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THE political outlook.
If the democratic party- fails to
carry the dar next November, their
defeat will be a disastrous blow to
the organisation. We believe it
will result in the diaruptureof the
party North, but in the ,outh we
must still ding together for self
protection. The fact isvpolitics in
this country have gotten to be only
a sectional strife, any w-v. The
North is afraid to trust the reins of
power in the hands ot the Southern
people, or their political allies.
While they split on minor issues,
when it comes to a national election
it is a solid North against a solid
South. The only hope for the dem -
-ocratic party is for it to get from off
the fence and force an issue with
the radicals that is of more import-
E nce to the masses than sectional
nimosities. The great question
hat is now agitating the public
mind is the tariff. The democratic
party is antagonistic to our present
lystem, by which the masses are
oppressed with taxes that a few
men may accumulate gigantic for
tunes. Let the democratic party,
when it meets in convention at Chi-
cago in June next, come boldly and
fearlessly out in a platforta ot “tar-:
iff for revenue only.” We believe
that these lour words, backed by
in expose of the oppression of pro-
ective tariff and the infamies of the
THE BANNER-WATCHMAN.
NO XXXV.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884.
VOL XXX
whipped, or is killed in a riot, down
South, the government takes the
taktter in hand and sends out com
missions to investigate -the trouble
and prepare a report reeking with
blood and thunder. The Southern
people are painted as a nation of
barbarians, to whose ears the moans
bf a dying negro is the sweetest
music. The passions of the North
are appealed to and their righteous
indignation kept at fever heat. But
we never hear of commissions ap
pointed by congress to hold polit
ical inquests over Massachusetts’
tanned hides or Ohio’s home-made
stiffs. Oh, no! It is the radical ox
that is gored this time and the veil
of charity and concealment is drawn
over such scenes. But just suppose
that these acts had been committed
south of Mason & Dixon’s line! Why
the party organs would have been
enlarged to contain the cnathemas
hurled at the head of the barbarous
ominant party, will insure an over. I south. The brilliant talent of Mr.
helming victory for us. It is sitri- Emory Speer would doubtless have
il'y political suicide for our party to
ittempt further deceit and vasc : ,la-
Its platform is now as
early like the republican’s as‘d iffer-
words can express the same
entiments. As a consequence
here is nothing left for thu .voters
o decide but a choice of sectional
ssucs—and sad experience demon*
itrates the fact that the animosities
ngendered by the late war always
;urn the balance on the side of “the
arty of great moral ideas.” To bp
mccessful the democrats must carry
Jew York. This state never goes
for a candidate unless to the
born, and hence we think
» essential . that a New
lorker be placed at the head of the
icket. If Mr. Tilden will nt
ept, we can find some other good
nd popular democrat there who
vill doubtless carry victory. With
uch a ticket and an anti-protective
ariff platform, we feel not a shadow
if doubt about the overthrow of the
cpublican party; and that organi-
ration once defeated can never he
resurrected. We want no wishy
s-athy platform, hut a bold, out
ipoken declaration of our princi
pies, whether they be palatable to
the capitalists of the North or not.
Take the history of the Southern
States, and so long as they attempt-
id a policy campaign defeat was
their portion. But when they came
out boldly in defense of their rights
they at once gained the respect of
heir enemies and cast ofl the yoke
f oppression. It will be the same
hing in a national contest. We
must assert our manhood and make
the chasm dividing the two polit
ical parties in this country as broad
.s possible. We must give the re-
ublicans something else to prate
iliout than old sectional issues,
lace them on the defensive and
eep them there, upen the eyes
of the people to the iniquities of our
present oppressive tariff system.
Let the record of the dominant
arty be made the campaign cry
'or democracy. Force them
itand upon the stump while we ex
plain to a robbed and oppressed
cople how their confidence and
ust have been abused in the name
f loyalty and the Union. They
ill then have no time to send out
ommissions to manufacture mate-
ini in the South for a sectional cam-
>aign. By such appeals to the prej-
dices of the North can the republi-
ans alone hope for success. So
ng as the democrats pursue their
morous policy they arm our ene-
ics with this issue, which is all
pon which they have to lean; and
ith only sectional differences as a
tform, the party of the South
.1 meet with defeat every time.
THE YANKEE AND THQ NIGGER.
The darkey's man and brother at
the North has a very emphatic way
of manifesting his love for the bro-
black. I n Massachusetts,
pnly a few months since, Gen. But-
et exposed the practice of tanning
egro hides—not in the old South
rn anti-bellum style, by an appli-
ation of a hickory wythe—hut the
larkey was first killed, then his
hark pealed off and the same con-
ligned to a tanvat, when it was
rorked into leather and sold to the
descendants of the pilgrims for
(loves, shoes, etc. This was made
in issue in the last campaign in that
itate, and the “grand old party” en-
arsed this new industry by defeat-
ng the man who had exposed the
nstom and elevating a disciple of
hide-tanners in his stead. A
ew days since another evidence of
he great value of the negro to the
forth was discovered in Ohio,
he late disastrous floods prevented
he medical colleges in Cincinnati
rum obtaining as many “stiffs” as
he needs of the institutions demand
So three good and worthrCvre-
Liblicaus were delegated to go
brth and bring in some bodrei
rraceably if they could, forcibly if
hey must. The burial grounds
rcre either inconvenient er under
ha;cr, and as the colleges would
not brook delay, these loyal resur-
ictionists repaired to a cabin iuh»b-
ted by a family of * inoffensive
egrocs and proceeded to manutac-
nre ‘stiffs” to order. First the in-
nates were most unmercifully kill-
', then the bodies placed in a wag
i, and the house and contents
hurried to conceal the crime. So
few dollars were three lives
crificed! During slavery times,
| what a howl the abolition papers
[would tend up when a negro was
I knocked ofT to, the Jiighest bidder
[ from the block. But; here in the vir-
Ituouft North—file hot-bed of all the
[isma that afflict .the country—dp
[ weu-adbfacts of outrage and vio
lence that surpass the brute crea-
[too. When some lawless negro is
been called into requisition to do
justice to the perpetrators, and the
gates of Albany kept ajar for their
admittance. But so far from rebu
king the hide-tanners in Massachu
setts they have received a public
endorsement from the republican
party; and be it said to the everlast
ing shame of the negroes of that
state, they voted with the very men
who had committed this act of dese
cration upon the dead bodies of
their race! We predict that the
Ohio fiends will be dealt with in
the same compassionate manner—
or at least we know they will if
their conviction tends to imperil the
political success of the dominant
party. Out upon such one-sided
nvestigations, say we! The South
stands ready to compare criminal
records any day with the North;
and if the latter section don’t show
a cloud of crime that will complete
ly obscure the calendar of the
Southern States, then we are ready
to applaud the commissions sent to
our section by the republican party.
