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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, APRIL, 41882
ALEX. H. STEPHENS.
OPINIONS, REMINISCENCES
AND TRAITS.
Hl» Reason for Retirrmr n»—Colleague* of Hl» Youth
—A Memorable) laaMoat—'Unimpaired Intel-
loot—Hla Info Outlined—Event* In Bla
Careei—Tha Promise of Lons Life.
From the New York Herald.
Washington, March 25.—Congressman Al
exander II. Stephens intends to retire from
public life at the expiration of the present
congress. In conversation with a Herald re
porter to-day he was asked if the reports to
that effect were true.
“Yc», that is true,” saU he. “In fact, when
I ran for congress in 1880 I made up my mind
to retire as soon as the term expired.”
"How long have you been in public life?”
he was asked.
"I have been in public life quite a number
of years. When twenty-four years of age I
was elected to the lower house of the Georgia
legislature. I served live years, and in J811
declined a re-election. A year later I was
elected to the state senate. In 1843 I was
elected to congress.”
“You were elected successively for a num
ber of years to congress, were you not?"
“Yes, I stayed here sixteen successive years,
and, declining a re-election, retired voluntari
ly March 4th, 185!). I foresaw the troubles
therefore, retired. Secession,
MISTAKES OF MOSES.
| COMMITTED WITHOUT THE NEW
DISPENSATION.
He Represents Himself as the Brother of Governor
Colquitt and cf J. G. Thrower—A Long List
of Swindles Charged to the «x-Got»
ernor of 8outh Carolina.
more than ordinary interest in hearing the
views of young men. His din
ner parties are thoroughly up
in all tiie details that epicurean art would
demand. The table at his private dinner
parties is generally embellished with fruit
and flowers. There is an entire absence of
any and all formality and ostentation. Sim
plicity of manner and sincerity of feeling
characterize Mr. Stephens at his table, to
which he is rolled in his chair and where he
presides with liveliness and polite grace. In | New Yokk March 29.—Franklin J. Moses,
fact, he is never depressed so far as the out- *. a . „ .. , .
side world knows, and bears his affliction with I ex *g° vern or of South Carolina, and for J
commendable cheerfulness. This man, who I a professional swindler, was a prisoner to-day
can recall the death roll of so many illiistri-1 police headquarters on the charge of
ous men of bis country, is neither a byj>o- | swindling Freeborn J. Smith, the Brooklyn
chondriac nor a misanthrope. Being unal
to walk, because of injury sustained by a
falling gate ten years ago. he talks a great
deal, and is wheeled about in his chair so
nicely and looks so comfortable as even to
disarm a stranger of the sympathy which
otiierwise he would feel.
piano manufacturer, out of $175. There are
quite a number of similar charges against
him, and during the day he was identified by
a number of his victims, who will appear
against him to-morrow at the Tombs police
until the war ended. In 1824, in command of the
schooner General Brewer, he sailed with a valuable
cargo for St. Helena. When a few days out they
spoke the brig Elizabeth, of Salem, Captain Story,
bound for the same port. Captain Story came on
board and took tea with Captain Bertram, and
each announced his destination as Pernambuco.
When night came on Captain Bertram launched
his oidre deck load of lumber over the stem so as
to lighten his vessel, crowded all sail on, and on ar
riving at St. Helena sold his cargo at a great profit.
On his.return trip he met the Elizabeth bound in.
His subsequent career was one of unbroken pros
perity. He visited almost every country on the
globe, making his fortune principally in the gum
copal trade. His wealth is estimated at nea rlvjio.-
000.000.
A FORTUNE tN BRICKS.
Mr. .Stephens does not attend congress every court,
day. He is carried by his servant from the I ms rascalities detailed.
hotel to his carriage and driven to the capitol. He was arrested at Broadway and Twenty-
There he is helped into his wheel-chair kept 1 , . . , , , , . , ,
in the building and shoved along the corridor I sec,,nt * st.-eet to-day by detectn es w ho had
into the hall of the house. Few are the mem- been searching for him for two weeks. On
hers who pass the invalid without stopping to 1 March 11th, Moses called on Mr. Smith, and
say a pleasant word. Members of both parties representing himself as Richard H. Colquitt,
alike pav respect to this old man whose spark-I brother of Governor Colquitt, of .Georgia,
ling eyes and thin visage contrast so wonder- succeeded in inducing Smith to cash a check
fully," and tell of the hard struggle which for $175. The check, which was drawn on a
min’d and body have been carrying on for so 1 southern bank, was returned protested,
many vears in the person of Alexander I E. W. Crowell, of the Phoenix insurance
Stephens. I company, also entertained Moses under'the
his life outlined. name of Anthony 'White, of Greenville,
Mr. Stephens was born at Crawfordsville, I South Carolina, and cashed his check of $150,
February 11, 1812, and graduated at the uni- Howard H. Stewart, of 01 Wall street, also
versity of Georgia, Athens, in 1834. The I cashed two $50 checks for Moses, who repre
coining. nnd,
lls I anticipated at that time, did come, and same vear he was admitted to the bar, and
l °A ^ in S’ two vears later was elected to represent Talia-
ment here. After the war I was, in I860, - • f - t , Aftpr de-
a\e durin^lf‘^Preldent’ cliidng a m-election ti ^ongress it ^9 he
iitc. <iurm n ttic .Kliiiini.strution *oi I resident J . nm as n iirpsulontiTl plpotor for tlio state
hnm?°« 'i*” lv ' v ”' xt large on tli. Dougins anil Johnson ticket in
to the house from my old district, and have
been here ever since 1873.”
