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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME XIV
TUESDAY MOEN1KO, APRIL 11, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
THE WEEK EPITOMIZED.
NARRATING THE HISTORY OF SEV
EN DAYS.
Proceeding* at Home and Abroad—The Polities and
PenreTalUes cf the Old World—The Ways of
tbo people at Home, and the Crimea and
* Amusements la Which They Indulge.
TOR AP1HOAUII5G NEW YOU* ELECTION.
Great interest is taken in the approaching
New York election. The democrats are now
confident o( the Pacific slope and New York
is really the pivotal state from their stand
point. It is very important to elect the gov
ernor and legislature there next fall. Both
parties are at work already. President Ar
thur wants Secretary Folger to be the repub
lican candidate for governor. Folger wonts
to lie. Conkling and the home stalwarts want
him, too. llr. Krastus Hansom, Arthur's law
partner, has been closeted with him toKiay
fixing tliis business. Arthur is in his glory
when he is pulling the wires. They will pro
bably trot the old man out. The democrats
are hoping for it lie is an old stick. The
half breeds hate him os they hate every stal
wart and he can’t lead an enthusias
tic campaign of bis own crowd. Mr. Flowers
is certainly trying to get the democratic nom
ination and Barnum came here to put him at
the head of the congressional campaign com
mittee merely to introduce to the New York
democrary in an imposing attitude. Flower
has money and will spend it. Personally
popular, he won considerable prestige by lay
ing out Aster in a strong republican district.
He would be more acceptable to Tammany
than almost any other Tilden democrat.
But everybody agrees ilmt the time to truckle
to John Kelly has passed, and now the dem
ocrats can better afford to defy him, for the
desertion of Tammany could not work as
much mischief with them as the breach
in tlicir opponent’s ranks is sure to occasion.
Conkling and Arthur will control the party
tuachincry. They have adopted a more vin
dictive policy than ever. A “half-breed” who
goes to the white house now meets, at the best,
a cold reception, and frequently a direct re*
buir. Tlie quarrel so fat from ceasing grows
bitterer every day. Every indication points
to a clean democratic sweep, with allowances
tor blunders to tlie degree that seems indis
pensable with the dear old party."
The cheering pro6]>eet may bring out some
of the veterans to crowd out the ambitious
young millionaire, but he is in for the prize
and lias collected a host of backers already.
A BtTTKR REBUKE.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Patrick J. Smith, member of parliament
or Tipperary, replying to the resolutions of
the Tipperary commissioners censuring the
recent parliamentary action, says: “Cense
your baubling about things you do not under
stand. If you are not titfbrly lost to every
sense of patriotic and human feeling,'weep
for tho land reduced to a condition of sav
agery. Sec the recent outrages and reserve
your curses for the league of hell which lias
brought all this ruin and shame upon our
nation.”
THE SULTAN’S TREASURE HOUSE.
The sultan to-day grunted General Wallace
and Mr. Phelps, United States ministers to
Turkey and Austria, respectively, permis
sion, now very rarely grained, to inspect the
imperial treusury. Messrs. Wallace and
Phelps were surprised at the amount of treas
ure in the vaults and tlie great number of
precious stones displayed. There were forty
officials in attendance, who opened the locks
with many formalities.
THE RAILWAY TO BAGDAD.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
A Constantinople dispatch says negotiations
continue for the granting of a concession for
a railway to llagdad, to an American company
with which Mr. Phelps is connected. It is
stated that the khedive of Egypt will appoint
Colonel Ixmg governor of Soudan.
THE RRADLAUGH PENALTY
Tlie London Times says that the five hun
dred pounds ordered to be paid into court in
ontinn f’lovlr nrro■ not Kro/llnilnli will lwi
the action of Clark against Bradlaugh will be
MACLEAN’S TRIAL.
The I .aw Journal says that MacLcan, who
attempted to assassinate the queen at Wind
sor, will be tried at Beading with unusual
pomp. It adds: "The policy of giving so
dignified an aspect to Mai-Lean may be
doubted.”
IN A CHRISTIAN LAND.
Special Dispatch to Tlie Constitution.
A dispatch iroin St. Petersburg states that
three soldiers belonging to a troop of lancers
entered a liquor store kept by a Jew at Da-
brau and demanded drink. After some ob
jection, the eldest daughter of the Jew served
them with liquor. A quarrel ensued, and
the soldiers shot the proprietor, killed his
two sons and an infant, outraged the daughter,
brutally beat her mother and plundered tlie
house. *
The Golos reports that a corps has been sent
from Odessa, Bender and Xicolaieff to the
town and district of AnanictT, on account of
the disturbances created by the peasants. On
tlie 2nd instant, which was market day,
an attack was made on the shops
and houses belonging to the Jews at
Walcgo Julnwo, twenty-live versts from
Ananieflf and thirty shops and eighty houses
were destroyed. *The Official Messenger,
which generally denies the reports of dis
turbances says they are exaggerated, confirms
this rep«rt, and says that thirty arrests have
been made in connection with the riot.
A TESNESSEE TRAGEDY.
