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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’. 'ATLANTA. GA..’ TUESDAY MARCH 9 1886
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ThB Ildllor’a Trouble*
We wish every one of our readers could
•pend a week watching the editor who
write, these line#, and whose duty it is to
make up the Weekly CONSTITUTION.
Think what a task is hie. With 03,00(1
copies of the paper Issued this week, and lire
readers to each taper, there are 315,000
readers. This enormous family lie has to
provide for. In the twelve pages of the
paper he baa to get something that will
please every reader, and nothing that will
offend any render. He knows that every
line thst is printed will be gravely nnd
sharply scrutinized in nearly s hundred
thousand homes, end that he will lie praised
or blamed, as the case mey be. If the read
er knew how he studied end pandered nnd
thought over his work, few wonld be swift to
blame. Many a night, long after midnight
he elts with his proof before him, coodeitsing
this article, changing that one, throwing one
ont and ordering another iu. Often he says:
“nil article to too trilling,” or "this one loo
eerions,” or “this one too violent,” or ‘‘this
one too dull,” nnd changes each of them a
doun limes nnd finally leaves thorn out
altogether. During the week, at church, nt
the Chester, at dinner, in bed, "the weekly”
It before hit mind, and he reviews in
memory ail its features. “Is there
enough humor in this world V” he asks him
self, “isn't Congress too long,” or “aretho
war-stories good ones,” "Is the paper clean,”
‘‘lias Bill Arp’s letter come," “to there
enough of that last murder,” “to the farmer's
corner fnll end interesting,” “to there
rnongh love anil romance and honaewifery to
please the ladles,” and s thousand other
questions that rack hie brain nnd almost
drive him distracted. On Monday morning
at 3 o'clock—really Sunday night—tho
whole force goea to work making op tho
weekly. Every page to watched, every line
it scanned, ont article is lifted out and is left
over thel e fresher article may get In—every
body In the office stands by, offers advice and
help, end when at last the press tarns and a
new weekly to born a hundred sharp eyes
(ran the lint copy that comes damp from the
folder, end the editor goes off to pray that it
is all right nnd wholesome and clean and in-
strut live, and then gets himself together to
alert on the next week's paper.
Thank Heaven, we have a kind and gen-
«rous army of readers that appreciate the
eltnationand hold our bauds up. Their
praise la eweet and Inspiring. Their united
work In behalf of tho paper nerves us to
stronger eflbrt. Lost month they lent us in
nearly D,000 new subscriber* This month
they tent over 3,400 the lint week, and will
doubtless reach 10^000 for the month. With
50,000 good men and women at work wa wilt
toon reach 100,000 subscribers. Wont yon
help to bring it along?
Tun "black” spots me lieing rapidly
wiped out of the prohibition map of Ueore
gl* Of the iloxen remaining counties where
on early cocktail may be bad without
trouble, several are now agitating petitions
for elections on the question of “the sale,"
Tim plan of computing time so that 13 p.
m. shall 1m 34 o’clock, is widely approved by
railway officials In theory, nnd tho hope to
entertained that tho people wilt accept tho
new plan. It wonl.l certainly have a ten
dency towards rendering railroad schedules
intelligible. The western division of the
Canadian l’adfic, 1,453 miles long, has re
cently adopted the plan, and the experiment
may spread eastward.
ratling Ueorgin to tho Front.
We print elsewhere the premiums offered
by Messrs. Geo. W. Scott ft Co., for the beet
field crops raised by Georgia fanners for
lfc'6.
The list to a liberal and comprehensive
one, and should provoke wide competition.
Who ran estimate the tvciictlte that would
come to Geoigia if one thousand of her Air
men In a hundred different counties should
contest for these premium* Barely two
hundred burners hart been enrolled in the
competition for the peat tiro year* And
yet they have established beyond cavil that
< rueful farming and moderate fertillaing will
produce on Georgia lands from two to three
boles of cotton to the acre, and from seventy-
five to n hundred end twenty bushels of
corn to the acre Wherever one of these men
has planted he_haa proved an apostle of In
tensive firming to hie neighborhood, and a
standing example of what ran be done on
small farms well Glled. Collectively they
have carried the name and the fluneof Geor
gia over the nnion, and done more to adver
tise the possibilities ol her soil than any
dotrn state lain ever held within her limit*
Suppose now these two hundred premium
farmers were reinforced this year by 1,000ne w
contestants, and that in every county in Geor
gia from live to ten patches of one to five
acra each were set aside to show what our
old red hills will do when they are given
half a chance. Would we need, after that,
northern farmers to tell at bow see should
run our firms? Would not a new and bat-
Ur system of firming be adopted? Does any
believe that Mr. Truitt end hie rivals who
have found by actual experience that they
ran raise three bales of cotton to the acre with
little more expense than one bale to three
sent, will ever go bock to the latter plan ?
