Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

»! DISTRICT ATTOHNEY SPEER. When we fought Mr. Speer so 'ittc r b' * n this ‘'' s,l 'ict. we looked him in the light ol an erring olin< r man, who had allowed his gordinatc ambition to switch him ,]• ,] u . tlemocratic track, and we ..ht it not only essential for our THE BANNER-WATCHMAN. W! but for Mr. Speer himself, to lIn- aspirant down a few pegs, n lie was so overwhelmingly deti-.ited we emleavored to pour the „j ,,i consolation into his wounds, , im l would gladly have extended , in a helping hand, did he show meet for repentance, and have ecciied him into the organized .inks—on probation. We must •it'ess our disappointment when ,,.,.nv Mr. Speer so nimbly step net into the republican ranks and ,, ei\ e his thirty pieces of silver—in , Federal appointment—for the be- i.nal of his party. This gentleman, n hi' defense of Madison 11 avis 1 ippointment, had frequently pro- l.iimed from the stump that no one ut a republican could receive an .tl'.ce at the hands of the present ilininisttation. anil when ne accept ,1 the office of U. S. District Attor- ev it was an open acknowledgc- ient that he had united hi' fortune's liththat organization. Hut even n w e refrained from any harsh .iininents upon liis course. We mked upon Mr, Speer as a man ,.i.i had deserted his paity and :uted with the enemy to advance .sown personal ends, and so long . l.e attended to the duties of his and ignored politics, we decid- rnttgh our respeci for the feel- ot liis friends in Athens, that ■nuld let his name rest in peace, luce that interview, as publish- our Sundae's issue, lias been public, it justice to our soc ial our parte eve cannot longer in siL—>. If the evords of Mr. i t.i- correctly reported, it is that in- has not only deserted ilemociatic ranks and united the* republicans, but that he has 't degrading place pled tin hat pal 1 oevn section liven dining the <1 ladical rule in tlu-s, pet-bagge, s and s deputiseil to n.auuti horn.i tin ill' bloody tin lit! people NO XXI. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTJESDA.Y, NOYEMBER27, 1SS3. VOL. XXX. am iaike't day - outli. yy lien scalaeeags v , tun stories ot i r. 11 and bl Mi. not thorn heart ag; d to intlame ii't the south* . tales recited slander and e of these so- k .ill ol kinks count y Ku-Klux, as is U'l »rti .1 D. h ive 1, en given hv Mr. | 1 :n "IV Spa •r. > 4 >\v Mr. Speer W.l 1 M rn .iii« 1 ie;iu »1 in the south, am lu* km.yy s e v ctlv how much rd IIR • call ,e pi. ceil in the testi- im IV t 1 the ty era. jc negro witness, j lit km yy th. t the- e pathetic stories. th.i Wl re si. , nnai ticallv and touch- ! iv 1 ■cited hv hi mself, were base j l.il flu Oils. lie k lew that a few nu n h ttl yy h ppetl sonic insolent ne- •4 1 ' is; and h e k ne v further that the vt.l e c .lilts 1 ail ta ven the matter in hand a id u 1 re .1, tcrmiiuul to see tlu Ity pi nishc 1. Ami yet, with thi kt owlet ge he fore his eyes, he in unt oily goes to Washington, nu »s ;i tttil t, f a 1 epublican news* P‘ KT ept.n er, a ul recite in his rai s ; nari alive 4>f cruelty and hi. o,K led tl at yy 1 uhl he a disgrace t.. ■VI n tlu* t lark tges. lie knew llit ‘-d .1\ 4* 1 ■fleet 4>n it would cast i "!' .11 1 is sl;t e ant people, and he j ku •\\ I'm the that it would he used l.y the 1 t-pul lican party as one of! llu m. ny un Fair n cans resorted to' f< the tie lev t of democracy. The Di stilt. 1 Ait. rncy. in that same m- irl v 1 e \ v. spe aks' . >f Mr. Anderson as • l V 00.I c liz.cn though a demo* it: t.“ Does Mr. Speer intend to i\ e> llu- i npre sum that the g4)od til 7 en S of tl e south do not belong 1 . the lemtu ratio party? Does he "i sh 0 say that the negroes of 1 it or«4 a and thc few white scala- yy hat e. *mjn i se the republican i’- 1 tv i) 0111 state ire the best pco- I'l If SO. Hod help thc worst! \\ e 1 ope. *• »r tl c honor of Mr. s H*er that he ha s been misquoted in tha inter iew. Wc can scarcely believe that :i man ot his ability, and who has been *o honored by the people, would stoopso low as to be come the manufacturer of bloody- ■ liiit campaign literature fora radi cal administration. It would place him on a plane below Benedict Arnold. We sliall cachdav scan the papers fora denial trom him. The light in which that interview places Mr. Speer is too degrading and vile for belief. When lie accepted that Fed eral appointment it was equivalent to throwing aside the mask of “In dependent Democrat,” under which lie sailed, and of boldly uniting him- sell with the radical party; but we cannot believe that he would con sent to accept the degrading position in his new party as that interview places him. If it '-e true, even his own friends and family must recoil trom him with horror. Hut the day ot bloody shirt campaigns has pass ed. The eves of the intelligent and thinking people of the North are at ast open to t! esc old slanders on the South. They see that the Southern people accords the negro every right and protection. They tire finding out the true character of this race, and are classing him where he properly belongs. They see that it is as unfair to hold theentire deni- POLITICAL COW A It DICE. M e do not suppose there is a white man in Athens who has the good of the city at heart, but what feels the necessity of centering upon suitable and acceptable candidates for Mayor and Aldermen and nom inating them. It would stop these disgraceful scrambles for office that can hut result in degrading promises and concessions. We were in hopes, that for once, we would have a fair and decent elec tion in our city, hut it seems other wise. As tile day approaches can didates begin to thicken, and as a natural consequence, there must lie a scramble over votes. Already ru mors have reached our ears of bids being made for the negro vote, and in one instance the proposition was so open and dishonorable that even the colored man who was approach ed turned away in disgust. We hear of another party who was seen seeking out the negro politicians and begging their influence. A promise of secrecy is all that pre vents our now publishing names and letting the ‘voters know who are the offienders. We hope yet to hcahlc to do so before the race is is over. There is no necessity for the negro being brought into our municipal politics. The whites largely outvote this race in every ward, and it would he the easiest thing imaginable to elect our own officers without consulting or ap pealing to the dusky suffiragc-sling- er. Our people should meet and nominate a white man's ticket, and then support it. Let the selection be made by primary election, polls tn be opened in every ward, so as to give each voter an opportunity