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12 THE-WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TOESDAY DECEMBER J6 1885 GEORGIA NEWS. THE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. A DMi9o6j Pound la Csra 8paln*??-A Druaboa Mu falls Into a Woll-A Straus* Aalnnl Worn jM*ioa???A nomnntlo ICnrrlnffolaOalao** OtUo-A Bortooo Accident. Xtc. ??? In or about tbe year 1877 Hayden Hughe*, very wealthy citizen of Bibb county, made will deeding $30,000 to three negroes. After vrardf, about 1880, he made a aecond deed, re during the original doed to $21,000. Iii each deed Mew*. I. C. and Robert Plant were ap pointed trustee*. The auit waa brought by Colonel D. O. Ilughea to aet aaide the deed of 1680, and the attorney* for defense anawered With the deed of 1877. Finally a settlement was effected, (giving tbo complainant# $4,000 and leaving $20,000 in the hands of the original beneficiaries of the deed, and today a decree waa taken in accordance with the settlement. At an early hour Monday morning the dead body of Ksmuef Ligg'on, colored, waa found In Givespring street, near the residence of Mr. P. C. Harris, in this place. The neck was broken, and on the body were found several flesh wounds and brnlsca. At an Inquest held by the coroner It was dcvelopod that on the night previous this negro and another by the name of Ned Avery got into a buggy and drove to a grocery in Floyd county, a distance of some five miles from hero, and after the purchase of one gallon whisky and imbibing freely (hereof started on their return to town, was the supposition of the Jury, from all the circumstances, thst they fell from the buggy at a point on the rood near the residence of Dr. Jones, and that Liggon's clothing or body wo* caught in the running gear of the same and wo# dragged the distance from that point to where his body was found, (it "being over a mile), as the priuts iu the loud and pieces of his clothing rlearly sustain that theory. There i* n deep slouch and a bruuelt between the point# named, and if he was not killed before those were crossed In was drowned In being pulled through the n. The Jackson News contains a lengthy tic* count of a Mrango animal seen by many reputv Me gentlemen disporting on the batik* of Towaliga river, and in the water In the neigh* Wliood of Flat shoals. It I* described as bo* - Ing about thesise of an average mule, and with nil the characteristics of a seal. 11 travclsjbest in the water. Number* of ritixeu* have T??oen frightened by it, and on Baturduy a posso of men went In search of It. Homo seem to think that it is steal that has escaped from some traveling menagerie. ??? An exchange has the following: ???The code ha* received a terrible set back in Georgia. Two young men named Thomas and Huberts had long been paying attention to the daughter of a wealthy farmer. The girl so divided her Avon Uiat neither could tell which wa# the favored suitor. Finally the rivals got to the fighting point and agreed upon n private duel with shotguns. They retired to a secluded spot, marked off the ground and were about to lire, when Huberts lowered his gun and said: 'if you givo me a suit of clothes you ran have the girl and be d???it.??? The proposition was accepted,and now Thomas is in full possession. ??? The Lumpkin Times say* that one Lout* Warrill got drunk, and stumbling along In the dark he encountered an open well in the Hmithlek* field and fell into it. The well Is lictwecn twenty and thirty feet deep and n* it waa dry and warm at the bottom, Louis did not realize where he was until he bad slept off his drunkenness. He awoke during the night and thought ho was in the ealibooso. He got up and encountering one side of tho well im agined that ho had fallen Into a deep gully, lie turned around and as ho soon struck tho Other aide of tho well It Unshed over hi* mind that he was In a deep wall and thst as no one knew wliero he was he would die there unless he made some effort to get out, He wauted to holloa, but know ho was too f.rr from any hotme to ho hoard. He then wont to work with bis hand*,dug out little atop* in the side of the well, and began slowly to os* tend. When about half way outhoslInptHt aud fell back again, lie then pulled off his boots and commenced again, and worked un til nine o'clock on Hunday morning before lie . reached the top and rescued himself from liL* l-t rilou* position. In Gainesville on Hunday, 0th instant, af ter the minuter* had dUniiuod their con gregation*, Mr. Will Matthews and MU* Iforier Osburn hurried from church to Squire dark Havin'* on Athen* street, and were hastily married. They then started for tho home of the groom, a short dUtsnco away, hat never reached It, for the irate father of the young lady met them, tore her rudely away nnd marched her to her own home. Later in the afternoon, with a revolver in each hand, he escorted her to the train, and haa taken her for lcyoml lire reach of her husband of an hour. Irwin tan Appeal: Mrs. Mary Fountain, widow of tho lato Mr. Mitclieil Fountain, of Gordon, U the brag farmerc** of Georgia. Hire has, on a two horse farm, and with no other labor except her own turd five or six small children, rained 700 bushel* of potatoes, and 7"?? gallons ofaynip, and will kill 2,000 pounds of pork. Nashville I* In the midst of a fteesc????? degrees thermometer; very dry, Oats late sown are killed wo tear. No likelihood of rain???earth dried up. fane and potato's fowled: cholera lu rattening hog* Mill rasing, fork crop will be short. Mtu Maggie KUlott. a daughter ??ri>.W. KUIott, liv ing near the Forsyth and Dawson line, met with a inert reriou* accident the other day. While ensured In feeding a cotton gin. her right arm waa caught In the ght, and *o mangled that amputation be came necewary. Ham