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THE WEEKLY COjVS’ITrUTlOJir. ATLANTA, QA* TUESDAY DECEMBER 14
AN AWFUL STORY.
XltU* Children BaerfQoed to th* Youdoo Berpont-Ocd
—Arractico Terribly Prevalent and the Gov
ernment Apparently Helpleu-Tbe la.
voaHgaUon ffaacated by a Re»lcUnt.
From the New York World
Some months ago tho statement was made to
• the World by a reputable resident of Hayti that
-human sacrifices to the god Voodoo are of fre
quent occurrence in that republic; that the
practice U well known to ihe government ami
that tho sacrifice is almost always followod by
a cannibal feast
The statement was at once so startling and
. apparently incredible that it could not bo used
before rigid investigation established its truth
"beyond question. Hayti is within 1,300 miles
' Of the city of New York and within two days*
soil of the American coast Tho republic is as
organised a government as is our own—with a
president, cabinet and congress, a regular army
and police, governors for tho various districts,
a judiciary, and magistrates for the towns.
It would appear from tho testimony that
whHe tire government-wishes to suppress the
terrible practices, it is almost helpless in fuco
of tho very general worship of Voodoo by a
considerable part of the Haytian people.
Investigation by the World lu3 shown that
tho statement is certainly true that tho prac
tice of human sacrifices and of cannibalism
prevails extensively and almoit openly in
Jfaytij but'to just what extent it prevails tho
natural reticence of the government and. police
officials concerning it mokes it impossible to
establish.
WHY TBS STORY IS TOLD.
1 The fcrntlunen from whom tho - World ob
tained the first statement m connected - With
largo buitoem interests on tho island, I£o ob
jects to the publication of,his name, because
tlie revelation would not only greatly 'injure!
tho business of those with whom he ia con
nected, bat might very likely put their live
in serious danger.
‘‘Last spring,’' ho say* "I ipcnt aomo weoka
In Cape Haiticn, one ot tho largest and moat im
portant cities in Hayti, and while them I met a
number of Dominican gentlemen, who, for va
rious rcaaona, had been compelled to apond a
long time in the sister republic.
In April the workers on one of the’coffee
B in Cations near Ixs Cap iutendod having min*
nd of a demonstration in lionorof oneof their
superstitious anniversaries, and my friend
learned that, incidental to the Vondoo worship
(which, by the wny, onaccompaniod by human
sacrifice* no IUytlsn wUi deny, oiizts), there
would be e human sacrifice. On the evening of
April 18,1868, he catno to my houaa, where
both of uo dressed onnelvea in the ordinary
country workingman’, costume, and then hod
our hands and faces well blacked by tho negro
who was to conduct us to tho vondoo temple.
. TUX VOUDOO "TEMPI*”
The negroes had constructed'a rode, wooden
shanty among the trees and whore, it. could
hardly bo noticed by any casual passer-by, if
edch there might be In that lonely quarter.
Into this miserable hut we were nthered by our
■ride, whft to obtain. adtnlttsno*uttefed,some'
rignal words to the two brawny negroes who
afood guard at the entranco and who close!
interrogated every person' who entered. We
were apparently allttlo late. In the single
rdem there was a motley crowd of negroes—
men and women—congregated around a sort of
wood m throne erected in tho middle of tho room.
On this throne, arrayed in many oolored long
gowns and adorned with ranch tawdry finery,
there sat on chain draped with flaming red
cloth amansnd woman. They wore tho papa-
loi and mamalol, or the priest and priestes
the order of tho Voaaoos. At their foot
tho box which contained the ‘holy sorpont’
which was being worshipped by this ungodly
assemblage.
As we entered the people worn singing
chant—low and monotonous—and at .'Sign
from our mentor we—my Mend and I—Joined
ASm DKT.TRTUM.
■"'TWhcn'this clianl him been finished tl
succeeded an interval of deathly quiet, daring
which the worshippers appeared to be engaged
inprayer. Suddenly the'silchce was broken
by the print, who, with vloiont gesture* and
almost shrieking hia words, harrengued hla
andicneo for ten or fifteen. minutes. Uo told
them there was’but one thing to do by Which
they may hope fo obtain spiritual as well on
temporal reward—to adore tho serpent and to
obey implicitly andwitbout questions itaalight-
cat order.
