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«Oit of • r< ,'formatory institu
^oilt f° r confinement of youlH-
jful crimin' ,i* as ttt sequestrate
tht™ fT0 n hardened convicts in the
3»il ® r 0 .t the chain gang. “""’I’he com-
mittce ol county commissioners to
v;ho- the matter v.as referred re
in’ iril adversely to the petition
b> it suggested that some quarters
might he assigned them in fhe-.jail.
This was made several day*~*go.
One of the ladies who sighed the
petition was «een Friday afternoon -
hr a Times reporter, and she ex. A
hihited considerable feeling on the
Mii'.iect. She had a petition which
w ,|| lie submitted to the city., coun-
cil and countv commissioners at an
eatlv day. The petition embodies
the following: One of the grayest
questions with which intelligent
committees have to deal with is that
of routhful criminals, and yet it is
one to which our lawyers give ho*
little heed, and philanthropists, at
tack it in the wrong way. The lat
ter think the only way, and proper
mean* to copy crime in the young
is to reform the criminals'by the
teachings of religion or the sympa.
thv of kindly souls, hut efforts in
that direction are seldom success
fn|. I'”’ ‘"I'd the petitioner, “in-
stfid of ph’l in'hropists ^'ending
itiei' ''dp *o h".l ■»■ 1 c'>m : nal
mil 1,1 se t-ep- 1 ; n c : r.e, the,
,u ,,'d -i-et ,-«• the yo ing whr
a-e or..Wing up in povertv, in igrin.
i»nee, surrounded bv evil examples
and without :t lcindlv word to on.
coi.rage them in well doing. When
these outcasts of society are voting
it is possible to make them worthy
mraibers of the community. Dirt,
ignorance and squalor am the par
ents of crime, while there'are voting
criminals who never felt the pangs
nt hunger nor the. want of a place
te’av their heads at night, and with
the«e we have no sympathy. Such
people deserve punishment greater
than the Uws allov, but the poor
ignorant boy, whose home fiom his
earliest remembrance has been the
tiileva k or lane, his bid a box or a
Hoop, his food scant and bad and
his school the slums, is certainty
entitled to o n pity, and it is the
dutv of the community in which he
live, to rescue him in his youth ere
he becomes inured in crime arc!
from tiie vile associates, older than
h nisrl!. into who«e company hard
fate and the inexorable have thrown
him llow shall this he done? It
s lor the lawmakers to say, and we
tru-t that something should be done
«n,I some rational means sought to
make crime among the young as
unnecessary as destitution and igno.
mate should he unknown.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TXJESDA.Y, DECEMBER 1, 1885
VOL. UCl
OLD LEXINGTON.
iBIAt, HOSPITALITY OP
S MeWHOBTEK, ESQ.
ybwhotes gathered oh the ply and
hurriedly thrown toobther.
TheProgreii of the County and What th«
People are Dome With Themaaivea.
Saturday afternoon we left the
Clastic City for Lexington, to
’P e2l d a day with Mr. Hamilton
McWhorter, with the understand
ing that Charlie Baldwin was to be
expressed down to us the next morn-
> n g C. O. D. On the down train
we sat beside Mr. Mack Young,one
of Oglethorpe’s solid old farmers,
who was an original fence man—
and is still one. Uncle Mack says
the stock law is a fraud and a snare,
lie admitted that it advanced the
price of his land somewhat; “but,”
argued the old man, “I can’t get
'he negroes to build pasture fences.
They used to be obliged to keep up
hat a ound the crops, but they will
.os strike now bi-’orc splitting
a rail. bucii libi.rwout.i be look-
<• i pon bv tli’m is an unp.rdon-
ble sip.. T h v wi'l u-e mv na--
tmes for iheir st ck, and 1 have to
• 11 e fences noni around the fieh's
to keep them up.” .
We noticed that nearly all the
emton is picked out, with only an
•cci.sional lock here and there. The
cotton this year is very dirty, and
ginners tell us thst it is like running
an epidemic of consumption through
tht saws to grind out tne lint. Ogle
thorpe will make a little more cot-
ion than last year, but great stacks
of corn and bacon.
Crawford is slowly but steadily
growing. Royal dtokely’s beauti
ful new cottage is- completed, and
Col. J. L. Jarrell has the frame of 1
lbs house up. He has omitted the
cyclone pit attachment for his new
domicile, and says the fear of storms
has left him. Mr. Jarrell excavated
she first cyclone pit ever built in
Georgia, and every time a zephyr
arose would seek safety therein.
Jes is one of the most enterprising
young business men in Georgia,
and makes a success ol whatever he
touches, lie now owns a fine set
of steam gins and mills, as alio engi
neers a larm.
Hamp. McWhorter is the most
hospitable man in Georgia—when
you meet him away from home, lie
insists on every man, woman and
child he sees coming to Lexington
and spending a month with him;
but when you accept and reach his
domicile you are pretty apt to find
the proprietor absent and the latch
siring hanging on the inside of the
door—unless he don’t chance to be
looking for you. This was our
fate. The four-in-hand team that
he promised to meet us at tile depot
with came up missing, and we had
to take passage with Mr. Warnock
Echols being a little bucking bay-
colt, that traveled sideways and
backwards. We asked our friend
Echols if he treed his steed with
McWhorter's famous coon dog, and
as its hair was rather long lor the
prevailing style, suggested that he
lollow Tom Doster’s old remedy—
rake around his eyes and trim him
off. Mr. Echols explained to us
that he bought this horse on ac
count of his fine blood, and not lor
appearance sake; that there was a
great deal of come-out in the ani
mal, and if there was any efficacy in
the lash he would develop him to
the fullest capacity. Mr. Echols
tells us that he will give up the
practice of law to a certain extent,
and devote himself to his large
landed estates, and give particular
attention to grass and stock raising.
He thinks ol running a telephone
from Lexington to his Simpson
farm, that comprises several thou
sand acres of the truest land in this
section.
