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Wc well kno
4 nd efficient Mayor
it as such, but his action ii
in); our guano dealers for
their goods at the Georgia d<
has the appearance of persecution
against that old reliable line. He
was perfectly correct ia VhA Action
against the road itself, 1 for this duty
required that step; but the' patrols
ol that lipe are no more responsible
lor this violation of our city ordi
nances than the passenger* oh
board a steamboat when an acci
dent occurs. They simply contract
with the Georgia road to deliver
their fertilizers in Athens and store
i tn Its Path—TSa
Has* Bosh Blovn Sows sad Two
a*««s ProtaMy mm
It is rather early for cyclones, but-
from our experience with them it
them until called for. There is not matters not what time of the year
the shadowy of a case against these
dealers, and the courts will so de
cide. Their arraignment onlyjsub-
jvets them to annoyance ar.d ex
pense. and will do no.good what-
The case against the rail
road will settle all this trouble, and £jJ
Of
. think it much better to qnietly
await the decision ol the court. Our
city authorities should do all that
lies in their power to foster and
encourage the Georgia railway.
This line has done a great deal for
our city, and bringing the depot- brash heap on fire and that it was in
over into the city proved that its
managers are deeply interested in
1 the growth and progress of Ath
ens. It would be very unwise for
our city government to put itself in
1 the attitude of fighting this road,
which inference this suit against its
patrons is calculated to make.
While rigidly enforcing our laws,
at the Svante time let us extend to-
watd both of our roads every cour
tesy and concession that we can and
if it becomes necessary to enforce
an ordinance calculate^ to conflict
: with their business, let our council
talk the matter over with the offi
cers of the lines and see if some
plan cadnot be suggested,by which
the trouble cannot be obviated
without serious damage to these ar
teries of our commerce. We must
sacrifice our old fogy whims to the
march of progress. Athens is no
longer a town, but a growing little
city, and wc must throw oft’our ru
ral garh and enter into the spirt of
the times. It would certainly l>e a
disastrous blow to our business if
Athens made, an enemy/>f either of
her railroads. It would be like a
man's stomach quarrelling with his
throat. It lies within their power
seriously cripple our trade, if
driven to extremities. We must
treat them not as enemies, but as
ft iends interested in the common
glory and growth of our city. Un
der its present management the
Georgia road has indeed proved it
self a strong friend to Athens. It
has added vastly to the value of
property and placed our merchants
on as firm a basis as any place in
Georgia. It has spared neither
money nor trouble to enhance the
prosperity of this city. At a loss to
the company they now give us three
trains a day, equipped with the best
accommodations, Major Green is
F now considering the matter of build
ing a fine passenger depot her*,
and expresses a readiness to conj
ncct with the North-Eastern as
soon as practicable. The Georgia
road also stands ready to help
ns build other lines and
We can always look upon it
as a steadfast friend to Athens. We
trust that our city authorities will
artfully consider before taking any
itepthat is antagonistic to this road
Df course our citizens must be pro-
ected against annoyances, but at the
ante time there is always an ave-
me open for a compromise of griev-
inccs by which both sides can es-
;ape injury. If the Georgia read can
mild a good guano warehouse in
uch away as to prevent the odor
lovering over the neighborhood,
et it make the experiment. When
It proves a nuisance then there is
jr.te to complain. It would cer-
inU look like an open declaration
if war from Athens if it denied this
iad the privilege of storing guano
ywhere within the corporate lim-
There is no place in Georgia
it enforces such an ordinance,
le freights on ccmmercial fertil-
irs is one of the chief sources ,ot
renttc to our stutbern railroads,
d Athens cannot afford to make
tew departure by wresting this
siness from one of her lines.
This encouraging outlook comes
the way of a prediction from the
liladclphia Ledger: In less than
years after the close of the war (
serving men in the south noticed,
it It satisfaction, that free labor
better and cheaper in every
ay than slave laltor. Now families
at were temporarily rained by the
nr and the emancipation of their
sves, are gradually recovering
cir old time wealth and prosperity.
South Carolina, a state where
e colored people are in the major-
r, the income of the people from
jriculture, manufactures and min-
g has been increased from *5<V
K>,ooo in 1S60 to $76,000,000 last
tar. The value of cotton manufac-
res, and, indeed, of all manufac-
res, has been multiplied by eight.
»uth Carolina is exceptional
is respect; in fact, it is rather more
ckward than Georgia and Virgin 1
The best of it is that in the or-
nary course of events this growth
likely to go on in something like
ilhmetical progression.
work onQieCaraesville railroad.
rro<m ‘ 1 3U
•XjZJ.VaA.V.1
The Methodist female college, of
it is when they get ready they come,
and generally blow about as hard in
the winter as they do in the sum-
<ner. Oi» Tuesday night the wi nd
did a great deal of damage, on both
sides of Athens. We learn that in
Oconee county a great deal.of fenc-
as blown down. Just this side
itiuntviUe^ a hundred -panels
w fencing having been blown
down. In Jackson county, near
Harmony Grove the wind did a
great deal of damage. Our inform
ant was in Harmony Grove at the
time, and says that when he first
sauf the cloud it looked like a large
the shape of a funnel, that it would
first rise and then come down to the
ground. It struck with terrible
fury at the house of Mrs. Nash,
who lives about four miles from
Harmony Grove. The Nash house
has been a public stopping place
for a long time before the railroad
was built, and all the South Georgia
people would stop there when they
were going up to Clarksville to
spend the summer. This house
was blown down, seriously injuring
Mrs. Charlie Nash, and also one of
the old ladies who have been in
charge of the Nash house for a long
time. Dr. Hardeman, of Harmony
Grove, was sent for, and had not
retorned before our informant left.
It next struck down in Madison
county, at a post-office named Hix,
and blew down several houses at
The New York Times says in an
tide that the republicans ought to
I. That is what the South thinks
it the North generally thinks
ITcrcntly, and that is the reason we
n’t make them go. The limes
tes up a great many of the frauds
rpetrated by the republican*,
me of which are very startling,
says “that in a public address the
ttorney-general declared that dur.