A weird dauco followed, the people singing
“ ‘ i becoming almoit
plaoo was soon
ho women, who
aredally teemed to-havo lost oil control over
■thetqtfslvc* even climbed up to the rafters,
wiggling their bodies, hissing and trying in
every way to imitate the movements of the
snake. •
• thx sxxpxirr pww*. "
"This ghastly dance waa continued for two
hrtke appearance from behind the r«*f curtain
of two men leading by the hands a little trefub-1
1 in tr negro boy in whltorobe3,...TUo uhUd waa
lid to the throne,and mounting it, ho prostrat-
holding jojh h!a,
tda'Ovcr. the tt>y'a how}, blcuned hla In tho!
name of the sacred serpent, and then askralt
him In porapou* language what bo moot desired I
in the world. The little fellow, glancing up
Into the feces of his two. conductors, replied
(and tlie reply had evidently been taught b
it the otyact above ail other ohjocta in
tho
That
world which 1 most .desire is the puanssiion of a
little girl.'
“Iliadly bod he ftpoken when, from the on-
curtained apartment cam* two womon leading
a negro girl of four or five year*, also drived
in the-purest-white. The aocoud child waa led
to tho throne and stood confronting the boy.
Again the boy was asked what he most desired,
and when he repeated his former answer both
he and the girl were at oneo thrown down on
their backs and bound hand and foot.
TIIK TERRIBLE ACT ACCOMPLISHED.
"A hurly negro, knife in hand, separated
himself from tho crowd, who had been watcti-
ingtheprocveduigs with brcathleo* intercut,
and mounted the throne. Reaching the boy,
he raid something to tho men, who, with thalr
hands over bis month, were trying to stop the
little fellow's cries, nnd they held their victim
by the feet up in the air. With a single slssh
across the little throat tho brutal executioner
hilled the child, and the others held him while
his life blood gashed into tho receptacle placed
below to receive it
THE CHILD MURDER. ' — r /
“At that moment an involuntary exclamation
of horror escaped me, and immediately all eyes
Were turned towards me, looking with distrait
and suspicion. The. horrible proceedings on
the throne were suspended and a hasty con
sultation wss held there among the people on
It. Fearing for my life and obeying a slight
signal from my guide, I somehow got oat of
tho door, mounted my horse and rode os hard
at h could to tho town. The worship
pers evidently did not suspect I was a white
mah. They asmroed, probably, that I was a
novice and not yet hardened to the sight At
any rate, I was not panned and my frfend was
®bt Interfered with. He remained until tho
end, joined me that night, or rather morning,
and told me that the little girl bed been killed
In the same manner as the boy and tlut then
the-bodies had been cut up, cooked and eaten
ty the wretches. The’ wholo awfhl orgy was
ended only when every person present had be*
cams helplessly intoxicated.”
CORROBORATIVE FACTS-
•Tha investigation Into the troth of this gen
tleman's statement that tite practice has exten
sively prevailed in the island, revealed the fol
lowing story. The Curts aw front the official
Trpprt of the trial: In the latter part of fir n-
her, 1>-C3, under the teigu of President GoffirsrJ.
B soldier—who in port, it would sc-rm. owes hi*
ultimate downfall to his manly attempt* to
wipe oat.this terrible stain apoa hb country—
there lived ia the Little town of Bisoton, a vil
lage near Port-en-Prince. an idle, good-for-noth-
ftg fellow called Congo Pfeile. Ho was
her of tho Voodoo society, and
the all-powerful serpent, he do
to secure the influence of bis god bj
rile* of a child. Ia order that his
wonld have the more effect Congo went to s
lidt the aid of his sister, a high priestess in tho
order, and between them they arranged the
details ot tho ceremony, which was set down to
occur upon the next New Year’s day. Jeanne,
Congo’s sister, after her brother had left her,
held a long consultation with Julien Nicolas
and Fional Apollon, two influential Pamlois.
They decided that a female child would bo the
most acceptable offering to the serpent, who, it
is popularly believed, believes the female soul
to be purer and whiter than that of tho male.
SELECTINO THE VICTIM.
A long list of little girls was •onsnltcd, but
With fiendish forethought Jeanne suggested
that the sacrifice of otic of Congo’s own family
would have more effect, as showing a greater
sacrifice on Congo's part with the go* whom
ho wished to propitiate. This woman.; than
proposed that her ownsister's little Gyeartfiair-
efne be made the* victim, and her proposal mbt
witli unanimous approval. Four da'ps bcfofc
the sacrifice was to bo consummated, . Je.vui»e
went over to her sister's home, and on.-? aomo
pretext carried her off for a visit to Portiau-
Frince, leaving the child at home under
tho care of her uncle, Congo;.' The
two women had hardly .Toft the
honse when Congo took his little nitco<over
to the house of Floreal, who bound hdgfWrai^
stifled her cries with a gag and then, bcMthd as
she was, confined her in a stuily holo upjler tlje
altar in a vondoo temple. Here sho was kept,
without food or drink until tho night* of. Now
Year’s. Claireine’s mother, on her tttSeoVtffy
of her daughter’s absence, made a little gmhfcu,
Congo having told her on her return htittmwMti
the child had strayed away, but one or* trite pa-
patois told her that Claireine Was Uh4fti»“tfte
protection of tho mnitro d’ eau, whowhmU’fjOke
great care of her, and she searched floltirtncr.
