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The justice of state# taking the
jement of railroads Into their
wn hands is now attracting a fereat
et l of attention throughout thlp.
,untry. The example .of Georgial_.
being followedjby her sister statqp,
ut it does not seem that they «!»■
snsging this usurpation of private
i e hts as wisely as our commission-1
>rs are doing. In South Carolina
jveral short roads have actually
teclared an intention to stop opera-
ions, as they cannot make expense*
t the tariff charges allowed by the
ommissioo. Now whether this ts
idle threat to extort an advanc*
rates, or is founded on justice,
e cannot say.. In our own state
se commissioners have discharg-
their duties with fsirpess and
partiality; and while protecting
e people against combinations
d extortion, at the same time
,ve so graded freight.and passen-
r tariffs so as to put the roads on
equal footing. In fact they have
lanaged a most difficult problem
ith great skill and wisdera. . To
ow that a railroad commission in
teorgia has not effected that inter-
t in the least wo have only to fe- ;
r to the fact that since its > estyb-,
hment a greater mileage of new
ds have been built annually than
er before, while the stocks contin-
lo advance in value. At the same
e the peeple have been protect-
against the oppression of rings
id syndicates, and the various
ns and cities placed on an equal
mcrcial footing. We admit
t this thing of a state assuming
mtrol of private property is a dan-
irous precedent, for it is not in
ping with the professions of a |
ublican government and. may*
id to something more dangiroiW.
t we have always believed that
the country increased in popula-
in and wealth it will be : found
cssary to tighten the reins of
ivermncnt. Privileges that can
granted a sparsely settledcoun-,
will he dangerous ii given the
erogeneous population that is
flooding our land. The capi
st must he protected against the
endiary teachings of foreign la-
ers.and thy people must like-
sc be shielded ftom . the oppres-
c power of combined capital,
hen one shows an intention . .to
press the other we must have
ivcrnment strong enough, and
enough; to step in and assume
place of arbiter. In other words
country must prepare to lay
ide much of its old pride in self
ivcrnment, and accept something
ngcr. The reins must be grad-
illy tightened as our population
ckens, and the people must un
implainingly submit to usurpations
power against which their fore
;hers would have rebelled. We
The city court of Gainesville is to
be abolished.
NOXXK
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTJESDA.Y, JAJSnXAJRY 22, 1884.
VOL XXX
UWtXSSMISS IN TEXAS.
A lieve that the general government
| ould assume control of all the
ilroads and other great public en
prises of the country, and see
it they are not turned into instru-
nts of oppression. The greatest
ngcr that threatens the people
monied monopolies. Organized
gs of capitalists now combine
not only to control our highways of
Fic and all the great industries of
country, but are manipulating
fruits of the field in their own
rests. In fact, there it immi
t danger of the great masses be
transferred into serfs for the
lionaires of the country. So we
lieve that Georgia's railway com
sion was a move in the right di
ion, and although at a first glance
ay seem a usurpations control of
ivate property by a state, at the
e time it has proved a necessa-
step for the protection of our
pie against a moneyed dynasty,
e want next to see the state tack-
ealers in futures. A few spec-
itors, backed by their hundreds
millions of money, combine to
ntrol the products of the country,
icy strangle prices until a crop
is passed from the hands of the
oduccr into their own clutches,
hen they regulate the market Ftp
it their own greed for gain. Let
be made a crime to sellnr buy
:ures in Georgia, and we believe
it when the other states see the
resulting from such legislation
that they, in turn, will fall into.line,
as was the case with our railroad
mission.
Savannah News: The Texas leg-
iHMture. mat ia extra session on
Wednesday for the purpose, main
ly, ot discovering some way of
checking the reign of lawlessness
in the state.,*. The governor has
Openly acknowledged that ,he is
■powerless to enforce the law, and
give citizens the protection which
they. demand and to which they
are entitled. For six months or
more neither life nor. property has
been entirely safe in portions ,o( the
state. The trouble is about fences.
A certain .class of stockmen say that
no fenctf sjtall be built for the pur
pose ot enclosing pasture grounds.
They jre perfectly willing that a
fence shall be built around, a house
or a Cultivated field, but not around
land that is used as a range. With-
!<» the lest few* years wealthy men
have bought large tracts of land in
the state, and, as they wanted the
exclusive .use of their land, they en
closed it Stockmen, who hold that
grass is free, whether on public or
private land, have determined that
there shall be no enclosed pasture
lands. They destroy the fences
about as fast as they are built. Of
course this produces a conflict and
disturbs the peace of neighbor
hoods. So great has the trouble
become that it is known as the
fence war throughout the state. It
is impossible to tell how many lives
have already been sacrificed or how
much property oas been destroyed.
The best citizens ■ of the state
have, become seriously 'alarmed
the condition of affairs-
There are grave doubts whether the
Legislature will be able to deal with
the difficulty satisfactorily. The pre
vailing sentiment seems to be to
make fence .cutting a penal offense,
but as the fence cutters have a good
many friends in the Legislature it is
questioned whether a law ot that
kind can he enacted.. If there was
such a. law it is not probable that it
could be enforced, particularly in
counties where the “free grass" par
ty is in the ascendant. There is no
doubt that if ■ a man owns land he
has y right to fence it in. It is the
duty of Texas to see that her citi
zens are protected in that right. If
she allows an irresponsible mob to
make the law relative to fences she
■ISCE6ENATI0N.
Tbs XMasffisftfs watts OW by s Xspo m
Otlatkorps County.
Mr. Hardeman, of Madison coun
ty, was in the city yesterday and
gave us the particulars of the mis-
cegenating case that has so lately
created a sensation in that section.
It seems that Mrs. Lizzie Martin,
whose husband was killed during
the war, resided on the place of
Mr. Maston Childers, in the upper
edge of Oglethorpe, near Fork
church. She was an industrious
woman, but did not have the best
reputation, although no slander was
ever uttered, against her daughters.
