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Within the put few days the rail road outlook of our little city hai brightened up considerably, and it seems that we have something tan gible ahead of us. Col. Roaul’a letter came like a ray of sunshine upon our people, and they now have strong hopes of soon being able to tap the narrow-guage sys tem on our west that is fast upping the commercial vitality of Athena. We anxiously await the action of the lesseess, but teel assured that with such an earnest friend as Cdl. Kac.il. that we can count with al most certainty on a consummation of a scheme that will so materially assist us. From the last issue ot the Madisonian it is seen that there is now quite a boom in favor of the Athens & Madison road, and the public-spirited citizens of that town have gone to work in earnest. May or Dorsey has convened another meeting of the city council for to night, when he will lay before that body the question of issuing the ad ditional $100,000 in bonds for the North-Eastern extension. He has conversed with most of our leading citizens and business men, and find them almost a unit in favor of the donation. 11 is idea is to test the matter at once m the courts, and decide the question finally as to the light of Athens to subscribe this money. When that issue is settled it *ill be time enough to see what arrangement can be made with the present owners of the North-East ern. An agent of the Richmond & Danville sjndicate is daily expected in Athens, whose mission will be to look into an extension from this city to some point on the Macon & Brunswick. He will come fully empowered to speak for his com pany. Thcie is no doubt but what bands will be set at work next sum mer on the extension from Tallulah falls to Rabun Gap, when the line will be pushed through to Knox ville as fast as money and men can accomplish. So it is seen that Athens is not asleep, as many suppose, but her energetic citizens are quietly and earnestly at work, and their ef forts bid lair to be crowned with “No adjourned session” should be the campaign cry in choosing mem bers for the next legislature. The wife and daughters of Sena tor Mahone have sailed for Europe. Mahone is now a deck hand on the radical ship. The Maysvillc Georgian is edited bv a retired blacksmith, and he is putting in some sledge-hammer licks for democracy. The Northern Methodist church and the radical party are in the same bonds of iniquity. The former is a political sucker on the latter. Arabia has the plague; but then it has no extra legislative sessions* spiked in with a monthly negro convention. Happy Arabia! It is probable that the “White Man’s Party” of Georgia will run Gen. Longstreet for Governor. An other lamb led to the slaughter-pen \ gentleman just from Atlanta tells us that there will be five candi dates lor Solicitor-General in our circuit, and they arc working like beavers. Jonathan Norcross seems willing to admit the colored brethren who is his way ol thinking. Jonathan is undoubtedly a political fraud of the first water. NO XXXXVII >\'Ov X ^,. j j •«“ twain oj x*”'l luoJavjjta ’afCEESDA-Y, MAjT 18, j ■■ ■ - • 'ri i ornah LniUai M: rr:a odnb.r. V. .nemiuiw r. bellul bn* sntbliuri * -m.il/.'ir’MlN n-vT r.Jl-o! Ittn'lYfif' |XXX •OJO.dtt tel Jp. iiiiiid m .ulfJ'floL) it. AN .EVENING WITH A SPIRITUALIST. BStBLATOm MTRI ' AND WONDERFUL J < < »_l_ I* EXTREME THB. Hlotory of Modern Spirituallim, ii Told by Mrs VsnDnxoo—Bfillst or tthli Soctoty—Wo Carry Oar Own Hou With Da—Tho DlBbiont Mynas In tho Spirit Land—Csssaa Faces Surround Et- ary Fsrson—Facas of tba Mad Mlnataly M- aenssd, etc., ate., ate. . . On Tuesday night last, together with several gentlemen, we called Mrs. VanDuzee at her rooms in the Clinard House. It is a noticeable fact that .tpe northern republicans have not elected negroes as delegates. They have thrown Them an occasional •top in the way of an alternate’s place. “Secor” Robeson was de feated in New Jersey by a negro alternate. Now that the opinion prevails that neither Blaine nor Arthur can get the nomination, one of our con temporaries suggests Gen. Gresham, I This lady is the wife of the general of Indiana, as the best man avail- manager in Athens for the Singer able. It doesn’t seem to occur to ™ ac . bin< : company, and is not a pro- ,1,. ...... . • « . , fessional, who seeks to make a hv- the stalwarts or to the half-breeds ingby her belief We were kind i y that they might compromise on received,and of course.the conver- Platt. sation at once turned upon Spiritu- ., , — ' alism. Mrs. VanDuzee freely dis- Alabama has now 13 cotton mills cussed the subject and readily an- Georgia 62, North Carolina 92, swered all questions propounded, South Carolina Si, Tennessee 33, We were soon convinced that she Virginia 14, Maryland 24, Louisiana was as honest and conscientious in 7, Mississippi 11, Texas 6, Ken- her advocacy of Spiritualism as a tucky 5, Arkansas 4, and Elorida 2. churchman is in the Christian reli- These mills were returned in the gion. She says it is neither her census of iSSoas producing $21,- wish nor -intention to make con- 000,000 worth of cotton goods; but verts, and would not walk twenty the product of 18S4 is estimated at steps toconvince any one of the truth $35,000,000 to $40,000. of her belief; that humanity have Macon Telegraph: Edi,., G.nU is disposed to come down on the 1 be in the next. She says there are “American aristocracy,” in which different degrees in the spirit land, he is fearfully right and in dead as on earth, and she has conversed earnest. We shall cheerfully at . with spirits from all the realms. This , „ , , , J lady says they appear to her in dif- tend all the funerals he may get up f eren t forms. There are first what in his campaign against the pinch- is denominated the earth-bound beck nobility and the slobbering spirits, whose past life has not flunkies that hang like lean leeches I dtted them to occupy a higher to the shins of the most noble order, a^nisbm^n^for‘pa^tran^e^ It is said that the Seventh-day sion »- a " d a ?P ear in the * 3 ™ e f 8 /' . . ... , . . , , . ments that they wore during life. Adventists are highly elated over Even jn this / tate however f they the prospect that ex-de-facto