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GEN. TOOL'S DEATH.
p , r weeks the country has been
u cpart'd f»r the tad tidings that
!l.,shed «> ver the wires Tuesday
night, ancouncing the death of
Georgia’* gifted statesman and pure
mul devoted son, Gen. Robert
Toombs. His ending was as quiet
ru l peaceful as his life has been
checkered and eventful. Few pub
lic men hove secured and retained
j U ch a firm hold upon the confi
dence and love of their people as
I,,, Gen. Toombs. Georgia and
th e south were his only idols, and
u pon this shrine he lavishly laid hi*
talent, his eloquence and his purse,
hike a rock of adamant has Robeit
Toombs stoad between his people
ami their oppressors in the darkest
days, and his devotion to right and
principle has been unwavering.
While his utterance* seemed otten
r rratic and untimely, analyze them
carefully and you will find even in
; -carelessly spoken words a broad
, cut of brilliant statesmanship and
1 1 undying hatred to everything
. ..it directly or indirectly antago
nized his native land. He
,, 3- one of the boldest and
nl>) -t open men the world ever pro
duced. l he word fear was a stran-
cn to his bre»st, and his dart* of
THE BANNER-WATCHMAN.
gen EK AL'/NEW s.
Pasteur ianow treating sixty-two
itients for hydrophobia; ".
WEEKLY EDITION.
NO. XIA
A TITENrflj GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1S85.
VOL. XXXI
THE SILVER QUESTION.
, ,tire or indignation were always
on an open field. Gen*
was intensely Souther a .
him passes away a genern,
i.eit who gave to our section
d anil chivalrous name tha
g i.joyed. lie was never
lo u’iind.tr a principle o
I » pally. By tin
n a u leal le-s c rinse he ha
d. him-ei' '• Ins people am
i Lie..
In., a
l>r>'- 1 *•
Mill ol 111
ill !
.he O.i •;
pen,i
iy. U
s great man
>iautilul tiuths Oi
united with tilt
, passing his re-
ilied by that peace
conteniment ol spirit purchased
ugli toe I'luod ol our Saviour.
ming nay»
lHEbAi.vtsviLLe SOUIHRON.
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 12, 1SS5.
Deal I.41 ry : 1 am gone up. My ol
:icr. nooks and all are gone. Ne
in-utance. Can fight no longer,
nut wish you and oilier brethren ol
ti.e 1’iess ot Georgia belter luck.
Truly, yours, P. F. Lawsiib.
The above postal card. received
\ e-teiday fram Col. Peter F. Law-
- f. * f the Gainesville Southron,ex
plains itsell. The disastrous fire in
i.an.esvule destroyed his printing
ni.r. h inks, etc., and upon the
ty there is not a dollar of in-
1. As the Colonel writes us,
c m he ht no longer, but must
' ll 10 the inevitable. In his
■c 1 c i -- u e extend to our old an-
taaoniit our hnirtleit sympathy, and
in-1 tir.it he may yet be able,
1\ u riix-hke, 10 arise Irom the ashes
.rni resinrcct the Southron unde
brighter auspices. The Banner-
Watchman and Southron have long
’tiii.it political enmity, and tpere
lute been many hard and bitter
tnu.gs s»,,l on both sides; but at
c same time the gall was only on
1 c tip of the Faber and did not
|r-etrate the heart of cither editor.
U lule a good hater and a hard hit-
ii. Col. Lawshe ts.not a bad man,
I ir. on the other hand he was loyal
tu Ui« triends and true to hisconvic-
t < ns. He was a bold and fearless
"Her, and whatever cause
be espoused, gave to it his
w hole heart. Of late years
the Southron editor had his
ilo.position soured by repeated de
feats. and this fact will account, in
.1 measure, for the unpopularity ol
hi- paper with those that he so bit-
teily assai'ed. Col. Lawshe never
stopped to count the cost or weigh
titr consequences of his paragraphs.
Like its editor, 'here was nothing
covert or cowardly about the South
ron. The paper never stabbed a
man in the back, but fought hint
face lo lace and to the death. While
denouncing its course, even the
enemies ol the Southron must re
spect its feailess candor. The total
destruction ot the Gainesville South
ron fairly represents the position it
has lately taken—both are gone past
resurrection; but upon the funeral
pyre of this office let the gifted edr-
lor build up a new Southron, bv
tne fiery ordeal through which it
has passed shall appear chastened
and burnished, anil take its place
in the arena of democratic journal
ism, where the mighty pen of its
editor can in the luture as he has in
the past, wield such a gieat influ
ence lor the party to which he
nghtly belongs.
President Cleveland has pro
nounced vie ws on the silver ques
tion, and his message contains a
clear and able enunciation of them.
Hit line of argument is, it must be
confessed, very strong.
As a general thing the masses of
the people are not posted, and have
not intelligent opinions on this sub
ject. The leaders are informed and
differ widely. But the people are
ignorant. As a fact it may be stated
that without knowledge the masses
will favor the free coinage of silver.
The subject n<.eds full and intelli
gent discussion to enlighten the pub
lic mind upon the matter.
President Cleveland’s arguments
runs thus:
1. Since 1878 the government has
purchased and coined 217 millions
of silver dollars.
2. The true theory ol the coming
power is that the amount should be
restricted 10 a sufficient circulating
medium.
3- The desire to utilize the silver
product should not lead to the mis
use or perversion ot the coining
power.
4. Of the 217 millons of silver
louars coined, only fifty have found
iteir wav into circulation, leaving
165 millions in tht government
• 4alts, entailing cost of custody.
5. Against the 165 millions ot
• ivtr dollars 111 me vaults, ninety-
'liiee millions 01 silver certtficate-
•utstand.
b. livery month two millions ot
, Id are paid out tu buy silver to be
us coined to add to the idle mass
ready accumulated.
7. 1 he customs receipts will not
.kc good this drain, as silver is
.a! lender, and the average per
nt. 01 silver teceipis lor duties has
■ten 20 per cent.
8. The hoarding of gold has begun
*s a consequence of this policy, and
when gold is withdrawn from circu
lation, the coins will part company.
9. Gold, the standard of value,
and need in our dealings abroad,
will give rise in value above silver,
and speculation in gold will ensue.
10. With appreciated gold and
depreciated silver, flutuating in
value, the laboring men will suffer.
