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• VOL. i-NO 258 ? • OVER THE CITY. TJIB LATEST HA PPE NINOS OF TO bay. '»« Gathered by the Hard Hearth •! ;-■< a Chrauicle Reporter. Mr. G. Press Elder, of Gould, was in the city today. Judge and Mrs. Asa M. Jackson are very ill at their home. Mr. Tobe Murray brought a large lot of mules to town this morning. Hon. Pope Gholston of Madison county wasin the the city to-day. Silvey hauls big loads on his dray when he moves people. Mr. John L. Franklin has moved to one of Mr. McDuffie’s houses, near Mr. F. W. Lucas’. Several 3 and 5 room cottages to rent. Apply to Mrs. E. «C. Colbert, Pulaski street. A pleasant sociable is to be given to morrow evening by Miss Effie Hampton at her suburban home. Miss Linnie Blair, who has been quite ill for the past few days, we are glad to learn is some better. Mr. John Talmadge, one of our leading business men, is highly in favor of a dum my line, and will do all in his power to gel the dummy line here. Let others join in with him. A little concert of action will do much for Athens. Mr. L. Schevenell, the expert book keeper of the Athens Foundry & Machine Works has an advertisement in the Chrons icle today, in which all business men are interested. He will will teach stenography to a limited number of pupils. Call and see him. Mr. Brewer Mathews went down to Oglethorpe yesterday, in the interest of Jli? farm. Mrs. Kenney and her daughter, Miss Ida, left on Thursday morning, for an extended visit to the Rev. J. J. N. Kenney, who is the preacher in charge of the Flovilla cir cuit. We have no doubt Mr. Kenney will enjoy the pleasure of a visit from his mo ther aud sister. A nicely furnished room to rent- conve niently and pleasantly located. Apply at bls office. We are indebted to Mrs. W. J. Russell for a very interesting letter, tobe found < on our first page. It will be read Wjjfo interest by many of our U of the Samoan Islands, now . discussed in almost eiery We are glad to present to our read Wpm the Chronicle today, “Slat's” inter esting letters. We are sorry that he can not find time to write more frequently. • Col. Richard Taylor, a former poet mas ter of this place, and well known in Ath ens, is now lying in a critical condition at his home in Wilkes. He was attacked by two negroes. Hill and Huff, a few days ago, and his skull was fractured by an iron wedge in the hands of Huff. The negroes have not been captured,though the officers are after them. If any one wishes to see hats, bags, tapa &c, made in Samoa, Mrs. Russell will show them some at Princeton Factory, and pic tures of scenes and of some of the na tives. A blacking factory is the latest enter prise on foot in Athens. Several gentle men propose to work up this establishment and pul arshine" on Athens. For fine Artistic Photographs, call on Mills, Broad street. The display in A. O. Lyndon’s windows is the handsomest in the city. Prof. A. J. Cobb, who was to have re turned from Watkinsville this morning, was unavoidably detained there, bo the Law Class didn’t stand their examination on the third book of Blackstone. Athens wants a dummy. If her people wquld stop and think a little while, they wcjuld come to .the conclusion that their Wish could be gratified if a few people here would get some life in them, and stop acting the dummy. Ss ‘ A thief walked off with policeman G00..* Jfiim’s cow yesterday, but the cow got loose, came pack to her old home. 1 Prayer meeting to-night at Mr. Brad shaw’s on Broad street, near compress.— i The public are cordially invited to attend. Five shares in the Classic City Building Association for sale ala bargain. For particulars apply at the barber shop of Williams & Parnell. Forth# finest Photos in Athens, call on C. B. Mills. A. O. Lyndon is sole agent for the : Farmer Girl Cook Stove, the only stove sold in^ e B lale with a guarantee for ten Mr. J. A. Garebold is now at his place of business and is prepared to attend to all orders for work in his line. Andrew JaCksoii, the famous colored horse trader is in trouble. Be was found of violating the prohibition laws, and for the next sixty days will appear on the streets in shackles. He refuses to work, but will probably relent. -• The police will soon make .. raid and eapfurg,a number who have been running tigers. The haul Will be a big one. Baled shucks at Weatherly Bros. fl 1 J#'!