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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY DECEMBER 1G 1834. TWELVE PAGES.
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CRIME AND CASUALTY".
Oeerf#Snyder Kills Hi* XIothsr-AnCut St. Louis
Burster Arrested and Confesses Bis Quilt -
eentenced to Hang for Murder-llnr-
ders Her Two Children,
JIamiltox, 0., December??S^Al* Darrtown
on awful tragedy has just come to light. Four
weeks ago Mrs. Jane Snyder, a widow, seven-
ty.five years old, started from ihe, yillago to
go to Ogle???s station, eight miles away, since
when nothing has been seen of her. She has
two sons married, George and. Henry. Last
night a little grandson told the neighbors that
his father, ^eorge^ Snyder, had killed his
grftcdmotherldzniiakon her moneyJand- buried
her. Investigation was made an^.the,.grand-
mot lier's dead body was ??? found ??? buried in a
ravine near Ouhifoiii-A to?? ?4o-
The bov ???sUJed,his .father .tyad killed her
with a shovel vfhilb she was 6slcepahd carried
her body out. He then dug a hole and buried
her. The murderer was arrested; Hie object
was robbery/ getting. $125. Ilq states, how-
ever, that his mother, with' himself started in
a wagon for Ogles station, but that on tho way
two robbers waylaid them,, pfbA robbers, ho
esyt, killed and buried hiilnother, but spared
him. ,
Raleigh, X. C., 5*<cMhVcV' 8.???One night in
October last, the residence of R, F. Jones, six
miles from Raleigh, was destroyed by lire, the
family barely eocapjng t from the. tlames. To
day Parah Ann Perris, who, at the time of the
Are was a servant in tho Jones employ, was
a to the
L stolen
HMI,. to hide
her crime by the conflagration. The discovery
of the stolen jewclrM in htf 'possession led to
herarreat.
spector Byrnes reported that ilaggio Andiese
of 307 West Fifth street would
aid him. Arrangements were made
with Moggie, her sUicr, and a woman
who is known to the police as Little Grace,
and they went together to the Big Flat, 40
Little Grace secured admittance for the sm
and they visited jointe all over the house dur
ing the week.
Thirty.three prisoners who were arressed in
these joints on Sunday night were arraigned at
tho Tombs court. Maggie picked out two
woman and a man as tho proprietors. They
were held for trial.
Nobfolx, Va., December 13.???The stores of Bar*
card, Kahn >k Co., hats and gents* furnishing
goods, and E. Bales, dry goods, were destroyed by
fire this moraine. The loss is estimated at <33,000:
Insured. The origin of the fire Is unknown.
Youngstown, December 14.???The best soci
ety of this place was shocked yesterday when
John 6. Cunningham, leading physician of
thia city and president of the board of educa
tion, filed a petition for absolute divorce from
his wife for unfaithfulness. Mrs. Cunningham
trading attention wherever she went.
dodor affirms that while she was at Chautau
qua lake, in tho summer of???82, slio became ac
quainted with George ??. Maltby, of James
town, N. Y., a fine-looking man, with a wifo
and children. Tho doctor swears that the
couplo registered at the Sherman house,
Jamestown, as J. K. Ames and wife, occupy
ing the same room; that this was repeated in
Meadville. Pa., ana various other places,- this
city included. They wore married in 1801
and had two children, a daughter twenty
May 21 lad, the city clerk???s office
Louie was broken into, a bolo was puuched
through the wall of, the desk vault and some
$3,000 in money and $10/100 in city acrip
wero abstracted. Every. effort was made to
find the burglars,??but. without success. Re
cently a band of burglars have bocn operating
in this city and different parts of the state and
suspicion fell on their leader, Charles Clark,
os being implicated in tho East St. Louis rob
bery. Clark was arrested in Springfield, and
brought here. Ho has confessed that ho did tho
East'St. Louis robbery. IIo says that Lieuten
ant Thomas Duffy, of the East St. Louis police
stood in with him, and ???divided tho money.
Duffy has been arrested. There is considerable
talk in East St. Louis* but no city official is
directly implicated in the-eftair, aud there
does not seem to be any evidence in that di
rection. It is now postively asserted that no
city securities | were taken from the
vault by tho burglars, and the entire loss by
robbery was placed at a trifle over $3,000
Clark and Duffy had a preliminary examina
tion this afternoon.
Rotterdam, N. Y.,December 8.???Just outside
tho center of the town there resides two aged
maiden ladies named Schermorhorn, sisters
of Colonel D. D. Campbell. Lato at night
they were areused from thoir sleep by a noise
in the cellar of their rosidenem They left
their sleeping apartment, and going to the
head of tho stairs demanded:
???Who???B there????
Although it was very dark they thought
they could distinguish threo men. Thoy were
soon convinced that some onq had entorod tho
house, for a voice called oat: ???We want $2.???
The ladies were both unarmed, but one of
them repjicd: ???Neither of ua have any money
in the house, and you must leave. If you at
tempt to come up here wo will kill you with
an ax.???
While one of the aisteri remained by the
stairs tho other ran into tho dining-room, and
seizing a largo bell rang it out of the window
and snouted, for assistance. Tho men wero
frightened and ran.' They had gaibod an en
trance to the cellar by boring through tho door
with an auger.
Lynchburg, W. V., December 8.???News has
iust been received here of the sentence to
hanging of Jonas H. Powers, Wayne Powers
and George Gibson, for the murder of an un
known man in Scott county. The murder
was a most atrocious one. All four men wore
travelling the same road togother, and tho
murdered man was killed for a trifling sum of
money and his clothes. The murderers spont
nearly the entire night trying to burn the
body with firo - made of fonce rails, and were
thus discovered. They will bo executed on
February 0th.
