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TALLULAH 1 FALLS.
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Written for the Bonner-Wstcbnua.
Tallulah, Ga., Jan. 7, *883;
Editor Banner-Watchman:—I
propose to write a series of letters
for publication in your valuable £a-
per from this place, descriptive of
Tallulah, its attractions to toirists,
seekers of health and pleasure.
Herein I give the heights and meat
urements of the- falls, *W'' J
Tallulah hotel, 3,382 feet. .O 1
Tallulah mountain, 3,18s feet
Indian Arrow rapids, 600 feet
Ladore falls, 40 feet perpendicu
lar.
Tempests falls, 87* feet perpen
dicular.
Hurricane falls, 91 8-10 feet per
pendicular.
Calcdoma cascade, 450 feet per
pendicular.
Oceana falls, 40 feet perpendicu
lar.
Bridal Veil, 15 feet perpendicular.
Ribbon’s cascade, 800 feet per
pendicular.
BLUFFS ON SIDES OF TALLULAH
RIVER.
Devil’s Pulpit, 400 tect high.
Throne of yEohis, 375 feet high.
Vulcan’s Forge, 500 . feet high.
Point Inspiration, 900 feet high
Lover’s Leap,- 500 feet high.
Student’s Rostrum, 600 feet high.
Grand Chasm, 800 feet high.
In my next communication 1
will write of the mountains adja
cent to the falls, and the grand, sub
lime and • beautiful scenery. Last
season the number of visitors here
were estimated at more than 10,-
000. and now that the 'North-East
ern is completed and runs here, it
is believed that twice as many visi
tors will come next summer. Ath
ens, Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah,
Macon and other southern cities
were represented by their most ele
gant and learned citizens, and ac
complished and beautiful ladies.
These cities and other places all
over the south and north, it is be
lieved, will send a large number of
visitorsthere next summer. Prepa
rations are being made to give all
good accommodations, and all class
es of amusements. N.
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CAUSE.
‘ ‘ ATHENS, GKHORGUA, TTXESDAY, JAJSTTJAJRY 16.1883.
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A KNOTTY SETTLEMENT.
A lank, lean countryman one day
not long since came to town, driv
ing a poor, sore necked, wide horn
ed steer, hitched to alow, wabbling,
two wheeled cart, on which he had
a “pocket" of cotton. After con
siderable trouble and much walking
back and forth from one end of
town to the other and from buyer
to buyer, with a small sample of the
cotton in his hand, and many state
ments concerning the peculiar mer
its of the seed from which his cot
ton was raised, and how the ginner
had pronounced it the best cotton
he had ever ginned, and that never
a drop of rain had fallen upon it,
iVc., he finally sold it and drove it
down to the Henderson Warehouse
to be weighed. On getting it weigh
ed to his satisfaction and armed with
his weighing ticket he marched into
the store of Talmadge, Hodgson &
Co., for settlement, and made the
following statement, which i* still
puzzling the brain of Bill Hodgson-:
“Mister, I want to git you to
make a little settlement fur me; and
I want the bill made seprit, ef you
please. You see, me and a nigger
is co-whollopers in this here bale,
and I want you to divide it so he
kin see fur hisself. I kin do it my-,
self, but he musn’t think Iwas try-in’
to git egvantage uvim, and I'd ruth-
cr you’d do it. You see he’s
got to pay his sheer uv the juanner,
and I’m ensurance on his note fur a
mule and its got to be paid outer the
crop. He was to feed the mule and
I was to furnish his rashuns and we
go spooks. He was to git a third of
the cotton and a fo’th of the co’n.
"MoCartty, ta BU Soldier Wi In the Army of
Hatthexa Virtue*," Toll* Why tta Coatederata
Soldlen Polled. .
The Confederate soldier opposed
immense odds. In the Seven days’
battles around Richmond, 80,000
drove to the James river it 5,000 of
the enemy. At Fredericksburg, in
1862, 78,ocx) of them routed 110,000
Federal troops. At Chanccllors-
.viile, in 1863, 57,000, under Lee and
Jackson, whipped, and, but for the
death of Jackson, would have anni
hilated an army of 132,000 men,
more than double their own num
ber. At Gettysbuig, 62,000 of them
assailed the heights manned by 11 - 2,-
000. At the Wilderness, in 1S63,
63,000 met and successfully resisted
151,000 of the enemy. At Appo
mattox, in 1S65, 8,000 of them sur
rendered to the post commanded by-
Grant. The United States govern
ment, at the end of thd war, mus
tered out of service 1,000,000 of
rpen, and had in the field, from first
to last, 3,600,000. If the Confeder
ate soldier had then had only this
disparity of numbers to contend
with, he would have driven every
invader from the soil of Virginia.
But the Confederate soldier
fought, iu addition to these odds,
the facilities for the transportation
and concentration of troops and
supplies afforded by the network of
railways in the country north of
him, all of which were subject to
the control of the government, and
backed by a treasury which was
turning out money by the ton, $1 of
which was worth' sixty Confederate
dollars.
It should be remembered, also,
that while the south was restricted
to its own territory fo- supplies;
and its own people for men, the
north drew on the world for mate
rial, and on every nation of the earth
for men.
The arms and ammunition of the
Federal soldiers were'abundant and
good, so abundant and so good .that
they supplied both armies, and were
greatly preferred by Confederate^
officers. The equipment of the
Federal armies was well-nigh per
fect. The facilities for manufacture
were simply unlimited, and the na
tion thought no expenditure of
treasure too great, if only the coun
try—the Union!—c*uld be saved.
The factory and foundry chimneys
made a pillar of smoke by day and
of fire fey night. The latest im
provements were hurried to the
front and adopted by both qimies
almost simultaneously; for hardly
had the Fedcrals bought when the
Confederates captured and used
the very latest.
