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VOLUME XIY.
TUESDAY MOKNDSe, JANUARY 9, 1883.
PRICE 5 CENTS
DURING THE WEEK.
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY
AND COUNTRY ARE DOING.
BlecMom of YreaMont and Director* of the Central
‘Railroad-a Ncfro Ljrnohed-Tno Public Deb*.
Oaabetta’a Deatb and Buriat—Tha Tariff
Bill-Dcfjcltinf Bute Treaturar.
Tfvaday, January'A
The election lor president and directors'll the
Central railroad took place in Savannah ’yester
day. Captain Vi. G. Raoul was elected by a ma
jority of 4,ill,-over General E. P. Alexander. The
followfng la the official list: W. g. Raoul, presi
dent Directors: Andrew Low, E. C. Anderson, J.
Grefbam, George Cornwell, Jacob Itaurs, E. P.
Grwn, II. if. Comer, Abram Minis. William Hun
ter, John M. Gutrard. Georgo I. Mills and W. W.
Gordon. Che Tennessee legislature it in session.
If *c in6i.es of snow Ml 1ti San Francis yes-
lerdny, c-id that city ts enjoying slefghlng for the
ffimtiRo fu Its hi*tcr>. iftufordSmith, colored,
’bras lynched at Tosvwe'I Court 'Eouee for the
murder of a young white min. Dave Roberts,
•colored was lynched at Abborille. Gambctta
•died at 11:55, Sundsy.
tk we cit y.
The new mayor and council o.’ Atlanta entered
'upon the dutlca of their oillce 1 os’. night. The pub
lic schools of Atlanta opened to-duy. An At
lanta real estate agent sold city property to the
•mount of $25.5*0 to new citizens.
M't-dumZuy, Juuacry 8.
Senator Brown Introduced a bill to appropriate
175,000 for the erection of a custom-house at Bruns
wick. Tho debt statement shown the decrease of.
tho public debt during December to be 815,413,
117.85: cash in tho treasury $312,921,010,47; gold
terrifies tes outstanding, $72,543,600.00; certificates
j deposit outstanding, $3,595,000.00; refunding
or till cates .outstanding, $501,750.00; legal tenders
'itstandlng, $7;022.071.17;-<cash balance available,
{4,903.777,887; decrease since Juno 80th, 1865. $213,-
*,888. General Joseph Wheeler has been elected
congress from the 8th Alabama district, to fill
j vacancy oauned by the death of Hon. William
me. A movement Ison foot to abolish the char-
:r of Chattanooga. It in being dono to improve
Jio system and not to escape any indebtedness.
JNTMZ CITY.
The trade in htdeann i furs is brisk. Tke rail
roads are doing a heavy freight business. At
| the present time there ero pending In tho •courts
twenty-six -suits in which Atlanta is tho defend
ant. The total amount involved is $68,000. Four
teen of there were iurtltuted by persons who claim
to have been iojured by the defective condition
of streets and sidewalks. The city sexton’s re
port for Its? show that 412 white and 5 C •colored
people were buried lu the Atlanta cemetery.
Tbar»4«v, Junuurj 8.
The finance committee of tho senate completed
the tariff-bill, which will be reported to the seri
ate to-morrow. Tho mercantile failure., j
United states for 1882, numbers 0,783 againk 5,582
in 18KL. The liabilities for last year are $102,000,
000 os compared with 881,000,003 In 1581. The legis
latures of North Carolina and Florida mot to-day.
Tho East -Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
contemplates buildiug a road from Brunswick, Ga.
to Jacksonville, Fla. Ur. McCouncy, treasurer of
White Pfne county, Nevada, has been killed and
tho treasury robbed. Tho steamer Athens, for
firomeu from 8avanuah, cleared with 7,224 bales
of cotton. Tho Augucta and KnoxvlUo rail
. * road oompany has failed to pay the January Inter-
) oat on ita.bonds, amounting to $Gg>,0QC, Hon.
!! v*r* no- » xmdranti xr.Utfif orto'rm^riviek,
is dead.. *Mr. B. U. Bateman, of Houston county,
Ga, rawed on a one-mule him, hut year. 5J0 bush
els of corn,400 bushels.peanuts, 1,000bushels of
oats, 200 Wishols pqtatoes, nine bales of cotton—
i each weighing 500 pound: and S,0U0 pounda pork,
Mr. Daniel A. Horn, of Thomaston, Ga., sefdhls
farm, containing 2,000 acres, to a New Yorker fur
l” ».«K.
IN THE -ITT.
The .upnlrrcourt met. Atlanta J. improving u
an artettiter. There are an. hundred mud twenty
prtKD.mln tho Fulton county Jail. Amour tha
number araaoren murderer., five of them being
from olbei counties of thoctatc. There U UU!«f
a ncw.roUluj mtll bclntt built in Atlanta, Allot
thooounty ofllters of tkb county were refloated.
Friday, Juurj 0.
The finance committee of lire senate completed
1U work on tho tariff bill. Ur. Morrill, from, the
oommltteo of .finance, reporlod the house bill tc re
ducelntarualrereiiue taxation with an amend,
mcutembraclug an entire revision of the UrllT. Tho
Fllxjohu Porter bill will be voted on next Thurs
day. The bonded whisky bill pasted the senate.
Among‘ho appropriations are the following: Oco
nee river..CeoigiT, »M00; OoMensula and Coosr..
wattcerivers. Georgia, 91,000. iton. WliUam Bald,
win, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, dropped
dead on the atreet. Hen Bailor was Inaugurated
governor ot Massachusetts The Tennessee leglsle
lure adopted a resolution suspend'ug the paymen 1
of lire January Interest on tbo stab) debt. Uoveruur
Ruble, of Maine, war Inaugurated Itcd Cloud had
a short Interview with Secretary .Teller. A little
aonofW. B. Rankin, of Jasper, Tenn., died from
lockjaw, brought on hy shooting a -toy pistol, fi ll.
