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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
VOIitTMB XIV.
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENT-i
DURING THE WEEK.
THE RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS ON
TUESDAY.
A Negro Riot In Btmpton. South C«roUn»-E»rth-
quake* In Fanams and Wyoming Tarrltory—
A Dead Darkey on ths Central Railroad-
Mormon Defl.no* of Federal Law.
The Ofldal Figure, aa They Come lata The Seere*
tary of State.
So far, the full official return* of only three con
gressional districts have been received at the office
of the aecretary of state. They are the second,fourth
and fifth. The other districts have not reported all
their counties yet The returns are as follows, for
the three that are fully in:
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
Tacaday. November 7.
At Hampton court house fifteen negroes,
incensed at the arrest of one of their number,
murdered the sheriff. The English parlia
ment is again in session. The first business
taken up was the adoption of the closure rule,
which the Irish members supported. Revo
lutionary symptoms have developed in many
parts of Mexico. Occasional cases of yellow
fever arc still reported from Pensacola
and Brownsville. Riders hsve been placed
at the 300 election precincts of the 7th and 0th
congressional districts, to report to TheConsti-
tution the result of the election. Mrs. Mary
Gian, of fDelta, Louisiana, committed suicide.
The New England mackerel catch forthe past
year was 332,775 barrels. The prince of Wales
is chairman of the Longfellow memorial as
sociation.
IN THE CITY.
Oleomaigerine has a big sale in Atlanta.
George Garvin, the engineer who was injured
in the recent accident near Rome, is growing
better. Policeman White is now slowly re
covering. The election for congressman is at
tracting much attention. Immense crowds
gathered in front of The Constitution office
for the purpose of hearing the returns from
the election.
WtJnoday, November 8.
The election yesterday resulted in an over
whelming victory for the democrats all over
the union. The independents in the 7th and
the 9th districts of Georgia were defeated.
Dennis Daly of Macon is dead. At Vienna.
Louisiana a colored prisoner was taken
out and lynched. Another serious earthquake
reported from Panama. The Egyptian rebels
under the false prophet have
been defeated. An earthquake did
much damage in Wyoming territory.
IN THE CITY.
Mr. Henry Ransford died yesterday. Miss
Lola H. Washington is dead. An Atlanta
colored chnrch collects admissions at the
door. Six districts in Fulton county have de
dared for no fence. Ex-Senator T. J. Smith
received a telegram announcing the birth of
twins in his family. He named one Lonis
Garrard and the other James S. Boynton. The
pickle market in Atlanta is lively. Counter
feit $10 bills are afloat.
Thnrxlar. N.vrmbvr Oth.
At the Garfield fair, to open in Washington
on the 2d of December, a prize of $500 is of
fered for the best bale of upland cotton. In
a colliery explosion at Ciaycross, England
43 lives were lost. Disastrous fires in New
York and Newberne. Scnor Cnstellar has
called on the republicans of Spain to reorga
nize on a constitutional basis. Mrs. Langtry,
the English beauty, played to a crowded
house in New York. Erastus Brooks has
been put in charge nf the business of the as
sociated press. Anthony Trollope, the no
velist, is seriously ill.
IN THE CITY.
The inaugural bell given in the Kimball
house, in honor of Governor Stephens, was
an elaborate affair. Lonis Carraway dead
Pope Barrow, B. H. Hill, J. C. C. Black and
others are making speeches in support of their
claims.
SatiiHaji ^’•vember 11*
j/m* *»iorwi»ne nr« «jcntpc.nhg alHLelKMOn
ogamic members to replenish their stock of
wives. General Sherman reports in favor of
the erection of permanent forts along the
frontier. Sam and Milt Hodge
were both hanged in Knoxville.
A priest named J. J. O’Donagbne was mur
dered in Ohio. The iron bridge over the Oco
nee at Athens fell, killing one man. Beer-
stadt’s house in New York was burned. The
Queen of Spain is pregnant. Ben Butler has
put a new broom on his house in honor of his
sweep of Massachusetts.
In the City*
The fire brigade is now in good working or
der. The new court honse will soon be fin
ished. The Georgia Pacific is now completed
to Anniston. A wholesale escape of prison
ers took place from the Atlanta stockade.
Eleven got away.
Sunday, November 12.
President Arthur is in New York. Herbert
Spencer has sailed for England. He was
was dined at Delinonico’s. Don Carlos has
been repudiated by one section of his party in
Spain. An attempt was made in Dublin to
assassinate Judge Lawson. The assailant was
arrested. Cleveland’s majority in New York
is over 200,000.
IN THE CITY.
There is a demand for bricklayers in At
lanta. A dead darkey was found on the Cen
tral road near Korsyih station. T. M. Hor
sey’s sons have made an assignment.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Election of Superior and County Court Jude**—The
Senatorahtp.
