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Wonder If Germany will send
0 v e r any money to relieve the flood
sufferers in America? *
Mr. Stephens is a grand old man,
and no one is better aware of the
fact than our Governor himself.
Quinine is to be continued on the
fret- !M. It will do for the demo-
rats to sugar-coat old Beast Butler
The tramps of the United States
vV iD hold a grand convention next
vcar and nominate U. S. Grant for
President.
That North-Georgia carrion-cat-
.,. doubtless one democrat who
c „„ld swallow Beast Butler with
out wincing.
Congressman-at-large Hardeman
w ill open the Agricultural Conven
tion by singing that good old hymn,
.•This is the way I long have sought.”
When Governor Stephens soft-
soldered the Savannah militia he un
doubtedly referred to the precision
with which they could fire off Artil-
]. r\ Punches.
Governor Stephens is the Wig-
,rins of Georgia. There is an excel
lent understanding between the old
m an and the moon about fixing the
future weather.
The Macon Telegraph proposes
to u\ licpior to establish an inebri
ate asylum in Georgia. That paper
doubtless thinks the hair of the dog
.rood for the bite.
We don't want any more con
gressmen-at-large if they have to he
taken out of that heterogeneous
abortion, the Georgia State Agri
cultural Society.
Senator Colquitt is now engaged
in slaughtering all the Yankees he
missed at Olustee with a lecture.
His hearers doubtless wish now that
tlie\ had perished honorably on the
field of battle.
M e have often trembled to think
what would have become of this
country if Mr. Stephens had never
been born. He has not only saved
it regularly every two years for the
past half century, but is the inventor
the weather.
What a great pity that Schenck
is not now in our national legisla
ture! How easily him and our con-
gressinan-at-largc could decide the
destiny of this country by a game
of draw-poker, and thus save the
expense of a protracted debate.
A good newspaper is a credit and
advantage to a town or county; l>ut
a poor, badly-printed sheet is a re
flection on any place where it is pub
lished. People generally judge a
section by the appearance of its
newspapers.
Grant has refused a nomination
for the Presidency—of the Ameri
can Rifle Association. It is need
less to add there was no salary at
tached to the office, and no chance,
either, to “rifle” the government
through such agents as Belknap,
Shepherd, et. al.
The litigation in the Forcpaugh-
Montague suit proves the old show
man to he one of the most infamous
scoundrels and tricksters unhung
\\ bile the beauty is a brazen New
York street-walker. Both ought
to he sent to the chain-gung for con
spiring to swindle the public.
Herr Most would make an excel
lent President for the Georgia Ag
ricultural Society. He could learn
Bovcotter Hardeman several new
kinks, and would doubtless advo
cate burning down the State Uni-
\ ersity instead of starving it to death,
as our Congressman-at-large su
GEORGIA'S FREE SCHOOL SYSTEM^
We arc hcurtily in faroCof edu
cating the masses, even if it be nec
essary to do so by taxing t^e peo
ple. While many may not directly
reap the benefit of this"expertditure,
they will do so indirectly by the ad
vancement of the citizens among
whom they must live, and tlie con-
quent lessening of crime. An illit
erate man, as a general thing, does
not make a good member of society.
While he may be honest and indus
trious, at the same time he falls a
ready prey to some smooth-tongued
sharper, and is often made the Inno
cent means of perpetrated wrongs
upon himself and people. We do
not believe unless a man can read
undcrstandingly,. and-thus acquaint
himself with the condition “of his
country, that he should he permit
ted to exercise the privilege .of suf
frage. We do not intend that a
man should have a collegiate edu
cation, but he should he versed in
the rudiments of the English
branches. An unlettered man, who
has to depend for information upon
the interpretation of others, should
not be permitted to exercise the
right of suffrage. Had Georgia thus
limited her election "franchise you
would have seen the people much
farther advanced in education, for
they would have felt a pride in striv
ing to reach the goal that separates
them from the ballot-box.' We
would then have a better govern
ment, for the people could vote un-
derstandinglv. Georgia has now
what it calls a free school system,
but it is only such in name. While
thousands arc taken annually from
the public till and devoted to this
cause, it is divided in such a manner
as to result in no earthly good to its
recipients. In fact, thjs free school
fund is but a sort of perquisite for
teachers, the miserable pittance
credited on each pupil's tuition be
ing scarcely noticed by the parents^
Now what we want is a fund that
will enable every child in Georgia to
attend school at least three months
in the year, the entire expense hying
borne bv the state. Let there be no j
FREE HASH FIENDS.
Tint n»y"i Proceeding* of the Horay-ChMVod Soke
ct Toil
’ S Special Dir patch to Banner-Watchman.
Macox, Ga„ Feb. 267 18S3.—The
Georgia State Agricultural Conven
tion convened to-day, with Col. T.
Hardeman in the chair. About
half the Counties in the state were
represented, every profession and
handicraft except the farmers. The
exdrci'ses were opened by the pres
ident giving out the hymn begin
ning, “I’ve steered my 'nark for
Washington, and congress is my
home.” The chaplain, Rev. Peter
Fitzdoodle/then seift ur» a very feel
ing pra/er, in , which,-me 'returned
thatlks-that the people, of Georgia
had again seen tit to take one of
their number from the chair of ag
riculture and give him an office.
