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The late delegate* to the Agri-
cultural Convention have combed
the cuckic-burrs from thcir%»ir and
rC si ned the practice of law.
When the republicans throw
overboard some old broken-down
politician the democrats always pick
him up- Beast Butler is the last
i„ n ah they thus saved.
Hen Butler is in favor of feeding
,j ic convicts from a silver spoon.
]]c stole enough spoons in New Or
leans to present one gratis to every
convict on this continent.
We are inclined to think that the
Lincoln family is like the sweet po-
the best of them is under
..round. Secretary Bob might
make a very lair President of a base
ball club.
The democratic pari.y north is
composed of about the same mate-
;.,1 ; ,s the republican party south—
the rag-tag and 'oub-tai. of creation.
pi, v the best element in both sec-
t i,,ns couldn't unite.
The south don’t have to guard
the graves of her illustrious dead, to
prevent her citizens stealing the
bodies. And yet wc arc denounced
heathens by the very section that
| u „ to resort to this extremity.
(ieorgia has at last been revenged
,',n the Yankees, by sending Sena
tor Colquitt to lecture to them.
• Vengeance is mine, saith the I^ord,
., m \ 1 will repay!" Wc are now
willing to call our late little differ-
nct .„ .(juare and shake hands across
• he bloodV chasm.
Lieutenant-Commander Gorringc.
,he ui.m who brought over the obr-
ILk and the only officer of any note
in our navv, has been k'-ckcd out by
that old blatant land-lul ber, Secrc-
t.u v Hill' Chandler, who knowsjust
ihout a> much of marine affairs as
C'ol. Tontochichi Hardeman does of
agriculture.
Senater Colquitt's friends in Ath
ens cannot believe the report that
he has imperilled the honor of his
-tate bv tramping through the North
as a paid lecturer. They would
freelv give him the $200 per night
to stav at home and thus preserve
the digmtv and honor of his section
and high office.
NO. XXXIX.
TI1E COLOR LINE.
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A Colored Man at tha Atlaasa Opera Houso
atoo aM.vtUoa-rao Boault.
The Post-Appeal, of yesterday
morning, made mention of the ar
rest of \V. D. Moore, colored, at the
opera house during the performance
of Barlow it Wilson's minstrel
troupe. A icprcsentative of the
Post-Appeal called upon Mr. De-
Give, at the opera hbusc, and from
him learned the- full particulars as
given below:
After the performance had be
gun Moore came into the tirst or
lower gallery, accompanied by two
women, and found seats for them
ami himself '>n the left of the en
trance. It is the regulation of the
opera house that the colored people
occupy the seats to the right of the
entrance, they being yet unfilled
Svhen Moore came in and sat down
on the sides allotted to the whites.
As soon as a policeman discovered
him he told him he must move,
which Moore declined to do. The
officer then reported to Capt. Crim,
who,after speaking to Mr. De Give
about the matter, went up and told
Moore that he must go over on his
•side of the house. Moore very qui
et declined to go, but said if he was
arrested he would have no more to
say. Capt. Crim then told them
he would be compelled to make a
case against them, whereupon the
party accompanied the officer out.
In passing through the the door the
doorkeeper offered to refund the
money, but Moore refused it, adding
that he desired to test the validity of
these regulations. They were not
required to go to the station house,
but were served with copies and al
lowed to go home. During the af
fair in the opera house, while the of
ficer was talking to Moore, another
colored man came over to where
they were, and said to Moore some
thing about '-stand up to ’em” and
that plenty of money would back
their case. This man, whose name
was Parker, was also arrested, and
the party were before the recorder
yesterday morning. Moore was
dismissed on the charge ofdisor-
orderly conduct, and it is hut justice
to him to say that his conduct in
the opera house was not disorderly
but merely a violation of local rules
concerning the color line. Parker,
who wanted to assume rather a
blustering front, was fined $25. JMr.
DcGive says that while Moore was
dismissed it does not mean that he
was not violating the rules of the
The farmers of every county 111
(i.ergia should organize agricultu
ral dubs and send members to that
convention from between the plow-
hamlles. Let them choose a pre-
MiUng officer from their own ranks,
and not permit the position to be
usurped by broken-down politicians, ! opera house, but that if the thing
a- a stepping-stone to office.
should occur again the
would move him as before.
officers
f” GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 6.1883.
IMPERTINENT QUERIES.”
VOL XXIX.
INTERESTING IDIOTS.
uMSUJU a Cits in the Mountain* cf
Probably the greatest curiosity in
the shape of a human being ever
seen by Denver people is on exhi
bition at 300 Sixteenth street. The
story of the wild man and the wild
woman from the . mountains fast
nesses of the Pueblos is not entirely
a myth. It is said these singular
beings were captured in a cave near
Los Crusis about two months ago
bv Capt. Levett, who has them in
charge. Capt. Lovett tells the
strange s'ory of their capture. For
many mo.iths he had known of their
existence and resolved to capture
them. With a party of three others
he discovered their hiding place in a
cave. Relying upon his great phy
sical strength he entered the place
with the intention of dragging the
little people front their bed, when
the man pounced upon him like a
tiger.
A desperate struggle ensued, and
had not his comrades come quickly
to the rescue Capt. Lovett would
have been .killed. So badly was he
hurt that he w’as confined two weeks
to his bed. Though the man will
not weigh more than eighty-five
pounds, he is said to be a creature ,on:
OoBTtactac Beldam tkst a Mas la
th* Company Ha Ksept. ,
Last Sunday, having no better
company at hand, we condescend
ed to take a stroll over the city with
the High Sheriff of Clarke county.