As the sun was sinking behind
the western hills our destination
was reached. As usual we found
Mr. McWhorter absent and the
house locked and barred, and the
only way to gain admittance was to
burglarize it. But George Dye, the
colored valet, is very hospitable,
at his boss’ expense, and admitted
us through a window. Seeing that
we were playing a freeze-out game
—literally speaking, as there was no
fire in tire grate—after an hour’s
delay our host made his appearance
from the library, explaining that he
had been asleep (?) and forgot all
about our promised visit. We of
course spent a pleasant night, and
the next morning brought Charlie
Baldwin, who had been baited from
Athens by the promise of a'possum
dinner. Mrs. McWhorter knows
how to fix up a fine meal, and we
revelled in ’possum, turkey.and oth
er good things too numerous to
mention. In fact, Col. Baldwin ate
so heartily that he told us yesterday
he was attacked by an old-fashioned
nightmare and dreamed at one time
that he was a little moonshine ’pos
sum, clinging to a persimmon limb
by his caudal appendage; and the
next moment he was a thanksgiv
ing turkey, penned up to fatten,
endowed with reason and a Greer's
almanac, and anxiously counted the
moments betore the fatal day.
Charlie sajs he would not undergo
auch another ordeai to be elected a
member of thq Georgia legislature,
with the free pass attachment.
In the afternoon we strolled over
this fine old town, which is one of
the most interesting in the state. Mr.
McWhorter told us a most wonder
ful story about his carp pond being
so densely stocked with fish that by
sticking a case-knife into the water
they could he cut like sardines in a
box. Of course we took in this
wonderful show, as there was ao
admission charged. We found a
beautiful pool, and after casting our
bread upon ita waters patiently
waited to see the swarming schools
of carp—but the only thing in the
fish line that appeared was a one-
legged tadpole.
In meandering down Church
street, we ran afoul a most dejected
specimen of humanity in the shape
- - . of our old friend Eel. Roane, who
is a long time to stand by * had led the charge of the liquor
in all .kaMMM MM/I StiMa. . a t 1 .
The Madisonian says: “We agree
veith rlic Union and Recorder in lo
cating- the school ol technology at
M aeon or Milledgeville, instead of at
Athvn«. hut not for the same rea
sons. Our preference is for Macon,
•ml lus been all the time, both h
cause it is central, and because to
that city and her people more than
any other are we indebted for the
law cieating the school. We pro
test against the university being
called aristocratic or a rich boy’s
school. Many of the poorest young
ir-n of the state have been and will
continue to be educated there, and
it is an insult to Athens and a libel
upon the university to say a poor
young mechanic seeking elevation
would be insulted by coming in con
tact eituer with that people or the
students ol the university. We were
educated at Emory, a denomination
al vcliool, but have always been an
admirer and defender of the State
University. And we hope yet to
see it occupy that proud position
which her founders had in view
when it was chartered. Never let
a Georgia editor at least decry his
Slate U Diversity, but rather increase
Its facilities and enlarge its useful-
like I bad been run through a sau
sage chopper, he met me and said
he felt good over the great victory.
That was the last straw that broke
the camel’fs back, and i.' the fellow
had not Weighrd twice as much as
I did we'd have mixed then and
there. I intend to get even, how-
over, with the jugwumps, by pre
paring a separate bi iters lor their
entertainment, compounded one-
half ot pop-skull liquor and the rest
of lobelia.”
SHORT STOPS.
Rev. John L. Cheney was last
Sunday called to preach at Bairds-
town church, which pulpit has been
so long filled by Dr. Mell. Mr.
Cheney has now charge of three
churches.
The stock law has wonderfully
increased the bird crop in Ogle
thorpe. Hogs do not now break up
nests, and the old fields are filled
with partridges.
After Christmas the weik of de
molishing the court-house will be
gin. Mr. W. B Lester has the
contract to tear it down.
A party of Northerners are ex
pected soon in Oglethorpe to exam
ine lands in the Flat Woods, with a
view ot going largely inio stock
raising.
Judge Lawson is holding court in
Lexington this week, to try a num
ber of cases in which Judge Lump
kin is disqualified Judge L. is re
lated to about half the people in the
county.
There will be several important
biisines changes in Oglethorpe af
ter Christmas.
Calvin Collins says George Bray
made the best cotton he has ginned
this year.
Prohibition will go into effect
early in January. The people are
very much interested in the Atlanta
election, arid Mr. Steve Stokely
says it is certain to go dry-
Lexington has moi tasty flower
:'ards than any town of its size in
the south. The place is also noted
lor pretty girls.
ATHLETICS.
Wnat a Physician Has to Say Regarding It
and lta Results.
The papers have been making a
deal of game lately of the athletic
development sought for in our lead
ing universities. “A. M.” they say,
no longer means “master of arts,”
but “master of athletics.”
Well, perhaps, the boys d.> run
somewhat to extremes, but after all
this admiration for fine physical de
velopment is all right -it is natural,
and should, under proper circum
stances, he cultivated!
As a nation, we are too much giv
en to labor without sufficient and
regular relaxation.
HANGING BY WHOLESALE.
Ninety tores Chinese pirates suspended
from the Yard-arm.
Chicago News.
“Yes, I suppose three at a time
is quite a fair hanging,” remarked
a retired old salt, who had circum
stanced the globe se7en times and
whose home had been on the briniy
for twenty six years—“quite a
fair hanging, that is in a retail way
—but it ain’t a circumstance to
the wholesale send-off I witnessed
once in China. A cigar? Thanks
— dont care if I do,” said the an
cient mariner, and lighting it he
took a few puffs at the weed and
bis memory, and settled him
self in bis chair to relate the
following tale to a Daily News re
porter :
It was about in *67 that I ship
ped in the German bark LaMona,
bound from Bombay to Shanghai.
We stopped on the way at Hue,
where we took on board a party of
twenty-three Chinese merchants.
They had been to Hue to d : spose
of their goods, and were returning
to Houg Kong with their proceeds.
All went well until off the Island
ot Hainan, when we got becalmed
aod lay floating around without a
bieatk of air.
“Along about 3 in the afternoon
our look-otto described a sail,
which soou developed into a fleet
of sixteen junks, whose decks, up
on a nearer approach, could be
seen cove ed with men, which told
us without need of a flag that they
were pirates. Tninking ourselves
lost, as we were unarmed, but de
termined to hang on to life as long
as possible, we all made lor be
tween the caigo. We soom heard
the junks come alongside, the
trampling of feet overhead, the
nailing down of the hatches, a
dull, grating noise, and all was
atill.
