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j. J. Baldwin
WHOLESALE
I. IOUOR
DEALER
Corner HrcaJ »nd Wall Street!.
Athens, Geargia
■TV ,t»i and pared •*•«* la the cltT.
-PEERLESS”
J. ituu Mm.»4 Of fcyo Wkiakaj in Georgia.
“ u Bar on Broad Street. Tbapare
, lie linear! wrrrd t>j experiences Klxok
Mj .unr « aoaaqaarten tor
tobaccos and liquors.
A trial ti all I aak.
i’>,e Scarlet, Cardinal Red, Old
*' -;,vv Blue. Seal Brown, Diamond
Live perfect results. Any fashion-
■,\ 0 l„r. 10 cents.
various quacks.
-•* -• *'. « *}*’• been quacks — Icfjal quack.-,
< r », , %clentirk* quacks and medical
u rut o: tb«*m are bland, oily fellows
4 -t ;e and-ndr* the world into believing
• i* : :»v..ntc bit of humbug. Others are pom-
*r. t ?r*t«rntiou* paraattoa. But they make
M . y«*r. seen h> love to be -w.ndled, utipula-
. . ... T :n*t tt shall be neatly done.
• . >a.r public are equally liberal to the elec-
magnetic fraud. This fellow la *£emu>
:t. Hr will put a magnetic belt around
* ».*t * magnetic necklace under your
.... ,, « run oat with an entire unit of mag
r; „taes. warranted to serve the purpose o
•jia’' ianuc its. and at the aame to cure all
?*om whooping-cough to hasty con-
Y, h**e po more electric or mag
jet: 'firm than reside* in woolen
5 _t, *' ir.girdle-of sackcloth. Only when
:y expert* 1* dectricity of the slightest
. x :awi. L .ge:;*n i even th»*n its value l.«
v<*r staled What is the strongest posai.
, - : «v- :m»t:\r rv.dencc in favor of a particular
i, : ^,*v■ nrly that it should bare been pre-
-. ; -r -t-p u.-ible person* of nrknow ledged
.. t::r ’.rraimmt of disea>e.
s T this foundation stand - •BENSON’S
;vv pi*R«‘d> PLASTER. Endorsed Sv
m> paysictaxis, pharamai^iam, druggists, and
ctni.-t» tt need* no further apology nor intro
t. c Uw tae one onl# true and tried exter-
*pj cation. Quacks of. all kinds par the
ye.. the complement of their dislike as Satan
^ • u>hatenoly water.
no* in Jtit middle of the plaster for the word
v\ E Price 45 cent*.
DECAPITATED BRIEFLETS • THE HAND OF FATE
Madison superior court is more
largely attended -by Athens law
yers than any they visit.
T «''l° r ®ros- are sole agents for
the old reuable Atlantic Acid Phos
phate.
Sc
York*
A NEW STORE.
= M Hi.e i Srm Quarter* at NlcSolicn-
I.: cider friend Hbpe Hale is
a ,*ii: -quare down to business
\ . *. .in. He has bought the
.ck of goods of Mr. C. H.
. and has added largely there
in--tick is now complete in
:rt particular, embracing in part
-upic dry goods, notions, boots,
n.ats. caps, fancy and family
-ar e-. canned goods, crockery
: tuMcwarc. tinware, hardware,
fact everything usually found
* f.rst-clas- general store. These
are all fresh and new, and he
- re is deter nined to sell as
:ap a- any market. He also sells
vai of the very best brands of
racers—those mat have been
■ii m that v icinity and found to be
d We have known Mr. Hale
a long time, and we have no hes-
’•cv in sav ing that he is an honest,
"■ght gentleman, in whom the ut-
-r confidence may be placed. To
. • d people with whom he has
his lot. we most respectfully
mend him. and assure them that
.11 treat them right.
Invitations arc out fc: an enter
temmentatthe Lucy Cobb Insti
tute.
firing on your hard work, and if
inkier don t mend it you need
not send it to New York.'
\Y anted, a good milch cow with
V* 11 "? ul1 : A PPI> «t this office.
->o high-priced stock.
A L. Venable sells tl»e ©Id relia
ble Atlantic Acid Phosphate in con
nection with Taylor Bros.
, ^ster cards are already being se
lected by the young folks. Buv
em without dates—they can be
used again.
The gold of Golconda and the
diamonds of Peru can be found at
r • L. Winkler’s.
The festive picnic is now indefi
nitely postponed, as rubber boots
and overcoats are not considered
en regie at a picnic.
The post-office in Madison coun-
known as Opossum has been
changed to I la. They are down on
the Possum.
The old reliable Atlantic Acid
will be delivered anywhere along
the line oi the Jefferson and Ju^
1 avaem railroad, by applying to Tav^
lor Bros., Athens, or A. L. Venable,
Jaokson county.
Madison county has a large
amount of money in her treasury,
and yet the court house is not- fit to
accommodate the lawyers and ju-
rs.
Now or nev er is the time to pur
chase a fine watch from the watch
maker. F. L. Winkler.
her sale—two two-horse hollow-
axle Miiburn wagons and harness, flowered delain gown, and a lit-
good as new, cheap. Apply to J. ! tie red woolen shawl covered her
n * ■ Hul1 ' | shoulders. She was certainlv
$io.ooo reward offered to any man 1 neither - vo “"g ™> r beautiful, as the
who ever failed in business or'had a i m ?' d , “"B and dra ' na
headache after drinking Baldwin’s | rnus Vj le ' >k*bh be; but she smiled
Peerless Whisky. amiably upon us, and, calling us
.... - . i "pretty young ladies.” asked if we
v\ hen other lips and other hearts ! would have our fortunes told,
their tales ot love shall tell, they will Clare, our spokeswoman: declar-
sa . v go to Jim Baldwin's, and you | ed that to have been our intention
will be better treated than any other j in coming, and we soon proved the
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
When I was still going to school,
in the gmdtosting class, to be sure,
and past sixteen, and very large for
my age, four of ns made up our
minds, on Saturday afternoon, to
have our fortunes told.
