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VOLUME XVI.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1884.—TWELVE PAGES
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Eeksitioxs or the Week—
TWO TRAINS WRECKED,
THE STORM
—AKB—
TOBE TURNER’S SUICIDE.
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BY HIS OWN HAND.
T03E TURttBIt AT LAST CHEATS
1 HE GALLOWS OF ITS VICTIM.
Be Stnattoa WIeiiII to noth With a Kilt
H.ndk.revt.f- -S.rrcwln, Bom,, ta th.
J.II— Ht. Ar.-J tf.th.r arowi riaatlo
COM XU Body. Bid.. XU.
- Special to The Con,Ulailon.
'Jobe Turner left Atlanta last Thursday
• in charge of'the. sberlffcf Meriwether oann-
ty, and arrived In Greenville about raven
- o’clock la the afternoon. Tamer made an
effort to end hie Hfe Wednesday by swallow
ing poison. ’Ke swallened a Urge quantity
of liquor and probably-a small does of mor
phine, but <Sr. ■ Barring’s quick attention
brought tho necessary relief and about eic
o’clock Wednesday evening Turner fell into
a deep sleep from 'which he awoke aboxt
midnight. Tamer was confined alone
In the cell which h«, been his abiding piaco
for the past three years, and his awakening
in the dork alone and without a companion
must have been extiamely fexrful. About
on hoar after he awoke Turner advanced to
the door of his coll and ptaoiag bis mouth
close to the bars began calling loudly for Mr. j
Osbom, the night turnkey. Mr. Oiborc had.
always been kind tc Tamer, and lor him;
Tarire»-foU a warn feeling of friendship.
Ainoruia AtTEMPT AT SOICIOI.
His first appeal to Mr. Osborne was beard'
and when the turnkey answered,
Tomer said: “Me. Osborne, for God’s
sake come to meat once. I am dying. T
have taken potion and cannot live live min-
utes. Please come to mo and aee me die.”
Mr. Or borne replied by telling Turner that;
he could not come, as be waa alone, but Tur
ner woe-eo strenuous In bis appeal that Mr.
0,borne sent off for help. Oie of
the meaccngers wbo responded to Mr. Os- 1
borne’s call woe quietly eent after Ur. Bor
ing while others went into Tamer's cell to!
ascertaki’hls condition. When tho doctor
arrived he found the condemned men lying'
on hie pallet in bit oeil apparently uncon-
acinus. All call, to Turner to awake wore
futile, hut when tbe phyeiclsn and those wbo
were with him bigan to handle him reugbly
Turner cprang to hie feet and declared that
it was useless to Interfere with him, because
he bad token enough prison to kill a half
dozen men. Dr. Boring quiekiy
made a careful examination of
Tumeric condition and became convinced
that he had not taken a. psrtiole of poison.
Those tu Turner 1 , ceil were coon satisfied
that he was playing a desperate game end
with sympathy for tbe man in lit* great
mental coffering, they eat down to keep niw
company. This was about one o'clock and
about half put two Turner fell Into a heavy
•lerp which luted until daylight. The
•lumber was not a titful uneasy one, but a
quiet pesceful eleep. Mr. Osborne and a
nephew eat beside Turner until
be awoke and then they left him.
Before leaving Turner Mr. Osborne told
him that be hod better prepare himself for
deatli. Tamer Immediately turned his at
tention to himself and after washing begets
dressing himself for the lee: time. He first
regsled himself with clean underwear and
then attired himeelt in nie funeral robes—a
new suit supplied by Sheriff Perkereon.
About seven «!clock bis breakfast was taken
into him. The breakfast wu prepared with
an especial velw to tempting Turner’s appe,
tite, but when the tray was taken into roe
cell Turner turned from it and refused to est.
Sion after the trey waa taken from tbe cell
Turner dropped upon his knees and gave
utterance to
■a .rarer raavia.
Tbe prayer wasaodible to every one in tbe
jail, and awoke a general amen. Tamer’s
voice wu clear and distinct throughout the
entire petition and not a falter was observa
ble. He did not oak for mercy for himself
bat begged his God to pardon his enemies
and to bo more lea tent-to them than they hod
been to him.
About nine o’clock his mother, a gray-
haired lady of eighty yexre, wee admitted to
the cell. The meeting between Turner and
■hi, motberwas peculiarly affecting. The aged
Jody, bowed beneath tbe great weight of grief
fell upon her son's neck and wept, i, soon
as tbe first msnifutation ol grief was pasted
Turner said:
“Mother, I have taken the poison I shoved
you. I took it last night and will never have
to be hung"
Tbe declaration seemed to startle the old
lady, whose Christian spirit was manifest
throughout the meeting, and springing away
from nor bey she said:
••lobe, my son, you htvo not killed your
self. Leave that for the law. Oh, my boy,
have you taken your owa life? Tell me,
Tobe, have you—have you token potent?"
"I have, mother," was tbe reply.
"Then Oed have mercy upon you. Prey
God to forgive you betere you die Tbeother
wSS bodenooghbut this is too much.”
Turner did not die,however,as he predicted,
and as tbe morning wore away those who
had him In charge began to feel easier. About
one o'clock ShenffifcfOtt appeared at tbejsil
with his two special guards and demanded
the custody of Tomer. The officers were
admitted to the corridor and. as they ap
proached Turner’s cell door rjjd his eyes fell
claratlon and when Doyle, who was In tbe
cell with him,said, "Don t mind that, it ain't
going to hurt him," they felt quite easy.
Turner was dressed anti ready for nta las trip.
He wu too weak to walk, and a carriage waa
provided for bint. At the depot he was led
quickly into a oar and the doors were locked.
