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THE WEEKLY I CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME XIY
TUESDAY MORNTN'G, MARCH 28, 18S2.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
THE WEEK EPITOMIZED.
nahrating.the history of sev
en DAYS.
Procecdirc. at Home and Abroad—The Politic* and
PerreroiilM of the Old World -Tn. Way. of
the People at Home, and the Crimea and
Amusements in which They Indulge.
under the present administration is idle talk.
GEORGIA'S CONGRESSMEN.
While the congressmen from Georgia felt a I
delicacy in expressing their wishes on the
question whether or not the state should be
redistricted before the next election, I be
lieve every one of them approves the decis
ion of the governor that an extra session of
the legislature is not to be desired. The de- 1
cision has given perfect satisfaction among
Georgians in Washington. The assumption
VILLA RICA’S HORROR.
STORY OF THE CARROLL
COUNTY TRAGEDY.
The Body of the Woman Pound In the Copper nine
Proved to Be Known—A Coroner’. Jury Find*
That a Negro Parsmour Murdered Her
At Her Father’s Instigation.
THE r.EVOI.CTIONAKV REPUBLICS.
Revolution is reported as living imminent
ill Venezuela. The president of Hayti has
been shot at. In Santo Domingo anarchy
reigns. Mexico alone seems to be at peace.
TUEl.U'K SAVING service.
Ity the ellbrts of Senator Drown the life-
having service hill has liven thoroughly sifted,
with a view of doing justice to the "southern
const service. As a result eight additional
light houses will lie established south of Char
les ton.
ALLIANCES SUGGESTED.
The Nuova Andelogiaof Dome publishes a
remarkable article by the secretary of the
general staff, urging the prompt completion
of military organization and an alliance of
Italy with Germany, and Austria against a
probable Frnnco-Russian alliance.
VICTOR Ill’GO TOASTS THE C/AR.
While Victor Hugo was entertaining the
stall of the Rappel (newspaper) last evening a
telegram was received from St. Petersburg an
nouncing thnt the czar had spared the lives
of three nihilists in whose behalf Victor Hu-
f hud pleaded. On hearing the news Victor
ugo toasted the czar.
THE COLOUR!’ CARETS.
The judge-advocate general of the army lias
dismissed tbe proceedings against Whittaker,
the colored cadet, who was accused of cutting
off his own ears in West Point military acad
emy, in order to win sympathy. The presi
dent followed up this decision of the judge
advocate by dismissing Whittaker from the
service for deficiencies in his studies.
TIIE PRESIDENT AND THE OFFICE SEEKERS.
The president has intimated that hereafter
lie will rely more upon his own judgment In
making appointment to office. He is. partic
ularly disgusted witli the class of ‘’union”
loyalists from the south, who are continually
seeking solace in the shape of well-salaried
offices, with nothing to do.
THE LCI.U rosT-OFFICK CASE.
The attorney general lius declined to inter
fere to procure a continuance in the case of
Young Rice, of Lulu, which is set for trial at
the district court in Atlanta Monday. Rice
is charged witli embezzlement from the mail,
and the attorney general says he cannot act
without the consent of the post-office depart
ment and without the advice of the district
attorney. v
DISTURBANCES IN ITALY.
There have been serious disturbances at Ra
venna, owing to the collection of a number
•of people tii celebrate the anniversary of the
Paris commune. The people present at the
meeting refused to obey the summons of the
authorities to disperse, and a collision ensued
in which one of the military was killed, and
another was wounded. Many persons have
been arrested.
ON MATTERS OF EDUCATION.
State School Commissioner Orr. of Georgia,
has been in Washington. He was called be
fore the house committee on education, when
he advocated an immediate appropriation out
of the treasury for the benefit of education,
u> lie distributed on the basis of illiteracy.
Representative Clements is also doing active
work in this cause. It is confidently believed
that the present congress will take some step
In this direction.
AN IMPERIAL FETE.
On the 22d of March the ciuperor of Ger-
R^atafyCt-felirtited hiS sMi birthday.’ The occa
sion was made one of congratulation by the
various crowned heads of Europe, prominent
. among whom was the emperor of Russia. In
a speech to a deputation of the rcichstag, the
aged monarch referred to the assassination of
• ‘the late President Garfield, who was the elect
of the people, as an example of the dangers
to which all rulers arc subject.
' lllLL AND BLACK.
Senator Hill has returned to Philadelphia
from Washington in order to be under the
direct treatment, of Dr.Gross. Nevertheless, his
physicians assure him that he is in no danger
whatever, and that lie has before him many
years of life. Representative Rlnck of the
Savannah district, who has been suffering
from paralysis, almost reached the point of
death during the week, but rallying from the
danger, he is now supposed to be in a fair
way of recovery.
THE ApnORNEY GENERAL.
Attorney-General Brewster has addressed a
letter to tl’ie district attorney of South Caro
lina, in relation to the prosecution of parties
implicated in election frauds. The attorney
general insists that suits should be prosecuted
against the rich and well-to-do violators of
law, and not against the humble and obscure,
who are but the tools of those in higher soci-
•ety. In response the district attorney states
that he lias been governed in all his prosecu
tions bv an eye to this result.
BLAINE ON FRKUNOHL’YSEN.
