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About The Banner-Watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1882-1886 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1884)
OUR COUNTRY'S FLAO. i .v/.v!-;i ,. Sergeant Bates, wiO^thtst^rs and stripes, has completod JiisJ tdp through Georgia, and has now vailed the Land of Flowers updn his harmless tramp. The Sergeant’s mission is an inoffensive one, for^he is only working up a little cheap no toriety and pocket change. If hfe really wants to show to the world that the issues of the late war are dead, we would suggest that he now shoulder the stars and bars of the late Southern Confederacy, and flaunt that banner in the lace of our Northern friends from Iowa to Maine. We think the South has sufficiently demonstrated its loyalty and friendly feeling to our country’s ag, and we have something of a curiosity to know how much of the late animosities the North has bur ied. But about “the old flag.” While the Southern people will er prove loyal to that banner, and occasion should arise would de- oil its honor with their life-blood; bile we are proud of its fame and prowess and it #ould be indeed bitter day for the South to see it n the dust, at the same time ni never forget that beneath e folds of this banner were our be ll native land desolated, and lie b.-st blood of our country shed it* supporters. A true-born utliron would indeed be recreant hi* section and her hcii'hed cause if he forget beneath the Stars and tripes did Sherman and his van- U perform their famous inarch (trough (itorgia and. Carolina, tied with the torch, and that this g smiled approval upon out- ;n upon a helpless people that mid have disgraced the dilrk is. While standing under this i.ner did Gen. B. F. Butler pro unci' the women of Nett Orleans mil),111 prostitutes, and place i n honor in the hands of hiv sol- iiery. For four long years was the triotism and chivalry of the south id low,like grain before the scythe the harvester.in a fruitless effort to air down anil trample into the dust ie banner that our people are now lUcd upon to lot e. Would we not deed he treacherous to the menio- r of our fallen heroes if we so soon aii'pianted in our affection for the inner they loved—and that is now re winding sheet of so many of lir boys ill grey—the flag that they j talliantlv fought? No; this is sting too much! Solong as there a Confederate soldier left the story of the “Lost Cause” * within the memory of r descendants, the banner that cut down with the surrender of If Lee. and is now forever furled, i 1 ! he the flag to which they must k with love and reverence. To ipetlv endear a national standard, must he baptised with the blood the people o'er whom it floats, d not in their blood. If our coun is ever engaged in another war, 1 the South and the North battle de bv side beneath the Stars and tripes—as will be the case—then haps our people will forget the t and learn to love that flag. But t day has not as yet arrived u had as well ask a mother to * the dagger that pierced the nit of her first horn, as to expect a ie Southern man or woman look with pride and veneration mi a banner that defiantly floated so many fields stained with the I of their kindred; that h I'sseil the burning of our homes id insults to our unprotected fami The South can prove her loy- to the l nion without this hypo ical sacrifice of principle. The flag is associated with too much utliern blood and too many out s for our people to revere it as hould. We do not look upon it th hate or antagonism, for it is w the emblem of our common litre. The North need have no r that the banner we love will r be unfurled anil float upon the ie field and in antagonism with Stars and Stripes. The issues e late war are buried with our and can never be resurrected people accept the hand of fate, f occasion arises will prove as and loyal to the government rl'.ich they must live |ld they to the Southern Confed ;y had that cause triumphed. All South asks is to be let alone, she may work out her own des As long as there is a drop of iel'' blood left in the veins of people, will they love and cher i»h th e memory of the “Lost Cause, its every association will be to a precious heirloom to hand dofru to their posterity. The ban neiftliat our people love and cherish 'jjgttow the winding sheet of a battle- i cradled nation that was born of a righteous cause, and after giving ™^^^rorld a history of chivalry and r, went down before the force limbers—never to rise again. HCI WORD n> A Vv n. Ld “nnoj V oTo t ~;.I • . i , i - s ::ij ■ : iti irjj . iS“ :*vb* -amiT iiuf ws/ arit r^rrrr I«w : ,!taV/ ? van a ri aH ATHENS, G\EORGKLA_, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10; 1884 bum a&sg bob k To noT-*V? I’M -i bml nu « .aogiaab Mhv iiotrfi bornao naad cad Jl i-^iq .noilalqmoa luT.reoan* ! baol io anil Mod* radio psit df gnitiijns yd .balalqrooa oaaii fcirernifa’JT u i. V> noitn odT that no one dared scale at his peril. The good name of her daughters was the most precious treasure of the Southland, and it was'guarded with all the love and chivalry for which our people ’Were ‘renowned. To the inquisitive public were the se crets of Southern society^ a closed book, that no one dared,- attempt to open. While given every latitude that propriety,warflsnfed. Out ladies were as cautiously guarded against Pfying eyes as.the Veiled .women of the East. But what a revolutioniz ing change is nefw itakidg place! You can scarcely pick" up a' South ern papef bpt.what it is 'teeming with the most brazen and imperti nent account' of some fashionable event. Not only the viands upon the table are enumerated like a bill- of-fare at a cheap restaurant,, but the guests are dissected and portrayed as fashion plates in a modiste's show window Report even goes so-far as to say that newspapers are often posted in advance by the giver of an enter tainment, that reporters may have ample time to prepare their gaubs of flattering and spread them on with an unstinted hand. At this time, ladies are only stripped by the press of their outer garments, but if the march of modern society keeps on progressing as it has in the past few years, we may expect the participants at one of these shod dy society events to stand arrayed in very scant apparel, while the vigi lant reporter, with the pen of an expert, will display garment after garment to the public eye before permitting the fair owner to don the same. We contend that it is i suit to any Indy to have the privacy of her toilet invaded and her cos tume * held out to tho gaze of the public. “It,is not in keeping with the nature and character of our Southern women, and