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MR. R. LUCAS AGAIN HAS THE FLOOR.
The gentleman from the Od
World ag*’>" cornea to the front in
fruitless, endeavor to put np the
num erou* gap* that he left down
itl h is first argument, but after wad-
in<T through his article, we must say
if" there is a single point in it,
the same is beyond our compiehen-
si on
Mr. Lucas’ defense reminds
, 0 f a story that Tom Witcher, of
C raw for J, used to tell on our big.
hearted Tennessee friend, Jap Hop
kins lap was very pioud of his
,,ive land, and whenever any one
, h ,,t oil' a yarn about big trees or
, n v other miraculous story he in-
sariablv trumped it with a tale
,1,0,,t Last Tennessee that would
l, v it far in the shade. If any cred-
,„ous listener expressed doubt
4bout his narrative, Mr. Hopkins,
„ ith a look of injured innocence on
j u , face, would reply: “Don't be
lieve it. hey? You just go to Big
t trek. Last Tennessee, and ask
T 0 i, n l’etersou about it!” As no
one felt inclined to take such a long
expensive journey to consult
y(i. Peterson, the story had to be
swallowed in all of its gigantic pro
portions. It seems that Mi. Lucas
n .,w trying to fall back on *he
Hopkins plan. When we prove
■ P v Mich home testimony as Judge
S mmons. Mayor Berry, of New-
i .tn. and other reliable anthorities
it prohibition is working a won-
•lerfit! reformation wherever tested
in Georgia, Mr. Lucas goes otVon a
th and refers us to some man in
Maine, and a fellow named Jones
Kansas, and doubtless has now
his note hook John Smith, of
l\.ta fc onia, Tom Collins, of Karos,
katka. and a half dozen Johnsons
mg U p in the region of the North
p.rie But. even admitting that
t he piohihitionists of Clarke coun-
,, |ud the means and time to visit
K i.sas and hunt out Mr. Lucas’
man Jones, don't he know that it
would be a Herculean task? Now
it ire had referred us to Col. Me-
Keever. or Capt. Bates, or even
bulge Skimmerhotn, our search
world have been comparatively
, ,-v; but to go all the way to Kan
sas and commence an inquiry for
r ilher Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones
would ire like searching for a lost
needle in a hay-stack. No, Mr.
biica-, you. icierencesare too vague
and larditched, and we ate forced
m return them to yon mark-
e I, •'Respectfully declined.”
«vi far as the prohibition law in
Ma ue i' concerned, the people of
(ur Mate, hv an overwhelming ma-
i.viiv, gave it their endorsement,
a,id thc'eloie the liquorites must
• k t i another quarter for conso-
;. > n. There are doubtless indi
vidual- in Maine bv whom Mr.
Luca- can prove anything he wants;
but the tally sheet ol the election
w here the great masses voted that
alcohol should never be sold, im
ported or manufactured in their
NO XXXV.
ATHENS, GEORGIA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1885/
VOL XXXI
HISTORY OF LIBERTY ACADEMY IN OGLE
THORPE COUNTY.
TWO THROATS CUT.
Liberty academy, at Potts’ branch,
Oglethorpe county, was destroyed
by the act of an incendiary. The
party made three efforts to bum it—
the first on Thursday evening, the
S2d of January, just alter school had
closed; the second, about 7 o’clock
Monday night, the 26th of January;
the third, and successful effort, be
tween three and four o’clock Wed
nesday morning, when the house
and all its contents were entirely
destroyed. This academy was built
seventy-five years ago.
Editor Banner-Watchman: The
writer of the above slip has made a
mistake in stating that Liberty acad
emy, at Potts’ branch, Oglethorpe
county, was built seventy-five years
ago. It was erected in 1826—fifty-
eight years ago, by the citizens,
each furnishing a hewed log and a
sufficient number of boards to cover
the house, viz: Maj. John Beasley,
i acob Phinizy, Samuel Cramer,
Lobert Gresham, William Jewell,
Squirrel Skin Billie Lumpkin, (then
sheriff of Oglethorpe countv), Giles
Young, Nathaniel and I’eterson
Smith, Peachy Gilmer, brother of
Gov. Gilmer, Hugh' McWhorter,
father of Hon. James H. and R. L.
McWhorter, Maj. John Bell, grand
father of J. B. Bell, of Antioch, the
Gilmers and Landrums, Henry
Young, Samuel Potts, John Bris
coe, Rev. Jack Lumpkin, Rev.
Thomas Dunn and Rev. Miller
Bledsoe. Nearly all at that time
lived in Bowling Green district. The
entire building was completed in
one day. Many persons were pres
ent, both white and black. All the
ladies of the district graced the oc
casion, and such a dinner was never
served in old Oglethorpe. It was a
memorable day. Hay T. I.andrum
was the first teacher, and was con
sidered the best old field school
master in that part of Georgia. I
remember well the floor of the
school house was made with poplar
puuchens, there being no saw-mills
convenient. The house top was
made, as I said, of boards, the nails
being the only article purchased. A
collection was taken up and enough
subscribed to pay for the covering
of a half dozen such houses. I know
of but one contributor to the “old
log house” living, and he is that
respected old gentleman Mr. Whit
field Landrum, living within three
miles of the old academy.
“One of its First Pupils:
The Vloleat Vert ef • Walton Negro—BID
■etiaashejr Cuts Mu Wife’s Ttnat sad
WANTS OLD IRON.
is a clincher that cannot he
answered. But the citizens of
CLike county don’t propose to go
abroad lor either their information
01 advisers. We base our judg-
mrn. on home results, and expect to
be solely influenced by the words
of nu n that we know. We have
undoubted evidence that wherever
te-ieil in Georgia, prohibition has
ieduced crime and court expenses
t.v-i-thiii's. (he country is more
pr isperoiis and the people happier
and i euer satisfied. As an evi
dence that a suppression of the
l.quor 11 a flic docs not injure a sec-
In.n, we have but to refer to the
fid that nearly one hundred coun-
t.es in Georgia have voted out the
cui se, and not a single one receded.