»g two years more than $4,000,000
ad been stolen from the public
rensury by these bands of plupder-
rs, and two years have since claps-
<1 without a dollar of the money
that place. The track of the cy
clone was very narrow, not over a
mile wide, but did considerable dam
age wherever it struck. The hail in
Harmony Grove was immense. Our
informant states that it was not
round, but looked like several pieces
were wedged together, and had the
appearance of quartz. He saw one
piece fall that was as large as a
.tan's fist. ,
I.ATEIt FROM THE CYCLONE.
The storm struck the house of
Mrs, Jarrctt, near Jefferson, and un
roofed it. A horse was killed and
other damage done.
One of the Mrs. Nashcs is dead
ann the other not expected to live
until night. Mrs. Charlie Nash
was very badly mangled.
At Hix it blew down all the
houses on the place anJ injured
Mr. Hix and his son very badly.
At Harmony Grove the wind was
terrific, but did no serious damage.
From the Atlanta Constitution
we clip the following:
Between 1 and 2 o'clock the heav
ens became overcast, and a perfect
flood of rain fell upon the city. The
clouds insreased in density, and sev
eral times during the afternoon the
darkness became so deep that it
was impossible to read. It was ev
ident to those who had watched the
course of previous storms that great
damage must have resulted if this
storm was general throughout the
State.
What Cbl. Towers, assistant keep
er of trie penitentiary said, who ar
rived on the W. & A. R. R.
“Yes,” said the colonel “I can
give you an account of what I saw.
You can form no idea of the extent
of the destruction that the storm has
wrought in the mountain counties.
I have seen the tracks of most qf
the south Georgia cyclones, but I
have never seen one that swept ov
er such a wide track and left such a
pathway of ruin behind it as did this
one. Just |think of a sweep of
wind wiping out a strip of timber
three miles across and making it
look like an immense mowing ma
chine had been run through it! It
cut cleanly at the edges. This side
of the cyclone’s track was as sharp
and as well defined as a row of mil
let; the other was a little jagged, but
not very much so. Between these
two sides ’nothing but devastation
lay. Trees that had stood for near
ly a hundred years, the largest oaks
and hickory were snapped ofl like
straws or pulled up by their roots.
Everything that was high enough
to catch the force of the wind was
twisted off and immense trunks antf
branches of trees were piled helter
skelter over the face of the earth.
I could at one time see two miles up
the track of the storm, and such
ruin 1 never saw before. Trees and
houses were strewn nround like
straws and wherever I looked I saw
nothing but a scene of wild disorder
and heartrending destruction.”
“At Canton,” said Col. Towers,
“we heard a most distressing story.
As the train started a courier had
just rode into town at a furious rate
for « physician. He stated that sev
en miles above Canton a school had
been dismissed on account of the
threatening aspect of the weather.
Some of the children on their way
home had stopped in an old house
to escape the rain. While they were
in there the storm struck the house,
blowing it down and killing several
children and wounding a number of
others. That was a most distressing
accident It may be that subsequent
developments will reveal many ca
lamities just as terrible.”
The Georgia train ran through
the storm below Madison but no
damage was done to the train or
in that section.
Birmingaam, Ala., Feh. 19.—A
terrible cyclone swept over Callaha
valley to-day, and afLeod’s station
on the Georgia Pacific fifteen miles
from this city, every house was
blown down, six person* were lull
ed and fifteen others were seriously
wounded! A special tiafn on the
Georgia Pacific left here' at 5 o’clock
with' physicians to attend the
wounded.
The extent of this cyclone it very
extended. It visited a great many
places in the state ana the loss of
ifo is- terrible. In Rome, Ga., it
raged furiously and in Cave Springs
several persons were killed by fall
ing timbersj Up to a late hour last
night nothing could be heard from
it further tnan Hix, in Madison
county, but we suppose that it car
ried death and destruction in its
way into South Carolina, as it was
going in that direction.
The. death ' of Mrs. Nash, near
Harmony Grove, is very tad as she
was known by all the people of
Southern -Georgia as keeping the
best house'in North Georgia during
the ante belhim days.
*ing
icing punished.”
an do antf the republican party will
;o beyond the shadow of * jdMfefc
Prescott, Arizona, Feb. 17.
Daily Miner, attempted to save val
Put it to them a* rough aa.yon uable papers and was burned to
ilease. The South will be solid, death.
’W**w• * ** r ouiiu. ^
low let the North show what she A BUsp id^us bill to amend the in
surance !av/s has appeared at Al
bany.
Bach ansa’s Idsas Atxmt t*s Fiaay Tins
■MmoCBH VatM
Turf. Field and Farm.
“How did you ever come to de
vise this scheme?”
“I have been working at it ever
since I was large enough to bend a
pin.”
The above remark was addressed
to Mr. Seth Green, the veteran fish
culturist, who is known to the en
tire world, and his reply indicates
the extent of his labors.
“When I was quite young,” he
continued, “I would he on the
limbs of trees that reached out over
the water entire afternoons watch
ing the movements of the fish and
studying their habits. In thisway
I discovered many characteristics
which were before unknown. I
saw, as every observer must see, the
destructive elements that are war
ring against fish, and I realized that
unless something were done, the
life in the streams of this country
would become extinct To coun
teract this disastrous end became
my life v r ork, and I am happy to
say that ,'t have seen its accomplish
ment.”
“Were you successful on the
start?”
“No, indeed. Up to that time all
artificial attempts to hatch and raise
fish from spawn had failed, and I
was compelled to experiment in an
entirely new manner. The work
was a careful and tedious one, but I
finally succeeded, and to-day I am
able to hatch and raise fully 75 per
cent, of all spawn.” •
“Enormous! Why, that is a larger
percentage than either the vegeta
ble or animal kingdoms produce in a
natural condition.”
“I know it, but we exercise the
greatest care in the start, and guard
the little fellows until they become
able to care for themselv.es.”
The foregoing conversation oc
curred at Caledonia,"where the rep
resentative of this paper was pay
ing a visit to the state fish hatcher
ies. It has been his privilege to re
port many interesting sights within
the past 25 years, but the view pre
sented here exceeds in interest any
thing ever before attempted.
“How many fish are there in
those ponds, Mr. Green?”
