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, INTERVIEW.
X. CARLTON
kvhen our distinguished fellow
kzcn, Hon. H. H. Carlton, visited
Until a few weeks ago and fell
, clutches of a newspaper in-
i-icwcr, little did he think the
Irncst's nest he would stir up.
Iliile some of the press comments
re legitimate and gentlemanly,
er papers have assailed him in a
vi insulting and derisive manner,
j Mvt which we must protest.)
npt. Carlton has dont nothing to
this onslaught of billinsgate,
|nl we cry Sharne! shame*, upon
[itor who would thus stoop
i drag the name of a gallant Con-
rare officer and a pure and in-
Drruptihle gentleman into ridicule,
s is nothing either brave or
ncndahle in such assaults, for
.'liters well know that Capt.
pulton cannot stoop to reply in like
knguage, and there is no argument
such deni.nciaticn. The impres-
;>n is made that Capt. Carlton has
roclainred himself a candidate for
ingress in the Sth district. There
[rot one word in h'-s interview, as
liblishcd in t ie Constitution, that
1 possibly 1 ' tortured ir to such,
pi Carlton distinctly said in that
erview, as he has always held,
id .is he lias often said to us, that
cseu to self-co istituted
■ndidates. :..ul that he would never
THE BANNER-WATCHMAN.
~"The Sparta Ishmaelite, it is said,
will suspend publication.
A mule thief was killed "in New^
nan while resisting arrest.
NO XXVII.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, J-AJSTTTARY 8, 1884.
VOL XXX
politics in the ninth. CITY TRAPS FOR GIRLHOOD
lot
on iy
| u . people. As to the
intgheai in Capt. Carlton’s in-
w—the pavment by the gov-
cut foi slaves emancipated—
lidc >,« neople may doubt the
lies ,>t the declaration, no one
t deny tts justice. That the
nth should he reimbursed for this
While Athens has been lopped
off from the old 9th district, and her
political destiny is now cast with
a new territory, at the same time
we will ever look upon our former
allies with an interest second scarce
ly to our own. Shoulder to shoul
der we fought and won one of the
grandest political victories in the
annals of any government, and it
will take at (east another genera
tion to sever the ties thus formed
between Clarke and her sister coun
ties in that glorious triumph. So,
therefore, we tru-1 that the demo
crats in the new 9th district will not
look upon the Banner-Watchman
as an officious meddler if it sees tit
to whisper a few wolds of timely
caution in their ears; for we arc solely
actuated hy a desire to promote the
welfare of our common party. We
have it from the very best authorin'
HOW TOU.NO WOMEN are lured into vice
and d iso race.
ndidatc tor congress, or any that already are our political ene-
tlii'c. only as he was made so
MV. that
tth,
lumcut had *
Ictoiies of tin
|t-t. or the
I lie
i't "I”
,us most unlawfully
by force, no faiT-
r, it matters
what section
can deny. The gov-
well confiscate the
ast. the lands of the
dues of the Pacific
Jj.c. as the slaves of the south.
Ill negroes were as much proper-
as the ciops, thestock and the
Buies of the north. T heir forcible
Bnaucipat.on was an outrage, and.
like Capt Carlton, we believe that
fSiiit <I.I\ in tile distant future, when
bitterness engendered by tbe
late cm it war lias pa-si d away, and
aBilawn of reason and 1 iglil again
11 the land, that the gen-
uteiit will ,,Illiterate this
I. Iii-ioiy and pay the
in ; topic for this property.
1 mlit if anv one now living
e that day, but it will Come.
• -aid. the only question in re-
,1 tins part of Capt. Carlton’s
,ew is. was if policy? Will it
n\ effect upon the next na-
eleetion? We do not believe
base a leather's weight. At
. e doubted the propriety of
itcrview. but upon calm con-
kith 1 at ion. we have come to the I
Conclusion that the democratic
Mllty would meet with bet
ter success if the south
dealt more openly and did not try to
4 >ak its every thought with the veil
hypocracv. We have already
ndered too long to the whims and
prejudices of the north, and what
.11 out reward? Defeat, op-
tt and degradation! If it is
that the southern people
dl< 11I1I be recompensed for their
•laces, there is nothing dishonorable
or w mug in a southern man pro
claiming the fact We are heart-
tic's .111 d weary of the southern press
holding up its hands in indignant
minor every time a sentiment is ut
tered that may jar upon the sensitive
Rive, of Yankeedom. We have
SIni'll on bended knee and with un-
•Slivered heads before the shrine of
LVdiea ism long enough
mies at work to wrest the (
trict from our control. Thev
not now openly lighting mulct the
disguise of so-called Independent
democracy, but their attack will be
far more insidious. They will tight
you in your own ranks and under
your own banner. They are now
seeking to gather into their fold all
disappointed and dissatisfied demo
crats, with a view of controlling
your convention in the interest of
their own ends, and to defeat the
CounUsss Schamu Prspwsd fat Thslr DeaiorsU-
ua. - Deceiving Emigrant OM, -
Shops’* ssa tho Part thsj Play la Crlmo.
-V. r. lUrald.
“Yes, young man,” said a Central
Office detective yesterday, “there
are many schemes devised in this
city to entrap the unw3ry, but the
plans laid to ensnare young girls
and lure them from the path of vir
tue cap the climax of deviltry.
The reporter and the deteqlive
were walking in YVaverly Park
when the sentence printed above
was spoken, and the appearance of
two or three loud girls had called
forth the remark.
"These girls you see passing us
with the forced look of joy on their
faces and a seemingly elastic step
are the representatives ol a class
which has been greatly augmented
in recent years, and which numbers
nearly 12,000 members in this city
alone. Not one in twenty of these
girls have willingly entered on a
life of shame. They are nearly all
victims of designing persons who
make a comfortable living from their
traffic in the sin of the untortunate
girls.”
"How arc the girls led into vi
cious lives?”
“The schemes are countless. A
pretty young Amman is seen on tile
street and a ’decoy,' generally a
well-dressed, handsome girl, begins
a conversation with her. 1 he pros
pective victim's tastes are learned,
and she is shadowed to her home.
The ’decoy’ meets her again, by -ac
cidi'iit’ of course.and finally a visit to
the theatre is proposed. In nine ca-
Payment ton Slaves
Hon, H. B. Carlton Gives HU Opinion Atom tho
Press Comment*.
