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general news. Water is three cents par bteket at Tremont, Pa. \ Chinaman in Dcadwood won |.‘ooo last week {slaying faro. The thief offers to give up the sto lon records for $500, if no questions arc asked.—Atlanta Herald. There is not a licensed bar-room the railroad from Marietta to AshviUe, N. C. \ new morning daily will be star- Ul in Atlanta, backed by i$o,ooo. We predict its demise. gohert Morris, the negro lawyer w ho lately died in Boston, left pro- p^-.v worth $1,000,000. p„lton county has cut down its for feeding prisoners to 25 cents 3 t ] u y. Poo little by half. Fiftv-four murders were commit- t,-,l in Chicago during 1S82, yet only one criminal was hanged. Charles G. Yates, a prominent citizen of Greensboro, N. C., com- fitted suicide last Saturday night. Stillwell, wife of Jay N. Stillwell, employed on the Chicago, Burling ton .md Quincy Railroad, has made a co nfcssion on her deathbed of three murders. The colored preacher who was shot at Chattanooga a few nights ago while stealing potatoes had been Irving to live on a salary of two dol lars per week. A Nebraska man who drove his wife out in a cold nigt, causing her to freeze her feet so badly that they had to imnutated, was tarred and feathered bv his neighbors. The result of an ill assorted mar riage was terribly illustrated in Cent' >' New York. The wife at- tackcil the husband with two butch er knives and he killed her with a !n Washington county, N. Y., poison having been discoved in the remains of a young woman, a physician has been held in $5,oooon a charge of having criminally ad ministered the deadly drug. Hv the upsetting of a flatboat nn the Tuckasugee river, N. C., • ighteen covict labors were drown ed on Saturday. The accident was caused by the men’s own fright jnJ rush to one end of the boat. A horrible series of murders is reported from Little Rideaux, Can- aila. A farm hand killed four member of the family which cm- ploved him and wounded three more. GEORGIA ITEMS. The small pox has broken out in a whole family in Atlanta. Another case of small pox has de veloped near Rome. A horse recently committed sui cide rathe than live in Atlanta. A man named W. E. Hardin com mitted suicide Saturday night in At lanta. Mr lames Cox, of Monroe county, hail Ins arm badly torn by a gin on Thursday last. A negro child, in Atlanta, was killed on Saturday by an ovedose of worm medicine. Mr. J. S Pulliam wu« severely cut near Ciisseta, for refusing to take a drink with a man. A tire at Milieu on Sunday morn ing destroyed a block of business houses. Loss $25,000. A negro in Twiggs county com mitted suicide Saturday, because of grief and shame at being arrested for raising a row. Sparta licenses bar looms this war at $750 apiece, and limits the number to three and locates them on back streets. Yesterday, E. C. Anderson, of Savannah was lying at the point of death, and only a few hours at most' was left him to live. 1 hiring the season the Mason and Brunswick Railroad has hauled on an average, eighteen car loads of oranage, per day from Florida. Mr. Moore and wife, from Texas, on their way to Spartanburg, S. C., to visit friends, discovered,on reach- Atl.mta. that he had been robbed of $Soo, all the money he had. In tiie Bluffton neighborhood, Early county, on Wednesday last, a man named Tim Dozier was kill ed by another named Ben Jhon- son. Mrs. Swain, who resides on Hor ton street, Atlanta, by accident gave her child, a little girl named Carrie, poison instead of a prescrip tion which had been prepared by the doctor, and the little one lingered in great pain until death relieved it ofits sutlering. There was a rumor in Atlanta on Friday that Col. Arnold IIufT, pro prietor of the Markham House, had tailed, and on the strength of it sev- rr al garnihsments were served on boarders at the Markham. The Post- Appeal says that Col. Huff is worth $50,000 over and above every cent s, but intimates that he THE BANNER-WA NO. XXXI. *t THE OLD BOARD. Ik* Last Sad Hosting 0f too La to Council cf Alberto. A • J • Mt ■ • ' • . • V'tWOtllSI' 1 ATHENS, GEORGIA? TTJESfoA. Y, JJS3SfXrA£PtW. 1&8&; d .T»d ait Ui a , VOL XXIX. Cou Atiibn ncil Chamber, ) ns, Ga.Jin. 3,18S1, V 11 o’clock, A. M. ) The last meeting of the city coun cil was held this morning. Present, His Honor Mayor Rucker and a full board of aldermen. The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and confirmed. A communication was read from J. S. Williford, ksking council to take some action in regard to his petition to have Broad street im proved in front of the Flournoy lot. Alderman Lampkin made a ver bal report in regard to the matter recommending that the gujly,in front of the Flournoy lot be walled up with rock and covered with plank. Report received and adopt ed. * Alderman Talmadge made a ver bal report in regard to extra pay for C. Kalvarinski. He stated that C. Kalvarinski had been an efficient night watch, and was paid by pri vate subscription from the business OUR PRESENT RULERS. RING OUT THE OLD—RING IN THE NEW. PrscMdlBgmofOaxVmfCouuIl. Election of Offl- mn and Otbtr Buclneti of Oeaeral bland. rreetlugOut A Bar-Boom sad AAraactag Baar Uaaaaaa tragio a* 9*00. But Lmia Ckxag* talk* Polio*race*, a Walatar naataftCMat A Rigid AdmlnlitnUoa at lb* City Ooransast Decided Upon. Immediately after the adjourn ment of the old Council, His Hon or Mayor O’Farrell administered the oath of office to the new Alder- ipen-plect, viz: J. H. Dorsey, F. W. Lucas, G. H. Yancey and J. E. Tal- madge, after which he delivered an address to the Council, discussing the various interest and departments of the city government He then annonneed the new board properly organized and ready for business. The first business in order being the fixing of salaries, they were ta ken up, and on motion of Aider- man Yancey, fixed the same as last year, viz: Mayor—$Soo per annum. City Attorney—$350 per annum. Clerk of Council—$ 1,200 per an num. Chief of Police—$1,000 per an- houses. He stated that his pay had nu i T |- Lieutenant of Police—$62.50 per he embarasseil by reason of his debt- ti'rs failing to pay him. RAILROAD GOBBLED. TSa Rabun dap Rood Uv So bj tbi DenvOla Feolpe. N’kw York, Dec. 29.