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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-21

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04
THE gRE4T HORSE.

CONTROLLED" TrOfs Twenty Miles
1n bSi57-CalifoTni'a the Champion
state,
San Francisco Examiner, April 22d
On Saturday afternoon, at the
Bay District Course, avery wonder
full feat, combining speed and en-
daFauce, was performed. This was
the trottipg, by the horse Con-
troller, of twenty miles TO wagon
in So minutes and 81 seconds, ths
fastest time on record. Notwith-
standing The task is a terrible one,
never having been accomplished
but once, the great power exhibited
by Controller shot time ago, when
he made ten miles ip 27;27!, pre-
vented many from betting against
him.
When Controller appeared on the
track he looked in even better con-
ditlon than when he trotted against
Jack Stewart 10 miles in 27:274.
At 4:l6t he was tapped of. Henry
White, who drove him, made the
first five miles in 3, 1881, 2:57A,
SOP, 2:5S, in all il minutes, 81
seconds, 3 seconds behind time.
AT the commencement Of the sec
ond quarter of the match the pace
was quickened, but, warned by his
hackers, the horse was gently held
in, and at the conclusion of the
tenth mile the score was 80 minntes
Z seconds, the FIVE miles being re-
spectiVely 2.5ls, 2:55t, 3;17, 3:l7,
2:5I. This was still seven seconds
behind time, but Controller was
trottiag always with such an even
telling stride with a loose rein that
to the experienced eye 1t became
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04
A FAMILY FIGHT.

The VS. and the rs are
the two principal families in North
east Georgia, and it is a popular
superstition that a man born here
is nearly or remotely connected
with one Of these two families. As
is usually the case, the VS. are
jealous of the F-s, and the
F--s make war on the vs..
If a W and a F. get into a
quarrel, others are embroiled, and a
personal dispute oftentimes assumes
mammoth proportions before it is
definitely settled. They tell a good
story at Dahlonega of this peculi-
arity. Circuit Court was in session
and an F. was on the bench.
The court and county officers were
about equally divided among the
two families. Tho courthouse in
Dahlonega is arranged with the
courtroom in the second story, the
first floor being used as offices for
the county officials. A wide hall
way runs through the building and
two flights of stairs connect the
first floor with the courtroom.
Court was in session, and the room
was packed. A noise and bubbub
in the hall below arrested the at
tention of judge, jury, attorneys
and spectators. Curses and loud
words were plainly heard. 1t was
evident a fight was going on.
"Mr. Sheriff." commanded the
Judge, stake those disorderly par
ties into cusIoday aud bring them
up here. | will teach them to have
proper respect for this honorable
court"
Thus directed the sheriff left the
room, but did not return, The
tumult waxed louder and the quar-
rel was evidently increasing instead
Of decreasing, Occasionally q pis.
tol shot was heard. Several Of the
spectators and one or two of the
attorneys left the room. The Judge
looked around and eSpying a deputy
sheriff directed him to hasten to the
assistance Of his chief lie went,
but did not return, The coroner
was sent; he, too, remained below,
A constable, two bailifs, another
deputy sheriff and tho clerk of the
court we're in turn commanded to
preserve the peace and uphold the
dignity Of the court. Not one Of
these officials returned, aud the
room was nearly cleared of attor-
neys and spectators, while the
+" twelve good men aud true"
twisted uneasily on their bench
in the jury box. The face of the
honorable court became crimson
with shame and anger, and as the
solicitor general laid down. his books
and prepared to leave the room he
dismissed the jury, and coming
down of the bench was heard to re-
mark that "he'd see if this court
was to be treated with contemptp
Flushed with a consciousness Of the
great indlgnity being offered his
worshipful person by the rioters be.
low, bis honor fastened down
stairs, A crowd was sprgipg up
and down the hall, mad with pas.
sion. Pistols were brandished,
boWie.kaiyes flashed and the air
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04
XVI MEMPHIS, TENN: SATURDAY EVENING MAY 4 1919

was heavy with smoke and curses.
Pausing for a moment on the stair
way, the better to survey the field
of battle, the honorable judge sud
denly threw off his official robe,
pulled a murderous seyen-shooter
from his belt, and with the cry of
" Give 'em hi, boys" jumped into
the crowd and lost his official iden-
tity in the general crush. The
F-s and VS. were at war,
and not until the latter party was
at last vanquished did the judge re-
turn to his bench.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04

