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that
Grent'Cfommoner
be moved from At-
that
Atl* nt,i l,aS
J5..V nf Georg** P 011 ^ 1
thf bone* ol the
will nev
bnn-
, Vll inebriate asylum, *^>r
"ilinent i»f drunkards, wouH
’h- of the greatest charities
' „.,i i could inaugurate.
iC*"n \
I'm '.' Speer warworn in Sat-
Imorning a» United States Dis-
[,V t \ttorncy. ami convicted a man
'"fore night for illicit distilling.
There is a report prevalent that
,o,l u . Atlanta merchants had
•cue o* 1111 , . ,
, ,j,i i„ close their stores the
,,Mi. Stephens’ obsequies.
Pl u . (iuhcrnalorial canvass begins
, ;im l we predict a very hit-
,joii. It will he a great
,.n tlic fanners, however.
heat
r e.m'i
iLiniit.'
p| u . u . vceins to be a perfect
,j, for suiciding over the coun-
.ire in favor of the state
,nulling aininnnitioh free to fools
.imlined. .
> . n; itoi llrown says he will take
ut in the pending Gubcrnato-
c.uiiass. This is one of the
,i little jokes we have known
„ Senator to get ofl'in a long time.
n interview with a Constitu-
U reporter Mr. Speer expresses
t.-U-rntination to quit the ninth
l, rict and lire in .Atlanta. Boo-
<m* li. -
ATHENS, GEORGIA TUJSsB^Y, MAECH 20,1883:
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VOL XXIX,
».‘A. /’lliurgtnol/
tJeniocratie senators will douht-
cungiatnlate themselves, that
.in.) his tag. Riddleherger,
cho'i'ti seats on tlie repnbli-
1,1,. of the senate chamber.
|\ii..\vv.\. March 12.—The Gn-
,,rial race 1'as narrowed down
i,t..ii and Bacon. Mr. Boyn-
L in-to have the inside track
ini in all sections id' the state
lard from.
emigration
rth Carolina
i in Mich pr
.iline of the
uigeil to
of negroes from
o Arkansas has
(portions that the
banner State has
apply remedial
Li-nli'
the Constitution
>w positively dc-
\l e see Irom
l' ’fnator Barr
L.es to enter the Gubernatorial
L Mr. Barrow evidently don't
Lnt to be classed as a political ad-
■listrator on dead men’s offices.
l\Y h,.pe the southern democrats
In i make an ass of themselves
I eu 1’iesideiit Arthur takes liis
a t.. Florida, lie is one of the
-t -neaking and venomous cue-
_ s ,, :r section e\ ef had.
IVesee tliat*”cx-SenutorSprague,
iUimle Island, has married a Vir-
na lady. Wonder if he still car-
► a shot-gun to heel with him?
t h.nl a> soon marry a second
ly tooth hriish as this fellow
think it would he a good idea
e legislature to leave theques-
f total prohibition in. Georgia
utt of the people, and have
ipiestiun settled one way or the
i. Then the liquor men could
u just what to depend on.
'he All hi it v News nominates
i named Win. E. Smith for
irrnor. We never heard of the
itleman before, hut if he can only
the support of the numerous
lit!) family the othc'V aspirants
I as well hang their harps on a
lluw tree.
the brutality of the prize ring
pnever better illustrated than in
pnill " fought near Pittsburg, on
h't. between a couple of boys.
1 ot whom was seconded by hi
Per, who compelled the lad to
bt ten rounds after he was prac
Illy beaten
|V
lad to know that the
srrican Nihilists have selected
»u to practice on. Should an
p'sin's bullet end his earthly
ter we will bow with humble
miissioii to the inscrutable way
rovidence.
p 1 omler if Gen. Gartrell will take
'tie with the democratic nom
again: We expect, however.
| General is satisfied with the late
up the Commoner gave him
' truth is, he hasn't brushed the
s i! dirt from liis hack yet that
caught in the fall.
be latest news from the Guber-
a! muddle is that lion. JI. D.
"lie) lias not made up his
id as vet whether he will become
umlidate or no, while Gen. Cook
ilulraws from the race in a man-
patriotic card. Judge Craw-
‘ i' also willing to rest on the
hors he has already achieved. In
| event that McDauicI declines
aton is the coming man.
Il >.i
BUTCHERED BY CONE.
Mr. Stephen*’ Narrow Escape From Death at the
Hand* ot a RutSan.
During Mr. Stephens' congres
sional service, and pending the cam
paign of 1S4S, he returned from
Washington to Georgia. He was
fresh from the great debates on the
acquisition of California and New
Mexico as United States T erritories,
and for having taken, against the
wishes of a ma jority of the southern
members a most'prominent part in
opposition to such acquisition, lie
was met with much adverse criti
cism. Judge Cone, who was at the
time one of the leading politicians
of Georgia, was particularly severe
in his comments upon Mr. Stephens’
action, and was reported as having
publicly denounced him as a traitor
to the south.
Hardly had Mr. Stephens reached
his home when these and similar re
ports were conveyed to him. At
first he did not credit them, but as
one kind friend after another inform
ed him that Cone had called him a
aitor, and advised, in the true
southern spirit, that he owed it to
himself to demand what is called
satisfaction,” the fires of pugnacity
in his nature, which are always
smouldering, hissed up, anil he de
clared that if Judge Cone would ad
mit lia.ing called him a traitor to
the south he would “slap his face.”
