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THE WEEKLY COirSlfrO’WON'. ATLANTA.-GA.. TUESDAY JUNE 16 1885
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HORRIBLE FEASTS.
THB LATE DR. BEARD'S STRANGE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Zs Nan a Cantbal at Be.tiS'-wbat Harrean Melvin,
Saw m Ahoo—Tho B.qqu.s to which an Ecg-
tubman was Invited In Afttoi-Tha
Xouhdlrlni of a British Hatch.
FromthCKewYorkDltpitch.
The late Dr. Beard, a trail known gcloutUt
of llsla city, made neurology a metal study,
directing bis attention chiefly to' the diseases
Which originate in the nerve system, and upon
Which ho prepared and published many vain
Able treatises. He tree also the author of a re
markable composition, which has been put 1
Into type and printed, to which ho gave tho
title, “Neurasthenia,” and In rrhtch ho dealt
comprehensively with the nerve system. In
this work the author aska and answers the
subjoined decidedly surprising questions
TVby is not man good food lor manf—and why
Should not canibals be healthy and strong?’
ffho answer is that man is good tood, and can
nibals are the healthiest and strongest of sav-
sges.
Herman Melville, in his charming work,
s'Amco," discusses tho propensity which tho
Islanders had, and they were a kindly race,for-
human food.
tbs mean or cbiluiixx ASH YOU sc, Qians
they were ^particularly fond of, and when in
the flesh market there wao scarcity tho war.
rlors would go on the war’path, Invading the
territoriee of neighboring tribes, and for so
other purpose than to sceara lender food for
their banquets. Melville visited by Invitation
tho king 1 of the tribe with whom forth* time
his lol .had been cost, and found him
si splendid specimen of manhood, and a “right
Jolly good fellow” besides. Molvillo htpponed
to remove a cover or a lid of a receptaclo, and
s glance thero assured him that the body ol
a young child had boan prepared for cooking.
Tho king hastened to taka his inquiiittve visi
tor's attention from the dead babe. Falling in
thia ho had the aaanranco to say •
11 Tut Tirssan baby-,”
teas that ot a lucking pig.’ l
Mecyyears ago Captain Wantfiaker, a her-
." •» il0 rm In
J the eastern
ostern coast
or Africa: The amp being an old one, rapidly
made water, and it was with difficulty the
crew got their boats aflost before tho old hulk
entirely disappeared. They drifted many days
on the lonely ocean, the prows of • their boat]
pointing eastward. Their food had given out,
' and a pint of water, distributed among four
teen men, was tho dally ration; Mon could
survive for a aeaaon without food, but to be
deprived of water was to ba bereft of reason.
On the thirtieth day from tho sinking of tho
(hip land waa discovered. Many ot tho men
were delirious—conic from joy and others tram
wanfbf water and food. Great was the diaap-
S intiuent of the unhappy men when they
ided. They found themselves on tho odgo
of a sterile waste, and as for aa tho eyo could
eeo, hillocks of sand only were discovered.
Utterly exhausted, tho shipwrecked marinore
threw themselves on the ground and prayed
for death. Ona of the more adventurous found
s pool ol blackish water. Ot thia all drank
freely. Then came an overmastering deairo
for food. Men, companion! in misfortune,
looked upon each other's wasted bodies with
S eedy eyes, and It finally was resolved lota
onld be drawn, and ho who draw the fatal
blank should die that
the ornF.r.s tiianr live.
It fell upon a handsome young follow when
in health, lie submitted to the knlfo without
s murmur. His blood was greedily swallowed, 1
and thou, when his limbs wore separated, they
were roasted and devoured. Three ol'lhocrow
were thus disposed ol bofore the eignnl ot dis
tress which an old mariner had managed to
display waa seen by s ship bound northward
for thu Portugese settlement of tit. Paulo do
loand a.
In alter yean the captain, relating his ter
rible experience, declared that the aweeteat
morsels nis tongue had ever taited were of the
flesh taken from the bodies .ol his men on
Whom the lot of death had fallen, and that his
longing tor aimllar food was unquenchable.
We have all read the sad story ot cannibalism
Which was made public os the return, some,
months ago, bom the Arctic expedition ol tho
Oreely company. It la not now disputed that
the flesh of one of the party, who was put to
death because of hie thievish propensities by
order of the commander ofthe extwdltlon, was
secretly stripped from his bones and surrept-
tiously devoured by some of the survivors. Vie
wonder if these men, like old Captain Wan.
maker, now
oaavc ron uuuax nm.
As a Feejea chief remarked to a missionary,
"It is good—better than young pig."