His mother was With him, end. Mating her-
telfbealde her won, she placed his head in
her lap began talking to him.
Turner expressed confidence in escaping the
gallows, and although quite despondent was
not without hope. His hands were cuffed
and when fce left the city he was lying in his
mother's lop, The impression previilcd that
be would kill himself before reselling'
Hogitnsvllle, but the following special tc
The Constitution allows that bo got throogh
all right
he arrives eivxLT.
The following telegram was received hut
night:
Giastville, April 17—'We arrived In GrtmvlU
wfrfy at three o'clock, lamer smoked three
clgtn on tho irey and bean up unexpeott Air well.
Morvrrr, sheriff.
Turner was to have been bung for ttn kill
ing of Captain/. E Shuttles in Greenville,
J ane 0,1831. There was an old tue 4between
tbe two men, and on the evening of that day
'they met in a saloon, from which 'Turner was
taken as a prisoner and Shuttles, a corpse.
The evidence was somewhxt con
flicting, bat not sufficiently ,1 >
to save Turner's conviction. His
preliminary trial lasted nine days, and re
sulted in a committal on the Josrteenth of
Janaary, 1S82. He was hailed oat in the tarn
of 85,000, «nd remained at largo until tbe
following December, wbsn bis trial was had.
The case bos been to tbo supreme coart, and
tbe judgment of the court b-jhiw was affirmed
ported by her eldest son, sat just ou'itde
tbo jail door, awaiting an opportunity
to see her sou {or the last time.
TnK mother's UTSTEXtA.
Abont half-put eleven o'clock Sheriff Mof
fat informed her that her eon was dead, and
that she might see him. The old lady lean-
Ing upon her eldest son’s arm, entered the
Jail. She was bowed with age, bat as soon as
ner«yes fell upon the body of tho suicide,
shewprong from her support, and running
across tbe cell fell upon the dead body crying:
"My son, oh my son, have yon gone to
Jesus? Have they killed yon? What have
Cray done to you?"
Then turning to the doctor she asked
whether anything had been given him to
produce death. The doctor truthfully eald
"no.” whtreuptm the old woman cried:
"Thank God, my boy has gone to Jesus."
Falling across the body, ehe placed her
hands upon his throat where the handker
chief bad choked out the life, and said:
“My boy, they didn’t get to kill you, did
they? They didn't gat to put n rope around
this dear, dear neck, did they? Oh, thank
God, you have died and beaten them. I hope
that you tire at rest. Look! look I at those!
eyes! See how they ahowl Why don't you
close bis eyes?"
Her ravings were fearful nnd hardly a dry
eye wu seen about the prison. Her sorrow
was so great that an effort wu mode (o take
her from the -jail, but ehe refused to go un.ess
permitted to take her eon.
-reratixo SHE lUERtrr.
The sheriff saiu he would be compelled to
keep the body until three o'clock, nnd that
she might have it then. This caused Mrs.
Tamer to turn her wrath upon the sheriff.
Should—
“You don’t intend to give me body. What
do.you want to keep a dead man in jail for?
What can the law do with adead man?" 8lte
fiCKSSFTbstrioSdre'’wlllbe wKKSHwr by ffirre.VndlhmVhe bSdy~
JtoltoSE £L“«’a hist ride! wu placed In a coffin anti carefully watched
until three o’clock, when it wu surrendered
found detailed u follows: Turner's last ride
was marked by no particular episode. Tbe
train left Atlanta Thursday pm., at 2o' oloot-.,
and reached Grantvllle a bos', four. He wu'
taken from the coach and pteced lu a car
riage and driven to this place
Daring the ran from Atlanta
to Grantvllle, Tamer preyed almost can-i
sternly. He rested bis hestd nearly the entire
distance in his mother’s la?, and frequently
would rtartlo every one in the car by -ex
claiming:
"Oh, God, grant me one lut request. >Let
cue die with my heed in eny mother'! Inn.” :
Hiciprayer mnt with a hearty amen from
bis aged and distressed mother, who preyed,
nearly tbo entire way for her son’s-deliv-
eraxos from his terrible fate. Two «r -three
timer daring the trip Turner fell asleep, and
when he instantly awoke turned fact-eyes up
andsaid:
“Mother,-God blesi you, you are
still.”
roxnso or xuruu audio*.
At Grantvllle the mother and -her con
demned scrarvere separated, Tbe partingwu
a painful sight and thoie who witnessed it
will never forget the piercing shrieks of the
old Indy as her son wu torn by
- force from bir arms. I,paving the train at
Grentville wu quite a surprise to Turner and
hb; mother, who had been induced to-belleve
that they would lake the carriage-ct-Hogans-
etiUe. Tbechange wu made hy the sheriff
because he feared that au attempt might
bo made on the road >te rescue
the priosoc:. 1 The trip through-the oauntry
in a carriage was successfully aocKuplished.
Turner prayed nearly the entire - sixteen
-miles, and ceerned to have lost all-nerve. He
said that his death would be a murder, end
that every one who hid had e hand in it
would get-fall vengauoe.
in the:
The moernful cava cvuh reaenev: ureen-
f ville about eight o'clock, and Turner was nt
once placed in hie old ceil in - tbe coun
ty jail. A largo guard woo placed
about Ibe building, armed with
repeating rillea and shotguns: About nine
o'clock tut night the eberU’ enured Tur
ner’s ceil with snow suit of -clothing and
made him dtvnat himself of every > rag, even
tho underebirtin which it is said Turner
had concealed! bis morphine, iffhls wu
done to .nrerent any attempt to ond
hie own life. Turner did not relish
tbe change, bat: made it, and when the shcritf
left tbe cell be carried away everything he
thought Turner had with htm except a silk
handkerchief. The sheriff then asked Turner
to have somcthl ng to eat, but be declined
-Nothing mors c-suld be done for him, and
hie cell door-teas locked and the condemned
left to pass his la It night alone. He passed
the night in con. itant prayer, until nearly
midnight. He prayed for -everybody he
knew and egpec tally for hie mother who
had been sc devot ed to him. Coon aflermld-
night be fell Into profound sleep from which
he awoke soon aft. irdaylight.
