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The intelligent colored voters of
the South ire at last beginning to
realize the fact that their material
and political advancement by no
means hinges upon the republican
party, but, on the other hand, their
untiring devotion and fealty to that
organization retards their progress
and builds up an antagonism among
the representative class of whites
that will always keep this race in
the background. These people
have Yurther learned, fiom expert-
< ncc, that the republican parly
cares nothing for theitf further than
their vote, and have been tor years
using them to elevate Northern ad
venturers an 1 unscrupulous and
renegade Southern white men to
otlice. They only throw their lead
ens an occasional crumb, while the
tank and file of the colored vote is
h-lt to take care of themselves until
their services are again required at
the polls. Hence, what does the
negro receive in recompense for his
influence? The antagonism of the
very class of Southern whites that
he depends upon for his daily sup
port, and the men to whom he will
turn when in need of a friend or as
sistance. Now these gentlemen
aie weatying of this onesided way
of doing business, and ask the col
ored voters to assist them in main
taining good government in the
South if they want their continued
aid and support. In Virginia the
heller class of negroes have
aloof Irom the republican
patty and ate winking shoul
der to shoulder with the democrats.
The Lynchburg .Colored State
Convention, about which so much
has been said io the papers North
and South, iias already produced a
good effect. Laws, V, ood, Sv piiux,
I itch ley anil other delegates aie
among the leading colored men o!
the South, and their utterances are
having a great influence. Many
negroes look upc
as that coiivtn
does the republican party care to
me except as a voter?" ••They u
P>> have made the Cal'- p.w ...
r.ikc the hoi dioti»m> In.m the ti»c
tithco." Ti.U Iceltng
.it with me cti-
iiiul they
no longer give
WEEKLY EDITION.
NO X.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 337, 1885.
VOL’ XXXI
Under the Mexican law a credi
tor can have a debtor arrested on
the day when the debt, falls due.
The prisoner is chained to a post
five days, guarded by an officer. At
the end of the time, if the money is
not forthcoming, the man’s labor is
sold to the government for torty
cents a day for as many days as
will be necessary to discharge the
obligation. The miserable debtor is
sent to the silver mines, where he is
chained to a gang of felons and
ccmpellcd to work under ground.
He sleeps under ground, and never
sees daylight again until he is res
tored to freedom.
Our great political field day for
this year is on the 3J day of next
month. On that day New York,
Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi
and Virginia all elect Governors
and full state tickets. Maryland,
New Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania and Nebraska elect
partial ones. The states attracting
the most attention are New York
cul and Virginia. While New Jersey
and Maryland are having lively
canvasses.
me situation just
m. did. -What
DYNAMITE IN ATHENS.
COMBUSTIBLES SPILLED AROUND
THE COURT HOUSE.
HELLISH ATTEMPT TO TERRORIZE
OUR CITIZENS.
THE GUILTY PARTIES UNKNOWN.
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It is estimated that there are 35,-
000 newspapers and other periodi
cals published in the world. The
United States can boast of possess
ing nearly two-fifths ol^ the
number, or, to be exact, as show n
by the American Newspaper Di
rectory for the current year, a total
of 13.-194, while the Dominion of
Canada has 64) and Newfound
land 9.
When Miss Nellie Grant was
mu-lied, some alleged punster re
marked that the step she took was
“Surtoiisky.” This was only said
as a feeble attempt at witticism, but
in the ligl.t of present events it
looks as if the alleged punster’s
‘•yininnirous” rental k was more
to a party to prophetic than funny in its char-
cn blindly at- j actor,
sentiment—the
pn
gratitude
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that the te-
11 par y Heed them. ‘‘Hu;
1 he Iivtdom of liie negro,” said
Law- in I. s speech at Lj nchburg
‘was not an act of the republican, j to a oon t i e , rrt .
pm tv, .01 Aiuaham Lincoln, whom
nil ttvere, offered to the
the South the liberty of
keel nr: their slaves i! they would
co.1 c hack into the Union in too
, 1 !\ -. The) would not, and the
111110:11 id 1 he slaves was an acci-
.lent ,d war, lor Mr. Lincoln and
hi- ge.iei.ds saw ihc war could nev
er he ended while 1 and thousands
like me w ere caring for the women
and children while the men of ti e
South Were lighting the battles. I
am a Virginian- my
the same as any white man’s. I ain
tned ot seeing a color line drawn. I
am tired of wearing the collar of a
ar.d I would even follow the
devil il he would lead me away from
hell and Billy Mahone.”
Now we w ant the colored element
of Georgia and Athens to emulate
tin- example and show to the coun
try that they are willing to help
build up and develop our state and
city. What will help the business
men of Athens cm hut inure to the
advancement of the colored race,
for upon this class are these people
mainly dependent for their support.
L ibor unions never have and never
will assist unskilled workmen, and
the negroes ol Georgia are only en
ticed into them to further the ends
of other parties. This the colored
members will one day find out to
their sorrow. We want to see a
union for mutual benefit between
the representative white and repre
sentative colored elements of not
only Athens, hut the entire South
and such a combinatio 1 will he the
dawn ot a bright day for the negro-
The sooner he realizes he fact that
it is progressive suicide to comh.it
the business interests of his section,
and antagonize the property and
intelligence of a community, the
sooner will the colored people of
the South build up their own
strength and prosperity.
PROHIBITION IN GEOKUlA.
1 Contrary to general belief a body
is not touched by flame or fire when
I cremated. It is wrapped in asbestos
j to prevent charring, placed cn a
metallic support in a retort heated
In a short while
lew pounds of
it is reduced to
ashes.
North Carolina derives a hand
some revenue from its licenses on
drummers, the -amount netted from
the tax in September being no less
than $9,000.
The New Vork Times and Her
ald are still bitterly denouncing
Governor Hill because they allege
Yesterday morr : ng, upon Mr.
Albert Henley, clerk for JudgeJack-
son, repairing to the court-house, he
discovered sulphur and powder
sprinkled around the entrance gate,
and also the same combustibles cov
ered the steps of that building. This
young gentleman at once sounded
the alarm, and a thorough investi
gation was made. It was discover
ed that at all the gates leading into
the court- house grounds similar de
posits were made, as likewise the
steps and door-sills were covered
with it. Sheriff Wier struck a
match and placed it to some of the
material, that instantly exploded.