Malixs, Kansas, December 8.???John Puck
ett yesterday shot and killed Wm. Allen, a
loading witness in the approaching trial of
hit brother, George Puckett, for tho murder
Baltimose, December 8.???To*day a rann
named Wilson surrendered himself to a po
liceman on the street, laying he is a fugitive
from justice in Alabama. He married a wife
in Virginia, and afterward, going to Birraing-
bora, Ala., married another, forwhieh he was
indicted, and forfeited hia bail. He said ho
was tired of biding. Hewaslockodnptoawalt
the order of the governor of Alabama.
New York, December 8.???The wife, of Dea
con Erhriam Arch, of Quoque, Long Island,
cloned on Sunday with an unknown negro. It
is thought that they have gono to Florida.
She leaves three children, and is said to be
very handsome. Her husband is in good cir
cumstances and says he shall not want to see
her again.
Bhbxaxdoah, Ta., December 0.???Early this
uuu uuu iwu VUI1UIUU, u UUIIXUKI MVOUfcjr
years old and a eon eleven. The daughter,
until three months ago, has been almost in
separable from the mother. The daughter ii
now in Chicago with relatives.
About a year ago It was reported that tho
doctor intercepted a letter from ihis wifo to
a prominent banker hero,making an appoint
ment; that the doctor filled the appointment
instead, and compelled tho banker to releaso
a mortgage of $0,000 he held against tho doc
tor???s property, or suffer exposure, and that
the banker gave up tho mortgage, ??? Dr. Cun
ningham ia a son of tho late Judge Cunning
ham, of New Castle, Ta., and very prominent
here in all municipal affair*. Maltby is a
son of Rev. Mr. Maltby, torn* rly of New Cas
tle, and at one time cierl.ed in the postoffice
there. Dr. Cunningham has a fine residence
in the most aristocratic part of thficity, and
his wifo has always had everything money
could secure.
Raleigh, N. C., Decembor 14.???A sensation
has been caused in Caldwell county by the
elopement of Bello Wilson, a beautiful girl
only thirteen years old, with J. A. Stallings.
Tho latter was a guard at the trial of the
Mitchell county murderers last week. He
stole the girl from her vigilant parents. The
father mounted a horse end pursued the
couple, who were in a buggy. As tho old
man came near the Hoeing lovers Stalling
seized the littlo girl in his arms, sprang from
the buggy, and running liko a deer through
the heavy timbers, soon left the angry father
far behind. By daybreak they crossed tho
Catawba river, and were marriod.
THE LONDON BRIDGE EXPLOSION.
A Perfectly Useless Crime???Thousands Vis-
itlug the Scene.
London. December 14.???The Observer says:
The exploiion at London bridge last night
seems to bolong to tho ordinary category of
dynamite outrages with which rcoent expe
riences havo made Englishmen unhappily
??? ???ess crime,
familiar. It was a perfectly useless
and led to no practical result beyond destroy
ing a certain amount of masonry. It was not
attended by loss of lifo, yet it is obvious
that tho perpetrators must have
anticipated tho possibility of o numbor
of innocent human boing, beingsubjoct to sud-
of innocent human being, belngsuDjcct to sud
den and cruel death. Tho cr.imo, therefore
S artakosof tho character of murder. It is
ifficult to concoivo what possible end or pur
pose the authors of such outrages hopo to at
tain. Tho uttor absonco of coalition between
cause and effect mainly confirms the theory
that these crimes are of Hibernian origin.
A careful Inspection ofljogdon bridge WA??
made to-day, aud it was found that 1
morning threo blocks of houses at Trenton, a
???msll mining patch, near here, wero totally
burned. Six persons???Thomas Barlow, ms
wife and threo children, and a boarder named
Fitzgerald???were burned to death. Only one
of the Barlow family???a child five years old???
was laved.
Lyxcbbubg, Vs., Decembor 0.???Charlie B.
Palmer, a gambler and bad character, of
Chatham, Pittsylvania county, wbilo on a
carouse at Ssgo yesterday^ accosted William
Ackers, with whom he had bad an altercation
before, and commenced shooting at him. Sev
eral shots took effect, and Ackers soon died.
Palmer then beat an Inoffensive negro noarly
to death, after which he fled. A posse of cit
izens have been searching for him all day, but
without success. They are greatly incensed,
and will probably lynch the murderer If
caught. Although*>nJy eighteen years of age,
Palmer,'has become notorious throughout this
section as a swindler and deperado.
What Curb, la., December At Ther-
burg station, on the Barlingfofc, Cedar Rapids
ana Northern railroad, five miles north of
this place, Mrs. Wm. Schultz, yesterday, mur
dered her two children by cutting their
throats with a razor, and then terminated her
own existence in the same manner. She is
supposed to have been laboring under a sud
den fit of insanity.
Nnr York, December 0.???The diphtheria
???coorn, which never leave, the city, hu taken
a freeh Mart, and i< raging very fiercely. The
habitual death rate or. fifty tier cent of re
ported cure ha. been exceeded, and i. at prev
ent sixty per cent and ever. Lut week the
death, from diphtheria numbered forty-three
to Mventy-five reported mw, Aa the preva
lence of the dUeau ha. diminithed during the
lut few week., it bu inereued in violence,
until it bu reeched ite present .evere type.
The meulrt bu been increasing steadily for
a week or two, .inee the advance of the cold
H eather. It ia, however, not of a very .even
type. Lut week 1S5 mss were re
ported to the unitary authoritiu and twenty-
two deaths. That wu jut thru timer the
number of the preceding week and the wuk
before. Among the new coses reported t>-diy
were four in the foundling uyiums. The
oatienU were babies from four to eight months
old.
