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GAINED 2S POUNDS BbooX’TILLK, Mias.. Feb. 23d, 1884. Dias Fi»— Pleara find endowed F.O Order for one Doien SCROFULA SYRUP—SMITH S. j have a ronnc mw with ne who hw been crippled with Rheumatism—could not walk. After taking 1% BotUe* U well—able to ro to work, Hw wined *1 pound* In weight, \otrn tptb- H. 8HULK. For nlo38 WallSt, VOLUME XIV. FAYETTEVILLE GA LBUrfggs C: CON STITUTION: REAL ESTATE LOANS. FIVE YEAR LOANSI OR PLANTATIONS IN MIDDLE AND NORTHERN GEORGIA On better term, than .re offered In A'huate. Negotiated by FR.KCIS KONTA INK. Fittui Burenina, ATLANTA. OA. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27 K |884.—TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 5 CENT8 A COMPLETE PAPER. Tka CMtUtaUgi lute rent. All Clsuwea u. Appeala U All Tauten. ne leading topics el this week', tone ere: Turn and Advkmturi—"Adventure With . Mooiter Llea." ‘ A Genuine Bull Fight,” "The Kduceled Dog," "Rescued by .n Al.- batroos,” "Evidence ol a Homo,” "The Af fection of Nocking Bird*.” Tin SUtMiATioM cr THK Wxxx—The HANGING OF JOHNSON. Ods Huxosoufl WsiUM—Uuclo Remus, “Bror Rabbit and Mr. Man;*' Betsy namllton, “Go* dp;*’ BUI Arp, VWfcat Shall We do With Our <,i-1*-,”' Abound thx Camp Fibs—'“Mahone’s Flank Move* meat," "Twenty Yoaw Ago/* TALMAGE’S SERMON: "1864 AND 18S4." Tux coMerirnmoH DxrAKrsatsrs—"Tho Women’. Kingdom," "Onr Young People,” "Anjtron to Correapondents," "Ferms end Farmers,” "Tho Anti-Liquor Fight," News of THlt Wxxx—“All Through Dixie,” “Tho Week In Congress," "None by Wire," "Short New. Notes,” "Points About People," “Across tho Water,” "During the Week,” "Georgia News," “The Political Field.” KniToiiutB—'"Note, on Current Topics," and many other things ot Interest. Something to please eycry member ol the iimlly, Only 81.35 n Tear. Im Clubs of Fire, SI Eaeli. Nnbeeribe nt Once. METROPOLITAN MEN. THS LATEST VICTIMS OF THB WALL STREET PANIC, A T.ole of StMk Gimbtrr. end KSHon.lrr.-Tkc Ui.uil or Or.r.Outlfla.tlon ol Brok n* eks.li. by FH.ndr Banka-Soary a.d Z.o la tb. e.m. Beat With yi.b. IThe series ol sketches and illustrations continued in thin number of TB* Constitution ato copy righted by the author, and alt right, of publica tion in any form ere rrseired. ] NKW Yotut, May 2A-More news is suppressed in New York thsn is published. Thismsy bo regard- ed as sn exaggeration, but 1s not untruth. Much that occurs doe. not seethe light; much more does not deserve to: a great deal cannot be told. The recent panic in Wall street lllnstretcs this anew. The credit of many other houses would havo suf. feted had tho whole that was known to som e pa pers been printed; hundreds ol incidents charac teristic ol prominent men have escaped tolling he. cause ol tho charity olscmo and lack of space or enterprise of other papers; and tho secrets ol the chief snd most dlshonorablaol tho recent failures ere really loo vile to tell, and can only be hinted ah I suggested last week that tho Fish A Ward failure would prove to be the most disgraceful In Ameri can annals. It now proves to be also the moat gro tesque at far as Grant St Ward are concerned and the most disgusting as relating lo James D. Fish and the Mtrlno bank. The "Yeung Napoleon of Finance," as Ferdinand Ward Is facetiously called, John C. if uo, ms the principal customer of hell a dozen houses In the street. The Newark Bavlnis institution was carried down by Fisk A Hatch, who substituted for its special deposit of 92,000,000 gov ernment bonds, fluctuating railway and other se en rides on which the bank could not readily realize. It was the “ring” system o( spoliation in troduced Into Wall street; nothing else. la profitable contracts Gram's name secured the firm. Ol coume somebody will have lo repay these sums to the Innocent end simple investors, or somebody will go to jail. But think of the gro- terqnentss of such financlerlur, end see how. In thetr new light, Fisk and Tweed grow to be quite commonplace men. The old "Tweed ring" looks ridiculous by comparison with this ono. - George I. Bendy, president of the Metropolitan bank would havo commanded svmpatby had It not keen tor hla connection with the stock-gambling house of Nelson, Robinson & Co. It wise firm composed of his own relatives and was favored by the Metropolitan bank beyond any other house. The favoritism shown his relatives deprives sency of any sympathy and has lost him the presidency ol tho bank. Secuy has been reputed a millionaire several times over; he hss given several small fortunes to public charities and educational