We have tried whisky in Athens a
long time, and it can do no harm to
see what there is in prohibition. If
we liml that it really works an in
jury. in eighteen months another
election can be held and the tiaffic
u-tored. But tins will never be
done, for we feel that it will besuch
a blessing to the people that they
will eternally fix the brand of con
demnation on this business. It
will reduce our taxeF, enable us to
establish a good system of free
schools, and you will see many
cozy little corage go up in our city,
paid for with money that would
otherwise have gone into the tills of
the rum-seller. The colored people
alone of Athens pay over $50,000 a
year for whisky, and had this money
been kept at interest since the war
this race would to day be $2,000,000
belter off And what do they get
inicturn? A poisonous fluid, sold
to them at lour and five hundred
pet cent, profit by the retail dealer,
that makes them vagrants or con
victs. These are facts known to
all, and we defy either Mr. Lucas
or nio friend Jones, in Kansas, to
relute them.
A Jackson County Farmer Puts in a Did (or
Oar '.Calaboose.
Mr. Gantt—Dear Sir: I see that
you are going to carry prohibition
in ycur county, and I guess your
city fathers will sell the old cage in
your station house at auction,
would like to buy it, as I have some
blacksmith work to do, and I think
the old iron will suit for the pur
pose. Your town will have no
need for it after the 25th. I will
glory in the day that old Clarke
goes for prohibition. It will be the
grandest victory on record. Yours,
Jackson County Farmer.
The liquor-sellers of Athens say
they intend to keep quiet until two
days belore the election, when they
will turn loose like a cyclone. Yes,
and at sundown on the 25th that
cyclone will be hunting a hole to
crawl into.
The colored people of Athens
have drawn the lines on ballot-sell
ts, and such need neither look for
the support of the whites nor the
respect of their own race.
On Wednesday next the colored
voters of Clarke county will prove
to the world that money and free
whisky cannot control them in an
election.
No liquor advocate has or will be
threatened in Athens, but it is just
and fitting that a man who sells his
note should be ostracised by all
honest men.
Where the liquor men expect to
get their votes from is more than
we can sec. There are few so poor
in Athens as to do them reverence.
Let every prohibitionist in our
county get to work, and don’t relax
an effort until victory has perched
upon our banner.
Monroe, Ga., Feb. 17.—On last
Thursday this city was thrown into
fever or excitement by the an
nouncement on the streets that Bill
McGaughey, a well known, negro
of bad character, had cut his wife’s
throat from ear to ear. The story,
as it will be told by the next issue
of the Walton County News, is as
follows:
HOW IT WAS FIRST KNOWN.
About twelve o’clock in the day
Bill walked into Hayes & Gunter’s
bar, bought a quart of whisky and
drank the whole of it on the spot.
He had his neck tied up, and when
he had finished the whisky he stat
ed that his wife had cut his throat
and that he had to cut ber’s in self-
defense. He went to the drug
store for surgical aid. A crowd
followed him to see his wounds,
while others ran to the house occu
pied by his wife to see her. Dr.
Van’ Horn agreed to dress Bill’s
wounds, while Dr. Galloway has
tened to the woman. Bill’s throat
was cut on both sides in several
gashes, from one-half to three-quar
ters of an inch in depth. None of
the wounds were serious, and Dr.
Van Horn soon had them well
dressed. Strange to say, the quart
of whisky hadn’t produced drunk
enness, and he insisted on the doc
tors saving his wife, stating that he
had to cut her to prevent her from
killing him. Marshal Wayne and
Deputy Sheriff Nowell took him in
custody and placed him in jail,
where he now is.
Those who first entered the house
of his wife beheld a most ghastly
sight. They found her in the mid
dle of the room, stretched in a pool
of blood, with her dress up to her
waist and her throat terribly gash
ed. She was insensible and a
bloody razor was found by her side.
There was a terrible gash on the
right side of her head above the
ear, smoothly cut and her skull laid
bare. Her throat was cut from the
left ear to about the middle of the
right jawbone. Dr. Galloway, as
sisted by Drs-Van Horn and Dantz-
ler, sewed up the wounds, put on
the sticking plasters and soon had
them well dressed. She was able
to sit np by Friday and will recover
with proper attention.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
Mollie McGaughey, the wounded
wife, had rented a room in a tenant
house on a back street, northwest
of Sheiiff Ammons’ residence, from
C. G. Nowell. The house has two
rooms below and two in the garret.
Mollie occupied the north end of
the building. The stair case leads
from the south room below into the
north room above, and is about two
feet from a stack chimney which is
in the centre of the building. The
stair case is planked up, but about
eight feet frbm the floor, in the
room of the crime, there is a knot
hole through which enough evi
dence streamed to fasten the (hack
les, if not a rope, on the would-be
murderer. Mollie has a 13-year-old
daughter by a former husband.
She says, and so does Mary Jen
nings, the occupant of the other
room, that Bill threatened to kill
his wife the night before. About
o’clock on Thursday he came
home from town and seated him
self by the fire. Mattie, their
daughter, says he watched her
mother in a strange sort of way’, and
finally drove her (Mattie) out of
the room and fastened the door.
Her mother was hanging clothes to
the fire when she (Mattie) left the
room. Mattie says she hadn’t been
in the room long before she heard
a thud and a groan. She ran to
the knot hole and saw her mother
on the floor and Bill beating her.
She ran around to the keyhole to
try if she couldn’t see better. By
this time Bill had moved the body
in front of the fire. Mattie asked
him what was the matter with her
ma, and he answered, “She’s sick.”
The little girl became alrfrmed and
ran for help. When she returned
Bill was gone.
THE ACCEPTED THEORY.
The generally accepted theory is
that Bill knocked his wile down,
severely beat her and then cut her
throat; and thinking be had killed
her, cut his own throat for a subter
fuge. The grand jury is now >n
session, and a bill for assault with
intent to murder will be found.
WHISKTSWORK.
tbbStoi7if a infer erf the tong Past B«-
‘ I >:iii talij "I I I-h 1
Before the war, there resided near
the Helicon spring, in Clarke coun
ty, a man with a wife and a house
ful of children. He was employed
at a saw-mill, and while earning
good wages, spent all of his money
for liquor, and not only neglected
but shamefully abused his family.
His wife was a patient, hard-work
ing woman, who supported her
children by spinning ana weaving.
The neighbors were often called on
to protect her from the brutalities
of her husband, who, when in
drink, was a perfect demon
jy-lkfffUp WOMAN^ON^THB TRAIL OR
ON HIS TRACK.
