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WASTED SYMPATHY,
\Ve think a great deal of misap-
,*Vd sympathy is being wasted in
this country on O’Donnell, the as.
sjssin of the Irish informer, Carey.
NoW w hile the memory of the mis-
ftshle wretch Carey should be held
in the greatest contempt, we cannot
M-cthat he is much worse than the
11.1a who murdered him, while un-
.irrtted, that he might gain a very
questionable notoriety. It is a fair
rallcl to the Mason and Guitcau
If O'Donnell is the real pa-
• .int he would have the world he-
um', there were much better tields
.., which to show his gallantry than
i v f„Mowing a shackled prisoner
,! shooting him down in cold
i ;,*>!. O’Donnell deserves
and his name should go
,!,.wn posterity coupled with all that
j, cowardly and vile. We admire
the I risil people, and have always
.empathized with them in their
troubles and oppressions; but we
cannot go so far as to endorse a
NO XXIV.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER IS, 18S3
VOL. XXX
placed beyond the reach of doing his
country or people further injury, and
the worst doom that could be meted
out to him would have been to let
him live haunted by the contempt
of all true-hearted men and women.
It requires neither bravery or pa
triotism to assassinate such a man,
and we do protest against the ten
dency in America to make a hero of
him. O'Donnell was guilty of
FASCINATION OF FARO.
Us Ruinous Work Among tho Poorer CUssos.
-Trip r.„i jwt.
Owing, no doubt, to the raid upon
a dozen gambling houses, which
took place in this city in the begin
ning of last May, the game of faro
has been thriving by the sea in an
unprecedented degree during last
summer. It is a well known fact
that Coney Island, between “Felt-
man s ’ and the “Ocean House,” du
ring the months of June, July. Au
gust, September, and even a part of
October, was a nest of gambling
hells. * h
A reporter of the Evening Fost
attended the races of the Rrighlon
ardly assassin. Ca.cy was Beach not long ago, ami'whileThiTrc
learned that the gambling fraternity
had pulled up stakes in Coney Is-
and returned to the somewhat mild
er atmosphere of New York city.
On the train by which the repor
ter returned to town, he met two
well-dressed men who seated them-
seWes in the smoking car immediate
ly in front of him, and as they did
not speak in whispers he could not
help hearing what they were saying
“I wonder whether'the houses in
the city will open soon, or it thev
o . pen soon, or
I daslaidlv murder, and the lirit- ! ,'? i!l r ,T ai " c , losCl1 :,U " inter," said
the older of the two.
tlu*\
government did right to sen- |
e him to the gallows. The Irish
pie and their friends do the
c of that country no good when
attempt to shield “from the
.uul» ot the law the assassin of an
Harmed prisoner. The Irish are a
hiaveand chivalrous race, and we
imot believe that the better
»»cs would make the cause of
ha wretch as O'Donnell their
n. lie has gained the short-lived
notoriety for which he sought, and
. let him pay the just penalty to
mtraged law.
lASl'INO A KENliGADF..
Ft
and
pas-
g po-
Bcnj.
the Charleston News
urier welake the following
;e from its report of pending
lilical trials in that state.
sent his pet. the District
Attorney from Georgia,’ over there
- a lawyer and a scholar. He
oes not seem to have sustained
liter character:
Mr. Speer had said that John
colt, altet w ards Lord Eldon, had
nee while delending a client, pas-
■ mately inveighed against the
landing aside of jurors, but had
ecu m en tiled bv the court.
"Does not the District Attorney
f the northern district of (ieorgta
:t"W,“ exclaimed General You-
..ot'. "that the Scott who would
may
tie 1 have seen
me to write a
•What I Know
Still were 1 to
he chaiiu
1 down while
the
wn lawvvi >
weie standing
isidc
for the
purpose of
con-
ing hi'
client, was
nut
11 >Cott.
afterwards
Lord
..nr Has
he c. cr heard of
on’s attem
pting to save the life
1.
i:
of a single Englishman in those
terrible times: Does he not know
that he was the purchased and pliant
tool of a royal tyrant, and that for
gold lie prostituted his brilliant
powers as a lawyer, as some have,
done since, to trail to dungeon and
block his innocent fellow-subjects,
whose crime was that they dithered
with the party to which this man
belonged: The allusion of the Dis
trict Attorney from Georgia to the
caw of (*'Quigley recalls to my
mind Dr. l’harr's characterization of
< • Quigley in his conversation with
>11 James Mackintosh, the applica
tion of which was so apropos as to
be enjoyed by court and
auditors. Mackintosh had been in
c.uly life an ardent lover ol liber-
t'.btit having later yield to the
blandishments of royalty, had for
saken histirst love and now basked
in the sunshine of royal favor. The
\jtcastic old scholar said to Mack
intosh of (ht^uigley: “He is a bad
man, Jamie, but might have been
worse; be iias been an Irishman,
but lie might have been a Scotch
man . he tins been a priest, but lie
might have been a lawyer; he has
been a traitor, but lie might have
renegaui
The force of
tins ternable thrust was appreciated
in the court room, and Mr. Speer,
against whom it was directed, felt
it. as those who saw his faec
The
Charleston News and Cou
rier says that Mr. Speer “came to
South Carolina to shear, and will
go home shorn." Rut Speer will
get his tleecc from Washington to
make up for what he will lose in
South Carolina.
The movement to cut down south
ern representation in the next re
publican Presidential convention is
a wise one from the republican
standpoint. It indicates that the
negro and the scalawag will have
to take back seats, hereafter, in the
councils of "the grand old party.”
In the South Carolina senate, on
Friday, a bill permitting divorce of
matrimony in that state was defeat
ed by a vote of 14 yeas to 15 nays.
Rut it was thought that a motion to
reconsider might be carried on the
following day. As the law now is,
and always has been in South Car
olina, divorces are not allowed for
anv cause.
"It looks very much as if we’ll
have no faro in New York for some
time to come,” was the reply; “the
Police Commissioners seem deter
mined to keep the houses shut up;
at least I have understood so."
The first speaker said: “Well, to
tell the truth I’m really glad of it;
larois good enough—or rather bad
enough—tor ‘professionals,’ but for
business men, like you and me, it is
follv to ‘buck the tiger.’ I wish I
had never seen .1 card.
