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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY^MAY 27. 1884- TWJELVE PAGES.
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TALMAGE???S SERMON.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS. A RETRO
SPBCTIVS VIEW.
y??ur Year* *f Bisod And Te??r*-Tha Strife and
Hatred B-.rn or a Fratilcldai War-a tllrsa??d
Cbtngi im Which tea Bnord It ???
Converted lata the Piowtbarr.
Brooklyn, Hay 25 - [Special ]-Dr. Talmage
preached to-night In the Brooklyn taberna
cle by reqneat a sermon on the approach of
decoration day. The sermon was addressed
chiefly to the soldiers of the grand army of the
republic. Thousands of soldiers ofthe north'
ern and southern armies were present. Before
the sermon Dr. Talmage read the story of
ancient battle, and for the opening hymn the
national air was sung. The subject of the
sermon was: ???1864 and 1884,??? and the text
was taken from I Chronicles xxi. 27: ???And
the Lord commanded the angel and he put
up his sword again into the sheath thereof."
One day, said Dr. Talmage, in ???Davidia
times the peeple looked up and saw against
the sky something which made the blood cur
dle and the cheek blanche and the breath
stop???an angel of erertowerlng stature and
armed with a sword long and bright as sum
mer lightning when it cleaves the sky from
zinlth to horizon. The broad blade with
curved e^ge painted towards doamed Jerusa
lem. The sheath hung dangling at the side
of the great supernatural, the sheath of
course of such vast proportions as to have
held the sword before it was brandished. As
long as that uncovered sword was pointed
toward Jerusalem bavoo and massacre and
bloodshed went on, but after a while, in an
swer to the prayers of the people and the
sacrifices on the threshing floor of Oman the
angel drew back the sword with the right
hand and seising the sheath with the left he
inserted the sharp point into the mouth of
the scabbard and flung the sword down deep
until the naft of it struck the rim of thescab-
bard with a resound that made the mountains
about Jerusalem tremble. Then the havoc
stopped and the wounds healed, and the for
mer glories of the city were eclipsed by the
splendors subsequent. Hear you not the
clang of sabre and scabbard as they come to
gether in the recitation of my text: ???And
tbs Lord commanded the angel and he put
up his sword again into the sheath thereof."
Soldiers of the grand army of the republic I
And soldiers who fought on the other aidel
All one now in kindly brotherhood, whether
you wore the color that suggested the grey
uf the tpornlng sky or the blue of the full
moon I And let no man who by word or
deed tries to open the old wounds ever offer
either in this world or the next to take my
hand I Hear me while I draw out the con
trast between the time when the angel of
war stood in the American sky, pointing his
long, keen, cutting, frightful sword toward
this our beloved land, and for fonr years the
nation was in awful hemorrhage, and now
when in answer to the prayers and sacrifices
on ten thousand altars that angel of war that
stood above us hath hurled the bloody scime-
tar into the scabbard with a clang that made
everything from the Cinadus to the gulf
quake. At this season of decoration of sol
dier.??? graves both at the north and south, it is
appropriate that I rouse your patriotism and
revive your reminiscences ibid stir your
gratitude by putting 1804 beside 1884. 1 shall
make two circles around these t*o dates.
Around 1864 1 shall put a garland of red
dahlias for the carnage. Around 1884
I shall put a garland of white lilies
for the tpeaee. The first date I shall
crown with a chaplet of cypress. The last
date I shall crown with a sheaf of wheat.
The one date a dead march and the other a
wedding anthem. Twelve o???clock at night
???compared with 12 o'clock at noon.
Contrast, first of ell the feelings of section'
al bitterness in 1864 with the feeling of sec
tional amity in 1884. At the first dale the
south had banished the national air, the Star
Spangled Banner, and the north had ban
ished the popular air of "Way Down South
in Dixie." The northern people were ??? -mud
sills" and the southern people were ???white
trash." The more southern people were
killed in battle, the better tbs north liked it
For four years the head of Abraham Lincoln
or Jefferson Davis would have been worth a
million dollars if delivered on the other side
of the line. Ho need now, standing in our
pulpits and platforms of saying that the
north and south did not hate each other. The
hatred was as long and terrible as the sword
that the angel of war, standing mid-heaven,
gripped pointing toward this nation,and then
awing closer down till itgashed a grave-trench
clear through the quivering heart of the con
tinent. To estimate how very dearly we
loved each other, count up the bombshells
that were hurled and the carbines that were
loaded and the cavalry bor.es that were
mounted. Horth and south facing each
other, all armed in the attempt to kill. The
two soctlons not only marshalled all their
earthly hostilities, but tried to reach up and
S t hold of the sword spoken of in the text,
e sword of heaven, and the prayers of
northern and southern pulpits gave more
information to the heavens aoout the best
mode of settling this trouble than was ever
used. For four years both aides tried to get
hold of the Lord???s thunderbolts, but could
not quite reach them. At the breaking out
of the war we bad not for months heard of
my dear uncle, Samuel K. Talmage, president
of Oglethorpe university in Georgia. He
was about the wildest man I ever knew and
as good as good could be. The first we htard
an overmastering antithesis as between 1864
of complete bitterness and 1884 of complete
sympathy. It is the difference between the
archangel of war mid-sky with sword brand
ished and archangel of war mid-sky sword
ecabbarded.