llolntes, a prominent white man of Snoll- vilfe, bo# lawn arrested charged with asaault with Intent to murder, upon a negro hoy, who says Holmes came home drunk and began heating him upon hit head with a fire-poker, aud after he managed to get out of the bed, where he waa asleep, threw him iu the fire. Liquor the rauto. Hob Halite* shot and killed Gabe Hayes on night of the nth instant, near Hootenvflle, iu this county. Hath were white uron, and were drinking. W. D. Kcllct, deputy revenue marshal, was killed on Lookout mnnutsln Hunday night. A telegram received by t utted state* Marshal Nelms yerterday form Kcremre Agent c(unman staled that the body of Mr. Kcltet had Itecn found on Lockout mountain, five miles east of Valley Head., Alabama, on Monday morning. Mr. Chap man went and tdentliteil the body. 1 On Sunday nljfiitKellet waaln charge of Calvin Noting, amwted for violating the revenue law*, lie waa camtug the prisoner to Valley Head. Ala team. It I* roppooed that a crowd of moonshiner*, knowing of the arrest of Young. determined to kilt *heo*w*ajHl lay tn ambtMhTy the,aide of the road, lit* body was riddled with build*, aud the ground where the dead man lay, was covered with Tb^dereased was for a number of years the and was at the time of Ms death Jailer of that county. Last July he wo* sppebdnt monhai hjr tiaptafn Nelnu. .ml has "??? nuCiVtKh" wUh ???*"???kpartratnl treated mrimoaiy kind by the fntted State* oft- : ????????????'* ???Oj tko tin Sth tutent. John Ilill and Henry lathrwgth. two white awn, remote Bathed with n load or ahinglM and uld them out. They bought twrntj-ire cant* worth af eaflho each and aUrtrd homo in a wagon. On thair wav they Ureuk a little whUky and foil Into a nuareljctuo mood. A waffle orenmd between thorn and tha com wmaapilNd. In gathartng It an Yar> btooah wa, charged with getting mote thin bit than, and Uw two men engaged ia a fight U tettle the dUpute. They were finally tapa- HS* b J a young man by tho name of Bennett. Ilill then left the wngon and took a ehort cut to head MT Yar- brough. When the latter rams up Hill com- menetd tubbing and catting him. Yarbrough etied cut not to cut at ha wat killed, Chub |*???** c '- * to'orefi man, ran to tbo Karat and Hill weal home. Yartmwgh died In fire min- ntea, heforo they could get him to hia houw. He waa cut la eight or ten placea. Hill wa arrested tha same night aud lodged In Law- renceville jail. J*robJfritJon was badly defeated. The vote for prohibition was forty-six; against it, five hun dred and sixty. The negro vote was almost solid against prohibition, while the white vote was nearly three to one against prohibition. ORIGIN OF VAN KKK OOOPLK. BI r. file ore Tells the Historical Society What He Known About It* From the New York Time*. "Yankee Doodle" was the theme of an in teresting paper read by Mr. George II. Moore, LL.I)., before the Now York Historical society last night. An audience completely filling the hall listened to the reading with unabated in terest. "The subject," said Mr, Moore, "nata rally divides itself into two parts; first, as to tbe origin of yankee, and, Rocond, concerning tbe time with which the word is indissolubly linked. Gordon, writing in 1773. say# yankee was the fkvorite word of ono Jonathan Hasting*, living iu Cambridge in 1713, and used aa a term of excel lence. Tho students at Harvard thus became acquainted with it. and, linking it with Hast- ing*, from whom they hired hor/cs, it became a byword and waa scattered over the conntry. There is little or no authority to rest this state ment of the origin upon. The first registered Yankee was one William Marr, a slave In tho Carolina*, who in an advertisement in a small Kngliabl paper in 1?2G 1* thus called." Mr. Moore then passed over in rapid succession tho various supposed Indian derivatives of tho word, including that in Irving's "History of New York," and tho hitherto accepted author ity of tho Moravian missionary in Fennsylvan* la that it wa* a corruption of Yengecse. the Indian phonetic spelling of English, and con tinued: "The word in ant Indian or Greek, hat Is pare Dutch, expressive of contempt and proba bly the most so in tbe vocabulary of the early New York Dutch. "Yankin'' meant In that dialect to grumble, snarl or yelp, and its de rivative noun, yaukcr, meant a howling cur. It waa not In nae aave among the lower clashes, for reasons which now ahut out slang from use Ly educated people, but it was a well known word. In the collision between the New Eng* landers and the New York Dutch bad blood wa* arotnedj and the New Englanders despised the Dutch, while the latter abominated the former, and both very fervidly. Hence the use of the word to indicate the coutempt which existed. Every circumstance points to Its birth in the colllalonn between the Dutch and the colonists. To this day tho yankee# are looked upon with distrust by the remnant# of (lie real Ihitchmen now outside New England. <a The word wa* well known beforo the tune," continued Mr. Moore, "but tho latter unquestionably came from England, despite the assertion that It l*n well known Nether- land peasant tong, or that Kosvnth, when here, recognized it aa a Hungarian dance, or that it is known as tho ancient sword dance of the illlacayuns. The words aud tune were doubted ly first wedded together by Dr. Rich ard Bhncklierg, who waa connected with tho British at my when the colonial troop* from New Ktiglaud marched into a camp at A!