REASON' FOR RETIREMENT.
"What is vour reason for retiring to private
life?”
"I am now past seventy years of age and
feel as if my declining health and physical
debility render it proper that one more capa
ble of performing the duties of the position
should take my place. This is not a very ele
gant way of stating it. You can say that re
tiring is due to my age and infirmities. I
yy j». J J —A A 1. — _ -J - _ 1
they
congrc
labors
never consent to bold any office the duties of | terrains handsomely. He always did
which I am physically unable to discharge.
ravscffeauaHo ^duties ” USt Un,eS3 1 *** I foible oi^hM ho^h, Cmwford-1 plot to blow uj. their steamers, and for his in-
J " colleagues ok ms youTH. I ville is and has always been a rendezvous for I formation received a reward stated at $10,000,
■"How many members of the congress to politicians, lawyers, farmers and strangers I THE “BROTHER” OF GEORGIANS,
which you were first elected are here or liv- who chance to visit that village. It is known Really tbe -gentleman with a gray mustache’
im?v" as‘•Liberty Hall,” lor it is like unto an inn I ' *.. ,, , ■
"Let me sec. There are n6 members now whose hos/dispenses a bounteous hospitality ^^f promffientGeSnf i“teSS
of either branch—senate or house—who were in all the simplicity imaginable. Mr. I the brother of prominent Georgians is an interest
here when I first entered cengrees. Several Stephens lias virtually turned ins plantation ing study,
who were then members are yet living. lean over to bio former slaves, who, though quite It appears that his fraternal love embraces the en-
now recall as among the living, Hannibal fond of their old master, are not over zealous I tire state, and his acquaintance with Georgia gossip
Hamlin, of Maine; Hamilton Fish, of New I in their desire to promptly pay him the small enables him to join any family on short notice and
York; General Clingman, of North Carolina; | rentals. He lias made money, but much of it J maintain himself asan affectionate and superior
sented himself as General Curtis, state com
missioner of North Carolina, accidentally left
without money in this city, after the
hanking hours." Stewart also "informed the
police that a number of Wall street men had
been similarly victimized by the ex-governor,
and he promised to produce the victims in
convention of Georgia, lie voted against that I court to-day. B. S. Hazell, of the Charleston
ordinance, but gave it his support after it had steamship "company of Boston, also writes
passed. He was elected to the confederate that he lost $.320 by the check operations of
congress which met at Montgomery, Ala., I the prisoner, diaries R. Flint, partner of
February 4, 1801, and c‘osen vice-president Mayor Grace, wisely declined to cash the
of the confederate states in November, 1801. checks presented. He also represented him-
He was one of the commissioners on the part I self to J. N. Steams as a brother of J. G.
of tiie confederacy at tiie Hampton Roads I Thrower, of Atlanta, and made an unsuccess-
conference in February, 1865. Since the war I ful effort to have him cash a check for seventy-
his record in public life is detailed by him in I five dollars.
the above interview. I a refreshing biography,
From present indications Mr. Stephens Moses’s biography for the last five years, as
GOING FROM ATLANTA.
THE NATIONAL FERTILIZER COM
PANY’S UNDERTAKING.
Sir. Hash H. Colquitt Telia or the Several Combina
tions Made by ihe Atlanta Company With
Others of Chicago and Nashville Who Are
Interested in a Similar Way.
member. We published on yesterday his operations
as the “brother” of Governor Colquitt and of Dr.
Battey. We now discover that he has been opera
ting as the brother of Mr. H. I. Kimball and of
| General Gordon, besides playing a side engagement
with the venerable Mr. Dodge as another “brother”
Arm is tend Burt of .South Carolina; George] lie lias either spent on others or lost in un
W. Jones, of Tennessee: L. <J. C. Klmore, of lucky investments. He is quite charitable
New Jersey; David L. Yulee, of Florida; Or- and was never known to refuse aid to the
lando B. Ficklin, John Wentworth and John poor who came within his reach. He lias ed-
A. McCleroand, of Illinois; George P. Marsh, ucated a great many poor boys, sending them
of Vermont, and Mr. Ramsey, late Secretary not only to grammar school but to college,
of war under President Hayes. All these and ] He derived a royalty of $35,000 from the sale
some others whose names I do not recall, are of Ins “History of the War Between the of Governor Colquitt to the amount of $100.
among the men now living who came in with States.” His percentage of the profits was The story of his $150 appearance as a brother to the
mein the Twenty-eighth congress. When quite small,-though it may be, as some of his | Gordons is so characteristic of his methods that we
I first come to congress Yulee was | friends assert, that the sale of this book lias | p r i n tit. He called at the residence of a promt
a delegate from Florida, and he afterward | exceeded that of Mr. Jefferson Davis work. I neu ^ jjew York banker with whom the Gordons had
represented that state in the senate. There After devoting some of tins money to charita- I done bus5ness and Bent up his card as "Mr. Charles
was quite a shoal of new members of congress ble purposes lie lost the remainder much the Gordon brother of General Gordon. The
who came in with mein 1843 who niadca greater pMatlieto, V“itla£E. iS banker kad retired, but sent his wife to entertain
deep impress on the history of the country. | which .^started ^ ntn jj^ t h«■ stranger, until he could dress him,elf. When
Since then Mr. Stephens | he came down he saw a gentleman, with the some
has made some money from his school
deep impress on tiie history of the country.