As the late assaults of the Geor
gia and Y’ankee press upon Capt
Carlton has created quite a sensa
tion in Athens, we yesterday hunt
ed up that gentleman to see in what
manner he received his baptism of
abuse. We found the Captain stand
ing in front ofhis office as pleasant
as a spring morning, and when we
broached the subject he smilingly
replied that it was no more than he
expected.
‘‘Do you intend to reply to any
of your assailants, Captain?” we
asked.
nomination of Hon. A. D. Candler. I ses out of ten the unsuspecting girl
whom they hold in the most bitter
hatred for the mortification he Inis
indicted upon them by so over
whelmingly defeating Mr. Speer.
Overtures have been made to leadng
democrats to enter into this tinholv
a'liancc. but thus fai
have met with b
There is a certain p
in tbe district lltat g
agement—as their
been so effectually
“cooling Iniaid”—but
accepts the offer. Then her new
found friend makes her a few trivial
presents and gains her confidence.
The victim is invited to the ’decoy’s’
house. She notices nothing wrong
I and spends a pleasant evening. She
asked to repeat the visit, and
hen she does so finds an im
promptu party assembled. She is
poor success, prevailed upon tosip a little wine,
tical element 1 The beverage has been drugged,
i and the victim,complaining that she
j leels ill. is led to a bed room, where
I she very soon falls into a stupor.
| In the morning she realizes her po-
1 sition. If she then lias sufficient
promoters ;
es it cnconr-
vn leader has
placed on the
11 efforts will
be futile unless a break is made in ! strength of mind to insist on leav-
the oaganized ranks. Wc counsel mg the den of infamy her shame is
.i.t .1 pictured to her and the glittering
our friends in the qllt to he on the ■ . , ,, ... „
, ' allurements of the new lile are
alert. If Col. Camber will accept a p a ;„ted )n glowing terms. Is it
i*. I anv wonder that the already injured
entitled
rants
re-nomination he
for he becami
when other
to enter the :
mind that his deli
a triumph of the
They will tight him not a
but with a view to n.oitifv
leader
feared
Bear in
equivalent to
ilition ticket,
ot as a man.
he or-
l submits? In some cases the rel
atives of the girls search for them
and find them. They are rescued
from their life of vice, but their be-
“Y'es; when they get "through
with me I shall come out in a card
defending my position, for 1 have
not one word to retract or apologize
for. I have been placed in a false
light before the people, which of
course I shall not stand. In the
first place, I am made a standing
candidate for congress, when such
is far from my intention. I have al
ways believed in the office seeking
the man and not the man the office.
I did not say that it was
policy to now urge the
payment for slave property,
but when the question
was broached, I did assert
that I believe the day would come
when the south would secure this
act of justice. The country is not
really for it yet, and it would be
very* poor policy to urge it now.”
“What have you to say about
the personal assaults of certain pa
pers upon you?”
“I will do the majority of the
press the justice to say that their
comments were gentlemanly and le
gitimate. . I expected to be differed
with, and I rather relish a discus
sion with an opponent \Vho knows
how to conduct an argument in a
proper spirit. The YValton News
and the Coweta Advertiser are the
only papers that have seen fit to as
sail me personally. As to the form
er journal 1 cannot understand its
antagonism, as the editor, Mr. Fel-
ker, a brother-in-law to Gov. Mc
Daniel—to whom I have always
been a strong friend and our social
'relations have been ot the kindest
nature—is unknown to me, and I
have never knowingly given him
cause for ill-feeling. The attack
upon me by the Coweta Advertiser
is as plain as daylight, and as an act
of justice to me I wish you if you
say anything in your paper, to pub
lish word for word what I say. You
rememember that two or three
years ago one John T. Waterman
came to Athens and bought out
the Southern Banner, together with
his man Friday,one Cabaniss. Well,
STRANGE POWERS.
vers are not punished because of I along with them at the same time
desire to shield the name of the
■ruinate girl and her family
ganized democracy
way for radicalizing 'I
is not too early in tin
pare for the 'conflict
lilies are orguni/it’C
their combinations, a
time that these iiiiim
mated. You will im
enemy to fight, but a
will be made in the
self.
the
practiced? Why, bless your soul,
thev are almost too numerous to
mention. Gifts are advertised for
to join a theatrical troupe going to
Havana. As a general rule only
handsome girls apply. They are
stage-struck, and eager logo with
out asking any questions. Their
passage is paid, and they are sent
out in charge of a woman who is
represented to be wife of the mana
ger. A lew dissolute girls are sent
along to corrupt the purity of the
others. These girls ate decked
KILLED THE WRONG ONE. 1 with diamonds, and openly boast of
id pa
l* It
d:«V to pre-
Yo;ir enr-
;md forming
y\ it is high
* iire cliock-
havc an open
came a minister named Wadsworth.
The people of Athens know how
-Are there any other methods | this trio dung and worked togeth
er and also the failures each one
overt, attack
invention it-
is.
▲ Jealous Soutborner Assassinate* a Fnoad In
stead of a Rival-
Raleigh. N. C., Dec. 29. 1883.—
On Monday morning, “17th inst.,
Willie Watkins, a white lad, six
teen years old, was found lying
dead near his father's house, four
teen miles from this city. The cor
oner's inquest developed facts
which resulted in the .1: rest yester
day of John 11. Pool, white, nine
teen years of age. lie disclosed
the particulars of the cr me, placing
the guilt upon Joseph ! Williams,
white, who is eight
age. Williams and cue Geor
Peebles were rivals for t ie affections ! j
of Miss Watkins, sister,>f the mur
dered lad. Williams hcl been for
bidden by the girl’s fatter to enter
the housc.and on Sunila; night, 17th
inst., he concealed hinu-lf near the
Macon Telegraph: The Life and 1 house, armed with a title, to kill
of Joseph E. Brown, bv Her- | Peebles. Pool being rtiarliy. A
1 man's form came down the path
i from the house. Willian» fired and
the man fell dead with,at a strug-
Williams then call ,1 Pool to
sin long enough. Eet us as-
1 our manhood, and even if we
BBc. i with defeat, we have the
m of knowing that we have
t sacrificed our principle and self-
,pcct. In the language of Mr.