Will not they end their neighbors learn th.it
It is better and cheaper to raise fifty bales
on fifty acres nnd put a hundred acres iu
other crops, then to (arm >o slovenly thst
it will require the whole hundred and fifty
•crce to produce the fifty hate* It tank
over 3,000,000 acres of Georgia land in last
to raise 800,000 bake of cotton. Huppov.
the cotton hid been raised on 1,U00,000 acre,
and the other 3,Out),WO had ban put down
in grass** or diversified into other crop.,
lie state would hive ban miUfcms of dol
lars richer. That la just the result the
Scott competitions ore driving for. It to jnet
what they will reach, if they provoke the
wide and earnest competition we may reo-
aonsbly expect,
A Negro Register of Deeds.
When Resident Cleveland entered the
white house be went in with a fixed and
positive policy. He has stood by this policy
with tho stordinees and inllexibUity of a
man who believes he to a men of destiny.
The appointment of • democratic negro to
take the piece of register, of deeds in Wash
ington, until now held by Frederick Doug-
ln»* n republican negro, la simply a develop
ment of the president's policy. It to bat a
step beyond the reappointment of I'earson,
the republican, but non-partisan postmaster
of New York.
Prom the time the Erie connty sheriff be
come mayor of Buffalo, and the mayor of
Bnffido became governor of Hew York, and
tho governor of Hew York became president
of the United fitatei, the same self-reliant
personality has dominated followers, cliques,
and parties, blazed out its own course, and
walked steadfastly therein. The democratic
party baa differed with President Cleveland
on many questions, and baa raised consider
able clamor about It. Tho record shows
that it has stirred him from his fixed and
chosen convictions no more than the languid
September breezes shake Slone mountain
from its base.
We confess to not only admiration for tbe
president’s unqnalling courage, but to confi
dence in his statesmanship and fuitli in his
destiny. Before hit nomination wo urged
that, Mr. Tiiden having withheld bis nsme,
the hope of democratic victory restart in the
common sense, the prestige and tho record
of Mr. Cleveland. The course of tho cam
paign and its results convinced as that no
other man could have secured the twelve
hundred odd votes that gave Hew York to
tho democrats. The man who organized
victory out of defeat to surely entitled to pa
tient hearing at the hands of his party.
Many of us differ with him on insny points
of party policy. It is too early yet to judge
of even the poinla of difference. When a
year or so has passed, and tiro policy of tho
president has so developed that it may 1»
judged as n whole, sod lias been passed upon
in otate elections, it will then ire time
enoogh for democrats to seriously pat thorn-
selves in opposition to tbe bead of the party.
The appointment of one black man to fill
the office of another block man In Washing
ton, to simply an incident, in the unfolding
of a policy that was as fixed as the stars,
when Hr. Cleveland was made president.
That it will not be pushed beyond the point
of defining a general policy, nnd thereby
made irritating or insulting, is demonstrated
l>y the fact that within the past month a
colored postmaster has been replaced by a
white one in Athens, and n colored collector
replaced by a white one in this city.
Sir. Maine on tire South.
In the second volume of Mr. Blaine’s Irook,
which to by the way the most brilliant book
yet written by an American politician, we
And tho following allusion to the action of
tho south immediately alter tho war:
“With all the adrentaiee of old association and
la mnakorlesa Instances of kindly relation with the
gssSMdgsst esunaus:
merit neccMre to win the negroes and bind them
closely to theft Interest, In the new conditions
which emancipation hod crested. Of the evil ro-
suits that Hewed from the contest now about to an-
sue-e contest thst bed many elements of provoca
tion end of wrong on troth aMca-ou of tho most
remarkable features was the complete control with
which the white man from the north, ontlre
strangers to the negro, to bla habits end to his prej
udices, to readily obtained over him. The late
■lavemasters dtd not tdapl themselves to the new
situation. They fare way to repining and regret
ting, to sulking and to artier, to rsaenlment end re
venge, end thereby km e great opportunity for
Mnalny together the two new In those Ueiofiym-
lathy sod confidence which mast bo maintained
os an Indispensable condition ofnnwperlty, or even
of domestic order snd tho reign o? lew In tho south
ern state* Event* as they developed In the stir-
I re that followed, were but e
lust of original blunder on
wlilies which In affaire ol
orso than a crime."
We assert without ftar of contradiction
that no two races were ever thrown together
under such aggravating circumstances, and
worked out of tbe crisis with lees temporary
collision nnd less prejudice, than the whits
end black races of tho eoutlr. Consider the
circumstance* Tho whilst hod been beaten
in war, their homes had been destroyed,
their properly taken from thorn, their forme
desolated. Tho negroes were given n sudden
freedom end inflamed with the memortat
and the sense of long generations of stovo-
hood. Between the races thus unhappily,
hot and passionate, was a horde of wretched
yankee adventurers who taunted the whites,
misled the blacks, and plundered both. Tur
bulence and conflagration was at once the
opportunity and the harvest of these sutlers
and thieves, and wherever smouldering riot
needed a spark to give it dame their caaniag
end devilish hands were reedy to touch it
off.
