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AERIAL EA'TERI GA ^ PROFESSOR KING'S COM I KG VOYAGE Hit 5 v-FasUtsad Balbem Almost Completed— At AmmiuIi Mad* at Mtxaanpeli* to De- sg:itri*4 the Exut«tc» of u Euterly Kifian* «Mk* Atanpbtrr. "Positively no owl pittance. Go to the rear door." TV* waa the placard at the entrance of % wayside building out at If r.verford rood and St veuty-aixth street. There mm nothing about the building that suggested may cause tor tayiiary. It was a long, low, whitewashed, factory like struct- ore, built on the edge of a wooded stream. Its one side brushing the clay bank of dusty Haeerford road where it disappears from the city line, on ita way out on the farthest verge of Haddington. ▲ reporter of the Times, in the act of entering the only door visible in the old whitewashed structure, saw the above placard and stopped,looked about a moment for the “rear entrance," failed to discover it and resolved to go boldly forward to the forbidden door, which was slightly ajar. The reporter clutched the door and pulled it toward him, when all of a sudden it re listed and looking down be saw apeir of mild, protesting eyes and red*bearded face raised toward him, the owner of which was rquatted in front cf a large iron pot, in which he bad been in the act of stirring some black, sticky compound which emitted the powerful but unmistakable odor of India rubber. “ProfesMor King,” *eid the reporter in the sled voice of ra -gniGoi, before the pro fessor had time to d;e a single word in pro test of the % .olation of the precept of (he placard. The raiplduui, questioning ex pression went out ol ihe professor's fane, and instead there wa* the light of recogni- tiou^and welcr.ii« Jl'iw do ; >u do? * ssi J tbs professor cor dially, getting up. “«has in ‘ For met it he over, the pr.ifes«or waa re mind'd pf hi? f:»im >' <d several mouth# ago to nave completed about mistime a’ cnammotb balloon with which to demon- atratethe theory mat the atmosphere Is governed by a constant movement from the westward to the eastward, t"d having once established this, show co cl naively that an aeronaut may cro» ihe A-lantic orean in a balloon, provided it is largo enough and is made of the right cloth to resist leakage of *"“pid you come from my other place?" asked the professor, resuming his stirring of the black mixture, which proved to h* rubber cen.ent in the process of manufac ture, or, in other words, ladies’ gossamer cloth in its incipient stage. “No, ’ said me newsman. "I didn’t );%w yon had another place." •This is my factory.” said the professor, • where I make my rubber cloth, goa-timer and other material, but my workshop is ever at Fifty-second street and Lancaster * /anus. There’s where I’m making my i..w balloon. I’m going over there my M-lf in a few minutes, and if yon don’t mind a walk we can talk while we go ever." The repo ter did not mind the walk. The processor, atlrring the mix*nr© until it be earner thick and pitchy, tbrn took «-ur *i ■lick, and calling a workman told huu to bring the pot and its conisnts to the other shop when’he came, and birth with started out It would take a book to contain all the professor said about his coming experi ments and what he expected 10 demon it rate. The first thing to be done n to ucortain a* a fact whether the atrum>pber-» a* a whole doea move from the *e>iw»ri to the east ward. This is to be done by a xirosof voy agea in the “Ureal Northwest," which the professor in about three weens will inaugu rate. If this is established, the next atc|* will be to find wnat sort of a balloon will he necessary to cross the Atlantic in The ■baboon which the n-ronaui is now buildi. g nnd which ha expect* 10 complex this week is di lie rent from auy other balloon ever built in America. “Von saw that gossamer cloth at my fsc tore/’ said the profemor, as with his visitor he walked along. “Well, I take two thick neeses of that cloth, either of which is im permeable to gas. and I cement them to gether face to face. There 1 have double thickness of doubly-ini permeable material and out of this 1 am making my balloon.” At Park Hal), second s'ory. where the btl.loon sailor has his woikshop. a busy scene was presented. The great, long hsl waa littered with pieces of gossamer canvas •ix sawing w.>meu sat before six aewiiif. tmetiinrs stitching the pieces together; six workmen with (tots < f India rubber ce ment and brushes were at work sireici»ii. r - out long aeciioua of the balloon on the fi ror and cementing the seams ss fsst as they were sewn together. Cost after coat is given to each seam so as to insure them agsintt the possibility of leaking The long sides •of the bslloon, etietchea out on the door, gave oua a vast idea of iu proportions when completed. ’The balloon," suid the professor, ‘will be 1ft feet long and lt» feet in circnmter ence, *nd will have a cspaciiy for 100,000 ftetofgss. ‘Ilie material out of which i. will be made is almost tbs same kind that was used in (be great Paris balloon which served for captive ascensions during ihe Paris exposition in 1H78. That was the largest balloon ever made, hiving a cspac ity for 850.000 feet of gas. There i* not the least doubt on my mind whatever hut tbji helicon would have enabled a pels in to audely cross ihe ocean, provided ihis east VOL. XIV. ATLANTA, GA.,. TUESDAY, AUG US t' 30, 1881. NO. 13 flashes whose reflex startled the continent. For eight and forty hours the blind giants fought with desperate purpose and then, leaving twenty-five thousand men the fate of the brave, they dragged their crip pled lengths sullenly southward to better battle-grounds beyond. roomusn or tbe akw.es Here in the Wilderness are tue bc*t pre served heel-prints and claw-marfca of the war. The face of the earth retain# scars a# as wdll as the face of a mac, and nit are, when let alone, will show sers’ches made a those who long since have ber:i gather- beneath her green. As soon a< a line of breastworks was thrown up in these un trodden forests there sprang from the sub soil all sorts of shrub* and wexxi plants, which, with the coating of shatters blown from the pines around, resist me wear and tear of time. The Wilderness is a wide stretch of timber on rocky, rolling land, covering the northeastern corner DEATH SPECULATION GROWING RAPIDLY IN PENNSYLVANIA tte Char.cellorsville battle ground, fifteen miles below is the scene of slaughter at Fredericksburg, and to the south is the gpottsylvania Court House, where occurred the terrific t win battle to tae one delivered here. F.very square mile of land vtk epotuyivama is -Historic- place of battle upon which to fight meant to slay. Bur, unlike the other fields in the county, this upland corner, hemmed in by the Kapidan, is heavily tim bered with scrub oak, pine, chestnut and hazel, with briers and chir capin bushes j springing at the roots of the trees. There in occasional opening nnd at this point, the Wildernem run, a brarch of the Kapidan, are several farms.some comfortable dwellingsanda store. Tneland immediately bordering tne ran is more fertile than that at the distance of a mile or so. and a narrow strip of it is now in corn and grata. When the battle was fought a tavern stood near tbe Orange turnpike, on a hillock at the side of the stream, but it was torn down by soldiers and since then there has been no attempt at reetoration. Within sight of the store, whither countrymen for miles around come to trade, are four farm bulld ogs, while somewhat to tbe north is a mine from which gold recently has been taken in paying quantities. Looked at while in the midst of its deepest shadows the Wil derness is a howling one indeed, bat seen from the store, it isn’t half so bid a case of the forest primeval as I expected to see. A DITCH WITH FILCH OF DEAD. Hiding out the pike with tbe obliging youngstorekeeper we came to a point where at the edge of an oak belt is a new growth of pines which lift their small green conea twenty or thirty feet above the ground At the time of the battle this pine woods was an open field and througu it ran a ditch. The ditch remains, hut its bed is dry and overgrown witn weeds. Files buzzed around our heads and bit our bands as we made onr way along the ditch, for here three thousand men fell and we were searching for evidences of the struggle between Warren and Ewell. Of bones there were none in sight, but rusty canteens were as plentiful ss pr simmons and I had the good luck to find a s’ump from the rotten heart of which we picked a number of niioie ball* The storekeeper tells me after the desperate assaults this ditch was so filled with bodies that in one place a miner, shod with bLody grime, walked for two hnndrtd yards or mtira with human heads for stepping-stones. But Warren aud Sedgwick, under Grant’? stern eye, gave back in kind So it comes that along the dearly-marked li; eof rebel entrenchments on the other side of the thick et are several mounds and just as many trifling relics of tbe canteen kind aa are to be seen in the ditch. The canteens that I noticed among ihe weeds, where the meu of the north stood, are inclined to the oval in shape, bat those picked up along the confederate breastworks were round and flat, like a slice cat crossways from a water melon. Campaigners and those familiar wiih the tqaipment of the two armies will r< call that the rebel canteen was as differ ent from the canteen of yankee make is Kentucky corn juice from Connecticut cider or Jersey lightning A THICKET OF DEATH. The battle was fonght in two defiles—for while on tbe 5th of May it raged along the Orange turnpike, at Grant’s right hand, on the fob Hancock aud Longstreet wreitled along the Orange plank road, io tbe left of Granljand some two miles to the south of his headquarters at Old Wilderness tavern Returning from the ditch ol desolate pines on the federal right, we drove down hill to Grant’s cleared field,crossed Wilderness run, came again to the store, paused over a hard, rocky wagon way, red in the h»*y suu, light, and after a half hour’s trot struck the uiuojs Brock road. Here, at that thor oughfare's intersection with the Htevens- burg road, stands an oak, nailed to which is a sign pointing southeast to Chancellors vile and south to Spot tsy Ivan in Court House. This point of intersection is his tone for more incidents than olc. Or. a day in May, 1863, Jackson led his *25,000 Geversar H*yi’« Ojiaicn sf tks Bsslatss—He Dr uucti it as tks Worst Kiad of Swia- Ci«, bat Bays Ho is Bosbls to Fravoat tko Traffic. H.tautacao, An ‘us f 23.