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Newspaper Page TextTHE LAMENTATIONS or mr. stei favf.tikviu.koa _ IMinggr 1 fmn It t» Wltkaat Oasar, ul > UhImi TuU '! lit Ksw ffafcrial—Oasrgla BmAiq At Tu «f Prrgraialrs Btato ulOnwltf Elck. fWTHlTuW, MV. so skilled a n—dt ariosi* lit aa Hr. Stephen* ahouta crar bate laional General Toooiba’a taiaiacm that Georgia to growing poorer every day—still store ao Out be kbotzld hare fortified lti* Indorsement ao loudly a* be did In the Inter view printed la Tn Cowmcnor of last Tbura- •day. I can ouly bopa hi* dobbonuw la dlspori- ttoa will not lead hi* late maintaining a portion that I aball daw to be utterly untenable—and la which ha doe* Id.' lo blmsdf and to Georgia. It will ha paw Inc rtrax ge. U Mr. Stepbeaa. who oflea lead* the weight af bt* great name to a box of IIrer pCRa or a new novel, tkill n* that name to discredit hi* irate, and discourage her people— town plainly that ha doe* not t her truly. e «tatement credited to Mr. Stephen*, much more lmp>rtaat than a •mere expraraion of opinion. When General Toaaib* aald that Georgia waa tettla; poece •every day Chan she w«a the day before. Uttie coo* want waa felt, lor It war known tfaft the gaoeral had yean ago crystallized hia vaporing an this -subject Into an epigram, and are all knew that 1 would never allow a f.ct total epigram. But when Mr. itryhaaa in dorsed thta statement, It ewumal a new Impor tance. Mr. Stephana la nothing If not accurate, and oracular a* he la. there U no man who it reported tospeak ctoaar *> the bark. After Mr. iftcvbeaa then had made hi* tt*'r**ent she. ream need It with fiftuei and aifunenC, Georgia ■food deliberately arraigned by one of her own non*, aa having gooe backward, during a decade of complete national proapWity. The immi grant wm formally warned that the •empire fete b«d rtirograJ.d, while •other elate* bad gone forward aud G< orglana were put on notice, that despite the fcHettloos condi tion* of the paat ten years, {uo state had nab like retreated beyond the poeltlon It held In 1«?J. ■General Dick Taylor In hi* vary took no the war, touche* the curlou* quality In Mr. Stephen*, that pot* him forever (a opposition to the average opinion, and makaa him dogmatic rather than obaervanf, whan heaaya; (I quota from ••He reminded one. In thia awful crisis, of the Abbe fcfeyes, who while the rtreeta of Part* were filled with madruru having gory bead* upon their p4kea, walked tomplacentiy about with hi* pocket stuffed fu', of paper constitution*, and aaeured theoqu.utry that everything vu quiet.' l^t ua aee fet *.»e la not now amid Uie piping tame fd plenty, j n *t a*unobservant and discordant, aa he laaaK, to have been whej compared to the FraseT* abba. vol. xm. THE WAY OUT l.frllT So; the o-talj %irt larger than ertf ; he»>™, ud tee yield htien Is letter. i I, there falling off to thetieek on onr tarme, the ! Imptoaema; So; InR, hare nor, Mochand ! better stock U*n ever, end DO mu Can fall ta aee | OF OUR PRESENT TRADE TROUBLES. re In better eondltfoa and better j — Tpuppcd than Ihey ere. wire. | A lfg of rt , 5 lujBa ,( AtleiU ta Farther ax aanoa ix nn nob-aka. Mr. Stephen* bum hi* claim that the Mata la patting poorar tve y day upon the fact that In 1*70 the total of taxable property waa 92*8.169,2U7 and that In 1 Ml It I*only tr.s.9 H.126, tbua show- In# a decrees In the tax book* lu the ten year* (In round figures) of 9-t9.COO.Ol*. HI* Mala* oan be utterly abolished by the stato- maut that he ha* made an error In bia figure* of oTartU.000 OGJ. HU estimate of the propeity of 'ate vt*Uj for 1*7Hi taken from the cenaua return*, which, aa la wall known, do not ahow the true •value of taxable properly. The census returns Intlu-.e faruirtc*. retimed* and many similar propertfc* that are not taxed by the state and do not appear on the comptroller'* book*. The »u* estimate* are, therefore, always higher than Che comptroller'* estimate* and cannot be rhe baft* of a compart***. The fact* are that the •cctiKus rej-ort* for 1S70 put the wealth c the state at tM0.Mi,7O7, while the comptroller' report for that jear put the figure* at 1226,119,579 —a dlff« retire of 942,(49,6v«. Now let u» take the comptroller's report for U70, and for 1*90. The taxable property a* shown by the cirr.ptroller** report of IS7o U IW&.l 19.319-for 1610 it la |J», *4,19*—showing again la theteu year* ol SIMM, W07—or over one million a year We aee, there- fore, that Instead of there having been a lorn of gru\000,0 (. in ten yearn, a* Mr. btephens claim*, there has act tally been again of about 919.000.UM. Three fiftnraa are taken from the comptroller' book*, and are absolutely accurate. 1 might atop right here—for having thowu that Mr. btepben*' figure* are wrong, the claim based o:i these figure* la dispelled. Hot there are some other thlu <* want toiny. suppose that Mr Stephen*'* figures had been light. If he alleged that we had lout ground in the tan tea year*, because (as be said) there had twsn a shrinkages of fr..',*>0,000 tu tax value* in the dtcade, would net tha aaina logic prove •that we gained ground lu the last year, when the tag book* shoe that wo have In the last twelve month*—not Including railroads—added over SiU.tCC.000 in value to the tax-books, we grow |morer by losing flO,000,000 of value In ten yean, have we not grown richer by gaining over 616^000.000 in the list twelve nontlut How ttu «n Mr. Htcpheu* aay that we have grown poorer •every yeart Did not the fuel that we had regain ed lu the last year one-third of what he claimed we had lr*t In the hut ton ycata, *bow that the tide, according to hU own logic, hid turned twelve aaooth* ago, and that for the last year at least, a* bad gone forward Instead of backward' A me TAX BOOKS A twt or raorkKTY? But even tf Mr. t-tepben* had got hta flgu. from the proper source and they bad been oo n et, fis be not economist enough to know that the tax- book* are not evidence* absolute of prosperity •decadence? Does be not know that Jlhere are thousand subtle current* playtug beneath the face of the return* that determine the true ditkm of affair*? For Instance, tf I borrow 9-VXD from him and put It in a house, the house ap* pan on the tax books aa my property, and ac cording to the tax-book* I am a* pnwpcrous say neighbor who has a 9&.COO house for which baa paid in full. Rut am I really so? Or to vary the suggestion, tyippote 1 take two years which to pay off the mortgage on my house—at the end of that I am apparently no better ofl, 1 still stand credited with nothing but the 96.000. Bat have I not really Improved my condition? Suppone even further—that during the time take to pay for my house, there has been a gen eral deputation of value*, and my bouse ap pears on the Ux-bcoks ib valued at fl,M) Have 1 gotten poorer aa the tax-book Implies? Have not prrspered in spite of the tax returns, because 1 have earned the money aud cleared my property trem debt? New to apply thia to Georgia. Doc* Mr. Stephcue not know that Georgia was laid over with mortga ge* tn 1970? Dora he not know that where there i* one man lu debt uow, there were twenty debt then? Does he not know that in the past tan year* thou and* of f*rmcrs have psudoutof debt, and Instead oi owning mortgaged land* and farming ou capital borrowed from their Danker, who borrowed it front the north, they no* a* rule bold their farms free from debt and Jawed to pledge their crop for the money to make It with? If be done not know these things, ■lightest investigation will convince him that they va« true. When, therefore, Mr. Stephen*'* figures (which were incorrect by 942,CUM<M showed that there had been a decrease ef 9*>.UX>,o.d since 1870 need not have beeu alarmed. He mud have Heeled that 1870 wa» the high tnrtaUon—just preceding the panic, and that value* have been hardening lowering ever since. We all know that a house intrinsically as valuable now aa then has now per cent !.m value in it, and that 91,000 now worth In purrhiaable power what 91.600 was then. We should fiud tt very easy, then, to account the lom of 9TO.OCIO.COO since 1*70 without admitting that the people were lc*« prosperous or growing poorer. W hllc values have been shrink tag everywhere, onr people have beo-t br and quietly paying off their debt*, clearing thetr mortgage*, and getting a little money ahoid. Any merchant, or any farmer, will tell Mr. phets that this la so. Uow, then, in the face these facts aud la the face of the fact that instead of losing 990.000.00d. aa ha claimed, we have actu ally gained 11.siO0.0Ud, aa the comptroller's books ahow—bow, in the lace of all this, can Mr. Ste phana persist in his claim that Georgia ha* grown poorer every year, and Is stIU growing poorer? rrrriso nix mattkb to thk bksl test. Rut let ur go further—let u* look at the case as ft stands. IIow has the state grown poorer rtnee lS?o: In a hat particular d > we find the claimed falling off? Isttlu population? It cannot be lu that, lor with only 1.1*3,000 people in 1870, Mr. Stephens himreM estimate* that the cctmts of tils yetr will give us 1,500,000, or an increase of stT.ctM, or about 90,000 a year. We arc richer, there lure, la meat and women—tn brain and brawn and astMda. But is the falling off in the abandonment o! lauds that were f. raerty tilled? This oumot be, lor In tyro we find there were W.189,'6- acre* of land tn caittvalioa: and in i860 we have*97,- 179,967 under cultivation—^showing that in lea yean we have reclaimed 4.149,119 acres, and given them their burden of crops In other words we have brought lnti> producUveue an avenge of about aCOOCO acre* a year. We surely find here no evidence of decay or falling But tt may be tn manufactures that we have grown poorar. as Mr. Stephens alleges. But that cannot ha, for tn nothing have we made such program as in manufacture. There Is not a who reads this article who cannot enumerate a dosen to a hundred new manufacturing cate:- prime that have been started in Georgia within the past ten year*, foe every one that has been abandoned. 