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ttrew of Jeka I«llj axi ti* Aalmt* of
His £&tale*—A G*=»ral Korlaw
tf Hrw York Politic*.
*' Gath." la Cincinnati Enquirer.
There here been growing eigos that the
into of John Kelly was about to terminate.
Re baa bad considerable lack, both in the
way of praaerving some remnant* of the
power of Tammany and of defeating its
enemiee; but the aggregate result* oZ bis
course are more oonfusion in the govern
ment of this city, a general weakening of
the democratic party, and tbe emboldening
of tbe republicans to hope that tbe day to at
band when they will control the city.
Kelly baa bad, perhaps, a longer suprema
cy here than any of tbe If ileettan leaders
who bare fastened themselves on our af
fain. The late William If. Tweed told me
In jail that Kelly was tbe most soccsasful
politician tbe latter poriod of our munici
pal affairs bad produced; but his pugnacity
led bim at an early date to quarrel in turn
with most of bis associates, and then with
tbe public press. He has quarreled with
tbe entire respectable press of tbe city and
Brooklyn, bis own two papers only ex*
eluded. His first encounter sg0i with
John Morrissey. whom be was
never able to put down, and
who died a state senator spite
of Kelly. He was equally unsuccessful in
his fight with Mayor Havemejer, who also
died in office. These two contests, and an
other which be had with Andrew H. Green,
precipitated bim against tbe whole lilden
interest, and tbe result has been two na
tional elections in which tbe metropolis,
with every democratic advantage, has been
almost wiped out as a democratic constit
uency. It is true Tilden has been beaten,
but the agency which bas beaten him ob
tained very little respect.
Kelly be# just won a small municipal
vieioty, putting another man of doubtful
•consequence c«u the superior bench, and
makings mayor whom public opinion bas
litile fondness for. Yet, as tbe present
mayor has the right to nominate most of
the department officers before be goes out.
tbe hope lies prevailed that a sufficient
number of aldermen ejuld be found ti
confirm them, and this would take Mr.
Kelly's last office from bitn, and probably
wind him up. He had, however, a certain
chance through tbe corruptibility of tbe
aldermen to accomplish tbe defeat of
Mayor Cooper’s apjM>intmente until such
time m his own major, made to hand, can
get in and renominate bim. How little
general advance we have made in the sci
ence of government can be seen from the
fact that this bard, bigoted stove and grate-
maker should hold authority over tbe rich
est city of the western world for a period of
seven or eightyeara, where once men of tbe
mental cultivation of DeWltt Clinton and
John Van Uurcn ruled ua.
At the legislative investigation, into New
York city’s affairs yesterday, Dennis Mc
Carthy, of Hyrscnse, tnsde an attack ob
Mayor Cooper, based upon rumors in tbe
newspapers that he expected to get control
of the city. This is only another outbreak
of the old league between tbe canal ring,
which bas its headquarters at gyractun,
and tbe Kelly ring, which received morel
aid from the canal ring to beat both Tilden
and Robin.son
Decant republicans bsva reluctantly come
to tbe opinion that Samuel J. Tilden was
perhaps the only man of our generation
who could havereorganizsd political parties
in this slate in such a way as to produce
at onca municipal and state reform. Til-
I system. In both cases hi* plan was
dear and strong, and be struck a blow
which ought to hav© been repeated again
and again. Unfortunately the ambition
of the republican party made I*,
necessary for them to destroy Tilden by the
aid of these two rings, Tammany in New
York and the canal ring throughout tbe
state. Consequently the old republican
element—which to a certain extent be
lieved in Tilden—has gone back into psrty
lines, and Itnscoe Conkling is the benefici
ary, while the msy< rof New York to abused
lo his face by a republican member of tbe
legislature because be is endeavoring to lift
tbe yoke of Tammany oQ tbe city.
The constant bargains and barter* be-
twren the republicans of tbe legislature
and the two decrepit democratic wings have
demoralized both parties. Mr. Tilden is
now too old ever to resume his work of re
form, though his example may be taken
up bv some succeeding Wader. Tilden bod
pecular qtuiiuica, political as well as so
cial, io make a new party in the state of
New York, which would perhaps have be
come a great national party. It was to bj
VQL. xni.
ATLANTA, GA.', TUESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1880.
NO. 28
CONGRESSMAN FELTON
On tile flesrfls Election Frauds—Tire
Political Stains of Senator Brown.
Waahlogtoo World.
KING COTTON
RISING TO HIS FEET ONCE MORE.
Congressman W. H. Felton, of Georgia BstatototksDethroned Cem-
accompanied by his versatile and accom.
pliaked wife, bave reached tbe city, and
occupy their old commodious quarters st
the National. A representative of tbe
World enjoyed a balf hour’s conversation
with Dr. Felton yesterday, from which was
gleaned much valuable information as to
tbe bourbon methods in vogue In the recent
Georgia election.
Dr. Felton assured tbe World representa
tive that be intends at an early day to lay
bare, on tbe floor of the house tbe villain
ous methods resorted to by the bourbon
democracy to count bim out. In that speech
be will declare that henceforth be will
make open war upon tbe bourbon democ
racy, to tbe end that tbe state of Georgia
may escape tbe direful consequences which
that despicable party will surely entail upon
her.
He denounces "bourbon democracy as
organised fraud,’’ and declares bis purpose
to enter tne ranks of tbe republican party,
if be disoovers that within that party’s
fines he can more successfully comoat the
great evil. The most glaring pretexts and
quibbles were reported to to count out Mr.
Felton. In one instance tbe organised de-
tu *cracy printed thousands of lac simile of
bis tickets, with the exception of having
•Tor Elector" before bis name instead of
"For Congress." Even so astute a lawyer
as the eminent A. E. Wright, of .Rome,
G* , came very near being deceived by one
of these tickets, and only discovered the
fraud just before casting bis vote. By this
little device Felton says be was defrauded
out of numerous voles.
While be bad amplegrouud on which to
make a contest, be has determined not to
do so, preferring rather to show up tbe
frauds on the floor of tbe house. Among
other things be will state that with “a free
ballot and a fair count" Georgia would send
at least three, and perhaps four, republican
representatives to congress.
In reply to an inquiry as to whether Sen
ator Brown would likely vote with tbe re
publicans, and sustain President Garfield’s
administration. Dr. Felton produced tbe
following extract from an interview with
that gentleman in tbe Sivannah News,
which baa never been denied: -
Governor Brown, when he was told by tbe
Washington correspondent of the Savannah
News tbst there was a rumor tfeat tbe inde
pendents were elated over tbe appointment
and expected that be would help them
most materially in the coming elections,
said:
*• That is only rumor without founda
tion. The independents on jht to know me
pretty thoroughly. 1 am an organized
democrat. What thsy expect of rae I do
not know. What they will get from me
will be tbe same that they will get from all
asreial If eaarch—Wlisfslt Ixtsrsst latk*
Proposed Exhibit!** to b* Hold
la Atlanta Next Tsar-
anoea of tbe north bave been med,
tbe necessity of some competitive exposi
tion which will improve still further tbe
now employed,”
HIS ADDRESS.
rural republicans, thereby eliminating the
old mi.v.nk*-* of the democracy from the
future of their |*arty, and reinforcing
it by ihit great claw of men on the farms
and in the wood laud* and dairy districts
who broke the democratic party down by
going over to Fremont in 1856. Tilden
mwirfiiVJhuiL'.RthJ I ratuYnhssneT wever,~ltb*a been latimatedlo
powerful Utility to correct tbeabUMsof the j mo that I was mistaken in my apprehension of
municipal government, and incidentally your meauinc. and that it was your purpose to
of the Hiate government and stale patron- } zlv*Ur. bherman, II he desired it^*^ hostile
Why Wade Hampton Foisted out Col
ombia.
CfuaLOTON, December 14.—The News and
Courier published to-day a letter animadverting
on Senator Hampton's correspondence with Sec
retary Sherman. Eight Rev. Dr. Hows, Protes
tant Episcopal bishop of South Carolina, send* to
that p. per the following correspondence for pub
lication to-morrow.
‘ViiaauwTOif, 8. C. f November 14, 1880.—My
Dear Governor Hampton: I feel assured that you
will not misinterpret my motive*, or thluk 1 am
intermeddling In year private affairs. If from
my high appreciation of your character
and deservedly great influence, 1
venture to write to yon In reference to your late
oumsepoodenoe with Mr. John oherman, which
1 saw published In the New York papers. Shortly
after said publication, I was conversing
with a friend about political affairs, ana
If yon will pardon me. I expressed much ad
miration for yourself. My admiration was thought
lo be Inconsistent with the fact that in the conos-
pandence above referred to, you had plainly in
timated your readiness to meet Mr. Sbennan In
tha Held, should he demand such meeting. Know
ing you to be a Communicant of our church
1 ventured to put a different construction o.» your
words, iu giving your address 1 said that most
likely you meant to 1st Mr. Sherman know th.t
y.u were not to remain in Charlottesville, but
were on your way home, and that 11 he wished to
ex pis in himaell in any way he must
you at Columbia. Since my
The attempt would have been popu- i
Ur, ami we should have already seen tha
last of such civic sharpers as Kelly, Mc
Manus, Kalloch, etc.
Mr. Tilden to criticised by some of his
friends for having made his reform move
ment an associate of bis presidential ambi
tion. If he had restrained bis ambition to
the limits »>f New York, he would never
have provoked the united opposition of the
republican party. He was elected by the
general belief of men, but his enemies
within the democracy were able to cheat
him out of the results, the spoils element
that
in that parly having become snspicious <
the theory that he would destroy them as
be had other speculators.
i you will not think me Impertinent
ii i ask whether my construction was right or
wrong, that l may know the oplnlou of one
whose Influence is deservedly very great In tbe
country as well as the state. I remain, my dear
it, most truly your*. W. B. W. Uowx.
non. Wade Hampton, Columbia, 8. C.
