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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION jiTLAtrrA, GA, TUESDAY APRIL 20 1838 THROUGH DIXIE WHAT THE SOUTHERN FOLKS ARB SAYINO AND DOINO. A MUilsslppI Man Accidentally xau IbWUt-t Bloody riikt la Keotueky—A Fetal (hosting la Wort* Carolina—A Largo Flih Caught la Louisiana-Other Happenings. Florida. A borer that baa been infesting the orange trees since the freeze. A common-sizel pin will follow In the hole they mako in the wood, and unless arrested In their progress will kill all the trees that hare been partially killed. Hr. Wo. McClelland, of welborn, found them in trees in different localities ana his own. _____ * Virginia. Horace Darts at Richmond,playing in Shockoe Bill grareyard with his little sister, and climbed up on a large headstone. The latter fell, catching him nnder It. His skull was fractured, and he died of concussion of the brain before aid could reach him. The little girl care the alarm, and some one near by ran to the spot. The boy was entirely covered by the stone, and life was extinct. Arkansas. Near Harrisburg, on last Thursday, two men,named respectively Hays and Chamberlin 1 were engaged In making cross-ties, A tree had been foiled and both went to work to make it into ties. In a short time Hays remarked that he must go and attend to some business, but would return in a few hours. Chamber lin continued at work, and when Hays re turned Chamberlin had made the tree up into ties. A dispute arose about the division of tho ties, when Bays stepped off a few feet to where his gun wasstsnding by a tree, took it up, and taking deliberate aim at Chamberlin, killed him on the spot. Hays then shouldered his gun and walked a few yards to whore a young man was at work, ordered him not to move and at the same time commenced to reload his S on. The young man being an eye witness to lie shooting of Chamberlin, and fearing he might share the same fate, started to run and escape to a tie camp a few hundred yards dis tant, where ho gave the alarm, when a posse of men started In search of Hays. Up to this time nothing has been heard of him. Kentucky. A Courier-Journal special, of April 12th, tells of a bloody battle fought In the mountain wilds of Harlan county, Ky.. on March 28tb. John Day and threo Htniard brothers and two Nagslr brothers were on their way to a logrolling. When they were met by Isaac Day, Jacob and Sol Burkhart and Silas Bogg. They were all armed with rifles and sheltering themselves behind trees and began firing. Tho firing lasted hnlf an hour, when both parties retired. Sol Barkhart was killed and his brother seriously wounded and Silaa Bogg was shot in the head but not fa tally. The parties surrendered and are now in jail. The trouble grew out of tho arrest of Isaac Day, charged with stealing. His broth er went on his bond, but surrendered him and the fight resulted. | Louisiana, last Tuesday afternoon, near New Orleans, a fisherman landed what Is said to be tbs lar gest food fish ever caught on tho American coast. It was what is known as Jew fish or Black sea bass and measured seven foot nine Inches in length and weighed 713 pounds. Its body wss as large as that of a homo. It was hooked on a linen line about as large at one’s finger, and a desperate struggle ensued be tween man and fish. The former was almost pulled overboard several times: but he finally succeeded in tiring the fish out and securing assistance landed ft. The line passing through his bands cut to the bone and lamented tho fingers terribly. A passenger Inin on' the Louisiana Western railroad, from Houston for Now Orleans, was wrecked at Sulphur till — Into a stock carl' I by the wlm struggle in 1880. The news was recelvdd at Colombia with wild enthusiasm, the entire population turning ont. Senator Whitthorno made a feeling speech, and Colonel D. B. Coopers. E. W. Cormack, George Taylor, John P. Williamson and others, also made a poo h^, A hundred gone were also fired at Nashrille. Burns' artillery also fired a hundred guns In honor of the event. Senator Whitthorno leaves for Washington tomorrow. An latent of James O. Cany, while alone at her homo Friday, accidentally found a lla-k of whisky and swallowed half a pint. She waaun- conicious for several hour* and it ' could not surrlTe. lorn for several hours audit was feared she io« by running lifting 4 complete wreck of tho locomotlvo end -*Ifige car. The firemen tumped from the loco* motive end wee dengerouily Injured. Tho pei* •enters were coniiderebly iheken up, bnt ell te cs ped unhurt 0 Mississippi, James Quinn, started ont from hie homo, at Oopwooa to hunt squirrels. Whilo in hie S ard in front of hie dwelling ho took ie gun off his shoulder end pieced it ecrosa his arm to put one fresh cap. The gun went off by accident, sending e ball through his wife's head, killing her instantly. She never breathed. She wee standing In the house, end fell among her six children, deed. Ur. Quinn is seer!