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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA <» TUESDAY 9 DECEMBER 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
A METHODIST CENTURY,
•WHICH IS TO BB CELEBRATED IN
BALTIMORE.
Ths Arrembline of the Orest Qent-noial Conference
or Atserteao Uethodiam-4 Roview or the
V?crk Which is Thus to be Gommemo-
ratcd-Othcr Ms.urs of Interest.
Bai timore, December 7,—Immediately fol
lowing the plenary council oftho Homan
Catholic church of the United State*, which
began its session in this city on the ftlli of No*
vember, and concluded its deliberation to*
day, the celebration of the centenary of moth*
edistu will bo he held by the assembling of
the general conference which meets on Tues
day next, at Mt. Vernon church, and will
continue in session until the 10th. The con
ference will consist of about six hundred
members, appointed by the annual confer
ences, or by the bishops of the church,
representing the Methodist Epis
copal, tbo African Methodist Episcopal,
the 7Acn colored Methodist Episcopal, the In
dependent Methodists,the Canada Methodists,
and the Primitive Methodist churches. These
branches represent almost four millions of
members, or a Methodist community of about
20,000,000. The Methodist Protestant church
and other non-Episcopal churches will not be
represented officially. They will, however,
aend fraternal delegates. It is anticipated
that fully 10,000 visitors will be presont and
arrangements have been made with the vari
ous railroads for reduced rates of fare.
3IKTHOD1BM IN AMERICA.
In 18C6 the centennial anniversary oftho
introduction of Methodism into Amorica was
celebrated in New York, and eight or tenyeurs
later the ono hundredth anniversary of tho
organization of a Methodist society in Phila
delphia was celebrated in that city by a series
of meetings continuing several days; but the
events thus commemorated were, in the opin
ion of Methodists, of greatly inferior impor
tance to those which occurred in this city in
December 1784.- Up to about that timo it had
not been the purpose of Methodists in Ameri
ca, nr.y more than it had been of their leader in
Englond, to establish n distinct ecclesiastical
system,outside and independent oftho Kn-
§ Iish church, of which John Wesley livod and
icd a member. lie instituted a society
within the established church, and all the pe
culiarities of this society, - except those per
taining to religious fuitli and life, were the re
sult of accident. In 1784 Methodism hvl ex
tended rapidly in the United States, though
its growth hod been retarded greatly by the
revolutionary, war. There wero aomo eighty -
feur i rcachors and 1,500 laymen. Thcso were
acattercd all over the country: aud os the
preachers were not regularly ordained clergy
men, and the Eylscopul churches were row
and inaccessible to many, & large proportion
•of tliis great body of Christiana was deprived
of all "church" relationship and partic
ipation in the sacraments. Wesley
realized that this was a condition of
things which could not continue without great
ng
ifcta of America. This request was refused*
and Wesley felt himself authorized, by tho
veemities of the ease, to ordain Thomas Coko,
already a Presbyter in tho English church, a
superintendent or bishop for America. This
ordination took place at the Leeds conference
In September, 1784, and Dr. Coke immediately
get ff.il for this country, where upon his ar
rival lie summoned tho Methodist preachers
to meet him in Baltimore, on December 24th
following, for the purpose of organizing tho
Methodist Episcopal cburch. There was a
large attendance, considering tho difficulties
of travel in those dsys. Dr. Coke presided,
and the conference lasted ten days. The lit
urgy as prepared by Wesley from that of tho
Church of England, the articles of religion and
rules for church government wero adopted.
On the second day of the session Francis As-
bury, having been elected superintendent by
the conference, was ordained deacon, on tbo
third elder, and on tho fourth was consecrated
bishop. Threo deacons and twelve elders
were alro elected and ordained. This is knowu
in Methodist annals as the Christmas confer
ence, and it was the beginning of tho Method
ist E r “
•hoots
on in in or tub rux.
