day, Judge Lester presiding, with his usual dignity and urbanity. The docket will occupy the court all the week. One case will elicit a good deal of interest, that of Frtd Wright for (house burning—one year ago the grist mill aud fine wool carter of Major J. B. Graham, located on Two Run, in this county. Wright, who was at enmity with Major G, had moved to North Carolina before the burning. Suspicion rested U(K>n him, and finally the evidence became so strong that Wright was arrested in North Carolina last week and lodged in ail here and i« to be tried this court Resides the local bar tbe following lawyers are present: II. P. Perry and G. K. Loo per, of Gainesville, C. 1). Phillips and Paul Lester, of Manett■», W. P. Bell, of Gum ming, M. G. Boyd, of Cleveland, John A. Wimpy, of Atlanta, and S]>eucer Smith, of Toccoa. Decatur, April 12.—Wc had a heavy frost and ice one-half inch thick last night, and nearly all the vegetables and fruit killed. Rev. Mr. Levy, a converted Jew, preached at the Presbyterian church yester day morning to a large "congregation. The colored republicans held a mass meet ing at the court-house on last Friday and selected Janies Brown and George Holmes delegates to the state convention and Geo. Meriwether and Henry Craig alternates. They are all colored. Brown is for Grant and the rest for Sherman. The meeting was largely attended. Eliikrtox, April 13.—Heavy frosts here last night and the night before. All tender vegetables were killed and most of the fruit. The wheat crop is evidently badly injured in some localities. In other places it is not hurt. -There was an alarm of fire here Sunday evening that created considerable excitement, but no damage was done, tire company is being organized heri \ a view of getting ail engine. It is thought that our citizens will respond liberally to the enterprise. Gainesville, April 12.—One of the heav iest frost we have had this year fell here last night. Irish j*otato tops, beets and other vegetables are lying on the ground black and dead. Grape vines are also badly hurt. It is believed that most of the fruit is also killed. Mr. Carlisle has the first rock hutment of the Gainesville and Dah lonega railroad bridge over the Chattahoo chee river about finished. The grading is progressing finely. LaGrangr, April 14.—Miss Nannie, second daughter of Postmaster Ball, wa: married to John A Baugh, Jr., yesterday Rev. M. B. Ilardiu officiated it very impressive manner. Oar people are becoming excited over the liquor question. A prohibition ticket has been put forward for the May election and our city is looking for the result with a vast amount of interest Conyees, April 12.—A heavy frost fell last night, injuring gardens considerably.— — The Conyers band is in splendid condition for the press convention at Cuthbert Col. Marcelus E. Thornton took a look at our town this morning. Hon. A. O. Ba con’s address at the Odd Fellows* anniver sary here on the 2»;th is looked for with interest. A ugchta. A pril 13.—Heavy frosts for the last three nights have killed*fruis and vege tables in this section. The damage has been extensive. Dr. W. E. Bland, who was shot in an election riot in Edgefield, S. C yesterday, died to day. At a meeting o tbe Georgia railroad to-day a contract for .i._ t : :11 1 v-_. tiVe Heidelberg caught his coat tail, but it tore like a piece of paper. Fortunately, in descending Dr. Sayre’s head struck a gas pipe across the gap. This made him turn a half sonunersault in falling, and he land ed on his knees. Dr. Sayre weighs 225 pounds, and when be fell * the thud was heard for some distance. Persons in the billiard rojtn and Detective Heidleberg found him kneeling with his face on the flags. He was insensible. A screen was procured to shield hitu from the multitude that quickly gathered, and ho was laid on his back. It was then discovered that the bones of his left thigh were pro truding through his trousers about eight inches above the knee. A dispatch was sent to his father aud an ambulance was summoned. As soon as the latter arrived he was placed upon a stretcher and carried home to No. 285Fifth avenue. His father took charge of the case, and was assisted by several eminent physicians. Heroic treatment was found to be neces sary, as the broken bones could not be placed in position without taking away a portion of the ends. An operation was begun at 8 o’clock which lasted until mid night. A compound comminuted fracture of the left thigh bone of a verv aggravated character was discov ered. The ends of the broken bones were sawed on, and three portions of bone were