,rnjj '.nr
Immediately aft. ir awakening Turner walk
ed up to the cell dt wr and asked one of the
guards to give him a drink of water. He
«,fallowed the ware rand returned to bis bed
again. About 0 o’clock Sheriff -Moffett
vlil.eJ the jail, and calling Turner to the
door asked him -whs t be would -eat. .Turner
refused everything i accepts glace of. vine,
which was given him through the door by
the sheriff Turner. looked brigbtaud talked
pleasantly to the guards, oil of whom, be
knew from childhood', calling each one by
name. About ee ren o'clock Sheriff
Moffli asked b im if anything
more could be done to r him. Turner replira,
"No, thank you—no thing. 1 am ready to
to his father.
TUI gATAI. SILK.
Turner had been permitted to retain tho
silk handkerchief when his clothing was
changed. It was a dyed piece of silk. Turner
tied it tight about the oeck, in a bard knot,
and thee wrapped his head closely in a heavy
blanket. Hie death was the result of strang
ulation. Drs. Terrell both assert that he took
m> potron.
TIIS UNUSED ICatVOU.
The-scaffold had been built in a hollow
near tbe town, and when the news of Tur
ner’s dentil reached the crowd, everybody
went oat to sec the death -drop.
About noon, the body was
taken from tho jetL end 'placed
in the yard where everybody hid an oppor
tunity coses it. The body will be burled
to-dey at bis father-in-law's place, about ten
miles from this place.
TURNS* S LAST VatlC
■Turner's lost conversation with h(s motho
wu on Thursday. lie expressed t doubt os
to his execution, and it it said that he never
abandoned hope until that evening when bis
eyes fell upon the scaffold which had been
erected for him.
HOOOG9 HANGED
him that he be publicly hanged In the town
of Kastman onFridsy, the 18th day of April,
1334, At the oommitment trial, tho only
witnesses sworn on the part of the state were
negroes, snUbelr evidence was substantially
in acoordadP with the facts already stated.
Tbe defendant Introduced no evidence. At
the final trial in the superior court two wit
nesses only wish sworn for the state, one a
young negyo man Who saw the deed com
mitted, and the other, Dr. J. H. Harrison,
who testified Os to the nature and effects of
the wound and cause of the death of the
murdered woman. Tho defendant still had
no witnesses. His counsel stated that they
had done vbat they could for him and ac
quiesced in the verdict as there was nothing
upon which they could base a motion for u
new trial.
HAS SOLD HIS BODY.
TIm KxenUaa sf tk« Murderer oNlUlwnlhMrt la
Aisy. suiuiA juu-—uu »uioj£. * bua acxaqij *■'»
die. I have tried two or tnreo tiews to kill
myself, but God has seen II ro ureventme,
and now 1 am glad of it- I feel thin morning
like my sins have been forgiven and that I
will be with Jesse to-day. { am reedy
and anxious for the hanging. I am
sorry I tried to kill myself, but l won't do it
any more Now leave me, and Ut me pray.".
turner’s talk was calm, coherent and del,
livared with a smite moon his (ace. J-t he
completed his remark be tarn ad away from
the door and seeking his pallet lay down.
TtsLatTixTiaaisw.
At half put e!gbt o’clock tbe condemned
max’s mother, father, sister, and broth-
er, asked to see him. fiber,
iff Mefftit granted their request, and
leading them to she jail door left tuem while
he went in to tell Turner. As tbe sbsrtff
entered the cell, be called Turner, bat reoeiv
log no response an lvanced to the side of his
pallet and shook him. Tumor's body gave to
tbe nosh, but there wu no answer. Sheriff
Uoffvtt iioctnntly suspected something and
dropping to tls kneos looked ' into Turner's
face.
. tue xar was dead.
The face wu purple. There wu no pulse,
and fearing that the man wos-dyiog, Dre. J. -
E. O. Terrell and Dr. K. B. Terrell were sent 1 ,
for. The farmer resysndeit at once and
reached the jail at precisely Kins o’clock.
He soon declared Turxvr really dead, and
began trying to revive hist. In doing so he
opened Turner’s shirt collar, and
aroaad bis neck wu found s
stlk handkerchief so tightly tied
that a knife blade could not be inserted be-
tween it and the fiesb. Tbe handkerchief
wu quickly cut and every pouiblt effort
made to revive turner, bat tbe physicians'
work woe unless, and at 11 o’clock, after two
hoar* cirefal vat thing and pxioful work,
they pronounced Turner dead and beyond
the reach of the law.
THE IXCITEXEST OUTSIDE.
The crowd oatside knew that eometbiog
wu wrong with Turner, bat they bad no idea
that be was dead no til after eleven o'clock.
Tue crowd wu aboat three thousand strong,
and when tbe news once got oateids the fall,
it west rapidly. Toe aged mother, sup.
