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I / irojcc atH ENS and JEFFERSON. It seem' that thejug Tavern rail- has simmered out, and is now one where the woodbine twineth \' e never hear the subject men j and even the directors don't fC1I1 to have any knowledge of the That it is a necessity for v to tap the narrow-guage " , cm of railways that is encircling s on the west every sensible man nows. It seems to us that it mat- crs ), u t little where the connection . m.ule. just so we get the road iiilt. and that, too, before the trade . drawn from us. Athens has some ;o,ooo raised toward the Athens & I'estern, which is about halt of hat will be required to grade and *!„s- tie the toad. The country ■hr-iugh which the line passes does |i-,t seem inclined to contribute any- li.ng. while the town of Jug Tav- 1 *111 itself gives us decidedly the cold shoulder.” Now the ques- o„ for our citizens to ask theni- i!\rs is. w ill it he isc for them to ^■va'te further time in this direction, ■, turn their attention at once to- “ ard Jetlerson, and by transferring 1C .uh-ciiptions already made to a | time, insure its completion by next summer:- With what money Ac can e.i'ilv raise on the Jefferson line, added to the amount already Kh'Ciihed hi our city for the Atli- Kis ,v Western, work on this road rt, | t . u once commenced, with a H,... ..tc ot success. The o--entr.il ^■i dnatc stands ready and anxious H ju.t on the iron and rolling stock ■ , ,,;j ,- cross-tiesaie laid, and ■ the -■--.•e is a natiiial road-bed. Hill, i-...: a 'ingle stream tocross, it Hji: cos’ ’ much mole than halt as m-.leh as the road to Jag Haw :n. Whi.e to tap the G., J. & | at 11 tlei -on may not he quite as c.s to Athens as the oth- • do not think the dif- he much. But our peo- L - insider this matter: i!v build to Jefferson, ug Tavern project is and uncertain. We see prospect foi the latter, while the 1 A.s\- THE B ANNER-WATCHMAN NO XXVIII. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, J^AJSTTJARY 15, 1884. VOL XXX THE NORTH-EASTERN EXTENSION. InUrrUw with Capt. J. CilCer Timor, FngloMr of this Road. MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES. intagi we We Let ul 1- w iiliin easy grasp , What we do must done q-.iekh . There is no time dilly-dally. Rival towns are ping !oi our trade, and l connti-rac! their moves, k our Citizens should take - ,,i,- action ill this matter, n Convene in pnl-hc meeting and ile mi si.inetbing. If they find • | j Tamil road is not . i,. i s -Imp it and go to eison. 1 bete is no use in wast- I,. u ions time agitating a scheme i is hewnd the reach of our peo- w lu - .iin-lhing almost as good i ill.m tin ir giasp Let us build i...id to letlci'i-n with tlu ,,,-c „A »u.vc subscribed I tlwii build ’lie Soc-al Circle it. This l.-.tu-i mute will answer -r\ j.i.rji--e "f the Athens & jsii-ui, mi'n being more exten e hi iis iiitliic-nce. Athens has no u- in m il. Our people must ,ose up and get to wolk. Our lit- iin has a big future ahead of it hg -. itizi-iis will only take time by forelock. Let us hear trom Resident Bloomfield and his board ofihi cti-i-. Have they done any- in- latelv "i see any chance for Athens Western? We don't nt anv visionalv schemes, but netbing tangible. It is high time a ih.it somethirg was done. The ■ -•'.e are impatient, and want to u\ what they can expect. He ,- next winter we must tap the id on our west, and to do so it is tifcu- w e were breaking dirt. Ath raniiot afford to waste another in idle-talk. If we find thejug •in route "too big a shake* for persimmon,” why let us build 1 ether' m. It s a matter of in- peretice to us at which point the ad taps the ‘ main line” just so we operation. It is proposed to send the Snlva- arini to the Mormons. Gen. Grant is said by his friends he bittcrlv opposed to Arthur. A good deal has been said in the Totectionist journals about the re- vival of the Know Nothing party. I fAi cording to the latest returns Hint have fallen under our notice. Yesterday we had the pleasure a call from "Capt. Turner, ot Haber sham, the engineer who located the North-Eastern road. He was look ing in fine kc'.ter and spoke hope fully of the future of Northeast Georgia. “What is the prospect for the North-Eastern extension to Rabun Gap?” we asked. “Not so bright as they were two months ago. Then I thought that work would be commenced by next spring, but the matter is in doubt now. Your people may rest assured, however, that the road will be running to Rabun Gap by April, 1SS6, the time stipulated in the con tract, and probably earlier. The extension to Tallulah cost a great deal more than it should, owing to the haste with which the work had to be done. We paid hands as high as $1.50 per day. The company will doubtless begin on the exten sion from the falls in time to remedy this trouble.” “We see that they are grading over in North Carolina?” “Yes, but it is on the Carolina Western, which will eventually connect with the N. E. It is not the Knoxville links that they are working on, as some suppose.” * “How about the minerals on the line?” “There is plenty of all kinds of minerals except coal which we don’t find until Knoxville is reached. Around that city the supply is in exhaustible, and the best beds, too, are as yet undeveloped. But short ly after leaving Ralnin (jap, and at the head of the Nautahala river, is millions in undeveloped wealth, di rect on the line of survey. There is the finest marble of all color mica, gold, copper, etc. The road will develop a fine field for capital ists.” But will the copper mines pay for working?” "Certainly. The Ducktown mine IS Hilt of the richest on this coiiti nent and, 1 learn, has lately been bought by an English company that will develop it to its full vvortln as they have abundant means. Even the water in the shatts is so strong ly impregnated with copper that you can place therein a sheet ol iron and in thirty days, when t.ikin out.it will he qo per cent, pine cop per. They used to pump the water out hefore discovering its value, anil all the fish in the stream where it flowed were killed. But >he prop erties arc now all saved.” Do you think. Captain, that Ath ens will eventually have i.Tilway nneefum with Knoxville. “Most assuie.llv; but th.