Dcscstmv. Mua. December 5,1880.—My Dear
Hr: Your kind Utter was forwarded fromColum-
»onlj yesterday. I am very
the Interest you have
New York Herald.
Tbe suggestions advanced by Mr. Edward
Atkinson, of Boston, in tbe Herald of Au
gust 17, in regard to tbe establishment of
an international cotton exposition at some
prominent city in tbe south, bas met with
warm approval throughout tbe entire cot
ton belt, particularly at Atlanta, Oa. In
that city on tbe 2d instant a permanent
organization was effected and $50,000 was at
once subscribed toward the general fund.
Tbe association was formed under tbe title
of tbe International cotton exposition
company and tbe capital stock was limited
to $200,000. United States Senator Joseph
E. Brown, of Atlanta, was chosen president.
Tbe other officers are Samuel M. Inman,
of Atlanta, treasurer, and J.
W. Ryckman, ol Philadelphia, secretary.
Tbe board of directors includes many of tbe
most prominent cotton manufacturers of
America. It is designed to give the expo
sition at Atlanta during tbe months of Sep
tember, October and November next, when
all tbe improved appliances used in the
culture, preparation and manufacture of
cotton in any parts of tbe world will be
brought together for the purpose of testing
tbeir merits. Efforts will be made lo pro
cure a charter from congress bets re the
holiday adjournment, and plana for the
buildings are already under consideration.
Tbe site selected is tbe city hall square,which
will afford about three acres of flooring for
exhibition purposes. All kinds ef cotton
machinery will be constantly in operation
during tbe days of the exposition, including
tbe gin, compress card, ring spinning and
looms, of both American and foreign make.
The raw fibre will be taken from the bale
and carried through the various processes
necessary in the manufacture of tbe finest
cloth. As this will take place under the
eyes of experienced judges it is expected
that the long disputed point as to the su
periority of American or English methods
will be definitely settled.
The secretary of the exposition company,
Mr. J. W. Ryckman, to at present in this
city on business connected with the enter
prise. In speaking to a Herald reporter
about the proposed exposition, he said: "So
far as tbe south and the whole cotton interest
to concerned, this is felt to be tbe best sug
gestion that has ever been made in regard to
an international cotton exposition. Many
schemes have been talked over in a general
way, bnt nothing practical was advanced
till the Herald began to give the subject at
tention. Its editorial comments which have
from time to time appeared have aroused
great interest in the matter. Tbe diversion
of southern ideas from political to com
mercial interests has brought about, par
tientoriy in Georgia, a desire tc
f >sy attention to the development of neg
ected resources and to graap the present op
portunity to build up abused industries.
All planter* have long felt the need of im
proved methods in preparing their product
for the mill and also in the manufacture of
the coarser fabrics on their own water
courses. If this exposition is a success, it
will not only present the planter with such
improvements on tbe present gin and com
press as will add at least three cents per
* pound to the value of his crop, but it will
attract northern capital to the construction
of cotton mills all over the cotton belt
What few mills there are in Georgia and
the Carolines have demonstrated that
fabrics can be manufactured cheaper
in the southern states than in any
orber place in America. At tbe meeting
held in Atlanta, on December 2. it was
cided to put the shares at $10 each, as
that basis it was thought there would be a
fair return for the investment. So great
was the interest manifested that $50,000
worth of stock was taken at once. This
feeling has spread all over the south and
there seems to be a strong determination on
tbe part of the citizens to hold as much
stocL as possible among themselves. Sub
scriptions are coming in quite rapidly from
New York, Philadelphia and New England
cities, as of coarse aid from the north is
expected and must be had to make the plan
a success.
"As far as the site is concerned, no better
place could have been chosen, as Atlanta is
Why Emigrants Go West Instead of
• Month.
*. Charleston News and Courier.
j To the white immigrant South Carolina
• can offer advantages and opportunities such
as do western slate can give. Why do the
immigrants go to the west and avoid the
south? The reason is two fold. They go
west because they know what that section
is, and because they are misinformed as to
ourselves. We can easily show, by figures
that cannot lie that there to more
money in coming here than in go
ing to the west. What remains is
to convince them that the south is a free
country—that as there to no longer a slavery
the mind. They must bare the assurance
that when they come here-they will be free
to speak and act as they choose; that they
can oppose democratic candidates and sup
port republican candidates without
losing their standing In the
community; that they can, as
to all men and in all things, take such a
coarse as will in their judgment be most
advantageous to the state, and be credited
always with holding no other idea than to
make themselves safe in their agricultural
and mercantile operations, so far as that
success to commensurate with profit
and liberty. We must not pretend to die
tate to them what they shall think
or in what way they shall express their
thoughts. Ana when there is found an in
dividual who insists that the tide of lib
eral opinion must go back, we can quietly
wait until tbe waters cover him, and he
shall insist that from the first he was of that
way of thinking, but expected a different
sort of boat to to carry him off when tbe
floods of the political deep were opened.
Northeast Georgia.
Tax CoxsmuuoN had a long and pleasant
talk with Captain A. A. Campbell of this city
about tbe Marietta and North Georgia road. The
captain has just returned from a tour of northeast
Georgia and northwestern North Carolina, which
he made la company with Mr. Joseph Kin
sey, of Cincinnati, Mr. George K. Eager,
of Boston, and General William Fhilllpa, presi
dent of the Marietta and North G©orj'~ ’
Fragments of the conversation cannot fi
lertat the public.
‘ What was the _
ToahowMerea .
through which the con tern;
Marietta and North Ueorgi .
"Give me some idea of the extension.'
"Well, yon know the Marietta and North
Georgia road runs from Marietta to Canton,
Cherokee county, in this state. The proposed ex
tension of the road will be built from Canton,
Georgia, to tne town of Murphy, Cherokee coun
ty, North Carolina. The extension will be eighty-
four miles long, and will ran through the coun
ties of Pickens, Gilmer and Fannin in north
east Georgia—and will also traverse a portion of
Cherokee county, Georgia and Cherokee comity.
North Carotins.^ Something over half of the —
new road r*
It to owned almost exclusively by prominent
people in the counties of Pickens, Fanniu, and
Gilmer, who live along the line of the projected
road."
"How were Messrs. Kinsey and Eager pleased
with tbe tripT"
"Very much Indeed. We rot np several rail
road meetings In Pickens, Fannin, and Gilmer,
which were largely attended by the people who
received the distinguished capitalists cordially
and listened to their addresses with great interest
Charlottesville, and I naturally gave my proper
The precise relation of Garfield’s election
lo the intestinal reformers of our cities and
ataiia is yet very vaguely seen. General
education will receive some impetus from
* hto presidency, and with it there will be
some illumination and indignation in the
common mind on the subjectof our disrep
utable city governments. But the system
of Tilden differed widely from that of the
republican statesmen. H« desired to start
from the bottom, and kindle a righteous fire
which should go up through all the classes
of the people. The republican leaders want
to start at the top, and rearrange and inter
fere here and theie.
When the whole newspaper press of a city
like New York is incorrigibly oppose t to
the rulers of the city, aud bas been incited
by their personal di.-closure* and insults,
it to idle to expect public opinion to have
any vitality. The Sun, Herald, and Times,
the Evening Ptwt, the Telegram, are all in
deadly hostility te Kelly, and a)l for per
sonal and legitimate reasons. Tbe Tribune,
* though not personally abusive, to still per
force against Kedy’s government. There
fore. our people are educated every day to
a greater contempt for the fiduciary and
political master of the city. And perhaps
two thirds of all this warfare might have
been avoided if Kelly had not become
am editor. His success as an editor to about
equal to taking oue of the fire coal* out of
ntiemen made the people of those
reposition with reference to
' road, an event for which
would give them absolute Control of a
Jority ol tbe stock of the road
and turn over to them the management after ctn
'What did the people say to this?"
"They were delighted with the idea, and many
of the leading stockholders in Fickens, Gilmer
and Fannin, not only pledged their stock in
writing to these gentlemen, but promised to put
large sums of money In additional stock as soon
as the road be built.”
"The prospect, then, for the long wished for
iienlng up of that country, to lair?"
"Couldn't be brighter. I am satisfied that the
stockholders, to a man, will comply with the
condition—and 1 havn’t the slightest donbt that
these gentlemen will bnild the road/*
The present management of the rc
"Will remain the same unless the builders see
fit to change it. They are to build the road on
condition that they hare supreme control of the
slock and the management."
MOtu
“W
“One will run from the line of Fannin and
Gilmer, a distance of about fourteen miles, to
Dncktown, Term., which, as you see. to the heart
of the famous copper region. *-
will connect EUjsy, Gilmer
« Here tho conversation closed. Messrs. Kinsey
and Fare* stand high among the capitalists of
the nortn. They are men of splendid enterprtie
ample means, broad views, and commanding in-
DOVER, DELAWARE,
WHICH THE SAME IS VERY PLAIN,
Mnt Remain for the Present the Addrsis of Mr.
The mas Francis Bayard—Th# Correspon-
deaos BetwsiW-ths Duke of New
Ysrk *»LE«ri .Delaware.
