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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 1885.
THE OLD PLANTERS.
How lb/* mar Planter* Lived loth* Canabrek* Bio<
Hot- Idaai Llfa on th* cotton Plantation*—A
Leer Prom 800111**0 History Twanty-
nra Tears ago-t'ti* Negroes.
J. W. DnBosa in Philadelphia Times,
The prairie belt of Alabama Is a magnifi
cent agricultural domain, thickly populated
end reaching across the state with but insig
nificant interruptions of sandy soil from Bu
lbuls, on the Chattahoochee, to Demopolia on
|he Tombigbeo river. Before the war the
largest and moat valuable plantations of the
most fruitful cotton.producing state were
within ite bounds. Hero the planters were
richer, better educated and their slaves
were physically and intellectually auperior
to the same class of population else
where in Alabama. When the planters began
to fettle the prairies, along in 1825 to 1810,
the surface of the area was one unbroken mass
of cane, much of it fifteen feet tall and prsctl-
cablj impenetrable. There is not now proba~
bly a single acre of tbo original cane left
•tandibg. One vast spread of arable land,
dotted with small aresa of thin wood, Is the
Alabama prairie section of today.
In local parlance the term, “The Cano*
brake/* is only applied to a comparatively
limited section ot the prairlca. “The cane-
brake/* ei we who livo there understand the
term, includes only the region lying along the
Belma and Meridian railway from Uniontown,
in Ferry county, to Demopolis, on the Tom*
bigbee, in Marengo county, some twenty miles
long by fifteen deep. The soil here wae rioher
and the climate more healthful than alas-
Where, and these conditions, or possibly the
accidental immigration hereof a body of plan
ers from tha Carolina* and Virginia, young
men of enterprise, largo slaveholders and col
lege graduates, gave ibis comparatively lim*
ited area a wide reputation for the vsU
lio of ite lands, as they certainly made it fa
mous for the hospitality and affluence of its
inhabitants. TbeTeche region of Louiiiana
end the canebrake of western Alabama were
agricultural communities occupied by plant
ers, tbeir overseers and thair nsgro slaves, and
probably no where else in the south could
areas of corresponding site be fonnd suffi
ciently populated by a homogeneous commu
nity oi ricn and educated planters equal to the
maintenance of a thoroughly refined and fash
ionable society.
tab inker Lira or thi raoFLi.
It will interest the student of the times of
the secession movement to know somewhat of
the inner life of the people who, having dis
severed their political connection with the
northern or tree states of tha union, yet estab
lished the confederacy virtually under the
■ante system of government whose organiza
tion they had abandoned, and under the old
constitution, amended only in unessential fea
tures, and who, in the maintenance of the act
of separation, sacrificed their fortunes and
their lives, surrendering their offort only
when both fortunes and armies had
been utterly consumed. It is worth while to
make record of this noblo realisation of happi
ness and of prosperity doomed to decay while
it was yet apparently green and vigorous
and increasing. Its plenty has beon destroy
ed and want haa long held ite place. But as
those who were happy and prosperous then
met the mysterious fate of revolution with
grand courage and noble constancy,
so it it that amidst the ruins of rev
olution ae destructive and as cause
less, in human knowledge as an earthquake,
the survivors of the past and thoir sous and
daughters art now laboring amidst its ruins,
hopefully engaged in tbe offices oi restoration.
To understand these people at home, in thoir
dally lives, is the key to the motives of tho
greatest of modern wars. From a purely
philosophic standpoint of inquiry they aro
worth knowing.
As tbe cotton planters’ creation we write the
ebroniclea of tbe Canebrake of tho olden tiaioj.
Here plantations of cultivated boo crops of one
or two thousand seres each, in which not a
apear of grass could be seen when tho “laying-
by” lesson bad come, were linked to ono an*
other by bread carriage roads, in spring, sum
mer and autumn roads as smooth and tree from
dust as city pavement, undulating just enough
to pleste the traveler with a couatautly vary
ing landscape, and to afford tho grateful relict
to man and horse of the diflerent motions of
uphill and downhill travel. On each plantation
lived tlio proprietor and his family, tach
borne was a paradise. Wide halls, long ver
andahs, Ranked by sxquiiite flower gardens
and green houses* supported by numerous
servant*, contented, ambitious of tbo good re
pute of master and mistress in tbs honors of
hospitality; servants, indeed, more faithful,
obedient and oillclent than we dare re.mom*
ber. Hospitality was tho prevailing spirit of
this community. An uninformed observor
might be paraoned for suspecting there exist*
ed a kind of joint proprietorship in tho whole
community of homes, so spontaneous and mat
ter of course was the welcome each visitor
found, whether coming unannounced, with
family servant! and horses en tram to spsnd
an hour, a day, or a week. Stablea and grooms
were ample and always ready) pastures hard
by abounded with beet and motion; orchards
and kitchen gardens were prolific of their
fruits; hospitality, In not being a burden, bs-
came in fact a systematized enjoyment adopted
by a sympathetic community of refined and
bappy people.
TBK iurruasczs *HAT WBR8 AT WOlE.
