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J. J. Baldwin.
WHOLESALE
LIQUOR
DEALER
Corner U.*aad *
Athens, ■
id Wall Streets,
Geargia,
Xhr inr^r-t and purest stock iu the citT. My
PEERLESS”
is the lineal brand or Kye Whiskey in Georgia.
Entrain-* to Bar on Broad Street. The purest
.j.l •**..! liquors served by experienced Mlxolo-
‘ ,t>. Mv "Um* is Headquarters for
TOBACCOS AND LIQUORS.
A tri»d i> all I ask.
iair-'wly *
TW 1'lie S-arlei, Ciirliiinl lied, Old
i.*ld, Navy UUi.-.S-al Drown, Diamond
iv,- .’nr result*. Any fa-tiion-
t,lc color. Invents.
DE0AP1TATED BR1EFLETS
The boys have begun the game
of base ball.
Taylor Bros, are sole agents for
the old reliable Atlantic Acid Phos
phate.
The Lucy Cobb chapel is the
prettiest little hall in the south.
A\ anted, a good milch cow with
young calf. Apply at this office.
No high-priced stock.
The Gainesville Southron says
Mr. F. Phinizy would suit it for
governor. We would support him
with pleasure, but the gentleman
has no political aspirations. , . . , , . .
.... , , ,, , ,, Last evening the phvsicians ot
, . ‘ I , enable sells the old relia- Athens held a mee ting and maoped
ie . an >c Acid Phosphate in con- | out a fj ne programme for the enter-
i cc ion with lay lor Bros. J tainment of their brothers, to con-
The building of the Athens Com- I vene in this city April iSth. They
press and Mill Co. will be five | " 'll give them a fine banquet and
stories. j show them the sights of Athens.
't ou may break, you may ruin
,' °ur watch if you will, hut Winkler
can fix it all up right still.
A WATC3 STOAT.
Chief Oliver tells of finding an
old watch, and in picking it up one
of the wheels fell out; but this did
not interlere with the works, as it
kept splendid time for years with
out the wheel being replaced.
CORK PUSTKO.
We hear of a great deal of com
being planted in this section, and
one farmer of Oglethorpe reports
20 acres up and looking well. Plant
ers are rapidly catching up with
their work since the good weather
set in.
THE PHT1HCLUIS.
PROCLAMATION.
J A M K** B»>VNT« »N,
requires immediate *
m election
April. IHSTt,
••1 by the death of
rat.' no one*hall
the ttreat -eal of
Atlanta, this, th e
r or our Lord one
eijrht; -three, hi d
L'niretl Srate^ of
lMVNTbV.
MAKHXtO.
In every human soul there are
_ many grains pf gold. When one is
John Davenport tells ot a Jersey down don’t throw mud upon him;
‘strive to reach him; bring him out
from the mine which he has fallen,
and tell him of Skiff, the jeweler.
This is true manhood.
j hull he owns that jumps the Oconee
river at one leap.
\ ou may break, you may ruin the
vase it you will, hut if you drink
Baldwin's Peerless you will never!
he ruined or broke.
\ csterday we had some delight- j
ful weather, and th
opened with a boom
HUGO INS—WHEELUS.
Married, in Christ Church. New
THE CHAMPION^
The BegnlatcTB in Dry Goode and
Groceries Again to tly Front
And Charters One Page of the Ban*
ner-Watchxnan to Tell of
Their Slaughter.
Their Immense Stock of Winter Dry
Goods at and Belowf Cost.
This Firm Means Business, and the
Sacrifice Begins.
“See What a Great Amount of Goods
a Little Money Bnyeth.”
Yesterday our office was invaded
by a smooth-faced young man, ap
parently in his teens, but the relia
bility and experience of age beam
ed from his eye. He was Mr. Ho
mer Nicholson, member of the gi
gantic house of Nicholson, Sanford
A: Co., which is one of the most re
liable and solid houses in the south.
“What can I do for you to-dav?"
we asked, motioning to an inverted
coal box that did double duty
Or! eans. La.. March 6. 1SS3, Mr. seat for distinguished visitors.
ens. Ga.. and Mrs. Susie Ahbie ment in your weekly, for one time.
“Look here, boss, dat clock of: Wheelus. of Brooklyn. N. Y., the 1 What will it cost me?”
mine dat I got from Mr. Winkler Rev. Alex. J. Drysdale. officiating, j We glanced at the copy, remark-
can tell de time of dav at anv hour ! The happy couple has our best ] cd that it could be nicely displayed
in de nighc.” I wishes. May their pathway through 1 in two squares, and it would cost
.... , ll'fc 1>c stre " n w >th Heaven's choic- 1 him #2.
consumption was unknown . , . • , , . , .
est blessings. j “But, he remarked, "our s is no
' two-square house. We want an
. HE COULD NT stand IT. I advertisement that will alike re-
It you value your health and tha • Tom Hughes, one of the famous
ot your family, remember to keep a gentlemen of the Banks Countv
bottle ot Baldwin s Peerless whisky Guards, don t seem to relish the mail
in the house. agent business. He savs that he
If vou want to have anv local could stand marching and fighting,
hills passed at the next ses'sion of • but when il comes to handling ten
the legislature begin to advertise t . housa . nd pounds of mail matter a
umption was unknown |»
among Georgia negroes before the
war.
HOME COMFORT.
. res;- What He
r«*s.pi«* \
1*1 they
u among the
he niCN*eng*r
them.
$ io.ooo reward offered to any man
who ever tailed in business or had a
headache after drinking Baldwin's
Peerless Whiskv.
\ ennor says we'll have very
rough weather on the i-1h. iSth.
19th, 20th, 27th and 31st of this
month.
