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THE GREAT.VICTORYJOFjWEONESDAY.
Tin- Edit° r of the Banner-Watcli-
, (|| |, as loaned his influence to
,uj CVl . many political victories in
• e0 ,,. a. l>ut of none has he felt a
iier pride than the prohibition
'■| ]U ,„|,|i in <mr city and county. It
■ . p.-t-n the boast of this paper that
j t v |, \ or defeated in a cause it
.,e.ti.-ed. but many of our friends.
m j t-n the press of the state, pre-
r ctl . ( l that when we attempted to
rule out » hi'ky in so large a city as
v ,ibat we would meet with a
., ../mo iieteat. At times the sky
, | .||,ii-e«l -tern overcast, but not
. 0 , u . iu-unt did we entertain the
•,',.i -a'.m overthrow. We knew
, . . ... oi men who were work-
. Hiuidtr to shoulder with us.
I linTO is no such word in their
.\ as fail. It is to these
. it-, iiiat ail praise should be giv-
U tide tlie press of our city
ids ol cheer and cndorsc-
I til tile gre.1t movement, they
uive availed nothing if not
• cl.ii! 1 >s the cool heads and hard
... lithe central committee. The
1: n r Watchman is the only daily
• in lirorgia, if not the South,
. ,u came out deciiledty in favor of
tii.ti. and without intending
,... ,111, vv e trust that the flattering
..,}, i -nuent giv en us l»y the intelli-
t and representative citizens ol
. . inutv will encomage other
,:’i.ds to fall into line. It
...■’lie to estimate llte grand re-
. tlm election of yesterday. Ii
Vl not only pmify Athens politi-
. ,. Imi give the prohibition
movement in Georgia a boom that
will result m a complete annihila-
iif ills- l ijii"t Itallic in Georgia
y„n wi.l -ii- mil little city take on
pn.'.ieiiiy and rapidly reap
itie I ciielii - ot I lie great moral tri
ll. Wi.iie and bank, rich and
■ ii. w , .1 lie led the results ot a
i. viv-n.iiu prosperity. To that noble
■ c lurid ol coloied prohibitionists,
•si. i re:..~111 to sill their votes to
pn , i . r men, but worked tor the
a. • s.ni«e w i boat pay or hope
i, v .-d. loo much praise cannot
v u. . Heir mimes will long
■ _ nil i n.e hearts of the good
ol .'v.liens, ami we will point
i. w Hi honest pride and grat-
■ i.•.t i. me vv ho were tested in the
.'iii.lu- it conuption and came
i mi tin in nled. The victory in
.. vi.. means far more than it
w-s up...i the surface. It carries
•v . i.e i indication of the liquor
a ll . ri 1 ..leit, Oglethorpe, Oco
nee and .Madison, to be followed by
tin- great whisky centres of our
-lute, i lie prohibitionists in these
c mill ties vv ill see what can be ac-
c. i'.'hot by s united effort, and
u.ey will not he slow to tall into
nc Ii a place the size of Athens
. koI upon by ihc liquor dealcis
ii. tr pivot upon which their traffic
;:.c si.de turns—can overpower
: mangle the monster, in spite ot
ii. v his! that our county was deluged
"air tun upturn money and lice
vv n.-gy, those sections that will not
i ll!-utu opposition should have a
v mp.iiat.ic easy victory. It seems
yi-inuav that the Tales conspired
tu ilcteat pinhibiiioR in our county.
1-vin the elements seemed arrayed
>n the side ol the liquor dealers,
•uni nu stone was left unturned by
ham to tarry tlie day. They had a
i-ugc hulk ol the negroes tied t°
h.nn, and they knew that they could
: t- rcluu upon in defiance of the
ism and cold. But the prohibition
's^ were undeterred, ieeling that
liny Bail God and right on their
side. As the liquor men would
mail'll up lo the polls their solid
Back phalanx, that refused to listen
tu reason or argument, it seemed
ili-couraging; but the prohibitionists
aevti lur an instant lost hope. Not
an ell'ort was relaxed until the polls
»ere closed, when a multitude stood
hy and breathlessly awaited the
verdict. Upon an announcement
: vicinity, such a shout ascended
hum the exultant Prohibitionists as
ha' not been heard in Athens since
die redemption of our county from
•epubhean rule.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 3,
ipr n - V ••tin* --f.ilt.'j rr * Ti
1885.
VOL XXXI
[Letter in Boston Journal,]
In the immediate Ticinlty of the hertue
occupied by Senator Halo It the tokens
block Id which once lived James G. Btainft,
Sen. Sherman, Benator West, of Louisiana;
Sen. VanViiet, of the army, and Fernando
U ood. Thu in its time was one of tha most
ootod blocks in Washington. West, who is
, now on ® district commissioners, alone
occupies his house. Gen. Sherman has
naoved to 8t. Louis and his houso is rented.
Van Vliet is on the retired list and bis house
Is rented. Mr. Blaine sold his house for less
than he gave for it (he having purchased it
when real estate in that locality was at its
to a broker, William H. Travers,
of hew York, whose daughter and son*in-
law, Representative Wadsworth, of New
York, now occupy itduring the winters. The
Fernando Wood house and the one adjacent
to it are occupied by the famous John
Chamberlain as a restaurant. Immediately
acrom the street to the west, towards tbs
Arlington, is the famous Gov. Morgan
house. This was occupied by Gov. Morgan
when he waa in the senate, and subsequently
was the residence of Hamilton Fish during
his entire administration of the stats de
partment. This house was the center of so
ciety during the Grant regime. Mr. Fish Is
said to have never expended less than $30,000
a year in social entertainments. The costly
example which he has set has been a social
burden upon soms of his leas wealthy suocee-
• or *- Mr. Kvarts followed him so far as to
pay almost the entire salary os secretary of
state, $8,000, for the furnished house owned
by Mr. Hutchinson, of the Aluska Fur
Seal company, in the same locality. Mr.
Evarts is said to still boast that of his entire
salary as secretary of state there was exactly
$1,000 which he did not expend for house
rent. On I street, to the north of the Cham
berlain bouse, is the house which Chief Jus
tice Waite has rscently bought and the
much larger houss of Mr. William E. Chan
dler. Mr. Waite preferred to live nearer
town, and gave up a house in which he had
established himself some years ago nearer
to the famous West End. Near to Mr.
W aite’s is a large double house owned by
Mr. Foster, our minister to Russia, acd oo
cupied by his intimate personal friend, who
doubtb«s secured his place in the cabinet
through Mr. Foster, Postmaster General
Gresham. Adjoining this house is a row of
wooden tenements occupied by negroes.
The Theatres of Italy.
(Florence Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle.]