- compa- latc uy is not haste, as ll it another road to thev can therefore about building ibis 1 pressing as some But before many ; will undoubtedly 1 through train; Athens to Km Spooks and Hobgoblins to tks^sar—lfanirecta- Uoin that Prodnco Oonits motion and Terror In a Polk Canary Houiakold. Ctilartowm Adrrrtucr. In a recent issue of the Adverti- ser we gave an account of a visit to , the home of Mr. Win. E. Hinst, in Northeast this county, for the purpose of Wit nessing examples of the reputed ex traordinary and inexplicable powers possessed by his daughter, Miss Lu la. We told what our eyes had witnessed—how that by the touch of her hands a chair or other object became violently restless and un governable. We have reports now of mysterious manifestations about the Hurst household beside which those previously told smack of rath- er diminutive wonder. M e would be slow to record a statement of these mysterious occurrences if they were not assured ot their truthful ness by as respectable and trustwor thy people as dwell in our whole section, the young lady herself, her father and mother, her cousin. Miss Wimberly, and her une'e, Mr. Clar ence Wood, being witnesses. \\ e are told that recently while Miss Lula was engaged washing dishes she heard a rattle noise among some knives and forks on a table at her back. On turning round she ob served a knife moving restlessly among the other cutlery. She watched itand saw it ascend from the table, whirl in the air lor a num ber of times, and descend with a force to the floor, tailing and lying in the corner of the room. This not to he accounted for occurrence ex cited much wonder among the mem bers of the household, hut was only to be followed by others still more mysterious. Niss Wimberly is the constant loom mate of Miss Lula. She missed a garment from among her clothing and supposed it to he stolen. A number of other gar ments were subsequently missed, the disappearance of which could not he reasonably accounted t Finally Miss Wimberly looked i some garment she had tust placed j ii.t!tir,io in a trunk among some uT.u-i I clothes and securely shut the ho. i‘ ! y,;i. v • was not to be found. No huniai. i a . hand having been about tiietiun'-- ; q . v since she had placed it there, she ; n tin. was naturally much mystified. | an ,| r Wondering in their own minds i yi H . ., what new way their visions should j iS; v he startled and their reasons taxed, | ei.incni the members of the household are ta ken severely aback l»y the discovery hv some one of a missed handker chief. hanging over a picture in the room. This might he accounted for by attributing its appearance there to sonic unknown human hand and the members of the household so believe, and all leaving the room, securely lock it. Returning very shortly, another missed garment is seen hanging from the cornices of the window. Three persons sit in the room and instantly appears he fore their vision a missing garment THE BELLVILLE HORROR. TWO MOHS (CURSED BODIES RECOVERED. Tbs Torror* of tlis Burning Vividly Dsscrihed—A Brava Bluer Who Mil Death Wkllo Cling ing to Her Lutlo One*—Sitter Mary Jeromo— Pennsylvania Firs—Etc. St. Louts, Jan. S.—Two more bodies were found in the ruins of the Belleville convent fire to-day, one being that of Sister Mary Je rome. Five persons are stilll miss ing. The funeral occurs Thursday. The bodies were all near each other, and the mother superior’s body seemed to he the centre for the ghastly circle of blackened remains. A bone was picked up here, and upon being drawn, came loose from some particles of roasted flesh. Here a burned skull was found, and there an arm, while trunks burned into a solid crisp, were dug up im mediately under them. It was an awful exhumation, and more than once the work faltered because of the sickening sensations which overcame the workmen. It seemed that the horrid heap would never be exhausted, and every few minutes it was reported that a new body had been taken out. Shreds of burned cloth : ng clung to the sickening mass It was impossible almost to find the identies of the bodies, the fiery fingers of death having efiaccd every line and every shape of countenance and form. The bodies in some instances clung together, and the heap, as it was uncovered tithe ivc. was,absolute ly indescribable. As Mary Jerome, the sister superior of the convent, is well-known in many parts of the convent, is well-known in many parts of the country, the following brief sketch will he interesting: She had given all her life to theser- vice o' the church; was known in girlhood as Barbara Hull, and born lortv-fonr years ago in Piltshurg Her pare ills were wealthy and her education progressed under the most favorable circumstances. She 1 til.o.;-h : | CHANGING BASE. Adratiino or a Tokos Bachelor Who Bad to ■Ora Etta Foxaltnra. In sliding down Broad street^yes terday morning, we collided with Charlie Baldwin, and were im pressed with the look of dilapidated anguish that o’erspread his usually genial face. ‘“What ailest thou?” we asked. “Hast thy lady love again gone back on thee, or hast thy gizzard turned to gall? Pour into our elon gated ears thy tale of woe that we may spread the oil of consolation upon thy troubled breast!” “Trouble don’t begin to describe my condition,” spoke up Mr. B. “I’ve had enough trouble in the last two days to sink the Great Eastern or stock every convict camp -in Georgia. When my girl went back on me it was like Balm of Gillead applied to my lacerated heart, com- D ie iii-*t, ami ike their time L". It is llOt SO nnihs since, us the road limit, when rim I mm ille i s—teen :e. V- ei tile r.' jiicted. I..: was relit r .i>iE u« Vc.v Orleans them a few years, assigned t . B'-llvilic peiiorcss of the new ica-.lemy of the Notie society. The early history of the academy is full of difficulties overcome by the business tact ami intelligent direction of the young siiperioiess. l-’rom time to time the house was enlarged, cost ing in all about $So,ooo, and was the principal convent of the society. Nearly all :>f the deb: had been re moved l.