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WEDNESDAY JUNE 21, 1878.
THE CKOSB.
Jcn the Cronn ef the Cmt.
BT J. H. HOUSTON, AUOCBTA, OA.
Blest they who seek.
While in their youth,
With spirit meek
The way of truth.
To them the sacred Scripture now display
Christ as the only true and living way ;
His precious blood on Calvary was given
To make them heirs of endless bliss in Heaven,
And e'en on earth the child of God can trace
The glorious blessings of His Saviour's grace.
For them be bore
His Father's frown;
For them He wore
The thorny Crown;
Nailed to the Cross,
Endured its pain,
That His life loss
Mignt be their gain.
Then haste to choose
Tuat better part,
Nor dare refuse
The Lord thy heart.
Lest He declare,
“I know you not”
And deep despair
Should be your lot.
Now look to Jesus who on Calvary died
And trust on Him who there was crucified.
A LAST TALK.
Come out in the garden and walk with me
While the dancers whiil to the dreamy tune;
Bee, the moonlight silvers the sleeping sea,
And the world is fair as a night in June.
Let me hold yonr hand as I used to do,
This is the last, last time yon know,
For to morrow, a wooer comes to woo,
And to win you, though I love you so.
Here the viol’s cry. and the deep baaoon
Seems sobbing.out m its under tone,
Some sorrowful memory; the tune
Is the saddest one I have ever known;
Or ia it because we must part to-night,
That the music seems so sad ? Ah me '
You are crying, love, and your lips are white.
Oh ! the ways of life arc a mystery!
Do you remember the night we met ?
You wore a rose in your yellow hair.
Looking back, I can see you yet,
Just as you stood on the topmost stair ;
A flutter of white from bead to foot,
A cluster of buds at your breast—ah me !
The vision was never half so sweet
As it is to-night in my memory.
I love vou, love, with a love so true.
That in coming years I’U not forget
The beautiful form and face I knew,
And memory will always hold regret.
I shall stand by the sea, as I stand to-night,
And think of the vision where brightness
died
When the frosts of Winter fell chill and white
On the fairest flower of the Summer tide.
They are calling you. Must I let you go ?
Must I say good-by, and go my way ?
If you must go, it is better so,
Good-by’s such a sorrowful word to say,
Give me, my darling, one last sweet kiss,
So we kiss our dear ones, and see them die,
Bat death holds no parting so sad as this,
God bless and keep you, and so—Good-by.
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE.
A Poena inr the Soldiers of the Army of the
Potomac, Read at the Keanion, June 8,
1876.
Bright on the sparkling sward this day
The youthful summer gleams;
The roses in the south wind play,
The slumberous woodland dreams,
In golden light, 'neath clouds of fleece
'Mid bird-songs wild and free,
The blue Potomac flows in peace
Down to the peaceful sea.
No echo from the stormy past
Alarms the placid vale.
Nor cannon roar, nor trumpet blast,
Nor shattered soldier wail.
There's nothing left to mark the strife,
The triumph of the pain,
Where Nature to her general life
Takes back our lives again.
Yet in your vision evermore,
Beneath affrighted skies,
With crash of sound with reek of gore,
The martial pageants rise.
Audacious pageants rend the air,
Dark steeds of battle neigh,
And frantic through the sulphurous glare,
Raves on the crimson fray.
Not time nor chance nor change can drown
Yonr memories proud and high.
Nor pluck your star of greatness down
From glory’s deathless sky.
For evermore your fame shall bide—
Your valor tried and true!
And that which makes yonr oountry's pride
May well be pride to you!
Forever through the soldier’s thought
The soldier’s life returns—
Or where the trampled fields are fought,
Or where the camp fire burns.
For him the pomp of morning brings
A thrill none else can know,
For him Night waves her sable wings
O'er many a nameless woe.
How often face to face with death,
In stern suspense he Btood,
While bird and insect hold their breath
Within the ambushed wood.
Again be sees the silent hills,
With danger's menace grim,
And darkly all tho shuddering rills
Run red with blood for him.
For him the cruel sun of noon
Glares on a bristling plain,
For him the cold disdainful moon
Lights meadows rough with Blain.
There's death in every sight he sees,
In every sound he hears,
And sunset hush and evening breeze
Are sad with prisoned tears. •
Again worn out in midnight march,
He sinks beside the track ;
Again beheath the pitying arch
His dreams of home come back;
In morning wind the roses shake
Around his cettage door,
And little feet of children make
Their music on the floor.
The tones that nevermore on earth
Can bid his pulses leap
Ring out again in careless mirth
Aoross the vales of sleep ;
And where in horrent splendor roll
The waves of vict’ry's tide.
The cherished comrades of his soul
Are glorious at his side.
Forget! the army may lose its might,
Tne tired heart beat low,
The sun from Heaven blot ont his light,
The west wind cease to blow,
But while one spark of life is warm
Within this mould of day.
His soul shall revel in the storm
Of that tremendous day.
On mountain slope, id lonely glen,
By Fate’s supreme command,
The blood of those devoted men
Has sanctified this land.
The funeral moss—but not in grief—
Waves o’er their hallowed rest,
And not in grief the laurel leaf
Drops on the here's breast.
Tears for the living, when God’s gift—
The friend of man to be—
Wastes, like the shattered spare that drift
Upon the unknown sea!
Tears for the wreck who sinks at last,
No deed of valor done ;
■ But no tears for the soul that past
When honor’s fight was won.
He takes the hand of Heavenly Fate,
Who lives and dies for truth !
For him the holy angels wait
In realms of endless youth !
The grasß upon his grave is green
With everlasting bloom!
And love and blessings make the sheen
Of glory 'round his tomb.
Mourn not for them, the loved and gone ;
The cause they died to save
Plante an eternal corner-stone
Upon the martyr’s grave ;
And. safe from all the ills we pass,
Their sleep is sweet and low,
’Neath requiems of the murmuring grass,
And dirges of the snow.
That sunset wafts its holiest kiss
Through eveuing’s gathering shades.
That beauty breaks the heart with bliss
The hour before it fades ;
That music seems to merge with Heaven
Just when its echo dies.
Is nature's sacred promise given
Of life beyond the skies.
Mourn not! In .Ife and death they teach
This thought—tuts truth—subhme :
There’s no man free except he reaoh
Beyond the verge of time !
So. beckoning up the starry slcoe,
Tht-y bid our souls to live.
And, flooding all the world with hope,
Hare taught us to forgive.
No soldier spurns a fallen foe !
No hate of hnman kind
Can darken down the generous glqjr
That fires the patriot mind !
But love shall make the vanquished strong
And mercy lift their ban,
Where right no more can bend to wrong,
Nor man be slave to man.
So from their quiet graves they speak.
So speaks that quiet scene,
Where n w the violets blossom meek
And all the fields are green.
There wood and stream and dower and bud
A pure content declare.
And v here the voice of war was heard
Is heard the voice of prayer.
Once eaore in perfect love. O Lord.
Our aliened hearts unite !
And clasp aeross the broken sword
The hand that used to smite !
And since bside Potomac's wave
There’s nothing left but peace.
Be filled, at last, the open grave.
And let the sorrow cease !
Sweet from the pitying Northern pines
i heir loving whisper flows,
And sweetly where the orange shines
The palm trees wooe the rose ;
And let that tender music run
O’er all the years to be.
And ihy great blessing make us one—
And make us one with Thee.
William Winter.
The Senatorial Election la New Hampshire.
Concsoiuj, N. H., Jane 13. —The can
vass in the interest of the various candi
dates for United States Senator, who is
to be elected in the Legislature next
week, is being very actively carried on,
but as far as can be judged, the situa
tion is not materially changed. There
are certain rumors regarding the candi
dacy of Hon. Onalow Stearns, one of
which is that h 9 contemplated with
drawing bis name from the contest, bat
it is authoritatively denied. The corn
test is growing very warm and the friends
of both Hon. E. H. Hollins Mid Mr.
