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THE WEEKLT CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GAm TUESDAY JANUARY 11 1886
Hon. G. Edwards Lester,
Late U. S. Consul to Italy,
author of “The Glory and
Shame of England,” "America's
Advancement, ” etc., etc., etc.,
writes as follows:—
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Bn. .?. C. Ayes & Co., Lowell, Mann;,
Gentlemen: —A news of gratitude
nnrl the desire to render n service t«» tli«
public impel uio to make the following
statement*:
My college career, at New Haven, wan
interrupted by a severe cold which no
enfeebled me that, for ten yearn, I had a
hard idruggle for life. Hemorrhage
from the bronchial passage* won tho
result of almost every fresh exposure.
For year* I waa tinder treatment of too
ablest practitioners without avail. At
last 1 learned of
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
which I used (moderately and In small
doses) at tho first recurrence of a cold
or any chest difficulty, anti from w hich
I invariably found relief. This was
oyer 35 year* ago. With All sorts of
exposure, In all sorti of el I mates, I have
never, to fill* day, had any com! nor
any affection of tho throat or longs
which did not yield to Aykh’s Uiikkry
J'kmoual within 34 hours.
Of course I have never allowed my.
self to las without this remedy in all my
voyages aud travels. Under tnv own
observation, it has given relief to vast
numbers of persons; while in acute ease*
of pulmonary inflammation, such as
croup and diphtheria In children, life
has boon preserved through Its effect*.
I recommend it* tiso In light but fre
quent dose*. Properly administered, in
accordance) with your directions, it is
A Priceless Blessing
In any house. I speak earnestly localise
I feel earnestly. I have known many
cases of apparently confirmed bronchitis
and cougfi, with loss of voice, particu
larly among clergymen and other public
siKjakers, perfectly cured by this im.-di-
clue. faithfully yours,
p. KDWAHDS LESTER,
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000.
ovueaiT. luini. m, mid in good I*nn lownitl *11 par*
tics, and wo authorize tho company to uso this cor*
ftjflrate, with fac similes of our signatures attached,
In its advertisements.”
COMMISSIONERS.
Wo, tho undersigned banks and bankers will pay
111 priaoa drawn In tho Louisiana Htato Lot*
Which may be presented at oar counters.
J. It. Ooi.»nY, IToa't izmlslanaNaVU
**V. Kii.brktii, l'res'tHtatoNaUonal flank.
A. Baldwin, Pros'! New Orloaus Nat’l U'nk.
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id Attraction.
& MILLION UltTBIU
uted;
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Incorporated In l*M for 25 yean by tho legislature
for rdurntlnnal and charitable purpoNos—with a
oanUol of 91.000,ooo-to which a resorye fund of over
|w<MtoO has alnce been added.
By an overwhelming |*ipular vote Its franchise
was made a part of the present Htato Constitution,
adopted December 3d. A. D. 1870.
The only Lottery over voted on and Indorsed by
the people of any state.
it wavia scams oa rosiroxM.
Its Grand Hlngle Number Drawings 1
place monthly, and tho Reml-Annnal
Drawing* regularly every six flu
(June and December).
ANl'I.KNDID OPPORTUNITY
TO WIN A FORTUNE. FIRST
GRAND DRAWING. CI.AHM II, IN THE ACAD*
EMY OF MUSIC. KKW ORLEANS. TUESDAY,
February 8, ll87-l!ilit Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $150,000.
•^Notice.—Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves, GO* Fifths, •». Tenths, 91.
list or rauxs.1
1 CAPITAL I’ltlZK or 9160.00
1 (IRANI) PKIZK OK 60,00
I GRAND PKIZK OF 30,0U
30 PRIZES OF
6.000 30,000
1.000 30,000
600 2T..OOO
800 80,000
300 40,000
3,000 "
APPROXIMATION PR1ZK*.
100 Approxlmattou Prises of
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
THE GENIAL CHEROKEE PHFLOSO
PHER AT HOME AGAIN.
Helping Carl Milk tho Cows- Cslf Pulling »ndSheep
Holding Don’t Balt Him-A Nov#l M,th*l of
Proven-ins .Your Neighbors’ Tiiricers
Prom Estinc Your Wheat, Etc.
My
3,178 Prise#, amounting to. - «...
Applications for rates to clubs ahquli
only to the office of the Company In
fhr further information write dearly, giving IUU
addrraa Postal Not**, Kxorwa Money Orders, or
New York Exchange in ordinary letter. Currency
by express (at our expense) addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN,
Mew Orleans, La.
Or V* A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. O.
Maha P. O. Money Orders payable and ad*
prMfTMDrD That the pretence or Generals
nLlYiLlVlDl IV Beauregard end Early, who
are in charge of the drawing*, is a guarantee o( ab
solute talrncn and Integrity, that the chances ate
all equal, and that no one can possibly divine what
numbers will draw a Price. All parties therefore
advertising to guarantee Price* In this Lottery, or
bolding out any other ImpomJble Inducements, are
Swindier*, and only aim to deceivo and defraud the
unwary. sun wed wky
Humphreys*
UabhaI of all Disease*
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BICRLY BOORP IB
CLOTH and GOLD
■uusnu-m snxr.