Institutions. He was building a hos pital to cost several hundred thousand, but the failure leaves It unfinished. He led a ilomesdo sort ol life, and outside oi bit banking' and stock financing ltd a mild Christian sort of existence Bnt this has been a bad ptnlc for Christian flananctersllko Hatch and Bency and Kuo and Dtdd. I most not omit to name Ward, who at under tho ministrations ol Dr, Stores. The true story of tho Kno defalcation and the salvation ol the Second National bank will proba bly never bo told. Bnt while I am- under obliga tions not to tell the astounding total ol yonng John C. Eno's squiriderings. I may tay that the three and a ha millions which report credits his doubtedly in the midst o( temptation. Naturally, such a young man with inch a bank behind him would be a victim worthy the efforts ol stock gambling. At any rate, they got him. He failed Ignomlniously end has alreday been swept violently aside autl out ol sight. It Is now remem bered ol him only this—that be assumed several virtues he did not possess, and had one which,wlll bo remembered to his credit; .he waa domestic and devoted to his family, 111- money was not sqn.n. dcred like that ol Fisk and Ward in tho purchase oi houses and jewelry for account of whom they cannot now remember. Eno's Infatuation was pnrelythat ol the speculator; his fromy lhatol the gambler who feols that there Is no greater sat isfaction in life than that of losing, except that ol winning. Tro tacts of how Amos R. Eno managed to mako good hiss-n’sgreat lossos reads Uko a romance stiasgerthan any I know! The ton oontessed on Sunday, May 11th. Tho lather was first astoelshcd; then mortified; then enraged, and floally was al most heartbroken at the revclaitjn el the simul taneous loss ot hts boy, his family name and his mlllonB. He did not know what to do tor twenty lour hoars, but calming down turned for support where he bad eften sought it before, end strangely enough to one much younger than himself. Years ago A. B. Eno bad been a partner ol and made his many millions with tho lather ol Congressman William Walter Phelps, ot New. Jcraey; and sluco his partner’s death he has been accustomed to look to the son In times of dlfflonlty, as he onco looked to the lather. Ho telegraphel to Phelps at Wash ington on Monday, and the latter reached him oft Tuesday morning, when he heard for the first tlmo tho astounding story with pain and grief almost as great aa that of the father. Mr. Phelps was also a stockholder and director ot the bank, having been pnt in at hie 1 ather’a death merely to avoid taking a stranger Into tho concern, but with tho understanding ol all hands that his frel quent absences from tho country, political duties, etc., Would mako It Impossible for him to giro an) personal attention lo the bank's affairs. Mr. Kuo, Hr., wbllo impatiently awaiting Phelps's arrival, hadconsWered his legal responsibility as director and named It to Phelps In conversation. Mr. Phelps without hesitation declared thstthe entire KODINANDWaOD. pro es on the witness eland a combination of Jim Fisk and Bill Tweed. With tho unblnslng air of the Gascon Fisk be unblusblngly tells of "ring” op erations more reckless, daring and extonslvo than Freebooter Tweed evor dreamed of perpetrating. Tweed robbed a City, full 9t l?ol«.ol {6,6M,t60; Util min eppetn to have Ulkod out ot a few con fiding friends I14.000.000. He appears to have taken the entire Grant family end connections Into part nership, under conditions which re quired them to admit practically, “We ere tools financially; you know eveii thing, yon attend to the bnsloeii and we will ac cept your guarantee ot 11.000 a month profit! for etch of ns.” There wii no other consideration ap parent in the artlolca or the acts ot this re maria ble copartnership, tho Grants did nothing, slid nothing, and drew their 91.000 a month with regu larity and without •nsplclon or conscience. The big profits shown in the books they never heard ol—the books were kept to catch new dopes. The Ward and Fish partnership looks discredablo to all parties concerned. Ward appears to hare come In to possession of tome ol Fish's secrets. Tho old gentlemen was a gallant, and his down town bank apartmenta-and hie Mystic plats up town were the •oenes of occasional orgris, oi which Ward appar ently knew. Ha forced old man Fish to aid him in his reckless schemes for the plunder ol friends. He could never have accomplished what he bat done with Grant’i name alone; he had to have a capitalist, and th/tt capitalist in a beak of credit, to draw on occasionally