The reporter here asked one of
his neighbors for a light for his ci
gar, which request was cheerfully
complied with. One word was
brought on by another, and a sort
of acquaintance having thus been
formed, the reporter became engag
ed in an animated convci sation with
the two "non-professionals," in the
course of which he was given some
information which lie think
be found interesting, t
The older of the two men, both
well looking and well educated,”
made no secret of the fact that al
though established in some regular
business, had been placing faro off
and on for the last twenty years.
"To my sorrow," he added, and then
continued:
"During that ti
enough to enable
book, with the title
About Gambling.'
were I to confine myself strictlv to
tho truth, people would not believe
the half of it. I’ntil the beginning
of last May when a number
housed were •pulled.’ all the gar
in New York were in full blast at
all lionrs of the dav and night.
The propensity to gamble is great in
all all large cities; in tact due to the
general lottery of life, in which a
man’s fortune is by many people
believed to be ruled by luck rather
than directed and accomplished by
preservance. People living in a
stafe of perpetual uncertainty of
means, as are inanv in New York,
must not necessarily gamble, but a
great many are tempted to it. The
big men gamble in Wall street, the
smaller fry. try their luck at faro;
that is all the difference. Neither
does inevitable ruin result to all
those who belong to the latter class
You'll find men of moderate means
who have been frequenting faro
banks for years playing a small and
cautious game, and when they have
won $ to $20, retiring with it pru
dently, It is true, these men are
held in contempt, and sometimes in
abhorrence, by the proprietors of
gambling houses. They, as it is
termed, ’come to make their expen
ses,’ and when a dealer sees such a
man enter the room he generally sa-
Intes him with a sneer ill-consealed
Not that his playing a timid game
is considered objectionable, for the
great protits of a gambling table
arise Irom the small rather than the
large betters—and the bank fre
quently loses by the hold players—
but it is
Til K SYSTEMATIC WAY
in which the man retires when he
has won $10 or $20 that annoys
the proprietor. The fellow con-
win a ‘big stake.’ They could
scarcely await the coming round of
next Saturday evening which would
give them the means to again tempi
chance. This, it is hardly necessary
to say, they did nearly always with
the same iil fortune. I have often
had occasion to notice that a great
many players who belong to the
above mentioned class are good-na
tured men and kind fathers
and husbands, whose hearts it
almost broke to go home to their
wives and children without being
able to purchase for them the com
mon necessaries of life. Indeed, a
number of cases have come to my
knowledge which went to show
that the propensity for gambling in
some of these men had been princi
pally caused by a desire to improve
the condition of their families. They
wanted to furnish their dear ones
with the means to obtain little luxu
ries in order to better enjoy life,
and would not content themselves
to live within their regular, fixed
income, which, though small, would
have sufficed to obtain for them all
they needed, while now their chil
dren were often crying for bread.
“What are the chances against a
player in a ‘square game of faro?”
asked the reporter.
“Against a ‘sucker’—a ‘producer,’
I mean?”
"1 mean the outsider—a clerk for
instance—that drops in to tackle the
game,” said the reporter.
‘Well, that is what ‘professionals’
call the ‘producer,’ ” was the reply,
that is the class that produce the
money that keeps the game going.
The chances lie has of winning
with nothing against him, and he
has no system, and is not betting
high, are about one out of two or
two out of five—that is no matter
how often he wins he is sure to be a
dead loser in the end. If he plays
big and has a system the dealer soon
gets on to it. If he is struck on a
card, or plays ‘two’ or ‘three on a
side.’ or ‘odd and even,’ it will take
the dealer no time to find it out. and
as he considers it his duty to ‘pro
tect the bank,’ he will shuttle the
cards so as to lay the player out
cold. The player generally sticks
to his system and has no chance. If
there are a number of persons play
ing, of course it is difficult for the
dealer to handle the cards in this
way, but often the numerous play
ers seen at the table are ‘staked,’
takes no notice,as it makes no dif
ference whether they win or not; so
his whole attention can he given to
the ‘producer.’ I do not mean to
say that this is always the case;
some ‘houses’ in New Yoik have
the reputation of being entirely
square, where ‘suckers’ or ‘produc-
UI I ers‘ are given a fair show for their
cs i money, lint in nearly all the banks,
when they are running, they have a
lot of ‘cappers’ hanging around, and
when a ‘producer’ comes in, they
are ‘staked’ to start the game. It
pays to deal faro under all circum
stances, as the hank has the benefit
of the ‘splits,’ which amounts to a
good deal in the course of a day or
an evening.”
“Can you tell me exactly what a
‘skin game’ is?” asked the reporter.
“IN A ‘skin’ OR ‘I1RACE GAME*
one stands no more show of win
ning than he does of swallowing a
lightning rod. It would take me
too long to explain to you all about
it. In the square game there is
some show for him. Rut nowadays
nearly every player has his system
with which he expects to break the
bank, and he finds out in tile end
the truth in the saying that there
never was a system which a dealer
couldn’t beat. These things are
considered necessary, as I have
said, to ‘protect the hank.’ It is
often subject to losses by ‘shoestring
players,’ who, being deeply in debt,
manage to get hold of a few dollars,
and. having nothing much to lose,
conclude to try their luck. Some
times a fellow wins $600 or $700 off
a ‘shoestring.’ as a small stake is
called, goes out and pays his debts,
and that is the last the bank sees of
tne money. The chances are if he
has $5 »r if 10 left he will come hack,
and if he is still in luck may win a
few more hundred.”
"I have been told that some large
winnings have been made at faro
on several occasions. Is that so?”