lias the ten dency to rob them of that innate modesty and high sense of proprie ty characteristic of our clime. What will the country be if stripped of this, -its greatest treasure? The proudest glory of the South is its spotless female virtue, that even the desolating hand of war could not touch. .And after that trying orde al, must they at last succumb before that ineideous foe. Fashion? We trust not. Let our Southern ladies arise in their purity and dispell this monster that seeks to j-ob them of those modest charms that were handed down as a precious heirloom by their fair ancestors since our country was in its infancy! Let the people who inaugurated thistinsil'socicty retain and practice it if they see fit, but never permit it to gair a foothold on Southern soil. A Southern woman may change her garb to suit the whim of Dame Fashion, but never let her trade that pure heart and modest deportment, which has al way's characterized the sex in our delightful clime, for the glare and glitter of a most questionable noto riety. We are proud to say that this “new era” has not as yet reach ed Athens, and God grant it never may! There arc hundreds of fields open to the young for enjoyment and pleasure without our ladies sac rificing their retiring modesty, the most precious diadem that ever crowned a fair brow. Let our men import their corn, bacon and all else that sustains life from the North, but our women must draw a line on fashionable shoddyism. We do not believe that the true women of the North will endorse this cus tom, but that it springs from a questionable caste of society. THE NEGRO QUESTION. THE VIRGINIA SENSATION. SOCIETY APES. pc regret to see a tendency in ■them society to imitate the Rli, and inject into our homis most objectionable snobbery and Boms of that section, A digni- and modest grace has always' j kactcrizcd the Southern Iadi<jh gentlemen, and they shrank notoriety and impertinent co- y. Before the . war no editor d have dared to enter a ball- anil publish a description of the ladies wore on that occa« I for he would certainly have I called to account on the next , One of our old-time Southern Is would have felt herself for* Er disgraced had she seen per ks a half-column in some news ier devoted to her personal ap- Irance. It is thin unswerving tdcsty that has always thrown cli a halo of purity and gentleness mud the name of Southern iman. They were renowned I’oughcut the land for their virtue I grace. While sipping the cup pleasure as deep as the limits of ppriety would permit, it was done 1th decorum and modesty. There La an impregnable wall of rpservi There is so much of wisdom and good sense in the fallowing deliv erance of Bishop Pierce on the ne gro question that we make no apol- ogy for copying it from the Consti tution into the columns of the Ban ner-Watchman. The negroes arc entitled to ele mentary education the same as the whites from the hands of the slatf. It is the duty of the church to im prove the colored ministry, but rath er by theological training than by literary. In my judgment, higher education, so-callcil, would be a n 'tive calamity to the negroes. rould increase the friction be tween the races, produce endless strife, elevate negro aspirations far above the station lie was created to fill ind resolve the Whole race ' into a political fraction, full of strife, mischief and turbulence. Negroes ought to he taught that the respect of the white race can only be at tained by good character and con duct. Their well-being and well doing all right-fninfled citizens de sire, and would rejoice in. Agri culture and all the mechanical pur suits are open to them, and in them they might find lucrative employ ment In these directions they may support their families, get proper ty and become valuable citi zens. If negroes were educated, intermarriage in time would breed trouble, but of this I see nc, tenden cy now. My conviction is that ne- r ‘ ';ht injuries, Jlegia- THE HETAH0SPH0&8 OF A SOCIETY BELLE INTO AN UNMISTAKABLE MALE. How &ha. That Is. Bow BsMuugsd to Assart His, That Is, Her Marita! Rights and Immunities— Consternation of a County Clerk Over the Rave- UUoatteta Woman Would Want to Marry a Woman. Atlanta Journal. Below we give the details of a most remarkable occurrence. It sounds more like romance than tapq but we must remember that truth is stranger than fiction. Nor can the least doubt bo entertained, because w« have the assurance of. a well known' citizen of Atlanta, that the. facts stated in the article concerning Miss (beg pardon,) Mrs. (pardon us,) Mr. Rebecca'Payne, are abso lutely true, he having known her (him) and her (his) family from childhood. A special from Win chester, Va., says: Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, daughter of the late Joseph Payne, seven miles from Winchester, who has lived for thirty-eight years as a lady, suddenly avowed herself to be. a few days since, a man, and startled James P. Reiley, Clerk of the County Court here, by applying for a license to marry Miss Hinton, who had result^! in the Payrfe fam ily as a domestic. The lady who fired the heart of Mr. Payne with such passion as to compel him to throw off the habit of a life timeand declare his sex is prepossessing anil forty years of age. The strange af fair has caused a decided sensation in the Shenandoah Valley and noth ing elsu is talked about. Payne was brought up as a girl. No one ever questioned his sex, and his avowal that he was a raa» took away the breath of the community. Elizabeth Rebecca Payne was .one of a family of six daughters; was brought up as a woman, and was admitted into the best society in company with other members of the family. He was always regarded as a somewhat masculine girl, hut no one suspected lie was a man. He was a most dashing and graceful equestrienne, and always challeng ed admiration as he frequently rode into Winchester with his habit and somewhat long hair trailing in the wind. He was one of the most widely known ladies in the valley. Ill addition to good birth and inher ited acres he developed remarkable business talent for. a woman when reverses in the family fortunes ren dered it necessary tor some one to put a shoulder to the wheel. His sisters were distinguished for their culture and personal charms and several of them mar ried prominent gentlemen. Rebec ca Payne devoted himself to the management of a farm and to the supervision of a store which he had established at Rest, where he also held the appointment of postmis tress. He also dealt ill cattle and horses and became an expert in that way. All his enterprises pros pered and he has acquired consid erable wealth. Determined