A few months ago an English adventurer In
central.Afrtca was invited to dine with tho
Icing of a large tribe, whose good will tho
traveler ddsired to propitiate infavor of Man
chester calicoes ana Sheffield hardware. At a
mirk of respect tho king caused several hun
dred young womon to walk in single file be-
removal northward and their occupancy ot the
cave near Duncansby’s Head, a party or fisher-
m«n, driven by stress of weather from the
Shetland Islands, landed on the Scottish coast
and sought shelter in one of the cavernous
(paces n hich the ace has wrought on that
storm-lashed shore. Unwittingly they entered
tho abode ofthe Bodies. There were a dosan
of them, fortunately for themiolvee. They
were not hospitably received. At thia they
wondered, quite aa much at finding so desolate
a placo permanently Inhabited. Depending
from the reck-arched roof they saw what a
t ret, in the dim light, they took for flitches ol
scon. They asked that a flitch betaken
down, cut and cooked for their use, the Shet
landers promiaing to pay them for their
trouble. Thia the Bediea positively refuted to
do. “Then,” laid one of tho fisbermen, “I’ll
do it myaelf.” It waa intimated to him, in a
tone that waa anything but kind, that if ho
troubled one ofthe flitches it would be at the
peril of his life. Such conduct and lani
astonished the hospitable Shetlanders, who, iu
their own homes, would have given the last
morsel of food they had to aatlsfy the hunger
of the strangers. Their suaniciona were aroused,
They first disarmed the Bediee, and than one
of them succeeded in reaching one of the hang
ing flitches, as they all supposed it. A dts
covery was made! To tho dismay ofthe fish
ermes it waa found that instead ol baeon they
had
A UOVAX I.CO.
It could be mistaken for no other class of
flesh. The men among them were securely
tied together, and tho woman and children
put under guard. Farther examination proved
that instead of hog meat that waa cored and
hanging from the roof of the oava ft was hu
man meat. Many murders muat have bean
committed by thia family of cannibals. But
how they had aucceodod in escaping detection
for ao many years was the wonder of the anr
rounding country when the discovery wat
made. Dozens of human beings must have
been murdered and devoured by theso canni
bait, and yet no one suspected them of leading
ao horrible an existence. Men disappeared
unaccountably, but the timea were troublous,
and little thought waa given to so unimportant
a trifle as human life. Tho Bodies confessed
that they had lived for years on human flesh]
that they preferred it to every other kind ol
flesh, and, in fact, could not oxiat without it.
The elders of this strange, beetial family were
pnt to death, thoy pleading guilty to murdor,
and Ita juniors were sent southward, and, it li
a tradition, were gradually cured of their per
verted appetite and taste.
The h oeiy situated bouae which the canni
bale occupied while living on Moray Firth
was, somo years subsequent to tho discovery of
the dreadful work in which they bad bean en
gaged while inhabiting the cave, rased to the
human bones. From this it was surmised that
the Bediea wero eaters of human flesh for
years longer than they had acknowledged in
their conlesiioni.
THE OROWINO COTTON.
The Monthly Report ot the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange,
Naur Obiiaxs, Jnno 8.—Tho monthly re
port ol tho National cotton exchange con
cerning the cotton crop lays: The season pre
sents at mo striking contrails with the ono
preceding, and while attended with several
drawbacks for the cotton planter, it may be
characterized, taking the whole cotton belt,
ell things conildorcd, ns the best
for soveral years. The very cool
and dry spring retarded the
planting from ono to two woeks, but the crop
was well pitched. Tho lands were properly
worked and an exceptional stand has been
secured. Tho insects have ravaged the crop,
and tho young plant* have diod from cold over
limited areas, and the plant over tho entiro
bolt up to tho middlo ot May was of small
;rowth, but it has had tho advantago of caro-
ul attention and cultivation, which haa boon
beBiriWfil on it by reason of tho favorablo
working conditions and nn abundance of labor
In May warmor weather and showers
brought pp tho condition rapidly. In soma
sections rains wore needod to germlnato the
seed and to bring good atanda. In other
I parehlly about sixteen yeare, remarking that
in hia opinion ih.wai tbe threat- looking and
most nredeatofthecompany. This aoemod to
please hia host. When, two or three hours
later, dinner a t* Africaine was announced, the
guest, to his horror, was inlormed that the girl
Whom ho had admired had been killed and
roasted In his honor, end a platter of her flesh
net before him. The king was Indignant at the
white man’s declination of the delicacy, re-
marking that it was evident to him the poor
pale-faced devils didn’t know what waa good
for them—which, in the language of Dr. Board,
Would maao them strong and healthy.