1 predict that the ce >sus bulletins, dee ta a few days, wilt show that Georgia ploys to-day twice aam«r.y workmen and wa in factories, and that she manufactures twice the at of raw material at owe third better profit ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DEfcEMBEB 7, 1880. NO. 43 them depredation in oar homes, and their j ng»r«* X win let Mr. Stephen* bim-aif say j If there has. not been Immense improvement In 1 the bosaea of the people of Georgia tnlhe past tea year*. Take any dty, any town, any County and U»e Improvrment Is loo plain to go unnoticed. Bat has (hero troan an absorption of ami 11 for- tnora by buck men as Mr. Stephens hints there may have been? There has not been, but Just to the contrary. The tax-books show that the land Georgia the basic possession after all. la In the hsadsof nearly twice as many as la M70-and wmptroller general will so testify. Ttt* TSSTIMOXY OT THOSE WHO KXOW. But let ns aee wna: is the tedlmoayof tits peo ple themselves. I fell In with a few on yesterday. Bald Major Crane, (one of the most observant of >. « Any man who my a that tho people of Georgia not better off than they have been since the docs not know what be la telklr g about. I know that they are. and any merchant who deals with the fanners and country merchants knows It." Said Hon. Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe—"You are the right line. 1 laid you a year ago that the look* would ahow an Increase this year of ten fifteen millions—and so they have. I tell yon that they will ahow an increase of aa much more the opening year. The total will strike 93U0,- 000,(«u Inside of five years—and In twenty- five year* we will have tax-hooka showing aa much property aa In slave times—and sas96sO.OX.ttJO. Why. In Oglethorpe county put my haud on a dozen farms that ten years ago were considered worthless that are to day valuable properly." Bald Colonel Hardeman—"A few months since Wta Murphy went through seven counties look ing for a farm for a relative. He did not have a pk T5 of land offered at leas than 916 an sere, and finally bought In Gwinnett at 916 an acre. Ten yeara ago he could have bought tho same land for 96 to 98 an acie." Said King Bill Harris of Worth: "1 don’t know aleut the rest of Georgia—but I do know that place* in Worth county that I could have bought 1*7j for a rifle gnu. are now selling at 9*0u to .(09" 1 might fill oilman* with lhl« sort of testimony —and with It I might cover every county in Geor gia. Rut what fa the use? t will appeal with Mr. Stephens to any officer Georgia from governor down to tax-coilector through every department. If ft* of every hundred these do not testify that in their records and observation they find unbroken evidence that the Mate and the pcopl* are more prosperous than they have ever been, then I will acknowledge that be la right and I am wrong. Or let him take llOdflxena, merchants, fanners, manufacturers, bankers. Take these men from all clanies and all aectkus and let them be repre- itetire men. Then ask each man to testify from his own experience and knowledge. If 60 of this 100 do not declare that the people are better off than they have been in twenty year*, then Mr. fitephens stands Justified. respectfully suggest that It la worth Mr. Stephens’* while to look into this matter. His adverse statement Is qusted by the entire north ern and western press, as a confession from high quarters that the growth of Georgia has been aptnueutand not real; that her progre^t is all on paper; tluu the documents sent out by her de vilments; the utterances of her newspaper* are all fallacious and untrue. It has been my bumble ambition—the ambition ef The Coxsti* tittiow and the press—the ambition of our peo- plo—u» fairly put the progress Georgia has b.en able to make from the desolation In which the war loft her, so that the lecital might Invite capi tal and business and muscle for outside sources. We have labored to ao preaeut ihe truth that it might attract favorable attention and direct (be of wealth and labor that is enriching the Iks Baiidisg ef tbs Gscrgis Wsetsra Sxil- road—Tb* P-titLa of the Leals- tills aid Ssshvillt Rsilr: ad. In response to the call made by Mayor Calhoun for a meeting of atisens to take steps to secure the building of the Georgia Western railroad, a large number ot oar roost prominent business men as sembled in tbc hall of the chamber of com merce at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Mayor Calhoun was called to tho chair and Mr. Aaron Jlnas requested to act aa secretary. On taking the chair Mayor Calhoun stated that bis reasons tor calling the meeting were that be considered the building of the road absolutely eroe itial to the Welfare of Atlanta, and that eorae move ment looking Vo its construction should be inaugurated. Be referred briefly to the history of the'rof^T mention ing the fact that Atlanta bad subscribed tbres hundred thousand dollars toward the ad, and forty thousand d.dlars additional hi d been raised, all of which bad been ex pended. and we yet receive no benefits front it. The roni, he said, was sold under a mortgage and bought in by Grant, Alex ander A Vo., and subsequently was turned over to the Louisville and Nashville com pany for a nominal sum, with the express understanding that it would be built tbrougb to the coal fields at once. Aa the Louisville and Nr.rhville company now declines to build it, be w&s in favor of pushing it through without aid from that corporation and feared no hindrance on account of the charter. Mr W. H. Patterson produced a letter from General Alexander, whicl bad been received by him in rep'y to one asking for information on several points. Jn that let ter General Alexander Raid that he would not feel justified in turning over the road to a company which had no more strength than ta put down the iron and furnish the equipments for running no further than Douglasville, but that be would consider the matter of turning over the rcad-bed and charter, and taking that amouu*. of stock in a company which could do that much with a reasonable prospect of finishing the road to the coal field* st an early day. General Alexander thought that so weak a company would go into bankruptcy and the road be sold. Mayor Calhoun said be wa* confident that the charter could be secured from the Louisville and Nashville company, if enough money was raised to complete the road to Douglassville. Colonel K F. Maddox read the following letter from General Alexander, dated No vember 1G; fact too was recorded that since the first apparition several others of greater or less importance had occurred ana hundreds of miraculous cures had taken pbfte* “And," sold the reporter; "Voa have been added to thb list of the wonderfully cured?' ‘Ob, do, I was not cured. I was bettered a little, but not cured. There’s only about one in a thousand s ck people who go there get cured. I suppose 1 did not have, faith enough to pray hard enough.*’ "How tntich wele you bettered!" "Before I re ache 11reland I had no appe tile at alL When I got to Kucck ” •That was after a bracing aca-voyage the reporter interrupted. "Yea; after 1 got to Knock my appetite improved greatly. I was able to eat he-r- ^What iroproVcd your appetite?’ "I suppose it was visiting the cathedral. What else? I didn’t have any .spasms like those that got cured, so of course 1 couldn’t get well entirely, but a sore I had on my right leg for month* went away, and my hip got a good deal easier. I was in the cathedral for fourteen day* one after the ether.** "Whatmode the people have the spasmsT ’ "When they saw the Bleroed Virgin. It as terrible to Bee them taken. 1 saw four of them, and each of them eras entirely DEKALB’S TBAGEDY UNDERGOING LEGAL INVESTIGATION Tks Trial of Jolly, Oiargtd With the Harder cf Victoria Norris-Tko Discovery of tko Body ard tho lucid* at* Coa- aetted Tkenwiih Detailed* Jelly, Jim Jolly’s father, were there. Jolly rent fjr me to make the ccnfession. He sWore to it. Rnnell qualified him. Bnarell wrote the statement and re*.d It to him. Jolly said It was Correct. 1 don't know what became Monday, I think. It was made after Jolly was carried to the place where the skeleton was found. I got a note from Jolly, was the reason I went to hear his confession. It was left at Clarkston for *. I don’t know who left it there. I went to jail the next day. Willingham was not there. The sheriff opened the door for me. The others After all this labor, here comes a few words from Mr. Stephens that appears to confess that all that has been said. Is baseless boasting. Now 1 do not suggest that Mr. Stephens should abandon (xsitlOQ that he finds tenable—but I do say that he cannot occupy the position he has tekeu on this. He must see that he has erred in bis figures, aud in his conclusions. Wilt he not then do the state justice? It Is not possible, 1 takell, that having indorsed one sentiment ot General Toombs, he will indorse that other sen timent ol the general's, expressed wbenhesavs: "We don't want any immigration or capital I’d tike to build a wall aud fence the rest of the world out." H. W. u. Great Brllnln’n Troubles. Coos, December 1.