The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-08-09
ANOTHER ApoLoGY.-Last week

ANOTHER APoLoGY.-Last week
Mr.. Borden. the editor of this paper,
received from his brother in Georgia a
letter saying that his father had gone
on trip to Rome, Ca, and had been
attacked on his way by robbers, who
suspected him with having large sum
of money in his possession, and was by
them beaten until insensible-robbed
of his money, and left for dead by the
road side. He was found shortly after
he was robbed, with his skull fractured
in several places, in an almost insensl'
BILE condition. Medical assistance was
sum secured aud Mr.. Borden was
partially restored. At the date of the
above letter he was lying in a critica!
condition, not expected to live many
davs. One of the robbers. negro,
had been arrested and committed to
Jail, and most of the money lost had
been recovered, only having one hum
dred dollars still lost. On the recep-
ton of this news our editor was very
sick and has, as soon as his physical
strength would permit, hurried to the
bed side of his suffering father, leaving
this morning on the Little Rock stage
for the home of his father in Georgia.
In the hurry and distress Of our editor
the Telegraph has been left in the care
of the devil, who has been left to fill
up its columns for this week on short
notice the best he can. This will ac-
count for the failure of this weeks
paper in presenting to its readers its
usual number of editorials and amount
Of interesting reading matter. How
ever much it is to be regretted, it could
not have been avoided, After this
week the editorial department will be
filled by an editor pro TEN, who will
conduct the same until Mr.. Borden
returns, which will, probably, be in
three weeks. We hope we will not
soon be forced to come before our
readers with an apology for the short
comings Of this paper. Misfortunes
never come single handed, and our
readers should bear patiently with US.
We are in receipt Of the annual cat
alogue of the University of Nashville,
Tenn, and of the address delivered
before the Alumni society, on the 18th
ofJunc, by Wm. II. Stephens of Mem
phis. Appended to the address Is a
list of Alumni of that institution, in
which we find many names that have
illumined the pages of our country's
history since 1913, the year the first
class graduated. Many, whose names
and whose deeds are familiar as house
hold words, have gone to their rest.
The late Hon. Charles Burton Mitchell,
he whose magic voice has so often
stirred the souls of men to patriotic
action, and whose name and face were
once as familiar to the people of Arr
kansas, as the names and appearance
of the counties in which they lived,
but whose voice is now hushed in death,
was in the graduating class of 1888.
(We see the society has not been in
formed of his death.)
In the class of 1910 we find the name
of our esteemed townsman, Hon. Jno.
Rodgers Eakin, whose mental training
and finished education, speaks loudly
in behalf of his alma mater.
In the catalogue Of students now in
attendance we notice the names of
Walter P. Elkin and Robert |. Triggs
Of this place. See advertisement.
"HIGu."-On Monday evening last
our friend Col. Jno. r. Gratiot, whose
fondness for the beautiful and good, in
horticulture, is well known, placed
upon our table some specimens Of
Crawford's late peaches, which surpass
anything we have yet seen. He in
forms us that they are not as large as
usual, owing TO the fact that the tree
ovcrbore, and broke badly. But up to
this date we have no hesitancy in pro-
nouncing them high. Thanks, colonel.