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WEEKLY ■CONSTITUTION
VOLUME X3V.
TUESDAY MOENING, ^OYEMBEE 28, 1882.
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PRICE 5 CENTS
DURING THE WEEK.
INCIDENTS AND HAPPENINGS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
Daatb Of Tborlcw Mt«d-8now In DIS«r«nt Bsotlona
o. lha Country—Horrible Deeth of Two Pud.
diem of Binn(n*bem-Tbe looel Hewn
Transpiring During ibn Week.
Tentaf. N.remberSl,
A strong efftor in to bo made by the rcpublteani
lortoeadmissionof Dakotab into the union, bo as
to secure the benefit of the two republican sena
tors. The Chinese embassy to the United States is
to be recalled. The new rules hare at last been
adopted by the British parliament Chattanooga
is said to be afflicted with small pox. President
Gravy, of France, is in improved health. Professor
Henry Draper, o! Virginia. Is dead. Senator Mor
sel, of Maine, is seriously 111. Snow is reported in
Texas. At IS ount Springs, Ala., Dr. Bassett was
killed by a farmer with whom he sought a settle
ment At Lynchburg, Virginia, a desperate mother
killed her child and then committed suicide. Pat-
tfson's plurality in Pennsylvania Is 4 ,202. The Iron
Interests of the country are greatly disturbed. In
New Haven, Connecticut, the Sunday violators
are being prosecuted.
in the errr.
Marla Boyd, a negro woman, wounded by a stray
ball. Dr. Btrickler, of Virginia, will assume the
pastorate of the Central Presbyterian church in a
few days. Judge Htllyer has resigned the judge
ship of the Atlanta circuit. Dr. H. D. Spalding
resigned from the board of education, and Mr. IV.
A. Hemphill was deeded in his place. Longshaw,
whose proper name is Morton, is in the calaboose
awaiting extradition to answer six indictments in
Memphis. A guest of the Markham bouse has in
stituted suit against the proprietor of the house for
$10,000 damages, alleged to havi been inflicted by
the bite of a rat. A heavy storm raged all day.
Charles Farley, a negro man, accidentally shot
himself in the breast, and the wound is likely to
prove mortal.
tVvdsasday, November32.
The ways and means committee of congress, in
session at Washington, expresses itself in favor of
an abolition of the Internal revenue system. Thur-
low Weed, the great abolitionist, is dead. Mr. Mc
Mahon, the New York memberof the tariffcommls
sion, is dead. Captain Hopkins, of the United
States navy, has been cashiered for deserting bis
post at Pensacola during the yellow fever epidemic.
At Prattling. Ky., a jealous lover shot his sweet
heart dead, and then killed himself. Colonel
James Cowardln, at the Richmond Dispatch, is
dead. The congressional committee investigating
the progress of work on the Mississippi river.is pur
suing a course Inimical to the interest of that river.
General Wolseley has been gazetted as a peer. The
Alabama temperance convention passed resolutions
favoring stringent license laws. In Munich two
army officer* fought a duel with pistols, and both
were killed. The French lullleries palace has been
put up by the government (or sale. In Walcott,
Dakotah, a man was frozen to death.
IN THE CITY.
The art loan, in the interest of the Young Men’s
library association, is in progress. Carpenters are
in d< mand. On Harris street the colored Presby
terians have finished a w church. The bodies
of four of the negro rioters auged at Eastman,
are in an Atlanta dissecting room. Conductor J.
D. Grant, of the State road, has been arrested for
carrying concealed weapons. William Pittman, of
Charlotte, was robbed of $120 in the car shed. A
member of the demi-monde was married to a
prominent mechanic, and the couple left for Mex
ico. About thirty families of North Carolina pco-
k pie passed through the city yesterday en route to
Texas. Ihcre were more titan oue hundred and
fifty persons in the party. There are now in the
penitentiary 1,248 convicts, divided as follows:
Company No. 1,279: company No. 2, 381, company
No. 3, 872; Marietta and North Georgia railroad,
196. The trustees of the State university had
meeting at which they urged upon the legislature
tho acceptance of the $30,lG0 ten dered that col
lege by Senator Brown.
Thursday. Naveaibar *8.
Governor Stephens wants to be called "mister.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad. In connection
with the New York Herald, has arranged for the
laying of another cable across the Atlantic. At
Little Rock, two farmers fought over a whisky bill
and one of them was killed. Gulrseppc Pelletta
in New York, murdered his wife. Governor-elect
Cleveland, of New York, has resigned the mayor
alty of Buflklo. War between Brazil and the Ar
gentine republic is imminent. Robert Mayfield
and Alexander King, two colored puddlers in a
Birmingham furnace, met* horrible death by fall
ing into the molten iron. Sunday violators a e
being arrested In Cincinnati. The Hartford cotton
mills In New York, has been burned down by an
exploding lamp. The trial of Arab! Pasha has been
suspended.
IN THE CITV.
Henry May and D. W. Kellett pleaded guilty in
the United States circuit court to passing counter
felt money. Charles >annaford, an Atlanta letter-
carrier, for robbing the mails, got a sentence of
twelve months. Mr. Malcom Johnson has resigned
the freight agency of the Richmond and Danville
road In Atlanta. Mr. J. C. Thompson caught a
'possum on Peachtree. The new gas works are
completed. Che third cotton factory in Atlanta
will bo completed by the first of January. A con
vcntlon of ordinaries of the different counties as
sembled in the Markham house. Judge Ilillyer
has formally resigned the judgeship of the Atlanta
circuit.
Friday, November 84.