—Col. C. ■M. McGhee, of Knoxville, and vicc- V'vosiilcm of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgin railroad, is in this city and it is reported that he jws just closed negotiations with the Richmond and Danville company, by which the Rabun Gap road, otherwise known as the Augusta ; tod Knoxville, is transferred to the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor k’ a railroad company. It is not know n whether the latter company intends to complete the road, or 'vhether they buy it to prevent its being controlled by some other com pany. 1 he Stock of Richmond and Dan- Y c ro *d is becoming lower every ' ay. anil it was impossible . for this Company to complete the Rabun *ap road as they had intended a .' ear ago. only been about $28.75 P cr lnon th— hardly enough to support 'his fam ily. He recommended that tlie council make some appropriation to C. Kalvarinski, to makeup the de ficiency in his pay. Alderman Yan cey moved that he be pgtd the sum of $11.25 per month, for the last twelve months. Motion" adojn^ed and money ordered paid. £,( Alderman Lucas made a verbal report on case of the chie£of police, asking for some reinuku'soment for fines paid by him to-the city, that he had failed to collect. ‘Alderman Lucas stated that he had investigat ed the matter fully, that the chief of police had submitted a list of amounts paid and lost by him, amounting to $181.00. After fully investigating the matter, he recom mended that the sum of $100.00 be refunded to the chief of police on this claim. Alderman Yancey mov ed that he be paid the sum of $iSi.- 00, but thjs case not to be taken as a precedent for claimsvjf this kind. Adopted. Alderman Palmer retired. Alderman Lampkin made a ver bal report adverse on petition of Mrs. Crawford, to move fence to lot occupied by her further out on College avenue. Report received and adopted. He also reported ad verse on petition of A. L. Hull, ask ing council to grade sidewalk in front of stores occupied by M. B. McGinty and J. N. Montgomery. Report received. He also recom mended that the drainage on Clay ton street, from College avenue to Lumpkin street, be attended to as soon as possible. The monthly reports of the Treas urer. Chief of Police, Lamp Lighters and Clerk of Market, were read and received. The annual reports of the Treas urer and Chief of Police were re ceived and ordered spread on the minutes. The Chief of Police sta ted that a number of executions turn ed over to him by the Treasurer had been lost or misplaced. He asked that Council relieve him from re sponsibility for these executions. By Alderman Herrington- Resolved, That the Chief of Po lice be relieved from responsibility for executions lost or«misplaced by him, and the Treasurer be instruct ed to issue duplicate executions for tame. The Chier^SW Police to be still held responsible for the 'origi nal amount of anySfirthc duplicate executions that may fte found to have been paid to him. Adopted. The following Mfls^rcrc ordered paid: J. H. HuggtR», $3 35; E. C- Long & Co, $11.40; J. C. Wilkins, $29.10; W. B.ThonfflS; $7.56; S. C. Dobbs, $49.81; MW: C. P. Bidhop^ $209.00.; Pridgeon Si Ilemerick, $22 and $7. -4 The Clerk of Council was in structed no notify the Captains of the different fire companies that the Council desired them to make no bills against the city without first consulting the Council. By Alderman Yancey: " Resolved. That the thanks of Council arc hereby tendered to his Honor, J. H. Rucker, for the able and courteous manner in which he has presided over this body and discharged the duties of his office, and to the retiring aldermen and other officers for the faithful dis charge of their duties. Adopted. Ma^ODaRucker then delivered a short address to the old council, af ter wltich he administered the oath of office to the new Mayor-elect, W. D. O'Ffcrrcll, and announced the old Council adjourned, sine die. W. A. Gilleland, Clerk. Policemen—$50 per „ bay Ga f ct . ,c - c °ffee is threatened with grad ai extinction. .The plant is attack . . v ;i Peculiar fungus, which, get l,,K ll P°i' one leaf, rapidly spread* °r ° r 1 vvholc « causing the plant to ,' e ' I , n ‘his way it has extended throughout most of the districts of t-eylon, spreading ruin in its path, ami also to the Fiji Islands and to •!?.'