to exptess his choice—and then hind them all to support the candi date receiving a majority of the bal lots cast. By this means we can stop this disgraceful bartering of votes and pandering to negro influ ence that has so long characterized elections in our city. There are very few, if any, white men in Ath- uld refuse to support the nominee if chosen by some fair thod and on the race issue. When the lines are plainly drawn, no man with any self respect will he caught in such company as is found without the pale of the dem ocratic ranks. We have to adopt this plan, and the sooner it is started the better for the city. It is simply political cowardice that pre vents the white voters of Athens from adopting nominations. They are afraid to make the experiment. Our city is now threatened with a negro candidate for Mayor, and even in the event that one of this race does not otl'er, they will prob ably bring out some man pledged to their interests. S.olongas the field is crowded with candidates the ne gro minority will hold the balance of power, and use his advantage for all it is worth. We cannot affiord to sacriticc the good name of our city that a few men may test their illative strength. We have this year had a model administra tion of the municipal government. Order was enforced, and the good name of otir city re-est ablishcd. We cannot affiord to take a step back ward—let “Onward" he our motto. A strong tight by the negroes is made against Chief l’olice I). C. Oliver. They demand his removal from office. It would he a living shame and disgrace to the city of Athens to thus gratify an unnatural spleen against one of the best offi cers any city ever had. Capt. Oli ver lias discharged his duty faith fully and fearlessly, and restored to Athens that peace and good order of which she was so long deprived. Let our DEADLY DUEL. ri.rr ri*ht Batwoen a Caftan Offloar and a Span ns Editor—TSa Spaniard Killed. Havana Utter X. 1*. Herat,!. Sicicty here is still agitated over a faiious and fatal duel between a Palacios was famed for being a good swordsman, a dead shot and with a nerve of iron. “These Cubans want me to kill two or three of them,” he laughed at night, "in order to teach them manners.” Soler had only _ recently entered the army, and was Spaiish editor and a young Cuban 1 sbd in training. Both were of about other, which occurred some days j “»* age-twenty-eight-and ago. It has not been reported in ° f j** Physique. Soler s seconds any .f the Cuban papers, which ! ' nstru F te | 1 1 t °, l f C T P ‘. no ,e , r ™ are .1 under government super- \ ,n * t™ 1 *' he . dlea * h ’ and '» Men speak of it in bated f r °, hrin K t ,at ( ab °“‘ to a q r f’ nd in side.wht.~-r. for ir lf lu ; ed to whatever terms Pala cios seconds proposed to make. are al vision breath and in side-whispers, for it lias deiply moved the community. It all aose out of the curse of poli tics un waved by reason and good feeling There are as many politi cal paries in this island of 2,000,000 as then are in the 50,000,000 or 60,- ooo.oocthat form the United States; and, as s usually the case, the more circumicribed the territory and the clcscr the rival parties are brought into conjunction the fiercer wages the war of party. Very fierce, indeed, is the war here, and not contacted on anything like our principles of party warfare. Politi cal oppoicnts seem ever ready to fight mei as well as principles, and to make hose who utter them an swer in jerson for the sentiments they enuiciatcd in their journals. A FIE1Y YOUNG S1*ANI.\H1>. There tame here from Spain about eight years ago a young As turian Hatred Nicholas Rivero, He was a h.t-and-hot Spaniard and wasspeedly made a captain of the volunteer* who were so conspicu ous on the side of the government during the insurrection. He start ed a newspaper Et Rayo (The Thunderbolt), which, though not a government organ, was ultra fierce on the government side. The me mories of the insurrection were still keen and cruel in the minds of both Spaniards and Cubans. A wise man would have been concili atory, and. for the good of both sides, would have tried his best to mend matters, once the fight was over. Not so with Rivero. So fierce and constant were his attacks on tin Cubans that Captain Gener al Banco, having a head on his shouHers and feeling the responsi bility of power, squelched the over- zealois Kayo and sent its fiery young editor to cool off in Spain for a spel. During the late Prender- gast idministration Rivero was permited to return to Havana, and lie immediately resumed his old work >f journalism with much the same jniinosity against the Cubans asbeffre. He started a new paper, issue. ii u . Relcmpago, which he soon changrd again into the Rayo. It is a pcor little sheet enough in size, and ha, quite a limited circulation, as ha.-e most of the strictly party organi. But a hornet's sting is none the lets hurtful because the insect happms to be small, and the Rayo, on honest principle possibly, stung the Cubans constantly all it knew how. The Cubans are not the most patient of mortals, and a swam of challenges to mortal com bat i.ivaded the office of the Rayo. The editor of the Rayo received the challenges with great equanimity, suavely assured the challengers that he was no fighting man and calmly pursued his journalistic course. I should add that the Rayo is a week ly publication and its editor is also the editor of the El Baletin, the weekly organ of the volunteers. THE LAST STllAW. In this pleasant fashion matters went on until the other day the Rayo announced a series of open letters to be published in its columns, and addressed to the new Captain General Castillos, who, by the way .'happens to be a Creole, for he is a Mexican by birth. The ob ject of the Kayo’s letters was to show up the real character of the Cubans for the special instruction of the Captain General. In the sec ond letter of the series occurred these pleasant words. “Los orio- illos son consumados macstros en cl infame arte del disimulo y de la per- fidia.” “The creoles (Cubans) are consummate masters of the infa mous art of dissimulation and per tidy.” The Cubans went wild ove- it. The Palenque, a leading demo cratic paper on which Spaniardi and Cubans are associated to advo cate reform, not autonomy, in tht island, published a protest. Tlu protest resulted in the issue of as extra edition of the Rayo emphasiz I Got It. KELLER. yo I thin prt»t big boot. belootfiiiK t<» an ugly brute* It weighs a ton or more I guess; it gave me one part- j i iug caress. I loved h damsel, she whs fair as sunshine in tiie autumn air. One eveniug l did gladly THE GRANGE. What it ta—n’a NocinUy. Editor Banner-Watchman:—The grange