Laat autumn a yacht navigated by English
gentlemen was wrecked somowhere oil the
British coast. At no time could thacrow have
Been further from land than forty or fifty
miles, and they wero, betide*, in tho track of
npty,
Were Toldlesa of food for nearly a week. Then
Iheir hunger made lavages ol them. There
Waa a lad among them who had become utter
ly prostrated—utterly careleee of hia life. In
fact, it la said he desired to die, and when It
Wax intimated to him that ha could be accom
modated he appeared pleased. Him they
gacrificcd. They oflered him in satiefaetion of
the moloch of their
What waa not
MTU or BIX BT BIB C0XFAXI0X*
Was thrown into the ae*—food for fiahetl When
rescued and landed they told their horrid
(story, and ware at once arrested for Wrdor.
At this writing their cases have not been
too yearning atomic ha.
Anally adjudicated. Their ready deeire to feast
on human fleah prove* that but -
ravage i* needed in at
ve* that Wrt little ofthe
> any ot ua to make us oat-
oily
was discovered in a cav* on the extreme north
ern resit of Scotland, not far from Duneansby
Head, and near the atrait which separates the
Oknty islands bom the mainland. The clan,
confining of grand-parent*, parents and
chlldt. n, cambering seventeen In all, hid
lived near the Moray Firth, not many mils*
from Inverness, tor Mveral years, and. thu,
Without I nil rear
lie n of rvmovtni
' r and
quittly and quickly disappeared. Tb* rttntiy
waa strange in many respects, and their d*.
K rturc wu baited with silent joy. Tb* nun-
ra 11 the family—th*y were known aa B*die*
—were suspected ol wroeg-doing. They never
Worked, were unsociable, and it waa believed,
were cigbt-prowlera, if not highway robbers.
How they lived wu with the inquisitive an
(*g»f
unsolved problem. Sometime* long sacks,
£llr<i with something, wanld be seen carried
to the bona* in which they lived, and thetwu
■11. V> bat did thou sacks contain! It waa
guprored they were filled with food supplies,
and the Bediea being a moody, taciturn race,
did not care ft should be known how or upon
What they lived.
About eight or ten yean subsequent to thier
another from tho upper counties of eotno
states of oxcessivo rtfns. A careful analysis
of the situation justifies tho assertion that the
damsge bom this cause, while lured in some
localities, bad not really been vot inflicted.
Tho eeriy ~r.'a weather, thoreloro, in these
sections mny bo watched with interest. Ta
ken altogether, the May Weather conditions
can be regarded u very favorable, and they
have brought tho orop to a far higher atatua
than cxlated lr-‘ *■ —
In comparing
•a will be noticed In our rovlow of tho states,
and by an examination of tho temperature
and rainfall tables, there la a better avoarago
for this seuon over tho whole belt.
The contrast briefly, cait of tho Mississippi
river the condition ia rally u good or batter
than laat year. West of if
elded’"
sippl
ROBBED BYROAD AGENTS
1*011 Details Belated by the Stage Driver-Putting
the Traveler* in • Bow.and Making Them Olve
Up Their Velueblea-The attack on the
Yoaemita Btege-Ncws ofthe Bobbere.
Correspondence of the Netv York Sun,
Madbba, Cal., Juno 11.—tho attack on tho
Yoiemite ataga which loft hero on Friday
morning with eight or ten panongers causes
merriment on the coast, for tho reason that
teveral members of a far '.eastern excursion
party were among the victims. Western peoplo
do not appreciate the visits which they reeetvo
from this kind of tourists, for it has boon no
ticed that thoy do not spend any money, and
such frugality does not accord with tho west
era idea of tho fitness ol things.
News of tho robbery was first reeolved with
a grin, which, on reflection that it might hurt
tho town, gave placo tolooksofooncarn. About
half of tho town wu at tho hotel yesterday
when tho stago got in, and Juko Fooloy, tho
driver, waa followed around by a procoaalon
until ha concluded to giro up the particulars.
Jake has driven on thia route for seven
eight yean, and (a the man whoao stago 1
robbed two yeare ago at about tho samo place,
and Boston excursionists wore his puaongora
on that occaaion also. Ho had tiro school
ie head with thetr whalebono
umbrellas. That particular robber ia now run
ning a ranch not more than ten miles from
hero, but his tooth were all ruined by tho
crashing thump that ho got. Jake uid:
“Kelt a little nervous u soon aa I hoard
there wei a Massachusetts excursion in town,
because I knew the agents was a-Iayin’for
them fellers. They always do. Yon folks think'
because they don’t sling tho cash aronng
everywhere they ain't got mnob, but I’ro boon
through taro hold ups with thorn now, and I
know that they’re Jjnat tho ones for the agents
to interview. They got a big load out ol that
crowd two yeare ago, and thoy did not get ail
thoy had, either. I felt it in my bonoa all tho
time wo wero moving along, bat Icouldn'tsay
anything, yon know, for roar of hurting tho
bnaiuou. You eeo, wo mi^ht moot aj—‘ '
'ears ago racy iricu is noro, anu sno do** pus
00 white men mud Injuns on tho trail, and
baaed them for more'n three months, picking
ft a man every once and a while, until all
. West of ft tho situation la de
cidedly mors favorable, while in the Minis-
’ bottoms there la a marked advantage in
every respect. Wo present theso contrasts
merely for tho benefit of those interested in
the staple, that each may draw conclusion, as
it is not tho intention to give in tho figures ol
percentage and estimate of tho varying pros
pect! ot tho crop at ao very early a ataga of its
growth. The acreage has been largely In
creased, and Is reported a* follows i Virginia
100, South Carolina 103, Florida 101, Tennu.
