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■fKIS WEEKLY CONSTITUTION! J ATLANTA. GA- 7TESDAY OCTUBiiB 5 1B80
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Vbc Prophetic Spider nnd III* Work.
Yon Ii*to oil rood of the strange enor
tnona spidrie Ibat bare for tbe put few
month* been spelling onl eticb letters as
••WAR,” nnd "KAIITIIQUAKK” fu tbelr
weba, aud drawing inch crowdawhila in this
propbttic work, u a dreni gymnast wonld
draw.
lost week one of there spiders found bit
way Into The Const.tition building,
finch as bo had noser boon seen there before.
Be impended himself from a window, and
went etnightsray to tracing immense letters
In tbe tir. Wn watched big gamy fracing,
letter alter letter, and Anally tbe following
wae clearly and definitely outlined, "100,•
COO! ”
We accepted tt at a happy omen. That
ipider knew hli bnaincea. lie meant to tell
ns and all others concerned that Tine Con-
■titdtion wonld aoon hare 100,000 nhscrh
ben. It could have meant nothing else.
Else wby should It bare flung these flg'
tnt» from The Constitution window, ae a
burner flung from an outer wall.
How, don't this settle it? Whin even
the spiders or* spelling for ns, csn'l you
help us? If you knew bow hard wo are
working for If, you certainly wonld. Now
Is tbo subscription lime. The long winter
days and nights are coming whoa everybody
wants something to read. They will take
Tim Constitution if yon will only show ft
to them. During October tbsre era 0,000
subscribers whose lime expiree. Are you
one of thrnf? Now, suppose each one of
there •ubeerthere brings ue one new inb-
arrlber when bis own renewal la asnt lo ?
Suppoae every mbscriber, on reeding this,
goads np his mind to get one new subscriber.
Won’t yon dp 11? Stand by ns anil onr
spider.
To Our Readers.
Thttt Is a day’a delay in issuing this
week's CowtnTrTiox. This delay is earned
by the non-arrival ol Ihe paper fur cutting.
By a arrtsa of accidents a train load of paper
tor Tim Constitution was delayed for
■early two wceka. Tbla threw m behind
•nedny. Our arrangements ura such that
this cannot occur again, and kcrealter anil
fori ver our read era may count on getting
their Constitution on lie regular day.
Bon. jKrrauHOK Davis bandies Central
Sherman srithout gloves, in a letter to the
Baltimore Rod, printed this morning. Tbe
a-preaident ehowt Ibat tha general was en
tirely mistaken In tha aUlemcnt he nude at
tbe meeting of Ibe Frank Blair grand army
poal, In 188-f.
Charleston Wednesday.
Wednesday was a day of feverish uneasiness
in Charleston. Knn the positive denial by
Wiggins of the tremendous prediction cred
ited to him by the Now York Herald failed
to stators complete confidence.
Thousands of tbo Charlestonlana pawed
tha day In a condition bordering on nervous
preatretiom It mutba recollected that they
had more substantial grounds far alarm than
Wiggins's alleged prediction. Tbe oonUnn-
anceof tbe checks at BammarvtUs, the ex
citement of tbo negro population and tha
termraf those who had not recovered from
the awtnl calamity of Auguet 3l*t were
enough to heap Ibe city excited.
Cbarlnlon has escaped
dreaded by so many, but
wadonhtedly been done. The American
people are nervous and eerily Impressed.
Predictions of wholeasle disaster have been
known to drive men and worsen Insane, and
to kill outright In many hntaneea.
Now, Ibat tbe troth is bshind n*. ws cun
aotaflnd to treat the matter as a fain. The
wild weeds attrlbated to Wiggins damaged
the commerce and industry of tbs Atlantis
asset to tbe extent of thoaaaada of dollars,
and resulted in an amonnt of mental an tier
ing that cannot be climated. After reading
•nr Charleston dispatches no one will Urol
1 to treat the affair lightly.
traders are to be believed, there Is no gen
uine democratic party in either o.' time
stairs. Three free-traders say that a pro
tectionist—even a very mild one—is n re
publican; and if Ibiaiitrue (be democrat*
nf Connecticut ami New Jeney are merely
republicans in disguise.
The party in froth states has resenlly met
in convention, and in each state it declared
that American labor and American industry
should receive adequate protection. It is
true there democrats did not go beyond tbe
protection plank in the democratic platform
Ibraralated at Chicago, but they are none
ibe lete open and avowed protectionists.
The (juration is, how are they to bo read
outol Hie party?
To Onr rtg.nt..
We oro rending nut tblsuark uur large, fraud
re,me colcrr-l porter* 'those of our agr-nts who
have received them will plow port Ibem up tu a
rowj Icuoui ph.ee. Those who bare uot re retro 1
them will plrare let in know rml pjslers will be
forward!.I si oner, if thru, are any age ul- who
emu we more than one to advnutigc we will lent
them ti many a> they wan! If they will write- to tu
for them.
••WIGGINS UKDt” and that', about the
alio ol K. Hia earthquake didn't mots and
The Cumulation will go right oa-tno
ohrapent and brat of papers. New la Ihe
time lo eabaertlie. _
A (Juror Ion.
Tbs fact that Connecticut and New Jer»y
are very important stoles in a presidential
election, ia generally conceded by thepelili-
• of both parties. They are not what
1 pivotal stoles, but In a presidential
ithesncoeai of Uro democratic party
ia those slates Is absolutely eaeeilial to tbo
ssccns ol the demotratfc party ia the Ba
ton.
And yet, if the Watteraoa-Uorrison free-
Im rcaae in Georgia's Property.