On the same .farm lived a . mulatto
named Simon Childers, alias Red
mond Bradford, who was about 25
years old and nearly white. Among
the widow M’s children was a
young girl named Delia, aged about
14 years and an illegitimate. She
was quite pretty, but not very
bright. For more than two years
the mulatto took every opportunity
to pay attention to Delia, but as she
always seemed to hold the negro in
the greatest fear and horror, noth
ing was thought about it. On the
morning of the 6th inst., during the
cold snap, Mr. Hardeman was in
formed that a colored man was
stopping at one of his negro houses
with a white girl, and that they had
spent the night together. That
gentleman at once went down to
the place and learned that the vis
itorwas known in Madison as Red
mond Bradford, and had worked
for one of his neighbors, Mr. Dalton
Williams. Red., upon seeing Mr.
Hardeman advancing, hid bchir d a
house and did not seem inclined to
show himself; but upon being call
ed for stepped forward. He stated
that it was not a white girl he had
with him, but his niece, a bright
mulatto, and that they were hunting
work. Mr. H. returned to his home,
being satisfied that it was all a mis
take. But as soon as he had left
the mulatto made his victim follow
him through the woods to Mr. Dalt.
Williams’, in spite ol her appeals to
be carried back to her mother. The
poor child had worn out her shoes
walking over the frozen
ground and is said to have been a
most pittiful object. It was after
the pair had left that Mr. Harde
man learned the name of the girl,
and also how the brute had treated
her. The negroes with whom they
stopped informed that gentleman
that they came there about dark
and asked to be taken in for the
night. The mulatto took his seat in
a chair and ordered the white girl
around like a slave, making her
cook his supper and wait upon him.
The negroes say that the child
trembled whenever he spoke, and
went around the room with tears in
THE COW-HIDED LAWYER.
Views of a gbeat whiter.
From Anthony Trollope’s work,
‘Australia and New Zealand,” we
Hlokoiy-Backsd Huron Howls Humbly.
Columittu Enquirer.
All persons of proper sensibilities
are at all times justly indignant at
whatever has the slightest coloring
of insult to a lady’s virtue. This
feeling is natural-it ^S^ and I w „ e manumitted , it was f elt t0 be
no one, even now, will contend | .u_. .v,—. u v. j.
quote the following incidental men
Uon of the negro race of the West
ern Hemispheie, in his comments
on the Australian aborigines:
“When the West Indian blacks
1 .u necessary that they should be dfc-
more strenuously ,‘ h *" m /“‘ f ‘ h n a ‘ fended aid protected. Some years
whenever a lady NinsultelB* cane I. j yc £ tured to express my
or cow-hide, if need be, of the hus- • |on on ^ raatter . 6f all th£
band, father or brother is the most LgJrfWw in political economy
efficacious conservator of good l h . chIever cn £ untcred that / f
morals in thu regard.. In the late tecting the labor of the negroes
unfortunate affair >n wh.ch l Uve £ j amaic * from competition was to
been compelled to bear a conspipu- iJ the most ^ oss . And it
ous part, I am willing to be tned by '*4 to me t £ at the idea of
the rules to which 1*™: h«e s " b " training negroes to be magistrates,
senbed. It >s hoped, however. that membe B rs 0 B f par ij ame nt, statesmen
the pub ic will give as patient a I eycn mercb F an ^ one destin .
hearing to the protestations e d to failure by the very nature of
innocence as they doubtless didI to ^ man . That race should have
what (having heard only ones.de created so i ow in its gifts as
of the case) they conceived to be ^ nece ssarily fit only for savage
but a just punishment for my gudt. Jr for tbe of sel 4ants among
The facts are s.mply these. On . d m was a faCt on which
Wednesday, January 2,1 boarded j cou , d , ~
the train at Scale to come to Co- f
only speculate—of hardly
speculate; nut t could not on that
lumbus, having my little 8on | account abstain from forming the
George, nine years of age, along I opin j on Since that time negroes,
with me. That I was drinking ma more ; n number , and cer-
w.ll not be denied; but not to that the whole more handy
extent to destroy memory or to in th J e of such gi f ts as they pos-
cause me to forget ,he duties , gen- ^ those the W I„
leman owes to himself or the r^hts d; havebeen made free in the
that belong to otl eis Mrs. Burt, of L, gtates> and have the n been
Russel county, Ala ’ R w f ° ne ° f putin possession of all the privi-
the lady passengers. Before the P longing to white men. The
= h “Jh g e°n ne i ^ollrthr^Uordraeof the experiment the
will find that immigrants will avoid J her eyes. The mulatto was brutal
. ® | in his treatment of her, but seemed
her - ] to possess a strange power over
the girl. He appeared to gloat
over the idea of having a white le-
JENNIE ON A JAMBOREE.
PpmksotthslAdx Htophut mad Astonishment
GEORGIA STATISTICS.
;s about oeoroia-s chops
LAST YEAR.
he Department of Agriculture
this state, in a supplemental re
has compared the crops of
with those of 1SS2. As the
iparison is based on reports re
lived from all parts of the state, it
probable that it is approximately
Tect. The average number, of
lies of cotton per acre in 1SS3 was
S5, or a little more than one-third
[abate. The average yield per
was 20 per cent, less than .in
. The crop was saved in good
ndition, and in quality was much
erior to the crop of 1SS2.
lorn was seriously injured in
bry part of the state by the
.ought, and the yield was about
f per cent, below that of 1SS2, or
bushe’s per acre less. The
The price of farm , lands of the
state have.advanced 8 per cent, in
the last twelve months. In North
Georgia the advance is reported at
3 percent.; in Middle Georgia 7
per cent.; in Southwest Georgia 13
per cent.; in East Georgia 12 per
cent., and in Southwest Georgia
per . cent. The per cent of full
farm supply of pork produced in
.North Georgia .is S5; in Middle
Georgia 57; in Southwest Georgia
67; in East Georgia 63; in Southeast
Georgia 68, and in the whole state
6S. amount produced, com
pared to last year, in North Georgia
114; in Middle Georgia 108; in
Southwest Georgia 10S; in East
Georgia too; in Southeast Georgia
SS, and in the whole state 104. The
indebtedness is less than last year
every, section of the state. In
North Georgia the indebtedness of
farmers, compared to last year, is
95; in Middle Georgia S3; in
Southwest Georgia 92; in
East Georgia 94; in Southeast Geor
gia 9$,, and for the whole state S8.
