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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. Fayetteville ga LBGrfggg VOLUME XIV. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31; 1882. N PRICE 5 CENT THE ANNUAL REPORT OF'THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. A Review of the Work of the Department for Two Team—Th. Bute’s Consumption of Fertilizers —The Report of the Fish Com miss! oat r— Several Other matters of Interest. The annual, or, more properly speaking, the biennfel report of Hon. J. T. Hender son, commissioner of agriculture, was issued from the press yesterday. The commissioner begins his report by a reference to the cause of his failure to issue a report last year. He attributes the failure to the fact that in the latter port of 1881, when the report should have been prepared, the time and attention of the com-, missioner and his subordinates was so thor oughly occupied with the extra duties under taken in connection with the International cotton exposition, superadded to the current routine duties of the office proper, and with the unusual influx of visitors attracted from all quarters by the exposition, that it was found impracticable to prepare n report. Even afler the close of the great exhibition, the pressing character of the usual office work—in the midst of the fertilizer season— that could not he laid aside or postponed, made it altogether inexpedient to attempt a ormal, comprehensive, official report, ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT. The commissioner states that since his last report no changes have been effected in the clerical force of the office proper and none in the Laboratory and Inspection division, ex cept those which that report anticipated. As there intimated, Dr. N. A. Pratt resigned the position of chemist of the department on the 12th day of November, 1880, and the vacancy was tilled on the same day by the installation of Prof. H. C. White, of the University of Georgia; and on the loth of October, 18S0, Mr. Samuel Hawkins was appointed to suc ceed I)r. W. P. Harden, resigned, as inspector of fertilizers at Augusta. On the first day of October, instant, the fol lowing changes look effect; Wni. H. Howell, clerk of tiie department, was made inspector of fertilizers at Coiuaibus vice George W. Rosette; W. P. Harden, inspector at iiruns- wick vice Troup Butler, and the latter ap pointed clerk of the department. The organ ization of the department at present is there fore as follows: J. T. Henderson, commis sioner; Troup Butler, commissioner’s clerk; R. J. Redding, assistant commissioner; J. S. Newman, editing clerk; W. B. Henderson, mailing clerk: II. C. White, chemist of de partment; 0. T. Rogers, inspector of fertilizers at Augusta; J. S. Lawton, inspector of fer tilizers at Atlanta; Samuel Hawkins, iuspcc tor of fertilizers at Augusta; W. H. Howell, inspector of fertilizers at Columbus; W. I*i Harden, inspector of fertilizers at Brunswick: E. L. Thomas, inspector of fertilizers at Ma con; Dr. H. H. C’ary, superintendent of fisheries. T1IB MATTER OF FERTILIZERS. Some interesting statisticsshowing the con sumption of commercial fertilizers are given. The following table shows the number of tons inspected for each of the last eight sea sons: Season of 1874-5 48,048 tons Season of 18750. 55,310 tons Season of 1876-7 75,824 tons Season of 1877 8 93,478 tons Season of 1878 9 85,019 tons Season of 1879-80 119,583 tons Season of 1880-1 152,401 tons Season of 1881-2....... .125,427 tons The number of tons of acid phosphates or dissolved bones inspected in Georgia during MuAa.pwt:nisbf R'kSdn* i« (UtfplV'Wf; For the season of 1874-5. (Not classified.) For the season of 1875-6 6,499 tons For the season of 1876-7 12,812 tons For the season of 1877 8 15,332 tons For the season of 1878-9 10,291 tons For the season of 1879-80. 13,906 tons For the season of 1880 1 22.030 tons For the season of 1881-2 20,602 tons The receipts of the department for the sea son of 18S0-1 were $76,232.03 from which was deducted the amount paid for tags, express charges, etc., leaving $72,260.23 as the amount paid into the treasury. The salaries of the inspectors and chemist reduced that amount to $64,060.23. That was an increase of $11, 021.87 over the previous year. For 1881-2 the fees were $62,713.31, and after the payment of the expenses left $50,251.32. The net balance for the last several seasons was as follows: nted. as in the previous years, over the state, and so far as reports have been received they have, in every particular, sustained the high estimate placed upon them. It is hoped that a very lame distribution will be made the present fall, as a letter from Colonel McDon ald, in charge of the distributions at Wash ington, states under date of the 5th instant: “1 am directed by Professor Baird to say to you that he can probably supply all appli cants for carp from Georgia ” AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. Mr. Emanuel Heyser, of Madison. Georgia, an enthusiatic fish culturist, a careful obser- er and reliable gentleman, has given me the CODY’S COSY CASTLE. THE HOME OF A NOTED SCOUT. Special Correspondent of The Times. North Platte, Neb., October 5.