Washington, December IS.—Senator Bayard
makes public the following statement, together
with all the correspondence that has passed be
tween himself and Senator Conkling in relation
to the statements reported to hare been made by
Bayard in hto Dover, Delaware, speech in Octo
ber last:
Washington, December 38.—The publication
In the Philadelphia Press signed by C. A. Arthur,
Boacoe Conkling, George S. Bout well and Noah
Davis, dated New York, November 29,1830, but
not published until December 11, renders it
proper that the subjoined letters should also be
published. The dates of these letters and their
contents folly explain them.- sad no other cor
respondence ha* parsed between any of the
signers of the card in the Pres and myself. Mr.
F. A. Barr, one of the editors of the Press, had
received in Philadelphia a me prior
to November 20, in which 1 ‘ticW BS-fiflsitjfahd
malice of the report of my speech at Dover, which
had been published in the Press of October 29
After the foregoing •correspondence no further
statement on my part was deemed necessary. An
interval of nearly three weeks elapsed before the
parties published the card alluded to in which
they denounced as false the alleged report ol tbe
speech which weeks before I had stated to be un
true. These facts are submitted to the judgment
of all honorable men. Thos. F. Bayard.
The first of the accompanying letters referred
to to dated Utica, New York, November 13tb,
from Mr. Conkling to Mr. Bayard, in which he
“ ping from the Philadelphia
.. _ iober 29th, and asked
Mr. Bayard whether he made this statement.
In form or substance, and remarking that “It is
hardly necessary to add that this inquiry to n Jt
meant to imply that I suppose yon did or would
make such an utterance. My purpose to only To
adopt the most natural and convenient mode to
set right an injustice—greater perhaps to you than
to others."
name is Felix Grundy McConntfll; I’m a
member of congress from Alabama; my
mother was a justice of the peace, my aunt
kept a stud-horse, and my grandmother
commanded a regiment in'the revolution
aud fit the British, damn ’em. Who may
you be?”
Colonel Dade deposited the glass, un-
emptied, on the counter, gently. He driw
back apace, but more in sorrow than in
anger. “Si%” says he, "it matters not
what my name is. It is sufficient for such
as you to know that I am a gentleman
of high aspirations and perigrinations, who
can have nothing to do with such low
scopangers as yourself. There’s my card,
sir! And I wish you a very good morning,
sir," wherewith he turned and left the
place.
History does not record what followed;
but doubtless, if Mr. Forsyth should pursue
his aristocratic researches, they would carry
him somewhere near Bladensburgh.
CHECKMATED‘HIM*
KUTTALL’S NUPTIALS
Th* Meeting In the Ghnroh Choir—Sweet Mean-
derings Home—The Hymeneal Notices—
The Dyed Hair and Whiskers—Fol
lowed by a Social Explosion.
How a Shrewd Yonug Woman Baffled
A Father Who Opposed Her Lover.
Harrisonbcro.Va., December 14—Intelligence
to received here of a marriage which took place
under the most thrilling aud extraordinary cir
cumstances ever knovru in Virginia. It aeema
that for some months pa»t Mr. Reed, a young
the belief that it cou.d not hare been written by
on honest person. 1 remember well of speaking
of the case of Phelps, Dodge A Co., and the pro
ceedings, under which a great sum
of money, 1270,000 . was wrongfully
taken from their pockets. I described and de
nounced in severe terms the moiety system and
share, which in this caee accrued to tbe collector,
surveyor and naval officer, and to the informer,
Jaime, of the Hero and stated that the tenior sena
tor from New York, Mr. Conkling, was understood
to have received compensation as their
counsel, from Messrs. Arthur, Corn til,
and Laflin for hto services and assistance in the
transaction, that my authority for this state-
derived from documents published by
planter living about twenty miles from here, has
been in love with Miss Carrie Shonp, a beautiful
and '"’petite - blonde, aged~ouly sixteen, the
daughter of the celebrated J. C. Shoup,
the daring scout of the army of
liortneru Vir*inia during the war. The father of
the yoong lady objected to her suitor, who was
but twenty years old. Tha ardent lover, how
ever, had made up hto mind that he would mar
ry the object of hto affection, despite the old sol
dier’s objection. The young lady secretly smiled
on him, and the father learning the state of
affairs, decided to send Miss Shoun to Missouri,
to stay with her relatives, hoping thereby to
break off the affair between the young people.
The lady received very composedly the pa
rental command to pack up her trunks and get
ready fora long trip. If she wept at being sev
ered from her lover, it was in secret It was
arranged that she should cross the river near
Harper’s Ferry and take the train at an adjacent
station. Captain Shoup decided to let the grand
father of the young ladv accompany her to Mis
souri. and after soring her safe in charge of her
relatives there, to return. The three reached the
banks of the Potomac, where they were
to cron in a large flatboat used there for
ferrying passengers. In one corner of the boat
was a sandy haired, benevolent-looking gentle
man with a sort of clerical-cut coat, and near him
was a bundle of something rolled up in a blanket
That bundle was Mr. William Reed, the lover.
The grandfather got on the boat first and helped
on the young lady, who left her shawl on the
bank. Just as the captain wax about
follow them, she called out "Papa,
have
shawl,’
and
relened
Wood, a . —
Sun October *z7,1890-givin* hto account in full
Wood, a treasury official, made in the New York
8uu O — *“
of the
Ibis I believe to be the "form and
substanre" of that part of the speech in question,
which had any reference to you or the moiety
l any
system. I shall
error
regret
be surprised to learn there to any
fact in my statement and shall
slightest iu justice
dBT*-
been done to you, and if there has been, will feel
; unsatisfactory to
_iy e
To this response, which . __
Mr. Conkling. he replied at length, saying, in the
course of hto letter: "Your response to a plain
and warrantable inquiry to one which
does not meet the inquiry, but
consists chiefly of allegations far different, and
though less Injurious, offensive and untrue,
basing them, you say, on publications and state
ments of which I have no knowledge."
Under date November 21st, Senator Bayard
doses the correspondence by reviewing the case
and repeating hto assurance thkt prior to Conk-
ling’s calling hto attention to it, he had
nevxr seen or heard of the extract In
question, and renewing his belief that the
extract was so grossly inaccurate as to cause the
belief that itcould not have been written by an
honest person. In closing his letter Senator
jumped forward and cut the cable, and called t
the boatmen to heave hearty at their oars, an
thev did. When the father had got to the brin_
of the river the boat was fifty yards la the midst
of tbe stream. The blanket assun * * *
appearance, and the lover it
clasped the hand of the faithful one. Then Jhe
clerical-*“*■* ** *
hands,
tut I
The
ttot minister p
er pronoi
.. ranated father
shore and stamped
unced the twain man
hell Bap-
_ and wife,
stood on the
feet and wrong
father lookvd on the ceremony as a smiling wit-
and Mrs. Reed cross.d to the other side of the
ing, “ for,” said he, " It to the first time any wo
man or man has checkmated me."
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
Bayard says: “The publication to which 4 made
reference of whicl ’ ’ 1
edge, which alii
knowl-
. . ege l con
otPhelp*. Dodge at Co., you
wUl find in the testimony of William S Dodge, on
nectfon with the
" Ind in the t
296, and of Hon. .Noah Davis,
giving or inviting a challenge. Mr. bhennan
forget the propriety of htsofflefal position, as well
as of mine, when he made the scandalous charge
against ms In a public speech. I called hto atten
tion to the language that be was reported to have
used in a courteous letter, thos giving him an op
portunity to disclaim or explain nU
utterance. In reply, he not only reiter
ated hto charge, bnt took that op-
ortnnlty to vttlify not only the people whom
represented, but those of ibo whole south. 1
^>uIdnot condescend to notice hto slsaderons
attack upon the south, and 1 simply denounced
hto charge connecting me with ku fclnx as false
1 could do no lew than this, for there never was
faker charge made, nor have 1 evrr known
grower violation of personal courtesy or of official
* — than that of which be was guilty. It
my good fortune never to have been In
volved in an affair of honor In any way earn as a
peacemaker, aud U J* a source of deep gratifica
tion to me to know that I have been in
strumental in settling many difficultiea
amicably, but 1 write merely to aarore you that
yon do me only justice In tne view yon took of
my language, and «» w thankIbufor thejUndnee
will
the 10th.
With my beat wishes, I am very respectfully am
truly yours. Wans HanTTON.
Kt Rev. Bishop Howe.
HON. J. H. SMART.
Kelly's discomfiture has been verified. Tbe
whole city government, excepting the al
dermcn and judiciary, virtually change*
Jhands. Kell v g.vs out of the comptroller’*
office, and loew the purae-eiring*. and with
the purse his ii.flaer.ee, except to start new
conspiracies. He had hero no totally ob
noxious to the people; got to be a mere
thug on his newspaper; had no self govern
ment, and was at last deceived by his mto-
erab’.e henchmen, one of them, it appears,
welling out to the republicans. I regard a
part of the present judiciary elected by
Kelly as bad aa Barnard, McCann and that
met, impeached about nine years ago
Kellys only power in the politics of New
York has been ecclesiastical. His church
sustained him far his devotion and diver
nloo of iuflnrnce to it. They enabled him
to get some 7ti,lOJ votes for governor of New
York, and in his fall they pine. But he is
a better man than tome of the rogues be
has bequeathed to us and who have turned
against him. Tbe demolition of bis power
lias been accomplished by Americans like
Bill Whitney (.wnoec wife was Mias Payne,
of Cleveland) acting with Sootcb-Irtoh poll
ticiana like Allan Campbell, Kelly's sue
censor, and Campbell’s son-in-law. Commo
dore Thompson. Tbe American mayor,
fJooper, elected two years ago, after a feeble
administration, bas extinguished Kelly by
tbe aid of tbe proas and of democratic dis
gust at Ilanoock’a defeat. A union of Til
den, Robinaou, Conkling and Arthur did
the work; and some say James Gordon Ben
weft’s money was elite:ive, too, Kelly had
Tbe Result ef Ills VIalt to Atlautu fu
Sbe Interest or tbe National Educa
tional AMoelntlen.