There was a gypsie camp out on
the common bevond the town, with
vans,.teQts, cauldrons and the whole
paraphanalia of gypsy life, and ev
erybody walked or rode out to visit
it. We decided to walk, and as it
was * bright, cool day. enjoyeg our-
selyes much better than if we had
lrfen cooped up in the stage or even
in a carriage.
It was October. Some of the fo
liage had changed color a little, and
there were red and golden tints
amongst the greens. Now and
then the wind shook the trees, and
scattered showers of leaves upon
the road. Purple asters and golden
red were still in bloom. Here and
there grew crimson squaw berries,
and bitter-sweet burnt like gold
along the stone fences. Each of us
gathered a great bunch, and we
held them in our hands as we en
tered the path that led into the hol
low where the camp lay.
Young and romantic, we were
ready to be delighted with every
thing—w ith the swarthy gypsy sell
ing a colt to a stout farmer;' with
the old grandmother dandling a
dusky baby on her knees, antfthe
dirty, black-eyed children squatted
about everywhere.
There were visitors in plenty,
and most of the women v .-re busv
telling fortunes. As we approach
ed a woman who had been sitting
on a fallen log. arose, and t man,
who had been talking to her, pull
ed his hat over his eyes and turned
away, like the villain in a melo
drama. The woman wore a wide-
brimmed straw hat, with a wreath
of artificial around it. Her hair
was dres-ed stiffly and primly in
w ell oiled “band's." She hail a
flowered delain
place in the city.
VERDICT SET ASIDE.
Judge Estes has, by a decree, set
aside the verdict in the case of
A vers vs. N. E. R. R., and granted
a new trial. •
A SMALL-POX CAKARD.
The Crawford News savs the
case of “small-pox" reported by the
Echo at the Glade, in Oglethorpe
county, turns out to be "a case of
bad cold."
DEWY ROBE.
truth of the adage, “A fool and his
money is soon parted," by drop
ping each a dollar into the gypsy's
palm.
"\\ ho shall I begin with, pretty
ladies?" asked the woman; and will
you have your fortunes told pri
vately or together?"
Clare answered that we had no
secrets from each other and that
this young lady," indicating Belle
vvith the point of her parasol,
|*would be the first to have a glimpse
into futurity.”
Belle, blushing rosy red. put put
out her little hand, and we all listen-
"Ratkapiiba
»1
implete cure, all annoying
atid U
. Bladder
Druggist
Urinary Uiseas-
This is the name of a post-office
in Elbert county, and the citizens
over there believe in the Banner-
Watchman, as we.received several
new subscribers from there yester
day.
A FINE SHOT.
While out hunting on Thursday
our champion blacksmith. Mr. W.
McKinnon, killed two rabbits at
one shot. They were running in
opposite directions, but crossed
each other's path just as Me. fired.
A FOWL MONSTROSITY.
Mr. Bloomfield's miller this week
gave to Dr. Carlton a singular de
formity in the way of a chicken.
The fowl had three eves, two in the
usual place and the other in centre
of its forehead, as also a double bill
ed while the gypsy told her that ™ , w'T,- CC - , we , re .*P'
some one with a title, a lord or duke : , d / Jt ,? suable relations
would cross the sea to fall .n love i death ot Col. Gabnel Nash,
with her; that she would live in - I of Ma dison county, made th.
palace beyond the ocean and be
waited on like a queen. There
was more but I have fors r ottep it
Belle was delighted and Rose was
the next victim. J
The gypsy told her that she
would mam a great musician, and
we all laughed, for we knew that
Mr. Martelli, who taught the piano
to the graduating class, was very
much in love with her.
Then Clare seated herself on the
old log and opened her hand, palm
upward. It was large and hand
some. Clare was something like
THE WHISKY TRAFFIC. —
Mr. \V. L. Wood remarked to
us the other day that he would not
resume the liquor business did the
city grant him a license free. He
is making n^w* equally as much
money as before with not one-tenth
the annoyance.
the report ot the committee, and
Lady Jane, not pretty but maV- | m ,° V m th V, i V^ printedir ? th ? Dan '
ive.’ f the gypsy told her that she I S l,„W r l £, Jr*™'
would be a soldiers wife I J ut L e Pottle, Col. Ed Brown
Oddly enough it really happened ! 3 " d 0t J? erS made Ver > fine , e " lo S ie *
not a year afterwards.' We were ^V- he . ma ?> “?? d q uaht,cs of
all at the wedding. The next day
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ANOTHER APPOINTEE.
A Ne w Jersey train ran into a I Thos. T. Hughes, of Belltfen, one
i. T n. killing two men and wound- j Mr. Emory Speer's supporters in
; ;w j, j the last campaign, has been ap-
! pointed a postal clerk on the Atlan-
»■*». [ ta & Charlotte Air-Line R. R.. and
"e l’s Health renewer” restores has reported to Col. L. M. Ferrell,
• tt! an 1 vigor, cure-dysp-psia, ini- j Supt.. tor duty.
>iuy, -rxual debility. $1. ! 1 - ■
a i men w ere killed at Pittsburg
carelessly handling nitro glycer-
BDRGLART AT THE BOBBIN MTT.l.
W ednesday night a negro wo
man named Nancy Langston broke
into the house of Mr. Waters, at the
A uiau i- wiser for his learning, and bobbin mill, and stole some clothing
*s> a-r Ue learns that the oilv propr and groceries. The goods were re-
to cure a Ough or Cold is to j covered on Mrs. Kittle’s lot, but
^ Dr. Boll .Cough Syrup, the better j the thief has not as yet been cap-
I tured.
A
parrv ot miners got into an j saw tht cars for the first time.
:.ear Chattanooga, and three ; An old lady n^d Omal. of Ra
iled Posey. \\ ells and Day l bun county, aged 93 years, who had
I never seen the cars, boarded the
North-Eastern at Tallulah, on Mon
day last, for Florida. She says that
ear* nut mice, roaches, flies, I she never took but one dose of med-
fed Lug* -kunks, chipmunks, I icine. and has from infancy enjoyed
taiaily * tabbed.