Id ibis issued Tut: Constitution appears
a comparative stoteuient of tbe wealth of
Georgia, escluaivo of railroad properly, fur
the present and the last fiscal year.
L'nder onr system of taxation returns are
inti rely voluntary, and the total amonnt
given in is doubUem far below thereat value
of the properly. Mill, there is in sight an
increase of neetly seven and a half millions
lor 1880, over the values of tbe preceding
yetr.
f'ily end town property in tbe state shows
an increase of I - ,TI 1, and the value of
improved lands Is almost a million dollars.
The only notable decrease is in tbe urnonnt
of cepllal invested in mining, which lias ap
parently fallen off IKI. Then bu cer
tainly bet n no decrease lo the mining Inter-
eslaol the slate correepomling to thia de
crease, and it would Im interesting to know
upon what lbs reduced returns in the item
ol mining are based.
An increase of nearly a million in bank
shares is one of the striking features of the
returns. The value of horses, urates, hogs,
etc., givin in ia about $300,000 less than it
wsa last jeer, when it is a wall known fact
that there has been a decided increase in the
amount nnd value of each property. There
are leveral points in this table of valnee
which suggest that the present system of
obtaining the true amount of taxable prop
erty ia defective.
Here is a subject which may well com
mand Ibe attention of Ihe legislature at its
neat session. An equalization of the bur
dens of taxation is one of Ihe prime condi
tions of a just stale government. With all
the accidents and Irregularities of thepres-
ent system, tbe properly in Georgia is trai
ned at *300,S07,578 for 1880, against $209,-
140,708 for 1888, exclusive of the onormons
value of railroad property. Tbe apparent
increase Is $7,300,780, wbieb will Im largely
organ uted by tbs rain nig of tha railroad*
A Cool Criminal.
In the course of a faw daya it will bo
known whelbetCluverltu wilt have a rehear
ing before tbe supreme court or not. If tbe
reheatiog Is rtfbscd, nothing hat executive
clemency will envo the prisoner from the gal
lows.
liming fbo trial the remarkable coolness
of the pilioncr excited remark, ills self*
possession was wonderfttl for one eo young.
Under the clrcnmetances it would have been
natnrst for even sn innocent man to ahow
some nervousness.
As Cluverltu approaches the crisis of his
fate there I* no change in bit tusnner. He
lalka cheerfully with his visiters, takes an
interest in Ihe outside world nnd spends his
time In reading the Bible, bla law books and
the mtgaxlncs of theday. He keeps tegoud
hreltb, never complains nnd hot won the
htarte of hie keepers by his never tailing
courtesy.
Strangers frequently visit tbe prisoner,
aid when they leav# their invariable remark
It: "Who could believe him guilty ol snobs
crlmt?”
If theis is snylhtng in circumstantial evi
dence, Cluvrriua la guilty nr the murder of
his cousin, hilts Mailitoo. Tbe manner In
which he beats up under his many burdens
>bows him to be a man of strong will power,
ne is, moreover, an educated mu, ud it ia
a peculiarity ol tbs educated criminal that
ha seldcm confesses hia guilt. He hopes on
to tbe lad. It is the ignorant criminal who
bleaks down and conlhsses. If this man gore
to the gnllowa he will probnbly maintain hia
innocence to tbe end, and them will be peo
ple who will believe him. There ia • preju
dice sgeinst circumstantial evidence, and n
verdict of guilty breed upon U never wholly
ralisflse Ihe public. 81111, there Is no noon-
sble doubt In this esse.
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A Shake In An Vnoapectetl Quarter
Tbe report ofn violent earthquake in sen-
tral Germany to not reassuring. It Is true
that Germany has had earthquakes in ike
pest. bnl they were few and far hstwesn.
This put of the world has enjoyed each a
marked exemption from seismic disturb-
aacce, that nil writer* oo earthquakes have
agreed in placing Germany in tha lie* of
countries not subject to such visitations.
It la probable that the shocks felt dnrtng
tbs put six weeks in Egypt, Greece, the At
lantic state*, Mexico and Germany an nil
due ton general cause, wide-spread nnd far-
reaching. How loog ikes* disturbances will
eentinna, ia something Urat it is vain to
•peculate upon. The fed that some of these
outbreaks bare occurred in localities hereto
fore considered rate, shows that wa reckon
without our hoit when wt count upon the
fixed stability af any mundane thing. But
there is nothing in all tbto to alarm good
people. Excitement and feu will sst pre
vent or modify earthquakes, ami uur urte
becoming attitude is one ol roigostiou.
A Itramll'ul Evening.
There to nothing in this world more Item-
tiful than the ivening of a life of pare aims
and good deed* The recent ovation tu ex-
Senator Allan G Thurman, by the democrats
of Cincinnati, had h. it something peculiarly
impressive. It was the tribute of the young
democracy to the patriarch of the party.
llr. Thurman to the moat distingniihrd
living dearecnL Ilia Intcltoct wonld hare
mad* him greet, but no dagree of mental
endowment, alone, could have bail-led a
fume like bis. Its firmest pillars are the
morel characteristics of the man—bis cour
age, his honesty, his generosity, and his ge
nial disposition. It happened that his ca
reer in national politics came in a time of
great commotion nnd of more than usual
corruption, and against snob a back ground
his record stands out in striking cUarneas.
Whoever chc was weaker wavering, he was
strong and steadfast. Whoever else was
false or delinquent, be was never within the
reach of calemny or suspicion.
It is a sad thing to see the life of such a
roan waning toward its evening, and to hear
him declare in hia simple, nnafl'ected way,
that his public career has closed forever.