Special to The Constitution,
•'SasTJCaw, April 18.—Willis ’Hodges, con
victed of tbe murder of Little - Jones, near
Cbauncey on tbe fifth of Dscember las', wu
publicly hanged heretodsy. -Six or eight
hundred people were present. Good order
prevailed. A telegram signed by several
gentlemen was cent Governor ffcDapioI this
morning unking him to grant Hodges a respite
until a petition could reach hint lor a c-nuui il
lation ol tbe p'iuieluiient to life impriro.e
meat in the penitentiary. -Tno governor
replied that bis sense of duty constrained him
to decline to Interfere without knowing the
grounds of tbe petition for rupite.
TMV OEATtt -HOSeC.
- SberiffRewlens look the prisoner from jell
at 12:10and conducted hi maunder guard to
the scaffold, several hundred yards from the
jjail. Prayer wu sald-by Usv.i'P. A. Jessup.
The song selected by the prisoner wu “Fare
well, dear friend.” (The eong, “Did Christ
o!cr tinners weep," wu also
sung. After a brief talk by
tbo prisoner end an urn eat prayer by him,
be said hethad been guilty of mnruer, but
•had repented, wu forgiven and was going to
heaven. He Warned the people to keep out
of bad company aad let whisky alone. He
said that wti what brought him to the gal-
(OWL
the s aval ruur.
The song, "Hark, Helen to tbe trumpet,"
wu eong. Tho prisoner-waved bis hand to
thooo around, aud simply said: "Farewell."
Then at ono o'clock and twenty-one minutes
Uie-theriff cut tbo rape and Hodges leaped
into eternity without a straggle. His body
was taken to the negro cemetery and there
decently interred.
Tilt >Toarer.uoacxs's cams.
The deed for whtou Wiilia Hodges was
hinged wu the murder of Little Jones at tbe
turpentine works of u. Peacock.. 6 Co., near
Cbauncy, on the 25th day of lost December.
Hodges was a sharp, mean looking colored
lellow of small stature, and apparently be
tween twenty aud iwetity-Uve years of eg*.
LtceieiJooea at the time of the,murder wu
hie paramour. Little bail In come displeased
with Hedges, and nod takes up with another
man Darted Mat Faison, with whom she wu
cohabiting at tbe time of tbe tragedy, whleh
rasuf ted in her death, ilojges seemed to
have Jealousy rankling In bis brout, and
?routpitd by the green-eyed monster be up-
irsided , L ssie for leaving him to
•bore the embraces of her
other sweetheart. A quarrel onsued
asd in the course of their dispute JJxa’.e told
Hodges that some man had hither. He
tureatenod to kill tbe man and started off u
if in search dor him. Lfcsie called to him
and begged him not to kill anybody on her
account. -Hedgre replied, "shut yonrd—d
mouth, or I will kill you!” 8he persisted
in ukiog hin-. aot to hurt any body and
,qrowing angry he turned, and are.he stood In
roe door aimak: ten paces from him, he ours-
cd her, end without the (lightest cause or
provocation draw a pistol asd shot her, the
ball entering the left side between the sixth
and seventh ribs, fracturing one of iha riba.
ranging downwards through tbe bowels end
womb aud lodgutg in the bowels. The un
fortunate woman fingered shout three days
and then died.from the effects of the wound. -
Tbe killiog occurred at the houe-i occupied
by M it Faison witb waorn Lizzie wu living
et the time u his wife.
ruaar.carTCge asp cosncuo*.
Hoegee fled, and his whereabouts wu not
knowi until about th-: O h or 10thof Juu-
ary, when Sheriff Ratrlius received a telegram
from Gordon, Go., announcing that Hodges
wav thtre, and the sheriff immeditlaly wired
bock inetruction* for his arrest. Following
ap this dispitcb Btwlias depu'izvdJ. W.
Hike to gr a. once to Uirdcn, and be brought
tk« lUpUu OrltM • M*r«ata With « Doc*
Ur for Blc Hi initiate
Leonides Johnson, the huge nnd brntal
Henry county rapist, who isuuderconviction
mid who will be re-eentenced to death by
hanging he Henry superior court next week,
is now oonlined for safe-keeping in Fallon
jail. He ia a moroso and ugly creature and
seems to be utterly devoid sf all human sen
sibilities. In tbo jail he keeps generally
aloof from most of tho prisoners and seems
to entry his own gloomy thoughts more
than any of the usual conversations
and atnutenirnts of tho jail corridors. He
looks ferwvrd to Ills death upon the gallows
withotolld ecmplsoenoy, suit the only coif
cern that his fate seems to have given him
was how to turn the coming event to present
profit
Ho wsv approached with tho suggestion
that alter the hangman got tbrougn with
Mm the eahsrquent proceedings woeid iuter-
cst him 4>thing more, and that he could
make an ante-obit sale of his remains to the
doctors. The idea took root In his desires to
have whatever of tho world’s enjoyments
were possible, and it is stated
as a fact that he hu ne
gotiated the sale of his remains to Dr Auten,
who is the jail physician fer the United
States prisoners. The price paid him for the
transfer of his corpse was $lf cash in hand.
The negro, Jim Jenkins, who wu convicted
of robbery a few daya ago, assisted in effecr-
ing tho trs-.le and is said to have received $8
as his commit*tea fur securing the consent of
Johnson to give a bill of sale for his body.
It is net yet known when Johnson will be
hnDg, but ibe-probabllitles are that it will be
before tbe 4th of Julir.
ACROSS THE WATER.
El Mahdi hu abandoned for a time bhfex-
podition against Khartoum, titneral Gor
don so -far has ignrred tho request -of the
Englisk-government to withdraw from'Khar
toum.
Henry M. Binnley. tbe explorer, 'intends
before leaving Africa to reach, from tbe
Conge country, one of the Egyptian stations
on tho Wcllltitokc river.