\- the wise management of Mother Je-royie. In addition to the large convent at Belleville, Mother Jerome found several other houses ol the society in southern Illinois , , ,, . , . , and exercised through the celega- hanging over the headboard ot the ti „ n the mo . her General, of Mil waukee. protectionary jurisdiction pared to what I’ve lately seen.” “Lay bare thy troubled heart!” we asked. “Well, you see I decided to move my room, and of course had to carry what little plunder I had accumu lated with me. I always turn over a new leaf about New Year's, and so decided to be economical and save a few dollars by letting out the contract to move the furniture to myself. In other words, as I after wards found out, I was simply fur nishing a corpse for my own funer al. I got Randal Brown to help me, and early Monday morning we set to work. I thought that what 1 didn’t know about shifting furni ture wasn’t worth learning, and so appointed myself commander in chief over the colored troop ot one. The first thing I did was to claw up the carpet with my finger-nails, as I decided that it would he a good thing to wrap up the bedstead and bureau in. Well, hefore I got one end upl had sacrificed three finger nails. and the only thing that kept me from using very emphatic lan guage was my early Sunday-school academic de- | training and the thought of how it of Mercy i -.vould shock Jim and Burnett. So convent of I we stopped clawing tacks and bor- ‘ve Dame at I ,- ow i n g an aX e from Roane, neatly ot ars ( • j chopped off the confined edges of the carpet and left a nice border around the room for the next occu pant. But when I began to pull up that carpet, from the cloud of dust that arose, you would have thought that I was running anold-lashioned wheat thresher right in the heart of Athens. I got ray nose and mouth and eyes full, and I will have to get Dock Dorsey to run me through his smutting machine before I can get cleaned out. Like Richelieu, I know no such word as fail. But when I began to take up the old carpet, feeling like the fellow that feeds the whacker machine at the paper mill, it suddenly dawned upon my benighted mind that I had be gun to work at the wrong end and must first clear-the room of the fur niture. Right here a regular tidal ,-rc :ire 5.000 carp ponds in Geor- The Speaker of the Kentucky ise of representatives is but 26 rs -f age and was a law pupil of leaker Carlisle. long ess n et again yesterday, tMfd if 1 he statesmen are wise and iii-y will at once get down to | ra and honest work. Mis. Maria Kenton, a 1 ith Ken- ;ki lady whosccently died, left a ge iegaev in her will to Frank , ihc highw ay man. Chicago Tribune counts up I5.1100 human lives lost by earth lakes, tornadoes, .shipwrecks, s, mine disasters and other acci- its in 1SS3. |The "four-mile-law” is being cn- Bccil in Tennessee. It means that lalooii shall not he operated within i^K)r miles ot a school house, and is kirtii.il prohibition. now surmised that the Czar [Russia was shot by Nihilists file returning from a hunting ex- lition, on the 17th of December It may he trhe, or it may be I11 either event, his doom ms to be scaled. OCONEE COUNTY. L'st of Juron Drawn t. sorvo at Jauaary Teim, ISM <111A Nil JfROKS. Simeon Crow, David 11 Jlardi- gree. William T Malcom, William A Woodis, James Frazer, >r., Drew- rv W Jackson, Sidney R Ward. William Y Elder, Benjamin I* Greg ory, Alpheus 11 Morton, John R Morton, William J Nelson, William II Marshall, Asbury II Jackson, Jo- siah E Bradbury, James M Lindsey, Jonathan Burgess, Nathan T Elder, Thomas N Epps, Junius II Lang ford. Oscar F Johnson, Samuel 11 Thrasher, George II McKee, Drew ry 11 Jackson, George I- Anderson, Win j Parrish, Marshall C.Grifleth, William 1 Dobbins, William B I lay- good, Daniel W Locklin. TRAVERSE JURORS. R T Durham, W J Thompson, L W Saxon. V. T Whitehead. E II Jennings, Samuel Fielding, jr.. S C Branch. | W Duke, George \V Rob ertson. f> 1 Cook. ] J Whitehead, M L Branch, J J Hale, W II Doo little, | F W Osborn, a J Jackson, J X Osborn, J B Langford, W C Lev in, J L Bradbury. 1 W Jackson, J J C Vickers, Arthur L Doolittle. F P Lovin, John A Wilson. J W Daniel, James Bishop. Join- O McRee, M H Jones.J L) Price, J L Middle- brooks, 1 11 C Malcom. A L Branch, J I< Miller, 1) W Thomas,J W Grif- feth. bed. Another garment not missed, but instantly recognized, appears on a picture in the room. A hat known to have been placed in a bureau drawer in one room, and the drawer locked, is found in a careless posi tion in a closet in another room across the hall. A tap from a holt came from a room from which there is no entrance Irom the one she oc cupied, and tapping Miss Wimber ly lightly on the cheek fell to the floor. Some small mineral speci mens Start from a mantle they occu py in the room and scatter violently over the floor, startling the senses of those who observe them. On an evening embraced in the period covering these manifestations, Mrs. Hurst had washed a tumbler and left it sittisg on the diningroom ta ble. While sitting in another room, members of the family hear a noise in the hall, enter it, and observe the tumbler lying in a corner, as if hurl ed lorcibly by some hand Mr. Wood, one morning curried his mule, and laying the curry comb and brush on a hack ve randah, called the attention of the females of the house to the fact and rode off. They remember the fact To Move !0 Atlanta. We regret to learn that Capt. Pat F.berhart will shortly nioce hi> har ness and shoe business to Atlanta. The Captain is one of the noblest gentlemen we ever knew,an.! Ath ens can ill afford to lose such citi zens. over the several convents south of Milwaukee. Throughout her juris- dictiod where she was so well known and so well beloved the sorrow will he limitless. She was a most unsel fish and amiable woman, beloved by all who knew her. When the fire was raging she might have sav ed herself, being in the dormitory trom which all escaped save her. When the others descended the lad der jo safety, her thought and ac tion was to save the lives of the children intrusted to her care. Her self-imposed task was fruitless, for all communication between the dor- mitory of the sisters and the dormi tory of the children was cut oft by the flames and the suffocating smoke, and she perished in her he roic cllort. THE BLACK AND RED. The Colored Population Airing Superstition! Fears over the Crimson Sky. Washington, Dec. 31.—The phenomenal redness of the west ern Horizon at sunset and sunrise has given rise to superstitious fore bodings among the ignorant blacks and very shortly after, the ladies, j and whites of this city. The comet while sitting around the fire, ob- is also referred to by this class as a serve the former implement pend- sign of disaster. A republican re ant from an ornamental projection [ porter discovered yesterday that the over the mantel. Late one evening - prevailing idea among these classes recently, after a portion of the tarn- ! is th.it these sky sights are the be- ily had retired, while Miss Hurst 1 ginning of the revelati--ns promised ami her cousin were sitting about j hv the Bible. A group ot colored j a "iasM,~ s and Tend iV to Mr." Davis the lire in their room, .1 luckory nut ; men stood on a capital street cr.r- for the poor . 