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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, FEBHUAKY 7, 1882.
THE LAND WE LIVE IN.
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE DOING,
SAVING AND THINKINO.
Court Week In Dawaon—A Conviction for Murder-
Fratricide in Cbickaaawhatchee— Returned from
Cube—Batteree et tbe Cede Mlnee—
Christian lt-neton In Decatur.
Ai.rany, January SI.— [Special.]—The
opening of the new year, and with it the lay
ing of plans and making preparations to carry
one safely through it, have not been thus far
attended with much to encourage the planters
and people generally of this section. Al
though a full month has elapsed, and one
which contained more days of good open,
plowing and working weather, titan was ever
experienced during a January before, many
of our best planters are still without hands.
Others have only a small quota of the number
they want, while very few, so far as the
writer is informed, have been so fortunate as
to secure all they need, or could employ to
advantage. And the worst of it is that the
trouble this year, in this country at least, does
not appear to be owing, as heretofore, to re
luctance or backwardness on tire part of the
fr'iodmcn to contract. Necessity soon over
comes obstinacy in this particular, and sooner
or later drives the negro to the field. But one
very serious trouble is that since Christmas so
many of the freedmen have left the county,
carried off by the promise of higher wages
offered them by the many turpentine distil
lers on the lines of the Brunswick and Albany
and the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
roads. This new industry, entirely unknown
to tli is section a few years since, has assumed
immense proportions, and new farms or
orchards are being opened every day. It is
estimated that fully five hundred freedmen,
probably more, all able bodied, have left
Dougherty county alone for this field of labor
since Christmas. Whether this be, or be
not ultimately for the good of tlic
county, as to which opinions vary, it is cer
tain that it is working a very serious present
inconvenience. Again, the disastrous failure
of Welch & Bacon, which occurred a little
more than one year ago, has l>y no means
spent its force, so far as its effects on tlio con
dition and prosperity of tlic southern planter
in this immediate section arc concerned. In
some respects it may be said to be c/cn more
seriously felt this year than it was the last,
particulHriy in that its 1 tendency has been to
make the warehousemen and commission
merchants more excessively cautious and cos
live in the matter of extending credit, where
credit, despite its abuse, must he had, or
things come to a dead stop altogether. The
higher prices of stock and provisions this year,
as compared with any recent proceeding year,
is another formidable drawback with which
our planters have to contend, and taken alto
gether, the outlook for the farming interests
about here this year, is not altogether lovely,
Our doctors have been called on to do a
great deal of vaccination in and around A1
hnny witliinMhe past few weeks.
Dawson, January 29.—[Special.]—The su
perior court of this county adjourned yester-
d ty until the next regular term in May, as
Judge Hood is too unwell to preside next
week, and Judge L. P. D. Warren could not
remain here to hold the court another week
The grand jury at this term found a consider
able number of “true bills,” and among the
lot is an indictment charging J. E. Moreland
T. D. Kennedy and J. W. Beverly with the
offense of murder, the supposed victim being
a negro, Mark Thompson, who mysteriously
disappeared last November after he had been
forcibly taken out of our town by the parties
abovo named. These three young men have
hitherto stood well in the community where
they have resided for many years, and our
people all regret that the circumstances in
the case indicate that the ne
gro must have been foully dealt with.-
A most unfortunate fratricide occurred last
Friday evening in the valley of Cliickasaw-
batclicc, in the third district of this county.
Willie Martin, a lad not quite fourteen years
of age, shot and instantly killed his half-
brother, Mr. Benjamin F. Gullctt, a young
man about twenty-nine years old. The fatal
hall entered the left temple of Mr. Gullett
and his death resulted in a very few minutes.
When Willie realized the awful consequences
of his boyish prank, he became almost frantic
with grief and consternation. It is the old
sad story of “not knowing the gun was
loaded.” Tlic weapon was a small rifle,
which young Martin had been handling; and
lie states that he didn't know it was loaded
when he pointed it and snapped it (as he
thought) at his brother. The sad event is
universally deplored, as Mr. Gullett was high
iy esteemed by his acquaintances and the
main stay of his widowed mother. He was a
nephew of Dr. Jos. A. Eve, of Augusta, and
brother-in-law of Rev. L. H. Green, of the
south Georgia conference. He was a warm
personal friend of your correspondent.
