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iura 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. , " ; ■ '■ ' Y . IUIO-J ukl