There have l>ccn some late disturbances
our house, and as usual I am the victim,
comfort Is that “whom the Lord lovoth He
ebarteneth," and so I reckon it will tarn out
all right in the long run. The other morning
I thought that I would go down nnd help Carl
about tho milking business. John, tho ever
lasting rascal, quit us Christmas and never
gave a sign of warning, and so Carl and I havi
been running the concern. I went down
tho lot to help him feed and to keep tho calves
off while he was milking. I little thought that"
would ever have to he a calf puller in my old
age, hut no man knows bis own dostiuy
in this precarious life, ftorl milks two cow
and the calves have to suck a little to make
the milk come down. Ho I turned one calf
at a time nnd after ho had got a good taste and
get the Im-tino stream a running I pulled him
away by the cars nnd turned him out and shut
the door, and when that cow was milked,
turned the other calls in. I got along pretty
well, and Carl said it helped him along
and he enjoyed tuy company, and
after he was dono,
turned the cows out and a* old Ress was a lit
tlo slow in going I just caught her by the tall
«nd gave her a switch with it to hurry her
«ip a little. feeding old liess off and
on for five year* and I thought that she hon
ored me and respected mo, bat suddenly in the
twinkling of an cyo and with malice afor
thought, she raised her hind leg and 1st fly at
me with all her might. 8ho lilt mo on the
shiubonc aud you might have heard
tho collision for fifty yards,
hurt so bad I let go her
prematurely and hollered. It was a cowardly
net of her*, but nevertheless 1 shall ever here,,
after let those cows' tail alone. I thought from
Hie report that the bone was broken, and
took on powerful and let Carl help me all the
way to tho house, but when I examined I found
the hone all right and only the epidermic cutler
abraded. J've lost confidence in row*. The,
have no gratitude and no emotions of an exalt
ed character. They aro not fit for pets. A he
belongs to the nobility, hut a cow in a scrub. She
lias alMiut as much affection ns a mule. She is
a machine to manufacture milk and that is all.
Nevertheless I liovcr liko to acH my cattle to
tho butcher. I never kill ono for my own use,
nnd I never want to cat n beefsteak that comes
from one of my own raising. Now, hogs
very different. 1 have no lingering affection
for a live bog. 1 can see a fat one killed with
perfect indifference. It is his naturo to bo
killed. He had just a* leave be killed
ns not. There is no attraction about him,
no beauty or comeliness, no trail*
character, but after ho Is dead and d rcssed
and dissected thcro is a greater variety of good
things about him than about any other animal
There is t ocklmno nnd spnrcrib nnd sausage
and hog's feet and hog's head nnd brains nnd
jowl and turnip greens nnd souco nnd lard and
cinrklin bread aud middling und ham nnd
shoulder, and they aro nil good and yet all dif.
forent in taste and satisfaction.
Well, the other morning I went down to feed
the hogs nnd as I was throwing the corn over
in the pen tho old eotswold ram jumped iu
divide tho hreakfast aim as
was hutting tho hogs around lively
I picked up a little stick and climbed over tho
low fence to clmitiso him and make him de
part those coast*. I bad some little hesitation
about this hurincM nnd proceedod slowly ancT
shook the stick at him. He just stepped back
waids a little nnd bowed Iris neck
and doubled up his fore feet and made
n lunge at me, and would have knocked mo
clean over tho fenre, hut l was over boforc ho
got to me. I was as mad ns Julius Ctonr,
mid I grabbed up a fetico rail nnd stood
outside nnd frailed him nnd punched
him until hejumped out whore ho jumped iu
The good liook say* that man shall havo domin
ion ov« r the lienstN of the field, hilt it looks like
nrino are in a state of rebellion, aud aro trylug
to have dominion over me.
One of our owes drop|icd a cotiplo of pair of
twins tho other dav, aa Coho would say. Ho
nlwaysoaya a couple of pair when ho moans
two, and she wosent kind and motherly
them nnd wouldent let them suck. Ho Jog
and I took charge of them, and
held her while Jessio hold them
the udder. It was a troublesome business
and 1 got tired of it Calfpullin and sheep
holding don't suit me, and so Jessie got a bottle
and fixed up a quill and
imrk rag in it and filled it witli
win hi milk ami took charge of thojlamhs. Hlie
triad to find one of IIiono patent bottles we used
to raise babies on, but such thing* have been
long altiro barred by the statute of limitations
iu my family. \Vo have raised youtig Iambi oa
tho bottlo before. This very aaiuo old ewo did
tho sumo way last year, and I am going to turn
her Into mutton before another season. 8!to is
not fit to lie a mother.