1-pl.ens, let the south tote her own
illct from this day onward.
time
Kit Fielder, is doubtless a well
(Vt itten book. It is said to contain
the more prominent speeches” of
lenator Brown. We’ll warranLit
doesn't contain that “prominent
•peeclt" made before the Atlanta
1 S6S,
j negroes in lNON.
The Chinese tro
• i V cl ' much like the
■ops appear to he
• the Irishman’s flea—
•hen the French go to put their
■tigers on them they become sud
denly absent. France should put
unis Kearney in comm and of her
ce. and if there is a pig-tail around
he will find it. Ilut then Dennis is
means a wanior when it
to blows.
how they enjoy their traffic in shame.
Havana is reached, and it is learned
that the manager has failed, at least
so the vicrims are told. Then they
are abandoned for a week to the
cold mercies of a foreign popula
tion. Thev see their dis-dute com
panions living richly, and invariably
they succumb to the illurcments
held out to them. Whe: their spir
it is broken they are shipped back to
New York and installe, in costly
homes of sin. They raely forsake
their vocation and confute on the
downward grade until t eir beauty
years of j has vanished. Then t ey are no
longer wanted. Some 'ml a home
in the slums of New York, some
find rest in the rivers, mil others
die in some miserable garret, and
are finally interred a Potter’s
Field.”
"Are emigrant girls teceived in
this way?”
"Frequently. The victims are
mostly Swedes, Germais and na
tives of France. Irish girls gener-
gle.
■[..niiiim WAlcfa Hats Pnxlid tho Comma-
si tr.
Roms, Ga., December 29.—The
Cheiokee section of Georgia is
greatly excited over the manifesta
tions of Miss Lula Hurst, the fif
teen-year-old daughter of Mr. Win.
B. Hurst, a substantial farmer of
Polk county. The stories told were
of such strange character that Col.
Freeman, of the Cedartown Ad
vertiser, Dr. F. M. Liddell, and sev
eral other prominent citizens went
out to Mr. Hurst’s residence for the
purpose of investigating them. They
found the young woman to be the
picture of health and of modest
manner. Upon a request to mani
fest some of her newly developed
owers, she arose and placed her
ands upon the back of a common
chair, which soon began to move,
first slowly, then violently. The
doctor was requested to hold the
chair. Being unable to do so alone,
two, then three men, with no better
effect. Apparently there was not a
particle of.physical force used by
tbe your.g lady, her hands merely
resting carelessly or. the back of the
chair. On a previous occasion four
of the stoutest men of the neighbor
hood had found it impossible to
hold the chair. A large old fash
ioned bedstead stood with its head
back in the corner of the room.
On the foot of the bed Miss Lula
placed bet hands lightly and it arose
two feet in the a.r and moved swift
ly’around the room.
Miss Lota Wimberly, a cousin of
Miss Lula, while in bed recently,
heard a thumping noise on the head-
board, which she thought was pro
duced by her cousin with her fin
gers, and she requested her to stop
and go to sleep. Miss Lula protest
ed innocence, ye' the sound grew
more audible. A playful rematk
that it should strike her caused a
sensation like a slight shock, felt by
Miss Wimberly about the face. The
sound was then called to manifest
itself, when commanded, about the
bed, and the bed was finally com
manded to move, and, to the won
der of the occupa its, rolled briskly
around the room. This is the cir
cumstance which led to the subse
quent experiments. On a recent
occasion while Miss Lula was in
bed she thought of some favorite
air, when its music emanated
strangely from the head-board of
the bed, and was heard by more
than half a dozen present sitting in
the room. On another occasion an
uncle, a man above the ordinary
weight, sat in a chair, his feet on
the rounds, while the lady placed
her hand with an under grip on the
upper hack of the chair and lifted
him across the room. These people
know nothing of Spiritualism, and
are sorely troubled by manifesta-
ions which they deem the work of
an evil spirit.
A MOUNTAIN SPLIT IN TWO.
Its Great Volcanio Eruption Is Alaska la Oo-
THE FORBIDDEN BANNS.
San Franeitco Special.
Prof. Davidson has received from
Alaska the particulars of . the vol
canic disturbances there in October
last, near the entrance to Cook’s In
let. On the morning of October 6
a settlement of fishermtn on Eng
lish Bay heard a heavy report, and
looking in the direction from
whence the sound came immense
volumes of smoke and flame were
seen to burst forth from the summit
of Mount Augustin.’ The sky be
came obscured and a few hours la
ter great quantities of pumice dust
began to fall, some of it being fine
and smooth and some gritty. At 3:30
o’clock on the same day an earth
quake wave 30 feet high came rush
ing in over the hamlet, sweeping
away all the boats and deluging the
houses. The tide at the time being
low, saved the settlement from ut
ter destruction. This wave was fol
lowed by two other waves about iS
feet high, which were succeed
ed at irregular, intervals by
others. The pumice ashes
fell to a depth of five inches, making
the day so dark the lamps had to
be lighted. At night the surround
ing country was illuminated by-
flames from the crater. Ordinarily
Mount Augustin is covered with
snow, but this year it is completely
bare.
Upon examination after the dis
turbances had subsided it was found
that the mountain had been split in
two. from base to summit, and that
the northern slope had fallen to the
level of the surrounding clitl's.
Simultaneously with the eruption a
new island made its appearance in
the passage between Chernaboura
Island and the mainland. It was
seventy-five feet high anil a mile
and a half long. So violent was
the volcanic action that two extinct
volcanoes on the peninsula of Alas
ka lying to the westward of the ac
tive volcano Iliamna, 12,000 feet
high, burst into activity and emitted
immense volumes of smoke and
dust. Flames were visible at night.
It is stated that the wives of a party
of Aleut Indians who were engaged
in otter hunting in that locality be
came frightened at the subterranean
noises and refused to stay, returning
to their homes. None of those who
remained can be found.
Tha Oglethorpe Couple Penitent, and Consent to
Sopuato.
A letter received yesterday from
Oglethorpe says that Jimmie Stew
art and his aunt did not leave home,
as reported, but returned by anoth
er road through fear of meeting an
irate father and brother. They re
turned that evening. They were
spectators at Joe and Hassie s mar
riage, but did not know that they
could prevent the consummation of
the marriage, and neither did they
know of the Scriptural or statutory
inhibition. Hassie, the unfortunate
bride, shows great contrition and
bespeaks the forgiveness of a gene
rous public. She owns that while
she knew it was unusual for such
matrimonial alliances to be made,
she did not know that the laws of
the land forbade it, and thought
that the Bible did so only by impli
cation. She seems appalled by the
consciousness of the heinous wrong.
