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IE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME xrv.
TUESDAY 3IOBNING-, JUNE G, 1S82.
PRICE 5 CELT’S
THE WEEK EPITOMIZED
tlARRATINGTHE HISTORY OF SEV
EN DAYS.
ffrooeedlngc at Home and Abroad—Tbs Polltloa and
Parreralttaa of the Old World—Tbs Ways of
th* traoplo at Home, and the Crimea and
- Aansamanta la Wbiota They Indole*
INVOKING Tin: L.IW.
Washington, June 3.—Charles H. Reeil has
not given ua hope of saving Guiteau, and is
hard at work. He came back from the cast
Sunday, and lias gone through over fifty law
hooks this week. Jle has hod a stenographer
at work making excerpts and references, di
viding bis time between the supreme court
library and the department of justice. He
desires a correction to be made in the record
of the trial, and will appear before the court
in banc to make the motion within a few
days. He lias been wailing for the return
of the attorney general for some day*.
He wishes to receive an opinion from him on
some points before he makes the next move,
which will probably be the application to one
of the judges of the supreme court, in cham
bers, for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus,
returnable to the full bench. Mr. Reed
today told your correspondent that the
report to the effect that he went to Boston
and made such an application to Judge
Gray was not true, that up to this time
lie had made no application to any justice for
a writ. He saw Judge Gray in Boston, and
he had observed by the papers that the judge
had declined to make any statement as
to the purjiort of the interview. That
was in accordance with their understanding,
and lie should not violate it. He would aim-
j>ly say tlint the report that he had applied
for a writ of balieas corpus was not true, and
•lie gave your correspondent leave to announce
the fact on his authority. Mr. Reed seems to
be very full of life, and seems to be confident
that be will nstonish the prosecution by a
move he will make early next week at the
latest. He says he is all ready now, liis pupers
being complete for the purpose he has in
view. He does not say whut ttiis purpose is,
but it is pretty well understood to be as indi
cated above.
THE GEORGIA JlTKJXSIlir.
While the president is on his frolic in New
York nothing new in the way of appoint
ments will transpire. Before lie left it was
thought lie would send in the nomination of
a judge for the new Georgia district court.
Atkins'- friends are not confident any longer.
James is not so serene himself. Mr. JT'nuip,
of Rome, is talked of now and then. Judge
Rigby, while not. an applicant, stands by in a
'‘willing” attitude. George Thomas and
Judge Cunningham have friends actively at
tending to tliuir interests all the while. Judge
MeCay s chances are better than ever. If re
quired to naino the coming judge I
would . take my pool on him.
I am confident the influence of the depart
ment of justice will be in his favor. Arthur
takes his time about all his appointments.
Several days ago I telegraphed that Mr. Han
son, of Macon, was looked upon as a probable
member of the tariff commission. It is now
known that Oh^snut, of South Carolina, will
be appointed, and this disposes of the proba
bilities of Governor Bullock or Mr. Hanson,'
if not ad all other southern applicants, of
whom There is a regiment. Mr. Cliesnut is a
liberal low tariff ninn almost on the free trade
line. The commission is sure, however, to be
found to suit New England, and I
wonld not be injured if Arthur had some
hints given him in New York.
A VIOLENT HARANGUE.
Losnox, June <Br-nan, the secretary of
the land league, after his release from prison
yesterday, addressed a large assemblage in
Kilkenny, lie said his real jailers were
Gladstone, Mr. Bright, Chamberlin and the
whole crowd of pseudo humanitarians and
renegade republicans who composed the
British, cabinet. He hoped if the eight
hundred subjects were called upon
for real sacrifices they would be
ready, if necessary, to die for their country.
They had seen the government acknowledge
Michael Davitt as ,a conqueror. Much re
mained to bo done. They must tear up the
very roots of landlordism. The Irish resi
dents of Liverpool are arranging a demon
stration in honor of Davitt to take place on
‘Tuesday next. Davitt and Dillon will sail for
New York on the steamer Germanic.
THE »SAI> GARIBALDI.
Mappai.kna, June 3.—During the attack of
bronchitis, to which Garibuldi succumbed,
he several times inquired if the steamer con
veying Dr. Albanesi to Caprera, had been
sighted, and on being answered in the nega
tive he seemed disturbed. He also asked for
the news of his son Mantio, and shortly after
ward quietly expired, liis features appearing
os in sleep. The dealli chamber is arranged
as a mortuary chapel. The body of the de
ceased general is dressed in a white poncho
and the embroidered cap he habitually wore.
A body of mariners is posted in the chamber
as a guard of honor, liis will orders that his
body be cremated and the as lies preserved in
a porphyry urn near the tomb of his dead
child at Caprera. The will is dated September
17,1881, and entrusts the execution of his
wishes to his wife. Dr. Albanesi arrived only
this morning, the steamer having been de
layed owing to a dense fog.
SWING FROM A SYCAMORE.
Cincinnati, June3.—Tue Times Star special
from Cattletsburg. Kentucky, says that a
masked mob at three o’clock this morning
came by rail from Ashland, and took George
Ellis out of jail at Cattletsburg. conveying
him to Ashland, near the scene of the mur
der and outrage of the Gibbon's girls last De
cember, and hanged him to a sycamore tree.