Hy trouble now is with turkeys. Nabor Free*
man * turkeys nr© eating up my patch of fine
wheat that eoat me threo dollars a bushel, and
Nabor Freeman lias moved to town ami left
he* (lock of turkeya to nabor in his place. I
told him about his turkeys, and ho told mo the
way to make them quit my wheat was to ahoot
one's head off and cook him and eat him, aud
If they came twek I must shoot another
head off, and io on and so fourth,
aud fifth ad infinctum. JSo we have begun that
plan, and in course of time they will let my
wheat patch alone, I reckon. Wo haven't
killed hut one yet, and hereafter tho naboranri
Iris good wife aro to rome out and help us cat
the others and stay all night and have turkoy
hash for break fast.
John ha* rented land and^is going to farming
again. He says he is hankerin’ to follow a
mule once more, but he is gwino to sont me a
man In his place to laxy round and do nothin,.
The day before he quit ho bought a
second hand eodk stove and somo feed
for his cow and somo other things from mo,
und now ho nys he are yrino to keep uie in
Specifics.
mwu-4U toe feu aua vAky to v n moel
wood to pay for ’em. Maybe ko wHI, maybe.
John’s inteution* are good, hut he never told
me that he was going to quit until he got the
things all moved away, lio says lie didn't
want to hart my feelings, but my opinion U he
waa afraid it would injure his credit.
I traveled with some hard-looking colored
stock yesterday. Mr. Turner hail them. He
waa cacortiug them to the Dado euhl mines.
There werv four of them—an old woman and
her daughter and two sons. They were sent
up from Randolph county for au outrageous
and unprovoked assault up m two young men.
They cut one’s throat aud shot the other's arm
off. I talked to them ns they were nriicking
along on the train, and they were a* jolly
a* ir they were going on a scurahion. They
sang cainpmccting song* and carried three
parts and they sung well. The boys smoked
cigars and the women chewed tobacco. They
had lots of fun talking to one another al>out
the trial. The girl would stretch forth her
arm and say, May it please your honor, may it
please your honor, anil the old woman would
say Juror look upon do prisoner—prisoner look
upon do juror, and they recited scraps of the
lawyer* speeches and laughed immoderately at
their own mere**. One of them-was sent for
twenty yean aud I said Dhim. "Why,you will
be » pretty old man when you get ’through.'
“Ye*, boss,” said he, ’’I speck I will, but I'd
S it old aoywhar, all desame-don't make much
Itfrinre whar we U. I hoc niggers from do
coal mines and dey say a nigger gits euuf to
eat nnd have a tolable easy time efen he mind
de rule*, and I is gwine to do dat.” Happy
creatures! Messed indifference! Colonel
Tower* rays that the last report from all tho
camps is the best ever made iu relation to the
health of (lie convicts. There aro but fifteen
sick in fifteen hundred, and most
of the fifteen are chronic cases. Where
can wc find a (lomilation of fifteen
hundred psofis with only fifteen sick. .Vo
where. Mr. Turner is a handsome, resolute
looking grutleman. lie has “handled” nearly
4.000 prisoner*; that is, he has escorted tlut
many from tho jails to the camps, and has
never lost but one, and he ha* always done his
work alone. Home times he ho* to nse extra
ordinary prudence and foresight in avoiding a
rescue as ho goes over land through the coun
try with his prisoner*. As ho came through
Cuthbcit with these four he had to hide them
under lock nnd key from tho hcligercnt crowd
of dark!cs who invaded the train und ssarHied
for them.
The problem is still unsolved, “What shall
we do with them?” Bill A bp.
OUR KNOWLEDGE BOX.
J. T. B., Decatur. Ala.: What Is tho per
cordage of illiteracy in America and Europe .’
Take Fiance ns nn example. There are unable
to read nnd write Irt.37 percent; able to read only
IU9 per cent. In the United Mate* there
percent unable to read—17 per cent unable
write.
Whnt ducbcas was it that secured Fox's elec
Uon In 178-1 by giving kisses for votes?
The duchess of Devonshire. Her grace
markable for her great l*cauty, and a quaint rut
the preriod represents her using nature's gifts
ills tiest advantage. “A kiss for a vote” was t
rule throughout the contest, and many a burly
voter found the bribe Irresistible. Ho successful
was the scheme that the opposition enlisted other
beautiful women on their side, and what isquaintly
described as a “kissing match’' ensued,
tors took bribes of this kind from both sides their
gallantry must be their excuse. At any rate, the
ladles won the day, for the third candidate in the
trinnguhir contest, having declined to make allies
of the fair sex, got very conspicuously left. Oth
and more objectionable electioneering dodges pre
vailed until at lost public opinion grew so strong
that judicious legislation was gradually Introduced
and the game ended. A cartoon of the time, repre-
riling an indignant elector protesting against anti-
bril-ory acts, and exclaiming, with eyes and ham'
uplifted, "Hire, there is a hill about to pa-a that
will ruin our trade and bring our families to l>cg-
gory. I ho|*c, sire, you will use your influence
throw It out."
Reader. Oak Hill, Fla.: I frequently acc
staled In the Engl' * *
"H-nt to Coventry
There are several explanations of this phrase.