■touch M RW.
Druggists.
ood health.
f»-:ut*
hi
atn
ip Sam a.-* u« Ptirail sad Erf. Bitters Eror
Mods.
, T r <!■>» compounded from Hops,
- i’lichu. Mandrake and Dni.de-
“0 —ra- oMest. and contain all the
■*-' ‘ i m I'tiraliv.? propertiesnf alt
- tn^ ri h, bfirti agre-'uost Bloo<i
• ■'"•[■“J-'vi-r regulator, and Life and
• > Kertoriug Ag-at >n earth. So
f . h-iut i can possibly long
to* a iirre these Bitters are used, so
jr ■* 1 an I perfect are their opera-
.r..it*y give new life and vigor to. the
-*■ am; infirm. To all whose employ-
•J - '-au-e.rregularity off the bowels
1 organ*, or who reipiiro an Ap-
Touicand mild stimularft. Hop
j er " Are irualuable, lieing highly our-
tonic and stimulating, without in-
ting.
■' "’alter Wi*t vourfeelings orsymp-
J"* the disease or ailment is
,! *P Bitters. Imn’t wait until yon
k * t ’ut’ von only feel bad or mis-
.... ' UM “ Hop Bitter*at once. It may
. 1 ! - u jile. liundlRfls have been sav-
»5<X)%iU t>e paid for a
. *'h no, cure or help.
l ... ’ nilt buffer ro let your friend suffer-
ters itnJ ur,?e fhem to use Hop Bit-
drne2a ,l !* ler ' ^ ‘P Bitters is no vile,
>.*i!c. n “ I ‘r" noatgum. but the Pu-
• In,divine ever made; the
i*-. 1 s *’>d Hope,” and no
it,-,* J afarvold be without
Try ih«r Eitiers to day.
,D>e Benueficld, the most notorious
I A ''j ns i'iner and outlaw in Alabama,
• ' been captured. There are twen-
I - H'-ictments against him.
“KRDIA1R axd CORSTART.
3:3 'th Strxes, Loitsv
H R w ‘ March
I ***** 4 Co,: Sirs—The effect
Cur..*! ^ Kidny and Liver
1 * severe kidney
1 »t»nt Wk WM lmn >*dlate relief andeon-
®»i»jt l ^ r ' JTe,nent unt * 1 ** effected a per-
^ .ll^AtRAA.BAR.
W. E.
THE POPULAR ROUTT.
You can eat breakfast in Athe»s
and leave on the S o'clock train via
the North-Eastern, get to Atlanta in
time for dinner, have nn hour and a
half to transact your business, and
reach home by early supper. They
make close connection at Lula, and
the train on the Air-Line is now
never behind time.
IVILLK, Kt.)
1 29. 1881. I
MAD-DOG IX OGLETHORPE.
Mr. Flanders Moon, former clerk
for E. H. & W. F. Dorsey, now liv
ing in Crawford, was attacked by
mad-dog near that town on Friday-
last. Mr. Moon was on a horse
and escaped. The rabid animal
was killed by a negro after it had
bitten several hogs.
GOLD MIXES SUSPENDED.
We regret to learn that work on
the gold mines in Oglethorpe coun
ty is again suspended. Not less
than $100,000 in Northern capital
has been -sunk in these mines, and
we do not suppose f 100 has been
realized. There is plenty of gold
here, but no plan has been disov-
ered to separate it from the sulphur-
ites. «
Silver Creek, h\ Y-, Feb. #, 1880.
Gknts—I have been very Wi»j and have
tried everything to MS advantage. I
heard your Hop Bitters recommended by
so many I concluded to give them a trial.
I did, and now am around, and constant
ly improving, and am nearly as strong
as ever.
W. H. WHEELER.
1 head and looked full at the gentle
man who had given me the book.
He had black hair and eyes, along
mustache, and a dimple on his chin
that you could pot your finger in.
The congregation were rising; I
arose^too. I held the book in my
hand and softly turned to the fly
leaf before the title page. A name
was written there—Robin Army-
tage.
Who can blame me if I said to
myself: "Certainly I have met my
fate at last”
It is vulgar to “flirt,” wrong to
make acquaintance without intro
duction, but it was all Robin’s fault.
When he held his umbrella over me
one rainy day; when he met me as I
went shopping for Be.lin wool for
my afghan, and walked with me
and talked; when old Bilbeiry, who
made the fires for the school,’ came
upon me in the garden one morn
ing, and pointing to a gentleman,
where he had no business to be
looking over the fence, said: “Look
here. Miss. This here is Mr. Robin
Annytage. Proud to make you
knowed to eaeh other”—who could
go against fate? And so I had the
impodence to introduce him to un
cle in the holidays, and in three
months we were engaged. I grad
uated, left school, and soon after
married Robin, and was as happy
as a bird, or a butterfly or a squirrel.
I had told Robin about the gvpsie.
of course, and he had agreed with
me that it was all verv wonderful;
and at last, one bright spring even
ing. as we walked together, I spoke
again of the strange prophecy, and
particularly of the fact that the gvp
sie had known his name, and I was
growing a littled excited over it all
when Robin put his arm about mv
waist and drew me close to him.
“My darling.” he said. “I can’t
deceive you any longer. There
was no prophecy about it whatever.
I had been in love with you for
weeks—had watched you every
where, and followed you to the
camp. I paid the gypsy five dol
lars to say just what I told her, and
gave the old sexton two to get me
into the pew behind vou. Of
course I also bribed Bilberry. All
is tair in love as in war. You for
give me. don't you?”
For a little while I wouldn’t, but
at last I gave in. One must, vou
know.
“I thought it was the hand of fate
that guided me,” I said, “or I’d
never have spoken to you or let Bil
berry introduce you, or deceived
uncle.”