There are bad and lawless men in
eveiy state-only in the North they
are classed and dealt with as com
mon criminals, while at the South
the entire people and the democratic
party are sought to be made respon
sible for the acts of a few men. We
protest against this one-sided way
of doing business, and say if you are
going to hold the democratic party
responsible for the Danville and
other riots, then hold the republi
cans responsible for the tanned nig
ger hides of Massachusetts and the
home-made stiffs of Ohio.
thrift to elevate himself socially and
accumulate property, then in
deed we might fear this curse.
But twenty years of free
dom has demonstrated the fact that
the African will remain just as the
Creator made him, and hence there
will be no inducements for the
whites to mix with such a people.
So far from the social lines being
removed they are tightening each
day. Hence we have no fear of
amalgamation between the whites
and blacks if the races abide togeth
er a thousand years. It is safest,
however, and best for both races,
that they be kept as distinct as pos
sible and anything like social com
mingling discountenanced If a white
man associates on an equality with
negroes,let him be.ostracised by his
own race. To our mind the only so
lution of this problem is for the gen
eral government to take the elec
tive franchise from the negro until
he knows better how to use it. Let
freemen be required to come up to a
certain standard of morality ^nd in
teliigence before being entrusted
with the reins of government. Keep
the negro out of politics and he
will give the south no trouble. Pro
tect him in all his rights, but
you had as well turn a wild
bull loose in a china shop as to per
mit a lot of ignorant and depraved
Africans to shape the government
of the country. As our population
grows more dense and heteroge
neous. suffrage.must be curtailed.
Such a proposition would be un
popular now, but the day will soon
come when the safety of our repub
lican government will demand the
measure. The republican party
would to-day gladly vote to take the
ballot from the negro, as his vote is
of no use to them and only enhances
the strength of the democratic party,
We candidly believe the negro
would be far better off if stripped
of this privilege until he proves
himself worthy of it, and we feel
confident that it would satisfactorily
and amicably settle the vexed ques
tion of “What must the Southern
states do with their black popula
tion?”
THE STORM IN PUTNAM.
The Eatonton Messenger reporter
was at Dennis Station Wednesday,
and gathered the particulars of the
cyclone at Colonel Humber’s, where
it was decidedly more severe than
at any point in the county. At the
time the storm came up, there were
in Colonel Humber’s house, twelve
persons—himself and family, Miss
Bessie Randall and one or two
neighbors. Most ot them were in
one room. The Colonel was, we
believe, in the hallway. The cloud
of wind was within a few hundred
yards of the house, coming directly
towards it, when discovered. It
completely demolished the house,
taking about one minute in passing
over. No serious injuries were sus
tained by those inside. Cqlonel
Humber was blown a few yards,
and the chimney fell tipon him. The
fall of the chimney upon him was
somewhat broken by a sewing ma
chine under which he was partly
thrown. His leg was broken just
at the ankle, though doctors say the
main bone is not broken. Col.
Humber felt himself suffocating, but
by a desperate effort, extricated him
self from the debris. It is
simply miraculous that no fatal in
jury was sustained by any one in
the house. Large trunks, furniture,
etc., were taken from the room in
which were the ladies, and carried
hundreds of yards oil. On the oth
er hand, a trunk and valise remain
ed unmoved, and except a sensation
of being pressed to the floor, the la
dies were uninjured, save that Miss
Bessie Randall received a cut upon
the head and Miss Emily Humber
was bruised.
Not
COLONIZING THE BLACKS.
For some time past the press of
the Southern States has been urg
ing the colonization of the negroes
in a territory to themselves, that
the two races might be separated
and conflict and trouble averted.
Last Saturday a bill was introduced
in the Vilginia legislature on this
subject, and asking that congress
sat aside some territory exclusively
for the negroes, and the government
take the matter of colonization in
hand. This is the first official
step taken in that direction, and it
will doubtless provoke considerable
debate throughout the South. Now
while we believe that it will he far
better for the whites, and the states
afflicted with such a large black
population, to have them removed,
we see no way by which it can be
consummated. The general gov
ernment has no more right to give
the negroes land than it has to sup
ply any other class of its people
with free homes. The negro
now on an equal footing
with the whites, and he must
carve his own fortune. If he
too thriftless to accumulate
land for himself, he must content to
be the hewer of wood and drawer
of w«‘;t for the superior race. But
even admitting that this colonizing
scheme was practicable, how many
negroes do you suppose would take
advantage of it? While some would
doubtless consent to the removal
the great bulk of these people pre
fer to remain among the whites, and
they can only be driven out at the
point of the bayonet. This race
multiplies very fast, and even were
one-half Rrken away the remainder
would soon supply the missing
places. The Southern states have
the negro on them, and the whites
had as well make up their minds to
grin and bear. Like the old man
in .the Arabian Nights, Cuflee
fastened to our back and we cannot
shake him off. The future of this
race is a grave and serious problem
that no one can foretell. In no coun
try in the history of the world has
two distinct races lived together on
an-cqual footing. The inferior has
always given place to the superior,
and the extermination of Ihe former
the inevitable result. But the ne
gro is differently constituted to any
other race of people. He seems
more easily domesticated, as it
were, and to adapts himself to the
ways of the people among whom he
lives. He recognizes, at heart, his
inferiority, and if left alone witi
keep in his proper place. It is only
when elevated to a sphere for which
he is incapacitated, and encouraged
by had and designing white men,
that the African becomes an ele
ment of discord. He is naturally a
dependent creature and an imita
tor of the whites, and can be mould
ed into any shape. Some predict
an amalgamation of the races. Of
this we have no fear. There is not
nodr one-half the mixture of bio «d
in the South as during the days of
slavery. You do not see near so
many, mulatto .children, and the
number decreases annually. It is
tnte that- there are immoral people
in both races and sexes, and will al
ways be to;; but they are exceptions
and not a role in the South. Now
iftheaegvo bad the intelligence and
TIRED OF LIFE AT EIGHT.