“As we have never attempted to
count them it will be impossible to
say. They extend way up into the
millions though. We shipped mil
lions out of the ponds this year, and
there seemed to be as many after
wards as before. We have nearly
every variety of the trout family and
many hybrids.”
“You speak, of hybrids, Mr.
Green. What do you mean by
that?”
“I have experimented for years
oncrossing the breed of the various
fish and am still working upon it.
We cross the female salmon trout
with the male brook trout, and thus
produce a hybrid. Then we cross
the hybrid with the brook trout,
which gives us three-quarter brook
trout and one-quarter salmon trout.
This makes one of the finest fishes
in the woild. He has all the habits
of the brook trout, lives in both
streams and lakes, develops Vermil
lion spots on his sides, rises readily
to a fly, is far more vigorous and
fplly one-third larger than ordinary
brook trout of the same age. The
possibilities of development in the
fish world are great and we are
rapidly ascertaining what they are.”
“One question more. How many
ponds of fish have you here and
new are they divided?”
•‘Well, we have 43 ponds which
are divided up as follows: 22 ponds
of brook trout, 2 ponds of salmon
trout, 4 of McCloud river or rainbow
trout, 2 ponds of German trout, 3 of
California mountain trout, 2 ponds
of hybrids, 4 of one-quarter salmon
and three-quarter brook trout, 2
ponds of gold fish and 1 pond of
carp. Then we have what we call
the centennial pond or ‘happy fam
ily ’ consisting of crosses of differ
ent fish, including Kenebec salmon,
Land Locked salmon, brook trout,
salmon trout and hybrids. These
fish range in size from ' minnows to
i8-pounders, and in age from one
and one-half months to eleven years.
I forgot to say, also, that we have a
‘hospital’ pond, which is entirely
empty, which speaks pretty well
for a community of many millions.
Indeed, the whole secret of fish cul
ture can be summed up in four
things. Impregnation—using no
water, plenty of food, plenty of pure
water and cleanliness.”
WAS SHE BURIED ’ALIVE?
A Council of Physician Callwt t0 Detrain* tho
A Youngstown, Ohio special ot
Feb. 14, to the New York Times
says: “Kitty Gilmour, daughter of
the late Dr. Gilmour, of New Lis
bon, died on Monday after six hours’
illness. Physicians pronounced the
disease hemorrhage of the bowels.
The body was placed in a vault here.
At 2 o’clock this afternoon the un
dertaker went to the vault to bury
another body and discovered mois
ture on the glass of Miss Gilmour’s
coffin and noticed that her face was
flushed. He summoned Dr. Nel
son, the girl’s uncle, who ordered
the body to be taken to his house.
It was quickly removed from the
coffin and placed on a cot. The
doctor found on placing his hand
underneath the body that it was
warm. Bottles filled with hot wa
ter were placed at the feet and along
the sides, an electric battery was ap
plied ineffectually, and every known
restorative used, but at 8 o’clock at
night none had been effective. The
appearance of the corpse was very
life-like, a natural color over-spread
ing ttie entire face except the chin,
on which there is a purple spot. The
neck and arms have not stiffened.
The folded hands clutch a bouquet
of white roses. At the throat is a
bunch of tube-roses. The lady was
34 years old and was to have been
married In alfew months. She was
the only child ot a widowed moth
er, who ia almost erased with grief
and suspense. Mncb excitement
exists. A council of physicians has
been summoned, who will experi
ment with the body during the
nignt”
General Gordon has reached
Khartoum, and by so doing rained
some thousands of prophecies. He
ha* alto startled England out of her
propriety, if the report is true that
he has recognised, by proclamation,
the Mabdi himself, as Sultan of
Kordofap. Osman Digna expects
to capture Tokar before the garri
son can lie re-enforced. Some
Egyptian soldiers have got them
selves out of active service and in
durance vile by protesting agai
the employment of English officers
for native troops.
New York, February 18.—Pro
fessor John Goldberg, the magician,
is now in the pavilion for the insane
at Bellevue Hospital. He is a tal
ented and educated man, with many
friends in Berlin and in this country.
He has money, and his friends say
he will be removed to another asy
lum. Dr. Wildman, the physician
in charge, says that the Professor is
afflicted with softening of the brain,
and that the date of his death mere
ly depends upon the rapidity with
which the disease develops itself.
After a spell of violence he said,
laughing heartily:
“They put me here under the pre
text that 1 am insane, but, of course,
you know I am not. I have the
strength of a hundred men, and
could easily force my way out, but
I consider it my duty to remain here
a short time and entertain the crazy
people here. You see this pack of
cards. Now [to one of the patients]
draw out a card and hold it in your
hand. You all see it is the ace of
hearts. Hold it tight and watch
me. I blow it, say ‘Presto, change,’
and it is the ace of clubs. This
trick is very easy to do—for those
who know how,” continued the
Professor, after a pause.
“Now, I shuffle the cards. Heigh,
there is one missing.”
Looking around at his auditors,
he pointed at a man several feet
distant, and said:
“Sir, you have the card in your
bosom. Bring it to me diiectly.”
The frightened lunatic found the
card where the professor had locat
ed it,
“You see,” the magician went on,
hs he threw the pack on the table
and turned to pet his birds, “1 can
tell by the weight of a deck if a
single card is missing. Keep away
from the table or you will spoil the
charm. I raise the pack again.
•‘There is another one gone. 1
don’t believe any of you have it
(slowly, and searching the faces of
his listeners.) Ah! there itis. Who
stuck that up there against the wall?
Will you bring it to me sir? It is,
as you perceive, the ten of clubs.”
The man addressed went and got
the card. He was thoroughly scar
ed, and reached the whole length
of his arm as he handed it to the
Professor. “This is the queen of
diamonds, not the card I sent for,”
said the magician, as he indignantly
threw his pack on the table, and,
walking away, gazed out of the
window. The lunatics had by this
time grown wild with excitement,
and they withdrew from the Profes
sor as far as the walls of the room
would let them.
THE MUTILATED COIN.
Little Rock Age,
Yesterday an old man entered
Little Rock store, and taking from
his pocket an old buckskin pouch,
he emptied two coins on the coun
ter, and then, after regarding the
silver for a lew moments, said:
“Mistey, I want to buy some
goods to make a dress.”