Besides those just named as now living who avowed
stood prominently before tiie country in tiie ace Greeley,
arena of politics I might mention Stephen A. 1 ,,n “
Michigan, (subsequently secretary of the inte-1 tions to magazines. He is o
rior in President Pierce sadministration), and j tributorsto acycloptedia. He i
He is one of the con-
is now preparing I
fatal gray mustache and the same glittering polish!
The stranger said:
‘I have just reached the city with four fine car
riage horses for Joliu, and I do not know where
either he or W. S. or E. C. are staying. I knew they
—/< | . ... . . . did business with you, but I did not know their
Jolm P. Hale, of New Hampshire. There isa and expects to have published this fall a dispatches have been sent in yoiir
man vet living who became very distin- general history of the United States. During |
uuished Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio. He the hottest weather last summer Mr. Stephens “ re - " uer s P enain S several nours loosing lor
limired lareelv in the civil war. Now, there employed a corps of ten clerks on this work, them I found your address and called on you.
isstiB another lilt of men whom I was asstn which' he perlonallv superintended His John wants his horses shipped direct to AUanta,
eiated when 1 first entered congress. That is active habits acquired m early life do not and unless I can get S150 to-night I shall have to let
to sav iiiiionir tiie living men of to-dav who permit him to rest. He is probably the most them stay in the depot over Sunday. John tele-
to say, among tiie living men
were" in congress when 1 came in and were
permit ii _
industiious man of liis age now living.
graphed me yesterday that be would leave tiie city
1 speaker
list, vou see is quite small. But here isa larger
list, "for it embraces tiie names of those who
were distinguished leaders at the time 1 en
tered congress and who are now dead. This jn r
list,as 1 recall it,embraces the following men: wan j Lopez, a very respectable colored man,
John Qulney Adams, Henry A. \\ lse j and on g cott street, ail’d soon consumed it. The
•George C. Dromgold, of Virginia; Cave John- J occupants were aroused from sleepand barely
son and Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee; K- escaped with their lives. In the course of ten
Big Fire at Beaufort.
From the Augusta News. .
About 10.' j o’clock Friday night a fire origi
nated in Beaufort in the paint shop of Ed-
liarnwell lUiett. of South Carolina; the two
escaped \
minutes two small houses, the Dronertv of
John B. Weller, also of Ohio, and John Sli
dell, Among the distinguished men who had
been in before 1 came to congress was Thomas
llutlcr King, ot Georgia. Then there is Rob-
next door,and crossing the street,communica
ted itself to the residence of
tne Misses Givens. The roofs of several
other houses, including the grist and
ert M. T. Hunter, who ought to come in this cotton m jn s 0 f Mr. S. M. Wallace, were soon
list, am) also Joliu Whitt*, of Kentucky, who I flro, and at
had been speaker. 1 almost forgot to mention
, one time it looked as if the en-1
tire town east of Scott street would be swept.
the stranger—now stranger no longer—to be seated,
put on his overcoat, walked over to a hotel, drew a
chick, had it cashed, returned and gave him the
money. On Monday morning he met Walter Gor
don and said:
“Have you seen your brother Charles?”
• ‘Brother Charles? I have no brother Charles! ”
We need go no further. And, now, who is this
man, with the gray mustache, that is thus work-
the “brother’s” racket on our esteemed state?
interesting to know, for, as a gentleman of
ealth said on yesterday, “There’s no telling whose
brother he will be- next.” It is known that the
detectives have a clew, and that they are working
it up. The man on whom these suspicions rest is a
well known ex-southerner, but not, however, an
ex-Georgian.
Ten Tons of Gold Carted to the Doors of the Phila
delphia Mint.
From the Philadelphia Press.
There was an unwonted bustle about the
west basement entrance of the United States
mint shortly before 3 o’clock yesterday after
noon. One of the Adams express company’s
;reat wagons, drawn by a pair of magnificent
black horses, had just stopped in front, and
immediately a dozen hands were transferring
its load of flat, curious-looking boxes, tightly
bound with hoop-iron, to tiie gloomy depths
of the adjoing basement. There were twenty-
seven of these mysterious cases in the load,
and though they were apparently no bulkier
than a grocer’s box of raisins, they were labo
riously raised on end and slid down an in
clined plane to a truck, there being apparently
no ambition to support them with unaided
muscle. A few moments’ brisk work sent the
springs of the wagon back to their normal po
sition, and with an evident air of relief, the
horses speeded away at a brisk trot. A sec
ond wagon then drew up, then a third and a
fourth, and the same performance was gone
through with.