\\ hen other lips and other hearts
tiieir tales of love shall tell, they will'
say go to Tim Baldwin's, and vou
day. he threw up his commission
and has gone hack to juggling gin
tor the Martin Bros., at Clarkesvilie.
t.-'p;
•,1 fr,
1 union of the two process-*, ht-n-
p:.,in,,tes both. It incites the torpid
ucli the myriad i-,ri s of the sfcin.
-lers oblige lb- patient to waft. They
.<• for to morrow Henson's plaster
. In to-dav. Which Setter, do you
will be better treated than anv other |
place in the city.
Cap*. Bardeen has just put down
some more new crossings. He is
overwhelmingly the right man ini
tile right place.
The old reliable Atlantic Acid j
wil 1 v e delivered anywhere along
the line of the Jefferson and Tug j , . ,
Tavern railroad, bv applying to Tav- j " u c
lor Bros.. Athens, or A. L. Venable, !
, r . -n they I lank-on county.
' Wail '■ prominen^ lawyer in a neigh- j
rj ride ' I boring county has got himself into i
m om e. j trouble for failing to turn over a |
e system by | sum of money that he collected for
n or eitrac ! a client vears ago.
ADVERTISING PATS.
A friend from Oglethorpe came
in to see us yesterday and remarked
that he saw Max Joseph's advertise
ment in the Banner-Watchman and
gave him a call. In buying a small
bill he saved enough to more than
pay tor a year's subscription to this
paper. Thus it seems that an ad
vertisement no only profits the
dealer but is money in the pockets
of our readers.
ALAS POOR “SPOT.”
led ins,
i» keep
*tl him
fleet the immensity of our
establishment as also the slaughter
we are making in fall and winter
dry goods, dress goods, shoes, hats,
etc. What will you sell us four
pages of your weekly for one Issue?"
This petrified us. We figured
the conundrum up and told the as
piring young merchant that our
weekly business aggregated $ io.
ooo a year, which would make his
advertisement cost him $2,000 for
this issue. But as we hadn't taken
out a wholesale license it would be
impossible to accommodate him."
“Well." Mr. N. remarked, “1 sup
pose then we'll have to get out a
second addition to the Banner-
Watchman on our own hook. So
just print this notice on one page,
fill the other with choice reading
matter, and next week present it to
your readers with the compliments
of Nicholson. Sanford & Co."
This, gentle reader, is the history
of the enormous advertisement
which appears in our weekly to
day. It reflects alike the liberality,
, integrity, magnanimity and enormi-
] tv of the house that asks vour atten-
! tioii. From some establishments
; this announcement of "closing out
below
; but
; Capt. John L. Davenport, the
1 great grain-grower of Greene.
combed the hay seed from his hair
; and attended the L. C. entertain-
i ment.
The spotted dog belonging to
Mr. Jesse Allen has come to an un
timely end by being run over bv
the train at Union Point. Spot's
life has been as checkered as his
He was wrecked in the ex
cursion on the North-Eastern rail
road. and ha* whipped every little ! , ' a11 antl "' nter stock at and
dog that ever came to Athens. But i cost would be meaningly
we sildntly now at this present mo- | n , ot " ith Nicholson. Sanford &
ment drop a tear over the grave of I *-°* They mean every word they
poor Spot. i > a .v. and will make good every
I promise. They have now on hand
the tinware war. one Q f t | le i ar ,, est stocks of these
ISEJ
In justice to Messrs. Talmadge.
Jones & O'Farrell we will state that
they were the first house to an
nounce their slaughter in the prices
of tinware, and to advertise wash-
pans at rive cents each. Mr. James
O'Farrell tells us that these notices
a young gentleman or a handsome j in the Banner-Watchman have al-
young lady as a beautiful, pure gold ; ready more than paid for themselves, j this time is more valuable to them
ring. It you want one, go to \\ ink- i as customers are cutting them out j than money, and they have com-
| ler's. and get it cheap. j and sending with orders. This I menced an indiscriminate slaughter
1 iho house 1 There is nothing so becoming
goods ever seen in our city, and as
the bad roads of last winter cur
tailed trade, they have many choice
goods yet left on hand. Although
they have one of the most commo-
diounstores in the state, they have
not room for their spring stock,
which is now arriving. Space at
Kansk ■■ Kata.
Clears out r rs, nil-
lints. I*ed tries, skill
cj 1 * : tiers. I V. Drug;:
roaches. flic*, j
L-hipmunks, j
-ts.
Two aged men. respectively
entv-two and seventy-five ’
t i.ik out marriage licenses in Adair
c rev. Kv.. a few days a
There are over ten thousand peo-
I pie growing healthy, wealthy and
wise, frrfhi drinking Baldwin's Peer-
! less whisky.
The two most graceful young la
dies that took part in the calisthenic
exercises Friday evening, was a fair
sev- resident of Milledge avenue and a so beautiful that ii is a pleasure to use
ars, j representative^of Alabama, that is j them. Equally good for dark or light
in cents.
house has unlimited capital, and are in not only flannels and dress goods
satisfied with a small profit. They I of every description, hut in boots,
express themselves as perfectly sat- j shoes and hats. It is needless to
isfied with profits on whatever thev j quote prices, hut we advise our
sell. Their secret is. buying cheap readers to call at once, while these
and in immense lots. ” bargains are going, and thus avail
•- I themselves of the greatest reduc-
J3TDiamond Dyes are so perfect and | tion ever known in the commercia
annals of Athens. Yesterday a
LOOKS DANGEROUS.