The drought 4 of the present year
has .been of more general extent
throughout tbe state, and of longer
duration than that of any recent pe
riod. The reduced production has
been very great, in consequence of
the general extent of the drought,
though the injury to crops is hardly
anywhere as great as is often the
case with such as have been of less
general extent. Northern and Mid
dle Georgia report, an increase in
the number of sheep since 1S80,
while Southern Georgia reports a
very considerable decrease. The
sections are as follows: North
Georgia, .12:33 per cent, more; Mid
dle Georgia, . 30 per cent more;
Southwest .Georgia, 3 per cent, less;
East Georgia, 5.66 less, and South
east Georgia, 7.66 less. The aver
age for the state shows an increase
of -about 10 per cent. The
number, ot sheep in :SSo,
according! ,i to the cen
sus was 527,580. The number now
;n the state, from the estimated per
centage of interest is 611,992. In
the. sections-.where there is a de-
forth Georgia—17 bushels—and
1 smallest in Southwest and East
orgia, where it was 11 bushels.
Vbout 4 per cent, more pork was
nducedm 1883 than in 1SS2. The
faced production of cogon, corn
i oats wss due to the *
1 of 1883, was less than during
s previous year in every section
fthesUte, snd that, with the ex*
eption of Southwest Georgia, the
armers purchased less supplies. To
he question “Are the farmers in •
letter condition than,, last yearly
neaning 1883, about 43 correspond
came from Southeast
aponses
5 corgis. - _
to have"-gotten
r wear very, welt
male thus in his power. At bed
time he ordered her to make him a
pallet upon the floor, and when it
was spread got in and told her to
repose beside him. The child hesi
tated amjlooked appealingly at the
other negroes present She begged
the negro to carry her back home
that night, for she did not want to
sleep there.: But with an oath the
negro again gave, the command,
which was that time obeyed. She
was heard sobbing in her sleep all
night. As soon as Mr. Hardeman
was acquainted with these horrible
particulars he at once took out war
rants and pursued the pair. They
were found and arrested in a ne- j at once b
gro house on Mr. Dalton Williams •
e rotation. The negro seemed
dly frightened when he saw the
officers, but said lie could not be
molested, as he had not ma rried the
girl. The child seem horrified, and
again begged to be carr ed back
home. She said she did not love
the negro, but he had forced her to
leave home and follow him. Even
when sui rounded by white men
she seemed afraid of her kidnapper.
They were both lodged in jail at
Danielsville.
What will you do with the ne
gro?” we asked of our informant.
“Well, I can’t say. The white
men of Madison county are perfect
ly enraged and I would not like to
be in his shoes. There is one thing
we insist on in the Free State, and
that is, negroes must keep their
hands off of our women.”
Chicago, Jan. 9.—There was a
lively time in Grenier’s circus and
menagerie when the "keeper and
trainer, Mr. W. Thompson, under
took to discipline Jennie, the big
Asiatic elephant, in the details ot a
new trick. Jennie is ten and one-
half feet high, weighs something
over 5,000 pounds and is now about
twenty years old. She is a singu
larly docile and intelligent beast,
never having shown any vicious
traits during the fourteen years of
her captivity, yet she “got her mad
up” yesterday and ran the entire
menagerie for the space of about
half an hour. The trick that Jennie
was to learn was that of walking on
her hind legs. In order to intimate
to Jennie what was required of her.
a block and tackle had been rigged
over the elephant’s stall just in front
of the partition forming the rear
wall the menagerie quar
ters; the ends of the tackle
were fastened to the fore knees of
the elephant and sixteen men at the
other end began at a given signal to
hdist away. As the rope tightened
and she began to feel the strain the
huge beast examined the cords with
her trunk and then endeavored to
disentangle her feet from the tight
ening ropes. This failing she look
ed upward at the creaking blocks
and then at the men hauling away
twenty feet distant. As her fore-
. teet left the floor she began to sway
sleep. \\ hen I awoke the train convinced I am that the ne- to and fro, and her short trumpet-
was m or near Girard. s ee.ng the ca n not live on equal terms with
lady, and thinking she was a former f h wh;te and t 4 hat land
acquaintance, I asked her if she was or district ; n which tl / e n ro
going to stop in Columbus, with . s ’ owered for awhile to have
the intention o be of any service I ascel £ over the whUe man by
might be able to render upon he if suffrages or other
stopping of the tram. She replied | w ; n have s but a woful
destiny till such a con-
.u- . „ -r u- ..... >• t ..... I dition of things be made to cease,
nothingtome ifshe was White men will quit such land in
that she did not relish the remark djsgust) or the w £ ite n,i n ority will
and I then said nothing more. s d rend and trample into remaining half with such force as to
In a short time Mr. Robert Cole- dust ^ b , ack m ’ ajorit T F his allu .
man, the conductor came in and I. ’ |he Afric J an y ro the
informed me that the lady had com- w Hemisphere would be out
plained that I had insulted her. Be- here F ere it not that the
mg conscious of nothing but the P of which 1 have spoken,
remark to her, before stated, I an- .. . ...,1
nounced my entire willingness to , & , Mr* nf it is
apologize for what had been said, der *' '\ nOW 1 1'?, ° « if
. ’used—to cover up the nakedness of
and o protest the absence of any Australian aboriginal. The
sinister motive, or of the slightest ;dea ^ evails that he also s be a
purpose to offend. AHerMr.LoIe- l _r , . .
1 1 , , , , . member of parliament, minister ot
man had returned and was in con- _ r . _ ,
. ... .. , T . state, a man and a brother, or what
versation with the lady, I moved -i-u . 1 t.
, , . . . .V»«.. ... not. 2 hat he is infinitely lower in
forward to the front of the car,!.. ... . . se <
■!» My -■ ■«?». 1cf-iurz:
upo P. ®.. exnlana among the African tribes is not very
he purpose of making an explana- bigb> 8 nd ourknowIedge as to the
ion an aj gj, y point which it has reached is still
said to me in presence of Mr Cole- § efective But wbere he bas come
man. ‘lou worthless vagabond, or .... c ... ..
used some equivalent expression, Wlth , in the compass of the white
which convinced me it was useless man . s P, ow £ r ’ h ® has been taught to
. .. . f avnl , n , t ; nn work for his bread—which of all
T . .P .- * P b ' teaching is the most important The
1 his is the entire case. I have been r .
informed by those to whom it a P - Australian black man has not been
pears the lady gave an account of s ° Uu S h ‘- and - ,n f s P ,te T °f» f » w T ,n ‘
the transactionf that she is firmly ? ta ““ s . t P ‘ he contrary,, I think^ am
impressed with the idea that I kiss-1 justified in saying that he cannot be
ed my hand at her, and offered simi- I so tau S nt -
ings gave evidence of the a nger that
was raging within her. Her snort
ing and trumpeting continued until
she stood almost upright, when she
raised her trunk high in the air,
gave a shrill scream of rage, and
sent the rope flying through the
block at the rate of too yards a sec
ond. Half the men were jerked
into the air, and the rope was
whirled through the hands of the
TOE GEORGIA SPIRITUALIST.
