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About The Banner-Watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1882-1886 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1884)
WEEKLY .BANNER-WATCHMAN, TUESDAY MAY 6, 1884. STOKIKS THE road. 1 Travelon (it a 'Wayildo Um-Sonu- tutng to Fat In a Gripsack, men, 1 almost envy you the yon nil; jour experience of . ^..i-l.i; vout knowleilgeof business; rhiinffii'B siahts you see, and all that, know." This warmly expressed re- ; !U U trout the lips of an elderly plea- . 1, last Anguft, ami was ad- i ii'M-micircleof commercial trav- • .1 .>0 die porch of the l.imlcll ! -1, 1.fills. Mo. y,..” ri'spomleil 11 New lork re- Hite of the profession," a drum: - ft without liis pleasures, but he . 1 I;s, too —risks outside the of railroad collisions and ir explosions, what risks for in- i'iiis. for instance’saidMr. W. ■ ui jin. who tvas then traveling 1; ,<t, rn house, and is known to >, it* all^paris of the country. The —which, indeed, amounts almost i:t tv — ot getting the dyspepsia n etnal change of diet and water ■ >u having no fixed hours for eat- I -h-eping. I myself was an ex- I -av was. fir I am all right \.. .Cs.-Miitii ..11 your digestion ¥" ti a travi ling for a while. The i.-i I l-u. I,.-d my jiajH-r. Finally 1 | -,n ' advertisement of - i...i i«- I t riad it and it fixed me ;„■! an- There is nothing on ..in ij.inion, ,-qiial-to it as a ,r •,i -;. *t’ ia." Messrs Hiseox A \ . York the proprietors, hold ri: in .Mr. Franklin stating that i. Fa rkeiVTonie aids diges- M .: .rial Fevers, Heartburn, .-., '..-h- aid cold-, and all j.. a-i-s <f the I.iver and kid- 1. in votir ali-e. I'rices, i icvohitiim is probable in : Nerd to (fa Aftor His Money, an iinpiiry of a reporter, niiih on,-of our best know n .. I lid you ever win any- lie ti pliedoh,yes now and c woo 11,2.’>U in a Geriimn . ,1 won .-mail sums at odd ■ |...iii..iai.a Slate Lottery. ... N,-,. toleaus.for the pur- .ii„, you ..—i'-v alluding to ..in’ intli of ihe capital l.Mti'.siami Mate| Lottery, II, on ticket No. !.-posited the ticket i-s., Insurance and o-t-lioii. It is sure -ui- proniytly lion- olumhus, Mias. M , s-l. t-.iicinc Lodge lttunlerers chcil at 1 larper, Kan. A New Grass. Mr. John Winter has discovered on the railroad bank near Winter- ville a new grass, that is now large enough for grazing. ,He will test t before recommending it. Trouble in tbe Family. . A married man of this city went home the other night with a long hair on the lappel of his coat, of an entirely different color than that of his wife’s. At last accounts a di vorce suit was talked about. — _ No Cure! No Pay. ^' ancer cured without knife. Wanted, Address of all persons afflicted with this terrible disease. Also names of persons addicted to the opium and whiskey habits. Ad dress, D*. W. H. Christopher & Sons, Atlanta, Ga. , Atlanta Dirt. Four years ago Mrs. Russell, of this county, paid $2,400 for a busi ness lot in Atlanta. The other day she refused an offer of $5,500 for same. There is no denying the fact that Atlanta has a great future, and by the next census she will con tain a population of 100,000. To Enlarge. We have sold eveTy inch ol ad vertising space in our daily, and if business continues to improve we will soon enlarge to seven columns. This is a tine showing for the mer chants of Athens and demonstrates the popularity of the Banner- Watch man. An Indian Pipe. A gentleman showed us a large clay pipe, tljat he found in an Indi an grave near Nicholson. Besides this relic he found two other pipes, a lot of broken pottery, and a hu man skeleton. The one seen by us was in the shape of an antique vase and nicely engraved. A Parallel Case. Twenty years ago a similar hom icide to the Gunn affair took place in Buncombe district, in this coun ty. John McCurdy, sr., had mar ried a woman contrary to the wishes of his son, John McCurdy, jr. The father killed the son to prevent the son front killing him.—Walton News. 10 Dialnbution. tli«- rush at Long & Co’s !. • free distribution of >1 !>r. I’.o-anko’s Cough 11, th<- most popular rem- * 1 -iii-umptionatid on tin- market. Regular n-1 nl.Uii. Sold al-o at drug -tore. ided the bank at Ox- 11 could not open the :lk Hat. atioit of the eoin- U.tiouph, “if a 11 ml Worship tlie ade in tlie like- 11 11,',or on e-itli, 1 ate under tlie s the head anil ' i’arker’s Hair . -.ul restore the or faded hair, i-iirial. delicious- uair dressing, hi) >r. llMsanko. ms h. . 1110 so familiar pie throughout tlie that ii is hardly necessary i- tlie originator of the nko's 1 -nigh and Lung •m dr’- favorite remedy, for rough-, voids, eoii- II .11. .11.HIS of the Ihmat L-e .",11 rent- and $1 .IK) Mold . and K. S. Lyndon. struck the town of Del emolishing houses and College Improvements. Major Cobb tells us that not one dollar of the $5,000 given for re pairs fo the University buildings has been as yet expended. This work has been delayed until next summer,during vacation, when it is jyoposed to add $1,000 to the sum and have the chapel overhauled and modernized. The roof will be raised and a handsome front putin. Robbing Cars. Five negroes were arrested at Lula, yesterday, and carried to the Gainesville jail, for robbing freight cars at T.nln. They have been do ing this for some time, and had lie come rather bold in their robberies. It is thought that the railroad au thorities have the most undoubted proof on them, and they will prob ably do the state some service for the offense. BLUE BLOOD IN ATHENS. Athenian Families that Uy Gate City Aristoc racy in the Shade. Since the Atlanta Sunday Record has started the blue blood boom in Georgia by publishing the pedigree and coat-of-arms of the Peters fami ly, the Banner-Watchman, ever with the glory and renown of Ath ens nearest at heart, yesterday sent around a reporter to discover if there was any genuine aristocracy in our city, who. had rusty coats-of-arms mouldering in the garret He met with the most triumphant success, and are to-day able to lay before our readers several pedigrees'beside which Capt Yancey’s Canadian Jersey bull will pale jinto insig nificance. The first subject our vigilant re porter tackled was Col. W. C. Orr, who stated that his family came over to Jackson county in the ark with Noah, and he had often heard one of his uncles recite how he and Methuselah used to to play baseball together. “1 suppose you have a coat-of- arms?” asked the Banner-Watchman man. “Yes,” was the reply, “but it is a precious heirloom and in the keep ing of J ohn Moon. I will loan it to you, but it must be kept under lock and key.” The following is the coat-of-arms of the Orr family. The next man our reporter tack led with this query was Col. Wm. McKinnon. “Yes,” he stated, “I am from one of the first families in New Jersey, for of nine boys every one is a first- class blacksmith.” ‘How far can your family trace back its lineage?” we asked. “Ever since I can remember,” re plied Mr. McK. I heard my father say that he had an aunt to die nearly 100 years old. If any of the aris tocracy of Georgia can beat that record, let ’em put up or shut up.” “Can you favor us with a cut of the seal of your family?” we asked. “I can that!” - replied our Jersey triend. “Just take a picture of that anvil and you have it to a gnat’s heel” nil. 1 Ti> perfect safety !