SHE BAS FOLLOWED BIB THROUGH TEXAS
ADD MEXICO.
AMD BRINGS HIM TO BAY IB ATHENS.
SHOLTER’S ENDURANCE
b Fetches Him ttafely Thrngh a Night’s
Joining the Ranks.
Mr. R. W. Wilkerson says that
he has quit the whisky business
forever, and is now a full fledged
prohibitionist.
Yesterday, about noon, a Banner-
Watchman reporter spied a good-
looking, well-dressed, white wo
man, apparently aged about thirty
years, tall and slim built, in charge
of a policeman, and scenting a local
He from afar, followed at a respectful
has been been known to burn up distance, until brought up at the
the cards and thread by which his restaurant of Caroline Thomas, on
wife sought to earn a living, and Jackson street. Our reporter, with-
was guilty of other outrageous acts. I out waiting for an introduction, po-
He was the terror of the settlement, Htely asked the cause ot her peculiar
and his desperate character alone surroundings, stating that he was
protected him from rough usage. I connected with the press and would
One night a neighbor living about like to get any points that she
one mile distant was aroused by I might give him.
some one knocking at his door, and “I am a lady,” she remarked, “but
upon answering the same found a intend to stir up this town before
little boy, son of the drunkard, who night and will give you a h—1 of a
was crying as if his heart would sensation.”
break. The child stated that his The pencil-pusher remarked that
father had killed his mother with a he never heard of ladies indulging
pine-knot, and was then attacking i n such emphatic language, but beg
ins sisters. The settlement was at g e d that she would her tale unfold,
once aroused, and a body of men “Clear the room and I will tell
went to the cabin to investigate the you all," she replied,
matter. A most horrible sight This was done, when the follow-
greeted their eyes. In the middle mg confession was made:
of the room stood the father, his I “As I before stated, I am a lady,
hands and arms and clothing drip- but was basely betrayed by a man
ping with blood, while upon the I who is now hiding in your city,
bed lay the wife, every hair pulled and who formerly lived and did
from her scalp, her skull mashed to business here. He deserted me,
a jelly, while her feet and hands 1 but I am a Nemesis on his track
were checkered with knife cuts, and have trailed him all through
The faces of the two grown daugh- I Texas and Mexico, and back to
ters w.ere black with bruises, while (.Athens. I am now broken-hearted
the little children stood in the mid- and desperate, and intend to have
die of the floor weeping most pite- satisfaction before the sun sets this
ously for their mother. The murder- evening. The world is unjust to
er made no resistance and seem-1 me, my heart has been wrung by
ed hardened to the sights around this man, and I now intend to get
him. He was taken to Watkinsville j even. I am no bad woman, but
and lodged in jail, but managed to have been shamefully wronged,
escape before trial. An investiga- My betrayer shall be made to right
tion of the matter developed the me. I am neither a fool nor crazy,
most horrible murder in the history I but a wronged and desperate wo
of Clarke county. There was but man. I have some experience in
one room to the cabin and a single journalism myself, ihauing written
door to this, which the demon lock- for several leading newspapers, and
ed upon entering that night. Then, was once a correspondent for the
without any warming whatever, j Atlanta Constitution. I was in the
he assaulted |pis wife torturing her in Atlanta post-office at the time of
the most horrible manner. He first the Speer contest in this district,
tore out by the roots every hair and have heard of you often. I will
from her head, leaving only the not tell you anything more at
bloody scalp. He then threw the present.”
poor woman down and taking out Our reporter then learned from
his knife checkered her hands and other sources that the woman is a
feet to the bone. Next taking s Mrs. Garvie, whose husband sever-
lightwood knot , from the fire-1 al years ago resided in Athens but
place, he pounded the last spark of died in the lunatic asylum. The
life from the poor woman’s body, party that she claims betrayed her
after which he assaulted and beat his is a gentleman who once did busi-
daughters most shametully. To add ness in Athens but moved off some
to the horror of the crime, the chil-1 time ago. Mrs. Garvie is evidently
dren were made to stand by and see desperate, and is closely watched
their mother put to a cruel death, by the police force. She is in des
not being permitted to enter a word titute circumstances,
of protest or give an alarm. After | Later.—Last night the police
the murder the man removed the | found Mrs. Garvie under the influ-
bloody clothes from his wife’s body ence of liquor, and she was arrested
and replacing them with clean gar- and locked up in the calaboose,
meats, laid her upon the bed. All The gentleman she .is following is
at once it seemed to occur to him ' not now in the city but in another
that he would be held amenable; to | state.
the J* w * of his land, and catching A N OLD WOMAN’S REMEDY.
an old horse in the lot, started off; I
but after going some distance rec- ^ ciingman’s Tobacco^ Cure and Bererfey
ollected that he had left his coat be- | Tucker* Cancer Remedy,
hind and returned for it. It was yv pamptilet by Gen. T. L. Cling-
then that he was arrested. On be- ma n, of North Carolina, says the
ing carried to Athens, he tried to New York Tribune, has just been
play off crazy, but soon saw it j ssue d in which remarkable cures
wouldn’t work. After his escape are set down as the result of appli-
Irom jail, he waylaid and shot at cations of tobacco leaf. About
one of his daughters, who testified every disease under the sun is said
against him. He then disappeared to have yielded to its charm. Chat-
from the county, and nothing more ting with a Southerner yesterday
was ever heard of him. The chil he said:
dren grew up into good citizens, “Tobacco has been classed among
and several of them are now living t h e old woman’s {remedies ever
in an adjacent county and doing s j n ce I can remember. Why, from
well. On their account we with- boyhood I can remember its simple
hold the name, and only reproduce j applications in various forms. When
the story to show our readers the j got s tung by a bee, my father, who
extreme depths * to which whisky-j was an inveterate chewer, would
drinking will reduce a man. It not take a cud from his mouth and bind
only ruins them physically, socially | ;t on the wound. That was the end
and financially, but often makes hu
man devils.
BADLY DONE FOR.
A Coadaetor fta fttteea Yean I tally Stamp-
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
A PROLIFIC FAMILY.
THE BIBLE AND FREE WHISKY.
"Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink; that putteth the
Lottie to him and maketh him
drunken also, that thou mightest
look on their nakedness.”—Habak-
kuk chap. 2, 15th verse.
EXPOSITION.
‘'That giveth his neighbor drink.”
e g.. treats him to free whisky—
making no charge for drams.
“That puttelii the bottle to him”—
not only giving him a dram, but to
keep him well soaked; give it to
him by the bottleful, or flaskful, or
jugful, “and maketh him drunken.”
“That thou mayest look on their
nakedness”—that thou mayest see
kirn pull off and throw down in the
mud the clothing of principle, of
honor, of manhood, and when he is
ihus naked of true freedom and
manhood vote him to suit your
plans, or use him to carry your per
sonal ends. Use thy fellowmen
thus whiskied and bestialized as the
larmer uses manure to make his
hus.i.css better. Degrade thy fel
logmen below a sack of guano.
Woe unto him that doeth this, with
the Lord.
“God will bring every work into
judgment with every secret thing
whetherit be good or whether it bp
evil.”—Eccl. 12514.
Advertising Pap.
Dr. Lyndon says the Banner-
Watchman is one of the best adver
tising mediums he ever struck; that
he had a small card offering for
sale Millo Maize seed, and has been
receiving orders from all over this
section. Monday he got a letter
from San Antonio, Texas, ordering
a peck per express, the writer stat
ing that he saw the card in our pa
per. The Doctor has contracted
for two columns of space in our
weekly.
Pittston, Pa., Feb. 16.—A young
man named Cyrus Shatter started
to go from White Haven, in the
lower part of this county, toBlakes-
lee, ten miles distant, on foot. It
was late in.the afternoon, and the
thermometer stood at zero. The
Tobybanna creek, a large stream,
crosses the road, he took a mile
from Blakeslee, and there is no
bridge there. When Sholter reach
ed the creek it was dark. He found
the sides of the stream frozen fora
distance of ten feet, but the current
was so rapid in the middle that the
water had not frozen, leaving a
space of twenty feet wide, over
which there was no way to pass:
The house to which Sholter was
going was only three-quarters of a
mile ahead, but there was no house
nearer than seven miles on the side
of the creek where he was.
After lollowing up and down the
creek for some distance in hope of
finding a spot where he might cross,
and finding none as favorable to
him as the place at the road, Shol
ter resolved to wade the open space.
He sat down on the edge of the
ice and let his legs down in the
water, but when the watet was
above his knees and no bottom
reached, he was afraid that the
creek was too deep to wade, and
made up his mind to make bis way
through the woods to the turnpike
and cross on the bridge spanning
the creek at a point six miles dis
tant. His course lay over ground
thickly grown with underbrush and
briers. After a two hours’ strug
gle through these, in which he trav
eled but three miles, he came
to a large stream emptying
into the Tobyhanna, which
was also only partially faozen over,
and thoroughlare in that direction
was made impracticable. Sholter
then concluded to go back and find
a house that lay six miles down the
old road which he had left. He
was suffering greatly from the cold,
and although he was footsore and
almost exhausted after his difficult
tramp, he did not dare to stop and
rest, fearing that he would freeze.
He tramped for hours in the woods,
and at last discovered that he was
lost. He had wandered away from
the creek, and had lost his bearings.
He kept on, however, knowing that
a few miles in any direction would
necessarily fetch him out on a road
or clearing. His course must have
been a circuitous one, for it was five
o’clock in the morning when, barely
able to drag himself along, he came
out on the old road within twenty
rods of the spot where he had been
stopped by the Tobyhanna creek,
twelve hours before.
Feeling that he could not possibly
travel much further, and that even a
few minutes’ rest might be fatal to
him, Sholter determined to take
his chances in wading the swift cur-
ren#between the two shores of ice,
and plunged in. The water came
up to his neck when his leet touch
ed bottom. The current was so swift
that he was carried a roo feet down
the stream before he reached the
opposite side;. The. cold water
seemed warm to him, he said, and
he drew himself out of it reluctant
ly. When he reached the opposite
side of the stream he made all haste
possible for the house where he was
going, but he had not made one-
quarter of the distance when his
wet clothes were encased in an ar
mor of ice. When he finally found
himself safe at his destination it
was with the greatest difficulty that
he could make his way in hjs stif
fening garments. His ears, hands
and feet were badly frostbitten, but
the report from him yesterday was
that he would suffer no serious in
jury from this terrible night’s expe
rience.
AttanaloarnaL
When Conductor J. J. Ratnsom,
who pulls the bell-cord on passen
ger train No. 50 Air Line, came into
the depot yesterday .afternoon, he
wore a I-wish-I-was-at-home look,
and when questioned as to why this
woe-begoneness, he refused to tell
but soon took passage on a street
car for his home. The reporter
sniffed an item in the air and after a
diligent search ascertained that the
popular conductor had good rea
sons lor looking all broke up. He
has been a ticket puncher for the
past fifteen years, hut yesterday’s
trip was the first time he was ever
downed While his train was skim
ming quietly along over the steel
rails through the red hills of the
old Palmetto state at the rate of for
ty' miles an hour, and he was quiet
ly sitting in the smoking car living
over in memory the happy days
gone by, a gentleman touched him
on the shoulder and said:
“Conductor, is there a doctor on
the train?”
Don’t know sir. Some one got
the toothache? I can draw it with
my punch,” pleasantly replied Mr.
Ransom?
“Worse’n that, and there’s ding
little time to lose.”
“What—whatyer mean?”
“There’s goin’ to be an increase of
passengers, and your train won’t
have ter stop to get ’em either.”
“Great Jerusalem!”
“Here, conductor, see if there’s a
doctor in this car.”
And the aforesaid individual rose
up and shouted:
“I say, is there a pill-peddler in
this car?”
“I am a physician, sir,” replied a
pleasant-faced gentleman who oc
cupied a seat just in front of him.
Can I be of any service to any
one?”
“The Lord is with us,” murmured
the conductor. “My friend, for
God’s sake go into the other car and
to that lady. It is strictly business.
The Air-Line will see you through.’