apparent that if there were no flaw
in his condition he must win the
match. On the eleventh mile a
horse to harness was discovered on
the mid back stretch, and immedi.
ately he neared him. Controller
shot out and left him standing, and
made the first fifteen miles in "A
minutes and 25 seconds, in this
order-2:49, 2:49, 2:52, 2:51, 2:57,
thus being out 35 seconds ahead of
time. The betting was now five to
one on the horse, and the odds
were gradually increased to ten to
one as he made the next three
miles in 2:56, 2:5l and 2:49, the
succeeding one in 2;5O and the final
mile in a jog,
COMPLETING THE TWENTY MILES
in 5S minutes and 81 seconds, pull.
ing up quite fresh after his unpre-
cedented feat. The victor was re-
ceiyed with cheers, and the general
opinion prevailed that "ControlIer"
in his own line was without a peer
on the American turf. There was
no trembling in limb, no signs of
exhaustion, and as he pricked his
ears at the admiring assemblage, he
looked every inch the true type of
the American trotter.
THE CHAMPION STATE.
"Controller" is fine bay, with.
out marks, 153 hands high, and he
claims descent from "John Mel
eon" and belmont" mare, a
lineage that accounts for his per-
forming such a feat with but three
slight breaks in this time to wagon.
California has now the credit of the
fastest twenty-miles to wagon, the
fastest ten miles, 27:271; the fastest
five miles, 1900, and the fastest
mile, 2:l49, ever trotted in race.
The fastest two miles, either trot-
ting or pacing, was paced in Sacra-
mento by Defiance" in 4:471.
And five miles has also been made
at this peculiar gait ia few seconds
within thirteen minutes. This
tells favorably for California tracks
and climate, as well as the high
quality Of the horses. Henry
White, who has trained and driven
"Controller" in these races, offers
to wager $4,000 against 5000
that he can trot twenty-one miles
in an hour. Inasmuch as this
has never been done, it is iustifa5le
in him to ask the odds of two to
one.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04


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she Wauldn't Take a Dare.


Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer ]
The gossips are somewhat dis
turbed over an episode in high life.
Senator Hipple-Mitchell, of Oregon,
has a daughter fifteen years of age,
but for a. that with the develop
ment Of bust and figure of more
mature years. For some time a
beardless youth named Handy, a
clerk in the treasury department,
has been playing spoony to her, and
on Saturday night last he dared her
to marry him. The young Miss
was not to be thus daunted. So
she went with her dear Alpheus to a
Catholic priest, and the twain we're
made one. Then they went to Bal
timore, saw the sightsand remained
all night. Yesterday the sleepish
pair returned home, the young wife
taking her liege lord to the sena.
torial dOmicile. Then she ac-
quainted her pa with the facts of
the adventure, whereupon he issued
his ukase, which was to either give
up her home forthwith or her 6us-
band. In twinkling she made up
her mind, and concluded she would
remain with her pa and ma, and
let her young Handy Andy go.
Senator Mitchell is exceedingly er
ragged over his daughters indiscre-
ton, and threatens to bring suit
against the priest who performed
the ceremony.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04

A newspaper in the fullest sense of the word,
at once adapted to the Merchant. the Me-
ebaRic, the Farmer. and everybody
desirous Of keeping up with the
stirring news of this live and
progressive age.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04
LOTTERY.

A sPLEHDID 0PKs0 0RTVNITY 70
"A WIS A FORTUNEEF Fifth Grano
Nay lith.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY GO.
This institution was regularly incorporated
by the legislature Of the stale for Eiuoa-
uonai and Charitable purposes in 1858, with a
Capital of sl,0O0,0oo, TO which il has since
s9SISr sqaea reserve fund Of $3.50 Geo. ITS GRAND
take place monthly on the seoon Tuesday.
1T MEYER sgALzs OR ROsTPONEs. Lock at the
following Distribution,
80 CAPITAL PRIzE. ESQ, ,OOO.
tVO,VvO Llckpas at Doiln'a Each.
Ahtt Tickets One DsAlaF.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04

A friend in need is friend indeed. ="
Such friend is DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup,
which should be in every family; it costs
only 25c bottle and may cave many a
doctor hill
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04
Assembling of Congress,