“Presently, we could hear the
rush of water, the pirates having
scuttled the bark by boring—
which aceouu.cd for the grating—
intending to drown us like rats iu
a trap. Wo made a rush for the
hutch, but could not move it.
We succeeded, however, in break
ing through the bulkhead that 1<A1
to the forecastle, and reached the
deck. The pirates had taken the
Chinese passenge-s and all of our
boats except a leaky one, which,
after a hasty patching, we jumped
into, lowered aw. y, and pulled
for the shore, only a mile off
There wc were met by a howlin.
ShOOTING IN ATLANTA.
POPE, THE HATTEK, SHOOTS COL
ALBERT HOWELL-
THE WOUND NOT NECESSARILY DANOER-
OUS.
Pope Was Under toe Influence of Whisky o r
Opium. Be Is Under Arrest.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 24.
Banner-Watchman :—Col. Al
bert Howell, brothei of Capt. E. P,
Howell, was shot and seriously
wounded this morning at 11 o’clock
in the right shoulder, in the Union
Passenger depot, in this city by D
H. Pope, who is in the hat business
here. Col. Howell is the general
agent of all the railroads centering
in the Union Passenger depot here,
except the Western and Atlantic
railroad. The office of which is
just across the hall in the depot
from that of the other roads. Pope
inquired of Col. Howell this morn
ing as to what time the State road
train would arrive and was told that
he did not know, as he had nothing
to do with it. “But you ought to
know,” said Pope, “you are paid to.’
“But I don’t sir,” was the reply
“You are a damn liar” said Pope,
In an instant Col. Howell threw
a heavy ink bottle through the win
dow, striking Pope in the face, cut
ting a large gash over his upper
lip. Pope went out and in a few
seconds entered the room from
side door, and fired at Col. llowell,
the ball striking him in the right
collar bone, and sinking into the
lung cavity. Col. Howell took a
pistol from the drawer and snapped
it at his assailant several times, ami
when exhausted from the wound,
he fell. The pistol was afterwards
found to contain no cartridge. Dr.
Westmoreland dressed the wounds
of Col. Howell and pronounced
them dangerous, but not necessa
rily fatal. Pope was arrested.
Pope was under the influence of
whisky or opium. Howell is well
known as Colonel of the 42nd Ga.
regiment during the war.
T. L. Gantt.
VOLUNTARY ASSIGNMENTS.
An Important Law Fused by tot Lata Geor
gia Legislature.
Pick up an English weekly and
there is from two to four columns _ ^
of sporting news in it. But not one I mob, who caught, beat us, and
STRANGE, INDEED!
American paper in 1,000 ever lias a 1 striliiiii)" us 1
line of such news in it. Why? Be c l 0 thi„g, drove
The battle cry in Atlanta yester
day was liquor or no liquor.
The prohibitionists have named
Julius Brown the “little Brown jug-
wump.”
In olden times bars were punish
ed by having a hole bared through
their tongues. They didn’t have
«ny political campaigns in olden
times, or this hole boring business
would have been done away with.
Genera) McClellan is said to have
txpressed a wish that he might be
buried at Antietam. “Then 1 can
Ret up with my boys when the rev-
itlle sounds.” He would rise with a
great deal of company, for there
Were 1 Urge nutnbei planted there.
DON'T STOP THE PAPER.
'1 see a red cross on my paper,’
a gentleman Irom the Free
Stile of Madison. “Is my time out?
“ so, I have got the money to re-
"ew. The Weekly Banner-Watch-
win is looked for anxiously by my
wile and children. They all. arp
toxious to see what Mr. Gantt has
10 ‘ay. He comes nearer hifting
'be mark than any man 1 ever saw.
When my time is out put a red cross
on my paper and you wfll get the
mo *-ey lor another year’s subscrip
bon soon after.
SUBSCRIBERS.
Mr. R, J. Parks, of Jackson cou*
’>% >1 probably the oldest subscriber
t° the Banner-Watchman. He has
bten taking it during all of its
tbsnges for the past years. Mr.
J- W. Pruitt and Enoch Anderson.
®f.Banks county, are the next two
o'dest subscribers. They have been
Wring the Banner and Banner
Watchman tor nearly fifty years. I "f”u‘r'old friend Erf! Roane, who
cause the American people arc Rot
a sport-loving people—“there is no
money in it.”
But sport can be carried to excess,
and athletes are not athletes forever.
Even the strongest and most stal
wart men are mastered at last by
some imprudence or neglect and
some of them run down very quick
ly and early in life. Dr. A. W. Mc-
Names, of Waterloo, was formerly
a perfect Hercules. Proud of his
strength, as he says, one day in 1SS1
he tried to lift a box which four men
could not budge. He got it on the
wagon, but it nearly broke him up.
It hurt him internally and he vomit
ed blood: “That was my last attempt
at being a fool. My back was very
weak. I h:id no appetite, and at
times loathed food. My lips were
parched and cracked. My head
felt as though it were entirely open
at the top and it pained me on the
side intensety. In six week’s time
I had fallen away from 20S pounds
to less than 170. I was in a very
wretched condition. I was com
pletely discouraged.”
“The violent strain I gave myself
precipitated what I suppose was a
. ons'itutional tendency and devel
oped into Bright’s disease of the
kidneys, but even afferall my phy
sicians had said I could not recover,
I was finally restored to health by
Warner’s safe cure. When I was
studying medicine at Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 1 used to vow with the
rest of the class that 1 would fight
all proprietary remedies at all times.
When a man comes down to the
last hour, however, and bids his
wile and friends good-bye, as I did,
such bigoted prejudices as these all
vanish, I can assure you.”
“And how have you been since
iSS ?”
“As well as, or better than, be
fore.
“Do you still 'try your strength.”
“Certainly; but I do not over
exert, as formerly, even though my
health is number one.”
Dr. McNames is a regular grad
uate and he speaks from knowledge
as well as from experience and his
words should be heeded not only
by athletes but by all persons who
fancy they are naturally too robust
ever to be mastered by infirmity.
SOLD HIS RIGHT.
We understand that Mr. Lawson
has sold his interest in his patent,
the Exeelsior Cotton Basket, for
$4,500, taking in part pay a hand
some Cobbham residence. A good
patent is a quick road to fortune,
and we hope that some other Athe
nian will get a good remuneration
lor their labors in devising labor
saving appliances.