The contest before the legislature for the
succession to Hon. B. H. Hill, lias been
quite active and warm. The policy adopted
by the opponents of Governor Colquitt has
been to brtng out as many local candidates
as possible with the idea of making no elec
tion on the first ballot, and
in the attendant confusion to
run in some other candidate. Judge Jack
san, Clifford Anderson and others are in the
field. Hon. Ji C. C. Black, of Augusta, was
the last addition to the list. Mr. Walsh, of
the \ugusta Chronicle, wrote an editorial
criticising Black’s course, whereupon the fol
lowers of the latter organized an indignation
meeting. The election takes place to-day.
Governor Stephens has reappointed Major
Warren and Colonel Avery executive clerks,
Captain Johi. A. Stephens keeper of public
buildings and adjutant general, and C. W,
Seidel private secretary.
In the legislature the following business was
transacted:
Monday—The senate confirmed B. P. Bailey
as judge of the county court of Jasper, H. W.
Baldwin judge county court of Morgan, N.
D. Harden judge city court of Savannah, and
W. R. Mustain solicitor of the city court of
Columbus. In the house the standing com
mittees were announced.
Tuesday—Introduction of miscellaneous
bills.
Wednesday—In the senate a bill was intro
duced for compulsory education.
Thursday—Judge Sam Hall elected judge
of the supreme court Vice A. M. Speer, term
expired.
Friday—John D. Stewart elected judge of
the Flint circuit T. J. Simmons elected
judge ot the Macon circuit Allan Fort elect
ed judge of the Southwestern circuit. B. B.
Bower elected judge of the Albany circuit
A. P. Adams for the Eastern circuit
Saturday—The following count r court
judges |were confirmed: Burke, Yancy D.
Oliver; Clayton, W. L. Watterson; Clinch,
C. A. Smith; Liber:y, John E. Shepherd:
Monroe. W. D. Stone; Upson, D. B. Harda
way; Ware, Leon A. Wilson. Judges elect
ed: Western circuit, N. L. Hutchins; Oc-
inulgee circuit, T. G. Dawson; Brunswick
circuit, M. L. Mershon; Middle circuit, R.
W. Carswell; Pataula circuit, John T. Clarke.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Henry G.
Turner
1
. o
I 1
b
Thomas
Hardeman.
3
£
a
d
206
71
209
69
690
14
60S
3
888
428
876
440
2-«
249
273
242
Clay
252
163
258
162
162
17
162
17
Decatur
782
655
793
654
Dougherty
196
727
226
693
Early-
578
m
512
190
512
486
515
482
Miller
102
102
448
in
44*
113
Quitman
205
26
205
26
Kandolph
53C
2 IS
529
213
Terrell
su
27l
51S
271
loss
73(
101!
798
Worth
374
119
379
112
Totals
7791
4406
7622
4485
*...3,388
Hardeman 's’ majority...
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3
£ •
FOURTH DISTRICT.
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an O
sv
£
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X
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Campbell
278
14
281
7
713
91
768
36
Chattahoochee
IDS
17
121
3
Coweta
1056* 170
1CG0
172
253
51
276
10
Harris
496
169
503
1G1
Heard -
324
62
333
42
Marlou
212
IS
225
6
Meriwether
456
9<J
485
101
Muscogee -
527
457
801
177
Talbot
449
24C
503
193
Troup
711
111
735
87
Total
5533
1502
6094
998
4081
Hardeman’s majority..
FIFTH DISTRICT.
N. J.
Hammond
A. E. Buck.
1 Thomas
Hardeman.
£
&
£
a
u
Crawford
Clayton
DeKalb
Fayette
Fulton
Henry
437
392
911
571
2675
542
875
461
1290
1055
74S
831
Ill
162
299
211
1570
447
587
43
543
869
5t2
372
437
389
918
570
2701
552
875
459
1293
1058
747
863
in
160
295
208
1538
444
587
42
541
866
511
372
Milton
Monroe
Pike
Spalding
upeon
Total
10788
5756
10S65
5955
Hardeman's majority...
GRANT AND BUTLER.
GEORGIA’S CONVICTS.
REFORT OF THE PRINCIPAL KEEP
ER OF THE PENITENTIARY.
JLn Interesting Review of the Convict®, Where They
Are, Whit They Are Doinfr, etc.—A Sketch of the
Penitentiary Syatcma of the State—An Im
portant Suggestion by Captain Nclm®.
The biennial report of Captain J. W. Nelms
principal keeper of the penitentiary was is
sued from the press yesterday afternoon. I
contains much matter of interest in connec
tion with that department of the state govern
ment. It contains a classified list of the con
victs in the penitentiary. There were on the
prison lists October 20th, 1880, 186 convicts,
and from that dote to October 20,1882, 538
making a total of 1,724. There have
been 324 discharged, 109 par
doned, 26 escapes and 22 deaths.
