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The Dawson journal., 1883-09-06
Adopting q GTanpa.
Detroit Free Press.

in old and faded and time worn gar
meuts, and moving with feeble steps
and weary air, sat down under
tree on John r. street the other day
to rest bit. Three or four chill
dren were playing in the yard at
his back, and directly a mite of a
girl looked through the fence and
asked
"Would you hurt little girl %
"Bless me, mol" "Why I'd even
step aside to pass a bug or worm!
No, child, I would not hurt hair on
your head for all the. money in the
world.
Are you anybody's granpa?"
she inquired, as the other children
crowded up.
''No, not now child. There was a
time-dear me but it hurts my old
heart to remember it-when children
called me grandpa. 1t was years
ago-years but can almost hear
their voices yet"
"Be you crying !"
"N-no. The tears will spring up
as I recall the past but l am not
crying. There are days when I
can't keep 'em back-nights when l
am child, but I am trying to be
strong just now"
81 guess I'll come out and see
you. My dolls broke her neck and
is most dead"
"Come right along, child! l
used to mend legs and arms and
necks when the children brought
their dolls to me-"
The little one passed through TIE
gate, aud sat down beside the poor
old man, and while he sought to
save the life of the most dead doll
by means of a stick and string, the
child observed
"You must be quite old, Grandpa;
you are all skin and bone"
cold? Bless you yesl I was
eighty-one a week or two ago. Yes
I am poor in flesh as well as in
purse"
so your grandchildren had dolls
eh?'
eyes dear-dolls and toys and
fine clothes and books and every
thing they wanted. I was rich
then"
''And did they comb your hair?'
"Oh, yes"
'Aud 81 ng to your
"Yes,"
"Well, I guess I'll sing, for am
going to ask ma if I can't adopt you
as my granpa. You must excuse
my voice for [ swallowed pin the
other day and ma expects it to work
out of my shoulder this fall. I guess
Ill sing about the three little graves.
Don't look at me or I shall forget"
And in a childish quavers and fire.
quently stopping, as if to swallow
some of the words. She sung.
"Under an elm tree three little graves
Under the sod my children thee;
The years may pass, but my hearts will
Grieve,
And sorrow will ever rest with me.
Under the elm tree walked to-day,
| looked"
"Why, granpa, the tears are just
running down your cheeks"
'Y-yes, child can't help it!
My poor old life is full of graves
and griefs |"
lis your wife dead ?"
"Long ago, child"
care all the children
dead or scattered. I'm all alone
"WelI that's funny. You can
wipe your eyes if you want to-"
Heres your doll-as good as
new."
"That's nice. If l should adopt
you I'd keep you mending dolls all
the time. Have you got over cry
ing ?"
eyes, child
"Well, then you won't be hungry.
I'm always hungry after good cry.
Wait a minute
"She ran into the house to return
with generous slice of meat, and as
she handed the food to the old man,
she said:
"I've got to go in now, but we'll
remember that I've adopted you as
my grandpa. Don't cry any more,
and come back tomorrow. Good
bye grandpa?"
"Good-bye!"
And men who passed by saw an
old man with his face in his hands
to hide his tears, and when they
The Dawson journal., 1883-09-06
Dawson, GA, June 4, 1888.
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The Dawson journal., 1883-09-06
Eldred Christie, M. d.

OFFERS his professional services to the
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found at the residence of Herschel Christie.
in the 11th district. Charges moderate.
Il.
The Dawson journal., 1883-09-06
COLUMBUS,
GEORGIA.

September
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The Dawson journal., 1883-09-06

BAnEYs 1ssaa5o aud oozstiDaaon-pI
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
THE MUTT CASE.
The Change OF Venue and What 10
Thought Of IL.