® -L W > « // 1 THS DIRIIY LINE. Concert •! Actiaa all that ia Neceaaary. Our business men are thoroughly arous ed on the Street Railway question. They want a dummy line, and all that is now needed to insure success in the enterprise is a leader. On interviewing them, we find they are ready to invest, and they feel .satisfied that the investment would not only be a grand thing for the city, but that it would pay the stockholders a good per cent. The Classic City Railroad is now in the courts. A bill asking for a Receiver was filed in Oconee Court Tuesday. A hearing will be had at Jackson court on February 7th. There are SIO,OOO worth of first mortgage bonds past due, and the court orders that be protected. They are owned in part as follows: Lampassas First National Rank, Texas, $4,000, Car builders of St Louis and Indianapolis, SI,OOO. In this city Dr. Hunnicutt has $2,0000 and other stockholders are Dr. Lipscomb, Miss M 4tutherford, Mr. A. K Childs, Hon. Y. L. G. Harris, Capt. Jim White, Mr. W. J. Russell, Jr., Prof. D. C. Barrow, Mr. JohnJTalmadge and Hodgson Bros. We hope in a few days to be able to chronicle the fact that something tangible in the way of a dummy line is on foot. Chandler and Grady. Os the many brilliant articles that have fallen from the pen of Mr. H. W. Grady, that on our editoral page, where he pays bis respects to Mr. Billy Chandler, is among the best It is said that Mr. Chan dler “frowned’' when at his desk in the senate, he read the article in the Constitu tion. We feel that we cannot give our readers anything more entertaining than Mr. Grady’s article, and”' therefore repro duce it entire on editorial page. Bea-val. Miss E. H. Hale has moved her dress making establishment to No. 3 Clayton street, over Whitehead & Co. Another Meeting. The ladies bold another meeting this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the interest of the Industrial Home. The meeting will be held at the Episcopal church. The work pressing nicely, and the interest ffi should’’not be allowed tojdie out. I . I I will receive a limited number of even ing pupils in Phonqgraphy. The general use of short hand in the larger business houses throughout the land makes a knowledge of the art a valuable adjunct to a business education. For terms apply to L. Schevenell, Athens, Ga. Dancing School. Miss Laura Baratta opens her dancing school at Pioneer Hall this afternoon at 3 o’clock for ladies and children. Lessons will be given on Monday’s and Friday’s at reduced rates. A LABfiEHOG. Which Falla the Scale* at 786 P«unda. It was the center of attraction down town this morning. In front of Booth’s butcher shop was hanging a large fat hog, and on each sleek and shining side was labelled in large blue figures the number 786. Old men as well as young men gath* ered around to view the great hog, for his Ike had never been seen in Athens Hanging erect he stretched out to a greater length than the average man, and everyone stood thunderstruck at bis immensity. He was raised by Mr. David Gann, of this city. Now the above were facts at once ap pearing to the observer, but behind the scenes it was found that the large blue numbers were put there to aihnct repor ters, and that the real weight of the hog was 365 pounds. The largest hog ever seen here weighed 480 pounds. For Sale. I will sell at a very low price, a splen did 7 octave piano. J. P. Wilson, Agent. No Bail for Echala. Yesterday at 2 o’clock in the state library Judge S. W. Hairis refused the applica tion of Charles F. Echols for bail. Immediately upon the conclusion of the argument, Judge Harris rendered Lis decision in these words: ‘My sense of justice will not allow me to 4rant this application for bail.” —Consti- tution. —: Oconee Court—The Train Wrecker* Ctet Four Years. Two negroes were tried for wrecking the train in Oconee, a full account of which appeared some time ago. The older oi e came clear, and th • you .ger was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Two negroes were iried Jor stealing a hog from Mr. Syl Branch. Both found guilty. ATHENS, GEORGIA* THURSDAY JANUARY A TRAVELLER’S PEN TELLS ABOUT HOTELS, DBUB ffIIRRN, HEATED CABS, Are. Letter from Stat.” Jersey City, Jan. 27th, 1889. Editors Chronicle:—l saw today a slip cut from yourselves in which you threatened to advertis efor me if I did not put in appeacance. I am sure neither yourself or good readers will imagine that my silence has been from any want of In terest in either of you, for I have given abundant testimony to the contrary in the past. Really, consideration for you both has kept me silent, for I had nothing new to write about. From every section of the broad land, I have written you; and I have not ingenuity enough, or sufficiently acute powers of observation, to imagine or see something