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An Atlanta letter in the Macon
Telegraph brings to light some start
ling i relations in regard to the pay
of the Clerk of the House and Sec
retary of the Senate, aud shows that
these officers have not only a “phat"
ami soft job, but are actually draw
ing money to which they are not
antitled under the law, by putting in
that is- not provided for. Take
,-or instance Mark Hardin, Clerk of
tin! House. He was paid $7,000 for
tho too days session, and of this
sum paid out less thsn one-half,
,or assistance, leaving him a
clear gain of $3 72S, or $37.18 per
(lav tor his services. But not satis-
tied with even this, Clerk Hardin
draws from the treasury $350 for
liiii-hing up his work after the leg.'
idamre had adjourned, for which
\ e no pay was mentioned.
In regard to the Secretary of the
S natc.he is allowed $60 per day for
ill- 1 session, and a resolution allowed
ii P to remain over five days after
;ni *n nerd, hut, if we are not mis-
la's-m Mr. 11.mis Went home nrj
<>' !l '"* days thereafter, and he gets
, ; , n iv «l'$f*> per day for the limit of
ti He made neaily as much
J. 11<r.ini lie paid Maj. J.T.Taylof
t 1 In •! journal clerk in the st.de.
I'-s rh.m $5 |.er day—how mucli
1'-' lllf Major was ashamed to tel!.
() , that basis 1 presume the other
ci I". Cahaniss. Hardeman and
I’ark •, were paid proportionately
le» than the house clerks received;
s.> Mr- Harris proliably got quite as
much as Mr, Hardin, and as lie em-
puyed no extra or lady clerks lor
enrollment he doubtless made more
Ilian did the as'ute Mark A. llardin.
These two gentlemen, besides
jt ting a magnificent pay for the
se"it>n, got $75° 7° r services (?) af
ter adjournment, which latter pav
has no warrant inlaw, If they got
the same amount- aller the winter
adjournment that makes $1.51x1 per
iiar; and if that has been a custom,
like Tate's vote, ever since the con
dilution of 1S77, it follows that the
Stale ha- been mulcted out of about
from $1300 to $15,000 within the
last eight years.
It is remembered that, with a
S rrat ll mrisli of trumpets, the House
posed a irsolulion authorizing the
l e:k I 1 employ lady cniolling
c.riks. Four were engaged for 21
days at S3 per day, and the magnifi
es" -urn of $252 paid them.
We
1 at
posed to greed and mo-
1 foim, and it is clearly
I in ti e case of these
officer*. If they can do
ary work with so small a
pay is entirely too large
1 ol the none ions leaks in
rv iliat should he stopped
liUlLU HllL HANG.
Til
■il \r
. f hiii
he fill
I'lf'iiou is now being dis-
li! pies', and the general
bet is that it would lie a blunder
'harm to punish such a mi-era-
jufi aljic! wieich. The execu-
i 1 t .is irl e! would not convince
I eopie whom he had head-
lev were wrong, hut make
nils r.and Ins name would
- entive for fresh outbreaks.
K e. is the representative and the
: 1 .-t ii ii-pu uous victim of a people
who undoubtedly believed they
wt ie wronged by their government;
who had tried for some time to
make their peaceable remonstrances
heard, and v hoat last,-in a moment
"I irritation, took to arms, were put
down by force and have now sub
mitted. Kiel, as the leader of this
so-called rebellion, was tried by a
Court about the constitutionality of
"I'ich there appears to be some
donut at least; the prosecuting gov
ernment refused to pay the expense
nl witnesses ire desired to summon;
the jury found him guilty, but rec
ommended him to mercy; and no
doubt in this as in oilier like cases a
verdict of guilty could not have been
obtained hut for the belief of the
iurv that their recommendation of
mercy would have due influence on
the government. Yet a Montreal
despatch asserts that Sir John Mac
Donald’s government will let Riel
bang, and the Governor General is
apparently of the same mind—»o
matter what public sentiment may
ask; no matter apparently how nu
merous or how respectably and
largely signed the petitions for mer
cy to Riel.
The Dominion government can
not hold itself entirely guiltless for
the lraif-breed outbreak in the
Northwest. It had acted with
S ,! >ve injustice toward these poor
"retches, and never were people
hred with a more patriotic devo.
1 on than when Riel and his follow-
"s took up arms in defense of their
homes and firesides. The govern
ment should now haste to correct
she abuses that occasioned this out
break, and then extend the hand of
leniency toward the late rebels.
This will prevent a recurrence of
•he trouble, and save the honor of
the British nation.
“rtsT""
nS .'y hat can ‘heEnglish peo-
He sh nk ,a y ‘ 0,erarin * * uc h > man?
nL T bC os,r * c i R ed and de-
thc r / “ nd Pe,f,>d w!th
Ivor v ? ° f * he «*«* "hen-
ever he dares to show his form
among decent people. Mrs. Lang-
«rywas J u ., ifi8blcinqBht i
husband, and she must feel for him
the deepest contempt. We consid
er him to-day the lowest character
that walks the face of the earth—a
fester upun the name of humanity
and a living disgrace to any coun
try or people that tolerates him.
ATHENS, GEOBGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1885.
VOL XXXI
LEXINWTON LUt'AIK
Sam
Jones gets ofl some real
e™d things, if they were uttered
from the street corner instead of the
pulpit.
It is suggested that Andy John-
n * P r >vate secretaries and G.
Washington’s body servants hold a
reunion.
President Cleveland has sent a
conti ibuiion of $1,000 to help.for-
ward the democratic campaign in
New Yqrk.
Jahn Sherman continues to harp
un the ensanguined rag. The bloody
shirt is about all that is left of John-
nie’s party.
Dr. Lyndon’s Turkish liniment
seems to be on a bigger boom than
any of the Gubernatorial candidates
as yet in the arena.
It is a generally accepted fact that
the Georgia earthquake was only
gotten up as a sort of celebration
over the adjournment of our legis
lature.
Occasionally some fellow imag
ines that he can crush a paper out
of existence by stopping his sub
scription. Our heart bleeds with
pity for such cases.
Atlanta is a “wet town,” and yet
Athens, a “dry town,” is sending
there lor mechanics and workmen.
This fact rather knocks a certain
argument in the head.