Now anywhere else but in Athens
John Wier would readily pass for a
retired tramp, bean-pole or a light
ning-rod agent; but here at home,
where he is known and appreciated,
the people take it for granted that
no one except a candidate for the
gallows or legislature would be
caught in his company. We were
made painfully aware of this fact
before we had traversed two
squares, and but for fear of wound
ing John’s feelings would have turn
ed hack and hunted up some dele
gate to the Agg. Con. to loaf with.
The first intimation received of the
danger to our irreproachable repu
tation was when we passed a little
darkey on the street, who looked
up at the sheriff and innocently
asked:
“What has he been doing, boss?"
Pretty soon we passed a flourish
ing female seminary, and overheard
a young lady who was standing
by the gate remark to her compan-
of giant strength. After his en
counter it required the combined
strength of the rest of the party to
conquer the little giant. When
found both were naked and utterly
devoid of intelligence. Though
they could communicate with each
other in gutteral chatter resembling
that of the monkey, there was not
an articulation that in any wise as- . .
siinilatcd a word in any language of j t' vice before being beguiled by the
earth. A few davs ago they were silvery tongue of our sheriff into
"’Tis a pity to see one so young
and handsome a hardened criminal!"
From that on until the termina
tion of our stroll we had to swallow
insults and suspicions from every
pedestrian we met, and as they are
engraven on our memory in letters
of burning brimstone we shall re
produce a few, hoping that here
after innocent citizens will think
brought to Denver, and last night
placed on exhibition at the place
named. They seem to be utterly
devoid of sense, but have become
tractable by constant association
with their keeper. They have the
color of the Indian, and both are
hideous in appearance. Whether j
the story of their wild life be true j
or not, they arc idiots, and proba- j
blv belong to the Pueblo tribe.
At the next campaign we shall
advocate a retirement l>f those old
superannuated politicians and pap-
sucker-. that place may be made for
new and younger men. These
singers have spunged upon the
kindness and sympathy of the peo
ple too long already. Wc want
the democracy to show them
Georgia is not controlled by a
of antidcluvian office-holders.
Fun In a Drag Store,
JVtfx Sun.
‘•You would be astonished at the
fun that crops out among the cus
tomers that visit a drug store,” said
a druggist the oth er day, after he had
got through trying to convince a
voung man it would be impossible
to take back a troth-brush after it
had been used three or four days,
and give him another one a size
smaller.
“So you strike ail classes of custo-
PENITENTIARY ROMANCE. | mors eh ?” said the newspaper man.
I “Well, I should cackle,” said the
A Keleasoil Convict En Kouto to Marry the Girl t ilruir-rists. “A woman came in this
Whole Honor Ho Defended. j *”? , • , . i 1
morning anti haunted me an old
keeping his company.
“I’ll bet that’s the fellow who
broke open Jim Baldwin’s bar
room!”
"Drunk and disorderly; ha!”
“You are sending a good many
out to John Tuck, ain’t yon?”
“Where did you catch him?”
•'Looks like a cut-throat!”
“Caught one of those chicken-
thieves, have you?”
“Taking your prisoner out for an
airing?”
“Don’t let him get away.’*
“The way of the transgressor is
hard," murmured an aged minister
a- lie passed us.
“is that one of the Shaner mur
derers you have caught?”
-I’ll bet $5 it’s Vincent. There’s
a big reward for him, too.”
“Going to take him out and hang
him?”
“The prisoner lias a much better
face than the sheriff.”
“Is that a candidate for the Geor
gia legislature associating with
that
We wager the prediction and
will hack our judgment, that in less
than live years the cars will he run
ning into Daniclsville, Ga.
The temperance crusade is cer
tainly being felt in Georgia by
wholesale liquor dealers, and it
seems to be growing in strength
dailv.
This last suspicion broke the cam
V‘i j Chattanooga, Feb. 24.—Ramey J ^, c k-number porous piaster,one that j el’s back, and we shook John’s com-
, | Thomas was released from custody i 3 ookct i as though it had been taken pany. Wc could stand being taken
t the Coal Ceek coal mines on yes- ij^jff'an Egyptian mummy, and want-
.rday, having served out his sen-| me to give her another one. She
lie passed through the city -said the ola one was no good. She
said the old man had worn it on his
back for two weeks, and it never
drew a blister. It just loafed around
on his back, and was of no more ac
count than so much sandpaper. I
tried to tell her that a porous plaster
was not intended to plaster, but
simply to retain the back in its
proper place, and let the pain crawl
out through the holes. She kicked
and said I was a worse fraud than
the other plaster. But she was not
as bad as a man who came in with
his wife one day and told my clerk
he wished he would take his wife’s
measure for a porous plaster tor her
left lung. The clerk is a modest
sort of a fellow, who was just think
ing of getting married, and he blush
ed, and finally, after looking at the
ladv. and taking a mental measure- 1 , , , ,
ment of the locality of her left lung, « ‘lock, and although everything
at
terd
tence.
last night en route to Nashville, his
former home.