•test falling off was .. in middle creasQ.this )os» is probably inverse
oreia, where the yield was 4.5 . . ■ . . * .
. , , .. . i. j .1 in proportion to the increase in the
ishels lets th m 1882, and the “ r
st in East Ge gia, where; it wan ^“b^of dogs for the same time.
5 bushels. The crop of 1883 js The per cent, ol the whole number
1 mated at 35,963,040 bushels, and of sheep killed by dogs in the last
* of , . S f?“S a5 ’. 6 ^°’ Q< 5i : f Q tweWi; jnopths io. North Georgia ia
r cent, less than fa iSSsfor.boufc '** rP« r “nL^ Middle Georgia,
mshelsper acre less.. Tlie crop. 7*»$i Southwestt9eorgia, 7; East
1SS3 is estimated St 8,609^00 Gerrgia, 8, and Southeast Georgia,
'Juris- . 9. The avf»fge.,loss to the whole
J’ e _& r ^? telt ^' e d _^ Cr .* c , re ftate-- ( frorq- Ahis cause is 8.6 per
cent., while the loss from disease is
reported at 5.5 per cent. This
shows a loss in whole numbers of
over 50,000-sheep killed by dogs in
thefast twelve montjw. . The esti
ich was more general anf of ro * te8 of-Joss, from this cause ore
ger duration than thataf any re- -piore likely: to/all abort than to ex
it period. It ia noticeable that- feed the actual amount, as this ani-
indebtedness of farmers at thej nnd generally does his work of de-
struction. stealthily by night, and
tnucb of this is never found out
A republican r pap4r ( aay$: ‘*Want-
ted, something tjut will kick Sam
tielj. Randall out of the democratic
lents answered • i yes,"'T6 answered P* rt y withottt- leavine too big a
She same,”and 41 answered,(^o." hole."l There are several leaders in
“he largest per cent, of affirmative Ute radical ranks thst.thepeopfa
would like jto luck opt-if .the Jiole.
p they left riididt- emit-tod' foul
Oder,.,','- J.
lar insults. She is, I doubt not,
thoroughly honest in her statement,
but never in her life worse mistak
en. Upon awaking from my sleep
I might have, as is my custom, pass
ed my hands over my face and
mouth and smoothed down
Cartersville Free Press: Our
readers, as well as the public gener
ally, have heard of the wonderful
powers of a young lady, Miss Lula
Hurst, who lives five miles from
Cedartown. Being one of the skep
tics that did not believe the stories
told of her, we went over to Cedar-
town on Friday evening to see with
our own eyes the truthfulness of
these reports. She gave an exhibi
tion at the academy on that even
ing to a very large audience, who,
when they had seen the perform
ance, left lully convinced that the
girlpossessed unaccountable won
derful powers. Miss Lula is a pret
ty brunette, fifteen years of age, and
weighs, suppose, about 120 pounds.
She was given a good sized hickory
cane and then five or six stout men
grabbed it, endeavoring to hold it
still. Miss Lula, simply putting
three fingers on the cane, managed
the men as if they were so many
dolls. Several canes were broken
to pieces , during the performance.
A chair was produced and several
men were asked, to hold it down,
which, of course they could not do.
We went away satisfied that what
we heard, about this matter was
true, and-feeling very well satisfied
With.the mouey invested as admit
tance fee. We learn that she has
engaged for two nights to per-
n in Rome at $600 a night
Rome, Jan, 12.—Miss Lula Hurst,
bf Cedartown, who has attracted so
much attention of late, was in this
city to-day with her father and
pother, and gave an exhibition to
it few gentlemen in the parlor of
the.hotel-. By laying her fingers on
it chair she caused it to spin around
the room in a lively manner. Sev
eral gentlemen endeavored to hold
tile chair down, but found it impos
sible. Two men then grasped a
Walking cane firmly. Miss Lula
touched tbe end of it with her fin
gers and the men could not hold it.
There were a number of other feats
which created much surprise. Miss
Hunt: is sixteen years of age, with
brown eyes and chestnut hair, florid
complexion, strong, healthy and
pell developed. She enjoys her
performances quite as heartily as
the spectators, and her merry laugh
Irplefsant.to hear. She gives an
entertainment in Rome one night
next-week. 1
OUR SANITARIUM.
Til mpn AtMatisa to Cftlldna with and Witt
oat Croup.
Croup is a terrible disease, and
down my I ver y P revalei ? t an3 “ n K children, and
whiskers. This, as any friend who »
has noticed will testify I often do in- £j at J e ” ou “ 0 f ten P p roveffatal'
voluntarily and almost unconscious- “ d ^ , f ^ time P , he patient
ferred to as having given the insults. an extent that the more watary por-
friends mv.nTthe.n mv vera^SI »“thfckea«SthJ wiodpi^i^S
[he affair, and again endeavoring b}\ ne ? rl y dosed that breathing is diffi-
aU means in m/power to reacRthe «*. a " d
lady or her friends with my expla- *. c
nation and.apology for having made ^“ d P*P e ^“
anv remark to her at all. This 1 ! s dead '
wJs unable to do, at least to the sat- * s iSKSd wei
isfaction of those who naturally felt
which l have Eeen" fc .uffS.r, ^£*2
is now well known here and abroad. are cold wa . ra> them by all means as
There is but a simple question in it “ end mcr ° u P before mor " ,n 8-
all. If I insulted the lady I have no Croup usually comes on about
right to complain; if not, I have suf- sundown with a slight increase it.
fered grievous wrongs. It is my the frequency. The next morning
purpose that all the facts shall come, the child is better, but worse in the
The lady and her friends, from I night, and the third night or sooner
their honestly mistaken standpoint, ** ^ lc regular croup. The in-
have followed the promptings of s‘»nt croupy threatening are ob-
human nature, but in too much I served the child should be kept in
haste and in entire error as to my doors, and eat very light food in-
intentions, as will be shown in the deed, and not much of that. Cloths
future. The conductor against whom we t • * n c °14 'Y a J er should be
there was at first such grievous I immediately applied when breath
complaints, has been retained upon in g , becorx^s difficult, but
investigation by the railroad com! n ,°* 50 to drop. The wet
pany and exonerated by the parties cloth shoul d be covered with a dry
themselves. I will*close by simply flannel one. These cloths should
saying that now, when I can have | be renewed every five or ten
barn the flesh from their palms.