“That money is mutilated, old
gentleman. This 25 cent piece has
notches filled in it, and this fifty
cents piece has been punched. You
see they have been abused. I can’t
take them.”
“Abused,” said the old man.
“Abused,” and he took up the fifty
cent piece and looked at it tender
ly. “And you won’t take it on ac
count of the holes. Heaven grant
that I did not have to offer it to
you. Years ago, when my first
child was a little girl, I punched a
hole in this coin and strung it
around her neck. It was her con
stant plaything. At night when
4he went to bed we’d take it off, but
early at morning she would call for
her watch. When our John—you
didn’t know John, did you? No?
Well, he used to come to town a
good deal.”
“Where is he now?” asked the
merchant, not knowing what to
say,‘but desiring to show apprecia
tion for the old man’s story.
He was killed in the war. I
say that when John was a little boy
I strung this quarter around his
neck. One day his watch got out
out of fix, he said, and he filed these
notches in it. He and his sister
Mary—that was the girl’s name—
used to play in the woods and com
pare watches to see if they were
light. Sometimes John wouldn’t
like it because Mary’s watch was
bigger than his, but she would ex
plain that she was bigger than him
and ought to have a bigger watch.
The children grew up, but as they
had Always lived in the woods they
were not ashamed to wear their
watches. When a young man
came to see Mary once she forget
fully looked at her fifty cents.
What are you doing?’ dsked the
young man, and when she told him
she was looking at her watch he
took it as a hint and went home.
After this she did not wear her
watch in company. Well, Mary
and theyoung man married. John
went off in the army and got killed.
Mary’s husband died, and about two
years ago Maty was taken sick.
When her mother and I reached
her house, she was dying. Calling
me to her bed. she said: ‘Papa,
lean over.’ I leaned over, and, tak
ing something from under her pil
low, she put it around my neck and
said: ‘Papa, take care of my watch.’
The old man looked at the merchant
and the eyes of both men were
moist “Do you’ see that boy out
there on the wagon?” he said.
Well, that is Mary’s child. I
wouldn’t part with this money, but
my old wife, who always loved me,
died this morning, and I have come
to buy her a shroud.” When the
old man went out he carried the
bundle in one hand and the “watch
es” in the other.
HewSloi Mad During too war for Waarot a
Eight of Horn*-
A Washington letter to the Phil
adelphia Record gives the follow
ing interview: “Do you know that
many soldiers died ot homesickness
dusing the late war?” said an ex-
Federate Colonel. “Yes, sir; they
called it nostalgia—that’s the medi
cal term for homesickness, Men
died apparently withou ta cause—
not frhm fright; homesickness wSs
the cause in nine cases out of ten.
I remembhrthat at one time I was
in charge of a depot at Louisville^
Ky., where 16,000 convalescents
were waiting for strength to go to
the front. I noticed that many of
them grew worse instead of better.
It was not due to a relapse; it was
not the old disease a|all. It did not
seem to be a new disease. I looked
into it a little and then I told the
surgeon it was nothing butnostal-
? ia. I had a chance to prove that
was right One of these sick well
men came to me the next day.
‘Colonel,’ he said, *1 want leave of
absence for a day or two. I want
to go home and see my folks. I
am pining away for a sight of my
old home. I believe I shall die if I
don’t go.’ On inquiring I found
that his home was right across in
Indiana and that he had an idea that
he could see the smoke rising from
its chimney. He had not been
home for several years, and he
was fretting away in sight of that
smoke. I was not supposed to let
any of my convalescents go any
where except to the front, but I de
termined to try an experiment with
this sallow, peaked-face young man.
‘Well, sir,’ I said, ‘how long will you
Vio crr»r»j*‘This ic Vriflou * V10 ra.
begone?’ ‘This is Friday, he re
plied; ‘I will be back on Monday.’
•No,’ I said; ‘you can stay until Fri
day of next week.’ ‘All rights’ he
said, looking better already. On
the nexi Friday he returned a new
man. ‘I’m all right again, Colonel,’
he half shouted when he saw me;
‘I'm ready to go to the front at once.
1 went home, saw my mother and
father and my sisters and brothers,
had some good home food and some
good home sleep, and fought all my
battles over again down at the vil
lage store. That was all that 1 want
ed.’ It was a fact. He had been
cured of nostalgia.”
HOW SANKEY SINGS AND LOOKS.
Oliver Logan in Philadclhhia Tima,
The third figure on the platform
is Sankey, who sings while. Moody
preaches, and is to the eye of one
who has seen much and suffered
much—yes, even myselfj if you will
—the most interesting person of
the trio. He is a tall, slim young
man, still in his twenties I should
say, dressed in clerical garb*, hope
lessly plain, red haired, afflicted
with a gigantic mouth, which has
the effect of cleaving his face in
twain when he opens his lean, lank
jaws to sink. There is this jn this
poor lad’s demeanor, in his dress, in
his entire aspect, which proclaims
him the curate, the creature, the
theological slave of all work, of the
comfortable celebrated preacher of
whose exportations we are soon to
have the surpassing benefit.. .Sad
stareling of the church, one’s [Heart
is moved ro pity by the mere sight
of him! Thin to emaciation, plain
almost to repulsiveness, his cheeks
so hollow one wonders if they “in
terfere” inside, his mouth a survi
val of the Sourian epoch, he turns
to heaven a pair of great, soft, soul
ful gray eyes and joins in a hymn
with a voice that thrills the listen
er’s soul and shakes wis feeble body
as though it were a reed. Father
above us, what a voice! With heart
rending pathos it wells forth, swell
ing through the spaces of
the half empty church, ringing
richly through the open windows,
floating out upon the pavement, so
that passers-by, bound perchance to
the beer and bottle shop opposite*
stop suddenly quite still to listen to
the unseen clerical Orpheus within.
“There is a gate ajar for me!” So
pours he forth his melodious canti
cle. A gate ajar? Ay, sweet sing
er, whocan doubtit? You mustbea
lost chord from the celestial harmo
nies and in the eternal rehabilita
tion full surely will the gate be open
ed wide for you to enter, there to
take your place in the silvery choir
of the great Jehovah.