—A barbarous outrage Dai been committed near Tralee on the bailiff who was in charge of a house from which tenants had been evicted. A party of armed men broke into the house and slit the bailiff's ears. The bailiff fainted from lose of blood. Dr it li if, December 1 —The Gazette con tains an offer of £1,00U reward for the dia- covery of the murderers of Mr. Wheeler, at Vola. The London Times aays, "The appoint ment of Mr. Shaw Lefevre, secretary to the admiralty, to succsed Right Hon. William P. Adams, as first commissioner of works, is significant. Ilis views in regard to Irish land ore well known. He bos made bim- elf a special champion of the clauses of the land act of 1970-^intcnded to facilitate the purchase of bolding ky occupiers. In conducting the Irish measures especially he will doubtleen prove an able lieutenant to Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Forster." A circular has been issued from the office of the chief secretary for Ireland, to the sessional crown solicitors, directing them not to absent themselves more than 14 hours at a lime from their respective coun ties without special leave, ai.d to report to Mr. Forster 4dl communications of the police in reference to outrages. A dispatch from Portsmouth to the News announces that 5,0UU marines sue to go to Ireland. A dispatch from Tipperary to the New* reports that the artillery detachment which went to New Pallas left their guns behind at Limerick. All the troops withdrew from New Pallas after the police of the gar rison had been trebled. It is stated that Lord Beaoonsfield will K reside at a meeting of conservatives of oth houses, which it has been deemed necessary to hold in view of the early meet ing o! parliament. The council of judges have resolved by a large majority to recommend the abolition of chief barony and chief justiceship of common pleas. Mr. William Rsthbone, liberal, has been elected member of parliament for Cannon shire to fill the vacancy caused by the ap- en exactly ihe same terms that auybedy else would put In their mouey. For Instance, 11 any other party will subsoil* cash for stock, we will take stock for what it cost us. This letter is very explicit on the points mentioned. It means simply that the Louisville and Nashville company will take s*ock in a new company, able to complete the read, and give the charter ar.d road-bed iii payment at the actual cost which it has beeu to them. Mr. B. K. Crane moved that a com mittee ot five, consisting of Messrs. W. L. Calhoun, R. F. Maddox, William Mark ham. W. H. Patterson and John Stephens be appointed to confer with the Louisville and Nashville company and learn if the charter cculd be secured by a company prepared to put the road in running order os far as Douglssvilie with a detemnnation to complete it as soon os possible. The committee is aho authorized to take charge of the matter of seeing how much can be raised here by tubscription, and to look into any plan which would fure ther the building of the road. Major J. F. Cummings was notin favor of allowing the Louisville and Nashville to die ate terms. Decatur, the point contem plated by General Alexander as the ter- minus ot tie road, was not in the di rection in which the road should be put. Major Cummings said it would take the road away from the cool ficlus, the point which we desire to reach. Mr Pattern n requested that Major Lock- bsrt be appointed oa the committee. Messrs. Crane and Calhoun thought it best to have none *"* citizens of Atlanta on the committee, as it waa a citizens’ meeting. Mr. H. I. Kimball said be did not object to the committee, but thought it best to raise what money we could by subscription and offer it northern capitalists as a bonus build the road. He thought it would cca two and one half million dollars. Colonel Maddox said the road would never be built under Mr. Kimball’s plan. General Gordon said he thodght Birming ham was the best terminal point, as two roads will soon be built from that place —one to Memphis, and one to a point on the Mississippi river midway between Mem phis and Vicksburg. The chairman then appointed the com mittee wnich is to take tne matter in hand and the ;ueet!ng adjourned. Tue committee is composed of Messrs. Calhoun, Maddox, Markham, Patterson and Stephens, aud will report as soon as they can get any satisfactory information. the horrible people that attended the church, I waa in a terrible ?tate. There were men with big lumps hanging down frotn their faces to their f boulders; men and women without noses that had been eaten off with cancers. It would make you shake to see eorae of them. After I got there I says to God, TU be thankful if You’U have me as I am and not make me any worse.’ ” "Will you tell me about some of the cures you witnessed?"’ "Yes. There was a deaf and dumb lady in the church while I was there one morn ing, and aA of a sndden she flung up her arms and screamed aud then fell flat upon the church floor. Here she bad the roost awful spasms 1 ever saw, and when they lifted her up she was saying a ’Hail Mary’ os natural as though she had beeu talkiug all ber life. She prayed for long time out loud before-she left the church. Her friends were del ghted and took her right off to Dublin, where she lived. Sometimes she would forget that she was cured and would begin to talk in the old way with her fingers, and then they reminded her of wbal the ltle sed Virgin bad done for her and she would talk as well as before she became dumb ” "There was another woman," continued Mrs. Carroll, “who was paralyzed from the shoulders down. She was wheeled into the altar of tire cathedral every day. One day the screamed out aud sprang from her chair and began walking about. Then there was a gentleman from America who was blind and who had his lungs badly affected. Oi.e day the sight came btek to bis eyes and the trouble in his lungs left him at the same time. Oh, yes, be had spasms just like the rest. Poor mar, he got quite well, and just as he was starting on Ids way back to America, he fell dead of heart disease. It's a strange thing, but it’s true, that those who get cared at Knock always die shortly afterwards." "That is very extraordinary.” "Indeed, it is. It was to in the v.*ry first care. The first one cured wes Miss Burn f5he was a blind girl who recovered her eyesight, but three months afterwards she died of consumption. The woman who got attack of heart "Did you know of any personal friend being cured?’ I did. 1.took to Knock with me ft blind girl—a cousin of mine, who lived at Balliu- garing. She had cataracts over her eyes and was stone blind. She prayed very hard and used the ceiuent aud holy water regu larly, and at last, although she had no spasm or fainting fit, her sight came back so ’hat she cculd see her hand when she held it up in front of her.” "How is the cement applied?” Mrs Carroll drew her porteuionnaie from her pocket and took from it a set of written directions for applying the sacred cement. It ran as follows: "how to use i The court-house at Deestur was pecked Tues day to hear the evidence lu the Jolly trial. The Jury wai secured without as much delay as was anticipated, and the caurt was ready for hearing the evidence by twelve o*4ock. Colonel Candler challenged the second panel of Jdron but fba challenge waa not sustained. Below we present a full report of the evidence which was delivered yesterday: Dr. A. o. Msyson wa* the firat witness called to the stand. He testified as follows: My name is A. 8. Mayson. My prolesdonis that of a physician. 1 have been practicing twenty-three years. I did not know Victoria Norri*. 1 went out to the place where th-i body vris found toexildlac It. I went with the coroner, I found the skeleioa back of the house .where Jolly is said to here lived. Do not know that Jolly lived there at ijojA^ne. A Mr. itoedG-.cat ttl^.a-vc.skeleton w» -r . 'uiw about one hundred *ndl!f»y yard* b&cHDifiho honse; near Where a branch had been. Tttfre was graveyard near by. I saw the body there. It was three or four Inches under the grotifid. It was in the edge of an old field. Jolly was not there at tire time. The ekeletcn was taken ap with care. It was complete, and nothing bat the bones remained. I made an examination with a view to determining whether it was the skeleton male or female. It waa that of a finale. [Here the witness explained to the jury by what means he determined the sex of the skeleton.J It was a female skeleton, and was of large size is were on the f*et—-foxed gaiters, fThe wit- wasshoWn shoes, and Identified them as the ones found on the murdered girl.] The shoes were In a tolerably good state of preservation when token off. We found also a cuff-button, hairpins and some hair. Ou croM-eXamioatiou^The hair was under the ■head. The cuff button was under the right haud. iw the things turned over to Dr. Green. This i in the spring of this ycer. Dr. J. H. Goss was called to the stand, and tes tified: My name Is J. H. Got*. 1 am a phyriclan. I haVeheeii practicing til yean. Was called on examine the skeleton. 1 found it about two hundred or two hundred and fifty yards west of north of- where I was told Jolly had lived. The body had been burled in a little swampy place. It was Lu a pateh of briers. Roots had grown all around the body, showing that it had beeu there some time. The soil was wet Where soil is very wet it will‘prevent decomposition. Or dinarily it would en»our«*e It- The nearest hollse was two hundred or two hundred and dlty yards away. There were no signs of zraveyard near where the skeleton was lying. I saw the body after it was taken up. When I ex amined the body It was tn the same pbrte where it was fcund. This was On the day after it was di covered. The bodv was buried about six inches : CEMENT OF KNOCK." MODERN MIRACLES. Say three Hail Mary’s. Put in the cement. Apply with a sponge twleve times; squeeze and apply twelve times more. Use twice a day as above.” "Archdeacon Cavanaugh’s directions.” Said the reporter after reading the pre- cription, "did your cousin see the Blessed Virgin during her prayers?’ "No, she did not. She would have Lad spasms and been entirely cured if the had.” "I suppose Mr. Cavanaugh is quite pop ular?' if ever a blcrscd man lived it is he. If ever any one had a place prepared for him in heaven, be is the man. If you could only see him in the cathedral among the sick; if yon could see them pulling him hero and there, some of them jerking his sleeve, others pulling his coat-tails, and all of them wanting to speak to him; if you could see all this and the beautiful pa tience with which he bear3 it all, it would do you good. 1 wish some of ourpnests here could go and take a lesson from him in patience ” "Do many sick people visit the cathe dral?’ "It cannot begin to hold them all. For three days—August 14,15 and 10 last—when the anniversary of the Virgin’s appearance was celebrated, there were 35.000 present. The three acres of land sutroundtng the church was crowded and the roads were full of people. It was a grand sight, sod at night when every one took a candle and joined in tbc procession the sight *xas beau tiful. Every one carried a candle, and, though the prccc?ston occurred on each of three nights, not a single light was quench ed. On the night of the 15th the people on the outside ot the church saw beautiful lights ap{iear in the heavens whila the Experiences or a Chicago I*a«lj at Knock. Chicago Tribune. Thursday afternoon a Tribune reporter met ex-County commissioner Patrick Car- roll, who, though as a rule one of the jolli- esl and best-tempered of men, on this oc casion exhibited such an exuberance of happiness that an explanation waa de manded. Mr. Carroll at first declined to account for the display of jollity, but finally he acknowledged that what made him so happy was the fact that his wife, who had last July visited Ireland as on invalid for the purpose of testing the efficiency of the remarkable curative agencies which work in the famous cathedral of Knock, had returned a few days ago her home in Chicago —— — —•- •———— —j —~ —j- - «, -... •»— — very poinlmeni of Mr. Watkins Williams os one ' much relieved iu every way. The malady of tha justices of tho court of queen's bench. : was hip joint disease of several years stand- Mr. Rathboce d feats Mr. R. J. Ellis Van , iff,, aud the medical skill of several Cbi- ney, conservative, by 1 0£> votes. Mr. Rath- | cago physicians had not been able to ira- bone represented Liverpool in the last par- j prove her condition, which, of course, 1 lament. I made the miraculous care effected at Knock Sheri Ali, who governed Candahar under [ even more miraculous The reporter found the British throughout the war, has ob- some little difficulty in doing so, but after tsiced the viceroy s permission to retire to much persuasion and argument, Mr. Csr- Ir.dia with his family. I .oil allowed that so wonderful a case should ! not be conceded from the public, and that j if a reporter visited his house at No. 681 ' West Fourteenth street on the following there. Nothing in the wsy of whisky was taken Into the Jail that I raw. After Jolly's statement I saw a naif pint flask of whisky. I think Mr. Willingham had it Be rave Jolly a dram. Russell wrote statement. Willingham at Id he ought to be sworn. Russell swore him. The jApeT wis signed. I don’t know what became of it. Have read it In tne paper. Willingham told him for God's sake to tell the truth; it would do him no good to drag an innocent man into pun ishment. Willingham told him it would be better to tell the truth j There had been threats wade. I do not know where Jolly ikent. I doh’t k«lnt» how he was brought back, it is said Willingham did it. Re-airect. The dram was giYen sfter Jolly made the confession. He was sober at the time. Council for the defense moved to rale out the testimony relative to the confe-slon and the motion wa* eustatnxd on the ground that as the confession had been reduced to writing, that writiugwaathe highest evidence and should be produced in court. J. T Willingham testified as follows: My uamotsJ. T. Willimshara. I live at Stone loantate.. .1-huawJ. M. Jetty: had n slight ac quaintance x 1th Miss Morris; the lived with Jot ilyi iunderstand; don’t know of my own knowl edge. I Aent to Mlssbrippi after Jolly. I went Mississippi. 1 arrested him and brought him back to Georgia: had a conversation with Jolly on the way osek. lie asked me if anything was charged against him except the cotton scrape. I did not say anything about the Norris esse until Wednesday. We were then at Grand Junction. I told him if the cotton stealing Was all he would not have been broneht back. He asked why. I asked li!. its and vest, that wa* found under the stump; fie did not remember them; he remem bered ti ' ‘ clothes,^ thy muddy clothes which were left a icgoflt. I asked him if he koew anything of Victoria Norris he said he did not I told film there waa great excitement, that the body had been found) aud a coroner’s jury nad charged him with the murder. 1 asked him if he remem bered Jackson who killed Thompson; he said be did; .1 told him that If the reports about the cor- ’* Jufy were traa that Jackson’s cese Wc went out !n sdnshlue and eat j gras>. I remarked: "Some sa Is not dcad. ,p He said: "She Is." "Are certain?” I asked, "Tea.” Then lasted: kill* <1 . little soil was re- of tho skeleton when found, was with the head south- 'ift&i was no coffin and fio I remarked: "Some say she T 'ibo her ?” raid: "Rill Wea ver.” He then went ou to tell me that the three started to Atlanta—she horse balked and he returned home. Weaver and Victoria Norris went on to the city, and while returning Weaver attempted to outrage her per son Cud EhitR he?. The witness then testified that he wa* in the jail at the time of the confession, and swore to the faeta already given. He said tho statement was carried by him to The Constitution for pub lication at Jolly’s request. The cro revealed nothing more o! interest. The defense moved to rule out Willingham's evidence, but the motion was not sustained. broke her neck and carried her back. He • said he dragged her part Of the way and : buried her hurriedly. H. C. Jones testified: My name is H. C. j Jones. 1 am an attorney in this county. 1 knew Miss Norris; have known her since 1865. 1 am the administrator of her father's j estate. Her father died in 1872 or 1873 At the time of her disappearance ^e lived ! with James Jolly. I have never bought 1 any property for Victoria NorrD. I gave j her and Mrs. Veal the money to buy the < trunks. I purchased some shoes for Victo* ’ rta Norris. They were cloth gaiters. The \ shoes found on the skeleton looked like them. I have funds belonging to Victoria Norris. W. R. Hurrst testified: I was one of the justicts who held the preliminary trial of Weaver. 1 was the preliminary justic*. Jolly was sworn. His testimony was writ ten down. 1 did cot get possession of it. I don’t know where it is. I did not return it to the cierk of the superior court. We cau tioned Jolly not to criminate himself. He would break down in his testimony whenever he started to speak of what happened at Ihe branch. He asked that the room be cleared. It was done. Jolly leaned his head on the table and wept. He asked for mercy; He had no counsel Cross-examined: Mr, L. J. Winn threat ened to have him put on bread and water if he refused to testhy. .xtiUrjrry? J. W. Kirkpatrick, an associate justice, testified to substantially the same thing as Dr. Hurst, with the exception Of the threat made by Mr< Winn. Thomas J. JsCkson and J. H. Kimbrell, so justicts at the prelitcicarv trial of ’eaver, testified concerning the taking down of the testimony. W. A. Jackson testified to living on the place where Jolly formerly resided, and to the finding ol locks and trunk-irons in a brush-heap. Mrs. J. M. Bagwell testified to seeing Jolly pass her house with a trunk on his wagon soon after Victoria Norris disappeared. He was going toward Clarkston with it. Mr. H. V. Bayne testified: I am the or dinary of DeKalb county. I went down to see the skeleton; Captain Hunter, Jolly and myself went. Thej sheriff asked me to go. Had a conversation with Jolly as we went ou. He said he was sure he could tell where the grave was. Jolly pointed out where the body was buried. He told me that when he got to the branch with Victoria Norris the horse stopped. He went back. He left Vic and Weaver sitting on a log. When he got back the girl was dead in the road Weaver said: "Jim, I have killed Vic." 1 never asked Jolly any questions about it; I SIMON SAYS JIM CAN BE RE - ELECTED IN 1884, And Proceed, to Tell Wb,t Bo Knom Alwnt Pol ■tic, and Oudldatoi nod Campnlgu— Blaise Closeted with Gerfiold-Ihe Popular Tate tor Pretid.it. THE NATION’S NEED INCITING PATRIOTIC SOLICITUDE Mrs. Gorfisld to Ooatiant the Beform Business at the Old Btand—A Democratic Platform Ostlined—Senator Booth’s Pros- psetivs Successor. PntLAbXLPHiA, November 29.—In an in terview with ex Senator Simon Cameron, published in the Press, the veteran politi- cim said: "This was far the bitterest cam paign I tver saw.” There were present at the time Benjamin H. Brewster, ex-attor- ney general ol the slate, and Pay Director Cunningham, of the navy, the party havre'- met by chance, l .have great faith in Gen eral Garfield,” he continued. "He has had the severe test of poverty and a hard pull all the way. He has a great opportunity, and if he correctly appreciates the popular feeliog which gave him this high office, with all Its great possibilities, he will con fer upon this community blessings which will l' 1 ' *«* testing as his fame*” In answer to a question, Mr. Cameron said: "General* Gaifield’s future is in his own hands, and he will be his own succes sor unless he neglects the opportunities which crowd upon him. I am in favor of supporting his administration in every way, and if itbe such as to commend itself to the whole republican party, os I believe it will, I have no hesitation in saying that he shonld be re-elected. Indeel, he will find tio more earnest supporters, either during bis administration or for his future advancement, than myself and all other stalwarts. None of General Grant’s friends think or have thought of making him a candidate for the pretidenn* in 1884. General Grant himself has not, 1 believe, ever had such a thought* He is the most unselfish man 1 ever knew; besides, he has taken too active a part in the late contest in behalf of Gen eral Gai field Cor even his friends to put him in antagonism to General Garfield for re- election, unless Garfield should commit some flagrant blunders, not r.ow to be thought of, which would raise a popular clamor for some other candidate. General Grant is yet a young man, and at some future time, after General Garfield has been not find her. J. H. Hilton, Jolly’s nearest neighbor, testified Jo seeing him burn the brush heap where tiie tfunk was said to have b©?n burred. With that testimony the state rested its case. The prisoner retired with his counsel -i-~ T-»-r.