Hassie seems heart-broken and has
taken her bed and refuses to touch
food. Joe Stewart, the groom, will
go to Texas, after giving his full
consent for the dissolution of the
banns. A similar marriage to this
occurred some years ago in the
county, that was legalized by the
legislature, and we learn that a man
once living in Clarke county mar
ried his aunt. But the couple
moved out west to prevent prosecu
tion. There is a penalty of $500
against the state officer who would
pronounce such a ceremony; but
as the party in this instance was in
nocent of the relationship existing
between the couple, it would not
be right to hold him responsible.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
There is another native revolt in
India.
Ice is eight inches thick on the
Hudson.
made in Athens in their respective
lines. Waterman fell out.with me be
cause I forced him to pay up a little
boy in his employ to whom be was
indebted over$iooior work;andas
a consequence he has been abusive
of me ever since. I caught Caba
niss in a gross falsehood about me
down in Oglethorpe county, and
proved the lie on him. Of
course his feelings toward me were
not of the kindest. Well,
Wadsworth has the same
spite against me, because
1 denounced him and refused to
speak to him while in Athens for
grossly and ungentlemanly insult
ing ladies in his church. I further
held that such conduct ought to be
stopped. By reason of his conduct
while here, the conference refused
to return him to this charge, and this
grossly offended Mr. Wadsworth
and his brother clansmen, Water
man and Cabaniss. I am informed
that said Wadsworth edits Caba
niss’ paper, the Coweta Advertiser,
and so you can readily account for
the abusive article against myself in
that sheet.”
“Well, you seem not to mind it?"
“Oh, not at all. Y’ou know I can’t
afford to be disturbed by the barking
ofevery creature that haunts my path
way. I feel that where Cabaniss
and ntyself are both known, there
is no need for any explanation on
my part.”
A STRANGE PHENOMENON.
FILLED WITH ROCKS.
Discovery of a Bale of Cotton Packed with Lime
stone—The> Author of tbe Swindle Unknown.
Savannah .Wtr*.
A Jesuit minister was stoned in
the pulpit at Vienna.
George Sellman will erect a fine
brick hotel in Monroe.
A little boy in Augusta was pain
fully wounded by a toy pistol.
Mr. Villard has resigned the pres
idency of the Northern Pacific rail
road.
The iron men of Massachusetts
are shutting down and reducing
wages.
A fire in Atlanta burnedout P. II.
Snook, the furniture man. Loss,
$30,000.
Four prisoners were taken from
the jail at Y'azoo City, Miss., and
lynched.
There was a row over the body
ot a negro found dead on the streets
of Macon.
Nine workmen were buried
while excavating a tunnel near Mal
den, Mass.
Frank Faulkner, of Hall county,
fell in with some Macon gamblers
and lost $200.
AN ACTRESS’ MIONIGHT VISITOR.
FIRE IN COVINGTON.
ally have friends to m et them at. Th< > Business Part ot the Town Again In Ruins.
see h ; s victim. The la"er turned
up tbe face of the dead nan, and at
once burst into tears, sa\ ag, "It is
Willie, not Joe, you hue killed.”
Williams then threatcnei Pool with
death if he disclosed the flair, and
said he had before made
tempts to shoot PechU" To-ilav ’
Williams was arrested, ai l he ansi i , r r.,:.. ,1 .1
Pool are in jail here. Tin,- will be ! become famd.anzed t ey are
tried at the January term f the Su 1 lyU,ld ,hcy must ,cad lvcsofsl
perior Court.
■M*t
The Augusta correspondent of
l- Atlanta Constitution writes to
at paper as follows: “While the
tton mills here are working on full
, it is well known that they are
■t making any money. The de
mand for goods does not equal the
®^“pply and the price obtained bare-
pay tor the cost of production,
is said that a proposition was dis-
sseil for a reduction in the wages
the opeiativcs, but Was abandon-
owing to the opposition of one of
e mills. The officers of the com-
my hope for better times, but the
Itlook just now is not very encour-
Castle Garden, or else they have
j plans of their own maured. Eng-
i lish girls come, in mostcases, to go
I out to service. They ae ignorant,
j as a class. Swedish vomen meet
1 them on tiicir arrival, mil engage
them by contract in twis and threes.
cveral at- I -j-| u ,j ure |-, rs( p Ut at h> U sework in
M A Si >N RY A HEN El At T( >: (>K M AX
fllTII A HOPE ABOUND IBS NECK.
■Cincinnati, December 27.
t’ilham II. Kirk, a prominent nian-
act 11 rcr,disappeared from his home
Monday night. lie had $450 on
person. This morning his body
is found in the stream along
oring Gove-avc. The body had a
ipe around the neck and a hand-
•rchief tied over the eyes. The
jtull was badly crushed and there
lere two long gashes in the neck.
Ie was undoubtedly- robbed and
turdered and his body thrown into
be stream. There is no clue to the
mmlcrers.
Masonry is a moral ci rector of
the heart and life. In tie Lodge
we eirn o s ibilue the jasiois to
crush anil crucify the unh.y upris
ings of our depraved and lUcn na
tures, and purify the heart, he foun
tain and source of all ou factions.
Masonry teaches man ti become
the conqueror of himself, tu l ulac-
ing one point of the comp: ses on a
principle that knows no 1 cav, I10
strikes a circle beyond vtj c h l )e
may not pass, and whic should
keep him within due bou i s with
all mankind, on all occasion a nd un
der all circumstances.
We learn also to act on tl square,
that is “to do unto other:- as we
would have them do unto q ” anil
to put into practice in ourd.ly lives
the great truths which fasonry
teaches us in her closet. Y«sonry,
with her handmaid, eligion,
smooths the rugged aspe ties of
life, calms the troubled hea: quiets
the apprehensions, stills the e mpcst
of passion, moderates the lesires,
protects the innocent and njured,
and having helped to guidt man’s
frail bark over the storey and
troubled waves ol this life, i stands
a beacon on the shores of ternity
and points him to a brigh r and
lovelier home in Heaven-Prof.
Chase in Masonic Age.