1 wou ld roost on some tiew trom they knew not where, j „ev last evening and watcRed the , r irob , or H ge t Capt. Oliver to let me and struck the person otM.ssW.m | changtng *‘ergmg hues in the L,^ in | gutt £ until j couW fix ^ 1 ” ' . ys Inch iollovveit sunset. 1 other arrangements. It makes me gem iTicn, said <-• n , s i c k ( 0 even pass a furniture store “.- ---Ir. " means wave of tribulations overtook me. THE GHOST STORY. Bov It Originated with a Lamp of Umtmrgar Cheese and a Popular Dry Goods Clirk. Some two-legged fiend in human shape slipped a slice of Limburger cheese into Burrus’ hip pocket, the other day, and then quietly awaited developments. Pretty soon the vic tim went to the stove to warm, when the cheese melted and began to put in its best licks. Burrus look ed suspiciously at Baruch and Ba ruch went out doors. But this did not help matters a particle. First one clerk and then another came for a warm, but did not tarry long. Bur rus decided that some one had been poisoning rats around the store, and quietly moved about hunting up the defunct animal. But the villain still pursued him. Like Mary and her little lamb, wherever Burrus went the scent was sure to go. At length some customers came in, and he proceeded to wait upon them. He was in the act of expatiating upon the cheapness of a certai n fab ric, when one of the ladies slapped her glove to her nose and remarked that she was in a hurry and left. Pretty soon Jule Cohcti happened to come within range of his sales man, and remarked to Mr. Burrus that he was probably sick and could go home and take some medicine; that unless he improved his breath he had better hunt a job in a guano warehouse, where he couldn't do the business any serious harm. Burrus explained that he was as sound as a dollar, hut suspicioned Baruch of being the cause of the trouble. Mr Cohen took a whiff of Baruch and found him as sweet as a load of new mown hay; hut as soon as he got within smelling range of Burrus the trouble began. Bur rus, at a gentle hint from the boss went and washed his face and hands; but the villain still pursued him. He perfumed up, but the scent of the cheese would Cling to him still. None of (he clerks would let him get in speaking distance of them, and Burrus began to feel sick sure enough. At the dinner table the boarders would carry first one dish and then another to their noses, and finally left before the de sert .vas spread, looking blue be hind the ears. The landlady re marked that she noticed some rooms were to rent over Jim Reaves’ stables, and Mr. Burrus would greatly oblige her by mov ing there at once. Ingoing down the street he passed Capt. Oliver on the windward side, when that office intimated that he would re port the case to the sanitary com mittee of council, for he didn’t in tend to have any portable guano warehouses perambulating around town if he could help it. Upon his return to the store Burrus found McDuffie in charge of his depart ment, who had strewn lime on the floor and was sprinkling the goods with carbolic acid. “Get out! get out!” was his greeting cry,and Bur rus sadly meandered onward. At I first tried to get the bedstead out of the window, but it was no go. Then I tried the door, and met with like success. It never dawned upon me that the thing could he taken to pieces. I knew the house had been built before I bought my furniture, but as I wasn’t at its first move didn’t know how they solved this puzzle. At last I decided that they had taken off the roof Jand lowered the bedstead by ropes into the room. I sent Randall for a saw, and soon had the two side-pieces ripped in two. I was getting desperate and reckless, you see, and didn’t care for expenses. But as soon as this job was completed the blamed old bedstead crumbled into a hundred pieces, when I discovered that it was just looped together with hooks. The head-board raised the knot you see on my forehead, five of the slats attacked my pet corn, and one of the side-pieces raked a slice of bark seven inches long from my shin. From the yell I raised the neighbor hood thought I must have been a Comanchee Indian on the w ar-path. But why prolong the ht.rrowing story! I left that scene of tjouble and engaged a bAl for a week at the Clinard House. I told Randall to go up town and pawn our shoe store, and even the shirt from my back, if necessary, to hire hands to complete the job. If he couldn’t raise enough funds that way to make kindling wood of my person- length, in a fit of desperrlion, he went down: into the cemetery and began to disrobe. He first took ofl his shoes and socks and carried them to his nose. They were all right; his hat ditto; ditto his coat and vest. At length Burrus drew off his pants and beginning at the bottom passed that garment across his nose. When the hip-pocket was reached such a solid chunk of odor poured out that Burrus was nearly knocked down. Casting the foul-breathing raimant into the tur bid water's of the Oconee, he waited until the shades of night closed around the city and then quietly sneaked to his room. This gave rise to the story that a ghost was seen back of the campus on Satur day night. THE WORK OF NIHILISTS. berly, then bounding str Prohibition in Franklin. There wasa big temperance meet ing in Carnesvillc on the tst. and working committees appointed for each. di«*rict in the county. An election on prohibition will he held onjuly 31st, and the friends of the move ire confident of victory. k that M iss Lula. A few miiuiu- la-or the latter uttered a piercing •cream tii u sent a shrill of terror over ihe t n: ■ c household, and brought her father excited and amazed from hi* o'"ii room to her side. She inform -d him that something had pulled l.ci hair twice in succession, and mu- knew what it was. Other minor experiences of a mysterious nature j The crown agreed folly with the have been related to us, but we will I speak:-:, anti remarked that they end now with what we have inen- thought so too. Others believed tioued. As we have before stated, | that the gorgeous sunsets foretell (Wagner, a young white man m Ohio, teaches u negro school -“grange. One night last week took one of his favorite female Ipils to a theatrical entertainment I seated her in the front row of pit. His face and cars were kpped for his insolence. Macon Telegraph: Upon inqui- j at the executive office, we find at up to date, 539 ex Confeder- cs, one legged and one armed, Ive made application for the al- vance distributed under the re- but appropriation and received leir money. This, it is estimated, j about half the applications that