to accomplish so bold a fraud. Fish was the man who seeved his pur pose, and he osed him freely. This has been a panic of the mllllonelree end stock gamblers: not Uke that o! 1873, a panic of merchants. Then stocks were high and money tight; nowitocks are low and money cheap. Then the sobitantiel business merchants having no In flated stocks as collateril found difficulty In bor rowing money and suffered; now the gamblers In stocks flod it impossible to raise money, though cheap end plenty, on substantial stocks. Another thing has tended to create this panic; the million aire banken have loot their nerve. Over-certifica tion had been golsgon so long that the sadden ■topping of it under this state oi nervousness has swamped thoaebroken who have been mtit favor ed. They an suddenly required to do basinet ■ on a cash basis. Hence these tears in Well street Of the five hanks which failed til had some aus picious or Improper connection with Well street speculative firms. The Marine bank wsa ruined by Grant and Waid,of.wbich Fish,Its president,was a special partner. The Metropolitan bank, George I. Seney, president, wae embameeed by Nelson, Bobluon A Co., composed of two sons and one eon-in-law of deney. The Atlantic bank of Brook lyn, wasamere offshot ol the Metropolitan, and wu practically owned and actually directed by 1 £esey. The president of the Second netiocal hank, OXOBOK 1. SXNBV. father with making good to the bank is less by a sum it takes seven figures to express than tho amount the young president made way with. lie wu young but not inexperienced In business; be Is of a quiet and domestic disposition, socially popular, with religions associa tions and pretended ' religious ten dencies; a reformer in politics: and there was everything abouUlHfsccpl his ysuth to com ilttlW thd’coSfMBRbnciaily reposed In him; His wu a peculiar Institution. A bank for deposit for fuhlonablo women, with uollmltod pin money for the numerous theatrical mansgors and aclorsol tho vicinage: for tho scores of large dry goods hourcs and Jowelry • stores In the neighborhood; for the np-town chsriUes Uke the Bellevne trailing school lor nurses; for the Civil Service reform auocliUon; for (he big up town hotels, grocers like Park A TUUord and furniture men Uko Hcriei A Co., who bnUt the Vanderbilt men •on; and above ell for the multitude of people well to do, bnt still in moderate drcumalances, Uvlng on Murray Hill, the centra ol wealth and fashion, who deposited each month to their wives' credit Innds for enrrent household expenses. No hank in this city, possibly none In the world, ever had inch e multitude of lady depositors, or sr'aose failure could have brought misery to directly and Immediately to many flresides antoc’jitomcd to JOBM C. XXO, look upon It. There wu also in the numerous hotels end ratanrrnls near by a large number of branch offices of dewn-town slock brokers, who did a specel- live business by wit graph tad tele phone, The “Twenty-third street gang,” com posed of William B. Travers, Charles J. Osborne Addison Can mack, gpenoer and other prominent ' bean,” had quarters on the next block. Whether or not his contact with the operators indicated ltd to his first venture, and finally to his misuse of tht bank's funds I cannot «sy, but Eno lived un wiluam walth mu*, morel responsibility of all tho directors amt be at onoe assumed, and that, chief of ell, It wu due to Mr. Eoo's name and reputation, the credit of the bank, the gootfof the goneral public ana of all the otherbenkiof the city, and of the hundreds ot de positors whose money wu attracted to the bask by hie name, that Mr. Eno should make good every dollarol his uu's losses. The difference In dollere between the legal responsibility which the severel directors had calculated end the morel obligation! which Mr. Phelps now proicnted cd In his strongest language, wu uvenl millions. Mr. Eno’s own legal responsibility could not at the utmost have exceeded 9180.000, but he wss, under Mr. Phelp'a view of the illnallon, called on tor nearly four millions. Naturally there wee a struggle. It would have beau strange if there had not been a long and bitter contention between eorscience and cupidity. Mr. Kne has thi general reputation of being a "close man." Men who accu mulate great fortnnrs usually make that reputation at the seme time. They ao become close aod cau tious, and learn to love the wealth which they find to be their power, which represents their lives and and emphasises their snccesa. Bnt Mr. Eno hte also the reputation oi having made every dollar he pota