11. With two sorts of money of
different excellence, the better will
cease to be circulated, producing
contraction.
12. The effort of the government
to keep silver dollars worth eighty
cents.even with gold dollars worth
one hundred cents can only be suc
cessful when the people have confi
dence that both coins will retain the
same purchasing power and be in
terchangeable at will.
13. There is good ground to be
lieve that there is a lack of confi
dence among the people.
14. The international conference
to secure fixity of value between
gold and silver has failed and we
stand alone in this bi-metallic.
15. Four of the European coun
tries we have conferred, embarrass
ed with silver, agree to coin no
more silver.
16. The suspension of silver coin
age as a corollary from all of the
statements is deducible as a proper
thing, and is recommended by the
President.
The President makes a strong
case and presses it with an evident
conviction of its justice and benefit
He very plausibly urges that if the
need ot more is at any time appar
ent, their coinage may be renewed
COLLISION.
Two Trains Near Atlanta
Collide,
BIO HOG.
George Malcom.of Oconee coun
ty, comes to the front with a pig
weighing 527 1-2 pounds. Oconee
and Banks can beat the state raising
hogs.
Causing Many Deaths and
Great Suffering
FROBflUTIOM won tDVU,
Mr. Pittard, an old gentleman ol
Wilkes, tells us that before the war
man named Overby made a race
fpr Governor on the temperance is
sue, but only received about 10,000
votes in the state. He was a brilliant
speaker and stumped Georgia.
JUDGE SPEER'S WIT.
From the Elberton Ga. Leader:
Many are the incidents told by citi
zens of the old Ninth illustrating
the remarkable genius of Judge
Emory Speer as an orator and
-tump speaker. An eye-witness-
and a former citizen of Gainesville
gives us one: The republican:
were holding a big
Special Dispatch 10 Banner-Watchman.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15.—A
frightful and fatal collision occur
red this morning shortly after mid
night on the Georgia Pacific rail
road, about fifteen miles from At
lanta, in which eleven lives were
lost, and three persons were so
badly injured that it U thought, that
death will result. The circum
stances of the wreck are as follows:
The East Tennessee and Georgia
Pacific roads use the same track
rom Atlanta to Austell where they
diverge, one going west and the
other north. They, however, leave
the city from different depots, and
meet just one mile east of Austell
toward Atlanta at a water tank
used by the Georgia pacific. Tbi
night passenger on the Georgia
Pacific leaves here at 10 o’clock,
and of the East Tennessee, at 10:45
o'clock. Last night, however, the
Georgia Pacific was somewhat de
layed, and when it stopped at the
water tank was on tge East Ten
nessee time. The East Tennessee
passenger train came flying around
the cure near water tank, and with
out a moment’s warning went
crashing into the rear of the Geor
gia Pacific. Engineer Owen and
fireman of the East Tennessee
train, saw the other train, but too
late to avoid collision. The fire
man jumped from the engine, while
the engineer remained at his post
reversing the engine, and applied
the brakes but could not avoid the
collision. The engine tore its way
into the rear coach and telescoped
one in front of it, which was forced
into one ahead of it. The rear coaeh
was filled with passengers, many of
whom were so pinned down by the
wreck that they were unable to stir,
and^escaping steam soon caused the
death of five or six. Cries of the
wounded rent the air. A11 was
darknes.' The statements of those
who hastened to the scene was to
the effect that words cannot de
scribe the awfnltiess of the situa
tion. As soon as possible the East
Tennessee was backed, when the
work of removing dead and wound
ed commenced. From Austell mes
sage was sent to Atlanta, apprising
tho officials of the road ot the acci
dent and asking help. At 2:25
m. a train left, bearing physicians
and several of the railroad officials.
Two officers of the road immedi
ately went to work to have the
track cleared, and at 8:30 this morn
ing this had been done. About 7:40
a. m. a train left Austell for.-ttlanta,
bearing dead and wounded, arriving
here at 8:05 p. in. The killed were
placed on biers in an undertaking
establishment, and hundreds of peo
ple have crowded its doors all day
The dead are, Bernard Peyton, at
torney ol the Georgia Pacrfie, for
merly of Charlottesville, Va., but
recently of Birmingham, Ala.; Na
than Stanley, of Anniston, Ala.; E,
Y. Huie, of East Point, Ga.; J. W
Pierce, of Texas, and one little baby,
By Christmas.
The Laclede car company, of St.
Louis, wrote Mr. Snodgrass yester
day that the cara would be here
ready to run by Christmas, and
probably two or three days before
that time. The irons are aU here
except one car, and the work pro
gressing rapidly.
row nr WAnmramu.
Last Saturday night two negroes
got into • difficulty in Watkinsville
over the election, and one of them
was badly cut
A LIBERAL PROPOSITION
A gentleman who owns one of
the finest plantations in Oglethorpe
county, containing 1,000 acres, says
if any one will pay him a fair valu
ation on the buildings on the place
that he will give him a deed to
the farm.
_ meeting in
Gainesville one night during one of | the infant ol Jake and Mary Banks,
Sam Jones gave great offense to
tlie French inhabitants of St. Louis
when he said that American society
was threatened by a “wave of
French licentiousness.” Dr. Char-
ner, a Frenchman, replied to the
tw.ingelist in a card in which he
'4.1I: -This is certainly very flatter
■‘n: to the ladies of your audience
and 1 cannot understand why they
tio nut keep away from a place
"here their characters arc so reck
■t"l\ besmirched. I have too much
regard for my own wife and dauglr
ter t„ let them go where they can
.rain such notions of vice as are
pertrayed in your Pharisaical rav-
“•K*
One of the bloodiest tragedies
ever recorded is reported from
Horne. Italy. A butcher named
T m enticed a rival butcher named
Foggi into his cellar. He then
'tunned him with a blow on the
head and cut his throat. Afterwards
•he body was cut into small pieces
*nd thrown away. The murdered
truin'- hlciod was boiled in black
puddings which were sold in Tozzi’s
’hop. Tozzi made a lull confession
in open court and excited the rage
the spectators to lever heat.
1’arson Downs
Speer’s memorable campaigns
Several of their distinguished speak
ers were present, and the demo
crats concluded to get in a voice.
