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. The Macon Telegraph says: Nym
*Critikle, dramatic crftic of the New
York World, who writes well upon
,ny subject he attempts, whether it
l.e'the pose of an actress, the voice
of« singer er a Sunday promenade
along Fifth « venue, has given to the
public one of the best short disser
tations on hydrophobia and the al
leged mad dog we have yet seen in
l„t. In view of the excitement
both in this country and Europe, hit
observations are timely and worthy
of reproduction. Moreover, he
writes under the stimulus of an ex
perience both valuable and danger-
0,.. We extract sufficient from his
iit .le to cover points often discuss-
c l in the Telegraph:
.•Hydrophobia is one of the most
ttrrible, the most mysterious and
,be rarest of diseases that afflict hu
manity- Not one doctor'in a hun
ted ever saw a well-authenticated
;) .e of it.
■•1 am at this moment writing this
(iticle with a hand lacerated by the
bite of a strange dog. I encounter-
( ! him one Sunday morning two
weeks ago in front of my residence-
1 am a lover of dogs. This was a
bundled bull terrier held by a chain.
I patted him on the head. He wag-
g-j tns tail, jumped up affectionate
lj upon me. I slapped him play
fully on his side and in an instant he
fattened Ins fangs in my right hand.
One ot lhe_u struck an artery aud
cu t it I bought the dog. It cost
me $>5 1 domiciled him. For 4S
hull.- I Had one ol lho.%e subjective
snuggles which u-ach a man how
Iti-oluicly he IS .it tlie me, cy ot his
pagination. 1 Wen: ujj 10 Di.Ham-
WEEKLY EDITION.
NO. XA
OLD OGLETHORPE.
ATHENS, GKEOJRGiA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29,1885.
VOL XXXI
JOE BAUGHS EXTENDS HIS HOSPI-
TaLITY BY PROXY.
M<m t0 0n « Brtnr-
"ha"--*** 1 * Hospital.
. of Terror-viatt to anawa*
WWWMO-An Author.
W*in.-Th. Tourist. All Pl,. led Wlth
O.lethorpo Hospitality.
lie l.iwkci .1
•t Inin, 1 repi
'.l-iuud as a
ami and
n- dog?’
e ah
‘Then
li 1 .antei ,z.
ru.ic l
y ne.noi-
nc OlSabud
e I, .11.11
i d fv,
M niptn
that 1
a ■ ..edical treat-
- • .i'll I ,011,10 m. -
g .. d.vrt.mg upon the
incident. .v*i .he dread possibilities
were reheaised. My fancy exag
gerated my knowledge and my
lectings. 1 fell pricking and bur -
tug sensations run up my arm. I
!e into an uneasy dose. I heaid
the smart anJ saw the gleam of
fangs in the phantasmagoria of a
nenoas sleep.
■ I woke up in tlfe morning unre-
fie-.ie i and with a dull conscious
ness that something 'vas impending.
Auer a bath and a walk in the sun
my resisting power began to assert
its- t. 1 saw that at this rate 1
late oat of nothing all
ns ol rabies.
s iy believe at this mo-
conlei have brought on
tin- symptoms of tetanus it I had
only puced invsell under my own
imagination. It that dog had shown
at:y symptoms of sickness I should
h .ve necn a case tor Pasteur. But
lie pioved to be as straight as a triv
cl. i made friends with him. 1
iouml mat ne had a biokeu rib. 1
nnist have struck that when I slap
ped him on tne side.
-Now consider a moment. If I
li.nl killed that dog when he bit me (
a- it was very easy to do, all the
science, all the intelligence and al 1
the icason ot the world could not
have saved ine Horn my own fears.
And that is the result with almost
every ce-e of dog bite. The fits-
step on the part ot stupidity is to kill
the dog. Then he is declared to be
mad, and then sets in the chain of
subjective and fanciful results.
Science and common experience
agiee that unless the dog has rabies
there is no danger of the victim of
h,s bite having hydrophobia. Well,
my ow n experience tells me that one
d..g in about live thousand that are
killed as mad really has rabies.
Dug men aie bitten every day.
Your ordinary dog lighter is cov
eted with scars. There isn’t
sportsman who hasn’t had the mark
ot a tooth on him.