fee 103, Arkansas 104, Toxas 109, North Caro
lina 103, Georgia 101, Alabama 104, Mlssitippl
103, Louisiana 110, Missouri, etc, 100; belt
average 101; Increase in area, 080,000.
CHASING BIO BEAR.
The Indian Chid Leading Strange and Mid
dleton Over the Conn try,
Wixxirxe, Man., Juno 13.—Tho following
dispatch Irom General Middleton’s camp has
just been received:
now halting at the edge ot tho river. Bcouts
report Big Bear to b« debouching west, being
d< ubtleas niter tho big eaeho ol provisions
•Ured by him at Beaver river. If this is his
intention, he will ba badly loft, as tho flour
has been capto * * '
now in the
of
Is
and
possession,
alio, tn ”
Prog lakes.
blvAnacked here.
:ry thing
used i with 1
angels
labor-
hood
lorco
tents , „
can possibly be dispensed with hays been dis
carded, the great aim bring to orprteko Big
ever
wagons will ba dropped, and tho bods on tho
track train utilised. Thia is tho only means
ol transport, and, even with thia probability,
la In favor of the Muskegs bring lound imps:,
sable. Tha auppl’a were sent down the river
to Fipcatono creek yesterday, than up tho
country toward* Turtle lake. Tho Saskatch
ewan river ia rising rapidly.
Genera] Middleton, who has been panning
Big Bear, haa found the country tmpiMablo
for hortea, and fa on hia return to thia plaee.
Tha supplies for tbs north have boon counter-
a. t
IS OORDON ALIVE?
A Slaitllog Story Which Cornea From a
Coptic Merchant.
Caiso, June Some excitement hu been
created here among tho English officers and
residents by tho arrival ot a Coptic merchant
from Khartoum. Ha states that ha witnoaud
tho capture of Khartoum, and that immediate
ly after tha uaaueit of tho garrison, tha
mabdi demandtd tha head of Gordon for n
trophy, but bis warriors produced tho bead of
tha Austrian consul, Mr. Hansel. When tha
mistake waa d[(covered, a second search waa
mad* for Gordon, but thu mthdi’n followers
were unable to find any tree* of tha here of
Khartoum. They found several other
Europeans, but no documents were found on
thetr clothes to show that cither ot them wss
General Gordon. The Coptic eeys that it ia
ramble that General Gordon Bering that all.
waa lost may have escaped south.
hadn’t met any, they would bavo boon just as
badly shared, and they would all have gone oil
telling what a nearer ’ecapo they’d had.
aald nothing.
“One of tho cxounioniits, a teller from
Maine, who wore giaaaca, got up on top with
mo after a while, and wanted to know if there
were ever any robberies on this road.
“ 'Lord bleat you, no.’ lays I, kinder Inno
cent. 'Them robbers is all ten mite north or
twenty milo south of here on tho other roads.
Thoy don’t novor dare come on tho Madora
oad, because wo won’t have It. About fifty
ears ago thoy tried it here, and tho boss put
00whfli "• * " “•*
chased
off a man every
were laid out. Then tho old man cut oil thoir
.cars and nailed them on tho dashboards, and
-there they stayed for yean and yean. Thoro
waa ono on this hero coach whoa I took it, bat
I got tired ol answering questions about it, it
bad bepn so long lines we had had a robbery
and sb I threw it away. There’s no dangor
herd.’
“I wa»havlng a good deal of fun with tho
jrty, and had about made up my mind that
ba agents had not got wind ol us when tho
Maine man says, alter a long panic:
“ ‘What would yon do if robben wu to come
at youf’
“‘Dot I’d just give theso hero hoisos this
ire cad, and I'dput the reins in my tooth
jd rd let ’enrhavo it out of thia hero gun.
Don’t you worry about robbors,’ aaya It
“1 hadn’t any moro’n got tho words out of
my mouth whon'a big scarecrow jumped out In
the road with a rifle and yells: 'All hands
up I' I dropped tho tinea and raised my hands,
and my Maine friend did likewlso. His teeth
was a rattling, and I ooo that I didn't have to
fake no apologies to him.