—Statements haal.ig been made by officers ol deathbed insurance companies in this state, that Governor Hoyt had control of policies on the lives of old people representing $100,000, and that other state officials had also largely Invested in this business, the governor was asked by your corrrspond- ent to-day what foundation there waa for these allegations. He replied that any such statement was a lie, and added that he had never had but one opinion oi these companies, and that was that they were swindlers, morally and mathemati cally. He had not only entertained this view of them, but liAd ~ihtormed AUum- ber of persons who had written to him concerning these companies that they were swindlers. This is. also aaicMobe the opinion of the itiomey^enenliyikoU represented by insure officer# 4o be largely interested in speculative risks, and tbe insurance commissioner. The latter official for a time relu&ed to approve titles of these companies, and b* ing much berat ed for his action, he appealed to the attor ney general for an opiuiou, which was to the effect that the insurance commissioner, under the law, could not withhold his approval. The giver nor nays that he would not grant a charier to any of the swindling companifs but for tue mandatory require meats of the statute on the subject. An effort was made at tbe recent session of the legislature to pas# a law break up ihe base speculation human lives but the opponents it, by the use of the most disreputable means, defeated it Among the men working against it was a member of ihe other german fate spun another vengeful thread and the two met again. MissT. was begged by the leader of the german for his sake to uot repeat tbe ecene of the ni^ht: before. She yielded to this entreaty and | THE KENTUCKY danced with her enemy, *he chance partner. » Thus far there was nc occasion for an ex plosion. The next day there appeared by another accident of late that was leadirg two young meu on to danger or death, a little poem describing tbe se- rations of his arms in a waltz. Tbe poem wps cite one, write:; vi the brilliant McCarty’* ‘ Lexington. Kentucky. August 18 —To best vein. Coming right upon the heels of j the superficial traveler .'he Alue grass doesn’t * j—.. .u- * Ul “ *•* j oak a b - lt bi n . r than th 3 acard of any other sification to be a satire directed at ber. j dae agricultu'.-.l ,*:u iau - but those who Mordecui cdied McCarty to account for J live there itl t*u* ihat, when compared it, and a*:d to him tha* ne was a pdtroon witb other field*, i: jaDws^deep bltt-green soda coward for at’acktng a defenseless i , _ A T —* lady Tbe matter was placed in the hands saada ***** reason fer *ta name* Last of friends. It waa found tba*. thepoam had week I passed through tb« blue g a s and been written days bef ic. and even had I into that wilderneai of r-^cks, nvers and been in type before the incident, so that it I CfU< j a civil'sstioo upon tile western slope could not bv «• v means lmv-i referred to I '7 ... V- . Hits F. Mr’eta, to his credit h-> u said. °* lt « Bice B * vi ia ♦•“ternTennessee, made a full apoU gy upon tbi- prcien'at { *o, I which, iu its nearly, broken solitude, seems and withdrew n:s offensive remarks ^.°T ! to almost jmt fr th< lie- of those young Jy tendency of theatmoepbere is a fsc» ” The maindiflrrer.ee between Prcfeseor *E\ug'a balloon and the Paris balloon—sist 0 nt of the question—i# that tbe former’# b«i 'oor will ne much lighter proportionate S r th vi was the latter. The builder of the . Aria i , elloon used lour or five sides of rub her mat cemented together, while Pro- feasor Kin^* pwa batiw°. I veterans by"quick and secret march to this thing, of u “\2' , mOT.mini 'the&dYo' wb«l>ng. ««ept in r«is I*a fury th*t ihw ' aown Uio road until be yav« Hooker his tha»tmofl>hM'«w.«vth.i.it»iUl»a«r>o tou scar auJ , onud for him . e if the him that with > riv‘it »rt of» Mtaam l de8th . wound of , 0a a , Uy j B May, maycroaa tha will u 118#| G hurries past the oat to the organize a.Block coin' > *“i plank road’below. that he may stop Lee’s talUtain me mat cr o 9*»y ** - » oncoming host and thwart Lee’s purpose and construct an .mu.* i %. ha- J' P . , to crush the new chief of a grander army in e.ery detail, if the than hia own. There in the thicket to the ingin which tousefol I rl * ht »trtkes the enemy and holds not beli«»o balloon* will ev»r be usetui loi bim but s wtakfrHlld welker E3 Ihe ponawes ol „ r ; n.oments fly, so that he Slaps h.s thigh for ,P . tin .IH^i. ph |i«f in its u-e in W when he hears the ring'eghuzzaot Han of the balloni., he ^tnnk-, iie* in its use I n men as they brdlUmly end a brilliant sol.ing m.te .rnlofitcal pr..blenis WnlLl l cat [nlrcb jn th< njck of „ me There in the not be reached by *"y he h i 1 Hays has given his life, talk of u-ing them lor conveyances he b. , ,t viviug men are at the root of every Haves is fooluhn' - l’roftssur King's inaugural voyage whi le Mile from Minneapolis, Minnisota. during the progress of a great Uir there on the 7m of brpteniber. Already ail the arrange, sneuta have been made, and the managers ot tha fair liave advertised the thing widely. Htbasaltodytentoii nil car and ceiling ( ^ au Ktd e.pecM to follow in two wesks. I • | lhr „ luU „ voyacc is bound to make a seuatiioti in tte west, m r«pr#renMiiivf» of JesdiiVs n«wsj>»- pers from all over the country have appli- d tor permisaioo to accompany him. At pt.MDt, however, the nnraber Is limited to jirt, nresenutive from a Boston papsr, one *reo> a New York p*|>er. two from two Chi cage p'p***» » n ‘* on# * rom * Minneapo.ts sod uu* from a St. Paul paper. VIRGINIA BATTLEFIELDS. jPrtutmt Appekrune’ * r **»v Wllder- amwtaere UM#l sak Lee Het. Special Correspond an os FhlUdelpWa Tine*. Thk Wildersk## P O. Auguit 10 —“Ho bo\ I Ho boy! Ho boy!” , «%.Vhoop im! Whoop’ira’• ’take him! ••r u io, Uttle uifgabs, ruu!" Code rth# dicamstanoe* it dida t take xne long *® hop out of bed and get to the window tz’ ■ « ii'»* *he fu># waa ail about. ISoTaWa n-fUM down near the Wilder- nMCNtk A h:g buck, with two dogs at hia tail was a.'HJOting like MaudS on the i"o track, and, foiloaiog, were five little darkies, hot fooU^» hut in »pue of their tSt ^d^or drc.’Pin* behind. Awav went the deer out frt m the ootc, through the abailow water of .he creek and, wtin wet belly, up the blit whrnson Grant, beadouarters sine suwi. t-srucg thrcce to SLhe shelter o: ibe forest »Ume ways toth* ’trwrth. In trout of the suScs A deksn yr8n fttkar nay aindviw three or |0C7 men were teaang the o » with exited cries and .antica ludicrou# enough to h-'y»t a iauiM •even to a person rudely aroused if*MU sleep “.What’s m th# windT’ I asked. Ruthin ’tall Vept the little shavers rousted a buck in the co’n an* they tcck an’ cock anar ’»m. Many deah roond heah? Yo* je#» bet yo’ bottom dollah! Las' wimah one of ’em lolloped croea the sto’ pj’cb, ard we cotcl* that fe.Ier. 1 *e i- ty ot ’em. Offen have frolUcs mnng us \wi;h d^g* and drab. Oh. yes. jee. srr; had sa reg’iar devil of a time las’ wintah. • Any bears?" , , •“Scauerio' tew of ’em. but Grant ana l.se was the boas bears Grant was a retfiar rjCk<k»A-«;*r—a whole passsl o’ wildcats in’ad ioot.*' Darin* the battle the deah ;snd ai d mi'keya, an’ even the tukkey- * t azrt dy—vis, Mr, the tukkey*buxk» ds— 4cg OU-. sail s# didn’t see * wild beast cor ka#-iy abtrd ihsttsammcr.’* ’ -THd me fcuszuds e'ear out? Iu wotder- th.y did Vt sm.li thecareatsa and ‘ I ^L^rty ; !*C<«'»““» SMtuwood. np by the coidmine. say< h* didn t se. a bnaas dfjr , two tnonthaam-d. hatu.. 8ke.nd ern clean oil—.very son P< » g»jt« > **• lit,,; jet, sirve; that waa adevUof a time, j with a bushel o’ brimstone throwed in. And so it wss. In the dark dep'-ba of thia wildwcod two mighty artnias. both veteran, eager, metHttome. enme with a Healthy erm-pin*. and theo with a rMcund irg clash, hard uicatbw. Anvil bad gt»«" fresh foliag. loSe twes, bet May bad brought two hundred ibonsaud man tolnrk In th. ehapsrrsi, to tear tbroagb tha tbick- M of ctambie bushe. and elntnpa of tboroy ahrubi and to light up the hollows, ititberto dismal tram time aa^oon, with dying men are *i the root or every pine. Into the undergrowth move* Han cock's great line of battle, and hour utter hour he wrestles with the toe. Trees are stripped of their limbs, the dead leaves of l>«al auturuLS are swept by fire ar d the rattle of musketry tells of the desperate woik in tbe depths. 1 rode along the Brock rjad for aloat the ruins of the Brock house legial ature, who bn* invested $150,000 on the lives of per->ecs ex peeled soon to die. The defeat of this bill gave a new impetus to tbe organization of these companies, and to-day there *n over 200 in the state, with no prospect of a diminution of the number. It is evident that tbe names of Governor Hoyt and oiJber officials have been associated with thee companies as advertisement to prosper their business. A Dusky Brother Saved From Espi slon by Ills Valiant Npense. Marion, Ohio, August 18.