is a community of farmers organized into a society for moral improvement, social development, STRICKEN BY FOUL AIR. Cblldfen Supposod to Bavo Itoau Killed fty Snails —Places that" ihtf Brooklyn Board of Health Might Well Look Into—Scenes ot Misery. K. V. J,in runt. A little funeral procession left ntellectual culture and pecuniary the house No. 112 North Seventh Soler, havtng the choice of weap ons, chose pistols at ten paces, the principals to advance five paces and fire. This was objected to on the other part as simple murder. Terms were then allowed Palacios, who chose swords. Soler insisted that they should he double edged and pointed, and after some demur those terms were finally accepted. the nra.. Next morning at 6 the duel was to be fought at LaChorrera, a small town along the coast, three or four miles outside of Havana. The principals rose at 5‘ and, with doc tor and seconds, met, prepared to take their fatal journey. A terrific poured down, and heaven seemed to intervene on the sad folly. But they were bent on battle, so the party adjourned to the Pay ret Thea tre, right in the heart of the city, just off the Prado, and a stone's throw from the room in which I am writing this letter. The Pavret was the finest theatre in Havanna. A year ago part of the roof fell in through accumulation of rain on its flat surface, and the place is now in ruins. It is being rebuilt and the doors are barricaded. They forced open one of the doors and entered the artists’ dressing room. The pre liminaries were brief. The keen pointed blades were drawn, and the duel began. Palacios, being the more skilled swordsman and confi dent of victory, attacked the other in a fury, and from the first forced the fighting. Soler, cool and wary and knowing liis man, acted wholly on the defensive. His failure to end the matter as briefly as he had ex pected seemed to exasperate Pala cios. lie pressed his adversary des perately, hut was met with a film defense. Not a word was spoken ror a sound heard, save the rush of the rain without and the dish clash <ff the steel. Palacios redoubled his efforts. A parry on Soler's part knocked his adversary's weapon wide aside. A swift, straight thrust followed instantaneously before the other could recover his guard. THE.DEATH. Through the left side ot the throat entered the sharp pointed blade, severing all the vessels in its pass ages and issuing clean out at the other side. It was all over. Pala cios fell to the tloor, past the care of doctor or priest. At 6 o'clock he was a corpse. The body was left there lying still’ and cold that a few moments before was so full of fierce life. The authorities were informed. The police came and conveyed the corpse to the morgue. lie was buried by his comrades of the vol unteers, A cautious line in a news paper regreted the “sudden death” of the young man. Of Rivero’s projected duel I have heard noth ing, and hardly expect to hear any thing. The tragedy thus ended be gan in folly. Surely this death will neither avenge the wounded honor of one side nor tend to appease the wrath ot the other. talked ui love, I calltnl her dove; we met down to the gate to spoon, lie- neath the gloom of hanre *t moon. I pressed a kiss upon her lips. It whs so sweet I gave another sip. Oh! then he came, the owner of this boot the same. I felt a pressure sore and quick, ho sudden that it made me sick. Ten feet into the air 1 flew, aud dropped into the horse j»ond too. 1 swore wlth_ all my m.ght and main, 1 never would make again unto a maid l h i -it isn’t fu ti ps he boot ho Modern Stylo. Boxes of candy, light of the imam, Kisses bv starlight, desperate s|*oon; I'owu on' his knees to Iter, swearing their Out to the opera, murmuring dove: Beautiful hat-bands (bought in a store)— Sighs like a furnace, each other adore. Penning of verses, sending ol 1km.ks: Languishing glances, deep, pensive looks, Hands cla«tnmt hands, eyes meeting eye? Souls mixed with sGull, some tears aud uu Eternal fidelity, the notice is read; Seventeen bridesmaids, aud theu they art But is it lore? Woman in the parlor, Husband on a “bum, Supper long awaiting. Husband doesn’t route. An hour after midnight. Husband comes along Tighter than a drum-bead, Howling « Wo Says * a little, t is a sin Etiquetto of the Pan. Opeu, ' 1 like you. Hall dosed, I am indifferent. Puttiug the fan under the eye, I see you. Putting it above the eye. I unde!stand jot SCIIOOL-GIRL VICTIMS- LINCOLNS BODY. i i. • i„, ing its former statement. The papei people scnouslv consider .• *. 1 . 11 - . . ! was distributed gratis among a large this question of a nomination, for it au j; ence assembled in the Tacon I is of the most vital impoi i.incc to the i Theatre to assist at a presentation of i future prosperity of Athens. I "La Somnambula” for thebenefit of — — ! the Orphan Asylum here. Thil | COUNTY ADMINISTRATORS. | , ast s ,/ aw on thc C ubat The General Assembly of Geor-i back. Next morning the Cubat ! gin. at its last session, passed an act I " 1 ^ «» »>«-* s ‘ :, ! t ( tbe ‘' 1 ^ . . . I pailrinos (seconds) to the editor o. authorizing the appointment °M the Rayo with the polite request to county administrators throughout j select from their number any gentle- the state. Their terms of office are I man he chose to meet in mortal to expire upon the first Monday in combat. Senor Rivero made cer- ,, , .... , ,. . | tain representations to them, an I March, iN> 5 . and succeeding termsMeanwhile arrived the seconds <f upon the same date at the close of g an Migiiel, the Spanish editor-ii. each ensuing four years. ; chief of the Palenque ,*o inform the The duties of the officers arc to editor of the Rayo that it would j [y ^t, when they Were take charge of unrepresented es- See the eihtor of the Palenque he , .... , greatest pleasure in life to shed the tates, or that are not likely to he | “ „r ,i.