That leaves now in the penitentiary 1,243
convicts. Of that number 1,130 are colored
and the remainder are whites. There are 112
white males and one white female; 1,100 col
ored males, and 30 colored females. The
oldest convict is 78, and tue youngest is twelve
years old. The income from the penitentiary
Moct In Boston sad Vie In CItIds the North and the
South Taffy.
Boston, Mass., November 11.—General
Grant and his son were driven to the New
England Manufacturers and Merchants’ in
stitute fair this afternoon, and was escorted
through the hu.lding by President Little.
General Grant w.:t much interested in the
y.ariqnuxhibttp ..-led nacfllyad-n■amjx
tesies front the exhibitors. General Grant
was later entertained at dinner, at which
Governor-elect Butler was present. General
Grant, responding to the toast to his health,
alluded to the exhibits at the fair from the
s .uthem states, aud said the fair will no
doubt go along way toward cementing that
feeling of friendship between the people of
the two sections which will make all alike
equally good citizens. [Applause], General
Butler, in reply to the sentiment in honor of
Massachusetts, said: “The 250 years
successful advance from the puritans to the
glorious exhibition of to-day testify to her
progress and show her path has always been
one of distinction. In mechanic arts, in
manufacturing industries, in everything that
goes to the production of the conveniences,
necessities and luxuries of life, Massachusetts
lias been the foremost state of the union. The
genius of her people, the apparently inbred
ingenuity and resources which has made the
name of “Yankee ’ celebrated throughout
the world, are a part of her inheritance, and
in this bran chof human products Massachu
setts has been pre-eminent. The mission of
Massachusetts lias been to perfect the macliin
ery and means of employing products of art
with diminished labor of man. The inven
tive genius of our people has made the arti
san of to-day the equal in all the comforts
and necessaries of life of the kings of former
generations.”
General Butler then spoke of the mission of
the institute as a stimulus to the attainment
of a higher excellence in arts. “It is generous
rivalry, indeed, that shall bring to us what
the south can do best. Let us do for them
what we can do best, and such rivalry will
engender no strife, save for greater excel
lence. Were I called upon to take a dis
tinguished stranger and show him wherein I
was more proud of Massachusetts, of her
honor, of her glory, 1 would first take him to
our common schools, next to our colleges,
and lastly to this, the high school of our me
chanic arts—the institute.”
A Priest Murdered.
Cincinnati, November 10.—A special from
Morrow, Ohio, to the Times-Star says: Father
J. B. U’Donoghue. pastor of the Catholic
church at that place, died this moruing from
the effects of a blow from a monkey wrench
administered by Timothy Green on Tuesday
last. Green, who had been arrested for
assault and had been bailed out, has
now been arrested on the charge of
murder in the first degree. Green, who is an
employe of the pump house on the railroad,
says Father O’Donoghue publicly denounced
Mrs. Green as a thief last Sunday before the
congregation, and that when he saw the priest
on Tuesday he resented the insult, and in an
encounter which followed the blow was
struck.
The Hampton Rioters.
Charleston, November 10.—No additional
details have been received concerning the riot
■which occurred at Hampton in this state on
Monday last, beyond the fact that earnest ef
forts are being made to arrest the negro who
killed police officer White in the discharge of
his duty. The riot was in no sense political,
and the Whites, who were attacked, were the
only sufferers.
Poisoned Plantation Bitters.
Rochester, X.Y., November 11.—At Naples,
Ontario county, yesterday while George Parr
was eating his dinner he drank a solution of
sugar of lead and laudanum by mistake from
a bottle labeled “Plantation Bitters,” and died
in two hours.
Bill Jones'* Case.
Washington, November 11.—The case against
Bill Jones lor an assault on the late Charles J.
Guiteau will he tried in the criminal court on
Wednesday next The conn adjourned to-day out
of respect to Clerk Middleton, deceased.
Herbert Spencer'* Departure.
New York, November lb—Herbert Spencer sail
ed for England to-day.
is $25,000 per annum, out of which are paid
the expenses of the department. The price
per capita per annum is $20.11. Captain
Nelms begins his report with a statement of
the locations und occupations of the convicts
now in the penitentiary.
where the convicts are.
Penitentiary No. 1 is in Dade connty, and
the hands are there employed in mining coal.
No. 2 is located in Dougherty, having four
branches, one in Polk county, mining iron
ore; one in Catoosa, quarrying rock; one in
Fulton, making brick; one in Dodge, making
trenrways, and doing other work. Peniten
tiary No. 3, removed from Greene county to
Jefferson, has several branch camps; "the
hands are engaged in railroad work, with one
camp in Oglethorpe county, under the con
trol of Mr. Jas. M. Smith. The remainder of
the convicts are in the hands of the authori
ties of the Marietta and North Georgia rail
road, by the special grant of the state, and
without charge. Forty-six miles of this
road have been constructed and are
now in running order. Forty miles remain
vet to be constructed in this state, a part of
which are now graded. The legislature of
Georgia, by act approved September 28,1881,
created the office of assistant keeper of the
penitentiary, which office the needs of the
penitentiary absolutely demanded. It ha*
been ably and most faithfully filled bp Cdto-
nel John R Towers, of the county of Floyd.
