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THE WEEKLY” CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JANUARY 5 1886.
FITZ-HUGH LEE.
THE BRILLIANT WAR RECORD OF
VIRGINIA’S GOVERNOR.
A DashIn* Cavalryman-Ill* ram* Not Founded on
Bio Relation to tho Cooftderat* Commander
Annala of tb* War-*»*nt# Described
by Those Who Were Participant!.
(By John Estcu Cooke ]
*- from the Philadelphia Times.
Wp"<o the tlfne of the war General Fit* Leo'*
record was not more disjbjguishcd than that
of many other subordinate officer#, though it
coutaiued one or two picturesque incidents
Bom in lKir>, which makes him nearly fifty
at prescut, ho graduated at West Point in tho
year Ib'A and was commissioned second lieu-
tenant in the Second United States cavalry.
He was first seut to drill cavalry recruits at
C , arlfsleBarniok8,Pa.,aml by one of the carious
coincidences so numerous in the late war be
Imrrn-d, by order of Stuart, tho* same barracks
just preceding the battle of Gettysburg. Ho
kosii entered upon active service, and in May
JKiO, led a picked force of Van Dorn’s com*
maud against the Comanche*, was shot
through tho lnngs with an Indian arrow and
nurrowly escaped with his life. In another In*
dion action be killed a chief In a fierce per*
uonal combat and General Scott, ever ready to
recognise merit, spoke in bis report of “tho
conspicuous gallantry *an<l energy of Second
Lieutenant Fitzhugli Lee.”
In JtfJOhe was transferred toVVcstPoiiitfinin*
ntrurtor of cavalry And had some distinguished
' pupils, among them Custer, whom he
clash against afterwards in the civil war, and
Kilpatrick, whom he was to drive before him
in the famous “Ruckland races'’ of lHffh When
Virginia seceded be resigned his commission
and joined the south, acting as staff officer at
the first Manassas, and us colonel of tho first
Virginia cavalry in the campaign of tho Pc*
niusulu. Here ids energy and * ability tw
cavalry officer proved of the highest value to
Genual Johnston, and when in June, Ibh
8ttu<rt imulc his expedition around tiio army
of General McClellan, on the Ghickaltominy
the famous record of General Fit* Leo may fro
mid to have begun in earnest.
* A SOLDIER BV RIGHT or BIRTH.
Going back to what now seems that romoto
period in memory, the present writer recalls
tlicjmpremion produced upon him at tho time,
namely, that tho joyous Colonel —and soon to
1« General—Fit* Lee was horn to be a cavalry*
imm and to pass his lifo in camps. In fact ho
told mo one day that lie enjoyed tho lifo of a
soldier nnd there Is no doubt whatever that' ho
dhl enjoy it. Ho was a man of medium height,
With a long brown beard, a heavy mustache,
twinkling eyes, full of humor and good follow*
fdiipnndthe readiest of laughs. Ho was a
soldier alouo from tho feather in Ids hat to his
Tattling spurs, and tho very clink of Ida sabre
•* w as inspiring. No one was inoro jiopular with
his brother officers and tho men of hi* com*
mnud, but his closest and warmest friend was
GeiiJ.K.B.Btuart. They had been - comrades at
West Point, nnd friends in the old army. Roth
were full of lifo and fun, enjoyed practical
jokes keenly, and when they woro together it
was hard to say which were tho more uproar!
. mis. Thoy were associated from that Urns for
ward iu the immense struggle of tho war in
Virginia, and the last words uttered by (ten
oral Htuart whou ho fell at Yellow Tavern
were:* “Go uhcad, Fit*, old follow! 1 know yog
will do what is right!''
STUART AND LKK’ft MOVKMITKTS,
* In June, IWiJ, this long association in tho
Virginia cavalry, between Htuart and Fljiz. Jrao
t liad just begun, oud tlio latter was Btuartta
. aide assistant iu tho famous expedition around
< tho nuny of General McClellcii. This event
. of the war has been described in detail In The
Times, and the story need uot therefore ho re
peated. Amusing incidents armrred Iu
met ion with General—then Colonel—Loe, ouo
of which may now be recalled ' us character*
jMic of those strange times.
When wo had nearly reached Old Church
Fit* Led charged and drove accompany of fed
eral tnvnlty, tunny of whom were overtaken
and (nought back, looking very crestfallen.
As tho prisoners j«asacd Colonel Leo who wits
fitting cm his horse in the road, they turned
their Lends and it was plain tlmttlioy amt tho
rok-ucl recognised each other. Iu fact, tho
colonel hud charecd and captured n number of
men from his old United-Btutc* regiment, and
it wah amusing to lu-ur him exclaim:
“Why, Brown, how are you? How are Rob«
Inrun and tho lest?” And the' prisoners re
plied *.
“Why, lieutenant, is that yon ?”
A little further on, Colonul W. H. F. Leo
rhntgtd and routed Captain Royal, of tho Unit
ed Slates cavalry, and Colonel Fit* burned his
ramp iu the midst of joyous ahouts, aftor which
the cavalry passed on and re-crossed tho
nhominy. To I Kith Stuart and Colotie
Leo the wholu expedition seemed a joyous
fYolic. But bore, as elsewhere, in soino of tho
sunst critical and perilous scenes of tho war,
the uurlouded military acumen and resolute
trill were under tho laughter.