Commissary stores were piled up came
all over Virginia for the use of the
invading armies. They had more
than they could protect, and their
loss was a gain to the hungry de
fenders of the soil. The Confeder
ate soldiers fought a host of ills oc
casioned by the deprivation of chlo
roform and morphia, which were ex
eluded from the Confederates as
contraband of war, The man who
had submitted to amputation with
out chloroform, or tossed on a couch
of agony for a night and a day
without sleep for the want of a dose
of morphia, may possibly be able to
estimate the advantages which re
sulted from the possession by the
Federal surgeons of an unlimited
supply of these.
The Confederate soldier fought
bounties and regular monthly gay
the Stars and Stripes, the Star
Spangled Banner, Hail Columbia.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, John
Brown’s Body, Rally Round the
Flag, and all the fury and fanati
cism which skilled minds could ere
ate, opposing this grand arrav with
the modest and homely refrain of
to invade and eventually to destroy.
- The relative strength of armies
becomes a matter of seeondary im
portance when these facts are con
sidered. The disparity of numbers
only would never have produced
the result which the combination of
these various forces did—the surren
der of the army of Northern Vir
ginia.
SUED BY A COLORED W02AA2T.
Damages 1*14 at $5,000 for Breach of Promise of
Maniac*.
Boston, Jan, 5.—The dreary mo
notony of court routine was enliven
ed to-day by a black and white
breach of promise suit, the plaintiff
being Jane White, a buxom colored
woman of 37 years, and the defend
ant, Geo. L. Stafford, a white man
of 55 years. Damages were laid at
#5,000. Miss White alleged that in
1S79, while keeping house for an
old man at 1,915 Washington street,
she became acquainted with Staf
ford, who came to the house to col
lect rent. He told her he always in
tended to marry a colored woman,
and importuned her so that she con
sented to marry him. gave up her
situation, and spent her hard-won
earnings on a trousseau. Stafford
put her off, she said, and finally aban
doned her altogether. She was
born in Virginia, could read a little,
but made no pretensions in writing.
A colored preacher, the Rev. Pe
ter Randolph, testified that plaintiff
told him “1110 Lord had shown her
Mr. Stafford in a dream as her fu
ture husband.”
Mr. Stafford, who, bv the way,
never married, denies the charges,
saying: “I first saw the defendant
in March, 1S79. The first intima
tion I ever had of her belief that we
were to be married was when she
came to the office one day and said:
It has leaked out, Mr. Stafford, and
your familv have heard of it.’ I
asked her what she meant, and she
aid our intended marriage. I was
much astonished. She went on to
say that she dreamed at night of Mr.
Smith (Mr. Stafford’s employer)
and others coming after her with
chisels, brickbats, &c. I told her it
was all nonsense, both her idea that
there were any intimate relations
between us, and her fear of Mr.
Smith. The next time she came to
the office she said she had finished
making up her dresses; that one
a lavender and the other a
black silk. She still had great fears
of mv relatives and said she was
going down cast to get clear ot
them. She wanted me to give her
monqy to pay her expenses. I told
her I had no money for such a pur
pose. The last time I saw her she
came into the office in a hurried
manner, placed a letter on my desk
and said she wanted an answer. 1
turned away for a moment to go to
the safe for something, and heard
her talking to herself in a strange
way. Coming, hack 1 placed
the letter in her hand, led
her to the door, opened it, and
told her that was my answer, and
the only answer I had to make. I
never in my life called at her house,
never saw her anywhere except at
the office, never knew her name
until this suit came up, or, if I had
known it, had forgottan it. I never
promised to marry her, never talk
ed about-marriage to her, nor am I
aware that I ever wanted to marry
a colored wife. I thought the wo
man a crank.”
The case was heard before Judge
Mason, without a jury, and a ver
dict was found for the defendant.
Team
Cincinnati has a prophet, and his
name is James M. Swormte.dt. His
predictions, which are made, he af
firms, that his “fellow mortals may
be led to escape these great judg
ments,” are as follows:
A great financial panic will sweep
like wildfire over the United States
some time in 1883, which will pros
trate all industries, paralyze all bus
iness, and throw out of employment
every man, woman and child in the
country.
The condition of the working
classes will become so desperate
that they will rise up like a flood,
and sweep away both church and
state and till the land with violence.
Satan, in afflicting the world like
he did Job, will next bring the great
whirlwind of Jeremiah, xxv, 32,
which will slay “from one end of
the earth to the other end of the
earth.” Joel ii, i-it contains some
dreadful particulars of this destruc
tive whirlwind.
Satan will soon yvheel a fleet of
seven comets into line. One will
plunge into the sun, producing a
great outburst of solar light and
heat. The moon will be as light
as the sun and the light of the sun
will be increased sevenfold. The
other six will effect the rivers, the
sea, the earth and the air.
Tremendous snowfalls, hailstones
of enormous size, awful floods and
flaming fire will come to complete
the dark picture.
There will be great earthquakes
in divers places. The most dread
ful and destructive one of all will be
in the latter part of 1884.
As the Lord restored double to
Job so will He to our land. It will
arise Phcenix-like from the ashes of
its ruins, and, in the latter part of
1888, will be made like the Garden
of Eden.
The millennium, or reign of
Christ, will begin in the United
States forty years before the rest of
the world is made new by the good
King.
Free homes, free supplies and
everlasting life will be given to all
who will believe in this good King
and flee to this place of refuge
from the persecutions of Satan and
the future Antichrist whom he is to
set up over the revived Roman em
pire.