John C. Marshall, a lawyer, and
[fis wife, James Boylin, and Reese
‘ ed '
Hair, were poisoned by eatin
this morning, at Beavcrdam, Union
tounty, N.C. Marsh died, but the
pthers are supposed to be out of
Banger. The eggs are believed to
[lave been poisoned for the purpose
bf killing rats and to have been put
bn the breakfast table by mistake.
A remarkable marriag took
place at Georgetown, D. last
week. Capt.Jean Leon Bynard,
of the French army, was art Jed to
Miss Hattie Key. Ther- were
twenty-seven ’marriage cer ficates
signed in ratification of tb civil
contract, after which the e gular
religious marriage ceremoy was
performed. The groom u-,i e sted
the loan of one of the bride' stock
ings before the wedding to u t her
Christmas present in, but, i, r rea
sons satisiactory to herself, s-clined,
whereupon he bought a rill slock
ing and sent it to her filled 'ith gold
pieces.
the dens of infamy, aiti after they
bold-
ley must lead Ives of shame.
I If they object, their clothes are
taken from them and tiey are forc
ibly wronged. In offer cases per-
j sons are employed to personate po
licemen and to tell tbiignorant girls
that the contract they signed calls
upon them to do as tley are desir
ed. They are given he alternative
of going to jail or obe ing their task
masters. The ignorait girls gener
ally submit. Occasiinally, as in a
case published a fev weeks ago,
the girls have intell r C ncc enough
to resist nnd to expo:,- their perse
cutors. These later, however,
seem to have sufficieit influence to
have all the Indicnients against
them pigeon-holed. When they
cannot compromise vith the prose
cuting officers they ucceed in buy
ing off the victims.”
From other souses the detec
tive’s information was corroborated.
At least 200 person are employed
in constant attempts to lure young
girls into crime. Ipays them well,
new victims being n great demand.
The writer was cndibly informed
that many of those *hi) go to make
up the ranks of vee are recruited
from the ranks of s-hool girls, who
are ruined in ‘canty’ shops. These
shops are establisied for the pur
pose of carrying Ju t the nefarious
business. Girls ot tender years are
lured in the back toms, and by de
grees their moral sensibilities are
dulled. Then thy easily fall vic
tims to the art practiced upon
them. When thiy are fast in the
toils they are indeed to leave home
and are shipped ti houses of ill-fame
in other cities. Vhen their parents
are tired looking for them they are
brought back to bis city, and serve
to adorn the ta,hionable dens up
town.
Covington, Dec. 31.—A terri
fire is now raging here. The en
tire north side of the square is in
flames at this hour (half-past nine.)
The court-house is in ruins. The
most valuable of the county records
are possibly saved. The tire origi
nated in R. YV. Bagby’s bar-room;
cause defective stove flue. The
store is situated in the centre of the
north block. The centre of the
block was consumed, including the
court-house. Messrs. J. YV. Dear-
ing, general store; Henry Horton,
barroom and restaurant; R. W.
Bagby, barroom; YY\ F. Wells,
postmaster and fancy groceries; J.
W. Levy, jeweler; M. D. Stock-
land almost entirely consumei
Great excitement and fear at one
time that Hunter & Anderson’s
store, between the court-house and
Cox’s hotel would burn. The fire
was under control at 10 p. m. The
enterprise office and outfit was
burned. S. W. Hawkins saved
only his book office up-stairs over
Dearing’s, and nothing else saved.
Florida Union.
Richard Stevens, a well-to-do
farmer who resides with his wife
and seven children at Jordan, about
a mile and a half west of this place,
is very ill of pneumonia: A few
nights ago two of the daughters re
tired, leaving their shoes in the sit
ting-room. They were aroused by
a noise as though something had
been thrown into the bed-room, and
on investigation their shoes were
found to have been thrown from the
sitting-room by the side of the bed.
The next night a stone weighing
about half a pound fell with a crash
by the side of their father’s bed, at
which they were so alarmed that
they sat up the remainder of the
night. This did not prevent the
falling of other stones, apparently
from the ceiling of the room in
which the family sat, although there
was no hole in the ceiling and win
dows and the doors were all closed.
Seven stones fell that night and the
succzeding day, varying in size
from a quarter of a pound to a full
pound.
The family were so alarmed that
they finally called in a neighbor and
he stayed for a number of hours.
No stene fell while he was there,
but as he passed out of the door a
large one struck the floor at his
heels with a crash. During the
next night and day seven more
stones fell. Another neighbor who
was in the house happened to say,
“I wish one o\ those stones would
fall now,” when immediately one
fell between his legs where he was
sitting. He got up and left the
room, .‘ltd. soon returning, looked
up at t : ■ ceiling,' saying: “I wish
anothtt s;cne would fall,” and a
large cue just glazed his head and
struck at his feet. A number of
Jordan people have visited the
house in the aitempt to solve the
mystery, but so far they have not
been successful.
The members of the family all
seem frightened, and are on the
alert to ascertain the cause of the
strange phenomena. Sometimes
two or three will be together in the
kitchen, when suddenly a stone
falls; or in the sitting-room, where
they are all sitting with the doors
closed; a' stone falls. Some of the
stones are Warm when they fall,
one or two were moist and all were
ry 1
mon in the fields. Some members
of the family seem to believe this a
warning of Mr. Stevens’ approach
ing death.
The exhibition of a bale of cotton
packed with rocks, on Bay street,
in front of the Cotton Exchange
yesterday, attracted considerable
attention among cotton men and
others. The bale was received at
the Central Railroad wharf among
a shipment of through cotton, by
steamship, to Boston. On being
compressed it was discovered that
it was filled with rocks. Two
heavy pieces of limestone rock
vvere forced front one end of the
bale, and upon investigation it was
found that a third rock, in the cen
tre of the bale, had been crushed by
the press. The fraudulent bale was
removed from the press and sent
to the Cotton Exchange
for the purpose of inspection.
The matter was a general subject of
comment at the Exchange during
the afternoon. Inquiry was made
as to the shipper, but at present no
information can be obtained from
what part of the country the bale
was shipped. An investigation of
the matter will be had, and a tracer
will be sent out to discover, if pos
sible, the author of the swindle. The
bale was marked 700 pounds. Those
who inspected it and are competent
judges estimate that the rocks,
which are yet firmly imbedded in
the cotton, weighed at least 300
pounds. Swindling of this charac
ter calls for punishment, and the
inspector, Mr. YV. C. Lyons, under
whose charge the bale was placed,
will see that the perpetrator is
brought before the public it he can
be discovered.