George Ellis was convicted of manslaughter
yesterday on an indictment for the murder
of these girls. It was his testimony that con
victed m Neal and Ellis Croft, who are
now in jail in Lexington, Kentucky.
LVNCHl.su OF CAMPBELL IN CAROLINA.
Charleston, June 3:—A special to the News
and Courier says: A colored man named
Cobb Campbell, who had been fully identified
as having attempted a criminal assault on
Mrs. Martha Rains, on Wednesday, May 24.
near Blythewood, in Fairfield county, was
taken from jail at Winnsboro last night by a
party of disguised men and hanged about
three miles from there. Campbell had been
taken to Winnsboro for safe-keeping. Admit
tance to the jail was obtained by strategem;
and the sheriff was overpowered. He made
pursuit as he got loose, but readied the
scene of the lynching too late.
SEVERAL KILLED ASI> INJCRETE
Orange C. II., Va., June 2.—The boiler of
the Edward Dickerson’s saw mill, atBuckers-
vilie, Va., exploded yesterday, instantly kill
ing Young Davis, the engineer. James Car
penter, colored, was fatally injured and died
in a few hours. John Garrell, a one-armed
man, had liis remaining arm broken, and will
probably lose it by amputation. Several
other employes were injured, but escaped
death.
A RAILROAD WRECK.
Keokuk, Iowa, June 2.—The passenger
train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad struck a broken rail near Fredericks-
•ville, yesterday, overturning three coaches
and causing a general wreck. Over thirty
passengers were injured but no lives were
lost. L. li. Marshrek, who had started on
liis weddiug tour with his bride, sustained
severe injuries ubout the head and shoulders,
and Mrs. Marshrek was also badly hurt. -
a fatal explosion.
Boston, June 2.—The boiler of the hoisting
engine on the wharf of the Bradley fertilizer
company exploded this morning. The boiler
■was blown three hundred feet through the
roof of the boiler room in the main building,
causing the toilrr there to explode, blowing
out the front of the building and entailing
a damage of $3,000. Thomas Connelly, 18
years of age, bad his skull fractured and was
fatally injured.
?THE EDUCATIONAL FUND.
8enator Brown presented to-day the memo
rial of the Georgia legislature in favor
of a national educational fund. This
is one of the senator’s pet
schemes. He realizes the hard chances for it
this session but will not relax his efforts. He
has done excellent service in a good cause
this week by bis. course on the Creek orphan
claim. It promis*“sto pass after hisclear and
unanswered speech bn it
ABOUT MR. HILL.
Senator Hill is talked of very much to-day
because of the good news from him. The
generous letter of Senator Hoar, speaks the
universal sentiment here. Anxious inquiries
are made every day of persons sapposed to
hear first the reliable news from the illustri
ous patient. Julius Burrows, of Michigan, is
a bitter partisan bat he said yesterday,
why couldn’t that cancer have come
on —’s tongue (naming a notorious
bore in the house) instead of attacking the
most eloquent tongue in the union?”
CAROLINA rOLtTICM.
There is talk of putting Wade Hampion
back into the gubernatorial chair of South
Carolina. He is tired of the Senate, and
would enjoy the ease of this honor.' No man
is in the lead as an active candidate for gov
ernor of the Palmetto state. Haygood will
take it up if it is pressed on him. Congress
man Tillman is strong. He is not actively a
candidate but lie is a man of fine sense and
indisputable integrity. Senator Butler will
have no opposition in the next legislature,
and will build a house to live his second sen
atorial term in.
PERSONAL POINTS.
Mr. Stephens has so much work now that
lie has two secretaries. Mr. Baldwin, of Mad
ison, is kept busy attending to the proof sheets
of the history, and Mr. McNamara, of Wash
ington, to the correspondence.
Judge Underwood was on the floor of the
house to-day for the first time since he left to
cast his lot with secession. As he walked in
yesterday the speaker ordered the morning
prayer, and General Cook said, ‘‘He sees you
judge.” To-day Mr. Stephens dined the judge
and had several other Georgia gentlemen pre
sent. It was a feast of material and spiritual
good things.
THE ILLNESS OF MARIO.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Rome, June 3—Signor Giuseppe Mario,
Marebesc di Candia, the well known singer, is
seriously ill witli pneumonia.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Havana, June 3—There were twenty-four
deaths here from yellow fever during week
ended yesterday.
RUSSIAN HOSTILITY.
Berlin, June 3.—The Kreuse Zeitung draws
attention to the growing feeling of hostility
to Germans penetrating the highest aristoc
racy in Russian circles.
EGYPT AND THE SULTAN.
Constantinople, June 3.—The sultan lias
informed the MarquisdeNoailles, French am
bassador, that the porte is able to remove the
ditiicuities in Egypt without a conference.
The sultan said he expected that his commis
sioners would be obeyed. He felt quite con
fident of being able to restore Egypt to her
normal state.
Domcatlc New*.
Montpeuer, Vermont, May 39.—The slate demo
crat convention has been called to meet here on
June 29 th.
Columbus, O., May 30.—The supreme coart to
day decided the Pond liquor tax law to he uncon-
titutional.