There is quite a romance connect
ed with Thomas’ imprisonment. In
1S75 he killed Toe Deal, a clerk at
the Maxwell llouse, in Nashville,
for insulting a young lady to whom
lie was engaged to tic married. He
was sentenced to the penitentiary,
for 21 years, but his sentence wa.s
commuted to ten years by Gov. P«r-
ter, and again reduced on accou nt
of good behavior. Thomas has bum
; at work in the coal mines since he
1 was sentenced, with the excepti on
I of a few weeks, when he wort ,cd
| <.n the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
| for his health, which became x cry
precarious on account of conf ine
ment. Thomas -ays he is goiivg to
Railroads are certainly great civ
ilizer-. but at the same time they
encourage extravagance that often ....
results in bankruptcy of a hitherto marry the young lady, whose b onor
, ’ j he defended at such a dear cc st, as
prosperous peop e. soon as he succeeds in getting work.
If the returns of the American | She has remained true to hinidur-
B mao of Statistics are to lie cred- j ing his imprisonment, writi ng to j p i e dge you my word, the next day
i 0..011I0 of this country con- 1 him and oUcn sending him. many | t h c man came in and complimented
itci -the people 1 ‘hi. j delicacies and sweet remembtrances. t h e clerk on thc excellent fit of the
last year a little more B' an pj e ; s a man of neat appe arance, j plaster. He said it was all right.
ior a burglar, a murderer or a chick
en lifter, but when they settled on
us as a candidate for the Georgia
legislature we drew a line and that
quickly.
FIRE NEAR MAYSVILLE.
The Dwelling of Mr. Junes Carr. Jr.. Burned Yoe-
urday.
Judge Newsom brings us* tLe
news of the destruction of the resi
dence of Mr. James Carr, Jr., near
Maysville, on the North-Eastern
railroad, by fire. Our informant
did not have time to get particulars
save that the fire was accidental and
there was no insurance on the prop
erty. He did not even learn how
much of the furniture was saved.
Mr. Carr is a splendid citizen and
has the sympathy of our entire peo
ple in his loss, which is heavy. The
flames were discovered about 10
MURDEROUS CONVICTS.
■at Laraa-Kai
ty-OnTsMiiadiSi at Large lathe Oanehrahe.
Bloodturandion Their Tract
Helena, Ark., Feb. 24, 1883.—
The community was thrown into a
great state of excitement this morn
ing by a report that came from the
Williamson place, two miles below
the city, that the convicts at work
on the levee had taken a gun from
one of the guards, killed Mr. James
H. Gant, a very prominent planter,
and escaped.
It seems that there were eighteen
white persons and four colored
working at the place, and suddenly
several of them rushed upon Charles
Rankin, one of the “guards,” and
wrested his gun from him. Thus
armed they* practised the same
thing upon one of the guards named
M. E. Hill. Mr. Gant, who was a
short distance from the scene, ad
vanced upon the convicts, with a
view of stopping their movements,
when one of the leaders cried out,
“Shoot the !”
At this moment the man who had
Rankin’s gun levelled it at Mr. Gant
and shot him through the body.
Mr. Gant was upon horseback at
the time and rode 200 yards, when
he fell to the ground. In five min
utes he was a corpse.
In the mean time the convicts
made a rush for the west anil soon
had got across the fieM en route to
the hills, when men were sent to
the city to carry the terrible news.
Two white men, train robbers, are
the leaders. One of them, named
Sullivan, is he who fired the shot
which killed Mr. Gant as he was
pursuing the fleeing pfity. Not
only did the convicts relieve Hill
and Rankin of their guns and ammu
nition, but invaded the house of
Randall Jefferson, colored, which
was on their route, and took all the
clothing they could lay their hands
on. They separated into two par
ties and were last seen passing into
the canebrake near the Lamb plan
tation.
About twenty-five persons have
gone from Helena to join in the
search for the convict murderers.
Mr. Gant was one of the best men
of the State and his death will be
generally felt. For a long time he
has, with Mr. E. D. Pillow, been at
the front of all efforts to protect the
country below, as well as Helena,
from overflow. It may well be said
that the men who equalled Mr. Gant
as a citizen and as a man could be
counted upon one’s hand. He was
about thirty-eight years of age and
had resided in the section about
eight years. He leaves a wife and
one child. Three of his brothers
live near his late home.
Awful as this tragedy was it
should not be without its lesson.
Two very inexperienced persons
were employed to keep eighteen
human brutes in subjection, for if
Hill and Rankin had been ever so
watchful and competent they were
unable to cope with the force of the
convicts. It is the general opinion
that if the murderers are caught
as they
PROVIDENTIAL SPRING.
strange Tat True Story on Spring that To-Day
Bubble* vp ta the 014 Stockade at AndenonTllle,
Ga.
The following article was furnish
ed at different times to the Grand
Army Advocate by D. C. Bishard,
Serg’t of Co. M. Sth Iowa Cav.,
and was mostly copied from his
diary of existence in the prison:'
Having never seen a correct ac
count of “Providential Spring,” I
send you this, taken from my diary
while a prisoner. This was written
and dated the day after the spring
burst forth. I received a letter from
the Superintendent of the National
Cemetery at Andersonville, dated
May 22, 1882, in which he says:
“Providental Spring still gurgles
forth its pure, cold, sparkling water;
and there is no other such water to
be had in this section of country.
The negroes come from many miles
around to bathe and drink from its
pure, palatable waters. Indeed it
is as much of a curiosity now as the
day it burst from the earth, and
more so than anything I ever saw,
ribwing as it does from almost the
crown or the north hill-side.”
Diary.—August 20th, 1S64.
Water! water!! water!!! Men go
crazy and die for the want of it.