- bany to join the British regulars on the way to fight the French. Tho doctor knew ofthetunoos 'Fisher's Jig/of which a verso ran: "Lucy 1 jacket lost her pocket, Lydia Fisher found it," Ac. Tho appearanco of tho troops called down tho derision of the British officers, and soon the hit of tbe doctor became known throughout -he army as a method of showing tne contempt "or tho colonials, and this continued until after Islington, the British troopa leaving in 1775, when they tarred and feathered one Thomas IHtson in Boston, marching to the tuno, a* tho best known way of heaping contempt on the Yankeca. Till* waa changed at Lexington, when the British commander waa asked how be liked tbe tuno and answered: "How they did mako us dance to it!" Doodle, Mr. Moore said always meant a trifler,and Is thus referred to in tho Lancashire hornpipe writtcu in 163*. He dosed his paper by relating tho incldont at the surrender of Cornwallis whon the Brit ish, not wishing to surrender to tho despised colonials, turned to the French contingent nnd ucnared to ground their arms Boeing this Lafayette ordered the French lands to play "Yaukro Doodle," nnd to this tuno the arms were laid down and tho revolution ended. (That Three amt ??? Quarter** will do. It will fix you up for Christmas. Do yon want te give apment? Bend 13,25 to us and H will get Tkk CoXsntVTION one year aud a Watcrbury watch with engraved l*ck and chain and whistle. No present ran beat this. _ NKA1UNGTHE END. General Robert Toombs (suddenly Grows Much Worse. Washington, Ga??? December 12.???[Special.] During the past day tho condition of General Robert Toombs ha* changed decidedly for tbe worse, and tho fiuul dissolution is believed to be athand. For the past month hi*].corn!it ion has boon about the same. Physically, ho ha* probably slightly improved, though mentally ho has shown but little change. Occasionally, ho fully recognized those around him, but during tho whole time his mind has still wandered back many year*. Tonight his symptom* have shown a decided change, aud ho is rapidly growing worse. orinion or ilia attending physician. . Washington, Ga., December 12.???To The Constitution: There ha* been a marked liatigc for the worse in General Toomh's con dition in tho last thirty-six hours, and 1 fear bis dissolution is not far off. G. W. Mulligan, M. D. Washington, Ga., December 13.???[Special.] General Toombe remains critically 111. Ho i* scarcely able to swallow Ills accustomed milk punch. He is confined to his bed. a* helpleu as a baby, He is extremely weak. Dr. Mulligan, at ten o'clock tonight, fur- iiiohra the following: 1 have Just tell the bedside of General Toombs, and tbe following i?? Ms condition: Temperature normal; pulre, 107; heart very feeble; perfectly prostrated, unable to raise hi* bead without ni* lUtanre, swallows with great difficulty. For the la??t forty-eight hours he has failed very rapidly, and It I* my opinion that the end will come soon Interesting Letter. The following interestinglettcrwa* received l y a lady in thU city last week. It was written by a little girl eight yean old: Nkwxak, t;a.. December 0. lSK-V???Dear Cousin Leila: Hchool cloned Friday. We had a rood time ttin ing conference. We ato up thirty chiekeua and nearly a whole hog, two turkey* aud one ham and eight Digcakra, and burnt up all the coal. We bail nine men, end Aunt Carrie, and Cousin Julia, and cousin Nor*. Home of the time the presehen were %rrv ??*m1 to us. Their name* were Mr. Parker, Ismbnrg. Mr. Hove. Mr. Little, Mr. Ilart. Mr. rider hi* little boy* picture. Hls|aame. 1* Willie. Mr llomby gave both of us a dime, and Mr Hovlcl gave me a little purse then grandpapa gave older one. Mr ?????? w a* a !!oliuc??s man aud aunty mode him mad about IL You ought to have rern bow Aunt Carrto and uncle took on Aunt caught a beau. Mr. 11. Ila bas a Jersey form and be dyes bis whiskers and eyebrow*. Cousin lie Much married Mr. McBride and she got * * J bridal presents. Auntie Me sml sister bas three hundred dollars t ??? brought ??m mm wedding cake, been picking cotton, w pound* at a cent a pound. . TcfeSwaF Hutch K. MAliniKl, IN <n:outii.\. lien. Robert U. M,jt ??m-l Hit Alice Crumpton, A unit. Mr, John S. Ku*lUh .ml Mix Ell. yullcr, iMiuitou???Mr. John U. YubMunh ??nd MtoaUuicM. Efiw.nl., Alton. Mr. W.UU tlounauud Uto Cent. lVtlllo; Whlwvlllc Dr K. N. .tmwuifiMlr. Kuc Gutan, Alton......Dr Truth UotUnd int Mb. Ktl. Core, 8.uuui??h. MED IN GEORGIA. Mr.JUM.IL ??h.v, A-Utmine...???Mr. John Afifilngtaa, ncu AfiUmllle -Mb. Jut* Smith, tt??Utbotpc county......Mr An-lrew Morrtwa, Pich- rtu county SUJorJ. V. MUthcw. Ctokc county Mlm Mtmlc Winter., (tiuuh Mr. E. W Holland, Efisc.ooJ Captain Itol Mom, tUrrt. county ltn. MaUU. Elliott, Jonoboro. ALL THROUGH DIXIE. ProtalMtlon to Flortuct-A Ladg Sobbed by Trsmi A Terrible ??? Snptofflloa???Vbreo Hegroe* Uisijd (or Bui glory la North CoroUai-ZUppra- (ag* m ToaatMeo and OUior ftatos. West Virginia. Ncwsromea from three interior town* of os many fatal aecidenta bj fire. The first wa* al Wintiifrcrt, Knnawha county. Mias Lizzie Trail, 9??td fourteen, was engaged in rooking over an open fire when her clothing Ignited. Hhe wa* alone in the house at thetime, and when her parent* returned they found the girl lying u|??n the floor nneonsciou* and burned iu the inr-st frightful manner. Bhc died in atx hours. Two miha from Parkersburg, a colored wo man. wUotc name is unknown, left her three children playing on the kitchen floor while she went for a nail of water. On her return she found the oaby, aged one wear, crawling out of tho dooL wrapped in tv sheet of flams#. The mother threw the water upon It and ex- tinguirhed the fire, but tbe child died iu au hour. ___________ Texas. Sheriff Oglesby,with Robert Dowe and James Oliver, visited tne Del Gordo ranch with a war rant for thearreztof Manlel Del Gordo, charged with smuggling and hone stealing. A gang of Moxfcan smugglers and desperadoes have recently made the ranch their headquarter*. On arriving at the house the officers found Del Gordo asleep on the lower floor. As they were about to aelze him he awoke, flred