Though U renounces all tbe honors of poli
tics, and contentedly withdraws to tbe peace
of his own fireside, there are honors which
he cannot tecape. They are such trlbntes
no lie has just received from the democrat*
of Cincinnati, and which-await him wher
ever in this country his noble form is it-
tognized. All honor to the old ltomin!
Cnu.tn Heiay Uamlllon gives ne tlrle week
un edrnlrahle tetter on “Sluecartyne Bunt-
tug. 1 ' Nest week the will here » tetter on
“Courtin' en the Cooey," which will he one
of Ihe heel rlie hue ever written. Dun.t fell
lo get her “Counts"' letter,
Two Reniaricablo Cases.
Many people seem disposed to doubt the
atntrnient of a noted; Banks county moon-
shiner, to Ihe effect that be has averaged a
quart ol coin whisky, daily, since he was
twelve years old. He is no ,v sixty-six, and
is hale and hearty.
Snrlr figures are rather paralyzing. In
liity-four years this man most have swallow
ed about Ore thousand gallons of corn
whirky. flow he oonld doit, and lire, is a
mystery.
lint the moonshiner had a dangerous rival
in Mr. Traey, the late New York millionaire.
In the Iconleat over Tracy’s will, the tact
come out that for the past thirty years be
was in the habit of drinking two or three
quarts of wine and a quart of brandy every
day. A strong effort has been made to show
that Ibis habit affected his mind and esased
his death; bnt Iris physician, Dr. Hopkins,
does not indono this view. Ho says, on
oath, that Tracy remained of sound mind
until his death, aud that the quantity of
liquor be r rnsumed did him good. On crois
examination he denied that the excessive
tree ol alcohol would cause iusnnlly, and
quoted Doctors Ztarkn.ll end William A.
Hammond.
From theee two eaaes it appear! that some
men are so constituted that poison supplies
with them a long felt want. It nourishes
them and keeps them alive. Snch men are
moustreeitiee. They deserve to rank with
the glass eater from Texas. Not one mu
in a million could imitate their example
and live ten years. The only explanation
(bat ran begiren is (hat tbe syatemsof three
men were surcharged with the potoon of
•cme chronic disease, and the liqnor acted ns
counter poiton. Hack instances have no
bearing on the drink problem, bnt they will
interest the medical world, *
A Princely Gift.
By a singular oversight the Associated
Press failed to mention tbe value of the
magnificent estate presented by the Due
d’Aumoleto the French people. The Chun-
fitly estate is valned at over $12,000,000.
Decides the splendid castle, there are nu
merous handsome buildings, some of them
filled with rostly trophies, pictures, books,
archives nnd objects of att. There are pic-
tnretque pubs, gardens ud forests. Tbe
estate Is fomons throughout Europe as a
domain worthy of mynity itself.
The Dnc d’Anmnlr, instead of holding on
to this valuable properly until hU death,
prefsn to act as his own executor. At tho
ago of clary-four he tenders this gift to
Franco, ud appoints agents duly authorized
to mike ihe transfer. The remarkable fea
ture of the business is that d’Annul* is one
of tbe Orleans princes recently banished
(torn Kroner. Never before in the history of
the world did an exile heap auch a golden
•bower upon tbe beads of his enemies.
It will lie Ihonght that d'Amnnle bad an
eye to the future when he made this gift.
Whether this be true or not, the effect will
be favorable to tbe Orleau* princes. Toe
French art not an ungrateful people, aad
(hey are not likely lo enjoy Chantilly with-
ont thinking kindly of its former owner and
Ihe men of hie lineage. It to safe to say tbst
the members of the boose of Orleus wilt not
always remain in exile.
I DITOttlSI. NOTES.
Dirt you ever hear or a man who wru Uatterl
States senator for lust one mlnuto r Tnr Coxxn re-
nos hart * visitor yestsntoy with that record-ax-
Governor Walker, of Florid* It happened this
wty: In 1071 the legUlsture was republican by
one nsjoctly. Governor Walker was iho dsmrc-
cratle candidate for senator. After tedious ballot-
lot, * republican number from Tallahassee, named
Avery, vottd “Walker."
1 Ida elected him. When the ballot wu closed
tbo crowd hccowo ulld with enthusiasm. Tbe
chacrlnff, which luted hilly n minute, prevented
the choliman from announcing tho vote. In tho
meoullmo tho republicans had nurrounded Avery,
and hereon declared that ho cud uot voted for
Qovcroor Walker, but for Sun Walker, a imalt re
publican politician about town. Tbla loft Govern,
or Walker one short or an election. Finally, Hr.
tones, the present senator, wsa put op, captured
the needed voiii and wu elected. '
At one of tho poot-bellum Mato fair* a min
from Echols county brought up to tho judges n
raior-l-ack plucy woods hog. Tho hog’s head wu
ai| long as a barrel, and hli bams were not big*
got than pan cakta. Ho presented a lively con
trast to the tat hogs tu iho dug and tho lodge,
uked iho owner wbai ho meant by entering iuch
an animals
“1 enter him as the best hog for this country.'’
“What qualities do you claim for him"'
“Epced!’*
"W bat ha. speed to do with a hog: 1 '
* Why, no hog will do for Iho wire grass tbst
can't out run t nigger!”
Hero Is t good llitto war itory-
Jabo Mathis or Iho Tnineeotb Georgia was *
good soMter, but on* day when the confederates
were retreating from the gory Held cf Gettysburg,
Jabc threw hUmu-kctou theground, seste t him
self by the roadside nnd exclaimed with great
vehemence:
“I'll be dashed If I walk another nep! I'm broke
rtevn! Icau'tdoU!” AndJabewu aha picture
cr despair.