^MOVING TOWARD «T!.PkT!»Etb
After this expedition, which informed Gen
eral Kolicrt K. Lee of the position of the cue-
my nnd led to the great flank attack upon
General McClellan, resulting in the'sevcu days*
fighting, from Cold Harbor to Malvern hill, the
ruvnlry moved northward in Augmt toward
Culpepper to take part In the campaign which
terminated in n second battle of Munava-i
- Htuart had been promoted to tho rank of nuvfot
general, and Colonel Loo, wltli others, became
brigadier general, with which command he
folioweil Htuart to tho Irani war* of uorthorn
iigiuia and Maryland. During this whole
Teat campaign tho movements of tho cavalry
Were unresting, nnd Brigadier General Loe
was one of the most conspicuous figures in
•very conflict. Just liefotv tho second Ma
nassas an iucidcut in related of him showing
the generous and chivalrous character of the
man.
He surprised and captured a squadron of tho
old United States Second Dragoons, discovered
oeveta! old comrades among tho officers nude
prist new, and simply taking their paroles that
they would not attempt to escape kept them at
his headuuarters; and provided them with
horses, as tiia guests. As tong a* the southern
cavalry remained stationary—for a daw, per
haps—this arrangement was highly ngrooablo
to the federal officer*. They ami Geucral Loo
talked and Jested all about “old times,’* recall
ing a hundred Incidents of farmer years on
the western prairies, hut wheu Stuart was
again in tho saddle the accun changed. Ho
nnd Fit* l-re moved and speedily found an
**BWemy to attack. ’ A nnwiher of actions follow-
1 Od aiul the federal nfitsp had the strange ex
perience of being shot at bv their own friends,
as they kept like honorable gentlemen with
General Leo'’« •staff. They were finally sent
hack on the boms furnished them to their
owu liins.
AFTKR MANASSAS.
Manassas had been fought: tho confederate
arn.y entered Maryland, and .the rapid and
bloody campaign followed, fYoiu Frederick City
to Hharpsburg. On two occasions preccediug
this Little, which decided tho fate of the cam-
“ paign. General Fit! Lee performed successfully
very « ritical operations ci.tru-ted to him. At
Boou*Jn>ro, General D. II. Hill had received
the furious attack of McClellan, and was
ordered to withdraw In tho direction of Sharps-
burg. To Geucral Fit* Lee was assiguediho
petihms task of relieving the pickets in the
face of the enemy* The work was done with
compete surer**. and afterwards he was |v
i signed to the same duty at Sluurpsburg. Gen
eral Robert K. Lee had* awaited a second as
sault from General MeCt^Ban for a whole day.
* Wheu he roernswd his infentnr to the fctathcru
hank of the Potomac, and the cavalgr of Fits
Lee apsis covered the rear. On the morning
. of September 19 the army war over tkd river,
and gits Lee’s brigade^ln lios of battfe faced.
General McClellan. It is not necessary to say
that they did not remain long. Fit* Leo
ordered n parting salute to lie fired at the
federal army, the bugles sounded and the
brigade crossed to the south bank of the
Potomac, though it seems that General Me
Clellan might have cut them to pieces.
For his services in this campaign General
Fitz Lee received a supreme reward. Of his
brigade, as much or more than of the rest, the
commandcr-ln-chief wrote* M Ita vigilance. Ac
tivity and courage were conspicuous, and to
its assistance is duo in a great measure some of
the most important and delicate operations of
the campaign/’ In the winter of the same
year, when the army had fallen back to the
Iiapjiftbannock, General Fitz Leo took a prom
inent part in an attack on the enemy at Dam*
fries, and at Falmouth broke through the fed
eral outposts and raptured ono hundred and
fifty prisoners. Jt was not, however, until
March, JHM3, that the active and determined
young officer showed how hard .lye could fight
and how much of the blood of “Light Horse
Harry” ran in his veins.
LEX** ATTACK ON^AVEBILt.
General Avcrill, preceding Hooker, crossed
tho Rappahannock on a grand rccounoissance
with artillery nnd a force which was estimated
at 3,000 cavalry. Fitz Lee bad been posted
with his brigade of 800 men at the point in
ouertion—Kelly’s ford, in the lower part-of
Culpepper—and this small force now received
the assault of AverilL A furious fight fol
lowed, which excited tho astonishment of the
countrymen who witnessed It, one of whom
declared that lx*:’* attack resembled that of
“small dog jumping at the throat of a big one
Some of the bravest southern officers were
killed or wounded, butat night General Aver-
ill gave up his roronnissance nnd crossed the
river again—General Htuart, who had hurried
to ('u)t»cp|ier, telegraphing to the authorities
at Richmond that tho enemy's “dead men and
horses strewed tho roads.”
THU nunc LAND RACE*.
The campaign, as far us the cavalry was con
cerned, wound up with tho “Bucklund Races,’
n humorous event, which resulted iu the de
feat of General Kilpatrick. He was following
Htuart and General Fitz Loe proposed to flank
mul surprise him. to which Stuart gavo a do-
lighted consent. Iffhc nlnnfperfectly succeeded.
General I*o Attacked in flunk, near Hnckland,
while Htuart turned and charged in front,
when General Kilpatrick, Lee’s old pupil at
West Point, was completely routed and the
“Bucklnnd Races’’ after tho re treating cavalry
continued nearly to Alexandria.
In tho great campaign of 1 hi; | General Fitz
Lee redoubled his energies. Whether ho did
or did not sec that the buttle of Gettysburg had
really tcriiilnatcd the war, and that thence
forth further fighting wopid Iw hopeless, it is
certain that, personally, ho never lost his
“heart of hope.” To tho end ho was tiio same
gallant soldier, full of fire and force, with his
ready laugh, his joyous heuriug, his jests and
cordial good fellowship.