/ crazy over the accident. Near Coffeeville, Friday last, a number of little boye and girls were playlng“fox and hounds" and little Llsde Thaekston was the “fox." Ono of the little boys suggested that Freddie Thaekston should returd to the house and get his small shot* gun and use that in their play. Acting upon the suggestion, he went to the hooso and came back with his gun—never noticing that It was loaded— and walking up In about eight steps of his little sister, fired at her, the load, which was squirrel •hot. taking effect a llttlo above the center of tho forehead, when she Jumped out of the door In which she was standing, and fell. She was carried Into the house by her mother, but there could be nothin jjdone, for the fatal shot had accomplished Near Bay St. Louis, O. hi. Syl vester, a boy of eighteen, disappeared from home Thursday night and was seen with a bull dog pis tol, which be discharged several times, lie was not seeu again until Sunday morning, when his body waa discovered dead with a bullet-hole in hla bead and his pistol beside him. An Inquest was held on the bod[* of suicide. Dlsappoi South Carolina. The formers In the country around Columbia, are putting their land In exoelleut condi tion, and preparing to plant. He ports from all parts of the state teu an encouraging tale of thrift “a.’P&St. commissioner of agriculture, hu re- reived the subjoined Interesting report from his 2.2 Correspondents. The men In whett has been depressed fist rent u compared with last year, and the cond....... la reported at seventy-right, with 100 representing res in oats has beta Increased , end the condition la repotted to ssllmsted that twenty .ve at planted and seventy.five per nous were winter killed. The correspondents reman that, owing to the year. The reports show that b par oent or about W.0W hales, of Imre year's cotton crop to In tho hands of lbs fanners. Ons hundred and seventy-eight of the corres pondents report tho labor. •Wood/’ twelve as •■bad,” and seventy-two as “Indifferent." kill meted upon the receipts received by the department, and without deductions for the area In wheat and oats destroyed by oold weather and other causes, and which may not hare teen re planted, the area of the present year may be ap proximately stated ea follows: Whsat, 189,1X7 https, nut oats 455,241 acres. i sales of commercial fertilizers in tho state November 1st toA to IMjta loos, against 1 Ths peaks ef the mountains, which an clearly vis ible man Greenville are white with a corering ol snow, and looks more like December than April. Them was a snow storm eighteen miles tram here a few days ago. Thursday that Gan. W. C. Whitthorno wool_ bo appointed aa Senator Jackson's suooaasor, so that tho formal announcement, just after the receipt of Senator Jackson’s resignation Friday, created little comment. Governor Bate said, in ret interview thto morning, that ha fully mid. np. hla mind two days ago to give the place to middle Tenneeree. Great pressure had been brought to boar on him for tho appoint ment of a man from west and East Tennessee, hot he recognised his duty to the state and res convinced that the mu should come from the middle division. The governor reid vs ifr. WU- •on's name had ben frequently men tioned, he would my that Mr. Wilson bed corns to him and frankly given his views. Ht not only mods no application for tho appoint ment, bat he stated that he thought the ap pointment should not go to uy one who had ken conspicuously Identified with either fae- tins of the party engaged in tho political North Carolina. Information haareachol Aahvlllein regard to a fatal shootiog affair near Webster, on the Western North Crroltaa railroad. On Satur day night, John Messier, Amoa Sutton and John McMahan, were drinking at Enloe’a mills, near' Webster, Messier hod married Sutton’s cousin, ud left her. Ho made n re mark derogatory of her, when Sutton struck him in the mouth. Messier drew his pistol ud shot Sutton, killing him instantly. Mes sier fled to the mountains, ud is being pur sued by n huge ud determined poeso. The democratic executive committee mceta Thursday to formulate a plan for the cam paign.' It hu been found that the law pro viding for the holding of u election on pro hibition uya each election shall be held only u to splrltuoue liquor*. By an overeight tho old lew, including also malt ud vinous liqu ors. wss not brought forward In tho now code of the state. . It Is sold that there lives, near Wadcsboro u entire family of avenge inteUl- { cure eo superstitions that one of its members i sorely afflicted with u Imaginary spell put upon her by her mother-in-law, as she fan cies, and which nil the powers of vondootem cannot remove. The victim la a young womu who ms married eighteen months ego to a well to do yoong men, who carried bis bride to the houre of his mother, where they lived together happily until n few weeks ago, when the young wife, who had In tho meu time becomo a mother, became sick and continued to grow worso from day to day as tho idea fastened itself upon her that abe wu bewitched. She returned to the homo of her Cither, who la a conjurer. Ho readily agreed with hia daughter that she was be witched, and, after exhausting all hiaeklll, declared that he could not remove the charm because tho afflicted woman wu of hts own blood. Ho sent for Abbe Lindsay, a voodoo living In the neighborhood, and promised him $60 if he would remove the spell from his child and put it upon the one who bewitched her. Tho attending voudoo, after ex hausting hia alleged skill, gave It np aa a hopeless case, and cause u other voudoo to be called—tho great est