J aster, January 30.—[Special].—The work
men on the railroad bridge across the high-
tower, near Canton, have announced that the
bridge will be safe for trains to cross this
week. Yesterday your correspondent vis
ited the convict camp on the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad, and it being Sunday
the convicts were all loose in the stockade, and
seemingly were enjoying theipselvcs. In eom-
B with Captain Philips lie visited all the
lings. The two main buildings are riven
ty-six by eighty feet in dimensions. In the
oenter of each is an aisle with bunks on either
side supplied with plenty of straw and three
double blankets to tbe bunk. In these build
ings tbe convicts sleep. The cracks are well
daubed with mud, thus making it quite com
fortable within. The convicts bear all signs
of being well cared for. They have plenty to
eat and wear, and are worked moderately—
with the exception of the men who came to
the camp diseased, all arc in very good health.
There are about forty who came* to the camp
diseased, some of whom have not done a day’s
work since their arrival. Tbe lessees have
not had their quota of able bodied men, but
certainly they have theirshare of the invalids
and dead beats. However, taking into con
sideration the conveniences that have been
arranged at this camp for the benefit of the
sick probably it is the place the poor souls
ought to have been sent. The hospital is sup
plied with a heating stove, bunks, mattresses
and plenty blankets and pillows.
Canton, January 30.—[Special.]—Deputy
Sheriff Wilford, of Forsyth county. ' ana
Messrs. Pruett and Edwards, of Dawson
cotanty, came into town late this evening in
scorch of one Taylor, alias several names, who
early last Friday morning shot and killed
Mr. Webb Williams at some mine near the
line of Dawson, Cherokee and Forsyth coun
ties. The facts regarding this affair as I can
best learn them are that some five or six men
were testing for gold along the line of the
cO'inties named and on last Friday Taylor
and Williams became engaged in a dispute
which led to very hot words. Taylor left the
men and went near by to a neighboring house
borrowed a rifle and returned. When he came
back Williams was sitting on a log, and
without any notice Taylor raised the rifle and
fired, the ball taking effect in the abdomen
and causing almost instant death. Taylor
immediately left. The men in their excite
ment did not think to arrest him. and it was
not until late in the evening that search was
made, which resulted in finding him not.
The men above mentioned are now in search
of him.
Dalton, January 31.—[Special.]—Yesterday
morning about 8 o’clock it commenced to
snow, continuing all day. The ground was
wet, and it did not snow to any depth, as it
melted very fast. About dark it commenced
raining and sleeting, continuing all night.
To-day there is very little of the snow to be
seen. The immortal “J. N.” is in the city,
raising the veil and removing the pressure.
Hon. H. 8. Taylor and family, of Toledo, O.,
have located in our city. Mr. D. C. Bryant,
of the firm of Kenner & Bryant, who has been
ill for the past few days, is recovering. An
derson Comer left for Jonesboro. Ga., yester
day morking to take charge of a position of
fered him on the railroad works, near that
place. Miss Louella Shumate, of Atlanta, is
visiting her cousin. Miss Katie Shumate, at
this place. Misses Mattie and Lelia Lowry
returned from Cleveland last evening.
Decatur, January 30.— [Special.]— 1 The first
union service of the three congregations here
was held yesterday at the Methodist church.
Rev. D. Frazer preached a fine discourse on
Christian Prudence.” The next service will
be held in the Baptist church on tlic 5th Sun
day in April, Rev. W. D. Heath preaching
the sermon. Mr. James G. Boykin lias been
elected librarian of the Baptist Sunday-school.
Public attention is now drifting to the
construction of a narrow gauge railroad via
the turnpike, Decatur, Clarkston, Stone
Mountain to Panola factory, connecting with
a railroad running from Logansvllle via
Lithoniu. R. M. Clarke is suggested for presi
dent, a charter having been granied several
years ago. It would be a bonanza for the
granite companies at Stone Mountain and
Lithonia.