to mar ry he threw ofl"his dresses and ap plied for a license from court at Winchester, but the astonished cleric, who, like everybody else, knew him as a woman, declined to issue a license for a woman to mar ry a woman. The parents of Miss Hinton live in Berkeley county, W. Va., adjoin ing Frederick county, in which Miss Wright lives, so the Utter proceed ed to Martinsburg, the county seat of Berkeley county, and procured a marriage license in the name of L. R. Payne, and the latter was cele brated Thursday afternoon, as above stated, the Rev. John Landstreet, of the M. E. Church, south, Mar tinsburg, officiating. A large crowd witnessed the marriage, the church doors being thrown open at the expense of the groom. The groom, who put on male attire only a few days before the wedding, is good-looking, tall and slim, rather delicate looking, of fair complexion, and with long curls. Additional interesting details of the groom are given in the Balti more American, in a letter from Staunton, written by a former teach er of the girl groom. Sne speaks in the highest terms of praise of Rebecca. She made friends every where by her gentleness of manner and openness of heart. She was a true Christian, and circumspect in all her actions—respectful and at- tentivc'to her instructors, ambitious to excel; and that laudable ambi tion carried her up to the highest round of the ladder of knowledge. She was famed for her SfUSCUI.AH FORCE and was a leader in all brave ex ploits. A shadow of sadness, how ever, seemed to rest forever on her fixed and handsome features, caus ed by some deep secret that marred her youthful happiness. Years after her graduation a prosperous young farmer FELL IN LOVE WITH IIEH AND PRO- POSED in this way: ‘‘Becky, I have a farm worth $60,000, and would like to marry you; but I don’t want to AFTERGLOWS OF GOLD. Scientific statements Made a Century Ago. A ‘writer in the London Times titled to respect *hd ation in all his pursuits and while he himself is Industrie upright and well behaved. A woman inHew.York man for breaking his enga; ich surrounded eveiy true woman and then blowout her own History a village in Hampshire, about 50 miles from London, writes as fol lows: “The summer of the year 17S3 was an amazing and portentious one, and full of horrible phenome na;'for besides the alarming mete ors and tremendous) thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the pecnliar naie 'and smoky fog that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and Jn,every part of Europe, and even beyonds its limits was a most extraordinary appear ance, unlike anything known with in the memory of man. By my journal I found that I had noticed this strange occurrence^ from June 23 to July 20 inclusive, duringjwhich period the wind varied to every quarter without making any altera tion in the air. The sun at noon looked as black as a clouded moon, and shed a ferruginous light on the ground and floors of rooms, but was particularly lurid and blood- colored at rising .and setting. The country people began to look with superstitious awe at the red lower ing aspect of the sun; and, indeed, there was a reason for the most en lightened person to be apprehen sive, for all the while Calabria and part of the isle of Sicily were torn and convulsed with earthquakes, and about that juncture a volcano sprung out of the sea on the coast of Norway.” Other writers, says tile corres pondent of the Times, also mention volcanic disturbances in this same year. We are told by Lyell and Geikie that there were great vol canic eruptions in anil near Iceland, A submarine volcano hurst forth in the sea, 30 miles southwest of Ice land, which ejected so much pum ice that the ocean was covered with this substance to the distance of 150 miles, and ships were considerably impeded in their course, and a new island was formed, from which fire and smoke and pumice were emit ted. Besides this submarine erup tion, the volcano Skaptar-Jokull, on the mainland, on June 11, 1783. threw out a torrent of lava, so im mense as to surpass in magnitude the hulk of Mont Blanc, and ejected so vast an amount of fine dust that the at mosphere over Iceland continued loaded with it for months after wards. It fell in such quantities over parts of Caithness—a distance of 600 miles—as to destroy the crops, and that year is still spoken of by the inhabitants as the year of “the asliie." These particulars are gathered from the text books of Lyell and Geikie. I am not aware whether the coincidence in time of the Icelandic eruptions, and of the peculiar appearance, of the sun, de scribed by Gilbert White, has yet been noticed; but this coincidence may very well be taken as some little evidence towards explaining the connection between the recent beautiful sunsets and the tremen dous volcanic explosion of the Isle of Krakatoa in August last. The letter of the Rev. Mr. White refer red to will be found on page 300 of Bohn’s edition of his charming hook, and the letters preceding it contain further statements regard ing the meteorological wonders of 17S3 and 17S4. DOUGLASS, TENDER, TRUE. SOME RACY DEVELOPMENTS PROMISED. Bis BosMk Mpar Claims an Ear Don ThrM Thou- • JVeio York Correspondence Courier-Journal. From private advices it is learned here that a suit likely to develop points of interest will be filed to morrow at Washington against Frederick Douglass. It grows out of the recent marriage with Miss Pitts, and the consequent change of his former domestic relations. The points in the case are’represented to be as follows: Some years ago a man by the name of Sprague married a daugh ter of Mr. Douglass. Sprague had a sister living in the West, an intelli gent mulatto girl who was suppos ing herself as a seamstress. About the time of the marriage the former wife of Douglass was in such poor health that he thought it best to re lieve her as much as possible from household cares, and he suggested to his new son-in-law the idea of having Miss Spraguejcome to Wash ington and take practical charge of his housekeeping arrangements. Correspondence was entered into and the young woman expressed a willingness to undertake the duty if the consideration was made large enough to justify her in leaving her business in the West. The propo sition made by Mr. Douglass, and said to be in the young woman’s possession in black and white, was a salary of $25 a month and “found.” This being satisfactory, the con tract was closed, and Miss Sprague came on lo Washington. This was twelve years ago. During all that time the complainant will state that the plaintiff complied with the terms of the contract by giving her undivided attention to the