new m old places. If 1 gave you the details, I should tire you, as they not unfrequendy tire me. I have spent nearly four years in hotels now, and know the good ones afar off, and the bad ones, I avoid. The best “ all around” hotel in the country, is the Plank enton, at Milwaukee. Ido not even make an exception cf those in New York; the best in Chicago, are not to be compared with it. If you reach there at night, and wear a stove-pipe bat, a,nd your coat looks well, they put you in a $4.00 room. But there is a luxury in everything around—a large sitting room, velvet couches, rocking chairs, etc,; both rooms attached, and your bed in the cosiest alcove imaginable. One night, is enough for glory. If you have any sense, you will say to the Prince in disguise—who deigns to act as a clerk— that $5 00 is very handsome, but a cheaper room would do you, as you only wanted a place to sleep. He will then give you a back room at $3 00; or, if you put on a very poor mouth, he will send you to the fourth floor at $2.50; but you must re member, you have the same chance at the table as the man who pays $4.00—-better, perhaps, for walking down the steps gives l you an appetite. You are not presumed to walk up, unless you ignore the elevator, which is not to be despised. I sent a lady a copy of one of the menus of a large ho tel, declared it made her feel hun gry for a month—though I learn she still keeps it on the mantle-piece, I presume, as an appetizer^The apatiteVhich’ emtkL not be satisfied among these viands, must be capricious and, exacting. The vast ar ray of French names are very confusing at first, but if you want to experiment, if you want to come anywhere near the name, the waiter will help you out. You see “Pom mesdetene.*’ It looks foimidable, but, with a dry swallow, you try to pronouncs it; the expert waiter catches on, he recogs nizes the half swallowed and half pro nounced word, and brings you Irish pota toes, for that is what they are. I have ex* perimAited along in my green days, bu f was often too timid t® eat, it looked like 1 nothing in the earth, above it, or below it.’ The best thing 1 have ever eaten is Prairie chicken. Sometimes Canvass-back duck is the best of all eatables—but the next time you order, you will probably get “Puddle” duck. But when you travel long, you will find that nothing goes fur ther, and is more grateful, than roast beef and steak. Ido not mean the kind that in the long past Joe Keno used to vend, nor the kind that Madison county, I presume raises now; but beef fed on the sweet grass ol Montana, then shipped to Chicago killed, and hung m a refrigerator. Then when eaten, you will appreciate why the British are a great nation—they love beef. No other meat is comparable to it, and you would not know it, having eaten Athens beef all these years. Cattle must be raised for beef, to be good. An old cow may do to sell as beef, but will never do to eat. An old gentleman, years ago, in Athens, hav, ing lost fcria molar teeth, “ bad some made of zinc,” as he expressed it, “to chaw beef steak,” and it showed what a level head he had. The best $2 00 way-house in the United States is the Philips, at Dayton, Ohio. In nothing is it wanting, except that the menu is not so elaborate; but everything is just as well prepared as any* where. If you tried many hotels, you would wonder bow it is possible, with.the ffline facilities, there can be so great a dT* serer ce—one so perfect, and the other so execrable. But I have learned the ways of them, and I only go to a poor one when I am obliged to do so. I was at one in Al bany that trad nothing good about it ex cept the price, $3 50 per day; and the pro prietor sports a broad-cloth coat, a silk hat, and a Pug dog, and well he may. A Euro pean hotel is a delusion and a snare. Don’t you go there, unless you can “feed ovV 1 among your friends. It looks very inviting to see on your door “SI.OO per day,” but when you try the restaurants, you will find where the fun is. A steak, rolls, cup of coffee, and buckwheat cakes, will cost t you 80cls. to $1.00; and if you happen to want a little variety, a mutton chop will c >st you 50 cents; any ordering dinner, i! will cost you at least $1 00. Tiue, the slice i of beef they bring you is large enough for i a small family, but you must really pay for i a can to get it. Those are jour first meals' Now, just let me whisper, give the waitei , $1 00 to pay for your first breakfast. .He [, brings you 20 cents in change on a silvei | waiter; you divide with him, leaving ten cents for him, and don’t forget to leave it every time, and. you wilt be astonished to see how ucAicb cheaper your meals come.