removed. The patient recovered consciousness under the operation, :u;<l no * amcjthctic was used. After .diurt-'niiv; the bones—an operation which, in the event of the sufferer’s recovery, must ren der him a cripple—the leg whs gradual!v drawn into its natural position. Then ai; incision was made in the posterior portion of the thigh, and an India rubber drainage, tube was inserted. Another tube was in serted in the wound to permit of lotions of luted carbolic acid being passed over the interior of the lacerated wound. The limb was then enveloped in cotton batting, ar.d finally held rigid in a plaster of Paris band age. Dr. Lewis II. Sayresaj's that bis son’s chances of recovery are very uncertain. Dr. C. H. H. Sayre is 27 years old and well known in society, lie is an ardent sports man. and his exhibit of hunting dogs at the Westminster, Kennel club bench shows always comprises some first-class animals. New York Times. Dr. Charles Henry Hall Sayre, eldest son the well-known surgeon, Dr. Lewis A. Sayre, died yesterday from the effects of a terrible fall on Monday evening of last week. At that time the doctor was walking rapidly from the Twenty-ninth street en trance of the Gilsey house to his coupe, when he tripped and fell lack ward down the hotel area, striking heavily on the stone flagging 20 feet below. I)r. Sayre weighed 225 i*ounds and the fall caused a very ag gravated fracture of the left thigh. Tlie in sensible physician was immediately re moved to hi.s home. No. 285 Fifth avenue, where his fathci and other eminent physi cians employed every means to prevent ;t fatal result. Their efforts were, unsuccess ful, and death released tlie young physician from his suffering yesterday. 1 !r. Sayre was 20 years of age, and well known in society circles. He was an ardent sportsman, and took great pride in his kennel of hunting dogs. The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed. FOREIGN FLASHES. Otero, the Spanish Regicide. Pays the Penally of His Crime. London, April 14.—A Madrid dh patch dated the 13th, says: This morning soon after eight the governor of the prison and the authorities aroused Otero, the regicide, and led him in irons bare headed and clad in the same clothing he worc^the day lie at tempted the life of the king, to the halt where condemned prisoners hear their sentences in the presence of the judge. Otero was pale, but composed, and signed the copy of his sentence with his own hand. The judge then delivered him into the custody of tlie Brothers of the Ancient Order of Par. y Coridad. founded by John 11., who led the prisoner to the chapel, dimiy lighted. He will be executed at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. To day Otero expresses repent ance but refuses all offers of advice or con solation from the priests. Madrid, April 14.—Otero was executed at 9 o’clock this morning. Special dispatch to The Constitution. The Standard’s dispatch from Madrid says the scaffold was erected on a plain out side the town. The van in which the con demned man was taken to tlm place of exe cution was surrounded by infantry with fixed bayonets and a large number of gens d’annes. There were two executioners. < hero preserved coolness to the last. It ii in official circles that the would-be i made no revelations. Deoatcr. Ga., April 13.—-TheHon. Aaron Al peoria Bradley is again on the war-path, lie spoke at the court-house last nizht to a large crowd ol colored people and a few whites. The latter attended out of curiosity, and had good cause to feel very indignant at his sq>eecb, but said nothing The col ored people were well pleased. The speak er was in favor of Grant for president. Miss Jennie Durham, one of our most lovely and interesting young ladies, who has been spending several weeks in Athens and Madison, arrived at home yesterday, accompanied by Miss Lassie Few, one of Madison’s fairest and loveliest young la dies. A Sq New Orleans, April 12.—A Times O-k- IlNacrd to m Tree. Pettessuxg. V*., April _ I ( __ f Black, the negro wt»oattempted an outrage . ideas in favor of Judge Underwood for gov- . lousas dispatch says*: “At a large gathering on the person of Mrs. Hattie 1'trn, uear emor, more spontaneous than otherwise, as Saturday Colin Fusilier, while intoxicated. Fora s depot, in limwiddy county, on the there are a great many good-people who ; flourished a pistol. 