Ax AU*g»d CwV PmnaUI Crutlty «t Zltir-
nas.
Down the black banka of the
Delaware at Riverside, N. J., coated
yet by the* winter’s ice, says the
PhiladelphiaTimes of the 33d inst.,
two children went on Thursday.
Their purpose was suicide. The
name of one was Charlie Drenk,
aged 8 years. His sister Clara was
6 years old. Two days before the
boy had attempted suicide by hang
ing. These twe children had tied
themselves together in their attempt
at solving the secret of the shadow'
feared of men, and were only pre
vented from the execution of tneir
intent by the interference of John
Giddings, an observant neighbor
who had witnessed their attempt
The cause of the children’s sin
cere effort at self-destruction was
alleged parental abuse. James
Drenk, their father, has in common
with the responsibility of introduc
ing them into the world the burden
of rearing other children, all of
whom have, since his wife died in
1877, grown up and left him. One
of them, Maria, is the wife of a well-
to-do operative in a Kensington
cotton mill. A Times reporter yes
terday afternoon reached the hovel
where the family live at Riverside.
The lather was away at work in
the city. He had left the children
to hang, drown or burn, as they
saw fit, at home. From adversity
they had learned to cook. In the
smouldering stove the girl was try
ing to roast two potatoes when the
reporter entered.
“Why do you want to kill your
self, Charlie?” he asked. The small
suicide cowered over the stove.
“I don’t want to live,” he said, as
FIGHT IN A MINE.
Tim* Men SUM sod ox» Oxs^annslj Wonnded
Publlo IxdtfmMloa.
Ashville, N. C., February 23.
Reliable information was received
here to-day of a bloody tragedy at
Flat Rock, Mitchell county, in this
section of the State. Three men
were killed and one dangerously
wounded. Stephen Burleson and
Sebe Miller worked a mica mine
leased from Isaac Bailey. Reuben
Sparks claimed the mine under a
State grant, and sold half the inter
est to Ed. Ray and E. A. Anderson,
with the stipulation that they take
possession on Sunday. Ray, with
two young men named Sparks,
went .to the mine and took posses
sion of a tunnel below a shaft in
which which Stephen Burleson,
Sebe Miller and Robert Pendant
were working, and built a fire in the
tunnel to smoke the other parties
outof theshaft Failing in this Ray
went to Bakersville, nine miles off,
and brought back his brother-in-law
Anderson. Each armed himself,
and the two went to the shaft, which
was twelve feet deep. Pentand and
Bnrleson were in the shaft, while
Miller was outside to hand tools
down to his companions.
Ray had a few words with Miller
and then knocked him into the pit
with the butt of his gun. William
Burleson then knocked Ray into the
pit. Anderson, who was on the
side, ordered Horton, one of the
Burleson party, to leave, and as the
man turned to do so Anderson fired
ball into the back of his head, the
bullet coming out through the fore
head. Horton fell dead. Rny and
Robert Pentand clinched in the pit,
and when Pentand got the advan
tage Ray begged for quarter. Pen
tand let him get up, when Ray im
mediately shot Stephen Burleson
and ran up the ladder. Burleson
was hit in the right side and the ball
passed through his heart. Ander
son then went to the mouth of the
pit and fired down. The ball struck
Miller in the back of the head, com
ing out near the eye. Miller fell
dead. Another shot struck William
Burleson in the right side of the
hack, inflicting a dangerous wound.
The ball was cut out- Ray and An
derson escaped.
There is wild excitement and in
dignation in the country, and eve
rybody .is in pursuit of the murder
ers. Counsel in behalf of the assas
sins were driven from the Coroner’s
inquest and were not allowed a
hearing. Ray and Anderson are
revenua officers. Ray had been for
a long time in the service. In an
“ ‘ ‘ ‘— he killed a man and
, , , heTpoked the potatoes,
a tree and only one house “\Vhv not?”
(occupied by negroes) is left stand- Jn ^ h - h . pitched treble of
.ng upon the hill at Col Humber s. h U)e ,» at T swere d:
One of the Colonels horses was* « P ,; ck / d outof me night
killed and another seriously mjured. befor / last because there wa’n’t no
He lost stock, cattle, fowls, corn, supper. There wa’n’t no supper to
etc. In fact, his farm is completely
upset. His outhouses are gone, his 8 ^
carriage is broken into atoms not s ; ster j n tbe cor ' ner be gan to beat
much larger than one s hand. rataplan on the back of a picture of
„ i A zj AS u D , ANC . KS A J 10, . Abraham Lincoln, which she had
Col. Humber s piano was taken . cked from |he wall with the
from the house and landed m a £ g he had bUck hair and
gully a hundred yards away. Most e#
of the clothing belonging to the lam- « W L did you want to drown
lly and all the furniture wa_. des-| y0 urself?” asked the reporter again
troyed. “Charley wanted to go swim-
Mr. W. C. Paschal, wife and T 8 ’ e b h ope £? mouthed and
child were returning from M.lledge- round . eye< f ^
y.lle. They reached Col. Humber s u S . s .£_ she ain - t into this ,
just as the storm came up. Getting was me that did it »
out of the buggy, they attempted to “What f or j”
get to the house. Mrs. Paschal was « rm too Ured to toke 6fl
violently Mown to the ground and shirt _ look at them lumps «
killed before reaching the porch, her The wa , es across the £ - s back
my
husband stunned and iniured and
the little child was injured. Mr.
