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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1882.
GEORGIA NEWS.
EVENTS OF THE DAY IN TOWNS OF
THE STATE.
A Budget of Albany New*-Newnan'* and Norcro**’*
Small-Fox (Scares—Marriage of Bishop Paine’s
Granddaughter—A Suspicions Character
—Convicts and Cltuena of Jasper.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Albany, April 23.—Dougherty superior
court adjourned yesterday to the regular court
in course. Although not a great deal of busi
ness was done, owing to the limited time he
presided and the enormously crowded state of
the docket, yet Judge Simmons, as a judge,
made an excellent impression upon the bar
and people of our county. The general pre
sentments of the grand jury for this term con
tains much interesting matter for our people.
The county treasurer’s report to the body
fallows the receipts from taxation and other
sources from October 8,1881, to April 5,1882,
to be $9,727 52, out of which all the county
indebtedness and current expenses were paid
to date, leaving a balance of $90 09. Consid
ering the enormous extra expenses incurred
by the county within the past year in the
way of repairs of public build
ings and on roads and bridges, not
to mention the continually increasing supe
rior and county court expenses, jail fees, etc.,
this may be regarded as a most fortunate as
well as creditable showing. The special com
mittee of grand jurors and citizens required
by the act of 1880 to visit and inspect the con
vict camps, reported the condition of the con
victs on the Kawls place, the only convict
camp now in the county, to be all that “hu
manity could require or convict expect;” the
quarters clean, comfortable and well venti
lated, and food abundant in quality and
quantity and well served. This camp, which
is managed by Mr. William Lockett, a son of
Colonel 1!. G. Lockett, the lesse has 56 com-
victs, of whom 53 are males and 3 females.
Among these is only one white male and one
white female convict. The report
of the county school commissioners
shows receipts from poll tax for 1880 to have
been $1,254.59," and from the proportion of
state tax so applied $1,421.59, making, with a
balance on hand of $271.93, the sum of
$2,918.11. Of this amount the sum of $2,603.53
was applied to the payment of teachers. For
the full term of three months thirty-four
schools were taught, with a total attendance
of 1,879 scholars, being an average of over
fifty pupils to each school, and about 62 per
cent of the legal school population of the
county. The commissioner reports further
that more interest is being manifested in the
public schools, and they are yearly becoming
more efficient in character, with better
teachers, and need a more thorough man
agement, and hopes the time will
soon come when the present inadequate
fund for educational purposes will be supple
mented by a local tax sufficient to give good
graded schools. The grand jury recommend
the building of another bridge across the Flint
a short distance below the city for the conve
nience of east Douglierty and adjacent coun
try, and also the boring of an artesian well on
the court house square, both of which recom
mendations, it is said, will be acted on at
once by the county commissioners. The lat
ter is said to be now under contract. It is
stated that Professor White, of the State Uni
versity, will visit Albany shortly for the
pur|Mise of procuring data for a
paper or essay on artesian wells.
The Hon. Mark Newman, ordinary of
Washington county, is in the city to inspect
Albany’s well and get estimate of cost and
expenses, prior to boring one in Sandcrsville.
The Rev. R. S. Mallary, formerly of Albany,
but for several years past a citizen of Rome,
came down from the Baptist convention at
Americas yesterday to sec his old friends
here, of whom he has a host, and will preach
in the Baptist church to-day. The few farm
ers in town, yesterday were jubilant over the
prop prospects, since the late rains. We have
liot conversed with a Dougherty county
farmer within the last two weeks who does
not admit that he has a larger area
planted in corn than cotton. Nearly all
say that the unprecedented oat crop
this year will prove their salvation, owing to
the short supply of com on hand, and the
high price for what they would ot herwise have
had to buy. Lost Friday Mrs. M. A. Thorn-
bury’s kindergarten school celebrated the
100th anniversary of the birth of Froebel, the
founder of the kindergarten, by appropriate
and beautiful exercises. This school, with a
corps of competent and trained instructors, is
rapidly acquiring a deserved reputation
abroad—one widen it always hod at home.
The indomitable energy of the principal, Mrs.
Thombury, in building up this school, en
titles her to the highest praise. Albany
schools are now far above the average, and
new zeal is being manifested in their promo
tion by all classes of our citizens.
AT INDIAN SPRING.
Sl«(-i.\l Correspondence of The Constitution.
Indian .String, Ga., April 23.—In former
years, before the iron horse tread the ways
and thoroughfares of our state—before the
many mineral waters and more accessible
summer resorts were known, then the Indian
Spring had more visitors than the three large
hotels could accommodate. The sixteen
miles of staging from Forsyth was considered
a jaunt of fun and enjoyment and not a jour
ney of weary and fatigue; but in this day of
speed and swiftness, the four prancing horses
hitched to the “oldredcoacli” would be butas
snails compared to the great iron monster
traveling at a rate of forty miles an hour. So,
for several years past, the old Indian was left
out, but not forgotten. Now the sound
of the whistle is heard on the
hills and Indian Spring is
numbered among the railroad towns. Tues
day, the 17th, will be memorable in the an
nals of Butts county as the first day that the
steam cars ever traversed her soil. Decay and
delapidation that have been so long the
S rominent feature of the town of Indian
pring, is being rubbed away. The sound of
the hammer is heard, the painter’s brush is
hiding the grim and unsightly look, and
soon the enlivening strains of sweet music
will be wafted in the breeze. The hotels are
donning a new dress and preparing for the
great crowd that we hear are coming. ’ The
McIntosh house has been rented by Messrs.