The raforl that tho French fisethos occu
pied Amffh is not confirmed.
The rdpored rebellion In Mexico turns
out'to be without foundation.
Au English lady at Cairo hav offered $100,
000 for the rescue of General Gordon.
The Mexican government is T.egotistln g
with tbe Franco-Egyptian bank for a loan of
{38:000,00}.
Mile. jCjltuabier has bees -arrested in
"«ri* L-- fcxttrsging. public morals, Jn her
book, Sarah -S-arnum,
- i’.n.-goon and Mandoioy, in British Bar-
rasb, have been half dsitroyed43y lire.
Jt 1s reported that General Aguero lies
blown up several sugar plantations and
wrecked the village of Oalimete, in Cuba.
Ho is asing-aynamite,
Tho pope has written an encyclical letter
in which ho pronounces free masonry the
Ixsplrlng element in all tbe eccret issocia
lions of Italy.
General-aerdon telegraphs It et hisposltlon
is hopeless ualesi Zebsbr Pasha can be sent
lo Khartoum Immediately.
r£!l Mahdi-ls hemmed In and liu been twlco
defeated by the Tegeba tribes.
farnoll deeires to retire from public lifo
hut is hampered by his reeent acceptance of
(100,040 of tho peoplo’s money.
General • Aguero has colleoted a force of
several tbaucand men In Cuba, and tho
Spanish authorities are much alarmed. It
is reported that Aguero has gained several
email victories.
THE WEEK IN COMPRESS.
Ia tbe senate the bankruptcy bill was dll-
cussed all tbe week.
Amendment) were added to the pcstoffice
bill, appropriating money for- Jut mall ser
vice <n the south and salaries of postmasters;
In tho house the pension bill was discussed
several day*. Tbe bill granting 40,000 acres
of land to the Alabama state university was
pasted. Several speeches have been made on
the tani.T bill. _
TILOEN WILL RUN.
ARP’S PHILOSOPHY.
THE SCHEME FOR THE CONFEDER
ATE HOSPITAL AT RICHMOND.
E« Think* It t«o Lato Now to Do Any Qood-After
K nateen Year* Thoae That Are Living i're-
f.r to Reoiain with Old Aiieoltte*.
bock tbe prisoner January 11 and lodged him
ia jail. Me was glvea a preliminary trial on
thelo-h of January befsre JuiticeC J Jones,
and was aommiited to jtii for murder to
await the aetioa of th* grand buy at tbe
November adjearned term of Doug* superior
court. This coart convened tbs fauna Mon
day in February and tbe grand jury Indicted
Hodge* tor murder. He wee tried Feoruary
28. Tbe court appointed Colonel D M Rob
erts and Judge Wiiitain McBve to repreient
the defendant, and they did ail they could In
bis behalf, but tbe evidence rai strong and
Clear against him, and the Jury
empanelled to try Use case rendered the tol
lowing verdict: -«r* the Jury, find the priso
ner, Willis Hodges, guilty of murder.*'
Whereupon Judge Pete pitted lenience upon
ta latneUvreltS alCa.S4.iuLl Feteag- Hi* ItolU
H Ob.MMl*.
New Yaex. April tC.-Jobu a. Priest,-of RL Loulr,
who wu ikecoagdeaUal friend U Mr. Tllden <>B
th* democratic national commUteo-ia 1.70. >u
asked at the Fifth arenue hotel if he bad Men tbe
ex-coverncr tecontly. lie replied:
"I have teen hltnofun; I taw him when I was
here four weeks ago.”
-What da fou know ef hit withes about tbe
presidential aomlnatloc of yoar party?’’
•1 don’t behove that he wauls II I know he dots
no:.In fset, for 1 hive bail loos and canSdcnUtl
talks with hlmon the tab.ect. Ne Dm ne aabitten
or upfrsUoot to: the fMeU'on. He hid rather live
In quiet for the scmtlnliicdoursof his life."
"then yon do not think he would aoccr! the
noznluatVw."
• Q'tlt* on the etntrsry, I think he would. Al-
Ihnusb be never m!4 indirectly to me. I am.ton-
idem be irouid j p id to the prewar* of the party
■ltd for the good ol roe country would tecept die
nemlaatfouTfll waj tender.*', him. He fa not
seaktniIt,er eternity,longing tor it. but really
baling he eta prriaaje the petty not to pat It oa
him. But be fa the kind of nia who never ehlike
a dory aud he would not decUuc"
"Bow aboat hie health ?>'>
"I vn net see of thru who think he eonlda'l
stand too preur.ro at the while base*, ito stay not
Druse rives, ho wu at tweoiy. St-, ia eight yean
I do not noUoo that he hu laded to any e a teat
He canuet /ally wa* hU right head, hat many men
who are aceaitoatrd to wilt* ante- are lhae af
fected. fill voice u weak front a threat trouble of
long .tandiug. tie hu.0an<a bis rUm. and coaid
not make any stamp speeches. Fat neither of
thwt tbiagsImplies lack ol health. Ke turn oat.
lived m»uy of tbo eltltlox auteanea who
hflpt-l to swladl.1 hlof In U*t I am for bit
nomlia-Jon unUinoMraauthe'tutlvoly that un-
deraocircam,taactt wul hu aocept the nomlua.
Hon. MlMourlL told for him. Jfiafue nlll be
tne other nominee beyond q-ieilloi. He will hsvs
acxxi aamoerofdelegate*from Hfavmrl (tit a
cot-tcldeace that lu bw.n the ptrties tneeUt-ute
*v.slu<themui—not the matt theoflec. ItLIae
ltd,lug nothin* to tec-area aymluatfoa: neither Is
ntden. Tfldon could have one with cradle <i
uimmlnlry if he would oontcot to takoibaadl
bailers he will heotked to doeo BLIne will got
JtU nomlneUen pretty near tbe Uni ballot.