We give the following:
1. Coventry, ns the name implies, was a convent
town. To M-nd to Coventry meant to send to a con
vent—that is to my, to cut off from society.
2. The Rev. Perc y Smith holds thut the term hw
Its origin iu the fact tlmi during the English civil
troubles Coventry was a Puritan stronghold, and tho
•cd inoffensive Puritans to take refuge
there—sent them to Coventry.
6. On the other hand. Hutton, In his History of
Birmingham, reverses this explanation. Coventry
a stronghold of the parliamentary party, and
troublesome and refractory royalists were tent there
for Fofo custody.
-t. The citizens of Coventry entertained so great
dislike to soldiers that n woman seen speakiug to
instantly taUiocd. No Intercourse
lowed l>etwcen the garrison and the town; lienee,
hen a soldier was sent to Coventry, he was cut off
from ail social Intercourse.
Editor* Constitution: If the Itandall
Id* a of placing luinlier on the freo list is carried
cut, it w ill strike a heavy blow at our Georgia mid
outhern timber Interests. We cannot afford to let
Canada conio iu w ith her lumber. Sho would be
formidable competitor.
At prescut estimates, Georgia lias of long leaf pine
20,000,000,000 feet standing. At 910 per thousand
this would lx) 8200,000,000. Of hard lumber
have 12,000,000,000 feet uncut At 810 per thou
sand this would l»c 8120,000,(NO. Add this to the
pine estimate, and wc have 8620.000,000.
Ho much for Georgia Run the figures through
the other loiithcni states, aud the total will be
imply immense. Now, our hope has Iieen that
would attract northern manufacturers with
their capital, but if w e place lumber on tho frc.
Ilst, Canada will bend us off. The south, therefore,
Inltmted In havij^ her timber protected.^ ^
If. J. C., Orlando, Fla.: Flense give mo a
condensed history of the Great Eastern.
She was designed by.?. K. Brunncl, and built by
Messrs. Scott, Russell A Co., at Mlllwall-on-tho
Thames, England, for the Eastern steam Xavlga-
mpany. Work was commenced on her May
1,1*61. Tho launching process was by means of
hydraulic pressure, ami occupied from November
r., ls.*»7, to Jnuunry 61,18.'»s. Tho cost of launching
alone was 8.TOO.OOO, Her length is e>sn feet; extreme
breadth 118 feet; height to tho top of her bulwarks
seventy feet; total w eight when launched 12,000
tons; earning capacity 20,000 tons. She could
transjmrt 6,000 tron|«, Ixwiidcs her crew of 100. Tho
capital subscrilicd having been all expended, a
new company w as formed to fit her for sen. On
September 7, 18C>9, she sailed from Dopford for
Portland Roads, and during tho voyage, when off
Hat-tings, an explosion occurred on Imard, which
killed ten firemen andjlnjurcd many other persons.
On June 17,INiO, she sailed for New York,under tho
otnmaiid of Captain Vino Hull, and arrived thoro
June 28th. She returned to England August 36th.
Owing to a lawsuit, the ship came into
hands of the short IT* office
released, and sailed again
for New York May 1,1S61. On the 12th of Septem
ber that year she suffered much from a violent gale.
In 1M52 sho performed several voyages to aud from
New York, and In August of that year ran on a rock
near Long Island, liijurii*; her lwttom. Sho w
paired, and returned to Liverpool In January
and*made another voyage to New York la May.
In March or April, 1*>l, she was bought by Glass,
Eliot A Co., and was chartered to lay tho Atlantic
cable. In March, ls7il,she again visited New York,
nud in May followlug was seized by tho seamen
lalnring their wages. Afterward sho was used in
the cable-laying service, nvd-tlng In laying five At-
ifintlc cables and one from Sues to Bombay. Of late
years the gTentshlp has been a sort of white ole-
•haul on the hands of her owners, and It
•ntemplatton to scud her toGihraltur tola) mod
a conlhulk, but this was reconddered, nnd somo
months ago she w ns purchased by parties who have
made a traveling exhibition nnd entertainment
concern of her. she Is now In Dublin bay, turning
honest penny for herowncr- in that way. There
ome talk yet, however, or degrading the noble
esnd to the servico of a conlhulk, aud making the
Mepey, at Liverpool, her Ixtlie. The original
unmc of the Great Eastern though for a short time
only, w as Lcvlnthau. She has never hecu ou the
Pacific at all.
CONFEDERATE CASH.
Aa intcrestipf interrUw with General Jones Walker,
of Virginia Who Think# Bom# Money Diaip-
pearrd Very Strangely from London—
Confederal# Agent# la Xurop#.
Sultarribcr, Durham, N, C.: Is kissing au
Id English custom?