At tbe last meeting of the National educational
awoclatiou, bald at Chautauqua, N. Y , Profewor
G. J. Orr. state school commissioner of Georgia,
es leaded an invitation to that body
m hold iu next annuel meetint In Atlanta.
After considering the different place* which had
exnremed a desire xa entertain this association,
tbe committee decided la favor of Atlanta, and
the lrtft, tOih. 21st and 234 «f July, 1331.
selected as tbe time lor the meeting.
tbe Interest of tbe approaching meeting of ffito
clarion, the Bon. J. 11. Smart, who to superin
tendent of education of the state of Indiana, and
president of tbe National educational association
arrived at Atlanta Monday but. and after making
thorough arrangements with the Tartoos railroads
leading into tbe city left yesterday tor hto home
Tbe National educational association has a
membership of several hundred end its roi
contains tbe names of some of the best and most
aucc.valnl educators In tbe union. Each state in
U»« unto* to represented, and tbe mtetiuga are
' attended by
largely a
tbe best scholars iu tbe
Frufeasar Orr, who to first vice president of the
association, says there is every assurance that
there will be a large attendance upon the n*xt
* In order to give the vkltors a good
re a large atw■ ■ — ...
This association to beyond doubt one of such
merit that it commends itself to every one who
desires to see educational advancement and it to
about tbe center of the cotton belt and Its
citixens bave a keen appreciation of every
thing that tends to develop tbeir territory.
All classes of men interested in cotton and
iu manufacture have given the proposed
exposition snch hearty approval that there
can be no doubt as to its success. A promi
nent feature of the fair will be the English
annex, which will be erected by British
manufacturers to show the skill of their
inventors. It is in contemplation, if the
results of this first experiment of holding
an international cotton fair are satisfactory,
to repeat the exhibition on a larger scale at
the world's /air at laweod in 1833. From
the support which the Herald has given to
the international cotton exposition propo
sition, a ‘boom’ has been started in the south
which will stimulate its citizens toagreater
industrial activity than they have ever be
fore evinced.”
Among the members of the New York
cotton exchange little is yet known about
the proposed fair. MerchanU and brokers
in the cotton trade, however, are apparently
much interested in the matter and bave
carefully read all that has been published
concerning the project. There ap pears to
be but one opinion concerning thn timeli
ness and probable good effect of such an
exhibition. A reporter talked with several
members of the exchange, yesterday, and
found that all subsuntiallv were of the one
way of thinking, each and evenr one advo
cating tbe fair as likely to produce results
of great practical and commercial value,
both in the agricultural and mechanical
preosration of the great ample.
Mr. John H. Inman, of Inman, Swann &
Co., of this city, who is a member of the ex
ecutive committee of tbe international cot
ton exposition, said that the company has
not yet completed its organization, and the
detai's of iu plana have not. therefore, been
agreed upon. The cost of the enterprise
would be about $100,000. A rice president
is to be appointed from each of the princi
pal cities of the country. The fair will be
ef great value in the first place by enabling
the planters to profit by all the recent im*
provemenU iu tbe methods of planting,
cultivating and picking cotton; and in the
second place by affording an opportunity
for tbe spinners to compare the advantages
of the brst machinery for the manufacture
of the raw material. Mr. Inman thought
the fitir would be a great success.
Mr. Robert Taunahill, of Tannahtll
Co, was very much interested in the pro
ject. He had at first been inclined to think
that one of the eastern manufacturing cities
would be tbe proper place for the fair, be
cause of iu large stunning interests. But
perhaps Atlanta was a better location
Decause it was tbe center of the cotton
growing district. The time of year chosen
dnnati southern railway. Mr. £ager to
bead of tWO ot tbe most succeuinl railrt
Massachusetts. The constitution reproduces
with sincere pleasure tbe folio win* beautiful let
ter written by Mr. Kinsey to the Cincinnati
Trade List du
Ki-ijjay, Qj __ __
tor of tbs t rade'List: While oar friend. General
William Phillips, to holding a railroad meeting
at this place, 1 will occupy the time by redeeming
my promise to write you about matters aa they
*o me In this country.
ter the presidential election, Mr. George
__r, of Borneo, —■“ “
promise to visit some
became possessed of some
previous arrange-
Phillips, presi-
oounty, N. C., that
•- -ears slnr-
Gsneral
(he M
railroad, and under hto guidance and
have traveled by hack an J on horseback more
than three hundred miles through rich valleys w _
and over mountains of minerals in North Georgia erations to the tarue family and
western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. brought to America by ancestors prior to
jlTSS&K*l®0? 5 eco„d. *«. b y , he “Ameri.
* ‘ jolly travelers was made up as you would | can Herald a College by command of the
chief officer; and, third, those granted and
legalized by tbe “American Herald’s Col
on by Mr
it during h
r, Ga., Noi
, of the house miscellaneous document*,
number 2&1, of the first session of the forty-
third congress.
Philadelphia, December 13.—The Press says
to- ay of Mr. B*' aril’s statement: “Mr. Bayard
seys that the stuff corresp ndentof the Press re
ceived a letter from him, in which he stated the
falsity and malice el the report of the speech. This
is true. The letter was private and contained
■* * — ‘ementwas comma-
Press, the tuff cor
respondent was authorized to say to Mr. Bayard
that tho Press would gladly print whatever
he might say on the subject. To
that suggestion no response was made. Since
Mr. Bayard no w Fpeaka of tho report of hto
speech i — *"“* *—*— ” —"*
_ * lonsioiy maue, n is aue
Line from a thoroushlv ret
Pains have since
... authenticity is
confirmed not merely by tne reporter who made
it, but by many citizens of Dover who heard the
speech, and whose attention was particularly at
tracted at the time by tbe extraordinary charac
ter of this accusation. The case will not be
plete until this testimony to presented.”
A New Phase or American Shoddy Ism
Developed.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A yankee by the name of Forsyth, from
“away down Maine,” has hit npou a novel
scheme to raise the wind. This no less
than the establishment of a society entitled
“The Aryan Order of America,” consisting
of an “American College of Genealogical
Registry” and a periodical. The initial*
fee is oiit low—$5 The annual dues
also $5 But the requisition as to blood is
high—Shanghai—and will be rigidly en-
,n Old Lady, Bewildered fu a Snow
Storm, la Lost lor a Week In a
Swamp,
Nbw York, December 14.—The following spe
cial comes from Sharon Mills. Pa.
Mrs. Lucy A. Still, of thbplace, has just passed
through a most thrilling experience. Ten days
ago she started from her home in this place to
visit a tick eon who lived on the other side of
Ifexney swamp, about seven miles irom here.
Mrs. Still to sixty yean of age. but spry
as a -cricket, and she determined to walk
the entire distance through this dismal
swamp to her son’* house, a feat she had
frequently accomplished. She started abont
o’clock and before she got half the distance
violent snow storm set In and In a short time the
road was hidden from sight. Darkness, too, soon
came on, and the old lady struggled *
road and became fast in a deep mire. *
she straggled the deeper she sank, until at last,
weary from exertiou, she gave up all hope of
tricaticg herself aud prayed for help.
£he remained in this mire for one whole day
and night. Then, alter almost aujperh""'-"
forts she extracted herself aud made he.
email hemlock tree, which she climbed. She
kept alive by continually moving her hands and
arms. No food passed her lips tor upward of 165
hours, except a few crackers she had In her
pocket, ana some whisky which she was taking
t»her son. She was compelled to quench her
thirst by eating snow and drinking the vile water
of the bog by which she was surrounded.
was rescued from her perilous position on
tenth day of her captivity by a nartr ol
hunters who had heard her faint cry q
ral of jolly travelers was made np as
wish to see. W© were surprised to fiou mu jmmuj
large, fertile valleys bordering very considerable
rivers. They are tod from the
streams coming down the moun
tains and loot-hills which supply water
power that can be utilized to advantage in run
ning mills to grind the grain and saw the lumber
which abound in vast quantities in these moun
tain locked valleys. I cannot undertake to esti
mate the vast mineral wealth stored in the hills
and mountains of this region. To .nve the ex-
presalve langnsgcjof a native, "it to uncomputa-
~ rims abound In fish. Our party cangqt
te some that weighed from four to twelve
pounds each. The mountain streams are filled
with excellent trout, which only await the invi
tation of the expert angler to coma forth and
oontribute to hto gastronomic delectation.
We find tbe people genial and hospitable, bnt
sadly in need of schools and modern implements
of Industry. Everything has a primitive look—
‘ »novel and interesting ' *■'
profitable to the pt<
i to us, but anything
ople. As usual, the
burdens, bnt they are
quite novel and interesting
bo: profitable to tha pt~
women bear the heaviest
hungering and thlrstlug lor a better state of
..._ - '-lielligence and welfare of
their disadvantages, how-
__ j1
world, who are labor
ing wita a will to get an outlet into the main
*-* ireg 0 f commerce. Just now |;hey ~
x level bsst to secure this object, an
laboring with the same problem
found it necessary to solve yean ago when we
solved to build the Southern railway. They „ -
entitled to participate in the commerce of the
country, and only lack facUitieato make them
selves a power In it.
We have shown this people what may be done
by a united effort In the right direction, and tney
'** —through our advice. The railroad
lege” on payment of on established fee.
A formal meeting of this curion9 broth
erhood for organization bas already been
held in Baltimore At this meeting Mr.
Forsyth was elected chancellor, and W. C.