When General Grunt camo over with his
hammer to butler the tough earthen anvil iu
May. IbO-i, it was Major General FJtz Leo, ns
much or more than nuybody else, who provont-
ed a dlfwfctrous result after tho battles of the
Wilderness. Htuart assigned to his division
tho duty of oltstrueting the federal ndvnnco
so Hpottsvlvuuia courthouse, nnd during all
tho long hours of tho night tho young officer
obstinately resisted tho federal progress with
barricades nnd tho crack of sharpshooters, fall
ing back only to make another stand, until
tlmo was given General Leo’s infantry to oc
cupy the line of tho Po. Had it not had tlmo
to do ho. General (5rant would have interposed
between Lee and Richmond, the confederate
capital must have fallen, ainco there was no
force to protect it, and that this result did uot
follow the rapid movement of General Grant
southward was due to tho soldiership of Gene
ral Fitz Lee and Ids cavalry,
FROM TIIE WILDERNESS TO HPOTTSYLVANIA.
It is impossible in n brief article to givonu
adequate idea of this (dtstinute fighting of Loo’s
division between the Wilderness and Spottsyl-
vaiiia Courthouse. Tho cavalry and horse ar
tillery seemed to ilio rather than, yield a foot,
and when under orders they sullculy fell hark,
it seemed, under bitter protest, A single Inci
dent will give snmo ides of tho animus of (ten
oral Fitz lice's men, which ho related to mo.-
The cavalry had fought step by step aud had
been ordered to full back on- Hpottsylvania
Courthouse. Two pieces of horse artillery wore
posted to cover the retreat, and uear them were
seated on their horses General Fitz Leo and
Major Breathed, one of the lira vest of all Htu
art’s bravo Artillerists. A lino offedcral sharp
shooter* was advancing on tiio guns, nnd Gen
eral licosaid:
“Give them n round of canister, Breathed.”
The guns thundered, sweeping tiio slope, hut
the skirmishers bravely continued to advance;
nnd what was worse, a line of infantry advanc
ed to support them. To remain longer was to
lose the gnus nud General Fitz Leo exclaimed:
ORDERING OFF TDK GUNS,
“Take off tho guns, Breathed 1”
“A few more rouuds, general,” Broathod
pleaded, ami turning to tho gunners, “Give
them canister!” he shouted.
“Look out for your guns, Breathed ! Bring
them ofl !" General Loe ordered, turning his
horse.
'Limber to* tho''read!’’ was the order, nnd
e of the guns went off at a gallop. Tho fed
eral infnutty were now only a few yards off
and the serum! gun seemed lost. “.Surrender
tfio gun!” they shouted, to which Breathed
replied with n hist round of canister, nnd
liiuhcring.up] attempted to tako tho gun off.
As he did h> tho drivers were shot ouo after
another nud fell from their horses.aomo of
which were also shot ami foil in their traces.
Breathed cut tho animnU from the traces,
mounted one of tho wheel horses, and, striking
them with his nnbrc, brought off the guu iu the
midst of a shower of bullets, from which,
as General Lee mid, “he miraculously escaped
uDliutuieil." It was by menus of this reckless
fighting that General Grant’s column was do-
toyed iu Its advance nud Ucnoral I«oe was en
abled to reach tho courthouse nud occupy tho
lino of tho Po ticforc tho arrlvul of Ills ad*
vemry. Only n few days after these scones
Htuart wofl dead. He fell at Yellow Tavern on
the 11th of May, nnd his lasf order outho tiohl
was given to (iencr.il Fitz Leo.
General Sheridan, with a force of about 9,000
cavalry, rut loose from General Grant’s army
and mlvauccd rapidly by what is called the
Mountain road, dctiouclitng iuto tho Brook
road, with tho design of capturing Richmond,
which was nearly undefeuded. As soon as
Htuait discovered the direction taken by Sheri
dan he divined bis object, nud taking Fits
Lee’s division of 2,100 men pushed rapidly
after the federal cavalry to interpose betwocn
them and Richmond. Ho and Fits Lee rodo
boot to boot, nnd Htuart was grave ami sileut.
Ho itrcmed to have a premonition of his com
ing fkte,ami w as heard humming iu a low tono
the words:
Boon with angels I’ll l*o marching.
The battle which ensued has been descrilted
in the Times. Stuart drew an his 3,400 cav
alry, Fits Lee's division, at Yellow Tavern, a
few miles from Richmond, and no sooner had
he done ro than General Sheridon’s column de
bouched from the mountain read, when ono of
the fiercest struggles of the war immediately
followed. Fit* I.ee commanded ou the right
ami received the first attack of tho enemy,
who were repulsed by the dismounted men of
General Wickham. But his micccss was
shortened. The force was too heavy. Tho
right n:;d left wiuga were both driven and,
worst of all, Stuart was shot and fell from tho
raddle into the anus of one of his ofllecrs.
At this moment General Fits Lee. who was
falliug hack, gullopecd up, exclaiming: “You
an' wounded!”
Yes,” was Stuart's faint reply, “hut go
ahead, Fit*, old fellow! 1 know you will uo
what Is right.”
The confederate cavalry now fell hack de
feated and crossed the i'hickahomiuy, bearing
ff Htuart with them, mortally wounded, and
oexpire three daos afterward with tho words:
T am resigned—God's will I* done.”
WHAT THE FIGHTING DID.
Buch is a brief account of this obstinate
struggle ln-twcen Lee’s division nnd tho heavy
column of General Sheridan. The hard tight-
it:g«a\cd UU-ltmond, as General* Bragg wrote
to the young officer,elating that the resistance
ml Yellow Tavern .had aflbtded time to bring
up Goops from Urewry’s Bluff, bcloVr the city.
1 hu force maimed the works on the Brook*
read and repulsed the feeble Assault of Gener-,
al Sheridan, who, hr an energetic attack
might have raptured tb* city and ended * thre
war-a more sohlicrly incident than his de
vastations and war on non-combatants iu tho
Hhernaudoah Valley.