"It was all very wrong, I know.”
Robin answered. "It would have
been very shocking if it had been
sonv- other fellow, but vou see it
was I.”
\ es. it was him. That seemed
to make all the difference.
"O, Robin, the hand ot fate was
in it. I believe, after all.”
We are informed that work will
begin on the factory near thisplade
in a few days—the boas was here
last week.
Two horses were sold here last
Friday at a action. One sold for
seven or eight dollars and the oth
er for 91.5a
Last week while two little son
of Joseph Church, of the fourth dis
trict, tnis county, were chopping
near the house, a sappling accident
ally fell upon the head of the young
er one, scalping nearly all the back
part of his head, causing a ghastly
and dangerous wound. The little
boy is yet alive but his recovery is
doubtful
R. M. C., of the Banner-Watch
man, got an elephant on his hands
here last Friday by purchasing an
animal something under seventv-
five years old for $1.50. Since writ
ing the above we learn that the
young man has sold his horse at an
acftance of 5P cents.
J8MMUMBC gPAFKti.
DAN IELSYILLE DOfNGjn—
Baalnucns Upon tie Doits at Col.
Otker Item ot Iatsreit.
The committee who
port through Mr. Samuel Lumpkin,
of Lexington. Mr. L. made a beau
tiful and well timed speech on the
kindness and liberality of Col.
Nash, and stated that he was S4
years old. and had been in the prac
tice ot law for 5S years, and at the
time of his death was the oldest
practicing lawyer at the bar in Geor
gia. Mr. Lumpkin has the original
license issued to Col. Nash to prac
tice law, and has it framed'and
hung up in his office at Lexington.
Col. Sam Thurmond seconded
■ 1 Bitten with good effect for
You may break, you may ruin the
vase if vou will, but if you drink
Baldwin's Peerless you will never
be rained or broke.
WHooda, aearfa, ribbons and an}
feocy* articles can be made aay color
wanted with the Diamond Byes. All
the popular colon. V t ' >
Col. V rode out of the town at
the head of his regiment. He nev-
came back. Clare wears her
widow’s veil for him yet and his
miniature lies over her heart dav
and night forever.
Butwhere have I strayed to? Let
me go back to the bright autumn
day, and the gypsy camp, and the
four school girls, half mocking, half
believing, very merry and a litttle
frightened. It was nay turn, and I
sat before the dark, hard-eyed wo
man, with a face like a smiling
ogress carved in black walnut and
listened as she peered at the lines in
my palm.
“You are a tall young lady. Miss.”
she said, at last; “but vou go to
school yet. You are fond of music,
and you have an elderly gentleman
relation who takes you out a good
bit to places of amusement and the
like. I don’t see whether it’s your
papa or your grandpa, but it’s "a re
lation.”
This was so true that I came near
ly crying out "It is Uncle Henry,”
but I bethought of my self in time*.
‘“A ou wear blue a good deal,”
he went on, “and you have a blue
fan. At a concert one evening, vou
dropped it. The gentleman who
picked it up is to be vour husband.
The stars sav so.”
How white you turn, Essie,”
cried Clare.
“I teel faint" I said. “It’s true I
dropped a blue fan at the opera
when Patti sang Traviata. and a
gentleman picked it up, but I should
not know him from Adam.”
“A ou’ll meet him again, however.
Miss,” said the gypsy. “Some Sun
day at church with the place mark
ed with a flower; when you see that
you will know .that your fate has
come. His first name is Robin. He
has black eyes, black h»ir and a
dimple in his chin deep enough to
put vour finger in; and he wears a
mustache.”
I certainly had enough for mv
dollar. We all walked home to
gether rather seriously, but,in a dav
or two the impression passed awav,
and we almost forgot how strong
it had been.
The rest of October was very un
pleasant. We fciad prayers in the
school-room instead of going to
church. But on the first Sunday in
November the sky was blue and
the air clear, and we all set forth for
church together.
It so happened that there were
four new scholars, and the seats be
longing to the school were full; four
ofnws were* left over to claim the
courtesy- ,of our neighbors. I was
invited to cater a pew occupied by
one old lady, and as my prayer-
book was in the school rack I had
none, and did not Ske to help m vself
without invitation. As I hesitated,
a book was passed to me from the
pew behind me.
“This is the place,” said a charm
ing YoicMnd as I bowed my thanks.
I saw that the place was marked
irith a pressed daisy.
Instantly the visit to the gypsy
camp and the fortune teller’s proph
ecy rushed into my memory. I
could not have helped looking at
th* pew behind if my life bad de
pended on it I actually tu
Col. Nash. It will be a long t.me
before Madison county will have
another his equal. He" died with a
name unblemished for honesty and
integrity.
Mr. A. A. DanieL the present
representative, has been verv sick
for some time.
It is said that one of the Athens
bar at Danielsvilld takes a fresh
chew of tobacco whenever he is
employed on a new case. He has
been suffering for a chew all this
court.
Mr. Jeff Scott made up a consid
erable sum of money to employ
lawyers to assist the Solicitor Gen
eral in prosecuting the negroes for
killing Buler.
Mr. Barksdale, the stenographer,
wins golden opinions wherever he
goes, as a stenographer and lawyer.
The merchants, bar-rooms and
hotels were all crowded with cus
tomers at Daniclsville this week.
Mr. Alvin Green and his estim
able lady can come nearer making
a fellow feel at home than anvbodv
WALTON COUNTY*
Mrs. John VV. Black is dead.
A mare was stolen from Mr. J. M.
Stinchcomb.
Dr. Golden Carithers is now a full
fledged doctor.
Mr. N. H. Crawley has been sent
to the lunatic asylum.
Mr. Lige Barker killed three
large gobblers at one shot.
Miss Puss Rooks has been post
mistress in Monroe for 16 years.
Not a single person was sent to
the chain gang at this term of court.
There are but two sacks of guano
in Jug Tavern. The writer does
not state whether Dr. Bush is in
cluded or not.