NEW YORK THE BATTLE GROUND
Under the new congressional ap
portionment the various states will
at the next election have four hun
dred and one electoral votes, of
which two hundred and one will
be necessary to a choice. Four
years ago the following named
states gave their votes for Hancock
and English:
Nevada 3
New Jersey 9
North Carolina. 10
South Carolina. 7
Tennessee 12
Texas.. 8
Virginia...'. 11
West Virginia.. 5
Alabama.
Arkansas 6
California 5
Delaware 3
Florida...... 4
Georgia 11
Kentucky 12
Louisiana.... 8
Maryland.. .. 8
Mississippi... 8
Missouri.... 15
Total —.155
RICH, YET IN PRISON.
Ik* Mk SOnr Ida* la chfflnutou Sold for a
Nashville, Tbnn,, February 18.
Private information received (here
from New York to-day states that
the Polk silver mine in yhilhuahua,
Mexico, have been sold to a syndi
cate for $1,000,00a Two thirds of
this property belong* to the default
ing State Treasurer Polk, and was
purchased with the State’s funds.
The mines* have been examined by
experts and found exceedingly rich
and productive. The amount of the
defalcation was $400,000, and Polk
was sentenced to twenty years’ im
prisonment, aad a fine of *tne amount
due the state. He appealed to the
Supreme Court anti his case will
come up Wednesday.
Archbishop Phealan oa his re
turn from Rome received a splendid
ovation at Chicago.
By the new apportionment addi
tional votes votes were given to the
above mentioned states as follows:
Arkansa 1
California.. 3
Georgia.
Kentucky...1
Missouri 1
Mississippi... 1
N. Carolina. 1
South Carolina... .3
Texas 5
Virginia „8
West Virginia..„i
Total
•*7
Adding this increased vote to that
cast in 1880 gives the strength Of
of the democrats in the electoral
college at 173, which, with the 36
votes of New York state, woiud
make 308, a clear majority of 7.
Hence the necessity for the dem
ocrats to act wisely in dqing all
they can to secure the great state of
New York. According to the count
there is no success’ without that
state unless per chance. Indiana,
Connecticut and Ohio would go
democratic.
Macon, Ga., February 19.—John
and Tobias Burnett, brothers, went
this morning to H. C. Turpin’s place
of busines and demanded a retrac
tion of epithets applied to him by
John Burnett. Turpin refused,
whereupon a fight ensued, Turpin
receiving four stabs, one of 1 which
severed an artery in the arm.^ Sur
geons being unable to take up the
artery, Turpin is dying from loss of.
blood. Turpin and the Bnrpetts are
rival sewing machine agents. The
Burnetts are in jail
The principal keeper df the pen-
itentiary has turned lose another
large batch who have served out
their time. .. rt*a >
Savanna* Hevt.
White Plains, Ga., Feb. is.-
Editor Morning News: I write to
say a word in the interest of the
Union Point and Sandersville Rail
road by way of White Plains. We
of this section urge the completion
of this project mainly for two reas
ons: First, because the citizens along
the proposed route need it and
would be greatly benefited by it;
second, it would further enlarge the
trade territory of Savannah.
Through this section there is a large
scope of the finest country in the
State almost closed in from the out
side world on account of not having
proper railroad facilities. For in
stance, here se have a most excel
lent and business-like little town of
about 500 inhabitants, but unless we
can be successful in getting railway
communication our town is about all
it w01 ever be. The enterprising
merchants of this place sell annually
several hundred thousand dollars
worth of goods which they are com
pelled to haul from Undion Point,
our nearest depot, a distance of 12
miles, on wagons. They ship every
season between 4,000 and 5,000 bales
of cotton from this point, which
have to rely upon the same tardy
mode of transportation. So also
with every sack of commercial fer
tilizers, several hundred tons, used
in the production of this staple and
of other produce. Had we a rail
road through here this 'town would
rapidly improve. Like the fabled
bird, White Plains would soon rise
and assume the proportions and pre
rogatives of a handsome and lively
city. Capital and capitalists would
floW'io upon us; new industries be
multiplied, creating a good home
market for the thrifty husbandman.
All other towns along the route
would improve in proportion. Truck
farming, stock raising andjthe dairy
business might be made profitable,
and the value of lands and property
would he largely appreciated. Well,
then, consider the second reason.
How would it be beneficial to the
city of Savannah? In this way:
There would then be a con
tinuous rail line . running from
the farther bounds of Northeast
Georgia to the “Forest City,” giving
her not only the immense trade of
thousands of families and retail mer
chants on the road, but pouring into
her arms 50,000 or 60,000 bales of
cotton annually. The importance
of the city of Augusta would be
greatly diminished, of which fact
she is greatly aware, and is trying to
flank us in out scheme by proposing
to build the A., G. & S. R. R., so as
to hold on to the products and trade
of Greene, Hancock, Glasscock and
other counties, which, if the Union
Point and Sandersville railroad is
built, will be turned into the lap of
Savannah. Will not the Central
railroad aid us in this work? It
seems that it might. Savannah
will be one of the chief beneficiaries
of this road if it is ever built, so rouse
ye up, Savannah, from your lethar-
“ ’, and exert all your energy for
7? U ?JW?* interests. Aid us in build-
Ag tne Union Point and Sanders-
ifle railroad. Crush other projects
inimical to your success as a trade
centre. If yon want our products
and trade, invest your capital with
us, put your shoulder to the wheel,
use vour influence for us to get rail
facilities, and you shall have it Now
is the time to build the road if it is
ever to be built.
Augusta is alarmed at the project
because she knows it will be detri
mental to her best interests if we
are successful in our project. Come
now, Savannah, be up and doing!
Lend us a helping hand. Let us
move quickly into ranks, and make
one long, strong fight together in
endeavoring to perfect a scheme so
pregnant with good to us all
. . P. S. A.
KILLING IN THE COUNTRY.
AWIittollia Slot os too Wuhlagtoa Etna aad
Dios oa Saturday.
Aujxata Chronicle.