Speer was asked to reply, t and read
ily agreed. But the republicans
were maJe aware of the plan, and
prolonged their meeting to a very
late hour They finally adjourned
and immediately began filing out at
the door. Speer, in waiting, sprang
upon the rostrum, and, assuming
his most eloquent attitude—such as
he alone can—with a finger point
ing toward their retreating forms,
saw! in his most dramatic style:
"And they shall go out into outer
darkness, where there shall be wail
ing and gnashing of teeth.” The
effect was electric. The democrats
arose and yelled, the republicans
fled from the scene confused and
disordered.
EXCITEMENT IN ELBERTON.
There is still some excitement in
Elberton over the death of a negro,
who, it was thought, died from the
effects of a blow given by the mar
shal of Elberton at the circus. The
marshal hit him a slight blow, and
in a day or two afterwards the ne
gro died. A coroner’s jury was
summoned and a physician exam
ined the body. A verdict was re
turned that the negro died from gas
tritis. The friends of the deceased
were not satisfied, and Dr. Math
ews, of Hartwell, assisted by his
brother, were sent for, and they
made an examination of the body
and gave it as their opinion that the
negro came to his death from the
blow. There is a great deal of ex
citement about it, and it is not yet
known what shape the case will
take.
Boston’s too lov-
n 2 vltrg) man, lias been voted a
vszy-quilt as the most popular cler-
Evnian by silly women who have
no > been reading the command
ments lately. This is a species of
"onhern refinement wedou’t want
10 'ee imported south.
: Half a dozen territories are again
'ending on the door of the Union
!l‘ r admission. Let ’em bang away.
1 he average settlers of Western
■emtuiics are the class of men who
ma ke republican voters.
It was predicted that the death
. ' andeibilt would create a panic
ln 'he stock market. It had the
'ante duration as a hole bored by a
man’- finger in a vessel filled with
Rater.
p '\e are inclined to the belief that
resident Cleveland's caution large-
{ °'' er balances hit courage. He
ould certainly have attended Mr.
‘bricks’ funeral.
UOLDENVILLE.
A petition was yesterday for
warded Congressman Reese, ask
ing that the mail which leaves High
Shoa'.s shall go to Weir’s store, a
distance of five miles, and thence to
Monroe, and return from Monroe
via Good Hope and High Shoals.
The present route is from High
Shoals via Good Hope, and return
by same route. The new post office
will be named Goldenville.
who died in its mother’s arms; two
little children, one a baby belonging
to Brigh; Jake Banks, of Fairburn,
Ga.; Mary Banks, the wife ot Jafce
Banks; B. Bright, of Fairburn. The
wounded are John Bryant, of Ox-
lord, Ala.; A. B. Cook, of Fairburn
Ga.; W. J. Irwood,of Jackson, Ga.:
Carrie Bright, wife of B. Bright, of
Fairburn, Ga.; E. N. Ellison, of
Riverside, Ala.;J. H. Sink, of Sa
lem, Ala.; C. W. Belton, bound for
El Paso, Texas; Mrs. Jane Eliza
Brown, bound for Cleveland coun
ty, Ala., and a colored man named
Jack Rogers.
STOKELY fcKOWLAND.
Mr. J. J. C. McMahan having
old out his stock of goods in Craw-
ord to Mr. S. H. Stokely, that gen
tleman has gone into business with
Mr. Pete Rowland, and the busi
ness will be continued under the
firm name of Stokely & Rowland.
A SHREWD ONE.
The mountain wagons have had
picnic in Athens lor the past two
weeks. Dr. Lyndon, who always
nas an eye to a good place to put an
advertisement, has been giving each
one of the wagoners 50 cents to al
low him to print Turkish Liniment
on each side of their wagon covers.
Mr. Henry Palmer has been kept
busy lettering them. One of the
mountaineers, who had brought in
a load of apples, readily agreed to
have his cover painted, and after
Mr. Palmer had'put on all the fin
ishing touches, the fellow drove
around on Clayton street, turned
the-cover over, and got another
man to drive the wagon back in
front of Dr. Lyndon’s drug store
and had it painted again, making a
dollar on one cover. He says the
Athenians are very sharp, but they
could not get away with him.
GEN. TOOMBS DEAD.
The Old Hero Breaths His
Last.
Washington, Ga., Dec. 15 —
[Special to B.-W.] General Rob
ert Toombs died at 6 o’clock this
evening. He will be buried here
by the side ot his wife, whose body
has been brought here from the old
family burying ground five miles
distant. ®- T.
ELIZABETH’S AGILE GHOST.
Ha Climb■ Lightning Bods, Perches on
Church Boots, and la Bald to Kiss the
Girls.
The city of Elizabeth, N. J., is the
proud possessor of a ghost which
appears almost nightly. It is de
scribed as a male ghost twelve feet
high, clad in white, and having
larg$luminous eyes. The ghost is
said to be guilty of jumping fences
twelve feet high, perching upon the
sills of second-story windows, flit
ting about among the branches ol
trees, and climlring lightning rods *«» to lake a red shawl from
with rapidity and ease. His favor
ite haunt is in the vicinity of St.
Michael’s church, on East Jer-e)
street, where he has terrified the
worshippers on several occasion*
within a week.
On one evening last week the
RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.
A lady living near Athens was
engaged during the war running
the blockade from Pontotoc county,
Mississippi, to Memphis. She
would take a wagon, with a yoke
of oxen hitched to it, and carry two
bales ot cotton to Memphis and sell
it for one dollar per pound in green
backs. She would invest the green
backs in goods that were not con
sidered contraband, and bring them
back in the Confederate lines and
sell the goods for a big price. This
lady’s description of her running
the blockade is very interesting.
On one occasion she was coming
from Memphis with a large lot of
goods, and the most of them were
considered contraband and liable
to seizure by the Yankee soldiers.
She dreve up to the guard who
had to examine the goods, and at
once saw that the Lieutenant \vas a
Mason, and the lady, having taken
a degree in Masonry, made herself
known to the officer and he imme
diately passed her and the goods
through the lines.
ghost is said to have been seen
climb a lightning rod to the roof 01
the church, run along the rid^e.
and appear a few minutes later on row -
the street in the rear of the edifice.
This exploit is described by at least
a dozen persons. Un Monday night
it frightened Miss Lizzie Steckle,
who lives in Smith street, near
East Jersey street. She said the
ghost pursued her with outstretched
arms until she readied the door ot
a friend's house. There she fainted
as she rang the bell, and the ghost
instantly disappeared.