Contrast, also, the domestic life of 1864
with the domestlo life of 1884 You were
either leaving borne or far away from it
communicating by unoertain letter. Wbat
a morning that was when you left home.
Father and mother crying, sisters crying,
you smiling outside but cryinginside. Every
body nervous and excited. Boys of the blue
and grey! Whether you started from the
banks of the Hudson or the banks of the
Savannah, don???t you remember the scene at
the front door, at the rail car window or the
steamboat landing? The hussa could not
drown out the suppressed sadness. Do you
remember all those charges to write home
often, and take good care of yourself, and be
good boys, and the good bye kiss which they
thought and you thought might be forever?
Then the homesicknesses you paced the river
bank on a starlight night on picket duty,
and the sly tears that you wiped off wben
you heard a group by a camp fire singing the
B Isolation song about the ???Old Folks at
lome.??? The dinner of hard tack on Thanks
giving day. And the Chriatmas without any
of nlm was bis opening prayer in a confeder
ate congress in Bichmoud, which was re
ported in the New York Herald, which
prayer if answered wanld, to say the least,
nave left all bis northern relatives in very
uncora'oriable circumstances. The ministry
at the north prayed one way and the ministry
at the south prayed another way. No use in
hiding the fact that the north end south
cursed each other with a withering and all-
oonsuoiiog curse.
Beside that antipathy of 1861 I place the
complete accord of 1884. Meeting in New
York to raise money to build a home at
Bichmond for crippled confederate soldiers,
the meeting presided over by a man who lost
an arm and a leg in fighting on the northern
side and the leg not lost so hurt that it does
not amount to much. Cottonexhibition two
yean ego at Atlanta, attended by tens of
thousands of northern people, and by General
Sherman, who was greeted with a kindness
as though they had never seen him before.
UnltedStates government lait week voting a
million dollars toward a New Orleans exhi
bition to be held next December, in which
every northern state will be represented. A
thousand fold kindlier feeling after the war
than before the war. No more use of gun
powder la this country except for Fourth of
July pyrotechnics or a shot at a roebuck in
the Adlrondscks. Brigadier generals in the
southern confederacy making their fortunes
as lawyers in our northern cities. Elvers of
Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina turn
ing the mills of New England capitalists.
The old lions of war, Forts Sumter and Moul
trie and Lafayette and Pickens and Hamil
ton sound asleep on their iron paws, and in
stead of our raising money to keep enemies
out of our harbor, raising money for the Bar
tholdi statue on Bedloe???s Island, the fl<ure
of liberty with uplifted torch to light the
way for all who want to coma In. Instead
of 1864 wben you could not cross tbs line
between tbe contestants without fighting
your way with keen steel or going through
by passes carefully acrotlnixod at every step
bv bayonefB you need only a railroad ticket
from New York to Charleston or New Or
leans to go clear through, and no use for any
weapon sharper or longer or stronger than a
steel pen. Since the yean of time begin their
roll, has there ever been in two decades such
presents. And tbe long nights in the hos
pital so different from the sickness when you
were at home with mother and slsten at the
bedside and the old clock in tbe hall giving
the exact moment for the medicine. Ahd
that forced march when your legs ached and
your head acaod and your wounds ached,
and more than all your heart ached. Home
sickness which bad in it a suffocation and a
pang worse than death. You never got
hardened as did tbe guardsman in the Crim
ean war who heartlessly wrote home to his
mother: ???I don't want to see any more cry
ing letters come to the Crimea from you.
Those I have received I put into my rifle
after loading it, and have tired them at the
Russians because you appear to have a strung
dislike to them. If you had seen as many
killed as I have you would not have as many
weak ideas as you now have.??? You never
felt like that. When a soldiers??? knapsack
was found after his death in our American
war there was generally a careful package
containing the Bible, a few photographs and
letters from home. On tbe other hand tens
of thousands of homes waiting for news
Parents saying: 'Twenty thousand killed!
I wonder if our boy was among them!???
Paintings dead away in postoffle, a and tele
graph stations. Both tbe ears of God filled
with the sobs and agonies of kindred waiting
for news or dropping under the announce
ment of bad news, Speak, swampsof Ghick-
ahominy and midnight lagoons, and fire-rafts
on tbe Mississippi, and gunboats before
Vicksburg, and woods of Antietam and tell
to all the mountains and valleys and rivers
and lakes of north and south the Jeremiads
of 18G1 that have never yet been syllabled!
Beside that domestic perturbstion and
home sickness of twenty years ago put the
sweet domesticity of 1884. Where do you
come from to-night? From home. The
only camp fire you cow ait at is at the one
kindled instoveorfurnaceorhearth. Instead
of a half ration of salt pork, a repast luxu
riant because partaken of by loving family
circle and in sacred confidences. Ah now I see
who those letters wero for, tbe letters you,
the young soldier, took so long in your tent
to write and that you were so particular to
putin the mall, without any one seeing, lest
you be teased by your comrades. God spared
J on to come back, and though,tbe old pedjilc
ave gone, you have a home of your own
construction and you are here to-night con
trasting those awful absences aud filial and
brotherly and loverly heart-breaks with your
present residence, which is the dearest place
you will ever find this side of heaven, the
place where your children were born and the
8 lace where you want to die. To write the
guns 1864. 1 set up four crystals, crystals
of tears. To write the figures of 1884 I
stand up four members of your household,
figures of rosy cheeks and flaxen hair, if 1
can get them to atand still long enough.