—An ugly alter cation took place last evening at Merchant’s Grove, one mile east of town, where a lively camp-meeting has been in progress for eral days, under the auspices of the colored Methudists. For obvious purposes a small admission fee is collected at the gate. Among the sable worshippers oc* cupyii ' front seats was a stalwart from I.igan county lie waa accom panied by hia wit« and a very small piccauniny. Shortly after the minister uad commenced the «ie :iveiy of a vifforous and character istic canp-uitieiing sermon, six of tha breihreu, {armed with huge slicks ami lieconteii with large semi-luiui pieces of tin on ihai* «* jat iapei*. rusbr violently uj»on ‘.he rc-jj-vseutativo fr-ji Logan county, who they -.tlieged hati scaled the fence and braieu them out of their price cf admis sion. A rough-and-tumble fight tbeu ensued directly in front oi tbe speaker’s stand Brother Hiwardeu, tbe manager and the minister, a# well as several laymen, took a hand, and after several minutes of severe lulling the intruder was dragged outside the ropes, where a second round t«>ok place. Gathering the diminurive off spring under her left arm, aud snatching - club from one of the specials, the good wil rushed to the assistance of her lord, aud after knocking two or three of the “po lice” down, dispersed the entire force nnd valiantly escorted her husband to his former seal, which ho retained nndis- tu bed during the remainder of the rer vice. Several minor rows have occurred since the openitg of the camp, and, as the meeting is announced to coutinuc a week longer, demonstrations of a similar character may follow. In this connection your correspondent desires a to statj that a fracas reported from this city some weeks apo, as occurrirg in the African M. E. church was incorrect. The affair origi nated among the members known as the colored Methodists, who, it ap(>ears. were origiaallv members of the African M. E. church, out seceded from that body. polled Tall*# Daughter and Bar Love for a Dragoon Officer. 8u Caul special to New York Sun. Major Gordon, of the Second infantry, was well acquainted with Spotted Tail, the 8ioux chief, who was killed by Crow Dog at Rosebud agency. He first saw him at Fort Laramie iu 1866, he having come thither on an errand so Sid that it affected hia after life. He brought there the body of his favorite daughter for burial, and officers of the post, with other white residents of the neighborhood, took part in the obsequies. Spoiled Tail killed a number of pones a f . the funeral and r.aiud the skulls on the posts pupporting the coffin. These ekulls still remain, and every year the commanding officer sees to it TUE BLUE GRASS. a widespread interest and promises to be the in- U us trial event of the year. It is sate to assume Hones aid Biarbim Waiiksy—Aihlaad, tks Hot* sf OUy—MsG:att'« Drum— 8eiau Aitk« S>ad to Trimtsn# —Tas Svgby * C-lony. SPOT. I is a small city of . . _ - , itanw. with very limited hot^l accommodations. Will tne crowds that to there be comfortably the visitors will depend In n » sir all measure the success of the expt«idon If strangers are made uncomfortable and wretched there through lack of hotel acoommodatidUB, and moreover become prey of restaurant sharks, they will come away disgusted with the whole thing. Thia mid hardly tend to promote the good feeling the exposition. The managers of the enterprise cannot give too much attention to this matter. It it their business to see that ample arrangements for accommodating the multitudes that will be in attendance arc made in reason and to take every precaution to protect them against exorbi tant price* and other impositions. THE DEATH OF GENERAL LEE. | Uu»by E'gl sbmea Ojht t‘i„v \ | western frontier.. The c:tv of Lexington, some three hour# *!y arrived there, »!!*?*& oar extreme der the fidjustment, however, it was eg eed that Mordecii anti McCarty were to o ut eioct eoenotuer t *■ - Hera the m itier should have en<* -1, aud in all probability would have so ended had it not been for the baaybodies that in every , D .. community are never so daiightei #iwneu aoatil Cincinnati upon the Southern stirring np mischief. I railway, is tha ma'ropoii# of the blue grass Doubts were exit upon the courage of j country, and lives upon two ideas—horses .he"Ld" & d -J * “»/’ «« tie. The gossips were so vigorous upon the I R third, namely, fealty to the time-honored subject that McCarty said in the club room I and threadbare orthodoxy of democracy, one day to* gToap offrirads: “ I am tireo j£ ?erv ^toefe f arm fi M its practice track, and and sick of all this talk about my affair.; I j , t . am going to .end for Majo/^Tabb (hi. largo structures ao frequently mutaken second) and see if this devilish talk cannot 1 by pus:ng traveler! lor manufactories are be stopped." j only distilleries. Tnere are five of these iu Fate appeared again, for Mordecai enter- L i loI and the capital they have in ed the room by chance, and heard the re- I ... , , V. • . , mark. He stepped lorward and warned to vested in the Stock of liquor runs into the knowif the remark referred to hi in Uoder | millions. Right banks are doing a lerge their agreement they were both bound io I busia<*s hero in cenmetiou with this !&: fc 5wbo"i-rr MtCa ' ,y “ ,d ‘° -«• P"-«* . ... “It does not matter who I am. lama There is a growing conviction in the gentleman, at least ” I minds of thoughtful citizars that, after all, "Ah, indeed!” said McCarty, in a sneer-1 ij 0rae3ant i whisky are the twin evils of the 1D Theif followed a quarrel of blows, and ****** They have been west and noted the fr*im then reconciliation was impossible. J phenomenal growth of cities upon the Tiie gossips who b#d forced *11 th>s iniacbief, I ^beat bearing plains of Illinois and the by dtciariug that they would muke Rich- I rising fortunes of Iowa, Nebraska and Wis- mond too hot to bold the young men if I consin, and reason that if the magnificent they did not fight, were currespundiagly aoil oI the b i ue gr^a was applied io good, ha^y.^ ^ ^ ? R;.hmAn<l j sqrnfee agriculture, and flour mills replaced meanor during his l i dn*l took place near Richmond, in I tue distilleries, the city, which is no larger _ —luded place. One of the aurgeous, I than when it sent forth Henry Cray to wiu whose services were sought, refused It has I hi s laurel# in the senate, wouid grow into always been thought it was be who notified I a metropolis and center of trade, such as the police. Here occurred another fatality. I Atlanta, the "Chicago of the south," is fast The police did not receive the information | becoming. in time to reach the ground before the I The old court house where Clay imbibed fatal ?hotR were fired. When ths first shots I bis lessons in law still th' units a square iu were tired no one was hit. An upper but-1 t b e middle of the town. Ashland, the too of McCarty’s coat was cut An I borne of Clay, is still the Mecca of every other fatality here occarred. Had th»- j pilgrim to this region, and a stately monu- second* taken time to examine their men j ment stands above his sepulchre iu the to see if they were hit, the chief of police j | er 0 [ Lexington cemetery. Ashland would have arrived in time to prevent the I converted some years ago into a college •eccnd shots. As it was, Mordecat cried I through a union of the interests of churcn out, "I am all right; Mr. McCarty s button I a3 «i state, but trouble occarred between only was cut off, as I can see from here ” I t o e two interests and now the The seconds of the challenger demanded I state j 3 building its college aseoondsbot. Another fatality. If duel-1 j n another part ol the town. Tue iag pistol# had beeu employed, time would j buildings at Asnland are no longer ussd for summonedan< have been needed to load, and then the j collegiate purposes aud the brick structure chief of police would have arrived The I built as au annex, and ouce devoted to Weapons used were self-cocking army re- | technics, is now a tobacco barn. Au at- volvera. The second firing resulted cun I tempt has been made to ••restore’' Ashland, ously. Both men were struck m the same I but the old charm of the association with places in the right tide. The ball lo one I |f, e great protectionist is man ad by the case—that of Mordecxi—passed through, j knowledge that cnanges have tee a made, resulting fatally, while the ball in Me- j a native said, "Jim Clay sold the old house Gariy’s case deflected, and pawed around I in walking sticks." The title is held by the Both men threw up their hands and fell I * Chriatian” church, Garfield’s denouiina- upon their faces _ The chief cf police was I ^ on> on the hill, running, and witnessed the last | Clay’s sarcophagus bearing the following shot. Mordscai died within a week. I impressive declaration: McCarty was in bed six mouths, and barely 1 i can, with unshaken confidence, appeal to the escaped with his life. I divine arbiter for the truth of the declaration There is no denying one fact, that the thu 1 have been Influenced by no Impure pur- .Y»1 i*« .tLflinu f«ati*rea arn 11***- nopera mal mouve; have songot no per- code and u attending leatures I mwki aggrsnaiz-ment, but ihat in allinypaLlic thoroughly condemned by northern peo- I gets! have had a sole and single eye and m warm, pie, there is no doubt; but right here upon ) devoted heart directed and dedicated to what in tbe ground, where it is a matter of honest I my beat judgment 1 believe to be the lutereatof “d e 'i S^vor*' M™ t « m mo h ra 8 circu^ %«SW ‘b. coun “gtUwm . sp^t in what they say or do. Southern national funeral. Every city paraded ita oien are much politer to each other in a I cortege, and no man wag so honored be- ocial way than are northern people in the I tween the deaths of Washington and Lin- wh 1 ^™ y £7*^ rr, ,rom herded together without enrauntering K-vea that unpre^ton of Uberal domain more or lees of the rowdy element. Her;- j pi*oaliar t° English porks. These old line there may be much out of the way as any- statesmen cuose tbe sues of their bomei where else, but, upon the surface, unusual 1 ™ ll lt an artistic oyo. Caiheun lived upon decency and decorum upon the pert of the I Hm°i^nimh*f*eI3lBsf r Jut SI ’ ^ s of both cexes are observed. CHR1STIANCY DIVORCE SUIT. | the war, and raids were made by both Why the Oia Men Dldn*c Want to I armies alternately, although federal power Raise a Family, and the Henna He I was maintained after the first year. Morgan. Adapted to Prevent It. I a resident of Lexington, raised his raiders Washington, August 22.