Nashville, April 3.—A Murfreesboro dis
patch to tlie American says; Thomas McEwen,
special deputy sheriff, started to arrest Bethel
Thompson, who last year shot an officer in
ShelbyviUe, when about to be arrested for
horse stealing. Thompson was found in bed.
While the deputy sheriff was reading tlie
warrant Thompson shot hini with a pistol
which lie drew from under the pillow, tlie
bullet inflicting a wound which will probably
prove fatal. The wounded man returned the
lire, killing Thompson instantly.
A GR-inilC PICTURE OP AFFAIRS.
Major Traill, a resident magistrate writing
from Clair Morris, county Mayo, recommend
ing that certain death shall be the penalty of
all attempts at murder, says he has often been
threatened, and has been warned that his as
sassination was not only planned but actually
paid for, but he defiles the assassins. He
draws a remarkabte picture of the
state of tlie country. He says he
never travels without an escort of two armed
policemen and an armed groom. Counting
the Winchester rifle, revolvers and shot guns
of the party, there are twenty-five
rounds that * can be discharged in
as many seconds, with thirty-four
in reserve. His escort searched all the plan
tations, hedgesi etc., en route, and the neigh
borhood of his house is patrolled all night by
an armed guard who are provided with dogs
to aid in the search for explosives and assas
sins.
HOW THE POISON WAS ADMINISTERED.
Petersburg, Vo., April 8.—Information
has just been received here that a doable
murder was committed in Surrey county yes
terday, by the administration of poison in
coffee.
From what can be learned it seems that
Mrs. Gray, her husband, and Mr. Jones, all
living on tlie same farm in the above named
county,ate breakfast together yesterday morn
ing. Mrs. Gray and Mr. Joncs’drank the coffee,
while Mr. Gray took milk. A few hoars
after breakfast both Mrs. Gray and Mr. Jones
were taken suddenly ill, exhibiting signs of
being poisoned. After intense suffering both
died within a short time of each other.
The supposition is that arsenic was placed
in the eoffee by the servant girl employed by
the family. Mrs. Gray was a highly respected
lady, and in company with her husband came
here from tlie north. Mr. Jones was a for
mer resident of tiiis city, where he has many
relatives.
CABINET CHANCES.
The long contemplated changes in the cab
inet have at last taken place. Senator H. M.
Teller, of Colorado, has been appointed secre
tary of the interior, viee 8. J. Kirkwood, who,
it is rumored, will be appointed chairman of
the Utah commission; and Mr. W. E Chand
ler, vice W. H. Hunt, appointed minister to
Russia. It is said that Secretary Lincoln, who
is now the only reminiscence of tlie old Gar
field cabinet, will be allowed to serve out his
term, on account of the odor of his father’s
name.
SHlriCERD BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.
The only development made by the inquiry
into the Peruvian scandal has been the con
viction of the witness, Shiplierd, as an un
principled man, who mode an unauthorized
use of the names of other people. He lias
been able to bring nothing home to any one
else. Since the investigation-began, one of
tiie principal men affected by it, Minister
Hurlbut, has died.
THE LOSS DISCOVERED.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
LaSalle, 111.. April 8.—Frederick Mailder,
of Pittsburg, was last night robbed of a satchel
which he claims contained 8100,000 in mining
stocks, while on an eastern bound passenger
train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railway, by a blind man whose name is said
to be Davis, and who got off tlie train at this
point.
Maikler discovered liis loss at Ottawa, and
returned to LaSalle. Davis was arrested in
the Harrison house, with the securities in a
basket, while he, witli a boy who accompanied
him, was engaged in burning them in the
stove. $10,000 were destroyed in this way.
AS OLD AS TIIE UXIVERSITY.
Charlottesville, Va., April 7.—William
M. Wertenbaker, who was appointed by
Thomas Jelleison as secretary of the faculty
and librarian of the University of Virginia,
in the year 1825, and who has filled that office
ever since, died last night at his residence, in
tlie 85th year of his age.
His appointment to office began in the year
of tlie establishment of the university by
Jefferson, and lie filled tbat position with
great fidelity and universal satisfaction.
HANGED WITH A SILK HANDKERCHIEF.
Little Rock, April 7.—An unknown young
man was found hanging to a tree by a silk
handkerchief near Strawn, in Eastland coun
ty } Texas, yesterday. It is supposed he com
mitted suicide. There was nothing to identi
fy or locate him by. He was neatly dressed
and about twenty years old.
AN INSANE SHOOTING.
Wameoo, Ks., April 7.—Information lias
been received here that some time yesterday
Charles McGuire, a Scotchman, who has been
living at the bouse of Mr. Lapbam, three
miles south of here for some time past, shot
and killed Minnie Lapliam, a daughter of the
man with whom lie lived. He then fired a
ball into his own head, but at last accounts be
was still alive. McGuire has wealthy rela
tives in Scotland who have been advised of the
event McGuire was regarded as of unsound
mind, and is believed to have committed the
act while deranged.
Pommtlc Dot*.
Rabbi Lilientbal, of Cincinnati, is dead.
There are bills before congress calling for the ap
propriation of $22,000,000 for public buildings.
A man was arrested near St. Louis, supposed to
be the notorious Bender, but he was subsequently
ascertained to be another man.