The Italian theatres ore the finest in tbs
world. They are not so richly decorated aft
ours, they are not so luxurious, but they are
far more roomy, more commodious, better
ventilated and less liable to catch fire. Thoy
appear to be modelled alter or rather de
veloped from the Roman amphitheatre. The
form is oval, not horse-shoe shaped, like
ours. The oval form enables the stage to be
seen from every seat, which is not the case
with the horseshoe. The floor of the par
quet is the solid earth itself, covered with
garden gravel. This forms an excellent re
ceptacle for cigar stumps, orange rinds and
the other debris of enthusiastic audiences,
aud it may be easily removed with
a rake. Tne structure is usually of
brick, with a minimum of woodwork.
A fire is next to impossible, and if one
does occur the parquet, in which the seats
are wide apart, and whero the aisles and
cross-passages are wide nil numerous, is an
excellent refuge while the audience is filing
out of the house. The roof is ten feet above
the top of the walls, the intervening space
being left open for ventilation. Oue ot the
consequences of these arrangements is thut
there u no close or musty smell about the
house. 1 am now describing tho Arena Na
tional of Florence, but the other theatres
are much of the same type. The iplay was
an Italian version of the “ Fuigomuster”
(Ijb Maitre des Forges), a play Wwich 1 had
seen in London, Paris and elsewhere. The
acting was very good. The price of admis
sion to the parquet, without seat, was 20
cents; with seat, 00 cents. For the same
performance and accommodation I paid in
New York, $2; London, $1.2T>; Paris, $1,
it that actors are scarcer or money more
plentiful in -hi;:~ places!
THE PRIZE RINQ.
A Slugging Hatch at the Rock JQuarry.
it is seldom that a slugging match
takes place in our city, although
there are several who pride them
selves on being number one shoul
der hitters. Monday night the po
lice got wind of a match to take
place at the rock quarry, near the
lower factory. Policeman Pierson
and Saye were detailed to capture
the sluggers, and accordingly went
down and after concealing them
selves awaited the coming of the
parties. Promptly ac eight o’clock
about forty or fitty of the factory
boys appeared, and Dootson and
Emerick stripped for the fray. The
judges and umpire were chosen,
and everything looked like the best
man would win. Dootson stripped
finely and showed that his trainer
had done everything to put him in
first-class trim for the fight Emer-
ck was the largest of the two, and
the betting was two to one in his
favor, if it came to a long fight.
Dootson shied his hat in the ring
anil leaped after it as nimble as a
deer. Emerick quickly followed.
It was agreed to let the Marquis of
Qiieensbury's rules govern the
fight, provided the police did not
appear; then the man who could
get away was the best. They squar
ed off and Dootson commenced
putting in some sound licks, which
soon began to tell on his opponent.
The first round was fought in two
minutes, and it promised to be long
and a bloody one;! but some tilings
have a sudden ending, so did this.
The police appeared on the scene
before the second round was called
and arrested the sluggers, and
brought them to the station house,
when they gave bond. The fight
was brought about by some insult
given at the bridge, and they agreed
•o fight it out according to the rules
of the prize ring. The Mayoi will
probably give the boys a light fine
for their little amusement, The po
lice think that if they had not stop
ped the fight there would have been
a general row before it was over.
•NEVADA’S SINGING SAND HILL.
A SCANDAL IN ATLANTA,
si Tin nth Titnta.
AiUnta is just now in a fever of
n ii-iist over a sensational article in
: •>■ L memnati Enquirer, ailing a
v 'ial scandal, which was suppress-
t,; iy the local papers here almost
a i-iuhtn ago. The parties at whom
'•He article is directed are Mr. Win.
“ Austell, of the Atlanta Nation
al hank, and a young widow named
U» email, a most voluptuous crea-
tu,e , who carried on a flirtation
" hi Austell at a Georgia summer
,e50 't and altcrwards demanded
'oc carnages. The lady denies
ha; 'ii c tier intended to sue, but it
“ i> now ii that Mr. Austell has been
turning down handsomely with his
task, it may interest the Times to
know something of how the En
4uirer gets the series of southern
'sandals now running through its
tu.uinns. There is connected with
!" e inquirer a very dashing young
‘show named Fred Brown, now on
*. '•uuthern tour. He has instruc
hons nut to return to Cincinnati un
h‘ he has gotten up a libel suit
gainst the Enquirer in every place
* v ‘ s > ts - He has already been the
tariTe ot $750,000 of suits against the
Paper, ana, as he puts it, “no one
ha* Jet gotten • cent," His signa-
u 'e is • Sherwood.” He is now in
‘.ton working up a big scandal,
“ n >t his ticket takes him to Savan-
‘ Jn - P rum there he will probably
8° to Charleston. Brown is a good
young fellow, dresses in
taste, is agreeable in conversa-
‘ un . but is a terror to evil doers.
Stomachs anti Voices.
[New York Letter.]
More depends upon a singer’s eating tfaan
one is apt to suppose. Yeu constantly
paragraphs in the papers how this prime
donna or that priraa donna is so capricious
about her food. It is not caprice; it is ne
cessity. A prima donna could not sing on
a meal cooked as the average hotel furnishes
it. Her digestion roust be looked after or
her voice suffers. A good-natured laugh
pastes over tlte face of the country at Miss
Kellogg’s little frying-pan and alcohol
stove, but that little frying-pan and alcohol
stove have made it possible for Miss Kel
logg to sing after a day's journey, when
she would have no appetite for ordinary
hotel food. A chop or an egg, or a bit ol
chicken, cooked as they are not cooked in
an ordinary hotel, give her nourishment,
and she must be nourished to sing. The
voice is largely dependent upon the con<ty»
tion of the stomach. Fntti knows this, and
she will take no risks. She has her own
chef with her, and he prepares her food just
as she wants it. She is about to go to Bos
ton, and she has just sent word to CoL Ma-
pleson that she won’t go unless her chef can
cook the dinner she has on the train 1 Ol
course, he cooks for her in Boston, but Ms-
pleson thought she might partake of one
meal not of his preparing; but she thinks
differently, so her chef must don his cap
and white apron and cook her dinner as the
train speeds over the New England land
scape. Patti is right. She knows her own
stomach and what it requires, and she is
going to cater to it. If she didn’t she
wouldn’t sing as well as she doea
He Had Got Down.
[Wall Street News.)
They wore talking about the times and the
general disinclination to buy large stocks or
make heavy investments, wnen a bald
headed roan edged into the crowd and said:
‘•Gentlemen, we have been living beyond
our means, and we must get down to hard-
pan and begin over again.”
••That may be all very true,” replied one
of the others, “but who will begin!”
