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Newspaper Page TextTHE CONSTITUTION ATLANTA TUESDAY.. JAN U A BY 22.1884 WONDERFUL LULA THE MYSTERY OF THE COLLARD- TOWN SETTLEMENT. ▲ Constitution Man Hides up to tbs Homs of Luis Hunt, tbs Wonderful Electric Girl snd Makes Report of Wbst Hs flaw-A Wonderful Power—Mjatlflaa North Georgia. Up the Country, January 15.—And now for the wonderful *tory;of the wonderful Lula Burst. Collsrdtown! Howls that for tlie home of the newly developed wizzard of the beautiful Cedsr Valley country? And yet, the air of Collsrdtown Is weighted with unwritten romances and mysterious tales. Collard was an Indian chief. When the Chero kee* poasmsed the land (t was around the precincts of what Is now CollaMtown that he gathered his followers to-besmear new paint on their faces or en joy tho pleasures of tho peaceful calumet. But alas for Collard. The advance of civilization sent him toward the land of the declining sun. Behind him and bis followers, however, was left Collard town, a name that shall endure forever. It worthy of note also that there are still to be found by relic hunters in that region numerous flint ar- row points, stone pots, and various other produc- tions of the savage artizan, While Collard town Is in the Cedar Valley ceun try. it can be even more definitely located. Its own particular vale is called Collard town valley and borders Lake creek, a most singular stream, which while fljwing a bold current in winter, dries up in summer and leaves in its bed a succession numberless lakes—hence the name. For miles and miles tho rugged hills and moun tains of that portion of north Georgia stretch away in clusters and ranges dividing the fertile valleys that lay along tho numerous creeks and rivers of that section. Wooded mountainsand rich valleys bless the country that produced the wonderful Lula. TIIC HOME OP LULA HURST. In ante-bellum times the home of Lula Hurst was one of the handsomest of Georgia homesteads. The place consists of three hundred andrixty acres, broad and rich. Five miles from Cedartown, on the Cartersvllle road is the house, weather-stained and perhaps with only a shadow of its old time glory. A mile through a red lane and the house, sixty yards from the road, sits in tho midst of a grove of huge native oaks, that lend beaut/ and digultyto the place. The negro quarters have given way to framed tenant houses and the old packing screw, that landmark of ante-bellum times, has suocumbed to tho moro modern invention, and is fast going to Join its departed fellows. Tho dwelling Is a two story, framed struct ure, with eight rooms—four below and four above, with a wide hall on each floor. Unlike the char* acteristlc southern house of plantation days, does not have the long piazza and huge columns. Instead Is a small porch for one story, with two columns, one at each front corner. The mysterious room in which Lula Hurst first discovered her miraculous powers is the front room on tho right as one enters. Opposite is the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Hurst. The other rooms are occupied by the several smaller members of the family and used for various other purposes. Tbcro Is nothing particularly striking in the appearauce of the place. It looks about like the other pro»perous farmhouses ad J icon t and is no lonelier or moro ghostllko than tho others. HOW LULA HURST LOOKS. Lula Hurst is ono of the most singular looking girls I ever saw, fihe has the strangest look In her dark brown eyes that I ever encountered. It needed no recollection of her mysterious power to completely awe mo whou ever those unfathomable orbs threw their weird fires into mine. In fact, I thiuk I lost five pounds of flash every time 1 caught that girl looking at me. Tho neighbors had told mosho was an unsophis ticated country girl. I couldn’t see it. Away around in the corners of her eyes I could see lurking just the strangest expression lever saw. Her father told mo she always took delight fa mystifying folks. My opinion her father doa’t understand her any more than the alleged scientists understand the roso-tinted sunsets at West Bud, Freeman, of the Cedartown Advortlser, and Pou- der, of tho Borne Courier, have both staked their sacred honor on Lula Hurst’s beauty, rather gallant man to make up such a verdict. She is fifteen years old, unusually large for her age, and her wrists are as big as those of a good slxed man. Instead of a taudsomo and willowy figure I found that she was inclined to be somewhat round shouldered, and her frame seemed to be remark able more for its welt-developed muscles than for any statue like beauties. Instead of delicately chls iled features and a skin like alabaster, astheen thutiastlc ones had told me she possessed, I found high cheek bones and a face with a considerable amount of color * in it. Usr nut browu hair, stiff and unruly, bubg loosely from her head, Its wild freedom checked only by a blue ribbon bow fastened in some wsy on the top of her head. Her hair reached slightly below her shoulders and heighten* ed the awe-inspiring effect of her eyes and high cheek bones. 8he was dressed plainly to a remark able degree, and Indeed she seems to be regardless of her personal appearance, fiho is five feet three inches in height Th* JtYSTEaY BEGINS. This Is what Mbs Lula told me about the begin slog of the mytery: "One night, about two months ago, I was sleeping with my mother in my room. We had tstlred about nine, and were just getting off to sleep, whensud denly the be J set up a cracking and popping, the like c< which 1 had never heatd before. The crack fug was la all parts of the bed-all over it My mother loolded me for making a noise, but I wa innocent. I knew nothing of if. The noise, how ever, ceased, and we went to sleep.” "When was the next manifestation?” "The next night I was sleeping in the same bed with my cousin, Miss Wimberly, when the same noises were ropeated with even greater force. My oomln called my mother into tho room and we took the bed clothes and bedding off the bed. We examin ed them carefully aod found nothing the matter aa far as we could see, although we noticed that the pieces that I took off continued to crack as I was handling them. My mother said the noises were caused by electricity, but I of course knew nothing of that. Immediately my father and the family all decided that some odd powers were at work in me. Mother ■ild, 'Lula, put your hands on this cbalr.’ I did so and the chair began to move around. It amused the little children and I kept it up for half an hour. My father thought it wasa joke we were playlug on him, and took hold of the chair, but be could net hold It down although 1 simply had the weight of my flngete on it My father then began to experiment and eoon decided that there was no limit to it, as five men could not hold a chair upon which I simply laid my hands. Finally the force became so great that my father told my mother never to let me experiment when he was not there, as the furniture wu liable to move around at such a rate as to do possibly great damage.” DBVKLOPUro TH* ttYRTHtr. The following etory Is tdd by the family and Mr. Hurst, and Is vouched tor by people who ere ready to make the most Iron-bound effllevlts to Its truth: Mise Lata found that by simply placing her baud on the foot of the bed it would roll around the room. Oae night she was sleeping with Miss Wim berly when the bed began to crack and rap. and Misa Wimberly said: "Lula, you can nuke this pop anywhere you want to. Commend it to pop at toe headboard.” headboard. A similar order was given for the foot- boad and tbe rapping was renewed there. Then other pans of the bed, end even on Miss Wimberly' face. Then MIes Wimberly said: ’’Lula, you can move this bed. Tell it to move. "Move, bed!” said Miss Luta; and tbe bed moved across tbe room. And now let Mr. Hurst tell the next thing, is an intelligent planter, a deacon in (be Baptist church, and stands among the best citizens of county. Said he: "The next morning I was taken in to the room and shown how the bed was moved the uifht be fore while Lula was on It. That night I went iuto the room to see It done. After being la bed awhile Lula commanded the bed to move and it obeyed her command and moved across the floor. I then made her desist The ibed moved two or three feet That was a month or so ago, and can be done again although I believe it quires more preparation and the greatest concen tration of the mind. I pledge you my word and honor that what I have said la true.’ Stories are told of articles of wearing apparel be ing mysteriously moved from locked trunks and locked rooms to various parts of the house by un seen forces, but they are not properly vouched for. Miss Hunt claims to have no power of that sort that I know of. Tho neighbors told me that one day she went the residence of Mrs. Mattie West near by, and tatt ing a stuffed squirrel from its niche in the wall, played with it a moment and then dropping it on the floor, it ran around the room. That is a tough story, although Mrs. West says U is true. WHAT I SAW, It was at Rome that I saw Miss Lula. A useless trip to Cedartown made me a day lato seeing her, but 1 turned up at ] hotol at Rome to-day at noon, and in company with brotner Fondor, of the Courier, had a private seance for my own benefit. She gives an entertain ment at Rome to-night. There wu no deception in what she did for me. I watched her with my esgle eye. Her father and mother and Mr. Pondor and my self were in the room at tbe time with the youug lady. Mr. Hurst laid an ordinary chair upon the floor on its back. "Lula, put your hand ou it,” said he. The young lady stooped down, put the tips of two of her fingers to the back of the chair and lm mediately the piece of furntture began to back around the room at a lively rate as if slid along by somo unseen power. A The chair wu then stood up and Mr. Ponder and I wero asked to hold it on tho floor. Ponder took ono side and I took tho other. We put our whole force to work to keep still Miss Hurst placed the palms of her hands on tbe back of the chair, and it was soon flying around the room, overpowering both of ns, creating a big stir and nearly knocking us down. Ml <s Hurst then took tho chair and placed both hands under the perforated bottom with her palms uppermost She took no hold on It, but simply let It rest on hor hands as a servant might have carried a waiter of flowers. Thus gs of the chair were about three feet from the floor and tbe seat about four and a half. Ponder and I attempted to put It ou th° floor, using all our might and strength to do so, but thochsir would not down. It continued to rise and fly around iu the air with tho newsptper men Mrluglugonateachftide. Mr. Hurst, a man weigh ing near 200 pounds, then got up iuto the chair and sat there u calmly u if he were a boy sitting on a gate post. Thus Miss Hurst supported the combined weight of tbe three. The total weight which she thus supported on the palms of her hands was nearly fivo hundred pounds, or much more than the weight of two barrels of flour. It was Indeed aitoulihtng, es pet-tally In view of the fact that not a muscle twitched and (he slightest flush did not mantlo her cheeks. She was as calm aud unconcerned as >he had been twirling a summer hat by Its string. "Doealt not tire you?” lasked. "Not at ell,” sho replied. "Do you feel aoy peculiar sensations?” "None whatever.” "Doesn’t It strain you?” "Indeed, if this wero a cane bottom chair you would not see the slightest strain£ou the delicate canes.” 'What do you think of it?” 