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Cfirotucie and
WEDNESDAY. MAY 24, 1876.
YOUNG MOWBRAY JOURNEYING TO
THK WARS.
BY MAbY walsijcoham.
Yoons Mowbrav journeying to the wars,
All belted he'xnd lurred.
From lady's hand received a rose,
And from her Ups thia word:
“I loan thee to my country's cause.
For glory, not for doom;
To be not slain, but stay her foes,
I deck thy knightly plume;
Remember, caution is not fear, nor rashness
valor's te-t, , . . .
If he who fights and dies does well—who fights
and lives doee best.”
Now fierce the tide of battle laves,
And fast the confltc - fl >ws ;
And high above the tight still waves
The while pi am j and the rose;
And gaily through the gathering fray
O irfljwer crowned warrior, see,
Strikes many a gallant blow this day
For Lore and Liberty !
While hi h above the din still rings, with
strike on foreman’s crest:
“Ho : he who fights and dies does weU—who
fights and lives does best
Ah ! woe is me! that love's kind hand,
Love's self should, hapless, mar
A marksman viewed the helmet grand.
And marked the bio and red star !
A downward lance clove helm and crest,
And b >tbed in crimson tide.
Love's fatal gift kis-ed fainting breast,
And murmurin g thus he died;
“Oh ! love, for Fame men strike and Uve !
For Freedom heroes fall!
If he who fights and lives gives much—
Who fights and dies gives all!”
SPRING.
Spring ! harbenger of joys renewed,
Of earth by smiling Heaven wooed,
Of sweet full-throated harmony, _
Waking to song each budding tree,
E’re vet the leaves have music made,
And learned to throw a whi p’ring shade
O’er the checkered ground which Ues
Beneath their woven canopies.
To thee, I ween, the feathered choir
Carols its sweetest, and desire
To do thee homage prompts ths song
Which trills the fields and wo ids among,
When softer suns have bidden shoot
The timid blossom, and the root
Has trustful given to toe air
The blade that frosts retreating Bpare.
Balling athwart the lucent bine
Tht peep- the cloudlet’s silver through,
The rook right busy homeward steers,
To where, through cycle of long years,
Th' elms have ever branched t’ entwine
The wind-tossed cradles of his line.
A ten'drer herbag - springs apace
To feed new scions of the race
Which thronging speck the sunlit green,
And wanton where of late hath been
Chill snows that penned the bleating plaint
For freedom ’mid the pastures faint.
With clearer wavelets speeds the rill
To Join the river that will fi'il
The sov'ran sea with tribute-tide,
Yet loves it on its way to bide,
And, rippling, tell each idle stone
And sleepy branch, that now has flown
The frost which cheoked itß highland source,
And stemmed its long impatient course.
With fairer hues the young earth glows,
And pressage gives what hummer shows
Of flow'ry splendor soon will burst
When June, rost-laden, is the first
To tempt the amorous nightingale
To warble forth his nightly tale,
If love, not sorrow, be the note
Which, welling, strains that quiv’ring throat.
With softer tones the sweet West plays
Amid the trees all through the days,
Which lengthen slowly, till onco more
Gray twilight’s hour ne’er dies before
The curfew, and the bats ’gin glance
Full nimbly after Winter’s trance;
Then comes again the lovers’ hour,
When loving eyes have brightest pow’r,
Aa<d low-breathed vows may best be heard,
And inmost chords most gently stirred,
For magic’s rife is twilight’s mirk,
And what more magic than love’s work ?
Boring’s eloquence alone can tell
What sweets with her fair self do dwell;
’Twere vain for any mortal hand
To sweep the lyre when her own band
Of ohoristers proclaim the joys
Her bounty brings. Mere jarring noise
With mortal song, when everywhere
One burst of n nsic tills the air.
And drown’s all me-ner notes that vie
With Nature’s one great symphony.
—Chamber a Journal.
EIDOLON.
BV JAMBS B. RAND ALU, AUTHOR OV “MV MARY
LAND.”
I.
Ah, sweeteved Christ! Thy image smiles,
In its Cathedral cell,
Shrined in the Heaven-enamored arms
Of her Who never fell;
And if my phantom eyes implore
A more benignant beam.
Tie a nepenthe I would crave
For a memorial dream.
V n.
Dear Leonie 1 here didst thou kneel.
That dusky Bummer noon,
As the zephyrs kissed in ecstacy
The dimpled cheeks of June;
As the sunlight drifted o’er thy brow
A golden wave of grace,
Brigh blending with the miracles
Of that angelic faoe.
, in.
Adorably Madonna-like
By this communion rail,
Thv raptured face, though rioh with youth,
Was spirit-lit and pale.
And oh, those, opulent blue eyes,
Those Meccas Of despair—
'They, they were glorious Eden isles
Lost in a lake of prayer!
a
IV.
Saint Leonie! I saw thee Hit
Oaz -lle-llke to the street,
And pure, melodious angels led
Thy dainty, tinkling feet.
My rebel thoughts were petrel-winged,
Attendant upon thee,
Chasing thy loved and lissome shape
As Arab, of the sea.
v.
Long did I love thee. Belle Creole,
As Ghebers love the sun,
And in the temple ot my soul
Thou wast the e, and don ;
Long did I love thee’ Belle Creole,
Where corsair billows rise,
And where the Bilver planets soar
In unfamiliar skies.
vi. •
Dark Corcovado ! did I not,
With heart and soul aflame,
Carve on thy broad, monarchiai brow
Her wildly worisliiped name—
Watching the homeward ships scud by
Before the nimble breeze.
Till memory with them wept away
Beyond the tropio seas !
vn.
Yean, yeare had died and once again
I saw the spires of home,
And, armed with an undying hope,
I stood beneath this dome.
But not within the pillared aislse,
Nor by the sacred shrine,
Could my bewildered eyes behold
The loveliness of thine.
vni.
The dark November days had come,
And eagerly I fled.
To And thee where the maidens deck
The kingdoms of the dead ;
I found thee; yes. I found thee, love,
Beneath the willow tree,
With marble-cross and immortelle,
And one word—“ Leonie.” *
WHICH SHALL IT BE t
A noli uiVn who hiul no chiHren, proposed to
hie poor ue ghbor. who had seven, to take one
of them, and promised, if the parents would
consent, that he would give them property
enoogh to make themselves and their other
six children comfortable for life.
Whieh shall it be ? Which shall it be ?
I looked at John. John looked at me,
And when l found that I must speak
Mv voice seemed Strangely low and weak;
“Tell me again what Bobert said
And then 1. listening, bent my head—
This is his letter.
••I will give
A house and land white thou shall live,
If, in renim. from ont of seven, _
One child to me for aye is given."
. I looked at John's old garments worn ;
I thought of all that he had borne,
Of povertv, and work, and care,
■Which I. though willing, oould not share.
I thought of seven young mouths to feed,
Of seven little children’s feed,
And then of this.
"Come, John,” said I,
‘•We'll choose among them as they lie
Asleep." So. walking hand in hand.
Dear John and I surveyed Oiir band.
First to the cradle lightly stepped
Where Lilian, the baoy slept.
Softly the father stooped to lay
His rounh hand down in a loving way,
When dream or wlnsper made her stir
And huskily he sad: "Sot her.”
We stooped beside the truudle bed.
And one long ray of lamplight shed
Athwart the boyish faces there.
In s|pep so beautiful and fair.
I saw on Janie's rough, red cheek
A tear undried. Ere John could speak
■"He’s but a baby, too.” s aid I,
And ki sed him as -e hurried by.
Pale, patient Hobbies angel face
Stilt it! bis sleep bore suffering's trace ;
A “80. for a thousand crowns not him!”
He whispered, while our eyes were dim.
Poor Dick! bad Dick 1 our wayward son—
Turbulent, restless, idle one—
Could he be spared ? Bay. Be who gave
Bade us befriend him to the grave ;
Oniv a mother's heart coul t be
Patient enough for such as he.
’ "And so.” said John, ”1 would not dare
To take him from her bedside prayer.”
