The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 07, 1887, Image 1
THE
ASSASSINATION OK rUESIIUSNT
AMHA11AM LINCOLN.
Andrew Johniton hd<1 Mr*. Surnitt—How
** Kegard for ^eltglon Might Have Saved
Llnroln.
4^anliit<>n, dla.,
JInt, ninwt).
Btanioii, a man ot Tfriuul jmsmouB
tth'crefore, when arou*d, of blind
Adico, was aided in hi*, insane fury
tndrow Johnson, who had reasons
own for keeping akvo a storm
prevented too clot* a scrutiny
ihis own past associations and oon-
i The men of in famoui class known
electives, developed by the war, and
4vated by the secretary of war and
Secretary of Btute, whom kings
•rdinate officers, were eifecutors un
iheir own law, and instead of eh-
aaging an opening of testimony, they
As the day approaches that marks the
yearly record of Lincoln’s death, I find
myself dwelling upon it with more than
usual sadness, blcause I happen to l*3! »«uted all’ who were »ppo'sed to
to© startling report when it reachcc 3 * me. coward. In this way u ooor stage
It is strange that this free govermnent center, who innocently bid Booth’s
of otfrs, the crime, which of aU others is 0D the ni « ht of the agination
the outgrowth of despotism, should And
development. Do extremes meet in tin#
way, or may we take this strange ap
pearance of assassination as a symptom
of a deep seated disease that escapes or
dinary seeing? Are we, after all, Ut d i
above the ills of tymuny in our form of
government, or have we only ahifted the
evils of < •|ipreshioQ ly one, or a f«n», to
that of the many ? Is not the dtwpt tuun
of a majority as intolerable as that of'
one man or of a class? Oar govern nent
has developed into one of parties,' .rv.1
while oar ounstitutoon' was framed to
protect the minority, the unwritten ouu-
wx lI to a living death, and poor Dr
M, who treated the broka ankle of
hh, never dreaming of wkat caused
tk'cident, was glad to escape the gal-
1« in sharing the carpenters punish-
id. Mrs. Surrath who was found
S y of keeping a boarding house at
liington, was hanged—to oar national
she through all time to coma
was death to any one known to have
s«, let alone associated with Booth,
the duty demanded of him. It was hard
work for me to drag information from
the stolid fellow; bat I learned that
while one of the night riders talked non
sense all t£ie time the other said little,
and that little was given to carsing his
broken leg and somebody for not put
ting ont the lights.
The light business took hold of m
with a fdSclMtfflg tenmlty that
could not shake off. As I worked it out
it seemed to me *a key to the mystery
that enveloped all the work of the assas
sin on that terrible night, bnt I could
not manage the testimony. What light
was that which should have been extin
guished and was not? The actor may
have been haunted with Othello’s solilo-
Quy, where he says before Desdenioua’s
death, “put ont the light and then pat
out the light” But it gave no satisfac
tory solution to the sormisee.
It
— « 1 ■ _ j|'
Hi* Rare Over the nevlTs Track—Why He
Felt IncllneU to Make Such Ooori Time.
(From the New York Sun.)
“I’ve made a mile a minute on horse-
ears after, while telling the late
Richard Merrick of this mvstery, the
eyes of that eloquent and able advocate
brightened. Wlien I ended he aaid,
j “Your negro gave you the key.” The
true story of that awful crime came to
me in my capacity as a lawyer. Booth,
the assassin, whd put an (nd to the life
not only of an able, kind-hearted man,
back, in the saddle.”
As a grizzled stranger with a quartzite
pin made this remark, a silence fell upon
the little group of turfmen who sat in
the corridor of the Windsor Hotel, at
Denver, the other evening. The man
who hail just told of driving an unre
corded mile in 2:11 arose deliberately,
brushed the ashes off his cigar, buttoned
his overcoat, and walked away. “1 am
a liar, myself,” somebody began.
“Hold on,” said the stranger, “this
isn’t a lie. It's cold, clammy truth, and
I’ll back it with money.”
“Have yon the papers for it?”
“No, nor the judge's affidavits. In
cy rvdsnnsble solution of his
fan oos ritnnuc to the other.