The treasury secret service report states that the
counterfeiting of money has been almost broken
up. The emperor of Germany has conferred a dec
oration on the Duke of Connaught, which is inter
preted as an act of courtesy to England. Gould
represents the country as being in a prosperous
condition, and no occasion exists for a financial
scare. Much agitation prevails in the iron trade,
and many strikes are reported from various parts of
the country. Tho new Egyptian police consists of
Copts, Arabs, Turks, Italians, Austiiaus and other
nationalities. The grand juries In Utah failed to
find Indictments against bigamists, owing to Mor
mon influence. An extensive system of robbing
the mail exists on the lines between New York and
Denver. Malignant diphtheria Is raging around
Milierton, New kork.
IN THE CITY.
The bar association of the city, hhs endorsed
Marshall J. Clarke for the judgeship of the Atlanta
circuit. The public schools will close ou Wednes
day, November 30. Milk retails at 25 cents a gallon
Officer Mike White, who was so long at the point ol
death, is now nearly well. Dr. W. P. Harrison
to lecture in Atlanta uext mouth. Rev. J. H. Mar
tin has received a large collection of minerals from
friends In New Jersey as a compliment for his poem
on the centennial. The cow ordinance is being en
forced in Atlanta.
Satarday, November 35.
Commissioner Rtum, also favors a general aboil
tion of the Internal revenue taxes. The post office
department has decided that a fourth class post
master cannot serve as a member of a state legls-
£tuie. William Richards, in Quebec, Canada, was
hanged. Thurlow Weed buritd. 157 business
failures reported during the week throughout the
United States. Alabama elects her s.nator on
Tuesday, and Morgan will probably be re-elected.
Miss Mattie Christian, in Little Rock, Arkansas
took by mistake a dore of strychnine in place of
quinine, and died The Russian students are ex
hibiting rebellious symptoms.
IN THE CITY.
Remenyi has been in the city. 150 inmates in
Fulton county jail. Master George Fonle’s dog
caught a rabbit in the city hall park. Game is
growing plentiful around Atlanta. Two rabbits
and a ’possum have been caught in the city within
a week. Rev. W. A. Candler isia the city. Depu
ty Collecter Irish has seized the distillery ol William
Dewitt in Gwinnett.
Sunday, November SO.
In Dublin a detective was assassinated, and one
of the assassins was also killed. The marshal and
other District of Columbia officers, and several fed
eral! officers have been removed by the presidents
because of their sympathy with the star route
thieves. Robeson lost $70,000 in the congressional
campaign. Don Cameron will not be able to regain
his seat in the senate. Councilman O'Neil in Dub
lin, Ga., murdered by two negroes. Mrs. ScovlUe
has secured a new trial. John A. Cockerel has
come off clear before the grand jnry of SL Louis on
the charge of having murdered A. W. Slayback.
IN THE CITY.
Tom Mills, on trial for robbing the mails in At
lanta. lias been acquitted. The Art Loan is in suc
cessful progress. The Ohio editors will visit Atlan
ta on the 6th of December. Dr. Roach, J. B. Good
win and John H. Seals are candidates for the
mayoralty. W. M. McLean, four miles from the
city, had his gin house burned. Hon. J. L. M.
Curry is in the city. The .Ilill monument fund
now amounts to $3,372.40.
BUZZ AND BOUNCE.
THE GQ.SS1P THEY HEAR IN NEW
YORK.
Bpioy Talks and Bright Aneedotea'ol tbo Men ant
Thlrgs Fast and Present in ths Metropolis of
the Hew World—A Hovel Csss In
Court-Theatrical Foots, Eto.
The Opelika idols.
The Constitution sent a correspondent to investi
gate the Opelika riots. The trouble if owing to the
election ol F. M. Dunbar to the mayoralty by the ne
gro vote. The white citizens refuse to recognize hi9
authority—hence the disturbances.
THE NEW RED RIDING HOOD.
From the Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Thesubjectof this sketch was a clever little girl,
who derived her odd name from wearing on her head
the sleeve of one of her father's old red flannel shirts
She was an Independent little piece,and when asked
why her mother didn’t buy hera new bonnet said
she would “Just sleeve wear whatshehad on.” When
one of the neighbor’s children sneeringly said,
Your pa gets drunk,” Little Red Riding Ho d re
sponded, "Your pa would, too, but be can't afford
it;” and when the next-door hoy ill-naturedly said,
“Your mother takes in washing,” Little Red Riding
Hood answered, "Nhe don’t take iu much when
yonr mothergets the first whack atthe line.” It
will be seen from these incidents In her life that,
though little read, she was well posted, and the con
fidence with which her mother dispatched her to
carry codfish balls down into Htoora l'own to hers.ck
grandmother is easily understood. Holding the lead
dime which her mother had given her for car fare
tightly in her hand, Littl - Red Riding Hood started
fora street car, and, having a few minutes to wait
mproved the opportunity by setting up a howl that
attracted the attention of a benevolent old gentle
man, to whom she explained her cause for grief.
She was going, she said, toherpoor.sick grandmoth
er, and had just been put off a car because her dime
was couiiterteit. The gentleman gave her a quarter
and put her on the next car. The conductor In due
time called upon Little Red Riding Hood for a fare,
when she produced the lead dime. “This iscoumer-
feit.”said the conductor, whereat Riding Hood felLto
sobbing as if her heart would break: the conductor
passed her, an old lady gave her a dime, and ah y
shared some gingerbread wilh her. Arrived near her
grandmother's house Little Red Riding Hood sat
down and ate the codfi.-h hails; then she bought
some milk from a drunken milkman, upon whom
she passed the counterfeit dime, receiving from him
sixteen cents in change, after which she proceeded
to h r grandmother's and stayed with her three
In contrasting this story with the original Little
Red Riding Hood the reader should bear iu miud
the disadvantage our heroine labored under in hav
ing to be her own wolf, a role which she sustained
with signal ability. There does not appear to be
anything more to add, except that the town is full
of our kind of Little Red Riding Hoods.