Krw Yoax, December 10.???Since Policeman
William Milov's death, two month, ago, from
smoking opium during the raids rn Chinese
opium joints lut spring, the police authorities
hare been unable to induce any policeman to
lake Miley???i piece, One day last week In-
t no .tract,
ural injury whatever wu done. Nothing
could bo found about the bridge lo indicate
that the exploalon bad taken place. Tho po
lice have diacovercd nothing that Is likely to
assist them in their inquiries u to tho origin
of tho exploalon. The heads of
tho dctectivo departments wero confer
ring with the home ofllco during tho entire
day. Tho ehsonco of eny clow is paralysing
the action of the police, who aro oven unablu
to tell the nature of the explosive used. It
appears that the exploalon occurred nearer
tho Surrey end of tho bridge than was at first
supposed, and yet most of tho houses that
were damaged were on tho Middlesex aide,
where the windows were smashed u faros
Billingsgate market. Several panes of glass
were broken in tho fishmonger???s hall, but
otherwise tho building recoived
no damages. Several squares of
a lofty glut screen in the Cannon street depot
fell to too platfrom with a crash, greatly terri
fying tho passengers in the building, although
nobody svai injured. The river traffic had
luckily been suspended at the time of tho ex
plosion, owing to tho darkness. The explosion
forma the staplo topic of conversation, and
A# - a L ft tlsA AnAM A t A
THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
Hr. O. W. D. Cook dives a Thrilling Account of flour
tho Train Bobbers Ordered Him to Hold Up
His Handa-An Exciting rims on a Hill ???
Hoad Train Hear Little Rock.
Mr. G. W. D. Cook, who resides at 47 Forest
avenue, is traveling in the west, and was on
the train that was robbed by the robbers near
Little Rock, Arkansas. Yesterday Mr. Cook???s
family received from him a very Interesting
letter, giving an account of the robbery. Mr.
Cook says the affair was one of the most ex
citing that he ever passed through. When
about threo miles from Little Rock, at ton
o???clock Saturday night, the coach that he was
in began scraping against the trees and sway
ing to and fro, and all on board thought it was
off the track and would soon roll over. Two
or three persons ran out on the platforms and
jumped off, aud immediately were fired upon
GAXO OF TRAIX RODDERS.
As soon as be beard the first shot Mr. Cook
realized what the matter was, and began hid
ing his effects. IIo stooped down between tho
seats, turned up the cushion and slipped his
eiuir, luiutu uj?? iuv viuuiuu Him urn
watch and nearly all his money between tho
springs of the cushion, replaced it and sat
down just as one of tho ruffians entered tho
car door hideously masked, with a cocked pis
tol in his bands, and shouted:
???Hands up, every one of you! or I???ll blow
your brains out!???
Instantly every man???s hands went up as if
by magic. Three ladies were in tho car, and
when they saw the masked face and tho revol
ver they set up
A TERRIFIC SCREAMING)
The man spoko to them and told them not
to be afraid, tbat they would not be molested,
that bo always respected ladies, that his moth
er was a lady even if ho was a rascal.
???Gentlemen,??? said tho fellow ???you don???t
seem to bo comfortable. You may rest ; vour
eibows upon tho bapks of the $eati, but don???t
lets have any monkey bntihoss. As soon as
wo will take up a collection???a littlo coutribu
tion for the pope, you know. This is an un
pleasant business, but it has to bo done. Its
purely n business transaction.???
The robber talked on in that strain for
about fifteen minutes, and in that time the
passengers could hear the men hammering
awoy on the iron chest in tho express car.
Every now and thon tho keen report of a pis
tol would ring out on tho night air, evidently
dono to terrify the passongors.
Then the door opened, and in marehod a
man *
MASKED LIKE TnE FIRST,
and flourishing a cocked revolver. Ho carried
a big corn sack in one hand, into which ho
B contn
10 pope.??? GoldjSiver, pope/, watches, chains,
rings and other jewelry wero tumblod poll moll
into tho sack. Mr. Cook says whon they
came to him and told him to ???'hand out??? ho
handed out a dollar and ten cents, all tho sil
ver ebango that ho had. The man took every
thing out of Mr. Cook???s pookets. Letters,
books, etc., wero taken out, aud then handed
back. Even the cigar holder was critically
examined and returned.
???What have vou got under that seat???? asked
tho voico from Behind tho mask.
???Look for yourself,??? replied Mr. Cook.
The man looked under tho seat and took up
tho cushion.
???1 thought I was gone up/' says Mr. Cook.
???He made a close examination,but did not find
my money, and passed on. The man next to
mo was ???gone through??? and the robbers
mil."
passed out.*
One of tho men
STOPPED IX THE DOOR
and sold a freight train was coming up be
hind, and that sot the ladies to screaming
again, Tho man said if those in tho car would
agree to sit In the car for ten minutes,, thoy
WOttlc* - ???
thousands of persons have visited the scone to-
dsy.
THE RXPLOSIOX DKSCRIDED. ???
A policeman who, at the time of the ex
plosion, was staading on the top steffe leading
to the steamboat pier on the Surrey lide oT
the river, with his back to tho stream says ho
which was followed by a terrible report
Ho was a???raost stunned, and his helmet was
blown some yards away bvthe concussion. He
ran to tbe top station, ana gave the alarm, and
soon afterward the river ;K>lice making a
minute examination of the buttresses of the
bridge and wharves on each bank of tho rivers.
Their search, however, was fruitless, Daylight
showed that not a single stone had been
displaced by tbe shock. Taking this fact into
consideration, experts are unanimously of the
opinion that the explosive agont used was
thrown over the bridge and exploded in the
air or on atrikiog the water.
A MYBTF.KIOrS BOAT.
Towards noon, boa ever, a wharfer inform
ed the police that a few minutes before the
explosion he saw a boat, containing three men,
under the arch on the Survey side.