There was no note orother warning
given, and it is presumed that the
fiends who placed this stuff there
only intended it as a threat of some
kind, doubtless with a view o! intim
idating our citizens and thus accom
plishing some infamous end. The
explosives were harmless, unless
touched by fire, hut il conclusively
shows that .ve have in our midst a
dangerous and cowardly element,
that seeks to accomplish in the dark
what they dare not openly attempt.
Athens is fully prepared to meet
such cases, and when they ate
caught up with the courts will not
entire J he troubled with their trial. Threats
tg dynamite have lately been
made in Athens, we learn, and the
placing of these combustibles around
our court-house was doubt'ess meant
as a hint that the same would he
carried out if their warnings were
not heeded. Athens should at Race
cmplov a good detective and put
him on the track ol these scoun
drels, and they can doubtless he
capluted and brought to punish
ment. Some think that this threat
was intended to intimidate William
Hunt, the colored janitor at* the
court-house, who is working hard
tc-r the Citizen’s Ticket. If this he
true, it will have no effect whatever.
We do not believe that any society
in Athens is connected with this
outrage, hut that it was the work of
individuals, who have assumed upon
themselves to thus terrorize the city.
We want to see the matter sifted to
the bottom and the guilty parties
brought to punishment, that blame
can be fixed where it belongs. The
rsons who did the work are assas
sins and cowatils at heart, and wjll
eceivc r.o sympathy from any good
citizen.
VALUED AT FIFTY MILLIONS.
Rome, Ga., Oct. 19.—Colonel J.
G. Veiser has just returned from a
visit to his relatives in Paducah.
Ky., where a family council was
held looking to the recovery of
property in Baltimore to the value
of $50,000,000.
The story is that in the year 178S
Captain Phillip-Yeiser, an officer in
the revolutionary army and grand
father of Colonel Yeiser, left'his
home in Baltimore and settled in the
then wilds of Kentucky. Before
leaving Maryland he leased to a par
ty of gentlemen twenty-one acres
of land on the outskirts of the city of
Baltimore, and this lease was for
the term of ninety-nine years. For
about twenty-five years the rent was
paid, but since that time the matter
ot rent seems to have been forgotten.
As Baltimore grew in population
and extent the lessee of this land
cut it up into city lots and sold them
to different parties. Now the land
lies in the heart of a great city, cov
ered with solid blocks ot buildings,
and the valuation of the whole will
amount to the sum above mentioned.
The lease of this property is now
about to expire and the heirs of
Captain Yeiser are putting in their
claim to it. Colonel Phillip Yeiser,
a lawyer at Paducah, Ky., and Mr.
Fox, of Danville, were engaged to
go to Baltimore and commence an
action to obtain possession of the
property as soon as the lease ex
pires, which will be in eighteen
months.
FAST RUNNERS.
Old Time Foot Races Between Aaron Crow
and Charlie Shackelford.
he once sold out some stock in a pa
per he owned to William M
Tweed.
If any reliance can he placed in
Ward’s exposure, Fred and U. S.
Grant, Jr„ are both candidates for
the penitentiary.
Hoadtey's stand against prohibi
tion defeated him in Ohio. The
corkscrew did noble work for the
republicans.
CANDIDATE WOOD OPPOSES FREE
SCHOOLS.
Foot racing was once the princi
pal sport of the country. Jackson
and Oconee counties had two ot the
fastest runners in Georgia, and when
Aaron Grow,of Oconee,then Clarke
and Chatl-c Shackelford, ot Jack-
son, would make a race the people
came from all parts of the country
to see those fleet-footed country
boys try their speed. Aaron Cro
was in the city yesterday, and says
that lie was atone time the fastest
man in Georgia for 100 yards. Mr.
Ciow ran three races with Chailie
Shackelford, and heat two of them.
Tlieie were large sums of money
wagered -an the races, and nothing
but this subject was talked of for
weeks before it came off. Shackel
ford had a reputation that reached
from California to Georgia, hut
when he came against Aaron Crow
he found one that lie could not
beat so easily as he had Indians
and Mexicans out West Mr. Crow
is now a quiet farmer in Oconee,
hut delights to tell of some of his
races when a voting man.
The Record of the City Council Show that
He Voted Twice Against Them—W ho Intro-
duced the Present Bill.
Editor Banner - Watchman: —
Itulge W. B. Thomas was an early
advocate of free schools in Athens,
while a member of the city council,
and did all he could to get them;
but Alderman W. L. Wood moved
to lay the question on the table, and
thuskiiled the scheme. This is a
matter of record, and can be seen
bv 'looking over the hooks of the
clerk of council. The present free
school hill of Athens was introduc
ed by Alderman Gantt, and was
adopted by a unanimous vote of the
city council. Alderman Wood
twice voted against tree schools for
Athens, and even refused to submit
the question to the people lor their
decision. Examine the Clerk’s rec
ords and see it I am not tellling the
The Constitution of Georgia pre
vented the state making exhibits at] truth. This gentleman cannot at
HIS IAST DROP.
New Orleans, London and even at this late day poise as a friend to
Macon.
free schools.
Foraker's net plurality in the re
cent Ohio election is 17,6SS.
FRANKLIN COUNTY DOTS.
Mr. L. H. Briscoe, ot Carnesville,
has a musket that was made one
hundred and twenty-four years ago.
Mrs. Maxwell, A. R. Thomason,
and W. C. Vandiver are dead.
A Holiness ifieeting begun yes
terday in Carnesville with 60 work
ers.
Dr. W. C. McEntyre is much
better.
Mr. Jahn II. Rice and Miss Mar-
garett J. Franks arc married.
William G. Manley was horn in
this county in the year 1S06 His
wife, formerly Nancy Tucker, was
horn in 1S05.
RAISING CHESTNUTS FOR MARKET.
A gentlemah in Oconee county
slanted several chestnut trees on
' is plantation and now the trees
will yield five bushels of chestnuts
each. The chestnuts are much
larger and better tasted than those
brought from the mountains.