PRINCETON PACTOBY.
The above named factory has
been stopped for the past 14 months.
The machinery in the factory is all
as good as new. It is very accessi
ble and coaid be made to pay a good
interest oa the money invested.
Some of eur capitalists should ouy
the factory and start it to making
cloth, &c. The hands formerly em
ployed by the factory have nearly
all left and found employment at
other places.
of every stitch of
us out of the vil
lage, so that we were obliged to
tramp, with the rays ot the burn
ing sun blistering our backs, about
five miles to the town of Hainan,
on the other side of the island.
IV e went directly the house ot the
American consul, who received us
kindly, furnished us with clothing,
listened to our story, and sent for
the captain of the United States
steamer Ashuelot, which was lying
in the harbor.
“He took us on board, steamed
up to Hong Kong, sent us to tne
hospital, and in company with the
United States steamer Tiscataqua,
went back to Hainan, raided the
village in which we had been so
ill-treatdd, and wh : ch t urned out
to he the pirates’ stronghold, cap.
tured about 509 Chinamen and
brought them back to Hong Kong,
sent them ashore, and bad them
file pass me and my mates for
identification. We picked out
niney-three of them, who were ta
ken back on boaid the vessel.
“The next morning while sitting
on the hospital piazza, which ov
erlooked the harbor, wc heard the
sunrise gun, the shrill whistle of
the boatswain, saw the ensigns-fly
tc the peaks, and the next mo
ment, as if by magic, from the
yrrd-arius of the two men-of-war
hung the ninety three Chinamen.
There they hung for half an hour,
swaying in the breeze, a terrible
example to evil doers, when they
were lowered and the bodies given
to their friends.
“There ain’t no such hangings,
nowadays,” concluded the old tar,
but I never want to see such a
sight again. It makes my blood
creep every time I think of it,
and 1 shall never forget it till my
dying day.”
LETTER FROM AYERSVILLE.
Thu
Pjper in all ofTts changes and vfeis-
*"ude». They are all staunch demo-
tr »“ and love ^democratic princi
the best yet.
Mr. W. S. Holman received yes*
I a car load of liorsea and a car
,0 *fl of tnulea fresh from the blue
***** regions of Kentucky. The
**«»« are large and well-formed
*** jest suited for this and
•Grounding canities. The‘horses
«* all suited fpr saddle, buggy or
r* rn *Re, snd any ope in want of a
or mule can be. fuiterf at the
K*bleof W. S. .Holman,. .
brigade in the late prohibition car
nage.-attd for the first time met de
feat. Roane says he didn’t so much
mind being beat, but to have for
mer friends go back on solemn
promises made over free liquor was
roos* harrowing to'his feelings and
caused him to lose confidence in the
world. He sppJff»with tear* in his
his nose at thoexpense of anti-pro
hibition, and home and
voted against it. “And as if to add
insult to injury,” .explcined the Col
onel, “the next day, when the re
turns all came in, and I was iceling
NEW YORK CITY DAILIES.
New \ ork city is a great place
for newspapers. There are proba
bly thirty dailies in that city. The
Werld and Herald probably lead in
point of circulation, with the Times,
Sun and Tribune close behind. The
New York World, two years ago,
was a complete wreck. Pulitzer, of
St. Louis, purchased it, and has
built the World up until now it is
recognized to be one ol the leading,
if not the leading daily in the Uni-
eyes, of one feUda^bp had painted ted States. It is said that the editor
his nose at theeApense of anti-pro- is fastly accumnlating a fortune. The
Herild still ho’ds its own, while it
is said the Sun has been considera
bly injured hy the World. Of the
evening papers, the Telegram is the
recognized best, with Post second
Ayersville, Ga., Nov. 21st,’85.
Editor Banner Watchman: Dear
Sir—I notice in the Banner-Watch
man of the 17th instant, a lettercon-
cetning the murder of Jasper Hen
derson, of Toccoa, which is not cor
rect in its details. Jasper Henderson
married the daughter ot Tames
Dodd, living near Ayersville.' Hen
derson soon left bet and stayed
away about twelve years, when he
came back and stayed with her till
last fall, when they had a falling
out. They have not got along very
well since then. About a month
ago they parted. On Monday even
ing, the second ot November, Jasper
Henderson came after his wife. He
had been at his brother-in-law’s,
Ben Dodd, an hour or two, when as
he was at the door drinking out of
the bucket, he was shot under the
right arm with twelve buckshot
Miss Dodd and Ben’s wife were in
the bouse at the time nt the shooting.
Nothing was said of the matter un
til Ben Dodd, who was at Toccoa,
came home at midnight, and found
James lying in the floor. Neighbors
were warned, and the coroner sent
for. The coroner’s jury, upon
examination, found that the dead
body had been drug one hundred
and forty yards into the woods,
where some tobacco was found.
Miss Dodd says she was out ot her
head and knows nothing of the
dragging. Evidence points to Bob
Morris as the murderer. Bob went
to his father-in law’s and picked up
his shotgun, walke d out and said
nothing to no one about the gun.
Late Monday eveni ng he brought
the gun to Bill Dodd’s; left it ■ and
said he had killed that d—d rascal.
Miss Dodd and Mrs. Henderson are
under $600 bonds each. Bob Morris
is a brother-in-law to Henderson.
Subscriber to B.-W.
A Complicated Case In a Kentucky Court—
Thomas Haley Farts From His First wife,
and Harriet Another, Living Illicitly In
the Meantime With His Former Spouse.
Louisville, Nov. 23.—A special
to the Courier-Journal, says that the
case of Joseph Haley & Co., vs.
Samuel Haley, which was argued
and submitted to the court ot ap
peals at Frankfort on Saturday, is
one of the strangest cases that has
ever reached the court for adjudica
tion. The appeal is from Bracken
county, and involves an estate worth
upwards of <40,000. Thomas Ilaley
died intestate in 1&S3. He had two
wives living and one dead. By
Martha’ his wife, he had five chil
dren; by his second, the dead wife,
he had four children, and by his
third wife he had six children.