He took no particular notice of them, thinking
they were river police, and didn't see tho boat
afterward. He supposes that they pocecded
down the river. Tne police this afternoon
learned that a piece of charred sacking about
a foot and a half square had been found on
one of the buttresses, and are now of tho opin
ion that the explosive was placed there. They
attribute the smallness of the damage to tho
extraordinary air current* beneath the
span. No arrests have been made.
tralikj- ??? chsngo the switch vfbr
i, and-If thepromise was not medo tho train
would have to stand where it was and let tho
freight train???run into it. The proposition was
acccpted^tbe switch was changed, the engineer
was signalled, the train backed off tho siding
on to which tho robbers had switched itsndjin
a moment was hurrying on to Littlo Rock,
having been detained three-quarters of au hour
by the robbers.
ZpTho robbers did not succeed in getting into
tho express safe.
IT CONTAINED $7,000.
Tho messenger, on the approach of tho rob-
ALONG ISLANDJGIRL???S HUSBAND.
Tlie Winner of a llrlde, liomte, Cuttle and
Real Estate.
New Haven, Conn., December 14.???There
appeared in one of the city , papers of Friday,
November 28, an advertisement setting forth
that a young woman of Gravesend, Long Is
land, bad arrived in New Haven in search of
a husband. Her name, it was announced,was
not to bo made public, but her matrimonial
qualifications wero set forth at length. Tho
advertiser wts said to bo a strong, healthy
girl, thirty years of age, and weighing 105
pounds. Tho only physical drawback to which
aho confessed was a partial deafness.
Dwelling thus lightly upon her personal
charms, tho aspirant for a husband advanced,
as the strongest point In her favor,tho amount
of her worldly possessions. These were sum
marized as $22,000 in Iron Mountain company
bonds, 200 head of cattle, two smokc-brfndle
steers, 117 yoke of oxen, and 5,000 acres of
laud in the Indian territory. The candidate
for her hand, in order to be successful, it was
announced, must havo uodriukiug habits and
must be moral. Tbe interests of tho advertiser,
while in New Haven, wore confided to W. G.
Butlor, a merchant and tho candidate for state
treasurer upon tho Butler tlckot at tho last
election. Sho bad met Mr. Butler in Grave
send sovcral years previously. The
peculiar application was given wide
spread publicity; in tho papers, nof
only in hew Haven, but throughout tho coun
try, and the advertisement has been answered
by hundreds of aspirants for her hand, her
bonds and her caltfe, includipg the two smoke
brindlo steer*. Many of theso wero ovidciitly
from parlies very much in earnesf. Mr. Butler
found great diforulty in iMiivim-ing m.ut pm
plo that the affair was what he represented it to
bo, and that tho advertisement correctly do
scribed tho visitor from Gravosend and her cir
cumstanccB.
Sinco tho publication of tho advertisement
lie has found his time fully occupied in at*
tending to the correspondence of nis clients^
in inspecting inclosed photographs and refer
ences,end in aiding her in making a selection.
Yesterday it was announced that tho soarch
was ended and that a husband had been selec
ted. Four of the candidates who were deemed
eligible out of the 400 or more who applied by
moil and otherwise were riven a personal in
terview by, the owner of the bonds, cattle, and
Indian territory property. Tho cboico fell
upon Willoughby II. Harris, of Mound City,
lion. Ho is a dealer in cattle,
worth about $40,000, tnd Is 37 years
age. It was agreed botweon tho
contracting parties that tho joint possessions
of both shall become thb property of thoir
united partnership in about ten days or two
weeks. The delay in the wedding, Mr. Butler
explains, is for tho purnoso of allowing a little
courtship to be done, both parties botioving
that they should enjoy tho brief preliminary
season as do lovers who meet in tho ususl wsy.
Last evening Mr. Harris and bis prospectivo
bride went to New York, where he will remain
for ten days or two weeks. She will proceed
at onco to her homo in Gravesend. Sho will
be called upon by her affianced at intervals
until tho courtship is ended. After tho wed
ding they will tako up their residence at
Mound City.*
THE GODWIN MURDER,
Elect Into Florida, and Doubling Upon His Pursuer
He Turns north. Retching Columbus, Where
Hals Arrcsttd-The Story of the Crime
and tbe Pursuit of tbs Murderer.
BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
A Mntden of Thirty-one Demanding 910,*
OOO Dniunges of a llacholor of Fifty.
Boston, December 14.???Miss Maria L. Rad-
din, of Saugus, a maiden of thirty-one summon,
is suing Orrin S. Currier, a well-to-do bache
lor of this city, for breach of premise of mar
riage, estimating her damage at $10,000. Mr.
Currier is fifty rears old, and is siijicrintcn-
ran toward Littlo Rock, tho robbers firing at
him ai ho ran.
The sheriff and a posse wont in pursuit.
Rewards wore offered, and five men were ar
rested. Mr. Cook says of them:
???One of tho robbers was a very tall young
man, and wore no beard. As well as I
could judgo. bo bad large light bluo eyes, and
os they flashed at me through the eyo holes of
TRAGEDY IN A PENITENTIARY.
A Lunatic Brains Ills Companions In Their
Sleep.
Jkffrsson City, Mo., December 14.???Short
ly after midnight, at tho insane hospital in
nitentiary, John Mason, a convict,
the state penit
who had been considered harmlessly insane,
arose, and securing a heavy iron poker. went
into the adjoining room, where four fellow-
E atients were sleeping. Approaching them
e dealt one. Charles Signor, three terrible
blows over the head, breaking his skull. He
then struck Louis Hoelscher five times, mak
ing a fracture of the skull five inches long,
and passing quickly to tbe ad
joining ward, attacked Andrew Aliison,
i, who waa also asleep, cutting him in
the head and face, ond severing an artary in
the held. At this juncture an epileptic ne
gro, named Jackson, being aroused stele up
qnietly on Mason from behind, and grappled
with him. The attention of the guards was,
by this time, attracted, and rowing in, the
murderous convict waa overpowered aud dis
armed by them, fiignor and Hallscher are
still alive, but cannot recover, Allison's in
juries are not fatal. AU the victims are con
victs, confined in the department for the
harmless insane. Mason is 45 years old, a
Frenchman by birth. He was sent to the
penitentiary from St* Louis in SspUmbw,
1??2, fcr hxrltn jttn tor bighirsy rottory.
where. They have 0119 man who answers t!
description, but I cannot swear that ho is tho
como mou. IIo lives at Littlo Rock,
and fs a mattressmaker by
trade. There Is a drummer hero who swoars
that be is the man. I am sorry to say his
nome is Cook. No 0110 knows how many there
were; some say flvo and some say soven- I
do not think they were exjierts, as thoy failed
to open the iron box and were so long going
through the train, keeping us three quarters
of an nour.???