George and Whit Collier. They intend to
run the house in ante helium style. Sunday
dinners will be a special feature of this hotel.
The Varner house has undergone complete
and thorough renovation. The Elder house
is ready for the reception of guests. The “re
serve” on which the spring is situated is leased
to Dr. Bryan. He is assisted by Dr. W. H.
Whitehead. Visitors will always find an ex
tended hand and warm welcome from the
young docter. These gentlemen are getting
things in “stuicksmack” shape at the spring.
Baths, hot. cold, Russian or Turkish, will be
furnished at all hours.
The week just passed had some social dots
worth recounting. Mr. N. C. Collier from Sa-
vnnnali, with his bride, nee Miss Collins,
S ent the week with relatives and friends.
iss Jones, from Tennessee, is visiting
the Misses Brvans. Walks and drives to the
railroad to see the pile-driving and traek-lay-
ing, counting and watching the new arrivals
are among the ways of killing time. Mr. B.
W. Collins received a telegram staring that
Governor Joseph E. Brown and wife would
arrive at Indian Spring, Monday the 24th.
Governor Brown will come over the Macon
and Brunswick extension, in his private car,
which will be a novel and wonderful sight in
this countv; he will be the first visitor over
the new road. Contracts have already been
made to open a large livery business, car
riages and buggies for pleasure drive, and for
conveying passengers to and from the raii-
road.
jasper convicts.:
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Jasper, April 24.—The Marietta and North
* Georgia railroad is being pushed forward with
energy. The grade is now completed within
two miles of Jasper. About two hundred
hands are worked on the grade and are mak
ing a mile per week. On last Saturday your
correspondent visited the convict camp and
made particular inquiry after the health of
the convicts, whereupon he was shown into
the hospital and out of 230 found only three
sick. The condition of the men goes to prove
that they are well cared for. The cooking
apartment is a complete affair and its order
gives evidence of its having received proper
attention. We saw plenty to eat and it well
prepared. Thirty convicts and about forty
free laborers are laying track. They lay half
mile per day and at this rate they will
reach Jasper about the first of June.
The next permanent camp will be located
about five miles from Jasper on the line to
wards Ellijay. This settles the point that
the company means to put the road through.
Our citizens are becoming aroused. They
have not been dead, but sleeping, and the
fact that they are to soon hear the iron horse
snort in their midst has infused new energies
in the whole country. Fine water power,
rich soil, valuable timber, abundant minerals,
pure cold water and a healthful climate are
characteristic of Pickens, and Jasper with an
elevation of 1600 feet is destined to some day
become one of Georgia's most attractive sum
mer resorts. Our mountain scenery is pict
uresque. On either side of Jasper can be
seen grand mountains with their cloud-
capped summits towering in the sky, and
from whose sides gush forth bubbling brooks
and singing rills proclaiming the beauties and
attractions of nature’s home.
GENERAL CONFERENCE
OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, SOUTH,
Tj Take Place at Nashville a Week from To-Daj—A
Sketch of the History and Progress of the Sev
eral General Cosftrencea—The Line of
Division—The Petersburg Sleeting.
KNOXVILLE NEWS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Knoxville, Tens., April 22.—Knox coun
ty’s fiend, William Nance, who murdered
his step-child, near McMillan’s station, on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad, about two weeks .ago, was captured
in Madison county. North Carolina, on Fri
day, 21st ink., by Deputy Sheriff Renner, of
Cock county, Tennessee and John Balcli, of
Parrottsville. Nance was brought over the
mountains, to Wolf Creek, present terminus
of North Carolina division of East. Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, and carried to
Morristown, from which place his captors
brought him to Knoxville, to await trial at
the next term of court. Crowds of people
assembled at the depot to see the club-footed
murderer. Full justice will be meeted out to
him. Within the last two weeks
some parties have made two attempts to
delay trains on the: East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad by greasing the rails on
the steep gradea few miles west of Greenville.
The first time the parties failed to grease the
track sufficiently to accomplish their object,
but in their second attempt they were “emi
nently successful,” having applied the grease
continuously for one mile and a half. A
heavy freight train was the first to encounter
this, and, after endeavoring to go over the
grade several times, the engine, though a “ten-
wlieeler,” had to pulltlie train over insections.
Knoxville is improving in a substantial way.
The saw and hammer can be heard in all
parts of the city. While this is true, the de
mand for dwelling houses of every class
is so great that he is fortunate who
can secure even an ordinary cottage,
Real estate and rents are advancing daily,
The seasons thus far have been favorable in
deed to grain crops, and if like blessings fall
on us in the future our harvests will be boun
tiful. Fruit trees are well laden with fruit,
which the recent cold weather did not injure.
CAMILLA CHRISTIANS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Camilla, April 24.—The Thomasville dis
trict conference (Methodist) closed its session
at this place yesterday. It was certainly one
of the most satisfactory of any ever held in
this section of country. About sixty dele
gates were present. The religious interest
was wonderful. The religious services will
continue through the week. After the ser
mon on Sunday, by Rev. T. T. Christian,' pre
siding elder, about forty persons presented
themselves for prayer; $315 collected by Rev.