Some
ot the most eminent and
popular ministers of modern times
graduated in bar-rooms. The Au
gusta Chronicle should use this ar
gument. It is worth two of that old
Bryant dodge.
Fifty years ago William Lloyd
Garrison was mobbed in Boston for
uttering Abolition sentiments. This
was before General Toombs called
the roll of his slaves from Bunker
Hill.
The Xlarquis ol Lome, the
Queen's son-in-law, was pelted
with rotton eggs by his sovereign
constituents. Sartoris would make
an excellent target for such ammu
nition, and the American people
will furnifh the decayed hen fruit.
New York lacks only $920,000
of raising the requisite million to
erect a monument over Gen. Grant.
The managers are now tiying to
swell the sum by selling old Con
federate bills.
Prof. Woodrow, the clerical evo
lutionist from Columbia, S. C., wav
sustained by fhe Charleston synod.
This controversy has bored the
country as much as the Southern
league pennant.
The
Prosecutions and Cor vlctlons In Court.
Lexington, Ga., Oct. 24.—There
were thirteen inmates in the jail
awaiting.trial, all of whom-were
tried and resulted as follows:
Bill Goodwin, colored, robbery,
fou'years, new trial granted; Wm.
Baker, colored, kidnapping, acquit-
ted; Perry Hay good, rape, acquit
ted; Lewis Glenn, colored, kidnap
ping, $20 and cost; Robert Willing
ham, colored, obstructing 'he
rtilroad, four years in chain gang;
George Raiven, colored, stealing,
acquitted; Willis Collins, colored,
illegal voting, acquitted; Jesse Cal-
gambling, acquitted; Walter
Witcher, colored, twenty years in
the penitentiary; Lee Johns'on, col
ored, carrying concealed weapons,
$20 and cost; Robert Heard, color-
ed, gambling, $20 aud cost; John
Rorer, colored, illegal voting, $20
and cost; Spencer Cox, stealing
b,, SBy and horse, $25 and cost.
tiik whirligig of time.
859 MAJORITY.
Overwhelming Triumph of Prohibition In
Oglethorpe County.
The following is the official vote
at the prohibition election of last
Monday in Oglethorpe county. It
is certainly a grand triumph:
For Pro. Against Pro
Lexington
Crawford
Wolf skin.
Beavf rdam
Pleasant Hill ..
(Slade ..
Goose pond
Sima ton
Grove Creek. ...
Woodstock ......
Falling Creek ...
Bowling Green—.
Total
Majority for Prohibition, 359.
|A GRAVE COMPLAINT.
Oconee County, Ga., Oct -
1* U7-.L ’ w . D '
Editor Banner-Watchman: I learn
that Mr. Fowler, who runs a bar
room on the Athens road, near the
paper mill, has secured a license for
a year, and hence our people must
hear this infliction for that long a
time, at least. At most any time
you can see a crowd of drunken men
on the road, and it is undoubt
edly a nuisance, and I trust that our
next grand jury will report it as
such and order that Mr. Fowler’s
license be taken from nim. This
bar-room is a veritable dead fall,
and the proper authorities should’
see that it is abated. Ladies dread
to pass this spot, for they know
not at what time they will be in-
sulten by some drunken rough.
A Lady.
A MIXED MARRIAGE.
A justice of the peace in Oconee
county got a little mixed in marrv-
ing two couples of colored citizens
last Sunday. The two women and
the two men who wanted to be
joined in matrimony were all stand
ing up together, and the Justice
married one of the women to both
the men, and both the women to
the other man. It is now so badly
mixed that the men don’t know
which 01 the women to live with.
The Justice was a little scared at the
time, gd has been working since to
get it all straightened out.
HEW HOTELS AT TALLULAH.
Mr. W. D. Young has left for
Florida, where lie has a line hotel
offered him, and if suited He will
move there until the titles to his
property at Tallulah are settled.
Then he expects to form a joint
stock company and build a larger
house where his hotel stood. This
gentleman has received several let
ters with offers to furnish capital to
erect a new hotel. Mr. T. A. Rob
inson is looking over his properly
at the falls, with a view of building
a hotel for the coining season, lie
is fully able to do so.
Ohio election didn’t turn
out such a Waterloo for the repub
licans after all. It is highly
probable that the bloody shirt will
be a political winding sheet after
all for John Sherman.
THE BOTTOM OF DEGRATION.
Senator Colquitt seems to have a
perfect mania for going to the big
Northern cities and falling into the
clutches of some newspaper re
porter. It is a bad and unfortunate
habit that the Senator should try
and break himself of.
Macon Telegraph: “With the
aid of fine instruments folks up In
New England were enabled to note
the vibration of the earth’s surface
when Hell Gate was blown off its
hinges. These same folks, how
ever, can hear a negro drop in
Georgia every time a fire-cracker
explodes.”
CONFERENCE NOTES.
The North Georg ia conference
convenes in Newnan on November
26th. The South Georgia Con
ference meets in Brunswick
in December. It will com
prise all the ministers and many of
the lay delegates from the Southern
half of Georgia. About 300 dele
gates are expected to be in attend
ance.
Tile Man WHO Killed Ossawattomle Brown
at Harper's Percy.
[Wean. Cor. New York Timer ]
The “whirlgig of time” has
brought about a notable coincidence.
Just as the fame of old John Brown,
of Pottawatmie, is taking a new
lease of file through Air. Sanborn’s
memoirs of the man who struck him
down the engine house at Harper’s
Ferry twenty-six years ago this
month, is honored with an office
under -the Federal government.
Israel Green, of Mitchell. Dakota,
who was recently appointed agent
of the Indians of Sisseton agency in
that territory, is the same Lieutenant
Green of the marines, who led the
final assault upon the liberator’s
stronghold. All accounts ot the
figlil agree that Green and Major
Stuart were the first men to dash
through the broken door, and that
Green singled John Brown out for a
hand-to-hand combat. What he
did when he met his foe is variously
described by spectators of the scene
and bv himself. One Baltimore pa
per of the day briefly states that
“Old Brown was cut to the floor by
the sable of lieutenant Green, who
acted in a fearless manner.” Cap
tain Daingerficld, a clerk in the ar-
mory, who had been made prisoner
the day before the attack, writes:
“Lieutenant Green stood a second
amid a shower of balls looking for
John Brown. When he saw him
lie sprang about twelve feet at him,
giving him an underthrust of his
sword, striking Brown midway
in the body and raising him com
pletely from the ground. Brown
tell forward with his head between
his knees, while Green struck him
several times on the head, and as he
then supposed split Ins skull at ev
ery stroke. I was not two feet from
Brown all the time.” It was not
till a while later that Daingerfield
learned that Brown was not killed,
Green’s sword having struck the
old man’s belt and been bent doub
le. At'the trial of John Copeland,
one of Brown’s negro associates,
Lieutenant Green was a witness.