'I don't know anything about 1L” A SINGULAR TRICK. I took a heavy hickory walking stick and guight ft near one end. Mr. J. N. Brown, of ChattaQooga, caught beside me; Mr. J. W. IIiuton, of Social Cir cle, and Mr. B. M. Cornell, of Goshen, Indiana, took the other side. Eachcouplo faced tbe other. We held on with both hands.the stick firmly pressed •galusteaoh man’s chest. To my left the end of the stick projected a foot. Miss Hunt stepped up to it, raised both hands and touched the tips of ner fingers to the end of the stick. In a moment It moved to one side. Theu to tne other, then up, then down, across, around, and the next Instant that young girl by simply toucblug the end of the stick and keeping her hands there bad four men floundering furiously around the room, and several times 1 was ten Inches off tho floor. How Is that? Five men caught a chair aud held It to the floor* She put her hands on It and as the men held it se curely the chair was completely shattered in try ing to get away from them. Another and stouter chair shared alike fate. A heavy bedstead was made to run across tbe room twice simply by the laying ou of hands. I sat In a chair. She touched it, and dumped me onto tbe floor six feet away. All these tricks were repeated several times and * fully convloced me that she possessed some remarkable power lhat I leave for the scientists to explain—if they can. I did not have time to see her attempt to move a bod by getting oa It and simply commending It, as that required au hour or two more time than I had my disposal. Neither did she attempt any spirit rapping. There is so doubt o Ojo thing, and I mention it briefly foi the benefit of those who may chooae tc atudy the matter, and that is this Whatever inanimate object she touch- appeared to be charged with force that Impelled it to move and that too most vigorously, and always from her, and with an irre si stable force. Her touch has no effect on animate objects. Mr. Hurst and his wife have grown very enthusi astic over their daughter's powers and propose to take her ou the road if she can make a success. She has certainly created a big sensation In her ng ful — to Hock to the scene aud to write to her fotner and it.may be that a few moro weeks will find bera full-pledged medium. A g n.t'emau who Is neither a spiritualist nor a scientists suggest* that perhaps Miss Lula’s powers were developed the same causes that produce the rosy sunsets _ they are extemporaneous, and that they will beth take their departure together. The negroes In Cedar Valley are afraid of the young lady and great alarm has taken poswsdon or many of them wno think she has power to cause their death at wllL boms local wiseacres accredit her with animal tnacuetUm. others electricity aqd still others tne odle Influence” developed. For my own part I have not made up mv v-ryes. HURST IN A ROW. J. A, C» At the Perform emee as itoei Me Tekee e Chela ft# a Veeae Mae. Special to tbe Constitution. Bomb, January 15 -To-night Luta Hunt gave a performance at the ope rah o use in the pretence of a large audience. Towards the close of the perform ance a misunderstanding arose between Mr. Hurst and Mr.G. J. Bryant Mr. Bryant wss called to the a»Ut in holding down a cbalr aod before anyone could Interfere he took the chair and struck Bryant on the h ad several times. Sev eral gentlemen on the stage Interfered and parted them and the performance doerd abruptly, the audience did not clearly understand tbtc«naeof Hur-t's attack on Bryant and popular opinion condemned Mr. Hurst’s action. Tne episode ere- ates ln^n«e excitement aod It was with dilflculty TO. command wu xlran ud "m|>" wraith. .panic waa pearaniaff In Ure opem hottre. EIGHT TIMES MARRIED. NUMEROUS HUSBANDS OF THE MYSTERIOUS VEILED WOMAN Som.thla, About tb. Wtlnw. Who TntllUd In th. Blackmailing CM. Agntait Slmo* Cameron. BHklll till for Rich nalamam-A Woman'. Remarkable F.Uebood. Washington, January 9.—Tlie philosophy of marriage,saya the San Francisco Examiner, i, just now receiving a curious end dramatic llluitration in the tuperior court. "Mary A. Hesaibach against Theodore Hdsaibacfa; an action for divorce," is the title of a singular case, which for the put few days hu been on trie! with closed doors before Judge Edmunds, in department No. 7. It has transpired that Mrs. Hosalbaob is none other than "the mysterious veiled wo- man” who appeared so conspicuously in the character of a witness during the trial in Wubington, several years since, for damages for breach of promise against Simon Cameron. Mrs. Hasalbach now seeks a legal separation form her husband, Mr. Hasalbach, alleging that he has been cruel in his treatment, and has also threatened to shoot her. Mr. Hualbsch hu tiled adenlal of these al legations, and a cross complaint, asking that the marriage be annulled on the ground that Mrs. Hasalbach bad a husband living at tbe date of her nuptials with him in April lost. He also accuses her of misrepresentation and declares that she is neither chute nor sober. Mr. and Mrs. Hasalbach have beenresidingat 1150 Market street. He is seventy-two years of age, a native of Germany and the possessor of a moderate capital. a woman’s rkmarkable raumtooD. Mrs. Hasalbacn claims to he fifty-six years old, hntadmitted during her cron examina tion in court tbat she wss born in 1837, which, according to tbe modern principles o( mathe matics, would make her but forty-six years of sge. She, so it appears, wu an itinerant vender uf pomades, lotiuns, etc. She went ono day to the bouse of Mr. Uaulbacb, hear ing that be wu sick, for the purpose of tel ling hint some pills, and, u she says, being anxious (or a man to take care of her, and believiug him to be wortli (30,000, concluded to marry him. The courtship wu of only a few weeks' duration, at the expiration ol which he proposed, wu accepted, and the wedding wu celebrated. Mrs. Hasalbach testified that tho had at different times prior to her encounter with Theodore, been tbe possessor of six husbands, but, when under crosa-examination.admlttcd tbat of tbe lot four bad died, three had been divorced and one wu among the miulng, thus making a total of eight, exclusive of the lut husband. When uked who they were Mrs. Hasalbach wu unable to recollect them all, tbe list wu so long, and could name only the following six: John T. Connor, George M. French, Au T. Grondycke, J. A. Sample, Abraham Henrlqne and Isaac Inlander, "TUX IttSTXSIOUS VEILED WITNESS " Mrs. Hualbach, when a defendant in tbe divorceenit of Joeiah A. Sample vs. Mary A. Sample, which wu triod tome time since in Wunington, wu then identified as the mys terious veiled witness in the Cameron cue. When called to the witness box the gave the name of Mrs. M. A. Heuriqnes, and, in the course of her testimony, said that she bad been