„ u ocratic party responsible for the lawless acts of a few men, as it is to charge all the outrages at the north upon the icpuhlicars. Even the republicans are wearying of carrying the negro, and receiving nothing in return. They will be only too glad to throw him over board, now that his vote can no longer be of use to that party. That civil rights decision by a republican supreme court was the first step to- ward unburthening themselves of this incumbrance. The negro must now shape his own destiny, and thc sooner -he accepts the inevitable the hotter lor him. Like the other na tionalities that inhabit our country, the African must from this day for- wWji'tote Kisown skillet.” If he ‘'’cxtnfcrt compete with the superior intelligence of the whites, he nad as welbprcpare-Rj emigrate. represented. These duties have heretofore been performed by clerks of superior courts, hut the latter are made ineligible to tht office. The administrators are to be ap pointed by the ordinaries and pro vision is made for their furnishing abundant security for the perform ance of their duties. These positions should he tilled by gentlemen familiar with the values of property, men of good judgment and capacity, and who have the requisite time to bestow upon the performance of their du ties. The office should not he made the reward of favoritism or political services, but should be bestowed with the utmost regard for its faith ful and business like exercise. ^ore of the Rayo's editor. San The New York Sun still insists that Mr. Tilden will not accept thc nomination, but Uncle Sammy is ominously silent on thc subject. Thc National Temperance Union, which recently met in New York, was greatly distressed over the drinking habits of the negro, and complained that the southern drug stores will not sell him soda, but lie is allowed to drink at the same bars with thc whites. The Union ought to send out missionaries to develop a taste for soda in the man and brother. 3*1*1 then he will be sure to getaUhe wants for the money. The negro Is like too' many white men— -he juat naturally prefers thc whisky. Miguel’s challenge was accepted by Rivero, and Padilla, one of the Cuban writers, was left out in tile cold until Rivero had disposed of, or had been disposed of by, San Miguel, a triangular duel being 'out of the question. THE qj.-AHUEl.ON THE PRADO. So far so good. On the Prado is thc Cafe Louvre, where the bloods assemble in the evening. On the evening of the challenge Rivero was sauntering past thc Louvre when a boy of 19, a hunchback, named Guintana, a Cuban of good family, approached and asked Rivero if he was the author of the insulting article in the Rayo, a copy of which the youth held in his hand. Rivero acknowledged the article, whereupon the hunchback sprang upon him, crumpled the paper in his face and knocked him over against one ol the tables. With Rivero was Palacios, a tall, strong, young Spaniard. Palacios was what Mark Twain would call the fighting editor of the Rayo. At Guintana's assault a tumult immedi ately arose in the cafe, the habitues of which are more or less acquaint ed with each other. They gathered around the combatants. Palacios raised his cane to strike the boy, when he was seized by the neck by a Cuban officer named Angel Soler. Calling Palacios a coward, Soler thrust him aside. The plot was thickening and intense excitement followed. The scene ended by a challenge there and then between Palacios and Soler. THE COMBATANTS. It was to be no child’s play; pas- :h for t Suit 1 ng 1 iKi.n, III., Nov. 16.—A sensational dispatch from this city- in relation to Abraham Lincoln’s body, appears in a Chicago paper of this date. Its statements arc- some of them positively untrue, and many of them unauthorized by any one having a knowledge ot the .facts. The whole article is calcu lated to mislead the people into be lieving that the body of Lincoln has been removed from the massive structure in which they supposed it to be resting. The State Register, of this city, some time ago, in re sponse to thc question, “Where are the remains of Mr. Lincoln depos ited at present, and are they turn ing to stone:” published the follow ing answer over the signature of J. C. Power, custodian of the monu ment: “A few days previous to the dedi cation of the monument, on Oct. 15, 1S74, the body of Mr. Lincoln was taken from an iron coffin, put in a lead one and soldered perfectly air tight, and then put into a wooden one made of narrow strips of red cedar, and all put in the marble sar cophagus in thc catacomb of the monument. When the would-he robbers visaed it on tire evening of Nov. 7, 1S76. they removed the lid and end pieces of the sarcophagus, next the door, and drew the wood and lead coffins, with the body, part- dis turbed by officers of the United States secret service, who attempted to capture them, but were unsuccessful. Everything remained as the thieves left it until thc afternoon of the second day, when every screw in the wooden coffin was examined. The creases in them, one and all. Were tound to be filled with rust, proving beyond doubt that neither the wooden nor lead coffin had been opened. All was then pushed hack into the sar cophagus, and it was cemented per fectly tight as it had been before the visit of the thieves. The, re mains have never been removed from that monument from that to the present time, and all is absolute ly safe. As to indication of petri fication the idea of any substance in an air tight leaden inclosure turning to stone, no matter where it may be placed, is tooabsurd for a moment’s serious thought. This statement ought to settle all doubts as to Lin coln's body resting in the tomb prepared for it by the people and nation.” An Associated Press reporter call ed on Mr. Powers to ask if he had any reply to make to the dispatch referred to above. He said his card embraced all the facts, as the public was entitled to know them, and that he had only these words to add: “No part of the remains of Abra ham Lincoln has been seen by mor tal eye since they soldered up in a lead coffin on October 9,1872, two vears before the attempt of the thieves to steal the body. As I have already said,they are absolutely safe, just as they were placed in the coffin many years ago ” Hobolcon Excited Over a Shocking Revelation. .V. 1’* Journal. The peremptory expulsion of several school girls from No. 5 school in Brooklin has brought to light another human ogre, who has corrupted the morals of a large number of children and yet enjoys his liberty. This being is the keep er of a low saloon, located near the school building, and into his den he has enticed his victims by gifts of candy, trinkets and money. So blighting was his influence that the children finally became hardened and went to him willingly to re ceive his bribes. The effect was no ticed in their conduct and was de moralizing to the whole school when Principal Kelly made an in vestigation that resulted in the dis missal of Fannie Conkling and Sa rail Gilday, both fourteen years of age, and quite pretty little misses. They acknowledged to having fre quented the place and to profiting for son doing. Anna Fauss, a girl of thirteen who had also gone to the thc den voluntarly left the school to avoid dismissal. Maggie -Mc Laughlin and Alice Bentlev of the same age, are among his other vic tims, and it is thought that the whole truth is not yet known. The parents of all these children weie informed of the indignities they had received at Doyles hands, but have so far refused to