Coursel for the defense asked him:
When Brown was down
FL&HKWR A GIRL.
BLOODY STREET DUEL IN BIR
MINGHAM.
you
struck him in the face with your sa-
bie?”
“Yes, sir,” was the answer.
‘.‘This was after he was down?”
“Yes, sir, he was down.”
“How many times. Lieutenant
Green, did you strike Brown in the
face after he was down?’
“Why, sir, he was defending him
self with his gun.”
At this point the dialogue was
cut short by a protest from the coun
sel for the prosecutidn. After the
Harper’s Ferry episode, Mr. Green
went on a long cruise and returned
to this country to find th2 civil war
under full headway. He entered
the Confederate service ind at the
close ol the war went w jst, settling
finally in Dakota. Th : influence
through which he obtained his pres
ent appointment was th: t of M. II.
Day, member of the dem ocratic na
tional committee for the tenilory.
CARD FROM MR. TV. Ii. YOUNG
Two Prominent Young Men Fight In the
Presence of their Lady Love, While on
Their Way to the Jones Revival, and Mor
tally Wound Each Other—Excitement
Prevailing.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 22.—Bir
mingham has borne the brunt of
many false reports about her peo
pie’s morals, but nothing has so
pained her citizens as the unfortu
nate shooting of two young men to
night at 7 o’clock. Walter Orr, a
handsome young Mississippian,
who has been here for the past lour
years in the, livery business, and
Phil Givan, a clerk in a furnish
ing goods store, were in 1 love with
Miss Mattie Rose. To night Orr
had an engagemeht to carry this
lady out to the great revival con
ducted by the Rev, Sam Jones.
When Orr reached the home of
the young lady, she was awaiting at
the front gate, and the two started
leisurely down Third avenue to
ward Sam Jones tent, five squares
away. After walking two squares
a man approached, and grabbing
Orr’s right arm, said:
“You are the d—d scoundrel I
am looking for.”
Orr recognized Phil Givan, his
rival, and at once prepared to de
fend himself, as he had previously
been warned that Givan would
shoot him if he ever caught him
with this young lady. Realizing
the impending trouble, Givan drew
a pistol and began firing on his rival,
■while the girl still held Orr’s arm.
At the first discharge she screamed
and ran across the street. Orr drew
his pistol, returning the fire. Each
had 3S calibre, five shooting Smith
& Wesson, and when the duel was
over it was found that every cham
ber of both pistols were emptied.
BOTH MEN DYING.
Orr was shot twice, the fatal one
entering the abdomen. Givan was
also shot twice, once in the arm, and
the surgeons think the other ball
penetrated the bladder. It is
thought both men will die before
morning. Alter Orr discharged
every ball from his pistol he ran
into the house of a friend, near by,
and borrowed another, and reached
the street before falling. Givan
walked two squares before calling a
back. Both young men are highly
respected, but are not members of
leading families. The affair was
most unfortunate, as the entire pop
ulation had become intensely inter
ested in the great gospel meeting
began here yesterday by Sam Jones.
TnEIlt DYING DECLARATIONS.
Orr staggered into the residence
etf W. T. McCutcheon. He was
eitet by Mr. Clayton, who laid him
00 a sofa. Drs. Hendley, Shoemak
er and Dozier were called, and told
him the wounds were fatal. He
made a will. Rev. Mr. Purser, min-
TIVO WILD STORIES DP TOOMBS.
A Confederate Emancipation Suggestion-
V By He Didn't Talk to Him.
Pblialel ptila Times.
Speaking of the differences in
the Confederate cabinet, General
Toombs said to me: “There was
one very serious one. I was Sec
retary of State, and as such was en
deavoring to secure recognition
from foreign poweis. I sent Y'ancey
to Europe for that purpose. Both
France and England were ready to
recognize us, but they objected to
slavery. I replied that slavery should
not stand in the way of our recog
nition. I then demanded the right
to issue a proclamation of emanci- about .0 o’clock, and abo'uUh'esam^
patton,-treeing every slave by -
stroke of the pen, as it was finally
done. Davis and the cabinet had
neither the sense nor the nerve
take such a course. It would have
secured the success of our cause as
certainly as that the »un will rise on
another day. But Davis did not
have the courage. The proclama
tion could have been for gradual
emancipation, and then repudiated,
as Washington repudiated the neu
trality treaty. We had plenty of
precedents for such action. 1 would
have taken the icsponsibility, and
ought, as Secretary of State, to have
been allowed to do so, but Davis
was not a diplomat. Neither
he a statesman nor a soldier. There
are many queer things about the
Confederacy which have never
been told. These so-called histories
do not touch the bone.
In 1S55 I had talked over the
question of the abolition of slavery
with Napoleon III. and with Glad
stone and Palmerston. I foresaw
the war then, and was prepaiing
for it. Both Napoleon and the
English government would have
recognized us immediately but for
slavery, and I knew it. But Davis
stood in the way of meeting the ob
jection of the foreign powers as ex
pressed to me, and therefore I re
signed. When I went to Europe
alter the war .1 was more than ever
confirmed in the wisdom of the
policy which I had advocated.”
Mr. Davis, shortly after Gen.
Toombs made this statement to me,
laughingly said that this was the
first time he "had ever heard of
Toombs’ emancipation proclama
tion.
“We had a queer government. I
remember that one day a secret
agent of the England authorities
stepped up to me on the street
and said:
“Mr. Secretary, where will I find
the state department?”
