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Newspaper Page TextITOL. xvm. ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 14, 1887 PRICE FIV E CENTS MEIHBKillE DISAPPE4RAICE. U. F. Needham In Buflato Express In tbo city of Montreal, at the foot of aamall Otrect, tunning in a touthaaatrrly dlrootion fmm St Mary street, and overlooking tho rtror Bt. Lawnnoe And St. Helon'a ills, tboro stood In tho yeti 183- > atone honio with handsome portico, tall chimneys and numerous dormer windows in ita high pitched roof. la front of the house, ou tho rivor hank, was > garden, in Which, during the summer months, tables and fetnehra wen placed for tho accommodation of tho patrons of tho Musses hotel, for so tho louse was called. The ‘ Saasoz” was a tavern Of toed and old reputation, well known to the garrison as woll as to the merchants of Mon treal, to whom tho pleasant aiuatlon of the luuee was an additional attraction to the ex cellent liquor dispensed by its landlord. The hotel was generally entered by a door which lod into the street, end wbioh gave admittance to a comfortably famished bar and smoking room. Behind the her a young English girl, pretty, modest and good tempered, generally presided when her ancle Ur. Berry Johnson, the worthy dotcendaat of* lino of Sussex yeomen, was not hlmatlf distributing tho liquid refreshments demanded by his easterners. This unpretending apart ment was, on New Year’s ere, 183-, tho scene ofantxtiaordlnary event, which has given lire during the years that have elapsed since its occurrence toalargeamount of wondor end epccnlation, end whose myetery remains un explained to this day, The drcnmstaucos are well known to every member of e certain old and respected lion treal family, one of whom waa an aye-witnon of the events, and who related the fhets to the writer. Knowledge of tha affair has, howavtr, bean itrictly and csrofntly condaed to a limit ed number of persons The names of those Who figured in the Incident have been altered in this narrative, but care haa been taken to preserve the elements of troth and accuracy, std the reader may be asinrsd that tho events happened prsclaely as they ere related. On the morning of tho 31st of Dccembor, which was remarkably cold, evon for tho rigor- one Cantdlan winter, Mr. James Unrrey, a newly-arrived merchant from Ulugow, e tell, powetfully-bnllt yoeng man, with etndy hstr, and gold, if lather prominent, features, stffn- tered leisurely eeetward along the narrow otrect of St. Paul, in the direction of the von- crablo Boneeeonre church. He wee accempsn- fit. Francols Xavier straat (tho (Fall street of Montreal?, and to whom, for tho purposes of -this narrative, I will giro tho namo of Andrew Llndraj. Tha two mrn convene id carnoitiy aa they strolled, every now and then stopping to settle some important polut atirlligin their dirctmkn. This had mainly rofersnea to Unrrsy's prospects in Canada, and sprelslly to • certelu propoml which had been madoto him to embark his capital In a ven ture in Ontario. Mr. Lindsay from whoso fur store In St. Paul straat, the two friends had Just emerged, presently pro- noaed aa adjournment to the Sussex hotel, end thither their etepa were turned. Ploughing their way through the snow-covered end ill- kept streets, they soon tea.nod tha hotel, end turning in at the principal doorway, entered the little bar on the riant. Good-humoredly return!) g the salutations of tho landlord, who stood henind tho bar, Ur. Lindsay threw him self into one of tho old oak-oaken arm chairs with which the room was fnrolahod, end o*U- ■ed for lelreshments for his companion and himrelf. They were served by tho girl, I-ncy ' JohnioD.who had just onterad and railevad her uncle at the her. Tbo yonng Scotchman was a suicoptible man, aid It was afterwards re membered that he paid some particular attention to the barmaid during this inter view. He leent over tho ccnuterend engaged her iu conversation, while Lindsay joined e polltlcnl discussion which was being carried on by a few of the patrons of the "Sasicx” in n somewhat heatsa menrer. Half an hour or so was passed in this diversion, the dispute be- twern tho politicians waxiog high at ttmoe Mr. Hurray meanwhile continued to pay court to tho biight-eyod I-ncy behind the bar. At list Lindsey rose to go, and with a parting glass, and many promises to repeat his visitors ■ long, Murrey bade edioh to the girl who had to evidently captivated him. Tho two friend- then strolled beck to the bnsineat portion of the town, Lindsay poluting out tha principal objects of Interest as they proceeded. They eeparstrd opposite the tower of the old {Irish church,which then stood alone and dignlfiad.ln Notre Dame street Murrey walked In the direction of e certain old-hahlouel hotel in McGill street, in which he had boon entertain ed since his arrival In tho dly, while Lindsay returned to his counting house in St. Paul street. At the two men parted, Liadasy a ilJ: ^Yeo will dint with os tonight, sron'l you t” To which Money replied: "With much pleasure. I will aseyoaat half-pit fivo," end waved hie baud cheerily .as h* crossed the street. Lindsey never saw James Murrey, in the flesh, again in this world. At five o'clock on that evening, finding that be bad finished hie day's work at the offiie earlier than he expected, Andrew Lindas7 nicked bis way through the meases of eaow that