Jug Tavern has discovered a new
mineral spring We expect it is
some hole where Wylie Bush went
in washing last summer.
About a year ago Mr. James R.
Odum's mule bit his cow's tongue
off. and the other day the same mule
bit his other cow's tongue off.
A Walton juror was locked up on
a case the night he was to have
been married. He ought to sue the
county for #30.000,000 damages.
A negro boy was carried through
Monroe tied to a horse for cursing
his mother on her death bed. The
rope should have been tied around
his neck, with the other end to a
swinging limb.
Marriages—Mr. E. S. Everett, of
Covington, and Miss Lula E. Hutch
ins. of Social Circle; Mr. L. Doo
little. of Walnut Grove, and Miss
Allean Zinner. of Atlanta: Mr.
James S. Sorrells and Miss Alice
Edmondson.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
N. A. Belk has a cow that eats
opium.
The mad-dog excitement still pre
vails.
Oglethorpe county is out of debt.
Mr. Cobb Davis, near Woodstock,
has a pair of fine Jerseys, male and
female.
Muskrats are damaging Dr. Mark
Willingham's fish pond.
Several cows dying around with
the strangest disease we ever knew.
They seem to he struck with some
thing like paralysis.
VAlr. R. B. Matthews brought to
Wwh Tuesday the skin of an otter
he caught the week before near his
house. Their fur ranks among the
finest. He speaks of making a
business of catchingthem. He also
has a young one for a pet.
Berta Dc gi Attack a Drama.
-'Vu York Ranblrr.
\\ . B. Lillon, traveller for Vance,
Hughes & Co., of this citv, met
with a horrible and probably fatal
encounter with seven fierce, savage
dogs in Witzel county last Monday.
The gentleman, in company with
another New A’ork drummer was
retiring from Uniontown to Little
ton, and when about four miles from
the latter place Mr. Dillon suggest
ed the cutting of a switch for a lazv
horse they were driving. About
150 yards from the road he found a
willow down in the hollow close
to Fish creek, and when in the act
of cutting a limb he was seized by
a large powerful black mastiff own
ed by Mr. McDonald. The attack
was so sudden the gentleman al
most lost his presence of mind, but
with the use of the open knife in
his hand succeeded in cutting the
dog several times. He had no
sooner released himself when he
The crop ouHooT liTEiBbpc
gloomy indeed.
An invalid mother and danghi
were burned with a house in Ni
Aort .. . T -Jg-
Several vessels if ere W
cently and a number 'of
were drowned.
President Arthur will make a trip
to Florida at no distant day, and
may possiblv stop over a dav in Sa
vannah. --- .
Defiance, O., March 7.—The
Wabash hotel was destroyed by-
fire last night. John Vought, a
boarder, was cremated.
Dublin, March 7.—In Swineford
district, county Mayo, many people
are dying of starvation.' Wide
spread destitution prevails.
Gen. Toombs, in]a Star interview
says the greatest compliment to
Stephens’ memory would be to
have no scramble over the succes
sion, but allow the legal successor
to serve the time out.
A Washington special to the
Times says that the President sign
ed the commission of Emorv Speer,
as U nited States District Attorney*
tor the Northern District of Geor
gia. and has forwarded the same.
#75.000 of the land league fund
has been stolen bv Biggar and Par
nell.
Twelve persons mysteriously dis
appeared 011 Wednesday from New
A orlc.
Oit the 24th of October. 1S17,
Governor William Rabun died dur
ing his term of office.
A careless land speculator allow
ed himself to be robbed is a Phila
delphia depot of his valise contain
ing $7,000 in gold.
Mr. Jesse Johnson, a prominent
citizen of Richmond county, resi
dent in the 121st district, was strick
en with paralysis last night and is
not expected to live.
Forty robbers boarded a train on
the Fort Smith railroad. Ark., but
the engineer put on steam and start
ed the train before they had done
any damage except to shoot the
conductor.
A fire in Nashville Thursday de
stroyed the wholesale drug store of
Litterer & Co., in Walkin's block.
South Market street. Several old
buildings south of the block were
burned. Loss $300,000. Insurance
#125,000.
General Toombs denies the inter
view in the Star, ot vesterdav. pre
ferring Boynton for Stephens's suc
cessor. He savs that Stephens pre
ferred Martin T- Crawford for Gov
ernor. and he, Toombs, is for Craw
ford over the world.
Frederick. Md„ March S.—The
dwelling of Simon Croenss. a well
known farmer in the vicinity of
New Market, in this countv. was
burned last night. His wife."moth
er of eight children, together with a
daughter and an old man residing
with them, perished in the flames.
LOOSE LIONESS.
How a Terror at A Neugerle Caused * Paolo aad
■ftglTFB Ikfc MEWS,
The St. ^jodiaird *riulw*y is a
financial success. - *
13 North Carolina has tabled the
nulipad commi ssion ■ bin.
^ Corn is selling at 32 cents per
bif'shel in North Alabama.
.[A^Mary^xilie^Miss, negro has
killed, four large panthers in one
a a. b mti i H
The largest failure North Caroli
na ever had was that of Mr. , Sim
mons for 9900,00a
A St. Louis “woman is said to
keep strong and healthy out of but
two boors’ sleep oat of* the twenty-
four. 1- :i y .
Texas has had another blizzard.
In some parts of the state on Sat-
urdav, it was colder than it has ever
been known to be.
“Mrs. Partington’s” wife died in
Boston. Mass., one day last week.
A ou see Airs. Partington is a gen
tleman, and his name is B. P. Shal-
laber.
_ Near Constance, Burton countv,
Ky-, in a house which was caught
floating down the river, was found
a baby sound asleep, and evidently
enjoying its novel ride.
A couple of young men went to
a religious revival the other day in
New York and stole a motto. “Rock
of Ages,” and were sent to the pen
itentiary for six months.
