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»' t!,e . h old a conference, to de-
0#fC ‘ a course for the church
l!< ' l>0 if. the pending prohibit
pnr>U , e je in Clarke county. This
little suggestion was
f oout i» lb' kindest spirit and
ft ho best intent, but to our
we learn that the advocates
i, 'l ,r ' S re u,ing it to build up a
orl by claiming that such a prop
Cks too strongly of social tanito# . plt>whM ,i h « Bi *-whiping,
MUt t^ e whlte People Of w |, a ;|5 n j cn< *.L; N . »
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WEEKLY EDITION.
.GENERAL NEWS.
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NO XXXIII.
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ATHENS, G-ESO-RG-XA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY lO, 1885.
VOL XXXI
breadth from the line he had mark
ed out, in his superior wisdom and
judgment, for them to tread, that
over they will topple into that hot
...red !>•
and that it will lose the
,ji,ts hundreds o» votes,
to show that the liquor
ml up for campaign ma-
1 are in their last ditch,
reiv upon such a mush-
. -.uncut to turn the
; of temperance that
t ; plug over Clarke coun-
u v are a thousand times
all the votes and capi
f j , bier can make out of it. In
place, there is no politics
■hibition, hut it is simply a
. , r:l l movement in which all
0 , ,„ir people—white and
rich and poor—are equally
iU ;;, interested. Temper-
.j teligion are twin sisters,
band in hand. Hence, pro-
, within the legitimate
0 f tire church, and it is right
,„., e r that all conscientious
• r . of fhe Gospel should
both work for and preach it
nihi.t. This being true,is there
-„,tc harm in the white and
, discussing this
j; ,v other question calculated
3 -,,j.nte the good of society?
. mu!! is. the liquor dealers well
:h.c l!u-j dare not trust their
.re • ,::cn traffic in the hands of
liud-k-.iing people of our coun-
JIl( l it ts to their interest to bring
j Jisn-pute and ridicule every
viim-nt calculated to subserve
.uni Knowing that the best ele-
n . u t colored population are
t,, t licit business, they will
cierj thing in their power to
r itti-.r support and prevent a
j vt! : ,,t action. But they will
tsuicied. The people intend to
,tc against this common er.cmy
.. . .n, and by a combined effort,
■ , u tangs ot the monster. They
intend that their enemies
contaminate this great and
. cause by mixing it with
Tney have no more allini-
a cimich and a rum shop,
-ai.nt the anti-prohibitionists
. and tuinc to their heart’s
,_ ;t We have the best clc-
t..c colored population on
>; ,.,ie, and we intend to keep
nil. We have not bought their
with either money or liquor,
whailing and snatching of teeth.'
Even his locals had a sort of flee-
from-the-wrath-to-come jingle, and
when a subscriber had waded
through the Leader he didn’t know
whether he was attending an old-
fashioned Methodist camp-meeting
or a latter-day political cancus, con
vened lor the purpose ot stacking
the cards in behalf of some favored
candid He or measure. We never
feel our utter insignificance so keen
ly as after taking a big dose of
Parsonbutlerism, rammed down
our throttle with the Leader spoon.
We don’t know whether to raise
one of Wesley’s hymns or give
three cheers and a tiger. If the
Leader literature effects all its
readers as it does the B.-W.
editor, we very much fear that the
good people of old Elbert will be
trained into a belief that the only
road to the pearly gates is by hold
ing political meetings and elect
candidates for eternal bliss by pop
ular suffrage. Hence we assert
that Parson Butler’s rcligio-political
experiment is one of deep interest,
and will be watched with care.
We were in hopes that the utter in
significance of the ink-slinger of this
paper would help him escape the
fiery pen of Bro. Butler, and we set
all manner of sugar-baited traps to
catch his good opinion. But alas!
a few days since wt penned a sooth
ing little paragraph, intended as
oil upon the troubled waters of
Ei'berton journalism. To our sur
prise, it acted upon Brother Butler
the same as a red silk handkerchief
waved in the face of a mad bull, or
the bloody shirt unfurled in a radi
cal audience. Parson Butler un
sheathed his scalpingknife and went
for us in his own pecular manner.
He starts out by stating that long
ago some fellow had told him to
“Beware of Gantt,” and then con
tinues at length in a literary pro
duction tha‘ "“e are yet at a loss to
know whether to class under the
caption of a compliment or a bitter
invective against our premeditated
wilfulness. One paragraph made
us look upon ourself as the most
learned humanitarian extant, while
the next forced the conviction upon
individual prosperity of a few men
is at atake! Then there is our under
takers. Even they would feel the
chastening hand of prohibition, for
the rum mills grind out-a goodly |*ment at
portion of their trade. The taro tier
would have to rely on the honors
attached to his office for pay, and
the police seek the quiet shades of
rural life and learn to pull the bell
line over some Georgia mule. Yes,
it won’t be long before you will see
the dry rot taking root in Athens.
Those street-corner howlers will be
starved into making an honest liv
ing and the reeling toper, instead
of being escorted to the station-
house, will quietly wend his way
homeward when the shades of night
veils the earth. The sound of the
hammer, the buzz of machinery,
and the din of trade will succeed
the yell of the drunkard and the ru-
bicond faces of whisky-soaked hu
manity. Peace, order and prosperi
ty will usurp the place so long held
by strife, discord and misery. Even
the women and children will soon
begin to show the effects of the “dry
rot” in their happy faces and elastic
tread. Athens will doubtless be
come the dullest place in Georgia-
for men who like to get on a drunk
and raise a row. This class must
hunt other{quarters, while staid, so
ber people will come here, with
pockets full of greenbacks, anxious
to invest in dry goods, groceries,
etc. The attendance at our college
will be doubled, and at least $75,000
a year thus added to the trade of
Athens. Those sections of our city
now given up to liquor dealers will
be filled with nice stores or prosper
ous little factories. In fact, you
pitable, genial gentlemen we ever
knew, and having retired from the
political arena has turned bis atten
tion to agriculture. We were high
ly entertained by Ina new experi
ment at‘truck farming. . He has
just sowed down an acre broadcast
in onion sets, and has calculated
that if every inch of space produces
ibli
will see the evidences of “dry rot”
on every band, so that in five years’
time our population may dwindle
down to only 20,000. The $100,000
annually spent here for liquor will
keep up free schools, pave our
streets and build all the-railroads we
need. Instead of being renters, our
colored population will have neat
cottages of their own, and a ragged,
half-starved woman or child a rare
sight on the street. But when we
consider that the results of
this “dry rot” will cost us the luxury
ol liquor, those delicious headaches
next morning, and alljthe attendant
consequences of the traffic, can we
afford to take the step? Prohibi
tion will force our sons to grow up
sober and honored men, instead of
one of these odorous vegetables that
a few years will place him on a par
with Jay Gould, if not Vanderbilt.
