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THE CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA TUESDAY, OCTOBEE 30.1883-TEN PAGES,
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BERMUDA AND BUTTER
■WHERE ATLANTA'S BREAD IS BUT
TERED.
A Dali? ltd Hoeey Farm—fending Oat FIT, Hun
dred Dalian a Day for Boller-Xteplce Soma
Aotlaa Monty at Baau-Wbat Oar
Orocata oiy—Borne Baal Facta.
Atlanta consumes 2,500 pounds of butter
day. For this she pays, in hard cash, $750
day. At least $500 a day goes out'of the
state. For as small an item as butter, this
one city of Atlanta is drained of $500 every
day.
In the limits of Fulton county—certainly
in the territory adjacent—there are thousands
of acres lying idle. They could be had for
trifle. Set in Bermuda graas, or built up in
clover patches, they would make fine pastures.
#ur common Georgia cews, bred to Jersey
bulls, produce a grade of cow from which
rich, yellow butter can be made. On these
fields, that cost less than $10 an acre, in this
climate, with less than three months of win
ter, we can certainly compete for the home
market with the butter makers, who graze
their cattle ou $100 acres, bouse them seven
months lu the year, and ship their butter
through three hands a thousand miles to
market.
Hear whatour grocers say on the subject:
Mb, Burry, of Dobme & Duffy, told: "Wo sell
no Georgia butter at all. We retail six hundred
.pounds per week, half of which comes from Tea'
uessee and half of itis made by Quakers in Oneida
county. New York. We do not cell Georgia bn Iter
because there Is none to sell. The Jersey butter
that Is made near Atlanta is of cotwse very fine, but
It is not worked well and docs not keep more than
two or three days, which Is not long enough for the
trade of egreccryhouse.”
Mb. H. Wolfs said: "We sell only New York
Goshen and Tennessee, about three hundred
pounds per week ot the former and a hundred and
fifty per week of the latter. I sell no butter that is
made in gcorgla.
Mb. 1. 8. Mitciiki.i, said: "I sett about two hun
died pounds per week of Tennessee butter and sev
enty-five pounds of Mr. Butler Woodward’s Jeiaey
butter, made at Cohutta, near Dalton. 1 sell no
other Goorgla butter, because 1 do not have nono
offered and no demand for It.”
Mb. C. J. Kickliohteb said: "I would say that
not one pound in five hundred of the butter con'
mmed In Atlanta fa mado in this section. 6omo
little comes from the neighborhood of Acworth and
some from up the Air Line, but It amounts to noth'
ing. Ordinary Georgia butter la white and puffy,and
tho people do not want it."
Mb. Elam Johnson said: “I handle, comparative
ly speaking, no Georgia butter. Itall cornea from
Tennessee or the north and west.”
MB. I,. E. Hamilton said: "I handle butter on
oommlssion. The trade is enormous. I estimate
that Atlanta consumes fully fifteen thousand
pounds of butter per week. I have sold twenty-fire
thousand pounds of butter In tholastlhrecmonths,
four thou rand dollars' worth of It being from ono
man.Mr.W.G. Weems,otSt Clair,Tennessee. That
was only half his product, and shows that he makes
a yield of over two thousand dollars per month
North Georgia could just as well take In some o
this money. Ske has every advantage that Tenncs'
see has." *
Mr. C.K.Buushbe Bays: "I sell about 40 pounds a
week of Wade'a Jersey butter. I could sell 400
pounds a week. 1 pay him 42 cents a pound and
beg him for more. Not befog able to got it or any
like It, I rend out of tho state for the bulk o( the
butter I sell.”
Mb. G. 8. Pbiob sells about 15 pounds a week of
Wade’a buttor. Ho says: "1 cofild sell 15 pounds a
day If Icould get It. 1 have no other Georgia mado
tmtter offered me. I see occasionally some whlto wat
ery butter that is. made here but
la not saleable, and indeed very little la offered,
buy my butter from the north and west.”
Mb. Dunnino says: "One trouble with our poo-
ple la that when they make butter they do not make
It lu best style. White, puffy butter will not sell,
1 had a man como In yesterday and offer mo butter
ol his own make. I declined It, as I had tried It In
the spring and could not aell It. Be showed me his
samples. I saw they worn greatly Improved, and
took a 40 lb. case per week of hla product, and can
sell It."
Ms. H.I. Kimball says. "For many years I sent
to New York for all the butler I used on my table.
I now buy Georgia-made butter that is as good as
any ever made lu New York. Our people have Im
proved very rapidly In butter-making."
In last Sunday's Constitution seven Atlanta
firsts advertised butter. Of these three advertised
New York butter—one Vermont creamery, one
Tennessee, one Ohio, and one Wade’a Jersey butter.
Battering on tho Other Side.