In spite of all this, In epita of tho trying
cirenmetanrce surely never surpassed in his
tory, and the Intervening and nnscrnpnlone
agencies surely never eqnaled in mischief
and malignity, the two races emerged from
tho years of trial with nothiog more than
cestui collisions, and each holding the sub
stantial respect and sympathy of the other.
Thus respect and sympathy between the
whites and blacks of the sooth will be main
tained, unless the desperate exigencies of
Mr. Btoine and his follosrera farce its sacri
fice on the altar of political greed and sec
tional prejudice.
The President, the Senate and Civil
Service ISefhrm.
The readers of Tin Constitution have
hod ample opportunity to digest President
Cleveland’s recent message to the senate in
regard to the righto and prerogatives of tbe
executive in the matter of removal* The
message covers the whole ground, and, while
its arguments ere unanswerable, there to no
doubt that the administration hoe been
pieced in a false position by its efforts to give
a mugwnmpton interpretation to the civil eev-
vice law.
The civil service law is not, os has been
claimed, a democratic measure.' Though it
was introduced by Mr. Pendleton and sup-
j or ted by * gyvat many democrat*, it was
written by Dnrmau B. Eaton, who to to the
civil rervire humbug what Erida is to'the
Misetoeippi improvement and lha whip rail
way humbugs. Eat.m was not only the
author nf the bill, but he lobbied for it end
it finally became e law while the republi
can* stilt lied control of admire.
Practically the law won a humbug an l it
wet treated at such by tbe republican pirfy.
They treated it in a way that waaomioeatly
wttefactory to honest men of both puller.
Where the law applied, Ms effect wte to
place be nett and efficient republican* in
•" * ' I i * : " • -
office, and tint was tbe extent of so-called
civil service reform eo fitr 08 the republican
party was concerned. When tbe democratic
administration came in, however, it was all
at once discovered that dvil service reform
was something more than dvil service re
form. A vague pull in a mugwump news
paper wee regarded oi more value than the
approbation of tbe people who placed the
administration in power, and the result was
and is that tho offices of the country ore
filled with republicans instead of demo
crats. ;
The very Drat mistake tbe democratic ad
ministration mode was doe to the civil ser
vice law, and it may eventually prove to he
a very costly on* Under tire pledgee mode
by tire president to the George William
Curtis scrub* and mugwumps, it wan impos
sible to inaugurate a democratic administra
tion. It woe impossible to remove a repub
lican office-holder without “cease.” Under
these circumstances it waa necessary to re
sort to a species of juggling quite remarka
ble in[fl* way, and altogether undemocratic.
Mr. Vilas, tiie postmaster general, leaned
confidential circulars to democratic congress
men urging them to formulate charges
against the republican postmasters and other
officials who were holding over. Prompted
by this circnlnr, it to said that a voluminous
mass of stuff has been forwarded to Wash
ington end to nowon file In the department*
It to this mass of charges that the repub
lican senate desires to examine. That body
has no right to it, and it will not be surren
dered by tiro president, but it may ire safely
raid that tbe existence of tbe papers and
documents containing these charges to not
warranted by any reasonable interpretation
of Domnin Eaton’s civil servioe latv. How
much better for tire conntiy nnd the demo
cratic administration would it have been if
tire president had pursued in tiro first in
stance a straightforward coarse—a course
warranted by bis own blunt nature, by cir
cumstances, and by the expectations of tho
people?
What necessity was there for all this jug
gling—this dctective’scrvicc and spy system
—in bringing about the removal of official*
not in sympathy with tho admintotratlon.
Where an executive depends on a political
party for snpport and election, there con bo
no non-political iotropretation of the law;
there can be no non-political administration
of the law. If it to worthwhile to elect a
democratic admintotratlon, it to worth while
to fill the offices with democrats—honest and
efficient democrats, if yon please, hut demo
crats. Under onr institutions, an honest po-
iiUrol partisan of either party to worth more -
to tho country than ten regiment* of mug
wump*, and every sensible person who
knows anything of American history or ap
preciates the genius and spirit of American
institutions will agree with n*
Meantime, it to to be hoped that the atti
tude of tho senate, while it is hopelessly par
tisan and at variance with Its own history,
will teach the prealdent that it is better to
depend on his own party for support than on
the casual puffs that may appear from time
to tlmo in the republican and mugwump
paper* If tire democratic party to worth
any thing at eU it to worth building up in a per
fectly straightforward way. If there is any
thing in democratic principles, these princi
ples era worth striving for by an administra
tion elected by the democratic party.