(piers his nature—the nature o! all j inquired the reporter,
men—which impels one to follow
what Is called luck, and as one may |
•Of course it is,” was the reply,
and there is where the infatuation
double his capital or treble it almost C omes in. One night—this was
every play, it lie plays prudently ! twelve or thirteen years ago—I was
and stops at the right moment, this an up-town game wheie a well
way ir universal!! unpopular i known New York newspaper man
with all dealers A good — a ‘high roller’—was in the habit
many of this class of play- j 0 f plaving. He was there that
ers arc book-keepers and clerks t evening. He won considerably,
with small salaries who spend more ; ;1 n ( l continually wanted to bet above
than their incomes and very often ^ the limits of the game, which was
~ ‘ $500 on ‘double’ and $250
of the ‘American Nights,’ filling the
neophite’s heart with strange enthu
siasm, and send him to the board of
green cloth filled with longing hope
and desire. Rut I am of the opinion
that there is many a story of a far
different and more mysterious char
acter connected with some of these
places which would call forth quite
another feeling, and cause a certain
freezing of the nerves, could they
ever be told. If the power of
speech were granted to the silent
waters surrounding the Island qf
Manhattan, we should probably be
told many a sad, heart-rending sto-
rv. It would then no doubt appear
that many of the unknown persons
found drowned—cases upon which
the coroner’s inquests hardly ever
throw any light—were suicides;
men who yielded to temptation and
enticement, until the passion for
gambling was so strong upon them
that they were nnablc to muster suf-
ficent moral strength to retrace their
steps.”
The train had now arrived at the
depot, in Hunter’s Point, and after
crossing the ferry the reporter bade
his new found acquain ances good
bye.
FOREWARNED IN A DREAM
Th» Strange Story Told oy a Planlor, and It* Ro-
attutton,
Marion Argus.
Thirty-five or forty years ago
there lived in the eastern part of
Georgia a very wealthy farmer,
who for the sakcofconvenience we
will call Captain Johnson. He lived
alone on his large plantation having
never married although we would
not be understood as saying that
he lived the life of a hermit. The
Captain owned a large number of
slaves and to his farming interests
he devoted his undivided attention,
lie was no politician, although fre
quently solicited by- his many
friends to enter into the contest for
office; he had an idea that no man
could lie a successful politician and
deal honest with his fellow-men and
when his friends would approach
him on the subject he would always
refuse and give as a reason for his
refusal that he preferred a clear
conscience to all of the honors and
emoluments that the highest cttice
in the gift of the people could be
stow.
The Captain possessed the most
players, who are playing with the comm * I ' < l a ble trait of character that
•bank’s money, of whom the dealer ever adorned human lile, that was
Governor l'uttison, of Pennsyl
vania, has vetoed an appropriation
bill providing for the pay of the
legislature for an extra session, on
the ground that the legislature did
not attend to the business for which
it was convened. This establishes
a precedent dangerous to men who
make a living out of politics. If
legislative bodies are to he paid only
when they havci done ‘.heir duty,
how few would ever get n cent!
A New York dealer in birds and
reptiles has just imported the largest
python snake ever captured. It is
thirty feet long and eighteen inches
in circumference in its largest part.
The next largest snake of the kind is
derive a little revenue from faro. I
used to see a young fellow in the
Central Park whom I knew to be
a clerk in n public office—-one not
celebrated for enorinou' salaries to
small officials. He was driving a
splendid span ofjiorses. his buggy
was of the latest style, end the hors
es of his team were expensive and
in perfect taste. The young man’s
dress was extravagantly rich, but
the comparison of his horses was
still more so. How did he pay for
all that, think you? I'll tell you.
He was to be seen every night at a
faro bank. Sometimes he made a
single’ cards. Rut the dealer strict
ly confined him to the limit. About
1 o’clock in the morning a no less
well known New York sporting
man. who later became a member
of congress—now dead—dropped in
and when he heard that the editor
was finding fault with the limit, he
offered to take the dealer’s chair and
deal a ‘private snap,’ with no limit
for the newspaper man. The latter
eagerly accepted the proposition,
and commenced by buying two
stacks of chips for $10,000—$250
apiece, while the highest priced
his charity for the poor though rais
ed in the lap of luxury, lie could feel
for the poor and was ever ready to
give of his worldly treasures to
ameliorate the suffering of the poor
and needy. The Captain as most
all the wealthy farmers of those
days had a servant boy whose duty
it ,vas to drive his carriage, await
around the house and accompany
ny him 011 his hunting and fishing
excursions. He placed implicit
confidence in Rob, for that was the
boy's name, having been often
heard to say that he felt no uneasi
ness about his business when away
from home as he knew that it would
he as well cared for as if he was
there.
One day the captain and his ser
vant went out a ■ hunting. On re
turning home at night he felt very
much fatigued from his walk and
rctiied eariy, he had not been asleep
but a short time btfore he dreamed
a dream that awoke him; he thought
over it and although horrible to con
template he considered it was only
a dream and was soon in the land
of dreams again. He had not been
asleep hut a short time when he
dreamed the same dream, which
aroused him this time, making such
a horrible impression as to com
pletely dispel all desire for fuithcr
sleep during the night. The next
day he went over to see his brother,
who lived about a mile off. As soon
as his brother saw him he noticed
that a great change had come over
him in a very short time. He ask
ed him the question: “What in the
world, brother, is the matter with
you? You look as though you had
had a month’s sickness.”
“No, I am not sick, hut I feel
very despondent.”
“What has made you so despon
dent?”
“Well, I had a dream last night,
and I dreamed that my Rob shot
me while sitting at my center table,
and I am so confident that this
dream will come to pass, that I
wrote my will this morning.”
“Oh, btother, I never knew until
now, that you were so superstitious.
You certainly cannot place any con
fidence in a dream. Consider it as
a dream and cheer up.”
“I will try and do so, but if I am
killed you will know the cause of
my death.”
A few nights afterward Captain
Johnson was found dead in his room
by the side of his center table, with
his paper lying Jby his side. The
boy Rob was arrested and confessed
that he killed his master. He also
implicated two 01 three other ne
groes on the place, and they were
all hung on the same gallows.
This is not a talc of fancy to please
the imagination, but one that really
happened.
streak of $1,000 or $500; but ordina- j chips were never more than $25
rily lie left whenever he had won 2s
Ae was in very had odor with all
proprietors of the games which lie
patronized."
The reporter here remarked he
had frequently heard that a great
many persons in New \ ork had
been ruined every year by playing
faro.
“That is very true.” was the re
ply. “Particularly has such been
apiece, that is to say, $500 a stack.
