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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA-, MONDAY MARCH 2 18P 6 11 ALL THROUGH DIXIE. A AIIcw ClAlmul row to* Honor of tho Dl.aoT.rr of tbo Xloofrto T«l.sr.ph-Vlrstnl«n. Toko Ao< lion Upon tho LMor Trouble. - Tho Flcrce-Weaver Bonootlon Explained. Kentucky. A powder explosion occurred at Winchester in the store of Mary Willi. The clerk woo in the let of weighing <ome powder from e can, when a man itanding near the counter (truck a match to light a .cigar. The (park ignited the powder, which exploded with terrible vio lence. The honee wee badly wrecked, and eight penone were severely wounded. James Hopper and Will Murray are dying, and others may not recover. The man who struck the match escaped unhurt. Mary Willi and two othen were unhurt. Florida. The duke of Sutherland ii expected at Tem pi, in tho duke's private yacht. New. from Rusk styi that thcRuskpcnttcntlary oiks were burned Saturday. Loss 179,000. ..hue Osk bayou .last evening they were horrltUxi / on resin* a young man in the center or tho brldgo walk to tho edge, panic a moment and then loap into the guir, sixty feet below. The workmen throw blankets to the struggling man, but ho sank s cntofslrht. .A few hours afterward the body was recovered. The man was neatly dressedeud good looking. In his pocket was found discharge papers (Tom Hants- penitentiary, showing Ms name to have been ge Ellsworth, ago28, and a native of lows. viUe pcnlt George Masked men entered Cameron & Co.’i oflico at Brownwood, made clerks hold tip their hands and then secured I1MW. The robbers left as suddenly, si they had come. As they departed they were Cr.il nmn hy one of the clerks. Ono of the robbers Heptoved to he a painter, who was well known shout town. North Carolina. The Charlotte Observer published an inter view, by its Washington coriespondent, with Junius Lynch Clemons, clerk of the river and harbor committee of tho house of representa tives, who claims that he la the original In ventor of the electric telegraph. Clemons claims that he invented the system In 1835, whilo at Bandolph. Macon college, Virginia. Ho communicated his discovery to a Mr. Pago, who waa in the patent offleo, and who had become quite omlnent as an electrician. Page did hot answer the letter, and eleven yean after took out a pat ent on the discovery,and associated Morse and Amos Kendall with him. The company ap plied to congrtss lor *ldto develop tho discov ery, and the world knows the result. Clemons claims only tho original invention, bnt gives Mono credit {oh Its development Ho con cludes tho tntervfbwM follows: “I would not pluck a single leaf from the laurel that circled Morse’s brow, or drop a word that would re flect upon his memory." Tho letter is pub. lishad as vindication of the truth of history. i Fourteen Mormon recruits loft Wilkes coun ty, for Utah lilt week. Virginia. 1 A resolution Introduced Thursday by Senator Wingfield, to remove Railroad Com missioner Moffett from office, becauso of in- competcncy, waa discussed, and finally re jected by a vote of thirty to one. The only senator fkvoriog its adoption was the author of the resolution. A meeting of tho business men of Rich mond was held this evening to consider the la bor troubles existing here. The hall where the meeting was held was densely packed, and hundreds of people could not gain admittance. The questions before the meeting wero elabo rately discussed, and resulted In the adoption of a preamble and series of resolutions. The presmhlo deprecates any action which may-tend to alienate those heretofore living In peace and harmony, or that may lead to social discord and strife, or which msy paralyzo the business interests of tho community- Tho houao of delegates on Wednesday last adopted, With some amsndments, tho local option bill pamed by the senate Monday. The house amendment was subsequently concur red In by the senatav end the bill now goes to tho governor for his action. .The bill passed applies to alt clues and counties In tho stain except where local option law now exlsti- Je d Texas. The Fort Worth anisette publishes an inter view with Robert McCartTapd City Attorney Capps, who represented tho .plaintiff and tho defendant In tire suit, for adultery of Mrs. Weaver, of’ InUhninolIs, Indiana, against rdree Weaver, or J. W. Fierce, as ho was known hero. MeOsrty rays that from his’ knowlodgohf the.financial condition of Wea ver, he is satisfied that the man at Atlanta la not him, and ho says Weaver vas very angry at his wife, on account of her prosecution of him for adultery, and thinks that he dots not reveal himself for two reasons, at first, because ha is willing she shall waste her money in the present suit at At lanta, and second, because he is still living in adultery with Mrs. Eden, and fears another Mrs, Eden, the woman with whom ho Iivod In ■dultery here. Ho ssys Wcgver was groatly infhtoAtcd With Mrs. Eden. and that they car ried on a correspondence until he was lodged in Jail here, and after she had Jumped the town to escape arrest. Capos received letters from Weaver shoot eight months ago, dated Chattanooga, Tenn., sating that ho was close ly pressed financially, and urged tho collection of tho claims in the attorney's hands. Health Officer Swearioger arrived at Fort Worth Tneaday and leading citizens and physi cians met him at the hotel. He aid he did not think a quarantine of Dallas m -.