— The waiter has the pricing, and he remem* bers your thoughtfulness. My breakfast cost 80 cents, and for the waiter, 10 cents ; my dinner, including apple dumpling, (baked elegantly) cost 65 cents—a clear i saving to me of a quarter. I have that j much of ths mule about me, I have learned t by experience. r You do not see here, in full career, the t Chicago drummer. As he gets East, if he , comes, he i? like other mortals—he dwarfs. t But put him out West, where he breathes, . and talks—(Chicago, in fact, lives in an ! atmosphere;charged with Chicago, which r he creates) —then you see him, and he is > sui generis. He rushes into a hotel, slams . the front dorir, wants a sample room, and j then, in a lower voice—the only time he . ever speaks low—says, T want a $2.50 t rate." It is the only time in the day when . he descends*to the plane of morals. He will orders at a table, keep , more than a table full of New York drummerl-thus out West. I was in doubts at first who these were, thinking possibly the proprietor, or maybe the chief clerk of the jiotel, had forgotten his dig<- nity and was dining with common folks.— But soon you would hear ‘‘Chicago,” which made his status as plain as the ears on the donkey. But-there is no harm in them only their noi ,e, but it runs in the family’ You have never traveled in a steam heated car—p’jje wood and coal too cneap in Georgia— I have often read of ac cidents, and man being pinned down by the overturned seats and then being burned to death. That was, of course, more horrible than being mashed up. Now, the princi pal roads are heated by steam from the engine, with, of course, perfect safety from burning. But how about being par -boiled while alive? I presume in intensely cold weather, they would be most agreeable; but in the moderate weather we have had > it is almost insufferable. I fanned, just as I have done in Summer, except that the car was fiottei than any weather I ever felt. I hope I shall find no more of them. I have been writing all this time hoping to “say something," and if your readers go through this letter, they will thank me for my silence of the past two months. Wish ing you all a h:.ppy New Year, I am, Faithfully yours, ' ,BTAT '' A good mule m sale cheap. Apply a ’’’almage & Brightwell’s. Mr. Sock Pruitt, the clever editor of the man, says it is a tough job to walk in froioi Georgia Factory on a cold dark night. 3e speaks from last night’s experience. Mr. Frank Rhodes has shipped some of his fine chickens to New York recently. He finds a ready sale for them in all parts : o ’ the country. ' Mr. W. L A White, of Jackson county, gave us a pleasant call today. He had a fine crayon sketch of a young man who died during the war. Mr White improves greatly in his work as an artist, and is constantly receiving orders for pictures. Baled shucks, at Wetherly Bros. ’ Call at ihe Clifton Gallery and have i your photographs finished in the most ar ■ istic manner. t Claude C. Maddox, Artist. The dummy line grows more popular , every day. It will pot be long, we believe, i before Athens will have the dummy line ' I will open a new suite of Photogragh • rooms over Scudder’s, on Broad street, 1 Saturday, Feb 2nd. C. B. Mills. i i. | THE ASSASSIN'S AIM. i t Han. John Clayton, of Arkrn«a« Shot t Dead by a Coward. ' Little Rock, Ark., January 30. John M. Clayton, brother of Powell ' Clayton, was assassinated at Plummer ville, Ark , last night by some unknown ’ person who fired a load of buckshot through a window, breaking Clayton’s n.ck and billing him instantly. Mr. Clay ton was candidate for congress at the ‘ recent election against C. R. Breckenridge, and had served upon Mr. Breckenridge a ‘ notice of content of his seat in the fifty- P first congres.. Nothing has become pub— lie any manner explains the murder. Plummervilie is a small village in Conway county. The murder occurred at a hotel. The remains of John M. Clayton were brought to this city tonight, and were met t at the depot by the Knights Templar com , mandery and a vast concourse of people, and escorted to the commandery asylum, ’ where they lie in state till tomorrow, to I be taken to Pine Bluff for interment. The fatal wound is a very ugly one. A ’ charge of fifteen buckshot, entered the 3 right side of the head, tearing a hole in j which a man could run his fist. The Athena Lanndry. e r Messrs. Williams & Vines are running a r first-class laundry on Clayton street, near ’• the postofflee. Here you can have first r cluss work very reasonable prices.— e Patronize these young men, and tell them r you saw their advertisement in the Evt# a ning Chronicle, 31 1889 ON THE CAMPUS. Our College Reporters: W. H. POPE, G. D. ANDERSON. J. M. GASTON. WHAT HAS THE UNIVKRMITY BOYS. It ms Caa%ht on the Fly by the Ever Aiei College Reporters of the Chronicle. Mr W J Harris writes that he will return to Athens on Saturday to enter the Uni versity. The Derifosthenian anniversarian invi tations will be distributed tomorrow. All members of the Society are requested by Mr. N. L Poullain to call at his room at Yahoo hall and get their invitations. A letter was received yesterday in tL’s city, from a member of Mercer University asking how the competitive system of selecting champion debaters has succeeded at the University. They are thinking of • adopting it at that institution. | Messrs. A.JL Hull, E. C. Branson and Rev. C. W. Lane constitute the committee 1 appointed by the Demosthenian society to j act as judges in their competitive debate in March. Yesterday witnessed the first drill by j the University corps of cadets. Mujor Snellings has begun drilling the two com> panies in double rank, and the difficulty in executing these movements make the ! the liability to confusion very great. TLe drill, however, will be a very imposing affair when it has been thorughly mastered, i and the cadets hope to see many of their lady friends present as an inspiration during the coining summer afternoons.— Quartermaster, I. 8. K. Axson, was the officer of the day yesterday and Lieuten ant Smith officiates in that capacity today. The officels uniforms were yesterday the objects of much attention and admiration. Probably the prettiest is that worn by Adjutant Rockwell, whose arm ornaments attracted considerable notice not only on account of the impoitance of the office, but also because of their intrinsic beauty. w. h. F. —. a i Be sure and attend the auction sale of shoes to-morrow at the old Ten Cent Store, at 10:80. Mr. N. B. Bradt, of Chattanooga, arrived in the city today. He comes to take charsie of the business of Messrs. McGinty & Hun nicutt. He will be sc.,, .u«. c ndeu u of their works. Mr. Ben Dillard, one of Oglethorpe’s clever young men, was in the city today. Our cotton buyers tell us there will not be a thousand bales here in thirty days.— Cotton is going up, and it will sell rapidly* The Candy Factory and wholesale Crockery Store. This morning a Chronicle reporter met up with Mr. Hartsfield, the gentleman who has been looking over the city with a view to locating here. He infoi med the writer that his mind was fully made up, and that he would certainly open a candy factory here at an eaily day. He is now on a trade for the building formerly occupied by Johnson & Moore, Clayton street. Mr. Hartsfield will not only have a candy fac tory over this store, but will fill it with crockery, and tun a first cless wholesale business. He is an experienced business man, and in his travels has found no city more inviting than Athens. We wish him success. The Auction Sale of Shoes has been postponed until to-morrow at 10:30 on account of a delay on the railroad. They will be sold to>-morrow positively, and will be sold regardless of cost. It will pay parties in need of shoes to attend this sale as they will be sold in lots to suit buyer. Do not forget the sale to- norrow at 10:30. A. Coleman, Auctioneer. THE WOOLFOLK CASK. la Taken up in the Supreme Csnrt. The celebrated Woolfolk case came up in the Supreme court yesterday. It will be remembered that Woolfolk received the sentence of death, and upon application for a new trial was refused it by Judge Gustin. The motion for a new trial came up yesterday before the Suprems court and a great while was taken to read the evi dence. Capt. Rutherford reviewed the tacts in the case, and advanced the theory that one man could not have killed so many people with an ax, but that negroes killed them through revenge. He asked for a new trial for Wool folk ®n the grounds that the jury were influen ced by the tumult in the court room on the day of the trial. The case will bfc concluded in a day or two. Capt. John C. Rutherford and Col. Frank Walker rep resented Woolfolk, while Attorney Gen eral Anderson, Ex Solicitor General Har«- deman, an<Bolicitor General Felton rep resentefi the State. At Reduced Price*. A At Clifton’s Gallery, Cabinet picture, $5.00 per dozen, $3 00 per half dozen Cards from $2.00 to $3.00 per dozen. Old prices, cabinets $3.50 and $6 00. Cards, $2,50 and $4.00. Claude C. Maddox, Artist. TEN CENTS AWE SAMOA. A RACY DESCRIPTIVE EETTER ; From a Former Athenian who ha* been on the Island. “Where and what is Samoa," is the question just now ? A few extracts from letters from a young man, who left Athens at sixteen, for the Naval Academy in Maryland, and after his graduation there, went across the continent through the Rocky Mountains to San Francisco, down oui Western coast to Panama, thence to Peru, spending some time in Lima and Callas and gathered information and curi osities, returned to Panama, and thence to Marquesas Islands and then to Samoa. “Apia, Uportu Island Samoa. Apia is a small town, but has merchants of many nationalities. May 26th 1886. This is the beginning of winter here, but it is never very cold, and there is not much difference between the seasons. The njghts are &091 We get milk'here, and a great abundance of all kinds of tropical fruits, and vegeta bles very cheap. The oranges and coca nuts are much nicer than those we get at home. As to mail facilities, the steamer from Auckland, New Zealand to San Francisco stops for a few hours beyond one of the Pacific Islands, 64 miles from Apia, and a schooner goes out there from here and carries mail. The steamer from San Francisco at an other time stops at the same place, the schooner meets it and brings letters &c. Mr. Bates who has been sent from Washington, to make a treaty between the United States and the Tonga or Friendly Islands, aud a protectorate ’ for the Samoan Islands is here; we will take him on our ship to Nickualopla. Miss Bayard asked him to take her a Samoan costume. Though I have fans, hats, bas kets, many kinds of their “topa” for you, <>f their make, they do not wear much. A strip of calico answers the purpose of a dress The Crown Prince of the Islands gave a picnic to the officers and Messre. Baker and Bates, Thursday. Toe Prince supplied us with fine horses to take us ten miles from shore to the picinic. The horses are small, but movers. The natives gallop them miles at a stretch. Miss Baker was to -> with us, she had the PrinStilarge fin. >rse, I had seen her ride a| Nukua lopa. (Mr. Baker camejp fehnds from England power over the* money.) > galloped ahead of every one. She’ Sew the way to the picnic grounds, so we went up and down hills, over slippery roads across ditches at such a rate as I never went before,and got to the'appointed place long before the rest of the party. I fa a d heard of the riding of English women She certainly was the finest rider f evS saw outside of a circus. We were splat tered with mud, but I enjoyed that ride in Samoa. I for awhile felt some qpmpunc tious for the horses, but as the customs of the country permit such treatment, and the horses are valued at from (4) four to seven dollars, I forgave myself. The dinner was fine— served in the style of the natives, rough, but there were nice roast chickens as well as pigs, pigeons» yam , puddings, yaro, cocoanuts, orangtg and banannas. Afterwards the native band came on board the “Mohican" and discoursed music. The leader was a white man, the rest were natives, they tried “Hail Columbia," and “Star Spangled Banner.” They gave us vegetables, fruit, beef, turkeys and chickens &c, as a pret <nt from their government to the United States officers. A Tiff ar Shark. Havana, Cuba, Jan, 24—A great sea monster has appeared near Matanzas.— The Daily El Correo De Matanzas, refer ring to it, says: “Intelligent persons who saw it.calculate that the monster measures about 150 feet long by 40 feet wide. It is of dark gray color, with white spots, the size of dinner plates, all over the back Its immense head, fins and tail are identi cal with those of a shark. It was roam ing around the entrance of Matanzas Bay for three days and was the terror of fisher men, who declared that they had never seen anything to compare with it. This monster is supposed to be the great tiger shark, seen several years ago in the Indian Ocean." Beating Aged Negroes. New Orlans, Jan. 30.—The Times- Democrat’s New Iberia special says that three negroes were whipped by regulators last Sunday, and they, with others, were banished from the neighborhood. The regulators were organized in town, and were reinforced by a large number of men from the surrounding country. Although a large number of those who p: r icipated in the attack upon the negroes sre known, no arrests have been made, nor has there > been any investigation of the affair. The T mes-Democrat, in an article headed I “Regulators Must be suppressed,” urges t Governor Nicholls to take prompt action In the suppression of lawlessness and mob violence in New Iberia.