At S o'clock he arose from the table,
a winner of about $35,000. The
colored servant, who had waited on
him during the night with drinks
and cigars, was in $375 by theoper
ation. The generous player had ot
three occasions thrown him ‘splits,’
which were worth $125 apiece
“This affair is no ‘moonshine,’ but
of real occurrence, for, as I have
OCONEE COUNTY.
the case with people belonging to j said, I was present when it happen-
the working classes. The fact that 1 — 1 -1 ~ e
a large number of them ‘played tjie
bank’ has been one reason why
•very Saturday night more gam
bling used to be done in New York
than any other three nights in the
week. The Wages of
a week’s la non
are. in most cases, lost within n few
minutes. Thus the mean which
were intended and would have suf-
. ficed for the support of a great ma-
not over eighteen feet long. The 1 n y (amilies during week, were gone
largest snake, it is said, could kill I —squandered.. It very seldom hap-
and swallow a man, and could even I pened that a player of this sort left
kill a horse. It was captured about the‘bank’a winner, while by-fur
eighty miles back of Calcutta, and is
worth at least $500. These snakes
are caught by the natives, who
spread a large net over any that they
find coiled up. The snake at once
jumps around; in frantic efforts to
escape, and becomes tangled up< in
the net It Ik then bound > with
cords and bands and carried io tho-
sea, and sold ko some ship captain.
winner,
the majority, having lost every cent
of- their hard earnings, went home
penniless, not knowing what excuse
to make to their wives, or where
from Jo derive the means for the sus
tenance fit their families during the
ensuing seven days, and yet, while
this was almost invariably ’the rule,
these same men—in full knowledge
of the facts—again worked harctall
•next week, buoyed up with the con
stant hope that at' Inst they.wo.old
ed. As it is, almost every place of
this kind has
ITS SHARE OE HISTORIES
and miraculous turns of fortune, all
unfolded in due course to the admir
ing, innocent, credulous listener;
how there was to he seen a player,
who played every night unvarying
ly for a single quarter of an hour
and not an instant longer, and who
during that time lost an even $100
has won $1,000 or $1,200; how again
or other, a young man from the coun
try, and come to the city on the eve
of his marriage to purchase pres
ents (hr his bride with only $50 in
his pocket; how he had strayed into
a faro bank, and gone home rejoic
ing, bearing with him many costly
offerings for his betrothed, and $5,-
000 in bank notes besides! How
again a young, wealthy Kentuckian
came to New Vork to see the sights,
strolled into a game situated near
the Astor House for half an hour,
bet heavily from the first, and issued
forth with a booty of over $25,000.
Such gorgeous stories have a savor
Bow s Wlckod Morchsht Wu ClrcumroEtod.
Henry County Weekly.
A bale of cotton was' brought to
town the other day by a neighbor
ing tarmer whom an execution was
held by one of our merchauts for
$2 25, The merchant placed the fi.
fa. in the hands of an officer to exe
cute and the cotton was levied on.
The defendant claimed that the ac
count was unjust and refused to
submit to the levy. He according
ly employed a lawyer to defend the
property against seizure, gave him a
ten dollar fee for his service in set
tling the matter. The lawyer con
ferred with the plaintifi.paid off the
fi fa., with 25 cents as cost, and; had
$7.40 remaining as his fee in the
case. The defendant seemed much
elated at his success in defeating the
wicked merchant and went away
satisfied.
A Rich Find.
Great excitement prevails through
out Western Montana over rich min
eral discoveries in theCoeur'Dalene
mountains. Prospectors who have
returned from that region state that
no mines have ever been discovered
in the history of the Western States
and Territories equal in richness and
volume to these of the newly dis
covered field. The mineral consists
of silver, tellerium, and free milling
gold. About one hundred dollars
per man per day is being taken out
of the gulchess. The streams where
the find is reported are in the north
ern part of Idaho, near Eagle City,
forty miles from Heron, on the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
A recalcitrant bridegroom in
Groton, Conn., has been hanged in
effigy by the indignant people.
Vult to tbs Section Around High Shoals Factory.
Sunday morning, in company
with Mr. Isaac Lowe, we started on
a two days’ visit to friends around
High Shoals factory. This was a
point we had never before seen,
and of course the road was new and
interesting to us. We never saw a
prettier farming country than that
through which we passed. While
the lands were not unusually fertile,
they are productive and susceptible
to the highest state of improvement.
The fields were large, and many of
them as level as a prairie. We
never saw a section better adapted
to the use of improved agricultuial
implements. The farm houses
were very thick on this road, and
nearly all cosy little country homes.
The cottages were snow white and
in perfect repair, sitting back in
beautiful groves, and all the sur
roundings betokening thrift and en
terprise. After leaving the Wat-
kinsville road we struck a fine drive,
broken by hut few hills and in ex-
cellent repair. There art several,
little neighborhood towns on this
route, the first being Payneville.
the home of Judge Payne. Here
we found a store, a saw mill, a black
smith and shoe shop. Judge Payne
is one of Oconee's self-made men,
and has a pretty home. Near this
plac" is that noted colored church,
named “Shady Grove.” We cannot
imagine for what reason it was thus
christened, unless it be that there is
not a shade tree in half a mile of the
edifice. We werC glad to see the
colored element in Oconee appar
ently in such thrifty condition. The
tenant houses were generally neat
plank cottages, and the inmates
seemed contented and prosperous.
Near Mr. Pink Price's they have
also just completed a real nice
church, that will be dedicated next
Sunday. The negroes we met on
the road were polite and respect
ful. About two miles this side of
High Shoals is Eastvillc, a pretty
little hamlet of white cottages, built
in a magnificent grove of oaks. But
the entire road was lined with farm
houses, making it one continuous
village.
About it o’clock we drove up to
Mr. Pink Price’s, our destination,
where we were delighted to meet
the entire Price family, and of course
in such pleasant company our time
was most agreeably passed. Pink
Price is one of Georgia’s model
young farmers. Whatever lie-
touches seems to turn into money.