“In my hat,” 1 replied, “and the
archives are in my coat pocket.”
lie was in the senate during the
hitter slavery debates, when Sew
ard was wont to deliver his con-
ciliatoty speeches. These generally
called out a vehement and insulting
reply Irom the southern members,
which was peculiarly exasperating
to the senators from the north.
time Orion, which patient Old job
saw with wet eyes so many ceutu-
ries ago, comes within view and
to strides up the sky—a youth begirt
with a belt of stars and armed with
a sword, in the scabbard of which
tsthe most wonderful of the nebular
mysteries. About 7 o’clock on
Wednesday morning Saturn se
renely came in on the home-stretch
of a long run of twenty-nine and a
half years in that 5.000,000.000-mile
race course which his orbit de
scribes. The ancient planet, with
out stopping for a moment’s rest
after finishing its long, tireless race,
sailed on to repeat the task. To
was speak scientifically, Saturn was at
perihelion—as near the sun as the
Great Ruler of the universe will let
the big orb go. With all its golden
rings Saturn is now ofl for another
splendid dash into the unknown
and unfathomable realms of space
ister of the First Baptist church, One day, after an incident ol this
Explaining the Burning or Hls Tallulah
Hotel and Correcting a; tstakes.
Tallulah, Ga., Oct. 27.—Editor
Banner-Watchman: j notice in
the Constitution of the _2d inst., an
article written by some <lay, I do not ,
know who, that purports to give j his wounds were dressed by Dr.
the details of^the burning of my j Luckie. He was hit twice, one be
came and offered prayer. Airs. L
H. -Morgan qlso oflered prayer. The
scene was most impressive. Orr
said:
“I have been worldly, but if God
would let me live, I would live a
Christian life. I love Christian
people.” There is much excite
ment. Givan ran in the dark to
S.ollenwerck's drug store, where
MEETING 1IIS DOOM.
A Midnight Encounter With a Long Train
on a Trestle.
Messrs. Reese and Mattox, rival
candidates for congressional honors
in this district, don’t say a word,
but attend all courts and sit down
on opposite corners ol the curb
stone and eye each other. The boys
want to see the monotony broken
by these gentlemen “hitching.”
Mr. Langtry is living quietly near
f'dlast. on the annuity which his
">>e allows him, so long as he stays
** a y from her.
” * clip ttie above from an ex.
change, and would ask every man
"'th a grain of honor or self-respect,
lf he does not think that this noted
bn Klishman has touched the bot-
!u,n found of degradation, and sunk
tVen lower than the brute creation?
He
fe we see a so-called gentle-
m,n (?) ot education and refine-
Dlen ‘> actually a pensioner upon the
Prostitution of his wife’s talent,
oca
,u 'y *nd good name! By accept-
‘ n R such a bounty he not only con-
ones his wife’s conduct, but sells
tr to the highest bidder for an
ta *y life and support. And yet this
‘feature Langtry is received and re-
Co gnized by society—this stool-
I P'Reon of infamy and pimp of vice
^*lks the streets of a civilized, with
t,d erect, while the garment* that
^er bis worthless carcass and eve-
I morsel he eats, are purchased by
* *ale of the woman whom he
»worn to love, honor, and pro-
***• Such a creature would be
P Uf ned in America, and even the
A republican paper charges that
an ex-corn doctor is to be appoint
ed to succeed Civil Service Com
missioner Eaton. We didn’t think
the President had as yet kicked
enough republicans out of office to
raise any bunions on his feet.
free
The clause in the Athens
school bill electing trustees for life
or good behavior ia an excellent
provision, as it divorces this ques-
■ont from politics. If it is found to
work badly the city council can
have the bill amended at any time
Efforts are still being made to
have experts appointed to pass on
Riel’s sanity, but the impression is
general that he will be hanged.
The weather signal flags in Ath
ens are about at tattered and torn as
John Sherman’s bloody shirt.
SENTENCE COMMUTED.
Gov. McDaniel commuted the
sentence of the negro Greene Jack-
ton, who shot a colored man in
Morgan county named Calvin Mar
tin, in Angust, 1SS4. Jackson was
an imbecile and not responsible for
his acts.
PROHIBITION W OCONEE.
An ex-Hquor man in Atnena says
he will bet two to one that Oconee
county votes out liqnor if she ever
get* « vote qn the subject. The la
dies have already taken the field for
it - >
NEW AIR-BRAKES.
Injunction air brakes will be used
on the Georgia Midland. It is a
new patent just got out in Athens.
Mr. Henry Shirley, formerly of
Athens, but now ot Atlanta, tells us
of a very thrilling encounter with a
freight train on a trestle in North
Carolina. Henry was in the army,
and concluded that he would try
and make his way home to see his
family. He knew if he
got on the railroad tracks
and keep it, that it would bring him
to Columbia, South Carolina, and
from there he could find his way
home. Accordingly one dark night
he struck the railroad track and pro
ceeded on his way, no doubt think
ing of the pleasant surprise he
would give the dear ones at home,
having been gone for three years.
After walking until near midnight,
he came to a long trestle, and by
feeling Ins way carefully along the
cross ties, Henry managed to get
about half a mile on the trestle,
when he he heard a train coming
from the direction that he was trav
elling. Here was a dilemma
which made his ’ heart sink
within him. Air. Shirley could not
tell how far it was to the end of tha
trestle, and he well knew that if he
attempted to go hack, that the train
would overtake him before he could
reach half the distance. The only
chance left him was to swing down
between the cross-ties and Ibt the
approaching train pass over. Hen
ry did not have any idea how far it
was from the track to the ground
as the night was very dark, and h
could not help but think that it was
at least a hundred feet below. He
crawled down between the cross
ties, and secured a firm hold to let
the train pass. The train came very
slowly, and with about fifty cars at
tached to it Henry began growing
weaker and weaker, and knew that
he could not hold out much longer.
Seconds seemed like months and
minutes lengthened into years, as
this long train slowly wended its
way over the man, who was cling
ing to the track. He imagined he
could see his body dashed to pieces
on the jagged rocks below. He
cojld see his wife and children sit
ting around the quiet fireside, watch
ing and waiting for the father and
husband’s return. At last his strength
was gone and he could not hold any
longer. He uttered a prayer and
closing his eyes determined to meet
his death and relieve his terrible
pain. His hands relaxed their hold
—and down he goea, falling about—
a foot Henry now thinks that it
he had stretched out his toes Re
copld have touched the ground.
hotel, which I wish to correct. I
cannot see who it is that makes
statements so utterly at variance
from the true facts. The fire did
not oiiginate nearer than thirty feet
from any chimney. There was a
hall in the second story of the mid
dle part of the hotel. In that hall
went a stairway into a long attic.