Presi- have an opportunity of bettering dent Rutherford B. Hayes is about I their condition, and are gradually to become a convert to their pecu- advanced as their reformation takes liar views, and that soon afterwards P lace ’ ,T h f t e -bound spirits . _ * , . . are subject to the same trials and the end of the present order of af- troubles as when in life, and it is of- fairs will come to pass. It is diffi- ten necessary that they should corn- cult to conceive where the direct municate with *nme living friend connection between the two events | to clear their way. Mrs. VanDuzee attributes supernatural warnings to this class of spirits, and says it they The law passed by the Georgia I are 'communicated with through legislature in reference to oleomar- some medium, and their wishes b . , , , , made known, then they are satisfied ganne has proven a dead letter. and their visits ceas £ The next This miserable combination of lard | class are robed in white, which is an and tallow continues to be dealt out advance in the world of bliss over as gilt-edged butter from some Go- those that are earth-bound. These, N** York taken a step in advance, and has Then tbere are spirits that appear, forbidden, under penalty, the man- the form of mistl but their fea- ufacture and sale of the miserable tures are discernible and can bercc stuff. Other states would do well ognized. Then as the. degrees ad- to follow her example. MEEKER'S FARM. Visit to the Loveliest Spot in Georgia—The Perfection of Agriculture. Tuesday afternoon we were sum moned from our sanctum to take ride with Capt.J. S. Williford. It vance the light appears to brighten, through thousands upon thousands of stages, until the supreme realms of bliss are reached, when the spirit appears as bright as the noonday sun, and inhabit homes as beautiful as the imagination can depict. There is no commingling of spirits in the rious spheres, for they are as dis- is always a relaxation for an ed. or tinct as‘the classes upon earth, to have even an hours rest from h.s The h;her order of spirits rarely desk, and of course w e were not ever vi & the earth) and ‘; t is only b * loath to accept the kind offer Our , practice that mediums can destination was the beautiful sub- co » m J nicate with them . Mrs . Va n urban farm of Mr J A Meeker Duzee she has looked ; nto ; r . upon which the owner has lavished | it hom J and conversed with F the place was an unsightly old field, too poor even to sprout a pea. Mr. Sleeker has expended probably $25,000 on its improvement, and he has transformed almost a desert into a lovely garden of 140 acres. The newspapers of Georgia are on u better footing than since the War. There arc a few little weakly parasites that need weeding out, and when this is done, our state can justly boast of its press.. We think that the Lincoln fami ly arc like a sweet potato—the best of them is under the ground. At tlie same time, however, Bob seems to have the drop on the other Pres idential aspirants. Gen. Longstreet is one Soutlierg republican for whom we entertain the highest regard. He has gone astray, it is true, but nothing can blot out his record in those days that tried men’s souls. The Eatonton Messenger is dart ing straws .against a tempest when it opposes the re-nomination of Hon. Seaborn Reese. Better fall into line, Brother Reese, and accept the inevitable. Gen. Butler goes to Chicago as a democratic dclcgate-at-large. His last appearance in the democratic wigwam was at Charleston when he voted for Jefferson Davis. The Chicago hotels will place a pewter spoon at Ben’s plate. The Atlanta newspaper reporters have got up a walking match, and the winner will receive$1,000. Yes and we’ll bet the lucky man wil, take the $1,000 and establish a “long- felt want” at some water tank, and slowly starve to death. Col. Candler’s enemies in the 9th have about lied themselves out of breath, and he will doubtless be re nominated by acclamation. All the better class of independents have withdrawn from that party since it is merged with the radicals. President Arthur once taught school in an interior town in New York and boarded with a private fnmily. Afterward General Gar field taught the same school, board ed with the same family, and occu pied tlie very same room. Wonder if Sing-sing is not located in that school district! The Abbeville Press & Banner is heartily opposed to the land loan corporations and warns the farmers of Abbeville not to put themselves under any obligations to these com panies. It says: “If the farmer is compelled to raise money, let him sell a portion of his land at half its val ue rather than jeopardize the whole. A majority of our farmers have great quantities of land that yield no return, and any fanner who pays interest on any unprofitable land taut finally be ruined," piness and enjoyment that the hu man imagination could depict If the living only knew the reward awaiting them for a well-spent life, our world would be free from sin In reply to our query if Spiritualists The land has been'brought - up" To I believed in a hell burning with fire the highest state of cultivation, and a *V* bnmstone, Mrs. Vanpuzee re- is to-day covered with the most lux- P“ e °> “No one but fools believe uriant crops of grasses and small I an y such nonsense. God is too grain, black with richness, and bids 8PJJ 1 “ an( * merciful to condemn his lair to make a yield that has never children to eternal punishment We been equalled in the south. The ma ) £e ° ur own hell while on earth house, a tasty new cottage, stands carry it with us.. This lady upon an eminence in an oak grove I *“ en described the various clean and of many acres, the trees apparently un clean spirits she has seen, ana being trimmed and trimmed by a in the hereafter a soul experi square and level. You approach e 7* ces the same sensations the house by a winding avenue, on I *” e y ° n earth. For one side bordered with wheat that stance, if. a man is a drunkard, will yield 40 bushels per acre, and he suflers , ,n the ?P* nt , aU the mis the other with oats that will, in fries ofa drunkard, and there is pun- spite of the severe winter, make enough to know that his even more. This road is as smooth wilful life on earth has debarred him as a floor, every water-way substan- f or entering the blissful realms, that tially bridged with stone. The res- ha « an see; ahead. In the spirit he idence is completely embowered in 1 at once begins to expatiate for the flowers and shrubbery, now reach-1 transgressions committed on earth ing their greatest perfection. A de- an< } is ady ance d as fast as pun licious perfume, distilled therefrom, While we were conversing greets you ere vour destination is Mrs. VanDuzee exclaimed, (point- reached. We were cordially re- i"g to the editor of this paper) “I ceived by the genial proprietor, who * bright l*ght behind your chair! delights to show visitors his place. 