<? be was hin<>as in his
he Uwssoa
t traitor*.
mads odtoaa by hanging
from Jeff Davis ikrwm. ?fot
phoe) beard the report of tin
>tltuUoii_of eyporu m^ running thr. I jfcton. in Lis angry dinanciattoB of I pistol This would have plunged the
a ocatury, reaUj proc the (act that » shorn he afterwards, when in the theatre UUo midnight darkness, and tel I-r
a minority baa no nghta which the iwrtv ! • sabshled cxcitem—k atrsngo the tembie fnghi and ooufuamn tbr > * J a 7*' l| ' il . ' 1
wsr la bound to rceptwt, J I'avuml. And in this we osn ted tne smssMn would have escaped ilstretmu ! ,<u a uI
a m thi.i way months were dosed in uoi omy »u an aoie, Kinu-ucaneu man, fact nobodv n*w it extent mvulf hut if
f% and ounso<}uently a Kvatapon of. but of all the hopes which the South hai ! n ^
tfacta KuppreMod. of an honorable and peaceful nettleae nt ^° u T” P enu j| ll ,n ® 7°*
hi* affoni. a key to the resaonn for in the way of reoouatructiou, ha>l ar- ‘'"’I™.V""T** J oar,e ^
Jlrcw Johnson’s strange, coulradicto- ranged with an accomplice to turn off 111 * 0 „
nnd wild con-inct on the oc«m:on. the gas from the theatre when be (the
1 out-Ueroded UefiMh wmch means accomplice, beard the report of the^ cLwer. Even the man
iteton, in las angry Icnuncialiou of, pistol This would here pb—sd the |
ie grizzled strati
tobaeeo from his
The faUow rehsd on. smiMen with cm- I 1h k *^ .
• | tnlios at the enormity of the enmo or ... , ^ y T",oT ‘T*
»| bv feir. faded his shier and fled. In . , ?? i ,TU, « “ I^i^dls at the
1 • stmdbf qmedy gaining ST.n.11 but lmd uikw^* Uml took
t ss.iaitf
1 qumly nding sway
«n with coo-1
the enmo or!
In
and 1
and
his horse,
nn.lrtrstsdl
ruUv into the ouUi ing dmtncts
I dcH
ue n
me fra.pi
o—bated to far* the andisnas I !g_* ”! ■! Z'T'J
m the fall gtara of the fcdUgfato and ^ ^
rale ikaperatolT, well knowing that the Sd ^.iki ^
foot wraonhisM^
The light, wera not ^xhnguisL-d. | * P ‘ ^
Tbt des|wrato mutderar, in hShastv * K?., tur Ut * t 3 r ?
flight from the box. caught hi. spur in, 1
the flag ot our Union that dsmZi ih. 1 I ^
box. fall, broke his ankle and ^Sadow^ ^ ^
to death. The plot was clsnrty plannsd ( ^ 04
sad one cun imagine Uw tsauJtaom 1°« am And U
flight ai that asww^ m tte darsawM ttel * ^ U ~ kln « ^
■ aatoteva bdlowad the cnnus And
me like bands of iron. --Even had
they not, jumping off would have been
out of the question. I have never been
on a toboggan, bat I think that people
who have will understand why I bent all
I did
my energies to holding on.
' * id did not get dizz
leirsr
red, white
and blue. In 18(12 the Confederate gov
ernment as one evidence of absolute
severance from the United Htales, de
cided qn a new flag. This was the
Southern cross, finally adopted by the
Confederate Congress in 1863, and fa
vored by General Beauregard. It was
first, nowever, GBSSNt Joseph E. John-
not
faint and did not get dizzy; there was a ston’s t>attle-fl»g, be having selected the
hideous roaring in my ears, a furious blue spangled sillier upon a red field as
wind seemed to all of a sadden to tear his liattle ensign. It tlid not please the
np the mountain and suck the breath Richmond Examiner, in which it was
out of my mouth, but everything was doecribed as a “red field bestraddled with
deadly clear and distinct. I could see a long-legged white cross." Probably
black specks grow suddenly into big the confusion of the Rebel and Uniog,
pines and then shoot past me. I could colors at the first battle of Mdnamas led
even see the snow caught in their needles to giving np the “stars and ban” by the
as they came whizzing np. Every in- former.