"Tho-feller in front kept his place, with me
- looking ot him, and another one camo along
side, opened the door and told tho passongors
to get out' which they did in good order. Thon
bO stood them up in a row, and, yelling to his
partner, ho uld:
" ‘litre yon got ’em all covered f’
" 'Every one/ said tho other.
"'Now then, ladies andgentlsmon/ laid tho
operator, 'no ono will bo hurt unloas some ono
trie* to hurt ua. I will have to ukyonto
keep your bands up except whan I como to
yon, and then you are to reach In your pocket
and pasa out your money and watches. Tho
firot ono who drop* a band until I tell him to
diet.'
•'It was about aa pretty a string of victims u
I over seed In my lllo. They all wore linen
dusters and moat or the ladies had blue veils.
The agent began with hia back to bis partner,
end went along tho lino in pretty good ahapo.
Thoy all shelled out without making any
trouble until tho robber camo to a Massachu
setts man who only handed out a handful of
nickels, dimes and quartan. Tho agont put
there In bis pocket, took tho teller by tho oar
with one hand, rammed bis revolver Into the
other ear with tho other. 'I’m a greonbackcr/
said he, 'and I want ’em.' Ho gut 'em, too.
The old feller had thorn In a ipcctaclo case in
his Inside vest pocket. Alter that tho agent
took tho earrings aid breastpins from tho
ladles. One of them was an elderly party with
atbarp bask and shiny tel so teeth, and a* ba
unclasped tho earrings h* said somrihing of a
complimentary nature to her, to which ano re-
spondtd with her lips sot tight liko a clam:
" 'You're a brute.'
“ 'I know It ma'am/ ha said. ‘I'll have to
trouble you lor that linen duster you’re wear
ing, and for thoto sleeve buttons and Anger
rings. It's long since I wu ealled a brute,and
I want something to remember yon by.’
“Be got pretty much everything the had.
By this Time my friend and I was getting aw
ful fired bolding up our hands, anil wo began
to be anxious for our turn to come. The Main*
man had an idea that he might escape. The
agent at the head ortho line shouted to us.
“ 'Come down, you chops up thoro, and bo
lively now.’
"W» got right down, and it didn't tike
more’n a minute to go through na. I didn’t
have nothing, of course, and I wouldn’t
(jbtu uvsuiog, u, ouuiac, anu a wuuiuu • have
bad any trouble at all about the matter it ono
ot tho robbers hadn't called mo by name just
aa tha paiaenrera were filing into tho stage
■gain. How he got iny name la more'n I can
tell, but after they had ordered na on and I
had drivtn a tew mlloa down tho road the tel -
lera inatdo stopped mo and laid thoy wanted
to hold an indignation mealing.
"'Not anindlgnste/sayaIseverely.'You’re
going to the Yostmite, and yon can't hold no
meetings until you get there.'
“I didn't know but I would bavo to hold the
crowd up myself. Tha ladle* were tho worst.
They accused mo of leading them Into the
trap ltd aafd they know tb* agent* wu friondo
of mint, because they called me by name.
Alter 1 bad driven on a ways and talked wild
them a little, they got cooled off, and we got to
the Yostmite all right."
Tb* robbery su tho bofdrat and moat ine-
ee*aful that baa been perpetrated in this vicini
ty in a long time, and it la thought to have
teen tha work of prolMstenate. It to expected
to btv* an injurious street upon travel during
the uuon now Just opening.
A Queer Freak or Nature,
Mr. J. W. McDonald, whoUvraon Nance's creek,
In Buck head district of thjs county, showed a
remarkable rariulty tea ConrRcnon man yes
terday, It wu a fragment of anoak tn* In wktcb
wet embedded an old-fashioned pothook.
Soma time ago Mr. McDonald cut down a Urge
abadt tree In Ms yard, and in splitting It about
ten feet from in beta hit ex attack
hard substance. He then ret aw»y
.ponton of Ike wood and the result wu tbe dis
covery of tbe pot book. From theater of the too
It it trident that tbe Iron must bavo been pteevd
there (ally Mty yearn ego. Possibly some Isdiaa
hunt It on tbe knot ol a young sapling and tie
wood gradually grew around It aatiangtr freak
ol nature hu —’a— boon seen.
AT THE HEAD OF THE CHARGE.
Tho BcmlnUcence ol n iiravo Soldier Frans
Losrudoe.
From the Valdosta, Ga., Times.
