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V THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY DECEMBER 1G 1834. TWELVE PAGES. Ill 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.