•■Git up, man," exclaimed his captain, “don't
yen know the yaakeca are following nr? TSryTI
gtt you mre!"
• Can't kelp tt,”aald Jabe, “Urn done for. I'll
cel wall another step r
The ronftderates passed atoog over the crest of
shill sod tost stoat of poor, dejoeud Jabe.
In n moment mere was n town nuts ot mue-
trip nnd n renewed ersah ot '
DURING THE WEEK.
Tuesday, Baidombar UK,-James EllCB CMke
died at bis home In ( large county, Virginia—Ex-
President Arthur returned to New York from New
London, Conn Colonel G. C. Greene, former
editor of the Boston Post, is dead ttts reponed
tbst Csriist bsads hare sppeo.ed on tho HpnntsU
frontier Henry Khodert hsd hbs neck broken
by e fair from his hor-o while riding home near
Biownrtonn, tad....Secretary Bayard left Wrun-
Ini'.on for a few day* vacation.
Irr thx Cjtv.—Several mexbirs of tho Central
Presbyterian church organized a relation at zdi
Wc>l Peters street—O.tver B. Ford, the young
man from Indianapolis, lad , who was couriered
in tlie hujrf tior court of stealing amule and wagon
fiom a fanner named Henderson, new Smyrna,
Ga., vii sentenced to four jwr* lathe peul-
UnUtry ...Tbe c»x; of C. C. Week*, for the mur
der of Bud Nub, wbi token up In the superior
courr,...Mr. Frank Urkin wm cru»hed to denth
at the new cApitol bj a itonc weighing About V,V00
pound* foiling on him.
WertneMtay, September SD.-Gorornor Hurt,
of WUcomId, Ktut-d a ;rocltra«tlou lorWdlug ibe
UnportAtkm of cattle into the fctAte Alexander
McBride, a prcuNOAn In the ofhceof Angell A Co.,
rrovidcnce, It. I., h«n?cd bloself lo a »haftlag iu
the prcaa room All bands at one of the milU At
Lewiston, Malue. struck becAuae ibeir deouad for
tbe dlscbArgeof an overaecr wa* refined....It Ui
Meted by the builds tb»t "The Chicago," Ibe
U*t and forgest of the four steel crulsere Authorized
by cotpress fn i*vj, whl prohibly beHahhed by tbo
first ol Jauutry... Joliu R. tbtcldi Co , Norfolk,
Va, hardware merchant*, eedgned Tbe twenty*
sixth triennial meeting of the general grand chap
ter of Hojal Arch Muoum opened in Washington.
lv the City.—An unknown negro wooua wm
found dead in a ho’ue ou Magnolia street C. C.
weeks, marge! with the muidtr ofBtid IfMb, \ya*
found guilty of voluntary manslAughter Kugeuc
Beck, ol Rabun county, Ga.. who murdered his
wife aud sister In-law, passed through Atlanta
with Mr. Will Turner, the petitentlary guard, ou
his way to Dado county coal mine* to *crre a lile
(entente.
Ttinruday, September to.— (icorpe Smith was
Instantly crushed todeethatC'hRtteuoogabyjuop
log down Iu front of morlng c»r-> to open m Mrttcrb
Jcmcft K. Ford, of Pari*, Ky.. aisigncd
Bear Creek, Ark.. Ughtniug struck the house of W
J. Roden and killed a boy and girl dir Reginald
Hen.vou bar been elected lord mayor of London for
the coming year There was another riot la Bel*
fast between Protestant and Catholic workmen at
Bat tour's foundry China intends to!*ue • loau
of fifty* million dollars for tbe conatraction of rail'
ways in the empire.
In tjic City.—The revival mectiuga at tbe First
MetbodUt aud Iris ity Methodiat churches are well
attended... Atlanta baa aa amateur minstrel
troup, un amateur dramatic association and an
amateur circa- company. ..At eumetyesterday
evening tbe JewUo New Year WIT waa inhered lu
Charlie Rose the moat dangerous and deipente
criminal Atlanta ever produced, ercaptd (com the
Bade coal mints.
Friday, October 1.—Mr. Jofleph Neal, maternal
uncle or President t 'erelau j, waa burled at Mount
Olivet cemetery, Baltimore The number of
bualncK failures In the t’nlted states and Canada
fortbequarter ending September soih la l,9G2aa
compared with ?,l?j for the third quarter of 1995
.... A. S. Gage & Co, wholesale millinery*G'hloago,
aligned The director* of tbe North Louiatana
fair asicciatiou, will hold a lair, comwoaclnj No
vember 10 to i:i inclusive... Iter. 8am Small, tho
evangelist, is in Nashville.
In tiik City.—Jed It. Smith, a carpenter, fell
from a building and fractured hlalctt thigh... .The
case of Luther Klllson, who killed Bart Wall a few
weeks ago, waa taken tip in tbe superior court
A lady living on Kugenla street found a silver
quarter in ac oyster can Mr. W. B. nenderaon,
of bttKalb county, baa sent to the commissioner
of agriculture a floe specimen or yellow Orinoco
tobacco.
SNtnrday, October 3 -Jashua Dunn, formorly
American vice consul general at London, is dead
.... i*i t rtdeut Grevy, of France, hag sanctioned the
creditor $210,000 for the encouragement or the
French ica fisheries The French chamber of
deputies has been summoned to assemble on Oc
tober 14.... Jsmea G. Header, the Newark band de
faulter, waa perdoued by the governor of New
Jersey 8. S. Hamilton, a prominent citizen of
Louikvllte, Ky„ fell down a stairway and broko
hia neck, dying tostsntly.