A MONBOS COUNTY BUTTER AND MONEY FARM—THE
WORK MB. FI N. WILDER ISDOINO.
A bright, frank looking young farmer came luto
Tub Constitution office, and handed In the follow
ingcard;
F. N. W ILDER,
DAIRY AND HONEY FARM,
Forsyth, Georgia.
He followed this with some samples of butler
wrapped In chceae doth, set In txfcea. It was el
a golden color, firm and fragrant. Each pat was
stamped In raised letters “F. N. W."
"I read your article in Sunday’! paper on home
enterprise, and I thought I’d ahow you this, aa a
sample ol What 1 am doing.” In reply to Inquiry,
Mr. Wilder said:
"I have 280 acres of land. I am putting all of If
except about SO acres into grt ss and clover for my
cattle and bees. That 30 acres I am enriching for
earn, wheat and cotton. I wit make it give me a
hale to the acre for what cotton I plant. But my
main purpose Is to make butter and honey."
"What progress are you makingT"
"I am building up my herd slowly
I am now milking nine cows from
which I get 65 pounds of butter a week. M)
oows arc well selected scrubs, bred to a fine Jer
sey bull. As I Increase the size of my herd, I am
grading It up to better quality. All the money I
get I put Into cows. I am golog to the Hughes
Jersey sale in Athena on the 8th of November. I
hope to buy a good Jersey heifer or so. Ism going
to push my butter product up to 500 pounds a
week.”
"What do you get lor your butter?"
"It nets me 35 cents a pound, and I could sell
1,000 pounds a week If 1 had it. Atlanta alone
would take that much at 35 cent* net to me."
"And about the coat?”
"My cows cost me besides their grazing 10 cents a
day. or aay $35 a year. They avenge 250 pounds of
butters year, which brings me 190. I can make
each cow clear me 150 a year on nutter. IflhadM
cows I could do better. The expense ou each cow
would be reduced, and I would be justified in get
ting machinery for butter-making.
-What do you no with your buttermilk?”
"I feed It to my hogs. I bought 7 January plga
when they were a month old. I have rats them
on buttermilk and they will weigh 300 pounds each
for Christmas killing. I am beginning to harden
their fieshnp now with a Uttle com. In December
I’ll give them ail the com they can eaL”
"What pasturage do you uie?"
"The Bermuda grass is the best pasture we can
have -and as good as any—I tried for yean to kill
it out on my place, Ignorant of Its value. Now I'm
encouraging the same old aod to
grow and turning It Into otter
It can't he killed. I’ve seen U patch down
to the ground lu Angust till It looked like brown
neper. A rain would come and in ten days it would
be two Inches high and sharp green. I am patting
a acre or two into clover every year, and will soon
have aa good clover aa anybody. This fa for my
beea principally."
“Have you many hives?"
“I keep from 60 to 100 hives. I have sold thirty
odd itamlslhfs year. I generally let one swarm
hive three times a year, which gives me enough to
sell. Isold Mr. Leavey, of Grffiln, one hive o
Italian! last year and he now has 9. I charge from
>15 to 320 for a swarm.”
"What do your hives yield in honey?”
"They will average 50 pounds each year In and
out. I have taken over 100 pound! from one lilve
frequently. Ouco I got 850 pounds from one hive,
hut bad to feed the bees in the winter, A year or
two ago I sold 5 tons of honey (10,000 pounds) from
60 hives. This was about 160 pounds to the hive.
This was unusual—the best honey year I evertaw.
You can count ou 50 pounds a year from good
hives, If the bees have good forage."
What la the best forage?”
Clover. White clover. Red clover woald bo as
good I suppose, but the bees can’t get Into the
nocks ol the red clover blossoms. The beetue very
fond of white clover and It makes beautiful
honey.”
Do you find ready calc for your honey?”
Yes. My crop runs from 1 to 5 tons a year and
I aell it readily. I have about 1.030 pounds that
will sell to-day. I get 25 ceats a pound at retail,
and by the barrel lOcentsspound."
‘You are satisfied with the outlook?”
'Perfectly, I have moved cautiously, and only
Invest my profits in enlarging my dairy and apiary.
I began last spring, making 20 pounds of buttor a
week. I now make 65. In a year I will he making
250. My land is getting richer each year. I don't
have to go lu debt. My money comes In every
week. I ralsa what I waut to eat. I am comforta
ble aud independent.”
You haven't quit cotton?' ’
Oh, I will mise a few bales. But I will put It on
rich land, and try aud make It givo me a bale to the
aero. It don't pay to scatter cotton over a whole
plantation aud buy the meat and bread to raise It
with."
MATTHEW ARNOLD’S ARDOR.
Its Delate* Seme Antoundtnx Tiling* to a c
Reporter.
From the Now York Journal.
