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• •CHARITY BEGINS AT
It will be remembered that John
Sherman, the senator* from Ohio,
has been very conapicuous in hav
ing committee* appointed to inves
tigate every little skirmish that oc
curs in a southern state, with a
view o( manufacturing bloody-shirt
campaign material. To his motion
was due the Danville and Copiah
committees, and the honorable sena-
i,n is now in charge of the outrage
manipulators at the former place.
l?ut he has met with a most igno-
mineous failure, for the facts have
been demonstrated that the alledged
p,,lit.cal riot was encouraged and
started by Mahoncandhis brother
1 eadiusters for the purpose of over
riding the law-abiding citizens of
Virginia. It was but a small.affair,
commencing with a private ditb-
cnlty. that was quickly
by the nuihoritic
out outside aid.
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ADDRESS OF THE WHITE HEN’S
ORGANIZATION.
Senator Sherman is enga_
partisan task the news is wired
jiint there has broken out in his
,wn b. me and among his own pco-
;l ,i,.t iies’ule which the Dantfilie
disturbance i> blit a fire-fly com
pared with the electric light. For
jhiec days has a desperate mob
held control of the great city of
Cincinnati, burning property and
,Moving public records, while
p c streets are running red with
1 !,»od of men. Women and children,
w ho are shot down like dogs. All
the state tioop- have been ordered
to tin
(i..tiling guns
rue
We clip the following extracts
from a circular issued by Mr. Nor-
cross and Gen. Longsl.eet, urging
the formation of a white man’s party
in the South:
In tlie state of Georgia there are
about 220,000 legal voters—130,000
white and 90.000 .colored. Of the
suppressed j wl * ite votcrs . th ^P arc ? bout . 3°’°°°
. , ' . , who are republican. in principle,
fthe city "ith-jand will so vote on all occasions
Hut even while when there is hope of success, but.
d in this when there js no hope, they are'in
different as to whether they vote
at all. * Among the negroes, there
are perhaps 5,000 who of their own
choice vote with the democrats.
The remainder of the negroes, S5,-
000, if left untrammelled, if they
vote at all, will vote a republican
ticket, as They usually do in Presi
dential elections when there is no
candidate to tamper with them; but
in all state and county elections
where they come in immediate con
tact with candidates for office, and
are subject to the various methods
resorted to control, they are, as
voters, utterly unreliable. If the
negrbes (the S5.0OO spoken ofl
would act the part of full manhood,
attend elections and vote their
unit'd h
1 ml the
moil ;
id tlr
neats
1 the
whole
ml si
most de-
1 of war arc
dense masses. I
in a state of
And this Cin- !
e. 1 n n of the excitement
. hut it seems a premedi-
11 nii .ition 0.1 the part of
:> rise superior to the dic
e’ law. * >!d and leading
l* seen among the rioters,
ig tne lawlessness by
■nee and words. Had a
-half t:iis magnitude oc-
1 Southern State, what a
muse! ii would have been
ninl.can party to roll 1111-
gue! The Senator from
i.l scarce* have contented
*K»-W airatmATL
consistent. Voting now with the
democracy, thev are keeping in full
life and vigor the identical political
ideas that Ted to the war, and forc
ed them away from their homes
and families against their will. The
men who are now in the lead of the
democratic party are the same men
who took the lead in secession* and
led the people into the difficulties
that followed. They profess no
change of sentiment or political
opinion, and now every man who
votes for them, is. by his vote, sus
taining the political ideas that led
to such disastrous results.
If a sufficient number will join us
to make a party respectable in num
ber, we will organize and throw our
banner to-the breeze by putting in
nomination a full ticket for state of
ficers and Presidential electors. But
if the people are satisfied with the
present condition of things, and
give us no encouragement, we will
bide our time—but continue to ho'.d
Over 300 Men Killed for
One Murderer.
The Streets of the City Bar
ricaded and Gattling
Guns Turned Loose
on the Mob,
Men, Women and Children
Shot Down Like Dogs.
Danville and Copiah Laid
in the Shade,
■l' 3 **' ' k**** «*d orgsii anilouO rfinug A
, hut they seem pow- ]
11.,.iess the outbreak. ! c | 10 j ce undisturlted by any improper
influence, the contests for suprema
cy between the two parties would be
close and somewhat doubtlul, and
the party in control would have a
sufficient check upon its action to
, assure the people good government.
. not a hasty little j To cflcct this, should he the aim
and object of every man, white or
colored, who claims to he a patriot,
and indeed it may he truly said that
a man's patriotism is not worth
much who will not make any rea
sonable sacrifice of former party ties
and predilections to effect that ob
ject. Good government is what all
men should strive for, hut to insure
it, proper organization of party ma
chinery, with honesty and fair deal
ing in conducting elections, is indis
pensably necessary.
Unfortunately for the state of
Georgia at this time, the only party
inganization in it controlled by
those versed in party management
is the party in jfower. which pre
sents a dangerous condition of af
fairs for the rights and interests of
the people. Corrupt men always
affiliate With and seek the control of
tlie ruling party in any form of re
publican government—state or 11a
I tional. In our national government
! arties are so equally balanced
to our position.
We propose to act in conjunction
with the national republican party,
because that is the only national
party with which we agree in prin
ciple,and stand in opposition to de
mocracy, which it is our purpose to
check. A party with no nationality
is only a faction.
We hope the friends of our move
ment will send up a delegation equal
to its representation in the legisla
ture from every county in the state
to our consultation, the Sth of April
next.
il.tr
. .'sen
m:.d
the
w it hull
niifactu
-tained
e ill
mirage and j
idy. Cam- j
end would
ed from it
mini
ll.it l’resli
iii'tantiv '
and lawless
watch-
campaign,
-change! File scene is
tied from Danville to
mil reflected bv a lense
strength that the party in power is
continually held in check by the
fear of being turned out by the
other. But in Georgia the people
have no such security. We arc
continually in danger that corrupt
men may get control and for pecu-
thousand times, i niarv gain for themselves, throw
We
Mm
ill
1 »ii' 1 v await
L-rnian will 11
h.
the -ame
did Hie 111
weeks >ii
sec what
do. ’Tis j
his time, and
know wheth-
-Eyc Senator
nthfe.ik with
once that he
made
>r will
lor
in ,ld.hm
ol a lew
have thc
publicly
and ask
officious
affairs:
U bile.