The sheriff???s posse with bloodho mds btruck
n warm trail, which, after dovious winding,
led bock to the city by a roundabout < uurac,
and tho officers are suro they have tho right
parties. It is reported that over half of tho
stolen money and jowclry lias bocn recovered.
Mr. Cook will not bo at homo for two or threo
months.
KENTUCKY TRAGEDIES.
The Lynching Growing Out of an Old
Feud.
Lexington, December. 10.???John Pi Martin
was shot and killed by the rcgulatorsat
Farmer???s station, Rowcn county, about forty
xwrocr ??? iuiuod, iwwca couniy, buoui roriy
miles east of here, at two o???clock this morning.
Martin had a quarrel with Floyd Tollison at
Morehead, Ky.. lut August, in which shots
were exchanged and a bystander killed and
Martin seriously wounded. Tbe parties met
In Morehead on the second Instant, and the
quarrel was renewed. Tollison drew bis pistol
but Martin fired first and killed him. Martin
was taken to Winchester for protection from
the mob, and lut night he wu put on a train
under guard, and started for Morehead to be
tried. To-day, when the train reached Farm
er's station, it wu boarded by twenty-five
masked uon, who held tbe guards and rid
dled Martin with buUeU, kiUing him in
stantly. It is charged tbat the guards were
taking Martin to Morehead on forged orders.
Louisville, Ky., December 10.???Lawyer
Corneilsan, who cowhided Judge Reid, of the
superior court, causing the Utter to commit
eufeids, from shame, w;
was to-day sentenced to
three years imprisonment in penitentiary by
the court at Mount Sterling, Kenucky.
A Temperance Preacher Killed by Whisky.
Omada, December 14.???A traveling Baptist
prescher, who preached a temperance sermon
-* * * *>pe, Wyoming, was taken by cow-
boys last Sunday to a saloon and compelled^to
drink five or six lemonade glaasu
with the preacher
The cowboys then started
to a temporary trading post, twenty-five miles
from Antelope, but the preacher died before
reachisgtbere.
A Woman???s Fiendish Revenge.
Xotwicn, Conn., December 14.???Florence
Miner, who threw creosote into tho free of
M Us Susan Twomey yesterday, wu bound
over to the superior court in $1,000 boil. Miss
Twomey wss too ill to eppear at the trial, and
is in dangsr ol losing her eyes.
The Fgrcmont Sfjstery Solved.
SranrcrtiLD, December 14.???Tbe Egrcmont
mystery was exploded by the opening of Ks
Newman's grave and finding
tells Newman r s???grave and finding tile body
undisturbed. A fr/gc number of persons
present, including the town officer*.
dent of the Sunuay-ichool of a M. E. church.
It was at tho Martha Vinoyard camp moot
ing, in 1881, that tho counfo met, aud,
according to tho plaintiff, their acquaint
ance continued to April, 1882. At that
time sho learned that ho had a female corre
spondent out west, and upbraided him there
for. Ho replied that ho didn???t think it was
wrong, oa ho was not aware that ho had on-
goged tho plaintiffs affections. Thereupon a
quarrel ensued, and they parted nover to meet
again. Threo months afterward, however,
Currier begged to bo restored to her affections,
lie raid ho had given up tho western woman
and wished (o marry tho plaintiff. His visits
were weekly alter tnat, and on sevoral occa
sions he asked her about marriago and as to
whether sbo preferred to board or koop homo
Ho also kissed her frequently. Miss Raddin
said that sho raado several tidies aud
rugs In expectation of becoming Sirs. Currier,
but bo kept postponing matters on various ex
cuses, and in September, 1883, ho made Ills
lost visit.' A sharp interview ensued at tho
defendant?! office, in which ho told her that
ho had decided not to marry hor.
Tho defendant???s story wm to the effect that
Miss Raddin ???set her cop??? for him, and by
her pleading! madejiim a somewhat frequent
visitor at her house. Ho flatly denied all that
the plaintiff had said about marrying, and
???aid that in October, 1883, she actually pro
posed to him and ho declined the honor.
Certain letters, chiefly devoted to tho weath
er and kindred harmless topics, wero pat in
evidence.
A ROMANTIC LIFE HISTORY,
111. Btory of Mr. Do Cnilro*. Wantlorlnc.,
nn.l F01 tunc., Kn.llng In Hulclde.
Cnicano, III., December 11.???Tho early hit*
lory of Dr. Ferdinand De Caitro, who reocnlly
committed tuicldo In Newark, New Jeney, u
finally revealed In a letter received from hi.
rouiln, P. Gollcrup, of Jacluon, Miunciota.
He (ay. that De Caitro*. original namo wa.
Holecr Ferdinand Kaitrup. III. lather wa. a
millionaire and owner of a large tobacco facto
ry in Copenhagen, llolgcr went to
Bio Janeiro, Brazil, where he romainedflre
yean. In tho rammer of IHW ho reappeared In
Copenhagen, with a young wifo and two chil
dren, having married a wealthy Hpanleh lady
ot noble birth. Holger took a line house and
close of tho year King Frederick V
a woman of the people, aud popular feeling
was aroused against the alliance. The militia
was called out to provent an outbreak, lfolger
Kaitrup devised the scheme of a "fe.tlno??? r or
fete to divert the at tentlon of tho people. Th
enterprise waa succeetful in diverting tha
thoughts of tho people from the royal mar
riage, hut was a failure financially.