After the birth of three children
by the first wife, the husband insti
tuted a suit against her for divorce
on the ground of adultery, and a de
cree in accordance therewith was
given by the court in 1S47. He then
married his second wile, by whom
he become father of Margaret, *ho
became his third wife, after the di
vorce had been granted. His second
wife died, and bis first wife had the
divorce proceedings set aside, and
the case re-opened for further hear
ing, but nothing thereafter was
ever done toward prosecuting the
suit to termination, and the case was
finally filed on condition of the rein
statement of the first wife's marital
rights. Subsequently when the
daughter Margaret arrived at the
years of matrimony, she was duly
and legally married to her father, hy
and with the mother’s consent. The
children of the first marriage now
claim to be heirs-at-law, which the
children of the other two marriages
deny, on the ground that it can’t be
proven that their father was at any
time the lawful husband of Martha
Haley. The children of the second
marriage claim to be the only heirs
of the deceased, because the third
marriage was incestuous and there
fore void. Both of the issues of the
latter marriages are equally inter
ested in proving the bastardy of
the first set of children, otherwise
the first would be held the only
heirs at law, and the second last
offsprings of bigamous unions. The
singular relation is then developed
of the daughter attempting to prove
herself of illegitimate birth, and
thereby recover the property at the
expense ot her reputation and that
of her mother, who is also her
mother-in-law.
Among the_ more important acts
of the last legislature is the one we
publish below as to voluntary assign
ments. It will be s?en that a list ot
creditors as assets is required to be
filed, and any fraud in the assignor
will void the assignment and non
judgment creditors can go into
equity and attack the deed. The
change in the law of assignments is
very important:
AN ACT
Defining voluntary assignment and
providing that a sworn sched
ule of creditors shall be filed with
deed of assignment; also provid
ing that a fraud shall void the
deed of assignment, and giving
jurisdiction to courts of equity:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of Georgia, That
in all cases where voluntary assign
ments are made by failing as insol
vent debtois, for the benefit of cred
itors, it shall be the duty of the
person, firm or corporation making
such assignment, to piepareand at
tach to the deed, or instrument by
which such assignment be made, at
the time of executing the same, a
full and complete inventory and
schedule of ail indebtedness of eve
ry kind, of such insolvent person,
firm or corporation at the time of
the execution of such instrument or
deed of assignment; which invento
ry, or schedule, shall set forth in
detail the manner of the amounts
due to, and residence of each ot the
creditor- of such assignor; and
which said inventory or schedule
shall be sworn to by the persons
making the assignment; and in ca
ses of assignments by firms the oath
may be made by any member of
such firm; or in case of assignments
by corporations, by the chief officer
of the corporation.
Section 2. Belt furtVer enacted.
That no deed or other instrument of
assignment by insolvent persons,
firms or corporations shall be valid
unless accompanied by the sworn
schedule required hy the first sec
tion of this act.
Section 3. Be it further enacted,
That it shall not be lawful for any
assignee, under a voluntary assign
ment made for the benefit of credi
tors, to p^y out, dislmise or deliver
any funds or assets in his hands, as
such assignee, to any preferred
creditor named in such deed of as
signment, until thirty days after the
same has been filed with the clerk
of the superior court.
Section 4. Be it fur her enacted,
That no creditor ot a person, firm or
coruoration“making an assignment
for the benefit of creditors, shall be
required first, to reduce his debt to
judgment before be shall be entitled
to ask the remedial aid of a court of
equity.
Section 5. Be it further enacted.
That in all cases of voluntary assign
ment, lor the benefit of creditors,
when the same may be attached as
fraudulent, it shall not be necessary
to show fraud,or collusion, or node#
thereof in the assignee under such
deed of assignment, to render the
same void; hut where fraud can be
shown in the assignor, this alone
shall be sufficient to authorize a
court of competent jurisdiction to
declare such assignment void. No
assignment shall be set aside except
upon a direct proceeding filed for
that purpose, and no creditor of the
assignor shall obtain any priority or
preference of payment, aut or the
assets assigned on any judgment
rendered alter the filing of the bill,
in case the deed of assignment is
set aside and decreed to be void.
Section 6 Be it further enacted,
That all laws and parts of laws, in
conflict with this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed. Ap
proved Oct. 17, 1SS5.
BARKING LIKE A DOG.
Horrible Death of a Newark Woman From
HydropIurt>l». r - .‘ •
'-A rabid dog ten weeks ago bit
Mrs. Annie Farrell, of 452 Court
street, Newark, and at three minutes
past 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon
the unfortunate woman died from
the eflects of the poison injected into
her sy’stem, after suffering most
horribly. All the attentions of Dr-
Dieffenbach, her physician, could
not save her life. One day Mrs.
Farrell was walking along Norfolk
street, when she saw a small white
dog lying in the gutter suffering
from spasms. The description that
she gave led her physician to think
that it was of the “Spitz” breed.
She stopped to pac the animal,
which submitted kindly to the ca
ress, but a sudden spasm seized it
and he turned and bit the hand that
sootk him. Mrs. Farrell hurried
home and dressed the wound. She
thought no more of it at the time.
On Sunday morning last the first
indication of hydrophobia appeared,
when as she was about to drink a
glass of water a sudden contraction
of the muscles of the throat nearly-
choked her. She sent her husband
after a homoeopathic physician, who
attended her until Monday evening,
when her husband went for Dr.
Dieflenbacli. Yesterday when a
reporter called at the woman’s house
he found her propped up in bed,
unconscious, with her eyes set and
glassy. There was no expression in
them, but the muscles of the face
twitched and intense pain was man
ifest in every contortion of her face.
Thick, frothy saliva formed on her
lips and she would lay quiet, when
suddenly every muscle in her body
would contract, her throat would
expand until the veins stood out like
whip-cords and horrible sounds,
muffled and rumbling, emitted from
her lips. She was not a pleasant
picture to gaze upon by any means.
A dose of morphia was prepared
by Dr. Dieffenbach, who adminis
tered it hypodermically- under the
skin of the arm, while the instru
ment was cleaned afterwards with
extreme care. Where the woman
was bitten on her tight hand the
scars were still visible. They were
slightly ted.
“I can do nothing for her,” said
the physician, “except to ease her
sufferings as much as possible with
narcotics. She can eat nothing and
her body has become so weakened
that she can-lot much longer resist
the spasms. The dog evidently
had the rabies when he bit her.