filled the little tboraaghfars dedicated to fit Paul, end going to the hotel In « cGlll street, in which Mr. Marrev lodged. qnlred for hie Mend. He wu infarmtd that Money had left the heuee two hoars be fore, saying that he wee going tea walk through the town. Expecting to fiad the Scotchman et tbs fbr store iu St. Paul street Kite the Lindsays and nearly all other mer chants lived over their store* in thosi days.) the yonng man hastened home to find his lira in • very impatient mood, awaiting the arrival «f dinner ana hit guest, who had not male h a eppemnee, Dicner, an leant of an pram* im portance to the old for merchant, was delayed for tea minute*, then SO minuter,and thenhtlf an hour: but Mr. Murraydid not arrive. After the meal, Andrew Lfndeay rallied forth with the Intention of looking Cor kia Mend, who, beImegiud, most have been detained by aid- den ilinew, or tort hie way iu the unfamiliar streets of a town to whls t he wu e stranger. The cold waa in tease, and e strong northwest wind, ew-aping up the ice-bcnnd St. Lawrence, eeeruid to fight aid best tha pedestrian a* ha strogglel through the hugs drifts of enow which blocked the Varrow streets of the eld tewn. L'ndesy, with far-lined cost wrapped eloiely around him, and cap polled down well ever Mr mrt, s-.on Rabid the Util* hefel la IfoGIU street. There be an. ruined tilth is friend h%4 not retimed, and wsc supposed to be dining eat. Failed here. Llnduy rounded the comer late Notre Dime street, and proceeded westward, owning to bimtelf ae he went that a strange failing iff anxiety, for which be aould net (ally nseotnt, wu taking po,-session of hie mind. It tine that Murrey wu a strong and sensible max, perfectly well able to take care of him self aider any otdinaiy cireem dances, and l «l many unimportant little accidents miaht lint e hr p; eued to detain btm. list the weather • as bjitters us and extremely cold, sod It no- mind to Liu asy mors than once curing bis own struggle with the e'emui'e, that-vou tho airuuxmt mm, facing stmtigera to tho olimatj or Csna-ls, arj at times cveri.krn by somuoleu :oand exhaustion it ptriedsef vsry low temperature; and that in these cates, if men are in capvset and lone ly situations, th-.g sink down au-lfaltintoa sl.ep that kbo-sus awakei-iiig h'-sriog that .Vurtay might thus have fallen a victim to the climate, Andrew Lindsay instinctively quick- tied his fo-tsteps. and rapidly proewding westward, scon arrived at tho turning out of Ft. Mary atreet, at tho foot of which stood the Bcsrrx hotel, lie had not heard hit friend premise to repost hit visit to Lucy Jjhneou, hut one of those extraordinary initinita that »o often corns to tho aid of mankind in times of snxlrty, seemed to induce him to bend his s-tps In tbs dircc.iou of tie hotel. At the moment he turned down the little street, the clouds, which in dark masse* were rapidly flying across tb* face of the morky sky, suddenly parted, and left a blight ipaco through which the muou'a raya shone on the anuwy I'root. All wu dear and distinct before bin-; the houses In dosprst dark- nets their tall forms casting long and tlsndar shadows across the reed. Not a bnmsn being wu in sis lit, a poor cur which had followed him for temo little disland being the only living thing Llndsoy had seen for several min ntes. Ashe walked towards the hotel he wu arrest ed for a moment by the sound of s stranse cry, like the voice of e men who le suddenly sttseked. This wu followed by the confused murmur of voices rtlaidss in alarm end «ur- prbe Ae the yoeng merchant prosed to dis cover tho qnu ter from which the sound had proceeded, he saw the hotel door (from which ho wu then about twenty paces) open, letting a flood of ruddy light flesh across tho narrow street, and two flgune qulck'y emerge. In a moment he reoogaUsd the list u that of hit Mend Murrey. T jo second,who followed at a distance of a few feet, was that of a smaller aid slighter men, and appeared to have a woapoa of toms kind In hit right hand. The two flgnraa etrodo into the middle of the retd, glanced for a moment up the street In Lindsey’s direction, end then, taming quickly to the left, disappeared toward the river bank, which here sloped steeply. In that momentary look Andrew Lindsey raw, to his horror, tint the fsce of his frloud wasu whiteu the snowon which he stood, and that hie lass was fixed end terrlfiol u that of a man who list died suddenly and by violence. I.iuduyslio toted—end the scone was after- * arts printed on hit memory u clearly and in- dslilhlvutboie stamped by the tun upon tiros, thst tbo face of the shorter man wu dark, with hooked feature* end htggtrd expres sion, end that ho wore a rod tassel led tuquo, orcap. In Ms baud wu a short and heavy carter'* whip, such as those used by the haMlantr; Their dlsappss-aucs wss sc redden and so complete that Lia-ltsy conjec tured tb-t they most have fallen over thsbsnk t,. ibo .bora btntnlh, and after lb-first shock uf surprise waa over, ho rushed forward to rirdcraislitsncoto his Mind, who, ho wtt crrtaln, wu in danger. But to his astonish ment ho found that tho end of the street was hit-cktd by a high fmco. against which snow sh| iltd to a height of severs! feet, and that It wae utterly Impossible far any one to here gmoovoriho bsnk without uadorttklog a somewhat toilsome olimb. Alarmed aad woo ds ring, he retraced his steps to the