—-This beau tiful prairie town is located 291 miles west of Omaha and is the terminus of the first division benefit of a careiul experiment made during I of the Union Pacific railroad. It lies about the present year, and as I regard this experi- midway between the north and south fork of ment as very important, I beg leave to detail th „ Piatle rivpr „ the ranntv seat of T mooli, it somewhat fully. On Friday, Mar i2th, 1 1 mte J lver> “ seat of Lincoln 1882, he had three scale carp taken from his j county and noted as the home of the renown pond with hook and line, two females and one I ed hunter, scout, author and actor W. F. male, weighing about three and a half pounds C ody. better known as “Buffalo Bill." North each. On Saturday, May 13th, he placed 1 .. . . . them in the lied of a spring branch, running Platt ? m maD >’ aspects is not unlike the typi- through the bottom of an old pond that haa I cal oil regon town. The low wooden build- been dry for about four years, and was over-1 ings in the business portion will however, grown with grasses, rushesandweeds-except in be re pi ace d by more substantial On fh« tl follow7nf I5tif structures - Th ® Cody 7 homestead is 1 P leasantl y situated one mile west of tliG breach in the dam of the old pond | tug viU&tre on"a frpntlv rising clnno r»f the^urface^f the^nontf^'on 7 t^edne^av P rairie and 13 tIle m03t conspicuous dwelling the surface of the pond. On ednesdaj I m *j ie uWo The bouse—a laree and roomv in the place. The nouse—a large and roomy carp were spawning in water and not over six inches deep and the water was so clear 1 model o£ convenience in everv resnert TherZ K X ry i8lh Ve and Vrf the fish. On Thursday the 13th, 411(1 parlors, the windows of wh&h are draped by day the 19th, lie gathered eggs from where I { leaV y i ace curtains and the floors covered he had seen the carp spawning, deposited j w itL luxurious carpets. One of the curiosi- on grass, weeds, etc.; some of these eggs | jjgg ; s an un jq Ue easy chair ingeniously con structed out of buffalo horns and covered with the skin of a grizzly bear which Mr. Co- For the season of 1878-9 : 831.267 6‘. For the season of 1879-80. - 49,438 36 For the season of 1SSO-1 61,060 23 For the season of 18S1-2 50,250 82 Decrease compared with 1880-1 13,808 91 Previous to the season of 1877-8 the fees arising from the inspection of fertilizers were perquisites of the inspectors. THE STATE CHEMIST. The state chemist. Professor H. C. White, makes a lengthy report, which is incorporated in the report of the commissioner. After touching on the analyses made. Professor White has this to say of cotton butter oil: “I have also carefully examined a sample of cotton butter oil submitted by you, and find that it contains nothing whatever dele terious to health, and nothing in its compo sition or properties that would unlit it for safe and wholesome use as an article of food, As I am now engaged in an invastigatian of the dietetic and other uses of cotton seed oil, with a view to a more extended report hereafter, I confine myself at this time to this brief statement.” The analysis of the sweet potato, a yellow yam variety, is also given. In a comparative statement it is shown tnat one bushel of Georgia corn is equal to 2.89 bushels of yam potatoes, ami in flesh pro ducing constituents, to seven bushels of po tatoes. THB FISH COMMISSIONER. The report of the commission embraces very interesting report made by Dr. H. H, Cary, superintendent of fisheries, in which he sayso German carp: This new fish has more than sustained the reputation acquired up to my last report. Up to that time only about 700 had been in troduced into the waters of Georgia, and most of these having been placed in ponds with in adequate drainage, but few opportunities had been afforded to test their growth. The few examinations made, however, showed growth of about four pounds per year. The fish above named were the hatchings of 1879, the first hatchings east of the Rocky mountains. The hatchings of the carp ponds at Washing ton for 1880 had enormously increased. Geor gia, through the department of agriculture, received and distributed over 3,700, and the members of congress received and distributed about as many more, making the entire dis tribution in the state for that year over 7,400. Many of these fish were very small, not more than one or two inches long* and weighing a fraction of an ounce. A shipment was receiv ed from Washington in February. 1881; six of these were sent to a gentleman in Talbot county, and were rel.ised in his mill pond; the last of September one was caught and weighed, and it was found that in seven months it had taken on a growth of five pounds. That this may not be an exception al case. I will state that other cases of nearly equally rapid growth have been reported to me. Of the hatchings of the carp ponds at Washington of 1881, we failed to get the supply we expected, hence, a large num ber of applicants were disappointed. The de partment of agriculture received about 1,700, and probably the members of cangress even a larger number than this, which were distrib- BnStlo Bin’s Brosd Acres and Bemutifol House at Korh Bike, Nebraska—Halloa of His Indian Figbla—Remarkable Feats on Horaeback and With tke Bias—Yellow Hand’s Scalp. lartner^Major Frank North, a well known ‘ Indian titter and*soldier. It is the ifitentio'n to raise thoroughbred ", hoses on a large scale. He has one hundred and eighteen brood- mires that will compare favorably in build and style with the'best eastern stock ancfalso a large number of promising youngsters. He also has a large herd of short-horn cows and heiic-rs, with a high pedigreed bull' at their head. • . AN EXTENSIVE LAND OWNER. Aside from all this Mr.