Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Ctttoamn.ana £mtiral.
WEDNESDAY AUQUBT 16, 1876.
DAKLLNG^ 1
Into s mrd of white washed walls
Where the deed and the dying lav—
Wonnded by b i/onel*. “belle and balls—
gomebodf 'aH aiftow was b rne one d*y, w
Somebody's darling f So young and so brTe,
Wearing atill on bis pale, sweet face,
Soon to "be aui by the dost of the grays,
The lingcnng light of his boyhood’s grace.
Hatted and damp are the carls of gold
Kieeing the enow of that fair young brow;
Pale are the lips of delicate mould—
Somebody's darling is dying now.
Back from the beautiful bine reined face
Brash every wandering silken thread;
Cross his bands as a sign of grace—
Somebody's darting is still and dead 1
Kite him once more for Somebody't sake,
Murmur a prayer soft and low;
One bright curl from the cluster take—
They were somebody's pride y u know.
Somebody's band hath rested there;
Was it a mother's soft and white ?
And have he lips of a sister fair
Been baptised in those waves of light ?
God knows best. He was somebody's lovet
Bomeb siy’s heart enshri ei him tnere;
Somebody wafted his name above.
Night and morn, on the wings of prsyer;
Somebody wept when he marched away,
looking so hand-ome. brave and grand;
Somebody’s ties on hi* forebesd ley;
Somebody clang to his parting band.
Somebody's watching and waiting for him.
Yearning to bold him again to her heart;
There b has. with the bine eyes dim.
And smiling, child-like lips apart.
Tenderly bury the fair young dead,
Pausing to drop on his grave a tear;
Carre on the wooden slab at his head—
“Somebody'* darling lies buried here."
SUNSET.
Upward do I tourney slowly.
As the shadow* lengthen fast,
To s land of sunlight holy.
Where no evening shades are cast;
Noontide glory
In that land shall always last
'See the sun in splendor shining
On the hilltopsAf the west!
Grandly thus thevlay declining,
Brings a night of peacefull rest;
Wr ile earth’s weary
Long to And its slumber blest!
Life's high western hills are shading
Solemnly the path I go ;
Sunset glory, too. is fading.
Soon Til miss the golden glow ;
Sunset shadsaa
Soon will leave my path below.
And with joy unmanned by sorrow
Do I bail life's eventide ;
Her id of a bright to morrow
Over on the other side ;
Through the darkness
Gladly will my spirit glide.
Some I love are over yonder.
Basking in a fadeless ray,
And my feet would gladly wander
With them in their new-found day ;
Since they left me
Love to me has been life's way.
Night comes on. and. not regretting
That the day is a'most done,
Calmly I await the setting
Of the distant sinking sun ;
Olad in spirit
That the race is nearly run.
A TROPIC LOVE SONG.
Stay, stay with me, Emina, stay;
Beet on my neck thy fervid cheek;
See ! 'tie no yet the blushing day
That calls up yonder opal’s reak.
'Tie bnt the knowing stars that shine
To light up thy sweet, timorous charms;
Give me thy sweet, full lips like wine,
0, rest thee ever in my arms!
I’ll kiss and kiss thy passion mouth
With lips flame-fed by tendereet glee,
And kissing e’er, 'tsill still be drouth
Of luscious, loving life for me.
IT' kiss thy brow because thou'rt wise,
I’ll kiss thy lips, and drain their sweet,
111 clasp thy waist, I’ll drink thine eyes,
With mine caress thy tiny feet!
I'll press thy shoulders’ trancing snows,
Rest in the shadow of thy hair,
Seek 'tween thy loving arms repose "1
And in thy touch respite from care.
Tbv fears I’ll lull to blissfull play,
Thy trembling wake to tenderest mood,
Thv yearnings—ae, no purer may
Within the breast of maiden brood !
Now sleep, Emina, sleep, nor dream
That there is waking to this night
Of Joyeus love, day’s proudest gleam
* Can ne'er awake to this fond height.
Awake, Emina, awake, the sun
Flings amber bars across the lake;
The lilies ope, the insects bam—
Emina, darling, love, awake.
lIABALD IIARMAN—AGED 18.
BY MBS. SUB M. AUTRUB.
[for the Chronicle and Sentinel .]
He lay with the death-damp on his brow,
In the sultry Summer day gloaming.
How cal ml v at rest are his feature now,
While his thoughts are Heavenward roaming.
Then o'er his face, like a rapture, swept
A thrill of most eiquißite pleasure,
And he looked around, where his loved ones
kept
Tender watch by their parting treasure.
His mother stood there with a bleeding heart—
She had buried her darling Ella —
And now. ere remov. and was the poisoned dart,
This, the greatest of griefs, befell her.
What oonfldent hope his eyes expressed!
And te tried, though in vain, to tell her,
(As she bowed her head on his breast)
That ’’he watched for their angel Ella.
He gazed on her face, all worn with care—
' As he loved her, ha loved no other—
And gently he utter'd the words bo dear ;
“The Angels are calling me, Mother."
Our Saviour while on th’ aooursed tree,
Ere tbe breath of Ufe had departed.
Failed not, in the vast, morning crowd to see
Hie Mother, berett, brokeu-hearted.
Those last words, "Woman, behold thy Son."
Were fraught with much tender emotion—
With the wonderous triumph her child had
won,
And her ohild’s sincere devotion.
That triumph had brought these angels down,
To waft a pure spirit to Heaven,
And place on his brow an immortal orown,
By his Heavenly Father given.
That love has perfected the holy tie
Betweeu the good child and his mother,
And reunited, where love cannot die,
That fond; angel sister and brother.
Lexington 0. H., 8. C., July, 1876.
CUSTER'S LAST RIDE.
“From many a covert dark
In the savage Western hills,
Where the wild Sioux prowls, hark, hark.
How once more his war whoop shrills !
He has thousands to yonr hundreds.
But you pause not to count;
Cußter, brave Custer,
Muster, now muster,
Muster your troopers! Sound trumpets
and mount!
Him we have armed with our best,
Our worst we give to you ;
’Twill but your valor test.
When his horde* hem in your faw
A huudrtd to a thousand !.
Such odds you find not large ;
Casts r, bold Ouster.
The blighter your lustre
Will be if you triumph - ' Sound trumpetsand
charge.”
Into the grim ravine.
Dark with the aludow of death,
“Forward ! 1 nsliog carbines !
Charge !” b Id Custer saith.
Three hundred to three thousand
They burst upon the foe.
"Ready, make ready!
Steady*, men. stcadv!"
One wild cheer and away they go.
From every rook was raised
At once tbe fierce Sioux yell;
From every thicket blaz-d
At o> oe i he fires of bell.
Three hundred to three thousand—
What could they do but die f
Outnumbered, surrounded,
Sore smitten, aetoun ed—
To fight they had learned, bnt not to fly.
Bight well they played their part;
The test that was asked they gave.
Ten bullets in each true he*ri-
Each sleeps in a hero’s gi ave.
Of all that stanch three hundred
Not one return- to tell
The pitiful story
Of guilt and glory.
Of matchless valor and treason fell.
Each man who died there knew
The shot which laid him low
Would be fired, not by a Sioux,
. But from heme, by a meaner foe.
They knew it. and in that knowledge
Fought on with a bitterer pride;
Futilely daring.
Grimly despairing.
Silent and stem, tbev closed and died.
Censure not him. nor upbraid,
Ye who put Custer to shame ;
Venture not ye who betrayed,
Sow to belittle his fame !
Foreteoet of t hese dead heroes
Who abowed them how to die,
Rbajl any shame him
Kno' at "blame him ?
We who e aim l-u* Bill then know why.
Fold round his mangled beaget
Tbe banner be kept so well.
And leave him at last to rest
la peace on tbe field where he fell.