The excitement increases nightly,
and well-armed parties scour the
streets hoping to lay the ghost with
cold lead. Many practical citizens
think the ghost is an ingenious
young German whom a milkman
once caught playing ghastly pranks.
They account lor his wonderful
leaps and flights and allusions to
springs and wires which they can
not explain in detail.
On Tuesday night Miss Amanda
Miller of 803 Third avenue and Mi«s
Victoria Reinhardt were returning
from a surprise party, and discover
ed the ghost creeping up behind
them. They screamed and ran, and
the ghost bounded after them. Mr.
Miller ran to the door with his
watco dog. The dog gave chase to
the ghost, but returned to the house
in abject terror a moment later and
crept under a lounge. Meanwhile
the ghost nimbly leaped over a
fence and was lost to view. Miss
Miller said that the spec*re had fie
ry eyes and horns, and was wrap
ped in a robe of w hite. She said it
waved its long bony arms.
The women and children of the
section visited by the spectre ae
afraid to venture out of doors after
dark, as it is rumored that several
young women have been kissed by
the naughty ghost.
Cotton Receipts.
The stock of cotton is Augusta is
nearly 20,000 bales more than last
year, same time. The stocks at all
interior towns are 100,000 bales
heavier than this week of 1884, hav
ing increased nearly 50,000 bale*
during the week. The receipts at
the same towns have been 3.705
bales less than the same week last
year, and since September 1 the re
ceipts at all the towns are 286,278
bales more than for the same time
in 1884.
DEATHS OF VICE PRESIDENTS.
Five Vice-Presidents have died
in office, and in each case the de
ceased has been over 60 years of
Mrs. Bright died I age. George Clinton, the Vice-
this afternoon and Belton is rapidly | President with Madison, who died
sinking, as is also Mrs. Brown. The
blame cannot be yet placed, and an
investigation will be necessary to
settle it. The East Tennessee con
ductor says he was on his time and
following schedule and directions
in full. The Georgia Pacific con
ductor says he had no official knowl
edge ot the night passenger of the
East Tennessee, and ran out as he
had always done. The coroner’s
inquest has been going on all day
In the examination, Dr. Ray, sur
geon of the Georgia Pacific, said
that when he arrived at the scene
the engine had telescoped sleeping
coach, passing through entire length
ol car within a few teet of end, and
water and steam from the boiler
burst through and flooded the whole
train. According to his examina
tion, not a single one'of the dead
died from external injuries, but that
all met death by being scalded, and
Irom inhaliug steam. H.
n 1S12, was 74 years old. Elbridge
Gerry, who became Vice-President
at the next election, died in 1814, at
the age of 70; William R. King
Vice-President with Frank Pierce,
died at 66, in 1853, and Vice-Presi
dent Henry Wilson, who died in
1875, was 63 years old at that time.
Three ot these Vice-Presidents
have died in November, and the
other two in April, and, strange to
say, the dates of their deaths are al
most at the same time of the month
George Clinton died April 20, and
William R. King on April 17
Henry Wilson died on Nov. 22, El
bridge Gerry on Nov. 23, and
Thomas A Hendricks on Nor. 25.
DEATH AT A HUSKING.
A Han Under the Influence of Liquor Smoth
ered ln Shucke.
WALTON COUNTY'S MENAOERY.
Monroe, Ga., Dec. 12.—Ray &
Walker as attorneys for the mort
gage creditors, have just foreclosed
mortgages on “Col. Gile’s World’s
Fair,” which exhibited here to-day,
for about ten thousand dollars.
Sheriff Ammons now has plenty of
lions, elephants, etc., on his hands.
HOHE-HADE WINE.
Joe Thurmond, of Jackson coun
ty, was in Athens yesterday selling
grape wine of his own make. From
an arbor 60 by 100 feet, planted in
Catawba and Hartford grapes, _ he
this year made 200 gallons of wine,
for which he finds ready sale at $2
per gallon.
Mme. Patti is to be paid ?iS,ooo
for six appearances in Madrid.
Newnan, Ga., Dec. 11.—Thurs
day night of last week, Mr. Emmet
Reid, of Merri wether county, went
to a coin shucking nnder the influ
ence of whisky and lay down in a
shuck pen. After the corn was
shucked the shucks were packed in
a pen. Reid was missed the next
morning and looked tor until Mon
day, when he was found dead under
the shucks, having smothered. The
coroner held an inquest over him,
and the jury returned a verdict char
ging three negroes with intentional
ly smothering him. The negroes
were discharged.
THE DEFUNCT ASSOCIATION.
Greenville, S. C., Dec. 15.—
The Atlantic department of the Self-
Endowment Association is still in
session. Mr. Peebles, of New
berry, is chairman. No definite ac-
tion has yet been taken. The Sec
retary says President Mayfield was
not a bonded officer, but the books
are supposed 10 be correct. It
thought the association will dis
solve. Nine hundred and twenty
three dollars on hand has been
tachtd. The President is in Texas.
the railroad accident.
Mr. Rots Crane was in Atlanta
when the train, loaded with the
dead and dying, reached there on
the Georgia Pacific. He says that
it was an awful tight and the whole
city was crazed over the disaster.
The beautiful white mare “Gypsie,”
that was raffled off some time ago
ia Atlanta, was on the train that
oollided. The owner of this beauti
f«l mare was killed, but the animal
was not hurt.
The plurality of Governor Hill, of
New York, which has just been
declared, ia 11,134*
GROUND TO PIECES.
A Negro Woman Throw* Herself Beneath a
Moving Train and Is Horribly Mangled—
Other Georgia Calamities.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 13.—A spe
cial from Fairburn says: Joseph
Brantley, once a prominent mer
chant of this place, suicided to-day
by taking morphine. Brantley was
sent to the lunatic asylum about
six months ago for treatment, hav
ing been judged insane by the or
dinary. He returned home about
six weeks ago, apparently in good
health. About two weeks ago he
appeared lo have mental aberra
tions and was watched. He pro
cured morphine, however, and end
ed his life hy a large dose.
Mattie Calhoun, a negro woman
fifty years of age, was literally torn
to pieces by an Air-Line train near
Peachtree creek to-night. The cir
cumrtance surrounding her death
are such as to guarantee the state
ment that her destruction was in
tentional. A short time before the
train reached the bridge over the
creek she was seen hy some negro
workmen standing near the track.