— - . _ — —report „ tho governor, and tha governor will, it la mid, Issue his proclamation In accordance with tho shove. Damage snita aggregating $300,030 will Milled against the city of Dallas by per- sons ejected from the trains by tho quarantine A large meteor feU near Washington, the other day, making a deep hole In the ’ su vutuiuuui several days making arrangement for the meeting of their society here next August. The meeting wDlbe rendered additionally at tractive by having, besides the nsaai dices'- •ions of agricultural subjects, an exhibition of tho horticultural and floral products of tho ■tote. For the best specimens in these depart ments liberal premiums will be awarded. A nuiitLcr of the* most prominent ajrriculturii*! InSonthOtrollna, Georgia aidNoShC.reUo l havo expressed their intentions to be present. It his been definitely decided that Moody and Rsnkey shall attack Columbia. Ailsmogc-' *- *TAve been .made Tor their reception. days in the Columbia opera house, Aithh building wiibvot accommodate more I thousand pConie— itege, galleries, f circle and standing space—the | tits will be nble to reach only j Columbia's population. A gentleman from Spartenbmg gives the subjoined account of a tad accident: “A tor days sines, on the Enorse river, a young mu named Van Pattern nil hunting <wv. in a beat. In attempting to make a stroke with an oar ho struck tho hammer of his gan which exploded, the entire load of dock shot lodging in his neck. Death was immediate.” Willlun Walter, a Gennxn, aged about thirty year.,,committed, “Iclde at Prosperity, seven Miles from this place, last Sunday night. Ha was found at Wheeler & Moseley’s mill, about daybreak Monday morning, dangling at tha end of a rope that he had borrowed from a neighboring well. About the middle of lost week he applied for a situation in the shop of Isidore Buff, a Ger man blacksmith, but Ruff refased to employ him, on the ground that ho was already under contract with a farmer, as an agricultural laborer. This farmer threatened to prosecute him if he violated his contract. It seems, therefore, that Walter, being nnablo to hire to Buff, and unwilling to Uvn with his employer, found himself between tho devil and the deep sea, as it were, and in • fit of desperation took the shortest way ont of his troubles. The foUowing appeared In Tuesday’s Sumter Watchman: Wo have Men Informed an reliable authority that a whito woman In Williamsburg county from to death during the January blizzard under most horrible circumstances. She was a boat to become a mother, and her husbsnd deliberately left horns-, leaving her utterly alone and without (net or salt- able bedding to free the terrors of that swftil soother. The nextmsmtng some women of the I n r upon s pile nf straw and covered with an old auUcSemfiOt tn death., vnut peurtehment is too severe lor tho brute whom she colled hus band? . Tennessee. Kelson Clay, colored, at BogersviUe L shot and instantly killed Tom Kyle, oolored, Saturday afternoon. Clayw$s standing inhla shop door rad Kyle started to come In, when Clay find, bitting Kyle Inst above tha breast bone in the neck, cnttfng some of the blood vessels. Clay waa arrested and will have a preliminary trim. Tho colored people ore excited over tho affair, bnt no more trouble to apprehended. Whisky nnd bad women the cense. Clay used an "English Bull Dog." Tho pohlbitlonist were in session at Koahville Tuesday, and adjourned late at night, after a hard day’s work. Over 300 delegate* were present, representing one-third of the counties In the state, and great unanimity prevailed. A large number of ringing speeches were mode. Resolutions were adopted declaring that no third party waa wanted, bnt intimating that S olltlcs should be laid aside and men elected to to legislature who would favor thn submission of n prohibition amendment. Mrs. Mori wether, Mrs. Saxon and other ladles were prominent In tho meeting. Tho officers elected for tho ensuing year were: President, JoH. Fnssoll; first vice president, J. H. McDowell, Union City; second vice president, Hon. T. A. Sykes, colored, Nashville; third vice president, Colo nel Lewis Tillman, Shelbyville; treasurer, the Safety Trust and Deposit company; secretary, Dr. A. B. Warterfisld, Union City. There was a large attendance, and one of the notable feature* was the partleiponce of the colored delegate*, three of .tho beat speechca being mode by T. A. Sykes, C. S. Smith and Mrs. Sarah Early, *11 colored. The following gentlemen were (elected os the executive committee of the Tennessee temper ance alliance, to serve until the mooting of ths noxt annnal convention: Hon, J. H. Fasscl, chairman, Columbia; Colonel E. W. Cole, Goo. W. Armstead, Tho*. D. Fite, Captain T. G. By man, J Horton Fall, I. A. Sykes, Nashvilfs; Louis