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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
THE WEEK EPITOMIZED.
NAFIRATINO THE HISTORY OF SEV
EN DAYS.
Preceding* at Home and Abroad—The Politic* and
Pemralttea of tbo Old World—Tbs Way* of
tbe People at Home, and tba Crimea and
Amnaementa In which they Indulge.
trial or Tirr. Russia* tuikosers.
The trial of the Nihilists charged with the
recent disturbances of public tranquillity,
has resulted adversely to the prisetiers, and
they have all been sentenced to various terms
of 'imprisonment, ranging from fifteen to
twenty years. Among the prison ere were
ser;erul women.
Dieccssnm the hush lasv ac t.
Tlie house of lords having raised a comniis-
tion com posed entirely of Tory landlords,
’lor the purpose of inquiring unto tlie opera
tions of tlie Irish land act, Mr. Gladstone,
with a view to testing tlie feeding of tlie Isousc
ti|ion tlie subicct, moved thrt the action of
tlie lords was inexpedient. After an animated
discussion, tlie resolution avas passed. This
Vote is regarded as a test of the government's
strength in its Irish policy.
T3C INDIAN Al’CUOie.lATlON BILL.
Congress has passed Ike Indian appropria
tion hill. It appropriates $4,920,29$, an in
crease over the hill of -last year of ^8»>1?IOO.
The amount was miule up of the following
items: I'o r fulfilling ■4'reaty stipulations, in
cluding pay of inspectors mid interpreters for
contingencies, $2,K71„‘:85.r,| ; for transporta
tion. removal, settlement ami sub
sistence of the yariout tribes. gen-
end incidental ’ cx|«r’,ses, $170,090; iriscella-
neous, ■fs.HCS.tiOO; interest on trust fond stock,
$09,21 s.
RELIEF 10f THE SUFFERERS.
The,prevailing floods in the Mtssiisq.qii basin
hnving rendered destitute some three hun
dred thousand people, urgent appeals were
scan to Washington by the governors of Louis
iana, Mississippi and Arkensas. Jrt obedience
to instructions from congress tlie-eecreuiry of
war has forwarded supplies to tire principal
points of destitution. The rrlidf is to be su
perin tended by t.rmy otllrers on The part of
tlie federal government, in conjunction with
commissioners appointed by the.gpvcmors of
tlie states interested.
the run rent an no nwu./ a .
He-continues to p-tisc in his-Georgia jKilicy
while impatient omce-seekens.atid interested
friends luy daily seige to the white house to
refresh the administrative mescory as to their
qualifications and claims. .Air. Holden’s
friends do not understand tlie delay in his
appointment to the Augustapost-office. He
is very strongly indorsed by white and col
ored politicians in his district. It is said tha
qyndicate.-in settling on a man for this posi
tion. ptiid deference to the wishes of Mr.
.Stephens and asked him to suggest his choice.
He strongly recommended Mr. Holden*
who will iu due time be appointed. Mr. At
kins continues to play the Warwick in ar
ranging Georgia patronage. Jle is as promi
nent under Arthur as he was> under Garfield.
Though s]>oken of for every office from the
circuit judgeship to the minor gifts of the
administration, tic remains a private citizen,
with zeal for other's causes unabated.
Mr. Ailkins api>ears to be operating on
the German proverb that “all things roil
round to him who waits.’.
AICTEM1TED ASSASSINATION Or .QUEEN VICTORIA.
Windsor, Eng., March 2.—As the queen
wus entering her carriage this evening, a nlan
in the stntion yard deliberately flfced a pistqf
at her. The map, who was c. niy) Abie loofc-
ii.k ot.’CSiT, \yiin IlnliRitiabfly teI;."Ca ov s^'trai
policemen und taken to Windsor polie^ sta
tion. - No one was hurt. The man
gave his name as Roderick MacLean. Tlie
queen drove off to the castle immediately
after she was fired at. The miscreant was
followed to the jHilice station by a large
crowd of people, rrom whom he was rescued
with-difficulty.
The queen arrived at Windsor at about 5:25
}>ju. .She had been in London since Tuesday
where she gave a drawing room on Wednes
day in honor of the Princess Helena of
Wnldcok, who is to marry Prince Leopold.
A crowd of people assembled at Buckingham
palace this morning in hopes that the queen
would drive out. Tlie demeanor of the peo
ple was us cordial ns usual.
There was a large crowd of spectators
awaiting tlie queen’s arrival at Windsor. The
queen walked across the platform of
the railway station to her car
riage. which was waiting to
take her to the castie. Join: Brown had al
ready ascended to his seat behind the car
riage, when a man, standing .at the entrance
to the station yard, among a-cumber of spec-
tutors, pointed a pistol at the carriage and
fired. To judge from the report the pistol
was not heavily loaded. The>queen,who was
probably not aware of what had happened,
was immediately driven to tlie castle.
Before she passed the man had been seized
by the superintendent of tlie Borough police,
who was standing near by. He was also vio
lently seized by the crowd, and was only res
cued from them when three orfour policemen
came to the superintendent’s assistance.
Tbe .pistol was captured by one of the
crowd. MacLean. who was miserably clad,
was taken into High street, -and thence con
veyed to the.policcstation in a cab. MecLean
is said to be an inhabitant of Southsea. The
general opinion is that the act was the result of
lunacy. The report of the pistol was sharp
but not loud. MacLean apparently
intended firing again, when the revolver,
which seemed to be a new one, was knocked
from his hand by a bystander and handed to
tlie police. Some Eton scholars w ere promi
nent in the attempt to lynch MacLean. It is
understood that tlie queen has n<it sustained
any shook.
JN THE STATES.