They fled, to the last man, over and
under cages, out of doors, and up
to the roof—anywhere that would
afford safety and concealment.
Once on the floor the big brute gave
her rage full vent. With one
mighty thwack of her trunk she
sent the twelve foot partition flying
about her in a thousand splinters,
and threw the remnants from her,
one by one, with a force that splin
tered them among the cages and
against the rafters. The big cage
containing the happy family was
sent whirling through the air, and
rested on two legs against the hip
popotamus’ cage, while the fright
ened and excited beasts lent confu
sion to the scene by howling in uni
son and trying to get out of their
cages. Jennie strained viciously at
the ropes, which had become tan
gled and held her fast, and had she
got loose she might have done some
damage. As it was, she stood
trembling with rage, beating the
air with her trunk, and uttering cry
after cry of mingled fear and fury.
saying l— , ... . - , ,
no such purpose as the palliation lutes. II therq is not much fever or
of my conduct lor the protection of I >f the skin is dry put the child into a
myself from further violence, I re-1 tepid b^th nf 75, de S[ ee8 > al }ri then
iterate the apology and explanation wrajr.MreJI.in a blanket until pers-
to the lady and her friends, which I piration.takje* plac* But if there
was not permitted to do prior to « much.favpr.Ead the skin is hot
the more serious events that have I use the,wet;.pack sheet and renew
since transpired. u n til the fever, abates-, By all pos-
Respectfully, &c., »‘We. mPW keep the feet,and hands
B. F. Harrell. wares.'. Givewaripwater copious
ly until thfc qhilp .begins vomiting,
or if jthat,d,oc$. not- prove, effective
mix *^Ujtie4i(tVm< anq ? a teaspoonful
ofipecaftAaa, half, glara of tepid
tiuduy
GEORGIA’S REPUDIATED BONDS.
Atlanta Republican.
We have from the publishers, • I vorffiting
pamphlet with the above title, giv- in ten minutes repeat the dose with
ing in great detail the history of a teacup of warm water every five
the bonds that the state refuses to I minutes.
pay. It is the bond-holder’s side of I __
the question and a good case is THE TEXAS WIRE FENCE WAR.
made We shall have occasion to Galveston, January i 3 .-A spe
refer to it again. On page 17, we cial from Austin to the News says:
hndthe following letter from the L xhe HouseSpecla l Committee on
late Governor Stephens: fence ^ eard evidence 45 to
v-T; T , ° RD lawlessness in Coleman and Run
P. ' Branch. J Es y q., 7 ’ Augu.^ G^: if'tXn
Dear Sir:—The pamphlet you rer MSteSKSTli
ferred to in a former letter hks been ^l .nd^hf W UXa
received. I have read it carefully, £23tf aSEttl&SiSi?!
anti in reference to the state bonds, ed M b4,» burned. * It
therein set forth, I can only repeal wa^hown ltat a great deal of land
what I said to you before (thensoud ^^ jvaa owned by the
tmgently, but now positively) that, fences. Out of 14S
in my opinion, a refusal to pay ffiem n]en g{ v j n£ ; n fifty bead over of
n„? ° rt ° f «ttieeach fo.- tares, twenty-seven
menl'nV mn n,0U *K th * n n °wned land enough tor grazing their
ment of money by an indmdnal cattl fifty. on e owned no land and
upon false pretensesand represen- m ' iac y ownrd on i y Und enough
very respccuuuy, | to five on. C ue man, owning 2,000
horses, did uot own a single acre,
cDOHcrmtH and one mar. owning 1.300 horses
FRO* ELBERTOK. had only two and three quarter
Mr. J.L.DeidwjltrWtf.ua CUM* aCre , 8 ' FOT{y r W °. th °“* and head
u "*°itoa4sy HisM. cattle are grazing in the county, and
. ,, the owners of pastures arcs organiz-
A telegram received by Mr. Asa ing into compa lies,as they despair
Thornton, from Elberton, states of receiving protection from the
that Mrs.J.-L. Deadwyler and her I state,”
son, Joe Heniy, aged 15 years, both
died on Monday night, of typhoid Rome, Jan. *5-—Friends of the
pneumonia, and that ; five other Rev. S. E. Axton, the distinguish
member* of the fatmly. are down ed Presbyterian divine of Savan
with the same-fatal,-disease-. • Mr. nah, have received intelligence that
Deadwyler.is.marshal of Elber^ his. mind has become so affected
ton, and one of her J>esLcitizens, |;that it was deemed prudent to
We deeply sympathise .with:bur I.place him ia an asylum for treat-
friend in his terrible bereavement--' pent. -
tations.
Alexander H. "Stephens.
MIXED [MARRIAGES.
How WIT. No. 1 Helpod bar HsSksaAto Wifi No.
. f 2. ut How Hippy Tiny Won.
Chicago, Jan. 9.—Here is a Utah
story that is believed to be absolute
ly true. An English Mormon had
one wife and two children. “One
evening,” says he, “we were at a
party and I saw there the prettiest
and most attractive girl I ever saw.
I was dead struck with her before I
knew it, and I went around trying
to get an introduction to her. I
didn’t succeed, but finally I came to
my wife and asked her who that girl
was. She says: “That’s Belle
Wells, the daughter of General
Wells, the Mayor of Salt Lake.”
‘Well,’ says I, ‘I want an introduc
tion to her.’ My wife says: ‘She’s
my oldest and best friend. I will
secure } ou the introduction.’ She
did, and made such an impression on
me as no woman had ever done be
fore.
