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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY^MAY 27. 1884- TWJELVE PAGES. 5 [ 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. 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