When tho time came for the sacrifice the child
was taken out of her miserable pen nnd carried
to her aunt Jeanne’s home. Hero went as
sembled n group of vondoo. Jeanne, entohinr
Claireine by the waist, threw her to tho groutu
and held her in a vicious grip, while j
Floreal, with his brawny fingers clasped
about her little throat, strangled her. The
dead body was then hung feet in the air 1
und Floreal, with a butcher’s kuife, cut off the <
head, the other wretches catcliiug the blood in'
tails as it poured from the headless trunk. Tho
body was flayed, the ftesh cut from tho bones
-and placed m large bowls, the arms and logs
placed entire upon wooden platters, and thon
the assemblage, bearing Claircine’s head aloft
at their head, marched in procession to Floreal's
house, singing sacred songs os they wont.
Arriving there, all tho preparations wore made
for the celebration of the grisly feast. Jeanne
cooked tho child’a firsb, making a cannibal
■tew, and Flotcal made soup, flavored with
yams, of the head.
THE WRETCHES BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
Confined in on adjoining room were a wo
man and youug girl. The latter, as It was af
terwards learned.was fnftijc woman’s keeping os i
an intended sacrifice, and through tho qrovlce |
in the rough partition they wore witnesses to!
the ghastlv orgies which followed. Tho cooked,
flesh was handed around, every person present •
partaking of some of it, and tho toub was!
ca ten from a big earthen pot, each ono helping,
himself or herself with a small tin dipper. The
feast ever, drink was produced and the whole
night was given up to drunkenness and do-1
bauchcry. ( i
By a fortunate accident one of Oeffrard’s up- j
right police officials hod hoard of Claireine'si
disappearance on the day beforo they strangled :
her; and at once Instituted a vigorous search.;
The police found the temple at last, bat toe'
late, lint they discovered the girl bound under
the altar, and from Information given by her,
the officials went to Floreal’a house. Most of
the cannibal crowd had departed, but eight of
them, among whom were tho principals, were
•till eating the flesh, and tboy were arrested.
8ix others wero arrested, but as no evidence
could be had against them they weredis-
irged. During the trial tho details were
openly confessed by all tho prisoners, and
other details, showing how the llaytian coun
try people wero given over to Voodooism, were
developed. The remains of tho unfortunate
Claircino wero produced In court, and tho
woman Boscldc, in particular, told how the
child had been eaten, relating how she had
eaten one of the hands.
EIGHT Of THE CRIMINALS SHOT TQ tyKATII,
"The eight cannibats wero senteh sed to death,
•nd a week later, February 13, ISdi, the sen
tence was carried ont In tho presence of a tro-
mcnaous multitude. They wero tied, two by
two, and, placed np in the public plasa, wero
shot by the soldiers.
The Investigation led to thn discovery that
an English minister to Hayti, had modo sftnl!
charges in a book printed by him two years
ago. That tho queen’s government, however,
reposes entire confidence in 8ir Hpcnscr is suffi
ciently shown by the feet that nnon his return
from Hayti, he wm promoted to tho higher po
sition of English minister to Mexico, where ho
still is. The •following are extracts from his
book, “Ilayti; or, the Black Republic:"
“During tho reign of Emperor Bonlouquo an
old Bcgrces was arrested for having performed^
human sacrifice a little too ouenly for.oven
Haytian stomachs. Am she was being conduct
ed to prison, the natnrooifbcr offense having
been rapidly spread abont, somo ono ’ remarked
that ibe would surely bo shot. Tho old hAg
laughed Lu a viUainouA way and said to tho
foreigner who bad made tho remark: Tf I
to unu me doctor o nous’, uu duiuh
out. He carried out bis hpspitaulo friends’ ad
vice and utterly foiled to find even a trace of
human habitation. After spending a good deal
of voluablo time in looking around for tho phy-
rician’s house a Ad in finding his way back, to
the cabin in which ho had left his wife,this gen-,
tlcman at last reached the placo only to be in
formed by the negroes that his wife, having
grown tired of waiting for him, and, having
recovered from her indisposition, hod started;
out to find hhn. Hie suspicions aroused in a
moment by this incredible tale, the unfortunate
hutb&nd rode t»ff to tho nrarest town in which
there was a pollco garrison and soonring the
services of half a dozen soldiers by promising
them large rewards, returned to tho negro
cfbin and arrested its three inmates. They
*ly protested their innocence of any crime,
m
the murdered woman’s dismembered ro-
niains crammed in layers in a barrel
away in a corner under a pile of reftiso. That
the body was intended to be eaten was amply
proved by the fiict that between each layer of
flesh thick layers of coarso salt bail- boon
spread and a species of pickling brino hod'
THE IIEAT OF THE SACRED DRUM.