His monthly visits to each camp have been
of the greatest utility, and his reports having
the guarantee of his high character for probity
and intelligence, and made under oath, arc
entitled to the fullest confidence of the pub
lic. Each convict is examined by him and
his true condition is understood. These
monthly reports are regularly filed in this
office and are open to the inspection of the
public.
how punishment is inflicted. i '
An amendatory act provides, among other
things, for the mode of indicting punishment
when it is to be administered to convicts.
Under a penalty extending from six months
to two years imprisonment in the peniten
tiary, no one is allowed to stripe or punish a
convict unless authorized to do so by special
appointment, approved by the governor. Th : s
rule has been so rigidly enforced that onlyo-
• ase has beep made ogiunst an oft'endernjA
Mils utiviYcvislimh-p.oiireunou .s ••.••v'pt'Cn.
ing: '•Another merciful and benignant pro
vision of the act of 1881 requires the lessee
who has in his control a convict at the
expiration of his term of service, to provide
a certain amount of transportation and a suit
of clothes, worth not less than six dollars for
said convict. And while the lessees claim
that this charge is a condition interpolated
on the original lease, they are, without ex
ception, complying with the terms. The
public have in addition to other safe guaran
tees afforded by our penitentiary law for the
proper care and discipline of convicts in
our penitentiary, the visits and for
mal reports of our grand juries.
THE REFORMS EFFECTED.
Captain Nelms says that the reforms effect
ed by the state of Georgia in the penitentiary
system are not only substantial and unques
tionable, but they are really in advance of
those of most states in Christendom. This
has been the work, hard and anxious labor,
of fifty years. Confinement in walls of our
convicts, when the prison roll rarely reached
as many as two hundred names was such a
burden to the people of Georgia, that by act
of 24th of December, 1831, the penitentiary
was abolished. The substitutes provided for
the punishment of offenders against
the laws were so unsatisfactory,
that the general assembly of 1832 re-enacted
the law, established the old system. Again,
in 1851-’52, the load of taxation in support of
convicts became a matter of popular com
plaint and-more discussion of the abolition
of the old wall plan was heard. But not until
after the war did the inmates of the state
prison become so numerous and the burden
of their maintenance so intolerable that a
radical change was resolved on. By act of
the legislature, on the 28th of December,
1866, Governor Jenkins was authorized to
farm out the convicts on the best term* pos
sible. This law the governor did not
execute, as he was removed from of-
ficeby the general government. General
Ruger having succeeded Governor Jen
kins bv federal appointment, feeling
the embarrassment and pressure resulting
from a crowded state's prison, practically en
forced the previous act of the legislature
which the destruction of our state govern
ment under Governor Jenkins prevented.
Captain Nelms says “that right or wrong,
wise or unwise, good, bad or indifferent, let
the present plan of punishment of criminals
by the state be, General Ruger, under the
auspices and responsibility of the party that
at that day dominated every interest and
right in Georgia, is the power that inaugura
ted the present system.”
SOME HISTORY OF THE LEASE SYSTEM,
Captain Nelms gives a short history of the
lease system, stating that on the lltli day of
May, 1868, General Ruger made the first lease
of Georgia convicts—he made the second lease
in the following July, and on the oth of the
following November, Rufus B. Bullock, then
governor of the state, contracted with Messrs.
Grant & Alexander to take the entire convict
force of the state. Under the authority and
direction s! law, Governor Smith executed
the additional leases of our convicts, includ
ing the one under which we are now operat
ing. This lease will not expire before 1899.
Under its provisions the convicts in the con
trol of the several lessees are to be kept and
disciplined under the strict rules already re
ferred to, and for their services the state re
ceives $25,000, subject to no deduction.” He
says it will require something more patent
than the sneers of the captious fault-nnders
and habitual depreciator of all things south
ern, to induce the people of Georgia to throw
ceeds 1,200, and the cry is, still they come.”
THE APVAXTAGES OF THE SYSTEM.
To “corral” this multitude in brick walls,
eight-tenths of whom are unskilled negro
hands, would, in addition to our other bur
dens, prove such an intolerable load as to
arouse our entire tax paying, law-abiding
population to resistance.
“And why should we go back to the old
wall system?” asks Captain Nelms.