In tiik City - Herman Sweet, a young man em
ployed at the Exposition cotton mills, lost hia
linger while cleaning machinery..... Luthor Bill*
son, who kiiitrU lf&rt Wait, was fonud guilty in too
superior court aud sentenced to the Dade county
coal mines for life... The weather for the past t wo
day?) has teen cool.
Sunday. October H—Tbe pork packers or
Chicago will Insist on the ten hour day and will
close down, and over thirty thousand men vrili be
thrown out of emp’oj mem A mtoftnary party
of eight left New York for Africa The Klugs
county, New York, grand jury found indictments
against tbe charity commtaioncri for neglecting to
properly care for parent* ...Violet Cameren'a
husband, Bcnsande, wa* released ou ball The
property of the Uowc (owing machlno company,
at Bridgeport, Conn., was sold under a decre*fore
closing a mortgage. The proporty brought •100,000
Morris. Wcgllcn. dry good-, Baltimore,
•lined.
iKTitr.CiTv.—Mr. E. D. Msuck aud family, of
Springfield, Ohio, have moved to Atlanta, and will
go into the fruit /ro*la*bu«luC4»at Uapovillo.
Tbe revtvsl services at Trinity church close to
night The Englishmen of Atlanta will, in a few
daj n, organize a society tube called “St. George’s
Society."
PERSONS AND THINGS.
“Haile. Jabe, thought you v
•Thindevr* repUrt
w*b*tMwrt v*
do your*
r yelled:
n’t going to walk
Ax eighteen-months old child in Texas
crawled ontoflts mother's bed Ihe ocher night,
wu not mused until morning,when it wu tracked
acrouKYctal hum, nndor wire and through rail
fences, for four mile?, and was fonud unharmed in
the brakes or the North Bosque.
A coBhxaroxDkXT in Mexico explains why
the Mexican calls the American a "Gringo." She
uys that when the American army tnvaded Mex
ico a favorite song in the camps wu Rums'* “Green
grow (be rashee, <>." The Mexican* heard it re
peated over and over, and fin illy began to call tbe
Americans by the fim two would, which they
pronounced “grlu go." Hence “Gringo."
A mono the excellent pictures that hare ac-
coir pan led the advertisement of a certain soap
wu one of a doctor advising a patient to boy thh
wu about to send the newspapers to um
old doctor's friends, who would have a portrait
painted from the adverti>lng picture.
A xovvq hone cut hit nasal bone and also
great gashes In his neck while entangled in a
baibtd wire fence at Randolph A veterinary
enrgten bu put pieces of ordinary garden hoae in
tbe coil’s iiottti's and throat (%r him to breath
hioi gh. and be ia gtttiug along firat rate.
Tilh Washington Critic hat information to
tbe eCcct that Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Bollard,
where father left her a fortune made oat of Mr*.
Winslow's soothing >yrup, arc often seen riding
cut lu ra.-is together, and are a handsome looking
couple. It t» added that 'Theodore Ttltou'i
_^ .. .
other
. btr chgli in SeiUrrlaud. TUion'.
daughter is living wiih her hiuband In Chicago,
and Mr». Tilton U fu a rrotestaat convent In New*
ark.”
John Kktkn Cooke lived at "The Briars"
in iharkcfiocnty. down where the Virginia bUls
are blue. Hist harm u a writer was mainly dtM
to hl> love of all that went on horseback In colo
nial Vtrgluia. liewu a cavalier In totasymps
uk*. but b!h>ardent in hli patriotism. Tn>ne
who have r*>ll(iw«d his ropy know how IiUimi
get over paper when he wu tatting of atptrfied
art. Irr the uptight Utters were every watch-*-
way tht u a» thuuith blown (bout by a puff from a
mcuDtatu fan «Ailou*I rz.x»ke wu surhaymiug
man wbvn be Cnbbed bis brief hi-Drvof Virginia,
Iked r»> nmch— Jcb< *ua;t. of the 6rok**u
As ticxsnrcr of (be TenctylvanU railroai
company, tho late John D. Taylor wa» the signer
ol tbe chick p*id for a coatrolliu* tn-
tcrot h* the I’hUtoOelpDs, Wlimlr.jrion and Britt-
uoreiiad, tLclargvtot check ever drawn in Beau-
sylvsnta.
A woman went U bv.hine at Ocean Grove
talelj and left h«r pocket buok. couUtnfng ftO,
with ar other woman who was rittingoo the beach.
The laucr drepped the pure* into a ware that
came suddenly apea the kmken eo. Tkrw days
later tbe owner of the pone went lo hath tag
8J»* Koekod*wver'ly 1 f ‘SreaSw.^Su
clutched sometklng spengy acd fimnd .hat Ik WU
her pone, with Us cooteMe nnlajared.
SHERMAN’S STAfEMtiNT
HON, JEFFERSON DAVIS DENOUN
CES IT AS A SLANDER.
Another Chapter to the Cettrovmr Between
Vavie and Otaeral Bbsrman in Beftra to
Speeob Made bv the Latter to itat-Tae
Report to the War Oepartmsnt.
Baltimobs, September 30.—The Snn tomor
row morning will print x letter, fivo columns
in length, from Jefferson Davis in relation to
the long standing controversy between himself
and General W. T. Sherman. The letter is
dated Beauvoir, Mist, September 2:)«1, 1380,
nnd begins ae follows:
At various times, snd from many of my friem
I have been uked to furnish a reply to General '>.