rears honorably; of belngabaolulely upright In <he strictest sense of commercial honor, with r.n old fashioned merchant’s idea ol integrity, whose word wuugood and binding as his bond. It wss this sort of stern character that yonng Phelps had tolcfinencsln this grevo matter. He spent ell day Tneadey with him, appealing to him by every consideration ot J nstlee. moral obligation, family pride and the wishes of all the other memhets ol the family. It was perfectly true, u Mr. Kao uld, that ho wu only one of the stockholders, end one ot the dinc'ors having no actual responsibilities differ ent from the others. Bot It wss represented to him’that the bank enjoyed its great credit, not because of the president, but because of Its presi dent's father; and that while no legal obligation attached to this yet there wee a certain morel rcepotul* blllty to the depositors, many of them people la moderate circa instances, to whom the loss would cause for • time an untold amount of misery. Mr. Eno recognised this, and declared that he wu perfectly willing, after the hank had failed, to provide for all the small de positors and the charities oat of his own private means. Thle would have involved an outlay of perhaps three-qnarteri of a million or from that to a million and a half. The family hubeen appeal ing to him to do more. Amoe F. Eno, hla oldest son, who hu generally been regarded as an ex ceedingly close buiinese man, wu the first to Insist with his father that their obligation went further, and that he would not be content to Inherit money which came to him througn their unwllllngnets now to make good every deficiency. To tbo everlasting honor of tho family It ahonld he temembered that every member of it. Including oven the daughters, whose private fnnds had been been swept away In thedtfalcatlon, took tho ramo ground and made the aame appeal. The attitude «(the stern old father, however, wu equally characteristic, no had ne right, he said, lo rob his honest ebi'dreu la order that one who had been ’ dishonest should be screened. Then he was asked to think of the family name, but Ms answer wu equally characteristic: "The famllywamolsall right, my name is all right, I earned my money honestly, every dollar of it, and have always dlschatged every obligation. That a sou ot mlno should depart tram my toscblnga will not affect my name or lhatol my honericblldren.” Throughout Ibo whole day and until midnight the diecuaslon and appeal went on, Fhelpi being pushed forward at every tarn lo reinforce tho ar- t-urner ts ol the family, At lut he got a call tor a meeting of the dlreetoia at the residence ol Isuo N Fhelpi, an old man and an Invalid, now far put (evenly, wlirritt was supposed theyconld bo entirely pri vate [Here Mr. Eno took tho ground that 11all tho obligations ot Ibo bank were to bo provided tor the ntbcrdlreclnrs should thtro their just retponilbll- ty w 1th him. I he bank bad a capital of 9300.000 whlcAhad originally been subscribed by ten men ltt s! ires of 930000 each. IK surplus wu double the utatal, so that the actual loss represented to each 'grectnr by tho defalcation was bis stock plus blssajplus; that Is to sty. In tho caso oi most oi thetr-, feo.COO stock plus 903,000 surplus. Mr Phelps wu the drat to agree to mako up bis share ot this dapluu and surplus and to dollvor it in notes of suitable sizes at tho bank before 10 o'clock noxt morning. Isuo N l'hclps agreed to do tho ramo thing and ultimately, and aftergreat opposition most of tho other directors assented, some oi them, however,only giving their note* hod refuiiDgto mako any exertions to put in money tor Immediate necessities, Tho capita and surplus ot tho bank Doing actually lost, thts ol cow tea, wu not a gilt, slnco they would have had lode the tame anyway it tho hank wore to goon evenwinding up its affaire now; and they had the$r stock and surplus to show for it. Wnen the $900,010 wu secured in this way, there wu ■Hi) left a deficiency of nearly 83,000,WO; which seemed to Mr. Eno more than ho ought to assume, or than he had the right to uke from what, in a very few yean, moat ■hopewM the property of bis honest children. PhBlpgtbori-upon offered to givo 91C0.090 of this ameuat provided one or two of his follow dlrec lid glvo equal sums. In somo fashion or matter wu Dually brought to a head; shook hands promising to meet etch Ihe bank tho nti; morning with tbilr re- quotas of 999,000 In currency, and Mr. Eno Ha mako good all deficiency. It wss after mldotgK on a stormy night whon they paiUd. The next morning at tho bank the old man stood