at Dowe, tho bullet grazing his temple. The sheriff instantlv flred, sending a bullet through Del Gordo's heart, The firing aroused the gang, who attacked the officers and drove them from the ranch. Obtaining roln forcements from this place sheriff again attacked the ranch a o'clcck this morning. Many shot* were ex hanged and threo Mexicans killed. The balance of the gang escaped into Mexico, car rying several wounded outlaws with them. Alabama. Florence joins hand* with the gate city in the teinpersnre movement. Wc have met tho enctny, and they arc ottrs, A. ('. MiUiin, dealer in general merchandise, at Fort Payne, made assignment on tho Uth in stant. Assets and liabilities not given. A heavy wind storm swept over south Alabama last night, blowing down houses, trees and fence*. A few mile# south of this city considerable damage was done to pronerty. No lire* lost. The Sri and lodge of Masons adjourned t day after an interesting session. Last Sctnrday night three tramps visited the homo of Mrs. Penn and demanded supper. While sho was engaged in preparing it thoy robbed her of four dollars and loft latter on three men, supposed to be tho sanio ones, visited the houso of Mr. Sutlllf, during hi* absence, and took two gold rings from his wife???s fingers. So far thoy have escaped ar rest. A terrific explosion occurred at GrcenvJllc, *45 miles south of Montgomery at 2 o???clock last Thurs day morning. The explosion occurred In a brick building, which was blown to atoms. The build ing was evidently set on lire with burglarious in tent, and tho licnt caused explosion of powder North Carolina. On the Monday, tho7th instant, at Gatcsville, three negroes, Jno. 8. Warner, Isaiah Richard son and Edward Saunders were hanged for the dime of burglary committed on tho night of thirtccnrli of September at a country store. They robbed the store of considerable money and goods, and being heavily armed, overawed the clerk nnd prevented him from descending from the upper story where he slept. They were soon raptured nnd after couviction were sentenced to 1m hanged. Tho governor ro spited tlu-ni until tho 7th, but positively re fused to interfere further. At Manly, on the 5th instant, a negro named Rufus Scgui cut the throat of Alex Cnrtor, a white man,who died in a few mi nates. 116 was a clerk Ink -store, and tho affitir grew otrt dispute about twenty-five cents which thBM .. owed ftml refused to pay. Groat indignation is felt niHiut tho affair, nnd many armed men searched for Scgul, but failed to fiud him. Nelron Stewart and Anderson Davis, colored, . onvlctcd of burglary, were lmngod within tho jail cnelcsuro in Charlotte last Wednesday. Tho drop fell at eleven o???clock and Davis??? neck was broken by the All. As the trap was sprung tho rope around Stcwnrt's neck slipped so that tho knot rested at the back of his head and ho died from strangulation. Davis died in ten minute# and Stewart In ten niul a half. Rothmon mounted tho gallows with steady steps and exhibited no emotion, Virginia. Governor Cameron sent hi# messago to the legislature on Monday, tho 7th instant. It is devoted almost exclusively to state matters, lu the matter of tho public debt ho sets forth no new views, and reiterates hi* previous ex pressions in the indorsement of tho Rtddleb.ir- gcr bill, believing that every consideration, moral and legal, was met by a plan funding the debt made in that statute. The amount of tho debt outstanding (other than the Hiddle- targor bonds) principal and interact to October 1st, 1885, 1# $30,752,232. The governor makes various recommendations In relation to forestry laws, fisheries, military, agricultural departm ent, etc. In the senate a joint resolution was passed, Instructing and requesting Virginia senator* and representatives in congress to vote for the Blair educational bill or any bi tter measure having for Its object to secure to tho peoplo In Virginia, in common with other states, au ap propriation for the benefit of the public school syrirm from the surplus ro venues of the federal government. , , In the democratic canons tonight John W. Daniel was nominated for United States sena tor by a vote of U5 to 31 for John 8. Barbour. Tho caucus of democratic members of tho .^neral assembly l*??t Wednesday tho Uth instant, renominated tho following hoods of the state department: For secretary of the commonwealth, Henry IV. Floarney: auditor public accounts, Morton Marye: second au ditor, F. G. Ruffin; register of boud offlra, Andrew J. Wingfield. South Carolina. The reported whipping of awhitaman named Thouo* 11. Davis by regulators, in (???'airfield count v, has been confirmed. Davis waa warn ed to leave the couuty last summer fur living with a colored woman, but returned a fort night ago. Tbe general assembly of South Carolina has rawed a bill taxing emigrant ageuts who solicit bnrincfz in thst state W0 for every roqnty in which they attempt to do business, and In the c\cnt that an agent b caught In the state Sailboat a license, his punishment will bo one year lu the penitentiary sml a fine of ??l(M. The passage of tbt> bill will, to a large extent, prevent agents from soliciting emigrant travel in South Carolina. feme of them may take the chances of a business trip In South Carolina, disguised a* jewelry ped- dlera, colporteurs or something of that kind.but this Is hardly probable, ns It l* alma* an Impossibility to ditgube an emigrant sgeut No matter how guard ed he may bem his conversation, he bsure to speak of hi# route being the ???Short Mue," or give himself away by some other slip of the tongue, amt then ho w ill be Invited to take tho -short line??? to the icnitcnlisry. The measure, it is claimed, i* intended to pivtcuI agent* from interfering with the labor of that state. During the past two or threo year*. thouramU of good form hand* hare been lnduecd to leave their home* by sftrery- tougued emigrant agent*, aad go o new nomea in . the west. tintracto bctarecu planter* and their harola invc been broken by their laborers going away. numerous of late, have time and lime again a cad vna atoT act to (migrant agents, and fnvtted th 'tn to leave the corntry between sun*, at the point of a sbht gun. Tbe taw will go into cfh-ct a* rtron as the governor signs thffact,, wMek there N every roanm to believe that he will do, as. the popolar sentiment of the state ts against emigrant agent* Interfering wKh her form labor. In tbe meantime tuLor Ia Icing hurtled out of the sLite to poinft inn, r uty, ai Alr-L oiue from a frolic iu York couuty, attemp:ed !