This shows the folly of not having
the -wounds made by a dog prop
erly treated alter a person is bitten.
The sounds made in the poor wo
man’s throat sounded strangely like
the bark of a dog. At a few min
utes after 4 o’clock the woman pass
ed away in one of the spasms that
shook her frame so frightfully. She
immediately became rigid and cold
and the set stare of the eyes remain
ed. Some one kindly closed the
lids of the poor sufferer and all was
over. Her agony was great.
Mrs. Farrell is about forty- years
old, and leaves besides her husband,
one little boy. This is the second
case ot the kind that has happened
in Newaik in a year. Almost every
case has fallen into the hands of Dr.
Diefienbach.
A DRUGGIST’S BOY
STUMBLES ACCIDENTALLY INTO A
TREMENDOUS FORTUNE.
factory girls.
AN AFFRAY IN MADISON COUNTY.
THE NEW CAPITOL.
The gubernatorial campaign has
actually began in Alabama. Thtjyr
have begun tq poll the train*.
How too "Work Is FrogiMsta* a* Present.
Messrs. Miles & Horn, the con
tractors for the erection of the new
capital* are pushing the work on the
building quite rapidly at present,
though without making any luss
about it. The iron work for the
main floor will all be in position
within the aext ten daps, when a
large foice of brick layers will be
put to work erecting the brickwork
of the principal story. These, with
their helpers, will make an addi
tional force of about fifty men. They
expect to erect the walls of this
story in about uinety woiking days,
which will include the stone set
ting. The contractors intend to
keep their forces at work constantly
stopping only when forced to do so
fay bad weather.
The stone cutters are now turn
ing oat 300 cubic feet per day, ^t
which rate they can easily keep up
with the bricklayers and have a
good start on the stone for the sec
ond story. About fifteen thousand
cubic feet of nncut stone is now on
the ground and it is being received
at the rate of Soo cubic feet to day.
The work of carving the plaster
caps for the principal story has just
been commenced. The pattern for
this carving is very handsome, and
the work is being done by Mr.
Crouch, the sub contractor, who
did the carving for the new city hall
in Philadelphia.
The contractors will soon invite
bids for the construction of the steel
burglar proof vault for the treas-
urera office, and the fire proof fronts
for the five other vaults. This work
must all be of the best steel known
to manufacturer* ot safes, and to be
ao tempered as to resist the strong-
cat drills.—Atlanta Journal.
A Man.Plunges a Knife Into Anotber One's
Breast—A Bigamist Escapes.
Danielsvillk.Ga., Nov. 21.—
There stood lor trial to-day in 438
district, this county, case of M. V.
Roberts vs. L. F. Hill, sued on ac
count, which account Ilill said was
more than paid and that Roberts,
his tenant, was indebted to him.
The parties and a number of wit
nesses were on the ground before
tht court or attorneys arrived. Rob-
eits is reported 10 have cussed one
of Hill’s witnesses for a G—d—d
liar, because of testimony the wit
ness would give on the trial, and
upon seeing Hill standing a little
distance away began cursing Hill
in like manner, and advancing
knocked Hill down and jumped on
him, whereupon Hill, being much
smaller than Roberts, cut Roberts
across the right breast from 2 to 4
inches to Die bone. Those present,
say the affray would have been seri
ous had not the men been separated.
Hill swore out warrants against
Roberts lor assault end battery and
10 keep the peace, and against J. J.
Dove, L. (j., to keep the peace.
Roberts waived trial and gave bond
lor appearance under warrant for
assault and battery. In other two
casts, bond was given to keep peace
and for appearance 3d Saturday in
December for a hearing.
_ W. L. White, L. C:, arrested Jas.
Cheek, in Harrison district, to-day
upon a warrant for bigamy, sent
from Cobb county, for his return to
Danielsville. Coming down a hill
his buggy shaft broke, and while he
was endeavoring to mend the shalt,
Mr. Cheek decided to take leg bail.
An exciting race for several ;hun-
dred yards through the woods fol
lowed, Mr. White firing upon Mr.
Cheek three times, but Cheek made
good his escape.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
A Teacher Compels a Lad to Eat Bed. Pep
por.as a Punishment.
Somerville, Mass., Nov. 19.—
Miss Minnie Turner, until several
days ago a teacher in the Bennett
school, is charged with causing the
death of Charlie Wiley, a seven
year old pupil. It is said the boy
told her a lie three weeks ago and
as a punishment she compelled him
to take red pepper. That evening
he complained of being sick but his
parents did not call a physician un
til the following Friday. Last Fri
day the lad died.
The city physician informed the
school committee that the boy died
from swallowing the pepper admin
istered by Miss Turner. The sub
committee asked Miss Turner to re
sign, wh|ch she did. By the advice
of friends she has withdrawn i her
resignation and has demanded an
investigation, and, claiming that she
did not pot enough pepper }n j thi 1
boy’s mouth to cause death snd
that he died from diphtheria.
John Taylor, the head of the Mor
mon church, is its his eightieth year.
Sometolng About How They Toll
Living.
Atlanta Capitol.
The term, “factory girl,” as ap
plied to those who work in cotton
mills is familiar with everybody, but
few of us know anything about the
labor they perform in order to make
a living, the writer has for'years
been a close observer of the toils,
and cares imposed upon those girls
and is fully competent to give the
readers of the Capitol an exact ad
umbration of their every day life
The working hours of a cotton
mill—unlike other establishments—
are generally from 6 o’clock, a. m.
to 7 p. m., allowing half an hour at
noon. Thus they work twelve and
a half hours every day. Many of
them get up at 4 o’clock in the
morning and go about getting
breakfast, and but few can imagine
how tired they are after standing
on their feet all day. But after all
this, as a general thing, they appear
at any time more jovial and pleas
ant than any class of girls. The
writer has often heard the remark
“She’s a factory girl,” and these
remarks are made as a kind of slur
on them, and he takes the liberty to
say that the better class of people
will never speak in this way about
a girl that works hard for an honest
living, but rather pity them.
Indeed this class of our girls are
looked down upon as of a lower
charaoter, and there are no nicer
girls in our land than some factory
girls, yet we admit there are some
of the debased tribe, but we should
never confound any and every hard
working girl as such. A Capitol
reporter being anxious to know
more about how they earn
their money, persuaded
foreman, and he told the reporter
how these had to work long hours
how they had only half an hour
go home and eat dinner, and how
the head men treated them mali
ciously, and even cursed in their
presence, cut a quarter of a day off
thtir time if they were only ten min
utes late.