Governor Roberts, of Texas, has called a
session of the legislature to meet in April for
tlie purpose of reapportioning the state. The
Tennessee republicans favor tlie calling of a
constitutional convention. The Virginia
legislators failed to fasten any corruption on
the state officers. The Iowa legislature has
sent to the people a proposed prohibition
amendment to the constitution. A perpetual
deadlock exists in the New York legislature,
caused by the holding off of tlie Tammany
element. California is agitated over tlie
Chinese question. The Pennsylvania munic
ipal elections resulted disastrously to the
‘Tings’’ in power, which means, for the most
part, republicanism. Tlie South Caroliua re
publicans will coalesce with all the disaftec-ed
elements. A violent canvass is progressing in
Kansas,, the prohibition law being the bone of
contention. The Indiana legislature lias de
clared in favor of prohibition.
Dwitule Dolac*.
Gold has been discovered in paying quantities on
the Alaska line.
Hon. W. L. Scruggs, of Atlanta, hasbeen appointed
consul to Panama.
A Nebraska murder crew out of the failure of the
victim to spell correctly.
Mr. t-tephena is still urging upon .congress tho
adoption of hi* goloid dollar scheme.
The sheriff of Barry county. Missouri, was shot
dead while attempting to arrest a prisoner.
Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, announce* himself
as being ia favor of a vigorous foreign policy.
in Macomb county. Michigan, a young man
named Uillem murdered bis grandmother.
The Mormons are making earnest protests to
congress against the proposed coercive legislation.
A strong appeal las been made to congress for la-
ereused accommodations for tbe congressional Il
l-rare.
In a tix day* walking match ia New York last
week, Hazael was the champion, making COO miles
in theilx days.-
Three Indians were executed in Arizona last
week ns a.pc:ial'* for murder. They met death
with scoffs cud jeers.
General Sherman and General Hancock both rec
ommend, in order to increase the eitieiency of tlie
line in the army service, that after fifteen years
duty the pay of officers shall be increased on &
graduated plan,
A year or two ago Cyrus W. Field erected a mon
ument on the soot where Major Andre, the British
spy, was captured during the revolutionary war.
The inscription was written by Dean Stanley. -I-ast
week the monument was defaced by a tramp named
Hendrix. He is now under arrest.
Foretc* Flashes.
Another farlist plot has just been frustrated in
Spain.
In a coal mine disaster in Styria, Austria, dftcew
persons were killed.
The queen of Fncland has erected a mcaiurpeut
to the memory of Benjamfu Disraeli. »
In a riot bt-tween tne citizens and Turkish sol
diers in Smyrna, a number of the forme? were
killed.
The czar of Rttsria threatens to abfl\c*te *nm-'di-
•xtely after tils coronation unless nihilism emses its
vigilance.
Tbe English government has in read?*css war
rants for tne arrest of all the home Title -ixcmbers of
parliament,
Mr. Parnell, the Irish agitator, ues completed a
week’s solitary ee&Unumcni for somcCnfraction of
prison rules.
Bradlaagh wa* expcJGd from the British parlia
ment last week on account of his atheism, and was
immediately re-s.-lecteiif.ry his constituents of North
ampton.
Hetny Uclirmn, wbr, because -oi being cncie«* f e
was respited from evreution for-romplicity i* Jhe
assassination of the late czar, -died last week in
childbirth.
governor smith
has something to say about
DR. FELTON,
Which writ b« Found Mighty Interesting Beading-
Some Statement* and Fact* for Dr. Feltcn’a
Consideration About the Coalition—Some
Foli.lcal Information—Strong Talk.
i there had never been a lease act Ratteree
i would have been where he was, and the
; Ratteree case would have come up all the
saute. As for the case of Adalinc Maddox of
which bespeaks, Judge Hillyer would have
sentenced her if there had been no lease.
The lease has nothing in the world to do with
the coses he has cited, and he simply cited
them as an appeal to the ignorant and dis*
reputable class who sympathise with crime
because they are criminal themselves in
A representative of The Constitution niet.j lntent a slander.
ex-Ciovemor Smith vestertlay %nd esked him j j repeat it, that never in the history of this
it he intended to replv to the last letter of ] state, or any other state, has there been a man
P B ‘ Who thus slandered and outraged the judicia
vrr. return. ... , ry. the juries and the system of justice, and
“Why, no,” said the governor, smiling: 1 deliberately put himself before the
"‘why should 1? Even if I desired to do so, I .country upon a platform that shocked evesy
am debarred by ail rules of honorable prac- . intelligent and reputable citizen and appealed
ttce. In my first inter* lew Jr. 1 cl ton ws f yr the man who has done this, whenever
chutged with a dishonotable and treacherous he denies the charge that I have
act. He has dignified this charge with his j put upon him — that he betrayed
notice. He therefore stands as a criminal in * lis P art >' llis people, and contracted
, .... . to slander his state and debauch its sentiment,
the dock definitely charged with a base j w |j[ accept his plea of not guilty and forrn-
atid disgraceful action. He has been notified ally proceed to make out nty case, and you
that even his unsupported denial would be will oblige me by putting what I have said in
--p-i-p™***“•» SwittisafsrBissrJasss:
and that he was guiltless. But he lias not ; •j| ie dor.tor says he feels humiliated. That is
1 a good indication. Humility always attends
genuine repentance. I do not consider the
case of the doctor as entirely hopeless; still
3 look on him as the ‘Uriah Haep’ of Geor
gia politics, full of humbleness. But he may,
nevertheless be in a saleable condition.”
Have you anything further to say, gover-
Ho Return* to the Ffty Ca nt Charge, and Tries to
Viadicato Himself on an Issue of Veracity
with the Thomasvllle Bntertrise—Some
other Facts in the Highway Robbery.
AN ETHNOLOGICAL EVENT.
A F»rt5‘«f-l*uehIo—n.liuns IC«.Koute to the Or.aii to
I'erAr-m u itrtlrlnn Kite.