1 have already begun,” said the bald-
head. ”1 was worth $30,000; 1 bought
$20,000 worth of city lots aud started tc
build a $75,000 mansion. The result is that
1 am right down to bod rock and ready tc
begin anew. Do any of you happen to know
a good opening for a dancing toaster!”
Before and After.
[New York Sun.]
Just starting on the .editing trip—Young
wife: I am afraid, dear, that our trip to
Montreal and Quebec will be very expen-
eive.
Young husband: It may be a trifle ex
pensive, but just think what a delighttui
time we will have.
Just ending the wedding trip—Young
wife: VTbat a delightful time we have had,
mydeart
Young husband: Yes, we have had a
pleasant enough tim*, but just think what
an expense it hat been!
Mary's »iv Designation.
[Jingo.]
Now, the maid whose name wa. Mary,
Cometh home from gay "Pare.,"
Circumflex her accents—very I
And she calls herself Marie. rjjfc
[Austin (Nev.) Bevielle.]
Over in Churchill county, Nev.,
there is a traveling mountain of
sand. The winds have gathered
together a great heap and keeps it
constantly moving like an immense
glacier. It crawls steadily along
over valleys and through canyons,
never ceasing, the sands making a
low, musical sound, as they rub
against each other, much as they do
around the Sphinx every morning
at sunrise, which gave rise to the
legend that the stony statue was
greetihg the morning sun with a
song. But the moving mountain of
Churchill contains still another pe
culiarity. While its sides are sym
metrically formed and lay in folds
like solidified waves, there is no
cone at the top. Instead of it go
ing to a peak there is a hole there
made by counter winds, and who
ever is rash enough to scale the
ridge and pass into that hole pays
for his rashness with his life, for the
fickle sands yield beneath his feet,
and the more he struggles to get
back the faster he sinks, uutil he t is
smothered to death. The Indians
tell of several of their tribe having
been thus swallowed up, and no
trace has ever been found of them
kxildi
line
BRISTLING WITH NEEDLES.
Score of Needle* Removed From the Body
Jof a Young Woman.
Pittsburg, Feb. 16.—A remark
able case, now puzzling several
physicians, has just been developed
iu '"Manor Township, Armstrong
county, a few miles from this city.
A daughter of George Weaver, a
dairyman in that localit), recently
began suflering from a jagging sen
sation in her arms and body. The
pain finally became unbearable, and
a physician was called in to examine
the case. He discovered a number
of needle points just under the skin
and removed them.
This afforded the young woman
relief for the time being, but a day
or two ago she began to feel symp
toms of more needles in different
latts of her body, and called upon
3r. Jessop, of Armstrong county,
to remove them. He extracted six
from her right arm, four from the
muscles and two from the flesh at
the back of the arm. Their remov
al seemed to cause the patient in
tense anguish.
Altogether twenty-four needles
have been removed from her body,
and they are still appearing on her
breast, side and arm. In reply to ar
question as to how the needles
came there she said that she believ
ed some one shot them into her
flesh.
Craw for, Ga., Feb. 25.—Hur
rah for Clarke. Crawford congrat
ulates Athens. J. G. Gibson
Crawford, Ga., Feb. 55.—
Crawford gives three cheers for the
champion prohibitionists of the
state. J- J. C. McMahan.
Elbkrton, Ga., Feb. 25.—In be
half of .the Young Men’s Prohibi
tion Club, I am authorized to tender
you our hearty congratulations up
on your great services in the cause
of prohibition, and upon the great
victory iust achieved.
W. Maoly Grogan.
I- Strange Capture.
‘” r - Vince McWhorter, of Greene
1 Uri, y> sa ) 6 he captured two large
urneii ow e in set hooks—one this
j' ir *°d the other last He had set
‘•'ot-linei, on some back water,
tr. w ! )cn tl,e river fell the birds, at-
lin l *“ ky the fish hanging to the
l *?• Wc re caught on the barbed
TM* reads like a rather
huih ** le ’ * )ut Vince vouches for its
Greetings From Elbert.
Elbkrton, Ga., Feb. 33rd, *885
Mr. T. L. Gantt: Dear Sir—If pro
hibitioo is carried, and we hope to
God that it may be,.with you on the
a?th, please send us aoo copies of
vour Thursday morning s paper.
\Ve are confident of whipping out
whisky here on March 7th. May
the good work go on! Yours
truly bwirr Bros.
lelegraph us as soon as you know
definitely Wednesday evening.
Mr. John Winter, of Greene coun
tv. died last Thursday morning,
aped 77. The deceased was brother
to Mr. D. H. Winter, of WinterviU,
LUCY COBB ENTERTMAMEKT.
Among the fine pieces recited at
the capital entertainment at the Lu
cy Cobb' on last Friday night the
following thrilling piece was recit
ed by one of the young ladies—and
as might be expected brought down
the house:.
POOR HOUSE NAN.
Did you say you wished to see me, sir?
step in, ’tis a cheerless place—
But you aro welcome all the same; to be
poor is no disgrace.
Have I been here long? Oh, yes, sir;
’tis sixteen winters gone
Since poor Jim took to wicked ways,
and left me all alone.
Jim was my son, and a likelier lad
yon’d never wish to see;
’Till evil counsel won his heart and
drew him away from me.
I sometimes think when Ihear folks
talk so pretty and so line,
Of "alcohol as a Heedful drink, and the
moderate use of wine,
To use it and not abuse it is the proper
thing to do,’’
How I wish they’d let old poorhouse
Nan preach her little.sermou, too.
I would give them scenes in a woman’s
life that would their pulses stir—
For I was a drunkard’s child, and wife
—aye,a drunkard’s mother, sir!
I would tell of childish sorrows, of child
ish tears and pain,
Of cruel blows from a father’s hand,
where drink had crazed his brain.
He always said he could drink his fill
or let it alone as well.
Perhaps he might. He was killed one
night in a brawling grog^house hell.
I could tell of years of loveless toil a
drunkard's daughter passed;
With just one gleam of sunshine, too
beautiful to last:
When I married Tom I thought for sure
I had nothing more to fear,
That life would all come right at last,
the worlu seemed full of cheer.
But Tom took to moderate drinking; he
allowed 'twan a harmless thing.
So the arrow sped and my bird of hope
came down with a broken wing.
Ah! wearily the years passed on with
the work so sure and slow,
And children came, like reapers sad, to
a harvest of want and woe.
Two of them died, and I was;giad when
they lay before me dead!
I had grown so weary of their cries—
their pitiful cries for bread!
Then came a time when my heart was
stone, I could neither hope nor pray:
Poor Tom lay out in the potters’ field,
and my boy had gone astray;
The boy wno had been my idol, while as
hound athirst for blood,
Between my aching soul and him the
liquor dealer stood;
And lured him on with his poisoned
words, his pleasures and his wine.