At the landing of that stairway was
a large pack of cotton mattresses,
the floor being swept e'ean before
they were packed down. In the
mattresses was where the fire orig
inated, we think, as when Air.
Cartledge first discovered the fire
this point seemed to be the centre,
as a circle of fire on the attic floor
was about thirty feet in diameter
and burning through the floor at
the centre. No rat-holes in the
chimney have ever been noticed; no
accident has ever occurred trom
either of the chimneys in the centre
part of the hotel. An accident did
occur at the open fire pluce ot the
chimney in the new part of the
hotel last winter, but the fire did
not originate in the flue of the office
chimney, as stated in that article.
We did have tears that some day
we would find our hotel in ashes,
and probably have expressed out-
selves so. I have said i f I had to
build again I would build my chim
neys ol brick, as the roc’k did not
stand fire well in the fire place. An
article was published about the ex
citement of Airs. Y’oun j’s visit to
Martin’s room door. Aij-s. Young
was not accountable for what she
did then, and does not know what
she did—does not knovr how she
got home on the Saturday previous,
she was laboring under such great
nervous excitement. We are sorry
that this article was published, at it
was done without my knowledge,
and it has caused us much grief—
equally as much as the lass of the
hotel. As for Air. Alartin being
accused of the burning, we do non
say that he fired the house, as we
have no evidence to sustain it. We
have labored 13 years to make Tal
lulah what it was, and it is hjird to
lose all in a few minutes. We were
▼cry much attached to Tallulah and
the people of the adjoining country,
and our thanks go out to the -whole
South who visited us. By their
patronage we were doing well. •
W. D. Young.
i 11 g fatal. He will die. Dr. Luckie
called on Orr, who was dying, and
said:
“I have a message for you.”
He asked the room to be cleared,
leaned over and whispered in Orr’s
ejr. Orr said aloud:
“Did he say why he did it?”
Dr. Luckie said:
“I did not ask a question.”
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 27 —
Air. Walter Orr died this afternoon
at 3:15, surrounded by his father
and relations. He died with his
clothes on. The physicians did not
examine the wounds. Apostmoitem
examination was hold at the under
taking establishment of Lockwood
& Aliller. The body was taken to
Hartselle to-night. It was accom
panied to'the depot by delegations
of the Knights ot Pythias, the Ma
sons and friends. Mr. Givan is
resting easy. Air. Luckie, his phy-
sican, says the symptoms are better,
but he can promise nothing. The
wounded man is suffering much
pain.
kind, in which Toombs had made
vituperative answer to Seward,
Senator Zach Simon Caineron said:
“This is going too far. Let us
put a stop to it. Some of us should
iasult him.”
“All right,” replied Cameron, “I
sit nearest to Toombs. I’ll doit.”
As soon as the Georgian had fin
ished, Cameron walked over to him,
ran his arm through his and said:
“Toombs, why don’t you talk to
me as you do to Seward?”
“Well, Cameron, to tell the truth
about it, I belive you’d fight.’
Mr. Nicholas Boone, who saw to
my wants and kindly drove me bsck
although still rainiug, to my friend’s
house, then seven miles distant.
Aly experience will be a Warning
to me, and I hope may prove one
to other amateur deer hunters to
n * ver leave the stands on which
they are placed when on strange
ground. Amateur Hunter.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Tha Press Dispatches of Yesterday Reduced
Into a Nutshell.
WONDERS OF THE SKIES.
A Spectacle Worth Staying up Late to Wlt-
Any one fond of viewing the
wonders of the heavens will have a
rare treat as soon as the dark nights
return. The planet Saturn will rise
MORE SAM J0NE1SM.
Following are a few sayings of
the great revivalist;
A good man is like a city set upon
a hill—you can’t hide him.
If you want to know what your
neighbors think of you disguise
yourself and go among them.
A pretty woman has ruined more
than one church.
Some of you men have sowed
enough seed to dam the world.
Grocery stores with barroom at
tachment's arc moral hell holes.
A man who gets drunk will steal
if he is not too much afraid of the
jail.
A man who would swear before
his children is a brute.
The gambler is invariably the son
of a Christian family. Why is
tnis?
There is about forty men in this
co ug re S a tion who are goiog to hell
on a blooded horse.
The most beautiful sight in this
world is to see a man leading his
wife and children into the gates of
heaven.
Live so your children may put
their feet in your tracks and he hon
orable.
HARMONY GROVE HAPPENINGS.
LOST IN THE WOODS.
Thrilling Experience of a Deer Hunter on
Turtle River.
BATTLING WITH A BEAR.
MATRIMONY AND WORK.
A Franklin county’ couple was
married a few days since during the
dinner hour while they were mak
ing sorghum. The bride was skim
ming the sorghum while the groom
was feeding the mill. They went'
to dinner, dressed up and were
married. After dinner they resum
ed their places at work.
A Ba'llvan County Hunter has a Desperate
Straggle for his Life
AIonticbi.lo.N, Y.,Oct.25.—Jer
ry Aliller, a well-known guul: and
hunter of Bethel, Sulivan county,
while acting as a guide for a parly
of sportsmen last week had a Site and
death struggle with a large bear,
which he came upon while chasing
a deer. He shot at the hear with
his rifle but failed to hit a vital part.
Then followed a hand-to-hand en
counter, the recital of which bv
Aliller, yesterday, sounds like a
chapter from a dime novel-
The plucky guide, after his rifle
was of no use to him, succeeded in
picking up a big club, which he
broke over bruin’s head with no
appreciable effect. The bear grap
pled him and began to squeeze him.
In the affray Aliller’s clothes were
nearly torn from his body, and he
was scratched and bleeding from
head to foot. Alter a terrible strug
gle Aliller loosened one of his arms,
and, grasping a large knife he had
with him, he plunged it into the
bear’s breast.
Just at that moment the hunters
arrived, and they finished what little
life the bear had left. Aliller faint
ed and had to be carried home. He
has recovered so as to be about..
OCONEE LOCALS.
Mr. J. R. Malcom, of Oconee,
who had the misfortune to have his
house burned last week, was in
sured in the Continental for eleven
hundred dollars.