Not long after this he met the Judge
numerously attended Whig
athcring, and going up to him qui-
tly said:
“Judge Cone, I have been told
that you, for reasons of your own,
have denounced me as a traitor to
the south, and I take this opportujii-
■ of asking you if such reports are
tie.”
“No, sir,” was Qone’s reply, “they
ire not true.”
I am very glad to hear you sav
'said Mr. Stephens, cordially,
indin the same friendly tone con-
nued: “Of course, I do not desire
to he in any way offensive to you,
Judge Cone, hut in order that we
may have no further misunderstand-
through the misrepresentation
ofoth ers, 1 think it right to tell vou
that 1 have said I would slap your
Tee if you admitted having used the
inguagc attributed to you.”
Upon this, fhe Judge again dis-
wned having spokcu disrespectful-
if Mr. Stephens, and so for the
time the affair ended. It was the
subject of discussion all over the
tate. however, and the general ver-
lict was that Judge Cone—a very
poqp if ill man, by the way—had
.hown the white feather to “Little
Aleck Stephens.” In such a coin-
munity no public man resting under
uch a charge could hope either for
political preferment or popular re-
pcct. Cone, of course, knew this,
and. very much heated and annoyed
by the comments which were being
made upon him wrote Mr. Stephens
demanding an immediate and public
retraction of the threat. In reply,
Mr. Stephens wrote that the threat
of slapping the Judge’s face had
b£cn made contingent upon the
truth of reports regarding which lw
Mr. Cone) hail pronounced to be
untrue, and that such being the case,
there could he no cause for offence
or angry feeling on either side. Un
fortunately, this letter was never re
ceived by Judge Cone. Three or
four days after it was written, how
ever, he met Mr. Stephens on the
piazza of a hotel in Atlanta, and,
disregarding that gentleman’s
friendly’ greeting, said in a very of
fensive tone:
Mr. Stephens, I demand that you
make an immediate retraction of
your threats regarding me.”
Sick and weak though he was,
Alexander H. Stephens could allow
no one to speak to him in the fash
ion described. Judge Cone was a
very giant in size and muscular
development, yet the frail man
whom he addressed, with aggravat
ing politeness and without hesitat-
1 moment, replied: “Pardon
me, sir, I have already written you
on that subject; I must decline to
discuss it further.”
“Am I to take this as your an
swer?” asked Cone, excitedly.
“It is the only answer I have to ! BLA1NE MISSES A BULLET.
give you, was the calm reply. 1
“Then I denounce you as a mis- Th0 Ex-SocreUry Fired Upon by a Unknown A*-
erable little traitor, cried Cone, j ia**in. '
mad with excitement. The last j Washington, March 10.—The
words had hardlv left his lips when j National Republican prints the star-
a light cane, wielded by the quick j tling statement this morning that
hand of the man he hail insulted left j ex- Secretary Blaine’s carriage was
its red scar across his cheek. J shot at about ten days ago while he
Wild with pain and passion, with- j was driving through the north-cast-
out uttering a word, he drew a keen ern section of the city. The bullet
pointed dirk-knife and made one ' cut a neat hole through the window-
furious thrust at his weak little ad- j pane of the air. The ex-Secretary
versarv’s heart. Instantly as he j was much frightened. It is said he
did so,' however, Stephens, seiz- immediately gave orders to his
inga stout umbrella which lie held | doachman to drive home rapidly as
in'’ his left hand, interposed it as a possible. This occurred about ten
defense, and was able for a moment ! in the evening. It is shrouded with
to hold him at arm’s length. The I mystery. The coachman and oth-
knife fell short of its mark. Once I ers apparently know of the affair
more it was thrust at Stephens, j hut retusc to talk,
cutting a deep gash in his arm, but
men came to his relief. The mad
man Cone was secured and held
fast.
Then quickly, the wounds which
Mr. Stephens had received were ex
amined. It was found that one of
them had penetrated to within a six
teenth of an inch of the heart. An
intercostal artery had been cut.
The doctors declared that he -would
surely die. Happily their predic
tions were not verified. His life
was saved by the unremitting care
of a surgeon, his devoted friend,
who, as good fortune would have it,
happened to he in Atlanta at the
time. When he recovered with a
magnanimity of which few men arc
capable even of understanding, he
refused to prosecute Cone, and that
person, instead of getting his de
serts in the dark cell of a State
prison, was fined $i,cxx), and with
his honor ‘vindicated,’ was allowed
to go free. To this day Mr. Stephens
speaks of him in terms of considera
tion and forgiveness. Not long ago,
referring to the terrible struggle I
have attempted to describe, and
showing me the great hole in his
mangled hand, he said, with a quiet
faraway look in his deep,dark eye,
“Poor Cone! I’m sure he’d he sorry
if he knew what trouble I have to
write with these stift' fingers of
mine.”
HORNETS IN A CAR.
A Young Man Mistake* a Hornet’* Nest for a
Prehistoric Specimen.
Vliildtirlphia Tim**.
A young man who lives on West
Spruce street, ventured out alone
in the unknown regions of Lower
Marion a few days ago. The young
man did not know much about the
country anil it seemed quite natu
ral that he should wish to carry
home to West Spruce street as me
mento of his trip a specimen from
natural history. He saw, hanging
from a hush by the roadside a
strange object, very much like a
small balloon made of coarse gray
paper. This singular thing seem
ed to he just the specimen he want
ed. He broke oil' the twig from
which the curiosity was suspended
and went to the station. He enter
ed a well filled car, placed his speci
men in a hat-rack and sank inty a
seat.
