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GAINED 25 POUNDS BROOTWILLIC, Ml*., Feb. 284,1884. Dim 8ih—Please find tr{S i‘vpa'TVV\LLE ne Dozen SCROFULA FAlETI 0 a young 1 Khcumu GA with Rheumatism—could 4 For pale as Wall s:, Atlanta. nuCT uiKlDC REAL ESTATE LOANS. (FIVE YEAR LOANSI ON PLANTATIONS IN MIDDLE AND NORTHERN GEORGIA On better terms than are offered in Atlanta. Negotiated by FRaNCIS FONT A INK. Fitter Bulldikg, ■ATLARTA-aa. VOLUME XVI. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1884.—TWELVE PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS A COMPLETE PAPER. The c-anstiltiUoii Interests all Classes and Appral* to all TmIm. Tlit leading topic, of this vrtt'k't Iran, ere: Travel iND ADrexrORB-“Hantlng the Polar Besr," "Bandit, ol tho Bid Lindt,” "Til, Wo men of Mexico.” Eeksitioxs or the Week— TWO TRAINS WRECKED, THE STORM —AKB— TOBE TURNER’S SUICIDE. Axoukd the Cmr Fibe—‘‘Trnlh Stranger than Fiction," ‘ A Bomanee of the War,” "tailored Eoldlett In the War.” On* Huxsbous Wscvers—Uncle Koamj, ‘‘Bret Babbit Lay, In a’Supply of Bceft" Betsy Han ilton, “Old MUs Green Doctoring tbo8ick;” Hill Arp, “A Homo lor ex Confederate Sol- diet,.“ NEWiCr-tHE Wens—“All Through Dixie," “The Week In Coagreas," "News by Wire," ‘•Short Hint Notes,'' “Point, About People," "Acrosa tie Water,” "Daring tho Week," "Georgia Hews," "The Political Field.” Tan OomnrCTtoit DiraxvxxsTi—"Tho Woman', Kingdom,” "Our Young Pcoplo,” "Anawers te Correspondents,” "Farms and Farmers,” "Th» Anti-Lie uor Fight,” TALMAGE’S SERMON: “EASY DIVORCES." KniTouau—"Notes en Current Topic,," "Let- ten From One Rcadera,” and many ether things of Interest. Something to please every member ol the family. Only 8L.25 • Tenr. In Cist, of I'lvc, 81 Each. ff.nbserlbo Mt'Once. 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