Douglass household, performing a great deal of menial service never contemplat ed. For all this perioi^he claimant will further allege the plaintiff, in stead of receiving the stipulated sal ary of $25 a month, obtained on an average about $40 a year on which to dress herself, and that even this paltry sum was wrung with great difficulty from the defendant. Judg ment in full for .salary as nous’e- •keeper for thc-above term of years, aggregating nearly $3,000 is the bur den of the suit. This action has been hastened by the marriage of Dougluss. The evi dence, it is understood, will show that when he brought his white wife home and introduced her. lie met with rather a cold and stormy THE OTIS CANNIBAL. . Wrsckod When a Boy and Brought Dj u a Man The “Otis Cannibal,” as he is known throughout Berkshire coun ty, Massachusetts, says a New York Times special of the 8th, has figiir ed for a day in the criminal cou as defendant in a case for robbin r an old woman’s pork barrel, and to-day was given a month in jail for theft. ‘‘Yer’d better had stuck to man meat and let the pork alone,” said an old granger to the prisoner, as he passed out of the court room in charge of an officer. The prison er evidently did not enjoy the ban ter, and replied: “I wouldn’t wint 1 ter chaw yerj tough, old carkiss.” The cannibal’s real name is Edwafd Hazard, and many people believe that he ha* really eaten hu- hutnan flesh. For several years he has' been one of the attractions at a neighboring cattle show, the little tent that concealed his not over at tractive person bearing the card, “Only 5 cents to see the oldest can nibal in Berkshire county.” While Western Massachusetts has had a good many queer characters, no one had previously supposed that the county which boasts a college, and snch snmmer resorts as Stock- bridge. LeVinoxand Williamstown, did really possess a collection of cannibals of assorted ages. Till within a year or so Hazard has led a semi-savage existence in a hut on one of the Otis hills. He fished and hunted, and if reports are true, more often ate his fish and .noils :Oqro3 • ni .siiyoa >M,1o aril'll -I WIW JUMi XXX THE ; .ROCKS OF .LEXINGTON. Augusta J'nn , ^ had lpqgjieardjofthe wonder ful, {pckq 9nthe estate of Governor Gilmcri',BJt .Lexington, and while hetp determined to see them. Mr. Ephojf, the present owner of Gilmer place, a very epurteous and intelli gent gentleman, vepy kindly accom panied ‘me to jtjie rocks an J showed ope all,the purigsities. We left his ofijceat.the cogrt house early in the afterpqpn, and a short walk brought us to the Giluje/ .home. The house is h}rge, roomy unusually spacious, broad, lofty piazzas surround the house, the laUGirecian columns giv ing,a very imposing appearance as one enters the gate leading to the are extensive grounds. The house is surrounded by shrubbery, and there are very ma,ny singular specimens of quartz and rocks of all kinds, one particularly,, a large, beautifully plpar crystal, containing in its centre a pure drop of water which moves as it is turned. There were many crystals almost perfect in shape, some beautifully clear, others pur ple or of various colors. On either side of the gate was a stone altar or rather the altar had been separated by Gov. Gilmer and placed on each side the gate, the indentations in the stones showing where bonds of some kind had been placed to keep the stones comprising the altar together, were distinctly marked. The whole had formed a circular altar about four feet in height and of twenty or more feet in tircumfer- The Governor had found it game ra w than cooked, _ expressing *"“ ewhere on his estate and had ; t decided taste for it in that state. In his hut he kept a “boudish,” a hideous idol, which he worshipped peformiiur strange ceremonies in the dead of night. This he finally burned, saying that it was impossi ble to have it bring him gooff luck unless he could offer human sacri fices before it. He continued, however, to jvorship any freaks of nature which he found in the woods or fields,such as strange rock for mations or gnarled tree branches. According to his story lie was thrown on one of the South Sea Is lands when a boy, the ship on which he was serving as cabin boy being wrecked. The island was occupied by cannibals, who made short work of Hazard’s companions who escap ed to land with him. Two were ofiered up ;o the big “boudish,” or idol, of the tribe, after being tortur ed terribly with fire and by other means. The three others were fat tened, after they had apparently been taken into the tribe, and then A ROME MORMON SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING. A reporter of the Cincinnati En quirer, out in Colorado, writes an interesting letter about the recent rebellion in the Mormon church out there, and gives the following inter view with Felix B. Moyers, former ly of this city: “I came west to join the Mormons in 1S77, am a native of Lincoln county, Tenn., but lived in Rome 2S years; have eight children out here with me; am a wagon maker. I wrs converted to Mormonism in 1S76. There were a good many Mormon missionaries in Georgia; six or seven in the neighborhood of Rome. You would not think it was the same religion. Blasphemy is shockingly common, and Sabbath breaking is the rule. “There is great suffering among our southern people here. We try to help one another, hut it is very hard, anil there is much actual suf fering. Very many of them are suffering for food, actually suffering. Noliody can make crops here. fThe Mexicans do not do it, and these Utah folks can’t do it. It’stoocold. Our wheat' does not ripen until September, and the frost generally catches it in the milk, so that it is spoiled for flour anil only good for feed. “It got rumored about that the priesthood were selling out the Mor mon vote for money, as*we Mor mons held the balance of power in notice that he was master, and ail who were not pleased could go. The plaintiff", whose occupation was gone in the advent of a new wife, was promptly dismissed, and with out the usual payment of salary. The plaintiff’ will he represented by Judge T. J. Mackey, the spirited South Carolina lawyer, now prac ticing in Washington, and one of the leading republicans of his state. He will be remembered as the man ,who in 1S76 took the stump in that state for Hayes on the national tick et and Hampton for Governor on local issues. A gentleman who has heard the judge speak of the coming suit, says it will develop a number of breezy peculiarities about the social and do mestic life of the colored Moses. Judge Mackey will emphasize the plaintiff’s claims by drawing a sharp contrast between the lofty political