The late secretary of state publishes an in
terview wherein he severely criticises the for
eign policy of his successor in regard to South
American' matters. He declares that the
United States has permitted English interests
to obtain full control of South American
-commerce, when, by a little firmness, it
might as well have come to New York as
gone to Liverpool- The ex-secretary believes
Tn an aggressive foreign policy, aud that the
United' Slates should be u native abroad as
well as at home.
AN ERA OF CRIME.
The last week has been prolific of crime.
In Maine a jealous suitor murdered his
sweetheart. In Wisconsina Scotchman mur
dered his wife and then committed suicide.
In Arizona a white man robbed and killed
a Chinaman. In Arkansas a father killed
his wife and daughter. In New Orleans
sea captain shot and killed a four year old
boy for stealing plums. In Washington terri
tory a party of men broke open a jail and
lynched two prisoners. Crimes of lesser grade
a're reported from all sections.
PAYING TIIE PENALTY. 1
On Friday the hangman was busily
ployed. In Middleburg, Pa., Jonathan Mayer
was executed for the murder, in 1877, of John
Kintzlcr and his wife. In Harrisburg. Pa.,
Frank Rumberger and his brother Henry
were both hanged fc r the murder of Daniel
Troutman, in 1880. In Clearfield, Pa., John
A. Neveling was hanged for the murder’d
Samuel Pennington, in 1880. In Pittsburg,
Pa., Edgar F. Small was executed for the
murder of Nicholas Jacoby, in 1879. In. An
gelina, New York, John McCarty, was hanged
for the murder of Robert Mackay. In Rock
Island, 111., William Heilmayon was
hanged for the murder of his daughter-in-
law.
CONKUNG’S AIMS.
A prominent republican, a close and confi
dential friend of ex-Senator Conkling, and
who stood by the latter faithfully while both
were in congress, and who has seen Conkling
almost daily of late, says that Conkling does
not want and would not take any office at
present. He says that had the president’s
letter offering Conkling the supreme
judgeship reached the latter before
the nomination was known, Conk
ling would have declined then, and
the public would have known nothing about
it. He says Conkling’s ambition is to return
to the United States senate from New Y’ork.
His plan is to devote himself to law practice
and to accumulate money enough to make
hint independently rich tor the next senato
rial election in New York. Meanwhile, he
gressman at large, an extra session is necessa- I Douglasville, March 23. The copper
ry, is laughable in the light of a dozen prece-1 mines in the northwest corner of Doug-
ilents. In 1310 Georgia elected congressmen I las county have been the scene of the most
at large in the face of a congress- 1
ional statute that they should
be elected by districts, and they were consequence of finding the remains of a wo-
ndmitted. California elected ail of its con-I man and child in one of the shafts which hare
gressmen atlargeup tolS64 and they never I been abandoned for the last twenty-five years,
had to wait in the lobby. Congress has al- L_, . . , , .
ways exercised the right to amend the elec- I T* lc circumstances are about these
tion laws of the states as they relate to the I From 1S50 to 1835, extensive work was
choice of representatives. Congress has time I done about two miles uortlieast of Villa Rica,
Tsarsr .£» Sjssa s <«.«*•* *-»•* «•»** <« «***
exist now in Georgia. No delegate at large nnning. About ISoo the work was stopped,
was ever kept out because his state had no I and • the mines lay idle and unproductive
special law authorizing his election. Kansas 1 until some two months since, when
is going to send four congressmen at large I, .
without any statute to authorize their elec-1 filing lnto ,b e hands of some capitalist,
tion. Maine looses one and is going to they have been reopened and work on them
elect all her members by the general vote I begun again. In 1805, there lived three miles
without the least fear of a difficult entrance I nor thwest of Villa Rica, a Miss Bagwell, a
for them. Tha apportionment bill distinctly I , , _ , ®
declares that mcm bers may be elected at large, I w° n,an about _ , years of age. L nfortunately
and if any further
ize such election
inent, and the history ol congress . uv >u<i « ,, - „ -
score of precedents for thus amending almost I ‘Y 88 an Y, / .J 11 Carroll county,
any defect. Persons acquainted with the laws I f,, ... or , “61 she gave birth
of North Carolina say nothing can be found I illegitimate child. In I860, more
in them to demand an extra session, though I tuna --Y st . •
the attorney general of the state lias decided
H. W. LONGFELLOW DEAD
POET’S LIFE ENDED.
cott, with whom he also read law. He re- |
moved from Florida to Augusta in 1835, and
was for a short time connected w>th the L
States Rights Sentinel, a paper at that time I THE CELEBRATED NEW ENGLAND
edited by the late Judge A. B. Longstreet.
Upon the breaking out of the Seminole war
lie volunteered as a member of the Richmond
Blues, and served through the campaign of
1835-6. In the spring of the latter year he
entered the office of Judge Longstree't with a
view of making the law his professsion, but
his plans were frustrated by the judge’s aban
donment of the law business for the ministry.
In the fall of 1836, Col. Thompson began
An Account of Hi* Family, Youth, Education and First
Life-work—HI* Two Professorship*—A list of
His Works and Translations—Hta Horn*
and Appearance—About Evangeline.
About
to an
In - 1865, more unfor-
it was ascertained that she
would soon become the mother of another
child, and to add to the deep mortification of
her family and their friends, Madam Rumor
said the child, when born, would be a negro.