UxIoNTowE, Pa, December c. The
change OF venue to Allegheny county, In
Young Nuts case, will doubtless give the
defendant an impartial trial, but it is very
unsatisfactory to Asbury struble, the step.
father Of Dukes, as was developed in a
conversation with that gentleman yester.
day afternoon by one OF his most inti-
mate friends, which was overheard by a
correspondent. II think we have been un.
fairly dealt WITH" said struble TO his
friend, referring to Judge Wilson's decis-
ion, ~ Think continued he, "the Allie
gheny county people have been prtjudiced
against my step-son from the beginning OF
this trouble. There has been greater
preponderance OF public opinion against
him in Pittsburgh than any other place." "
The gentleman 10 whom these remarks
were addressed is lawyer, and has been
marked for bis antagonism to the Mutt
side OF the case. He concurred In strub-
ble's opinion, and added. "fes, the de-
fepss will have pretty much i,s own sway.
The chances OF conviction would have
been dozen to one In Wash
ineton, Greene, or Somerset county.
The. remarks made BY Mr.. Struole
and his friends are not considered in good
taste. They are true index, however, 10
the feeling Of those whose sympathies are
enlisted on Struble's side Of the cause.
None Of our unbiased citizsns either exult
or, deplore the fact that the case has been
removed to Allegheny county, as there Is
no cause for It. !.
The only advantage Of the change Of
venue lies in the hope Of an expeditions
OF a jury, which was found i'm
practicable in Fayette county. The Mutt
family, who have been represented as ex-
nlting over the change, have, in reality,
said nothing either for or against It. Your
readers will doubtless see the futility Of the
argument by counsel for the prosecution
that the residents Of Allegheny county
has been prejudiced by the Pittsburgh pa
pers, or are the Pittsburgh papers only
supposed to circulate in Allegheny county?
Although the details Of the trial are still
Is presumed here that Mutt will
have a special trial before Judge Stowe.
The Clerk OF Courts has been instructed to
make a transcript Of the case.
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PLAYING FOx REWARDS.
The Case Of woin, the alleged Dynamite
ConspirAtor

LONDON, December 6.-Wolf' and Bon
durand were to-day again arraigned at the
Bow street Police CouR, charged with con-
spiracy to blow up the German Embassy.
Jacob Kalborn, who was charged with
being implicated in the plot, and afterward
accepted as witness, testified that
Wolf had asked him to buy the
powder with which 10 blow up tho Ger
man Embassy that had said he intended
the explosion should exceed in effect the
explosion stthe Praed street station OF the
Underground Railway, and that there was
no dangeroE their being arrested, because
the police were accomplices, and intended
to obain q reward, which they would
share with them. at--
Walt stated that five persons were con.
cerred the affair, namely, himself, two
Boldurands, police officer and a Polish
J.w. Wolff and the two Bondurands
would take the machines and q pot Of
petroleum 10 the German Embassy in 6
cab, and Wolff and the policeman would
then watch while the others lighted the
Iuse, Wolf at the came time throwing
a letter written in rad Ink upon the spot
where the explosion was to tako place.
Kalborn was 10 place some paper and ed
ink, the same as ussd In the letter, on the
house OF q German. The explosion hay-
ing occurred, the policeman weuld arrest
the German. Kalborn was to receive el00
OF the reward which the conspirators
expected to receive. Wolf told Kalborn
to Induce the German to walk near the Ger
man Embassy at the time Of the explosion.
4rhe more people killed." said Wolff %
Kalborn, "the better, IS the reward would
be higher" Kalbora upon cross examina-.
ton said he was deserter from the Ger
man army, and Wolf was one Of the great
est scoundrels living. The hearing was ad-
innrnah. ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07

NV ORLEANS, December 6.-The Board
Of Managers Of the Worlds Industrial and
Cotton Centennial Exposition, have adopt
ed the design proposed by G. NJ. Jorgsn-
son, architect, OF Meridian, Mississippi, for
the main building. It will be 1900 fact
long and 800 feet wide, with l,C0o,S9S
square feet floor space, including Music
Hall In the center, with q seating capacity
Of 10000 persons. The design also provides
for main Offices, telegraph offices, news
paper department, fire department, police,
hospital, waiting rooms and lifesaying ap;
paIstus. Ten plans were offered, and
three premiums awarded. The building
will be ths largest exposition building ever
erected, except the one built in London in
1862
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
AauEsTIoX or NLAyGRY.
The Admission of Texas aud tho Matter
slave Property. -.