• • Again, under the rule of Soulouqne, iu 1853,
tlio. foreign ministers made a great on*
against some recent flagrant cases of coiini
ism, and tho governor of port-au-Princo mado
a raid, upon several Voudpo temples in and near
i the city of Port-au-Prince and arrested sixty or
seventy ]Vkons discovered eating hunun flesh.
&*rcb was mado of tho various tcihple* and
n-any-packages of human flesh, ratted and roll
ed np In leaves, were found. These 1 packages,
by order of the governor, wero throwu into tha
y*a, find the prisoners were brought before him
Tor private examination. They openly declared
that they were Ymidooe, and that, further, al*
treat every prominent family in the city wrs
represented by somo member In tho society.
“If you want to try us,” they said, “lot ua
bent the furred drum, and then try all who
answer its holy summons, for they oro.Voudot*
and ilaro not disobey the coll. IVEmperor
gculouquo himself will come with tho rest. In
our society he is not better than the lowliest,
and ho who docs not come when tho drum is
beaten dies, os sure as it is that bo lives.*'
“examination” was all tho trial these creatures
had, nnd the caso was conveniently disposed
of. The authorities were apparently afraid to
prof ecu to it.
The World’s first informant continues: “In
stances of canuibalism are almost as numerous
within the psst two years as they have boen
every two years for the post century. It would
be simply reiteration to tell of the eases. This
one, however, occurred last spring: Bcnor Jose
tiarcla, a native of Ban Domingo, his wlfo nnd
a little thrce-ycar-ohl daughter went to live on
a small coffee plantation near Cape Ualticn.
The mother had heard of tho dovilbh
used by Voudoos to obtain victims for
ungodly rites, and she guarded her
daughter with extaordinary eon),
the friends the family made in their
nan, who allowed
. One day 8chor»
child in this old woman's care onlyforafoi^
minutes. When she returned she found thq
old woman apparently asleep leaning against
the house, and tho child was gone. The woman
sold she knew ifothing about it Avigoroiuf
search for the miming little one was kept an
for weeks, but no trace of it was .evnrfoundJ
The father became crasy, snd is now wandor-j
log abont the country looking for his little
daughter.”
“The means adopted by tho cannibals to ob
tain child victims ore many. Somo of tho Voo
doo priests employ men to loungo about lonely
bouses, to lie in wait for children of the family
or children of visitors to tho family, iu order
to curry them off to their deaths. Others uso
(heir knowledge of herbs to obtain children.
Children havo been snatched from the arms of
their nurses and carried off, and during the
midwinter celebrations lots are cast among the
Voudoos to select agents who are to obtain chil
dren. The person thus selected is bound to
produce a victim within a certain timo, else he
himself is sacrificed, and on several occasions
these ’unlucky’ agents, having been unsuccess
ful in finding any others, havo offerod their
own children to tho cod and havo assisted in
tbs coting of their bodies afterwards.” * » ’
were but to beat the sabred drum not one from
tho emperor down but wonld foil
follow mo ham<
bly now.’
“At'ahout tho satne^me, or at least under
Palnn vc’s reign, A French priest who had chargp
of the district.of Arcuhnie, and v/ho had heard
of lut did not believe iu tho Voudoo worship,
induced some of tho members of his flock to
take him to n meeting of the sect which was to
be held in the open wood.
The priest’s face, hands and body wero black
ened , and, dressed ns an ordinary countryman,
he took his place in tho circle of votaries There
was a crowd. A white cock und spotless goat
Wire killed, the blood bciug used to anoint the
“faithful.” After these sacrifices bod been
made (he meeting seemed about to break up.
when suddenly a brawny negro, stripped to his
Waist, approached tho queen, who presided,
and asked that, us tho lust offering, tho “goat
without bonis” should lie sacrificed. Assent
was immediate. A crowd of demons who hud
surrounded a temporary shed suddenly sepa
rated, and a little, big-eyed, s-xrred child wa.*
revealed. Tho innocent little thing sat on a
stone. Its hands and legs were tightly bound
to its body, and to a rope which secured
the ankles an ordinary pulley was attached.