CURIOUS HISTORY OF A WILL.
Special to The Constitution
New Yoke, November 23.—I have just heard ol
one of the most comical scenes that prob
ably was ever enacted in a court room.
The scene was in Erie, Pennsylvania. Frank
Weiss, editor of “The Sonntagsgast,” a humorous
illustrated weekly, was indicted for libel for pub
lishing a ridiculous cartoon of John Firch, a
prominent member of the Young Men’s Christian
association, and the law and order league, who had
led a crusade against the liquor dealers. In finding
the jury the district attorney claimed the ancient
right of ‘standing aside" any juror until the box
was filled with jurors acceptable to the common
wealth, practically rulicg out all Germans land
Irishmen who favor d the liquordtaleri He sir wed
that the right existed in an unrepealed statute of
King Edward, the first, in the ninth century and.
sustained as good law by the supreme court of Penn
sylvania, because the statute bad never been re
pealed by parliament or legislature. The court
ruled that the “stand aside” was still good law,
and things looked blue (or Weiss, on the next day
Weiss came into court with an armful of ancient
legal literature and asserted his right under the
ruling of the court to establish his Innocence by
ordeal or trial by combat He contended that if
unrepealed ancient procedure is good law his
claim to demand the “wagere of battel” was os just
and equitable as the “stand aside” privilege.
Shrieks of laughter followed the sad-faced man's
demand, irresistably comical in itself, but the
more exquisite from the fact that he is a little, at
tenuated, weak-chested, asthmatic body, weighing
only 98 pounds, while his adversary is a herculean
Christian who tips the scale at 200 pounds, and
before whom in a personal encounter the funny
editor would melt away like the hoar frost under
the morning sun. Weiss has carfully drawn up all
his rights under unrepealed laws, and he proposes
to make this judical district sick of King Edward
the first These alleged rights are:
! *jurr ; 5 ' ard ' and 1111 Is right on Brr-'-Iway. Then
j ^ e ; i» Vanderbilt’s old depot, once Bamum’ship-
yr. n >me. and now the Madison Square garden. It
is iat, occupied and is seldom us»d, except for walk-
tioil ftehes: and although William H. gets 510.100
ifcqh'. , that does not pay him for wear aud tear.
1\and k meriean Institute building on 53d street is
a-3nirerof the same kind; while a large hotel os
P'Y a dway has stood empty all this year.
• *
Yen would think that the frequency of fires In
tneuters would teach people caution, but it don’t
Theater-goers of the sterner sex are familiar with
a habit which has lately been exposed in the pres*.
It is the beastly custom of so many men of sticking
entr’ancte cigars and cigarettes up their sleeves if
the curtain is rung up before the smoke is finished.
At Haverly’s theater one night this week a round
dozen and a half men and boys tried to go in car
rying lighted cigars and cigarettes. These they
s:ow away in corners when they get inside, and
; ist think of the chance of fire. One man actually
bad to he carried out before he would give up his
<igar. These were all well dressed orchestra
fe-tt-holders of whom I speak.
Pleeea Flacked From a Fire and Afterword Pat To
gether ti» Prove a Wire’s Claim.
From the Pall Ma’i Garotte.
One has heard of wilts written on bedposts, con
cealed in haylolts and flower-pots, and other possi
ble and impossible places, but probably no will has
ever passed through stranger vicissitudes than one
admitted to probate by Sir James Hannen. The
testator was an engineer on board a channel steam
er. and made his will giving everything to his wife,
and gave the wili to her. Some time
afterward they had a quarrel, during which
Fkc tore the will up and threw the pieces into the
fire. The husoand picked up the pieces and put
them into an envelope labelled “Poison,” but raid
he would make a new one. However, several years
afterward, he died of small-pox on bis steamer, and
on his clothes being searched before burning, the
envelope with the pieces of the will inside it was
luckily found and given to his wife. This brand
plucked from the burning has now been pieced to-
jether aud will be deposited at Somers House; a
lesson to all time to wives not to lose their tempers
too f.-rr if they do not wish also to lose their hus
band’s property, or to save it only by a lawsuit.
Never too Un; Oats.
Columbus Times.
It may be possible;to raise too large a crop el oats
in Georgia, but it hasn’t been done yet. The Daw
son Journal says: “Oats is the most profitable crop
that can be grown in this country, Contrary to ex
pectation. they are worth right now seventy-five
cents in >he market, while corn can be bought for
fifty cents. _
New I rove.. for Keeping Flab Fresh.
Halifax, N, (?., November 25.—A company has
been organizing ncre for the exportation of fresh
fish to European aud American markets under a
ne x process for preserving fish in a perfect condi
tion for eight weeks.
Explosives In the Mails.
Fai i. River, Mass., November 25.—Walter J Bul
lock, a post-office employe, had his hands severely
burned by explosion the of a package which came
through the mails. The contents of the package are
unknown.
Modri-n Engines «f War.
Vienna, November 25.—The Austrian war minis
try has obtained a land torpedo capable of defend
ing u mountain pass a mile long. It requires
eighty men to work it.
