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If lames G. Blaine is elected
president next November, it will be
a victory for corrupt methods in
politics and a public endorsement
In the people of speculating upon
oihee and selling the power given
v.>u toi personal gain. It will
sound the death knell of popular
sutl'i age, and render the election of
President simply a matter of liar-
eain and sale to the highest bidder.
Tt will pet petuate the power of the
i.i.ncal party, and render our gov-
, i i.mrnt a republic in name only.
1; w ill give license to the most ve-
ulministtalion of public aflairs
|ti.,ine's leim ol office will b e
maiked by a reign of corruption
such as lias never been known in
tile history of the world. It will be
a triumph lor the rich over the poor,
a d you will see thousands toiling
(I,..I i,-w men may accumulate gi
gar,tic fortunes. It will place as
mistiess ol the White House a wo
man who was a mother within a few
wtcSs after she was a lawful wile,
ml such an example held up before
n t . wives and daughters ol
America can hut be tit-moral-
i/,ng in its tendency. In fact,
I he election ol Illume to the Presi
dency will he a v ital thrust at all
tuat is honest and pure in our gov
ernment, and a vindication and en-
dm sciiiciti of the most corrupt
methods oi modern politics. If the
head lit our government stands
1 uuiidcd with selling the povvei
o.ven him by his people, what cai.
me expect of his subordinates? The
peop.e cannot ufford to elect
151., nc, and we do not believe they
wi.l. i 1 is only hope of sue-
is to bu\ his way into powei
with money stolen liom the public
in, ..ml contributed by his fellow
eoiispualois. His election will be
a laiat stab at the elevation oi oui
people, liom which wedo not be
lie, e tile country call ever recover
THE BANNER-WATCHMAN.
GENERAL NEWS.
NO XVIII.
^ATHEISTS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1884.
VOL XXXI
will
Nortliei n millionaires,
looking daughters, are now
■mploying Coloied coachmen,
n A. Logan, in spilling in ai
loidederate soldiei s lace las
HOW W1LLOO NEW YORK?
Mr. John H. Hughes, a New
York drummer, who has rare op
portunities to feci the pjublic pulse,
and is a gentleman ol wide expe-
tience and line discernment, reach
ed Athens Monday night, and
a Banner-Watchman reporter
sought him out for an interview.
Mr. Hughes says that if the Presi
dential election cameotl to-day that
Cleveland would carry New \ ork
and be elected by a large majority ;
but he cannot tell what changes
the republican corruption money
may make in the next three weeks.
The best element of the people,
who have heretofore stood loyally
by the republican party, are now
earnestly for Cleveland, and will
not only vote lor him but contri
bute their money to this end; that
in one department of his house
there are eleven men who have al-
DR. PAVY’S AWFUL FATE.
HOW THE FRENCH StJROEON WAS EATEN
ALIVE IN THE AUCTIC.
A Tala of Honor Tclfl with Lurid Effect! >17 a
sensational Writer for tte Press Wto Hu Thrill
ed All Pari!.
But Octave Pavy, the former
Parisian, the ex-habitue of the Bou
levard, had not, in spite of all his
efforts to acquire it. the tempera
ment needed to withstand such suf
ferings and such horrors. Worn
cut, disgusted, his brain more ex-
A startling story, wtittenin pecu-1 hausted than his body, he was not
li-.rly Parisian sty le, has been pul>- y et forgotten in more than one. 01
d till II IK
ci 1 w ird.
stmets
iM.itive
t ..c k U 1
1pre - oft I
'ti.il chair thr
: , i 1 y pom houses
rapidly dish
in unfailing index 1
m tl.
■Hiding
if hai
1 i 1 11 ii-fu-c! tnextend la -
he slightest mogntioii whe
I asstd through that city la-
, I h 1 re cin . rs and a tiger I'm
1.1 Baltimoreans!
, 11 imi Americans would h<
led il they deserted the
.tin party, a> it lias met wi.l
.:, d Iieleats by carrying the
i these evppiesseel people.
. iie-t expect loo much Iron
. i,,-dav. It is a lepuhlicar
t i over 20,txx> majority, am
\ vni: that vve can cut undei
is a clear elemocratic gain.
avi.nnuh News: Undoubtedly
es G Blaine is a greater man
1 lit urge Washington. George
d not tell a lie. James can tel
oiisniid and nevei bat his eyes
er.rv Grady’s account, in the
Jsiindny's Constitution, of his
ways voted the republican ticket,
but ten are now outspoken Cleve
land sympathizers, while the elev
enth says he cannot vote for a man
with as corrupt a record as Blaine.
This is a fair index of the great
changer among the business men ot
the city. But as is well known
there is a floating vote, wharf-rats
• nd tools ot the various rings that
infest the city, that hold the balance
j. power in that state, and these
votes can be bought like any other
cliallle. It is from this element
that the republicans expect to re
ceive their strength. As soon as the
Ohio contest is over they will turn
their earnest attention toward car-
rvmg New York, and it is the in
exhaustible flood of corruption
money that the democrats have
Host to fear. Il left to the free
choice of the people, Cleveland
would.sweep the state like a tidal
vaye. Mr. Hughes is hopeful for
lie success of our ticket, but he says
he democrats w ill have no walk-
• vcr. and they must tight money
sail money to be successful. In
peaking ot Gov. Cleveland, Mr
Hughes savs he is one of the ablest
.ud truest men in America, and
l.e people have a most abiding
. ontiderce in his honesty anel ad-
mnistrative ability : that he is the
snongest man the democrats could
have nominated, and will make the
K'l President since the days of
Washington. Jetleison, Madison and
Monroe. Tne scandals against him
will have m weight whatever, and
that his entire public life is without
|,lot or Inemish. Cleveland is an il
lustration ot all that is honorable
and elevating in politics, while
Bla>ne represents the most venal
ami corrupt methods. The best
people of the country so consider
these candidates. anil if the repub-
1,cans aic successful, it will he a tii
umph of vice and degradation over
virtue and intelligence. Air. Hughes
,ays the Ohio election will tell the
• afe. If the republicans lose that
-•ate, or their majmity is cut down
10 less than 6.000, the election of
Clevelanel is an assured fact; hut if
thev hold : heir own or sweep Ohio
hv an mcieaseei vote, that the demo-
, jatit chances vv ill he indeed gloomy.
Hid t'lahlish the fact that money
las won ihe dav.
ILhed by the Figaro and has thrill
ed all Paris w ith horror. It deals
with the death of the French Dr.