—c--- a I for consultation, and returning announced tho' S.&SS Sat Kt 8& ““ tt > he defense ato-W introloce do testi- down. Jt was mode freeU br Jolly. mony. Jolly did not moke any statement. Seaborn Weaver, the yoiing iii&ntowkom I and Colonel Candler opened the argument # •. „ ruture ume, auicr vici.vtat uaa ukj A-bn^ l-Lnah l^tmedto making in- f, ullj SuhJSk « irl ln and could cSUal^aitfa future. He Liable showed that there had been several garments. The girl hnd evidently been buried in a very rude manner. I mode ou examinal.ou ot the skeleton. I am on expert It was a skeleton of a female. I Here the witness explained to the jury by what mean* no determined the sex of the skcseiou.] The skeleton was positively that of a female. It was complete. There were shoes on the feet [ffitues* was shown the shoes.] These are the shoos. They are uot as well pretenred as then. 1 guess you would call them (falter shoes. They are high-quartered, such os are Wdra by l&dles. I Judged that the body bad been there a year or two. In answer to a que&tirm by the court: There were no marks ol violence except a broken rib, I think. I did not examine closely. CrobS-examined by CoL Candler! The rib was in left side. I could not swear to seeihg the rib. The remains had not been dis ntened entirely when I got (here; tho head* was toward the south; the body was a little west of north from the house; I was in a atrango locality aud cannot be pcsitlvo ab att the direction. G. W. Weems was placed upon the stand: My name Is G. \V. Weems; 1 lire ln this conuty; I know met skeleton that this county; I with James Jolly and Captain Hauler At ’Squire Carter’s. Mr. Fincher, and Mr. Bayne ana Mr. Russell were with them. I think Mr. Ramspcck and Mr. Cain were with them. We went down to the place where the body was found. Just before we got to the place July soldi "hold ou, Jim, I’m ruuniog this talag." lie was showing the way. We threw down tne fe roe, and threw brush out ot the road to get along. Jolly said, “there lathe place." Hunter took out the shovel which we hod ln the wagon. I took it from Hunter. Jolly sold, "there is the niece." I cut around in the dirt to liltout a big spade full. I struck only oue or two licks. The spade struck in the mouth and broke out two teeth.. We raked the dirt out with “. did not hem Jolly say A large crowd gathered as the woods were full ofpt* pie looking for the bydy. We started bock. One of the trace sbroke >■ we a up a slant. The crowd caught tne wagou, . moaono effort to hurt Jolly, We found the body in a low place ln the edge of a swamp, was an old field near where Joby lived, found tho skeleton la about two hundred and all night and until the coroner came next day. had dug near there before while looking for the body, aud had dug ati over the plantation. The branch Is ten steps from where the skeleton was found. The place did not look like any one was buried there. Briers had grown ten leet long ever the place. Jolly told u* where to dig. Some one asked him how the body lay. He told how it was. We found It that way. That is all 1 heard him say. :o;s-exanuned—Hunter Is the sheriff; Bayne isordiusiy. They went out the LswrenoeTille rood. 1 saw the first of them at ’Squire Carter’s. The place is half a mite irom there. Jolly had lived there last yet were lu a wagon. Ficcher, ;nayne. Jolly and myself were ia the wagon. I raid no attention to Jolly being chaiuej. Don’t know A ratrlnslisz Woman. Special dispatch to The Oaastitutioa. Naw You, December L—Mrs. Theresa { day, Mrs. Carroll would supply him with Reiauruchneider. alis Auerbach, alias ! all the desired information on the subject. Grau, alias Temple, a prepoe-1 The reporter called yesterday morning teasing woman 25 yean old, wa> ! upon Mrs. Carroll, who. though not a pie- arrested to-night in Brooklyn, charged with , tare of robust health, looked remarkably " * * ~ ** v *’* * r whoa few months before had precarious health that many N. J.. and elsewhere for the simple purpo-*-1 predicted that &he would not be able to of robbing them. She will be taken to 1 stand the trip to the seaboard, let alone the Newark for trial. j voysg.* across the ocean. FigbiiwK*by Pain. Before proceeding to question Mrs. Car- Bcetow Test. ■ ro ** sp^ahcd'ly upon tue subject of her T hat grand free fight, the campaign, is over, cu e. the reporter conversed wuti her gen- and ail ihe papenarw nowseuhng down to qoar-; crally upon the extraordinary curative rating by jaJp. Tn* AtlastaGo**tottjo* and a*?aciesat work in the little Irish cathedral. as?® gs’sisssaitss.ss I York Post ora whaling away at each other, the > ,own m the in m Chicago Times and tee &. Lous Republican bars cMachcd, and so with lots o4 others, iteckan we must tackle the Phtiadelj his Newt or the Con. cord Monitor and make it unck the very o'd boy but I was in the church that night, praying. Sunday, August 15, there was a great deal of ex iitement, and a large number of cures occurred. But I dm’t know. I can’t help thinking that there was more excitement than anything else, and that many people thought they were cured when they were not cured. The first few days I was at Knock I was not able to get into the church there was such a crowd, and when 1 did get in I found that the church had no teats and no floor. We hod just to stand up in the mud. It is the l*oo rest leaking church I was ever in." "Drrn’t the people who get cured help to support it?’ "They make presents of carpets, and pic tures, and altar ornaments, but no money. I r-ever heard of anybody giving money, ard no collection is ever taken up in the church. Nothing is dene that would teu-1 to keep the poor sick from attending ita services. The poor people who get cured leave their crutches and plasters on the wails as a remembrance of tbeir cure. There is a large press on the outside of the church against the wall which is full of these things.” "What arrangements exist for thezerom- medation of visitors?" "There are very goodhotete and boarding houses at Knock, and the prices ore verv reasonable. I lived about a mile and a half from the church, and drove there every morning in a car and hick again at night. The poor people live in the open air day and night. Oa the oib of Aagust I saw hundreds of cots ranged outride the church in the open air with people sleeping in them. These were for the very poorest of the visitors; for those who were not so poor there were sleeping-tents where tents and a covering could be had for very little money.” RAILROAD MAN1PULVT ONS. targe crowd in hearing. No oue tried to hurt Jolly. The sheriff was not ln a hurry to get away with him. Re-direct—It was after tits body was revealed that the trace broke. I stayed there all night unul the next day and the body waa not ala- turbeJL Thomas H. Fincher testified as follows: My name is Thomss H. Fincher. I live in DeKalb county 1 did not know Victoria Norris. 1 knew Jol y. He lived near Clarkston.. 1 saw Jolly >lace where the girl was buried was not known lolly told they were logo out a out there.?Jolly had been back only a few days; do not know where he had been gooe. Jolly lived which way the head and feet lay; he pointer with his hands, aud directed Weems where to put the shovel; JoUy mode him move the shovel sev Victoria Norris was engaged to be married, was the next witness called. He testified as follows: My name is Seaborn Weaver. I live in JeKaib county. I knew Victoria Norris} knew het itioru than.a ycarj she lived with James Jolly; I don’t know how old she was; she wns ’grown; 1 went to see her eighteen months; 1 was with her the second Sunday in July. 1877. _ . is with her at Jolly’s house. Went to church with her tbfit day. \Y*nt home with her. I went home about dark. The day was fiied for our marriage. It was the twelfth.of the following November. 1 have not seen her from that day to this in life. I went back to Jolly’s the next Sunday. She was not there. As l went up. Jolly was standing oulsld£ and epoka to n»e. He said "your gal ia gone.” I asked him where. He said to Morgan county. After he said that he walked on, and did not want to talk about it. Wc did t ot have any further convereatiort that I itrtiember. He did not toy what she was going for, except- that she rrwa going to b«r kinfolks. I wrote to her at four different plac». I wrote to Rut ledge and did not get an answer, and to Buckhead and Greeneitoro. 1 wanted to i ee if I could hear from her. I went nowhere to look forjher. I have never received any communication from her. Jolly did not tell me whete to write to hen Cress-examined: It wes on the sccoud Sunday in July, 1877. I remember it be cause it was the last time I ever saw her. I told several that 1 was there till that day. 1 don’t know who I told firct. It had been in my mind ever since I was there ’ was not a witness in _ trial of W. 1\ Weaver. He is my uncle. The church we went to is Rehobeth church: it is not far from Jolly’s bousei we walked over there; I forget who preached; someone preached; 1 don’t re member the day of the month { it was ln July, 1877. 