Uncle Rufus Hatch, talking about Vanderbilt,
siys: I do not hate him. I do not hate anybody,
tut he is a hog. He never did anything in his life
for anybody. He owes a man on Staten Island now
$5 which he borrowed years ago. He is a second-
class horse jockey, he Is. Say, do you know any
thing about alligators? An alligator has a decayed
worm in its tongue. It lies with its jaws open, and
takes in everything—everything. Everything crawls
in there to eat upon that decayed tongue. When
it is filled the jaws flop and there is a crash. Van
derbilt is a 1,700-foot alligator. He is lying in Wall
street with his jaws open, taking In everything.
Some of these days his jaws will flop, and oh what
a crash this country will see! There is a financial
revolution coming—a crash.
a”*
. The Harper’s “Christmas,” which is just out, is
the sensation. An edition of 300,000 was printed,
and 100,000 for England. It looks now as if the
whole edition would be sold, and a new edition
needed.
Albert Pulitzer, the editor of the new morning
paper, the “Journal,” was the correspondent who
offered Bismarck $100,000 to write a series of ten ar
ticles for the New York Herald, and who cornered
Gladstone into his first interview. Mr. Bennett was
; in Algiers, and alter thinking over all the men he
First—The "ordeal of fire.” He claims that he . knew - *^«S ra phed Pulitzer as the “chekist," to go
can demand the establishment of bisinnocence by ' anddo 411 is work.
offering to plunge h.'s arm in billing oil, pick up
red-hot iron, or walk barefoot over nine red-hot
ploughshares, and that if he sustain no hart by the
operation his innocence will be proved, and the
costs belong to the prosecutor. But this test, after
mature deliberation, he will waive. “All that re
in view of the art exhibition in your city, it
may interest your readers to know that Raphael’s
Madonna, much the costliest picture ever seen in
America, is now in New York and will be pat on
exhibition the 10th of next December. It cost $200,-
000 a short time ago, and was bought by Mr. John-
mains," says Weiss, “is to demand the trial by com- ; stone, of England. When ho agreed to lenditfor
bat, and may God defend the guiltless.” He de* 1 exhibition he came over with It, and as he goes to
scribes the procedure of this combat as follows, pro- ’.Utah fora fortnlent's trip will not allow it to be
ducing ancient authority in its support: .'opened till he gets back. The greatest interest
The judges and clergy are to assemble on a given j is f e i t in it, as its exhibition will be the
day, aud before them the accused person must i most notable art-event of our history,
fling down his glove and declare his intention to de- • _ ... ***
fend the same with his body. The prosecutor will
then pick it up and announce his readiness to
make good the appeal, body for body. Then both
men will faring out their battle axes or javelins,
and. kneeling before the judges, will make oath
Talmage, in his sermon Sunday, called atten
tion to a fact not generally known, nesays that
'at the last election a New York newsboy was made
governor of Connecticut. Years ago young Waller
was heard in the streets of the metropolis crying at
that the weapons have not been charmed by witch- ,he to P of hls volce 1116 “ ames of the dail y journals.
Little did people then imagine that they were drop
ping pennies into the hand of a coming governor.
All hail to the newsboys! When Governor Waller
ol Connecticut, comes to be iuaugui&'ed at Hartford
all the newsboys of America should get a day off
and have a torchlight procession.
The servant girl question is more and more vex-
jr their '- v r ns - every day. Just now itis simply impossible to
*¥ ' L Vast any except the raw Irish variety. Let a house-
OVER THE RIVER.
Over the river they beckon to me.
Loved ones who've crossed to the further side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see.
Bui their voices are lost in the dashing tide;
l here's one with ringlets of sunny gold.
And eyes the reflection of heaven’s own blue:
He crossed in the twilight, gray and cold.
And the pale mist hid him from mortal view.
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gates of the city we could not see.
Over the river—over the river—
My brother stands waiting to welcome me.
Over the river the boatman pale
Carried another, the household pet:
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale,'
Darling Minnie! I see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands.
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark:
We felt it glide from the silver sands.
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe on the farther side.
Where all the ransomed and angels be:
Over the river—the mystic river—
My childhood's idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores
Who cross with the boalman cold and pale;
We hear the dip of the golden oars.
And catch a gleam of the snowy sail;
And lo: they have passed from our yearning hearts,
Who cross the stream and are gone for aye.
We may not sunder the veil apart.
That hides from our vision the gates of day;
We only know that their barques no more
Mav sail with us over life’s stormy sea:
Yet somewhere, 1 know, on the unseen shore.
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.
And I sit and think when the sunset’s gold
Is flushing river *nd hill and shore.
1 shall one day stand by the water cold.
And list for the sound ol the boatman’s oar;
I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail,
I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand,
I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale.
To the better shore of the spirit land;
I shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet will the meeting he,
When over the river—the peaceful river-
craft, etc. This done, each is to grasp hisaxe in rhe
right hand, and the left hand of the other in hi.-,
left. The accused person to say: “Hear this, 0
man, who called thyself John Firch by the namt
of baptism, that 1, who call myself Frank Weirs by '
the name of baptism, did not libel you, so help me
God and all the saints.” To which the accuser will
reply: “Hearme, Oman, wboml hold by their
and who called thyrelf FrunkWelw ’ r :V
baptism, that I do hold thee perjured, and this !
will prove with my body, so help me God and all
the saints.” At a signal from Judge Galbraith the
men will come out of their corners and go for each
other, and his cause shall be deemed just who suc
ceeds in carving up the other before the golDg
down of the sun.
The merriment caused by Weiss’s claim can bet
ter be imagined than described. One stout juror
came near having a fit of apoplexy, and an
other laughed himself into imbecility. During the
roars of laughter Weiss stood without a smile on
h b face, a picture of solid, substantial misery.