Too late—I’m afraid it is too 1st*. There
was a lime when a hospital at Richmond
would have been a great blessing to the one
armed, one-legged, one-eyed nnd otherwise
maimed and disabled confederate soldiers, but
nineteen years has wrought great changes.
Most of tbe invalids are deed. Those wbo are
living bnvo homes and families nnd they will
not go to Richmond. I’ve been investigating
a little and I esnt hear of a confederate in Bar
tow county who would be likely to go to Rich
mond, sad Uutowsent about as many troops
to the army aa any other county. Tbo time
is put tor a national hospital to do tho con-
federate Invalids any good, so fares the states
are concerned, excepting Virginia 1 suppose
that some would go there if they lived near
Mchmond. It is a pstrioticand philanthrop
ic emotion that conceived the project and I
wu glad to read General Grant’s letter, and
thespeeches that were made byfederal officers,
for they showed good will end sympathy and
made me feel for a whllo like l lived in the
United States. General Gordon moves around
among tho northern generals like he wu tt
big a man as any of them and they show htm
honor and respoot and that does ns good down
here for be was as big e rebel as anybody and
Las niver asked forgiveness that I know of.
He te one original secessionist that Is not dead
and has never repented nor gone back on bis
self respect through fesr, favor or affection or
the hope thereof. It has been a curious thing
is me how Georgia get votesenough to secede
considering how scarce the origins! secession
ists are Bines the war was over.
I’m not sorry that General Gordoa
)t up tbe hcapitsl scheme for tho
ifiurnce of tho meeting frill bo goad
aud will be felt all over tho nation. Good,
twill and harmony Is Wait we •need to consol
date and assimilate tiio people end alienee-
this everieetlDSabase that bet bee'n going on
fgr years. I don’t wont to be glad when tho
devil breaks loose vp yonder and destroys
peace tad deles the law, hat how can I help
Ii wlira they keep picking st out peoplo and
denouncing as as b.-utes and barbarians. We
want to love that people a* brethren if they
w,ill let as. Our hospitality is unbounded to
our friends. 'Ju*t let a corthern tutu come
down bore-with tyjwxi intentions end no pre
judices ami see how we treat him. Our doors
are open to all itch, and as Cobe says we’ll
tlerap the dog and give ’em the run ol the
front yard.
But tbo hospital is trot what we want, and
U v.'h did want it and need Jt it is not exactly
grateful to our feelings to nsk northern
money to establish tt. Wo are not on iho
begging list that I know of. There is not a
comity in tho slato that ifoos not provido for
her poor and destitute. There is a homo and
a’pisce'for them and Uspy are clothed ond
ed. Hot many go there I know, for most of
our poor liavo kindred r ,r friend-: who provido
for them and that is this case with our con
federate invalids. They have homt s already.
They don't go about I) egging. I liavarit neen
or heard of our askli Ig charily in ten yenra,
Tho disabled soldier is. nonorca In our land,
Ho is no homeless va, |»lx>nd. I f lie waiitn a
little office and can b sif way fill it the people
give it lo him. They < are one constables and
policemen and clerk s of the courtu and -tax
collectors and they t aka tbo cemuv nnd got
the preference In m toy ways. Os* eras run
ning for office up o a the Air Line railroad
where Cousin Jof in Thrasher lived and
Cousin John was b soming tor him nnd
when a nun told C ousla John Hint the other
toiler could spell tl te best and write (ho ‘lest
band says ke "sp oeo ho can—spo-io he can,
Bill can write goof I enough. Ho can beat the.
He write better tl uut half tho elrui-rs of the
declaration of in iependence. He beats Joo
Henry: Lumpkin, the chief Justine of tbo so
K erne court, for y am couldn't read a lino of
■ writing. Bill writes mighty slow I know
but-I can read i t and ho spells nocordin to
nature. He beat i Aleck Hiephenc and -Hus
Wright and a he ip of smart men, bat if lie
conident i wou Id voto for him and do his
writlog'for hint f br ho lost hie writing arm In
fightiug tor me a nd you, and-don’t you forget
it."
No it la not tb s hospital that wo wank Oar
disabled and i roll gent soldiers will not go
there. They Ui re their associates and associo-
lions-noTtRiter* how humble. Nineteen years
have settled tin mi, nineteen years w*II settle
most anybody , nineteen year* makes the
ynuegeet of ou r soldiers near forty veers of
age and most o f them fifty, and but few men
will change tthlier places or hablteut that
age. Tbe doevera and tbe preachers toll us
that mennrc'ly reform orsbamlon a (mbit nr'
(et-ViODverted to the path after 41, and to tills
inapttal -will ffet no reerults from tills eoctlun
Whet these invalid soldiers want las peulnu,
a little annuity of about a $100 a year and 1
cantsre tb< dlJI'emioelietweea providing that
much for each one in a hospital and glvmg it
in at-tnsiea. If It is right tor Iho northern
peopio to give it Ol a charity,
it 4s right for the nation tc
Give It as a pen-don tor three
11 codecs out. of the whole people instead sfe
few, aud my.conviation ie that if the ques
tion was left to the northern eolditr* they
-would-vo e for it. Honor the deed and take
-car* of the living is a soldier’s motto and our
v-apie have done tint as well u Urey could.