When the war arena shifted to tho region
sooth and west of Petersburg General Fitz
Lee was actively engaged in all the operatious
of the cavalry there, andespcdallydUtinguish-
cd himself in the complete defeat of General
Wilson’s cavalry at Beam’s Station, where it
was nearly cut to pieces. Soon afterwards hi3
command was ordered to co-operate with
General Early in the valley, where in the
battle of Winchester he bad three horses shot
under him and fell shot through the tliigh—
a wound which disabled him for months. Ono
of the horses shot under him was his favorite
mare, Nelly Gray, as to whom ho made one
day, I remember, a true cavalryman’s speech.
The mare bad trodden on a nail and limped
painfully as ho mounted, when tho General
Bald sadly:
“Poor Nelly! I wish there wa& some way
you could ride wt hack to camp!”
. , TUX END DRAWING NEAR.
what followed in the hot days of March and
i^pril is familiar to everybody. What is not
no well-known, however, is tho terrible condi
tion of tlflS^tttio force of southern cavalry
which the commannSt-iU/chipf succinctly de
scribed as’“two of three mounted., m e M ° n
broken down horses,” the men and norles
nearly without food and only half equipped.
With this inconsiderable force General Fitz*
hugli Lee was called upon to meet the numer
ous and well-armed cavalry of General Sheri
dan, certainly more’ than ten thousand in
number and mounted on fresh and well-fed
horses, the pick of the Virginia stables from
tho valley to Petersburg. It was not a time,
however, to b© calculating odds or speculating
upon results, aud Geucral Fitz Lee was not the
man to do so. At Five Forks, when the huge
cordon of General Grant was encircling Lee,
the southern cavalry drove General Sheridan’s
within a quarter of a mile of Dinwiddle Court
House, nnd on tho subscqnent retreat Fitz Leo
and his men were engaged in incessant fight
ing day and night iu tho desperate attempt to
ward of the swarming cavalry of Geucral
Sheridan, commanding the federal advance.
Those who witnessed these continuous actions,
from Jctersvillo to Appoiustox Court House,
can testify what soldierly work was performed
by the southern cavalry. They fought ni
bravely in this moment of despair ns they
had ever done ill their hours of victory, and
did so to the last.
THE LAST DESPER ATE STRUGGLE.
On the morning of tho 0th of April, a little
in advance of the village of Appomattox court
home, the long four years' struggle ended.
Gordon, with his few skeleton regiments, was
sent forward to make n last attack ou a force
which 1 heard General Custer declare a little
afterwards amounted to “eighty thousand
men.” Ho was supported by that gallant sol
dier, Colonel Thomas Carter, of tho artillery,
and tho remnant of Fitzbugh Lee's cavalry,
now a mere handful. Gordon attacked with
Ids infantry, artillery and cavalry, nnd the ns-
tonishinp fact ia a matter of record that the
federal lino wo* driven hack nearly a mile.
Rut the end had come and.the last success had
no results. General Leo sent a Hag agreeing
to surrender, and hostilities censed.
When General Fitz Leo became aware of
what was about to tnkc place he turned to the
officers and men around him nml said :
'I don't wish to ho included iu tho Hitrren-
dcr. Come, let's go. General Leo no longer
required my poor services.”
This the record’ In a few words of General
Fitzhugh Lee, the prescut govoniox of Virgin
ia. nnd it may explain in a measure tiio “wild
enthusiasm” with which ho was greeted in
hiscnuvn.es. All over the state aro scattered
men of his old command who fought with him,,
nud it is natural that they should form moun
ted escorts'to greet their old Commander-
Those honest Virginians, farmers now llko
himself, and who. like himself, havo, hitched,
their war horses to tho plow, do not require to
he told of Fitz Leo’s record. It seems that
others do—the young generation growing up
nnd those who uttered tho discourteous taunt
in the late campaign that the democratic entrdl-
date luul nothing to recommend-fohn hut his
relationship to Gcnoral It. K.Loefo • |
“Tiio Love Romance^ .of MapTBurndU^
“Much Aixs” which begins this. w»k; are barely
hinted at. Iu next week’s, instalment Mic plot'de
velops rapidly nnd the story grows lit interest toth'o
end. He -lire to get next week's CojfcrriTrriox and
keep up with this story.
OUR KNOWLEDGE-BOX.
(In this department wo give brief *ml pertinent
answers to such questions ns our readers may do
st ro to ask—provided the questions are of special or
general interest. Answers may bo delayed for a
Subscriber, Oxford. Ala: Please give xne buuiu
light ou the origin of the new year's day festival.