•-lorer, as it - mothers use Ireatineiit <>t ai llroneliitis. ung Cvrutrywomen. ■nviiilile • I ist i net Ion for 1. This, they in great P. tlie beautifying ami lenee of Snzoilonl, the •paration for tlie teelli ii. it removes trom tlie ■very impurity, cheeks lies the leetli to imisii- iii, laminating ihe food. triluiiii li clleciually neutralizes mt inlnr ui tlie breath. years Allen’s Drain Food ii-strongest testa as toirs uring nervousness, nervous d restoring lost powers to ed generative system, and in lilts i! ever lailek; lest it. $1 I. iiniggists.or by mail from II. Fuat Ave., N. Y. city. 1.1 rumen. r.xqnsiTE. t.i.I.-i -..III-. LOVELY, ir-limi, ll.v Brent -kin cure. Invfr-ible. the la-lies’ delight. Such is Lite. Did you ever know a covetous man who was not continuously dis covering that Mime one had swin dled him, and his Iriends and neigh bors were terribly small and penu- ious? Skill', the Jeweler, never did and heard of one that thought him self swindled buying buying a pair of pearl sleeve buttons. Such is life. c Maluli is now dreaded asjhe 1 Pie Prophet. A natural defense i- urged in England to save ..-li honor in Egypt. in Small of His Back. ms( ipeine porous plasters car ad : .1 -lull, weary ache in the small of ALALIA posit enrod with Fills, a never purely vegetable, con- itviu coated. -’jets. i'll os! Plica! iml, Bleeding and Itcli- uv im- cured the worst rs’ standing. No one dilutes after using Wil- c * hutment. It absorbs :, acts as poultice, Prepared only for hi the private parts, noth in. .1. M. Conenbury, of -ays; "1 have used scores of ad if afford- me pleasure to have 11 vi-r found anything null immediate and and per- f a- I'1. Williams’Indian ut.” Sold by druggists and i-eipt of price, $1. Frazier -.. Prop's, Cleveland, Ohio. R. T. Brumby, Athens, Ua. Candler, wholesale agents, 1 Pile 11 .-s iu-hin relief. "tiocn of England attended al.ng of her granddaughter, gl.tcr of the late Princess'. She did not take part in the part of the programme. Hail. A, Ga., Aug. 13, 1883. r-1 .A Slower—1 lake great 11 recommending your M. and — entirely relieved me of a 01 stek headache in one hour. H.WTSON, No. loOCrewsti Came Clear. The preliminary trial of the Hoi liday boys, for committing an out rageous offense on a negro woman, was heard in Jefferson on Thurs day. The evidence was not suffi cient to bind them over, and the two young men were set at liberty. The trial lasted all day and created great interest. They were com pletely exonerated from the charge. Sad Death. Mrs. Chas. Hitchcock, of Madi son county, departed this life last Wednesday, after a short illness. Mrs. 11. was a worthy lady, and her death is sadly lamented by large circle of friends and kindred. She was buried at the family bury ing ground ofjudgc Hitchcock, on Thursday. Rev. W. M. Code paid the last tribute of respect to a very large audience. Smashing Sewing Machines. The Singer sewing machine com pany yesterday broke up a car-load of second-hand sewing machines by’ throwing them from the second story of a house. It would have been much better to have given these machines to poor women, or let the parties with whom they traded keep them. The company must make a big profit if it can af ford, in a trade, to allow $10 for an old machine and then break it pieces. Our Sheriff Caught. Our efficient sheriff again rallies to the front with a complaint of a very serious nature. One of our d'Udish clerks a few days since in duced him to invest in a new-fash ioned, back, action patent fastener Dutch collar. The sheriff, not sus pecting any evil consequences, put the thing on, and the result is the epidermis of his gulping apparatus has entirely disappeared, despite the combined efforts of a role of sticking plaster and two physicians. The sheriff has our most heartfelt sympathy. A Sewing Machino Expose. A gentleman who has been for years engaged in the sewing ma chine business, tells us that a ma chine, sold in Athens for $40, is manufactured at a cost of ta.50. Further, that only the stands of this machine are broken up, and the heads are shipped back to the fac tory and put into so-called “new machines;” that last week forty ol these heads were in' the North- Eastern depot to be thus forward ed. 'Thills a rascally swindle on the southern people, and they should have nothing to do with such an un reliable company. If necessary, proof to tpis effect can be produced. . FARM NOTEsi ration of this event the O’Farrells have adopted a tin cup as theirseaL Ham Wynn says his family came to Banks county before tne Air- Line railroad was built, but they always went in their shirt-sleeves and didn’t have no coat on their arms. Major I'ruity was sorry that he had not a cut of his family coat-of- arms, but he could draw it for us. It is aliirge tree with a rope hang ing from one limb and the carcass oi a missing sheep at its roots. This seal marks a very important epoch in the history of the Pruitt family of Banks county. * Dr. Lyndon stated that his insig nia of blue blood was extensively printed, in tbe papers, a few years ago, as an illustrative cut to Smith’s Worm Oil. We have other distinguished ped igrees ia our midst, that we will publish if Atlanta again attempts to get up any corner in aristocracy. Passing the establishment of Mr. Isaac Lowe, we inquired as to the age of his family, and "if he boasted blue blood. “I rather think we can,” he re plied. “My ancestors came over in the ship with^ulius Ciesar when he discovered America, and even be fore that time one of them fought under Napoleon Boneparte at the battle of Thermopybe. We have lour branches to my family—High, Lowe, Jack and Game—but all springing from the same stock. Dur ing the war the Yankees came to my hogse and stole our coat-of- arms, but I have since had another made, that you can publish if you see lit.” We print below the design fur nished us: Our reporter next tackled Col. C Washington Baldwin, the great shoe man. “I have long had a hankering to let the plebians of Athens know that in this representative ot the Baldwin family they have a genuine scion of royalty in their midst, and am truly glad of this opportunity to enlighten them,” he remarked. “When the Baldwin family were first transported to America, Curra- hee mountain was a hole in. the ground and Oconee river nothing but a wet-weather branch. One of my ancestors helped Christopher Columbus wrest the island oi Great Britain from the Egyptians, while another used the Atlantic Ocean for a carp-pond. Some of the most distinguished exiles in New Caledo nia and Australia boast tbe famous Baldwin blood. 