The death of Mrs. Temple Bobords, who
hod lived a widow for twenty-five yeara, calls
to mind the oad fate of her husband who waa
tho gallant adjutant of the 80th Georgia regi
ment, and something of bis death may not he
amiis here. A comrade ef his—a young cap
tain who wu quite intimate with Tommy
Itoberds—in a private letter to the editor of
theTimes, In reply to tome inquiries, writes:
"It is not euy to glvo particulars of events of
33 yeare ago, hut I will give all I
can recall about tho death
of Tompy Roberdl. Our brigado
with three others, wu marched during the
latter part of the night to within two hundred
yards or ao of tho Fort Loudon, at Knoxvlllo,
add thoro formed Into line to await the dawn
ot day. Juat u day began to break, sftor
some preliminary firing ol abarpshootere into
tho embrasures ot tho fort to drivo away tho
gunners tha order wu given to advance. This
waa attended with difficulty, u wu had to
ascend the hill on which the lort stood, en
countering obataeles at almost ovorr atop,
ouch to abaltis, or tops amt branches of troos
in rowa and heapi, and telegraph wires
stretched above the ground u noarly u high
fly
Eft?
MOST PERFECT MADE
Purest a-.id strongest Natural Freli Flavors
Vanilla, 1.union, Orange, Alinond, ite.se, eta-
flavor u doilcatcly and naturally os the fruit.
as tho knees. Our
an o: snoio wno wore quicx to respond
S tneral’a words, ho attracted my atl
to most, for bo Immediately rushed i
front of tho lino waving his aword;c
_ progreaa was nccaiiarl .
alow, and thia gar* tho enemy time to recover
from tho suddenness of the attack. Onco, ia
tho advance, there was a alight wavering ot
the lino fora moment, u the firing was now
heavy, and tome of tha men began to
lio down. Seeing thia General
Bryan, our brigadier, cried out:
"Forward, Toward,forward menl forward!”
And adding some words of exhortation which
I do not now remember. This wu immedi
ately responded to, and the IiUo went on and
wu soon under tbo walla ol tho tort. I speak
of all this to introduce Tompy Bobords, lor
all of thoao who wero quick to roapond to tho
■' ■" attention
icdout In
. crying,
'’General, we will forward I Como on
men I” This, u Is usual in auoh cases had
quite an inspiriting cfTcot on those who aaw
it, and wo immediately followed him in the
rush upon the fort. This was tho tut 1 saw
ol’Tompy Bobords. Just whon tho bullet
struck him, which caused him to foao his leg,
oml afterwards caused his doath, I do not
know, for in tho retreat from tho fort—wo
tailed to make an ehtrattce—bo, with tho
other wounded, was left in tha hands of tho
enemy. About ono month afterwards, whon
id winter quarters at BusioUville, Tonn., we
beat d of his doath through somo confederate
surgeons returning lute our lines. Tompy
Boberda was Tory much missed in tho regi
ment. He wu universally liked on account
of hia gonial, aoeiablo disposition; and u to
hia efficiency u an officer, Captain Fahm of
the Thomu county company voiced the gen
eral sentiment when he laid, "tho bettor ad-
, utanta than Tompy Boberda are ail dead."
Often have I bond him apeak oi the wifo who
has just now puaod away, and ol hia littlo
daughter then quite young. Ho longed to bo at
homo with his family but this wu not to ba
in hit caso u In many otbera. Mra. Bobords
wu a very devoted wifo and for yurs aho re
fused to believe tho evidence* or the doath of
her husband. Long alter tha imokooftho
bottle—after tho war had cloud, and all thou
who had survived and roturnod to thoir homu
and their loved ones, aha clung to tho hopo
that her husband still lived and that no
would tome day como homo; and under this
long and agonizing susponu her nervous sys
tem weakened ana tho foundation of her long
illness was laid.
THE G ROWING CROPS.
Ilia Report ot alio Department ot Agri
culture.
Washixotox, Juno 10.—Tho Juno report of
tbo department of agriculturo will record an
tdvsncoin tbo cotton area of five to six
or cent; Virginia, 107 por cent; North Caro-
ba, 102; South Carolina, 103; Goorgla, 101;
Flurida, 102; Alabama, 103; Mississippi, 100;
Louisiana, 107; Texas, 110; Arkansas, lO’.i;
Tcnncasco, 101. The total area oxcccda righ
ts cn million acres. Tho plant is in a healthy
rowth, nearly average, and the stand good.
Vhcro recont mini havo boon oxcessivo tho
crop ia in tbe graaa. Tho gonoral avorago is
02; which la higher than in tbe three preced
ing years in June. There is an unusual uni-
fortuity in tha condition, only Tonneaaoo
showing ieia than 00. Tito state averages
: Virginia, 08; North Carolina, 0.1; South
ina, 00; Georgia, 08- Florida; 03; Ala*
i,02; Mississippi, 02; Louisiana, 08;
PROF. DARBY'S
PROPHYLACTIC FLUID I
Altel'BN, Macon Co, Ala., Juno, 185S.