—The testimony In the j here and mounted them on coursers led Interesting Private Letter From the Late Mrs. Mary C’nstla Lee. - Charlottehyillx, Va, August 23.—In tbe fall of 1870, we went to Lexington to visit General and Mrs. Lee. Perfectly do I recall my impression of the general as be advanced to meet me. Ths preoccupied, care-worn expression that his face had worn during the war was gone, and he looked as I had remembered him years before. He had accepted the results of the war. There was no r. serve of bit terness, uo u*eleas regrets, but the brave determination to make his life useful. If tbe true indication of genius is the power of concentration upon any given subject, General Lee demonstrated it in hia active, thoxoagh interest in his duties as president of a college. One felt that it was not a forced interest, but a deep solicitude for tbe youih of the count.y. Looking better for several years, ener getic end active, how was it possible to realize that death was waiting in the near future—merciless death that heeded not people’s cry that he might be spared to lead in peace as he had in war. \V« doubt not but that be would have modera ted bitterness and counseled wisely. Wo bade him farewell on Monday, September 20, after several days most pleasantly spent, and on the Wednesday following suddenly and as a shock to the whole country came the avant-courier of death. I will here add a letter from Mrs. Lee, giving wme details of the sad event, and bespeaking her own noble, beautiful character: Lexington,November 20,1870.—My Dear Mr*.— I should sooner have replied to your letter, but bare been very sick and confined to my bed for a mouth. Dear friend, I am t . ourself made that vis . _ could have remained longer. Constantly are ■ reminde-l how important it is to do what#.ever ILL AROUND US WHAT THB PEOPLE ARB DOING. ssy, he did mot take sU the money. 1 that was la it. The next morn ing the back door was found unlocked. It I ts presumed that the burglar entered through the tky-light or was unintentionally locked in br the proprietor.—An amusing Incident occurred at a camp meeting near thia place. A youcm told by her moth Sunday afternoon, bh xady had Ends32, th^r Tyrrell Goamty Murderer, Tnratd 1 J° Over is th* Authorities—Threat* of Lyneh* I was taken to ing H m-Tha Grlfla Bare Balliata and chastised for disobedience'—-Misa'Tfzle —Marriages la Samter. E.c. Je ks hts returned home after aever-1 weeks xtc- ■uiu S n»«aw l ii.<i. I reation. The Bullock county court house, which adorns one side of our buslnees thor- nhere It does not interfere with our duties. Thii terrible storm, l suppose, has prevented all use of the canal until next summer, so that you would hare been entirely cut off from us. That Wednesday night, at half past J o’clock, after a day every moment of which had been time. Where have you been?'' He did not reply, aud stood up as if to say graoe, but uo sound pro ceeded from his lips and he sat down in his chair perfectly upright and with a sublime look of reda ction on hia countenance, but did not attempt to reply to oui *"*■' never to be forgotten, he felt U»“ submitted small, fallow, anfeuced field, half way to Todd’s tavern, i be grow th of timber oa either aide of the road i* unbroken. There is not a sign of human habitation. Toe woods are so dense that at some puiuts it is impossible to see tweatjr yard# with in, aud at no place is an obj ci a hardred yard* off from the road discoverable. Tes aud bushes, bushe# aud trees But alorg one side of ihe road from the Orange plsnk south to the Breck ruins is a continuous line of well-preserved earthworks. Here it is up to ibe top button of the coat, again it is knee high and occasionally almost level »r.h the ground; but it is always tracea ble. At lime# it runs ot! into the wcods for a few feet, but curves again and lies by the side of tbe road like an endless grave monnd. In most places it is brown, with • covering of dead leaves and pine shatters, while at other# it u green with email thru be and matted briars. Legs stick out at interval# and their ends are charred in the place where a roaring wood fire helped L mg- etreet to make a temporary breach in the line. Three qaaiters of a mile in the woods to the west, and ptarallel to Hancock's en trenchmenta, are the confederate breast works. They stretch to the right and left of the plank road and run for a seemingly interminable distance. Tne earthworks t wit 1 taw at Bull Run, in the Peninsula, at Fredericksburg and at Chancellorsville were slight compared with these, but when the armies started on the Kapidan cam paign they knew the value of the shield of sand. Thia was the strangest battle ever fought and it is tbe strangest battlefield. There tall# the dusk ol an August day and a vast breadth of crimson siauts up from the arttt in the track of the sun. Trees are to the right and isft and everywhere, and ih* silence of the Wilderness oppresses. It is easy to think of New England’s Kicg Philip, of Boone, of Tecumseh and of Tip pveanoe, but it is difficult to keep the mind upon generous Wadsworth, who fell here, upon Sedgwick, who soon followed, upon Lee and Grant. To regard this as a place of battle where Paiuted warriors dodged from tree to tree and pioneer rifi-men held th* ir own. is natural enough, but it is hard to rrahae that here was lought a battle according to the art of war, that here Grant and Lee met for the first time, and that here was begun such a series of awful combat# as the world never saw before. G. M. the doctors, who were Immediately in had uot eyen reached their homes showed oae who bid taken leave uX earth. He rarely at.cmpted to speak except in hia dreams, ana wueu he wandered to Uun>edreadful battle-Ileitis. Due j, when urged him to take some medicine, which be always took with luctance, bp looked at her aud said: “’lla _ use." but aitcrwards took 1L When he became so much bettor tue doctor said: “You must soou get out and ride your favorite grey." He suook bis aead emphatically and looked up ward. He slept a great deal,but knew ns all and greeted Ui with a kindly pressure ol the hand, loving to have ua around him Fpr the last forty eig t hour?;hf»jseemed quite Insensible of onr presoucs, breathed heavily and at last quietly sunk to rest witn oue deep drawn sigh. Onf what a glorious rr-t wesin store for him—the humble, ooushtont Christian, who, not many weeks before, had said, wheu we wore talkie ~ ** ” “ he wished he could be surprised at the v. aud faithful servant, t „ 0 , oi tt.,j ougb fare, is one of the handsomest building* of Alt any, Angus. -1.—Frank Hudson, the I the kind in the state, and has been completed at Terrell countv murderer, was delivered an expense of *<*>.000. ——Several deaths have os- . * . . , . . Iccurredin this vicinity within the past two over to the authorities of that county yes- week* Crop prospect# are said to t*Tlo u r terday, and left under guard on the 12 ???l m ****Z *£**y.*y.» **■ county. The . . , land# are exceedly fertile, and nearly alsay* > clock train for Dawson. A dispatch re- I yield abundant harvests.— Last week lightning ceived at' th, N.w. and Advertiser office late last evening states: “Prisoner arri red, the Methodist pastor. No serious damage wan butiu great peril ; sheriff just succeeded in • done ’ getting him to jail; great excitement.’’| Athens. August 22 -Mlaa Ltxxie 8tovail is on a The murderer attracted much attention Dr. Benedict and wife hav^» , , , , ... J returned from their bridal trip. Professor and here from a large crowd gathered in front Mrs. White are on a v«sit to the north Mlue# of the jiil. aa he was brought out, who fol- lowed him to the depot. Ho was personally I returned to their homes.—The * • treme drouth known to a nuinber present, who recog tS^tSlfaVi nixed him. From Sheriff Edwards of this I make half crops. Fruit la very plentiful; fine county we learned tart evening the follow- ing facta, which, differ slightly from our threo bales of new cotton brought flret report. On Friday morning laet, after Niohofie?* c“?or i ls' 5“u rannal— the prisoner had been jailed here and after I A * r, .5’ Jr -» *“d Miss Lucy Sppes, both ., f u a vi v * I of this city, were married in ClaikbvUle. on ** the interview had with him by a reporter i*th. Mr. B, has rotarned to Athens with of the News and Advertiser the sheriff Anna Bredford upon proper pro- . ... „ ■»».»* , , I ceedlngs before the ordinary, was adj .dged a started oil to hod one Dan Miller, colored, I lunatic, and will be soon scnt«to Mi Hedge villo.— living in the lower part of Terrell, with JStra’l.SSm ud» M A ThS3« whom the prisoner, Hudson, stated that he | locatfd In 8t Lonlst Mlssonrl Quite a a bed left. Fomon of the money he had Ku&X SttSSfi* *&!?££&&% taken from the bouse of Mr. Lee. Miller revive, and we notice that the last few days the Bret denied Saving any of the »®«o *Ued wiffi jw^on Iron the money, but being pressed, he I admitted having it, and showed the officer Gbifvin, August 54 —The State Sunday-school where he had concealed it Tbe sheriff I conyeuttoa convened here to-day, with General found $46 in greenbacks and coin, which I iV, i ? t lilU, \ il ;, Br 2, wne ’ ot 4 thens 't ,re,iiliu B- Hon. Miller ernted he had received from Hudson ‘S.CS the night of the murder. Dan A filer. It ap-1 a change of president every year for sectional pears, is Frank Hudson’s father-in-hw, and 1 reasons. The morning was consumed in the as he states, Hudson told him he gave him 1 appointme .1 qf committees, la the afternoon the money because he had been kiud lohirn I delivered, Inauelo- and hia children, telling him how it tvaa I Sfl .n^bfu ratSiL Sde b: n'SittVi Bmmie obtained. He ate supper at Miller's, and j of Athena Tne couvcntlon is rather alimly ‘ tried to get him to bring him on to Albany I tended up to now, but more delegates arc c_ iu his wagon, which Miller refused to do. I Pfcted to-night and to-morrow In the game Ae stated in my Brat dispatch, the next Between the seen of Hudson ws, the next day, Wednes- ^| lUo ^ 0 ' by Ve °KSf: day, at 111 Am., at the Oakey Woods store, some eoore of thirty-eight to nothing, eight miles from Albany, where he bought Comment is unnecessary. The Llghtfoots are the a pistol, a shirt, and other articles, and dis- I undoubted champions of Georgia, and make no played, hie money. After obtaining the- SS^o.t^dmSSfy. tmlbttnl m money from Miller, and notifying several and Griffin la having a r**uiar boom, a hirty men from Dawson of the fact, and of Mil- I cheer and a tiger for her plnck. ler’s statement. Sheriff Edwards went to I where the negro girl was lying at her moth- I Hawkiwsvillk. August 23.