I’l.w
I lie
their
such
eltisll poll!
jnteinptilile
land law-abiding!
11. we regret this outrage and
islieii within the borders of
■million country, we cannot hut
upon it as a dispensation of 1
idcnco to mortify and rebuke
men who seek to further
ical schemes by
1110:1ns. “\ ell- I
ge.ince is mine, saitli the Cord, and
I will repav." We doubt not hilt
this text is even now ringing in the j
ears of the Ohio Senator. During !
a single disturbance in his own state !
have more people been shot down I
than the whole "reign of terror" in
the South since the war can show’.
And to add to the mortifying re- |
fleet;, ms for Mr. Sherman, this Cin
cinnati riot is lead by an Atlanta
negro—one of his especial pets in j
upon the people burdens that years
may not enable them to cast off.
* * * * *
We have tried negroes as party
leaders for sixteen years, and find
them totally inefficient. They, in
general, are not reliable voters, they
are utterly incompetent as leaders,
and have no capacity whatever for
organization. \Ve can never suc
ceed as a party in effecting any
good until we cast off the incubus of
negro-leadership and organize a
party with white men in the front.
'* * * * *
Various conventions of the re
publican party have been called in
Georgia with the view of organiz
ing so as to make the party strength
available, hut every such call lias
been rendcied useless, its design
frustrated and its objected defeated,
by the action of ignorant negro pol
iticians who have assumed to them
selves the leadership of the party,
and thrust themselves into positions
they were totally incompetent to
fill. Such has been the case hereto
fore and will doubtless he so again
whenever a republican convention
may he called in the usual way.
NO FENCE IN OGLETHORPE.
Intorvlaw wltlia Prominent Former About ttio
Workings of the System.
Mr. Dave GauUling is one of
Oglethorpe’s solid planters, and lie
called on us yesterday while in
town.
“I always read the Banner-
Watchman,” he remarked, “particu
larly the new advertisements, ai d
often save $2 or $3 on a small order.
We farmers always look to your
paper to tell us where to buy.”
“How is the new stock law work
ing down your way?” we asked.
“Splendidly. 1 began to tear
away my fences three weeks ago,
and am now breaking up the hedge
rows to plant in corn and cotton. It
is the richest land on my place. 1
consider my farm now worth just
twice what it was before the adop
tion of the stock law, and wouldn’t
have the old system put hack for
$1,000.”
“How are the fence men taking
the inevitable?” we inquired.
“I never hear a word from them
now. They have gone to work
and built pastures and I haven’t
seen a hide or hooi out in two weeks
or more. The negroes already see
the benefit of the new system, and
it is hard to find a darkey who con
fesses to having voted against the
stock law. You have no idea how
it helps the looks of a country to
tear away the old worm fences.
Miles upon miles of them have been
removed and still the good work
goes bravely on. But the greatest
benefit to be derived from this
change is the improvement it will
enforce in stock and land. Time
that we have been devoting to rail
splitting can now he utilized in sav
ing manure, terracing fields and
preparing our lands for the use of
improved agricultural machinery
A great many farmers are now en
gaged in terracing hillsides and im
proving the lantl. Ab Wilkins says
he intends to rent out all of his
place except forty acres, and upon
this put every dollar he receives
from the rest of the plantation. Our
negro labor is getting more worth
less and unreliable every year, and
we must do something to supplant
them. We must cultivate less land,
bring that up to the highest state of
production, and by the use of labor-
saving machinery, do ourselves
what we have been accustomed to
hiring several hands to accomplish
To this end will the stock lftw
drive us.”
the South, and over whose condi- j , - , ,
never succeed as a leader. The
ti"ii the Senator trom Ohio has w h;j e men who are th e real friends
wept so many tears of sympathy. It i of the negro, know already that
assuredly seems that the hand of ret- negroes cannot lead successfully,
1 • 1 i- and if negroes lenllv want laws and
nhulion is laid heavily upon lusi b -
shoulders—for while he
ngs of the negro in
is investi- 1 government that will do them jus-
. ticc and secure tlieirt in their rights,
gating the wrongs oJ the negio in ^ey will at once abandon the field
Danville, one of his pets is heading ils leaders, and request their white
a mob at his own doors. We hope } friends to lead them and see to it
that some Southern Senator will that they get their just dues. This
,. , .1 . .1 is a white man s country, anil white
rise in his seat and move that the | mcn wiU contro ; it . i„ the United
investigating committees, now in Stales, there are in round numbers,
session at Danville and Copiah, he I ten whites to one colored petson.
transferred north - of Macon & Dix- I Negroes can never control, and
on's line, mat they may conclude ! cffoit one of them may make
, in that direction onl\ places »n
11 Cincinnati. Such a j ;| worsc condition. Any true friend
ir request cannot be consistently will advise him that his safe place
denied, and it would certainly tmn j is in alignment with that party
lliei
the water from the two outrage mil's
now grinding in the South.. The
fact that this riot was brought about
l>v a legal outrage, only adds to its
enormity. It is certainly a mortify
ing reflection upon a state when its
whose principles accord to him his
just rights. The professions of
friendship by particular men are
worth nothing. The application of
party principles in the enactment of
proper laws, is wherein his true in
terest lie*. Any man may profess
.... , friendship toward a negro, hut mere
courts Ut justice arc made a matter pro f essio l n docs him no good. The
of barter and sale, and when an in- party that makes and enforces a
ilignant uprising of the populace law for his protection is his real
occurs, all the powers and authori- benefactor. * * *
tics of the state are powerless to
suppress the trouble until the'streets
run streams of blood and public
miildings succumb to the torch!