Matters went on from bad to worse, until in
July, 1865, it was announced that .Miss Mary
Bagwell had left the paternal roof, and gone'
to Atlanta with a party of negroes,
who were then going to the
federals in Atlanta. Among these negroes
was one Barney Hargraves, the reputed father
of Miss Bagwell’s child. A day or two after
she had disappeared. Barney went back to
Bagwell’s, where he had been employed, and
remained there until the early spring of 1866,
when he left again, and went to Atlanta,
where lie remained for several years. No
effort was ever made by the family of Mary
Bagwell, to find her, as it was gen
erally rumored that she was off
living with Barney Hargraves, al
though many thought that she had been put
out of the way. Her memory gradually Hied
away, except "among those who knew and.
loved her when she was a winsome, virtuous
girl, and many young people around Villa
Rica never even heard her name mentioned
it necessary. A congressman at layge from
any state in the union will be as good for his ]
seat in the next congress as any man chosen
by a district.
Donaentlc.
In a steamboat explosion, Thursday, four men
were killed.
The Tennessee low tax democrats have called a
convention for May 11.
The acting postmaster at Oealee, Florida, com
mitted suicide lost week.
The Northern Pacific road has been blockaded by
snow.' For several days trains was suspended.
Mrs. H. L. Marvin, widow of the late Bishop Mar
vin, died In Frederiekburg, Mo., March 15th.
The trains along the Northern Pacific road have
been detained by an immense snow blockade.
General McDowell will soon be placed on the re
tired list. He will be succeeded by General Pope.
The president has signed the anti-Mormon bill,
and it is now a law. The anti-Chinese bill has also
finally passed into law.
Congress has voted to pay M. 0. Butler S3,500 and
W. I*. Kellogg S'J.500 for expenses incurred in eon
tests for seats in the senate.
Chicago has forwarded to the president a petition, . .... — ... — —— — ——
2,100 feet in length, praying for the pardon of I until within the last few days. On Thursday,
Mason, Guiteau’s assainuit. I the Kith instant, the company which isreopen-
O11 Friday, March IGth, Govempr Blackburn, of I fog the copper mines, while tvorking in what
^ c J2ViM^hi > ™^w„i^ e {;. , „^id twe “ tymin "h 8 known as the Hill shaft, found
utes before he was to have been hanged. ninety feet below the surface the
The eleventh anniversary of the Paris commune 1 “2, I LtwtU nf , “ ’ „ *
wascelebrated inNew York on the I8thby a gather-I f e V ,ains ’ or bones, of a woman and
ing of the German and English*socialists. I baby, covered with dirt, leaves, rocks, and
The Garfield memorial window has been placed I water that had run into the shaft through the
in the St. James Episcopal church. The window copper ore. They were brought to the surface,
contains u fine likeness of the late president. I and as soon as they were ascertained to he
The strikes among laborers of various linet ] human bones the coroner, F. M. Mitchell,
throughout the north have continued throughous I w’as notified, who went and took charge 6f
outlook'is'threatening 011011 splnnius branches tbe | them. Immediately all the rumors’concera-
Forclan.
The queen of England Is in France.
Prince Leopold of England is to be married on
Cm* 27th cf April.
AU Jewish chemists in Bussla have been ordered
to close out business
The Levant Herald, an English daily newspaper
in Constantinople has been suppressed.
The pending difficulties between Guatemala and
Mexico are in way of peaceable adjustment.
Immense floods are reported in the Brazilian
rivers, doing great damage to all kinds of property.
M. Daniel Wilson, son-in-law of President Gravy,
has been elected president of the budget commit
tee.
Testifying by affirmation, instead of by oath, is
to be permissible In France hereafter, if the gov
ernment can have its way.
Serious disturbances have broken out on the
southwestern border of Transvaal, and it is said
that the trouble is rapidly spreading.
The primary education bill has become a law in
France. It brings all educational institutions di
rectly undercoutiol ol the state.
The committee on petitions of the French cham
bers of deputies, after conferring with M. Da Frey-
cinet, the prime minister, relative to the best means
of ending the scandal of the Monaco gaming tables,
has decided that the subject is not one for the con
sideration of the Chambers, but for diplomatic
action.
There have been continual disturbances in Gal
way between the eighty-eighth regiment (Con-
Boston, March 24.—Henry W. Longfellow,
the poet, at 4 o’clock this morning, was in a
the publication of the Augusta Mirror, "the I dying condition and death is momentarily ex
first purely literary paper ever published in pected. His bedside was surrounded by his
Georgia. In. the summer of 1837 1 ... , j.
he married Miss Caroline A. Carrie, fam,Ij ” He has been ailing for some tunc
daughter of the late Joseph Carrie, of Bor-I past, but yesterday sank very rapidly, and at
deaux, prance, and for many years a promi- midnight all hopes of his recoverv abandon-
nent merchant of Augusta and Barnwell, S. I e( j
^ ^eMirror, while it was a literary site- Later.—He died at 3:15 this afternoon,
cess, proved to be a financial failure. The 1
}SS inally T, rged } he ?r am51y Henry Wadsworth Longfellow descended
Companion, a monthly published in Macon, I, .. .. - _ , .