Complete domestic order prevailed and the
housekeeper's task was not burdensome.
Amusements were abundant—books, mats-
sines, the,newspapers, dancing parties, dia
llers, riding and driving parties, game* ol va«
rioustk intis were of perpetual observance.
Probably few Influences were more potent in
exciting the pride of the proprietors of the
canebrake plantations in their homes than
their hospitality. Each estate waa known and
called by ita name. “Fawnodale,” “Telly
Hill,”“Norwood,”“Walnut Grove,'* “Wald*
wic, “Richland,” “Athol," “Cedar Grove,'*
“Gainctwood," when named, will attest the
partienliirity of this feature of the social organ
isation of the community.
Villages were few in tho canebrake in the
day ol ite tame and towns fewer. The planters'
families, their overseers and slaves, ware not a
trafficking community. A few doctors with
out even one lawyer, were maintained. Plant
ers bought their supplies in Mobile and New
Orleanr. To one or both of these cltiee they
made annual visits, aecompanlsd by their
wives and daughters. Their long lists of tho
year's wants in groceries, clothing, mantua
makers'stocks, etc., were carried, filled and
sent borne. There were no banks ot exchange.
Planters paid tbeir bills at the hotels in the
cities std in the Virginia mountains by drafts
on tbeir cotton factors in Mobile or New Or
leans. Should a lot oi mules be purchased
from Tennessee or Kentucky the draft paid the
porch ite debt.
*Tbe draft was the delight of the cotton fac
tor. Tbe planter's promissory note due when
bis crep was sold was first-class security. The
note pieced in bank indorsed by tbe factor
readily brought the face value, in easy times
inter*»>t was Tow on such security. The factor s
oppcnuLity lay In the planters' easy-going
metfcr.ee. To get tho money from the
bank and loan it in his own name to
the planter at eight per cent when the
bank ratee waa lower, plue two and a
half per cent, commissions on tbe loan, plus
two and a half per cent, commissions on pur
chases mads by tbs factor to fill the planters'
orders, plue two and a half per cant commit-
Biona c nValet of tbs planters'cotton to raise the
amount to take up the note wheaViue was about
tha prcceis of the business of the cotton factor,
nrrize or the ovessezm.
The overseer of tbe plantation waa the plan
ter's subordinate in tbs discipline of the ne
groes end in the practical operation of api
culture. Thie wae a salaried class, and while
U did not rank with the proprietors in social
position, was composed of men of great
energy and practical judgment. It was,
moreover, eeeentiel to the interest of the
plasters that the overseer should be re
garded and treated by him with
deference and respect. The overseer was a
white man and the justification ot slavery was
the race superiority of tho whites. Hence, to
show to the negroes placed under his authori
ty that tbo master relied on thie race distinc
tion to sustain him, the white ovarsror was
received on informal occasions into the mas
ter's bouse and seated with his family at his
table.
The salary of an overseer ranged from (595
to $1,600, payable in money at the end of the
year. But to this salary was added house-
rooxu free, a cook and other menial eervico
free, space for a vegetable garden, worked tree
of cost to tbe overseer, and various perquisites,
amounting generally, If estimated by tbeir
value, to $1,000, among which were saddle
horns and teams and coachmen belonging
to the proprietor tor private conveni
ence. This was a class of men pe
culiar to the institution of slavery, and in tho
canebrake their character wae reflected from
the high order of intelligence, refinement and
enterprise maintained by tho proprietors.
They were good citizens and tome of them
bought slaves and land and became men ot
inhnence. They were well represented In tbe
confederate army, very naturally feeling
tbe responsibility of participants in
tbo general prosperity to -defend it.
RISZMBLAEC8 TO TUE ENGLISH RODILITT.
Had tbe laws of promogenifure required the
transmission of estates unbroken in the cane
brake from generation, it Is easy to see the
complete social analogy existing there with
the life ot the English nobility. As it
was tbe high development ot the oountry
had been reached in the life-time of one
f ’eneration, and the sooial habit prevail-
ng were so close a resemblance to the
country life of the English higher classes
that little seemed left to make them identical,
save the less costly private residences and less
elaborately improved grounds, these in the
mother country being the work of many cen
turies. Tho conditions essential to an sria-
tocrscy and a life of leisure directed by educa
tion in its pleasures, supplied by wealth in the
indulgence of its tastes and dominated by a
sense of security in the possession of its enjoj-
ment. All of these conditions the canebrake
planters of tho old regime pro eminently pos
sessed.
That the manhood of tho oommnnlty was
robust, the energies of its people indomitable
and tbeir devotions to high principles of hi
and virtue unquestionable, the annals of , u «
war between the states fully attest. There
was not one family among them unrepresented
in tbo confederate army. There was not one
insetive individual of any age or of either sex
in the society of the canebrake to stand aloof
from the cause of the confederacy. The repre
sentative of the district in the confederate
congress, Hon. F. B. Lyon, was not an original
secessionist. Yethe himself went Into tho
civil service, his only eon, a
mere lad. left college to ehoulder a musket,
and all of his sons-in-law were promptly In
the field. 1 could name ono estate from which
five of the sons of the proprietor, the tutor of
his children and two overseen of his entered
ils service. There was literally no exception
with any honse In that soeietyof cotton plant-
on. when it is said every available man and
college boy went to the war. It wae a long
roll at the beginning whioh contained their
names, and a short one at tho end of the war
with names to which there were answers.
