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x:'t * 7 /x. ^ v'- s * t _ s oUTH CAROLINA BREAK- T HE DOWN. Home Courier: It is no disgrace Mil in a noble and laudable under- uking. A* P °P e sa > s: . u»o noblr f »da I'V noMe mean* .tulm, ,,, Ell,,- unites In exile or In chalnn, ! Aurcllu. let him r.k-n, or bleed [;,J r narrate*, ih»t io«ii l» *re*« Indeed." nut no such honor awaits the man w ho for filthy lucre, or the hope of lineal preferment, or to please ,| e >potic authorities in office or Wl . r , causelessly anti vindictive- j v persecutes his fellow man. Even Miccess wins for him no lasting re. notvn—the stern and inevitable judgment of future generations al- » avs condemns acts of tyranny and oppression, though temporary sue- e>. and reward may crown those „ i„, perpetrate them. Hut doubly p oiled and disgraced is the instru- nu;)t ot power w ho entirely fails in nis ignoble undertaking and rc- tuiiis to bis employers only a record of utter defeat and disappointment. In the prosecution of the South I'arolina cases,in which ihe gov- eminent has failed to convict a sin- ele democrat, the right of a fair and impiejudiced trial by jury was not allowed the accused. By careful .election of the panel in the first in- .taiicc, and by the peremptory standing aside of jurymen in court, political sympathisers with the defendants were excluded from the ,s. and thev \>.re thus organ i/eil with an eye single to convic- Ib.w ditl'ercnt is this from t:.c cate taken in our state courts to , hide trom the juries all men who t.nn ill feelings tow ards the de fendants, or who have any iutcicst THE BANNER-WATCHMAN. NO XXV. AcTHEiNrs, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1883 VOL. XXX RUINOUS SUFFRAGE. If our American republic ever goes to pieces and a stionger gov ernment is built upon its ruins, the downfall can he traced to injudi cious suflrage. No government is secure when it is ruled by the rab ble. 1| there is anything that needs protection and purifying it is the ballot-box. Only intelligent, think ing men should be permitted to have a voice in shaping a govern ment. When the ballot is placed in the hands of the ignorant and de praved, who are governed by their prejudices or will sell their votes, then indeed is the very foundation of a government threatened. The general government in part recog nized this fact, where it is left to the states to grade their own sullrage. Ill several ot the Northern states they have recognized this necessity nd regulated this pii\ ilegc by either property or educational quiilifica- tion. We oppose the former alter- native, tor it is calculated to build up a monied dynasty that would prove about us dangerous to the lib- erlies ot the people as unlimited suf- linge. Hut we are in favor of an OGLETHORPE COUNTY. Capt. Burnett and the editor of this paper left Saturday afternoon, via the fast train on the Georgia, destined fora visit to friends down in Oglethorpe county. The train was under charge of that popular MULHATTAN’S LAST NOVEL THE MYSTERIOUS AMELIAS. TW Sequel to Ora singular Mantas* of Amelia A. Hoyt, to a Tramp In Buffalo—Ta* Latest Theory aa to tho Personality ami Mo.ire ol the Strange Woman. New York. Dec. 13.—There is a ill till- ,■ c. .INK tio n, or have pie- edu Ciitional qualification for voters iu.lge 1 the r Cel sc! The course pm - in ( icorgia. A mere Mualtering of ► ued ire he con v ie lion of the edu cation is not Millicicnt, but let a Can >ltn.i P‘ lilical di-lcn. lams vot •1 he able to read understanding- .111 1 it. tl e vi ry of a fair \y before given this priv- .Hill input lial III il by jury, and lie- e. It may be.unjust to; few the >ui.t ica lo|>|»o, inis of an inti Higeut and upright citizen who .1 i mi liana ion el 1 11 o>t .It the mercy we e debarred by poverty the bene* ..t ;i 1 nstill 00V ern ment. lit* of ;i school, but the goo* that 111 • p.lo .•na w th whi cb the pi 0- vv i l result therefrom will far over- pie** the until hi ve en Inicd such hid. uce tliis wrong. It would place 1 i-r« cutious i* in deed eiliai kalnc. our politics 011 the highest basis, and No d >111 he kn »\N lctlj. c that lia act as an incentive to the c nning ol.jt. ol' thei ' lcr-eci nas is to gt-i elation to elevate them •elves drive then mt« Hi sistilllC or n-talia- Wc know our position is imp • pillar lion U w lilt re tiiiins tliem and w it It the but at the same ma U > t lu n m i>n i>MVC to indigni tin t it is founded on justice. Kach ties : ll.1 in i"" ce \\ 011I11 m.ikf y <: r the elective franchise i- low- "icb I :i 1 y other pr p c on ere 1, until in many -ection * f our rarll Tl <* *1 it> ion t. 'in- flit lilt country office* have become : mat* i. vv 1 rtlu-r 111C Co i.iiu-' 1 .11 of stall ter of barter and sale. No g >vern- glia w roi 11 I S t i ii-.ili down me it can stand when civili zatinn ilir j ill I V • ho C..I unit til 1 in. or wear am enlightenment made t 0 give out t u- j... cm * t the icoplc '.hits pla ce to ignorance and vice. l’*'”” cult. . A PARASITICAL WON DKR a Pa .N 1C T HLAT EN KL>. — Thirty-Eight Sn.skoa Dt.ic v in th« StoIU.eCh It ‘t-i-in »c 1 gene al inipri-s- of Wirograt* Cow «i..n in commercial c rclc. that our ....mlt\ is How ihrt-alciicd with a jmiiic. mi.I we w.ll be fortunate in ilci-il if the -I.•! m can be w entlici |.,ke fur instance cotton mainline l.ueis As a rule few have made ex penses this tear while a tiiujoritv lane Mink money. To meet 111 i- trouble wages arc being cut down in the North, w hile we are looking also for a reduction South. Our peculiar advantages have uji to the nl time obviated this neerssitt. pre- I at >lii it do not think that tho can ( bow cling pi stand much longer the ciinipe- with. Mr. Ca' lition in reduced Ninth. There is r i,,ii goods, the v packed with mam and r\ ell the wages from the o demand for cot- ,alehouses being I |, ifactiired fabrics, 1! ill ike hurt c niorr than supply tb fact lias kept down the price of tl staple, am! as a natuial coirseip.ieiu heais haul on funnel the u-i h.ickhonc of the country. Iron is being sold al less than the cost of pmiluctnm, ami we see that wink- nun are now accepting a rediic.ion 1:1 wages without murmur. In fact, pal:lUsis threatens even branch of business. Merchants are selling | 0, !y staple goods ami the necessa- 1 iis of life, which shows that the 1 people feel the effects of hard times and are meeting them heroically. It w.ll he only by the closest economy , that 1 panic can he averted. Ihe country had as well recognize its true condition and picpare for the j inr- liable. A panic now. in face j of the short crop, would complete] the ruin of thousands of farmers in the south. "A stitch in time” will go far toward averting the evil. Let them make as few debts as possible, and plant largely of grain. \\ hen the planters of the South become self-sustaining they can look with imlilference upon the financial troubles that begin cru manufacturers, never touch them; render the producters of a section independent, all other classes must piosper with them. ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. ray, or miss a train, to be under the charge of the Captain. At Crawford we were met by our old friend Joe Uaughn. To his tender care we assigned Capt. Bur nett, while ye Editor took passage with Dr. Bob Willingham. That night we attended a hog-killing at Mr. l’eter Baughn’s, and met with that genuine hospitality for which Oglethorpe is proverbial. Capt. B. took on an extra supply of chit terlings, sausage, souce, spare ribs, ana last but not least—brains. We were put to sleep with the Captain that night, in one of those grand old country feather beds, the sheets snow-white and beneath a ton of quilts. It was bitter cold, but crawling to the extreme edge, we tlattered ourself that we could weather the attack of nightmare with which our companion showed symptoms of being threatened. But alas! Just as the clarion notes of the old rooster gave intimation of midnight, we dreamed that a hilly goat had attached us on the edge of the Devil's Pulpit, at Tallulah, and with a regular Bogardus butt, had sent us over its precipitous heights. We awoke before our body touched the floor, to discovei that Capt. B. had broken out badly with the nightmare, and landed us, bv a well-developed kick, out of the bed. The balance of the night we spent in dodging blows from Capt. B’s arms, heclsaml knees. About day break Uncle Peter made us a rous ing lire, and getting up we had :.n hour’s peaceful slumber in a chair. The next morning vve went before a magistrate and took a solemn obli gation notto stop with ISurnett and a hog-killing supper again. Sun dae morning broke clear and cold, and with "Uncle Peter" wc attend- I ed a very plecsant Sabbath-school 1 service at the Baptist church in j Lexington. Burnett and Joe lin- 1 gered behind and refused to go to : church, which pained us deep ly. But after service they drove into town, when wc moved on to 1 Dr. Mark Willingham's. The Doc tor was out at Tom Berry’s laying oil'a fish pond, but we were in for kahlc ;l -fret ze-out” game and held the fort until the Doctor returned. We expected to leave for home on the evening's tiain, blit Burnett soon discovered that Dr. W. had also killed hogs the day before and re fused to nudge until Monday even ing. This was Capt. Burnett’s first visit to Oglethorpe, and he was so well pleased that he threatens to spend the next summer down there. NOTES l-ICKED UP. Col. Bees Tiber, one of Ogle thorpe’s solid bachelors, lead to the altar, last Saturday, Miss Williams, a charming young lady. We wish Abbott noticed that I them along life of happiness, in one ot the larger inti stines some- There is a perfect boom in fish- thing was seen to move and keep pond >. Dr. Mark Willingham is up a constant motioi.; curiosity led ! now building his third pond, •pen, and as this was j Messrs. Tom Berry and Martin •lone a verv large snake. a coach- Johnson are also preparing for carp w hip, ran on the ground some dis- I culture. lance, hut was killed By this mi- ; Crawford is still on the improve, racidoiis revelation. Mr. Hover Gay | A new house is going up next to and Capt. Abbott were confound- j Witcher -V Johnson's store, while ed, hut prone.led with the Crit. McMahan has demolished the process ol butchering; hut old depot house and will build a when the windpipe was opened beautiful home 011 the sight. There lots Certainly the nv snake story that \ 1 heaid conies fiom M district in this cm ; stoi v, l ut il is vouch of the best men in tl; saw the wonderful Mrs. Bryant A. Gay killed and pointed was small to its age. hi tkv -t remar e have old Fine nii. It is no ] ■d lor by some l* countv who j inonstrosit v. m del ed a beef I out one which thinking that t would never he of any size. The cow was four years old and its re- inai kablv small size had frequently been the subject ol comment. Alj the heel was killed and the disem- through knight of the bell cord, Captain j mystery about the pretty, spirited Hutchins, a better and more faithful and imperious Amelia A. Royse, official than whom never lived. By who got herself married in such an his courtesy and polite kindness he j unusual way in a justice’s office has completely won the hearts of here one week ago, that grows the travelling public, and a lady | thicker and more mystifying ;.s the will actually go out of her way, or returns come in. One week ago to day she appeared in the office of Justice Freeman in this city, closely veiled, and accompanied by an illit erate bore named Charles Traynor, and insisted upon marrying him. The ceremony was performed and then she turned to the blushing bridegroom, paid him for his servi ces in the most cold-blooded com mercial way imaginable, and sent him packing about his business. Then she explained to the court that she had married this man simply to put it out of her power to marry an other whom she loved, the only man on earth it would please and hurt her to marry. "For reasons that I have no desire to tell,” she said, "I cannot marry this gentleman with out bringing great soirow upon him and me in the future And as^ am only a woman, capable of being tempted to marrv the man 1 love, I have married a stranger and so placed myself beyond the reach of temptation. This is all there is in it. I shall go home and live as I have always lived and love as 1 have always loved. It is not likely that I shall see this man Traynor again. He perfectly understands that lie was hired to marry me and then go about his business.” Having said this, she left the court room, going in an opposite direction from that the strange bridegroom had taken. A STRANGE SEUt l t- The sequel to this story is as strange as the story itself. The wide publicity given to the marriage at the bride's request, she having given the names of several papers in which she wished repoits to appear, has brought inquiries from four widely separated points for four missing young ladies, each mined Amelia A. Royse, each having disappeared during the last week in November, and the description of each agree ing fairly with that of the eccentric bride. On Tuesday morning last Justice- Freeman, who performed the cere- mony, received a letter from Henry Pugh, of Cutter street, Cincinnati, stating that Amelia A. Royse had rented a suite of rooms of him anil had mysteriously disappeared on Friday, the day preceding the mar riage in Erie. Mr. l'ugh said she was a highly educated young lady ot an excellent family capable of committing the eccentricity report ed. He described her as possessing a wealth of auburn hair, but the Amelia who married Traynor was a brunette with short black curls. This seemed to settle the question of the Cincinnati Amelia A. Royse. That same evening the justice re ceived a telegram front Mrs. Mar garet Royse. of Washington, 1). C., stating that Amelia A. Royse had disappeared from that city a few days before, anil it was feared she was the “veiled lady” of Erie. The telegram was followed bv a letter warned in a dream. Tbs Vision that Appealed to Christopher c. Brooks, and the ratal Results. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Brooks, of Baltimore, lost their youngest son, Christopher C. "Brooks, aged 17 years and 5 months, by death from paralysis of the heart in Brooklyn, on Wednesday after noon under peculiar circumstances. The Baltimore Sun says that Mrs. Brooks was travelling in Europe, and iiad written hei son, who was employed in New York and lived in Brooklyn, to join her. lie re sponded, naming the time of his starting. In the interim he was ta ken ill, and on the day Mrs. Brooks received his letter she received a cablegram summoning her home on account of his sickness. On lief ar rival she found him able to go about, and his physicians had no fears as to his perfet recovery. The youth stated, however, that a former teach er and a friend of his, a Mr. Hall, who died about five months ago, had appeared to him in a vision and told him he would die of heart trou ble on Wednesday, December 5, at 3 o’clock p. m. Young Brooks had never had any trouble with his heart, and his friends to whom he made the statement were in no way concerned about it. Dr. Maw, his physician, laughed at it, and said he was certain on the contrary, he would get well. The young man however, thoroughly impressed with the belief that he would die at the time indicated. A lew days be fore that time he sent flowers to some friends with a note, saving- "1 shall never again he able to ex press my appreciation of your kind ness." He accompanied a lady friend to an entertainment the after- noon of December 4, spent the eve ning ill her company, and received a ptomise that if he wrote for her the next afternoon she would come to sav good-bye. Wednesday morning young Brooks rose :i- usual, ate- an unusu ally lu-arty breakfast, and to all ap pearances was good for a long life, lilt- physician left him without a trace of uneasiness as to his condi tion. The young man insisted that his mother should not stay with him, telling her; "It would kill you to see me die.” That he might not take the matter too much to heartashe did not oppose him, blit consented to leave him, intending to return to him in the latter part of the afternoon. \V bile taking lunch with the family ns usual at 2 o’clock he complained of feeling faint, and asked to be assisted to his room. After resting in tile bed a few moments he wrote to the young lady, and in about twenty minutes she arrived. He died in the pres ence of the family at 3:10 o’clock. 1 Iis physician and his mother arrived but two or three moments later, and were shocked to find his prediction fulfilled. His father had returned to Baltimore from visiting him some weeks ago. On \\ ednesday at breakfast his father remarked it was the day which his son had ap pointed to die, hut with no thought that the prophecy would he fulfill ed, and was astounded when intelli gence of the death arrived. He was a young man of strong charac ter, exceptionally good mind and splendid physique. WAITING TWENTY YEARS. ml t lie- sack coining Iks “lights” is a great demand for buildin or lungs, they were doubly con- j in ihis nourishing village, founded to discover thirty-seven Mr. S. 11. Stukcley has been con- smaller snakes ol the same species, lined to his bed for some time, hut Each one of tlu-se was holding oil i was in Athens yesterday. Mr. S. is t - the lung', and 1 Inis, we presume, one of Georgia's leading mcrchan*s securing life. Alter dressing the and most reliable citizens. | last week and wa; beef it only weighed eighty pounds. ! M r . (lamp. McWhorter has just sm m<r, heroic <rirl to The story may seem improbable, completed in Lexington one of the | self to save tile man she loved from hot not moie so 1I1 an Jonah and the prettiest cottages in Georgia. | marrying her. whale. It may have been a para- ; Mr. Hull'has opened a store near sitical tungus. hut the gentleman Sandy Cross and is doing a fine | who saw it affirm that the paiasitcs, j business. Messrs. Boyle iC Sutton il such V011 may term them, were ] will also build a store at Weeks’I snakes, and the old fashioned | mill, on the Athens branch. Conn-) coacliwhip. a variety in which the | try stores arc getting as thick as wiregrass country abounds. ! pfg tracks down in Oglethorpe. -— — — 1 Tile fence trouble is about set- .IOSI1 till.LINUS AM) HIS COURT-I lied, and tences will lie abolished on 1XG. | January i»t, 1SS5. This compro- ; mist is accepted Tiy both sides. Courting iz a luxury it iz salad, it Dr. Mark Willingham has a patch iz ice water, it i a heveridge. it iz a I (J f tile finest oats we have seen this pla spell of the S ml. The man who j year. A great deal of small g*;.in haz never courted haz lived in vain; | ftas been sown and it is looking magnificent. giving a description of the Wash ington Amelia, and informing the I magistrate that she was insane on ; ARomlntlc Epigram. ■'*«*<“ Tw ° uver. the subject of marriage. But the Coai.ton.Fknn., December to. description of the Erie bride does ,—-A romantic episode in the lives of not lit the \\ ashington beauty, and ; two lovers is at present excitin; the magistrate began to ponder up- ... . . . . *- , , i • . 