The Lord is to form a vast camp
around the great pyramids of Egypt,
and at the sounding of a great
trumphet the angels arc to gather
his elect there from one end of
heaven to the other (see Joel, ii, 11;
Isaiah, xix., 19; Psalms, xxvii, 5.)
All who will turn to God with their
whole heart and love the appearing
of Christ will be supernaturally
protected there until tfec time of
troubles is over, that is from the
autumn 1883 to the spring of 1885.
After that a new set of events open
up which are too long to recount
just now.
PRIZE *FIGHTEES.
CAMPUS NIGHTINGALES.
A Word In DaCrmca of tbs Student* vfto Saw
soda the City. .
The students complain because
the police have called a halt on their
campus serenades, and they threat
en to call out the militia ana defend
to the death what they consider an
inalienable and time-hor.ored right.
Now, at a casual glance the boys pursues the even tenor of his’ way.
seem.entirely justifiable in their in- ’ J
BILL ASH* SOY.
A little Sharer that to* Bon C
and Hot He, Prorrsa n.
’ Our genial friend Bill Ash, at
Reaves, Nicholson & Co’s, is a quiet,
unassuming gentleman who has al
ways made it a rule to attend to his
own business and let other people’s
alone. Bill has but little to say and
dignant determination, and an out
sider would decide that the police
force of Athens are only ht for
treason, strategem and spoils. The
very idea of a band of musical roos
ters, who are quietly engaged in
carolling a lay of rejoicing, on their
own dunghill, as it were, to have
the sacredprivacy of their e : rcle in
vaded by a street-walker with a
club, with orders to stop ceasing,
is, to say the least, kinder pilin’ on
the agony.
But there are always two sides to
every question, and this case is no
exception to the rule. Armed with
a copy of the last Campus we laid
the. wail of anguish it contained be
fore our new Chief of Police, and
this is the story he poured into our
ears in extenuation of his conduct:
“As you are doubtless aware, the
music discoursed by the average
student is not very soothing to the
nerves or is calculated to remind
one of afiean harps or celestial
Well, we carried fo’ hunderd and | D;x ; ted by a mi l d so l ut ion
sixty pounds of seed cotton to the l f M ££ d My Maryland . He
gin, outer the patch whar he wns f bt „ ood wagons, fat horses and
entrusted m. and I furn.shed one * Q f Larter-master’s stores; pon-
hundred and s.xtv-six pounds outen toon of splendid material and
my own md.v.dually crop Now construction h f the m ile; gun-boats,
you take out for the baggen and | wo0( j an( j j ron> anc j me n-of-war; il-
ties and then^ take out a sixteenth j ustrate( j papers, to cheer the Boys
fur the gmnm , add up the entrust fa Blue sketcbes of the Mori
on the note, make him pay his part I deeds ^ not do . Bibles
on the juanner note, then take out | . thg car _ lo ' di and tracts bv the
nine dollars fo/ rashuns which he + m J n , ions _ the first to prepare them
owes to me, then low him fur his ^ death, and the second to urge
w.fe s picken a hundred and forty n them the duty 0 f dying,
pounds, at fertv cents a . hundred, The Confederate soldier fought
then credick what s cumin to him the „ Sanitary Commiss ion,” whose
on this here note and tell me how memb arme(] with eve ry facility-
much is cumin behind on the Juan- and convenience quic kly carried
ner. I km work it out easy nuff, ^ sick and woun ded of the -Fed-
but niggers is so jubous I d ruther I cral army to comfortable quarters,
you d do it. __ I removed the bloody garments, laid
the sufferer on a clean and dry
couch, clothed him in clean clothes,
Sayings ot Josh Billings.
If you can't trust a man for the full
amount, let him skip. This trying
to get an average on honesty has al
ways been a failure.
There is no teaching in silence—
silence is a hard argument to bear.
Don’t mistake habits for karactcr,
the man of the most kuracter has the
fewest habits.
There’s cheats in al! things—even
pizen is adulterated.
The man who is thoroughly po
lite is 2-thirds of a Christian any
how.
Kindness is an instink., politeness
only an art.
There is a great deal ov learning
in'this world which is nothing more
than trying to prove whr.t we don’t
understand.
My dear boy, there are but few
who ken commence a- the middle of
the ladder and reach the top—and
probably you and I doan’t belong to
that number.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Atlanta, Jan. 7.—Norman W. and fed him on the best the wWrltl
Smith, of Rutland, Vt., a student of ] could afford and money buy. He
the Atlanta Medical College, shot fought the well-built, thoroughly
himself at 1 o’clock at his boarding equipped ambulances, the countless
house. surgeons, nurses and hospital stew-
Chicauo, January 8.—A corner ards, and the best surgical appli-
in corn is said to be developing here, ances known to the medical worId.
and the rapid rise of seven cents last He fought the commerce of the
week in January options gives rise to United States and all the facilities
the storv J for war which Europe could sup-
A convict undergoing a thirteen ply, while his own ports were closed
years’sentence in the penitentiary to all the world, He fought t
near Baltimore, Md, committed trained °* ce f® and ‘J 16
suicide by throwing himself from troops of the United States army,
the fifth tier of cells to the ground assisted by splendid volunteer sol-
A oor diers, besides swarms of men, the
‘ . c . refuse of the earth—Portuguese,
New Orleans, January b.—A Spuaisbi Italian, German, Irish,
special to the Times-Democrat, g cotcb> English, French, Chinese,
from San Antonio, reports the ar ’ I Japanese—white, black, olive and
rest there of Marshal T. Polk, the ] broW n. He laid down life for life
defaulting treasurer of Tennessee. w j tb tb j 8 hireling host, who died for
San Francisco, January 8.—A pay—mourned by no one, missed
dispatch from Cheney, Washington by no one, loved by no one, who
Territory, last night, says 80 citizens were better clothed, fatter, happier
took a Chinaman from jail, who was and more contented in the army
arrested for killing and robbing Chi-1 than ever they were at home, ana
nese women, and hanged him to a I whose graves strew the earth in
troc. I lonesome places, where none go to
London, January ^ouldb^liought to filUhe gap.