Intel door, which wss now cloud, sns, even In his excites irvr.t nd dread did not foil to notice tha*, though a scow* storm had taken place during the sfttrxoon, isnd any marks on the grounl could have bean scon with the greatest facility, besides lit own there were no footprints on tho snow! The dog wu shlvorirg and yelping, appar ently with terror, as Lindsey, with a trembling hand, opened the door aid. entered tho hotel, from which gushed out just such e murmur if excited Old Harmed tones as bo bsd heard la tho street a few moments before. Mr. Johnson was In the center of the bar parlor, loudly talking and geitlminting, pointing to a door eppotita tbo usual entrance, and which led lota e smaller and inner room. His nlcoo Lucy lay •cross the bat iu a coml-fainting condition and aronnd tbo room, In groups. wore about a dossn officers of the gerriun and young M -ntresl merchont*, on whose faces were depicted vari ous expressless of tLe liveliest surprise end cciBttin alien. All turned to Llndcsy as he entered, and as anon SB tUonce wu retecred tbs young mer chant abruptly demanded of Johnson the whereabouts of his friend James Murrey. The landlord somewhat iudlgoaatly repits!: ‘‘Hew can I toll? Tho gouttoman went into that reom" (still pointing towards tha door) “a moment ago, u ho heard his name called, and in an instant wo heard a blow Just like that" (and the speaker dashed his hand noon the counter, making the glasses with which It was covered ring again), “and miked in. My Qed! tho room wu empty!' Yes, that is to; thst is trae," corroborated several of the gentlemen who crowded around Lindsay, u if ho could give an ozplonttlon of the circumstances. At thst moment a sob from Lucy recalled the fact of her ptessocc to tho hoi rot -strlckoa little smcmhly, end they unani mously turned in her direction. The girl slow ly lifted her hud from the counter, glanced through tbs half open door Into the loner rrrm, end thou sank down again with a terri fied look In her large, dark eyes, uif they had rested on some weird end awful sight. Her unde turned apologetically to Lindsay, saying: “Yea, sir; ehe will tell you more then wo can, ..r the sew the gentlemen go in there,’’ and he indicated the inner rcom with a backward movement of hie heed. “Lucy, tell Mr. Lind- ley what yen saw. Don't be frightened.” Tha girl, eebbiog, and with a shuddering, frightened manner, then managed to convey to Lindsay that ehe had jut served Mr. Murray, who had been weather bound in the hotel for Seme hears, wlthagluiofllqnirfwhleh was even then smoking on the counter), when they bed heard his name- Jamte Murray, called twice la a solemn sad warning tone, which teemed to proceed from the Inner rui, Knowing that it wu unoccupied, and had no entrsce. exeept its window, beyond the doer leading into the bar-parlor, she w«s naturally startled, end would have detained hi-a but before she could do so. Murray strode toward*thedoorAn-1 throwing i: opeo.w-lxod in. I n. tried lately, wlthoete worJ hi lig rpikon, there arltkln the parlor heord • heavr creak ing Mow, followed by e ehort cry. A dead al ienee enrned for some few morn-on, and then Johnson, who had by this time rooiverel hU sense*, lushed into the room, foiiovul by tbeteUrrtofhitcuitnmcra, tofiui—nothing! Kvery trace of Marrty and of bis snppntcd an roll- ant had disappeared, bat on the il ur lay a short and heavy carter’s whip. To alga of au encounter wu scan by anyone la tha parte, except by Lacy Johnson, who MfltM that the saw, is If by a nddea flash of ligba, which seemed to fill the room, • ehort, dark figure aaize Murray by the throat with out hand u he entered the ream, end with the SSEttall him . beevy Mew on the hud with a ehort Ustramasrt. Basing thta. she tented ewsy, sad only recovered boiwlf a mom ant or ” searching”cxamiurtioc^Uhe Inner apart ment wee Immediately mtda by Andrew Lind say and several of Johnson’* coatorners, bat nothing that could shed the ellghteet light upon too tragic mystery wu discovered. The floor wu covered by e thick drugget or carpet, which had not apparently been disturbed, end iho only furniture the reom contained, e table and a few chairs, had not been dlatarbcd by my strut go. The windov wu tightly hern d and blocked on the outside by a dense miss of nniouched enow, whleh eadroly pre cluded the idea of entrance or exit by this me-ns. James Murray hid disappeared, mys teriously, and totally, and with ala all tram of Ms assailant, If there bad been one, had vanished. The carter’s whip wu picked up end carefully examined, but no namo or other mark by wMch it could be ideutllled was dis coverable. It wu an ordinary hury whip, tipped with lead at tbo handle, bat this,thoagh blnn'ed, bon no signs of blood or heir. The myetery wu complete, . Ae for Lnoy Johnson, she monied shortly afterward and returned with her hatband to her native,cennty of Sussex, where she tote this day, mistress of a nios.ant little readable inn. Johnson died in 1833, when the Snesex hotel was palled down to make way for a sub ttanliil nd brick warehouse, which now occu pies the alto of tho old stone house, end the plceaant garden overlooking the breed river end the lovely green island. Strange stories were told by the wo-kmen who assisted in dcmoliehlng tbo old buUdiug, of ourtons wind ing paeuges leading down to the river, and of bonce end shreds of clothing being