Kill be made, possibly over half, lid the amount already 'paid them pt of the treaaury approximates jo.ooo. Mad Dog in Lcilngton. Considerable excitement was cre ated in Lexington Friday night by the cry of mad dog- Everybody made tor their guns and pistols, hut before any one could get a shot at it, it was attacking and biting a little- negro boy, and Henry Smith, col ored, in rescuing the boy, received a severe bite on the arm, hut held on to the deg and cut his throat. The Late Gen. Wm. Brown. The Athens correspondent of the Macon Telegraph gives this bit of interesting ne vs: “A curious devel opment in connection with the will and estate of the late Gen. Wm. M. Brown, is teported to-day. Gen. Brown die ! suddenly and the clos est search could discover no will or no such like document. Judge Howell Cobb was appointed execu tor by law, and immediately began closing up the estate as the law re quires. All personal and perisha ble property was converted into money and the other necessary steps taken. To-day, however, Judge Cobb receiacd a letter from Hon. leflerson Davis, saying that he had just then received by mail, he knew not from whom, the “last will and testament” of Gen. B., sealed with his seal, etc.. By this will, he, Mr. Davis, and Judge James Jackson, ol Atlanta, are appointed executors. The other articles of the will are not given. It remains a mystery as to where the will has remained so long. Judge Cobb has suspended all ac tion in the matter and awaits the appointed executors. the family of Mr. Hurst, as well as the other near relatives who have been made mystified witnesses of these occurrences, are among the most trustworthy, intelligent, hon orable and respectable of the coun try. They tried for a time to recon cile what they had seen with the powers of some known law, when the reason failed at untangling a single mystery, until at last they ac cepted what they have seen as’facts without explanation, as anv other intelligent persons with like experi ences and after like considerations would do. They are naturally torn up in mind front having witnessed these harrassing, not to say harrow ing sights. SOT A VAST NUGGET OF GOLD, Arizona Territory is not a vast nugget of gold, but “Dick” Chilson —the Anahoim Gazette says—has written from Casa Grande, in that Territory, as follows: “I have struck lour feet of gold ore that will go $i,ooo*to the ton. I took out $300 worth of gold dust with my pocket knife. I have got two twenty-five pound boxes full of gold dust, worth about $3,000; have got nuggets of gold, pure gold, as large as birds’ eggs. I sunk nine feet on the ledge, and took out ten tons before I noticed the gold, and, therefore, blasted away several thou sand dollars. I have $50,000 in sight The country is crazy over it. There are clusters o&gold as big as dollars sticking pH tnrough the ledge. There has been a sale made of one mine near me for $300,000; another sold four miles from me for $20,000, I decline #i6,oqo for mine." ’ Pickens county, Ga, has voted the dry ticket The whisky men triumphed in Lincolnton. ■now, and the sight of one of those devi» u j high heads-and-tails-up bedsteads '“•’-"j- " ‘causes me to shy like a near-sighted '■ ' 1 u ‘ j* e ' horse at a newspaper in the load. ‘ lv ‘‘he It;• j I am going to buy me a new set of ii-acu n-er. a-i«i we tn --1 furniture and build a house around "ie:.. Jc .in couipanx"- | j t , an fl nothing short of death or ! the sheriff can make me move again. I am now going into Dr. Lyndon’s to buy ten gallons of arnica and bathe my lascerated limbs and feel ings.” flood', dtongiitsand epidemics.The prevailing belief, however, is that the world is rapidly nearing its end. Strange to say, this is implicitly be lieved by thousands of people in this enlightened citv. SHOTBYHISSON. A GEORGIA KILLING. Fuller particulars of the Hunter- Padgett tragedy, in Echols county, have come to hand. The particu lars are about as follows: George Hunter lives about three miles from his father-in-law, J. T. Padgett. The latter has been complaining for some time of Hunter’s .dogs killing his hogs. On the day mentioned Pad gett became angry and determined to take redress iu his own hands. He took a double barreled gun, loaded with buckshot, went to Hun ter’s house and killed one of his dogs. On hearing the report of the gun Hunter came out ot his house to learn the cause. Padgett imme diately informed him that he had shot his dog with one barrel and would kill him with .the other. Pad gett raised his gun and made some effort to carry his threat into execu tion. Hunter ran hack into his house, got his gun and killed Pad gett instantly. The murdered man was an old citizen of Echols county, being over 70 years of age. ENGLISH FORTUNES. For the benefit of those who are inheriting immense wealth from an cient English ancestors, it is stated that Hon. Judah P. Benjamin search ed for nearly 300 estates in that country that had American claim ants and found them all phantoms, He consequently advised people in terested to advance no more money conditional fee contracts. The claim sharks.arestUl at work, bow- cver. Salem, O., Jan. 2.—As Henry Johnson was walking .along the road near the house of Louis Griffith, a farmer, two miles south of here, yesterday, he met a little daughter of Griffith’s running out of the woods crying and wringing her hands. “What is the matter?” asked John son. “Papa is killed!” said the girl. “Where is he?” “In the woods here.” The neighbors started for the woods and met young Stanley Grif fith, a boy of seventeen, coning out. There was blood on his hands and on his clothes. “Great God, Sam, what have you done?” cried the neighbor. “He shot himself. Go in there and look at him.” The bjy fled toward town and the neighbor entered the woods, and found Griffith lying dead with a bul let hole in his breast. The son did not want to cut wood on New Year’s day, and raised a quarrel with his father. The lad robbed the pockets of his dead parent of $20, borrowed a neighbor’s horse and buggy and fled. He was arrest ed late this afternoon three miles from Salem and the horse and bug gy recovered. The hoy has made a full confession of the murder. Vienna, January 5.