The negroes assumed the leader
ship ol the republican party in 1S6S,
when,.by the election of Governor
Bullock, the republicans showed a
majority in the state, hut under their
management the republican vote
has decreased yearly, till now the
party con-ists of negro leaders with
no organization. These facts should
convince the negro that he _can two of these in the spring and one
militia continues to charge the mob,
with great slaughter. Thm-ttreet
cars are stopped and every pawn
shop plundered for arms. The riot
ers are very hostile toward the mili
tia. The Governor has ordered out
ail the troops in the state. Kt mid
night the crowd closed in on the
military and the Gattling gun was
turned loose on them, doing great
destruction. The Berner jurors
are treated with the greatest indig
nities. The rioters are led by Gus
Hayes,an Atlanta negro.
THE CINCINNATI RIOT.
Fwo* Scats B*l(ns in Warsaw—Tha Trouble st
A WHITE MAN TO BE
• i D.il m aluil in uu.il i <0 ,1 j I
jolmHsmio, ofVlrjlsflCWbftpitWHliBody to*
And John Sherman’s Inves
tigating Committee Need
ed at Home.
Latest News *by Telegraph
to the Banner-Watchman
Cincinnati, March. 31.—One-
half of the militia on guard at the
jail have been released. Since the
firingat 8o’clock last night no. one
has been shot The volleys since
that time have been merely blinds
to clear the streets. It has been as
certained that no one was killed by
the firing at S o’clock last night, but
that three persons were wounded.
At daylight, this morning, an as
sociated press reporter walked
through the quarter of the city
where the stormy scenes of the pre- ^ _
vious night had i^unrr-Myustfid. I charge j»f said debt, and interest
Dawning as peaceful and brilliantthe same, and costjand expense)
as ever seen against an exquisitely
WAR ON TUB I’Al’ACY.
Tbo Poi o’i ncmsial Trom Roma Discontinued
New York, -March 29.—The
statement telegraphed to the Loti-
dun Times by ii» Paris correspond
ent, that the Pope has determined
to leave Rome, is discredited in high
Catholic circles in this city. Mon-
signor Farle. of Cardinal McClos-
key's household, says it is well to
give belief to just the opposite what
is published concerning the affairs
of the Holy Father, when the publi
cation is not from authentic sources.
There is great excitement in
Erie, Pa., over the elopement of
Mrs. Georgian Griffin, white, and
her marriage to a colored hod carri
er named Charles Holmes. Holmes
had *o run away from the place to
escape a coat Of tar and -leathers,
and Mrs. Griffin t\as arrested and
committed to jail. Erie is a hot bed
of republicanism, and the excite
ment against these parties was a torus-
cd by their doing just what repub
lican doctrines encouraged them to
do.
In many parts of the state, and
with numbers of people in every
part of it, the republican party is
regarded, and is often called the
“nigger party,” and of course id all
such cases the democratic is regard
ed as the “white man’s party.” As
long as party alignments in Geor
gia remain as they are—the negroes
nearly ajl on one side in opposition
to nearly all the whites on the
other—the position the two races
occupy has a natural tendency to
cre&te in each a hostile feeling to
wards the other, and there is immi
nent danger of furious collisions at
some time nob far distant. A “Solid
South” in our national politics makes
a solid North, and the North is the
strongest. Our Southern people
act very foolishly in trying to keep
up a Solid South. In Georgia a
solid negro vote on one suie neces
sitates a solid white vote on the
other, and the whites are the strong
est. The negroes of Georgia are
just as foolish in refuting to divide
in the state as the whites are in try
ing to maintain a Solid South. Both
would fare much better by dividing;
Let tfie negroes divide in Georgia
and then each side would have
friends in case of trouble.! Let the
whites divide, and then each aide
would have friends at the North to
assist them in case of neceuity.
A riot broke out in Cincinnati,
Friday night, which was one ot the
bloodiest affairs known in the
history of this country.
On the 27th of December last the
body of a \* ell known livery stable
keeper, Mr. William H. Kirk, was
found in a mill stream. At first it
was supposed that tlie unfortunate
man had committed suicide, but an
examination brought to light a mur
derous hole in the hack of his head
.-hicli had evidently been made by
the indentation of a hammer. The
wildest excitement followed the dis
covery. Suspicion rested upon a
colored hostler named Joseph Pal
mer, and he was arrested. In jail,
Palmer confessed that he was the
murderer; that the plot had been ma
tuied by William Berner, a white
man, for the purpose of robbery, and
that Palmer was assigned the task
of killing Kirk, while Berner should
watch out as guard. On the morn
ing of December 24, Mr. Kirk wei
into his stable to look after his stotk.
While stepping aside into one of
his stalls, Palmer stealthily crept up
behind him with a clawhamme\and
burying it to the centre in K?
skull the victim sank to the floo
dead. The two men hastily search
ed the dead man’s pockets, and then
threw the body into a wagon and
Palmer drove it off and dumped it
into a mill stream, where it was
found. Palmer was convicted of
murder.
WheiC the trial ot Berner began
certain disreputable elements inter
ested themselves in his behalf; a
packed and perjured jury was im
paneled and the trial proceeded.
On last Monday the jury brought
in a verdict of simple manslaughter,
although the evidence sworn to and
the confession of the prisonei indi
cated a most brutal murder. The
verdict was received with hisses
and every demonstration of indigna
tion. The judge declared from the
bench that the finding was an out
rage on justice. It was only by the
officers hurrying Berner out through
aside entrance that he was saved
from violence. Yesterday afternoon
the prisoner was brought before
court, and sentenced to twenty years
in the penitentiary, the limit of the
law.
The indignation of the people
know no bounds. A public meet
ing was called to protest against the
judicial outrage, which resulted in a
maddened mob rushing to the jail.
The entire police force rushed to
that point also, and took posses*
sion of the building. A shot or two
was fired, but the mob refused to
stir. At 11 o’clock a gunsmith’s shop
was broken into and the mob forced
an entrance into the jail, but they
did not reach the cell room. The
military was ordered out, but a large
number refused to appear, being in
sympathy with the rioters. At
midnight thirty shots were fired by
the militia with a view to frighten
the mob, and four persons were in
jured by glancing balls. This check-
ed their movements, but they would
not disperse. At 12:45 the jail was
fired by the mob, but the building
being of stone and iron resisted the
flames. After this indiscriminate
fighting occurred until i.45,when the
rioters broke into an armory and
took the guns. During the night
there was more fighting, and a'num-
ber of persons, including several
men and children, were killed and
wounded. At .9 o'clock in the
morning a large crowd was still at
the jail, resting on their arms.