Burr, of Rockport, Indiana, was chosen
“provost” for the west. Another meeting
will be held at Baltimore on the 23th of
October, 1881. The following American
families have thus far had consideration
and have passed master:
Curtis, of Mass.: Jewett, of Mass.;
Ltppincott, of Phil*,; Marr, of Maine:
Dandridge, of Cinn.; Pendleton, of Clnn.;
Bell, of Mass.; J*y»e, of New York;
Van Courtiandt,of N.Y.; Auberry, of Georgia;
Hnnnewell, of Mas*; Bonaparte, ol Balumore
Scott, of Mars.; Andrew, of Mass.;
Barclay, of New York; Beekman, of New York
Bleevker, of New York; Willing, of Phil*.;
"Ips, of Nev ” •
to work out their
a of the leading
through which we passed.
Win-ton, of Virginia;
Endicott, of Maas.:
Pi*rson«, of Conn.;
Livingston, of N. Y.;
laps, of New York;
DeGraff, of New York;
Gardiner, of New York
Cutter, of Hire;
Hale, of Mass.; Horton, of New York:
Van Raasselaer.of N.Y.; Van Scoalck. of N. Y.;
Van Meter, of N. Y.; McCall, of Penn.;
Morton, of Penn :
Roosevelt, of N.Y*.;
SmPa, of Philadelphia
Osgood, of Man.
Hopklnson, of Peua.;
Rogers, ol Ma«a:
Madison, of Virtin a
Foster, of Mai«.:
De Lancey.of N. Y*.; —
shoemaker, *»! Pbita ; Baker, of Phil*.;
Taylor, of Virginia; Butler, of *'
Miller, of New Jersey;
Wallace, of Phil*;
DeAzbon, of N. U.;
Carpenter, of PhilSL;
EXCITING SOME CURIOUS INTEREST-
Gastonia, N. C., December 14.—About July
20th, under the head of “Penonal Mention," In
Tux Atlanta Constitution, appeared the fol
lowing:
'Dr. J. W. King and hto beautiful bride, nee
Miss Katie Rawlings of Dallas, N. C., are at the
KimbalL”
On Thursday, July 31st, the Gastonia Gazette
announced this marriage:
'On July 15th, Miss Katie Rawlings, ol Dallas,
toH. R % Fountain. Esq.,of Mississippi.”
The Dust notice was fnrntoned by one J. O. H.
Nuttall, at that time a jeweler.
Kings Mountain, who professed a
high regard for the Rawlings family and seemed
to be very much exercised abont Misj Katie's wel
fare, who is a beautilul young lady abont
twenty-two years old, and daughter of Rev. W.
Rawlings, a clergyman of the Methodist church
toorth),. stationed at Dallas. She became ac
quainted with Nuttall In Dallas about three yean
ago at a choir practice, In which he (Nuttall) was
the organist: they frequently met afterwards and
she waa several times esoorted by him to the
choir meetings. Their acquaintance gradually
ripened Into* love affair, although she knew
that he had an amiable and worthy wife and
several children. Hto wife waa the daughter of a
highly respectable physician of Wadesboro. N.
When Nuttall was last seen here, his red
hair and whiskers tiad been dyed, which increaa-
the suspicion of the citizens that he
was deceiving tbe public and hto wife,
concerning the marriage of Miss Rawlings. In the
meantime hto wite and children had returned to
her father at Wadesboro. A great deal of gossip
abont the mysterious marriage was circulated in
the beantifnl and quiet town of Dallas, some of
which reached the Rev. Mr. Bawling’s ears who
threatened to prosecute some of the plainer
spoken ones for slander.
On September 6th, Rev. Mr. Rawlings furnished
the Gazette, for publication, the following:
Mr. H. R. Fountain and lady have returned
south from an extensive tour in the north and
northwest, and are expected at the home of the
bride's father. Rev. W. Rawlings, Dallas, N. G, at-
** Their arrival waa dally expected,
December 4th the Gaxrtte
contained the following: "The many
Savannah district—A M Wynn,
Savannah Trinity,JO Branch;
ON McDonell; New Houston street, dtcorgeC
Thompson.
iUcon DUlrtct-A. T. Mum. P. E. MaSbtrry
Streetmbnreh. J s Xej: South street chureh,
jap.: tint street church. R P Breedlove; C J
Toole. Supemumer.tr; Kart Macou church. J W
?>“one: Muon tSreuit, J B Culpepper; D S Mc-
\UUianu. supernumerary; Gordon circuit, c W
Smith and J o Harmon; lrwinton Circuit. K
L Howicter; UawLlntrille aud Co hran, 11 li
toualay; Perry and San
;; Wealeyan Female Col-
it; C W Smith, proleaaor:
“ u cenueu;
lem. W C Bam, pceeldont; ,
Orphan's Home, L P Payne, superintendent and
Christian Advocate, 1 W Burke
Cotnmbua district—J VV Hinton, presiding el-
der; Columbus, St Luko, Jo A Cook; St Paul,
W C Loretta; Broad street. J ty Domingos; Trim
ty.J E Rorie; Girard. HW Key.
Americus district- J M Austin, presiding elder:
P8 Twitty W UwU: Cothbe « Georgetown,
Thomsaville di.trict—T t Christian, presiding
elder; Thomastri lr 1ST-
friends
Mrs.
Fountain
Mias Kate Rawllogs. ol Dalles, will be glad to
learn ol her safe return from her western bridal
tour She was registered at the Waddell house
Wednesday night She was unaccompanied by
Mr. Fountain, whose press of business prevented
Is coming at present ” The interest in the affair
as doubly increased when the report of her re-
ira was confirmed.
It seems that her mother had learned that she
was at Conyers, Ga, where she went and found
Nuttall, *
her with !
butt
bronj
r face, and
which, it is nndeistood, will become public In a
few dajA
J. O. H. Nuttall to well known in this section
of the state and was at one time a publisher of
some reputation, but for tbe past three years he
has been engaged in the jewelry business at Dal
les and Kings Mountain.
The people here greatly deplore the affair and
deeply sympathise with the afflicted wife who to
an estimable lady.
It to rumored that Nnttall is still at Conyers
assuming the name of Fountain. Aterc,
DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC.
followed. The doctors say she will never regain
her mental power. While fast in the mire she
saw several bem and scores of deer, and was at
tacked at one time by a panther. She gave a ter
rible scream as the animal approached her, aud
he
away.
Beslh of Sad:
Thiers—Illness ol
tbe Earl of Rlpon.
Paris, December 13.—Madams Thiers to dead,
Ijer morbid state was aggravated by a cold
caught on the Sunday on which the Thiers statue
was inaugurated at Germain In-Lay a a reac
tion favorable to the commune waa . then begin
ning to set In. Politicians on whom Thiers had
heaped favors when he was at Versailles did
show at the ceremony They were afraid of o
promising their chances of success at the next
election. Thore who had tbe courage to go to 8*.
Germain rushed off to Paris when tne news was
cried that DeFreycinet was down. A drixzllni
rain fell, lime Thiers, who was grieved anc
mortified to discover that her Illustrious hus
band’s cervices to bis country were deemed things
of ancient history, wss wet through. She went
buck to the pslace of St. Georg* sobbing and
making sad reflection* Her low spirits prevented
vital reaction. Fever followed the cold she
caught, and this was succeeded by dropsical
symptoms. Mme.Thiers w*<about fifty five years
of sge. the wa* the daugbter of a stock broker
’ Dos&e, whose wife was an early friend of
from abont the time of hto first arrival In
Paris lu la21. She and her elder sister, Mile.
Dosne, had been treated by M. Thiers almost
with the intimacy of members of hto family
from her earliest childhood, and she
was married to him not long before the rev lution
of 1618. Both the sisters Dosne were remarkable
worn
politi
ter tL - _
btilous and fond of social distinction. Since the
ten. and plsycd a distinguished part iu toe
ico-aooUl world of Paris, both before and af-
he death of A*. Thiers. Mme. Theirs was am-
of bis unfinished works for tne press and taking t
keen interest in the election of proper sucoeteon to
hto (Aairs in the several academies which compose
the French institute. The drawing-room in tbe
Ptioe SL George, which In the lifetime of Thiers
wa« so anim*’ed, baa been of late dismal and de
serted, save a few faithful friends well-stricken In
years. Thev are Mlgnet, Barthelemy 8u Hillalre.
Jules and Mme. Simon. General Charlemagne and
Admiral Pothoan. Thiers was the animatini
principle of the house, and was never old
fashioned. ■*““**
a ting
r old
The death of M. Thiers occurred <
THE OKLAHOMA SQUATTERS.
Twenty-five New Cases Daily—Catho
lics Offering np Prayers to St. Bla-
sins—The Spread or Small-Pox.
Nxw York, Deoember 10.—Nearly every
day for several weeks past has brought ta
light a new case of amall-pox, and the sani
tary officers fear that the disease may be
come epidemic. Three cases were reported
yesterday. On the 18th ult. an ltali
named Petrio, who had lately landed,
was taken from Crosby street to the
Riverside hospital, a victim to the disease,
Everybody in the house was vaccinated ex
cept a baby whose mother refused to permit
it. The unfortunate baby waa one of the
small-pox patients of yesterday. Dr. Jane
way says that a rigid system of vaccination
would doubtless save two thousand lives
should an epidemic break oat among tbe
crowded population of the city.
Diphtheria, t tco, is spreading to
such an extent that the sani
tary department has prepared a circular for
general distribution, containing hints to
ward its prevention and modes of treat
ment. Brooklyn, this city, and Staten
island are the centers of tbe disease, while
the rest of the slate is .comparatively free.