"The dog is subject to epilepsy
and nervous attacks that are com
mon enough. But if a poor animal
sheuld get a fit in the streets of
New Yotk the cry of mad dog is
his doom—and the doom of every
body that he bites. Could he be
saved from the ignorant malice of
the mob, something might be de
termined We should at least know
it imagination can bring on the
symptoms in the man while the
dog is healthy.
“Mahew, who has written the
best, because the only scientific
book on the dog, insists that rabies
is an extremely rare disease that de
velops slowly in the animal, who is
sick weeks before his paroxysms
appear. He describes minutely all
the symptoms of the rabid dog, and
no one had a better opportunity to
study them—not even Zouatt. He
saved scores ol dogs from popular
doom that were suffering with ver
micular fits.
“Fear, which is always the con
comitant of mystery, is the prime
factor in individual hydropholia
and in those popular scares which
we are having at this moment. *
“It sounds somewhat absurd to
say that the life of a dog that is sup
posed to be mad ought to be saved.
But when the case U understood
the absurdity vanishes. In the first
place the rabid dog does not start
out as the popular fear paints... him
upon an indiscriminate biting career.
The dog, whether mad or healthy,
bites and snaps only when irritated.
It is the hunted dog that bites at
everything, and the assumption that
he is mad sets the crowd upon him.
Then, wrought up to a pitch of
frenzy, he bites and tears ail yrithin
his reach. It is possible to produce
this kind of hydrophobia in any
highly organized dog.”
The present year is a good one
for tlie sugar planters of Louisiana.
Some of the plantations are yielding
as much as four hogsheads of i,ooo
pounds each to the acre, and the
report from one plantation shows n
yield of five hogsheads. When it
» remembered that for every hogs-
head of sugar there are at least two
barrels of molasses it becomes ap-
irent that the return from an acre’
what might be called handsome.
pan
Col Joseph Sweetmash Baugh a.
ol Oglethorpe, is noted for his geni-
ility and hospitality—that latter at
the expense ol his brother, Mr P e -
ter Baughn. Every winter when
Uncle Peter slaughters hogs Joe
takes time by tho torelock, and
goes out upon the highways and
ihrough the crowded walks of the
city, anJ invites every one he
meets to come to the feast. He
then carries all hands to his broth
el s and camplacently talks about
t te pleasure it gives him to enter-
um his fliends—that nothing his
brother has is too good tor them.
Joe took his annual outburst ofgen-
eiosity las' Saturday, and his invita
tions tell thick and fast. He soon
succeeded in gathering together a
-quad of congenial spirits, com
posed of the Chronicle and Banner-
Watchman editors, Captains O’Far
rell and Buinett, and Ed. Dorsey.
A c boarded the 3:50 train on the
(ieoigia road, whicti by the way is
• now n as the “slow train,” from the
tet that it takes an hour and three-
piurleis to navel sixteen miles.
>Vc were solely landed at Craw-
1. w icie Mr. Baughn, with his
usual forethought, met our party
Wit . a iilieen cent horse hitched to
f2 buggy. We had eignt miles
.otiavel and it seemed like a pei
I.exnig conundrum lyrw we would
p ic s' ven men into so contracted a
-pace. At la-t the matter was sot-
■ ted by Dr. Bob Willingham and
other friends coining to tne rescue
with their vehicles, and we made
he trip in safety. But it seemed
hat all the old stagers objected to
r 'ing with Joe. They knew he
•vou.d tell them about the
roa.l case he once had, and of his
tr ohle with the county commission
ers. Except Harry Phinizy there
was not a man in the party bet had
beard it at least three hundred
times, and Capt. Burnett said that
11c would walk the distance rather
than run the gauntlet again of that
time-worn narrative; that Joe may
get him to listen to it aga-n at the
muzzle . of a Gattling gun, hut he
was no unsophisticated fiy to vol
untarily get into a buggy with
the hero of tlie story unless lie was
gagged before starting. Harry
Phinizy, who was on his first trip
to Ogisthorpe and consequently in
nocent of the ways peculiar to our
•lost, remarked that he would not
only be delighted to rule with Mr.
Baughn, but he would be glad to
tear his stoiy, as it would doubtless
prove inteiesling. He was elected
by acclamation and went on his
way rejoicing. But when the ad
vance guard went out to the buggy
on his arrival to see how this young
martyr had stood his trying ordeal,
they found him gasping for breath
and the picture of unutterable woe.