The supreme court of the United States has de
cided that states cannot levy a tax on telegraphic
dispatches sent to points outside of the slate.
An enthusiastic meeting to protest against Minis
ter Lowell's treatment of Americans in British pris
ons was held oo Monday night In New York.
Daniel Betts, turn lieu tamer of Coup’s circus,
while about entering the lion’s cage for the street
procession in Augusta, fell dead of heart disease.
Congress has passed the army appropriation bill.
The effort to make retirement from the service
compulsory at the age of G2, was defeated so far as
concerns the general of the army.
The grain prospects for Georgia and South Caro
lina are better than ever before known. An un
usually large yield of oats and wheat Is anticipat
ed. Corn has been extensively planted.
The Teehe country, in Louisiana, Is now fully
flooded, and the people are in great destitution.
Above New Orleans, the Mississippi is falling,
being now 11 inches below the water mark of
1874.
A SUMMER TALE,
AS TOLD IN THE EARLY STAGE OF
SPRING.
7 ha Green Fields and tba Sweet Smelling Bonnet
Make Bill Arp Grow Jdyllio— From Poetry to
Prose. With Jayhawker’e Frostneee as
the Text for Calm Consideration.
Early Tuesday morning in Pueblo, New Mexico,
two gamblers, named Koludoux and Caiter, en
gaged in a quanel which resulted in very serious
injuries to the latter. A young man named Uomer
Stone, was choked to death by a person whose
name is suppressed for various reasons.
The long curls of Maggie O’Brien, a young wo-
mau employed in the overall factory at Mattewan,
New York, caught on a shaft to which her sewing
machine was attached, yesterday, as she stooped
to pick up a lost bobbin ring, resulting in her scalp
being torn completely off. The scalp was replaced
and sewed to the head.
While engaged ia sawing lumber, in Leesburg.
Ohio, Wm. Leverton, was struck by a board flying
off from the saw. Knocking him down and cutting
off his pants from both knees; and injuring him
very badly. The plank went ever thirty feet after
striking him.
Henry Ward Beecher denies that he intends to
retire from the ministry when he is seventy years
old, which will be on June 24,1883. He said that
his father, Lvmau Beecher, continued to preach
until after he was eighty, and he would like to do
the same. His health was never better than it is
now. He had said that he didn’t care to live be
yond eighty, he might change his mind os he
neared that point.
Tuesday morning a log boom was broken at Min
ncapolls, by a sudden swell in the river, and several
million feet floated down past SL Paul. It is be
lieved that not over 4,000.000 feet, valued at $40,000,
will be lost, and not 100,000,000, as supposed. This
loss will not effect the market. The accident is the
most serious for years.
Eleven new cases of small-pox and five deaths
are reported in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
and one new case in Bethlehem. The number of
new cases reported for the past few days is in ex
cess of the deaths and recoveries, and the efforts of
the board of health are not successful in checking
the epidumic. The damp weather is having a bad
efl’ect, and the citizens are apprehensive or a de
cided increase of the number of cases.
On the 16th of November last a package contain
ing $8,000 was lost at Grayling station between Bay
City and Cheboygan, Michigan, while in charge of
the express company. A few days ago A. D. Price,
a poor rai'way laborer, bought a house and
branched out in other directions so as to excite
suspicion. Detectives visited his house and found
in the clapboards almost $6,000. Upon being con
fronted with these facts, Price-owned up. He said
he noticed the package accidentally drop while
being transferred at the station, lie kicked it un
der the platform and afterwards secured it He
says he burned niue $100 bills for fear they might
lead to his detection.
Foreign Flashes.
The British government has stopped the digglni
of the channel tunnel, in deference to the wishes
sentimentalists.
The liberals are exhibiting much dissatisfaction
with Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy.
The cosaaation of the czar of Russia will proba
bly take place lm some other city than Moscow, the
nihilists being so active there.
The marriage of Prince Leopold, of England, has
been indefinitely postponed.
M. Gambetta's organs are making a better fight
the French ministry.
A secret treaty exists between Germany and
Sweden.
The New York lottos Eiehucc.
New York. April 6—The members of the cotton
exchange yesterday voted in favor of giving the
board of managers power to purchase a plat of
ground and to erect a building thereon for the pur
poses of exchange at a cost not to exceed $860,000.
The present building is to b« sold and the proceeds
applied toward the new structure. The exchange
hrs a surplus fund of more than $450,000 drawing 3
per cent interest, and has a standing offer of $130,-
000 for its present property.
Written for The Constitution.
The prospect before a farmer whose house is
a hill is a charming one at this season of
the year. Tlie fields of small grain look so
fresh and green, and contrasted with the sick
chocolate and brownish colors of the land
just planted in cotton and corn makes a car
pet upon the earth that has never been equali-
for size if it lias for beauty. The trees are
putting on their summer clothes, and the
ild flowers mingle everywhere in loving
beauty. We take the children on a ramble as
often as we have time, and gather bouquets
that cost nothing and that are never missed in ■
nature’s conservatory’. There is no stinginess
about nature’s gardner. We go a fishing too,
sometimes. I caught a three pound trout the
other evening and played him around splen
did for a minute and felt a luxury of satisfac
tion as he darted around and made the water
june. The pole was strong and the line too,
but tlie hook suddenly pulled straight and
the fish was gone. Then came the reaction—
the sudden fall of the thermometer—
the collapse—the let down—tlie feel
ing of goneness that no words
can express. It makes a man feel so weak,
and humble, and helpless, and there’s i->
remedy that I know of except time, a got -1
deal of time, for I ha vent got well of it ye'-.