11am Walton-shot and killed bis sweetheart in St
Louis and then blew am his own brains. St. Maty'i
Episcopal school for ya'ing ladles wasburned. Hon.
William D. Porter, a, prominent citizen of South
Carolina, died. The .passenger car .rhoos of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Baltimore were
burned. Advines from (hpe Town state that during
the past two months g.OCD people have been stricken
with small pox-endl-avc died. At Wiesbaden
10,0110 persons are komclers hy the floodr and are
In denser of etaxvatlon. The body ofCembetta
• arrived In Paris, where It will be burled. .His brain
iweigbed 45 5-6 ounces.
jn niacrrr.
L ^ Fruit Is plentiful. The streets are fn a mbs ruble
Lsl-^ccndltlon from the heavy rains. A putty of enti
re giants passed through the city for Texas A car-
If porter fell from the new Episcopal churct on
Hi Pearlitrce street and dislocate ! a shoulder.
4 Isnritr, Jaaua-r X
| Th* president stated positively that he would.uJt
| appoint Wade to he retenuo collector at Savannah.
; I The pbulnf of General Grant upon Ibe retired Ur.
/of the u-ray at an early day U .very probable. A
/ large petition la before the president asking lor the
/ pardon id Dick Llddel, now In prisou In Alabama,
for robbing a paymaster of the army at Mussls
Shosts. Uddcl Is one of the famous James gang,
fn tho*enat-alaige number of petition, were pte-
•en'.td a-luc for an increase of pensions to one-
atue.1 and one-legged soldiers Campbell's cotton
' milts at Manayunk have closed. A .committee of
the Tennessee legislature report a deficit in the
treasury of 9M4JU0. The Creek Indians arequar-
reUng among themselves. Several rolling mills et
Cohoes, ri.'Y., were burned. A terrible wind end
know storm raged at Ml. Washington. A 1100,000
fire st Peoris, 111. An unusuaUy large and bright
meteor passed over Cincinnati. The weavers of the
Anulneck, B. I., cotton mUls struck. The large
freight depot of the .Norfolk and Western railroad
at Zulu, Yx, was burned, ft is estimated that the
yearly losses from lung plague to the cattle trade of
■ this country amounts to 91.000,000. Fifteen thous
and peraona visited the. Pal'js Bourbon, where the
body of Gambetta U lying.
i» tbi tire.
I Beal estate transactions were good* There Is a
demand foe brick layers. One car load of mules
was. ,Id for 95.1'UO. Fifty .North Carolinians pawey,
through the city for Taxas. Retail leads was bristF
fWalactioa fee clerk of the superior court ot Util
county wli! be contested. A new detective foree
will be oiganleed. There is a lady book-keeper In
Atlanta who gets tU5 a monili. The trial of Gulled
Suites Deputy Marshal A. J. Crawford,charged with
making false returns, was concluded, and he waa
held In a bond of 61,150. The slmllarcase of Depu
ty Marshal Jim Robinson was taken up. Two esses
of small-pox were developed. The election for
shcrilTof this county will bo contested.
Sunday, January 7.
In the senate Mr. Morgan reparted, with amend
ment, a bill to grant the right otway to tho Rome
and Decatur railroad through public lands in Ala.
bamo. The Bouse bill relating to the exportation
of tobacco, imuff and cigars to foreign territories
was paved. A $300,000 Are tit New York. About
206,000 spindles are (die in the
ton and woollen mlR* of Philadelphia.
Dr, Warren Stone, a prominent physician of New
Orleans, died. St. Mary's Episcopal college at
Knoxville, 111., burned. A St. Augustlue, Fla.,
•man caught a saw flsh toartren feet long. Gloeson
killed Gotubs with a pftcl.fnrd in Cassville, N. J.
Robert Rose and Jack Moore were burned to death
In Webster county. Va. Gambetta'* funeral took
placo. Fully 300 000 persons were In the procession.
The defalcations of the treasurer of Tennessee ca
tenet live years bock.
IN THE CITY.
Shad In the market. The elections are over. Tie
heavy rains are iuterferring with railroad sched
ules. Tho Exposition cotton mills will begin work
in a few days. Vaccination is pretty general. Ills
said that an Atlanta real estate agent made $70,000
last year.
A Remarkable "steal* Alleged.
Wilke.sdak.uk, January G.—General Liiley, a
prominent citizen of Mauch Chunk, Carboci coun
ty, has addressed a letter to Mr. J. B. Bogert, ox-
chairman of the democratic state central commit
tee of this state, and editor of tho Wfikesbirro
Union-Leader, in which he charges that of $3,000,•
000 collected by a Mr. Evans, who was appointed
agent for Pennsylvania to settle with the United
States government for advances made-during the
war, not one dollar was ever covered Into the
treasury of Pennsylvania, and that the evidence Is
in existence to prove this statement. The general
says he knows of six men who had $6A),000 each of
the sum collected by Evans. .
The Girls«ot Away.
Chicago, January 6.—St. Mary’s school, the Epi.-j
copal seminary at Knoxville, llUuoix, burned to the
ground early this morning. At the time theHrc
broke out a hundred girls were asleep. All managed
to escape, but were unable to save their wearing
apparel, books, or anything oxcept themselves.
\ery few orcldeuts •occurred. 511ns Gillett, of
Bu alo. Illinois, had her left leg broken, and Miss
liojfora, of Dubuque, wassvrloiisJy injured by fall
ing from a ladder The school was handsomely
furnished, every stick of which burned. The losses
will aggregate over 8100.000.
The Tabor Divorce.