G. Munford, Clarksville; Hon. Thos. B. Johnson, Franklin; Hon. J. H. McDowell, Un ion City; Stokely D. Hays Jackson; W. A. Mc- Teer, Marysville; Louis Tillman, Jr., Knox ville; Jos. A. Anderson, Bristol. J. A. F. Wa- terfleld, of Union City, secretary, to expected to commence the work about March first. He wUl move to Noahville, and give his whole time to the work of organising the state. Ho to * moot capable and strong man, and will do large good for the canse. It to reported in Chattanooh* that tho ownere of the Bead honee property are having plans drawn for e total remodeling of the hotel, at an expense of $75,000 to $100,000. The hotel will be modo one of the largest in the eoutb. A letter woe received in Chattanooga Friday which at Isat explains tys mystery surround ing the ruthless murder of the two supposed burglars at Knoxville Junction early thto month. It was supposed they were two noto rious crooks. The fatter to from Colonel Ham ilton, editor of the Wooster, Ohio, Democrat. He writes that one of the morderedanen waa George Hamilton, hi* brother, tho ion of tho ex-county auditor of Wooster county, and a young man prominently connected In that lo cality. Ittoprepased to prosecute the men who •hot them down. In the supreme court Saturday, Chief Justice Deaderlck delivered an opinion atfinningthodeath S ntcnce of Jim Baxter, colored, who murdered rt. Martha Lane In Lebanon, last year. Tho Judge pronounced sentenoe upon the delhndant. Baxter remained calm throughout the delivery of the sentenco, lie still asserts that ho to Innocent. Tho crime for which Baxter was convicted to as follows: On tho night orseptembor 12th, whilo Mrs. Mirth* Lane, a widow living In Lebanon, was alone tn her house, sho was attacked and tear fully beaten by unknown persons. The instrument used Tor the assault wm a thur pound rock with which Mrs. Lane was struck over the bred until her skull was crushed In ard di brains ootid out. Immediately after tho commission of the deed tho perpetrators tied. Mrs. Lons crawled to the door of ihs servant's house in the rear of ths yard and S ve the alarm. Physicians were summoned and e wounds werodressed. Mrs. Lane lingered In a semiconscious condition until the 28th of Septem ber, when she died. Prior to her death Jim Bax ter, the deienrfant, wss suspected, arrested, taken before Mis. Lana and Identified by her M her os- nallant. .* The following day Andrew Church, colored, wai Mine cell. While there church and Baxter gavs a signal of danger before Baxter In getting the money. Baxter waa found guilty of A and —*— murder in the lint degree and aeutenoed to be hanged. Judgment wm vacated by appeal to the ropreme court, and the oa*e waa argued before that tribunal one day laat week. * found guilty of murder In tho first mitigating circumstances, and rente ijenitcntiary for life, lie la now In • NOT FRBDIE FREEMAN. Czdaxtowh. Ga., February 25.—[Special.]— A hoy supposed to be Freddie Freeman, who la accused of the horrible murder of his little companion, Aleck Mauldin, in Tocoon, wm brought here today from Flan creek, whore he was arretted this morning by J. W. Brewer, and wm lodged in the county jail, awaiting identification. On his arrival hen today it waa found that ho was tha soma boy who yostardsy pasasd through Ccdartown and who was at tho time suspected of being Freddie Freeman; Ho stopped at tha residence of Dr. L. & Ledbetter about noon and asked for son sitting to cat, raying that be was tired sod hungry and would out wood to pay for a lunch. Ha waa given something to oat sod soon left the prem ises, not being asked to areasanssts for his metl at tho woodpile. Shortly after he left Dr. Ledbetter remarked tohtewifo that tha waa about fifteen longdistance. Bat the thought was dismiss ed aeon idle one, and Dr. Led bettor started down town. Us had baea on tha streets but* few min utes when he met Deputy Sheriff J. B. Nixon. "I beltova 1 Yoon* Toccoa murderer Just new,” said Hr. Nixon. replied tho doctor, recnlUn 0 strange boy’s visit t>his boose a few minutes before, and being stein imptesrad with tha thought that it waa Fred- die Freeman. "Ha coma to my aOaa,” eeatinaad the dsnatr sheriff,''from thedirection of rear horSoIid asked for work. As soon os I saw hire I woo struck with tha similarity of his nryiaiqnin to tho description of tho young Toceoamurderer ablished in tost Sunday's Constitution.” hen ths hoy was brought hers Cor confine ment, all baltovad that Fraddle Freeman was safely lodged and would bo mod* to (newer helm law for the horrible murder rt his child companion. Tho excitement however ns soon abated by the discovering that tha tar wra not ths on* pectcdone. Ha wos’identiflcd as another per son; on unfortunate little fellow who hod storied on »tramping expedition, «Dd„wns re- GEORGIA NEWS. A Serf ou. Difficulty la Irwta-Burnsd to Dm til-A Brldcarcom'j IBarrow Xacipo — Poisoned Dy Canned Berries—Strange Dsstb of a Kale — Ksd-Stoncs — Other Bows. Lost Saturday in Irwin county, • difficulty took place between Sam Walker. and four of tho Dormlneyi, and looked for a time as though it wonld be a serious one. Late In tho evening tho Dormlneyi started for