The widows and orphans have had s hard
Uaie bBt the worst of theiretrugglo iaore r
tor tfaecbildrea nave grown up and can sup
—set tbe mother,
But the dead.are ours still and tbe day is
at band.nben wo shall msksonr annual nil-
rfaatge to their graves and cover Utrm with
fie were. IVe know not whether it gives
talks slow, bat talks all the time. He pat
th« Georgia troop* who served trader hint In
tbe front rank tor courage and endurance.
Hb told me about a captain in tbe 12th
Georgia—a man then about 50 years oid-
wbo refused lo surrender hiv oompanv and
the colors when the regiment did, but cut
loose from them and fought a way out, be*
cause he Bold the women gave em the flag and
he promise! to take it back to em. He
was oourt-martaited tor it, but never
punished. On the contrary he somehow gat
command of the regiment, and on occasion
charged the enemy furiously and with suc
cess without any orders to d a so and w hen
reprimanded his exeats wav that his am.-nu-
nit-on had got low and was aboat to give oat.
"I wonder whit bos become of him" said the
general. “He was a fine offleerand a oraver
man never lived. He never was anything but
a captain, but I nut him la command of a
brigade once in au emergency, and he han
dled it well. I’ve thought ol that man a
thousand times. He mado every man brave
abont him, and yet he was prudent ani not
reckless."
Well, there were many such men wbontver
climbed up, and there were privates jut: as
heroic, wbo fought and fell, and have tn tda
neither name nor fame. Bill Aar,
NBWS OF OBORGIA.
6 leisure to their disembodied spirits or not,
■t we do know that the custom is refining
and eievating to ns It Isa sign of an ad-
reseed -ciTiPstlioa. It is womanly and
bufvtBly. The women of oar lend were the
lint to begix it and they here never failed to
okterva it. Did I ear the women; yr.e, bat
history tells me that it was a child—a
little girl whose name was Lila Williams,
the daughter of Colonel end Charles J Wil-
" nos, of Columbus Home unknown soldiers
. ire buried near her father's lot in tbe cem
etery and eh* took flowers there most every
day end celled them “my poor soldiers
grave." Her constant devotion attracted her
mother's attsntion and infiarnced her to es
tablish a memorial day—a dsy that hu been
ever since nude seated by the good people of
this broad land. U wastne thought and th*
emotion of a JitHe-Child. She sleeps near "her
soldiers" now and her little grave is nettled
clou to her father's and her
mother's end there the living gather
every rprrag and sweeten their ssd graves
with fairest flowers.
Not long ago I met Geoeral Early on tbe
train and journeyed witb bitn for some time
HU talk wu chiefly of memories of tbe war.
Ho wears a patriarch’s beard, and shows age
both tn speeril and motion, but his htz-1 eye
is bright and .'ti-s emotions seem as strong es
ever. He wu toughing freely, both shout
men and measures: (should say chit he wu a ... ,
jn»n with no secret*, He thick* aloud aud ia.we^Sby poil^L. &SJ&.
Auoutra, April M.—K4 BCnstU, a pollceotn,
while arresting a cabbage thief this morning btfore
daylight, wu ororpoeired by another uegrograb*
blag him from tho rear. A draoera’-e itrugvlo en
sued In which tho negro wrcLCbmlR’pI.tol.sn'Ub t
four tlmrs, noo bill lafllctinv t daseeroas Du-, no
fatal wound. Tho negro mcapaa.
Villa Rica, April It) —In tho lato freshet Ayer
mill war entirety swept away. Tho rocks we *
found 159 >std« awsy. Wnen tho storm berm i
Como Mr WtUlim Reynolds guttered hit fainll
and started for his storm pit, and hid to c.-jn s
dry hollow. Tho water was verydoep and in try
ing to cross Iho dllc-h of water they all fell In.
Br Reynolds bad hU lltllo boy, seven yesri of
(ES, nnd had to lot him go sod throw hie wlfo
out, and before could get tu hta Ilttlq boy ho wu
gono. When fouud tho ohtid was cifared u > tn
sand, nothing exposed but bli feat. Mrs Rty-
eolds fell In thu third time.
Pai.xirro, April l'J.-Tho Palmetto Bisdo, hsviog
mado buma strictures upon' Principal Keeper
Nelms tn regard to his oonnoetlon with the cjm,
mutation ot tho acntenco of John Thomas, he
writes: "If .the editor Intends to isy that I even
know such evldcnco wu being gotten up,
or oocld bo IirJ. or proaout*d to tho
governor any evidcnco In the Thomas cue. holies,
and ho knows It, or he should have known it ti-toro
bo published It audl wish hl-nandthofewoiners
who weroroanxiouatoaooThoinis hung lo under
stand Until make Ita point to aitondio my own
huslnon.aud It lio would do Itlrawho ho might
tlnd li to bis Interest *’ And then Mr. No'miulg-
ulbcintly adds. "Mr. Johnson knows my aadre
Cxrtkiuyillk, April 19 —Tho social clroles of
CartcnvlUe havo bcon considerably exercltod over
the trial of a fashlonabla doutlst, wno male a
bullous ol ImprlnUog kktot upon the pretty lips
whloh wero placed so temptingly b jfor* h'm la
the dentist’s chair. l>r. Cuon cimo to thlt city
abouta year ago. Abont the first o'lut Ot'.noor
tho wlfo of ooo of our most prominent bud icai
mou went lohls odlco, and whoa ahswss flr.uly
fliod in iho dentist's chair, the doctor's
feelings so far ovotcamo him that ho |ra-
p luted a ehawer of hlwcs upon nor
iloa. Indignantly sbo wronened hnmilt from
Informed her huibunl of tho in'l'K*
ulty io which nho had boon *ubJeotod. That afters
boon tho buibahd inottho fw*uvo doctor ou lie
street and tapped hUjtw* vljcorjiHir whoa the
UttoT ran tOOit luKloMously. Ho w*« Indlc od,
tried and fouud ituiltj of a**ill ami OAlrtry. and
found 150 which ho paid, lid H Mill undor hi id
for a HlmlUr ffeiiso n#mit a fo-in* lair of 'for*
don conn.jr. Slxioo development '»/ thetj furtj
other ladt<« hav<4 told of fauiltarltle* on part of
dcc'or, which gotufchotr that hola amoit*jra»paj
thu tic tooth puller.