’L. B. Payne for orphans’ home. Rev. L. B.
Bocliellc, T. C. Mitchell, John P. Dickinson
and J. A. Bush were elected delegates to the
annual conference, which meets at Atlanta in
December. A wonderful work of grace is
going oil in the Metiiodist church at Camilla.
The district conference have prepared the
way. Last night the church could not hold
the people. Many conversions and seven ac
cessions to the church.
WEEDING.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Covington, April 25.—The neighborhood of
Mt. Pleasant, 7 miles east of this place, has
been busy for days preparing for the event of
to-day. “The little church around the cor
ner” was beautifully decked with flowers and
arches, wreaths, festoons and the marriage
bell, in the most esthetic taste for the happy
marriage that occurred this morning at £
o’clock. The ceremony was performed By Rev.
Professor Ike Hopkins, of Oxford, whereby
Mr. John R. White, of Athens, and Miss Lily
Paine, daughter of Captain James G. Paine,
and grand-daughter of Bishop Paine were
united in wedlock. The fortunate groom is
to be congratulated on his prize,*for no knight
ever gained one more worthy. A more ele
gant, accomplished lady is not to be found,
We part with her with universal regret, and
Athens is to be congratulated on her conquest
THE NORCROSS SMALL-POX.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Norcross, April 25.—The one person re
ported last week from our town as having
small-pox, i« in a state of convalescence. In
our midst it seems to have been the introduc
tory and closing case of the much dreaded
disease. The excitement is about subsided.
Our citizens generally are pretty well pro
jected by vaccination. We hope to see in a
few days everything gliding along in the old
way, at least to see the young ladies on the
streets, which we think would have a tenden
cy to enliven the young men during this dull
season, for they seem as though they were
utterly forsaken by all of.God’s creation.
GalnuvIUe to Dalton.
From the North Georgia Citizen.
The latest railroad move that bears toward
'this section has been made by a company in
Lumpkin and Dawson counties. Ah-iicles of
association have been gone into by Messrs.
Robert F. Williams and Jacob P. Imboden
wealthy northern capitalists, now residing
and doing an extensive mining business in
Lumpkin county, and J. L. Summcrour, of
Dawson county, for the building of a railroad
from Gainesville to Dalton. The contem
plated road will be about eiglity-five miles in
length, is to pass through the counties of
Hall, Dawson, Gilmer, Murray and Whitfield,
and is to be called the Gainesville and Dalton
Short Cut railroad. The amount of capital
stock is to be three million dollars and to con
sist of 120,000 shares. Seventy-five thousand
shares have been subscribed by the said com
pany, leaving a balance of only45.000 shares to
complete the subscription stock. This
move, as a matter of course,
awakens a lively interest on the
part of all people and every encouragement
and aid possible will be given to its accom
plishment. We have not been able to learn
the precise route of the contemplated road,
but take it for granted that it will not leave
Spring Place off the line. No more important
line of road could be built, passing as it will
through the mountain counties, developing
their vast mineral and agricultural wealth,
connecting some of the most powerful roads
now in operation, making an almost direct
line irom Cincinnati to Charleston and open
ing direct communication between the west
and the seaboard. We trust the enterprise
will not be allowed to fall through, and that
our people at this end of the line will take
pioper steps to show their interest in the
move, and their willingness to co-operate in
an enterprise which, if accomplished, will re
sult in building up and enriching our county
and country, and place us at once in the
front rank of wealth, thrift and intelligence.
The ninth quadrennial session of the gen
eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church south will convene in Nashville, Ten
nessee, May 3, being the first Wednesday in
May, 1881. At the general conference held
in the city £>f New York, May, 1844, then rep
resenting the whole Methodist Episcopal
church in the United States, the church was
divided into two separate ecclesiastical bodies
on a “plan of separation” agreed upon by the
general conference. The occavon of the sep
aration grew out of the deposition of Bishop
JamesO. Andrew, D.D., from the episcopal
office on account of his connection with
slavery. A line of division was agreed qn,
and the great Methodist family parted north
and south. The southern division held a con
vention in the city of Louisville, Ky., in 1845
and proceeded to organize an independent Ec
clesiastical body, under the name and title of
‘The Methodist Episcopal Church South.’/
THE FIBST CONFERENCE. J
The first general conference of the Southern
church was held in the city of Petersburg,
Va., May ,1846. The session was held in thtfold
Union street Methodist church, near Jarrttt’s
hotel, now occupied by a congregation of color
ed Methodists. At that first general conference
Bishops Soule and Andrew—the two bishops
who adhered to southern Methodism—pre
sided. The conference was composed of 97
clerical delegates from fifteen annual confer
ences in the southern states.
But few of the men are now living *ho
were members of the general conference, of
1846. The great pulpit orator, Rev. Ha
Bascom, of Kentucky, and that wondeftul
man, the Rev. Lovic Pierce, D. D., of Geor
gia, together with such men as the Rev. Win,
Capers, D. D., of South Carolina; Rev.
A. L. P. Green, D. D., of Tennessee;
Rev. Hezekiali G. Leigh. D. D,, of
North Carolina, and many others of kindred
ability, now no more were members of that
body." At that conference the Rev. Rocfcct
Paine, D.D., then president of the LaGrange
college, in west Tennessee, and the Rev. Wil
liam Capers. D.D., of the South Carolina con
ference, were elected additional bishops in
the southern church. Bishop Paine is still
living. Bishop Capers is dead. There has
been a wonderful iirowth of southern Metho
dism since that day, now thirty-six years ago.