Halifax, May SO—An immense number of ice
bergs, some sixty feet high, are outside the harbor
and drifting shoreward.
Galveston, May 30.—Henry Strain, ordering
drinks for which he could not pay, was fatally shot
by Thomas F. Wood, a saloon Keeper.
Lacrosse. Wis., May 30.—Pinkeye is raging. The
street car company has lost six horses. Sixteen
cases are reported at Onalaska.
Belgrade, May 30.—Forty-five or fifty radicals
who resigned on account of the action of the gov
ernment at the time of the failure of M. Bontoux,
have been re-elected to the skuptiehina.
New York, May 30.—The American Baptist mis
sionary society began its session to-day. Rev. Dr,
Boardman, president of the union, made an ad
dress. The secretary's report showed the affairs
of the society to be in an unusually prosperous con
dition. The treasurer’s report showed that there
was a balance of over 3353,000 iu the treasury.
Cincinnati, May 30—The Times-Star special from
Springfield, Ohio, say3a man named Kitzmiler, be
coming enraged at his daughter for keeping com
pany with a man of whom ho disapproved, drew a
revolver and shot her dead this morning. He r.ar
rowly escaped lynching at the hands ol the neigh
bors before he was taken to jail.
New Orleans, May 30.—Judge Houston to-day
rendered a decision in the case of James McConnell
vs. the city of New Orleans in favor of the plaintiff
for over S57.000, exclusive of interest and costs, for
professional services rendered the city in the Mrs.
Gaines cases.
Paris, May 30.—Several hundred communists
made a demonstration yesterday in the cemetery of
Fere > a Chaise. Louis E. Michel was among the
speakers. The tomb of Bianqui was visited and
adorned with flowers.
Brody, May 30.—The Russian Jews now in this
city assembled on Monday morning and noisily de
manded bread and means to continue their jour
ney. The authorities were compelled forcibly to
restore order.
Nashville, May 30.—The Maine gieenbackers
to-day nominated Solon Chase as candidate for
governor and adopted a straightout greenback
platform.
Chicago May 30.—The Evening Journal's Quincy
(IU) special says that Fred Beck, an expressman,
jumped from the third story window of the
Diamond house, and was fatally injured. Cause,
whisky.
Boston, May SO —W. B. Rogers, ex-president of
the Massachusetts institute of techuology, dropped
dead to-day while addressing the graduating class
of that institution. He was an old man and the
supposed cause oi his death was heart disease.
Philadelphia, May 30.—The annual report of
the secretary of the American iron and steel asso
ciation states that the demand for most of the iron
and steel products has seriously slackened, and
prices have generally sympathized with this de
cline. Steel rails especially cave experienced a re
markable fail in price.
Detroit, May 30.—A horrible accident occurred
across the river at Walkerville this morning, by
which an old employe of the Walkerville sugar re
fining company lost his life. He was a machinist,
named Sam Hammock, and while at work the
sleeve of his blouse caught in a revolving shaft.
PHILOSOPHER BILL - j Mrs. Arp ransacked her bfg old trunk lhats | -A. SAD OLD MAN.
always full of something, don’t matter how
MORALIZES ON THE ADVANTAGES much she takes out of i', and stuffed a sack-
OF POVERTY. j oag full of oi* thing and another, and sent it
; j over to Cobe’s house for the children, and so
The Girl With tho Latest French Novel and the j yesterday Mrs. Cobe she sent down a
Morning Headache—a Lithe work the Beet bucket of nice butter, and Mrs. Arp said
Tonio-Tha Young Man With Hie Eyes she felt like it would be highway robbery to
Cast Abroad—Colo’s Family, Ste.
We were picking the cuckie burrs out of
the wool this evening and as the children
were settin around I noticed that their hilar
ity sorter weakened as they pursued this new
and monotonous business. By and by little
Jessie began to nod and I picked up the little
thing and laid her on the bed. Before long
Carl’s fingers seemed to get tender and ever
and anon he would exclaim “Oh! shucks,”'as
a mean old burr would stick in his sore fing* r.
One of the girls wanted to know if the wool
factories didn’t have machinery to take o-:t
the burrs. “Yes, my dear,” said I, “buj:
when they buy a lot of wool all baled up thi y
don't know how many burrs and how much
dirt is in it, and so they won’t give you but P reac ber was coming; eggs were
1 'scarce, and only a few dozen could be had.
18 cents a pound for it just as it come off the The lady was flying around in a great linrry
pound for it just
sheep, but if it has been washed and picked
they will give you $2 cents—so we must p ! ck
it. If I had known what I know now I
wouident have troubled you, for it don’t pay
to wash and pick it.” This little lot of
wool weighed, before washing 80 pounds
and now it weighs only 45. A sheep carries
as nearly much dirt and oil in his fleece as he
Aloes wool. But this is only a little job com
pared with what your grandmother used to
do. N ight after night she hud to pick the
seed from the cotton, for there were no cotton
gins when she was a child.
“Goodness gracious.” said one of the girls,
“ain’t 1 glad 1 wasen’t a child then.”