The credentials were then passed
qpbn and the. following delegations
Admitted into full fellowship:
Office-hunters, 117; broken-down
ppltticiansj 2$; lawyers, 57; shoe
makers, 13; guano agents, 23; mer
chants, 33; town loafers, 63; mis
cellaneous trades and professions,
82; genuine farmers, 000000. The
convention then went into commit
tee of the whole to search out places
where free grul> could be had. each
man being authorized to dead-beat
his own way. Resolutions of cen
sure against the city of Albany were
passed,*asking the farmers ot Geor
gia to boycott the merchants ot the
town, for the refusal of the citizens
to set up free hash. Mr. Smith, a
shoemaker, read a paper on how to
raise twelve hags of cotton per acre
by manuring the land with leather
scrajis. LUwvcrJones delivered a
fine address on the production of
sweet potatoes, and told how h
had raised 1,753 bushels per acre—
estimating from one bill that he had
planted in his garden. Mr. Brown,
a merchant from Gumtown, intro
duced a resolution that this l>ody
demand of the Georgia legislature,
in behalf of the farmers, that they
enact a law holding a man’s wife
and' children subject to levy for the
supplies he has bought; also, asking
the passage of a bill requiring plan
ters to buv all their goods from
members of this convention, one
whom lie was which. Mr. Brown
stated that lie ran a tiire.e-aqre plan
tation himself, and knew the needs
of the farmers. Mr. Smith request
ed that the bill also apply to the
purchase and repair of shoe
After some discussion from the
other crafts, the following resolu
tion was tinanimouslv adopted:
back salary grab by the teachers, ••Rcsobvcd. That we, the fanner
but they should be paid a sum sufli- | of Georgia, in convention assembled
cient to cover the entire expense qf
the pupil for that length of time.
We do not believe, either, in tasting
one race to educate the other. The
negro lias been emancipated long
enough to take care of himself, and
if they have not priffe enough to
educate themselves they should
grow up in ignorance. ' But there
necessity for this if our law-
makers will required^ to educate , chairrtl;ltl forthe highvst
the.r children. Let a «erta.n pro- ,
portion of the tax contributed by ) Thc p res j ( i cnt stated that as he
both whites and blacks be set apart \ bad at last tound the way he long
for common school purposes, and had sought, and 1 received an office
divided in proportion to thc receipts t1lu discerning wisdom of the
. —, . . people had heretofore withheld
from each race. The monc) pai j f rom ],j n ^ was now in order for
by the negro tax-payers tn ni vacate the stepping-stone to
do demand that the Georgia legi
turc enact a law hold
not only a -planter's crops, stock
mid jcfiajtlcs responsible for supplies
furnished him by merchants, shoe
makers, guano agents, and legal ad
vice, but also hold said farmer's wife
and children subject to levy and
sale for said debts. Also that the
agriculturists of Georgia not only lie
required to trade exclusively with
members of this association, but
that conventions be made to muni-
should go to educate their off
spring, while every cent contributed
by the whites should lie used for
Macon Telegraph: The Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist hugs
Emory Speer to its bosom, and
amid its tears affects to believe him
a real nice, pure, patriotic, unselfish
Democrat. Ill the meanwhile Em
orv speaks and votes with the rc
publicans and jingles tHeir shekels
in his pantaloon^ pockets. ' It is
very, very sad. . • .
Information reaches this country
of a probable failure in the grain
crops of Europe in time for our far
mers to profit by the knowledge. If
the European grain fields should
fail, extra demands will he made on
the grain crops of this country The
farmers well know what they should
do, under the circumstances.
Mr. Stephens claims to be thc in
ventor of our present weather sys
tem. Wc would rise to inquire,
<U>es lie refer to prognosticating
atmospheric changes, or did the
printer inadvertently stick in a su-
perflous a, when the old man only
meant that he was- the discov
erer of manufacturing a certain kind
of sheep? We would like for the
Agriculftirnl Convention to investi
gate this subject.
“A fear that has been growing
for years that this important organi
zation might cripple its usefulness
by a contact with the dirty and de
vious ways of politics is passing
away."—Macon Telegraph or the
Agg. C011.
That organization, by its contact
with "the dirty and devious ways
of politics,” has not only crippled
itself, hut in forcing its last officer
on the people of Georgia has given
them the blind-staggers. Its days
of dictation have passed.
“Wc have received intimation
that at the present session, the dis
tinguished presiding officer will
feel it incumbent upon himself, by
reason of new and increased public
duties, to lay down the honor of
this high position. This will neces
sitate the election of a new presi
dent."— Macon Telegraph on Agg.
Con.
to public pap and let some other
long-suffering statesman take the
place. 11a . knew -there >0
, lT many-, aspirants w tjmt itwould^bfc
educating the whites. \V e are j 0 decide', so he suggested that
well aware that our views are un- {he convention meet to-night in the
popular with the m isses, but we ! back-room of some convenient bar-
believc them to be just and correct, room and decide the question by a
„ , , . , game of draw poker. .Adopted.
Unless some change is made 111 our , Sneezer asked if the-committee
free school system we believe in re- on reception had made arrangc-
turning the money to the state and ; ments with the bar-rooms by which
let it go toward liquidating thc pub-| they could get free liquor. Ibis
was a most important matter and
should not l>c neglected. Mr.