prosecute him, having on consultation agreed to try to hush the matter up to save the reputation of their daugh ters. They are, however, terribly evcited over the matter and such a feeling has been aroused in the neighborhood that it is probable condign punishment will he visitin on tne fellow. Threats of lnirnin his place and of tarring and feath ering him are freely made, and lie will leave this just wrath unless in tercepted by a warrant for his ar rest. The influence of the occurrence on the other pupils at the school has been demoralizing. It lias been thc benefit. These four distinctive features constitute the cardinal principles of the order. The mere mention ot these principles should be enough to commend them to the favorable consideration af every reflective mind. We lay this down as an axiomatic truth—that what ever tends to the advancement of the farmer tends also to to the up holding of all the necessary and im portant interests of the country; yea, more, that upon the success of agriculture depends the success of every other day worthy of consid eration. The more the farmer makes, the more lie has to pay his merchant, family physician, me chanic. printcrand preacher. Now. the grange, having tor its primary object the improvement of the con dition of the farmers of the country, it follows, as a consequence, that all tarmers should unite with the or ganization, and that it should also receive the fostering care of other professions. Nearly half, or about forty-seven per cent, of the entire population of the United States are engaged in agriculture, and if the teeming thousands of the tillers ot soil were united in this grand bro therhood, the advantages that would be derived therefrom would very soon he seen and felt by the entire country. Wherever the grange is in successful operation, the people of that section are doing better than they are where the grange does not exist. We say unhesitat ingly that every real farmer should be a granger. No other organiza tion known to the world supplies the place of the grange. Agricul- tuial clubs and county fairs, state fairs and national expositions may accomplish good, but they all fall far short ol the great object in view. Other professions have their con cert of action. Let the farmers do the same. Let them meet together, together, work together, buy together and sell together. By meeting together and spending one day in each month in exchanging in mutual interchange of thought, much can be learned in reference to the best modes of farming; best tools to he used, best seeds to he planted, best stock to he reared, etc. Nor is this all. By thus meeting and consulting a kindly feeling is begotten one among another—a deep brotherly interest soon mani fests itself and the second great commandment, “Love thy neighbor as thyself ’ is obeyed. Then let the farmers in all the land rally to the grange, avail themselves of the ben efits that it presents, a brighter day would soon dawn upon our country. Our land would yield an increase, and those yet unborn would rise up and bless the organi zation of the Patrons of Husband ry. J. D. Gunnels. Banksville, Ga., Nov. 16, 1SS3. street, Williamsburg, yesterday af- ] jollification, ternoon, where so many little chil dren have been so mysteriously stricken of late. There was a white hearse. It'was the second funeral trom the place within a week. Two children lay within the house at the point of death. The parents, very intelligent and respectable people, were heart-broken. The mystery of the cause of the children’s fatal illness has not been satisfactorily solved. Mr. J. Rey nolds, their father, suggested that it might be due to the bites of a small black worn about an inch long, having horns and a head like a common snail, but differing in color and possessing no shell. It came at midnight through cracks between the wall and the floor and crawled over the ceiling and arti cles of funiture and apparel, and left a shining track wherevei it went. These tracks, which had a stiver lustre, and were prqoably made by an oil exuded from its body to make its passage through the world easy, were visible on the ceiling The worm was about inch long, with a capacity for doubling its volume without really increasing its bulk, and was about as thick as one’s lit tle linger. Four children were stricken down one after another. The second child taken sick, Henry Reynolds, complained of a pain in the little finger of his lelt hand. This was followed by inflammation ot the left hand and arm and of the left side from the sholder to the hip. He had a high fever, a rapid pulse and great irritability of stomach, lie died in four days. The Reynolds family occupy the basement of the house into which they moved four months ago. The previous tenant abandoned the base ment after six weeks’ occupancy, on account of worms or snails which used to come in the apartments un invited, and moved up stairs. • The la-t tenant said she had been obliged t have her children keep their shoe on top of the mantels and bureaus to keep them out ot the way of the snails, which covered them with shining toe-marks when they were left on the floor. The tenants be fore them were Italians. It was said that two children of some former tenant had died in the basement,hut the report was not verified. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. • Neatf Trenton, S. C., a German peddler was murdered and fobbed of about $35. At Victoria, Ont., Sunday^ a huge row occurred at a Salvation Army Work is progressing favorably on the Augusta and Elberton railroad. Two men of Oconee county have caught twenty-five beavers this sea^ son. a subject of scandalizing comment for TIIE GIRL IN THE MOON. A Dlscovory tn Astronomy Which Boats a Nov Comet—The Man In the Moon Retires For a Falror Profile at the Approach or Leap Tear. Everybody lias heard of the man in the moon. There is noth: new, novel or romantic about him. Many have fancied they could trace his outlines in the cloudlike lines of the moon s surface, and see him in his unromantic vocation of burning brush, but no sky pilot.has been able to point him out, however apt and confiding his pupil, and no two persons have ever seen the distin guished fire builder at the same time, though looking untiringly un der the most congenial circumstan ces. There is something so foreign to sentiment, love and peotry in an old man burning brush while in all all ages and all climes, the moon has been a sweet inspiration to lov ers. But this seeming, uncongenial- C. Malion, a lunatic, perished in the flames of a burning cigar store in Philadelphia. Madison. November 20.