‘‘Oh, it was ail right, my children,” said I,
for you see the girLs didn’t have any novels
and literary trash to read them, and so they
never considered it a hardship to set around
tiie fire after supper and pick cotton and ic'l
stories of their own, bat now the girls haver, t
time for such things, for these novels have got
to be read if it takes all night to do it. X
young lady is not considered educated for
society unless she can show a familiarity
with every lovesick romance anil
every wild, extravagant, unnatural story that
comes out. They must be ready to criticise,
and talk rapsodies and expatiate over the plot'
and the hero and heroine, even if they have
to sleep till after breakfast to make up for the
time lust the night before in perusing such
tom-fooleries, i overheard one girl ask an
other girl the other day if she hail read Mr.
Burnet’s last lie, nnd she said, “Oh, yes, of
course, and I’m reading a splendid tissue of
falsehood now by a German, and published
by George Munioe. It is the second wife anft
oh! it is perfectly lovely.” Jesso. And here
she goes and there she goes, one after another
story or lie, or whatever you call em, is dfr
voured day after day ana night after night
by the modern female novel gor
mandizer withoutany regard to consequences,
whether moral or immoral, whether coarse or
refined, until the mind becomes diseased and
morbid, and craves that sort of food and no
other, just like a child eating green apples
and chalk, and slate pencils, and chewing
gum, and pickle and pie, until they don t
take it but then she was afraid it would hurt
the poor woman’s feelings to send it back, and
so she kept it. though she said she knew them
children had nothing to eat but bread and skim
milk. Poverty is a hard thing unless a man
is used to it, but there are worse things in the
homes of the rich sometimes. I wouldn’t give
a cent for a big pile of money if I had to take
the usual purquisites with it, such as pride
and vanity and poor health and a sickly wife
and bad children and a big run oi company
all the time. I reckon the good Lord lias made
all things about right, and the poor man can
he as happy as the rich one if he wants to.
Bill Arp. .
The Exploits of a Pet Hen.
From the Marion County, Ga., Argus.
One of our Marion countv lady friends had
tv pet hen winch felt quite at home anywhere
in the house. Quarterly meeting was close at
getting ready to cook up the cake arid othe'r
nice things, while the pet lien was poking
around in the house hunting for a suitable
place to make for herself a nest; she decided
that the wash bowl, sitting on the water-shelf
was the very place, but before she could be
suitably nestled the bowl fell to the
floor and broke into a thousand
pieces. This vexed our lady friend a little
but she kept her temper like a Christian, and
went on about Ler work. It wasn’t long be
fore that hen had tumbled from the table to
the floor a whole set of plates. This would
have been a sore trial to patient old Job but
the lady went on with her work humming
“Sweet By and By,” to keep up spirits. Now
the new spring hat sat on the center table in
one of the rooms where some of the
lady neighbors who had dropped in
to see it had left it, and it was on
tiie band-box the lady bad in her
hurry set a pan with five dozen eggs (all
that she bad to make cake for the
preachers) and hurried out to the stove room.
The pet hen came piroutiug aronnu in the
room and right into the pan of eggs she
nestled, and of course the bandbox, pari and
eggs all tumbled to the floor. Tnere was a
general mixture—that is tiie eggs and the
hat became one and the same. When the
lady, attracted by the noise, got to the door
and saw the condition of tilings, she was
mad. good mad, very mad. She could afford
for the washbowl and new plates to be broken,
but for all the eggs she had to go into the cake
to be broken, and the new hat everlastingly
ruined, was too much for her Christian resig-
tion, and in the language of “Uncle” Steve
Pearson, when the hogs turned over his syr
up, she wanted to turn over the house. This
lady weighs considerably over a hundred, and
the day was warm, but she rail tiiat lieu down
and mentally vowed that tiie preachers should
eat her. For safe keeping tiie hen was put in
a strong coop. In an hour that hen was found
in the wood-box, sitting in the corner of the
loom, and there was found two eggs.
This is a fact, and he who doubts it must
consult our fighting editor.
The Otter Splash.
From the Butler Herald.
On Saturday evening last at Windham’s
mill, in Taylor county H between sunset and
dark, the writer, having shut down the water-
gate which stopped the mill from grinding,
heard a splashing noise iu the water near the
edge of the pond, amidst the bushes and
briers, whiclt rendered it impossible to get a
fair view of the object. I discovered, how
ever, that it was rapidly going in the direction
of the waste-way. After some little delay, I
observed there were three otters near the
waste-way endeavoring to cross the gate. Not
having my gun, and being at the same time
about one hundred yards distant, I immedi
ately secured a large club and ran to the spot.