Denver, Col., January 4.—Divorce was granted
to day to Mrs. Tabor, wife of Lieutenant-Governor
Tabor, by mutual agreement, on the ground of de
sertion. The agreement was made to accomplish
amicable settlement and make things cosy for the
decree. Governor Tabor deeded to his wife to day
real property here valued at 8250,000; ho also pur
chases of her Iter interest In tho Windsor hotel here,
paying her therefor $38,000. In view of tbo fact that
Tabor is a prominent candidate for the United
States senate, tho affair has created a good deal of
interest throughout tho >ta<o.
A Had 1Toy.
For throe yeara Thomas C. Grcon, a small colored
boy, has been In tire employ of Mr. J. II. Moser,
the artist. lUs buslncrs has been to sweep out and
pose for pictures of ‘ the good boy," "an honest
face," etc. Yesterday *T- •* Mr. M»
sflrulo lie found that Tom wss missing, and >:ub>e
queut developments showed that he had stolen
blank check and forged Mr. Moser’s name to it for
1*25. The forgery was an excellent one, but was
detected by tho teller, and now the police are after
Toro.
StarvatlH la Ireland.
London. January 0.—A dispatch 'to the Dally
News from Dublin says; A husband and wife have
starved to death at BalUnasloe. Nan Ita y works are
being started at Celush by local subscribers in ore
dcr to afford relief The* Carrick-on-Shannon Guar-
(Huns have obtained returns in regard to the exist
ing distress, showing that a large number of far-
men’ withholdings of from one to twenty acres, are
absolutely without stock orjfood.
A Bt—k-lndlrtsd Hmm.
Boston, Janua:y 4.—The United States grand jury
found another ludictment against Abner J. Benyou
tho fugitive ex-president of the PaeiSo national,
bank. Tho offense alleged Is making false returns
to the comptroller of currency, In October, 1881
The returns were signed by Cashier Pettcngill, but
made up by Bcuyou'a direction and from ills Az
ures. Ills pretty well understood lrsre that Ben
"CURBSTONE ECHOES/'
you is in California.
Killed by • Ntovr 1'akcr.
Syracuse, h. Y., January 4 —Joshua Gifford,
aged eighty, living at South Granby, killed his
wife, aged forty, last evening with a stove poker.
The cause of the quarrel appears to have been their
disparity of ages. Shortly before the husband gave
the fiitui blow, she, iu a rage, gashed his cheek
with a butcher knife, and was Just about rurblnr
him again when ke picked up the poker am
Baltimore, Md., January 4.—A Are shortly before
-fcidnlght destroyed the passenger car construction
•shop of tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
at Mount Clair, in this city. The shop contained
eight passenger cars nearly completed, two cars
undergoing repairs and a private car of the third
vioe-president, all destroyed, besides which all the
tools of the workmen were lost. The damag? U es
tbcated from $30,000 to 84Q.0QU.
They Uurm Cutes Koch Otktr Up.
Washington, January 4.—Member* of the Mich
igan delegation say that the senatorial fight in
their ctate is practically settled. They say IIulbell
and -Firry have emulated Kilkenny cats and eateu
each other up. John F. Jay is now regarded as the
coding man.
Jlurntu* mt m Female C«U«a«.
KtfoXYi.u.E, 111., January 4.—St. Mary'a Episcopal
school for young ladies was burned early thi-t moru
ing. Loss $100,COt/. The inmates escaped In thek
night clothes. Several accidents occurred, but no
lives were lust.
A Mull Croak Arrest*4.
PKTEBOBUite, January 4.—Jeff Walker, mail car
rier between Belfleld and Hicksford, has been
arrested on a.charge of robbing the mails. Re con
fessed that he had been robbing for three years.
r*a Fatal ray Pistol.
New Orleans, January 4 -Charles Arnold, aged
34 years, died to-day of lockjaw, caused by a wound
indicted os his hacd with a toy pistol on Chris turns
da*’. b
IHotb of a HisIms Mrn-huL
Guy of Mexico, January 4.—Major Fronds De-
Grets. of the firm of Wsxel A Degress, the largest
firm of merchantsaud government contractors In
this republic, died lost night at Rencondia, near
Vera Cnu.
A Boiler Kzplosloa.
Detroit. January 4.—A boiler in the box iactory
of the Peninsular manufacturing company at North
Muskegon, exploded to-day. Four men were
killed.
DccIIaeS #*3,000.
Boston, January 4.-—The widow of Delano A.
Goddard, of the Doily Advertiser, declined a testi
monial of #25,000 caatribu el by friendsof her
husband.
Death of M*a. Wm. D. Porter.
Charlmtor, January 4.—lion. Wm. D. Porter,
and best known citizen*
In bis 73rd year.
Congressman Hammond, while at home for the
Christmas holidays said tome:
“I am hardly as sanguine of a democratic victory
in 1884, bs moet of my party colleagues are. You
tee while the republicans lost a great many votes in
tho fall elections,we did not gain them. We carried
New York by an overwhelming majority, not be
cause we recruited our party, but because n>me-
thing like 150,000 NewYork republicans dldu’t vote.
Whether they were mad enough to have staid at
home, If by so doing they would have elected a
democratic president, Is a question.
"Audafter all money is the political influence lu
natloual politics. Tho republicans could carry
New Yotk now by spending a million dollars on
It, and they won’t hesitate to spend double this
much when it is needed. Tho democrats carry the
off-year because the republicans don’t rare to spend
money tlierc. 8till I hope tho peoplo will at least
refute to let corrupt money methods control and
that vre shall carry the country In 1884.’'
Grant Wilkins said to a party of gentlemen the
other night: "In less than six months we will have
a fi-rst-cloM rolling mill In operation In Atlanta. 1
am now making the engine for it at my works, and
friendsof mine have agreed to put up the money.
Atlanta shop* and stores will take 7,000 tons a year
cf the product of a local rolling mill."
By the way, Wilkins aud Post made in their
works here and shipped lately to Rochester, Now
York, turn tables for tho New York Central road.
They also bought iron ore at Pittsburg, worked it
up and sold the product to Philadelphia for uae.on
the post-office, over the bid of Penusylvauia mills.