The car was warm. The warmth
seemed delightful to the young
man, who had been out in the cold
so long. In a short time lie was in
a doze. The car grew warmer.
The young man slept. Suddenly
the artificial atmosphere was rent
by ail unearthly shriek and a lady
rose convulsive and just as suddenly
tainted. Before the startled pas
sengers had time to discover the
cause of their alarm another lady
repeated the performance. A third
who began it in the same manner
would probably have finished it
wilhout any change in the pro
gramme had she not received a sud
den shock that acted like hartshorn
and saved her from losing con
sciousness, for just behind her a
man began to swear in a style truly
diabolical. And as if matters were
not already*bad enough, a baby set
up a yell and would not be com
forted.
The passengers soon got into a
strange commotion. The men \ycrp
dancing and some of them swear
ing; the women trembling, fainting
and shrieking; the children scramb
ling under the seats and blubbering
and whimpering. The young man
awoke in amazement. For a mo
ment he thought that the people
were crazy and that some of them
would do injury to his pre-historic
balloon. Then the conductor burst
through the crowd and stood before
the young man. He did not speak.
He leaned over in front of the young
man and opened the window. The
voting man was surprised. The
conductor seized the pre-historic
specimen and threw it through the
window with all his strength.
“Impertinence!” shrieked the
j voting man, “how dare you touch
i my specimen?”
“Your specimen!” roared the con-
I ductor, “Why, you fool, don’t you
know it’s a hornets' nest?”
THE BOSS TRAMP.
A Perambulating Hlnar from too AnitiaUanOoU
Field* In Atoens.
A Banner-Watchman reporter
ran into a tramp yesterday, and see
ing a chance for a local, threw out
his grappling hooks and proceeded
to investigate his leg book. “I am
a miner,” said the tramp. “I have
been down in the mines of Australia,
and have made mints of money, but
not thinking I had enough, I went
into speculation, and now you see
me. I have just returned from Aus
tralia. landed at Savannah and walk
ed to Athens. I have prospected
in California and have opened sev
eral large mines out west, but Geor
gia is destined to be the gold field
of the world. There is not a foot
of giound that I have been over in
Georgia that does not show pay
dirt. Oglethorpe county is abound
ing in wealth, and the only thing
they want is to get capital to show
it up. I am now going to make a
tour through North Georgia, and
see what is hidden in the earth. The
people in this section have a fortune
in asbestos. You can see it on
nearly all the lands around Athens,
and it is destined to be one of the
iroducts of North Georgia, as it can
e mined very easily, and will be
manufactured into different articles
of clothing. I am getting old, but
I am liable to have a fortune any
morning before breakfast.
A STRANGE CONVICTION
A Woman, with a Sick Infant In Bor Arms, Sant
to Jail for Soiling Thirty Cents Worth of Whis
key.
Little Rock, March 12.—A re
markable conviction for selling li
quor without license was that of
Jennie Lybergo, of Lawrence coun
ty, this state. She had a small
quantity of liquor in her house
which she let an old man have, who
gave her thirty cents for it, and for
this she was arrested, tried and con
victed and sent to the eounty jail
and along with her a six weeks’ old
babe. The babe is dying from its
confinement and cannot be separat
ed from its mother. The facts in
the case were placed before Gov-
ernor'Berry, who at once granted
the petition in her behalf and full
pardon.
COTTON SEED HULLERS.
Invested By a Morgan County Man In 1833,
Thiwtanilli
It will he news to most of our
readers to he told that machines for
hulling cotton seed are not new in
ventions. But it is nevertheless the
fact, for we have before us a patent,
granted on the 29th of May 1S33, to
Lancelot Johnson, who was the
father of our fellow-citizen, Mr.
Calvin E. Johnson, then a resident
of Madison, Morgan county, for
“useful improvements in machines
for hulling cotton seed.” This
patent is signed by Andrew Jack-
son, President, of the United Slates,
Edward Livingstone, Secretary of
State, and R. B. Tanev, attorney-
general of the United States. The
machine is minutely described by-
Mr. Johnson, the inventor, and he
claimed for it the capacity to hull
150 bushels ot rough cotton seed in
ten hours, when run by one horse
and the ordinary cotton gin gearing,
Mr. Johnson savs nothing about eot=
ton seed oil in his description of his
machine, but that “hullcrs” were
used before the date of his patent
is fairly inferable from the fact that
he describes his invention as an
“improvement” of cotton seed hull
ing machinery, and we know of no
use that the kernels were put to in
those days unless they were used in
oil making. We know oil was made
from cotton seed in 1S60 but have
no information of its production at
an earlier date. The document is
an interesting relic of a past date,
and bears the names of three of the
most distinguished men of the pe
riod.
“THE MISSING LINK
DMCitpUoo at a Strang* Being How Exhibited ta
There is now being exhibited at
the Royal Aquarium in London a
strange' hairy little creature named
Krao. Krao is described as a very
bright looking, intelligent girl of
about seven years of age. She was
caught, according to the account
given of her, in the forest near
Laos, arid brought to England by
Mr. Carl Bock, a Norwegian, who,
since the expedition described by
him in “The Head Hunters of Bor
neo,” has been exploring Siam and
the wilder states to the northeast.
