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x REMINISCENCE.
Florida Herald: When
Mr.
P r '
Emory Speer, the brilliant young
Georgia Independent-Republican,
uj, to South Carolina as the agent
r , t | u . Republican administration to
rente the Ku-Klux cases in that
!tt.iic. it may be of interest to Caro-
I liniaus to read the following incident
in the career of Speer’* grandfather,
Ahich comes down to us from ccr-
of our own ancestors who
figured in the stormy debate*, o£
.•SuUilicalion Days” in South Caro
lina.
Alexander Speer, grandfather of
the present Emory, was the great
champion of the Unionists of the
Palmetto 1 . State. He was young,
,1,1c, eloquent, audacious and the
l.iul of his faction. At a great public
■ushering in the interior, Alexander
Speer was announced to speak tor
Union men. The Nulliflers
Wl re in despair, as they had no
speaker of note to reply to the re
doubtable young leader. The great
McDuffie, at his home near by,
broken in health and spirit, already
Mnitten by the disease which closed
his shining life in the very zenith of
its fame, was thought to be physi-
callv unable to enter the lists ot
debate. Spurred, however, by the
necessities of the hour, a committee
of his friends waited upon him the
,].u before with a s«rcr<g appeal to
meet and reply to Speer. McDuffie
roused himself and consented. The
C-e.it day came. Such a crowd had
rarely gathered at the district hust-
ing. Speer spoke first. He had
never appeared to greater advan-
r.igc. llis eloquence seemed to take
on dignity and power from the
pn-sence of his great antagonist.
THE BANNER-WATCHMAN.
NO XXII.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTJESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1883.
VOL. XXX.
Hi- arguments were strong and
penetrating, and couched in rich
an.l striking rhetoric. His appeals
fur the "glorious Union” were pas
sionate and superb. When he sat
down it was conceded that lit- had
made the greatest effort of his life,
lbs friends -vere jubilant. They
were sure that the invalid McDuffie
could never answer that grand argu
ment. Even in his palmiest days
lie could not surpass it. Speer was
the coming man. He was the rising
Carolinian. Even McDuffie’s friends
shook their heads and wore silent,
ami for the time Speer and the
• glorious Union" were in the as
cendent.
After a brief interval McDuffie
ro-e to reply. Supported by his
crutch, he advanced to the front of
the platform. There was the still
ness of rapt and anxious expectation
over that vast assembly. The great
orator's eye kindled as he gazed
upon his people. He laid his crutch
aside; his form expanded; his cheek
took ,11 the hue of health. Raising
liis thin, white hand above his head,
ami half facing Speer, in a voice,
whose clear intensity penetrated to
the farthest confines of his audience,
hr began:
"When 1 hear Northern men cry
out ‘this glorious Union’ nicthinks
I hear the bugle blast of the robber
band; hut when 1 hear Southern
men cry out, ‘this 'glorious Union,’
mi-thinks I snuff treason on the
tainted gale!”
Tlie sentence went through the
audience like an electric shock.
With the first word that fell from
hie lips he had thrilled their atten
tion and transfixed his opponent.
And such a speech as followed,
•den who had heard and hung upon
McDuffie's words at the hustings,
in the legislature, in Congress and
Senate halls, say that he never
'I’oke like this before. He tower
ed above his opponent like a moun
tain peak above a breezy hill.
Speer’s brilliant sophistries wither
ed like leaves in the breath of his
scorching eloquence. His argu
ments went down one by one be-
tote the resistless logic of the migh
ty orator, and his finest perorations
paled before McDuffie’s words of
tire. Speer himself was handled
like a toy—held up to the amuse
ment and ridicule of the audi
ence. A shadow was cast upon hi*
patriotism there that never lifted un
til he left the arena of politics. For
tvo hours there fell from McDuf
fie s lips such a stream of logic, of
evective, ot wit, patroiotism. pathos
and fiery matchless eloquence as
tew audiences have ever listened to.
W hen he sat down amid the “huz
zas that rent the skies,” Alexan
der Speer was the worst whipped
man that ever faced an antagonist.
His own friends confessed and no
"tic new it better than himself. It
seemed to give the quietus to all
lii‘ dreams of civil fame. He retir
ed from politics, moved to Georgia,
and became in that State one of the
greatest and most eloquent of min
isters. 1 he Methodists probably
never knew how much they were
indebted for this brilliant c rnament
,u ’he last great polictical effort of
George McDuffie, ot South Caroli
na.
from that day to thisa Speer has
n "t figured in Carolina history, and
h seems a continued misfortune
that the grandson of Alexander
■''peer should go back on so graceless
a mission of the glorious Union, to
’he State which his eloquent Jtnces-
,or ,L ’ft in disaster more than a cen-
’ 11 ry ago.
Dh that Emory may find his Mc
Duffie!
t II the area of the. United-States
■Was as deniWT settled as that of
France, there would be room here
for 6So,000,000 people.
Gen. Mahone’s term as U. S.
Senator will not expire till March
qth, 1SS7. So he doubtless consid
ers himself solid for that period.
President Arthur late Saturday
afternoon issued a pardon to Ser
geant Mason, now confined in the
Albany, X. Y., penitentiary, under
sentence of eight years’ imprison
ment for attempting to shoot Gui-
teau.
Genius will demand recognition,
and we arc forced for once to en
dorse ex-Senator Conkling. He
says “President Arthur has more
propensity than capacity for being
the republican Presidential nom
inee.”
Telegraph: Pledger’s resolution
not to fight for the Union so long as
the late Supreme Court decision is
unrescindcd, leaves the future of
this country in a state of terrible un
certainty. We call attention to the
great peril.
The trial in Howard county, Ar
kansas, ol the colored rioters indict
ed for the murder of Wyatt, several
months ago, has just ended. Three
rioters were sentenced to he hanged
and twenty-nine to he imprisoned
for terms ranging from five to eigh
teen years.
It is reported that a strong-minded
female in Ohio, 62 years of age, has
invited Ingersoll, the infidel, to a
public discussion of the truths of the
Bible. She says if she can’t make
him confess his many errors she
will present him with a new milch
cow.
Ex-Governor Smith, of the Geor
gia railro..A ^*mmission, in his testi
mony before the sub-committee of
the senate committee on education
and labor, the other day, deplored
the evil caused by free passes issued
to legislators, but was at a loss to
suggest a remedy.
A Frenchman in St. Louis,* M.