Watchman, a venal and unsc:
laqjr flract published-at Athens a
statement ihat there tyere no farm-,
ers in the State Agricultural Socie
ty. He wanted to gtye The state
ment tlid lieTjHdre was his /okng
friend PTlgarlic who ran’a ten acre
farm near SnorfefvIMe,' white-half
the other delegates owned valuable
gardens. It is true that the. num
bers of this honorable, body do not
st^op to manual labor, but they have
acquired a thorough knowledge of
agriculture by reading the newspa
pers, and know the needs of the
farmers. Mr. Rutabager, a rising
young lawyer from Rjpville, made a
very leanged address on cotton cul
ture. He said our farmers did not
plant early enough. They should
put in their crops about the middle
of November, so as to catch the
winter’s rains. He has always no
ticed that a cotton crop grown dur
ing the. cold season never dropped
it# forms. Mr. Sswingem, a leading
merchant of FVoghollow, read a fine
essay on the superior quality of sup
plies sold at bis store. The Hon. P.
G. Dinkerman, ex-member of the
Georgia legislature and an aspirant
for the chair of agriculture, gave a
very interesting discourse 0*1 the
parched pindcr. To-day Professors
White and Browne, two
homey-handed sons of toil
front Athens, came in. They will
doubtless give us some very inter
esting lectures on agriculture. A
reat commotion was created to-day
by a genuine farmer from Elbert
presenting liis credentials. The
professional members looked upon
him with suspicion, and seemed not
to relish the idea of their meeting
being thus invaded by this excluded
class. His credentials were all
right, however, and the gentleman
was given a back seat. Owing to
the liquor blockade it is thought the
convention will adjourn at noon to
morrow, as the delegates are get
ting very thirsty. The citizens arc
reducing rations, and I do not think
will stand another day’s seige.
Bringeh.
FRIGHTFUL MURDER.
Tragedy is Emanuel County—Killed and Sobbed
—AU of Gold.
Emanuei.Co., February iS.—On
Friday evening last the community
around Summertoivn, ■ Ehiaintel
county, was thrown Into great ex
citement by the report of Mr. Alfred
G. Inman that his wife had been
thrown from a horse and killed be
fore he could extricate her. The
neighbors immediately went to the
spot, lie leading them. The circum
stances, together with Ills inconsis
tence, led to suspicion. 11c said
they had started—she on horseback,
he 011 foot—to go to Mr. Bishop's
that a burr fell from a tree and struck
the horse, causing him ty jump,
which frightened Mrs. Inman, and
that she dropped the reins, which
caught, on a slump, and she fell,
hanging her foot in the stirrup and
the horse kicked- her to detail. An
examination showed no sign of
horse foot prints 011 ’ her person or
near the spot where she was. She
was 011 her face in a pool of blood.
There were*S plfite krttitt "ttjriir With
blood and her hair oiiithem, and
holes in the back of her-bead that
just fitted,the ' knots on the pine.
The horse had no Wood on his feet.
She had been robbed of a gold chiain
she had worp for years; her pockets
werj: turned- as "if they had been
searched. -y
Suspicion pointed to Inman as the
murderer, Ap inquest was held
Louisville, Feb. 16.—North
Todd was the scene of a ffearful
tragedy, last Saturday. Two of the
respectable families of the com
munity were in distress over a case
of seduction—Mr. Romil Martin,
father of the young lady, and Mr.
Ed. Lacey, father of the young man
accused." The old men were quiet,
good citizens, and tried to avoid a
collision between the sons of the
two families. Last Saturday at a
sale of the property of Rev. Mr.
Barrow, of the Baptist Church,
young Ike Martin, brother ot the
onfortunate girl, got into a fight
with the father of the young man
accused of seduemg his sister. They
were hand to hand, and cutting each
other with knives, when a yoi®ger
son of Mr. Lacey drew a pistol and
shot young Martin three times. Mr.
Romil Martin then struck the elder
Lacey with a stone and knocked
him down, whereupon young Lacey
fired at Mr. Martin, shooting him
dead on the spot. Mr. Lee Wilkins,
the constable, was present, and
called upon the company to arrest
young Lacey, but the young man
said, “ No interference here, gen
tlemen; I don’t want to hurt any of
you,” and deliberately walked away,
no one hindering, except thc officer
himself, who commanded him to
halt. But he went on, and then Mr.
Wilkins fired at him, and he stop
ped and returned the fire, and Mr.
W., having no other shot, left the
place. The voung man escaped,
and two families are crushed. The
Lacey’s arc people in good circum
stances and stand well, and Mr.
Romil Martin is said to he a quiet,
orderly man, who tried to set a
good example and raise his children
to be respectable. This sad affair
ought to be a solemn warning to the
young men and women of our
country to be discreet and careful
in their conduct. Children do not
think of the sorrow and ruin that
their misconduct brings upon their
parents and friends, as well as upon
themselves.
A ROMANTIC INCIDENT.
A Young Girl Lots Down Bar Long Hair for Her
Father to Grasp and Savon His Ltto.
Louisville, Feb. 16.—A case of
presence of mind and fortitude in a
oung girl occurred on the terrible
night when the flood gates were
pencil and the water rushed irre-
sistablv across thc Point. Mr.
Wilkes, with a fool-hardiness un
paralleled, tried to creep along the
top of a fence, thinking he saw a
'urge raft with which he could save
his whole family, with also the Si-
cers Mintons, Edxyards and others.
As soon as his luckless hand had
touched the fence it fell with a loud
rash, and he went spinning away
to the west, where a cherry tree
topped his headlong passage to thc
Ohio. By the side of the tree ran a
fence from east to west, on the top
of which he crawled to the back
part of his house. But there he
found the window eight feet high
above the fence. Then occurred an
action unknown even in novels.