. a : The local government of the ,‘Ji Islands has taken the matter in ■•‘nil, and, buying up all the infected Plantations, is destroying the plant* >' "re, thus checking the plague. A somnambulistic girl got out of rf ,** n >ght, at Prescott, Minn., and walked across half a mile of ice and snow to the railroad station, clad in her night clothes only, and was waiting f„ r , when awakened. Fladgar Accused at StaaUag a Letter. BotUm Journal. On* of the causes for the remova of Pledger, the colored serveyor of Atlanta; who has been quite a noted figure in politics in Georgia, is that h$ madcVhat the treasury consid ers a "dishonorable use or tne files of office during the late campaign :dger found in his office a letter SmtthriSJRWpeer to hip predecessor which he thought hurt Speer with hit democratic constituents. Itisdc- ibed by-the latter’s friends as be ing nicrqr a statement that the conduct or fhc administration had been frendly) towards the indepen dents, anijun expression of confi dence in their good will toward the southern liberals.. Pledger put this letter into the hands of the bour bon managers, and was used by Speer’s opponent, Candler, in his speeches. Andrew Clark, formerly internal revenue collector at Atlan ta, was another republican who worked very hard for the bourbon candidate, although'the republican convention had indorsed Speer. month. Regular month. Street Commissioner—$50 per month. Lamplighters—$15 per month each. Clerk of Market—half the fees of the office- Magazine Keeper—all the fees of the office. Assessors of Real Estate—$50 each per annum, they to pay their own expenses. LICENSE. The various liquor and other li censes were taken up and fixed the same as last year, except lager beer and ale and porter, which were changed as follows : Alderman LucAs moved that lager beer license be fixed at $400. Alderman Yancey moved as a substitute, that they be fixed the same as last year, viz : $50. The substitute was put and lost. The motion of Alderman Lucas was then adopted, fixing beer li cense at $400. A division being called for, the vote stood as follows, on the passage of the resolution : Yeas—Mealor, Dorsey, Lucas, Herrington, Hodgson, Lampkin, Talinadge.. Nays—Yancey. Alderman Lucas then moved that ale and porter license be fixed at $400. Alderman Lampkin moved to amend by fixing them at $50. The amendment was put and lost. The resolution of Alderman Lu cas was then put and adopted, fix ing license for ale and porter at $400 per annum. License fixed as follows : Retail liquor—$400. Quart—$200. Gallon—$50. Barrel—$25. Lager beer—$400. Druggist—$25. Auction—$5 per day, $50 per an num. • Billiard and pool tables—$15 each. Itinerant traders—$25 per week, $75 per month. Shooting gallery—$5 for one month ; $25 for six months ; $50 for one year. Ale and porter—$400. Lottery tickets—$50. Peddler’s license—$5 for six months; $10 for one year. Drummers—$50. Dray, 1 horse—$5. Dray, 2 horse—$15. Dray, 4 horse—$20. Omnibus—$20. Dollar stores—$25 for om year; $1 for one day. Circus—$100 for each ilay, or part of a day. Other shows—$10 for eacl day. The election for officers for the present year was then held. The following were declared elected: For City Attorney—T. W. Ruck- For Clerk of Council—W. A. Gilleland. For Chief of Police—D. Cran Oliver. For Lieutenant of Police—L. D. Good rum. For regular policemen—J. B. Burch, W. T. Moon, E. C. A-nold, A. F. Pierson, B. F. Culp, Henry Hill. For street commissioner—A. R. Bardicn. For lamplighter, 1st section—Bob Harris, col. For lamplighter, ad scctiot—R. K. Pridgeon. For lamplighter, 3rd section—Jim Daniel, col. For magazine keeper—E. H. & W. F. Dorsey. For secretary and treasurer fire brigade—S. J. Slays. For chief engineer fire depart ment—W. A. McDowell. For 1st assistant engineer fir» de partment—-Julius Cohen. j For 2d assistant engineer fire de partment—E. G. Potter. For assessors of real estate—S. "J. Mays, I. M. Kenney, Robert Clap- pel. For Mayor pro tern—G. H. Yan- iiiilcction of Clerk of Market post poned. Alderman Yancey moved tut the question of a change in the mar ket laws be referred to the Mayor and committee on market to foly investigate and report back to coin ed such changes, if any, they deem advisable to make. Adopted. The bond of Clerk of Council was fixed at $ 10,000. The bond of Chief of Police wis fixed at $3,ooo. Stern *i Allen petitioned for re tail liquor license, to be used at their present stand on College avenue. A petition was read, signed by ji number of citizens, asking Cound not to grant license to Stern & Al len, or any other person, to retail liquor on College avenue. Alderman Herrington moved that the license be not granted. Adop ted. W. L. Wood petitioned for re tail lipuor license, to be used at, his present stand on corner of Broad and Foundry streets. A petition was read asking Coun cil not to grant license for the sale of liquor to Mr. Wood, or any one else, on Foundry street. On motion of Alderman Hodg son, the petition of W. L. Wood for retail liquor license was not granted. W. F. Hood asked to be allowed to transfer his retail liquor license from Jackson street to the stand formerly occupied by him on River street Not granted. By Aldrman Lucas— Resolved, That no license be granted to any person to retail li quor on Broad street or College ave nue. Adopted. By Alderman Lucas— Resolved, That no license be granted or renewed to any party for the retail of lipuor, where the bar room or place of business has an entrance to Broad street or Col lege avenue. Adopted. On motion of Alderman Lamp kin the Clerk of Council was au thorized to to issue lipuor, beer, bil liard and ten pin alley license to all persons who now have them upon their compliance with the law in regard thereto, and the resolutions passed at this meeting, the license already refused being excepted. Alderman Yancey moved as a substitute that no retail liquor li cense be granted for 1883. Substi tute put and lost. Resolution of Alderman Lamp kin then adopted. The Mayor announced the follow ing standing committees: Finance—Lucas, Hodgson, Yan cey. Public