*??? cross Broad river, near the --*??? m *d Lrfdpp, iu a canoe. The 1 ??i uk aud the two women and twoofthe men were uicwiu-d. The third man was rescued by persons ii th# henk*. Kentrn ky. The Courier Journal???s special says: Joe Esrly tvez Larged on Monday, the 7th instant, at- WillLtnii-burjr, In the presence of 1,033 people. He killed Londer Lawson. Some c.f the c rowd were very drunk, and laughed and Joked and tried to climb the scaffold. Tho guards pushed them back. A row was startsd and two shot# were fired. A fatal affray occurred In the United States moi-fhal's office in Covington oil Friday, tbe lltli instant. A number of prisoners were takcu from jail to that office, which ad joins the eourtrooro. All were ushered Into tbe courtroom except Edward O???Neal, who Wit left In the office with Bailiff Day. The prison er was seated near a table in the center of the room. In a drawer next to bfm was a 44 cali bre pistoir As Day turned after showing other prisoners out, he was met by O???Neal, who had in the meantime taken the pistol from the drawer. Day???# first intimation of danger was feeling a handful of pepper thrown into Ida eyes. Antbev closed with pain he caught a ilin.ccc of the pistol barrel leveled at his icad* Instinctively he caught it with his right hand and clutebed O'Neal's throat with bis left. He bora down on the pistol. As it was dlwbarged tbe bnllet just grazed his hip. Still holding his grasp, though in the agony of pain, he bore O'Neal biudeward, simultaneously wrenched the pistol from his hand and point ing it toward his antagonist, whom he conld no longer see, fired, shooting O'Neal through the body. Tbe bullet en tered tbe lower part of both lungs, bringing him to tho floor. The whole thing was dene in less time than it takej to tell it. Instantly all was confusion in the courtroom. Doctors were called, who dressed O'Neal's wcund, which they pronounced necessarily fata). The wounded man is twenty-eight years old, and was originally from Detroit. Was said latterly to have been a member of a coun terfeiting gang, and was under indictment for passing counterfeit money. Tenne&eee. Tbe crimes of John H. Bradley, of 8uinner county, now serving a terra at Chester, Ills., for violating United States revenue laws, keep coming to light A deputy marshal last Wednes day, tho Oth iustant, had n talk with Mary Jane Parker, who- lived with A. J.llradler, father of John Bradley,from 1870 to 1683. She eavs when Beagravcs came Into the Biadlcy neighborhood A. J. Bradley loaned his son John a pistol with which to kill him. The day of the murder John Bradley and Sea- graves went off together, Bradley carrying a shotgun. Shortly after his departure Bites Bradley came to his grandfather and borrowed ' lol, saying hia lather wanted to kill Sea- ???*. When tbe pistol was returned two barrels were empty. She was aftciVrnrds told by A. J. Bradley that John Bradley and two other men had killed Seagravcs. The other men loft tho coun try. Boon after Bradley was arrested for kill ing Miller, saving they feared he would report them for the Seagravcs murder. The girl gave the Bradley family a bad name, and said that after the killing ofSesgraves A. J. Bradley and John Bradley fell out, but while on hia deathbed the old man sent for John, saving he wanted to make up with him boforo lio died. When the son arrived at homo A. J. Bradley made the girl give him his pistol, which ho put under his pillow. Ho then told her to tell his son to como In. remarking thst he intended to kill him before he died. John 11. reftiscd to go In, and thus saved his life. It will be remembered, Henry Seagraves, depuly United States marshal made a trip to Summer county in April, 1881, In search or il licit distilleries. On the 10th he stopped at a bouse situated twelve mile* from La Fayette, Macon county, nnd with his friend, Samnol Cox, ate supper. Four men came to a cabin occupied by colored persons In the neighbor hood and inquired whether Seagraves and Cox had arrived. Being answered in tho affirma tive, the party flred shots to attract tho atten tion of tho revenue 'officers who started out to Investigate the cause. As thoy approached tho cabin Sca*gravct was flred upon, ono bullet en tering tho centre of his breast and another passing through his right wrist. Seagravcs died almost instantly. The murderer# of Sea- graven cannot now be tried by tho United State# circuit court, but can be tried for mur der by tbo state court. Information was rcccivod hero tlio Dili lint, that a negro was hanged at Trenton,four miles from Union City, Tcnn., on tho Mobilo and Ohio railroad, last night by a mob. Tho negro broke Into a dry goods store Monday night, stole about seventy-five dollar*'worth of dry goods and set fire to tho store. Ho was takou by tho mob and hanged ns stated. Tho coro ner cut him down to day nnd held tho inquest During the past few days there havo bocu two speedy deaths from miningitis in tho gtnto prison, and several oth- inmates are now down with the dbcarc, the rapid