The man of medicine made for
the ladies’ coach, followed by the
conductor, and upon reaching it,
the doctor told him to clear the
coach of all its passengers, save the
lady. This was done; just how is
not known. A11 went out except
three or four old married men, who
sat in one end of of the car, near
the stove. Two young girls didn’t
want to go, but they were told tha
the car was dangerous, having two
broken springs. They vacated in-
stanter.
SEDUCTION AND DEATH.
of the pain. If my eyes got sore
they were bound up at night in the
same poultice, ana when I got a
black eye in a fight one day, I got
the tobacco as well as a licking
when I got home.”
Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, said
RAPID GROWTH OF A CENT.
Much Killian.
News was received in Raleigh,
N. C„ last Saturday, of two san-
guinary affairs in Randolpli county.
Two women quarrelled and fought,
and one killed the other with a
shovel. A tobacco {peddler who
was driving along the road was con-
fronted by two negroes who de
manded his money or his life. He
replied with • pistol shot, which
brought down one of the negroes,
when the other fled, but the ped
dler sprang from the wagon and
shot the fleeing darkey before he
had gone far. Both negroes were
killed.
Which Goca to Show That Georgia; Beats the
.World on Children.
Nashville, Ga., Feb. 17.—Speak
ing of prolific families, your corres-
J ondent had three great aunts in
ackson county, Ga., whose joint
children were sixty, and they each
lived to see the youngest child of
age. One of these children, Virgil
A. Stewart, was the capturer ol the
great western land pirate, John A.
Murrell. The eldest of these three
sisters had twenty-three children
by three husbands, Giddens, Stew
art and Howard. She first married
Giddens, and lost him, and married
Stewart. He sold out in Jackson
county and moved to Alabama. On
reaching that state he died without
unloading his wagons. His widow
turned about and took up the trail
through the Cherokee nation. In
the heart of the nation the only help
she had—a negro man—died. The
widow again took the trail for Geor
gia, driving the four-horse team her
self, and reached her own home in
safety, after which she married
Howard, by she had twenty chil
dren.
Two oa a SM*.
Mr. W. H. Morton, one of our
prosperous farmers, sent us in a
sample ot eggs laid by a hen in his
employ, with the following note ac
companying the same:
“Mr. Gantt: I have a hen that
lays two eggs at a time. Enclosed
you will find a sample. Respect
fully W.Morton.”
•The sample sent us is very di
minutive in aize. In f«t, they are
the smallest specimens of eggs we
ever saw before- Mr. Morton should
advertise tbia breed of chickens, for
thev are bound to revolutionize the
market. They *1(1 brin ?,
prices than the chickens sold to H.
W Gradv, of the Constitution, by
the late G. W. Barber, that ate only
six months in the year,
A Social Sensation That Is Agitating Knox
Title, Tens.
Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 16.—A | yesterday on the same topic:
domestic sensation has been made “It is remarkable what tobacco
public near this city that exceeds will do, when applied .as Gen.
anything that has ever occurred in Clingman directs. Why it will
this section. Miss Lucy Johnston, even take out a corn. Mills, of
aged eighteen and daughter of a Texas, and John Hancock both
prominent farmer, was seduced tried it a short time ago for corns,
several months ago by a young rati-1 and after two nights’ applications
road man, who is well-known they were able to pick the corns out
throughout East Tennessee. Miss | with their fingers. Bunions, too,
Johnston died of a broken heart a those eternal afflictions, are remov
few days ago, after the birth of her | ed by it. Gen. Clingman is remark'
child, who survived only a few ably well posted on its merits, and
days. Her mother is not expected his little pamphlet will prove a val
to live on account of the matter, and uable thing to the public.”,
her father has become a raving ma- The talk, turning on Gen. Grant’s
niac. The young man, Bowering recent malady, Mr. Tucker said:
by neme, fled the country. Intense “Now, if it was cancer and exter
excitement prevails in the neighbor- nal, we have a dead sure cure for it
hood, and Bowering would have in Virginia—redwood bark. They
been banged had he not escaped. | pound it fine and make a paste'of
Trro Successful Colored Ken. *. which is applied like a poultice
It beats anything ever heard of.
Mr. A. S. Dorsey brought in the
city Saturday a large moccasin,
that he found while cleaning out
one of hiaditches.
■in Lala Sick.
Mist Lula Hurst, the Cedartown
prodigy, sinCe her exhibition in
Atlanta, which was a marked suc
cess, has been quite ill, and was
forced to cancel her engagement at
Griffin, the second engagement ever
canceled by her, as stated by her
manager, Mr; Paul Atkinson.
A Washington special states that In lact , it’s like the story Ned
of all the men of color who have en- Burns used to te n of a fellow who
tered politics, ex-Senator Bruce and 1 was a fo ou t to be tried for a criminal
ex-Representative Lynch have the oflense at Richmond. He sat
most to show in the.way of substan- the back part of the room
tial returns and honors conferred under bail. He had hired a
by their party for the services they j scrub 0 j a lawyer to keep him post-
have performed. Both are in more e d as to what was going on. Pres-
than comfortable ^ circumstances, e „tly the prosecuting attorney got
and both reside in Washington, lor | u _ and moved a nolle prosequi. The
Brough they are property holders in lawyer went back to his client and
Mississippi, they probably neither I ^ys: ‘He’s moved a nolle f rosequi.’
will ever return to that state to re- *\yhat’s that? 1 asked the accused
side again. Lynch has but recently man . ‘I can ’t explain fully,’ said
taken up his residence in the Fed- the lawyer, ‘but it just scrapes hell,’
erml Capital, but it is understood he And with that the lellow jumped
has come tostay.His wife, whom the court room straddled a horse
he married last fall, has determined and fled the town . Whon he got
hia future for him in this regard. to Philadelphia he paid another
She » a woman of education, and Uwerfsto tell him what a nolle
brought him some small means. I prosequi was. Well, redwood
Bruce, who is netnng the end of b ark for cancer and tobacco as a
a long period of public service,finds genera i remedy are like that nolle
himself out of health, and called prosequi “
upon to look out physicaUy for the 1 K n
future. Up to last fall, a man ot
Mr. A. G. Holmes is dead.
Norcross will hold a prohibition
election.
Some thief stole a mule at Su
wannee.
Several attempts have been made
to break jail at LawrenccviUe.
A cent seems of little value, re
marks an exchange, but if it is only
.doubled a few times, it grows to be
a marvelous sum. A young lady in
Portland caught her father in a
very rash promise by a knowledge
of this fact on her part.