Tho project ol tho celebration of noxt week
had its inception among tbo American dele
gates to the Methodist Ecumenical conference
in London in 1881, although tho Methodist
Episcopal church south, in its general confer
ence in 1878, took offi..iul action iu favor of
come lccognition by nil Methodists of tho
hundredth birthday of Mt-tbodism in Ameri
ca. U was thought by some of tho American
delegates that tho Loudon confcrcnco was too
formal; and that questions of living interest to
the churches had b* cn too rigidly excluded
by the foimuitten who bad prepared the pro
gramme of proceeding. Tho matter was free
ly canvassed end a document was drawn up
.favoring a centlenniul Christmas conference at
Baltimore, which was signed by all the Ameri
cans present. The -gi<nrral conference of tho
■outlurn church in May, 1882, appointed a
committee to deal with tbe matter. About the
•omc time tho board of bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal church appointed
a committee of tvrcnty-six, including
four of their own i umber, to consider
tbo subject. This committco held a meeting
In New*York In November following, tho late
Bishop Simpson presiding, and adopted a rcio-
- lution approving the plan ot tho conference
and declaring it desirable that tho various
branches of Methodism in America should bo
cnrctchtcd in it. A ■
el and correspondent
c was appointed, consist
ing of Ilishop'Simpson, D. A. Goodscli, D. D. f
the Itev. J. r. Gouebur, tho Rev. Andrew
Longscrc and H. K. Carroll, and instructed to
communicate with representatives of other
Methodic churches on ruattera relating t<> the
proposed celebration.
KXTIlUaiASM IN TIlK SOUTH.
While Methodists all over the country feel an
interest in the conference, it is said by mem
bers of the executive committee that it Is much
greater in the southern than in the northern
church, and a largo attendance is expected
from the old slave suite. This will be the first
occasion on which tbo two churches have met
together since the unhappy division in 1814,
though fraternal delegates from the general
conference of each body have been received by
the other since soon after the close of the war
ol the rebellion. ‘
THE MOUNTAIN PLAGUE.
Bcpoiti Indicate that It Is Lessening In
It* hrv-nlv
Locisvillf, Ky., December 7.—The corres
pondent now visiting tbs plague stricken dis
tricts of eastern Kentucky ana Virginia, tele
graph that a horrible state of affairs exists in
Wise and Lee countin', Virginia. A number
of instances are cited in which whole families
perished. The disease has caused more deaths
in Letcher county, Kentucky, and Wise coun
ty, Virginia, than iu any other counties. In
the latter county the fltatbs have been so nu
merous that it baa been difficult to provide
for the proper burial oftho victims.
THE FLAOCR PECRKsatXR.
Pr.TFRRBcao, Ve., December 7.—Informa»f«s>
has been received b»ro, through J. B. Hilton,
a merchant of Wise county, in southwest Vir
ginia. who is now in >Li* city, that the plague
which Lae caused such mortality in that sec
tion c f the state, is n *w *»n the decrease. He
•ays that between tv** and three hundred
yersen* have died of th* disease. Tha plague
is sttr buted to the drouth and its effect up>n
the drinking vat* r
Walking DellhruTrljr Into the Sen.
Ncvfoet, B. I., Ifcwuber 7.—Irving At-
Visor,* middle aged sen l ?mao,connected with
■erne ft the best ftmUir* in Rhode Island, at
tempted to commit tuicide last night. He
was observed to walk deliberately into the
sea, hut was res-tud, mid after a desperate
atturtle carried to tk«- i-olice station, where
he was given medical aid.
. A TALK WITH CLEVELAND.
He is Busily Occupied With His Duties ns
Governor.