ST. LOUIS, December 6.-The further
facts regarding the suit soon to be brought
before the Court Of Claims OF Washington
for the recovery Of the value Of slaves in
Texas are as follows: It is alleged Texas
was admitted into the Union under pecu-
liar and different circumstances from any
o.her State, and this action will be brought
in good faith on the faith Of some
twenty-five OF the bes. lawyers OF Texas, and
without any idea OF creating political ex.
citement. Negotiations for the annexation
OF Texas began during Tyler's ADMINISTERS
ton, and Joint resolutions providing for
the annexation passed Congress and were
approved by the President March /, 1916.
These resolutions contained conditions
and guarantees, the most significant Of
which in regard to the present case, Is as
follow:
Section three: New States Of convenient
size not exceeding four in number in addi-
ton 10 the said State Of Texas, and having
sufficient popul ltion, may hereafter, by
consent OF eaid State, be formed out Of the
territory thereof, which shall be entitled
TO admission under the provisions oi
the. Federal constitution, and such States
as may be formed out Of that position Of
said territory lying south Of thirty-six de-
Erees, thirty minutes north latitude,
commonly know as the Missouri compro-
mise line, shall be admitted into the Union
with or without slavery as the hepeople
Of each State ssSing admission may desire
The Texans took advantage Of this and
in framing the State Constitution under
which they would be willing to come into
the Union they stretched the slavery guar
antee to the limit which the lawyers Of the
present day think make the United States
Government responsible for the loss Of the
slave property. At the next Congress
OF the United States this consti.
tuition was submitted and provoked
a long and bitter struggle, and it Is noted
that clauses in II, on which the litigation
will be based, were then pointed out az
not only Objectionable but dangerous, aud
virtually making Congress guarantee slave
property. The constitution was finally &C.
copied and tho joint resolutions adopted,
admitting Texas into the Union.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07

MIwAuKEE, WIS.,, December e.-The
committee on the erection Of q monument
10 the victims Of the Newhsll holocaust Of
the lO!h Of January last have reached a
decision to build shaft in the Forest Home
cemetery in spite OF the request Of the
Catholic committee that half tho fund be
given for a monument in the Catholic
cemetery. The reasons assigned are that
The subscription lists all stated the sub.
sCriptions were for a monument at Forest
Home aud the committee considered the
fund az trust in their hands. They offer,
however, to allow any Catholic subscriber
10 withdraw the money given in the next
twenty days. In some quarters the feeling
Is a little bitter, but the majority hold the
feelings OF utmost kindness. The shalt Will
cost $1,000 and be put up in the spring.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07

ColuNprs, O., December G.-The forth
coming crop and stock report Of the Slate
Board Of Agriculture for the month OF De.
eember will give the following per cent
per acre and the condition Of wheat, the
Der cent and condition Of rye and barley,
The condition OF animals and the per cent
Of blooded or high grade animals belong
to the various classes. The figures are
based on the returns from about 700 Town.
ship correspondents. Wheat, acres sown
for The harvest Of 1884 2626.570, being %
per cent Of that sown for 1888. Its condl.
ion compared with last fall is l02.
Eve, acreage compared with last
falI, s.; condition, 90. Barley, acreage
GOWN compared With las. fall, 81; condition
%. Cattle, per cent OF Short Horns 05,
Hereiords ., DsvoDs s, Polled Angus !,
Jerseys 10, Ayreshires 2, Holsteins ).
Horses, thoroughbred 8, roadster5 10,
general purposes So, draft q. Sheep
Merinos IS, Downs 10, longwools 20. Swine.
Poland Chinas 40, Berkshlres %, Chester
Whites 81, jersey Reds q. Poultry, egg
producers 81, meat producers 40. Condition
Of farm animals compared with last iali 4o'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
CAPITAL cuALINGs.