She modestly proposed that if
her father would give her only one
cent on one day, and double the
amount on each successive day for
just one month, she would pledge
herself never to ask of him another
cent as long as she lived. Pater
familias, not stopping to run over
the figures in his head, and not
supposing it would amount to
much, was glad to accept the offer
at once, thinking it also a favorable
opportunity to include a possible
marriage dowry in the future. On
the twenty-fifth day lie became
greatly alarmed, lest if he complied
with his own acceptance, he might
le obliged to be declared a bankrupt
on his own petition.
But on the thirtieth day the
young girl demanded only the pret
ty little sum of $5,308,709.12! The
astonished merchant was only too
happy to cancel the claim by ad
vancing a handsome cash payment
for his folly in allowing himself to
give a bond—for his word he con
sidered as good as his bond—with
out noticing the consideration
therein expressed, and by promising
to return to the old custom ot ad
vancing smaller sums daily until
otherwise ordered.
Out arithmetical reporter has
been “figuring on it,” and says that
if the old gentleman had fulfilled
his promise, the daughter would
have had, upon the receipt of the
thirtieth payment, the snug little
sum of $10430,617.43.
When the train reached the next
station, Mr. Ranson sent a tele
gram:
“Agent, Seneca City: Meet me
with a physician, carriage, good
nurse and a baby rattler. The Air
Line still ahead.” “Ransom.”
When the train pulled up at that
place, Dr. O. N. Doyle took charge
of her ten pound daughter, who
were delivered over to them by the
conductor and Dr. J.McWilson.
While the excitement in the coach
was at its highest one
the old married men who
remained in the coach
by the stove fainted. One of his
companions called for the doctor to
come to him.
“I’ve got my hands full now,” re
plied the doctor.
“Stand him on his. head,” said
Major Harris, who was asked by
the conductor to take care of the
fainty man.
A stiff drink of rye brought him
around all right, and to “Surgeon”
Harris he gave his name as C. O,
Nesbit, of Charlotte, who was one
of a party ot forty going from Char
lotte to the Exposition.
The train rolled into the union
passenger depot on schedule time
with about one hundred and fifty
passengers. The clever conductor
was the worst hacked man in the
.crowd. Mr. Chears says the Air
Line is still ahead, and to-day he
mailed little Miss a handsome
valentine.
A passenger said to the reporter
that too much praise could not be
given to Conductor Ransom, Dr.
McWilson and “Surgeon” Harris.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
portly and hearty presence, he is
Aa Ages Lady Gone.
Mrs. Bishop, the widow of Mr.
now described so low in flesh that Thomas Bishop, so well known to
his clothes, all too wide, are baggy ‘he older citizens as a representa-
__ r u. a-»; l tiv* man m tmr commnnitv in thft
on his frame. He is essdy fatigued tiv « m * n » community in the
and is obliged to go very slowly years gone by, died at the residence
through the piles of blank notes of Mrs. E. P. Bishop in this city on
that are presented for his signature. Saturday night last and was buried
Columbus, Ohio, February 15.—
Announcements were made in all
parts of the Hocking valley to-day
that the commissary had given out,
that aid was no longer coming in,
and advising the men to get work.
This ends the strike which started
last April.
The symptoms suggest Bright’s fro® , the Presbyterian church on
j:...*. a . ferasin nc Visa «• -.a I Tucstlav monu0£r. Dr. Lane ofKcia-
disease. As soon as be is relieved Tuesday morning, Dr.
: with his tln ff* Mrs. Bishop had been an in
from oflice he will start , _ , - „
family for lnterlachen, Switzerland, ™ lld for years, confined to her
■ *' 2- t £ I 1 / I ItAiw* nnt nnrt* her mAarinne with
where once before he enjoyed great home > , but h er sufferings with
benefits from the climate. His | Christian patience and fortitude.
family consists of bismctorooii wife \ «®d w*^ ready jwhen the message
’ ” ^on‘ “ *
and a son, named Roscoe
ling. .
Louisville, Ga., Feb. 17.—Miss j relatives.
k . [ came. We tender our sympathy
and condolence to the bereaved
family and mourning friends and
S. E. Ivey, the slayer of J. C: Me- . i„^’ v; . v .
ti.a fn.ftiv in' itith*— I A levee contractor HCBT VlCkS-
Cauley, has to-day, in justice court, I. A ,' or ?■*!• j
been'^ried aSd Savictedot
daughter.
and shot six of them, killing three
9f the number.
DANIELSV1LLE DOINGS-
Mr. Tom Bruce was married on
Sunday morning' to Miss Luc\
Powell.
Dave Meadow says that Madison
is for prophibition; that the best
people in the world live there, and
they can outpray and outfight any
other people in the world.'
The town council of Danielsville
has passed an ordinance forbidding
cursiRg on the streets.
The police ot Danielsville now
wear blue clothes, brass buttons
and stripes down the legs of their
breeches, like Other policemen in
larger towns.
They Both Come to Baltimore to Kerry the
Some Han.
A case where mother and daugh
ter are enfatuated with the same
man came to a sudden end at the
Toombs yesterday by the man be
ing locked up on tne daughter’s
complaint. The prisoner is Neptune
E. Bowder, a book canvasser, 56
years old, and living at No. 40 Va-
rick street. The daughter, Mary E.
Latrelle, twenty years old, lives at
No. 151* Franklin street. She told
justice Ford that she met Neptune
when he called at her mother’s
boarding house in Baltimore in 18S0.
He soon became one uf the inmates
of the hoarding house. Without
the mother knowing it he made
love to the daughter. Without the
daughter knowing it he made love
to the mother. When six months
passed by,.Neptune came to New
York, leaving behind a note urgiig
the daughte to come on to this city.
The daughter made her prepara
tions, but the mother found the let
ter, and thinking it was meant for
her, also began to make prepara
tions, and the same train bore both
to this city. The meeting at the
depot was more interesting than
pleasant, but peace was restored by
the agreement that the mother
should act as housekeeper for her
daughter and the book agent This
condition of affairs existed for near
ly three years. It was alleged that
the' daughter was finally' driven
from home. She made a complaint
to Herman Stiefel, the Corporation
Attorney, and Neptune Was arrest
ed. Messrs. Blake & Kneass, his
conasel, had the case adjourned un
til Friday next The mother of the
complainant sought long and anx
iously for a bondsman, but was un
successful, and gave a deep-drawn
sigh as she was led into a cell.