Honest civil service reform to one thing
end tho ehem civil service reform now in
vogue is another. Honest dvil service re
form under a democratic admintotratlon
looks to the filling ol all offices with honest
and«ffldent democrat*. Honest dvil service
reform under a republican admintotratlon
wonld look to the filling of all offices with
honest and efficient republican* Parties
can do no more than this, and certainly they
can do no lose.
It to the dnty of all democrat! to stand by
the president in hit contest with the repub
lican senate, hut democrats may be excused
if they occasionally turn aside to apeak the
truth on matters affecting tho vital interest
of tbe party.
Or the 5,707 subscriber* whose subscription
expires In March, almost every one is renew
ing. We have not lost one In a hundred. This
1s tbe highest trtbuto they could pay the paper.
Hundreds have brought new subscribers with
them, many of them as many sx ten new oue*
This is tbe wey to build up. Won't overy ono
of 5,707 March subscribers make It a point to
bring a new one. If yon are in a club get a
sew subscriber end take to your club-raleer.
We went to double right up la March. Din’t
forget I
Cotton Seed Oil.
The pooling system has been applied to
cotton seed products, and a cotton oil treat
company organized which to said to control
every good mill west of the Mississippi river
turd folly sixty per cent of th* mills ol tho
retire country. The capital stock of the
company to placed at 830,000,000, of which
about (17,000,000 baa been issned to tho
mills bought by the pool* The plan of tho
piocednrc to as follows: If the officers of the
company decide that a certain Ihctorj should
be subject to pool control, tho owner to ap
proached end invited to Mil his property.
Ifittonnincuiuberednnd in good working
order, he to given certificate* to the amount
of three times the.valne of hto mill. For Ism
valuable property, leas to paid. If the mill
thus bought con be operated with a profit,
the trust company places in it a superinten
dent of its own and take* possession of the
property. From that time on the nrill to ran
aa the company dictate, the ont pnt being
rvgnlated by Uie current price of the cotton
seed product*
Tbe mill owners are glad to Join the syn
dicate, and all hand* art happy, except pos
sibly the formers who have aecd to sell or
the consumer* who desire to bny seed pro
duct* How much the syndicate will aqueete
tie for men remains to be seen. How much
it will interfere with a further development
cf tbe industry remains also to be aeeu. Tho
latest addition to the pooling system may
Ire Irlpfoi all around it its management is
Llu..il, jn.t nnd ihrweing Very lew pxols
1.1 r managed in that way, but we cm at
cat hope tbe new one will prove :m sleep-
on to tbe inlo.
A Marvellous Spendthrift.
Tbe extravagance of rich Americans is in
credible. Cleopatra dissolving a pea l in
Ur morning draught, and l.urollm dining
ob tire bndnt of peacocks and tongues of
nightingale* are faint suggestions of the lux
ury of American millionaire*
About twenty year* ago Mr. Morgan, ■
wealthy railroad contractor, married a sch <o'
teacher. In 1876 he died, leaving her five
million dollars in her own right. A few
months ago she died, and the coming sale of
Per diamonds, bric-arbrac and paintings, hx*
pnt gossip on her track* The disclosures
•re astounding.
She spent 1100,000 for her collection of
orchids, flower* that bid fair to revive tho
tulip mania of Holland. Her conservatory
of these ngiy but fashionable plants brought
only 810,000; so that It cost her 890,000 net
and interest to own them a few month*
Hhe baa one vase for which she paid 815,000.
It is lees than a foot high and is known as
the “peach blow” vas* It was mode iu
1034 in China and the delicate beauty of its
tint baa never been reproduced end perhaps
never will be. She paid $60,000 for a single
picture, $1,995,000 for her collection of 210
pointing* Tbe Tiffanys mode her it solid
silver candelabra at a cost of $24,000, and
her bath-room cost 850,000. She had over
3,000 plates, one set of which made at
Be: res, cost $3,300 a dozen. One single dia
mond in her collection of jewels cost $17,000.
These j figures ore staggering, noth
ing in the most profligate epoch of
Home, nothing in Venice, in Farts, or in
London surpasses them. Not even the im
agination of Dnmoe in depicting Monte
C'rtoto, or of Gautier in describing one of
Cleopatra’s nights can outstrip the actual
accomplishments of this New England school
mistress. A swift and amazing evolution is
this lavish spendthrift from her Puritan an
cestors, who forbid the wearing of gold
brooches and considered a cherry-colored
ribbon an abomination in tbe sight of tho
Lord. Where will this cvolntion end ?
The Apacbea and tho Indian Agents.
Ceronlmo has been hunted down, and al
most driven to a corner, but still he refuses
to commit himself and hto people uncondi
tionally to tbe Indian agents. lie to as
bloodthirsty and crafty nnd cruel ns an In
dian con well be, and he deserves hanging,
and eo doubtless do most of the bucks of his
band ; but the testimony to to tho effect that
they all behaved well as long as they were
honestly treated. When nn Indian agent
robbed them to tho point of starvation they
revolted, nnd every mile of their march was
marked with murders and the destruction of
property. The revolt of 1883 grew out of
the transactions of a dishonest agent, and the
recent revolt was due more to the depreda
tion* of cowboy* then to anything else. The
Indian agent did not properly protect them.