1 . great interest in this vicinity. \\ il oil the remarkable coincidence <»t 1 " . the Amelias disappearing about the j 1,am U a, I-h a young farmer, and Ma same time. : ry Barker, the eighteen year old His perplexity was increased yes- daughter of William Barker, also a terday by another letter. It was j farmt ., t were to have been married dated Austin, Cook countv, 111., and , . contained an urgent request for the , on Christmas day, 1S63. On the fullest information of Amelia A. I evening of the yth of December, in Royse,"who departed clandestinely j the above named year, there was a just the high | social partv at Fatmer Darker's sacrifice h I marryin T1IK l.KlMtors TAINT. Hetorcthe justice had fully recov ered from this last surprise, another letter came to Erie, begging in the name of God and the saints to de tain the young lady until friends ar rived to take her home This letter is dated from Beaufort, Quebec, and tells a touching story of Amelia Royse—no middle A in this instance —who disappeared from her friends while staving in Montreal three party house, and among the guests was a young man from this village. M iss Barker danced with him twice in succession, and young Craig re proved her for such marked atten tion to another, and told her that lie did not wish her to dance again with the young man in question. This aroused the spirit qf the young lady, and she replied that she would dance with him or any one else and as many times as she like. Craig then informed her that she might do so, but that she wouldn’t see him again for twenty years. To this she v replied that “he couldn't with the North- ] for they can ! and when vou he haz bin a blind man among lamb skapesar.d watcrskapvs: he lias bin adefi man in the land of hand organs, and bv the side nv murmuring ca nals. Courting is like a little springs ov soft water that steal out from un der a reck at the fut ov a moun tain, and run down the kill side by side singing and dancing and spat tcring each uth.-r.now hiding under hanks, now ful ov sun, and now full ov shudder, till birneby thevjinc and then tha go slow. 1 am in , favor ov long courting it gives the Senator Edmunds has introduced ■ parties a chan'e to find each others a bill to provide for the further pro- | trump kards, t iz good excercise. lection ol citizens of the United and iz jist as iiuocent as 2 merino , . e lambs. Courtng iz like strawher- Mates against violation of certain rjcs cream w ,„f R to be aid slow rights secured to them by the con- j wbcn you get the flavor. I have saw ►Million. The bill undertakes, Mr. * folks git acquiinteil, lall in luv, get Edmunds said, to provide security ge married, settle down, and .1 1 ' 1 ; .►it tew work m three weeks I10111 t..r the protcct.cn ot the colored c.t- | This fhe wa some folks i ens ot the L nited States against . j arn a tr.ide.Gjnd akounts for the : human, wicked and unholy dis j great number i|f mighty mean me tinctiuns that in some of the states are- still made against them in re- >pe-ct to their civil rights, and to protect them consistently with the la c decision of the supreme court o'the United States, lie also in troduced another bill, being a re- draft of a bill reported by the com mittee on judiciary some years ago, dealing in general with the rights ot colored citizens, especially with a view of securing them a free vote and a fair count of all votes The laws and constitution of Gcor gia fully protects the rights of color ed citizens equally with the whiles, and the courts respect those laws, and Mr. Edmunds animadversions arc as partisan and unjust as they ought not to he. chanics, wc hale and the poor jobs tha tura out. Ft- liaps it U best I shed state some good advice to young men who are about tew court with a fin al view to mafmony. In the first place young imn, you want tu get your system al rite, and then find a young womnnvfho iz willing tew lie courted on he square. The next is tew find outhow old she iz. which you do by askng her, and she will "say that she iztSyears old this vu will find wontbe far from out of the wa. The mir best thing iz to be gin moderate, say once every nite in the week f*r Hie first six months ncreasing jl't dose as the patient After the fust to like it. months ago. This fifth Alltel conies nearer the description of the ! stiiv away from her twenty hours if one married, hut a French accent j he tried ever so hard.” Craig went and two grey eyes are wanting to j home, and the next day lie was Grey Little, at Cra\yford, sells the ] complete the identification; also i missing. He lived with his parents best nickel cigar in Georgia. about ten years of life. This Ante-1 who were unable to find any Dr. Mark Willingham came up | lia Royse is thirty-five years old, trade for him. Miss Barker vowed to Athens yesterday. Toon Powell j and for ten years lias been engaged I she never would go into or receive presented him with a fine Poland j to he married to Victor Bailasche, i company again until lie returned. China hog. a French Canadian merchant. She 1 As years passed by and no tvr.ee of Land in Oglethorpe lias advanced had put oil' the marriage, although the missing son was received, his admitting that he was dearer to her than any man on earth. The rea son of her repeated postponements was to ascertain if she had inherit ed leprosy from her mother, who died of that loathsome disease at the leper settlement. Four mem bers ot her family have also perish- Alsa Shackelfoid has nearly paid I ed after years of suffering from lep- for the Echo the first year. He is ! rosy, and until she was satisfied that ] the 7th inst, a stranger knocked at doing a line business. j her blood was not tainted she would the door of old Mr. Barker’s house Dr. Boh Willingham is one «f the not consent to marry and perhaps , and asked tor Miss Barker, perpetuate the disease in others. Although earnestly pressed to say- yes. she heroically resisted the COTTON FACTORIES. A&d All About Atlanta- Interview with Hon. F ' P. Rice. Wc had the pleasure of a call yes terday from the Hon. F. P. Rice, who for two terms past has so ably represented Fulton county in the Georgia legislature. While only 45 years ol age, Mr. Rice is one of At lanta : “oldest inhabitants,” having moved to that city before it boasted a brick house. lie has grown in wealth and influence with the place, hut hears his success and honors with the spirit of a true gentleman. Mr. Rice has been identified with nearly all the enterprises of Atlan ta, and was one of the incorporators of the Inmann cotton factory,an en terprise that this year cleared $40,- 000, and would have doubled that sum hut for a decline in the price ofits goods. We expressed sur prise that a factory run by steam could so successfully compete with water-mills. "Steam is rapidly suppianting water-power,” was the reply, “and even the Eastern mills are substitut- rig this power for their inexhaustible water supplies. You have no idea the improvements made of late years in steam, and the expense ot fuel is but a smalt consideration compared with the power given and the conveniences in location, transportation, etc. They are now- making steel boilers so tliin it don’t require near the fuel to heat them. Next year we can lay coal down in Atlanta at $2.50 per ton, and by building factories direct on the line ol railways we can receive stock and ship goods at hut a nominal ex pense. The cost of fuel far over balances transportation,” “How is it that so many of our factories are not making money?” “They do not keep up with the times, and use old machinery that can’t compete with improved. There