How a Son ot Ex-Major Rono Escaped Bolng Shot
by Miss Cams Swain.
llarriscurg Special, Dec, 29.
Miss Carrie Swain, the actress,
who is starring the country in the
role of “Cad, the Tomboy,” appear
ed here on Christmas night in that
character. After the play she took
rooms on the second story of the
Lochiej, one of the leading hotels of
the city. A balcony adorned the
fiontof her room, and soon after
she retired for the night three or
four gentle raps on the window
awakened her from a quiet slumber.
She paid ro attention to it for a time,
but reached under her pillow for
her revolver, which she always car
ries with her. Soon the window
was raised, and a young man sprang
into the room. Miss Swain’s first
impulse was to fire, but woman
like, she changed her mind and
cried for help. Her maid, who
slept in an adjoining room, at once
responded, as did a number of hotel
employes, and the intruder proved
to be Ross Reno, a son of ex-Major
Reno, U. S. A. He was taken out
and placed in his own room, he be
ing a boarder at the hotel. The af
fair was quieted down and was not
known to the public until to-day,
Miss Swain declined to prosecute
the young man, but the proprietor
of the Lochiel told him that he must
seek other quarters. Miss Swain
says that the reason she did not
shoot the intruder, was because it
would have detained her here as a
witness, and broken up her engage
ments for the season.
Athenians will remember Miss
Swain as the charming actress who
was in our city about a month ago,
and made stich a favorable impres
sion. She will probably revisit our
city again in February.
“It is said that Judge Joel C. Fain
nclusions 'with Jud Clem-
will try cone
ents in the old seventh.
A horse in Albany stuck a nail
in his foot on Saturday and died
Sunday night from lockjaw.
Mr. Milton A. Smith, of Atlanta,
dreamed of burglars YVednesday
night and awoke the next morning
to find his mule gone.
There was a balloon picked up on
Mr. David Dicksons’ plantation, in
Hancock,one day last week, it was
well preserved, but no mark on it
to indicate from whence it came.
In Hancock county two negroes
got into a difficulty. One was cut
across, the breast two or three ofhis
ribs being cut in two, and is thought
he cannot live. The one who did
the cutting fled.
Two blocks of mica, weighing
27 pounds and meosuring 13x1 ^ and
1 tx 16 inches, were taken from the
Powell mica mine YVednesday at a
depth of only five feet front the
surface. It is estimuted that each
block of mica can be split 2,000
times
The party of English gypsies who
have been fortune telling and horse
trading through southern Georgia,
recently kicked up a row between
themselves, and procured twelve or
thirteen warrants and employed
two lawyers, the total cost running
up towards $200.
Atlanta, Dec. 29.—W. T. B.
YVilson was to-day appointed post
master at Atlanta.
Government employees in YVash-
ington are borrowing money at 5
per cent, a month.
A colored preacher at New Ha
ven, Conn., was kicked out of the
pulpit by his deacons.
Mr. L. C. Broom and Young
Barmhart were both accidentally
shot in Greene county.
A little six-year-old negro child
was lust in the woods near Gibson,
Ga., and has not been found.
The resignation of Col. G. J
Foreacre, from the Georgia Pacific
Railroad, is announced.
A secret treaty, offensive and de
fensive, has been signed by Ger
many, and Austria and Italy.
A mother and her child were
burned to death through a house
taking fire at Atchison, Kan.
The list of failures in the United
States during the past year is very
heavy, over ten thousand having oc
curred.
YVhen John H. James, the banker,
was a young man he rode his mule
to Stone Mountain to see that great
wonder. There was a tower on
top, to enter which a Ice of 10 cents
was charged. Young John did not
have that much money and he con
tented himself with walking around
the tower and looking at the other
folks go in.
Constitution: There is already
considerable talk of the state senate
In the Augusta district Hon. john
S. Davidson is a candidate; in the
Athens district, Hon. C. G. Tab
madge is mentioned, and in the
Oglethorpe district, Hon. James M.
Smith. In this district the Hon.
John T. Glenn, Hon. Frank Rice
and Judge George Hillyer are spo
ken of.
A band of insurgents, marching
toward Berber, have been attacked
and completely routed by Egyptian
troops.
YY r hile walking a raihoad trestle,
near Macon, a little negro boy fell
through, to a depth of so feet, and
was killed.
YY’illiam Reed, of Fort Y’allev,
while en route to his camps, took
the wrong path and tell into a well
S4 feet deep. Assistance came to
him at once, hut when being drawn
out near the top the rope broke,
and lie was again precipitated into
the bottom of the well. When
he was finalllv rescued he
was almost in a lifeless condition.
His shoulder was broken and his
body seriously bruised in many
places. At last accounts lie was
not expected to live.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONGRESSMAN CANDLER.
YVITH IRON KNUCKLES.
well, barroom; George. Johnson,
colored, barber; court-house con
sumed. All partially insured. Col.
Capers Cickson’s entire law office,
books, papers, etc., hufned. The
records ot the court and county like the ordinary cobble-stone com-
d.
ELOPED YVITH TWO GIRLS.
a ClUssii ot Bxvxrlx Finds bis Lost OhUA ta u
OMo city.
Cleveland, Dec. 27.—John
Rummell is a prosperous citizen of
Munich, Bavaria. His daughter
Gretchen is a pretty girl of eighteen.
Her chum and companion was Ber
tha Klaus, who had a suitor named
John Long. They wanted to elope
to America, but Long was short of
funds. Bertha enticed Gretchen
away and the pretty girl robbed her
Philadelphia Dec. 29.—Adam
Forepaugh, the crcus proprietor, to
day received a ciblegram from his
agent in Algiers, stating that he has
been offered a vhite elephant for
ten thousand pounds. Forepaugh,
in. reply, directed the agent to ob
tain the animal at once at the price
mentioned.
father of $400, stole away at night,
and, with Bertha and her adorer,
came to this country. They anived
in Cleveland last July. The father,
agonized over his handsome daugh
ter’s disappearance, started insear^h
of her, and after four month’s wan
dering traced her to Cleveland.
Yesterday he found her working as
a servant girl in an East Cleveland
household. She had $75 led out of
the $400 stolen from her parents.