Everything on Mr. Price’s farm is
in apple-pie order. 11 is lovely little
cottage, sitting back in a grove of
young oaks, is surrounded by ver
dant patches of grain and grasses,
while his lots are filled with fine-
horses and cattle and pens with fat
pokers, ready for the slaughter. Ev
erything around Pink Price is tlior-
oughbred.from his fine pair of marcs
to the registered Jersey cows he
has bought of Major Wade. He
has just completed a cow house,
built on the most improved plan,
and employs a white herdsmen to
take his cattle in charge. Even his
tenant houses are painted and neat
ly finished off. He has also a pond
stocked with carp, and nil the nec
essary requisites to a modern and
prosperous southern plantation. It
was certainly a treat to inspect this
beautiful country home, and other
farmers could well take lessons from
the example of this young yeoman
Monday morning we rode down
to the New High Shoals factory,
under the management of George
W. Felker, brother-in-law to Gov.
McDaniel. High Shoals is quite a
thriving little town, and for a mile
each side of the road is lined with
houses. The river here, in a short
distance, has a fall of 60 feet. In
fact, it is one of the finest water-
powers in the south, and could turn
a vast amount of machinery. The
factory is erected about half way
down the shoals, so that the larger
amount of power is wasted. It is a
brick building, recently enlarged
and filled with the most improved
machinery. Through the courtesy
of Mr. Felker we were
shown through the various
departments, that certainly
present a scene of busy life.
The operatives seem contented and
prosperous. Their homes are all
comfortable, and no set of laborers
in the south hear a better name for
industry and morality. It has al
ways been a rule at this factory to
discharge any dissipated workman
or female of a questionable charac
ter. The consequence is that the
High Shoals company has gathered
at omul them the most skilled and
reliable operatives in the south. Be
low the factory is a fine set of
mills, erected in 1S3S, and the fol
lowing season being known as the
“dry year,” parties came from as far
distant as Alabama to have their
grinding done here. The mills
were run day and night, and the
first year paid for their construction.
About 75 years ago there was an
old iron furnace at this place, there
being an abundance of valuable iron
ore near at hand. But for some rea
son it was abandoned. For three
miles or more down the river is a
succession of falls, anv of them suf
ficient to run several factories. If
railroad ever passes near this
place High Shoals will blossom into
the Lowell of the south. And speak
ing ot railroads, we tound the peo
ple of this section enthused 011 the
subject, and they all promise to sub
scribe liberally. They are anxious
for the road from Athens to Mad
ison, but will go to either Social
Circle or Monroe, ii it suits the ma
jority better. High Shoals is de
termined on railway communica
tion with the outside world, even if
it has to accept the Jug Tavern
route, which can be built at but lit
tle cost We can build a road from
Athens to Monroe, distant only 26
miles, and cross but two streams.
With the exception of about five
miles the grading will be very easy.
We think, however, that Madison
would he the best terminus, as that
little city manifests the most inter
est in the matter. It is essential for
Athens to preserve this territory, or
some rival city will build to it and
thus cut off another slice of our
trade.
Monday we dined with Mr. An
drew Price, who is another one of
Oconee’s prosperous young
farmers. One year ago he settled
in the woods, but now has a lovely
little home, surrounded by all the
essentials of a successful planter.
We spent two delightful days
with our Oconee friends, and hope
soon to repeat the visit, when we
will have more time to look around.
NOBLE ROMANS IN A DUEL.
Sljnor UiTito and Brron Nicotwa Beth Wounded
In an Auanlt at Anne.
Rome. Deb. S.—Signor Lovito
and Baron Nicotera met in a duel
yesterday. The question as to weap
ons led to a heated discussion. Sig
nor Lovitn's seconds preferred sa
bres, hut Baron Nicoteaa’s friends,
thinking their man weak in the
right hand, held out stuhbornly for
pistols. It was finally agreed to set
tle the matter by drawing lots,
when fortune favored Signor Lovi
to. At the appointed hour the ad
versaries, accompanied by their sec
onds, repaired to the garden of a
villa close to the Prato de Gastello,
on the banks of the Tiber. It was
agreed that only the right hand
should be used by the combatants,
and on the seconds crying halt the
combat was to cease. In the excite
ment of the fight, however, these
rules and regulations were forgot
ten. Hardly had the signal been
given, when Nicotera made a furi
ous lunge andjwounded his adversa
ry in the arm.
The .seconds instantly called a
halt, but Signor Lovito, smarting
with pain, took no notice, or did not
hear, and rushing at Nicotera struck
him fully at the head. Nicotera
raised his sabre to ward off the blow
and his opponent snatching at it
got badly cut. “Coward, assas
sin!” exclaimed Nicotera. “Trea
son!" replied Lovito, in a frenzy.
In the melee which followed prin
cipals and seconds were hopelessly
mixed. Nicotera was severely
wounded in the face and hand. The
adversaries were with difficulty sep
arated, and Nicotera, it is said, harl
to be forcibly disarmed. At the
last accounts both combatants were
declared out of danger.
MISS FLOOD S SUITORS
Miss jennie Flood, the California
heiress, who is reported by a Lon
don paper to lie engaged to a British
peer, is in this city and emphatically
denies the report. It is understood,
too, that Miss Flood denies that she
was jilted by young Grant, but
claims the match was broken off by
mutual consent. Miss Flood is an
accomplished and amiable lady,
highly esteemed by all who know
her. She possesses in her own
right $2,500,000 in Government
bonds, presented her on a recent
birthday. The English pioble re
ferred to hv the London paper is
believed to he Lord Beaumont, who
was in San Francisco not long
since. It is understood that the
young noble made overtures for the
hand of the wealthy young heiress,
hut demanded a dot ol $5,000,000,
which old mail Flood indignantly
refused. Mr. Flood, like Mr. Mac-
kay, is anxious that his daughter
should marry some well-bred Am
erican business man.
SUICIDE OF A LITTLE GIRL.
During a
Laxdixgville, Penn. Dec. 6.—
Mary J. Biker, a charming little
girl of twelve years, took her life
to-day. Her father was absent.
Procuring a clothes-line she laid a
strong piece of wood across a pipe-
hole in a bed room, and doubling
tile rope in order to strengthen it,
she made a noose and dropped it
through to the kitchen. She then
got upon a chair, adjusted the rope
and pushed the chair from under
her. When the mother returned
she found the lifeless body dang
ling from the pipe-hole. On the
fly-leaf of one of her school-books
was written, “Good-bye, dear papa
and mamma. I would rather die
than sutler this awful pain.” She
had been afflicted for months with
an incurable and painful disease, and
it is supposed that in her agony she
took her life.
JILTED BY HER SUITOR.