utterances of Douglass and his pri vate practices. He will show how the underlying principle of slavery, namely, the denial of the right of compensation for labor, lias been re vived by a great anti-slavery leader and against one of his own race As Col. Bob Ingersoll is likely to be engaged for the defense, the public may safely count on some spirited legal cross-fire, forjudge Mackey is not afraid of edge tools and is re markably expert in their use. Fred. Douglass is reported to he worth at least $200,000. A BLOODY AFFRAY ‘.u"’-! >y „ s . er i vin n slaughtered fora banquet which the King gave in honor of friends who came to see him from a neighboring island. Hazard’s youth saved him for the time being, and he won the good will of the King by his inge unity in the use of various tools ta ken from thy wrecked ship. lie was given a wife, taught to ’eat hu man flesh, and raised a family. He also learned to worship the idols of the islanders, anil says he cannot entirely lay aside the ‘‘religious hab its” he formed there. After ljving with the savages a dozen years, he escaped to a passing vessel, paddling out to the snip on the pretense of decoying the crew to the island. With all his eccentricities he is ap parently a harmless sort of a man, and the yearning for roast baby which he occasionally expresses is laughed at by the people who live about him. - - . this country, and our priesthood marry all your sisters. They cant were consequently courted bv both ”"' 1 ’ ”* parties. As long as we thought Right involves character and qualification. The appointment of any colored man to office by the government is an insult io the southern people, •ad pfroyokes conflict and dissatis- faction, when, if left as they ought to be, in their natural sphere, there would be quiet anil good order. The whites can never tamely and with out protest submit to the intrusion of colored men wto rawypf trust and rcspotniljflPy. -There never contestability and good osder ex- cept when intelligence and virtue preside and diroot tbe affurs of the edantty. The negro fought to be protected in all his rightrof person and property by the righteous ad- mlararfflNI MJMllfk He is eu- LyUgaagMiMUlARind cisd^ live with us. She replied: “John, I have as good a farm as yours, but don’t want you nor your $60,000. I am 1 already married to my mother and sisters. We all have enough to eat without my marrying.” John went Snd got married to another girl, and after awhile Becky bought his farm for about half its value and added it to the family estate. The sequel of this strange event ful history is told in the details given in the letter from Winchester. UNCERTAIN GROUND. Tbn Item Dliutxaa Cm tn-Pwpl* ranting Still Putter Battling Down. WlLKFSBARRE, Pa., Feb. IO. A dispatch from Hazelton, dated to-day, says: “Great excitement pre vails here concerning the recent cave-in. Further settling of the ground took place on Friday night and yesterday. A portion of the Lehigh Valley depot has fallen a lit tle, and all the company’s effects have been removed therefrom. The new engine house of the company has also suffered and the engines have baftn taken away. As yet the railroad tracks are uninjured, but it is feared that further settling of the ground will take place, rendering traffic impossible. A large force of men are at work timbering in the seamstelow, but they refuse to give any inforawtion as to the condition of -the workings. - The company, however, last night notified the res idents who had moved away from the vicinity that they - could return, all waa safe; but none have com- * ^ the invitation, it being ieJS&'gJr'-” ff AN AWFUL BIRTHMARK. Mysterious and Bo.Hblo Suffering of n Pennsyl- the thing was square we were wil ling to vote together, but when we come to believe that we were being sold out we revolted at the last election. I was one of the first re- volters., and I was immediately summoned before the council for discipline for disobeying the dic tates of the priesthood. I went, and they told me if I would acknowl edge I had done wrong it would be all right, but I wouldn’t apolo gise. I thought it looked like slav ery, and the apology was due to me instead of them. I considered it an insult to my manhood. As long as they worked us through our faith and our church sympathies they had us all right, but when we saw that there was a threat back of it you see they found they’d got hold of a powerful unruly lot of stock ta drive. There is some po lygamy here, but that is all among the Utah people. None of us South erners have taken up with that abomination. Tell the folks at home that we haven’t got that low.” The revolt has created great con sternation in the church, and the moguls of Utah have teen consult ed with in regard to it Trusted agents were sent out from here again to-day to lay new.facts before the big elders at Salt Lake. -There is much excitement in consequence, and there may be sensational devel opments. London, Februaiy is.—Further advices concerning die.ftQof Siq- kat state that Tewfik Bey, prefer ring to surrender, blew up the for- tificaticrt), spiked the gun sand made '• 'Sortie. His six hundred men were , all massacred. * WB sf! BSLp In Which Two Parties who Have Relatives in Ath ens, Gx, Figure. Hot Springs, Feb. 9.—A terri ble tragedy was enacted on the streets of the city this morning at about 11 o’clock. Three brothers named Frank, Jack and William Flynn were proceeding home in a hack when a party of seven men, armed with double-barrel shot guns and Winchester rifles, stepped out from the door of the saloon and opened fire. The Flynns were armed, but the attack was totally unexpected, jack Flynn was shot through the forehead by a ball from a Winchester rifle, and died in a few minutes. William was shot through the breast, and the wound will prob ably prove fatal. Frank received a shot through the hand, inflicting a slight wound. Frank Hall, driver of the hac’:, was shot thiough the back of the neck, and died an hour afterward. Robert Hargrave, a by stander, was shot through the breast. He will probably die. J. H. Craig, a prominent lumberman, received a charge of buckshot through the back, and his condition is considered precarious. The difficulty originat ed some weeks agq in an effort of Frank Flynn to prevent one Doran from opening a gambling house. It culminated at the time in Doran making a cowardly attempt to assassinate Frank, failing in which he fled the city. He re turned a few nights ago, hut Flynn was unaware of his presence in the city until the fatal volley opened on him. The seven men who did the shooting were arrested and are now in jail. They are S. A. Doran, two Pruitt brothers, a man named How ell and three others. The most in tense excitement prevails, and strong threats of lynching the pris oner^ are made. The citizens are loud in their condemnation of the murderous and cowardly act. Judge Wood has been telegraphed to by leading citizens, requesting him to adjourn court at Malvern, and re turn here, and hold a speciel session to try the murderers. If he consents the law will probably he allowed to take its course. If not the citizens boldly threaten to burn the jail, and hang the prisoners. BUTLER MAHONE. HowBa Got a Soft Placa latte Santa. Washington, _ Feb. 11.