thoir homes, and a short time after WaUcer loft Tno Dor- mlneyi before reaching home earns to a branch and stopped and waited tho arrival of Walker. Just after crossing the branch ho low thoDor- minoys standing in and near ths road. Jake Dorminey seized Walker's horse bridle and stopped him. Walker knew they Intended him harm and drew hto pistol and attempted to shoot Dorminey, bnt he kept tho horse between himself and the pistol. At thto timo Css Dorminey, who was standing in the rear of Walker, spoke and sold, "Don’t shoot my brother.” Walker immediately presented hto pistol at Css, who, having hto ptotol ready, fired, the ball taking effect In -Walker’s nock. Walker wonld havo fallen from hto bqggy had ho not boon prevent ed hy a yonng man who was sitting in the buggy with him. Warrants were Issued and tho Dormineys wore arrested, with two othor portico implicated, and all have given bond. Walker Was not scrionalyhnrt, and to able to attend to hto business. Thodlfflculty grewont of some misunderstanding about a read, and it to feared to not yet ended. Six big black bears have beta killed In Co- buttah mountains in the tost two months. The mountains are aid to bo frill of them thto Several members of tho family of Hr. J<_ I. Waite, in Dodge county, becoming suddenly Ul at once and the ante timo on Monday tost, created sufficient excitement to aronso their suspicions, when an investigation disclosed the fact that the canso originated from eating some canned huckleberriea. They are at a lo decide as to whether the berries were render ed poisonous through freexlng, or there were poisoned berries among the huckleberries which they purchased during the berry sea son; probably tho totter. About ten days ago Mrs. Mary Roberson, living at Mr. Loldy l’anlk’s, In Irwin county, while stooping down to Ughtber pipe,her dress caught file and sho was seriously if not fatally burned. After discovering tho fire sho started for the front of the house screaming, “I am bnrnlngto death.” Mr. Paulk, who was in tho Jot, hearing her screams, went to her as sistance and fortunately met her near tho water shelf, and there bolus a full bucket of water,tho flame wu immediately extinguished. When the fire was first seen by Mr. Faalk,-th* flume was rising three foot above tho victim’s bead. Mrs. Roberson lies in a critical condi tion. A colored girl, about sixteen yean of ago, daughter of Bon Johnson, who lives on the faint of Judge Hendloy V. Bayne, In DeKolb county wm dangerously burned a few days ago by the careless handling of • bottle of tnipentine. Sho wa saluting her father in the field, and cut her band with a cotton stalk. When oho went to tho hotue to dinner, sho gat the battle of turpentine to apply aome of It to the wound, and was holding it near the fire place, pouring it on a cloth, when sho spilt some of the turpentine In tho fire, and it blazed np and caught her cloth, and before oho could extinguish it, she was dangerously burned, and it to thought will dlo from the effect of the burns. Mr. J. M. Parker, of Cntonle, Harris county, reached Columbus Saturday with his bride from Mobile, where he was married Thursday of last week. Ho took apartments at tho Ferry honse. Thto afternoon at 2 o'clock as ho wss preparing to leave for home, ho became suddenly III. Mr. George Rid dle, ono - of tho proprietors of tfc* hotel, aw Parker when he turned faint, and ran to him and askad what was tha mat ter. HerepUed, “I am rick.” Mr. Biddle •eked If he cohld do anything for him, and Bilker answered, “No; I am going to die.” He was token to a room and Dr. Cameron wm summoned. He dtooovered that Parker hod taken strychnine. A vial of sti7cbhino was found in his pistol pocket, with a piece of chewing tobaceo, and tho supposition to that it bad leaked from the viol on the tobacco. Parker wm not at first in a condition to give an intelligent account of the affair, but be noways tbst ho bought the strychnino shout two years ago to kill crows that wore destroying hto corn. The pants hs bad just put on today for tho tint time since he hut used the strychnine. News comes from near 8ylvanto of the strange death of a mule. A negro boy was driving along in a cart, when a largo pine tree, which had been banting for some time at the hose, suddenly fell across the animal cruthlng him to death. Tho boy, otrango to say, wm not hurt. The reports of mod dogs In thto state have developed the Information that there are two mod-stones near Camilla. They are now in the possession of Dr. B. G. A. Cull, who ob tained them from one of the pioneers of this county. The old man from whom they wore obtained by Dr. C. ays they have boon In hto father’s fkmily about eighty years, end he tolls some wonderful stories of their curative powers. In that part of the county where theso stones have been there •re many rattlesnakes, and It' ha been principally In coring the bites ofthoa that the stones have been used, though they have boon called into requisition to are the lives of people bitten by mod dogs. Ono of tho stone* to In ship* an oblate spheroid and weighs nrarly three an aces; the other to oval In shapo and