and for a few months he edited the latter pe- I by lls mother irom John Alden, of colonial'
riodical. He was finally induced, however, I fame. His father, Hon. Stephen Longfellow,
to take charge of the Madison Miscellany, a was the leader of the Maine bar and was
that Colonel Thompson wrote the series of where the poet was bom—February 27, 1807
letters which, envolumed, has charmed and is one of the oldest houses in Portland, Maine,
amused so many thousands, and which is Young Longfellow was taught at one of the
known as Major Jones s Courtship.” In 184o I XT t» i i *
he prepared for the press “Hotchkiss’s Codifi-1 numerous ^ew England academies, the one
cation of the Statute Laws of Georgia,” and aUe ?A e ?-, b ® ing t k< ;? t one Cushman, af-
during the same year became connected with I all *? eV e v »i rk L' V ? mn §
Park Benjamin, the poet, in the publication Post > imd b > Jacob Abbo ^> Ro »° book and
of u large weekly paper in Baltimore called I t?* ^ aiue \ L he was
the Western Continent, of which he filially I p !,n ied rapidly forward and entered Bowdotn
become the sole editor and proprietor. He I ^ at ,„, tbe T a '’ e f ,°^ H - ,.,?’ S' A bbo.t,
disposed of the Western Continent in 1850, Congressman Jonathan Cilley, George B.
went to Savannah, and, in connec- noto ” e ty* and
tion with the late John M. Cooper, I fbaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, were in his
founded the Savannah Morning News, a I ? klss - ^ His college lile was uneventful, and
paper with which he has been steadily con- I 0 e a an , t0 j°i n *J lbu t. e ' e rses to the
nected as editor and proprietor, and as editor Portland papers ; and before lie had graduated
to the present time, with the exception of six I i*, e bad contributed the Hymn of the Moravian
months in the army, and during a seven | 1I '^’. w ani ^ ? T tb ® r .f 06 ™ 3 , to
months’ absence in Europe.
Colonel Thompson has never held a civil
office. In the second year of the war he was
appointed aid to Governor Brown, which po
sition, lie held up to the fall of Savannah.
While acting in this capacity, he was placed
in command of Carr-p Davis, where lie or
ganized four regiments and one bat
talion for the confederate service. During
the last twenty-eight years, Colonel Thompson
the long since extinct United .States
Literary Gazette. For these poems lie was
paid two dollars each. He was graduated
second in liis class of thirty-seven, and six
months after graduation the eighteen year
old boy was tendered the professorship
of modem languages and literature by
his alma mater. At the time he was study
ing law in his father’s office. It was a
metrical translation of Horace’s odes which
has been engined in the laborious duty of cd- ^ chair and before accepting
iting a daily nolitical paper, and has had but I l‘ e ,^ ent abr ° a d and studied French, German,
slight opportunity to exercise his literary | fZt ™* “ n a lmU yeafS
abilities. Major Jones s Courtship,” his first
book, is one of the freshest and most delight
ful books of American humor ever published,
and it will hold its place long after a majority
of the works in that line, of which it was
the predecessor, have been forgotten.
Its humor is homely, hut genu
ine, and it is as ’popular to-day as when first
written. It has passed through many edv
in their native countries.
HIS WORK BEGUN.
In 1829 Mr. Longfellow is found at the be
ginning of his life’s work, with all the culture
of a fine-grained collegian polished by Euro
pean study.
One of his early students wrote: “His in
tercourse witli the students was perfectly sim
ple, frank and gentlemanly. He neither flat-
tions, both in this" country and in Europe, | aeitller sought popu-
and the demand for it is steady and continul 1- i VaS ,V l0Se , “u?
ous. Colonel Thompson is also the author of mPnul ®f ,am ? b a ?A French lit-
“Major Jones’s Travels,” “The Chronicles of J** « ays ?«dently enjoy-
Pineville,” “The Live’Indian ” which
ing the long lost Mary Bagwell were revived,
and those who liad all the while supposed in
to be dead, came to the front with their rto]
sons for so believing. Coroner Mitchell
J --rnnehcd a‘jury, and rct;:u.cd -Steionci
ames to conduct the investigation on the
part of the state. After three days hard
work, and examining thirty-eight witnesses,
the coroner’s jury returned the following ver
dict:
Georgia, Douglas county: We, the jury
impanncled by F. M. Mitchell, coroner of
said county, to hold an inquest over the re
mains found in the copper mines known
the Hill shaft, in said
county, find that said remains
are those of human beings, a woman and
child ; we further find that said remains are
those of Mary Bagwell and her unborn babe;
we further find that she came to her death in
the month of July, in the year 1865, by some
foul means unknown to us; we further find
that she came to her death at the hands of
Barney Hargraves (colored), who, either alone
by the help of others, threw her
body into the Hill copper shaft, we further
find that Willis Bagwell, Wiley Bagwell and
Charles Bagwell, the father and brothers of
the said Maiy Bagwell, were cognizant of
the crime, and kept their knowledge of the
same from the officers of the law.
W. H. Nally, foreman; H. Ward, J. M.
been pronounced the most successful Ameri
can farce ever put upon the stage, and
dramatization of the “Vicar of Wakefield.”