Bnt these facto do not excuse Gcronimo nnd
hto band. They have slaughtered’ innocent
people. They have passed over the white
men who wronged them l nnd killed people
who had done them no injury. They deserve
punishment of tbe eevereet nature, and will
doubtless receive it.
But when Geronimo is out of the way, and
the Apaches exterminated and forgotten,
a new Indian policy should be inaugurated
which does not admit of acta of cruelty and
oppression and dtohoneaty towards these
wards of the nation. The Indian agent needs
retirement as much as tbe Apache* We
need n policy that stopa the support of the
Indiana in idleness, and teaches them step
by etep to cam their own living* As fast
and as far as practicable, land in severalty
ehonld be given them, and they should be
brought np to the methods of tho white*
Local Option In Mississippi.
The Mtoeimippl bouse by a vote of 71 to 31
passed a local option bill, and it will soon go
into operation. The main feature* of tho
bUl ore these: An election in n county to to
be ordered and conducted by the board of
supervisors. Each county to to vote on the
liqnor question every two year* If an elec
tion results in favor of prohibition, tho judg
ment of the people to final for two years; but
if the election goea “wet” then an applicant
for n license must present a petition signed
by twenty-live tax-payenof hto town or dis
trict, and this petition to to be placed on file
thirty days in order to let the people of tbe
town or diatrict file a counter petition. If a
majority of tho voters sign tiro counter peti
tion, no license shall be granted.
A very strong fight was made over tho last
named proposition, tho speakers generally
taking tbo ground that the decision of tho
people at the ballot box should be fhlly re
spected. A* the law was passed there to
local option flret by counties, and thon by
towns and district* Between the two tbe
trouble* of tho liqnor seller will not Ire par
ticularly light. Tire amendment permitting
towns and districts to adopt prohlbltloa
after tbe county has refused to do so, was
adopted by the vote of 57 to 41). Tho dis-
camion throughout tire consideration of tho
bill was free but courteous, and the state
papers say there was an evident sincerity of
purpose on the part of all who participated
In the debate.
TBE tVKAVKn-PIKRCE CASK
The Atlanta Attorneys Receive Another Let
ter—Mrs. Weaver Returns to Imltanapolto.
7 ho Indications Just now ore that there will bo
romo renratlonal developments In the Wesver-
rtereo core within a tow day* Thereto a "pout-
btlliy" that the men Weaver may appear la At-
lint*.
A lew deys ego Messrs. Gertiell A Ltdsdsn, at
torneys for the Texas lady, received a letter In
forming 'hem that the writer knew that Weaver
was not deed end Uuthe could he produced at any
time ir the matter was mode Interesting.
Th* letter bee been answered end a. reply
SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
JOHN DAVIS GETS HIS PENALTY
FOR MURDER.
The ratal Bunt, from Which DsrU neturntd Allre
but Eoarer SeoaUud Behind Kurdered-The
Vale etruzgla Asaloal the Law-Son-
tsnetd to Ufa nans Servitude.
Summerville, Gs., March 7.—[SpacIaLJ—
Judge rranhatu did not adjourn the court
ox lest Tuesday, bat remained until
Wednesday for the purpose of passing sentence
upon John Davie who we* convicted it tho
March term, 16*5, for murder and placed io
the Borne jail for safe keeping, pending hto
motion for a new trial, and tho disposal of hto
can in tbe supremo court.
TBE VICTIM'S APPSAUANC*
Sometime during the winter of 1983, B. F.
Foster, * traveling photographer, reached
Summerville, accompanied by hto wife snd
little son, John Henry by name, about ten
years of age. Tbe old man was a shiftiest,
inoffensive being,and the people were notion*
-in ascertaining that be owed hto existence and
support to tbe heroic industry and persever
ance of his wife and little boy, who wore both
skilled io the profession assumed. They did
not find Summerville a paying point, however,
and soon decided to change their location, and
removed their efforts to Trlon Factory, where
they received patronage sufficient to enable
them to live comfortably. The little boy was
sent to school, and when school hours were
over for tho day was allowed by hto mother
and father to take bis little gnn and dog and
S o hunting. It woe on the eve of the 25th
larch, 188-1, this little boy applied
to his mother for somo change, stating
that he desired to go over to Henry ft Pena's
store, a distance of abont one hair mile, and
purchase some chewing gum and candy. His
mother refosed him the money, and ho replied
that he would uso bis own money and left bis
homo as uusal with his gun and dog, with per
haps ten or fifteen cents in hie pocket, hto
mother admonishing him to bo careful in
handling the gun.