While conscious of the absurdity of his claims and
the impossibility of substantiating them, Weiss
made the appeal with a tragic earnestness that
almost Induced convulsions. The upshot is likely
to be that the case will be laughed out of court.
**»
I had occasion the other day to call at
the office of “The Churchman” which
is perhaps the most successful religious
periodical published in America. In fact
the Mallory Brothers made the mouey out of this
paper with which they built the Madison Square
theater. At the office of the Churchman I found
the Rev. Dr. Mallory and his brother M. H., sur
rounded by a number of preachers with white ties
and long black coats buttoned to the throat. I
asked Mr. Mallory a question connected with the
theater, and he stepped up to the telephone and
consulted with Daniel Frohman, manager of Mad-
son Square before giving me an answer. I watched
the faces of the clergymen present who I knew con
tributed to the Churchman, and at the same time
denounced theaters and theater-going from the
pulpits—to see if they expressed surprise to find
their office and the theater connected with a tele
phone wire. I found no expression of surprise, but
before my business was concluded I found that the
clergymen evinced as much interest in the success
of the the theater and its traveling troupes as they
do iu the prosperity of the paper.
In matters ol tastes the Mallorys are as good ed
ucators as they are in theatrical and church mat
ters. Their drop curtain at their theater is of
Mrs. Wheeler's handiwork and the stage
decorations are by Louis Tiffrny, who stands at
the head of art decorators in New York. Their
offiees {at the Churchman are equally tastely
and in the height of art. The hallway Is painted
in from perian red with wood work in dark colors.
Daniel Froman, their manager, is himself a very
valuable man. He took charge of the theatre at a
salary of S35 per week, he now gets 8250.
Behind the scenes I noticed that a fine of $5 was
imposed for swearing, and loud talking was even
forbidden. Talk about your old-time orgies be
hind the scenes—here it is more reverential than in
a church.
o*#
Beecher comes to the front with.thelboss fish story
and makes his father the champion “fish charmer."
In alluding to his father as the “lone fisherman,”
he says: In a certain pool there was a particularly
large trout and for several years the old gentleman
vainly tried to hook him. Finally, during one of bis
annual visits he saw the old trout’s fins sticking
out of the water iu a shady spot under the bank.
The reverend angler bethought him that he had
heard or read that fish could be tickled and cap
tured with the hand. He softly slipped a hand in
to the water under the motionless fish and slightly
tickled its belly with his finger tips, (tshotalitile
distance off, but returned almost immediately, and
Fere Beecher moved his hand lightly along its
scales nntii ^approaching the gills be slipped hls
forefinger in and jerked the surprised trout high and
dry upon the bank. The fidr weighed three pounds.
Real estate agents estimate that the Stewart estate
has lost half a million by letting the Tenth street
store stand idle as long as it has done. The stranger
WOMEN'S WAYS-
WILY, WICKED, WOFUL, \
AND WONDERFUL,
A Bax’s History o( Sons Woman Whose Names
Came to the Attention of the Police and the
Foblio Yesterday—Suicide, Murder, Mar
riage, Mystery and E.opement.
keeper advertise lor a girl to do general housework
and she is beseiged by a host of applicants. Out
of a dozen the presenee of perhaps three or fonr
might be tolerated in a household where cleanliness
is esteemed. Of these one will ca mly confess that
she does not know how to cook, wash or iron, and
the others will demand exorbitant wages.
,*»
Talmadge in speaking about the Brooklyn bridge,
says: “The bridge would marry the two great cities
—New York the bridegroom and Brooklyn the
bride. When that ring of steel was set the bride
groom would say, “With this ring I thee endow
with aU my wordly goods,” and tho bride would
smile from Fulton lerry to South Bushwick.”
POINTS
Wm. Henry Schneider, a respectable looking Ger
man, was arrested yesterday lor receiving subscrip
tions for the orphans asylum and appropriating the
money for his own use. When arraigned before
the courtshe acknowledged that without any s rt
of authority, he had been collecting money for the
New York asylum for three years and had during
that time collected over 83,000, which he had used
His only plea in extenuation was poverty.
Police Commissioner Stephen B. French has
brought suit againt Henry Ward Becher for dam
ages and libel, charging that Beecher’s reference to
him in a political sermon delivered just after the
Saratoga convention did him injustice and was un
true, and though he and his wife both had written
to Bowfcer, his Wife begging and he demanding an
apology, Beecher refused to make an explanation.
A suit for damages is the result.
J. R. Keene, is advertising his four-year old Fox-
hall for sale in the London racing calendar for
7.000 guineas or {35,000. 1 his is one of the largest
prices ever asked for a horse that was broken down
and retired from the turf. Hls only value now is
in the stud.
The Dwyer Brothers have sold the great Hindoo
o G. W. Bowen & Co., of Kentucky. Hindoo has
won more money in purses for them than any horse
in their stable and they have had the most success
ful stable of horses in America for the past four
years.
It takes sixty men to work the waves in the last
act of Romany Rye. To each wooden wave there
are two men, one to wave it back and forth and the
other to throw up salt in the air. This makes the
spray and is the most natural part of the whole
picture.
Uncle Ruins Hatch, in discussing railroads, says:
“There is only one road in the world for me, and
that it the Pennsylvania Central, and no matter
where I want to go I take it, aud when I get to the
end I walk the rest of the way to my destination.”
Quite a lengthy petition has been sent to Wash
ington asking the president to appoint Howard Car
roll collector of port, as a consolation for his’recent
defeat
The elaborate decoration of home interiors on
the stage carry thousands of people to the theater
to get new ideas for their parties, salons or libraries.