Men are shot to death for trying to
procure a drink of this filthy drain
age from the rebel camp. The
healthy ones dig great, deep holes
tor it; the pious pray for it, the
wicked curse for it, and the sick
and weak ones plead and beg for it,
in this crowded, scorching, burning,
sweltering pen of sand and famine.
The sand is one living, crawling
mass of maggots and gray backs;
and such a stench! The air we
breathe is loaded with death. The
air swarms with maggoty flics by
day, and clouds of mosquitoes,
gnats, fleas and lice disturb our
troubled dreams by night.
“ Water, water! oh, please bring
me a drink! I am dying of thirst.”
Thus spoke a pitiful-looking skele
ton of a man that lay on the ground,
unable to walk, as I was slowly
making my way towards thc filthy
branch through this vast throng of
human beings yesterday. It is an
every-day occurrence to be asked to
bring water to some poor man, but
I must say that it is hardly ever
heeded. Unless a man in war has
some comrade to wait on him, lie
stands a poor chance, if he once
gets down. It is every fellow for
himself in this pen.
While 1 was at the branch I was
startled by a sharp report. 1
thought the rebels had tired into the
pen lrom one of the lofts, the re
port was so sharp and close. All
the prisoners looked up, shocked
and stunned as to the cause. I
scanned the sky for clouds, but could
see nothing but a small cloud in the
north-west, not larger than a blank
et. When 1 arrived where 1 had
left my comrade on the north-hill
side, 1 asked what he thought it
was, “.A shot from the buttery, of
course,” responded he. While we
were talking, and I don’t think more
than fifteen minutes from the first
THE FREE HASHITES. ,
*
A few years ago a worthy citizen
of Greene county died and was bur
ied, and to the celestial gates he was
wafted, at which place he knocked
foi admittance. Saint Peter, the
door-keeper, came out and demand
ed, “Who’se there?” “Abel Hem-
bry,” was the reply. “Where
from?” “United States of Ameri
ca,” said Abel. “Well, a good nianv
come here from that part of the
earth,” answered the Saint, “but
what particular part of the country
are you from?” “State of Georgia,
Greensboro, Greene county,” he was
answered. “Aha! you are from a
section of good people,” said Peter,
“What was your avocation?” “I
was a-er farmer,” answered Abel,
rather confusedly. “How many
hands employed?” “Well, you see,
replied Abel, brightening up, “I had
an experimental plat of ground and
sold guano; consequently employed
no hands.” “Who did you experi
ment for?” queried the Saint. “The
Georgia Agricultural Society?”
“What sort of society is that?” asked
the door-keeper with an unsophis
ticated look. “Oh!” says Abel, “it
was composed of gentleman farmers
and experimenters, chiefly living in
towns and villages, who met once a
year and gave their annual instruc
tion as to what should be planted,
how, &c. I belonged to that organ
ization for several years,” says Abel,
with a proud look. “Did you pay
your own way when you met in
convention assembled?” “No; on
account of our noble body giving so
much gratuitous advice to the agri
cultural world, we were generally
banqueted and feasted, free gratis,
in consideration of service well ren
dered.” “Have you no other rec
ommendation but membership in
that dead beat society?” asked the
Saint with some earnessness. “Oh,
yes; here is my letter from the Bap
tist church of which I was a mem
ber,” says Abel. Saint Peter exam
ined the missive with much care
and then said, “Your church creden
tials are correct, but you made me
suspicious by mentioning your con
nection with that imposition so-call
ed agricultural that has been report
ed to these headquarters as crooked,
and I suppose you can come in; but
you are the first member of that con
clave that ever gained admittance
into these gates.” Farmer.
plantation’philosophy.
they will be handled as they de
serve and be given no chance to es-1 report, we were startled by another,
that appeared much closer. I again
JtoS;; .nd possible was done to save the house
Sh. Vou,d.0at i sSrJss
fires that has occurred in this vicini
ty very recently.
Wonderful Stitt# on Wood River.
Nothing in the way of a vein or
$600,000,0'» worthof li( l uo,s - soU1 | about thirty-five years of age, ami j & ut thc wor e case of economy was ’^Thigh grade ore has ever
bv nearly 200 coo dealers. | has a manly tace and a clear . bright : a woman who brought back four ^ found w hich m siz
Ten thousand .*»oUani worth of
loans approved in Hancock In one
day! What do our farmers mean,
mortgaging their homes to raise
money to make cotton in order to
Next Month’s Weather.
Tlie Canadian prophet, Vennor,
predicts a scries of remarkable
storms for March. He says; “There
arc reasons for believing that ‘March
This is rioht It would be a dis- pose( j weather, this shameful month
„ ra , c the country to see the suf- comes to us this year under a dread-
1 • *„ « mat- fullv ban. Stone Wig-
Wrings ot Christ turn • n I gins has fore-warned us what we
ter of dollars and cents, anti would j expcc t on Sunday, the nth, I
‘ more to make light of thc cause ! wh < lc in t h e East and in the West
, . t v— . , “i 1 oeen lounu which in size approaches
big blue pills that she had left after ' he Genera , Custcr Mine, located
her husband s illness, and wanted ni nliles north of Hailey, Idaho,
to trade them tor borax to "am j It ; s t iter aHy a mountain of quartz,
with. I didn t want to hurt her , u tfce 0 'j - instancc on reC ord
feelings, and gave her some borax , where aled _' so immense in wealth
ou? ‘b^the 0 alley, ^causTnobody j e^ot ‘“he ctl as horrible wretches and capable
would like it it I sold them second- ; s ‘ tor first looked upon it.
hand pills. Even then I came near Q re bodies are usually found beneath
cape.