8easatiaeal Qopaaemt.
Chattanooga, Feb. 16.—A
prominent resident of this city, who
owns considerable property, desert
ed his wife and eloped with his ser
vant girl a few days ago. It is sup
posed that the conple went to
KnoxviUe, but detectives in search , , - .
of them have not yet been able to 1 J ar S_e_ c “““K h carry it,
discover their whereabouts. The
event has caused great sensation in
upper society circles tn this city.
The Exposition is on a boom novtr.
There will be no extra session of
congress.
Mr. Cleveland will See no more
callers.
Sixteen men were lulled in Utah
by a snow slide.
Frances Drexel, the great New
York hanker, is dead.
John Kelly is seriously ill and has
gone to Rockvaway beach.
Eufaula, Ala., has been- visited by
150,000 fire.
The bail of Miss Dudley has been
fixed at $3,000.
Eight cases of dynamite have
been stolen in New York.
The carpet-weavers at Lowell,
Mass., havefgone back to work.
One negro train wrecker in Tex
as was killed and another wounded.
The carpenters at Washington
have struck against the govern
ment.
There were fresh earthquake
shocks in Spain, but no damage
done.
Two robbers went through a pas
senger coach near Harwood, Texas,
and got $300.
The mudir-is now convinced that
Khartoum has fallen and that Gor
don is dead.
The trains 011 the E. T., Va. &
Ga. road collided near Chattanooga
and hurt an engineer seriously.
An explosion occured at Gibral
tar, in which three men were injur
ed and some damage done the
works.
_ A young woman in Pennsylva
nia tried to poison her rival.
Twelve passengers were injured
by a derailed train in Indiana.
A Troy, N. Y., man hanged him
self with his children’s swing.
The town of Alta, Utah, was
buried by a snow slide and 28 per
sons perished.
There was a big row in a colored
church in Ohio, during which the
mourner’s bench was upset.
A bill has been introduced in the
Minnesota legislature requiring li
quor drinkers to take out a $5 li
cense.
On opening the grave of a young
lady at Wheeling, W. Va., it was
found that she had come to life
her coffin.
While Lula Hurst was perform
ing in Atlanta, Miss Graves, a sis
ter of Rev. Z. B. Graves, went rav
ing mad and had to be removed
from the opera house.
A mob of unemployed working
men took possession of the streets
of London. They attacked the
consultation room of the cabinet
and demanded work. They first
repulsed and were then overpower-
ed by the police.
Dickson, Tenn., Feb. 15.—Bill
Beard, living near this place, becom
ing enraged at his four-year-old
stepson, pulled his hair out by the
roots, gouged out his eyes, threw
them away, gnawed his ears off and
then threw the bleeding trunk into
the fire, which was burned to a
crisp. After seriously beating the
wife and father-in-law the inhuman
fiend was finally arrested and lodged
in jail.
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 15.—A
horrible story is told of a colored
undertaker in this city. Last
Thursday he buried the child of a
respectable colored woman residing
on Alabama street, and because the
mother was unable to pay at once
$2 due him, he dug up, the body,
took it out of the coffin, returned it
to the house and. laid it on a board,
and told the frantic mother that
when the $2 were paid, he would
again bury her child. The neigh
bors arose with indignation, and the
white people in the locality at once
subscribed sufficient money to have
the remains decently reburied.
Measles are raging among the
Hall county jail birds.
Wages are being reduced in the
Dover, N. H., mills.
Dynamiters threaten to blow up
the palace in Switzerland.
The husband ot Kate Southern
has been arrested for moonsbining.
A revenue officer is persecuting
innocent citizens around Marietta,
Ga.
A maiden lady in Cincinnati shot
herself because her eyesight was
failing.
Married, Mr. Usher Thomason, of
Madison, and Miss Flora Fowler, of
Covington.
A man was found frozen to death
m Virginia with a bottle of whisky
in his pocket.
In New Haven, a man was found
with his throat cut after being eject
ed from a bar-room.
Three persons at Cleveland, O.,
were run down by an engine and
horribly mangled.
Gordon county has probably
gone wet by a majority of too. All
the returns are not yet in. A con
test is probable.
Johnston, S. C., Feb: 17.—E.
W. Turner shot and ' mortally
wounded his brother-in-law yester
day. Both were well-to-do farmers.
Cleveland will leave for Washing
ton on the morning of March 3rd,
and will reach there on the evening
of the same date.
GEORGIA NEWiSV 1
’ T T A *■ - • -Mill
_ .
Thieves entered a dwelling in .
iltmdered the beds
LUCKCUWlHg., ~ Ad fi 'A
The Sandersville Herald think*
Sffi&BBB&f*!?
Joe Brown’s confidential letters.
4|Dr. Gaulding, ot Carrollton, gi res
it as his opinion that hydrophobia
is not transmissible,' except! Lom
dogs;
::A man near Gainesville made a
profit of a little over $200 fiom one _
hundred common hens thib past
year.
Co). Wilson, who was sent to .
Khartoum in a boat to rescue Gen.
Gordon, is a brother of Dr. Wilson,
of Cuthbert:
There is an engine on the Wes
tern and Atlantic railroad that has .
a whistle which sounds like a human
voice in distress.
Vaccination has been general in
Thomson, and the small-pox is not
spreading. Those who are sick
have the disease in a mild form.
Judge George N. Lester, now of
Cumming, is being urged tor the
appointment of United States At
torney for the Northern district of
Georgia.
A case of accidental poisoning
occurred near Concord the other
day—two small negroes eating some
“Rough on Rats,” which killed,
them in a few hours.
The town council of Cochran, at
their regular meeting, which occur
red on Tuesday night, put the li
quor license at the same figure that
it was the past year, $100.
F. Pence is now perfecting his
arrangements for starting a whisky
distillery at Rome. He is going to
raise $5,000 for the purpose, and
has $3,000 already subscribed.
A negro mother on Brad Hill’s
place, while washing the face of
her little child, so enraged the little
fellow that he died from the effect
of holding his breath too long.—
Elberton Leader.