MRS. FELTON RELAPSES.
The many Iricnds of Mrs. Dr.
Felton, the talented editress of the
Cartersville Courant, will be pained
to hear that she has had a relapse
of fever, and is quite ill. We hope
she will recover her wonted health
soon, and he able to resume her ed
itorial labor.
TO 00 OUT WEST.
The first of December Messrs.
Wiley F. Hood and Dick Saulter
will leave for extensive trip over
the west, with a view of locating
there.
ACCIDENT IN BANKS.
A colored hoy, son of Richard
’hilt, ol this place, met with a se-
Aere accident one slay this week in
Banks county. He was woiking
n a gin. By some means he was
caught by the machinery, and his
foot was completely cut off.—Toc-
coa News.
Great news comes from Atlanta.
A correspondent in the Augusta
Chronicle—a paper that is bitterly
opposing prohibition—writes from
Atlanta that the liquor men in that
city are in grave fear and want to
make some compromise with the
prohibitionists, by which only a
Jew high license bar-rooms will he
a'luwed. If Atlanta votes out whis
ky, the rest of the state had just as
well yield to the inevitable, for the
next session of the Georgia legisla
ture will obliterate the traffic by
general enactment. The only dan
ger that we see to this new move
ment is that certain fanatics in the
prohibition ranks—and every cause
has more or less of them—embol
dened by their success, will attempt
some steps calculated to injure the
cause and bring about a reaction in
public sentiment. The leaven is
now working as nicely as the most
enthusiastic prohibitionist can ask,
anu it is a safe and good policy to
let well enough alone. Of all
things, don’t, under any circum
stances, mix prohibition with poli
tics. We must act cautiously and
conservatively. Show to the. peo
ple that it is not our wish or inten
tion to oppress any one, but are
only working for a great moral re
form, that we want to bring about
with as little injury to the men en
gaged in the liquor traffic as pos
sible. We are opposed to the high
license system, for it is an unjust
discrimination in favor of a certain
clast of bar-rooms. If liquor drink
ing is a curse, it is none the leas so
in a gilded palace than a cellar. Let
it be gradually swept from the
state, and not a root left behind to
sprout again. " ”
ANOTHER CIRCUS.
We learn that Coup’s circus is
heading toward Athens, and will
show close on the heels of Cole’s.
They were delayed by a railroad
accident, which prevented them
getting to Georgia sooner. The ad
vance -gent is expected in Athens
daily.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
We to-day publish propositions
from responsible parties to com
plete three important enterprises in
Athens, viz.: A railroad to Abbe
ville, S. C-, on electric railway
system and to establish the electric
light here. All of these schemes
will meet the hearty endorsement
and co-operation ot our citizens,
and will be given every encourage
ment.
AN EXODUST MOVEMENT.
News comes from neighboring
counties that the nigroes are hold
ing meetings and organizing with a
view of moving out West, and a
number are preparing to quit the
red hills ot Georgia. We have
traveled all over the West, and find
that a man can do as well in Geor
gia as elsewhere, if he will only
work.
.... _ o But Rome was not
built in a day—neither can the
liquor traffic be eradicated at once.
MICA IN GEORGIA.
The mica found in North Geor
gia is the finest in the world, it is
said. Some ol it is clear and some
is of the beautiful wine- colored vari
ety. Almost any variety that the
market would demand can be gotten
from these mines. It is firm, solid,
tenacious, flexible mica that is very
valuable. A great deal of mica that
is on the market is a littie spongy,
and breaks easily when beaten, hot
this is firm and can be bent double
before it bleaks. It is gotten out,
too, in large blocks, weighing from
forty to sixty pounds, which wili
square from four to sixteen inches.
A block that weighed sixty-two
pounds and squared thirteen to six
teen inches was taken out several
days ago, from a mine near Ellijay
One Who Knows.
A Ttg;t Hop* Walker Probably Killed In
Spartanburg.
(Ireenville. News.
A tight rope performer named W.
L Davis gave some remarkable ex
hibitions of his skill in Spartanburg
on yesterday, having his rope
stretched across Main street at a
height of 45 or 50 feet from the
ground. Alter turning somersaults,
standing on one leg, hanging by his
toes, and performing other teats, he
undertook to drop within four teet
of the ground and catch by one leg
on a small rope swung from the big
one to the street below. He failed
to tie the rope securely, and as he
shot to the ground, head foremost,
caught at the rope,it parted above,
and he fell with unchecked force.
He was immediately picked up and
cared for, hut at S o’clock last night
he had been unconscious three
hours, all efforts to restore him had
failed, and it was believed that there
was no hope for his recovery.
SIGNIMft BILLS.
.. -V
Bills and Measurer That Have Received the
Governor's Signature.
Establishing a system of free
schools in Athens.
Authorizing the. payment of in
terest on certain endorsed bonds o!
the Macon and Brunswick railroad.
Incerporating the Wast End and
Atlanta Street Railroad Company.
Amending section 4004 of revis
ed code.
Prohibiting importation of second
hand clothing into the state, and the
sale of the same.
Allowing disabled Confederate
soldiers who have lost a limb or
limbs, and who have neglected to
draw tor any year or years the
amounts of money to which they
may have been entitled under the
several acts passed in their favor, to
make application for the same, as if
such failure or neglect had not oc
curred.
Prohibiting obstruction of the
Oconee river, from Greene and
Hancock county line on its eastern
bank to its confluence with the
Ocmulgee.
Authorizing Coweta county to pay
$500 'owards erecting a monument
to Confederate soldiers in Newnan,
Ga.
Providing for keeping a record in
Greene county by merchants buying
cotton in less than bale lots for pub
lic inspection.
Providing manner of dissolving
garnishments.
Amending section 3533 of code ol
1SS2, by adding to section the fol
lowing: “The property or money
sought to be garnished was not sub
ject to process of garnishment.
Regulating commissions to jus
tices.
Incorporating the LaGrange
North and South railroad company
Making common carriers respon
sible tor damage to person or prop
erty, while acting outside their cor
porate authority.
Requiring Tax Collectors to keep
a record of tax defaulters.