He was resuscitated by having a
bucket ol water dashed in his face,
and the first word he spoke was a
heart-rending appeal to his friends
not to let that man inflict the sec
ond chapter of his narrative upon
nim, as he had promised to do be
fore they left. He said that Joe
had equally divided his time into
three parts—tieing up his harness,
whipping his horse and administer
ing to him broken doses of that fa
mous road case, and he had only
got through the opening chapter
and had not touched the body of
the subject when he was rescued by
our party.
In accordance with his time-
honored custom Mr. Baughn car
ried us to his brothers lor enter
tainment, explaining that he hadn’t
killed his hogs yet—in fact the
cholera saved him the trouble last
summer. And by the way, we no
tice that whenjoe’s coin give- 0111
not only his swine, but his cows
and horses also, invariably
die of cholera. But we
made a good exchange, for
(Jncle Peter gave us a regular old-
fashioned welcome, and we were
royally feasted. We found ene of
those grand old open fire-places,
upon which you pile a wagon load
ot wood at a time; beds so soft and
downy that you sink into them and
are completely covered up with
feathers. Everything was as neat
and clean as a pin, and our little
squad of pilgrims decided that they
would like to spend the balance ai
the winter and a part of next spring
right there.
Toward bed-time Joe, with an
outburst of hospitality, said that
some of the party must spend the
night over at his house, but if they
insisted on it they could come back
to his brother’s to breakfast. Capt.
Burnett and the writer decided
that they would let well enough
alone and remain where they were.
The rest of the party tramped it
across the fields to Joe’s, but they
got lost in a swamp, and it took
them some time to find their way
out. Their host insisted on one of
the party sleeping with him. Lots
were drawn, and the short straw
came to Ed Dorsey. He rammed
a pillow into each ear, put a pistol
under his head, and informed Col.
Baughn that if he tried that old
road story again on him, one or
the other must die. Ed ssid he did
very well until Joe pietended ro
doze off and began to talk in his
sleep, beginning just where he left
ofl with Harry Phinizy the previous
evening; that the next time he has
to accept Joe Baughn for a bed
fellow that he will hunt up some
convenient limb to roost on.
The next morning, true to his
promise, Joe carried the whole
party over to Uncle Peter’s for
breakfast, but they found the doors
barred and the family absent. He
had to march them back again, and
set up breakfast on his own hook.
He met tut little sympathy.
Our party had an engagement to
dine next day with Dr. R. J. Wil
lingham, and with a sigh of relief
our hospitable host saw us depart.
As we had several hours’ leisure
before dinner, the Doctor proposed
that we visit the Shaking Reck.
The average Lexington!** feels tnat
it is a reflection on his town for a
stranger to leave without seeing
this great natural curiosity, and you
had as well go to Rome and not
visit St Peter’*, to Londom and not
go through the Tower, or to At
lanta and aot iook upon the Kim
ball House, as to take in Lexington
and fail to pay a pilgrimage to the
Rocks. Ed Dorsey said he wouldn t
give a cent to see a rock unless
WM 5 ?.? le r > e mixed with it,
and he would vote to squat where
we were until dinner Vs ready!
But he was overruled and the jour
ney made. The Shaking Rock did
not excite as much interest from our
scientists as the immense boulders
laying around, that had been rent
in twain by some terrible convulsion
of nature. Each man had his own
theory as to the cause of this gen
eral bust, and freely gave his views.
Capt Burnett said it was caused by
the glacial period, when the sea
covered this continent ana huge
icebergs floated around loose. Col
Baughn explained that he didn’t
think tnese rocks were split by
Ulacial Period or any other man;
that he was born and raised in Ogle
thorpe, had once taken the school
census, and there was no family in
the county named Period. He
knew several rock masons, but none
ot them bore that name,
and besides they wan’t in
the habit of splitting up
rocks for fun, but charged $2
a day for work. There used to be
a good wish hole down therein the
creek, but it wasn’t no sea, and as
to icebergs he could eat the big
gest ones that ever floated around
m these diggins. Ed. Dorsey said
he believed those stones were rent
in twain at the crucifixion, and are
left as an exemplification of the
truths ol the Bible. Capt. O Far-
rell said they are evidently pre-
Adamic. Col. Baughn interrupted
the speaker by saying that he saw
no use for using profanity, and if
Capt. O’Farrell don’t care Adam
for it, he needn’t insult the friends
ot Lexington by saying so. All eyes
were now turned on our Oriliiant
young friend, Harry Phinizy, who
nad been careiu ly examining the
oroken stones, but said nothin".