He has ordered out a new mowing
machine and a horse rake to har
vest his crop. As soon as the
onions are cut he will plant the
same land in Irish potato slips,
which will add another $1,000 cou
pon to his agricultural bond. The
Doctor says that next November he
will prepare four acres carefully and
set it out in a lady pea grove, hav
ing just ordered the young trees
from Berckman. He has been of
fered $3 per bushel for them on
board the cars at Crawford, and
calculates that at three years old a
pea bush will yield a handsomer
profit than an orange tree in Flor
ida. He will also plant for at least
2,000 bushels of sweet potatoes,
that are worth from $1 to $1-75 * n
Atlanta. He wants to buy several
thousand ready-made potato hills,
which he will transplant in one ot
his fields. He says he can begin to
pull the taters alter the second year,
and the beauty of this crop is that
they bear just as well in the winter
as summer, for be has eaten them at
Christmas himself. He will also
try a small nursery of celery and
asparagus trees, but learns that
they do better it planted in a moist
bottom. He is now clearing oft a
bog below his fish pond for this
purpose. The Doctor says there is
no money in raising cotton. He
has kept a neat calculation, and
finds that it costs $513.7* to grow
and market a 400-pound bale. Dr.
Willingham has made a decided
success of carp culture. He exca
vated three ponds from the side of
a hill, at a cost of $600, before dis
covering that the expense of haul
ing water to fill them did away
with the profits on the fish. He
then built three others in a branch,
stocked them with $275 worth of
young carp, and has now one of
the most promising crops of turtles
and bull-frogs in Georgia. This
gentleman also experimented with
ersey cattle, but his $12 registered
bull did not turn out satisfactory,
and he gave up the experiment. He
thinks the fellow he bought, the
animal from misrepresented it to
him, as he had never read of moo-
ley-headed Jerseys with a bob-tail.
He says he will order out a pair of
imported Percheron hogs, and
thinks he can raise them profitably
on the fruit dropped from his
goober trees; tuat nothing is more
he was either flogged or
required to fast, sometimes for an
entire day. Thus many years were
passed,’ during which time Thadde-
oa. who remained voluntarily with
hia father; grew tobe quite a hand
some young man. One day father
and son arranged their escape. They
disguised themselves as peasants,
ana after some difficulty, succeeded
in getting safely out of the settle
ment. For days they traveled in
the snow, stopping here and there
for a morsel of food that barely
kept them from starving. The only
serious obstacle they met with were
the fierce wolvea prowling about
the woods. They were obliged to
use the most extreme caution, lest
they be torn to pieces by the savage
animals. Accordingly, they kept
as much to the main road as possi
ble, and concealed themselves at
the slightest indication ot a growl
or a bark. Footsore and weary,
they at last arrived at a Russian port,
where they shipped as sailors and
sailed for Germany. Soon aftet
their arrival there the father died,
leaving young Thaddeus alone in
the world. After roaming around
the continent for a year or two, the
young Prince came to America,
landing In New York about six
years ago. From that city he came
to Baltimore, where he tried to'ob
tain work, and failing in that, went
to the Patterson farm, where he re
mained until his departure tor Ath
ens a few weeks ago.
SYLVAN SYLVESTER.
ATnuTamperuc* Story.
Written for the Danner- U’atchman.
it- knocked from their
put the anti-prohibi-
our beclouded brain that those fel
d to their reason, and 1 i owi> vvho tried to blow up the drunken wrecks; our daughters will
t» them that an emancipa- house of parliament in London ' save industrious and prosperous
were high-toned, Christian gen- 1 Husbands, and not debauched out-
hlessing and relief to i ,i emen beside us. After a'
when the shackles care f u i analysis of Brother Butler’s
two-edged sword, we were forced
into a belief that it was intended as
master stroke of sarcasm—in
the stand—the men who I ot h er words, a settler to any further
ng this social equality bug- effortsfrom our pen Leaderward.The
-and let them answer a few L rtic i e plainly s. “When the B.-
Is it not better, by j n f u t ure) mentions the Leader,
the judgment and j t must do so w ith bowed and un-
these people, to control covered head, or I will go for its
I I I votes for the good of society sca | p q U ; c ker than I did Miss
Dortch’s bangs a few days since in
,1 the country, than to try I tbe Hartwell Sun." We humbly
opt them through the use pray that Parson Butler will forgive
not far better for | us t Hj s time, and we will promise
to go and sin no more. We have
Is
.-.-tors 01 our churches to unite I
casts. In fact, we will have a
thrifty, moral community, instead
of our streets being lined with the
wrecks of what might have been
good and worthy citizens, had the
blighting hand of intoxication not
fallen upon them.
VISIT TO OGLETHORPE.
A DAY WITH ODE FRIENDS IN AMD ABOUND
CRAWFORD.
f l>“
an effort to overthrow the liquor I a regard f or Brother Butler,
Uiff.c li) peaceable and legitimate and a pp rec ; a te the fact that his able
than lor others to ap- paper is a co-laborer with the Ban-
pea: tu a man's baser nature an d ner . Watchman in the great field of
man :
for intoxicants?
What
prohibition. We will, however,
most of social equality, I uke the liberty of whispering a
with a man, or try and Lord of counsel in the ear of this
.1 lus vote with liquor or mon- v
l.tmcry and corruption at the journalistic Moses: You must not
e too long already held be loo hasty to jump at conclusions.