Hearing in various quarters of the
existence of a race of hairy-tailed
men, similar in appearance to a fam
ily kept at the court of Mandalay,
he offered a reward for the capture
of a specimen. A man was caught,
and with him the child now exhib
ited, and a woman of similar ap
pearance then allowed herself to be
taken. When the little one attempt
ed to wander, the parents called her
back with a plaintive cry, “Krao,”
and the call has been adopted as her
name. The eyes of the child are
large, dark and lustrous; the nose is
flattened, the nostrils scarcely show
ing; the cheeks arc fat and pouch
like, the lower lip only rather thick
er than is usual in Europeans; but
the chief peculiarity is the strong
and abundant hair. " On the head it
is black, thick, and straight, and
grows over the forehead down to
the heavy eyebrows, and is contin
ued in whisker-like locks down the
cheeks. The rest of the face is cov
ered with a fine, dark, downy hair,
and the shoulders and arms have a
covering of hairs from an inch to un
inch and a half long. There is, it
is said, a slight lengthening of the
lower vertebra: suggestive of a cau
dal protuberance, and there are
points in the muscular conformation
and otherwise which will provoke
discussion. Krao has already pick
ed up a few words of English. She
is said to be of a frank, affectionate
disposition, and shows truly femi
nine delight in her clothes, jewelry,
and ribbons. The showman exhib
its her as the “missing link.”
Horrible Death of Two .Sronaut*.
Information has just been re
ceived in New York via Havana of
the frightful death of two over-
daring icronuuts in Madrid. Cap
tain Myatt and an assistant ascend
ed in a balloon in that city before
an immense concourse of people on
January 2S. When the balloon was
1,000 feet up Captain Myatt got out
upon a trapeze suspended from the
basket and began his performance.
Suddenly cries of horror were
heard, the trapeze rope was seen
to part and t^e intrepid captain fell
from the fearful height, turning over
and over till he struck the stone
pavement. A moment later another
shout went up from the people.
The balloon containing the other oc
cupant was seen descending with
meteoric rapidiw** 11 crashed against
the projecting esve of a house, hurl
ing the occupant to the ground.
He died in a few moments. Both
these persons were under engage
ment to Barnum, Bailey & Hutch
inson, and were to have appeared
in New York, March 36,
TALMADGE’S PRAYER
At me Funeral of Governor Stephen*.
“Let us pray: From the everlast
ing to the everlasting thou art God.
The years of our life come and go,
and whiten the hair and slacken the
steps, and push us tottering decrepit
into the grave. But Thy years have
no end. We bow before Thee this
afternoon, in a time of national ca
lamity, to ask Thy comforting
grace. We thank Thee for the life
of this good man, for the honesty of
his purpose, for the geniality of his
manner, for the magnificence of his
great soul. We thank Thee for all
that he did for his native state; that
which he did for the whole coun
try; for the work that he wrought
out in behalf of all Christendom, his
■life a eulogy of all that was good
and a protest against all that was
wrong. But, O, Lord, this after
noon we want Thy comfort. We
want it to come first of all upon his
bereaved kindred; may it be with
them through good and bad; and
may they rest when this life is end
ed where God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes, and they will
see what Thou meant by this be
reavement.
O, God, put under them the arm
of Thy strength and sympathy, and
hold them up, and say to them as
they pass through the waters, “I
will be with thee, they shall not
overflow with thee.” God, grant
Thy blessings upon this city, this
state and our whole country. May
we follow this good man as far as he
followed that which was right, and
may we consecrate this to Thy ser
vice, and learn the solemn lesson
this afternoon; and may we all look
forward to that time when the tri
als and struggles of this life are end
cd and we shall enter among the
one hundred and forty and four
thousand that shall ascribe praises
to Thy name. Go with us to the
grave for we go to weep there.
Guide us by Thy counsel while we
are on earth and in darkness be
Thou our light; sick.be Thou our
physician; dying, be Thou our life;
and dead, be Thou our resurrec
tion. And glory and praise, and
salvation and song shall he unto
Him that sitteth upon the throne
and the Lamb, forever and ever,
Amen.
FTlgbtnud to Death.
SoMKHVILLK, Ol|10, March 7,
An old man named A. J. Wing was
frightened to death on Monday
night bv three young men who
waylaid him and fired off guns,
making believe he was attacked by
a neighbor who had threatened to
kill him. He ran to a neighbor’s
house and fell dead.
Bod Crop* In Europe.
The statistical agent of the De
partment of Agriculture in London
reports continued rains and floods,
great injury to the wheat crop and
gloomy apprehensions of the worst
pasture for years. The area is re
duced and much resowing will be
necessary. There is also much
alarm at the spread of foot and
first instance in America
| ire 11 lady officiated as clcrgy-
at a wedding ceremony was at
u \ Ohio, a few days ago.
I " Lydia G. Romick, the
c ‘ lNl . performed the marriage
f lcc ,ur Charles Pim, of Dainas-
I riliii,, and Miss Emma Bryant.
I I ' ,r "L and groom arc members
|ai' Suciety of Friends.
U le Columbus Times says: A
'pondent of the Macon Telc-
|pf recommends A’. O. Bacon
Idovci-nor, and thinks he should
l n,J iu:natcil by general acclama-
ai “' riected unanimously. Col
F”n may be nominated "but it will
] * by acclamation, and if he is
r ed ‘ l w 'll not be unanimously,
r P«opi t . of the state have not for'
T". nor will they forget, that
a few months ago, .^oL Bacon
1 invited to make a few speeches
I’ 1 interest of Mr. -^Stephens
y l ' ,e “"mince of dus party for
F*rnor, hut decline#^ 'damply
■ u *”* never have.
crs cannot well ex.
f ’'^“taneously to their sfifTport
f" the >' need help. But, per-
Jl *„ e Colonel can “tote hit own
reaching no vital point. Eighteen
times it cut deep into hir breast, I
arms and body, but still he did not
fall. "Then lie could hold out no
longer. No courage, no spirit, how
ever firm and unyielding, could
long withstand such an attack.