The story runs that kissing wo* Introduced Into
England by Roweno, the daughter of UengUt, tho
Haxou. At a t>anquct which was] given by the
llrithh monarch iu honor of Ills allies, the priuceia,
after pressing the brimming linker to her Up*, sa
luted the astonished and delighted Vortigera with
little kisa, after tho manner of her ov. u people
8o ttoll did the kiss thrive in tho genial climate of
England that, from -being an occasional luxury, it
warn became an etcryday enjoyment, and tho
English soon t>ocamo celebrated far and near as a
kluaing people. In fact, so far had their celebrity
ptcad in this respect that when Cavendish the
•iographer of tho great “child of honor, Cardinal
Wolscy," visited a French nobleman at
hia chateau, the lady of the house on enter
ing the room with her train of attendant
maidens, for the purpose of welcom
ing the guest of her ha>b«nd ( thus accosted him:
••Forasmuch as ye be an Englishman, whose cus
tom It is in your country to ki«* all ladies and gen
tlewomen w ithout any offense, and although it l*e
not so here in the realm, yet will I lx* so bold as to
kiss you, und so shall all my maidens.'' Whereupon
the ruftera of the chateau rang again with the
hcartlncMof the osculation, no doubt to the great
satisfaction of the fair chatelaine herself,Jher many
ami merry maidens, and above ull to Cavendish
himself. In the teign of Edward IV a guest was
expected on his arrival, and also on bis departure,
to salute not only his htwte-x. but all the ladle* of
the family. In Tact, no occasion w a* lost on which
bestow a kiss, uml Shakspeare make* bluff King
llalsayat WoUey’s banquet at Hampton Court
Palace, alter be had danced witi Anne Bolcyti: “I
were unmannerly to take you out and not to kl*s
you."
That feeling of extreme debility is cnt’rely
ervome by lloo«l’s Sarsaparilla. *T was
tired all over, but Hood’* SirvtparilU gave me
new life and strength," says a Pawtucket. It. I.,
lady. Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold byalldnif-
ghta. |l a lx)ttle, or six bottle* for W.
itor Ingalls is dc.«eribcd bv a eorreototnl-
a stat k of txme* alxmt six feet high, shaped
the human mould. Ills face is small anibla
i their only ornaments are a
id goatee.
Functional derangement of the female srs-
tem is quickly cured by the use of Dr. U. V.
INerce'* “Favorite Prescription.** It removes
l*ain and restores health and strength. By all
ruggists.
Washington, January 8.—[Special Corres
pondence.]—The demand for certain confeder
ate states bonds, which a few year* ago made
them worth $18 a thousand, gave rise to a very
general belief that there was in England a con
siderahlc sum of money which bad belonged ta
the dead government.
There is no donbt that when the war closed,
the confederacy had money in England, in tho
hands of its agents and their banker*. What
became of it ? A few day* ago, in the course
of a conversation with General James Walker,
of Virginia, I heard some statements on this
subject which surprised me very much, and
which may interest the readers of The Cox<
btitutiok.
I do not pretend to give General Walker's
exact language, but I am confident that every
statement made by him is reported with sub
stantial accuracy. Aa to
GENERAL JAMES WALKER
himself, I need eny nothing to commend him
to credence. He is a native of Missouri, the
eon of a former treasurer of that state. Ho
graduated with distinction at West Point and
entered the army about the time the Mexican
war began. In that war ho was distinguished
as a gallant young officer. When the civil war
began he was n captain of artillery. Ho threw
his fortunes with the south, and, by brave and
successful service, rose to the rank of imdor-
general. He enjoyed an intlmato acquaintance
with nearly all of the leading spirits of the
confederacy, and is well known to officers of
tho ohl army nnd of the confederate army in
all parts of tho United 8tates. This is what
lie .says about tho confederate treasure in Eng
land.
“Soon after the close of the war I loft
Havana on a steamer for Liverpool. On
board I met Judah P. Hcnjaman, whom I had
known well for a number of years. Daring
tho voyage wcfconvorsed freely as to our plans
for tho futuro. Wo had both risked our all
with tho rauso then lost and the sympathy en
gendered by our mutual misfortune* brought us
much closer together than we had been oven in
our hitherto intimate acquaintance. I remember
how sorry I felt for Mr. Benjamin when he
told mo that he had hardly a dollar in the
world; that ho was going to London to onter
the practice of tho law and tliat ho hoped to
get along through tlio influence of somo strong
friends in England. I considered myself com
paratively fortunate. I waa on my way to ac
cept a salary of $G,000 a year from a largo
English commercial house. Tho first new*I
had on my landing at Liverpool was that the
houso which made mo the offer had failed. I
bad other friends thcro and found employ
ment.
“About one year after Mr. Benjamin and I
arrived in England tho great banking concern
of Owen & Guilcy, of London, went down. It
had been long considered ono of tho staunchoat
institutions in tlw money capital of the world,
nxd its failure created groat excitement. When
n statement of its affairs was published I was
surprised to sco Judah P. Benjamin's name ns
a depositor to tho enormous amount of 38,000
pounds sterling. I could not understand how
my poor “companion du voyage" had accumu
lated such a projK»rty
WITHIN ONF. YEAR,
and when I mot him I asked him about it Ho
told me that tho failure of the bank was a tcr-
riblo blow to him. He said ho had, a short
time before, received a largo bequest from one
Helliger, who had been confederate commercial
agent at Nassau. Benjamin always stuck to
hi* Jewish raco with adnrirablo fidelity, and
through his influence Helliger had been sent to
Nassau to represent tho confederate govern
ment. Benjamin told me that Helliger died
~'1hout family nnd left him hisentiro fortuno.