“Gentlemen,” he remarked, ‘‘what
seems to you so wonderful is plain
to me now. I repudiate the glacial
idea, as also the other commonly-ac
cepted opinions advanced. If you
Will notice there is quite a bold lit
tle stream in the vale below, that
necessarily produces moisture and
vapor, or tog. That vapor arises
and naturally settles on the first
high place—that is the hill upon
wuich we are standing. I suppose
that no one will dispute this propo
sition. Well, I have examined the
formula of the broken boulders, and
find them composed in a large
measure of er-er-er. Y'ou know
the action of this dampness upon
the chemicals in the rocks produces
—no, 1 believe I’m mistaken, and
would prefer consulting Professor
White beiore giving an opinion.”
Beneath the Shaking Rock is an
overhanging precipice, and on the
surface of the smooth stones are
carved a number of names. Dr.
Willingham pointed out one, “Fs.
Goulding, 1S2S,” that is as legible
as the day it was first painted. The
Doctor explained that Francis
Goulding, the author ot "Robinson
Crusoe,” had punted it there him
sell. Mr. Pntnizy stated that the
Doctor evidently meant "The
Young Marooners,” as “Robison
Crusoe” was written long before
Goulding’s day.
Alter a fine dinner, such as Mrs.
W. knows best how to prepare, we
shook the hospitable dust of old
Oglethorpe from our feet, and safely
reached Athens, all the party unit
ing in affirming that their trip was
one of the most, pleasant in memory,
and with a promise from Col. Joe
Baughn that next summer, when
his brother Peter’s sheep got ripe,
that he would give us a fine barbe
cue.
SWALLOWED A KNIFE.
f.
WHOLESALE BUTCHERY.
icacntng into nts pocket, brought ^ i, 6 “ » uer gracious Majesty, the Oueen.
forth a small pearl handled knife * P a,n ’ Fr ° ,n , to twenty 8e ttj D g off to Mandalay to see a
which, with the blade extended. P ac . es ,h . e >' were found 'VW on the ° woman’s eatsA
measured inches in leneth <4 I oad and every onetreated the same f . n8 D ear8 P lerced » nev “
hit. ail rurhT now huva wa y- The abdomen wss cut open ert heless the Burmese potentate
am ail right now; hi .veKsid!Hi’ The abdomen was cut open er “eless the Burmese potentate
erable pain, and ’was almost scared with a sharp instrument and then was terribly in earnest in his prep-
to death.” the skull knocked in. The sight arations. The great difficulty was
The knife was passed over for T as ! j u , ch “ ,r 'S hlful on « that even to raise money for the projected
inspection. The steel in the back . oldest police cifficets and physi- series of entertainments. A heavy
and the blade had changed to a dark =' ans > who were summoned as soon demand for duty payment in ads
blue color, and the pearl handle had , fd . ct *’ a! ’ known ’ shuddered V ttn Ce was made upon the Bombav-
been eaten off one half bv the action and declared emphatically that in Rll __. P tJomDay-
of the gastric juices of the stomach a * their lifetime they had never wit- , trading corporation,
the rivets projecting about the thir- ne f ed a si g bt like tha t. eV1 ‘ S enius a " d chief *d-
ty second part of an inch. Imagine thirty-four persons lying viser, the Tmedah Mmgseo, a
* strewn along a road, their abdomens veritable Oriental butcher and
“I’ll tell you how I came to swal- strcwn a *ong a road, their abdomens veritable Oriental butcher and
low it,” said John; “I was talking cu ‘ °P e . n ’ ,heir intestines hanging despot, put the request for money
to some girls and eatiag a pear at a ? n< covering the ground, blood to the corporation as though he
•• ft °w ln K ; n streams, intermingled were a yulgar highwayman °The
with the brains of some of the ulc. j , 6 ni 0 uwayman. t.ue
HABERSHAM VS. RABUN.
Tallulah Falls About to be Put In Another
County.
There is considerable excitement
over the recent claims made by
Habersham county to so change
• he line of Rabun county as to get
all of Tallulah falls in that county.