Mr. Tom Jones, of Oconee, had a
fine horse to drop dead a few days
Ago.
SWALLOWED HER TEETH.
A young lady in a neighboring
county, some time since, while
A** ee P. swallowed lier false teeth.
The pain at once awoke her, but
too late to remedy the trouble. She
suffered a great deni, ynd it was
feared tor a time tbitt it would re
sult in death;. But.by the use of
powerful emeflos she Wit? relieved, out for him.
TO DIE FROM A KICK.
Monroe, Ga., Oct. 22.—In a dif
ficulty to-day between George
Breedlove, white, and Ike Hender
son, colored, the former gave the
Utter a kick on the end of the
spinal column, which will probably
prove fatal. The- physicians say
that Henderson cannot recover
Breedlove has left for parts
known. *
An Atlanta drummer was robbed
of $120oa the G., J. & S. road Mon
day, between this place and Social
Circle. There is no clue to the rob
ber.
BUKOLARIUXCl IN DOWDY.
Sunday night some unknown'per-
sons. who did not have the fear of
the Madison county iury in their
mind, broke into the afore of J. W.
Seymour, of Dowdy,* small village
in Madison county. The thief stole
a fine watch and various other arti
cles. Mr. Seymour has no idea who
the thief is, but will be on the look
Doctortown, Ga., Oct 21.—Edi
tor Alorning News: I have just re
turned from a trip in Glynn county,
this state, and while there had some
experiences which may prove in
teresting to your readers.
I arrived in Brunswick on Oct. 9,
and took a small boat for a planta
tion on Turtle river called “The
College.” owned by Mr. James Liv
ingstone, to look at n valuable bed
of marl situated on part of his land.
After finishing mv business I was
invited by him to join a party, him
self included, in a deer hunt the f fol
lowing morning. Accordingly on
Saturday morning, Oct. to, just
alter daylight, we started toward
his pasture, a trachof land contain
ing at least 7,oco acres. We had
not go:.e more than a mile from the
house before I was placed on a
“stand” to wait the approach ot the
deer. I sat on a stump and waited
patiently enough until I commenced
to feel as though dinner time could
not be far off, so, disregarding my
instructions to wait until they blew
their horns before leaving my
stand, I started back for the house,
and, unfortunately, missed the road,
and had to take the woods in as
near the right direction as I could,
having no sun to guide me. I
walked steadily for upwards of an
hour, when it began to dawn on me
that I was completely lost, with
nothing to guide my course, and
swamps on every hand. / As soon as
this fact was fully established in my
mind, I knew my only hope to get
out was to take some straight course
and follow it regardless of distance
and water, which I might have to
wade. I chose si direction and be
gan walking as though for very life,
and suppose I must have covered at
least 15 miles by time darkness ov
ertook me. When it did I was be
tween two large s'umps, and choos
ing the dryest spot I could find
piepared to spend or endure the
night. I built me a fire but the rain
soon extinguished it, and I had ta
make myself as comfortable as wet
clothes and circumstances would
peainit. A few minutes after dark
the rain, which had been sprinkling
all the afternoon, came down in tor
rents and the wind ha tried among
the trees in a fearful manner. My
feelings can better be imagined than
described, but I managed to survive
and as soon as there was sufficient
light next morning for me to navi
gate continued the course I had
chosen the night before, and started
out through the blinding rain. Ev-
un ’ cry swamp was a veritable lake of
wster, and sometimes I thought I
would have to swim or drown in
keeping my course. I walked and
waded steadily until, having cross
ed at least fifty swamps of various
sizes, I struck the first read I had
seen since the previous morning,
and, although I am not a devout
man, I think I offered up an earn
est prayer of thanks, for although it
was then 13 o'clock, and no house
in sight, I knew I must come to
some place of shelter before night
fall I walked dowll this road for
two miles, when blessed sight! a
house appeared before 'my tired
vision. 1 was kindly received by
the owner, a courteous gentleman,
There was quite a large attend
ance last Saturday and Sunday at
the Aladison County Singing Con
vention, held with the church at
Black’s Creek.
Thewill^ be considerable lands
sold at Jefferson, November 3d, and
no doubt there will be a good many
land buyers there" on that day.
Dr. V. H. Deadwyler, of this
place, died of heart disease this
jnorning about daylight, after an
illness of two or more weeks. The
Doctor has heen practicing his pro
fession in Madison and Jackson
counties for a long time, but for the
past two or three years he had
abandoned the practice. He was a
good doctor, a kind father and hus
band, a member of the Baptist
church, and leaves a larue family
and many friends to mourn his loss.
Peace to his remains. Yours truly,
H.
Foraker’s plurality in Ohio was
.18,158 votes.
Hon. Adolph Brandt, of Augusta,
will move .to Atlanta.
Millions of squirrels are emigrat
ing from Mississippi to Arkansas.
_A vessel passed through 20 miles
of dead fish in the Gulf of Mexico.
A revival started hy Moody and
Sankey, in New Y’ork, proved a dis
astrous failure.
_ George E. Watsoa, of Milledge-
ville, died of heart disease, while
attending a dance.
The three Italian “Trunk” mur
derers of Chicago have been sen
tenced to death.
John W. Rabun was murdered
war Abbeville, Ala.,,and robbed of
his cotton money.
A fashionable and wealthy man
in New York went to a burlesque
show and found his wife a chorus
girl,
W. C. Smith, a merchant of Glen
Alice, Tenn., was murdered by a
miner named John Thompson for
$75.
A Burlington, N. J., policeman
confessed that he stuffed the ballot-
box so as to elect a democratic
mayor.
One little boy fearfully shot an
other in the face at Lawinsburg,
N. C-, by playfully pointing a gun
at him.
There are now 1,200 cases on the
docket of the United States Su
preme Court, which the judges
hope to clear by iSSS.
A negro preacher of Madison,
Fla., beat his 13-year-old boy to
death because he stole three pounds
of cotton. He says he did it in the
interest of honesty.
Governor AlcDaniel appointed
Judge Marshall J. Clarke to the
judgeship of the superior court to
succeed Hon. W. R. Hammond,
whose resignation was sent in sev
eral days ago to take effect Decem
ber 1st.