William Jones, ol Hall county, is
92 years of age. His hair has been
pertectly white, but seven or eight
years since it began to change, and
now it is perfectly black and luxu
riant, while his beard is still white.
He was in the war of 1812, and
served four years in the late un
pleasantness.
A few days ago while Mrs. W.
A. Sinqueneld was driving out
with one of her little children the
animal became frightened and ran
away, and while the occupants of
the buggy were not thrown out,
Mrs. Sinquefield began to have con
vulsions and could nevet be brought
to consciousness, death ensuing in
a short time.—Wrightsville Re
corder.
GENERAL NEWS.
General Grant has not smoked a
cigar since Nov. 20.
The wheat crop of America has
doubled during the past ten years.
A church at Hamilton, Ohio, has
been converted into a skating rink.
At Dundee, Mich., a Miss Sun
derland attempted suicide because
her father declined to let her go to
the skating rink.
A letter from Florida says the
moss crop'sells for more than the
cotton crop, and is less expensive to
market. It abounds in every coun
ty in the state.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature to make it a
finable offense to send flowers or
tokens of sympathy to a convicted '
murderer or felon in prison.
•Gen. Grant,” says Mr. Childs,
is no doubt a very sick man. He
does not complain, 'and hears his
sufferings with the bravery and
courage for which he is noted, but
for all that he suffers a great deal.”
It has been discovered in Eng
land that Mrs. Dudley, who shot
O’Donovan Rossa, is an illegimate
daughter of a man now living in
New Zealand, and that she went
under several aliases while nursing
in different English hospitals.
A London astrologer predicts a
f rave catastrophe in London in
'ebruary, and another one between
the 16th and 22d of March. He
says there will be earthquakes in
April, and that the Empire of Ger
many will not survive the year.
Immediately after the perform
ance of Arcadia, at the National
theatre, Washington, Mile. Rhea,
escorted by Senator Wade Hamp
ton, attended a diplomatic reception
at the White House. She wore
the famous costume of the Queen of
Holland.
Saginaw, Mich., has a cow
which sports 60 well developed
horns. The animal recently gave
birth to a calf which promises to be
quite as much of a curiosity, the
little animal’s backbone showing
indications of turning out fully as
many horns as the mother possess-
A young man in Pennsylvania
was killed by an elevator in a hotel.
Buned to Death.
Mrs. Holly Bloodworth, and an
inmate of the Pauper’s Home, was
Mr.
A 450 Pound Corpse.
Honesdale, Pa., Feb. n.—John
Dolan, an employee of the Erie
railway, died uvr Susquehanna the
other day. He weighed 450 pounds,
and bad been ill a long time. There
was not a coffin to be had in New
York city large enough to receive
the remains. One was made to
order in Burlington. It had to he
taken into the house through a
double window, and removed in
the same way. No hearse being
large enough to carry it, it was
drawn to the cemetery on a sled.
The corpse had to be let into the
grave hy means of a windlass, man
aged by four men.
burned to death last Tuesday.
Ivie, the steward, had fires built in
all the rodms of the house early in
the morning, and about half after
six o’clock started one of hts em
ployes to the bailding to see that all
were up comfortable, and ready for
breakfast.
An instant afterwards he heard
one of the inmates scream; hasten
ing to the house he found Mrs
Bloodworth sitting on the floor of
her* room, deluged in water, and
her clothing burned in front from
her waist up. Mr. T- J. Keese, a
blind inmate, bad extinguished the
fire with a bucket of water before
Mr. Ivie arrived. On rising from
the bed she went to tho fire to put
on her clothing, which caught on
fire while she was dressing. It is
supposed that her death was caus
ed by internal injuries .from draw,
ing the flames in with the breath,
as the external injuries were hardly
sufficient to have caused death.
Dr. J, R. Tucker, was. sent for at
once and he and Mr. Ivie and his
wife did all that could be done for
the relief and comfort of the unfor
tunate woman who died at 4 o’clock
iin the evening. She made nOcom-
E t and appeared to suffer very'
if any pain. We have in-
quired very carefully into the cir
eumstance and it seems that. r no
blame is attached to. any one. It
was simply an unfortunate accident
such as might occur many home.—
Camesvilie Register. .W
Knoxville, Tens, Feb. 16.—A
special to the Chronicle from Frank
lin, Macon county, North Carolina,
gives the details of a horrible acci
dent in that isolated village, by
which two children met their death.
Mrs. B. Young went away from
home to call on one of the neigh
bors, and left her two little children,
aged one and twb years, playing
before the fire. Their clothing be
came ignited, and they were literal
ly roasted to death. - When Mrs.
Young returned she jEotind the char
red remains of the. (wo babes, and
is almost crazed wjth grief.'
WEDDED TO AjAlL BIRD.
Newark, N.J., Feb. 10.—Last
July Charles Klett was placed in jail
here under a sentence of sixty days
and a fine of $500 for stealing chick
ens. In the jail at the same time '
was Jacob Houck, an old insane
resident of Burlington Township.
Houck had a daughter, named An
na, nineteen years old, weighing al
most 200 pounds and about 4} feet,
in height. Houck was 1 released
fromjailina short time and going
hoipe related to his daughter Anna
what a nice young fellow Klett was.
The girl became interested in him
and wrote to him. Her letter was
answered and the correspondence
was continued. 1.
She was anxiqus to know what
brought him there. He . answered
that with some companions on a
spree he had drawn cuts to iee who
would secure a chicken to reast and
it fell to hi* loj, which got him in j
jail. Jan. 31 Klett was discharged.. -J
Miss Houck never srtw him until
yesterday, When they met ahd pro- J
ceeded .to Burlington township
where,the qqyrtship so strangely
begun was consummated, Jbv mar-
riage. Miss Houck inherTfea about
$40,000 wdrth of property from he'/
mother. She owns a fine' farm, on
which she andthef.huSbahd will live. -
Very little is Ifuiown here. of. Klett,
except that he never did nny^work, i
I
CiTvoFMEXiBoj via Galveston,
Feb. 14.—LaPatria this), morning
pouches for the truth .of* ’
enon of.. a, woman this c
birth to seven children in
All died,’bbt the rnothWr"