From the New York World*
Albany, December 0.—* This Is probablyfthe
last holiday I shall take during my term as
governor," said President-elect Clovclau
he «ht in bis library at tho cxecutivo mansion
yesterday morning, waiting for the carriage
that was to convey him to tho depot. "A com
mittee from tho actors’ fund association gave
me a most cordial and pressing invitation to
attend tho performance this afternoon, and
the object is one iu which 1 have always been
more or less interested, andjis I felt that I
net dtd a little recreation, I accepted tho in
vitation. I go to New York with a few friends
as the guests ot these gen
tlemen. I do not regard
anything moro than a plc&san
excursion, which any gentleman m_. _ ,
milled occasionally to make. I most certain
ly deprecate any attempt to distort a pleasant
jaunt into a conspicuous public event, and, as
much as I should like to do you auy servics"
(this to & newspaper correspondent who was
importuning the governor lor permission toac-
coinpany him). “I do not feel at liberty, or
even disposed, to foist upon the gentlemen
whose guest I am a detachment of war corres
pondents.
"The truth is,” continued the governor,
"you newspaper men look nt matters in a dif
ferent light from that in which I see them.
I don’t say that you aro wrong," (with a gen
ial smile), "but ft is certain that wo are very
wide apart in our ideas. Now, I confess to
you vcjy frankly and freely that I do not read
many newspapers-—I haven’t time—but I
Lave seen enough to show mo that the press
ol the country is bent upon amusing its read
er* ot all hazards. Ido not wish to appear
uncivil, ond it is not my dis|Hisitiou to criti
cise any man in tho conduct of his buaiucss,
but I confess that I canuot, for instance, see
why the newspapers should, morning after
morning, print li-ts ol cabinet officers, with
the probability in every case of their being
milts out of tbo wav. Do they do it"—(anu
tbc governor leaned back in'life chair an !
looked quizzically at the correspondent of tho
World)—"in hope of hitting upon, among tho
many mentioned, a lew of tho. right ones aud
ol so being able, b}e-and-bye,to say *1 told you
*o,' cr do they do it simply to fill up space?
I tell yiu candidly, sir,"—(and tho governor
become moro serious)—"there’s not u living
man, including myself, who in able t<> say
what gentlemen will form the next cabinet."
"Have yen not given the imtter careful
thought as yeti’’ asked the World correspond
dent.
"Further than tho thought which every
man is compelled to bestow upon any very
important duty to bo performed in tho future.
1 have not btsAnwcd upon the nutation of tho
cabinet appointments any consideration what
ever. 1 cannot help wondering sometimes
whether tho papers which aro so busy in
forming my cabinet for mo really believe that
I have nothing to do in my present office that
I shold spend my time solely iu speculating
about wbut I \yill do in the office I am to hold
next. As a matter of fact, I hnvo bu.diion
connected with the governor’s office, which,
by giving a lew hours to it every evening. I
hojio to finish during my term, and which de
mands all my attention. I nm not engaged in
making cabinets nt tho present time, the news
papers, notwithstanding. My timo is contin
uously broken in upon by the visits of people
from oil parts oi the country. I am glad to
meet them; I trust 1 meet them cordially, but
tho hints, thi suggestions, tho discussions and
tho differences ot opinion with whienthey and
I am treqiicntly credited originate in the braiui
of newspaper correspondents."
"As, for example, your reported interview
with Mr. Hendricks?" suggested the reporter.
"Ab, as to that," said the governor, his face
clouding as he spoke, "that was not simp!}
foleej it was mischievous and malicious. A
man could go to sleep and dream of nothinf
moro utterly, wholly false than that. I doubi
if two men, comparatively strangers,could ever
give one another a moro cordial greeting than
was the grootlng between Mr. Hen
dricks wnd myself. Vfo spoko together
for barely fifteen minutes, and our
intercoqreo was morn than friendly; it was
warm and thoroughly cordial. I will not
complain of any picturo which anv man
chooics to draw of nto from personal obs
tion. If tho visiting correspondent chooso to
say that I wear a No. 3 hat and Nt>. 10 shoes
ho is at liberty to do so. It is merely a ques
tion then whether his courso is or is not in
good toetc. but when words aro put into my
mouth which I never ultorod, and when
I am accredited with tho sontiments which
1 never entertained, I must put a atop
to it. Wo ore not used to that sort
of thing here. I will not permit it. I have
not tho flight* tt disposition to cloud anything
connected with my office, with myself, or with
my future course, in mvidory* Tucre need bo
no gucttd&g about it. If Senator This or Con-
gr( SBinnn That cells upon mo, it should fur
nish no occasion lor any newspaper writer to
build speculation upon apcculution till ho
reaches s*me startling conclusion. Lot him
comotomc; I’ll toll him frankly all I have
■aid."