‘ Cody, owns several thousand acres of land in the vicinity and is also one of the heaviest real estate owhere in some of these _ were placed in a glass vase and some in tin bucket, both filled with clear water. The vase be kept in his_ dwelling house; the | gy killed while out on "scouting expedition bucket he placed on the branch of a tree in open air. six feet from the ground. These re mained undisturbed until Tuesday morning, May 23d. when he found that in both in the bucket and vase, the eggs were hatching. On making this discovery he w nt immediately to the pond from which the eggs were taken and with a basin could dip up large numbers of tiny fish. That they were scale carp he 1861. YELLOW HAND'S BUFFALO ROBE. A handsomely-trimmed buffalo robe, which was taken from Y'ellow Hand, a son-in-law of the notorious Sitting Bull, ornaments the he&dofasofa. Yellow Hand, it will be re membered, was killed in a duel with Buffalo Bill almost immediately after the fatal Custer massacre, and his scalp, which has a place in DURING THE WEEK. WHA. . THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HAVE BEEN DOING. A Slice of the Comet Falls Away—Penn’s Bicentennial —The Hoyt-Fersuson Contsst Abandoned— Death of General W. S. Holt—The Cholera % in China—Fires, Accidents, Etc. Tuesdaj, October 84. Observation proves that a large slice of the ROBERT D. GARVIN. North Platte. He owns and rentaseven neat comethas fallen away. A "six days’ walking d wolfing houses and will build several more. <$pntest opened in New York. Philadelphia He is the father of the town, so to speak, and is celebrating the bicentennial of Penn’s is at the head of every important business lafading . Mr . Flower) c f New York, refuses enterprise and is the most popular man to-day . . , „ ’ , in the glorious state of Nebraska. Many of I 10 n,n a S am for congress. Guerrilla fighting the business men came here at his solication. prevails in Peru. The cholera is raging in His'family leads in all social matters. Mr. Gody China. 19 men scalded to death in North SWTS, “iecS. »**• •>f— M Legislature in 1872, is one of I wave at Panama. Milan, king of Servia, shot the most generons and whole soulea men at by a crazy woman. An extensive con- that ever breathed. He is no desperado, al- spi^y has been discovered in France; ntt- thongh he is credited by General Phil Sheri- _ , , , , , , ’ dan with having killed more Indians in legi- I merous disturbances have taken place. Gen- timi.te warfare than any white man living, eral W. S. Holt, of Macon, is dead. Aaron His, has been an exciting and eventful life Alpeoria Bradley, the notorious negro poli- an:>' the history of liis varied exploits would tictan, died suddenly in St. Louis, fill f olumes. Not many of his old cronies is the city liy, in this vicinity. His best friends, Wild 0 n the Sth of October, Mr. A. W. Ross, a Bil- ar.d Texas Jack, are dead. Buffalo Bill s | wealthy citizen, of Glendale, Ohio, was found fau viis hunt with the Grand Duke Alexis and murdered, and a large sum of money, sup- the L-arl of Dunraven are matters of history, posed to have been on his person, missing as are other great hunts in which some of To-day, officer Bagby arrested a man named our prominent public men participated. As I “West, who confesses to have been a partici- a horseman he nas lew, if any, equals, as a I pant in the crime, and shortly afterward two crack snot I believe no superiors. I men named Morrison and Sherwood were n1«n * no superiors. BUFFALO BILL’S RIFLE FEA1S. men named Morrison and Sherwood were also was certain, as he kept watch of them for I Mr. Oodv’s collection of Indian relics, was about a month, when they had attained a the first taken after the gallant “Long-haired length of one and a half inches. That the I Chief’ had fallen a victim to Indian treach- young fish were hatched in from five to six C ry. On the walls of the parlors hang hand- days there can be no mistake, as there was no I gome oil paintings representing memorable water where lie gathered the eggs until less I scenes in the career of this noted border ce- than a week before he saw the young fish, and lebrity. The most striking is that showing it bad just risen sufficiently deep to allow the I a herd of buffaloes dashing over fish to swim around in spawning. Mr. Hey- the prairies, with Mr. Cody, mounted ser having no thermometer, had no means of I on his favorite horse, Old Brig- ascertaining the temperature of the water at I ham, and armed with a pet Springfielu the time, but by reference to my register, I I breech-loader which he calls “LucretfaBorga,” find the average temperature of the atmos-1 pouring death and destruction into the ranks phereintheshade wasonthedayscovering this J 0 f the herd. It was in the year 1868, while experiment G9°, but as Madison is about one- I supplying the contractors of the Kansas Pa* half degree north of LaGrange.the temperature I cific railroad with fresh meat, that Mr. Cody mightbealittle lower, and this would approxi-1 earned the title hi so proudly wears. In one mately indicate the temperatureof the water, I day be killed sixty-nine buflaloes, and for this so that we may assume with the temperature I remarkable record, whichhasnevereven been oftbewnter at about 69 degrees, these eggs I nppjoached, was given tbetitle“Buffalo Bill.” batched in from five to six