A NIGHT FROLIC.
Then again we went on a night frolic wit’i
nabor Freeman’s folks to see the fish caugut
a gill net, for it wns a new sport to ns, and
we looked up tlie horse and rode over to tlie
mill pond, ana they had hardly got the nets
straightened out before the big suckers com
menced to try its strength, and in less than an
hour we had about twenty-five pounds of fish
in the boat. We took along coffee, and bread,
and cake, and pickles, and jelly, and other
luxuries, and sat ’round the fire on the bank
and enjoyed ourselves in seeing one another
happy and the children in a glee. About 11
o’clock we departed for home, and I conclu
ded to try tlie near way, which was pretty
rough. Our phaton was a double-seated spring
wagon, and before I knew it one side was
down in a hole about a foot deep, and one of
the girls concluded to get out very suddenly
and in a very peculiar manner. Such
evolutions are not uncommon in
circus. It was very well done, and
nobody hurt, and the ear-rings which spilt
out were found the next day. Mrs. Arp ad
vised me to keep right in the middle of tl.e
road after that and to go very slow, which I
did. and in a few mtnutes ran the axle true
kerwnk against an invisible stamp about two
feet high, which settled Mrs. Arp and one v,f
the chickens down by the dashboard, and
broke a singletree and gave the whole family
a sudden inclination to peruse the rest ot the
road on foot. I think the general impression
now prevails in my family that I am getting
old and blind—but the fact is there v .is a
good road around both sides of that s i imp
and I never would have taken tlie middle
way if I hadn't had such imperative orders.
But one thing is certain, I will never forget
where that stump is if I live a hundred yes.
JAYBAWKER’S RUMrtJS.
Whst Is-aM this rumpus'lnu M*- thy bay. <r[;\
has stirred up about the southern people—<>r
did I stir it up mj self by remarking that the
democrats would Vote the darkeys as long as
we lived together. I wouldn’t have said it if
I had thought anybody would have got mad
about it, but you see it is nearly three years
to the next presidential election and I thought
a man could talk a little now. The time
hadn’t come for us to be “keerful” and put
on humility and get sanctified and stick out
the little flags from every window and invite
the brethren down to see us, and make love
to ’em, and so in an unguarded moment I ut
tered a truth. I'm sorry. But I want to
know if we are not to have any recess in this
school. Just before the election we can afford
to dry up, and we do it splendid. About
tiiosc times I can’t hear of an aspiring man
tiiat wasent an original union man, so-called,
and was forced into secession by somebody
else; but who is the somebody else is the
mystery; for there’s liardly an original rebel
in this part of the country, and it is most as
tonishing how young they all died. Well
they say that whom the gods love die young,
and I reckon that explains it But Joe Brown
owns up.. Joe says he was a rebel—asecesh—a
fire-eater, and Joe has got along with them
fellers up north about as well as anybody.
Now, there is nothing wrong about our voting
tlie niggers. Politicians vote everybody they
can, all over the land. It is the influ
ence of the superior over the inferior—of the
strong over the weak of—of the independent
over the dependent. It always has been so
and it always will be. I vote my darkies and
somebody votes me. Bill Jinks lived on Col
onel Johnson’s land and thought the world
of him, and says I one day: “Jinks, how are
you going to vote in the election.” "I don’t
know,” said he, “for Colonel Johnson ain’t at
home, and didn’t tell me afore he left, and
maybe he hain’t seen Judge Underwood, and
Judge Underwood hain’t heard from Howell
Cobb, bat who in the dickens tells Howell
Cobb I’ll be dog’d if I know.” The fact is we
all belong to somebody, and there is nothing
wrong about it. I love to belong to a man
whom I respect, and feci that be has got
more sense and judgment than I have, but
then, at the same time I want somebody to
belong to me. Life is a kind of a stair-case
wifli a heap of platforms, and there ain’t
room enough at the top for us all. Most of jts
are lower than somebody and higher tban
somebody else. Dominion is tne pride
of a man—dominion over something.
THE DIGNITY OF DOMINION.