spcnul of which ha* caused the prifon authorities much uneasiness. They have had all tho Inmates of tho women???s wards, where the epidemic began, removed tonnothor part of the prison, and are taking radical meas ures to eradicate the pest. The most scnzntlonnl tragedy that ha* boon recorded here in years wa# enacted near Chat- tanooRa on Moiikay, the 7th instant. D. D. Lolland, a grocer of Chzttanoga, while ntuniiuR from a pursuit after hi* faith- levs wife and her laremour, was shot by tho woman through tho head and fatally wounded. The murderess escaped in tho moun tain*. D. D. I.ollaml met his brhlo at UrUtol, Tcnn., five year* ago. Her namo was Rosa Smith; she wa* from North Carolina,???a dash ing girl of groat beauty and brilliancy. He made considerable money at Bristol and three y cats ago the couple moved to Chattanooga w here tho husband embarked In business. few month* ago James Wilson, a young blood Social Circle, Gc??rg!a,ntado tuo acquaint- from i ance of tho young wife and tho seemed cou- detely tafcinated by his charms. From that i ifttc dated tho unhappiness of the couplo. Their domestic bliss was rudely ended and serious quarrels w ere of constaut occurrence. In order to take her from tho city Lofland pur chased .a farm iu an adjoining county, but she became dissatisfied and ho sold it. Shortly af- tctwanls she applied for a divorce and rUuned $lJW)of tbe money reallsod from tho farm as alimony. She secured possossion of the money by some means, and on Friday night eloped with her paramour. They tint fled to Fort Payne, Ala., where the woman has a sister, and then took tho overland trip to Scottsboro, Ala., to take the train for the west. Lofland follow ed them, and they fled from Scottsboro into the mountains, lie overtook them, and the woman plead so pUlously that he was turned Into her power, aud he promised to forgive-her. Sho said she would return with him, aud they begun the journey home. At an unfrequented spot in the road ??ho suddenly drew a pistol from her pocket aud shot him through the head, put spun to her horse and escaped. The ballet passed entirely through Lolland's skull, aud he is reported to be dying tonight. A very senrational tragedy was enactcd^on ;th in*tant| it Johnson City,. Finley Hall and Abe Ford arc well-to-do citizens of Johnson City. Hall bas a IwautiAil young wife, whom it is reported baa been deeply enamored of Ford, and for some months there have been vague bints of an illicit intimacy between them. Hall was called away from home today and on his return beard conversation inside, and recognized the voice of Ford. Peeping into the room he saw Font in the room and his wife sitting in hia lap. The two engaged in verv animated conversation. Hall drew a revolver and flred at Font three times. The first shot killed hi* wife, and thcscrond wounded Ford in the leg. Both men have been arrested. A diabolical and shocking murder wa* com mitted on the 7th Instant, just north of Chxta- nooflta. On a form Pearl Smithand Will Price are two form bauds. Last week they ha l a Graeco-Soman wrestling match in which Smith was victorious. He taunted Price Sncemantly over his defeat. Last Tuesday afternoon be again approached him on the antyect. Price in a fit of anger seised a sharp rr.nttcck, and when Smith turned bis back be turied the sharp instrument deep in his brdc. Frolth fell with a groan. Tbe infuriated m ir- derrr again raised the nx and buried It in hi* skull. The brains oozed over hia face and death i# inevitable. The murderer ia at large. Andrew Johnson, who is wanted In Roan county, fi t murder, was brought to Chattanooga on the 8th fnrt. from Texas. He made a very senuUonal at tempt to escape while tbe train was dashing over a high trestle at tbe rate of thirty-five miles an hour, .???ohmon was seated beside a guard on the car,when be suddenly broke from him and leaped through the window, alighting In a deep morass. He fell ct least forty feci and rank to his shoulders in the mk snip. The sheriff had the train stopped as soon e?? possible aud succeeded iu recapturing the pr boner. We arc In receipt of the latest edition of the catalogue of saws and saw tools just issued by Mc**r*. K. C. Atkins & Co., of IndlannpoUs, lad. A hsndratne pamphlet. Anyone interested can obtain one by addressing them as above. CAUOHT IN ICE. The Terrible Experience of s Lake Steam er In a Frightful Gale. Dktboit, December 12.???The steaunr Oconto left Oscada on Friday, December 4, at 4 p. m., and soon encountered a terrible gale. When the storm set in, it became Impoislble and tho lights went out. Tcerewero 22 passengers and 25 members of the crew on board. At 12 o'clock Friday night, Charity island light was sighted. Within 15 minutes the Oconto struck bottom at the southeast point of the Island. THE ENGINEER'S STORY. Frank Teipcr, first assistant engineer, who arrived here yesterday, describes the wrack as follows: Our starboard bulwark* were *tove in, and all tbe upper railing. Two of the life boats and allthe light freight on the hurricane deck were washed away. We were tn agale or wind and a blinding ???now storm. The sea was so heavy that we could npt keep balance. Finally the light was sighted. Everybody took it for Tawa* light; in fact, it wa* Charity bland light. The captain sent a boat around to fteel for tbe entrance, and tbe nest thing we knew there wa* a terrific shock. We had grounded In about tlx feet of water, but whether on tl:e rocks or sand we could not tell. We could see that we were a mile from land. A* soon as the boat ???track, the crew began dealing out the life pre servers. After wo got ready for the ice bath, in which none of u* could have lived fifteen minutes, wo discovered that there was no leak. When day broke wc rat our colors at half mast and bs^an