"May I ask," said tho correspondent,
"whin you propose going to Washington?"
"I would willingly tell you,’’ wus the reply
"but I have not myself determined upon tho
time. I have ecen it stated that I was to go
to Washington immediately after tho 1st of
January. 1 have no idea of doing anything of
the kind. I shall probably bo iu Washingtm
not until within a very short timo of
March 4."
"Will you deliver a message to tho incom
ing legislature?"
"No, that will fall to tho lot of the lieuten
ant-governor; this will bo his administra
tion."
At this point several of the gentlemen who
were to escort the governor to Now York ar
rived. Entering carriages they wero driven
to the depot where they boarded the train.
There was but a handful of people at the ata
ing unknown. Tbo party hnrrl
without ceremony, the conductor, who
hod a list of all per
sons booked for the trip, and would permit no
others to board the train, ehoutad "All right,"
and without further ado the special whisked
out of the depot on U* rapid flight to New
York.
The governor's party consisted ef Miss Cleve
land (the governor's- sister), Mr. and Mrs.
Erastu* Corning, Mayor Banks and his wife,
Colon*land Mrs.Lament ond throe young In
die-Mis* Bents* Miss Anna Van Ve*hten and
MissFJcrcnco BehielTelein, who were chape
roned by Mrs. Bank*.
A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
the Finding of a Ussd Body.
Savannah, December 7.—A man giving his
can e os T. Miller, of New York, who was on
his way to Florida to escape tho cold weather,
last Thursday. He went to
d that was tbo lost seen of
ridny the body of a thiek-sct, well
the description the body is thought to bo that
of Miller, who is supposed either to have com
mitted suicide or to havo been robbed and
thrown ov*rboard. There were no papers on
the body, cr in tbe baggage left on the Florida
to identify the man. Suspicion points to a
d -rk pfcs»(-ng*-r on the steamer, whose name
and destination sro unknown.
TRAIN ROBBERS AT WORK.
Three ot thm Criminals Run Down » j Blood
hounds.
J.ittlb Ro* x, December 7.—There has b »en
great excitement here to-day on account ot
tbe robbery of a passenger train on the Ar
kansas Valley route, in the outskirts of tho
city, last night. Early this morning
bloodhounds were put on the trail
of the robbers. and followed
it straight into tbe city, and before noon
Jams* Cook, J. C. Jones, John Clifford,
Charles Campbell and a boy named Parker,
bad been srreatel. Jones trill probably be
released. Three of tbe men hare been Identi-
C*d s» being among the robbers. Tbe state
hes offered a reward of $1*040 for the capture
of the robbers, and the railroad company has
added a like amount.
MB. 15D WARDS’4 1IAD SON.
Bis Father Paroled tor Shooting nt Him and
Hitting Ono of the Good Sons,
A few days ago old Sir. Edwards, who lives iu
Wert Forty-Third street, New York, had au titer
catiouwHbhts wicked son, a very bad young
mau, and firing a pistol at him unfortunately
mUsed him ami wounded auotner son who was
the pi t of the family.
The New York Sun says: A tall, muscular young
fellow, with a short-copped mustache and sharp
black eye*, went to the Toombs court yesterday,
and said he was old Mr. Edward's bad son Charles,
and wanted to surrender hlraself-
•Tm not so bad as tho old man makes me out,’
herald. “I’ve been Tather wild, 1 know, but I
guoM> lie's got a screw loose somewhere, or he
wouldn't have shot at me.”
W bile he was waiting to bo taken up to Y ork-
vllle court, young Edwards asked the newspaper
reporters to take dowu his statement. He said:
I ami)l-years old. Hire at lW Ferry street.