—The election in Madison Tuesday defeat ed the proposed public schools. Burt Ellis, Charlotte, N. C., and James Taylor. Geddings, Texas, will hang December 14th, and Decem ber 21st, respectively. Sunday morning Albert Slade dropped dead in Ettrick’s Methodist Church, Petersburg, Virginia, while about to engage in prayer. A brutal prize fight occurred in Long Island city on Saturday. Lil- ley Huzzy knocked out Gus Mul- hall in twenty-three minutes. Frank Stubb, aged 13, while out hunting near Monroe, La., yester day^ accidentally shot and killed his companion, Joseph Johnston, of the same age. Mr. Beecher’s Reverend brother, Thomas K., of Elmira, N. Y., has announced himself at an independ ent Giecnback candidate for con gress next year. The British steamer Condor, from Liverpool, sank off Meriden, Hoi land, yesterday during a violent storm. Eight were saved out of the 26 on board. The schoolmaster and peasant who were convicted by a court mar tial on Monday of leading a revolt in the Boljcvaiz district were shot in Belgrade, Monday. John H. Billingsley shot and fatal ly wounded Carrie Roberts, a wo man of bad character from Atlanta. Ga., in a bagnio in Nashville, after midnight Sunday night. M. De Lesseps, speaking at Man chester Saturday night, said he had received from the engineers of the Panama canal assurances that the canal would he open in live years. Atlanta, Ga., November 19.— The Wesleyan Methodist church, under the pastorate of General Cle ment A. Evans, is fully paid for. It is completed and every dollar of debt lifted. A RAN AW AY WIFE. Cool Reception Given to Penltont Mrs. Bailoy-No Ri Jo on a Rail for Betts. Locust Valley, L. I.. Nov. 15. Mrs. Phebe Bailey, wife of Mr. Daniel Bailey, a wealthy farmer liv ing at Lottery town, two miles west of this place, returned to her ite- seitcd family to-day. The indig nant people made an attempt to ride George Betts, the man with whom she eloped, on a rail. Betts has dis appeared. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have been married five years and have two children* - Beta* aad 1 Mai several days before the exposure, some of the victims brazenly boast ing of their conduct. Several par- ea * na *, 110 entswill at once withdraw their 1 stca “ °‘ beltl children from the school and place them in a safer locality. Principal ity in the occupant of thc moon no longer exist,for it has been discover ed that her true inhabitant in- an old brush burner, is in fact a most beautiful maid. ! She is easily discernable- to water. Mrs. Bailey was found out side of her home after midnight by her wronged husband, and who fi nally forgave her for the sake of their little children, and permitted her to return to the family circle. Betts was seen about the place-at a late hour last night and had to llee for his life. He was seized by crowd of angry men and boys who tried to get him on a rail. He broke away from his captors after a des perate struggle ami disappeared in the most J the woods. probable that the scruples i P'ommeni leniure ot it is the dark — — ■ 1. 1,.*’ I -l:„ 1,cloudV portion oil the left, hut this caudron Eaton ty Buziardt. which li.ne preven.ed this I is in Vality only the background The Leavy Courier prints the fol- against which, after a few moments j lowing evidences ot depravity steady looking, may be seen in clear which have been developed in Gal- silhouette a most beautiful profile, houn county: The face, much like the one on a Last afternoon as Ben T silver dollar, looks to the left and stands out clearly and distinctly, the them in a safer locality. Principal Sh , e ‘ s eas,1 - v discernable- to the Kellv’s action, although too late to nakc ‘ l e >' e ’ anJ however skeptical avoid great harm, is universally ! * ,e star-gazer may be, she plainly commended and an effort is being i S IOWS to the patient ob- made to induce the police author!- ! ser , ve ^ 0n f e seen “ » impossible ties to prosecute Doyle, but they de- to 1 . ook , on tl,e 1 m » on a S a, , n w,,h ; ,ut maud that the parents make a for- ! scc "’Ss’ her ’ a,ul the wonder is that mal complaint before taking action. ! ^ le was never seen betor Now that the matter has gained pub- 1 rst ! ooklr >2 at , lc 1 1 licitv it is probable that the scruples P'ominent feature of it is t On ley were in the gravel business. The former made his home with the Baileys. Betts and Mrs. Bailey be came infatuated. Two weeks ago his wife fled with his partner and ifSo of her husband's cash and other valuables. The elopers walked five miles to Glen Cove, where they took a train for Hunter’s Point. Mrs. Bailey turned her hack upon her three-year-old child, whom she left standing in the garden crying after her. Since the elopement Mr. Bailey has instituted a suit for di. vorce. Last night while Mrs. Southard, the mother of the run away wife, was preparing the even ing meal for her son-in-law, her daughter suddenly put in an ap pearance, a picture of abject woe. The prodigal was driven out of thc house by her mother, who followed her with a kettle filled with boiling vvnfl'r \f 1*12 Ixoil.iu lunc 4Vvi>n,l done will be overcome and the wretch will have bis deserts. Some movement in this direction may be made to-day. The fellow evidently apprehends this, as it is said he is prepared to leave Hoboken at ojice. Although he denies his guilt the , . . proof Lsaid to be too strong to ad- I clo *“ 1 '' P 01 tl ? n ol th , e moon recede mit of any doubt, and his actions i an . becoming the background. • •• • ** Alter a lew moments more ot con stant watching the minutest details can he seen; wavy hair brushed BLACK AND WHITE. j back from the temple and falling in graceful folds; a winsome smile and swiu.l of a Virginia Bell.’. Elopcm.ut with Her cunning dimples, a lustrous eye and Fatlur’i sorvant. j lovely neck, come in view; and the Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. iS.