In the meantime Berner, the
cause of all the trouble, was taken
from the jail and started for the
penitentiary; but at Loveland, a
crowd, hearing that the murderer
was on board the train, attacked it,
and during the mcelee the prisoner
escaped, but was atterwards recap
tured.
All day Saturday the changing
crowds filled the streets, approach-
ing as near the jail as they were per
mitted. The streets around that
building were barriesded by city
officers, wagons being overturned
and everything that came to hand.
At 10:30 o’clock the mob began
gathering in the neighborhood of
the jail in great numbers including
many drunken men. Some inflama-
ble substance was thrown into the
court house and that building set
on fire. At this outrage the guard
changed blank cartridges for balls
and. began to fire into the mob,
killing over too persons. At 8a
o’clock the court-house was succc
fully fired and entirely consume.
The Henry County Weekly sayW, together with all the public docu
“Little Johnnie Thompson, who '•Bents. Alter this the mob was nn
11K00D MAKES OX THE FARM.
The varied modes of handling
horse stock upon the average farm
are attended with a wide range of
results. It is wise to keep three
brood mares (good ones) breeding
in the fall. Three such mares,
the farm has the amount of service
in permanent grass that should he
kept devoted to this crop, will do
the work of a large farm and do it
easily. The mare that brings a fall
colt will, with suitable winter care
and lood, give the colt a good
growth by the time grass comes,
and at the age of three years, it
will hardly be noticed that’the colts
of the spring before have any ad
vantage over it. This mare, kept
for fall breeding, will make a capital
change off during the spring work,
doing duty while the others require
to be lavored. The gain in rearing
horses of value over those of the
cheaper grades is more pronounced
than in the case of most other pro
ducts of the farm, the difference be
ing fully one-half, whether the stock
be first-class draft stock or
the higher grades for other pur
poses. When we consider the com
parative ease with which a heavy
brood mare will do spring work at
the plow, as compared to the beast
of light weight, supposing both to
be in foal, it will show the advan
tage of having this class. On ac
count of being in foal, the light
mare is only able to move the plow
by putting every muscle upon /the
highest tension, the breathing bnd
heart's action laboring unduly wl iile
this strain is going on The heaVy
beast leans forward into the collar,
and the weight is largely the motor,
the real strain upon the musclar., ,
through contraction being light. ( ?'
died from hydrophobia last week,
had a dream the night preceding
the day upon which he was bitten
by the mad dog that was remark
able, to say the least of it. He dream
ed that he was attacked by a mad
dbg, and that he was rescued by an
angel and translated to the clouds.
He related his dream next morning,
and in less than an hour was attack
ed by a mad dog under circumstan
ces precisely as he had described.”
The Brunswick ‘ Herald says-
“Five children of James Wilson,
colored, living near the Troupe
plantation, in Glynn county, about
twelvf miles from Brunswick, have
died of eating pork supposed to
hive been poisoned by some, and
possessing trichinae by .others. The
children are said to have lingered in
great pain and died in agony. The
singular part is that the negroes re-
fusc to tell where theygot thepork
from - ■
der no control and seems bent on
destruction. The firing upon them
by Gattling guns was merciless and
tire earth was seon covered with
killed and wounded. The rioters
charged one company, and captur
ed a cannon, but having no ammu
nition it was soon retaken. The
Fourth regiment, through coward
ice, refused to advance.
LATER NEWS,
From an extra edition of the Con
stitution of Monday, we clip, the
following additional newa:
Sunday night, at 11:15 o’clock,
tremendous crowds are about the
court-house andjaiL The mtijtiq
are reinforced by soldiers coming
from all parts of the state. Two
cases of hand grenades have been
One of the most remarkable suits
on record, says a Greenville, N. CL,
special of the aSth inst, to the Phil
adelphia Press, is about to be heard
before the supreme court of this
state, growing out of a mortgage on
his own person, made by a white
man named John Hando, ot Pitt
county, in this state, securing Ji
Taker, a cotton planter, for a debt
due him. The deed reads: “I, John
Hando, of the county cf Pitt, in the
state of North Carolina, am indebt
ed to Jim Taker, of the state and
county aforesaid, in the sum of $26,
for which he holds my note, to be
due on the nth day of January.
1S84, and to secure the payment of
the same I do hereby convey to him
these articles of public property, to-
wit: Myself to work with him long
enough to pay this debt; but on this
special trust, that if I fail to pay
said debt, right away, then he, the
said taker, or his assigns, may sell
me at the court-house door, for cred
it or cash, as he thinks best, after
giving twenty days’ public notice,
at three public places, and apply the
proceeds of such sale to the dis-
tinted sky in the east, the broken
walls of the burning court house
were distinctly defined with its
crumbling window openings look-
'nglike rude wounds. Over the
ruins of the treasurer’s office in the
northern part of the building, the
ruddy glow of the morning sun
brought its blackened pillars into
prominence, while from other por
tions thin, white-colored smoke and
steam was rising as the water
thrown by the engines fell into the
burning contents. J
Passing to the north side of court
on Walnut a sickening scene was
presented. Here apparently the
wounded had taken shelter behind
the protecting building; or per
here the fatally wounded had ci
ed to die. Poo! after pool of blood
dyed the ground all along the curb
stone. All along the street signs of
blood were visible, and in a hall
way, three squares distant on Maine
street, the floor was smeared where
-some unfortunate had crawled to
dress his wounds or die.