Cone was determined to finish his
work. He threw all his great
weight against the umbrella which
held him away from the man he had
determined to kill. It broke, and
Stephens, half fainting, fell upon
his back. The giant Cone was at
his throat in a moment; his head,
by a grip of iron, was held against
the cruel floor; the keen and blood
dripping knife was held aloft before
him ready for the last fatal thrust,
but still the poor pale face of the lit
tle hero was set and defiant—his
black eyes still flashing undaunted-.
ly. .
“Retract, or I’ll cut your cursed
throat!” hissed Cone.
Cut, I’ll never retract!” gasped
the almost lifeless Stephens.
Like a flash the knife came down.
With an almost superhuman effort
the prostrate man caught it in his
right hand. Clean through the
muscles, tendons, and bones of the
hand it cut, then stuck fast and
reached no vital part. With des
perate strength Cone tried to
wrench it free. With a grasp al
most of death the horribly mangled
and mutilated hand still held it fast.
In the struggle Stephens was once
more dragged to his feet; the blood
whs rushing in streams from l>is
many wounds; bis hold upon the
knife which sought his brave heart
began ty relax; he was dving. But
even when he believed the next
moment would he his last, strong
A Negro Attempt* Sulold*.
Macon, March 13.—Dan Barton,
a negro, attempted suicide to-day.
He stabbed himself in the throat
with a knife, three times, and hied
profusely. Officer McCafferty cn
ileavored to prevent Barton from
killing himself. Barton ran and
tried to jemp into the river, hut the
officer pursued him. Barton
deavored to cut the officer. The po
liceman knocked Bajton on the head
with a club. He carried Barton to
the barracks and had his wounds
dressed Ly the city physician who
says it is not necessarily fatal. Bar
ton was drunk. He said he tried to
kill himself because a party of nion
intended hanging him. The hallu
cination was distressing.
The Very Oldest.
There is a tree in Windsor Forest,
England, “the King Oak,” which is
known to be a thousand years old.
But the very oldest tree in the
world, so far as can be ascertained,
is the Bo Tree, of the sacred city of
Amarupoora. Burmah. It was
planted 228 B. C., and is, therefore,
now 2170 years old. It is referred
to in historic domestic documents
iSs A. D., and 2S3 A. D. Accord
ing to tradition it is the tree under
which Budha reclined when he
underwent his apotheosis. Its
leaves are deemed sacred, and the
tree is never cut with a knife, while
the leaves which fall from it are
Tho Surrandor of Mr. Dari*.
On the lethargic waters of the
Allapaha, in Irwin county, and near
Irwinville, is the historic a memo
rable camping ground of the escap
ing president of the Confederate
States. Here he was encompass
ed by his pursuers under the $100.-
000 reward ottered by the tri
umphant United States. The bat
talions or regiments of union soldiers
came up near him in opposite di
rections, anil each was ignorant of
the proximity of the other, and ex
pecting resistance begun a fusilade,
and the skirmishing lasted for some
time, when the discovery was made
that the union troops were firinj
to each other. Of course it was
stopped, and the great man sought
for was held in durance vile. Mr.
Davis, had he known the geogra
phy of the country, could have ea
sily escaped by taking refuge in a
hatteau and steering down the
stream, uoless some native detec
tive who valued ducets more than
honor, had aided the enemy. But to
the event, which is so singular.
The apple tree under which Gener
al Lee surrendered was cut up into
chunks and scattered as mementoes
over the globe. The three trees—
pine trees—under which the histor
ic Jefferson Davis surrendered in
Irwin county, were stricken by one
bolt of lightning last year and shiv-
eredinto smithers.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS:
The French cable is broken.
Gen. Diaz and party are in St.
Louis.
Carver has again beat Bogardas
on the trigger.
Mr. James F. West, a Griffin mer
chant, is dead.
Corn in Southwest Georgia is
knee'-high.
J ay Gould is seriously ill at Jack
sonville, Fla.
Wiggins claims that his prophecy
has been fulfilled.
ThA-e has been a Masonic politi
cal riot in Paris.
It is rumored that Senator Fair,
of California, will resign.
The opera house at Virginia City,
Nevada, has been burned.
Work will soon commence in
earnest on the Penama canal. h
Another New York whisky
house has failed for $500,000.
Two descendants of the discover
er of America’are beggars in Rome.
Eleven men were burned with a
house in the Black Hills.
The small-pox has entirely disap
peared from East Tennessee.
Mormonism is gaining many
converts around Chattanooga.
Mr. Elliott’s store imSath, Rich
mond county, has been burned.
The growing wheat crop of the
west has not as yet been damaged.
The liquor license in Americus
has been raised from $ioo to $200.
Gov. Boynton has at last declared
himself a candidate for re-election.
Infernal machines are now being
found under public buildings in
Paris.
The floods on the Mississippi
prove not to be so bad as first re
ported.
A Florida merchant killed a ne
gro for refusing to pay for some
whisky.
It is sai 1 the Georgia republicans
will nominate A. E. Buck for gov
ernor.
The Supreme Court has decided
to let Alf. Dove, of Spalding coun
ty, hang.
A dying man in Terrell, Texas,
confessed to a murder committed
years ago.
The condition of Ireland is more
tranquil than it has been for some
time past.
A duel was stopped at Lynch-
burg, Va., by the arrest of one of
the principals.