property—Mealor, Her rington, Talmadgc. Streets—Hodgson, Dorsey, Yan cey. Market—Dorsey, Lampkin, Lu cas. Police--Talmadge, Hodgson, Yan cey. Fire Department—Mealor, Lamp kin, Talmadge. Health—Yancey, Lucas, Dorsey. Ordinance—Herrington, Lamp kin, Mealor. Petitions and Communications— Herrington, Lucas, Dorsev. Railroad—Mealer, Hodgson, Tal madge. Printing—Y ancey, Hodgson, Mealor. The committee on public proper ty were empowered to mukc con tract for gas the present year. The committee on printing were empowered to make contract for printing proceedings of Council for the present year. Mr. E. I. Smith appeared before Council and asked that he be allow ed to erect a water closet and small wooden shed, size about 10x15 fe e ‘. in rear of store occupied by Jos. Jacobs. On motion of Alderman Lamp kin the petition was granted. Alderman Lucas submitted a pe tition from Dr. Speer asking Coun cil to close up with weather-board ing the portico to small office be longing to him on College avenue. Granted. Council adjourned. W. A. Gilleland, Clerk. Low SaUrlaa Paid to Silicon. Refen ing to the character and abil ity of the men in charge of thp Cu nard steamships, it is probably not generally known what small wages these brave, intelligent, and capable men get for their services. The captains of these magnificent ships, with the responsibility of providi: for the comfort and safely of seve hundred persons, receive only $3,250 per annum; the first officer, $1,000; the second, third-and fourth officers, $600 each. The chief engineer, a man capable of controlling and keeping in order, in all weather, the ponderous machinery of the Servia, receives $1,250 a year, and the fire men at work down among the coal bunkers, amid stifling coal dust and almost intolerably heat, shoveling into the capacious furnaces one hun dred tones of coal per day, recievcd only $30 per month. Tka Morgan Mjitarj. The Norfolk Virginian, learning that Capt. Charles A. Kennedy, for a long time in 'the United States Navy, and now in charge of the quarantine vessel Seldon at that port had once met a man who cliam- cd to be Morgan, asked him for his story- He said: “In the year 182S I was a mid shipman on board the United States sloop-of-war Warren, Capt Kear ney, engaged in scouring the Gre cian Archipelgo for pirates. We put in from time to time at Smyrna in Asia Miqor, and there met a ren egade American, who claimed to be Wm. Morgan, of N« w York, said to have been abducted from Bata via, N. Y, and, drowned for reveal ing Masonic THE MAYOR’S INAUGURAL. WISDOM, JUSTICE, MODERATION.! A Klaglng Art (Iran. FralgRtod with Convincing WliOom. Boms Important Change* SaggeateO. Our Flnnneaa Open to Tax-Pay era. A Oeaaaal Market rropoeeil Mew street* to heOpaaad, and too Policy cf anMayiw Bunker Endowed. Thanilni niili)inl Taa ilnfl TT|im ai tiaMlh anil the Entire City to be Patrolled D .lly. The Fire Department Moat UP-jet >red. Oiuer -'.ipioa of General Internet Ably Uia-uused. Gentlemen of the City Council:— In assuming the duties of the office to which I have just been qualified, I bee you to indulge me in a few words to your honorable body. The recent municipal election in our city, which placed you in the re sponsible positions of councilmen, and by which I was chosen as chief magistrate of our city for the ensu ing year, was of suen an exception al character that I have thought it proper to briefly and concisely out line to you the policy which shall govern my administration of the du ties of so elevated and responsible a position. In so doing, permit me further, to make to you such recom mendations as occur to me to be de sirable and promotive of the general prosperity and advancement of our growing city. The people of Athens, in the re cent election, made no issues by which to trammel us in the dis charge of our duties, but have left us free to fully execute the law as we find it, anti to inaugurate such reforms as the limited means at our command will allow, restrained alone by that economy, that wis dom, justice and moderation, which are the safety and success of all well ordered governments. With confidence thus so freely reposed, with authority thus so unrestrictedly bestowed, should it not serve as an incentive to the fullest and most faithful discharge of our every duty. Speaking for myself, as your chief officer, permit me to say that in the full and impartial execution of the laws and ordinances, as given in our statute book, guided by that “wis dom justice and moderation” com mensurate with my ability, that in the willing, earnest and .faithful dis charge of every duty which the po sition of Mayor imposes upon me, the people who have so honored me shall not be disappointed. View ed from the most primitive forms of the law to its present grand propor tions, whereby protection is afford ed to the lives, the liberty and the property of millions, we see the grand march of civilization alone maintained through the faithful ex ecution thereof. Though, as a mu- nicipalitv, we are but an integral part of the qarent government, yet are our duties, as such, none the less. Municipal law and authority arc but a liberty granted, a power dele gated, in trust, by our state govern ments, and in the faithful exercise thereof, consists the strength and rosperity of the granting power, io close is the analogy between the “ creation, the constitution and the- mode of government of municipali ties and the creative power, that they have been claimed as forming the principle of the life of American liberty. Municipal