Latest advices state that hounds
have been put on the track of the
murderers and they are perhaps
surrounded in the canebrake. They
have robbed and plundered as they
went. It is thought that they have
secured at least half a dozen pistols.
A note from Mr. E. D. Pillow, to
the effect that the convicts would
probably coine out to the road near
the Hanks’ place, four miles to the
southward, caused a party of gen
tlemen to leave town to guard that
point, and now it is hoped confi
dently that they cannot escape.
Should they do so, however, and
get out in the uplands in the more
thickly settled country no one can
predict what they may do in the
way of violence.
It is reported that there are twelve
in one gang and six in another, and
that they have divided permanently.
One of the convicts, Rigdon Lon-
vil!e, colored, who was sentenced
from this county for larceny and
burglary last'year. turned back and
delivered himself up before he had
gone far.
The two train robbers are describ
getting into trouble, as a couple of
the Polack boys picked up the pills
and ate them, thinking it was licor
ice drops, and their father was go
ing to sue me for poisoning his
boys.
f Christianity than all of Bob Inger- thc prop hcts are prophesying cqn- ,
l>U v L irran-ues corning the contemplated doings of
1 r, “ this malignant and merciless month.
In his proclamation announcing j j^ven Zadhill, thc leading seer of
he Massachusetts regular annual j Her Majesty Queen Victoria, states
Governor Butler urge* min- that March will be stormy about the
xOMinot mine j, 1 iath when mar iners are warned to
, feed their flocks with the 1 OHt for squa l s .’ It will be well
fa>t day Govor
i-ters -to feed me., .ms— — j j ook ov1t for squ
divine word and not to discourse | 0lir p eople alon^
upon political and other secular top-, however, to prepare for high tide.
ics which may divert thc serious consequent upon the new moon of
thoughts of the people from humble | wifi be felt
the following day, when our satel
lite is on the equator. On the 13th
Shot, But WUlpa tha Fight.
iMihlonrga Signal.
Wc arc informed by Sheriff Sat-
tcrgeld, of this place, that a difficul
ty occurred in Dawsonville on last
scanned the sky, and saw my blank
et cloud five times as large. Five
minutes later it struck the stockade,
and the rained poured down in
sheets as though the windows of the
very heavens were opened. The
water ran down the hill-side in great
streams, and collected and made the
maggoty bog a lake 15 to 20 tcet
deep; and the stockade giving way,
the great mass of water and tilth
rushed forth. The storm lasted
fifteen or twenty minutes, and wash
ed the prison perfectly clean of all
filth. The sand sparkles in the sun.
The storm was gone as quickly as it
came. “A spring! a spring!” shout
ed some comrades a few steps to
the west of me. I crawled up, and
there, in less than ten minutes after
the showei, saw what we termed it,
Providential Spring,-sending forth
its large stream of pure water from
almost the crown of the north hill.
“God be praised!” exclaimed huti-
Nature is de mudder ob de chile,
but edycation is de mudder ob de
man.
Some men says dat de human
family is a fraud. Dese men is sor-,
tea' loose demselves.
De law ob de state only axes de
man ter do half way right; de law
ob de soul tells him to do all de way
right. .
Dc man what is ashamed ob de
fack dat lie’s grovvin’ ole, acknowl
edges dat his work has been badly
performed.
Doan’ think dat a man is brave
’case he wants ter fight yer. De
man dat can walk away from a in
sult is de boldest.
De wust whippin’ dat a feller
gits is from de man what' doan’
want’er fight. De wasp is mighty
quiet, but his sting is awful.
Widout freedom ob action a man
is bl'me ter dc world’s advancement.
De mockin’ bird sings his best song
when he’s loose in de tree.
De ole shoe is looked on as a
friend an' is nussed on account ob
its use, but pride soon comes in on
account ob looks an’ casts it behin’
de chist.
It is impossible fur a man ter be
successful an’ retain de friendship
ob his neighbors, ’case ebery move
toward success is regarded by de
public as dishonest.
De sucker is de biggest coward
ob fish. Unlike de cat he ain’t got
de bravery ter go up an’ pull at de
hook but sucks aroun’. De sucker
is my idee ob de politician.
De boy what thinks dat his fod
der is a fool will artera while com-
English peas are npe in
cns.-:.-. "x- m* k ranraiti rams'
Canary birds sell is Atlanta at
three dollars eaclp . . .. ,
The Ben Hill Monument fund
, ri(>
Some Atlanta manufacturers get
coal for fribs pertoi*. • ’
A clerk named Diggv^ear Rome,
accidentally shot andkilled ’a negro.
There is corn InUmon county
ten inches high and is footing fine.
A white partridge was caught in
Murray county last week.
Court is being held in the Baptist
chuich in Walker county.
They are catching shad near Mil-
ledgeville with hook and ljne.
Rev. Sam Jones hasjust returned
to Atlanta from Louisville, Ky.
A Walker county chicken lived
ten days without food or water.
The small grain crop in South-
west Georgia is 25 per cent, short of
last year.
A negro preacher has been ar
rested in Hawkinsville for shooting
one of his deacons.
A strange animal, thought to be
a wild cat, bit several dogs near Ea-
tonton and they have all gone mad.