Paschal recovered consciousness
when che rain came on and took
his wife into the house. The buggy
was completely demolished, but the
ir-.ulc escaped.
Mrs. Paschal,
lady, and one much beloved, was
buried from Ararat church, Rev.
Mr. Conaway preaching the funeral.
negeoes killed Am Bun. I ThVneighWof the'chtfdren have
Two negroes were killed outright resoIved s to take them from the pos .
on CoL Humber s place. °ne more I ; onoftheirfath even / an
died Thursday, and tt is thought a ^ the Societ for the Pre
that two or three others cannot re- va J, t ; on of Cnlelty to Children i,
necessary. The neighbor who pre-
| were half an inch wide.
“I git lumps like them every day
-ever since—they had ferry boats.
11 mean ever since I rode on one.”
“Do you know what death is?”
The potatoes were nearly done.
, „ . I The boy answered:
most excellent | „ Tbey took ber to tbe graveyard.
“Who was she?”
“His wife.”
The “wife” was the boy’s mother.
that two or three others cannot re
cover. Sixteen or eighteen were
wounded.
VALUABLES SAVED.
Fortunately, the desk or safe con
taining Col. Humber’s valuables
was blown against the chimney, and
thus its contents saved, except a
diamond ring, valued at $500. Mon
ey and valuables fell to the ground
with the crushed desk, and were
afterwards found.
vented the suicide of the children
opposed to this and desires to take
them home himself.
It is said Tfiatfa child is misting at
Leeds, and no traceUbad of ft since
the storm.
Below Heard county some gum
legs were whirled .nto the air and
broken in two while off the ground.
Those persons who were in •
storm an5 escaped alive, state that
when the storm had passed they
were panting and exhausted as if
they had been running a long dis
tance, and say that they had a sen-
sation of unnatural warmth while
the cyclone was above them.
It seems to be settled that the cy
clone was about two minutes in pass-
"U.’SKSm™.. Airy, had
stalwart pig in a fatten.ng pen
near his house. It weighed about
one hundred pounds and basset
aside for the knife this week. Af
ter the cyclone he was nowhere to
he found, and he has neverbeen seen
or heard of since. If any one should
see him let us know.
Charleston, S. C., February 23.
Near Midway, a colored preacher
named Martin Ningo, 200 pounds
weight, was lifted out of bed by the
wind, carried 300 yards and laid
down, slightly bruised.
Macon, Ga., February 23.—Ma
con was visited by a severe wind
early this morning. The telegraph
lines between Macon and Savannah
were blown down. Private letters
received here state that every house
on R. C. Humber’s place, Putnam
county, was demolished injthe re
cent storm. His property loss is
$9,000. Twenty-nine persons were
killed on his place. When his resi
dence blew down the wind caught
up $200 of greenbacks in his house,
scattered the money over the fields
and woods. Every dollar was found
and returned to Mr. Humber.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22.-
The Age gives several incidents,
illustrating the iorce of the cyclone.
There were two sick negro men in
a log bouse near the section house,
and they were picked up with the
house and landed nearly fifty yards
np the hill on the north side of the
railroad. The house was demolis
ed, but neither of the men were
hurt. A hand car was blown across
the track near the section houses and
one pair ot wheels carried away, no
one knows where. Of the five head
of cattle dead at Leeds several did
not belong in the immediate seitle
ment where they landed, and there
are many conjectures' as to where
the cyclone picked them tip. _ A
wood-working apparatus, something
like a brace for bits, that no one
about Leeds had ever seen before,
was landed near where the cyclone
first struck the railroad. Of the re
markable escapes the most wonder
fu( Was at the house of Mr. W. R,
Moss. Besides Mr. Ross’s family,
thirteen children, pupils of a school
near, and their teacher, Mrs. Sher
man, took refuge in his house. The
house was blown away to the floor,
but no one was hurt except Mr.
Moss’s son, Johnnie, twelve years
old, who received a bad cut on his
forehead. At McLaughlin’s house,
a striking illustration was given of
canine fidelity. Although the house
and everything near it was blown
down and its contents broken to
pieces or carried away by the cy
clone, a stalwart cur was found in
possession and resented every intru
sion upon the premises.
A female' FREEMASON.
NEGRO RESERVATION.
The Proposition Wfelcb x Vlrglnix State BoMor
HYDROPHOBIA.
TELEGRAPIC SPARKS.
The peasants and mititaty. ore
fighting in Russia.
Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa are
now prohibition states.
The Georgia republicans will
hold a state convention on the 9th
of April.
Alice Green, postmistress at Bir
mingham, Ala., died of consump
tion.
John W.Brehuier, near Glasgow
Ohio, shot and fatally wounded his
son while drunk.
At the present rate of progress
congress will probably adjourn in
September.
General Gordon again surprises
the world. He proposes to have a
face-to-face talk with El Mahdi.
One of the Cincinnati resurrec
tionists, who murdered three ne
groes to get their bodies to sell to a
Richmond, Feb. 18.—Mr. Absa
lom Koiner, ex-chairman of the state
democratic committee and a mem
ber of the Virginia senate, to-dav
submitted to the senate a proposi
tion which is likely to attract atten
tion in the political circles in the
state. The preamble and resolu
tion read;
Whereas, There is manifested on
the part of the best educated and
intelligent portion of the negro pop
ulation of the country a deep and
increasing feeling of discontent
with their present relations in the
government with the white race,
growing out of their social inequal
ity ana its attendant consequences,
jealousy and distrust, developing an
irrepressible antagonism which is
imbedded in the organism of socie
ty and can only find its complete so
lution in the separation of the races
into a distinct territorial organiza- i medical college, has been arrested.
tion, looking to a timely provision
against the direful consequences of
conflicts between the races in over
crowded districts of negro popula
tion, and prudently providing a
safety valve tor the excess of ne
groes to pass out to a territory re
served for their exclusive posses
sion and local government; there
fore, be it
Resolved, by the general assem
bly of Virginia, That the represen
tatives of this state in the congress
of the United States be and they
are hereby requested to bring to
the attention of the national gov
ernment the propriety of the neces
sity of providing a territorial reser
vation for the exclusive'use and lo
cal goevrnment of such of the ne
gro race of the United States as
may prefer negro population and
local negro government to demon
strate their capacity of self-govern
ment and the highest development
of their race.