Carrying into effect paragraph 1
section 17, article6 of'the constitu
tion, so far as it relates to civd caves
For the better enforcement of the
road laws.
Regulating the practice in the
superior courts in appeal cases from
justices.
Declaring when executions and
judgments are dormant to require
that entries on executions to pro
vent dormancy shall be recotded on
the execution docket.
Enabling widower or widow to
receive the share of the estate to
which he or she is entitled without
intet vention of a guardian in certain
cases.
Amending the law as to serving
hills in equity on defendants.
Amending section 621 of code of
1SS2.
A bill authorizing the governor to
furnish the Georgia reoorts and oth
er books to the State University.
A hill to authorize the judge o*
any county court to presid - in the
court of any other county juris e,
when said county judge is disqu di-
fied by law for the trial of any case
in his own county.
Abill to execute pa raj. raph 2,
section 4, of article 6, of the Consti
tution, by conferring upon courts
of common law equitable jut isdic-
tion.
A bill to define the duties of mas
ters in chancery and auditors; to
regulate the filling of exceptions to
their reports, to define the duties ot
the superior courts in the premises.
A bill to amend section 1969 of
the code.
A bill to amend section 1676 of
the code relating to the moue of
iricorporation of schools and church-
sessment plan,
A -Wtt to provide for the sale of
estrays appraised at $20 or less.
A bill to exempt telegraph line
repairers from jury duty.
A hill to authorize the granting of
letters of dismission to administra
tors and executors, without adminis
ter ing upon the revisionary interests
in the lands set apart as a dower.
A bill to fuither prescribe the
duties of the tax collectors of the
several counties of this state, and to
fix a penalty for the violation thereof.
A bill to confer upon the sheriffs
of the several counties of this state
authority to serve or execute all pro
cesses heretofore issued or that may
be hereafter issued from justice
courts or Irom the courts of notaries
public who are ex-officio justices of
the peace.
A bill to prohibit any justice of
the peace, or any notary public who
is ex-officio justice of the peace in
this stat •, from exercising any of the
duties of his office after indictment
or presentment by the grand jury
for malpractice in office.
A bill to make good the service of
processes issued from the courts of
the state either at law or in equity,
whenever such set vice is not made
ihe length of time now required be
fore the appearance term.
A bill to amend section 1404 of
the code by striking therefrom the
woids “or belonging to some volun
teer organizations,” and inserting
between the words “duty” and
sand,” in the third line, the words
•including the volunteer organiza
tions."
A hill to make additional appro
priations for the years 18S5 and
1SS6 to supply deficiencies in the
several appropriations for the ex
penses ol the government.
A bill to provide for the compen
satiun ol bailiffs of the county courts
for attendance upon the regular
monthly and quarterly sessions of
said court.
A bill to give the owners of stal
lions, hulls, etc., a lien upon the get
of said stallions, hulls, etc.
A hill to incorporate the Athens
and Jefferson ruilroid company.
A bill to incorporate the Athens
Savings bank.
A bill to amend the last sentence
of article 7, section I, paragraph 2
ot the constitution.
A hill to amend section 3937 of
tl.e code, to provide an additional
mode of obtaining tales jurors when
from any cause there are not a suffi
cient number of those drawn pres
ent to complete the panel of either
grand or tales jurors.
A bill to authorize anil empower
municipal corporations to issue exe
cutions for any debt due for taxes,
assessment, etc.
A resolution concerning the col
lection ot the Trezevant claim.
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING
A Lady Tries to SNoot a Dog and Receives
the Ballet Herself.
J'E LEGKAPUIC Sl’ARKS.
One night last week Mrs. Bold-
ing, wife of Mr. G. T. Bolding, who
resides on Col. G. R. Black’s planta
tion, in the fork of Briar creek, in
this county, took a pistol and walk
ed out to the back door of the dwel-
iog to shoot a prowling dog which
was in the yard. In a few minutes
the report of a pistol was heard, and
some member of the family going to
the door,’found Mrs. Bolding lying
on the floor, shot in the left breast
and a pistol lying near her. Dr. W.
C Bowie was Called in and probed
the wound to the depth of two or
three inches,' but could find no ball;
Jater lie discovered that the ball had
passed out at the back near the
shoulder blade. A search was made
for the ball, and it was found near
where she fell, very much flattened.
The mystery is how she got shot.
She had been in the habit of shoot
ing the pistol, and was experienced
in its use. It seems that she can
give no account of how it happened.
The wound is pronounced by the
doctor a flesh wound, but quite se
rious. The ball, perhaps, struck a
rib and glanced around, coming out
at the back She is suffering con
siderably, but will probably recover.
—Sylvania Telephone.
GEORGIA
NEWS.
m
AN ANGRY WIFE.
Who Tries to Save Her Husband from Ar
rest.
A Beautiful Girl's Fall.
•At Macon, Thursday,
GEORGIA WONDERS.
Lexington, Ga., Oct., 20.—Dep
uty SheriffDave Wynne anil posse,
in search of one Waiter Witcher,
colored, found him Saturday night,
or just before clay Sunday morning
last, in Madison county. He is sup
posed to be the vile wretch who as
saulted Mrs. Tom Graham, while on
her way to the spring last April, in
an attempt to coipmit rape on her
person. Walter, on discovering the
posse surrounding his house, en
deavored to make his escape by
running. He was overtaken, bnt in
order to arrest him, he had to be
given a good lashing. He finally
submitted, and asked to be taken to
his house. While they were in the
house waiting for Walter to yet over
his sulkiness, the wife of Walter
appeared with a dirk in one hand
and an ax in the other, and began
cutting right and left. The posse
were throw entirely on the defense,
and SheriffDave Wynne discharg
ed his pistol at her, shooting her in
the thigh, after which she, too, sub
mitted to the officers. YValter
Witcher will be brought before Mrs.
Graham to-day for identification.
THE RABUN DELUSION.