It has been learned with great
satisfaction that nearly the entire
set of records of the recorder’s of
fice, containing the records of deeds,
mortgages, etc., were saved. A'
m familiar with the office says
that not more than fifty volumes of
the records arc gone, covering trans
actions of three years, about thirty
years ago. It is supposed that tlie
money in the treasury vaults andfthe
records in the probate judge’s vaults
are safe, but the safes cannot be
opened. At the jail and city build
ings everything is in the most com
plete state of defense. Across all
the streets and alleys approaching
the former scene of strife, the bar
ricades have been strengthened Und
reinforced. The mob spirit seems
to be entirely quelled, and those for
merly imbued with it appear to
stand in such wholesome fear of the
reckless shooting of the soldiery as
to have had an entire sufficiency of
rushing into the jaws of death.
At a meeting of the citizens’ com
mittee this morning, the mayor was
requested to select an executive
committee of fifteen from the mem
bers at the meeting for ad
vice and counsel, to whom
all matters should he
ferred. This committee was select
ed and afterwards met at the cham
her of commerce and resolved to
advise the withdrawal of the troops
and the appointment of sufficent
police force, it being the sense of
the meeting that the presence of the
militia appeared to act as a menace
to the now quited mob, and that the
persons who composed the latter
are in reality more fearful of a num
her of resolute, well-organized po
lice than of untrained militia. The
recommendations embracing this
view have been forwarded to Gov
ernor Hoadley, and it is almost cer
tain, should no further outbreak’oc
cur, that many of the state troops
will be homeward bound by Tues
day evening.
Columbus, O., March 28.—Gov.
Hoadley has ordered the troops en
route to Cincinnati to return; the
Fourth and Fourteenth regiments
to be relieved, and the rest of the
troops to be held in Cincinnati till
further orders. The city will be
guarded till Wednesday.
MRS. SHIFFR’S GHOST STORY,
costjand expenses of
making such sale, and pay the sur
plus, if any, to me. Given tinder
my hand and seal this 14th day of
January, 1884.”
Hando failed to pay the amount
due Taker, and the creditor was at
liberty, under the terms of the deed,
to sell him at public auction. Some
time before the expiration of the
twenty days’ grace allowed the
mortgaged debtor, the news got
out, and the court-house green was
crowded with people, expecting
to witness the novel sale ol a white
man. An injunction was granted
by the superior court and no sale
took place. The supreme court
will hear the case.
, . ailttU., M
Aledo, Texas, March 10,1884. **
Dear Friend: Although I have
never wrote to nor heard from you,
yet I have thought of you often.
We used to have lots of fun. Those
were happy days when we were to
gether, I didn’t Have any idea that
I would be so near h—11 now. If
Texas don’t border on the confines
Will cause
m abb
■” t idijCsirP!* vrto^tqhaqgAt Monroe
bo*** colored
ATTACKED WITH AXES.
Two Gentlemen Set Upon With Axoi tn Colombia
County. , •
Augusta Chronicle.
Last Saturday night a shooting
affray occurred on the place of Mr.
Barrett Jenkins, on the A. & K.
road, in Columbia county, which
mky result in the death ot a negro
m|n named Jim Clifford. In the
ly part of the night Mr. Fer-
ison, overseer for Mr. Jenkins,
ith a friend, went to the negro
Clifford, for the purpose of telling
him to be sure and come to work
on Monday. Upon arriving at the
place, they knocked at the door,
and when it was opened Clifford
appeared with an adze and, with
out warning or provocation, made
a dash for Mr. Ferguson. He was
closely followed by his wife armed
with an axe, who made an attack on
the other gentleman. Matters look
ed rather desperate for a few min
utes and the days of the two gen
tlemen were apparently numbered.
Mr. Ferguson, however, drew his
revolver and shot Clifford in the
abdomen, which put an end to the
sudden and hostile demonstrations.
The wounded man was at last ac
counts still alive, yet it is thought
he is dangerously hurt.
A DEAD'SWINDLE.
Tha Bus U10 to Which an Erls Mas Put tha
Corpse ot His Child.
Last week a case of alledged dis
tressing circumstances was reported
from Erie, says an Erie special to
the Cleveland Leader. Peter Pas-
covith and his wife, Frances, pro
fessing to be exiled Nihilists, were
found on the public streets with
their children, forming sort ofa
family procession, heading for the
cemetery. The father had in his
arms the corpse of a child wrapped
up in a .copy of a newspaper. He
claimed he was too poor to pur
chase a better shroud, and thus done
up the corpse was taken to the
cathedral and deposited upon the
steps leading to the altar. The
service of the dead having been re
cited, the procession reformed and
the alleged Nihilist, picking up
his corpse, put it under his arm and
started for the graveyard. Being
seen by Mr. Donohue, a generous-
hearted man, the procession was
halted, a hack was procured and
the child was interred with decen
cy. Tuesday morning the police
broke in upon Pascovith and found
nearly $150 in cash and stolen pro
perty valued at as much more. It
appears that when the man went to
bury is dead boy in a newspaper he
had all this money in his possession.
A few weeks before he had visited
the house of a neighbor for the pur
pose of borrowing money. The
next night while the neighbor was
at church his house was entered
and two trunks taken out. On the
following day the trunks were
found on the adjacent common.
They had been burst open and rifled
of all that was considered worth car-
ryjng off. In turning over- the de
bris the officers found |6o in bills
which the robber had overlooked.
The man and woman were ar
raigned and committed for trial.
JIm; Athens Foundry.
A visit to the Athens foundry
'resterday found all . the workmen
busy making all kinds of machine-
ify. Mr. Bailey, the superintendent,
was watching everything and sees
that nothing is turned Out but what
is first-class. Mr. Gathright, of
Jackson county^ is employed at the
ioundiy and is now putting togeth
er the gin saw sharpener lately
patented by Potts A Gathright. The
different pieces qf this machine are
very small and it takes nice work to
mould them. The machinery at
the foiindiy is in splendid order and
evetything works like a clock.
. . ‘ HardonCaip.
Dave Gaulding was in to see us
yesterday and says thjit.he found
ears. . She says that the noTse was Dr. Mark Willingham, who is the
similar to that of a swarm, of house proud proprietor of three large carp
ponds, on a branch last Tuesday
lm of hades, then I am badly mistaken
in the country. I may err very of
ten, but I am not altogether mista-
ken about Texas. It is the most in
fernally unpleasant country it has
ever been my unhappy lot to enter.