tip like au old Roman, not shielding orpre t-ndlagto shield Ills criminal sou, who had il.imi far more harm already to him Individually than lo inrtbdy die. but promoting evory person who had prated faith in the bank. “A million today," he aafd, "and a million a day for a fortnight, lilt Is nteestsry." Secretary Fulgor crowded through to congratulate him, and all were feoslor when a dispatch came from tho luee. The defaulting president, only a f.wNMne before had made hlz lut dig at the ban^ijn?' Ifist stab at Mi lather by signing his hvCajtt-j'V.deiiaiu the lastheur.before hi" forced resignation, to a check proientcd at the clearing hdnse for.890 030. Hero was a new sou ice ot peril which had not been apprehended. It had been supposed that, after his confession ol Sunday, there wu no moro to bo feared irons him, Tho old man, slung and bewildered by this last tttrnst from his ton, whom ho had trusted, fairly broko down. "There lino tolling," be ssld, "how much more there may be. It Is usoless tor us to go on In tho dark." In the directors' oflico there wu sllonco for a moment or two, broken at lut by Bant EximluerSerins, who uld, "Well, Ihen, I must crier tho shutters pulled down." Atthls moment tho run was at its height, Two long llncio!deposltorist:otchcd,from tho paying tellers' windows (o and acrou the pavemont, and every cheque was being cashed on presentation with tho utmost rapidity trained tcltoia could attain. Hesitating an Instant to give the order, tho bank examiner turned sgslu to Mr, Phelps: “Can you donolhlngf Itia'ul fair to ask you to go any furthor but perhaps yon can suggest sunethtng.” I'nolps turned to tho venerable partner of bis doad father and said, "Come, Mr. Kao, let's mate another effort, i'll take the hall cl this risk willi jou." In a moment It wu reduced lo writing, Phelps and Kno s'trued their namee to It, and tho danger wu put. The [bank remained open until six o'clock, paying every depositor who erme and Ihe run was over. Mr, Kuo wu probably worth at a low cellmate 9!fi 0.0,000 although bo hu been currently rated at about 919,(00.000 considering hie ego, the nature ol his life, and the treacherous ebaiaeter ol the stab Ihusdealthim from bis family circle, there esu be no one to doubt bis splendid conduct. It wu only natural that, groping lu Ihe dark as to the extent of thorcaldanger, ho should hesltato aod somewhat slowly mako his way to the tremendous •acrlfloe his sense ol honor finally compelled. It it understood now that the worst la kuown, Put the directors end stockholders merely mtko good their imnslrtd capital aud surplus, caving the restored beak to show for It; end that Mr. Kuo assumes all other responelblllUes, with nothing to show lor in lie thus-lakes from wbat must bo in the course ol nature in a few years, go to tho rest of hli children, more than one fourth ol hlz entire property, the accumulation of seventy years, in order, solely, that no one who deposited In his son's bank because of Ute father’s life long reputation for Integrity, can ever say that be bad lostbylt. Ills name Is deserved, it Is in every body's month, end praise tor him is all that la heard. Nobody tMnka now ol calling him mean or close. As forWIUlam Walter Phelps and his pari In this Important transaction, he tried at first to keep It as much u possible out ol the paperr, and hu until now succeeded. The only praise I have beard olss being awarded to Phelps wu In a letter ol John A Stewart, president of the Untied Slates Trust company: "If Waller Phelps lives to be a hundred years old he will never again have the opportunity of doing ao big a service to this com munity and Indeed lo Ihe country as be did lut Tuesday. This Is one oi the suppressed news-romances ol the city to which I have alluded. I think I will not apologise tor lolling It, or tor the great length of It. William r. a. Shanks. ne Waa Crssy, Podge, you're a fool,” yelled the good lady, threateningly. Yes, deary. 