In 1878 a bill passed the legislature
defining the line of Rabun county,
which put the falls and all the valu
able property surrounding it in
Rabun county, and the people were
well satisfied with the change, as
the tixesin Rabun were much less
than in Habersham. The question
has been sprung recently that the
falls do not belong to Rabun, and
the grand jury ordered the county
surveyor to meet with the surveyor
of Rabun and settle the line. The
surveyors from both counties have
been at work several days and they
could not agree, and called in Col.
McDonald, a son of ex-Governor
McDonald, and he has decided that
according to the act and the line
that the falls belong to Habersham.
A law suit will be the only settle
ment of the business Rabun is de
termined not to give up such valu
able property without a struggle.
the same time, cutting off small
portions of it with my knife, when
l said; ‘I can completely hide this
knife in my mouth.’ I put the
blade in first, but I could not close
my lips without making it prick my
tonsils. I took it out and put the
-undie in first and then, holding
the point of the blade between my
teeth, closed my li^is and the feat
was performed. I just then swal
lowed, and ‘presto, change!’ the
knife went down my throat. I
could reach the point, but could not
extract it, and another swallow
sent it into itty stomach. It’s all
right now. It went down handle
first, and came out point first, but
it’s out now and I don’t propose to
follow the business ot a juggler any
more.”
The doctor said: ‘‘When he came
to me, saying he had swallowed; an
open jack-knife, I could hardly cred
it the statement. I asked him what
he had done to remove it. He re
plied some one had advised taking
sweet oil, others castor oil, salts, etc.
I snid: •
“Well, I suppose you took all of
them?”
“No, I did not,” he replied, “I
have taken nothing.”
“All right,” I replied; “you have
saved your life by doing so.”
“Well, sir, I put him on a buck
wheat diet. That was all I let him
eat or drink—buckwheat cakes and
buckwheat gruel. Buckwheat is
not easily digested, and I knew it
would form a ball around the knife,
and thus allow it to pass along its
circuitous route without doing inju
ry, the blade and rough edges being
completely covered with a thick and
smooth coating ot beckwheat. It
acted just as I expected.*’
THE INSIDE OF SIAM.
follows
“He was the actual ruler of that
semi-barbarious real and the prime
contriver of its arbitrary policy.
Black, but comely, robust and vig
orous, neck short and thick, nose
large and nostrils wide, eyes in
quisitive and penetrating; his was
the massive brain proper to an in
tellect deliberate and systematic.
Well-founded in the best idioms ot
his native tongue he expressed
strong and discriminative thought
words at once accurate and
FIRE AT THE OLASE.
The old store house at the Glade,
in Oglethorpe county, belonging to
the Messrs. Davenport, was burned
to the ground Sunday morning, to
gether with 20 bales of cotton stored
therein belonging to Andrews &
Glenn, besides considerable cetton
seed. The origin of the fire is not
known, but it is thought to have
originated from some coals left by
the Masons on tne night before, as
they had a lodge in the upper story.
The Masonic fraternity lost all of
their lodge fixtures and a new set
of regalia, just purchased. There
was r.o insurance on any of the
proporty. Had the wind been in
any other direction, the entire town
would have been consumed. The
fire was discovered about 5 o’clock
in tne morning.
A negro woman was found dead
in bed at Wood & Company’s still,
Bulloch county, on the morning of
Dec. 5. It was supposed she froze
to death, as the night was very cold
and she had but one thin quilt for
cover. The cries of her two week’s
old infant attracted passers-by to
her cabin, and the was found dead
with the babe in her arms. People
scarcely credit the idea that she
froze, however, as the infant was
alive and would have died first if
she had frozen.
We think it was a mistake to
have dwelt so much upon General
Toombs’ drinking habits in the fu
neral addresses delivered over his
grave. General Toombs tried years
before he died to lead a new life,
and he was also a Mason. If the
Masonic doctrine, to cast over a
brother’s faults, whatever they may
have been, the mantle of charity
vyat not regarded, it would surely
have been in better taste to have
respected the time-honored maxim:
<‘de mortuis nil nisi bonum,”
has conceived.
Real Cause et the Burmese War,
From the Lirerpo«l Daily Post.