I’rot. John Derby.—Dear Sir: Hearing that It Is
your Intention to make more extensive rrepara-
Ilona lor tbo Introdpctlon of your Prophylactic
Fluid, we, your friends and nclibbors of Auburn,
dealictooircryoutbls certificate of the merits ol
your chemical preparation. Some of us are Inti-
jfeately acquainted with tbo character of your
’>luld,others of na havo uacd it tn our familial, and
all Of ua know tho estimation with which it la
held In thia commnnlty. We are therefore free to
unite our terilmouy iu favor of Iu real valuoand
merits as a chemical preparation lot
U«o in and About Rooms Where There
Are Sick Persons, in Cases of an Of
fensive or Disagreeable Charac
ter; for Removing Bad Odors;
for Cleansing and Healing
Ulcers, Sores and Burns.
Forcminteractlugthoeneclsof any animal or
vexotahle poison such as 1IITK8. STINGS, Ktc.; for
removing vegetable alatna or Ink ipota from cloth-
in*; and for inch Inter -n ' u u - .tinnaiSOHK
MOUTH. BAD IIREATH ARISING PROM DECAY
ING TEETH OR DISORDERED STOMACH,
Putrid Sore Throat, Salivation and In
flammation of the Stomach
. or Bowels, Etc.
It could not havo como Into aucb gonoral uso In
our community during the last three yeara and bo
now held In such favor tilt did not accomplish
what was claimed lor it. Wo know It la not a
CORDIAL
FOR THE
BOWELS & CHILDREN TEETHING
It la THE OREAT SOUTHERN ftEMEDf
for the baivcla. It la one or tho meat pleasant l
efficacious remedies for all summer complaints,
a lesson when violent attacks of the bowels ait
fttquenf, somo speedyrctfof should ho at hand, f
wearied mother,losing sleep tn nursing the llUteO
teething, should use this medicine. GO els. a bou
Fend sc stamp to Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, C
Taylor’* Cbrrnkre Remedy oflwe*
Ginn and Mullein wilt cure Coughs,. Grout
and Consumption. Price toe. and |1 a bouts.
"quack medicine" mado tn decelvo tha people/
and wo think you will cottier a general good by
using means for Its more extrnin
for Its more extensive Introduction
andtt'o. Knowing that a icntlouianol your sol-
entitle attainments would not rlax hia reputation
aa a chemist upon anything ol doubtful merit, wo
heartily commcud Darby's l'hrophyiacttc Fluid
to our mends and acquaintances and wlahyou
abundant reward lor yonr omms
Mgncd by mote man filly cltlaensol Aubnrn, In*
rinding alftho physicians, lawyers and clergy
men.
may12-wkylr nx rd mat
Carolina,
bamt, 021 .. .
Texas, V0; ArkanUlt
ra**, wvf (uisukvi 01; Tennesson, 88.
The condition of winter wheat is reported
lower than over before In Juno. Tbo general
percentage haa declined from 70 in Mty to 02.
Tho averageo of the principal atatesare:
New York, 01; Pennsylvania, 07; Ohio, 50:
Michigan, 04; Indians, 03; Illinois, 4(1; Mis
souri, 62; Kansas,-60' California; 68. In acme
states there hu been a greater loaa or area
than wm anticipated In tha previous reports.
Tbe average yield will evidently ho leae than
ten bushels per aero. The prohablo product
of I he winter wheat states, according to these
rrturns, ia reduced to about
307,000,000 bushels, but nono of tho territories
•ro included in tbe winter wheat eroa. Tito
report of apring wheat is mors favorablo. Tho
disposition last autumn to reduce its breadth
on account of tho low prlco wu chocked by
the loss of thowlnterwheat area, and later by
tho BrlUsh.Buulao war rumora. Substantial
ly the same area hu been seeded as lut year,
about 11,000,000 acres. In northern Now Eng
land, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska
and all tbe territories. Tho por
ccntago of lut yur's area Is
08 tn Wisconsin, 09 in Minnesota, 102 In Iowa,
08 In Nebraska, and 103 In Dakota. Tho
condition ol spring whoat It 97, and Indicates
a crop of about 163,000,000 buihols. Tho
avenge for Wisconsin la 88, Minnesota 01,
Iowa 100, Nebraska 102. Dakota 101. Tho
preaent report, therefore, indicates a wheat
crop ol 300,0011,000 bushels, 23,000,000 smaller
than that of 1881.
The general condition of rya ia 81. Tho
area ol barb - Is surly the uuia u In 1881,
and tho atetage of condition Is 80. Tho
aeresge cf osta lias increased four por cent,
and the average of condition is 04. Cora will
be reported in July, but voluntary return*
Indicate an Increase of area.