blow! ng whistle*. About 10 o'clock we sighted the lighthouse keeper and his amixtant on shore. Wo tl en got our small metallic lifeboat over the side, ???nd iu it five of us went ashore. There we found two fish hut*. We then brought the twmty-thrce In all, a??horc. Two lame* aim a child w ere taken direct to the light keeper's house, 1 hey have food enough to last them two or tore? v cck\ and plenty of mankets. On Monday mom- our party came away tn a large yawl. The ty consisted of John Van Blyke, son of : of the owners of the Oconto; Ibm Crocker, in Cavanaugh, Walter Bostwick. Jas. Rju, ail :rcw; Anthony Fort*, of Forcstvillc, and myself, took aboard a comps**, two bushels of aalt and to provision*. Wo started In the midst of a :e ox ice. Every minute or two the spray would ??? h over us and freeze as it struck. Whon we rot within fourtnllcs of Cassvlllc, wo found that the ice w as frozen solidly, yet wesuot strong enough to wolkon. We hoisted our storm signal aud began rutting our way with axes. Two boats started out to help Us, but could not reach us. Toadd to our (lhniay, wc found that the solid icc, detached from the main shore, was increasing In thickness every minute, and that it wa* drifting down the bay. taxing u* with it. We cut, punned, rowed and struggled liko mad, reaching shore at last at six i clock Monday evening, eight miles below Cass- 111c, having drifted that far In tho icc. FLOATING IN CAKED ICE. Charles Reardon, first mate of tho wrecked steamer Oconto, arrived in East Tawas yester day with tho ??? steward and six passengers. Reardon reports that the crew and passengers of tho Oconto numbered 47. The crew was composed of Captain O. W. McGregor, of Lex ington, Michigan; tint mate, Charles Hoardon, of Port Huron; second mate, James Ross, of Detroit; the engineers are not known; Stewart D. McLucy, of Rochester, N. Y.; clerk R. Van- slyke; second clerk J. Yanslykc; cook, Jos Levi; porter, Fred Stevens; pantryman, A. Mc Carty. The deck hands were all colored, from Detroit. The captain, tho first englnoor and the passengers are ail in ahantie# on tho island. There are provisions for a fow days. All are veiy down hearted. They havo ono dock hand and ono passenger very sick, but no medicine#. Tho mate and steward left Charity island in a yawl boat yesterday, and walked from Point Lookout to East Tawas. There wore two lady passenger# and one child. Captain Plough and the life saving crew have started for the Inland*. The mate says their experience tho niRht of tho storm was frightful, and that tho danger was greatly augmented by a number of hones and some cattle, which were ou board, breaking from their stalls and stampeding. Bovqyal of the animals were so severely injur ed that they had to bo killed. There Is a re port that seven of the crow left the island in a boat on Tuesday, and have not yet turnod up, but this lacks confirmation. FACTS FOR FARMERS. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thls ppwder never varies. A mam.of purity, strenat land wboleaotneneas. More economical, than the ordinary kind, and cannot bo old in com petition with the mnltnndeof low test short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only hi con*. Rotsl Baking Fowdxx Ga, 106 Wall afreet, New THE COTTON MARKETS. CONSTITUTION OFFICE, Atlanta, December 12,188k the week's xxnxw. New York???The general condition of the market showed considerable depression this week, and both spots and futures have been on tho decline. However, the feeling braced up today, and/atimn- lalcd by a better demand, price* moved upwards. Future* closed firm. Spot*, middling 9 6-16c. Local???Cotton ruled dull all the week, and a downward tendency prevailed. Today a firm feei ng with an active demand prevailed. Receipt* for the week amount to 6,963 boles, against 7,703 bale* for the corresponding week last year. NRW YORK. December 11.???The following Is tho comparative cotton statement for the week ending today: Net receipts at all United States ports......... 946J3G Borne time last r??? ??? ??? Showingfo decrease.. Total|rcceipts Same time last year............. Exports for the week 8ame time last year = 2%SS Showing a decrea*o~ b&S Same time last year. Showing a decrease Stock at all United States ports..... Some time last year ??? ??M,2n 968,906 Stock at interior towna Same time last year* 217,155 ujyw Stock at Liverpool Same time last year Washington, December 10.???'The crop re ports of the department of agriculture for Do- timber gives tho farm prices of principal crop*. Tho increase in product of corn has reduced the average value of tho crops to 33 cents per hurhcl. The average value of tho previous crop in December was 38 cents. The reduc tion is the largest in tho Ohio valley and in the southern states. West of the Mississippi tho in crease of stock feeding has a tendency to ex tremely low prices. Average in Missouri Is cents, the same as last year. In Knn*a* It ?? 