* c -^S£!ssr r, 25 d fe
sels. Captain Land, from New York, without compunction «nd the.r
December 28th, for Liverpool, was I comrades burred them without
run down in the channel by a Glas
gow steamer during a fog, and that
ten persons were drowned.
Savannah Tanuary6.—Col. Ed knew that their homes (when they
C Anderson, ix-Ma^r and Presi- had any) were safe, their wivesand
dent of the Ocean Steamship Com- children, their patenU and sisters
pany, died this morning, aged 68 sheltered, and their business affairs
yea™. He was formerly an officer more than osually.P«*P e ™"’
of the United States navy and after- could draw sight drafts, have them
wards n Confederate colonel. Dr. I honored, aiil^JUn^xurious ai P t hat of
W. M. Charters, a prominent citi- as bountaful and luxurious at that of
zen, died to-day, age<T 7 8 years. |» a ^vemment founded
v the genius of his fathers, which
The Latest Agony In Bonnets.
London H'orld.
Bonnets this winter are full of
character. The shape is more im
portant than the ihaterial; and it is
well by a ribbon of tnft to claim rela
tionship, with some prevailing shade
iq the costume; but they require to
be artistically put on, and carried off
well when they are on. I saw a
charming one, which' was nothing
but large jet beads cut very square
and a knot of shaded red ribbon on
the crown and under the chin. An
other was of terry velvet in “nacre,”
edged with oxydized Bronze beads,
and the ribbons and feathers of na
cre shading into bronze, which was
reproduced in the beads on the man- ‘
tie. Several dresses were made up
in red and blue, and one was cover
ed with tiny “pompons” of the same.
tear.
The Confederate soldier fought
the cries of distress which came
from his home—tales of woe, insult
and robbery. He fought men who
Senator Brown has written a long I by the genius
letter to the Savannah New* giv-1 derived its strength from principles
ing his views on the legislature ds-1 they formulated, and wnicn per-
eling his gift to the State Universi-1 su&ded its soldiers that they were
ty. He shows that the donation the champions of the constitutional
could have Been legally accepted. | liberty which they were marching
g.llm-u' mas to tlis Son.
Gath: Prof. C. A. Young said
yesterday that the earth was a litte
ball of rock and water—not hung in
space, as the old geographers taught,
but rushing through space, around
the sun, carrying with it a moon. It
was about 8,coo miles in diameter.
A railroad train going forty miles an
hour without stepping would male
the journey around the earth in
twenty-six days. The moon was
240,000 miles away, and the sun 93-
000,000 miles. It would take a rail
road .train, at f. -:ty miles an hour, 1
little ovyr 265 years to go from the
earth to the sun, while the stars were
200,000 miles further. Starlight: was
three and a half, years traveling U
the earth.
SosU* Killing Hoar Dorian.
Darien, January 6.—At George
H. Hayman’s turpentine farm
twenty miles from here, a negro en.
tered his house, and while at dinner
shot him in the abdomen. Haymari
A Description of the Giant Jom jMftoo will Back
Against tho Boston Boy.
•San Francisco Ezomincr.
“Glad to see you,” said Mace,
when he learned the reporter’s busi
ness. “Let me introduce you to Mr.
Slade, of New Zealand. He can
outbox, outwrestle and outjump
any man in the world, and he ain’t
28 years old. At any rate, I will
bet money that he can, and make the
match with one man, best two events
out of three.”
Mr. Slade certaily looked able to
carry out Mace’s proposition. Six
feet two inches and a half in his bare
feet, with enormous shoulders, and
a depth of chest perfectly astound
ing, with arms like railroad ties,
small wrists and large, powerful
hands with enormous knuckles, his
appearance was one calculated to
awe and astonish a man of ordinary-
size. Jem Mace is no boy in size
and possesses a wonderful develop
ment of neck, chest and shoulders,
but beside Slade he looked quite
small, and Paisy Hogan, who is a
light weight, appeared to be a
mere infant. Slade’s legs are per
fectly formed,and his feet and ankles
small. Every move he made was
graceful. His carriage was digni
fied and maAly, and his face wore a
rather grave, though pleasant ex
pression, reminding one very, much
of the old English champion, Tom
Cribb.
“I have got a man here,” said
Mace (pointing to Slade who then
left the room,) “who can and will
fight Sullivan or any other man
Slade is a half-breed Moari, and the
hardest hitter I ever saw in my life
He has licked every man that ever
crossed him, and none of them ever
came back fora second blow when
he got his fist right home. He can
stand punishment, too, for I have
tapped him once or twice and he
never winced. He is a wonderful
wrestler, too. He threw Prof. Mil
ler just as I would a baby; and you
people out here know that Miller is
no slouch. He can outjump any
man of his size, and is as active as
cat.”
“Did he ever fight in the ring?'
asked the reporter.