We say most assured that no well
bred citizen will speak disparaging
ly ot our fair girls who have tc
work for an honest living. Not only
that, hut we appeal to the intelli
gence and good sense of these man
ufacturers. Will they not have t<
give an account at the last day for
the way in which they treat this
class, and how can they have the
heart to do so? Repent.
Iks Florida Ship Canal.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 19
Francis J. Leharon, a prominent
civil engineer of this $ity, has re
ceived instructions from Capt. Jas.
B. Eads to proceed to make a pre
luninary survey across the Penin
aula of Florida for the contemplated
ship railway. He will begin at the
.mouth of McGirt’s creek, two" miles
southwest of Jacksonville, thence
run in a straight line ns near as pos
sible through the Santa Fe River
Valley, and strike the Gulf of Mex
ico at Deadman’s Bay, north ol
Cedar Keys, a distance ot about 120
miles. Capt. Eads writes that he
has the matter of constructing the
ship canal across the peninsula
Florida under investigation, and
convinced of it* practicability. N
Lebaron will start on the prelimi
nary survey to-morrow with a full
corps of assistants.
Origin of Ginger Beer and the Results
Which Made Its Inventor Rich—A Poor
Orphaned Shop-Boy's Lucky Idea.
Louisville Courier-Journal. ’
Dr. J. Humeral, editor of Les
Deux Monde, Buffalo, N. Y., has
been in the city during the past
week, and furnishes the following
interesting account of the accidental
origin of ginger beer and the re
sults which made its inventor a
wealthy man:
“Everybody,” said Dr. Hameral,
knows the ginger beer, the regulai
drink of the middle and lower
classes in England, the yearly sale
of which (at 1 penny per bottle)
reaches;millions and millions ofbot-
tles. But the origin of this pleasant,
cheap and truly temperance drink
is not known, and I doubt whether,
even in England, there are many
men who could say how and by
whom it was invented. The story
savors a little of romance, and I can
vouch for its truth, having heard it
many a time from the lips of the in
ventor, who was rather proud of
his achievement, and not without
good reason.
AN ORPHANS LOT.
“Some eighty years ago Louis
Care/., a boy of 16, the son of a very
poor country physician in Fiance,
was sent by his father to a school
t n f.ondon in which he got board,
odgingand instruction in English
in exchange for lessons in French
to the younger pupils. Eight
months later the schoolmaster died,
the school was closed, and Louis
Carez found himself alone in the
big city without a friend and with
very scanty resources. While look
ing out for another school, he took
a room in the house of a druggist,
in one of the low parts of the city,
and managed to live with $5 a
month, all that his father could send
him. It was almost starvation.
“But the poor boy had not seen
the end of his troubles. One day
the monthly remittance failed—the
father was dead! The boy would
have died of want if it had not been
the kind charity of the old-drug-
t and his wife. They had be
come attached to the pretty, well
behaved boy, they pitied his forlorn
position, they gave him his room
and his board until he could obtain a
situation. Anxious to make himself
useful, Louis Carez swept and clcan-
the ltttle store, and was soon able
help the old man in preparing
simple prescriptions.
A LUCKY IDEA.
“One day, as he was alone in the
store, a woman called for some gin
ger powder. Louis served her, and
fter she left, tasted the powder,
lie liked it, but finding it burst his
tongue, he mixed it with water.
Then an idea struck him. He put
some ginger powder in one glass
ul in another a little sugar and the
contents of the white paper of a
seidlitz powder, added water to
both, poured the contents of one
lass into the other and drank with
delight the pleasant, effervescing
draught. The ginger beer, although
in a crude state, was discovered!
For several days, whenever he had
chance, the young inventor exper
imented in the small laboratory, and
having at length perfected his new
beverage, he calculated that he
wanted 2 guineas to manufacture
his liquid, buy 100 bottles, as many
corks, and some twine. Some fine
motning he made up his mind to
speak to the druggist, explain his
idea and beg for the loan of 2 guin
eas.
But the old man did not see the
matter in the same light as the en
thusiastic young boy and refused
the.loan. However, it was written
in the book of fate that ginger beer
was not to be withheld from the
appreciative palates of Englishmen.
The wife ol the druggist had ‘heard
the explanations of the boy, and
whether she had faith in his inven
tion, or whether she was more ten
der-hearted than her husband, the
same evening she slipped two gold
pieces in the hand of Louis out of
her scanty savings. A few days
later he could be seen on the streets
of London, carrying a basketful of
bottles in one hand and a glass in
the other, calling: “Ginger beer, the
drink of the period; ginger beer, 3
pence a bottle!”
RICHES AND HONOR.
“A few months afterward Louis
Carez manufactured and sold daily
1,000 bottles, but one year later he
formed a partnership with a Capt.
Dubbers, and established large
works which could scarcely meet
the demands, and had to be enlarg
ed more than once. Ginger beer
sold retail at 2 pence a bottle. Af
ter four years of partnership, being
then 21 years of age, Louis Carez
sold his share in the concern to his
partner for 10,000 pounds sterling
and went to Paris. He invested
his capital in the silk house of Vac-
ossin, at that time (about the year
1815) already a very important one.
But Louis Carez was a bora mer
chant, and in 1824 the firm of “Ca
rez, Vacossin & Co.” had become
the largest and richest of the silk
trade in France. He was elected
president of the board of trade in
Paris, president of the chamber ot
commerce, was a member of the
Legion of Honor, and many times a
millionaire. His son, Alfred Carez,
was my chum at college, I was often
a guest in the house, and many a
time I have heard the old gentleman,
when he had taken some friend
through his art and picture gallery,
one of the finest private collections
in Paris, sav with a smile: “See
what can. be got out of a bottle of
gin&er beer.”
The public schools’at Ainericus
were closed circus day, the Super
intendent being well aware that the
circus would be more attractive to
the children than the school.
Jake Barber, of Cobb county, hat
sold $50 worth of turnips off ot on*
acre this year, besides about fifteen
families have supplied themselves
with all the turnips they wished.
The acre is not exhausted yet.