T. Sherman’s soeailed report to the war depart
ment which the United States seattc ordered
printed as "Ex Doc. No. an, forty-eighth congress,
Kcond session."
I have been compelled by many causes, to
postpone * reply to there furitetlous aud have in
•cme Instance* declined, for the time beiog, to
undertake the labor, continuing tbe sense ot great
injustice done me and the people I represented.
By tbe senale making the malicious assault of
General Sherman a public document aud giving
to his statemeut importance which nccessArily
attaches to au executive commuuioatlnu to the
senate, has recently caused a request for a reply
by me to bo pressed with very great earue-stau*.
For this re a* on. I have decided to furnish a reply
for publication tu the Baltimore Sun. The history
of my public life brars tvidenco that I did oil In
my power to nreveuf the war; that I did nothing
to preclpftata the collblou; that T
did uot reek the post
chief executive, but advised my friends
that I preferred not to flJl it. That history Genera!
Pbcimau may risnderenriy assail by hi- statements,
but he cannot alter Us consistency, nor can the re
publicans of the senate change tta uubrokeu story
of faithful (ervice to the untou of tho constitution!
until by ccmmand of my sovereign state, I with*
drew as her ambassador from tae United States
senate. For all acts of my public life, as president
ot the confederate states. I am responsible at tbo
bar of history and mu»t accept her verdict, which
I shall do without the least apprehension that it
will be swayed from tho truth by the malicious
lakehood* of General Sbermau. even wbea
(tamped as an “cx doc." by the Culled States
senate.
Hr. i>avis then recites the statement made
by General Sherman before a gather!ug of
ex anion soldiers la 1881, that he (dherann)
had seen a letter from Hr. Davis to a United
8tates rtnator in which he (DatIs) asii he
wonld turn Lee's army ag&lut any state that
might attempt to secede from the southern
confederacy."
Hr. Davis then quotes hia latter to the St.
Louis Republican, printed at that time, deny
ing the truth of Bfaerman's statement, and
interviews had subsequently by reporters
with Shennsn, to whom tho Utter satd:
This is an affair between two gentlemen. I wilt
take- my time about tt, and write to Mr. Davis my
self. We will scttlo tho matter between u«.
•Tt is hardly necessary for me to say," continues
Mr. Davis, "that General Sherman did uot write to
me snd we have not staled tbe matter between us,
otherwise than as I settled U by denouncing his
statement as false and himself as a slanderer.
There the matter would hare rested, so far as I was
concerned. But when the war department of the
rmted States was made custodian of his slander,
acd republican senators bccamo IU indorsers, and
the itatements made at tbe Frank BUlr post were
lifted into official importance, It became a doty,
alike to myself and to the people I represented, to
follow the slanders with my denial and to expose
alike its author aud his indoners.”
Mr. DavU reviews at length the progross of
the controversy, reciting the denial of evory
senator from the son them states that he had
received such a letter as that spoken of by
Sherman, and accusing Sherman llrat of try
ing to snbetltnte a letter from Alexander H.
Stephens to Herscbel V. Johnson for the al
leged Davis letter; then of representing that
tho Davis letter was lost in tho confusion ot
the rebellion archives In the war department;
nnd finally ot pretending that he had seen
tho alleged letter at Raleigh, N. C, and inti
mating that it was addressed to Governor
Vance. Mr. Davis quotee the pablishod de
nial of Governor Vance that ho had re
ceived tuch a letter from him and cays:
My alleged Raleigh letter has never been fonnd.
8humau rays it was-ditto Nashville, Hivaunah,
Washington a.nfftlt. Loul«, and may have been
finely burned In Chicago In the groat lire of ISTi.
But in all ita travels no other person but Sherman
saw it. Not a single officer at any headquarter
bfd been produced who read It, and it puses ba
ilor that iu tbo excitement ol the closing days of
the war, and during my Imprisonment, vraen
every letter of mice wu carefully examined to
find evidence upon which to convict aud destroy
me, uot an officer at all thrao headquarters
should have read that letter. Ever) frit minted
man mmt, therefore, conclude that General Sher
man stated at the grand army post a willful, de
liberate foirehood.and that his m>
Uve hsd Its inspiration la thu
mean malice which bas chaianeriz *d his acts and
writings in other ;respects toward the smtthern
people.
Tne so called "histories! statement concerning
the publicpollcy of the executive depsrtment of
the confederate states " as Hirer«sa’« Is.ter to tho
war'department it beaded in tuat "K*-Djc."
opens with tbe folio wt ox statemiu :
“That 1 (Sherman) bad a.-en papers which con
vinced me that even Mr. Divis,
president of the southern conleieracy,
had, during tbe progress of the war,
changed bis stale right doctrines, aud had threat
ened toutc force—even Lee's army—should any
state of tbe confederacy attempt to secede from
that government."
With the mental procaaa by which General Sher
man is convinced, 1 hevo no concern, but the
papers in w hlth be alleged that 1 threatened to uro
force againststates of tho confederacy ought to be
tangible and producible, and in the "hutorlcri
statement" tbe senate ought to have demanded the
production of proofs, and on failure >o produce
them, and after denial by the sonetors who Sher
man alleged had received them. such ‘ historical
statement" already branded with falsehood and
unsupported by evidence, ought to have
been rejected with the onlv wonder how
ll got before the senate. It is apparent tbst this
■o-callcd "historical statement" had been seen by
republican senators, and that they were not igno
rant of its real character when the Hawley reso
lution wu under dlsoumion in the agnate, Tnosa
senators then knew that General Shgrman had,in
his letter of January ft, 1183, to tho secretary of
war, changed the iwaibotween m Drum one of
veracity to a rambling, shaming ui-ctmlon of a
"conspiracy" and of "conspirators" in the winter
of 1S60-61, and that which at the Frank Blair post
mty have been si "white lie," uot intended for
tnblication, came before the sen
ate u an "historical statemeut," bli
stered with other falsehoods equally
itbout foundation or support in anything writ
ten or ottered by me. It uow survives u au • K t-
Doc," of picturesque prevarication. 2 know
nothing of any "cousplracy" or “coniptratois."