Newark, when I nm at home. 1 have a wife and
three children. Hove them all. 1 went to my
fathers house, at 223 West Forty-third street,
about twenty minutes past ten o’clock Thursday
morning. 1 had been there tbe night before and
borrowed some money from him. 1 had bought a
turkey and a knifo to carve It when It was cook
ed, ami I took It round to have them cook it. I
mid to lather: ‘Top, let me have a couple of
dollars to get home with." He answered: “I
wouldn't let you have another cent to save you
%rds,
there Is nJCJod In heaven, wards,
if my lying? I went to Moso.
brother, and ho told mol'd
J always liked Harry. Ho was not sour n bit.
Said he: “Charley, old fellow, better go away
and come back when father cools off.”
... mo into the back
Harry lulled mo a little. Then mother
came in, I threw knife on the iloor, and mother
pick*d it up and threw it behind tho bookcase.
hi the room where father was sittiqg. Father said
to mother: “What-Iu docs that ruffian
mean by carrying on in this way?" 11c came in
to tlic back room and said: "Lookout, Harry, aud
I'll fix that ruffian." He fired. Harry gJt the bul
let, ond I got out. Father always carries a revol-
••I’ve been kicked and cuffed about by my father
ever since 1 can remember him. I’vo been in
state prison. I’ve been a cow boy, and a heap of
ether things, but somehow dad's always Interfer
in’ just when be ought not to, and ho and
1 quarrel.
Old Mr. Edarfswas arraigned Iu the YorkvIUo
police court yesterday morning. Hla flow-
Ing white hair wus carefully brushed, and
be supported himself on a heavy cane. Justice
Murray knew him and bowed recognition. Mr.
Edward* told bis story lit a tremulous
voice. He said Charles had attacked him aud his
other sons with a carving knife, and that begot
rut nphtol to frighten Charles, not Intending to
— imifj rather lrave died myself than
Charley. The young man was a loafer from toa'
nail to head, and bud been in state prison two
years for burglary. Mosc Edwards made affidavit
tI'mt Ida tnther’a shooting of Harry was occidental.
Mr. Edwards was paroled. Charles was remand
ed. Ilsrry Edwards will get well.
A GYPbY DA till*.
The “Ouecn" Fitches Her Tent Near tho
Upper Itrldgo*"
From the Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 7.
Itbc gentleman!” was a fomlntnocom-
id mat come in an authoritative tone ot voice
j out of the intoilor of a tent on the river bot*
as the reporter turned round to locate tho voice
ho raw oMraw hat with faded flowers coming
through thospertnro in tho tent and fol
lows <3 by on attenuated body clothed iu gar
ments on which was enough of tho. soil of tnc
counties In which tbo tout nod been staked dowu
to make a sph ndld display at tho World’s exposi
tion at New Orleans The inidy straightened It-o f
out, and it was ►ecu that the face was seamed wl h
lines of care. Ono eye beamed on tho reporter .air4
the otlu-r wus not In ID socket, having boon lo t in
•n accident.
Two girls, who wcto cuBnced In tbo pMtlmo ot
making tho noonday meal, when tho reporter
approached, wero asked a question about mu
ramp and tho command to them t»
Lola their “chips” put aseal on thoir llp», and
for any Information about tho camp, horecs ond
tho few men, who wero under tho brtdgo repair-
ing a knlfe-grlndlDf machine, the reporter had to
w ait until tnc aged dame had lit a short clay plpo
with an ember from tho flro, and after taking a
few preliminary puffs to start a ruddy glow In tho
bowl of the pipe, aho sat on a gnarled root, of a
tree and with her good eye fixed search I ugly on
tbo scribe she wildln accents that unmistakably
made thrir first muttering on the "ouhl sod.’!