Nadir, a son of the Parisian aironaut
of that name, claims to have solved
the difficult problem of :erial navi
gation. He uses a balloon and pro
pels it when necessary by the recoil
ofa leather cannon, which is so ar
ranged as to fire in any direction.
Mr. Taylor, near Chchaw, Ala.,
has produced a hale of new variety
of cotton this year called the merino
cotton, and has refused thirty cents
per pound for it. "It is quite pro
lific and has a very short staple,
looking very much like wool. The
stalk grows about six feet high and
the fruit grows in clusters very
much like chestnuts.
The full returns trom New York
give Carr, republican, 18,247 ma
jority for Secretary of State and the
democratic candidates for the other
state offices the following majori
ties. Comptroller Chapin, 16,320;
Treasurer Maxwell, 16,984; Attor
ney General O’Brien, 13.050, and
Engineer Sweet over 20,000. New
York is inclined to be democratic,
hut won’t stand democratic fooling
worth a cent.
Victor Newcomb formerly at the
head ol the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad, hut recently engag
ed in the hanking business in New
York, has retired from active life
with a snug pittance of several mil
lion dollars. He is not quite 45
years old, hut he says he started in
business early and has worked hard,
which entitles him to rest the re
mainder of his days. He is a native
of Louisville.
Nine negroes will take their seats
milie Virginia General Assembly.
' lie army of tramps is bearing
‘“"thward, and it is time for all
RikhI citizens to lay in their winter
supplies of shot-guns and tar and
leathers.
One of the decisions of the Su
preme Court, published, is of
sufficient general interest to have
special attention directed to it. In
the case of Cook vs. the Western
and Atlantic railroad, from Whit
field,the court decided in substance
that even when an employe or trav
eler on a railroad signed a waiver of
any claim for damages in the event
of personal injury while in its em
ploy or under its charge, this did
not avail to relieve the company of
liability if the accident was due to
any carelessness or mismanagement
on the part of its agents.
Watterson is in New York and
has been to see Mr. Tilden. In the
course ol an interview he is quoted
as follows:
“I saw Mr. Tilden to-day and he
laughed as he always docs at the
talk about the old ticket. He said a
good many people seemed to favor
the old ticket, but he was against it.
He is in the most excellent health
«nd enjoying life, and he considers
these blessings more highly than he
would the Presidency. The discus
sion of the old ticket is time wast
ed. Mr.- Tilden would not go to
Washington if all the men, women
and children in the land would vol
unteer to escort him."
The testimony of Bishop Holsey,
colored, before the Senate’s Labor
Committee, at Augusta, was quite
differerent from the malevolent
ravings of Fred Douglas and other
negroes who ran away and have
never ceased to abuse slavl owners
since. Bishop Holsey said that “he
was a slave before the war. Was
taken.away from his mother and put
in his first master’s hands, who wa6
very kind to him. His master,
when on his death-bed, gave him
the choice between two friends for
his master. , He chose Col. R. M.
Johnson. Although owning slaves;
‘•were matte* of time when all
“>e New England mill* wiU ,bo- r«r
jnoved to southern soil.” This is
,^Fovided no jurregde 4»9»d«
0 »he mills of Lancashire, as the
«ree traders counsel.
t.llie Times Democrat noting the
’einarks of the New York Herald*
'T°n the future of cotton mamifac-
•urein the south, says: “We can
even further than the Herald.
, le s °uth will not only become a
Rreat cotton manufacturing centre,’
JUl the centre for this Whole- coun-
*nd indeed for a greater por-
’ton of the world. “H cotton doth
c»n be produced here with twice ^ o~ - o •
me profit it ia in Naur England; iV OoLJohnson frequently told him he
would) be glad when-the time came
fdr emancipation of slaves. Col.
Jolmson' taught him to read. He
then'gave a brief resume of hi* per
sonal history to the present time.”
. -.KENTUCKY CRIME.
A TERRIBIE REVELATION OP SOCIAL LITE.
A Min-lsf, rollowed by th. VlliS Cobf.itlon of
Oulll lmiMealing a Brolbnr-Subisquont InU-
mauon aid Pnrjury Followed by LoaUuoma
Crimea Is :be Family.
Flemixgsburg.Ky., Nov. 23.—A
most remarkable case, which will
come up 'or trial at the circuit court
here, is that of the Commonwealth
vs. Dr. John L. Robbins, charged
with cons; iracy to intimidate. The
history of the case cannot be pub
lished, but an outline of its horrible
features can he presented. In Oc
tober, 18S2. John L. Robbins and
Miss Mbllie J. Smart, both residents
ofa small place near this city, called
Myers’ station, were married in
Cunningham, Mo., over the protest
of her parcr.ts, who objected to his
attentions on the ground that thev
did not believe them honorable. A
few days alter their marriage the
husband accused the wife of having
been unchaste, and, notwithstanding
her denials, persisted until she con
fessed that since her thirteenth year
she had been guilty of the loathsome
crime of incest with her brother,
John Smart. Robbins threatened
to leave her, lut she implored him
to at least staj with, her until they
got back tc. Kentucky, and she could
see her hrothet and have him make
some rcpaiation for the horrible in
jury he did her. Shortly after their
return, on November the 30th, so
the commonwealth witnesses say,
Robbins and his brother-in-law, Dr.
Martin, waylaid John Smart, and|at
the muzzle of two revolvers com
pelled him to sign seven notes of
$150 each, payable annually, and
secured by mortgage on Smart’s
farm, the notes being made payable
THROUGH OCONEE.
VISIT TO THE BOHE OF A MODEL FARMER.
Th* Gain Crops—Bog Hominy—Old Farming*
ton—Dr Pile*—What Thrift and Entorprls*
will Accompiuh on Georgia Lands- Notes by
th* Way-
to Smart’s sister, Mrs. Robbins.
CROSS PURPOSES.
Dr. Robbins was taken sick in
the latter part of December, and
continued bed-ridden until Februa
ry, 1SS2. On January 29, however,
Mrs. Robbins and John Smart—the
brother with whom she confessed
she had committed the heinous
crime—went to Carlisle and in the
office of Kennedy & Kennedy,
lawyers ol that place, she made
affidavit retracting the confession
made to her husband charging her
brotiicr with incestuous commerce
with her, and said that the confes
sion had been extorted from her by
force and threats. That afternoon
she left for Missouri, and in the „
room at the hotei where she stopped nee - speaking of hogs, there
- » ’• - - * seems to he a regular boom in this
section. Every farmer is raising
was a letter addressed “to whom it
may concert.” the purport of which
was that the affidavit she had that
day made was procured by intimi
dation and that her brother by
threats had forced her to perjure
herself, and that the confession
made to her husband was true, and
that she and her brother were
guilty.