Alex. H. Stephens, says an ex-
change, is 71 years old and weighs
71 pounds.
The U. S. fish commissioner for
the distribution of carp, has arrived
in Atlanta.
A large number of illicit distil
lers are being sent to Northern pen
itentiaries.
It is said that 101 miles of the
Georgia Pacific road are completed
and in running order.
The stock law districts in Fulton
county will enclose the city of At
lanta with a rail fence.
A mad dog has attacked several
persons around Lithonia and tore
the clothes from a negro.
The drift of opinion at Gaines
ville is largely in favor of Bowles’
innocence of the Shaner’s murder.
It is now predicted that thc July
session of the legislature will accept
Senator Brown’s donation to the
University.
A farmer near Newnan raised 25
bales of cotton on 25 acres, using a
compost of cotton seed and acid
phosphate.
The police of Macon made a raid
upon a negro gambling den, the
proprietor of which was named
Lovick Piece.
Mr. John H. James built the Fifth
Baptist church of Atlanta, and has
made a gift of the entire property
to the numbers.
A Wilkes county woman, bit by
a dog thought to be mad, raised $18
and went to Columbia county
where a mad stone is kept.
A young lady was sent from Dal
ton, Ga., to New York, per express,
C. O. D. The charges were $35
and she weighed 130 pounds.
Mr. Teague, ot Union county,
who was reported dead, returned
home last week to contradict the
rumor.
W. T. Treadway, a merchant of
Cedartown, was convicted of bur
glary and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary.
A sixteen-year-old son of Mr.
Wm. Venson, of Milledgeville, was
bitten by a rabid cat the other day
and died in a few hours.
the surface, and miners consider
themselves very fortunate if after
long searching by shafts and tun
nels, they strike a vein that insures
them reasonable dividends over and
above the cost of development. 1 he
Custer required no outlay of money
to make it a paying mine. Its face
was good for millions. Nature in
one of her philanthropic moods did
the prospecting and development.
The out wall of this great treasure
worship of the Father.”
In face of the convincing evi
dence of guilt against the Star
Route thieves, wc expect to see
them escape justice. The republi
can administration can’t afford to
punish official thieves, for it would
consign to the penitentiary all the
office-holders from etoPrcsident
Grant down to Arthur's boot-bfetek.
You may as well look for virtue
among a fl.,ek of goats as honesty
under republican rule. - *
While it is not a pleasant thought
to have the bodies of our dead
there is likely'to be a favorable
change in the weather, consequent
change in the weather, consequent
upon the aspects between the sun
and Jupiter, the sun and V cnus.ana
between Venus and Jupiter. Thence
up to the end of thc astronomical
winter, 5;iJ3 p. m. of March 20,1883,
the weather is likely to be gusty,
cold and changeable—in a word,
real March weather.’ ”
After he received thc wound, our
informant states that Monroe gave
Richardson a whipping! Both par
ties were drinking. Thc wounded
man was alive at last accounts.
A Prl«<mer Dying of Plight.
Newaygo, Mich., Feb. 23.—Em
manuel Lenart, one of the men
charged with the murder of an old
man named Baldwin a few weeks
ago, was found dead in the jail this
morning. There was a dance at the
Brooks house near by last night, and
it is supposed that Lenoart mistook
the noise for preparations to lynch
him and died of the tright.
from Wo#i to Como.
Hagerstow*! j,ND.’ Feb. £4—A
young farmer Jf ss e bmitb,
who fives near herp. yybile luring
,. . „ , , ... under on attack of teipporart' iff-
friends dissected, at the same time “ . committed suicide, \vhile in
T woods, by cutting his throat » ith
i necessary for the health and
safety of thc living. We think a
great deal of sickly sentimentality
lias been wasted over grave rob
bery. The laws of Georgia forbid
a physician practicing his prolcs-
sion until lie has gone through this
course, and then make grave des
ecration a crime.- Is not this the
■acme of inconsistency? It does not
hurt the dead to be thus utilized for
the benefit of science, but at thc
same tin* jt is necessary for a prop-
> er treatment of the living. Any
man who has love for his fellow
being* would consent to a dissce
lion of his body when life .has pass
ed.
thc woods, by cutting -,
a razor. He was to hays car
ried to Misa Don* MWhJffg- the
daughter of one of our beat
crs , next Saturday evening. He
wrote a note leaving all nw pro
perty to his mother. On »
paper he wrote that he could not
bear thc weight of care devolving
upon him.
A Brutal Outrage.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 24-—The
negro brute, Jerome Holt, who last
Tuesday, at Graham, N.- C» attack
ed Mr. and Mrs. William Terrell,
while asleep in bed, and chqked tw«
husband and ravished the wife, also
mortally ittjuring Charles, a hoy ten
years of age, yft* to-day sentenced
to be hanged in Jfor,pfe.
Tuesday, in which Marion Monroe . - thr h the W ear and tear of
was shot bv H. K.ch.n iso . 'l c cruinb f ed an(1 slippei i from the
hundred feet, leaving many thou
sands of tons of the very choicest
rocklying against the mountain side
to be broken down at little expense.
Not a dollar of its total yield ot $2,-
500,000 lias been taken from its im
mense reserves beneath the surface.