■taut, through some clearing, I could see On looking over the flags in the war
the valley, in a flash, and over it all was building 1 find most of the Confederate
a sickening feeling as though the moan- flags of the Southern Cross device—rad
tain was sinking sway from me, and I field and bine cross haring thirteen
was plunging out into immeasnrable stars. Now and then one snows but
space. Bo strong was this that even eleven stars, or eight On# has fifteen
now, standing on the solid marble floor, "tar*. A printed catalogue of these flags
I can recall ins qualm and nausea as all when they were on exhibition in the
support seemed to give away, the earth ordnance museum gives the number
tip up and let me fall, fall, fall —it felUM placed there at 540. The history of 540
if forever. A mass of rock as large an 10 thin catalogue is brief and ends the
thin hotel was beneath me. As 1 looked list. “No. 540—Rebel tattle flag,
it seemed to leap into the air like a bal- brought from Richmond by Masts* Tad
loon. There was a black line of forest Lincoln.” President Lincoln's
below. I shot through it as through n son was a lad of twelve yean when he
tunnel, and out into the light again. I went with his father on the memorable
tried to abut my eyes. It was impossi- visit to City Point, where General Grant
ble- I tried to scream. The air had ( had^s hea.h^
I have read that when men ate about Windsor's Imtiding. Will tte flags be
to die their lives reel out before them returned there, sod placed when tbs
like s panorama. Mins didn’t All I public may ase them again? I am told
could think of was tte crash, tte bloody ! that some Um«
of man and bona lying somewhere
in tbs valley, and 1 rememU-r I am glad
in a wild, crazy kind of way that it
would be all over in an instant and that
it wouldn't hurt me. I knew we must
be nearly ttere. Tte tress and reeks I L
of s *■>
road oompanica organized nd projaetsd
daring the thr8e months nding Jane
30. The misoellaneous industries re
ported in each Btatc 00 mist partly of
land improvement and
oompanisa.
Agricultural
brick works 81, L
e.gar and tobacoo
worib 2, cotton mills 10,
oar wheel works 1, engine
trie light works 8, elevatoi
15, foundries and mnhins steps 17,
flour mills 8, fertilizer factory 1, gnat
mills 1, ice fastories 6, locomotive works
1, mines and quarries 19,
oil and asphalt 11, bil r
works 2, rolling mills 8,
steal plants 2, street rad*
1.
>47.
e«w* —^M^pfuUhaHT.
all
i'uint and put
Mtreng objection
that this would lend to k
t feelings bet wee
sum tte two s set ions, la
Brisk and tils wi
1. cotton factories
trie light works 4,
flour mills 1, mine
roads 14, ties milk
retlwayai, water
on® 7#
Us
It 1
Yae
pop
■tr OsmIst
■*» ■»**« glooitd. I
ttahl iKiLb#r • %iiilualtwl Itjf AOT
impulse or patnotze motive, the Lki
ing that one was a lour suet of a at
•ad the utter a m>ma man Booth
Uuitrao were quite as good as tLe sL
nest to ratting up s -L——«
an
psuular sdul, the
pull down again a. d < M*af
qocootw of our own folly,
com.- out of violeure dor.e
m k>
Cousw
may
flood
by
utten they nae half tkarvis^agauist up-
prcaMon, but there is no g<>od in astvwi-
Ttere is a difference between
murder and war.
These thought*, however, are not gar
ana to what 1 sat down to wntr. 1
•wsly seek to record aome facu
a <ili the awful murder of
good- President.
When the nows of 1‘ruiident Lincoln’s
nmuianatiou atartlsd the people I wusat
. iu v fo.inc, m the Mac o-ehec, Ohio.
Whil'> walking along the pike near to-
0 ward tte village, some two miles dis
tant, going for my daily mail, I met
man on horseback, whose sad faoesti nek
me. American fanners have thesaiideat
faces of all humanity, but this woio a
gloom of unusual depth. Stopping
when near me, he naked if I hail heard
the ne^B, and getting a response in the
negativu, he continued:
“They do say at Liberty that I.inivdn
is dead.
“Dead?” I repeated.