1 have noticed it before, and it The first sight that attracts your at- seems to follow and hover around tention is fifteen acres sown in Lu- y° u * ** \ s mor ® distinct now, and cern, and now nearly ready for the seems to be two little seraphs—the mowers. Mr. Meeker tells us that foI ™. s are quite plain to my sight it is the most valuable hay crop for a ‘ this bme. They are two little upland that can be sown in the | chddren, and are in the highest ele- South.the plants taking such deep ment of space.” With this inter root that they are not effected by ruption, the conversation again our hot Southern suns. Again it is ‘“med upon her belief. Mrs. Van only necessary to resow this crop Duzee says Lula Hurst is a medi- once in every fifteen years, which um, and would develop wonder- makes it almost a clear profit to the ^ powers if properly trained, farmer.- At the first two cuttings She th,nks her physical force will he gets one ton each to the acre, eventually give place to a spiritual with the other three the hay i s force, and she will then he a shining shorter, but none the less ! 'ght in this new world. “Have valuable as a feed for stock. y° u ever seen a colored Spiritualist?” Thus it can be seen that from we asked. “Yes, many of them an outlay of only the labor for har- The most , wonderful medium I ever vesting, can an income of $75 or saw is a negro girl in New York, $100 per acre be realized. Mr. who was the discoverer of modem Meeker has taken every rock and Spiritualism. My medium at pres- stump from his fields, and as theland ent is a little Indian girl, who has lies well, improved machinery can foUowed me for ten years, and is easily be used. His grove is sown ° ne tbe truest and most faithful down in California clover, blue grass jjttle creatures I ever knew. The and other pasturage, that flourishes time I sa w her she was standing most luxunantly and furnishes fine at my side and pickme at mv apron grazing foi his stock. He has now as an y child would do. _ But she a pasture of 30 acres, luxuriant with has now grown to be quite a girl, barley, clover, etc., upon which he and has advanced very rapidly in feeds several hundred head of the spirit land." “Do spirits grow horses, mules, cattle and sheep for after death?” we asked. “Oh, yes,” the the Athenians, they paying ten I was the reply, “but they never get cents per day per head. The past [old. I tell you the soul after death month this industry ha& netted Mr. I is subject to the same changes as the Meeker about $20 per day. His body. Every living creature has a pasture grows as fast as eaten down, spirit, and they inhabit space, the There are five acres in fruit trees, same as we do the earth, and add to just now in full bearing, of the most .to mutual pleasures. I -have often choice fruit, and evety tree is seen the spirit of horses and other laden. Mr. Meeker tells us that he animals. I sometimes think,” con- finds both peach and apple trees do tinned Mrs. VanDuzee, that the better when not trimmed too close | living on oar earth are the spirits of to the ground'. Besides the bay a people who inhabited a world ot and small grain crops, immense darkness, And being placed on yields of com and cotton per acre this sphere is but one of the ad- are made on this place. In fact, vances between time and eternity, there is not a month in the year but But of course I have no proof for . «1 • I Aliaa Anal •• A«ln m I have called up one of my spirits and conversed w'th it for hours. I talk to them like a rational human being. There is nothing to be afraid of, fora spirit cannot harm you. Certain mediums have communica tion with certain orders of spirits, and to reach others of that Class you must communicate through the one that controls you. Y ou can train a spirit like a living person, and the little Indian girl to whom I referred was taught to speak the English language by one of my daughters. I have never seen this child in life, but she tells me that she belonged to a tribe in New York state. For a 'ong time an old Roman senator followed me, and I discovered his identity in a singular manner. A nephew of mine, who had heard me speak of my spirit, sent me a book on Roman senators, and the first engraving I looked at, taken from a bust, was that of the old senator whom I had so ottegseen in the spirit land. He has not visit ed me for several yerrs.” -Mrs. VanDuzee then narrated a number of wonderful seances that she has attended, including that of the “Flower Medium” in Boston, who, upon being locked up in a room with a party of ladies and gentle men, with all their hands linked upon a table, to find, when the lights are turned on, their laps and the room filled with the most beau tiful flowers, freshly plucked, some evidently brought from distant dimes, with the sap still clinging to the stems. Mrs. VanDuzee says it a matter impossible for these flow ers to have been conveyed into that room through any human agency. In reply to our inquiry as to the number of Spiritualists in the world, this lady replied, “About eleven millions. It is comparatively a new departure, and is destined to be come the religion of the world. We do not try to make converts, but are always glad to show our pow ers to the people and let them be their own judges as to its merits. It will work its own way. Queen Victoria is an earnest believer in it, while many of the most eminent nent men and women in the world are with us. It is an unpopular beliel, at this time, but the truth is gradu ally breaking upon the world.” Mrs. VanDuzee kindly consented