Beyond the faot that each of the drivers
had an armed attendent, though tiie latter’s
appearance gave no hint of the small arsenal
concealed about him, there was nothing in
the procedure to indicate that $5,000,00U of
gold bullion was incased in these strange iron
bound boxes. “This is the second install
ment,” said Superintendent Snowden to a
Press reporter, “of the $30,000,000 of bullion
ordered to the mint from the New York assay
office. We have something like $17,000,000on
hand now, and this $30,000,000, which will
come in $5,000,000 lots, at intervals of a week
or so, will still have a round $20,000,000 in
New York. The transfer is made to relieve
their vaults and to give us bullion sufficient
for the large coinage demads now made upon
us—averaging about $7,000,000 per month. ’
As may be imagined, the shipment of this
valuable treasure was accomplished with the
greatest celerity, and no precaution ensuring
its safety was omitted. From the assay office
in New York to the vault of the mint in
Philadelphia it was in the custody of the
Adams express company, leaving the former
place at 11 o’clock yesterday morning and
arriving here as stated above. Two cars were
used in its transportation, each in charge of a
special messenger armed cap-a-pie, one of
whom has for years attended similar govern
ment shipments between assay office and
mint. Though armed with that completeness
which the value of their charge would sug
gest, the messenger lias little relish for these
trips. In case of the slightest accident the
millions of treasure surrounding him on every
side are turned into very instruments of
death. A car off the track would send tumb
ling down upon him a dozen of these two
hundred pound boxes of “bricks,” and death
wonld be instant as the shock.
TEN TOXS OF GOLD.
The $5,000,000 which came yesterday con
sisted of a thousand and odd “bricks,” filling
106 boxes, and weighing in the neighborhood
of ten tons. This morning the boxes will be
opened and each “brick” will be weighed and
assayed, and the results compared with the
record of weight and fineness contained in
the invoice. A “brick,” it must be remem
bered, is not the mere dull mass of matter
which its clayey name suggests. It is a sepa
rate and distinct entity, has a number and
description of its own, and is os traceable as
any bank note or government bond. There
is little in its appearance to excite one’s cu
pidity. It is a yellow chunk, with some
lustre, about the size of a bar of
chocolate, and weighing from 18
to 20 pounds. To steal a box of them in
transit would be an operation involving no
less muscle than daring, and while no rob
bers lack tiie latter, very few of the craft are
in the habit of picking’up 200 pound pack
ages. Notwithstanding this serious obstacle
to would-be plunderers, the express officials
are never easy while these golden bars are in
their care; and it was with a manifest breath
of relief that Agent Arrison yesterday after
noon received Colonel D. M. Evans’s receipt
on behalf of the mint.
I happens that just at this peculiar time
the bullion receipts at the mint are more
than balanced by the daily shipment of coin.
For the last eleven days the sum of $1,000,000
in eagles and half-eagles has been daily sent
to the sub-treasury in New York, and this
outflow will be kept up till the $17,000,000
ordered to that repository lias been supplied
Lynn Bovd, from the Paducah or Purchase The flreg on t i, ese roo f s , however, were kept
district in Kentucky, who was alterward I uni ] er b y buckets, but nothing but almost su-
speaker, nnd David Barnard, who was one of I perhuman effort saved the house of Miss Gi
llie distinguished men from New York. l)a- vens from toU j destruction, as but a narrow
vid L. Seymour, of New Y'qrk. wns another I strcet separated it from the main fire, and
able man who came in during my time. In I f roln w i,j c h it was catching repeatedly. The
fact, he was among this school of which I , ire burned until nearly 3 o’clock a.m. The
have been speaking.” j property destroyed is estimated as follows:
a memorable incident. Mrs. Crocker, two houses, $400; Mr. E. Lopez,
"Wore there many of these?” _ _ | residence and contents, $1,500; Messrs. Co-
‘‘Yes. There were at least thirty in Die I nan t ^ Emmons, ice house, $1,000; Miss Gi-
»oliool. There were more men who distill-1 vanSi damaged. $500; tiie orphan house, $900
guished themselves that came in when I did •;
than at any subsequent or former period. | _ _ They Shot Him at Last.
Coloaet Thornton oa the Syndicate.
From His Post-Appeal of yesterday.
The president, however, made the selection at the
instance of a syndicate of played-ont Georgia poli
ticians, who seem recently to have risen to
the surface, rehabilitated with some sort of ephem
eral authority. There is not a member of the syn
dicate who can command the votes of their own
party, much less to bring recruits into the forma
tion of a new party. Some of the syndicate are
men who have held federal positions and emerged
from office indelibly besmirched with the taint of
dishonesty.
The nomination of Pledger for surveyor is the di
rect and absolute result of a bargain and sale made
by part of the syndicate in the office of the fiist as
sistant postmaster general in Washington, and af-
irds ratified by the whole of them. We shall
They were men wiio distinguished themselves 1 Frern ffia Ea^man iiinw. place a I not say one word against colored men being ap
either for good or harm. I. am ashamed to | Xnin“ I pointed to office. They will now have more and
belter ones than they ever had in Georgia before.