‘Tee; shot dead by a play-actor, or
circus chap, or some sort of follow of
that kind. ”
I hurried on. I was. struck by the
silence of the town, hole in the four
years of bloody disasters on our part,
which were quite as bloody in our ytar
of victory as they were in our defeats,
had been terribly cheapened in public
estimation. The reports of thousands
left dead upon the field, or dying in
hospitals, were received with noisy com
ment, it is true, but yet with a certain
indifference. Here, however, was
death that commanded grave attention,
and seemed to change the day itself irom
one of noisy life to a Sabbath-like still
ness. The shops were open but desert
ed, and around the corners the pec
were collected gazing at each other in
silence. Towards coon the country peo
ple begah to gather in. They came
directly from home in their ordinary
work clothes, and as returned soldiers,
stimulated by liquor, grew noisy and the
threatening feeling spread, and during
the day and night, I expected to hear of
certain obnoxious Democrats, known as
Copperheads, being mobbed and mal
treated. But we escaped all violence,
nnd in twenty-four hours the excitement
of that sort subsided. •
• Had political organizations been more
evenly divided at that time the
nenoes would have been deplorable.
tell Ufcc
< iCk“A4 r r» < 1
Li*'* than thnateagnluti .wa,
o’* ktnd rvfc■ an i Jol ‘.mih’s
u*v aavnl A ~
.-hOMUl aaafdrd sllkt- V- tte
1 nt and gwdty.
ch time and mk bare ivro * * «>ol
hat rivo^tmtifclaUon to rxivuUre
ucr avanted Mrs. Barrett by tte
omrt-martial that coodcmiMd ter. and
ai rffoil iwaJw to have us Urtevw that it
ms brpt frem tte l*>raail«»wt.
Tte ranwds show tiast Una raanmi iem-
■bte n tasds a part of tte proo-Ai .gs
ux>u whirl tbr 1‘reatdenC had to |*-sz.
Lthia ,wcre iiut so the 1 ’rwi-li n 1 ass
fltilty of an ill.gal scL Tte fact is fiat
dc rltiommundslion to m«wry was
fifv-lteiuan atet nut only dared
0>®plj with tte plan, but, in his f
xtwajy
Lot
vw.
up Ult- fiecnimu. And
. _ , of th
tirtliikl BsiV vsfraaW
iitowfrawosw of a «nl
•Might to rrvraw tte prooewdings of
court martial, ae it had Ite right to do,
aider a writ of habeas eorpoa.
I* it possible that Booth bad tte meet-
izg with tte Vica-l’resident for which he
mked, and if so did te tell tte \T
IVvaideiit of the awful work ha ted in
land? If so, it may be that Andrew
Johnson took this to te the vaporing* ol
a drunkard actor—and it is vtry likely
that his strange conduct came rather
from fear than from the workings of
guilty conscience.
As Judge Advocate of the Extraordi
nary Court of Inquiry that *ongbt to in
vestigate the military conduct oT 1
oonse-
WoUid huv
at the Republican party meant then
the American people at the North, and
popular fury was expended in donunoia
‘ “eff Da
tion of Jeff Davis and the rebels, as they
ware called. It was generally believed
that, ihe assassins were agents of the
Confederates, who, failing uPthe field,
had resorted to murder to avenge their
lost cause.
A year afterward* I
ttea residing in Maryland, on the route
token by Booth in his (light from tte
uapriaL Tte Urror excited by tte wrath
of tte oommnnity yet prevailed, and tte
Marytondw, my rail
vote eautioualy and to an undcstona ol
Urn—to. parts of it as
Genera
Buoli. I was brought in close association
with Andrew Johnson, and what I learn
ed of him on that occasion gives mo
tetter opportunity for forming judgment
than falls to the lot of the many wh. - )
ascribe all his actions to high patriotic
impulses.
It may be that the future historian,
weighing these facts in an impartial
mind, will come to the some conclusion
that 1 have in regard to President John
son. But this is donbtfnl. A thought
ful mind has told us that history is the
pulitioj of the past and the present, and
politics mean the prejudices and current
beliefs of the people.
I have been struck in this connection
by the remarkable similarity of conduct
on the part of Johnson and that of
Macbeth. When the murderer of that
greatest and most perfect tragedy is
brought face to face with his awful
crime, he fairly roars in his simulated
wrath. The grand imagination of the
kingly asssassin that has given us some
of the purest expressions of philosophi
cal poetry give place to the miserable
rant of a vulgar mind, Macbeth, how
ever, was carrying the murdered Duncan
on his conscience, while Johnson was
irobably driven to desperation by the
nowledgeof an indiscretion that had
the same dreadful consequences loom
ing into immediate existhnee.