Through this ran a rope, one end of which was
attached to the celling, tho other in the band
of a second brawny brute. At a signal from
the queen this man pulled the rope, and tho
helpless little child, iu screams partially stifled
by a dirty handkerchief tied serose its mouth,
swung feet foremost, head down Into tb^ .aij*.
The rope was fastened, the body hung in. jm l-
air, and before the horrified priest could, btfee
an outcry the cruel kuife of the barbarous
executioner hod pierced its tiny throat. Hftn
the priest gave vent to an agonized scream
•nd triedtorave the victim, ImtTtis parishioner
seized him and carried him bodily away. Hu
tried to get the police to go back with him, bat
they absolutely refused A ~ * ,u
with the esse until the
next morning there was
of the child in the shed, and a little way off Its
bones were lying, and they showed every evi
dence of having been cooked. Scratches in tho
larger bones indicated that the cannibals bad
gnawed them as beasts wonld have dons.
THE MURDER OF A WOMAN.
‘•TliU other incident, which »lw recurred
tinder Soulotique', rei*n, created a dral of cx-
flttmcnc xt the time it h.ppcued. A uun, *n
intimute friend of the recietory of etuto, nod
111. wife u.nt out ridin* one day on the plains
tack of Port-au-Prince, nnd while out In the
wiiderne.a the women wee taken aaddcnly eick.
Hhe.ud her hathnnd determined to immediate-
It retom to the city, but while they were pur-
«iihm their noce.tartly forced journey a etorm
came up and they eouxht .heiter in a lonely
cabin, which they were delighted to Und iitu-
at» d mar thdr read. Two men »n,l a woman,
ail neper* w»» the eoio wwipanUoTtbe
dweillncs, and they rewired the tmrel-
en with every boiaterr.ne manifed-
at’on ot hceptiaiity. They were par
rhciarlyefiretionitain their eondnet toward
the lady, and when the became worm mxuetol
that her bneband .bonld rtde over to the hotue
of a doctor, which they mid m near, and re-
cere Me aoietanre. Tha xentleman eeted upon
their ad rice, and rtcclTiE* thn foUent dime
den riptiou of Voudoo worship in Hayti. ”Ao-
cordinq to the true secretaries of tho Voudoos,”
he says, "who maintain it* principles and obey
its rules, ‘Voodoo’ signifies an nll-powerltal nnd
supernatural being, on whom depends all tho
cvtnta which tahe place iu tho world. This
being is the nun-venomous sorpont—ono eo
common in Hsyti—nnd it is nnder its auspices
that nil those assemble who profesathis doctrine.
Acquaintance with tho past, knowledge of the
present, prescience of the future, all appertain
to this serpent, that only consents, how
ever, to communicate his power und proscribe
his will through tho organ of a grand
priest, whom tho secretaries elect, slid el ill
more by that of tho nog rear, whom tho loro of
the latter had raised to tho rank of high priost-1
ess. There two delegatee, who declare them- j
selves inspired by their god, or In whom tlio |
gift of inspiration Is routly manifested ' in tbo
opinion of thalr follower., bear tho pompous
names of- 'King 1 and ’Qncen,’ or th« doumtle
ones of‘Master'or Mist row,’ or the touching
titles of ’raps’ and ‘Mama.’ They are .luring
their whole lives the clilodi of the great family
of tho Voudoeo, : attod they havo a right to tho
unlimited respect of thoto who compose It
The temples of the voudoo are generally small,
unpretentious wooden buildings—called by tho
natives Uumfort—and arc scattered generally
throughout the Interior of Hayti. Soule of
them are most Incongruous In their inferior
decorations, and one situated a little dtstauee,
Uck of Heeux du Cap, wss profusely decorated
With illustrations from adored weekly inmph-
lets, interspersed with gaudy chromolc pictures
of various taint*
WITAT HAYTI I*
lfsytl Is not in Central Africa, as tha .prac
tices related in this article wonld scorn to Indi
cate. It Is not s hosren-loot country, but ri )h,
f.rtlie, and at times has been even powerful.
It is inhabited by a million and a half poople,
baa several important cities, in which largo
business interests ate centered, and is ruled by
a msn who spent eighteen yours of bis life in
the most civilized capital of Europe.
The country ia proliilo and extremely sus
ceptible to agricultural Improvement, and is
altogether one of the fairest demesnes on earth.
Its people are divided into blacks, maroons, ne
groes and mulattoes.