The new year's festival of Europe and America
Is about 3,500 yearn old: Komufu*, the founder of
Rome, (introduced the worship of Janus—from
which the month of January was named—more
than 700 years before the Christ was bom Iu whose
honor ChriMmns is celebrated: and Xuma, tho
successor of Romulus, named the first of the
mouth In honor of Jauus, who had two faces, look
ing In opposite directions. IViliapi this is why
new year's day was named In Its honor—because
at that date wo “look before and after;” back*
ward upon the old, forward to the new, The pagan
festival, New Year’s, and the .Christian festival,
lirb-tmas, had a long struggle for supremacy, but
the Christian festival triumphed at last. It Is now
the first and most Important, whereas formerly It
was subordinate In many countri«M to New Year’s
day. The day was a sacred day in Rome. The
whole nation went to prayer at dawn. Then there
were banquets and music and singing In the
streets. The populace was dressed In its best
clothes, and came long journeys to bring gifts to
the emperor—they had to. They gave each other
dates, figs, plums, rakes, and copper coins, with
the double bead of Janus upon them, although
this double-headed copper wasn't ns uscftil in
matching pennies as a double-headed coin of tho
present day Is. The early Christians tried to sup
press these New Year practices as heathenish, aud
the emperor.Claudtus, who was a reformer, but not
a Christian, Issued a decree modifying them, fur
iously enough,while he was trying toMipprcss them
at Rome,the armies with which he conquered Brit
ain and Germany and carried New Year’s day into
those countries aud spread the habit abroad faster
than he rould stamp it out at home. So that when
these nntlous were finally UhrHlantzed, the
old pagan festivities had a firm nold. It was the
Gonuana aud the Holland Dutch who introduced
the custom of New Year's calls. According to the
current number of the Magaxlno of Amertran His
tory, they reasoned that if good fortune would at-
tcud all business enterprises begun the first of the
year, friendships would be more secure if looked
after on that day. They brought the custom of
making New Year’avalIs with them to New York,
whence, since the revolution, it ha-* spread all over
the country, and the KttgUah habit of making pres
ents on New Year’s day instead of Christ-
was adopted by the Dutch.
When Washington, as president, came
to reside in New York, he was much struck
ith the novelty of New Year's calls. The first
New Year’s day came, as it docs in on Friday.
Mrs. Washington received, and the president stood
lx Mdc her “with all the sttt!he>s for which he was
remarkable.”. .
Subscriber. Gainesville, Ga.: 1 tow can I keep
eggs for several months?
The only method that insures success is that, of
cold storage. A oold temperature must be secured
to save the egg and have it marketable six of eight
months later. A temperature' ranging fhra thirty-
eight to forty will do this—such as the average lee
houses can (bniUh. The eggs, however, mu>t atl
bo placed ou end, and the regular case, with paper
fillings, used. If any of the eggs ore- so small that
they fall orer in their little apartments, a
piece of paper may be wrapped around
them to fill up with. A better plan Is to throw out
surhandusc ouly.the regular sizes. The egg*
meat be turned upside down at least twice a month.
This can rapidly I* accomplished by inverting the
cases, which mutt have the covers fastened or nall-
facilitate the work. Egg* can also be safe
ly packed in cats iu cold storage, but taming the
eggs must not be overlooked. The egg that re
mains undisturbed dating the winter, no matter in
liat sort of preparation or temperature, will open
sdly and the contents be foams settled down aud
lasu m.il to the lower side of the shell.
yentUmeu have eonti
grimier made for fan. . ,
•nd something farmers wonWi do well to examine.
TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
“Sassiety” in Philadelphia must be delight
fully clastic. The other night at the opera
house in that city, during the performance of
“the Queen of Hheba,” o gentleman stepped
out of his box, leaving it occupied by his wife
and a friend. When the husband returned he
found his wife clasped in his friend’s arras. It
seem* that the friend was an old lover, who had
just returned from Europe. Tiio wife was mar
ried to a man for whom she had uo real liking.
Ou tho fetal evening the three had dined
together' at the husband's house, and had
agreed to attend tho oj^cra, which was the
“(Jucenof Sheba.” The sobbing, suggestive,
kindling music had a dangerous and wonder
ful effect on two of them. They thrilled to its
notes, and, looking into ono. another’s feces,
saw the old love there, and were wretchedly
happy. They had no need to-, make confes
sion. Nature bad silently confessed in
their lebplf. At this perilous juncture the
husband, who had observed nothing, rose sud
denly to go out, saying he would be back iu a
few minutes. Then the other man, half be
wildered by his emotions, felt that he ought
not >0 stay. He got up with the words: “I find
I love you.atm;, I must go and forever.” She
begged him to remain, buj he stepped into the
salon hurriedly. She followed him and behind
the curtains their tumultuous feeling* 1 gave
way. with the result already described. When
the husband came back he was dazed for a
moment,and then asking bis wife to withdraw
—she passed beyond the portiere—ho de
nounced tho lover and struck him. Ho would
have re peated the blow,had it not been warded
off. The assailed man was cool. He merely
said: “This is no place for explanation or set
tlement. Your wifo is entirely innocent. All
the fault is mine; but it is only an imprudence,
for which I am willing to makoanvreparation.
I beg you not to blame her.” And ho took his
departure. Mutual friends were consulted,and
it is settled that a divorce is to be ohtainod and
then another wedding will tako place.
Tiie recent arrest of Colonel H. F. Alston,
at Longview, Tex., was a rather peculiar affair.
Alston is charged with tho murder of a man
in Fayette county many years ago. Tho kill
ing occurred on the day of the election of tho
first governor of Texas. The arrest of Colo
nel Alston has cast a gloom over the entire
county. Ho is a warm hearted, generous citi
zen, and is now qnite an old man. His arrest
for an almost forgotten crime excites great in
dignation.
Ono of the strongest stories of tho season
comes from Philadelphia. One Bauer, a sa
loon keeper, was asked for a drink by an Eng
lishman who turned lip in tiio city penniless
and friendless. Bauer furnished tho drink,
and finding tho young man a bright, active
fellow secured work for him. The tramp was
named Henry Htautou. He belonged to a
good family in England, but his drinkiug hab
its had caused him to lie cast off. Bauer took
him in hand nnd worked a completo reforma
tion, breaking his intemperate habits. Last
May young Stanton, greatly improved in per
sonal appearance, returned to Euglaud. A
reconciliation with hi* family was speedily
effected, hut Iinucr heard nothing more from
him until Wednesday last, whon ho received
a letter from the man whom he had befriend
ed, stating that old Mr. Stanton had died^
leaving all of his immenso wealth to his sailor
son, aud that as a token of gratitudo for past
kindness in tiie hour of need the heir had de
cided to give $00,000 to his benefactor. Mr.