I would rather have been the associate
of Booth and possessed of his dreadful
secret, if the awful choice were forced
upon me, and have been hanged for it,
than to have Bred through years to my
grave haunted by the thought of that
poor woman wringing her motherly
jmtdi
okw oaa rmliar tL<- drej* ration
rarobj at Booth as te red* off lolo tte
raidaight, writ knowing that te waa re-
cnguaral, and that ttere waa no apol on
• arth in which te OouLl find >»i-li»g nod
wtoqy. wvwn tout not hi* breten leg dn-
has of every sdrantofli Tte
tatai mart of Cam h*J teon unpnntad
ou lun in tte full glare of bia faratter
LaHughta, and that istnbutton which
dogs tte Mr pa of arttoe wwe tel a quan-
UoB of lute.
Tte tiuntor oacuasd an ite night ot
l*uud Krhtor, and ted our go. «1 —-i
great— of Prendenla unnrad to rsraara-
aer lor a u>o«K-ot tte tebef of a great
majority of (’limtian LuraauUy, te
would not have beam axposad to tte
ororhy of tte ararawta. But ‘'God
and the gorernraant still Itrea.”
Dow I^iarr.
Mao o chew, Ohio, March 27, 18b7.
Jaka an*waa Valh* Agmin.
Brnator tttennaa tea hnd
torviewed again. Ho
lea* than two wvaka ago. by
nah Enquirer, which wanted him to az
Kten um Mfltomnj tetwacn hi* Naah
vUla
4«4d bloody ahirt
Iwa base interne wad by th*
Commeroutl Gazette to order to
the explanation. Ho atill refuzee to Ben
any inoonatolency between the two
yoctea,.although he adauU that the
opnagtok! apeech waa impolitic. Every
word m it, te *ay», u hteraUy true e7
oepL ^viteps, the rtotement tlutt “ttere
isrotanintelhg. ut man in thiz brUS
1^ of ette, imrtv who due* not kaow
mt Mr. ^levalaud is now I’/ubident
gjuto U» oleotive francinsu ’ He ad-
uito thkt Ins may be too broad, but
npdn a oaaful analysis he '
_ o reach
to first cress Tsunaraea park and
then wind over a very ereokad, tortnuu*
trad that gradually aamradod to a praa
aoasawkar* abura Tuubrr Pina. It waa
not more than two mdse a* tte crow
(tea, tet nine by the road, owi^ to tte
frviumt nglagging ov tacking mad*
“^raings^riit w** about
noon when 1 reached tte daua. 1 had
a aoupla of area at work there, at*
oar at their cabin, and
to look at tte shaft. Oaa
tew rapidly time
where avi-rytlaag m dark, and
name up 1 waa aurpnaad to f
waa nearly 4 o'otoek, and the
ptmoaz a hundred yard* off had crawled
up to tte win dlara I was annoy ad, too,
for there waa a aaggeatiou of reow in tte
air, and the ride across Tenurestd park
in a atorm -wwlL the lare said about it
tte tetter. Bo I lost no time in getting
abed rapidly
1 ted to go
quite a Utile iterance before I ranched
it, and all tte tome th* sky grew gtwvar,
and prrasnllr a few flakes began to fall
1 urged tte broncho, and finally began
tte aaddle, and c
1 toward the pare
a little iterance bai
“Tte read teyoad tte
lad down
line for about a qnar-
1 fcykit to tte (nnifea
'L . i'lm
up into my
faca 1 fall that I waa bring beaten,
hrwlaad and hartel over and orer, and
than rTorythtog era toll.
“When tte muon waa wall up 1 c*ma
b> mywsif. 1 was lying in a reowdnft,
rwhhing at my tend and moaning. Altar
a loag lira* 1 arewtod a but* ways, aad
then Tell down aad anad lor *7 vary
aigbtv, and hrevan knows hows how I
found my way to Iran's mul, a quarter Perteji* are
of a atda teyoad, tet 1 did, somehow, the l aited 81
You saw tte old shoot tel fadlaa b»i*» n
into daoay. aad some iterance above tha Whe'i lU Hi
yard waa a broken place that raved my * ^* ,r * •
Ufa. When ww reacted it the dead
broncho jumped tte trough aad Ite twoJ. ■—«»*
of a* want reding and turning ami 1 .*?.** T ^7
cavorting over a floZd off freah snow until J
w* toick into a drift about BOD yards • Th*
away. Tte broacbo had the wo— of llr
it, avsu ttere, for te kept oa gatng on
td te struck solid earth I broke three T y
ao I
oa
Ti
the one mile
Adjutent Os
that ite )>repvr plsea lot tha
hare in tte war d**|*artaiant baddtog.