foood in these pieces. Whether James Murray wu mar- dated, and whathor his body WM convoyed So the St. Lawrenoe by one of those underground ways, most always remain a mystery. At to the motiva for tbe crime—if crime there wo* -a letter to Andrew Lindsey from Murray’s uncle- dated • few months after the yonng Scotchman's die- sppraranco, may serve to explain iu toms reinsure this apparently inscrutable mystery- The commuulcttlon referred to stated that stout 30 y cars before Murray’s arrival in Can ada, hie grandfather had been with a party Irdtsua in the vicinity of Montreal, and wl in their eamp hid, in a dutardly manner, en ticed away a hair-breed girl. Her relative 1 vowed vengeance against ths ssdacor and ai l bis kin, tnd, so It wu stated, had even deputed r»a of their number to follow Mr. Harray to Scotland with tho objoct of assassinating Mm. Foiled in this design, it might have bun that a descendant of one o' the wronged asif-breeds determined to reach the progeny of their foaif he could notdestroy the wrong-doer him- ■elf, end honing thst Jsmos Mntray (who bore hie grard teller's name) wee in Montreal had Allowed and dispatched Mm by muai of a cccivt underground paanga leading Into ths inner room of tho Bnmex hotel. For the spt-aritlon of the two figures which appeared to Andrew Lindsay in tho street, no possible oxplsnstion can ho given. Mr. Lind say, who informed tho writ-r of the fzcti *1 thoy are now related, nnd who dlod In Shnr< bior.ke street, tlio fashionable quarter of Muo- tical, a few y. ura ago, &Itrays avorrod 1h.1t ha tow the faces of James Murray and his auull- uni on that Now Year’s Eve as distinctly as ho saw tso street be stood In. JOSIAH PRINOLE’S SNAKg. As Mg Around aa a tlar’l, and as Long as Over to the Meeting Hons*. LakbI.uidkh, Mich., Jana 7.—When tho fem-t fires in this vicinity were at thslr worst old Josiah Frlngls moved out of his cabin in the woods aid mtde a camp on the rallrotd ilght-ef-wsy si near tho track as itwsi possi ble for Mm to got without being in dangsr. The charing at that point oa onesidoof the (rack wu wide, wildcat on the other tbe tim her cams within a few feet of the rails, and steed thick and heavy, with a danse seder- growth, then u dry u tinder, fringing the msrgln. Josiah imagined that he had found e refuge from tho fltnree, for the fire wu then on the timbered aide of tho treek, end if it camo upon tho cleu-daldo he oral confident that he wonld be able to gst out of tho way by taking 10 tbo track end ’-logging it like the dolin’’ ft! he fXDTMMd it* Just et daik one evening when the wuther wae hottest, the smeke most dense, and the fires were raging with nncxamoled fury iu ell directions, Jonah came into town ou a keen jump, fairly rooking wish penetration, and hie Wl atlrer beaten face ablaze with excitement. “All yon fclleie what went to ice • make hti re’n a mile long, jost coma with ms!” ha veilid, darting off. Seeing thst nobuly wu following Mm, end hearing the crbi of the boy 1 bidding him to held on, Josiah retarnel, Silt wss inndo to explain things. “Now, l’il tell you what It is,” he gasped. ‘Treat night when I turned In there wu e eight nl fireover to the east of me- and I thought to my uif thst liko’s not I’d have to move bsfore m-tiling, but {never dresmpt that it would be a snake thnt’d do it. Well, sometime along iu aha sight, about morning, I guess, I rolled over end frit tomsiMi g like a hot coal on my faoe and all along tb* sida of me, end, j untying np, I My■ to myself the fine hu come np to me and I most boa gluing. Well, it only to>k me about three seconds to pick np my things, hot end emoky as It wu, bat when I locked oet of my lent my eyse lit on the ell fire lost snake that min ever see in this etate. Itwu b’gicr than anything that the old liman niefl to tell shout on ths Tittabowossl—* regular bo* constrictor, with a tail and rattles, end sblnnlrg along bis back like* peeled hemlock. Hutu It war, It turned me cold la amlaate. I’dbeud of the fires driving the reptiles oat of the forest to the elearings, bat this one was* whale, with stripes on him, lying there alongiide of as, and hissing like a tog-boat at hsglnaw. New, maybe yon think I didn’t climb. I could amell my clothes and hair burnlig, and the tent wu In flames, aad it wen'tmme’ne minute before I wss humping it for town et a wren-mile gait. Just oa I got ont of the fire • little, and hod time to breathe wiihoat sucking in flame, I looked back to the place that I bad laft aad oonld aw the snake through the fire and smoke nuking up the track like lightning. He’s bigger aronnd than • pelt barrel end ee long u from here to tho ■acting hotue yonder. You don’t waut to bo going downlthere hunting him unices yja've got * cannon or tome thing. That’s what I < *When the old man fiaiahed Ms ator/the boys langhcd aad peraotdel him that u tho fine wet* so dazgoreuo it weald be folly to go eat until they bed subsided. Once assured thst then would be s grand soaks bent as soro at the boning had ttqpped, Josiah contacted him self for e week with ths narration of kre re- markable adventure. At the end of thst time several of the boys ehoeldeged their goes end ISt ont with Jewish for his eamp When they arrived there they frond a OoostroctUa grog at work replacing tho wss pad mill with strnip ht oner, aedlt bscamo evident to evety- body tat tire old man that tha soaks