Bauer said that ho had been notified that tho
cash was now in New York city, where ho
would get it next Tuesday. Ho said that this
windfall wnsu great surprise, and that ho now
proposed to givo up his satoou business to his
brother, iu view of a contemplated trip to
England and the home of his benefactor,
pROUiniTON is a very simple matter in Rus
sia. It requires no work on the part of churches
or societies, no elections, no trouble whatever.
The czar Issues an orifer to c loso the sal^dis,
tiUd they arc closed. There Is no appeal to the
courts nnd uo dodging. Today an order Will'go
into effect all over Russia shutting ;ip the
drinking shops. Liquor will he sold nowhere
except In restaurants. A high license will have
to be paid for tho privilege.
Tjif. southern landowner who gives away his
broad acres for a song, so to speak, will livo to
regret it. A writer in the St. Louis Republican
says that tho south could not roll back tho
tido of immigration if she would. Ho says
that in ten or twenty years, wheu tho people
of the west find that they aro overcrowded,
they will make a rush for tho healthful nnd
fertilo southern lands. Whwn that tiwo comes
men of capital nnd enterprise will not stop to
iuquiro into southern sentiments aud
prejudices. They will ignore the
alleged rnco problem and roll
like a mighty wave all over that magnificent
domain following tho Appalachian mountains
from the Potomac nrouud almost to tho Mis
sissippi, including at least three fourths of the
urea of tho Southern Atlantic nnd cost gulf
states. Kentucky, Tennessee nud largo parts
of Arkansas and Texas will also como in for
their sllbro of immigrants. This movement
cannot bo much longer delayed,
Therf. arc more Mormons at our doors than
we can actually estimate. Tlioy have congre
gations In Alabama, Tenncssce/.Gcorgia and
North Carolina, and tho fact now comes to
light that there is a Mormon church with sev
en hundred members at Fall River, Mass.
There is another congregation in New Bed
ford, one in Boston, and Rhode Island, Maine
nnd Connecticut also havo a sprinkling of
these people. Tho plot thickens.
Mb.W.T. H. Marshall,of Dallas county,Mo.,
hasjust discovered that he is the watchman
spoken of iu tho thirty-third chapter of Eze
kiel. He lias published the following card,
with the request that “papers to tho end of the
murl, profess
county,
oken of In
Mis
rani|nnv uu- niminsim*. we iu «nsu uu« nu-
other's feet and ki>* the holy kts>, !>oth male and
female, sbopnty without ceasing, amt In all thing*
give thanks. We are commanded to marry, mul
tiply and replenish the earth. I put my Judgment
agaln.-t nil the jicople in the world nml say I can
prove by the New Testament that Paul w as a mar
ried man and had a family. I al-o nay aud can
prove that the Lord’s word shuts out all unmarried
- 't>otu* over twenty-one years of age from the
ngdom of heaven unless they have a lawful ex-
:h». I can ray without fear of successful contra
diction that the above commands are what tho
* require* of all people tn this day and age.
do not Urielly comply with them we
have to put up w ith that aw fill senteuce, “Depart
Item me, ye worker- of iniquity!”
The days of romauce do not all !>clong to
the past. A very pretty story is revived by
the announcement that tiie widow of tho
ex-King Ferdinand, of Portugal is coming
home to Boston to live. Years ago there was
in Boston a Mbs Hcnslcr, who was 'noted for
her beauty aud musical talent. She went
abroad and at Lisbon met King Ferdinand,
who was then fifty years old. The king took
a funcy to the pretty Boston girl aud married
her. Ho abdicated his throne and took his
wife to a beautiful palace, where they lived in
grand style until Ferdinand’s death. The ex*
queen has a fot tune of $1,000,000. Her mar-
riage, of course, allied her with the proudest
families.of Europe, hut sho'prefera to spend the
remainder of her life inn quiet Boston home
among her own people.
A correspondent of the Cleveland Loader
views the educational records of the mem
beri of congress. He says:-—“Bragg states that
he was educated ^ lawyer. Smalls, of South
Ghrolica. was self-educated, nud Honk, of Ten-
ticstec. educated himself while working at the
i tfPintt-mnkers* trade, jmd by reading by fire-
light at night. Judge Kelley got his eda.cn-
tion as a printer aud proof-reader, and General
GrtsveuoY was trained in a country log school-
house. FulitzfW had' a private tutor; Hepburn,
of Temp, fra* educated in the common s chools
and the: printing office; Oates was self-edu
cated, and Taulbce and Boutelle had private
schools. One hundred and sixty-four of the
members of the present house have had nolle-
giate or academic educations, and eighty put
themselves down as having been trained at the
common schools. Tho majority of collegiate-
bred men come from small country colleges,
academies and seminaries, and many of them
state that they have graduated at some noted
law school, such as Harvard-,-Ann Arbor, or
New York. Harvard has seven college gradu
ates, Princeton four, tho Uuiversity of Virginia
four,- Bowdoin two, Dartmouth four, Union
three, Yale two, Amherst two, Brown two,
Ann Arbor five, Jefferson two, Franklin twt>,
nud numerous other colleges one.”
A PROMINENT St. Lonsis man is in the
dumps because he has lost his cat. It was
Maltese, three times tho size of a
ordinary cat, and was presented to its present
owner by tho Nizan of Hyderabad, India. In
his own country he was a sacred animal and
had a little temple all to himself. His princi
pal food was beef tea nnd brandy. It would
bo a pity to have such an animal ground into
sausage meat.