Pluck not, his proud land warns you,
One leaf from his laureled brow,
Ye who annoy him.
Ye who destroyed him.
Flower of our cavaliers, spare him now 1
Waltz* Ca&et.
Evergreens as Lightning Boca.—ln
a lifetime of careful observation the
writer does not ever remember aver hav
ing noticed a living evergreen that had
gtrock by lightning. It has, there
fore, long siDoe oocnrred to me that a
building well surrounded by snch trees
would be comp iratively free from dan
ger of being rent by lightning.— Cor.
Indiana Farmer.
This paragraph to now going the
rounds at the Southern pros*. Gentle
men. what do you mean by publishing
snch nonsense? Did yon sever go out
into one of our pine forests and there
see the hundreds of great old evergreens
that have been riven into sprinters by
lightning?
GOT. HENDRICKS’ LETTER.
He Heartily Approve* the Ht. Lout* Platform
and Demand* the Repeal eft hr Rrmunptiea
Act.
Indianapolis, July 24 1876
Gentlemen — I have the hoi. *r to ac
knowledge the receipt of yogi Jommu
nieation, in which you have formally no
tified me of my nomination, by the Na
tional Democratic Convention at Bt.
Lonis, as their candidate for thd office
of Vice-President of the United States.
T t is a nomination which I had neither
expected nor desired, and yet I recog
nize and appreciate the high honor done
me by the Convention.
The choice of snch a body, pro
nounced with snch unusual unanimity,
and accompanied with so generons an
expression of esteem and confidence,
ongnt to outweigh all purely personal
desires and preferences of my own. It
is with this feeling, and I trust also
from a deep sense of public duty that I
now accept the nomination, and ahatl
abide tbe judgment of my countrymen.
It would have been impossible for me to
accept tbe nomination, if I could not
heartily endorse the platform of the
Convention. lam gratified, therefore,
to be able unequivocally to declare
that I agree in the principles, ap
prove the policies, and sympathise
with the pnrpoes enunciated in
tbe platform. The institutions of our
country have been sorely tried by the
exigencies of civil war, and, since the
peace, by selfish and corrupt manage
ment of public affairs, which has sham
ed ns before civilized mankind by uu
wise and partial legislation. Every in
dustry and interest of the people have
been made to suffer, and in the execu
tive departments of the Government dis
honesty, rapacity and venality have de
bauched tbe public service; men known
to be unworthy have been prouoted,
whilst others have been degraded for
fidelity to official duty and public office
has been made the means of private
profit, and the country has been offend
ed to see a class of men who boast the
friendship of the sworn proteotors of
the citato amassing fortunes by defraud
ing tbe public Treasury, and by oor
rnpting the servants of the people. In
snch a crisis of the history of the coun
try, I rejoice that the Convention at St.
Lonis has so nobly raised the standard
of reform. Nothing can be well with us
or with onr affairs until the pnblio con
science, shocked by the enormous evils
and abuses which prevail, shall have de
manded and compelled an unsparing re
formation of onr national administra
tion in its head and in its
members. In snob a reformation the
removal of a single officer, even the
President, is comparatively a trifling
matter. If the system which he repre
sents and which has fostered him as he
has fostered it, is suffered to remain, the
President alone mast not be made the
scapegoat, for the enormities of the sys
tem whiob infests the publio service
threatens tbe destruction of onr institu
tions. In some respeots I hold that the
present Executive has been the victim
rather than the author of that vicious
system. Congressional and party lead
ers have been stronger than the Presi
dent, No one man could have created
it, and the removal of no ope roan can
amend it. It ia thorongbly oorrupt and
must be swept remorsely away by the
selection of a Government oomposed of
elements entirely new, and pledged to
radical reforms. The first work of re
form mqst evidently be the restoration
of the normal operation of th o Constitu
tion of the United States, with all its
amendmeets. The necessities of war
cannot ba pleaded in a time of peace.
The right of local self-government as
guaranteed by the Constitution of the
Union must be everywhere restored, aud
tbe centralized almost personal impe
ralism which has been practiced must be
done away, or the principles of the
Republic will be lost. Our financial
system of expedients must be reformed.
Gold and silver are the real standard of
value, and our national currency will not
be a perfect medium of exchange until
it shall be convertible at the pleasure of
the bolder. 4a I haye heretofore said,
no ooe desires a retnrn to specie pay
ments more earnestly than I do, but f.
do not believe that it will or can be
reached in harmony with the interests of
tbe people by artificial measures, or the
contraction of the currency, any more
that I believe that wealth or permanent
prosperity can be qreated by inflation of
tbe currency. The laws of finance can
not ba disregarded with impunity. The
financial policy of the Government, if
indeed it deserves the 08e of policy at
all, has been in disregard of th o # o laws,
and, therefore, has disturbed commer
cial aud business confidence, as well as
hindred a return to specie payments.
One feature of that policy was the re
sumption clause of act of 1875, which
has embarrassed the country by the an
ticipation of a oompulsory resumption
tion for which no preparation bas been
made, and without asy assurance that it
would be practicable. The repeal of
that clause is necessary that the natural <
operation of financial laws may be re
stored. That tbe business of the coun
try may be relieved from its disturb
ing and pressing influence, and
that a return to specie payment may
be facilitated by the substitution
of wiser and more prudent legisla
tion which shall mainly rely on a judici
ous Bystem of publio economies and offi
cial retrenchments; and, above all, on
the promotion of property in all the in
dustries of all the people. Ido not un
derstand the repeal of the resumption
clause of the act of 1875 to be a back-
ward step in our return to specie pay
ments, but the reoovero of a false step;
aud although the repeal may for a time
be prevented, yet the determination of
the Democratic party on this subject has
been distinctly deolared, There should
be no hindrances put in the way of a re
turn of specie payments. “As such
hinderences,” says the platform of the
St. Louis Convention, “We denounce
the resumption clause of 1875 and de
mand its repeal.” I thoroughly believe
that by publio eeoopmy, by official re
trenchment and by wise finance, enable
iug us to accumulate the precious Ratals,
resumption at an early period is possi
ble without producing an artificial
scarcity of currency or disturbing pub
lic or commercial credit; and that these
reforms, together with the restoration
of pure government, will restore general
confidence, encourage the useful invest
ment of capital, furnish employment to
labor, and relieve the country from tbe
paralysis of hard times. With the in
dustries of the people there have been
frequent interferences. Gar platform
truly says that many industries have
been impoverished. Our oommerce has
been degraded to an inferior position on
the high seas, manufactures have been
diminished, agriculture has been embar
rassed, and the distress of the industju
trial classes demands that these things
shall be reformed.
The burdens of the people must also
be lightened by a great change in our
system of public expenses. The profli
gate expenditures which increased taxa
tion from five dollars per capita in 18£0,
to eighteen dollars in 1870, tells its own
story of our need of fiscal reform. Onr
treaties with the foreign powers should
also be revised and amended in so far
aa they leave citizens of foreign birth
in any particular less secure in any
country on earth than they wonld be if
they had bseo born upon our own soil;
and the iniquitous doolie system, whioh
through tbe agency of wealthy com
panies import* Chinese bondmen, estab
lishes a speeies of slavery ana inter
feres with just rewards of labor, on onr
Pacific coast, should be utterly abolish
ed. I most heartily endorse that
section of the platform which de
clare tha tcivil service ought not
to be subject to change at every
election, and that it ought not to be
made the chief reward of party zeal,
but ought to be awarded for proved
competency and held for fidelity in pub
lic employ. I hope never again to see
that cruel and remoraeleaa proscription
for political opinion which has disgraced
the administration of the last eight
years. ,
But as the civil servldd now ia, all
know that it has some men of tried in
tegrity and proved ability; snch men
should be retained in office, bnt no man
should be retained on any consideration
who has prostituted his offioe to pur
poses of partisan intimidation or com
pulsion, or has famished money to cor
rupt elections; this is done and has
been done in almost every county of
the land. It is a blight upon the mor
als of the country, and ought to be re
formed. Of sectional contention*, and
in respect to common schools, I have
only this to say—that in my judgment,
the’ man or party that wonld involve our
schools in political or sectarian contro
versy, is an enemy to the schools.