Contrast also the religious opportunities of
20 years ago with now. Often on the march
from Sunday morn till night, or commanded
by officers who considered the names of God
and Christ of no nse except to swear by.
Sometimes the drum head, the pulpit and
you standing in heat or cold. All the sur
roundings or military life having a tendency
to make you reckless. No privacy for pray
er or Bible reading. No sound of ohurch
bell. Sabbath spent far away from the places
where you were brought up. To
day the choice of sanctuaries.
Eisy pew. All Christian surroundings.
Tbe air full of God and Christ and Heaven
and doxology. Three mountains lifting
themselves into tbe holy light. Mount Sinai
thundering its law, Mount Calvary plead
ing its sacrifice, Mount Fisgah displaying
the promised land.
1864 spending money by the millions and
billions in devastation of property and life.
1881 with finances so reconstructed that all
the stock gamblers of Wall street week be
fore last failed to make a national panic.
1864, the surgeons of the land setting bro
ken bones and amputating gangrened limbs
and putting in splints to gunshot fractures
and Inventing easy ambulances for tbe
wounded and dying. 1884 surgeons giving
their attentions to those in casualty of agri
culture or commerce or mechanical
The rushing of the ambulance through our
streets not suggesting battle, but quick re
lief to some one fallen in peaceful Industries.
1864, 35,000,000 inhabitants in this land ;
1884. 55,000,000.
1804, wheat about 80,000,000 bushels; 1884
the wheat will be about 500,000,000 bush
els.
In 1804 cotton less than 3,000,000 bales ;
in 1884 cotton will bs more than 7,000,000
biles.
In 1804 Pacifio coast five weeks from the
Atlantic ; in 1884 for three reasons, Union
Pacific, Southern Pacifio and Northern Pa-
oisic, only 7 days across.
Look at the long line of churches and uni
versities aud asylums and homes with which
durlug tbe last two decades this land has
been decorated. Ob, was not this a country
worth fighting for 7 Do not tbe magnificent
prosperities of 1884 compensate fortne hard
ships of 1864 ? Soldiers ! Praise God that
be nas spired you to tee this day and as you
gave your bodies in battle give your oouls in.
peace to God and your country.
Living soldiers of tbe North and Boutb!
Take new and especial ordination at this
season of the year to garland the sepulchres
of your fallen comrades. Nothing is too
good for their memories. Turn all the pri
vate tombs, and the national cemeteries into
gardens. Ye dead of Malvern Hill and Cold
Harbor and Murfreesboro and Manassas
Junction and Cumberland Gap and field
hospital, receive these floral offerings of the
living soldiery.
But they shall come again, all the dead
troops. We tome times talk about earthly
military reviews, such as took place in Paris
in the time of Marshal Ney and in London
in the time ot Wellington and in our own
land. But what tame things compared with
the final review wben all the armies of the
ages shall ptss for divine and angelic inspec
tion ! St. John saw tbe armies of heaven on
uel and Garibaldi, leading on tbe armies of
the Italians. Tamerlane and Genghis Khan
followed by the armies of Asia. Gustavus
Adolphus and Ptolimy Phtlopater and Xer
xes and Alexander and tjemiraniiis and
Washington, leading battalion after battsl
inn. The dead American armies of'76and
1812 and the one million of Northern and
Southern dead in our civil war. Tney come
up. They pass on in review. The 6.000,000
fallen in Napoleonic battle. The 12,000.000
Germans fallen In tbe thirty yean war. Tba
fifteen million fallen in the war under Se
soatrls. The twenty million fallen In the
war Justinian. The twenty-five million fal
len in .Jewish wais. The eighty million
fallen In the crusades. The ono hundred
and eighty million fallen in Roman wars
with Sarao
white horses and I do not know why many
of the old cavalry horses of earthly battle
that were woon-led and worn out in the ser
vice may not hare resurrection. It would
be only fair that raised up and ennobled
they should be resurrected for the grand re
view of tbe Judgment Day. It would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
poor bodies than to reconstruct ours, and I
should be very glad to see them among the
white hones of apocalyptic vision. Hark to
the trumpet blast, tbe reveille of tbe last
judgment. They corns up, all the armies ot
all lands and all centuries on which ever side
they fought, whether for freedom or despot
ism. for tbe right or the wrong. They come I
They cornel Darius and Cyrus and Sennacb-
e.lb and Joshua and Divili leading forth the
armies of scriptorsl times. Hannibal
and Hamilcar leading forth the
armies of the Cartbsgeniaas, Victor Eman-
cens and Turks. The thirty-five bil
lion men estimated to have fallen in battle,
enough according to one statistician, If they
stood four abreast to reach c.ear around the
earth 442 times. But we shall have time
to see them pass in review before the throne
of judgment, the cavalrymen, the spear
men, tbe artillerymen, the infantry, tbe
sharp-shooters, thegunners, the sappers, the
miners, tbe archers, the skirmishers, men of
all colors, of all epaulette, of all standards,
of all weaponry, of all centuries. Let the
earth be especially balanced, to bear their
(read. Forward! Forwardl Let tbe or-
chestra of the heavenly galleries play the
grand march joined by all the filers, drum
mers and military bands that ever sounded
victory or defeat at Eylau or Borodino, Marl-
tbon or Thermopy'se Bunker Hill or York-
town, Solferino or Balaclava, Sedanor, Get
tysburg, from tbe lime that
Joshua halted astronomy above Qlbeon
and Ijalon, till the last man surrendered to
Garnet Wolseley atTel-el-Kebir. Attention,
companies, battailous, ages, centuries and
tbe universe. Forward iu the grand revlow
of the judgment. Forward!