of them all. The latter keona his Identity at great n mystery aa bo does the secrete of bis alleged art, ud nowhere appears In day light. Saturday night the two voudoos passed tho night in all kinds of muipuiatlons and incantations over tho afflicted womu, such, for (nature, aa rubbing her with frogs and lizards, the boiling of silver coins, tho waving of urns and calling of spirits. Huy are indignant that each gross sai should exist. , August Alabama. Water is over a portion of the track of the Louisville ud Nashville where it runs through the delta of tho Alabama, between the Mobile ud Tensas riven. The track Is weighted with loaded freight can ud will probably wlthstud this heaviest flood over seen here. Until today passengers were trans ferred between Mobile ud Tensas bridge by steamboat, hot all through trevel wu discon tinued this afternoon. Dlstren on tho lowor Alabama Is widespread ud tho negroes are leaving by every boat. They state they don’t wish to come back toa country which la now overflowed. A good deal of the country is badly washed, the buck ■oil din] ’ ' * thoelay. have Mohlle.|has'washed away, including (the fine residence heretofore mentioned u in dam * W. F. Moletto, at Portland, 280 milea above, has lost in honaea and stock, ten thousand dot Ian. Opposite Portland; S. Oantaphen has lost a fine glnhouse. At Vernon, 330 miles, J. D. Stondemoyorlost everything in hto house, one eldo of tho same being washed away. J two feet of river sand. On Muach Island, a mule waa found dead, and standing as if alive, on a bnnoh of a tree ten foot above tho water, which had receded. Everything has boon waahod stray from Nell Smith's, below Washington. The loss of life so far aa reported Is small for so great a flood. Two negroes wore drowned at Mollette’a place, nine at B. M. Boyton’a place near Portland ud a dozen at Elm Bluff. Ono white ud six colored wore passed float ing down tho stream, all drowned. An un known negro svas fished out of tho river near Mobile .Sunday. The State medical association met at Annis ton Thuraday at 12 o'clock. Forty-five state delegates, ud Die. Love ud Taliaferro, of At lanta, went present. Tho president, Dr. F. W. Peterson, read the annual menage, which waa fiill of profound thought ud suggestions. His own lsngnage is quoted on several of the most Important points. Speaking of lntemperuce ho said: I lonnnlaie the following propositions aa the re* suit of my professional experience: Alcohoilo liquors an never necessary In health: they an always Injurious In health In uydoao. They are never necessary as a food for mu, uy more than they are for the lower animals. Tisay do not warm and sir* strcngthlto the body, but diminish both. They do not Increase the powers of resistance ud tho endurance of mental and physical feature. They do not Increase mental vigor. They do not give tone to the heart, but the aoceteratea action, which to always temporary. la folio trod by a reduction of lacecldl. They may, for a short time, increase tho new extension, but are followed by relaxation ud debility, ud the nervous system Is more quickly worn out under their influence. They build up no tissue in the body, but in some case* Uicy etnas a deposition of adlpoae tlaso*. which to a sourco of waaktuaa and destruction to tha heart and to all other muscles. They ere specially harmful to the brain workers who tako but little .x.rctax They produce a ten- deucy to apoplexy ud paralysis. They are nev er necessary norm the least beneficial Ins pevco- loeleal condition of the system In uy quantity, either large or email, hot often beneficial in du- eseo. In which they should ho proscribed by u expert. As medicine, they tie often very Impor tant, while every poolhta restriction!should bo thrown around their Improper sole cod nee, phy- ■tela ns should be able to obtain the m as readily and easllyaa quintas. or other leading artldea of tha materia medics." The Medical association discussed the ques tion of vital statistics Tuesday night. Wednes day Drs. Love sod Taliaferro wore Introduced to tho body, ud Invited to seats with them. Dr. Lev* complimented tha Alabama as one of tha leading associations of the states. Tho ministers of Anniston, through Bar. Waltaeo Carnahan, requested the association to forego the use of wine at a banquet to b* tendand them tomorrow night by the committee of arrangement*, which request provoked coo- sidirabl* discussion, aa it placed th* assoc is- on In the dilemma of being dtaeoorteons to the minister* of a dry county, which la en deavoring by legal steps to prevent the obtain- ment of liccneo to sell liquors, or discourtesy to tho committee of arrangements, who havo been appealed to In vain by a large majority of citizens to leave the win* off theUUof fare. The ataoeietlon decided diet to refer to a com mittee, with Instruction to report favorably, which action waa afterward rescinded. A motion wee then made end passed to answer th* appeal favorably at once. This waa recon sidered ud tabled. Finally it waa referred back to the committee of arrangements, who rejected it > Atlanta Will Beach tha Sea. At a rousing matting of Atlanta's solid basinets men tail Tuesday, a committee sras appointed to survey the proposed routes to Hawklnsville, tad to th* tavaaaah rivet by way of Waynesboro. The