A sleeping car was burned on
the Pennsylvania road, but the pas
sengers escaped.
Savannah negroes threaten to
brain white men when they refuse
to pay their debts.
The Supreme Court has decided
agaiust Judge Wellborn and in fa
vor of Judge Estes. •
Four North, Carolina school-.
mouth disease among cattle. Lccal I religiously preserved as charms,
fairs throughout Great Britain have ■
been closed, and orders in Council
prohibit (the moocmcnt of farm ani
mals from Scotland to Ireland until
the 31st of March.
Tb« Good Coy’* Prlmor.
THE YOUNG MA-G1-C1AN.-
The fol-iow-ing ex-pe-ri-ments
are simple and ea-sy, and an-y lit'
tie boy can do them, and make the
Home Cir-clc right Livc-ly.
THE Al.ling IIA-BY.
When Nurse is Out of the Room,
tie a White silk Thread tight-ly A-
round Ba-by’s leg, in H Crease of
the Fat where it will not Show. In
a few Minutes Ba-by will Set up a
Howl, and neither Nurse, nor Ma
ma, nor Sis-ter Hel-en, nor Grand
ma, nor yet Sis-ter Kate will be A-
ble to Find where that Drat-ted
Pin is. Of course when the Doc
tor finds the Thread, you can ei
ther Lie out of It or prove an Al-i-bi.
the mys-ti-vikd cat.
Some af-tcr-noon when sis-ter
Hcl-cn is out hunt-ing new Rugs
with Cou-sin Es-tellc, Coax Le-na’s
Cat in-to Sis-ter Hel-en’s Room,
stain his mouth with Red Ink, and
gum a fea-ther from the Can-a-ry
to His Nose. Then you can take
the Bird from its Cage, and sell it
to the Junk Man a-round the Cor
ner for sixty-five Cents, tn-king
f ood care to leavo the Cat in the
Loom. When Sis-ter Hel-en
Comes Back there will be an En-
ter-tain-ment, and la.ter on a love-ly
tri-an-gle will be made by un-de
Char.ley. the Cat, and a Club.
THE IN-VBR-TkQ FISH,
Some morn-ing when Sis-ter
Kate is in the Par-lor tu-ning the
Ban-jo, pour a lit-tlc Am-mo-nia or
pep-per Sauce in-to her A-qun-ri-
um. With-in on Hour the as-ton-
ishe'd Fish will Swim up-side Down,
which will be ver-y cu-ri-ous and
A-musing, cs-pe-ci-al-ly to Sis-ter
Kate.
Toony Found Banging,
Miss Mary Dodd, of Forsyth
county, was found hanged in the
barn of her hrothcr-in-Iaw last
Tuesday morning. She has been
partially deranged for the last two
years, and this is the cause attribu
ted to her untimely death. Her
body was found hanging by the
neck tied with an ordinary plow
line, on last Tuesday about noon,
in the barn belonging to her broth
er-in-law. She had been residing
with her mother near by, and had
not been missed when she was
found by her brother-in-law when
he went to feed his horse. She
leaves a mother and several broth
ers and sisters to mourn her death.
A FathsrXUHHl* cwid.
An awful tragedy is reported from
Hart county. The report says that
a man by the name of Herring, who
is in the habit of getting drunk and
whipping his wife, got drunk a day
or two ago and started home. His
wife seeing him coming and notic
ing his condition, slipped, out of the
house to avoid him, leaving a little
infant in the houso- Hearing the
child cry she wont back and looked
through the crack and saw the father
with the child lying on the hearth
and he standing over it with a shov
el pouring hot ashes on it The
mother raised the alarm and the
father fled. The child was dead
when the mother reached it The
father made his escape.
Another Gibraltar Boing Built.
As England won’t give up Gib
raltar, Spain proposes to dwarf
the historic lortrcss. One scheme
which meets with great favor is to
fortify the rocky headland of Alge-
ziras, Jwcst of Gibraltar, to Tarifa,
the extreme limit of the southern
peninsula, and then on the African
side crown the heights of Ceuta
with fortifications as strong as those
of Gibraltar. This they claim would
render Gibraltar useless as the ren
dezvous of a fleet. The English,
on the other hand, are not iusenble
to the danger threatened by the
Spaniards, their engineers being
engaged in devising measures to
overcome those of the latter.
WBo Will Get It,
Conttltution,
The official plum now sought
the assistant district attorneyship
under Mr. Speer. There arc sever
al applications for the position. The
indications are that Mr. J. C. Jen
kins will receive the appointment
as he has the endorsement of nearly
if not all the republicans and a num
ber of democrats. He. is a gradu
ate of Princeton and it is said that
his application is regarded wi
vor by Mr. Speer.
TBs Fong* of a Rattlsuiake.
A physician who captured a rat
tlesnake proceeded to dissect the
head for his amusement and infor
mation. Taking one side of its
head, he extracted the fang, when
lying close by this he found another
fang a little shorter than the first,
ready to take its place when the
long one should be broken off or
fall out. Next to the second fang
was a third, and next to this a
fourth, and after the fourth a fifth,
each, as it was found, proving just
a little shorter and a little smaller
than the one found just before it.