The Philadelphia Pres3 calls attention to
peculiar and depressing phaso of tho north-
era mind. It rays:
Another recent novel development is whkt
might be called a blase mode iu our young people.
Undergraduates profess to face the world, diploma
iu hand, with an utter hopelessness in their ludd-
vidual chances of doing any work worthy of note
in it. The day for great individual leaden is over,
they say. The discoveries have been made. The
sermons have been preached. Tho songs,’have
been sung. Henceforth mankind need .only
strive to keep step together like a team of draught
horses dragging a load, one no better than, his fel
low*. If we c redit them we must believe
that the stuff out of which the Shake-
speares and Napoledns. the Franklins and Lincolns
were made has all given out In yonder ctern*'
ufactory. This phase is nothing new. It is
of dry rot which now and then seizes on tho youni;
mind. Young Germany had it under the uame ofe
Wertherlsm.nnd 3,000 suicides in one winter showee
hdw severe was the attack. Young England caught
it from Don Juan. Poo gave It In a lesser degree.
nihilism. Fortunately, It Is limited hero to
a *mnll cla«-s. There Is nothing of it iu tho southor
west, where the great work of the next century
The Christmas day murders in tho United
States ran up to twenty-one. This has an ngly
look, but as an off set it should bo recollected
that about CO,000,000 jrconlc in this country
behaved themselves, killed nobody, aud cloy
ed the day in a reasonable fashion.
TnE following statistics from tiio New York
Star will be of interest to tho consumers of
western liog meat:
The trichina is a specie* of thread-like worm,
and was first'discovered by Professor Tiedmann iu
1822. When mature the male is one-eighteenth of
an inch long, the female at least twice that length.
The eggs are about one twelve-hundredth of an
inch in diameter. After fertilization and six or
eight days of gestation, they are developed Into
embryos, which, when extended within the In
testines of nn nnimnl, commence at once their
migrations. The hog Is especially liable to
trlchin:* 1 . but it hns been found In horsc* r dogs,
sheep, birds, cuttle and eels. After uncooked flesh
lin.s been eaten, cotalning the undcveloi>ed tri-
cliime, the worms remain in the intestines, and by
the second day become fully developed and ’
from their capsule*. Ry the tenth day they
their way through the connec tive tissues an
the blood into the voluntary muscles, nnd the
fourteenth day finds them eneapsulcd throughout
the muscles. As many as 10,000 or 15,090 have been
found In a cubic Inch of hog flesh. Professor
Dalton estimates the number of trlchinm in a
human body to be 85,000, and that from 1,000,000 to
2,000.000 may exist in a single human body,
cording to examinations made Jin several c—
The most startling ease was nt licttstadt, Prussia,
in 1NW. Out of 103 persons who were dining In n
nobleman’s house, and had eaten sausages,smoked
and warmed, but not cooked, 20 died almost tin-
hlmc and the muscles of tho victims were found
to be olive with them. The first ease recorded in
America wok discovered by Dr. Bcltuetter of this
In LS7.H from to to 20 i*cr cent ot American ham*
contained trichina-, amt in the same year out of
2,500- Westphalia hams only, one contained „ the
A subscriber takes the liberty of propound
ing the following problem to tiio Kansas City
Times: “If two snakes twelve inches long
commence swallowing each other at their
tails nnd swallow for twelve minutes at tho
rate of ono inch per minute, in what position
will tho snakes ho at the expiration of twelvo
minutes?” Jn reply the Times gravely rays
that it is obvious that two suakes twelvo inches
long could not swallow each other at tho rato
of an inch a minute for twelvo minutes, And
requests its readers uot to scud any inoro
“catch puzzles.”
The mad dog scare at Newark hns led to tho
organization of an anti-hydrophobia compauy,
Tiie company hns issued a circular which con
tains tho following item:
Our patent consists of an u......
metallic leaves, placed together s
calve* nnd other —*’ # ‘ w “ *-
1* manufactured , ,
combining lightness and restMancc. It adjusts it-
self automatically, so thal it will fit any limb of
rca*ouul>lc size.
The inventor of this unique coat of mail said
in an interview
My invention consist* of pad*, or fenders. If you
please, mode of metals of various kinds, that are
ranueinto shape llko leaves, and can bo so ad
justed Hint they will tit the portions of the body to
be guarded as compactly os a Chatham street coat
—’like the paper on the wall,’ you know. Thera
leaves me very light, and so rounded
a* to bo ehfltk full of resistance.
When the dog make* his attack on what he sup-
poses to Ik- a choice morsel, he meets with a sur-
iTIm;. He finds that he cannot work his jaws and
Jie Htuksoffdlraoncerted. You walkotl'iutriumph.
Would you believe this About a friend of mine on
Long Island? He was wearing a set of the fend
ers last Wednesday. On his way to the railroad
station in the morning he was attacked by a big
mongre l thut had been prowling aUmt the villa?
for days Iu a shockingly mad condition, nnd tL_
men had been on the lookout to shoot the brute at
flrBiopportnnity. The beast made a dash at my
friend, who Mood hi* ground. The dog’s teeth
met the fender nud glanced off. The animal
stood for a moment, evidently entirely bewildered.
Then he looked up into my friend’s face with a
sheepish expression. Hat down on his haunches
ami offered the geutlcnmu his paw. The surprise
had brought back hi* natural (ustiucts and he is
perfectly well today.”
The burning of the negro rapist near Mobile
recently has a touch of the horrible about it.
But there Is this much to be said: There will
be no more rapes in that section iu the next
fifty years.