“I’m Mrs. Boswell. I’m the queen of tho Gyp
sies, be Jebcrs! Thcso two gals aro my darters;
tlmt young man over by tbo ercok Is John Bos
well, king of tbo Gypsies. 1 wss born in Egypt,
and I’m 68 years old. and If yez don’t b’lfcvo it put
yonr fingers iu mo mouth and feel mo tootlilo-s
gums. J r m a fortuno teller; I tolls the past, pres
ent and future. 1 ken also tell Die ladle* all about
their lovers. We’ve bin on the rood for nl<h
on to two years. Our homo Is tn Ply
mouth. Amador county, among tbo hill*.
lly darter, with . the blsck hair, who
wns born in Norway, England, was married In
Balmas ’lothcr day. Wo trade horses, grind knives,
end tells fortunes for a living. Como down and
have dinner with us. aud l’U treat
o'd English plum pudding. Good
sh- rushed Into »bo tent again.
Tho comp will be here for a fow days, and tho
Gvi s’* s will then go up the coast, Tbo men are
swuithy-lbokiug, and all obey tho command of
tho "(juccii," as slip styles herself.
IN GENERAL.
Tun rate of mortality in-the United States
navy is^mut-h lb* than among tbc dweller* upon
the land.
Kino county, Washington territory, has ono
woman justice ol tho peace add ouo woman
Mnblo. %
In the fourteenth century it was tho fashion
to csrry toothpicks of eilrcr suspended round the
neck.^^^H
An old lady of eighty-six has just oast her
fii.-t vote in Washington territory. &bo didn’t
think >bc would live to do it.
Mins Katk Field, in her new locture, goes
for the Salt Lako taints vigorously thus: "rhe
whole Mormon territory might be fittingly roofed
overall insane asylum."
Ir congress will glvo $55,00ff more this win
ter, tbe commissioner of the census thinks he can
finish the report In two yesis. The seventh and
eighth volumes have just been Issued.
A patilnt at tho Santa Cruz county, G’sli-
fornts, hospital, coughed up threo live bots. Ills
doctor says he never heard or a similar esse. Too
bot is a small worm that is found In the intestines
of hortca.
An KngUsh doctor said that persons born
during the prevalence of cholera in 1832,1819, lft4
and 18G.-J would he exempt from tbc Kxrargc now.
An American doctor was shown tbh* statement
and sskid for bis opinion, which was, in effect,
that the English doctor lied.
Tnzv hove some tali men down in southern
Kentucky. A Cincinnatian, riding along the road
with a native, looking over upon an adjoining en
closure, remarked: "I observe, from those be I*,
that you raise your own celery tn this rccion."
• Celery!" exclaimed bfs companion. ‘Why,
then ’• not celery beds; that’s our new grave-
ysid."
Tur high price for bread, in tbe face of the
fact that wheat is cheaper than It has been for
many years, Is encouraging the workingmen of
London to form co operative societies. One of
three M ckth-s bos Just i«n established In Ber
mondsey, Ibe borne of the tanners, and wlfh re-
merkahfe success. The action of bakers, there
fore, though temporarily inconvenient to the
p«ople, is expected. In the end, to be fruitful of
good n sobs. In Psrl* and Vienna there Is talk of
government regulation ot prices.
In the past thirty years tbe average of man's
life has Improved five per ceut, end that of worn*
a&'s eight per cent Of every 1,000 moles bom at
tic pment day 41 more will atuln tbe age of 35
than toed t*» be tbe case previous to 1871; and
*v*ry 1CC0 persona bom since 1870 Will live2.7
3 (ere loneer than before. ThU 1« due to civiliza
tion, and t»per l«fly to improved sanitary methods
through the establltbmeM ol sttch efficient organ
izations as our health boards, which are aJ4iu< an
*verace of nearly ten years to basasu lUe in every
corn try.