corporations, under the creation and protection of the parent state, limited in the ex tent of their powers only bv the ob ject of their creation, have been the sure guarantee of the order and 1 curity of society, the industry, the trade and the arts of the world, while their effects upon the desti nies of mankind and the civilization of all ages, have been both great and important. How necessary then, that all branches of our city government should not only be irp- ;>ued with this knowledge, but ad ministered with a fidelity commen surate with their importance. Thus having noted the impor tance of our municipal government, looking beyond its mere existence as an institution of civil police, con cerning the moral and social char acter of its people, let me now in vite your consideration of it more in the light of an independent gov ernment, and as pertaining to those matters of more practical and local concern: ^ eputp-At Griffin left Atlanta SntuWay the following prisoners sent by the United States Court to tertns in the Erie county penitentiary, New York:' Henry May, of Polk county, for counterfeiting, goes Tor five years; D. W. Kellet, of Polk county, five years for counterfeiting. L. A. Thomason, of Lumpkin coun ty, five years for having in his pos session a mail lock key; Sanford Hatcher, of Polk county, three years and $100 fine for passing and at tempting to pass counterfeit money. Oliver McCracken, of Rabdn coun- ng one year for cutting and robbing a mail bag. OUR FINANCES. The admirable reports of the city treasurer for several years past, show a healthy and continued increase in the taxable property of the city, while the expenditures for the same icriod show that my predecessors tave, by commendable good man agement, looked well to Jhe finan cial interests, and especially to the bonded indebtedness of the city. The latter interest has been espe cially guarded and protected, which is as it should be, and speaks well for our financial credit. But, with a steady increase in the revenue’ of our government, due to our grow ing importance, with a financial credit and standing in the markets of the country, second to no other town or city of like proportions,- it would seem that this should war rant a more progressive, yet pru dent enterprise on the part of our city, rather than a too restrictive guarding of our already well pro tected bonded liability, while our greater care should be directed to the current of the expenditures of the city government. In this latter particular, let prudence and econ omy, in the expenditure o'f the pub lic funds, be our watchword. With this view of our financial interest, I would most respectfully suggest, that if possible, tne chairmen of the several standing committees exaiv ine the reports for- several years back, and note the rate of increase of expenses in their respective de partments, and whether or dot there are detailed statements, showing the nature .and amount of such expen ditures. Especially would I recom mend and request, that the duties of committees in this particular, be most carefully attended to during thR present •irqUatration. If at any time the repqn|*bf any officer of the city government, or any com mittee-of the council, should be found wanting in sufficiency, com pleteness or oroper detail, it is to be hoped that tfe council, as a body, will take immediate steps to have such reports corrected in all and every deficiency. This is our only sure and true guide to a wise and economical administration of the city government • From the taxes of the people comes our public funds, and it is a right guaranteed to every citizen, to know at all times what "goes with the pubic money. Let us then so administer the public affairs of our c‘ty as to aid and protect them in the exercise of this right Let us inaugurate such a system as will en able every citizeta, at any and all times to inspect a detailed statement of our public doings, that they may be satisfied as to the honest And faithful discharge of our duties as their public servants. OUR PUBLIC PROPERTY. Perhaps, fortunately, this interest of our city is comparatively small, and will need only a passing notice at my hands. The old city hall con stitutes the principal interest in the way of public buildings, and I de sire to call the attention of council to its present condition. It is well known that the basement of this hall, while being devoted to other interests, furnishes’ room for one or two stalls, which are called “Our Market,” while the upper- portion of the building ’ is not a source of revenue to the city. • The' rent re ceived is probably not more than enough to keep the. building in suitable repair. I would respect fully recommend that the basement portion of the hall be used exclu sively for a market. Let all the present improvements therein be removed. Let an open archway be macle at the upper as well as at the lower end, with an alley, some ten or twelve feet wide running clear through, with handsome stalls built on either side. This, together with such other arrangements as may be nec.essary, will convert the lower portion of our city hall into a neat and .commodious market, which doubtless will be well sustained from the ready rents accruing therefrom. I would further sug gest that the market laws might "be so changed as to require the sale of all fresh meats, vegetables, fish, &c., to ba made at this point, while‘the .Inspection of the same, as well as the good order of the market might be attended to by one of the police force, delegated