Atlanta, Decembet S.—The
most dramatic attempt at suicide ev
er recorded in Atlanta occurred lasjt
night near the Cotton Exposition
grounds. A switch engine on the
Georgia Pacific Railroad was com
ing in. Two couplers were sitting
in front of the engine just above the
foot-board. As the headlight flash
ed around the corner of the old Ex
position ground fence the men on
the front of the engine saw a wo
man standing near the track. Quick
as a flash she dashed toward the
track. When within three feet of
the rail she threw hersell upon it
and pressed her form close to the
ground. Instantly she passed out of
sight. The engine was stopped and
men returned to find the woman
alive. Her name was Carrie Myers.
She is fine looking and nicely dress
ed factory girl. She refuses to
talk. A mysterious personage turn
ed up just after the accident. He
was a young United States soldier,
and was first seen standing in the
shadow of a small pine tree near
where the woman was first seen.
He did not go up to see the woman
or ask any questions. He followed
the litter into the yard and disap
peared. The woman and himself,
it appears, had quarreled, and he
cast her off. In despair the woman
thiew herself upon the track.
DOWN IN OGLETHORPE.
Lexington, Ga., Dec. 12.—A
compromise is about to he effected
between the fence and no fence
sides. It is proposed to hold a
mass-meeting of farmers on the first
Tuesday in January, and by mutual
consent postpone the operation of
the law until January, 1885. The
leading fence men say they will ac
cept this. Simston district is still
unreconstructed, and threatens to
fence up if the stock law is forced
on her. This cannot be done le
gally. I am inclined to believe that
both sides arc tired of paying law
yer fees, and will settle the trouble
among themselves.
Judge Gibson, on Wednesday,
will unite four of our fairest belles
in matrimony—Miss Cornelia Sla
ton, near Wesley Chapel, at 10
o’clock; a daughter of Mr. Willis
Jackson, near Salem, at noon, and
Miss Cooper, daughter of Mr. W.
O. Cooper, and Miss Gaulding, near
Crawford, in the evening.
A minister in this county, some
time since, preached a long sermon
to a congregation of only three.
Our new pastor is said" to be a one-
eyed man. If he will only sec half
the sins in our midst perhaps all
sides will be better pleased. Mr.
Smith, our old pastor, was very
popular.
Mr. J. J. Bacon cleared $140 with
his hotel court-week. It is the best
kept house in Georgia. *
Our people are anxious for Capt.
W. B. Burnett, of Athens, to otter
for congress, Old Oglethorpe will
“stick to him closer than a brother.”
A good boarding house would
pay here. Mr. O. II. Arnold and
family, Mr. Willie Stewart and fam
ily, ar.d Dr. B. V. Willingham and
family, all are anxious to break up
housekeeping if they can get board.
Spy.
GRAVE-ROBBERS ALAM.
Indianapolis. Dec. 6.—Allred
Bristow, ill with consumption,
died on Friday last, and on Sunday
his remains were buried in the “Old
Camp” graveyard, south of the city.
Yesterday the grave was found to
have been rifled of its contents, and
Joseph Bristow, a brother, called to
his aid Captain Long, and a system
atic search finally traced the body
to a medical college. Notification
was then served upon the college
authorities that unless the body was
urrendered the power of the law
would be invoked, and Mr. Bristow
was placed in possession of the
Corpse. An attempt had been made
to destroy the identity by stripping
the skin from the face, but the ema
ciated condition of the body made
the work of recognition an easy
one. The authorities are making a
vigorous eft'ort to arrest the grave-
robbers.
WEDDED AT EIGHTY-FIVE.
Remarkable Bridal or Venerable Bay state People
Dedham, Mass., Dec. 6.—Mr.
Patrick Keegan, a dashing youth ot
seventy-five, has been for some
weeks past a sorrowing widower.
He is'now a proud and happy bride
groom. Hannah Cushing, a maiden
of eighty-five, is the coy. but bliss
ful bride. Last night the happy pair
were serenaded by the East Ded
ham Calathumpian band. Mr. Kee
gan offered them $5 if they would
go away.
Tbo South Goorgla Drouth.
“The people up here do not seem
to understand, said a South Geor
gian yesterday, “the alarming na
ture of the drougth in South Geor
gia. It is unprecedented and fear
ful. Unless this rain of to-day ex
tends into that section the most
disastastrous results may be looked
for.”
“Why, what is the extent of the
drouth?”
“It reaches from Lee and Dough
erty through Baker and Michell
into Lowndes, covering all or part
of a dozen covnties. In Lee county
there was a raid on June 10th, and
another in September 13th. Not
another drop has fallen in over 3
months. The creeks, springs anil
wells have dried up. In Leesburg
water is sold at five cents a glass.
It ishaulcd ove r IS to 20 miles.
Families take their washing the
same distance frequently. The arte
sian wells in Albany and elsewhere
have been beneficial always; now
they are God-sends against actual
water famine. The crops are very
much injured, The sugar cane is
not more than a foot high. The
land is so hard that the people can
not put in fall grain, and there may
he much suffering unless there are
speedy and heavy rains.—Constitu
tion,
The Puckod Jury In tha Marlon Oaio—A Perjuror.
Columbia. Dec. 11.—The case
against E. A. Bethea, of Marion, in
the United* States Court, charged
with interfering with a Greed back
potical meeting, came on yesterday.
Mr. Speer has it in charge. One
witness was found to have sworn
falsely and perjury plainly proven.
No case at all was made by the
Govenment’s white witnesses, while
the witnesses for the
defense showed that the Mari
on meeting was and ordinary polit
ical gathering, with no unusual dis
turbances. The case was resumed
at to o’clock to-day. The defense
has a large number of witnesses, and
from the nature of the' testimony so
far adduced on that side, there is no
doubt to any honest mind that the
defendants will be wholly and satis
factorily vindicated.
Columbia, December 11.—In the
United States Court the entire day
was consumed in examining wit
nesses for the defence in the Marion
cases.
Bow Gambling U Foitsrsd at tha Capital.
Atlanta, Dec. S.—The gamblers
are again “unrooted” and their qui
et greatly disturbed. Although it
has frequently been stated that the
city was rid of these men, I have al
ways insisted that they had only
been drivej in back streets and less
suspected quarters. So long as pub
lic officials gamble, or own gamb
ling rooms, and leading politicians
patronize them, they cannot be bro
ken up. A few cases may be made
for effect, hut the men who own and
uphold them are not prosecuted.