1 had told her I would be back the next 8uuday i I always told her when I was coming. I went into the house the day Jolly told me she was irone; I mailed the letters at Stone Mountain. She was in good health; weighed about 175 pounds. I think she was about twsniy years old. She worked for Jolly in the field. Mrs L. A. Veal testified: My name is L. A. Veal. Victoria Norris was my sister. She was seventeen years old at the time she disappeared. She was six feet, one and three-fourth inches high. 1 have two other sisters. One lives three miles from Stone Mountain; the Other lives with me. My sister Victoria lived at James Jolly’s. Sbe went there in Febru ary and lived there until the next July year. I did not know she waa gone for a month after she left. I saw my sister iu May of 1677. She went to Jolly’s to get work. He said be would take her os one of the family. Jolly and his wife came to iny home. They had two letters: one of the letters was from Henry Jones. 1 told Jolly it was strange Henry Jones knew my hus band eo well when my husband did not know him. Jolly said he told Henry Jones to write the letters. I told him I wonld go with him to Atlanta to see the Henry Jones who wrote the letters. He said he was not there as he had moved. He turned pale and walked out. I went to Mor gan county last Christmas to see toy half sister. They said Victoria bad not been there. My sister wore No C shoes. 1 know oi the trunk. 1 bad one just like it. There were two locks on each of the trunks. I have seen the locks that were found in the burat-beap. (Witness shown lock ) This looks like the lock. I have tried the key. The fcame key that fitted my trank lock fitted that of my sister’s Ha was followed by Mr. C. J. Simmons, who is agisting Mr. HilL Solicitor General Hill delivered one ol the most effective arguments he has ever made, in the cou>seof which he was interrupted by the ftrrival of the hour for adjournment Thursday. Further proceeding* of the trial on the second page of this issue. THB SHOW AND SLEET. Heavy Star ■ all Through the SG?Sh and West. New York, Deceni"rr All mail trains due here this morning experienced more or lest danger in consequence of a snoifr storm. Trains at the Grand Central depot were de tained from thirty mii/aUs two hours. Over the Pennsylvania road the detention of trains was much greater. The mail) for New York, leaving Boston at 6p.ni. and landed by the steamer Maryland at Jersey City, arrived there three hours late. The great southern mail * J T ~“ sey . City over about _ to take care of himself. "General Grant, with all hisstreugth, is a good-natured man, and con, and will, adapt himself to almost any situation which mav arise. It is nol important to settle his immediate future. Ho is well enough off and Is enjoying himself in taking aAcason of rest, to whicu his great services to the country entitles him. The roost important matter, aa I feel now, is togive an emphatic, unequivocal denial to the stupid talk about his being in training for the presidency in 1884. "There are many fields of it fiuence and honor open to hiui. There are a gr< at many enterprises lhat would be glad to have his great ability and ripe experience and pay liberally for them. There are public tta- tionsat hia command at home and abroad. The proposition to raise a fund as a sort of pension for him I look upon n* next to an unwarranted insult to himself find friends, which, though It mav be meant in good part, savors very ui«lch of au effort to hu miliate him. The people of this country owe General Grant too much to permit him to remain idle.- or be dependent upon chari ty, and this passing round tbc hat ostensi bly in his interest I regard c* not much less than s national disgrace "I believe that Garfield understands and appreciates the situation and the necessity But little has been arid in any of the republi can newspapers about Mrs. Garfield, who is tho prospective " first lady of the land.” The Wash ington correspondent of the Boston Herald throws some light on the subject in the following remarks about the lady: • She is an accomplished hortess as well as an ac complished woman—they’re two very different things. Living as the Garflelds have had to live, tu the most economical way, doing without ele gant clothes, fine furniture, sumptuous food, but with good, new and rare old books, dearer than all else to them, they have contributed more to make Washington winter life pleasant and prof itable than many other families who have supplemented less taste and culture with more money. Mrs. Garfield’s receptions have ^ been the largest ever held by the wife of a mere re presen tativc. They have far surpassed those of more ambitious senatois’ wives, and have ap proximated those of the ladles of the supremo court and cabinet families, in rise merely, ln attractions they have stood abreast of any of tbem. This simply because Mrs. Garfield Isa sweet-tempered, cultured, refined woman. In whose smile it is a pleasure to bask. When we consider that, without allowing her manifold cares to interfere with the performance of her social duties, she has managed her establishment alone, and personally conducted the training of her boys for college, we can conceive her superi ority. with all her social success, to the mere "society leader." General Garfield is the president of onr literary society, and during the past year It hsa met at his house. It was more pleasantly entertained there than it has ever beeu before. Mrs. Garfield exerted even her latent social powers that night, and it was diffi cult for the guests to break away from her de lightful parlors. The latter, enire nous, were and are furnished in the style of Noah. That makes no difference, of course, although the contrast be tween them and those which some of the guests had left at home was marked. There waa some thing really pathetic to me in the information telegraphed fiom Cleveland ti\at ^General • Mrs. Garfield were purchasing furniture and a sealskin sacque. However, they can afford to gratify their taste for four years now, and forget the pinched past. What we here rejoice in is that, when Mrs. Hayes steps out and Mrs Garfield steps into the whito house on the 4th of March next, there will be no abrupt turning ln the course of the prealdentiai, rather the Mia Presidential social customs and decrees. Whether the diplomatic corps has Its delicate palate tickled with lemonade and water at state dinners or not, we may be sure that whisky and the white house divorce four yeara ago will not be reunited in unholy bonds during Mr. Garfield's administration. It is needless to say that Mrs. Hayes will be missed. She will be misst d by many of whom the world knows noth ing, wants to know noihlug—the naked, hungry^ sick and in priton, unto whose wants she has ministered "all so silently;" bnt regret will not be so poignant as it would be were the to be suc ceeded by au inferior woman. It Is learned here from an authoritative source that the 9J.0.0Q0 presidential pent ion fund started by George Jont?, of the New York Times, prom ises to be a success. Over SiOO.OOO has already been raised. Jay Gould has subscribed 926,900; W. H. Vanderbilt, t?o.C00; John M. Forbes and others in Boston, 950,000; Mackey, the Nevada bonanza king, 925,OCO. Ten contributions give 95,000 each, making 950,000. The balance is to be raised In Pennsylvania by Don Cameron and his friends. It is expected that wtthiu a few days the formal announcement will bo made that the cn- rof 9*50,000 has been raised. It is said, too, that the fund Is to be always subject to tho management of those who make contributions. arrived at Jer- he Fennsylva- .... • road at 7*29 n. m. ; instead of 6:21, its advertised time. The mails from the west wore detained while Coming over the Pennsylvania railroad one hour and six minutes. The mail from New England failed to connect with the south bound train. This last is the fast mail, whose n-iuthern connections were first made on 8undajr last. All railway officials reported this morning that the snow waa blinding in their run to New York. New OfeLxtK*, December L—The weather is parily cloudy arid sultry, the thermome ter being at 76 at noon, aud being unfavor able for the cane crop. Cur*coan, N. H., December 1.—A heavy snow storm is Prevailing, six inches having 'nlready falleu It is drifting badly in the country, and the trains are delayed. New’York, December 1.—A special from Dostcri states that a heavy snow storm is prevailing throughout New England, three inches of snow having fallen . here. The snow was about foot inehes deep at Cat- skill this morning, ftfad the ice blockade is almost impassible. Koumdout, December I.—A beating north* east snow storm is raging in thia city and bick country. The snow is now eight inches deep. This storm, it ia thought, will end all river navigation between the Cats- kill and Hudson and this port. It probably will not make much difference with the river from Koundont to New York. •rue htlletto’ln Polities. New York 8tar. A correspondent having written to The At lanta Constitution, putting the inquiry: " Do yon believe that Kelly sold out the democratic jury In New York?’ the answer waa returned: " We do not know that he did; the writer doubts k very much " Por the information of the editor of Tin; Con stitution, who thus frankly confesses his doubt* u a subject concerning which many varying as sert bed; it was a low place In an enclosure; the cia-est hou e was where Jolly had lived. I heard Jolly’s statement; he said she was buried the sec ond time; that she was killed at the branch; ■be was first burled rear there and taken up in about two weeks aud moved and b >rkd again. He and Weaver took her up bcc rase the buz zards were after her, and rhe war exposed. Wear er became uneasy because she knew of his and Jolly’s conduct—stealing cotton lrom Bryson’s gin. MBs Norris knew of it and Weaver proposed to put her out of the way. That wasinJuiy, 1ST*. Jolly said that If the did tell it would not use tneir live*. They then made an agreement to kill her. Weaver was to go to Jolly’s bouse be fore day. They were to start to Atlanta and kill and put her awat before they returned. Weaver reached Jolly’s house at three o'clock at night. He called at the gate and asked Jolly if he ready. ‘ *“ is to pay. We want- sized town in the county ef Mayo, tray, however, saving of course its wonder ful cathedral, different from ether places of like size and importance in Ireland. It was on the evening ol August 21.1879 —the eve of the Octave of the Assumption— Hew *o Whip the North. that the pariah church became the scene of Kates ton MrsMiurr [ a Angular and behutiful spectacle. At 8 The scuth ln«d to whip the north in war. and o’clock that night, the light of day still “Jr?