O, God! have mercy on other hearts as
bruised and crushed as mine!
There were whispers of evil doing, of
dishonor and of shame,
That I never could bear to think of
now,and would not dare to name.
There was a hiding away from the light
of day, acreeping about at night,
Then a hurried word of parting, and a
criminal’s stealthy flight;
His lips were white with remorse and
fright, when he gave ine a good-bye
kiss.
And I have never seen the poor lost
child from that black day to this.
Ah! none but a mother can tell you, sir,
how a mother’s heart cau ache
With the sorrow that comes from a sin
ning child, and grief for a lost son’s
sake,
When she knows the feet she trained to
walk have gone sot far astray.
And the lips grown bold with curses,
she taught to sing and pray.
A child may fear, a wife may weep, but
of all sad things, none other
Seems half so sorrowful to me as being
a drunkard’s mother!
They tell me that iu the vilest dens of
ot the cities’ crime and murk,
There are men with the hearts of angels
doing an angel’s work—
Bringing back the lost and straying,
and helping the weak to stand,
By the wonderful power of a loving
word, and the help of a brothers hand.
And often and again the dear Lord
knows, I’ve knelt and prayed to Him,
That somehow, somewhere they wonld
happen to find and bring back my
Jim.
Why, sir! you are crying as as hard as I.
What! is ft really ddne?
Has the loving hand and loving voice
found and brought back my son?
Did you kiss me, call me mother and
hold me to yonr breast?
Or is it one of the haunting dreams that
comes to mock my rest?
No! no] thank Goal’tis a dream come
true! I can die—He has saved my boy!
And the poor old heart that has supped
on grief, is broken to-night with joy.
NATURAL GAS.
AKOTHIB TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF
TREACHEROUS COMPOUND.
A Boos* tn Wellitmrg, W. Va, Blown op-Poopl*
TAnwa mo Thaw Bods, sad tbs Shock Felt*
Mila Off—Nnmtwr of Parana KOlad-Flia Adds
toths Terror or thaScana-IntooM Excitement
and a General Conflagration Feared—Tha Ex
plosion a Kyxtexy.
Wellsburg, W. Va^ Feb. 21.—
The most terrible affair in the histo
ry of the state occurred in this city
early this morning. At 2 o’clock,
sharp, a terrific explosion was
heard, followed by two others. The
shock was severe; windows were
broken and doors rattled a mile off
from the scene of the explosion.
Near the explosion people were
thrown from bed, furniture knocked
down and crockery destroyed. The
explosion was immediately followed
by flames in the wreck of the house
of John Helsley, on Charles street.
The crowd rushed there and found
the building, a large brick house,
completely demolished and burning
fiercely. The dwellings of John
Walters and William Moonev ad
joining, were also wrecked. A shoe
shop belonging to a man named
Easterly, was also badly shattered.
A hasty search was made of the
Helsley house and the dead bodies
of John Helsley, aged 35; Ellen
Helsley, his wife, aged 33; Jane
Helsley, his mother, aged 60; Pearl
Helsley, aged 6, and Maud, aged 18
months, were found. In the Wal
ters house, John Walters, jr., aged
17, was killed. Easterly, the owner
of the shoe shop, was badly hurt,
and six or eight others were mor
or less severely injured.
The greatest excitement pievail-
ed, and all the population turned
out. The water plugs are frozen
up and the only engine in town is
useless. A bucket brigade was
formed to the Ohio river, some dis
tance away, and freezing cold water
was passed along the line to fight
the flames. Many women fainted,
and it seemed as if the whole town
would go. No aid could be ob
tained from outside towns; the tele
graph office being closed and the
operator not found. In the excite
ment the house of Walter and Moo
ney burned rapidly. Later another
dead body, that of a town character
named “Dutch John,” was found.
The people fighting the fire were
nearly exhausted, when a falling
wall at4 a. m. stopped further prog
ress ot the flames and the excite
ment was somewhat allayed. It
is found that nearly a score of houses
were badly Injured by the shock.
The Hudson hotel suffered much.
The plastering was knocked down
and the plate glass windows in the
office shattered. The total loss will
approximate $50,000. The accident
was caused by the
EXPLOSION OF NATURAL GAS
in the house of John Helseley, but it
will never be known just how. The
gas has been used here two years in
every house in town for iuel and
lightning, and is used in all facto
ries, churches and public buildings,
and this is the first accident result
ing from its use ever known here.
DOWN IN FLORIDA.
INHUMAN PARENTS.
Charged With Murdering Their San.
Geneva, Ill., Feb. 20.—Michael
Nolan and his wife have been held
in bail on the charge of inhumanly
causing the death of their son, aged
12 years, Wednesday night. After
cruelly beating the lad they kicked
him out of doors. The boy crawled
to the cow shed and found shelter,
the bitter cold of the night freezing
his hands and arms to his elbows,
and his legs to the knees. Next
morning he crawled to the door and
was taken and laid down by the
stove. His toes hit against the
door-casing and broke off, and the
boy was left to lie on the floor until
he died shortly afterward.
A Kind Endorsement
Miss Ellen J. Dortch, the charm
ing young lady who edits the
Carnesville Register, pays us the
following high compliment:
We have been charmed by the
clear and strong arguments coming
from some of the brightest stars in
the newspaper galaxy; but we must
confess to a slight partiality for the
manner in which Larry Gantt, of
the Banner-Watchman, uses the
microscopic mental seive’ on all
that which pertains to intemperance.
“With keen penetration he strikes
deep at the root of the evils of in
temperance, and exhibits them to
the public gaze. He has striking
ly demonstrated his splendid ability.
“He possesses the will and skill to
present facts in a way that people
may comprehend.”
District* Lines.
The boundary line between Buck
Branch and Sandy Creek districts
is now in dispute, and until settled
will cause trouble, as the former dis
trict has adopted the no-fence law.
This question has been a constant
source of annoyance to road hands
for years past Judge Jackson will
doubtless order the line surveyed
and properly defined.
A PICKPOCKET.
A Gentleman Robbed of Bis Pocket-Book os
the Athens Branch.
Last Saturday afternoon Hon.
Robert McWhorter, of Greene
county, had his pocket picked on
the train between Antioch and
Crawford. He had taken out his
purse, after leaving the former de
pot, to get his ticket, and then re
turned the same to his pocket; but
arriving at Crawford he missed his
wallet and a search about the seat
failed to discover it. He knows the
thief, who is a white man, and the
Major says no one else could have
taken it. The fellow is spotted by
officers, and there is hope yet of
getting the clutches ot the law upon
him. There was only about $10 in
money, but a number of papers
stolen, The pocket-book was
old leather one. Pocket
picking is a new industry
for Athens, and it cannot be too
quickly suppressed.