Then there were but fifteen annuai confer
ences in southern Methodism; now there are
thirty-nine conferences. Then less than 2,000
traveling preachers or regular pastors; now
6,804. Then but 350,000 church members,
150.000 of whom were negroes; now about
900.000 white members.
since 1850.
The general conferences since that session
have been successively held as follows: In 1850
the conference was held in St. Louis, Mo., at
which Rev. Henry Bascom, D. D., was elect
ed bishop. He lived but a few months after
liis election. May. 1854, the general confer
ence was held in Columbus, Georgia, at which
the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, D. D., of Georgia,
Rev. John Early, D. D., of Virginia, and the
Rev. H H. Kavanaugli, of Kentucky, were
elected bishops. Bishops Pierce and Kava-
naugh are still living. The conference of 1858
was held in Nashville, Tennessee. No bishop
elected. In 1862 the conference failed to hold
a regular session on account of the war. The
conference of 1866 was held in the city of
New Orleans, at which Rev. Wm, M. Wight-
man, D. D. LL. IX, of South Carolina, Rev.
David S. Doggett, D. D., of Virginia. Rev.
Enoch Marvin, of Missouri, and the Rev.
Holland N. McTyeire. D. D., of Louisiana,
were elected bishops. Bishops Marvin, Dog
gett and Wiglitnian are dead. Bishop Mc
Tyeire is still living. May, 1870, the confer
ence was held in Memphis, Tennessee, at
whicli Rev. J. C. Keener. D‘ D., of Louisiana (
was elected bishop. The Rev, James A. DuTT-
can. D. D., of Virginia, came near being
elected, and would have been elected but for
the reason that a part of the delegates from
Virginia were unwilling to part with him as
president of the Randolpn-Macon college,
and on that account only did not vote for him.
in 1870.
The conference of 1870 was the first at
which there was an equal number of clerical
and lay delegates. The venerable D’Arcliy
Paul, of Petersburg, Va., was a member of
that conference, and, as one of Dr. Duncan’s
warmest friends, would not vote for him as
bishop, because, as trustee of Randolph-Macon
college, lie did not see how he could be
spared from the presidency of the college
without irreparable damage to the fortunes,
just then, of the institution. Others of Dr.
Duncan's best friends, clerical and lay, took
the same ground, and barely defeated his
election to the episcopacy. In 1874 the gen
eral conference was held in Louisville, Ky.
No bishop elected. In 1878 the conference
met in Atlanta, Ga. No bishop elected. Now
the conference of 1882 will meet in a few days
in Nashville. Tenn., at which, by common
consent, not less than four, probably five or
six, bishops will be elected.
A CURIOUS FEATURE.
A curious feature in the election of bish
ops is that no nominations are made. Tiie
conference spends a short season in prayer
and then proceeds to ballot. The drift of
the vote points to the man. Probably two
or three will be elected on the first ballot.
The ordination of the bishops elect takes
place on Sunday following the election. It
is not improbable that Virginia, Georgia,
Maryland, Missouri aqd Louisiana or. Ken
tucky, possibly both, will be represented
in the new bishops. This is conjecture from
current opinion.
In t’>e general conference all the great con-
nectional interests of the church pass in re
view, such as the missionary work, the Sun
day-school cause, publishing interests, edu
cation, the administration of the bishops,
conference boundaries and the formation of
new conferences, etc. The general confer
ence is the only legislative body in the Meth
odist church, and is at the same time the
highest appellate court of the church. The
sessions usually last for about three weeks,
sometimes longer.
THE INSANE ASYLUM.
An Interesting Interview With Dr. Powell* the
Superintendent.
Dr. Powell, superintendent of the state
insane asylum, was in the city yesterday. A
Constitution reporter met him in the arcade
of the Markham house and asked him’how
the work on the new buildings was progress
ing. He replied:
“We are getting along in & most satisfactory
way. The foundations are laid and we are
making the brick with which to build the
walls.”
“How many new buildings will there be?”
“We are building a hall for colored patients,
two convalescent wards and an amusement
hall. The hall for colored people will have
four hundred rooms an'd will accommodate
four hundred patients. The convalescent
wards will have a capacity of one hundred
each. We will also have a hospiial with a
capacity of fifty. These buildings we hope
to have completed this year.”
“How is the work being done?'
“The building for colored people is being
built under contract by McGinley & Eaves.
It is to be three stories high and have a din
ing room and all other necessary conven
iences. The other buildings we are putting
up ourselves."
“Will the appropriation of $165,000 be
enough?”
“I am afraid not enough for all the work.”
“How rnony colored patients are there?”
“Two hundred and twenty-three. There
are nine hundred and thirty-six patients in
all in the asylum.”
“Is insanity increasing in the state?”
“Yes. In the last few yea
few years there has been
a very great increase, especially among ne
groes. It would surprise you to know the in
crease iu the rate ox insanity among colored
people and to know some of the causes.”
Before the war,” continued Dr. Powell,
,‘we had from the ranks of the colored race
only idiots to deal with, but with their free
dom they have gained the right to go crazy.
Before the war they had" no cares and having
never known any better condition had n 3th-
ing to brood over. They were hearty, well
provided for and generally kept from liquor.