THE LITTLE BOV MISSING.
The sun went down,night come on, audthto
little boy did not return, tho mother became
anxious, each moment Increased her anxiety,
until she became satisfied that some evil had
befallen her child or he was lost in the wood*
The alarm was given and many ofTrlen’e
sympathetic inhabitants turned out to Had the
missing boy. Inquiry brought out tho infor
mation that John Davis boa been seen with
him near the bridge before sundown. Fos
ter with his littlo gnn and Davis with *
donblc-baml shotgun. Davis was
sent for, and directed the searching party to
the bridge and across tbo river into a field,
where be stopped and said:
“Hero is whore I loft him when he told me
he would go up the ditch and try to kill hhn
a bird.”
Hero Davis refused to accompsny tho pirty
in the search, nnd returood to the bridge with
Charley McCurdy, a littlo hoy about tirolvo
years of age, remarking that It sroa no uso
In looking any longer. When they arrived at
the bridge he directed Charley to go oernaa tho
field while ho wont down the bank of the
riven that he might have ahot himself. Davis
kept near the river, and, according to tho tes
timony of Charley, would strike matches fre
quently, until he reached a point on the river
at wliut is known as tho Johnson hoi* when
Charley, who was perhaps two hundred yards
away, heard a rustling of the bushes
end a splash of tho water, soon
after which Davis celled him and
suggested that they had as well return as the
boy wee not down that way. Charley and
John Davis returned to their heme* but the
anxious mother end many others continued
the search through the night, and when the
morning dawned and the mining one hod not
been found, the excitement grew more in
tense.
- Tire Dixcornmv mad*
Mr. Allgood npon hearing of tho trouble,
granted unto oil of hto men, that so desired,
the privilege of Joining the searching party.
Hundreds by this time bad volunteered and
■greed upon a signal should any of the party
be successful in finding the boy; ‘‘the blowing
of the whistle’’ was to coll them ell In. The
country for miles eronnd was thoroughly
searched, bnt without euccoe* until William
Howell end John Jackson, twodlllgont sesroh-
ere of the party, while penetrating tbe forest
between Chapel creek and Chattooga river,
camo suddenly noon tho marks of the most
cruel, blood-curdling and atrocious murders
that over occurred in a civilized coun
try, They looked for a moment at the pool
or blood, and brains and discovered a part
of a human skull, and upon examining further
they found leaning against a small elder bush
s pocket knits, tbe blade open: near by was
another little knife,* robber bell, somo cart
ridge shells, and various other smsll articles,
hut where woe the body? These gentlemen
continued their investigation and were not
long in discovering something iu the creek,
lodged against the end of a log. They took •
Gertrell A Lsdidro when epproeched Concerning
the matter are reticent. However, they have safl
enoash to Indue* the belief that the waiter of the
latter has said that Weaver rain Chattanooga a
few days ago and that he to now within three
hundred mile* of Atlanta. ,
Mr* Weaver has returned to her heme Iu Indian-
•polls and has been Interviewed by the Indianapo
lis New* The New* In dtocuortog the matter says
that Wearer bad been cheated in the undertaking
business In that place andhad acquired cooxUlsra-
We mean* He owned two pteeea of property, and
he and hto with sad three children Hired la good
style at let West Hits (tree* Several rein ago he
became on unduly intimate tenua with Ilf* Wil
liam Eden, as ■ retail of which Men called st hto
boas* 00* nlgbtealled him out-end shot him In the
neck. Weaver recovered from tho wound snd went
to Texas, laklnswhh him aboatShWeta each, the
Eden women Joined him there, and they Uved to-
gutter as husband snd wife, under the name of “Mr.
and Mr* James W. Pimp_ThefrJrelations were
dlrtutbed very srrtoasly, herrerer, by Mr* Weavee,
who bad them amoted and fined II, (XXX This was
In Austin, ISM, and sines then she hsd heard (com
b ro only < me. und that Indirectly, by a Lr.ter writ-
leu lu her father.
In •UutrfiJng the cak? Mrs. Weaver said to the
Xfv« rrfortcr
••It «iim> intautfcro to brine th* tw»ly horns
fur burial until I mu* hudmk) rjr an tnfnadtpn,
■nl Ineouueiiion with tht«oomoa th 1 ? otnor aide
«ftl.r ca»«*. Shortly at»**r the accident, a yvin<
man came tn *uul Mid he was the *v» of
.June»\V. Metre,foi**uK‘r*t*erof in**, and b*»
hud T’**o;i to N-harc tb«s bU fa*n»*r was allied In
the « r»rk. lie»xnniii--<d Mu? bo-ly bnl did not pot
itlrcly id«ntlfy it a« hl« father: In fact dl l not
rtrii k lutlifr k tbiiuiM it wa*. He b^! it
lalro or.i 1 f ha t«iki|>oraor grave, however,
ard t nthf*. After I vouhcrc.aimwa i.who said
*l.s wa* *11?. t1»rtv.c»n;e«lK> am! laid rUI a to
the tcdjr ts» thfit of her hutband. and u»*n nor icon*
hlc* ».«$•:». I M‘i»t f«.r Ur. Hcnthorn of thi« city, a
neteLUe of i-urr, who dre^ed Wearer’s wr.»md
when h« w«* »hot, and bt rodthralT l<tentlO*l tbe
My m th«t of mj htuUnii. 80 dM Dr. Clark, u*
other acquaintance; Dr. Wllaon. formerly of the
s^^s*i5s%5ya w i?
mother the preceding day fur the loot time.