Before leaving Carlisle she pur
chased an elegant gold pin, and en
closing it, together with a most en
dearing and affectionate letter in a
box, addressed the package to her
husband. The same day she left
Kentucky her brother brought a
civil suit to invalidate the mortgage
he had given, alleging fraud and
force, and also swore out a warrant
for the arrest of his brother-in-law,
Dr. Robhins, charging him with
conspiring to rob. The warrant
was dismissed, because one person
could not conspire. Immediately
warrants were issued for both Dr.
Robbins and Martin. The examin
ing trial resulted in the accused be
ing held in bond tc the grand jury.
In this examining trial the above
particulars were elicited and the af
fair created great excitement and
intense feeling. The parties in in
terest were very much inflamed, and
fears weie entertained that a trage
dy would result before the parties
would leave Carlisle.
THE PARTIES INVOLVED.
The parties involved arc by no
means from the lower orders. The
Smarts are owners of farms, and
are considered well to do. The
woman, Mollie J. Robbins, nee
Smart, while somewhat giddy and
thoughtless, bore a good reputation,
and associated with the most re-
respectable people of the neighbor
hood. She is now in Missouri with
her fathe'rs family, but she is not
divorced from her husband. Before
she left this state she sold the seven
notes of 1150 each, and secured by a
real estate mortgage to Dr. Martin
for $500 cash.
John Smart, the brother, who she
alleges ruined her, is far from being
a bad looking man and is a substan
tial farmer. About the latter part
of 1S7S he, in company with three
other men, attempted to rob and
murder a miserly German called
Dutch Ilenry, who was worth $40,-
ocx>, and was known to keep the
money around his premises. They
were arrested, indicted, and Smart
“peached” on his pals and two of
them were sent to the penitentiary.
On the trial of the third his
(Smart’s) testimony was impeached
on the ground that ne was an ac
complice incompetent to testify and
the third man was acquitted. The
counsel for the accused in this bur
glary case was Thomas F. Hargis,
the present chief justice of Ken
tucky.
Another brother of Smart is now
under indictment for murder and a
fugitive from justice, Stiel. anoth
er brother, is under indictment for
felony and also a fugitive. The
father and mother are deserving
and honest people.
Robbins is a physician with a lu
crative practice, and is reported to
be very skillful in his profession
His family has always stood high,
his father once representing Nicho
las county in the state legislature.
Robbins himself is a rogue, but this
is as stoutly denied on one’ side as
it is affirmed on the other.
A VICTIM DOCTOR.
Dr. Martin, who married Rob-
bin's sister, and who purchased the
notes of Mrs. Robbins, is a man of
unsullied reputation and a a physi
cian of pronounced ability. He
claims that he purchased the notes
in good faith, without any knowl
edge of the manner in which they
were obtained, and alledges that he
is coupled in the indictment for the
purpose of rendering him incapable
of testifying. He is a cousin of the
state senator elect from this district.
Both sides have a large array of
counsel. The state is represented
by the commonwealth’s attorney
and ex-Congressman Andrews, of
this place, and Phister, of Maysville;
the defense by Gen. Ward, of Cyn-
thiana, Ross, Owens and Troop, of
Carlisle, and Cassidy and McCart
ney, the leading criminal lawyers
of Northeastern Kentucky. The
fight will, be prolonged and bitter,
«s : qn this .verdict hinge five or six
•other criminal and civil suits.
A fruit train has been put on the
Central Railroad.
It is always a rare treat to an ink
slinger to have a day in the country,
away from business and care. It
rests and refreshes the overtaxed
mind, and you can return to work
feeling like a new person. For some
time we have been promising Mr.
Robert A. Moon, one of Oconee’s
best and most successful planters,
to pay him a visit, but it was not
until Saturday evening last that we
could steal a day and comply. Mr.
Marshal, a very pleasant young far
mer, came foi us, and in defiance of
the threatening weather we were
soon “all aboard” en route to our
destination. This is one of the
gloomiest seasons ot the year in the
country. The fields are bleak and
hare, and the whole land seems
wrapt in a mantle of desolation. The
crops are harvested,, and the only
sign of agricultural life are a lew
Ireshly-plowcd furrows or an occa
sional field of small grain. Oconee
is one of Georgia’s smallest, yet
most fertile counties. It is noted
for the thrift of its farmers and the
beauty of its ladies. Its lands lay
well and are very productive, and
tilled with rare skill and care. You
see few of those unsightly red gul
lies or washes in fields that char
acterize so many southern sections,
hut the hillsides are ditched and the
washed lands restored . to its pris
tine fertility. We noticed on the
roadside that an unusual amount of
small grain had been sown, and yet
the good work goes nobly on.
Every crib you pass is filled with
home-raised corn, while pens of fat
hogs, ready for slaughtering at the
first freeze, attest that the Oconee
farmers intend to live at home and
hoard at the same place. As a gen
eral thing these men not only raise
their own provisions, but they breed
some of the best stock known in
the country. All the Oconeeitcs was
are bom judges of horse-flesh, and
you seldom sec a thin or ill-used ani
mal. If is an old saying that a man
who it kind to dumb animals al
ways makes a good husband—so
judging from this we are not sur
prised so many Athens hoys annu
ally “get the mitten” down in Oco-
Hlcknduniu QnadrUla.
Texas Siftings.
Choose yo' parduers, time's er Ilyin 1 .
Take yo* places on lie So 1 ;
Don't you hear dat Sddle errin'
"Xicaerdemus Ebermore: 1
S’lute yo‘ parduers, bow perlitciy.
Hat’s de motion through en* through;
Swing dem corners, step up lightly.
Hail r 1
his own meat, and they have, also,
the most improved breeds of swine.
We learn that Mr. Marshal, of High
Shoals, has a Poland China hog
that he calculates will weigh Soo or
900 pounds when fattened, while
400 pound porkers are as common
as pig-tracks. After passing Wat-
kinsviile you strike a beautiful road,
and traverse a very fine belt of coun
try. The farms all lay well, and
vou see many handsome country
homes. Seven miles from the coun
ty site Farmington is reached. It
is settled by a half dozen families,
all leading and influential men. Dr.