To return th— to th* Mouth would. Cs |
daclared, when that auggsatioa a
care* up, tea dtraat reeogatonm of
nghta of th* relialltuaa >
rv of
mini
eu many I'nl
re oa the saxtous
la 1* n lisoembrf
uuuaualty full
of Indtaaa.
iri**i r Turpie.
wi oa lha greuad that the
fit Hr clad him wsa not prep
m^Xmd—rallhl, toaff
rihai
I, of CaUforal
to defeml his tide agsiiut a
rawey era uaad to precurs it
tMrnahw
leen refu
1 wilt hav*
barge Uul
E&IICf.
West Virginia,
. - , -——^—— ..J c ,rtine hy
ptaore that tha doctor wanted to cut it (toreruor Wliaon. whv rnnlandi that the
off and te dona with it What puzzled i kftdature had ao right la dart s (to
th* mill man moot waa that my h^p «*- at he called remto*.
capad, but the reddle flaps ware worn to ! (teak* Pasco, of fiords, msr also find
‘ I suppose that explains it • fiv» !■ hi* ‘ “ ‘
.V
7, te tetorire 4.
od mills 8, imdreads A toaai
works 1, wwod wotka
(nags and
Prom tte point where 1
break was over two suit*, and
hands ttere raid logt uaad to a
tea than two minutes. I had
watoh, but I’ll back myself agi
log that ever mad* the trip,”
xpkins it
lad to the
d th* old
make it in
no atop
mat any
TUOUR WATTLK-KLAO*.
lwo hi get arounws
Of the range. At that
- vmeuu amuysis be does not see
how he oatd modi^ it if f*i r f oroe ^
oondudes he interview by reyinir “I
r T K>a Wbj ^ CoafeJ-
ende cause which was ‘eternally wrong,’
b k 4 ■vf*, Ve i honestly fought out,
should be Wled down with the infamy
of arxmes tacli required no courage,
., Red gjg since the war, by poli-
vue buntnt ofhe Democratic 'party. I
can find somexouse for these atrocities
in the stxpngrejudice of caste, and race
SS^ U k’?° W1 ^ ° 1 ut of centuries
of—aery, btff on find no excuse for
“LSi 0 °J. ar “ the North who
is wunng to swmt to have his political
pow* oontroid and overthrown by
such means, fhe oonveraation os re-
lh^.JP V04 *f ^Preesion that Mr.
JnemiurwroUhe questions u well m
, - — —. point
Inc idea occurred to me
off
_ Th* Cvpn Movement.
NoYork Financial Chron
icle's rolton artg the foUo wing figures
aJO 8lttere<l relive to the movement of
the »tzp le dunniie pest week:
reftche<1 2 * 364 ^es;
* week, 4,032 balel
woelmd 7,599 bales three
the total receipts
r, 1886, 5,187^182
•pur
paused.
eould make a short cut by gmLgdiracUr
over the spur and rtnkmg the trail oh
the other side. The range was not par
ticularly steep at this place, but ratter
» succession of rough eminences, and the
undertakiijg did not seem to be sooom-
pomed by .W. r . A sudden raw wind
decided me. I turned the brunch
tte road and started.