A few moments before the engine
reached the bridge the woman was
DISASTROUS FIRE.
MGINTY’S PLANING MILL AND
WORK SHOPS DESTROYED.
LOBS BETWEEN FIFTEEN AND TWENTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
around her shoulders, wrap it around
her head anti then throw hersell on
the tiack in front of the approach
ing train. When the train was
pulled up tindet ihe influence of the
brakes, the mangled remains of the
woman were found scattered in al
most every direction. They are
being gathered together to-night
and an inquest will be held to-mor-
KATAI. ACCIDENT,
lion. 11 E. Moss, of Harris conn
ry, was accidentally killed at his
home, near Wkitesville, this morn
ing. He was preparing to leave
home and reached behind the door
to get his buggy whip His gun
was setting behind the door, anil
the lash of the whip caught the
hammer, knocking the gun down
..n ihe floor and discharged it. The
trail it ok 1 fleet in iris stoirach,
killing him instantly. He was for
merly a member of the legislature
from Harris countv.
SAM SMOCK'S VENGEANCE.
Scenes and Incidents.
DANIELS VILI.E DOINGS.
Mature andThlnie ln the Free StaU Hud
dle Together.
Danielsvillh, Dec. 14.—Col.
Giles’ show carried oil but little
money from this county. Tl.e gam
blers did not run their business at
all, owing to the fact that the sheriff
off Franklin county was here for
some of them who were wanted at
Carnesville. Our marshal repotts
only three arrests during show day.
On the first Tuesday 162 acres of
land, belonging to the estate of
Robert Williams, dec’d, was sold nt
administrator’s sale to B. B. Wil
liams, tor $400. W. J. Dudley’s
lands sold at SherifTs sale, 202
acres, 10 acres of which was sub
ject to notice of application for
homestead, sold te James M. Smith
for $803, and 127 acres, all subject
to notice of application for home
stead sold to James M. Smith for
$39, both purchasers of Oglethorpe
county. A two acre lot in town,
on which is the printing office, gin
house and tenant house, and be-
_ ug to Gordon McElhannon
and”White, sold at sheriff’s sale to
J. L. Stephens, of Danielsvllle, for
$380.
Miss Hattie Gloer, ol our county,
was married to Mr. Jas. Gloer, of
Bowman.
Miss Lou Campbell was married
to Mr. Llewellyn Thompson, Sun
day, both of Madison county. •
Mr. T. A. Evans and family and
Mr. D. P. Meadow’s family leave
to-day for Cherokee county, Ala
bama, where they will make their
future home.
Killing the Last of the Three Men Who Shot
and Left Him for Dead 21 Years Ago.
Frankfort, Ky., Dec. iS.—
Ab'iut two weeks ago the tact that
Frank Sanders had been shot down
in the mountain wilds of VVhitely
county was learned here from citi
zens coming Irom that county. A
man who lives here has just return
ed Irom a visit to VVmtcly countv,
and he brings news ol the romance
ot which that killing was the sequel.
He says that the tradition in VVhite
ly county is that just helore the
close ol the war. San.lets and two
other men, all ol whom were mem
bers of a guerilla hand, took a Sam
Smock in die eastern p ■ rt of VVhite
ly out in tile wood* and put a pistol
between his eyes and fired. Smock
te 1, anil they lett him for dead.
Fortunately lur Sjin, the ball ranged
Uownwatu, missing the bia:n, and
came out at the base ot his neck.
He was found and cared for by
friend*, anil after long nursing re
covered. The men who attempted
the murder did not try to conceal
their identity from Smock. They
wanted him to know them.
After Smock’s recovery he regis
tered a tertible oath that he would
devote his life to hunting down and
killing these three men. A few
weeks ago he passed through
Wayne county, and in conversation
with one of his old friends said:
I have killed two of the men
who attempied to murder me years
ago. I found one of them in Mis
souri and one in Garrard county,
Ky. I did .ny work silently and
well, and have never been arrested.
I am now on the track of the last
man. His name is Sanders, and I
will have him in less than ten days.
I will make myself known to him
before shooting him.”
One week later the body of Frank
Sanders was found in a ionclv path
•n the glens of VVhitely county with
the following note, scribbled in pen
cil, pinned to his coat:
“This is the last act of a tragedy
begun years ago.”
No one doubts that Smock did
the killing. He has not been seen
since, and no one is taking any
pains to find him.
COTTON AND CORN-
Yesterday afternoon, about 3:15
o’clock, the alarm of fire was sound
ed, and the large volume of dense
black smoke ascending heavenward
at once located- the flames at Mr.
M. B. McGinty’s splendid planing
mill and work shops, situated in a
hollow near the court-house and
rear of Dr. Camak’s. A reporter
of the Banner-Watchman at once
started to the scene of conflagration,
and he found one-half the city, men,
women and children, all bound in
the same direction. When an ele
vation was reached the flames could
he seen, apparently trying te lash
the sky. The air was filled with
flying cinders, and blazing bits of
tinder were falling in every direc
tion, igniting the dry grass on the
streets lor blocks away and endan
gering the houses, the roofs of
which were covered with firemen
who were extinguishing the shin
gles with buckets of water handed
up to them as fast as they caught.
The large garden and grounds sur
rounding Dr. Camak’s residence
had burned nearly over, and it
requited hard work to save the
fencing and buildings. Owing to
the excited crowd that blocked the
streets and the engines and firemen
it was some trouble to get near
enough to the flames to see their ex
tent. This we finally succeeded in
doing, ar.d although it had been less
than half an hour since the alarm
was sounded, the entire structure,
running through the square, was a
solid mass of flames from end to
end. The root had already fallen
in, and the tops of several adjacent
cottages, occupied by both white
and colored familiies, were smoking.