“No,” replied Mace, “there was
never a man where he ccunes from
that would dare face him. But he
knows as much about the ring as if
he had been there a dozen times,' for
I have had him in training for nearly
a year. He was a natural fighter
when I took hold of him, and he
soon learned all the tricks. The
best thing about him is his perfect
good nature. He will go-anywhere
and do any mortal thing he is asked.
sounds. It is not that kind of war
bling that transports one’s thoughts
to a higher sphere and makes him
sigh for more. No, kind sir. Of
all the rasping, grasping, agonizing,
lung-searching sounds that ever
tortured the mortal ear, that campus
musie stands pre-eminent and with
out a peer. It is an illicit cross be
tween the screech of a locomotive,
the wail of a tomcat, the bellowing
ot a rhinoceros and the moans and
groans of a dying nightmare. The
swan is. said to sing just before it
dies. The music-loving demizens
t>f Athens would be glad for these
campus canaries to shuffle off the
mortal coil just before they sing. I
have often tried to capture jthe
notes of one of these innocent col
lage lays, for I could get rich by re-
tiling it in sections to the various
Indian tribes out west for an im
proved style of war-whoop; but as
well had I attempt to enchain one
of Col. Jim Smith’s nasal serenades
as to capture one of these campus
orgies. Oh, no; those college nigh-
ngalcs don’t disturb the quiet citi
zens of our burg! But when they
start one of their sweet little cho
ruses it just makes the peaceful
neighborhood have an innate long
ing to cross over the Oconee and
rest under the shade of the trees.
Occasionally a countryman’s team
takes fright at the outcry and hies
away to fresher fields and pastures
greener than are found.in the streets
of Athens; but I suppose that this
must count for nothing alongside
the ex*rcisc given the boys’ lungs.
Them campusites have some first-
class musical talent in their ranks
a tin horn!). All they lack of
ng genuine calliopes is a few bil
lets of pine wood rammed down
theirjthroats, a full head of steam and
some fellow to manipulate their
corns. I’ve registered a solemn
vow to abate that carmagnole, and
will succeed or sacrifice every po
liceman under my command on the
shrine of duty. I want no war
with the boys, but I will fight that
campus music beneath the red flag
of tne commune. The may smash
street lamps, ring false fire alarms,
or even make faces at my men; but
they can’t bring their vocal coal
burning locomotives right over into
the heart of the city. So all those
songsters had betterSelah.’
Give him an old case-knife and turn
him loose in a warehouse of cotton
and our friend Ash is happy. He
will execute the war-dance, and the
wav he cuts and slashes bagging
and jerks out samples would make
a bystander think him a regular
Sioux chief on the war path.
But there is one subject that al
ways draws our friend Ash out like
a spool of thread. Start the sub
ject of boy babies in his presence,
and he at once transforms himself
into a regular two-legged. phono
graph. We were down at their
store yesterday when Judge Nich
olson referred to the fact of seeing
the Sunday before, in his Sabbath-
school class, one of the sweetest
and smartest little boys he ever set
his bliqke** «r. .. . £*., ■
We saw in an instant from the
way that Ash worked his head that
he was wound up.
. “I don’t suppose you have ever
seen my boy Bill Ash, Jr.?” was
his query, “or you wouldn’t talk
that way. New Bill, Jr., is just as
far ahead of the young gallinippcr
that youjrefer to,as & ba l e of strict
middling is to dog-tail. I tell you;
that boy is a regular born cotton
judge. I remember the first
that Bill, Jr., showed his latant tal
ent. H* was about six weeks old,
and an aged female virgin came to
my house to see the baby and dis
seminate the gossip she had collect
ed during the day. The room was
pretty well filled with friends, and
among the number was a certain
old white bearded widower preach-
VOL XXIX.
in the United.States; Sir Wt
PalHser, Samuel Remibgton and
Mante'r, the Geittim gunamth.
Sidi Mohammed-el-Sadok, Be«
of Tunis; President Guardia, of
Costa Rica; ex-President Burgers,
of the Transvaal Republic; Figue-
ras, Spanish statesman; Louis
Blanc and Ferdinand Herold; Lan
za, leader of the Italian right; Baron
Manteuflel, Sir Hugh Allan.
Thurlow Weed, Benjamin H.
Hill, C. C. Clay, Alexander H. Bul
lock, William Dennison, Milton S.
Latham, C. C. Washburn, Stephen
A. Hurlbut, Horace Maynard,
Clarkson N. Potter, Godlove S.
Orth, Edwin * Stoughton, Henry
Highland Garnet, John D. Defrees,
James S. Puce, Henry C. Murphy,
Webster Wagner, Artemus Hale,
John C. Hamilton, William R.
Garrison, Jesse Hoyt, Robert L.
Stuart, Trenor W. Park, Frederick
DePester, George Law, Elijah
Ward.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Fanny
Parnell. Adelaide Phillips, Mrs.
Caroline Richings-Bernard, Mrs.
Daniel Webster.
er (you all know him) that the old 1 -. - ., , . •. _ _
maid was setting her cap for. In g' ven to ‘ he beauty who cam, d off
passing Bill, Jr., around the room ‘be second prize. But the slcel^ n
for praise and inspection he at smded upon her as soon as he hat
length fell to the lot of the old gal. d " e * ‘T
I saw from the way she held him f? le . d ' , * ot ‘hat the skeleton is the
that it was like touching a young highest tyye of manly beauty. His
hyena; but with a Hypocritical ^"V hardl y « ncealed
smile she began to lavish her prais- ^ he skln tha co '‘ e / s *. em ; and
es like the rest; said he was the hls le S s 8a ? m * dm08t ‘^° * h,n to car :
K: Shf iSS of IS W* o tank Indopondont
papa; that she always did dote on c *P re «> on . aud thou S h U P°" a ma "
babies and felt like she could hold | .® rd, ? ar y.
the little treasure forever and a day,
the rest of the company, but kept «one=., as eorn^reu me uuu.„e
him squeezed up like a young kft- of !>“ frail bod & it appears to be
ten to a hot brick. After awhile I Positively fat. H.s head is sur-
she began to level her batteries on I m ° unt ®“^'yith a (
olcl preacher friend and I sup-1 = ol ° Tcd and
e forgot that Bill, Jr., was in her tac h^ the ss
Starvation In Ireland.