Let There is not a member of the Geor-
\ 1 he more honest and le- • press w ho would wilfully wound
of moral suasion , he f ee ii„ gs of Mr. Butler, but on
n people ot Athens and lnc 5 ,
>unty are now on trial, and the other hand gladly extend him
i all Georgia are turned the grip of friendship. He may ex
lip a. them. The charge has gone I p ect sometimes to be differed with,
ta that they can be bought like b Jt will be in a fi tt i„g manner and
The Banner-Watchman ue-1 . • *, w » be
, that there are enough honest I ,n * be 1 P ‘ T , -
mong them to repel the stig- tore stated, the Elberton Leader 1.
1 show to their maligners that a model weekly paper, an y
en Will vote for ‘’principle, thing thou lackest. Brother Butler
We have no hope of converting is the knowledge
-c old campaign howlers, and different ethics govern newspapers
not writing tor their benefit. It than are practiced in p P
IQ the better element of the c°l- T(JE WAY THAT LIQUOR BUILDS UP A TOWN
eitii Voters that we now appeal to I
mil) mound the standard ot prohi-1 The anti-Prohibitionists have at
l.i.on. and by their efforts help to ba£k on that hoary old
c the stain cast upon their las . trmihless and
■V bv unworthy members of I argument, t a . .
race. The day that Clarke coun- bald-headed when Methuselan was
h voirs for prohibition the colored a bare .foot boy, viz.: That to vote
people gain a victory that will not .. out e f a town is to cripple
only redeem them from a degrading . , - - L - *~
r. but put them on record as | >ts 0
S°°d citizens.
• BEWARE OF GA^!TTV , ,
"m" the Elberton | lastingly play smash with several
a- profitable industries in our midst,
ktesting experiment of hybridizing I and our people should carefully
Ttmuv
name
business and cause the place to
perish with dry rot. There by no
denying the fact that the abolition
of the latter-day pop-skull will ever-
Parson Butler,
Leader, is now engaged in the in-
imeni Ol i -— ^ . , fh
?ion and a political newspaper, consider t e in ^ ur ^ f s j y
the boys throughout the state doing these classes before ru hle.sly
watching the result with a robbing them of ffimr_dev.bg.ve„
’vagioii and a
and
K'ca, deal of interest. The
v: *ed edition of Atlas, with the I ,"$6 ^/gallon that
"orld on one shoulder and the spirits a y $1 u to St
‘hatch strapped across his back. | actually costs from $...4 *«-75-
.»«. respoD.ibililW. will P- ”
a little peevish, and from his lofty visions, an e^ ^ fronJ IO to
P>n,,ac!e look down with supreme starvati P they do bat
contempt upon the poor, insigntfi- per cent bUck flag . Then
c >m devils of the press who have tie un horny .handed sons of
r -ot the self.confidence or capacity comes th °*° ' 0ver half of
'o tackle more than one pursuit at toil, °“ ,h ou ld be credited
a time. This disposition cropped tne»r nroliibition will result
out even while Parson Butler was I tohquor, and prolub.U^ ^ ^
tin scribe ot the humble little 11" 6 "'.'"® av *^ t ' 10 ns of life. Our
t-Qtnesville Register; but so soon ,nto ° ... be greatly cut
he got his grip on the helm of sheriff's . Tuc k, who has
’ h <t mighty Elberton Leader, we down, J coun ’ c hain-gang,
sa w from the first issue that its | charge o n. ho
editor’s
Hon. W. M. Willingham. The
Doctor lives at Woodlawn, a beau
tiful rural home overlooking the
town of Crawford, surrounded by
all the happiness that wealth, cul
ture, friends and pointer dog? can
bring. He spends a goodly portion
, —w, — — of his time in the fields during the
. , .. , _ reduction in the pay of w j n ter, with gun and dogs, and in
ptetsion on the minds of his mea pother officials. It summer, when the bird season i*
•"miffing readers that he had jurors, _ MWi n b- lopped off over, always finds a delightful pas-
lh 'm an standing on the brink of is true that taxes time chasing the nimble flea. Dr.
d> e and th« first most wonderfully, but wnaj 1* we
, a . (iT , ■» Lave a moan as he sees one by
motto would be: “I am will beav . go> an d s i g h
ilr Oracle—when I ope my lips let one of • ^ fe , 0JU to
no dog bark!” Hi* editorials read when he rt5 if justice will
a clerical charge on hades, and bt h«r business in one-
you could smell brimstone in every 8 e | “Y° f d c f course this
Paraph. Parson Butler left the] half » he
yawning chasm, and the first | m°*t won er tb8
they deviated one hair’s- rights of a great j*o P
fattening to hogs than parched pin-
ders fresh from the tree. Dr. Wil
lingham will make a grand success
as congressman from the Sth dis
trict, but we are rather in doubt
about his reaching tne topmost
round of agricultural fame.
Ttw Operation of tho Stock Lav—A Thriving
Town—A Beautiful Little HaU-Tatklng Prohibi
tion—A Truck Farmer—Other Point* HaitUj
Thrown Together.
Last Saturday afternoon we
boarded the train for the purpose
of paying a long delayed^ visit to
our friends in and around Crawford.
As soon as the boundary line of
Clarke was passed we could but
notice the marked improvement
the removal of those unsightly old
“worm fences” has made in the
landscape. Miles upon miles of
such have been torn away, and still
the good work goes nobly on.
Nearly every one we talked with is
delighted with the new law,and say
it would now cost them more to re
fence their fields than they would
bring if sold. 'We noticed that one
negro, who owned a small farm on
the line of railroad, had removed a
dilapidated log cabin in which he
had lived for years and replaced it
with a neat frame house. We ask
ed him the reason for his apparent
prosperity. “Boss,” was the reply,
“de stock law built me dat new
house, and put just $50 in silver in
my pocket.!! hauled my old rails to
town for firewood and sold ’em,
and de time 1 would have wasted
fixing up fences I worked out at 60
cents a day. 1 took dat money and
built de new house you see. My
cow gibs me milk and I’se heap
better off. I voted agin der stock
law, boss, but I tell you I was a fool.
De white folks knows what is best
fur de country, and I goes wid dem
from dis day.