to give us a few evidences of her powers, that we might judge to the merits of their claims. Placing her face in her hands, and closing her eyes, she requested all persons in the room to remain quiet for a few moments. She then began to speak, describing the spirits before her. And here came in the most wonderful part of the perform ance. She gave tbs writer a most minute description of his father, who died of paralysis in Mississip pi, and had she his portrait before ler it could not have been more ex act. She told his age, and described characteristics and marks about his face that no one but his immediate family would have noticed. She also described other deceased friends, some of them dead for many years, and their names not even known in Georgia. To say her revelations were surprising, even the most skeptical will be forced to admit. She gave othe >arties present descriptions of dead 1 Bends, whose spirits were around them, and their surprise was even as great as our own. By pressing a sealed letter in her hand she most accurately described the writer thereof. Mrs. VanDuzee, by the singing of a hymn, goes into a trance, and while in that state de* livers the most learned lectures and recites columns ot poetry upon any subject—the parties present writing the subject they wish to hear dis cussed on a piece of paper and placing the same in a hat, one to be drawn therefrom and not even look ed at. But at a future time this lady promises us a display of this power, so we must reserve our ac count of same until we have an occular demonstration of the tact. While we are far from being a be liever in Spiritualism, theie* is cer tainly something wonderful about this lady, that will repay investiga tion from a scientific mind. .What her powers are, that seem to enable her to lift the veil from the spirit land and read its secrets, is to us a profound mystery, and we • will not attempt to explain them. That Mrs. VanDuzee has some secret and wonderful gift, we cannot deny. We only ask our skeptical readers to call on this lady ana see for them selves. CANDIDATES FOB PRESIDENT. “Hex ’Em OntWtarim Ton La*. something is coming on tu swell | this, and it is only a surmise of my LULA HimST, NO. 2. TTHT H ltd; ' ■ - Dalton Citizen. The above young lady exhibited her wonderful powers at Treyitt hall on Tuesday night last. We . were present and were astonished at what we saw. The power she possesses, whatever that-power is, “ indeed wonderful. That there is > deception about her perform ance : we were fully satisfied from the tests made of her singular pow er on this occasion. Sheisayoung unlettered country girl, about 14 yeajs old, and, physically, not unu sually developed for a person of her age. At the commencement of the’ entertainment, the manager invited any gentleman in the audience to. come on the stage and test her pow- R01IERT LINCOLN A L I B N Y This is s dude his ears pro trude in most ers by holding or sitting in a chair, opt, and dragged her out of the Several went, One or two of them of. house towards a pine thicket near m-eatnlivMMi stwnrti, .iwt '5R tjjr. Af the yard fence he relaxed his hold on her throat in trying to get over, and she, screamed as loud as she could. Most happily both horses were still at the moment she screamed, and her husband heard the cry. If it had been a moment sooner or later she would not have been heard. Mr. Lovelace and his brother ran towards the house at once, and when they were within about fifty yards Sam saw them and escaped into the pine thicket. The news soon spread through the neighborhood and a party at once set out in pursuit of the black vil lain. A report reached here at one time that he had been caught and shot near Camp Hill, but we ascer tain this to be erroneous. The negro was evidently bent upon mischief, for proof was ob tained that he had visited the house of two other white citizens that day with the same intention he came so fearfully near carrying out at Mr. Lovelace’s. At one place his tracks were found all around the house, but fortunately the lady of the house was at the time in the field with her husband. At another place where there lived a girl about fourteen years old, he said her father had sent him to tell her to come to the field and help him to strew guano. He then went and hid beside the path along which she would have to go. She had been washing clothes that day, and was tired, so she did not go. THE BITE OF A MAD-DOG NOT AL WAYS FATAL. St. Jama Gazette. The bite of a mad dog, it would appear, is not so fatal as is general ly supposed. A report upon the subject for the Department of the Seine, issued by the Paris Prefect ure of Police for the past three years, shows that of 1^6 persons bit ten by rabid dogs in 1SS1 eighty died; in 1SS2 nine out of sixty-sev en bitten died; and in 1883 five only only out of forty-five. With re- gard to the treatment of the bite of a rabid animal, the experience of the French .doctors show that the only remady which can be depend ed upon to destroy the virus is the prompt application to the wound of cautery by red-hot iron. Twenty persons died of hydrophobia in the Department of the Seine in 1S81, nine in 1882 and four in 1883, as fhr as official returns show. The de creasing number of deaths from this cause is attributed to the strict er measures adopted with regard to ownerless dogs. During the three years mentioned, 11,564 stray dogs were captured in Paris and the de partment and destroyed. the income of the proprietor. It is j own.” “Do you believe in ghosts#** certainly' a model southern farm, we asked. “There are no such and is a solution of the agricultural thing as ghosts, and as to them in- problem of the south. It is like a habitating grave-yards, spirits have trip to Arcadia to visit this lovely | no mora use for pie shell of a body rural home, and see such evidences j after the sou) has quitted it than yon of thrift and progress on every would. ( fiaran old-log house alter hand* The outbuildings are in [ VfaildingM triinaion. JBnt, as I srid, : A BAILOR DEVOURED BY SHARKS. While leaving the port of Bahia, bays a| recent Panama letter, the steamer Chala lost a man in a very tragic manner. He fell overboard, and a boat was started to his rescue. The man was a good swimmer, and it seemed certain that he would be saved.. Evidently, however, the place became alive with sharks, and ft at once became apparent that the man was doomed. Once he threw himself almost ont of the water in proved and modern plan. This magnificent farm is now offered for tale, and ft is a mystery to oa,that some capitalist has not purchased ft before now. mysterious sound A heard are qytNyjqt?