“But it didn’t stop. We didn’t
see each other tor some days, but I
really was very much distressed,
and she was, too, for several days
afterward. Mrs, Wells herself, one
of five wives, and Belle’s mother,
came to the store to see me. ‘What’s
the matter with you and Belle?’
says she. I told her nothing that I
knew of. ‘Well, she’s sick and
wants to see you.’ ‘All right,’ says
I, ‘I will go and sec her.’ I went up
to the house and found Belle in bed,
very .pale and sick-looking. Now,
you could have got bets of a thous
and to one right here in Salt Lake
that Belle Wells would never mar
ry in polygamy. She was opposed
to it.”
‘What did you say to Belle?’ I
asked.
•Well, I forget exactly. I said:
You sent for me.’ ‘No, I didn’t
send for you,’ she replied. ‘Well,
you wanted me to come,’ said I,
•Yes, I did, very much,’ she replied,
and in less than ten minutes we had
arranged to get married.”
“How did you ask the question?”
“I really don’t remember, but I
said if she was willing to try it, I was
willing. So I went down stairs,
and met General Wells and said to
him, ‘General.it you are willing I’m
going to marry Belle.’ ‘All right,’
says he, ‘you can have her or any
other daughter I’ve got, or as many
of them asjyou want.’ ‘I only want
one of them,’ says I. ‘You had bet
ter think it over about Belle,’ says
he. ‘This is only an infatuation be-
A CHILD-KILLER.
Stricken with Bamono, Jeffrey" N.-vn ttei the De
tails of His Crlmo.
Riverhead, L. I., January io.-
GebVge Jeffreys, who, with his wife,
has been in jail here since last Au
gust on ajoint indictment for mur
der in the first degree in killing his
wife’s child, has made a confession.
He has been stricken with remorse.
He sent for the District Attorney
this afternoon and said he thought
he was about to die, and his state
ment was written out and attested
by witnesses.
“I killed my wife’s child by hold
ing its body between my knees and
twisting its head from one side to
the other until I thought that I had
broken its neck,” says Jeffreys. “I
contemplated killing the child for a
long time, and thought I could do
so by cruelties and not be held guil
ty of a crime. I hated the child for
one reason—because it interfered
with my wife in earning money for
me.” •
TWO MEN GROUND UNDER THE
WHEELS OF AN ENGINE AT
WAYCROSS.
Waycross, Ga., Jan. 12.—Grant
Ham and William Moody, both
white men, were knocked down and
run over by a Savannah, Florida
and Western switch engine this
morning. The engine was appioach-
ing the crossing pushing, two box
cars ahead ot it, and Moody and
Ham were on the track walking to
wards the approaching train. The
engineer was ringing his bell and
moving about three or tour miles
per hour. Why the men who were
facing the train did not get off the
track does not appear. Moody’s
head was terribly mangled and
death was instantaneous. Ham was
picked up in an insensible condition
with his head badly lacerated. The
company’s surgeon dressed his
wounds, and it is possible that he
may recover. No blame can be at
tacned to the company.
VALUABLE DOGS.
The most valuable pair of point
ers perhaps in the country is—
“Gladstone” and “Sue”—owned by
the Messrs. Bryson, of Memphis.
An offer of 82,000 was refused for
Gladstone, who won $i,Soc> in field
prizes in one year, beside his fees
of $50 each in the stud. “Sue” has
swept the field in trials, nnd 8100
each was refused for a litter of
eleven of her puppies, of whom
Gladstone was the father. Mr. Rcn-
froe, of this city offered 8300 for
“Rush,” a son of Gladstone just be
fore the trial for the “Derby.” The
dog took tire prize and the price
was raised to $t,ooo. There are a
hundred pointers in America
that $1,000 each would not buy;
and there are many in Atlanta that
cost from $300 to $700. From $75
to $200 is the usual price paid here
for a good pointer. These dogs are
bred to marvellously fine shades.
Speed, noise and style are the main
requsites, and where a strain of
dogs lack one of these the}’ are bred
into a strain particularly strong in
the direction of their weakness. -
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Emory College has 300 students!
Fifty mules were stolen ia Texas
and the herder killed.
A Boston mother has gone crasy
over the loss of a child.
Henry B. Payne is elected U. S.
Senator frotn Ohio, r'
The postal reduction shows great
loss to the government ”
A full supply of carp has been
promised Georgia in the spring.
The abandoned rice fields of South
Carolina will be converted into carp
ponds.
Bamum’s , white elephant is en
route to America, in charge of three
keepers.
Thousands of idle workmen in
Paris are advocating an armed' rev
olution. ’ 1 ‘ ■ ' ’' 1 •
Calhoun elected a “dry” ticket
but the bar-rooms continue to sell
by the gallon.
Sargeant Bates has reached Grif
fin, and took up a collection that
amounted to$i.i5.
One negro waylaid and killed
another in Marion county, Ga., for
betraying his wife.
A mountaineer in Staunton, Va.,
brought two negroes into town and
offered them for sale.
Crawfordvillk, Ga., Jan. 12.—
Col. W.H. Brooke, of this place,
died suddenly last night
The dead bodies of a nude white
man and woman were found in a
New York liquor house.
It is said that President Arthur
playing a quit game for the re
publican nomination.
tween you'and will die out, and you
don’t want to make any mistake
this stage. I told him
No, it wasn’t any infatuation—it
meant businesss.’ He says, ‘Go
ahead. Bella is flighty and perhaps
tickle, but she is a lovely girl at
heart and perhaps it will turn out
well.’ 1 went back to’Belle and
told her. She asked me to tell my
wife. I said I would, and she said
she would call on her next day. Af
ter supper at home that day I says
to my wife abruptly, ‘Do you re
member that Miss Wells you intro
duced me to?” She said she did.
‘Well,’ say;. I, ‘I am going to marry
her.”
“She said that she had expected
that I would marry again, and
while she would not attempt to de
ny thatTfre news was a.blow to her
she was glad that it was to be a
woman she liked as well as she -did
Belle Wells. Then she said she
would call on her. I told her Belle
was coming to-morrow. The next
atternoon Belle came while I was at
the store, and the two women had a
long and satisfactory talk.
“It was in the fall we were en
gaged but it wasn’t until April that
We wore married. I furnished two
houses adjoining each other just
alike, and we occupied them.”
“Didyour first wife go to the
wedding?”
“Certa ; njy.”
“And 10 the reception?”