intimate with Mrs. Oliver, who confided to her the intention she hail of blackmailing Slmou Camernn. Mrs. Oliver wu theu told by the witnen tbat if she ever attempted to blackmail Siiuon Cameron she (tbe wltneu) would appear and testify against bsr, . Mrs. Henrlques, alias Hualbach, also test! fled on cross-examination that she wu born in Maine, tuat the left there when sixteen years of age for Philadelphia, in company with her husband, George M. French. Bhe also lived at latter dates in Cordova, Miss., murder, the murder of the brother and orphaned sun,” Dr. Smith Fuller, first witness, testified that he hail attended tbe Nutt family seventeen years, and i a 1 treated tlie defendant several times when sick; that he always believed him to be men tally deficient, and without sound mental attributes, and that he wonld be inclined to harbor feelings of enmity which would iu creue with time and would probably become a monomaniac on the subject. Dr. Fuller further stated tbat a person of James Nutt's temperament, mentally brooding on bis father's death, would unsettle and incapaci tate him from mental control over himself. He considered him an imbe cile, not an idiot. The admlsaion of tbla by the defense destroys tlie prosecu tion's attempt to rule out the line of defense of emotional insaaity, and gives Che defense a dear field. The defense put in evidence the letters read at Dukes's trial,not to be read at present, but it was agreed that counsel should be per mitted to make remarks upon them previous to their being submitted to tlie jury. Mrs. Nutt, mother of tbe boy on trial, his grandmother, Mrs. Wells, James Wells, Mrs. Nutts brother, and Stephen It. Nutt, brother of the deceased, and Captain Nutt testified tn corroboration oi the physician. The pris oner was in tears during me greater part ol the time bis mother, grandmother, and Uncle Stephen were testifying. MISCEGENATION. The Kldssppla* of • While Girt hy it Nrgro li Ogle- tharpo fount*. From the Athens, a*., Benner, Mr. Hardeman, of Madison count/, was In the city yesterday and gave us the particulars of tho ratocegeuating case that 2uu so lately created a sen- ■ation In that section. It soeras that Mrs. Lizzie Martin, whoso husband was killed during tho war, resided on the place of Mr. Maston Children, In the upper edge of Oglethorpe, near Fork church. 8he was an Industrious woman, but did not havo the best reputation, although no slander was ever ot ered against her daughters. On tbe same form lived a mulatto, named Simon Childers, alias Red mond Bradford, who waa . about twenty-five S cars old and nearly while. Among is widow Martin's cbldren waa a young girl uamod Delia, aged about 14 years and an illegitimate. She was quite pretty but not very bright. For more than two years the mulatto took every opportunity to pa? attention to Della, butaa she always scorned to hold tho negrolu the greatest L ar and horror, nothing was thought about 1L On the morning of the (1th Instant, during tho cold snap, Mr, Hardeman was inforniod that a colored man was stopping at oue of hts negro houses with a White girl, and that they had spout tho night to gether. That gentleman at once went down to the place and learned that the vlrltor was known in Madison as Redmond Bradford, and had Williams. Red. upon seeing uMuntiw vanclng, hid behind a house and did uot seem In ciined to show himself; but upon being called for steppid forward. He suited that U was uot a white girl he had with him, but bis nelce, a bright mu fatto, and that they were huntiag work. Mr. II. returned to his home, being satisfied that it was all a mistake. But as soon as ho had left the mulatto made his victim follow him through the woods to Mr. DaU Williams's, lu spite of her appeals to be carried tack to her mother. The poor child had worn out her shoes walking over the frozen ground and is said to have been a most pitiful object. It was alter the pair had loft that Mr. Uarde- man learned the name of tho girl, and also how tbe brute bad treated her. The negroes with whom they stopped informed that geutlemati that they camo there about daik and asked to bo taken In for tho night. The mulatto took his seat In a chsir and ordered tho white girl •round like a slave, making her cook ms supper and wall uoou him. Tlie negroes say that the child trembled whenever he spoke, aud weut around tho room with team In her eyes. Tho mulatto was brutal In his treatment of her, but seemed to possess a strange power over the girl. Ho. appeared to gloat over tbo idea of having a white fe male thus tn bis power. At bed-time ho ordered her to roske him a pallet upon the floor, and when It waa spread got in and told her to repose beside him. 'J ho child hesitated and looked appeallcgly at theotber negroes prefect. She. begged the gro to carry her back home that ufglit, for she not want to Bleep there. But with an oath negro again gave tho command, which was that time obeyed. 8he waa heard sobbing in her sleep all night As soon as Mr. Hardeman waaacqualn- and Lyon., la.,.whence ahe wont to JOMoagcfc “^d bl pJKitd“‘££* 'jSeST'ThSr Her umiden name, she continued, was Mary wero fouun aud arrested in a negro *' house on Mr. Dalton Williams’ plantation. The negro seemed badly frl^ntcoed let It be said, he was not long in doing so, for whou arkedathorttime afterwards who had cunmltted the deed, he promptly answered. "Bob Audersouaudlita brother Pompey:” both of whom he had already had arrested aud lodged In jail, charged with tho crime. Subsequent develop ments show that he was uot mistaken. ... At the spring term of the court 1581, an indict ment being found, Bob waa put upon trial. During its progress it waa adduced In evidence upon Bob's e mfewton to fellow prisoners, tbat Chauncy had caught Pompcy with oue of bis hogs near Bob's house, and that an altercation had ensued, In which Bob knocked Chauncy down with a atrlck and Pompey shot and killed him; and then, to pre vent Pauy, Chauncy's wife, from testifying against them, Bob agreed that as I’ompey had shot and killed Chauncy, he would ataume the killing of Patsy, and at once proceeded to her house a short distance