American hu la GEORGIA NEWS. AElgFrissFald for a Hone In Tbomssrille-Con victed of SKsstlsushtsr-An Atrocious Crime- A Deed Body found-A Bellroed Contract Let-Toe stock Lew-Other News. Tho reference, on Thueaday, in Savannah, of Judge Emory Speer to Mr. Gladstone, in hie chargeto the giud Jury, is so unique as to be tho subject of considerable comment. After touching upon preliminary matters, he contin ued! “The parliament ud tho pconic of our mother country arc now wrestling with whnt looms to them ud to the world n question vital to tha very existence of their empire. In hto magnificent statement four days ago, which has been already thumbed to pieces by men of English blood on the sheep walks of Anstralto, in the Jungles of India, on the divides of the Bocky mountains, in the 'far Cathay/ as well as In the center* of modern thought, the premier of England declared 'some* thing most be done, something to Imperatively de manded from ns to restore in Ireland the first con ditions of civil Ufo, the flee course of tow, the lib erty of every Individual in the exerotoe of every legal right, their confidence in the law. ud their sympathy with tha taw, apart (Torn which no country can he called a civilized country.' What, theo, to the problem before ttsl It to thto: Howto reconcile Imperial unity with diversity of legtola- lion. Let the English government, which, with all of its feolla ud injustice to weaker powers, forme today the most solid barrier on earth, ease onr own country, to the progress of despotic gov ernments: let this great people from whom we ere descended, turn to their children In America for the solution of ■ fa working on two big and a crop or spring chick- it which to exercised by tho citizens of Gcorjfia? let prerogatives in their Imperial government i the Bruton ministry need more cnectivo than those which belong to the national government btre. Ah, gentlemen, let our pitffol wrugte of party be ever eo vociferous, as to whether 'James or Jonatbu shall ut In the chair and hold the puree;’ the common renee of mankind must at last admit that ours Is tha true ud beet system of govern ment. . mu Law and Oru_. .L—guo of Savunah is gaining strength, and ltspower will soon be felt in the cite. Rev.J.W. Bogan, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, says that nine of tho pastors of Savannah are united in favor of the movement, which they think will be a good thing for the city. Mr. Bogu remarked that ho was aware that there is a prcjudlco against the orguization of inch a body. Tho taw breaking class, of course, are opposed to it. “Perbsps, too, some of tho taw-lnforoing part of th* community think we are encroaching upon them, bnt we never supposed but that they would he glad to havo our rapport.” In a recent meeting, Dr. Bosrman, pastor of the Lutheran church, mads a short addrees and referred to a movement organ ized In Charleston to counter act the influence of tho non-ob servance of the Sabbath. Finally the city council of Charleston took np the matter, and the first mu punished was a city alderman, who had been convicted of soiling liquor on Sunday. “I have been grieved ainoo being here at seeing the8abbath desecrated,” Dr. Bowman continued. "Dr. Axnnaud myself were appointed to look up the taw a few years ago, and we found by consultation with emi nent members of the bar that the lairs were very complete and explicit. But they are overlooked. Sometimes there ta a prosecution, but generally the subject is a veryobaoure mu or a very black man, while a more prominent mu will do exactly the same thing unmo lested.” Referring to murders, the speaker •aid that some of the most atrocious orimoa havo been committed ud tha perpetrators have gone free. It ta laid that the juries *ro Influenced by (Use sentiment and personal feeling. Ifthatlsthecaselt ta tho duty of the law.respeeting citizens to build np a healthy public aentlmcnt. Tbs most atrocious crime, sines the William*’ murder, of 1882, waa committed in Huoock county, olght miles south of here, at Mr. Rob ert Grimes’s place, by a negro named Gas Brown. Brown had become Infatuated with tho wits of John Ransom, colored, ud through hto per suasion, enticed her to elope with him to Baldwin county, whore, ho proposed to oohabi- tato with her, as mu and wife. Ransom soon learnod tho whereabouts of “Dulcv Ann,” and with a regard of feeling for his colored spouse, and deep animosity toward hsrdeoelrer, boat once determined to reacoe her. On reaching Baldwin Monday, he (Ransom) procured the services of Sheriff Ennis who waa to ferret ont tho matter, ud torn the intruder ovor to tho bailiff of Hancock county. Sheriff Ennis was soon on hla trail, and finally overtook th* culprit, but when tho sheriff approached Brown, to arrest him, ho resisted the laying on of hand* and a stiff wrestle ensued, in whioh Brown, being the stoutfat of the two, succeeded in throwing Ennis, and took his pistol from him, with which ho dealt bis victim aeveral blows over the head, rendering him onoonsclous, whilo he made good hia cacapo* Brown then returned to the housoof hb op ponent, John Ransom, on Mr. Giimos' ptaco, whore Ransom had returned with hi* lost wif* to live unmolested, and on entering tha door fired on Ransom with the pistol ha had wrenched from tho hudsof Sheriff Enntathe day before. The first shot did no fatal work, aaCthe ball passed through the lapel of Bin- som'i coat Immediately uother ono followed, which did tho fatal act passing through the front breast ud stopping near the windpipe. Ransom foil to the floor, while Brown skipped ont at a back way, ud ta ■till at large. Drs. Jsrnlgu and Adams were summoned qulckly.to which they quick ly responded, and applied means of stopping the blood. Despite ail medical aid Ransom expired Thnraday. Sheriff Ennis is in a critical condition. Ran som baa always boons quiet unobtrusive, sort of mu, ud waa well liked by hb employers as wall u all who knew him, ud sras never known to engage in a fuss. Brown is a das- S rate rascal, ud doeu’t mind spilling blood. a is charged with aovaral other crimes of a prior date, which would, perhaps, indict him r i the fills penalty, p( ■ tho Jaw. Toward the end of Juuary, ons year ago, erne parties got lost in tho swamps near Need ham. Whllt exploring thairwv to the read, they kicked against a mound of dead leaves, ud there wu disclosed to them tbs dead body of s colored girl, aged apparently about eighteen. Her bead, to her shoulder*, wu thniatinto a hollow log, while th* rest of tho body had bsen covered with leaves and bram ble*. Her eknll wu crushed in u if by a bludgeon jons of her arms wu so badly broken that It merely hug by the skin, and hu legs ere both broken below the knees. A subsequent investigation ravutad tbo fact that the womu wu Mariah Dally, tha wife of John Daily, and the daughter of Robert rascoU. Daily had lug been u ad mirer of tha girl, bnt coaid never gain her father's content to hi* advance*. During the preceding Cnristmu holidays, tha couple sloped, were married, ud want to honsakup- ing. On th* fourth of January, Daily walked over to tha boon of bis father-in-law, for tho nnrpose of tffoctlng a reconciliation. Th* tatter agreed to go to the house of Dally, where tha thru might talk over the situation. Ptacoll, who carried with him ahnge bludg eon, quarreled during th* consultation, and ordered bis daughter to return home with him. This she did, explaining to har hus band that she would return later In the day. Since that time she hu never been seen alive. When Daily, uneasy at hi* wife’s prolonged absence, wut to FUeoll’s house, the tatter told him that Maria bad left for home by the creek reed. Deny retained home only to be disappointed, while Pueoil, mounting his horse, disappeared front th* country, and was not arrested until several months later. In Florida,* reward having been offered for him by the governor of Georgia. Ha confessed to the officers that the devil took possearion of him while passing through the swamp with hia daughter, and that he felted her by a mur derous blow on bar head, and deliberately broke har limbs, after which h* had eonoealad har, u she wu ashaaquutiy bond by th* hunters. _____ Toccos News: Deputy Marshal Andy J. Crue on Saturday entered th* apartments of the prisoners and passed down to the lowor cell, not noticing a young fellow In the fleet cell who had been Imprisoned for teu days for reftuing to work the roads. The other pris oners were in their respective ceils and could not have escaped through the first open door. But the road man, who wu not oonuned like the other*, quietly pused out tho open door and slammed it to, leaving Andy inside with the boys. He locked the door and Jailer Crane wu jailed. The boy on the outside informed Mr. Crane that he intended to throw the ' in the river. Tjila made matters worse, would tako probably a month to eat out of the strong iron cell. Bat the boy wu doing it all in ftin, and soon Andy wu free again. The largest price aver paid for a hone in Thomuvillo wu that for whioh Captain J. L. Finn sold hia bay gelding Emigrant on Wednes day but to Judge H. W. Hopkins, which is said to he $1,000. Emigrant wu bought by Mr. T. C. Mitchell, for H. a Ainsworth, at the •ale of Vecch, McDowell A McFerran, at Lou isville, Ky., in 1881, when a two-year-oltl. He wu sold by Hr. A. to Captain Finn, who hu owned him since. On the first day of March Captain Finn placed the hone in the hands of Mr. J.H. Thayer. On the flixt day of April (one month) Mr. Thayer drove the hone over Trent Lake course, a half-mile track, in 2:39 and showed quartets In 38 seconds a 2.32 gait. Mr, John E. Heins, of Darien, a clovor fel low and a prince of sportsmen, hu just returned afters couple of days’ hunting trip. When he ut out he told hia friend* that nothing bnt a bear would satisfy him, ‘ tohta word ho brought in ono weigh- and true lug about 250 pounds. Tho present freshet stems to he pitying ud havoc with the four footed Inhabitants of swamp* and forest* along the river. He says that while resting over the night in a dilapidated shanty near Clark’s Bluff, he wu repeatedly startled by distant sounds resembling the blastings of tho greateat part of the night, he finally succeeded in getting a couple of hoars’ sleep before daylight. He awoke intent upon ascertaining whence the plaintive sounds he had listened to came. With this purpose in view he set out paddling bis boat through the immense swamp. Per ceiving an elevated piece of ground in the dis tance, and icolng some kind of animate moving around on It, he approached stealthily with* view of seearlngumo fine game. On coming closer, however, ho discovered about half* dozen cows with two or threo calves, a few sheen, a couple of rabbits and a coon. sAII these animate bad taken refuge on the knoll from tho rising waters. On the overhanging . ,. . Jug In the morning ran. He landed on the knoll, and while tho cows and calves seemed to regard hia visit with indifference, and tho rabbits with soma timid ity, hia eoonahta pretended to be busy picking briers from nnder hia feet, occasionally outing a sly, contemptuous glance at the intruder, u if afraid he had come there for tho purpose of borrowing money or to solicit some other great favor. Tho animate seemed quite happy, al though surrounded on all sides by water, and Mr. Helm left them In undisturbed possession of their little republic. A few hours later ho bagged bruin, ana the citizens of Dsrlon are now luxuriating in bur steak at 12i cent* per pound. t Two parties of civil eng Inure will start out today on the preliminary surrey of tho pro posed routes from Atlanta to Hawklnsville, and from Atlanta to tha Savannah river. Mr. H. C. Oilier to in chu Hawkiniville route, an: assistant city engineer, is in charge of tho 8o- vannah river route. Colonel Adair, chairman of tho committee, says that tho preliminary reconnaiaanoo will bo made as speedily u possible, and tho reaolt reported. We take this occasion of saying to and aeema to har to offer her fullest roller and best results. It is posslblo that both of them will he built. We urge tho friends of the enterprise along tha route* to gtvo the an. rtatprs every advantage and all the Informa tion that will expedite the survey. We also urge the people of each town, county and neighborhood, to appoint committee*, go to work and wo how much nbacrlpttons ean be guaranteed, and report progress at frequent intervals. Tin Constitution will take pleasure in printing reports, or suggestions from towns along either route, and doing all ta its power to forward tho enterprlae. Let us hear from every community that ta Interested, in definite flgnree, so that we may know ex actly what to count on. It ta well to not promptly. In tha circuit court, at Rome, Wednesday, Julius Ward waa found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of William Crawford. The trial was watched with deep interest. Seated by the window, near the Jury box was the prisoner, and hia pale, ashy fitce bore tho marks of his confinement. On hia left sldo •at hla young wife, and several times during progress ol the trial sho broke into tears. On hto right eideeat hie aged mother, and In at tendance upop the trial wore two brothers of (ha prisoner. On tho evening of December 23d list, Julius Ward and William Cnlbertaon, who had apant the day In Rome, took easts In their b and started out for their home in Che; county, Alabama. They had been drinking freely along the way, Ward frequently dis charging hb pistol in the air. When aeveral miles ont, they met William Crawford, and a colored men named John Croiey, in a wagon. Ward shouted ont; "Treat and pass.” Crolay did not attempt to stop hla mules, whan Ward again shouted: "God d—n yon, I’ll put a 38 through you if you don't stop whan 1 say atop.” Croiey answered: "Igotabottlo of mighty good com whisky, which would be better to •hoot a man with than a hall." Ward Jumped out of hia baggy, and Mixed Croiey by the throat, when Crawford inter- posed and raid: “Let him alone, Julius, I told him to drlvo ■. I believe you shot this mule.” Crawford had a quilt on tbo wagon, upon which lay a pistol, which ho reached over and seized with bis left hand. Aa he brought it toward him, Ward seised his hand and said: "Bill, give It up,” and turning to Culbertson, raid: "Coma bare, partner, and get that pistol.” Crawford raid: "I’ll not do it, Julius; it’s mine.” Ward again aafd: "Give it up, Bill, or I'll shoot you.” The two men eeuffled, a shot was beard, and Crawford, throwing hia hand to hi* stomach, aa ha fell, cried: ‘Ob! oh! ohi you have shot me, Julius! Yon have shot me for nothing I” Ward asked: “Havo I shot youT" "Yea” add Crawford; "you have shot me badly/* Ward then turned to Clofay and Mid: "X'vo a good mind to shoot your d—d brains ont; if yon bad stopped when I told you than would hav* been nothing of this.” The wounded man was taken to a neighbor’s bouse, and dtod that night, making an ante mortem statement, clearly reciting the facts •gainst Ward. Tbs prisoner wu called upon for his state ment. The attention of all of tha spectators centered upon the slim, pale-(bead yoong i M he, with a firm tread, made hto war to the wltncM stand. HIs vote* waa unfaltering, and hia statement wu clear and unbroken. Us flatted from the time he left home, told how he picked op Culberson when he arrived it Boms, and when b* started back. When about eight miles from Rome be met the wagon with Crawford and the negro. He had been shooting along the roadside, not think ing of meeting any one. After Minting each other in a friendly manner, something wu ■aid about treating. Tbo negro replied that he would treat to No. 44. Th* prisoner here told bis quarrel with the negro, when Craw ford jumped out of ttrowagon with a pistol in hto hand. The prisoner caught Crawford’s band end asked him to put Eta pistol. The two scuffled for throat did he shoot ”1 never,”Mld tha pris oner, "intended to kill Crawford; I only thought I would erippls him to save my own life. I had nothing ta the world against him, and am sorry necessity compelled me to take hie life, end I pity hie widow." Col. Dickinson hu 1st the contract! for the grading of the entlro route of tho Georgia Midland, except four mlluat this end and fif teen near Griffin. The contracts were tat to tbo following parties: Chattahoochee Brick company of Atlanta, 50 mltaa; E.M. Hooten, of Tike county, four milea; It. M. and J, M. Brooks, of Plko county, eight miles; E. M. Sc a, W. Clayton, of Clarksville, Ga, eight miles: Foley A Lumley, of Ohio; the Fine mountain tonnel. Those contractors will begin work within the next ton days and, it ta expected to havo the first tirenty-five miles of tho read in operation by the first of next September. Tbo work not yet lot ta vory sight and can be don* m sixty days. One dty last week a small pig trotted tato Perry under the boggy ofMr. Quill* Loaptrot, and when that gentleman started homo in tho afternoon, tho pig trotted along under tho baggy on tbo return trip. Tho pig began his Journey at the form of Hr. W. W. Waguon, in tha lower eleventh district, and stopped near there when he returned. The distance traveled to 32 miles—sixteen to Perry ud sixteen returning—ud the pig wu In eight of the buggy during the entire trip. More then one stream wu croescd, ud in entering ono of these the pig was obliged to swim at least feet. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. Macon, Ga, April 17.—[Special.]—Not even Atlanta the capital of tho elate, lajnst now u thoroughly aroused on questions of state poll' ties m Macon. Tho struggle which A. O. Bacon ud Judge T. J. Simmons are making to capture Bibb county hu been reduced to a steady poll, each having behind him hia friends, in solid ranka The legislative campaign promises to open early ud to dovoiop a long list of cudidatea At preaent, threo have been spoken of, ail citi zens of Macon. They are Hon. 0. L. Bartlett, Hon, W. A. Huff, and Colonel R. W. l’attorson. The last two will not oppose each other, bnt, if they deplde to enter the race, will work .to gether. Prohibition ud antl-probibition will figure In the race. The prohibitionists meu to exert til their strength to elect it loast one mem ber. The uti-prohlbiUoalsta are confident thattbeycu elect ail threo with but little effort. It ta understood that they will nomi nate ud vote for men pledged to rapport a general high lioense taw, It being thought that only rack a taw will prevent total prohl- bitlon in tha state. There ta a possibility that a little darkness may enter tho campaign. That to, it ta possi ble that* negro will endeavor to represent tho county ta the legislature. Your correspondent has bun informed by a prominent negro poll- tlciu that nnder certain clrenmatenoM there will certainly be a negro cudldato In the field. "If the prohibition question comes up,” ho •aid, “the two ftctlone will wut the negro vote, and they will be willing to pay for it. That Is they will pay the turn of the negroea When that ta dona tho negroea Hke refrac tory mnlM, will take the bits In their mouths, put on a candidate of their own ud elect him. With their Uxm paid they can euily do it.” PXAuaoN, Ga., April 15.—[Spaeial.]—At a maM mooting bold at Donglu daring tho su perior curt now in acuion, Hon. J. M. Wilcox and Mr. Dulel Galkins wore appointed dela te* to tbo next state convention, favorable the nomination of Hu. A. O. Bacon for governor. Alniaestta,Ga, April 15.—[8pootaI.j—It atoms much harder to calm tho storm In tbo ninth district than In the uvonth. Thors ta scarcely a neighborhood ta which Emory Spoor did not leave behind him the sting of a local fend betWMn people who had previously t frlenda Now that the congressional c palgn of 1880 ta approaching, th* old contro versy ta breaking forth in all lta flerccnoss. Recently, Judgo J. B. Estes announced him self in opposition to Hon. A. D. Candler. Thereupon tho following paragraph appeared ta the Milton Democrat: It seems to us that claims of a mu who ires voting for Emory Bposr when tha democracy were trying to beat him would maks etalms on that same democracy vary small and fow ta the hill. To tbla Judge Estes replies: The only Inference that could be drawn from I hts language Is Hint you Intend to say that 1 voted for Emory Bpcsr. Now, while I cannot agree with you that ''the democracy were trying to boat him,” taarmurh ns I know hundreds, if not thousands of democrats who voted for him, yet I cannot allow so palpable a misstatement as to ray Individual vote ta go uncontradicted. I never did vote for Emory Sneer ta my Ufa 1 trust, therefore, *’ — given publicity to Ibis mlsrepras your sense of Junttco will cun you to publ contradiction. Seys the Hamilton Journal: dome of the friends of pronounced guberna torial cudidatea, are dolus u their allusions to General John . spectful terms, irany fact tins boon established beyond* pcradronlure, Ills that the people of Georgia by an overwhelming majority havo ap proved or the conduct of General Gordon, ta re signing his senatorial robe ud 11 taunts fore* him to corns before the people he will not be easily beaten. Rudolph, Clay and Terrell coantiM form one state senatorial