General Gordouhad jeveral interviews with Pres
ident Gambetta before the death of that distinguish
ed Frenchman. While General Gordon was In Paris
they were together a great deal. Ho says Gambetta
looked very much as Wadu Hampton would look if
he were two Inches shorter aud wore a full beard.
The finest plantation in Alabama—the Oswlchec
bend place—of 4,000 acres, sold tho other day to Mr
Hatcher, of Columbus, for $30,200. This is lest than
$8 an acre, and Mr. Hatcher was offered I hear.
$10,COO advance on his purchase the week after he
made It. I think cotton lands are appreciating in
valno. Walter Gordon gavo $10,000 cash a year
ago for tho Gidcouville plantation In Itakorcounty,
or About $6 an acre, and lias been offered $22,000 for
It. He bought four plantations In Georgia and Ala
bama, averaging 2,000 acres.each, at a cost of $7 an
acre. He rents his places # so that they pay an
average of $4 an aero. In north Georgia lands com
rnand readily from $15 to $30 an acre, along the
railroads. Tho average value of lands in Georgia
ns returned for taxi* is $3.12 an acre.
Mr. Pat Calhoun has organized two* land compa
nies, with over $1(000,000 cash Investment that run-
several largo plantations in Mississippi and Arkan-'
The lands they use cost an average of $25 an
acre, and the company runs them by rental, nh^^s
audaragi;—uolU ivtln ./f.i U'a'v
tho cost of l»Veskmeiits, and this year earned end
paid thirteen per ccntdlvldond on the capital stock
He is now organising another company that will
take up a few more plantations.
Calhoun told*me sometime ago that Mr. Ed
Richardson, tho largest cotton planter In the
world, his crops going up to 12,003 bales, was]think
ing of putting bis'land-in a stock company:
the reason," ho said "that the interests aro too vast
to be managed by one man, and yet give such pro
fit by being ran on a large scale that Jt would .be a
pity to divide them up."
"Betides,.' said Mr. Calhoun, "Mr. Richardson
has a very high Idea of tho value of good cotton
lauds, but thinks they areuotyot appreciated at
anything like what they are worth. He dreads the
Idea of his es’ato being cut up and sold at his death,
when there is neither capltsl to buy it, nor general
estimation of more than one-fourth its value.
Thcrolsnolnvestmentinmyoplonion that will
pay a better per cent than good lands in the south
-The places I quoto above asbelug sold for$16.t00
and $30,000 before the war were worth from f ICO,000.
to $150,GOO. They may never reach this value again,
but they will bring much more than they do now,
As cotton planting with free labor pnucs out of the
experimental stage and a mixed husbandry has
made the cotton planter prosperous,and new values
are made for the seed and stalk of cotton, and
implements decrease the cost of planting
and the planter's dependence
bor, cotton lands will advance in price.
By the way, I notice that the negroes are buying,
heavily of farmlug lands in Georgia. Pleas Harper,
an Oglethorpe couuty negro, bought from Messrs.
Parrell A Davenport a plantation for $32,000. He
paid $8,500 cash on the purchase, besides $3,000 on
a store account, and has enough provisions to run
him another year. A Constitution man in Waynes
boro a few dayseince Mr. 5fcKcnzlo pointed out
negro who had just bought a $4,500. and paid cash
for it. When a negro buys kand he retires from
politics aud votes the democratic ticket.
Messrs. Morrison. Bain A Co., sold 185 dozen
grain-cradles last year, probably more than were
sold by any other firm, and perhaps one-third of
what were sold In the city. They calculate on sell
Ing as many more this season. Georgia is getting
to be a grain state. The same firm sold 1,800 dozen
axes lost year. The number of new railroads being
built probably caused this unusual demand.
A few weeks ago I alluded to the fact that more
deaths occur ou "the turn of the night" than at any
other liour-1 e , from 1 o'clock till daybreak. A phy
sician In Philadelphia, desiring to test this strange
belief,collected the statistics of 2,880 deaths, taken
from all conditlona of life,all ages and diseases. Ob
lously if these deaths had been fairly distributed,
1£0 would have occtrred every hour of the 24. Such
was not the case. From 12 to 1 o'clock at night there
were but 19 deaths, showing that the weird hour of
midnight was the safest hour of all. From 12 to 1,
in the day there were 4# deaths. At 1 o'clock at
night the death rate swelled until between 4 aud 5
In the morning it reached the highest figures, being
278 for that single hour. Prom Sto 7 In the day
there was a corresponding Increase, though not so
heavy. Summarized the fewest people died between
10 and 3 in the day, and much the greatest number
between 1 and 5 in the night.
Is death painless?
Few questions can be more iaterestlng to people
to whom deatb is a dread certainty. I will let the
physidan quoted above speak on this subject. He
.ye:
One of the things of which I am convinced Is
that deatb U painlea*. I mean that tue moment of
diwolution approaches as uucontctousiy aa sleep—
the soul leaves the world as psinlemly as It enters
ir. Whatever be the causes of death, whether by
lingering malady or Midden violence, dbadlation
comes either through syncope or stpbyxU. In the
latter case, when mraltinff from dise**e, thz strag
gle is long, protracted and accompanied by all the
vhible mark* of agony which the Imagination
a>kocUtes with the dating teene of life—the pinch
ed and pallid features, the told, clammy skin, the
upturned eye. and the heavy, laborious, rattling
respiration. Death doe# sot sttikt all th# organs of
tnc »ody at th- same time: some may be said to
surv ve others, and the lungs are tho last to give
uptte performance of their function*. As death
apt* vochea tho latter become gradually more aud
mot • qpprerseu; the air cells are loaded with an in-
eree *1 quautlty of the tluid which naturally Itibri-
cat** 1 , the surfaces; the atmosphere can men no
Ion,: rr some into contact with the minute blood
YcfrV*Spread over the air cells without first per-
mce lug this vlsfrmi tluid—hence the rattle. Nor
Is U contact sufficiently perfect to change the
bloc- venous into tho red arterial blood; an unpre
pan • Buhl consequently lt&ues from the lungs into
toe l cart, and is thence transmitted to every other
orgii of the body. The brain receives it and l’«
ener les appear to be lulled thereby into sleep—
K ne ally tranquil sleep—filled with dreams which
ipc the dying to murmur out tho name* of friend*
and the occupation* and recollections of past life.