Last week a shooting scrape oc-*
curred about three miles from the
city on the Washington road, which
caused considerable excitement
among the people of the neighbor
hood. j; D. W. Burch is said to
have entered the house of John S.
White and frightened Mrs. White.
He then went back home, procured
a shot gun and returning aimed it at
Mrs. White and snapped it, but the
gun refused to fire. Mr. White at
tais time ran in his house and got a
shot gun. On his return Burch
brandished his gun around and
White shot him. Several shot en
tered his body and one penetrated
the brain which proved fatal, caus
ing his death on last Saturday
morning. Coroner Picquec was
notified and an inquest was held.
The jury returned a verdict that
the deceased came to his death
from a gun shot wound in the head
at the hands of John S. White, and
and that the same in their opinion
was justifiable homicide. Dr. Lamb
held an autopsy and it was found
that one shot entered the brain,
which was the cause of his death.
On the evening preceding the kill
ing, a child was born to the wife of
Burch and but' a few hours after
wards the father was carried in after
being mortally wounded.
A WALL STREET INCIDENT.
N. Y. Timet.
A little, black-bearded man was
walking briskly op Broadway, the
other afternoon, when a shivering
tramp, who had been loitering in
front of Trinity church, stepped in
front of him and said something in
a low tone. THe little man made
no reply, but stepped to one side
and continued his journey up town.
The beggar slonched after him and
said in a louder tone than before,
“Please, Cap. gi’ me a few cents for
a bowl of soup.. Even to this appeal
the little man paid no attention, and
would doubtless have succeeded ia
escaping from the unfortunate
tramp, bad be not been stopped by a
friend who engaged him in conver
sation. The beggar crowded up as
closely as possible to the two men
and began a pitiful tale of distress.
He was heard to aay, “And every
thing I possessed went in Wall
street Jay Gould and those fellows
got it" The little, black-bearded
man’s hand went quickly down in
his pocket and brought out a coin,
which was placed on the dirtv palm
of the mendicant with the words,
“There, nog go away, please.” The
fellow shuffled away, evidently
without knowing that the little man
who gave him the money was Jay
Goula himself. The other geeiile-
jtMm sftsPjmijL]W. Field. - !
Louisiana Capitolian.
Washington’s birthday anniver-
sary will be commemorated next
week, in New Orleans, by the un
veiling of the statue of the man who
was his peer in nobility of charac
ter and.holy patriotism.
As Captain, Robert E, Lee
S roves himself the ablest of the day.
efore him, the gallant McClellan,
the greatest strategist that ever led
a not them army on the field—yield
ed the palm of victory. After him
Pope, Burnside, Hooker and Meade
saw their fame wither at the touch
of Lee’s unwavering bayonets.
Then Grant came with his masses,
striking at Lee’s decimated bataltal-'
ions, with that main strength and
awkwardness that the blinded world
has misnamed and misjudged to
have been genius, until he had Van
quished the glorious phantom of
the Army of Northern Virginia.
Had the world taken into account
Grant's defeat at the Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and
Petersburg, by mere handsful of
of war-worn veterans, the taciturn
warrior would not be wearing to
day, the laurels that McClellan in
fairer combat would more nobly
have earned.
Napoleon met defeat at Waterloo
yet his fame remained undimmed
by that disaster. He was still
grand at Waterloo, though his ge
nius failed to guide his still brilliant
army to victory.
Lee was not defeated at Appo-
matox, the remnant of his army was
overborne by the mere weight of
numbers. Neither strategy nor his
matchless skill could contend
against odds of fifteen to One.
So that when the name of Grant
will only be mentioned because of
its connection with the dramas en
acted on the fields of the Old Do
minion, that of Lee will live in song
and story.
The people of New Orleans may
well be proud of the statue that in
their midst will personify the beau
ideal of American chivalry and true
greatness.
THE FAREWELL KISS.
Aa Incident of too Lata City of Colambn* Wreck.
BotUm Herald.
Among the confused mass who
were struggling and screaming were
noticed a middle-aged man and his
wife. Their conduct was in mark
ed contrast with that of the other
passengers. The panic which had
seized the others was not shared by
them, but their blanched faces told
that they realized the peril which
surounded them. The only move
ment of muscles or nerves was that
produced by the chilling atmos
phere. They stood close together,
their hands clasped in each other, as
if about to contemplate suicide to
gether, and thus fulfill the marital
vow of standing by each other in the
varying tide of fife’s fortunes and
misfortunes. As the wreck careen
ed with the gale from one side to
the other, and while the spray and
imprinted a kiss upon the compan
ion of his, and while thus embraced
a heavy sea broke over the wreck
and both were washed away and
were not seen afterward. Mr. Cook
says the scene was one which will
remain indelibly impressed upon
his memory until his dying day.
AN INTERESTING STORY.
The “Man About Town” in the
Atlanta Constitution has the fol
lowing: “I have before me a letter
from Mr. S. E. Keller, ot Balti
more, in which there ps an interest
ing story. Mr. Keller writes that
he lived during the war near Funk-
stown, Maryland. As Lee was re
treating from Gettsburg a sharp
skirmish occurred in front of his
home. While the fight was raging
a wounded Confederate officer was
brought into the yard and laid on
the pavement. He was horribly
wounded in the stomach, and the
entrails were protruding. His
death was considered certain, and
this fact was announced to him. He
replied very deliberately: “Dulce
est decorum patria mori—I am in
the hands of my Maker, and a
Southern soldier knows how to
die.” Mr. Keller adds that the
scene made a profound impression
on him, and he had often wondered
what became of the brave Confed
erate, who was shortly 'afterward
moved from his house. He says,
his_ name was McDaniel, he was
Major of a Georgia regiment and
had an impediment in his speech. I
have seen that a man named Mc
Daniel is elected Governor of your
state, and I thought he might know
something of the matter of which I
have written.’ ”
Governor McDaniel was himself
the Georgia Major alluded to, and
Dr. Roach, of this city, was the
Confederate surgeon whose prompt
and skiliful treatment saved the
Governor from death as by a mira
cle. The Governor still suffers from
the effects of the wound, and day
and night wears a plate that fits
over the spot at which the bullet
entered. If this plate were dis
placed by accident fatal, ceitainly
serious results might follow.