ho had seen through the flame and smoke, was nude ■p of about a dov.se lengths of nil, wh’ch had Urn waned Into various fautastie shnpag by the iateaao beat to which they wan arpawl and which, though ha was ten nmota from it,umaveryaaarabokiaghimallva. Attest ha would not acaapt thle siptaantiro, beta mac who asw Urn yastardav at his eabio. which wu not burned, lays the old fellow U now convinced of hie error, and is feeling vesy eon about it. “If it hod been a su»ke, n Jeakheald, ‘ I'd have made myeverlutlng/ir- tone with It la a Me shew U the capper THE SAME OLD SONG. THE BLOODY SHIRTBROUOHTOUT ONCE MORE* Bill Arp on BcooneilUllen Betwim the North end the Bouth-OiiDiDent on Bra«rk« of fUr. John Quit Thoaip«on—H*te to be the litoi lu the Next Oempelgn, lu\ Well, I supposo that we have got to go through It all again. Another nati mat cam paign is Impending and tho rad shirt Is to be the banner. Already, 8herman hat raised It on a pole and wc see it. We thought fur awhile thst the tarifl would be the Issue, but no—they cent unite the party on that. Fighting the gouth Is the last resort- It la fanny and it Is sad. Every four yean the senth gets awful ugly and don’t know It. Wo think wo are be having vory decently. Wo don't think that any judge in Christendom wonld bind uc over to keep tha prsco. When any of cur big men msk e a big speech on a big occasstcn, and says anything about tho north, he speaks u gently u a socking dove. One folks keep on invl ting ahem to comedown and soo us, and bring tiieir knitting. Wu there ovor such a kind- h< uried long suffering people ae onr people The enemy smiled na on mo el.rck and we turned the other. They look sway onr oust and we flailed up tho old desk and gave it to thorn. Wc are helping to sopport their invalid eol- diets and their widows and orphans and to keep np their rcmetorlee, bat still they are not h»P|>y. They don't Uko ns and thoy don’t Amt to. They didn’t want to glvo na ground at Gettysburg to build a monument to our dead. Governor Carlin is an old nun and Uses in the state of brotherly love and ha m*do a venomous spooeh the other day and tr.id It wu possible to forgive the rebels who fought through ignorance but tho leaders wore arch traitors and had no claims upon tho chsr- ilyorlho demoney of tho nation. I would halo to take his chances when ht knocks at St Fctsragato. Thoro Is a curtain between Mm and Lcsvcn sure If snoh men are saved, it docs look like there will hsvo to ba a purgatory and a long probation inis. There la never forgot nor cut slide for a moment. Ho -aid tho tenth alono wu responsible for the tin and the enne of slavery. Tho south mads slavery and thon mtde war, and Gad had to ra t-o up Grant and Sherman and Sheridan to 11 down tho infamous rebollion. Wall, now, 1 1 won't do for tho good conservative men of ll-S north to apologise and say: ‘‘Oh, this fcl- )«.,-Thcmpsou is but one man. Hs (loot not u fleet tho sentiments of our peoplo.” He does Iill-ct them, or thoy would not ohowo hi tho big gun of tho cccsiion. Thoy knew his stutliuouts before they sclootod him, and they admire him for his bolducu in dir- leg to utter tho cauttmcnta thoy tty Ito conceal on acoonnt of policy or bustne-s Onr folks uo trading with thousands at tha noith who an Juot u moan and davillih, but smother it sou to get onr custom. They will teopand congratulate Thompson u soon a-l ■comes off iho platform. Nowwepntonr dtmand on tho minntes. Thatsort of talk h*i got to Itop, and stop all of a sudden, or ws 0' the tenth win go to talking and hating tool holding out tho Oliva branch Wo faavo been about long enough, Tfaompctm says that Grant, Bhcrmsn and Sheridan wore raised up by tho Almighty to uvo tho nation, and thoy saved It, and that ’Grant hu now an offloa that suits Ms full town onosglaa among tho stars of heaven,” Tho Timu touchingly says: “An office— given an ofllcsl If It ware not that this M- low Teompion la a paroxymal fool ths irony of that expression would bs horrible Grant’s ‘ ’ -but reward In glory is to hold ancthar co. After having had everything in thst Hue whlio in tho flesh that wu great enough to tempt mortal ambition, hols gouo into tho office grabbing btuincai again ovor beyond tho acrdcrfhl river," Thompson leaves cut General Tbomu In his idolatries because ha oras a Virginian and a si*vo owner, and tho Timu says, "Did hs not kn w U»t tho curse of slavery wu a divided tuns and that squally with tho south tho oerth should havo bean mads to •bare la ths tarmeMs of Ita uprooting? Tha north owned slaves, traded aad trefficed in them, wu np to her eyes In the slave trade, but whan slave labor no longer paid ska sold all sha had bodi ly to the south and thin wont into the eman cipation tasinosa, than folded bn binds meek ly across her bally and aanetimonlcusly cried ailend. lin Wing, lbs firemen’s soo, Was lha very wont bor In all Otnton. 