London, Jan. 6.—A dispatch to
the Daily News from Dublin, says:
A husband and wife have starv
ed to death at Ballinsloe. Sani
tary works are being started at Ka-
lush by local subscribers in order to
afford relief. The Carrack-on-Shan-
non Guardians have obtained-returps
in regard to the existing distress,
showing that a large number of
fanners’ withholdings of from one
to twenty acres, are absolutely with
out stock or food.
Sana tor Jonea’ Poker Gamo.
From the Stockton Mail.
George L. Waters, the colored
janitor of the city hall, related an in
cidcnt to-day to a Mail reporter con
cerninga big poker game in which
Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada,
was a player. Waters had been in
the employ of certain congressmen
around the capital at Washington
for many years, and his statement
may be accepted as true. It was
several years ago, before the million
aire had become thoroughly posted
in the ways of Washington society.
Almost before he had comfortably
settled in his seat in the senate he
was introduced into the district club,
of which Boss Shepherd was
prominent member. Poker at that
■time was the prominent recreation
of the club, and Jones was induced
to take a hand. Although a good po
ker player, he retired from the game
a loser to the amount of $70,000.
The senator, having a few silver
mines at his back for pocket money
was game, and did not allow the
least expression of chagrin or dis
trust to escape him.
The next morning he telegraph
cd to one of the most expert card
sharps in Virginia City. Eight
days afterward the gambler arrived
in Washington, dressed in a very
expensive suit of clothes and sport
ing a small fortune in the way of
diamonds. Jones introduced him
to the club as a mining million
aire from Nevada, and the
Star route frauds and navy yard
thieves immediately made arrange
ments to pluck him. He accepted
an invitation to play. The stakes
ran high and the ■ spurious million
aire was well supplied with Jone’s
money. At the end of the tourna
ment the stranger rose from the
table the winner of $300,000 of the
club. It was a severe blow to the
ringsters, but they made the people
of the United States pav it back to
them indirectly and in short order.
Jones divided the swag with his
friend, and never set foot in the
club rooms again.
SD£P8Y THE SKELETON’S WIFE-
TSatn* Lon test Lad tott* Hamas* tot Ba*s-
ty Ko. T1 and ths nvlng Skeleton.
Aide Fort Sun.
V'hen Isaac W. Sprague, the
living skeleton of Bunnell’s Muse
um, was told that Beauty No. 16
had taken the prize in the competi
tion lately closed in N2W York, he
burst into tears, dashed his hat up
on tlje floor, rattled his bones and
declared that the judges were not
fit to decide a question of female
bc«uty. He would have made a
different decision and awarded the
first prize to 71, Miss Minnie
Thompson. Miss Thompson was,
indeed, a very p-epossessing young
woman, and, with •. sensible appre
ciation of her own ch. rmSj s h e was
piqued at not aeceiviu; the $100
prize, or even the $50 w\.j c h was
r no
=
6how a somewhat unbecoming
She just wouldn’t turn him over to I prominence of cheek and chin
_r»e~ e..» i™» I bone9, as compared with the outline
pose
dutches.
a goatee and mous-
same hue adorn his
But Bill didn’t forget I co ^9. ten £? ce " . ,
anything. I saw him clawing and . . Thompson was graded to
pawing around, but as I didn’t have 1 l }! m at ? fah ^ - sa,d ske d,d
anv particular love and affection and looked X
[ot the old gal any way I decided to Hon William H. Evarts as the beau
« . 1 V n ah ideal of grace. At least she
of a sudden, while the whole crowd 8ida !f d h | m unti ‘ she ^ a8 S ° h U ^ t
was right in the middle of a big dis- ^ the ^eleton who to her think
cussion .bout missionary work, the “» ecU P 8 ? d **“ r ’ ®**“
.—I Thompson is not herself a thin la
dy. She ’ weighs, probably, four
of greased lightning. Of course all
crowd .was treated to a scream that
went thrpugh our ears like a streak , .
of greased lightning. Of course all tlm , es as , m “ ch « ‘ he ske ‘ e ‘° n i^‘
eves were instantly turned on the as he only turns the scale at forty
place from which ft eminated, and g? m S ^ b ‘ S
not abnormally large. She may be
what do you suppose we saw?
Why the old gal was holding out
Bill, Jr., at arm’s length, while Bill,
Jr., clutched in his paw as fine a
sample of good ordinary cotton as
you ever set eyes on! Where did
abnormally large. She may
called plump, and she is very pret
ty. She is perhaps thirty years of
age—five year’s the skeleton's ju
nior.
After the New York exhibition
was over the skeleton and Miss
it come from? Well, I can’t say ” as over . * £ ■ V
exactly, but I have always had mJ Tho “P s ““ met often by appoint-
suspicions. The old shemale vu f I ment at the museum, and the man-
ture beat a hasty retreat and has a £ er8 . of * e sh °w complained that
never darkened my doors since. But tke ^eleton was feeding upon h.s
the way I afterwards heard of her affe <=V° nS and grow ' n ? fat - Th,s
slandering my Bill is a shame and must have been a mistake however
disgrace. She said he was noth-I for . his weight, as he showed by
higbut'a young catamount and that I g ettin ? on . the 8Cales » , had
Jf. creased. Another and an older er-
the penitentiary was too good ^l\ ror> t00f ^ COTTected , It had been
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The prohibition law is now in
force in Laurens county.
. The stock law in Butts county
goes into effect on the 20th of Jan
uary.. T
_ Twenty-seven women working
in a chain-gang was a sad sight in
Atlanta.
It ife said that Col. G. W. Adair,
of Atlanta, made $30,000 in the real
estate business last year.
