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'KSf 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.” T KinTSTlNCT PR1N1