Tbe diphtheria epidemic continues in
Brooklyn, and there are about twenty-five
new cases reported every day. The death
rate from this cause in Brooklyn
Las for some time exceeded
that from consumption, which
usually leads the list. The common coun
cil committee has as yet taken no action
uuder tne rtBjiution authorizing it to in
vestigate tbe causes of and look for a remedy
for diphtheriA The health officials are
anxious to put through a measure giving
their department power to supervise and
correct borne plumbing, out the plan is
not looked upon with favor, as it is be
lieved to be designed to give the depart
ment increased political pawer. Father
tirowney, an assistant priest in St. Vincent
de Paul’s church, Williamsburgh, was asked
yesterday about the ceremonies and prayers
for intercession offered in honor of St.
Blasins by Roman Catholics who are afflicted
with diphther'a and other throat diseases.
Father Growney said: “Tbe saint, who was
a native of Germany, lived in the third or
fifth centnry. His least is celebrated on the
third day ot February. Although not men
tioned in the great ceremony of the mass,
yet there are in tbe rubrics prayers in his
honor. These prayers, which are not of
modern lime, refer to him as one powerful
to assist by his intercession those who are
sfilicted with throat troubles. Not much
else is known of him.” The ceremony
performed over those who seek in this way
to get rid of diphthetia is as follows: The
priest who recites the prayers had the
kfflicted person hold two lighted candles
against bis throat so that the can
dles cross each other and form the figure of
a cross, with the lighted ends reaching up
on either side of the chin. Then tbe pray
ers are read. “1 have read the prayers
often,” Father Growney continued, “and
they are read by the guests when called
upon in all the churches.” “Have they
proven efficacious?” “The faithful
so consider them.” The Catholic
Universe, of Cleveland, Ohio, in an
editorial calling on those afflicted with
diphtheria in bt. Paul and in Brooklyn, in
which cities the disease is said to be espe
cially prevalent, to make intercession to
St. Blasius, declares, on the authority of
the Rev. F. Maher, of the cathedral in
Cleveland, that no one, young or old, in tha
city sought the saint’s intercession for re
lief without obtaicing the succor prayed
for.
SSEBSiattvssas'mA 1
M&» W 0 ' te " r,: Brun, ™ ,icl
THE GEORGIA CRACKERS.:
Tbe Origin el tbe Term Inquired
Into.
The following interesting letter from Dr.
Jones was mislaid in a pile of campaign lit
erature. The lateness of its appearance
does not lessen its interest:
Herndon, October 19.-In several issues
of your paper of late you have had occasion
to use the word “Cracker”—“Georgia
Cracker.” It would be interesting to some
of your readers to know the origin or deri
vation of this epithet as applied to native
“indigenous” Georgians. It certainly be
longs to the country, in contradistinction to
town folks, and is of #ncient origin, coming
down from the first or earliest history of
our state. It certainly began in the city of
Savannah, Immediately after the war of
1776, and was used, if not in ridicule, for
some distinguishing habit or feature of our
ancestry who traded iu that city—a it is
now, “the crackers have come to town.”
The childreu even reooguized aud used the
word when wishing to bandy an epithet of
ridicule, or to call attention t- their
own importance over the country
boy or girl—“Yo»i are a Cracker.”
Probably a little sting of this
kind (when quite a child) best indelibly
impressed upon my mind, led me to often
inquire the derivation of the word. One
would say it was because the cot ntry peo
ple in comiog to town with their wagons
and teams, used long whips which they
crack to the disturbance of the city people.
But this was not the origin of it, and I
have found no clue to the word save in Rev.
W. B. Stevens’s history cf Georgia. And I
think it is explained in that work, though
he does not refer to it or use the word. In
describing the extreme destitution of the
few "whiga” who held out in that struggle,
how about (350) men in Burke and Wilkes
counties were kept from their homes,
scouting about to avoid the tories (for Sa
vannah and Augusta were in the hands of
tnries and Bririsb, and the whole state was
overrun) the women aud ohildren remained
in the se luded forest, at tbeir little huts,
and cultivated with much difficulty small
patches of Indian corn, their only
means of food. There were no mills
to grind their com, and they parched and
cracked it best they could, and ate it
‘‘They ate parched corn,” and were emphat
ically “corn crackers.” Arnold citizen of
revolutionary fame here has been heard to
relate the description hig mother gave him
of dividing a crop of corn among some is-
ters who made it, she covering her p ; le
with a cow-hide until she could get some
place to store it, the men not being able to
build pens or barns. When the war closed
and these singular looking people visited
the “celestial city” of Savannah to trade,
they must have presented a striking con
trast to the more fortunate colonists, who
were well fod and clothed with British'gold,
and it was a good appropriate epithet to call
them "crackers.” If this be the origin of
the word, it points a neried of'self-sacrifice
and suffering, of heroic.endurance and de
votion to principle, evinced by a people.
JOLLY’S JAW
AGAIN SETS ITSELF IN MOTION.
Jolly Stops up to thsFootlights and Relates*
Brand-New Yarn Abont the Death of Vic
toria Norris, Whiehhe Claims to
Hava Bean an Aoc dent
anted.
W. B. Jonks.
Tbe State Read.
There has been a good deal said about the
State road lease and a certain salt brought by
shareholders within the past few days.
The whole difficulty on which the rult to based
to* simple one, and to this: During the past year
or two there hsa been very active trading in the
shares of the lease. Under a demand, stimulated
by tho heavy earnings of the road and by the de
sire of various perons to have a voice In the
management of the road, the shares have gone
up until aa much as $i0,000 per share has been
prid for several. A short time since it was
discovered that Governor Brown held
that under the lease law. the original
lessees and only them, their heirs or assignees,
could hare* voice iu the management of the
road. He b^sed the opinion on the law and
equity, claiming that aa the law would not allow
the original lessees to transfer their responsibility
with the sale of the shares, equity required that
they should control the road even after the shares
At we understand it. It waa to test the sound
ness of this ruling of Governor Brown’s that the
issue was n«de. Mr. Charles H. Phtntoy, Mr
Leonard Phlnixy, Mr. N. L. Hutchins Major
There has doubtless never been a trial in
the courts of Georgia which elicited such
universal interest as the trial of James M.
Jolly in DeKalb superior court a few days
ago, on tbe charge of murdering Victoria
Norris in 1877. The young girl who it
is alleged was murdered dis
appeared mysteriously in the month of
July, 1877, and until the present year no
trace of her whereabouts could be discov
ered. She left no word behind her to tell
of where she had gone, and the gossips of
the neighborhood gradually lost all inter
est iu the matter, and her name ceased to
be mentioned except when some incident
would lead to the theme. She was' at the
time of her disappearance a member of the
household of James Jolly, a young farmer
who lived near Clarkston, in DeKalb
county. In January of this year
Jolly moved with his family to
Mississippi and after bis departure facts
were developed which led to the belief that
he was the young girl’s murderer. He was
arrested, brought back to this state, impris
oned at Decatur, and a few days since was
tried, found guilty of murder in the first
degree,irecommended to imprisonment for
life and duly sentenced. He was brought
to Fulton county prison for safe keeping,
and having declined to apply for a new
trial, will leave in a few days to begin the
life-time servitude to wnich he
has been sentenced. The facts
which were brought out in the
trial have all been laid before the readers
of this paper.
Thursday a reporter of The Constitution
had a long conversation with Jolly in his
cell at the jail in which, the entire case was
resumed, and the prisonermade a full
statement of the death of the girl and the
facts in connection therewith. The state-
meat is made oa the eve of his departure
mer*-* *- 1 **
„ „ . all
benefit at the hands <
that account deserves, and will doubtlet
meet with more consideration than any
thing which he has said in the past.,
The reporter found him yesterday look
ing very low snirited, and it is a mistaken
idea to think that he feels *
escape from the gallows,
ligent than the majority of ]
and has a very good looking fi
“I would'asktfou to have a chait. but we
have no such furniture here,” ho said
smiling sadly aa the reporter entered the
cell. After conversing about the case for
a while Thb Constitution said:
“Mr. Jolly, you have decidad not to have
a new tnal; you are safe from the hands of
the law so far &3 your life ia concerned.
You are going now where you will be shut
off from the world as completelyas if you
were fifty feet under the ground and* no
way to get out. You can now afford to tell
the truth about the death of Viotoria Nor
ris.”
‘ Yes,” said the young man, after a pause,
“the truth ought to be told. It would do
me no good to implicate any innocent man.
I never killed Victoria Norris, and Bill
Weaver never killed her. She is dead, bat
she was not murdered.”
“Mr. Jolly, tell me the truth, I will pub
lish it as you give it to me and it will do
you good."
“I will, and the truth it shall be. It
would do me no good to tell anvthing else
now. The statements which I nave made
before were wrong from me when I waa
half crazy with excitement. I did not
know what I was doing. At Grand Junction
Willingham threatet^d to kill me and
placed a cocked pistol at my head. He
told me in Decatur jail that- if I
did not tell it he would
have me mobbed. Victoria Nonris and her
sister Lula, the girl who is no»v carried to
Seaborn Weaver, both lived at raj house
in 1876. Victoria had been living with
her sister, Jim Veal’s wife, but on <he
25th of March, 1876, she came to;my house
and told us she had had a quarrel with her
sister and would not live there any longer.