“Where can a man who has made himself
a convict by his crimes be more mercifully
punished than we are illustrating by our
system? A death rate of one per cent; re
convicted criminals but four per cent; es
capes numbering in all but twenty-six in two
years; a bill of fare as bountiful and varied,
if not far more so, than most of the laboring
population of the world enjoys; moral and
Religious influence and instruction constantly
supplied—we insist elevates far above the
province of doubtful experiment the present
pnnitive system of Georgia. We may
maintain our composure at least, if we
not brag, until other states more
pretentions and boastful place us at a disad
vantage in the comparison by showing bet
ter results. So far as my personal inspec
tion and that of my assistant can be accepted
as well-as the reports of the physician of the
penitentiary, tne lease system is working
with the least possible friction, tending to
disappointment or reasonable objection. The
'■iet of the convicts for the daily ration con-
■sts of three-quarters of a pound of bacon,
i ao pounds of bread, one pint of syrup,
turnips, with vegetables in their sea
son, in summer and peas,
and potatoes in winter, with fresh beef
and mutton when procurable. Their cloth
ing consists of four suits of clothes, two sum
mer and two winter suits, two pair of shoes,
9 bat or cap for the year’s supply. A change
° f clothing and a bath is exacted of every
convict once a week. The bedding consists
c. a cotton or shuck mattress with a sufficien
cy of blanket covering. The buildings for
shelter are securely and comfortably built,
a id no reasonable objections can be urged
against these when the purposes of their con
straction are considered.
There have been twenty-six escapes in the
last two years, all of which have either been
recaptured, or the fines collected which the
imposed for their escape, or suits brought
! .rOhe recovery of the fines due. This issaid,
•wever, of all the escapes from the lessees.
Kile are seven escapes from the force loaned
' y .the state to the Marietta and North Geor-
I -aiSailroad—for which the road authorities
i ( p'teud the road is not liable, as the use of
. he convicts in their possession is a gratuity
1 rom the state to the road and the public in-
terestedin it.
THE MISSING COURIER.
MR. JOHN HARALSON STILL NOT
HEARD FROM.
Tbs Conitltntlon'* Tom County Courier Who Lett
Home Tueedsy Gives his Friends Some Uneasi
ness by Falling to Come Up—A Graphic
Description of a Wild Bide.
A RECORD OF CONVICTS.
From March 10th 1817, to the 20th of Octo-
! er, 1882, the number received has amounted
o 6,84-1. Of this number, in sixty-five years
! hd discharges were 2,871 jthe deaths were 573
he escapes 816, and the pardoned 1,341. The
.umber of convicts atthe date of this report in
he penitentiary is 1,243. It may be inter
esting to state the fact that for the forty-nine
rears before the war the whole number of
iur penitentiary convicts was 2,029, all white,
.nd for the twenty-six years subsequent they
■iave been 4,815.
During the present state administration,
-'ay from the 31st December, 1876, there were
; n the state’s prison 1,108 convicts, and there
nave been received since to October 20th,
<882, 1,530. making a total of 2,658. Of this
dumber the discharges have been 897; the
»ardoned 197; the deaths 182; the escapes
119.
In strict justice to the state of Georgia it
should be claimed that nowhere else, under
’* ® ■■---u - death-rate be
prisoners—
... jetse sut
face, and who have been kept at penal servi
tude. The instance of the branch peniten
tiary of Mr. James M. Smith, in Oglethorpe
county, may be said to present a case almost
phenomenal—out of an average of seventy
prisoners kept closely at labor, in three years
lis lists do not report a single death or escape.
TWO GHOST STORIES.
ruler ua ' „ o o^r system, can such a death-r
<v 'pttuSysV., ' jich a large-number of .pris
ignant pro- taken from such an extended and dive
WOMEN’S FEET.
Apparition® That are Said to Have Appeared to
President Tyler’s Sister.
Washington, November 9.—Ghost stories,
which have suffered an eclipse for some time
appear to be undergoing a revival. Here is
one that is entitled to credence, if any are-
It is usually only servants or ignorant per
sons who see ghosts, but in this case the ap
parition was seen by two persons simulta
neously, both of them possessed of more than
common vigor of mind.
President Tyler had a sister who was reck
oned one the most gifted women of her day.
She was the namesake of Patrick Henry and
the pet of Jefferson. She lived with her fath
er, Governor Tyler, at Greenway, in Charles
City county, Virginia. One night, while
sleeping in the bed with a cousin, a young
woman of her own age, she awoke and saw
her mother, who had been dead for some
months, sitting in the window seat. It was t
bright night in summer, and under the win
dow was the bed of a younger sister who was
an infant at the time of her mother’s death.
The apparition leaned over the child and
gazed intently on it. Miss Tyler remembered
to have heard that an apparition would remain
as long as the eyes were fixed on it. She
looked steadily at it without the least alarm
Now comes the strangest part of the story,
The girl lying by her side said quietly, “Ma
ria, there is your mother.” Then the form
melted away.