Tnr prr dominating variety of banana culti
vated In Florida is commonly eallei the "hone
banana." It is a thrifty, luxuriant variety, the
plant r ften attaining, uaac-r favorable conditions,
a blight of twelve feet or more, exclusive of tbe
leaves. The fruit b exceptionally large..although
tbc bead* hardly ever ronttln mom then o»9 hun
dred bananas. Tbfr banana Is of a deep, gotden
- D( | if allowed to rlprw
posM-iv* a rtctm*s of
itfiff •* * —**
if sorb a condition .
kept sny length of time. Tbos!_
dents of Florida are debarred from the enjoyment
of one of the rarest luxuries of nature.
A CELEBRATED CASE.
How the Lawyer* Were Untiled by rut Ex
ceptionally Knotty Question.
From tho Cincinnati Times Star.
When I was a boy there was a celebrated legal
care, which was at ouce the wouder and tho horror
of the age. It was known as the famous Bull aud
Boat case, or. to givo ID legal title, Bullum vs.
Boalum. The faeU are those: In the quiet village
of Laydown lived Wm. Jones and Thomas Smith.
Jones was the owner of a fragile boat and Smith
was the proprietor of a raging bull. One cveniug
Jones, who had been visiting his gfrl on the other
tide of the river, tied up his boat to the shore with
a bay band-rope being scarce—that Is to say, a
band made of bay. An hour afterward Smith's
bull camo to tho * river to drink. He, I
mean the bull, won frisking bts tall in tho breeze,
with a sort of '•doct-any-fellow-want-a-horn" sort
of an air, and anxious, unlike Mr. Micawber, to
turn something up. He suddenly smelt nay-new
mown hay—and follow lug bis noso he discovered
the boat and tho hay band.
As a matter ol course bo tasted this new kind ot
rope, and lio found tho ends so succulent that ho
commenced to cat tho colls around the post; and,
in order to do this thing thoroughly, he stepped
on board tho boat. As he bit, nibbled, pulled aud
ebawed tho rope broke, and the next moment tho
lido (which waits for no. man, much lea a bull)
carried the 1>oat aud tho null luto the con ter of the
river. Tho Lull uo sooner felt that Ills “bark was
on the waves" than ho tried to kick tho boat back
again into Its place; and as he plunged away, fore
and aft, his hind lees went through the bottom,
tbc boat turned upside down: aa*. not being able
to bwim with his legs in the air, ho was drowned.
In the elegant language of the daily press bo-I
mean the bull—“ascended tho golden stairs" with
a brokt u 1k at about his loins.
Boat and bull were alter wards found lying dead
In each other’s anna—or legs! Then camo the suit.
Joi.cs mid 8mlth for the value of tbc host, aud
flmitb sued Jones for the worth of tho bull. ThU
1* the great ewe of HuUura vs. lvoatum. It was
argued fifteen tines before a full bench—that is to
tiSV, cr.ch occupant of thu bench was full.
Find mine the argumeut for the bull.
“The bull,” roared his counsel, “was strictly
witbln Iffe rights, tie was exerchlng his legs fti
flu-evening. Hay wns hlsuatural food. Tho rignt
to cat liny wasgsven him by magna charts, lie
was Muhnnly tempted by n delicious hayband,aud
he did not resist, ft was not lu tho nature or con
stitution of a hull to resist temptation. He ate
jlu.t hay band; and, tn order tn rat the whole of It.
be got into Die boat. It was perfectly plain that If
the boat lisa not been there, my client could not
ami would not Iiayo Ntop)>cd aboard; and then this
noble specimen ol iticrgy mid push could not have
pethhid”—snd to on, and so on for five days lu
„e crc
half of the bunt.