Ecfaula, Ala., January 31.—[Special.]—
Jake Standifer committed* suicide here this
morning by shooting himself through the
head. It appears that he had been drinking
for several days, and this morning evinced
signs of a deranged mind. He went into a
bar-room on lower Broad street, kept by a
Mr. Carmichael, and made or threatened an
assault upon Carmichael with a pistol, who
produced a knife in defense. Shortly after
tliisStandiferjhad an altercation with a negro.
He then went into a hack room of the bar
room and seated himself on a bed and shot
himself. No cause is known for the suicide,
except his quarrel with Carmichael, and it is
not supposed he could have taken his life for
this if he had not been crazy from drink. He
was twenty-two or three years old, and a
butcher. *
Athens, January 30—[Special.]—There
was a snow storm here Monday afternoon,
and last night a heavy sleet, doing much
damage to trees and shrubbery. Many of our
houses having tin roofs are badlv flooded by
the melting snow. Owing to* some slight
defect in the boiler of the engine of the North
eastern railroad, (as I am informed) there was
no train over this railroad to-day, nor will
there be until to-morrow afternoon, thus
causing the stoppage of six trains running
over tills road, giving great inconvenience and
loss to our city. Many of our citizens are
greatly incensed at the manner in which
Athens is treated by the Richmond and Dan
ville railroad.
Albany, January 29. — [Special.] — The
News and Advertiser this morning announced
a change both in ownership and partnership,
Mr. W. H Partridge, proprietor, selling out
his interest tp H. M. McIntosh, the present
editor, and J. G. Spotswood, his associate, re
tiring. Mr. McIntosh takes in with him as
partner, Mr. A. Miller, who has been con
nected with the paper as foreman for a num
ber of years past, and one of the most prac
tical and experienced printers to be found
any where, besides being a man of more than
ordinary intelligence and sagacity.
MADisoN.Februaryl.-[Special.]-The elegant
two-story brick building in the city, known as
the Georgia female college building* was burned
last night at 12 o'clock. The lost to the citv
is almost irreparable. A small insurance o*f
$1,000 in the Southern Mutual, of Athens, was
upon the building. The tire caught, it is pre
suiucd, from a defective flue. All the valua
ble apparatus and furniture belonging to the
school was lost. Mrs. N. C. Brown, who lives
in the house, lost very heavily of her house
hold furniture. No bodily damage happened
to any one.
Gainesville, January 31.—[Special.]—Ev
ervthing here is covered with the heaviest
sleet we have had for years. It rained hard
all last night and froze as fast as it fell. Shade
trees and shrubbery are badly damaged. Our
street cars are not running to-day on account
of the sleet. Uncle Dan Quattlebaum, of
whose sickness I wrote some days since, is
rapidly convalescing. He is now 'sitting up.
This information will be gratifying to his
numerous friends in Georgia and South Caro
lina.
C-edartown, January 27.—[Special.]—Mr. J.
B. Turner, of the penitentiary department,
left here on the 7 o’clock train this morning
wi th Charles Ratteree, who goes to Dade coal
mines to begin his ten years’ sentence for an
assault with intent to murder, recently com
mitted in Haralson county. A party of
hunters from this place brought in a "fine
buck this evening. Mr. J. S. Wood's shot
did the work. He occupied a stand near the
Cherokee railroad, some four miles east of
town.
Fort Valley, January 2S,—[Special.]—The
Fort Valley agricultural society held a meet
ing to-day ana elected the following delegates
to attend the next convention: ForFebru
ary—Major Sterling Neil, Elbert Fogan.
F. Troutman. For August—John A. Houser.
H. A. Mathews, and W. E. Collier The elec-
tion held on the 28th inst., on the fence ques
tion, is to be contested. Our town is build
ing up the waste places caused by fire.
Elbebton, January 31.—[Special.]—Yester
day evening the store of Mr. A. G. Hitchens,
in this place, was closed. A creditors bill
having been tiled and a receiver appointed
Mr. E. A. Cason was appointed receiver. He
gave the bond and entered upon the discharge
of his duties at once. Mr. Hitchens’s liabili
ties are about $12,000. The amount of his
assets has not been ascertained as yet. The
heavy sleet last night destroyed a'great many
shade trees in this place.