The ru*ife M-ibblcs of green field*,' and the hero
expl.es amid vUlons of battle.
1 hoige. Chester, charge; on, Stanly, ont
Were the lit*t words of Marmlon.
He (ummarizes some other poluts of death and
dyim* t’jut are Interesting. He says: "A very large
mini’ . : of ih aths are attributed to old age. yet few,
even ,‘t 4he oldest, die purely from exhaustion or
gra-V nl decay; some positive dlseate. In most cases
over iio'.m* the small remains of .vitality,
death vV#; actual old age 1* not Impossible, and
Z.U48' e\h* sweetest death of all-a sleep Indeed
th) c0 J»kcs hi eternity. Thcaverage of human fife
is Uety.three years. One-quarter die previous to
th'iThlv of reven,years; one-half before reaching
ue\»eeUtiTin those who pass their teens enjoy a
fellow refund to one-half the human species. I'
evv v persons only one reaches beyond the
nliV 0l Tgf in every 100 only six reach the ago of
six a not more than one in 500 lives to
eftjjtTn-ar. Ot the upwards ot J,C00,000,000 In
habitants of the globe, one-third dlo every year,
91,521 < very day, 3.780 every hour and sixty every
minute. Married persons live longer than single
toll uuiu longer than short ones, and women have
of life In their favor, previous to be
ing ififf /ears of ago. than men have, but fewer
afterv'vd. Persons who are bom in spring gener
ally gm more robust than those who come In the
world^-c her seasons."
Thu subject of streets is an absorbing ono just
now. A thoughtful citUcu offered this suggestion
,"Thn couuty ought to help out In this matter.
Theci >; cannot issue any bunds, because she has
nlreai^ toyied ovcr7 percent, of her assessed value,
which^ yjU limit. Bu; the county can do It. It
owes j, o*Itig of any consequence, aud could
easily 'i&nu nn issue of say $350,000 of bonds.
"He would this be used?"
"To Vtptfc-zncnt what the city government aud
cltizci .Join the city and to improve country roadr.
It Is f> A*. that the country roads leading Into
the cl: yi'Joflld be firm and clean. You sco the
mad »N»‘d slosh brought in on Peachtree by the
count y-V. agons has already made that street
lolly. ( we speed $100,000 on country roads, and
$250,COf. A city Btreets. wo should get well paid for
the trftow* In bonds tho couuty issues. ThU to
supplement the city appropriation aud the araouut
levied . citizens would settle the question 'finally
andgiv^ us flrst-clas* streets. The county boml*
could paid by a sinking fund created gradually
by a vci"’ slight Increase in the eoulitj tax."
Mnyfy :Ooodwln told me yesterday that ho would
be abl* *6pend over$100,000 on tho street* this year
tfthbc| )> didn't have to put in a new water main
"I h<T4wc cm avoid that expcusc. The prescut
iraiti .n uffident to supply tho city, but it is dan
gciousKv^v O" one Mugle pipe. • If weean do with
th opj/ey vH -> * *hink wc can spend as tnuchtui
t rtreeto. IVihapi $50,0CQ of this will
be jfypp ’em Bts whore the c:ri*q* , *\v|ll pay double
an *ri*f rver un. would glvou A'*) r $250,000 fnryur-
rvuitiillne./oVf’reqtV Tb> j !’! .McaJainixoanri
si,f : m
"Can » e rip*» market houscdblsyear?”
"I’m aM Id not. Tho committee is at work on
the matnl now, and will do the best that ran !«
done, if we cauuotdo it this year, we certainly can
■next year."
By tbs Way, I If tar That,
—As Major Eugene Gordon was coming home
from the war, a comrade gave him a letter to
mail, addressed toMr. Ledbetter, Mobile, Alabama.
That was seventeen years ago. Last Thursday
Msjor Gordon replaced the confederate stamp with
a regulation stamp, and mailed the letter.
Howard Williams has a dog that keeps tlmo with
his tail to the liveliest tune on tke plana. Ulanamo
Pup"—quite a low name for so accomplished a
dog.
lu
mit--
enough of them.
Jefferson played to $700 his first night and $1,209
the second. "Kip" still has the call on the "Ri
vals."
Davy Crockett look* like a crora between Bill
Moore aud Jimmy Bunders.
NEW YORK.
THR LATEST NEWS AND DOINGS OF
THE METROPOLIS.
•’Boss and Bouaoe.” and Whit Thar Have Seen
and Stard-How ths Vanderbilts Ltve-
Tba Bear eat Things la Fsehlon, Fan and
la Beal Lift-News ot Interest.
SOME QUEER SUICIDES.
Bicaube hi, crops were small, Aricllwrt
Lnbdcll hinged himself In his barn nesr Fort
Deposit.
John Clanct threw himaelf from tho win
dow of the cltjr hospital In Vicksburg and wss
killed.
Harvey 8mitu, a well known physician of
Manchester, cut hie throat while suflering from
brain fever.
I am weary anil want to <lic,” auld Mrn.
Bella Orajr,of Hamilton, Out. Then .he shot her-
self In tbo breath
At Grand Fork, D. T., 'William Ford, hav
ing lost all his money at gambling, swallowed mor
phine In the premnee of his wife.
W. H. Joau, a liarncaa maker of Blate
Center, lowe, fearing ail attack of delirium Ire-
mens, swallowed a fatal dose of morphine.