Gracious and eternal God. On that day
may it be found that re were all inarching
in the right regiment and that we carried
the right standard, and that we fought under
tbe right standard, and that' we fought un
der the right commander, all heaven, some
on amethystine battlement and others stand
ing in shining gate, some on pearly shore
and others in tnrreted heights, giving us tbe
resounding million-voiced cheer: ???To Him
that overcotneth." ???And our commander
and king having reviewed the Hoops, all na
tions of earth aud heaven will salute him as
the ono who, standing so long In the Bky
with tho sword of conquest stretched to
ward the earth, hath'at lost put it back with
a mighty thrust and echoiug clang into the
sheath of universal victory.
TRUCK FARMIMO IN GEORGIA.
INTO ETERNITY-
LEOMDAS JOHNSON maNOBD YES
TERDAY A.T M'i/ONOUOH.
The Henry County ??a<i HurjUr Usage*???
Wiinr??*>d by Nearly Ta* TkOMtand Ftop'-a???
Wbat tha Oulpnt Had to a j ot Hie C*>
hit-Tle loolflenta ??f ibe Day,
Hbackles, and then he started oat on a forte-
ing tour. He passed the house of Mm. Cook,
the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and seeing
her alone with herllttle baby, seized her am
outraged her. Her f cream- finally frightened
him oft and later, having lost bis
coat and hat, inneeuflh, he went into the
house of Mr. Karkuess to steal another and
encountered a ill tie daughter of Mr. Hark-
ness???s, whom be seised and attempted toont-
i ***?!. 8h ?? , 80re ?? me<1 Bn <l he grabbed a coat
Leonidas Johnson and hit coffin went down I wrSLiSSiJiSLj ???,??? a .
1 He was captured and tried for an araanlt
io McDonough Thursday afternoon.
I with intent to rape Hs was convicted and
Tk. Outlook f.r Ik. Tri.k rarm.n-A lie Her Orson-
tEottea Tkee I.e.l Year.
Mr Charles E Harmon hss just returned from an
extended trip thrcujh the trues region, and gives
a very Interesting account of what la being dono
In that section, ileisja:
???The acresgo Is smaller this year perhaps than
hut, but It Is generally believed that the loss in
a- reago wlllbj made ni|by a morelntelllgent plant
ing. Tho men who havo dropped ont as a rule are
tho men who planted lost year In a csnitl sort of n
war. Those wno went Into it' as a butlnoti are
sUcklog to It anil havo Increased their ocrcago I
should say that lbs yield oi melons wifi bo this
year aboutwtmli wastut. 1 have uot.tudltd so
closely tho yield of minor truck, but understand
that It shows au Increase. The strawberry crop
has been more, and tho cucumber crop Is Jusi
B ing forward. Good prices are reported and tho
rrners seem to be satisfied that "
vegetable season will be very prosperous.
ABBANaUiatITS COE MlIITINU MELONS.
???Are noithe solpDlng arrangements hatter
they were lut year?
???Very much notter. There was lack of organiza
tion lastyetr For example,I rcctirtda telegram
one day la Valdosta ttioi W cars ot melons bad
been received la Cincinnati that day. lit ipltool
tuts 28 can left Valdosta thai very
xvtoof Albtoy, as their distributing sgont. lie???
Will havo h,.-??,li|OsrlL-r?? In AtUnu. an.1 will re
ceive dally from our agents lu 242 cltlos that havo
be-cu selected to thip to tho exact number oi
enoluus received at each ono of iheso places and
tho exact condition ot tho msrkoL It he finds that
ono city has received more than two car loan*
o( melons which is all that It will
need for throe days ho will prevent any other cure
being shipped to that point. Iu other words be
will distribute the crop Ju,t as It la needed, putUug
the can as they leava Atlanta to points whero the
fowe.1 melons havs been shipped. Another mis-
tako that will be corncted 1s this. Last year the
first melons were shipped to tho northwest. They
reached there when the people were actually
wearing II inncls and overcoats and It goes without
saying that nobody warns a water melon except
to not weather, consequently, the first melousoi
the crop were vlituarly lost by being put Into
northerly mirkota where It was teo cold to allow
them to bo sold. This year the lint melons wl'l bo
sont to tho southern t-iwnsand kept out of north
ern markets until tho weather Is such as to de-
mind thorn.???
TUI MELON POPULATION 07 TUI NORTHWKHT.
??? Wbai to tho population of the 249 cities sotected
by the melon growers' association in tho notlh.
westF???
???Within a fraction ot five million people, Mr,
Divto hss already made arrangements to got tbo
best commission meichauu In each oi tbo smaller
towns and tbreo or four In cacb ot tbe larger
towns to handle them melons and to advleo him
dalily by telegraph as to wbat they need. In this
way no hopes to be r bio to dtopoeo oi tho whole
cron that goes west???
What number ot cart goes wealT???