His oldest daughter, Ida, herself
hardly older than a child, failing to
find a rope, braced herself firinlv
against the window, leaned herself
far out over the foaming waters and
threw out her long golden hair for
him to pull up by. But he refused
to risk his fair young daughter’s
life, and by means of a friendly
ail and that together got safely in,
.mil Miss Ida’s hair and head are
still on and in a safe condition.
lie debt. The present system is a
farce and a fraud. Alter paying
that hoardc of officers for handling
this sum a mere pittance reaches
the object for which it is aimed. It
would be better for each county to
levy a direct tax for cddfcational
purposes, and let it be dispensed
through the Ordinary. There is no
use in it going to Atlanta, that it
may pass through a dozen hands,
each one lessening the amount, and
then returned to the people greatly
curtailed. The appropriations now
made for this purpose could be kept
in thc state treasury, find a direct
tax levied for the support of our
schools. This would do away with
several high-salaried officers, and
answer every purpose. - The cprse
to this country is - its. lwiardej of
greedy office-holders, ami It costs
the people nearly half their taxqs to
get the money distributed. "Iherc
is plenty of room for reform in Geor
gia, and our state free school system
would be a good plqcc to start at.
“Our agricultural friends come to
us this morning. They have drop
ped the plow-handles, laid aside the
hoe and the guano-horn and conic,
bringing with them the balmy airs
of young spring. fresh from the
country.”—Macon Telegraph
* Oh, give us an emetic to counter
act thc effects" of this dose! The
Telegraph should have said, “they
have dropped the yard-stick, laid
aside the guano note and shoe ham
mer, bringing with them thc brassy
cheek of the office-hunter,’ hoping
to pull the wool over the eyes of the
honest tiller of the soil.”
Sneezer stated that by dispensing
free advice to the farmers who came
to town lie hud perhaps done as
much as any man in Georgia to ele
vate and encourage agriculture.
But just at that time he was very
dry, and felt that the citizens of Ma
con would honor themselves by set
ting up drinks for that body. The
President advocated the passage of
a resolution abolishing thc State
University, and stated that his first
business in congress would be to
enact a law suppressing the Banner-
Watchman. The committee on di
rect trade reported that the farmers
refused to respond further to this
noble cause, and stated that they
vet had fifteen cents in the treasury.
The rest of the money was expend
ed by- the agent in Germany in
bringing over his wife to America.
Thc convention then adjourned to
Pat Doolan’t saloon, to meet again
to-morr6w.
THE FREE HASH FIENDS..
SKODA Day’s Proceedings ot the Hotorogoneous
Mob at Macon."
ing broken-down-politician^ on the
people of Georgia advancing our
material and moral growth, wc ac
knowledge thc justice of its declare-
Of course. The “present distiit*
guislied presiding officer” has at
last found the way he long has
sought, and he is expected to give
place to some other-office-hungry
statesman who has been for a (long;
time upon the anxiotii seat. | Cok
Tomochichi finds no further use
for the votes of the farmers, arjd.
be will tear off the thin gause
covers his motives.
Special Diepatch to Banner- Watchman.
Macox, Ga., Feb. 21,1SS3.—The
Agriculture Carmagnole conven
ed this morning at 10 o’clock.
Pravcr by Chaplain Fitzdoodle, who
returned thanks that the eyes of the
people were still blinded to thc true
mission of this august tribunal, and
that they had a good chance to force
another congressman-at-large 01
governor upon a confiding and gul
lible public. The committee on
free grub reported that they had
succeeded in getting off" a majority
of the delegates on thc widows and
private citizens of Macon, but about
30 are yet unprovided for and had
to roost last night in the calaboose.
The hotels, with a penuriousness un
paralleled, wouldn’t entertain them
for less than $1 a day, and they rcc-
1 ommended that these liashcrics be
Boytfotted. The committee on free
liquor reported that thc bar-rooms
blooded . .
man is a dissipated mau anil they
had never lived happily. It is
thought the murtler gretv out of her
refusing to givij him tfie'money and
notes for which" slieliad sold a piece
of land left her by her father, Col.
Grubbs, a well known and wealthy
farmer, who died in Burke county a
■few years ago. Mrs. Inman leaves
six small children. Mr. Inman at
tended the burial of his wife in
charge of Sheriff’ Daniel. Prelimi
nary trial takes place at Sunnner-
town Tuesday next.
1 ■ i
DEVOURED BY DOGS.
Tho Mutilated Bemalm of a Dead Infant Found la
a Yard on Humphrey Street ;
Atlanta Herald.
Yesterday afternoon a large {log
entered the premises of a colured
man on Humphrey street, with a
prodigious hunk of decayed meat
which it deposited on the door step
and then trotted out of the gate Und
disappeared. The children of ! the
old woman who were playing in .the
yard, observed the T strange inanoeu-
vers of the dog which they reported
immediately after the animal had
taken its departure. The old woijian
came out and examined the decom
posed flesh and found it to be a part
of the remains of a dead infant,
mangled almost beyond recognition.
Coroner Hilburn was notified at
once of the harrowing discovery.
He had the body prepared for burial
and left it with the old woman un
til to-day, when an inquest will be
held to find out, if possible, the
perpetrators of the diabolical crime.
“Thc Georgia Agrioultur.il Spcie-
ty has done much for the material
and moral gfWWtb of the Statf.
Macon Telegraph. I • ____
If the Telegraph designates foist- hot only positively refused to set up
drinks to the convention, but would
'■ * *&. _ - A A .! A ... m . a m T* k
Quid Acts of Notod Men. j t
Philadelphia Time*.