Dcatao Ilia excitement of a religious revi
val, Robert Berkshire, a farmer, of Fort Wtsblag-
ton, Ohio, hanged hlmselt In his stable.
His draft on a friend for $50 being dishon
ored, Curtis O. Wallace, of 8b Louts, went to hie
room and (hit his throat from car to ear.
H. A. Crist, ot Dca Moines, Iowa, • horse
thief, iweariug that no vigilant committee should
ever have the pleasure of hanging him, hanged
hlmselt
Geo rue ItARNiLi., of Jackson township, In
diana, a well-to-do-farmer, waa not ■aUsfiad; so he
began to speculate, became Insane, and cut his
throab
Because a neighbor refused her ofTer to pur
chase his lands, Mrs. McLachman. the wife of a
farmer, near Ottawa, took a fatal dose of Pari,
green.
In consequence ot soma idle gossip, Kva
Stone, 16 yean of age, of Glidden, lows, took her
father’s revolver aud shot herself fn tha presenco
of her mother.
Bar Dorr gcaauw, a mere child, of Law
rence, Mass., drowned herself In a millpond became
she feared a whipping for tha accidental breaking
ot a pitcher.
Mr wife is too old and uninteresting for
me. and I cannot aland It longer,” wrote Fred
Htrack, a young saloon keeper of Cleveland. Than
he hilled himself.
Faaax MtCaao, a musician of Corning,
committed suicide by Jumping from the Knoxville
bridge became be bed been forbidden to play In the
orchestra, owing to bis drunkenness.
Calks Hobbs, of Llncolnton, X. C., found
his favorite mule deed In a field. After a good
crying spell be wrote a note saying he could not
live without the mule, end then committed snl-
cldc.
Hmau Tucekb, a disappointed inventor,
of Bceton, slaty years of age, attached s robber
hoes tongas Jet, turned on the gas, and putting
the other end of the "\-e In his month, suffocated
" \
Kkw YoRk, January 4.—The gossips are determined,
rays a correspondent writing from here, that ex-
Senator Conkling shall not bo left to pursue his
way unmolested os a private citizen. Ills
wife is in Utica, and will not leave
her home, *n tho senator has led the
life of a grasM-wldower In this city for the last two
years. For a time he boarded at tho Fifth avenue
hotel, but Hubsequently took a suite of rooms on
West Twenty-ninth street, between Broadway and
Fifth avenue, in order, he raid, that he might en
joy the advantage of consulting tho library of the
bar association, which is but ono door distant from
his residence. This was all very well, but the
gaf6lpf have now discovered that Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague has rocros almost opposite, and that tho
ex-senator frequently passes an evening with her.
Knowing that there is no seclusion like tho heart
of a great city, Mrs. Sprague nought this spot about
three mouths ago for tho purpose of tralulug her
children and finding a quiet homo (or herself and
them. None except two or three of her intlmato
friends were Informed of her movements, and the
other*supposed that she wo* still a resident of
Washington. Now, that her placo of seclusion has
been discovered, there is a good-natured grin in
society over the coincidence that reveals the great
ex-senator's home so close at hand.
Home of tho principal collections of modern
paintings of over $100,000 valuo owned by New
Yorkers are tho*e of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, estimated
at $1,000,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $300,000; Mr*.
Marshall O. Roberts, ff.00,000; Mr*. It. L. Utuart,
$250,0C0; Mr*. A.T.Htcwart. $500,000; Miss Cather
ine L. Wolfe, $450,000; Judge Illlton, $209,000;
A. Belmont. $350,000; Thcron B.
Butler, $800,000; William Rockefeller,
$300,000; D. O. Mills, $210,000; Heber K. Bishop,
$150,000; Jotlah M. Fiake, $100 000; Albert Spencer.
$250,000; I'lcrpout Morgan, flAO.OOO; George I. Ho
ney, $250,000; John Jacob Astor, $200,000; William
Astor, $300,000; Jay Gould. $2.50,000; Jeremiah Mill-
bank, $150,000; ex-Uovernor E. D. Morgan, $200.
000; John T. Martin, $150,C00, or a grand
total of 10,505,000 Invested lu pictures
the private galleries of New York alouc.
French artists are moat fn favor.
Tha truck farmem of Long Islan;), and New Jcr-
*©y, and New York, are complaining that competi
tion from Virginia, North and South Carolina
Gcorgfaand Florida, has cut down their profit* ou
vegetables, so that they can. barely muko a living
truck farming. Tho tncstyj of communication
with ibeso southern localltfm have boon Improving
from year to year. Tri-weekly iteamors run north
frem Norfolk, whence Immense quantities of vege
tables are rhtppcd. Communication with Wilming
ton, North Carolina, and with points on tho Florida
coast Is nearly as frequent. In tho season those
boat* corao Into port laden down with all kinds of
the choicest vegetables. Within a year or two past
fir- market has at times almost seomod to be glutted
with peas, green corn, potatoes, and young onions
and LJria. before the Long Maud products began
to corod'in at sit. Whdu both prod nets are Ijj-
marA'eijriienciv poUitocs of Georgia or North (Caro-
ina are greatly preferred to thoso ot Long Island
and command a Utile higher price. For the past
three or four years, our truckmen say, their pro
ducts have Just about paid tho coot ot raising, with
out yielding any profit. The Long Islander con
sider* cabbige hi* most profitable vegetable in a
good year. It lean uncertain crop, however, and
does not thrive at all unless it has a good deal of
wet weather. Onions are also regarded as a very
paying crop in good seasons. Cucumbers are raised
on Long Island by the million, and most of them
are sold to the pickle manufacturers of Westchester
county.
I am able to contradict with authority a most
painful rumor concerning a prominent southerner
that has whispered about our streets.
The gentleman In quesUon has been
noted aa one of tho wealthiest south
cmers In New York,and a great speculator In col ton.