—The latest version of the recent accident to the Czar is as follows: “The Czar was returning about 3 o’clock in the af ternoon of December 17th, to the Gatchivia Palace from a shooting excursion, accompanied by a suite in eight sledges with a number of servants. Although darkness was coming on, the party noticed on the road ahead six men, apparently peasants. The Czar’s aides-de- camp drove forward and ordered the men to clear out of the way. The •men saluted the officers and appear ed to obey the order, hut when the sledge came on a level with them, they suddenly wheeled around and fired at the Czar thrice, andtwoof them ran toward him. The horses drawing the imperial sledge became frightened and galloped some five hundred paces, when the Czar was thrown out of the sledge. A bullet lodged in the Czar’s shoulder. It offers, however, no danger. The Czar's followers immediately unhar nessed their horses and mounted the animals and followed the would-be- assassins, who escaped in a neigh boring wood. Owing to thedepth of the snow the pursuit was fruit less. One of the pursuing officers ventured too far and has not return ed. The Telegraph, owing to the foregoing, says whethet this story true or untrue, it is a revival of Ni hilism. The Nihilist executive com mittee promised to give the present Czar a fair trial. No constitution and no reforms have been granted, although he promised them. His trial is therefore at an end. PERILS OF THE PLAINS. Lootln* Buzzard—A TerriMo Exportoaca tatba Snow. Cheyenne, Jan.4.—John Peter son, who was supervising the erec tion of a stone house at Searight’s ranch, on Poison Creek, about sixty miles west of Fetterman, started for home Sunday last on horseback. During the day he was struck by a blizzard. Not having gloves or ov ershoes he began to get cold and got from his horse to walk. The animal proved hard to lead and Mr. Peter son had to frequently turn around to to hurry him up. Fi nally the horse got away from him altogether, and Mr. Peterson'foUow- ed with the hope of catching him. It was during this time that he lost his way. He had no other recourse than to walk. This he continued to do until Tuesday, camping out at night as best he could. He had matches with him, but could find no wood at this time. He made a good fire, but having no protection could not keep warm without hugging the fire. As a consequence he burned his overcoat nearly ofl'his back, his shoes and other parts of his gar ments sharing the same fate. Wed nesday morning he started out the same way, but suffering intensely from hunger and (atigue. At last he observed a peak or knoll which seemed familiar to him, and he felt he must he in the vicinity of Reed’s ranch. He discovered he was about five miles south of Reed’s ranch and within thirteen miles of Rock creek. His strength was fast failing for he had eaten nothing since Sun day; but the thought of reaching a hospitable roof nerved him up. On lie struggled until at last the wel come sight met his gaze—Reed’s ranch in the distance. But this v\as too much for him. Either over come by intense joy or a giving way of exhausted nature, he fell flat on the snow. Here he lay, but not long, for he knew he could not sur vive long lying there; so he com menced to crawl toward the ranch, which was about half a mile distant. To him it was a painful and seem ingly never ending journey. At last lie reached the gate of the fence which incloses the ranch, and na ture refused to do any more, and had not kind friends been under the hospitable roof of the ranch he might have died there. But he was soon found, and bad to be carried into the house. In his wanderings he was frequently among antelope, black-tail deer and cattle, but hav ing r.otfiing hut a jackknife, could kill nothing. He also saw several bears. Had he had a gun he could have killed a beast of some kind and made some sort of shelter with the hide, besides preventing hunger. IIOX.SKAB UEESE. The time approaches from a dis tance when the Eighth District will be called upon to nominate a repre sentative in congress. We may state that Mr. Seaborn Reese, of Hancock, will ofter for nomination at the next convention. Whether or not his services, in the opinioft of constituents, entitle him to that hon or, remains to be seen. He will probably have his supporters. On the other hand, various gentlemen will receive support from various localities. The Athens Banner inti mates its preference for nobody in particular, while somebody else wants Larry Gantt, of the Banner- Watchman, Hon. Pope Barrow, of Athens, has been suggested, and Col. Billups, of Madison, is among the probabilities. Eatonton furnishes the material for two candidates, though neither of the gentlemen as pires to a candidacy. We refer to Judge Thos. G. Lawson and Col. W. F. Jenkins, either of whom , would serve the district ably and faithfully, and would go to the front among such distinguished men as hold seats in congress. The new eighth 1 need not go beg ging for good congressional mate rial. The race may be an extremely trying one for the democracy, and we hope that democrats will put forward their best man, and, having done so, stand by him as a unit. GRAVE YARD ROBBERS. The Montmoroci correspondent of the Aiken Journal and Review says: “Our community was shock ed on the morning of the 22d ult., "by the discovery that some ghoul hail entered the old cemetery, two hundred yards cast of the depot, and dug into the giave of a citizen of twenty years ago, James A. Wood ward. Mr. Woodward was a Con- federate soldier and died in 1S64. This old cemetery wis very near the stockade or defense made by the Federal cavalry during their oc-. cupancy of this place in Fecruary, 1S65, and it is believed by many that something of great value was se creted there at that time, and that the robhev of that era has returned, after the lapse of nearly twenty years, to secure his booty. The re mains were not molested, but Mr. Marion Woodward and his brother, James and Harry, sons of the de ceased, had the grave reopened and the remains carefully gathered up and put in a neat box and reinter- red,” A NARROW ESCAPE. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. Fruit in Florida was killed by the cold. • Brooks county, Ga., has gone for prohibition. Ex-Senator Dorsey lost an $Soo,- 000 law suit. The 17th wife of the late Brigham Young is dead. Calhoun, Ga., voted for prohibi tion by 20 votes. The drought still prevails in Lib erty county, Ga. A great many families are leaving Elbert county for Texas. A negro child froze to death Sat urday night tn Elberton. One man killed another in Texas about a salt herring. A boy and girl were frozen to death in bed in Iowa. The yellow fever has again bro ken out in Rio Janerio. The Star Route trials cost the government $103,552. A man was garroted and robbed on the streets of Savannah. An imprisoned boot-black hung himselfin his cell in New York. A young white man was found near Birmingham shot through the head. An Augusta man wants to see a fire proofeotton bagging made of asbestos. A bill has been introduced in congress to let the people elect U. S. senators. Henry B. Payne has been nomi nated for senator of Ohio, defeating Pendleton. One hundred mules on a train froze to death in Kansas during a snow blockade. Striking weavers in North and Northeast Lancashire now number eighteen thousand. Quitman, Ga., elected prohibition officers, who put the liquor license up to $10,000. It is probable that the national holiness camp ground will be lo cated at Milledgeville. Mrs. Lucretia E. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of South Carolina, died of heart dis ease. St. Petersburg, January 5.— Two of the Nihilist assailants of Lieutenant-Colonel Sudeikem, who were wounded in their attack upon him, have died.. The Lottery-Bank case in New Orleans has been decidedin favor of the bank, and the Louisania Lot tery will continue to do business through the New Orleans National Bank. James T. McCormick, an old man and once representative from Troup county, is suing W. J. Garrett and wife, of Atlanta, tor $10,000 dam ages, for enticing his child-wife away trom him. WACHiTAjKs.,Jan. S.—All the saloons in this city, over thirty in number, were closed to-day by the concerted action of their proprie tors, who, it is understood, have gone out of the business for good. Chicago, Jan. 7.—A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says: “Three hunters—Henry Shields, Edward Shields and James Anderson—were frozen to death on a prairie in the Chickasaw Nation on the night of the 5th inst.” Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 8.—James Moriarty was frozen to death here yesterday. His wife was afterward found at her home helplessly drunk and nearly frozen. She will die. Richard H. Beatty was frozen to death at Monroeville, this county. Marshal Butts, of Russell county caned B. F. Harrell, a lawyer, on the streets of Columbus, for insult ing his (Butt’s) wife on the cars, Harrell was badly beat up and took his whipping like a cowardly cur, He is a son of Judge Ha-rell and has a family ofhis own. Alice Major and Sarah Maraden, of the town of Forty Fort, Luzerne county, Penn., cultured young la dies and highly connected, were drowned in the Susquehanna river. They were skating. They were skating in company with a young man, who also went down, but managed to save himself. The girls did not utter a word when they went through the ice, but before sinking for the last time cried out “good bye.” GEORGIA ITEMS. Savannah has only. 375 liquor’ : : dealers. A mad-cow was killed near'Dal ton a few days ago. Prohibition has been a great blessing to Jonesboro. The thermometer registered 15 below zero at Rome Thursday morning. Commissioner Henderson r will have about 500,000 silk worm eggs for distribution in February. A great many heavers are being caught in Lowndes county* Alar bama, by trappers. Qne recently caught weighed 130 pounds. The whaler Franklin is in port at Brunswick discharging her cargo of oil, 212 barrels, worth in round numbers $8,000 to $10,000 in gold. A little negro boy, son of Sea born Walton, living near Red Hill Mill, Burke county, was accidental- shot and killed by an elder hrotK- a few days ago. Several negroes who left Burke county for Florida some months ago returned during the past wcek.They say that Burke county is the best place for the negro and they now propose to stay there. The Dalton Citizen says: “A large party of emigrants from lower Georgia passed through this place one day last week for Texas and Arkansas. They met a large party at Chattanooga returning from those states to their old homes in Georgia and Alabama, which we SUICIDEOiF A FRENCHMAN. Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambas sador, will shortly propose to France the mediation of either Eng land or America in the Tonquin question. TheConstitution raised between $5,000 and $10,000 in wood and food lor the poor of Atlanta, Paris, Jan. 5.—A well-to-do tradesman committed suicide on Friday in the Bois de Boulogne by putting around his neck an iron tube filled with some explosive ma terial. which he ignited. His body was literally blown to pieces, A leg and an arm were thrown a great distance, and shreds of his flesh were found hanging to branches of trees in the vicinity. The teport of the explosion was heard all over Neuilly. OUR platform. An exchange calls attention to the fact that the last democratic presi dent was elected in 1855, and one of the planks in the platform read as follows. “No more revenue ought to be raised than is required to de fray the necessary expenses, of the government, and to provide for the gradual, but certain extinction of the public debt.” How does that strike those journals that have been asserting that a low revenue plat form has invariably led to the de feat of the democratic party ? A number of leading democrats had a grand banquet in Boston, Tuesday night, - ana say the party, should and shall win in i8&|. EUnrton Sew South. LastTucsdoy evening George C Witte, a travelling man from New \ ork, attempted to ford Broad riv er at Harper’s Ferry. He was coming from the Madison side, and when he had gotten about eight feet from the bank, where the water was deepest, his horse went down and was drowned, and he barely escap ed by standing in his buggy seat. Mr. Witte tells us that he hesitated when he first drove to the bank, but seeing, as he thought, that bug gies had been driven in, he urged his horse on. He did not see the flat on the Elbert side. ANIMALS LEFT TO PERISH. A.Trsln Smovsd la oa th* Wabazh Boad—Intense C ll at Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 4.—The weather to-day was the.most severe of the season, the thermometer recording twenty degrees below zero. AU trains are late, and much suffering has resulted. A train of live stock has been Snowed in on the Wabash road, eight miles southeast of the city, on the prairie, sinr« Tuesday. A rescuing party worked all stay and succeeded in bringing away the train men, leaving the three hun dred suffering animals to perish. -Toronto, Jan. 8.—Alexander Turiff, the 28th victiiq of the Grand Trunk railway disaster, died hut night. A WOMAN’S HONOR. Mrs. Whitley’s Resort to Her Trusty Rlflo—A. Walton County Young Man Makes an Indeoent Assault Upon a Young Widow. Who Moots His Advances With Powder and Ball—A Bloody Monroe, Ga., Jan. 5.