Price, that grand old gentleman, re
sides here. Dr. Price has the confi
dence and admiration of all his peo
ple, and his name will live green in
the memory of his county long after
he has passed away. Dr. Price says
he never tc uched a drop of liquor
in his life, entered a bar-room or
saw a game of cards played for
money. At Farmington Mr. Moon
met us with his pair of black sand-
sifters, and the two miles interven
ing to his home were soon annihi
lated. Mr. Moon has the finest pair
of Georgia raised horses we ever
saw, and they would carry off the
prize at any fair. They combine
beauty with speed, and are descend
ed from the best equine blood in
America. Mr. Moon is justly proud
of his team, and says not less than
$1,000 will touch them. You can’t
judge a man by his appearance, but
ou can by the looks of his home.
’Ins is an unfailing sign. It you
see his gates unhinged and windows
pasted up with paper, the owner is
cither thriftless or parsimonious.
But when you find everything to its
place and the premises in
apple.pie order, rest assured
that the occupant is a
prosperous and energetic man. Mr.
Moon lives in a pretty white cot
tage, that stands back in a grove,—
a perfect picture of real happiness
and comfort. You see nothing on
his premises mislaid. There is a
place for everything and everything
is in its place. His well-filled barns
and sleek stock show a model
southern farmer. We remained
two nights and a day with Mr.
Moon, and were never more hospi
tably entertained. We were feast
ed upjn the fruits of the field, the
pastures, the forests and the
streams. Everything is raised at
home and is prepared in the nicest
manner, by his own family. The
Appaiachee river runs through his
land, and with baskets he supplies
his table with fish. His fields are
filled with game that he captures
when wanted. He raises all kinds
of stock and poultry, and draws on
the stores for only such articles as
are not indigenous to this section.
He raises not only corn enough to
do all of his hands, but wheat and
bacon, too. He has a large number
of fine hogs ready for the slaughter.
But the most surprising part of Mr.
Moon's history is, that only thirteen
years ago he moved to Oconee
county a very poor man. He had
onlv one horse, was without money,
and even had to depend upon his
neighbor’s for a wagon to gather
in his crop. To-day he has nearly
1,000 acres of as fine land as there is
in his county, plenty of stock, has
ample means to run his farm, and
what is better owes no man any
thing but good will. He says he
has always made it a rule to save
part of his income, it matters not
how small. He attends closely to
his business, and deals with all men
fairly and squarely. He has cer
tainly a happy home. Mrs. Moon
is a helpmeet indeed, while his two
little daughters are thoroughly do
mestic. They have very fine voice*.
Mr. Moon speaks next vear send
ing them to the Lucy Cobb. Mon
day morning we returned to ou* du
ties, greatly refreshed by our day in
the country.
rtr> Flendi la On
Santa Fe., N. M., Nov. 21.—A
boy named Condolaria was murder
ed near Alonvuerque by Jose Anzel
Perea and his four daughters, who
enticed him into.their house, beat
his brains out‘with a clob and bur
ied his body in their vineyard. All
five murderets are iaisd and the
Mexicans threatenljrncmpfc..
The murder of ail unde by*
nephew in Missouri is said to have
been for the purpose of silencing hi*
testimony against a horse thief.
I Colurabjr! Hallaloo!
Nebber mind yo’ rajeged riggin'.
SoVtdon’t show de nuked skin.
Lawdy! see dat Peter Slater,
How he bow en’ scrape aroun’
Head look like peeled partater—
Slick es glass up ou de crown.
Ladies change, en keep er •cooling’.
Cross right ober, now you swing,
Hole dem heads up highfalutin',
Look permiskus. data de thiug.
Massy!- look at Winny Jeeter,
Dat gal flings a soople toe;
Crack yo' heels, darTom, *en meet h
Bow en smile, en—*'so en so.”
Balance all! Now,don’t gjt laxy.
Fly aroun' en tar yo' shirt.
Stomp dem feet, but don’t go crazy
Else somebody sho’ git hurt.
Holin’ down dat music tign
Teeth der settln sorter slope'm.
Look like tomestones 4n de night.
All sasshay! I 'clar to gracious,
Sid'rin drouth an’ oberflo,’
Heb’nly Kingdom! look at Mary,
Bofe eyes shinin' like de moon,
“Don’t git w’ary, don’t git w’ary,”
Dat’a de way to change de chune.
Promernade! Now, dat comes handy.
Hunt yo’ seats en take a res’,
Gentermens will pass de candy
To de gals dey love de bes’.
AN EARTHQUAKE SECRET.
How a Guilty Lore was Revealed by the Convul
sions of Ischia.
The following melodramic inci
dent of the Ischia earthquake has
just come to light: Count Jeppi,
who possesses an enormous fortune
and one <^f the oldest titles of the
palatinate, had made a love match.
His young wife was the daughter
of Prince Cinella, etheral as a Ra
phael and blonde as a Titian. Dtir-
ing eight months of the year the
happy couple were in the habit of
living at Florence. When the
grossest chaleurs began they went
to this coquetish little villa, draped
with vine branches, on the side of
the mountain, and near the sea at
Casamicciola. One evening last
July the count left his wife after
the ramble according to custom,
along* the sea shore. The night
superb. Suddenly the earth
trembled as if shaken by the march
of an invisible army of giants. The
sky became covered with black
clouds and the ground cracked
opea, emitting the blasts of sulphu
rous smoke. The count was thrown
upon his face senseless. When he
became conscious his first thought
was of his young wife. He retraced
his steps through the village—now
a mass of smouldering ruins, man
gled humanity and half-hurt men
and beasts. Cries arose on every
side, “Padre! Madre! Figlio! Jesu!
Maria! Santissimal” Each stone
seemed to wail and moan. With
cold sweat dropping from his tem
ples. Count Jeppi stepped over dead
bodies and climbed up walls of tot
tering houses with the sole thought,
“Shall I arrive in time?” At the
corner of a street a hand, still trem
bling, projected above a mass of
ruins, and a plaintive voice was
heard crying for help. Count Jep
pi dared not stop. He turned' his
head and hurried past. After hav
ing missed his way and having
twenty times •grossed- aud recrossed
his steps. Count Jeppi at last arrived
at what had once been his villa. A
narrow end of a wall was all that
remained, quietly hanging from its
nail, a gilded wicker cage contain
ing a young dove which had been
the favorite pet of the countess.