Crawford is one of the livest little
towns in the South, and is steadily
improving. It has an enterprising
and reliable set of merchants, and
they sell goods at prices that will
control trade. The Messrs. Martin
have completed one of the hand
somest little public halls we ever
saw. It can seat near 500 people,
and is splendidly arranged. They
have nice scenery, good dressing-
rooms and comfortable seats. Theat
rical companies would do well to
take in Crawford, for they can al
ways draw a good house. The man
agers will play them for a commis
sion. ...
Oglethorpe takes as much inter
est in the liquor campaign in Clarke
as is manifested here. They say if
Athens goes for prohibition it will
break the backbone of the whisky
business in Georgia. Their county
will vote on the issue some time
next summer, and the citizens are
confident of victory. One promi
nent gentleman remarked to us
that he did not believe there were
25 white men in the county who
favored the liquor traffic, while the
best class of colored voters were all
with them.
We spent Saturday night and
Sunday with our esteemed friend
;. W. " ““
A PRINCE AMONG THE POLES.
Recently a Cattle-Tender on a County Farm—*
Romantic Story.
Editor Banner-Watchman: The
following, taken from the Baltimore
American of the 29th ult., refers to
a young gentleman now in our city.
While royal blood may have charms
for some, all must admire the pluck
of the young exile who manfully
sought a support by honest labor,
rather than flitter away the time in
idle regrets, or trade upon the cap
ital of a lost title:
For over two years Thaddeus
Louis Poniatowski, a grandson of
King Stanislaus Augustus Ponia-
. . - r -L-:_7 1—. „r p-
COURT HOUSE SALES.
Willingham is one of the most hos-
towski of the late Kingdom of PO'
land, has worked on Dr. Patterson’s
farm, opposite Mount Hope asy
lum, as cattle-tender. When he
applied for work, Poniatowski, a
tall, bronzed, distinguished-looking
individual, represented himself as
being in destitute circumstances,
and willing to work at anything.
His frank and open manner at once
excited the sympathy of Dr. Pat
terson, who determined to give him
a trial. Accordingly he was placed
in charge ot some valuable cattle,
and before long, through industry
and sobriety, he made himself al
most invaluable. Not long ago Dr.
Patterson, suspecting his cattle-ten
der was no ordinary being, began
to make some inquiries concerning
his antecedents. For awhile Ponita-
towski insisted that he was noth
ing more than plain Poniatowski,
without any ancestry worth- speak
ing of; but at last he acknowledged
himself a direct descendant of the
Polish line of kings, and a prince of
Poland by birth. In making the
declaration his deep black eyes
sparkled brilliantly, and, his friends
say, he looked every inch a king.
He also produced a number of
papers and records in proof of his
identity, which, upon examination,
it is said, proved clearly and unmis
takably his real rank and position.
Soon after this he became tired of
his work among the cows, and he
so informed his employer, who tried
to dissuade him from throwing up
the work, but without any success.
About three weeks ago he inform
ed Dr. Patterson that he was going
to Athens, Ga., where, he said, he
had secured a better position. The
next dav he left for the South.
A young friend of the Prince, in
conversation with an American re
porter yesterday, said: “Ponia
towski is a fit example of the ill-
treated and enslaved Poles. He is
one of the brightest fellows I ever
met; speaking six languages, thor
oughly refined, amiable, kind and
handsome, he is fit to grace any
court. He has often told me his
story, which is not only romantic,
but even thrilling. After the war
between Russia and Poland, his
father was banished to Siberia for
some alleged Polish conspiracy,
His mother, with the Prince, then
an infant in arms, heroine that she
was, refused to be separated from
her husband, and accompanied him
into that bl**b and dreary country.
As might have been expected, her
delicate constitution soon gave way,
and she died an exile from home
and friends. The father, although
.subjected to the most cruel priva-
uons, kept hia health and worked
like a common laborer with the
other prisoners. I have often beard
him recount his father’s experi
ences in those awful mines; how he
arose before daybreak and worked
in the damp and cold from 6 until
6, with three excuses for the mean
est lunch, miscalled meals. Nor
was thii >11; for if be
made the slightest complaint,
Athens Dirt Still In Demand.
Yesterday the big real estate sale
of the season came oft at the court
house. Sheriff VVier had an inno,
cent smile playing around his face
as he mounted the steps, and offer
ed the home place ot the late G. W.
Barber for sale, with 140 acres in
the lot This was bid off by G. W.
Barber, Tr., for $3,500.
Mr. R. L. Bloomfield boug ht sev
eral lots at $12.50 and $8.25 per acre.
There was not much equality about
the bidding for the other lots, as
some of them sold as high as $15.50,
and as low as $8.50 per acre. After
the laud was sold two one thousand
dollar bonds of the Central railroad
were offered.
One thousand dollars was bid by
Joe Hodgson to start the ball in mo
tion, and immediately Mr. S. Marks
raised it a kervauter more. The
bidding became very lively until
the bonds were knocked down to S *
Marks at $1,096 apiece.
Nearly every man who lived in
Athens or near it when the North-
Eastern Railroad was built
took stock and so Jid Mr. Barber
have one share, which was knocked
off to Mat Davis for the very low
price of $5.
fairview farm.
The next place put on the market
was* the famous Fairview farm,
the place where Major Hughes first
introduced the mtld-eyed Jerseys,
in our county. The place was di
vided up into lots and sold at so
much per acre. No. 5, containing
105 acres, was purchased by Dr. VV.
A. Carlton for $23 per acre; No. 4,
containing 100 acres, was also pur
chased by Dr. Carlton for $22 per
acre.
No. 3, containing 72 acres, was
sold to M. B. M&Ginty for $24 per
acre, and is said to be the cheapest
lot sold. The fair grounds, contain
ing 42 acres, with its splendid barn,
stables, cow houses, wells, &c., was
next put up and it was expected
that some of our Jersey raisers
would make it bring a big price. _ It
was hard to get a bid on, Mr. Willi
ford, the real estate agent was about
to withdraw it, when a bid of $Soo
was made, and, after considerable
struggling, it was at last knocked
down to M. B. McGinty for $1,500,
and considered very cheap at that.
The sale closed at this point, and
every one went away satisfied with
their bargains.
Good Reasoning.
