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pTTT'T T7I FAYETTEVILLE GA LBGnggs 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... s I 3 £ • FOURTH DISTRICT. § •a S3 O Ch e an O sv £ o “J § a a' X ** H b 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. indistinct pbint