"Can you toll me, air,” asked a Jeurnal re
porter yesterday, addressing a rather weak-
eyed gentleman who paced,the corridor of the
Windsor hotel, "whether Matthew Arnold,
the poet, is stopping here?”
“I am the gentleman for whom yon are
looking, sir,” replied the odd-looking stran
ger. "Of wbatservice can I be to yon?"
The reporter explained that he had been
detailed to obtain an interview.
"Ah, indeed!” replied the poet; “what a
very enterprising set of newspaper men you
are on this side of tho Atlantic! I’ve only
been in the kentry about barf a day, and
bless me, it seems as though tho newspapers
had run wild about it. You won't miml mo
being a bit inquisitive, will you? No? That's
a dear good fellow. What 1 wanted to ask
was, how many newspaper writers have you
in this kentry, anyhow? Millions! Mercy,
yfin stagger me!"
The famous poet yawned wearily, and
gazed out upon the street.
“Beastly weather, aint in, my boy?”
“It’s the first rain we have had here in two
years," replied the reporter, blushing at his
own recklessness.
"Mercy on me!" exclaimed Mr. Arnold,
You don’t say bo?"
He drew a blank book from bis pocket and
made a note of the fact.
"YVbat a pleasure it is,” said he, as he re
placed ids note book and gazed admiringly
upon the reportor, "to converse with you
gentlemen of the press; one always learns
something. Y'ou noticed that 1 jotted down
the rcninrkablo fact which yon just apprised
me. Yes! Thank you. I make a habit of
doing that. You see, 1 am to deliver a
lecture shortly before your universities upon
'science and education,’ and every little
helps you know."
"You have been a poet from childhood,
have you not, sir?”
“Oh, dear, yes. A man to be a real poet,
you know, must he bora with the crown of
genius. 1 have been surprised at the num
ber of poets yon have in this kentry. Mr.
Vanderbilt tells me he has always hsd a knack
that way."
• "Do you know Mr. Vanderbilt?”
"'“Certainly, sir.”
“The gentleman who ‘led the rush out of
the opera house’ the other evening?”
“Really, 1 am not aware of that, but he
certainly appears to be a very finegentleman
and a capital judge of poetry. He kindly
informed me tbatlie bad purchased an en
tire set of my books once, bnt had to have
them changed for^that beastly humdrum stufl
of Dickens because the covers were not of the
right shade to match the wall paper in his
library."
"You have written a great deal of poetry in
your time, sir?”
"My dear fellow, I have lived two-thirds of
my life in deep communion with the workers
in a sphere which (transcends the vaguest
ideality of mundane substantiality."
“X like you. It isn’t every man I llxe. We
see. we feel, we comprehend, we contemplate
ana we wonder. And why? Why, I ask, do
we thus divest ourselves of the real and
wander through the vast immeasureableness
of the ideal? It is Decause, if we would ac
complish anything the means to which do
not lay upon the surface, we must go back
ol-of—"
'The returns?” suggested the reporter.
'Sir!” exclaimed Mr. Arnold, “I do not
comprehend you. It seems to be the fault of
you people in this young kentry that when
one hesitates for a moment yon feel called
upon to help him out. It is a habit we have
on other side to pause sometimes for the word
which will most fittingly express
our emotions, and you snap ns up with
some such beastly remark as you have just
made—no offense, yon know, for I like you
—and away goes the idea. Now, I know yon
will think it funny—I know I should think
; funny if you didn’t think it funny—but it
nevertheless, the deplorable fact that what
ever it was I had in my mind to say has left
e.”
"Really—”
“Noapology, my dear fellow; none what-
rer. The fault is with me I assure you.”
BATHYANY’S BLOOD-
THE HUNOAf IA.N NOBLEMAN'S FA
TAL DUBL.
Tbe Count'* Mendacity In Detertlng a Poor Oirl to
Scon re a Hie ter FrlM—CfcaUaoftd to Mortal
Combat by a Belattve of tbe Irjured Malden
and Sant Hurling Into Eternity,
London, October 20.—Tbe romance of the
Hungarian duel gives it a peculiar zest for
the gossip-lovers of Vienna and Pestli. Much
sympathy is felt for Iloma Scliosberger,
who, though married both to Dr. Rosenberg
and Count Batthyany, is it in a singular posi
tion, being neither maid, wife nor widow.