She was very poorly supplied with clothes
and I took money out of my own pocket
and bought her what she needed. My wife
thought the world and all of her, and I
treated her as kindly as if she had been
my cwn sister. She was very
easy to get mad, *nd did get mad with me
two or three times, but she would get in a
good humor again in a day or two. Seab
Weaver went lo see her a long time, but I
don’t know whether they were engaged or
not. I heard him ask her to marry him
once, but she told him she would think
about it; that she was afraid he was trying
to fool her. He would go about the
neighborhood and talk about her. I
used to tell her that Seab Weaver
was telling bad tales on her in
the neighborhood, but when she would ask
He declined, reply-
jrlzed to aak that a
re not the original
lessees.” Thereupon the 'suit started In the bitter
the question as to whether new shareholders
disposition to make a fight on Governor Brown
or on the policy of the road under hto manage
ment we do not believe.
It to a strange thing, bnt mast of the original
lessees still hold a fraction of the share with
which they started in. Governor Brown hold* a
half share. Colonel Cole a half share. Mr. Walters
and the four gentlemen who are in the Walters
interest hold each of them an eighth of a share,
and soon nearly through the original list. We
learn that Senator Hill, who waa an original lee-
looking Into the law ne to sat-
tlngs
but
see, ssys that after looking into the law 1
the
state, regardless of all tales or transfers, will call
upon the original lessee* or their heirs fora aetr
tlement, and these original lessees will have to
respond. This to a most wise provision, for other-
—the lessees could have rained the property.
AN OLD* M\fi»S CRIME.
HcNNSWxtx,KAN., December 13.—There hss
ATHENS NUPTIALS.
sdJe
Marring* or Toombs DuBoae
■te Stovall.
Bpecisl dispatch to th* Constitution.
Athens, December 15.—The Presbyterian
just elected • mayor who will probabiy be j church was crowded to-night with the elite
relieved lo eee himfall. j ol c jty, the occasion being the marriage
Hr. K. Toomb. Doftrc,. .1 W^htagton.
with HoiTm.ii .ml Gneiev’, Mi; neit to Min Jnnni. Stonll,o{ Athens. Long
■rirmT* n.xt Tildan'l *ui Rohiswo'r. ■ brlorc the hoar tb. church iu lull, and
•nd tio.Hr KrllT*. Tbe osir durable dom* 1 promptly at 8:50 o'cloak the bridal parly
erratic admiturtralion here miat be imiad | waa tuhrrad in. Immediately in (rout ol
on InieUiaeot leadership, and rot, aa her. ; the pulpit atood the bride and groom-elect
ufore oa ignorant. Willful bcaaea. Tbe | whueoolhmr rwhl wood Uifir attendants,
common maatca mart be commanded, not [ Mr. Hall stud Miss Cobb, Mr. Gilson and
conciliated, and commanded accordinf to I Mi* Lar- Mr. Jackson and Mia. Xallie
*he beat public opinion. * J — 1 " 1
Mender and a rapacious
■ beau tha nilinc features ol
entities, and they are not much belter by .
Kelly dial karJ—lik* a barglar knocked were Captain Mark C- Pop*. Messrs. Bil-
xiowH wit* a «ti«k of wood, instead of like j lups, Hatty Pbxnjxy aud T. V>. Alexander,
m public officer, well waked and decent at ‘ Almost all the geniWmeu attendant* were
thefuoeral. Mo one of tbe chape who voted * collregue* of Mr. DuBoae while at
Kelly out wee known to any respectable I* larger number having graduated with
jwrsoa. I him -
in. A stupendous Stovall, Mr Lena and MU* Delaney, i
u conspiracy bave j on tbeir 4« t atood Mr. McIntyre and i
of New York local j Schaub, Mr. Lawton and Mias Lixzie J
was that in which Atlanta becomes
fashionable resort for northern people
account of its delightful climate, and if the
railroad companies make the redactions in
fore and freightage which they made daring
the centennial exhibition he saw every rea
son wb v tbe exposition would be a great auc-
cera. What tne south needs is improved
deviers for picking cotton and one of the
moat important of the fair will be the com
petition which it will invite from inycatore
and manufacturers competent to give the
planters their assistance in this problem.
The cotton industry of the south is of grow
ing importance. Almost every year since
the war has witnessed a larger crop than
was ever yielded in its most prosperous
ante-bellum days, and each succeeding
season shows an increasing yield. So Lras
Mr, Tanaahill had convened with mem
bers of the cotton trade and with man u
lecturers and spinners he felt sure that the
exposition would be welcomed as a long
needed enterprise.
Another prominent merchant said: “The
cotton industry almost atood still for Terr
many years. The peculiar blight which
slavery throws upon every industry with
which it comes in contact ia most strikingly
shown in the history of tbe growth of cotton
in the United States. There was not the
same stimulus to provide improved methods
that there was in other agricultural pur-
sui's, because of tbe existence of Slavs
labor. Everything in the way of improve-
rnvut stood still for many years, and the
war up i
as made
people of th© tow „ .
and they have gathered to meet os in great
bersoc oar return trip, to hear what General
Phillips can my to tnem, and learn what Mr. _
Eager and myself have to offer. Tbe meeting j Am .-ie*n neerace will be an abortion
here to-day rttows spirit and energy of the right ! American peerage wrn oe an aooruon
— * ofour board of trade [ without them. No list of ansux
Tuis is no joke. The Maine man is in
de^d earnest, and of course there will be
aristocratic ladies and gentlemen enough to
sustain the movement. Boston alone ought
to be able to contribute more than will be
needed to start the magazine on a paying
basis.
We fail, however, to find in the list above
the names of either McConnell or Dade.
members of the colony conducting the services.
Colonel Coppinger and Lieutenant Mason went
over to the camp of the settlers and joined in
the tentice*. These officers are having great in
fluence over the settlers, and if bloodshed
prevail tel “ — * "
will
sort, reminding
the Into - , ^
1 shell do all 1 cam to promote the early build
ing of the projected railroad, for two reasons.
Tbe first to, that it may promptly subserve the
purposes ol general commerce and add to the
wealth and comfort of this people. The second,
tbe fir-**"# of Cincinnati may be better enabled
to come and look upon the native riches of till*
glorious land without the long—though taffipo
’-ate lines, widenmss
aristocratic A mer
in days gone by, when we met to discuss t icans, in fact, would be complete with their
mxa of the Southern railway. names omitted. And thereby bangs a tale.
*“ v One frosty morning in March, 1843, aa the
Hon. Jack Dade, of Virginia, sat in the
saloon under Brown’s hotel, in the city of
Washington, perusing bis National Intelli
gencer—smoothly-shaven, ruffle-shirted.
brass-buttoned, with great, round beliy and
cane of silvered head—a somewhat frowsy
gentleman, a trifle battered and in a positive
frame of mind, came down the stone steps
in quest of a couple of cocktails before go
ing to bed. Observing tbe presence of a
stranger, the newcomer p.Jitely requested
that individual, though i*ersoually uncuown
to him, to take a drink, it was not Colonel
Dade's habit to decline solicitations of
this^description, and with great urbanity,
but perfect dignity, he ranged himself by
the ride of hi* unexpected host and de-
. . _ clared that he would do himself the honor
liS- j to take his “straight.” The morning’s saln-
ns tiresome-trip by private
i much enjoyed by
\ cry respect! ally yours,
Josxrn J
Tbe Tall Sycamore'* Bosquet.
Indianapolis Journal, rep.
One of tbs customs a: Washington to for tbe ad
mirers of particular senators lo place bouquets on
their desks oa tbe first day of the session. Gen
erally these floral Savors come from persons who
have received or expect to receive some sort of
peUtio “ 1 “
is?
Sfc**
left to couHctuntktt the «worf rcpeeaeuted
_ » through
efforts. They have won settlers over to the belief
that the army had rather escort them to Oklaho
ma. than prevent them from going, and they had
better await the action of congress. While the de
termination to do is still strong. It to now hoped
itLrt tha conservative counsel will prevail. Rev
Mr. Corev In hto sermon to-dav said
that he hoped that since he had changed their
hli fists and an axe, left her
1 and cut hto own throat with a batcher
J«a r OBs of Ills Yonai Wire, be Fatal
ly Assaults Her.
Kingston. N. Y.. December 14.—The little
hamlet of New Balcm, in the towo of Esopus.
about three miles from this city, was the *cene of
a horrible tragedy this morning. John Van Tas
sel, a man seventy yeara of age. fatally assaulted
his young wife witr *■* ’
for dead a
knife.
Van Tassel was an old resident of the place,
without special occupation or property, support
ing his family on the proceed* of ordinary farm
labor. Twenty-four years ago, being a widower,
married Eliza- eth Freer, a handsome and in-
s Mrs. Van Tassel
and interesting wo-
_____ favorite among
her- neighbors. Her husband vma proud
of her, and until tbe past year noth*
bim abont it be would deny it. Sbe lived
at my bouse until the fall of 1876. and then
wanted to go to Morgan county but did not
have the money, so sbe lived at my house
until the next July.”
‘•The 9th of July I think it was,on Monday,
she and I started to Decatui together in the
one-horse wagon. It was about daybreak
when we started. She waa sitting on the
left side of the wagon and I was driving.
She commenced talking about what Sea
born Weaver had said about her, and when
we were about half a mile from tbe house
she asked me who told me what Iliad heard.
I told her and she asked me what Seab
Weaver had said about her. I said, ‘well,
he said that he had his hand in your bosom,*
and l told heraomelhing else Seab Weaver
had said. She got mad and started to get
out of tbe wagon. I told her she need not
get out, that I had only told her what
she had asked me to tell. We were going
up a little hill and there was a gully on the
aide sbe was riding on. When she jumped
up to get out the horse jumped and sbe fell
out ana tore her dress and some underclothes
on the standard of the wagon; the horse
ran on about fifteen steps before I could
stop him, and when I saw she did not move
I went back and asked her if she was hurt.