The last session of the present Congress
began on Monday last Into this short ses-
sion there will unquestionably be crowded
much political discussion, and no little sec.
tional strife growing out of the recent cleo.
tons. The democrats will be held some
what in check, while the Republicans will
be correspondingly emboldened, by the re.
suits of the fall campaign. Feeble attempts
will doubtless be made to open afresh the
currency question; and with the present
prospect that resumption is inevitable, it is
threatened that the incorrigibe inhationists
will turn their hositilties upon the national
banks. The Southern question looms up
into new and threatening Importance. The
majority will doubtless try to gag it it
may seek to evade the issue; it may at
tempt to shirk responsibility; but the mi
nority will be recreant to its duty if it fails
to press this momentous question to an early
and peaceful issue. The cipher dispatches
will cry out for investigation, and it is now
said that Mr.. Tilden will demand thorough
work in this direction. We trust he will be
gratified. The Potter committee is also
prepared to make voluminous report upon
which General Butler is reported to have a
speech in readiness that will astonish the
country. But this will be nothing new for
him. Other questions will press upon the pub
lie thought; but if there were no other aues-
tons than these, together with those which
grow out of the appropriation bills, the ses-
sion would be lively enough.
The first days proceedings were not i'm.
portant. The message was received with
great satisfaction by the Republicans, and
closely lisienod ~ by the democrats. Fer.
nando Wood attacked the Presidents posi-
ton on the Southern question, wholly denied
his charges of fraud, and charged him with
gross Partially in being so quick to see
wrongs at the South while blind to the fla
grant outrages of government officials in in |
terfering with elections in New York city. |
Messrs. Garfield and Hale vigorously and
successfully met the attack upon the Presi-
dent In the Senate, Mr.. Blaine introduced
resolution that the judiciary committee
be instructed to make a thorough investiga.
ton OF the outrages alleged to have been
committed in the recent elections in the
Southern States, and enabling them to send
for persons and papers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04
Death on the Water.

fearful accident occurred about eight
miles southwest of Folkestone, England, on
the night of Monday the 25th, ult., when
the steamer Pommerania of the Hamburg
American line, Captain Schwensen, from
New York for Hamburg, Germany, came in
collision Monday night during fog with
the Welsh bark Noel lillian of Carnarvou,
from Rotterdam for Cardiff, in ballast, and
foundered in a few minutes.
1t was foggy night; and, as the chief
olicer OF the fated vessel relates the story,
about forty-five minutes past eleven with
only the slightest warning of the close prox-
Unity OF any vessel, bark appeared on the
starboard side, and Immediately crashed
into the Pommerania, just abaft the funnel
making big hole. The water rushed in.
and the Pommerania began sinking. The
captain ordered blue lights sent up and the
boats cleared. Perfect discipline was main
tanned throughout. The captain remained
on the bridge, overseeing the launching of
the boats, and, though begged to leave,
steadfastly refused TO desert his post. Less
than fifteen minutes after the collision. the
steamer sank, the captain with it. There
were many passengers swimming about in
the water, but the boats were so full that il
was impossible to take any more on board"
Two boats were smashed, and one was
swamped. Five boats were launched with
one hundred and sixty-two of the passengers
and crew. All were picked up by the
steamer Glengary, which hove to on seeing
the Pommerania's signals. The Noel lillian
disappeared in the darkness, and was not
seen afterward. The captain was saved, and
afterwards heard from at Rotterdam, where
he was under medical treatment, his nerves
being greatly shocked by the disaster.
Some fifty-four people were lost.
The cargo was valued at about $3.50, 1000.
OF which $4,000 was in lard, $4,000 in
sewing Machines $4,000 in clover-seed,
$4,000 in Mexican dollars, and 10000 in
canned goods. There were twenty-five thou
sand letters on board, Of which seventeen
thousand six hundred and four were lost.
An inquiry was at once instituted. The
disaster happened almost exactly on the spot
In the English channel where the big Ger
man war vessel was sent TO the bottom with
all on board, by collision with a sister ship.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04
The Presidents Message.