DEATH’S SAD STORY.
Last week some time Mr. Zeb
Roebuck was stricken with paraly
sis. On Tuesday last he died and
the next day was buried in the
cemetery. Mr. Roebnck was 1
very poor man, though highly re
spected and of good birth. He
earned his daily bread by his trade
as a carpenter, and leaves behind
him a helpless widow and foilr little
orphans. Kind friends, with both
purse and band, aided him- while
sick and buried him when he’ had
died. The funeral was just as any
other might and ought to Lave
Many of all classes gathered
1 — , 'V •* jf '
*CAPT. WIRZ AGAIN.
What Ben. Perley Poore Remembers About
» His Trial and Execution.
The tridl, conviction and execu
tion of Capt. Wirz, tor alleged ill-
treatment of Union prisoners, simp
ly made this foreign Confederate
officer a scapegoat. When he was
brought to Washington to be tried
by a military commission he was
suflering from scurvy. His right
arm near the wrist was an open
inch-deep wound, and part of the
bone already gone. The hand and
that part of the arm around the
ulcer were very much swollen, and
two fingers were closed to the palm
of thfe hand. His left arm he could
not bend up to his face, as the del
toid muscle was gone. His feeble
state of health made him sometimes
so weak that he could hot appear
in court When there he*could not
sit up, ana nad to recline on a sofa.
Besides, When the trial took place,
the season was : very hot and the
room in which, he was confined,
and where a light was burning
throughout the night was full of
mosquitoes, which troubled him
greatly.
One morning the prisoner came
into court in a very weak state. Col.
Chipman, the Judge Advocate, had
given orders to have him put in
irons, but' the officer of the Old cap
ital, finding that the right hand was
too much swollen to permit the
iron to be fastened, except in the
incision made by the open and inch
deep wound, had not had the cru
elty to force the iron on his right
arm, but had, in order to show that
he had been willing to carry out the
orders of his superiors, fastened
the iron to the left hand only. Even
had it been possible to put irons on
both hands, it would, aside of the
wound, have been very cruel, as it
prevented the prisoner from driving
the mosquitoes from his face, or
even wiping of! the perspiration, as
his left arm could not be beat up to
his face. His devoted counsel, Mr.
Louis Scbade, called the attention of
Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, one of the
members of|the'commission, to that
outrage, and-he became very indig
nant. As soon as the court opened
he inquired by whose order the
prisoner had been put in irons, snd
Col. Chipman acknowledged to have
given the order, because he had
feared, judging from the high state
of excitement under which the pris
oner labored, that he would commit
suicide. The principal witness was
-a pretended Frenchman, who called
himself a grand nephew of' Lafa
yette, and who presented pencil
sketches, representing muiders and
cruelties by Capt Wire, which
-were acaepted as evidence. The
Judge Advbcate rewarded him by
IN LOVE AT SEVENTY-FIVE.
been.
at the grave to pay their final horn- _
age. The preacher was there with obtaining for him a clerkship in the
his solemn words and the kind
lady with he rBowers. There were
the sobs of the widow and the wet
and wondering eyes of the childish
orphans, and one of them said to
her mothef, jnst as any other child
might have said: U I wish dem men
would quit trowing dirt on papa.”
No one saw that alcohol had any
thing to do there; but with all re
spect to them who are living, and
more. To him who is dead -We
must say, as all the physicians and
all who baye Known him sly;’ that
while there are other cause* under
lying it all, the widowhood, the or
phanage and the poverty, alcohol
had gotten in his same old, old
work.—Elberton Leader.
.
i The Weekly Banner-
Department of the Interior, but elev
en dajrs after thte deAth of his Victim
it was proven that he was a German
impostor, Whose haine was Felix
Oeser, and be was discharged.
Capt Wire was hung in the yard
of the old cApitol, ank he walked
from his cell to the scaffold with
an undaunted air..
CamiaOoMw.
There ate 1 on the VinCent plants-'
tion, r in Oconee county, two
excavation^ that wete made and
used by runaway negroes
betore the war. Both the caves are
large add comfortably arranged and
a person standing right over them
could not discovCTthat there was a
cave there,the entrance being so care
fully concealed. Since the war the
entrance 1 !^ been opened 1 so that
novr they are easy of access.
the surrounding counties in the past
three days..
isonabbom. We have-receiviSt. _
over thirty neiv snbscrlbers from. iTherepalre to the Tower of Lon
tnn (nrrAiinnitlff rnnntiPt in tna naat < A 1 . • • ... ..
A North SaqlaS Exp«i!ano«—'Taoxud by Bad-
Ingi, Mosqultom, and Fleai-A Big Tatar.
The Gwinnett Herald prints the
story of Henry C. Holcombe, who
has been trying his fortune in Flor
ida: ,
'How do you like Florida?” he
was asked.
“It is a good place to • make mon
ey and just as good to spend it I
quit a job where I was getting $50
per month, but a man does not save
much. Why you can’t get board
there for less than $20 and they
charge you ten cents for washing a
pocket handkerchief. They chaige
you one dollar for a pint of the
meanest red liquor you ever saw.
Talk about dead shot that Yankee
stuff will kill a man offhand. I
was in Orange county, near Orlan
do, and it is a curiosity to see a wo
man. There are no negroes there,
and you have to pay two dollars for
a day’s washing. Mr. Minor carried
a negro down there he took out of
the chaingang here, and his wife
makes eight dollars a week wash
ing.
“Truck farming will soon be like
the oranges, more raised than can
be made profitable. Potatoes grow
there all the time. When Ileft the
gardens were green. No trouble to
raise potatoes. Just cutoff a piece
of the vine, stick it right in the
ground, and it will grow right off,
and you need not plant but once.
A neighbor told me he had one that
had been growing three years. It
had pretty well filled the patch, and
he expected to move out his fence
shortly.”
“It is a beautiful country?” «
“Well, yes, what little country
here is. It is nearly all water, with
little strips of land to divide off the
lakes. A man who can’t swim had
better stay away. It is the most
changeable climate in the world.
It changes about every fifteen
minutes. Why, I have seen
clear as it is now,
directly the fog begins to rise, and
before you can put on your coat it
is pouring down rain. You may
pick up a handful of sand and by
the time the fleas all jump out, you
have only half a handful. Mosqui
toes, gallinippers and ticks—whew!