Tbo hind was frightfully disfigured, tho skull,
a greater part of it, being blown off by a heavy
charge from a large gnu. The boy had un
questionably been foully mnrdorod. A more
minute examination of tho body revealed tho
fact that ho hod not only been murlored, but
his pockets were turned wrong side out.
HOW Tnn MCRDEK WAS COMMITTED.
’The coroner was notified, and began an in
vestigation, a post-mortem examination was
made by Dra. Kudlril, Meyers and Bryant,
when ft was discovered that the child was
ahot with a heavy chargo of backshot which
entered the back of the head erasing imme
diate death. Tho exact spot where tho mur
derer stood ra easily ascertained by the an
gle at which a number of stnaU older bushes
were shot off near where the boy's head would
have been in a stooping or kneeling pool lion.
Continuing slung the range e number of buck
shot ra found imbedded in tho earth. Fur
ther upthe creek and in the direction of tho
town the boy's powder horn wee discovered,
lodged in the stream, anatopped and empty,
showing that the murderer had deliberately
shot down hto victim, turned hto pocket* cut
the hern from the body, and tossed the body
in the creek and coolly emptied the con
tent! of the horn, and threw ft In the
creek alia On the following day directly
up the river, and near the path leading to
Trlon factoryguiothor pool uf blood was found.
Some hair woe also found here, and near by on
some bnahe* overhanging tbe river, blood
marks were discovered which load 'to an Im
mediate search for tho ilog, which up to the
Umo could not bo accounted for. Someone
suggested the idem that by throwing a chunk
In at the place where the dog woe supposed to
hive been thrown in, that possibly they might
he led to the place where tne dog sank.' Ths
experiment was tried and ths chank was car
ried down by the current one hundred and
fifty yards where ft lodged, and by dragging
the river at' this point the dog was found.
Scorch waiatoo instituted for the boy’s gun
but ft has never been found.
JOUN DAVIS THB ML'kDnk*
Tbe evidence before the coroner's Jury,whose
examination Into thereffitlr wax complete and
thorough, was sufficient to cause the arrest of
John Davis for the crime, snd he was indicted
bytbe grand jury at the September term
following, aud tiled, the Jury
making a rntotrisl. Both the defendant and
the state were represented by able counsel.
Hun. J. W. Maddox and W.-M. Henry for the
state Colorcl W. H. Dabney end Judge J. M.
Bellab for the defense. !’*ch attorney seemed
te throw his whole life into the matter, real-
lz’ngnpcn the cue side that ft waa a matter ,if
life and death, upon the other that the good
order, peace, fin.1 re welfare and protection of
tbe lives of other children dcmandel that the
guilty should be pnntohtd. Tbe chain of cir
cumstantial evidence was woven around the
defendant so completely, that while ft ra per
haps possible for some other potty to have com
mitted tho crime, there ra net tho remotest
reasonable probability of such a thing. The
place where tbo murder wit committed sra*
shown by th* cvUctce to have been com-
ptotely surrounded at th* tfmo ths reports of
the pins wars heard, James Wootttn, *
tramslcr for Trion Manufacturing comsnpy
was hauling wood on the evening of ths'35Ui.
driving toward! Trion when hto attention wga
attracted by ths report of a gnn st tho point
where th* dog was killed. He at the same Umo
raw a man disappear behind, the embankment
near ths river, and a few moments later saw
the party emerge from the lower path near
the river, coming rapidly In tho direction of
Trion and towards him. When he came on
within fifty ysrdsof tho rood, he recognized
the party** John Devi*also recognized the
dog that was with him os one belonging to Da
vis. The Mrsies Allgood returning from Trloh,
snd on the opposite side of tho river to where
Wootttn was, wore attracted by the report of
tbe gun, and raw a man running np the bank
of the river. Henry Ureeson and
T. F. Maxey were in ths field, to which Davis
had directed tbe Marching party, and rvers
then watching for com* party that hod been
Imputing, were in a position to commend a
full view of tbe field, and they testified that
no one entered tbe field during the afternoon
in question.