Their lives werpsi tuple and circumscribed. The
only thing that they looked forward to was
Sunday or some big day—things that brought
them no disappointment. Now they drink a
great deal and we have much insanity from
that cause. We have many from grief and
loss of property. A negro, for instance, sets
his heart on buying a mule, gets all his little
funds together, stints himself and finally
makes the purchase. The mule is carried
home and in a short time dies and the man
broods over his loss until he becomes insane.”
“Do you have any colored patients who
have grown insane from disappointment in
love affairs?”
Oh, yes. We have some, but not many.”
What is the most potent cause of insanity
among whites?”
“The most potent cause of insanity among
white people is a hereditary predisposition.
A great many are caught on the breakers of
drunkenness, while others become insane on
account of failure of business, loss of proper
ty, grief, etc.”
“Are many cures effected?”
“It depends entirely almost on the case.
In cases that are brought to us within three
months after the first symptoms, there is not
much trouble in effecting a cure, and in from
sixty to sixty-five per cent of these cases the
patient recovers within a year. But where
the patient has been insane for from twelve
to eighteen months the chances of recovery
are greatly, lessened and the per cent is re
duced to twenty or thirty. Where the case
is two, four or "five years old the disorder be
comes confirmed and the per cent of recovery
in such instances is very small. You. see,
therefore, the great necessity of getting a pa
tient into the asylum at the earliest possible
moment.”
“What is the cost per year for each pati
ent?”
‘About two hundred dollars. When they
are sent in within three months after their
first trouble they can in sixty or sixty-five
cases out of a hundred be cured in a year, and
thus the cost of the case is two hundred dol
lars, but where they are not sent in early the
cure is rendered either very difficult or wholly
impossible, and s n such cases the patient first
and last costs the state two thousand dollars.
You see that as a matter of economy it is bet
ter to send them at. once, to say nothing of the
humane feelings which should prompt us to
act.”
“What is the per cent of insanity in Geor
gia? ’
“In making an estimate for the legislature
on a basis of the last census, I put the figures
as one to every thousand or fifteen hundred
in the state. I think, however, that there are
as many as one insane person to every 800 of
population.”
“What ought to be the first step when a
person becomes insane?”
“The first step is the removal of the cause.
That is to say the patient should not be
brought in contact with the things which
ins insanity grew out of. The surroundings
cannot be removed, so of course the patient
has to be moved. It is useless to try to cure a
man of insanity wiien lie is constantly
surrounded by the causes which produce the
delusions. ' Taken to the asylum he is taken
away from these influences and perhaps meets
some person who has the same delusion as
himself. It is a fact that insane people while
not able to sec their own delusions can readi
ly see the delusions of others, and when two
men with the same delusion meet it is not a
difficult matter for 'one to think, “This man
is laboring under a delusion—perhaps I
am also.” This is a good step and
seldom fails to produce good results.
Many a person has been made a con
firmed lunatic, because his or her friends
would insist on traveling with the patient
in preference to sending him to an asylum
Before the war it was very common to
place a negro servant with an insane man,
and watch him all the time. In that way
the patient who might have been cured in
the first stages of the disorder became a
confirmed lunatic. Now the people are too
poor to have these attendants and the pa
tients find their way into the asylum.”
“Do you have many vacancies?”
“In the chronic wards very few vacancies
occur. In the other wards the per cent is as I
stated to you. If I go through a ward and
find a new patient improving in general
health with a corresponding mental improve
ment, I write his friends that he will be well
in a few months. I think that I am justified
in creating such a hope. But if, on the con
trary, I step into a ward and find a patient
getting fleshy, with his general heath improv
ing, but no corresponding mental improve
ment, then I write his or her family that I
would not be justified in creating a hope of
the recovery of the patient, and the result in
nearly every instance justifies me.”
“Do you ever have any suicides?”
“Not many. We have not had one now in
seven'years. The patients will not attempt it
because they do not believe that they can ac
complish it. We have about a hundred
nurses and keep the patients too closely
watched for them to destroy themselves. You
newspaper men have no idea how much harm
you uo by publishing details of suicides. Did
you ever notice that suicides come in epidem
ics? It is this way: A man is meditating
self destruction. lie reads of where some
other man has committed suicide, and begins
to think of it. His morbid condition is seen
by him. He thinks more and more of
self-destruction. He feels that he is being
enveloped as it were in the coils of a terrible
mental derangement and tries to throw it off.
The more he tries, the more morbid becomes
his condition until finally he succumbs and
dies by his own hand. When you publish
these accounts you do not know how many of
the mCn who will read them are ready to go
down by the strange influence which they
exert.”
“Doctor, pick me out some odd case, some
singular, interesting case and give me a history
of it.”
That would never do; at least a hundred
of our patients read your paper every day.
and it would have a bad effect if I were to tell
you what you ask me to tell you.”
“Then they read The Constitution?”
“Of course they do. They are as anxious
for it as the outside world is.”
THE SAM HILL ESCAPE.
"Tell ine about the escape of Sam Hill.”