Bczz and Bounce.
Yesterday morning an elderly gentleman attired
in the garb of a granger reached Atlanta and im
mediately after disembarking from his train ap
proached the ticket of!ice and asked,where he could
find a detective or a policeman. The gentleman
to whom the inquiry was addressed, referred the
inquirer to Captain Bagby, and in a short time
the gentleman, who gave his name
Hinds, was in close consulta
tion with the police captain who is how
playing the roll of detective.
To the captain Mr. Hinds stated that he came to
Atlanta for the purpose of recovering his daughter,
a young girl of seventeen years, who was enticed
away from Selma a few days ago. From Mr.Hinds’s
story it appears that he lives on a farm about ten
miles from Selma, and that his daughter was work
ing in a store in the town of Selma. She is
yourg girl of good appearance. In
fact. might be called pretty. Some
weeks ago she became acquainted with a woman
who was stopping at her hoarding house, and final
ly quite an intimacy sprang up between the two.
On Monday last the woman, who was known at the
hoarding house as Mrs. Ikes, left Selma, and that
night Miss Hinds failed to return to her boarding
house. The next morning Mr. Hinds visited Sel
ma and learned of his daughter’s unexplained ab
sence. The news bothered the old gentleman so
much that he began investigations, which resulted
in ascertaining that his daughter had left
Selma the night before with a woman whom he
learned afterwards was Mis. Ikes. The tickets were
to Montgomery, and by the next train Mr. Hinds
started in pursuit. Before leaving Selma.however,
he learned enough to induce him to believe that
his daughter had fallen into bad company. Reach
ing Montgomery the father found that the two were
en route to Atlanta and here he arrived yesterday
morning.
Dy obtaining a careful description of the
daughter and a meagre one of
the woman Captain Bagby ascertained from
one of the conductors of the road that two females
answering the descriptions came to Atlanta on.Tucs-
day and got off at the car shed. Beginning with
this intelligence the captain continued working at
the case until about nine o'clock last night when
he found the girl in a house of questionable char
acter in the eastern part of the city. Without mak
ing known his mission, the Captain withdrew, and
seeking out Mr. Hinds, carried him to the place
where his daughter was The sight of
the old gentleman, whose name she had disgraced,
almost paralyzed the girl, and for qul'e a time she
stood speechless. Finally she broke into tears
and wept bitterly, and throwing herself into her
fath r’s arm, begged his forgiveness. The inter
view between father and daughter was touching,
and those who were present when it began with
drew. After a loug talk the father and child left
the place and repaired to a hotel, where they re
mained until the passenger train left for Mont
gomery, last night.
A COLORED JULIET.
Mary Pitts, a colored girl who resides on Rawson
street, came very near giving Coroner Hillbum a
job yesterday. For some days past Mary, who is a
bright mulatto of about sixteen years, has been
very despondent, and only an occasional word fell
from her lips. Her parents attributed her despond
ency to a quarrel which she had on Sunday night
last with her mother about a young moke who had
been visiting her, and who had been invited to
leave the residence, never to return again,
by Mar7’s mother. Thinking their daughter
would soon regain herbonyancy of spirits and once
mote become the life of their home, the parents
left her to herself but did what they could to mot
her trouble light. Early yesterday morning Mary,
after promisinghermothernot to seek an interview
with her admirer visited the city on a shopping ex
pedition and returned to her home about eleven
o’clock. After depositing her purchases on the ta
ble in her mother’s room Mary went to her own
room and closed the door, leaving her mother busv
preparing dinner. When the noon meal
was prepared and the family was seated around
the table, one of the child en was sent to Mary’s
r om to summon her to dinner. In a few seconds the
child came back and informed the family that Mary
was sound asleep and that she would not wake.
The mother arose from the table and passed into
MRrv’a . rrrrm in nmnea ho* Kni 1 n a r..nnn/1
Mary’s, oom to arouse her, but in a second her loud
shrieks called the family to. her side 'here they
found Mary lying upon her back with "eyes half
open. In herrighthand was an emp» jee phial
labeled laudanum which told thestor messenger
was hurriedly dispatched for a physic..,.., who arriv
ed quickly as possible, and who, after a couple
hours hard work, pronounced the would-be-suicide
out of danger. Under Mary’s pillow a note was
found addressed to her mother. It read:
“Dear Mama—i Don’t Want to liv enny Long
you Have druv Charly awa. and when i Am ded
let him cum to cee Me. Kiss my cheek When i
am ded. your Loving daughter Mary ”
But Mary is still alive, and will probably live to
wed her Charlie.
JANUARY AND HAY.
What We Pay Oar Diplomats.
Washington, November 25.—The accounts of
ministers and others on the diplomatic service, as
presented in the annual report of Fifth Auditor
Alexander, shows that there were paid for salaries
£310,211 84, and for contingent expenses 869,429 03,
the entire co6t of this branoh of toe service being
£379,610.87.
Early yesterday morning a gentleman by the
name of Ragsdale reached the city and at once In
voked toe aid of toe police in searching for his
daughter who was abducted from her home near
Litoonia night before last. Certain circumstances
connected with her disappearance induced toe be
lief that she was accompanied by a man, known as
W. D. Dowdy who has been teaching school near
Litoonia for some time past. On Tuesday evening
Dowdy was at Mr. Ragsdale’s place and In consul
tation with his pupil, later in toe
day, he was seen loafing about toe
farm, and that night toe girl lisappeated. Dowdy
was described to toe police ax being about sixty,
five or seventy years of age, and as having a ful
grey heard and gray hair. The girl was said to be
about fourteen years of age. has black hair and
dark eyes, and is heavy built. From toe descrip
tion of the two fugitives, the police ascertained
that they were in the city only yesterday morning,
and that toe man purchased a bill
of goods for toe girl. It was
further ascertained by Captaiu
Crim that toe man made many inquiries at toe o~ r
shed concerning toe departure of the passenger
trail.son the Central road, it is believed by the po
lice that the couple left toe city for East Point in a
private conveyance and boarded toe afternoon train
for Macon.