The Custer, where it shows above
ground, is 60 or 102 feet more in
width and is known to be all of 600
feet in length. The discoverers in
two seasons shipped #60,000 worth
of ore from an open cut of 30x40
feet and sold out for #160,000. The
best of the ore mills from #700 to
#1,000 per ton. Although recog
nized as a silver mine, the Custer
bullion contains fifteen to twenty
per cent. gold. The mining engi
neer who came to examine the pro-
perty*soon after'discovered report
ed #2,500,000 to #3,000.000 in sight.
In January, iSSi, a 20-stamp mill
was completed and ready to com
mence the manufacture of bullion.
It costs $130,000, and paid for itself
in about four weeks. It is claimed
by professional mill men and miners,
that the Custer company’s mill has
Srwjucef} more bullion for the time
.t b£gn iij operation than any
one of similar Mpaci ly.witfiin & e
of almost any crime. They were
under cumulative sentences which
aggregated a great number of years.
They robbed the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern train near
Prescott, last year, and have played
the parts of weak, humble and pen
itent characters, gulling the Little
Rock papers especially, which pub
lished sickening accounts of their
efforts to reform and the change
that had come over them. Steps
will be taken to have a reward offer
ed at once.
The funeral of Mr. Gant will take
place to morrow at two p. in. Mr.
Gant had obtained the convicts to
work on the levee at his own ex-
dreds of skeleton forms, as they plain ob de roughness ob de fare in
crowded about the spring. | de penitentiary. Dis ’sertion may
August 21, 1864.—-The difference! miss it once but it will hit it three
Yesterday I crowded for over (Jne times.
1 . •_■ 1. ..r .1: •
pense.
Saved by hl» Horio'i TaU.
Salt Lntx Ttitmnr.
Albert Dougherty, one of thc dri
vers between Green River and Big
Sandy, who was caught in the storm
on Wednesday evening and lay out
iff tfc e > ce and snow fortjr-eight
hours, wmi brought in to-night by
Rv& CTOWyjJrfft Dougherty
was unable to mqunt the hot*t* i.'B cr
abandoning the stage, "aqjj flje way
be sueeetgfed in tri.yeU»ng >yas 3*
follows: He fftffk h°)d pf the saga
cious #niilt3i-'s (U?ij #{l4 If! JJ drag
him, Wheneyer Jjis Peflffie
so fowumted th#tf>e eouifi ppIppr:
er retain hi# grasp on ine aninjai s
tail, the animal would slop and tome
up to him and patiently wait untd
Dougherty had again entwined Ins
hands in the tail, when the horse
would resume the journey.
A post mortem will be had of the
persons poisoned at the Staunton
fVa.) insuup asylum- There is great
excitement and'thf matter is veiled
1 in mystery.
EMORY SPEER’S S$I*E.
Tbs Good* Have Rood Delivered. Rut tbsrs U
Trouble About the Payment.
Special to Courier Journal.
Washington, February 23—Re
presentative Emory Speer, who
sold himself to the republican pro
tectionists for the office of District
Attorney at Atlanta, Ga., is not yet
in the pastures of Federal patron
age, and is not likely to be. He got
the nomination, it is true, but his
confirmation is another thing. He
will be reported upon adversely by
the Senate Judiciary Committee, to
which his nomination was referred.
It is almost a certainty that unless
the President withdraws his name
Speer will be rejected or not acted
upon before adjournment, which
amounts to about the same thing.
Senator Edmunds is down on him,
and neither of the Georgia Senators
gives him any enthusiastic support.
hour to get a drink of warm, slimy
water. To-day I was about fifteen
minutes getting a drink of the cool
est, purest, sweetest water that it
was ever my lot to put to my lips.
It is God’s spring, and sent to his
suffering people.
A DEFALCATION ■f-
Tbo Gallant Little “Free State” Scores Its Flrat
Detaul ter.
Madison county is never behind
in anything that smacks of enter
prise, "and now leads off with a de
falcation that creates as much sensa
tion, on a small scale, as thc stam
pede of Polk and Vincent. It seems
that some time since Mr. John W.
Seymour placed in the hands of the
ba'iliff of Grove Hill district, one
George Washington Winfrey (no
relation to the father, of his country)
papers aggregating about #5tx> to
collect. Winfrey went to work
with untiring energy, and it is
known of his receiving some #200
on them. With this money in hand,
like the Turk he silently folded his
tent and stole away, and with him
disappeared the money. He was
traced to Maxcys, Oglethorpe coun
ty, where he spent the night with
his brother, Mr. Frank Winfrey, a
prosperous farmer and clever citi
zen. He then sold his horse to some
one near that place and boarding
the train left for parts unknown.
About the same time as Winfrey's
disappearance a woman named
Tribble, with whom he was inti
mate, also left, and it L supposed
that she has joined him.
(Mftpep >n two year*. Four men
e.4ti#eted 9v e r$i,bop^po worth or
ore from the Custer mme in
A single blast Jw» blown down $30,
000 worth. Ten additional stamp*
are being put into the Custer mill,
and will largely increase the pro
duct,
The mother of the Mexican girt
who suicided with her lover has also
made the fatal plunge into the river.
A nw STYLE » BAIR.
Green hair is coming into fashion
Justice Woods has also.it is under. I in Paris. Already several beauties
stood, put in some views which have -of the first rank have been-obserxed
done Speer no good. Before h4 in the boxes at the theatres whbsc.
was made a member of the Supreme heads were in youthful vdrdure
Court, Woods was Circuit Judge clad in the literal sense of the »orq7
down in Georgia, He is therefore, Unfortunately, it is no easy matt*
fully aMe tpIsTl whllJ kind fff a ma'i tQ dye the hair green. This color
Dc ’oman what would slander her
frien’ on account ob ’speriority ob
de friend, is wus dan de man what
would stab his frien’ ’case his frien’
is de mos’ popular ’mong de people.