days. } In a period of eighteen months, while con- An appropriation of one-third of a cent. ] nected with the company, 4,280 noble animals per capita of the people of Georgia will en- u f the plain fell victims to his unerring aim. able us to make fish the cheapest food in the | buffalo bill’s library. state, and will take them, from the list ot lnx-1 A large and pleasant room, opening from uries and place them in the reach of all.” I the second parlor, is devoted to the use of Mr. Commissioner Henderson’s report also con- I Cody as a library, reading&nd smoking room, tains elaborate articles on the fence law, a re- I The walls and ceiling are decorated with life- view of tbc cotton exposition an article on I like portriats of Wild Bill, Texas Jack, Kit cotton seed and cotton seed oil mills, an arti- I Carson, Captain Jack Crawford and other no de on the geological survey and several other I ted border men whose names figure pro mi- matters of interest. Tke report will be freely j nently in the history of Indian wars. The circulated. | walls and ceilings are elegantly papered, the work having been done by an Eastern artist. The annual report of State Treasurer Speer I A most excellent crayon portrait of Mr. Cody, was issued yesterday. It is a compact pam- | takenin his prime, bangs over a marble maii- phlet, composed principally of tabulated state-1 tie. Mrs. Cody s handsome iace also peers at ments, and shows at a glance the condition of | the visitor from a heavy gilt frame. In the the State’s finances. The balance in the treus- I parlors are a fine Chickering piano and ah or- ury on October 7th. 1881.. was $794,547.51. The mount reoeive''.di-ili4J.SK^4y. f rom ’.j’ her , - - , s . ■ 7, 1881 to September 30, 1882, was I In Mr. Cody’s privateTooni up $1,609,432.10 or a total of $2,403,976.61. I elaborate gun and pistol-rack, literally loaded The disbursements from October 7, 1881, to I downwith rare and valuable arms, mostly the September 30, 1882, were $1,713,507.46, leaving I gifts of admiring friends, balance in the treasury on October 1st, 1882, I The Cody homestead, which has been nick of $690,472.15. Tne balance of $690,472.15, is named “Welcome Wigwam,” is surrounded not a cash balance, but largely consists of I by one hundred and twenty acres of land and state of Georgia and United States bonds, re-1 lies about three rods sout > of the Union Pa- ceived on account of the second payment [ cific railroad track. A white picket-fence from the purchasers of the Macon & Bruns-1 surrounds the homestead, giving it an eastern wick railroad, and the suspended balance due I look. At the head of the croquet ground from the citizens’ bank and the bank of I stands a slender flag-pole. When the master Rome, (state depositories) viz: I is at home the national emblem flies from the State of Georgia bonds .S115.000.00 peak, when out of town the flag is hauled United States Registered bonds I60,0e0.0» 1 down. The spacious grounds surrounding the Balance due from Citizens’* bank 83,218 51 | house are kept in most excellent order and Balance due from the Buhk of Rome 22,206.23 | the clack of the croquet balls during the sum mer is almost constant. Safas i s?Sn,ri U y H s is S? “lutra 'ihS S35, I I b « Fc 'S" , » n - Ho l ,t been .ban- ara&saS&H isa ay de. tui exhibition. The arm was a Winches- I W«4»»»4«y, Qctaker*5 /epeating ritie. -The steed was* given the I . "P** -hjjugtrey, the English beauty, arrives * r and .started off on a keen run. At every 1 1 j ^ork for a theatrical tour of the Uni- the mustang jumped sidewise I States. Mrs. Scoville, Guiteau’s sister, riolently that it seemed impossi-1 . 88 been pronounced insane by a Chicago bl< for the rider to keep his P r Y- Pariiamenthas re-assembled. General ser :, but with both hands occupied inhandle- £°P e been promoted to major-general, in: the gun he gracefully maintained his I Baker Pasha hakbeen put in command of the :i:i—:— ^ i , - > Lgyptian forces. A jealous husband in An Old Atlnutl Man In Tronble la Wlnuepcc, Maul- toba—Charged with Murder. Robert D. Gore in, an old Atlanta man, is in trouble in Winnepeg, Manitoba. Yester day‘s Constitution contained a telegram from that place announcing the killing of Arehio McDonald by Garvin, the killing having been occasioned liy a drunken quarrel.' McDonald was shot through the heart and Garvin \yas promptly arrested. Yesterday a Constitution reporter called at the home of Garvin’s father on Decatur street, near the terminus of the street car line, to see if any news of the killing had been received by the fam ily. The family had not even read the dis patch published in the paper, and the first news that they had of the killing was that carried to them by the reporter. Robert D. Garvin is a son of William Garvin, and a few S ears ago was well known here. He served is time as a fireman on the Western and At lantic railroad, and attained to an engineer- ship. Subsequently he took a position on the Air Line, and in a fight at Charlotte one day nearly fatally shot a man. He was tried and acquitted, however. Garvin married a very beautiful woman, and the result of their union was a daughter—a very bright and and prettv little girl. They did not live happily together how ever, and the wife sued for divorce. The^- di,- vorce was granted and then a struggle arose over the possession of the child. The child was finally awarded to . the mother. Mrs. Garvin then married Sr. T. S. Gourdin