Eugene- Beck, the wife murderer,
is safely lodged In our jail. Sheriff’
Gaines says he is cheerful and don’t
house of Lucy Cohens, colored, on
Fifth street, Lieut. Wood, who had
been instructed by telegraph to do
so, arrested a young woman named
Hattie Landreth, of Augusta. Miss
Landrcth is a young woman of some
beauty, and is apparently 19 years
of age. It is stated that she is of
good family, and that her home, for
merly in Cincinnati, is now in
Knoxville, Tenn. Some months
ago she went to Augusta to visit
friends, and while there fell prey to
a handsome and well-known young
man of that city. When the truth
of her misfortune dawned upon her,
she went from bad to worse and a
short while ago gave birth to a Child.
She is arrested upon the charge
ol having one night recently
carried the child to the
home of a negro woman upon
whose doorstep she left it. She
avers that she gave the child into
the keeping of the woman, and had
agreed to pay a stipulated sum of
money each month for its niainten
eem to comprehend or care much
about his condition. Ilis attorneys
have led him to believe that he is
innocent of any crime and that he
will eventually get off’ clear, or his
sentence very much softened down.
While this may be a soothing, it cer
tainly is a hopeless delusion.—
Gainesville Southron.
SORE OVER DEFEAT.
It is stated that ex-Governor and
Railroad Commissioner Smith is
very sore because Governor Mc
Daniel did not see fit to appoint him
to this autocratic office. It is to be
hoped this is not true. Governor
Smith was greatly surprised when
he was appointed Commissioner,
and now he is surprised at not be-
ng appointed. He has nothing to
compl ain about.—Augusta News.
THE BAIN CASE.
T. W. Rucker, Esq., yesterday
received a telegram from Atlanta,
stating that the supreme court had
reversed the case ot Mrs. Bain vs.
the Athens Foundry, and gave a
strong 'decision in his favor. Mr.
Rucker has done some hard work
on this case.
A bill to define when corporations,
mining or joint stock companies
may be sued and to define how ser
vice ol the suit maybe effected.
A bill to amend section 4538 of
the code in reference to gaming
houses and gaming rooms by strik
ing out in the sixth line ot said sec
tion the words “any other games
played with cards” and substituted
in lieu tlieieof the words “any other
game or device for the hazarding of
money or other thing of value ”
A bill to require justices of the
peace and notaries public who are
ex officio justices of the peace to
furnish transcripts of judicial pro
ceedings had in their respective
courts.
A bill to authorize the hoard of
education or other proper authority
in certain counties or municipal
corporations in their discretion to
annex to the public school a d< part-
ment of industrial education.
ance. A police officer arrived from
Augusta, and will return to Augusta
with tile young woman in charge.
She is a beautiful young woman—
intellectual, accomplished, hand
somely attired, and in everv way
attractive—and apparently wits not
destined to such a fate.
Mother and Children in One Grave.
Petersburg, Va., Oct. 19.—No
sadder scene has lately been wit
nessed in Petersburg than the funer
al of the late Mrs. William Cook and
her two children, which took place
this afternoon. They were burned
to death last night with kerosene,
with which Mrs. Cook was attempt
ing to kindle afire. Another child
of Mrs. Cook, who was burned at
the same time; is not expected to
live. The mother and her two
children were placed in the same
coffin, and of all those present at the
funeral scarcely a dry eye was to be
seen. The services were conducted
by Rev. O. E. Littleton, pastor of
the High street M. E. church.
SAD CONDITION OF MR. WINN.
Lock J. Winn, a prominent law
yer of DeKalb county, who was de
feated by Judge Richard H. Clark
for the position of Judge „of the
Stone Mountain circuit, created bv
the legislature only a few weeks
since, has lost his mind, and has
been compelled to abandon his pro
fession. He passes Lis time sitting
in a chair, and with a vacant gaze
runs his eyes over the newspaper
handed him by members of his
family. He rarely says anything
and when he does, his remarks are
such that they have no conoectien,
and in consequence he cannot be
understood.
An Eagle Carries Off a Child.
Montreal, Can., Oct. 16.—Yes
terday a large bald-headed eagle
seized the two-year-old child of
Jean Romally, a farmer near here,
and bore the little one off’ in its
talons, alighting on a barn a jnile
distant.' A number ot men with
guns followed, but before they
could reach the spot the eagle had
killed its victim by driving its beak
into the child’s skull. Alter partly
devouring the little one’s flesh, the
bird took flight and escaped.
Riel has been respited until De
cember 10.
Marriages In Danlelsnlla.
Danielsvillb, Oct, 19.—The
matrimonial ball may be consid
ered fairly opened in our county.
Mr. Isaac D. Simmons, a young
widower,, and Mrs. P. Barnett
were the first to lead off.
Mr. James P. Patton and the
charming Miss Fannie Carithers the
next happy couple.
Curious Happenings still the Order.
E itonton Messenger.
Mr. Editor: Speaking of Mr.
Johnson’s dog being for seventeen
days cmbowelled in the earth re
minds of a few things which came
under my observation when quite a
boy. 1 knew a turtle to live twelve
months without food, so far as any
one knew. It was in this wise:
There lived on James river a man
who caught many turtles aud terra
pins lor the Philadelphia market,
and would put them in an old out
house till he accumulated enough to
make it an object tor a boat to land
lot them. On one occasion he took
all out, as he thought,
hut to nis surprise, 13 months
thereafter, in faking down the house,
he found one imbedded under the
hearth, alive, fat aiul fine.
I knew a bull in Lawrence coun
ty, Ga., many years ago, to live
thirty days without food, except the
bark from the logs, which he had
eaten as far as he could reach. He
was caught in an old out house by a
storm blowing off the roof and
blockading the door. This is no
bull-dozing story.
Speaking of a a mule giving birth
to a colt in Sumter county seems a
freak of nature. I knew a mule and
read of another many years ago,
that did the same thing. The case
1 knew of was in Nancemond coun
ty, Va., near Suffolk. The mule be
longed to John T. Kilby. A grey
female inule.
Bring in your next dog, turtle,
hull and mule.
Denis Station, Oct. to
AN OPIUM EATER.
A man named Means came into
one of our drug stores, Tuesday
night, and being introduced by a
citizen of Athens, asked for 15
grains of morphine. The druggist
sold it to him, and the purchaser
stepped to the water bucket and
prepared to swallow it at one dose,
when the proprietor of the store
took the same from him and poured
it back into the bottle, refusing to
let him have any more. Mr.