To save them the firemen turned
their attention and right gallantly
did the boys work. There were no
conflicting orders aud confusion,
but everything proceeded like clock
work. The Babcock did noble ser
vice with its chemicals, extin
guishing a building the sides of
which wete wrapped in flames, and
their fine pair ' of horses went di
rectlv up to the house. There was
an abundant supply of water, and
Mr. Duchette kept the firemen in
all they wanted. Not a moment
was lost in waiting for water, as
there was a lull head of steam on at
the engine house and the pumps
worked like a charm. The steamer
had to send out and hire a pair of
mules that delayed the same, but
they did good service, as likewise
all of our companies, both white
and colored. When all the reels
arrived there was plenty of
good hose to carry water from sev
eral plugs. In the meantime, the
spectators for squares around stood
a baptism ot fire, and flying cinders,
many as large as a man’s hand, fell
thick and fast, igniting the clothing
on many persons. Parties living
near began to move their furniture
into the streets. The scene was a
most fearful and exciting one. The
yard surrounding the shops was
filled with great piles of lumber,
shingles and other building material,
and soon this caught too. For a halt
hour but little service could be done
toward saving this property, as no
person could approach the burning
building for the intense heat. It
required the most strenuous efforts
to save tht- neighboring houses.
Gradually the flames subsided, when
a squad of gallant firemen, armed
with a bold stream of water, slowly
made their way into the grounds
and turned their water loose on an
immense pile ot lumber that had
just ignited. This was extinguished,
when first one pile and then another
was rescued, although in adamaged
condition. With the exception of a
few lots of lumber, stacked some
distance from the shops, this large
and valuable property was a total
loss. Mr. McGinty, the proprietor,
was at the time bird hunting in the
country, and the first intimation that
he had of his loss was the news
that confronted him on his
arrival in the city last night from a
j day of pleasure. Mr. Tom Bailey,
• of the Athens Foundry, says the
Four persons were drowned in
Lake Champlain by breaking
through the ice.
Cleveland temperance men de
feated an ordinance permitting sa
loons to remain open on Sunday.
Mrs. A. D. Barnes, of Lynchburg,
Va., suicided yesterday with a pis
tol. Bad health caused the acL
Several wealthy colored men ir.
Texas are making an effort to draw
negro colonists to that state by otter
ing them farms on long time.
Hugh O’Brien was yesterday
elected Mayor of Boston, over J. M.
Clark, republican. O’Brien’s ma
jority was the largest ever given a
mayoralty candidate, being 8,597.
M. Pasteur daily receives tele
grams advising him of the arrival of
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
The Press Dispatches of Yesterday Reduced
Into a Nutshell.
fresh patients from all countries.
Five Poles, terribly mutilated by a
large hound, known to have been
in a state ot hydrophobia, are among
the latest arrivals.
Macon, Dec. 15.—John McCul
lough, of Wilkinson county, came to
this city yesterday to get medical
telief for his little three-year old
girl, who had swallowed a tin whis
tle. The little one was suffering
terribly. Dr. M. Hatton was called,
and the whistle was found to be
lodged in the little one’s throat.
TROUBLE IN EDGEFIELD.
An Attempt te Aii&eln&te Young Memphis
Culbreath.
A correspondent of the Edge-
field Chronicle of December 9,
says: Last Thursday night, the
27th ult., Mr. Memphis Culbreath
heard a crowd of men in his moth
ers yard and ho at once made
known the fact to Mr. John Mor
ris, Sr., who was at Mrs. Ctt’i-
breath’s spending the night. Mem
phis theu went to tell Dr. Leroy,
who was also there, and at this
time Mr. Morris heard one ot the
men say ‘let’s go in any way.’ On
the Sunday night following Mrs.
Culbreath was absent from home
and Dr. Leroy and Mr. Stillwell
spent the night at her residence.
After supper these gentlemen
walked into the yard, when some
body from the bushes near by
popped a cap at them. Of course
this excited them very much. It
is generally supposed that these
would-be-assassiua are after killing
young Culbreath. There have
falsehoods sworn against this
young man, and it seems that his
cnetries are determined on his
death. I am responsible for these
asse-tions, and if anybody wants
to know my name give it to them.
If the Governor is so anxious
about punishing lawlessness it
would seem to be legitimate for
him to spend some ot the public
money in trying to keep young
Culbreath from being murdered.
While some are trying to hang
him others are trying to assassinate
him.
patients for hydrop!
T'here are four Taylors in the new
house of representative*.'
The mercury : ia at zero and the
snow a foot deep in Chicag >.
The Indiana in Carson Sink, Ne
vada, recently founded up and kill
ed 1,400 rabbits in one hunt
It ia only the female mosquito
that attacks man. The male re
mains in unobtrusive seclusion.
Pasteur says only eighty out of
every one hundred persons who are
b'tten by mad dogs have hydropho
bia.
Dechinite, or vanadate of lead
and zinc, has been discovered in
Montana. One of this nature ia
worth $10,000 a pound.
Congressman Oates, of Alabama,
shows the scars of 27 battles, where
he lost an arm and gained the scars
of six severe wounds.
_ A reef known as the Culaberas,
sixty .niles from Tonga Island, in
the South Pacific, has become an
active volcano 300 feet high.
A nugget of nearly pure native
silver, weighing thirty-five pounds,
was found by a prospector in the
mountains near Tucson, Arizona,
rezently.
It only takes three hours and fif
teen minutes now to go from Phila
delphia to Washington on the Penn
sylvania railroad. This is the fastest
time made in this country.
In Globe Village, Conn., John
Goodison and his wife had some
trouble with a neighbor the other
day and the effect of the excitement
was such as to drive both insane.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 14.—R. B.
Berry, a merchant of Moyock, Cur
rituck county, N. C., was suffocated
in his room by escaping gas at the
Mansion house in this city last
night. He retired between nine
ind ten o’clock, and was asked by
the servant if he understood how to
turn off the gas. He said he did
and the servant left This morning
a waiter was sent to the room occu
pied by Berry to arouse him for
breakfast. The apartment was
found filled with gas and Berry
dead on the bed. An examination
revealed the fact that he had blown
out the gas instead of turning it off
when he retired.
Mr. Morrison and Tom Robert
son elected the blind preacher, Rev.
W. H. Milburn. Chaplain of the
House on the following pisiform,
enunciated by Mr. Morrison, who
said to the house caucus: “I have
no eloquent figures ot speech with
which to address you, but only a
few plain words. I nominate a
man for Chaplain who loves God,
hates the devil and always votes
the straight democratic ticket.
Knowing the Northern Methodists
of Illinois as I do, I ask that if a
minister of that church who has
vo‘ed the democratic ticket in Illi
nois for twenty-five years does not
deserve well of a democratic house,
who does?”