So that the serpent was endowed
with five fangs on one side of its
mouth, each to come into use in
regular succession. The physician
dissected only one part of the snake’s
head, but this proved to his satisfac
tion that the current belief that a
rattlesnake has only- one -fang on
each side of t{>e head is a very erro-*
noous belief ais applied tot all snakes
of this species;
Whj Hr. StepBMW New Hamad. *
The fqUowing anecdote of Alex
ander H. Stephens is related in the
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
wife of a western congressman was
one day sitting- by Mr. Stephens’
bedside, when he was so very ill in
the winter of 1S77, and lie spoke
quite freelv to ner of his mother
and his early life. ‘.‘Why did you
never marry?” she asked. “That’s
my secret, he replied, evasively.
“But we would all like to know it,”
was her response. “Well,” said he,'
grimly, and reluctantly, “I never
saw but one woman 1 wanted to
marry, but she did not want to
marry me. That’s a good reason,
isn’t it?” “I hope she lived-to re
gret her mistake,” remarked the
kind heart. ‘;Y-e-s,” responded
Mr. Stephens, slowly, “I think she
diik and so did I.”
Mod with fa-
tMddif
Tho groator portion of Sawnee-
now out of water.
ie groatei
town, IU„ is
Trains are running again. Man-
houses that weathered the floods
are now falling, total or partial
wrecks.
DJlagaPla to Commit
angrrttmn (.Mi.) Mail
Monday evening Mrs. Augustus
Roberts, living at Tilghmanton,
this county, attempted suicide by
swallowing a pin. She also had
prepared a quantity of broken glass
that she purposed swallowing, hut
in which she was prevented by
member* of tho family, who gained
knowlodgoof her intentions. The
effects which the pin will produce
have not yet developed.
Texarkana, March 11.—Sheriff
Dixon, tried for killing A. S. John
son- in the court house Thursday,
was acquitted last night
Spinning Gotten from t* 1 * Soofl*
A Clement’s Attachment thread
factory is situated on Little river,
not far from its mouth, in Abbeville
county. It is owned by Messrs. E.
A. Searles and T. N. . Daliis, and
was put in operation on the 5th of
March, 1882. Mr. Wm. Bradley, a
machinist of much experience, is
the superintendent. One attach
ment and four hundred and sixty
spindles here have ginned and spun
one hundred and twenty thousand
pounds of seed cotton during the
last year—tho yield in thread being
one hundred and eighty bales, each
weighing two hundred pounds, or
seven thousand two hundred bunch
es of thread, each weighing five
pounds. One hundred pounds of
.seed cotton yield thirty pounds of
thread.—Charleston News.
Gov. Boynton has decided the
contested ctoxiori Idaici AriHNEUtfc*
of Lee county, in favor of W. H.
Newsome, who had received the
certificate of election.
•^J^tbys fiad a fight, and one was kilL
ed and two badly wounded.'
The reward for the Rudd mur
derers remains unpaid and there is
some dissatisfaction.
A negro woman in Savannah,
crazed from religious excitement,
has been committed to jail.
At St. Louis a young man play-
•fully snapped a gun at a lady, and
murder was the consequence.
It is suspected that the Land
League is responsible for the late
outrages in Ireland.
Grand preparations are being
made for the reception of Parnell,
Davitt and Egan in America.
Baden Baden, March tt.
Prince Gortschakoff, cx-Chancellor
of the Russian Empire, is dead.
Miss Mary Maxwell, of Mecklen
burg county, N. C., was found
stranglep to death on the roadside.
Paris, March 11.—The cavalry
charged the orowd twice to-day,
knocking down and crushing sev
eral men and boys.
London, March 11.—The Obser
ver states that Judah P. Benjamin’s
health permitting, he will probably
accept a judgeship.
At a called meeting of the Geor
gia railroad directors, last Tuesday,
it was agreed to capitalize the Wes
tern railroad of Alabama for $3,000,-
000.
Elliott, the dead prize fighter, was
buried with great ceremony in Chi
cago Sunday. An executed mur-
dercrer also was given an imposing
funeral.
Monroe, March 13.—Marcellus
Tuggle, of Clarke county, was con
victed in the county court yester^
day, before a jury for selling' mort
gaged property.
Luther, Mich., 13.—A house of
ill repute was burned yesterday.
Jennie Goodsell and Reuben Mey
ers, inmates, perished. They
said to have been intoxicated.
A dangerous counterfeit of the
standard silver dollar has made. its
appearance in Ohio and Indiana.
It has the exact weight, ring and
appearance of the genuine and re
sists acid test, unless the outer coat'
ing of silver is penetrated.
The President’s physical condi
tion is said to cause his intimate
friends considerable anxiety, and it
is alleged, he, himself is somewhat
despondent. Ii report be true, he
has repeated several times within
the last few weeks, that he might
not live to finish his term of ol
Augusta, March 13.—Congress
man Tillman, of South Carolina, and
Congressman Candler, of north
Georgia, met here to-day for the
first time, and had a talk over their
recent triumphs and matters likely
to engage the forty-eighth congress
at the first session.’
Marietta, March 13.—This
community is considerably alarmed
at the nocturnal visits of some wild
animal. It frightens dogs off their
premises and devours bon, sheep,
etc., and is said to thirst for human
blood. It has been seen quite a
number of times, and several hun
dred shots have been fired at it- Its
tracks .measure some six inches
across and are shaped like that of a
cat.
-any has three artesian]
Robert Toombsris ib kkomtity-
third yew,,, , All1 j imr.iriiH*
wh&t is kaKffbwtfittdfflFbrtfi?
field*: around Coviugton^it! srfT
L^vF*iday six-people wsrobamH
ed to deaffi'in 1 * n ^ J<A wo
is 21 years Old.-’ ^ oxT-ti-tib notnvoH
Mr. Stephens is said to hayc aid
ed in educating i22tyoung'men.