Some years afterward, after Governor Ty
ler’s death, his daughter was at Green way
again. She was then married, and was visit
ing the first wife of her brother. President
Tyler. Hs was absent in Washington, being
in the senate. One night one of Mrs. Tyler’s
children became ill, and her sister-in-law
went to the)nursery to help take care of it. She
suggested that she should get a remedy from
her own room, and, taking a candle in her
hand, started for it. On her return, as she
passed the staircase, she saw her father stand
ing before her. The same idea flashed into
her mind that she could hold the apparition
by her fixed gaze. She*observed it carefully,
and recognized a certain suit of brown cloth
which she had sometimes seen the Governor
wear, and she was self-possessed enough to
look for a mole on his forehead which was a
birth mark. Mrs. Tyler, after waiting some
minutes, called to her to hasten, whereupon
the figure vanished.
A. Woman Found Guilty of Murder.
Emporia, Kan., November G.—The jury in
the case of Mrs. Mary Isabelle Martin, who
has been on trial here for several days past,
charged with poisoning Mrs. Krieger, in May
last, returned a verdict of murder in the first
degree. The history of the case, briefly
stated, is that, in May last, Mrs. Martin and
her son Mosely procured an insurance policy
on the life or Mrs. Krieger in favor of
Mosely. Shortly afterward Mrs. Krieger died
suddenly at the residince of Mrs. Martin, and
symptoms in the case indicated poison. An
analysis of Mrs. Krieger’s stomach was made,
and sufficient strychnine was found to pro
duce death. Mrs. Martin was arrested for
administering the poison, and was tried, with
the above results.
Out of nearly four hundred men detailed to
report the election in the 7th and 9th dis
tricts for The Constitution Tuesday, it is re
markable that only one failed to come in
with the returns. This is the sixth day now
since the election, and the missing courier
has not been heard from. It is true that his
home is in the mountains, probably not less
than sixty miles from a telegraph station, but
is singular that a man detailed for
certain piece of work should
be so long in reporting. Out of the counties in
the seventh and ninth districts,Towns was the
only one that was not fully reported in The
Constitution on the day after the
election. The collection of the
news in that county was left
to Mr. John Haralson, a brother of Mr. Frank
L. Haralson, state librarian, and of Mr. Will
Haralson, of the wild land office. Mr. Will
Haralson consolidated the returns of Union
and made the dashing ride of forty-four
miles through the Blue Ridge mountains
from Blairsville to Clarkesville, where
he met the special engine on the Northeast
ern railroad. Union and Towns are adjoin
ing counties and then John Haralson, who
was to report the latter county, was to join
his brother at Nacoochee and turn over the
returns of Towns county to him. He left
his home in Blairsville Tuesday morning for
Towns county and that is the last that The
Constitution has heard from him. Mr. Frank
Haralson and Mr. Will Haralson, who are
in the city at their posts of duty, are growing
uneasy at their brother’s continued failure to
report, and say they have not the slightest
idea what the difficulty with him is. It is
impossible to reach the home of the missing
man with a dispatch, and it would take a let
ter nearly a week to go there.
WHAT HIS BROTHER SAYS.
Mr. Will Haralson said yesterday: “I have
not the slightest idea what has become of my
brother. We ate breakfast together at our
home in Blairsville, Union county, Tuesday
morning, and about 7 o’clock he started for
Briceton, where he was to vote, and was then
to go on to Hiawassee. the county seat of
Towns county, and collect the returns. He
was to join me on Tuesday night at Na
coochee, and was to deliver to me there the
returns from Towns. We arranged to meet
at the forks of the road at the Williams store
at 11 o’clock Tuesday night. I had thirty-
five miles to ride to that point, and John had
only twenty. He had three relays of horses
and I had five to that point, and one be
tween there and Clarksville. I left Blairs
ville at half past six o’clock Tuesday night,
and rode at full speed to Nacoochee, making
the thirty-five miles in a little more
than four hours ; so that I was at the place of
rendezvous a little before eleven o’clock.
Before I reached there and when I was on
the summit of one of the big hills I shouted
with all my might so that he might hear me
and know that I was coming. As I reached
the Williams store I found everything quiet
there and my brother no where to be seen
I waited a few minutes and then rode on t
mile farther to my uncle’s, at whose house
my sixth horse awaited me. They
had heard nothing of my brother
and turning I retraced mj journey,
going to the fork, find then np’^ife Hiawassee
road a mile and alialf to a bridge:; that I knew
my brother would be compellcuto pass. I
got off my horse, and sitting down on the
bridge took out my watch. It was just 11
o’clock as I struck a match and looked at it.
I waited there exactly an hour, and as John
did not come, I could wait no longer, and
mounting my horse,
I GALLOPED OFF TOWARDS CLARKESVILLE.
Six miles out I was met by Mr. Jones, who
was in a buggy, drawn by two fast trotters,
and my horse was turned over to a negro, and
I went into Clarkesville in the buggy, reach
ing there at 2 o’clock. You met me there at
the special engine,” he continued, addressing
a Constitution reporter, “and you know the
balance of my story.”