There wu no secrecy about any of the politic ri af
fairs which lad to tho recession of statas in l&tt-ci.
It was u>e opinion of a conference of southern
senators in January, 1861, which Is Intro lac jd in
this historical statement m the evidence or "con
spiracy," that seceraton wu the onty remedy left
to the state*; thu every effort to preserve the
peace had failed, mainly through the action of
that ponton of tha repnb icao party wale* re
fused all propositions for aJjadneut
made by those who sought, in J au-
uary, !>*»!, to justify coufiJcUw’C, Itwary
pesre acd rrcrerre the union. I a the same mouth
lu which that conference wu held I served ou a
ermmiitce reived hr tho aenata to srok oas p »•*
riblc mede cf quelling the exfitcn>>nt -ust then
existed. That eommi.teo wis exI of t”J *
three political dlvidous of tbe ten ere. au 1 tt w u
considered ixclets to report any which
did not receive the concurrence of tt It in a ma
jority of each division. Thrrepub'f-.ti oenators
rejected tvery proposition thu promt ed pactl?a-
Uon and the committee rtp itted to Use suusia that
their consultation wu a failure. Wat there lew a
conspiracy in the repobUeta eetutor* comMufag
prevent pacification than there wu in
uniting
•sol
Watatag-
Tbe epithets which Senator Sherman, in debate,
applied to myself are his mode of retaliation oi
my denunciation of his brother, i have been
compelled to prove General Sherman to bo a falsi
fier acd slanderer in order to protect my charact r
acd reputation from his wilful and uni crapulous
mendacity. If his brother, tho senator, felt tho
t ling of that exposure, and his epithets are eny
relief, I am content that he shall go on record as
denouncing me u a "traitor," because I have
proved his brother to be n liar.
This “historical statement" might have been eo-
larged and extended by the senate, and made to
embrace the deliberate mtsr* presentation by Gen
eral Shennsn of the communication to him bp
Colonel J. D. steviuson, In regard to Albert Sidney
Johuitcn's command in Ban Francisco. In a let
ter to Colonel william U. Knight, of Cincinnati*
Ohio, dated October 28, 1SS4. General Sherman,
asaened (hnt
“Colouti J. D. Ffevcnson, now living in Satv
Fraucl-co. has or ten told me that he had cautioned
tbe gomnment as to the plot or conspiracy through
the department commander. Albert Sid
ney J (hr -fen, to delltor possession of tbo?
forts, etc., to men in Criiforaia sympathising with
tbe rebels in the south, and he thinks it was by
his Hdvlce that the presltaut (Lincoln) sand Gen
eral feumner to relieve Johnston of hts command
before tbe conspiracy waa consummated."
That ftatement of Sherman the veteran Colonel?
J. D. Stevenson promptly and emphatically de
nied.
General Grant himself has not been extmph
from Sherman's malice. To Colonel Sou, Sher
man wrote:
“If C. J. smith bad lived Grant would have dis
appeared to hlttory.”
This remarkable statement was published by-
General Fry and polutedly and emphati
cally denied by General fcherman,
j'xojspt to slander, he is equally*
quick to deny his language. The letter of fiber-
man, dated (September «th, 1883, was written to>
Colot el Scott, now of the war record offioe. The
denial of Shcrmau bas caused the publication of
the letter and the exposure of his hypocrisy in hie-
recent laudation of the dead chieftain.
The deliterate falsehood which Sherman insert
ed in hia official re pot t, that Colombia. 8. a, bad-
been burned by General Wade Hampton, wu after
wards confessed In his Memoirs to have been dis
tinctly cbaigcd on General Wade Hampton to*
fcbake the folth of bis people In him. Even where
confessing one falsehood, ho deliberately coined
another, and oo the asms page of hts-
• Memoir*" said that the fire "wassccldeatal,”
when be knew from letter of Central Stone, who
commanded the proroitgaard in Columbia, that
the fire wu not arcldentaL How much more he-
knew he may lu fhtnre "Memoirs" or "Statement"
reveal. Can any wan Imagine* less moral chap
acter, leu conception or the truth, leas regard for
wbat an official report should contain, than ie-
shorvn by Sherman deliberately concocting »
falsehood for the dishonorable purpose of shaking
the faith of the peopleof Booth Carolina In their
fellow-citizen, General Wade Hampton? X have-
in this'Vindication, uot or myself only, but also-
of tbe people who honored me with the highest
official position in their gift, been compelled to
group together instances of repotted falsehood*
deliberately spoken and written by General Sber
mau. The Blair post slander of myself, the de
famation of character of General Albert Sidney
Johnston, the disparagement ot the military famo-
of General Grant and the shameful and corrupt
cbjrge against General Hampton.
I bare prepared this examination and exposure*
only because the senate of the United States has
given to Sherman's slander an Indorsement which
gives It whatever claims it may have to the atten
tion and of power to mislead in the
future. Having specifically stamped the
ktatement as false; having proved its author to be
an habitual slanderer, and not having a partisan
rccteury to make place for this notice of a per-
local made, which was neither an official report
or record made dnrlog the war, soaa tocntitle it
to be received at the office of arch I vet. 1 submit it
to tee public through the colnmca of a no wvpaper
which d Itcoantonaiiced the fool play and misrep
resentation, and which was kind and Just to mo
lu its iMuc of Jannary 1*. 18ft.