‘31 r. Collin McKae,of Mobile, who had figured
in tho confederate congress, was sent to Eng
land during the war as financial agent of the
confederacy. Ho was a man of decided ability
and had acquired largo Influence iu London.
“I knew there was money to the credit of the
eonfederato states jn London, and nftor wo had
l>ccn there somo timo Mr. Boqjamin told me
that Mcltao had in Iris possession somo (JO,009
pounds sterling, which had come to him in his
city as financial agent of the lost cause. Ho
that Mcltao had been to him to ask advico
to what ho should do with this
money, nnd that he had advised McUao to hold
on to it for the present. About this time John
C. Breckinridge arrived in England. A propo
sition was jpade to him by Benjamin and Mc
ltao to join them and act as administrator of
tho effect* of the defrinct government. Gen
eral Breckinridge promptly declined to do to,
but did nccopt six months' unpaid salary aa a
confederate cabinet officer. Twelve thousand
five hundred dollar*, half a year’* salary, waa
forwarded to 3Ir. Jefferson Davis, and I think
nil tho members of his cabinet wore paid in like
proportion.
•'Associated with BIcItao in the management
of our finances there was Mr. Bullock, or Geor
gia, who had been largely instrumental in tho
equipment of “Tho Alabama.” When tho sur
vivors of that famous cruiser ea
into England after the futtl
tlo with **The Kearsage," they were all
paid In full. This was nearly a year before
the cessation of hostilities, but “Tho Shenan
doah," which under the command of the gal
lant Waddell had bora playing havoc with
Yankee whalers and shippers in the Pacific,
did not arrive in nn English port until six
months after the collapse of the confederacy,
hlrltae paid off the officers and the entire crew
from frmds then in his hands. But ho was
very indificrcnt to the claims of the
CON FEDERATE OFFICER*
who were then in England and who thought
they were as much entitled to a share in this
federaey. He replied; “No. I have no idea
there is one cent. 1 know there was a big snm
at the end of the war, but it has been absorbod
in one way and another long ago.”
I give this conversation as closely to Its
original detail as I possibly can. It is a ro
mantic story and contains some information
which is new to me, at least. F. H. B.
Mr. It. F, Camp, of Covington, Ga.,
thirty minutes In getting a club for The Constitu
tion, and he got 8100 iu gold ax Ills Christmas
pretent. You ran get the fame opportunity by
getting subscribers during January, and getting
your name In our “New Year’s Box/^
A FATAL SUirWRECK.
Norfolk, Va., January 8.—One of tho most
disastrous shipwrecks which ever occurred on
the Virginia coast happened at 3 o'clock thif
morning near the Little Island life-saving sta
tion, fourteen miles sooth of Gape Henry. Not
less than twenty, and probably more, lives were
lost; among them five lifersaving men, who in
the discharge of their duty, were drowned
The morning was bitter cola, a blinding snow
storm prevailed, with the wind blowing a gale
from the northeast. During a lull in the
storm a life-saving patrol from the Littlo Is
land life-saving station sighted a Urge ship
stranded on the bar about 100 yards from the
shore. When he saw the vessel he was wait
ing to meet the patrol from Dam Neck station
and exchange checks, showing that both pa
trolmen had been to the end of their beat.
Tho Dara Neck patrol was only a few yards
distant when the vessel was sighted, and both
fired rockets to notify the crew of the strand
j hn
alarm. In a little while troth crews. n§th life
boats and apparatus, were abreast of the
wreck, nnd tho boom of the mortar announced
that a line bad been sbot out to the ill-fated
vessel. It was unsuccessful, and a second wav
fired with like result After firing six tin-
successful shots, the life-saving men deter
mined to bravo the furious sea and 'death,
which seemed certain to await their venture,
the word of command being given by Captain
Belanxa, of life-saving station No. 4, known av
Little Island. Six of the most expert boatmen
manned each boat.
At his command the men gave way with a
will, and in a moment lioth boats were breast
ing the furious waves. They reached fie ship
was launched for tho purpose.
headed for the shore and not a word was
spoken, for each man realized the awful peril
which surrounded them. With a steady pull,
the two taats were making good headway for
the shore, when a wave of great power struck
fmtli boats, capsizing them instantly and pitch
ing twenty-two occupants Into the boiling soa.
Then begun a desperate struggle for life, and
with many of the men It was a prolonged one.