11a sta his mother's plcklad mica, He threw tha cat In hailing sloe, I lu ala bar up. and thsu sold ho, “Me wonder when that mew cat be." Isent that splendid, and alt lha tnorosplandld hectare it !i tha truth. It is hlitcry. Wa thank tha limes for saying it What a contrast to tha utterances of the avenge northern repub lican politician. Tho Timu tUnka that Grant, if living, would badtaguatad with inch ta’k, and that oven Sherman, one* au Impacon* h ui school taaohar in Louisiana, shaking with the swamp agna and dosing with quinine, but afterward! great, famous- aunt of iu song, told of In story, general ovar all, rich, happy, and loved by all tha sweet girl graduates, would sat thank film for snob utterance*. And cf Sheridan rajs: “Would ha, a started captain of InCintry, playing ssvan np wl’-h a lituy deck of cardt on tho frontier, half way lu notion of putting on a breach chart and taming Indian, dwarfed by barrack Ufa, sick of alkali wstar, bo future tats Jimcrow fori and nothing but sagebrush forever In slght-aftara wards Grant’s right bower, one of tbo north’* the man that • wept Idols, tho Winchester man.) lha flbuudoah vaUey aad wu in at the dw(h at Appomattox, and today la general ovor all the army, rich, happy and rentent with Ms •ran aad hie Us fall-woo Id ht thank the liav, John Bkay Thompson? Ought not there ttree gr Derail bleu luck, fists- ehancn, or the slavery nursed reoth te tho oppnrtauny to win all th’e glory, gr»p all those rogtr plums, bear all this pi tire aad have sU shore moaanwata?” IhUoanmratasy ofthw Timas upon Tho np- ,n aad all of hit sort, is rich, racy sad pom- liar. It raya that meat ail three derore iun craters ware auasblM (allows during tbs war, with u oiaey gewgaws and trappings u there at* rfbboas to a priaa ox, and whga pi used d> wo to rate kia company always avodvl an answer by aaalghleg to the terra I urricada- loitsront lha glory of his vote. Bit tha mid art soldier, one who froght aaetrdiag to tha faith tbrt was in him sad aavar boosted; whv wu pstlret in do feat and merciful in victory, la tha mb who daaarvaa tha praiaa, nod ahortd ha chosen to do tha daocnoties honors Wo will all Stand oa that haad. Blolna may niter and fihirman ms lad taa aa is a tarn 1 it up ss they please and wrl’e what they plaua on uralrrampt-Ln banners, but in Its last analr ■ sis it Is hato. When there notahlo men gat on the stun p nd at>nso tho loath tho people say amen anu balli-lDjih. If they didn’t kite na they would turn their backs and rebuke the •land-rois. L /rails hu been to Texas, and gone homo di gui’cd with the prospect of aims', n * tha i-rgra to vote -that Is to vote fur tho republic*!, party. They don't take enough Intorost In pultitca to pleam him. Bhctman camo down to organise his party and break tho solid south, but thoy failed intnolr minion. Shcrmun wu sweat on us when here, bat hu S no homo belligerent, and U breathing out ria’onlngsand slaughter. But they cant boat Hr. Clovelaud. Ha stands like a rotk on Ms first dccl&ra .ions, and the people ar* for him and te Mr* Olevoland too, and all tbolr children. Wo liko tha slock. Wc have got Cleveland's and Folsom's down here, and they ana high-toned, and sure gelt wherever yon find theta. Tho OloTsland’aaU dcconded from Oliver Cromwell, it la said, and Grover hu got theflrmness of Jefferson Davis, and I hope will die with u good a record. BtLLAnp, THBCODB INNBW MEXICO. THE NEGRO’S FATE. The Cadis* rod EfTeots of Xlsesgrosttea Discussed— IrtCIstloBS TSAI In fifty Tcsra the Blsokas- Its coils a Thing or the Vut-Soae. thing forth* watte* to Think on It Was tire Sllrkeot lilt or fthootlng Brer Seen In Tliou Farts. Kiltcistoic N. M., June 7.—A typical Math- wcetern duel occurred here a day or two ago betwt on Con Byan and Jim Burk*. The latter bss been known for several yean u tho Terror of tbo Black Bingo. Hegavoblmmlf tbo title- but ss a dtaperato and, in many respects, a sneaking villain, be had comotobo known and feared by many. He and Byan had had many quarrels, lint had not come to Mows. On tho nl| lit preceding ths duol they had had more too ordinary amount of trouble, and It talk that way. w* will pray tho Lord to re salt from Amend brimstone. Wa don’t core a rant whether a man is repebHren ar not, tfc» cusp tton Is on* of eternal beta, fibirmin and In- nils and Slain* might Just aa wall mska hat* iho Issue, for It la the Une. They mty cone than . wss thought strange by most peoplo thst a ro- sort to weapon* nu not had sooner. Abort daylight, when nearly all tbs tlgar gcniet had chard. Byan and Burke were on ih« main sis (it together, whun tho lstter ■aid: ' O me. now, let ns flgbt th's tiling out like men. Ynu and I lmvc carried Mowing far enough. Kitnnr j on’ll drop or I will. I’ll five yon two mlnntoa to draw." Byan rcapondrd by saying thst he wa* wilt ing to fight, but that ho had no gun. and that Bark* knew it. Bnrkc's reply to this wu that Byan wu a liar. “Bat, com* on,” ho yelled, “ir d I will got yon a gnu.” As both men moved off in the dlrootion of Bnike’a place tho crowd ibllowod nt a respect* ful dial*! cc, determined to 100 tbo fun. On tbo way a policeman wav encountered, and, after a abort explanation, hs pricked np his tail and Joined tho throng. When tha mob strived at Iluikc'iThouse that worthy entered alone, and presently esma ont with two 43- calibre revolvers, one in oach hand. Ashoap- preached tho crowd he threw ono wotpon on th* ground at Span's feet, and uld, savagely: “There’s year gun!” If j n 11 looked at tbo revolver and at Buka, and throwing ont kith hands Iff way of expos- Dilation raid: "That's no way tb do, Youctn shoot me while I am picking up tho gnu. Bo- •Ida s that, I don’t know that it la loidod.” Burke began to swear, and was nylug tint he never could get* good fight when hu want ed one, when tho crowd clanioroualy declared that If jan was sight. It was not a