off, and carried iuto effect nia murderous and bloody purpose. Upon this ooufesslon, supported by corroborating circumstances, Bob was convicted and sentenced to be bung on the 29th oi July. 1881. But Judge Fleming having emitted to charge the Jury that it was in its power to confine in tho penitentiary for life a motion for a new trial waa made and granted. At tho next term of the court, Hon. M. L. Mention presiding, the caw again went to tho jury aud resulted in a mistrial, one ot tho jurors being connected by marriago to the prisoner. At the sprlug term, 1883. the case waa again called, and for tbo third time submitted to a jury, who, after au absence of but a few minutea from their seats, returned with a verdict of^tnllty and Imprison ment in the penitentiary for life. For this recom meudatlon, only gained by tbe death or absence from the county of several of the states witucs<es. Bob Andersou Is indebted for his life. When the verdict was announced couusel for defense gave notice lhat a motion for a new trial would be made. When tho motlou waa argued, how ever. Judge Adams overruled it and the case was not only of those of our owu little common) . county, but ot the whole people at large, for the ludefailgablo and eflldent manner In which be has exerted blroseJf to bring to Justice the pcrp#tr-«tor of one of the moat heinous and atro cious murders thatbaa ever been committed lu the suite of Georgia; nor hashodoue so for gain, nor the hope thereof, tor while there is a reward of #300 offered by Governor Colquitt tor the murderer with evidence to couylct. he positively declines to claim oue cent, feeling and believing that bo haa only performed a duty that every good citizen owes the state In which he lives. Mr. W. A. Way. for tbe past tan years a residentof Darien, aud one oi her moat prominent lawyers, loft a short tinm since with a view io making his home and practicing hla profession In Atlanta. Dr. R B. Harris will also go in a short lime for the same purpose. We bespeak for these gentlemen, in their respective professions, a goodly share of Atlanta's buslnesa, and that they may enjoy it we modestly suggest tbat they do not fall to have a card lu Tua Constitution, The river It again on the upward tendency, end, as a consequence, timber Is coming down in rather moro encouraging quantities. This season we ex- oect to do a businc-w of about seventy millions of feet. Prices continue good and cutters are cheerful Down here the weather seems to have gone lute the circus buiinetsr It haa been tumbling and twin lug in all sorts of ways. To day It Is plenaar * two or three days ago ft was mining and a day two beforo that tbe poor llulo thermometer dtduu 1 havo tho manhood to hold Its head above sixteen, with hardly pluck enough soon in the morning peep over the marc at fourteen. A TERRIBLE TRAOEDY. Ann Prant. Her first husband was living yet, she having been divorced from lrim, bhe next married Mr. Grondycke, who died In 1804 She was averse to telling people how often she had been married, J. H, Sample, of North Carolina, washer next husband, to whom she was married in January, 1808, and went with bint to Mobile, Ala., iu 1874. and, After traveling for a time, had returned to Washington, renting the house at 1231 New York Avenue, whero she resided until March, 1875. When asked by counsel at tbla stage of her testimony how she came by her then name of Mrs. Henrlques, she replied. "That's my business; 1 canto honestly by it.” Then she went on to say that she bad married Mr. Henrlques in Philadelphia in 1870, but had lived with him only for a week or so. She had snpposed at the time she was wedding a well-to-do man, but had discovered that he was old, poor and an invalid and unable to take care of her. She did not know what bad become of Mr. Henrlques since tbe separa tion, and declared mat sho came by her money honestly aod not by blackmailing. THE TRIAL OF NUTT, A Thrilling Fisa for lh« Dnfonin-ttmag »folili Uftintd for (It Ynang DnfonSnnL rrmanao, January 111.—Admission to the Nutt trial to day waa by ticket >o tbat tbe crowd outside doora waa greater than ever. There wea a larger number uf ladlee present than heretofore, all of eeldently well-to-do efaeaea. Mrs. Nutt end Ltxxle were early on hand and occufiled tbelr accustomed aeala. Hnn. Dan Voorbee, wee also In ble place He will aunt up for tbe defeme. Froc at 9:30’the court opened. Mr. Playfoi tbe deftnn began tlie proceeding, by outliti- ing the caae. He eeid: "It bee truly b-en said that prosperity I, a test of friendship. On tbe altar of friend,hip J cut my offering this morning, and am here to defend tbat boy wbow father wae my friend before be wu killed. This i, a remark- able cm-, and it is being conducted in a re- markable wey. We do not di»- pute or deny the killing. Hu r ’ ■* * k * 1 — •*—* it wonld be singular if we ebould try to ehow tbat there i> nothing lingular in the fort that a citizen wu,hot down in tbe quiet of the evening without a moving catue. Does it not, gentlemen show that there wu an un natural cause—an inunlty. The common, wealth, bad tbay to minded,could beve ebown ou the diagram end ecenee tbat had preceded t. Young Nutt knew uot at tbe moment wbat be wu doing, and tbat we ebell prove. We abail ehow you by evidence tbat, at tbe time he did tbe deed, put wrong, end out rages upon hie family bad made bim unable to control his will; tbat be wasprened Into the commis-ion of the eel by a controlling in fluence tbat wa, overpowering, ie tbe detenu in tbf, cau. An influence that he could not resist, i, our declaration of bis part in tbe deed performed. We will show you Iba circumstance, tbat preceded the shooting, Ida affectionate na ture love of borne, devotion to father, motb- ' aod slater*. We will ahow tbe deep inter ,t he bad taken in all home projects, and how, after tbe murder of bis father, tbat boy wu ebangad; bow be became melancholy, and said tbat bia entire life current mmol changed, but up to tbe trial of Dukes tbe boy knew nothing about tba terrible letteratbat Dukee bed writ ten, cutiug terrible eaperdone upon bia sis ter, bankrupting bia family’s