and they are now living at Tilton. About four years ago Garvin left Atlanta, going to Mont gomery or Mobile. It is said that in Alabama he was tried for bigamy but that is denied by hts family. He drifted westward and finally got into Mexico. He wrote to his father reg ularly until about three mouths ago when he stated in a letter that he would perhaps not thi lr .nark*. To say that I was surprised* to*[, s ^? r Gh^tuel was^run over by the street cars witness his remarkable feats on horseback with the rifle is putting it mild. It is only the broad prairies that Buffalo Bill mp show . .. . .. dvanta: his markesmanship to; the best advantage, anh mounted on a fleet wild horse the hero of ..his letter surpasses the most preposterous f in New Orleans and killed. in the city. A new military company is to be organized in Atjanta There are five military compa nies in the city. The new mail services on the East Tennessee road, between Atlanta ex’.gyerations of Cooper’s “Leather Stocking I and Macon, has been put in operation. Al- st "™ q derman Lowry is to build a handsome house. General Charles A. Reynolds, U. S. A., has been stationed in Atlanta as in A ROMANTIC CASE IN COURT. Making an amount (unavailable) of .5380,421.74 Which deduucted from the stated balance of $690,472.15, will show the cash balance on hand on the first day of October, 1882, to be $310,047.41. RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS, An interesting table is given showing the receipts and disbursements. The general tax for 1881 was $738,920.41. The larger items given are as follows : Rent of Western and Atlantic railroad. $300,00*); railroad tax, $12,247.45 for 18S2, and $21,453.83, for 1881. Liquor tax for 1882, $31,504.25; liquor tax for 1881, $22,573 S3. Fees of inspectors, $50,308.80 Insurance tax, $12,901. Interest on sale ol Macon and Brunswick railroad $25,000; sec ond payment on sale of Macon and Bruns THE CODY FAMILY. Right here a word as to Mr. Cody’s family may not come in unappropriate. Mrs. Cody’s maiden name was Louisa Frederici and her home in St. Louis. She was beautiful and accomplished, and of distinguished family. Mr. Cody met her in 1864, while on mili tary duty, and in the spring of 1866 the happy scout led his beauteous bride to the altar. The result of this happy union of heart and iiands has been three bright and lovable chil dren. The eldest child, Miss Arta, just turn ing sweet sixteen, is of medium height, of well developed figure and has the same grace ful pose and carriage that distinguisnes her father, whom she resembles greatly. She is a splendid musician, a brilliant conversa- wick* railroad $250,000; hireof convicts in 1881 tionalist ’ “decided penchant for paint $24,871.00. There are various other smaller ™8, “ a splendid eques|tnenne and m also a 432.10, which added to the balance brought | forward for the previous year make $2,403, 979.61. The larger sains disbursed are as follows: Public debt, 1882, $686,773.0# and public debt 1881, $2St>,274 00. Legislative pay roll, 1881, $100,416.35. School fund 1881, $195,137.36. Lunatic asylum, 18S2, $96,- 002.05; lunatic asylum, 1881, $3-5,380 S5 Luna tic asylum enlargement, $45,000, Special ap propriations, $41,397.24. Civil establishment $42,775.00 for 1882, and $29,170.74 for 1881. Six hundred and fifteen dollars is the amount expended for artificial limbs. The usual ap propriations of $8,000 each to the State uni versity and Atlanta university have been paid. * 1 liese sums with many smaller ones make the disbursements run up to $1,713,- 507.46, leaving a balance of $690,472,15. . The amount of the public debt not J'et due . Mr Cody’s favorite horse. * Jack,” a pretty is put at $9,b24,13o 00, on which there will be I wa t er s pa niel, is the pet of the household interest accumulate to the amount of *04o,- I The favorite trick mule, also named “Jack,’ 440.00. The public debt with the interest I ] ias a comfortable stall all by himself. Id added will tall due as tollows: 18»3—$lw,- I and ab out the barns three men are constantly °°$ l^^OOOhO ?i590*^ OQ 3 ’?^’ 00 ^^ 6 • employed. In a large field west of the house 025.00; is96—$579,94000; lS89-$2,4: 1SS5—$78,660.00; 1932—$3,210,000.00. I tame and were secured by Mr. Cody, who is Georgia’s assets and liabilities. j seriously thinking of going to Europe next The amonntyet due on the Macon and season with a troupe, to be composed of Ia- Brunswick railroad is about $700,000, The 1 dians, Mexican rancheros and buffaloes, state is endorser for the South Georgia and ©n the north side of the railroad, almost di- Florida railroad to the extent of $464,000 rectly opposite the house, is a “little” pasture, and on the Northeastern to the amount of I comprising 1,800 acres, all fenced in. Mr. The state is secured in each instance I Cody in selecting his home picked out lady can shatter glass balls, oring down birds on the wing or puncture silver dollars equally well. Little Orra. who is turning her tenth year, is an unusually bright and attractive child, and already evinces a decided taste for music. Mr. Cody’s t-nly son, Kit Carson, died at Rochester, N. Y., in 1866. Had he lived be would have been the idol of a fond father’s heart. THE SCOUT’S HORSES. Leaving the family I will pay a brief visit to the neat, whitewashed barns and sheds, located some distance back of the dwelling. The stables contain three finely-matched teams of horses that do not take anybody’s