Before the war, and until tbe amalgama
tion of that party with the free soil element,
-Colonel Thompson was a whig, hut has since
been a states rights democrat. His political
convictions are so intense, and he is so per
sistent and bold. In expressing them, that he
has often been’-.hargud with’ prejudice, - hi
in reality he is one of ‘he most liberal .ail-
conservative of men. ‘His career .'s’a^poltti-
cal editbr is too well known in Georgia to
, possessessmg
mimierjr. He is beloved by
him intimately.
naught rangers) and the eighiy-fourth, an English I Prather I Z Newborn Charlie Willmmhbv
regiment Thursday night the Connaughts, as- I w ’T w;!m.,„ui',? r A’
sisied by the mob, attacked tlie picket of the En- I Henry Hallman, \ V. J. \Villoughby, J. D.
glishaud cheered for Ireland. There were several Carnes, T. C. Henslee, John Grubbs, W. H.
jayonet wounds on both sides. | Hilderbraud, S. A. McLarty.
The Paris Nationall says: “It is quite possible I Among the remains were,found a gold breast-
that M. Koustan, the newly appointed minister to j pin, an old stvle guttapercha puff comb, and
the United States, will never go to Washington. U s ilk neck ribbon about one yard long and
It appears that he does not desire to cross the j , inches wide in a nerfect state
Atlantic, and that the government, iu nominating I° or tnree incues wiue, in a periecc state
him for Washington, were chiefly desirous of prov-I °f preservation, except being somewhat
ing that by recalling him from Tunis they were I faded, all of which were recognized by the
not inflicting any disgrace upon him. | old associates of Mary Bagwell as being
her property. The coroner issued his
warrant for the arrest of Barney
Hargraves and the three Bagwells. It is un-
. .. .. .. . - . derstood that the negro, Hargraves accident-
superlative lemale excellence may lie accepted as ,, , . i killed himself some two or
correct, Dr. Mary Austin is the most admirable I a l Y s n°t anu Killed nimsell some two or
woman in France. This lady has just completed | three nnle« from Atlanta a few years since,
her thirty-third year of wedded life, during which I The Bagwells were immediately arrested by
period she has presented her husband with no I Deputy-Sheriff W. J. Kilgore and placed
tton 01 tn'the ? P ring r o? ® foSr^^&H^ ?“? v er t l ^^™^“? P ( SSS 1Cellt ’ the
marriage. Mary Austin, nee Klind, passed her final I J U I> form of Douglas superior court,
examinations at the medical college of Orleans,and
Uradstreet’s Summary of Reports on the Plantation
Snpply.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
New Y’ork, March 24.—Bradstreet’s has
ceived its special report, on cotton from
agents all over the cotton states, and their
estimates show that only two and one-tenth
per cent of tlie crop is now left on the planta
tion.
The above estimate makes the total of the
crop about 5,300,000 bales, if. the estimate is
correct. There is received up to last Friday
4,174,000 bales, recieved this week 61,000
bales, stock at interior towns 205,000. This is , , r „ -. , _ T . , . „ „ . . .
the cotton actually in sight and amounts to I Voices of the Night, The Spanish Stu
4,500,000. The overland and consumption of | ‘Evangeline, Kavanagh, The
last year was 777,000 bales. Make it the same I Golden Legend, besides several volumes of
this year and add it and we have 5,277,000 I poems, an edition of Poets and Poetry of
bales already received from the plantations I Europe, and not infrequent contributions to
this year. Add the two and one-tenth per I fbe periodicals of the day, the North Ameri-
cent estimated to he still on plantations, 110,- I can, the Knickerbocker, and Putnam’s. Nor
The Mother of Forty-Four Children.
From the Boston Transcript.
If the Great Napoleon’s famous definition of
superlative female excellence may be accepted as
obtained diplomas authorizing her to practice in
both branches of her profession. As soon as I
the Franeo-Prussian war broke out she |
joined the army with her husband,
aud the prolific pair served with extraordinary dis
tinction throughout the four years’ struggle—Dr.
Austin in her surgical capacity and Colonel Austin
as an active militant. At the conclusion of the war,
the valiant doctor, having lost her left eye in the
service of hercountry, returned to herprivate prac
tice covered with glory and in the enjoyment of a
staff officer’s pension. Since then she has lived in
peace and honor, the pride of her fellow-citizens,
and indefatigable in her endeavors to render her
warrior lord the happiest of fathers.
W. T. THOMPSON.
A Demonstrative Bride and Groom.
From the Cambridge News.
A lad of Caroline wedded a lass of Galestown,
Mil., at six p. m , on February 26, the kuot being . ,
tied by the Rev. E. C. Adkins, aud as soon as cere- I yonu the grave,
mony'was over the happy couple started for the I engraved upon Georgia's history,
church to attend divine worship, followed by an 1 v ' " ” " -*
anxious crowd of boys, who inquired on every
hand who the fellow was that had so unceremo
niously entered their peaceful village on that
quiet Sabbath evening and captured one of Gales-
town’s fairest flowers. They soon learned, how
ever, that he was from Caroline. The pair went to
church, took a front seat, • listened attentively to
tlie discourse, and at the conclusion of the service
Death of Georgia’* Oldest Editor and Author.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Savannah, March 24. — Colonel AY.
Thompson died at his home this evening, at
half-past eight o’clock, after a painful illness
of several months.
HIS LAST HOURS.
His last hours were peaceful, and his mind
was clear almost to the end. He died as he
had desired, with his loved ones around him
and his eyes resting upon the noble wife who
had been the ministering angel of his life and
his consolation in his last trials. He passed
away with a Christian's faith in the nfe be-
The impression of his life is
s.u.cu Georgia's history. He leaves
to his family and his people the legacy of an
honorable name.