Wothlppod last year about threo
i I think wilt tblp u many U_
year many oi tho best growers rccelVL
to Ihtce hundred and fifty dollars a car tor their
mclotis. They think that they will averago one
hundred and fifty dollars a car, which would net
them 1450,000 for the melons carried west,
many mere at least will go east.???
- What have the railroads done to fscllltate the
shipping this year?'???
???They have provided better cars and more of
them, and the? navo made this rule, that a ctr
can be shipped from Atlanta to any paint
west or Its destination changed afhrlt to started
wlttont a res!
will be oi great
point oi local Importsncoto this: a groat many
car loads ot melons woie lost last season by bclug
sent to Hsvinoah after a steamer bad left or when
there was no room on the steamer for them. We
have arraoged now to ruu a melon trilu (rum Sa
vannah direct to tho northwest to Isao the melons
that are intended ior steamer but that cannot bo
shipped that way.???
You louud the truck farmers In good spirits?'
Kmphatlcsllyso. They rtoognto, tho fact that
Ibera buslncm to a profitable one and that It to
clearly established aud tbe-tr lands havo lncrca'cd
In Value. Tney have mide money aud will find
tbelrproflta lucrtulDg every )ear. The truck
iarmlug Interest of Ueorgla to a von Importauloue
and will beoomo more so every year.
A CRBDITABLH TRIP.
IX.w M.J.V Urecnr, .r.tkf stint!..all Naatkarp,
II.II..K4 Ike OosuUl.lt.a???. N aw Sna.
Tax Constitution on Friday evening received
Its (ull new dress from the Franklin typo foundry
of Cindonatl, and the Incidents connected with
its msnnfactnro and Us trip to Atlanta aro worthy
of mention, reflecting greet credit on the typo
fonndry and the management of the routo over
which the type wtu brought
1 ho now dress was ordered seme few weeks ago
andtocimplett In every respect The order was a
large one and much Urns was necessary to finish
it Wo bid expected It to arrive abont the middle
ot uauobaidurtog the toil week n included that
It would bo hotter to have It at cnce aud make tho
ant tosne with the new drtse on Tuetday next
To do this would require au extraordloary exer
tion on me part ot uejouudryauda remarkably
qatcktra???itltbyrsll.
We celled on Mr. T. T. Greene, agentoilbe
queen end Crescent line. Ctnetnne'l Houtneru
railway, explained to him how Important It was
to have our plant here In time for use new peper.
lie said et once there would be no dlfllculty, and
relieved ns of alt trouble by adding, -'thegoods
shall be here.?????? , Sure enough
on Friday wo received a notice from him that they
would arrive that olgbt. and on Hatuiday morning
they were delivered. We extend the thank, ol
'IHlCoNinTtmoN in our fneoda, the ClodunaU,
NewOrtsana and Texas F.cific railway, and to
Mr. Greene, their general attot, who took all Ibe
???rouble off our hands, delivering -be typo to time
ioroof nadera to profit by the Increased factllUea
this lino girt s us to Cincinnati and the noitb, both
In panzogeraod Irtishl transportation.
(Unco writing the above we loam that the typo
were not cast until Wedneslaysnd Mr. Byan ol the
queen and Creetnt In CTnctnukO. acting on tbe
urgent I-tler ot Mr. Gieen, stood by end eaw them
cast and packed, until the Use cate left for
she depot, which wss after Cask, but in lime
for train So 17, leaving Cincinnati sell:*) pm.
into train ran on time lor the train which reached
Atlanta at 11 p m Friday.
T Into, Cincinnati to Atlanta. 47 hours, SOmln.
atee, oa regalar freight trains.
His departure from tbs city was witnessed I got nsentence of twenty-years. While in the
bye largo crowd of negroes and whites. 001111 room Mrs. Cook, whom he had outraged,
About 3 o'clock he was taken fromthe Ful- H. P ^^SicOTn^oti??? fd SnKto
ton county jail by Deputy Sheriff B. W. I death. The case took the usual course lu the
Grant and two assistants and conducted to I courts nn-1 the culprit was finally eentenced
the Eist Tennessee passenger depot. He was I t0 -???J luns to???dy-
, , , _ . , . _ .. There were certainly other cr me, commit-
securely handcuffed and a heavy cotton rope ted by Johnson but hi denied them,
was tied about his arms. As ho passed rnr oxtueki.no ckowm.
through the streets he attracted * lou ? "^L 0 ? hangings
-i 3..i ... ... I before Leonidas Jobnsou streetked the hemp
a good deal of attention, and when I to-day. The last bnnglng was in 1818, nearly
he reached the depot was surrounded by a fifty years ago and the people were ready to
big crowd. The depnty sheriff harried him I }? rn ., 0 , n |. en i Bul * **??? the drop and hear
into the fr eond class cotch and gave him a ? n th u ??? ^ dawn (llB hard handed f ??? m .
seat near the middle of the car. The guards era began to arrive with Ibeir shotguns, am*-
seated themselves before and behind John* I kets, etc., to re-enforce those who had atood
son and kept a strict watch upon him. While guard at the Jail during tbe night. They
he was thus awaiting tho departure of the made a company ol variously mixed
train a hand truck rolled by his window. I musketry???like a pack of ten rent
On the truck was Johnson???s coftlo, and when vlalting cards - ho two alike
it was pointed out to him ha smiled. There wss a dearth also of uniforms, each
????!IiT 1 m,i , ?? A > C hiiT. is msn w '?? ritl 8 the regalia that suited him beat.