The collector of internal revenue for the second
Georgia district, the postmaster at Athens, thesur-
eyor at Atlanta, and, probably, the postmaster at
tugusta. are all good paying and important public
positions. We do feel called upon, however, to say
, , , . . . , that, viewing these facts In connection with the
to the house for his gun, ana after running a | e tf or t now being made to build up another and a
new party in the state, one which, of course, must
needs be composed of a large number of good and
respectable white people, there is a very slim pros
pect ahead. There must be a change, at once, the
influence of the syndicate must be subverted or
our chances of success have already vanished.
meditative" mood, approached
‘You must bo looking up there and
tile stream, and soon distance and the shad
ows of night had hidden the dome of the
capitol from my view. Would you believe
me, when I next visited Washington and
gazed on that dome 1 was a paroled prisoner
of war who had just been released from fort
Warren. But 1 expect this summer to begin
a book which is to contain my recollections
of public life, and especially iucidents and
pci>onal reminiscences.”
AN UNIMPAIRED INTELLECT.
To look ai the thin, withered hands and al
most helpless frame of this old man as he sits
in his wheel chair one might wonder if he
were able to pen the thoughts with which his
mind is busy, much less record the varied in
terests that have agitated the country since
he began public life in 1S36. Despite his fee
bleness and inability to walk, Mr. Stephens
retains not only his intellectual faculties, but
eniovs tiie advantage of an appetite and pow
ers of digestion that induce great dinners and
invite convivial occasions. He is temperate
in all things, even in playing cards, a sport in
which lie delights. It is not unusual to hnd
Mr. Stephens surmmded by a whist party, for
his skill in the game is said to be such as to
challenge the admiration of the most expert
players of the tlav. He is very fond of the
£ocicty of voung people and seems to take
Grinstead and asked him to shoot the deer.
Mr. Grinstead took his position, and after aim-
' ... be retU rned
the
’ (or
' into
iine, and after some more eyeing and aiming,
he fired broadside at the animal, and never
touched a hair. The deer remained perfectly
contented with the sheep till the marksmen
fell back and reloaded. The next fire Mr.
Kinchen killed it. It was about half grown
and was doubtless quite an acquisition in the
cuisine line.
Colonel Thorutou at the Head.
From the Macon Telegraph.
We are never afraid or ashamed to confess an
error, and an a|«logy is due our esteemed contem
porary, The Atlanta Constitution, borne time
since"iu a controversy with that journal and iu
which nothing but our amiability and great com
mand of our temper, prevented the shedding of
blood, we contended that Mr. Speer would lead the
independent party of Geoigia. We overrated Mr.
Speer as greviouslv as we underestimated Colonel
Thornton. The Colonel has proven himself much
the superior man in every respect, of the two.
After the Markham House meeting he assumed
command. He now marches at the head of the
procession and holds the fortunes of the organiza
tion in his band. Georgia polities has not shown
up a more daring and brilliant “coo de tar,” as
Colonel Gambetta would say.
Mr, Stephea* May Hemal*.
Athens Banner-Watchman.
This makes the fifth time that Mr. Stephens has
formally retired from public Hie. We predict that
at the earnest solicitation of the dear people, he can
he prevailed upon to remain in the field.
A TRAIN WRECKED.
Colonel Cole’* Palace Car Weatroyed—One Man Killed)
Knoxville, Tenn., March 27.—Early Sun
day morning the eastern bound passenger train
on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad was telescoped by a freight train
eigij’-three miles east of knoxville.
HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
The passenger train had just passed the
freight train at Home station, and was sud
denly stopped by the bursting of one of the
air brakes. The freight train was only three
minutes behind and coming down the steep
grade its speed was checked, but it was impos
sible to stop the train before the engine ran
into tne rear of the passenger train.
LOSS OF LIKE.
The rear coach, which was President E. W.
Cole’s palace car, and which recently cost
$17,090, was totally wrecked. Thesteaiji pipe
of the freight engine was broken and William
Booker, porter on Cole’s car, was scalded to
death. There was no one else in the car.
John Garlington, conductor of the sleeper,
was severely scalded, and the sleeper was
damaged. All the trains were delayed six
hours.
A MAN KILLED.
Tiie Memphis and Charleston train, Satur
day night, struck a team which was being
driven across the track, and instantly killed a
colored man named Jim Brown, and’seriously
injured a woman named Hodges.
From the Nashville World.
This city is paid another high compliment,
and this time by a corporation embracing
gentlemen whose wealth and success in all
their other undertakings, is sufficient to guar
antee success in this. A reporter of the
World met Mr. Hugh H. Colquitt, of Atlanta,
Ga., a brother of Governor Colquitt, of that
state, in the Maxwell house yesterday, and
having known Mr. Colquitt during the expo
sition in Atlanta, was curious to know why
he was in Nashville, and without intimating
that he proposed putting the conversatson in
print, gathered the following important in
formation. Mr. Colquitt, when asked why
he was here, said he was on business; that
having organized a company for manufac
turing fertilizers in Atlanta, with Governor
A. H. Colquitt, General J. B. Gordon, Major
Eugene C. Gordon, the projector of the Geor
gia Pacific railroad; Colonel YV. S. Gordon
and Mr. W. C. Grastv, and other gentlemen,
under the name of the “National Fertilizer
company,” and that being solicited by Mr.
Eugene Fauntleroy, of Chicago, who has been
engaged in tiie fertilizer business a long time,
to combine with him in organizing a company
here, he had concluded to do so. It was the
intention of Mr. Colquitt’s company to locate
their factory, in Atlanta, but Mr. Fauntleroy
presented the superiority of Nashville as a
center for the company so forcibly and effect
ively that the Atlanta parties were induced
to combine the two interests and locate here,
as they thought Nashville was destined to be
a great manufacturing center, provided the
proper encouragement was given by the lead
ing citizens.”