Elbebton, January 29.—[Special.]—Mr.
Phil W. Davis, who has been to the island of
Cuba, to investigate a railroad claim, returned
yesterday. He was successful in his business
transaction, and gives a glowing account of
the country. Merchants are requiring far
mers to give mortgages on real estate before
advancing supplies to make crops. The
prospect is now that gnano sales in this county
won’t be more than half as large as last year.
Augusta, Ga.,January 31.—[Special.]—Con
siderable excitement in* Lincoln county, lately
growing ont of an attempt to bum the resi
dence of P. A. Cox, within four miles of Lin-
colnton. Six colored men were arrested.
Three were discharged and Harry Kennedy,
John Harry and Henry Wright were impris
oned. Firmness of county officials saved the
prisoners from lvnching. Apprehension is
still felt for their lives.
Madison, January 31.—[Special.]—Mr. Eli
jali Boswell, an old citizen of this county,
living about twelve miles south ot Madison,
died last Saturday morning at three o’clock.
Hampton, Ga., January 28.—[Special.]—A
false rumor has been put in circulation that
the smallpox is here. There is no truth in it.
What the Papers Snj.
A BIG CONFLAGRATION.
Brunswick Appeal.
We have bad another conflagration, this
time sweeping the entire block occupied by
Messrs. Michelson & Bro., H. L. Harris, E.
Kaul, and J. Lissner. The fire was discovered
by policeman Moore between three and four
o’clock yesterday morning, and the alarm
sounded. After some delay the Oceanics
took position at the upper tank on Newcastle
street, and. having steamed up, undertook to
throw a stream on the burning build
ings, but, for some reason unknown
to the writer, no stream came, and
the buildings continued to bum. We have
heard a score of reasons assigned, but as the
matter is to undergo investigation we forbear
givingany of them. There is evidently some
thing wrong somewhere, and unless a remedy
be found we might as well have it understood
that we have no steam fire engine. This is
too important a matter to mince. Let the
xiwers that be get at the bottom facts and
iring them out. This is the second time since
we have had a steamer that the expectations of
the people, whose money has been invested
in said machine, have been disappointed.
Below we give an estimate of the losses in
round numbers, which are as follows: J.
Michelson, two stores and stock, $25,000; A.
G. Osgood, store, $2,500; H. L. Harris, stock,
$4,000; J. Lissner. store and stock, $5,500; K.
Kaul, $6,000; J. M. Dexter. C. P. Goodyear
and W. E. Kav, office furniture, books, etc.,
about $1,000; total, $44,000. Of this
amount Messrs. Michelson <fc Bro. had
$13,000 insurance on buildings and stock, A
G. Osgood, $!,000 on building; H. L. Harris,
$1,000 on stock; E. Kaul, $3,000 on stock; J.
Lissner, $1,000 on building; Messrs. Dexter
and others, probably $500; in all, about $19.
500. Of these figures $7,500 was in companies
represented by Mr. J. M. Dexter, viz: Fire
Assurance of Philadelphia, Manhattan, Co
lumbus, of Mississippi, and - Watertown, of
New York; $S,750 in ’companies represented
by Mr. T. O’Connor, Jr., viz: Underwriters,
Liverpool and London and Globe, and British
American, and tiic remainder by the London
Assurance, C. H. Champion, of Savannah,
agent.
Of the goods embraced in the above sched
ule of figures we would say that Michelson &
Bro. had saved a large portion of their grocery
stock and part of their dry ggods; J. Lissner
about halt of his, and Messrs. Harris and
Kaul nothing at all—in fact, Mr. Harris barely
escaped with his life; the fire having origi
nated, as well as can be judged, between his
store and the dry goods store of Messrs. Mich
elson & Bro., and being a sound sleeper,
could not be aroused until suffocated by the
smoke. From the lateness of the hour* and
the position of the fire when discovered, the
presumption is that, it must have been the
work of an incendiary, whether for gain or
revenge wo are unable tosay.
From Other States.
Raleigh, X. C., has 2,700 dogs.