Octave Pavy, suigeon of the Greely
expedition. The writer, Camille
Dehans, lets his iinigination run riot
in the following style:
Octave Pavy was the son of an
adventurous Frenchman who left
his native land to seek a fortune in
the land of the dollar. The fortune
was won, and then M. Pavy, pere,
re ippeared in Paris and soon be
came a star of the first magnitude
amjng that clan ol rich Ameticans
who appeal and disappeai so sue!-
denlv. This was in 1S63 or 1S64,
and his twn sons, but more especial
ly Octave, at once threw ihemselves
body and soul, into the Parisian
furnace, leading at one and the
same time the social life of the world
of fashion and the somewhat lax
one ot the demi-monde Not an
evening passed but what Octave
Pavy, faultlessly attired in evening
dress, might have been seen passing
througii the gieen room of this or
that theatre on his way to the sa
loons of the highest and noblest so
cial queens of those days He was
a handsome fellow, tall, slender,
noble looking, and with the bearing
of a voulbful Dun Quixote. His
circle of acquaintances was a wide
and delightful one. and outside of
the world of fashion he secured a
firm footing among the younger set
of artists and authors whom he at
tracted bv his originality and wit.
Regnault and Clairin were those
with whom he was most intimate,
and when, unable to satisfy himself
with the emptiness of a purely idle
existence, Pavy devoted himself to
the study ol medicine, he was fre
quently found in the studio of one
or the other, scalpel in hand, over
some anatomical subject. While
Regnault or Clairin would be seek
ing for some new effect of color,
light or shade, Pavy would seek for
a nerve, a muscle or an artery, and
as thev worked, each in the sphere
hb bad selected, art science and lit
erature fonneel the burden ol their
conversation
Who could have ever dreamed
that su^h a man was to end his
GRAVE ROBBERIES.
the fashionable salons of Paris, lay
on a pile of rags alone in one cor
ner of the tent. Perhaps he had
not been able to bring himself to
share with the others their repast on
a nameless food. Hunger was
gnawing at his intestines and fever
was raging in his brain. The oth
ers crouched around him, their
wolf like eyes gleaming with a hid
eous hope They whisper to each-
other and Pavy knows only too
well what they are saying and what
their murderous glances mean.
What are the waitingfo'? What is
it that deters, them from rushing
upon him, to tear him to pieces, to
quench their thirst with his blood,
devour him? He knows that they
are now nothing bat beasts of prey
Doubtless they fear that Pavy is
not yet faeble enough; they think
he way yet be able to defend him
self, that he may in his desperation
kill one ot them, and the thought of
the late which awaits the first who
falls in the struggle deters such one
from venturing to begin it. Poor
Doctor! Nei'her his nerves, his
muscles nor even his will have any
force of resistance left in them
Worn out, hopeless and passive he
lay, waiting, longing for death. Bat
he was unable to master his horror
when he began to think of how
presently, before even his sufferings
were at an end, his companions in
misery would throw themselves up
on him. That flesh of which he
still felt the throbbings revolted at
the thought of being torn by the
fangs of the ferocious beasts that
gathered around him. He said to
nnnself that he would not submit to
such u fate. Ar. imperious impulse
to seek to escape Irom such a hor
rible domn seized upon him. "It
is not true,” he said to himself,
"that it is a matter of indifference
how one dies.” In his terror he
succeeds in staggering to his feet
and in finding his way out of
his tent; he creeps over the ice and
approaches a crevasse where the
tide of the Polar Sea rises and falls
At the eelge Pavy stoops down,
smiles and lets himself down into
! the water, Death in this form is
not so horrible, but the starving
BssomcUonlrts Making me Wltb tbs Ceme-
lariaa of Sonlboaitezn Ohio.
Tanrsville, Ohio, Oct. it.—
The discovery that this section of
the country has been literally rid-
dleel by graveyard ghoul has creat
ed the wildest excitement. Six
weeks ago, when Baydor was visit
ed, and later when graves at Wood
were opened, no suspicion was felt
here; but Friday’s robbery of Miss
Dyer’s grave at Fostoria, woke our
people up and a vigorous search is
now being prosecuted. At this
place two suspicious persons prowl
ed about the town several days last
week; the night before the discov
ery of the robbery of Miss Dyer’s
grave they disappeared. When the
news of the outrage reached the
town a rumor obtained that these
two men were grave robbers. As
two bodies had recently been buried
in the graveyard here, which is half
a mile from the nearest house, it
was resolved to examine the gtaves.
Both were found empty; in one not
a thing remained but a handker
chief; in the other were the clothes
of the deceased. The bodies taken
were those of Henry Snyder and
Maria Jacobs, both middle aged
people. To satisfy curiosity and to
remove doubts more than twenty
graves of persons burieel within two
years were opened and eleven were
found empty. The names of the
missing are William Edward Bonbv,
lames Miller, Marv Brown, Mrs
Alice Morgan, William Lewis,
ter Lewis, Grace Simons, Louis
A MOUNTAIN TERROR.
P.
King, (infant) Harry Seney, Alva
Rice and Mrs. Belle Porter. When
the graves were rifled no one can
tell, and there is nothing like a clew.
The village is but a few miles dri\-e
from three railroads, and the isolated
situation of the grace-yard made it a
favorite resort for the ghouls. The
discovery of these outrages has pro
duced a profound sensation, and the
families of those interested are pros
trated and one death is likely to re
sult.
Every graveyard in this neighbor
hood is being searched. At Birels-
ville, five miles east, and at South
Baltimore violated graves were
found. The persons who robbed
the graves would soon find a tree if
caught, and the dissecting room re
ceiving the bodies would be wreck
ed.
BLAISE ANDTHE MOUNTAINEER-
days on an iceberg, devoured by I men have not lost sight oj him and
sailors whom hunger had driven to a terrible cry breaks the stillness of
the ve-igc of madness? Must we | the Arctic night. He, too, is seek-
believe that after all there is such a ] ing to rob them'.and the rush lorth
thing as late? Why should this | irom the tent ready to plunge into
coung man. for whom every thing 1 the waves to drag him back to
combined to render life happy. ! shore As the unfoitunate doctor
whose shirt would have cured the ! ri«es again to the surface ten arms
Persian monarch who in the Eas- are stretched forth to seize him. He
• to Sir. Peter’s slock farm, wa
■ „i the most inteiesting lettei
I'.ayc ever read. Grady is the
si graphic writers in the cvoild.