Means explained that he had no
intent to commit suicide, but had
often taken as much as 16 grains of
morphine without any bad effects,
and was addicted to the habit.
Two grains will kill an ordinary
man. We do not know whether he
succeeded in getting the drug or
not.
EXCITEMENT AT TALLULAH.
Mrs. TV. D. Young Attempts to Shoot Mr.
Mobs' Store Keeper.
From parties from Tallulah falls,
we learn the particulars of an ex-
A bill to change the m inner of j citing little encounter at that place.
granting license for the sale of spii-
ituous liquors as cantaineil in sei-
tion 1419 of the code.
A bill to authorize the commis
sioner of agriculture to appoint fi«h
wardens in the several counties ol
the state, and to prescribe their du
ties and fees.
A bill to require persons who
have been or may hereafter be ap
pointed administrator on any estate
without giving bond and security,
to give bond and security as admin
istrator, or be removed from the
administration of the estate.
A bill to incorporate the Cincin
nati, Georgia and Florida railroad
company.
A resolution requesting our sena
tors and representatives in congress
to vole for the repeal of all the Uni
ted States internal revenue laws.
A resolution requiring the super
intendent of the state lunatic asy
lum to investigate and report the
causes for the great increase of
lunacy in this state.
A resolution to authorize the les
sees of the Western and Atlantic
railroad to change gauge of the
tracks of said railroad so that the
same may conform to the gauges of
the principal railroads with which
it connects.
A resolution to exempt the ex-'
hibits of the fairs of the State Agri
cultural Society and the Northeast
Georgia Fair Association from tax
ation.
So far, Governor McDaniel's veto
does not appear upon any measure
that be has considered.
A bill defining voluntary assign
ments, and providing that a swum
schedule of creditors shall be filed
with the deed of assignment; also
providing that fraud shall avoid the
deed of assignment; and giving ju
risdiction ofcourts of equity.
A bill to provide for the return of
harmless ipmates now in the lunatic
asylum to the counties from which
they came, to be cared for by - the
county authorities.
' A bill to be entitled an act in rela
tion to corporations and associations
organized under the authority of the
law otjthis state or other states for
the purpose of furnishing life in
demnity br insurance upon the as-
It teems that Mrs. Young has been
laboring under the idea that Mr.
Martin, who keeps store for Mr. R.
L Mo-s, had something to do with
the burning of their hotel, and early
Tuesday morning, before Martin
had got up. she went to the store,
with a loaded pistol in her hand,
with tht avowed intention ot killing
him. Mrs. Youngknocked at Mar
tin's bed-room door, and told him
to come out at once. In the mean
time Mr. T. A. Robinson got wind
of what was on foot, and going
over to the store, attempted
to stop the troubie and told
Martin not to leave his room.
But Mrs. Young was determined,
and cocking the pistol tried to fire at
Martin through a crack in the door,
but Mr. Rohertson' prevented it by
stopping the hammer of the weapon
with his finger, which was badly
mashed. Mrs. Young then left the
building, hut was so overcome by
excitement that she fainted in the
road. It is a most unfortuuate mat
ter, and doubtless this lady
was laboring under great ner
vous excitement over her
loss. We trust that all will be
explained and settled without fur
ther trouble.
INSURANCE IN GEORGIA.
For the fiscal year ending May 1,
1885, the various insurance compa
nies doing business in Georgia re
ceived premiums amounting to $t,-
130,545, and paid out in losses
$692,448. The Southern Mutual of
Athens heads the list, receiving in
premiums $233,509, and paid in
losses $97,796. So it is seen that
fire risks in our state is a good in
vestment. The premiums were
$438,097 more than the losses on a
business of less than $1,250,000.
FOWLER'S SALES.
From a gentleman who knows,
we learn that Mr. Fowler, who runs
a bar-room near the paper mill, av
erages about $60 in cash per day.
About half of this is clear profit.
STOCKHOLDER'S MEETING.
The stockholders of the N. E. R.
E., met yesterday. They elected
the same board of directors. Mr.
J. M. Orr was elected in place of
Mr. Billups Phinizy, [resigned.
Hawskinsvillc Dispatch: “In Ir
win superior court last week two
of the negroes charged with the
burning of Mr. Sumner’s gin house,
in Irwin county, about a month ago.
pleaded guilty, and were sentenced
by judge Simmons to a term of fif
teen years in the penitentiary. There
were three negroes engaged in the
plot to murder and rob Mr. Sumner
on Sunday night, but .failing to
perfect their plans to murder him in
his dwelling they set fire to his gin
house to draw him away from his
dwelling so they could kill him and
then plunder his house. One of the
negroes wrs killed next day by the
party of citizens trying to arrest him.
The other two negroes surrendered,
and were takenjto jail in Irwinville,
where they remained until last week,
when they pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to fifteen years each in
the penitentiary. They will be
taken to Joe Brown’s coal mines in
Dade county.”
TO TAKE HIS FLAGS.
As Collector James O’Farrell
will be incapacitated for some time
yet from discharging his official du
ties, it is proposed to let him ex
change places with Mr. W. W. Col
quitt, of the Savannah district, until
Mr. O’Farrell, will be able to re
sume duties in his own district.
While we know that Mr. Colquitt is
an efficient officer, his district will
lose nothing by the exchange, for
Mr. O’Farrell is in every way com
petent to discharge its duties.
THE HARDEST YET.
A gentleman tells us that one of
the Potiphar Peagreens in the legis
lature politely went to the door
keeper of the House and asked his
permission to step out awhile,
stating that he would only be gone
a few minutes. It is needless to
add that this representative voted
against the amended JLailroad Com
mission bill.
The key that Miss Newton touch
ed the other day. was a wonderful
affair. Il first broke the circuit,
and over a connection with the
Western Union lines, notified the
officers stationed out in Long Island
by Gen. Abbot, to guage the veloc
ity of the vibration, that the moment
for the explosion had arrived. It
then fired the mine and set an in
stantaneous photographic machine,
and then struck the beats of the
clock to enable the officers to com
pute the interval between the time
of the explosion and the first vibrat
ing sensation.