KaKBHlltlM at tks Tantkls Bang GirL
Bangs on a girl give her .an un-
ruly- look, like a cow with a board
over her face. You take the gent
lest cow in the world and put a
board over her face and turn her
out in a pasture and she gets the
reputation of being unruly, and you
would swear she would jump fences
and raise merry hades, and you
wouldn’t give so much for her’ by
$ro only for beef. It is so with the
girl. If she wears her hair high on
her forehead,-or brushed hack, or
even had frizzes, and has a good
look, you will go your bottom dol
lar on her, and feel that she is as
good as gold, and that when she
tells her young man that she loves
hini there is no discount on it. and
no giggling back; but take the
same girl with her front hair bang
ed. and when she looks at v ou vou
feel as though she would hook, and
you can't trust her. She has a fence
jumping look that makes a voung
man feel as though he wouldn't feel
safe unless she was tied hand and
foot so she couldn't get out of the
pasture. A girl with bangs mav
try to be good and true, but its
awful hard work. When she looks
at herself in the glass and sees the
quarter of forehead, she says to her
self: "I am dangerous; thev want
to look out for me.” She thinks she
is all right, but she is constantly
doing that which a girl who wears
her hair brushed hack would not
think of doing. The bang girl may
belong to the church and mav trv to
put on a pious look while a hymn is
being read. But she will look out
from behind those bangs sidewise
at some meek and lowly voung
Christian who is trying to get his
mind fixed on the hymn and he will
get his mind fixed on her. and it
will break him all up and he wont
know whether he is singing "A
charge to keep I have," or “She's a
daisy.” The hang girl mav pla-
her hangs down on the hack of the
pew ahead of her during the morn
ing prayer and try to be good, hut
her corset will be too tight, and as
she hitches around to ease the pain
one eye will rise like the morning
sun over the back of the pew, and
that eye will catch- the eve of a
young man two seats to the right,
who is trying to cover his face with
one hand while he tries to keep the
flies off the pomade on his hair with
the other, and his interest in the
prayer is knocked into a cocked hat.
The banging of a girl’s hairchanges
her whole nature, and she becomes
as a gun that is loaded. You take
a picture of “Evangeline" and bang
her hair and she would look as
though she would • run at" people.
How would Mrs. Van Cott the al
leged female preacher, look with
her hair hanged? It is just the
same with boys. You take a nice,
pious Sunday-school boy who can
repeat 300 verses of the New Testa
ment and cut his hair with a clipper
and he looks like Tug Wilson.
H>pl
1 tha pur M-. lad Bast Bitters Ever
M.ida.
T!i-v ir* cimm-i'.mded from Ho|. . , .
M.ilt." Iln.-lm, .Mandrake und lhn.de- | vou will have no trouble in collcct-
• ,.. n —tst. and c.ntaiti all the . 'j n <j your hills, as it makes all more
• - 1 . 1 a -t einsriv properties of all prosperous, uprightand honest.
..User remedies, lieiua tue areuo-st Blood r r r
!‘;riii.-r. Liver r.-.nilaior. and I.ife and ATHENS ENTHUSIASTIC.
Health Kesloriiu Azeot ou e.u-tli. No —TTV ,
• lise is * or ill lieAilfi eon possibly long GauuttiU EagU.
1 *'iere these Billers are Used. »•> I £ol. A. D. Candler was in Ath-
\i-. -l and perfe -! are their opera- ens Saturday and a delegation call-
1,1 Eh."v riv.- new life and via r to the | cd on him to find his views about
aiei a .1 imiriu. Tea'll whose employ- I running a narrow-gauge from Ath-
m—i’s cause Irregularity of the bowels
or urm.iv organs, or ivli > require an Ap-
peti/.er.'Tonie and mil.l stimulant. Hop
Bitter- ire invaluable, being highly cur
st, t -. .. nn- and-tiululating, w.thoutin-
loxientmg.
N . matter what your feelings orsymp-
• .11. are, what tlie’disea-e or ailment is
,1-.- Hop Bittern, Don’t wait until yon
.re -iek, bm ii you ..nly fee! bad .<r mis-
u*d ■, II- • Hop Bitters at once. It mav
-.ivt* you life. Hundreds base been sav
ed bv «.» doing. *30t* will be paid for a
.1— it will not cure or help.
Do not suiter ro let your friend suffer-
■ "it use .ui l urg-r them to use Hop Bit-
attending the Lucy Cobh. | co [ or .
To the merchants If \ou havei the conventions.
anv customers that are slow or bad ;
pa'v. remember to give them a drink j « e have the following conven
ed'Bald win's Peerless whiskv, and Don
and davs of meeting this
spring in our city:
Pharmaceutical
couple of clerks were employed
marking down prices, and the pro
prietors instructed them to slaugh
ter right and left, regardless of what
they cost. They are now receiving
spring goods by every train, anil
j there is no room for them until
Associaticn— these goods are disposed of. They
: must go.
Association of Georgia: But this firm does not confine it-
« ! self exclusively to dry goyds. hut j
April to.
Medical
—April :S
The Women's Missionary Asso- \ they have one of the largest
ciation convenes the last week in | of groceries and provision
Mav. 1 ' — ■ ■ • •
We do not know the day on
which the Georgia Teacher's Asso
ciation is to meet or the colored con
ference.
Press Convention—May 13,
Ourcitv will have no lack of ex-
THE LAND OF THE SKY.
A Visit to Rabun Court and the Outlook Is Thu
Socuon.
\\ e have just been up into the
land ot the sky, more commonly
called Rabun county. This is a
beautiful country, if any one likes
the ground rolled up into moun
tains. As for our selection, we like
a country where there is not so
much dangerof getting rolled down
a precipice or mountain side. The
people up in Rabun are certainly a
pastoral people and do not like the
stealthy steps of the revenue offi
cers. The murder case of Arun-
dalc is to be tried this week. The
jury box had nearly been
exhausted, and only seven sworn
in. It is thought that
the case will have to he carried to
| another county for trial. Cols. Bar-
row and Bell are the leading attor
neys for the defense—Cols. Marler
and Crane for the state. Judge
Estes is the fastest judge in Georgia.