Dominion dignifies a man now just as it did
in the days of the centurion who said, “I say
unto this*man go and he goeth, and to another
come and he corneth.” Nations are proud be
cause they have dominion over other nations
and can control them in peace and conquer
them in war. The great republican party is
proud of its dominion over the democracy
and they wield the rod of tyranny to suit
their policy or their revenge. Great states
men are proud of their dominion over their
constituents Great editors feel it in the
power of their press, Railroad kiDgs and
bankers and merchant princes are dignified
by it. A poor man is proud if he owns a horse
and a cow and some hogs, and the darkey is
K roud if he owns a yaller dog and can make
im come and go at his pleasure. At the
north the wealthy corporations and manufac
turing companies hare dominion over their
employes and can regulate them and
vote them at their pleasure. This
is not a dominion in law but it
is almost absolute in fact and there is nothing
wrong or oppressive about it when it is hu
manely exercised. In fact it is generally an
agreeable relation between the poor laborer
and the rich employer. An humble man
with a dependent family loves to lean npon
a generous landlord and the landlord is_ proud
ol the poor man’s homage. Just so it is with
the two races at the south. The relations
oppress the negro and get his labor for noth
ing we care too little to answer, for
Solomon saith that “though thou
shouldsi bray a fool in a mor
tar yet will not his foolishness
depart from him.” The trouble with such
men is they do not know any better; they
overrate the negro and underrate us from their
training and inclination. Not long ago I saw
a northern man who had just come south and
had charge of some negro laborers, carrying
coffee and cake and jelly to a sirk darky in
be camp. Next day a white man was sick
but' be never carried him any. In about a
month he was cursing the darkys for being
tlie biggest fools and confoundest liars and
humbugs in the world. That’s the way they
do, and the darky knows it. He won’t hire to
one of em if he can help it, and no power
upon earth can drive em away from the south
or from fellowship with our people. So mote
it he. Bill Arp.
Trcmendoun Weight Fall* on lllm and Kill* 111m
From, the Washington Gazette.
On Thursday, the 30th ultimo, a colored
man on Mr. James Wylie Arnold’s place, in
this county, died from injuries he had received
four days before On Monday previous lie
was engaged in hauling stocks (logs) for the
saw mill. At the time he received the injury
there was a very long and large stock on tlie
wagon, and the man was sitting on the fore
most end driving. Tl.e wagon struck some
obstruction and the weight of the log behind
tilted it so as to throw tlie pin out of tlie
coupling pole and uncouple the wagon. How
ever, this was not discovered by the driver at
the time. The hindmost wheels then went
zigzag across the road, as there was nothing to
keep them straight. In crossing a small gully
the hindmost wheels got one before the other
and agaiifst the log, when the mules gave a
hard pull and turned the front part of the
wagon completely over.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
The driver went down with the log and
wagon, and was almost crushed to death on
the spot. He fell in a sitting posture on the
ground and the tremendous weight of the log
came down on tlie back of Iris neck, com
pletely doubling him up and pressing his
chin down on his stumaali. There was
another wagon just in front of this one, the
hands from which came and liberated the
unfortunate man from liis terrible position.
His entire body was found to be- completely
paralyzed. He was conscious, but could not
move a muscle. A physician soon arrived,
who pronounced the spinal cord broken, and
recovery hopeless. There were no bones
broken, however. The unfortunate man
lingered four days, without the slightest feel
ing in his body or limbs, his head being the
only part that retained the sense of touch up
to the time of his death.
mom, the regular chairman of the republican state
committee, by the opposition manager-, failed, the
reauUrs electing their temporary chairman by a
two thirds vote. - ,
A COLORED MAN S DEATH.
OVER THE RAILROADS
PROGRESS ON THE LINE FROM MA
CON TO ROME.
endangering
a panel
Through Trains Promised by the Kiddle of August—
Notes Along the Wsy—The 9reenwcod and
Spartanburg Route—Interesting Matters
Concerning the New Lines.
A Rare Old Man.
Correspondence of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Pensacola, Fla., Marcli 28.—About three
months ago I made the acquaitance of Robert
A. Wright, an employe of the Bay Point mill
company of Santa Rosa county, since which
time my acquaintance and business inter
course with him has been of such a character
as to inspire genuine respect as an honest,
eracious and sensible man, one “not given
to much talking,” lienee I give you some
statements he made me yesterday, and which
.1 believe to be true, more especially as lie
made them with it full knowledge that they
were to be forwarded you for publication. He
71 years of age, but in appearance, speeeli
and action he would pass anywhere for a
well-preserved man of less than 50. He is
able to, and does more and better work than
at any period of his life.' He has not lost a
day front labor for thirteen months. He is
the father of five chijilren, of whom his sons,
llurreli, Amos and Akbab, are triplets, all
now living and 52 years of age. He is theson
of John Wright, Who is now living in Canada,
and is now 11G years of age; is the nephew of
the late Davis Eaton, who lived and died in
Giles county, Va., at the advanced age of (as
near as it could be computed) 138 years, and
who was 102 years a member of the Masonic
order. Differing fronvtbe conventional young
old man, lie eats heartily at all times and is
not a teetotaler; formerly, he was an inveter
ate consumer of coffee and tobacco, but has
eschewed both for the past five years.
The Oldest Inhabitant.
From the Hamilton Journal.
Perhaps the oldest citizen in Harris county
to-day Is Janies Layfield, of upper 19th dis
trict.* While it is beyond his ken to say what
his exact age is, lie is satisfied, nevertheless,
that he is about one hundred years old. Mr.
Layfield is remarkably stout for a man of his
age, and bids fair to add several years more to
a life already lengthened out thirty years be
yond the time allotted for man to live. _ Un
cle Jimmie’s early life is connected with a
very important event in our county’s history.