The Grant Monument fund was
recently increased by fifty cents,
somebody having contributed to it
an old Confederate fifty dollar note,
which was sold for that amount By
the way, it is getting very monoto
nous to read week after week in the
New York papers “total to date
$Sq,ooo.” That coveted million is
still a long way off.
_ Governor McDaniel to date has
signed 340 bills and 23 resolutions
passed at the late session of the
general assembly. Among those
not yet acted .on are the tax asses
sor’s bill, the bill preventing pooling,
and several othets.
Ttu Press Dispatches of Yesterday Reduces
Into a Nutshell.
State Senator Fuller died in At
lanta.
Two murders were committed
Saturday night in Uniontown, Pa.
A canal horse in New York
jum'ped into the water and saved
two lives.
A postmaster at Clarkesburg, W.
Va., has been indicted for' opening
his sweetheart’s letters.
Doris’ circus train was derailed
near Memphis. No one killed, but
the horses and animals were spilled
out.
Atlanta, Oct. 17.—The Gover
nor to-day signed the bill prohibit
ing pool rooms and bucket shop
exchanges.
A colored preacher in Memphis,
accompanied by several of his flock,
was tired upon by assassins. Sever
al persons were injured.
A number of persons were killed
near Jersey City by an emigrant
train telescoping with an express,
and another train plunged into the
wreck.
At Pleasanton, Texas, Walter
Marr, brothei of District Judge
Marr, was shot dead by John Yates,
well known citizen. The men
were intoxicated.
Amkricus, Ga., Oct. 17.—lion.
George W. Davenport, of Preston,
who cut his throat and stabbed his
wife, died at 11 o’clock to-day. His
wife is in a very critical condition,
with but little hope of recovery.
Atlanta, Oct. 17.—R. J. Aw-
frey, a sewing machine agent, had
his horse to run away with his bug
gy to-night. He was thrown out
and concussion of the brain was
produced, from which he will prob
ably die.
Perry, Oct. 17.—Dr.Thomas and
Dr. Smith are rival physicians here
and recently both had charge of the
same case, which resulted in death.
Smith accused Thomas of poisoning
tlie patient. Thomas at once posted
Smith on the doors of Pleasant Hill
church as a liar. A board of honor
has failed to reconcile the men and
bloodshed is looked for.
A negro man of Toccoa, Ga.,
killed a colored woman of the same
place last Monday night. We un
derstand he and another fellow
were calling on the girl, and she
spoke something in favor of the
other fellow, at which the former
became enraged, and with a stick
dealt a blow on the girl that ended
her life.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 17.—A special
to the Macon Telegraph from San-
dersville says theie was an earth
quake shock there this evening, at
5:20, lasting about ten seconds. The
movement was from southwest
northeast. Persons in buildings
felt the shock very perceptibly. It
was accompanied by a low rum
bling sound.
A large army of tramps are raov
ing southward. .
The Georgia earthquake of Sun
day was felt in Jeflerson county.
One neero killed another near
Folkston, Ga., about a 50 cent debt.
Ten persons were burned beneath
the railroad wreck near Jersey City.
Four persons were burned to
death with their house in Chicago.
The Mormon elders are again
working East Tennessee and Geor
gia.
Chinese pirates attempted to aap-
ture a British vessel, but were whip
ped off.
Two men were shot at Harris
burg, Va., while John Wise was
speaking.
A fine horse in Sylvania, Ga.
was killed by running against
buggy umbrella.
Powder Springs, Cobb county,
Ga., had a $5,000 fire, destroying
several stores.
An Atlanta street car company
had to pay $130 because one of its
mules kicked a man.
Work on the Atlanta artesian
well has been suspended. It has
cost $20 per foot.
Tne Chinese government is busily
engaged in building railroads
throughout China.
They are still arresting parties en
gaged in the lynching of Culbreath.
at Edgefield, S. C
Five families in Atlanta were
seriously poisoned by eating souse
made of fresh pork.
One man was killed and seven
injured during the races in Mel
bourne, Australia, in one race.
A drunken negro met on the
streets of Atlanta a lady member of
Prof. Peck’s family and struck her.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, formerly of
the Sunny South, has been doing
seme clever detective work in New
York
A little girl was shockingly
wounded in Chattanooga while her
little brother was handling an old
pistol.
The Catholic organ of Virginia
arraigns Dr. Curry, Minister
Spain, for insulting its church in
public address.
A canvas of the new members of
the Ohio legislature shows that
{ ohtt Sherman will not be elected
J. S. Senator.
The liquor men in Atlanta are
discouraged, and say that some sort
of concessions must be made to the
prohibitionists..
The speejal corespondent of the
Commercial Gazette concedes the
election of Fifz Lee, but says that
Mahone will carry the Legislature.
John Howard Parnell, the West
Point preach farmer, does not like
the manner in which nis Irish ten
ants are withholding the rent. His
only remedy will be to charge the
matter up to his brother Charles.
Bellefont, Pa., Oct 19.—At the
Presbyterian Synod to-day, the com
mittee on treedmen reported and
strongly recommended the erection
of e college in every southern state
for the education of colored men.
Louisville, Ky., Oct 19,—At
Cwaskie, Kansas, a terrible powder
explosion occurred Saturday night.
Mr. Landers, a farmer, accompanied
by his wife, two children and Mrs.
Streck, started home. Among
Landers’ purchases was a two
pound package of powder. Mrs.
Landers, in lighting her pipe, drop,
ped a spark of fire on the powder,
which ignited, throwing every one
iti the party out of the wagon. Mrs
Landers was instantly killed, and
the others cannot survive their inju
ries.
Greenesboro, Oct. 19.—A seri
ous accident occurred here to-day,
that may result in the death of one
The gubernatorial pot. has teas
to boil.
A Columbus waiehouseman I:
1 skunk for a pet.
The artesian well at Cuthbeit
been attached by the sheriff.
English capitalists are buyir
great tracts of land in Georgia.