The body of a handsome voung
girl has been found on the railroad
track near the city of Taganrog, in
the department of Tekaterinslaw, in
southern Russia. Beside the body
lay a paper on which was written
that the girl had been a member ot
the revolutionary party and had
turned traitor. 'For this she had
been condemned to death bv the
revolutionary committee.
At \\ ilmot, Ohio, a woman was
burned to death through a spark 1
falling from her tobacco pipe and
setting fire to her clothing.
Allen Arthur, son of the Presi
dent, who was expelled from Prince
ton college for going on a spree
has been reinstated.
John O Neil!, a liquor dealer of
\\ hitehall, N. A'., has been found
guilty ot 457 offenses, and fined
$9,000 and a month’s imprisonment.
The water of a mineral spring in
Arkansas, which becojnes blood-
red in color when excluded from
the air. is a newly discovered nat
ural curiosity.
Paul Morphy, whose brain could
once carry the intricacies of thirty-
simultaneous games of chess, is liv
ing in New Orleans with a hope
lessly unsettled mind.
The richest gold mine known in
the U. S. before the acquisition of
California, was in Rowin countv.
North Carolina, which in 1S40 yield
ed $500 to the bushel of earth, or
$3,000,000 in all, when the mine be
came flooded. In 1799 a nugget
found in Calarus county we : ghed 4S
pounds.
- A-MURDEROUS-MOTHER.
A HIGH-TONED SENSATION IX BUytoa SO-
** WIT* of ft Wttltfty CK1UB.D*-
P* to Wklek a Ka-Wm-L**
Dn»r» a Toaaj Wcsus, Etc., jfac.
Interest is unabated in the extra-
ordinary case of Mrs. Cottier, wha
on Friday night, surrendered to the
superintendent of police * accusing
herself of having killed her baby
with chloroform, weighted it with
*n axe head, and thrown it into the
Niagara river. The woman is insane
according to some physicians, and
{perfectly sane according to others.
She is voung, beautiful, accomplish
ed, and has been brought up in re
fined circles. Her tether, Alvan
Church, is a banker and a promi
nent man here. Her husband, Alon
zo Cottier, is a member of one of
the earliest families in the city.
They were married in' Chicago
shortly after Mrs. Cottier left board
ing school. She was hearty, robust
and full of lite. Cottier is the only-
son of his widowed mother, and is
said to have been kept wrapped in
cotton wool all the time. He is a
frail thing and was only allowed to
many on condition of living under
his mother’s roof and watchful care.
It is said that so fearful was his
mother for his existence that for
months after marriage the young
pair were obliged to sleep in a room
adjoining* hers, and with the door
open, lest any evil might befall the
delicate pet. Lizzie Cottier was
fond of society and the mother-in-
law was not. She was forbidden
to see her old school friends,
and her life was made wretched
by the narrrewest restrictions.
Her husband
we ever saw. ! shockingly in the calf of the leg.
The lawyers at Danielsville have j “ nd th j s/“ tlem ?n* becoming soex-
a new fashioned name of whist. It! haust cd. fell to the ground, and was
he discovered a re-enforcement of I ir
six more brute curs, who were at- | vey showed rare presence of mind
tracted by the savage growling of j at this time. Seizing a round, iron
ot their companion. j poker, one end of which was in
The attack then became general j the stove and red hot, he apprbach-
and desperately fierce. One large,! ed the beast and drew the poker
short-eared, short-tailed yellow dog, through her mouth. She crouched
a beautiful specimen of the German down on the floor in seeming ter-
breed, seized Air. Dillon six inches j ror and he had no trouble in open-
below the small of the back and ing the door and whipping her bafck
tore fully a pound of flesh from the , into the cage, into which she
unfortunate man. Another bit him ! sprang glad to get aw'ay from so se ;
is played with chips and they draw
to pairs. We have a very indis
tinct recollection of hearing about
the game, but it was called draw-
poker when we knew it.
completely at the merev ot the sev
en half-starved savage beasts. One
large, fat dog bit off the gentle
man's left ear and part of the nose.
His cries for assistance were at last
heard by his friend in the buggv
who at once came to his relief and
succeeded in beating off the mad-
ddned brutes. He then carried the
Foul Murtor Near Coutnrllto.
Walton .Vnta.
o’clock ^whde KaVr*^ 11 ' C '"^ t ! {"angled and bleeding victim to the Mr. Joseph has 'ma7k“edlu7g«^ds7n
Wilcv*. pl„<* w» .ittteg I, hi, o„,, j
CONGRESSMAN SPEER. i months m the eastern markets
/j where he has visited aKcf the large
i;tsica manufacturing establishments and
01 j \ purchased nothing but good mate-,
SaHonai Btpubiuxta. | rial. He is cleaning up. his winter
GEORGIA ITEMS.
A tree near Calhoun made 90,-
000 boards.
A gander 25 years old has just
died in Hart couuntv.
Capt. George H. Adams was
elected Treasurer of Richmond
county.
Three sportsmen of Thomaston
killed one hundred pounds of rab
bits in a day.
Monticello is arousing herself for
the purpose of constructing a rail
road from Social Circle to that
place.
The Augusta News, speaking of
Gen. Toombs and his discarded
grand-daughter says that a reconcil
iation has taken place.
Judge Powell says that prohibi
tion in Newnan, Grantville and Se-
noia is about to break up the busi
ness of the county court.
One night last week the fast
mail train on the Georgia road ran
from Catr.ak to Grovestown at the
rate of one mile per minute.
Mr. J. J. Slappy, an enterprising
farmer of Sumter county, made last
season 1,590 gallons of syrup from
the yield,of two acres of sugarcane.
A lady in Upson countv has four
hens and one rooster, and she gets
five eggs a day. The question is,
does one of the hens lay two eggs
per day or whether the rooster lays
one.
A fearful cyclone passed through
Calhoun county, just north of Bluff-
ton. on Saturday evening last. Its
course was from southwest to north
east, and its path about one hundred
yards wide. It left nothing stand
ing in its track.