* 1 except to medupps, apd then in the form of a body.; Tbey.are not hor- . rible to look upon, and when aftme Ian effort to escape the jaws of the I monster, but a few seconds after- I wards he was apparently seized'and dragged under, as nothing more was seen of_ him. _ Other sharks, apparently disappointed in their hopes of prey, were then seen rushing through the water in all HdirectionS, and appeared to medi- the itate an attack on the boat, which, I ■■after an Ineffectual search, pulled Iback : to 'the ship. The whole of this coast abounds withH but this year they seem; i numerous than ever. rate, ten inches lon« any rate. A Sandy tie rarrounds his throat belo w this comes a cut-off coat with lar more buttons tha at. Neath all the rc is his vest with pla 1 the t>< »*° are you nis ft spindles his skin spin legs That is a Dude. DAN1ELSVILLE DOINGS. Daniklsville, May 6.—Picnics are now in order. Two mad dogs were killed near Moore’s Grove Saturday. Mr. Ham Henley’s little boy was severely bitten by a vicious dog be longing to Mr. Henley. The dog will bite no more little boys. The last will and testament of El ba Collins, dec’d, was yesterday pro bated in solemn form. CoLJ.J, Strickland, executor’s ;counsel. More fine milk cows heard from. Mr. Jonah E. Haws reports a five gallon cow at his home. Mr. Ter rell Adams says he has one if prop erly cared for. Webb Cuny, (col.) milked from the I. J. Meadow cow, on the 30th inst, gallons, and on the 4th he lacked only a pint and a halt of 8 gallons. We don’t know where she’ll stop. | |The Culberson land consisting of two hundred acres sold to-day for fourteen hundred and five dollars, to three heirs of the law, Chandler, Wilson and Minish—a bargain. The contract to repair our jail was let to-day to Mr. Wm. B. Williams for $124. Mr. G. T. Johnson, one of onr merchants, is patting up a telephone from his store to his dwelling. The stock company to establish telephon ic communication between Daniels ville and Athens is not yet ready to begin the work, WORK FOR JUDGE LYNCH, Two Young GUU Polumsd by MttpUon. Clarksburg, W. Va., May 3. On Tuesday last a most dastardly outrage was perpetrated by ' some unknown fiend near Adamsville, a remote village ot this county, which will probably result in the death of two young ladies, Misses Della and Annie James. Miss Della received an envelope by mail purporting to come from a cousin containing some brown sugar. A note was enclosed requesting her to eat the sugar and burn the note and envelope. Sup- losing it to be a joke, Miss Della lividM the sugar with her sister, both girls eating of it. The sugar Was poisoned. ~ Miss Della is now dying and her sister is suffering great agony. DEATH UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CHLOROFORM. Albany News: Missouri Wright, wife of R. Wright, colored, - went to the office of Dr. Osborn, the den tist, to have some teeth extracted tenday morning. Fearing that operation would be a painful one, she asked for an administration of chloroform. Dr. Osborn called in Dr. Hilcman to administer the an&sthetic; The patient yielded to the influence of the chloroform very readily, and nothing nnusual occur red until after one,.tooth had been extracted, and Dr. Osborn was about to proceed to draw another, when she resisted, and then sud denly ceased breathing. The doc- *nra immediately tooklierout of the isir, and; laying her upon the floor, tifitSd respiration) but h<!r heart re fused to act and she was soon be yond all hope. A powerful electric battery was also applied, bnt to’ no avail. The patient was' a stout, healthy looking woman, but her case happened to be what the med ‘ : ': ! A*ftfii4FTED RAPB^ 'i, . Sf-lilf I ’I,<110; TS» WrstcU Eaeapa*,-Bnt 1* Cloulj Pumwd. , , - £hambert, (Ala.,) Tribune. Sam Hinkle, a negro, attempted to outrage-Mrs. .Jack Lovelace last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. LbVe- lace'lives a few miles southwest of town.'" Her husband and-his broth er were plowing in a field, not, far from the house. Two ladiei who had beert visiting her left about five o’clock,- and she was in the ' house alone. Sam had evidently been watchingdils opportunity, for imme diately upon the departure of the visitors he .entered the house and asked Mrs' Lovelace for'a piece of paper to write a letter.- She stoop ed down to get it for him, when he suddenly grasped her by the throat, thpp preventing her from dying great physical strength, and each, in turn, would hold-a chair in front of him, firmly grasped in both hands, and Miss Price, by placing her hands on the back of the chair, would move the one folding it about over the stage with the great est ease. Again, she would, with out the least apparent exertion on her part, raise a chair from the floor, while two or more strong men were exerting themselves to hold it down, by simply laying her hands on the back of it. One of her tests was marvelous, the twisting of a large hickory stick nearly in two, held in vice-like grip by two strong men, by touching the palm of her hand to the end of it And another one of her tdats was very astonishing, that of lifting and hurling a chair through the air with tremendous force, by the same process of laying her hands gently .on the top of ft. What this mysterious power is we are unable to say; but that it is truly wonderful and without deception there can be no doubt To find out what it is, and whence it comes, we leave to scientific investigation. We give it up—we don’t know! NEGRO* GIRLS. An Artlol* From a Colored Paper Laden With Sound Senso. 