DISIETBEEBTED LOYALTY OF THE FLAXTEB8.
In proof of tho earnest devotion of the sol
diers of the Canebrake to tho causo notone
sought high military rank, whilo all enlisted
as privates to be promoted to inferior grades
by elections '.mong themselves or by nooesary
appoint men a. Beyond the rank of colonel I
think there were none. All ot them were ac
customed to command in dally life; aome of
them were e/ucatod soldiers; the singular
absence of hljh rank in the army from
their numbers rjeld only be attributed
to tbeir indifference to try ft. Thoy carried
a native self-respect in-o any station, and this
centiment manifestly contented them in the
doty of the confederate soldier. This recital
of local circumstances and local character be
come interesting when tha influence of south*
cm institution, of tha old regime is expected
to Interpret the spirit of southern men and
womon under the test of a protracted and
bloody war waged for the maintenance ol
those institutions. This reoltal becomes In
teresting, as its incidents become
suggestive of the inevitable necessity of war
asamesnsior tbe extinction of those institu
tions. In tho very heyday of prosperity and
happiness human virtue is not expected to be
strong enough end sagacious to extinguish
tho elements which maintain that prosperity
and that happiness persuaded by thoory. how
ever ultimately well touuded in truth that
some others and diflerent kind of social organ
ism would be better than the one In practice.
Revolution so comple is involuntary always
and never a sequence ol argument and ma
tured plan. Man proposes, and God disposes.
THE WAB’a DISTUBBJBG FOWKB.
Cotton planting was suspended in the cane-
brske with the first year oi the war by common
consent, and the oereals took ita place. So
general was tbe suspension that the planting
sesson next following tbe war came to find the
planter a in greatest straits tor seed. It was a
most suggestive and noble soheme to behold a
whole community changed in tbe briof time
of a few months from one branch of industry
to another. Our ports were closed and border
trade forbidden. In place of English
broad cloth our young man
wore tbe gray jeans manu
factured by the old negro women of the plan
tations on hand-looms of tho pattern used a
century before. The warp and wool were tho
products ot their father’s cotton fields and
sheep walks. A few days after Appomattox
a lieutenant oi Hampton's cavalry walked
from the boat at tbe Potomac wharf just
from Richmond through the streets of Wash
ington to bis father’s residence in front of
tbe white homo and next door to army
headquarters clad in a suit of gray jeans
manlactured and cut and made up by a
negro woman on bis father's plantation iu tho
canebrake, from cotton thread and wool yarn
grown on tbe same place. This lieutenant
was worth a quarter of a million of dollars.
Asaspecimsu “Johnny Reb” he excited in
his perambulation a* much remark as a white
elcpnant making tbe rounds of the town
would have done. The wives and daughters
oi planters dressed in cotton checks and
stripes, home products, both by the art of tho
home weaver and tbe home mantua-maker.
For wine we mod corn beer and white corn
whisky. Spread out in endlsss contiguity
were rolling fields of corn and wheat. Great
K ns of the prodnets lined every road and
ocked tbe way about the railway statione.
Tbit section of oountry not only contributed
immense quantitiee of grain and meat to the
confederate army, bat it fed the old men and
tbe women end children of tho hill countriee
of the state. A matured system undsr direc
tion of the judges of probate wae in force among
the mountain counties for drawing corn from
the canebrake for tbe families oi soldiers in
these counties.
The Beck Case.
Tbe recent statements of Dr. Miller and Captain
Harry Jackson, made with a view to aldinf Beck,
bare been taken upend sharply bandied by (the
pres* oi tbe state. Concerning Dr. Miller, Mias
Ellen Dortch, editress of tbs CarnesvUle Register,
■ajs:
Tbe doctor's logic won’t do. If crime is to be
excused on tbe lint be Indicates, every man who
becomes beastly drank and lo»e* his memory tem
porarily, may take a human life and escape
piinbbment. That Is not tbe law of Georgia,
though an Incompetent Jury ot Rabun county
may make it tbe law ot that case- f f a man In
dulges In drink until he becomes permanently
insane, be stands upon the same footing of Insane
canons, from any other cause, but temporary low
of will rower, memory, or consciousness, caused
by drink. Is no excuse for crime.
Pete Lawsfae, of tbe Csinesvllle Bonlbren, goes
for Ctplain Harry Jackson as follows:
Captain Harry Jackson is probably profession-
ally excusable for putting fa ■pe
dal pleas for his client. Eu
gene Brck. but In stating such special plea be
sbonld stick to tbe evidence There ,1s no evi
dence that when be went to light the lamp, “in.
slantly bis wife screamed behind him and her
■liter screamed in , front of blm
No, no, these helptem murdered wo
men were in tbe bed, and we believe, ai does
theussbds of other Impartial peroni. that malice
vrts in bis brart and cold.blooded murder la bis
FIGHT FOR A GIRL.