Delane & Hickqk, of Augusta,
large dry good* merchants haveas-
signed.,-,.., :noi
The Alabama fiver is outofits
banks ahd rising. The rains here
are very heavy. There has been no
interruption to nulTOad coinmnnica-
tion, *' . '
The strike, of {he iron workers at
the Birmingham, Alan rolling'mills
has been declared at an end: add the
mills have thds been opehed toiaay
one who can get employment in
them. wiT 1 ...
Fall River, Mask, February ,8.
An attSinpt th start the Union Mills
to-day was a fiulhre. The strikers
intimidated the help who wished to
go in.' '■ • ' ■ J ; I ■ " • ;
The Southern Railway aud
Steamship Association convened at
,the Metropolitan hotel in Washing
ton yesterday. There aeemed to be,
some trouble iothe pooling business*
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. -Mr.
Judge Bibb, the oldest citizen of
Montgomery, died to-day,, qged 87
vears. He was a prominent legis- 1
lator 50 years ago, and his brother
was the first Governor of Alabama,
The waters are receding in the
flooded districts and the people. are
returning to their homes or to the
places where once their homes
stood. The work of relief goes on
actively. •
Washington, February 17.—
Henry Waterson, of the Louisville
Couner-Journhl, has prepared a bill
providing for the copywright of
newspaper matter, which he will
shortly present to Congress. He
liberal patronage.
CharleSf ' Adkins, of Dalton, has
two feather-beds each of which is
fl»»v«?°ye» r,old *
At-MUledgeviUe a young negro
has hoisted a -sign announcing him-
1 self its a physician.
1 ' Some of the Dougherty farmers
have already begun to plant water*
melon patches.
;■ Onoof the mines near Dahlone-
ga cleared over eighty-five thous*
and dollars last year. .-4
An Atlanta negress has just moth
ered a - child whose lower jaw is
nearly filled with teeth.
Rome will adopt the electric fire
alarm' system as soon as she has
$2,500 in her treasury.
If will probably be April or May
before an effort will be made to re
build the burnt district of Coving-
ington. i .
John Thomas, of Palmetto, mur
derer of Lindsay Weaver, was sen
tenced this week to be hung on the
nth of April
DavitJ Bawman’s dead body has
beptt found lying on a road in Hous
ton county. He was a negro and
hafi been shot. The rest is a mys
tery.
Near Alpharetta a few days ago a
negro woman gave birth to twin
boys, one a very dark boy and the
other a light sorreL Both died soon
after birth.
has also prepared an argument : . ,'"T^ -j-
which he will submit with tiie bill ^ wious coal and iron mdustnes,
London, Ont., Februaiy 18..—
Three men were smoking in a room
in which- gunpowder was stored.
An explosion resulted, blowing off
the top of the building and shatter
ing several blocks adjoining. One
of the men was taken out of the de
bris dead and the other two badly
injured.
New York, Feb. 18.—The su
pervisory committee of the New
York Cotton Exchange, which has
been for some time past investigat
ing alleged frauds in■ the -transac
tions of the firm of J. P. Billups &
Co., cotton merchants, who failed
some time ago, will present its re
port to the board of managers of
the exchange to-morrow. They re
fused to give any information as to
the result of their investigations.
A BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN.
Seam 01 a Nut Who DeSM a Pints lot Days.
Henry King, one of the oldest sea
Captains in the. United States, says
the New York World, died on
Thursday evening at the residence
of his son-in-law, Dr. Middleton, in
Camden, N. J., at the age of ninety-
four years. He went to sea on a
sailing vessel at the age of ten years,
and when twenty years old was
s - ” ».v huu made master of the He occu*
waves were drenching them at eve- pi ed , that positioll forbore than a
ry moment, the husband turned and
turned and; ££„nta^d inrflthat^Wfat -Mr. John < C. Farris*^of Bartow
but tmebvessel,!:the Mazy ‘Ann, df
Philadelphia, That Was about twen
ty years ago, and although the Cap
tain was over seventy years of age
he managed to save himself, while,
several of his crew were drowned.
In 182* when ■bn” a voyage from-
Mobile to Philadelphia he was taken
prisoner by‘ a pirate. who wanted
$20,000 that the Captain had .on
board, but the latte? took precaution
to conceal his- treasure in barrels of
pork, and although the crew of the
pirate submitted him ‘ to the most
agonizing tortures, he refused to re
veal the hiding place and was at
length permitted tojgo on. A re
markable point in his life is that for
four generations there was not a
death of any of his relatives until
within the. last two years, in which
time his wife ahd three granchildren
have died.
A ROBBER OF 100 HOUSES.
TbsOoolOo&laala&sof aYomigntetct Twisty
HOW TEXANS TREAT GEORGIANS.
A few months ago a robust young
farmer left Hall county to settle in
Texas. One night, near the place
of his abode, a terrible murder was
committed A little trivial circum
stance pointed to him as perpetrator
of the deed. He was seized by a
mob, bound to a stake and subject
ed to almost unparalleled tortures in
a vain attempt to extort from him a
confession ot a crime which he.did
not commit After cutting him with
knives, singeing him with fire, ap
plying a coat of tar and feathera,
and inflicting other punishments too
horrible to be detailed, his captors
departed, leaving him tied to the
stake, doubtless believing that he
would .starve to death. He remain
ed tied to the stake a whole week,
four days and nights of which time
without even a crumb of bread or a
drink of water. At the end of the
week the real murderer was discov
ered and the young man, emaciated
in form and broken down in health,
was released, and started immedi
ately for his home, near Gainesville,
in thi* state. The savage Texans
made no offer to recompense him
for his wrongs, and if ever he recov
ers his health, to institute suit for
damages will be almost useless, as
his captors all wore masks and con
sequently were unidentified.
Manitoba’s claims have been ie-
jected by the government, and in
consequence the province threatens
to secede from the confederation.