weighs not qoito two ounces. Four hose cuts from Chins trees grown on Mr. J. n. Parnell’s ptoco, near Wart Point,have been recently shipped to Charles Stewart Par nell, Galway, Ireland, whl tured into Bat furniture, Mr. Jama C. Wade, of Bonks comity, to tho great crow killer of thto state. Oa Friday he mixed np some com In strychnine and pat it oat in hto field, and In thirty minute* time be returned to where he had strewn tbs corn and found thirty-one dead crows. Seventeen hundred hands are now at work on tho Macon and Covington railroad. The Pizrce-Weaveb Cast—Judge Loch- ran* bM gone to Texas to personally Investi gate tho Pierce-Waver mystery. He to not satisfied with tha present settbment of tho M’COY CAUGHT. Supposed to nave Killed Deputy Marshal Kellatt. James McCoy, the supposed murderer of Deputy Marshal W. D, Kellett, to now ssfely confined in Fulton oounty Jail. At the time thto efficient and brave officer was aosassluated, United States Marshal Nolms aid he “wonld oaptnro tho murderer if he stayed shove the ground,” and ho ha nowjful- fiUed that promise. Ever since bis effort on Lookoat mountain to arrest the perpetrators of this fool deed, the marshal has left no stone unturned to secure their arrest. To Deputy Marshal U. C. Garrtoon, one of the shrewdest and beat men in the depart ment was assigned the duty of ascertaining the whereabouts and watching tho movements of James McCoy, and much credit Is duo the officer for the efficiency and UNXIBINO ENERGY with which ha hM executed tha trait imposed. Mr. Garrison worked the matter qnietly and when anything of Intorsrt developed report ed to Marshal Noting. When every thing wm ready he unfolded to the marshal everything, and Monday the marshal toft Atlanta, accompanied by Deputy Marshals H. C. Garrison, In Camp bell, E. C. Murphy, M. W. Scott, D. O. Haines J. D. Wllkenon, and of the Internal revonuo service W. H. Chapman, W. W. Colquitt and J. P. Chisholm. The party arrived at Canton, in Cherokee county, about dork, where they were met by Deputy Marshal T. W. Kellogg. After a sumptuous rapper at the totter gentleman’s home, the party mounted honee, provided by him, and he accompanied them to the MoCoy settlement. ARRIVIXa THERE ABOUT MIDNIGHT. The party determined to moke a thorough search of the promisee of James McCoy’s father and brothers, where they had every reason to believe the former was concealed. On nearing the house# of Elijah McCoy and Bim MoCoy, which ore about two hnndred yards apart, Marshal Nelms requested Revenue Agent Chapman to take W. W, Colquitt and Depnty Marshals Campbell and Garrtoon to tho sec ond house and moke March there, while he wonld take the othen and surround and moke search at the hottio of Elijah MoCoy. The houses being eo near together that notoe could be heard from ono to tho other oMlly, Chapman's party hod to go upon a fast ran to tho second house to keep the alarm from being riven there by the marshal's party from the first house. The men worked carefully bnt rapidly. At the first home, tho home of Elijah McCoy, Marshal Nolms and hto man wero not long in finding ont that some one was at home. Elijah and John MoCoy and Martin V. Crnnloy met the officers with drawn knives, and swore they wonld kill the first man who laid hands upon them. Thto didn’t soon the officers to hurt, and wtthont mneh ceremony the three men were arrested. While thto performance wm being enacted, a bloodier affirir was taking place at the home of Jim MoCoy. Tho font officers who.had gone to tho houso surrounded it, and while Depnty Marshal Garrtoon was TRYING TO ErYECT AN ETRANCI at the door and holding a conversation with somo one on the inside, Deputy Marshall Campbell walked toward itamall bam mode of pine poles a few yard! from the house. When he reached it be discovered two men standing jast behind one corner. One of tho men held a pistol in hto hand, and thinking it might ho some of his own party who had gotten there without hto seeing them, he approached and Mked: “Who to that?” ”1 will show yon, d n yon,” and the men who held tho pistol raised it and pointed it at the oflloer. Mr. Charm James McCoy, and raisin; give in, or he would sent com juice was not used. McCoy stepped back ward, closely followed by the offlocr. Tho far mer roll aver a fence, and the officer went aver S ill mail after him, bath landing In tho mid- oof the read. In tho fall Mr. Usupbell dropped hto gun and It wMdtochsrgod. While both were rising (from the ground M’CCY ATTEMPTED TO SHOOT Campbell in ths free with htoptotol,bntCemp- boll grasped the ptotol In hto right hand,-and M he dltl so the desperate moonshiner pulled the trigger and scuts ballet through Camp bell's finger, Both men sprang for tho gnn which toy upon tho ground, and McCoy got it, bnt Campbell prevented him from nslng it by dosing in upon him and throwing him to the grouod. The firing, togotbor with tho noise mado by tho souffle notified the men at the honse that then wm troablo In the camps, end they immediately ran to hto assistance. When they readied tho ocene of oonfllct thoy found Oampbdl holding McCoy on tho ground with both