“The story of the escape of Sam Hill was
not a correct one as related by himself. In
the first place I don’t think such men ought
to be sent to the asylum. There was evident-
lv some inherited mental derangement with
him, whether by his father’s side or his
mother’s side I never knew. But be that as
it may, he should never have been sent to any
public insane asylum. Tiie confinement of
criminals in such an institution exerts a bad
influence over the inmates. Sam Hill never
talked much, and rarely wrote to me. The
walls of his room were covered with drawings
of biatrial. He showed the jury, the lawyers
and other scenes in the court room.
On one side was himself and on the other his
wife. He used frequently to draw pictures
and send me. Sometimes it would he his
own and that of his wife and Simmons. He
got a horn comb and I suppose gradually
shaped it into a key on the granite window
sill of his room. He had seen the keys in the
hand of the warden and knew what he need
ed. He was a crafty fellow. One night he
stepped out of his room just after the gHard
had passed through. He knew that he had half
n hour before the guard would return
as he left his door he locked it. He passed
through a door with his comb key and was in
the center building. He tried the outer door
and failed. He then raised the window catch
and lifting the window sprang out on the
ground. He says that it was fifteen feet, hut
it was not more than ten. He got over the
walls, but how I never knew. He left a note
for me saying that he would never have left if
Iliad not been so stringent with him. The
story of his passage through fifteeu doors is
not true. He did not unlock more than two
doors.”
THE MARAUDING BRAVES
CARRYING THE DRIPPING TOMA
HAWK THROUGH ARIZONA.
A Boy‘» Narrative or the Murder of His Family by
the Savages—Scattering Brains Agsinst the
Wall—A General Attack to be Made on
the Whites—Measures of Defense.
Tucson, April 25.—A correspondent at Saf-
ford gives the following account of tiie re
cent Indian attack: Stanislaus Metas, aged 9
years, has just arrived from Stevens’s sheep
camp with the following story of Indian mas
sacres: On the 13th instant, before daylight,
the Indians attacked the camp while all were
asleep. .My ’father and five other men at
tempted to get their guns but were too late.
The Indians rushed in from all sides and over
powered them before a shot could be fired.
An Indian put the muzzle of his gun against
the head of one man and fired, blowing his
brains against tiie door and walls. I saw
them kill my mother and my
two brothers, by beating their brains out
with stones. They killed five persons and
tied my father and tortured him most dread
fully. He begged them to spare him, but
they only tortured him more, and finally
they split his skull with an ax. An Indiau
squaw, tiie wife of one ot the four friendly
Apache sheep herders, who worked with us.
saved my life by holding me behind her and
begging "them "to spare me. When all. the
Mexicans were dead except me, the Indians
left.”
THE SQUAW’S STATEMENT.
The squaw who arrived witli tiie boy says
there were ninetv-three warriors in the at
tacking party. They called themselves
Chivicaiiuas, and said they were goings raight
to the San Carlos agency to kill off the whites
and get more Indians to join them. They
also declared that they would kill all the in
habitants of this valley. The hostiles fre
quently declared that their whole desire was
to kill in retaliation for the three Indians re
cently executed at Fort Grant.
FORTY PERSONS KILLED.
Later news is to the effect that the whole
force of alnmt three hundred Indiads, in
cluding women and children, crossed the
Southern Pacific track last night, going south
near Lordsburg. The present outbreak is the
most disastrous which ever occurred in Ari
zona. Not less than forty persons have been
killed.
MEASURES FOR DEFENSE.
Last night a mass meeting was held here,
Governor Tuttle presiding. It was determined
to raise a force of volunteers to take the field
fortwo or three months.
S*-' f THREE MEN KILLED.
Another Tucson dispatch gives the follow
ing from the Tombstone Citizen: The In
dians attacked an American mining camp at
Baeuachi, Sonora, on the 20th of April, kill
ing Messrs. Lowrey, Ray and Rickey. Three
others made their escape. The Indians car
ried off all the camp property of value.
Many Americans are in the neighboring liills
and more nntrders are expected. The gov
ernor has ordered the soldiers and volunteers
to pursue the Indians and take no prisoners.
A SKELETON AT THE BANQUET.
San Francisco, April 26.—A Tucson dis
patch says: At a meeting of several thousand
citizens held last night it was unanimously
decided that the following be telegraphed as
an open letter to the president and His cabi
net, and to both houses of congress: “During
tiie rejoicings incident to the grand military
display announced to take place at Fortress
Monroe on Thursday, we beg to offer you as a
skeleton to sit at your banquet the fact that
nearly one hundred of our pioneers have,
within a few days, been wantonly murdered
in cold blood. by the 'devilish Apaches,
whom a cruel and mistaken policy permits to
survive their crimes. If some small portion
of the expenditure incurred in your grand
display cdulti he devoted to such measures as
would preclude the probability of an increase
in the list of our murdered dead, we could
send you a greeting of gratitude and cheer in
place of this message, revealing our sorrow,
helplessness and our-desolations.”
A Queer Baptism.
From the Elberton, Ga., New South.