The meeting of father and cMd was
very affecting. The girl it .repen
tant, and on Saturday next they will
sail from New York for their home
in Germany. Bertha married hick
sweetheart, and they are living in
the country near this city.
IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.
CartertvilU Free Prett.
When the Free Press was put to
press list week we had no idea of
publishing a paper this week, nor
did we intend doing so until it was
too late to set up a full paper. In
order to “make the riffle, we have
resorted to a “patent inside” for this
week and this week only. We now
regret that we did not get out a half
sheet instead. As an old journalist
we have no love for patent insides
or outsides. If we can keep our
senses, we hope We shall never
again have to give our readers any
thing bat a home printed paper
and we shall not look to public pap
to do so either. We have been
caught in this emergency by a sud
den change of mind and could do
no better in this emergency than
to send out a “patent inside” paper.
It is not legitimate journalism, but a
bastardy in journalism that we hope
never to father again.
With this 'explanation, we bow
our head in shame in forcing upon
our readers an illegitimate issue of
the Free Press. It will not occur
again. The morality of the thing
is too bad for a modest journalist of
the old school Friends and fellow
citizens, we plead guilty of the
.worst act of our whole newspaper
life. Wo shall not open the Free
Press this week to see what is in-
sidc of it.
Faces Cut as With Cloavtrs and Icicles ot Blood
Banging from the Sluggers’ Betts.
Briityrjiort.Cena.. Special,
A prize fight unexampled for its
brutality occurred here Friday af
ternoon, between a New Haven
blacksmith known as Giant Jim and
Chubby Joe, of the Mailable Iron
Works of this city. The former, a
week ago, challenged the latter to
fight with iron knuckles under the
London prize ring rules. The c hal
lenge was accepted, and the two
belligerents, accompanied by their
seconds anil a few friends, proceed
ed to otto of the outbuildings of the
winter quarters of Bamum’s show,
where the contest took place.
The two stripped to the waist and
quickly set to work. Two fierce
rounds of three minutes each were
fought, when the spectators, horri
fied at the sickening spectacle, unan
imously declared the battle a draw.
Each blow received laid the flesh
open like the cut cf a butcher’s
cleaver, and the blood ran down
their naked bodies, freezing at the
belt in long red icic' ;s. Their faces
were unrecognizable, each present
ing the appearance of a piece of raw
beef. It is poss ble that but for the
interference of the spectators the
men would have killed one another.
Giant Jim was carried back to New
Haven this morning. Neither of
the pugilists have been arrested.
St. Louis, Dec. 29.—A dispatch
from Kankakee, Ilk, says: “David
J. Feeley, a boy of twelve, commit
ted suicide yesterday morning, at
his mother’s house, in Essex, by
blowing out his brains with a shot-
1, No cause is assigned for the
Bow Ho Remem bon His Athens Friends.
YVe yesterday received a long
letter from Hon. A. D. Candler,
from which we make the following
extract.
“I have thought every week the
past year that 1 would go to Athens
the next and spend a day or two
with the friends there to whom I
owe so much, but it was a year of
almost continuous sickness in my
family. Hence, in the language of
the preachers, ‘I have left undone
many things which I ought to have
done,’ and may add, many things
that I desired to do. I desired to
let the gallant democracy of Clarke
county know that I fully realiz
ed the fact that to
to them and their patriotic efforts I
and tire democracy of the 9th dis
trict owe our brilliant victory—a
victory unparalleled in the history
of Georgia politics. The party in
the 9th district will miss the men in
Clarke. It was almost a crime to
dismember the district after so gal
lant a fight. If the 9th never re
grets it she will be lortunate. Any
thing I can do while in YY , ashing
ton for Athens and any of her peo
pie it will be a pleasure far me to
do, and especially it I can serve
you 1 want to do it.
“YY'ith kindest regards for you
anil all my Athens friends, I am
“Very truly yours,
“A. D. Candler.”
CRIMES OF TRAMPS.
YViUie Loveland, aged twelve
years, was seriously burned at Corry,
Pa., while endeavoring to save his
mother from being burned to death.
Columbia, Dec. 29.—A fire yes
terday morning in Orangeburg de
stroyed $50,000 worth of property.
It is thought to be the work of an
incendiary.
During an encounter near Lex
ington, Ky., Stout Higgins and
Thomas Haynes, wealthy farmers,
shot each other, inflicting dangerous
wounds.
owns 30,000
Iowa’s new capitol costs over $2.-
ooo;ooo.
A Texas widow
sheep.
Mrs. Tom Thumb posing in a
museum at Chicago.
YVilliam M. Evarts has made
$500,000 out ofhis law practice.
Sergeant Mason has been engaged
by the dime museum of Philadel
phia.
Two or three decayed teeth serve
to reject a recruit for the British
army.
All the electric wires in New
York must go underground within
two years.
Bradstreet reports two hundred
and sixty failures within the last
week.
The organized band of fence cut
ters in South Texas call themselves
murder had | Javelenas.
Governor Irwin, of Idaho Tcrri-
henomenon. He actually
The finding of a large quantity of
human blood caused considerable
excitement at Biddeford, Me. It
was believed that
been committed.
The dead body of an Orangeman j tor y; isaphenomer
was found in a bog hole yesterday, I declines his salary,
near Portadown, county Armagh.
The deceased man had been obnox-
gun.
act. A moment before stepping
into the back room he was in good
humor and chatting pleasantly about
Christmas. Though somewhat wil
ful, his relations with his mother
and sister were amicable.”
Bloomington, III., Dec. 31.
Adam Apley, aged 35, a married
German, was assaulted Saturday
night near his home here, and was
struck on the head with a bar of
iron. He' was carried into th._ house
insensible. At lucid intervals he
related the assault, which was made
by his brother, with whom he had a
long-existing family quarrel, and
who waylaid hitnl
Little Rock, December. 31.—
From a private letter, it is learned
that in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana,
a disease termed'charbon, is raging
among the stock. Valuable cattle
and horses are and there »
great alarm. Two negroes who
skinned some dead cows contracted
the disease and are dying.
Bloomsburg, Pa., Dec. 29, 1SS3.