New York a.id Indiana are safe
o ttie democrats, and so if the Solid
South will present an unbroken
front victory isotir’s.
tern tale was the victim of a subtle
disease which*naught but the shirt
of a happy man would drive away
from him—he found the happy
manv, but he was a beggar and
shirtless—wh\ should such a m in
dev >'.e himself 10 such an adventure?
What w as il that seized upon him
and drigged him toward the abyss
of hi- elooin? How could he aban
don the w ife lie had chosen for a
companion through life? What in-
exphcable ambition dragged him
from the loving cares-es 01 his
daughter?
One elav—tsvoor three years be
fore the war with Prussia—Octave
Pavy was present, by 'he merest
accident, at one of Gustave Lam
bert's lectures on the North Pole.
From that day the young man of
fashion thought of nothing but the
Polar Sea and Arctic explorations
Wherever Lambert lectured, in
Havre," in Rouen, in Bordeaux or in
Paris, there, too. was Pavy, always
the front of the audience, the
is drawn up to the top of the cie-
vasse, two or three axes fall on his
breast, the bones crack, he is divid
ed up in as many parts as there are
mouths and the still palpitating,
still living flesh is swallowed down
without repugnance, without hor
ror. w il il out remorse.
Thus it was that Octave Pavy
the surgeon of the Proteus, died
withoutjhaving reached the North
Pole.
UP IN A CAMBRIC BaLLOOX
Site Descent ot the Young Farmer Who Spent
SO Minute 1 Among the Clouds.
Canajohalie, Oct. 23.—Charles
C. Vanderveer, of Argusville, the
young farmer who went up in a
cambric balLon yesterday, reached
home to day. The balloon landed
on the farm of Perry Dingman, in
Burtonville, eleven miles away.
Vanderveer was more than pleased
with his aerial trip. He says that
he never once lost nis head during
SENSIBLE REMARKS TO A CRIM- loudest in his applause and more j his eighty minutes in the air. half of
INAL.
We
oie surpnsed lhal democratic
paper publish those fulsome ac
counts of Blaine’s tramp, sent out
by the Associated Press anil paid
hi from the republican
coii upturn fund. They should be
throw 11 into the wastebasket.
The Inelcpendents in Morgan
county, emboldened by their late
success, w ill put out a full ticket
loi county officers. The only sal
cation for these black
counties is to draw the color line.
Blaine and Logan will poll about
60 white votes in Clarke county
The skilled mechanics of our city
ore strongly in favor of a
protective larill’. The democratic
parly stands pledged not to injure
h e cause of the working men.
>01.111/ S..I/1H, Atlanta.
William'McDonald, the young
man who was recently shot by
Thomas M. JaCKsor., while in the
room of the latter’s wife, was ar
raigned in the city court of Atlanta
ior the offense he committed, and
entered a plea ot guilty of fornica
tion. judge Dorsey said to the
oung man that as a court he could
not shut his eyes to the fact that the
: was one of the tesuhs of the
saddest tragedies that has occurred
,n this community in months. “You
nail knowledge,” said the Judge,
•that the husband and father would
lie Irom home, and with this knowl
edge, at a late hour ol the night,
'll rough the hack yard, you entered
this man’s house. ^ ou did it for
an unlawful purpose, and in doing
so you brought ruin to a happy
household, involving as it does the
happiness of innocent children
Every man’s household, under the
vomit |aWf ( s sacr ed. In England, a coun
try ruled by a monarch, so sacred
. Li u: L#Ymo He* it rattle nr
Mr. Blaine is reported to say that
the assertion ot Mr. Warren hisher
that he in 1SS0 offered Mr. Fisher
a mm of money for the “Mulligan
letters*’* is “absolutely untrue. ^ h e
rt-poit rests upon a letter from Mr.
Fisher made public by Mr. Knobbc,
<,t NvyV York. The Rev. Henry
Waid Beecher, in a letter to Mr.
Alger, reaffirms what he wrote con
corning Mr. Joy’s story to him con
cert ning Mr. Blaine.
The District ot Columbia is the
Paradise for negroes who think
themselves too good for association
with their own color and aspire to
the "civil right” of intruding into
any society which they may preler,
Judge Snell, of a district court, de
cided the other day that though the
civil rights act had been pronounc
ed unconstitutional in its applica
tion to the states, it was in full force
in the District of Columbia, over
which congress has exclusive juris
diction. The case before him was
brought by a colored woman to re
cover damages from a Potomac riv
er steamboat company for refusing
her a ticket to the supper table.
But she failed to prove that the re
fusal of the ticket was in the limits
•of the District, and for that reason
■ost her case.
,s the subject’s home, be it castle or
hovel, that the monarch even is not
allowed to enter the door unbidden
by tlie master. Such has always
been the law in Georgia. No sen
tence that I can inflict upon you can
atone in the remotest degree for the
anguish and ruin you have wrought,
but I can, by the penalty which I
shall impose, sustain as be.t I may,
the spirit of that law which pro
tects from the despoiler the homes
of our people."
Judge Dorsey then imposed upon
McDonald a fine ol $600 and the
costs of prosecution, and in default
of payment to work twelve months
upon the public works cf the County.
McDonald receives! the sentence
stolidly and it is said will endeavor
to pay- the fine. Others say he will
ask the Governor, by petition, to
remit a portion of the amount.
BLACK KU-KLCX IN ILLINOIS.
Xaconbb, III., Oct, 14.—La fc J
evening a mob of negroes assaulted
with sticks and stones Richard Car
rell, a democrat colored man, who
participated in the parade. Threats
have been made by the negro** to
burn his house, and he has been in
various ways maltreated.
earnest, more zealous, more credu
lous, than the lecturer himself. Tne
North Pole attracted him in the
same mysterious and irresistible
way that it attracts the magnetic
needle.
After relating his services in the
Franco-Prussian war, his first visit
to America and his prolonged so-
journeel Yvith the Esquimaux, the
writer tells of tilt enthusiasm with
which he embarked with the Greely
expedition and got^ on to the hor
rible delay ol the starving men at
Cape Sabine w aiting for relief. He
says:
At last a day came when the last
ration was consumed. Then famine
began its dread work With the
first pangs of hunger these twenty -
three men lookeet at each other, and
a shudder ran over each one of
them. All illusion was impossible.
If a week passed away without a
miracle having been performed in
their behalf there were some among
them who wonld become canni
bals.