—In enraptured gazer finds himself July last there was an elopement strangely drawn to the beautiful now are, it is; alleged, alone sutlic- ient to convict him. sions had arisen too high for that. There are now 1,103 studeuts in Girard College, Philadelphia. from Leesburg, Va., of Tamsen Walker, a beautiful young white woman, with a colored man, John Ash, which created a sensation at the time, the parties being traced to Cleveland and found here. The woman waspersuhded by her father to return to her home, and on the 30th of October filed a petition for divorce. The girl alleged that she was enticed away by Ash, who was a servant in her father’s family. Ash answered this petition to-day and says that instead of exercising any influence over thc girl, she, by reason of her superior intellectuali ty rather influenced him, and that in fact their love was mutual and free. Tamsen, he says, left her father’s house of her own free will and planned the elopement, leaving her lome ostensibly to visit a neighbor and meeting her dusky lover en route for Cleveland. Ash says he represented to the girl the results to her of such an alliance, but she would have it and insisted that he was as good a man as she ever saw. He says she lived with him, and then went out to work to help sup port him, as he was lame. H< swears there was no compulsion about the marriage, and that he acted in good taith and is ready and willing to support his fair bride. He thinks she was influenced by her father to take the course she did. Tamsen is the daughter of Edward Walker, a farmer of Leesburg, Va. face. Instead of the aged brush- burner we see lovely Venus smiling on the vows of men. And when we have the fabled Goddess of Love enthroned within the silver chariot of the night, no wonder that under her witching . influence, “Lovers vows seem sweet in every whisper ed word.” These clear nights she is plainly visible, and though the tem perature is somewhat cool her beau tiful face fully repays one for the pains he is at in seeing this fail vision of the night. Among the recent patents issued is one for the manufacture of paper from the common 'grasses of this country. Harper was in the woods about three miles from town his attention was drawn to a flock of buzzards, and goin up to see what they had found, dis covered a live colored child which had evidently been borne in the woods and abandoned hv its unnat ural mother. The buzzards had just made the discovery, as the dam age had been slight. It was taken to a house near by, and its mother subsequently tound. A colored infant was found in the woods near the Harris place, in this county, while being devour ed by the buzzards. The child was not dead when found, but would cry when pierend by the peaks of the carrion bird. The appearance of the buzzards and the cries of the infant was the means of its discov ery. The mother of the infant, Mary Ann Sadberry. left.it to he de voured in the woods immediately after giving birth to it. Mother nor child can live long. The mother has been arrested. E. N. Wcstervelt and O. N. and C. E. Whipple, members of the Springfield Bycycle Club arrived at Boston last night, having made 101 miles in 12^ hours—the fastest time on record. W. A. Pledger, chairman of thc executive committee, appointed by the colored Convention lately held in Louisville, yesterday issued a call for a meeting of the committee in Washington,on December iStli, to considor matters of interest to the colored race. A special from Ocala, Fla., says. “James Lewis, a deaf mute, while under the influence of liquor yester day. shot Polly White through the lt,.aixl -ChiaUs Johnson through the leg. Lewis was arrested and lodged in jail. All the participants in the afl’ray were colored. Sever al years ago Lewis killed a colored boy but escaped punishment.” A SKELETON. How a Staton Island Coroner Frightens Away Un welcome visitors. Dr. Iaac Lea, of Stapleton, S. I., is one of the most venerable of Staten Island physicians and is also Coroner for the town of Middleton. He acted as Coroner at the time that Reinhardt was hanged in Rich mond for the brutal murder of his wife. Reinhardt, it will be remem- flered, killed his wife at the hour when a babe was born, and chop ped the bodies of the two into small pieces crowded them all into a barrel threw a piece of carpet ov er the top, which he placed in a wheel-barrow and in broad day light wheeled the revolting cargo through the streets of Stapleton, passing from the village into the woods near Silver Lake, where he dug a hole and buried the barrel, and its contents in a lonely spot. A heavy rainstorm washed the earth from the barrel, and a child while out gathering nuts discovered it months after. Rcinherdt had moved away from thc Island, and the only clue to the corpse of the murdered woman was a piece of carpet that he had placed in the bar rel. After he was hanged his body was buried in Potter’s Field at Rich mond. Ills skeleton, complete to every bone, and suspended by a wire placed exactly where the hangman’s rope was, with thc whole held together by wires run through thc marrow channels, hangs in a closet in Dr. Lea’ 's consulting office on tiie cor ner of Richmond Road and Union- place, Stapleton. If a canvasser or political striker tarries too long in Dr, Lea's office, he touches a button near his desk, the door of a closet flies open with a whang bang, and the unwelcome solicitor finds at his elbow the rattling, disjointed, musty remnants of Reinhardt. C ,Dipthcria prevails to a considera ble extent ir. many sections of Geor gia. There are only 47 counties in Georgia in which it is lawful to sell liquor. Atlanta and Birmingham, Aia.J are now connected by * rail. * The last spike was driven Friday. The late grand jury of Bibb county declared in its general presentments in favor of establishing thc whip ping post in the State. The body of young Fulcher, of Burke county, has been exhumed, and no bullet wound was discovered. It is now believed he died from a fit. A heavy gold item from the Lin- colnton News: "The Sale gold mine continues to pan out finely every day. One day last week they got ten pounds of solid gold.” Toccoa, November 19.—Upon the question of issuing bonds for educational purposes the people to day voted overwhelmingly in the affirmative. Only two votes were cast in the negative. The Worth county grand jury last week recommended “that the sale of brandy peaches, brandy cherries, and all other intoxicating fruits and beverages he discontinued in the county at once.” A crazy negro, 70 years of age, set all the blacks digging for imagi nary treasures, near Greenville, and was arrested, but was subsequently released, as he was believed to be harmless. Cranston M. Wheeler, a well known citizen of Cartcrsvillc, was tried and convicted in the United States Court Friday on a charge of intimidating a witness. Several other similar cases have resulted in convictions. Says the Philadelphia Press: “Robert Toombs, of Georgia, has joined the church and stopped swearing. We mention this fact as an evidence of Southern progress. The next thing we know Toombs will be wanting to be admitted into the Union.” A sad accident, resulting in death of an estimable young man, occurred on Monday night last, near Ilarc- ville, Bulloch county.' Mr. Joshua Ilaoginswento.it with a party of friends on a coon hunt, and in cut ting down the tree in which the an imal was discovered, it fell <>n Mr. Haggins, Cushing his skull. lie lingered until thc following morn ing, when death relieved him from liis sufl’ering. Jeff Sparks, the negro that killed two men near Towns, in Telfair county.on the ifithday of last Janu ary, died Friday morning of hem orrhage from the lungs. I Ie became jealous of a negro named Fat cite Tinsley and determined to put him out of his way. He sought him out and found him in a cabin with another negro named Morgan Gull". He entered the cabin with a gun in liis hand, had a few hot words with Tinsley and then shot him down. After killing him he was in the act of leaving the house, when the thought struck him that there was a Jiving witness to liis murderous deed, whereupon he turned and tired the remaining load into the heart ol Morgan Goff. He was indicted at the last April term of the Superim Court, and was to have been tried at the October term just passed, luit after a careful examination by good physicians the court was of the opinion that he was too sick to un dergo a trial, and^iis case was con tinued. GENERAL NEWS. Futtr small Bruthn Fro» Air. Belvideke, N. J., Nov. 16.