fair show to make him pick up a gnu that seas lying on the gtcurd. Mnch diipntatlon followed, and at one time it looked u though, if there wai to bo a fight at all, It would bo a free one, but it wai firmly cettlcd by Burke agroring to put blsgun on tbo ground also. Both ware then to pick up thilr weapon* and go at it. Byxn nooopMd tho cor.dlllcns jurt as Iho sun was coming up. and the crowd fell back In order to glvo tho short en lull plsy. At a word from Burke both man sprang for ward. Tbo Terror of tha Black Bingo wu noisy, swaggering, and defiant, while Bran •sa pale, rather nervous, and silent. Byan tot.hlf non first, but te som* rcaton did not Arc nntll after Both* bad sent two ballots whining pul hi* head. Everybody expected to no Byan drop, Ula antagonist had tha rep utation of being a dead shot, and his fhllara 10 bit bis mark attar two timu trying, discon certed him, u mnch u it sororited too sports ters. After tbo second shot Buxko stood iu sl- Irnro for a moment, with hi* wospon cutitretched, evidently miking a desperate attempt to put tho next shot whore It would count. While ho wu thus tlirreplug ths mu who confronted Mm there wu a crack and a crash followed like lightning by another from lbs ssiao weapon, that weapon being Byan'*. and wlian th* eyes of tho mnlttlod* could move from tbo place where bo stood to tho spot aherr Burke should have been they tel on tbs fmtrulofurro of tbomu who had provoked end suggerted tbo duol. Tbs Terror of th* Birch Binge wai lions dead. Th* first shot hid flsilthid him In th* twinkling of tn oya, aid lb* trrond ballot, dispatched al most ilu.ultnnoou'ly on tb* mm* nurse, did not find Mm there. Ho ?pcd like a log at ths Instant of th* first -, and when examined wu found with his lver clutched In his hand and with a ballet bole through his bred, entering to the left of iho rose end coming ont at th* rear on a straight line. Thu point determined, not much rematnad .j la dona. Byan appeased bote* a Justice later In thed ay and gave toads, Imt tha lot* will never bint him any. It Is the verdict of tbo crowd that tbo job wu tha slickest tbit • is ever di n* In this town, particularly at that Uma of day. • Anotlmr Newspaper Gael, ruins, Jane 19—M. Ciartanoaau aad M. Fouri er, the latter tha editor of tha National, bsva fought a duel with pistols. Two ahota win find tat neither of ths combatants w« bit. The duel wutb* outcome of a nows- paper quarrel. Walk lag tha Water. From the Han Francisco Examiner. Yeung asrauoa Whistler again attanptad Ms experiment of walking tha water yeetetdsy. He succeeded. Tbe buln farmed by Ike two pirns alike foot ol Washington strut, wu his arena, na did not walk to Oort lelaad, tat confined Ms •uuAllc pedaetrlukra ti Iba epeo* meulUned. Ita bad abort twenty spectators. Ills shoes were tbe sure be uaad on Toertty, which wan described in Chau columns. Whistler bum them himself. They are modeled upon tha Monitor type of navel craft. The turrets as* square. Into them hs Inserts bis fact. Ths re- mslndcr of tha specs Is howeynombsd with air tight compartments end sine Isps an Singed on tbe bottom. There nautical shauwrtgbnidetan pounds each, sod tha sraassr simply stands erect tad sltdsshrwvd. one (sot servlsg u leverage te theoitcr. In motion, thezlnefiapsUafiUto the wstr r. Upon baiting they fell, anting *1 a br.uk- wetsr rod preventing tha walkar from batag cer- iledberkward. Whistler walked ycsterdiy without a htunca- pole, and tor twenty mlnuut walkad wire aare. Ita moved about sixty feet from thi wheel, end met wlih no mlihep- lha crowd cheered the slenderloollpi youngster. Be proposes to live an exhibition of aoueUc po- dim !u Ism ofl the Cliff Home, and to leke a knife along with him to kill any Mils wn'rb might at tempt to dispute Me progress. Hls next Cast will tatowxlksa tha rim Bom Sacramento to the of Bft& FmdcoOe Whbtter wm bora tn thii dlj. U Mtrlr nttHwo jrM'-w^s.^-sss'iinr 11004 Aubivilm, 8. C., Jana 4 —Whan I first pul tbo pen upon this paparmy impales wai to wrtto at tha head ’black” 1 us tend of colored feces. Bnt what la regarded u a enphom'sm by many la In reality th* nmt exert form of spesoh, If wqtda ar* meant to deeorlbc tha objects to wMch they refer. Go Into any largo assemblegoof people lit tho aonth and son hoar many gannlna negrou are among them. Thar ara almost u scares u the red Indians, wha 1 nco roved over there Holds, and whoso only memorials now sta tho queer stone stracturea they built and|tha flint arrow heads that ere ploughed np occasionally In the fielde. To a European, accnatcmed only to ths piuk- whito akin of the Caucasian race, th* indescribable number of shades among there who ara all lumped to gether aa negroes It must ba a vary perplexing study. Almost black, dark brown, brown, light brown, darkyollow, yellow, light yellow, dark paarl, paarl, light paarl—this ropresanta tbe satis, to tar as words can do It, If ono oxu only imsgineabonlathouiand abide* bat roes each of Iboao divisions; bnt I despair of giving an idea of tha wonderous variety, and area of tho shifting shades of any Individual faco. I have aotn a fare changing Its shldc slowly strayed tbs frame; for the person having a portion of negro blood In him becomes palm when powerfully movsd, Just as a white man turns a deathly white when orertakan by remo sudden ana unexpected Joy or disaster. Take op tho lait consul. It