—A gloom pervaded er’a house, who was the sole witness and sur- I °? r i 0 !* 11 M<1 community to-day on the receipt vivor of the tragedy. From her, whom he wibiSSfS k!!S found perfectly conscious, and apparent- I came here in 4 Annary last, nnd took chargo of in doing well for one in her I the music department of the Hawklmvilie in condition, he obtained the facts, substan I atitute, in which position the won an enviable lially, as follows! A short time after having br Mr nfF to attend «ha «ra I her loTel I d>#poalUon the admiration of all wh m tolled Mr. LeeoU to attend to ihe tire, 8 hemet. unlyafew of h. r friends here had Hudson returned to the bouse. It was then J heard of her iilucs*, and they, not thinking it some time after dark, Mrs Lee was sitting | was aerion*, was unprepared for the news of her on the front piazza. He told he: that Mr. Many remaned that they never had an Lee had sent him back to gat some supper. \? r u< 5S l tdSc?raffen2S d ^P ly - — ~ 8 r!«rtrt S im wher * ¥f* ™ D a .f®’ I tloned in mv yesterday’s anlcle as^having serl- plied that he was watching the fire, fearing I ously shot himself on aunday last, died yesterday, it would break out again. Mrs. Lee thou I He was buried In Orange Hill cemetery this told him to go into the room where a light I AtaoMriTbomaaEnlott, late of Ai wa# burning and get something to eat from * 1 •** » nucu,iced ihe cupboard. This he did, and, as the girl J “* states, ate heartily. After citing he walked hakwku, August S0.-Qulte a serious acci out on the piazza and struck Mrs. Lee with I dent happened to the worthy sheriff of our county an ax, kilting her instantly. Her dead I Mr. Booert J. Myers. He was returning late ies- body was found on the piazza next morning. I evening from hia field where he had been He then returned into the room, and by I the light of the lamp > robbed the bouse | aadthrowed him off backwards, hU whole weight OUR RAILROADS. HOW THE WORK IS GOING ON. A Nsw Fores at Work on the Gsorgia Paolfie- Arrengiag for tha Laying of Ekllt-Makiag Bids on tha Bern# Ext*nafen-Tha Cola Ohariar la tha 8anatr. On Wednesday a long caravan of wagons file-1 ont of the city making their w*y beyond the grade on the Georgia Pacific, where they will join the force now working. These wagons with about eighty meu. I# a force that ihe Richmond and Danville extension company has just released from work in Virginia, and advance guard of a large number that will follow. Major Johnson, vice-president of tho Richmond and Danville exteusion company, whi» here, saya that coining will now delay an active and vigorous prosecution of tbe work. On Tuesday Gen. Gordon with Gen. Maclbu* and Mr. Johnson went out beyond ihe fair grounds, on the right of way of the Georgia Pacific as granted to the Georgia. Western, and arranged for the layiug of the Georgia Pacific track on the Western and At lantic right ol way. The work of track laying, which will begin immediately, will atari from the city and continue straight ahead. The profiles and specificatiot a for the contracts a the Rome extens on of the Macon and Brunswick road fire now ready, and Mr. Holt, Captain Grant and several other gentlemen who will possibly be contractors, have been examin ing them for (he past day or two. The track* on this llue will be laid as soon aa possible. The Cole charter will be reported In the senate this morning by the senate committee on rail- road*, with a recommendation that it pass. There will be no minority report and the bill comes from the committee in exactly the shape that it passed the house. Scarcely any opposition was developed in the committee room. The bill will be resul the second time to day aud will then probably be made the special order <or a future day, possibly as late as the middle ot next week. A PRESSING INQUIRY. Wlii’u Will tbe Legislature Conclude to Adjourn ? Upon investigation and inquiry among tho members of the committee appointed for the purpose of fixing a day for tho adjournment of tho legislature, we find that the probable time for adjournment will bo between the 15th and 25th of September. It is probable that tha legislature will not get away before the last of September. This will give a session ol about seventy eight days, which, added to the thirty- two days of the session of la? t year, will give 110 days for the total session. The cost is estimated at about 81,200 per day, ao that tho present legislature will cost the people of the state about 8135,000. Up to date It has not shown work commensurate with this cost, but it may do better daring the balance of the session. It will be seen that tbe biennial ses sion feature of the constitution doea not work very well, as the first legislature elected under It set thirty-two days lost year and will act about seventy-five this year. This is a new definition of bietiuial sessions but may be a satisfactory one to Ute peop.e. THE ARKANSAS METHOD r thou into the joy < »y xora." Had h? bsen successful instead of the“hero'of lust cause,” he couiu not have baen more be loved and honored. 1 am con tout and would not have him hack, though I must Continue my weary pilgrim.ge alone, without ute support on which i have leaned with such perfect confidence for more than thirty years. We shall couunue to make this o o into a that the coffin is decorated with flowers and streamers The daughter had a romantic history, which is familiar to many army officer# and plainsmen. She fell in love with Lieutenant Brockhorst Living ston, of the old Second dragtocjs. and a direct descendant of the tamon# Chancel lor Livi: cston, of New York. Heatems to have reciprocated her love, aud they lived together a# man and wife, though bound by no legal ties. Livingston at length took s:ck, became a prey to dementia, was sent to Europe and tnere died. The poor girl awaited his return long and amxiously, and guarded as dearer than her heart’s blood hia son, a bright boy two or three years old. At length news of his death reached her, and the wife—for so the con sidered herself, and to her native friend* corn ulered her—pined a few months with a slowly breaking heart, and then died. Her last words were the few English words of endearment Livingston had taught her in days gone by. Spotted Tail took the beloved form where Livingaton had first met her, and there buried it. Mrs Livingston, the motherof the lieuten ant, is still living in New York, or was a sboit time ago, and has instituted itqniries relative io the sou spoken of, wiih a view o! caring for and educating him, but all trace of him wss lost, or his dusky relatives preferred to keep him with themselves. are, unexpectea Dy tne piainuu ■ counsel, t : . , h renrasuntativ developed, which proved « vertt»blo bomb- i a Qf ?£o MUlh. ^ reminiscences, liltc shell in the camp. A witness named Ambrose most of 8Qch mem0 iiea. were interesting Telliot testified that la July, 1S76, Mr. Cbristiancy I Morgan is looked upon here as the “Lighi called at hia drug store in this city and Informed I Horse Harry" of the rebellion, him that his wife was iu a critical condition from I Behind tbe counter, open a fire proof, at sn operation performed on her. and he said he I this same hotel is the first drum ever used had been recommended to witness aa a oomne- as a starter for horses. It was used at New tent practitioner in «ncb tpecbddee. Witness Orleans, and given to McGrath, who lately dechoed to give tbo matter pen.on.1 attention, I died at Ipeg Branch. The drum is silent, mid recommended at. Chrtrtlsncy to go to some «nd the Uetarne course onceso famous, n ...... . « .rarartlrar tlorasw I * thlDg Of th© pOSt. And SO g06S Ut6 WOfld. regular physician, namirg a regular practitioner. clofl J . LfcXington ^ King’s stock-farm, Senator Cbnsiiaaty said be wouid not call on any Xen firoeks’, and Dr. Herr’s. We drove such phjtician; that be desired counsel rather I ^ t j ie latter place, a regular, conventional t han practical services; that he was read up in I southern home—Grecian portico, low c.>r- obetetries, and theoretically posted on matters I nice, big trees, and all, with a flee approach pertaining to prevention of procreation; that hs I across a broad lawn. Behind the house aud wasgetUi'-: too far advanced !n year* to com- | stretching away toward the her x m were mence the reariB? of * jouag family and lor that the fold. tm0 otb and green, dotted with reason he hou o;ierated upon hi# wife blmrelf j Wfl i nn . »., AT »te and and he ashamed the responsibility. Hi* wife. I cops® 3 of walnut, maple via oak, however, was nuet aUrmr!. c-jufi’jod to her bed I under which ths sleek, blooded cattle, suffering from the effects of tne operation I equine and bovine, lingered in the After continuous appeti* tbo witue*# made au I monotony of content. When the doctor d l?Jrtf.5ii U bv if Otfltred ont a magnificent Btallion. and had room, .ea’ouud hlr him exercised for our del.ctatiou, we could ▼t ry weak and oomp.’aiMn.; of great pain, and on I enter in some slight degree, as we watched examination found ‘ • - - »- tempted aoonien JTS prescription, went to and prepared it. laa drug store reiuming, deliv ered 'it' to cxSenator t;lmsiUn..y. The day following Mr. Chrisiiancy called at the store and informed me tlul hir wtte waa golfing aloog nicely. Two days afterward he called ojuda, saving his wife * " * Witn© A CONVICT KILLED. the graceful action of the spirited animal, his glistening sides and arching neck, into the enthusiasm which actuates men who follow tbe turt as a life-long form of amuse ment or profit. Fine cattle, bovines being meant, are ev identiy held in good esteem here. While I waa in town a sale occurred at which the average price for cows was $590. , Bidding good-bye to tbe velvet hills and time, and, therefore, he would have to wait un- 1 ee9S G f corn, to the winding brooks, tli he coutd get rid of her. After rome fielay b® I wreathed with willow glade#, sod to the saw Mr*. Christlancr as&in sad made an exam-1 ... . 