A WOMAN AND A MURDER.
The police department is now exerting every
energy to capture a man and woman wno are sup
posed to he concealed in toe city and who are
wanted in Opelika, Alabama, for murder. The
man is about fifty years of age, and his companion
is a young girl of probably sixteen years. Son e
weeks ago toe two made their advent into Opelika,
and soon toe woman, who, if her description is at
all accurate, is good-looking.bccame a great be! le.
The old man who claimed to be her husband was
jealous and frequent quarrels were cause! by toe
attention paid her by toe Opelika beaux. This
continued until Friday night last when the two
mysteriously disappeared from Opelika. Their ab
sence was a source of little annoyance to the Opeli-
kians until Saturday noon, when the
body of a young man, well known
in Ope-ika, was found covered
with leaves in the woods near toe town. Certain
past events pointed to the man and woman as toe
parties responsible for toe deed. An effort to rrace
hem up landed them in Atlanta Tuesday evening
last, but since then nothing can be learned of them.
The police have a thorough description of both the
man and woman and or their baggage, and are
using every exertion to bag the two.
FOUR DAYS A BRIDE
r DetectiveCBligh, of Louisville, s now invoking
toe aid ol toe police ail over the sonto in seeming
toe possession of a lady who was recently toe lead-
age, and only four days before her disappearance
married a go tleman by toe name of Sample who
now mourns her departure. She is five feet four
inches high, spare built, weighing about one hun
dred and twenty pounds, has reddish, brown hair
large, gray eyes, with arched eyebrows and
has a scar under her left eye. Her face is slightly
freckled. She left home the night Tony Denier’s
Hupmpty Dumpty troup was in Louisville and
this fact induced toe Atlanta police to detect *
resemblance between Mrs. Sample and a member
of the troupe. But an investigation proves to*
supp si tion wrong, and Mrs. Sample is yet bc^
ing searched for. J
COM. VANDERBILT’S WIDOW.
A Report flrem New Orleans that She la Ahoat to
Marry General Beauregard.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.
An lnterestingrumorcomestome from New Or
leans to toe t fleet that General Gustave Pierre (he
has dropped toe Pierre, though, I believe) Toutaut
Beauregard, is about to marry Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt. the widow of toe dead commodore. Beau
regard, as all toe world knows, was one of the
greatest engineer officers on either side in toe late
war. Carefully trained at West Point, where he
graduated second in hit class in
1810, he rendered valuable service to the
United States in toe Mexican war.
and Invaluable services against it in tho war ol toe
rebellion. He is considt red to-day one of toe fora-
most military engineers of his timsby competent
critics. Some of them contend that ho is toe equal
of any engineer since Vauban. Certain it is that
he is very highly spoken of, and that some of.his
work—that at Manassas battle-field, in Virginia,
for example—is pointed out by toe older.engineer
officers of the army as a model for the young lieu
tenants of toe corps. He Is, however, nothing
more than a great engineer. He is not a good fight
er, and after toe war he failed signally in an at
tempt io revive asouthern railroad which was on it*
feet within six mouths after he left its presidency,
ana is now striding forward into permanent pros
perity. Perhaps, since we have no great engineer
ing work for h m to do. General Beauregard Is best
employed as he is at present in assisting to manage
a lottery enterprise at a salary of 310,000 a year.
General Beauregard Is a short, shapely, handsome
old gentleman with gray hair and white mustache
anda ruddy face. He has tho appearance and ac
complishments of a courtier of the days of Louis
XIV, and. withal, hosts of friends. He has buried
two wives and has a married son and a married
daughter In New Orleans. Mrs. Vanderbilt
was toe reigning belle of Mobille while yet very
young In the years immediately preceding toe
war She was not pretty, but was exceedingly at
tractive—“handsome," “siylish,” “lovely ” the
old beaux say. She married William H. H. Elliott, a
New Orleans lawyer, but they did not agree with
one anoi her, and finally separated by way of the
courts. For several years, Mrs. Elliott, who was ■
8till very att active, supported herself and her
mothe- by teaching music. They had met toe
Vanderbilts before her first marriage, and It is said
that toe commondore, who admired them, quietly
contributed to their support through her mother,
after her separation from her husband. Be
this as it may, they met again in the
north after toe war, and when Mrs. Vanderbilt
died Mr. Vanderbilt married Mrs. Elliot. Now
she is a handsome widow of about forty, with a
legacy of £S00,000-£ 00,000 for each year of her life
with toe commodore, as some one has observed—
and nothing to prevent her marrying anybody she
pleases to marry. Mrs. Vanderbilt is, as is well
known, like her late husband, a great admirer of
the Kcv. Dr. Deems, of toe Church of tne Stran
gers, New York city. Vanderbilt university, at
Nashville, Tenn., probably owes its existence to
the aj peals made by Dr. Deems and Mrs. Van
derbilt to the dead millionaire. General Beaure
gard, a creole In everything else, is presumably a
member ol toe Roman carbolic church.
FAR ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
Whmt the Pilgrim to Pike’s Peak Seea-A Wonderful
Electric Bto> m.
Pike’s Peak Letter in toe New York Post.