1 have here our coat-of-arms, which you will please publish. There are instances on record where members of our fam ily have been made acquainted with only the toe of this seal, but of late years 1 have wrested the proud name from oblivion by selling the cheapest shoes in Georgia.” THE WILL FORGER. Ai IntareiUng Cow Baton tin J. P. Yest irday was a field day for His Honor, Judge Kenney. The legal fraternity of Athens were out, on one sid 1 or the other. Judge Ken ney cal ed the case of the State vs. Andeh on Mathews and Benjamin Hopson—forging a wilL Col. £, T. Brown answered ready, for the State; George Thomas and A. J. Cobb, Esq., for the defend ants. Jackson Pool, an old negro who was possessed of some small prop erty, saw fit to die, and in doing so left no one heir to his estate. An old negro woman came np, who had nursed Jackson, and on whom he intended to lavish his love and af fections if he recovered, and if he died she was to be his heiT; but to her great consternation, when she went to take out letters of adminis tration, Anderson Mathews appear ed with a will drawn up in solemn form, making Jum sole heir to Jack- son Pool’s old clothes and other val uables. The will was witnessed by Benjamin Hopson and Georj Shropshire, and seemed to be according to Hoyle. All of Jack- son’s Lnirs were dead, and it seem ed very probable that things were all right. George Shropshire, one of the witnesses to the Will, was in Mexico, and had been for tbe past 12 years. But some few years ago he returned from his wild western home, and the old woman who had waited on Jackson found out that George did not sign the will. So she had Anderson Mathews and Benjamin Hopson arrested. It seems, though, that his honor, Judge Kenney, did not find the evidence sufficient to do anything with An derson, but Ben Hopson, the wit ness to the will, was bound over to appear^ at the next term of the court. The lawyers say the case was very interesting, and a great many legal points were acquired. FASHION NOTES. Mr. W. A. Jester was next ap proached, and explained, from the great antiquity of his family, they had two seals, of a fish and an oy ster, and he hoped to conduct him self so as to add a $5 horse to their insignia 'of honor. Mr. Jester is not certain, giving very little thought to the matter, but he thinks the Jester family are distantly related to Adam, and is confident that Eve was the original mother of them. All the blood that he ever saw shed by the family was red, and not blue. Collars are still worn high. Bag vests are still much worn. Habit skirts are again fashiona hie. Pansies are popularly worn as belt bouquets. Mouse colored undressed kids are fashionable. Bag vests contrast with the rest of the costume. Mushroom is the most fashionable color in millinery. Soft materials, either of silk or wool, that drape gracefully are much worn. Embroidered nun’s veiling is be ing made up extensively for even ing dresses for young ladies. New tailor made dresses have perfectly plain skirts. They come in all the new brown ana gray shades. . Square cut corsages are more worn with evening dresses than the very decollete, V shaped or round corsages. Velvet, even in the smallest quan tities, does not appear upon any of the new spring aud summer growns. Crepe lisse is not worn on street dresses, but reserved for the house and evening wear. Black crepe lisse is extensively worn on thi necks and sleeves of black dresses. New jewelry is very unique. En gagement rings are composed of circles of some precious metals, ei ther small sapphires, diamonds, pearls or rubies. Nothing prettier in bonnets is to be seen than the fine gold lace over the crown and a small brim of bis cuit satin, with the soft aigrette of marabout, biscuit colored powdered with fine gold. The newest slippers are made of yellow alligator skin, have decided turn-up toes, and are lined with satin. Jersey jackets are among the most popular wraps for spring wear. They are very useful and service able. Undressed kid gloves are worn entirely to the exclusion of those made of dressed kid. Ten and gray are the popular shades. A BONANZA KING. COAT-OF-ARMS OF JESTERS. Zeke Edge stated that he could whip the man who intimated that there was any pedigree about him; -that he was a white man and a gen tleman, and not any of your new fangled registered Jersey bulls. Af ter considerable trouble our re porter succeeded in explaining to Mr. Edge that a pedigree was a mark of distiction, and no disgrace. He then said if we had a furniture or coffin cut to slap her in and label it the COAT-OF-ARMS OF EDGE FAMILY. Mr. P. Benson says if there is.any blue blood in Athens it runs in his veins, for his Jfather once put two spokes in a buggy wheel for John C. Calhoun. The old man said they didn’t have any cost-of-arms, but we could get up a] picture of the famous Benson wagon and label A Paymctas’s Testimony, i nlli-U lu #-e .\lr. John Fc-urson, - t.iiiiii.od to Ills boo with what >1-| a ini In I* conaiinqirion ol' the worst As nil of his fmuil.Y had died with 1 ml disease (except his half broth • lentil was regarded as certain and Alter exhausting all the reinc- linally an a last resort sent lor a '■ He of hi ewer’s bang Restorer, aud it Ned like magic, ite continued the use nine time;Jiui has been fully rc- hi-Hltli. ,io far as 1 could dis- i cr In-had eons liiiitioii, and llrewer’a stiirersavdU Ilia life. Holloway, ll. D. liarncsville, Ga. Twaaty-rtfur Hoars to Lira. 1 rum .Mm Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind., it; announces that he )B now in perfect ‘uli, we havo the following: “One 1 was. to all appearances, In - last stages of consumption. Our best liyslcians gave, my case up. I Anally 1 so low that) our doctor could only " hours. My friends then’ ftlo Of Hr. Wm. Hall’s ■ong*. which considers- J continued until I , and 1 am now In per- ' Rust’has appeared onibriars, and if the weather continues hot, with rain, Wheat nHJdoubtless be affect- <-•<} by U. Cotton planting is nearly over. The first plowing of corn will commence this week. Strawberries will be. poor and scarce this) year. 1 Early vegetables are also late and inferior. .The few .fortunate* Who have sheep, have beon-engaged the -past week jn shearing. 