7 ination, and informed both the ex senator and I high stepping pacers, we left for Teunes hi* wife that nothing could be done, as an abor- I see. Oue huudred m:feb below Cincinnati Uon would soon occur. Mix Chris- I the Southern railway crosses the Kentucky tiancy appeared much distreaaed, stating I Hver upon the highest bridge on the couti- l^bto^nhfdSSLiMSd rt hS ° ent highest piet bridge in the world husoond, ex-Scnator Chrittazcy. Witneia esu-1 Immense and costly towers stand upon the tloned her aaafost undue excitement, and in- j verge of either cliff', showing that it was formed her that her huaband had aw-ured him I originally intended to make this a suspeu- hia determination «id | gjoa-bridge, bat for some engineering A Aoted Italian rrlmlaat Xr#ia D*«*a ni the Hands of a c omrade. Sews reached ths city jettorday of Ufe tilling ot an Italian convict named Anioxlo Pimontt. which occurred at the Old Town camja Sunday morning. Hxmntt waa serving oat a sentence of tsn yean for sa attempt w murder anotoer Italian in Aagusu. The fell ioxticuixn art not known, but trem what la known tt appears that Sunday morning Punooti and a fallow ojavict named Dan Mo^a. got into a difficulty. Mosca drew a kolfs sod atafcbsd PxxaooU Uirce tlm^ tat e near the heart and once io the abdemen. Bribar wound waa snffirieat to prodnoe drain. A •wooer's jury returned a verdict wffich chaigsd Moses with marffir. plmoatl was a very de*?er- dtlBO- Darling Is Virginia. Wh.ls Sulphur Springs Cor. Caicago Times. There has never been any law in Vir ginia rigid enough to prevent dueling, l he best young meu believe in the code; to re fuse to give an enemy the satisfaction of going out upon the field would only result in the mau refusing, becoming asocial out cast To take any part in a duel under tbe pre sent Virginia law. one becomes equally guilty with the principals. To kill a man in n duel is classed as a murder in the first degree, but uo one has ever been convicted under tne law. It is impossible to have a jury that will convict, so strong is pnbiic rent intent in favor of the code. Judges juries, prosecuting attorneys, all at least believe in it; so where is the possibility of a rigid enforcement of such a law? The McCarty-Merdecai duel in Richmond was one of the last fatal duels fought in Virginia. In some ways this was one of the n;o*t dramatic bits of southern social life that I have ever heard related. One of tte second# in this duel gave me the other d&y a light free sketch of this historical du* l and its causes. McCarty and Mordecai were two young coh federate officers, born and bred in the ‘-luifa. Both served with great credit and b. a very during the rebellion. Mor- decai was a gunner and refused a great many times promotion to bis gal lantry, saying that he could do the si uth more service at bis gun. After the j war the two young men moved in the best ! society of Richmond, and were members of lhs same fashionable dub. A young lady wss the cause of the bitter quarrel between them. McCarty was very much in love with her—but the two, bee ^mirg estranged, became bitter enemies. Then Mordecai be came the lover of the young lady. Miss T. and naturally sympathized with her in her expressions of dUl.ke for her former ad mirer. There wss a fatality, however, in the affair that brought about au *x plosion. Once when dancing a chance figure of the ger man, M:ssT met McCarty a# a partner, and, refusing to dance with him, left the floor. This made a scene. The next night at an- ionSoriroSon before the wttneo# content*a to I * v * , ow *“‘* SuthM ^focame to w^ireremefiUl relief, reason the original plan was abandoned and would ao aid her that with careful caning I and the massive iron trackway is sup- oil would be well. Tbe Sunday following fin* I ported from below at & height of two hun vUit senator Chrlrilancy colled at the store of tbe I died and seventy-six feet, witness and Informed him that the treatment Th#( —hole line of the Southern nil wav had been raccemfnl. and he desired to know If .. A i! .» . Sit other treatment was necessary. Wiuiea* gave I projected as it is at a right angle w»th him additional direction, wttn a proscription. I mauy spurs and rivers, is a meze of engt- ond the senator paid the bill, $25. for hi# personal I neering difficulties. Taree hours south of Lexington a long tunnel terminates upon services, including his medicines. au iron bridge that springs direedy trout ANNIE MOORE. I the sheer cliff at a dizzy height above the ——— I Cumberland river. Tne effect i# g-.artliug. K„pp«,,nc. „ Horn, or .«« W„,. Jxl « Puiut total hrad.^J ward Girl Who Married a Negro. I named in bonor of the general, who cou I ducted some military operation# here. Beiyee, Pi, Augusta.—The citizens of I Point Barnuide the milw&y company has Beaver were not a little surprised to learn I built a hotel, and a man from near Treuton that Annie Moore, the young lady of good I runs it. . . .. * „ ---.1 ....imi . JLv But little is said about Rugby, the Eng- faaitly who, two} ears ago,married a worth* I colony in Tennessee. The general less negro and .eft for Ohio, had again been I impression I obtained from the natives seen on her native streets. It will be re-1 to the enterprise was not reassuring, membered that some months prior to her | Glen Mary, where the Rcgbyitescome to marriage with the negro, Danger fie Id, the I meet trains, there were two or three youcg fair Annie became the mother ] Englishmen standing by the track *s we of a fiae, healthy son. whose pa- halted for a moment, and I iancied they teraity she imputed to a young law locked tired and worn. They certainly had student of Beaver, bat who, on the other I lost the clear, peach bloom complexions baud, stoutly a-serted his innocence, and I they brought with them last year, and were who, rather than accede to tne demands as brown as mountaineers. 1 regretted that that were made of him by her family. ] want of time prevented a repetition of my served his time in jail and came out under visit of last year. Ragby will dsubtles the insolvent laws. Shortly after her I hold its own as a pleasant summering union with her dusky mate she moved to J place, for ita surroundings are very pictur- Salem, Ohio, wnere she has since figured etque and ita inaccessibility provta rather more or less prominently. After causir-g j a spur than a hinderance to visitors. Bat 1 jealousy and domestic jar# in certain cot- j think those of ita projector# who proposed ored families of that place, last winter she | making it a great farm must have become was heard from again, this time in the I discouraged ere this. If the settlers will ex United States court in .Cleveland where I periment with grapes, pears and “garden she appeared a# plaintiff, having charged I sisi,” I think they will make a success of some other negro with lifting her letters I it. But then I don’t know anything about from the Salem post-office On the occasion | farming. F. H. T. of ibis suit our townsman, W. A. Laird, was called to tbe foreat city as a witness for the I a Word to Atlanta, gentle Annie. Since that time nothing has Sew York Herald, been heard of her until she turned np on Tha now are that the visitors to the our streets last evening. What the object I Atlanta exposition will far oatnnxnoer wnat waa of her visit here is a mystery. Whether she si first antfotpaieo. The affair was origin ally in is on .Tint to her fn«d. ud to see her I «=. a«3 . hica.ytii <*^1. boy, or with an idemof mgva domiciling her- ! U “to self among the saints, is asyet but an object j proportions of a ceuerxl of all of conjecture here. ' and all natioaa It ho* awakened When tbe canal is open come and visit ns again. Believe me always truly and affectionately your lifeud, Moby Cvstij Lks. The flood alluded to will long be remem bered in Virginia, particularly by those living along the line of the canal, who, by its destruction, were cut off for months from the rest of th»j world. Horrors of Hydrophobia. Chicago News. Peter Dahl was lying on. a cot in a base ment ward of the county hospital yesterday afternoon, surmunded by several of the at- tendaufe, Drs. Norman Bridge, Dr. Fengtr and several newspaper reporter#. Dabi w a suffering front what was supposed, from the symptom?, to be hydrophobia. "I was bitten by a dog about ti.e middle of March.” he explained, between deep inspirations of breath, accompanied by a wild, frightened look in his eyes. 4 *fhe dog was running around, chewing up pieces of rags, and when 1 hit It with my pipe, it jumped at me and bit me here in the fleshy part cf the thumb,” showing a small wound perfectly healed and almost iuvisi bie “I pul some salve on it. It didn’t trouble me till Monday. Then I had a pain iu the side and back of my head. Tuesday morning I felt sick, and when I went out in the open air, and the wind struck me, I commenced to bark lik**a dog.” “How?” a.ked Dr. Bridge. The mau tave a terribly realistic answer. Opening hi# mouth, he took a deep and sudiien inspiration, the air whistling as it entered tbe passage to the lungs. His teeth clattered and his eyes glared. For a moment he looked like a wild animal. ‘That’s how. I staid in the house that day, and the other morning I went and saw Dr. Tingel and came to the hospital. The people stared at me as