'While the bystanders u i w f* taken from think the country west and north of , were attempting to take the pistol from .J* 1 * Dmwuld,y C. H., between 9 and the Chattahoochee river has been ; him. it was discharged, instamlv killing 10 o dock last night, by an armed party of studiously ignored. You know how } Louts Cortez. Fusilier, on being disarmed, seventy-live masked men. and hanged to ! jealous a people are likely to become when J tied from the crowd, followed by cries for th* ©allow*, near the jail, on which Jack they think that honors and offices are not i his arrest. Several shots were immediately ts. the negro murderer, was exe- • equally distributed. Judge Underwood j fired after him, and three ball? penetrated wo Tears aim. | bring intuitively » well as by profession a fcis body, killing him instantly. * mvr ov Tire vnr«riT« and as much a part of the union as uurour.Ycw Th ' .utZlJZr nl r A ®*- 4 . j York, and it is time for southern democrats to 4 , “J- theorv of this formation :s that in 5 speak and act as becomes sell-re«pecting and self- I the beginning all gold was snugly veined * retiant union men. If tbe southern democrats : in quartz, and that in some earthquake or ‘ really share the tendencies of Mr. Beck. Mr. other convulsion the veins were split and t >'°°*»eea, Mr. Coke and the political ideas which the cold melted and cratreral Tntha ! the northeastern states- abhor and repeal, south- 1 fM . 1 .1 In theeea- tR i democrats ought frankly to sayso and to tunes tua. io*lowed, the gold nuggets, | stand by their words. The east will then know heavier than earih or gravel, found its way | what to do. It i* not enough for the sixteen to the slate bed where the dense stratum { southern states, which we hope to see voting to- arrested it and ewe it a home until rouith ge H‘, er . November, to point out what demo- riMniYiUt it Venn ,7,. «x*ic aijirwls they do not wish to see nomina- i 1 * tVen ll1 ® ; ted. They should with equal frankness and sin- nuggets _ .haye been melted, and | cerity give northern business men some indica tive original veins riven. they ‘ tiou of the sort of candidate whom they would a frame over tlie mill rerpnti v have not rested quiet, but have been torn!"?' to 'vote for What is .their «>» , ffu. gb Et m togTSTn asunder bv some mysterious -subterranean ! of a president of the L nited stales in this emer- - 77r OT i• S .** ,v : " \ lw * JiJf 1 ° I U * I gency? The southern state* and the democratic ! near Jesup, fell from his work and seriously, force. Tor ^nstance.^the Lumsdens ^ bare j party hare everything to pdn and nothing to Jo^e ; it is feared, injured his spine. Fleas and s around Jesup and _ _ M. & B. and S. F. & wants to ret at in this emergency Jesup, April 10.-yMr. R. A. Smith and Mr. Veter had a difficulty at the former’s still, near Jesup, last night which resulted iu Mr. Veter’s receiving two severe though not necessarily fatal wounds, one fractur- the skull. Mr. Coursey, while erect- v r , gency: t ne southern states ana tne democratic > near jesup, uis \ force. lor instance, the Lumsdens have party hare everything to gain and nothing to lose it is feared, injured his s| | f jund irregularly shaped nuggets several ! by repudiating, and repudiating peremptorily, I measles are numerous i | feet apart, the notched edges of which fit the wjr and whispering tactics which have so i in - n t t u_ M «chi,h ! r., , 1 ea t, ya 5 ,f thevhadbeen cut I wS i“ “ Sandersvillk. April 12.—A scandal has just come to light here. The body of a white baby buried about two months ago in a box, was scratched up by a dog and discovered by a regro in the garden of t certain resident of this place. It was deliv ered to the authorities. I refrain from mentioning names until further develop ments. 'cg-citlc Special dispatch to The Constitution. London, April 10.—A dispatch from Mi. retersburg says an Armenian journal, The Mshak, publishes a telegram from the Rus sian consul at Van, which appeals for aid to save the inhabitants of that district from utter destitution. The famine is in creasing. One hundred and fifty persons have died of starvation at Ogliak. In the villages girls are dying. One hundred have died at Van. Russian authorities at K-cUopc have forwarded 50,000 pounds of Hour to Van. YcIIonr Fever Feather*. Cincinnati, April 13.—Dr. Minor, health officer, to day found on the Louisville mail boat a lot of yellow fever feathers from Memphis, consigned to a dealer here, who had not ordered them and refused to re ceive them. I)r. Minor ordered them re shipped to Louisville. They are some of a lot that were recently sent out of Chatta nooga. (shot to Dcntli. Nkw Orleans, April 12.— J. Tucker, col ored, charged with the murder of Abu Frazer in 1870, was taken from the jail at Grecnsburg, ML Helera parish, Sunday morning by fifteen men, and shot to death Aged U. Special dispatch to The Constitution. NewOrlkans, April 13.