is no excuse for a cotton factory in the south not paying if the right sort of machinery is used. Here we have the cotton grown right at our doors and a home demand for goods. The East cannot compete with us if our people will only keep up with the times. But speaking of improve ments, do you know that a care fully estimated saving of ten per cent, a year is made in cotton ma chinery? Soifa factory does not replenish every three years you see that they run at a disadvantage ot 30 per cent, under the modern mills. The factories using old machinery would make money by pitching it out of the window and substituting new. Each year they fall further and further behind their competi tors, until they drift into a money- losing business. Tile cotton inami- facturing centre of this country- will eventually he the south, and the day is not far distant, either, when our railroads will he lined with factories. What we need more than anything else is the de velopment of our mineral resources, and especially coal fields. Cheap fuel is the foundation stone of man ufacturing success. Why, the Geor gia Pacific will do nearly as much to build up Atlanta as all the other lines put together, as it opens to us inexhaustible iron and coal mines and will give an incentive to manu facturing enterprises.” “What about the new Capitol?” “Well, the hill was drafted by myself. I do not think a million dol lars will build a State-house that will meet the growing population and importance of Georgia, hut it was the best we could do with the last legislature. I hope a more liberal spirit will dawn upon the people, when it can be improved, as the Commissioners will doubtless take this matter in view in accepting a plan. It should by all means be built of Georgia stone, as an adver tisement of the resources of our state—that is, if our own people are willing to meet competition from abroad. The hill gives them this advantage, but they must charge the same price as foreign stone can he delivered in Atlanta for. I was de lighted at the specimens of granite and marble sent in from Georgia, and had no idea our state boasted such valuable quarries. The Pick ens county marble was in ull colors, from snow-white to black, and the quality excellent. It would indeed make a building of which the peo pie could well be proud.” “Don't you think it just’for the state to return to Atlanta the $600,- 000 she gave toward the Capitol?” "No; and my city does not ask it. It was donated in good faith, and Georgia did right in accepting the gift. There are precedents for her so doing. Do you know that the general government accepted a similar donation from the citv of Washing!on? The United States was given every other lot in con sideration for her establishing the COLQUITT VICE PRESIDENT. Appropos of this subject, we dropped into t ie office of a Wall street lawyer whose fame is nation al and whose eloquence has helped to win 111 ire than one Republican TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. Negroes are leaving South Caro lina for Texas. Elbcrton has a lady 92 years old who has a clear memory. Eight hundred and fifty trains , . - , . ‘r? n j leave Chicago daily, victory, a few days since, and in the | B J course of conversation he said 1 ^ Judge Foraker is a candidate for “There is no mistake about it. The j C -ingress in the first District of Democrats will have to nominate a G lio. Southern man for Vice President, The fine residence of Mr. Frank ,, • II. Miller, in Augusta, was destrov- tneor.ua. lie will give more e j bv fj re “ and that man will be Colquitt, of GEORGIA ITEMS. 25 per cent, since the adoption of the stock law. Judge Gibson united six couples in matrimony one day last week. And it wasn't a good day for marry ing either. Lexington has a deaf and dumb shoemaker. parents came to look upon him as dead. M iss Barker, however, had a singular faith that he would come back some day. She kept her vow as to living a secluded life, and few people ever saw her after the night she had quarreled with her lover. Last Friday evening, which was cleverest gentleman in Oglethorpe, and has a host of warm friends. Either Rcv.J. G. Gibson or J. W. Echols, Esq., will be a senatorial ] temptation to marry the man she candidate next year. j loved. Six months ago she dis- Wc spent several delightful hours covered several dark incrusted spots with our old friend Mr. Will. Gott-) upon her arm, and believing these 1 to be leprous spots, she shut herself up. and finally left her friends with- heimer. m e \ 1 ca n Veter an. The Only Negro Mexican Veteran WI10 Nov Su rma tb* War. Cincinnati Timm-Star. \V. II. Porter, of Madisonville, out a sign or clew as to where she was going. The Quebec Amelia was not acquainted in the cities of Washington, Baltimore and Denver to which the Eric Amelia directed naoere to be sent. It is just proba- Ky., was in the city yesterday. He pap 61 " 81< , . , . .. . , . . J .. , . hie that all the returns ot absent 1 old sweetheart she fainted in Ins He was a large, fine looking man about forty years of age. He was admit ted, and when Miss Barker ap peared he held out his hand and said; “Mary Barker, didn’t I tell you that you wouldn’t see me again in 20 years?” It was William Craig. He had returned to his parents.home in the afternoon. Both nis father and mother were still living. The se cret of his arrival was kept, and when he appeared in so dramatic a manner in the presence of his in the wee* ftr the increasing JI'B dose seems to retire it. year yu wit.begin t is on his way home from Washing- j Amelias are not ye , i„. ton, where he attended a meeting of •-•-* the Mexican veterans which was FBOZK TO DEATH IX MOL XTAIXS. held in that city hut week. Mr. Spokane Falls, W. T., Decern- Porter attended as the representa- her 14—Sergeant Wambuke, of tive from Tennessee. lie is the only | Company D, Second Infantry, was living negro Mexican veteran, and Under the shadow of the great misfortune which has befallen its next door neighbor, the Monroe Advertiser is moved to exclaim: "llow small a matter is tho presiden tial election ot 1SS4, when compar ed with the failure of Col. Hanson •o he appointed on the Capitol com mission. Mr. 1. H. Craig, of Elbcrton, for nierly book keeper for T. Fleming Ac Son, was married to Miss Jessie Bruce, of that place. Piohablrthe most valuable min nows everiroyght to this country- arrived fros Japan the other day. They are tie Kinghaio, and are 75 in number, he largest being about five inch* long. They have a broad, t)uv-pointed silky tail, that waves ik a banner as the fish swims qbtjj;. There are three va- ith ordinary eyes, one ing.eyes like a frog, eyes still more prom - fish are valued at neties, with pro •nd on*; nent., $ioo< pronoi they can be correctly “no sardines.” is one of the very few colored men who saw actual service during that war: When the war broke out Porter lived at Memphis. He volun teered, and was the drummer in the Third Division Tennessee Volun teers, under Colonel, afterward Gen. B. F. Cheatham. He served during the entire war, and penetrated the Mexican country as far as the City of Mexico. At times he saw active scivice, and was engaged in some sharp warfare for quite a period. Porter is intelligent and well educated. He says but little was accomplished at the meeting. Its prime object was to secure pensions for the veterans. frozen to death last week in the Cn-ur D’Alene Mountains. He started out from a camp in the Ca- d’Alene for a hunt with Corpo ral Greene. The latter found his way hack through a severe snow storm. TRAGIC RESULT OF BRCTALTY. Rockville, Ind., Dec. 14.