General contempt is expressed for Schos-
berger, who is a banker, vulgar and purse-
proud, sacrificing love to bis ignoble ambi
tion, and also for Count Batthyany, who is
□ow shown to be a fortune hunter of the
familiar type. The count held a small official
appointment in a remote Hungarian district,
while serving there he made tbe acquaint
ance of a Christian lady, belonging to a
wealthy family of the district, to whom he
was on the point of being married, when he
heard that Schosberger had a marriageable
daughter who might suit his purpose better,
being wealthy. He unhesitatingly deserted
his fiancee and hastened to Baden. This na-
uraily angered the relatives of the lady to
whom he was already engaged. The coant
received a challenge from a male relative of
the abandoned girl, and Dr. Rosen-
bergdemanded satisfaction for tbe wrong done
to Iloma Schosberger. The count refused to
fight. Rosenberg threatened the count with
the publication of his refusal in the Pesth
newspapers. No notice was taken of this
communication. A letter to the doctor from
Count Ilattbyany, castingaaluron the latter’s
personal courage, was published in the Pesti
Napoli. Meanwhile the marriage took place.
The young couple left for Italy. The count’s
friends communicated with him, Informing
him of what occurred at Pestli. On Saturday
Inst he returned to light the duel. The
first shots fired on either Bide had no decisive
result. The seconds attempted in vain to ef
fect a reconciliation. Count Batthyany, al
though wounded in the shoulder, refused to
listen to them. His adversary likewise wish
ed tbe duel to proceed, and after the third
shot tbe count fell. A bullet had pierced bis
left temple. Death was instantaneous. Count
Stephen Batthyany is the eldest son of Count
Siglsinund Batthyany, who has lived a re
tired life in reduced circumstances. The fam
ily are greatly respected in Hungary.
FRIZSR’S FRENZY.
a decoy letter he was arrested there to-day.
Tbe meeting between him and tbe father
of tbe girl be had betrayed was most afiecting.
Mr. Lerrieux. who is nearly sixty years of
age, succeeded with diillcnlty in controlling
his emotions. Hard at first refused
but finally consented to return to St. Louis
under guard of the Mian whose happiness he
had blighted. When asked if it was not dan
gerous to confide Hurd to bis care under the
circumstances, Mr. Lerrieux replied: “I have
a six-shooter with me. but shall not use it
until tho rascal tries to escape. The law will
punish him. I am simply an officer now,
and will do my duty."
Hurd’s journey, however, can hardly he
pleasant one. Since his elopement with
Amelia, three other women have been found
who have fallen victims to his machinations.
A DOCOR’S CRIM .
Mr. Arnold then retired.
Burned to Death.
From tbe Dublin Gazette.
Sunday morning just at the hour of day
break, Annie Tucker, a very old woman, in
this county, rose from her Bed, kindled the
fire, dressed herself and lit her pipe. Her
daughter, who alept in a different bed in the
same room, was very soon aroused by screams,
and discovered that the clothing of the old
woman were ablaze. The flames were extin
guished, however, but not until they had
wrought fatal effects, irom which she died
after noun of suffering the moet excruciating
pain. _______
Hla Motion Had no Second,
From the Douglasvtlle Star.
Some yean ago. when tbe Hon. Hugh
Buchanan was jndgeof the Coweta circuit,
there lived in tbe county of C. a gentleman
who had once been a justice of the peace and
judge of the inferior court whom we shall
call JndgeS. This gentleman had just been
admitted to the bar. Ha was in his first case
before Judge Buchanan. Colonel A. was his
opponent. Colonel A. moved to dismiss tbe
case of Judge S. for some defect in the plead
ings. Judge Buchanan asked Judge S. what
bad he to say in reply to the motion of
• - ’ . ..
Colonel A. "'Why, it pie
said Judge 8., “Yo:
yonr honor,”
saiu »., »'ou can't entertain the
motion of Colonel A. It baa no second.”
Judge S. lost his cate.
Aa Empty Calaboose.
From thoCuthbert Appeal.
Jonesboro, after being* prohibition town
for a few months, coasted that her calaboooe
was for sale or rent. Cnthbert has not been
dry a week yet, yet her jail la to let, at not a
oruminal is to be found there, while our
alab oooe is used for a market.
Fall** l’nrtlcNlar* ot the ll.rrlbl. ToMorawa* Tra*
eedjr-Fire l»e*d.
Cleveland, October 20.—The horrible crime
reported from Now Philadelphia, Tuscarawas
county, of Albert Frizer is shocking
in its details. Frizer has been in
ill health for some time past. He bos been
working as a farm hand and found rnnch
difficui'y in supporting his family. On Sun
day night be met bis brother-in-law, John
Jndy, of New Philadelphia, and informed Itim
in a discouraged manner that hishealth was so
bad that he was unable to work any longer.
Judy endeavored to cheer Frizer up, and tbe
latter departed homeward. This was the last
seen of him alive. Hi* house was a rude
affair, located in an out-of-the-way place. A
neighbor of Frizer's called at hla house for
the purpoee of borrowing a farming imple
ment. No one answered his knock and he
opened the door. A horrible sight met his
gozs. Mrs. Frizer lay upon the floor in a
pool of blood, with her throat
cut from ear to car. On the
bed was the body of the eldest child, a girl of
eight, her features besmirched with blood,
and her body mutilated in a sickening man
ner. In a crib were the bodies of two younger
children, their corpses covered with blood.