He keeps things movingi and if he
sees a little case going to trial with
nothing in it, he orders the solicitor
to stop it and not take up the time of
the court. He delivers no lectures
to prisoners, and has done awav
with the foolish custom of kissing
the bible. Rabun countv wants a
south. They pay the highest price j w ®jJ c ^ onc -
in cash for country produce. «nd ' Clarkesvilie
locks i Lidroad, but if it ever reaches there
1 the ' tbere ""*11 have to be some heavy
**HANG HIM.”
A Kory AostirUs told toj a Earnout NontUt.
The scene is laid in Moravia, af
ter the battle of Austerlitz. Severe
order had been given to the Rus
sian troops not to annoy the inhabi
tants. A young Russian officer,
lodging in the same house with his
military servant, whose name is Je
gor, tells the story. Some chickens
were missing, and the woman
of the house, a beautiful German,
accused Jegor ot having stolen
them.
Suddenly a great tramping of
horses was heard in the street—the
General-in-chief was riding by
with his staff. He was advancing
slowly—lat, gross, with an inex-
hausted look—his head hanging
down, his epaulettes dangling for
ward over his chest.
The beautiful hostess perceived
him, rushed out in front of the
horse, seized the stirrup, and, all
bedraggled as she was, with dis
heveled hair, poured forth her com
plaint. pointing out my servant as
the criminal.
“General,” she cried—“Excel
lency have pity—judge between us,
protect us, save us! That soldier
has robbed me!"
Jegor stood at the threshold, up
right as the letter I, with chest for
ward. heels together, cap in hand,
and—not a word!
The sight of all these Generals
halting before the house might have
frightened him. Or he was already
petrified by the mere idea of the
misfortune "brought upon him? Mv
poor Jegor remained there stiff as "a
post, white as a sheet, his evelids
trembling.
The General-in-chief cast a dark,
absent-minded glance upon him,
and growled out a hoarse “Well?”
Jegor still remained motionless
and rigid, showing his teeth, like
one bewildered. To look at his side-
face you would have thought he
was laughing.
Then the General-in-chief brus
quely exclaimed, “Hang him!"
spurred his horse and went on. All
the stall rode after him. Only an
ai'de-de-camp once turned round in
his saddle to look bacrt at legor.
Impossible to disobey. Thev
seized Jegor to lead him to execu
tion.
He turned livid, twice cried out
with difficulty. "My fathers! mv
little fathers!" and then murmured:
"Before God! it was not I!"
He cried bitterly on bidding me
farewell. I was in despair.
“Jegor! Jegor! how was it vou
never said a word to the General?"
"Before God. it was not 1," re
peated the poor little fellow, sob
bing.
The hostess herself was now
stricken with terror; she had never
expected so cruel an order. She
began in her turn to Weep, to shriek;
>-lie commenced to supplicate each
of us in turn to spare the poor fel
low—she vowed that her chickens
had been found again, that she could
explain everything—
Of course, it was all in vain. It
was war time, sir! Questions of dis
cipline. you know! The woman
sobbed more than ever.
Then Jegor, who had already been
confessed by the priest, turned to
ward me:
"Please tell her, your honor, not
to cry so much—I have already for
given her."
*»**•* *
Jegor was hung.
A H6SRIBLE CRIME?'
A KAN MURDERS HB WITS IN OGLETHORPE.
Th* Fnrtki Ending of *n Eartar Knrrtma—A
a Bride at Twain and Bntchorod atanm=
mU Thraauof Lrnchina.
making ' 'rapid
the citv trade can always find at; s l r ’fl es * n improving the town. \\ e
their store the nicest and freshest ; mct several wagons loaded with
butter, chickens, eggs, etc., etc. In 1 eorundum. which seems to he the
trading, if you drop in at Nicholson, j urincipal product ot that country.
Sanford&Co's there is no need
Spring Bonneu.
Among the styles recommended
for spring bonnets, the poke, in its
varieties, still claims pre-eminence,
though in somewhat modified
shapes, being smaller than those
worn last year, and many of them
having the brim and the crown on
the same level. These bonnets are
of satin braids, serviceable-looking
Milan straws, and fine English split
straws, though chips will be worn
by those for whom a light bonnet
is a necessity. They are shown in
their natural cream tint, but most
of them aie in colors, the prefer
ence seeming to be for the reds and
browns in both light and dark
shades.
Trimmings are massed, in clus
ters on top of the bonnet, and v are
composed of many looped l.ows\X>f
ribbon from one to two inches wide,
of either velvet faced with satin or
repped ottoman: few handsome
bonnets bein
ens to connect with the G., J. & S.
railroad at Jefferson or Jug Tavern, j
The Colonel is friendly towards I
the enterprise, and will do all in his . -
power to aid it. The best citizens | c '^ me nt the coming season,
of Athens are determined to have j Georgia medical association.
this road built and we mav expect | . . . - . , ,
at no distant dav to see a through! The phvsicians of Athens called
train running from Gainesville to » meting Friday to make the nec ,
Athens. It would not injure but! essar - v arrangements for the reccp- and mn the tarm. f ou can buy I A blacksmith shop in Lexington
. • 1 • -i - , 1 Janiea A. Kesler,Savannah, Ga., says:
complain ot hiring weaned w ith ; | lavi > I lsev | Bmwn's Iron B.tiers (or
tramping over town, tor in this 1m- 1 imligest inn and have Been greatly bene
mense establishment you find rooms j titled."
devoted to the sale of everything to !
clothe the naked, feed the hungry
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
materially add
importance of our city.
to the commercial t ‘ on an ^ entertainment of the Geor- 1 here any article from a fine lace or burned.
| gia Medical Association w-hich con- silk handkerchief to a side of sole | Some say the plum crop is killed,
i venes here on the iSth of April, j leather; from a stylish dress pattern ]
. .... Col. Barrow has a Jersey calf
•It U impossible t<> dDguise the fact The court house having been kind-j to a bundle of cotton ties; from a ) b orn without a tail. It looks very
that the Vegetable Compound, L prepared j ly tendered them, was chosen as the | fine cigar to a hogshead of molas- much like a fawn.