1 suppose so,” replied the poor fel low, trying to smile, “Dot I wu not always crssy-" 'You've been crazy cats Macs I knew you,” she howled. "Wu I off my bare when you married ms?" "I think you most assuredly was.” "Yu, yea," raised Polge thonghtfally, "it is a self evident fact that I wu crazy, or yon never woold ha vs got ms." Tho curtain arose then, snd the circus begin. ALL THROUGH PIXIE. e -■ 1 rai mn or, the weir u rail SOUTHERN ITATIA What the Southern Folk* are Doing—The Latest News by Mall and Wire to The Constitution, The evenls of the put week have been of more than usual interest, end yet there is no single occurrence standing out in bold relief as the leading sensation. South Carolina is quieting down stneo the killing of Boggan Cosh, the celebrated South Carolina moonshiner. Redmond has been pardoned; the New England editors have re- tamed to their northern homes; a perpetual injunction has been declared against the rsilrotd commission In Mississippi. These are some of the leading events of tho week, The crop prospeot continues good every where. South Georgia and Florida expect shortly to flood the markets with an immense melon crop, even larger than that of lut sea son. I a other localities the fruit crop promt- sran large yield. Business is light, but no lighter than usual at this season. The panic flurry'in Wail street touched very few places in the south, and touched them lightly. Maryland. Baltiboix, May 19.—W. G. Hally Burton, tele- greph editor of tho Evening News, died suddenly yesterday evening about six o'clock. Texas. Dz.nison, Texu, May SO —A nvgro who endeav ored to assault three girls yesterday, wss buntod down by a mobol citizens, ciplured In Iheevcnlng snd token to J all. At midnight a mob took Mm on to lynch him, snd ho wss wounded by shots, nut the sheriff recaptured him and securely put him In Jail sgsiu. ______ Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., May S3.—In tho United Btatea court to-day, Judge Pardoo affirmed Judge Iilll'a decision in the vallroid injunction cases against the railroad commission, and msdo Ilia lnjuctlon perpetual. Judge Wood, ol tho United States supreme conrt, declined to reopen tho question, J -dgo Watson, counsel for tho commission, Is pre paring an appeal to tho United Btatos supremo conrt. _____ Virginia, Psrxuauao, Ya, May 19 —During a storm hero to-night, A tile Jonos, colored, was struck by light- nlng and Instantly killed. Her mother was severely stnnnod. They were silting around the flrepiscaat tho time.""" FnxxsBuaa, Va,, May 19 —Henry Stratton A Co wholesale liquor dealers, msdo an assignment Hits afternoon, for the benefit of their creditors. Lie buttles 9(3.000; asoti 993.000. Kentucky. IUnnoDiHuao, Kr- Mty 10 —A horrible caso ot wliolesnlo iwlsoul- g by hemlock occurred near thisplaco to day. K'gbuca boys, after playing n gsmoof baseball, started lu search of wild pars nip!, hut got bold ol tbo deadly hemlock Instead. Tho boys ato freely, aud were token violently 111 Two ol them died almost Immediately. Five arc- la a critical condition and ass not expected to llvv, and the others are suffering severely, Louisiana. Kgw OnmiiNB. May 19 —Governor MeEnery was Inaugurated at Balov Kongo to day. There was a large attondance ol citizens. Naw Orlkans, Mayl9.—Tho Ploayano's Alexan dria special says; Tho river Is rising slower. It Is uow even with tho March rise. A heavy rain aud hailstorm prevailed today. Or Saturday tbo now loveo on Cummlog's plantation, bolow here, broke, flooding two or tbroo hundred acres ol cul tivated land!. South Carolina. UolUMSia, B, C, Hay 19-[4pecUll—The authori ties havo received from President Arthur apardoa for Bodmond, tho notorious moonshiner, who was lately transferred from tho Albany prison to Ihe Bouth Carolina penitentiary. Redmond's health Is very pqor. IIo returns at ones to bis family snd friends, lu lbs mountains ol Bouth Caiollna. Ilia pardon gives general satisfaction, for It was thougblbythoso who were familiar with Ms carcor, that be was more sinned against than sinning, Columbia,8. C., May 2i.-j4pcc!a!]-The excite ment over the killing of B iggan.Caab has enllrcly died out. Ills eventful Ills snd trsglo death will form tbo basis of a;volumo entltlod, "Boggan Utah, the Southern Outlaw." The book will no doubt and many readers, especially In tho northern states. Colonel Cosh hu been confined to his houso sicoihlsssn wu killed. He Is very lacltura and glum. Tbo outside world, whleh hu been led to bellsva that bo Isa vicious, heartless old gentle man, would change that opinion could it bnt wit- ness the poignancy ol Ms grid. The truth la, Colo nel Cash, whatever his bad qnalltlss may be, can in', be said to be vicious or hard-hearted, Us Is tomler-heartcd, generous and brave, eud Isa lakes tbo death of his son very hard, lie docs not tolh on the cut Jaet. A gentleman Who visited him yesterday tolls ms that ho belloves tho old gentleman cannot lira much longer. He is suffer ing with neuralgia ol the hurt and may die any moment. Miss Cash, a yonng lady ol eighteen, who has been altandlog the famalo college at Btanton, Va., hu relumed home to cheer her lather In bis great grief- Tncra Is not much probability ol the case against Colonal Cash tor complicity lu he killing ot Richards bring pressed. It will probably be nolprostatl.wben court meets. Columbia, 8. C.,Msy 53-[8pecis)]-A very pro- greasivsand Intelligent planter who farms on a largo scale not lor from Columbia, says the present m is wonderfully good so far. Tho Indies* lions are cheering, and he cor-fldcnlly expects •bun-lint crops. Cotton and corn are doing finely and Ihe fruit crop will bo remarkably large. Tho weather couldnot brlmproved oa. This same farmer Islla ms that ba will havo watcrroolons In lb* Columbia market b/ June 21th. CoLCaais, 8 C., May 33 -[dptclsl.]