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rPsIty QnVsjfrr verbi The Dirty ah Times siryi; * Unthr«pUt%, tn» d £ ,* n ip p ^if to - -I V/ county comnp-jj «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 ““