The count felt himselfbecoming as
feeble as a little child as he
gazed upon this terrible debris.'Sud-
denly he thought he heard a
voice. The voice seemed to come
front a great distance. He strained
every nerve. The voice was heard
again. He recognized it as that ot
his wife. “I will save her,” said the
count, and at once set to work. lie
fell upon his knees and began to
dig into the smoking ruins with his
hands. The fine hot plaster seem
ed to run through his fingers like
water. He lifted up with his bleed
ing and burning hands heavy stones
and blocks that fell again, jamming
and bruising him fearfully. The
distant, feeble voice guided him.
Suddenly it ceased. He had been
working for nearly an hour. With
the exertion of despair, he redoub
led his labors. Just as he was about
to faint away trom exhaustion, the
debris upon which he wj^ standing
caved in and revealed an empty
space filled with smoke. Count
Jeppi jumped into it, and, stretching
out his arms, felt about in every di
rection.. His hand at last touched
something soft and clammy,
was the dead body of his youn
wife. He passed his hand softly
THE RE UNION.
A Large Crowd and Plenty to Eat.
1 uesday dawned bright and beau
tiful after the rain, which had been
falling fur several days past, and
the highways and byways of Banks
county was lined with the good
people of Banks, who went
to the appointed place to pay trib
ute to those gallant few who march
ed out ot 'Homer on a beautiful
April morning, in 1S61, to battle for
what they believed to be right.
The Banks Conntv Guards xvere
formed on the 4th day ot July, 1560,
and elected Capt. D. G. Candler as
their commander, little dreaming at
that time, that they would ever be
called upon to defend their country’s
honor. Their uniforms were not
very costly, hut consisted of bullet
buttons anil six yards of blue cotton
jeans, with a yellow stripe down the
pants, about three inches wide.
N one but the wealthiest could afford
this uniform, and the company, af
ter forming into line, resembled a
crowd of school boys more than a
hand ot heioes. This gallant com
pany lelt for the scene of action
with nearly a hundred of the best
young men of the country—men
who could knock a squirrel’s eye
out with a rifle from the tallest
trees. Where are they now? The
little remnant of sixteen that formed
on the llill side at Pruitt’s Mill last
Tuesday, are not ail that is left. A
few have moved out west, and sev
eral could not he here, hut the most
of them arc now sleeping their last
sleep on the slope at Malvern Hill.
On the plains ol Manassas several of
these heroes are waiting for the
eternal morn, for them to again re-'
une with their friends. Gettysburg
holds in her blood-stained fields a
few who we will never meet again.
Fredericksburg, and the woods and
fields around Richmond,claim sever-
as their own.
The sixteen that answered to roll
call on Tuesday are about all that is
lelt, and many of them can show
the scars of several hard-contested
battles.
Lieut. Ash, being the senior Lieu
tenant. took charge at the re-union
and had the loll called, and formed
this little hand into one of Capt.
Candler’s famous lines of “git into
line like tater rows.”
The people of Banks county had
a splendid barbecue prepared, and
two long tables were well laden
with tile good tilings of the moun
tains. Prominent among nil the
good things were the famous Banks
county ginger cake. This countv
is said to excel all others in the man
ufacture ot this celebrated bread.
Fried chicken was in abundance,
which generally satisfies vour re
porter, lor it there is anything we
do like, it is a good tried chicken.
I he boys had went out hunting,
anti caught two large 'possums,
which were barbecued especially for
the handsome Captain, but he did
not make his appearance, and Wal
ter Brock, the spy that Capt. Can
dler sent into Washington City,
took them in charge, and we think
him and Sergeant House managed
to get away with them.
The crowd regretted very much
that Capt. Candler was not present,
hut the following letter will explain
why he was absent:
Gainesville, Ga., Nov. 27,1SS3.
Mr. W. 15. Pruitt, Dear Sir: I confi
dently expected to have been with
you in your reunion to-day, hut ow
ing to the fact that we have
several days of very inclement
weather, and that A'. D. Candler
leaves to-day for Washington City,
and we have a good many details
of business to arrange, I have been
deprived of that pi easure. But my
best wishes will ever he with every
member of the Banks Countv
Guards and 2d Georgia Yolunteers.
The members ot your company
were young men from the best fam
ilies of Northeast Georgia. They
were amongst the first to respond
to the call of their state in defense
of principles that were right then,
are right now and a just God, in His
own way, will yet vindicate them.
The highest compliment that I can
bestow on them is to say that they
did their duty, and that while
there are many deaths marked on
your roll there are no desertions to
deface the pages. Overpowered
by numbers you were forced to cap
itulate. The terms of capitulation
were honorable, and as honorable
men we are bound to observe them.
It j But I hope there are none amongst
us so destitute of love of manhood
as to kneel at the feet of the con-
We think this a good plan, as it
will be a good record to keep, and
let the children of those who fought
for the lost cause, have some kind
of a record of what company and
regiment their fathers belonged to.
We feel certain that next year
Banks county will do her whole
duty for the old soldiers. Everybody
went awey perfectly happy. There
was no trouble or drunkenness to
mar the pleasure of the occasion.
We hope that next year the gentle
men of the Banks County Guards
may have all of the living members
present, and that the “handsome
Captain” will be on hand with the
flags that the boys followed during
the dark and bloody days.
The following letter, just received
from Col. Edgar M Butt, the com
manding officer of the 2d Georgia
Regiment, after Col. Paul J. Sem-
mus’ promotion to a Brigadier-Gen
eral, speaks for itself. Col. Butt
was beloved by every member of
the Banks County Guards, and there
is not one of them but will raise a
yell when they know that they are
still remembered by this gallant
man, who lost his eyesight at Mal
vern Hill. We were asked several
times at the re-union if we ever met
him, and whether he was still in the
land of the living. Col. Butt was
like Jhe handsome Captain, always
ready to len^) a helping hand to the
sick and the wounded of his regi
ment. We hope to see him next
year at our re-union, when the
“Southern hoys” will give him a roy
al welcome:
Buena Vista, Ga., Nov. 25th,
iSS3.—Hon. W. B. Pruitt, Athens,
Ga., My Dear Sir: I have but a
moment at this late hour to reply to
your postal, inviting me to attend a
re-union of the Banks County
Guards, on the 27th inst., having
been from home tor two weeks,
attending the fall riding of our Su
perior Court. The reading of it
turns my mind back into the past,
and memory .from her storehouse,
brings up before me every face to
day as clearly as appeared in the
dark and bloody days of 1862, in
Virginia. Nothing would give me
more pleasure than to be with you,
but it will be impossible. I would
regard it as one of the greenest spots
in my life, to be there and grasp the
hands of the living, and with mel
ancholy pleasure recount the virtues
of the heroic dead. To the living, I
send a hearty “God bless and pros
per you!” For the dead, I scatter
the amaranth over their tombs, and
write upon the portals, “Hope,
Eternal Life.”