GEORGIA NEWS.
loss cannot be less than $15,000 in
What a Successful Oglethorpe Planter Saye ! machinery alone, as these were
of the Cost of Production. j among the best equipped shops in
AN OLD CITIZEN.
We vesterdav had a call from Mr. I ‘ he s,ate - Besides, a large lot ot
David W. Gaulding, one of Ogle- • 'umber, shingles and miscellaneous
thorpe’s most successlul and best j building material was burned, to-
lariners. Mr. G. says that the past i gether with all the tools of the
year he has been peculiarly fortu- workmen. But the loss to Athens
another hew road.
The ordinary rendered his decis
ion yesterday in favor ot
opening a new road beginning at
the city limita on the Athens and
Danielsville road, and running
through the lands of David Gann,
A. L. Hull, Joseph Coiner sad oth
ers to the residence ot J. D. Math
ews, near the Madison county line.
ANOTHER KXP0SX OF MASONRY.
“What do those letters stand for?”
asked a curious wife of her hus
band, as she looked at hia Masonic
seal. “Well, really, my love,” he
replied encouragingly, “I presume
it is because they can’t ait down.”
She postponed further questioning.
An act of the legislature, some
years ago, made it optional with the
Ordinary of Lincoln county to in
crease the retail liquor license to
$1,000. A snort while since Judge
Remsen, the present Ordinary, did
this, and the sale et intoxicating
liquors immediately ceased. There
is not a barroom ia the county now;
so Lincoln is virtually a dry county.
Uncle Nath C'ook, of Oconee,
was in the city yesterday, and as
usual has some tale to tell of his
young days. Everybody for ten
counties around knows Uncle Nath,
and he never comes to town with
out having a crowd around him lis
tening to some of his stories. Uncle
Nath his been rather quiet since
prohibition went into effect in
Clarke county, and generally makes
his stay in Athens very short. In
his youtg days he was a great fox
hunter, and nothing delighted him
more than to hear a pack of dogs in
full ebsse after a fox. He had just
built a new fence around his plan
tation, and forbid any of the hun
ters from going through and throw
ing it down. Some of his neigh
bors, knowing his fox hunting pro
clivities, got a fox skin, and after
sinking it in water dragged it all
through Uncle Nath’s plantation
and put the dogs on the track of
the skin. Uncle Nath heard the
dogs, came out, saddled his horse
and joined in the chare. He told
the hunters to not mind about the
fence, to thro* it down, as he knew
from the way the dogs were run
ning that they would catch in a
short time. After running through
his plantation for some time and
tearing down his new fence in a
hundred places the skin was taken
from the ground and the dogs stop
ped running. His neighbors say
it took him ten days to put up the
fence, and it was dangerous for a
dog to bark on Uncle Nath’s plant
ation for several months alter wards.
nate, riot having suffered for rain a
day, hut that other belts of his
county were seriously injured by
the drought. He savs he never saw
money so scarce or harder times
ahead to the majority of agricultur
ists; that you cannot sell stock at
any price, and he saw this week a
guod mule in Crawford offered (or
$35. and no one would buy. This
year Mr. Gaulding, on 125 acres
and with five mules made 70 heavy
bales of cotton, besides corn and all
manner of provisions -to run the
farm. He pays cash for everything,
and of course buys at the lowest
price. This gentleman has made a
careful estimate of what it actually
costs farmers to raise cotton and
coin, and says that cotton costs
him 8 cents per pound, while he
has grown corn as low as 18 cents
per bushei. When a farmer buys
his supplies on time.it will cost him
10 cents to produce cotton. He
says it is a suicidal policy to buy
anything that you can grow on the
farm. Mr. G. has made a snug lit
tle fortune tilling the soil.
A RACE HORSE.
Joe Thurmond says he has a five-
year-old racer, named “Squealer,’
that can make a half mile in 45 sec
onda. He has refused $1,000 for
the animal, that was raised in Jack
son county.
ROBERTS MUST GO.
Because a New York Offlc sr Is Coming After
Him.
New York, Dec. 14.—William S.
Roberts, formerly ptesident of the
now defunct Bank of Augusta, Au
gusta, Ga., is under an indictment
by the grand jury ol this county for
alleged grand larceny,. and efforts
for his extradition were successful
to-day after months of delay caused
by appeals taken to the various tri
bunals. An appeal was made to
the supreme court of the United
States. Here is was likely to lie
for three years, but at the personal
solicitation of Governor Hill, the
case was advanced upon the calen
dar, and was argued in Washington
on the 28th ult. To-day the author
ities here were notified that the su
preme court has rendered a decision
ordering the extradition process to
be carried into effect.
and the enterprising proprietor does
not erd here, for Mr. McGinty has
several large building contracts
now on hand and under headway,
that this fire will retard. There
was a fine engine in the burned
building, and while the flames were
at their height a stampede was
caused by the announcement that
the boiler was filled with water and
liable to explode at any moment,
carrying death and further destruc
tion all around it. The engine con
tinued to run even after the build
ing was burned to the ground. The
origin of the fire is said to be due
to the carelessness of the negro man
who attends to the engine. They
used shavings to keep up steam,
• hat came into the room through a
chute. Mr. Maddox, the superin
tendent, left this fellow in
charge of the engine, while he
stepped to another part of the build
ing. The negro carelessly lett his
post ot duty, with a line of shavings
leading from the fire box to the
place where they are stored. The
flames followed this easy path, and
in an instant that portion of the
huilding was a mass of flames. Mr.
Maddox heard the noise, and went
to investigate the cause, to discover
that the roof of the building was in
a blaze. He had only time to warn
the men, and so swift was the
march of the devouring element
that the workmen could only escape
with their lives, aud such tools a;
were in their hands. In ten minutes
from the time the fire was
first discovered the building and all
in it was doomed. We do not
think Mr. McGinty has a dollars in
surance on any ofthe property de
stroyed, for Monday night, in con
versation with the writer, he stated
that the insurance companies would
not take a risk on his planing mill
for less than 9 per cent., and he pre
ferred carrying it himself, as he bad
done so for over eight years with
safety. This fire throws a large
numoer of men out ot employment,
and is a severe loss to one of our
best citizens.
Osortta Members Don’t Agree.