The night before the close of the "fe??Uno???
Holger Kestrup waa taken dangerously ill and
was prostrated for weeks. Mr. Oellerup says
he was a member of tbe committee appointed
to examine the aceounte of tho ??????featlno."
They found a shortage of many thousand dol
lars, which was promptly paid by Uolgcr???s
father. Holger on recovery went to Chris
tians, Norway, and established himself as n
teacher of languages. Kubsequcntly bis wifo
tnd children were sent hack to Itio Ja
neiro, well supplied with money by llol
gcr???s father, end_ were shortly followed by
ilgcrbirnsdf. Mr. Ccllcruphad not heard of
Holger for many years, when, on arriving In
Chicago, in IK07 ha found him establiahedas a
physician here under the name ol "Do Castro 1
Mr. Celle rap's letter then recounts the subse
quent tacts of Kastrup???s life, his marriage to
Miss Bpeneer, of this city his receipt of a leg-
???cy of Ftp,M0 by bis father???s death, his pur
chase of a larm at Waukegan, where he gars
a grand fete in honor ol tils daughter's birth-
dav, which led to bis bankruptcy, and separa
tion from hia family. Csllerup lot saw him in
1878, when he seenUd quite impoverished and
depressed.
The Outrageon* Act of Ruffians*
LiTcarirLD, Conn., December 14.???A brutal
outrage was perpetrated upon an inoffensive
young married couple near this town. ^
Daniel
Dcugbeitv, a farmer, was quietly married to
Mbs Nellie w - / -
Matthew* on Saturday. Theyht l
been acquainted for more than a year, and
both are highly respected. After the wedding
they went to tne home which had been nicely
fitted up by the groom. About midnight the
home was funoundeil by a gang of ruffians
who howled snd yelled beneath the-windows.
Dougherty came out t*> remonstrate with tbs
esng, when he was attacked and beaten. Mr*.
Dougherty came to bis assistance and wm also
ruddy assaulted by the hoodlums, who drove
loth from tbe house snd then destroyed every
thing of value In the dwelling. Efforts are
Leing made to capture the ruilians, end if
found they will he severely dealt with.
Columbus, Ga??? December 8.-[Speetal.l -Mow
Keeton, colored, tho murderer of Mr. Hte^hou
Godwin, Mrs. Melinda Gregory, his hsusckcci>
and her son Richard, alarm lmud, near I???clhnu,
Mitchell county, on Tuesday nislit, Doooatbcr 2d,
was ruu down and appreheuded here at ten
o???clock to-day, by Sheriff L. F. Burkett, of Decatur
county, after a chase of 400 mite*. Tho negro show
ed fight, but tho muzzle of a pistol, which tho
shcrifi???thrust in his free, subdued him, and be sur
rendered. nis wife aud child were with
him, the former camping near by, thus giving
him awav. A guu belonging to the murdered
men was found in hfs posasion. Ho wit aDo
Identified by Mr. W. W, .Ken nan, of Bln down, on
the river, to whom the negro had so.a tho mare
and bufty which he had stolen from Mr. Gad win
after committing the trlpple murder, and who
was assisting tho sherlffln tiic search. The negro
aud wife confessed on being interrogated sepv
rately, telling substantially tho:famu story,
vlctlug the man of the murder, the: weapons used
being a knifo aud an ax. The object was money.
Four hundred dollars was in a bureau at tho
time, but which owing their hurry end excite
ment they failed to get. The sheriff left with his
prisoners today for Bainbridge. Other parties
are implicated In the mifrdcr aho. The sheriff
only atrnck the trail on Saturdays after passing ns
far down m Jackson county, Florida, tbe fugitives
doubling on him llko a fox. A reward of $300 wm
offered,
Ba.inbruxie, Ga??? Decemberlll.???In in interview
to-day with Lcvl F. Uurkltt, sheriff of our county,
relating to the recent murder of Stephen Godwin,
Mrs. Gregory aud ion, of Mitchell county, and
the capture of tho perpetrators of tho horrlblo
crime, bo said:
Wednesday pMt, Alexander Godwlu, brother of
Stephen, arrived hero,Informed me of the murder;
that bo had tracked the murderers to within four
milca of this place, then lost tho trail and wished
me to aid him in catching them. 1 made dJUIgcnt
search at point when troll wm lost. Nouo could
bo found. At two o'clock at night heard parties
answering their description and going towards
Titllabiusoe.Fln., went In pursuit, got them, found
I was on wrong track. Returned up Flint, river
diligently Inquiring at every town aud farm.
ON TUB RIOHT JTHA1L.
Got to Blakely, Ga. Thore I learned from Ordi
nary Jones that negroes answering tho description
of the murderers had sold a horse and buggy, liko
those taken from tho murdered Godwin, to W. W.
McKinnon, of Clay comity. Went there with
brother of Godwin???s, who recognized tho horso
and buggy. It was given up. Godwin returned
with It to Mitchell. I took Mr. MoKinnpn, who
willingly???being ono of Clay???s best citizens???
agreed to go with me in further
pursuit, and Identify the man who sold him tho
buggy. He went to Cathbert, found tho parties
had gono to Eafaula, Ala. Went there, and aftor
searching forty-eight hours, discovered they'liad
gone to Columbus. Taking tho first steamer, wo
arrived there iu.Umo to find steamer ???Ghfplcy,???
which they had taken passage, at wharf.
Tho engineer told us ho hod seen
man aud woman tallying with
description of tho murderers on board; that they
bad left the boat aud gone up town. Took Mc
Kinnon to barbershop, had his long beard takcA
off, and disguised him thoroughly, thon went In
pursuit.
TUB f-BIMINAL FOUND.
After a vigorous search of twOlro hours
o found our man Mosc Keaton, and
his wifo at a shoo shop In suburbs of city.