Apart from the coast cities, thon an no
towns of shy Importance In Hsyti. In tho
mountainous interior, civilisation does not ei-
1st to sny very great extent, and it fa mainly in
/the interior that the practice of cunnibaliam is
.rsnitil on. ,
•■Am delighted with IU I have no confldenoo
In the colorless extracts of pure article was greatly
needed,” rays Dr. J. J. YOCLIS, President Jersey
City <N. J ) Board of Wealth and Vital Statholca, of
the Liebig CO’s Arnica ted Extract Witch Hazel
Cures Painful Periods, Loeuorrhoo Female Weak-
, nt-«*j Core Ur casts, and quickly relieves pains of any
A LAD in loath Boston haring handed his
teacher a note, reading, "Ucltlng don't do this
boy nogood: talk to Ulm," pnivoki d an lnqulry.
that ted t,o the discovery that ho had himself writ
ten the note.
LEMON ELIXIR.
Worn a Prominent Lady.
, I havo not been able in two years to walk or
Stand without suffering great pain. Hlnco
taking Dr. Mozley'a Lemon Elixir I can walk
bdifa mile without suffering tho least limon-
venlenc*. MBS. B. H. BIDODWOBTU,
Oriffiu, Ca.
Lome? Hot Drop*
I had for several days a severe ninerated sore
throat, causing much pain and uncuinem, se
there wn* considerable hemorrhage when
eoojfliing. I bought one bottle of Dr. Mdaley's
fa-moD Hot Drops. It gave me almost Imme
diate relief; have need it only twenty-four
bourn, and my throat and cough is almost en
tirely well. It is certainly an efficient and
^yrrmedy. M. V. THOMPSON,
ASA MARRIAGE MARKET.
Washington, December 8—"Washington ia
going to bo chock Alii of marriageable ladies
this winter,” mid n pretty little sonthern
widow. "Do you know,’’she continued,show
ing a keen interest in tho subject, “that this la
tho greatest matck-maklcg city in tho uni
verse? No. Well, it's true. More ladies
come here to get married than to half a dozen
other cities of the same population. It is be
cause of the pit leant society, tho beauty ot the
tradings, and the gallantry of the city.;
surroundings,
Ail the ladies want to live hero; and
don’t
blsme them. I have been coming here for
three winters—but not for tho purpose 1 men
tion.”
"Do yon think this a desirable place to hont
husbands?”
“1‘cannot say so,” and n lit of disappoint-
meut gleamed in her blessed big black eyes,
and Iho doth mounted her velvety cheek |.
"But ’tie a good place for men to seek wive* I
know yon must have seen that much. Tho
ladies are handsome and accomplished, aa a
rule, and hundreds of them havo wealth and
social standing. As I said, they are smitten
with the glare of tho capital Slid tho abandon
of tho people. If there la anything a lady likes
it is ease snd elegance, plenty of time and an
abundance of gayety. These, with n gallant
snd bright hush-gentleman, makes it so nice.
I havo attended reception* dinners, nnd all
manners of entertainment* social. In l*ariz and
London—1 wss educated at the capital of
France—but there ia nothing so lastingly
pleraant as you have in Washington.”
“Arc there more marriages hero than in
other cities, proportionate to the population?”
“I cannot any that there are, bat yon mast
remember that th<s matches mado hero aro
culminated elsewhere. The ladlee coma hero,
meet residents or visitor* court, make engage
ment* then go home and get married. 01 ft's
■' Washington—so different
Jolly,
courting in
overythlug. A woman tlut couldn't plot nq
There is
from other pi
everything. A ....
elopement here, under the gutter ot tho white
“ nnd
isn’t
house, tho roar snd bustle of the Capitol, snd
to the music of the dining-room and lull, I
118 8. Forsyth 8k
worth having. But, seriously, 1
heard of bo many ladles who wanted to
get married as arc hero now. I know them,
and see them everywhere I go—widows,
orphans, daughters of stagnates, statesmen and
f otentates. If 1 wore a young man I’d be a
igamlst, sure. Lots of men como hero to look
for wives, but there is not one of thorn to ten
ladies who are looking for husbands. Tho
hotels, aristocratic boarding houses, the flats
and the private residences are frill of them.
Scores are in every square. Myl 'water, water
everywhere, and none to drink.' And tbo
discouraging feature Is, these ladies aro becom
ing more plentiful every year. Great fomtlies
of them como In a bunch, put up at tho frsh-
ionsblc places or rent houses, and stay tho
season out. An acceptablo man could marry
twice a week. From tho Inflow of fomilisr
faces, it looks like the market would bo hotter
supplied this short season than ever before.” ;
THE COTTON MARKET'S,
CONSTITUTION OFFJCK J
Atlanta, December 11.1W1
New York—There was a lack of strength in the
tone ot the market today. The tendency of qooUr
tlcna wae downward, and the months doted at thf
lowest figures. Spots, middling *>*c.