In the year 1812, when President Madison de
clared war against Great Britain and the
Creek Indians, Uncle Jimmie was living in
Jones county, Georgia. From here he en
listed,going toi Fort Hawkins,where he served
three months. Until very recently he has
never applied for a pension, and may finally
fail to establish his claim, as he has forgotten
the names of the officers under whom he
served. Out of the host of names he knew
then he can only recall the names of General
Jackson, General Coffee, Major Andy Careth-
ers and a comrade in ranks, John Adams. He
solicits correspondence with any person fa
miliar with the names of officers who went
from Jones county, or who were in charge of
Fort Hawkins during the war of 1812.
Bleeding at the Nose.
From the Jackson Heiald.
Mr. Wm. Lyle commenced bleeding from
the right nostril about 6 o’clock, on tlie 3d
instant, and did not cease until 12 at night,
and it commenced again about 5 in the morn
ing. He was brought to our town, and Dr.
Alexander arrested the flow of blood. He
walked down town, which caused a secondary
hemorrhage, and up to this writing he is still
bleeding; about 10 hours from the time he
came here. Dr. Hardman has been sen t for,
but has not arrived. His pulse lost twenty
beats in the last hour. Later—Dr. Hardman
stopped the flow of blood front Mr. Lyle, and
he’s better, but quite weak.
A Murderer Caught.
Yesterday a dispatch was received at the
governor’s office stating that Wesley Webb,
colored, who killed another negro named
Thomas Lamar in Crawford county two or
three years ago had been arrested in Mont
gomery, Alabama. The two negroes had en
gaged in a light when Webb stabbed his ad
versary to the heart and fled. A reward of
$150 was offered by the governor for his arrest,
The sheriff of Crawford county is in Mont-
f omery awaiting a, requisition with which to
ring Webb back to Georgia*
Lawrenceville. _ . _
Captain Tyler M. Peeples, president of the
narrow-guage road from the Atlanta and
Richmond Air-Line, to Lawrenceville, was
in the city yesterday. He reports real estate
and business prospering in Lawrenceville
since the road was finished, having increased
three hundred per cent during the past year.
The telegraph line has been extended to
Lawrenceville and an office opened at that
place.
The three new railroads coming into At
lanta are being pushed with extraordinary
vigor. It has progressed so quietly that
many of our citizens are not aware that in a
short time they will see new trains from the
south and west coming Into Atlanta. The
past winter, while it has been unusually
mild, has been very much in the way of rail
road construction, owing to the wet weather
in January and February.
FROM MACON TO ATLANTA.
, Notwithstanding this drawback, the grading
has nearly all been finished on the road to
Macon, nearly all the bridges are in place,
and thirty miles of the track are laid from
the Macon end, and the track layers are com
ing this way, making an average of a mile a
day when they are not interfered with by
trestles or bridges.
STRIKING NORTHWARD.
The Georgia Pacific, and Cincinnati
and Georgia, are building j over the
line of the old Georgia Western
together for seventeen miles, and
the track has been finished thirteen miles,
and track laying is rapidly progressing. Ma
jor Temple, who has charge of the construc
tion of this part of tlie road, says he will be
at the junction at Sweetwater creek in ten
days. Major McCracken, who'is in charge of
the construction of tlie Macon and Bruns-,
wick extension, and the Cincinnati and Geor
gia, says he will commence to l3y track at
Sweetwater creek towards Rome on the 25th
inst., and he will push forward as rapidly as
possible. Half the distance to Rome from
Atlanta will be reached by rail by the mid
dle of May.
ATLANTA TO ROSIE.
Major McCracken will also soon commence
laying track from the Rome end. There is a
heavy piece of work near Rockmart, where
there is a tunnel that may delay them a short
while with the track, but the grading on tlie
balance of this line is beingpushedwithgreat
success.
OVER THE ROAD.
Yesterday, by invitation, a representative
of The Constitution rode over the new road
thirteen miles. The track is in fine condition,
laid with new steel rails—of tlie latest and
best patent. The bridge across the Chatta
hoochee is substantially built, and the trestles
across Nickajack creek are built with very
heavy timbers. The new road runs up this
creek after crossing the Chattaliooehee river,
for four miles, crossing it three times. In
some places the creek has been turned by
heavy embankments into new channels.
WHEN THE WHISTLE WILL BLOW.
It is expected that trains will run through
from Macon to Rome by the middle of Au
gust.
THE GREENWOOD AND SPARTANBURG.
Spartanburg, S. C., April 7.—The board of
directors of the Greenwood, Laurens and
Spartanburg railroad met in this city yester
day. A proposition from the citizens of Cokes-
burg to subscribe $12,000 and pay cost of sur
vey via their town, was favorably entertained.
Tlie board declined the offer of directors of the
state penitentiary to furnish convicts to the
road at $12.50 per month. A syndicate ap
plied for $50,000 worth of the bonds. This
will enable the road very soon to commence
work at this end of the line, And a commit
tee was appointed to purchase stock and carts.