The old darkey who drives the
city trash cart was heard the other
day arguing thusly: “Ef I wotes
fer dis here ’bition movement, I
loses my dram, but I can spen’
dat ten cents for sugar or coffee ter
take home to der ole ’oman an’
chilluns, and den all gits some good
out ob it I jess now bought a
dram, an’ it don’t do me no good,
and de chilluns must go ter bed
widout any sugar in der coffee. In
de las’ tree year’s I’se drunk up a
good house an’ lot, an’ what does I
see? Nuffin. Dis ole nigger is
gwine ter wote agin licker, I tell
yer, an’ wuck ler de ole ’oman and
young ’uns, instead ob giben it to
dem whisky men. Don’t talk ter
me, nigger! I knows what I is do
ing. You’se jess wastin’ dat whis
ky-soaked breff by flinging licker
argyments in my face!"
A Reward Ottered tor Habersham County
Some months ago it was discover
ed that the Tax Collector of Haber
sham county had been paying some
county orders that were charged
with being illegal, and suit was at
once instituted on the bond of that
officer. While the case was pend
ing in the courts, and only a short
time ago, the court house of Haber
sham was broken into. The order
book, county seal and other proper
ty of value were, upon investigation
found to be missing. These circum
stances, linked together, framed an
impression among the people that
the stealing of the books and seal
had something to do with the trial
of the case against the Collector,
and the Governor was appealed to
for aid. To-day he offered a reward
of $150 for die apprehension and
conviction of the parties who stole
the books, papers and seal of the
country.
J« slice’s Court,
Andy Coleman appeared as de
fendant in a little two dollar case in
the justice court, Monday. When
asked by his honor, Judge Evans,
if be was ready for trial, be replied
that he was not, on account of the
absence of a material witness.
“Why was the witness not subpm
ned?” thundered forth his honor.
“For various reasons,” replied Cole
man; “first of all he has been
dead about two weeks, and sec
ond—” “That will do,” said the
Judge, “Try to have him here by
the next term, or you will be fined
for contempt. Coleman
trying to get a bailiff to go that un
discovered country for his witness
Tbs New Foundry.
We learn that the visit of Major
Green to Athens last Saturday was
to arrange for the location of the
new iron foundry, to be built next
summer m onr city. Enough capi
.. tal has been subscribed for its erec
if he j tion. This foundry, we learn, will
* it up all mjuuter of improved ag-
■ ~ ’ implements.
In the southern part of Georgia,
not far from one ot the finest har
bors on the Atlantic coast, there
lived a prosperous farmer with his
wife and children. The fences in
good trim, the horses and cattle fat
and sleek, the negroes .with shining
faces and clean clothes, all indicated
thrift and plenty. The old fash
ioned farm-house with its queer
gables, big columns and winding
chimneys evidenced a long exist
ence. Indeed it was one ot the
first houses built in that section of
country, and had already sheltered
four generations of Sylvesters." The
present owner, Mr. James Sylves
ter, held it by inheritance, and like
the lormer occupants, he was con
tented to remain at the old home
stead, and make an independent
living. It is true that he made reg
ular trips to Savannah, to buy his
supplies, such as he could not raise
on the plantation, and an occasional
one to Macon, where he had rela
tives; but the cities had no attrac
tions for him, and it was with much
satisfaction that he returned to his
loved home. On one of these trips
to Macon he carried his favorite
son Sylvan, who was the pride of
his father, the idol of his mother’s
heart and the general favorite on
the place. Honest, frank, gener
ous, no wonder that he easily found
a place in every one’s affections.
This trip to Macon dazzled young
Sylvan, and many an hour after his
return did he spend in telling about
the big stores, fine houses and grand
people that he had seen in Macon;
and he was ever restless and dis
satisfied, until some time after that
he had gotten his parents’ consent
to accept a fine offer he had to clerk
in a big store in Macon. Accor
dingly everything was arranged for
Sylvan’s departure. He had just
attained his majority. It was with
misgivings that the anxious father
thought of his son’s going away
from home, and many tears did his
tender-hearted mother shed over
his things as she made them
ready for him. It is now about
fifteen years since this young man
left the home of his happy child
hood with a father’s and mother’s
blessing, and came to Macon to
make a name and seek a fortune.
He found employment with one of
the best, most prosperous merchants
of that city, and heaven seemed to
smile upon him. He was as fine a
specimen of the genus homo as I
ever knew. His hair was as black
the crow’s wing, his eye as bright
and piercing as the eagle’s, his form
nanly and erect, his manners most
fascinating. It was impossible for
any one to be subjected to his influ
ence, without being pleasantly im
pressed by him. He was industri
ous and capable, and soon grew
into such favor with,his employer,
that he became a partner in the lu
crative business. He was courted
by society, and considered by man
aging mammas as the “best catch”
in the market, and pointed out by
parents to their sons as a model for
them. He - won the affections of
Rosalind Raymond, whom nature
seemed to have formed into a per
fect model in one of her most be
neficent moods. Imagine her, if
vou can, with nut-brown hair in
rich profusion, black arched eye
brows, hazel eyes, with long, black,
curling lashes, cheeks like the first
blush of an early peach, ruby lips
and teeth of pearl, with a low,
sv/eet voice, and musical laugh that
sounded • as sweetly as silver bells
ringing. She was lovely in mind
and manners as Veil as in person.
Many beaux had the tair Rosalind,
but none found favor in her eyes
until the attractive Sylvan paid
homage. I have dreamed ot men
and maidens mated in heaven, be
fore physical form had given their
sinless souls utterance, and these
two seemed made tor each other.
He was daring, confident; she beau
tiful, diffident, unassuming. Under
these propitious circumstances time
rolled on swiftly edough. I
ncerely wish I could conclude
ray sketch in the popular
way with orange blossoms and
marriage bells, but I am only a pro
sy narrator of solemn facts, and if
you do not wish to know the truth,
lay aside my story. I would like to
strew roses in every path, and scat
ter sunshine on every way; but alas!