Two Prominent Toot * Men right la the Preantos
of Thoir Lady Lee* wbit* on Thoir sr*r
U)0 Jonr a B*vtval, and mortally Wound
Xaeh Other-Exoiu meet Prevailing.
Birmingham, Ala., October 26.—[Special.]—
Birmingham has borno the brunt of many
false report! about her people'* morals, but
nothing has so pained her citizens as the un
fortunate shooting of two young men tonight
at 7 o'clock. Walter Orr, a handsome young
Miisiftippian, who hts been here for tho past
four yeera in the livery business, and Phil
Givan, a clerk in a furnishing goods store,
were In love with Mrs Mattie Rose. Tonight
Grr bad an engagement to carry this lady
out to the great revival conducted by the
famous Sam Jones.
THE ASSAULT MADE.
When Orr reached the homo ot tho young
lady, she was awaiting him at tho front gate,
•nd the two started leisurely down Third
avenue toward Sam Jones's tent, five squares
away. After walking two squares a man ap-
preoebed, and grabbing Orr's right,arm said:
“Yon are the d—d scoundrel I am looking
for."
Orr at once recognised Phil Givan, hia
rival, and at onco prepared to defend himself,
aa he had previously been warned that Givan
would shoot him if he ever caught him with
this young lady. Realized the impending
trouble, Givan drew a pistol and began firing
on bis rival, while tho girl still held Orr's
arm. At the first discharge she scroamed
•nd ran across the street. Orr drew his pis
tol, returning the fire. Each had 38 calibre,
five shooting Smith A Wesson, and when the
duel was over it was found that every cham
ber of both pistols were emptied.
ROTH MEN DYING.
Orr waa shot twice, tho fatal one entering
the abdomen. Given was also shot twico, once
in the arm, and the surgeons think tho other
ball penetrated the bladder. It if thought
both men will die before morning. After Orr
discharged every ball from his pistol he ran
into the house of a friend, near by, and bor
rowed another, end reached tbe street before
falling. Givan walked two squares before
calling a hack. Both young men aro highly
respected, but are not members of leading
families. The affair waa most unfortunate, aa
the entire population had beeome intensely
interested in tho great gospel meeting began
here yesterday by Bam Jones.
THE1E DT1EO DBCLARATIONS.
Orr staggered Into the residence of W. T.
McCutcheon. Ho waa mot by Mr. Clayton,
who laid him on a sofa. Drs. Hendley, Shoe
maker and Dosler were called, and told him
the wounds were fatal. He made swill,
Rov. Mr. Porter, minister of the First Baptist
church came and olTored prayer. Mrs. L. H.
Morgan also offered prayer. The scene was
most impressive. Orr said:
“I have been worldly, but if God would let
me live, I would livo a Christian life. I lovo
Christian people." Thore Is much excite
ment. Givan ran in the dark to Stollen-
wcrck'e drug store, where his wounds were
dressed by Dr. Luckio. Ho waa hit twice,
ono being fatal. He will die. Hr. Luckio
called on Orr, who was dying, and isldt
••I have a message for you."
He asked the room to bo cleared, leaned
over and whispered in Orr’s ear. Orr said
aloud:
“Did ho say why he did it?”
Dr. Luckio said:
“I did not ask a question."
Biemiegham, Ala., October 27.—[Special.]—
Mr. Walter Orr died this afternoon at3:l5, sur
rounded by bis father and relations. He died
with his clothes on. The physicians did not
examine tho wounds. A pott mortem ex
amination was held at the undertaking estab
lishment of Lockwood k Miller. The body
was taken to llartsello tonight. It was ac
companied to the depot by delegations oi the
Knigbteol Pytbiaa, tho Masons and friends.
Mr. Givan is resting easy. Mr. Luokie, his
physician, says the symptoms are better, but
no can promise nothing. Tho wounded man
ie suflering much pain.
■TATBMF.XTE COXCEKN1VO THE AFFAIR,
The city today haa been alive with rumors
concerning the sfl'air. The statement of Mr.
Givan, of the shooting, is not tbo same as tho
one made last night by all parties concerned.
He said ho approached Orr, laid hie hand on
the lapel of hia coat, and said:
“I want to speak to you."
Orr said:
“1 will sea you tomorrow."
Ho turned, when Orr shot him.
Mrs. Rote, who was with Orr, In a statement
made before an officer, said that Givan mat
them, took Orr by the coat, and placing a pis
tol to his face, said:
“I want toseo you."
8be did not know who fired the first shot,
Mr. Orr, in his dying declaration, said he
was not sure who filed the first shot, but
thought ho did. Mr. Orr said to The Oonhti-
iltion representative last night that Givan
bad murdered him in cold blood.
That part of the tragedy remains shroudod
in mystery. There were no witnesses. Mrs.
Jake Kersey waa going to church, attended
by herbusbind. They had reached aepot not
far from the scene of the shooting. A man
jumped out of the darkness, and looked them
in too face sod passed. Mrs. Kersoy asked
ber husband wbat the man meant. He said:
"That is Phil Givan. He is probably look
ing far some ol his friends, and thought we
were tho ones.”