One account states that Frizer lay dead in a
corner of the room, with a blood-stained
butcher knife clutched In bis hand. Another
says that by his side was an empty gun barrel
with no hammer or stock, from which it la
Inferred that, holding one end of the barrel
in tho flame of a lamp which stood
near, ho blew out hla brains. There woe no
evidence of a scuffle in the room, or other
indications that tbe crime was committed by
an outsider. Worried bysiokness and a fear
of approaching poverty, Frizer probably
thought it best to murder bia wife and babes
rather than tee them in want. Tha tragedy
has created a profound sensation, and people
have been Hocking to the scene from all parts
of the surrounding country. An inquest has
not yet been held.
A GHaCLKSSSCAMP
Wk* U*l*1e«* la Ik* t**•***-:•■ *r Faar Skat* aa4
Sevan Wire*.
Boston, October 21.—Four names and seven
wives are more than moat men cm manage
successfully at one time. Joseph E. Hurd, a
sewing machine agent, who was arrested here
to-day for the betrayal of Miss Amelia Ler-
rieux, the eighteen year old daughter of John
Lenleux, ol St. Louli, can testify to t 1 -'-
Tlie story of Hurd's unprincipled life iaa t
extraordinary one. Ha belonged originally in
Lowell, Maas., where he married a moet esti
mable lady and treated her so badly that aha
obtained a divorce from him in 1878. In
1870 he went to Texas, where he
was known by tbe nameol Linn Scott. There
he married a charming girl, who lived with
him unhappily lor a time and then waa obliged
to leave him on account of bit Injudicious
attentions to the (air aex. He next turned up
in St. Louis, where,without waiting for the for
mality of a divorce, be married another wo
man under the name of Charles Edwin. This
woman also he deserted after a time, and he
married again, this time under his ows name
of Joseph E. Hurd. It was not long after this
marriage that Hurd became acquainted with
Amelia Lerrieux, a charming girl of
eighteen, who had recently graduated
from one of the leading seminaries,
and who, to employ her ' time,
gave music lessons to a few pupils. Among
these was Mrs. Hard, and tha two met fre
quently at Hurd’s bouse. Before long the
fascinating sewing machine agent had gained
such an influence over the unsuspecting girl
as to make her blind to her future, although
she waa soon to have been married to a Mr.
Hill, a well-to-do young business man of St.
Louis. Her marriage with Hill was to have
occurred July 28, but the evening before her
wedding day she mysteriously disappeared.
A few days later Hurd was also missing, and
as both were last seen coming eastward
it was concluded that they had
eloped. Mrs. Hurd, who then did not know
all her husband’s perfidy, was grief-stricken
and returned to her friends in Illinois. Tbe
father of the young lady swore that he would
take Hurd's life al aigbt, and determined to
devote all hia time and energiea to bunting
down tbe betrayer of bia daughter. Letters
received fiom bis daughter intimated that
tbe fugitive couple were in the vicinity of
New York, although Amelia declared that
the sewing machine agent was not with her,
and that sbe bad seen nothing of him. Photo
graphs of both of the fugitives were sent to New
York detectives, but to no avail. At last a
latter received from Amelia informed her
father that aba was living in Boston near tbe
church of Immaculate Conception. Detect
ives here were atonce notified and after
patient search discovered a sewing machine
agent who answered tbe description of tbe
man wanted in Lynn. They soon discovered
evidence showing that he was tbe guilty
party, and Mr. Lemeux was notified. He
secured a requisition for Hurd*from the gov
ernor of Missouri and came here at once.
It was found that Hurd bad obtained on
August 20 a marriage license at the city regis
ter's office, and waa married in the office by
tbe register, as the conple said they were in
great Caste. Since their marriage they have
ifed it Lynn.
Hard was in the habit of getting his mail
at the Boston postoffice, and by tbe means of
II. Farm a Comrade late a Uul, Hoe*, aad Ex.
tract* From Him $l f OOO.
Sandusky, Ohio, October 25.—Dr. John E.
Mathers lias been arrested here upon tbe
charge of decoying Dr. George E. Gordon
into an unoccupied home, and compelling
him by threat* of personal violence to give
him a check for $500 and an order upon Mrs.
Gordon for u similar amount. He made tbe
following statement to-night: "I planned
therobbery of Dr. Gordon while I was in Cleve-
land, two weeks ago. I knew that he bad
lately come into the possession of a consid
erable sum of money, and I decided first to
steal his daughter, age nine years, and hold
her for a heavy ransom. Two other persons,
whose names 1 will not divulge, were in tbe
plot with me.