Little more than a week ago, wc approxi
mated contiguously close by to where some
colored darkies were discussing, promiscuous
ly, the solemnity of tiie ordinance of “bap
tism,” wiien a female woman darkey discus-
sist observedly remarked: “I tell you Brur
Sam jes how I wus administered on wid bap
tism. You see, I wusn’t done like some do—
mersed and den put under de water, (but I
thind dat ani de bes way doe), but I wus jus
gwine to be done so—when I walked down
off de ground, jes like you see me now
—bless God! and de preacher didn't
take no pitcher of water and hold it
over me—thank God—and while he
wus agoin over and repeating de bap
tism progranimy, keep lettin a few draps fall
on my head time of it—no sir, bless Jesus.no,
not dat way neider, but tell yer how ’twas ex-
emply. I walked down into de center ob de
middle of de creek, and halted and stopped;
and when I got dar peers like somethin said
stop, and I did, and sorter turned my head to
one side, like, to listen, and sorter look up
kinder sideways, I did, and dey didn’t have
time to mersmerise me iu de visible sight ob
dat huge large ordnance what had concen
trated to witness me testify ob my faith—
case jes as 1 looked—bless yer soul—up, Brur
Sam, for jes den I seed somethin like de
shape ob a “kill-dee” fly and light down on
my shoulder, and set dar a little while,
like as if some boy had shot it in de
wing, and it was trying to repudiate and git
better, lookin all de time right down in dc
water, kinder reflexin—den flewed away, and
haint never seed it since. Ebber since den I
feel like I’m got a new bein—Brur Sam, I do
—and dat’s all de baptism I'se ebber had—
bless God, dat's nuff to effulminate any poor
nigger. But what explexes me the most
greatest is, you see, I’m a female gender ob
de black cullud race; but dat baptism puzzles
me to yet—its so—tell yer for cause; when
dat something lit on my shoulder, it
said: ’Dis is my darling son, jes listen
at him.’ Now I nebber can splain dat
circumference.” Brothei’ Sam replied:
“Now, Sister Norvin, Ise got some sperience—
Iseold—and you need more baptism dan dat,
case yer haint been- baptised. Yer know
what de Book says. Yer jes saw de shadder
ob a crow what Mars Bill sceared out ob his
water • million patch, on fudder side ob de
creek, reflexin in de water, and dat ar talkin
was Aunt Sookey Sampson bragin on her boy
what had climbed a long tall saplin right
ober wbar you stood, and it want de voice
of de ‘kill dee,’ like you sposed. Now
sister, you must not be a 'ceitful hippincrite,
bat be baptised ober some more agin—for Ise
a preacher, yer know, and yer can’t fool me.
wy, bless God Amity, bless your soul, sister,
dat’s a ’culiar baptism, and I don't think tiie
valedictoiy of it will hold out unless yer be
over-alled’agin, and a spontanimous shout of
halleiuyers fill your soul from head to foot!”
Another darkey coming up, turned their
comments upon other things, and we were so
inflated with diversion that we could but
commit an immediate exit.
healthful advantages, its society's as good as
any place of its size within our knowledge.
Wc have two churches—Methodist and Bap
tist—both of which are supplied with faith
ful and zealous pastors. Our high school i s
in a flourishing condition, and presided over
j*y a competent and skillful teacher. Our
citizens are peaceful and well-beloved, as a
rule, pay their honest debts; our ladies are
affable, sensible and industrious; our children
are good looking, smart, and of' a teachable
disposition. Besides all these, the finest
scenery in the state is to be found in this sec
tion. "Standing on the platform of our depot,
and casting your eye in a northwesterly direc
tion, the sight is just simply magnificent. To
one accustomed to such scenery it surpasses
even his imagination. Numbers of peaks of
mountains are in full view. The eafth
seems; to have risen in huge
billows, and suddenly hardened, leav
ing them standing. Over and between
these you see other mountains—seeing the
spurs also of those next to you—of the others
seeing only tiie peaks. By distinctness of
outline, and relative clearness and dimness,
you distinguish distances. The buttresses and
nearer mountains show the trees in bold out
line, the foliage distinct, and the coloring
deep green. Dimmer grows the green, and
less distinct the outline, till in the dim dis-
tanceonly the blue slopes are discernible; yet
these assume all varieties of form. It’sa lone
ly and transporting view. No sign of habita
tion, or human cultivation disturbs the grand
serenity. All these things considered makes
Belltori, as we think, a very desirable place for
a residence. We have often heard people ex
press a desire to find just suchaplacc, located
in a pleasant climate, and we take pleasure
in saying to all such, here it is, come and see.
Some Carp, Trout, Red-Horse and Blue-Cat.
From the Bartlesville, Ga., Gazette.
Mr. Editor—Thinking some of your read
ers would like to hear something in regard to
fish culture, with your permission, I will tell
them of a visit to Mr. J. M. Settle’s pond in
Monroe county last summer. I decided to
build me a pond. After 1 got it completed I
had much trouble to get it stocked. By chance
I met Mr. Settle, and lie said, he could furn
ish me with any variety I wanted. I went a
few days ago after my fish. I arrived at Mr.
S’s about noon. After partaking of a hearty
dinner,partly of fish, caught by Mr. S. with the
dip net, Mr. S. in liis jovial way says, “well
the signs are all right. Let us go and see
what we can do.” lie lias an outlet to his
pond shut off by wire gates. Below the gate
lie has fall traps. We hoisted the gate, then
took a survey of tiie ponds. He lias one pond
below the other; the upper pond is stocked
with carp, red-horse, hluc-eat and several
other varieties—liis lower pond with trout
and jack. The two ponds cover about five
acres. From our boat we could see them in
quantities from three to eighteen inches long.