Kansas City, March 4;—F. H. Cmfcing, of
rise etbnologicr.l bureau-of tlie SmUdieonian
institute at Washington., was in tbe city yes
terday, acconir anied bysfix chiefs of due agrt-
eulunrtl anti-pastoral trite of PueMc (Indians,
located in -Western Xtw Mexico .about 35
miles south vjf the liir: of the Atfiar.tic and
l‘ao:-fie railroad, and k*»own as tbe^lKnis. He
is >en route to Washington aatd Boston,
by way of Chicage, the object of the
trip beisstr to eturf le the JKur.is. who
have a ■ civilization -cimilar to .the ancient
Toltecs and Axtzs, to fperfortn a
religious ecc-cmony, which can -only he per
formed at the ocean. Ttie ceroa- ony in its
minutest detail has teen lianded -down from
the past by tradition, but so otdds it tliat not
wen tlreir traditiont- say when at«tvas last per
forated. An intereeiingscieartikq'problent is,
when were these people < m tbe -shore of the
ocean, and where? Tlie • teremionv will proba-
Wy be (performed fit 1*1 yniouth f Rock. Mr.
Cushing has been adopte d in/io - the tribe ami
the highest religitrjs or der, atsd will take a
part in the ceremony. ' The -Kurds are agri
cultural people and hav< > reached the highest
success in that industry, as weU as in horti
culture, and have lar tje herds and flocks.
One of the objects of th is tripi-is to secure an
enlargement of their gr Azingoajjges.
Mr.’Cushing has disco .veretla rich and fruit
ful field for ethnologist i, and-eefentisLs in the
east ere waiting tlie ri suit of his trip witk
great interest.
Pros, d Oatr leh ranMcg.
SttriTANArous, March 4.—Some gentlemen Zr.
J vj-o county, In<l., are p-roposlog to go in to ostrich
in '.tig. It is claimed tr tat this ciimat: is suitatrio
tile business, and that tne nroi-'tc wo uld be vet>v
. A setting of eggs ' vould costlZOO or 9S50jtMC-
estimated that the promts *»oul<l be in the
..vi^hborhood of 3-\000. in two er t hree years.
,Should the enterprise be/undertake.:, it -will be rltt!
: f the . II the ciniu.:». , -
Turner 0«t*Tfiiu)«rl£.
JEFPEESONVIUA, Ind.. Marek-4.—Miss 3Iary Her
man has passed htr lorly-sevenlh day wiXhoutfouC,.
and np to noon to-day is twelve homrs on the
.forty-eighth day. The woman is still at tho coutsy
poor asylum, slowly wasting away te a si teleton.
TENNYSON’S LATEST.
even the nerve plead “not guilty”—m
because he knows that he is guilty, for It-
would violate his conscience without tin
slightest hesitation—bat because he kr.ow-
tliat his guilt can be proved. Why, then. 1
should I, as a* honorable man, bandy words j
with a trembling criminal who cannot even , nar w>
raise his eyes^to tlie jury and enter a plea c -“Nothing at present but an ‘au revoir, doc-
“not guilty.” He dare not do this, bewtusc to au rev “ ir , I-
wlien lie -does the crime of falsehood | ...
will be added to the crime of treachery. ; an awkward STRUGGLE
Until he does deny the truth of the :
charge that I laid «pon him, 1 Will answer or “ Young C<w ? te For tire Matrtmostnlltcncatrtton
him no mere than I would any criminal in f : A feud between the Capulet Powells and
any coAirtfoom. Bet I will take this oppor-f^ tbe Montague Moberlys of Irvine, Ky., made
it rather hard upon A. D. Towell, of the for
mer family, and his sweetheart. Miss Sallie
Moberly, of the latter. ^Nevertheless the
young folks miHGugcd to meet occasionally
Utility tosay tliat ne criminal ever yet escaped
from the dock by charging that his aceusar
was as.guilty as himself. The trutk is, Felten
sltows the same*<irrelevance of defense ex
hibited ‘by Guiteac, and has not the decency
!»»"«« P a re «.. <, PI h„. s »»so worked tta .
chatge-ooncerning the Markham house eopfer-j they w«« all tire more •determined to carry
enoe. ’ Cupid’s banner through 4o the end. The val-
,, TT , he c.tssoT BEsy. . cntinesexcliaRged, tlierafore, had more bust-
“Ht* he never denied this?”’ ; ’ , . ! „
“Ko, sir; and Le cantnot deny it. TVvrrow" j nes sthem'than such missives usually con-
who-k a bold acd truthful maig-acknowledges j tain. <i»n velentine’s day, indeed, a proposi-
is substance all that I charge in mydstter, j t; on fo elope -was made and accepted. Last
that’there-was a perfect coalition between , , r , ... „ ,, ,
Felton and the stalwart wing-of the.republi- ■ afternoon Ms« lowell slipped away
can-party, and that this coalition was estab- j front her heme and joined her lover, who
lished at the-Marklmm house conference, and I drove away at a rattling pace to a neighbor-
d^heriaimsJs te a d s?a f v^ i b^^hCT ' ingtown. The girls disappearance was dis-
slavc to a bargain which is swtister ini£ts char- i covered -shortly after a train had passed
acter and that involves treachery t-c his own | 'threagh -Irvine, aw i her parents supposing
stayed.
Scurloit and Scarlett’s three huiub-ed w ere rfeV
he ir beneatlidhe notice of any lionsst man.”
“There :is one thing,” srid Gov
ernor -Staith, as he turned
tnway, “that'I would like t€-Gull.the attention
of - the i public to. From the di'ic of that
'Maikliam -heuse conferen-e Dr. ••'Felton has
Hot -jsed one argument tliat canshe addressed
to-.the intelligence and respectability of the
state. : His centinual whine has -been in favor
otaHowiug insolvents to vote -witimut paying
tux,and 4-protest against tthe.punLshment of
aways. This mistake was fortunate for the
lovers, Wvho thus gained about an lteur
upon ‘rite horsemen who i-inmediately
upon the findinc of the right trail, started in
hot.ptrrsuit. The lovers drove many miles
and 'coming, without interruption, te the
t dacew 7 here-Mt. Powell was to prooure the
license, hurriedly sought tlie clerk. The lat
ter asked Mr.'Powell if Miss Moberly was of
age. 'Powell looked at the girl. Miss Mob-
crime by the courts. With a shamelessness ’ erlyasked: ‘i£s it necessary for me’tosay that
fce»'ceid'pi«cf dent in the (polities’ history of I 1 am-of age?” “Yes.” “Theu^’-she replied,
titis-or any -other state he irests his w’hole case J “this is all foe nothing; I will not lie, even
upec an ppp- al to dead-heats and criminals, fqr Al; Pin only sixteen.” The • eJerk ex
it isclearly the duty of every ■ citizen of the ^rrepsedliisrogret at the dilomma, and young
’Uev.eli- iOokcti &hee/‘ish: -a -oysu-nsitt- 'sug- 1
state ttj jjuy ais poll ta£.- 'ifc; p'^Giiu sct&oM*
Tin- Ciarce bP ttic Heavy ttitetieat K alaklaeo.