When the time esnte to steal the child nty
heart failed me, and I decided instead to de
coy the doctor into an unoccupied house here
and extract money from him. I disguised
myself, procured the key of an empty liouse
under the pretence that 1 wanted to
rent it, and telephoned Dr. Gordon
come there and see a sick per
son. He came, and I grabbed him by the
throat, and by threats compelled him to givo
me a check and an order upon his wife.
Then I tied him, locked him in the house
and got into his buggy to drive to his resi
dence to get the money on the order. He
escaped from the rpotn, notified tho police
and they arrived a( bis residence before I did.
Seeing them there 1 lied, going into the
country, where 1 left tbe horse and buggy,
and then wandered about until I gave I my
self up.”
Dr. Mathers waived an examination to-day
and was remanded to jail.
KUrtN'S JUGULAR VEINS.
Aa AtlMta l*>Nr Huftr lalrMti the Moraine of
1IU Weddles limy.
C. E. Kuhn, a painter and paper hanger
well know in Atlanta, suicided a few days
aso in Front Royal, Virginia.
Kuhn was a native of Virginia, and came
to Atlanta about fifteen months ago. He
was a joung man of good address and good
habits, and it was not long after his arrival
in tbe city that heaecnred t/ork with M. M.
Msuck. He waa a faithful and efficient hand
and soon won the respect and confidence of
his employer and fellow workmen.
About three weeks ago he left Atlanta
for Front Royal, Virginia, for tbe purpoee
of marrying and intended to return to At
lanta with his bride and to make it their
home. To hia employer and bliareocislea he
made known the object of hia visit to Vir
ginia before he left, and by them be was pre
sented witli a handsome testimonial of their
esteem for him. This week Mr. Mauck re
ceived a letter from Mr. Kuhn in which he
gave the day of his intended arrival in At
lanta. Witli tbe letter there also came an in
vitation to tho wedding of Charles E, Kuhn
to Miss Ida E. Pritchard. On the day desig
nated in Killin'! letter Mr. Mauck and sev
eral of Kuhn’s Irlends repaired to tho depol
to meet him. He did not come and.thinktng
he bad mined a connection somewhere they
all went again yesterday. Again
he failed to arrive, but
when Mr. Mauck returned to his place of
business and opened bia mail tbe non arrlvu!
of Knbn and his brine was explained. /
copjr of the Pago Courier, published at Lumy.
Va., told tbe story. It set fortli the fact thut
Kulm was to have been married at 8 o’clock
on Thursday morning, and as he did not ap
pear at the breakfast table tome of his friends
in the town who were to have been ids at
tendants went to hia. room in the Central
hotel to awake him in order that he might
prepare for the ceremony. Repeated knocks
on the door of Ida room failed to elicit a re
sponse and an entrance was forcibly effected.
Those who went into the room will never
forget tbe sight which met their gaze.
There on the bed, fiat upon hia
hack with eyes and mouth wide open, lay the
intended groom dead. A bloody gash across
his throat and an open razor in .hla rigid
iiand told the atory plainer than words could
have done. Jtn inquest was held, but no
cause for tbe anicide could be obtained. Miss
Pritchard was so greatly shocked by the sudden
anil tragic death of Kuhn that Iter mind is
greatly impaired. It Is thought that Kuba
was suffering from financial troubles.
CURIOSIIBSOF LOVE.
Yaxtkfol Fair—A llawklatvllla ll.»..re-A
Naaxblj Oarallalaa-
From the Hawklnaville News.
The latest aensation created in Hawkins-
vlliewaa tbe marriage of a runaway conple
this morning at tbe Metbodial parsonage, by
Rev. O. O. Clarke. Tbe contracting parties
were John F. Henderson and Miss Beamier
Burris, both of Washington county. They
' " city last night at 12 o’clock and
reached tbe
succeeded in procuring rooms at the Scar-
borough house. Early tbia morning license
were issued by the ordinary and at 0 o’clock
the young people were made happy.
THE YOUTHFUL BRIDAL COVFLB IN TOWN.
From the charlotte Observer.
Mr. Robert Robinson and Ilia bride, nee
Miss Jennie Costner, the young couple who
ran away front their homes in Llncolnton
and were married in Cheater, are spending
their honeymoon at the Charlotte hotel, in
this city. They arrived here day before yes
terday from Chester, aud have remained
quietly "at home.” Tbe young people do
not belie their ages in appearance, and Mrs.
Robinson is actually the youngest look
ing bride the reporter has ever seen.
Their ages are sixteen and fourteen and they
appear to be perfectly contented and happy.
The husband does not appenr to be in any
hurry to return to Lincolnton and aays he
will remain about two months in Charlotte.
Abont a year ago they ulanned an elopement
and were about to put it into execution, hut
were foiled by their watchful parents. The
only objection their parents hsd to the match
was the extreme youthfulDess of tbe couple.
A CABABRCS ISSSATION.