honor u well e, destroying in bead. When tbe boy beard these terrible letters, tba most damnable, hor rible tbat human beingjever penned.hi, mind gave way; be walked tbe floor night Jong weeping; bl, appetite fonook him; reason wu overthrown. Not for fifty yean bad a man been convicted for staying bia si,ter-a seducer, and then wu no cau parallel to tbla. No man wbo bad committed such a crime as that of Dokea could go un punished. Duku knew it himself. No twelve Indiene would bang the boy for tak ing in bia band, tbe justice tbat belonged to bim, sad you, gentlemen of tbe jury, will not add to tba ilsur’a destruction and the father’s hben he uw the onioors, but Mid he could not _ - mulcted, u ho bad nut merited the girl. Tbe child seemed horrlOcd, and ag.l'i Iwsged to Id car ried bacx homo, ehe mid shit did not lore tbo ne gro, but be htd forced bar to leave borne and fal low bim. Eveu wten surrounded by white men .hoieemed afraid of her kidnapper. They were both lodged In J.llin bsulelivllle. "Wbn will juu do with the negroT" woariced our lufortnaui. •• Wall I can’t say. The white men of Madison county are perfectly enraged and I would not like to be in his shoes. There la oue thing we Insist on iu Uie fr*t state, aud tbat la, negroes must keep their handt off of our women.” A 3TRANO STO RY Of aa AnMuI Sjr Kail and a Hatarqacnt Mar- lia From iheCSrtersville, Ga., American, The motion for new trial in tho damage suit of Andrew J. Thomas against tho Western and At lantic railroad, which has been pending before Judge Fain for some Urns, bar finally been decided and the new trial refuted. Tbe com will now go to the supreme court, unless a compromize la made, The hlalorj ot thia cbm Is brlcAy this: Borne time In JU0 Andrew Thomas was employed by the Western and Atlantic railroad as switchman in At lanta. One dark night he went upon top of the train while it was in motion to throw off a brake. The car happened to be an ice car and was several inches higher than the other boxes. Just as the train ran by the freight depot, and while Thomas waa standing at tho brake the projecting shed of the do pot struck him In tho heaa, and knocked him ■eoaelets to the ground, fracturing bUikulland In- JurisghU back and spine. It waa thought at the time lhat he could not live, but ho finally re tvivered sufficiently logo about, but hla brain wu more or le»s affected, and be waa unfitted for nard labor. Butt waa brought against tbe railroad by Ou-ueral Wofford and Trlppo aud Neel. Tbe damutea were tala at gA.OOO. and on the flrat trial the Jury gave a verdict for #15,000 lu favornlThom- as. Ou this a new trial was granted by Judge Fain, and on the second trial a verdict for about #5,500 wu obtained lu favor of Thomas, on tbla a kecoud motion for a new trial wu mado which bM recently been overruled by the judge aud the ver dict of the jury auatalned. undurataud tbat tbe railroad company is now making a propo •ition for a compromise, which if accepted will pot an end to the case, nine* the accident happened rhomasgot into a difficulty with Floyd Alford, ol thia oouutf, aud shot Dim which resulted in Al lord's death. Thomu wu puton trial for mutder, plead JuaUfloatlon and also plead insanity, because of injuries austaiued by bia head and bialn in ih« railroad accident. He was, however, found guilty of murder an«l recommended to mercy. The caae wu carried to tno supremo court of Georgia, a strong effort wu mado to estab liab the Insanity of Thomas which foiled aud the Jury returned a verdict of guilty without any n commendation, and Thomu waa sentenced tone hanged, Hla counsel mado another effort to get a new trial, and the case would In all proba* labor lu tits penitentiary, and beta now working at hla trade aa shoemaker in the convict camp at Cedartown. Daring bis confinement in j«U bars he suffered very much from his injuries received from the railroad accident, and much sympathy wu felt for him by the people. Hla counsel worked faithfully for him through all bia trouble, without aoy compensation, une was a very poor man. While in jail here he hu aadgutd his share of tbe recovery In the railr bis wife. The caae hu been pending a loug t and It la to be hoped a compromise can be m We nudetalaod tne railroad company hu off #4H0 to settia the c A SENTENCE FOR LIFE. The Starr #f a Jfardaraaa Teegeil ft Caaatr* , Special to The Constitution. Darien, January 15,—Bob Anderson, the negro murderer,goes to the penitentiary for life. On the 34th of December, 1889, one of the most diabolical murders tbat baa aver blackened the records of oar court wu committed nine miles from this place, Channcy Brown, colored, and bis wile, Patty, being the victims. The news of the murder coming to the ears f Captain Charles H. Hopkins, Jr., chief of pol e jhe at ooce repaired to the spot where the deed had been commuted, viewed the bodies of the murdered people, asked questions and returned to town for the pur- poo of working oat, in ble own quiet way, a sola firewater Maltlitfans Shota a Htgre Gfrl aa* Thea Kill* UlaiMir. From the Griffin News, About five o'clock yesterday evening a negro camo riding lu hute to tbe store of R. P. McWil liams A Bon, and announced that Brewster MoWU- llama, a eon of the head ot the Hnn, had shot him solfaud wasat homedylug. The store was Imme diately closed and tho proprietors and sevoral friends proceeded to the residence on tho suburbs of the city, and tho news spreading over town caused considerable excitement and Inquiry. Tho particulars of the trsgody when learned wero meager though terrible. The youug man. who was about sixteen years old, had been out hunting in the afternoon,and re turning. had aent hla gun homo by a boy. When a short distance away from hla father's had stopped a moment and engaged i ....... tion with a young mulatto girl, a grand daughter of a negro uamr-d Gill Hood. A negro woman who had passed through crack of a pistol and saw tbe girl Brewster immediately put the pistol and shoot himself. Tne girl died almoi but the boy was Ukon home and livi although unconscious to thelsst. The ono ftldo of hto head, cloco to. the ear, an on tlie other