Ah, that indeed was far from the
wishes and even the intentions ol
any of the party, and e.en when,
after three days of fasting, their
stomachs began to clamor imperi
ously for food, no matter of what
quality or bow small in quantity,
each one repelled indignantly the
thought of sustaining life by eating
a comrade, even should his death be
a natural one. But who is tliere
that can command his hungei ? On
the fourth day half of the party
were only waiting for a pretext to
kill one of the number. ■ I say half.
it spent above the clouds. The sight
of the earth below, he says, Yvas
beautiful in the extreme. He saw a
rain storm creep along the earth’s
surface. It resembled a gigantic
blackball. He felt no effects of it
about him. The earth looked like a
great bowl. The air seemed lighter
at the height of a mile, and there
was a constant roar in his ears,
which he filled with cotton plucked
from his blouse. He th : nks he
went nearly two miles high. He
says he will construct an instrument
to measure the distance before the
next ascension. Vanderveer’s
house has been thronged with visi
tors all day, and the ascension is the
one topic of conversation for miles
around. The young farmer is over
whelmed with congratulations, and
has received several offers to ascend
elsewhere, lie is a cool, bright,
modest young man, and not at all
cranky. He owns a farm, and to
day is working thereon. He says
he is satisfied that his life dream has
been realized.
A LITTLE GIRL ASSAULTED
An incident of Blaine’s trip west
which the Blaine organs are making
a great deal of, is related in an alleg
ed special from Canton, O. The
specia' is as follows:
"Give me something, Jim Blaine!
Give me your handkerchief-—some
thing belonging to you that I can
hand down to my children.” This
exclamation was heard at the rear
ol Mr. Blaine’s train this morning at
Sisterviile, W. Va. upon the Ohio
river road. The train was about to
pull away from a crowd of several
hundred mountaineers, who, yelling
and cheering around the track as
Mr. Blaine stood, hat in hand, wav
ing his handkerchief, when out of
the crowd there jumped a stalwart
young lellow with a soft black hat
draw 11 over a pair of nine ey es deep
ly set in a brown, scarred lace, set
off by a dashing yellow mustache.
He rau to the train, and climbing up
the steps until he could almost lean
over, almo-t at Mr. Blaine's sleeve,
began to repeat the plea heard from
the crowd: “O, Jim Blaine, gis-e me
something ol yours—something you
have touched or handled.” At first
every one thought the excited young
man was crazy, but in a moment
this thought was di-pelled by a look
at the man, who was begging in all
the tones of the most exaggerated
pathos for something from Jim
Blaine. Mr. Blaine Yvas actually-
embarrassed. He felt in his pocket
for a handkerchief, but he found
that was left in the state room
Then he thought he would give thu
man his battered siik hat, but there
were some cards inside the inside
band tiiat he could not get at easily.
All this occurred in a moment of
time, as the train Yvas now beginning
to move. The mountaineer looked
in the windotv, while every one
Yvas scurrying abeut for some sov-
enir. He sasv ex-secretary of the
navy Gofl, whom he knesv, and he
cried out to him: "O, Mr. Goff, make
Jim Blaipe give me something."
Mr. Blaine hurriedly wrote his
autograph diagonally across the face
ol a telegraph blank, as the moun
taineer swore with a great oath that
he would not leave the train Yvith-
out something. The train svas mov
ing at quite a fast rate of speed when
Mr. Blame stepped out of the door
and handed the mountaineer the
slip of yellow paper.
I have written my name there
for you,” said Mr. Blaine, as the
man With a yell of delight jumped
from the train, Yvaving his gift in
his hand.
V Kentucky Outlaw and Eli UnpunlsBod Crime!.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 14.—This
morning while a number of moun
taineers were standing about the
United States Court room, waiting
to be called as witnesses in the
moonshining distillery cases, an
officer steoped up and laying his
hand upon 'he shou'derof a rough
ly dressed young lellow said, “You
are wanted for murder.” The
young man’s name is Lincoln Banks,
and he is now in jail He lives in
Letcher county, one of the svildest
of the moontain counties of Eastern
Kentucky. Although but 22 years
old he is one of the most daring and
reckless men in all that section of
the country. His personal bravery,
his fearlessness of any kind of dan
ger, his coolness, and the accuracy
of his aim with any kind of a firearm
have made him the terror of the
mountains. One instance of his
tree and easy manners is enough to
show his character. He had some
trouble with a young man named
Byman and swore that he would
kill him. One night a party was
givtn to which Byman took a
young lady. While the fun was at
its height the door Yvas suddenly
Hung open and Banks ivalked in.
He had a cocked pistol in his hand.
Without removing his hat he asked
in a thundering voice it that
scoundrel was present. There was
no answer for a moment, and then
Byman sprang into the middle of
the Hoor, v. hich had by this time
become deserted, and taking a quick
aim fired at his enemy. The shot
was a close one, making a bloody
line across Banks’ temple. Six
shots followed in rapid succession
When the smoke cleat ed away
By man was found dangerously
wounded, and the sounds of the
hoofs of a flying horse told that
Banks Yvas making his escape.
Some weeks ago Banks got into
a dispute with a young man named
Coon Moore. Moore was a quiet,
well behaved lellow, who interfered
with nobody, and was more
than ordinarily peaceful. No one
seems to know what caused the
quarrel. One day Banks gathered
a gang about him and marched
them up the mountain to Yvhere
Moore lived in a lonely little cabin.
On the way there he stopped at a
wild mountain glen. Great black
clifls rose up on either side. Turn
ing to the crowd of rough, hall
drunken men around him, Banks
said: “That’s where I’m going to
kill Coon Moore.” A messenger
was sent up to Moore’s house, while
the party waited for him in the
glen. A ruse was used to get him
to come, and when his unsuspecting
victim appeared in sight Banks
carefully concealed himself and his
friends. Suddenly he sprang out
from behind a rock, and leveling his
pistol at Moore fired. It needed
only one shot from such a man, and
Moore lay dead with a bullet
through his heart.
The people seem to have been
afraid to make any attempt to pun
ish the young murderer, so awed
were they by the terror of his name,
and nothing was done until he
reached this city. He will be taken
back to the mountains, and will
doubtless be acquitted.
A moonshiner who gave the
above - facts casually mentioned
three or four other murders that
have been committed in Letcher
county in the last month, none of
which have been reported through
the press, and not one of tvhich has
been punished.