It is an infernal fraud and humbug
to the people of the eastern States.
What a fool I used to be! I always
wanted to come to Texas. I nev
er would have died satisfied if I
hadn't come. It was a land of ro
mance and adventure, riches and
happiness to me. Now I could
never die satisfied in this state. The
romance and adventure have all be
come knocked out of me. I am
now willing to retire to private life.
I have roamed around the
arena of imaginary riches and plCrs-
ure uutil I am perfectly satisfied
Some of the land here is very rich.
In spring and summer the prairies
are covered with beautiful flowers
—I admire them very mueh. I
have pet a few good, clever people
—I give them my friendship and
respect. Most of the girls-are hand
some and sweet—those I love. As
to the balance of Texas, so far as I
am individually concerned, you can
d—n it all in a heap. If I live I am
going back to Hartwell. I was not
able to work more than about half
of last year. The rest of the time I
was having chills and fever; and to
wind up the job, in the tall I came
very near getting my back broke.
It took me about three months to
get over it. Good health returned
about the first of January, and I
started ont afresh to make money to
carry me home, but the weather has
been bad and I haven’t done much,
and to cap the climax last Saturday
I had another chill, but I think I can
keep them off. If it wasn’t for the
infernal wind and sudden changes
in the weather I could get along,
tolerably well, but one day will
be warm enough to go in my shirt
sleeves and the next would
send the devil home in a hurry.
My lunguage my seem rather
profane, but it is all a mistake.
Cursing was especially introduced
into the world for the use of peo
ple who came to Texas. You who
have never been to this part of the
world don’t have any- use for it ex
cept when putting up a stove pipe.
As soon as you leave home you be-
g>A%o need a few “cuss words,” and
the farther you travel westward the
more you will have need for them.
After you get here you will soon
find use for the whole profane vo
cabulary. Here you learn to speak
it fluently, and thi n Texans begin
to understand and appreciate you.
It also enables you when you go
back east to give a reliable and sat
isfactory account of the country and
people west of the Mississippi. Im
migration circulsrs and newspapers
are the greatest frauds in the United
States (I mean so far as relates to
Texas), There are thieves, cut
throats, and robbers everywhere.
You doubtless have heard of the
wire fence cutters. Well, they are
on the rampage. They do their
work well, and you needn’t doubt
it. I have seen their trail. They
were oppressed and had a right to
cut the pasture fences; but you know
such things are always carried to
extremes. The pasture men now
threaten to cut the farm fences
soon as the clops are growing. If
they should do so, won’t we have a
lively time!—won’t Texas be—oh!
such an attractive country for emi
grants! I am afraid you will almost
be persuaded to be an emigrant. I
think I shall beg leave to withdraw
about that time.
Write me along letter about your
self and Hnrtwell generally, and
send me a copy of the Sun. If I
have good luck I will be home be
fore the year is out. Remember me
kindly to inquiring friends. Yours,
with friendship,
Josephus Oraxgedlossom.
The Sunday Newsdealer will pub
lisb a ghost story, says a Wilkes
barre, Pa., special of the 29th ult, to
the New York Times, which is ver
ified by many respectable persons.
Dan Shiffer, a well-to-do farmer in
Hanover township, complains that
his family cannot sleep at nights,
owing to some strange spirit that
makes its appearance regularly eve
ry night When Mrs. Shiffer rises
from bed in the morning she says
is all pains and aches from being
trampled over by the spiritualistic
walker in the night, but the pains
leave her after the sun has risen. On
Friday night, about 11 o’clock, the
spirit came into the room and re
mained there until nearly midnight
whenitleftinaball of fire, and did
not return until nearly 2 o’c lock.
Mrs. Shiffer endeavored to gec up,
a cold hand • pressed her fore-
' and prevented her from doing
During the most of Wednes
lay night a terrific noise was kept
up till ’ daybreak. Not long since
some good andpious people who vis
ited the Shifters {advised them
to read passages in the Bible when
the noise began. Mrs. Shiffer took
the Bible ana read to her husband
and daughter several pages, 'but
was obliged to abandon it on ac
count of the strange buzzing in her
flies in close proximity to her ears.
Notwithstanding the bad condi
tion of the roads great crowds visit-
ed the house both night and day.
So large were the crowds that gath
ered there on Wednesday and
Thursday nights th|t the Shiffer
family was obliged to sit up alf
night in order to allow the visitors
ample scope in their investigations.
On Thursday night thirty-three
persons were present There not
being a sufficient number of chairs
in the house to accommodate the
people, they had to sit on the floor
and lonnge about outside the house.
The young man who went to Mrs.
_ Shifter’s room to await the arrival
received by the rioters; and fighting .of the strange spirit were prostrat-
continues, - ambulances -being kept
busy gathering up the wounded.
There have been not less than five
fires started since sunsit The
ed; and could not be induced to
visit the room ahain. A man was
murdered near Shiffer’s house sev
eral years ago,
r .— . -uesday
fishing for minnows, and toward
nig(jt he wended ins way home
ward with five fish that averaged
two inches long.
TbrWistenille Visitor.
We have received from the.pub
lishers, Messrs. I. H..and J. T.-Pit-
tard, the first number of their new
paper, which will be issued semi-
annually. It is a sprightly little
sheet, and is devoted to tne interests
of their business. This is a solid
and reliable firm.
Our Circulation.
The Banner-Watchman pays to
the post office quarterly, three times
as much as any paper ever publish
ed in Athens for postage on papers.
’ A filibustering expedition against
Cuba has organized in Florida .
Mr. Wm, Gilham, father to thq
Ordinary of Oglethorpe, is dead. '■"
Mrs. Martin Fields, near Flowery
Branch, gave birth to triplets. ,
The Molly Maguires are serving,
death notices in Pennsylvania..
Dr. H. H. Cosby, of the Wizard
Oil Company, died in Reynolds,
Ga.
A resolution has been introduced
in Congress to adjourn on the 2d
of June.
An unknown man, suffering from
a fearful disease, suicided in the
woods near Atlanta.
Thirty miles of the Augusta ■ &
Sandersville railroad have been
contracted for to grade.