bandsclaspnl tightly around hto throat. MoCoy’a tOngno was lolling out abont three Inches, and It looked m though ho wm ready * ---- - “-‘.themalar the state. He will be tried in the Unitod States court for interfering with an officer. THE STORY RETOLD. When Deputy Marshal Kellett wm killed be had in ehsrae a man named Calvin Young, whom he had arrested and was taking to Val ley Head. While crossing Lookout mountain, near Watt Ellison's, at the ford of I.it’Je river, bo wm shot through the left long and killed. His hat WM pierced by five buckshatand his hair wm grazed. Tiro ball which g lased - through his body was out a 44-callbro rifle, showing that mors than one shot had been fired. Kellett wm for • number of years sheriff of Chattooga county, and was at thn timo of hto death Jailor of that county. LMtJaly be wm appointed marshal by Captain Nelms, and mode a most efficient officer. Ho was true game and did not fear danger. IULP1LL8 Hit PROMISE. There to a moat Interesting story told ah cat the two men. Ten years ago Kellett attempted to arrest McCtre, and in doing so shot McCoy In the arm. When the surgeon took tho bul let from HcCoy'a arm McCoy sold: ‘Doctor, rive mo that hall.’ For ten years McCoy kept the ball, and throe months ago ho showed it in s crowd of men on Lookoat mountain, re marking Mho did so: ‘Bora, Bill Kellett put that 1*11 Into me ten yean ago, and I will nover dlo satisfied until I plant it book Into hto carcass.’ That Is a wild country up there. The people raise no crops, hut in the rugged wilds of the mountains, they hunt and sell what they kill to the valley people for corn and the like. McCoy to a wonderful shot and tho gnn ho used I have now In'my possession to a brooch loading rifle currying a forty-four caliber car tridge. _ It to said that McCoy la ra expert In tognl Ing hto gun, told him to nd him to a land where Only a Chicago Husband Would gay So. From tha Chicago Nows. “For whom are yoa wsaring that wood on yonrhat, PodsooT' "Hywlfc.” 'laihedMu)?' 1 “No, hot shots pretty sick and I thought I’d pot - MARRIED IN GEORGIA. Mr J. H. Winters and Miss Llzzts It. Ball, Colum- jus Mr. J. A. Appcrson and Miss Don L. Porter, Atlanta—.Mr.W.O. Baa and Mtos Claude Taylor, Monno eoontr..__Mr. W. B. Broad Said and Mia Paula Barney, Macon _Mr. Warren Payne sad Mia Beulah Williams, Acworth Mr. J.M. Broca and Mia Ida Bean, Columbus Mr. A. J. Singletary and Mtos Onto Cook, Blakely Nr. M. L. Stephens and Mia Allto Tote, JObtriea. DIED IN GEORGIA. Mrs. L. E. Bacon, Albany Mr. Prank Bodtord, Macon.—Jadge Michael McCoben, Calnmba< Mrs H. U. Bealell, Atlanta. .Mr. X. H. sueto. Macon Mr. Luke it. Bebarto, Dawson Mr. B. s. Jackacn, Atlanta Mrs. Sarah 8:epan, Colom bo* Mi s Eliza McWilliams, Atlanta Mrs M. A. Fleming, Atlanta.... -Mis. R. J. ruaOlbbon, MBs Carolina Riley, Macon. to Dais in hia checks, but came and tha officer loosed bis hold, McCoy sprang to hto feet and began knocking right and left. The men closed tn on him, and held him whito Dopatv Marshal Garrison pat on tho bandeaffs. Even whilo being handeaffed McCoy aught Garrisun's thumb in hto teeth end bit it severely. He'enned, HAYED L1XB A MADMAN, and told the females to give the moonshiners’ n, so. that they wont come and rescue him. ptotol was picked up on the ground and to in the possession of Bovanue Agent Chap- . One chamber was discharged. Tho notoriety which thto man has bad for being a desperate character was fully tosteined by hto actions daring ths struggle to rrest him. He fought like a mad tiger, and he marshal and the pom with him agree that a party of four or five men coaid not have brought him ont of that neighborhood, for In law than fifteen minntoa six or eight msn col lected there. Even with so formidable a party •a this, every man armed to the tooth, neither McCoy or hto friends were overawed, and In- died wero DZFIAITT TO THK LAST. Who the man with McCoy at tha ham was, to not known, as ho did not terry long when tho fight began. It to believed that It waa Wylie, McCoy’s companion In sin. Upon reaching Canton, Elijah and John McCoy wets released. James McCoy and Cranley were brought on to Atlanta, arriving here at noon yesterday. The two prisoners were carried to the marshal’s office, where they remained for about three hoars. There waa an old warrant against Cranley for lUldt distilling, bnt ss It was more than four years old, the case was nolle pressed. HeOoyfr esse will be heard before Commissioner Haight, Thursday. He will attempt to give bond, and boo sent for hto relatives. HE WOULDN'T TALK. While McCoy ws* in the marshal's office a Constitution man asked bim: “Why did yon mpsw»y and dodge ths offi- ten if you tn innocentr ’ “I didn't roroto bo polled up here. I didn’t kill Kellett and I will be shu to prove it. I have been hounded down and caught and most make the best of It.” McCoy to a tengh looking customer, and has a mean wicked aye. Hto nee to covered with randy beard abont half an Inch long. It ranst bo remembered that Be venae Agents Chapman and Colquitt and Deputy Collector Chidom wet* not required by the deportment to mike this trip, but In view of the