Common school* are safer under con
trol of no party or sect. They must be
sectarian nor partisan, and there
most be neither division or misappro
-1 priatian ot finds for their support; like
; w j ße £ regard tff£ man who would arouse
or foster sectional ajtifjiosities and an
tagonism among hi* countrymen ass
dangerous enemy to hia country. AH
people must feel and know that once
more there is establish o l a purpose and
policy under which all citizens, of
every condition, race and color, will be
secure in the oDjoymeni of whatever
right* the constitution gad laws declare
or recognize; and that in controversies
that may arise, the Qow&iwe* * “ JW>t
partisan, but within it* constitutional!
authority the just and powerful guar
i dian of the rights and safety of ail. fhe
strife between the eeetions and between
I the races will oeaae a* aooe as pow
j er for evil is taken awayfrotu tec party
, tht makes political gain out of scenes
1 of violence and bloodshed, and consti
! tutional authority ia placed in hands of
j men, wjhose political welfare require
peace and good order shall be preserved
everywhere, musMwiwwviy;
It will be seen, gentlemen, that I am
in entire accord with the platform of the
Convention by which I have been nomi
nated as a candidate for the office of
Vice President of the United States.
Permit me, in conclusion, to express
my satisfaction at being associated with
a candidate for tie Presidency who is
first among his equals as a representa
tive of the spirit and achievement of re
form, in his official career as tbe Execu
tive of the great State of New York. He
has, in a comparatively short period, re
formed the public service and reduced
the pnblio expenditures so as to have
earned, at once, the gratitude of his
State and the admiration of the country.
People kDow him to be thoroughly in
earnest; he has shown himself to be pos
sessed of powers and qualities which
fit him in an eminent degrees for tbe
great work of reformation, which his
conntry now needs; and if he shall be
chosen by the people of the nigh office
of President to the United States, I be
lieve that the day of his inauguration
will be the beginning of anew era of
peace, purity and prosperity in all de
partments of onr Government.
I am, gentlemen, i
Yonr obedient servant,
Thomas A. Hendricks.
To the Hon. John A. McClernand,
Chairman, and others, of the Commit
tee of the National Democratic Conven
tion.
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
A Merited Tribute-Old Paint Camiart— I The
Geargia Governor—General Dix aad Hi*
“ Bay* ia Blae.”
Old Point Comfort, Va., )
July 31, 1876. f
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
I hope yonr modesty will not prevent
me from sayiDg, in yonr columns, that
those were noble words uttered by yonr
editor, when, in a recent article on the
Hamburg riot, you declared that yon
“ were mnch more concerned to be
right” in yonr representations of what
occurred than to please anybody.—
Henry Clay uttered many fine senti
ments at various times daring his
life; bnt the grandest words, in my view,
which ever fell from his lips are those
attributed to him when someone said,
“If you adopt that coarse yon can never
be the President of the United States.”
“I had rather be right than be Presi
dent,” was the answer; and never did he
appear in a more honorable light than in
the utterance of snch a sentiment.
When the first inquiry with statesmen
and editors is not what is pleasing,
what is politic, or what will pay, but
what is right, what is true, what is just,
they must command the confidence of
the best men everywhere; and, what is
even of more consequence, they secure
the approbation of their own consciences.
Allow me further to say that your
whole tone in regard to the disturbances
in Hamburg has been cordially approved
by the friends and well-wishers
of the South in this latitude.—
Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, voiced
the feelings of the Democratic
party at the North when he declared
that’the shooting of helpless negroes
after capture or surrender was an out
rage which should be amply vindicated.
I nave been happy to find, both from
your own and other public organs at
the South, that such conduct has been
sternly repradated. I am aware that
onr fellow-citizens in South Carolina
have been greavously oppressed and in
sulted by the unprincipled white men
and semi-barbarous negroes (perhaps I
should omit the semi), who have hereto
fore controlled the politios of the State.
And wo should not be surprised if oc
casionally “nature” bursts forth and
overleaps the bounds of justice aud
moderation. But outrage oannot be
be cured by outrage. Cruelty aud iu
justice cannot be cured by the practice
of those things of which we oomplain.
Homeopathy may do in some cases
but it is not the remedy in this instance.
If appealed to it would only aggravate
the mischief at home and alienate
friends who are anxious to sustain the
o pressed in (heir efforts at deliverance.
South Carolina has to day many sons
brave, honorable, gifted and statesman
like. If they are united in their efforts
to rid themselves by honorable means of
the ignorant horde whioh has been
preying on the substance of the people,
then as surely as intelligence mast
conquer ignorance, as virtue and hon
or mqst prevail over vice and
treachery, they must ultimately wrest
the sceptre from the bands which have
disgraced it. In such a work they will
have the sympathy of the best pebple all
ovea the land-a moral support before
which the present politioal majority in
that State must cower utterly.
I am writing this letter from one of
tb o most pleasant points in the United
States—at any rate during the heated
term- The name ia suggestive of re
freshing sea breezes by day and agree
able rest at night. The inner man is
comforted by the supply of fruits and
vege ables with which the country
abounds; whilst the bay furnishes the
table with crabs, fish and oysters, even
during the Summer, solstice. Ror no
r in the month, everybody eats oysters.
Although consumed in large quantities,
I bear of no evil resulting. My room is
situated directly on the water, and the
view ia at once extensive and historio.
As I look out towards the east, there is
the vast expanse of water stretching out
for three thousand miles. Before is the
“Rip Raps,” where, aocording to Jack
Downing, the “ General ” —meaning
President Jackson —used to come in the
hot season t# enjoy th o breeze. —
Quite in sight is the looality in which
the Merrimao achieved her splendid
naval victories. Not far off are the
waters where the Confederate Commis
sioners met President Lincoln and Sec
retary Seward, and where they could
not agree on terms of adjustment. The
Northern representatives have both
gone to their graves, bnt the waters roll
on, unconscious of tfie life or death of
the magnates who have been in conven
tion on their bosom.
Judging from your papers you seem
to haye mqre excitement over the Gu
bernatorial question than the Presiden
tial election awakens in these parts. Yon
have Colquitt men and Johnson men,
who are urgiDg the claims of their re
spective parties with as muoh zeal as if
these gentlemen were the representa
tives of opposing politioal parties, and
each deemed the triumph of hie own
principles essential to the welfare of the
State, You would hardly expect so
much ado when both gentlemen belong
to the same party. Whoever is success
ful, Georgia will certainly have a good
Governor. I have the pleasure of know
ing them both. Gov. Johnson is a
gentleman, scholar and .statesman. He
lift* pnee adorned the gubernatorial
chair, an.d if recalled to its occupancy
tbe State will haye a rpler on whom ail
patriots may confide. Gen. Colquitt,
like Gov. Johnson is a patriot- He
with less experience, is bonorsble,
discreet, unselfish and nprigbt, atid if
elected I have no doubt he will prove
the worthy sneoessor of Crawford,
Jenkins, McDonald others of the
same class who were Georgia's Execu
tive in her past days of progress and
renown, gptween two such candidates
do voter can £?*s£ £ mistake. He is
sure of a good atap.
As I have already intimated, the
Presidential question stirs but lit
tle enthusiasm. If we judge from
what Jibe leaders say each party
is quite -confident of victory. Gen.