4 Atlanta Defiance. Thesis, our able Athenian corres pondent certainly hit the nail right centrely oh the head in what he said last week in his letter concern ing the prominence that we give as a race to the children of prostitutes and to prostitutes themselves. We have ft continually thrown in our teeth, by the white men, that none of our women are virtuous. Of course we know this is not true, yet the grounds upon which they jase their argument is the fact that we have no line of demarkation be tween virtue and vice, at least this line is not as plainly defined among us as among white people. If a white woman disgraces her self she is immediately driven from respectable society and scorned by her former associates, and even the men shun her, but among us, as a general rule, for a young girl to lead a suspected life, is only to pass into society, she is recognizend by the best girls and courted by the best boys. We mean this, that some of our best girls will associate with any woman whose character is sus picious, and some of our best boys will “toat” them around in society. We know that our girls labor un der many disadvantages, and we also know that as soon as they reach their teens, are hounded at every turn by every low, vile and con temptible white man in the com munity who seeks by every con ceivable hellish device to decoy them from the path of virtue. We know, too, that these damnable scamps have out black emissaries, who aid and abet them in accom plishing their nefarious ends, yet our girls should hurl with bitter contempt the brutal attacks of these fiends back in their teeth with the greatest possible degree of vehe mence. But alas! But alas! The jirls too often allow themselves to ie imposed upon, by suffering these hellish white scoundrels to make improper advances upon them, so that they insult them with impuni ty and thus they are decoyed from the path of rectitude, innocence and happiness and finally ruined. We will speak again of this very 'rave matter at some future time.’ LJntil then, girls, beware how you walk. Remember you are the guage of your race civilization and moral status. HAWKINS KILLS HARDY. A Tragady la Analiton la Which Two Georgians Are tho Principals Anniston, May’ 3.—Willis A. Hawkins, jr., formerly of Americus, shot and killed Mr. Wes Hardy, formerly ot Cartersville, last even ing at 7 o’clock.. The dispute arose over a game of pool, when Haw kins gave Hardy the lie. Hardy re taliated with a blow from a billiard cue. Hawkins left the place and came back in fifteen or twenty min utes when the attack was renewed bjr Hardy striking Hawkins with hia fist Hawkins retaliated by shooting Hardy in the abdomen. The ball entered his intestines and lodged in the cavitv. Hardy died this evening.at 3 o’clock. Hawkins was committed to jail for trial on Wednesday. Both parties £re un married young men and well liked. Hawkins was considerably affected when his victim died, remarking:. “I would I were in his place.” The public seem to think the shooting was somewhat justifiable. Mr. Har dy is a brother-in-law of Hon. E. N. Broyles, of Atlanta. He and his wife have been telegraphed for and and are now on their way here. A YOUNG GIRL’S BETRAYER. RIOTING IN NORFOLK. Nagroes Striking Polloemtn and Insulting Ladles > —Everything to a Tumult. Norfolk, Va., May 1.—This af ternoon the first regiment of color ed volunteers celebrated its anni versary by parade; in which visit ing colored companies from Peters burg joined. When preparing for the dress parade, Major Palmer, commanding, requested the police to keep the crowd from pressing on his men and interfering with their movements. This an officer at tempted and the immense crowd of colored people fell back, except one negro, who struck the officer and seized hTs club. The crowd then began to boot and yell and several negroes rushed at the officer, who was finally rescued by the police force present. In the melee three officers were badly hurt before or der could be restored. Later it the evening a negro struck a ne gress. A policeman attempted his arrest and was struck by a rock thrown from a crowd of negroes and seriously injured. A lady pass ing was also struck by a rock. The chief of police has all his force in readiness to preserve order, and an extra force has been sent to the col ored quarter. Five rioters are un der arrest. A NEGRO’S CRIME. generalTnewST - A iy'fpiwwont areas huge as hen’a —H'ih J Florida. p A WhlM Woman ores* Birth to a Black OhllA ai tho Result 01 Her Fright. Chattanooga, May 5.—A few weeks ago, Dick Warner, made a criminal assault on Mrs. Mardar, wife of a farmer living near Scotts- boro, Alabama. That whole section of country aroused and a search was made, terminating in the capture of Warner. Good counsel prevailed, and the officers were allowed to place the prisoner in jail to await the action of the court Informa tion received this evening states that last night Mrs. Mardar gave birth to a dead child as a result of theshock to her nervous system. The dead child was entirely black. When this fact, became known another mob was organized,which surround ed the jail, demanding the negro. The jailer had learned of the inten tions of the mob, and clandestinely spirited Warner away. The town is in a terrible state of excitement, demanding to know the wherea bouts of the negro. ELOPING WITH A NEGRO. MARRIED New York Times. Beemerville, N. J„ May 1.— The people here to-day wore great ly excited over the elopetuent of a white school girt, Mtas Amanda Ayers, a daughter of C. D. Ayers, with a negro named Henry Adams. The girl wa* about 14 years of age, rather pretty, and attended the vil- lage school. She has. always here tofore been of good reputation. She left her home last- evening on the pretense of visiting a neighbor, and pas not been seen since. Her fail ure to return greatly alarmed her parents, who began an immediate search. When they discovered that the negro had also disappeared -the neighbors, all turned out, and a live ly search was made all night for the missing couple. Nothing has been heard from them yet The negro is known as “Black Hank,”; and was ji^ay .married to one of his own race. - He has two children. Frequent threats df ’ lynching ; are ' TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. —— j., y rutanj r The cotton crop in . Texas buried by. the floods. v . Dr. Edward Scigel, of Newton, N. C., suicided with laudanum. - 4 1 Union soldiers continue to sub scribe liberally