Please write me of the re-union.
Your old comrade and friend.
Edgar D. Butt,
A SAD ACCIDENT.
Hr. Honry Gibson, of Hott'i Mills. Shoots »t a
Squirrel and the charge Is Recelred by hie
Brother and LltUeSon.
Columhut Timet.
Friday evening a party consisting
of Mr. James Bird, Henry Gibson
and his little son, and his brother,
Tom, all of Mott’s Mills, Ala., went
out squirrel hunting near that place.
They soon found their game, and
were stationed at different joints.
Mr. Bird fired at bunney. The
squirrel made a flying leap, and Mr.
Gibson aimed at it, thinking that he
would bring down the game on the
wing. Not noticing that Mr. Gib
son was going to shoot, his brother
and little son ran to the spot where
the game would fall, thinking that
Mr. Bird’s shot had killed thesquii-
rel. lust as they reached the spot
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.
Tba Lynching of Lewis Houston.
Birmingham, Nov. 26.—There
has been a great deal of excitement
on the streets since the lynching of
the negro, Lewis Houston, who at-
the face. The mouth was |l uerer and, spaniel like, lick the
open, the eyes were closed and the
hair was tangled and matted over
the forehead. Caressing in the
darkness the golden tresses, he ex
claimed: “If you are still alive,
speak or make some movement."
Being convinced of his wife’s death
he tried to lift her out of the terri
ble tomb in which he had found
her. Seizing her by the shoulders
he tried to raise her up. But she
seemed to have become terrible
heavy, as if an enormous weight
were attached to her feet. At last,
with one supreme effort, he dragged
the body near the opening. He
scarcely dared to gaze at her. But
scarcely had he done so when the
bereaved husband uttered a cry like
that of a maniac. His wife pressed
to her heart the corpse of a man
who had his right arm thrown
around her fragile waist, while his
left., held in its rigid grasp a \\ bite
rosO that had never withered. The
head was crossed, and no feature
was recognizable. The man wore
no ri n K, and no clew of any kind
could be discovered. The next day
the jbodies were-exposed to the vil
lagers, The count stated that he
believed that he had found the body
ol a] lohgilost friend, and offered 2oi-
000 lire tq any one who could make
known , ind prove the identity of
the 1 stranger’s corpse. But all in
vaii). .The count "had the bodies
buried separately in the cemetery of
Casprnicqiola,.and is still seeking to
discover the name of the man who
had; stolen - from him his wife’s
heart!
The Dublin,Gaeette tells, of a rape
whiph has been committed in Wash
ingtW county*. ' The ravisher had
selected a ten-year-oM' girl as his
victim. He accomplished his .hell
ish purpose and flea. Hewas pur
sued and tracked to Colonel Guy
ton’s place, in this county, where
he stole a mule and was still flying.
His name is John Webb. His vic
tim’* name is Polly Tomlin. The
brute was being pursued by infuri
ated men, from whom we gathered
the above. A reward of $530
been offered for
ip. He is low, very black
ilcy and wears a li
twenty-five years
has
the scam
and chunky and wear* a light mus
tache and is about twenty-five
old.
hand that smote us. But we are
again in the house of our fathers
one grand union of states—and are
true and law-abiding citizens, may
all former animosities he forgotten,
and a love of our common country
unite us as a hand of brothers.
Very truly, yours,
D. G. Candler.
After dinner a couple of boxes of
fine cigars were brought out, which
had been sent up to the “Gentlemen
of the Banks County Guards” by
theTalmadge Bros., of Athens, who
are always on the lookout to do
something handsome for the old sol
diers. 1 lie thanks of the company
were returned to the Talmadge
Bros., and the boys enjoyed the ci
gars immensely. ’ Rev. <3. H. Cart-
ledge seemed to take a great inter
est in the soldiers of Banks county,
and he, too, produced a box ol fine
cigars, which the most of the com
pany put in their pockets to smoke
alter they got home. The greatest
thing needed was some one to make
them a speech. A great many
thought that probably General
Toombs would be there and that
they would have a chance to listen
to their old comrade once more.
The people up there believe in Gen.
Toombs, as most of them have fol
lowed him on the field of battle and
know that he never turned his back
on an enemy, There was no one
present that couid make a speech,
so they had to satisfy themselves
with telling over their many hair
breadth escapes in the days when
they were soldiers.
We met several who went out
with the Banks County Guards
as young men, who now have silver
locks, and children who are large
enough to be soldiers.
After dinner a meeting was call
ed, and M. L. McDonald elected
chairman. Upon motion of Mr.
Cartledge, a committee was ap-
f jointed from each company that
eft Banks county, who should meet
some time next year and prepare a
big barbecue at Homer, and also to
get up a full and complete roll of
all the companies, the number of
killed and all other particulars, and
have the rolls filed in the Clerk’s
otHce of the county, so that the fu
ture citizens can see who wore the
gray.
Mr. Gibson fired, the shot taking
eflect in the little boy’s head, just
back of the ear, one of them pene
trating the skull, and also 111 the
thigh of his brother. One of the
shot is supposed to have entered his
kidney. Mr. Gibson was horrified
at the unexpected results of his shot.
The wounded were taken home and
Dr. Johnson of this city was sum
moned. The doctor did what he
could for the relief of the suffering,
but we understand that the little boy
is seriously if not fatally injured.
The shooting was entirely ac
cidental and our readers can well
imagine the grief and sorrow of the
fond parent and brother.
A BOY MURDERER.
» Toong Totwooo Borrower was Shot Down
by a Ptaymato.
Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 24.—Last
night on the farm of General Gran-
ville Moorman, In Bedford county
two boys, John Spooler and Richard
Newcome, aged ten and fourteen
years, were sitting in the stable
yard talking. Newcome was chew
ing tobacco. Spooler remarked that
he looked as it he enjoyed chew
ing, whereupon the other remarked
that he had always hated borrow
ing and made it a rule of his life
that he would shoot the first man
who ever asked him for ti chew of
tobacco. Young Spooler then said:
“Dick, give me a chew.” Newcome
put his hand in his pocket and said:
“If you ask me again I’ll shoot you.”