Net receipts fori days SMU bales, against 41.2Ct>
boles last year, exports 4fl,2ia bales; last year 9,611
balo*; stock 978,615 bales; last year 960,830 bole*. -
Below wo give tho opening and ctadflg quota
tloos of cotton futures In New York today:
Opened. - Cloeod.
December............ AMffi.....
January— 9.60m.
Febniury........ mM . MW 9.70« 9.71
March 9.glg. ?
June..’..’............. LiaiA
•****
Closed barely steady; rales 166,000 bales.
Local—Cotton quiet; middlings 8%c.
NEW YORK, December I0-The following la tho
comparative cotton statement for the Week ending
Net receipts at all United Statoe porta......... 337,690
flame time last year............ -v-
Hhowliig a dccreofo
Total receipts
flamo timelast year ......
Showing an JnJWmt
Export* for the week —
“ ‘1mo last year-
Jwwior
Total exports
Hume time lut year.
„ Bhowintanm..— _____
Htock at all Uiiltcd flutes ports- 997,801
flame time lost year. 951,308
Allowing an Increase 66,006
Stock al interior towns. - 230,700
flamo timo Inst year. 217,156
Showing an Increase 8,616
Htock at Liverpool 621,000
flame timo lost year. 426,000
Allowing an liicreaee
American cotton afloat for tircat Britain..-..
flame time last year - -
Ahowiug a dccrcotu-..
Tire Chicago Market*.
CHICAGO, December 11 — Tbs wheat market
opened stiffly this morning at «Mp for May, bat
under free dfrcrlttg* dropped dff quickly (a
The market fluntuuted between and 86J<o un
til tho close, with tbo balk of the trading at
end closed Jor tho day at 86Ho, ot Ko lowor than
one week ago.’ 7{ho exports shoving for tho wflok
having been uimshany large was the sustaining
feature of the market, - 1 ■
, Com waa moderately active, bnt tho tone waa
easier, and tho latest tiadlng prices Were
under those of yesterday.
Oats wore dull and heavy, accompanied by a fur
ther decline of In prices.
Previsions were active and higher early fn the
day, mesa pork for May opening at fll.50, then fell
bock 20923Ko and closed at tfearly insldo prices.
Both lard and short riba were steady at about
former quotatious.
The following was tho range of tbo leading fu
tures In Chicago tossy:
Wheat— liighest.
Dccepi her 78tf
January — 70
February
May
Coax—
December.
January.**
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trio
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*_ I _ „ | New flubscrlpUons sent at once,
ri PP 111 3r?n I wltlt 81.78, Hill fndtiJo tins Co.mpasiom
I I UU IU —Mil, la frRR from the time tlio subscrip,
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t your application la received nfttr all tbo lands'
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LOCAL COLONY CLUBS.
its will to pent to any sddrn<ut. to be
long friend oi, receipt of tl for tbo
ten forri: fifteen for |Z; twenty for
->n»o forts. No more than twenty-
9 are desired from sny one person seffngns agent
others. Deeds will Go maiio os tho Club Assn!
auocts whoa bo returns tbsJ'ii-e J^nd Warrants.
< YOU Wllil, ns A Tit AITrtlt to.ronr qwil
to avallVoqrsoif of th UTOrgsvssw: 9o- {
is: i £ .AMrews Uar'lUiltroftdsnd Land Com-
numbers among Its officer* nnd Mockfiolitere
of the most responsible nnd energetic men or *
Tew York, who are oolTotod
’ t-book m flits errat enter-
a settlors
Pleasure.
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EiC,ttbr^* > KSrK.T:^rjii} : 2s;vi:u?a£i'S
m
Oats—
December
January..- ......
May
Dora— M
December 11 05
Janusiy.ro J* ® .
February 1! 37>i
3fsy U "6
IH rrinltCr ....MM...... 6 10
feSy-==}8*
March ...» 6 35
Short Bias- . _ „
IS If
March..;... t Tt'/j 5 WX AVU
COTTON AND CEREALS.
Dscembsr It.t.rn. to the Department of Ag-
rtnHmrm.
WaiiiikotoN, December 10.—The Deccmbm,
returns of the srerags firm prices by oounttoi
■how s ntstcrisl reduction ss caaparsl with vsl
unolllic cro|i« of 1—0. In wheat, ryo sod barley.