0 , . Bill Holmon has.35 acres of oats that he considers as fine or finer than he eirei'.rfcised.' They Ate 2\ feet high. Since the advert* «f this warm spell of weather, fruit of eyeiy de scription' bias made extraordinary 9rArt&i TMtof I^fches are appa- growing rap- ld|j. : • wrJifJ baa* promUet ah abundant -Harvest. SEAL OF THE BENSON FAMILY. Bill Haudrup stated that his ped igree was 32f, and he expected to beat that tne next time they tackled those noble Romans. Their coat of arms hung in front of the door, and we could copy it for the -JL- HAUDRUP FAMILY. Tobn Booth said be descends from a family of great warriocs, who hftvc slaughtered beeves by the thousand. The earliest record they have of its bistOTy was when hfs pious old ancestor, Moses, erected that golden calf in tbe wilderness. Ever since that auspicious event an ox has been, the COAT OF ARMS OF THE SOOTHS. Capt tames O’Farrell says there is an-old legend in bis family that St. Patrick once ran a water-moc casin from a pond on one of his an cestors’ farms, and in commemo- Tha Kiel Ulna or the EmpUa Stale. Meeting up with Mr. Lawson yesterday, the gentleman who dis covered the mica mine on Dr. Huu nicutt’s place, we inquired how he was getting on? Mr. Lawson says the mine far exceeds his expecta tions. He has built him a house near where he is mining, and is get ting out some of the finest mica that has ever been exhibited in the south. He has an expert, a Mr. Lewis, who has been working in mica for some time, and he sayi that it is the best he ever saw. Mr Lawson has already put up ma chinery to square it and get the flakes in shape ready for market. The largest pieces square 10J inch es, and from that down to 6 inches, and are as clear as crystal. The vein is 12 feet across and seems to be inexhaustible. The further be gets down the better the quality of tbe mica. Mr. Lawson says they will make a shipment next week to New York of 1,000 pounds already squared up, and it is as fine as ever sold. Dr. Hunnicutt has given Mr. Lawson a good interest in the mine, and before long we expect to see several mica millionaires in Athens. Mr. Lawson informs us that he took out 400 pounds in four hours’ time, that is worth, in market, from $8 to fto per pound. GLORIOUS NEWS. ■ toBMpAttaa* BMM kW Editor Banner-Watchman: I am in receipt of a letter from Maj. J. W. Green, dated May ist, in which he states that Capt. Raoul has agreed to assist in the construction of a road from Athens to Jefferson on tbe fbrms we consented tax, ant now it only remains to be acqui esced in by the board of lessees. Their action will be forwarded to me so soon as made public. Yours truly, R. L. Bloomfield. An attempt was made to blow a train on a Spanish railroad — dynamite. . TWO MONSTERS. H^HiJiBSts i Itoa Ttaa T«atT Smrant 1*.. P, Amv v t . cans. Vienna, April 33. — Hugo Schenck and Karl Schlossarek were executed to-day for murders almost innumerable. The condemned men rose at an early hour this morning and receiv ed the-ministers, who offered relig ious consolation. An altar had been fitted up in the prison and mass stud. Both partook of the sacra ments, and prayed fervently. On the way from their cells to the place of execution the condemned men answered responses to the “Office for the Dead,” which the priests were reciting. After the usual preliminaries were gone through, the word was given, and the prisoners were drawn up and slowly strangled to death. Schenck was rather good looking and barely thirty years of age. He was tall, well mannered and spoke fluently several languages. In fact he was the sort of a man to win the hearts of young servant girls, inexperienc ed seamstresses, shop girls and such like, and it was among this class of womanhood that this fiend in hu man shape sought his victims. His mode of operation was as follows: After making the acquaintance of girl he used first of all to ascer tain what the amount of her savings was. If the latter was sufficient he began to make love to her. After having by a promise of marriage won the heart and confi dence of his victim he generally coaxed her into intrusting him with her money. Then he proposed a day’s trip into the country, always contriving to arrange matters so as to meet his “betrothed” at some lonely place where he was pretty sure not to be seen with her, and where he killed her and concealed the body. This system Schenck practiced with such fiendish crafti ness that he remaineJ undetected ■for more than five years. A trinket which he had given to the last of his intended victims, and which was recognized as having belonged to if girl named Theresa Ketterl, who rad unaccountably disappeared about four months ago, and whose body was ultimately found in the Danube, led at length to Schenck’s arrest. wholesale murders planned. Before being delivered up to jus tice Schenck also confessed to the police that he had planned five muTders for the week ending with January 9 last, which were to pro vide him with 30,000florins. With this sum he intended to escape to America with Emily Hochsmann. his sweetheart. Two of his intended victims are daughters of respectable families. One is a servant to the Baroness Malfatti, whose chamber maid he had induced to steal pearls worth 20,000 florihs, which tne im- >erial family had presented to Dr. Malfatti tor attending Napoleon’s son, the Duke of Reichstadt, during his last illness. This maid, who had lived in the family for twelve years, was so trusted that the pearls were not missed until Schenck’s arrest jave the clew to the robbery. She lad prepared everything for Schenck and his accomplice’s re ception in the house on the very- night he was arrested. Schenck said to her he would give all the in mates, herself included, a dose of morphia; but he has since confessed that his real intention was to murder them all. CONFESSION of' THE BROTHER. Schenck acted by minutely pre pared plans, and several times he plotted against one girl even before te had disposed of another who seemed ready to gire tip nil to Him. His brother has confessed to hav ing helped him to dispose of the body of the cook Ketterl, whom they threw into the Danube. A man answering Schenck’s descrip tion was seen from a railway train near Lundenburg, on the Northern railway, wrestling with a woman whom he seemed to stab. This af fair was not cleared up, because the police sent from the station where the strain stopped could find no trace of murderer or victim. Schenck confesses to having mur dered a woman near Lundenburg, but refuses to give details. The principal witness against Schenck will be Emily Hochsmann, whom he first enticed, like his other vic tims, but finding her poor, yet at tractive, spared her life, and even spent upon her much of the money obtained by his terrible crimes. She offiered herself as a witness when she heard who her lover really was. His acquaintances were all made by means of advertisements in the local papers. THE FIRST CASE. The first of the cases in which Schenck is suspected dates back to August, 1878, and the last is sup- losed to have occurred in Decern resounded through~fhe^sfillness oF yo'u,”'wUs'tKe'repty," 4 fiJnt hope that the forest and the girl dropped times will get better. Iwas in your 'fix myself and had to go to selling books td make a living..’ But you area stout old fellow, and maybe dead, a streak of blood running down her temple, HIS LAST VICTIM. ’ The most pitiable of his victims was his last, Rosa Ferenczy, The natural daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, she was full of fanciful ideas, and when, at the age of thirty, this handsome man offered her his hand and heart, she believed fate had turned at last, and, leaving ser vice, followed him. He took some of her money, r,Soo florins in all, and lodged her in a remote Suburb, visiting her sometimes. The land lady states that Rosa Ferenczy sus pected him when absent, but when ever he showed himself she always believed him. .At Christmas he took her to the theatres and the opera, promising to'visit his sister in her company soon. She prepared for departure, and said, crying, , tp the landlady: “You’U either see me happy and married, or never again.” The landlady recognized Schenck and Schlossarek as the two men with whom Rosa drove to the station. Next day her body was found in the Danube, near Presbourg. The sums which Schenck obtained by his murders, and whiqh he must have divided with his brother and accomplice, Schlossarek. do not amount to 6,000 florins. But he never worked, and lived comfortably, often traveling, for three years at least, as also did his accomplices. He must, there fore, have obtained money by other means, or many other murders, to which no clue is as yet obtained. SCHLOSSAREK. Schlossarek, the locksmith, was a more determined character than Schenck, but his wife, who is igno rant ot his crimes, was difficult to ileal with. In her despair she seem ed ready to kill her babe for being a murderer’s child. It is declared that a band of at least sixteen per sons all lived in one house in the re mote suburb ot Rudolphsheim, near Vienna, and planned these murders, and that Schenck was the member entrusted with the work of enticing the girls away and murdering them with Schlossarek's aid. you can get a job in the brick yard or or the street.” Mr. Gann says there is money in going out of busi ness just to shake oil agents and beggars. v , , , Judge Nicholson says in iStScorn sold for $5 per bushel in Georgia. The year preceding was the dryest ever known, and a great deal of stock perished and there was suffer ing among the people. 1S37 and 1S45 were also very dfy years. With our country checkered by railroads, a famine is now impossible in America, as there is never a gen eral failure of crops. >er last. At that time two girls in formed the police that their sister and aunt, both having savings ex ceeding 1,000 florins, had left Vien na with one Schenck, an engineer, who promised to marry the sister, Josephene Timal, but that neither of the women had been heard of since their departure in May. It was found that their books had been presented at the savings bank by an official of the Western rail way, named Schenck, who was known to have often called himself the servant of Hugo Schenck, who was really his brother. The latter was traced to Linz, but bad left his lodgings, which were searched and in which much property belonging to the women who had gone away with him was found. On the night of January 10 he was traced to Vi enna to the house of a friend and anested in bed. He showed exces sive terror and had to be helped down stairs. His brother was also arrested. THROUGH THE CITY. A Chapter on the Supernatural—Ghost Stories —A Mysterious Truth—What South Caroli na’s Great Statesman Saw—Dr. Lips comb's New Book—The Savan nah News—About Water- Other Rambling Thoughts. A COLD BLOODED CRIME. One of his victims was Theresa Ketterl, thirty-seven years of age, from Munich who was employed as cook in the household of an official of tbe Ministry of Finance. He be came acquainted with her in July last In the letter days of August he invited her to an excursion to St Poelten, a suburb of Vienna. There they rambled the whole day through the solitary woods, Schenck and kissed her repeatedly. At S t she said to him, “OH, for the •e of God, dear Hugo, be true to me! If you will ever desert me I shall commit suicide.” Schenck laughed. “You shall not. Yon do not oven know how.” “I will shoot myself!” “You do not know how to handle a revolver. Look: that is how it must bd done.' Schenck pulled a pistol out of his pocket, pointed the muzzle at his head ana pulled the trigger. The giri cried in terror. “Don’t fear, Uttiegoose,”.Schenck said, laugh- ing, “it is not loaded. Now you try. Hark,” he cried, interrupt ing himself; “is there not somebody coming?”_ He rose to hi^feet and went behind a bush close by, seem- ’ *-—‘filing. There, he loaded and bringing'll back to Ik nobody ^er^aftCT^aU! Now, my clear girl, try your sui- . He save her the pistol. She it, laughing, and rawed the Tow, attention!” cried *One, two, three. Fire!” resa pulled the trigger, a st\ot NO*#yiwj. j. nct'-y lhere seems to be quite a boom now in Georgia on the supernatural, doubtless brought aboutt by the en tertainments of Miss Xula Hurst Every paper you pick up is filled with the most wonderful and im probable stories. This sensation will soon run its day, and as we do not intend the Banner-Watchman to be behind hand in anything that smacks of journalistic enterprise, have carefully collected a few well- authenticated narratives. Mr. J. B. Toomer, of Athens, says he never heard but one thing that he could not account for. Shortly after the war he took charge of a plantation for Mr. Eddings, on Edisto island, near Charleston. He was quartered in a large house, near the beach, that was.once used as a small pox hospital for negroes, and in which a brutal murder had been committed and a negro woman also burned to death. • He says reg- ularlj Cturj mglrt, when U>v chimed S, he distinctly heaTd walk ing over his head, in the room of the murder, some person apparent ly with new shoes on. The walk ing continued just half an hour, when the mysterious pedestrian would hoist up a window and then walk down stairs. The room has been locked and guarded, but the walking continued alle santee. No family would consent to live in this house but for a tew nights. A lady, upon whose veracity we would stake our existence, tells us that when first married she lived in a large old house that had the repu tation of being haunted. She says every night you could hear a noise up stairs as if some one was pour ing a bag of peas on the floor, while at other times a great noise was heard, like q large rock had fallen through the roof. There was a bed in that room, and it matters not how nicely it was made up, on go ing to the room soon after the im press of a human form was seen in the middle. This lady resided in the house for several years, and says the mystery was never explained. Wm. Gilmer Sims, the great Charleston novelist, in one of his works, tells a strange story in con nection with the'loss of the, steamer Pulaski, off Cape .Hatteras, by which out of 147 passengers only S survived. Mr. Sims was on board a rival steamer, the James Adger, and 50 miles distant from the Pu laski at the time she was blown up. “But,” says the eminent writer, “there was not apassenger on board the James Adger but heard the shriek of agony at the very hour the explosion took place, and we knew that something had happen ed to our companion vessel.” Even could sound have been carried this distance/the explosion of the boil ers of the Putaski was so unexpect ed and fatal, that most of the pas sengers were launched into eterni ty before uttering a sound. One of otir Oglethorpe corres pondents stated that there was a naughty story connected with court down there. Since then every law yer who was present has demanded of us if the article had reference to him. It reminded us of the wag who wrote a delicately perfumed note to all the ministers