About twenty years ago an old
man named Kerce and his son were
lynched in Worth county for cattle
stealing. There has never been a
trial of the murderers, because, as
each term of the court came for an
investigation of the case, the court
house of that county with all its re
cords. have been burnt. At this
term of the superior court seventeen
In our daily and weekly issue men.of good standing will be tried
will be found the mamhnoth adver- 1 for the lynching,
tisement of Aiax Joseph, who has { Eb. Stephenson will be sentenc
ed to hang at Lawrenceville.
Clertbxnd Leader.
At the menagerie camp vesterdav,
while Keeper Garvey was explain
ing to an admiring crowd the habits
and peculiarities of the lions and
lioness, the female, with a blood
curdling roar, flung herself against
the end of her cage and sprung the
heavy planks so badly that with an
other jump she went* crashing
through. The two male lions, con
fined in an adjoining cage, set up an
unearthly roaring, the monkeys
chattered wildly as if in fear of their
lives and huddled close in a corner
of their cage, while the bear and
hyenas jumped excitedly about.
Two young ladies who were in the
room were hnrriedlv hustled to the
sidewalk by their escorts, add the
four or five gentlemen present made
their exit with more haste than
grace. Charley Motry, being of
the opinion that he could not navi
gate fast enough to get out of the,
room, ran a race with the Sifaprian
ape. climbing the iron bars to
top of a cage. George, his pa:
with one or two others, took ri
behind the cage in which the
hyenas are confined.
Meanwhile the lioness, having
gained her freedom, seemed at loss
as to what to do. She stood lash
ing her tail, as though contemplat-
what first to attack. Mr. Gar
s’ere a punishment.
COME COAIE, COAIE ALL.
declared himself the leader of low
prices in Northeast Georgia. He
has bought his goods for cash and
determined not to be undersold.
cabin, surrounded bv his familv, he
was shot by some hidden assassin,
who had slipped *: p near the house.
The weapon used was a shot gun.
the load taking effect in tne left
side, from which Butler died in a
few minutes. A negro named Van
Malcom. who lives near Kilgore's
mill, is thought to be the perpetra
tor of the bloodv deed.
PnMBMd With s Watch—BapttDeu 0;ti
Hon. Emory Speer, of Georgia, stock preparatory to getting in the
was on Saturday presented with a largest spring stock ever brought to
beautiful and costlv gold watch, i Athens and will endeavor to deal
The inscription tells the “who and with the people so that they will
why” of it. | declare him the leaderin low prices.
Presented to Hon. Emory Speer Ml Joseph has un limited capital to
DO GOOD. , . ,*,*,„*„ ^ 1UU1 , opccr 1 ^ * , -
He who does -ood to another ! b - v his friends from the 9* district of , back him and «* not resortto poll
does also good toffimrelf Skiff Georgia, nowin Washington, D. C„ mg a customer m whether
t 1—- —i " . • ’ in recognition of his distinguished to come or not—but publishes his n
public survices, and in token of our P? ces to the world •*» the Banner-
own friendship and esteem. | Watchman and will
The present came from voun- stand b - v his P ublishe d rates. He
men who had Been vvatrhiner ti,” 1 has a corps of accommodating
the Jeweler, always finds it so.
Monroe. Mich., Sep t. 25,1875
Sirs—I have been tikiug Hop Bitten
for inflammation of kidney*and bladder.
It has done for me what four doctors
failed to do. The effect of Hop Bitters
seemed like magic to me.
AV. L. CARTER.
A young man of Savannah was
fined five dollars “for disorderly
conduct and beating his wife.
A Talbot fanner raised on one
acre 1.100 bushels of California
yams, one hill yielding 32 pounds.
Town marshal Curry, of Rising
Fawn, to-day killed a negro named
Banks, for resisting arrest, and an
hour afterward a negro named
Hanks killed a negro named Simp
kins about a woman.
The Savannah Times reports a
sod spectacle on Broughton street—
a little girl trying to steady her
drunken father and lead him home.
Drunkenness is a crime and the law
should so declare it.
Silver Spring, in Georgia, is said
to be the’largest spring in the world.
It is the source of the Oklawaha
guarantee^to j river, which is sixty feet wide at
actually turned my
ir<qnw»k>rg Herald.
Through their Attorneys, the
Chinese have instituted damage
suits in the United Sates District
Court at Savannah against various
citizens of this vicinity, placing their
damages in the aggregate 91^.000.
There are three snits:’one brought
by Loo Chong A Co., for $50,000;
one by Thomas Loo Chong for #40,-
006 and one by Ah Sing for 925,00a
The defendants were eighteen in
number, bang W.A. Wilkins, R
G. Neely, J. L. Fulcher, J. K. Ev
ans, Wm. M. Fulcher, RobL
Rhodes, Rudolph Aensolt, W M
Wimberly. C. E. Schemer, S.
W’etherhahn, J. S. Blount, Wm. L.
McElmurray, P. B. Hall, Harlow
Attaway, Asa Blount, S. BdL James
Cates and Charles Thomas. ^
: present came from young fj 2 "" D . v n,s poousnea rates. He the start, .ten feet deep and with a
who had been watching the i , 5 3 c ° rps of accommodating current flowing two miles an hour,
drilt of politics in the South, espe-! c , rks w “° do ^ their best to- All this vast quantity of water
cially in their own State. Mr. Speer j P*c ase every one wanting goods. comes from the. spring," whose only
is doing a great work in making ; . Merchants who desire m replen- inlets are at the bottom. It is two
his break from bourbonism, and this i-'htheirstock would do well to ex- acres ; n size, and its mysterious
expression signifies that he w ;u j ami ne his stock and see his pricesj depth have never been explored,
have a foUowing in his independent i * s publ,shed - ' ' General Toranh. m,» wk;
coarse that will astonish the old in
habitants.