—A man named Johnn Bonner, residing in this vicity,' locked his wife cut of doors because she reluscd to sup- ply hi n with money to continue a drunk. Shi went to the woods with her children, and while build- inga fire her clothing caught fire and she burnt J to death. arms. Craig’s story of his disappearance and long absence that he had gone straight to Philadelphia after leav ing home and there enlisted in the army under an assumed name. He served until thee.id of the war and was mustered out at Philadelphia. He longed very much to return home, but permitted his determina tion to remaiu away twenty years to control him, and he went directly to Nebraska. There he took up a tract of land and went to farming, remaining there until the twenty years was up. He resolved to time . is return and the meeting of his old sweetheart, if she was still alive and unmarried, at as near the hour of his leaving her as it waspossible to do. He came back with an am ple fortune and _ found matters much as he had left them. The wedding that did not come off twenty years ago will be celebra ted at the approaching Christmas.. seat of government there. Many- other states have accepted like of ferings. Atlanta is satisfied with her trade and has carried it out to the letter.” BANKS COUNTY KU-KLUX. Two of Them Icnoconnt The Other* Sentenced. Atlanta, December tS.—To day Judge McCay rendered a decis ion on the motion for a new trial in the Banks county ku-klux case. Five of the prisoners, Jasper Yar brough, Jos. Yarbrough, Bold Em ery, State Lemons, and Lovick Svveetman. stated in open court, that they were guilty, but that E. H. Green and Ditmus Yarbrough were innocent. The evidence as to the last two will be heard Friday, on an amended motion. The oth ers were sentenced to two years each in the Albany. N. Y., peniten tiary, and a fine of $500 each was imposed. Neal Yarbrough, who is sick in jail, has not been sentenced. LABORER’S RIOT. Italinna Attacking and Shooting Negroea nt the Bine Mountain Tunnel- Newburg, Pa., December, 14.— A serious riot took place last night at the Blue Mountain Tunnel, near here, between Italian and negro la borers. During the night two of the latter broke into the abanty con taining the provisions for the labor ers, and were discovered in the act. The alarm was given, and about one strength to the ticket at the North, too, tl an any other man they could name!” Shiuld this prediction prove true, the e’ection of Carlisle will smash more slates than anyjrecen: event in our political history. Should a Southern man be nominated for Vice President, it will be necessary to counteract the influence of that idea on the popular mind by- making the head of the ticket particularly strong in the other direction. A Federal soldier, of merit and distinction, will be the natural antidote. Every civilian as pirant, and every one who uttered a word ot sympathy with the south ern cause or its supporters, will he hustled to the rear in a twinkling. Soldiers will be put in the lead. Slocum and Morrison are the men who will be most available. Both were soldiers of unimpcachable merit, and both command the con fidence of all parties. Morrison is Carlisle’s special adjutant and an out-and-free trader. Slocum was an anti-slavery democrat before the war, a splendid soldier, and favors free trade in theory and a tarill" in practice. SPEER SEVERELY SNUBBED. Atlanta, Dec. 14.—This morn ing I chanced to meet a friend who was on his way home to upper Georgia from a short visit to Colum bia, South Carolina. Knowing hint to be a close observer of m en, and in fact anything that comes before him, I asked how Emory Speer was getting along. Said he, "I don’t want to be quoted, but I will tell you this much, Speer is hacked. The people there look upon him as an interloper, and for this reason treat him with no courtesy what ever. If a reception or entertain ment is given, Speer is not invited. United States Judge Bond and other officials are invited to these affairs, but Speer is not. If a gen tleman is introduced to a group of which Speer is a member, all of them are introduced to the new comer with the exception of Speer. In every instance possible the Dis trict Attorney of the Northern Dis trict of Georgia is cut and made to feel badly. Speer feels this very deeply, coming from a field where he has been made a great deal of, he now finds himself in a commu nity where every effort is made to make him feel in significant and mean. At torney-General Youmans in one of his speeches picked Speer up by tiie top of his head as it were, anil gave him such a shaking that Speer has not and never will forget it. Speer has gone outside of the case to traduce a witness, and Youmans availed himself of the opportunity to piten into him, and he did it in the most severe as well as the most fin ished manner. Spee’- behaved him self after that. “The government has no reason to find fault with him, as he has done his part well, considering the odds against him. Melton, who is the United States District Attor ney of South Carolina, feeis deeply humiliated that Speer should be brought from Georgia and made leading counsel in the cases for the government. I didn't see him, but could have by going up to the court room. He has earned his money, but has lost caste. Of course there are lawyers who would have done just as he did, but a great many would have preferted to retain their enste and lost the fee. He has sold his tespectability for a very small sum, and I believe that he will live to regret what he has done.” DEATH OF A FORMER GEORGIA JOURNALIST. From the Madisonian, Madison, Ga., Simeon A. Atkinson died in New York on the 13th, from the effects of a fall, which occurred at his place of business, about one week previous to his death. lie was