The subject could not be discuss
ed without a suspension of the
rules. The resolution was ordered
to be printed and made the special
order for to-morrow. It will pro
voke a deal of discussion. There is
also a proposition before the Vir
ginia legislature t6 amend the con'
stitution so as to provide negro
trustees for a negro school. This
promise was made by the demo
crats in their Lynchburg conven
tion.
GEORGIA POLITICS.
official capacity he ki
was never called to
was never cauea to account for it.
He is the same man who was once
indicted in the State courts for an
assault upon a woman, which case
was transferred to the United States
courts on the plea that the crime
was committed by the defendant in
an official capacity. The' plea was
sustained*and the prisoner was dis
charged. _
TAKEN FROM THE GRAVE.
Thx UMAX AppMtxxc* ofttuxx Unto CMWixa
AfUr a BMP ot Taxxty-two Tears.
Lumptiit Independent.
Gen. C. A. Evans, of Augusta,
Gx., was formerly a citizen of our
town, and in 1863 lost three children
who were buried here. One was a
little boy of five years, one an un
named infant, and the other a small
child. Mrs. Evans, who died in Au
gusta recently, requested that the
bodies of these children be taken to
Augusta to be reinterred with
two others of their family. The
coffins were exhumed last week, and
the covering of the glass removed
for inspection by a physician, in or
der to obtain a certificate, which is
required by railroads to protect them
against infections or contagious dis
eases. Tbo bodies of the children
were found to be in a remarkable
state of preservation, and could be
veiy easily identified. Their hair
looked as if it had been just dressed
and smoothed down, and their faces
were almost life-like, as if they had
just dropped off to sleep.
Chattanooga, February 36.—
Notice was posted yesterday at the
Dade Coal Mines announcing a ten
per cent, reduction on March ist
It affects 400 hands. A strike is
probable.
A StnutfS Story.
Gwinnett Herald.
A few weeks ago Mr. W. C. Cole,
justice of the peace in the town
A correspondent at Dennis writes district, was bit by a rabid dog. He
that the hail stones were as large as I j s now entirely recovered from the
partridge eggs, and _ that the noise effects of the virus, and we inter
of the hail, the continual flashes of I viewed him in reference to its
lightning and the heavy peals of effect, when he related the follow
thunder made the scene one never jng strange story:
to be forgotten, and at onCe grand H e lives in the edge of town, and
and terrible. one night he was standing in his
aid and sympathy. door and saw what he supposed
Col. Humber’s neighbors and was a half-grown dog run through
many of his friends have volunteer- his yard. He thought nothing more
ed aid in various substantial ways. 0 f it until in a few minutes he heard
The Colonel is cheerful, and his in- a puppy about three months old,
juries are not serious. which was sleeping just outside of
A telegram was received from the house, squall as if something
Governor McDaniel, asking as to I was eating it up. He hurried out to
the condition of Col. Humber, and see what was the matter and as he
offering his sympathies. got in the yard a red fox ran
Col. Humber, wife and Misp Ran- through the cotton patch. He was
dall are at Mrs, Garrard’s. The satisfied it was a fox, as it jumped
family are scattered atound among three cotton rows at a time, and an
neighbors. | examination next morning the tracks
“ clearly indicated the presence of
A I,I\ ING DEAIH. I brer fox. Next morning the puppy's
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. I head was swollen large enough for
. . ... , two heads. In a day or two morti-
A horrible discovery was made ficati<m gupervened J and the dog
one morning recently in a box car began to strange i y . In a few
on the C., N. O. & T. P. railway. d ays a ft e r this the dog came
The car was what is known as a the house aa | Mr>
boarding-car, used for section men, Co , e atte mpted to drive
and had been side-tracked for sev- hjm out ^ when *, he puppy made fight
eral weeks in the yard at Ludlow, and b;t Mf Co , e the ha s nd
Ky. It was locked, and an em- l d he , d on unti , kno 6 cked loose .
ployee had reason to open tt, when He continved t o show fight until
he was nearly overwhelmed by a knocked outof th e house. Mr. Cole
horrible stench .ssutng from the in- thought nothing morc of the mat .
side. Investigation discovered > te r, and treated it as an ordinary dog
negro, who was still alive,.but.whose blt ; unti , he f oun d that the do|
feet and legs were literally decom- was , evide ntly mad. He had every
posed. Medical assistance was at indication </ belng mad and w / s
once summoned but a careful in- , ockcd and sev £ ely chained un .
vest.gallon was for the time tmpos- t;1 he di< £ from hydrophobia,
sible. The sufferer to d the follow- As soon as kf ? ou J that the d
ing story He had entered the car was mad he wenl to Atlanta and J.
one night several weeks ago to curedfrom Dr . McKenzie a mad
sleep, and while there was acc.dent- stone He had a i rcad y began to
ally locked m The weatiter was fee , sharp pains shootfng up his
: e 7“ ld { and froze both legs, # w htah had a peculiar sensation
and thus lay for two whole weeks that ’ , rightene d tim. The stone,
m a ghastly condtt.on, his legs slow- when a K ,j ed #tuck t0 his hand
ly rotting away, and still hewasun- serven f^ iautes DO mat t e r how it
able to secure h.s re ease. He had I and confined to stick
a chunk of meat wh.ch he gnawed , ortwo 0 “’ ^ applications. In
at mtervals, and thus managed to order to t the ston ^ he was requir .
keep hirfiself alive. The man was L to ent “ r into bond for its safe re-
still conscious when fonnd. He was L which he did . The stone,
temoved by train to Cincinnati for whe ’ n exatnined with . glass, had
treatment. | tbe co j or a ra ttiesnake. Mr. Cole
PRESIDENTIAL.
is now well, he says that the stran
gest thing to him was that although
the dog’s teeth stuck deep in tne
j flesh the wound did not bleed,
Vlxvs at Xxr. OtMta) Zrxxx.