-Colotel Ball, ol Lturens, passed through Columbia last night on bis way to Cbermw. Ho hss been retained uColonal Cash's lawyer. The court ot general sasloos begins at Chcits-rfiold next Monday. Tbo solicitor ol tho circuit, General Newton, mil proa ths pretention. Ism told. Colonel Ball thinks there Is nothing lo toe use; that he will ha able to clear his client without any difficulty whatever. Colonel Watts will also taka part In tha defame. Columbia, B O. May 2l.-[4psci»li-9an»tor Wade Hampton Is spending a lew dsys In Cjlumbla. Tennessee. Chattimoooa, Teats., May 20 —(Special ]—A terrible lire occurred to-dsyst neon, and a large loaa cl property wu Incurred, A few minutes ho* fore 13 o’clock the fire at-rra sou-ded from the large planing mill of Woodard A Morrison, Just beyond tbo Western and Atlantic crossing. The fire spread so rapid y that It wae Impossible lor Ihe workmen to enter the hut ding for anything. Tho wind coming from lbs weal fan ed the flames fu riously Into Gillespie's brick block, which fronts on Market street, la a very few sninntes that block and all the little shanties adjoining were oa fire. Every article ol household goods and mer chandise wu moved onto! tho buildings adjoin- lug, and In less time than It takes to tell It tha whole ol Market street and the Western anfi Atlantic crossing were covered with men, women and children, piling up bed clothing, dry gsoda, groceries, fruit, furniture and every conceivable thing. The fire originated In the engine room, where a handful ol shavings caught fire. BMore anyone could prevent It the flames had spread and ihe whole bnlldlcg was on fire. Chattanoooa, Tenn., May 23 —[9peclal.l-last night, at tho loot of Lookout mountain, at a lawa party, a shot gun waa accidentally discharged la the hands of J. H. Lee, Instantly killing Andrew Ultcnoll. This morning the coroner’s Jurylremmed a verdict ol accidental killing by tho too cunless handling ol flro arms, NasnviLLi, May 23— Atlonr o'clock tbli attar noon, Judge Allen donlod the motion ol WUIam Spence, convicted of Ihe murder ol Edward 8. Wheat, for a now trial, and sentenced the prisoner lo be hanged In the J ill yard on the 18th ol July, between one end lour o'clock In the afternoon. Spence’s counsel announced that ho would take steps to bring the caso before tho supreme conrt u soon as ho could communicate with his associate counsel. CiurrAitoooa, Tenn, May 23 —{-Special) - Two hundred colored emigrants leave this city to mor row (or California to work at farming. Chattanoooa, Tonn , May 24 —[Spocia']—This evcnlt g a riot wu threatened by the blacks at the corner of Ninth and Market streets. A negro and ft whllo matt, names unknown, engaged In a fight, when about flttoen or twenty negroes who were loafing around, gathered rorflts, clubs, and ether weapons with which thoy threatened to kill tho white man. Tho timely arrival ol the police prevented bloodshed. Alabama. birmikohih, Ala, May 20 —[Special ]—Broken Arrow coal company, ol BL Clair county, on tha Erst snd West railroad, has suspended operations. Bad management and a lack ol funds Is assigned aa tho oauso. The majority of the stock wu owned by Atlanta parries. All the live stock nelouglng 10 Ihe company Is offered for sals. Two Mlchlgsnders, named Anderson an t Fox, glib tongued fellows, went to Calera a few days sgo and by fslso statements as to their weal A se cured sn abtolulo deed to $60,000 worth ol prop erly from Mr James Hardy. These men put Co- lora In a Mg boom by promising to do wonders ln < building factories and furnaces. It leakod out Baturday that they wore adventurers. They were followed to;thU."ctty and compelled to receiver Htrdy'a property-l ' MoSTooHntY, Ala., May 20.—(apoclill-Tho rail*, road commission had Mr, Gabiistt, ol the Western Railway ot Alabama; Major Bhellmin, ot the Gear glaCentral, and Dr. Flewollan,ollheColam'ins and Weslern, before them, revising (hopusenger rates. MoNtoohirt, Ala., May 21.