The Executive order consolidating inter-
nal revenue districts was revoked as applied
to Wisconsin districts, the State remaining
unchanged.
Speaker Carlisle Is receiving OF the rate
Of three hundred letters day, but he Is
diligently keeping his own counsel in re-
spect to his purposes.
1t is generally conceded by Democratic
members that Morrison will be given the
Craftsmanship Of the Ways and Meant, and
Randall that Of Appropriations.
= An old member Of the House eaid that
the new men were seeking positions on the
Ways and Means, Appropriations and
Judiciary CommitteeJ. In fact, they want
ed to be connected with all important COM
mittees.
John @. New has called meeting OF the
Republican and Democratic Congressional
delegations from Indiana at his rooms OF
the Treasury building Saturday, to take
measures to secure both the Republican and
Democratic National Conventions at In.
dianapolis.
The Democratic Senators held q caucus
Yesterday morning, Mr.. Pendleton presid.
ing, TO arrange party membership commit.
tees. Some feeling was displayed in respect
10 the habit OF the older members securing
a majority Of the important places on the
committees to the exclusion Of the younger
members. Following Is the committee up
pointed TO arrange the minority member
ship, to the best interests Of all, and repor
action at the next caucuP: MeeNs Harris
Cockrell, Garland, Batter, George Morgan
and Call.
As associates to Morrison on the Way
and Means, were mentioned the nsmes o
Hewitt, Randolph, Tucker, Curtin, Gsddes
Herbert, Seymour or Mayhury, Cox, o
New York, or Hurd, Democrats, ant
NIessrs. Kelley, Kssson and Haskell, Re
publicans. The Democratic members d.
not unanimously favor Mr.. Morrison's &c
lection to the Ways and Means Chairman
ship, the ground Of opposition being q
expressed by protectionist, "his appoint
ment closely following Carlisle's electio
| to the speakersbip, would precipitate th
tariff issue OF 1884, and" added the ger
tlemani at is not in the province Of th
Speaker, nor for that matter Of CongreI
either, 70 force o political issue upon th
country"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
THEIKOs TaADY.
Some Failures In the west-The Outlook
Not Very GloomI.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, December G.-Tele.
graphic dispatches Of the past twenty.four
hours have announced several failures,
suspensions and shut.downs in the iron
trade. One OF these Is the suspension Of
Messrs. Coates 4 Bros, proprietors Of the
Locust Point Rolling Mills, Maryland.
They formally announced their close
yesterday. A morning newspaper had
Il as big lion Failure" II was, more
properly, q fstirement from business. The
assets oil the mill company are fully equal
to liabilities, being about 70, 0oo all told,
and the settlement. Of its affairs will pre-
coed immediately. About 20) men are
thrown out Of employment. The firm will
not +f.sume business. This closing has
Bttls interest 80 the trade here, except as
nj shows the prevailing dullness. Pitts.
burgh men say the Maryland mills run at
a great expense on account Of the fuel sup.
ply being Ut q defiance. The closed mill
was one using charcoal, and the timber
has 80 disappeared from the vicinity that
fuel could not be procured much longer
When prices are way up and booming,
such mills as these can be run to q profit,
but the moment. times tighten up and
prices lower they find it hard to meet ex.
penses.
The iron outlook In this vicinity is about
the same as at the commencement Of the
week, At Graf, Bennett 4 Co.'s II was re-
ported that all oftheir mills wero still run
ming on reduced time. Mr.. Graf stated
that they would continue operations as
long as there were orders. When the
orders stop the mills will stop. It Ia hoped,
however, that there will be enough to keep
them In operation. The firm contemplate
q reduction in wages shortly, in conformity
with other necessities.
Mr.. Joseph Weeks stated that the out.
look was not gloomy, but seemed to be a
natural fldctuation Of the couutry's condi.
tion. Production continued, and would do
30, TO NEE. an actual demand. The boom
ing time, when 1t was matter Of the
limit OF capacity had certainly pas1ed.
When 1t would return would be
hard to tell. The condition Of the
country was excellent, and there would
come no panic and no upheayal. There is
a greater capacity for production than for
consumption here, and when the former
oyesloads the markets, a state OF semi.
idleness Is enforced until the surplus ia
consumed.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
A NEW MEASURE
FOR DISTRICT REPRESENTATION
At the Mkt Rtpublieaa s.tIorAl Convention,
Proposed bI Senator Frys-HoW It nil
Az ct the Several stAtes-The b.
Iis OF Representation.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Dscecember 6.-To
remedy in some measure what Is regarded
by many q very grave injustice Of the
present representation in the Republican
National Conventions, which gives the
States and districts all over the country
the same voice regardless Of >. Re-
publican votes, when in some
districts South even the form OF nomi-
mating Republican candidates for Congress
is not pursued, Senator Frye, member Of
the Republican National Committee, will
propose a. the next meeting Of the COM
mittee, December 18th, new basis Of rep
resentation, as follows: Each State will be
entitled to four delegates as now, each dis
trict to one instead of two as now, to one
additional delegate for each ten thousand
votes cast with It's limits in 1880 for the Re-
publican candidates for Presidential elec-
tons, aud to one additional delegate for
majority Of fraction Of ten thousand votes,
the vote for Presidential electors TAX
en- as best indicating the real strength
Of the party, any district being
leas liable 10 be affected
by local causes by this proposition II
adopted by the States and Convention,
as ehown BY the annexed table as com.
peted by the application ofthe presidential
vote OF 1880 to the districts as then
existing. The application Of the same
rule to the present districts under
the lat apportionment could not Just now
be readily made, owing to lack of neces-
sary accurate information, but will not
materially change the relative strength Of
the several States, and will only increase
the total membership OF the convention
N nhnnk Hfk,t
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
THE wICKED WORLD.
II DIsposes of Uncle samnS's Propert!
yYt,n0ut His Knowledge or Consent,