They continue to hold up their heads
in official positions, run the politics
ot the city, and associate with our
best citizens. Their pimps and
agents, hired for that purpose, are
roped in by the police and fined,
but new ones are readily procured
and other rooms promptly opened
up. Money and political influence
will keep gambling rooms open in
Atlanta as long as it remains a city.
Gain esvi^lb, December 11—S.
C. Dunlap was elected mayor by
forty-nine majority. Aldermen—
First ward, H. Rudolph, twelve
majority; second ward, G. W.
Walker, forty-six majority; third
ward, J. R. Boone, Jtwenty-nine
majority.
Doth From Smallpox.
Columbus Enquire: Mrs. J, W.
Covington who has been ill of small
pox at her home, near Box Springs,
about t^o weeks (died yesterday
morning It will be remembered
that her hosband died of the same
disease only a few days before his
wife’s illness. Mr. Covington
contracted the disease while pn a
bridal tour to the Louisville exposi
tion. Thus has the bride and groom
both been cut down by grim Death
ere the honeymoon had ended.
The death of Mrs. Covington is in
deed sad. and she leaves many
friends who will be greatly grieved
by this announcement.
▲ $150,000 Fir* at Oadsden Sunday.
Home Courier.
A telegram received here yester
day, gives the particulars of the
burning of Coosa Furnace at Gads
den, Ala. The fire was caused by
one of the ga« blowers exploding
near the furnace shell, and inside
of an hour the latter was a total
wreck. The explosion threw fire in
all directions,, and it was impossible
to stay the flames. The engine boil
ers and 400 cars loads of coke were
destroyed. The loss is estimated
ot about $150,000 and with no Insur
ance.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Pine Bluff, Ark., has had a des
tructive fire.
A colored rapist was riddled with
bullets in Hinds county, Miss.
The Egyptiaq anny has been at
tacked and routed by the hill tribes.
Speer has not as yet made any
headway in the South Carolina
cases.
The Queen has made Alfred Ten
nyson. the poet laureate of England,
a baron.
The expedition through the ever
glades of Florida have arrived safely
at Punta Rassa.
During a political difficulty at
Greenville, Miss., one white man
and three negroes were shot.
A book-keeper at East Saginow,
Mich., shot and killed his brother
through mistake for a burglar.
An insane man who attacked the
ladies of a house with a club at
Owensborough, Ky., was shot dead
by a visitor. * —*
The treasurer of Lewis county,
N. J., went insane because he could
not make his books balance. He
only owed $17.
Mgr. Savarcese, a doctor of civil
and canon law, and until recently
the Pope’s domestic prelate, has left
the Roman Catholic Church.
Buffalo, N. Y., December 10.—
Five men out hunting this morning
on Magara river, were drowned,
the boat capsizing in a squall.
Mahone is at last where Hen Hill
prophesied he would be—a member
of the republican caucus and a re
creant to his own flesh and blood.
Mr. T. P. Sibley, of Union Point,
committed suicide ;.t the Markham
House by swallowing mophiiie. This
is far better than a slow death from
starvation.
A call was issued by John II.
Deveattx, grand master, for (he
semi-annual communication of the
rand lodge of colored Masons in
iavannah on the 27th instant.
Senator Colquitt introduced a bill
to pay Georgia thirty thousand dol
lars money expended by her in
defending from Indian wars. Its
chances of passage are good.
Charleston, December ti.-Tlie
municipal election, of Mavor Court
ney and the election of democratic
nominees for aldermen and mem
bers of the school board, without
opposition.
Charlotte, Dec. 10.—Burt Ellis,
the negro who has just been tried,
convicted and sentenced to death
for the brutal murder of old Mrs.
Logan some months ago, has made
a full confession, and tells a tale of
horror. He is to hang at Shelbv
next Friday. The execution will
be private.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. S.
1SS3.—Janies Gillespie, a workman
at the Lookout Mill, met with a hor
rible accident to-day. While boil
ing firebrick clay in a huge vat he
missed his footing, and fell into the
seething liquid up to his shoulders.
His body was stewed, the skin hung
in huge flakes, and in portions of his
body the flesh was clean from the
bone.
Washington, December 40.—In
the supreme court to-day, a decision
was rendered in the contested will
case of Stephen Percy, Ellis, et. ;d.
collateral, heirs of Sarah Ann
Dorsey, against Jefferson Davis, to
recover the possession of certain
real and personal property left to the
latter by Mrs. Dorsey at her death.
The judgment of the court below in
favor of Davis is affirmed.
Savannah, December 10.—Rev.
Father Daniel Heftert, belonging to
the Benedictine order, colored, on
Skidaway Island, below the city,
died Saturday morning from the
effects of a gun shot wound, acci
dentally inflicted. He was in the
act of khooting a vicious dog, when
he tripped and the weapon dis
charged, the contents entering his
abdomen. He was a native of
Switzerland, aged 35.
Savannah, December 10—A
Way cross special to the News: “At
12:40, yesterday, the Savannah fast
mail train ran into the Brunswick
and Western passenger train at the
crossing of the two roads. The
Savannah train struck the mail car
of the other train, throwing it up
against the Brunswick and Western
depot, completely wrecking the
building and cat. A negro hoy on
the platform was killed. The agent
and telegraph operator in the build
ing narrowly escaped being killed.
The messenger of the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company was buried
in the debris, but only slightly
bruised.”
COLORED CONVENTION.
A Gathering to Conildor Matters ot Interoat In
Connection with Public Schools.
Constitutum.
At twelve o’clock to day about
four hundred delegates will assem
ble in the hall ot the house of repre
sentatives as members of a conven
tion called to consider matters of in
terest to the colored people.
W. J. White, chairman of the col
ored executive committee of a for
mer convention, will call the con
vention to order. It is understood
that Rev. W. J. Gaines, of Big
Bethel church, will he elected tem
porary president. The convention
is called for the purpose of discuss
ing the interests of education, and
to take such steps as seem best to
secure a better system of public
schools. A petition will be prepar
ed and presented asking the legisla
ture to appropriate enough money
to make the schools absolutely free
for three months. As it is now
teachers are unable to work for that
time at the amount fixed by law and
have to make up the difference by
contributions from-the patrons. A
committee will be appointed to me
morialize congress to appropriate
money to run the schools an addi
tional three months, so that the
state can have six months of free
schools. The idea is to have the
national aid withdrawn as the states
become better able to take care of
themselves, as was suggested in the
report of Secretary Teller.