Cabarrus county has been stirred up a little
over the recent discovery of a fraud that has
been practiced upon her people for a month
or more past by two young men, or rather by
two individuals who were supposed to be
young men. Tbe supposition wss correct as
to on", but badly wrong as to tbe other. It
sppears that a young farmer of Cabarrus
sometime ago picked up an acquaintance
with a woman, ud to make it convenient to
have company constantly, dressed her up in
a suit of his own clothes and took her to bis
own home. The neighbors remarked tbe
strong attachment between the two, bnt
thought nothing of it, until one day bis
companion's disguise waa discovered.
The two then made it np to go to Texas and
the young man appointed a day for his com
panion to meet him at Harrisburg. This
done, be lost no time in taking his own de-
isrture. Tbe women sppeared at Harris-
>urg on the appointed day, atill wearing male
clothes, but finding that her friend bad de
ceived her, she hired herself out to a Harris
burg farmer ss s cotton picker. 8be did not
succeed in concealing her sex for more than
a couple of days, when her employer msde
her leave. She came to Charlotte on a wagon
and is nodonbt still in tbiaplace. Tbe police
have been notified. The young man was of a
good family, and his conduct has caused.them
deep grief. He was striking for Texas when
last heard from.
A BORDER ROMANCE.
BANDIT’S MURDER OF H
BRIDE.
Johnston Halier'* Fatal Ballet Pierce* lHa,Uor«ltbfol
Wife Instead af Htr Paramour, fir Wood
It Waa Intended—rne^Htory of Ua
■ULi Courier J af the ^James’ iiDoyr.
Denver, Col., October27.-Tbe killing ol hli wlfe t
Alice Haller, on the night of tho 23<1, by Johnston
Haller, and tho wounding of tho man Morris, who
had won the affections of Alice, has brought
light a story which began in a border ro4Enco and
has ended in disgrace to two and sorrow to a tfilriY.
Haller was a member of the Quantrell crowd and
knight of tho road when Jesse and Frank James
were looked upon with a sort of mock hero*
tan. Ho was a fearless devil, and in tho
saddle he was as handsome as Murat,
was in some of the bloodiest engagements that
blighted the west. He went with Quantrell where
that reckless but daring horseman swooped down
upon Lawrence, Kan., and left the blood stains of
its best people on tho blackeued ruins of tholr
homes. He was a trusted courier for tho James
boys, aud when it was uns&fo for them to
to their homo in Clay county, Missouri,
Haller volunteered aud did tho mission.
Allegiance to the James brothers was nut alone
tho cause of theso daring missions. Ho had a sweet*
heart who lived lu Iudepoudence, the’couuty seat
of Jackson county, Missouri. Her nfcmo was Alice
a *iwr ol a
like her
tromineni southern t
sol
ders and spies. She used to meet Haller
on his comiiigain from tnc prairies and secro
ting him in her own nome, «»i
some where else, she conveyed whatever message bo
had from the James boys to their old mother near
Kearuey, Missouri. Uerhonou auship was as per
fect •« that of her lover. She was Infatuated with
tho recklessness of border warfare. They were
ma rrlntl In uhlln ahn uraa’.ittlv ‘
City, who Is still preachluR there. Haller loaded
hlaortdc with Jewels,which, It la supposed, ho had
sioleu I* his Irsln exploits. no rodo away
■ frer tho wedding aud the rolurned to
her home. The lovo he left behind seemed
to Chill hla ardor for adventure. Jotse James told
him ouo night at a camp tiro that a man could loro
a girl aud light, but ho couldn't loves wife amir’
ll. He and Frank gave llallera pune, told him _
go to Independence and get his bride and leave the
country. He did It, aud in 1874 they went lo Colo
rado. in that year hla wife met an editor, where ft
la not known, and ahe became infatuated with him.
Ho moved away to another town, bonanza. Hla
wife opened a millinery alore In Hagnache. lfo
went to 1-ueblo. hire sold out her place of Dullness,
and came to him In l’ueblo.
In 1882 he learned she was on Intimate terms
with Alorrts, a barber, ahe weut east, and hu aeon
earned that aho met Mo>rls there, lie fullowcd
rer end found them there together. Btie camo
back with him promising lo have no more to do
wlib Morris, hut .Morris wrote hor a loiter lu April.
After tbe receipt of this letter the said she did not
waul to live with him any louger, and shortly af-
lor disappeared. He heard they wire In Denver
and went them. He saw them tnrough a window,
and Morrlacame mil while ho waatboro. In amo-
merit ol rage he lost Ids sell control and allot him.
After he fired the Ilrst shut he determined to kilt
him, aud followed him through tho house. Ills
wife camo between them and ho shot her, which
he claims waa an accident.
OARLINOTON'S ANSWERS.
Sk.wls* that Ik. In U. Spot K»w Util.