AMONG THE B V.LLET GIRLS I ner who carries her off on foot or
I sometimes in a carriage. Where
she goes to nobody knows, but it is
DECEIVING A WIDOW.
St. Louts, Oct. 14.—A special to
the Post-Dispatch from Fulton, Mo.,
says: As a ten-year-old girl named
Bennett wag walking with a young
er sister past a corn field near Guth
rie, ten miles east of here, yesterday
at noon, one of three negroes work
ing in the field seised the child and
ravished her. Her little sister car
ried the alarm home and a posse
of citizens organised* immediately.
but can even the most resolute un- j t i, e negroes were found in the
der such circumstances avoid re-_ j field, armed with corn knives and a
fleeting that some abominable act of
gun. They made a show of resist-
barbarism has become necessary 1 hut finally surrendered "and
and thsMt lS fetter to be ^ffie fhst j wore taken to Guthrie and put
KELLEY THREATENED.
Indianapolis, Oct. 14.—About
a year ago, in the personal column
of a Cincinnati paper appeared an
advertisement of Sarah Orton, a
widow, of Parker’s Linding, Penn.,
soliciting correspondence. It was
answered by Thomas Welch, a very
light-colored barber of this city,
and a correspondence ensued last
ing until July. Then Mrs. Orton
suggested^ that their engagement,
which in the meantime had been
entered into, be consummated, and
that they be married. Welch had
represented himself to be a physi
cian, and he Yvrote saying he could
not leave. A marriage ceremony
was, however, performed by tele
graph, Mrs. Orton and a minister
stancing by an instrument in Pitts
burg, and Welch and one Thomas
J. Sirith, representing himself to be
a minister, but who really was a
barber only, at this end. In the
course of a tew weeks the new
Mrs. Welch arrived here and was
received hy her spouse, whose ap
pearance gaY-e her no cause to sus
pect the truth concerning his nativi
ty. He had fixed up a poor apology
fora doctor’s office, and intimating
that he was rather hard up, the
hride generously fitted him out in
good st> le, and he hung out his shin-
gle. Since then he has lived in
ease, his wife putting up far the ex-
Another Lunatic Who Breathes Acaartlnatlon
and Blood
Sew York Star.
Shortly after the Chicago con
vention, Hon. John lyelly received
several letters of a threatening
character, one especially violent Mrs . Welch,*afler upbraiding"him
being from Baltimore. Another | k
A Popular Imprnslon WXleh Fulls Short at Fuat,
-Vet! York Herald.
A poem of rythmic motion was
wafted across the stage of a well
known Broadway theatre. The or
chestra set it to music, and forty
pairs of graceful legs interpreted it
with almost vocal power and elo
quence. French horns and ’cellos
thrilled the senses through the audi
tory nerve, and supple, rounded
forms charmed them through the
optic telegraphy. A score of shin
ing hemispheres in the front or
“near sighted” row of the audito
rium bobbing excitedly; a hundred
plastered foreheads belonging to
the bald headed brotherhood of the
distant house; a legion of busy
opera glasses and a host of applaud
ing palms, all bore testimony to the
power of the ballet girl of to day.
On the stage, and surrounded by
the arts of the stage manager, the
ballet girl wields as powerful an in
fluence as she ever did, but a false
impression prevails regarding her
character and habits when divested
of her slender yet alluring raiment,
and clothed in the more substantial
garb of private commonplaceness.
She has been believed by some pet -
sons to be a prosaic creature with
religious tendencies, a model wife
and mother, who is passionately
fond of her two children and who
exhibits her graces upon the stage
with an eye single to the glory of
the family kettle. How this
pression has been created it is im
possible to say. The evidence does
not bear out the verdict.
A SAMPLE GIRL.
It was upon an inconspicuous
dancer in the rear rank that the re-
portorial Camera was directed in an
endeavor to photograph that illu
sive creature, the ballet girl. In
conspicuous by her position and
stature, she Yvas by no means the
least attractive ot the graceful corps.
Her dress was decollete at both
ends, and her willowy form hid few
of its charms from the eyes of the
spectator. She was white from
head to foot, saving the presence of
yellow bangs, crimsoned lips and
roguish blue eyes. Dancing as if
she enjoyed the exhilaration of the
movement, she laughed and flirted
with her companions in a careless
fashion, which had no stagey quali
ties in it. She had a wide-awake
pair of eyes on duty to catch the
glances of any of the dudes and
Pharisees of the front rows who
might be able to penetrate to the
rear ranks, and received quite a little
circle of personal admirers in spite
of her inconspicuous position. She
did not look like the devoted wife
and mother of public opinion. There
was something very vital lacking
to complete the model picture Yvhich
had been drawn.
AT CLOSE QUARTERS.
“Are you a bold, bad man?” was
the startling query of the manager
when the reporter asked permission
to interview the ballet girl in her
lair. ' Inexperience lent confidence
to the reply, and with a blood curd
ling suggestion of coming torture
the manager unlocked the portals
of the stage proscenium and ushered
the seeker after knowledge upon
the stage. Unluckily the first cho
rus had just ended, and the tremb
ling visitor was suddenly confront'
ed by the ballet, halt a hundred
strong. Eefore he could catch his
breath a throng ot laughing minxes
noticed his embarrassment and
crowded about him as he backed
into a corner. He grasped the edge
of a “tormentor" scene for support
and trembled like a leaf. The man
ager was a bold, bad man, and
laughed aloud.
“I warned you it was dangerous
Girls, leave him alone!” but they
paid no attention to his command.
“Isn’t he a darling!” “Did he
blow in?” “What a pretty blush!’’
“O, my! get on to the specs!” “Say,
girls, he is bowlegged; what fun!”
Are there any more like him
where he came from?” And so the
tusilade was kept up for a couple of
minutes. To describe the accom
panying glances and smiles would
be impossible. A stranger was
looked upon as a great lark, and
they made the most of him. The
blue-eyed angel with the blonde
bangs was one of the railing crowd
Happily the necessity of soon ap
pearing in a new phase of undress,
compelled the merry fun pokers to
depart to their dressing rooms in
the upper regions. The reporter
dusted the pearl powder from his
clothing and wondered if he would
ever get the smell of patchouli out
of his nostrils. Then the manager
took him through labarinthine pas
sages, subterranean and aerial,
BEHIND THE SCENES
is certainly a haunted region. Eve
ry nook and cranny seemed
peopled with half-dressed humani
ty. Everybody was in a merry
mo0*1. At every turn a gay face
was met and a gay remark greeted
the visitors. No false and fictitious
modesty was anywhere apparent,
and no one seemed to care when
greatly to be feared that those two
children wait long for her appear
ance. Ballet girls are haunted.