“Have you no idea, whatever, what has
become of your brother? ’
“None in the world. You know as much
about it as I do. He was not a drinking man
and is a member of the church. I cannot
believe that he was drinking and could not
do his work. He had only twenty-one miles
t3 ride ? while I had thirty-five to make in the
same time. He had three relays of horses,
which was enough for that distance. He had
no fords to cross, and my road was no worse
than his. Both roads are mountainous, and
although he had never been over his road, it
was simply the plain highway and
could not have been missed,
think it possible that his horse might have
fallen with him and hurt him. I know that
my horse fell with me once. I was dashing
down the side of the Chattahoochee
when about forty steps from the ford I at
tempted to check up, but my horse was mak
ing such time that he could not stop and
plunged up to his belly in the river. As he
went in he stumbled, and his head went
under. I was so busy trying to keep him out
of deep water that I was wet considerably
and now have a severe cold from the effect.’
(hat has been such a triumphant success as
bur penitentiary system. In the 49 years of
onr history previous to the present plan, our
convicts cost us more than a half million of
dollars to make np the deficit, after crediting
onr penitentiary with every dollar earned by
its convicts. These convicts were all white
men, and rarely, if ever, exceeded, at any one
Accident and Murder.
Macon, November 10.—The iron bridge of
the Georgia railroad over the Oconee river at
Athens fell to-day, killing one workman and
woundingsix others. The dead body of Stephen
McKavitt, a farmer of Putnam county, was
fonnd in a gully near his plantation to-day.
It is supposed he was murdered on Monday
muster call ISO names. The average number last by negroes. One negro. Calvin Jordan,
for some time back now on our hands ex- has been arrested.
“GWINE TO GLORY, SUAH!”
Knoxville, Tenn., November 10.—Sam
and Milt Hodge, (colored) brothers, were
hanged here to-day in the presence of about
8,000 persons. Both were swung off from a
wagon at 1:20 p.m. ,and at the end of ten min
utes both were dead. Religious services were
held at the place of execution. The doomed
men spoke for about ten minutes, each say
ing they were prepared to die and were
“Gwine home to glory.” They warned
those present to beware of their fate. As the
black cap was pulled over Milton’s face, he
sang in a strong voice “Gwine Home on de
Evenin’ Train,” and Samuel was singing
“Gwine Home to Die no More,” when he was
choked by the rope. The weather was beau
tiful and good order was preserved. The
crime for which the Hodge brothers were
hanged was the killing of their brother-in-law
James McFarland, over a year ago. They
seized him and tied his hands and Milton
shot him. They killed McFarland because
he had ill-treated his wife, their sister.
Death of the Original Slave Deliverer
New York, November 9.—Francis George
Shaw died at West New Brighton, Staten
Island, last night. He was one of the earliest
and most prominent contributors to and ar
dent workers in the “underground railroad,”
by which slaves were forwarded from the
south into Canada. He was the father of
Colonel Shaw, who commanded the first regi
ment of colored United States troops, and
who was killed at the head of his regiment at
Hilton Head.
Killed His Son for Disobedience.
Richmond, November 9.—At Sewell’s Point,
Norfolk county, this morning, Willis Todd
attacked his son for disobedience and killed
him. Todd was arrested and is now in jail.
Fatally Beaten.
Lynchburg, Va., Novemoer 10.—In a quar
rel on Tuesday, at Elk Creek polling pre
cinct, Grayson county, Owen Gambell was
attacked by several men and fatally beaten.
Others were hurt but not seriously,
And the Covert. la Which They Hide—What a
Merchant Pay®*
“Atlanta women have the biggest feet,” said
a prominent hosiery man, yesterday, “1 have
ever tried to incase in silk,lisle or balbriggan.
Why, I have had some of them to go all
through the stock, and professing not to be
suited, inquire for stockings for their hus
bands, and under the pretense of laying in a
surprise for the good man, really measure
their own supplies.”
Perhaps tne stockings surprise him all the
same?”
Oh, no; you know large women are much
easier to manage than small ones. Thev have
a more confiding way about them, while the
small ones are too fnsky to be readily com- *
prehendsd. The variegating covering of long
and cross-striping is not so much in demand
as formerly, and is evidently going oul of
fashion. For a while you could see nothing
but stripe—that is, as far as you were permit"
ted to see. How high? Well, we have seen
them % length but the generality only
passed the knee. These real long stockings,
when once the owner has got
successfully on the inside, give the
lady all the appearance of an equestrienne as
she stands ready for the hoop act. But it
takes a shapely limb—so I should judge—to
look well in them. The shorter lengths do
not come so high in prices, and a great many
people are under the sad necessity of limiting
their desires by their purse. Here, now, is a
beautiful sky-blue—the finest silk—$7.50 a
pair—fit for a bride. You looked shocked?
Just feel the texture of this cardinal-red
hose.”
And with a feeling akin to profanation, the
reporter took up the tempting beauties and
his thoughts wandered to the future.
“How many of these make a set?”
