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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. •s'.’S ’if;:.' -j.it b. ' A** *.