The convention will be in session
two days, and the lime will be ta
ken up in a discussion of the va
rious matters connected with the in
terests of the colored people. ’ It is
not intended that the body shall be
political in any sense. It may how
ever develop that the politicians
who are members will feel like get
ting up a discussion, and if so the
subject of education may be tempo
rarily dropped. Dr. Orr, State
School Commissioner, will prob
ably he invited to speak.
The Elberton cotton sepd oil mill
is in operation and works lifte a
charm.
A Thomas county negro ’ has just
paid a medical hill of twenty years
standing. *•*..
Five millions of dollars are invest-
ek in gold mining in Georgia,' the
profits thereon being satisfactory.
Mrs.J. R. Gregory has been selec
ted to paint the portrait of ex-Gov.
Herschel V. Johnson for the state.
Georgia has a local option dog
w. Each county will decide for
itself whether it will have sheep or
dogs.
The Newton county delegation,
forty in number, who left for Texas
last "week, reached their destination
on Tuesday.
The South Georgia M. E. Con
ference convened in Macon Tucs-
lay. The railroads have arranged
to pass delegates at reduced rates.
At Dalton a train cut off the heels
of an intoxicated man’s boots, but
his person escaped harm. The Lord
provides for drunken men and
babies.
People in Dougherty county haul
water from the artesian wells of
Albany. But for those wells there
would be danger of a water famine
in that section.
Judge Erskinc will resign as soon
as the department of justice is satis
fied of the fact that he is seventy
years of age, and therefore entitled
to retire on full pay.
A colored man in Madison, Ga.,
paid his former master on last Satur
day $1,700 cash on a plantation
which he had bought, agreeing to
pay the balance next year. He has
all necessary implements, stock,
corn, oats and provender on hand.
E. C. Crisman, who lived near
Sonora, was killed last week be
neath a falling tree, which he had
cut down, and remained beneath it
all night. lie was found and re
leased next morning, but life had
been extinct some hours.
The Central railroad authorities,
at their meeting in Savannah last
Wednesday, reduced the rate of
dividends of the road, and declared
a three and a half per cent, semi
annual dividend, instead of the
usual four per cent.
Apropos of the prospective Texas
slave suit before the Court of Claims,
the Republican papers will soon
begin to feat that Gen. Toombs will
call the roll of his slaves from the
top of Bunker Hill monument. As
the General has said, there is no
law to prevent him from doing so
if lie desired. Patriot Edmunds
ought to introduce a bill on the
subject at once.
Wall’s Mill, five miles cast of
Yalilo«ta, was the scene of a trage
dy Sunday night before last. Two
colored preachers, Artlier Williams
and Wrange, got into a diffi
culty about the wife of the former
and Williams got an old musket
loaded with buckshot and shot
Wrange in the side at close quar
ters, tearing a terrible hole, which
resulted in instant death. Williams
immediately cleared out and has not
been heard of since.
GENERAL* NEWS.
Flour is $40 per barrel at tile Com
d’Alene mines, Montana.
They are beginning to cultivate
tobacco in the cotton belt of Florida.
A large number of Mississippians
who have tried life in Texas, are re
turning, broken down in health and
fortune.
A nineteen-year-old boy in Ohio
has sued for a divorce; but being
under age, the suit is brought in the
name of his ‘next friend.’ This is a
novel proceeding.
Monterey, Mexico, Dec. 10.—
Timetio Hcrmandcz was publicly
shot here this morning for murder.
An immense concourse of curious
people witnessed the execution.
Governor Murray, of Utah, is
alarmed. He remarks that of the
150,000 people in that territory rio,-
000 are Mormons and thinks there
is danger of a polygamic and em
pire.
The temperance people of South
Carolina are sweeping the state on
the no license question. Barnwell,
Spartanburg, Marion, Winnsboro,
Orangeburg and Sumter have all
voted for no license.
A minister has just died in Con
necticut, leaving $150,000. A day
or two since a New York minister
was garroted on the street and rob
bed of $800 worth of watch, dia
monds and money. Preaching pays
better at the north than in this sec
tion.
A state convention of the colored
people ot Virginia has been called
to meet in Norfolk December 13th,
to expose ‘the methods of the hour-
lion party,’ and to give the public
the ‘true history of the Danville
massacre.’
Lee Crandall, of the Greenback
party, says that Gen. Butler has
consented to accept the nomination
of the national party for President
and will make the campaign.
Should he do so, it would be good
policy for the democrats to forbear
from running an electoral ticket of
their own in Massachusetts, and let
Butler and his nationals carry the
state.
A sad and peculiar circumstance
of courtship, recently occurred in
St. Louis. A young fraulein from
Westphalia reached that city ex
pecting to meet her German lover,
who had sent for her to he his wife.
She found him in jail. He had mur
dered his partner because lie be
lieved that his money, with which
he was to make a home for his liride.
was being wasted.
Medical men have for some time
arrived at the conclusion that con
sumption is infectious. The mattei
has been taken up in it very practi
cal way in the German army, in
which the disease is stated to he
very prevalent. All soldiers suffer
ing Irom it are isolated, and, to pre
vent any possible infection, .on no
account are they to he allowed to
associate with patients suffering
from pneumonia or acute bronchitis,
while special means arc to be taken
for the disinfection of the sputa in
infectious cases.
A New York correspondent re
ports in the Allgemeine Ztitung an
ustounding discovery. He states
that in the virgin forests of Sonora,
a province of Western Mexico, near
Magdalene, a pyramid has been
found measuring 4,350 feet at its
base and rising to the height of 750
feet. A carriage road winds around
this enormous structure from bas.e
to summit. The face consists of
granite blocks carefully Cut and per
fectly fitted together. Not far dis
tant stands . a hill whiqh t we are
told, is honeycombed with, cells of
various sizes, all cut out of t^e solid
rock. They are without windows,
several are on the same level, and
the walls are adorned ]»i|hi fantastic
shapes and symbols. , " ;
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