TAYLOR FORSYTH KILLED.
Man Well Known In Atlantn Kun Over
and Killsd In Mssrlittn.
Msr.irrri, Ot., June 10 —[8peet*l,|-TayIor
Fotsyth, ol Atlanta, wu run over by a Western
end Atlantic posacugcr train at this place lut
night, and died within an hour aud a hall ol tbo
Injorlsa received.
Forsyth was stealing a rldo on the paneugtr
train No. 11. which reaches Ibis place at 11:11 p.
Uawustandlng on tho front plattorm ofthe
■nail car, where there ara neither atop* or door.
He rod* In this perilous place from Atlanta to this
place, hut when the train stepped here ba got pH
to avoid discovery by the night watchman. Aa
the train started os again he Jumped between the
tender and i> nail car and attempted to reach
the perm* . ...form again. Tha train wu moving
rapidly, I. e man had nothing to rail* himself by
and In trying to spring np ho (track bis loot
•gainst tbo nil and fell. In telling he endeavored
to throw blmsell clear ol Ute track but failed. Bis
right abonlder and side were caught under the
wheels and were terribly crushes. A* tbo man
went down he yelled loudly for help. HU calls
were heard by Bad Write, tbp night watch
man at the Cwncaaw mills
and D. B. Milter, the flagman. Both these men
nn to Forsyth, but when they reached him, the
train bad passed over him and gone. The mao
wu (uttering Intensely, aad begged to be killed.
Mr. J. H. Eaten, the agent here, wu scat lot by
Miller, whom* loll to take care of IU man.
When U arrived the man wuuken to the Enro*
peon betel, and Dr. J. Henry Blmpam made ax-
amlnatlon and pronounced bis Injuries fatal. Ho
wu badly creaked about the right aide and shorn.
teafljMffRKLTBViras
WAUSTTED
FilUIS, MIKE 5 , LANDS AND TfiiCrS!
H aving large correspjndesce vvirn
Inmtor*. capltaiuu and people aeokioc
aoutbern homes, wo want placed with ui for aalo
farm* and pl*utatlona throughout tho south, at
low figures, irhf re titloaaro perfect. Fall deaerfp*
Mod, with drawiuaiishowlnjratrraTnK, spring*, Im-
MrsM* nope rile* end at low figures. In sending
ns description ol mineral lauds or deposits, wo
want umploa sent ua (expressive prepaid) o! de
rails, with good description ol location, quantity
KTahown). acrarihUtty ^ra,^. W
citur afreet,
J]UI2w*I«5
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tracts,papers and hook explanatory olUnltarlao
■tetten/ly will bouul/re* and postpaidJo »D
persona applying to Rqv, Geonre Leonard Chaney,
or Mrs. A. v. Gudo, Atlanta, aa. wklf lot
SUPREME COURT
DECISIONS.
PI U M
AND
rWHISK y
HABITS
CURED,
frlltmwgawiar
0
By B. N. WOOLLEY,
AMantfta Georgia,
tlonta and physician*.
Sand tor my book on tk
Habit* and UilrOnro. Fra
HUMPHREYS*
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NEW AND SECOND HAND
MACHINERY FOR SALE.
P ARTIE8 WBBDTG AN ICE tfACHDOL KN
Fine, IsoUera, steam pumps, shafting, pulley*,
hnr.Ktn, li-UltiK, elevator, hand holtut, Itylwthr
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Tho Head Notes Bupromo Court Decision ot
February Term, 1885,
Art now printed In Pamphlet Fnrtr 'Ve sT'id
thorurnnhlct, postpaid, upon receipt of One
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THE CONSTITUTION.
FARMERS, NOTICE F
NOTE
THESE
PRICES!
he*t make Reapers 870 caali, or |75 payablo No*
vember lit* Beat mako Mowers 855 cash, pr$*'»0
payable November 1st. Kngluca and all kinds
Machinery at equally low prices, and terms euy.
Cur prices are
25 PEB GENT LOWER
than yon can buy eliewhero. Every machine
warranted. Order at once or yon may be too late*
PERKINS BROS.,
ATLANTA, GA*
morning W. II. Humphries and G. W. Kn
both iboemakcn, identified tbe body aa t
Taylor Forsyth, a >. hoe maker Iron Atlanta.
. Knowlei.
aa that of
PcrhMe Mills, HiMuti, Wtitr Wlieeli
and Mill Gearing, Manufactured by
A. A. DeLOACH & BRO.,
ATLANTA* GEORGIA.
Drain* In til kinds ol mill anpoUra. Friera by
hu the lowest lot first class machinery. 8«ndfsi
iilniiratcd raulogn*, and be aura to get our priora
before buying wkj
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