to the. Confederate home. . A negro burglar was taken from jail at Walton, Kentucky, and lynched. , , Savannah extended great honors to Gov. McDaniel, upon his visit to that city. •: v . The property of temperance men in Wichita, Kan., is being burned by incendiaries. The democrats made large gains in several municipal elections in North Carolina. One moonshiner was killed and another wounded by revenue of ficers in Arkansas. I A-British vessel was attacked and captured by savages on Acay island and the crew murdered. , The officers had work rescuing from a mob a New York negro who eloped with a white woman. The town of Gainesville, Fla., was almost destroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $250,000. The fair ground shed fell in, Lit tle Rock, Ark., and killed a guard and wounded several convicts. Two convicts escaped from the South Carolina penitentiary by picking the locks of their cells. A negro named Mat Black was shot and killed by Richard Butts, near Franklyn, Kentucky, for steal ing. > Two persons were killed and twenty wounded by a locomotive telescoping with another in Chica go, during a fog. Boggan Cash has been seen in Darlington, S. C., having returned from a visit to Mississippi. He will stand his trial. The forests of Pennsylvania, New York snd New Jersey are wrapped in flames, and entire villages have been swept away. Marcellus Thornton has sued the Atlanta Journal and John F. Conley for $20,000 each for calling him a confessed perjurer. The steamer State of Florida was sunk by dynamite off Glasgow. It is thought Rossa’s agents had some thing to do with it. Frankfort, Ky., May 5.—Frank Egbert shot Tom Griffy yesterday morning. This is the fourth man Egbert has shot during the past three years, Cairo, May 5.—The Arab jour nal El Bavou affirms that El Mahdi demands £500,000 ransom for Gen. Grordon, the sum to be paid to Mah di within three months. In the republican ranks, Blaine is gaining strength wonderfully, but the opposition is growing more com pact against him. Grant is believed to be a dark horse. Logan is drop ped out. Columrus, Ga., May 6.—In the case of the state vs. John B. Frank, a well-to-do white man, in Russell superior court, Ala., was found guil ty of having branded his wife with a red hot iron. He was given one year on the works, and a thousand dollar fine. The jury in the case of Wm. An drews in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, charged with killing his wife and then burning her body at High Springs, July 4th, 1881, returned a verdict last night of murder in the second degree. Washington, May 5,—Frank Langston, son of United States Minister to Hay ti,who shot and kill ed one colored man and wounded another in a street fight in this city about two months ago, and who has since been in hiding, was surrender ed to the authorities to-day, by his father, and has been lodged in'jail. Savannah, May 6.—The haunt ed house which has created so much disturbance in the southwestern por- tion of this city has been explained. Mischievous boys have Iain a line of powder along the floor and have touched it off, causing so many peo ple to become frightened. Vienna, May 5.—A Catholic missionary, recently from Soudan, writes to the Politische Corres- pondenza that evety go® >n that re gion is impressed with the convic tion that Kartoum and Berber are lost, and unless the British shall post a strong force to hold Assoum all Egypt will eventually succumb to Mahdi. -Postmaster-General Gresham has been on a visit' 16 Florida* ha Y e becn introduced during the present session t>f cou- ‘^fnNew York a woman is paid 6 cents' for making a shirt that is sold : for'3o cents. The Florida orange crop is said to be ‘enormous—about 60,000,000 -btange*—netting about $ 1,200,000. 1 Dr. Newman has a new theory of forgiveness. He says one must love his enemies, but keep a sharp eye on them.. . ■ . j Texas comprises 228 organized counties, and territory enough to form 106 more without violating the constitution. Mr. Keeley got the vibrators of his motor so nearly harmonized one day last week that the thing began to fizz and spatter. Broiled rats on toast and cock roaches stewed in oleomargarine, are said to be favorite dishes at the Chinese restaurants in San Fran cisco. About 1,000 murders were com mitted in the United States in 1SS3, and only about 100 murderers w ere legally hanged, while more than 100 were lynched. “Extract of logwood and strych nine sweetened with dynamite,” is what Dr. Talmadge called whisky in his last sermon. The Brooklyn saloons must be very bad, from all accounts. Bob Lincoln is said to be entitled to a great deal of credit for being the son of his father. This may be true, but there are a good many who think, that he failed to inherit either the old man’s greatness or goodness. At Dayton, Oregon, some par ties boring a well have struck a rook, at a depth of 55 feet, from which a stream of air gushes out so cold that a bucket of boiling water, when exposed to the draft, wili freeze over in a few minutes. A dypsomaniac boy of cigl|t years was recently attacked in Dub lin, with delirium tremens. The child, so says the Medical Pre--, had had a passion lor alcoholic li quors ever since it was able to drink at all. Fort Worth is one of the Wonder ful western towns. At the close of the war it had 350 inhabitants. In 1S76 when the Texas and Pacific railroad first reached it, the number of its inhabitants was 2,000. In 1SS3 it claimed 6,663, an ^ ll0W has 22,- 000. It has a half dozen railways and there are several more pro jected. An extraordinary story is told in English court circles, and has been retailed by the Spiritualists, as to the reasons which induced the Queen at the last moment to alter the arrangements of Prince Leo pold’s funeral. It is said that a short time before his death, danc ing with an intimate friend, a lady of Danish birth, of great personal beauty, and the wife of an English peer, he was rallied by her upon Ins unwonted abstraction. His answer was that his sister Alice had come to him in the night, warned him of an approaching calamity, rnd told him not to trouble, for all would soon be well. The royal duke, like the Queen, his mother, seemed to have accepted supernatural