There being no water running over the waste
way at tiie time, I succeeded in killing one
otter, crippling another, and the third having
made his escape. There are a great many
otters in this pond, and we would be glad if
some one who understood catching them in
traps would come down and give them atrial.
want biscuit and butter any more. ThrrqjS
too much literature now-a-'-iys, "nd it’s - A
sign of good times that this sort of trash .ls'Sd
cheap. I wish it was so high that poor folks
couldn’t buy it. Some novels are instructive
and historical, or give you a good idea of life
as it is or likely to be, but most of ’em are
written to make a sensation and excite the
passions, and they unfit a girl for the duties
of life, and iicr home seems mighty common,
and she louDges around wondering and wait
ing for some big thing to happen that ain’t a
going to happen, and if it did happen wouid
ent make her and happier. 1’ 11 tell you whut is a
fact, the girls who look away off yonder for
happiness are like the boy who tried to find
the end of a rainbow every time he saw one
so as to get a bag of money. The surest place
X know of is rigtit at home in the family cir
cle and while doing a reasonable portion of
domestic work. X wouldeu’t work all the
time by no means unless X was obliged to,
but X would mix up some trolic and music
and read some standard books and magazines
and newspapers, but 1 would make home the
big thing, and stand up for it, and talk for it,
lor the poet never wrote a truer thing than
when he said, "There’s no place like home.”
THE YOUNG MAN LOOKING ABROAD.
When a young man’s mind goes to roaming
and foraging around and he dreams of Texas
or California or the silver miues in Mexico, he
is in a bad condition, and reminds me of these
office-seekers who are always a waiting and
a longing and a scheming to get an office, if
they would undertake some regular business
and work as hard to make it pay as triey do to
get office,they would soon be comfoitable and
a heap happier. Ihe young men nowadays
are too restless and too atuuitious. They want
to get rich or famous all of a sudden. Triey
don’t want to knuckle down to hard work or
humble work. Tney have too great a horror
of being poor. If it wasent lor (ear of the
law some of em would steal rather than be
poor, and some of em do it anyhow. Says I,
“Cobe, you are a mighty poor mau; now, 1
want to know if you are happy.” “Squire,”
says he, “I’m a leetle too dogon poor to be
happy—just a leetle—but I ain’t to say on-
happy or miserable. My old oman has got
six mighty fine little cliildern, ef I do say
it, and I’d like to fix em
up sorter decent like, so » they
could go to meetin, and about and about, you
know, but I’ve had to rent land eversiuce the
war broke up, and I’ve had to run it in cotton,
and its been nip and tuck all the time, and a
little more nip than tuck, and last year the
drout busted me clean open, and I couldn’t
get any more credit, ana if we didn’t like to
perish t j death, in the name of the Lord, this
fast winter, 1 wish X may be hung on Hatuan’s
gallus—wet’id t .oe."
“How wucu money would it take to make
you happy, Cobe?”
“Welt, squire, I don’t know; I raily don’t,
but I reckon as how a hundred dollars would
be as much as we could manage, for we don’t
need much of anything now. The suin-
mer has come aud we’ve got a good chunk
of a cow aud a tolable garding, and there
is plenty of berries about, and the children
won’t need any shoes till frost, and my crop
is purty good, and we’ve never suffered for
bread as yet, though we’ve quit eatin’meat
since Christmas, tor it didn’t agree with us
leastways we made out like it dident, for we
couldeut gicany. But squire 1 was a thinking
what I’d do with as much as a hundred dol
lars, and I don’t know hardly, but the old
’oman would know I reckon, for X never seed
one that dident, but then I’d like to get Will
a par of shoes and Molly a calico ana a town
doll, for Molly never had a town doll. But
the old ’oman she’s got sense and she’d know
what to do with it. I’d be sorter feerd to risk
it ail by myself.”
Jesso. And Cobe smiled, and Cobe is hap
pier than Vanderbilt, aud Cobe’s wiie thiuas
he is just the best man in the world,
and she wouident swap him
off for nobody, though they do say he
is the ugliest man in the county. I never saw
An Ugly Dose.
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the New York. Texasand Mexican railroad will be i °J*jY t,?1! ,-' ea . rs ° a }“ ll , e -,°'" e i ot*Talbo' cotmtv iave his wife
„v,- K _ * other ana help one another all the} can, ana oentleman oi iaioo. counn '
Ti^^V^"ei?is me ffiJolfnyiil*'S- 'Vw is always cheerful and says she dose of Spanish flies thinkiiig it was blu
ofthe stare to give saktocw Xa: d gnSa. 7 I ain't u.e*rd but what they will get along, for mass, aud it liked to have killed her.
and the arm was'orn from the body, taking with
It half of ilie skin of the breast and back. He died
\u a few miuutes from the loss of blood.
Macon, June 2.—Mrs. Jordan, aK old and re
spected lady, while walking on ihe track of the
Macon and. Western railroad to-night, was run over
and instantly killed by the cars. The engineer blew
his whistle, which was evidently not heard by ihe
lady.
New York, June 2.—The failures reported to New
York forseveu days amount to 1S5 against 126 last
week, and 121 the week previous. Ihe increase is
in the west aud south principally. Sew York City
is siili remarkably free from business disasters. The
geographical distribution of failures is as follows:
Eastern states 14. western 42, middle 27, southern
39, Pacific states and territories 11.
Lancaster, Pa., J uue 2.—Last night some miscre-
creants del cued the handsome soldiers’ monument
on the grounds of the state normal school at Alill-
ersville, by bespattering it with ink and other sub
stances. The monument is permanently disfig-
Galveston, June 2.—The Houston Post publishes j more honest, unpretending love in a family
uciion on I than in Colic’s. Six children, and the oldest
WEIGHED DOWN BY HIS WIFE'S
EXTRAVAGANCE,
And Driven WDratnBy His Daughter's Shame—The
Story of Jacob Cramer and His Unhappy Family
Belatlom—Hia Last Talk With Mr. Gildea
—Fowler's Solution a Solution.