Memphis is to have a new theater.
Small grain crops look well in North Carolina.
The total indebtedness oi Alabama is £9,111,500.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is being deluged by rain.
A woolen mill is to be started at Scottsville Vir
ginia.
fifty negroes were fined at Nashville Monday for
gammg.
The first shad of the season in Wilmington, N. C.,
last week.
Fifty new buildings were erected in Luray, Ya.,
last year.
Greenville, Alabama, has watermelons, her first
crop o£ 1882.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is to have a first-class
opera house.
The value of production in Mississippi in 1*80,
was £12,352,375.
Sheep are being shipped from middle Tennessee
to Texus ranches.
The Masonic grand lodge will meet at Jackson,
Mississippi, soon.
An unusually large acreage has beeU^jivn~4«0 -
Southern Alabama.
A Massachusetts firm will erect a cotton mill at
Fort Worth, Texas.
The county of Mobile pays the largest tax of any
county in the state.
Colonel II. C. Culbreth, el Tampa, Florida, has
five acres in tomatoes.
More small grain has been sown in southern Ala
bama than ever before.
The Tennessee stock breeders’ association meets
in Nashville February 21.
Our Alabama exchanges give accounts of the ter
rible flood in the iiigbee river.
A sow at Evergreen, Alabama, gave birth to two
pigs with horns two inel es long.
The grand lodge of the Tennesseo masons will
meet In Nashville next Tuesday.
The Southern press association will meet in New
Orleans on the 20th ol February.
The colored masons of Lynchburg, Virginia, have
formed an endowment association.
A bill Is pending before the Kentucky legislature
to repeal all laws allowing divoroes.
•A great deal of sickness exists in the counties di
rectly west of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Claire Scott, the actress, absconded from Slates-
ille, N. 0., without paying her bills.
A white robin was caught by a little boy in
Hamilton county. Fla., a few days ago.
A bill t« tax commercial travelers has been de
feated in the West Virginia legislature.
Clarkson & Co., cf Danville, Kentucky, have
shipped 15,000 turkeys n--rth this season.
Five hundred immigrant wagons are reported to
be on the way to Hernando county, Florida.
A Winchester, Ky., man predicts there will be
fourteen snows between this and May 10th.
Booth's engagement in Memphis netted receipts
the largest ever taken by any actor in that city.
Cassius M. Clay, the sire of many fast trotters, is
dead, near Lexington, Ky., in his thirtieth year.
The grading of the Georgia Pacific from Atlanta
to Anniston, Ala., will be completed by August 1st.
Two hundred tous of Iron are daily turned out
at Low Mocr furnace, Alleghany county, Virginia.
There are nine colored men in the Mississippi
legislature, eight itt the house and one in the sen
ate.
The next meeting of the Alabama press associa
tion will be held in Montgomery the middle of
April.
Mrs. Tom Young, of Warren county. Ky., has
given birth to four children in the last twelve
months.
A Wilson county, Tennessee, woman procured a
divorce last week and married in thirty minutes
afterwaids.
The grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Vir
ginia will meet in annual session itt Portsmouth
next month.
Thousands of rabbits are found in the overflowed
bottoms, on roots and stumps just out of the water,
in north Alabama.
The increase of the taxable value of all propertv
in Alabama, for the year 1SSI, was £16,000,000 over
.that of the preceding year. ,
Preliminary lines for a new railroad is being run
In Gadsden county, Florida, to be built JromBain-
bridge, Georgia, to Chattahoochee.
Some of the leading journals in 'Tennessee are
strongly in favor of abolishing county conrc and
substituting three commissioners therefor.
A Bourbon county, Ky., woman tells it on her
husband that he courted her twelve different times,
and that she rejected him on eleven occasions.
A Sunday-school convention for West Tennessee
will be held in Jackson,Fehrnary 15th and 16th, for
the purpose of organizing that division of the
state.
"So Weak I Canid Scarcely Stand.”
A very decided gain is shown in the follow
ing case of a patient residing in Carthage,
Miss.: “I have been taking vour compound
Oxygen six weeks, and am glad to say that I
am improving. When I began the treatment
md limbs were so week that I could scarcely
stand on them, and they paid me a great deai.