Dix, of New York, Has doge a mean and
unpatriotic and anti-national thing in
summoning the “boys in bine” as he
terms them—meaning the late Union
soldiers—to organize their forces to
“save the Union from failing into the
hands of 0 party which had once songht
.its life, and which cannot be trusted.” If
some Democratic tender Bhould sum
mon the ‘‘boys in gray” to organise for
the overthrow of a party supported -by
the “boys in bine,” what a howl wonld
issue from every Radicaf throat all over
the !*ud. I have no doubt the Governor
wonld be pleased to excite just such op
position to his sections] call. Bat 1
hope the “boys iu gw” wiD hot be
provoked into retaliation. Tbs Demo
crats mast possess great forbearance and
large statesnleriiship if they snooeed in
the pending canvass. Parties are so
evenly balanced that a small blunder
may change the result. Of one thing
yon may be assured—turbnlance and
disorders are the most effective al
lies of the Republican party. True,
South Carolina is a Republican State,
and her Radical Governor should be
held responsible for snch ementes. But
the Radical press nail it Southern bar
barism, aad plead with the people not to
transfer the Government to yaen of saoh
a temper.
Polly’s Adyics.— Mo ha man witness
ever gave better advice to litigant than
did a parrot summoned as evidence in a
case lately tried in the Rugby County
Court, in which a lady of independent
means sued a butcher for £5 damages,
for illegally killing a cockatoo belong
ing to plaintiff. Each party was repre
sented by a solicitor. The defense was
that the defendant shot the cockatoo
mistaking it for an owf, The fellow
bird of the deceased waa brought into
Court, ftpd, while the solicitors were ar
guing pro and qpn, never ceased to sug
gest a compromize of tire option, strong
ly recommending the litigant* to ‘‘shake
hands/’ also to “shut np. ’ His remarks
might. iMrhom bus had more weight
bad he notintejlarded tfaa® with re
quests for “sugar/’ However that
might be, ho took the failure of his ad
vise in good part, and Wft earned out
of Court langhjng heartily, and en
treating the parties to wake hands. —
Pall Mall Gazette.
DEATH OF A FOUNDER OF MORMON.
U3L
[ Troy 2Yme.]
The death of Sidney Rigdoc, one of
the founders of Mormonism, in Allegany
county, New York, a few days ago, re
calls to mind the prominent part be
once took in that stupendous deception
whereby the church of the “Latter Day
Saints” was foisted upon the wrold. He
was not the apparently moving spirit of
the imposture, but came in about the
second hour, to give it a voice and an
oratorical respectability that it did not
have before his appearance. He was
born in Pennsylvania in 1793. At first a
Baptist preacher in Pittsburgh, he after
wards drifted to the side of Alexander
Campbell, the fonnder of the organiza
tion now known as the Christian chnrch.
In the meantime the extraordinary ca
reer of Joseph Smith, Jr., had began
near Palmyra, in the western part of this
State. Smith came of a low family that
immigrated from Vermont, noted more
for illiteracy, whisky-drinking and shift
lessness than for any of the cardinal
virtues. Of snch a race was to spring
the prophet and principal fonnder of
Mormonism. Joseph did not belie his
origin in his early life. He was indolent,
with a vagabond tarn, bat developed a
taste for scriptural studies and disputa
tion on religious subjects. In 1819 a
curious stone was found by a neighbor
while digging a well on his farm. It
fell into the hands of Smith, and from
that event his career of vnlgar jugglery
and deception dates. He soon gave ont
that tbe stone possed wonderful proper
ties, with which he was enabled to re
veal things existent and things to come.
By its aid he pretended to discover the
whereabouts of deposits of gold and
silver in earthen pots and iron chests,
buried in the earth. It was not long
before he had a company of fools dig
ging.at midnight hours for the hidden
treasure. Nothing was ever found, but
the ingenious imposter contrived to
satisfy his dupes that some sinister
“condition” baffled their efforts, and
thus maintained hia own necromantic
reputation intact. Soon after followed
his spiritual visions; “the angel of the
Lord appeared to him,” denounced all
the religions denominations as believers
in false doctrines, and promised to re
veal to him at some future time the
“fullness of the gospel.” Several visi
tations from this divine messenger suc
ceeded, and shortly after Smith an
nounced that, obeying the instructions
of the “angel,” he had taken out of a
hill a metallic book of great antiquity,
which was a record, in mystic letters, or
characters, of the long-lost tribes of
Israel, who, he said, formerly inhabited
this country. Smith related marvelous
stories of a celestial pyrotechnic display
he witnessed <sn that occasion. The
good angol stood upon one side encour
aging him, while upon the other myriads
of demons from the pit strove in vaiu
to deter him from unearthing the book.
The utmost pains were taken to keep the
precious prize from “gentle” eyes, and
after much tribulation, chiefly ’for lack
of funds, a copy of the new revelation
was printed.
The manuscript was found to be a
wretched imitation of Scripture compo
sition, containing extensive plagiarisms
from the Bible, especially frsm Isaiah,
Jeremiah and Matthew. Christ’s sermon
on the mount was incorporated almost
without an alteration. The grammar of
this inspired work was in ntter defiance
of rules. A more contemptible insult to
common sense was never before offered
under the guise of inspirational writings;
yet it found credulous believers among
the most ignorant and superstitious
class of the community. The Mormon
Bible, or “Book of Mormon,” as it was
called, was printed at Palmyra in 1829.
The origin of this manuscript has been
traced to its source. It was the work of
one Rev. Solomon Spaulding, of Ashta
bula county, Ohio, who wrote the work
to elucidate the theory that tbe Ameri
can continent had been settled by a
colony of the ancient Isrealites. This
fiction of the brain he submitted
to a printes in Pittsburgh, Pa. The
latter engaged to print it, bnt the con
tract was never carried out. Soon after
the clergyman died. The man.usoript
fell into the hands of Sidney Higdon,
who gave it to Smith; and then followed
he concoction of the scheme to found a
new religions sect. Soon after the ap
pearance of the romance as the Mormon
bible, Riidon went to Palmyra and
entered upon the mission of propagating
the new doctrines. He was shrewd,
possessed of a considerable degree of
eloquence, together with a peculiarly
magnetic personality, whioh orowned
his efforts with much success among the
classes whence Mormonism has ever
drawn its support. He pretended never
to have sen the mysterious plates
Smith dug out of the hill, but there is
little question that the imposture was
the joint production of Smith and Rig
don, even while the latter was a
“preacher of righteousness,” but, it
must besaid, a very eccentric one, even
then. The leaders of Mormonism next
moved to Kirtland, Ohio, ran a brief
career there, and then the “chnrch”
went further west. At Nauvoo, 111., as
is well known, Smith first proclaimed
the doctrine of spiritual wife-hood and
polygamy, which has become the prin
cipal characteristic of Mormonism. Asa
candidate for the seat of the murdered
Smith, who was shot by a mob, Rigdon
was defeated by Brigham Young, and
expelled from the churoh. He returned
to this State, and spent his last days in
the plaoe where he died. He ceased to
to be an aotive ohampion of Mormonism,
and was generally respected by his
neighbors and acquaintances.
WANT AMONG THE MINERS.
Thirty Thousand Lahore?* Tg He Thrown
Out of Employment.
Port Richmond. Pa., August 5. —The
situation in every district of the middle
and northern coal fields of Pennsylvania
is extremely perilous, aud the peril is
identified every day. There never was
a time in the history of coal production
in which labor Was so poorly paid as
now. Jn many parts of the middle fields
last month skilled minere averaged
about sl2 during the working period,
and the same was the case in other parts
of the coal regions, and tow they have
managed to keep th o wolf away from the
door is difficult to imagine. Those who
have been unemployed have suffered se
verely, and instances of actual starva
tion are recorded in the Wyoming and
Lackawanna regions. Cases have come
to the knowledge of the authorities of
families subsisting seyernl upon
the flesh of domestic animals that, have
been butchered.