Wherever they go the dim distant
spirit of a man appears to be hov
ering about in the background.
These facts, of course, have noth
ing to do with the ballet old wo
men, who are sent out upon the
road with travelling companies.
They are the lively grandmothers
of the ballet girls oi to-day.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
A negro man in Macon starved
his wife to death.
The Chinese have defeated the
French troops.
The Parisian editors are fighting
bloodless duels every day or so.
The S. S. S company has estab
lished a laboratory in Philadelphia.
Senator Colquitt has gone to
Florida to help out the democrats
The republicans want St. John to
withdraw in favor of Blaine, but he
declines.
The rival trains, carrying Blaine
and Hendricks, met at a switch in
Ohio.
At Decatur, Ga., a negro baby
was drenched to death on laudanum
by a boy.
Three men were killed and oth
ers wounded by the explosion of a
saw mill boiler at Buchanan, Ga.
Henry Ward Beecher has con
sented to deliver a Cleveland and
Hendrickc speech in the Brooklyn
academy of music.
A well-known citizen of Water-
bury, Conn., was arrested for going
about naked and frightening ladies
and children.
A fearful drought has prevailed
around Chattanooga since July 9th.
Pastures and fields are burned up
and the Tennessee river was never
so low as now.
On September 15th Yokahoma
and Tokio were visited by a terri
ble typhoon. In the latter city 3.-
000 houses were wholly or partially
destroyed, and 20 persons were kill
ed. The loss of life at sea was ap
palling. No estimate could be
made of the number of lives lost
The typhoon was followed on the
17th by another of great force, but
The track of the Florida Southern
railroad is being laid to Lake Griffin.
The King of Siam, who is under
thiity, is said to have 263 children.
An attempt was made in Nova
Scotia to wreck a Sunday school
excursion train.
Bangles worn around the wrist
is the fashiouable dude flutter in
New York at present.
Tlie Rev. Dr. Mendes advised
about five hundred Russian He-
breivs to abandon peddling and be
come farmers.
The paper makers have taken ad
vantage of prohibition against im
porting rags on account of ibe chol
era, to raise prices.
Chicago has a new steamer built j,
to carry too,000 bushels of corn. She
is described as a great wooden box
with three stumpy masts.
The falling ol a man in an epileptic
fit in the church ot St. Saveur,
Quebec, created a panic and sev
eral persons were injured.
It is estimated that in this country
about 100,000 persons are killed :
nually by intemperance, and the an
nual expenditure for liquor is $i>oo,-
000,000.
The young man who was hung
Indiana, approached the gallon's
playing an accordeon. There was
not a wet eye in the audience when
the trap was sprung.
Col. A. D. Straight, of Indianap
olis, who tunneled himself out o
Libby prison during the war, is ai
applicant for Col. Dudley’s position
in the Pension Department.
New Orleans, Oct. 11.—A
special to the Times-Democrat from
Vicksburg reports the lynching of
Dock Martin, colored, who killed
Ed Pleasants, colored, at Rolliii
Fork, Miss. A mob of colored men
overpowered the guard and hanged
the prisoner from a bridge.
The Tennesseeans appear to keep
a sharp look-out for Mormons
Strangers suspected of being Mor
mons are promptly fired out of the
towns. A man went into Nashville
the other day accompanied by-
woman and four children, two of
the latter being harnessed 10 a cart.
He was accused of being one of the
Latter Day Saints, and Yvas advised
to make himselt scarce about there
at once. He did so.
Harrison, the boy preacher, ha
located in Chicago.
A Mississippi farmer planted 160
acres of peppermint.
Gen. Grant is to be paid $50,000
or his war articles in The Century.
The highest price ever paid for
work of art was $120,000 for a Mu
rillo.
At Argenta, Montana, a miner
fell down a 1 So-loot shaft and is still
alive.
The Mormon leaders deny that
they have contributed to the demo
1 ratic campaign fund as charged.
Abraham Thomas, of England
has gone into Indian Territory, and
rlwitii $100.-
of brief duration.
Thomson, Oct. 13.—A majority j married an Indi
of the parties indicted for whisky 000.
selling by the grand jury have sign- I The New Orleans Picayune ou- .«
ed a paper pledging themselves in \ mates that un favorable weather has m
good faith to sell no more whisky, j reduced the cotton crop to six mil- jra
either directly or indirectly, in Me- I lion bales or less.
Duffie, while the prohibition law is 1 The Iiindershots, father and son, !i||
in force, and have requested the accused of the murder of Mi
prohibitionists and others to inter- j Hindershot, are safe in the jail at M
cede for them with Judge Neal, of Rockport, lud. j
the county court, to allow them to j The largest gold nugget ever
plead guilty and to impose upon j found was the Welcome, dut
penses. About a week ago a “sis- d ress j n g roonl d oors W ere not punc
ter in the church which Mrs. Welch — - - - — - - r -
attended, broke the news to her
that Dr. Welch was neither a white
man noi a physician, whereupon
them a nominal fine and costs.
Thomson, Ga., Oct. 13.—The
Methodist Quarterly Conference of
Thomson Circuit on Saturday, at
the request of the Board of Trustees
of the Augusta District High School,
in view of the fact that Bishop
Pierce’s ministerial labors were per
formed in the interest of the school,
and to show proper appreciation of
the departed Bishop, changed the
name to the George F. Pierce Insti
tute. This is the only school in the
State baring the name of Bishop
Pierce.
Washington, Oct. 1$.—It is stat
ed here that certain representatives
of the Louisiana State Lottery have
promised the Republican National
Committee at New York to give the
electoral vote of Louisiana to Blaine.
The consideration is that if Blaine
is elected he is to arrange it so that
the Louisiana Lottery Company is
to have unrestricted use of the mails
in the transaction of its busiuess.
The Lottery Company, under the ar
rangement, is to deliver promises to
purchase the electoral vote of the
state if they cannot get it in any oth
er way. It is the most monstrous
propositions ever heard of in poli
tics.
A homicide occurred in the upper
edge of Gilmer county, near the
line of Fannin, about a week ago.
Webb Findley and Bob Woody
got into a difficulty (an old grudge)
and got to shooting at each other,
when a Mr. Kinsey interfered to
make peace, and was unintentional
ly shot and instantly killed by one
of the parties. Woody was also se
verely, though perhaps not fatally !
shot during the melee. No arrests j
have been made.