for a number of years quite prominent in Georgia journalism. He began his career in Madison about 1S47, in the old Family Visi- wl °n tor oilice, and three years later, when only eighteen years old, he became its editor, filling the chair with such ability as to be called to take charge of the then literary pa per of Georgia, published in Augus ta, when only twenty-one years of age. Several years later he estab lished the Augusta Evening Dis patch, which he conducted with wonderful success until intcrupted by the war. He was then called to take charge of an illustrated litera ry paper in that city, which com menced and ended its career with the war. After the war he was for several years editor and proprietor of a paper in Athens, whence he re moved to New York to take charge of the publication of the Forest and Stream and was for some time connected with the Daily News of that city. Though of northern birth, Mr. Atkinson never faltered in his devotion to the state of his adoption, and was conspiciously battling with his able pen during the dark days ot the Bullock reign, and though a jpoor man spurned with righteous indignation the offer of a bribe to wield his pen in behalf of the mongrel ring. He was a young er brother of Mr. A. Atkinson, of our city. He leaves a widow and sev eral children. hundred Italians attacked the ne- ’cussing dis matter ’moug ourselfs. groesoft le camp with sho gunsand and don’t want no Terence from out. pistols. The negroes, being un armed, returned the assault with clubs and stones, but were finally forced to flee for shelter, after four of their number had been wounded, one fatally and the three others quite seriously. The latter will probably recover, - although their bodies were filled with shot. This morning the rioting was renewed, and the negroes were driven away. Everything is now quiet, and no further trouble is apprehended. TheCBownFew. Monday night Wc passed a crowd of colored politicians on a Broad street corner discussing the alder- manic race, when the following confab ensued: •■Look ’ere, nigger, what you got ter do wid dis race? You don’t lib in de luss ward. Wese woters and side.” The excluded sufi’ragft-slinger sneaked away, feeling -like «n in jured individual because the Mayor did not order an election in all the wards. \ After the vote was counted out yesterday Zeke Edge v/da seen to put a coffin in a wagon at« start for the cemetery. Col. Dobbiread the funeral service over his retrains. Savannah has a female lawyer named Mrs. Ricket. She is from Washington. There was a small hotel blaze in a Milwaukee hotel that caused a panic among the guests. The Pennsylvania iron manufac turers are reducing wages, as also Massachusetts cotton mills. O’Donnell, the assassin of Carey, went to his death like a brave man in London last Monday. Two trains on the Louisville and Nashville railroad collided near Blunt springs.- The engineer and firemen were badly injured. A boy 13 yeafs old has just died in Johnstown, N. Y„ of lockjaw, brought on by the explosion of a toy- pistol. A fire started in the Consolidated Virginia mine :n Nevada three years ago is still burning, at a dis tance of over 1,650 feet below the surface. The Provincial Secretary of Brit ish Columbia reports that'the Chi nese population on the mainland are in a state of destitution, and that their only means of subsistence is by murder and plunder. Speaker Carlisle is finding out that “slander loves a shining mark.” A story is being circulated that he challenged a man to light a duel once because he asked him fora business settlement. The “button mania” is raging with extreme virulence in tho town of Seymour, Conn., where a wealthy resident has given forty- young girls $50 each for very long strings ofbuttons, “no two buttons alike.” Henry Curry, a negro from Wal ton county confined in the 'Atlanta jail,made a desperate attempt at sui cide by jumping from the opening between the stair way. lie did not succeed. Gov. McDaniel lias revived the suit against the security of Renfroe. He has employed B. 11. Ilill, Jr., to assist the Atoorney General." The suit seeks to recover interest on the State’s money paid by the State depositors to Mr. Renfroe. Kansas City, December iS.— The criminal court, at Gallatin, yesterday, fixed the bail at $5,000 in the case of Frank Janies, for the murder of Cashier Sheets, in 1S69. The defence asked that the prisoner be remended to the custody of liis sureties. General Albert Sidney Johnson, who was killed in the battle of Shi loh during the war, left his family in poor circumstances. He had a cer tificate of location for 640 acres of land in Texas at the head ol Brazos river. His widow, who resides in California, was urged by her friends to sell it, but refused to do so. A coal mine has been discovered on it and it is now worth $100,000. THE PHENOMENON EXPLAINED The astronomers, not only in this country but all over the world, have been engaged for the past few Weeks in endeavoring to discover the cause of some of the queer atmospheric disturbances that have lately pre vailed. Everybody must have noticed the very peculiar sun sets and rises during November. Long after the sun. had set there was a red glare in the west that lingered behind for several hours. This was first thought to be due to what is meteorologically known as a “foul sunset,” ordinarily supposed to presage a violent storm; but as this red sunset came evening after even ing without any accompanying storms, this theory had to be given up. Others were disposed to con sider the red light the reflection of a prairie fire, and others again an aurora borealis. The New Orjeans Times-D ;mo- crat, which has evidently de\ oted considerable study to the su' ject, says that these theories ar; all and adds: “This red s ;nsct was limited to no portion oi this country, nor indeed to the world. It was noticed in England a.