I came along." Au attendant explained that the patient was a good deal worse when he arrived than at present, having been quieted with eighty graias of chloral, twenty grains of Fowler’s solution, and ten grains oi quinine, the lat ter administered hypodermically. He had at first manifested the greatest abhorrence of water, but had overcome his repugnance later, so far as to take some tea “That inspirational spasm," said Dr. Bridge to the Morning News reporter, “is one of the symptoms of hydrophobia—a test, though not an absolute one external irritation is transmitted the spinal column through tbe sensor nervts. and there is an impulse in re turn through the motor nerves In coses of bydiophobia, as in cases of tedonns, the ipiral column i# morbidly sensitive." “Juat notice,’ he remarked, as he blew wiih his breath upon the exposed portion of the patient’s abdomen. Tne man started up aghast, and drew a sadden breath, aa in awful terror, regaling the nightmare scene witnessed a iew moments before. Dr. Bridge questioned the man at length, and drew ixoui him the statement that he was of a nervous disposition, which had manifested itself particularly since his fathei’e death, seven year# ago. He had always entertained a particular dread of hydrophobia, and since he received the bite four months ago, bad been unable to read through accounts in the newspapers of case# of hydrophobia. The doctor also drew from him the statement th«t he was in the habit of drinking more or less every day, and on Sunday last had drank consider able. The girl states that she t-a whim from an I foiling on bis bock. Ihe doctor wo* scat for, who adjoining room where she and the other col- I found hi* collar bone broken in two place*. Tne ored girl were sleeping, the door of which I 5?^u HEiS* a I ^ >mio l tA *?■' u™oi Hudson then blew out the light and started I .he best officers In the state and Is also one ol the to leave, but, hearing a noise in the room | best farmers of this county. He does not depend where she and her companion were sleeping, I on his offles lor a support, but mokes plenty of turned back and entt*rtfd the room, stoop ® c S“?,S5Sl t iug over the girls, the eldest of whom, about l0 eSed bfjtoUtfeV\h£co5nt£ wuooray Hi years of age. wag asleep lio indeed u ] earnestly for his speedy recovery. they knew him. 8he replied, “Ye?, its you I Uncle Frank." He struck at her with the I Talbottoh, August 21.-No town In Georgia ax in the dark, a blow which fell upon the I i*Improving Uke Taibotton. Our new railroad herTnfunt I v e ilie 8 a{ , o r oM her instantly. She at once jnmped up and We received onr first bole of new cotton on run into Mrs. Lee’s room, and threw her Saturday. It wa* raised by Mr. H C. Trussed seif under the bad. Tbe fiend followed and I »n<l *>ld to Mr. W. I*. Waits for llM cents dragged her out, ntui with the ax struck I £?« rel i Urae ^ to our .— her tvto blows, aimed at her head; but bom tti u,fi£u£time missing her head m tbe dark fell one on I hsyiag hot, dry and sultry weather, but our each shoulder, breaking the «>houlder bone# I crop* in Talbot county are the ben for ten ye ire. and leaving her insensible. She recollected | -—The central camp meeting, five miles from no more until she came to, several hours SgS“i““ o,ti0 >^<»t la the stale, bertas afterwards, and managed to make her way I 7 ** * S?u th S n if a r eS !- h ° !Ue ' ab0U . t ? mUe . . d u ista ? t GbEssKBrao, August 23.—Although we have The girl’s testimony was taken at the in- had fine prospects for rain, we are Mill drv. *ad quest held the day after the murder. She I crops look bodty. We have the consolation that is not expected to survive her injuries We I °ur community Is healthy and our people geu- learn that two other negroes, implicated by I J5Sf *jSLSfS5iS fewSSiTitMSiiJS—From Hudson’s statement, were arrested in Ter- I the appearance of tnowln market, we monos© the Of Dealing wrltb people who are In w »y . Little Rock, August 23.—The particu lars of the double murder in Scott county, 18 miles from Waldron, reached here to day. Two men, known in that part of the state by the name# of Falsom and Hobbs, had been gambling for several days with John Stewart. Stewart was proprietor of a country Btore, and dealt quite largely in whisky. He was also a successful gambler, and had won steadily of the men named above until about $100 had changed hands. Finally thev arose from the table, and one said, “I am broke." They took several drinks to brace up with, mounted their boree* and rode off The night afier the termination of the game, they rode back to the store, woke Stewart up and m-ked for whisky. He got up and went into the store, drew the liquor aud placed it on the counter. One of the desperadoes then quietly pulled out a navy six, placed it on the counter, and aa Stewart turned toward him, fired a bullet into his body. The un suspecting victim fell to the floor, the blood pouring from the wound in his breast. The murderers theu ran around behind the counter, dragged him out into the street, and shot him six times, Billy Messingale, who lives near Waldron, and Who was on a visit to Siewart’a family, heard the row, and ran out to see what was the matter. He saw Stewart on the ground, and went back to the residence and told his wife the circumstances. While talking, one of the men stepped up to the door and said: G——d d u you, do you want to take it up?” Without wailing for a reply be shot Messingale in the back of the head, the ball passing through and coming out his upper lip. Thu# the second victim fell. Stewart was known to be a desperate man. The court records show several iudictmeuts against him. JENNIE .CRAMER. The myaietnna Hunting for Traces. Special dispatch to The Constitution. New Haven, Conn., August 22.—It la believed that the ehemio&l examination of the stomach of Jeanie Cramer points towards the presence of cantharides. and this will strengthen the theory that the girl was drugged for the purpose of i expects U* flrfeh It September 5th. The Malley cousins, Walter and James, were brought from tho Jail to West I laved this morning. C. K. Bosh, attorney for tho state, asked for postponement of tho case for murder a.-olmt them on tbe ground they hod not yet got the s statement, were arrested in ier- | the appearance of those ia market, we suppose the melon crop is about gathered. Each one looks as if It contained ono chill or more. The peach crop GnirFcr August 23—In this moraine’I has exceeded our expectaUons. Nice ones can be IVitivMm. % tSStJSmuS. had for 75 centu to SI per bushel; dried one# for Daily News appeared the following item. Ig ceata per pouud. The worst prospects “We regret to learn that Miss Kitty West- I sometimes succeeded by abundant harvests brook is ill in Atlanta. We hope soon to I may it be with our provulou crop this year. chronicle her recovery ” The first iutima- I tion of the young lady’s illness had hardly Roswell, August 2?.-The train upon the new time tn l.eite in imnrrm nn who I i all road Is being run dally between Duuwody urne io i*aye u# impres# on tnose wno an u uie junction, connecting morning «md after- read it, ere the news earns flashing over the I noon, with the Air-Liue Bclfe™ Quit? annmber wires that s le was dead. Had a thuuder I of visitors from Atlauia avail themselves of the ji ip tudJe.riy burst in a cloudless sky, it | opportunity afforded by tbe railway, to spend could not have been more at,riling to our I ?jLS2‘n7w.J u r!iI?,I eI i community than thia awful intelligence i$°3?BJKiS^MrVswiuX "“a^ECE Your correspondent took a walk up the I uta town, and will probably locate here, taElug street a few minutes after the message ar- I charge of the town scnool.—Mr H 8 Adams has rived, and from every one he met came I returned from the springs much improved in words of sorrow and expressions of regret. I Indeed, the death of no one individual in all I Mr John T Poden.— Mr Ac ion, the“fat b;v,“ of of Griffin cjuld have cast a deeper gloom I rnr Constitution, was iu town thi. week." ora darker shadow. Just budding into I young worn nboid; talented and accom I LsGkangx, August 23.—Uamp-meollngs are in plished; witu a character that all acknowl- I TO * u ®* T5 ° at Rock, Uo»rd county, lengthy argument Justice Bjotfi decided to grant the ptsiponement lor two weeks. The counsel for ihe prisoners asked ih«t they be ad mitted to ball. Justico Booth decided to con Milt State Attorney Doolittle on this point and re served his decision unlit S pm. At the inquest two of tbe witnesses testified that they thought James Malley, who was pointed out to them was the mau they saw in the grove with Jennie Cramer Friday , * ewbo keep alley’s time was marked full on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 3 4 aud 51 James Behan, cosca- man for Edward Malley, testified that Malley had uine iiaffsem three of which Edwa-dand his son usied for driving;purposes. Michael drove out with one cf them on Friday afternoon. p ( i„ P d besntifnl * with a life’* rwi.nl filled I wnich came off last wees, was weU attend* .!?Ls?K a I!!5 'aIa. .;*? a SI. Lautange Sunday. Salem camp-meeUug, only With good deids ard pure; with a m fos below LaGronge. bezlns Thursday?* gentleness of manner that made every one I one ra Meriwether next Thursday follow! love her, it is no wonder that I Grope along the road In Heard county are good, her sadden taking away ehraht craw w many hundreds of heart to weep with a I wb0 km*,, tfo ^ Newnan about July L pitying, sympathetic sadness. The ciroum- I wss captured near LaGrange by our efficient mar- stance# connected with the death of Miss | shal, J. R. Ware, and will to carried to Newnsn Westbrook are particularly touching. She j w-d*J» was at heme enjoying her vacation from ( _ _ . . .. .. . the HawkineviUe liadtmy. where she pre- ftport * d hc '- r '■ th .*. 