“The plan appeared the more ]
ble as I advanced. What looked like
steep ascents at a distance proved to be
gentle ones, and I was soon pretty near-
v . The "par was well wooded
with old pme trees, some of which had
rottod as they lay, and on the far side
the declivity extended down at an even
slope clear to the valley, where big rocks
and boulders looked like grainy G f blast
ing powder, and the road like a tiny
streak. I remember yet how, between
the tree tops, I caught a glimpse of the
psik with the Arkansas river winding
through it, and the whole thing looking
hke some map in my old geogrenhv
That was the last thing that^preSsei
itself on my mind before my hone stair-
gored, stumbled, plunged a little, iS
then came down with a crash, first
bin fore legs and then flat on his bellv
his head down hilh I can’t readily d£
senbe it, but he fell in such a way *h«»t
my right leg, without being crushed ar
even much bruised, ww twisted in the
stirrup strap and caught
Right here let me stop to explain
circumstance that will enable you to un
derstand the situation. Down in the
valley, at the base of Gold Mountain,
was a sawmill owned bv George W
of Leadville, and extending up from Us
yard, almost to Aim ber line, ww what ■
called a log shoot. This it simply a
v -shaned trough, large enough to hold
a good-sized pine trunk, and built soiid-
v against the face of the mountain. Of
course it has to be straight, or nearly >0
to permit the lows to slide down without
obstruction, and use soon makes the
inside os smooth w glass. Such a con
trivance saves a great deal of hauling,
for w the trees are cut, they are dragged
over and drfnped into the trough, and
go down to tte yard like a steak of
lighting. In the coarse of time, the
ureesnrft will .1^-^ ft, fr - - ^
nearly level to the earth.
the
J4i>3 bales forthe same
iMring ‘
s in abject terror upon the scaffold
Johnson authorized, or seeing night and
day that bundle of woman’s clothes
swinging in the hot sun of summer, ae
st the end of a
agonies of death.
R iiLc on a vi*it to in) Mist—^ above
* "• oe > f referred to, I heard of e ar^m who had
acted w Booth’s guide on the night of the
flight, and hunted up the map. I found
aim a rtuptt fellow of about 18 or 20,
•ad I got very little out of him. Tha
Uttie, however, ww to me yery aigmfl-
—i, aad to ray Mind threw' a Lght on
Booth's flora— I ted neve* smi sug
boj
Che 1
(for
of 10,
Great ‘
to the
The
during. Dial »T,. r
3JU
. a decrease since
60,011 bales,
week reach a total
orti
,of|ich 3,385 were ta
of
1 oor
actual
France, and 0,187.
ocwient.
inteontinental ports
80,000 bales,
decrease in the
bales a* /vim.
to of 1886, and
00m
of dm!
plantations,
t, not iadud
nor Bo uttern
reached the
for tte
Tte
' Of 59,U37*les w
mot
0—with the IraCT riiooh Mnx^rfS
had not teen used for ateot a jess, aad
rubbtsh had in places —root huLLw, n
froM eight. I ww Weil enough a—aeini
u-
teiit raj brooete fell, ttet te ted
‘f log ia. I ww
tot aw—of Mol tte tew. bwft I t
•*hi
Facte Akoal tke C
c^traa—t. ru«.
^a. Itogr New Yerk Tlraee j
(Wsehiageea teller to .\q * m jWi were
^ ^® n U** captured Union with
found at Riohmond, ttere were s2ff •
the rebel archives sent up to Was]
ton a ooUectjon of demgu* for a Con„«-
erate flog. W ith the devioes were letters
over 200, there were not above half a
dozen devices without the atan. Tha
krrangemtnt of the stars made infinite
rerraty, but through all, the mullet or
firo-pointed star ww retained, showing
that, desuoas w tte Confederates were
10 get a flag unlike the “yankee” om
blem, theoldfeelingeould^n^keTff
atUch ““ lt fo the stars. And in almost
erery letter with a device for the flag
reference is made to retaining the stare
On 0 « U iv.ignoringthe atriW
One Confederate wrote: “Let the Ird.