Colonel William Tappan Thompson, the
editor of the Savannah Morning News, was
born in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, on
the 31st of August, 1S12. His father vras
native of Virginia, and bis mother a native of
returned home singing:
“My heart to you is given.
And jours is given to me;
We have lockea them up together
And thrown away the key.’’
They Mixed their Babies Up.
From the Toronto'Globe.
Mrs. Wilson came into the city by a late train one
night last week from Belleville. 8he had several
children with her. one oi them a baby in arms,
which was snugly wrapped up in a huge shawL
Another lady arrived from some point west,
aud was also the owner of a baby. The ladies
placed their babies in the waiting room while
they went to look up their baggage. When
they returned they took one another’s babies, and
the lady from BellviUe drove to Parkdale. and the
Dublin, Ireland. Her father took an active
part in the revolution of ’9S, and came to this
country as a political exile. Colonel Thomp
son’s parents were among the pioneers
who settled in what was then known
as the New England Western re
serve—a wilderness inhabited by Indians—
and the subject of this sketch was the first
white child bom in the township of Ravenna.
Colonel Thompson’s mother died when he was
11 years old, and a year afterwards he went to
Philadelphia, where he remained some four
years. A part of the time he attended school,
but his father dying in the meantime, he was
deprived of the educational advantages he
me inu> mui ueuvine iiniit nu ri»uuc. auu me i - , , j ., _____ , - __
lady from the west to the north end of Y’ouge sought, and was thrown upon bis own re-
street.
One of the children was a boy and the
little girl, and they wen
riedly when home was reached.
other a little girl, and they were put tj bed hur-
1. The surprise of
prove of tilts policy, and this gentleman says | the sex of their babies. Their children were not
that the talk of Conkling s accepting office 1 “unmlxed” until Monday.
sources. He entered the office of the
Philadelphia Chronicle, where he remained
about two years, acquiring, in the meantime,
a fair knowledge of the printing business. In
his seventeenth year he went to Florida as
the private secretary of acting Governor West-
all who know
COTTON.
sonable question about languages, authors,
literature, mediaeval or modern history, more
especially tlie former.”
Nor was his influence confined to his col
lege classes. He published a successful text
book for their uses, occasional articles on lite
rary subjects in what was then almost the
sole avenue to the American public for the
small but interesting coterie.of American
’tors, the “North American Review;” and
6r-iWQ,tran^atiQ«s. ..But. liis .workas an
vathor can hgrtfw 1* widii have commenced
vacant
His
passion for preparation had not forsaken him,
and lie seized the occasion for another year of
foreign travel. But the preparation proved
fo he profounder than he had planned; the
first great sorrow of his life overtook him in
the death of liis young wife at Rotterdam.
A PERIOD OF PRODUCTION.
Up to this hour his life had been one of
'fiilrin u835
and two years later by “Hyperion.” English
literature affords no specimen of greater
beauty of simplicity in expression than these
prose poems, the second of which Barry Corn
wall was accustomed to read through’once a
year for the sake of its style. Other works
followed in rapid succession during the twen
ty years of his Cambridge professorship—
lodgers to eke out her scanty income. The
house, with its great fireplaces, its generously
proportioned rooms, its hospitable hall and
aroad staircase, its quaint carvings and tiles
is itself an historic poem. The study is a
busy literary man’s workshop; the fable is
piled with pamphlets and papers in orderly
confusion; a high desk in one corner suggests
a practice of standing while writing, and
lives a hint of one secret of the poet’s singu
larly erect form at an age when the body gen
erally begins to stoop and th« shoulders to
grow round; an orange tree stands in one
window; near it a stuffed storfc keeps watch;
by tbe side of tire open Sre is the “children's
chair;” on the tabic is Coleridge’s inkstand;:
upon the walls are crayon likenesses of Em
erson, Hawthorne and Sumner; and in one of '
the book-cases, which fill all the spare wall-
space an* occupies even one of the windows,
are—rarest treasure- of all—the poet’s own
works in their original manuscript, carefully
preserved in handsome and substantial bind
ings. v
HCWFEVANGEL<7JK WAS WRITTEN.
Colonel P, A. Burr, who reeently jg»d the
poet a visit, soys:
I hardly hod- time to run my eye ov*r the
walls, clad with the rich mementoes of early
times and full of the memories of great events,
both in war and-peace, mad admire the sicnple
comforts of the old parlor, furnished as in
priioitive times where culture aud means re
sided^ before an old gentleman stepped briskly
across the hall from the room directly oppo
site, and extending his hand heartily wel
comed me to his interesting home. It was the
author of “Evangeline.” I was disappointed
in his appearance;, for I had fancied from ltis
portraits a large, brawny man, something like
Walt Whitman, barring the tendency of that
eccentric genius to abandon in dress. In
stead, here was a man of medium size, a lithe,
finely moulded, rather than sturdy, form—“a
man of genteel mould,” as it "were. Th*
light in his eye and the warmth of his hand
showed thnt the eighty years which have
rolled over his head have not lttin heavily
upon him. His face fa-full of genial expres
sion, and the kindly eyes give it a charm:
which cannot be pictured with words. “Step-
into my library,” said he after the greeting,
and he showed tlie way across the hall.