Adairsvillk, Nov. »i.I—Mr.
Penn, an old and highly esteemed
citizen, white feeding hogs at his
pen, was stricken with paralysis
and had to be carried into the house,
where medical aid soon alleviated
his sufferings. - -»- ‘- i '■
While the steamer Ellis was com
ing up the Chattahoochee river on
her last trip, a white man named
Thomas Wilcox stepped overboard
and was drowned. He got on at ’
Apalachicola to go to Iola, and was
very drunk.
A company has been organized
to improve and popularize Tybee
island. The capital stock of the
company will • be $30,000, divided
into shares of $100 each; each sub
scriber to receive tor each share he
takes one building lot on the island,
and a share valued at $100 in the
hotel, lots, lands, artesian wells,
railway and appurtenances. The
scheme is in the hands of the citi
zens of Savannah.
In a casual conversation the other
day with President {Livingston, of
the Agricultural Society, he in
formed me that $600 of the money
subscribed to the Society, for the
holding of the State fair of 1S84 in
this city and $200 for the past fair,
making a total of $Soo, is due the
Society from this source. The Col
onel didn’t say he gave up all hope
of collecting the same, but intimat
ed as much.—Macon News.
Mr. C. W. WillTams killed a pure
white squirrel on the Cahaba river,
in Bibb county, a few days ago.
The squirrel had been seen many
times in the swamp by negroes du
ring the past few years, and they
had looked upon it with supersti
tion. A white deer was killed sev
eral years ago in the same swamp,
and the negroes rejoiced at its death.
They believed it to be the ghost of
a Confederate soldier, who was
murdered during “the war in the
swamp. The above were told the
Birmingham Age by a man, and it
is suspected he was none other than
Joe Mulhatton in disguise.
GENERAL NEWS.
C. A. Rideout, a negro immigra
tion agent, has been warned by
anonymous writers to leave Colum
bia.
Bishop John Freeman Young, of
Episcopal church of Florida, died
in New York on Sunday morning.
He was buried in Jacksonville, Fla.,
on Thursday.
The State of Florida, through
Gov. Perry, offers a reward of $500
for the arrest and conviction of any
party who may have caused the
death of C. L. Simms, near Sanford.
Newberry county can boast of the
mammoth girl. She is only 17 years
old and weighs 300 pounds. Her
corpulency does not keep her from
work. She can plow, hoe, etc., be
sides doing other work around the
house.
President Haarstick and Secre
tary Morgan, of the Merchants Ex
change, have sent a letter to Presi
dent Cleveland asking him to call
attention in his annual message to
the commercial demand lor an equi
table bankrupt law, and stating that
at the coming session of congress,
the Merchants Exchange will by
all means in its power favor the pas
sage of the Lowell bill.
MARRIES THE HOY SHE LOVES.
A New York Broker’s Daughter Marries as
Humble Country Lad.
Miss Alice Horstord, the daugh
ter of Henry E. Horsford, a New
York broker, has married Gerard
Person, the son of a harness maker
in the little town of Spring Valley,
N. Y. The Horsford family board
ed during the summer with the Per
son family, and the daughter re- 2
mained there after her father and
mother returned to town. Young
Gerard and the lady were mutually
attracted, and au engagement fol
lowed. On Tnesday last the father
was informed of the step the daugh
ter had taken, and he hastened
to Spring Valley to put his veto
on the match. While the two
fathers sat in solemn conclave Wed
nesday evening the sly lovers slip-
ied from the room, and hand-in-
land ran over the fields to the house
of old Dominie Mack. Between her
gasps for breath the young girl told
her story and begged th» kind-
hearted parson to perform the vows.
Into the dark little church the three
entered and a ringing kiss from the
Dominie sealed the ties. Then
slowly the hapy • couple retraced
their steps and told their parents
vi hat they had done. Mr. Horsford
refrained from chiding his daugh
ter’s hasty act and welcomed his
new son-in-law. He regretted only
that he had not been permitted to
witness the ceremony which took
from him his c-nly child, and robbed
his home of his chief treasure. He
expressed himself content with his
daughter’s choice, if she was satis
fied. The only dissenting voice is
that of Mrs. Horsford, who has
neither visited nor written *to the
young bride since her marriage.
The happy couple are living quietly
under the old harness maker's root.
WILKES WET.
The County Goes for Liquor.
A dispatch received late last night
states that liquor wins in Wilkes
county by about three hundred ma
jority.
Mr.
THE GUN BUBSTBD.
Willie Fuller, of Clarksville, had
a portion of His hand blown ofT by
the bursting of a He was go
ingofl to South Caroiipa L and bor
rowed the gun for his mother and
sisters to keep in the house while
he was gone. He fired it off to
clean it out and the barrel bursted,
with the above result.
A SMART DOQ.
John C. Coleman, of Swainsboro,
has a dog that will go to the differ
ent yards in town and deliberately
drive the chickens, one by one, to
his master’s yard. As soon as he
gets one in the yard he returns and
starts another. He will patiently
work for half a day. if necessary, to
get one chicken.—Evening' News.
This is a common dog to some
we have near Athens. They raise
the chickens and take care of them.
Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore, who has
been trying to get admitted to the
Phitadelpia bar for the last two or
three years, met with another rebuff
the other day. She will try again.
_ _ flail-w
Eugene Beck. -v»‘ sisdJ
Southron. t VOru# fl
We met.Eugene Beck at -otir-jail
last bunday and talked with him a
few moments. His long confine
ment and the verdict ot < guilty on
his trial is telling on h>s physical
frame greatly. His fair complexio*
is becoming sallow, lilt frame wast
ing and his large glittering brciwn
eves are becoming dull and leaden.
He complains of cold feet, indigna
tion and bad feelings generally.
Our opinion is that the once, strong
and magnificent frame ol Eugeile
Beck is giving way and will go
down rapidly during .the cheerless
winter just before him. Surely the
way of the transgressor it hard for
even the most hardy, strong »and
reckless. t 1 !j noli
LIQUOR AVD THE CO A-
We tearn-that the Darfe , county
coal mines subscribed $5,000 to
carry Atlanta wet. , The sale of li
quor in Fulton county will make a
profit on the amount subscribed.
Old Joe has an eye to business.
Liquor and the coal mines are full
partners. pt ““