Mv cough was bad, and*at times I could hard
ly breathe, and I suffered a great deal with
pains in mo stomach and luegs. 1 have notv
gained some five or six pounds in weight, and
can walk two miles easily; the pain in limbs
is entirely gone: my cough is much better.
It does not tear me to pieces to cough now, as
it did six weeks ago/’ Treatise on "Com-
f ound Oxygen” sent free. Drs. Starkey &
alen. 1109 and 1111 Girard street, Philadel
phia. Pa.
A SAD CASE.
WOMAN WILT) AND CRAZY IN
DOUGHERTY,
Rambling Through the Wood*. Speaking a Strange
Language, and Avoided by the People aa
Crazy—A Frenoh Interpreter Find* a
Cine to the Strange Mystery.
Albany News and Advertiser.
It becomes our duty this morning to recite
a storj to the readers of the News and Adver
tiser that finds its parallel only in fiction. It
is so startling and horrible that we fear the
credulity of our readers will be taxed to a
great extent, Wc arc incompetent to clothe
the story in the language which a sensational
writer for the press would employ. In the
hands of a metropolitan sensationalist -it-
vrould be, to use common parlance, a picnic.
We give the bare recital of facts, and they are
as follows:
While walking in the woods near an unfre
quented swamp on his place about ten miles
from Albany, on Friday morning, Mr. J. J.
Hall came upon a most harrowing spectacle—
that of a tattered, emaciated, crazy woman.
Ashe approached the creature she shrank
away and endeavored to plunge into the
woods. Sir. Hall succeeded, however, partly
by force and partly by persuasion, in getting
her to the house. Her utterances were in a
foreign and incomprehensible language to
Mr. Hall, but he soon knew that food was the
first thing needed. This was pi ced
before her, and she commenced eat
ing voraciously, and finally became
so absolutely ravenous that the re
maining food was-taken away. When found
she had in her hands a short stick, upon
which she leaned, and a gourd filled with
dried mushrooms and toadstools. Mr. Hall
took care of the unfortunate until yesterday
morning. She obeyed every command, of
course, given by motions, like u child. Y
terday morning the kind man started with
his charge to Albany. Here was her first
resistance. She did'n’t want to get in the
buggy, and resisted strenuously. She was
finally overpowered ar.d brought* into town,
reaching here about noon. Mr. Hall turned
her over to Sheriff Edwards, who reported to
Ordinary Odum. Nobody could understand
a word the poor thing said, but tltc
language she used 5vas quickly
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CFLySMASs.r
found to be French. The only word intelli
gible was “Eufanla,” and this she used a
great number of times. Soon an interpreter
was procured in the person of the man who
has ehaqjc of the little street musicians now
in the city, and the information received was
startling and horrible. As soon as the first
word of her native tongue was spoken her
face brightened, and thejvacant look from her
eyes betokening insanity vanished. She
talked rapidly and with great volubility, and
the interpreter assured every one that
her sentences were connected and ra
tional. This is the sad story as the inter
preter related it: Her name, as pronounced,
by her, spelled according to sound, is “Po-le-
grah.” She is a native of France, and lately
had been living in Pcusacola, Florida. Her
husband was a Freneli cook, and Christinas
left Pensacola with her to go to Enfaula to ac
cept a situation there. At some station where
the travelers had to change cars, her husband
disappeared from her. All search by her for
him was in vain, and the conclusion torced
itself upon her that she was alone, deserted
and penniless. Crazed and desperate, she took
to the yvoods, wandering aimlessly
about as best she could, hoping.,
and praying that her footsteps'
would be guided to her husband in Eu-
faula. At this part of her narrative she broke
down, and weeping, distressingly said to the
interpreter, between sobs: “1 want to go to
(tfy ftusband aurtVlie.”-' When* asked for the
probable cause of her desertion by her hus
band, she said that slanderers had turned him
against her by saying she was a snuff user and
whisky drinker. She said she had been wan
dering in the woods since Christmas, subsist
ing upon toadstools. When asked why she
did not apply for aid she said she could not
speak a word of English, and did not have a
penny, and would rather die than beg.