-tuT^^ . I A atrango nulsa It learned as they rammed
chance'to see gj
m'th ll r r ri'Ld I1 Rbont e the^wlndow???woconslin't??? tor Ilunl * n * ame i ???* the emergency arose, an.'i
w nmD Y w,, ?? ???he remarks made as tho guns
lL E ru7ne5'hhlGe n nUoTto 0 tZe d atou. J h 0 |m' for * ho "???" h * tho *???'*?? ??*
1^??? ^I amuready*!?? go^and^hat I S'^^the "^'duu'k^'cfid am * town
??n tt t sw Cl .ne. I snS 0 m?? t i?^ 1 ToA h 8 ??rH^ raaD > wo 1,1 " n ??? Dd child to * '??Ue?? around had
h.SiM???Un'Jturned out and the crowd was finally estima-
lt ???Thnngfn b ihi!fkl t nn im h^n b a?''' ted all the way lrom five to ten thousand
'.kink you "J* 1 . .. people. One remarkable feature of tbe
Ofcouree. l llhang. Tne governor aint I cr ?? wd wa , the great number of ladles and
Interfere and I know I alnt going I children. Young ladies from the rural ,11..
No .ir Th.J r?? Children. Young ladies from the rural dls-
S^oSSi CB i U ?? I ,rict " we??? out In force, rustic besnx bring*
to kill myself. It | j ni , t | le j r sweethearts and one young fellow
wai noticed who exercised a wa'chfnl care
over the comfort of two fair damsels???one on
going to ???
to do like Tobo Turner,
hang mo. I ain???t going to ??? I
won???t take long to end the whole thing,???
???So you are prepared to got"
'Yes, I atn tetidy. I have read the Bible I eac ^ arm
and prayed constantly since I found there I nx aonn> itu death.
was no escape. Mr. thole and Mr. Osborne At 11 o'clock Sheriff Goodwin and his
at the Jail have been mighty kind to me. I aides and guards entered tbe cell of Johnson.
They have given me a cell to myself for I Ho was soniowhat nervous as a pairof bright,
nearly a month and I have never been I new handcuffs were snapped about bis wrists
bothered by the other prisoners. The I and he was led out to his death. He walked
preachers have been to Bee me twice each I with a fairly steady gait to a two horse hack
week???on Wednesday and Sunday???and have I which stood at tbe door of the jail. Into
taught me how to lay my Bins away. I don???t I tho hick he climbed and several men climbed
think I could be benefited by being turned I | n with him.
loose. I have been a bad negro, and. have I The guards of one hundred men with their
done a great deal of harm in my Ufa and my I guns at a carry surrounded the hack, and
death I guess Is just.??? I Johnson started on bis ride to death.
McDonocoh, May 23.???[Special.]???I Slowly the procession moved to the scaffold
nhnnt pi even o'clock Sheriff which had been erected on a little hill In the
To-day about eleven o clock edge o( the town. The machine of death was
Goodwin and about one hun-1 A we n built aflair, tho beam about fourteen
dred citizens, armed with shotguns, wont to I feet from the ground, and the trap operated
tbe county jail and, taking therefrom Leon-1 [ft * m
T i. iw. ??? ?? , ??? . mnA . _ I the end running iu a groove. The scAflold
Idas Johnson, the notorious rapist and bun W as built on a hule hill, and on every side
glar, carried him to a scaffold which had I were other hills rlalng up and forming a nat-
been previously erected in the outskirts of oral *mp' theater. All these hills were dotted
???!,?? nrnnnri Mu tiftiik nn.i I over with people. Many climbid into trees
the town, placed a rope around hi. neck and I, a Taa t??? ???imost Irresistible throng
hung him, I prosed about tho rope that was slretchei
The execution was witnessed by nearly ton I around tbe gallows,
thousand peoplo from the surronndlng conn- When the party reached the ecafiold the
, a ??? I crowd parted and the hundred armod coun
try, embracing men and women, boys and , rjmeD fl | od in und fornMia a circle nrouml
girls, and even the merest toddlers wbo I tbo scaffold. The hnck was then driven in
conld stamp around tho scene. I and tbo occnpante got out. Johnson looked
wtxtiMiS * a friend la extend I ??t the scsflold with an expression of nwe,and
Without a friend to extend lh#n cast h | s eyes up0B Bn lmmenfln t, unk
to pMUdr... ??? word of cor-1 tbnt liad been placed undor the scaffold and
dial sympathy and comfort the miserable I which was to receive his body when he was
wretcu went to his doom, realizing the utter I dead. Several mlnutea were spent In consul-
deleststion felt for him, snd at the conclusion I ration,and at twenty minutes to twelve John-
of his grim ofllbrs the executioner turned I son eoceuded the scaffold end looked calmly
over to Dr. Auten fho lifeless body of the I over the vast sea of upturned faces. W Merit I
culprit to do service In the cause of tclence I Goodwin walked around the culprit and
on the disjecting tables of tho Georgia! takino hold of rax Bora
Eclectlo medical college. removed hta hat ancl es d:
At this moment, jammed and packed, ???Now, gentlemen this here boy wants to
doubled unhand twisted around, tho corpse t??lk ?? U'tilo. I have no objection, I will let
of the rapist placed In a eommon trunk for him talk as long as a reasonable, when he
ahlpment to Atlanta, la boing viewed by K??'?? through his talk l am ready for him.