Georgia, who was the spiritual and .. J dmrrun^! a
confidential adyiMr of the late Sen- TO^U^So dtSS
ator Hill, in an interview,says; "We I.1*^_ A aonot
ble, the r*qonin«tfan of T§deo, of th o T * dfQ *P n *| wcclt *
would, perfiap*. arouse RILLED BT bloodhounds.
moro enthusiasm In the r——
South timn «ny other ticket, but Madison, Texas, Feb. aa.—
his feeble healtn U understood to Clifton Wade, the man who so bra-
preclude that Gov. Colquitt’s name tally murdered Robert Cummings
and that of Governor Joe Brown U«t summer, has been torn to pieces
have been mentioned, but it is not I by bloodhounds- It occurred in
thought by the more conservative! this way- Two men came to Waxa-
Democrats in the South that it would | hatchie on the 18th instant and of-
be right to hamper the North with fered horses for sale. The officers
a name from our section. Perhaps suspected that the animals had been
after four years of good Democratic stolen and arrested one of the men,
administration, in which, of course, the other escaping. Bloodhounds
the South will have some share, it were put on his track, who over
may be found that the North will took him ana killed him, horribly
offer her a place on the ticket and mangling his body. It turns out
will not be afraid to trust the erring I that the man killed by the doga is
rister again.” * *
The Hon. Elizabeth St Leger
was the only female ever initiated
into the ancient mystery of freema
sonry. How she obtained this hon
or we shall lay before our readers.
Lord Doneraile, Miss St. Leger’s
father, a very zealous Mason, held a
warrant, and occasionally opened
lodge at Doneraile house, his sons
and some intimate friends assisting,
and it is said that never were the
masonic duties more rigidly enforc-
ed than by them. Previous to toe
initiation ot a gentleman to the first
step of masonry, Miss St. Leger,
who was a young girj, happened to
be in an apartment adjoining the
room generally used as a lodge
room. The room was undergoing
some alteration at the time. Among
other things the wall was consider
ably reduced in one part. The girl
having heard the voices of the tree'
masons, and prompted by the curl
osity natural to all to see this mys
tery, so long and so secretly lock'ed
from the public view, she had the
courage to pick a brick from the
wall with her scissors, and witness
ed the ceremony through the two
first steps. Curiosity satisfied, tear
at once took possession of her mind
There was no mode of escape ex
cept through the very room
where the concluding part of
the second step was still being sol
emnized, and that being at the far
end, and the room a very large one,
she had resolution enough to at
tempt her escape that way; and
with light, but trembling step, she
glided along unobserved, laid her
hand on the handle of the door, and
gently opened it, before her stood,
to her dismay, a grim and surly tyler
with his long sword unsheathed. A
shriek that pierced through the
apartment alarmed tne members of
the lodge, who, all rushing up to
the door, and finding that Miss St.
Leger had beeu in the room during
the ceremony, in the first paroxysm
of their rage, her death was resolv
ed on, hut from the moving suppli
cation of her younger brother, her
life was saved on condition of her
going through the whole solemn
ceremony she had unlawfully wit
nessed. - This she consented to, and
they conducted the beautiful and
terrified young lady thtough those
trials which are sometimes more
than enough for masculine resolu
tion, little thinking they were taking
into the bosom of Graft a mem
ber that would afterwards reflect a
lustre Qfttto ftWtab of masonry.
SLAVE Carriages.
Atlanta Letter in Savannah Timet.
Col. Candler was in Gainesville a
few days since looking after his bus'
iness affairs.
Col. Hammond is now here at
tending to some law business and
looking over the field with an anx
ious eye. He is much exercised
over Capt. Henry Jackson’s candi
dacy, and does not feel at all easy.
He has ascertained the fact that the
men who generally took the most
prominence in fixing up the dele
gates are for Tackson, and knowing
this, his feelings are anything but
comfortable.
It is authoritatively announced
that Boynton is no longer in the race
for congress in the fifth.
The Tenth, which is the new dis
trict, seems to have settled on Hon.
George T. Barnes as the coming
man.
It is stated here that at the expi
ration ofjudge Henderson’s term
of office as Commissioner of Agri
culture, Hon. M. A. B. Tatnum, of
Dade, will be an applicant for the
place.
So far Clements does not seem
to have auy fixed opposition in the
Seventh. Before tne ball opens,
however, he may have his hands
full, as there are a dozen men in
that district who want to go to Con
gress, and want to go there bad.
It is now stated that ex-Congress
man W. E. Smith, better known as
“Tete” Smith, of Albamr, Judge
Thomas J. Simmons, of Macon, and
Hon. Louis F. Guerard, of Colum
bus, will be in the race for Govern
or. As a mutter of course Govern
or McDaniel will stand for re-elec
tion.
Roscoe Conkling declares the re
publican party a fraud and declares
his conviction that the democrats
will elect the next president.
The female barber shop in Atlan
ta has been closed out by an at-
tachee. The husband of the pro
prietress eloped with his wife’s sis
ter.
Vienna, Feb. 2S.—Placards have
been found in various places appeal
ing to the people and asking them
how long they will let the monarch
live,
Morrisville, N. Y., February
26.—Mrs. Haight, convicted on Sat
urday of murdering her husband,
was sentenced to be hanged on
April iSth next.
Burglars effected an entrance
into a jewelry store at Troy, N. Y.,
and succeeded in carrying away dia
monds, watches and other property,
in all valued at over $50,000.
Some pathetic scenes occurred in
the court room at Morrisville, N.
Y., wheti Mrs. Haight, on trial for
killing her husband, was found guil
ty of murder in the first degree,
The senate, yesterday, passed the
currency bill, permitting banks to
keep their circulation up to the
market value of their bonds depos
ited with the comptroller.
A supporter of Mr. Arthur in an
interview expresses the opinion that
the President will be very strong in
the Convention. He states posi
tively that Mr. Edmunds will not be
a candidate.