—CoL Boling; of-Virginia, said to-night: “I will tpl) you the true inwardness of the' sppomtment of 1 Ruder Ma hon e as' Distributing Clerk of the senate. It was not the doing of Senator Mahone, hut of Mrs. Ma- bone, his Yrife. She was determin ed that Butler should have the place. She kept at republican senators and at prominent Virginia readjusters until the appointment had to be made. * She would not have *no’ for an answer.” A most remarkable case of human suffering, says a Philadelphia spe cial to the Baltimore Day, and one which has steadily baffled medical science, is reported in Springfielil, Erie county, Pa.* William Furge-. son, when 7 years of age, was seiz ed with severe pains in his right hand, and though he is now 46 years of age, he has been annually attack ed, singularly though at each time suffering more than at the preced ing. Convulsions and paroxysms now visit him at exactly the same period of the year, and always at the same hour in the evening. He is now suffering the most acute agony, and is visited by scores of physicians, who in every case have been com pletely baffled. By this peculiar freak of nature his body becomes terribly contorted. Respiration al most ceases, and he becomes for the time being unconscious, and on awakening shows every evidence of having passed thiough a most ter rible ordeal. On being restored he becomes perfectly well, and is only troubled at intervals of a vear, but with positive regularity. The case can only he accounted for by the fact that Furgeson’s mother, shortly before his birth, saw the contortions and evidences of agony in a snake which had been thrown into fire, and that he has be come thus birth-marked. - teleGRapic- sparks..*,* .» » *•! * rc»TTror%iii Wl , An {^tipfuucijiUi teittajuust'ydt ashyietjm,, , Iiw> lib The caseggaimf.Fx$nk Janfei'ho* beep dismissed. ^ q Congress has passed q b.ill for the relief,of the floojl sutTercrs. iq ,i There are . tweqty-fopv .cases of jrelloWj fever at Rio ae Janeiro,) 1 The** ip great dppjcesvpp in tfhdfc and npnijfactupng in England" - •< The Geqrgja Pacific, has been ex tended From Birmingham to' tShef: field. ■ ’■ ’ 1 ~ i ., . - . -t . • .! - | » Leading republican congressmen fArBii/f t0 ^* 5 ^ eat nornlaat * < ? n D’L&sseps sa'yp that the scheme for creating a sea ih the'desert of Sahara will shortly be realized. ‘ ' Dr. Sterling C. Eve, k prominent physician of Augusts, died Saturday night. Prof. MaUett died in Texas. TTstill houic was recently burned bySHUflatHfirit* inCDadecounty. 1116 The money Spent for whisky in 'Wold {feed the - . u - ! .There is a man in Screven coun- iy.-who can eat a peck of biscuits jjgjLA of,butter . at one -j, There r are . about 1,600 liquor dealer's. lii the state and they pay *iHtq the treasury $40,000 for license It is now proposed to render naV igabl the Chattahoochee river from the W. & A. railroad bridge to West Point. ' ■ 1 , Advices from South Africa, re port the death of Cetewayo, the fa mous Zulu chieftain, of heart dis ease. • ’ r ‘ carried to his house. It is not known who erected the altar, as the Indians are not known to have worshipped in this way. It must be of great antiquity. Mr. Echols then led the way to “The Rocks” through rich fields and grand old woods, showing me the old “Gilmer Walk,” traces of which were plainly to be seen winding through the woods to the “Rocks.” These famous rocks were mentioned in the earliest his tories of the country by travelers through Georgia. The most won drous is the “Shaking Rock,” a huge boulder of eighty tons or more, so delicately balanced that I easily moved it with one hand up and down for a foot or more. This rock is oblong and rests upon two others of great size cropping two feet out of the ground. Here also is “Lover’s Leap,” a sheer descent of thirty feet, aud there are many miniature caves, abrupt pre cipices, huge masses of granite boulders piled fantastically one up on, another, as if giants of old in some playful manner had placed them so. These rocks are upon the top,of a Very high, steep hill, over grown with magnificent trees of grand proportions and entirely free froth undergrowth; so that one li an .unobtrusive view to the foot of the hill where flows a sparkling brook,'bounding merrily over great rocks on its way to the sea. All up the steep sides of the opposite hill and along the banks of the brook are locks of all sizes and shapes, many ' standing alone, others in masses piled fantastically one upon the other. Could twenty or more acres containing these rocks and their beautiful surroundings be cut out and transported to New York, what a fabulous price they would bring to be made into a grand and beautiful park. From the Shaking Rock we con tinued our walk to another group to see the ciiriosity of a tree swal lowing a rock. This rock is long, narrow and somewhat pointed; the tree a large white oak, growing near it, tossed and shaken by the winds. Its surface near the rock was abraided by its contact. As it grew, fulfilling a law of nature to heal all injuries, it began to grow around the rock until now it has ta ken in, surrounded, or so to speak, swallowed about seven feet of the rock in length and about twenty in circumference. It has the exact ap pearance of some huge animal swal low ing its food. The bark on all sides of the rock has the exact look of the strained and extended skin of an immense mouth. There are very many other curiosities which I have not time to mention. WHAT MR. CANDRER SAYS. BLOODSHED IN WALTON. i y night was a memorable night with the negroes of tilts county. In his cabin in. Monroe, Flem Hillyet was sitting quietly by the fire thinking of the events of the coming Sunday, when a negro named Dan stepped up behind him and dealt hint a stunning blow behind the ear with a stick of wood, which knocked him lifeless for several minutes. Dan made his escape. In the pub lic road four miles south of Monroe; a genertl row occurred in which Colley Malcom, colored, was mor tally shot, the ball entering his left nipple. He is not dead, but there is no chance fer his recovery. Hen ry Herndon and Bill Mitchell, col ored, are both in jail, charged with doing the shooting. On the same night, near Good Hope, Green Ev ans, colored, shot and killed Dock Hoovey, colored. There was a general row in progress. Dock Hoovey was the peacemaker and received tho fatal ball. What to do with the turbulent negroes is a ques tion which is troubling the tax-pay ers of this county. The jail is not large enough to hold them and the two weeks allowed by law for the superior court to sit is not long enough to try them. No less than twelve eases of felony have been committed in the county since Au, gust court and the culprits are alt in jail awaiting trial. _ How |ong will such a state of r flairs exist? FIENDISH* WORK. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 7, 1884. A juvenile Jesse James gang at Minneapolis took a lad named John ny Nolan to a neighbor’s tern j this morning and hanged bint? He waa struggling in death throes when fonnd ana cut down. Washington Correspondence Gainesville Eagle. “The recent resolution of the Sen ate. giving each Senator a secretary, has had the effect of turning the at tention of the House in that direc tion, and many members upon the theory that a representative has much more work to do than a Sen ator, are seriously urging the meas ure. Mr. Belford, of Colorado, fa cetiously called “the red-headed rooster of the Rockies,” has intro duced the resolution, which has been referred to the appropriate commit' tee. Candler is opposed to the res olution, and will vote against it He says the membc:s were sent here to do the work themselves, and not to pay some one else, out of the peo ple’s money to do it; and if they don’t like the job, ‘they can pour it back in the jug.’ ” FEEDING UPON GRAVES. The strange animal which has been desecrating graves in Perry Township, Wood county, has again been seen. A gentleman whose ve racity is not questioned gives this description of the novel grave-yard ghoul: Its neck and breast are white and the rest of the body is black the tracks of its front feet are about eight inches long and three wide, making impressions in the snow with its claws about twice the length of a man’s finger. The tracks made by the hind feet are nearly round, and about the size of a. large dog’s, eveept the daws, which are longer ond sharper. The animal is about three feet long and eighteen inches high. It burrows into the ground in the grave yard, and penetrating the cof fins therein contained, devours'the contents thereof. It travels with such rapidity that all attempts thns far to kill it have been futile. The man who last saw the animal says it was in the middle of the road, hsv- ing gone from a farm ' by literally .tearmg the fence to pieces. His dog gave chase to the animal, but soon returned scared almost to death. The people living in the vicinity having frequently heard loud noises Which are supposed tp ha ye emula ted from this peculiar, unnamed unknown beast Thojaniraalissajc to be slowly working'in way to wards Toledo. *> ?/. ,*» shipping iAu ' The Cleplington waite works at Dundee were burned yesterday morning. Four firemen lost their lives. ; . 1 Young John Griffin, grandson of Dr. Willis Westmoreland, .acciden tally shot a .little negro boyin the arm in Atlanta. The wound is not considered 'dangerous. The bloody shirt committee lias left Washington' on its mission in Virginia and Mississippi. It is ac companied by the usual retinue of cierks and messengers. The capitol commission has taken its first decisive. step by accepting the plan of a Chicago firm, so that Georgia is in a fair' way to see her permanent council chamber erected. Wausau, Wis., Feb; it.—The county jail here was burned early this morning, and Mike Donald and Ed. Carey, two desperadoes, confin ed in the jail, were burned to death. Cairo, February 11.—The Khe dive appears to be in a deplorable condition. He labors under the delusion that there is a movement foot to pbison him, and he sends his wife to the kitchen to inspect his food, Reading, Feb. 6.x—The Grand Lodge of the Junior American Prot estant Association adjourned to-day, after inserting the word “white” in the constitution, thus excluding col ored people from the order. There can be no appeal from this decision of the Grand Lodge. Atlanta, Ga., Feb.'-8.—A. E. Buck, chairuian. of the Republican, State Central committee, 1 has issucij a’call for a meeting on the 2d inst., to fix' the time of meeting of th'e' State convention. The indicafibns re that the con ventiqn will be call ed for April, 9th, New York, February 9.—The total visible supply of cotton for, the world is 3,389,806 bales, including 2,741,566 American, against' 3,234,- 912 and 2,577;6t2 respectively last year. The receipts of cotton at ail the interior towns were 1 3,169. The receipts from plantations, 94,202. The crop in sight is 4,920,787. Mr. Joel W. Bowman, an exami ner of the department of justice, tes-, tified that he had made an investiga tion of the offices of Douglass, ex marshal of the western district of North Carolina, and General Long- street, marshal of the northern dis trict of Georgia. He said the officers were direlectin their dutjr, and were guilty of negligence and inattentive to the affairs of their offices, while some of their deputies were.dishon- est in each district. Charlotte, C. H. Va., Feb. 8.— Isaac Robertson, a full-blooded ne gro, has been sentenced to three years in prison for abducting a young white girl, whom he induced to elope with him as his wife. His defense was that the girl became in fatuated with him, and fearing her father’s i*age he rah away ^vith her. This story, however, failed to con vince the jury, which was compos ed of 8 whites and 4 blacks, all of whom voted him guilty. Cuthbert, Ga., Feb. 9.—A most shocking murder was committed at the junction, about one and a half miles from Cuthbert on Wednesday night last. A negro killed his own wife, cut her throat and otherwise mangled her body. He then placed her on the railroad track, doubtless hoping thereby to avoid suspicion. The trains passing both ways du ring the night ran over the body. The guilty husband was caught yes terday hut escaped before getting into the hands of the officers. Ef-' forts are being made to capture him, A convict who escaped from the Louisiana state prison walked hard all night, and by daylight wzs forty miles away. Fearing detection by medns of his striped garb, he went boldly into a negro farm house, told the owner that he was a circus' 'per former disabled by rheumatism, and offered to swap the costume for any old suit of ordinary clothes. The bargain was made and the runa way continued his flight in safety. THE PAY OF PREACHERS. ; Constitution: The Constitution, once took the trouble to show ‘that : the state * of Georgia .paid more!to support its dogs than its preachers. It is true of every state in which the dog is untaxed that the dogs cost more than the*preachers.: • 'j 0 ■ We print tome statistics!.this mprnx ing to show that . even in.thA large churches of this city the preachers, salaries are much lower than the same prominence would 1 command in other professions or in ..other call ings.