Then stole we softly up above.
And knelt by Marv, child of love,
"Perhaps for her'twonld better be.”
laad to John. Qui e silently
He lifted up a curl that lay
Across her cheek in a willful way,
And shook hi head : "Bay. love, not thee
The while my heart beat audibly.
Only one more, our eldest lad,
Trusty and truthful, good and glad.
So Kke his father. "No. John, no !
i can not. wdl not. let hint go.”
And so we wrote in a courteous way,
We could not give one child away ;
And afterward toil lighter seemed.
Thinking of that of which we dreamed.
Happy in truth that not one face.
Was missed from its accustomed place ;
Thankful to work for all seven,
Trusting the rest to une in Heaven.
A father bent on instructing his three
vear-old son said: “If yon had three
apples and should give me one, how
many would you have left?” "I wouldn’t
do it, pa,” was the prompt reply.
When Chimney Sweep, on Saturday,
flue over the course and won the English
International Steeple-chase, it must have
footed his owners exsotly.
A CRAVING FOR BLOOD.
PIPES, THE BOSTON MURDERER.
History of the Crimea Confessed bv Piper.
I From the Boston Otobe, May 9.]
The motion for anew trial in the case
of Thomas W. Piper, under sentence to
be hanged on the 26th for the mnrder of
Mabel H. Young, will not be made in
the Supreme Judicial Court this morn
ing, as was intended by bis counsel.
The reason for this change in the inten
tions of his connsel is easily understood,
when it is said that Piper yesterday
confessed not only that he murdered the
child, but also that he was the murderer
of Bridget Landergin, in December,
1873, and the principal in the mysteri
ous and nearly fatal asaault on Mary
Tyner in Oxford street, early in the
Summer of 1874. The full details of
the confession will send such a thrill of
horror through the city as has rarely, if
ever, before agitated it, and will prove a
depth of depravity even more sickening
than that of the boy-fiend, Jesse
Pomeroy. At present, and for obvious
reasons, it would bo improper, if not
impossible to publish the particulars
entire, but the story in outline is as fol
lows:
Piper’* Story a* Reported.
It is reported on excellent authority
that yesterday noon, in conversation
with a gentleman who had been admit
ed to see him, Piper began talking in a
different tone from that which he has
been accnstomed to use in his inter
views with visitors, and showed plainly
that something ot more than ordinary
weight was on bis miDd. He exhibited
evident signs of mental anguish, and
by degrees prepared bia visitor for a
statement of the ntmost gravity. At last
the confession came out that instead of
being the innocent cause of Mabel
Young’s death, by an accident, as his
visitor had all along believed, he was in
reality her cold-blooded murderer ! The
announcement filled the gentleman with
horror, aDd he could hardly believe the
evidence of his sense, but as he grew
calmer he interrogated the prisoner on
various points and drew from him a
connected and full confession of the
crime, which bears out the Government
theory of the manner of its commission.
But a more Astounding communication
was yet to come. The wretched pris
oner, almost broken down with the men
tal ordeal he had undergone, and the
decision to confess it at last, went on
to state that in addition to murdering
the innocent, lovely child, he had also
foully butchered the humble domestic,
Bridget Landergin, more than two years
ago, and had mangled and left for dead
the helpless woman, Mary Tyner, whose
recovery from her terrible injuries is
deemed by the medical profession al
most a miracle. Almost overcome with
horror and surprise at the astounding
stories he had heard, Piper’s visitor
sought to gain from him
Tlie Clue to 111 m Dreadful Aeta,
The reason, if any existed, for the cruel
butcheries ho said be had perpetrated.
On this point, the prisoner professed to
be unable to give any answer, save that
it must have been an uncontrollable im
pulse, an inexplicable thirst for blood
and a savage delight in witnessing hu
man suffering, which had actuated him.
Iu this particular, his statement bore a
strong resemblance to the confessions
of Jesse Pomeroy, that he was possessed
with a desire to take life which he could
not resist and which could be ascribed
to nothing short of diabolism or de
moniacal possession. The gentleman
next questioned him as to his reasons
for so persistently and so variously lying
about the matter, and was told that he
did it to blind his counsel as well as the
public generally, the wretched man well
knowing that had the truth been in pos
session of his oonnsel, they would have
refused to proceed with his defense and
would have left him to bear the punish
ment of his crimes. This explanation
is readily reconcilable with Piper’s con
duct throughout, and it not only ex
plains his own stories, but the action of
his counsel, Mr. Edward P. Brown, who
Believing Fujly In the Accident Theory*
Has zealously and honestly worked upon
it, and has not only dona bis best to
save the life of his client, but had im
pressed many people with a similar be
lief. 'The announcement of thia confes
sion by Piper, and the knowledge of his
client’s guilt, will, of course, absolve
Mr. Brown from any further efforts
in bis behalf, and will lead to the
abandonment of the motion for anew
trial, made iu the Supreme Court on
Saturday, and whiob was to have been
argued by Mr. Brown before that Court
this morning. Piper’s physioal condi
tion is reported pitiable in the extreme.
His Nerve# Have Fairly Eaten Him Up,
'As his visitor expresses it; the terrible
mentai* suffering which be must have un
dergone reduced him almost to
a skeleton, and Wt him in a weak ai;d
shattered condition. Jt will be strange,
indeed, if the result of this ditoi oß ui ?e
be not also to cause the speedy 6?eou
tion of the death sentence upon Jesse
Pomeroy, Piper’s twin in fieudishness
and criminality. In this connection a
brief sketch of the several crimes con
fessed by Piper will prove of terrible in
terest.
Piper's Viellms—The Harrible Murder ot
Little Mabel Young.
The story of the horrible “ belfry
tragedy ” is fresh in the recollection of
most of our readers, but a review of its
principal fffets may prove of interest in
this place. On Sunday afternoon, May
23, 1875, Mabel H Young, a bright and
beautilul child of five years, accompa
nied her aunt. Miss Hobbs, to Sunday
school* at the Warren Avenue Baptist
Church, The school closed at 3:30, and
after chatting for a moments thereafter,
with some friends, Miss Hobbs started
to leave the church. Missing the child,
she went up into the audience room,
calling her, but did not find her. Going
into the vestibule she informed others
that the child wasmiasing and the search
became general. Shortly afterward,
someone beard a child crying in the
belfry of the church, and the door being
locked, the sexton, Thomas W. Piper,
was appealed to for the key, but declar
ed that’it was lost, and that no one bad
been up there for months. The door
was forced and the searching party as
cending the stair* found the little girl
; ou the floor of the hell deck beside the
1 trap door, which was closed. Jjter skull
had been crashed by blows With SOilie
! heavy, blunt instrument, and she was
: insensible. The child fingered ip an in
sensible condition for two or three days
and then died. Suspicion at cw& at
tached to Piper, the sexton, and be was
1 arrested, stoutly denying all knowledge
of the affair. His fast trial began on
the 6tb pf December lasi, ,?nd resulted
in a disagreement of the jury.
trial, early the present year, resulted in
conviction, and he was sentenced to
death. Governor Bice fixed Friday, the
26th of the preseat month, as the date
of his execution. Up to this time Piper
had persisted in denying any knowledge
of the affair, bat two or three yeefcs ago
he made a statement to his oounsel and
the Bev. D. Eddy, P. P.. that the child
came to her death by the accidental fall
of the trap door as she was going UP
into the tower to see ihe pigeons, and
that he had eocwfialed his Knowledge of
it from fear of being suspected of mur
dering her. Since this statement public
opinion has been divided as to bis guilt
or iouocence, and petitions have bens in
circulation for a commutation of his
sentence to imprisonment, and a motion
for anew trial was to have been argued
to-day.
The Murder of Bridget Laudrrsiu at Dor
ebeeter, December 5, IST3.
The brutal murder of the servant girl,
Bridget Laudergio, December 5, 1873,
is still remembered, not only on coconut
ot the mystery which has mvelved
it, but the atrocity of the deed itself.
Ths victim, a domestic in the household
of Mr. Sheldon Barry, Bellevue avenue,
. Dorchester District, was found dead on
I the highway near IJpham’s Corner, and
close to several stores, about nine
1 o’clock in the evening. Some negro
children, living near by, hearing the
girl’s cries, ran into the street and saw a
man, who they described with some ex
actness, rising from over her prostate
form and running swiftly away oerosß
the fields. The woman ws lifeless when
the alarm given by the children brought
neighbors to Urn spot, and it was found
that
Her Shall Had Bees Beaten Is with a Short
Cl ah,
Made from the eud of s wagon shaft,
which was found near by. Instant search
for the murderer was begun sad con
tinued for some time, and several arrests
were made on suspicion. The popular
feeling against the murderer was most
intense. First to be suspected came
Thomas Cahill, the dead girl’s lover.
The very morning after the murder he
had sailed for Europe in the Marathon,
and some of the e tree instances seemed
to point to him as the murderer. The
matter was taken in band by thn State
detectives, and the necessary papers
having been made out, CWbij.l was ar
| rested in Ireland, extradited and brought
Ito this country. The evidence against]
him having been sifted, was found insnf
fieent to bring him to trial, sad After ar
{ raignment he was
Discharged ea His Owa Berataixaarc.
Though he still bore the odium of a ter
rible suspicion. Thomas W. Piper was
also arrested on suspicion, bat he con
trived to account so satisfactorily lot his
whereabouts on the sight of the suudm
j that he was never brought to trial,
i though the detectives hare always be
j lieved him guilty of the crime. His
1 story was that at the time of the murder
| he was
A Mile and a Half From the Sees*,
At a fire which occurred that night, hav
ing been on hie way home when he beard
the alarm; that after going to the fire he
went home and to bed, and never knew
anything of the mnrder till the next day.
And ao, until yesterday’s confession, the
murder ef Bridget Landergin seemed
likely to go unexplained and unpunish
ed, like so many other terriblo crimes in
this vicinity.
The Oxford Street Aotdh—A Remarkable
Crime and o Morrelooo (hue of Recover}-.
The attempted murder of the young
woman, Mary Tyner, in a lodging honse
on Oxford street, in this city, July 1,
1874, will be remembered as very extra
ordinary, not only from the circum
stances attending it, bat from the recov
ery of the woman and her steadfast re
fusal to disclose tne name of her assail
ant. At the time of the attempted mui
der the girl bad rented, mnder the name
of Mary Thomas, a room in the lodging
bouse No. 34 Oxford street, and had re
ceived there several female acquaint
ances and one yonng man who seemed
to be an especial favorite. On the af
ternoon of Wednesday, July 1, he came
to the house at 2 o'clock to see the wo
man, and found her room locked. In
some way his suspicions were aroused,
and calling the landlady, a Mrs. Dun
nells, entrance was forced into the room,
where a heart-sickening spectacle was
presented. The woman
Lay on the Bed Weltering in Her Blood,
Insensible, and with five terrible wounds
on her head, inflicted apparently by
some heavy iron instrument. As the
door of the room was locked, it was evi
dent that the assailant most have es
caped through the windows. That he
did so was nnknown and unsuspected by
any of the other inmates of the honse.
No person in the honse knew anything
about nny suspicious characters except a
Miss Fletcher, who said that ou the
night before the assault an nnknown
man called, at 11 o’clock, to inquire for
MiBS Thomas, but was refused admit
tance, when he went into the yard, com
ing oat a few minutes afterward and
walking away. As the windows of
the room where the assault was oommit
ed look out upon the yard, it was
thought that this unknown man most
be the criminal. As soon as possible the
woman was carried to the Gity Hospital.
Nobody thought it possible that she
could long survive her dreadful injuries.
The greatest efforts were made to obtain
from the woman the name of her assail
ant. But, at first, she was unable to ar
ticulate distinctly, and so could not re
ply. Gradually regaining her strength,
She Steadily Refused to Say Who the Guilty
Man W r as,
At one time declaring that she did not
know, and at another that it was one
whose name she would not disclose.
Seven days after the Chief of Police re
ceived a mysterious message, stating
that the writer had "killed” ihe girl;
but the letter appeared to be a hoax,
after thorough investigation. In the
meantime, the Tyner woman steadily
grew better, finally recovered, and was
released in due time from the hospital,
and entered upon her old life. Not
many weeks since she was sent to the
Island for night-walking. If she has
had any knowledge of her assailant, she
has kept it well, no hint having been
given from the day of the assault until
now. Her present whereabouts are un
known to the police authorities, who
. especially desire to see her and learn
something more from her regarding this
singular case.
THE SOUTH AND THE UNION.
Address of au Ex-Confederate Kentucky Sol
dier at the Dedication oi a Monument.
W. O.P. Breokinridge delivered an
address at the dedication of a monument
to the Gonfederata dead, in Bowling
Green, Ky., on Tuesday. He referred
to the course and oanse of the late war
and then said:
“But whether we wish it or not, we
are of neccessity citizens of this Bepnb
lic; and there are only two courses be
fore us—one to fold our arms and say it
is none of onr affairs—live in the past
and abnegate onr manhood in the pres
ant. The other to acknowledge our al
legiance and perform our whole duty as
citizens. We ask no favors—we make
uo claims. We are oitizens equal with
all other citizens, with free toDgues and
brave hearts. We have liberty and
mean—God willing—to aid all who de
sire to preserve it, We unite with all
good citizens to preserve to ourselves
and to prosterity the blessings of good
government, administered under the law,
and we reserve the privilege of resisting
as may be neoessary all who may attempt
to usurp those powers or to filch those
rights; binding our obildren to no other
and different pledge than that to which
our fathers bound us, and to which all
alike are equally bound. We bear no
malice. We keep alive no animosities.
We make no confessions of guilt. We
lpjrpd the oause and our comrades. We
love thjeif memories. We will honor
their graves'. Wf> Stand by their or
phans; but we do this wijdmufi bitterness
to SB* oncand without apology, While
we remember that Lee ana Breckinridge
died prescribed, aufl Louisiana and
South Carolina are held by the throat,
we wait without impatience or servile
importunities for tb e dawn of a purer
and better day—confident that no Po
lands can be kept enslaved ifi tfil@ Coun
try; that all will be free or all enslayed,
and that the liberties of every State are
equally at stake, aftd that the day iff a
true amnesty is not far distant. We
are not prodigals who return confessing
that our substance has been wasted in
riotous living, even though fatted calves
be killed for our feast, *#d goffiep rings
be ready for our fingers. Wp gijuply
claim that we are equal citizens ,qf a
common country, in which, with God’s
aid, we will strive to do our part. This
is the true basis of reconciliation: A
manly defense of the causes for whioh we
fought, a irapk confession of what was
lost, and an honest avowal of our pur
poses to perform all the duties of citi
zenship. More than this would fi® crav '
en and untrue; less than this unwise and
undutiful. Erase jmen will believe and
trust us; patriotic wjH welcome our
aid; free man will applaud ajjd thus,
true sosuf Pfir Brother Gommonyehlths,
and faithful 0* our common
country, wo will do out WW# ° secure to
every State and citizen the iffesaiflgsof
constitutional liberty. Wo wifi build
up our owd States by a wider education,
a fuller development, and a more liberal
culture, and thus add to the strength
and gf ofj f)l the common Government,
administered (mending to the principles
of a revered Constitution, * oved be
cause it will be just, impactful, $>P and
pure, yill do our part to
maintain for citizens ajnd every
State the inaltenobte md inestimable
rights of American liberty, regain
ing what may have been taken,
prev,rying what remains, seenring to the
common tyowernment its just powers and
true glory. wifi strive to realize the
glorious Vision of oyxajj&f—i. free coun
try of sovereigo States, so strong jtfint
all will respect it, so just that all will
obey it, so free that all will love it, a
where to do right is the whole
compulsion, to prevent wrong the sole
restraint; where fejyfiv is, through love
and obedience, an act qj ifte heart We,
my ppmrades, stand not m the W 47
the Acffifisstjon of this bright future.
Let the cur? .v* patriot fall upon
those who do. ”
HEART HEN DING.
The Elijay Courier gives the follow
ing heartrending aeeonnt of an occur
rence in Pickens county:
On Sunday evening, the 23d nit., Mr.
David Wiseuant went to his brother’s,
a short distance from his residence, and
did not return until After dark. At a
very early hour Mrs. Elisabeth Wisen
ant' sent her children to bed, and very
soon threw a above] full of fit® coals on
the bed. TbiaroFeowae, alarmed the
children, that is her little son, some
eight or nine* years of age, and a littlj
daughter, some six or seven, frightened
as they were, bounced out of bed, when
their mother struck eaoh of them a most
fearful blow on the head with the fire
shovel. The little girl, as soon as she
had sufficiently recovered, attempted an
escape by running out of the door and
leaving the house, while the boy seized
the baby from the bed and ran with it,
and the other two, at his request, fol
lowed him. The mother, in the mean
time, with frantic efforts, and, as it
were, superhuman desperation, follow
ed the little gin, and in the chase losing
the fire shovel, she gathered a heavy
stick, and aa the girl—her own darling
child, whom she declared she loved bet
ter than all her other children—was en
deavoring to cross a mud hole was kill
ed by her mother with said bludgeon.
While the mother was shedding the in
nocent blood of her beloved and uner
ring child, the fire fiend was fast con
suming all or about all of earth’s pro
duct which they could call their own.
The honse and outhonsea with all their
ctntent* ygre burned, but as luck would
have it they bad A lot of oorn that was
oat of reach of the fire. ?o the citizens
who arrived on the ground while the
last of their earthly all was perishing,
she remarked that she was pnly obeying
i the command of the Dord. She told the
story to her oO9nßel. In fact, riie
told every one that the ood Man” had
visited her *nd told her to Jail ail her
childfp and go home to Heaven with
them, and toltfone of her attorneys that
she had killed all her children and
burnt them in the house, and begged
tost ah# might be hilled is *b° quickest
war and fee sent to Heaven to meet her
children. It was shown from the evi
dence that the nnfortanate lady had for
some seven or eight years been sabject
to paroxyms. There waa netting is
the whole case, or in connection with
the whole affair,going to show that there
was anything at all wrong as to the
woman’s character, and strange to say
that her grief stricken husband most
earnestly and fervently implored her at
torneys to manage her case so as to have
her released and restored to him, and al
low him to carry her to some place that
he might find as a home; she all the
time averring that she wonld kill the
balance of her children and take them to
Heaven with her. She is now in jail and
will soen be sent to the asylum for lu
natics at Milledgeville.
LETTER FROM_ BALTIMORE.
METHODIST GENERAL CONFER
ENCE.
Reception of Southern Del efutee Fine
Speuebee—Centennial Crowds—The Presi
dential Outlook.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Baltimore, May 12. 1876. -You are
aware that the General Conference of
the Msthodist Episcopal Church is now
in session in our city. Numerically, if
not financially, intellectually and spiritu
ally, this body has a larger constituency
than any other religions organization in
the country. Manifestly they are aware
of their importance, for on the very first
day when mutual congratulations on the
progress of the church were in order
ofie zealous memberexclaimed, "I glory,
first of all, in being’ an American citi
zen, and, secondly, in being a|Method
ist.” The Apostle Paul would probably
have gloried, first of all, in the Cross of
Christ; bnt America was not then dis
covered.
By far the most interesting session
occurred to-day, the occasion being the
reception of fraternal delegates from tbe
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
These were the venerable Lovick Pierce,
of your State; Bev. James A. Duncan,
D.D., of Virginia, and Hon. L. C. Gar
land, of Tennessee. Dr. Pierce being
unable to be present represented him
self by a written communication, which
was read by the Secretary of tbe Con
ference. It was an admirable paper,
and as the reader proceeded the Con
ference repeatedly broke out into ap
plause. The good old patriarch express
ed his delight that the same assembly
whioh in 1848 rejected him when the
bearer of brotherly overtures from his
Southern brethren was now ready to re
ceive him with open arms. The address
throughout was in the happiest vein.
Indeed the humor was so exquisite and
the rhetoric so polished that it would
even have done honor to the Bishop of
Sunshine in his palmiest (I mean his
present) days. Great regrets were ex
pressed on all sides that the distinguish
ed non-agenarian could not be present
and see for bimself the great regard in
which he is held by his Northern allies.
In response to the cordial greeting of
the preseding officer, Bishop Ames, the
Bev. Dr. Duncan, who was present from
Virginia, took the floor and made a
speech replete with sound sense and
Christian temper. He assured the Con
ference that his Southern bretbran most
earnestly desired to maintain fraternal
intercourse with the Northern assembly.
Holding the same doctrines, their books
of discipline essentially the same, aim
ing at the same grand objects, the only
wall of partition which had ever existed
between them thoroughly demolished,
Dr. Dunoan saw no reason why there
should be two independent Methodist
Church organizations in the country.—
He begged them to remember that the
two highest authorities of the church
on either tide had expressed a desire for
the full restoration of amity, and he
hoped that any harsh words which
might hereafter be spoken by individu
als of either section of the country
might be regarded as mere private ut
terances, which should have no weight in
the presence of the counter and authori
tative expressions of the ohurch. Dr.
D, spoke about an hour and command
ed the earnest attention of the large as
sembly. As an orator he is easy, natural,
graceful and forcible. Though the
speech—such was its exquisite finish
must have been thoroughly premedi
tated, it had all the impressiveness and
power of an extemporaneous effusion.
He was followed by the Hon. L. C.
Garland, who represented, as he told us,
more particularly the lay element of the
Church South. Mr. Garland said that
the separation of 1844 could not have
been avoided, and that it had really re
suited in great good to the cause of
Methodism. Each division made much
more rapid progress than could have
been possible had the unity been pre
served. But now, he said, continued
separation was a reproach to their
piety and to their patriotism. He was
tor reunion when it could be effected
by means honorable to both parties. He
was sure the South would ask nothing
of the North derogatory to their honor,
and he did' not believe the North would
make any sacrifice of principle on the
part of the South a condition of union.
Both these speeches were repeatedly
and vigorously applauded, If the spirit
apparent in these Southern representa
tives and their Northern brethern be a
fair,exponent of the temper of the great
mass of the members of this ohurch
North and South, an organio union
may be looked for at no very distant
day. In such an event there will be
two millions of Methodist Churoh mem
bers in the United States. The only
denomination which approximates this
multitude numerically is the Baptist. A
year ago the bast statistics of this churoh
showed a total of j,7Q0,000. It is fair
to presume tnat iq the country
there haye been additions sufficient dur
ing the yeap to make the number 1,80Q,-
000, Georgia Wing upwards of
100,000.
Twq days ago we had th® Centennial
openipg in Philadelphia, jt is supposed
that 5,000 persons went from and through
Baltimore to be present at the grand
inauguration. The affair was a oneness
it the attendance be a criterion —as it is
estimated that there were fully 130,000
persons present. In the matter of foreign
notabilities there were was not much to
boast of. The most conspicuous char
acter appears to have been Dom Pedro,
the Emperor of Brazil. It was too
muoli to ask QuCen yiotoria to come
over and survey the magnificent pro-
Eortions attained by the jewel plqcked
y rebels from the crown of her royal
ancestor, b.qt her proaoqc# would have
been graceful on her part and a wertfiy
recflgnfijpn qf the splendor of her quon
dam daughter.
It looks as if Ur. fil&lqe wifi fie the
next President of the United States— if
the Republicans can make him so.
Maryland—the Bepnblican part of it—
declared for the ex-Speaker at a recent
Convention—not however before listen
ing to a ieficr fro™ the said gentleman
assuring'his jrieffds" 'that an ex
pression in his ’favor would be‘peculiarly
acceptable to his feelings at the
pra#ept time, jt is well for the
Demo’orafs 1 "to Understand that the
Maine gentleman will be a powerful
competitor against any contestant for
the Presidential mansion He will be
much harder to beat than Morton,
Conkling, ffX other aspirant promi
nently before 'the'fiofihtry. The jlemo
cratie candidate is clearly uhh|}6wn.—
Thurman has many friends, so has Bay
ard, ditto Tilden; but no name has been
mentioned whioh as yet harmonizes the
diyerse elements of the mighty party.
With a g if&d man the Democracy ought
to- succeed. There is to'-lday "g much
larger number of States whd maybe cer
tainly put down for their principles than
{fir tfiosp of {he Republicans, and if a
goou leader can fie ‘ seeqrefj they ust
triumph.
A C'LEVBR ARREST.
A SIO.OOO Express Robber Captured la
Canada*
[Hamilton Spectator, May 6.J
One of the most important ftrrests ever
made in this eity took plape last even
ing. It will be remembered that Borne
weeks ago that the press and the tele
graph warned the country that Qeo. E.
Bohooley, an employee of the Adams Ex
press Company, Cincinnati, hadabscond
ed with 110,000 of the company’s money.
Mr. J. H. Rhodes, superintendent of the
company, sent to the Chief of Police a
card containing the photograph and full
description of the thief, and other par
ticulars which would assist an officer in
detecting him. Detective McPherson
took oharge of the card and has ever
sinoe been on the lookout for him.
Geo. E. Bohooley took the money from
his employers at Nashville, Tenn., on
Snnday, the lfith of April last, and left
for Detroit. He stayed there but a short
time, when he crossed to fiondon and
remained in that city three days, when
be came on to Hamilton and pnt up at a
private boarding house ou Gore street,
giving his name as George Edwards.
McPherson detected Bohooley on one
occasion, and instantly commenced to
shadow him to see if be was the right
man. Laat evening about eleven o’clock
he dropped into lU4 John street north.
There were several men and womeH
there, and among them the young man
whom he suspected, slightly under the
influence of liquor. After watching him
for some time McPherson walked np to
him, and holding the photograph before
Schooley’e face said in a quiet way, “Is
this your photograph?” Schooley -was
complete!} taken back tod after staring
at the picture for a moment gasped out
/‘Tea, it is.”
McPherson then asked him to come
with him, when Schooley resisted slight
ly, McPherson then palled upon the
Other nutn in the room to assist him,
and soon had the express robber at the
police station. He had on hia person
§1.865 in American money, fifty-four
S2O bills; four SIOO bills; seven SSO bills
(Ml Canada money) and $25 in smaller
money. The prisoner was completely
1 roken down with the thougts of his
crime. He said he had known no peace
since he had taken it—that he had not
spent any of the money he had stolen,
and that be would return every cent of
it, with interest, to the Adams Express
Company. He did not claim the pro
tection of tbe British flag, which he
might have done, but asked to be
brought to the headquarters of the com
pany he had wronged at once. He was
taken to Cincinnati this morning. Geo.
E. Scbooley is a young man, twenty-five
years of age, of genteel appearance, and
good address. He is unhealthy and
slightly bnilt, having a hemorrhage of
the lungs, which causes him to have a
painful habit of hawkiDg and spitting.
He was married when nineteen to a
beantif ul|girl, respectably connected. He
has only one child, and she and her
mother are now somewhere in the States.
Schooley has not the appearance of a
thief, and excited the sympathy of every
one who saw him after his arrest.
THE VVINANSES’ *20,000,000.
A Contract Signed by tbe Czar Nicholas and
What a Grand Dnke Said About It.
"Talk about ‘rings’—why, we Ameri
cans don’t begin to understand them as
yon Russians do,” said Col. John B.
Gowen, the engineer, the other day. "Did
yon ever hear how a little ‘ring’ of Gov
ernment officials innocently were the
means of making the fortunes of two
Americans ? No ! Well, I’ll tell you
"In 1850, the Nicholas Railroad, from
St. Petersburg to Moscow—about 500
miles—waa finished, and a number of
Bussian Generals put their heads to
gether to get a profitable contract out of
the Government. The scheme they hit
on was to keep the rolling stock of the
road in repair for ten years. The Min
ister of Public Works, who was in the
ring, made a contract with them by
which it was agreed to pay them eight
cents for every mile a passenger car
went over the road, fohr cents a mile for
each freight car, and so on. The docu
ment having been properly drawn, was
carried by the Minister to the Emperor
Nicholas, and handed him to sign.
" ‘What is this ?’ asked the Czar.
" ‘Your Imperial Majesty, it is a plan
for redneing the expenses of the Govern
ment, in the management of the new
railroad. Avery advantageous contract,
your Majesty.’
"Nicholas glanced at it.
“ ‘Yes, but what do my Generals know
about railways ?’ said he ; and then af
ter a moment’s reflection he asked,
‘Where are those Americans who were
here building cars ?’
“ ‘They are in the building,” was the
reply.
“ ‘Send for them at once,’ said Nich
olas.
“Presently ‘ those American,’ who
were William and Thomas Winans, of
Baltimore, were ushered into the pres
ence.
“The Czar handed them the contract.’
“ ‘Do you want that?” he said.
“They looked at it, and, as it was in
Buss, they did not quite understand its
provisions. They told him so.
“ ‘Well, take it away with you, and
be here at nine o’clock to-morrow morn
ing and let me know whether you’ll take
it.’
“At the appointed hour they saw the
Czar and interlined some slight altera
tions that they wanted. These were at
once acceded to, and made on the spot.
The names of the Winans brothers were
substituted for those of the Russian
Generals, and Nicholas attached his
name to the parchment.
"The Winans brothers made twenty
million dollars out of the contract.
“In 1856, when Alexander, the pres
ent Czar, was crowned,” continued Col.
Gowen, “Sir Robert Peel, who was well
acquainted with the Grand Duke Con
stantine, was in attendance. Before his
departure from St. Petersburg he called
upon the Grand Duke to take his leave.
“ ‘Well, Sir Robert, have you seen the
curiosities in St. Petersburg?’ asked
the Prince.
“ ‘O, yes,’ was the reply; ‘l’ve seen
the mint, the hermitage, the arsenal and
the fortress.’
“ ‘ls that all ?’ said Constantine.
“ ‘Why, is there anything else worth
seeing ?’ said the Englishman.
“ ‘To be sure there is. You’ve miss
ed the greatest curiosity in the empire,’
replied the Prinoe.
“ ‘lndeed ! What is it?’ replied Sir
Robert.
“ ‘The American railway contract,’
said Constantine.”
LETTER FROM JACKSON COUNTY'.
Harmony Grove and Other Towns—'Tlie
Northeastern Railroad to Be Completed in
Ausnst—The Temperance Cause.
f From Our Traveling Agent. ]
Harmony Grove, Ga., May 15, 1876.
—Harmony Grove, situated on the
Northeastern Railroad, is a flourishing
little village. It has some good busi
ness men, who have made fortunes here.
The business men are Messrs. C. W.
Hood, S. M. Shankle, Goss & Cos., S.
Seegar, W. S. Edwards & Cos., and
Jacobs & Bro. The hotel is kept by
Mr. Seegar. There are two very neat
chqrohes—gaptist sjnd Metfiodist—with
large congregations. There are two
flourishing schools—the Harmony Grove
Academy, Prof. B. S. Cheney, who has
forty-five scholars. The Professor is
much esteemed. He has been teaching
seven years at this place, which speaks
well for him.
Miss Carter Parks, an accomplished
yoqng lady, has a qohqol which has
proved qqite a success. She has about
forty in attendance, and a more happy
set of children I never saw. They ad
vance very fast in their studies. Mjss
Parjcs is very iftqofi loved- °f
praise are spoken of her by all b er Pu
pils.
There is a Good Templars Lodge,
witfi sixty members, wbieb bas dope
and js doing a great deal of goad in tfie
temperance cause, ’ There is no whisky
allowed to be sold in the town. Two
years ago there were three bar-rooms/
now there is not one in the ovvmtv;
The people have worked hard to accom
plish this result. Their town is fast im
proving; and now that the
Bailrpad is (ran jfijeltqh to this
place, poop*? wil* floine in and the pop
ulation will increase. The Northeastern
Railroad is completed to this place. I
learn that Governor VpU
oyer tfip road Thutd a y> together with a
numbep of gentlemen from Atlanta. The
supervisor of tbe road informs me that
it Ijnished tQ Athena ajfioqt the
first oj August.' When completed from
Belton to Athens, it is in contemplation
to run the road through the counties of
Habersham and Rabun, by which exten
sion Augusta will be benefittecj
w fa iww'fei
passed through several very pretty little
places. At Mount Airy, on the Air Line,
I noticed a large hotel being bnilt,
When completed it will have fifty vuows.
Colonel kj. 0. Wilpox, wfib is prospect
ing fd;: gold in Nortfi Georgia, for "New
York capitalists, has found some very
rich mines. The Colonel has done a
great deal to bnild np Moqpt Airy.
The new hotel is vpipy Aiucfi ' needed at
that pjaee. Th e j e * oar 01 hve busi
ness nouses doing well. There is one
church at Mount King and a good
school taught by Miss Cockran, a young
lady from Atlanta-
Beltom (fithough it suffered greatly
from a teoent fire, is building up fast.
I see that Mr- Carter, who was burned
out a few weeks ago, has re-opened.
Several other stores ’rave been re-built.
GilsviUa, on the Northeastern Rail
road, is improving. There are three or
four houses goiDg np. There are two
business hoases, one a dry goods store
and post office, kept by Mr. G. M. Quil
lian ; the other a grocery, kept by Mr.
Pollard. Maysville has one store and a
post office. There are improve
ments going 08.
The crops of corn I have never seen ;
better. The wheat and oats are looking ,
fine. There are some excellent grain |
farms between Harmony Grove and Bell- j
t0 While at Harmony Grove, your corre- I
spondent waa invited to accompany
Rev. H. E. Shackleford, a Baptist min
ister, and an ardent worker in the tem
perance oause, to attend the Banks Coun
ty Convention of Good Templars. The
Bev. Mr. Perryman delivered an able
sermon.
After the services, all present had a
free invitation to dinner prepared by
some of the ladies of Banks and Jack
son counties. The table was loaded
with the best the country afforded and
every one seemed to do full jnstice to
the dinner.
The Convention met in the afternoon.
Rev. Mr. Shackleford delivered an in
teresting address on temperance.
The occasion will be long remembered
by all who had the pleasure of being
present. I noticed several ladies and
gentlemen from Homer in attendance at
the Convention.
I send you a list of forty-four subscri
bers from Harmony Grove. The Chron
icle and Sentinel will doable any other
paper that comes to this office, except
the county paper, which has more sub
scribers. I leave for Jefferson to-mor
row. G. W. N.
CHARLESTON PROTESTS.
Rcaml of the Duty au Rice.
Charleston, May 16.— The Chamber
of Commeroe has adopted strong resolu
tions opposing the passage of the bill
carrying into effect the Hawiian treaty,
on the ground that the removal of the
duty on rioe will seriously injure the rice
planters, and throw oat of employment
thousands of eolored laborers. A dele
gation waa appointed to proceed to
Washington, to lay the facts before the
THE KENTUCKY TURF.
THE GRE ATRACE BETWEEN ARIS
TIDES AND TEN BROBCK.
The Great Race ea Wednesday.
[Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.]
. Lexington, May 11, 1876.—Yesterday
■was a day to be remembered in turf an
nals, and one that ought to be marked
with a bright pencil in the records of
the Kentucky Association. It was a most
exquisite day—warm, sunny, like a
great, glad smile of Heaven, which the
greeD-carpeted earth caught up andseDt
back with added sweetness gathered
from dewy lawn or budding tree. The
sky was an unruffled bine, with now and
then a single white cloud sailing over ft
and fading away like foam upon the
azure depth before the soft winds that
wafted it. There was never a more per
fect day for the great day of race-week,
and it was taken advantage of fully by
the people. The largest crowd I ever
saw on any track—certainly the largest
seen on this track for twenty years - was
present to see the great struggle between
Ten Broeck and Aristides.
The ladies’ stand was a bewildering
bower of beauty lit up by the flashing
of bright eyes and made musical by soft
voices and rippling ‘laughter. The day
was warm enough to admit of Spring
toilets, so the delicious little birds were
in their most gorgeous feathers, and felt
and acted accordingly. The fact of be
ing well dressed affords to nobody such
concentrated, supreme, exquisite self
satisfaction as to the woman herself,
and she cannot help showing it to an ob
servant eye in every little act and word
and attitude I have even thought some
times I could detect the consciousness
of clocked stockings freshly put on—
cognizable to none but the wearer—in a
woman who passed me on the street
commonly dressed to outer view, but
stepping high and with nose cocked at a
scornful angle as she passed those who
might be supposed to wear their stock
ings without clocks. The stand was full
of Spring costumes, and the conscious
ness of new clothes gave an added luster
to the eye and a fresher crimson to the
cheek, and as a Bluegrass belle with her
last year’s clothes on is pretty enough
and “peart and chipper and sassy”
enough in all conscience, the conse
quence of anew out-and-out Spring
dress almost as beautiful as the wearer
is fearful to susceptibje bipeds of the
swallow-tail coat and bycycle-pants per
suasion, and I kindly, draw a veil over
the fluttering agony of the beaux as
butterfly-like they flitted from flower to
flower and found none to satisfy the
deep longing of their manly hearts.
The pool-stands were the centre of a
surging crowd, and the voice of the pool
seller was wafted out on the air con
stantly as he announced, in nasal tones,
“Bullion wa-a-a-n,” and his assistant re
peated back as he tallied, "Bullyun
w-u-u-n.” Money seemed to be plenti
ful—that is, everybody had some—the
small betters had been winning all the
week and were able to go in on the great
race extensively. But betting on the
first race was not forgotten. The
night before Dailgaisen had been the
favorite, but in the morning Keene
Richards’ Bullion loomed up, and some
times another was ahead. Everybody
seemed to have been taught to distrust
his own judgment by the constant de
feat of the favorites the forepart of the
week, and the least little talk would
sometimes change the whole current of
popular favor.
Bullion won the race in two straight
heats, as you already know, in the not
extraordinary time of 1:46$ and 1:455.
It was plain that' none of the other
horses.were at all equal to the winner,
who could have brought the time down
several seconds if he had Set the run
ning sooner in the first heat, and thus
distanced the whole party. As it was
Daigaisen barely got his hindquarters
past the distance stand when the flag
fell and all the others were shut out ex
cept him and the plucky little Eaglet,
by Planet, out of Eagless. In the sec
ond heat Dailgaisen started out to set
the pace himself and thought he was
setting it fast; but Bullion, who had
been last in the start, ran around clear
on the outside of Eaglet and the leader
and came to the front before the first
quarter was reached. It was no trouble
to keep the lead after he once got it,
and the only thing like a oontest in the
heat was the sharp fight for second posi
tion between Eaglet and McGrath. The
little Eaglet took it after a brush and goes
to record second in both heats. Tillie
Brent, named for a sparkling little
Bourbon beauty, was some time a favor
ite in this race and might possibly have
saved her distance at least, but before
the start she ran off and ran clear round
the track, starting into the seoond mile
before she eould be stopped. Of course,
she oould not be expected to repeat a
few minutes after and do well, but she
came up pluckily to the scratch and
came very near saving her distance in
the first heat, being close at Dailgaisen’s
tail when the flag fell.
But enough of the little horses; you
want to know how
¥he Great Race
Was run and won. Well, you see there
were seven entries. Mr. Grinsted didn’t
care to start his brown filly, Katie.—
Green Clay thought Orel wasn’t yeady
for such a race. Emma Cobb and Gyptis
had both been Tuesday by Bob
Woolley, qnd, therefore, were a little
soye., and it was useless to expect them
to capture the great Tfcn B.roeck, and
King Alfonso was at flflr. Swigert’s hom.e
with a sprained ankle. So Aristides was
the only champion left to tackle the
crack sun of Phseton and Fqnny Holton,
The names o| the two horses were in
everybody's mouth; boys hallooed Aris
tides and Ten Broeck at each other
across the street, and grave and vener
able old gentlemen would meet each
other on the street corner and, after a
solemn shake of the band, when you ejt
peoted to hea r Borne question of grave
import to Church or State propounded,
would ask quietly, “Who's going to win,
McGrath or Harper ?” As I stated be
fore, the town was jammed and crammed
full of people, and long before the time
to start they had emigrated to the race
course and flowed into and filled up the
grand stand, and were jostling the re
porters and standing in front of them in
a way that was perfectly exasperating,
while every soul of them seemed to
crane the neck forward as if his salva
tion depended upon seeing the horse of
his choice when he came upon the track.
The fences, trees and house tops adjoin
ing the track were filled with an expect
ant crowd ol hoys and men, who saved
their dollars and saw the races free.
Ten Broeck was the favorite in the
pools at small odds until just before the
race, when JJoCtrath announced his
reading to accommodate everybody
and anybody who couldn’t get a bet
against Aristides, and they rushed up,
and as fast as his clerk could note it
bets were taken until it was said he bad
about P a t on his horse. This
gave the backers of Aristides more con
fidence without diminishing the faith
that Woodford county and her delega
tion had in Harper’s flyer, and hotting
was fast and furious until the bell rang
and the causes of the excitement march
ed proudly out. Bath were blanketed,
and Aristides’ rider galloped him round
the track, examining every part of it
carefully. Ten Broeck bounded up and
down the home stretch, just to heat his
blood up a little, and at the second tap
of the bell both were led into the cool
ing ground to be stripped.
Ten Broeck was stripped first, in the
midst of an admiring crowd, who
pressed close upon him and almost
pushed one another against him in the
effort to see the huge chieftain. He is
worth looking at—a deep bay in color,
about an inch higher than his competi
tor, though so solid and compact as to
look lower, with a great, deep chest, ca
pacious enough to hold the tremendous
engine of a heart that pomps the warm
blood through his throbbing arteries,
with heavily-muscled limbs, flesh hard
and firm as a rock; thick, arching neck;
large, broad forehead, and steady eyes,
fall of quiet, subdued fire—he is the
very beau ideal of massy strength, and
suggests tremendous power even when
in repose. Many people think him the
finest horse on the American tnrf to
day, and they are not so far wrong
either. He looked to me too high in
flesh —I thought so and said so last
week, though his admirers laughed at
the idea—now, after the race is run,
they are too glad to allege it as the
cause of his defeat His antagonist,
Aristides, was soon unbianketed close
by the Harper horse, and a crowd bnzzed
and pushed, jostled and stretched their
necks around him. He is a cross of the
Leamington and Lexington stock, by
Leamington out of Sarony, by Lexing
ton; a fine chestnut in color, a little over
medium sine, with muoh of the Long
fellow shape abont him, while Ten
Broeck has more of the compact, solid
build of old Tom Bowling. Grace, sym
metry and speed are indicated in every
curve of his exquisite shape. Under
the warm, bright sun, he was the most
beautiful objeet to look at that ever shot
past a grand stand full of admiring
eyes. A perfect model, fit for the chisel
of Praxitiles, he waa a perfect Greek of
the olden days; he was the spirit of a
just man made perfect, and if McGrath
had seen his glorions prime in the
yonng Colt, he could not have named
him better than Aristides. Light and
wry in appearance, yet power in
his deep chest and rounded onttocks,
be skimmed along over the ground with
an easy, polished elegance wbioh de
clares him the very Chesterfield of
hones. Jt was the Trojan against the
Greek, Hector ti. Achilles, with the
gods of the racing Olympus assembled
in the air to see the mighty contest.
The Race.
The athletes were soon on the track,
stripped and shining in the sunlight.
They gallop up to the furlong pole—a
moment of stillness while a thousand
spectators hold their breath—they are
off. “Ten Broeck leads him !” is buzzed
abont as they oome thundering down to
the stand and shoot past, leaving little
pnffs of dust behind them to mark their
course. Bath riders hold their horses
well in hand, and, with about a length
of daylight between them, they go past
the quarter. When near the half-mile
pole Aristides comes closer just to see
if he could go faster, and his backers
begin to cheer, but it is too soon, for,
passing the half, as they strike the foot
of the hill, Ten Broeck draws away
again, and a shout goes up from his
backers. They are round the turn, they
enter the Btretch, and let themselves out
as they come to the stand a second time
and pass it, Harper still a length ahead.
“Go it, my Harper,” shouts Woodford
county. “Stick to him, Bobby,” say
the McGrath men, and both parties yell
for their favorites. Now the work be
gins in earnest. Harper’s rider looks
back, and gives the great Phaeton eolt
his head. He darts away. A shout from
the Harper faction. Bobby lets out a link
in Aristides and be rushes up and gets
closer than evaY, while McGrathiana
whoops and yells again, and they go down
the back stretch at a killing pace, close
together, and doing their level best.—
Past tne half they go, too close for com
fort, and strike the hill. “He can’t
catch him; he can’t catch him—he can’t
do it, 1 tell you /” screams a Woodford
man, while the others say nothing—but,
look, a murmur arises ; Bobby goes at
him coming up the hill. The murmur
changes to a shout, the shout to a bed
lam of ejaculations. A veteran turf re
porter, gray haired, gray whiskered,
drops his spectacles and his pencil in
the excitement and jumps on the bench,
“He laps him—he’s at him — he’s got
him !” screams the old gentleman, danc
ing and clapping his hands as they
swing into the home stretch with Aris
tides to the fore. I was keeping the
positions with my note book resting
against another reporter’s back and
looking over his shoulder, but he jump
ed aud screamed so my pencil point
went clear through the paper. Specta
tors, ladies and all, are on their
feet, cheering, clapping hands, howl
ing and stamping like mad, as
the horses lumber down the stretch,
the green and orange of Bobby
Swim fairly trembling with the
rapid, steady bounding of the migh
ty Greek that he bestrode. Harper whips
his Hector aud swears with chagrin, but
it is too late—the work is done, and
Aristides runs past the stand first by 40
or 50 yards, in the fastest time that sun
ever shone on, 3:4ss—one and a quarter
seconds faster than ever was made be
fore. Said I not that Old Time would
forget to turn his glass and shake out
his sands when this race was run ? If is
but an instant, the horses are brought
back, the riders’ dismount, the race is
over and McGrath is shaking hands with
an excited qrowd, who would almost car
ry him and the horse, too, in triumph
on their shoulders, if they could. Wood
ford county is bankrupt; it bet its last
dollar, yes, its last nickel, on Harper,
and it still won’t believe but what it bet
on the best horse.
It was a grand race—the second Gray
Eagle and- Wagner contest, which old
men will tell their children about in
coming years, and after it all other races
are tame.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
memorial Day—Lecture by Rev. F. P. lYlul
lally—A Masterly Effort.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Sparta, May 15.—0n the 26th of
April, after deooratiun and tributes paid
to the memory of our noble dead, the
ladies of the Memorial Association re
quested Rev. F. P. Mull ally, D. D., to
deliver a lecture the following Monday
evening at the Methodist Church in be
half of the Association. Dr. Mullally,
always ready to serve good people in a
good cause, readily assented and chose
for his theme “The Power of Woman.”
Many tickets were sold, but maDy of
our cultivated people from inclement
weather were not able to enjoy the ro
past. Some, however, determined if the
lecture was delivered they would be
absent. And about sixty or seventy
persons, a large per oent. ladies, were
piesentonthe occasion. The Doctor’s
oommanding personal appearance and his
weighty and well selected words riveted
the attention of his hearers and held
them spell-bound the eutiro avening.—
He said to deplore the sex, when the
announcement is made tlat the little
soul, just ushered into the world, is a
female , was a grand mistake and proved
beyond controversy that such ought
rather to be attended with
tions. He called attention (he first
and most lasting impassions up.oi the
infant mind by \esolutc and nuti r .
ing earnestness of Qfiristiaa
ams til o Unobtrusive, powe rful
grace of a dutiful daup)-' ier leading the
worldly fatner to tne fold of Christ! He
referred to tne magnetic influence of a
plttsmng maiden over him who
“Throughout creation only knew
Twq separate worlds-the one, that small
Beloved and consecrated spot
Where—she nw—lhe other all,
The dull wide waßte where she was not.”
Snob examples were cited as Mrs. He
mans’ Lady Jane Gray and Deborah,
and others showed that though woman’s
power' was latent, it was nevertheless the
more powerful aud nearer kin to the
power of Him. A worthy tribute
was paid to the Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, who, though never having
experienced the thrills of congenial joy,
nor felt the tender ties of a father’s love,
yet he among the first was ready to pay
homage at the shrine of woman, and ac
knowledge her greatness and power over
the lorda of creation. The Dr. was most
happy in an illustration showing her
power in obedience, giving her the rule
where God intended she should have
it—smoothing down man’s asperities and
straightening his crooked ways. Point
ing to the cabinet organ, be said to pro
duce melody there the performer must
strictly obey the rules of music. So to
produce the harmony of peace and hap
piness at home and abroad, the wife
must study the temperament of her hus
band and obey the laws of his nature—
that if she be true to her instincts and
obedient to the man she loves, she can
rule him. And here the pleasantry of
the Doctor’s Scotch-Irish, fixing his
gaze upon her whose big heart, never
more full and happy than when doing
his will, suggested that even a Scotch-
Irishman would acknowledge the sway.
But, he said, tracing further the anal
ogy in the figure above, there were some
musical instruments so terribly out of
tune that the most skillful performer
could not produce music with them, and
in like manner there were some men so
intolerably incorrigible that no woman,
how great soever her power, could bring
forth aught from them but jargon and
discord. The lecture was truly a feast
for the soul—rich in importance from
wholesome truths presented, and par
ticularly useful from the clear and im
posjpg demonstrations. Philos.
-a/,.GILES’
J&IINIMENT
IODIDE OF AMMONIA
Cures Neuralgia, Face Ache, Rheuma
tism, Gout, Frosted Feet, Chilblains,
Here Throat, Erysipelas, Brulsea or
Wounds of every kind in man or animal.
“Discharged from the Massachusetts Gene
ral Hospital as incurable, with inflammatory
rheumatism in my shoulders, fingers and feet;
suffered fearfully for three years: tried every
thing: lost all hope. Da. Giles’ Liniment lo
dide of Ammonia effected a complete cure.
< Fllkn Smith,
No. 72 Plane St., Fall River, Mass.”
J. H. ALEXANDER, Agent.
Sold by all Druggists. Depot No, 461 Sixth
Avenue, New York. Only 50c. and $1 per bot
tle. ap29-d<fcwlm _
New Dry Goods,
LOWER THAN EVER!
AT V. J. T. BALK’S,
No. 136 BROAD Street, Near Lower Market.
IN addition to the great indneemente offered
last week, such as Ladies’ and Children’s
Sundowns at 25c., Boys’and Youths’ Hats at 15
and 25c., Lace Striped Lawns at 16c., eto., eto.,
I will offer THIS WEES a large consignment
of New Goode at unheard of lew prioes,
Splendid printed oordod ORGANDIES at 12 jo.,
original ooet 210., gold.
Splendid Mohair DRESS SUITING at 25c.,
worth 40c.
Elegant pure silk PONGEE, entirely new
shades, 500.
Yard wide gray DRESS LINEN at 15, 20
and 25c.
Black Iron BAREGE at 250. per yard, cost
40 1. in gold.
Colored Iron BAREGE, large meshes, at 40c.,
worth 75c.
Yard wide white VICTOBIA LAWN at 15c.
Good quality plain white JACONET at 10c.
Heavy large ootton honeycomb TOWELS at 10c.
The best assortment of 6$ Calicoes in town.
Bleached and Unbleached HOMESPUNS near
ly given away.
Best Lonsdale CAMBRIC, 15c.
Silk and Lace SCARFS given away for frac
tional currency. Anew artiole of silk finished
DREHS LINING at 12$ and 16c. (very suitable
for lining hlffek grenadine), Can’t Break’em
Corset Steels, Wash Paniere, eto., eto. All in
search of Bargains should call at No. 136
, BROAD Street before buying elae where. Sam
ples given. Orders solicited.
Will also show on Monday and every day
this week, New Spring CABBIME RES at 40, 50
and 60 cehta; New PARASOLS from 25 cents,
np; Boys’ Straw HATS from 15 cents, up; a
lot of Centennial Hat TRIMMINGS will be ex
hibited free of charge. They are said to have
been worn in Martha Waahington’s time.
ap6o-d4fff C-J-T-SAl*.
New Advertisements
“ important tI planters AND OTHEBB!
THE RICHMOND FACTORY,
Ton Miles From Augusta,
CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE WOOLEN CLOTH AND TO CARD WOOL ROLLS FOB
PLANTERS and other parties, sending Wool to us. We propose in future to DYE the
COTTON WARP when desired, and we will also DYE the WOOL FILLING, if requested, either
Brown, Black or Gray, or the Cloth oan he made the natural oolor of the WooL
The oharge for making Plains will be 12$c. a yard, and for Twills 150. a yard. For Dyeing
Cotton Warp, 10. a yard; Wool Filling, 2c. a yard; Carding Rolls, 100. a pound. Weol can be
sent in the dirt. We are prepared to Wash and Burr it promptly.
OUR MACHINERY BEING IN PERFECT OBDEB, no delay will take plaoe in prompt
delivery of the Cloth and Rolls. All Wool sent us should be Plaiuly Marked with the owner's
name, and all instructions and inquiries be made to and through YOUNG A HACK, Aunts,
Augusta, Ga.
I>. B. HACK,
mayl7-wlm PRESIDENT RICHMOND FACTORY.
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Colored Silk Grenadines!
AT TEN CENTS PER YARD !
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■5
CHRIBTOPHER GRAY & CO.
Will offer for sale Monday Morning, Two Cases of Sflk Grena
dines and other Dress Goods at the nominal price of ten cents.
The Best Brands of New Prints, Merrimae, Pacific, &c>, at
61-4 eents per yard. No Trash, but New and Choice Goods,
ill ether Goods in our Stook hare been marked as low in
proportion as the abore,
C. GRAY Sc CO.
ap3o-tf .
NO BOTTOM YET.
We will offer To-Day, and until
further notice:
20 cases handsome styles Spring
Prints at 4c.
20 cases Standard Prints-Ameri
can, Ancona. Pacific, Orien
tal, &c., at 6 l-4c.
5 cases extra fine 7-8 Bleached
Shirting at 6c.
800 dozen Ladies’ Extra Heavy
American Hose at Bc.
200 dozen Ladies’ English Hose at
25c.
150 doz. Gents’ English Half Hose
at 25c.
150 doz. Fringed Doylies at 40c.
per dozen.
100 pcs. Imported Victoria Lawn,
no common American Suit
ing, at 15c.
100 pcs. Brown Linen Drill at Half
Price.
One Case Extra Quality BLACK IRON GRENIDINE, at 25c.; Ladles* Misses’
and Children’s salts and Underwear in Endless Variety.
ON CONSIGNMENT—SOO Llama Lace Sacques, at fifty per cent, less thaw
cost of importation.
JAMES A. GRAY &. CO.
N. B.—We will Open This Morning, at 10 o’clock, several pieces of
Plaid tirenadlnes and Striped
JOB PRINTING.
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BOOK BINDING. •
RULING, Etc.
THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
Having Extensively Furnished, With New Material, the
JOB PRINTING AND BINDING ESTABLISHMENT
i t
%
ARE PREPARED TO DO EVERY DESCRIPTION OP WORK DESIRED
Merchants,
Factors,
Corporations,
. Societies,
. Hotels,
Railroads,
AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
Our Bindery is Complete,
AND
OUR WORK CANNOT BE BURPABBEO
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FOR DURABILITY AND WORKMANSHIP.