The terrified life-savers on the beach were
powerless to assist their drowning comrades or
tho unfortunate strangers. Thodrowning men
were carried southward by the seas, nnd some
of them were washed ashore. As they came
within reach they were picked up and endeav
ors made to revive them, nnd in two instinces
with success, although one of tho two is badly
' * ired.
he vessel is the German ship F.llzabeth,
Captain Haiherstadt, from Hamburg to Balti
more, nnd not one of her crew survives hoi
wreck. Iler cargo is unknown, as the high
sens have thus far prevented any attempt to
reach her- It is thought she Is leaking badly,
atd at sunset her masts were thought to be
money as anybody clso. I had not drawn any-
thing from the government for a year before
the close of the war, nnd I presented my pvy
accounts to 3(eltac. Ho said ho would consutt
Mr. Benjamin on my case. When I nawj him
again he s*i*l Mr. Bei\jamin had advisod him
uot to pay mo. I finally got my money but I
had to press 3IcBae very Irani for it. I hap
pened to know of $100,000 which had been
turned over to him after the war was over.
A man named Murrell, who had been engag
ed in the manufacture of cotton in Arkan***,
Itffore the war, was sent by General Kirby
Smith to Euoopcwitli letters of credit for
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
__ rchaso cotton machinery, which he vu to
endeavor to get into the confederate states. He
had not accomplished his mission when the
surrender came, and he delivered the money
his hands to 3!dtae, ns his
ncrior financial agent, reserving
ily $3,000 to pay for nis sendees, his
expenses in Europe, nnd to take him home. I
don't know* what became of Murrell. With the
00,000 pounds sterling McRae bad when Bon-
jaurin advised him to hold on to it for the
turned over to
must have had
handsome balance alter paying the officers and
men of “The Shenandoah," after sending the
half year’s salary to Mr. Davis and the mem-
- - fcy j nj? t ^ e two
England, who
were able to get anything from him. What
became of this money I cannot say. I know
that before McRae returned to America he be
came a banker.
“During the war Mr. Benjamin had tent a
man named Schnltze, a Mobile editor of Jewiah
extraction, to London to establish an organ of
the confederate cause. I hardly think
Scbultze made a fortune at that business.
"A year or so afltr the cloae of tho war, a
bank was opened with office* in London and
lluchareat by McRae and Schultae. They con
ducted business on a rather grand scale for
while and then tailed.
McRae finally returned to America and went
to Honduras where, I believe, ho died. Of
tH-hultte's fate 1 am ignorant.
"Now mort of these facts came under my per
sonal observation, and of those of which 1 do
not know personally, I have the evidence
which is tiioronphly satisfactory to me."
I asked General Walker at the conclusion of
this rairative if be believed there was still any
tuoucy in England to tho credit of the con-
BK1.AKZA, captain of No. 4, known
Little Island.
J. W. LAND, same station.
GKORGK W. hTONE, same.
^1. A. Dhl.ANZA, of the Dam Neck Ration and a
brother of Abel, ami
J08EPII 8I‘RATTI.E,'Of Dam Neck.
John Etheridge and Frank Tetford, of No. 4
station, were washed aahorc, aud resuscitated,
but Elheridge is so badly injured that it is
thought he cannot survive.
Norfolk, Va., January 0.—-Later particulars
from the wreck of the German ship Elizabeth,
which went ashore yesterday morning, on Vir
ginia Beach, fourteen miles south of Capo Hen
ry, put the number of tho crow at twenty-two
instead of fifteen, not a man of whom was
saved. Tliia fact is learned from two of tho
lifesaving crew, who survive, nnd who recov
ered consciousness today. The bodies of five
men of tho life saving crew, and four of tho
ship’s crow, which were recovered yesterday,
were iu lifo preservers, nnd three more of tho
ship’* crew, without life preservers, were pick
ed up lower down tho coast tills morning. Tho
body which lias been Identified as that of the
captain.!* among thoscjrccovorcd. On his person
was a photograph marked Captalu F. Halber
fctndt, and letters addressed to Henry Kaulk
maun, and several bills from Joseph Lxmko &
Co. Bremen haven. This evening tho mastiof
tho ship were still standing, though the soa was
breaking over her violently. Superintendent
Poyncr, of the life saving service, will board
her in tho morning, if possible. As reported
last night, uot a word was spoken i>etween the
ship's crow nnd the lifo saving men, when they
lioanled her in their desperate attempt at res
cue. nud the cause of the wreck can never be
positively known, although it is supposed that,
iu attempting to mako tho capes of Virginia
under reefed sails, sufficient allowance was not
mado for the strong currents which have caus
ed several disastrous wrecks along tho lower
Yirgiula and North Carolina coast during tho
last few years.
. CHINESE PIRATES.
San Francisco, January 8.—Advicoi from
Hong Kong by tbo steamer City of Pekin state
that the trouble on the frontier of Tonquin
and China has assumed most serious propor
tions. News has been received at Hong Kong
from link hoi by the German steamer Signal,
that Jarge bodies of Chineso pirate* attacked
the French garrison at Hakhoi on November
24, and after three days’ siege completely anni
hilated the town. They also attacked 3Iong-
koi,with a similar result. The tatter 1* a town 10
miles from the coast on tho border line of China
and Tonquin. No particulars of tho massacre
which occurred at Mongkoi were giveu.