- Tt ’*y.° lh . trig! to Whip ill, nonh in ‘ b, mg prewnt. an apparittoa ot the bleKd S?wh*bttLrottiJT7LptMMw! 1 ^u!u ' Virgin appearedoouid. it* chuich just in is by tmii-linr manufactories, and supcdylcEthe 1 raor of the altar, accompanied on her right wants of thesouthera people at tease Ne blood | side br St. Joseph, and on her left aid# by need be shed In this fi#nt. Not a 4roj\ Tne . St- John the evangelist, attired as a bishop may have a bkodkas. bat an effectual o( tfac Holy church. The apporation lasted Tlc ** y ’ J for two hours, daring which time it was The CeMtltsilse me m Kwmher. i seen bv a number of people. No photograph was taken of it. this excellent and reliable General Alexander Becomes .Praetl rally President or the Louisville and Nashville Bnilroad. New Yobk. December 1—At a meeting of the Louiavill* and Nashville railroad di- told him he would he ate breakfast. asked Weaver to break test but be would not eat While talkiei “ ' breakfast. be would i Victoria Norris called him to lug > . _ breakfast. After breakfast the thiee started to A tan la tn a wagon. They went in the direction ofClaxkstoo. It waa intended that the horse thooid balk at the brauen. Jolly pretended that the horse hoiked They all got out and he lett Weaver and Victoria Norris sitting on a tog oo the ride of the road and re turned to tne house. He went back to where he had Lft Wearer aud the glrL Weaver bod choked the girl to death. Tney pica ed her np, one bj the head and one by the feet. trunk. My sister had some jewelry—a breastpin ar.d two rings. The pin was rent to me in a letter which came from Mississippi. I have not seen Jolly since bis arrest until this morning. She bad some block sleeve buttons, I think. I bad a con versation with Jolly abont ber leaving. He said they left before day, and had started to Atlanta. He said the horse got sick. She told biru sbe bad started and would go on if sbe had to walk. Jolly says he went back aud put up the horse and then went nearly to Clarkston with her. She was lo go on to Decatur ar.d atop with Mr. H. C. Jor.es>. Mr Jones is not related to ns, but he is the administrator of my father’s estate. Cross examined: It was two years before I went to Jolly’s house. It was abau tbs 30;h of August that beard my si-ter was r.ot Jolly’s. I tried the key in the lock al Clarkston. It was a key that, unlocked to|.h trunks. It fit the lock that was found in the brush heap. J. T. Veal testified: My name te J. T. VeoL I am the hus*band of Mrs. L. A. VeaL JoUy married one of my sisters. W. ~ —* - ’ * —*— of Senator Hoof It's Successor. Ban Francisco, November 90.—The repubti- -AQS are confident that General Miller is their strongest man and according to the best human judgment they can safely count upon bis election by Charles O'Connor for attorney general. The state convention gave no heed to bis wishes, pre ferring to consult the desire of the whole body of the democracy. The result waa that Mr. Tilden handed around the stiletto and the ticket vu defeated. Again, in 1877, Mr. Tilden desired the nomina tion of certain candidates on the state ticket. A gain the convention failed to yield to his selfish attempt to dictate to the party. A sccoud time ‘ e stUletto flaal* J ough not with I _ - - — ...e democratic ticket was chosen, bnt with a marked disparity in majorities. These two instances ill nitrate Mr. Tllden’i methods in politics. Tammany's poeitic- county committee. It relied, „> da, upon the managers ol the assembly districts or subordinate organizations lor the car rying ont of the details ol the canvass. The re sult showed that quite two-thirds ol the districts Tammany r * position in the canvass was that of e than met expectations. thorough preparation. Four years ago < and started np the branch with her. 8he was too t u w ber last in the spring of 1877. I had heavy for them and f 1 *** K — ** —- 1 - * c — dragged her by the for local pari lions, and for perfecting the organ i- ztiious. This year the convention, at which the reunion ol the party must necessarily be inaugu rated, was postponed until the last days of hep- tembtr. i has, the substantial work of the month was made to consume the precious days of Cclo ser. As a natural consequence, election day may come without the opportunity for thorough prepa- Brosccators of offenders generally consider tint when a motive for the commisrien of a crime has beeu clearly established, hall their labor Is co- complished. Now. it is well known that Tam many hallond iis leaders were abundantly satis fied with the nomination ot Hancock. It is equally well known that Mr. Tilden was deeply chagrined over his defeat at Cincinnati; that be chafed under his disappointment, and did not hoi: ate to express resentment over his prostrated future. ., . , Herein are direlosei the motlree which In- flat need each cement in the canvass. While Tammany set abont to enhance the strength of the nomination, and to illustrate by vigorous work its faith in ita succtra, Mr. Tilden was will ing u> see ihe prophecy of hia Wends made good In the success of the republican ticket. Hia method of 1871 and 1837 bad been tried and prov- ; ed. for harmonious action by all the elements of his iiafiy, find to secure this all must be called into requisition In the work be has to do. His election is the tno»t important place since Lincoln’# first election ; Gar field's success means the destruction of sectionalism in America, and before another presidential election the solid south ought to bo a thing of the past The shrewdest men of that section are now beginning to see the *he current of public opinion in the north and are setting their faces in the right direction. \V hat the south wants is material prosperity, mor? money and more industrious people. These it must get from the north, and to get them, there must be a better civilization there. They must ehow a higher respect for the rights *»f capital and of persons. The south must acquiesce heartily and fully in ihe rcsulta of the war, and must unhesita tingly respect the civil and political rights of all men and of all classea, block and while. It is 2 tv* land t and the southern people have many good impulses, but what they want and must have is less sentiment and more practical effort The young men especially are getting to understand this, and are breaking away from the ©Jd tradi tions and the old leaders, and this defeat will help them to do it They see that they have been tied to the corpse long enough. And when this element finds a held leader it will get courage enough to rebel,and when ever and Wherever it does act with vigor and intelligence it ttill win. The ansteforat- ic element declares that fnls revolt is by the ‘niggers’ and poor whiles. Very well; that may be true; but iv is the majority element in every southern state, whicn will compel respect for its rights by ita moral force, for the very theory of our govern ment is that tb* majority must rule. Any how, the rich and ileavt -landed are never the first to move in revolutionc, find that is ♦hat thia is. Mahone in Virginia Is giving an example of what can be done with force and intelligence. I regard his movement as of the *rsafest importance, far above petty politics and small politicians. It means a freedom of thought find expression far the black man of Vir ginia. and indeed the whole aotttb, that can be obtained in no other woy than by the success of justsuCh a revolution as he has inaugurated. Ex-Governor Brotrn, of Geor gia, I see, is also leaning in tiresome direc tion, and has a great opportunity if he will only embrace it, as I believe he wilL He is a broad man, and, like Mabone, has an intelligence and position which cannot be gsinsayed. This independent spirit must be aided a.id encouraged in every possible way, for it ia Ihe only solution of Ihe south ern question, and really the only way to aid the sou’htru people.” Tbe Fopalar Vote of 1880. We print this morning a table of the complete popular rote for president of ike Unfted States, u canvassed tn allot the statea The total vote for president is 9,192,563, which Is divided as follows: 4,439,714 4,436.060 could fill ihe senatorial chair with dignity. There will be ten republican majority in the legislative nd possibly one in the assem- a tie vote is yet to bo Senator Booth’s friends freely m for re-election, but ln a full caucus he would have no show against Miller. Should the agencies at work to prevent this full caucus be successful, it is difficult to foresee Uie ending. On the assembling of tne legislature the voting will either be iml&ntly conclusive or there will be prolonged bitterness. In the latter case it would not be surprising if tho name of James C. Flood, the "bonanza king,” shouM be started as a democratic candidate for senatorial honors with the solid vote of his party, which lie ta certain to have, and of the discontented conservative re publicans, wbo cling persistent'y to Booth and others. The strongest republican candidate rould then have to make a lively fight. Mr. lood has not sought this aud probably would ot accept the senatorshlp if even it conld be as- .nreed to him, but I do know he is sought after and quietly urged. This news, wheu brokca to the republicans, may have tho effect of uniting them; then Miller would be sure oi on election. Special dispatch to Tho Constitution. Washington, November 30.