for that duty. This action, it occurs to me, would go faf towards fostering such a market -as the growing population of our city already demands'. OUlt STREETS. The vast extent of our streets, owing to our extended corporate limits, and the proper care and at tention thereof, constitute one of the gravest and most important questions which will be for our consideration. I cannot too highly endorse the policy of my predeces sor, Mayor Rucker, in improving the crossings, and the substantial manner of improving our main thor oughfares. I am satisfied that had this or aome similar policy obtained in the earlier days of our city gov ; emment and been faithfully follow ed, Athens could, now boast as good streets as any other well ordered community. Let us then be aided in so important a duty by the action and’experience of our predecessors that we may the more likely- insure improvement for the future in this department of our government. J must confess that I am not at pres ent able to suggest what will be the best touching this interest, but I trust some system will b$ devised by which the council can procure a weekly report of the actual condi tion of the streets of our city,. This would the better enable the street Commissioner to keep his work up regularly and systematically, there by the more sorely and rapidly in juring justice all parts of.the city. The" extension of the Georgia rail road Mto the city makes it an abso lute necessity, that one or more streets should be opened leading to the depot'at the foot of Broad street. This may be done by the extension of either Hancock or Market streets. As this is an immediate commercial necessity, as well as a matter of general importance to the public, I trust the council will lose no time in arranging the matter satisfactorily to themselves, and to the best inter ests of all concerned. OUR POLICE. To thoroughly police a city of such extent of area as is ours with so small a force as that at our com mand, is a rather difficult task. But the smaller the force for the regula tion pf our community, the more vigilant" should we be in looking af ter this department. It is true that the extent of our corporate limits are so great that it is -almost impos sible for our limited force to trav erse or police the whole city, and it is further -true, that the suburban portions of our city are rather sparsely populated, but still we are confronted' 1 jvith the fact, that the citizen living in the remotest sub urbs is as much entitled to protec tion as any other citizen. For the better protection of this class of our citizens, I would recommend that one or policemen be mounted, and that they be required to police the outskirts of tne city by going the" rounds ' at least twice daily. Further I would recommend the es tablishing of boxes (to be known as police stations! in the suburbs of each ward, so that any qitizen may deposit reports of any disturbances grievances in his neighborhood, :h reports to be promptly attend ed to by said mounted policemen. The additional expense to the city would be comparatively small, while it would enable our pobce force to give better Satisfaction to all classes ff law abiding •citizens. While on this subject I wish to say that I hope the police commit tee will back the force up to the whole discharge of their duties. It is well known that these officers of the law are state as ’well as mu nicipal officials, and that in our rela tion to the state government it is made the duty of these offices to ar rest all offenders against the laya of the 6tate and turn them over to an swer to the proper authorities. If the,law in this respect is well and faithfully executed, many of- the worthless vagrants and loafers, who never did anjhonest day’s work in their lives, and who now infest our alleys and street corners, would have to seek other resorts, and where, likdy, there is work to do. OUB FIRE DEPARTMENT. It is more a pleasure than per haps a duty to speak in this connec- of our most excellent and efficient fire department. Its record both at home and abroad fully attest the fact that no community is served or pro tected by a more gallant, efficient end skillful, fire department, while it is the boast and pride of our whole people. Feeling as we all do, an -abiding and ever increasing interest in these organizations aad fully re- cognizing their almbxt inestimable value to our city, as its greatest pro tection, I need only say.let not our watchful care apd support of our fire department be abated, but let it ever be encouraged, protected, sus tained and supported with a zeal Mnd liberality ffilly in’keeping with its worth to our community.' OUR SANITARY REGULATIONS. While from the high elevation, the climatic advantages, and the nat ural drainage of our city, we can boast as healthful a location as is to be found in the land, yet its sanitary condition is a matter of vital import- adee. The gradual increase and en croachment of epidemic and eudem- ic diseases, throughout all the coun try warns us that we should be vig ilant i» this department at all times. The rapid increase in our population renders it necessary that more than ordinary care should be exercised in protecting and maintaining th* here tofore general healthiness of our peo ple. To this end I would recom mend that the health committee in vite the co-operation of our medical board of health in this all important work, and that such a system of reg ular reports be inaugurated and per fected, as will, at all times, enable prompt and