Indirectly our latest little war
has arisen out of a quaint Burmese
custom. Of course troubles in
that quarter of the world have
been brewing for a long time past,
hilt, thaw A*Smc t»« A — • s 1 1
A Lad Punished For Trying to Amuse Olrla. Thirty .poor Feasant. Slaughtered Like
San Francisco, Dec. 16.—John sheep on a lonely Hoad.
Eckley, a 19-year old boy, who Clnclansti Enquirer,
lives at Eckley station, on Monday _ ... tl . , ,
swallowed a pen-knife with the w Th f ro * d belwee " BredeUr-and
blade open. He was immediately f£ ar *„, r ,F’ * wo ? ma11 t ” wn * *" Prus - ore wing ior a long time past,
brought to San Francisco and ® ?>° n ,he f ront,er ° f Bif *'»le state but the crisis was precipitated bv
placed under charge of a physician. ffYi W ** the *'°I i he tbe desire of King Thebaw to have
As the knife was in his stomach . raost horribk cr '"«. commuted for have
the case wa«* con^idfred nf a m^ on ff years in a civilized country. © on the occa-
serious nature. Happily for th^ 9° ■ norn ‘»g of 0.;t. 16 some s ,0 “ of Bje boring of his daughter’s
the lad the knife was removed yes- *f* veler * were horrified by a sight ears. This is a ceremony to which
terday. they will never forget The road, a the Burmese royalties and aristo-
A reporter called at the doctor’s narr ° w thoroughfare, borrowed by crats attach extraordinary impor-
office and found young Ecklev “ eado " ! ;an d ^kls, bore the aspect tance. Thebaw, who, accordin'-
playing “pussy wants a corner’’ aba,tIe fiyl d b “t one wild and le- to some accounts, is not so black
with the doctor’s daughter and sev- * tl0 " ml 8 ht . have ,f ought - us ho is painted, desired to X
“How’s the knife?” est two miles below Bredelar up to ma court to witness what we
“Oh, the knife’s all right” re- the town limits of this place the Should call his daughter’s “coming
plied young Eckley. “I ’have road was cove,ed with men, wo- out-” Laugh as we may, at the
it here in my pocket Do me “ and children horribly butchered idea of the Czar, the Emperors
you wish to see it?” and * nd m . u . ateJ ’ some of them dead, William and Francis Joseph, and
reaching into his pocket, brought *° me 1,V1 ?8 > et - groaning with in- her gracious Majesty, the Queen.
-u!-u a 8 “* u h *“ d,ed k ? if f paces t^v'werf found off to Mandalay to see a
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
with the brains of some of the vie- 1 vulgar nignwayman. Hie
tims. The faces ot those who were d ® man<1 was ver Y properly resist-
tims. 1 he faces ot those who were I piopeny restsi-
dead showed the terrible agonv they , '’ a ? “° “oney whatever was
had to undergo before death came dl,e tbe Burmese government. M.
as salvation. The sight was terri- Hass, the French consul at Man-
ble. They were dUpet>ed on the dttlay, then appeared upon the
road with a regularity showing that scene, and offered, it ts said, to
the butchery was done systematical take over all the British Coruora-
ly and as the injuries were all the -ion’s leases should an excuse be
same with all the victims it w..^
clear that the same people must have
butchered one by one as they pass
ed by.
There was a cattle fair the day
before the bodies were found in
Marsburg, a little town about ten
miles from Bredelar, and the peas
ants of the surroundingjvillages had
driven their catfie and sheep there
to sell them if possible. Returning
home, they were overpowered by
two scoundrels, who both had
served terms in the penitentiary,
and one by one they were butcher
ed as described. The deed was
done With a plow-share and so
quick that tlie victims had no time
to utter a cry which might have
warned those who followed them.
One by one they were knocked in
sensible by a terrible blow on the
head and then the abdomen cut
open with the sharpened blade of
the plow-share.
They did not spare anybody. Old
and young men, women and chil-
dre Ji fell under their blows and met
their horrible fate without a mur
mur. Some of the bodies were
fearfully mangled. The ,heads of
some o: them were so crushed that
identification was only possible' by
their clothing. Some’ of them had
their limbs broken, probably in re
sisting the murderers, who were
the most cruel wretches th» history
of crime knows. The physi
cians found fifteen of the injured
yet living, but in an almost hopeless
AsEx-Govomess Shows Up the Court and condition, and sent them to Brede-
Its Wickedness. lar to the hospital. Seventeen
were found dead.