dust, two trotters and the pacer John, each with a record of 2.40 A clear-limbed black stallion, who can trot a mile in the thirties, is Mr. Cody’s favorite horse. ‘ Jack," a story of a Coanecttcut sctiootma«ter who Went to I spector of Federal cemeteries. Mr. Henry the Mexican War. I Turner, of. Atlanta, and Miss Annie Harrison, Norwich, October 28—A romantic case has I ot Macon, got married without parental been brought to the attention of the superior license. co-.rt. in this county. A year or two previous I Thursday, October 2e. to the Mexican war, Benjamin F. Brown, a I Canadian lover, after an absence of 36 competent schoolmaster, 21 years old, son of I y® ars > retunis to_ Montreal and marries his a ■> . e.i 1-to-do farmer, John ’ Brown, of North I sweetheart, who, in the meantime, had mar- Su u ugton, ran away from home. His pa- j ricL become a grandmother and been rent.- never received any tidings of him. He I widowed. A silk smuggler in San Francisco w<-at to Mexico, and in the war that began I harbor shot dead by an officer whom he was soon afterward served in aregiment of United I trying to elude. The American missionary Stall dragoons. As lie spoke Spanish fluent- j association is in session at .Cleveland. Four ly. h ’ soon became interpreter of General I persons killed by an explosion of fireworks in Tr.yl-r’s staff. After the close of hostilities I I’hiladelphia. Louisiana bonds are now hew ut to Corpus Christi and married a beau- I quoted on the New York stock boards. A til il -'panish girl, Innocente Castillo. The I storm on the English coast proves to be the con,:: went to Laredo, Texas and I worst iu thirty years. The star route jurors ' fijt; lived happily until I860, when I ar< ? being indicted for listening to proposals of n, who changed his nauV-after the close bribes. .. . vnerictn wer to Benv tj rfip F. Wrownn, I in the city. lit-: left TV ! Emory college ^tndenf-v *. flog and four children—Frank, JSssjamin, Juan, j show is proposed fur the winter. Thc’fTecui.c and Isabella. During his married life he had I flue alarm is in successful operation. Jack spoken only Spanish in his household, and I Dudley, a runaway convict, has been brought his family, who know nothing of English, | back from Alabama for the fourth time on were unacquainted with his real name or his I requisition. Colored emigrants from the history prior to his marriage. At about the I Carol.inas for Arkansas are passing through time that Wrowan was killed, his aged fath-1 the city in great numbers. Findley, Who es- er in North Stonington died, leaving his farm, | caped from the federal court-room in Atlanta, worth $10,000 or $15,000 to six heirs, includ I.is understood to be at home in Fannin coun- ing the missing Benjamin and his brother, I ty, and defies arrest. A revenue officer named John, the latter of whom had settled I Richardson tired a pistol shot at a waiter in in Stonington, Illinois. In 1873 the heirs to I Ballard’s saloon for which he has been put in the North Stonington property had it sold by I jatl. order of the superior court, and the portion I Friday .October ar. due each was properly assigned, with the ex- ] In the Protestant Episcopal congress, held ception of Benjamin’s share. That was de-1 Richmond, the condition of the southern posited in the Chelsea savings bank of this negro was discussed. The speakers were quite city in the name of Jeremiah Halsey, trus-1 hard on the colored race, accusing them of in- tee. At the same time a copy of the court nate dishonesty and natural hypocrisy. The order was sent to the latest known address of government is experimenting with the use of Benjamin. As the family of the dead man tricycles in the delivery of city mails. Irami- were living under a false name, the order gration from Europe is decreasing. The pres- never reached them. I ident has gone to New York. Brady, the star In 1881 Frank, the oldest son of Benjamin’s I route thief, has recently lost $75,000 in a busi- widow. determined to learn English so as to I ness venture. Guiteau’s skin and bones are understand the contents of his father’s papers. I boxed up in the Washington museum. Thir- After getting a smatteringof English he found I teen men drowned in a gale near London among his father’s private documents a letter I in the city. from ihe Illinois brother that furnished the I Jerry Damon, charged with the murder of first clue to Wrowan’s early history. The let-1 John Crews, on trial in Fulton superior court, ter was dated Stonington 111., Nov. 16,1858,and I before Judge Branham, has been found was signed, “Your Brother John.” It spoke of I guilty and sentenced to life-imprisonment, the writers aged parents in this country, I Four negro colleges are in Atlanta. Simons, and of their lifelong sorrow over Benjamin’s j a negro, shot Coursey, a rival in a love affair, early disappearance. The boy Frank at once The latter is expected to die. Several cases wrote to the Illinois postmaster, asking about I of burglary have been reported. Marriage John Wrowan. The reply was that there was I associations are coming into disfavor, no such person, bat that a man had lived and I Saturday, October as. died in Stonington, Illinois, named John I p>. Garvin, a former notorious character Brown, and that he came from North Stoning- j in Atlanta, has committed murder in Mani- ton, Conn. The boy then wrote to the post- I toba. Silver mines have been discovered in master