Corn had msdo sn tdvsnoa nearly sqolrs-
knt to tbo psreentags of tha
reduction in quantity snd osl* In sympathy
with com, rather Unui with small grains usd tor
human food, average, s slightly higher value Uun
Uu rear. Thefarm value of corn was Mcsots pm
hnrhel In December of laatyssr. Ittanow 37 cants,
one cent higher then the crop of ISM. Tbo aver-
sue fur the previous lire years was 44.7, sod tor tan
years prior to lnso, It wm 4&d :
ccr.tr. me— In the zorpluz .tales an: Ohio 37, In
dians 33, UUnoltSl, lows 30, Mdwuri », Kansu27.
NcLnuka 2* Thi. Is sn inenam over last year of'
one cen( Iu Nahrszka, llue. In Kama* IUtoot* In-,
dlzna and Ohio and alz In Iowa ami Mlamnri The:
avertg. ii V. In New York. 47 in Peniuylrania am)
4.7 to Virginia, lira cenu lower In each than lost
year.
frier. In Ihe col loo Uatos south arrimuef
Konh Carolina are Wither than hut yaar; South
Carolina to. ticonda CO, AhihamaS* Ml-ourt to,
Umldaoa <A. Srkan—>49, Texas 00 an lacreazoof
U cents, due lo thedl—itnme drouth.
7 he aw ege December price of wheat It« oeal*
arodocton ot* cents from ihe enragevah—or
the last crop, sad 4H cents shove the pries inttri.
Tbcsvsrsgf to Kcw York is W cent* 12 eento low—
ban lam year; fnnsylnsnis t* U
,tnts tower. The redaction is stIU greater in
atvsnl western etztea the oven*, of Ohio to
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LARGER UOrmtUe, ltt,|l*tM, or mix* Cmpl.tr Dcrcrlpliro CATALOGUE and
full particularsofthagruatPROVIDENT DOOKCLUBonrequczt./'r—,
JOHN B. ALDEN, Publisher, 393 Pearl 8t< 9 Now Yorfa
Tire Aldan Booh Oo.i€lark oad Adama Ctt. Chicago | <S5 Yongo Bt. Toronto,
Nam® this piper, ii..vM-wi»2t sow.
74 cants, Michigan 78, Indiana 70, Illinois 69, Wtt-
contin 6a, Mlnncaota 61, Iowa 60, MLaoarl 63, Kan-
bomU, Nebraska 47, Dakota r,2.
There la little decline In the anuthern atatoa. In!
remo of which prlcca ora higher than laai year.
Tha average in California is 73 rents.
Th* average value of oats ia 29.9 cents against
36.6 las! December.
Kye averages 5&I, egfnat 67.9 last year.
Barley 53 rents, last year M.3.
Buck*beat M.4, a redaction of l, five cents per
bu»b*l.
Potatoes 46 cents, one cent higher than in U«
cember of hut year.
The voloe of hay averages nearly eight dollars,
per ton.
Star^^^
Floor-Bat
Ba’fwhlu. nueumfifmSi
|cT*ff * «cr,.wS[i5i
rrijs—New Orleans,
Ifirkere^-Ko.
Pt.W. KiU ■»**; pails 60c. K< '»«• fJJM |l 100
cake-, Rlci-A'/j+W'- MuTk wf -ctaar rib
MtdmfW*. fiagarmred banw. laige average, lie
small overage, l*c. Ijwd—^lin>«A refined, 79;
choice leaf 9c. Umooa-44 0r»«l5dn box. ffone
hac. iron odoiw iihiw mr. Trace enaiae
Be. Am— 1 riiorris. BMP, sp*tos
lr-^,_1lelier-e^Mr eMee_JSSt.
Vic; sui^'iT twice Tennessee, owicr
grades Ifcettc. gonttry yonng cmcUbs, large,
; small. MM«90e. hens Hwcet
7f>c. llonuy—at rained, &• < i r&i In the
116c*. Drlixffruit—nraghdrlol poaehosS
led peaehes 6c; ruugn dried appfes2ct
Ml,■'owing to quality.. Peanuu-fcuuea-
orth Carolina, oo; Vlrglola, 6Ko.
* DR. « —
DYE'S
BEFORE—AND — AFTER
Eloctric Appliaicsr aro rint ei 30 Days 1 f»!al.
TO MEN ONLY, YOUHO OR 0L0,
*rr7^110 «re nnttirtn* from K«foci Dphiiat*.
u rt vtTALrTT. T^ca or j
Vi40R.Wa»T!.t»W».oi. .ri,*nd
of % j'u b.iAL :Ur.xa frem i
oirthn &rm bp—dr nn»t re*»i
r*• wn ot llzALTa,vi ton and -f A»aooouc w. a *tsr».
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