showi you so many whites, so many negroo3. Thonumbora do hot matter here, bat ono fact hu boon aa' csrtalned. Tho colored peoplo, so far from dying out, are actually on tho increase. Yot there la one thing which the census cannot, by ita very satnre, consider; and thst is the as- tontifafug varlity of thoahados referred to, all of which It lumps together under ths held of “colored.” This can fa* no matter of mituo- tnxllcal calculation—it can onlr be one of Mtt- mstei; and if asked to pli-ui tbo moan llua of there varlotlts, I should say, from long aad careful obicrvatlon, that lc would now b* found about jrilow, or dark yellow; certainly not below the latter mark. Tho avarago ool- ored person Is thus about midway botwoen tha wbito and black races. Nor is that all. T wonty years ago ths line would havo been further back. Tho Caucasian blood 1* prevailing with ovcr-iccrcasing strength, while tho negro blood Is declining In proportionate ratio ,ff»s^& , fr to ’ m Tho Initiating cftaae 1« WcTI enough knoffe. Bat It moat not bo snppoaad that tha aonthaftt people are preen inert! j Immoral. IIIrgltlM- cy in a country of whito popnlatlon om new bo even approximately ascertained; her* tte bulk of it ahowa at onco. It la not a thing to bo proud of, and oxcopt In tho casea of certain persona In an arlatocratlo kingdom, the bar linlater la cot flourlrhcd abroad, bat la carafe]- Jy hlddrn and won lent. Hero natnro atanupe *gun. we «an well imagine how thi* mirk, tbia bleaching. ebonM over projrewlvcly grow without any extraordinary degree of immoral* ity on the part of tho whites and without that the Infer. Thus, If i tha dsoghtsf of a genuine white and gannlna blaok marry, their' offspring will be two degrees lighter than thslr parent* Indtod, tho continuance of such de cent la s certain kind of pledge that an Indis criminate commerce—th* wont form of tha vlco-haanot aa yet widely obtalnod. In tha latter cars a decided decrees* in the colored population would tako plies. There are fens on this srorc, bnt np to tbo present they bsva nctnill/'d themselves. Bat tbo true muse. Whatever lire circumstances, of this btsaiblug of tbo A ft ten raco Is tbo power of Csncailan .blood. It conquers tire blood of tho nco with which It mlxra, Jnit as surely as it outwardly tJlotnphc by forco when brought lute vlilont collirlon with those other ness. Tho Indom itable will, tbo lestlces Intellect, the niiural energy of tbe white m»n ara half Impirtwlto hlsmfxad offspring, and make him a more complete, a more provident, a miro po- Art man than biadarkar, aaxy-going brother. The mulatto takes batter care of his (family, lay* by more store- and looks oloror Into providing te tomorrow, and aa a couae- queue*he anil thore dependent upon him are ' itliedand honied, exist longer, and prolific In ofirpring, at least la thus* that grew to manhood, than th* coined parson nearer skin to ths genuine African. If this prows continual undlrtarbod, tha cat striking affect will ba tha wiping out of th* color lute. Indeed, that lino Is now a pare flctlon. Where Is It to bs placed? A mtn nine-tenths whit* and ono-tenth Mack— Is be more ot a negro than a Caucasian? Th* diitiLrili n la broad aooogb between tha genu ine African tad tha genuine Caucasian, bnt when they shads off Into cash other by unitia- tlitulihable dsgrass, It la utterly immmUila to mark a line not partly arbitrary. To b* snr* there ax* two aspect* to tMs matter. Objortore may insist on tho other. They may say that, no matter what snbUoty is resorted to, still 11 is a (fact that tha bulk of tha colored poopla ara widely divided from tha talk of the white. A proposition troa anough in Itaolf, tat attar- ly Was when Ml tha drcnmaUness are lmptr- tialiy eotb'dcrcd. All candid minded men will wa what I am driving at. I am •bowing a tsEdsncy, and 1 bare taken this fictitious ‘ col or lino” ss a alerting point Ths wiping out teglos there, ofcoone, not In ttaertromw. And when tho ball ta onco put In tuition, everything conspire* to inert-roe ita impetus. The ImpoMitdllty of drawing a strict lino ruts naturally upon tbe who!* back oolnoo in rile- ing the mun lint of color. Hera ta n signifi cant fact Most of the leathern states have rdf pied taws agilart thsintar-mirrlagsoftl* nca, and th* old taws agaiurt adultery and fornication ar* being taken out nod furbished np anew with an or* to Uls special kind. Of course inch legiifa- lion, though good in intent. Is ncr.’ecily futile. Bnt It shows how onr ieglrlstors are loginning to lfa*l that tho natural anti pithy between ths racrata failirg.and thatatringaut meiaurea are Decenary to prerent tho gradual Intermix ture of th* whole population. From what I hare advanced It win ta rasa that thix Is a (fall* alarm so (far as ths Idea of tha two more treking an exact level Is concerned. Th* whites told their own, while ths Intermixture counts npon ths negro blood, among which th* mulatto element over more Increases and prevail*. ITcpbrcIrs ara often Mis ezperimsata; tat (facts will warrant this. In fifty yeanf time a black negro wIH ta » rarity; In » etntnry * curiosity. _______ Xao. PatU nl lb* Tonlo. From tb* New York World. Th* btaody shirt makes asmar.v fsruw-i't tann u FalU, bat it Ml ceassdto make ar much

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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, June 14, 1887, Image 1