Oneofthegentlsmsn who sat up with Mr.
Givan last night said today that a veiled lady
visited him, accompanied by a gentloman.
THE TBOl’RLESOME WIDOW.
Mrs. Ross takes tbs matter quietly. Bhe
expressed deep regret st the sad occurrence.
Mr. Orr before hie death sent for Rev. Bam
Jones, who prayed with him. Mr. Jonee
called on Mr. Givan, bat he was too weak to
see him. Strong men meet each other in the
street, shake hands and abed tears.
The gossip on the street is that there is
much behind the matter that has not been
developed. Mrs. Rose hat boon
married twice. Her first husband
is alive. Her second husband died and left
ber a good round sum of insurance money.
Bhe bas two children. Mr. Givan has been
married and haa one child. Mr. Orr haa been
married and has two children. This place ft
certainly moved from the foundation stones.
The tragedy has waked ths people from a
deep slumber.
Ibstaaktls the Cabbage,
From tbs West Point, Go., Press.
Last Sunday a West Point lady was prepar
ing to cook a cabbage, and after splitting ths
cabbsge into four parts discovered a snake
crawl out from among the leaves. The cab
bsge was from Cincinnati, and it is supposed
bis snakaship had come all the way from Ohio
to be killed on Sunday tor scaring a lady.
A Lovely Complexion.
“Wbat a lovely complexion," we often hear
persons say. “I wonder wbat she does for
it?" In every case the purity and real love
liness of tbe complexion depends upon tbe
blood. Those who have sallow, blotchy feces
may make their skin smooth and health? by
taking enough of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medi
cal Discovery" to drive out the humors lurk
ing In the system.
THB BOSTON HORROR.
The Alleged Plot to Harder a Yonng Halt!
more Lady.
Boston, October 26.—A morning paper telle
a sensational story In connection with the
mysterious arrest of a woman here Satnr
day night. The prisoner is said to bo princi
pal in a conspiracy to murder a
prominent young lady of West End.
The young lady Is laid to bi
beir to considerable property, and by getting
rid of her the property would fall into their
hands. Some time ago the • conspirators
started to put their plan in operation by at
tempting to poison her. Although the young
lady suffered considerably by tbe intamons
work, she finally recovered. Her would be
murderers decided to adopt other means of
taking ber life. Their plan was to .have the
young lady sent to Baltimore, where
the next attempt to kill
her was to be made.
Then they hired a fellow in thie city to perform
tho work, advancing him money to earry out
their schemes. This man's heart failed him,
however, and he acquainted the police with
tbe story, still pretending to his employers
that he was willing to dolheir bidding. For
two weeks the detectives have been watching
every move made by the conspirators, and on
Saturday afternoon they had such a strong
case against the women that they decided to
arrest ner. Tbe police are hard at work col
lecting evidence, and very startling develop
mente are expected.
ANOTHER VERSION OF THI 8T0RT.
A story it printed tonight varying consid
erably from that published this morning,
inasmuch as the victim of the plot Is said to bo
a young Irish girl who had been married by
tho son of weiHtby Baltimore people against
tbeir wishes. The woman under arrest !•
said to have been sent here as an agent ot the
parenU to find someone willing to undertake
the removal of thegirl. Detectives are said to
have gone to Baltimore to investigate tho case,
but the official! here refuse to affirm or deny
the truth of the story.
Boston, October 27.—Tbe woman who has
been under arrost at the headquarters since
Saturday night, in connection with tho Balti
more conspiracy, is Mrs. Emma Csoledge,
wife oi Officer James E. Cooled go, ol the Bos-
top police. Her identity was concealed so
carefully that even her husband woe not
aware of ber arrest until this morning, when
Mrs. Ccolredgo was arraigned in the munici
pal court. The ohargo against her, according
to the warrant, reads: “Soliciting aid to com
mit murder." She pleaded not guilty, and
wae held in $5,000 bonds for appearance for
examination December 11. Tbe cuo was dis-
S osed oi very quietly, and but few of those in
se room knew wbat waa taking place.
Mrs. Cooled go looked very dejected, and her
eyes were rea with weeping. She U a large
woman and fair looking. It appears that sn<
visited three times Boss Cobb's place, on Nor
man street, where the plot was arranged. Her
husband had a short interview with her today,
but she had little to say. 8ho claimed that
she did not intend to allow the murder to bo
committed, but wanted to got hold of the
money, $1,000, and keep it. She * •
» also claims
say how. The husband knew nothing of tho
elder Mollen, father-in-law of the Intended
victim of the allecoojconspiracy, and saps he
has no Idea how nit wifo became acquainted
with him, or was induced to enter tno plot.
He feels deeply grieved over the affair. He
hss been roarrieaaboutseven years, and thsy
have a little girl. His home is broken up and
be intenda to pot the obild away.
A dispatch from Baltimora this atternoon
states that District Attorney Daoey, Inspector
Gsrrougherty and John Donahue, alias John
Bull, of Boston, aro in that oity. Donahue ie
the man who waa approached, it Is alleged,
with tho proposition to commit the murder.