Columbia, S. C., October 25.—
Thursday night a bloody murder put
an end to a wedding feast at Frost
Alills. The health of the newly
married couple was drank so fre
quently that Edward Hardin, the
groom, drew his revolver and be
gan shooting right and left, instantlv
killing Tom Stone and mortally
wounding Alpheus Fulmer.
A sensation was created in Chat
tanooga by a warrant being sworn
out by Gus Kraus, a well known
young man, against Alaud Belle, a
well known courtesan, charging her
with attempting to entice his sister
to a house of ill fame. The young
lady received a note from the wo
man asking her to come to the
house. The family is very respect
able.
The French have gained a great
victory in Armania.
Another dynamite explosion on
the St. Louis street car line.
In a fight at a frolic near Barn eft
Ga., a negro was beat to death.
Gilbert Goolsby, of Lincoln coun
ty, Ga., fell from a wagon and was
killed.
A negro killed $ one man and
mortally wounded another at a ball
near Oceola, Fla.
A Texas sheriff was shot dead
while trying to arrest some outlaws
near Headville.
A lady was bitten by a rattle
snake near Chattanooga, and it is
tboaght she will die.
A cow boy and an Indian had
DIED BY HIS FATHER’S HAND.
Sad Ending of a Quarrel Between an Old
Man and Hls Son.
Erie, Pa., Oct. 25.—Charles
Ward, of Aliles Grove, who was
shot by his father, J. P. Ward, last
weeK, died to-day. He made an
ante-mortem statement chiargitjg
his father with the crime. Young
Ward had called at his father’s
house, and while there the latter
made some harsh reflections upon
his (Charles) wife’s character.
Charles Ward resented the insult
and so enraged the father that he
drew a revolver and shot his son
down in the presence of his mother.
John P. Ward is a man of over
sixty wealthy and highly respecta
ble. Charles Ward leaves a wife
and two children. The aged filicide,
who was under $15,000 bonJ, has
been committed to iail on a charge
of murder. He pleads self-defence.
duel in the Indian Territory, and
GEORGIA NEWS.
Capt. Roual is 42 years old and
served through the war.
Georgia gunners say they kill a
thousand rice birds at a shot.
One-quarter of an inch of ice was
seen in Adairsville Saturday morn
ing.
Sam Jones, the Southern evangel
ist, will lecture in Madison, Wis.,
A Relrioution on the Immoral.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 27.—W.
O. Moore, of Chester, S. C., arrived
at the Central Hotel last night, ac
companied by a woman whose name
is unknown, but supposed to be
from Augusta, Ga. They registered
as man and wife and were assigned
to a room on the fourth floor. At 4
a. m. the smell of escaping gas at
tracted the attention of the hall boy,
and. tracing it to their room, he
fout .d Aloore dead and the woman
unconscious and barely alive. Doc
tors were summoned, and alter
working with her until noon to-day,
pronounced her recovery prohable,
though she is still unconscious.
Moore’s body was sent back to Ches
ter. where he has a wile and three
children. Moore was a merchant ot
Chester. He was greatly under the
influenceof liquor when he arrived
at the hotel here. It is believed he
turned off the gas and accidentally
turned it on again.
Lamar loses His Cottos.
Washington, D. C., October
29.—The Uuited States Supreme
Conrt to-day rendered its decision
in the cotton case of E. El Lamar,
of Georgia, against McCulloch, ex-
Secretary of the Treasury. The suit
was brought in 1878. in the Circuit
Court of the Uuited States
for ’ the Southern District of
New York, to recover moneys
paid in the treasury as the
proceeds of the sale of several hun
dred bales of captured or abandoned
cotton. It was decided for the de
fendant on the ground that the law
gives the court of claims exclusive
jurisdiction in the class of cases to
which this one belongs. The su
preme court affirmed the decision ot
the circuit court.
A terrific storm off the coast of
Labrador wrecked 80 vessels and 70
lives were lost; Two thousand
persons are now on the shore in a
destitute condition.
Mobile, AUl, Oct 27.-—The Wil
kinson street car stables and sheds
of the city railroad company were
burned this morning.
both were shot dead.
At Paris, a young French widow,
in revenge, blinded her lover by
throwing vitriol in his face
Some South Carolina fanners are
considering the abandonment of all
cotton to try tobacco raising.
A scoundrel in New Orleans who
married a girl under a forged mar
riage license has been convicted.
During a drunken row in Grundy
county, Tenn., two men were shot.
The trouble started about wild cat
whisky.
Nine men near Oakdale, Alass.,
were swept off a car by a limb or
telegraph pole, and all killed or
wounded.
The Defiance libel suit in At
lanta has commenced. A. W. Bur
nett, the publisher, was sent to jail
for contempt of court.
John Sherman, Logan, Edmunds
and Forakerare to be imported to
Virginia this week to aid Alahone
in his attempt to' break the solid
south.
Civil Service Commissioner
Thoman has tendered his resigna
tion and it has been accepted by
the President, to take effect No
vember tst.
While Coup’s circus was exhibit
ing at Greenville, S. C-, two pick
pockets belonging to it were pur
sued by officers and captured with
trained blood hounds.
At Hot Springs, Arkansas, a
minister’s son was dying. He got
dawn and prayed, and the boy be
gan at once to recover. The cir
cumstance is creating a sensation as
a faith cure.
The mission to Austria remains
unfilled, and it is believed in Wash
ington that no appointment will be
made until congress passes upon
General Lawton’s alleged disabili
ties, and that if they are removed,
he will be the appointee.
Walter Orr and Phil Givan, two
young men of Birmingham, Ala.,
while on their way to Sam Jones’
revival, fell out about Miss Mattie
Rose, and had a pistol duel, in
which both were mortally wounded.
The girl was with Orr at the time.
CoLQyiTT, Ga., Oct. 26.—Wed
nesday, Richard E. Jackson was
put upon trial for the murder of his
brother-in-law, Isaac Bailey, about
nine years ago. Bailey’s wife, sis
ter of the defense, testified in the
prisoner’s behalf, but he was found
guilty. .
President Cleveland says he will
receive no more office-seekers.
The^citizens of Atlanta have put
out a full ticket for Mayor and Al
dermen.
It is rumored that a revolution has
broken out at Mandalay and King
Thebaw has been murdered.