district In which tha rotation plan prevailed but always foiled of enforcement. Terrell has femlahed tbs senator for sixteen years and now claims the fourth racessslon u being bar regular tarn. Randolph ud Clay are endcavort to effect a compromlao by whioh Tamil may Counted out. Tha supreme oourt judgeship 1s also beginning to arouse scats comment. Tbo Madison Watchman **fte Mat legislature will elect two judges of the supreme court ta place of Judtss Hell end Btand- ford. Wo know of no man ta tho slate belter qual- (ted for that exalted position thu Judge Lawsou, of this circuit. Nor oo w* know ooa that will h* sleeted who will he more acceptable to the har and people. We stats this more cheerfully sluco w* hare teamed that b* declines u election to th* Judgeship of th* Oomnlges drenlt. As long ss ha A correspondent from Irwlnton writes: Major Bacon sprats day or two with us, shaking hands with Bacon, Blmmoos ud Gordon men. The major has quit* a following In this bounty, and If Grasral Gordon don't rater the lleld ho will probably carry this ooonly, though Judge Blmmoos has any warm Mends bin who will put to good work when the Urns cornea .. "Lookout for Important political news," said a cteran observer, "shoutthe loth of May. Th# nveillDi of the lllll statue, with Mr. Davis's Mas- ace,wlirdrswulmmenM crowd to Atlanta on ,«m. Th* Chatham oratsnnlalwul suit things Utah. General Gordon will M In Atlanta, DIED IN OBOnalA. Mn. Samuel Chandler, Hsdlson.__.Ur. Robert Csmeron. Chsttooga county Mrs. Louie Bru- non.Dsnlehvllle Judge John Rhea dilute ... Mrs. John M. Strickland, Oowctta county Mr. B, B. Wiley, Cobb county Mn. J. W. Prnltt, Buka county. Judgo Bedford Bonner, Talbot county Mr. Roger McGloIn, Macon....Dr. J. U. Now lin, Romo ...Mr,Gsosm Bssphey, Marshsllvlllo ... Llttlo Mary H. Hurst, Waynesboro....Mr.Thoi. J. Edward, Hampton—. Mrs. Tabltha Williams, Social Circle....Hr. George J. Authonay, Mori- wether county Mrs. A. B. Allen, Chattooga county.,..Mn. R. H. Tiller. Oglethorpo county Mr. 8. B. Peacock. Macon. MARRIED IM CEOROIA. Mr. E. J. Florence ud Him Casals A. Glass, At- tacts....Ur. JamasM. Day and Miss8*111*Hngea Monroo Mr. John D. Barnett ud Miss Lula Deadwyler, Harmony Grove....Mr. F. H. Akers and Mira Mattie Hurt, Smyrna. SHE COTTON OONBTmmON OFFICE, Atlanta. April 17. UNi mwBX'aaavisw. New York—There wss wss very little change In the cotton market this week. Bpotq middling Wfa NEW YORK, April IS- The following Is tot oomparaUyeootton statement for the weekending SATUUAY, Aran. 17. New York—Market unchanged. Spots, middling l><0. Net receipts today f,l<! bales, against 2,115 balsa exports it,2&4 bales; 13.SS7 last year batast ■ — *)aici; last year eoi.83 baloi. May......... 9.vM Utt gits June....... — «J4f 8.15 S.3MI tt.SS July S.4lS 0.43 *4S§ *40 August.-.—...,..,—. 0.5340 P.64 Mis* IM September e.ioS e.40 o.toS 0.41 October...tin 0.25 0.25m 0.31 November....—. 0.2da 0.01 0.22$. Closed stcsdyj salsa 20,1t0|halea Local—Cotton steady at the following quotations: strict tow mid- NEW YORK, April 17—Tho total vtHbta • ofjootton (fortho>orld to 2,547,231 bates,of l 2,060,551 balsa are American, against 2,619,611 balsa ud 2,015,914 respectively last year. BeoslptoataU Interior towns 72,616 balsa Receipts from Pluto* UoaiM,i7i. Crop in sight 4,170 jot balsa raOWMOltg, QKAJM, TO, CONSTITUTION OFFICE, Atlanta, April 17, UW Tbo following qnoUUani Indicate UMflMtiuttlflBf on the Chicago hoard of trade today] WHPAT. Open In a. Hltbrat Lowaat (Hodov* I 7SJ4 .... 5: ISIS 0 22)4 0 22>< 9 22)i 5 25 6 27X April April. Live Stock ATLANTA, April 17— There aro enough 'male* - ■ honefl on tho market to anopljr the domandii. ‘UoMX handa »JO®8110; 14* to ir, hande i. Home—plug WUX$fW); drive tV25g)fl7B. INK ATI. April 17—Hofhjqulcl; oommonanft ,40##4. JO; packing and tratahen94.U09f4.l0. The action of Coffee county in electing dele* atee in advance of the calling of the convention jnot nnnanaL In tho Baooo-Boynton|oaapalcn nUtta like mutter ten men before. Inbqjh Ltd been considered a Simmons county, before the delegates wire elected. THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAION. In I ■ The reee in the third district ptomtooa to be ly In torn of according to th* wlregrass counties ^STOCK-DOCTOR TUOSVWI rest! Name this paper. ZKSi marfa-wkylltsow too Matt t potatoes—nttetOo. tbo comb Ufallra patches 9faSsi prated i dried apples 2c; evaporated, Fesnuto-Tennamra *01 Norik 'afflta A GREAT OFFER "TIIE EVANGELIST," both ons year for I "The Evangelist" prints th* uthortasd report* of Bern Jones's Sermons ud lb* offletel reports of hlsmsctings. II Ii the Best Religions Paper Ever PnblUhed and Bvcrjr Line Ii illre. Twenty Pages of Sam Jons* ta every iasoa Tbs test number Just out contains a graphic re port of the Great Chicago Meeting. For 9140 you gvt ■•THE CONSTITUTION" ud the "SVAEOKUST" ons year. Tho beat combi- nation ever mad* ud the chsapaiL Bud SI AO ud gat than two papers and you wlU bo fixed for th* year. “Th* Chicago Most- tag” waa a grand one and la report la aievetetioo.' LIGHTNING SHOT GUN. Wcmc thto paper. * pi* *n<ltaksord«rm. Onites ms Is I l«rd«s • C« m Kn4iu. Rt >ptC wkyll mid before the court house door In fa^V. b ;« 0U rS: l. neflt of .aid Geo. W. Miirpbr i of Geo. W. Murphy. riEORGIA, FAYETTE C0TNTY.-^TAR188I