Reporter—“What is the capital stock of your
company?”
Mr. Colquitt—“One hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.”
“Is the stock all taken?”
“Yes, some time ago, and now in,demand."
“Hasthe company organized’”
“Yes; under the name of the ‘National
Fertilizer company, and the directors have
made Mr. G. M. Fogg, of your city, presi
dent.”
“Has the company secured a location?”
“Yes, we have bought Mr. Adam Cole’s
property and fertilizer works and secured him
as a stockholder in our company.”
“What amount of business do you expect
to do?”
Our present plan is to build acid works
and a factory to produce 10,000 tons for the
coming season’s trade, but we expect to
double the pressure in twelve months.”
“Can you find a market for the goods?”
“Yes. my state, Georgia, takes 10,000 tons
and Mr. Fauntleroy has sold 10,000 tons in
the wheat belt in a single season.”
Why did a Chicago man and an Atlanta
man agree on Nashville? I should have
thought that men from either of those places
could have found enterprise and capital
enough at home.”
“Of course we could and had every induce
ment to stay at home, but Mr. Knox, gen eral
freight agent of tiie Nashville and Chattanoo
ga railroad called Mr. Fauntleroys attention
to Nashville as a manufacturing point, and
upon investigation Mr. Fauntleroy found
coal cheap and labor abundant, and after con
sidering the location as a distributing point
for the cotton belt and the wheat belt, he de
cided that it possessed uneqnaled advantages.
My friends hesiuited about the location, be
cause there was but one line of railroads, but
they were assuied that the Louisville and
Nashville road would foster the industry if
located at Nashville, and thus far we have
met with every encouragement from the rail
roads.”
"If it is a fair question, I would like to ask
you who are the Nashville parties interested
in this company.”
“I think it is very generally known, and we
think we have a very strong board of direct
ors. Mr. G. M. Fogg, of the firm of East &
Fogg, a lawyer of ability and a successful
man of business, is president of our company.
“Mr. Isaac T. Rhea, tiie leading grain mer
chant of Nashville, is vice president; Mr. S.
J. Keith, vice president of the First National
bank, is treasurer, and Mr. Robert Thumpson,
president of tiie Dixie oil works, and recently
elected president of the Atlanta cotton seed
oil company, is secretary. Mr. Hensley, of
the firm of Hart & Hensley, the well known
and successful pork packers, Mr. E. B. Stahl-
man, president of Union stock yards and a
leading spirit in several other enterprises. Dr.
J. D. Flunkett, for years prominently associa
ted witli the state board of health, and Gov
ernor A. H. Colquitt, of Georgia, are among
our officers. We have among our stockhold
er such gentlemen as ex-Governor Porter,
Major J. W. Thomas, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Stock-
ell, Mr. Baxter and others in Nashville, and
in addition, Mr. Fauntlerov's Chicago and
Charleston friends and my Georgia friends.”
The reports asked Mr. Colquitt about the
bad odor, etc.
"We will not use any materials,” he said,
“that will create unpleasant odors. We will
manufacture chemicals largely and all our
fertilizing materials will be deodorized. The
manufacture of our goods will be on the most
approved plans and under the supervision ot
a trained and skilled chemist.”
Reporter—“When will you be ready for
business?”
Mr. Colquitt—“We expect to get our factory
in operation in about four months, and we
will be glad to siiow you through it, if you
will promise not to allow your brains to be
come so fertile that your pencil will run away
.with your crop of truth.”
“I’ll promise. Good-bye,” and Mr. Col
quitt went into the elevator leaving the
newsman with tiie conviction that Nashville
was certainly growing in importance.
Mr. Fauntleroy, wiio will be general mana
ger of the company, lias had a great deal of
experience and knows how to conduct it sue
cessfully.
quart bottle of brandy, half full. Both bodies
were brought to this city.
A DESPERATE MOTHER’S DEED.
Cincinnati, March 29.—A special from Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, to the Times-Star says: On
Monday last, Mrs. Ballard, of Lincoln county,
broke the necks of two of her children, aged
seven and four years, threw them into a pond
and jumped in herself with the baby in her
arms. The motherand child were drowned. The
four bodies have been recovered. The act
succeeded a disagreement between the
woman and her husband.
CROW DOG'S SENTENCE.
Dkadwood, 1). T., March 29.—Crow Dog, re
cently convicted of the murder of Spotted
Tail, was to-day sentenced to be hanged on
May 11th.
KILLED BY A TRAIN.
Lafayette, Jnd., March 29.—The Morning
Journal's special from Lagromd, says: "Eth-
ward McNarnerny, a well-to-do farmer, resid
ing one-lialf mile east of Wabash, was in
stantly killed by the east bound passenger
train on the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific
while walking homeward on the track this af
ternoon at 1 o’clock. He was partially deaf
and failed to hear the signal. He was 30
years of age, and leaves a six months’ bride.”
ANOTHER COTTON SEED OIL MILL
The Aiwtarcd Entabllnhment of a Mill at Albany*
From the News and Advertiser.