Freeman, Myers and others were north-
cast of Trion, in the field, when John Davis
come to them across tbe sand bottom from tho
point wheteWaotten hsd Men him. The boys
began shooting at a mark, and while hare Da
vis endeavored to coll their attention to tho
report of s gnn across the river, snd to show
them tho smoke, saying “that was little Hen
ry Fester, snd that the little devil would shoot
himrelf cotno day.” Davis' face was very red,
flushed, and attracted the attention
of tbo boys, who interrogated him
as to the cause. He sold that he was sick, snd
hsd been walking very fait. Ths shoe of Da
vit was compared to the track near where the
body was Brand, when ths dog was killed,
through the sand bottom, and at every place
fitted the track. The large dog tracks were
alto Io be found oU along.
TBIKDAND FOUND OLTLTV.
Many other circumstances were detailed
which completed the chain of circumstance*
Tbe two boys, Davis and Foster, were seen go
ing down tbo river together. Davis was seen
coming back alone. Blood stains wero found
on his clothing and ammunition cans. His
flushed appearance and excited manner when
ho reached tbs boys in ths field, altogether
formed a combination thst resulted tn his con
viction at the Msrch term following, the jury
recommending him to the penitentiary for
life.
The theory of tho defendant's counsel was—
first, that he wis not guilty; second, if he shot
tbe boy it was an accident and hence was not
guilty of murder. A motion for a new trial
was overruled and the ease car
ried to ths supreme court, where the verdict In
tbe conrt below mi confirmed. Davis has
been confined in the Boms Jail for nearly two
yeats, and now me* to the penitentiary for
life. He has a noble father and mother, who
have many sympathising friend*
ACROSS THE WATER.
Happenings of the Week In the Old World
—The French Princes.
London, March 3.- The regular fortnightly
meeting of the Irish national league was held
today, Michael Devltt presided. Tho re
ceipts since hut meeting wero announced to be
SCO,COO. Davltt denied thst outrages were now
of frequent oocurenceln Ireland. If any wero
committed, the league was not responsible for
Lord Bsndolph Churchill his written a let
ter to the Dally Hews describing the statement
in the leading article of thst paper today, to
the effect thst he, Lord Carnarvon and Lord
Ashbourne had prepared a schomo of home
rale for Ireland. As the falsest of all the
falsehoods ever emanating from a nswspapor-
He say*: “I have never departed from the
opinions expressed in my speech at Edinburgh
on December CO, 1883. It to absolutely
felts to say that tho Lord Salisbury govern
ment ever wavered In resolute hostility to the
repeal of the union, or anything approaching
repeal.’* In conclusion he says: “without; of
course, expecting the Dally Nears to apologize,
I trust that it will cease to propagate cola males
and libel** - ■ -
In the speech referred to Lord Bsndolph mid
that h* would not yield one
Inch on the home role question,
and would not make any Author concession to
Mr. rorneu, either on the land franchise or od .
tbe local government question. Ho advocated
an advance of public money on the ox licit
terms to develope, to tbe utmost, Irish rail
ways, canals and upbllo work* “England,” he
tala, “owes Ireland reparation. Honey curse
most Injuries, however deep. Bat the Irish
yells of 'Sepesl’ must be answered with on un
changing, unchangeable and unanimous ‘No.’
London, Match 4.—The Farnellltes have
decided to array themselves sgplnst the torles
in their attempt to foiee tho mvernment to
show tbelr hand on their policy during the
debate which to expected to begin tonight on
the civil service estimate* Mr. Parnell, how
ever, has resolved to go to Gladstone's rescue.
The Irish leader it satisfied, in view of the pre
mier’s nromtoe to state tbe Irish policy after
the SSa of March, st which date ne expected
to be through with the goTernetent’s financial
busines* He to entitled to. be protected
from disturbance on that tome until after the
expiration of this time asked for.
, Mr. Gladstone, In ths boom of commons;
•peaking on ths Holmes motion, ehaffingly de
clined to fall Into ths trap set for him. He
said he was not inch a simpleton es to yield to
the srthil allurements of hto opponents He
had already stated thst the government was
consider ing the question of social Order f a Ire
land, the Und question snd ths question of
tbe foture government of Ireland. These
subjects wero inextricably associated. The
government was really entitled to three
mouths’ time for the preparation of its Irish
measure* Mr. Gladstone characterised
Holmes's attack as one of the feeblest ever
made upon the executive branch of the gov
ernment.
Bomk, March 8.—Pope Lea celebrated today,
by an address to the sacred college, tbe 75th
anniversary of hto birth snd ths 8th anniver
sary oJbb coronation. The latter anniversary
1s properly ths third of March. In the address
his holiness enloglxed the nnity of opinion
existing among ths card insto,snd urged similar
concord among Catholics in general against
those seeking to corrupt them or who may ha
striving to weaken the authority of ths
church. The oppressed condition of the so*
was deplored as unworthy tbe head of the
rhutch and incompatible with his independ
ence.
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