successful action in ev ery emergency or necessity looking toward our sanitary welfare. No better advertisement of the advant ages of Athens as a home could be furnished than a publication to the world that added to our educational, commercial and manufacturing ad vantages is the remarkable health- fulness.of our city. Gentlemen of the" Council: While it would be my pleasure to review with you the many other and varied interests of our city government, yet it would be a pleasure too protract*: for this occasion. To do so will con stitute both the pleasure and the du ty of our regular council meetings. Then in conclusion, gentlemen, allow me to congratulate you as the representatives of a city whose growth and prosperity gives such proud assurance of future power and progress. Born and bred as I have been within her limits, no heart beats with greater pride at her sure and steady advancement, than does mine, and I feel assured by our asso ciation, so auspiciously begun, that you bring hearts no less proud and willing to the work before us. Gen tlemen, earnestly imploring your most hearty and willing co-opera tion and support in the discharge of those duties which the office of May or devolves upon me, let us in an earnest, faithful and business-like manner, so administer the affairs of our city government, in which and through which, every class of our citizens, and' all tercsts are alike concerned and protected, that when the end of our adntinistration shall have come our. proudest reflections will be, that our work has resulted in good to our people, while it has proven but anyther step in the di rection of all great. that makes a city THE NORTH-EASTERN. W1U Recast Railway CLasges Effect the Extea- - *vm or toll Line? Atlanta CoiutitutUm •/ Tuaday. It seems to be a task of no great difficulty to build a railroad any where except in Rabun Gap.' Near ly every other gap in the country has one or more railroads, and some of them have more than they can comfortably accommodate ; but Ra- b\in (Sap has neverheard the screech of a locomotive, although for nearly half a century people have conspir ed and faithfully worked to push lines through it as the best gap in the Appalachian range. And now just when all things seemed* to be most favorable, news comes that the projected line has been gobbled up by a great rival, and the cake is all dough. The East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia company has bought, it is reported, the charter of the Knoxville and Augusta road and all its rights, including the com pleted line between Knoxville and Maryville, sixteen miles long. The Knoxville Tribune hopes the report will not be confirmed. “It simply means,” says the Tribune, mourn fully, “death to the project of com pleting the Rabun Gap road from Knoxville to Augusta. We do not believe the East Tennessee, Virgin ia and Georgia railroad company will build it. It is not to thair in terest to complete it, even if they could. No one expects them to build that road. It would be, in deed, folly for them to build a line to the south which would compete with the line which they already have from Knoxville to Brunswick. If their business was so immense that they needed another track, they would lay it down beside the one they already have, at one-fifth the expenses of building a new road. Our opinion is that the Rabun Gdp is gobbled up to prevent its comple tion by any other company. The East Tennessee road may complete the road a few miles beyond Mary- vilTe, if they are able, thus reaching the timber and iron beds of the Unaka and Smoky mountains, but it 1s not to their interest to build an other trunk line to the south. The completion of the road fifteen or twenty miles beyond Maryville would make it a valuable feeder for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad and would, of course, be of considerable value to Knoxville.” This action of the East Tennes see company is not necessarily fatal to an extension" of the North Easterti road. It has in fact nothing to do with it. As fast as capitalists are willing to invest money in the North-Eastern road it will doubtless be extended, and the chances are ti&t in time its rails will be laid in Rabun Gap and even to Knoxville itself. Let the Gap keep its eyes therefore on the line thft is creep ing oVhr the Tallulah hills, as its best an4 now almost only hope. ctoUdrtn BffflitiH (0 TTutTi Barnett,_Ga., January a.—Last night, on Mr. Reuben Willingham’s place in McDuffie county, three ne groes, aged sixteen,'eight and five years of age, respectively, children of Nathan D’Antignac, were roast ed to death by the burning of a house; They locked the door, fell asleep, the bed caught and all were burned up before assistance could be rendered. «ES3«SSS&t!; stating that he had ndP teen swin dled. A»na matter offset he was awindted, and escaped losing the money—the neat sumhfc9i$<x>— on- ly by getting ahead of the swindl in a race to the bank. The story of his little adventure was told by Capt. Williams yesterdey, just as told to him by the flowery poet himself. Two weeks ago yesterday Mr. Wilde walked up Broadway, near Union square, when a hatchet-faced O man accosted him and intro- himself as a son of Mr. Drex- el, the banker, of Drexel, Morgan & Co. He had seen the poet in his father’s office and took the liberty of making his acpuaintancc. Mr. Wilde was delighted. He had seen the poet in his father’s office, and though he did not remember the ju nior Drexel he was glad to see him. The two went together to a restau