You never saw a chinch bug, did
you? They are as big as the end of
my thumb; you mash one in the
house and you can smell it all day
it’s awful. Why, I have seen
Jack Minor walk around one all day
to keep from mashing it. There is
one thing I don’t like. If you get
out ol the Sight of home you are
lost. The roads all look alike and
you don’t know which one to take.
Ask the direction anywhere and
they will tell you to just keep the
straight road. Well, in less than
half a mile you come to a fork where
three or four roads branch off, all
looking exactly alike; you just shut
your eyes and take your chances. I
got lost one night and walked until
I was woin out and laid down to
sleep. I could hear bears and wild
cats and varmints prowling around.
I kept listening to hear, a rooster
crow for day, but I would have
been there yet if I had waited tor
that rooster business. If you get
out of the pine timber into the
swamp it looks skeery—if there are
any buggers they are down there.
“It is a fine country for fish. You
can catch as many as you want. I
caught thirty bream out of a lake
one evening. Fish are not as good
as they are here. People would
no more eat a cat fish in that coun
try than they would eat a dead nig
ger. You never was in Tampa,
.was you? You never saw the like
of fish in the world. The whole
town smells of fish, crabs and
shrimps. If you stay there a few
days you won’t want any fish for a
year. .
The people are clever and soci
able. There is a big Dutch settle
ment close by where they fiddle or
dance all day Sunday. You always
know when Sunday comes from the
shooting of guns and hunting.
“The sawmill business is fine in
that section. Pine trees stand as
thick as oak bushes do here, and
lumber is worth $24 per thousand.
It can all be sold at the mill, the
country is building up
fast. And there is plenty of game,
but they are being killed out very
fast. A man killed a fine buck re
cently that measured 22 inches be
tween the horns.”
“Well, how do they get through
the thick timbers with such im
mense antlers?”
“Oh! that is none of my business.
The people live well during the
vegetable season, but in the winter
it is hard tack. Worse than sol
diering. A fellow cannot do good
work on oat meal and grits. I had
as soon fie down and let the moon
shine in my mouth for a living.
You never see any good butter; it
is all goshen, oleomargarine and
lard.. The cows do not give milk
enough tor their calves. It is all
dned up from eating wire grass.
They are a little bit of scrubby
things that would not weigh forty
pounds to the quarter.”
SEEN IN A TRANCE.
▲ Young Lady's Visit to the Other World and
What She Saw There.
Reading, Feb. 19.—The great
religious wave recently struck
Mohnsville, this county. Among
the persons converted was Miss
Elizabeth Metz, a respectable young
woman of this place, who was
thrown into a trance from which
she did not recover for over twenty
tour hours. She tells wonderful
stories of all she saw and heard
while her body remained on earth.
She claims that her soul spent a
brief period in heaven, where it was
permitted to remain just long
enough to gaze upon all its glories.
She claims to have been actually in
heaven.
The time she was in this state is a
perfect’blank to her. Miss Metz
regrets that she was hot allowed to
remain in the beautiful place. She
saVs that all about her was filled
with millions upon millions of happy
beings whose faces bore no trace of
sorrow. In this ethereal space she
met friends who had been dead for
years, and their only occupation
seemed to be to singsongs of praise
•ad to play upon their golden harps.
She was also permitted to gaze
into an awfol black pit full of
wrjthing human beings in a seeth
ing fire, whose faces bore evidences
of the fearful pain they were un
dergoing. She says no one can
now convince her that there is no
helj. Many persons have been
strongly impressed by her story.
A Wealthy Widow of that Age Marries a Tooth
/ 1 of 12.
Birmingham, Conn., Feb, 18.—
For sexenty-five years Mrs. Char
lotte Canfield 'has lived in the vil
lage of Derby, half a mile from
here, respected by all who knew
her. About six years ago she lost
her husband, and since then has
lived alone in a small cottage over
looking the Naugatuck river: Her
husband left her several valuable
building lots and a good bank ac
count.
Since his death and not until
about ten months ago she has not
cared for the society of men, not
even to the deacons of the church to
which she belonged. About ten
months ago she became acquainted
with Henry Baldwin, aged 22, a
clerk in the village store. The ex
pertness with which he measured
cottontcloth and weighed codfish
eniatuated the widow, and she in
vited him to her house' He called,
and the acquaintance thus formed
ripened into love, and at about 8
o’clock to-aight they called at the
parsonage of Rev. Dr. Roberts, of
Christ’s church, Ansonia, and in
the presence of the minister’s rela
tives were married.
When it became known in the
town the excitement was intense.
The horns and cow bells were
brought forth, and at about 10
o’clock 200 men and boys, headed
by a drum corps, marched to the
house of the newly wedded couple,
where, in the presence of 500 more
persons, a serenade was given them.
The band played “Old Hundred ’
in honor of the bride. Call after
call was made for the groom, and
when he appeared in the door three
cheers were given. The bride, who
hung bashfully in the shadow of
the door, was also cheered. Mr.
Baldwin, attired in his wedding
garments, stepped on the veranda
in the glare of a hundred torchlights
and thanket^ the crowd for the
visit. In conclusion he invited
them to a neighboring saloon to
drink to the health of his bride.
Mrs; Baldwin informed the Sun
correspondent that she loved her
husband and married him because
she was tired living alone and un-
Drotected. The groom claims that
le too is in love with his wife, not
her ducats.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
don; recently damaged by dynamite
explosions, nave been completed.
A marriage bureau has been start
ed in Chattanooga.
California is urging Mr. Samuel
M. Wilson for a cabinet position.
The Prince and Princess of
Wales are to make a tour of Ire
land.
Mr. Blount succeeded in getting
a bill through the house appropri
ating $125,000 for a public building
in Macon.
A terrible explosion of dynamite
occurred at Stone Mountain. Three
men were badly mutilated, and one
of them will die.
It is stated that the loss to the
Adams Express Company in prop
erty burned will not exceed eighty-
five thousand dollars.
The oyster fleet is entirely shut
out of Baltimore by the ice, and an
oyster famine seems imminent. Al
ready the prices have more than
doubled. —
Justice Williams, of Flintville,
Habersham county, held his regular
court last Saturday, at the foot of a
large oak tree. The only shelter
from the falling snow was an um
brella held by Bailiff Canady over
the head of the justice.
Atlanta correspondence Macon
Personal Appearance of the Old Man-How he Telegraph: B. G. Lockett, who
L as 1 -.SkI » f M C Aa. it- -k A A A A ——
A WESTERN IDYL.
Graphic Description of a Scene In the Streets of a
Colorado Town.
Canyon City Mercury.