II DIsposes OF Uncle samnS's PROPERTY
Wi,nout His Knowledge or Consent.
NKw YoRE, December 0.-The statement
was made by the World on Sunday that
Samuel ]. Tilden had provided in his will
for leaving his large double house on the
south side Of Gramercy PMk-which hes
cost, with the ground, about s5OO,oOO-and
his collection Of books, engravings, &C., as
free gift to the public, the control Of the
beouest to be in the hands Of John Bise.
low, Henry watteson and Mantou Marble.
For considerable time workmen haye
heen busy, under the direction ot Calvert
yaux, the architect, reconstIuct!ng Mr..
iYlden's old house and the one adjoining,
purchased by him several years ago, and
the double building is now nearly ready
Tor occupancy. -, NIT,
when asked about the alleged bequest by a
renorter Yesterday, asid that they had
heard nothing whatever Of the proposed
iree public library and art gallery. The
isTve city mansion is no new scheme, Mr.,
Tilden purchased the house adjoining his
ovn in 1879, Soon afterwards ne went To
Europe, Intending to begin the work oI
reconstructing his houses when he CAME
' back IN 1874 he was elected Goyernor,and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-07
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN BISHOPS.
A P4p.l Sunelo to America uads.lrlSl.-Mhst
the Bishops uArs to Say About 1.-Two Big
Fires In the Old Morld-SIx Hundred
Houses Burned-ForsIGn News, &c.

RoME, December Ga correspondent
telegraphs the American Bishops are reti-
cent regarding the Congress here. Arch
bishop Corrigan, however, unbent slightly
TO your correspondent, who visited him by
appointment at the American College yes
terday. Your correspondent commenced
by directing the attention Of the Arch-
bishop to o curious article on the Ameri.
can Church, and the approaching National
Council, published in the lionitetr. Arch
bishop Corrigan seemed ignorant Of the
article, and abstaiued from comment. He
was also reticent on the Nuncio question.
ask the Holy See 10 send a Nuncio to the
United States" he said, "but 1t is not even
probable that we shall do 80. The ques-
ton is not yet broached even unoticislly.
Personally I consider the appointment Of
Nuncio undesirable"
"Why? said your correspondent.
"For National reasons" answered Nom
signor.
"Can you give the correspondent
general idea Of the results Of the present
Congress ?"
~ am unable to give positive informa-
ton, but I think the result will be to make
ecclesiastical discipline stricter, and to
benefit the church. There were no poll
tical questions under discussion"
The correspondent asked: "IIave, not
the Bishops been informally asked by the
Cardinals to interfere in political afiairs?"
"No neither formally nor informally,
was the reply. Zone Archbishop di 1 con-:
verse with Cardinal Simeoni on Irish of
iairs. Two asked whether Irish affairs
were to be brought up before the Con-.
gress, and the Cardinal replied, DE rebus
hibernis ne verbum quidam."
The Archbishop seemed deslrous to cor
rect the idea that the Congress had any
relation to the late Provincial Council.
That Council merely met to discuss local
affairs. It's decision, though handed to
Cardinal Simeoni, was not yet examined.
"Things 20 slowly In Rome, you know"
said the Archbishop.
"When will the Congress beIlikely to-
finish lis labors?' asked the correspondent
ut is hard to say. Side Issues are COD ,
tinually being raised which delay u.s. I !
am anxious to attend the Cardinals
Jubilee" H
as it settled when and whese the
National Council isto meet ?"
Nothing is settled yet" Raid the Arch.
bishop. n