1 • i .. ^ ■ • tu I me negro wno amed one man, woman aua cniia eided as principal of the uinsical depart I lu Tr . rr[1 county ihnweck lu, been caushtand ment. Before returning she wanted to I tbat the people of the county intended to pub- spend a few days in Atlanta, and last week I licly burn him this evening. The «mtire commu bv ent frtaSdi 0r t ^n Pn Xr e 'reac C S^rif by friends. Soon after reaching At- 1 < ncddisturnar.ee between the editor cf theEa- lanta she was taken ill, anal crpiife and Professor M. A. McN Ally, has about the friend# who watched her, thinking each I subsided and blown over. All partlea have about day would find her improving, kept the I P sy«l“quii*.”-—Cotton iaoomiugiu (island news of her illness from her mother. This repkUy. A nice shower fell here morning Mrs. Westbrook, who poesiblyim-I ““ even ** agines her lovely daughter enjoying herself ha*tw*ll. August 22.-Profaaor Morgan H. among friends at the capital, has her heart I Looney's daughter. Miss rfaud Looney, dfedhere pierced with a dart of sgony that must I last Saturday. She was burled yesterday, a large prove crashing beyond all human idea. To I reucoone of people being out at the foneraL an idolizing family the hearts of this people **r. CMUom Thomum OMOoeted *JJ *2^ ® ou tonder est sympathy at this terri- I , a t a valid for come time, suffering withe .nsump ile affliction. Miss Westbrook was an es- I tion, which disease caused her death. She was pecial favorite with MLs Porter’s school, la beantllul and good girl, and be.oved by all who snd there is a bitter sadness pervading the I * new Her loss is mourned by this whole room thia morning. | rammochT.w^Tmp.tm,, flceply whh her he- Tbe 31«con and Branawleb. McDonough, August 21.—Editor Constttu- ion: Yonr correspondent at thl* place dropped .. at the camp of Mrior M. F. Tntwiler, divis ion eugfoeer of the Mscon and Brunswick exten sion and during the oonvemtioa gathered a few items concern log the construction of the railroad wh:uh may Interest tne readers of Tax Consti tution He informs ns that there are now five corps of engineers locating between Atlanta and Mscon and that in the coarse of a few weeks tbe whole line wiUberesdj for the contractor*. Sev eral part.es are already at work ou parts of the line already located, not less than two thousand hands being in the employ of the company. The Messrs. Condon A Co., cf Knoxville, who are to conjunct sixty-five miles of the road, yesterday Kit on the wagons and Implements to Jackson, when they will commence to construct towards McDonough, other contractors having alrealy started at McDonoagh and graded a long dis tance. Already thirty-five miles of telegraph wire has been pat up, the work rspldlv progressing at the rate of a mile a day. The people along the whole line are enthtuissUc over the prospects of the road, and fox thrift and lodnstry McDonough wLl soon rival its sister cities between Mscon and At lanta. The length of the road will be eighty-nine miles and Almost au air-line. It wiU develop a recti n ol the country which will add materially to the progress of the state, and which tha* makes Atlanta the outlet of the products of another seeffon ol the suto. denly. H# bos been residing in Albany, Ga, but | aud was buried yesterday.’—--Our city removed to Hawkintville ab me two weeks since I visited by a refreshing shower yesterday.—The and obtained employment with Mr D H Kirk, a first bale of new eolton was troaght In on the contractor. He had Just recovered from | wth last, and sold for l2jf cents. Ihe crops an attack of typhoid fever when he came here, I in this county ore considered to be a * ' and has since had the measles, of which It was I and tho cotton receipts are expected w ««« thought he had recovered. Hl*«sadden death is ] Mr and Mrs. Edwards and Him Mamie Bry- suppooed to have result d from heart disease. He | an, a charming young lady ol Covington, leave leaves a wife aud one child, who had not removed I for their home to-day. from Albany, but were expected to day. Test I ta“SSf^SK^f"e SSSSm JffSS we, IrandUti,.Smith * Woraou pUtol, J W JanU^ ptrloSta. he JrS ss I learn, trying to throw a cartridge I •vlCm >»rarrl.» - iTMB lt when tira ptotjl wra the toll mm/iuc dra2SS**Mk penetrating hlsUKly. He was brongat to Mr. I i^q offidatlng minister. Long life, happiness SsrrfE* s? 1, J5fgr , £g z™*™* ss pp SndUion. 10 l*eutitamt V h!i fooler I FrSffynui'r^T”, ’mtaT “'ften'* Mhss s. J R Beverly and ManhiTrH (vJinaUv I bia reifons lllnem. He was a former resident of wuTbegln Swutthefet^ O^for 11 toe < SSSl£ but now of dtone Mountain. Most of Sou bf iheHaiStoiSue XmmuuStt u,e during the severe rains h-vinz been made for all th-> I l Mt winter, in thl* county, are under out. act ind uuiSMn Km “A will wx,n be built single Boom camp amns la »1L I understand the gentlemen have I aua ■ eTermi received much enoouragemeut especUUy in thi way of promised advertising Ihey are occom- piUhed jonrnollsts os welt as clever gentlemen, GaimN, Aogurt 2i—Oonslderable interest being manifested over the baseball match to take i>l#ce b '.ween the J union, of covington, and excellent paper now, and the Dispatch, under found able to afford two such pipers. Beverly has been foreman in the Dispatch office for the post six yean, also ousting in the focal department oOhat paper. Mr.,connal!y«U the stenographic reporter for this, tbe Ocmee, cir cuit, and will nave the advantage oi meeting seal anaally the oeople oi the surrounding coun ties while attending the different court*. Mr. Woods has also made arrangem-ota for improving the management of the Dispatch. Ia short our town Is on a “big boom.” About one hundred bales of cotton were received by our several warehouses last Saturday and busmen is looking Union String?, Ala, August 21—Saturday night a burglar mysteriously entered a afore In this place and stole forty dollars. He cat open the cash drawer in order to avoid sounding the alarm bell, which was attache 1 and, strange to freely offered that tbe Lightfoots will lose game. It will probably be tbe last match tbe season.— Captain W. J. Dallas and W. _ tileckton, of Atlanta, are in the city this morning Jurss, August 20.—Mr. Abraham Crow, one hi* loss. We have not had any rain parts of this county since the first of July. There are Urge fields of corn that will not yield 11. man denied having told Cnarlee J. Wil* m ou Saturday, August 6, that he was about sick, having been up the greater part of tho previous night waiting for the return of the horse*. The Arltansa* State Fair. Little Rocx, Ark.. August 20.—Editors Con stitution : The State fair ass iciaLon of Arkansas, the Arkansas Gazette and aomeof the enterpris ing business men of this city offer i rises «ggrega» Ung S ,50J in an interstate military contest to take place on the beautiful grounds of this asro- cUtlon on oue day during our lair, which com mences Monday. October 17th, and continues one week as follows, to-wlt. $1,000 to the best drilled military company, $300 to the second best, and $200 to the third best, con ditioned as follows: Not lets than four companies outside this state The skirmish drill and bayonet exercise to bo excluded. The judgeato be United Slates officers. The i outine of drill to be according to the Up- 16 programme to ba furnished by tho judges _ _ hour before going iniodrilJ, and the under- signe 2 to be notified of any oompauy de-lring to enter by September loth, prox. No percentage of auy prize will be required of any winning company, as enhance money. We cordially invite any military companies of Georgia to compete and assure them that onr cit- ■ ens would feel complimented by their p.csenoa. We ore sorry to Bay that the Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis, will not enter on account of busi- ~ wa engagement# of >t# members. Very respecfnlly. R.V. Ykakle. Secretory. Hard Fan Georgia. Vicksburg Herald. The following is a significant advertise ment in The Atlanta (Gx) Constitution: "Money to Loan.—We want to loan a half million dollar# on improved farm# in Fulton and D^Kalb counties, on five year#’ time. Nelson Barker & Co." That advertisement tells more jn those four line# than the finest writer could tell iu pages. It gives the best evidence that can be offered that affair# iu Georgia are settling down to hard pan, and Ibatca. • talists know their money is now aud W..i continue to be protected in that state. It shows that where the laws are right, real estate ia considered sufficient security, if, indeed, it ia uot the best security. We printed a statement some time since of a prominent business man of this city, who declared he was offered a half million to loan on real estate in this stale, but the offer was withdrawn after a careful exam ination of the statutes of the slate govern ing collections. Surely our legislature will apply theproper remedy when it meets, Kenator llllFe Betarn. Senator B H. Hill reached the city Sun day from Washington. He is enjoying excellent general health and his tongne troubles are nearly over. The healing which followed the operation which wa# performed a month ago has been highly satisfactory, and in two or tbree weeks all trouble on that score will have disappeared. Hr. Hill is cheerfnl, and although he buf fers no pain, and can speak a# easily and with aa little inconvenience as ever, he does not consider it beat to talk more than is necessary at present. He will remain here several-weeks. A National Divorce Law. New York Htrald. Aa the laws of the reread states now stand, there are tens of thousands ol married men and women who, if they should makes journey of a few thousand mites up and down the oontineut, would find themselves divorced and married and divorced again half a dozen times, according to their latitude and longitude. Tbe remedy lor thisabfurd state of ihiuga ia, a* the Herald has again and again pointed out. a uniform national law of marriage and divorce. Such a statute would be productive of the best results. It would prevent fraud, make mote sacred the mar riage optigatkm. check crime and put an end to a o! litigation, a large proportion of hich Is based ou perjury and fraud