Lout summer ho was a persistent bull on cotton and
and it was said lost somewhefo
tween a million and a million
and a quarter in backing his opinions. Ho was a
confirmed dyspeptic and the worry brought about
by his losses, It ws* raid, overthrew hi* reason. Ills
friends were reported to have confided him to apri
vate asylum near this city, aud to have said
his aberration It only temporary. I can only
that the above report is not true. The gentlemen
In question made heavy losses. Just aa he haa made
heavy gaina—but he'a as keeu and shrewd as ever,
and ready fora new compalgn.
George W. Perkins, who died last week, waa the
youngest bank president In New York, being thirty-
nine years of age at his death. He was the con
trolling spirit In the brilliant Richmond and Dan
ville campaign of two years ago, and upon the in
auguration of the*Georgia Pacific scheme, sold bis
Danville stock aud bought heavily In the new com
pany. He waa a strong believer In southern in
vestments. Thero wero four Perkins brothers, all
of whom were bankers. George W. was the presi
dent of tho Mercantile National bank, E. II., of
the Importer! and Traders' bank, and the other
two private bankers. They backed the Clyde syn
dicate, in its enterprises and bad
Urge financial influence. Their home
was Athens, I'a., and they come to New York
poor, but shifty and energetic, and each amassed a
fortune. Mr. Perkins's iearly death lathe type of
many such in New York. He worked himself to
oeath, and when bis system was broken took rest
lu spasms of travel. He leaves a fortune of about
$3,000,000, but that don’t compensate for dying at
39.
Mr. Conner)’, managing editor of the Herald,now
on a Vacation has been terribly overworked, ne
get* $12,COO a year which will coutinuo while he
goes to Europe.
Lilian Russell is stilL very sick. This will interest
you when you know that Lilian is the most beauti
ful woman on the stage and only 18 years of age.
Charles A. Dana Is worth $1,000,000 outside of his
Sun stock, and bis sap-headed son Paul will need
every dollar of it when his pa is dead.
HOW DOC HOLLIDAY SHOT.
O«M0 Trnthful Narrative* af tha Exploit* of a Farmer
Atlanta Cittern.
"Blast theso fighters who go around flourishing
pistols. I halnt got no use for ’em. They’re just
likely’s not to hit some ono who don't care about
being hit." The speaker was a gray-whiskered old
fellow who nod been prospecting In Los C'errilloa,
and as he gave expression to Ills opinions of " bad
men" ho emphasized them by slamming bis blank
ets down on the floor of the railroad station. It
was about two minutes before the crowd recovered
from tho mental shock of the novel idea
that anybody should have a repugnariw
to stopping a bullet now and then,
but a man with a sear across hi* nose was the first
to catch tho drift of the speaker's remarks and take
udvuntago of the opi»ortuiilty to ring In some rem
iniscences. "You ain't much off yer cabesa thar,
olo rocks," he raid. "I seen that galoot flourish In'
Iris gun out on tho platform an’ searin' tho young
feller, but I’d like to have him try that sort o* fool-
1-hneM in some places I've been. Over In Durango
ono night we was havin' kind of a circus in the
datice hsll, and one o' them cussed fools with a pis
tol got blllii’ an' turned himself loose on the town.
Thought he was raisin' ihuudcrati' whoopin' It up,
untillio turned his gun loose au' tho ball come
through the danco hall window an' smashed a
lamp.
DOC HOLLIDAY
was dancin' a polka or something itiside, an' he Jes
let go his gal an' rays: 'That young man'pears to
bo makln' himself too consplcerous.' 'That’s what
Doc rays, an’ he steps to the door an' turns loose his
gun an* steps bock an’ goes on with tho dance.
Doc's a tough citizen when ho gets annoyed; never
utruek a town that ho didn't have to skip out for
toyin' somebody out."
"What became of the young man who made him
self too conspicuous?" Inquired an eastern drum
mer, who was sitting on his sample case in the cor
ner and making wry faces over a refractory cigar.
The man with a scar on his uoae turned upon
him lu utonUhment, and the test of the crowd
gazed first at the drummer In Indignant surprise
and then at scar-nose in expectant impatience.
They seemed to regard it as tho story-teller’s pre
rogative to rebuke the Ignorance of the tcndcr-foot,
but their looks said plainly that he would have to
hurry up about it If ho didn’t want to lose the
chsnce. Hear nose waved hi* lisnd deprecatltiflv
while ho bit offa plccoof navy, and ronrcsning Iris
Impulse toindulgo in sarcasm, ho rcolfcd in a de-
lttH-rato manner: "My Jriend, 1 thought I stated aa
how Doc IfoUuiay turned loose hl.-Jgun It I did
so, it nat'rally follors that the other party was told
out eohler'ii a wedge. Them two facta is onsepero-
bio, as most ou us I* aware of."
"Yes, that'* dead tight," clilpned In the member
for Morocco. "I'll give Dock Holliday credit for
shooting straight, and that's about the only good I
know of him If a tnau will get Into gun nghts I
liku to see him put till bullet* whore th y tho’U do
the most good, ami that's Into some other durn
find with a ptotol. Most o' them chaps depend on
the general public to stop their bullets, and as a
peace*ble member of that body 1 don’t approve of
'em, not hy a damrite. As for Holliday, ho'a an
infernal scoundrel, If thero ever was one. He waa
with the gang of road agents that tried to hold up
the Benson stage iu arch, '81, and killed Bud
I’hilpot, the driver, and one of the paosdngon^
That’s what itarted the row 'tween
/ IKE CLANTON’SCOW DOYf
and the Karp brothers lu Tomb-itoue. The night of
the attack oq the stage; Doc Holliday rode Into
Totnbston6 and got l big gulp of whisky at a sa
loon on a back s'reel, and hi* horse wn* covered
with foam. Ilotvent outwlth ih<. Earpa looking
att Karp; and Doc away on this whemo,
and that’s why the Clanton crowd was attacks!
by the elty mar*hnl, Virgil Dark and tho
rest of the gang. It was Doc Holliday who
killed Tom Me Lowry In that rerimmnge. He’s a
consumptive lookin' cuss, but bo’s ha-1 os they make
’em. Tholdetiof him bclnz au officer of tho law
reminds me of Hoodoo Iirown, who was town mar
shal at Atamoe. Hoodoo was roaae marshal to keep
him out of deviltry and make his talent/or getting
l*
ir o? birds they were
tliedrnpof some use; but he Ju*t took advantage of
It hy standing nt> strangers ou dark nights and clean
ing'cm out. Tho limtico of Uio peace was in ca-
Thera to promise of a “boom" In stocks soon, if
the leaden of t^e streets can make them boom.