A Wife Murderer Caught.
From the Newman Herald.
Mr. R. G. Hackney, of Rome, brought to
Newnan last Sunday a negro man who is sup
posed to be Newt. Page, the wife murderer.
There seems to be some doubt as to his iden
tity, since there is is a difference of opinion
among those who knew the real culprit as to
whether or not the prisoner is he. It will be
remembered that nearly two years ago Newt.
Page murdered his wife in Newnan and lied
from justice. A reward of one hundred dollars
was offered for his arrest witii sufficient
evidence to convict. Sometime afterwards an
arrest was made, but upon investigation it was
unsupported by the testimony and the pris
oner discharged. In this case the impression
in the community sterns to be strong that the
right man has been caught. On Tuesday he
sued out a writ of habeas corpus, through his
attorneys, Atkinson «fc Whatley. The case
being brought before Judge Powell, the com
mittal trial was set for next Tuesday morning
at ten o’clock.
Another Prisoner.
From the Swainesboro Herald.
Bishop’s store house, in the 57th district,
was broken open last Tuesday night by two
colored men, John Green and John Brown.
They succeeded in getting twenty-five dollars
in cash and about the same amount in goods.
Green was captured and tried before Justice
Walea last Friday and committed to jail to
await his trial at the October term of Emanuel
superior court. John Brown is still at large
and a reward of twenty-five dollars is offered
for him. Fannie Chambers was also com
mitted for concealing the goods, but was given
until Saturday to give bond, which we sup
pose she did, as she has not been confined.
The jail now has two occupants, one of whom
will probably “swing” and the other do free
labor for the state.
Death From the Cooling Draught.
From the Newnan Herald.
Dock Woods, a negro man who works on
Mr. J. A. Kranard’s farm near Newnan. died
very suddenly last Tuesday. The hands had
been busy cutting wheat, and Dock went to
the spring near by for a bucket of cool water.
It is supposed that while overheated he drank
freely of the water, and in consequence was
seized with congestion of the bowels, which
proved fatal. After an absence of half an
hour some one went to see why he did not
return, when he was found on the way breath
ing his last. Dr. Reese was called, but the
mar. was dead long before he could reach the
spot.
A Good Example.
From the Hinesiille oazeue.
A colored man a few miles below the rail
road last Saturday carried his second ship
ment of Irish potatoes to market, consisting
of five barrels. He had some weeks before
sent off nine barrels. Potatoes are bringing
a good price, and he will realize handsome
profits. This is a good example, which we
hope others will imitate.
New'Hayen, June 3.—The postponement of
the trial of the AJalleys and Blanche Douglass
until the 13th, on account of the illness of one
of the jurors, brings up a queer complication.
As the sick juror is 76 years of age, and is suf
fering from what in its nature must prove a
fatal illness, it is certain that when the 13th
comes, either the trial must take place with
out him, or be again postponed. Under the
law when a juror is debarred from the hear
ing of the case by reason of illness or death,
the judge may discharge the j ury and order a
new trial, unless both sides agree to proceed
before tiie eleven remaining jurors. This con
sent cannot be obtained in this case,however,
as the state is satisfied that it has failed in its
effort. The defendants, having a good case
from their standpoint, would be willing to
proceed with the trial. So it is reasonably
certain that ihe present will be declared a j
“mistrial,” and a new trial will be entered j
upon, in which the state will endeavor to es
tablish a better case.
From the New Haven Register.
The late Jacob Cramer—as honest a man as ;
ever lived—from the day of the death of bis
dear daughter, Jennie, until, broken-hearted,
his own sad life was ended, firmly believed
that his daughter Jcnniejrilled herself. Griev
ing over not only her death, but other things
which had long troubled his mind and ini-
paired his health, he steadily declined in
strength after the memorable Cth of August,
when he saw his child bereft Of life. When,
on the morning of the 21st of last December,
the friends and neighbors of the unfortunate
family entered his dwellingthev were told by
Mrs. Cramer how he died. Mrs. Crainer
also told the neighbors and friends the
cause as well as manner of her husband’s
death. Her explanation was deemed
sufficient, inasmuch ns Dr. Lindsley
said there was no doubt on the subject
and it was decided that there should
be no inquest. In view of all that has been
said and done since the death of Jennie E.
Cramer, it will perhaps be questioned wheth
er some official inquiry into the cause of Mr.
Cramer's death would not have been judi
cious. Did Mr. Cramer die from natural
causes? Mrs. Cramer thought he died from
broken heart, on account of Jennie being
murdered. That was what she said, and vet
a near personal friend of Mr.Cramer says that
lie did not believe Jennie was murdered. He
thought she committed suicide. After Mr.
Cramer died the question came up in an in
formal way whether he died by an act of sui
cide or in some other way. As there was no
proper inquisition, Mrs. Cramer’s theory' that
he died from worry over Jennie’s murder,
and Dr. Lindsley’s, that he died from a long
course of sickness, answered the
purposes of the friends and neigh
bors, and Mr. Cramer was buried.