The popular and pushing President Yerdery
is sanguine of the building by the North Caro
lina Central, at no distant date, of tlie forty
miles from Shelby, N. C., to our city—the
only wanting link from the north to Augusta.
surrounding it without
them. At one time a panel
of- fence caught and the men
who were holding the hose ran and left it
when Mr. MeXab rushed in, pulled the fence
away, captured the hose and stopped the
progress of the fire. After the main body of
the building had burned through all tne out
lying pieces of lumber ★ere carefully got tQ-
f ether, thrown into the fire and consumed,
n an hour after Marshal Joyner had scratched
the match, the hist vestige of the house which
the small-pos had originated: in
was in ashei We understand from Commis
sioner Fox tbat the same-course will be- pur
sued with the furniture- of the occupants,
which has already been taken out of the city
limits.
The crowd enjoyed the unique spectacle to
the utmost, and applauded the nerve dis
mayed by the authorities in ordering the
lonse burned, and the skill and quickness
with which the work was executed under the
supervision of Messrs. Fox and Jbyner.
Those who witnessed it saw a sight that
they will probably never see again in 'Atlanta
or any other city.
Tho Loulftlnio KcpuhUcauu. . —
New Orleans. April 6.—The reorganization of the between us in the country especially on the
republican parish committee last night elicited a' * ... * ’ *-
spirited contest. The combination against Du-
A Narrow Etcape.
From the Athens Banner,
A little son of Mr. Thos. Childers came
very near being killed yesterday. He was
farms is agreeable to both and we will get'. sitting on a high embankment in front of Lis
along happily whether such folks as Jay hawk- father’s house with a puppy in his arms. Tiie
er and his northern friends like it or nor It puppy fell, the little boy grabbed at it and
will all settle down according to nature and | fell in the ditch below, which killed the dog
nature’s laws. As to all his charges that w e nd came very near killing himself.
THE FORKED-TONGUED FLAMES
Iitck Up the Delectable Beaver Slide Building* In
Short Order.
On Thursday morning engines Nos. 1 and 2
of the Atlanta fire department filed out of
their houses with none of the precipitation
that attends going to fires, still witli a good
head of steam on, and wended their way down
Decatur street. They stopped in front of tlie
Beaver Slide, where they met Police Commis
sioner Fox, City Marshal Joyner and a
half dozen policemen. A hurried consulta
tion was held between the firemen and the
city militia. Two ropes were stretched across
Ivy street, one at the junction of Decatur
and the oilier about five feet below the fated
Beaver Slide. Tlie space between the ropes
was cleared of all except a stout gentleman,
pale and unmistakably angered. This gentle
man approached Marshall Joyner and said:
' Has the whole town of Atlanta goi
crazy?”
"Without replying the marshal approached
the building where the small-pox case of a
few days since originated. With the aid of
Commissioner Fox,who furnished a can of oil
and a match, and several negroes hired for
the occasion,the marshal began to set a pat
tern for incendiaries. Tie poured the oil over
the floor and walls so that it would burn
rapidly and then quietly prepared to strike
match.
In the meantime four lines of hose had been
run from the two engines, fully protecting
tiie buildings on either side of the fated
structure. Steam was up and the hosemen
were ready for water, at the signal. About
this time the stout gentleman, who was M
Shehane, the owner of the property, who had
declined to tear it down in accordance with
city orders, approached and said:
“I defy any man to touch this building.”
“Scra-a-a-a-cli” went the match
on the marshal's boot. Com
missioner Fox nodded approvingly and Mr.
Joyner, reaching forward deliberately as if he
were kindling a fire in a monitor stove,
touched the blaze to the saturated planks.
There was a flash, a puff of smoke and the
first tire ever started in Atlanta by a city offi
cial in tlie presence of the public began to
blaze. At this juncture the situation was in
teresting. To the right of the small-pox
building, joined by the same wall, was the
Willingham building and a coffin factory.
Just behind it and almost touching it was
large planing mill. To the left
was a nuffiber of small shanties joined by a
fence to the Willingham building. Acioss
the narrow street were several other build
ings. In the planing mill the machinery
was all at work and the men were quietly
standing at their lathes watching the con
flagration. .The steam in the boilers was not
even shut down and in the coffin factory
business progressed as usual. By the side of
the planing mill was a large amount
of lumber which was not even
moved, Marshal Joyner, who had charge of
the engines, assuring the proprietors that he
could hold the fire exactly where he wanted
it. By this time a dense crowd had collected
beyond the ropes at either end of the street,
and few fires have ever started business in
Atlanta under more favorable auspices or be
fore a larger audience. The fire seem
ed to appreciate this and burned
fiercely and soon appeared to be
GEORGIA’S CROPS,
A-Large Grain Cpsd Planted and the I’le-wttn Prom-
lain*.
“Y'ou may say,” remarked- Mr. Redding, of
the department of agriculture, to a Constitu
tion reporter yesterday, “that the grain crop
js exceedingly promising. The area planted
is unusually large, and tne crop is in fine con
dition!”
_“I have noticed 1 ,” he continued, wheeling
his chair around and facing the reporter,
“that a good grain* crop is always followed
by a’ season of prosperity, while
good- cotton crop may be
followed- by disaster and financial trouble.
The truth is-it is absolutely necessary that a
farmer should raise his own provisions and
none of them- can- hope for prosperity with
out following that plan. A farmer with-a* full
crib and smokehouse need not care for much
cotton.”
But can we. raise- plenty of provisions
here?”