A If ed Tennyson is in jail in Bal
timore. He is’charged with assault
and battery:
Charley Ross jvaf ^ent to jail in
Petersburg, Va., last Friday for
stealing old junk.
George Washington has just been
sent to jail in Washington for as
saulting John Sullivan. , I 1 f
John Quinev Adams was shod, in
the left shoulder at Dcadiyqod on
the 4th inst. He is doing welL! , ,
Benjamin Franklin Butler was ire
rested in East St. Louis last week
onjH charge of stealing an overcoat
BE COULDN’T QUIT SMOKING.
“There is no use for a man try in
to quit tobacco,” remarked Mr. Isaa
Lowe to us yesterday. "I have had
more rough and tumble tussels with
the weed than any man extant, and
the old scamp always succeeded in
getting thc best of the encounter. 1
can quit whiskey, 1 can quit cuss
ing, and I can quit looking at every
pretty girl that hoves in sight; but
tobacco has got its shackles clinched
around my limbs so tight that
thousand proclamations from Abra
ham Lincoln, or even Abraham of
old, couldn’t knock them off*,
reckon I have used up nigh on to a
cart-load of chewing-gum and pine
rosin in a vain attempt to eradicate
my appetite, but all the time I felt
an innate longing for the weed. A
fellow once told me that if I would
chaw peach sticks they would an
swer all the purpose of tobacco.
Well, I acted on his advice, and
in three days' time had ruined an
orchard that I paid Bcrckman $25
for. The trees looki^l like an old
town cow had been pastured 011
them. Did it cure my appetite?
you ask. Why it just seasoned it up,
and when I started in on the fourth
day I would have entered my grin
ders against the best bark mill in
Georgia. I then tried persimmon,
dogwood, sassafras, sweet gum and
red-oak bark, and in three weeks
had cleared a ten-acre field and
consumed enough limber to build
thc Great Eastern steamship and
enough brush to carry away a mill
dam. But it did no good. That
bark simply tanned my insides into
as pretty a lot of sole-leather as you
ever saw, and had I only bought a
barrel of lime could have started
first-class tanyard without the ex
pensc of digging vats. No telling
w lie re my depredations on tlie tini
her would have ended had not the
people threatened to ring in the
stock law and have me penned up
I have bought tobacco antitodcs by
the car-load, but they only served
as a sort of grindstone to sharpen up
my hankering for the weed. Dur
ing my periods of total abstinence
an old mooley-headed nightmare
used to cavort around on me, and
would dream that I was a tobacco
worm that had to do pen
nace by chawing mullein stalks
and when 1 awoke next
morning it was discovered that
I had eaten up two quilts and
blanket and was then at work on the
last feather pillow. I’ve smoked
paper cigarettes loaded with asafeet
ida, rheubard, quinine, liniburger
cheese, acid phosphate, and even
rough on rats; but the demands of
tobacco was unanswered. I have
manufactured cigars out of dog fen
nel, raw-hides and dried leaves, hut
it did no good. I have joined more
anti-tobacco societies than were ever
organized and took obligations as
long as the Atlantic cable; but when
a man shook his plug of tobacco at
me I’d go for it if it destroyed the
democratic party or busted np the
Georgia Agricultural Society. I
have just come to the conclusion
that an obligation made out of a log-
chain couldn’t hold a fellow from
tobacco when it once gets a grip on
him.”
“Then you have given up the idea
of quitting?” wc asked.
“No, I haven’t, for my nerves are
now a regular 40-horse power gal
vanic battery. 1 have just reud
where a man can put a quarantine
on his aff ection for tobacco by going
on an exhibition to the North Pole
and I have made up my mind to
take the trip. If this don’t cure me
I’m going to load up a cigar with
THE OLD B1PSN0RTEB OF THE GUANO GA-
I ZETTE. /
Editor Banner-Watchman/—T see
in the last Issue of that literary abor
tion, known as the Oconee Moni
tor, an attack on a certain charac-
acter at the Watkinsville masquer
ade, which I think needs a reply.
But first let me introduce the editor
of this, “thing”—I shall not disgrace
the profession of journalism by call
ing it a newspaper—to the public.
Imagine a 200-pound guano sack
(warranted the genuine article) or
namented with a pair of pedestals
made of gigantic Bologna sausages,
nd feet of Liniburger cheese. For
:i head there is an inverted wash-
pot, with a crack in it. The brains
are made of soap-suds, and arc lo-
ated near the middle of this human
architectural monstrosity. Thc
.old evidently created this oderous
panorama of incongruity for a guano
igctit, but somehow he drifted first
into the revenue business and then
into journalism—i. e., if you call ed
iting a patent outside and blank in
side weakly sheet of filth and non
sense, journalism.
The old dirt-dauher concludes
his wail of indignation thusly:
And if the above advertising
nianocuver proves a success, wc
want a copy of the Monitor pasted
upon tlie hack and sides of every
ickass in the county.”
The lioary old pot-gutteil ink-
slinger need not go to tlie trouble
of advertising his sheet, for even
those not acquainted with the
editor in person cir. tell by look-
at his paper the kind of long-
eared animal that spreads the inde-
decent filth on it weekly. In fact,
did he resort to the plan of thus
donning his fellow-donkeys in
the garb of the Monitor a discern
ing public might be lead to believe
that the four-legged and not two-
legged jackass was the proud edi
tor and proprietor. Again, we do
not believe that any decent ass in
Georgia would consent to being
disgraced by wearing in public any
such paper pasted to its sides. Since
the writer’s back has come in con
tact with the Monitor he has been
endeavoring to purity himself by
taking daily baths in carbolic acid.