Davis Brown, a young man
Rome, has'mysteriously dfsappea
-ed from borne. -' l
A Rome man gave in his tax ;
$205 and his property will brin
$2,000 arfy day.'
There is a man in Brownwood wh
claims to have a bottle of whisk
thirty years old. . ]
William Lovern and Mf«. Lan
ders, aged respectively 79 and 5*
were married nnar Bowden a fev
days ago.
Two negroes were caught in. tht
machinery ’of Col. Humber’s mill ir
Putnam county. One was killec
outright and the other will die.
Maria Riley, colored, committed
suicide by drawing herself in ttu
Ocmulgee river, at Macon, Thurs
day. Domestic unhappiness was
the cause.
Col. J. R. Sneed, of Georgia, was
yesterday appointed by Secretary
Manning chief of division in the
Register’s office. Col. Sneed is an
old newspaper man of Savannah.
Gov. McDaniel has pardoned Ja
cob Hart, colored, of Glascock
county, who was sentenced to pris
on for life for a disgusting crime. 1
He has served twelve years, and the
Governor’s action is the result of
strong doubts as to the prisoner’s,
guilt.
Atlanta Journal: The last issue
of the Sentinel, a paper published
in Augusta and edited by a negro
preacher, contains a very harsh and
under the circumstances, a brutal
attack upon the character and fame
of General Robert Toombs, whose
death the sheet prematurely an
nounces.
As Miss Fannie Eberhart was
walking through a cut on the
North-Eastern road railroad, near
Maysville, the train caine upon her
unexpectedly, and in her excitement
she dropped her satchel, containing
her watch and other articles upon
the track, which articles the train
ran over, smashing the watch, she
having a very narrow escape her
self.
Dr. Woodrow has appealed from
the action of the Augusta presbyte
ry on his case to the synod. This
will probably make the approach
ing session of that body in La-
Grange a lively one. Dr. Wood-
row, it will be remembered, was
suspended irom the chair he filled
in the theological seminary at Co
lumbia, for his views in regard to
evolution, he holding that there
was nothing in the doctrine with
which Christianity could not be
shown to harmonize.
Watermelons are still on the Al
bany market
In Murray county cor* is selling!
at 40 cents per bushel.
A member says the legislature
lost a solid month on account of free
passes.
It is rumored that Judge John D.
Stewart may resign the judgeship
of the Flint circuit.
It is rumored that Judge Thomas
G. Lawson will retire from the
bench at the expiration of his pres
ent term.
A little negro, aged eight years,:
was burned to death on the planta
tion of Mr. W. F. Castellow, in
Henry county, last Sunday night,
caused Crom the explosion of a ker
osene lamp.
The three boys in jail for entering
Mr. Coben Anderson’s house re
cently are troubled with ghosts,'
They affirm that a tall, skeleton-like:,
spectre pays its respects every night'
or two.—McDonough Weekly. j
Robert Toombs’ estate is said to:
be worth $250,000.
A paper mill company, with a :
capital of $100,000, is to be organiz
ed at Way cross, Ga.
The probabilities are that the:
crop of cotton - will be somewhat;
larger than was expected a few
weeks ago.
Hart county crops have been in
jured, according to an experienced
merchant’s estimate, $20,000 by the
wet spell.
A new hotel to be constructed of
brick will soon be started in Cuth-
bert, Ga. A $20,000 court house is
already on its way toward comple
tion.
Mr. Oliver Walls, one of Upson’s]
most substantial farmers, was in town
this week with a two horse wagon i
that he has been using regularly cn
his farm forty years next July. Aj
good lesson for young men just
starting out in life.—Thomaston j
Times.
A soiled dove in Atlanta tried to
commit suicide by banging herself
in the city prison, but was cut down
1
GENERAL NEWS.
The Florida orange crop this year
is the best ever raised in that state.
Chester A. Arthur, Jr., who is
now at Lenox, Mass., is in impaired
health.
Josh Billings, the great humorist,
died out in California on Tuesday.
His real name was A. W. Shaw.
It is now thought that Riel, the
Canadian rioter, will be imprisoned ;
for life instead of being hanged.
The Galveston News estimates
that the Texas cotton crop of 18S4- >
S5 will closely approximate 973,000
bales s
Western cattlemen arm them
selves with' long range buffalo guns
when they go on guard watching
for fence cutters.
Gen Fitz Lee was escorted into
Lebanon, Russell county, Va., Wed
nesday last, by 1,320 mounted dem
ocrats.
* The first human body will be in
cinerated in the Long Island cre
matory next week. The furnaces :
have the capacity ot eight per day
and the charge is to be $25 for each
body.
General Grant’s height, as stated
by Col. Frederick D. Grant, in a
letter to inquirer in Scranton, \va*
5 feet S inches; che5t measure,
about 38 inches; weight, in April,'
1S61, 135 pounds; in June, 1866, 142
pounds.
A bloody riot was imminent at
one time in Columbus, Ohio, Satur-
urday. The republicans hoisted a
bloody shirt in front of the demo
cratic headquarters, which so exas
perated the democrats that a very
serious affray was with difficulty
prevented.
At Goldsboro, S. C., a new dep
uty marshal, full of anxiety to keep
his place, and, therefore, zealous,
was instructed to serve a writ
Learning that the defendant had
just been buried, the deputy mar
shal crept into the graveyard and
quietly laid the copy on the defen
dant’s grave. The return read as
follows: “Served by leaving copy
at defendant’s last residence.”
Two little boys near Winslow, N-
C., made $210 an acre raising to
bacco.
Because Charles Downs, who
of our most worthy young men. 'Was in an Ohio penitentiary, didn't
Mr. John Park, a young man of
about twenty, son of Judge John B.
Park, while.gathering chestnuts on
his father’s premises, on the edge of
town, yesterday morning, fell from
the tree, a distance of forty-three
feet, dislocating . his shoulder, and
seriously injuring him itiwardly.
He is already completely paralyzed
in one side. :
want to work any more he deiiber
ately chopped oft three fingers of
his left hand.
“The smallest book in the world,”
as the Boston Journal learns, “is
half the size of a postage stamp, and
is an edition of the sacred book of
the Sikhs, belonging to*the Earl of
Duflerin.”