difficulty in making tho arrest gladly valnatotred thoir rarvicas. Too ranch praise cannot bo given Mr. Chapman and his co-laborers. Ha ton bran and efficleat officer and reflects credit upon the position bo Ills. Marshal Hslnu load tho man Uka an old soUtor. tt ncu A/e pm/ iwhwi aoiibu ww kiucu, the goverment offered a reward of $500 and tho governor of thto state supplemented it with a reward of $250, for tha apprehsnaton and conviction of the mntdtrers. The men know they bars ths right man, tat the question of reword to another thing. Revenue officers are required to do meh work, and racahrn no extra compensation. The stats reward, If McCoy to convicted, will bo paid. McCoy cannot ho tried in tha United States court fi*r the mtmior of Mr. Kellett, tat ho will be giTtn s trial in tho superior court of get out of ramro. That is the sort of s marksman who was nursing his malice toward the deputy manhal, THE TERROR OF HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, and it to said he had put five men nnder ground. Such was the bloody boast ;he had mads to hto neighbors prior to tho murder of Kellett.’’ McCoy, when he was brought in on Tues day, asked that ho ho sent to Jail and hto trial poatponed until ho could get other Witncaaof here. This was granted, and as stated lie went to jail. He deniea killing Kellett, or shooting at Deputy Manhal Campbell tho night he was arrested. Ho says he nevor did say he wanted to put a bullet in Kollett’s carcaas and that no one can bo produced who will any so in court McCoy claims that he was oa bis way to Atlanta to give himself up when he was arrested. Hto story in regard to tho ar rest to in direct oontnidlotion to tho ono giv en by the revenue men, who palled him. He claims that ho will be ablo to establish hto in- noccnco when ths esse to heard. GRANT’S MONUMENT. New York, February 87.—[Special.]—Tho fight in tho management of the Grant monn- moot fund Is hitter and nowhere near Its and, so far as con bo discerned. Contributions political pboso, and bears upon tho forthcoming campaign for United States sena tor In this state. Ex-Governor Alonso 1L Cor nell to chairmen of tho executive committee, and from tho outset he has insisted upon entire control. It was he who fixed upon $1,000,030 ss the sum to be raised, and hto warn tho methods of solicitation employed. The leader of the op position in plain sight to Bichard T. Grooner, tho secretary, but behind him to a strong back- &bcro to no reason to doubt that tho real promoter of acrimony agalnat Cornell to Cor nelius N. Bliss, a member of tho executive committee of twenty and rival candidate for the senate; nor that ex-Prealdent Arthur and ex-8enator Koscos Cockling, both also In tho senatorial field, are aeparatelyand yet In a cer tain sort[ef union helping theoualaught. Arthur to a committeeman, bnt hat not attended a meeting since Cornell took command. The motive still more potent against Cor nell than political rivaly, however, to raven go desired hy sufferers from the famous blind pool, tho story of which has never been pub lished to ita conclusion. In thto part of tho warfare Jsy Gould and hto partner, Sidney Dillon,have been active. Both Gould and Dillon wore heavy lorars through the blind pool, which was a Bind entrusted to Cornell at hto solicitation, and on hto assurance that tharo ware big profits in an investment ho was ablo to make with It It proved to to s speculation In American Dtotriot telegraph stock, and there to a widespread belief that • certain man unloaded his holdings on tho pool at high Tho operations, and tho lorara homo by so many Influential persons, wero reported amid mni-n scandal at the time, but the after eonso- qaencee, taking years to develop, have been added to tho talc through death, otter rain and flight. Arthur B. Johnson, banker, of Utica, shot himself In hto office. Edwin Q. Halbert, a merchant of Binghamton, woe mode • bankrupt, and farced to flee to the (hr west, a man of middle ago, then to begin life anew. Aero , Chora, tha richest farmer in Otsego county, bad to surrender every cent’s worth of bis belongings to satisfy his credit- and to now a dispirited man. Hotchkiss, of the once celebrated tanking firm of Bnraam ft Hotchkiss, Mow ont hto brains it hto hums In Yonkors. Koscoo Conkllng was a frightful sufferer. Before the blind pool he was pos sessed of • rang tank seoount. Hows* obliged to draw It oil ont and pay $125,000 to make good hU|lndorsemcnt of tho[notcs of Arthur B. Johnson. This was a huger ram than ho owned, and it was to thto calamity that he re ferred when, on taking up the practice of the law in thto city, ho raid: ”1 am working now to pey my ante. I hope to havo a lit tle mono,' my own again in a few Glva tea Fair Trial. Abont twenty years ago I dtooovered a lit tle sore on my cheek and the doctors pro nounced it canon, I have triad a number of physicians bnt without receiving any perma nent relief. Among the nnmbor were ono or two specialists. Tho mcdlcino they applied was like fire to tho sore, causing intense pain. I saw a statement In the pipers telling what S. B. B. had done for othen similarly afflicted, I procured some at one*. Before 1 had used tha second bottle tho neighbors canid notion that my cancer was healing np. Hy general health hod been tad for two or throe years, I bad a backing cough and xplthlood continu ally. I bsdVlso s severe pstn in my breast. After taking six bottles of & 8.8. my cough left me and I grew stouter than I bod been for savcral years. My cancer hra healed osar tat a little spot shoot tho stoo of a half dime, and It to rapidly dlrappearing. I would ad- vise every ono with cancer to glva 8.8.8. a fair trial. Mbs. Nancy J. McConaughey, Ashe Grovo, Tippecanoe Co., Ind. Feb 10, ’td. Letter from Mr. J. V. 31. Morris. WATKINSVILLE, February 13, I860.