Expressing a preference for his “Evangel
ine,” I ventured to say, “I see you located
the final scene of that beautiful story in Phil
adelphia.’’ “Yes, sir. The poem- is one of
my favorites also—as much, perltaps, on
account of the manner in which I got the
groundwork for it as anything else.” “What
is the story, please?” “I will tell you. Haw
thorne came to dine with me one day, and
brought a friend with him from Salem.
While at dinner Mr. Hawthorne’s
friend said to me, ‘I have been trying
to get Hawthorne to write a story about the
banishment of tlie Acadians from Acadia,
founded upon the life of .a young Acadian
girl who was then separated from her lover,
spent the balance of her life searching for
him, and when both were old found him
dying in a hospital.’ ‘Yes,’ said Hawthorne,
‘but there is nothing in that for a story.’ I
caught the thought at once that it would
make a striking picture if put in v?rse, and
sttid, ‘Hawtliore, give it to me for a poem, and
promise me that you will not write about it
until I have written the poem,
HIS WORKS.
The sales of Longfellow’s works up to 1857,
were 325,750, and of the four leading collected
editions, the Diamond, Red Line, Household
and Library 194,000 were sold up to the pres
ent year. His works have been translated
into the following languages: German,
Dutch, Swedish, Danish, French, Italian,
Portugese, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Latin,
Hebrew. Marathi, Chinese, ind Sanscrit. He
published in all 41 titles, and among
them are: Elements ol French Grammar
for other gramatical works; Coplas de Man-
riques; Outre Mer; Hyperion; Voices of the
Night; Ballads and Other Poems; Poems on
Slavery; the Spanish Student; tlie Waif;
Poets and Poetry of Europe; the Belfry of
Bruges; the Estray; Evangeline; Kavanagh;
the Seaside and Fireside; Golden Legend;
Hiawatha; Courtship of Miles Standish; Tales
of a Wayside Inn; Flower de Luce; New
England Tragedies; Dantes Divina Corome-
dia; the Divine Tragedy; Christus; Three
Books of Song; Aftermath; tlie Masque of
Pandora; Poems of Places; Keramos; Ulti
ma Thule.
000 bales,and we have,as the grand total 5,387,-
000 bales.
Under the Stock Law.
was his professorship meanwhile a sinecure.
I or its duties and labors lightly regarded by
| either himself orothers.
For 17 vears Longfellow held tlie professor-
From the Campbell County News Letter. shi P a t Harvard. In 1842 he went to Europe
The first case under the new stock law sys- I a 8 aln > an( l U 1 the next j ear he married for
tern came before Justices James and Lee for a the second time* In 18o4 lie resigned his of-
hearing last Monday. The facts are, in sub-1 Acebut continued to liveiin Cambridge. In
stance, as follows: Mr. Joseph E. Brown is a
tenant on Mr. Creel’s place. Miss Fannie
Vincent and W. R. Vincent, who live on ad
joining lands, had some cows which tres
passed on Mr. Brown’s land. He took them
1868 he revisited Europe and received the de-
g ree of D. C. L. for Oxford and
ambridge universities, and a host of
other honors. During his professorship his
pen was prolific. Outre-Mer, Hyperion,
bp and impounded them,'and notified the Voices of the Night Ballads, the Spanish Stu
parties to come after them and pay the ex- d « n '- Poets and Foetry of Europe the Belfry
penses and take them away. Misses Fannie I P r . u 8^?> Kavanagh. Seaside and Fireside
Vincent and Ella Thomas went over and drove a nd the Golden Legend are among the letters
the cows away, without Mr. Brown’s consent, I . bls volumes_ published in that
and without ottering to pay damages. Brown I P? no< h Since his retirement
came to town and sued out possessory war-1 b ls . professorship Mr. Longfellow has lived
rants for the cattle, and the sheriff went up W'ep* 1 Cambridge the greater part of his
and arrested the parties and brought them to ‘fe, being varied only by the production of
1 - - • 1 Ins volumes of verse. Mr. Longfellow s fanny
town to try the case. After Rearing the evi- |
dence in the case the court decided to restore
the possession of the cattle to Mr. Brown.
The parties will now have to either pay the
costs of the suit and the damage and ex
penses of keeping the cattle or pay tbe costs
of this suit and give bond for the expense and
damages to he assessed at the next regular
session of the justiee court.
SPRING MADRIGAL.
The tree-tops are writing all over the sky,
Ac’ a heigh ho!
There’s* bud now and then flitting faster by,
An' a heigh ho!
The buds are rounder, and some are red
On the places where last year’s leaves were dead;
An’ a high ho, an’ a heigh!
There’s a change in every bush in the hedge;
An’ a heigh ho!
The down has all gone from the last year’s sedge;
An’a heigh ho!
The nests have blown out of the apple-trees:
The birds that are coming can bnild where they
please;
An'a heigh ho, an’a heigh!
The aged man goes with a firmer gait;
An’ a heigh ho!
The young man is counting his hours to wait;
An’ a heigh ho!
Mothers are spinning and daughters are gay,
And the sun hurries up with his lengthened day;
An’ a heigh ho, an’ a heigh!
The signs may be counted till days are done;
An’ a heigh ho!
And watchers can listen while waters run;
An’ a heigh ho!