In the face of all this, the monopolists
have announced another general auspen
sion of operations, beginning on the Bth
instant. This will throw ont of employ
ment 30,000 miners and laborers. The
iollowiug named companies, probably
the heaviest producers aad shippers,
have this year increased their produc
tion as enqmerated; Lehigh Valley Rail
road, 82 per cent.; Central Railroad of
New Jersey, J 25 per cent ; Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, 52 per cent. The
other companies coot posing the ring
have decreased their production. Dela
ware and Hudson Canal and Railroad
Company, 46 per cent.; Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad, 59 per
cent.; and tfie Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany, 33 per cent.
The Lehigh Vailey Company f'rushed”
the mijf o f lflst week, and the coal ship
ments represented f O /ty per cent, of the
business done by all companies. This
natnrally increased the disturbance in
the camp of the combination, and at one
tinje it was believed among the inde
pendent operators ani dealers that the
long-expected demolition of the ring
had come, bnt, rather unexpectedly, the
magnates of the Lehigh aud Wyoming
regions, who ship coal in large quanti
ties over the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
met in private eonferejjpe and decided
upon a general suspension of operations
at all thp collieries owned fttjd controlled
by them, so that the efgsss in produc
tion and shipm.ents to the seaboard over
the quota as allowed by the “asspeiated
companies,” or pool, may be overcome,
and it is understood now tfiafc the dicta
tors are satisfied. Thp Valley
officials and others, hpwever, say that
the war is Ifot oyer yet, and important
and stirring events in tns coal trade may
be expected.
While the mining and transportation
companies are fighting among them
selves the colliers are still straggling
against the schemes of the monopolists
and the oppressive “oompany store”
system, for jt fie understood that
the companies not only cut the qagea of
the employees, but thftt they also force
them to buy at the stores owned and
managed by them; and very frequently
a miner after he receives his “book”
from the “country store” has nothing
left. The combined impositions of the
great coal ring - particularly the con
tinued suspensions—while heavy and
increasing prices **g dgmagded ffpra
wholesalers, retailers, and consumers,
whereby the operators srp reaping for
tunes, are exciting th o pplligre, and seri
ous trouble is apprehended the close
of th* month. , ,
Oentralia has bad a tones of disorders
within the past week, the leading spirit
in the lawless doings being Ned Curley,
who has murdered many persona. In
the riot John Gunning was struck with
a stone and killed. Mike Mason and
Thomas Barron were assassinated on
Wednesday near Mount Carmel, and
their bodies were placed upon the tracks
of the Lehigh Valley Reload, so that
the crime unftht be hidden. Jt is sup
posed that Corley and tbe gang who
murdered Md ßoo a °d Barron are con
cealed in seine oag of the haunt* of the
Mollies in the Broad Mountain. Many
pefpnna who testified in the Molly Mar
guire trials haye received “coffin no-
t ees,” cautioning them to quit the re
gion within a specified time, and there
is proof that the murderous spirit of the
terrible organizations has not yet been
crushed.
THE SMALLEST GF THE GIRLS.
Lucia Zorate Before the Wenderia* Physi
cian*—Half ef the Siae *f Tom Thunk.
[From the New York Stm.]
A large number of physicians went to
Tony Pastor’s theatre yesterday to see
the Mexican dwarf, Lncia Zarate. They
measured her and ascertained her height
to be 31 inches, her feet three inches
long, her legs below the knees four
inches in circumference, and her hands
an inch and a quarter broad. Her mo
ther, who is robust and of a medium
size, says that Lucia is 12 years old. Her
face is older than that. Her features are
Spanish, and her complexion dark. Her
activity is inoe sant. She played pranks
with the physicians and talked fast in
Spanish. She stepped into a high silk
hat, crouched down, and was ont of
sight excepting her head. She squeezed
one of her pliable little hands through
a rather large finger ring. The hand of
an adnlt made an ample seat for her.
Standing on a chair, and holding to the
back of it, her fingers stuck through the
space in the cane work—holes that just
admitted the pas age of a small pen
holder. She was not weighed, but her
weight is said to be five pounds, and,
poised in the hand, she does not seem
heavier. Her clothing is comically
small, as though intended for a doll, the
shoes and stockings especially being toy
like.
Tom Thumb has grown appreciably
sinco he was exhibited by Barnum; but
when he first astonished the public he
was twice as large as Lucia; and he was
then about her present age. She has
not grown any, her mother says, since
she was & year old.
THE TRAMP NUISANCE OUT WEST.
Tramps are so numerous in lowa that
citizens of Davenport and other places
are organizing to fight them, as they
would fight grasshoppers or other pests.
The Davenport Daily Democrat says :
The conductors on the St. Lonis trains
are meeting with considerable trouble
from tramps along their line. As Con
ductor Purcell, of freight train No. 7
was coming north yesterday several
hundred boarded his train at Beards
town and coaid not be induced to get
off. He telegraphed to Monmouth for
the agent to have some assistance on
hand to remove them. A number of
citizens turned out, and tfie train was
rid of about two hundred. Bnt after
the train had started, others were ob
served hidden in car boxes; and consid
erable persuasion had to be used to get
them off. They claim to be harvest
hands, and want to get to lowa. The
citizens along the line complain very
mnch of thefts and other depiedations
committed by these men.
And the Rock Island (111.) Union, has
these ~ items : Conductor Dannab, of
freight train No. 13, which arrived here
at 10:20, p. m., reports that 300 boarded
his train. He was of course powerless
to prevent them, and they rode on the
train to Moline, where they got off. Two
hundred of the number were arrested
there, and the other hundred lost no
time in starting for Rock Island, from
which place many of them made their
way across the bridge to our city. The
town is full of them.
It was only a day or two ago that an
express train on the Chicago and Alton
Road was thrown from the track at Mil
lertown, 111., by a gang of tramps, the
engineer and fireman badly bruised, and
several of the passengers injured. Had
the Rockford Road refused to carry the
crowd that boarded the train and took
possession of it at Monmouth aud
Beardstown, there is little doubt that
bloodshed would have been the result.
We are informed that a crowd of them
Burronnded the engineer and told him
that if he did not haul them they would
tie him and run the train themselves.
On the arrival of the train at Moline,
this morning, it was met by a posse of
{citizens, with Marshal Hawes, and some
of the passengers say that men in uni
form, with muskets, were among them,
and a row occurred, in which three of
the harvest hands were hurt—one very
feeverely on the head. Vigorous meas
ures must be taken to meet the exigen
cies of the occasion.
THE RAILROAD BUSINESS OVERDONE.
[From, the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
At Long Branch last night, with a
railroad man for fair authority, I re
marked:
“Pullman has three residences that I
know of, here and in Chicago, and at
the Thousand Isles of the St. Law
rence.”
“He will want to get them all together
bnone small lot before many years pass,”
Baid the auditor.
“Why, do you think the railroads will
throw off on him ?”
“Yes, their diminishing business will
not permit of any snch incubus. It is
hard times with all railroads. They are
just beginning to meet questions of mo
ment bluntly, and this Mr. Gowen,
President of the Reading Railroad, goes
to the core of the question when he
says that too much competition has
made it well-nigh impossible to earn
dividends. That had already been said
by Mr. Devereaux, of the Columbus and
Cleveland Railroad. The open lakes
and six lines of rail to the West give
too much outlet for the crops. Before
the war we had single tracks on every
railroad; now Vanderbilt has four, Scott
three or four, Garrett two or three, and
the Erie, and Chesapeake and Ohio are
also in the field, with the Grand
Trunk flanking all around to the
North. Low rates are a necessity of
snch an abundance of communications.
Passengers in America now pay the
cheapest fares in the world. Ten dol
lars for excursion tickets from Ney
York to Cincinnati and back. The clos
est economy must follow snch prices.
The Pullman cars are very heavy, and
mash up the road beds; they bring no
revenue to the hauling oompany, which
must also keep them in repair. They
cost from $17,000 to $50,000 apiece, and
weigh from twenty-five to fifty tons,
while ordinary ears weigh only twenty
tons. The Erie Railroad ran one Pull
man car which cost $52,000 the Orange
County by name. Every scratch of that
cabinet work cost your pocketbook to
repair it. Now, the balk of the Pull
man cars will require to be rebuilt very
soon; they run about eight years, and
then, sqch is their condition, that they
must be wholly rebuilt. There are be
tween two thousand and four thousand
of them, perhaps. The capital of the
company is, say, $12,000,000. When
that construction account is made ap,
and the railroad companies proceed to
fret about repairing other people’s cars
and carrying extravagant -riders,’' the
hey-day will be over,
The Women at trb Restaurant.—One
of the productions of tbe Wotneo’i Pavil
ion at tbe Centennial is a stated publi
cation Galled “The New Century for
WomaD.” Here is one of its sprighely
pictures:
“When a lady eomes into the restau
rant,” said the waiter, “she always sits
down afl if terrapins and turtles were
nothing to ber. J never cap help believ
ing in her, counting my experience as
nothing. She always ask for the bill of
fare aud reads the figures first. Men,
you know, say, “J)o they eook oysters
decent?” but she always says, 'What do
they cost ?’ Then she talks, and talks
to her friend, and sbe says. 'Do you
like Vermioelli soup ?” ‘On !’ says the
other, ‘don’t let’s have soup, it’s so hot. ’
‘I don’t want any soup,' says she, ‘and
I hate vermicelli, don’t you? ‘Yes,’ says
she, ‘but what shall we have? They have
splendid chicken patties at in
New York; I wonder if tbpy are good
here ‘I don’t know,’ says the other, ‘I,
had sheep's head here once, and it was
very good,’ ‘Well, let a#'baVe that.’
‘No,’ says she„Adcn > $ let’s have the same
thing. can have sheep’s head, and
I will have chicken. 1 ’No. Have you
rare beef V (to me.) ‘Yes, Miss,' I say.
‘You have shad ?' says the other. ‘No; it
is too late, and don't let both of ns have
fish. -I wish they had Vienna coffee or
that lovely rose sherbet from the Turk
ish Bazaar. Let us go over there.’ ‘Ob,
no! it’s too hot.’ ‘Well what are yon
going to have ?' Then they ask me if we
haye fried chicken and all sorts of things
not qu tfia hill, and if we had as we
haven’t—what wonld it cost. Tfien they
talk of this and of that, and one says,
‘O pshaw? I mean to have some iee
cream; and the other says, ‘Yes, it is just
what she wants,’ and then when they
get it they say it isn’t half as good as
the ice-cream at some other place, and
then they say to bring them some cake;
and then when I bring it they say,
‘Hayn’t we some other kind V and 1
bring that. Then one says, ’Let ns hava
some coffee,’ and they decide on lemon
ade. When I give the check they count
up everything by it pelf, and say, ‘O
mercy 1 did the cake cost all that?’ Then
they get qp, drop their gloves,. and say,
‘Let os go to the Trdis Frerea or else to
tbe restaurant in some of the balls; and
don't yon think that ioe-cream was
horrid?”
Calico grows more and more fashion
able’ in those Centennial days.
A young man having preached for his
bishop was anxious to ge| ft wqrd ol ap
plause for his labor of loye. The bish
op, however, did not introduce the sub
ject, and his younger brother was oblig
ed to bait the hook for him- “I hope,
air, I dd not weary yonr people by the
length of my sermon to-day?” “No, sucj
not at all, nor by the depth either.”
THE CROOKED IN GEORGIA.
WH4i> BOTH CO MM ISKION B KB AND
MARSHALS HAVE DONE.
The Reveam Detraaded by OMcera of the
Goyeraaaent—WUeky Operators Black
mailed—She Coarta Prostituted Crime
That Coatmiaaloaer Pratt Has Wiaked At.
[Sew York Sun.]
Athhta, Qa.., July 25.—The rays of
the Sun are said to be very good for ex
pelling miasms. Therefore let them
shine on the Fourth Collection District
of Georgia. The ’hoppers have been a
great plagne to the South, but they are
only a fleabite as compared with Grant’s
officials. Asa credible Union county
man expressed it, “the deputy marshals
would swear the horns off a muly bull,
and not strain themselves either.”
There have been some operators in
crooked whisky in the Fourth Collection
District undoubtedly, but the efforts of
the Department to ferret them out have
been in very bad hands. Henry Martin,
Deputy Marshal at Clarksville, and Tay
lor Cobb, a deputy at Blairsville, Union
county, are notoriously well up in the
art of “division and silenoe.’’ Mitchell
Simms gave them $75 to suppress a
crooked case against him. BeDj. Simms
paid them S4O for a similar purpose;
John Owenby, $25; and Tompkins Co
lens, S4O. James Dyers and Hinson,
brothers-in-law, make no secret of the
fact that Deputy Marshal Cobb is “in
with them” in their distillery, and they
defy any other revenue officer to touch
them. Martin and Cobb employ a sub
deputy, Alec Owenby by name, to “work
up” crooked cases, for which they pay
him $2 50 apieoe. Many cases have
been trumped up merely to get the fees
and mileage. The deputies are sup
posed to take the prisoner before the
nearest United States Commissioner,
who is at Clarksville; but this they sel
dom do. It is very inconvenient to him
to be taken all the way to Atlanta, where
perhaps he cannot find bail; but it en
ables them to charge $25 or S3O mileage
for each prisoner; so he is generally
brought to this city. It is a common re
port that last year Martin and Cobb le
vied by such means as these not less
than $1,500 in Union county alone. The
grand jury in April last made a present
ment to the Court to the effeot that they
were morally convinced of the complicity
of these men in the crime of bribery,
and recommended their suspension from
office until a more thorough investiga
tion could be made of their doings and
of the doings of other deputy marshals
in the Northern District of Georgia.
Martin and Cobb were suspended for a
time for appearances’ sake, but they
were soon set at work again.
Forced Assessments.
O. E. Blaoker, Deputy Marshal in
Whitfield and Walker counties, is a bird
of the same feather. A wealthy and in
fluential inhabitant of Bartow county,
with his son and negro in his employ,
was arrested by Blacker and a posse of
soldiers and brought to Atlanta on a
pharge of selling liquor without license,
Which he pronounced to be false and a
trumped-up charge. They were confin
ed in a room in the United States Court
House. The gentleman’s nephew, who
was attending the Medical College in
this city, was then arrested and locked
up with them. They engaged a lawyer,
and, after several days’ negotiation with
Blacker, he told the old gentleman that
the case could be settled for S3OO. He
faid it, rather than be subjected to
onger confinement. He has not heard
of the charges since. Fayette Wheeler,
of Pickens oouuty, paid to A. J. Glenn,
a prosperous resident of Pickens, who is
said to be a go-between for Blacker,
SIOO to settle a case against him; and
Glenn offered to settle a case for an old
farmer name Budge for SIOO. Deputy
Marshal Blacker is known to have re
ceived hush money from illicit distillers
in the Summer and Fall of 1875. He
received from William B. Bailey, $175;
from H. Childers, $175; from James
Pangie, $200; from William McCotcha,
&50.
Mart Manchester did a nice little
business in tapping the crooked dealers
for a time. Having a batch of bench
warrants from the United States Court,
he sold them to the persons upon whom
they were to be served, and reoeived
from D. Charlton, Union county, $100;
from M. Jones, $100; from E. Teague,
SSO; from G. V. Lanues, $66; from J. A
Lannes, $66; from Henry Magney, $66;
from G- B. Magney, $66. They paid
the amounts, but were afterward arrest
ed on duplicate warrants, and some of
them testified to these facts before the
grand jury.
Last Summer, Dr. Hardin, one of the
best men in Pickens county, was ar
rested by Deputy Marshal Goodwin on
Some frivolous charge of violating the
revenue law. He was taken to Carters
ville, and there he gave bonds to answer
before Commissioner Collins. He at
tended several times, but the hearing
Iras postponed because no witnesses ap
peared. At last he met A. J. Glenn in
Court. Glenn said, “Doc, you might as
well be out of this now as at any other
time. You see the Court wants to be
greased. They’ll devil you to death,
bringing you to and fro. All they want
is a little money, and I think I can fix
them all right.” Dr. Hardin paid SIOO
After consultation with Goodwin and
the Commissioner, Glenn returned and
said, “It’s all right.” They went into
the Court room, the case was called,
and, no witness appearing, the Doctor
was discharged. He has not been called
upon since.
G. W. Sanford, who was arrested for
selling liquor without license, published
a card in the Constitution, charging that
Goodwin had sworn falsely and com
pounded a crooked case for $230, and
had cheated the Government out of
mileage by representing that the dis
tance to the town of Buchanan is 95 in
stead of only 50 miles.
Hash Money.
Deputy Marshal Jeff Findley is be
lieved to have received upward of $lO,-
000 as hush money from the crooked
whisky dealers of the Fourth Collection
District during the last year. One Per
ry, of Dahlonega, paid him SBOO. J. J.
Barrett, of Mud Creek, Habersham coun
ty, paid him $450 not to press a charge
of selling without license. Barrett was
convicted and sentenced to three
months’ imprisonment at the last March
term. He wrote asking Findley to re
fund the money; but he refused. Andy
Ferguson of the same place gave Find
ley S3O in cash and a horse worth S7O to
suppress a ornoked oase against him and
his two sons.
And, by the way, this Andy Ferguson
and his sons were oouvicted of the only
genuine case of En-Kluxism that has oc
curred of late in Georgia. They and
about a dozen others, including two
Hardshell Baptist preachers, were ar
rested in November last on oharge of
illicitly making, and the illicit sale of
whisky. They were taken before Com
missioner John M. Church, in Clarkes
ville, one of the few honest Federal
office holders we have. The hearing was
adjourned for one week on aooount of
the absence of witnesses, among them
some lewd women of the neighborhood.
When asked why they did not appear,
they said that one of the prisoners’
friend had stood guard over them with a
shot gun; and after Ferguson and his
crowd returned from the hearing before
the Commissioner about twenty-five or
thirty of tjjeis, disguised, went and tore
down the outhuildihgs, beat the women,
and injured a child of eighteen months.
They were rearrested, and after a two
days’ hearing they were oommitted for
trial. Ferguson told several persons
that Findley represented to him that
Collector Holtgolaw (since removed.for
irregularities in office) had authorized
him to settle “from the ground up,”
and Ferguson says he has not heard of
the charge of illicit selling since.
In 1875 one was arrested on
the charge of illicit distilling, and taken
before Commissioner Neal in Gainesville.
He was sent to jail and held for some
time, and got out-enly by consenting to
give a deed of some property to Find
ley and Commissioner Neal. This fact
he swore to before Commissioner Cbnreh
afterward. It is said that Findley and
Neal play into each other’s hands; that
after Neal binds a man to appear, Find
ley goes to him and agrees to fix the
case for a certain snm of money or other
valuables, land, horses, pigs, or what
ever, and that after settlement they
substitute other names for those of the
real witnesses on the warrant, so that
there can be conviction.
How It Wu Fined.
Three cases against Findley have been
carried on the docket of the United
States Conrt here for the last four years.
District Attorney Farrow may be hon
est, bat he takes a queer way of show
ing his honesty. W hen A. J. Glenn was
subpoenaed to appear before 'the grand
jury on the charge against Deputy Mar
shal Goodwin, for whom be was sup
posed to have acted as a go-between,
Glenn failed to appear, and summary
process was issued hy the Court. The
District Attorney was careful to choose
Goodwin himself to serve the prooess
on Glenn, so that they had ample oppor
tunity to consult as to what was best to
be done. Farrow was Distriot-Attorney
in the Greeley oanvass of 1872, when
the riot occurred in Macon, and when
twenty-five young white men were ar
rested. No one has ever heard of the
cases since, although several negroes
were shot in the OQt Ris that it
cost the yoqng men SB,OOO to fix it.
'All these cases of dereliction on the
part of deputy marshals wore laid be
fore Internal Revenue Commissioner
Pratt by e*-Oangreasman 001. W. F.
Brice in Jfoyembe? last. At about the
Bqme time Solicitor-General Spears of
the Superior Court wrote to Commis
sioner Pratt, charging that a number of
United Stateß Commissioners had been
guilty, as here mentioned. Major Logan,
of Cleveland, White county, wrote to
Commissioner Pratt also about his mar
shals. Not the slightest notice was
taken of any of these letters.
SAGACITY OF ELEPHANTS.
Hovr They Conduct Themselves in the Great
lowa Storm.
[fVoro the Davenport Democrat .]
Howe’s oirens was showing at Indiano
ly when the storm of the Fourth came
on, and because of injury to the rail
roads, was compelled to remain there
nntil the track was temporarily repaired,
on Friday evening. Then the circus
started for their next place of exhibition.
When abont eight miles out one oorner
of the bridge gave away, and three oars,
containing animals, ran off the track and
turned over into the mnd very gently.
The first oar contained horses, the seo
ond an elk and a camel, the other three
the five elephants. The small animals
were easily liberated, but the elephants
were all in a heap. To remove them the
car was cot away, exposing the tops of
the unwieldy animals’ backs. Then was
exhibited the intelligence whioh makes
these half human brates. They obey
every oomand of the the keeper, crawl
ing on their knees, turning on their
sides, squirming like eels, and assuming
more wonderful and novel perilous posi
tion. There was noth scratch upon them,
and no school boy ever gave more em
phatic expressions of relief from con
finement than did those elephants.
They tumbled, swayed back and forth,
and did everything but talk.
The remaining distance to the city
was made overland, and a happier crew
never started on -than were those ani
mals. The cool, breezy atmosphere,
and the bright mooligbt were all-inspir
ing. As the bridges were gone at each
stream, the elephants took fresh enjoy
ment of their liberty. At no time were
they obstinate and disobedient, but
seeme to realize the situation. On ar
riving at Des Moines railroad cars had to
be procured, which was not easily done,
as ordinary cars are too low. borne were
finally found, which were about one inch
higher than the tallest elephant’s back.
They were brought along side and the
platform properly placed, when “Jaok”
noticed that it was a strange ear, seized
the door frame with his trunk, gave it a
vigorous shake and then tried the floor.
Satisfied that it was strong he marched
slowly in the oar, placed himself length
wise, gave a rocking motion, and hump
ed up his back. A bolt overhead hit his
back, and he marched straight oat of the
car. “It’s no use,” said the keeper, “he
won’t go back there again.” The ribs
whioh supported the roof were removed
the elephant’s closely watching the
operation. When this was done “Jack”
went in, swayed humped his back,
found everything all right, trumpeted
his satisfaction, and went to eating
A HEROIC GIRL.
[ Correspondence of Chicago Timet.]
Madison, Wis., July 24.—Fitehburg,
nine miles south of this city, was the
soene of an exciting affair on Saturday.
Two white men, with their faces black
ened, went to the fine residence of Dr.
Wm. H. Fox. They rang the front door
bell, which was answered by the servant
girl, the only person in the house. The
men told her that the doctor’s son had
met them in the village of Oregon, two
miles distant, and sent them to repair
some of the furniture. The girl had
suspicions, and told them that there
was no one at home, and no furniture to
repair. They said they must come in.
The girl stood with the mosquito dror
between her and the men, and held the
door fast, when one threw something in
her face partially blinding her, and one
of the men broke through the netting
and the girl returned to the baok room
of the house. Finding the doctor’s gun
she came around in another direction
and met one of the men comiDg from
the parlor into the doctor’s bedroom,
when she struck him on the head with
the butt end of the rifle and felled him.
He cried loudly for help, when his com
panion came and the girl aimed a blow
at his bead, bat missed him. The vil
lain drew a knife and struck at her
breast, but she caught the blow with
her left hand, severing the cords of her
two outside fingers. The man prostrat
ed was picked up by his comrade and
carried out, leaving a stream of blood
through the room and along the hall.
The girl became exhausted and sank,
unable to move until the men came in
from the harvest field at supper time,
when she told what had happened and
search was made. The men was traced
four miles and lost track of. The girl
who made the fight is named Annie
Muloahy.
FURMTURE MFURNITURE!
PLATT BROTHERS wifi sell for the next
two months their entire stock of Furni
ture regardless of Cost to Cash Purchasers.
Now is the time to buy. Come one, come all,
and make your selections. jy!6
Platt Brothers.
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DNDERTAKIN& DEPARTMENT!!
A FULL assortment of MET ALIO GASK
ETS and CASES at all prices.
Rosewood Caskets and Cases.
Children and Infants Enameled Caskets.
Broadcloth and Velvet Covered Caskets.
COFFINS of every deecription always on
hand.
We have a Competent Undbbtakhb to take
charge of Funerals and attend calls at all
hours, day or night.
Orders during the week and Sunday morn
ings until eleven o’olock will be left at the
Store.
Sunday evenings and nights the orders left
with the Undertaker at his house on Ellis
street, directly in rear of the store, opposite
the Factory, or at either of our dwelling
houses on Oreene street, will meet with prompt
attention.
All orders by Telegraph will be attended to
with dispatch. fjyl6dt&w
NOTICE.
THE business heretofore carried on under
the name and style of C. H. Phinizy A
Cos. will expire by limitation on the Slet day of
August next. Either partner will sign the
firm name in liquidation.
C. H. PHINIZY,
F. B. PHINIZY.
A CARD.
TN retiring from the Cotton Commission busi
jL ness. I take pleasure in returning thanks
to my friends who have patronized so liberally
the firm of C. H. Phinizy A Cos., and to ask
from them a continuance of the same to my
late partner. Mr. F. B. Phinizy, whom I hearti
ly recommend as worthy of their confidence.
His experience is ample, and his facilities for
the management of the Cotton business un
surpassed. C. H. PHINIZY.
F. B. PHINIZY,
(Successor to C. H. Phinizy A Cos.)
COTTON FACTOR
Angasta, Ga.,
WILL give his personal attention to all
business entrusted to his oare, and
will make liberal advances on consignments.
Shipments of Cotton respectfully solicited.
may26-su3m
fie Georgia Coin Gin,
MANUFACTURED BY
J. D. A H. T. HAMMACK,
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
FOR over twenty years we have manufac
tured the GEORGIA GIN, and from our
success with them, feel warranted in saying
they are equal to any Gins. made.
We do not sti ive to get up a fancy article for
exhibition at Fairs, but put up good, durable
work of first elasa material.
We offer them as low as any good Gins can
be afforded.
Every Gin warranted to perform well.
We coaid give hundreds of oertifioates if de
sired, hut as that role is so common at this day
we omit them.
PRICES OB' GINS :
For 9 Inch Saws, per thaw - - $3 85
For 10 Ineh Saws, per Saw - • 850
Old Gins repaired in the best style and at
reasonable charges.
Freight must be prepaid on them when ship
ped by railroad.
Orders for New Gins solicited early, t® in
sure prompt delivery for the ginning of the
next crop. Address,
J, D. A H. T. H AMM U K,
Crawfordville, Ga.
Or Messrs. BOTHWELL BROS.. Agents.
Jyß w3m Augusta. Qa.
ancf STATION ARY
W ' l hu * e a tte r ns.
TURBINE V> ATI. K \ it U LL i 01)0 ill ure."
SEND " . 1 H v f. . u LAPS . BALTIMORF >1 u.
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aps-wly
KEDUCED TO A certainty.
Chance t® Cain
$50,000
INTO RISK..
Send lor circular at once- N timo to looe.
atAJ * 0., Bankets, 7t * UWen j ( 7 K wyOKK.
New AdvorttHcmontN,
CHEAP DRY GOODS.
1,000 Pieces aew Rtbbeus, ell kinds, from very narrow to wide. Sash
Ribbon at Very Lew Prices, by C. CRAY L CO.
Pearl Ureas and Shirt Bnttons in variety, by C. CRAY A CO.
New and faverite brands of 4-4 Shirting and 10 4 Sheeting, by
C. GRAY A CO.
AH the Best Brands of Calico at 0 1-4 cents, by C. GRAY k CO.
Ladles’ and Rents’ Handkerchiefs at 50 per cent. Less than they were
two months age.
O. GRAY & CO.
auglO-tf
PLUTEBS LOU UD SAWS BUI,
223 Broad Ntreet,
CAPITAL, - - - SIOO,OOO, WITH STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY.
x>:
Interest Allowed on Deponitn,
T. r, BRANCH, President. J. <p. NEWBURY, Cashier.
DIRECTORS :
THOS. W. COSKERY, GEN. M. W. GARY, JAMES L. GOW,
JUDGE WM. GIBSON, E. H. ROGERS, M. L BRANCH.
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AMERICAN COTTON TIE COMPANY, LIMITED.
Ahead of AH Competition.
'JZZJ'AVE in store and to arrive, a full supply of the celebrated
ARROW TIE,
For sale to the trade. Also, a supply of PIECED TIES always on hand.
WARREN, WALLACE A CO., Agents,
jy!6-2m AUGUSTA, GA.
' Job Printing; and Book Binding;.
JOB PRINTING.
BOOK BINDING.
RULING, Etc.
THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
Raving Extensively Furnished, With New Material, the
JOB PRINTING AND BINDING ESTABLISHMENT
ARE PREPARED TO DO EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WORK DESIRED
Merchants,
Factors,
Corporations,
Societies,
Hotels,
Railroads,
and the public generally.
Our Bindery is Complete,
AND
OUR WORK CANNOT BE SURPASSED
FOB DURABILITY AND WORKMANSHIP.
*
LEGAL BLANKS oi Every Deeerlptio n .
RAILROAD RECEIPT BOOKS made strong, and gnaranteed net to come
to pieces by careless handling.
We ask an examination of onr Prices and Stock, guaranteeing fiOOD
AND RELIABLE WORKMANSHIP with Promptness.
JOB PRINTING IN PLAIN OB FANCT COLORS, snperior in desigr *■*
execution, a specialty.
Tags, Notea, ledger!,
Circulars, Drafts,
Envelopes, Checks, ?
Bill Heads, Posters, Pamphlets.
Note Heads, Dodgefs, Catalogues,
Letter Heads/ Handbills, JKjVbL
Visiting Cards, Date Lines, Tickets
Business Cards, Pregrammes, Dmy Tickets,
Money Receipt., Dance Cards, **B°**“®’
Shipping Receipts, Postal Cards, Record Books,
Cotton Statements, Memorandums, Reoeipt Books,
Statements, Druggists’ Labels, Clerks’ Blanks
. Sociable Invitations, Prescription Blanks, Elecrion Tickets,
Wedding Invitations, Quotation Circulars, Railroad Tickets,
Ordinary’s Blanks, etc.
B&*If yon desire your PRINTING and BINDING dene to give satisfaction
bring your orders to the CHRONICLE k SENTINEL.
tST Ova conn try friends will please remember Die above and send their ordeas
to as.
WALSH & WRIGHT.
PROPRIETORS.