The Atlanta prohibitionists are
parading the streets with brass
bands, and the greatest excitement
prevails.
The Empress of Brazil has fallen
down a stair case and broken her
arm. Her Majesty’s condition caus
es much anxiety.
In Dakota, two murderous Indi
ans attacked a lone settler, who
wounded one of tha red skins and
scared off the other.
Chattanooga, Oct. ,27.—John
Thompson, who murdered John C.
White, a merchant of Glen Alice,
Roan county, Tennessee, last Fri
day, was taken from the Kingston
jail last night hy a mob of 100 men
and hanged. -
There is considerable enthusiasm
in Macon over the prospect of the
new Macon and Covington railroad.
A cat’s cries saved the liv.es of
some hotel guests in Atlanta, and a
gold band now encircles the cat’s
neck.
R$v. Sam Jones has received a
letter threatening him in case he
comes to Atlanta to preach against
whisky.
As was expected the Central
railroad has met the cut made by
the E.T., Va. & Ga. Ithas reduced
rates between Atlanta and Macon
to $1.
A correspondent of the Thomas-
ville Enterprise, writing from Atlan
ta, says that Gen. Gordon will be a
candidate for Governor at the next
election.
’Squire J. N. Puett, of Cumming,
has an apple tree from which he
has gathered fifty bushels this year.
Savannah has two artesian wells
and Tybee three, ranging from 500 .
to 700 feet deep, and all costing not
over $200 together.
An Alabama man attempted sui
cide at Fort Gaines a day 01 two
ago. but was preveuted from com
mitting the rash act.
Samuel Fitzgerald, aged 15, dan
gerously stabbed Boyd, aged 24, at
Dawson, a day or two ago. Both
are colored. Boyd may die.
One of the members of Dublin’s
legal fraternity predicts bad luck for
the people next year, because Fri-
dsy is the first day of the year.
apples are selling from wagons
at 20 cents per bushel at Gainesville.
A mountain wagon came into that
place a day or two ago loaded with
40 bushels of chestnuts.
Judge Lumpkin fined three jurats
in Sparta last week for being late.
This makes forty-five he has fined
since he started on his founds this
fall.
Mr. George B. Lumpkin, of Lex
ington, took a potato vine from his
potato patch the other day that
measured twenty-seven feet in
length.
It seems to be impossible to con
vict a man for selling liquor to a
drunken man or minor in Atlanta.
There were several cates of this
kind in the city court the pastweek,
and in all the defendants got off.
The blood-curdling special pub
lished .last week, stating that two
detectives had heen killed by moon
shiners in Tellair county, prove* to
be incorrect. The party was fired
upon, but nobody was hurt.
The Macon street railroad has
been sold to J. S. Brantford; of
Nashville, Tenn., for $15,000, which
gives the present owners aud build
ers a clear profit of $6,000. The line
was built last spring.
Wednesday, in Wayne county,
Mr. James Sweatt, a young lumber
man, met with a horrible accident
that caused his instant death. He
was standing near a tree being cut
down, and as it fell a large limb
struck him on the forehead,'tearing
away the top of his skull. The
young man leaves a family:
William Whidijon wa* killed oear
Calvary, in Decatur' county, last
Thursday.. He was driving a team
down a hill when the peg which
held the tongue to the wagon be
came loose, precipitating linden-
tangling him among the horses,
which takingfright, ran away. Mr.
Whiddon lived about one hour after
the accident occurred. 'ym■
GENERAL NEWS
■ j V {_
Riel will hang November
Small pox is on the.increase
Montreal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has tui
ed her seventieth birthday.
"From six to twenty bridal couples
v.ait the White House daily. £*>__
The salary of the United States
consul at Zanzibar is $100. ■
A second crop of strawberries is
being picked in Massachusetts. 4
It is now known that 24.000 Chris
tiiina were massacred in Annam.
The crust of the earth is said to be
only one-ninetieth of its radius.
The scarcity of postal cards is a
great aunoyance to the people.
A two pound nugget ot gold, has '
been found at Vein Mountain, N.
C.
The latest elopement case comes
from Philadelphia, he being eleven
and she twelve.
In Butte, M. T., maids and kitch
en girls are in demand at $20 a
week.
Engineer Mellville wants $150,000
with which to pay his way to the
North Pole.
A Confederate Colonel has left
his fortune to a colored porter in a
Pittsburg hotel.
“A ten pound sucker” is the way
a Leary man announced the arrival ‘
of a new baby at his house.
Editor Dana is perfectly confi
dent of rousing democratic victories
in New York and Virginia.
One of the controlling facts in
the history of Andrew Johnson is
that he was an opium eater.
According to the Medical World,
every farmer wears out, on an av
erage, two wives and a half in his
lifetime.
There arc about 545,000 native
Christians in the Cninese Empir-
who have been convened by Roe
mam Catholic mi&s : onaries.
Five girls, aged elven and twelve
years, were recently arrested at
Lowell, Mass., for getting drunk
fighting and using vile language.
Some ot the street sweepers of
Washington are said to be getting
rich finding purses, gold watches,
etc., which are lost almost daily by
visitors to the city.
Near Rockford,Tenn., yesterday,
Wm. Beal killed his father-in-law,
Peter Brakebill, shooting him five
times. Brakebiil accused Beal of
aiding Robert Beal to elope with
his grand daughter.
A yojng lady near Halcyondale
cooked a mess of crows for wood
cock the other day, and the family
pronounced them delicious, until
they discovered their mistake.—
Guyton Chronicle.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is worth at
least $100,000,000 in his own right.
He is a strict and zealous church
member—almost cranky on the
subject. He disburses $100,000 a
year in charity, and pays an old
newspaper man $2,000 per annum
to worthily place his gifts and keep
silent about them.
ritate Representative W. H. Car
ter, oi Lexington, Mo., has gone
mad. The c. se is particularly dis
tressing, as “Will,” as every one
calls him, was a gooJ, true man.
But some ten years ago he acci
dentally shot his sister, Miss Bertha
Carter, with a fowling piece, and
since then melancholy has grown
upon him.
Mr. Parnell will visit this country
about next Christmas and be pres
ent at the third annual meeting of
the Irish National League, ol Amer
ica, which will be held in Chicago
on January 20th and 21st, 18S6.
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