There are twelve hundred and
thirteen convicts in the Georgia
penitentiary. *“ ■>"'- t? :
The Marietta and North Georgia
railroad is being rapidly pushed to
the North Carolina line.
E. P. Clayton, a prominent mer
chant of Augusta, has been stricken"
with paralysis. *
A white woman in- Macon, Ga.,
discovered that her husband had"
seven living wives.
Strawberries are being shipped
from Thomasville, Ga. One man
ps 20 acres m them. , .
The Wesleyan Female College, of
Macon, is said to be the oldest fe
male college in the world.
The Macon Telegraph boldly de
clares itself in favor of depriving'iie-
groes of the right of suffrage.
In 1867, Hon. J. S. Boynton, act- ;
ing Governor of Georgia, was pres-,
ide.nt of a base-ball club in Gnffin.'
Ga. ’’ • 1
Some peachtree limbs stuck into
Georgia soil for the purpose of sup
porting pea vines took root and
bloomed.
The fruit gathered from seven
teen acres of the Cunningham fruit
farm near Griffin the past year real
ized for the owner $7,000.
The trestle on the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia road has
been completed, and trains are now
running through to Rome.
A Houston county negro named
Phillip Whitfield had to pay fifty
dollars for violating the prohibition
law of the county.
Mr. B. Lively, a J. P. near Mace
donia, Ga., committed suicide by
hanging himself in his corn-crib
with a plow line.'
While Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pen
dleton, of Augusta, were attending
a funeral, their little son accidental
ly shot and killed himself.
The Daniclsvillc Monitor wants
Hon. James M. Smith, of Ogle
thorpe, for Governor. A better
man could not be found.
Mr. Howard Snider, a school
teacher at Dawson, Ga., was found
dead in the top of a tree with a bul-
et through his brain. Suicide.
Nellie Benson, a colored woman,
aged 103 years, was burned to death
at the residence of Mr. A. E. Stur
gis, in McDuffie county.
The grand jury of Clayton coun
ty in their general presentments
earnestly recommend the abolition
of the county court.
The commissioners of Gordon
county have refused to issue liquor
licenses. The liquor men have ap
pealed to the supreme court.
In a neighboring county, in one
district; twenty-two men, related in
no way, resemble so much that it
is with difficulty they can hii dis
tinguished from each other. - " ' i
Hamilton Journal; In 1862 there
jvmc 7^)26 staves in tliiscounty. The:*
increase of the black population has
been less than 1 per cent, per an
num since.
The dwelling house of a colored
man named Frank Garner, in New
ton county, was destroyed by fire
one day last week, and his liftle
child, tiged about 4 years, was burn
ed to death in it. u- ! n rfl’dl
Primus Jones, of Baker county, >
the man who grows the first bale of a
cotton every year in Georgia, plant
ed 100 acres in cotton on February ,
14th. He got a splendid stand ana
hopes to beat Texas this year.
Two colored men were coon ;
hunting in Liberty county, when
their dogs “treed” a very large pan
ther, which they killed. They say
it was about seven feet from tip of
nose to the tip of the tail.
GENERAL NEWS.
Some genius has invented a
machine to play pianos. % V(: i
Tennessee has 60,000 colored
Baptists, with 150 churches.
Artificial eyes have been found
among Egyptian mummies.
Condensed elephant’s milk is be
ginning to be used as a tonic.
Distress in County Mayo is re
ported greater than at any time
since 1S47.
About 640,000 bottles of beer
will be given away at the corona
tion of the Czar.
A little advertising balloon sent
up from Paris came down in Russia
within three days.
A young girl of 16 has just mar
ried a man of over 70 vears in Olncy-
ville, R. I.
Another plot to assassinate the
Czar of Russia has been brought to •
light at Brussels.
In lower Florida lecturers are
given one-third of the net proceeds .
are and paid in fish.
Chickens are selling at forty cents
a piece, and fresh butter forty cents
per pound in Birmingham, Ala
bama.
Matamoras, March 10.—In a
battle with smugglers at Salinas
three Mexican soldiers
yesterday,
were kilfe
Dtod tmth* Dentist** CBolr.
Portshouth, Va., March 12.—
Mrs. Dr. E. M. Watts, wife of a.
prominent physician of this place*
died this evening from the effects of
chloroform which had been admin
istered prt*ious to the extraction 6(
ed.
Suit is to be instituted by the
Woolford heirs for the ground on
which the village of Graniteville,
S. C., stands.
A hand of thieves has recently ,
been organized in western Kansas
under the name of “The Dirty Doz
en.”
There was a young man hanged
in Massachusetts on Friday whose
ancestors came ' over in the May
flower. - t
After nineteen years of voluntary
confinement in a convent, Sister
Lorenzo, of Georgetown, D. C.,has
re-entered the world as q belle and
the possessor of $20,003.
The telegram announcing a ship
wreck near Charleston, S. Cl, in
which eighty lives were lost, adds
another to the already unprecedent
edly long list of disasters of 1883. J
Bogardus beat Carver in the r<
pigeon match at St- Louis FriAty ‘ f
t>y a score of Si to 79. At Cincin- ■
nati Saturday Carver beat Boggi^jp ..qt
89*014.
New London, Conn., March a. .
Wt’
some of her teeth. Alter the opera
tion she spoke a few words ana died
almost instantly.,
There are twelve standard and »
sixteen narrow-guage: railroads
building in Mexico, the former
with an aggregate mileage of 1,266
and the latter of 820.