After eliciting the above information, the
ordinary turned the poor woman over to
County'Court Clerk Burke, who sent her to
the county alms bouse. To-morrow she will
be started to Eufaula, where, it is hoped, she
will find her heartless, villainous husband.
The woman has the appearance of being
about forty years old. She is of medium
height, and is of the blonde type. She was
attired in a tattered black worsted dress, and
wore a calico sun bonnet. Rheumatism in
the right knee makes her dependent upon
the small stick she carries in walking, and at
times it is difficut for her to move at all. She
says she has suffered from the pains in her
knee-after a few nights in the woods, and, at
times, they were excruciating.
MaeftacUiievlt. aristocracy.
New York 5Vo rid.
We read with emotion that Judge Hoar is report
ed as saying of Richard Hoar Dana: “I think if he
had been born thirty or forty miles inland, mid in
stead of being—I sav with all respect—an adherent
of the church of England, had been the son of a
Congregationallst deacon, he would have been the
foremost man in Massachusetts.” It is not stated
whether this criticism was passed by Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, who is known in Boston as “pre
ferred,” or by George Frisbie, who is not so
much of a judge. From whichever of
the Hoars it proceeded. it is ealeu
latcd to give rise to reflections. Why it should be
necessary for a man to be bom “thirty or forty
miles inland” in order to attain eminence, when
ghe Hoars tbemselveg were bom no further from
the seaboard than Concord, which, if there be
faith in gazetteers, is only “twenty miles W N. W.
from Boston," is one of the questions suggested
but not solved by this back-handed elegy. To be
bom in Boston has hereioforc been considered the
best possible “send-ofr ’ for a child of Massachu
setrs. and if the commercial, social and
political greatness of Boston should fade
away like the greatness of Athens
or of Fremont. O., Boston would still remain the
pious resort of young wives desiring an auspicious
entry upon life for their young. Now, however,
comes a bold blasphemer who asserts that it may he
a posi ive disadvantage for the local lucina of Bos
ton to preside cross-legged at the birth of a citizen
of Massachusetts. This is no: far from an assertion
that the atmosphere of Boston is
unfavorable to greatness-a blood-curd
ling implication for which we can
only tnm the offender over to the awful justice of
the Boston Advertiser. It is possible that if Mr.
Dana had been born thirty or forty miles from
Boston he might have attained the statnre of hoar,
G F., or of Dawes, and that his intellect was
stunted by the vitiated air in which his childhood
was passed. Disparagements of this kind have
been uttered before, but the scoffer has usually
found it prudent to establish his residence outside
of the commonweal'h of Massachusetts before di
recting his blasphemy at Boston.
Iloir the Debt Wao to be Paid.
Buffalo Express.
A Missouri farmer is one - of those original geni
uses who find a new way to pay old debts. He owed
one Walt Perkins £25 and had owed him for yenrs.
Onedav he met Walt and said: “Don’t beuueasy,
Walt, I’have the thing all fixed by which I can pay
yon.” Walt asked him how he had got it fixed,
and the old granger said: “Well, Walt, if nothing
happens, next year I hope to raise a good crop of
com, and I intend to trade some of the corn for
a voke of oxen, and I know an old man in Kt.
Charles Co., that owns an old mare, and he wants
to trade her for a yoke of oxen. Now, Walt, when 1
raise the corn and get the oxen, I will make the
trade for the old mare, and then I will bring her
home and raise mule colts—and, Walt, the very
first mule colt I sell you shall have the money.”
We hope Walt will inform the newspapers when he
gets that mule colt.
A Fortunate Recovery From Small-Pox.
Mr. John L. Kidwell, a prominent citizen
of Washington. D. has in his domestic
employ as a nurse Miss Mary J. Biggins, who
has recovered from a severe attack of small
pox. Elated at her success, she invested a
dollar in the December monthly distribution
of The Louisiana State Lottery, and received
as a reward for her faith $10,000 in gold. M.
A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., will give any
particulars of next drawing, wbieh will occur
on February 14th. jan3I—d&wlt
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