Ik.. Ik. Da. .1 a ni.ta.ee.
Washington, October 2(1.—'The secretary of
war received to-day, through the acting chief
signal officer, Lieutenant Darlington's an
swers to the questions aaked tjlra by General
Uazen after the receipt of hla (Darlington's)
official report of the expedition to Smith’:
sound.
To the question, "Why did you not en
tlenvor to make n depot at Littleton island
with wlmt stores you could gather during the
remaining time you might have remained in
that region?” Lieutenant Darlington replies,
that if anything was to hu done thia season
for the relief of Greeley it was of tho great
est importance to communicato with tbe Yen-
tic at once. He had every reason to believe
that the Yantic would not cross tho bay.
If lie had remained a fortnight
/it Littleton island for the chance
> f the Yantio'a arrival, hia supplies would
liuto been reduced to a dangerously small
iirgln, and if aha did not arrive he would
ivu had to commence a retreat during the
l-iiily closing season with inadequate pro-
i-ioni. If ho had remained iu that region
uulil it waa too late to reach the Danish
settlement, it would have been necessary to
draw on the supplies already deposited for
Urcely, and if he should arrive he would Had
hia own supplies diminished and an addition
to hla party of another body of men no bet
ter off than his own parly. It he bad con
cluded to take the risk of wating at Littleton
island for the Y’nntic ho would not have taken
supplies at Cape Sabine and the west const
of Smith sound to form a depot at Littleton
island, for the reawn that these stores were
much more available to Greely where they
are, than they would be If on Littleton Is
land.
In response to the question, "Why large por
tions of Orcely’a stores ware abandoned on an
ice lloe?” Darlington shows that bia men work
ed in the moat heroic manner,ln tbe presence
f great danger, in saving tbe stores from tbe
ship, and were completely exhausted, and
tbe only atorea abandoned floated away on
the ice beyond possible recovery, and can-
allied of but two barrels of canned goods,
some scattered clothing and a few old news
papers.
k The next question la, "Why out of alx
boats were noae left for Greely and bis par
ty?” Garlington’a reply la to the effect that
be bad but two boata and a dingy, tha latter
for use in only perfectly smooth water. The
three boats of tha Proteua were old and
almostuseless, and bad neither spars, sails
nor rudders. To secure even these worthless
crafts he would have been obliged to resort to
force. Resides, Greely hts eight boats aysila-
hie on the west coast, and another on Carey
island.
In answer to the question. “Why he started
south with forty days' supply.instead of leav
ing a large ijortion for Greely?" Garllngton
says the quantity of food taken by him was
smaller than that ever taken by any party re
treating from that region, and as it was bia
men suffered from want of food by the time
they reached the Upernavik.
The last question, ’ Why did you comesouth
of Cape York at at all, it being a friendly
Esquimaux country, and fairly supplied with
necesaaries, is answered by Darlington with
tbe assertion that the friendly Esquimaux in
tbe vicinityof Ctpe York number 125all told;
that they are on the verge of starvation every
winter, and to have quartered his party on
these people, with the chance of Greely reach
ing thire. would have hut seriously endan-
gertl the live* of tbe whole community.
Garllngton save if there answers are not sat
isfactory he desire* a court of Inquiry.
Tataall Diamond.,
From tbe IflnesvIUa Gazette.
The Tatnall county diamonds will soon
have a reputation More of them have been
found, the exact nature of which hu puzzled
some of tho diamond dealers of Savannah.
There rucks that have been found are as clear
u crystal, octagonal in form with facets re
sembling the Australian diamond, perfectly
smooth and bard enough to cut glare or steel.
Acids will not direolve them and tbe hydro
gen blow pipe will not melt them. The
owner is not aatiafied with tbe areertion
that they cryttalized quartz, and intends to
have them thoroughly tested. Should tbia
>rove to be a bonanza, diamond hunters will
ie numerous and lands on the Canoucbee
where there rocks were found will run up
to fabuioua prices. Just now those lands
are worth two dollars an acre; and until it
is settled that diamonds are un ler the eoil, it
is not e bad idea to see whet would be tbe
reault if the soil should be turned over very
frequently In tbe cnltlvsilon of corn,oats, etc.
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Mrs Winslow’s (toothing Syrup should always be
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A KareVabbit.
From tha Eulaula bulletin.
Dr. Chaney, of Glennville, was in Ibocltr
yesterday, and lie hid a strange and beaufi-
! ul young rabbit he had killed in a hunt on
the day before. It was of a solid light InfT
or dora color on tbe back, with enow white
hair underneath amloa the legs and pinK
colored eyes. Borne said it wss a freak of na-
tore, but we are satisfied that it was nothing
more than a cross between the pet white rab
bit and tbe brown hare to common in onr
woods anil fields. It was a pretty creator*
and the object of much interest and curiosity,
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