Waco, Tex., Oct. 14.—This com
munity was horrified yesterday by
the suicide of the wife of E. A.
Jones, a prominent lawyei of this
city. Mrs. Tones only returned Sun
day from Maryland, where she pass
ed the summer in a vain effort to re
store her failing health. Her illness
caused mental aberration, and end
ed her lile by cutting her throat
with a razor.
The Pittsburg boys, employed in
factories, have struck for an ad
vance of five cents per day in their
wages.
Coshockton, O., October 14.—T
Ballarat. It weighed 184 pounds
and was sold for $50,000.
girl
THE BENFBOE CASE.
Atlanta correspondent Macon
Telegraph: Yesterday, in the su
perior court of Fulton county, the
case of the State vs. ex-Treasurer
Renfroe was called up. From
what I can understand ot the pro
ceedings, it was decided alter argu
ment that ex-Treasurer Renfroe
was clearly liable to the state for
all the funds appropriated by him
as alleged, and the question as to
the amount *0 appropriated was re
ferred to an auditor. This is » vpry
important feature of the case, and Js
in accordance with the opinion held
all the time by the people of Geor
gia Jt i* W OP h0 P ed that the in_
vestigation of the auditor will bring
into tbe state treasury the whole
amount of thp funds so appropriat
ed by the ex-Treasurer. „
BUMtmff, Oct. t^.—Yesterday,
Col. Haas, general freight apd pas
senger agent of the Associated
Railways, reduced the fares to the
Evposition from all points in North
Carolina 1 cent per mile each way.
Fhit will have an immediate effect
in increasing the attendance.
victim than to participate in the
crime? What a scene! Day after
day the same, night without a
dawn, the same pitiless cold and no
shelter, but the thin walls of a tent.
Overhead, the impticable stars,
sparkling and cold as they watch
the long martyrdom. Naught that
life is near them. And if a bear or
some other beast, no matter how
fierce, would only appear, how all
would fling themselves on him, and
though they had to strangle him
with their own hands, how glorious
a banquet they would fiuve. But
no, nothing, nothing, nothing but
the endless night, the eternal cold,
the hard snow and ice.
Suddenly a sailor is seen to be
eating something. All tush upon
him to exacf thpir sfi^re *n4 they
discover that he is eating soipe pre
served meat, evidently stolen be
fore the arock of lood wtjs exhaust
ed. Thp doom of Hpnry—jhp
mpn’s nar,ip WS s Henry—W4s spac
ed. Tripd and condemned un the
spot, thp spntenpe is executed im
mediately. As soon ps he drops
dead under their musket balls the
other* rush upon thp »jiij throbbing
corpse and tear it to pieces. That was
the way it began. Five or six days
latter another pretext is found, there
is another corpse and then another
horrible banquet.
under guard. At 3 o’clock this
morning a party of mounted men
rode to the house where the ne
groes were confined and fired at
them through the windows. One
of the negroes ran into the street
and was shot dead. The others
were again fired upon and one of
the ravishers fell down and was
left for dead. The party then rode
ofl. An investigation showed that
he had feigutd death. He was
taken to jail to day, but ij : ,s expect
ed that he will b? Il Ufh?4 il° night
- _ ttl
Birmingham, Ala., Qct. 14.—
While R. F. Mann. a convict guard,
was on his way to Randolph station,
having in charge a whitp prjsfmpr
fiwiieHi'i whftm he was
taking m the mines, three white
men, wi«b faeps blacked and shot-
gups jp band, stepped (rom the
wqqds J|nd CQinpclled tl*e release of
tfip prisoner.
Oct 14.—In a fracas
Bnnday afternoon, about 4 o’clotk,
ten mile* from Thomson, in the big
road which divides McDuffie from
Columbia, near Ml John G. Do-
aier’s place, a negro hoy about six
teen struck another about fourteen
on the head, knocking him sense
less. She latter lived until ten
o’clock at night when he died.,
was from Chicago, and aLo con
tained threats ot assassination, un
less pertain conditions were com
plied with. Since that time, the
gentleman in question has received
a numher of missives of the same
pleasant nature through the mails,
the latest being the lollowing from
an anonymous writer in Philadel
phia:
Phila., Oct. 2, 1SS4.—Ycu Dam
Fraud if the Old Democratic Party
Losses New York State you are to
Bee a Dead Man Marke these
words I have More Courage than
you ate a Coward and a Dam Ras
cal. 1 Will Kill you and then Hang
for the grand Democratic varty
this will Bee t!',e Last Deal you
will Make that will Bee the Deal
you make with Mee. I Had good
Notion to Kill you the Other Day ^
VYas NYaffiiqg alight a along a side
of You but \ thought \ Would
give you a Chance to do Better
But yo« don’t seem to Improve i
Mean f° Kill yon and that settles
it if the Democrats Losses New
York State, it Won’t Do you no
Good you Won’t Never Heare of
Blaine's Being inauguration you
will be in the ground Cold where
yon ought to have been years ago
from, A Thub Democrat.
Kentucky has furnished another
sensation, in which the families are
highly respected, and live in peace
with the occasional outbreak of a
feud of thirty years standing. Sev
eral members ot these families have
been hanged, while numerous oth
ers are still free to kill whom they
for his cruel deception, began to ar
range to leave him and return to
Pennsylvania. Welch, not relish
ing the idea of returning to work
for a living, threatened to kill her.
Until to night he succeeded in keep
ing her in the house. This evening
the neighbors learned the state of
affairs through Welch’s becoming
more demonstrative than usual in
his threats, and caused the arrest of
both parties who are spending the
night in the station house.
The PiQ^Sky.
The reappearance of the brilliant
sunsets which excited the wonder
and curiosity of the world last win
ter will give the scientific men if
the day furtfiei opportunity to
study the extraordinary phenome
non.’ This fall the western sky,
about sunset, appears to be even
more beautiful than ever. The sky,
on fair evenings, glows with splen
did shades of red and crimson, as if
a great fire was raging, and it is not
until long after the sun disappears
that the hues, after fading to an
ever-paling pink, disappear from
view. ,
The cause of this great phenom
enon is as great a mystery as ever.
The fancilul theories about cosmic
dust and volcanic dust or gasses in
the atmosphere do not stand on any
solid basis. Probably the most
plausible theory so far advanced is
the one that it is electrical in its ori-
g in, and is analagous to the aurora
orealis and the aurora australis,
please.