Nbw York, February 28.—-Tlteifellow ing poeic
made its first -appearance ill London thi. 1 morning .
and bos been sent by cable to the Mew \ ork Inde ;
pendent, and--will appear in its .isu'ie ti i-morrew.
Jt i*entitled ‘fYho Cfiarge of the Heavy Brigade.'
Baisjilava, October i‘>, 1851:”
I.
The eliarge of the gallant three JiunlreU,
Theiheavy brigade:
Dorm the hill, down the hill, thousands of Res i
Mans, '
Thotisauds of horsemen drew to’the vail ey—ani’:
For
tiiigby.
When the points of tlie Kussiaa lances,
Broke in on the sky;
And nc callea, “Left wheel int© line.” And?
Thqv wheeled aud obeyed.
Then he looked at the host that i»ad he£ied,
He knew not why.
And he turned-half round, and he .hade
His.trumpeter sound
“To.the charge,” and he rode oa ahead,
As he waved bis blade
To thegtilant three hundred, whose4;!ary
Will never die.
“Follow, and up the hill’”;
Up the hill, up the hill, followed ,the .Heavy Bri- j
^ade.
II.
The trumpet, .the gallop, the chMgc,.aiui
The might of the fight;
Down the hill, slowly, thousands .of Busmans
Drew to the valley, and halted at last on the
^height.
With 11 wing .pushed out to the Icft. andA owing to
the right; _
Bat Scarlett was far on ahead, fnd.he ihiriied itp
alone.
Through the gray slope of men:
And he wbirlcd.hls sabre, he held Lis own.
Like on Englishman, there and then;
And the three that was nearest him ifolloivcri with,
force.
Wedged JhemseVres between horse aud horse.
Fought for their Jives in the narrow gap they had
made.
Four amid thousands; and up the ltiR i-pthel ill.
Galloped the gallant three hundred, tike Uetvy
brigade.
III.
Fell, like acannon?5hot.
Burst like a thunderbolt.
Crashed like a hurricane
Broke through the mass front below,
Drove through the ntidst of the foe.
Plunged up and down, to and fro,
Bode, flashing blow on blow.
Brave lnniskiuings and Greys;
Whirling their sabres in circles of light.
And some of u«, all in amaze.
Who were held awhileirom the fight
And were only standing at gaze.
When tlie dark muffled Russian crowd
Folded its wings from the left and the right,
And rolled them around like a cloud—
Oh! mad for the charge and the battle were arc.
When onr own good red coats sank from right,
Like drops of blood in a-dark gray sea;
And we turned to each other, muttering, all .dis
mayed:
“Los-t are the gallant three hundred—the Heavy
Brigade!”
IV.
But they tode, like victors and lords.
Through the forests of traces and swords;
In the heart of the Russian hordes.
They rode, or they stood at bay:
Struck with the sword-hand and slew;
Down with the bridle-hand drew
The foe from the saddle, and threw
Under foot there in the fray:
Raged like a storm, or stood liken rock
la the wave of a stormy day: -
Till suddenly, shock upon shock.
Staggered the mass from without:
For our men galloped np with a cheer and a shout.
And the Russians surged and wavered and reeled
Up the hill, np the hill, op the hill, otzi of the field,
Over the brow and away.^
Glory to each aud to ell and the charge that they
made!
Glory mail of the three hundred, the Heavy Bri-,
gade!
A note appended to the poem states: “The three
hundred of the Heavy Brigade who made this fa-
c mous charge were the Scott’s Greys and the second
squadron of tbe Xnuiskillings. the remainder ef the
Heavy Bricade subsequently dashing up to tbeir
support. The three were Elliott. Scatlett’s aido-de-
ramp, who had been tiding by his side, and the
c j umpeter aud Shegog, the orderly, who had
ose behind him.”
are-in jtartsustained by tliis poll tax, and if it
is not; paid fiee education vnust te that extent
cease in Geor^ia. It is only faicnv.d just tliat
nounan who Jails to pay his tax.-for the edu-
,-cation-of-.pocr children fihoukl. be debarred
tin; .privilege of voting.
•fDE. FELTON’S VjEIN .TLAU-I.
iTlie. main-plank in Dr. J'elton’s platform is
that the dead beat or vagrant - who is too
•.worthless or.cvaricious to .pay this particular
; tax:fcr the education of children must be
.allowed to-voie anyhow, and the-refusal of a
just and. props r law to allow, him- to vote un-
• til be hits discharged this-sacred.obligation lie
calls an obstruction of thedree -ballot. This
is .why I say that he appeals to . tint vagrants
. of th^vountry for his support. -tWhat honest
and respectahtie man is there.in -.the state of
•Georgbv tliat. wants to j ttea .panty, the sole
.provision of .which is to protect hita from the
payment of a dollar per annum, for the edu
cation of tlie.pear chtldrea. white .end black,
Of his .native state?
As.to his appeal to tke-vrimina’s, that is
ithe .wief :edest and most dangerouz-thing that
the.ntiaals of o*~ state wiil show. He delib-
.-ecatejy assaults tlie judicicry. of. our state,
assauUs -every jerymau who -sit&ir the jury
.box, denounces;.‘he whole rsystenvof justice
in xhe.interests<1-a few esutiinals. By this
.eoxrse he. delibeartely forfeits allJiope of com-
.:madiag>the sum ort of atiyirs^peciioie man,
white or.tlack) ail bases Lk-eiaims to office
|'.Upon tbe.r;otes oi criminals.