Old men in sunshine may skip or tarry.
Young men and maidens can joy and marry;
An’ a heigh ho, an’ a heigh!
consisted of two sons, one of whom, Ernest,
is a distinguished artist, and three daughters,
one of whom married a son of R. H. Dana,
Jr.; the other two lived with him in the cele
brated Cragie house.
LONGFELLOW AT HOME.
About half a mile or so from Harvard col
lege, a little hack from the elm-shaded avenue
stands an old-fashioned square house with a
broad piazza looking out upon its garden, arfd
its front windows commanding a view of the
quiet and unostentatious Charles river. This
is the Craigie mansion, and it has been Mr.
Longfellow’s home ever since 1836. It was
then in the possession of the widow Craigie, a
gentlewoman who had seen better days and
was humbly proud of thelfact. Mr. Longfel
low’s first application for lodging at her door
was repulsed with the remark, “I do not take
students,” but when the old lady learned that
the youth of twenty-eight was a college pro
fessor she relaxed her dignity
trifle, and consented to let him
chamber in the second story, which
to this day serves as a sort of second library
whither his volumes depart when placed on
the retired list. It was Duilt, probably, not
far from tbe middle of the last century; an
iron in the back of one of the chimneys,
bearing the date 1759, serves as a kind of
birthmark. At the beginning of the revolu
tion it was purchased by the colonial govern
ment, and became Washington’s headquart
ers alter the battle of Bunker Hill. The po
et’s present study was Washington’s room
the parlor opposite was Lady Washington’:
parlor; the large room in the rear, now con-
_ _ _ , _ , . _ _ verted into a family library;'was appropriated
But J£f~. S somethili e uncounted, unseen, that to the a i de s-de-camp. After the revolution
Mr. Craigie bought it with its two hundred
comes;
Au’ a heleh ho!
If you leave it out you can’t prove your sums
An’ a heigh ho!
And this is the way to say it, or ring:
“Oh, spring is the loveliest thing in spring!"
An’ a heigh ho, an’ a heigh!
—fi.H.
IN GENERAL.
acres; but the grandeur of the establishment
was too much for his purse. When he left
it to his widow the estate was re
duced to eight acres, aud the
widow to the necessity of taking
In England king cotton is now known as
Old Sandy?’
Huge sunflowers and lilies are fastened to
the new Easter cards.
At Cairo, Illinois, a huge catfish was caught
in the parlor of the hotel.
“If I rest, I rust,” is a German proverb.
If 1 trust, I bust,” is the American version.
The friends of Congressman Crapo, of .Mas
sachusetts, are confident that he will be nominated
for governor.
The Chinese had circulating libraries six
teen centuries ago, agents traveling around to dis
tant points leaving the books, und later collecting
them.
The voters of Iowa have a little more than
three months to consider whether they will vote for
or against the prohibitory amendment to the con
stitution. The election will be held on J une 27.
Over 60 hours has elapsed since a confed
erate 50-cent piece was bought in New York for $870,.
and nota note of alarm has been sounded by either
the Bangor annihilator or the Concord extermina
tor.—Boston Post.
There are in the world not far from 225,000
miles of railways; of this amount, as stated above,
this country possesses about 100,000—a little less
than half. New York state has almost as many
miles of road as all Asia and more than all South
America, while Massachusetts has more than all
Africa
A ranch of 8,000 acres located near Bexar
county, Texas, is used for the breeding of saddle
ponies. There are on the ranch forty-five Shetland
mares and one hundred Zacatecas ponies, all for
breeding purposes. The Zacatecas—spotted Mexi
can ponies—are a small, hardy race, raised in the
mountains of Mexico, and universally good saddle
ponies. The Shetland, Arab and Zacatecas ponies
are hardy as goats, cost no more to raise, and are
very gentle.
Dr. Hammond says: “Eat plenty of well-
cooked and nourishing food. The nerves cannot
bekepthealthyonslops. Gruels, panadas and teas
are well enough in their way, but the nerves re
quire for their proper nourishment undiluted ani
mal and vegetable food; asa rule the former should
predominate. Meat-eaters are rarely troubled with
nervousness. Americans eat more vegetables than
any other well-to-do people, and they are probably
the most ‘nervous’ nation on the face of the earth.’
Mb. Fawcett, the postmaster general* of
England, said in the honse of commons the other
day that the female telegraphists and clerks em
ployed by the post-office had given general satisfac
tion. So much was that the case the employment
of women had been gradually and steadily extend
ed. Any claims they had to promotion would be
carefully considered, and he could readily give an
assurance that he would lose no opportunity ot ex
tending the employment of women whenever it
could be done with advantage to the public service.
The sensation created last year in Parisian
swelldom by the legal annulment of a runaway
marriage contracted in England by a young beauty
of noble family, Mile, d’lmecourt, and the son of
MusurnsBey, the Turkish ambassador, is again
brought to mind. It will be remembered that a
few weeks after Mile. Imecourt’s marriage mater
nal barbarity separated the lady from the husband
•. of her heart, ana left her neither maid, mother,
wife or widow, but alittle of all four. lime. Ime-
court had seventeen fresh matrimonial proposals
for her daughter’s hand. It is now rumored tha
PriuceGalitzinistobe the happy man. Turkey
has .grin lieen cutout by her traditional enemy,
the Russian