in North Stonington and established I ^joska. Secretary Cnandler s to manage the in his opinion, tiro fact that his _ father was | aa tional campaign for the republicans. In a stretch of land in the heart of the buffalo grass country. This grass, which grows hard ly two inches ab ve the ground, is curly and feels like a matting of down under foot. In this region hirses and cattle literally live on this succulent grass, which is hardly ever cov ered with snow, so mild, as a role, are the B. F. Brown. Through Mr. Halsey, the | trustee of Benjamin’s share of the Brown es tate, Frank secured the services of lawyers in this city, to press the claim of the Wrowan family to their portion of the Brown estate. A hearing was had last week before Chief Justice Park of Jthe superior court, and ape-1 tition in equity granted. It is probable that the heirs of the late B. F. Wrowan will soon t, • „ . - . . . , —.— < be alfle to write again soon. That was the The Ferguson-Hoy t contest has been aban- ; as t that was heara of Garvin until yesterday. His family say that he is not now married. He is about thirty years of age and is a man given to an over indulgence in liquor. AN ELECTION MURDER. A Unm Swamp Negro Found Dead and the Murderer Eftcape*. From the Cochran, Ga. Banner. On the fourth of October, election day, a negro by the name of Ed Rogers was found dead, with a pistol ball in his head, in Gum Swamp creek near Chauncey. On investi gation it was learned that the murdered man and one Sam Lowdy, (also colored) had been engaged in picking cotton for several days for Captain John A. Harrell, and that op the day before election had gone to Chauncey. Sam had returned to Captain H’s, however, on the same day, alone, and reported Ed as sick in Chauncey and that he was commissioned to collect the wages dqe him and get his trunk. The truhk and wages were delivered to Sam, and the last seen of him he was about six miles from Chauncey,- supposed to have been en route for Macon. Both negroes had formerly been employed as gravel-hands on the M. & B, railroad, and Captain Albert Sharpe was immediately tele graphed to in Macon to apprehend Sam, but up to date no arrest has been made. $260. by first liens. To set off these liabilities the state has the following property Western and Atlantic railroad, 138 miles— lease 9 years to run—annual rental $300,000. Macon and Brunswick railroad—19* miles— sold for $1,125,000, of which about $700,000. is vet due. Bonds of Marietta and North Geor- , ™ u .. u . «. — - —- gia railroad $66,233.62. South Georgia and I winters. The country for miles an/und is cut Florida railroad—5S miles—(contingent)— up into cattle ranges and speculators are now has never defaulted in paying interterest. I turning their eyes to the raising of fast hor- Bank state of Georgia—1,833 shares of no val- 1 ses. Mr. Cody has probably tried the ue. Bank of Augusta—800 shares of no val- endurance of the horse as much as any ue. 186 shares Georgia railroad and banking I man living, and having recently dispos- company, $25,000. Atlantic and Gulf railroad I ed of his cattle ranche on the Dismal —10,000 shares—par $1,000,000—(no market i river, sixty-five miles north of North Platte, value) Southern and Atlantic telegraph | for tne neat sum of $125,000, has determined guaranteed by Western Union telegraph j to invest his surplus capital in the develop- company—440 shares—$10,000. Public baud- j ment of the useful animal, and has associated ings—not estimated. ( with him in the enterprise his old friend and fight between Indian troops and Mexicans 23 of the latter and 200 of the former were killed. Louisville is to have a cotton exposition next year. In San Saba, Texas, Tom Jones killed his cousin, William Jones. IN THE CITY. Five thousand people at the circus. In 1874 Joseph Stanley killed a white man near ..... . | Buford, and fled. Two yearsago, his brother, come into possession of their share ot the | Hosey ’ stanley) killed a negro at the same place, and also fled. Last week both were Marginal Dealings Decided Illegal. I captured and are how in Gwinnett county Chicago, October 28.—A decision upon the | jail. Colonel. E M. Broyles robbed of a gold question of the legality of marginal dealings 1 watch. Ike Shipman, the Eastman rioter, has on the board of trade was rendered in the ap- had his sentence commutted to imprisonment peltate court to-day. A commission firm for life. brought suit against a customer for marginal Sunday, October as. difference on a deal of grain. The lower The false prophet has defeated the Egyptian Court rendered a judgment for the amount troops, and is marching to the front. A fire claimed. The appellate court holds the pur- I in Fall River destroyed one of the largest chase of grain for future delivery, where it is I mills there, worth one million dollars. Dick- evident that there is no intention actually to son, the foreman of the late star route jury, deliver the grain, but to settle the differences I has been arrested for collusion with bribers, in price in money, comes within the law I Eight deaths from yellow fever in Havana against gambling, and the aggrieved party I during the week. The bey of Tunis is dead, has no ground for action. I is the city. A Boy Ground The safe burglars, of Louden, Tennessee, ar- Mahanoy City, October 28.