Washington, Dec: 11.—At a
meeting of the Georgia house dele
gates yesterday some varied views
prevailed. The meeting was held
to devise a plan by which the pat
ronage belonging to the state in the
off.ces of the clerk, doorkeeper, etc.
cauld be distributed. Georgia fared
very poorly at the last congress.
Atkins, who was defeated for clerk
by General Clarke, received eight
of the Georgia votes. Messrs.
Hardeman and Turner alone sup
ported the successful candidate,
and the only clerkship—a $1600
salary—given the state, was award
ed to Mr. F. R. Richardson. Un
der the door-keeper they fared as
meagerly. Mr. Ham, of Gaines
ville, was given a messenger’s sala-
ary, $1200, and Judge Buchanan’s
district got a watchman's place
from the Seargant-at-arms. Mr.
Hammond presided at the meeting
yesterday, and after stating the ob
ject of the assembly, declared he
would be satisfied, so far as his dis
trict was concerned, with the reten
tion of Mr. Richardson. Some
members, who had received noth
ing in the last divide, were dispos
ed to press their claims. A com
mittee to wait upon the house of
ficials and see what was to be sug
gested but failed. Mr. Blount was
not there. His absence appeared to
fret the other members, and they
grew more and more testy until
one of them declared that “if this
was to be a grab^ game d—n if he
didn’t intend to hold a hand.” The
meetin g then adjourned without
formal action.
Five murderers are fugitives from
justice in Oglethorpe.
The death of Emmett Reed, son
of Robert Reed,near Rocky Mount,
calls to mind two other young men
who were killed by lightning not
long since, while on a spree, near
the same place,
At BarnesvUle, Morgan Howard,
familial ly known as “Gundy,” while
loading a paper shell some days ago
accidentally struck the cap and caus
ed it to explode in his hand. Strange
to say he was not hurt.
In Macon Saturday the grand
jury found no bill against E. R. Mc
Donald, the young printer charged
with being accessory before the fact
in the Strohecker-Jemison case, and
McDonald will go free.
The chief groundjtor a new trial
of John W. Smith, convicted of
murder at LaGrange, is that the
sheriff went into the jury room and
asked if they would soon agree,
instead ot telling the bailiff to ask
the question. This was at midnight.
As tall approached a Georgia
farmer pulled up a watermelon vine
that had been bearing all summer
and transplanted it into a green
house. It now carries half a dozen
melons, which will average twenty
pounds each.
A letter from Long Cane contains
the following: “Mr. F. M. Potts
stopped over on his return from
Montgomery and spent Sunday
with his brother. Sixty million dol
lars are lying in bank in England
for the heirs of Tom Potts, deceas
ed. The old family Bible has been
received from William Potts, of
Monroe county, and the line is be
ing traced back. It is believed that
Messrs. F. M. Potts, of Atlanta, and
W. L. Potts, of Long Cane, are
among the heirs.”
Mcinlosti County Defeats Prohibition.
Darien, Ga.. Dec. 11.—Prohibi
tion was badly defeated. The vote
for prohibition was forty-six;
against it, five hundred and sixty.
The negro vote was almost solid
against prohibition, while the white
vote was nearly three to one against
prohibition.
Three Deer Killed.
Tallulah, Dec it.—Captain
Lute Johnson, conductor ot the
North-Eastern railroad, and party,
killed three deer Monday on the
Blue Ridge, twenty miles from Tal
lulah.
Fl>ht Between Two~ Rival Clergymen,
Wheeling,, Dec. 13.—A special
from Buchanan says a great sensa
tion has been created among the
large colored population by a fierce
fight between two rival ministers—
the Rev. Benjamin Myers and the
Rev. J. H. S. Cooper.. Myers is
pastor of the M. E. Church, while
Cooper is a native West Indian, ed
ucated in Londofl. Cooper has bean
conducting a revival, which drew
from the M. E. Church a portion of
the congregation. This aroused
Myers’s jealousy, and he denounced
Cooper from his pulpit. Cooper
called on Myers for an explanation,
and a rattling fight was soon in
progress. When separated, Coop
er’s under lip was badly cut, and be
had severe wounds on his head
made by a chair in Myer's hands.
Both nten are held for the grand
ury. _______
read
Vanderbilt’s will has been
It itr a satisfactory document and
will not be contested. He gives
away money in blocks of ten and
twenty millions, but leaves the bulk
of his fortune to his two oldest sons,
so as to preserve the name of Vao-
derbilt About one million was
distributed among charitable insti-
tutiotis.
Vanderbilt’s Money.
Vanderbilt’s will has been pub
lished. His wealth runs somewhere
between 175 and 200 millions of
dollars.
He left a widow and 8 children,
4 sons and 4 daughters.
He left to each child 10 millions,
5 in bonds and 5 in money—So mil
lions altogether.
His houses and its appurtenances,
worth 5 millions, he gave to his wife,
and $200,000 annuity, which would
require another 4 millions at 5 per
cent to raise. Of this she can will -
away $500,000.
He gives $1,100,000 to charity.
He gives 2 millions to Cornelius,
his eldest son, and 3 millions to Wm.
H., son of Cornelius. He gives a
large number of f 2,000 and $3,000
annuities, covering a million.
We thus have 95 millions disposed
of, leaving from 80 to 100 millions
more, which he equally divides be*
tween his two sons, Cornelius and
Wm. K. Vanderbilt.
The two oldest sons get from 50
to 55 millions each, the 6 other chil
dren 10 millions each, and the wid*
ow 8 millions. After his wife’s
death the house goes to his son
George and his sons, and if none,
to Wm. H., son of Cornelius, or bis
grandson, the idea being to keep
the Vanderbilt mansion in the Van*
derbilt name.
The will seems to be entirely sat*
isfactory to the children. The pref
erence given to the two oldest sons
is for the purpose ot enabliag them
to preserve intact, the systema of
railroad the old gentleman: had built -
up and kept together. .
Some 13 charitable, religions and
literary institutions are endowed,
among them the New York;’ht>me
for intemperate men. '
St. JoiiNsviLtB, N. Y.,Dec. i4.
Earl S. Gillett, aged about 58 years,
cashier of the National MohaWk
River Bank, of Fonda, since its or
ganization in 1851, died at Fonda
about 7 o’clock this evening from a .
dose of. aconite given hWbyhra
wife in mistake for the ostial medi*
his medicine, which was given with
the above results. His wife is dis
tracted and its feared abe will lota
her mind.