As a fact nothing was actually revealed as to
the cause of death. The Cramer family ap
pear to have had some rather indecisive ideas
about drugs and their use and the dangers of
improper administration of them. For in
stance: A prescription is written off for them
by a horse car conductor, in which laudanum
is an ingredient, and it was bought and used.
What else he used, he and Mrs. Cramer and
the prescribing friends alone could know.
That arsenic is used to benefit tiie breathing
of people is put down in the medical books
as a verity, and Fowler's solution is tiie form
in which arsenic is used as medicine. If it
was so used by Mr. Cramer, he knew that he
must not take an overdose, and if he should
he would die. Let us see what Mr. Cramer,
who. Dr. Lindsley says, died from natural
causes and after a prolonged illness, did the
very day before his deatii.
A CALL ON MB. GILDEA.
In company with a friend he called at the
place of John R. Gildea, on Congress avenue,
and had a talk. Mr. Gildea had often ad
vanced him monc.v and bought cigars from
him. often when it was not perhaps for his
business advantage, but because he knew Mr.
Cramer to be an honest man and in mental
trouble. After speaking of his sorrows, he
told Mr. Gildea that he had called to take a
final farewell of him. Mr. Gildea was so af
fected by the incident that his eyes filled
with tears, and the gentleman who has since
bought out the Gildea place was similarly
affected. We cannot tell what Mr. Cramer
told Mr. Gildea. Whatever secrets of h.s
business or family trouble that he revealed
to his trusted hearer, the public have never
heard. Mr. Gildea was told by Mr. Cramer
that he would see him no more on earth.
To others and for weeks before this, the
unhappy man had foreboded his death. The
very day before his death Mr. Cramer said to
his wife: “I shall die some day when you
don’t expect it.” Ominous words, indeed!
For days before he died he had the day of his
dissolution apparently fixed in his mind.
Only the Sunday before the Tuesday, when
his wife entered his room (which she did not
occupy with him for reasons whsch existed
among themselves and found her husband
still warm, but without life), he said to little
Minnie Cramer: “I shall soon be dead.”
A few words about. Mr. Gildea. He had
done Mr. Cramer a number of favors from
time to time. Mr. Cramer often spoke of
how hard it was to get along. He longed
for a time to come, when lie could own
his property on which he had paid a good
deal of money. The property was mortgaged
and his interest and insurance were a burden
to him. Mr. Gildea showed him. however,
that his insurance tax of about $30 could be
reduced to about $18 and at Mr. Cramer’s re
quest, Mr. Gildea put the matter in good
shape and the insurance was afterward fixed
according to the suggestion made. When
Air. Cramer was despondent he talked with
his friend Gildea. Burdened as he was with
obligations hard to meet, he did not like to
see his daughter growing up, flighty and with
extravagant habits.
• THE INDISCEEET WIFE.
He was not content with his wife’s manage
ment altogether aud nobody can say just
what was in his mind, that made him so
despondent that for days before his deatii he
commenced to notify those in whom he felt
an interest, of the awful stillness and rest to
which he was hastening. There is a bit of
matter on record that should be read with
eyes of intelligence. Mrs. Cramer said tlia
a! 5 o’clock on the morning of her husband's
death, she heard him (in her room) breathe
with difficulty and make inarticulate sounds,
as though he might have, been struggling with
a nightmare. It was the nightmare which
preceded death—that awful struggle when
the priricipleof life forsakes the live hundred
wonderful muscles aud buiies of the body, and
tho banshee beckons at the window. Tlriswas
at 5 o’clock. At 7 o’c.oek Mrs. Cramer went
into the room and the man was dead. From
the time of iiie nightmare until 7 o'clock, the
| wife Lad slept. On a table iu tiie kitchen,
i written on a piece of paper, that he had
1 passed Che door oi hb wife’s room to get, was
written in German the following. It told of
despondency too deep for earthly sympathy:
Dear Wife: To-morrow morning, if you nnd me
dead, don’t be discouraged. It is the best forme.
Give my love to Eddie and Minnie, Pray
let me be buried by Mr. Stahl, Don’t let mv fu
neral expenses exceed $50. Send io Dr. Undslev
and have him to make out a certificate of death".
1 hope 1 shall soon be relieved from my suffering.
Your loving husband, Jacob Cramer.
J*. S.—I shall rest in peace by my children. Tell
Eddie to be a man and take care of his mother,
in* question why.
There are some extraordinary things in
this letter. “I shall rest in peace by my chil
dren." It> peace, let us hope, but as things
have been done, certainly not by hb chil
dren. The request to Dr. Lindsley, to make
out his death certificate has a singular pre
meditation about it, that must attraefc atten
tion. A question naturally arises: “Was Mr.
Cramer of o suicidal temperament?' Was
there handy in the house a bottle of Some
thing with Fowler’s solution as a constitu
ent? If this waea fact, did not Jennie know
of such a thing? She bought her father’s
medicineand bought at drug stores whatever
she thought best. It is thought very prob
able that. Fowler’s solution may have been,
prescribed for Mr. Cramer, either by a doc
tor or someone else. If it was used by him,,
it was as much within reach of Jennie as him
self. _ What went covin the Cramer house at
the time her father had reproached her for
staying out nights> r aud her mother had
threatened her that she was was in danger of
losing her hoaac, must be left for those to tell
who can. Mrs. Cramer has told, but has she
iold it all? Did she know it all? If Mr.