' ‘ A SHALLOW C-LWMJ.
iTo-sIigw Iiow slzcllow Giis -eiaim/is I will
state that three-for nhs of the/persocs. now in
ithe jiieniteatiarj'. <ct the state are; there be-
rtsutse . .of .crimes committed on ^colored
people. ; TJiesystex'of justice iss .deyised by
«ur CARsti'.ution. a21' as adnupiUtered ;by our
judgAiand/.tries is ilnt ended for the ^protec
tion. c£ black; as weJ' as the whites, .-.-a:id in
deed-because of tliei: weakniessiit is more es-
seatutLss a tic tectiox. for tlie blanks than the
vfcites. .Why, even She very case of. the col-
catad-gtri th.it he alltites to was aercuue .com-
liiivteu^taiEs;. a poor, defenseless ittcgsc, and
the family «£• dtat and every roputaWejiegro
iu talc-state is.ac deep>_ interestedin' the fair
and yusLenforcentehtVs? the law astbezvihite
people, otul it is only those who -soatipathize
with crime thatUir. Fes’on can eouct .upctt.”
•‘TLBse.az-e. verj' hard c;ords.”
“Bta: -they ane deserved. Dr. Feltau’s
course-since the JJarkhan house oaafereaee
could fcave h.utoce effect, and that >is tOids-
moralist: .pxhLic xentimtnt, to discredit la>v
and order, to.unjustly blncken the name.af
the state Anti to encourage criminals. It;k
worse than if he. were to .-’become a hashway
cobber hiuisaif.
AKSXtf-ANATSCN. j
His coardnot is .erplicabie only otz the
gi jund that La luis b.-en premised a federal
appoint mest if ite will work the base uses of
his late purchasers. -Lte has no hope of being
eleoted. He was beaten under the Boast
favorable circumctances to himself before
and i e realizes perfectly well tiat an appeal
to the dead-beats and.criminals of Georgia
can never result ia success. Bet the more
vicious he becomes cite more utterly lie slan
ders his own people, the more utterly he de- j
bauches our public sentiment, .the more
actively he incites the iimeadiarv feelings of
our dangerous classes, the more definitely he
discredits our public justice, the more cer
tain he trill be to get his rewatd from
those who hate us. Like a wounded' viper,
blinded bp malice and _ rage, he is
throwing his venom in all di-
seetioas. He does not gain upon the public
confidence by the fact that lie has worn the
cloak of God"’s religion and has used it to ob
tain audiences tor his slanders.”
■‘By the way,” said the governor, as he
started off again, “just consider the foolish
ness of the assault on the lease system. The
friends of that system are willingtoabandon it
whenever Dr. Felton or any one of his friends
will propose a better one, and as to the cases
tliat he has brought forward, what are they?
Why. Ratteree was not held under tlie lease
at ail. He was one of a squad of convicts
voted by tlie legislature to a railroad. If
gestod that perhaps the girl was-wrung about
it,.and thut nitty be Powell would • be willing
to-state that she was of age. “No,” said the
conscientious lover, “I wouldn't-lie, even for
ficllie.” ’ ‘ILet’s go home: I .gt-css we can
wait,”-«aid Miss Sallie, and home they went,
•escorted part of the way by their delighted
•pursuers.
FarmcifiBaird, a wealthy citizen of "Wash
Vtjgion county, Indiana, has a daughter who,
am til last week, vyas the apple of his eye.
Now Mr/.Baird mourns sad .talks like Lear
•of ingratitude and graneless iprogeny. As
•the ■western papers tell the story, Mr. Baird
•wanted • his daughter to marry one of his
friends,-uiman of wealth, -of wisdom and of
years,-wherefrom wisdom springs, but the girl
Jtada mind as well asaiecor other own. This
lever, -Samuel P. Lowry., a . youth without
shekels,--bat full of bruin and.brawn, having
been informed by his girl that old Money
bags. proposed to wed her right away, decided
to strike a bold blow straight from the
shoulder. That night Mies Pairti disappeared
fiin thei-following morning the father called
in haste, and in anger at Mr. dowry's office,
•eEpectigg to find that he, too, had llown
Lowry sat his desk, however, and affected sur
prise when i 11 formed of the disappearance. Mr.
Baird-sc-archcd here and there, and two days
later, swore out a warrant for .Lowry’s arrest,
charging .him with kidnapping the yonng
woman. ..But Lowry was still ahead. He
had gone to Jeffersonville .or hour before,
and when arrested that evening he introduced
ife?. .I.owr- to the officer.
Jt .probably occurred to Mise.Mattie Evans,
ofiCentersille, Jnd.. last Wednesday after-
noeti,.that she had promised more titan she
could .perform. She found herself leaning
upon the.&nu of Mr. Jackson, bound for the
piiissou'a^jmd at the same time facing Mr.
Dyt; au accepted lover, with whom she had
maiie an appointiuent for that.very moment.
Bui Jffr.. Dye was a half square away, and
Mise Bvans .'.ed Mr. Jackson .quicltly into the
house of a fcend around the corner. As Dv
had-seen the pair approaching h&entered thi_
house also. 1T0 his amazement Miss Evans
and Mr. Jackson were not in the;house. Un
der similar .-circumstances most young men
would Jtave.pt:t their hearts at half-mast and
retired behind their dignity, but Slye lost any
of tluetatter he may have possessed and pur
sued the fugitives* by way of the back gate,
their pdace of. exit a few minutes'before. He
chased them :from street to street,and, finally,
to the depot, where he arrived in time to
throw a kiss at.the departing beauty, who was
supported in her successful lover’s arms on
the Lack platform of the rear car, at tliat mo
ment rounding a distant curve.
John Lessstox acd Miss Mary Hope figure
prominently in the St. Louis papers as the
parties to asalopement from the Helena re-
.gion last week. There does not appear to be
any reason for the e&opement other titan that
the young woman .was of a romantic and the
youth of a yielding turn. They started to
drive to a neighboring village. When near
.their destination and while attempting to ford
a -swollen stream the.carriage was overturned.