—The calen dars of tbe senate and bouse show an im mense amount of unfinished business. The committee of the whole have over two hundred bills. The private calendar con tains nearly one thousand bills, mostly for pensions. There is on the speaker’s table nineteen house bills and resolutions, with amendments of the senate. There arc also cn thcgtable from the senate ninety-one bills for first and second reading. The senate calendar contains twenty-eight resolutions and two hundred and twenty-five bills. An agent of the government, Mr. New comb, will arrive in Atlanta to-morrow to investigate the actions and doings of Mar shal Fitzsimons. Commissioner Kaum baa asked the removal of Marshal Fitzsiurons on these grounds, and has filed evidences against him on ail the charges. Commis sioner Itanm further asks that the charges be investigated by the government The grounds upon which he atks the removal of Marshal Fitzsimons are: L For frauds in tbe marshal’s office. 2. Because there is no co operation between the marshal’s office and collector of internal revenue in Georgia. 3. Because tbe maizbal lias withheld large sums of money due his deputies without proper authority. Letters have been forwarded here from members of the present congress asking that an investigation be made, and'etating that it was necessary. It is possible that a very thorough investigation of all the matters connected with tbe office will be had at once. The officer, Mr. Newcomb, who goc3 to Atlanta, is thoroughly competent. The debt statement issued to-day shows tbe decrease of the public dept during November to be *3009,201.23; ash io the treasury, *210.920,763 98; gold cerliBctoa ouUiS2ding, *7,400,800; silver certificates, (35 077,280: certiBCfctes of depo.it outstand ing *3,525,000: refundins^rtincatrsSOU.- 350; legal lenders outstanding; $MC,<»1,010, fractional currency outstanding, $7,16.1,- Wesver.. Dow.. 304.852 The result shows thru tt wm sonjlly reltthle In He said she sbpald not merry. drawal from the porition of president, Mr. , fence fifty yards further on. They were to kill Newcomb recommends an extension of the to tmuae Wwa Old not wont her to marry Memphis division into Arkansas, and trks ° ’ «-■ - the board to complete the Knoxville branch at once. A series of resolutions were pasted thanking Mr. Newcomb for Lis nest servi ces. Mr. E. H. Green was elected president. . -— — — ----- —,—~ - E. P. Alexander, first vice-president, »ud hou>ejmm i-,hcu«i7. wb«u sher rerrtel tt .to brerej lor uum «,d theyput her .town end j . cci3TeR » t ; 0n will. Jolly concerning lire . ... wetks. They went to the spot and me tiiai he started to Atlanta with her; that j thailu twelve counties of found she was getting uncovered, ead toe when they reached the branch he mode an i SS^St^mSS 7 br 1idea pSSSns. the rector? to day, Mr. H. Victor Newcomb ten- i »“P«>per proi^al to her, and she started | TO te ot lsST folia beWadtae deredbisrJenstion. Zg&'Sg Si ! tSSSSSSSff^^SSSSSSSi A tarnd Dratb. It U withetoettiKof Ihekreoe.1umeubr for stolen a bale of cotton from Bryson's gin and hanied it with Jolly's wagon and Weaver’s hone. That was in November, ls76. It stayed at Jolly** ■llimm •hroogh thansh. did la UW. C.o ; Mr. gupbeoe *»ow . ttn,!, fecury tfiu hu tottod or diminution la dividends anywhere ? Does he not know that the industries of Georgia from £Ur. hmSTb} H.'w.'g. is a iSridoftaSgfat 1 , those who beheid it artiste drew ImtLful — — —• effort she ia ' picture*, ” k, * K — { where tne wedge iotw.-—•«. T reedy entered. e~ But as there felling off in the crop* ntadf oo south ta twain. i ahich are accepted as authentic mirrors of the miraculous apparition. Tbe above information, with tbe excep- * tion of the expraeaion of regret that no AUi.rei.ih. h„ » ure to.re_ih. open rei, where the wedge of octameretol ln terra, hasai i hex ready entered, aad is destined to rp&i the soll-1 "hkh Un - Cmn ? i l bcoa F lt • ti mementoes of ter vuif. The additional Mr. CL C. Baldwin, second vice-president. Mr. Newcomb retains hia position as di rector. Atiauta and sold it to Strong. They divided the mo* ey. Jolly said some fetters were written for a blind. He and Weaver had agreed to have it done. I dan’: know who was to write Murdered for Hta Nosey. Special dispatch to The Consti tattoo. CorxciL Burns, December L—Tbe body . of John S. Sapp, a fatam keeper on Fiiii I atrenre wrere anoiher. •treet. was found iu his aalooa Ibis morn- | “TSKJISSw57<>?htt C «SySe^Ou7£ja *•“ » k ” , i *•**»»*»nf 1 — Hie day she was kilfed^abehad on a bream Mr. Josaey as Decatur wrote one. and a manln iog with his skull crashed and tbe side of his face badly cut with some blunt instru ment. The wounds were sufficient to cause instant death. The deceased had consider able money which was taken by tbe mur derers. No clue has yet been discovered as to their hjeptixy. pin and ear-rings, and had aocse money. Tbe ear-ring* were to*-. Weaver gut the breast pin. No, Jolly got the breast pin and Weaver got the ring. They divided the money- This ooolraatoo took place in jail, soon after JoOj*s arrest and imprisonment. When be made the statemen Tom Willingham. Mr. ffnsseU sad Mr. John be told me this Before bis arre»t he told theystarted h> Atiauta and Miss Norris came __ on by herself to Decatur. He said bees me to i ^Id*»fflicted plrenta’tbat The fcoN- Decatcr to inquire after her. but could not bjjtctxon chronicle* the ceath tof Uule Annfe learn anything, lie went over to Ihe de- jseago. daughter of Mr A. ILSsag^Jpicho^ pot and wh-le there a gentleman who wc. ! curred tun^yjjfetaoj*.at one2“ on the twin give bint » letter. Henry etreck of urealnrt- Jonee wrote it. He hwl it done. In JuJge ! ™ i ^S3rii«St elk-ilea oo tore, butwhfih Scattering Total. Arkansas Calirnla Colorado 80175- Fl*»rid«.. rteorvi*- llltnois- Indlsi Iowa- K*nste Kent’cky LouU’ua Maine..- Maryland 80147 , 27*3 .. 24476. 1691; i : I . _ lean, but Steward’s office the day Weaver was tried I ^^nunatedTVoddtnly. rooming the home ot oue Jolly U»!d me he killed Vic. , »•^‘^SV^SSSir ere la Trrre, end el- Cross examined: Ihe conversation was ! lh “ri h nume rou* telegrams have been sent none in the court-house oa ihe day Weaver was ; fi - ve reached them yet it ■wJUbe » tried. Hia wife was present and when they learn of the death ol the little daughter there was a bailiff standing at the door. This was tbe first time I had seen him since Lis return. I went ir. tbe room and ariced him why bejcould not tell the truth I made no other appeal. I asked him why be did not bury her deeper. He raid h: did not have lime. I waa alone with Jolly for about fifteen minutes in the jail the next morn ing. He told me then that put her in tl»« w*g«> *ben phe ouf QptpeAejmpVhj. SEWTssssyssttSis cemetery to await the retorn nf her father and brother/at which time they will heart can truly know die bitterness oi a father’s feelings who returns to his once bright home to find the sunshine, gone. Again we ex tend to the sorrowing family our xa«t sincere. 1«* *?£ Jgg ■ l.V. 65 1»*5'4 27763 > 2TAM 6226X7 • 6<44M 225122 12*6 47 6 2 431'-70 106«rt‘. 33/7 470 MBRIC 292461 12076* £9H 3 19i7* 1 199917! 12413* 106067 1 14S707 114% 25‘. 2664'0 3S&V CIS* m «« wa 6* <• «l HUM; 116750 iAM9* 1I1954 4hv f,i. >2-86 2■'-••«- ]K5;«jO lr.KVJ- *34H* l -V 91 j 317 >26 \sa*l5 *67 2JV 150771 124141 SiSK, SS S41r «g*» -eg MtoOUrl- 153917 206603, iKM-l 33.24M »l.t> 1206M 122565 155 220ZM Y-I &H61I 131531117,1 O' 7 *® U5«6 l3»r 1166 loan Ohio!.:... 375011 310 31 6I5J2US So n... 21*18; 19968 215] ■ reS “ 41)754] 107125, 3M,|19f tkuov- 1M9 1U778 23C! 20 South C*. 57947 11353fi 35760 130OU Tcxs* . *32 0 146-Cm Vermont 4<tt» 1W«: ia*!- Virgin!*- We-tVa. 4624* 67391 Wito’nsn 1443-9 114t^> . totals->4 t39in'l43-y O' seventeen hundred acd nlnety-thiee vote* are alSrattSSd as "scattering"-ihiefly antl-Ma- Htolc—in the ireto of UlJiSL Mrtne Mtohls»n, MIstourl. Sew York, Feunijlvinim, Khod, lo.nrt .nd Wlecooeln. A ltcnullett Cl eo rein Democracy. Macon Telegraph a&gsals ^P^§§mg these election? mlllcieiiUjr ctrehiiafaf* We have irtleble •ource th»l« rMj or ^ l 7 0 N I o^^'^rc^U?a P Ce'S^r sSMSsasafiitfiSgs tonportrr «3«In U» JgffJ’-HmJfEgEnSS STfEESS’Bk hSi’ibtehffiS. to Phtcmttr theimmorrel J wTSipleouinot^IerdtodlvIde. JiSI Shew tattohing to take l»»ue upon. <» all tbe great questions ol tbe day the democracy are almost* ^unit, and who would get up a quar re] for the mere love of It? ... Finally, duty to our c inm°nweal ”5.?'^1!. try the continued enjoyment of local ,fP***P Uwehli out and divide upon mere personal issues? We uow not. The total vote polled for prerldent in 1876 in the rame statea was 8,414.»6, and the incrcsa# is 777,178. The Worth Corollni* Richxoxd. Vo.. November »-Tbeconttig tor the renewal cf the bonds of the stateo* North ftarolina lamed for the construction <*f the North Carotins’reUioad?*tiss been cl sed. itontn* .«lng to? the .ttte •>”'Thom-el.^ugt A Co. signing for themfce.ve* aud their ***X-i«<* ln Virginia, holders of tl.ttO.ttQ of bon<ta. and tor FrSoreS Clerk, ol Brjehtjtcr, N. 000. Tbe contract ta lo be binding on tne oom ml-rtoner, when 11 U K*cp«J by the boMere",' 92,(00,000 worth of bond*. It baa to be by tbe governor and treasurer of NortaGsrotii^ 1 he contracts are regarded as favorableio tne Mate, and by it the state retains tte ownership oi the railroad lor forty yeara. An Accidental Shot. Fabmland, Iki>, December night William Karris, who h»<l hwn drink- ini and quarreiing with every one he met, especially with hu tally, took up • doable-barrelled shot *un. and wlnlc tni wife was sitting with her babe in her anus, shot her through tbe lured, killing h*:r m- etantly. He was ameted and taken to Win chester. Ho taya the abot waa accdentaL He came near shooting her once before when he waa drnnk, with the same weapon, j, t harchnian In I'o!Itlc- Clnctnaatl Enquirer, senator Joe Brown (a a Oghtln* Baptist. INDISTINCT PRINT

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