“Yes. She saw the house was in
order for Belle’s coming.”
“Are the two women good
friends?”
“Like sisters.”
“Which do you love the best?”
“Both alike. When my business
endeavors bore fruit I gave my first
wife a house before I gave Belle
one^ I gave them both alike. I’ve
fixed them so they’ll have $2C,ooo if
I should die.”
“How many children have vou
got?”
“Six by each wife.”
“Love them all alike?”
“That’s easy to do. I’m happy—
in my family. Come around and
dine to-night. You will see all
the children and my first wife.
Belle’s in tile East now.” .
Macon, January 14.—A dispatch
from Griffin, Ga., says: “This eve
ning Brewster McWilliams, 16
___ years old, while laboring under
ment in this place for the last twen- mental excitement, caused by recent
sickness, instantly killed a negro girl
of the same age, named Mattie
Hood, and then deliberately shot
and killed himself.”
Newark, N. J., January 14.-
harles De’
TWO IN ONE HOUR.
The ordinary of Elbert oounty, so
we have been told, a few days" ago
unknowingly issued two marriage
licenses to different young men tor
the same lady. The lady had .pro
mised to marry both gentlemen the
same day, but there was an hour’s
difference in the time set so when
No. a arrived. No. 1 had been in pos
session of the prize for an hour,
No. a was of course crestf allen, and
says that before investing in mar
riage license again he wifi require
bond and security from the lady,
binding her to perform her part of
the contract.
LYNCHBURG.
H. 3. Morgan Lockod?up in his Own Safo—Ha has
tho Combination With Him—Tho Duplicate has
Been.Telegraphed For.
Lynciiuuhg, Penn., Jan. 12.—
There has been the greatest excite-
ty-four hours over a most lamenta
ble accident that happened lo H.
B. Morgan, one of the firm of J. L.
Bryant&Co., of this place. He had
recently purchased a very large safe
of the Mosler & Bahman Safe and
Lock Company, and after getting it
up in his business house and arrang
ed in running order, stepped into it
and requested a negro boy that was
standing by to close the doors so he
could see if .it was perfectly tight.
And according to request the heavy
iron doors swung on their hinges,
and the bolts clicked, and un-
thoughtfully the boy turned the
combination, and H. B. Morgan was
locked up, and nobody outside knew
the combination. But the company
was immediately dispatched for it,
so he could be released from his
strong but uncomfortable quarters.
So matters stand at present, but wu
hope a return duplicate of the com
bination will be received in time to
relieve the unfortunate party before
his confinement becomes dangerous.
Pere Hyacinthe states that the
practical programme of the Cath
olic reform can be briefly set ..forth
in the following five propositions:
I. Rejection of the infallibility ot
the Pope. 2. Election of bishops
by the clergy and the faithful 3.
Celebration of liturgic offices and
reading of the Bible in the National
language. 4. Liberty of marriage
for the priests. 5. Liberty and
morality of confession.
In a recent lecture on “Carnivo
rous Plants,” in Cipcinnati, the lec
turer exhibited a small but complete
specimen from the Maylay Archi
pelago. The cups of these some
times attain such enormous propor
tions as to swallow and digest small
birds. The edges of thepowl are
serrated, and the feathered wan*
derer having put his head id to sip
the water is captured, flutters help-
lessly for a little while and dies.
Col. Candler says the fight on the
Gainesville city bonds is aimed at
himself by his political enemies.
The wife of an Illinois man has
eloped with a young Methodist
preacher, leaving her little children.
A young man at Alexandria, Ky.,
killed his sweetheart because she
would not return him his presents.
Georgiavillb, R. I., Jan. 12.—
John Shea, a weaver, went home
yesterday and cut his wife’s head
off.
Cairo. Jan. 14.—El Mahdi de'
mands £2,000 ransom for five nums
and tour priests whom he holds in
captivity.
Negroes are enticed to the oyster
beds off Baltimore, where they are
beaten and tortured and held in
slavery.
Conyers, Jan. 14.—Forty fatni
lies of Gypsies are occupying the
tents at Salem camp ground, seven
miles below here.
Hartwell, Jan. 14.—Mr. Sin
clair McMullan, aged about ninety
years, died at his residence five
miles east of Hartwell.
The Savannah liver was frozen
from bank to bank during the recent
cold spell Some parties were
brave enough to walk over on the
ice.
Pesth, January 13.—The tipper
house of tne Hungarian diet has re
jected, by a vote of 300 to 194, the
hill legalizing marriages between
the Jews and Christians.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 11.—
Fillmore Adams, the youthful mur
derer, of Bradley county, TenneS'
see, was to-day sentenced to hard
labor in the penitentiary for life.
A negro child on Mr. M. T. Es
tes’ place, in Lincoln county, Ga.,
was left by its parents in the house
when it accidentally caught fire ant.
was burned to death.
Manson, Wisconsin, Jan. 10.—
In a fight between bands of Potta-
unttawmis and Chippewas, near
reservations, this state, five of the
combatants were killed and several
wounded.
Elmira, January 12.—Wm. Men-
kin, charged with the murder of
Katie Bradchoff, was this morning
taken to view the remains of his
victim. He bore the ordeal very
stolidly, examining the corpse very
critically, and saying: “I don't
think Katie’s face was as lone as
that”
Albany contains two wonderful
mediums endowed with great pow
ers, ' supposed to be spiritualistic.
Chairs and tables are made to move
and dance, and other feats peculiar
to the possessors of the unknown
powers. It is with reluctance and
never without alarm.that these par
ties exhibit their spiritualistic ten
dencies.
There were 58,030babies bortim
Georgia last year. .-.»«> .sj|
SA snow-white partridge has bean
trapped near Fort Gaines.
A covey of partridges were'flush
ed on Spring streetj Atlanta.*
TheJSwift Specific’company spent
last year $130,000 in advertising.
! i Outof a tax of. $17,500 i;v El’iert
County,only $135 has been retu ned
as insolvent
> The ..Oconee river near Grains-
bpro was frozen over during thi re
cent cold snap.
t Mr. Milt Wrye, of Macon, who
was frozen so bad on Tuesday, died
Wednesday evening.
The LaGrange Council has order
ed all the fish ponds in the vicinity
cut loose as they are cesspools of
malaria.