Lernox caught Miss Hope by the hair and
beitvg a strong swimmer kept her head above
the surface, but they were borne swiftly
down the stream into a wide bayou. There
the current was not so rapid, and as they
found two logs, immediate danger of death
was oyer. In spite of all that Lennox could
do, however, the logs drifted apart. What
would have resulted had not a rescuing boat
happened along Lennox shudders to think
about Ojjce landed, Miss Hope said she
wanted no more romance, hut Lennox pre
vailed upon Iter next to marry him the day.
Banjo* In Flawing.
iiamesville Gazette.
Mr. Ambrose Murphey says he now hires ne
groes to plow who pick the banjo. He tuntish-
"e.s them a pipe to smoke while picking tbe
banjo, and lets them ride aud plow as they
pick and smoke. He claims to do the work
of three mules and three hands, with two
mules and one in,in, including the pipe and
banjo.
NEA.R CARTERSV1LLE”
ORE CORRESPONDENCE FROM
DR. FELTON. 4
Near Caetersville, February 27.—Editors Con
titution: There is an issue of veracity between
myself aud the Thomasville Enterprise, and The
Constitution commented on the same in yester
days’ (Sunday) paper. I ask a hearing in your
columns.
The Enterprise make the bold assertion that I am
‘criminally ignorant” of the laws of my state
when I say “a person can be sent to the
penitentiary for five years for stealing fifty cents or
for fifty dollars.” I propose to examine this state
ment in tlie plainest way, and to give the proof as
have it—without a single care as to who may feel
‘maligned” orinsalted by the same.
In The Atlanta Constitution, dated November
2Gth, 1881, I find the following, which I copy ver
batim:
“During the recent criminal trials in the superior
-ourt, one Adeline Maddox, a colored gin, was
convicted of robbing a negro child of fifty cents and
was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Her attorney now moves the court for a new trial.
Willis Me A flee, a notorious criminal, pardoned out
of the penitentiary by Governor Colquitt in tne last
davs o! February, after a service of ten years, was
convicted of a burglary, committed May 2oth, and
sentenced for four years. lie also, through his
nttorney, moves for a new trial. 1 here are more
charges for him to answer should a new trial be
granted.”
Now, Messrs- Editors, I confess to considerable
astonishment to hear you say in your Sunday’s
>aper, “no negro girl has been seutcuced in At-
anta or in Geoigia to five years in the penitentiary
for stealing fi'ty cents.”
It is true you attempted to explain tho colored
girl’s offense as "highway robbery”—but I gave the
facts to the public, in your very words, and I re
spectfully insist that my statement is hardly “crim
inal,” when derived from such “well-informed
authority.” I trust the Thomasville Enterprise will
eopv this letter of mineasa proof of the “Parson’s"
innocent truthfulness, which can scarcely be called
“criminal ignorance.”
Now, will you explain to me and to the public,
the reason why Willis McAfee
“THE NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL”
was only sentenced to four years, while “the fifty
cents highway robber” was sent up for five. There
is something in a name it seems. If you call it
highway robbery” you can make as many “able-
bodied, long-term convicts” as the lessees may
need, and if vou call it something else you can pro
tect the hardest criminal in the state, and give him
what might be called feather-bed punishment. To
illustrate, I will take the case of Edward Cox, the
slayor of Alston. In the first place, his trial was a
most remarkable one in many respects. The de
fense sought to delay the trial at one time, by the
plea that General Gordon had not arrived, and he
was a most important witness for Mr. Cox. When
he did arrive the prisoner asked as a special favor
that General Gordon and Governor Colquitt should
not remain in the court room while he was being
tried for his life, and the court granted the very-
singular request. That was a most singular pro-,
ceeding. Poor Alston had been sent over the river
of death, and it appears lie had no friend to insist
her identity. Subsequent to her arrest, however,
she was recognized bv Mr. Emmet, superintendent
of the city chain-gaug, as Adaline Maddox, who
had but a short time previous to the arrest bv Offi
cer Norman, escaped from the city chain-gang.
A TRUE BILL.
The day following her nrrest Adaline was taken
before Justice Tanner, and after a careful prelimi
nary trial committed to jail to await the next term
of the grand jury. On the 12th dav of October a
grand jury, with Mr. E. E. Rawson as foreman, gave
the charges preferred against Adalinc a thorough
and searching investigation, and then returned a
true bill, charging her, in the language of the bill,
“with the offense of robbery, lor that tlie said Ada-
line Maddox, in the county aforesaid, on the 8th
day of July, in the year of our Lord 1881, with force
aud arms violently and forcibly did take from tho
person of one Mary Ann Thompson fifty cents
coin, etc."
THE trial.
On the 26th ay of October, 1881, in the Fulton
superior court. Judge Hillyer presiding, tlie case
came up for trial. The state was represented by
Solicitor General Hill, while the prisoner was ably
defended by Mr. R. J. Jordan. During the trial
only three witnesses were introduced, two for the
prosecution and one for the defense.
Mary Ann Thompson was the first to testify for
the /prosecution. She was a small ten year old
child, residing with her mother, Lou Amcy, on
Gilmer street. Her statement was calmly made, al
though the defendant’s attorney did all in his
power to confuse her she told her story without a
single conflicting statement. She recognized the
prisoner ns Adaline Maddox, the woman who had
robbed her on the corner of Decatur and Platt
streets.
7 he witness went on to state that she had been to
carry home some clothes and was returning with
tho money, fifty cents, which she was carrying to
her mother. She saw Adaline Maddox following
her, and when near the corner oi Platt
street the prisoner advanced upon the child and
asked what she had in her hand.'The child at
tempted to evade the prisoner, but tlie prisoner
grabbed her and by force took the money from her
hand and ran away. The child went home and re
ported the robbery to her mother, who asked her
if she knew who had taken it She said she did
not know her name hut knew where she went after
taking the money and would recognize her if she
could meet her. The mother then accompanied
the child to the place where the prisoner had gono
after taking the money and where the child pointed
out the prisoner and said: “That is the woman
who took the money.”