A lather sad affair took place on
Main street the other day. A young
lady with her arms full of bundles
emerged from a dry goods store,
when one of them fell on the side
walk without her noticing it. Just
behind her was a young man—a
Too-Too-Club young man, who if
not polite is not anything—and he
quickly stepped forward to pick it
up. Now a bundle done up in a
piece of paper with a dry goods
advertisement on it is apparently
as harmless as a maiden’s praj er or
a mother’s spankling, and there it
lay as guileless as a blue-eyed bull
dog asleep in the sun. Just as he
stooped to pick it up there was a
rustling in the paper, the twist be
gan to come out in the ends, and in
another instant an indescribable
something—a sort of cross between
a balloon and devil fish, flew into the
air before his eyes, and a number
ten -thirty-six-inch- double -jointed-
duplex-elliptic- steel- bo wed-bustle-
inflator-dollar-and-a-half-bald-head-
ed-hoop-skirt with two rooms in it
waltzed around and gyrated and
opened and shut up and fell on the
sidewalk as flat and thin as a board
ing-house pie, and the young man
straiglitened himself up looking as
if he wished a forty-ton zephyr
would come down from the canyon
and sweep him over into the coun
ty, and the young lady came back
with a face that resembled an Ital
ian sunset produced by throwing a
ripe tomato against a board fence,
and she picked up that wire contrl
vance, and then she went towards
the east and he went towards the
west. The sun ducked his head
behind a cloud to hide a smile, and
three or four of the boys who took
in the show laid down and laughed
and doubled themselves up in a
manner that would have made a
summer dose of green-apple colic
hide its head in shame.
Dynamite Uutrngei.
The following is a complete list,
with dates of all the dynamite out
rages which have been committed
in London.
March 15, 1883—Explosions at
the local government board office
and the Times office.
Oct. 30, 1883—Explosions on the
underground railway, at Padding
ton and Westminster.
Feb. 26, 18S4—Explosion at Vic
toria station.
Feb. 25, 1884—Discovery of in
ternal machines at Paddington and
Charing Cross stations.
March 1, 1884—Discovery of an
infernal machine at Ludgate Hill
station.
April 30, 1884—Explosions at
St James square and Scotland
Yard.
Dec. 13, 1S84—Explosion at Lon
don bridge.
Jan. 2, i8S5-^Explosion on the
underground railway, near Gower
street.
Jan. 24, 1885—Explosions in
Westminster hall, the house of com
mons arid the Tower ot London.
Luther Benson, the great temper
ance lecturer, spoke in Jackson,
Miss, Sunday night to a large au
dience:
Shooting Affair.
We trust the readers of the Ban
ner-Watchman will pardon us for
giving the details ot the following
terrible shooting:
A duel was lately fought in Texas
by Alexander Shott and John S.
Nott Nott was shot and Shott
was not. In this case it is better to
be Shott than Nott. There was a
rumor that Nott was not shot, yet
Shott avows that he shot Nott,
which proves either that the shot
Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or
that Nott was shot notwithstanding.
Circumstantial evidence is not al
ways good, though. It may be
made to appear on trial that the
shot Shot shot shot, or, as accidents
with firearms are frequent;'' it may
be possible that the shot SHbtt shot
shot Shott, when the whole affair
would resolve itself into its origins!
elements, and Shott would be sbot,
and Nott would be not. We tbiiik,
however, that the shot Shott shot
sbot not Shott, but Nott. It is hard
to tell, though, who was shot.
J. P. Whiteside, of Chattanooga,
reiterates the charge that the con
tractors buried in the national cem
etery of that city the carcasses of
horses and mules and charged them
up as the skeletons of the federal
soldiers. • r ;
DAVIS TALKING.
There are SS-moonshi n^rs- in i
ton county jaiL "
A man in Lincolnton Recently ate
two dozen and a half frozen guinea
egejCa* one sitting.
The Ordinary of Lincoln 'county
has given notice that after October
the liquor license in the county will
be raised to $i,ooo.
• A whale was captured on Tues
day off the sea buoy near BrunsJ
wick by the crew of the whaler
Morse, and towed to St. Mary’s.
Colonel Latham Anderson, of the
Lincoln county gold mines, says
they have struck it just as rich as
it is reasonable to expect, or as the
company desire.
Mr. G. W. Wright killed two
large bears at No. 1 station this
week. One of them weighed over
400 pounds. The woods are said
to be full of them.—Brunswick
Breeze.
The hands on Wm. Terrell’s farm,
Franklin county, killed and
caught thirty-two rabbits, all oil tho
same farm, in the time of the snow
last week, with only one fice dog,
13 years old and not much larger
than a rabbit.
Banks tha Confederate Generals.
Indianapolis Journal.
The train waited a few minutes
when, out of a grove and around a
corner, came a vehicle driven by its
single occupant. An old phaeton,
an old horse, and s very old man
made up the outfit. The old man
sat bolt upright in his seat holding
his arms still at rightlangles, a rein
dangling from each hand. The gen-
eral effect was as if a lay figure had
been put upon the seat and the reins
hung to its inanimate hands. But
this effect was suddenly lost when
the vehicle stopped in front of the
station steps. A black boy ran to
the horse’s head, and the old gentle
man stepped from his place with a
greater show of alacrity than a mo
ment before, would have seemed
possible. The thin figure straight
ened to its full height, of more than
six'feet, faced about and walked
with r firm military step toward the
train. The conductor shouted, “All
aboard,” a whisper jan through the
train, “That’s Jeff Davis,” the bell
rang and we were off.”
It was, indeed, no other than Jeff
Davis, bound for his first trip to the
Exposition. My fortune was to be
in company with a gentleman who
knew him intimately, having serv
ed as a Colonel in the Confederate
army. He went forward at once to
meet Mr. Davis, escorted him to the
seat opposite, our own, and, after
the brief ceremony of introduction,
requested him to sit. Mr. Davis
complied, and the two entered at
once iuto conversation. While they
talked I had time to note Mr. Da
vis’s face and manner. The former,
shaded by a large slouch hat, show
ed itself to be extremely pale and
attenuated. The sparse beard was
not whiter than the countenance it
barely covered, and the forehead
was marked with deep-drawn fur
rows. The lips were lightly drawn,
but easily relaxed into a very pleas'
ant smile, or for the utterance of
question or reply. His
hands were clasped in front of him
upon his cane, and f noticed that
the fiugers twitched involuntarily
as he s poke. The conversation
seemed of so much mutual interest,
and was withal, so pleasant to hear,
that we had gone some distance be
fore I ventured to break in upon
him. I finally asked him for his
health.
“I am not well,” he said, “by any
means. In fact I have just arisen
from bed. The cold, damp winter
has given me sciatica, and I have
suffered a great deal.”
“Is the trouble permanent?”
“Quite to the contrary. Ordina
rily I am. without being robust, in
very good health; but this has been
an extraordinary winter, both north
and south, and it has certainly told
on me.”