Thou after a fierce strugglo *ho was
hound hard and fast, togother with
wife. Got the gun of
murdero d Godwin, from tbe prisoners, and kntfo
that Meet |Kca ton said he cut the deceased???s tbroat
with. Both voluntarily confoisod they committed
the fearful crime, for the reason thoy had a
Ingout with their victims about n settlement.
Having, In my liMto In tearing homo, left hand
cuffs, bad to bind tho prisoners with twine
strings. 1 took to tho train and lodged them In
Albany, Georgia.
Mr, Burkett deserves great prslso for hia dili
gence and skill In effecting their arre??t.
OASSILLO???d CAPERS,
A Young Man Swindles an Old Man ??? A
Desperate Encounter on Top of a Oar.
Last night nil old gentleman who gives lit*
name m Baugh wm victimized on tho Georgia
raclfio train by a sharper. Tho sharper
approached Mr. Baugh In his scat
tho car aud asked him to take forty dollar*
in chsngo and to give him forty dollars iu bills
Mr. Baugh agreed to aooommodsto tho man aud
handed him two twenty dollar bills, for wliiah he
received ten dollars. Tho old man???s oyss were
nono too good and his confidence In mankind was
better, so hs carried the money
to Conductor 1???Attenou and naked him to count
it, at tlio samo timo explaining tho transaction.
Tho conductor instantly detected the littlo game
played by the sharper, snd started forward after
him. The sharper tumbled, and running .to tho
platform started to tpring off the train, but It wai
moving too last for him. However ho wMhcnt
upon cicaping, and climbed upon tho top of the
cnr. Conductor Battcnon wm equally determined
tbat the man should not escape and although tho
min wm gilding along at the rate of forty miles
an hour followed tho man to the roof. When tho
sharper saw that tho ronductor was on tho car
ho wheeled .about and showed light,
desperate mnn on top of a
train moving forty miles an hour Is no mean too.
but Conductor roUerson went for him in good
???w *
i|Cl___ __
rJe, snd brought him down. Hu wss then mado
restore tho money to Mr. JSatigli.
and wu held a prhoncr until
the train atop;>ed In tho union paticnger depot,
when he wu turned ovr to the police. At police
icadquarUra begavt bis name u John w. <:->??? i
o. lie claims to bo from New Orleans. Ite
A Queer Journey to Florida.
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 14???Doy before
yesterday Mr.Wm.F.Btrong/lvingJIn Hartwell,
pecked his household goods in a freight car,
snd it started in tbe evening for Jacksonville,
Fla. Tbe next morning it wm discovered that
three boys of tho village, sons of excellent par
ents, had disappeared. Then it leaked out that
they bad concealed themselves In the car and
baa started for Florida, where they expected
to make their fortunes. Before going they pro
vided themselves with twenty loaves of bread,
two dozen bottles of beer, a bis rout beef and
a casket of water. The car will be two weeks
on tbe road, and unless tbo bora are released
by some providence they will certainly bo
starved by the timo they reach their dcriina
tion. Of course tho car is locked and it Is im
possible for them to get out unaided.
A Hundred Lashes,
From the Dooly, Ga, Vindicator.
in Vienna with a drove ol moles, had .
stolen from h s room at tbe hotel, and tbe evi
dence against the colored porter m being tho
thief waa so strong that he was forced to ae-
knowledge bis guilt. He was given theehoice
of stand inf a trial or taking a hundred lashes
on his bared beck, pnt on with a drover???s
whip. He preferred tbe whip and got it. The
AbW * g a non-resident of Dooly, he did
doctor belBL
believe in imposing upon her people the
ense oi a triaf.
expense c
Cheap Kent Entnte,
From tbe Philadelphia Pres*.
It???s a poor man who can???t afford to hold real es
tate In these times. H he walks Philadelphia
streets be rets it blown Into bis eyes, and if be
drlLks Philadelphia water he gets a town lot or
two in bisstomzen.
TEMPERANCE IS CAROLINA.
Tlio Prohibitionists of Columbia ruder nu
Adverse Decision.
Colunbia, B. C.> December 14.???[Special.]???
Tho prohibitionista ol this city havo received
a black eye from the supremo court. Tho
question whether or not this tribunal should
grant a mandamus compelling the alilernianic
board to order an election to test tho sense of
tho tsx-payers of the community touching tho
granting or liquor licenses, was hoard, and n
decision has been rendered to tho effect
that tho city shall not bo compelled to
hold Buch an election. Tho city coun
cil, howover, to satisfy the demands
of the temperance people, havo agreed upon n.
scalo of high license, which, if carried out,
??uiiu wi ui^u ii^vuic, ii varnu-i uui>, ,
will do far more good than complete prohibi
tion. Each barroom in Main street will bo
required to pay an annual license oi $1,000,
and barrooms in the other-htrcetf an annual
license of;$750. There e?0;at present.44 rcgu-. f .
larly licensed barrooms in 'tills city. Should ?
tbo prdposed Taw \taSi, the numbfir
of there barrooms, will certainly bo decreased
Tho idea among our most intelligent ml vacates
of tcmncranco appear lo bo to give tho,
???high Been so system??? a thorough test. The
most influential tempeinneo people here are
opposed to prohibition. There is no prospect
therefore oi Columbia becoming a ???dry???city.
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
i tov Tuesday An.
New Ozlkaxk, December 14.???The work of
getting tho exhibits in order continues day
and night. Tho progress mado from day to
day is noticcablo both in tho government an i
main building, although tbo exhibits aro com
ing in so rapidly that there appears to bo no
end to work of receiving and placing them in
order. Next Tucmlny bnsinckB in tl--- city
generally will bo suspended and tho city
decorated. At 10 n. m., tho procession will
form on Canal street, General W. II. Behan,
grand marshal, consisting oi military expo
sition officials, distinguished visiters, invited
guests, representatives of foreign governments,
United Matts government officials and com-
tiiKsi-nii'r ol' the vnri<-ns*Htnlcs and territories.