Now, if this old portable guano
mountain isn’t satisfied I will get
me a long-handled shovel and go
for him again. You are at liberty,
Mr. Editor, to give my name if de
sired. /" “Rail Fence.”
SHOT FOR A BURGLAR.
AOonymKuB&ntbrnBor wboTook Him for
aBorgUr.
Conyers, Ga., February 17.—
Last night Mrs. W. T. Shipley
thought she saw a man peeping in
at her window. She got a pistol,
raised the window and fired. Her
little son got his shot gun and was
searching the yard for the man,
when Mr. John Osborn, who lives
near, hearing the report of the pistol,
went over to see what was the mat
ter. Mrs. Shipley told him and he
commenced a search also. The boy
with the gun coming upon Mr. Os
born, and taking him to be the man
he was looking for, fired away, the
shot taking effect in and about the
knee joint. A physician was sum
moned at once, but could not ex
tract the shot, on account of its be
ing in tlie joint. He was doing very
well at last account, but it may cause
him a stiff leg.
COMPENDIUM OP THE TENTH CENSUS.
We return thanks to Senator Bar-
row for this valuable work, from
which we make the following ex
tracts:
POPULATION.
Population of Georgia—Males,
762,981; females, 779,199; total, 1,-
542,180; population in 1S70, 1,184,-
109; increase, 30.2; density, 26.1.
Population of United States—50,-
155,7875; No. of cities, 2S6; popula
tion of cities, 11,31s,547.
Population of Clarke county, 11,-
702; population in 1870 (before
Oconee was cut off'), 12,941.
Population of Clarke county by
districts—Athens dist., 7,463; Ath
ens city, 6,099; Georgia Factory, 1,-
100; Puryear’s, 657; Sandy Creek,
690; Buck Branch, 942; Barber’s
Creek, S50; foreign born citizens
of Athens, 136.
Colored population of Georgia,
725,043; white population of Geor
gia, 806,573.
Nationality of population in
Clarke county—Born in the state,
io,S65; in South Carolina, 213; in
North Carolina, 75; in Alabama,
50; in Virginia, 1 iS; in Tennessee,
41; in British America, 2; in Eng
land and Wales, 27; in Ireland, 24;
in Scotland, 4; in German Empire,
77; in France. 4; in Sweden and
Norway, 1.
Other races in Georgia—Chinese,
17: Indians, 124.
Other statistics of Georgia—N atu-
ral militia, 275,815; population of
voting age, 762,981.
Clarke county—Males, 5,465; fe
males, 6,237.
AGRICULTURE.
Georgia—Total No. of farms,
138,626; No. of farms in 1870, 69,-
956; No. of acres, 26,043,282; unim
proved land in farms, 17,837,562;
value of farms in Georgia, ifi 11,910,-
540; value of implements and ma
chinery, *5.317,416; bushels corn
raised. 23,202,018; oats, 5,548,743;
wheat, 3,159,771; hales cotton, 814,-
441, bales cotton raised in 1S70,473,-
934; value of live stock, $25,930,352;
No. mules and asses, 132,078; work
ing oxen, 50,026; milk cows, 315,-
073; other cattle, 544,812; sheep,
527,589; swine, 147,003; pounds
blitter made, 7,424,485; cost of
building and repairing fences, $1,-
834,625; cost of fertilizers purchas-
e'd, $4,346,920.
Clarke county—No. farms, 524;
improved land, 24,701 acres; value
of farms, $501,429; value of live
stock, $75,258; cost of repairing
fences, $7,048; cost of fertilizers,
$2i,iSo; No. bushels corn produced
in 1S79, 67,940; oats, 16,098; rye,
176; wheat, 11,104; value orchard
products, $5,277; hay, 117; cotton,
3,310; No. horses, 423; mules, 430;
oxen, 104; milk cows, 717; other
cattle, S44; swine, 2,390; butter 21,-
S21.
MANUFACTORIES.
War of Racei.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. I 19.
There is a large white school near
here for girls between the ages of
10 and 14 years. A few days ago
these girls, while returning to their
homes, were waylaid by a party of
colored youths and subjected to
gross indignities. Some of thc girls
reported the facts to their brothers
attending a boys’ school in tlie
neighborhood, whereupon the
white boys formed a party to avenge
the insult. After school they hur
ried to the rendezvous of the ne
groes and laid in wait for them.
Soon afterward, as the girls came
down the road on their way home,
they were followed by the negroes.
The white boys waited until the ne
groes began their attack on the girls,
and then at a word from their lead
er rushed from their ambush. The
girls fled, and a long battle followed
between the while and colored
youths. The boys had no firearms,
but sticks and stones were used
with terrible effect until the negroes
were driven from the field.
Georgia—No. manufactories, 3,
593; capital, $20,672,410; total
amount paid in wages during year,
$5,266,152; value of materials, $24,-
143,939; value ot products, $36,440,-
S48.
Clarke county—No. manufacto
ries, 20; capital, $568,400; males
above 16 years employed in them,
265; females above 15 years, 2S6;
children and youths, 146; total
amount paid in wages during year,
$115,672; materials, $434,270; pro
ducts, $629,933.