We returned home carrying a supply for supper
and breakfast. About 9 o clofck we visited the
pond again had sixty odd fine ones, mostly
red horse. We did not go any more until
morning The traps were filled with carp,
trout, red-horse and bluo-cat, weighing
from one to four pounds. Mr. Settle put
those carp into liis pond just sixteen months
ago about three inches long. We caught two
that weighed seven and a half pounds. Mrs.
S. had one of them for breakfast, and it was
plcndid and of different flavor front any fish
I ever ate. By tiie way Mrs. 8. is one of our
best cooks, and I insist on her contributing to
the household department of your valuable
paper. J. 1*. M.
Captain Tom Lyon’s Turkey.
From the Cartersvtlle, Ga., Free Press.
Captain Tom Lyons, besides being one of
Bartow’s most substantial farmers, is one of
her best hunters. They tell a good one on
the genial captain and wc can hardly restrain
ourselves from giving it to our readers. It
seems that, sometime last fall he heard the
gobble of a wild turkey near his house. Be
fore that turkey gobbled the second time the
captain was in the neighborhood with liis
fowling piece. The battery was brought^ tor.
bear on his' turkeysliip and instantly
poured forth its deadly missies which result
ed in only breaking a wing of the turkey.
The exultant captain proceeded to pick
up liis game and would no doubt
have succeeded had pot tiie turkey filed liis
bill of injuction and proceeded to vamoose
the ranch install ter. The captain, not abash
ed. gave chase, thinking the turkey would
throw up tiie sponge, but it seems the bird
did not have the remotest idea of doing such
a rash act. The race between the captain and
turkey waxed warm and not until they had
covered about five miles when the captain,
disgusted, gave up the chase, addressing tiie
turkey tliusly: “Go, dura ye, go! Wiien
tiie balance of your tribe shall roost upon the
highest perch of yon lofty pine, yon. con
found you, will have to take a stump for it.”
Americus Fur Trade.
From the Americus, Ga., Recorder.
It is not generally known Unit quite a hand
some little revenue in our section is annually
derived from this source. The season of ’81-
’82 ends with the present month. The pelts
are mostly those of the beaver, otter and
coon with a lew wild cat and rabbit skins,
and their relative number i3 about in tiie
above named order. The three first “var
mints ’ are caught with tiie same trap, which
is a small though powerfully arranged de
vice, with a grip of tiie fabulous devil fish
when sprung. Beaver trapping is a very
high art in its way, requiring years of study
and experience. There are scarcely a half
dozen experts in the state. The cunning and
ingenuity of this wary animal is proverbial;
occasionally one is taken by a new hand at
the business, hut rarely. With us Line creek
Muckalee and Kincliafoona are the favorite
trapping streams. Notwithstanding the fact
of this business having been brought to sucli
a fine point, it is an impossibility to extermi
nate them.
Bellton’s Beauties.
From the Bellton North Georgian.
Bellton is situated ou the Atlanta and
Charlotte division of the Richmond and Dan
ville railroad, sixty-seven miles from Atlanta,
fourteen miles from Gainesville, forty miles
from Athens, and about three miles from the
head of the survey of the projected Atlanta
and Chattahoochee canaL . It lies in one of
the best grain and grass growing sections of
the state, while the cotton crop repays the
farmer better than farther south, in the
famous “cotton belt." The healthfulness of
the town is proverbial, and we hesitate not to
say that ever since it was laid off, in 1870, no
locality in Georgia can show a record of
less mortality, according to popula
tion, than Bellton. Aside from all these
Another Hog and Horse Story,
From the Hinesville. Ga.. Gazette.
A lad who is a pupil in the Bradwell insti
tute lias a pet pig whose welfare he looks
after whenever he feeds the horse. The pig
has formed a strong attachment for tiie horse
as well as his master. Yesterday the above
mentioned lad drove the horse to church at
Flemington. . The pet pig did not like the
idea of spending the day without either his
master or his friend, the horse; he therefore
broke tiie pailings and with his tail curled
and snout erect he put out in pursuit The
granting of the galloping pig attracted the
attention of tiie lad, who stopped the horse
and with.sticks and stones attempted to drive
his pigship back. His efforts, which were not
stinted either, were fruitless, and the piggie
went to church, remained Contentedly by the
side of the horse until services were over and
galloped behind him back home. There
would be murder in the camp if that pig
should attempt to follow that lad to school.
Why Freeman Bradley Quit Work.
From the Hartwell, Ga., 8un.
.Bobo is unreasonable enough to insist that
his bands attend strictly to their duty, and
this is why Freeman Bradley quit him and
went to work on the streets. * The other day
Freeman was leaning listlessly on liis spade,
and seemed wrapt in profound thought.
Another negro asked him:
“Lfecm’n wliat’ya stud’in’ ’bout?”
‘“Finkin’ 'bout deni squar’ riieales ’tde
Bobo house.” and driving his spade up to the
eye he continued:
. “En Ise g win ter fling dis trail tenemunt
ob clay ’roun’ some mo’ ob" ’em yitl’
His . comrade gazed steadily at him for a
full minute and said with great earnestness:
“Freem n, hear me!—you’ll profit on dat
spresshun.”
An Excellent Composition.
From the Cartersville, Ga., Free Press.
The following composition, written by a
seven year old hoy, was handed to the Free
Press for publication: “Some boys are had and
shoot at burds and wen the burds bild their
nest and if a bad boy fin it he will tair it out
and get the eggs and it will be know use.”