Cramer was so despondent that he thougiit it
might be be better if he were dead, might it
not have occurred to Jennie that she, too,
might as well be dead? Might not the thought
have been communicated from one to the
other and reacted upon both—the Fowler's
solution being the instrument by which the
sorrows of both were to be made lightsome by
death?
We Believe It All,
From the Montezuma. Weekly.
Mr. Jones, living near Reynolds, writes us
that he has a sow with twelve pigs, all white
as snow, not a single spot being on any of
them.
A lady near Garden Valley has been insane
for ten years. She died on Sunday and,
strange to say, became perfectly rational a
few days before her deatii,
A negro woman gave birth to three children
last week, and their combined weights
amounted to nineteen and a half pounds.
A white married woman, near town, to her
utter consternation aud surprise, gave birth
to a fine healthy child, a few days ago, not
knowing herself to be pregnant She thought
she was afflicted with the dropsy and was so
treated. She has since died.
Mr. J. B. Murray, at Carden Valley, hoed
up a pistol that was stolen by a negro and
buried in the woods over ten years ago. The
woods had become a cotton patch.
The news comes to us from Dooly of a new
born child having a well defined horse on its
arm.
A turtle with six feet was a curiosity shown
us last week.
A Schley county man tells us that he has a
negro on his place with twelve toes.
Thomasville Epitaphs.
From the Macon, Ga,, Telegraph.
May 21.—While wandering in a cemetery
lately I saw the two following epitaphs, the
first engraved on the tombstone of a man
who died leaving between fifteen’and twenty
thousand dollars, and the other on his son’s:
Behold ya
stranlgerqs
parsing by aa
you are now
so onse was I
as 1 am now
so you must
be prepare
for death
and follow
me.
Though eart
ns farest
blossoms
die and all
beneath the
skies is
vain, their
is a bright
er world on
high beyond
the reach
of care
and pain.
Little Della’s Death.
From the Hinesville Gazette.
On Thursday, May 11th, 1882, Mr. James
Swindle, of Berrien county, with his wife and
two little girls was in the field. Mr. Swindle
saw a heavy cloud rising and told his wife she
had better start home. She started with the
two little girls, Mr. Swindle following thirty
feet behind, when there came a heavy clap of
thunder, accompanied by a blinding flash of
lightning. The bolt struck Della, the oldest
of tiie two little girls, who had just entered
her thirteenth year. Her hair was burned to
a crisp and her breast and neck blistered.
She fell to the ground and never moved or
breathed again.
Death Among the Chickens.
From the Montezuma Weekly.
A lady, near town, in the early spring, be
gan to take a pride in raising chickens. The
awks became very troublesome and she was
persuaded to feed tiie chickens on nox-vomit.
She began to do so, and out of two hundred
hatched, she lias not been able to raise one.
When about a week old they droop and die
without any apparent cause, which leads us
to think that the poison was impregnated
into the fowls, thence into the eggs and the
younger chickens, causing their death. We
would not recommend the method of getting
rid of hawks.
Mamie's Bed Quilt.
From the Irwiulon southerner.
Little Mamie Brewer, aged seven, daughter
of Mr. D. Brewer, Jr., of Gordon, recently
pieced, put together and quilted two bed
quilts, completing theentire job with herown
little hands, unaided by the help of any one.
This is certainly a remarkable achievement
for one so young, and we doubt if there are
many young ladies of thribble her years can
take as much credit to themselves. Mr. and
Mrs. B. feel an honest pride in possessing
such a bright little jewel, and we don’t blame
them.
The Hidden Hand.
From the Sumter Republican.
Ou last Tuesday a fisherman, whose name
we withhold, and who lives near Danville on
the Flint, went to run his nets; on hauling
up one of them discovered entangled in it a
human hand, in shape and form similar to
that of a woman’s, and containing two gold
rings. It scared him so had that he dropped
the net, aud would not venture to it again
until he secured another fisherman to go with
him. When the net was again liauicd up,
there was not the sign of a hand to be seen.
Miss Annie's Bird.
From the Newnan Herald.
Miss Annie Hornady’s grief at the death of
her canary bird has been, in a measure, miti
gated by the sweet songs of another bird, said
to have been presented by Air. C. H. Arnold.
This, however, is not an established fact, as
R. M. Holly is known to be quite a bird
fancier.
Lawrenccville Nuptials.
From the Gwinnett Herald.
Married—At the residence of J. N Gouge,
in Lawrer.ceville, by W. C. Cole, J. P., on
last Thursday evening, 25th, Air. Sam Fos-
sett to Aliss Eliza Jane Gouge.
Sam did woo with might and mane.
But is now con.eut with his Lizer Jane.
A Medal for Inhumanity.
From the Montezuma Weekly.
It is said that there is a colored man in
Vienna, who is entitled to a medal for his
bravery and almost inhuman work at the lire
last week. Tiie saving, of other houses waa
due to liis effort.