This frightful picture of eternal puuislimcnt
is quoted by the Chicago Times from ouo of El
der Knapn’s revival sermons:
years. Each instant of this demcut ts an awful, an
unendurable agony, a thousand ttme^worrathault’ie
• ifjfiDg of Die quivering human tlesh against
ig of the quivering
< coal*. Millions of rear*after the plunge
i tne—’**“ ’
Father sft*. he cries^.
which the righteous Father. His countenance
Homes with wrath, thunders in a tone which shakes
nulls of heaven and hell, “Down, down to all
The discovery <?f another tie w comet shows
that the democratic party is administering af
fairs in the interest of both science andoeooio-
my.
The wife of the Rev. Dr. Talmagc had quite
an adventure the other day with a sneak thief.
The doctor had gone oat and the servant girl
admitted a gray haired man. who gave her a
letter, requesting her to deliver it to Mrs. Tal-
mape. The girl took the letter and started up
stairs. Before turning into the hall on the
second floor, she looked down and svw the vis
itor examining the overcoats on tiie hat rack,
and hurrying to Mrs. Talmage expressed her
t uspirious* Mrs. Talmage read the letter aud
.found it signed. “A Christum iu Distress.”
She immediately went down stairs and found,
the stranger,arrayed in a flne.chinchill.v over-^
coal. Mrs. Talmage requested him tor* take*
her husband's -..coat.- The
man,- - ia .apparent* aarprise.
told LeV that she vgts mistaken. The fedy
firmly insisted that she was right, and in
formed tho man that he was a thief. The
rascal then took off the coat and flew ont of the
front door in a hurry. When Dr. Talmage re
turned he expressed great regret that the thief
. had not been captured. From the description
he believed him to be a broken down minister
with whom he had a slight acquaintance.
JrDGE Noah Davis in & temperance ad
dress in New York, the other night, attributed,
eight-tenths of the country’s crime to drink.
He made the following good point:
Three times In the last four weeks I have had.
young men before me who had, in each ease, com
mitted a crime late on Saturday night or Sunday
morning. After having spent tne night iu a liquor
shop with fifteen or tw enty companions, one was,
iu each instance, slain. You and l are interested
in preventing the sale of liquors under such cir
cumstances: also in preventing the system of pay
ing off workingmen on Saturday night: If they
were paid off In mid-week and went to work next
day they would not spend their money for liquor.
I have seen this faot so often Illustrated, tnat I will
liy, and urge you to Ary, to induce every business
man to pay off his employes In mid-week.
A BOOM
IN THE * '
CARPET TRADE.
M. Rich & Bros, are now
making preparations to move
their Carpet Department, and
for the next thirty days will
run off their present stock
rdless of Value or Cost!
This is a genuine offer of
First Class Goods
-AT ANY-
Price That Will Move Them!
We want the room that our
CARPETS
Now occupy to make the nec
essary changes resulting from
the building of the new addi
tion to our store, aud we must
get the goods out of the way
before we tear down the inter
vening wall, We do not intend.
standing on prices. The goods
must be moved some way, and
we had rather sell them. M.
Rich & Bros.
No house in Atlanta has
ever offered such bargains in
really
First Class Goods
As we will offer, commencing
. loiporrow. , N°.^stgc4d
No shoddy, but surely bargamS;
iu Fine Wilton, Moquette,
Body Brussels and Tapestry
Caipets, Extra Superior in
grains, 3-Plys, Corticine, Oil
Cloths, Rugs, Mattings,Shades,
Curtains, etc., etc.
Tomorrow’s reductions in
our Carpet Department will
surprise everybody. M. Rich
& Bros.
HOW TO SPECULATE
AND
MAKE MONEY.
J. EDIVARD GOVE & CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No 1331 F. STREET, N. W„
Washington, D. C.
Stocks, Grain, Provisions and Petroleum.
X% on 10 shares Stock. 1,000
. Pork or Lard. Send for do-
- „.ving full particulars and val
II. c. PAINTER, Manager.
TOHN TODD VS. MISSOURI TODD, LIBEL FOB
iJ divorce, Fayette superior court, September term,
1H85. It appearing to the court by tho return or
the sheriff fu the above stated ctae that thedefend-
ant doe* not rerido tn said county, and it further ap-
footed c
thU
( the defendant by the publication of
. o a month for four mouths before the l
term of this court iu The Atlauta Constitution.
i. J. M.T13IUA-*, J. 9. L.
I do certify that the above and foregoing ts a true
extract from the minutes of Fayette superior court.
TliL October 22,18S5.
A. E. STOKES,
nov 3w lam ita C. 8. C. F. C.
W ANTED—FOS1TION IN A DRY GOODS OR
general merchandize store, cither iu a city or
town; used to hard work; best of reference. Ad-
drera H. B., P. O. Box 55, Greensboro, Ga.
dec.’H im&wkly
IE LARGEST STOCK CARRIAGES, BUGS
. gles and wagons in the south, will be round al
ilbum wagon company’s repository, Library
‘ — wnw ‘J
building, Atlanta.
r E “OLD RELIABLE-' 1 MILBTON WAOOH
Jsaa been.on the market for thirty-seven yean
IHE BEST GOODS ARE ALWAYS CHEAPEST.—
W E
stmwiry
ui me inuu uciuuguig iu wuu ha™, auu »
upon her application on the first Monday In R*l>-
ruary next. Given under my, hand and official
signature, this January the 1m, lvA
GEORGIA. FAYETTE COCXTY.-uEORGK S.
IT Banks ha- in due form applied to the under
signed for permanent letter of adminUtrattou on
the estate of Jurden Price, late of said county, de
ceased. and I will pass upon said application on
the first Monday in February. 1 given under ray
hand and official signature. ThU the drat day of
January, im D. M. FRANKLIN, Ordinary.
Jan 5 w4t-I2pg.-Vi
IMPOTENT MEKI
NERYITA^