Worth county has the fattest
child in the state. It is a negro
child, only 8 years of age, and
weighs 119 pounds.
Kate Moore, wife of a colored
man of St. Simon’s Island, gave
birth the other night to twins,
weighing 10 pounds each.
The publisher ofthe Wortfi Cotfn-
ty Star, in suspending that paper,
states that during the two years it
has been in existence he has cleared
just $3 a month.
Mr. George Thorpe, of Marion
county, has gone to Mississippi to
engage in farming, taking with him
thirty able-bodied negroes, who he
will pay $125 a year each.
General Longstreet has been
talking extensively to a Constitu
tion reporter. He expects to con
tinue in the office which he holds,
but would be willing to give it up
for Minister at Berlin.
John Shiver, of Worth county
killed a fine buck that had sought
refuge among his cattle after being
wounded, a few days ago. His
child first discovered it, mistaking it
for a calf.
Mr. Connor has been sleigh rid
ing the children of the Deaf and
Dumb Academy at Cave Spring.
They couldn’t hear the jingling of
the bells or fill the frosty air with
happy shouts, but their little hearts
were full of joy and gladness.
_ If all the money loaned on Geor
gia land by loan associations were
put in one column of figures, it
would be formidable and cause
doubts as to whether prosperity
could be reasonably hoped tor in
the near future.
The body of Charles Delmonico was
found this morning at to'o’clock by cutl0ns ‘
two boys tramping in the woods of
the Orange Mountains, near the
summer residence of General Mc
Clellan. There were no marks of
violence upon the body and no evi
dence of robbery. Death was from
exposure.
A public meeting has been held
at Columbus for the purpose of
raising money by subscription to
rebuild the college. A committee
of ten will be appointed Monday to
canvass the city and solicit sub
scriptions. Twenty-five thousand
dollars are wanted.
The Macon correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution says: “Dr.
W. F. Carver seems to have be
come strapped in Macon. In set
tling for his license he was deficient
$75. He was allowed to leave for
Columbus owing the city that
amount A draft was drawn for
that sum and not paid. The Chief
of Police left for that city with an
attachment to collect it.”
The Columbia Sentinel says:
“We learn that a tramp, while pass
ing through Harlem on last Sun
day, picked up a dead dog that had
been sick for some time and carried
him down the railroad about a half
mile below Harlem, and built a fire,
pnt on a pot and cooked the ca
nine, after which he made his dinner
off of him. A negro named Irving
Bugg came upon the tramp while
he was feasting upon the dog. He
informed the tramp that the dog
which he was eating belonged to
him, and told him at the same time
that the dog had been sick for sev
eral days. This did not seem to
lessen his appetite, for it is said
when he had finished up the hind
legs the balance he stuffed in a sack
with the pot, and shouldered them
both and went on his way rejoic-
ing.” ^
GENERAL NEWS.
Five strawberries sold in New
York last Saturday for seventy-five
cents.
The sheriff of Philadelphia has a
salary of $15,000 and never hangs
any one either.
Seventeen municipalities in Bra
zil have voluntarily freed their
slaves during the past year.
Statistics just published show
that in 1S81 there were only sev
enty-eight railroad accidents in the
whole of France.
Several wooden telephones have
been put up in Montgomery, Ala.,
something new and enduracie. The
ticking of a watch is distinctly heard
through them; even the breathing
of those talking is transmitted.
Senator Butler, of South Caroli
na, who was at his home in Edge-
field during the late cold weather,
reported, on his return to Wash
ington, that “every goat in Edge-
field had his horns frozen off."
There were something like 1,517
murders in the United States, re
ported by telegraph, for the year
past. Only 93 persons were legally
hanged, while Judge Lynch attend
ed to 218, making a total of 211 exe-
Austin, January 13.—In the sen
ate to-day a bill was passed that all
the public domain, except the
homestead to actual settlers, be do
nated to public schools. The judi
years in penitentiary, and the killing
of fence Cutters, caught in the act of
applying the wire cutting hi
justifiable homicide.
; nippers,
. Berlin, Jan. 11.—A rumor is in
circulation coupling the name of X
certain lady ofthe Imperial Court
with that ot Prince Frederick
Charles. It is said that the Princess
‘insists upon a divorce from Freder
ick Charles in consequence, and
that she has gone to Anhalt, refns-
ing to return to her husband. The
Emperor, Its* rumored, will consent
only to a separation, wishing to
avoid the scandhl of a divorce m the
royal family.
Abram S. Hewitt has put himself
in an unenviable attitude by his ac*
tion conceming'tHe correspondence
h* 1 ^**^ the.British go vernment and
States 'cohcerhJhg the
O Donnell case. ‘He introduced a
resolution, calling for the corres-
P°“A® n ^ e « “ d immediately called
° n tbe British minister, West, aiid
aikitred him that it was only a sham
to head off more radical resolutions.
This fact Mri West immediatay tet
egraphed to his government.
Hogs sent to the market from
California have to be trapped in the
woods in about the same manner as
bears. On most of the ranches, it
is said, the swine are wild as deer
through the woods, and if cornered
they will place themsrives on the
defensive and fight like tigers.
One of the rarest known postage
stamps, and consequently one of
the most prized by collectors, is the
xocent stamp issued in’Nashville in
1861, by Postmaster McNisK, and
bearing bis name. Some months
agO'Mr. Joseph S. Carelx sold one
he had lud for many years for $25,
and ,if was afterward sold in Pans
for $50.
Edward Adams, of Richmond,
Mo., ia years of age, went banting
with two dogs, and some hours la
ter One of the • animals returned
home and barked and whined un
til Mr. Adams followed ■ him to tbe
spot where the boy lay dead, with
his gun by his side and the other
dog watching him. The gun was
discharged while the-boy was climb
ing a fence.
Tampa, Fla., boasts the largest
oleander tree in that state, and pro-
bably anywhere else. The. Tri
bune thus describes ,it:_ “It covers a
space of ground thirty-nine feet in
qUiheter;. from the ground to the
topmost lunb is twenty-five feet; at
tbe surface of the grouqd the trunk
ii , divided .Into twenty or twenty*
five separate stems, the group be
ing at least five feet through, an*,
one single stem is, by actual meas
urement, fourteen inches thick. It
is probably as old as the ‘oldest in
habitant,’ as no one remembered
when it was planted.”