The bear cliques are almost entirely broken up
Tho Twenty third street pa-ty baa disbanded, and
tho Windsor hotel bean, the fiercest of the tribe,
have haul'd their bonds off the market. Mr.
Keene is almost alone In hammering the market,
and it 1* said that he la simply driving It to
where be can ^ cover his shorts without
serious loss. Mr. Vanderbilt, on leav
ing here a few days since, said be expected to
see good stocks from ten to twenty per cent higher
when he returned next month, as the earnings of
the roads Justify an advance. Charley Osborne, the
invetafate hear, has loaded up with Denver, and is
looking for a boom. Indeed, without any material
advance in earnings on the main properties, the big
dealers seem to think there is more margin up than
down, and have loaded up accordingly. Victor
Newcomb, who predicted a crash before tbc year
oat, now thinks the crisis baa passed and that
better times are ahead.
roixn.
The World, which should be authority, puts Jay
Gould’a wealth at forty millions, and credits Van
derbilt with cne hundred and twenty-five millions
It ranks Mooes Taylor (estate) at thirty-five millions
which puts him third in the list and only five mill
ions under Gotrid. The two Astor* come next with
thifty millions each, and twenty-six other names
follow, aggregating for the tbjrty richest men In
New York six hundred and twenty-one millione. or
over U enty millions each.
_.jttr pal
to ran a town. The boys ilroi
After awhile, and hung the
Hoodoo got away."
i up to dry; bu*
A Uw That I* All Iks Umge.
From tho New York Commercial Advertiser.
"The "Nancy Lee" roee Is taking as by storm. In
color deep pink—of that shade seen fn sticks of win-
tergrecn candy-a silvery bloom upon It, of fair size
and exquisite fragrance. Hamuel Parsons, In hto
late work upon the rose, traduces tho Nancy Leo.
He rays It Is "moderatoor dwarf and not vigorous,"
while Peter Hondorson, who to authority upon
flower growing, pronounce* tho Nancy Lee aa
"flowering as freely a» iho tea varieties." This
charming rose has not as yet been thrown upon the
market, as only a few plsuts ate yet in possession of
our plantsmcn.
HwihcIIiImx f«r Kvsryaar.
From Iho Washington Gazette.
"The Atlanta Constitution is the d—1 of a big
paper, In fact too big," a fellow said when nut
Sunday's issue came. But this man takes a nar
row view o! affairs. No paper to publtohed for
any one roan, but there Is somethliiK In it for
cneh man, If ft to bliC enough and is properly con
ducted, and this is the case with TnuCosonrimos.
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
Georoe III., speaking to Archbishop Sut
ton representing bis large family, made the re-
maik: "I believe your grace has better than a doz
en?" "No, sire," replied the archbishop, "only
eleven." "Well." replied the king, "lau't tha
better than a dozen?"
Tiie Christian Advocate says that if tho
ministers and members of the churches would work
as zealously and generally for a revival of religion
aa politicians and partisans do for success, in.one
month thonundaof altar*in each of the states
would be thronged with Inquirers.
STATieTic* divide tho Kngliah-apcaking peo
ple of the earth as follows; Eplsoopallans, 18,500,-
000; Methodists, 14,500.000; Roman Catholics, 13,-
600,0G0; Presbyterians. 10.250,000; Baptists, 8,000,000;
CotigregslioualtoULO,000,000; Unitarians. 1,000,000;
rn I no. sects, 1,500,000; no religious profc&don*, 8.-
000,000.
A pastor of one of the Congregational
churches in Massachusetts, has distributed among
the members of hto congregation cards on whl:h are
printed the different plans of church work for the
year, and an invitation to each member to write
hto or her name onporitu the particular work in.
which they are wlllfiig to engage. By this mcaira
the members are able to choose their own field of
tabor.
The Richmond Christian Advocate, in enu
merating the causes for thanksgiving, made special
mention of the "wonderful increaae of email Indus
tries among our southern people," of which the
aggregate amount of pecuniary profit has been im-
mensc. "The feet to," it rays, “tbat the south is
fast becomltig a vast garden lor the north no lew
jhanapreat plantation for cotton, rico and to-
‘Dk pure an’ undefiled ’ligton,” say# the
Rev. Plato Johnsou, "to always to be foun' Ina
man's pocket. Dat Is a curus place to look fer 'll-
gion, but ef taint there then taint nowhere. De
dat cant put bis hands on his 'lifion wen ho
ptiu bis bands on bis porketbook ain't got none.
Wen a man talka loud 'bout his 'llgion. dnl to only
purteose; but wen be shells out do hard cash he
ain’t foolin’—hemes us bizness."
’’ThereIs going to be trouble in the church
tills winter," stye the Interior; "trouble over
those hats—those ladles' fur hata, we mean, with
Immense brims, with crucified birds on theta, aud
which are worn perpendicularly on th
the head. 1 hey hide the pulpit amt it-i
from the unfortunate people who ured
untoward circuaitances to*it behind them t ho*-
bats arc a violation of the peace of the people, of
the dignity of the tow and of the humaue iuMmcu
of man."
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