A Gainesville girl can, blqsh pntil
her nose bleeds. " "
A negro female burglar has been
arrested in Griffin. f ~
There are at cases of small-pox
in DeKalb county. . ..In, ;
Small-pox is at Roswell, Roswell
Junction and Doraville..
Thc Columbus ghost turned; out
to be “a great Thomas cat.”
The bridge across the Chattahoo
chee, near Cumming, will soon be
rebuilt.
The legislature will be asked in
July to charter a cotton factory at
Gainesville.
A Clav county negro was fined
twenty-five dollars and costs for
cruelty to animals.
The body of a white child was
found buried in a flour sack in thc
streets of Augusta.
Rev. W. C. Wilkes, of Gaines
ville, will erect a $10,000 seminary
building this spring.'
Atlanta has 196 factories of vari
ous kinds, representing a working
capital of $2,468,456.
Columbus puts a tax of twenty
dollars on lightning rod agents.
What about book agents?
Hon. Thomas W. Warren, of
Wilcox county, sold last week a
flock of one thousand sheep.
A colored man near Gainesville
milks his cow, uses her as a saddle
horse, a pack mule, a draft horse.
Thc Atlanta cotton factory has
paid off'its old indebtedness and is
again running under its new man
agement.
A son of one of Georgia’s former
governors is one of Gainesville’s
moral wrecks. He is drunk on our
streets daily.
A Jackson man hauled five skunks
out of a hole in succession, and then
filled the hole with water and sold
it for a mineral water spring.
Two thirteen-ycar-old boys were
caught in a fourth attempt to wreck
a train on thc Air-Line railroad by
placing a bar of iron across the
track.
It is said that a gray mule never
dies, but a nude of that color, while
pulling an Atlanta street car, fell on
the track and the car passed over
his neck and broke it.
Ex-Governor and Senator-elect
Colquitt, of Georgia, lectured in
Cleveland, Ohio, last Saturday eve
ning and was introduced to the au
dience by cx-President Hayes.
John Thomas, who killed Lind
sey Weaver in Palmetto, on last
Christmas day, has been found guil
ty of murder, and sentenced to he
hung on Friday, the 6th day of next
April.
Thc baby that was thrown from
the car window a short time since
on the new road has been adopted
by a wealthy lady at Indian Spring,
and she will not givo.it up under
any consideration.
The postofficcs at Ethel, in Hall
county, and Dixon, in Dawson
county, have been discontinued by
the order of the Postmaster Gen
eral. The mail for Ethel will he sent
to .Baker and that for Dixon to Woo-
ley’s Ford.
Wc are informed that old Father
Cornett, of Union county, died one-
day last week. He is known to
have been over 115 years old, prob
ably the oldest man ,tn thc .South
and is said to have had ,a distinct
remembrance of the Revolutionary
war and the administration of Pres
ident Washington.
Charlotte. N. C., Feb. 16.—
Mr. Wm. Griffith, deputy to Sher
iff" Alexander, yesterday entered a
suit against the Atlanta and Char
lotte Air-Line railroad, for $20,000
damages for the killing of his son
Robert, about eighteen months ago,
near Atlanta. Robert Griffith was
a conductor on the road, and while
attempting to undluple the car next
to the engine, the engineer moving
his car backward at the time, he
slipped and fell, the car wheels
passing over one of his legs and cut
ting it oft".
THE BAD BOY.
dynamite and end my miserable ex-
George /Washington Frcrhqnt, wtence.
believe in thc people of Geor
gia putting a stop to that Agg. Con,
dictating officers to them, and Col.
Tomochichi Hardeman js a mighty
good subject to draw the Ijne on.
Col. Tomochichi Hardeman, ot
the State Agg. Con.y willaooi* widld
bur scalping knife in Washington!
•'Biassed ore t&oee ihat expect hoth-
.ing, for they won’t be disappointed.”
colored, has just been admitted • to
tlie bar of Prince' William county,
Va. „, ?l . .
.1 George ^Waslupgtoq .grabbed a
not consent to any reduction. They lap robe from the carriage of' Dr.
were in favor of the farmers making RickeTts, in Baltimore, and is now
tlie legislature pass strict prohibi
tion laws for Bibb county, and thus
show ‘ those retailers of
enthusiasm tlie power
and influence of this time-honored
body. The committee op draw-
poker reported that their present
able presiding officer had wOn the
nomination againfor President, oyer
>11 opposition, but they had ruled
thinvQut, as he had already received
his reward froip the people and
should now be made to make room
1bi’stupe other scektr 1 . ■ Mr. Jones
’rosy to a question of defense. He
stated that he saw in the Banner-
in tail. George is a colored man
Don Cameron, of St Louis, Gra
tiot county, Michigan, has caused
the arrest of N. A/Richards, teach
er, for punishing a schoolboy.
Mary -Washington and her daugh
ter, Martha Washington, colored,
were arrested in Savannah recent-,
ly for obtaining a Sewing machine
on false pretenses.
: t t | | • ~
A bin containudg^brip bushels of
cotpon seed at Lancaster Texas, ex
ploded from tkeeumitwa oTgases.
The repbrt • 1 could be „ .hjard two
miles, and was of terrific force.
Stock Lnir Counties in Georgia.
Judge Henderson, State Commis
sioner ofi Agriculture, states, in a
recent circular, that thc following
counties of Georgia have adopted
the “no fence” or stock .law. viz:
Campbell, Clayton, Coweta, Henry,
Houston, Merriwether, Monroe,
Morgan, Pike, Putnam, Rockdale,
Spalding and Troup, and districts in
Fulton, Elbert Scriven and other
counties. Not a single protest or
objection has been offered against
the law after being put into practical
operation. The real questiqji is
fencing stock or fencing crops, and
>0 fence” means the former. It
requires better, stronger fences, but
not so many of them, though every
farpnqf cap, have as many as he
pleases.