“A lady usually has three pairs to match
her dresses: cardinal red, this shade of heav
enly blue and a pale pink. No piece of lace
or ribbon ever gets more care than these very
three pairs of delicate stockings. As thev
are only worn at parties or in the honse with
very low slippers—so as to show between the
fore leather and the edging of the skirt—
they are worn a long time before
they are consigned to the washtub. When
removed from the foot they are turned inside
out, well brushed and perhaps hung on an
open chair before a window. In the morn
ing sprays of delicate perfume—not cologne—
are sprinklea over them, when they repose in
a box especially preserved for them until the
next call is made. They are not suffered to
wear out if patching and mending can avail.
The should stand a season’s wear.”
“Please show me some real cheap stock
ings?”
“Wehave them here for 12J4 cents, but I
can tell you in confidence that they are not
worth having. They are colored very bril
liantly, and as they lay in the box look as
nice as the others. But the coloring is not in
original dye, it is a sort of poisonous paint
cheaply put on. The coloring matter will
adhere to the legs—beg pardon, I meant to
say limbs—and if there should happen to be
any ruptures of the skin, the consequence
might be serious. Fifty cents a pair is as cheap
as you can go and get an article wortli hav
ing.”
‘And in misses’ hose?”
‘Fancy stripes and solid colors are about in
equal demand. And speaking of this reminds
me that the saddest thing in life is to see a
woman with a gigantic foot trying to encase
it in a misses stocking. Most misses of twelve
in Atlanta, however, are out of place nt the
misses counter—their feet have long out
grown the largest accommodation there."
~ By this time the reporter felt that he was
the cynosure of a dozen indignant female eyes,
and looking up a shudder passed over him as
he found himself under the gaze of his pro
spective mother-in-law, and beat a hasty re
treat.
WHAT ACTRESSES WEAR.
For style iiFstockings, there is no place like
the stage. Mary Anderson is on the stocking
question what a biblomaniac is on books. She
must have a ton of stockings, all exquisitely
embroided or clocked with fine feather-
stitching. They have been gathered from all
E arts of the world, many being purchased by
er private costumer. Those for winter wear
are heavy silk, hand-knit, or finer goods from
the loom, lined with white fleece.
Aimee takes the bun on general principles.
She is never without new shoes. The squeak
of new leather is sweeter to her ear than is
her own squeaking to the auditory nerves of
her friends. A pair of red silk tassels always
dangle from her boot tops, and a myrtle green
stocking, always worn, in commemoration of
a Spanish lover who presented his heart and a
box of the above novelties at the same time.
He turned^ out a perfidious wretch, and al
though she' ground his heart with her foot,
never changed the stockings.
Kellogg rigs up with genteel taste for the
stage, but her private goods are cut with
frieze and dado, making tbree colors of her
shapely limbs; enough to set the straightest
eyes on the bias. She has a weakness for com
color, and her black, red, blue and maroon
hose are embroidered just above the shoe-top
and half way to the knee with borders of
yellow daisies, corn flowers or vines, hung
with tinsel berries. All these extras are done
by her mother.
Minnie Palmer is young, but she knows all
about shoes and stockings. She has an indi
viduality that most actresses lack. Her love
for st’ll life extends to her silk and lisle-
threat novelties, all of which serve as a back
ground for nice, ripe cherries, berries, nuts
and small fruit.
If Margaret Mather knew about the mag
nifying influence of angles, bars, borders and
blocks, she would scorn black, plain blue,
lemon and white. She has little feet, that are
always prettily shod, and nothing in tlje stock
is considered too expensive, provided' it wins
her admiration.
Miss Winant leans toward blue, and Carre-
no chocolate, with satin garters of blue. Em
ma Thursby laces her boots over polkadots,
and Emma Abbott selects latitudial stripes in
fine lisle thread. Sara Jewett has tact, and
knows the efficacy of a cardinal.
The spindle limbs of Bernhardt borrow ro
tundity from bull red, blocked blue and dull
pink fretted with gray. She could not be in
duced to wear white, as she says, “They do
not of themselves impart any beauty nor
bring out what there is.”
Mme. Patti has the plumpest of legs that
bang over her trim little boots, abreviating
her really large feet, but finds salvation in
ebony stockings, that are made for her by a
Lyons firm.
Carey doted on dull gray, brown and set
blue picked out with bright silks and gold
thread. For full dress, on or off the stage,
and also for tights, flesh color was always se
lected. «
It is said that much of the graceful kicking
of Lotta is due to the happy effects produced
by the broken lines and curves of her hose,
some of which cost $10 a pair.
A Mayor Under Charge or Murder.
Danville, Va., November 9.—The trial of
John Henry Johnston, mayor of this city,
indicted for the murder of John E. Hatcher,
has been postponed to the December term of
court, and Johnston was put under $5,000
bail.
Exploring Steamer Wrecked.
Copenhagen. November 9.—A report has
reached here that the Danish arctic exploring
expedition has met with a serious disaster by
he wreck of. the steamer Dymphna on the
iberian coast.
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