- early as Nov. 9, and seems to have travel ed slowly and regularly westward, and it-was visible in the Sort ern as well as the Northern hemisphere. The first theory of scientists attrib uted the phenomenon to the Java volcanic eruption, and the vapors emitted by the volcanoes. This, however, was finally abandoned. The fiery sunsets were not the only extraordinary atmospheric pheno mena that have lately been noticed. I11 India the sky has been for months a deep yellow, while in South America, for several weeks, the sun appeared to be of a brilliant pcagreen color. These and other phenomena would, a few centuries ago. have alarmed the worid into the belief that its end was near, and the Millerites would have been out in force in their white gowns, ready to ascend to heaven; but, now-a- days, they cause scarcely a murmur of surprise. We admire the green sun, the golden sky, and the red twilight, hut we refuse to be fright ened by them, and we call upon the scientists to explain matters. “They have just done so. Scout ing the volcanic idea, they inform us that the earth is just now passing through a region ol meteoric dust, having in the past two weeks cross ed the track of two meteors. One of these is supposed to be the debris of the famous comet of Biela, which many years ago split in two, leaving no trace behind. In other words, the earth has just run into a comet, or rather the wreck of a comet, without the slightest damage or in jury to itself, withaut any notice able occut rence except these varie gated suns and sunsets.” A Covington young man is mak/" ing quilts for a living. The Methodist Conferences of Georgia have established a mission among the Israelites of this State. Dr. J. T. Curtiss has been placed on the supemumary list, and will remain in Gumming another year. A colored woman employed as cook in Augusta has made a bequest in her will of $600 to the Paine In stitute. Some of the Richmond county- taxpayers have sued out an injunc tion restraining the collection of the school tajt. • Romans are squinting at an cight- leggedcalf. Savannahiansatc com pelled to be satisfied with a four- legged rooster. The Haley cotton factory, near Woodstock, Cherokee county, has been bought by Mr. Artherton, who will put in new machinery and have it running by February. A number of Franklin county families, numbering between sev enty-five and a hundred souls, boarded the train last Tuesday morning on their way to Texas. John Foster, aged 25 years, com mitted suicide in the woods near Mouroe, a few days ago. He was of unsound mind and had pteviously made several attempts at self-de struction. Tutor; “Of what did God create heaven and earth?” Pupil: “Of nothing.” Tutor: “What is noth ing?” Pupil: “It is what the extra legislative session did, multiplied by- three.” The Walton News does not seem to be depressed by the apprehen sion it expresses that “with Ham mond, Jackson, Boynton and Liv ingston in the field in that district for congress, the dry bones will rat tle.” Martin Alfred and Hope Mobley were convicted of kidnapping a child 14 years old, of Rockmart. in Polk Superior Court, the other day, after a three days’ trial and were sen tenccd to five years in the peniten tiary. Georgia has been liberally dealt with in the way of pap. She was apportioned three places, and the delegation voted the place under the doorkeeper to II. W. J. Ham, of Gainesville; the place under the ser geant-at-arms to O. S. Florence, of Meriwether county, and the place under the clerk to F. H. Richardson, of Atlanta. Linton Lewis.of Taliaferro county, while crossing Little river on horse back last Sunday night, was shot by a white man with a shot-gun. lie was leaning down on liis horse, which was swimming, and was peppered from head to foot with the shot, liis wounds were serious but not dangerous. It is said that twenty-nine No.’4 shot have been extracted from liis body. A certain mar. is suspected of the attempt to assassinate Mr. Lewis, and it is thought jealousy was tiie cause. A dozen armed men were looking for the would-be assassin at last ac counts. The band,- who were all mounted, were also keeping a luok- ut for a horse thief. Miss Lula Hurst, aged t6, of Ce- dartown, is a medium, and moves chairs, bedsteads and other heavy objects about the room simply by will power. The headboard of a bedstead was recently made to sing an air which is a favorite with the medium. Over $20,000 has been invested in coal and iron around Birmingham, this year. GENERAL NEWS. Mrs. llarict B. Stowe is again in Florida. Corn is selling in Alabama at 40 cents per bushel. The Chinese have commenced sinking junks in heir harbor. Gov. Bloxham, of Florida, de clines to be a candidate for re-elec tion. A San Antonio (Texas) man stole some grave-stones for building purposes. Certain St. Louis physicians say that coca mixed with tobacco ren ders the latter less injurious. A Missouri journalist says that persimmons are a good substitute for brandy before breakfast. An ex-member of the Louisiana legislature (colored) stole and sold in Ilouma three turkeys for $4.^0. The republican senators in caucus nominated Anson G. McCook for secretary aad a full list of officers. The cashier of a Western bank was recently blown away by |a cy clone and has not been heard from Sonic honest men in the Pennsyl vania legislature after all. A few refused their per diem for doing nothing. A Miles City (Montana) hunter reports a hard of buffalo numbering 75,000 in the vicinity of the Belle Fourche. Six ladies have graduated with honor from the London college of Chemistry, and propose to set up as druggists. Gcu. Robt. E. Lees statue, which is now being cast in bronze in New York, will be taken to New Or leans in February. The late Jim Fisk’s private car, once a palace on wheels,and named after Josic Mansfield, is now used as a wrecking car on the Erie road. Japan has the cheapest Jiostal service in the world, despite the difficulties of transportation. Let ters conveyed all over the empire (or two sen, about seven-tenths of a cent. “LadyJim,’ tilt Piutes “squaw- man,” -lied recently. Having re fused to fight with his tribe afi^yra- mid Lake in tS'xj, he was condemn ed ever afterwards to wear-petti coats. A Dundee dairyman was recent ly convicted of selling rniik which had stood in the room in which a child was ill with scarlet fever. The milk absorbed the poison, and sev enteen persons were infected with the disease, four of whom died. An English missionary, who re cently made the journey from St Petersburg to Omsk, in Russian Central Asia, says that the nihilists not only insert their pernicious leaf lets in duly authorized pamphlets, but that a Bible had been seen be ginning with Genesis and ending with Revelations, but filled in the middle with nihilism. A St. Louis jury recently decided that a cyclone is wind, not electric ity. A suit was brought to recover the amount of insurance policy against fire and lightning on the plainrifl’s house, the structure hav ing been destroyed by the cyclone in Cole county in 1SS1. During the trial plaintiff sought to prove that the destructive agent in cyclones is electricity or lightning. General Grant some time since bought two thousand shares of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at par, on the advice of Mr. Victor Newcomb*, then the’financial man. S ge , r - ° f , .stt^c declined 88, involving a loss of $24,. 000. Mr. Newcombe sent word to return the stock to him, and he t his che;ck for the fall amount« investment. i