—Ths New England press asseclAtlon returned to-nUbt highly d-llght- cd from their trip to tho Crescent city. Roturnlpt tho Loulsvtllo aud Nashville railroad authorititis •lopped tho train lungeuonjh to offer the aiarcla- tlon the welcomo opportunity of being, oue and all, Introduced to Jcffjrson Darla at tho station. Mr. Davis had ktiul wordlol greeting for the gen tlemen of tho press) who left the ex-presldenlmost favorably Impressed with him, MoNTOoxsav, May 21.—Judgo W G M Unison, ot Autauga county, has been appointed by Unltod States Justice Woods, Unltod States marshal (or Use middle snd souihsrudlstricUol Alabama, pending the action ol tho senato on ths nomination ol J jseph 11 Speed He Is s native ot A'ltoufs county. 'HiRMisoHati, Alw, May Hgssfqpeotol]—Arrauga- mcnls will bo made next month lor lllrmlog'iare to havo Ireo postal dollvory, Bhe now hot the requisite twenty thousand luhabltou*-, aud her postal receipts amount to over $20,009. lliRMisoitair, Ala., May 23.—[8,s eta 1—News reached boro to day that A, M. Dowaldrop, resldlog it Wheeling station, a low miles below, on the. Aiebsme GreTfBonth’dra rellroYd, wu attacked, knerked down and robbed ol fltty-one dollars the. iilgiit"before lut by a party'ol "four negto-s." He had been to Dlimlngham, end had Just stepped horn Ihe (tain at Whirling to walk tohlaroridsnoo.. IIo suffered from a severs bftilso on the head. Ills Ofti wsto bandaged and his mouth gagged, bat not before bo recognized ono ot tho party. BiRHiNoiian, Ala., May 33 -A decision waa ren dered to-day In tho dtcutt oonrU judge Spratt^ presiding. giyTngdEe Alabama Great Bunthcns railroad,companypoascaalon0(6,003 aerosol cooT and Iron lauds Bold by J C Btanton, when prendent ollbo road, whon It wu known u the Alabama and Chattanooga. _______ Georgia) Talbotton. Ga., May 22.-[8p:clM.]—Tho Co lumbus district conference met hern to day. OitcitaRD Hill, G»„ N«y21—(Special].—IhsflrM box of peaches of tblf season were shipped I tore thla placo day before jeitcrday, by Mr. John D. Caunlogham.’Jr., to Rochester, N. Y. ThupeachiM wore examined by many and pronounced very find As usual Orchard IIII1 leads on peach’s. Tho crop In this section Is very flue and preparations are being mado to hat dlo It. Mr. Cunnlnghsm says his crop will not bo up lo tho aveisgo, u tho over whelming crops his trees have borno tho past throe years forced him to pruno them acre roly lu order t > prevent their bearing much frail this season, la order to rccnptreie bis treos. Macon, M»jr 2L-[fi[Heist )-A nollto appeared somo dais since ol tho myatorlons disappearance In e cave near Chattanooga,-. Tenn., ol Mr. W. U. Moore, cf Ihe Hut Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad terslco at that placo, Uo wae from Macon and Is well connect! d here. A uuusTA, Ga,, May 81.—t Ipcclal ]—A sadden rala and thnuder storm swept over Augusta Ibis alter" noon, Tbo lightning struck the Clinch Rifles* hall, knocking off a corner of ths cornice aud glsnctd off to the telephone wires In front, doing no damage to tho Interior of the buildings. Every tclephono tu town exhibit!d tho lr.fluenco of tha violent ahotk. Bricks from the topof a building fell around a until boy on ths pavement, bathe escaped nntouchrd and without a bad shock. Amah's, May 21.—(Special) —A petrified sheep wu plowed up near Harmony Grove, a few daya ago, on the plantation of J I. Harrto. Thu entire animal wu turned u > and It had turned to a soft •tone. BLiCXSUIAB, Msv 24.-[8pocIal)-It I» reported here that yesterday Thomas J. Bird, a jcmig white nun. living near Kate, in this county, took hie wife and a negro woman to the housed Ms Mary Legget, a widowed white lady, and incited hit wile aud the negro to an attack upon Mra. Lrggett, which revutled in Mn. Leggett being pretty badly aud up. Bird, his wlio and the hegro wen promptly placed under arrest* Bird denies his im plication In the difficulty end ujs he put a atop M ft* fiVLValia, Ga., May24—(Special]—Willoughby Cloud charged with killing a negro plead gnlltv to Involuntary manslaughter in the ccramlislon ot an unlawful act, and was lenlecccd by the court to one year's Imp11-onment In the penitentiary. Columbus, Gs., May 24.—(BpecUl.J—The demo cratic executive committee ol Muscogee county, compesed of J M McNeill, chairman, B H Craw- lord, G Ganby Jordon, J S Garrett, John King. Henry Goetcblns snd Aaron Lend, held a meeting today and resolved to call a county convention to meet June 3d lor the purpose ol selectlog dele gates to the state convection which convecen la Atlanta June 18Ur.