A drummer named Barbel*, with
a wife and children, married a Miss
Tate, of Hendersonville, N. C.
Mr. Morrison said to-day it might
be two or three weeks before the
tariff bill is offered to the house.
An Ohio village was entirely
A witness before the Danville
committee testified that this was a
white man’s country and so would
he governed.
Grenada, Miss., March ’-31.—
Two hundred mules have been kill
ed in this vicinity within the last4S
hours by buffalo gnats.
Bogan Cash is hiding in Pedee
swamp, having made arrangements
with the sheriff to give himself up
in time for. trial at the May term.
Senator Brown will be a candi
date for re-clection to the United
States Senate, and it is generally
allowed in these parts that he will
be his own successor.
Measles are an epidemic in the
Atlanta jail, and all the U. S. prison
ers confined there have been re
leased. Terrell Smith and John
Messier, both of Franklin county,
have died.
Mr. Tilden has been interviewed-
several times this week. He says
he is in splendid health, but he
does not want the democratic nom
ination for the Presidency and can
not take it.
At Youngstown, Ohio, a husband
was shot down by his brother-in-
law over his wife’s grave. Anoth
er outrage for John Sherman to in
vestigate.
Ogletree, the man who created a
widespread sensation last spring
by kidnapping small boys at whole- cover -
sale rates, was last week, sentenced
to the Mississippi penitentiary- for
life.
GEORGIA NEWS.
.ThMfeMl
•ItiiiiMMllsncar
to tttfHatjW ^ttjitpulling.
Thomson'the grand jury has
found 22 hills tor' violation ot the
prohibition Iaw. v _ ‘ l' 1
Jesse Beall, of Albany,' gave J. J.
Jackson a: sound thrashing for send
ing a disreputable message to his
mother.. »• d
James Thomas, living near Butler,
is in jail, charged with raping the
twejve-yeqr-old-daughter of Drew
Children v - J- 1
It is rumored that the girl who
murdered her.child at the Glade, in
Oglethorpe county, a few days ago,
last year fed one to the hogs, and
had previously despatched two
others in the same way. .,
Mr. Ray Camp, a solid citizen of
Walton'county, is building a depot
on his farm, between Monroe and
Jug Tavern, and when completed
will present it to the G., J. & S. rail
road company. He’ intends to lay
the'foundation for a town at hi’s
very door. . - •»....
In 1SS3 there were inspected in
Georgia 150,000 tons of guano. This
year,the indications .are. Jbat there
Will be over 170,090 tons inspected.
Formerly it was sold' in lots of from
fifty to one hundred tons, showing
fhe va3t increase of small farms in
the state, qo?*.-/ . ■ :
A woman in Walton county is
bitterly opposed to cyclone pits.
The frequency of her husband’s
crying “cyclone” and jumping into
his pit aroused her suspicions. On
examination she found a jug of corn
whisTcy covered up in the straw in
he corner of the pit.
A few mornings ago a colored
boy ot Hinesville,. known as Joe
Martin, was handling a gnn rather
carelessly when it escaped from his
grasp and in his efforts to catch it
before striking the floor, his finger
struck the trigger, when the gun
was discharged, and his mother, who
was sitting near, received the con
tents in her face.
While the Johnson county supe
rior court was in scssion/a number
of persons who were in attendance
dined at a public restaurant, and
thirty or more were very seriously
affected from the meat. It is sup
posed to have been poisoned. Sus
picion rests on a negro who had
been prosecuted by the proprietress
of the restaurant, he being in her
house all the forenoon trying to
compromise the matter with her.
The doctors were quite busy for
twenty-four hours. They think
that all who were poisoned will re-
Watcr Works Protesting.
Superintendent Craig, of the
water works, yesterday notified
Mayor Dorsey that he objected to
his watering the streets by attach
ing a hose to the fire-plugs, as it
was a waste of water. The Mayor
informed him that the plugs were
the property ot Athens, and they
had the right to water for the
streets, and he would continue to
sprinkle them in any way that he
saw fit.- His Honor says if to-day
is windy weather that he will attach
the hose again and lay the dust, and
keep up the plan through the sum
mer. Our young Mayor is as firm
as a rock when he has right on his
side, and can’t be changed.
Morchead City.
The advertisement of this seaside
resort appears in the Banner-Watch
man. Morehcad has,almost atone
bound, reached the front rank of
Southern seaside resorts and the
thousands of visitors who have stop
ped there within the past two or
three seasons attest its wonderful
popularity. This is a favorite place
with the citizens of Athens and sur
rounding country, and scores of
them spend a large portion of each
summer at Morehead. The new
proprietors, R. B. Raney & Co., are
well known hotel men. Parties
from our city who visited this resort
last season say that we cannot Write
too much in praise ot either More-
head City or the Atlantic Ilqiel.
!
A Good School, v 1
Mr. E. H. Kinnebrew Mill a fine
school in Watkinsville. Be - - is a
good teacher, and the people of that
town should patronize him liber
ally. Mr. Kinnebrew is a nice gen-
.tleman and uses all of his energies
in learning the young idea to' sfittot
in the right direction.; ' 77
A Disb'nguished Kinsman. j/'\
Mrs. W. H. Hodgson, of Athens,
is first cousin to the tamous Tom
Ochiltree, congressman from Texas.
Alderman Bill says he is going to
Washington to see if his cousin-in-
law won’t have him appointed Min
ister to Kamskatka or some other
foreign port.
The number of killed and wound
ed in the Cincinnati riot is 200. The
money that was in the treasury vault
is all safe. The troops have been
ordered home. There is some ap
prehension that the riot will break
out afresh.
Henry Shelly, for marrying Ida
Morrill at Zanestown, Pa., was so
badly abused and beaten by her two
brothers that he retaliated with, a re
volver and killed them both. He
was twice wounded by their re
turn shots during the fusillade.
Washington, April 1—Senator
Mahone was taken Severely ill with
a nervous rigor this morning and
has been so low to-day that his most
intimate friends were refused ad
mission to his room. At .midnight
his physicians think the signs more
hopeful.