hundreds of morbid sight-seers who cannot Vou can nil keep peaco If yon want to hear
resist the temptation to raise the lid and look I w *jat he has to say.
upon the form of the dead ravisher. 1
Johnson made a rambling and dlsconnetedd
1 Johnson w??n twenty-two J t ara old, low and I ??P*??oh the burden of widen wus an ndntoni-
coinpacily built, a stubborn eye and a neck I ,lon 1?? 4 10 crowd *? t ?* ce warniug nthla fate,
thick anti ahort like that of a bull, a heart aa ??????? ??nd over agaIn ho repeated tho words
black as tbe ace of epadcs and a record dotted I ???'t*kej warning this day, 1881, and all tako
iver with felonies. warning." He said he was prepared to go
Petty thief, burglar, escaped convict, ra-1 ???[???1 w?? ld W to heaven,
plst, and meat far the gallows???he was all I He sold he brought It all on himself and | lie
o??????. I waa willing to auffer tho penalty of the law.
At fourteen he was a sneak thief, at fifteen I Ne adiuomabcd parents to train their chil
li e waa n convicted burglar wfth a sentence | dren in therlght path, saying biamother hail
of five veato which ho served out. No sooner 1 1 > 0 * started wit., h m soon enough. At loot
free than ho was a burglar aga.n and got ten I Johnson, after a long pause???and he made
years. Then au escaped convict, then an as-1 many long pruaes???eald he wanted to ace how
asult to rapc.andatwcnty year sentence,and many sympathized with him In his trouble,
lastly a rape and a sentence of death and I ????d asked all mch to hold up their hands,
then death About a dcasn hands went up, and Johnssu
Thirty-live years of penitentiary sentences I took on a serious and disappointed look. He
and a rentenco of death executed is pretty fuinetl clear aroupd on the acaffjld aud
lively work for a 22 year-old negro. ' looked over the dense throng of upaympa-
1 HOW JOUN10N STOOD it. | thello beholders. Then turning hts faco
A bull-necked negro'like Johnson was ex-1 wca .ward again ha said Ina subdued tone:
pected to be stubborn, hut he was not ex- | ???X may have enemies in this crowd, but I
pected to lie like a wheel-horse as he did. have nothing against any of you. God bless
When Johnson came down from Atlanta I you and Joy go witbyou all."
yesterday, accompaned by his coftlo, and the I A few qm.itiona were asked Johnion by
doclor to whom he had willed bis body, he parties In the crowd, but they were notmatu-
was carried to tbe county jail and lodged In I rial. He admitted hla guilt In tba Cook caae,
a desolate room, totally devoid of furniture but denied It In same others. Durlug hie
and aa Innocent of sunlight as a Mexican stay .on the acaffjld lie drank several glouts
dog is of hair. His bead-like eyes of lemonade,
were dull with sullennea. Ills . , raxviNo rjs leonidas.
brow waa knit with vexation that occaalon- Jolmaon had a oolorod prsaoher named
ally Rave way lo tnooda of sober and solemn I Davis called, and had a long conference with
thought, for aa he entered the cell the truth him in an undertone. At length the preacher
took poisesslon of him that through the gnve out the hymn, "JetuaMy All toHevven
grated window of his aeml-dungeon be was I is gone. .... . ...
seeing the sun go down for the last lime. He A holing of astonl.hmont overspread the
amt for a preacher, and all night long they crowd wben Johnson, who had joined in tho
prayed and sang aid sang and prayed, the singing, tang nadoepbrai voicethones:
dreary old prison, glioatlyjn Its desolate ap- 1 ???bS^.oI???fonid ft u* 0 ????? ?? *
pearance,??cnolog tits pert Ilona of the doomeu jj t (bat fee i ing changed to half aympathy
man for pardon for hla life of unbroken I when j obn , on sang???
crime. . , . .1 -Nothing l.utilo travo I to give.
When morning broke, Johnion, haggard I Nolhlai hot love ??h*n l reeetva."
and exhausted, sank upon bis pallet and as Tho preacher then offeicu ?? fervent prayer
the chickens "crowed for day" he dropped for Johnson, alter which he gave out the
ioto a filial sleep that lasted two hours. He I song:
arose refreshed and hungry and ate four bis-1 "Am I a soldier of tho cross,
cults and a proportionate amount of fried .. ?? follower ot the
chicken and other articles of diet. After I In which Johnion and a Vast chorus of col*
breakfast Johnson appeared more composed, ored voice* joined. f .
but be looked thin and west Ha sal J that ?? "???.??????ffi*.*"EJSS" ,lngonl!
he realized the near approach of hla doom Oo Howery t<-tool ease,
and declared hla willingness lo meet it. With I wbtto other* fuushi to win theprixs
hla head hanging forward until hla chin I And tall tnrouzh blocrlj ieu.??? r
almost touched hla chest tho unhappy cnl- I At the conclusion of that song Johnson???s
prit sat gloomily on hla miserable pallet, I hands were freed and were hat,dctilled be
while barely enough light fought ila way I hind him. As tbst was being done he
through the iron-barred windows to enable I shouted to the crowd;
one to recognize the prisoner. I ???This is a warning to alt I Look at that."