—Three sharp reports of a rifle, accompanied by tnc shriek of a woman, aroused the quiet citizens of Centerville. The report came from the residence of Mrs. Whitley, widow of the late George Whitley. The people who rushed there were horrified to find the dead body of a man lying across the threshold, the top of his head completely blown off*, while his flesh was still quivering with the last spark of life. The blood was flowing in great streams around his shoulders, while some distance off lay the upper half of the dead man’s head. Inside Mrs. Whitley stood, wild and frantic, just leveling her gun for another shot, when one of the neighbors jnanped to her side, and knocking the weapon down ward in time to send its discharge through the floor,exclaimed: “My God, what is the matter?” “Unhand me!” she shrieked, wild ly. “I will never submit.” He clinched her firmly in his grasp, and soon convinced her that she was in the hands of friends, when she told the story of the trag- ■f'he man was John W. Diall, young man ot high character, whose standing in the community was of the highest While Mrs. Whitley was engaged in the household duties Diall came in, and placing his arm around her waist, site repulsed him with a slap on the face. He grasp ed her again, when, by a vigorous effort, she loosed herself from him and ran out and around the building three times, closely pursued by her assailant She then ran into the house and seizing the rifle,, which had been left her by her late hus band, she brought it to bear and fired just as hey pursuer had reach ed the door. the sharp report rang out the-man fell back. A sec ond and at third time she loaded, *nd in her wild despair she ' was fintig wfldly at her imaginary foe*. imagine was not very encouraging tn the outgoing party.” Christmas uay V. E. Ilargateand Tom King, two young men of I-Iar- county, went out hunting. The follow ing is the actual count of the game they bagged: 25 squirrels, 21 rabbits, 15 partridges, and one im mense owl, measuring four feet and four inches from tip to tip. All this was done with a single barrel shotgun and a hound dog. At Villa Rica, Sam Ayres, color ed, died on last Thursday very sud denly. Sam had been complaining for several days with a very had cold, and one of his colored friends told him if he would take a dose of kerosene oil it would cure him. He took a swallow and died immmedi- tely. He never spoke or drew a breath after taking it. Dr. Green, president of the Gainesville street railroad, has a pleasant, intelligent-looking dog named Ring, who starts with the street cars every morning at five 'clock and makes every trip up to to o’clock at night. His business seems to be to keep the track clear and encourage the muies drawing the car. General Toombs has purchased the Andrews lot near the centre of Washington; and a beautiful place, for $5,000, and it is reported he will give it to the city for a park, and erect a monument to his wife’s memory, for whom the park will he named. The grounds are naturally bcautifu!, and we will have one of the handsomest parks, if improved, in the south. Daniel II. Malloy, of Telfair coun ty, is dead. About 10 o’clock on the night ol December 23 Mr. Mal loy discovered a fire at his mill, and supposed that his mill house had been fired by an incendiary. Ile ran toward the mill, and, tn a high state of excitement, lost his balance, stumbled and fell. lie managed to catch on his hands, hut the effort was sufficient to rupture a blood vessel, from which he died in a few aiinutcs. Fortunately the mill house was not on fire. It was a building near by, occupied by the milldr. About two weeks previous to this some person or persons fired the corn crib of Mr. Malloy, and destroyed about 400 bushels of corn. ■VS&'H’-W" GENERAL NEWS. A Boston physician says that eat ing cloves will in the end prove fa tal. The Washington monument is said to he only one-sixty-fourth of an inch out of plumb. Mrs. Partington says that her minister preached about “the paro dy of the probable son.” The debt of the city of Baltimore is about $38,000,000, or about four timest_hat of the state of Georgia. A fourteen-year-old son of Mr. Samuel Small, of Lancaster county, S. C., was killed last week by a kick from a horse. The little republic of San Marino, Italy, has an army of forty men, a public debt of $1,000, an< her people are prosperous and happy. The American Socialists are peo ple of gigantic ideas. They have been abolishing monarchies and ev erything of that kind at long range for some time, and now they want to go a step further and abolish the United States senate. In Denver, Col., last Friday, a 14- year-old white girl was constrained by her mother to marry a coal black negro man. The ceremony was performed by a white Methodist preacher. It is said the neighbor hood is intensely excited. The Edgefield, S. C., Chronicle says: “A horrible report lias reach ed us from the Good Hope section to the effect that a man named Pat Adams heat his mother, Mrs. Tcner Adams, with a pistol and attempted to kill her. lie also at the same time shot Joe Walts, inflicting a se rious wound, his alleged object be ing to prevent the marriage of his mother and Mr. Walts.” A negro named Sim Crockett was badly wounded in a singular manner at Craigsville, in Lancaster county, S. C., on Christmas night. Several negroes were firing guns loaded with powder only, when the wadding from the gun of Lum Walker, one of those who were shooting, struck Sim Crocket on the right foot, mangling it so bad that amputation was necessary. Some over-hilarious parties played havoc at Frankfort, Ky., on Christ mas day, by putting too large a charge of explosives in a beer keg and placing it on the steps of the capitol building. The windows, sash and all, in the Court ot Ap peals room, were shattered to pieces, the lights in the windows on the east side of the House of Represen tatives were blown out, the lights in nearly every window on the west end of the new wing of the State House were broken to fragments even as high as the fourth story. A charge as specific as it is grave is made against Gov. Ordway,. of Dakota. He is accused of selling the appointments of commissions of newly organized counties. Specifi cally, he is charged with appointing commissioners for Poster county without regard to the wishes of the people thereof, and. replying for nis services $5,poa These cpmmis* ,. sioners were interested ip the lota- ;, tion of the county seat where they had, considerable landed interests, and wero willing to pay handsbmefc® mm*