I cannot. In an unguarded moment,
when in company with some of his
boon companions, Sylvan took his
first drink of wine. Then the drink
firnd made earth hideous with his
laughter, and the angels of darkness
shouted tor joy! One more man in
drunkard’s grave, and another soul
lost forever! The world is full of
men to-day who are falling short ot
the point to which their qualities
and circumstances seem certain to
raise them, because the best parts ot
them are neutralized by the bad
habits of others, and to which they
themselves too soon become addict
ed. The second drink of my friend
soon followed the first, and then the
third, fourth and soon, until it seem
ed impossible for him to quit drink
ing. He soon became unreliable,
his name was dropped from the
firm, and his engagement was de
clared off with the young lady—not
hastily, or even voluntarily, be it
said to the credit of woman’s ever
lasting devotion. It is strange
what a man may do and yet retain
woman’s love. This young man
soon became one of the most dissi
pated young men I ever knew, utter
ly beyond the control of himself or
friends. Sad, indeed, was the hour
when his venerable father and
mother—their forms bowed more
with sorrow than age—came to take
their ruined boy home. He left
them in the rosj morning of young
manhood, when everything was fra
grant and sparkling with dew. He
returned a perfect wreck, with all
the light gone out of his life. When
kept away from whisky he sobered
up, but the habit was so strongly
fixed, the appetite had grown upon
him so that he could not resist the
cravings tor drink; and I heard
some time ago that this young man,
so highly gifted, who was capable
of conducting the largest mercantile
w operations, or managing an exten-
now sive system of railroads, was dead
His sun went down in darkness and
the shadows of night rest over his
tomb. Stanhope.
Jan. 30th, 1885.
MIKE M’DONALD’S POWER. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
The Xethodt Chicago'* Chief Gambler U Said t» j
Employ in Bunntng Local Politic.. John Sullivan, the slugger, has
Chicago. Jan. 23—The Inter- {’“a fincd $ IO ° for cruelty to a
Ocean devotes several columns to a 0 ”®*
an investigation into the methods . The captured flag of the 4th Mis-
employed by M. C. McDonald, s>s*ippt Regiment will be returned
saloon keeper, gambler and politi- b y‘ he 9* Connecticut Volunteers
cian, whose influence is alleged to at New Orleans this month,
have largely contributed to the po- dynamiters have blown up
litical corruption recently brought ^® dr y f° ods sto £® ®? rr y ? ros ;
to light here. The Inter-Ocean ! n New York. The police think it
says . is the outcome ot the strike of the
“McDonald was found at his **- ^he^blick ^ffYafbeen taken by
loon on Clark street H.s manner five i adie3 in M 3
that of a manager of large bust- P / eside s nt Ta l of the Mormon
ness interests. Haifa score of men _v,.. r _L • _
were waiting to speak to him pri- ,s Cry,n S out a ^‘ nst P erse '
vately, and they were received in Mar ’ tt a Michigan town, has
his private office in turn and &*■ ^ completely wiped out with a
missed in “one-two-three” order » «^c O0O otire
£ C uVoT^ I^ e s nin s g aid St b a v r
entlya motely crowd of half a [ hose ^ bo £ re J nd to know that
dozen or more entered. They had I t week £ Ir Cleveland wiU ten _
‘ FwrnZ M°h,H der cabinet P° sit ''ons to Merrick, of
the night before and McDonald had | Washington City; Vilas, of Wis
ROSSA SHOT.
become surety for their appearance I m‘"& e witt, of New York, and
before a just.ee of the peace They Garlan ’ d of Ar ^ ansas The f ; iends
had come to report and await orders. - t „ ’ t .
McDonald called the roll, and found ^25*®’ rC **
that one was missing. ‘Where is ™t PP
Dave Fuller?’ he asked. I postmaster-general.
‘Skipped out,’ answered one of
the gang,
“Here you,” said McDonald to a
professional loafer. “Your name I a psetty exglisb wo was doses TltE
is Dave Fuller till you’ve goine in-1 - ieisji dysamitebos ms ows
to court and pleaded ‘not guilty’ ■ KBDICISE.
to this charge. I’ll send, you
through all right,” and the impro-1 tueqirl arrested asd o'dosivaxcar
vised Dave Fuller fell into line. | ried to a hospital.
When the cases were called in
the p.olice court McDonald’s law-.
yer demanded a jury. McDonald Monday afternoon, while stand-
winked at the constable and in five | ing on the corner of the Stewart
minutes six loafers, who had come building in New York O'Donivan
from the saloon, were sworn in as R the i eader of the dynamite
jurors. The veidict was of course ... / ,
•not guilty.; The reporter inter- P art y m America, was shot by a
viewed the justice, and was inform-1 pretty English married woman,
ed that whenever a gambler or pro- aged 23 years and named Yeslet
fessional tlnef got into trouble he Dudley, who was a nurse. Rossa
was struck near the collar bone
sent for McDonald before he sent
for a lawyer. It would be impossi
ble to tell how many times a year j and fell, when the woman fired a
McDonald went security for crimi-1 second shot, that did not take ef-
nals in the justice courts, as in most j feet. The girl made no attempt to
instances no record was kept of escape anJ Was p rompt i y arreste d
them. As he was understood to , ^ J 01
be worth at least $250,000 his bond and condned m a P r,son ce P- She
was accepted not only in the justice manifests no remorse nor fear. Ros-
courts, but in the state and Federal I sa was carried to a hospital, where
courts as well. _ it was found that his wound is by
“McDonald is a silent partner in . ..
many gambling houses besides the no means ser.ous, ana w.U not g.ve
one over his saloon, and also i„ much trouble. Rossa’s friends say
many saloons and other enterprises, the woman is an English spy and
His reliability on bonds and recog- are furious in their wrath. Eng-
nizanees is at all times enormous, la „d ;* rejoicing over the fact that
and it is doubtful if he himself can . , . , . ,
tell the exact amount. | the dynamiter has been drenched
on his own physic.