They will proceed to the head of Canal street,
where they will tako stcamboatA for the expo
sition park. Tin? profusion will reform on
(ho exposition wharf, and march on asphalt
walks to tho main building, where tho opening
ceremonies toko place.
THE. WORLD???S EXPOSITION,
IN DI STlNCT_PSlNl)f
Jn Which Colored 1???ooplo lire to bo on
Show#
Washinotox, December 8.???Tho bill intro
duced in tho sonato, to-day, by Mr. Blair U
promote tho world???s colored pcoplo???s oxposi-
Iion, t??* lx- held in Chi.Mgo, recite* that ???
Wherein, in the opinion of tlio government of
tho United State?, tho exposition of art - , me
chanics and products of tho colored races of the
world, to beheld In Chicago in September, 1885,
I*of national Importance, and Is Intended Mono
of the means of cultivating a thorough knowledge
of tho arts and trades among tho colored people
and create among them a stimulus to
Industry and to show the results of tho colored
people???s progress in ??griculturo, matmfActurcre
mid the science of forestry and horticulture, and
ntroduco among them improved machinery, snd
furnish to the government Information us to tbo
wisdom of tho liberty and enfranchisement of its
colored citizens.
It Is then resolved that in aid of this project
??500,000 should bo appropriated. Thc)bUl will
bo reported back next Thur??day.
BLEEDING THE NEGRO.
A Proposal to RnUo w.%0,000 for Grant by
91 Contribution*.
New York, Decembor 14.??? 1 Thomas For-
tune, cilit-??r????t th*- New Vork I'rc.'iinin, n col
ored pc???opfo'n organ, i aid to-dny thiit lw has
started a$l subscription fund to bo raisc-l by
colored people for tno ni-1 of <???cnorul Grunt.
lie expect.i I'rcxc!, Morgan A iu New
jio ezpccu yrozQii juurguu iv s-u., m
York, untl George, W. t hil-ln, iu Philadelphia,
to rcceivo tlio subscriptions, und expects they
will amount to $50,000.
IIo says: ???General Grant nccoptcd us a gift
8250,000 from wealthy whites, and wo do not
n< e. on whut grounds he could refit*o bu h tes
timonials as we propose from tlio grateful
,.r 11... it.. ct, '
colored people of tho United States.???
Florcc County*
From the Blackshcar, Ga., New*.
Tbe lands of Ficrco county aro ns well
adapted to farming ns any on tho continent.
It ia truo that they aro not as fertile, naturally,
as tho lands oi somo other sections, but thoy
can bo raised to any standard required by
judicious fertilizing, and will yield abundantly
anything that grows in tho southern country.
There is not a healthier county In tho state
of Georgia, or anywhere clso, as far
??r?? tl int is concerned, than l???lerco, and wo
have n<> deli.-a -y iu predicting for hor n bril
Hunt future. Tlio improvements In the coun
ty during tbe pMt few years havo boon won
derful. and tho most gratifying feature con-
i.< < t< d u :tli th." improvcimrnt is that it i of
thu mo-1 nil) tnnliu! churiieter. Our pc.plo
do not work so mush for display ns somo of
-nr j' ghbors; Gut me w.iking mi u tirni
foundation, conscious of tho fact that
overy lick judiciously adruinhlerod
now will remunerate them for many years to
come. Lands aro cheap In tho county, and
generous, open-hearted people stand ready to
welcome all new-comers who come to work,
for workers aro what wo want. Parties want
ing lo invest in lauds in south Georgia can
find jj-.i.i: h. Iter than l icrcn cM'nty u'l'.rd-.,
and a man who wants lo makoan honest living
can find no better place than horc.
Attacked by a Highwayman.
From tbo Jackson, Ga., Newi.
<>n ???'indiiy night lint, im Mr. o, ,\. An
drew!, of this county, was crossing tho ruil-
re-nd jn ur Heard, b-me .-no reirel the hr;dfo
of hia horso, which caused the spirited animal
torcor up. Mr. Andrew* jumped from hia
* uggy when tho man ran and disappeared in
_ thicket closo by. About a quarter of a mile
further on, in passing through a small skirt of
wood*, u man ran up to tho fence. Mr. An
drews boing unarmed, gavo hit horso tho lines
and mado his escape without (briber interfer
ence. Robbery wm probably tho object of tho
individual.
A Dcoiierato Encounter,
CiiiJtLmoN, 8. C\, December 1!.???John
the bands of Rufus Malh",
near charlotte, last week, died Ia??.t night.
Mollis Is in jail. Dulln bad hit Mallii
insensible. On recovering c
seized a plank and dealt a blow that
iu Dulinfr death.
_ d bop* In all the to
And in each little ii;uMen???* face
A look ol expectation s
That comes of inuBlmt oft and long
On what that day ol kUi snd song
Shall bring to ber m offering meet.
But I will sit alone and dream,
of him who gave the day Its name:
Amt think c full His wondrous fame
And if to Him it strange doth seem,
'I hat in the -*??? happy, careless ways,
As often m the years corao round,
irk with Ii*ht and joyful s
Ilfs advent and llLi toilsome days.
Our aikitig how It all began,
??? ??? - -. w mm i-i j t .ii
In vain our tons led r t ,
Tbe pate many feet hare trod,
O Nan of lorrow?, 3fan of Joy!
Of Joy for all Tby strife and icars,???
VI heroo Thou art among tho stars,
Iu peace tbat nothing can dcalroy.
Though i
With that hoame chant the c- nturiea raiv*
Yet is ft not a sweeter praise
To *ay, ???Our brother and our Friend
And if bcyon-l thl>. verge of time
We know Thee better a- Thou art,
V lit Thou not < hup us heart to heart,
As fill cur ears the heavenly chime*
-John W. Chadwi- k.