“The bull was
The Lull went to l
“ e bi
DC
beaded rake of a bull ate up the anchor and haw-
»er, toro it from Id fa»teniii/:*, jumped ill, bad a
ride for nothing, kicked tho bottom out, and dtod
lu an attempt to swim with his horns.sml ull! If
over thcie was n case of piracy and burglary com
bined this wns the oue, and tlie bull was tho cul-
I rit. Look nt the naturnl cou-cqticnces! Tho
ody at that bull floated Into tho mtllraeo, broke
a wheel of tie mid, the miller lost his life iu try-
o pull it out by the tall, ami his wife rau aw »y
the constable by way of consolation, aud —
and—"
Hwi
raid: "I have had enough . — __
ertc, Brother Bullum. It is tho most Infamous
case of willful and malicious negligence on tho
part of the boat that 1 have ever oomo across in
»t»» i>rnf(n«rnn»l pnrr.(ir' Tlilnfe of ltt A llOut tied
GOD human turpi
tude end moralaellnqnet cy go further? Tho bull
was within Its constitutional righD. Ho has a
Datum), Jtmlinisblo right upon all bay. Tho vi
cious ustuEB ol hay D well known. There was a
In tLeTy,(OCtb report of Ohio Kbblles, whero
iu of bay fell upon a inulunud killed him, or
or it. Bulls, why bulla aro aacrod animals,
vn and mentioned in Holy Writ. 1‘opos koch
them to this very dny lu tbo Vatican. Nearly all
bulls arc endow wl with horns as a sl<n of marlUl
.thlinrasasaafen of marl I
honors. TbosDtuo of Michael Angeio by xfo*«»
bad hoinslike a bull—! saw thorn myself. The
Lull u ns no sailor, aud tho boot know it; aud what
n< ranee of navigation aud drowned him with _
feet In tho air! 1 feel llko giving heavy, yes, pu d<
toty danuiRtr, In Gils case, as a warning to boftis—
to keep their Imttoin* away from tho bolls! 11". .
There i-n judgmentUiaaftajndgmeiitt Tnlsls
a coio which every lawyer ought to know by heart:
It is an Inexhaustible mine oi legal lore. I regret
to add that tho Judge died soon altar tbo doolston,
and that ho is Mill dead! .
How ever, tho principle of this easo lives, aud
there who aro without principles can cotno hero
and fill up their heads from tho once world ro-
uow ued case of Bullum! vs. Boatum.
Literature.In Arkiinsirw.
Burdette In tho Brooklyn Eagle,
Ao Arkansas literary society recently dismissed
the question:
"llesolvcd, Tho t a 6ircus Is superior to a district
school ts a civilizing agent.”
The circus packed tho convention from tho
start. Only ono orator got up to speak for tho dis
trict school, fie was the teacher, and the president
fined him twlco end then made him sot down. Tho
fines were for calling I’ompeyeye I’ompayee, and
saying tin ru wero muro school* lu Boston than la
J.lttlu Bock, and ho was tnado , to
sit down for uttering nlhcistln scnttmenD when
he d* nled that “Boot hog or die*’ was to be found
lu tho Blblo. To crown Ms disgrace, thoprodldoiit,
In summing up, leh-rrod touts remarks as ind I-
unhappy itedagogm*, and the society went out an*
spent the mouvy for broad.
Fair I'Iny All Around*
From the Philadelphia Call.
Life: "Ma, wbyldid you.soad fTom out of the
roem?"
"Because be was naughty and tried to'blte,”
“I don’t think that’s fair, for yesterday Mbit
Mfrs htmlhreve. iny music teacher, threo or four
tiiii** on tbe check, and she didn’t scud him out
of tbc loom."
Boy Bandits Captured.
CiuttlKSTON, W. Vo., December 7.—The
mystery surrounding tho disappearance of
many smull but valitablo articles from the
stores ond shops of the city is at lest cleared
up. A young boy who was arrested told n
story that e&tonfohcd tho officers. The hoy
with six or eight other boys, in ago ranging
from ten lo fourteen, all members of the host
families oftho town, bad organized an ama
teur Jeise James gang, formed on plans sug-
8 *»Ud by reading the sensational paper* and
vc-cefit novels. They had oaths, signals sad
passwords. They met in an abandoned bouse
tbo outskirts of the town nightly, and
hey also planned their robberies. In their
jntint was found over 91,000 worth of foods
taken si odd times. The Daily Timas,
city, pleads for mercy for the' bora, but for
vengeance on tbe sellers of foul literature.
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