In another column we copy an
article from the Snnny South in re-
Little Rock. Jan. 30.—At Cor-
gard to the indignation in this place ning, Clay county, to-day, LaFay-
at the slander recently published in ette Melton, a white man aged 23,
that paper. We publish it simply was hanged for the murder of
beftiuse our people want to see Franklin Hale four years ago. It
what the Sunny South can say in was proved on the trial that Mel-
paliation ot the wrong it has done ton was a captain of the ku-klux
Washington. The article is one of brotherhood. Hale had been talk-
the weakest and thinnest we ever ing about the order and a plot was
saw in print. The writer endeav- formed to whip him. A masked
ors to wheedle the community into party found Hale in the woods and
overlooking the outrage he has whipped him to death. Melton was
comnfitted against it. If Washing- convicted chiefly on the evidence
ton was esteemed so highly by him, ot H. S. Lawrence, one of the party
why was he so careless in circu- who turned state’s evidence a year
lating what he knew to be a base | after the occurrence,
lie? The editor tries to create the
impression that he judged of the | DANIELSVILLE DOINGS,
communication by the opening sen
tence. The original has been sent| Danielsville, Feb. 2—Mar-
here, and it shows corrections in ried, Mr. J. Delonev Thompson, of
pencil marks that wete made all this county, and Miss Emma Pitt-
through it by the editor of the man,of Jackson county; Mr. J. H.
Sunny South before he put it in the Smith, ot Danielsville, to Miss Mag-
hands of the printer. | gie Mitchell, of Conyers.
To make the matter worse, in the The talented Miss Susie Colbert,
same issue with the weak apology | of Athens, is presiding over a flour-
the Sunny South published a com-1 ishing school near Mr. James F.
munication from a fallen woman, | Colbert’s.
which the alleged state of moral Prof. B. W. White has a fine
this place is taken as a text. That | school near Mr. Berry J. Meadow’s,
paper adds slander to slander, and I Prof. Biggs’ school is still in-
we hope and believe our people are creasing.
done with it forever.—Washington
Gazette.
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
A KU-KLUX HANGED.
The fare from Liverpool to Chi-
cago is only. $10.
• Four Kentucky cows have re
cently .died from.eating tobacco.
Two largo meteors are reported
to have fallen this week, one of
them knocking a man off a train
near Chicago.
The handsomest girl in Woods
county, Ohio, has been the cause ot
six fights and a stabling affray thus
far this winter.
There are many counties in Ten-
nessee without even a carriage
road, and, horseback is thp only
mode of locomotion.
The Governor of Michigan re
ceives the munificent salary of $t,-
000 a year, while his private secre
tary is paid $1,600.
The Chicago Times says the •
Liberty bell”, has aroused far more
enthusiasm in the south than that
other Pennsylvania curiosity, Sam
Bandall, although it is not half so
badly “cracked.”
Of the thirty-eight governors of
the thirty-eight states ot the Union,
twenty-two are democrats, fifteen
republicans, and one, Governor
Cameron, of Virginia, is a Mahone
man.
The daughter of Binns, the ex
hangman of London, recently testi
fied in court that she had frequent
ly been frightened out of the house
by her father’s experiments in hang
ing dogs and cats.
A woman named Thankful Tan
ner, who seems to be anything but-
thankful, is suing the widow of the
late President Garfield for $25,000.
She claims that she was run over
and injured by Mrs. Garfield’s car
riage in Cleveland, O.
Louisville is in distress. In ad
dition to Watterson, it has the itch.
Advices from that doubly afflicted
community states that it is probable
that 5,000 people are daily applying
antidotes for the old-fashioned mal
ady remembered by the children of
twenty vears ago as “the itch.”
North Carolina has' a wealthy
prophet, who calls himself Profes
sor Baker. Recently, while the
Professor was forecasting the
weather, one Col. Walker, a'negro,
made a felonious assault on the Pro
fessors wife, who does thp work
of the family while the Professor
works the weather.
The town of Glen Rose, Somer
vell county, Texas, has a new paper
called the Citizen. It is published
by Col. Carey W. Stiles, whose
right hand has not yet lost its cun
ning or vigor, as the following ex
tract from his salutatory shows:
“Under the American niagna char-
ta, the citizen is the .highest type of
true nobility. The philosophy of
his status involves individuality,
self-reliance, high manhood, politi
cal and religious freedom, civil inde
pendence, self-government and re
sponsibility alone to his God, the
laws of the land and society.”
At S30 a ton for grapes, wine
costs only two cents a pint. It is
thought that twenty cents a gallon
for new wine will be the ruling
price in California, at which rate a
vineyard will produce $100 worth of
wine per acre.
Frank Riley, a rich Texas ranch
man, squandered cash and property
to the value of $25,000 last week
while on a spree in Gainesville in
that state. It is supposed that two
depraved women got most of the
money.
A most remarkable revival of re
ligion is in progress at Gallipolis,
O. To date nearly 1,000 conver
sions are reported. Many saloons
are closed, and all the inmates of
two disreputable houses have joined
the church. Business is largely
suspened.
Some sports made a fine haul in
this county while on a fox hunt this
week. They caught a sheep and a
TWO DAMAGE SUITS AGAINSTTHE : ac hass. But for the timely inter-
CONSTITUTION. jfetence of the sports the Jackass
~ I would have been no more.
Atlanta, Jan. 30.-—Two suits Mr. Toombs Meadow is 21 years
for damages were filed m the Supe- 0 j d to . da y. He received from his
rior Court of Fulton county to-day, unc i ej David VV. Meadow, a pres-
a &ainst the Atlanta Constitution I ent ot ‘ fifty dollars in gold, because
Publishing Company. They are f rom his childhood up he has not
for $10,000 each. Last year the ta sted intoxicating drink. Toombs
Constitution published a special ; s a m0( j e i boy.
from Henderson, Houston county, | —
stating that Miss Camelia Perry, ol A B ig Concession
that community,had eloped with her Mr Dick Saulter savs that he
married brother-in-law, James T. K talked withalar ' umber of
Grant on the day set for her mar- dark and that tw “ thirds of the
r age tT£r U ^L farmer na colored people will vote against B-
lam E .™. .T he pa.r were over- and three-fourths of the
taken at Hawkmsville, when Grant ^ hi that the anti-prohibition-
explained that he was taking _the - |5ts have noteven a fighting chance,
young lady away from an objection- when we consider t £ at Mr. Saulter
able suitor. Miss Perry and Til runs a bar . room , this ; sa significant
have since married, and now Grant | ^ -l
sues for $10,000 and Till and his
wife sue for $10,000. The Consti-
GEORGIA ITEMS.