A HEALTHS GROWTH.
How
Little Story Slay Increase In tho
Lapse of Years,
From the Estclline Ball.
A number of yean ggo Jim McBryar, who
now lives near Xstclllce, resided In northern His-
tcurf. One day be crested Coon creek at an old
ford, and when he arrived at town, told tbe story
aa follows:
1 give t her new brldgather shake terday and
come la by Lon. Chapman's old fort,"
"Was the water very deep?"
"It wu only ’hour A couplo o' foot"
A.;tir itler ho was talking with a group oi
friends, wbrn some ono referred to the creek, an£>
McBryar said:
"Yes, 1 cac’latc ther water wu perttj mld'lin’
high in Coon creek lut spring, forgot ther time
1 v. ux in in a hurry aud cut acrost at the old
ford?"
“The water wu ptetty high, wasn't it?"
"You bet it £«rei it com# right np trnher wagon
box and z,y oft horse had ter swim a little, but J
n ah right."
Pomo five yean
foont of a grocery store, and 1
this:
•Yes."
"it just # .. —,....
the r bridge went out I came to town, an I
where ther want no ford naitner,"
"Wasn’t It dangerous?"
“Well, 1 should Ju»t reckon It was! I don't know
how deep the water might o’ been, bnt there want
no bottom. The old soril aud bay bad tor swim
'bout a hundred yards. I stood i‘
gon and then 1 got |>rctty wet., .
want any more auch sperieocea."
Some years after old Jim moved to Dakota. Ho
hna been here but a abort time when ono day be
got a crowd trotnad him oo the street comer in Ea-
tclliuc, aud said:
“G« n'Jcmc-n. I thought a
water on tbe Big Bloux? l_
•Well.now,lTlteliyeryer <
bout high water un'n this country. I had a litilo
spcrlence with water down in Mlasoari that was
juu 'bout all I wanted."
t one cfjrer spoke of high
Yea. luowcd 1 heenTtt.
yer don't know nothing
winter, and I crossed theGrandrirer after tr doc
tor. The bridge wu all gone, and bouse* was
dealing down like steamboats. I had a fine team
o' hn»M‘P, and 1 bad ter get acrost, so I Just drove
right In and mado ’em swim. It were nigh on
half a mile, aud It were rainin' and the waves
were a-rollin’o but I Just stood np'n the wagon and
swung the whip and got acrost at last"
One day this weak J;m came into the Bslloffice
•no said*
“Yourgman, I reckon yon never had no spsr-
lento with high watt* ?*»
Nr.t vciT much."
I'lowed you hat_ . . _
four-hone team end stage f
the Miwootl river once."
"Is that a tact?"
. ' Yon bet it are. You see. I wu driving a stago
in the»pricy of '67, alter the deep snow, and there
cornea up a big storm, and I didn't get to tbe rivet
till after dark, but X wubonsd to crosa The river
wu foaming and leapln'and the waves wu run-
um’ high and It were /nil of log* end lee, and the
honst s and men and cattle thu it'd wuhed away,
bnt I just says to my pa»’iigefl(: "Ladles and gen-
•lemtD, we cromea bar r and I drove
In. It were two miles to tha other shore aud dark
u 1 he inride of a cow, end the vain and ball were
pouring down and the lightnin' strikin' all ar*
totitd us. but I stood up and whooped a couple o'
ttmn and in we went 1 tell yon ft were a power
ful bad place ter be end ike peTngsre were mighty*
^ftmUdlxYs
(kccicd, but I
‘ Both. Hadn -
struck by HghtnUrand floatin' trees and
and cakes o' ka, and cattle 1 ‘
mound us and making the
ever beert. I kep’ whoopin' aad larrupin' the
h«>Ms. but every little while cm ot 'em would
get (truck by lightnin'. The current took a* down
bout four miles, bnt tbe bouee kep’ er swim tala'
nnd I kep’ er wboopta*. and at last we git over.
1 were tough now X tell you, young man, end
since then ft Jnstinekec me sfek to hear mats of
three tellers,that never mm nothin' bigger*n n
trout stream, talk 'boat high water."
The Baby.
The baby'e second summer? Every mothev
knows wbat that means. Tbe poor little pilgrim
bu already found Ibe rarth a place of team and
pain. Those teeth comtng so fast, and aa they
ccmt occe*lotting ro much uisturbanoe in the frag-
l!e little frame, what a ?ourcH of peril and Irrita
tion they are to the baby and of anxiety to the pa-
rents! Keep the b&by in romforr. Dress him loosely
and rimy-lyr wttb soft thin w.oien garments next
tfce tk!u. Give him a inong? bath when he erica
uneasily and fretfully. See that there is no chafing
of the rnft Ct*h and that no pins are pricking him
In ulun*peel'd place* 1 tt hu food be properly
conked and given at rentier Intervals, end attend
to iUltber ynniself or let It bo prepared ey a trust
worthy tenon. Let»h* lit la ou« be out of dome
much of tbe rice, nnd If h»- tt ill and a physician
Is to \e had. rend for one promptly. Frail as tbo
life of an infant tt, and oolcsly aatbeatlrerihzaad
may be snapped, «et a yutnur ehUd rallies in a wav
imroaslble pan adult A very rick Child, i
today may be frisk*ng a* out m»n“ * —
Never despair of tha r * “
Hfe lasts, fnt do noth
dttoasa. Fk
the battle.-
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