Dr. Holliday, late candidate for
.clerk of Fulton county court, will
contest the election of Judge Strong,
the successful man.
Henry County Weekly: Uncle
Sam Price says one of his neighbors
cut do wn an old hollow tree not long
since and caught fifty-seven ’pos
sums. »
Washington Gazette: The gin
house of Mr. Mose Darden, in this
county, was burned last Tuesday
night, with press, gin wagon, twelve
bales of cotton ana other things.
The revenue of Atlanta last year
from all sources amounted to $574,-
000,which was an increase of $70,000
over the year before. The treasur
er has a balance in hand of $145,000.
Gainesville Eagle: Married, at
the residence of Hon. A. D. Can
dler, on the evening of the 31st ult.,
by Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Mr. A. C.
Randall and Miss Jennie Candler,
of this city.
Augusta News: Mr. T. L. Gantt
has purchased the interests of
Messrs. Yancey &Crantord in the
Athens Banner-Watchman, and
will hereafter be editor and proprie
tor of one of the liveliest newspa
pers in the south. -
Mr.J. W. Hardison, of Fort Val
ley,made last year on a patch of one
and a third acres, 200 bushels of
oats. On the 7th of June he plant
ed the same land in cotton and gath
ered and ginned off ofit 109 pounds
of lint cotton and now has a crop of
rye on it and has his cows on is eat
ing it off.
The home of Robert Toombs is
close by the spot of his birth at
Washington, Ga., and he has never
lived permanently elsewhere. “Fif
ty years ago,” he said, “I brought
my wife here to this house a bride,
and here we have lived all these
years. We have been blessed more
than the most, and I thank God for
it.”
Dahlonega Signal: We are in
formed by the chief engineer of the
Gainesville and Dahlonega railroad,
th»t the bridge across Chattahoo
chee river is now completed, and,
in a short time, track laying will
be commencoi r, n j b ; s s j d< »
river. The grading ; s almost fin
ished to Chastatee rive, ten miles
from here.
A demand for vaccine virus is
coming up from different parts of
the state. Governor Stephens, on
Thursday, received two applications
from Gwinnett county, and fears
were expressed by the applicant^
that small-pox would spread in that
county. Applications have also
been received from Perry, Carters-
ville and other places.
Montezuma Weekly: An old man
is at present located at Hogcrawl
creek, at Hooks’ Mill, engaged in
the profitable .industry of catching
beavers. He averages from two to
five per day, sells their hides for
$2.50 to $4 apiece, the musk at $12
per pound (he gets about four
ounces from each beaver) and the
meat of the animal brings him
$1.50. The man claims to have a
bait that will attract them *for miles,
and when he catches all in a neigh
borhood moves ter other and better
quarters.
Gainesville Eagle: T. L. Gantt
has purchased the interest of Messrs
Yancey & Cranford in the daily and
weekly Banner-Watchman, and
will hereafter guide these gallant
crafts over the troublesome sea of
journalism single handed and alone.
Mr. Gantt is one of the most vigo
rous and fearless writers on the
Georgia press. He has rendered
yeoman service to the democracy of
the ninth district, which should be
prompt to extend him the fullest
• encouragement in his enterprise.
him; that with such a daddy as I, . . ,
he could not but come to some bad currently reported among the cun-
^Derete cost Bl,r S* 1Lfa
buss from prett.fr iip J s," for tLe % and > a steady eye could look
isn’t one girl in ten who will touch t u hro . u g h a ? d see an ° b J ect . f b , e '
him with a ten-foot pole. Before hlnd a . Th f ? existence of respitory
that boy was six montfes old he had and digestive organs may still be a
sampled the cotton out of every bed "latter of doubtful Miss Thomp-
quilt in the house and had them I son re P“ d,ates the ru '
graded just as nicely as I could have no " eart * ,
done it Last Christmas we filled This courtship was quite short,
his stocking with different grades Miss Thompson told Her lover in
of the staple, and it gave him more P ain .£ ose * be b ' 8t ° ry ^r
pleasure than all the toys you could P* e ,rfc - He g ave e P
feuy. Whenever thele’/ a baby twenty-four verses, fully describing
show comes to Athens I will enter ° w ?- ..T h,s . P° em he is in the
SllUW LUlllCu IU ivlIICHa A “ III vlilCl I . « «, a a r* .
Bill, Jr., and If he don’t take the hab.t of selling for fivecentsacopy,
first prize it will be because the I he charged nothing at all for
prize
judges can’t appreciate real merit.
NECROLOGY.
The Great Dead of the Poet Tear.
Baltimore Sun.
The necrology of 1882 includes | comforted him, and an appointment
CapL Lampkin will visit the
chicken tournament at New Or'
leans with a hundred roosters as
fine as ever entered the piti Capt.
—j Lampkin proposes to back nis
then knocked him down, took the! chickens for all they are worth, and
pistol from him and shot him. Bothi we know from what we have seen
are dead. Hayman was a good citi-1 of them that the Captain will win
cen and has some means. He leaves I not only money but success with
a wife and children. | his celebrated war horses.
her copy, and she, overcome by this
last proof of her skeleton lovers de
votion, promised to be his wife. In
a fateful moment the skeleton was
sent to the Arrokiyn show. He
was in despair, but his true love
comforted him, and an appointment
the following distinguished names: I was made for the last Saturday
Charles R. Darwin, greatest of the I night. At 9 o clock the skeleton
modern men of science; Garibaldi, l Was at the New York museum,
the last heroic figure in Italian his- where he met Miss Minnie Thomp-
tory son; at 10 o’clock they were in Jer-
ln the English Church, Dr. Tait, sey City, and at 11 o’clock they had
Archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. been umtedin marnage by the Rev.