in his town saying: “AU’is discovered. Fly .’’The next morning every pulpit in the place was vacant. We have since discovered that there was nothing serious in the Lexington trouble. A SECOND “JUDE’S’LIGHT." Story of a Brutal Murder in Franklin County, and tho Strange Sight Seen Nightly Where the Body Was Discovered. In 1856, three negroes in Frank lin county, Ga., committed < a brutal assault upon a young white woman, a Miss Stowe, and after their hellish deed murdered her in a most hein ous manner. After cutting her per son with knives, and finding life still not extinct, the fiends placed the girl’s neck between a chestnut stump and a root, and endeavored to break her neck. Failing in this, too, the negroes with their hands deliberately choked her to death and concealed the body in a dense copse of woods. The victim was a poor girl, and a domestic in the family of a man named Shockley, a merchant. The girl was soon miss ed, and a search instituted for her. It was continued unsuccessfully for three days, Mr. Simon Marks, of Athens, being one of the party, and was present at the finding of the body. The search had almost been given up, when a young ntgro boy, who was‘present, remarked to the men that if they looked in a certain skirt of woods they would find the body. They did so and found the poor girl just as the boy stated. Her body showed sign's of the most horrible treatment, and the indignation of the county was at fever heat The boy who told where the body could be found was at once arrested and placed in the Carnesville jail, but he bitterly de nied knowing anything about the murder. Detectives were set at work, and it was not long before two other negroes, an old man named Lank and his sonJerry,were arrested. They belonged to a Mr. Mangrum, and the only evidence against them was that the dead girl, in company with another woman, was seen to pass where they were at work, when the negroes jumped over the fence and followed them. Soon afterwards Miss Stowe’s com panion parted company with her, and this was the last time the poor girl was seen alive. The negroes were put on trial, but they most bitterly denied their guilt, and stat ed that a white man was at the bot tom of the murder. Lank and his son were convicted, however, and publicly executed in Carnesville. They died protesting their inocence. The negro boy, who pointed out the body, was next put upon trial, anil Gen. Tom Cobb, after promise of a half interest in the negro, made an earnest but fruitless effort to save his life. He, too, was hanged. Soon after the execution of the ne groes, strange stories were told about the place where the body of Miss Stowe was found. It is a lonely and desolate spot, and unnatural sounds were heard ihwi V ML a.cauvt lUjaiLtlUUa figures seen. ^Travellers by night would avoid it, and it became krfown as the “Haunted Hollow.” But these sounds and ghostly fig ures were never traced to any au thentic source. There was, how ever, one 6ight that was witnessed on the night after the negroes were executed, and it is said tq be seen to this day. A ball of fire, at a regular hour, is seen to rise from the very- spot where the body of Miss Stowe was found, and float for hours through the woods. Time and again has it been followed, but the the light flies before the approach of man, and can never be approached except at a certain distance. It ad vances or retreats just as the person walks. We have this week con versed with several responsible gen tlemen from that section of Franklin county, and they tell us they have seen it many times. This light does not seem to have any power of illu mination, but is simply a ball of “dead fire,” as some express it, sus pended in the air. Lieutenant Good- rum, of the Athens police force, tells* us that he has seen this light hundreds of times, having lived in sight of the fated spot for a number of years. When he first moved to the settlement the people told him that the farm he occupied was haunted, but having no superstition about him, he did not credit the sto ry. But on the first night, in throw ing his eye to the clump of woods where tne murder had been com mitted he distinctly saw the red ball,, and for nearly every night, rain or shine, - while he lived on the place. It never approached the house or left its usual beat, ' and hence the sight gave him no uneasi ness. Strangers in passing along the rord have often been startled by the light, but the people living near had grown so accustomed to the vision that they quit talking about it, and he would never have thought ot itagaiu, had his atten tion not been directed to the “Haunted Hollow” by reading art account of “Jude’s Light," near At lanta. Lieut. Goodrum says the last time he conversed with a gen tleman who lived in that neighbor hood he stated that the light con tinues to appear. The gentlemen with whom we conversed are. alto gether reliable, and there is no doubt about the truth- of this story; but whether it is caused trom su pernatural or ordinary causes' we leave to the reader. r And it at last seems as if a sure enough railroad boom has struck Athens. By reference to a-card from Mr. Bloomfield in another col umn, it is seen that Chi. Raoul has decided to assist us to build to Jeffer son. We earnestly hope that all of our citizens will now centre on this route, and we can have the cars running in time for the fall business. This is the best news we have heard in a long time. V “Why is it that you vote the radi cal ticket?” asked one of My Dear Matt’s bondsmen of an old white republican the other day. “Well, Colonel,” was the settling reply, “I will come the Yankee 1 over you arid answef. your question by asking another. I would . flSti 1 to know why is it that yon-MO! 90 a radical nigger’s bond?!’ . Tbe-two parties are not on speaking terms now. mjrx»w» • ■ j i* 1 •, - A book agent tackled. Mr.) Gann, one of o.ur retired, capji theother day, to- sell him a copy. Buc&u-Paibl. Quick, complete cun, all annoying Kidnes Bladder and urinary Dirtaaeaf 1. Drnffilsty A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER. There conversation in the ment of the large dr of Messrs.' Bambrldgd & ‘StmvwMeB «ty steady whir of a ’ hundred sewififtaiAV chines could not rtholljMroWfl. 11 TTherd the presence feminine “can 1 bOfeWMI’fie sure the tongue fHmtntaS 1 WlH’twMaMt The superintendent of the rooidj tiny derstanding this, did hot attempt' ’tWeri* force silence; so pretty Dolly Wj»dir«l* May Bruton talked vorjr confidential" in their corner of the room; UjOidswiAi interfered, so long As fingers -’ wlMtty as well as tongues. ■ ’’inDinma oi And this is what May said, Uolfr’S blue eyes being riveted open’ the quilting on which she was at work. 1 < | "'e .juIkm] “I saw her yesterday when l wlM^gox ing ont to dinner.- She was just stepping Into her carriage,' 1 and ■ Mr. ’EdgKr'hlmi self handing her lu. She looks olfM neatly forty. I should s&y-pbut thby say she is immensely rich, nnd her dress was splendid. So I suppose her nioni^gdes against her age.” »■'•') - “Did yon hear they weretobemarried soon?” . - •' v. :-«do •« 1»- “Bless me 1 Didn’t I tell you that? My brother is in the stationer’s where tlie wedding cards are being printed-. They are to t>e married on the 2Tth. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Balnbridge, and tho card of tho bride’s mother, Mrs. William WH- Twelve! Come, we wit! go for a “No; I am tired." Dolly pteaded- And her friend loftherj never heeding -the sadden- pallor 01 the sweet youngi face, or the dumb agony in - the great blue e^cs.1 ■. • ®"ii: When she was alone Dolly stole aw*yi to her little room where' the clhaks, ! shawls and hats of the girls were kept, and there, crouching Id a corner, hidden 1 entirely by a huge waterproof, she tried to think it all out. - • i*J >■* t What had it meant? What did Bdghr Balnbridge mean in the long yea? ho had tried by every mascular device to win her love? She hail not been unmaldculy, her heart and conscience 'fully acquitted her. She had given her love, pure, true and faithful, to the son of her employer, but he had sought It, delicately and persist ently, before he knew that it was given him. The young girl, now sewing for a liv ing, had been daintly bred and thorough ly educated, her lathee having beeu a man drawing a salary sufficient to give his only child overy advantage. But when he died, and his wife in a month followed him, Dolly had chosen a life ol honest labor in prelerence to one of idle dependence upon wealty rel atives. And yet in tho social gatherings of these relatives and the friends ol former days, Dolly was yet a welcome gnest., It was at her U'nele Lawrence's subur ban villa she had been introduced to Edgar Baiabridge. i - Alter this she met him frequently, and id her simple dresB, with her sweet, pure face, had won marked attention from him. , With the frankness that wasoneof her' greatest charms, the voting girl had let tier admirer (know- that though she was Lawrence Wynuis niece, she work ed for a living in the dressmaking de partment of Bainbridge & Son. Then he made her heart bound With sudden, grateful joy, by telling he had seen her leave the shop night afternight but would not join her for fear of giving her annoyance by exposing her to the remarks of her companions. After this, however, she often found him waiting for tier at some, point fur ther than tlie establishment, and always so respectful and courteous that slie was glad of his protection in her long walk.. But he was going to marry an heiress on tlie 27th,' only a week away, so he had but trilled with her, after ail. Door little Dolly, crouching amoug tlie shawls and cloaks, felf as if, alb the sunshine was gone from lior life forever, as if her cup of humiliation and agonv were full to overtlowiug. But the dinner hour was over, tlie girls coming in or sauntering from resting places in tho work room, and-the hum of work commenced again, as it must, whatever aching hearts or wearv hands crave rest. ,- Dolly worked with tho rest, her feei- ingB bo numbed by the sudden blow that she scarcely heard May’s lamentations over a sudden llood of order, work that would keep many ot them in tlie room until midnight. “We’llhave all day to-morrow if we can finish these dresses to-night," said teWi 1 . S9 UiU U>i. igt so. But these dresses must-be ready-for delivery in the morning.” , J i 11- Talk! talk! talk! Whir! whir! whirl Dolly folded and basted, working- with rapid, mechanical precision! hearing the noise of voices and machiues, fecling.the dull, heavy beating of her heart and the throb of pain in her weary head, bat speaking no word of repining, excusing her pallid face by the plea of headache. It was after 11 o’clock when-the last stitch was set in the hurried work, and tho girls ran down the long llight of stairs to plod homo through a drizzling rain, following the late snow storm. As Dolly passed down tho stair case she saw in tbe conntiug house her recre ant lover, busy over-some account books. But for the heavy news slit) had heard that morning she would have felt stlre that this sudden fit of industry was to furuish an excuse for esoorting ber homo at the unusually late hour. . , . But if so, Dolly felt it. was but an ad ded insult to bis dishonorable conduct, aud she hurried on, hoping he had not heard her step. . „ She had gone some few streets from the shop, when, passing a church, she slipped upon a treacherous piece of ice and twisted her ankle. . , , The sudden pain made her faint for a, moment, and she sat down upon the stone work supporting the railing to re cover herself. ^ Boside her, not a stone’s throw pway, a dark, narrow alley-way ran along the high brick wall of tbe church yaijd, and- tlie girl’s heart sunk with -a chill of ter-, ror as she heard a man’s voice in the at-, ley say: ,' . 1 , m “Didn’t you hear a step, Biil?" “A woman’s. (She turned -off some where. He ain’t come yet,’.’. was the answer. - , He’s late to-night," said the first voice in an undertones •> vi “You are sure he’s taking the diamonds home?" Sure as death. 1 was at —l’s when lie gave the order. Send thorn to. my shop at nine r ’ says lie, ‘and I will take them home with me.’ And he gave the adress of Balnbridge A Sou.’! • - 1 ' .c “But are you sure that he will pass by here?” i t | r j ‘Of course he will. IJe lives in the next street. He’ll come." -i • l - “Suppose he should show fight?" “You hold him, and I’U soon stop bis cry word fell on Dolly’s cars clear and distinct in the silencq of the night. They would rob : lifm, these dreadful men, if nobody warnbil him. Thcv would spring out upon him as he passfeil, and strike hfm down before he knew there was danger. .ten h: j He must not come alone; unprepared. False lever, false frienij as she felt she was, she could not go on her way and leave him to death.’ “■ '-• * When she stood up the pain of-lier-an- kle was almost unendurable, ! but -sho clnng-tothe railing anil limped-alopg one street. The other seemed, intermt- bb. . ^ 'V; ” J Oftcnshe crawled through the wei slush of the streets'; often on one fbot, hopping painfully along, till the shop was reached at last, where -the light in the counting-house still burned. .^, Tim side door /or tpe ; woritiog “Edgar sauntered irSter-TSS’Ll [went round and entered the < WltgeaipitdL. ,X<>H not arrest thorn u tacked Edgar. ATtTtff, aUfiRhhr t«»» w* ii«»iiiw mw “My foot,” .DeUy«nnmntireds.—'ll,, sprained my ankle last night. It was to stop to rest that 1 8 At .^9 wn on the church V “You'didn’t-i«ede I 'all ? thi way hack trithsprained anklet* f> .viimio no/i cried MfoAWa? luuress tfrew near tblSolly and took ho? hand in a close grasp,« hath been hearing this morning a pretty little love story, of whichartPtSSe heroine, and Ihavfe’Cqme to, coet/ti you wUlbemy assisting at a double wedding,” ’ '“Dolly's eyee. alowly dilating as the other izdy spoke, were opined) to their tuilost extent, a* this climax was reach- ^“BdrarJ'’, sh'e sale!.' “1 thoughtfie was ^olngto marry'yoif'bilThursday',” '' A musical laugh answered her.’ >'' * ‘ ! ' Calling the gentlemen at the same time from the window,'Where-they had saun tered, during this littig scene, MiiaWU- son. looked up at them. 1,, j, '“Convincethis'yOurtg. lady,Edgar,” slig said,’“that, your affection for me la only that btoa dutiful eon; and that I shall have a motherly affection for tier likewise, when., I. become - the wife of your father, Edgar Bainbridge, senior.” And Edgar Junior took the chair his step-mothef-cl.oct had vacated, while the elder .gentleman and laay went outside to arrange a cushionin' the carriage for the sprained ankle. -■ . What Edgar said may. be imagined; but certain it is that' Dolly drove home with Miss Wilson,' and was that lady's guest Until the -following Thursday, when her wedding cards, too, were dis tributed, and the bridal party consisted of two bridegrooms and twp fair blush ing brides. -,' t , The daily papers, in noticing the wed ding, stated that. The superb parure of diamonds Worth by Mrs. "Edgar Bain- bridge, janior, iwu ia wedding present from Mrs.Edgar Bainhridge,8eutor. i J ji l m HABDtMR^TOAOE. A Reporter, 0! UM-BapaVR^hMa Goes Through Urn Plows and. Farming UfenjU* , of Childs, Nickerson SCO. _/! J * ' It is a>, pleasure for a reporter to writeup a good, square^honest fair- dealing-houses and give the readers of the paper a correct account of how such business 'Is carried on. Passing by- Childs,- • Nickerson 1 & Co's, hardware store on yesterday, we were invited in by Mr. Y; H- Wynri,' in his quiet and gentleman ly way; to look through their stock. We toH Mr.-Wy nfv that it would do'.no good to show us Riot of plows and hoes, as we had never had the* pleasure ofian intimate ac quaintance with either of these ar ticles. 1 - He insisted that they kept a great many other things besides plows and hoes, so we agreed to follow his lead, -and give our read ers a history of ihii large establish- thedt-.'-i. 1 ■ • “'“‘tot 1 '' ■ i. “‘This is the first hardware house established in ’the city?" we in- quifed: .v- - ■ .*>•»- “Yes; Weare the pioneers of the hardware trade in Athens. , ’A. K. Child's fine! R. Nickerson first com posed the firm, and afterWards John VV.' Nicholson- Was admitted at’a parthfer, which made ub the firm of Childt;'- Nickerson & - CO. The Hbiise dofnrrienced ’business immedi ately after the’wAr, in the-store now fight.’ Eve A Will cat, Watering a CUM.* Slain by Boca The Wild cat is seldom seen in our Country and when found they are very 1 fierce. At Helicon Springs, four miles froin Athens, a little child waSTiut playing, when a pack of dbgs at tne springs jumped a wild cat, that was not five feet from the child, and would certainly have at tacked it if the dogs had not scented the animal before it made the fear ful leap. There were four dogs in the pack, aod the cat made at once for the sWamp, but was overtaken "before it reached its den. ’ The parties who went after the dogs say ft Was a fearful fight. Thecat kilt ed fwo of these dogs but the beast was firtafiy overcome by the-other Two. The skin Of the animal-is now oni exhibition .at Helicon Springs, and is v?ry lafge. ' Charleston, W/Va., May a.— It ls'stated that Jacob Dobson, one: of the Hill boys gan^who shot ex- -sheriff Atkins, in Boone county,’ ’last week, «was lynched at.Griffiths- njonths.” “I am mighty sorry/ for "ville, Logan'cdunty, last night. ,’nJ ( o)iisftA ueiiem** k'joIf* * Ing wet, white anff tremhlfeg^to con front-Edgar 1 Bainbridge and tils HW .11 nheoding their exclamations of pur? prise and dismay, she toli^heratoty witl) Bainbridge: “The srisundTela “a “You bought diamonds ati-iWeto* day?’( askeJiliB’fathen -Ly,. swaii:) “A .parure for Miss WUson, X wi$l present them, with your permission, Thursday. Ah, look at that poor’gli For, overcome by pain, fatigue mental torture, Doily hud- staggered to ward the door, but-fell: fainting to tbe floor. . . „ ,i.... „ lr | A hasty call summoned the porter, aru in a few minutes the pqrtcra wife ap peared, rubbing bereyes, butfUUofWo- inanly resources for- tlie comfort of the girl. . 191 _ gut U5-.XI £ - A cab, was procured,.-.« ‘ dry garments furnished ' hearted woman," and" ten porter, Dollywa* driven. Th» next morning .walk. ' pon^m^iandlSv 1 carlng^p.get tip*Lttato f , But beforOhbonl slttlOi her lame ankle upon a cushion,4 surprisedbvtwogentleman call 1 otner than 'Bainbridge and son, in per so»—andn' ' ‘ ' ' ' < “IHLy ysftfth 1 jjnfqijsji ^ bsUii Dveti to fhe store-thCy now occu py, 1 bn the ’ corner Of Broad and Thomas'sfireets, ,where they* have been fof the p&st sixteen’ years/ J purchased’ the 'interest 'of J. W: Nichittsdh land ; W. B. /JicksOh; wiSt# l. cj»ma f aha Ei t sSaffl were afterwards admitted asjpart- iters. The firm- now consisti 'of R. Nickerson, Y/H. Wynn.W. B. Jackson, \V., L. ; Childs and E. I. Smith.” . “Do you*. fifid business lively enough td" support such a large firm'?”'we asked. / . ", ; ’ r [ ■ , We have built up* a splendid trade,” remarked Mr. Wyrul, “and one that is increasing every year. Our firm is composed of yofitig, live ttien, 'who. thoroughly^ understand tlieir business, and if nothing hap pens We will do 'the' largest hardr ware trade of the countty, Atlanta not eikejited.” - 1 “fs your business confined to the retail trade?” 7 1 ; ' ' / ,nu " ; " “Alnflost exclusively. We have some few customers among The mer chants hi, this.vigiaityj. ytho trade regularly, wjth us, and we sell them as.cheap as they'can buy iix Atlanta. There i.s'qne. policy .that our"' house always pursues, and That is t6 buy the yety l^esT.goods the market af fords, in preference, to cheap ghods, and .then tp sell them sit a living profit. Honest dealings have won us the'cbnnqpiice pf [the people, and hot a naff in the 'hpuse would /in tentionally misrepresent anything.” “You seemi , to carry a large :stp6k.?’’ l , : '■ ...' “Ycji'm the JqWer stoty we Keep all ot' our 1 iron," steel plows and various other-articles. On * the second floaffrtvbich is the main bus iness part of the- house, we keep a good stock of-'everything kept in a hardware store. Thebe is . nothing that yon ;ten call for but what we keep Pn thisi floor. :..On the third floor all 1 1 of our btiggy and wagon material’ is stored, such, as buggy spokes,'bodies, fellows, and, in fect, a complete outfit tor .a. wagon or a t buggy.” -mob ■wr-.j This ist certainly 1 onp ofiihe big " wis . firms of our city,, and e»i conducted on .business principles and in a business manffen, ‘Every* body-knows, Gapta iR. Nickerson, and it is useless ’.for/ .1 Us to kkyanything.about.:him. ;. -Ham Wynn-has been'identified with Ath ens aticoi the daysv of Grady, and Nicholson, and is a thorough mas of busittess. ’ E. I. Smith is* -gentle- man/iani if yonree him you will know, nt tyte firit glance that he dMBldrMlaniiriWrewM a. thing' for fc TniUwaltf dollars*. Xhe'otberhMi»- berx. pfithcu £xn» 'are on the same line. As to the clerks; wc‘know every onuef- them-well-and if you want to-bhtrcateir right-arid clever just call for Menr Little, the hand- somyfiaaff’tfdnf os* of tog f’asaHMk li .tusiifA lu<’ XMwIum I twsr.nf!» Ir.. ,..