Ly-1 most suitable for the place of meet- ses; from a stylish beaver to a car-j A ladv detective from Texas was
■ of m.slern nharmaev is 1 '"£• Athens having always been load of corn.' In fact, while they | Lexington last week.
, ihe most successful medicine foMemkle I "oted for its liberality, the members ! sell everything needed by the peo-; T. R. Tiller has a cow three vears
>r iainily should he without I * n j diseases hitherto known. I will be entertained right royally by , pie of this section from a paper of j 0 id. so said, that gives six gallons of
the Bitters to day. | — . . ■ .the citizens and local physicians, pins to plantation supplies, every- milk a dav.
Remember,Hop Bitters i« no vile, ; un ,i er ti„. personal direction of Mrs. 1
dru.-^ed drunken nostrum, hut the ‘ a * ] Pinkham. with {lie super
■e-i and Be-t Med
Invalid’s Friend
• ever made: Hie
id Hope." and no ]
Tr
There are millions of rooms at
the roost* in Buford county. Tenn.
Two hundred ot them were killed
bv me man a few nights ago.
Ah’ that ehU.i of
r »n l v.xi have tu
ittrvdisa.il km 1
rater* *>f l'n
j 1
A NEGRO SUICIDE. | The hotels will reduce board for the I thing is kept in a separate depart-
Fridav morning a negro named j members to $2 per day. The ar- ment, and each department under
McGan.'hev, living near Snow’s | rangements and programme will ! control of a corps of polite and
bridge. Tn Walton couuty. shot and I shortly be perfected and distribu-j obliging salesman,
killed himself because the girl he ted. State papers will please no- ! It is needless lor us to speak of
. h»» h»i the croni i>a.i-vva* in love with married another
::.’ione M Tak"o« sT-iman. He had threatened to take
’•Seven Springs iron sod bis life it the woman married his
m* AMnkum! vie"'Tt' 1 i* l,5 in*iie n by U piiri‘! rival, hut no one thought ne was in
■■ * - up in two sl?e*. fl.'k) •
tale by all Dr.iss'isL
tice .
Pst
i earnest.
S:nall-pox i* getting to be
iiing of the past in Chattanooga.
High Af.hor.lT.
T)r. W. K. Sett, President
TO RABUN GAP OR JEFFERSON 1
Editor Banner-Watchman:—
Meeting a prominent and well in
formed citizens of Athens on the
streets yesterday, the conversation
at once turned upon the early com
pletion of the GainesA’ille & Jeffer-
Simon Hirshfield, one of the clev
erest little Jews we ever saw, is
said to be one of the best singers at
the Glade.
Messrs. Patman & Lester left
the solvency and reliability of this Lexington yesterday on a tramp in
house, fot its high standing is known the interest of their Excelsior Hog
to all. Tne immense business is en- ' Medicine.
gincered ly Messrs. Nicholson and ! Dr. W. M. Willingham has about
Sanford, t’.vo young men, but who finished a second and more sub
combine with youth and activity the j tantial fish pond. He will stock it
wisdom, experience and manage- | from his first.
ment of -dd merchants. There' I heard a gentleman say a few
COTTON MARKET.
] Our market still continues steady,
but very little increase in price. The
i receipts are about double what they ~ - , - > —v- , , - - , i n -- -—•>
were at the same week last year. It would result to Athens if the road j 1 hey has e he respect of a.l. and take a child 175 year* to get an ed
of the • . conceded fact that there is 9 per ] was not extended from Jeffersdn j what is better still, the entire confi- | ucation.
i.i. r .c ,l to „ .. . morn i n CT l a ^t there
e ice and the ground
r „ ( never lived two more whole-souled, ] days ago that with the "present
sonxailroad. and the great loss that ; high-toned, honorable young men. system of school teaching it would
• • nla? V !2' i !nuujniel C .Vhmh! i cent of the crop still in the hands of] here; but he expressed the ponfi, | dence of their patrons They are; On Monday
I.ijui.l Eurwt of B«f and Tonic Invift- the farmers. ; dent opinion that the connection J an honor to Athens, and our people j Ay as considerable
, 1 with Tofforsnn would rort.unlv he I DOint to the 11 With lllSt Unde. RcJ(l u-ic fr,even or.
Information reached the city yes
terday of a horrible wife murder
near the Glade, in Oglethorpe coun
ty, that in hellish cruelty surpasses
anything we have ever known.
About four years ago a man
named Joe Jones married a Miss
Surilla Mathews in that county, who
was a child just twelve years old
and in short dresses. Jones was a
large, heavy-set, full-grown man
and the unequal match excited a
good deal of indignation at the
time. Strange to say the girl's
mother favored the marriage. The
bride belonged to one of the best
families in Oglethorpe, and while a
poor girl herself had relatives that
were well off, and who gave her
all the assistance she needed.
The marriage proved an unhappy
one from the start, the honev moon
not having passed before the groom
began to show the cloven foot. In
tact, if common report he accredit
ed he was a brute of the first water,
and shamefully abused his tender
yet loving bride. He was shunned
by his neighbors. In less than a
year after the ceremony had been
performed Jones was arrested for
an attempt to commit a brutal as
sault upon his wife’s mother, but
the case was dropped without pros
ecution. It seems that the fellow
was indignant that he was not giv
en possession of some little proper
ty the widow owned, and his treat
ment of these helpless women was
most brutal. Shortly after the dif
ficulty Avith his mother-in-law Jones
deserted his wife and fled the coun
ty. going no one knew-where. The
neighborhood, which was a peacea
ble one. began to breathe easier,
and congratulated itself upon the
riddance. Mrs. Mathews and her
daughter, thus relieved of the ex
pense and annoyance of t his vaga
bond, went to work and prospered.