The early establishment of a cotton seed
oil mill in Albany is now assured. By this
we do not mean that the matter is any longer
under advisement 1 and mixed with doubt, bnt
that it has been fully decided upon by men
who mean business, and has become a fixed
fact.
The News and Advertiser is authorized to
state that tiie Albany oil mill company has
been organized with a capital stock of $50,000,
and that the following officers have been
elected with a view of proceeding at once to
tiie erection of a mill:
G. H. Dudley, president.
G. C. Ball, secretary and treasurer.
J. R. Forrester, superintendent.
Messrs. Dudley and Ball are connected with
the mills at Montgomery and Eufaula, and
their experiences in the oil mill business guar
antees tne success of the mill at Albany. Mr.
J. R. Forrester, who has been elected superin
tendent of the new mill, is well known
throughout southwest Georgia as one of the
most correct and energetic business men of
this city, and will be the right man in the
right place.
• The mill will he located near the South
western railroad depot, on a site purchased
from tiie Central railroad company, and work
will be commenced at an early day.
Albany is in the very center of the great
cotton "belt” of southwest Georgia, and, with
her four lines of road, is naturally the most
available point for a cotton seed oil mill in
the state.
Murder Near Cochran.
From the Cochran Enterprise.
One negro shot and killed another on Tues
day last at Bishop & Co.’s mill near No. 12
(Chauncey) Macon and Brunswick railroad.
The two quarreled and one of them started
for his gun, which was a short distance away,
and the other drew his little pistol and shot
at him twice, one ball striking him in the
back and coining out just above the navel.
He got his gun. but when he got back liis an
tagonist had fled the field. When our inform
ant left a few hours after, the wounded man
was dj ing. The murderer is still at laige.
We could not learn the names of the* parties.
All Hands and the Cook
From the Oglethorpe Echo.
On last Monday morning the nurse, cook
and cook’s husband, all servants of W. G.
Johnson, were detected in a wholesale steal
ing. It seems that tiie nurse procured the
keys, opened the dining-room closets, and let
the man in. It was very soon and Mr. J.
from home. When caught they had removed
some things and had a ham, a 25 pound sack
of flour and a la'ge pan of sugar just ready to
take off. They were all three arrested and
are now in jail awaiting court.
A Sharp Little Riot.
From the DeKalb News.
We had a tolerable sharp little riot recently
between a white and a colored man. They
were both at work for the same man and had
some falling out; the colored man talcing the
start on the white man with a large club, and
the white man had to take to his heels for
protection. The white man received some
wounds, though not serious.
IN GENERAL.
Terrible Drouth la Australia.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.
San Francisco, March 27.—Terrible^ stories of
drouth comes from many parts of New South
Wales on the Barrier Adelaide line. No drier sea
son has been experienced for several years. « ells
never before drj have now failed. Teams continue
to pass there from South Australia for the diggings.
Mauv of the bullocks aud horses die on the road,
but loads will reach their destination. A few days
ago a blacksmith narrowly escaped death from
thirst by taking a short euL The water in his
bag was exhausted and he tried to make to Thaka-
riuga, and became delirious. When picked up by
a passing horseman, he was almost entirely with
out clothes, and had a large gash in his arm, from
which he had sucked blood to quench his thirst.
Japanese papers contain some particulars of the
fate of the ringleaders of the late unsuccessful re
bellion in Corea. Nine were condemned to death,
three of whom were regarded as riugleadcra. lor
these a barbarous execution was reserved, their
arms and legs being separated from the body, fol
lowed by decapitation, the heads being then ex
posed on poles. Four others were simply decapi
tated. Ritalsen, a near relative of the king, was
poisoned.
Death of a UasuehoMitU Millionaire.
Boston. March 27.—There died in Salem, to-day,
a man whose career has been a remarkable one.
Captain John Betram was bom on the island ot
Jersey in 1796. He brought aU his possessions to
Salem iu a handkerchief when a boy. In 18x4) he
shipped on an American privateer. He was taken
prison-r bv the British, was soon afterward released
because of" his French birth, but was again cap
tured a few weeks later, and remained a prisoner
SKELETON DISCOVERED.
M tjsr W alinee and the Red Chair.
Athens, Tenn., Post.
A correspondent of the Rome Courier proposes
Major Campbell Wallace, of Atlanta, for governor
of Georgia. Whereupon the editor of that paper
remarks:
“Major Wallace is one of those inflexibly just
and honest men of whom we have too few in high
public positions—a man peculiarly constituted to
make such a chief executive as Georgia now needs.
While thoroughly conversant with the condition
and interests of the state, he is not a politician^ in
the party sense of that term; and his nomination
bv the democratic party would most effectually
stop the mouths of those who are accusing the
party of being under the management
rings ano “machine” managers. He
a practical man—a man who studies
adaptability and efficiency in the conduct
enterprise with which he is connected.”
We take pleasure in reproducing in our columns j coroner having been notified, has gone to
the above just tribute to one of the most useful ) £ h h ig holding an inquest this
men of hts day and generation, and in giving it , ....
our humble but heartv innorsement, although we i alternoqn.
have no idea he is cultivating any ambition oi the °
The Body of William Trimble Fonod Seventeen
Years Alter Ills Death.
Special to the Cleveland Herald.