The false prophet has resumed
his march against Khartoum, and
the native tribes are rallying to him
as he advances. The plans of Gen
eral Gordon have been frustrated,
and nothing remains but to fight it
out.
Denver, Feb. 26.—Over one
hundred children of the Zom In
dians have died with measles during
the past month. The disease is still
raging. The scenes about the In
dian villages are sickening in the ex
treme.
In many places in the flooded
Ohio valley, even people with
money cannot purchase necessaries,
for there is nothing left to purchase.
In one district of twenty-five miles
one-half the houses were washed
away.
Trenton, N.J., Feb.'21.—The
supreme court this morning ordered
a mandamus to issue against the
trustees of the Union district school,
of Burlington, for refusing to admit
the children of a colored man named
Pierce in May last.
A fight occurred in Montana be
tween four Crow Indians and seven
white men, on one side, and five
Piegans, who had stolen the Crows’
ponies, on the other. Four of the
Piegans and two white men were
killed and two other white me"n
wounded. Horses seem dear and
life cheap in Montana.
FAILURES IX GEORGIA LAST
WEEK.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
There is trouble over the stock
law in Greene. _
A two-headed toy is being exhib
ited through the state.
Henry Grady says Senator Brown
wears a rabbit skin on his chest.
Another daily paper is to make
its appearance at Macon on March
ist
Two Mormon elders are preach
ing their doctrines in Paulding
county.
It issaid that Senator Tde Brown
Will not be a candidate for re-elec
tion.
The. negro military heroes took
charge of General Washington’s
birthday in Atlanta.
Mr. F. P. Thornton, of upper El
bert, had two horses killed by light
ning on the 14th inst.
F. M. Bailey, of Jackson county,
traced his runaway son to Atlanta
and captured him.
Cochran has a population of
eight hundred, and this population
supports eleven bar-rooms.
At Dublin a rat made its nest in
the matted hairs of the tail of Dr.
Hightower’s horse, where he was
found and killed.
Two hundred men are booming
the Kimball House toward com
pletion at Atlanta. Seven stories
are to be under roofby May t. One
ot the mantles in the house cost
$Soo.
MORE CONFEDERATE GOLD.
A party of two men, two women
and a colony of children have just
returned to their old home in Pick
ens county from Texas, minus eve
rything they possessed when they
made the start.
At Augusta Charles C. Greet
was admitted to bail in the sum of
$5,000, to answer in the supreme
court to the charge of voluntary
manslaughter, in killingyoung Phil-
pot at the firemens’ ball several
days ago.
A negro child, ten or twelve years
of age, son of Jasper Pearce, near
White Plains, died of hydrophobia
on Tuesday. He was bitten about
six weeks ago, but the disease did
not develop until a few days before
his death.
Concerning the sad suicide near
Chicksawhetchie, Terrell county,
on Monday last, in which Miss
Williams, a young girl twelve or
fourteen yeirs old, took poison and
died very soon thereafter, ru
mor says her home surroundings
were not pleasant, and she thus
ended her life.
A man by the name of West
moreland, living near Lawrence-
villc, this state, recently had a little
child to die, and not having the
means with which to purchase the
shrouding and have a coffin made,
applied to his landlord, one of the
wealthiest men in that section of
country, for some assistance. The
landlord said he could grant no aid,
and the man returned to the scanty
shelter where his wife lay on a bed
of sickness and the child a corpse.
When next seen he wa3 all alone,
carrying a little wooden box in his
arms, plodding his way through the
fields to a grave dug by his own
hands.
GENERAL NEWS.
that the man xmea Dy the doga is as shown By eviacnce. me j
Wade, the murderer of Cummings. - rendered a verdict of not guilty'.
Aa Ohio court Hold* test Prspvvr CwM aw
Many, sad tea Mate ta SsMuU..
Toledo, Onto, Feh. 35—a pe
culiar case has been decided in the
common pleas court, _ involving the
validity off slave marriages. A col
ored man named Anderson married
here ia i88l and thereupon was ar
rested for bigamy, it being charged
that he Was married whileaslave to
a slave woman in Bedford county,
Virginia, in 1861. The case hinged
on the • validity ot the slave mar-
aiage. The judge instructed the
jury that slaves being property,
could not make legal contracts, but
the courts bafl decided that slave
marriages bacame valid by co-habi
tation as man and wife After the
emancipation proclamation . went
into cflect in 1804- The case thus
turned on a question offset, wheth
er the pair had so cohabitated or not,
as shown' by evidence. The jury
The Washington Gazette says:
“Monday night about 9 o’clock,
Mr. John Furguson; of Lincoln
county, arrived in town with a ne
gro prisoner and committed him to
jail. The cause of this proceeding
as we learn is as follows: This ne
gro about Christmas, informed one
or two gentlemen of Lincoln coun
ty that he had found a lot of gold
and silver, and not knowing what
to do with so great an amount of
specie, would turn it over to them,
provided they would agree to pay
him some greeneacks therefor.
These gentlemen agreed to his pro
position, and went so far as to pay
him $150. The negro put off from
time to time taking the gentlemen
to the hidden treasure, under some
pretext, and finally ran over into
this county. The parties -from
whom he got the $160 have been on
the lookout for him, and Sunday
last succeeded in capturing him
It seems, from whet can be learned,
that there were two negroes engag
ed in this gold hunting, but the other
has succeeded in escaping. One of
the negroes who came up with the
prisoners, says he saw the prisoner
with the gold and silver, and that it
was about his hat and two shot
sacks full, and finally he ’specled
that if all of it was together, it would
fill a joana sack. The above is about
the gist of the rumors that are cir
culating in regard to this affaair.
Some are of tbe opinion that this
case is a second edition of the Pull-
Evans affair, which some years ago
agitated this town from centre to
circumference, as Hull was leading
men around at night with a dark
lantern, a pick-axe and a meal sack
to unfold to them the hidden gold of
the defunct Confederacy.”
H sip tar tip Sufferers.