The neighbors helped them and
they were comparatively happy.
But a few days since their dream
of serenity was dispelled by a return
of the truant husband. 'Without ^iny
letter of warning, and after a volun
tary absence of three years, he walk
ed in upon this happy family. He
had evidently not prospered, and
had come hack to live upon the sub
stance of the two helpless women.
The young wife felt as if a plague
had invaded the house, for after his
infamous assault upon her mother
she had felt for him a sickening
loathing and contempt. Jones ex
pressed penitence, and a desire to
live again with his lyife. She being
a woman of determination repulsed
his overtures and declined to receive
him. In turn he tried coaxing and ,, v() , r
threats, but without avail For sev- The jaw measures seven felt Prof?
GENERAL news.
The Irish prosecutions have So far
cost $630,000.
A full burglar's kit, if of the best
quality, is worth $2,000.
It will cost $12,000,000 to run a
tunnel under the English Channel.
The crown jewels of France will
be sold by public auction at the end
of April.
Mr. Sprague and his bride expect
to live at the old Sprague house at
Providence.
Mrs. Stowe, the novelist, is trying
to have a fine church built at Man?
darin, Florida.
Every round fired by the new ;So-
ton guns ot the English navv cost
England $127.
Four barrels of water from the
Great Salt lake, after evaporation,
wil! leave a barrel of salt.
Ba the 13th ot May, the Memphis
and Se^pia railroad" will be com
pleted to Holly Springs.
A negro in Newberry countv.
South Carolina, has forty-two cln’l-
dren and 324 grandchildren.
A man living in Polk county,
Tcnn., had six acres in tobacco last
year, and it made him $75 per acre.
It is estimated that the losses by
the flood along the Ohio and Mis"-
sippi will aggregate .$ to.(.00.00c.
Over taa’o tons of hair pins are
made daily by the factories in this
country. What becomes of them?
Senator Edmunds was never a
judge, although he looks as if he
might have been, “when Rome sur
vived."
The statistics of last year’s crime
show that thirteen persons were
killed by broom handles wielded bv
women.
Robert Neville, ot Loudon coun-
tv. Virginia, has recently purchased
three English draught horses for
$7,300.
Many farmers have already
planted corn aqjl are engaged in
planting cotton, around Montgome
ry-. Ala.
A Boston woman has just com
pleted a $20,000 mansion entirely
on the proceeds from the sale of
doughnuts.
A North Carolina woman, fiftv-
threc years old. has bought a pair
of spectacles and is going to school
to learn to read.
Oscar Wilde, according *0 a pri
vate letter from London, gave hi*
mother half of the money that he
made in America.
The skeleton of an enormous ani
mal has been found in Wyoming
.•ral days he hung around her house,
making the lives of its inmates a
hell upon earth. At last his attitude
be came so threatening that Mrs.
Mathews deemed it advisable to
send for some of her neighbors to
arrest the fellow. This was last
Friday evening. Scarcely had the
messengef left than Jones, doubt
less guessing his mission, forced an
entrance into the room where stood
trembling the mother and daughter,
and drawing a pistol took deliberate
aim a£ his wife and tired. The fatal
bullet flew true to its mark, and with
scarcely a groan the woman, even
now but a mere child, fell a corpse
at his teet. But the crack of the
weapon hastened the rescuers, who
rushed into the room—but. alas! too
late. The brutal husband stood de
fiantly in the floor, the «imoke vet
wreathing from weapon, while the
poor girl lav baptised in blood hut
a step distant.
He warned the men not to ad
vance or he would shoot, and the fire
of desperation beamed from his
eye. But these gentlemen had fac
ed powder and ball before, and w th
one accord made a rush upon this
human fiend. But Jones, with a de
liberate courage worthy of a better
cause, threw his weapon in the face
of the foremost man and pulled the
trigger. Happily the ball missed
its mark, but so accurate was his
aim that it plowed a road through
the hair of the intended victim. In
an instant the enraged brute was
overpowered and tied hand and
foot. In most any other section
than Oglethorpe he would have
been strung up to the first limb, hut
the people down there are law
trimmed with either
the bias velvet or silk cut trom the | abiding. God-fearing citizens, and
P”r5 e - 1 thev determined that he should an-
r eathers do not promise to be as
Tit .ran th.* best preparation us*.! for
■ lebillty. itiligestiou, dyspepsia, fever, 1
ague, .til 1 lo** of appetite.” (Take no
other.
The Gridley sack of flour which
was t old, for $200,000 during the
war. for the benefit of the Sanitary
Commission, is on exhibition at
Stockton, Cal.
, yvith Jefferson would certainly be j point to then with just pride. Read ; W as frozen pretty hard. We fear
Glenn’s sulphur Soap removes all lo- made very soon; that Athens could j their immense advertisement, and ■ that it materially injured fruit if it
cal eruptions, soothes all abrasions o j no t afford' to lose the large trade she | hear in miml that this house means j does cause a short crop.
'‘pike’s 0 'Toothache Drops care in one ! now , enjovedfrom Jackson: that the , every wordthey say. | Judging from the number ofhogi
1 road to Jefferson would form a
Booth Bros- sold a quarter of.mut
ton to a gentlenjai) in our city, and
it was so fat that the buyer got
enough suet out of the njutloq tp : Tavern route were beginning to see
competing line, running through
the heart of the county and furnish
ing a fine feeder to the Air-Line,
shortening the distance to Athens
about fifteen miles; that many of
j the former advocates of the Jug
; dying now meat will be 20 cents
per pound _next year. We learn
every 0 f Starch, Sugar & Co., Chicago,”
A F*ut Without a Bride.