aide. Tbo shots wero I! nmlth & Wear on, which htd ouly thret Iu it at the ilmo. one being found in it i given to surmttt. Brewster Me william of by some as a remarkably loteliigsnt a ... formed boy, though not receiving much regular schooling and not amoctotlng muck ~ — nutildo of his own family; off of him aa being always rather »r; ssy that since a fever last summer he subject to fits of temporary derangemem mcmeut, and with swift reflection kfii. ■o avoid too oonntquenor, ot tho nli whither, s> Mem, equal), probable, lux with the plitol snd .hot her to mini with horror snd sniuUb .hot toon ash»Mw wbsthe bad done, wll never he known. The lr»ed, li conpli book Is eloeed. For tho tllUcied relsilvi verul cEprrralon of >>nipsih, le heard I ot tho xiwsletioonotlrshlo sorrow mate (alien upon them. ARRESTED AND DROUOHT BACK Hr. €J» W. C. Wright C.,l.reS I. Kr.I.rtv u< Kr..cht la Ferejlh, From the Monroe, Us, Advertiser. Lost Huuds, momlnx the seven o'clock I rain brought HhcrltT Bodee, ol Fs,etts count,, Kan. tuck,, snd with hint wss L'bsrls, Wright, wbo, u our reader, will remember, Is charged with the murder ol W. J, N. Hum. The particular! of Ui* killing Era IntU In the mind, ot oar rasdara, wa need not repeat- them 8herilT King met them at tho train Wright's Ant remark wa,: "Well, Mr. Xing, I’ve beau lr,lnga long time to get to ,ou, but the, wonld not let me." B, "the," It la not known whobemeantisills thought ho snd hts tsther hsva *11 Iba time been In favor of hi, Handing hi. trial. He waa arretted about too mllee (ram Part., K,.. on Thunda, night nl laatweek. Lut Augutt Mr. Bbodu received a handbill announcing the UrUIIIILCW IIIBI UU BUPW WUXID HI* HIM! WSS, » Ihuttda, night, la corapsa, with hla depot,. I knocked at tne door ot the rctideneeol Mr. Kml> who had married a cou.ln ol WrlgL. Tho (-unity bad all retired, hut 8mlib antwrrad the knock. Ae eoon „ he opened the door Bhodea and bit depul, .topped loilda and iu another moment the, Informed bim •• to tbelr but Ineti Ha admitted tbat Wright waa la tb* bourn, snd pointed oat tbe room whero ho was, with s brother ot HmKh. Tbs eherig knocked on tbe room door snd Wright corticated to .nr render u non aa ha wu apprteed ot their pur- pau snd wu a-aured that no harm would ooa* to bim, lie opened lb* door and ad mitted tbe officer*. (la and bl, room-mato bod gone to hod. Ha had a plitol coavenleut aod could hsn.tued it befnra opening tbo door; but a< bidalierwarda told Bodee, he prefemd to aubmlt qnlatl, rathe, than asgnvsl* bb cs-o b, under i v,.- -JS.L to *eome ‘polni on* tb™WeeunTsnd AtUntlo road, shoe* Atlanta, and them took tb. train and went directly to hla coualn’e. Hla trial will lake placo at tbo February ttrm ot coart. Waandenraori that ho ha* engaged u cotinael Momis. M. V. MeKIbbrn, nl jackSa; A. It. Ham* mond, of Foreythj John I lull, ol Griffin; ILF, Tilr * * ’ ~ OAY LOTHARIO GETS FLOGGED, Paalihleg » PkUoSeJefele Urmmmtr T»r ImlUxg. Vauf LoSg. Ftom tbo Rome, Ga., Courier. ■a,I, ywterda, morning psdeatrlana posting near tbe Central hotel wltneamd so exciting encounter between Mr. A. M. Anlognoll, ol tbo Arm of Antog- noil At Co, snd s atrsngar, Ur. D. I. Coo, ofPbils- delpblo, wbo wu receiving a aerere pounding at lb* ban do of Mr. Anlognoll. Ryalsod-n Interfered sad palled Mr. A. off, while hla adrenar, effeeud gracefal retreat Into the Central. Thoia present were eager to know tbo cans* ol lbs Iroctt a, hu t both perlle. were Inclined lokeep tbelr own etna,el snd tion ol Us blood, problem. To Us credit, tb* cations public was, lor s while, baffled, later In tbe morning the parUcnlari leaked oat. It waa another caao ol pilot,blog a libertine tor In tuiting a lad,, Monda, afternoon Mr. E«on step ped iuto Mr. A'o. Core aud presented hla card, which stated that he wu travellog tor a paper bag and wrapping paper eitabllahmentin Philadelphia. Mr. AntognoUwubueyat tbetimoand pail very little attention to the commercial eml&aary. ana turuetl off to wait on a customer. The nay loihario from Philadelphia croiied over to another part of tho establlfehmont and entered into conreru* tion with a pretty, bright and modeat little lady, a Mater fu-law to Mr. Antogaoll'f brother, wrho sometimes assists in the store. Emboldened byiheyooDN Jad/’f timidity, Uaon asked if ho might not accompany her home, when she with flashing eye* haughtily retorted: "I do not know you, and 1 don’t want your company or atten- Ilona." The persistent Philadelphian (hen handed tho young lady a note, which sho threatened to S retoMr. Anlognoll. K$on told her to do so If edared. Fearing the rcaultpf a personal collision between the the two men, the young lady ran up stairs to her sister's room and placing the note In her hands, shfi threw hem-If en the bed to give vent to her thdlgnation and fright in tears. Mr. Antegadll, wno wee rery busy, htd not detected that anything amiss wu going on and did not even know when the drummer weut out Dot when dark came on he went np stairs and Eson's note wee given him, and he was told ot the insult ing words useJ by Kson. and which caused the jouugladv to flee from hts presence. Mr. Autog- uoll forthwith went down to look after the gay m-sher/rom Philadelphia, bathe ooald not be fouud, and Mr. A. decided to wait until morning. Bo yesterday morning be saw Kson come oat of the hotel and start down the street, when he hastened forward and met the young man on tbe end of hla fist, just in front of Barney’s grocery. The 1’biUdulphUn showe-1 hie guilt by offering to go and apologia*, before a word had before bystanders interfered and pulled him off. Mr Antocnnlitsone of the stoat quiet, orderly and Inoffcm-ivo gentlemen In dur city. And the pretty, modest youug lady whose feelings were so outraged by the Impudent libertine from Philadel phia, is a great favorite with all of Mr. Antognoli’s customers. Her bright attractive face, always wearing a sweet mile, and her modost deportmeut wins tho admiration and friendship of all who meet her. Eaon managed to skip the town before the offl- cere could get hold of bim. Marshal Magruder had the city searched thoroughly for the raacal, to no avail. And It waa a acuaible movement on Ewn'i part to go. aud to watt not upon tho order of his going, for had he tarried very long he might hare carried with him asuit of tar and feathers. Latsr — Late last night the police c«ptnred Eaon aa he was leaving the Central hotel, where he bad been secreted all day. lie was carried before Mayor King and comp5lled to pay a fine of twenty dol lars. Note.