Beecher will stump New York
in the interest of Cleveland.
tiliously closed. The ballet
was not thin skinned
Up three flights of stairs the blue-
eyed angel was encountered in a
snowball costume of phenomenal
modesty, and ready for the “swan
ballet.”
“Ah, there!” she said, with a fa
miliar smile. “Taking it all in, eh?”
“Well, I am trying to improve
rny mind,” said the reporter, who
had somewhat recovered his sang
froid. “By the way, tell me, are
you married?”
“Married?” The lady stared,
giggled and then said, “Nixty.”
“Don’t ballet girls ever marry?”
“Not often. _ Life’s too short. We
like to have a jolly time too well to
get married. That sort of thing
will do well enough tor the chorus
in the opera. We are bosses of an
other color. Ta, ta!” and she was
off. “Come and see me and I will
tell all about it,” she called up from
the stairway.
I wouldn't advise you to do it,*
said the manager. “There is a man
who weighs about 9100,000 who
you might object.”
THE HALLET GIRL AS SHE IS.
The ballet girl is sui generis.
Where she comes from or into what
species of living creature she
transmogrified are mysteries of na
ture. But while she is a ballet girl
she is a gay creature who turns
night into day. The theatre pays
her a salary of $10 a week. But
she manages to dress sumptuously
and usually wears genuine dia
monds. She is no stranger to
champagne and French cooking,
but the gamut of her appetite runs
all the way to beer. To the un>
kempt crowd which always collects
about the stage entrance she pays
no attention, hut there is usually
fluttering, and on looking, observed
LusHutxTux, u., wctODer 14. J I that a co \, ev of pannages had flown
C. Umber and family, of Lincoln . h dining room The doors
township, drank from a spring, the
waterot which was poisoned, and
now are lying at the point of death.
some friend waiting around-the cor*
GEORGIA NEWS.
Macon is at last to have street cars.
About 200 students have reached
Oxford.
A new Baptist association is to be j
organized in Barnesville.
Vast discoveries of phosphates jj
have been made in Mississippi. I
The new ice works at Columbus
will soon be ready to begin opera
tions.
Rev. Sam Jones has received an
invitation to preach in Talmage’s
Tabernacle.
Dalton has thus lar received only ;in
176 bales, against about 700 for the
corresponding period last year.
Diptheria has made its appearance
in Albany. It is said that 65 per
cent, of the victims of this disease
die.
"The oats that were planted some
time ago,” says the Elberton South,
are reported on all sides to be dying
out.
Frank Banks, living near Fayette- ,!
ville, was so unfortunate as to lose
both his wife and daughter last |
Monday night. The cause of their
sad deaths was typhoid fever, and
they both breathed their last within |
a few hours.
Franklin county is in a good way 4
financially. It does r.ot owe a dol- j
lar, and has a surplus in the treasu- j
ry of $260. In addition, a new jail f
has been recently built at a cost of
$i,7tx>, and $6,000 expended on the ■
court house, rendering it as good as
new.
John McMullan, a negro on Mr. ’
Lindsay Gaines’ plantation, Elbert
county, got his left arm and hand
badly cut up in a gin on Wednes
day. The arm was lacerated terri
bly up to the shoulder, and Dr. Eb-
erhart found it necessary to ampu
tate all four fingers.
Mrs. J. W. Davis, of Resaca. had
a Singular experience the other day.
Last Thursday she expected sever
al preachers to dinner, but after
searching the town, she caukl only
find one chicken. She Yvas busy
in the kitchen preparing the little
chicken when she heard a terrible
TURKISH BRIGANDS.
Estitilag tba ooToramtiitMiU From Baglai.
Constantinople, Oct. 15.—
Great excitement prevails in gov
ernment circles owing to a most
audacious robbery successfully ac
complished on Monday last. The
Turkish mail from Bagdad was at
tacked nearnighttallat the Segorge
Lakaritch range, some forty miles
from Ismid. According to the offi
cial report the escort fought hard,
but was taken unawares. The men’s
horses were shot down by the
brigands, who were in ambush, and
eventually they overpowered the
escort and the entire freight was
captured. One mail rider and two
zatiehi were killed and several oth
ers were seriously wounded. The
brigands made a grand haul. The
government loss alone is believed to
be £60,000 tn remittances and tithes;
the private losses are about £2,000.
One mail rider succeeded in escap
ing and carried the news to Ismid
on tbe following day. The Sultan
was much exasperated at such an
occurrence so near Constantinople
and issued orders immediately on
the receipt of.the news to despatch
a large body of cavalry in pursuit of
the brigands, and, if necessary,
across Asia Minor. Three hundred
troopers left for Ismid on a special
train on Wednesday night As yet
there are no captures. The attack
wai so well planned that the exist
ence of collusion between the gov
ernment officials and the brigands is
strongly suspected. The pursuing
party found the dead horses and
mole* on the scene of the struggle,
but no hiimaq bodies.
and Yvindows were quickly closed
and six of the birds Yvero captured.
These, with the chicken, made an
elegant dinner, and all the preachers
were invited in to help eat the birds.
Some of the good people of the vil
lage look upon the occurrence as
providential, and it may be that the
Ail-Wise had a hand in directing
the flight of the birds'.
Rev. Edsvin 1. Smith died near
Cherry Lake, on Wednesday night
of last week. Mr. Smith first be
longed to the North Georgia con
ference, but oYving to bad health
was transferred to the Florida con
ference and stationed in Madison
county.
John Jordon, of Clinch county
near the Suwannee river, was out
with his brother cutting rice, when
he stepped ou a very large rattle
snake and was bitten on the leg.
His antidotes were applied in vain
—or too late, at least, for he died
next morning.
Wiightsville Recorder: This is
peihaps the most remarkable
drought that has ever occurred in
this section of Georgia. Many ot
the wells and all the small streams
have dried up, and the great Ohoo-
pie is now reduced to the propor
tions of a small branch. None of
the water mills in this section are
grinding, and it is with great diffi
culty that meal for bread can be
obtained. In some places the wa
ter has stopped the steam gins front
running, and the people are greatly
retarded in preparing their cotton
for market. The forests in some
places are barren of all verdure, and
many trees, large and small ones
are actually dying. Cattle are
roaming through, the weods in their -
almost fruitless search for water,
and if the drought continues much
longer we fear that many will die-