24 instead of 22 last year: in Iowa 24 in stead of 23; iu Nebraska 10 instead of 18. It is 28 In Dakota, 2 cents lower than lost year, and 32 in Minnesota and Iowa; Illinois 24; Indiana 29; Ohio 32; Michigan 31; Kentucky 35; Pennsylvania 49; New York 58. Comnar- OU; ITUDIJ???IVRUIB 19, .??W lUIffl-W. VU.U^l- cd with former prices corn values arc very low. For the preceding five years, nearly all are under average in production, the average farm value was 41.7 cent# per bushel, and for the preceding ten years 12.0 cents. The price of cotton avorage* 8.3 cents per pound of lint, the form value of which is n Inc mills lea than the December price ls??t rear. Farm pricca arc: Virginia, 8.5 cents; North Carolina, 8.5; South Carolina, 8.5; Georgia, 8.5; Alabama, 8.3; Mississippi, 8.4; Louisiana, 8.8; Texas, 8; Arkansas, 8; Tennessee, 8. The price of wheat, though still low, t?? con siderably above last December???s average, which was <15 cents. That of 1883 was 01 cents. At present it ia 78,7 cents gain, equal to half the unprecedented decline indicated last. Decem ber. For the five yearn past tho average farm value bas been 90 cents per bushel, and for the preceding ten $1.05. Last year's form value was 38 per cent lower than for ten year*, end ed In'UfrO, doe mainly to a fuller Kuropzau production and smaller foreign demand for supplies, nearly equal to a third of tho entire crop. The range of state prices is from, 57 in Nebraska to $1225 In Massachusetts. It ii above $1.00 in the eastern and cotton state* for home grown wheat. Prices in Tex as, 80 cents, Is 7 cents lower than last December, from the increase in tho homo crop. The value in New York is VC, an increase of 11 cents; Pennsylvania 95, increase 11; Ohio 91. increase 16; Kentucky 95, increase 19; Michigan 84. increase 10; Indi ana 8$ increase 19; Illinois 81, increase 18,- Wisconsin 76, increase 16; Minnesota 70. in crease 20; Iowa 67, increase 12; Missouri 77, increase 15; Kansas 05, increase 20; Nebraska 57, increase 15; Dakota 63, increase 17. The average for Csliforala is returned at 76 and 67 for Oregon. Tho average price of rye is 50 cento, four more than last year, barley 56, inereassT; buckwheat 56, d ccrease 3; potatoes 45. in crease 5; hay $3.62 per ton in place of $8.17 last year. The average price oats la 28 coots, the same last December. Ho Is Troly*Goo??l. From the Dawson, Ga., JouraaL t We spent the night, not long ago, with Mr. Wright Merret, who ia 70 years old and has never taken a dose of medicine in hU life, never been tick, nerer drank a drop of any kind of liquor, never smoked a pipe or cigar taken a chow of tobsroo. He has owned one mule, which ho plowed thirty-six years. During his forty-seven yean of married life he has never ext a meal cooked by a negro, and bason hit first pair of its that were not home-woven. He still American cotton afloat for Great Britain...... 276,000 Same time last year....... 261,000 Showing a decrease- 8,000 SATURDAY, DLCV.MBKR 1?. r; New York???A dull feeling prevailed in tho hot- ton market all day, but the months closed without much change. Spots, middling 9^0. Net receipts today 41,269 bales, against 86,61ft bales last year; exports 15,267 bales; hurt year 89,437 bales; stock 974,046 bales; hurt year 957,961 bales. Below we giro the opening and closing quotations of cotton futures in New York today: opened. December. 9.21ft February.???1???.???.???.'.???.VJ9.42ft 9* 43 March... April. 9.06ft 9.07 Closed dull; sale* 50,800 bales. Local???Cotton steady at quotations: Good mid dling 9)4c; middling strict low middling 8%o; low middling 8}??c; strict good ordinary 8 l-16c; good ordinary 713-16c; stains 7 7-16@83-16c; tinges 8 5-160. . NEW YORK, December 12-The total visible Sup. ply ofcotton for tbo world 1*2,702,021 bales, of which 2,418,621 bales are American, against 2,013,085 bales and 2,473,286 respectively last year. Receipts at all Interior towns 187,705 bales. Receipts from plan la- Hons 299,860. Crop In right 8,764,Sift bales. PROVISIONS, GRAIN, ETC, CONSTITUTION OFFICE, Atlanta, December 12,1885. Tho following quotations Indicate tho fluctuations on tbo Chicago board of trade today: WHEAT. Opening. Highest Lowest Closing! December * 8<& 86>( ao>* 86g December 4 to Uvo Stock. ATLANTA, [December 12???Mules are in foir do* maud with supply moderate. Tlio market 1* tm* changed as to prices. We quote as follows: Mutes -14 to 15 hands VOMKO; 15 te mw hand* f 136?? ???165. Howes???Plug tcbfttlOO; drive 8i09&fl50.. -J CINCINNATI, December 12???Hogs firm; common and light I8.10ftl3.00; packing and butchers S&35 ft 14.00. MUrrllunruuii. pants that were not he looks hale and hearty. Flour???Best r 6Lf6.00; fancy ff fondly I4.75&I6.00; fondly i ??? ?? 14.50. Com???Bt Charles white 58c; No. 2 whits c. Coro Mcal-48ft60c. Oats???Rost proof 47ft50ot Tennessee f 1.00. Hay???choice timothy, largo balsa OCc: choice timothy, email bales, 11.00; No, 1, large bales, 00c; No. 1, small bale*, 95c. Peas???Bed 75c; clay #r??c; mixed 75c. Wheat Bran 95c^*l.00. Grits *3.93 y Mil. Coffee???Me 10$lfto ?? ft; old govern ment Java 25c. Sugars???Standard A 7???(c; granu lated 7%?: whito extra C Cj??c. 8yrup???New Orleans cnolee 45c; prime 30033c. Teas -Black S3 mODe: preen JtfWBflOr. Mackerel???No. 1, Jt???bbls.ftT ??? No. 3, bbL l W.$6jJ( bbb X3.60; kIts00c; pails 50ft g3i l??ard???Tierces, refined, Lcmona-f2.50ft83.00 V 1 mule nhocs 15.00; horse shoe nails 1214920c. Iron - bound hnines HOO. Trace chains S0ft70. Ames* ??hovcl?? 89.50; spades 89.50ft81S. Axes 87.00ft510.00 Y dozen. Cotton card* KOOftdMOi Well buckets 84.00. Cotton rope l6o. Swede Iron 6c: rolled, or merchant bar, 'ly, rate. Cast-steel 10c. Nalls 82.65. Gliddcn barbed wire, galvanized, 70 m ft; pointed ro. Powder???Hiflo fLOO; blasting 82.70. Bar laid ?e; shot 11.85, Lcather-G. D. 24ftKc; P. D.ttft. 24c; beet 25ft28o; white oak nolo 40c; harness leather SOft 33c; black upper S5ft40c. Kgg*???22p. Blitter ??? Strictly choice Jersey 2*ft>??c: strictly choice Tennessee l?ftlSc; other grade* 10ft 12c. - Poultry???I???oung chicken* lOftlsc; hens 22kft26o; cock* 20c. Sweet potatoes???OOfttOe. Honey???Ptralned 1."^: in the comb 13ft 18a. Dried Fruit-Rough dried peaches 2ft3c; pealed peaches Cc; rough dried apple* 2c; evaporated; owin^to^ia^ty. Peanuts???Tenn???eo fie; Kortft (Established hi 1875.) Largest Normal School tn tho south. Total Expense guaranteed 82.85 per week, including Table Board. Tuition, Room and Books. Telegraphy, Short-hand, Type-writing, ElocuUoa pays for complete susniEsa OUU COURSE, Including Hoard, TuJfJowand Diploma. 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