Caktcrivii.i.k, April 17.—The farmers will htvo
to replan t me Bt of thocorn planted on the low
land* clone to crooks aud rivers and tho overfl >w
WKfhi-d it up. .
La Fay am, April 17.-Tho storm blew down Jon a
Day’* barn in Biootntowa.
1 ho poaches havo all been killed In the valley*.
Thwooniho mountain and ridge* arc yet alive.
Chcrrlfc* aro al*j killed.
Uaucov, April 17.—The butinesa portion oC
Bpring Piaco wav conaumod hy Ore lavt night. The
lot* waa abont fifteen thousand dollars. Robinson
A Henry, family Krocorloa: K. E Wilson, diygviodi
and giicerlea; John O’Conner’s hotel aud out*
homes and tho courthouso are all a total loan. Koh*
Iiimmi /i llcury wero Iumired tor eleven hundred
and Huy, Iom fifteen hundred. Tbe county record*
wero BAvi d. Tho fire 1* auppovod to bo tho wora of
au lucondlary.
Dauai,April 17.—Tho dimtgo to property In.
this county from the recentralavlv vary dUtreul if
Wo havo had no nulla tlnoe Monday on accouuto!
wathoot* and flUdos In tho rallrnid. Mtny :rjw
flu* aro Injured north of hero, aud coaildaribto
da mice dune to dirt fill*. Jt la thouint. howevdr.
Hi" t»iI'.'*** arroH* i’ittiiphinvln<‘cru# 1c In Ufilnjrir.d.
All tiioOrldsos on wagon roads tiiroughont the
o juoiy aro gono. except one, so far a* heard from.
V«*mr i «cf.- u-n1111• 111 hs«M not yf’. Ii*’iti«t from H^<’«t*
water, but Fuinpkluvlno and 11* trlbnurlo* OAVsi
madoadean iwrcp of bridges and mill*, only
four wheat and corn milts are rtporied a* sta id*
Ibf. All of them received more or less Injury.
About fourteen aro repirtod wnshod utterly awny.
Hon. J, M. Dupree, of Macon, says ho will not
seek to be reelected to thsloglilituro, bat wo ild
no- refuse ft if his friends wero to giro It to him.
Colonel £. O. Wade, of Savannah, mows sine
disagreement of opinion with Mr. J, E Bryant In
tho following card:
You aro known every where m a tramp, a dead
beat and a vUHan—a non locorrljlbln liar. J jst
think „ of your silling In tho pir’or of
Knory fl pees, In Waahlagton, in my
ptefecnce and telling him yua hid doia
overythlng you could do to elect him (Spoor) to
coogrcus, in the fsoof tho fact that you had
ukcMt & bribe from tbo democrats, and did all you
nou!d to Jcfoat him. Tbe 1 ms f have suiounoi at
your hands I nhsil not live to recover, bat I hops
*Yll7o to sue you msot with your Just dtserts."
Walker County Mesveoger; Wo hart heard of
quite a number of probablo candlditoi for tho
honor: of our senatorial dlstrlotand ciuuty. m>
cnllrcsute Is uowevinclng an la'oreit la p>!M
&nd wo will doubUass havit an exittlng oontest all
tlmo ttj aspirants should b
vtaltoa county has had a sensation in tho burn
ing of Mrs. fJIlley Gower, an aged lady of 81 Hhn
was on a wUlt to her daughter, Mrs. Harriet 8mhh.
Mrs. Cower was left alone In tho house by the fire
by hcrdaaihter. who never for a moment suspect
ed that anything would happen to the old lady. On
her return to the homo from her work she witness
ed the most horrible sight she over beheld, riba
found her aged mother In the floor, burned to a
crisp, with not a psrUde ol clothing on her csc»pt
a small pltce of tho nock of an undergarment. Her
fingers were terribly horned, showing that she had
endeavored to put tho fire out. Mrs. Gower died
lo about thirty minutes after she wsa found, and
was commons to tho Iasi ralnuto Hhe answerc t
questionsIntallfgeutly. bat straag<»tossy, would
notbdl or explain how tbe accident happened.
Tha boure was on fiie In bat one place, but wa»
FXtlnKUUhfd by Mrt. smith after she entered. Tue
daughter notified her clw r.tluhbors and frio ids
fri oould to aiUy
the smferlug and (often thogrlef.
Five miles from Atlania, on Uyr planutlon of E B
Honkatt. to tJouth Beud district, a bolt of lightning
•track the chimney of William Boerland’a hou*e.
The bolt went through tho house and broke the
clock on tho miutleptooe to atoms. The family
was all sitting around tho fireplace, and all were
more or le>« shocked.
Atboni Ba iner: On Monday night a white man
• ill?* ^ sired, being Weil *>iK<$d wttft tbe
fePsp bli knees near Juigo JacUoq’s
raddenotand made tha air mouaut with bis
prayers For a lime the reddents ia
tnat TKanity ntie under the lmprossioa that some
~ bslux murdered, or that an Impromotu
L'liuug ba<l i eeu sprung on them. Al —
praying for nearly an hour his