Alive In tbo Grave.
The ghastliest example of red
tape thus far recorded is reported
from the Russian town ot Samaria.
A local government clerk, named
Tichenow, who had been .drinking
heavily for some days, utterly col
lapsed' on the night before New
Year’s, and to all appearances, died.
It is not the Russian custom to keep
a body long above ground, and as a
burial can’t take place during the
holidays, the relatives of the dead
man decided to have the funeral
forthwith. When the body arrived
at the church the priest noticed
there was moisture on the forehead
and suggested that it might be per
spiration, but the relatives quickly
explained that it was nothing more
than melted snow which had fallen
there while on their way to the
church. This simple explanation
satisfied the priest and the body was
buried. A few hours later some
men who were digging another
grave near Tichenow’s heard cries
of agony which seemed to come
from the ground. They ran off in
terror to the police, but he said that
disinterment could be ordered only
by the police. The police in turn
declared that permission must be ob
tained from a higher functionary,
who happened not to be within
reach. The police finally yielded
to the popular ejamor and with many
misgivings allowed the grave to be
opened, but by that time the wretch
ed Tichenow was actually dead, the
body and clothes showing plainly
the fearful .struggle which he n#d
' ly made.
OUR EUPREMB COURT.
Judge Woodson, a few years ago
one of the most brilliant young law
yers of Covington bar, is now an
occupant of the Newton county
poor house. Whisky.
Atlanta has at last got a lady bar
ber, and she is giving general satis
faction. She is the wife of a barber
who helps her husband in his busi
ness.
Mr. W. E. Dodge, lately deceas
ed, left $350,000 by his will to char
itable and educational institutions,
among them the university for ne
groes in Atlanta.
Darien Gazette: The Athens
Banner-Watchman still goes for the
State Agricultural Association
without gloves." Gantt is telling
some mighty plain truths.
The road commissioners of Hall
county are in trouble about neglect
of duty. Judge Estes has imposed
fine against each of one hundred
dollars. There are sixty-four com
missioners and members of council
in Hall county, and if these fines
were collected it would add $5,400
to the public funds.
it is proposed tff lUFH OUt tO put
Speer in. The present incumbent
i# Judge Bigby, Justice Wood*
endorses him as the nest District A
tomoy Georgia has had for yeaj
and protest* against Speer —
seding him. There are also
influences against Speer.
When the great freshets of 1832
and 1847 left the Ohio valley, a
deadly pestilence followed on both
occasions and immediately.
c#n onjv be impartod to white hair.
Hair of any other color must first
be dyed white.
A Colored Paper ea Hr. Speer.
Savannah Echo.
If Emory will put his Speer
4pe*r) to good use in the interest
of true . republicanism and the ad
ministration can vouch for such,
troot him out and let us show hirn
the elephant with side whisl.ers and
spring button trousers. •
GENERAL NEWS.
Ismail, the ex-Khedive, is going
to live in England.
The False Prophet has been cap
tured and locked up.
James Gant, a guard, was killed
by the convicts near Helena, Ark.
Dink” Davis, a Philadelphia
gambler, won$6o,ocx>in New York.
Five inmates of the lunatic asy
lum at Staunton, Va., were fatally
poisoned.
The wonderful length and beauty
of an Illinois girl’s hair led a burglar
to gag her and cut it off.
It has been a custom for years
for Tennessee’s treasurers to specu
late on the State’s money.
The Chinese are learning thc
ways of civilization, as is evidenced
by the fact that a couple of the al
mond-eyed “washee-washees" en
gaged in a prize fight in Philadel
phia last weak. 1
Chattanooga, February 24—-A
terrible tragedy occurred in Meigs
county, this State, about forty miles
above this city yesterday. A man
named Coyle was shot by John
Harwood, and. one of Coyle’s broth
ers shot and killed Harwood. The
slayer was in turn shot and killed
by a companion of Harwood’s nam
ed Scott, who was in turn shot and
killed by one of the Coyles. The
difficulty grew out of an old feud,
id was one of the most sanguinary
at ever occurred in the'State.
A singular occurrence recently
jrtled the people at Winston, N.
C. At nightfall on Friday last a
Supreme Court, as at present or
ganized, is a useless and unrespect
ed body. Their opinions receive
no more respect than the opinions
of three old grannies Sunday-
schoolers, hack politicians and law
yers who retired from active prac
tice ten years ago won’t do now. If
ignorance of law was an excuse , the
present court would be without re
sponsibility. An effort to constitute
Judge Pottle a superior tribunal to
review our courts’ work is on foot
I and we learn will be heartily urged
zt July.
Georgia'
Editor Banner-Watchman:—Our party of sportsmen found the
crushed body of an infant concealed
in a bloody bag of canvas in a hoi
low tree. Leaving two of the hum
ber on guard, the party, x;eturning
to the town, informed' the coroner,
who started for the scene, but mis
took his way aind did not finjl the
place until after midnight.* He
found that just at (hidhight'Sdyenil
shots had been firea at tnfe‘ watch
ers near the tn;e and, a rush made
on' them. Both ' were injured, one
seriously. The body of the infant
was gone, the bag being left. There
isno'clue to the affqir. u
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