Certainly we can, When the confederate
law compelled- the farmers to plant not ex
ceeding three acres of cotton to the plow, we
were all patriotic- and obeyed the
law. We- turned our attention
to provisions and raised-the greatest plenty.
Where there was suffering under that law it
was in the families of these men who were
in the war and had left nobody behind to
till tlicir lands, I think that this year will
show many a man that the plan of raising
provisions at home is a wise and safe one.-”
A Novel Will.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The will of the late State Senator George F.
Baker, of California, is, to say the least,.a pe
culiar document. It has been filed in* San
Jose, and is as follows: I hope and expect that
out of respect to- my father’s memory my
mother will never marry. Should she do-so,
the sums I have bequeathed to her must be
jaid to her free and independent of any lius-
jand she may hereafter have Knowing the
difficulties attending the efforts of women* to
gain a livelihood in the world, it is my desire
to provide for her, my said sister Lulu, beyond
any preadventure, tlie comforts of life, and,
knowing the tyrannical and unmanly eonduct
of many husbands toward their wives, I de
sire that said moneys shall be paid absolutely
free in my aisle: ’a hands. Should
my sister be at any time so unfortunate as to
have a husband addicted to gambling, intoxi
cating liquors or other vice, or be of lazy or
spendthrift habits, then I direct that my ex
ecutors, or the court having control of m-y
estate, shall personally and directly expend
«uch money, and paying the living expenses
of my said sister Lulu, and the maintenance
and education of any children she may have.
I trust that no such necessity will ever arise,
but unfoisecn calamities overtake the best of
wives who are so unfortunate as to be wedded
to depraved and unmanly men who forget
their vows and their duty, becoming mon
sters and brutes when they should be com
panions and protectors.
Too Much Nigger and Mule.
From the Americus Republican.
On Monday night Deputy Sheriff Cobb
made the fifth effort to levy on a mule be
longing to Chas. Mansion, a negro on the
Hugue.iin plantation in the lower part of
Sumter, Mr. Joe B. Scott going with him as
an assistant. The mule was found in a lot
and Mr. Cobb went in to take it, but Jim
Mansion broke the fence down, scared the
mule and ran it off, followed by Scott and
Cobb. The deputy got his hands on the
mule, but he had no bridle or rope, the mule
concluded he didn’t like Cobbs without corn,
shook itself loose and went over into Clif
Clay’s com field. Here the deputy
and his friend concluded to wait until day
light, when they thought it would be an easy
matter to catch the mule, but after awhile,
Scott went for his horse, thinking the negroes
would carry it away and leave them on foot.
While he was gone a crowd of negroes went
to the field, run the mule off, Cobb following,
for several miles until they were lost to sight
and sound, when he gave up pursuit Scott
was also beset by a crowd ot the colored,
yelling darkies, who told him he had better
“get back to town.” He threatened to shoot
them and they left him. Cobb says that he
traveled hard all night, lost his sleep, and he
came back to the city about ten on Thursday,
but the mule is not yet levied on.
Some Curiosities of Trade.
From the Providence Journal.
The demand for eye stones has fallen oft
very largely, but they are kept still and sold
in considerable quantities. The eye stone
will clear the eye. There is no doubt about
that, but its movements are regulated by its
shape and by a formation on the flat side or
base of the stone, similar to a blade in a
turbine water wheel. The stones are found
in the sea shore on the Pacific coast. Sailors
gather them by the quart. The price is ten
cents. Blood stones are also called for, not
the kind known to seal rings and sleeve but
tons, but glass stones or beads of the color of
blood, dark red. These are worn to prevent
the nose bleed. With a string through the
glass bead and the string around the owner's
neck, the liability to nose bleed is removed.
The bloodstones, some of them, come from
Germany. Rattlesnake oil will unlimber
joints afflicted with certain lameness as no
other oils or preparations will. It is called for'
often and the buyers may get rattlesnake oil
and they may not. It is said to be a business
of considerable importance in North Carolina
to capture rattlesnakes and from the fat to
produce the oil. At all events, rattlesnake
oil is sold, and it is supposed to cure marvel
ously. Skunk oil is another cure-all for cer
tain maladies.
An Atlanta Coat Hunter.
“I’ve been hunting for goats all day and
haven’t found a goat, ’ said,a hot and perspir
ing police officer last evening.
“Hunting for goats! Where, and what for,
and whose goats?" said a Constitution re
porter.
“There have been a good many complaints
received at headquarters that out on Peachtree
and West Peachtree, and the streets between,
„ „ __ that goats come and jump the fences, ring fruit
beyond control. A close watch was kept j and eat up plants and flowers. I don’t know
ho*wever, and finally Dr. Fox said, “I think - whose goats they are. Some of them are
that wall is getting a little too hot,” pointing , supposed to belong to boys’ carriages, and the
to the coffin factory. * others nobody knows who owns them, but I
“I will cool it, then,” quietly replied J haven’t been able to find a single goat hair.”
Joyner, ordering a stream turned on it. As- “Are there many goats herein Atlanta?”
the fire became too hot a stream of water was i “No, very few. There are none at all on
poured into the heart of it, and it was kept at the other side of Marietta street, and not so
just the temperature to warm the buifdings many on the east side.”
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