—Gratia-. Ben,—It to due yon to ray that I think I am entirely well or eczema after having token Swift’s Specific. I have bean troubled it very little ht my face since last si the begtrning of cold weather last f a alight appearance, tat went aj never relumed. 8. S. 8. no dm/K .. at least it pntay system S^good condition, and I got well. It also benefited my wife greatly In ease of sick headache, and made a perfect can of a breaking ont on my littlo three year old daughter tort rammer. JZMEEV. M. Morris. Keecued From Death. William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass., rays t In tho fill of 1879 I was taken wi' slsbdiso or Loses followed by a severe I lost my appetite and flesh, and wssraihtined to my bed. In 1B77 I wss admifted to tbs Hospital, The doctors ssld I hade holo In my lung as big aFe half dollar. At one time a report, want around that I was dead. I gars ns hope, bnt a friend told me of DR. WILLIAM JfALL’B BALSAM FOB THE LUNGS. I got a hollle, when, to my surprise, I commented to feel better, and to-day I feel better than for three yean put. MM Unprecedented Success STAY PROLONGED UNTIL MARCH 15TH,. 485 PATIENTS 485 UNDER TREATMENT. 93 TURNED AWAY 93 PRONOUNCED INCURABLE. Dr. Wilbur, Specialist, Treats fiucfc*sMly Chronic and Iotjr standing dbh Macs, inch m Dfteuea at Um HMd, Throat and Lung*. Liver, Kidney and Heart Complaint*. In- Trtcralo I)lKca.«cs of tJio Stomach (thathave dotted all othor.method«.) Uio«o fcnrAil dlacaaea of the (Mnnf from wutmrpM to, Fit*, Foyer, Horec, ; and SUIT Joint*, Hhou- a, Diseased JIouq, Do- Trlnela*. Bcalil Head, ■||ill-, Nasal Polypus, to Cola, Winter Goughs, Diabetes. All may be - Tar ad- othex cufiar to iheir' MX, can"eonmltthodbctorwlf. every assurauco of speedy relief and permanent TO ffi.d.ctorranl« mlarly Invites all caaoa that hare been given up by other phjndclan*. Ifron are doing well under the care of your own physician do not ceU cm me. a* our province 1* to treat those who cannot And relief clsowbcro. Consultation and Examination FREE! Tho Doctor oan bo Consulted from 10 a, m. to O p. m. TESTIMONIALS Mr. Henry Singleton, of Hacon, wa* paralysed In both limb* fbr tlx month*. Ho wa* carried to Dr. Wilbur’s office in aback. He took Dr. Wilbur's treatment, and Is now all well and work* on ono of hla drays every day. Mrs. Mary Smith,’ r 1 liiLiirffiblo ffin^. of Dr. „ went clear to tfashyllle, Ttnn., to havo him’ treat her. In flour months ahe was a well woman. Bertha A., daughter of Valentino Kahn, of 111 Cotton Avcnuo, Macon, was sink eight yearn, wm treated by eminent doctors of Maoon, Atlanta and f Verona, Mis*., wm pro- oounty, Tran., was os dear ar a post f; r -,... J Mr. C. Ij, lu-iiMin, of I..’xIin;ton, KJ., wi Ibuitora fSOIS. Ml. frttwr ws. . pliy-li mn, »na took bim loses som. very eminent II. ]>■» but did Kn no good. Dr. WUbur made him sit right la a Bs. F.*A. Nlchol, *82 South Hnmmorstrcct, Huh- f\e~bad backache, bearing down, all gone, Uttd il y.-nrw, am! wwVur. «1 In four to tho embar Itomo and Chat* atorrlblo com of her breath offonslvo. She and tried Mm c&Urrn and healod her arm they contain two 2ccnt ttampai Tnoso above are only a fuw of the many testimo nial* obtained by Dr. Wilbur all over Kentucky Tcnncwioe and Georgia. dAw-lm Sw-. nEOROJA, RABCN COUNTY.—AGREEABLE TO VI an order of the Court of Ordinary of said conn- * will be sold on tho tint Tueada/ln April, 1*80, ■“— ~—‘-houso door In Clayton, the tol* land*, to-wlt: I/>ts No. 71, In tho t originally Habenham. but now ity, and No. VJ in the fifth dintrlct, in of aale, to I bo hlsheftt bidder. lyof George W. Flncannon.de- tltlc*, for the benefit of the beirs Terms madu known on day of JAMKH J. PI SC AN NON, Guardian of the minors of said deceased. February20, U26. mart—wkyii caht corner of lot of land No. 202 In the Mh district of laid county, and I will paia upon Mid applica tion on the first Monday in April, 18*0. Given under Cl ,Km *«•* M, I Ora. M.Latah ft W.tor, _ I SIgWAtk IL.Otari.Mlt.Otto. oil thto pqpsr.mart-wkySns -1EORGIA, FAYRTTK COUNTY—JNO. T. JACK- YJ non ha. mppiteO for extmnllon of peisonsltjn and sotting apart rad valuation of homestead, ana I will pasa upon tbs soma at to o'clock o-m. oo Um 20th;diyof Starch, 1880,st myoOce. This y«bnir^ ~ T. M. FRANKLIN, Ordinary. Bhe ha* black head eye* and under tide ofo«*. her body **_wnne. naa teen gone nearly a month. W. I. Heyward. Ja^ob a drugstore, Atlanta, Ga. wayu . L