Forty Divorce Corel in o Day.
Chicago, Feb. 10—Judge Jamie
son’s court to-day was not an en
couraging place for young people
contemplating matrimony to visit.
There were forty-one divorce cases
on call. It was thc largest day’s
work in putting asunder those
whom God had joined.together that
was ever had before any one Judge
in Cook county. Eight cases were
continued, anil in thirty-three the
divorce actually refused. So much
marital misery was never before
concentrated in so small a room, yet
there was but one woman who sned
a tear, and she was much the pret
tiest and most interesting in the
crowd.
Paper Ball! Now Tried.
Think of paper rails for railroads!
The New York ^Herald says steel
manufacturers are4uixiously await
ing the result;.of .a trial of .paper
rails to be 'mitde . on a prominent
western road. Car wheels ' of this
material have long becir ln use, and
are reported to give satisfaction.
The rails are said to be made whol
ly of piper pulp, subjected to a pres
sure which renders it as solid as
metal. It is claimed that the paper
rails are not affected by atmospher
ic changes, that they are more‘dura
ble than steel, and that they can be
manufactured at one-third less cost
than those of steel.
Our bad boy lived up in Banks
county, where nearly all the bad
boys live. His father was a strict
Baptist, and generally bought the
wine for the. communion. Our bad
boy, who was always on the lookout
for something good, substituted the
wine jug by putting a jug of linseed
oil in its place, and the next time
they had communion at his daddy’s
church there were several deep
smothered words used, as the breth
ren tasted the linseed oil. The bad
boy’s daddy liked to have been turn
ed out of the church for it. But thc
old gentleman got even with the
boy. His back looked like the map
of Mexico after the old man got
through with him.
GENERAL NEWS.
Cottage Choose.
Wherever a cow or cows
kept, thc cream is regarded as the
important part of the milk, while
thc skim milk goes to the pigs ' or
the poultry. Of course it is thus
utilized and ultimately comes
around as food, but it may be better
to make a more direct use of it. The
skim milk contains a valuable por
tion of that most nutritious food; in
taking the cream, only a part of thc
nutriment is removed. The skim
milk is allowed to become slightly
sour or “clabbered.” The pan is
then set upon ?t cool part of the
stove to warm gently, or upon the
top of a kettle of boiling water. It
should get no warmer than the heat
of new milk, when, the whey will
appear dear and separate from the
curd. When separation takes
place pour the whole into a bag of
thin material, and hang to drain.
When it ceases to drip, turn the
curd from the bag and mix with
salt and a fitfle sweet cream.
WEMIsFumT
President Arthur’s full-length pic
ture is now displayed in the tailors
fashion plates. This is indeed fame.
A bear, has been seen in Hancock
county.
Canada’s debt has increased $45,-
000,000 in three years.
A new hotel is to be built 011 the
ruins of the Ncwhall house. .
It requires $450,000,000 to run
the government for twelve months.
The^kick of the Northern Pacif-
ic'jiilroad will be finished next fall.
The recent inundation of the
Rhine involved a loss of sixteen
millions of dollars.
Denver, Col., gained 3,636'm pop
ulation last year. Thc population
in round numbers is 70,00c.
The 12th of March has been fixed
for the return to Canada of the
Princess Louise from Bermuda.
A London lecturer declares that
England has spent during the last
ten years £1,440,000,000 fot liquor.
The Missouri legislature lias pass
ed a bill authorizing insurance com
panies to insure against loss by cy
clones.
Rev. J. C. Hamilton, of Rhode
Island, has named alcohol “aqua
mortis,” which means water of
death.
It is stated as a fact that at least
50,000 of the people of Glasgow,
Scotland, go to bed gloriously
drunk, every Saturday night of the
year.
“Did you know,” said an English
man to a Jew, “that they hang Jews
and asses together in Poland!” “In
deed,” replied the Jew. “Then it’s
fortunate that you and 1 are not
there.
The once famous William and
Mary College at Williamsburg, Va.,
the alma mater of Jefferson, Mar
shall, Monroe and Randolph, had
only one student last year and is
now closed.
The Ohio maidens ought to l>e
protected by more stringent stat
utes. One of them aged thirty-
eight is now sueing a boy , eighteen
A Verdict for the $10,000 Beauty.
Philadelphia, Feb. 15.—The
jury before whom Miss Louise
Montague’s suit against Circus
Manager Adam Forepaugh, to re
cover damages for personal injuries
sustained by- being thrown by an
alleged viciotis elephant, was tried,
gave a verdict in Miss Montague’s
favor for $500. Both the beauty
and the citcus manager seemed to
'W delighted with the result.
vears of age for seduction and
breach of promise.
Six serviceable cannons were
made of ice during the carnival at
Montreal. Planks two, inches in
thickness were shattered and iron
balls were thrown nearly a Quarter
of a mile by these guns.
Twenty-five years ago -a clergy
man in an Alabama!town,1 one Sun
day, prayed that the Uprd would
send a wind and blow the ten-pin al-
lev away. The next Wednesday a
Wind visited fie totvn btowirig’down
the'ten pin alley, and nothing else
in the whole village. Thebe has
never been a ten-pin' alley,there
since. >«•*!'» • : i , ,