The visitors’ registcrat the Pike'BPeak stationisa
curiosity in its way. A rush of blood to the head,
causing lightness and headache, and extreme ner
vousness are the most common sensations experi
enced by tourists. ■ From both of these disorders toe
register suffers. The sentiments vary from the sub-
Umest utterances of the Holy Scriptures and Mil
ton to ihecommonest kind of Western slang. Pave
dftoi’ nairo lirinne — . • ■ ..Xi > “ v
,«* y uuu, nil la A H-IH
seventy-six years old and haveclum up 14,174 feet:
how stoat for high?” ’
Many who have strong lungs remain purposely
all night to witness the electric and stellar sighta
which are sometimes very fine. One night last
summer an electric storm came on, which, from
toe description given me by Officer Leitzell, must
have been very grand. For two days previously
thunder storms had been rolling among the moun
tains and then for over two hours everything was
lipped and covered with electricity. Spanish
pack-mules, left on the Summit for the night, au-
peared to be all on fire; the clothing of the men
seemed ablaze; electricity streamed from the tins
of the fingers, from the nose and from the hair
The anemometer on top of the building spat fire at
every revolution. Every rock on the summit was
covered with flame.
An Enormous Snn Spot.
Mr. Brashear, writing to The Pittsbu rp
icle on Thursday last, thus describes toe great spot
which has lately made its appearance on toe snn:
I had noticed, he says, toe spot coming on to toe
sun’s edge on Monday, and concluded that it
would attain enormous proportions, in the tele
scope it was an object of singular beauty. Yes
terday mor.. jg I examined it closely, and I think
I never saw so many beautiful feath-
umb™i d ^oi3pK a ]!f 1 ^L ,retchi,,g out from the pen-
borders of the spot across and into the
meat dark nuclei. Every one of them was more or
h ss curv«l toe same way showing clearly th» di
rection ol tne Cyclonic storm. The penumbra* was
very much broken up, a*d toe mauy beautiful
forms taken by its extended arms and bridges
makeup one of the most interesting sun spolson
record. Its size is simply enormous I projected
toe sun 8 image so as to give a disc 55 millimetres
diameter, the spot then measured four mlllime-
ires This would give it nearly one-sixteenth of
the sun s dirmeter, which we will call 8SOOOO
Then one six-teentli of this would give 55.
000 miles as the diameter of the spot. As it was an
irregular square, we could safely estimate the soot
to contain I should say 2,000,000 square miles
There are a number of smaller spots on the sun.
but none so interesting as this one.”
Aa Apt Imitation of AJdloon.
New York World Review of Eighteenth Century
Essays.
It were superfluous to assert that in toe develop
ment of English prose these illustrious writ rs
performed a labor that Is as valuable as toe fame
of their compositions is lasting. We have so long
enjoyed the results of their achievement that we
forget toe extent of our indebtedness. Ihey gave
to our prose the urbanity of their manners. In wri
ting with facility they have been surpassed, but
in writing wilh urbanity they remain pre-eminent.
tVe cultivate humors of styie; they preserved a dig
nity which, though it was sometimes pompous,
was always polite. Gratis dedit ore rotundo .Mura
loquL Their fel citous conceits were the orna
ments, not toe purpose of their composition, they
preserved proportion in their discourse; and,
whether they wrote essays on philosophy or reflec
tions on female attire, dissertations on poetry or
descriptions of whimsical individuals, they main
tained the unity of their theme Although their
humor is not obtrusive it is sensible, though not
animating it is grateful. "I have always preferred
cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an
act, the forme- as an ha pit of the mind.” Their
satire produced a reformation without ihflicting &
wound.
The angel of death shall cany me.
Mr*. Theodore Tilton** New Home.
Long Branch, N. J.. November 25.—Mrs. Theo-
dore Tilton, of Brooklyn, is negotiating for toe pur- .
chase of a house and lot at Cranberry, her naUTe i «of society in that city. One of Detective Bligh’s
place, with toe intention of making ft her penna- . n°w Posted at pohee headquarters and
nent home. , toe entire force is anticipating toe pos-
• session of a reward of one hnn-
A Fanner’. Sentimental Salelde. j dred dollars which has been offered
Columbus, Ohio. November 25.—Samson Atkins for her capture. The poster, in addition to giving
in New York notices a number of such buildings. ' a farmer near Circleville, hung himself because he an accurate description of toe runaway, presents
' v- „ . | The old Goulet place, for instance, Is still kept was compelled to move off a farm on which he had her photograph, which indicates that toe young
—Nancy ^ rtest - closed, while a cow and some hens feed peacefully resided since childhood. lady is pretty and stylish. She is eighteen years of
High Arf in Male Attire.
From toe New York Commercial Advertiser.
The rage on esthetic drc3s does not abate, but
rather increases in London and in New York, espec
ially among men, who are as much, if not more, ab
sorbed in toe subject than women. Mr. J. A. Gotch,
a noted London architect, is considered the great
au hority on male attire. He rays that toe chim
ney-pot hat is positively ugly. the swallow-tail inar-
Us-ic, and toe artificial Decktie an abomination.
The proper covering for the throat should be tied
iu a knot. The shirt, he thinks, is objectionable
as it is worn only for toe cuffs, collar and front. A
semnau s jersey should take its place, with a collar
and cuffs on the outside. The trowsers are only a
seive for conveying dost to toe ankles, and they
wear out at tne knees. In hunting, cricketing,
boating aud bicycling, men wear dresses which are
at once Convenient and Dictresqne. Outside of toi«
Mr. Gotch says that a man's present costume is hid-
•ous.