Immediately after Mary Ann and her mother
came up the prisoner ran away, but was followed
and finally arrested and taken to the calaboose. A
rigid cross-examination by Mr. Jordau, the defend
ant’s attorney, did not cause the youthful witness
to vary in her story. The testimony of the mother
substantiated that of the child.
THE DEFENSE AND THE VERDICT.
For the defense Ida Dupree, a colored girl, was
the sole witness. She swore that she was with the
prisoner nearly the entire morning upon which tlie
crime was alleged to have been committed, and
that she, the prisoner, was not away from
home that day. Lpon across examination it was
shown that the witness and the prisoner were apart
and out of sight of each other frequently during
the morning for as much ns fifteen minutes at a
time.
Tho prisoner in her statement said that she did
not leave her mother s yard that day until the po
lice came, aud that she then ran because she
thought they were comiug to take her back to tho
city chain gang from which she had escaped. Sho
denied ever having seen the mother or the child
until the day of her arrest The jury, after tho
charge of Judge Hillyer, returned a verdict of
guily after which the court sentenced the prisoner
to five years iu tlie penitentiary.
“ cha ... -.
__ .. The charge was robbery and the penally is from
that the whole truth should he known to the | five to twenty years. On account of the prisoner’s
public. sex the court disregarded her character and gave
THE NF.Or.O GIRL
is condemned as a “highway robber,” and sen
tenced accordingly, while Mr. Cox received the
lightest sentence of the court for the crime com
mitted, and was then handed over to the partiality
and tenderness of the lessees. I have The Consti
tution’s report of tlie trial, and the facts can be
made to appear.
When the supreme court refused a new trial, and
he had to start to the Dade coal mines, how did he
? :o? I have the Elberton News of May 19, 1880, giv-
ng a full account of the departure, which that pa
per says was taken from The Constitution. As the
account is voluminous, I will condense it for your
readers, aud you shall have this copy of tlie News
to establish its statement if my veracity is ques
tioned by the ThomasviUe Enterprise. When .Mr.
Cox left the Fulton county jail he rode to the depot
in a close carriage, attended by a friend who then
delivered him over to Captain Nelms, one of the
very nlen who saw” ASston killed in tne dapuol.
Aline breakfast was provided at the restaurant,
and he was furnished with a seat in one of the
passenger coaches of t he train. By instructions of
Governor Brown (!) Oox was not ironed, and was
allowed all the comforts of a regular passenger.
Every comfort and sympathy was offered to him,
and he wus assured that every effort should be made
to procure execu tive clemency at the proper time.
As Governor Brown gets the “able-bodied long
term” men, Mr. Cox was sent to him, but he was to
be provided with occupation in the -open air, as
wort.in -the mines would be.injurious to his health.
Now, Messrs. Editors, I desire you teicompare this
punishment with that of Adeline Maddox (who
stole filty-cents from a negro child), the dangerous
“highway robber,” if that term suits you better.
The BcKalb News gave me the facts in reference to
•cox’s PURSUIT
of an -escaped convict, of how he jumped on a mule,
was absent several days, and nobody knew where
he was, or was in the ieasl uneasy about him, until
he returned to his light employment in the Dad-:
coaiiaines. the ‘‘friendly shelter arranged for him."
It really appenrs when you read of Adeline Mad
dox and \*ftlis McAffee and Edward Cox, that the
lighter crimes get the heaviest punishment, while
the teg criminal is esconeed in “soft places.” This
is-one of the glaring errors of the system.
Itcoststhe state, 1 understand, about fifty dollars
tocenvict a criminal, on an average. The courts of
Bartow county (I speak of my own county beea'.sc
1 can speak positively) entail more and more ex
pense upon the taxpayers every year. We get no
pm&t from the criminals whatever. Those that pay
tbe taxes are compelled to work the roads und
build the bridges without any help from the con
victs, who drain the taxes of the county continu
ally. We grow poorer while the men who control
these criminails grow richer, and if anything is said
against the system or-its method of procurement, a
storm of abuse is burled upon the man who dares
to criticise. If a legislative report is thorough
enough to get down to the iniquities of the system
a rebuke is-given that poor Alston feund;to his cost
was heavy enough to deter a similar experiment.
EALAC ABOUT VESTED RIGHTS'
What do you say of vested wrongs? When the
idea was afloat some years ago that the courts
should be enjoined to require the keepers of the
penitentiary to deal justly with the lessees so far as
todistifoute convicts impartially, the courts de
cided *e matter by refusing any effort towards in
junction—the keeper should do as he pleased. In
1S75 “a lessee” went into print tosay the state
could not control a convict to build her state capi-
toi, for “the lessees would take it to the courts, aud
the courts would sustain the leasees,” which 1
think highly probable from the general appearance
of some of their decisions.
If we are iu bondage to onr political masters, the
state should not become too helpless to protect the
criminal from atrocities, abuses or unlawful im
prisonment.
J did not know wise presided in the ease of Adeline
Maddox, until I saw a pretended reply from a dis
tinguished source, and I am free enough to say I
don’t care now. for tliat verdict would have been
a hard one if King Solomon had made it.
I AX SO LAWYER,
Do not pretend to be one, but no man in Georgia
has a higher esteem for legal ability and erudition,
and the hope of this republic lies in an honest
incorruptible judeiary, but X am much at fault if
there is a despotism under heaven that would
sentence a colored girlto the iniquities of the present
convict system, for five hopeless years for stealing
the sum of fifty cents. The northern journals
charge complicity between the judiciary and the
lesscs, and 1 aiu pained to know that this verdict
is a sample of Georgia justice. If there is no “coa
lition” between the code, the lessees and the
judiidary there seems to be a "capital understand
ing” that no criminal shall get off easily that steals
fifty cents, though they are not so strict iu larger
cases. If the code is “cast-iron.” and the judge
is obliged to sentence, wilhbut any discretion,
suppose we make the code the judge, and save
a considerable sum that is now absorbed by
the whole staff of judges? 1
We have paid out thousands of dollars since the
wat for new and revised copies of the code, and in
stead of making the law clearer we seem to get
more and more befogged. If nobody suffered but
the poor men who are taxed to raise this money for
the purchase of the code, we might bear it, for it
seems pre-deterroined to tax us to the utmost to
support onr political ring-masters and their pets,
but when life, liberty and property all are jeopard
ized, there should be something done, and done
quickly.