visita tions as real, and he told the lady he would prefer, if anything hap pened to him, to have a military fu neral. Her ladyship, the recipient of these confidences, wrote a letter to a high court official, telling him the story, and he laid her communi cation before Her Majesty. At once the Queen ordered her dead son’s desires, expressed in life, to be fulfilled. Hence that last change at the last moment which led to so much inconvenience and perplexity. mada - .The yotihg lady’s parents seph Hughes, a negro Jiving two Mre weU to do and; respectable resi- miles from that town, Saturday- in Ms mother’s bed chamber. When Wood entered with a gun he placed road w»n pay ouVatlekst EaoioooTn himself beMnd his mother. Vood the settllmint ,Vthi“'h£ute of first demanded that he shotild marry claims^ . .The 'damages in the '■<■?» of *he gftl whorahe had aedneed, and Ed Menill, the mail weigher who on hearing a refusal blew out the vtaa homed to death, have trot been “one in a thousand;” of M * y Upon his settisd.’ This is ithe ..manner in zed her heart, ^ ■ ' ' ' ’ > : which milroada and the rdatiyea'of ensued. ~ • > -J deceased men fiKa commercial value* 7. , * x e *k et unearthed a Upon human lifel ^Itftdone in tha iton, of Lucolnton number of old Indian relics near same- manner and spirit that . jtfiiifliliwwbhdBor- FrankUn,«W»g which are an earth- lect ; damagp».ifirom A railro step and shht deadbyDdc Thomp- fqti *1 poriwn of a skull, and two killing! a cow or horse, it is a inoi Chattanooga, Tenn., May 3.— J. J. Seamora, a Mexican trapeze performer, while performing a dar ing feat on the cross bars, lost his hold and fell a distance of thirty-five feet. He alighted on his back with a terrific thud, and blood instantly oozed from his mouth and ears. It is thought he will die before morn ing. Seamora was formerly con nected with Sell’s circus. Joseph E. Murrell, a citizen of Mobile, has died trom a strange mal ady. Whenever he would lay down in sleep he would strangle, so that it was always necessary for some ope to be with him in order to keep him from falling into convulsions. The only rest he has had for a doz en years was from dozing in a sit ting position. , . t ( St. Louis, May 5.—A-dispatch from Montreal, Mo., says a party' of white , men went to. the house of Jot* Roy L. May was shot dead Ke dents of Sussex counQr. 1 . A. BAILED ADOOaPROWSINQ. ted a horse and fled, but was arrested ‘ ' heme" Courier.'' the case were as foDowsi May ac- all the parties who were injured in complished me rum of Miss Belle the accident near Big Shanty, on Rarnck, AVocd s sister-in-law, under 4 ’*“ *..u -r 4 *—•* ' promise of marriage, and then publicly boasted of having freight eiigini done so. Heaimg that the'avenger andMcCullou was on bis track May' took refuge • l_* ’ It v O night, with the avowed intention of horsewhipping him 'for an alleged insult offered by him to a white wo man a few pays ago. Hughes ;., desperate resistance and With an axe inflicted mortal wounds upon Charles Miller and John Long. • The remainder of the par ty retired and Hughes surrendered himself to the authorities. Winston, N. C., May 6^—Mrs, Harrison Reed, a most estimable la-, dy living neat Waughfown, was horribly murdered yesterday. The murder was committed by Henry Swain, and his cause for committing the deed, was unknown. Mrs; GEORGIA NEWS. , * In Dougherty county jail thc pris oners are not allowed to spit on the floor. The new city directory credits Augusta with a population of 35.' 37!. ' - Woodville lost one of her best and most stirring men in the death of Charlie Leslie. The bond of the Treasurer of Georgia is one hundred times the amount of his salary. Ed. Dawse, the Waynesboro mur derer of five children, nearly escap ed from jail a night «r two ago. Since the recent flood Rome is agitating the question of a levee, to protect-the'city from overflow. John' Rogers, .once one of the most prominent residents of Atlan ta, died in the Fulton county poor house. The triplets that were born to the wife of Mr. Fields Martin, near Flowery Branch, a short time ago, are dead. Dennis Howard, the old colored drayman, of Marietta, is the father of utirty-six children. His wife has had seven pair of twins in succes sion. Gainesville Southron: “Saturday night, about 12 o’clock, Esquire Jack Davis married James Brazil to the dwart Miss Catherine Payne. Brazil is about five times as big as hi’s wife, and it is altogether a funny match.” Simon Johnson (colored) last Sunday attempted a rape on a white lady 60 years old, on' the road lead ing from Barnesville to Milner. Sheriff Bussey arrested him Tues day night in Monroe county, and has him in custody, t.v r. ij .. : Afew ; days ago, Willie, son of Henry,Stafford, hi Whitfield coun ty, was . almost instantly killed by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a negro boy. It is not certain Wheth^r-the shooting was acciden tal or intentional. Tim negro was lodged in jait ' ■Fairbum, News: A negro woman, Polly foster, was found dead by the side aif the railroad track about three miles ab6v6 Fairburn, by the down why freight? this morning. It is not known, whether . the woman was kiijed by a train last night, or was the victim of foul play! The body was n’6t mangled. - ~ Hawkinsville Dispatch: A gen* tleman by the name of Clarke gave us the history of a catfish that he kne6r to bq twenty-eight :.years old. Wben. Mr. CJarke .was a boy ten years.oldhe caught in a branch a little mu'd cat: or'“kitten” about two inches WilengtE " He took the fish hem6 ahd hilt it 4 in a well where it Reed’s throat was cut vyithaj butehr: hash «etaaihedifor- -twenty-eight *•- - a wU)aRg?ftVW» be sixteen ■Inches lopg. . Mrl Rqd Browning, living near McVillp, ha6 in his well over,the head with an axe. Her husband reached the housdjuSt be" fore she expired. She revealed the a catfish that he placed there four- name of the murderer, andonehun- teen years ago. Every year when d|re4. citizens started in pursuit, and the well is cleaned out the cat ii 1m) night he was lodged in jail her?, pjrefplly caught and put in a tub 01 Threats of lynching hint there fra«- water where ‘ ft remains perfectly ly expressed. 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