Mrs. Leon Owens, who was the —
governess of the young prince of „B'ut^those, thirty-two were not
*•7 — J '•““b *** wv v » 11 . c • ' " —
Siam, published a sketch of the **’• A tier the news of the horrible
prime minister of that country as deed bad b een spread around the
country two shepherds appeared,
who were also attacked by the
scoundrels, but who fortunately es
caped badly injured, and leaving
their flock of sheep behind them.
I hey say that people besides could
be found in the villages who are
suffering trom the injuries yet, but
were able to go home after the
scoundrels thought that they were
dead.
1 he two shepherds identified two
tramps who afterward were arrest-
in worus ac once accurate and ed - known as desperate fellows,
abundant. His only vanity was vv ( 10 would be able to commit any
his English.” She also sketches crime. The crime seems to have « yuo 3 iui wcive.
his harem. been prompted only by a love of Come in again in a tew days, and
“We discover in the ceutreof b -°°d. They made no efforts to I’ll see what can be done."
the hall a long line of girls with rob , as the cattle of the victims were
skins of olive, creatures who in afterwards dispersed on the mead-
years and physical proportions are ows and fields, and their valuables
yet but children, some twenty in were not taken from them, but it
number, with transparent draper- was a morbid desire for bloodshed,
ies, with golden girdles, their arms and nothing else,
and bosoms wholly nude and cov- Most of the victims hailed from
ered with barbaric ornaments of ,be villages of Rhenegge, Sudeck,
goid. Their only garments the lleringhausen, Stormbruch and
lowar skirt, floating in light folds Altlar—all situated in Waldeck.
about their limbs, is one of very
auuui ciicii iiiiiu9y Jo uuc m very
costly material bordered heavily Tlle Columbia Etcyole Calendar for lsso
with gold. On the ends of their A truly artistic and elegant work
fingers they wearlong nails of gold m chromo-lithography and the let- n ,„ Rt . ne , naae Iour SDeeC h es ant
tapering sharply like the claws of a ter press is the Columbia Bicycle promised to be wilh his^Uow cifi
bird She described a dance in Calendar for :So6, just issued by ze ns again to-day. But, oh, doctor,
this harem while the prime minis- the I ope Manufacturing Company, lie looks nearly dead ”
ter sits stony and grim his huge of Boston. Each day of the year “Has he been in politics long?”
hands resting on his knees in statu- appears upon a separate slip, with “No only last year He worked
esque repose. His deportment to a quotation pertaining to cycling hard for glames McCauley’s elec-
his female slaves was studiously un- froip leading publications and pro tion.” J
gracious and mean. minent personages. The notable “He will eet well madim*
In the midst of Bangkok is a sort cycling events are given; and con has a stomach tor any disease if he
ot sanctuary for criminals, where cise opinions of the highest medical worked for him 1 ’’
lurk fugitives of every class. Wo- authorities; words from practical Political life, of short or lonrr du-
men disguised as men, men in the wheelmen, including clergymen ration, is very exhausting as is evi-
attire of women hiding phases of and other profess.onal gentlemen; dent from the great mortality which
evety vileness and crime of every the rights of cyclers upon the prevails amonf public men. Ex U
enormity, at once the most disgust- roads; general wheel,ng statistics; Senator B. K. Bruce, who has been
ing, the most appalling, and the ‘he benefits of tnclicing for ladies; long in public life savs-
most unnatural the heart of man extracts irom cycling poems; ana “Theo‘her dav wh’.n
lived. Most of the wo- much other interesting Information. 5. cr£.in*I fou’nTO
com nosed the nnn»ni nl 111 Kiel, it IS in a vir. * .
men who composed the harem of
the king, who died in 1868, were
of gentle blood, the fairest of the
Siamese nobles and princes of the
tributary states. The queen
Consort was his own half-sister.
Beside many choice Chinese and
Indian girls purchased annually for
the royal harem by* agents from
Bangkok and Bengal, enormous
sums were offered year after year at
Bangkok and Singapore for an En
glish woman of beauty and good
parentage t* crown tbe sensual col
lection. French women offered
themselves for the harem, but the
king would not accept them.
The new road leafing from Oak
Grove academy via Mr. