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BANNER-WATCHMAN. "Live* ot pai men always remind un that weaiv all aubjvct to die,'* aay« an exchange, but it cough .yournclf awav as long as you «ian _ ... * * "* »• . ... cough A Revolution Effected. .. „ ... Atlamta, Oa., Feb. 28,1W1. II. II. W aknkr A Co.: .sin»—For thirty yean 1 " as a victim of painful kidney dUca«e; but your Agent* can iium llo M»nt free. Fo Hiili-oui A Co., 10 11mrelay St.. .V Y. TRADE NOTES Interspersed with Sundry Local Kama, Laconi cally Not*4. IIkar in mind thui Lowe «K Co. keep only the W*t and pureMt liquors at their bar. Athena ha* the )ioorc*t Express team in the \ luted States. io* portable beds and a first-class attention can be ha*l at H. II Lumpkin*. JJon’t forget. The only place in the city you can get the fa- tnou* Maxey s aweetmaah whisky is Lumpkin'*. Those in arrears, for city taxes had bitter hide «Hit s or pay up. R-II. Lampkin keeps the finest bar-room in the city and the purest and best liquors. Tlu-swindler w ho has been itassiUK off as a brother to *»ov. Colquitt turns out to In* ex-Oov. .Nio>c». oi South Carolina. Tmk only ten pin aileyin the city and the best billiard ami pool tables at Lumpkin's saloon. < rovvds of loafer* coimregate every evening on the stieel corners. Ik you want to be treated like a Lord patron i*c the popular saloon of R. II. Lumpkin. Certain recent advices lead to the belle/ that un eruption of Mount Ktnu was expected. Mr. K If l-ampkiu has returned from a trip to Sa\annuli. Walton county is to have an #1*,0U0 court- house. I.ow e A Co., wholesale and retail liquor deal- cis. Itroad street. Athens, (.a. Reinemt>er. The iHilitical campaivo ui |HS2 promises to l>c very lively. Nearly two-thirds o| Lie States will i-n-ci governors; and U‘Kislutures, in whole or in part, will be chosen mall the States. Ik you want the best cigars sold iu the city, buy of Isiwe .V Co. Try "Punch and Judy.” «Georgia's loss in slaves alone was $tf7J,oiS,4'jo, or thirty tour millions more than her present The Ik*sI keg and liottled beer, porter ale. etc., always fresh at the bar of Lowe A Co. The first act of war had been committed on <’«orgiu territory ami the ultiiuate ending, by a providential fortune, came here too. J lira SpitiNo is the Iwat brand of rye whisky sold in Athens, although the Family Nectar U hard to eclipse. Only fouud at Lowe A Co's. Hazel Kirke (Mrs. Frank Weston) his receiv- * y ““ ° ,U r ol marriage from a St. Loui* bach- L«*\vr: & Co. can and will duplicate. If notun- dcrsell, any bill of liquors sold in Georgia at wholesale. A trial Is all they ask. In the morning u weak-minded man is full of good resolutions. At night he is full of beer. ot k trie mis from the country can get the best c % *d cheapest bottled liquors at Lowe A Co’s. It is said to be a tact worthy of note that fat lie commit suicide, ed ill fo jsouie of the must timid girls are not frighten eu by a ioud baiig. There is one town in Connecticut that has no fear of measles. It’s lladdaiu. oi k country* corn whisky has a reputation throughout the South. Try a quart or gallon. Father Feehan, a pnest of Kathdowney, has been sentenced to imprisonment for six months ou the charge ol using seditious language. They say she is false, but she may prove true, then now will you do? I * ^ l * 1,1,111 who had so elastic a step wore rub* Fok the finest imported wines, brandies and 1 iquora of uil kinds at Lowe A Co' How docs a man decide where he will build his house? liv lot. A bird that lives on the finny tribe is a fish the mail Who sells the tinny tribe is hi! di-hawker I»w K A Co cigars are the tost in the city, liettcr news from our Congressmen. Senator Hill i* better; Kepresentative Hluck isreeover- )ng,and Mr. Meplieus may m»t resign after all. N»* dis«irder characters or loafers are tolerated around the bar of Lowe A Co. We keep there only our tost ami purest liquors—guaranteed. iieneral ltutler positively declines to become «'uuiikiti lor ouilcau. \\ uisKiEs of the old Kentucky style are stead lly increasing iu favor with those people who seek absolute purity combined with that fruity umi mellow flavor to to found only iu the gen uine product of "Old Kalmuck." Harpcr'a Sri- *"« ( emity ll'/iody i> and has been for years be lore the public aud has as well merited a repu intiou in its own State as it possesses abroad. Nild only by J. II. I>. Ueusse, Athens, Ua. Our U’liooU appear to to in a nourishing con- dll " Printer* can purchase at the Watchman of- fli c tlie type necessary to equip a weekly pa per; one Eagle job printing pr*ss,9xll, in good oiidiiion; one standing press. Great Bargains. Yesterday was a lovely day, and our streets were brightened by the ladies. c. L. Pitner & Co., at II. Beusse's old staud. keep alway s on hand one ol the nicest and freshest stocks of fancy and family groceries^ eauntal rimnU, confectionery, country produce] ie., in Athens. No one can undersell them, beu. Toombs does not agree with Attorney- Geiteial Audersou Ln his opinion s« to the iu- validity of the loners of the Mate itoad. Ruing your job printing, binding book work etc., to the Watchman office. Maganlncs and music tound. Blank books made. Ruling handsomely done. We defy competition in pri. ees and class of work from auy quarter. A merchant yeste.day bought a basket of eggs that CGiiluiiieQ hali-gicwiicliiekeus. The eelebratoil Davis Hewing Machine, which has only to to seen to to appreciated, for sale cheap by Zekc Edge, at John Bird's. BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF THE CITY. Uv« of (ml men nil remind na. We can make uurlire, nublime. And departing leave behind urn. Footprints on the sands n( time. IMDRIUI*. No Area in the country this March. The pink-eye hasaltout disappeared. Mrs. W. J. Morton has wax beans in bloom. Athens has the ablest set of minis ters in Georgia. Mr. Ed Potter can leap 11 feet at a standing jump. Tax Receiver Sims will start on ills rounds April 3d. r General complaint cf dogs killing sheep in this county. The University library contains alxiut 23,000 volumes. - We are always glad to see our coun try friends in our office. The Basner-Watchmax office is the busiest place in Athens. Mr. Meeker lias sown ten acres in lucrene, to be cut for hay. Col. Dobbs says he is willing to be taxed to sustain our daily. New subscribers to our weekly are rolling in by the hundred. The best wagons and buggies In the country are made in Athens. Mr. Stephens is educating a young man at the State University. Some of the Athens merchants speak of introducing pennies. The price of locomotives have lately declined from $15,000 to $12,000. There is a large congregation of Uuiversalists in Jackson county. That Jug Tavern railroad is on a big boom and the prospects are good. The colored people have a beautiful spot for a cemetery near the city. An old Dutchman in Athens has a large collection of stutfed animals. Mr. John Sikes is said to have made $100,000 by farming since the war. The cost of tlie Rock College was $30,000, not counting out-buildings. A lnrge number of vagrants and tramps are passing through the city. Some of our farmers will cultivate up-land rice, and have ordered seed. We hear of several citizens in this section who will exodust to the West. There is rumors of a secret marriage taking place near tlie city last Sun day. The latest new song is entitled Hug me to death, darling.” It is a duet. It will cost the city about $2,500 a year to be supplied by those water works. Mr. J. R. Crane is offering for sale one of the most desirable residences in Athens. The Pioneer band is on a big boom, and have just received n lot of new music. A square at a time on Rroad street should be graded and raised in the middle. All the Jewish stores were closed yesterday, and the merchants all took holiday. The Post-Appeal says a fifteen mil lion dollar cotton factory will be built in Athens. Bud Reaves now sports a double- breasted watch-chain, that is gaudy if not neat. The small-pox Is in Atlanta, and it would be a good plan for Athens to quarantine. There are several heirs in Athens to the $22,000,000 left the Hodges’ family in England. Mr. Francis Louis, the Mexican, will leave to-morrow for Mexico, his native home. Myer Stern enn tell the funniest kind a joke and it will sound like a funeral notiee. Easter Sunday comes, this year on the anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Athens is now talking about boreing an artesian well, to take the place of water-workb. Its Cost.—The machinery in the City Mill cost from $10,000 to $20,000. Bt-sixxss.—One of our richest capital ist* ibis week dunned a man on tlie street for fifteen cents. Is Soak.—There will be a colored can didate in the Third Ward offer for Alder man at the next election. A Resemblance.—It la said by a gen tleman who has recently been to New York, that Judge Kenney favors Henry Ward Beeclier. Contract Awarded.—Capt. MeDoa* ell has contracted to build the Georgia extension. Mr. Hutchius will be the inspector for the road. . Highway Robbery.—One day lately a peddler, while passing between Monroe and Social Circle, was waylaid by white men and robbed of $83 in cash. No clue to the perpetrators. A Second Alexander.—There is a German in town who like Alexander the Great was cut from his mother’s side. He is seventy years old and without a gray hair in his head. A Kino Tender.—The Baptists of Ath ena last Sunday tendered the use of their church building to the members of the First Methodist Church during the erec tion of their new house. Prussian Generals.—Capt. Henry Beusse lias the photograph of every Gen eral that served in tlie Franco-German war, and they are contained . in a space not larger than a silver dollar. A Young Mother.—A 16-months old Jersey cow, the property of Mr. Sid Hughes, yesterday gave birth to a tine calf. Mr. Cdx, of Atlanta, has a Jersey cow only 13 months old with a calf. Robbery.—While old Tub, the blind negro beggar, was at the baptizing Sun' day some thief broke into his house aud stole what little money the old man had saved. It was about the lowest act we ever heard of. His Fee.—The Ordinary chargee liquor dealers $1.00 to register their antes on his book. Change op ' Schedule.—Note change ol schedule on the North-Eas tern road. It is but alight, yet may cause some passenger to get left. “He Smiles.’’—There ia » man Ip Athens who has established over a hundred Good Templar lodges, and yet he smiles from three to five times a day. A Self-Made Man.—Oneof Athens’ day, when he was twenty-one years old. Another Hotel—It is rumored that a party of capitalists are trying to purchase the Dorsey residence on Broad street, for the purpose of build ing a large hotel. Improvements.—The Georgia Fac tory is having a high, substantial fence put around it, and being improved generally under the superior manage ment of Col. Welch. A STOCK FARM. VISIT TO THE RURAL HOME OF MR. JOHN E. TALMADGE. A DISPLAY OF THE FINEST BLOODED STOCK, AND A MODEL FARM. A MAN WHO BOARDS AT HOME largest real estate owners, was striking a nd lives at the same place. in a blacksmith shop, for 75 cents per ■ / Tb* Wld-Byvd Jurmmjm, Berkshire Hsrs awF Plymouth Rock Chickens—Cows Worth $800 with tROOCelree-ReetorlOK Worn-Out Lends —Pish Poods-A Rural Elyalan la the Llm- lta of Our City. Another Agitator.—Mr. C. B. Veronee yesterday set to work and in a few moments made a churn that is certainly a splendid invention. The dasher can be sold for about fifty cents. A Landmark.—The old Hodgson shop, which was built about forty-five years ago, and adjoining the O’Farrell residence, is being torn away prepar- tory to the erection of a handsome cottage. Free Seeds.—l T nder the increased ap propriations made by Congress, our peo ple are furnished with enough garden and flower seed to plant tlieir crops. Only a few of the most case-hardened Democrats will have to buy. Real Estate.—A gentleman remark ed to us the other day that the colored race owned one-fourth of the real es tate in Athens—not taken according to value of property, but area. This is cer tainly a good showing for ttiat race. Tallulah Hotel.—The plan for the new hotel at Tallulah falls has been re ceived, and work will begiu on the build ing at once. It will contain over a hun dred rooms and be one of tlie handsom est and most convenient summer hotels in Northeast Georgia. College Insurance.—We were misinformed about the amount of in surance on the University buildings and apparatus. There are $75,200, outside of the insurance on the build ing that was burned. Fight Over a Corpse.—The two daughters of the old negro Houston, who died of neglect, yesterday had a tight over the little furniture in the house. Brick-bats flew and wool was pulled promiscuously. Didn’t Accept.—(’apt. E. P. Eber- hart has declined the position of Dep uty Postmaster, and Mr.Tunison, for merly book-keeper ut O’Farrell Bros, is the next person on deck. Mr. T. will doubtless make a good officer. A- False Report.—We are told that a rumor is in general circulation in Oconee couuty that Hon. James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe, is dead. Mr. Smith is tlie livest man that ever treat! shoe-leather, and bids fair to be come a centennarian. Bust.—This disease has already ap peared in wheat in this section, but not in suflicieht quantities as yet to injure the crop. We are very fearful, however that the small grain crop will be serious ly harmed, as the unusual weather will lie apt to breed disease. The tittVBl metalIc burial casus ever brought South, at Joint Bint s. tail. Gordon proposes to sail for Kurope in a short time. John Uiki> tells the cheapest furniture, ol all kinds, in Northeast Georgia. i lie rtrcciN arc again dry, but they are full of riuges aud gullies. Thome spring bed* at John Bird's are simply luxurious. Several of our streets are still filled wit h bales oi«ollon. Zkkk Kinik says Bird can't keep any new fur. niture long enough tor him to gel a look at it. The t'herukee Railroad will be extended from t'edartown to Birmingham. tK you want to gut happy, live nappy and die happy, buy furniture front John Bird. '1 he wheal tieids throughout Tennessee, Mis- sihMppi and Nor in Alabama are said to prom ise an abundant yield wall favorable seasons. Fok the tost line of eotfins of all grades, go to John Bird's. Seney Hall at Kinory College is approaching eontplelion. J Kkik.ni> has just received a fine assortment of spring goods. Please call and examine. Horae ineu are like the moon. They get full once in about so often. Wiikn you get ready to buy either panta, coa t or vest -*.11 on J. Friend, Merchant Tailor, The Conyers W eekly speaks in high terms of the workings of the "no fence” Itwln Rockdale county. We are a nation of grit. Even the cotton we ship is full of grit. Diuku toef, ham sausage, magrolla hams, and the tost grades of smoking and ( hewing tobac co at C. U Plluer A Co's. Colored tolles don't wear bangs: you can't pull the w»h»1 over their eyes. A full line of staple and fancy groceries, best brands ol flour, MeElroy's meal, seed potatoes garden seeds, etc., for sslc by C. L. Pitner A Co Adam missed one of the luxuries of life. He couldn t laugh in his sleeve. For the tost Sour Krout call on C. L. Pitner A Co.. Broad street, and don’t forget a bucket to put it in. Mt liride «& Co., Atlanta, Ga., have in Mock ihe largest and moat varied asgort- inciit of l^tiup Goods ever brought eonth. I'arlor and Hull Lain)w—Glass and Brass l.niiips, Keiieetor Lamps, and Istnterns, Shades, burners, Chimneys. You save a good profit in freight and c*ur prices are as low as in any market. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one minute. Prof. James A. Sewell, A. M M. D., of Medical Faculty Laval Uni versity, Quebec, states: “I have found COLDKN’f* UlERlO’S LIQUID IaXTRACT of Beef and Tonic Inviookatok particularly useful in advanced stages of Consumption, wtabirus, dytprpgia, and all nervous affections. In pregnant wo men it has been retained while every other article of food was rejected. Pal atable and easy of digestion.” (Take no other.) " MAGNOLIA ACID. Messrs. Orr & Hunter have an unpre cedented demand for this popular acid and are ►ellin* an immense amount of it. Iheit Mlea exceed their moat aammine expectations. This add has been footed by our planters for yeara, and It has a * re P uUll ° n - Farmers can, with iu use, manufacture afestilUer as good aa tbs beat at a small coat. Millinery.—Mrs. T. A. Adams has just retained from the Northern markets with the most beautiful selection of spring millinery ever seen in this city. All the novc'ties of the season. Prices the lowest.ds-w2m. The support of our dally Is begin ning to rail ofl. We can't afford to run it at a loss. We learn that Mr. Charles D. Hill will move back to Athens, and live at their old place. The old house that fell down on Market street last week was said to have been haunted. W. A. Pledger left last night for Atlanta, preparatory to taking charge of the Custom House. Mr. Waterman will run the Monroe Advertiser as a solid, organized, Dem ocratic newspaper. Beef cattle, are scarce and prices rule high; but the best and fattest still go to Augusta. Tlie toot of the bass horn now drives the denizens of Broad street to the verge of distraction. We learn that one or two fights arc brewing over some April fools, that were carried too fur. A Picture.—Mr. Davis, the other day* took a picture of Reaves, Nicholson & Co’s new stoic, and tlie colored porter requests ua to state that he was not standing in the door at the time, al though the occupant of that nook is said to very much resemble him. A Good Collector.—A certain firm in Athens proposed to an old colored beggar that they would pay her 25 cents a month if she would promise not to an noy tiiem between times. The old wo man presults her bill as regularly on the first day of the month as a business firm. A book-keeper front Chicago was in Athens the the other day, and offered to work for his board. Capt. Beusse says vou can buy _ water-backet full of the best beer in Germany for eight cents. Confederate bonds in Charleston on Saturday took on another boom aud went up to $5 per 1,000. The game law is in force, and now sportsmen are prohibited from shoot ing birds and other game. The Burlington Hawkeye advises those who are searching for independ ence to look in the kiichon. What young man was it who ployed a frlenalv game of cards” tlie other night, and it cost him $1.75? Mr. W. B. Daniel has a record of the death of every old citizen of Clarke county for forty years back. Charlie Shuhardt lias an imported bull-dog for which he refused $50. It can throw the largest cow. Mr. Tom Richards last week receiv ed from his son at Port Royal a fish weighing seventy-five pohnds. A large whale show Is coming to ward Athens. The animal was cap tured on the Newfoundland coast. Wood Contracts.—Messrs. Walls and Wortham have just closed a trade with the Athens Manufacturing Company to furnish them one thousand cords of wood. These gentlemen have furnished one thousand cords per year for a num ber of years to the Athens Manufactur ing Company. That Baptism.—There were eighteen colored troops baptized Sunday. Tlie preacher had some trouble trying to get one subject to put his head under the water. While the preacher was expos tulating with the convert, one of his as sistants caught the convert by the wool and ducked him any how, without cere mony. A Nimhod.—Richard Tiller, a farmer living in this county, says he killed at one shot by shooting on the water with a rifle, 113 fish, and says that he killed three bushels of fish by striking a large rock with a sledge hammer. The largest number of wild turkeys ever killed by him at one shot was thirteen. Come on with your snake tales. A Vegetable Curiosity.—Mr. Nathan Cook has a lot sown in double headed oats. A friend of his In Spald ing county was walking through a field, and discovered two heads grow ing on one stalk, and from this begin ning has got fairly in the seed. Another Boom.—Mr. E. D. Smyth, the prominent crockery man of Au- liusta, has been in our city for several days, with a view of establishing a wholesale crockery house in Athens. We will bid such business men as Mr. Smyth a hearly welcome to our midst. Death from Desertion.—An old negro man named. Houston died back of the Lucy Cobb Institute last Satur day. He had been deserted by his race, and laid in bed for a week or more with his clothes uncleaned. His death was from neglect, although the old man had children living in the city. Conscience Money—Saturday a dollar bill was found in the Ladies’ Memorial box, enclosed in the fol lowing note: “I won this money un fairly on a watch trade, and desire that Iv be given to some charitable purpose.” The ladies would like to hear from a few more eonscieneC' stricken penitents. A Summer Resort.—With a little advertising judiciously expended, our hotels and boarding houses could be filled with tourists next summer, Athens can offer far superior induce ments to Gainesville as a summer re sort, and our manifold advantages should be made known to the world. These tourists is a new enterprise that needs developing. Our First Hotel When Athens was a little rustic hamlet, with about two dozen inhabitants, an old gentle man kept a hoetelery on the site of the Sunimey lot, that was known as Swinging Limb Tavern.” The land lord was the first man in Georgia to put sugar in his guests’ liquor, and hence he was known throughout the State as “Sweetened Liquor John. Fruit Injured.—A gentleman who yesterday examined the fruit crop tells ua that the plums are ail killed, and the early-blooming peaches badly injured. Apples are just blooming, ami conse quently are all right thus far. But if frost holds off now there will be plenty cf fruit. It is rather unusual for the peach crop to be killed in March. We have been handed a stalk of headed wheat from Mr. Phinizy’s field, and grown in the city limits, A countryman brought some rock onndybaek to Jester yesterday, with the complaint that It had strings in it. There are numerous deposits of soapstone, mica and asbestos near Athens that will some day be utilized. Our colored firemen speak of taking their visitors on an excursion to the falls during the tournament in this city. A Cohbham dog ran a Broad street collector from the yard on the 1st. The owner has since refused $50,000 for the animal. There Is no such office as “Deputy Postmaster”—every attache being either “Assistant Postmaster" or “Clerk.” Mr. E. C. Long rode for many yeara an Indian pony which was branded on the fore shoulder with Indian hter- oglyphica. By summer tlie new North-Eastern railroad branch will be completed to Tallulah, and trains will cany picnics directly to the falls. After April 1st the Athens factory will run nine hours a day, to give the hands sn opportunity for rest and household duties. There Is a debating society at Geor gia Faotpiy In toll blast. The subject for the next debate Is “Which Is the butt end of a goat.” We await with pleasure the decision. There were three Athens boys a few *8® killed in Atlanta on the asKsF A Petition.—The operatives of the Athens Factory have petitioned Mr. Bloomfield to allow them to work four and a half days per week, and quit Fri days at 12 o’clock, thus allowing them a day and a half, instead of the plan first proposed, by which they were to work three-fourths of each day. Mr. Bloom field has consented aud the new regime went into operation on Monday, the 3d iustant. Bit by a Dog.—A little colored boy, named Billie Mayfield, was last Sunday attacked by a ferocious bull-dog belong ing to Mr. Michael, and the child’s arm torn to pieces. The boy had crawled un der Mr. Michael’s kitchen to catch stray chicken, when the dog attacked him and before help arrived the child was badly lascerated. The child’s moth er threatened to poison the dog, although her child went into Mr. Michael’s yard where he did not live. r . Church Trouble.—'Ibere is consider able trouble over tlie river with a colored church about keeping the preacher at home. We interviewed the deacon yes terday with the following result:. The aforesaid deacon says, “de great difficult is bout de preacher dat dem country ulg- gers feede him on biscuits an chicken an* it ’taint no use toyin' to keep de preacher at home long as dem other nig gers offers rich ’ducements as dat ” The North-Eastern Extension.—We learn that the North-Eastern now con templates stopping about one mile this ride of Tallulah Falla, which will require travoUers to go* mile and a half by pri ▼ateconveyauceto reach the hotel. The authorities are being urged to carry the road to its destination at once, as it will be a great source of inconvenience not to doao. Work is progressing very rapid ly, and the contract will be completed before the time stipulated. A subscriber from Royston sent an order for some marked.playing cant*. • Playing With a Snake.—On Sunday morning last Mrs. George Mason, on Oconee street, on stepping out into the front yard, discovered her tittle child, about eighteen months old, in the act of picking up a snake that had crawled from beneath the house. The reptile was dispatched and the little one saved from its fangs. Snakes are unusually numerous this spring. Gov. Lumpkin's Grave.—We are told that the grave of Gov. Wilson Lumpkin, who gave to the city the ground for Oconee cemetery, is un marked—simply a bank of fed clay des ignating the spot where sleeps one of Georgia’s purest and ablest statesmen This is a reflection upon not only the State, but the gratitude of Athens. Our people should see that a shaft is reared over tlie grave of this great and good man. A Slight Change.—In a speech at Mr. Seab Davenport’s, in Oconee coun ty, before our eminent Congressman deserted his fold, he made use of the following words: “This Independent movement is but a trick of the Radical party, and will yet put some big, buck, flat-nosed nigger into office”— winding up with a glowing tribute to the Organized Democracy. Mr. Na than Cook tells us that he heard Mr. Speer use these identical words. Cheap. Houses.—Some of the cheapest houses ever erected are being now built in Athens. Among the va rious designs is a neat six-room cot tage, with one chimney in middle and fire-place in comer of each room, that costs only five hundred dollars com plete. We weri also shown a very pretty three-room cottage that can be built for two hundred and fifty dol lars. It is strange that our laboring classes don't, save money and build their own houses instead of paying ex tortionate rents. There is no cheaper place in the South to bnlld than Athens. Promoted. — Council yesterday elected Capt. C. G. Talmadge as Chief Engineer of the Athena Fire Depart ment. No man in Athens has the in terest of our city more at heart than “Cope” and he will ma'ce a Chief of which our gal lent firemen may well be proud. \Ve salute thee, Colonel TUipadge. Last Sunday was a lovely, spring like day, and we were tempted to ful fill a long-promised visit and spend the morning with our especial friend, Mr. John E. Talmadge, better known to his friends as “Pipe.” This gentle man,is one of our livest merchants, and having made a handsome little fortune decided that he would gratify his taste by running a small farm near the city. So a few years ago he bought about one hundred acres of land in the beautiful suburban village of Cobbham, and has been devoting his leisure time to improving and adorning the same, and how well he has succeeded one must see his beau tiful place to appreciate. His house set* back in a cool grove, and is sur rounded by undulating fields and green pastures, filled with sleek, well- fed stock. After a short rest we Inti mated a wish to be shown over the premises, when our friend kindly con sented, and first led us into his yard where was grazing on the blue-grass beneath the trees four fine Jersey calves. They are pure blooded and registered, with a pedigree that even some of the English nobility might envy. “These calves,” said Mr. T., sing ling out a herd of young heifers, “could not be bought for $300. In fact, I was offered $100 for one of them as soon as it was dropped. I will now show you the mothers of these calves.” Passing through a gate we entered a lot sown in orchard grass and clover, \vhere we found grazing four of the mild-eyed Jerseys, about which so much has beer, said and written. They were as trim as deer, with eyes like the gazelle, the picture of bovine health and happiness. “Bertha Washington there is my best milker,” explained Mr. Tal- raadge, “for she yields three gallons of tlie richest kind of cream a day. She was born on Washington’s birth day, and hence the name. Lady Hel en is also a tfery fine unimal, while the other two are almost os good. In fact, I do not think you could find four better cows in the South. Be sides supplying my family with all the milk aud butter we use, I last week sold fifteen pounds at thirty- five cents. This pays for tlieir feed, and I make the milk and butter for home consumption, besides the in crease, clear. ‘Where did you first get your start in cattle?” we asked. “I bought them from the most re liable breeder ill Tennessee, and they are all registered and can trace an un blemished ancestry as far back as the most aristocratic bovine in the land. I have other Jerseys,” continued our friend, “but they are dry now.” Mr. Talmadge next carried us to his lot where is kept his famous Berkshire hogs. “These,” he continued, “are of the finest breed, I having paid $25 apiece for small pigs to get my start. I have now thirty-one pigs that will soon be ready to ship, that I sell for $5 each very readily. In fact, I have a number of orders now ahead. That hog you see there is a Red Jersey, that cost me about $50, but it cannot compare with my Berkshires, so I shall slaughter it. I have placed a Berkshire and a razor-back pig, of the same age, in pens, fed them alike,and at the end of a year the Berkshire just doubled the razor-back In- weight. They are healthy and thrifty, and the very hogs for this country. 1 keep always five brood sows, raising pigs for market.” We never saw a prettier rural sight than these large litters of broad-back ed, frisky little pigs, up to their sides In sweet, lucious clover, upon which they fed. “Now let me show you my chick ens. I raise only the Plymouth Rock, and keep a few Bramah hens for set ting purposes, as the former breed is too large and heavy to hatch well. I sell a great many eggs, and occasion ally a trio of the fowls. * It costs no more *o raise them than the dung hills, while they grow twice as large, and are equal to any fowls as an arti cle of food.” We next Inspected the large new barn that our friend had just erected. It is both roomy and airy, with plenty of space for forage and corn, and a stall for every horse, cow and calf on the place. Pipe allows none of his stock to be exposed to the inclemency of the weather, and says a good shelter saves half the feed. In his barn, which was designed by the owner, we found the strange sight of a big pile of ear-corn, grown on the farm, as also oats enough to feed the stock until the next crop ripens. Mr. T . Intends to have a wind-mill built, to furnish wa ter for both his stock and domestic purposes. We next started over the farm, and in the course of our pilgrimage passed two fish-ponds that are being built. One is stocked with carp and the oth er beam and perch. They are fed by living springs and so arranged that a rippling little branch can be turned into them if more water is needed. “I shall set out an avenue of trees from my house to these ponds, aud build a bath-house here—but I found so much to do on my farm that I have not had much time for ornamenting the place.” We passed though fields of clover, orchard grass and oats, and although the land seemed as thin as earth ever gets to be the crops were as fine as our eyes ever rested upon. We suggested that a great deal pf guano must be used? v“No,” was the reply, “the only commercial fertiliser I use is a little acid for composting with cotton seed. 1 buy all the seed I can find, paying from ten to twelve and a half cents per bushel—and they are worth as a ma nure twenty cento to any farmer. But Icihefly depend on stable manure that I purchase at seventy-five cents for a two-hone wagon load. You will soon aee how I spread it on.” And we did. We passed through a field undergoing this recuperating treatment, and believe there was enough piles dumped about to make a solid layer over the whole ground ’Even his bottoms were not neglected. “That hill-side over there I fertilized last year, and you ought to see the corn it grew. I put all my fertilizers on broad-cast, and when I get through with a field it will produce for years without any further manure, but I al ways keep it up. My bottoms, which were but swamps when I bought the place, have been all blind-ditched,and are now perfectly dry.” “Wlll you raise any cotton?” we In quired. “Not a all. I go for something to eat and to feed my stock on. I can raise a Jersey calf with far less trouble and expense than a bale of cotton, and it Is worth $100 an hour old. I have an -acre planted in onions and will plant two acres in potatoes, and Irish even these crops pay better than cot ton.” It is certainly a treat to go over this model farm. Everything is in its place and there is a place for every thing. The hill-sides have all been ditched, so as to prevent the land washing, gullies and washes filled up, and every grain planted is sure to return a yield. Mr. Talmadge ought to be one of the happiest men In Georgia. He is sur rounded by all that goes to make life enjoyable—a beautiful home, a devot ed wife, a delightful family of “little responsibilities,” and all the good things of life fresh from his garden and fields. And let us right here say to our farmers, if you wan’tto purchase fine stock don't send to a distance for them, as Mr. J. E..Talmadge can sup ply you with as fine cows or hogs as any ever raised, at less money than you would have to pay some prominent stock-raiser. A MURDEROUS ATTACK. MB. WALTER ROUNDTREE. A STU DENT FROM QUITMAN, SHOT DOWN BY A NEGRO. THE YOUNG MAN IS FOLLOWED UP WITH HIS MURDER IN VIEW. THE PERPETRATOR AND HIS AC COMPLICE ARRESTED. LATE GENERAL NEWS. Rumors of Fenian plots are rife. Good seed corn is scarce all over Ken tucky. It is said that the President will ve to the anti-Chinese bill. It has cost $223,000,000 to look after Indians during the past ten years. Edward Jones, a young man of Tali aferro county, committed suicide. Longstreet’s 300 Swiss emigrants for Gainesnville turns out to be a myth Nashville has purchased the suspen sion bridge and made it a free bridge. A cart containing 2,300 cat-fish were seen on the streets of Americus the other day. Tlie prohibitory liquor bill lias been defeated in tlie Massachusetts legisla ture. A Barren county, Ky., mare gave birth to a mule and hoasc cult at one time last week. L. E. Ballinger, a prominent grocer of Galveston, Texas, is dying from the ef fects of vaccination. In the Blue Ridge judicial circuit, con sisting of eleven counties, there is not a single licensed dram shop. It is given out now on the authority of Colonel William P. Price, the president, that ten miles of the Dahlonega railroad is to be. finished this summer. Four young ladies of Michigan, wish ing to find a life of adventure on the plains, storied down Grand River in boat. Toey have not since been heard from. Mormons have made a lodgment near King’s mountain, in North Carolina. Numbers of country people are flocking to hear them, and they have nude about fifty convert*. Charles Henry Foster, the spiritualist and medium, who has attained consider able notoriety in Boston, New York and abroad, is dying in the insane asylum at Danvers, Mass. New York, April 3.—Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of W. H. Vander bilt, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself in the head at the Glenham Hotel. He was cut off with a small sum by his father, Comodore Van derbilt, and contested the will, compro mising for $1,000,000. BUaiNRSS NOTICE. We last week sent out a lot of circu lars to parties who had been subscrib- scriber to both the Weekly Banner and Weekly Watchman, intending to notify them that we had discontinued the Weekly Banner, as we presumed they would not desire to have two copies of the same paper sent to them, to those last we wish to say that we do not mean that we had discontinued the Banner-Watchman, but simply to send them a statement of what they were due on the old mtkliet up to the date of consolidation. The Banner-Watchman will contin ue to go to them in lieu of the old week lies, and we would like- them to send us amounts due as per statement, at their earliest convenience. BDSnlSSS IfOTICB. The editor of the Banner-Watchman is daily receiving letters in regard to the business of the office. We will take this method of saying that we have no more to do with the books of the establish ment than the subscribers to the paper. This department is presided over by Mr. G. H. Yancey, our Business Manager, to whom all letters refering to advertising or subscriptions must be addressed; or they can simply be directed to the Ban- ner-*Watchman office. Our lot is simply to attend to the editorial management of (he paper. Frequently these letters di rected to us personally are delayed when they need imm< diate attention. -Prophet De Voe on April. April will enter cold and clear, and on the 3rd there will be high northwest winds, with snow squalls. There will be verv little easterly wind in this sec tion. The prevailing winds for the month will he from the southwest, shift ing suddenly to the northwest, with fre quent squalls. There will be a mild spells from the 9th to the 18th. About the 20th there will be a sharp frost, and if potatoes and corn should be up, they will get nipped. The amount pf rainfall will be below the average. There will be very few storms, probably the 8tb and 22nd. Farmers should plant their pota toes on high ground, for May and June will be very wet. The outlook for ap ples and cherries is good, tors Urge crop, tor there will not be any cold northeast rain storms to beast tho blo«ioms this spring. The rains will be accompanied with warm southerly winds and fre quent thunder showers. The general weather throughout the month will be very fine. The average temperature will he decidedly eool. In the south Atlantic States the pre vailing winds will be from the south- The rainfall will be tight, and the average temperature high. A. J. Dx Vos, Meteorologist. H ackentack, March 25. The Road Machine.—The new itreat-working machine for. Athens hawhscE tileiftom *4* tipsthatitfekes four horses to draw It, and the city •nly owns four mules. Anothef steed has been hired, and In a few days Mr. HmwW give Its practicability a test. Ie Is said that this machine will grade the streets, raising the low places and leveling down the knobs. Last evening, about sundown, just as our merchants were closing their stores for the day, a report was clrcnla- ed that a student had been killed by a negro near the Court-house. We has tened to the scene of the tragedy, and in passing up Clayton street found a large crowd of both whites and blacks congregated in front of Miles John son’s establishment, while the police were endeavoring to make them dis perse, bnt apparently without effect. There was a dissatisfied look on the faces of both sides, that seemed to bode trouble if the flame was stirred. Frank Johnson and Enoch Echols, the per petrators of the outrage, were ones ted and in the building, which caused the assemblage of the crowd. Passing on we started for tho Court house, the scene of the shooting, but met on the way a buggy, guarded by students, containing the wounded man, who proved to be Mr. Walter Roundtree, of Quitman, Ga., and a boarder with Mr. J. G. Edwards. It was impossible, during the excite ment, to get particulars of the unfor tunate affair, but by interrogating some young men who were witnesses to the shooting, from some little dis tance, we gained the following infor mation: It seems that there had been some previous difficulty between Mr. Roundtree and the negro Frank John son (who is a son to Miles Johnson) and on last evening, as several of the students were taking a stroll, in dis jointed parties, the said Johnson, with a friend named Enoch Echols, decided that they would have a bloody settlement. So arming themselves with pistols they started in pursuit of these young men. In passing a pair of students Johnson asked if they could tell him the way the two Messrs. Roundtree went. The young men, susploioning nothing wrong, told them the direction. Quickening their pace Johnson remarked, “We’ll catch them yet.” Mr. Allie Berckman says he was some distance behind the two young Roundtrees, and his attention was attracted by a shooting in their direction. He hastened forward just in time to see the negroes with pistols in their hands firing at his friends. He did uot see the two white men shoot,, but saw Mr. Walter Roundtree fall. Another student says the brother to Mr. R. shot one time at Johnson. Dr. Camuk, who also witnessed the affray, does not think the young men attack ed fired a shot. From what wo can learn the negroes shot ot young Roundtree seven times, one ball taking effect back of the neck, breaking the spinal column, and the wound must necessarily prove fatal. Drs. Bene dict and Gerdine are both attending on the wounded man, and the latter gentleman does not think his patient can survive throughout the night, and says that be cannot possibly last many days, as he Is even now parol ized from the breast down. His prin cipal wound entered the back, rang ing between the last cervical and the first dorsal vertebra. After probing the wound the doctors could not decide whether the ball had entered the spi nal marrow or not. It is reported that he is also slightly wounded in the head. Up to the hour of going to press no further disturbance has occurred. A rather unnatural calm pervades the students. The Faculty at once repaired to the house of Mr. Ed wards, and of course feel deep regret at the occurrence. Everything Is be ing done to alleviate the sufferings of the young man. Soon after their murderous deed Johnson and Echols fl°d and took refuge in Miles Johnson’s shop, where they were arrested and afterwards conveyed to jail. This was one of the most deliberate, unprovoked and bloody deeds ever perpetrated in our midst. This young man was unsuspectingly taking hiB evening walk, when he is pursued and shot down in cold blood by a negro for some imaginary wrong. The perpe trators are great Independent politi cians, and we can trace in the whole aflhir the damning result of Demo cratic disunion and colored political supremacy. We hope, however, that our law-abiding citizens will crush any steps toward overstepping the bounds of the law, and let the murder er and his abettor pay such penalty as may be demanded by the courts of jus tice. To-morrow we will give full particulars, as our account to-night had to be gathered from an excited crowd, and it' was hard to get facts. Mr. Roundtree requested that his mother be telegraphed for, which was done. Dr. Camak followed up and caused the arrest of the murderers. Mr. Roundtree died Wednesday at half-past ten o'clock. Kicking.—When Mr. Speer forced the appointment of a colored postmas ter on Athens, he certainly be queathed a fearful mortification upon our people. Several of our best citi zens say they shall decline to apply for their mail after Davis Is installed, and have ordered us to keep their pa per in this office. We shall establish separate post-office, in onr own building, for these gentlemen, and thus save them the mortification of which they complain. While our peo ple are willing to accord to the colored man bis every right, they do not to tend that this race be placed to high Offices over them, if they can help It— and they thinktbey can, hereafter. is of a.striking nature, and emanates from a reliable source, that it is herewith; re published entire. In~addition ;td the valuable matter it contains, it will be found exceedingly interesting: To the editor of the Democrat and Chronicle: Sib:—My motive Tor the publication Of the most unusual statements which fol low are, first, gratitude for the fact th-l 1 have been saved from a most horrible ■leatli, and, secondly, a desire to warn all prho read this statement against some of the most desceptive Influences by which they hare ever been surround ed. It Is a fact that to-day thousands of people are in a foot of the grave and they do not kno.w It. To tell how I was caught away from just this position and to warn others against hearing it, are my objects in this communication. On the first day of June, 1881,1 lay at my residence in this city Burreuuded by my friends and wailing for death. Heav en only knows the agony I' then endur ed, for words cannot describe it. And yet, If a few months previous, any oue bad told me that 1 was to be brought so* low, and by so terrible a disease I should have scoffed at the idea. I had' always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds and hardly knew, in my own experience what pain and sickness were. Very many people who read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull and inde finite pains in various parts of the body and do not understand it. Ur they ore exceedingly hungry oue day and entirely without appetite the next. This was just the way I felt wheu the relentless malady which fastened itself upon me first began. Still 1 thought it was noth ing; that probably I had taken a cold which would scon pass away. 8hort ly after this I noticed a dull, aud at times neuralgic, pain in my head, but as it would come one day and be goue the next, I paid but tittle attention toil. However, my stomach was out of order a*>d my food often failed to digest, caus ing at times great inconvenience. Yet, 1 had no idea, even as a physician, that these things meant anythiug serious or that a monstrous disease was becoming fixed upon me. Candidly, I thought I was suffering from Malaria and so doc tored myselfaccordingiy. But I got no better. 1 next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I wass passing —also that there were large guantitics oue day and very tittle tlie next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared upon the surface an t a sediment settled in the bottom. And yet I did not real ize auy danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed by tho fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in iu tlieir vicinity. Why I should have been so blind 1 cannot understand. There is a terrible future for all physi cal neglect, and impending danger gen erally brings a person to his senses even though it may then be too late. I real ized at last my critical condition and tried myself to overcome it. And, oh, how hard 1 tried! I consulted the best medical skill in tue land. I visited all the prominent mineral springs iu Amer ica and traveled from Maine to Califor nia. Still I grew worse. No two phy sicians agreed as to my malady. One said I was troubled with spinal irrita tion ; another, nervous prostration; an other, malaria; another, dyspepsia; an other, heart disease; another, general debility; another congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of all of which 1 really had. In this way several years passed, during all of which time I was stead ly growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms I at first experi enced were developed Into terrible and constant disorders—the little twigs of pain had grown to oaks of agony. My weight had becu reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a torture to my self and friends. I eould retain no food upon my stomach and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I frequently fell upon the floor, convulsively clutched tho carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine had little or no effect in deadening the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-pre monitory hiccoughs constantly. My urine was filled with tube casts and al bumen. I was struggling with Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys in its last stages. While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, rector of St. Paul’s Church, of this city. I felt that it was our last tuterview, but in the course of conversation he men tioned a remedy of which I had heard much but never used, Dr. Foote detail ed to me the many remarkable cures which had come under his- observation, by means of this remedy and urged me to try it. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I cherished the prejudice both natural and common with all regular.practitioners, and de rided the ides that any medicine outside the regular channels being the least beneficial. So solicitous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive my prejudice and try the remedy he so highly recommended. I began Its use on the first day of June and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; bat this I thought a good sign for one in my debilitated condition. I continue 1 to take it; the sickeningsen- Sitlon departed and I was able to retain rood upon my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change for the butter as also did my wife and friends* My hic coughs ceased and 1 experienced less pain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this Improved condition that, upon what I believed but a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the pres ence of my family and friends, should I ever recover I would both puhticly and privately make known this remedy for tlie good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity. I also determined that I would give a coarse of lectures in the Corinthian Academy of Music, of this city, statisg In full the symptoms and almost hopelessness of my disease and the remarkable means by which I have*been saved. My improve ment was constant trora that time, and iu less than three months I had gained 26 poutids in flesh, become entirely free from pain and I believe I owe my life and present condition wnolly to Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Core, the remedy which I used. Since tny recovery I have thoroughly re-investigated the subject of kidney dif ficulties and Bright’s disease, and the the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state deliberately an das a phy sic! an, 1 believe that more than one-half ot the deaths which occur in America are caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to fully verify it. .Bright’* disease has no dis tinctive symptoms of its own. (indeed* it often develops without any pain what ever in the Mdneyaor their vicinity,) but has the symptoms of nearly every other known complaint. Hundreds of people die daily, whose burials are authorized by a physician’* certificate of “ Heart Disease, “ Appoplexy,” ” Paralysis,” “ Spinal Complaint;" “ Reumatism,” “PUeumonia,” and other common com plaints, when in reality It was Bright’s disease of the Kidneys. Few physicians and fewer people, realise the extent of this disease or its dangerous and insidi ous nature. It steals Into the system tike a thief, manifests lta presence by the commonest symptoms, and fastens itself upon tlie constitution before the victim is aware. It is nearly as heredi tary as consumption, qhite as common and fully as fatal. Entire families, in heriting it from their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the number, real ized or knew titomysteriouspower which was removing them. Instead of com mon symptoms it often shows none what- eevr, but brings death suddenly, and a* such Is usually supposed to beassit tils* ease. As one rno has StnTered,- and knows by bitter experience whatho rays, I implore every ona who reads these words not to neglect the stightesUsymp- toms of kidney difficulty. Certain agony An Anniversary INDEED.T-Sotne- body baa discovered that Easter will be observed this year on the anniver sary ot the day on which the resur rection really occurred. The only real doubt nogr about the year of the great event Is whether It was A. D. 29 or 80. If the latter, the Paschal moon fell in that year on April 6, the cruci fixion would be the next day, April 7, and the resurrection April 9. Ie ii'^' ''n-' ' ii Yi **• Vt* ’ A REMARKABLE STATEMENT. Thefoltowingartiole frpm the Demo- ocrat and Chronicle, of Rochester, N, Y., torn* of kidney difficulty. Certain agony and possible death will be -the ,eura re sult of such neglect,'' and iK>‘*be fean afford to hazard such chanoaRroM I am aware that such an statement as this, ec known as I am throi land as a practltionerand lecturer wffil tyoi the medical prof$toion and ish aU with whom I am acquainted, bat I make the Lregoing stateme upon facts which I am prepa iluce, and truths which I c ate to the letter. The we who may possibly be suff was, is an ample inducen take the step I have cessfully warn others L —- ous path in which I once walked, 'L am willing to endrre all professional a— personal consequences. j. b. nzxiox, a. d Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 30,-UK ,