kees keep their ridiculous tune of ‘Yan-
^ but b J 411 « sacred do
not let them monopolize the stars aad
the stripes. You teve fought well un
der our glonoua banner; eould you fight
m well under another? Never! OhaLe
it, improve it, alter it w you wili/bS
•todies!”™ * ^ “® gttn
^ Another smd: “Do not give up the
4n £_,? tn P e8 to the North. It is
theirs. • * Keep
the atripes, keep the azure field, andi
atox far—h sovereignty in the oonstel-
b J 4 red
■ 8 ?? tber ? «ow) cutting the
stripes at right angles. * * Tterongs
(^e Oontodssste alone wrote against
the stars and m favor of the stripes He
‘j 1 ^ the cross. It is sig-
mfloant of Catholic rule and had too
nmA to do with the machinery of the
J 4 * 4 ?* The old stars must, I think,
be abandoned. They belong fothe
night, and besides the Nerth toll keep
W It is nothing with ns. Lett^
h®."®™® 1 one for each of the
onginal Stated w the thirteen were tor
‘h® States of thd old Confoders-
Let item be -
The legi-Jaturr wkkli
ckrted bim, h h rlafiaed, ara aot or gee
ted az tte sew .stale a nultetera prv
•crilaal. If UkU be true, all ite proceed
ing* of that legialaturr. Indudiag Ike eke
U"0 of Senator, will t* vitiated. Meaeior
1‘aero can affoiri to feel —y. fur akould a
utw nle llirn be reuatred by reaara of a
lerbaicahty there ie no doubt Uul be would
In tte Welt Ylrsiaia taw, H 1* a quee
tion tetwesu two 1>—ocrete, Meaeior Lu
ca», wbo was appuiated by tbe Ooveraor
alur tbe long and fruitless dead luck lathe
legislature, and Senator Faulkner, wbo free
elected st s special seesioo of the legiala-
ture called to attend to other bualaea*
the Califoraia and Indiana cooes, the
%, ?*t wftPhffUwrty will come lu. especially
queaUot. ^ *• 10 ^ m4 e 0TCT
M tte sharp i>
hghl work* 1, fort
raMk 1. gra works
1, riee ssille 1,
1, IoImooi
ipweraee 1, eetftou
rttUrafoe 1, elw-
railk 4. fume—
>9,
• “tkm.
Brick works 2, ear
)4,e—pr—m4,
is and machine shoot 5,
2, gw wv£ h
.rails
of
of the
hbrisontah”
One writing wholly in -favor
- tefrom old Msbeiatfons,
«d to let the Yankees
We are to
rod we can
keep the
If objection be
ten«U*Tu P rph'. ^ i U,P " *
mnde to tbe »wesring' , f ^ T**;
four Senators wboee UUeJR
tioned, tbe Republicans will l w — ,
of thcSeuate by a clear miij^rftf/.'. 1 / 0 *^ IP?, *”***. 1
Riadleberger may do, fort n#w ,
wffiUn £.' ,re !', CVery P n,b4bUJ iJ that they J
will all be seated eventually The «*»,*»« r*'^ Uro4d * ^ *
hss never stoexi as squa^on ^rt^SS ».
in contested elections a, the House geuT ^
rally does, and there is very Uttie in the I rc* 40 ** misMUnieoue Iff,
Indians and California coatesu, which are „ —«uai.
the only ones involving political prejudice. Bn °k yards ear shops L -— M
The tenute is, there tore, almost sure >..| *ob— ractoneed, dhtiiUriL
SsSo?mdSSSS M * 10 37 Dun,ocr4U . "hi* " otkM Hour iSbf
betutor Hiddleberger as an unknown quan- “»d -•ra,u. 1T 3
uiy, win . tajtogumgAOj.UmJSl|uTiS » ijftj
'Us
He is bitter against the Republican leaden
and may wheel squarely into line with the
DymoeraU. thus making the Senate a tic
no vice president to cart aXidi!.;
-Atlanta Constitution.
with
vote.
oompaniw 21, oil mills a, nO—fc A
■tree! railways 21, water worksSTtow
Torka 1, woollen and ootton —«
The numdeb of destructive fires during I Ootton nffla 1L W * IA,IA ’
e present month has beefa imusaally I % « *
large. Statistics covering a period of I “dlls 1,
years show that December is tbe} faniaoas 1, foe factorial
worst month tor fires, and that Match I qtuwtos 6, natural ok,
©omee next. June is the safest month, [od mills 8, riee milks,
haying comparatively few fires, with I 4, street raih
The proportion of [MteMisI
per cent.
aad
light losses,
diariam in the
mood'
South is 42
nay more than April I light
rage m July, but in August and Beptem- mills 18,,
ber the moend lary seems to wakoup. to hmtoriw
October mid November he puts in some j *nd quarries 20, aa^te
aSSISS
|An*m. Most of these sets are reralijy
attributable to private nudge, bosinms Brick works 1, 1
rivalry, mischievous intent, jealousy woollen milk L
iatolerauoe, kbortroj- «>d ^
tires in i
1, foe
.rt
urwitaV . ir** ^oona»t> the beat
destruction of
•oxud, ot the val
unusual proportion of
to this point in the sea
apprehension that the 1
root year will 1
ofl886. .
Writ tew, why 4aaV
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