She did not answer me, and I examined her
and saw she was dead. I then turned the
wagon around and lifted her
into it and started back home. She had a
bad bruise on her left cheek, and her elbow
and hand had been hurt. I stopped just
before I got home and unhitched the horse,
from the wagon. I was afraid to let any
body know of it, because 1 thought I had
done wrong in moving her. When I got to
the house with the horse, my wife asked
me where Vic was. I told her she was
down there on the siae of the road. I was
so excited I did not know what to do. I
went back to tbe wagou and pulled it
over back of the house, and
left Vic there in the old fi*ld. The next
day I went to Stone Mout ta a and saw Bill
Weaver. I told bim abou; it and asked his
advice. He said there wau m» use in giving
her a good banal, because we could do a
dead person no good, I wanted tc fix a
coffin and bury ner right, bnt he said it had
better not be done, so we went that day and
buried her in the place where she was
found. When I left her in the old field I
threw some brush over her. We
talked about the trunk and
it was agreed that I should
send it to Madison. I sent it and it came
back. Weaver said we could fix up some
letters, and he had it done. There were
nine letters, and ray wife thought the ones
she got really caxue from Victoria. I got
into some trouble about some cotton lost
uter, but I was innocent. Weaver ad-
Tbe floutb Georgia Conference.
HawxxNsviLLE, December 13.—G. C. Clarke
conducted the religious service! Saturday. Bishop
Pierce took the chair, and the business of the
conference proceeded. _ _ _
The report of the joint board of finance wa
made and adopted.
The reporter the condition of the orphan home
mu Vimn. which waa made by Colonel I. Har-
board of trustees,
■ery u
The
i was re-elected for next
plauded.
After service to-night a colony meeting wss
held to determine tne coarse for to-morrow.
Speeches were mads by members ef the colony in
laver of going Into the territory at occe.a.d it was
ooly alter a speech by lr Wilson,
pf Texas, tbe cool head of the outfit, that the
settlers wonld agree to wait one more day, hoping
for congressional action. Rev. Mr. Corey said he
had just traveled through sixteen counties In
for congressional action. Rev. Mr. Corey
had just traveled through sixteen conn
western Kansas, and there was much actual suf
fering.. The leaders ray they have aro
hungry people and cannot control them.
of any interpretation of the emblems.
10 cob Jrcturc tlrcs tb. sword wprcrcn
the weapon which Daniel has been wont
to wield againu the bloamd bondholders; the
pair of waif, those which fall from hto eyes after
resumption, and tha anchor the grappling hook
with which he to aow trying to ratch hold oa the
muddy of democracy. The Immortelles
were red, buticative. no doubt, of Daniel’s fiery
menu He walked aroun ‘
> times with tbe air of i
ta lions having paused and the orders of tbe
two gentlemen having been placed by tbe
bar-tender respectively before them. Col
onel Dade bowed, and. elevating his elbow
to the precise curve then in Togue, mid
with an homage divided in exactly equal
portions between his companion and the
glhas:
“Who have I the honor of drinking
with?”
To which the other replied: “Sir, my
How to Whip the fisrtb.
Bainbridge Democrat.
If the son th jurt wonld pay more attention
umulacturea, not alone of cotton, but of erei,
thing else, for which we are now dependent upon
hand.
the whole Yankee nation wonld be bowleg at
our feet. The sooth can be Independent of tbs
north, and through the medium of the pocket
she can control the “bloody shirt” howlers, and
strike her dels men of all darees speechless. The
war made the north rich and the sooth poor; bat
when manufactories start up in every hamieMind
the south begins to depend solely npou herself
for everything that her people consume, sbe will
then be rich and powerful, and the great prob
lem of her political future will have been solved.
If yon want to kill the Yankee, don’t think of
such a foolish thine as knocking him In the head,
bnt aim at hto pocket and you have him dead
snre. Take from the north tbe millions upon
millions that flow into her lap from the poor
•oath, ao aolid and ao rebellion*, and we
deman. tn« chairman of —
showed a very ratiafaerorv condition of affairs of
the home. The old board
year
Th
full — —
leges. More satisfactory measures were adopted
looking to the education of the young men who
are preparing for the ministry.
The conference was addrcUed by Rev. Mr.
Love joy, of the North Georgia conference. In re
gard to the endowment ©I Emory college, r “*
which he to agent. He expressed a determiuat
to visit the churches during tbe coming j ear.
Dr. J. 8. Key, of tbs committee on build ii
monument to Dr. Lovick Pierce, made a repc.-
A resolution was passed to take up a collection in
January text, for the purpose of raising funds to
complete the monument.
F.S. T witty. Walker Lewis and Moses Speer, of
Americus, were appointed a committee to retie
Rev J ti Lyon, agent of the American Bible
locieiv, addressed tbe coo ftrance. He said that
of 371-00 families visited by bim daring the year
one fourth, amo g tne negroes and one-tenth
among the whiles bad beenf.^und^wnh — —
the rible.
tellixent girl of fourteen years
(leveloted Into a fascinating a
man and was a great
& September 1
oosly prostrated with malarial fever, and hi
- defans said his ultimate recovery was mainly
to the tender care of hto young wife; but ati
ter this Illness he acted strangely and Insisted
that bis wife was false to him.
On Thanksgiving day Van Tassel told a neigh
bor that "Lizzie” and he most die, and be
would accomplish the job. He made
like threats upon the life of a young man named
Fieer< and said his own children would be or
phans before Christmas. It now stems he tried to
end hto own Ilfs after this repeatedly by taking
petto*! - on tne present occasion he arose early
and returned bom* after a long walk, abont 9
o’clock asking hto wife to accompany him to the
barn to assist at a small job there. They went
out together. An hour later Mn. Freer,
LlzzleV mother, heard them laughing together In
the barn; in another half hour the horrible deed
had been accomplished. Van Tassel lay upon
the straw w.tb bis throat cut, and hto wife in tbe
upper story bleeding from ghastly wounds in the
- • * * *•" - bloody axe near ...
inquest to being
Rev D R McWilliams, who wss located last
Thursday, made a statement to tbe conference,
and a motion to place bim on the sapernnmary
list was made and adopted.
Rev John RCarter, of Savannah, waa elected to
deacon’s and elder’* orders. He was ordained
yesterday, and will be sent to El Faso. Mexico. In
the Western Texas conference, where he will
W AfieMhele3ticoaference held its session. Dr
J O Clarke made an encouraging report of hto
work aa agent of the Wesley Monumental church
cf Bavannah.
The er**™"*" of the Sunday-school committee,
Be,. JO. A. Cook, nude hit report
The conlercuce .djoufned lu meet In Columbus
*lie TSlowiai i, th* Urt ol mppolutuMuti;
with no hope of recovery. An inquest
held on the body cf Van Tassel to-night.
—A private letter was published in Chi
cago on Saturday from a confidential friend
of General Garfield in Washington. He
say a that a western man will be made secre
tary of the treasury, aud that James F.
Wilson, of Iowa, is the most probable man
for thejJac*; also thatSeaator Blaine had
been offered bis choice of the cabinet posi
tions. and will be given to February 1st to
vUed me to move to Mississippi, and told
me he would write me if any other trouble
ever came up. I left for Mississippi on the
IDih of last January. I am as innocent of
the murder of Victoria Norris aa an angel
in heaven.”
“Mr. Jolly,” said the reporter, “did your
wife know anything of the death of this
girl?”
"Not a breath. She had no idea of snch
a thing. I have often heard her aay ahe
wished she could see Vic.”
“When were you arrested?”
“On the tenth of laat April, and I waa
putin jail at Decatur on the 15th.”
"What about your treatment in Decatur
jail r
"Well, on Sunday, the 17th of April,
Willingham came to me in the jail and
told rae if I did not tell where the body
was he would get up a mob and mob me.
Then 1 made the drawing, and they all went
out to look for the body. They could not
find it and I could not hear anything but
talk of lynching me. Tom Fincher came
in Monday and tried to get me to tell him
all about it. I told him he was a spy and
friend of mine, but was sent in by Wil-
Ue said it was true that Wil
dcat him. I made a statement to
•tary of» ta .
ton will be probably made secretary of the
r.ary. The southern or democratic states
will be probably represented iu the cabinet
by Chabncty I. Filiey, of St. Louis, as post
master general. It baa been decided to give
the PmcjBc coast a recognition in tbe cabi
net, and Senator Booth will probably be the
Ficber and Willingham and Russell on
Thursday. It was on Monday that I
went out and pointed out where
the body was. You know everything
else. I was half crazy when I made the
statement in jail. What I have told you is
true. I think it is bard to have to serve the
balance of my days in shackles for a crime
of which I am innocent.”
lhe reporter shook Jolly’s hand and took
hi3 leave. He has given the statement as it
waa given to bim. Many will believe it;
some will not. It was told iu a straight
forward manner. He says that he
burnt the trunk on the day before
he left for Mississippi and that Weaver was
—At a recent wedding in Bordeaux the
groom waa a convict, who wore handcuffs at
the ceremony and hid three policemen for
his best men. His mother and sisters were
present, and tbe bride was allowed to talk
to him alone just five minutea. Rather a
abort honeymoon.
. Georgia—Gentlemen: I am
happy to sec that a cotton exhibit on has been
•rranged fir in your city next Oc ober. Mr. Ed
vard Atkinson tells me your hotel to the house to
put up at, and I wish to secure a room in your
boos* while I am there. You may think this it
early to move in the matter of room, out I expect
there will be a great demand for rooms and wish
to be remembered by you In their distribution.
Yotus truly, Wx. F. Goi-ldi.no,