Mansfield, March 27.—Nearly seventeen
years ago, William Trimble, a farmer living
four miles west of this city, came in from the
field where he had been plowing, shouldered
his gun and went out for the purpose of hunt
ing. He was never afterward seen,
and had almost been forgotten.
Last fcaturday; while a boy was
bunting rabbits on the farm upon which
kind, or that he would accept the position referred
to even were it guaranteed him.
The President’* Polity
New York Tribune.
“My wife and X am one,” explained the colored
gentleman; adding, with a smile that was childlike
aud bland, “and 1 am de one ” The president a
few months ago info med a well-known congress
man that his policy would be to ignore factional
lines in the republican party. In other words, he
was going to treat the stalwarts and anti-stalwarts
as one. An admirable policy. The only trouble is
that judging from his recent appointments he re-
gards the stalwarts as “de one.”
What tiearrml Gartrcll Falls Back Oa.
Athens Watchman.
General Gartrell must be getting lonesome. He
rplit oft' trom the democracy, has been ignored by
the republicans and repudiated by the radicals.
The general has new nothing but his religion and
his own vote to fall back on.
it is generally supposed that
Trimble’s death was accidental, he either
having shot himself in some manner or hav
ing sunk in the mire.
SUICIDE AND MURDER.
Louisville, Ky., March 29.—Alexandria C,
Wingate, of Lexington, Ky., was shot in the
breast and killed, at 3:15 o’clock this morn
ing, on an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train,
between Sparksville and Aledara, Indiana.
His assassin was an unknown man who was
crazed by drink, and had no provocation
After the tragedy the maniac jumped off the
train, which was going at the rate
of forty miles an hour, landed
safely, walked half a mile to a creek, stripped
himself naked and jumped into the stream.
His dead body was found there this morning.
His clothes were found hanging on a bridge.
They contained nine dollars in cash, a gold
watch, an express receipt for $400 sent front
El Faso. Texas, to New Salem, Ohio, and a
The Chinese do their courting by proxy,
the proxies pay the bills, there are many young
men who would like the system introduced lute
this country.
Some of the English ladies of fashion' are
rebelling against the dressmakers, who are waste-
fully crowding several kinds of material in mean
ingless shapes into one dress.
Tiie Ohio democrats arc beginning already
to talk about candidates for governor in 1883. Con
gressman Converse, of the Columbus district, is re
ceiving some of the benefit of this premature
boom.
Russia has 24,746 nobles with an average of
$19,000 per annum; 123,000 merchants with ayearly
income of $1,500 each; and 16,254,000 peasants with
an annual average of $180. Would rather be a
noble, and with a noble stand.
In some parts of Manitoba speculation is
wild. It is said to be quite common for a settler to
sell his farm at from $5y000 to $10,000—825 cash,
balance in twenty to thirty days. The calculation
of the purchaser is that within the time specified he
may dispose of the laud at an advance; if not he
only loses his $25.
Since the commencement of the operation
of the Sunday closing (Ireland) act, in October,
1878, there has been a decrease in the Irish drink
bill of £3,000,W00, and 22,000 fewer cases of drunken
ness summarily dealt with by the police magis
trates. Great unanimity is said to exist among
the Irish people regarding temperance legislation.
Don’t talk to me about tiie advantages of
an education," indignantly exclaimed a certain
manufacturer lately. “Here I spent $9,000 on that
boy of mine. He came out of college with flying
colors. I put him in charge of the factory while i
went off lor a little vacation, and what do you
suppose he did? Shipped 50,000 of my new patent
improved snow shovels to South America.”
An exciting whale hunt is reported from
the west coast of the Shetland islands, where 300
whales have been captured by a fleet of small skiff
fishing boats peculiar to these islands. About 400
or 500 whales known as “bottle noses,” were
observed sporting about in Weesdale bay, and
as soon as the news spread every available boat was
maimed by fishermen, farmers and crofters, and a
general chase commenced, with the result that ulti
mately 300 were stranded.
Only one person is now living at Canter
bury who can claim direct descent from those
Walloons who settled in that city in the sixteenth
century when expelled from France. This is an
old lady, at present living in a cottage which forms
part of the chat ity property of the church. When
the Walloons arrived at Canterbury tbey introduced
their native industry of weaving, which in time
became the staple trade of the city. They were
permitted to attend services iu the crypt—a noble
Nortnau crypt this is—aud the services then begun
have ever siuce been continued there.
In the month of February there were 83
railroad accidents in the United States, killing 23
persons and injuring 69. Three-fourths of the
whole number of casualties were among employes
of the railroads, only six of the killed and 17 of the
injured being passengers. Twenty of the accidents
are unexplained. There were 32 collisions and 52
derailments of all sorts. Two were maliciously
caused, one by misplacing a switch aud the other
by placing an obstruction on the track. The show
ing is a remarkably favorable one for February,
but is largely due to the open weather.
A writer in Land and Water says: “In
the course of my experience in using male ele
phants in Bengal I have known many which were
called by their keepers ’kliooners’—murderers.
One magnificent animal had killed five perrons
when he was placed at my disposal for the convey
ance of baggage. After a sixth murder he was
shot. The parents of the children accustomed to
ride on Jumbo should shudder at the idea of
allowing their tittle ones to encounter the peril
which must attend them siuce the animal has-
once been ’must’—that is, subject to the madness
oi elephants.”