—At Tunnel rested in Atlanta, returned for trial. Deputy Ridge colliery this afternoon William collector Shepherd has made a large seizure of Northey, a slate-picker, aged twelve years, I soui niash .near Cumming, Georgia. L. K was sent to fetch a pick, and in passing the I ^ running for mayor. Conductor rolls he dropped it, lost his balance and was W. Bishop was accidentally _ killed on the drawn into the rolls and literally ground to I East Tennessee road while crossing the Chat- pieces. The breaker had to be stopped and I tahoochee. the rolls taken out before the mangled body could be recovered. A Murderess Found Guilty. Petersburg, Va., October 28 —Maria Daly, colored, who has been on trial in the county court at Mecklenberg for the murder of her child, was to day found guilty of murder in „ the first degree and sentenced to the peniten- I man had forcod the front door open. All at- tiary for 18 years. Counsel for the defense I tempts to pacify her were in vain and after moved for a* new trial, which the court grant I shrieking that somebody was breaking in she ed and the case was continued to the Decern | fell into convulsions, wtiich lasted until about her term ol the court. - , daybreak this morning, when she died. Au Aged Lady Frightened to Death. Philadelphia, October 26.—John McEl- hone, who resides at No. 1116 Galloway street, stumbled and fell on the floor while entering the house late on Friday night. His mother- in-law, Mrs. Mary Hilt,_ 56 years old, was alarmed by the noise, believing that a strange The Whole Guiteau Family Insane. Chicago, 111., October 26.—In the inquiry into the alleged insanity of Mrs. Scoville, yesterday, Dr. Andrew McFarlane, the dis tinguished alienist testified that he has been acquainted for eighteen years witli the Gui. teau family. Luther W. Guiteau, Mrs. Sco- villfe’s father, brought, another daughter to the McFarlane institute for the insane, and himself betrayed symptons of insanity. The witness arrived in Washington too "late to testify on the Guiteau trial. The witness said }"iej4)i!ld understand how the son inner- ited h : *Uather’s infirmity and became Presi dent LWfield’sassassin, "in conclusion. Dr. McFaiW'.ie said: “My professional opinion is that JT jin and Charles J. Guiteau and Mrs. ScovillVWHve been and are of unsound mind.’. Pretty Country Cousins. From the Rom Ga. Bulletin. The rosy, blooming face of many of our lovely country cousins were to be seen in town yesterday and the day before, and wherever they appeared clouds and gloom seemed to disappear and be forgotten as though by magic. Some of them must have felt happy, too, to j udge from the merry, joy ous dancing of their eyes. All the young city clerks—and the old ones too, for that matter, are always glad to see the country lassies come in, their freshness and brightness is always infective, and our boys, being all more or less susceptible, are improved in the contact and intercourse with them. The Rev. John Henry Jackson. From the Elberton, Ga., New South. This is the name and “entitlements” of a somewhat distinguished divine who ministers in spiritual things to the A. M. E. church In Elberton, but who now languishes in one of the parlors of Alexander's hotel, awaiting the slow process of the law which threatens him for too much marrying. Rev. Jackson, with a living wife and a not too sacred regard for the law governing the marital relations, took to himself another damsel of this community last week. The incensed relatives of the de ceived damsel immediately had a warrant issued for his arrest, and on Friday he was captured at Bowman and jugged in Elberton that night. With the consolation afforded by the bible and a flask of whisky, he calmly awaits the stern decrees of date An Atlanta Murderer in Manitoba. Winnepeg, Manitoba, October 26.—A man named Archie McDonald, of Ratportage, was shot through the heart in the Caledonia hotel late last night by one Robert D. Garvin, said to be from the state of Georgia and only three days in the city from the south, where he wc* a locomotive engineer. The tragedy was the result of a drunken quarrel. The police took the murderer into custody at once and lodged him in jail. Finding Bodie«oi the Asia’s Victims' Collin gwood,;Oh^.. Octobe 26.—Thejbodies o two women and a man victims of the Asia dis aster, have been found on Horse Island. The women,were;identitled,as Miss McNabb and Mrs. Walters. The former a passenger the and latter ladieB’ maid of the Asia. Tne body*of the man is decomposed beyond recognition. A Strange Suicide. Victoria, B. C., October 27.—A suicide oc curred this morning at the residence of ex- Mayor Turner. Arthur Breton, aged twenty- two years, a wealthy, temperate and indus trious young man, snot himself through the head and heart. No cause is assigned for the rash act His father is a merchant in London and in Victoria. An Engineer’s Crime. North Adams, Mass., October 27.—Emerson G. Watson, engineer of the Troy and Green field locomotive which ran into the caboose loaded with workmen on the Hoosac tunnel line last Saturday, causing several deaths, was arraigned her last Tuesday on a charge of homicide. He pleaded not guilty, and went to jail in defanlt of bail. A Dead Bey. Tunis, October 28—Sidi Molianed El Sadok, bey of Tunis died last evening. Sidi Ali Bey, brother of the dead bey and the legitimate successor to the throne has assumed power. A Town Burned East Brady, Pa., October 28—A fire last night consumed’a number of buildings in the business part of the town. Loss $75,009 INDISTINCT PRINT ‘-T