— Sheriff W. K. Bowers, custodian of the jail here, from which Srnull, the fasting horse-thief, escaped with two others last night, is making an earnest search for the escaped men. Thus far it has been unsuccessful. Smull and the other two men es caped by locking Miss Ella Bowers, daughter of thc sheriff', who was acting as turnkey, in a cell and slip ping out through the office, Drank Ftttson "Wklskiaf' anil Dlad. Cleveland, O., November 17— John Watters, aged 44, met a pecu liar death last night. He had been drinking heavily for several days. Last night he entered a Seneca-st. saloon where he met some friends. On a wager he drank fifteen glasses of whisky in fifteen minutes. He leaves a.wife and five children in the most destitute circumstances. Charllo McCoruas'Doath. Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 21.— Ruy Lopez, obtains from a brother among the Apache Indians an ac count of the death of “Charlie” Me- Comas. The brother stated that af ter the Judge and Mrs. McComas were killed the Indians took "Char lie” and started for Old Mexico, and that Charlie cried and continued to cry until finally, as one Indian ex pressed it. “The brat made so much fuss I smashed his head with a stone.” The brutal murder occur red in a ravine on tiie return from the trail to tht Mexican line. This story Lopez obtained from the very Indian who committed the crime, and he believes it to he true. A Philadelphia man has patented a machine wmch will make a gallon of ice-cream a minute. Rome Courier: “Clement Cato, colored, one hundred and four years old, walked from his home to the city, four miles, to-day, to pay his tax. He is still hale and hearty, and Floyd also boasts of a white man, Mr. Huckby, ninety-three years old, who has picked cotton every day this season.” Early Tanning or HnmanSkln. Pittetiurg |ItnUetin. Aout 1S40, as a farmer was driv ing up to Pittsburg from the city of economy with a wagon load of gar den truck, he met a negro who ask ed to be allowed to the city. This cavc ’ was granted and the negro got up on the seat. In a lonely spot the owner of the wagon was murdered by his companion, who took the body and hid it under the bridge near Economy. Thc negro drove on to town, whereJie sold the team, wagon and its contents. The herds man ofj the Economites heard his dog barking at something near the river bank and on going to see what was the matter, the man found Far mer’s bodv. It was recognized, and a party of the neighbors started out to hunt' for the murder. He was traced to the city, and was finally located. An excited crowd follow ed him as he ran across the bridge over the Allegheny and jumped into the water. He was either drowned ar shot while in the river and his body was brought ashore. It passed into the hands of some doctors, and one of them skianed it: The skin was taken by Mr. James Sample, who was a well known man, and owned the land where the Allegheny poor house is now located, and was tanned by him. Pieces of it were cut up into razor strops, and some of them now in existence, and even in use in Al legheny. This was probably the first case of Jhe kind in the country. Greenville, S. C., is to vote on prohibition on thc 1st of Decem ber. The Palatka Herald says is estima ted that 500,000 alligators were kill ed in Florida last year. Ex- Governor Stanford, of Cali fornia, has 10,000 acres of grape vines under cultivation. Gen. Grant has just presented costly gifts to the Viceroy of China and the Mikado of Japan. Within the last eighty years con gress has spent more than $100,000,- 000 on the city of Washington. Mr. Barnum" recently confesses that the profits of the “greatest show on earth” last year were $700,000. Thc Tennessee cotton mills at Nashville have just declared a div idend on their stock of 14 per cent. Ileary Ward Beecher says that his recent trip South anil West has made him feel ten years youn ger. » vessel constructed of paper was recently launched at St. Pe tersburg. She was driven l.y steam. Sergeant Mason still maintains his cheerfulness in prison, and has little to say to his companions or t Im prison officials. The publication of thc obituaries of Rev. Dr. McFerran did loin more good thc all the physic of the doctors, and now he is '•■-ottin• well. Nevada’s population is steadily diminishing. It numbered only ,.2- OCO in ISSoand it is estimated that if the present shrinkage continues it will he less than 40,000 in 1S90. There is a company forming to build a road from Cave City, Kv., on the Louisville and and Nashville Road to Mammoth Cave. The distance is 7 miles, over a rough load by stage, and it is said this deters thousands from visiting the Patterson. N. J., Nov. 1 Richard Fullilove. aged sixtv-fnur years, this morning had his' wife, aged nineteen years, arrested on a charge of infidelity. This May and December couple have only been married about four months. During the last five years twenty- three persons have been killed and fifty-three have been wounded in putting down the unlawful manu facture of whisky. Most of these have occurred in the south. In 18S2 four were killed and wounded. 011c was A residence has been built at Os- akis, Minn., in thc form of a star. The object of this is to split torna does. The timbers of the structure are anchored in very thick cellar walls so that the house cannot be blown down without taking up the foundations. Louisville has been made ex tremely happy by being honored by a game of base ball played by girls seven blondes being on one side and seven brunettes on the other. While their playing was,not even passable from a professional point of view the spetatorswere more than satis fied with the display of hosier/, agility,etc. v..T,