I will say to the Thomasville Eiterprise, the
“parson” is always ready to be instructed, for he is
not like a numerous class in Georgia, “who never
learn and never forget;” but there is somebody
else “criminally ignorant” in this matter of sen
tencing a colored girl to the penitentiary for live
years for stealing fifty cents. Respectfully.
W. H. ‘Felton.
nutary of the Cue*.
her the lightest possible term.
A motion for a new trial was made but was over
ruled aud the case went to the supreme court,
THE OTHER CASK.
On the twenty-fourth day of October, 1881, tho
Fulton grand jury found a true bill against Willis
McAfee. The offense alleged was burglary, and
upon the fourth of November, 1881, the accused
was arranged for trial. Captain Bagshy, of the At
lanta police force, was the prosecutor. He swore
that he had arrested Willis McAfee because be was
satisfied that he had in his possession some stolen
goods. Subsequent to the arrest he found-
in Willis’house a coat and a pair of lifty-dollar;
sleeve-buttons, which had been stolen from A. \.
Brumby’s residence, 124 South Pryor street, besides-
other articles that were reported at the station-•
house as stolen.
Previous to this arrest Mr. Brumby’s resi.leneo
had been.entered through a window atnl thejorop-
erty described above stolen. The possession‘oft tits
property Willis could not explain, and thecharge-
of burglary was the result
In his testimony Mr. Brumby failed to convice-
the jury that an entrance into his house had been
effected by breaking tlie window open, and ther
jury failed to convict him of the offense charged in
the indictment, but found him guilty of larceny
from the house, for which he was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
FOUND GUILTY.
Immediately preceediug the trial and at the
same term of the court McAfee was tried upou an
other warrant, charging him with burglary, hut
was acquitted on account of some technical point.
There were and are still a half dozen indictments
against him which he must answer as soon as ho
gains his freedom. He is a bad negro generally
and has been a convict for years. He was sent up
for a long term during Judge Hopkin’s occupancy
of the bench, but was paraoned recently by Gov
ernor Colquitt upon the statements of physicians
to the effect that he was dying with
consumption. Before being sentenced by Judge
Hopkins it was proven that Willis was the recog
nized leader of a band of burglars in Atlanta, and
this fact was believed when he pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Hopkins. After his pardon he returned
to Atlanta, and in no time burglaries and robberies
became numerous ayd frequent. The stolen prop
erty found in his possession clearly showed his
acquiring capacity, lfis gcueral character some
what influenced Judge Hillyer when he gave him
five years which is generally considered a very
heavy term for larceny from the house.
A motion for a new trial in this case was over
ruled aud the ease was carried to the supreme
court.
IN GENfcRAL.
The baby elephant walks around.
Too too is the name of a post-office just
established iu Madison county, Alabama.
The prettiest p/izc in the lottery of mar
riage is a little bit of a girl baby.
Ice twenty-one inches thick has formed at
Brunswick, Me., in spite of the mild winter.
Japan exported last year $7,090,000 worth
of tea, of which $1,779,000 came to the United
States.
“How beautiful the dome of heaven this
evening,” said Angelica, as she leaned heavily on
his arm. “The stars seem to look down upon us.”
“Oh, yes,’ said practical John, “It’s impossible for
them to look up to us, you know. They cawn’t,’
A Tazewell Court House (Va.) lawyer was
completely baffled and talked down by a pretty
school girl the other day. “Don’t you want to ask
me some more?” she inquired sweetly, while the
spectators laughed and the lawyer locked foolish.
Statistics show an increase of nine-fold in
the California wheat crop from 1855 to 1SS0. A state
havingin actual cultivation 38,000,000 acres of wheat
land can make a good showing, anil the amount is
being yearly increased at the rate of about half a
million acres.
A Pittsburg judge has decided that a mar
ried woman Is not liable for debt contracted in her
maiden name. 1 his is right A married woman
has trouble enough economizing so as to let her
husband pay the debts which he contracted before
he met her.—Philadelphia News.
Tiie lamentations of the Bordeaux wine
merchants continue. They were obliged last vear
to import 24,000,000 gallons of foreign wines* be
sides 2.500 tons of Smyrna and Cyprus raisins,
which furnished about 2,030,000 gallons more of a
fluid which, duly mixed, they supply as claret
Another 1,000 tons of Scotch and English
potatoes arrived at New York by the steamer Bo
livia from London. These importations promise to
continue well into the summer, or until the new
home crop begins to come in. The steamers find
them more profitable for ballast than anything else
just now.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad company carried one twentieth of tlie
whole cotton crop of the United States last year,
and, owing to its new connection link betweea
Rome and Macon, the road will carrv one-tenth of
the cr^^this year. The link will' be completed
California is growing restless at the dilato
riness of congress in dealing with the Chinese
question, and urgent appeals are made by the pa
pers of the state that a limitation be at once placed
upon Chinese immigration. Unless this is done it
is claimed that 40,000 Chinese will be landed in San
Francisco during the next six months.
It is now that the dry goods clerk begins to
On tlie 8th day of Julv, 1881. Adaline Maddox was i lay , awa >‘ a dollar per week for a vacation fund,
U* instance Lon An.,, a
woman, by Officer Norman, of the Atlanta police, clothes, and a capital of twenty dollars, he will
The charge preferred by the complainant was rob- on Iots .p r an <\ ibe girls will fancy he is
berj, but when Adaline was arrested she denied SfflctaL-Pu^ * >re£tdent defaulting bank
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