—Jim Brown waa the "dandy cop” tbat dune the act. _ COTTON PRODUCTION. In a general article on the different kinds of oot- too lu the world, the Boston Commercial Bulletin states the highest prloed article is the aea Island cotton grown principally on the coasts of Georgia and Florida. It combine* great lenglh of staple with silklnem, beautiful glou, and general excel lence. Homo parts of Australia and Islands In tho Pacific ocean are now competing seriously with Georgia In tho production of long* stapled cotton, though tho entire crop of sea Island cot ton Is comparatively unimportant, amounting to than 40,000 bales for the whole United fitatez, •gainst nearly 7,000.000 bales of our common short- satple cotton. The average longth of tho various descriptions ot cotton known to the world are given by Mr. Evan Leigh, of Manchester, England, as follows: Inches In length. Bra Island l.Go to 2.30 Australian 1.80 Fgjp'Ian 1 ■ o Brazilian -1.15 to 1 35 Surinam and Peru 130 Ht. Kitts, West Indies 1.30 Southern and Western Africsti .90 to 120 Borneo and Java. ..........1.10 to 120 durat, Hast Indies ..1 05 to 110 other Indian 65 to 110 New Orleans 1.10 American uplauds. .95 to 1.00 American cotton, of ableh the two elaaee of New Orleans and upland* are referred to In the above wbln, in the moat useful and beat known ol all tho cottoua.owlqg to tho Immense quantity produced, •mnuntlug for the year ending September 1st, 1883, E luto cettou as fiuo aa No. 300, while the tlan If not spun above 150 Homo small qnan- of cotton are grown in Algiers, and aro similar > Egyptian to quality,. There aro many var!ctic*of South Amorican cot ton, the most common bolng tbo BiuzIlUti and Burlnam referred to in the above table. But thoao cottons are har»h and Irregular in quality, and mixing with aea island for lino spinning. Tho quautlty of cotton grown In tho Wost India lalamfo, however, 1* small. India ranks next to the United States In the quantity of cotton produced, and wa* ono ot tho centers of tho cotton manufacture for ages before tho culture «f the cotton plant In America had been dreamed of. Tno lan i-oiiou groan In •oulhem Africa Is tho Fort Natal, averaklugaboutl.so lncbt.in longtb. On Ul» wnicoMt aro lirn.jnccil tllcUamainl Loan Jo vartetlm, nuulng from nluo-teuthi ol an . Inch In longth. Tho gar- awak cotton of Borneo 1* about au inch and oue-fifib In length ami Java cotton 1* * “ *"*■ ‘ ‘ which la grown in — — tuple. Some small ? uaii titles and Irregular grade* of cotton are grown it the Ottoman empire and in Italy, "Revised bull,” a comspondunt of the Now York (tommerclai Bulletin, turnlahce tho/olio* tug statement of the cotton crop estimates of tho Wash. Ingion agricultural bureau since November, 1877, and tbe aetual crop gath! red Tho showing Ji cer tainly a poor oae for tho bureau, which rhould revise Ita list of guesses. Tho figures speak for tbvmielvti: Novenibvr 17. 1177, bureau in.Healed crop ol 1177 e. ijKtcat balsa,- It wu tru.m. Hivi-mber 12,1>7I bureau Indicated crop ol I STS », ft. 177,000; It aaa ft,071,000. Urcrmbcr 70,1»7<, bureau Indicated crop of 1879- 07,4,777,000; ll waa 0,701.007. Dream her IS, 17M, bureau Indicated crop ol IBM- . ft 713 000: It ... 0.1 in 000. D„ unitor 19,1 Ml, bureau Indicated crap ot 1M1> Z 1,700 000: IliraaO. MO 000. December I ft, 1m:, bureau indicated cropoMM2- 4 001.000: li wa.flooruto. l,,f«miter 10,1 M3, imrtau Indicated crop of 1803- 0,000,000; it will be (7|. A DIG SCHEME. Itow Ita OfaaUah.Mhre Mar I. MaAa Na.la.bl. 17, (a a Filial 0„..lta Atlanta. A xontlcman wbo holds a rMponriblo xovora- msnl poritlon, a practical, wlde-aw.ko man ol al- lain, waa talking to *Coaimuntni reporter yet- tarda, conccrnlnx Iba matter ol Irabiporlallon, wb«n bo unexpectedly broko out with aatartllax question: When do joit expect," mid be, "lo soe .team- baat.uoead the Chattahoochee loapolnt oppotlle Allan!*?" Never," replied tho reporter. IIS 01 T-”»tll —IL and before many year*,” "How la It lobe menaced?" "I,"J' 1 tell you. Ynu have aeen the model ol a Aab ladder on exhibition lu the elate agricultural drear menlt" ’-uenalnly." 'Well, air, Ju-taueh a device conitructed o w. - - "w ,lv it/.uiubtii " a re; 11 IU wiWa little channelling your river would be navigable from a point opposite or above here all tbe way down." . "You think that steamboat* could then navigate tbe river up that far?" "Ye*, air. No doom of ft. Tbe stream can be mado perfectly navigable for steamers drawing six feel of water, and you will see it done." "How doc* this contrivance you speak of over come-tbe difllciiltlea of the rapids?" 'That la eerily explained. You roust hare ob- ••nred, when the model is at work, that the stream — ll flows down the incline, forma a dead eddy be- een each step of tbe ladder. Well, these eddies wreak up (before** of the rapid*, aud the boat* can ascend and descend with perfect ease.” "AU ibis is utonUblng/' "So It sounds at present, but the government haa already ordert d (he Chattahoochee to ho surveyed from Atlanta down, with a view to the trial of tho experiment.” "It would be a big thing,” commented the repor- people who havo been lenghlng at Atlanta aa a port without water will have to give up their lit'lo Joke when they aw sreamen sailing right up to the ■tieotaof your city!" k'*Thia survey for tite object you here stated U a "A solid fact—. I know It to bo true.’* The reporter silently stole away to ponder over Atlanta’* future a* a rtrer city. Olivkb Wendell Holme* is expected to visit England during the winter and make a lecture Hut tour through Englaud and -Scotland.

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The Weekly constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1881-1884, January 22, 1884, Image 3