—Charles Evienne, aged 11, while playing on a tnq>eze in the yard to-day, accidentally hung himself. When discovered he was dead. The Princes* Alice’* Betrothal. From Queen Victoria’s diary. After dinner, while talking to the gentlemen, I perceived Alice and Louise talking before the fireplace more earnestly than usual, and when I passed to go to tlie other room both came up to me, and Alice, in much agitation, said he had proposed to her, and he begged for my blowing. I could only Hjneeze his hand and wy “Ccr- taiuly,” and that wc should nee him in our room later. Got through the evening cutcd two years ago. by a joiner. The most valuable suggestion in this whole matter is the tact that these “placers” are fed from the broken veins of the hills and mountains, and that these nuggets are but the drippings of richer strata of quartz. There cannot be the slight est doubt that there are richer vei ns that seam the vast hills and mountains that circuit this valley, and that incalculable worth is buried there. The trouble with all this w . — . the real 1 opinions of the democratic mas*?* in the south, I and not the personal schemes of the democratic Hartwell, April 9.—We have had some office-soakers or office-holder*. Whatever may t,eavv weather here for the *»aAt few d*v* have been successful politics in 1MI with Mr. ah TfawSSSlirilLi'hid 1J52 Folk, or in 1852 with Mr. Pierce, when issues were AU d# / Y ea ^ nU > we bad a cold rain, and clear and the democratic party wa* strong and pert of the time snow and sleet fell, but it compact, the democratic party ia in a very differ- aid not lie on the ground. I do not think rat condition in 1S80. In order towiu m - eT unate there was any damage done to fruit tree* or g^en*.—fob.™ . fi „ e hi Kh * h ooi Eastman, April 12.—About fifty excur sionists from Hawkinsville a »d Cochran came down on a chartered car yesterday to visit Eastman. They arrived at 10 o’clock a. ni., and left at 3 p. m. About forty were booked for dinner at the Uplands hotel. Haynesvillk, April 12.—Mr. Joseph Tooke, a well-known and influential citizen of Houston county, died at his residence in this place on Monday morning the llth inst. He was noted for his deeds of charity. lie was emphatically the poor man’s friend. Montgomery, April 13.—An explosion occurred early this morning at the flouring mill of Joseph & Anderson, doing consider able injury to ths property. It will close ten days for repa'rs. It was the larg-ist flour mill iu the city. Albany. April 12.—The residence of Mr. John M. Cutliff wa* destroyed by fire this afternoon. Insurance $3,500; loss between four and five thusand dollars. The furni ture was saved, but was badly damaged by removal. Kosciusko, Miss, April 13.—I have cap- “ ‘ numbering 100 scholars. The Good Tern- t plars are flourishing, numbering fifty or evening for DeKalb county,Georgia r dear Alice, aiul praised her much to hiu ed and kireori my hand, and I eu.i After talking a little we parte —a touching and to n Wliat tbe nonroe Doctrine Isn't. Burlington Hawkeye. Bidwell L. Stevens writes to ask ns “what the Monroe doctrine isT" The Monroe doctrine. Bid- well, simply and explicitly declare* that no for eign nation shall come over here and slide down our cellar door; that England and Frame shall not hang on our front gate to do their courting; that they can’t bring over their own syrup puts and elder sprouts »nd m * ke sugar hi our maple grove: that Germany and Austria can’t spot »»<• bee tree in our woods: that Russia can't spank her neighbor’s children with our butler paddle. The Monroe doctrir.c simply means that v that the man who joins farms with side bad better not nor *’ ‘ he talks to us about It the boundary fence tin til Ho Pleblan Daughter Xcwl Apply. Manchester Union. The report that Ulysses Grant. Jr., is to marry Min Flood, daughter of the California million aire, is denied by the distinguished pareuta of tfce alleipd bridegroom-elect. Since Grant became ** duke of America,” and thus had his ambition for a higher title strengthened, he has determined . . . tD«dJ.n*. M. Joliy, the alleged murderer i unsound doctrines, and a distinctly conservative numbering 109 scholars The Good Tern- of Mi» Norris of Decatur I will leave this I in - t han a royal or imperial princess wilfdo w the young Ulysses now. name at the head of the ticket.

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Atlanta weekly constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1878-1881, April 20, 1880, Image 1