The man to whom tho dispatoh was directed,
on account of which Miss Gooledge was ar
rested Saturday night, la A. S. Mailer, pro-
prietor of St. James hotel, in Baltimore, and
the Boston officer* are unablo to find him.
His son Charles, who has been living in
lodgings with his young Irish wile, roluaes to
belfevo the story*
Baltimore, October 27.—.Developments In
tbo story started by tho arrost in Boston of
Mrs. Emma Cooledge hare .foiled to show a
motive for tbe desire to put out of tbe way the
young wife of Edward L. Mellon, of this city.
It seems that about three yoars ago a bright
English girl, Mary Somerset, secured employ-
ment at the 8t. James hotel, of whioh
A. L, Mellon, father of Edward
L. is proprietor. The young men formod an
attachment for her which resulted in the
birth ol an illegitimate child, and the young
people secretly lived togethor as min ana
wife for somo time. Laat spring they quar
reled and were not reconciled until April 14,
1885, whon Miss Somerset called at tho St.
Jsiucb snd told her etory to the mother of
ber sedneer, who immediately sent
for a priest and insisted on the
two being married at once, and they con-
ented. Shortly after tho St. James was
clcsed for tho summer, and Mellon, souior,
took charge of tho Stockton, at Cape May,
where the wholo family remained until the
end of August, when they returnod to the St.
James. About fifteen days ago, Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Mellon went to Cambridge, Mass., and
have not yet returned. They were
lest heard of at the St, Goorge hotel,
Philadelphia. Boston detectives are under
stood to be .here for the purpose of arresting
Mr. Molten, bnt thef refuse to be interviewed.
One of them said tonight that he knew
the story sounded improbable, but that tho
real motive lor the desired murder was known
only to himself,and would not be divulged un
til the chain ol evideuco is completed. Young
Mellon admits tbs truth of the story as given
above, but ridicules ths Idea that there was
any conspiracy on his iathsr'e part, and doss
not believe there was any scheme on foot to
murder bis wifs.
Boston, October 28.—The Herald says that
today’s developments seem to throw new light
upon the alleged murder conspiracy between
Boston and Baltimore parties, which
just now Is the reigning sensation in tho
criminal annals of these two cities. Tno
new phase of the matter, and which seems to
be corroborated by tho tacts, it that the whole
thing was a gigantic schema to blackmail the
rorrow stricken family. Mrs. Coolodgo, who
originated the schome, is in jail, very much
broken, snd her counsel claim that she is in
sane. She is respectably conneetod. fierce-
conspirators are only ordinary blackguards,
who betrayed her through a variety of motives,
all discreditable
TO JLX.USTRA.TB BVOLUTION.
Cornell Professors Preparing to Oarefally
Dissect a Kea-Cow,
Ithaca, N. Y.. October 25,—Interest was
aroused in scientific circles at Cornell univer
sity today by tbe intelligence that a very rare
specimen of tbe manatee or sea-cow. shipped
from South America recently, had arrived
here this morning and would bo exposed
to view aa well as lectured upon by Dr.
Wilder at eleven o'clock. At that hour the
lecture room was crowded with professors,
students and visitors. Dr. Wilder said that
tbe manatee is on* ol tbe cases in which evo
lution his produced just the opposite of its
usual effect. The manatee Ie an animal be
longing to a family tbit had evidently seen
better days. He continued: “I predlctthat
not many years hence there will be found
more and more conclusive evidences that the
forms from which the * manatee
and ita relative* have been
deicended bad arms and legs and a very much
smaller tail. Tbe hind lege have been lost in
tbe process of evolution, the front legs have
been degraded into fins, and the tail haa be
come ono for swimming instead ot one lapping
from side to side."
The manatee will be carefully dissected,
with a view to demonstrating tbe bearing of
its whole structure upon the question of retro
grade metamorphosis.
ninety tlx small Barrs.
From the Fort Valley, Ga., Mirror.
Mr. Amos Murray brings us quite a curiosi
ty ic the ehape of a section of pine trim on
which a cluster of ninety-six small burrs
•bcut the site of a large hickory nut, has
rown in shape somewhat like a pine apple,
t was brought from South Carolina by Miss
Fanny Murray.
LIE MON BL1XIB,
An Old Cttlxen ot Atlanta, Oa,
By the recommendation of Rev. 0. 0. Davts I
wed Dr. Motley's Lemon Elixir tor a severe ease ol
indigestion, palpitation of the hesrtjcouatipation
•nd bllousners. I also suffered greatly with gravel
audgreat pains in the back and Sidneys, unablo
to stand alone. I waa treated by many physician*
and uaed many remedies, bnt got no relief. Dr.
Moslem's* Lemon Elixir alone has made a perfect
cure of all there diseases My wife hss suffered
greatly with constipation and sick head
ache* horn which she could get no relief. The
Lemon EUxia has permanently cured her.
A. C. ARNOLD, 22 Ella It., Atlanta Ga.
Lemon Hot Drops.