Pusey, Dr. Newman’s associate in Mr. Gardner. They returned to
the tractarian movement; the Dean Brooklyn and kept the matter a se-
of Carlisle; Dean Wellesley, the cret until yesterday morning, when
Queen’s chaplain. In the Roman the skeleton announced it to mana-
Church, Bishop Lynch. In the ger Bates. The newly-made Mrs.
American Episcopal Church, Dr. Sprague has consented to support
A. T Twing and Dr. John Cotton her husband on the exhibition plat-
Smith. In the Unitarian Church, form. She will appear in Brook-
Orville Dewey and Dr. Henry W. |yn to-dav sitting beside her hus-
Bellows. In the Methodist Epis- band, and billed, “The Skeleton s
copal ’ Church, Bishops Scott, Wife.
Wightman and Paine. , “I lost , the hundred dollars, said
American literature, its two great the newly married lady, “but I won
leaders, Longfellow and EmersoA; | a husband.”
George P. Marsh, Henry James and
Richard H. Dana, Jr. Science,
John W. Draper and Henry Dra-
T ALMA DOE BEOS.
This- firm have bought the back
portion of Dr. Speer’s lot and will
at once erect a storehouse exten
ding through from Clayton to Mar
ket, street, 320 feet It will be the
largest store in Athens and all ht
one room. Capt. C. G. Talmadge
at once goes into business with his
brother at his present stand until
their new house is completed, when
they will open out with a boom.
A BIG SALE.
Orr & Hunter sold fifty tons of
Merriraan’s guano tp one farmer in
Madison county on yesterday. This
is the biggest sale ot the season, and
shows that the old county of Madi
son will not be left on making cot
ton. The farmer saw the advertise
ment of Orr & Hunter in the Ban
ner-Watchman and bought at once.
This is the fruits of advertising.
WINTERVILLE ITEMS.
per;" Jos. E. Sheffield, founder of I Mr Jesse Deavors has been elect
ee Sheffield Scientific School pnncpd of the academy at this
Art, Thomas LeCIear. Law, The- P“ ce for ,88 3-
ophilus Parsons. _ I Cain Lyle has found a natural
■ English literature, Dante Gabri- J bridge over a large gully down in
el Bosetti, Anthony. Trollope, John I Madison county.
Brown, Jas. Rice, Geo. Rose, Wm. Mr Qeo. Williams, of Clarke
Harrison A ms worth. Science, I coon ty f raised in one year from *ev-
Profs. Jmrons and Balfour^ each the J en 306 chickens-
victim’of an accident. Law,
John Holker and Sir Richard Mai-
Farmers will be as far behind this
spring as last ' Not one half has
k.
Sue^richW^hlSjS 8 Pf^gP. icl
Raff, Charles Blanc, Francois M. An old negro hying in Athens,
Pascal Emil Plantamour, Joseph- and who occasionally preaches, says
Decaisne and Johann Gotfried Kin-1 fh«t the God of Heaven requires
kel.
GENERAL NEWS.
The reign of violence in the north,
east and west is frightful.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins, a wealthy
California widow, is worth $23,000,-
o.
Gambetta’s brain weighed five
pounds and twenty twenty-fourth
ounces.
Isham Scott was hanged at Paris,
Texas, for the murder of Joseph
Speers.
O’Rourke, the murderer of the
Mahars, father and daughter, was
hanged at Melton, Ont.
There will be about 100 distilleries
opened during the coming year, in
Nashville, Tenn., district.
One merchant in Berrien county,
Mo. has bought and shipped as many
as 800 squirrels in one day.
At Knoxville, Tenn., a man was
sentenced to sixteen years’ impris
onment for the murder of his child.
Thomas Smith died on Wednes
day of hemorrhage, resulting from ja
blow on the nose with a boxing-
glove. —N, Y. Herald.
On Sunday the Czar found in his
bedroom a letter from the revolution
ary committee demanding the com
mencement of the promised reforms.
The finest plantation in Alabama
—the Oswichee bend place—of
4,000 acres, sold the other dav to
Mr. Hatcher, of Columbus, for $30,-
200.
A Missouri quack not only prom
ises to cure nasal catarrh at one sit
ting, but makes the astounding state
ment that he will “remove the ca
tarrh and place it on a saucer.”
The orange orchards in Florida
have been badly injured by the re
cent frost and cold. The bananas
and guavers are manp of them killed,
and the lemon trees have turned
yellow. The frost played a strange
freak, and cut right down through
the centre of the state, clear to Cape
Flonda, and left the coast line^ com
paratively uninjured. In Grange
county the thermometer fell as low
as 26.
Widely separate religions have
touched each other in Philadelphia.
A Baptist clergyman preached in
in a synagogue. The rabbi, in in
troducing him to. the congregation,
said that by the Christian’s accept-
Generals Skobeleff and Kauf- . .
manni in Russia-, Generals Casey I a lie or the truth,
and Ducrot, in France; General The dam of Mr. Bill Stewart’s
Valmaseda, in Spain; _ Generals [ fish pond broke last Saturday. He
every man to swear in favor of his | ance 0 f the invitation to address
friends and relations whether it be jews there was no surrendering of
John G. Barnard, Silas Casey,
K. Warren, Sydney Burbank and
Rear Admirals Beaumont, Rodgers,
McDougal, Strong, Poor and Scott,
stocked it with Tom Hudson’s carp
in September. .The fish when put
in were 3^ inches long, but nad
grown in four months to 9 inches.
opinion and no compromise of be
lief on either side. “We agree to
disagree on certains points,” ne said,
“hjit there are many more on which
we agree to agree for all time to
come, and’ chief among these is our
love of country and humanity.”