rant, where Mr. Wildes new found friend ate as if he was hungry. The poet remembered this with a grim smile when informed" by Capt. Wil liams later in the day that his alias was “Hungry Joe," the name of a noted banco stcerer .And.,, confidence man. During the meal “N^r. Drexel” in cidentnlly mentioned^that he had won a prize in a lottery and suggest ed that Mr. Wilde go with him and et it. It was a very old and worn ait, but the victim bit on it—swal lowed the whole, in fact. He ac companied his “friend” to a house on Fifteenth or Seventeenth street, which he could not remember or af terwards discover, and there found some men throwing dice. “Drexel” threw once for Mr. Wilde in fun and won him puite a sum. He then ea sily persuaded him to join the game. Soon the poet began to lose, and when a settlement was made found that he was $60 out. Not having the ready money he gave a check for the amount and -played on. Soon he had lost $too, and gave a check for that sum at the solicitation of the men who played with him. Once more, now thoroughly excited, he plunged into the game and came out a loser of $1,000. This sobered Mr* Wilde- While slowly signing a check on the Madi son Square bank for the amount he weighed in his mind a suspicion that he had been cheated, and formed a plan for getting th* best of the swindlers. He. arose to go, and shaking off Mr. “Drexel” who la mented his ill fortune and insisted on going with him; made a bee line for me Bowery (the house in which he had been playing was between Second and Third avenues.) Hail ing a cab Mr. Wilde told the driver to go on a dead run to the Madison Square bank. His scheme was successful. He got there before the thieves, and'calling the cashier told him t<PEtop three checks, represent ing a 3 total sum,of $1,160, which he had just signed. The thieves doubt- le"ss < followed him and saw where he went. They did not present the checks at all, but on the following Monday Capt, "Williams received them by mail, doubtless from Mr. “Drexel.” Haying made sure of the money Mr. Wilde visited the Thirteenth street police station and confessed his foUy..tQ,CapJ;."Williams. In the Rogues’ Galleiy he recognized his friend “DrexeP’ In the picture of “Hungry Joe,” otherwise Joseph Sellice. He expressed' a determina tion in no event to goto court, and when the checks, wyre returned without any attempt having been made to cash them n"e' experienced great relief. Now that he has left the city “Hungry J4e>”ris at liberty to try his tricks, on sqspe other poet, as there is no charge against him. Tom Thumb and his Wife have _ _ grown so much that they are no loa- ig and ever increasing interest, ger curiosities. They have opened —“— 1 f “ u ” — a museum in Chicago, ( and adver tise as-attr^ctions a. pair of midgets one-4faird their own «iz6. LOST IN A CAVE. The Adventure of Three Hlwueee College Bojri. Monro* (Venn.) Democrat. Last Saturday was an eventful day for Hiwassee College, a place noted for its common quietude. Three boys, Mr. Dodd, of Texas> and Mr. Hinshaw and Mr. Sutton, of Indiana, stole off to explore Craig head Cavern, three miles away. They entered the cave with a torch light, and, after wandering about, became lost in the labyrinthine pas sages. For some hburs they endeav ored in vain to find their way out again. The!’- light began to flicker but fortunately it did-not expire till they had passed the pit said to be ninety feet deep. Then Egyptian darkness was all about them. They searched their pockets for thatches, but could find but one, and this missed fire! There they were in a vast living tomb, ut terly unable to extricate themselves. They tried to cheer each other for a while, but as houFrfwore away,they sank down in gloom and helpless ness—^they thought of home in Texas or Indiana. At the college the day wore away, but the three boys were missing. With the night came on cold, drizzling rain. But at 8 o’clock a band set off with lights to seek and save the lost. Slowly they trudg ed through the mud and rain to the cave. . . , They entered and called aloud for their lost comrades, but in vain. On they pressed. At length their shouts were answered by—was it an echo, or real voice? They soon found answering scouts of joy. The lost were found, cold, shivering, hungry. Some of the<rescuing party took off their overcoats ana gave them to the suffering ones. At 1 o’clock in the morning of the next day the lost ones reached their rooms at the college—wet as minks and cold and hungry as polar bears —sadder but wiser than when they stole their march on the previous morning. A-Peaeale Swindler on Her Round*. A good looking young lady got into Gainesvillajn some way, regis tering at the hotel as Miss Mary Milton, and swindled the merchants of that plBce. She visited several stores and otifered goods sent to the hotel in her name. Sh* got at one store an ulster, at another a sacque, and at several othej* stores goods of various styles and values, which the innocent merchants sent to the hotel It was subsephehtly developed that she was a first-class swindler, and bad vamosed with the goods and in arrears for her Hotel bill, leaving the merchants to rfiburn their ill-placed confidence: She was traced to At lanta, where it was found that she had pursued the same game in that Mr. B. M. Bateman, of Houston county, raised, this year on a one- mpie farm: 540 bush corn,400 bush els peanuts, 1,000 bushels oats, 200 busnels potatoes, 9 bales cotton eadh weighing 5oc?pounds and 3,00D pounds pork.) ft - !l »• . y/A'.-d "saBlfe • fiH