“The New York World goes out
of its way to be-mean to Speer, of
Georgia, said a member of Con
gress yesterday. “He was appoint
ed on the tariff conference because
he seemed to be the only man for
the emergency, and he was too
much of a man to decline, as Car
lisle was. It may be that his efforts
in behalf of the cotton raisers led to
a mistake in not raising the duty
on cotton ties; but If it did he was
justified in it so long as the duty on
fence wire was kept down in the
interest of farmers-, and then he
proceeded to say that no man in the
noose had ever acted in a more
manly and independent way than
Mr. Speer.
~h—
All ladies who mar be troubled with
nervous prostration; who suffer from or
ganic displacement; who have a sense
of weariness a«d Siretiog of lassitude;
who are languid in the - morniaz; in
whom the appetite for food is capricious
and sleep as proper hums jncertaio,
should have recourse to Min'. Pfhkham’s
Vegetable Coo pound.
The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do
well, and doing well whatever you
do without the thought , of fame.
This is the secrett of Skiff, the Jew
eller’s success.
Olenn’s sulphur Soap removes all Id
eal eruptions, soothes all abrasions o
General Toombs said that while
he was entirely blind in one eye,
he could see very well with the oth
er in the day time er by a student’s
lamp at night He says that he can
see better by the light of one stu
dent’s lamp than « dozen gas jets.
In the -day .time he can read a book
printed well in larg? type, bet can-
SgrPWjl" jgsw. dwt of a
rtewspaper. Ht will have his eyes
opahfeM oto for chfaract in a sh'orf
while. •Hit •; I- -_>rn.n|
was the mer
est wax, it is said, in his morher’s
hands. She ruled the household.
In the end, it is averred, the house
became a sort of prison for the girl-'
wife, for she was not allowed to
go out without her husband, who
was at work all day in an insurance
office, while his mother would not
trust him out after dark. Under
the pressure her mind began to
weaken, as entries in her diary
show. One paragraph, relating to
the mother-in-law reads: “Whv has
this woman raised her hands against
mer” Shortly after this was writ
ten, Mrs. Cottier went to Chautau
qua, and on returning had a row
with the old woman. She went
back to Chautauqua to meet a
triend. and was suddenly missed.
Her hat and some other clothing
were tound in a boat and she was
given up as drowned. Five weeks
later she was found by a detective
in Boston. \V hen she returned,
she demanded a home of her own.
It was refused. After the birth of
the child her troubles redoubled, it
is said, owing to the antics of her
mother-in-law, who interfered in ev
erything, even to the dressing of
the child. The Cottier familv tried
to get the child away fiom her.
They had Dr. Thomas F. Roches
ter. dean of the faculty here, treat
her tor mental disorder, and, it is
alleged, tried to get a certificate
trom him that she .was insane, but
he would not issue the paper, for
he believed her mentally sound,
though despondent and distressed.
Persecution in the end did the
work, and the poor young mother,
harrassed almost to death, went
mad in earnest She states in the
most specific terms that fearing her
husband’s people would separate
her from her baby, she gave it
chloroform, knowing that would
best insure a painless death. Then
she wrapped the body in a bundle,
after it had been dead eleven hours
and commenced to discolor, and
went over to the Canadian side,
where she bought an axe. With
this she weighted the bundle, and
taking the ferry steamer back to
Buffalo dropped the little corpse
overboard. The current at this
point is extremely rapid. Her story
is not generally believed by her
friends. Dr. Rochester believes the
baby is alive, and says that Mrs.
Cottier has hidden the babv awav
somewhere, under the impression
that she can get it again without
any restriction from her husband's
people.
Beacalag a G{ri troin a Laopartl Qraxp.
From the St. Janet Gazette.
The crowd assembled in Blanc's
menagerie in the Piazza del Ter
mini at Rome one evening last
week witnessed an occurrence of a
very thrilling and terrible kind. M.
Blanc’s daughter Marguerite, a little
girl of 13, after having assisted her
father in his performance with the
lions, accompanied him—against his
wish, it is stated—into the leopard’s
cage. The savage brute no sooner
saw the child than he sprang upon
her, threw her down, and, crouch
ing on her prostrate form, buried
his claws in her neck.
The lion tamer rushed upon the *
beast to save his child, while the
horror-stricken spectators fled in
every direction. The attack of the
unhappy father, who was unnerved,
and armed with no heavier weapon
than a whip, made no impression
on the leopard, who still kept the
child in his awful grip. Happily,
at the moment when matters looked
most critical, the lion tamer’s son,
Baptiste, having been apprised ot
what was going on, entered the
cage. He is a remarkably power
ful young man, and has always
been able to keep the animal in con
trol. Dealing a terrific blow at the
brute, he forced him to relinquish
his prey, and the child was extri
cated from her perilous position,
while her brother remained behind
and administered a vigorous casti
gation to the now cowed and trem
bling leopard. The little girl, who
was removed from the den in a
state of complete insensibility, sus
tained, strange to say, very little
hurt, and her wounds, the "doctors
say, will not even leave a scar.
A War Bslic.
Waito* Seme.
A Confederate soldier of this
county is the owner of a war relic
which he prizes very highly. It is
nothing else but an old Confederate
gray-back which he caught from his
own person. He keeps his pet in a
glass box, and has fed it for seven
teen years on a piece of the pants he
wore in the war. -The animal has
the letters “C. S. A.” on his back,
and shows no signs of age. The
owner was asked to deposit his pet
in the corner stone of the court
house, but he refused, giving as his
reason that he wanted to keep bis
war comrade as long as he lived.
if*’
of floor.’ The
the
5nt‘ Bason Lduc,
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*‘It if certain tiuu the nutritive Tain* oi-
:
Dr. W. E. Scott, President oi the
College oi Physicians, Montreal, writes:
“I bare recommended Golden’s Liebig’s
Liquid Extract of Beef aad Toaie Imvif
orator aa the best preparation used for
debility, Indigestion, dyspepsia, fever,
sgae, and loss of appetite.” (Take no
otter.)
Arkansas City,-March 9.—The
water is rising rapidly.* Several
—
Jlfc? *W
’«* .1.»■
ed oroof are submerged.
ageis immense.