- Bat we have tbeifigures at hand, with which to go further. In the Methodist conference of North Georgia there are 196 preachers. Of these there are two that get bver’ $2,coo both in Atlanta.) There are 25 who get over averaging $1,306 45 each. There -fltp 17* who receive less, than $1,006, averaging $463.50. The whole coij- Ayvoung man of at years has ieloped from Cochran .with Mrs. Caroline White, a widow lady, aged 'Iff ytears; and married her. • , The rascal who kidnapped two chHdre'ni 1 Stolfc' two horses and $35 at ‘Madison; 'Fla., a few days ago pn t dj was subsequently reported as P?? s \ n S through Quitman, was pur- » e( L by j a P osse trader Marshal Brooks, of Boston, and finally over taken and killed on the banks of the Chattahoochee river at Stifinulga Blufjs.,., v . 8 Frederick, John and Stephen Terry were three brothers who had lived in the' mountains of Harris county, fast friends and next door neighbors all their lifetime: They "were 1 aged respectively 78, So and 82 years. January 27th Frederick died of pneumonia. January 29th Jphn (Jieil of grief at Frederick’s de mise. February 1st Stephen suc cumbed to his great sorrow, and also died. Robert Ingram, who is farming on the plantation of J.-M. 'Storey, near Greenesboro, killed an enor mous wild cat in his bed room the other night. In the room Mr. In gram had provisions for his hands, and the cat had by some means got in and was eating meat when Mr. Ingram,awoke. He fired four times at the beast before he succeeded in killing it. ' If'showed some fight be fore it died. . At Greenesboro Mondaiy Miss Mary Bowles, of that city, was mar ried to Samuel Hand, of Altoona, Fla. The courtship of the couple smacks much of romance, having been conducted wholly by corres pondence; and the contracting par ties not having seen each other un til a few- days prior to the ceremo- •Utony. The couple left for Florida, which they will make their future home. I H. V. Shepherd, of Taylpr coun ty, on Tuesday, the 29th of Novem ber, wHile eating his dinner swal lowed the • shiver of a bird bone Which.lodgcd in his throat, causing intense pain. On Wednesday he came to Butler, and. Dr. Smith made every effort to extract the bone from whence it had imbedded itself in the flesh, but proved unsuccess ful, and Shepherd still remains a painful sufferer. Campbell county is advancing. We have a ghost or rather a fiery visitant from the spirit land. Mr. and Mrs. Patman, who live near the point on the Atlanta and West Point railroad, where Al Thomas was killed in December last, claim to havp seen a large bluish, sul phurous looking fight, about the size Of a barrel, following' the south bound freight train, on the evening of January 23. The light stopped .exactly at the; spot where Mr. .T^tpatas w^s .killed, and remained 'there' until'about ti o’clock, the tiiWht which his body was removed <0 Palmetto on the night of the ac cident .Several other neighbors al- so,: v/jtnessed the phenomenon. They are positive that they saw it, btft do hot attempt to solve the mys tery. • The Thomasville Enterprise of Feb. 7 says? 1 “Last Monday a man named Wheeler made a dastardly assault on Mrs. F. E. Durati, out on the Culvuitt road. She was driving along the road alone when he saw her; and picking up a fen'ce rail struck her a murderous blow, evi- dently with the intention of stun ning or, killing, and then robbing her. Fortunately a sewing machine which she had in the wagon with her acted as a shield and prevented the blow from accomplishing the object for which it was intended. Mrs.. Duran’s screams were heard by her son, Reno Duran, who hap pened to be not far off, and he rushed to her rescue, knocked the would-be-murderer down, tied and brought him to town, where he was consigned to the tender mercies of Sheriff Hurst. Wheeler appeared to be very drunk when he was be ing taken to jail, but it is generally believed that he was not as much so as he pretended.” ference, 196. preachers, aVatag£ $57*-°3 each.; Reaching the other At Butler a few nights ago un known roughs raided the tent of a ‘ ' ' ” photographer, and after the canvas, * — beneath it. tj ll/JU JaatsS <|i nnn I . .... , ... ’ - 1 ' !J 1 •** L)*: i j>3IJiup3* t *r , “Ulk?tltMiMtt I *f*ft*- ****** *** i .■*X aoM -k* 01 ./ GENERAL NEWS. It is now feared that Gen. Grant will never again appear in public. 'The Modoc tribe of Indians now numbers but twenty-six families of 106 persons. Several of the Presidential dark horses are said to be really don keys in disguise. , The fund being raised in Boston for the Gay Head Indians has reach ed nearly $4,000. The way to make P- T. Barnum mad is to ask him if his new white elephant really has the mange. Carrie Wilcox, a-handsome girl, of. Bradford, Pa., has renounced Christianity to,marry a' Hebrew. Among the inmates of the “Old People’s Home,” at Chicago, arc Josie Man field’s mother and Gui- teau’s mother-in-law. . ! Small-pox has made, its appear ance in the soutji, and -jt, ntqqber of cases are reported . at Louisville, Ky., and Shreveport, La. * . . v. i ! ttoj u*i.f . . A white rajnbpw is ong , of Hie fare'phenomena lately obsojfad. It Was seen by M. Cornu, the - French astronomer, on November 2S, in teirtti ; 1. ms) ;-The first steel) riflelL'canpon man- nfacturod bytbe;q«Kf*4sStyty» gov ernment, has just teen completed and . ------- , in’at 5 Annapolis. '. 'iite , 'rieM.'1hne i Sergeant' Bates starts out' on'k-■ -tramp* W • (should combine titfe business -of oont doc tor with ha-iprpfefsuMn $«!F atriot ' He yrovdfl;$9fljjuf cxcursipns much at the expiration ol-14 months had;butch- ered 3, sold 3 and had .Tffi deft. He knowSittf-.no domtstic aqini^fit for me^t- which is so prolific 4s the 8 0a 'h' 1 . .* iL., l*t IvJ'SUs't icitANf0N,Feb s 7.—Mrs.. Tames ^MwPfftfainnwHwSe sec- 1 thitf - cityc.died .to-day in a “ frW.H. of dentist? adiaiftat: the office < Jmmistered teeth, assenger' rates'efreiy' H&8 lit ‘ Snhtif * Carolina: charges 4 cents a mile, for first-class passengers exceptrthe"! Air-Line, 'J :tbe‘South Carolina rNorth- gastern, whiqh. charge 3 Cents each, ana the Wihtua^toii, Columbia and.