concession. But “Uncle Dick” al
ways speaks his honest convictions
two at the time of the occurrence. | y '
A SINGULAR FOWL. | tSomefhing New,
Mr. Turner Moon, the prominet
The greatest curiosity in the [apiarist of Athens, had an exhibition
county, is a fowl owned by W. M. | yesterday—the comb ready made
Callahan, a farmer living near this for the bees to commence putting
city. It has the body of a hen, the I the honey in. This comb founda-
head, comb and tail of a rooster; it [tion as it is called, is made out of
lays the largest egg of any fowl on | wax by a machine, and helps the
the lot, and crows as perfectly as bees to do their work. It can’t be
any other rooster; in color, it is a | adulterated, as the bees will not
beautiful red on one side of its body | work in anything but pure beeswax,
and a domineck on the other; it per-1 Mr. Moon is making a great deal of
lorms all the gallantries of a male, I money out of raising bees. He says
and does not shun any of the duties | it is easier than raising cotton,
of the female; in short, it is neither] - ■
a hen or a rooster, but both, conse-1 The Crawford Fire Department,
quently is of double value. Mr.] Crawford has not only a hook
Callahan will send the fowl to the and ladder company, but a splendid
New Orleans exposition, provided little hand engine, that has just
he can " ~ r ' •
congress
get an appropriation from | come from the shops. It is named
ss and a detachment of the | for Major Green, ot the Georgia
regular military escort that would | road, who gave $100 towards its
protect the glorious bird in the con-1 purchase. A fireman’s hall has
tingency of an uprising of maddened been built, and the boys will per-
rebelsj down in. the regions of Beau- haps have their first tournament
voir.—Madisonian.
next spring.
GEN. JACKSON’S WAR HORSE ,
I Escapo.
The widow of Gen. Stonewall]. Four prisoners in the Lexington
Jackson has consented that his war | jail escaped Monday night. They
liorse Old Sorrell shall be exhibited | broke the locks to their cell doors,
at the New Orleans exposition for prized open a window and lowered
the benefit of the Confederate Sol-1 themselves to the ground with a
didrs’ Home. Maj. A. R. Venable, | rope made of blankets. One of the
who was on tire staff of Jeb. Stuart, | men was charged with murder- and
the Confederate cavalry leader, will on e for horse-stealing. They
| have not been heard from.
The farmers in Oglethorpe are
all now engaged in terracing their
uplands, and it is a great advantage
to the fields. In a few years , the
hillsides are all leveled, and washes
unknown.
accompany the horse.
A RICH SILVER MINE. | Marriage in Oglstborpe.
. , .. . T j 1 ^ r ‘ Will Biooks and Miss Lula
The nebest silver mine in Lead- Watkins were married at the resi-
vilie was sold by the discoverer for dence ot the bride’s father, in Ogle-
$40,000, and during, the following| thorpe, yesterday morning, Rev. J,
year the two. purchasers made a| Q.
million from it In the meantime
the discover squandered has $40,
000 in prospecting, and the other
bson officiating.
Hotel Change.
. * 1 Mrs. Georgia Arnold, of Elbe*
day, a homeless tramp, sought alton, has rented and will take
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Albany has seven artesian wells.
A gentleman in Floyd county
finds raising tobacco and shipping
it to Virginia profitabla.
The Calhoun Times says one of
the hogs sent to the exposition from
the Dick Peter’s farm weighed Soo
pounds.
The Rome Courier says one of its
citizens, Fred Creme, has a dog that
uses tobacco, smoking all the stumps
that come within his reach.
The Bainbridge Democrat says:
A perfectly developed shark tooth
was drawn from the depth of over
,000 feet in our artesian well on
yesterday.
W. W. Ashburn.'W. P. Eastman
A. Peacock, and W. N. Lietch have
urchased the Uplands hotel, at
lastman, tor $15,000 cash. The ho
tel will soon be opened and kept so
the year round.
It is said that General Longstreet
will make some startling develop
ments in a few days in regard to
Emory Speer’s nomination, and also
in reference, to Speer’s testimony in
the Springer committee.
A small girl of William Howard’s,
near Sylvania, was standing before
the fire on Sunday morning, when
her clothes caught on fire, and she
was burned so severely before they
could be extinguished that she
died.
The little child of Mr. J. J. Hen
drick, aged three years, was lost in
the woods last week, causing con
siderable excitement. Mr. H. found
the little fellow in the woods, some
half a mile off', sitting on a log cry
ing. He was nearly frozen.—Car-
rolton Free Press.
In one two-roomed house in
south Rome there are living twenty
negroes of both sexes. They are all
able-bodied, stout, healthy speci
mens, but they arc every onef idle.
How they manage to live is a com
plete mystery to their neighbors,
but tat and sleek they keep them
selves all the time.
On last Sunday, the people of
Lorraine had quite a chase after a
wild deer. He started near Flat
Shoals and was run into Newton
county. Some twenty-five hounds
were on the chase and making it
very lively for the deer.—Conyers
Solid South.
Lucy Peek, colored, who was the
oldest person in the county, was so
badly burned on Thursday night of
last week, that she died Saturday.
How old she was is hot definitely
known, but judging from a bill of
sale dated many years ago she was
115 year£ of age.—CrawfordviUe
Democrat.
Deputy Collector. James Gaston
and W. O. H. Sheppard, on last
Friday night, seized two of the lar
gest illicit distilleries near Burton’s
store,’in Rabun county, that has
been captured for years. The dis
tillery was in full operation, the;
house full of beer, mash and whisky,
and from ail appearances had been
run all the winter.
About eleven weeks ago a child '
of Mr. Louis Lillientbal was strick
en with diptheria and died. Da- ’
ring the fatal illness, the father was
assidious as a nurse, and while wait
ing on the little one 'some of the sa- - : ,.
liva came in contact with his hand,
-upon which there was a slight
wound. The child died about three
weeks ago, and as the father did not
at the time complain of any incon
venience or pain, very little appre
hension was felt as to the effect of
blood poisoning. About ten days
ago, however, he complained of not
feeling well, and from that time
continued-to decline in health until
Sunday, when he died from' the ef- ^
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tion. house. I week. We wish her every success, ects.—Savannah News.
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