Spooler repeated the request and
his companion drew a small pistol
and shot him in the stomach. The
two had been fast friends and play-
mates. Since the shooting the
young murderer has been over
whelmed with grief and says he did
it in a fit of passion.
A Sad Story.
Sparta Sunbeam.
We heard last wtek one of the
saddest stories that we have ever
listened to. We heard from Rev.
B. II. Sassnett, who was visiting re
lations in this county at the time,
that a .friend in Eufaula, Ala., had
committed suicide. The suicide as
told is as follows:
His friend was in the sitting room
at the time, engaged in conversation
with a friend. His little boy came
in while he was talking and was
troubling his father, and the father
not wishing to be disturbed, gently
pushed the little fellow aside, telling
him at the same time to go away,
and as he did so, the little fellow
stumbled and fell against the stove,
killing him instantly. The father
screamed, and in so doing startled
his wife, who was up stairs bathing
her baby. In trying to come down
stairs she fell and broke her neck.
The heart broken father went up
stairs a short time after and found
that his wife had left the baby in the
tub and it had fallen over and
drowned. It was more than the
father could stand, and in a few
minutes he blew his own brains out
Thus a family that had an hour be
fore had been perfectly happy was
each and every member dead. We
have never before in our lifetime
heard of a sadder storjr. Was this
predestination or was it an accident?
Knisdbyany,
Hidalgo, Texas, Nor. 34.—Mr.
A. J. Leo, a member of the Tcgisla-
tempted to rape the widow lady
Friday night. All day Sunday and
Sunday night squads of negroes
were gathered on the streets discus
sing the lynching, some of them
making threats that were overheard.
A negro lawyer named James A.
Scott was mainly instrumental in
stirring the blacks. Late last night
it was rumored that the negroes in
tended hanging the widow lady and
the jailer. Governor O'Neil gave
Mayor Lane authority to call out
the military, and last night the Bir
mingham Rifles and artillery com
pany were ordered out to quell any
attempt that might be made to
carry out the threats. No disturb
ance occurred, but from the way
the negroes talk the matter is not
yet ended.
THE STORY OK THE LYNCHING.
Lewis Houston, a negro, charged
with attempted rape upon a white
lady of Birmingham, on Friday, was
taken out on Saturday night by a
mob of 150 men. They had sent
three men to the door, who were
met by Jailer Hnygood. They pre
sented drawn pistols and demand
ed the keys. The jailer refused, hut
seeing more men coming to the res
cue, he was forced to deliver the
keys. They then went to the cell of
Lewis Houston and quickly took
him away. As soon as the report
er learned these facts he hurried in
the direction the mob was said to
have gone. At the corner of Twen
ty-first street and Sixth avenue the
reporter was stopped by a masked
man with a drawn pistol. The re
porter’s progress was several times
arrested; but he succeeded in reacli-
ing a spot in the rear of Capitol
park, between Twenty-first and
Twentieth streets, when he saw a
group of men standing around the
prisoner under a pine tree. A long
consultation took place, when it was
discovered that no rope was in the
crowd. A man was despatched for
it and soon returned with a well
rope. It was placed around Hous
ton’s neck and he was told to make
a confession. He replied, “Gentle
men, before God, I didn’t do it.”
He added that when the officers car
ried him before the lady he declar
ed to her he never had” even been
upon her premises. He was then
told he might have five minutes to
pray, if he wished. Houston
dropped upon his knees and
began to pray in a low sing
song voice. Then rising he said:
“Gentlemen, if you will have the
truth and nothing but the truth, I’ll
tell you all about it.” “Out with
it,” said one of the mob. Houston,
pausing an instant, began to re
peat that he was innocent. The
rope was then adjusted, and a num
ber of men catching hold, and as
the word was given to proceed, he
exclaimed, “Jesus, take me home!”
The next instant he was raised sev
eral feet from the ground and the
other end of the rope fastened to
the tree. Then an order was given
that the crowd disperse, each man
being enjoined to make no display
or use of firearms. In a few min
utes thereafter the mob had vanish
ed, leaving the body of Lewis
Houston where it had been swung.
The whole affair, occupying proba
bly not more than three quarters of
an hour, was conducted with the ut
most quiet and order. The night
was cloudy, threatening rain and
intensely dark, it being alnm-* im
possible to have distinguished per
sons even without masks. Lewis
Houston, who was probably not
more than twenty years of age, met
his fate almost solidly, and showed
no sign of agitation, unless hissing-
song-prayer may be regarded as
evidence of excitement.
the crime alleged.
The crime for which Houston
was lynched was made known Fri
day night by the ladv advising the
police of the fact. She sent for the
city marshal and told him that on
Thursday night she was waked by
a negro at her bed. She tried to
scream but the negroe’s hand cov
ered her mouth, and she was forced
down upon the bed. Her children,
sleeping in the same room, waked,
and raised affrighted cries, and a
young man in an adjoining room
started to the rescue, reaching the
room only in time to see the negro
jump from the window through
which he had entered. The people
of the house managed to keep the
affair until Friday night, doubtless
with the view of throwing the ne
gro off guard in order to eflect his
capture. As it was, the man was
found at work in the round house
of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road. lie was taken by the officers
to the residence of the woman on
Tenth avenue, south side, and im
mediately identified by her. lie
denied all knowledge of the affair,
but his manner tended to confirm
charges against him.
GENERAL” NEWS.
IT—
OUR GAME OF CARDS.
Draw-Polcar.
Royal flush—The color of an old
toper’s nose.
I 1 our of a kind—A monkey, a
slim, a jackass and Oscar Wilde”.
Full hand—A drunken work
men.
hlush—A boiled crab.
Straight—Jersey apple jack.
lhree of a kind—Tile organ grin
der, the accordeon player and the
everlasting whistler.
Two 1 pairs—Suspenders and
shears.
One pair—Adam and Eve.
Ace high—Heave it away.
Jack pot—John’s preserve jar.
Never pjay poker with" your
uncle, if he fails to come in with his
ante.
Don’t straddle the blind unless you
are full enough to be carried home
on a shutter. .
Always bluff when you find vou
are on the edge ot a pecuniary pre
cipice.