My friend here broke in to in
quire of a mutual friend, an officer
in a Maryland regiment. The of
ficer was long since dead, as were
many of the rest whose lives form
ed topics for the conversation. Mr.
Davis spoke warmly in the praise
of the courage of this one or the
galantry of that, warming into en
thusiasm at the recollection of days
of the war. His memory seemed
unimpaired as to names, persons
and dates, and my friend, who is a
much younger man had often to
refer to the elder’s store of reminis-
censes to brighten up his own re
collections of tnings that occurred
within his personal observation, but
of which Mr. Davis had only heard
or read.
“Whom do you consider to have
been the greatest general in the
Confederacy?” my friend at length
asked.
Without a moments hesitation he
replied:
“Albert Sidney Johnson was the
greatest man in civil or military
prowess that supported the south
ern cause.”
“Greater than either Lee or Jack-
son?”
He simply waved his hand and
replied:
“I have said he was the greatest
of them all”
“And who, of all the men you
have met, impressed you as the
greatest statesman?”
“John C. Calhoun, beyond a
doubt or peradventure, had the
greatest mind that I have come in
contact with.” r
I tried to lead him around to the
Sherman controversy, but he fought
shy of the subject
“I ha ve no doubts or scruples on
the subject,” he said, “except as to
the means by which I shall put my
answer before the country. The
people, my friends at least—know
my sentiments, and know what I
will say when the time comes. But
it is likely that I shall seek ome
sort of official publication, as upon
the floor of congress, instead of
through the medium of any news
paper channel. . Until such time
enough has been said.”
The train drew into the city, and
Mr. Davis, sitting at the window,
was drawn to notice the manifold
nativity within his view. There
were numbers of people along the
road at every station, and at the
alot of Cannl street; especially a
forge crowd; but though the late
chieftan sat in plain view, I.noticed
that no one seemed to recognize
him or to make the slightest demon
stration on his account The same
was true when he^ finally stepped
from the platform, and after a
courteous farewell to us and an in
vitation to visit Beauvoir, took a
carriage and rode away.
He jrras bound for the home of
Mr. Payne, who has been Mr. Da-’
vis’ broker and city agent for forty
years. With him the latter always
lodges on his visits to New Orleans,
has lately been in Southwest Geor
gia, has returned to the city. He
has not recovered his former health,
and he shows the effects of his re
cent severe illness. His presence
here has in some way given rise to
a rumor that he contemplates dis
posing of his interest in the convict
lease.
Rome Bulletin: While up the
road the other day Dr. Janes was
shown a small highland terrapin,
captured last August by a Chatta
nooga gentleman near Ring-gold,
that carries a little history engraved
on its shell. On the smooth hard
surface of the terrapin’s belly is
the inscription, carved in distinct
characters: “Union—Co. K., 26th
Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, Nov.
18, 1S64.”
GENERAL NEWS.
A San Francisco man has a huge
scheme for building a floating rail
road across Behring Strait.
Another company has been form
ed in New York for the purpose of
tcrial navigation. The capital stock
is $100,000. Peterson’s sectional
air ship is the one to be tried.
Boston, Feb. 17.—In the Senate
to-day, the resolution providing that
a person’s disbelief in God shell not
aflect his incredulity as a witness
was defeated by a vote of 10 to 24.
They say that Mr. William IL
Vanderbilt’s fortune has, by unfori
tunate investments, dwindled down
to one-half what it was in iSSt, and
that now he is worth barely $190,-
000,000.
One New Jersey tramp recently
stole the pulpit from a village
church. Another stole the leading
dude, who was returning from a
candy-pulling, and held him until
ransomed.
A row has been- -raised in New- .
ton, L. I., because a negro who es
corted a white woman to the Pres
byterian church was requested to
take a seat in the gallery. The col
ored people of the village propose
to keep away from that church in
the future.
The last of the prisoners taken v
during the Franco-German war
have just left Germany. Some
Turcos, who, during their imprison
ment, had killed a keeper by whom
they had been badly used, and who,
in consequence, had been condemn
ed to imprisonment in a fortress,
reached Cologne the other day
from Wessel. They were dressed
in new uniforms, which had been
sent to them by the French Govern
ment.
A good many adventuresome
boys are enlisting in New York ir
the United States training ship ser
vice, and a large number are said tr
be wanted. They are paid at firs
$9 per month, and after one year*,
service $11. When they are enlist
ed in the navy they get from $19 te
$24. About the only promotion
open to them is that of warrant of
ficer, with a life salary of $1,200 to
$1,800. Very few ever attain to
this eminence, and, altogether, the
service is not very altogether attrac
tive or romantic, especially after
the novelty wears off. It is a great
deal better than tramping, however.
she had an en :
when the music
Jew.ipmute?later
declining all offers of hospitality twins,-
from whatever other source- •««**■*« t ■■ - 1
A Prophet and His Terrible Prophecy.
Anthony Smith is his name, and
he lives down about Hardaway sta
tion. Anthony is a colored preach
er or “exhorter” of the Hardshell
persuasion, and has recently devel
oped into a prophet He is not one
of pour timid, doubtful, third-rate
prophets, but is full-fledged—“all
wool and a yard wide,” as Tom
Burney would say. Few prophets
have ever started out under a denser
cloud of hallucination or bored with
a better auger fron the very begin
ning than uncle Anthony. He
claims to ascend into Heaven—his
ascensions being in the “speret,"
not in the body—every day, to hold
communication with God, and, as
the result of these communications
he is abla to “foretell” things that
are “coming to pass,” and to warn
the sinful world of a great calamity
that is to fall on the 18th of March.
He says that very early in the morn
ing of that day the sun and the
moon will have a fight, that the sun
will whip the moon, and then, be
tween daylight and sunrise oh that
eventful morning, the mopt terrific
and destructive cyclone that has ev
er been witnessed on earth will
come, leaving nothing but death,
and desolation ior-its wake. Upcle
Anthony makes his terrible proph
ecy with all the earnestness of a
firm believer, andj unless he under
goes a great change between now
and the dawn of the 18th of March,
will be greatly disappointed if the
things he foretells do not <:6me to
pass.—Albany News.
Twin Born oa the Bolters.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 19.—A tel
egram received here from Alliance,
illustrates in a forcible manner how
the roller-skating craze has taken
possession of the people" of that
town. The story has just leaked
out that a well-known married lady
who has long been a regular skater-
at thfe rink. vVas taken! suddenly ill
while skating and a physician was
summoned. Her condition was ap
parent apd a suggestion was made ^
that her skates be removed. This ‘
she objected ’to 1 positively, saying;
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