Lewis Redmond, the noted out
law, who has been confined in the
Albany penitentiary, has been trans
ferred to Columbia. He will ar
rive here to morrow and be given a
place in the South Carolina peni
tentiary. His health is gone and
he cannot live six months longer.
Dallas, N. C., April i.-On,
Monday nightat 12, a mob surroun
ded the jail, overpowered theiailer
and took out a negro named Erwin
McCullough, carried him to a tree
halt a mile distant and hanged him.
One week ago McCullough shot
and instantly killed Thomas Wilson,
a prominent young man at Gaston.
Danburg, March 31.—Sunday
evening, the 23d inst.’, a huge wa
terspout fell to the earth near Little
Mountain, in Lincoln bounty, and
sunk or dug out a hole in the earth
large enough to admit an ordinary
frame building, supposed to be about
40 by 60 feet, and 20 feet deep. Ii
was plainly seen by several people
in our village, (a distance of fifteen
miles or more) and was funnel
shape.
Darlington, April 1.—A negro
named 'Frank Elliott committed a
criminal assault on a daughter of a
gentleman in York county this
morning. He was arrested and
brought to Rock Hill for trial before
Justice Sewell, who remanded him
to the county jail. As the posse
filed out of the justice's office they
were overpowered by the qiitraged
citizens and the wretch takert on
the run just outside the coiporate
limits and hanged to a tree. On the
body was pinned a card upon ,which
was written: “Our Daughters we
Protect."
In the Forest-McReady riot in
Philadelphia, May to, 1849,22 were
killed and 36 wounded. ■ During
the draft riots in New York, from
the 13th to the 17th of July, 1S63, it
was estimated that 1,000 persons
were killed, while the city had to.
meet damages to the amount of $1,-
500,000. Sixty-two persons were’
killed in. the New York Orange riot
of July 12,1871. In the railroadti-
ots of 1877 large numbers of people
were killed in different places.' The
damage to property ic .Pittsburg
amounted to $8,000,000.
GENERAL NEWS.
New Haven, April r.—Mrs.
Cynthia Stratton, mother of the late
Gen. Tom Thumb, was buried to
day. She lived at West Haven and
was seventy-four years old.
robbers from the Aui
an April fool. The
man swallowed .the
with the hook.
ta jail was
ier-Wat'ch-
Washington, March 31.—Mr,
Nicboll’s joint resolution for the in
vestigation of the Cincinnati riots
yrill probably be introduced in the
senate to-morrow. The resolution
describes the terrible condition pf
affairs in Cincinnati, and character-,
izes the. mob as a ku-klux organize.
tion» which has outraged law and or
der and violated the rifcht of a cith
zpn to tfial by jury. A full invqsti?
gation of the Sherman Danville
committee is provided ~ for in the
resolution. To-night I hear that
Mr. Cabell, of Virginia, .will to-moj-
row offer an exact copy of Sher-
Chicago has just been edified by a
colored baby show.'
General Grant is now able to walk
without the aid of a crutch.
Henry. Ward Beecher is a tho-
ough tariff reformer.
Very little has been heard from
Mahone for some time.
Young James Nutt, the slayer 01
Dukes, has gone to Kansas to re
side. '" • " ‘
‘Jumbo” is the suggestive name
of a town recently incorporated in
Texas.
' Monterey, Mexico, uses beans for
money since the nickel has become
defunct.
Hundreds of young women work
for forty-five cents a day making
shirts in New York city.
A society has been organized in
Michigan to discourage . the use of
lying and stealing.
Col. Ingcrsoll says if he did lose
$100,000 in Mexican mines he won’t
ask anybody to pass the contribu
tion box.
In Montana the law prohibits a
woman from marrying until she is
eighteen years old, End a man can
not marry until he is twenty-one.
S6me scoqndrels burned Bishop
McTyeire’s bam and fired the
chemistry building o£ Vanderbilt
University, at Nashville, a night or
two ago.
The - black men of Memphis are
about .as mad a$ men can be be
cause the mulatoes are prefer'red to
them in the distribution of the gov
ernment pie. •- * -y
A Terri Haute, Tnd., man em
ploys his divorced wife as a servant
girl, and her. neighbors say she has
a better wardrobe than when she
was his Wife.
A man in Arkansaw, while
camping but in the woods recently,
was bitten by a polecat, and died
shortly after of hydrophobia. We
should think.he would have been
glad to die of anything.
In a fitof rage Adelbert Clark, of
Elba, N- Y., beat his wife cruelly.
The neighbors who were attracted
by the noise took Clark into the
woods, thrashed him,' tarred and
feathered him, and sent him home
Mrs. Judge A. H. Foote, of Law
rence, Kansas; died Saturday from
blood poisoning, caused by the con
tact of her green veil with a slight
scratch on her face. Physicians
state that the' coloring matter ot the
veil was of a poisonous nature.
About 150 miles north of Misou-
la, M. T., a region has been discov
ered by ah exploring party in which
are twenty-two cascades ~ over 500
feet in height, and . a true glacier
with a mile of frontage and 500 feet
fall, It is said to be a more won
derful region than the Yellowstone.
' A boy was sentence^ by a La-
porte, Ind., jury to four years’ im-
prisontnent at hard' ■ labor for steal
ing h suit ot clothes. • A jury in the
same town and on the following day
gave .Heniy. Augustine -only five
years’ impriSonment for the murder
of his lincle and cousin.'
The society for the prevention of
cruelty to children had' a large
athPUnt of rock and rye candy ana
lyzed, and theatartiing discovery was
made that two pounds of it con
tained, enough fusil oil to produce
death. The name pf the flavoring
essence ' used is said to' be “essence
Itts' iaid that the plow in use
In Mexico *now*-a-days is the same
instead of Danville. This unfortti-
11c.fanner-watch- nate affair has shown that the inves- to hitch a yoke of oxen to. This
• ie bait and ran off tigations -of the alleged southern '.so-called'plow will scratch a far-
^ V., •• outrages arp mere political mills. Vow in f ,the soil Usee' inches deep.
point nailed to it With a piece of
raw Hide; a small handle for the
plowman to steer with add a
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