'March 14.—Miss | that fir. F. T.'f iller'has lost ,
Maria Solver, the young lady w’ho hoj? on his pIace aml severa ! losing
tri
ii.vEK Cheek, N. Y., Feb. C, 1SS0. _ ^
y*ST*-I have been very low, andffiave ; n" ar ft pay f or his meat Booth j tbVgreaT^dvantages Sf‘theVeffer?
” l yo-iVliop^itter^ 'recomraeti^etl by | Bros, keep nothing but the best. I k0n j^ijqectiop. To facilitate the
. many l concluded t<> give them a trial.
I dul, anil now am around, and <io;ist»nt-
*y proving, and am nearly a* strong
aw
W. H. WHELLER.
The sixty edamsels who were
compelled to fly from fire in the
Milwaukee Female College, in their
night dresses, did QGt mind it much.
Most of them are wealthy, and had
rheir garments beautifully fdged
with real lace.
A POPULAR HOT EXPERIENCE.
Tlie late war left CoL John C. Whit-
*er a *twk |
ki-UeyNfcrt ....
u«er Care gave . _
-all ike phyaicuuM lied given him up.
reside* ia Adanta, Ga.. and is known all
over the Southern Stain.
A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN.
The delicious fragrance*and deli
cate tints of the beautiful flowers in
the front yard of Dr. Hamilton’s
residence, causes the passers-by to
stop and gaze thereon with longing
eyes.
DfUVEBT. f
It is hinted that more than one of
pur elegant turnouts are to have their
drivers dressed in the latest dash,
In lively during the coming sum
mer.
was to have ieen married yesterday
to Mr. John Ould, is still missing.
No traces of her have been discov
ered, although diligent search has
been made. The wedding was to
popular, as heretofore. Flowers
made of velvet and silk will be
used instead, and arranged in very
thick clusters, their leaves and stems
being quite a prominent feature in
the mass. Roses will not he used
as much as the smaller flowers,
bunched in half-wre'aths and clus
ters, geraniums, violets, heliotrope
or verbenas sometimes forming the
entire front of bonnets whose
crowns are composed of straw, lace
or silk. The most popular white
flowers will be lilacs, syringas, mar
guerites and thistles.
Brims of these bonnets are either
lined with plain velvet cut bias, or
else with clusters of flowers or
frills composed of lace, in colors, or
black or white, as one’s taste may
dictate as suited to the other colors
of which the bonnet is-composed,
or which is most becoming to the
wearer.
Round hats are of varied shapes,
those with sailor crowns and slight
ly rolled brims promising to he the
most sought after.
Short mantles in visile shape will
he the choice for dressy wraps for
early spring.
Tha Condition* on Wklcb h» was Prooisod- aa
Order.
A Chicago drummer having hired
a horse and taken a ride of ten
miles over a horrible highway in
Wisconsin to work up a trade with
a new dealer, reached a corner to
find the store closed. The proprie
tor was outside the door with an
axe, and his wife on the inside with
an old shotgun.
“I represent the wholesale firm
as fast as they can die.
Cows seem to have taken from
dogs their tendency to go mad.
One belonging to Mr. B. Salmons,
about a mile from town, ran mad
building of thia road our friend su n~
gested thia original idea; for (he
city council of Athena to release
the Richmond & Danville company
from extending the North-Eastern
road beyond its present terminus,
upon the condition that they build
and equip a narrow guage from
Athens to Jefferson. This plan, if
practicable, would be much cheap
er than the extension to Rabun
Gap, securing a larger amount of
business for the R. & D. xoad and a
more satisfactory route to all par
ties. Let us hear from the Banner-
Watchman on this proposition. *•
WWW- —
‘‘Well’a Health reoewex” rwAresi Adipic, complete cure, all annoying
a*U% and vtnr.tfrw dyspepsia, lm- Klaney. Bladder and Urinary dlaaaa
potency, a*?B« deWHftr. $1. !*#.’ $f. Drngghite.
G. C. Davis. Baltimore; Thomas
Totten, Ga.; W. A. Knowles,
Greenesboro; J. E. Ritch, Ga.; Z.
H. Clarke. R. C. Latimer, J. G.
Gibson, Lexington; W. A. Over-
ton, Union Poiat.
Marseilles. March 14.—M. de
Lesseps has embarked for Tunis to
direct the survey in connection with
the project to convert the desert of
1 Sahara into an inland sea.
ning and jumping until she fell in a
ditch and broke her neck.
have taken place at N0.45S W est, this week, fighting, biting, run-
Twenty-seveath street. The groom' “ -
wp there at the appointed hour
and so ivas tile caterer and a large
number of tie (Viends. The wed
ding feast wa* partaken of without
the oride, and the groom tried to be
as pleasant a» he could under the
circumstance!
amort Cboeilcal Wgrkx,
This is a prominent manufacturing
concern of Providence, R. I., whose rep
utation Is world-wide. It was organized
in with a limited amount <>t capital,
but by energetic, persevering industry ... ... - _
in the manufacture of their fttanilard j ^ got more n enun powder
preparation*, they Imre grown to ataag-; for * °ne more shot, and as soon as
nitude which is a little short of the mar- j she fires that we’ll find out who runs
rellous. They make Horsford’e Bread this business. If I do I’ll give vou
an order; if she doe, you’d better
said the traveller, as he drove up.
"Yes,” replied the merchant, as
he leaned on his axe.
“And I’d like to show some sam
ples and take your order.”
“Are vou in a hurry?”
“Welt no.”
“Then you'd bettor hitch to the
fence and wuit a spell.”
"What’s the row here?”
“Nothing very much. The old
woman’s in there and I’m out here.