Detective Price, of the Twenty-
ninth precinct, New York, says the.
limes of the 17th inst, on Saturday
captured a young thief who, accord
ing to his own statement, has with
in the past six months robbed jqo
less than 100 private residences and
boarding houses in New York' city;
The prisoner is James Stanley. ri He
is but 20 years of age and has a re
spectable appearance. Price saw
him in the Bowery, carrying a bun
dle, and, suspecting his tfue char
acter, arrested him. In the bundle,
which he had been endeavoring to
dispose of, were a lot of silver ware
and a number of napkins. His room
at the Union Hotel,'at Bowery and
Hester street, was searched, and in
his valise were found a quantity of
table linen, knives and forks, nap
kins, etc. There were alsoiotjnd-
83 pawn tickets, representing dia
monds, jeweliy, silver spoons and
forks, opera glasses, umbrellas, arti
cles of wearing apparel, blankets
and miscellaneous assortment of
household articles, * all of which
Stanley admitted had been, stolen
by him. He did not attempt to
deny his guilt, and gave ' the
detective information that’Will
lead to the recovery of a vast quan
tity of stolen goods. Stanley said
that he preserved the pawn tickets
representing the stolen gobds be
cause he knew that he was stireto
be arrested in the end, and when
that event happened he. wanted to
be able to make terms with those
whom he had robbed by the resto
ration of their property.
Stanley fold the detective that he
had visited three times the boarding
house of Mrs. Peck, at Nos..33, 35
and ’37 West Eighteenth street, each
time carrying off property. ‘ From
her place he stole 36: aolid silver
napkin rings, 7 dozen table knihe*
70 napkins, a sUver cake basketj an
album' containing prized photoV
graphs, and various other property.
Some of (the photographs'' and a
number of the knives »' and'
napkins belonging to Mrs. Peck
were found in the. valise. He had
also robbedthe boarding hoi
Mrs. Stubbs, of No. 48 Wes
teenth street, taking, among' other 1
things, a photograph of President
French, of the police derpartmen]
who some years ago boarded tht
Stanley, also admitted that
West*Eigh teerith street^* 1
large assortment pf latt_
which, he said, gave him access
almost any house- an .the 7city • ric.
Otherwise secured, - His thefts were
always committed in the day time,
ana he confined his*operations chief-
ly to the basement and first floor) of
the house* visited, making his calls
when but few. of!the inmates were
about, and they only servants.
•bof.il*
n.KWMur; tde -
A Baptist church was constituted
at Ml Hebron school house on Sat
urday last, with twenty-five mem
bers, to be called “ML Hebron.”
The Columbus cotton seed oil
mill company sold four hundred
tons' of cotton seed meal to one cus
tomer Friday. . This is an $8,000
transaction.
Joe Browa works 850 hands ia
it is said. They would make a for
midable regiment, armed with Joe
Brown’s pikes. ” ■' ’
From all parts of the state we
hear that a large acreage in oats has
been sown and the prospects are
very fair for a good crop. After
so many mishaps this speaks well
for the vim and pluck of our farm
ers.
Sunday McBride Wilson, of Sum
ter county, was bitten on the finger
by a ground rattlesnake. His finger
ger was immediately corded and
plenty of whisky administered. He
is still tittering his finger, which
has turned to a greenish color.
Hartwell Sun. For sometime
something appeared to be the mat
ter with the organ at the Baptist
church, and upon investigation last
Saturday a dead toad frog was
fotlnd inside of the instrumenL We
can’t account for the milk in the
cocoanut nor the toad in the organ.
The Piedmont Press of Gaines
ville says: “One million dollars
would build a navigable canal be
tween our city and Atlanta, and on
its shores would he built hundreds
of cotton factories. If we live twen
ty years more we confidently ex
pect to see this great scheme car
ried ouL”
County, made-last year 3,648 pound*
of dry clover per acre om ten acres
oP land. That would be a total of
26,480 pounds, at $1 per hun
dred would be $264.80. Besides
this, he threshed from the second
crop about 17 bushels of clover
the same farm 1 he made an average
of about one-fourth bale of cotton
pec acre, and it cost him twice as
much to make the cotton as it did
the clover.
GENERAL NEWS.
The belled buzzard has reached
Alabama.
A. woman has been shot for send
ing a comic valentine.
SL Louis will probably have an
elevated road. soon.
Patti’s diamonds are worth $200,-
090, Langtry’s. $100,000.
Jay Gould/ - gave his son George
83,000^090 to begin life with.
A coalition of readjusters and re-
publican* was formed at Richmond,
iicts that [the
fore
rttol) -j:. _
14. DeLesseps
Panama canal will
1888; 1 ‘
_ The North Carolina State Expo
sition will be held during October *
of this year. *
A general strike of coal miners is
anticipated in Western Pennsylvan
ia, in resistance to a cut down in
wages.
New Jersey people are dispens-
ing with the luxury of tax this year,
and there is $200,000 in the state
treasury.
A Boston firm has' an order for
$hoesfor a colored preacher at the
South that will be numbered “twen
ty-fours.” - 7
Six thousand Dakota sheep, be
longing to the Marquis deMone,
have died suddenly; poison suspect
ed, and all on account of McDon
nell. .
The colored; people of Lafayette,
Ale-, refuse to allow the body of the
rapist, Jeff Rogers, who was hang
ed last Sundiy morning, to be bur
ied in their cemetery.
Chattanooga is to have a new ed-
ncational institution. _ It Will be the
Central Methodist University in the
South, and $80,0001 will be spent on
the buildings during the present
It ia recalled in Honeoye, N. Y»
to be whipped by her fattier, an ac
tive abolitionist; • to make' her kiss
Douglass when to visited the fami-
ttyoie ruadlA '!u '
1/The DanviUe investigation so far
has proven very unsatifactoiy te the
ge bureau. . The sleuth hound
man appears to have struck a
cold 1 trail ' The Only ddlferout track
that he has‘scented is a sniff of the
rottenpehtiCal methodsofMahone
and his foUoi$ffilH> > •>:-MJ-
pf the day is
' ‘ thirteen
iting
’caterh railroad
unknown
alo police ha vo
safe-breakers.
The wife of a wealthy tertner, livin*.
near GntanriltoTann^'WtfaJU Gl .
at home with .tor fitoflyv waa/prgener-
and killed by soom perae* oxh zoodra--
who ilied through tto trunk