Hakhoi is about thirty milos south of Mong
koi, on the coast. Tho French had a small
fortification thcro with a garrison of sixty men
under command of Lieutenant McMahon, a
nephew of 3Iarsbal McMahon. After threo
one of them survived. The latest
Is to tho effect that tho cities of Hakhoi and
Mongkoi are in flames. It is believed that the
same pasties which captured the boundary
commissioners perpetrated these massacres.
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Begin the New Year with Wooing Fortune.
At the start of the holiday season, the usual
grand distribution (the l'.Oth monthly and an ex
traordinary drawing) of the Louisiana state lottery
occurred at noon ou Tuesday, Dm.-mt.cr 14.18%,
under the sole management of < .euerals G. T. Beau
regard, of Ixmisiana, and Juhol A. Early, of Virgin
ia. No. 93,174 drew fi»t capital prize of |l.V)'0W.
Fold in tenths at 91 each: one was held by a client
of J. Bendernagcl, a notary public, 15* Common
street, N. O.; two by Frank Metz, Oshkosh, Wla;
two collected Ly Wells, Fargo 4c Co.'s bank, San
Fr«ncisco. Cal.; one paid to a depositor lathe Hi
bernian National bank of N. O.; another collected
' y J. G. Lallande, a runner of the New Orleans Na-
Jonsl bank: the rest elsewhere. The second prize
of 960.000 was drawn by No. 97.409, sold in halves at
9'* each: one to B. llessleln, 1»2 8. Clark street, Chi
cago, III. collected through B. AO. Ex. Co.; the
other to J. \V. Meissnerr, 18 N. 3d street, Allentown,
Pa., collected through Germania National bulk,
New Orleans. Third capital prize, 920.000, was won
In- No. 92,507; sold in tenths at ft each; one held by
F. M. Groca, Crawfordsvtlle, Ga.; one by Wm. P.
Brady, No. 151.'* Fulton avc-ue, Evansville, Ind.;
ouc by Lindsey Hayden, also uf Evansville, Ind.;
one t.y Wm. L. G Quillian, of Bavannsh. Ga ; one
paid to Wells, Fargo 6t Go 's bank of San Francisco,
Cal. Fourth: two prizes, 810.000 each, were drawn
by *,712 and >0,900; two tenths paid toJ. I’renler-
nast. through Stein Bro#.. Baltimore, Md : two
tenths to C. J. McDowell, No. C76 Superior street,
Cleveland, O.: one tenth to the National Commer-
rial tank of Mobile. Ala.: one tenth to Wm. II.
Leiukanf A Son. tankers. Mobile, Ala.; one by E. A
Fool, and another by Geo. Beed and C. A. (tougher-
tuary *, lv-7. will be furnished on application to
M- A. Dauphin. Kew Orleans, U Begm the new
j ear with wooing fortune.
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MUST PBEMnjM GA. STATE FAIBtj
NOVEMBER, 1889, .
koter AU CompttUortft]
The Universal Gravity Level ftu
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nitructed of I
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days Has patent!)
atruction in Tsrraelnv. L -
ins Bottoms or Hillsides, c
rlth eaoh Level turohai
More told and better lattiri
Uon given than all the Levi
in the market combined.
Agent wanted in tva
county. ;
uimisncciKt to ciatt
■nr? ro* cncoua.. >
Djn APPPD TO INTRODUCE THEM*
Jjlu UrflMV, * e will GIVE AWAYljr
^ OOO Self-Operating Washing Machines. If yoa
want ono send au your name. P. O. and exprefe
office at once. The National Co., 23 Day 8L, N.
Y. Mention this paper.any 81—wkyda
Over6,000.000 PEOPLE Mse
FERRY’S SEEDS
°*S;ESIuuItfb?&
DJAFERRYICP'S
tndfsmiu Addr—
rtEORGYA, FAYFTTE COUNTY, COURT OF OR-
I t dinary, January term, 1887.—Whereas Larktu
Harrison, late of stid county,
deceased, executed bonds for titles
certain lands in said county, to J. D. A.
deceased, to execute titles to said lands. Hatd
Harrison also executed bond for title* to ccrtata
lands In said county to A1 Glass and Hamuci Miles,
they having complied with the conditions of said
bond, havo filed their petition asking for an order
requiring J. M. C'orlile, administrator of said da-
ceased, to execute titles to said lands. And as T.
B. Harrison, an heir at law of said deceased, re
sides In the stato of Mississippi, and can bo served
*y by publication; ordered that ho bo cited and
de a party hereto by publication once a week
thirty days In the Atlanta Constitution, before
Jan r. d fit w> y 2t Ga cri
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sent postpaid to any addram upon receipt or sixty
cents for a book of 100 notes, or thirty-five cents tag I
a book of fifty note*. These forms of notes are pro
nounced the beet in existence, and we have lettea
stating that they bring the money when other
formi fall, fiend money In two cent stamps at
poetalnotee, end state whether the mortgage nleit
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