This document, delivered Monday after
noon, will be found complete in our col
umns. II is Of medium length clear in its
statements, sound in its reasoning, and of
marked ability. The most striking features
are contained in the sections which treat of
the Southern and currency questions. In re-
spect to the latter he is eminently conserva-
tive, while the former is discussed with a
calm determination that fully justifes the
confidence of his best friends. After dwell
ing somewhat in detail upon the dishonest
elections in South Carolina and Louisiana,
he concludes with these significant words /:
"No means within my power will be spared
to obtain a full and fair investigation of
these alleged crimes, and to secure the CON
viction and just punishment of the guilty."
The situation in respect to the currency is
happily and wisely summed up as follows;
"In the present financial condition of the
country, am persuaded that the welfare of
legitimate business and industry of every
description will be best promoted by alb
staining from all attempts to make radical
changes in the existing financial legislation.
Let it be understood that during the com
ing year the business of the country will be
undisturbed by governmental interference
with the laws affecting it, and we may con-
fidently expect that the resumption of specie
payment, which viii take place at rlhe APP
pointed time, will be successfully and easily
maintained, and that it will be followed by
a healthful and enduring revival of business
prosperity. Let the healing influence of
time, the inherent energies of our people,
and the boundless resources of our country.
have a fair opportunity, and relief from
present difficulties will surely follow
Without further allusion to this important
state paper we earnestly bespeak its careful
parusal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

ROYAL lNvAsIoN.-Our Canadian neigh
bors are still boisterously happy as they
welcome live royal princess and her vice
royal husband on their triumphal march to
their regal home in Ottawa. They are
doing it in right loyal and enthusiastic
manner. The spontaneous and hearty popu.
lar response to this effort to restore the wan
ing spirit of loyalty, and stem the growing
sentiment of liberalism and affinity with
their republican neighbors across the border
is in direct fullfment of the plan and desire
OF the home government in making this ap
pointment. How successful the experiment
will prove in the end, we shall see.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

PROPHETS OF EvIL.-It is said that our
earth, according to the signs of the stars, is
approaching one of the most pestilential
periods of its history. For nearly nineteen
hundred years, say the astronomers, the per-
ihelia OF the four great granddaughter,
Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus-have never
been coincident. But now they are about
to be so, and learned doctor, who has
traced the greatest epidemics of time to such
coincidence, feels sure that death will be ex.
tremely active everywhere. His theory is,
that when one or more of the large planets
is nearest the sun, the condition of our at
mosphere is so disturbed as TO cause de-
structive storms, long droughts, serious all.
ments, and evils without end. In the sixth
and sixteenth centuries the perihelia of
three of the planets mentioned were in coin.
cidence, and those were very pestiferous
eras' The good time for physicians and bad
time for other people is expected about 1880,
and to continue for five or six years.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

CALIFORNIA is passing through another
great bonanza excitement The fluctuations
in stock during the last six months have
made and unmade any number of operators.
Last May, Sierra Nevada was drug in
the market at $500, In July it rose to
S270. The advance in the shares of that
company alone aggregated s29,71O,O0O. The
price is now less than $50 share, the total
shrinkage reaching more than 1922 900, 900.
The ups and downs of several other compa-
MES were also as marked. The result is
that those who were on the inside and
operated with full knowledge of the
"points have laid by snug fortunes, while
the "outs," who invested their all in the
scheme, are dead broke.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

SOCIETY at Washington is said to be Sc
rlously agitated from centre to circumfer.
ence, because Mr.. Blanche X. Bruce. the
colored Senator from Mississippi, has taken
his bride to the capital, fresh from tour in
Europe, expecting that she will be received
with tine ciyility which is uniformly ex-
tended to the wives of all Senators.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

Mh EnIsoN's latest aud most wonderful inyen-
tion' according to Paris paper is the mcrodor
a little instrument to concentrate, magnify and
render appreciable at great distances the emana.
tions of the human body, so rs to detect diseases
in their very earliest stages.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

Miss ELIZABETH THOMPSON, the philanthropic
New York lady, of Vermont BIRTH who gave the
money TO send the yellow fever commission down
south, has given five hundred dollars for another
commission OF doctors to investigate the alleged
success Of homeopathic physicians in treating
the fever.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-04

DAsirl and Derrick Creviston brothers. fought
with knives in Sparta, Wis Their moher i'm.
plored th1m b stop, and then tried by main
strength 10 part them, hut they kept at il untl
Daniel was killed