At half-put seven a Constitution man I be said, referring to bto hands, ???and the
called at the Jail and visited Johnion In his next is that,??? be said, pointing to tbe trap
cell. The prisoner told the story ot his life, I door.
hot with inch variations that it Tbo long black abroad was unrolled and
could NOT aa narzNDSO on. I put over him. He never flinched. The rope
It was evident that he did not rare to tell of I adjusted about his neck. He stepped op
all the devilment be had done, and only tbe ^ t be fatal trap and bis feet were tied. Thev
facto already knostn were substantiated by tbt black cap waa taken up.
him. Some of tbe stories be denied, other* -j ll0pt j ( w ill break my neck,??? be said,
be admitted. The story of bla life.as be told glancing at the rope.
It, waa that he waa born at the Double Cabins, I The black cap was put over his eyes.
In Spalding county, tsrenty.two ye??a ago. -Goodbye. Mr. Osborne, goodbye, Mr.
He never went to school in bis life. His real I Thompson." he shouted from under bto
name was Alonza Johnson. At fifteen years I Te u_ At 12:85 everything was off tbe leaf-
old be committed bis first burglary??? I f 0 | d fIC( p t Johnson and Sheriff Goodwin,
stole fifty dollar* from Mr. Green I The culprit stood on the fatal trap envelop-
Kirbrows, of this county, and was sent (d j a the long black shroud. The crowd
up for fire years. That he served out. When at0 od breathless, the sheriff
he left the ebaingang he went to Louisville, nexao cr the sere
in Jeffenon county. < ommilted another bur. I That was attached to tbe trigger and gave a
glary and waa sent up for ten years. He I quick pull,
escaped from the chaingang, stole a suit of I ???Ker-chunk!"
clothes, broke Into a blacksmith shop and I Johnson hid duhed through tbe air and to
stole a file with which he filed sway bit i the horror of every one h'a feet touched the
ground. There had been a mi'calrnUrloa,
and the crowd groaned to see tli* result.
Several men rushed- up on the scaffold
and in a moment nr so had
raised the rope Ttml lifted Johnson
clear from the ground where ha hung for
twelve minutes before life was pronounced
extinct. He wseen* down In twenty min
utes, hfs d-tto hadoc been produced by
choking. Hi* neek was not broken. The
fall occurred at twenty minutes hi one.
r-veosn'iMi ,-r tnk body
When th?? Lo-ly was cut down it was turned
over to Dr. Amen, of Atlanta, and he stuffed
It In the trunk provided for dm purpose and
had It ritrri-tl to the rr-nrthnnse, where
ittany ejnledsnitee it Tne doctor claimed
the bodv tinder the following will:
Statu 11 xunrelE F"''--n 'Mutely ???In tho name of
God???arrun I. le-oiild-s Johun-n. ol Henntcoun-
ttd and disposing
4 nnst shortly de
part thtollfe, deem It right-tn-4 proper, both as ra
sper's my friend* -to) tnjxe)f, that i should make
a dlsneittMc-i rtf toy I-.ty t <to thi r-fore, make
this,my last wilt snA'u-e: meat. Ltieby revok
ing snd eti'-ulilng sit ??hers by me
r edrti nutl direct
??? . dead tf siren to
Dr Stephen T Blarra; iteit It no used by mm m he
may din ??? nag ??? *
buried. I further deslro and direct that tbe she.
Iff or any other pttssn or persons haying tttt body
In charge deifytr the same to Dr Htephen T B4l-
gers.
I hereby nominate and appoint my friend, Dr
Richard M A-tilbn, executor ol this, mv last will
und testament Tbto November 10,18??.
bla
(8igned) Leonidas x Johnson,
mark.
Signet], seated, declsrod tttd published by Leoni
des Jolts-on to hit lust will and testament In tbe
presence ol us, the undersigned, whosuhtctlbe our
names hereto lu the presence of said Leonidas
Johnion, at bto special Inatance and reqneat, aud
1" the pretence of each other, this Nortmher 10th
1888, (Signed) Gbskn THostrsoN,
L. D. Williams,
Dr. Auten gave Johnson $15 for his body
-soonafter the will was made.' Jobnsonspent
It all at a store near the Jail In Atlanta. Ho
had to buy aliekst to carry tbe retqalna on
the train to Atlanta, The body was carried
to Atlanta to-night and Dr. Auten states
will be put in pickle until winter when the
students will get a carve at It.
Everything passed off qulotly and thus
endeth the biggest tenaatlou Henry has had
In a long time.
HANGING* hLSKWHBRB.
Th* Third YIcIIm ??f Om Murder la Waveflj* OKI*
???A Cnilferolft dabjeci#
Oakland, Cab, May 23 ??? Loyd L. Majors '
wus hanged In-re this in -riling. Majors waa
convicted of complicity In the muider of
Archibald McIntyre at Lexington, Santa
Clara, on March llih, 1883.
Waveblv, Ohio, May 23.???Labon Steyens,
the third man convicted of tho murder of
Anderson 1,-u-key, near Jackson, Ullio, was
hanged here to-ilny at ono o'clock.
Little Valley, N. Y., May 23.???Charles B.
Clarke waa bung here to day for tbe nmrder
of his wife last D-eemher
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The trout shoulder whero the fourth leg should
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