D. J. Burke, of Shoal river,Jack-
son county, Fla., has been the rather
of 39 children.
Alaska will go before congress
demanding a simple, inexpensive
territorial government. J
Senator Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina,is said to have an income of
.fS,ooo, besides his salary.
In Junc, July. and- August of this
year, 475 persbns residing in : the
United States took their,.own; lives;
B. K. Bruce, tho colored register
of the treasury, .sends presents to all
aspiring negro babies named for
him in the south.
Now sober old Tennessee is be
ginning to put on airs. A lady is
going to apply for admission to the
bar at Maryville.
A watchmaker way up it! Chica
go generously proposes to change
time pieces to the 24 hour system
for the mere trifle of $7.
The Washington monument
reached the height of four hundred
and ten feet Saturday, and work on
it lias been stopped until spring.
The Italians in New York are
said to be more economical than
even the Chinese. A whole family
will snbsist on $2 a week, rent ex
cepted.
Gen. W. S. Hancock obtained a
verdict Wednesday in the Court of
Appeals ofXew York against the
St. Cloud hotel for $4,000, the value
ot diamonds, army badges, etc., stol
en from his room in that house in
.76.
San Francisco. Nov. 23.—Cap
tain Hogue, of the Alaska commer
cial steamer, Dora, reports the dis
covery of a newly created volcanic
island. Smoke and flames are
plainly visible. The island is near
Bagaslor. Captain Anderson, of
the whaler Matthew Turner, con
firms the report.
General Bradley T. Johnson is
reported as saying that the late
election in Virginia “was the su
preme efloit of tlie civilization, the
culture and the morals ofa commu
nity to shake off’and destroy a bale
ful influence which was blasting
the state. The intelligence, the vir
tue, the property and the educa
tion of the state rose up and vindi
cated the moral forces that control
society.”
Walnut City, Mo., was laid out
last summer, and lots were sold to
the amount of $150,000. Merchants
flocked to the place, and Mr. Slew-
art, ol Sedalia, Mo., erected a large
block of business houses, and a
large three-story hotel that cost
about $20,000. About Soo persons
became residents of the place, hut
there was nothing to sustain it, and
they had tlie merchants starved
while awaiting the building ofa
railroad and the coming of the
"boom" that the road was to give
tlie place; but last week Thomas
Nichol, who managed the compa
ny's business, was unable to pay
the tew men who were earning
money in tlie town, and then it
leaked out that he was $30,000
holt, l’he railroad scheme was
immediately abandoned, and peo
ple began to move away. The town
is dead.
GEORGIA NEWS.
I'our and one-quarter miles of the
Augusta & Elberton railroad has
been graded.
Uncle Billy Bowers says the
Carnesville railroad engine can
make two miles in 7 minutes.
A ne w post-office has been estab
lished in Franklin county, named
Salubrity, with A. McWhorter as
postmaster.
\\ . 15. Lowe, J. I*. Harrison and
other gentlemen of means have
combined to work the mountains
ot marble in I’ickens county.
Last Thursday two colored boys
I-rank Brou n and Bob Clements]
engaged in a wrestle, and Brown
bad one of his legs broke in two
places.
Macon s colored residents have
elected delegates to the Atlanta lid-
11cat1011.nl Convention. A motion to
condemn the civil rights decision
was frustrated.
Corn is selling in Leary for 24
cents a bushel, fodder at 25 cents
per hundred pounds and cotton seed
for-io cents per bushel. All "-ood
sound, new produce.
There is a mercantile establish
ment in Gwinnett county that sold
within the last year $15,000 worth
ol goods, and there was only $i.r 0
on the hooks of debts. 3
Twelve hundred dollars were sub-
scribed at Washington for an arte
sian well, hut there is not much in
terest taken in the matter because
the place already lias fine water.
Atlanta, Nov. 23—A white
woman who was brutally beaten
by her husband, Pinkney Cornett,
on Monday night last, died this
morning from the effects of the as
sault.
lion. W. P. Price lias, at the
earnest solicitation of a large nor-
tion of the citizens, given his con-
sent to serve as mayor of Dahlone-
year, if he should
ga for tho ensuing;
he elected.
T. N.
What Maddened the rather.
A Waterbury, Conn., man gave
his wife a severe beating the other
day because their children, seven in
number, are all girls. The distract
ed father is deserving of sympathy
rather than condemnation. It’s bad
enough to have one or two girls sit
ting up around the house with
young men, but when it comes to
sitting up in squads and platoons all
over the house, the very idea must
be maddening. It is quite likely
the old chap urged these objections
to his wife, and she tried to console
him with the reflection that he could
get his dry goods at wholesale rates.
-• ... Renfroe, of Gainesville
has invented a cheap and practical
apparatus for extinguishing tires in
the lint-rooms of gin houses. The
whole apparatus will not cost ex
ceeding $2 or $3.
The negro Steve Travis, who was
so badly shot bv some alleged ku-
klttx near Roswell, has so far re-
recovered as to be able to walk
about He never will be a stout,
able*bodied man again.
Toccoa News: The engine for
the Carnesville railroad reached this
place last Tuesday on its way to
V\ cst Uowersvillc, the eastern ter
minus „f the road. The engine is
different from any we ever saw,
having no driving wheels. The
trucks, four in number, are supplied
on one side with cogs, by which tile
engine is propelled. It l, C ars the
name of ‘,1 om P. Carnes.”
Wednesday last, near Whigham
m I .erce county a white man naml
ed Alfred Bird made a desperate
attempt to kill his wife, attack-
mg her with a razor. He inflicted
several ugly, though not mortal
wounds in her hand and back of
her head. A little daughter it
years of age, going to her mother’s
fn*'h'J??v e, K eC %'L ed ? P ainful ' v °«nd
f Yf n Eh ,V T h u ,,meI y ^'stance
of Mr. Ber. Bird, brother of the un-
fortunate husband, saved the life of
the wife.
A nearly fatal accident happened.
to Mrs. Williams and her little
daughter Came, while on their way
to Heard county from HotyansvillV
on Thursday last. While frowmg ,
Dansby s bridge th* horse w«
frightened by a hole and backed 1
bv a hoje ^
the buggy and its occu
the creek. The distilr
water was about tea feet.'"’The i tow»a
and seat fell off and tb* ke£ K .
ladies from sinking until they wire
etcued by a couple of ‘
who were passing. •’ en
„.,$*• into"
ce to thb