It’s been that way for the last three
hours, but the climax is coming.
hate, and other specialities. The Bread
Preparation restores to the flour the nu
tritious phosphates that are lost in boil
ing. It makes a perfect biscuit, nutri
tious and sweet, and positively benefi
cial to health. A free use of this prepa
ration in the food imparts vigor to all
the tissues of the body, (ends zest to the
appetite and strengthens the brain. It
should be in every house.
be ready to skip, for she’s deter
mined to go out of the mercantile
business, gnd make a tnp to Europe
with a lightning rod man.
swer for his crime before a triluinal
ot justice. He was carried to the
Glade, and there safely guarded un
til yesterday, when his commitment
trial was to come off.
Our informant, however, tells us
that when he left the scene of out
rage, Friday afternoon, there were
deep threats of lynching the brute,
among the young men, but the older
and cooler heads counseled other
wise. The Lexington jail is not
considered safe, as frequently pris
oners have escaped from it, and if he
is confined there we would not like
to be held accountable for the conse
quences. This is one of the black
est crimes that has ever darkened
the annals of Oglethorpe, and the
people intend to see that the perpe
trator does not escape.
We obtained the above facts from
the most trustworthy source, and
believe them to be as near correct as
one can get during such an excit
ing epoch.
Later.—Joe Jones, the wife
murderer, has been confined in the
jail at Lexington, and Saturday
night he attempted to end his life
by taking morphine, but the doctors
pumped him out. He is closely
guarded. He shot his wife tnree
times before assistance arrived. It
was Mr. Broach that Jones firfcd at.
After all the arguments about cheap
ness and qoality,it appears that Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup is the best remedy for the
cure of Coughs and Colds ever offered to
the public. The price is only 25 cents a
liottleaiul every druggist in the land
sells and recommends it.
HUNGRY PASSENGERS.
Vanwert, O., March 14.—The
engine attached to the north bound
passenger train on the Cincinnati,
Vanwert and Michigan railroad Sat
urday night was derailed at FolgePs
caused by a misplaced switch. The
place is about six miles north of here
in the woods, and nothing is there
but a switch, placed there for the
convenience of those who wish to
ship lumber. There were on the
train six or eight ladies and several
gentlemen passengers. 'The con
ductor walked to Latty, the crossing
of the Nickel Plate, and telegraphed
here for assistance. Owing to a
delay, the message did not arrive
here until about 10 o’clock Sunday
morning, and they did not send any
hclg until about 2 p. m., the whole
party being witheftit food for almost
twenty-four hours. The engine
was placed on the (rack and started
toward Paulding, where they arriv
ed about s o'clock in the evening
th® madest am4 hnngriest lo: of pas
sengers ever sees.
ably the remains of a drummer.
It is said, when persons are lost
in the woods, they invariably travel
in the opposite direction from home.
The same is not the case with hogs.
A. boy in Mobile burned down
two buildings to win two bets, ag
gregating $4. that there would he
two fires in the city before certain
specified dates.
The Berlin Elevated railroad,
crossing the city from east to west,
is seven miles long, and cost about
$16,000,000. It is chiefly used by-
third-class passengers for short dis
tances. and the gross receipts for
the first year will he hut 3A percent,
on its cost.
Washington, March 12.—Geo.
A. Mason, a counterfeiter who has
been in prison here nearly twelve
years, has made through the British
Minister a claim against the govern
ment for $50,000 for false imprison
ment. The chief of the Secret Ser
vice says the claim is based upon an
entire misrepresentation of facts.
GEORGIA * ITEMS.
The temperance cause is on a
boom in Savannah.
Qniliian & Bro., of Bellton, sav
they do a business of $75,000 a year.
A Walker county chicken lived
ten days without food or water.
Atlanta boasts of supporting four
daily papers to sing her praises.
Stewart county will vote on the
fence question on the 13th of July.
There is a ten-year-old boy in
Cleveland who has never had a
tooth.
The mountains were covered
with snow all the latter part of last
week.
Shaner’s murders still keep the
mystery oflhis death a secret in their
guilty bosomes.
A man of eighty years in Union
county has never seen a particle of
unspun cotton.
We are told that a six months old
negro child near Bellton weighs
only three pounds and six ounces.
The Cunningham fruit farm near
Griffin yielded its owner $7,000
worth of fruit the past season.
Several of the mining companies
of White county in the vicinity of
Nacoochee will resume operation
in the spring.
A negro woman in Banks county
gave birth to 19 pounds of human
fiesh a few days ago. Twins; one
of 9, the other of io.poiinds.
A negro-man in Gainesville is as
spotted as a leopard. We were
told that he was turning from a coal
black negro to be a mulatto rapidly.
John Clarke, white, and Price
Davis, colored, were arrested in
Macon for arson. They attempted
to bum down a large store -house
on Saturday.
The Thomasvilie artesian well,
instead of sending forth water to
refresh, or oil to enrich, is belching
forth wind tu frighten and puzzle
the inhabitants.
Lumpkin Independent: We learn
from reliable authority that Mr. J.
A. Davidson kifle’d nineteen par
tridges at one shot recently. They
had' huddled together to roost when
Mr. Davidson made the shot.
-In-a- difficulty last Saturday bo
tween Mr. John'Coker and a young
man named Bridges in Gainesville-
the latter cut the former with a
knife, inflicting a severe but not
necessarily dangerous wound, three
inches in length, in the left side.
The Pike County News reports
that Mrs. Edwards took fromrher
fish pond in Elberton, a few days
ago, a carp measuring 20 inches in
length and 14 inches around the*
body. Fourteen months ago she
put’53 little carp in her pond.
Gainesville Southron; As the
days go by the mystery of the Jacob
Shancr murder seems lo go down
into deep clouds. The past week,
it was thought, would develop some
clue to the perpetrators pf the aw
ful and cold blooded crime, but we
goto press without anything so
far m we can see to even shed one
ittie ray of light on the mstter.