YY’hile Adam Ilartin, a pedlar, and
his fourteen-year-old daughter, were
driving from Mainville to Catti-
wissa late last night, he was accost
ed by three strange men who asked
permission to tide in his sleigh. It
was granted, and the three men sat
in the rear of the sleigh and kept a
strict silence for an hour, until they
came to a spot where the road ran
into a thick woods. One of the
men then drew a revolver and, plac
ing it* at Hardin's head, demanded
his money. One of the others held
the little girl, while the third rifled
the peddler’s pockets. The robbers,
having secured $350 and a watch,
sprang out and disappeared in the
woods. After recoveting from his
fright HLi tlin drove on, and, about
a mite from the scene of robbery,
two other tramps sprang in front of
the team and asked permission to
ride. The peddler replied with an
oath and lashed the horses into a
gallop. One of the tramps drew a
revolver and fired two shots after
the flying- man, both of which took
effect in his body. The horses,
frightened, ran along the highway
at a rapid rate, with the senseless
body of the peddler lying in the
sleigh. They were finally stopped
bp some farmers and Hartlin was
taken into the house of one ot them,
where he is now dying.
The particulars of his misfortune
were then related by the little girl
and an immediate seaich was insti
tuted for the perpetrators of the
crime. No clew, however, has been
found. The country is infested
with tramps and such outrages are
of frequent occurrence.
ious to the Romanists in the vicini
ty-
Jackson, Miss., December3t.—
H. YVcatherby, sheriff'of Madison
county, died yesterday from hydro
phobia. He had been bitten by a
rabid dog two months ago.
The patrons of the Tichborne
claimant have bought the celebrated
Granville Hotel lor him. The
claimant will shortly be released
from imprisonment.
New Haven special: Baron von
Brucning died in the hospital here
to-day from the effects of an ampu
tation rendered necessary from dry
mortification following the cutting
of a corn.
A woman in Illinois invited a
man who is alleged to have made
aspersions on her character to her
house, and, on his asserting the
truth of his charges, she shot him
fatally through the body.
Camilla, December 31.—One
Jarrett, colored, shot his father-in-
law, YVyatt Oliver, colored, yester
day, in this county, and the latter
died about noon to-day. The mur
derer had made good his escape.
A physician in Bibbford, Me.,
was lead blindfolded to a room
where he dressed the wounds of a
man and woman, the latter with
her throat cut. He was then car
ried back home with his eyes ban
daged.
Columbia, S. C., Dec, 30.—In
Pickens county, to-day, two boys
brothers, named Simons were out
rabbit hunting. One fired at a rab
bit as it ran out of a bush, missed
his aim and shot his brother in the
head killing him instantly.
St. Louis.Dec. 30.—YY’iliiam Fox
was hanged at Nevada, Mo., to-day.
On the scaffold he warned young
men against early marriage and
marriage with near relatives. He
married a cousin, but the two
failed to agree and he left her for
another woman named Jane Rose.
Atchison, Ks., Dec. 31.—Satur-.
day night about half past ten o’clock,
fire broke out in the elegant new
house of Charles E. Styles, agent
ot the Missouri and Pacific Railroad.
Mr. Styles’s wife and child perish
ed in the flames, and he himself was
quite seriously burned.
Columdia, S. C., Dec. 29.—At
Sommcrten, Clarendon count}’, last
night, a colored woman locked up
her four children in her cabin, leav
ing a large fire in the fireplace, and
went to a night meeting on a neigh
boring plantation. During her
absence the cabin caught fire, and
before any assistance came the
four children were literally consum-
Th<? marriage of aJew and Gen
tile is announced foi Camilla, Ga.
ed.
Mattoon, III., Dec. 29.—John
E. Burns, a farmer near here, re
turned home dnxuk Wednesday
evening and quarreled with his son*
He threatened to kill the latter and
reached into a bureau drawer to get
a revolver, the son dealt him a blow
over the bead with a chair. He lin
gered on in n unconscious state
until this afternoon when hC' died.
Young BnnM kae been arrested:
One thousand dollars in gold is the
result of a recent five days’ run at
Conrad Hill, N. C.
Money is being raised in Salva
dor and Gautemala for the construc
tion of the Nicaraguan canal.
In the view of the Galveston
News Samuel Jones Tilden is "the
great somnambulist of a shattered
dream.”
zYbout 200,000 acres will be added
to tbe cultivatable lands of Arizona
next year by canals anil irrigating
ditches.
The Broadway florists have added
a new specialty to their business,
that of trimming a bridal dress with
natural flowers.
Ex-Senator Conkling is credited
with a desire to become the posses
sor of $500,000, and then retire to
private 1:1c.
The once brilliant Gen. N. P.
Banks is said to be now a broken-
down old man, dependent on his
salary for a living.
The Prince of Y\ r alcs sent his eld
est son off to Cambridge because he
fell in love with beautiful Miss
Chamberlain.
A breastpin containing an Edi
son glow light, fed by a small
waistcoat pocket battery, is sold for
$9 at Nurcmburg, Germany.
■ Matamoras, Mexico, Dec. 29.—
Three days ago, near Mocoric, five
custom house guards were attacked
and killed by Apachee Indians.
Theodore Tilton is living quietly
in the Quarter Latin, Paris, near the
School of Fine Arts. Jle is hard at
work on unfinished literary articles.
A hotel keeper at Mt. Vernon,
Ky., has been engaged a number ot
years in a perpetual motion ma
chine. He thinks he has solved
the problem.
Patrick Shea, of Holyoke, Mass.,
drank a wineglass of undertaker’s
embalr.Yng fluid a day or two ago,
supposing it to be whisky, and died
shortly after.
The much discussed red light is
now admitted to be the reflection of
the bloody shirt, which has been
hung on a diagonal line running
from the south to the west.
The largest locomotive ever buil
is now in process of construction in
Sacramento. The engine and ten
der will weigh 105 tons and will be
65 feet, five inches long.
The skeleton of Guitcau is hid
den in a private room of the army'
'medical museum at YY'ashington,
and has been polished and bleached
till it looks like an ivory figure.
A dispatch reports that a man
has rediscovered the bed of the lost ■
Cabin mine in Montana, which is
immensely rich. It is near the
head waters of the Big Horn river. ...
This mine was discovered by three;- ^ ‘u
old-timers early in Territorial titfieB,
two of whom were murdered by
Indians, and the survivor became
insane and could never trace the f
trial. Since then the'discovery _ha*
passed into Territorial tradition.
The lode is reported to be cut ih 1
the river at a point where
indication show's a width ofjij) fc>
and a height of 60 feet.
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