Da. H. Moeley—Dear Sir: I have suffered for
five years with a severe cough and lung trouble
saw your advertisement of Lemon Hot Drops, and
procured a small bottle, having tried every
cough syrup and loseuRe that I could hear ot with
little bent fit, 1 had amall talth In it. To my aur-
ivrise. I derived benefit from the first dose- My
cough left me, also the soreoem of my lungs, by
the use of four amall bottles only. My cough waa so
severe as to produce slight hemorrhageat tbe time
I began to use it. and the relief was so great and
so sudden that I shall ovary feel grateful to you
for this great medical discovery. Mas. R. 8ixs.
No. 4 Orange street, Atlanta, Ga.
11,000, 600
violin.
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ORGANS for $21.960, $75, $86, to $400.
AT THI OBOROIA MUSIC STORE.
General agents for Wm. Knabe A Go., Behnlng
A Bon, J. AO. Fisher and O. D. Pease A Co.a’
PIANOS. Bend for cateloguoi and prloes. PHIL
LIPS A CREW, Atlanta, Ga. No. 12 Marietta
street. Mention this paper. sepSwkly
Dr. W. J Tucker, of Atlanta. Ga., will send free,
to at>v person allltcted with dropsy, a trial pack
ago oi medicine. Hundreds pronounced hopeless
have been enred. Bend description of your caie.
with two letter stamps, and medicine will be lent
by return mall. wky 5;
Mtn fa made cut of the dust of tho earth, and
some ol them aro terrors all their lives.
How Ha Drove Matter Than Ha Knew.
Mr. George E. Jackson drew $5,000 in the
Louisiana State Lottery this month. His
ticket was number 26,820. He hoe been lucky,
ae he has only been in this state about a year
snd worked on salary for the Wells, Fargo k
Co.'s express, and is now worth over $5,000,
T bo full particulars and any information givon
on application to M.A.Dauphin, New Orleans,
La. Not every emigrant to this country
strikes it so rich in tho same length of time.
—Newton, Kss., Democrat, Sept. 18.
If a man bare love In his heart he may talk in
broken 1 toguage, bnt It will be eloquence to those
who listen. _
O, My Head!
The worst cue ol pneumonia can bo cured
by outward applications of St. Jaoobs Oil and
a low doses of Ited Star Cough Cure.
In Dysentery,
Diarrma or inflammation of the stomach and
bowels, Darby's Propbylatie Fluid Is a sure
care. The fluid taken internally sots aa a de
tergent and internal dtieniectent, relieve! the
pain and corrects the offensive discharges
from tbo bowels. In severe eases, when the
woak condition of the stomach prevents its
retaining any medicine, the fluid is used as an
injeotlon with the most marvelloai results,
giving Instant relief and cfloating an entire
cure.
It will cost $0.0,coo,ooo to eompleto the Panama
Nervous Debilitated Use.
Electric Suspensory Appliances. lor ths speedy
relief end permanent care of Nervous Xteblilty.
loan of Vitality and Manhood, and all kindred
troubles. Also, for msuy other diseases. Oora
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guaranteed. Mo risk to incurred. Illustrated
pamphlet, with full information, terms, etc.,
mailed free by addressing Voltaic CBelt (to,, 5 Mar*
Wbat Shall We Do With Oar Daughters?"
This question is askod by a well known lady
rcturer. Wei), wo can do a great many
things with them; one thing, we must take
good care of tbeir health, and not let them
run down and become enfeebled. For tbe
feminine ailments, which may bs summed up
in one word—debility, wo havo a sovoraigu
remedy in Brown's Iron Bitters, which has
done much good. Miss Mery Greenfield, ot
Galstis, 111., writes, “Brown’s Iron Bitters
cured me of norvousneas, Indigestion and gen
eral poor health." Let the other young ladles
take tbe hint.
John Bright thinks that Europe Is “marching
towsrda some great catastrophe " It Isoouieot*
ured that Mr. Bright a pr#*mitli»ent that Os
car Wilde Is going to begin another series of
asthetlc lecturer
IIOBBFOIID'H ACID PHOSPHATE,
For Alcoholism.
Dr. O. 8 Kills, of Wsbssb, lad., says: "I
prescribed it for a men who had used intoxi-
cants to excess for fifteen years, but during
the last two years has entirely abstained. He
thinks the Aeid Phosphate ie ot much benefit
to him."
Charily—A service that the receiver should re
member and the giver forget.
A Cure of Pneumonia.
Mr. D. II. Barnaby, of Owego, N. Y., says
that his daughter was taksa with a violent
cold which terminated with Pneumonia, and
all tbe best physicians gave the case up snd
■•id she could not could not livo but a few
hours st moat. She waa in this condition
when a friend recommended DR. WILLIAM
HA'LL'B BALSAM FOR THE LUNOS, and
advised her to try it. She accepted it as a
last retort, snd wot surprised to find that U
produced s marked change for tbo better, snd
by persevering! permanent cure was effected.
ANGOSTURA BITTERS, the world renown
ed appetizer snd invigorator. Used now over
the whole civilized world. Tty it, bnt beware
of imitations. Aak your grocer or druggiat tor
the genuine article, manufactured by Dr. J. A
B. Slegert A Sons.
All Sorts of
harts ind many gorti of alls of
nan and beast need a cooling
lotion* Mustang Liniment*
Most perfect made
Freiured b/ ft phy.lclui with fjxrUl n
lohultb. KaAnunosU.Ua.orAlun.
ImpoUnoT. and nuron. dUordan poaua.it-
Ijr cured in thirty dm. by th. reauln. Or.
Blcord'i BwtoraUT. Pllli. BotUM M pQI,
R JI, 1M pill, U.0.,,10 pUl, fl.lt, III pUto
.11. U*fs<u A HIrhtow.r, oornn Pryor
.nd IUcitur itro.t«, AfUnta. Wh.lM»!l W
lAmir. Bukin ud Lunr.
Broken limb, .hould be placed In n.tnml pent*
lion., ud th. patient kept quiet until, surgeon
arrive..
BOBBTOBIVB ACID FBOIPSATB.
A. n K.n. food.
Dr. J. W. SMITH, Wellington, O., ,m:
-In Impaired norvou. lupply l have need it to
advantage.-
ADELINA PATTI,Uta (mat aan(ttnu^ayi
of Bolen Falmer'a perfume., toilet eoapeand
other toilet article, i -I unhealtatingly pro
nounce them auperior to any I ever rued."
Principal dapot, IN and ST, Paarl atreri,
H.Y.
A nrnleal bachelor •>,» woman 1« a rood ded
like the accordion You can draw her out, bat
the “makn mtulo” II you attempt to abut ber up.
▼aluabf. ud Convenient.—BaowH'a Brow-
niiAL Tnociita aro a aal. and rare remedy tor
Bronchltli, Cough., ud other trouble, ol the
Throat ud Lunge. Bold out, In hozea. PrleeJS
rente.
Hungry meet-How Ie tblat I ordered a .teak
and a poached rgg I aee tbe egg, hot where la
theiteakT Bable attendant-Dave all right, rah.
Do i leak am undah da tgg.
Over fllty mwleal comnooltlona, marcher and
>na> have bean put on the market alnoe Ueneral
Charlca D. Frederick., 770 Broadway, N. Y.,
the eolebraled photographer, aaya that All-
coch’a Porcua Plaatera have been u.td by
hlmielf ud lemily over twenty yean. H
Tousd them wonderfully eOloaelou. in cough.,
cold, and pain In the back and aide. Applied
to the pit of the etomach, they qulokly.eared
blm of lndigcallon ud dy.pepele. Us ale.
found thorn admirable liver 'regulator* when
applied on the right aide.
MBS. WINBLOWH BOOMING SYBUP, lor Chil
dren teething, aollsna the guma, reduce, in flam-
■nation, alUj. all pain, ud onrea wind oolla. »
out.* bottle.
Administrator’s Sale.
al..l will Mil baton the oourthsnu door In the
town ol HcIlonotu.li. Henry county, (leorgia, on
tbe RntTncMUy lu Hecemhar mar, between th.
legal houreof «el», tbe lollowlng deorlbol orop-
erty, being the real citato ol Henry T. HcDanlM,
latu ol Knltou county, deemed:
All ol lot. ot land numbcri 14 and It, In tbe
helnend creditor, ol retd don.and. T.rm«, one-
hall reeb. balance lu 12 month., with lotorct ud
boed let UUs.
* M. M. MIDDL1BROOM,
Vov.Swk It Administrator.
l pru'iui*t« KEirrr. t»i*i
111* i. U. WILLIAMS ~‘
.V rmirlp Wii.iutu *
gw|m.lMli wav*-
ed for hravy brardfl
Ami sd*ll( at* akin.
fctasdanl forqnalitj
in tli* U. H. Navy.
Has been counter*
fcltod more teaa
any other snap la
ths world. Notieo
th* *t!ST»vtiig and
avoid Imlt .lions. ,
*4«pt« M It Cants*
U'.f.
. MMcbMtor, III*.
RHEUMATIC cure.
I dlacovsrsd s cure for this pstnfnl complaint
over a yrar ago. curing myaalf snd avsry othsr
case In which II baa bean tried, soma of wtotclft
termed 1l curable. II. B. JONK3.
To those wishing relief wt will ssud this
remedy by mail; will send medicine snough to
curs any case of Rhenmstlsa for 9L0Q.
Cure Qusrsntced or Money Refunded
Address
WOOLLEY It CO., Agintt,
nnvkwll P.O.Bon»O.Attant».Oa.
. iDUNIfORMSAl
(nn.aatif>iir ir.-*u*u4 raui-p* J ■•■•eSSi
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LYON*.
A DMINISTRATOR'S BALK—AGRSBABLY TJ
an order of tea court of ordinary of Faystto
county, will b* sold st Uiw ooarilzoMW door of
laid county on tbs first Tuesday In Dacemper
nixt. within tbs letai hours of sals, tha following
property, in th* I2»rd dtotrici snd town eft
Block'S Station/1H acre* of land, more or lam. off
of land lot No. 71.funded north by IsodTot W.
laid county, dreamed. Terms cash. Thi* Oita ber
5SIS,1985b W. Dunbar. Jr., AdmlnUtrator.
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