Washington, February 25.—
Mr. Randall offered a joint resolu
tion to appropriate $1000,000 for
the relief of the sufferers by the re
cent great wind storm in the South
ern States. He said over five hun
dred people were killed and many
thousand wounded and the suffer
ing resulting from the storm was
awful,
. Mr. Brown supported the resold
tion in fitting words. He thought
it a case clearly calling for the inter
position of Congress.
Mr. Pugh also supported it He
that whatever claim was good for the
relief of the sufferers by the western
flood*, was good for the.sufferers by
this wind storm.
Americus—P. H. Williams, gro
cer, called meeting of creditors.
Atlanta—C. P. Murray, shoes, as
signed.
Atlanta—Shuttle Brothers whole
sale jewelry, failed and sold out.
Liabilities $20,000. They have a
branch at Dallas, Texas.
Augusta—George P. Curry,
banker and proprietor of the Sum
merville Mills, cotton check assign
ed to Charles A. Harper. Liabili
ties about $220.00; assets nominally
ahoutthe same; the mill is mort
gaged for $60,000 to secure bonds;
preferred claim $66,500, of which
$2,500 was to laborers, $ 14,000 trust
funds and $50,000 to bank deposi
tors. The mill has been in opera
tion for about ten years.
Augusta—Delane & Hickok, dry
goods, assigned. Liabilities $83,-
985; assets $72,548; mortgage on
stock $43,630; other preferences
$2S,IOO.
Augusta—D. H. Shcahan, (agent j
grocer, mortgage foreclosed
Macon—C. H.
failed.
Paulding—F. M. Smith, shoes,
mortgage foreclosed.
Senoia—Shell, Bell & Co., gen
eral store, failed and sold out.
Wrightsville—II. V. Kent &
Brother, general store, failed and
sold out. Liabilities about $10,000;
assets $7,000.
. Hutchings, grocer,
The bill prohibiting the use of the
mails to newspapers publishing lot
tery advertisements, has been re'
ported favorably upon.
A HELLISH CRIME.
The LaFayette, Ala., Sun extra
says: “In the northeastern portion
of this county* near Mr. Eichelber-
ber’s mill, on last Tuesday, the 29th
inst, was perpetrated one of the
most heinous crimes ever before
perpetrated in the annals of our
county.
Mrs. Stribling, a young married
lady about nineteen years of age,
wife of Mr. Henry Stribbling, a re
spectable farmer, was outraged and
brutally cut in the throat and back,
the former cut almost severing her
wind-pipe. At this time she is ly
ing in a critical condition with but
little chance of recovery.”
We haven’t space for the partic
ulars as given by the sun. A ne
gro named Jeff Rogers was arrest
ed and after preliminary hearing
was committed to jail at LaFavette.
He was clearly identified by his
victim, and an unbroken chain of
circumstances point to his guilt. It
will doubtless require a great deal
of stoicism on the part of that lady’s
friends to wait for the slow process
of law in such a case.
Just as we go to press, we learn
that the negro Rogers, who out
raged Mrs. Stribling, in Chambers
county, Alabama, was taken from
the jail in LaFayette last Saturday
night by a mob and hung.—Frank
lin News.
Negroes are leaving Seneca City,
S. C., by the car load for the west
A Texas prophet declares 1884
will “bristle and groin with disas
ters,”
A jury of women tried a divorce
case at Cheney, Wyoming, re
cently.
The City of Coiumbus wreck
will be left to the mercy of the
waves.
Mr. Hartwell, of Washington,
Conn., got ninety dollars for two
Cochin fowls.
Russia is the only empire that
presents an unbroken stretch across
two continents.
Over $1,017,000,000 taxes on dis
tilled spirits have been collected by
the government since 1852.
The number of men in the Uni
ted States subject to military duty
is estimated at over six millions.
The details ot the terrible storm
of Tuesday night are still coming in.
In one small village in South Caro
lina twenty people were killed.
Mr. and Mrs. Pitts, the parents of
the white girl who married Fred
erick Douglass, are said to he over
whelmed with shame and sorrow.
Fred Curtis, of San Francisco,
aged 17, has just created a sensa
tion by marrying his aunt, a
widow of over 40 and'the mother of
two children. .
Mr, Abbey offers Sarah Bern
hardt $1,200 for each performance
in America next season, she to fur
nish her own company and to pay
all other expenses.
Miss Emma Burrows, a handsome
girl of sixteen, at Troy, N. Y., shot,
and, it is thought, fatally wounded
hqr mother, because the latter would
not let her attend a ball with a
young man of her acquaintance.
A Michigan man has trained his
cat to visit a grocery and steal
mackerel for him. We can now
magine a chorus of paragraph men
saying something about a “macker-
The investigation of the causes of
the wreck of the City of Columbus
off Gay Head shows that the gov
ernment partly at least is to blame
for failing to buoy the holders of
rock on which the ship struck and
went to pieces.
On the 16th ultimo, at 6:30 a. m.,
a globe of fire, about a metre in di
ameter, appeared in the southern
quarter of the heavens, near the city
of Mexico. It had all the appear,
ance of Bengal fire. It traveled
with great rapidity toward the
north, and with a noise similar to
that made by a huge shelL In a
few seconds it was lost sight of be
hind the neighboring mountains.
iThe Africans recently attacked
the Dutch trading post Muculla,
near the mouth of the Congo river.
(Eight hundred natives assaulted the
fort, which was defended by the
agent with four cannon ana one
hundred well armed men. During
tne fight a large number of negroes
took shelter behind a powder maga
zine, which was exploded by shots
from the garrison. The ' natives
were defeated and left forty of, their
number dead on the field. The dif
ficulties will seriously interfere with
the trading stations tn that region.
Near Spartanburg, several year*
ago, a man needed some money and
applied to one who could, accom
modate him. Either in his .despair
or ignorance he gave his note for
about $100, with interest at 5 per
cent a month, which, if not paid
monthly, was to be compounded.
The • maker of this hole died this*
winter, and the holder of the note
is also dead. The executor now-
puts in his claim for about $3,000 for
the note of $100. • The courts will
likely be called upon to settle ther:
matter.