Stearns claim increasing strength.
A pair of pantaloons containing sl4l
were blown away by the Fremont (la.)
hurricane. We suspect the wearer dnng
to a sapling; but his suspender buttons
couldn’t have been sewed on very strong-
Jjr.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
NORTH GEORGIA.
The Virwifof a KlncaMo Cerreopeadeat.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
I have been a cross road and public
black smith shop politician ever since
the advent of Gen. Tay’or into the poli
tical arena and am pretty well known in
my “beat” ss a tolerable safe “prognosti
cator”'in political matters. The people
of Georgia are tired and disgusted with
convention trickery, and will not abide
by what any convention does unless it
is done in candor and fairness. It has
already gone fresh to the people that
General Colquitt is the political cat’s
paw of the Smith, Atlanta and railroad
rings, therefore his defeat, if nominated,
is certain by an independent candidate
with the Radical vote and disaffected
wing of the Democratic party combined.
A “little leaven leaveneth the whole
lamp,” vide onr last Congressional
election in this district. It was thought
by the people that Col. Trammell was
nominated by frand and trickery, hence
Dr. Felton’s election. I predict the
same result in the ensuing Gubernatori
al election if a fair and honest states
man is not nominated—one whom the
people have confidence in; a well tried
and true man, and one not controlled by
rings and combinations. Our Demo
cratic ship is on a tempestous sea at tbi9
time, and noless the Hon. H. V. John
son can be indneed to cry to the troubled
waters peace, be still, she will strand on
the reefs of independent candidacy. He
is the people’s choice, and one in whom
they know there is no gnile.
Cboss Roads.
McDuffie county.
Little Riveb, June 12, 1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
A large meeting assembled at Thom
son on Friday last, ostensibly to listen
to a lecture by an officer of the National
Grange. The lecture was delivered, it
is true, but rather a political significance
was given to the meeting from the fact
that several of those who figured as
leading spirits in a political meeting re
cently held in Columbia county were
observed to appear suddenly amongst
the active workers in McDuffie.
We ask in all candor: Is it interest in
the Grange movement alone that causes
our visiting brethren to display such a
self-sacrificing devotion to the cause ?
Has a distinguished citizen of Augusta,
who takes a peculiar pleasure in ad
dressing the people “upon topics al
together foreign to politics,” found a
better means of reaching his plantation
by traveling via Thomson ? Why did
he not bring his “critter” company to
visit McDuffie ? He knows the full value
of cavalry, and especially in making
rapid political evolutions —their supe
riority over “raw infantry” is unques
tioned. Did the “ President of the Dem
ocratic party" who sings “Hail Colum
bia” to a high tenor in candidate Col
quitt’s chair, come amongst ns with his
pockets stuffed fall of whereas and reso
lutions in behalf of any seeker after the
office of Governor ? Is it true that the
“President of the Democratic party ”
has more authority to call a meeting
than a Chairman of an Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party ? Be
lieving that the “Patrons” are (as some
of them profess) neutral (?) in politics
and religion, it is bat natural to inquire
“Why are these things thus ?”
. Stbathmobe.
EDGEFIELD COUNTY.
Letter From Fine House—The Harmon Mur
derers—Chamberlalo’s Proclamation—Pre
paring for Wnr—Radical Rascals—Crop
Notes, dke.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Pine House, S. 0., June 12.— Since
Governor Chamberlain’s letter to Judge
Carpenter and proclamation, read in
open Court last Monday to the grand
jury, times have quieted down consid
erably, but on the 9th instant, just on
the eve of Governor Chamberlain leav
ing for the Cincinnati Convention, he
issued another proclamation offering a
reward of 3200 for the arrest and deliv
ery of any of the murderers of six per
sons, the murderers of John and Cathe
rine Harmon. It is estimated one hun
dred and fifty persons were engaged in
this deed, making a pretty little sum to
be paid by the tax payers of this county,
in addition to the large amount which
the County Treasurers of this oouuty
have stolen since November, 1868, which
the tax payers have to make good. No
reward has ever been paid for these
Radical thieves. It is said Hubbard,
with several leading Radical office
holders, intends to commence making
arrests soon. Prince Rivers has already
been applied to for his battalion in
Hamburg, and they a* sow drilling and
waiting for marching orders. The Win
ter Seat Guards are on the look-out, and
will yet give some of the Deputy United
States Marshals and Probate Judges,
and others about Edgefield Court Houses
a warm reception before the Summer is
out. Crops of small grain are fine,
moat of which have been harvested in
fine condition. Crops of corn and cot
ton are clean about the Pine House.
JolinH. McDevitt, the absconding Treas
urer, and J. Henry Johnson, the forger
of county checks, are still at large. It
is said they have left their old haunt
about Wolly Town and gone en to the
Cincinnati Convention, and thence to
the Centennial Exhibition. No reward
offered (to be paid out of the county
funds) for their persona. They are ex
empt from punishment, being furnished
means of escape. No Court of Common
Pleas until the second Monday in July
and expenses of Court, as honest John,
the Treasurer, has stolen all the money
and gone. Are we never to have any
better state of affairs in Edgefield ? It
would seem there is a stopping place
some where, and there Bhouid be a
remedy applied speedily for some of
these grievance#. Observes.
JACKSON, WALTON AND GWINNETT.
Letter Froai Our Traveling t'orrrspwuitrnl.
Juo Tavebn, June 10, 1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Jug Tavern is situated at the corner of
three counties —Gwinnett, Walton and
Jackson. It is 24 miles from Athens,
18 miles from Lawrenceville and 20
miles from the Air Line Railroad. The
country around ia rich. The farmers
are in good standing. There is one dry
goods store, kept by Mr. B. F. Stanton,
assisted by James H. Kilghore as olerk.
Mr. Stanton is mnch esteemed and does
a large business. He has a fine stock of
goods and sells at low prices, which is
quite a feature with the country mer
chants.
There is a post office, kept by Mr. S.
H. House, a most worthy gentleman.
Mrs. L. E. Bush resides here. Mrs.
Bush several years ago discovered the
great remedy for burns, and known as
Mrs. Bush’s specific cure for barns and
scalds. It has gained quite a reputa
tion, and has proved good in all oases.
Mr. W. H. Bash, husband of Mrs. Bash,
is just finishing np one of the most ele
gant mansions, as a residence, in all
this country. The house contains
twelve large rooms, two large hall
ways, and verandahs Tanning almost
all round the house. All the rooms
have been plastered. The* situation of
the residence is excellent, it having been
built on an elevated place and shaded
by * dense forest of oak, poplar and
chestnut trees. Mr. Bash has gone to
great expense to bnild such a large and
expensive residence in the country, but
he has chosen a delightful place.
Here there is a sober moral class of cit
izens which will make this country desira
ble and cause strangers to settle among
them. Several have settled in the com
muuity in the last few months—one of
whom, Dr. C. H. Clark, a young doctor
of great ability and learning. He stands
high in his profession. He was encour
aged, and with his great skill has gained
quite a reputation in the short time of
two months. He is considered
by all as one of the most
successful men ia his profession
that has ever been in the country. Also
located near is Dr. Saunders, a man of
experience and learning. He has a
large practice, and is much esteemed by
all. The Doctor practices in three
counties, averaging ten miles around,
in Walton, Jackson and Gwinsstt. I
find in my visiting around in the three
counties all the farmers busily engaged
catting wheat, and from inquiring of
them, I learn that their crops will yield
more than they expected some time back.
I will enclose in this letter to yon
eighteen new subscribers to the Chroni
cle and Sentinel, to be sent to Jug
Tavern. These, Kith what I had, will
more than double any other paper that
oomes to this office. Tha Chronicle
and Sentinel has many warm friends
here, some of whom have been taking it :
for thirty years. The people want it, as
one gentleman said to m* yesterday, he
knew it was reliable and sound, and
could not be bought np, and then# never
was any aeandal brought against it for
the fifty yean he kwev it, and that was
the paper itt all persons should take in
the country. G. W. N.
Art received rather an awkward criti
cism from a free-and-easy young maw
who recently met a sculptor in a social
eircU and addressed him thus: Br—et
—so you are the man—er —that makes—
er-mud heads?” And this was the
artist's reply: “Er-c-er—not all of em; I
didn't make yours."
The checked and striped Rummer
gream-tinted and brown, for ex
ample, one combined with dark leaf
brown silk# into loyal/ suits.
THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Solicitor Lotnpkiu Withdraws His H|#itv
tisa.
Atlanta, Ga, May 25,1876.
Governor — For reasons which I have
this day given yon in person, I hereby
tender to yon my resignation of the
office of Solicitor-General of the North
ern Judicial Circuit, to take effect on
the first day of June, next. I have all
the while been profoundly grateful for
the honor conferred upon me by yonr
Excellency in twice appointing me to the
office mentioned. The prompt attention
yon have at all times given to calls made
upon yon for Executive aid in the arrest
of offenders, and in the advancement of
public justice has won for yon the
thanks of the people of onr Circuit, and
of the whole State of Georgia. I beg
leave to remain very truly and respect
fully yours, Samuel Lumpkin.
His Excellency, James M. Smith, At
lanta, Ga.
State of Georgia, Executive Dep’bt, (
Atlanta, Ga, Jane 6, 1876. j
Hon. Sam’l Lumpkin, Lexington, Oa. :
Dear Sib— Yonr resignation of the
office of Solicitor-General of the North
ern Circuit, to take effect on the first
instant, has been duly considered. A
due regard for the public interest re
quires that yonr resignation should not
be accepted at this time. I have, there
fore, to request that yon withdraw it,
or otherwise inform me that yon do not
insist upon its acceptance. If .you can
possibly do so I trust that yon will con
tinue to hold the office nntil the eDd of
yonr term. Please answer this at an ear
ly day. I am, dear sir, yours respectful
ly, James M. Smith.
Atlanta, Ga, June 9, 1876.
Governor— ln reply to yonr letter of
6th instant, I beg leave to say that in
compliance with your request, I hereby
withdraw my resignation of the office of
Solicitor-General of the Northern Cir
cuit, and will hold ont my term till it
expires by operation of law. Very re
spectfully, Samuel Lumpkin.
His Excellency James M. Smith.
THE COTTON CROP.
Report of the Savannah Department of the
National Cotton Exchange for May.
The Committee of the Savannah Cot
ton Exchange submit the following re
port for the month of May, condensed
from the replies of correspondents from
sections allotted to them by the National
Cotton Exchange:
Georgia—There were one hundred
and thirty-five replies from sixty-eight
counties—average date May 28. The
decrease in land planted in cotton as
compared with last year has been 10 per
cent. The weather has been remarkably
seasonable since the plant commenced
to grow, but the Spring was late and
planting was delayed. The stands of
cotton are generally good—better than
last year. Although the ctop was put
in the ground much later than nsual, it
has been able to catch up in a great
measure from the fine season, so that it
is not‘behind more than five to eight
days. Owing to the necessities of the
times, labor is both more abundant and
more efficient. In sections where fertil
izers have been generally used the in
crease over the previous season has been
fully 20 per cent. The condition of the
crop is unprecedentedly fine. The fields
are free from grass, and the plant,
though small, is growing off well. Ow
ing to the failure of the corn crop last
year, the increase of land pat in grain
has been in proportion to the decrease
in the acreage of cotton, and to make
the grain crops more effective it is esti
mated that nearly 25 per cent, of the
commercial manures sold this season
have been placed upon these crops.
Florida—There were 31 replies from
16 counties—average date May 27. Tne
decrease in the area devoted to cotton
has been from 12 to 15 per cent. The
SpriDg was a backward one, but for the
last month the weather has been more
favorable than last year. The stands of
cotton are generally good, although the
plant is small, and complaint of cut
worms in some localities. The crop is
put down as being about two weeks
later than last year.
Labor is abundant and efficient, but
the soaroity of corn and the want of
money is a serious drawback to the em
ployment of laborers. The present con
dition of the crop is good, but back
ward, But little commercial fertilizers
have ever been used in this State, but
planters are turning their attention
more generally to the making of ma
nures at home.
A BANKS COUNTY ROW.
Hon. J. J. Turnbull Tackles an Atlanta Man
In a Church—A Square Country Tussle.
[Atlanta Telegram.]
A rioh story has come to us adown
the grape vine telegraph. It appears
that Mr. H. K. Shackleford, a renown
ed temperance lecturer, went over to
Banks county to make an anti-whisky
speech. He was invited into the church
as the only public building available in
Homer, and launched out into a lively
speech. At length be said that “ Every
member of the Legislature had sworn
falsely when they took the oath of office,
in swearing that they had not treated or
bought whisky to secure their election.”
This was pretty rough, and Jim Turn
bull, the member from Banks, who was
sitting in the audience, arose and de
manded to know whether he “had un
derstood the speaker aright.” “Oh ! I
except the honorable gentleman from
this county,” replied Mr. Shackleford
quiokly. “But that isn’t enough,” re
joined Mr. Turnbull, still standing on
his feet, while the excitement was in
tense. “I demand to know whether
yon mean to assert that any member of
the Georgia Legislature swore falsely
when he took hi# oath of office.” —
“ I do,” rejoined Mr. Shackleford.
“Then I pronounce the statement a lie,”
shouted Mr. Turnbull, “and if it were
not for the ladies present you would
have to take it back or whip me, right
here.” M J say that the members from
Fulton county did treat to whisky dur
ing the canvass, and then took the oath
of office, which makes them deny that
they ever did any such thing. And I
say that the Mayor and Council did the
same thing, and I have the documents
to prove it,”
The excitement was terribly high, and
it was found that a row would ensue.
Mr. Shackleford left the pulpit, and Mr.
Turnbull, was called by the most en
thusiastic shouts to make a talk. He
did so, aud made a rattling reply. Ad
verting to a statement of Mr. Shackle
ford that he wouldn’t yote for any man
who ever took a drink, he said : “Now
I know that Mr. Bayard, who is lively
to be the Democratic candidate for
President, does like his toddy. I know
that Mr. Morton, who is likely to be the
Radical candidate, is a temperance man.
Now, I suppose Mr. Shackleford would
vote for Mr. Morton.” This, our infor
mant says, created tho impression that
Mr. Shackleford was Radical, and
the boya came very near mounting him.
When Mr. Shackleford left, he promised
Mr. Tarnbull that he wojfld come back
and canvass the county against him,
Mr. Turnbull was equally positive in
promising Mr. Shackleford that if he
tried that little game, he would have
him “ridden out of county on a
rail.” The above is the account just as
it oomes to ns.
THE JGffLPRADO DUEL.
The Starv ol the Tragic Affair—Cause of the
qsarrel—An Unequal Content—The Mur
derer Escapes In the Darkness.
Denver, Col., June 9.— Last evening
intelligence reached this city that a fatal
encounter had taken place between two
well-known cattle raisers, at River Bend
station, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad,
fifty-six miles east of this place. The
particulars of the affair are ascertained
to b# as follows: It seems that about
noon ysstorday some difficulty occurred
between a man numed O. Davis, late
station agent at River Rend, and one of
his employees. Alfred D. Jo®sap, Jr.,
was standing by and espoused the cause
of the subordinate to the great irritation
of Davis. High words soon followed,
and blows, if not worse, seemed immi
nent. But quarrels in ,the section in
which the affair took place are frequent,
especially among herders, and the few
people aronnd took no special notice of
the disturbance. Presently Davis and
Jessnp were observed going ont on the
prairie together, bill neither at that time
displayed any noticeable anger or excite
ment. In a short time, however, shots
were heard, and then toe men about toe
station reaped the true state of affairs.
The two men had gone about five hun
dred yards from the railway, nooliy
measured off a distance of fifty paces
and were blazing away at each other.
Jessnp was showing great excitement,
and was jumping’ wildly about among
thp cactus plants. He fired three shots
from hjp Revolver altogether at his an
tagonist, none #f which took effect.
Davis, on the contrary, yras wonderfully
cool and collected. Standing perfectly
still, he took steady aim with hi# Win
chester ride, and fired two shots, the
second taking effect in Jeeeup’a right
aide and piercing heart, just as the
excited spectators reached the opene of
toe tragedy. Jessup lived only tew
minnViW His slayer continued Jto dis
play toe wostLamajkable coolness, help
ing to carry to® body to 4 he station.
Upon being questioned in regard to the
tragic affair, Davis stated toat Jessnp
had not only token UP toe quarrel of an
employee, making it hi# own, but follow
ed it np with a challenge to fight, each
to chose his own weapon. Davis ac
cepted and selected a Winchester rifle,
apd Jessnp chose his Colt’s navy revol
yOf, The contest was an unequal one,
not only as to weapons bat as to men,
Davis being a crack shot and Jessnp a
mere novice with the pistol. Many do
not believe Davis’ story that his victim
was the challenging party, as Jessnp
was never known to have been engaged
in any difficulty of a serious nature be
fore, and it ia pnt down to his credit
that he lost his life through his earnest
desire to see fair play and because he
believed a man was being unjustly as
sailed. Soon after dark Davis mounted
s horse and disappeared. As yet no at
tempt has been made to arrest him.
Jeesup’s body was brought here to-day.
It will be embalmed and sent East.
THE BEAUFORT TRAGEDY.
Farther Aceaanu of the Recent Sateide of
the Wife of Commander Smith.
[Correspondence of the New York Herald.]
Beaufort, 8. C., June s.— The pro
found and monotonous quiet of this
venerable village was rudely disturbed
on Saturday evening last by the report
of the snicide of the wife of Comman
der F. R. Smith, of the navy, which
took place at the Sea Island Hotel. In
quiries promptly established the truth
of the melancholy story. It appears
that, on Tuesday last, Commander
Smith, who had lived happily with his
wife since his marriage in 1871, came
across a letter addressed to his wife by
a person now connected with a naval
vessel at Philadelphia, in which expres
sions were used which excited grave sus
picions in his mind of the fidelity of his
wife. Subsequent discoveries made in
letters intercepted in the mail seemed to
confirm the captain’s most painful ap
prehensions. With the tell-tale docu
ments in his hand he confronted his
wife, and for several days she refused to
acknowledge the charge; but ou Sat
urday, before a mntual friend, she
confessed the commission of
deeds of infidelity with the person
now in Philadelphia, and did not deny
her guilty connection with an officer of
the fleet at Port Royal. Upon this most
painful and astonnding confession. Cap
tain Smith consulted his friend, whose
advice was very simple. It was to in
stantly separate from his wife, taking
the little girl, sole fruit of the union,
with him, and making proper provisions
for his wife’s future well being. When
this decision was announced by Capt.
Smith to his wife she promptly but
firmly replied that she would separate
from him, but that she would not go
North or receive a single penny support
from him. As soon as the separation
had been arranged, it seems that Mrs.
Smith went over to the druggists and
purchased an ounce of laudanum for
neuralgic pains, as she alleged, which
she took in one draught. Before, how
ever, this immense dose was fatal she
retired to her room, and, taking a Rem
ington breech-loading ship’s pistol, she
placed the muzzle to her left breast and
fired, the heavy ball passing through her
body and through the blinds of the
window. Strange enough, the shot was
not heard in the hotel, although in the
adjoining house it was very apparent. It
was, perhaps, fifteen minutes before
the mortally wounded woman was
discovered, and then she was lying
on the fl(jor, her life blood ebbing
rapidly on and over the carpet.. She
died in about one hour, but never spoke
a word or appeared to be conscious of
what was going on about her. The nar
cotic effects of the poison, with the loss
of blood, undoubtedly produced this
comatose state. The laudanum would
have finally killed her, but she made
doubly sure by using the Remington. As
soon as the fact of her death was known
the coroner—Dr. Johnston, who, by the
way, is brother of Gen. Joe Johnston—
took possession of the remains, sum
moned a jury and held an inquest.
After taking a large amount of evidence,
the jury decided that the deceased had
come to her death by a pistol shot
wound inflicted by her own hand or by
the hand of someone unknown to
the jury. Yesterday, at 4 o’clock, the
erring woman was laid away in her
grave in the old Episcopal burying
ground, attended by a very few friends
and a handful of colored persons, drawn
thither by curiosity. The little daugh
ter of Captain Smith, now about two
years old, will be sent North to be
brought up and educated. Capt. Smith
will doubtless give up the command of
his vessel, the Saugus, and seek new
scenes, where .he may forget the terrible
outrage committed upon him. He has
the sympathy of all his fellow-officers
and the community at large.
[From the Beaufort Commercial.]
A nurse, Marion L. Lambert, was the
first person to go to the room and find
the body, and thinking that Mrs. Smith
had fainted gave the alarm, when other
parties, together with the husband of
the deceased, went to the room and
lifted her on the bed. She was still
alive and Dr. Stuart was sent for. He
testified that before being sent for he
had heard, while lying on a lounge in
the house adjoining the hotel, the re
port of a gun or pistol “with the ppeu
liar sound as if it were shot in a room.”
He found her lying on the bed with her
dress torn open and her underclothing
blackened with powder and satuated
with blood. The bullet had entered
immediately bellow the nipple of the
left breast and had passed through the
lungs, coming ont at the back, and the
next day it was discovered that the ball
had passed through the blinds of the
window to the west. The deceased only
a short time before the shooting had
purchased some laudanum stating that
she was suffering from neuralgia. She
had left in her work basket at the hotel
a memorandum stating that she died
perfectly sane, and wished and willed
that whatever property she possessed or
that might come to her, her husband
should have full benefit of, and at his
death to go to her child. The weapon
was a single barrelled pistol, breech
loader of large calibre.
HOME CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT.
Blaine, and Hid Wealth—Senatar Conk
line, With Moderate Fortune—Bristow,
Thurman nnd Bayard—How They Live
and Let Live in Washington.
[From tfie Troy Times.]
The misfortunes of Blaine are mainly
attributed to his operations in land
grant railroads and wild-cat speculations
which were affected by Congressional
legislation while he was Speaker of the
Honse. Hi# operations of this sort are
proved by hi# own admission and by his
own signature. There can be no doubt
that the chief anxiety of Blaine’s friends
has long been his evident and unex
plained wealth. According to his own
statement he is worth at least $250,000.
I do'not undertake to say how Blaine
obtained his wealth, but he certainly
must be the possessor of a competency.
At his home in Augusta, Maine, be
owns a large honse, occupying a con
siderable tract of ground in the central
part of the city, with all the accompani
ments and equipments of an establish
ment of a man of wealth. That house
is maintained the year round. He has
six children. One lad is at Harvard,
another in Yale. Blaine has often said
that it cost him abont $2,500 to support
each of these two boys in college. The
college expenses of these two boys near
ly consume Blaine’s entire salary as
Congressman. While in Washington,
Blaine lives in a honse owned by him
self, upon which Jay Cooke A Cos., as
their mortgage reoords in the bank
ruptcy court show, were willing to loan
$33,333 33), and which is wortn at its
present value probably a little less than
that sum. The appointments of this
bouse are on as expensive a scale, so far
as ontward appearance go, as the houses
of his immediate neighbors, Fernando
Wood and Hamilton Fish, the latter be
ing botb millionaires. Blaine has been
in tho habit of giving dinner parties
here daring the season, sometimes as
many as three and fonr in a month.
These parties, considering the number
of the guests and the character of the
table, coaid not cost less than SSOO
each. Mr. Blaine keeps no carriage,
but the hire for the necessary livery for
the fficial calls of bis family mast be
quite equal, in the course of the season,
to the expense of a private establish
ment. His family dress well and in the
style of most gentle folks. It is pos
sible that ladies might say that Mrs.
Blaine, at times, is dressed expensively.
Mr. Blaine’s entire ontward life is that
of & man of wealth. He keeps no horses
for his own use or pleasure. Walking
is his favorite exercise, ol which he does
a great deal. He generally walks from
bis house to toe Capitol and back again
each day, about three miles, and seldom
pats bis toot iijsjde a street car. At a
very moderate estimate,. Blaine’s per
sonal and family expenditures oaijppt
b# less than SIS,QQO to $20,000. He
represent# that lie has considerable in
come from mining lands in Pennsyl
vania.
Senator Conkling is a man of moder
ate fortune, and always enjoyed a lucra
tive law practice in addition to his sala
ry as Senator. He has a modest honse
at Utica, where his family mainly reside.
Sometimes Mr. Conkling has brought
hi# family here for the Winter, and has
kept house, bat Mrs. Conkling’s feeble
health is not usually equal to the de
mands of her position in’Washington so
ciety, and she is understood to prefer
the quiet of her own home. This Win
ter Mr. Conkling lived at Wormley’s, a
private family hotel. Conkling, for the
purpose of keeps a single horse,
afme black animal, which be driyes
about top suburbs in the stolen half
hoar# which the fragmentary intervals
of a bu#y bfe allow him. The greatest
men in Wto>ngtpp and to the world
are the busiest opes. Hr. Conkling ia
seldom seen to what is called Washing
ton society, Once or twice in a Winter
one may see him at the receptions of the
President, bnt he seldom goes in gener
al society. He is too mnch occupied.
His office and the Senate chamber are
his workshops.
Secretary Bristow, last Fall, took a
famished house on K street, one of the
most fashionable localities in the city.
Before that he had boarded with hja
family at the Arlington. The house is
handsomely furnished. Mrs. Bristow is
a lady of dignity, cultivation and refine
ment, and nnnsnal charms of person and
manner. Bristow is a comfortable liver.
His table is well kept. A Kentucky
gentleman, whenever he has ahorse, has
a good one. Bristow’s fine team of
bright bay carriage horses are of the
best Kentucky stock, and are not sur
passed in the city. His carriage is of
modem landau. Nearly every afternoon
he is seen in the Park for an hoar with
hie wife taking an airing after Treasury
hoars. Bristow, in his own right, is
worth about SII,OOO. Mrs. Bristow in
herited from her father a very large for
tune. Bristow is executor of the estate.
The habit of life of the Bristows is that
of well-to-do gentle people, and is quite
within their known means.
Thurman’s wealth is estimated at at
least $1,000,000. A rise in some West
ern real estate speculations in his resi
dent city of Ohio was the basis of his
large fortune. He still owns a large
tract of land there in the central part of
the city. He is said, besides, to be a
“bloated bondholder.” In Washington
he lives in a large double honse on
Fourteenth street, recently purchased
and remodelled. His son-in-law, Mc-
Cormick, formerly delegate from Ari
zona Territory, occupies one-half of the
honse. It is said the reason why the
honse was remodelled was to have fine
headquarters for campaign purposes. It
has not thus far been used as such to
very good effect. Thnrman considers
Washington as his home and spends
much of his time here, even in the vaca
tions of Congress. Daring the last Con
gressional campaign he did so, taking
no part in the canvass, a course for
which he was severely criticised at
at home. Thurman keeps a modest es
tablishment,
Bayard is a man of considerable for
tune, inherited from his father. He
lives here in his own honse, entertains
moderately and keeps a fine turnout.—
His salary as Senator must be an insig
nificant portion of his annual income.—
The principal Presidential candidates in
Washington are not poverty stricken.
OU R CHARLESTON LETTERS
LOOKING SEAWARD.
Charleston— Business Out-Look—Whipper’s
Folly—The Centennial—Handsome Houses
—Appreciation of Georgia’s Scenery—Snlli
van’s Island—The Radical Officials—News
paperdom—A Dyspeptic Writer.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
A Well Organized Railroad.
Charleston, S. C., June 12th, 1876.
One of the most pleasant roads to
travel on in the Soathern country is the
South Carolina Railroad. Its road-bed
is in splendid order, the officials are ex
tremely courteous to 4he traveling pub
lic, the schedule time is faithfully ob
served, and the regularity, system and
neatness everywhere observable in the
management, prove that it is in good
hands. These remarks are made in all
honesty after careful observations on a
trip from Augusta to Charleston.
Business Out-Look.
For some time the rice interest has
been somewhat affected by the lack of
rain, bnt the heavy showers of the past
two days have caused a most pleasant
revulsion of feeling, and the
rice planters are happy again. I had a
pleasant interview with Hon. C. G. Mem
minger, Geo. W. Williams, Esq., Presi
dent of the Carolina Savings Bank; Dr.
Andrew Simonds, President of the First
National Bank; 0. O. Witte, Esq., Pres
ident of the People's National Bank, and
they all speak hopefully of the business
prospects for the Fall. Some few there
are—and they will be found in all com
munities—who are disposed to look on
the dark side of a matter, but generally
the feeling is hopeful and encouraging.
Furchgott, Benedict k Cos. occupy a
place to the first rank of the dry goods
men. This firm has branch houses at
Savannah, Atlanta and Jacksonville,
Fla. Max Furchgott, the senior part
ner in Charleston, took especial pains to
show attentions to your correspondent.
It is understood Mr. Furchgott will soon
lead to the altar a well known belle of
Middle Georgia.
Whipper’s Prospects.
There is a report current that the no
torious W. J. Whipper intends to make
an effort to obtain his seat on the bench
judicial vi et armis, sometime in Au
gust. In this foolish piece of presump
tion he has the moral courage to sup
pose he will be backed in the attempt
by the Federal troops. The white peo
ple of Charleston have, it is quite evi
dent, made up their minds that Whip
per shall never perform judicial service
in that end of the State. Judge Reed
is a great favorite with the bar, and is a
gentleman whose fine presence, refined
manners and legal attainments impresses
everybody with whom he is thrown in
contact. He will stay where he is, and
W. J. Whipper will stay out.
Hurrah for Centennial !
The topie uppermost ih the minds of
people here just now is the approaching
Southern Centennial, and already the
notes of preparation are heard. Bar
num’s big tent, which will accommo
date under its shade fully 3,009 people,
will be erected near Fort Moultrie.—
Charlestonians dwell with pleasure on
the fact that Georgia will be so largely
represented by her military, and they
will receive a warm reception. Particu
lar inquiry was made of your corre
spondent what companies would repre
sent Augusta, and he replied he thought
possibly fonr might attend.
Til# Dwellings.
George W. Williams, Esq., is build
ing a SIOO,OOO house, ana it is being
ereoted on old time principles—by days
work. He is a gentleman who enjoys
the good things of life, and a visit even
to his office in the bank is pleasurable,
adorned as it is with choice paintings
and beautiful flowers. It smooths off
the rough edges of business and pats
the subjects of discount, exchange and
interest in a shape to be more interest
ing to the average borrower than when
the business is transacted in an office
filled with sharp angles where the line
of beauty would not dare to attempt
to effect a lodgment. Speaking of fine
bouses, your representative paid a visit
to the home of Dr. Andrew Simonds on
the Battery. It is a magnificent man
sion and fitted with great taste and ele
gance. As the hostess is a lady who has
made quite a reputation as an artist, as a
natural consequence, the walls are cov
ered with fine paintings, chief among
which were noticed a number of Geor
gia soenes. The view from the upper
balcony of the house, looking out from
the studjo of Mrs- Simonds, is charm
ing. The forts and islands in tfye dis
tance, the beautiful river with its ever
changing soenes a# the swift sailing
yachts and pleasure boat# skim its sur
face, while the crowd of promenaders
on the battery below, and the numbers
of equestrians and handsome carriages
rolling along, while the strains of one
of Strauss’ masterpieces, are interpreted
by the United States post band, made
the scene, as, I viewed it on Saturday af
ternoon, one hard to be surpassed.
The Southern Lobe Breach.
Why it is people in this section will
run off to I/ong Branch and Newport,
because they want sea air, is bard to un
derstand, when they can enjoy the same
advantage so much nearer home, and
costing so little. I refer to Sullivan’s
Island, and a hasty visit to it charmed
me. Jt ha# a beaoh over fonr miles long,
and at low tide is 150 yards wide, and
hard as a wooden floor. The surf bath
ing is a# safe as that of Long Branch.
Already, nearly 300 oottages, from the
modest one of two rooms to the more
pretentious building of twenty, have
been ereoted. The building owned
by C. O. Whitte, Esq., which is so
mnch larger than the rqst that people
call it a “Castle,” cost nearly $30,-
000. The accommodations for the pub
lic are fair, consisting of a hotel called
the “Moultrie Honse,” kept by Mrs.
Gidier, and many other boarding houses.
At the Moultrie I had the pleasure of
meeting James A. Gray, Esq., of Augus
ta. His family intend to spend the
Summer on the Island. There are sev
eral very desirable houses to let at from
SSQ to $151) for %e season. Coffin,
real estate dealer, has rented nearly a
dozen houses within the past week, and
he has abont the same number which he
offers )o the pnbiic for rental. He is a
gentleman whose representations cun be
relied pn, end by consulting some of his
advertisements in the Chronicle and
Sentinel, those desiring houses can
easily be accommodated.
Overfed Official*.
While the somewhat careworn counte
nances of the average Charlestonian
strike the eye of the observant stranger,
the well kept carcasses of the alien
white nffiee holders and political vam
pires are offensively prominent These
a&pmare easily detected tbw VWrtof
darkey fotielmen' and officials** are cer
tainly the most’ respectable in manners
and general behavior. However, it does
not appear natural to see a darkey po
liceman o horseback fide np to * white
policeman and reprimand him for some
triyiM violations of the rifles governing
t&e force, which, b/ to# way, are very
stript Indeed
' A visit to the establishments of the
Ngw and Courier and Journal of Com
merce shows that both papers are doing
well. There is a business bnstling wav at
the News and Courier that gives token
of assured success. The Journal is back
ed, it is said, by a company having means.
The gentleman in the Journal office with
whom I conversed wan somewhat reti
cent about the paper.
Lame on His Facts.
A few days sinoe, one of the writers in
the News and Courier had a slashing ar
ticle on the ill sucoess of Southern rail
roads, in a financial point of view. The
subject was handled in a style to lead
one to think the writer was laboring un
der a severe fit of dyspepsia. Col. S. K.
Johnson, of the Oeorgia Railroad, hap
pening to be at the Charleston Hotel on
the day the article appeared, I asked
him for his opinion. He quietly intima
ted it did not apply to the Georgia Rail
road, and insanoed a case which has
just come to his notice,jwhere a North
ern man who held several shares of
stock since the war and had never drawn
the dividends came South on business,
and called at the office to draw his divi
dends, was astonished to find a credit of
S6B a share, which was handed him.
Benefits of Advertising.
I found Langley’s celebrated shirt
factory in full blast. He sells a fine
article and at a low figure. Speaking of
the benefits of advertising in the Chbon
icle and Sentinel, he showed me an
order book, on the pages of which ap
peared the names of some of the most
prominent men in Augusta and vicinity.
A First Class Hotel.
At the Charleston Hotel can be found
all the conveniences and luxuries of a
hotel with all th 9 modern improvements.
It is largely patronized by visitors from
Augusta, which is in a measure due to
J. W. Lee, formerly of the Planters’ in
Augusta. He and Mr. Butterfield are
hotel clerks who treat travelers courte
ously, and with whom it is a pleasure to
transact basiness. I find this letter is
spinning out to a length I did not in
tend, so au revoir for the present. F.
A Severe Storm—Freaks of the Wind and
Waves—Scene from the Battery—Trees and
Fences Blown Down—Closing of a Lottery
Office by the Police—Carrying Oil' the Spoils
—The Superintendent Stabbed.
|Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Charleston, June 13.—Since early
Sunday morning up to the present time
the rain has been falling in torrents. —
Yesterday a heavy wind swept the sheets
of water through window crevices and
houses that were hitherto thought water
tight leaked like seives. In some of the
streets trees and fences were blown
down and from all appearances one
might have judged that another deluge
had commenced. Some of the wharves
were completely covered by water and
the ships in the harbor were tossed to
and fro by tempestuous waves. To those
who delight in hearing “the wild waves
thunder on the shore,” a stand at the
Battery might have awakened the wild
est feelings of emotioD within their
breasts. The wind fairly shrieked
through the trees as it bent their branch
es low to earth, while angry billows lash
ed the stone breakwater and then from
snowy crest dashed foamy spray high in
air, which was soon lost sight of in the
liquid sheets of rain which fell from the
flood gates of Heaven. Heavy leaden
clouds gathered thick and fast, and
seemed only to burst that others more
dense and gloomy might take their
place. So far no serious results have
have been reported but it is generally
believed that the ships ontside, and the
rice fields, have been more or less dam
aged by the fury of the gale.
Singular Proceedings.
A few days ago anew lottery
company opened in George street,
after having obtained a license from the
city, but just as the drawing wheel was
set in motion about twenty policemen,
commanded by a lieutenant, seized upon
their machinery and moved it to the
guard house. This, I understand, was
by order of the Mayor. Two other lot
tery companies, of the same kind, have
been ill full blast in the city for several
years and yet no police are sent to in
terfere with them. The punishment
provided by the Revised Statutes of
South Carolina for opening a lottery is
one thousand dollars fine and twelve
months imprisonment in the common
jail; but the party or parties must be so
convicted at the Court of General Ses
sions. By what authority the Mayor
shuts up one pottery office and leaves
two to gather m small change is yet to
be known. Mr. Mathews, the superin
tendent of the defunct lottery, was
severely cut in the face while at his
office, yesterday afternoon, by a Mr.
Woodward. Yiroinius.
HOW A MORMON PROPOSES.
The Love Letter a Saintly Elder Sent to a
Young Woman—A Mixture of Praiae 9 Piety
and JLoye.
[From the Salt Lake Tribune .]
The following pure, unadulterated
piece of cant was addressed to a young
Saintess, living in the Tenth Ward of
this city, by the Mormon elder whose
name is subscribed to it. We suppress
the name of the young woman for her
sake, and reproduce the epistle exactly
as it was written, that the elder may see
himself in print, and as another proof
of the lechery characteristic of Mormon
matrimony(?) Perhaps it is needless to
say that this was love’s labor lost;
[lntroductory Note.]
Charleston, Wasatch Couniy, May
82.—T0 , Dr Sister through cour
tecy of Matt Thompson a man on whom
I can put confidence in his word he has
been two nights at my place lately From
what he has told me about you I wish to
get acquainted with you Even before I
have the pleasure of seeing your person,
if you be a Smart Intelligent woman, as
he says you are A your spirit prove sub
ject the celestial Holy Sealing laws of
Heaven administered By the Holy preast
hood if you Dr Sister Be one of the
true Seed of the Blessed of Heaven that
came down here to humbly obay the
Sacrd Holy ordinances of the Celestial
Kingdom of our god if that was and is
your motto to serve the Lord your time
is Drawing nigh the Lord god whoom
we worship Will oppen up your way to
get out of bondage and from having to
be a slave to any one else Br Mathew
will be able to give you a Hint or two
about what sort of a man has sent you
this scrape He knows me this last four
teen years I mean what I say Every time
&I. always Intend to speak By the Dic
tates bf the Spirit of truth & I wish you
my Dr Sister to do the same in Return
the Spirit of truth frqm the Heavens has
last Night moved me & Impressed up
pon my Spirit to write to you Right
away Br Matthew Said about the Second
or third word He spoke at our first meet
ing that he knew my woman in Town
she will just Suit you Every way to a T
if you are an Intelligent Kindred Spirit
that will obay the truth of Heaven* for
the love of them then most assuredly
you are the one I have waited for this
last 14 years if so the lo,rd god has
a hand jn the matte? for I Have never
as yet fooled nor troubled my mind
about these things the Lord has pointed
out my path to walk in & I am bound
by secret Holy covenants to keep it with
the inspiration and aid of His Holy
spirit I. mean to travel on to once I meet
him In the clouds of Heaven
Dr Sistr this is Just my Every day Reli
gion k I mean to carry out on this Earth
Below if your speret cleeves to be one
with me in this great exultation the
Lord will open up your way to accom
plish the same
k I wish yoq to bp H°nest every way
and st^te'the true feelings of your Heart
in this all Important matter if you
Realy Believe in plurality say so if not
say so it is a secret Holy covenant for a
fullness of celestial Glory through all
Eternityß—
the Lord will Bring you Right into your
Right place if you ask his speret to do
so with a pure Humble Heart k you will
know the Dictates of the voices of the
true speret if you are the true seed
Which I verily Believe you are from the
Impressions I have felt on your behalf
Dr Sistr I wish you to answer these
things your self and state your mind to
me freely on these matters for they are
of great moment to every faithful Saint
in these last days who are or ought to be
willing when the proper time oome to
Humbly obey his Holy Revealed will
For the first Dr Sister I have all most
said enough But I feel os I would like to
see you or hear from you anyhow Mathew
will let you know a little about me I
think in truth and reality that you are
the right one the Lord hqs destined for
my cqmfort “fid your owu deliverance
and exaltation you ask the Lord in faith
ful prayer ko he will show you the truth
of my werds in your Behalf ash ®ud you
shall receive he Has Ee@u a hind father
to me Sihcp J carqe to this lower world
more SQ siuce ? came to, my mountain
Home if your spirit rejoices at these few
dictates then that ish hey to you yon
are the true one the Lord wishes to
bless through me to find out for yonrself
whether its of god or not for yonrpreas
ant k Eternal Exaltation.
Dr Sister I am not one ' par tikle afraid
to speak plain 2onest truth to yon if
you oe my favorite kindred spirit whioh
I never met yet on this Earth the Qod
whoom I daily worship will soon reveal
to ypu this Hidden matter may he ever
bless yon in the name of Jesus Christ
Amen Tours truly John S McAfee.
please write soon.
"■ yj
A gentleman living in Monroe county,
an applicant for a position as teaeher in
the pnhlio schools, sent a circular ask
ing for the recommendation of the patrons
of the school His circular stated that,
among other things,he proposed to teach
authography. One of the patrons sug
gested that he learn to spell it before at
tempting to teach it,
A CO-OPERATIVE STORE IN NEW YORK.’
A New Plaa of Runnln* Them.
A co-operative association, now in
successful operation in New York oity,
exhibits some features of interest in
showing another method. In Novem
ber, 1875, thirty gentlemen, of means
and position, united, under the laws of
the State, and opened a co-operative
store on Sixth Avenue for their own use
and benefit. Each member contributed
one hundred dollars in cash, and, under
the management of a board of directors,
a competent manager and four assist
ants were engaged at reasonable wages.
A small store was hired, a choice stock
of groceries purchased, a few simple
rules prepared, and the store went into
operation. By these rules each mem
ber makes all his purchases at the store,
and either pays cash or opens an ac
count that must be paid on the first day
of each month. The member has noth
ing to do beyond this. He pays in his
hundred dollars, foregoes all interest in
it, and expects no bonus or dividend of
auy kind. The profit comes in the re
duced cost of the goods. Once each
month the business of the store is exam
ined by an advisory board, and, if there
is a profit over the expenses, the prices
. are lowered sufficiently to extinguish it.
If there is a loss, the prices are raised
sufficiently to cover it during the next
month. The experiment has, so far,
worked smoothly, and proved a success.
The store not only snpplies the mem
bers with the best goods, but delivers
them free at their residences at a very
material reduction from the retail mar
ket rates. The store itself is perfectly
plain, and is exceptionally neat and at
tractive. There is no gilding or display
—not even a sign, except a card on tbe
door. It is only open at daylight, and
is only visited by the members. No
member is liable beyond the 8100 invest
ed on joining the association, and any
one may withdraw at auy time by giving
sufficient notice, and may theo recover
his money in the form of a gradual
abatement on his monthly purchases.—
Charles Barnard, Scribner for. June.
A FOND DU LAC TOOTH.
The Fond Du Lao Commonwealth
says: “ A man named Holland, living
out on the Foss farm, was attacked with
a severe toothache the other evening,
and he thought his head would split
open. He would sit down for a mo
ment, holding his face in one of his
hands, and groan. Then he would jump
up and pace the floor, and kick at some
thing that happened to lie in his course,
and then sit down and groan some
more. It was a bad case. Everybody
in the house was made miserable by the
man’s sufferings and lamentations. He
tried holding alum and salt in his mouth,
and binding horse radish leaves on the
outside of his jaw, but they did no good.
Finally somebody came across a copy of
Dr. Chase’s Receipt Book, and therein
was a balm for every ill. In two min
utes a receipt was selected and a courier
dispatched with it to a drug store in the
city to have it ‘put up.’ He returned in
due time, and a dose of the compound,
which contained among other ingredi
ents liberal quantities of ether and
chloroform, was administered. Pres
ently the toothache was relieved and the
patient felt himself gradually being
overpowered by sleep. The suspicion all
at once crossed his mind that he had
been poisoned. He became greatly alarm
ed, and appealed to those present, in a
frenzy of desperation, to save him from
his impending fate. A doctor was im
mediately sent for, and while the mes
senger was gone the alarm was commu
nicated to the neighbors. One of the
men seized a pail and rushed out into
the pasture, where he woke up a cow,
milked about a quart and hurried back
to the house. This the dying man drank,
and had just finished when another
neighbor name in and said that there
was nothing so sure an antidote for all
kinds of poison as raw eggs. Seven or
eight raw eggs were given the suffering
man, and he had just intimated that it
wasn’t possible for him to swallow an
other, when two more neighbors arrived
simultaneously—one bearing a can of
lard and the other a tea-saucer full of
coffee. The lady with the lard said that
they must help her to get some of it
down him right away—there wasn’t a
moment to lose—and the on 6 with the
coffee set about preparing a cup of that
beverage for the dying man, which, she
said, must be strong enough to hold up
an iron wedge. The unfortunate man had
got down about three-fourths of a tea
cupful of lard when the coffee was ready,
and he unbuttoned bis f waistcoat and
swallowed it. There seemed to be just
room enough left for it. Another neigh
bor came in and insisted that what the
patient needed was an emetic to throw
the poison out of the stomach. He said
the quicker they did something of that
kind the better it would be for him, and
that it was dangerous to delay the mat
ter a moment longer. They had pre
pared a quart bowl of strong salt and
water and were urging Holland to take
some of it when the doctor arrived. He
examined the contents of the bottle care
fully, tasted it, and then said: ‘This iB
all right; a very good remedy for tooth
ache and neuralgia—gives the patient a
rest for a time from his pain.’ ‘And
ain’t it poison?’ gurgled the man, who
was so full of new milk, raw eggs, lard,
coffee and salt water that he could
scarcely articulate, ‘ain’t it poison, doc
tor ?’ ‘Well, no; not exactly; and yet a
quart or two of it might kill a man—or
it might not—it would depend a good
deal on his condition. A man of your
health and constitution could easily get
away with a churn full of it.’ ”
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS.
A .Few Dots In Reference to the Coning
Celebrations.
The final celebration of the Graham
and Lee Societies, of the Washington-
Lee University, will take place on the
19th. Mr. Benj. Bettis, of South Caro
lina, receives the Graham-Lee debater’s
medal.
The annual commencement of New
Jersey College will take place this
month. On the 27th Gen. Chestnut, of
South Carolina (of the class of 1835),
will deliver the annual oration before
the Literary Societies. The alumni din
ner will take place on the next day.
The following is a list of Sophomore
declaimers selected to contend for the
two medals at the next commencement
of the University of Georgia: J. H.
Atkinson (D. S.), Senoia; J. H. Alexan
der (D. S.), Rome ; H. P. Cooper (D.
S.), Washington ; Coyle (D. S.),
Clarke county; P. W. Davis (D. S.),
Oglethorpe county; C. L. Floyd (D.
S.), Monroe county; A. R. Jones (D. S.),
Athens; G. H. Jackson (P. K. Si.), Au
gusta ; J. W. Morris (D. 8.), Athens j
B. Noble (P. K. S.), Athens ; W. L. C.
Palmer (P. K. S.), Warren county 3 S.
Tison (D. 8.1, Savannah ;8. M. Walker
(D. S.), Dalton j B. A. Walker (D. S.),
Dalton iH. G. White ( ), Milledge
vifie.
The fallowing young gentlemen have
been seleoted as speakers by the faculty,
to take part in the approaching com
mencement exeroises of Merger Uni
versity : A. 8. AndersoD, E. Z. F. Gol
den, W. J. Hughes, B. H. Ivey, W. D.
Jelks, M. A. Meroney, C. L. Moses, T.
E. Murphey, A. W. Shropshire, H. M.
Smith, 0. L. Stubbs, S. P. Wise. The
honors were divided as follows : First
honor—Mr. T. E. Murphey, of Barnes
ville, and Mr. H. M. Smith, of Macon.
Seoond honor—Mr. C. L. Moses, New
nan.
President I. F. Cox, of the Southern
Female College, of LaGrange, has onr
thanks for an invitation to attend the
oommenceme.nt exeroises of the South
ern Female College, of which the fol
lowing is the programme :
Written examination—Senior class,
13th and 14th instants. Examination
of undergraduates, 15th and 16th in
st ants. Commencement sermon by Rev,
J. H. DeVotie, D. D., 18th instil,■-
Junior exhibition—Address In Samuel
W. Small, Esq., 19th inatauf. Drama
and concert Monday night. Olionian
celebration—Address by Oapt. W. A.
Little, 2Qth instant. Grand concert
Tuesday night. Senior exhibition—Ad
dress by Joseph W. Moss, Esq., 21st
instant. The railroads will pass visit
ors on one fare. The public are respect
fully invited to attend.
The Commencement exeroises of far-
low Masonic Female College will begin
next Sunday, the 18th, with a sermon
by Dr. A. J. Hattie, President of Meroer
University, to. he followed on Monday
with the Sophomore exeroises; Monday
night, an address before the Folymnian
Society, by Bon. O, O. Kibbee, of Haw
kinsyille} Tuesday, 20th, Junior exhibi
tion; Tuesday night, grand concert and
delivery of prises, by Jos. L. Davis,
Esq., of 41bany, Ga.; Wednesday, 21st,
Commencement Day—poem by Mrs.
Mary E. Bryan, of the Sunny South,
Atlanta, Ga. j Wednesday night, opera
by muale class.
The exercises of the Wesleyan Female
College promise to be unusually inter
esting this year. Avery brilliant class
of girls will h fpadn&tfed. The Com
mencement sermon will be preached by
Biahap. Pierce, one of the ablest and
most eloquent divines of the Methodist
Church South. The literary address
will be delivered by Mr. Howard Tan
Epps, of Atlanta, than whom no man is
more competent to delight an audience
upon such an occasion. The exeroises
commence to-day.
The seoond annual commencement of
Pio Nono College will take place in Col
lege Hall, on Monday, the 19th instant.
“Mother” says a Talbottom girl abont
this season, ‘•please pass me the onions.
Charles Augustas will not be here until
to-morrow night and I don’t expect to
kiss anybody this evening,”
I Job Printing 1 and Book Binding.
IMPORTANT TO JIM AND OTHERS!
THE RICHMOND FACTORY,
’Pen Nliles FrOm Augusta,
Continues to manufacture woolen cloth and to card wool rolls for
RANTERS 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, Blaok or Gray, or the Cloth can be made the natural oolor of the Wool.
The oharge for making Plains will be 12Jc. a yard, and for Twills 150. a yard. For Dyeing .
Cotton Warp. 10. a yard; Wool Filling, So. a yard; Carding Rolls, 10c. a pound. Wool can be
sent in the dirt. We are prepared to Wash and Barr it promptly.
OUR MACHINERY BEING IN PERFECT ORDER, no delay will take plaoe in prompt
delivery of the Cloth and Rolls. AU Wool sent us should be Plainly Marked with the owner’s
name, and all instructions and inquiries be made to and through YOUNG ft HACK Agents,
Augusta, Ga.
I>. B. HACK,
may!7-w lm PRESIDENT RICHMOND FACTORY.
Colored Silk Grenadines!
AT TEN CENTS PER YARD I
CHRISTOPHER CRAY & CO.
Will offer for sale Monday Morning, Two Cases of Silk Grena
dines and other Dress Goods at tho nominal price of ten cents.
The Best Brauds of New Prints, Merrimac, Pacific, fie,, at
6 1-4 cents per yard. No Trash, bat New and Choice Goods.
All other Goods in oar Stock have been marked as low in
proportion as the above.
C. GRAY Ac CO.
ap3o-tf
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BOOK BINDING.
RULING, Etc.
THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
Having Extensively Furnished, With New Material, the
JOB PRINTING AND BINDING ESTABLISHMENT
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Merchants,
Factors,
Corporations,
Societies,
Hotels,
Railroads,
AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
Our Bindery is Complete,
AHD
OUR work cannot be surpassed
FOR DURABILITY AND WORKMANSHIP.
LEGAL BLANKS of Every Description.
RAILROAD RECEIPT BOOKS male strong, a>4 giaraateed not to come
to pieces by careless kaiiliif,
We ask ai eiamiiatioi ef ear Prices aa4 Sleek, gaaraateelag GOOD
AND RELIABLE WORKMANSHIP with Promptness.
JOB PRINTING IN PLAIN OR FANCT COLORS, snperior la desigr aa4
execution, a specialty.
Tags, * Notes, Ledgers,
Circulars, Drafts, Journals,
Envelopes, Checks, Schedules,
Bill Heads, Posters, Pamphlets,
Note Heads, Dodgers. Catalogues,
Letter Heads, Handbills, Day Books,
Visiting Cards, Date Lines, Time Tables,
Business Garda, Programmes, Dray Tickets,
Money Receipts, Dance Cards, Bills of Fare,
Shipping Receipts, Postal Cards, Record Books,
i Cotton Statements, Memorandums, Receipt Books,
Aoeonnt Statements, Druggists’ Labels, Cfierks’ Blanks,
Sociable Invitations, Prescription Blanks, Election Tickets,
Wedding Invitations, • Quotation Circulars, Railroad Tickets,
Ordinary’s Blanks, etc,
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bring your orders to the CHRONICLE k SENTINEL.
IST Onr oountry friends will please remember the above and send their ordms
to us.
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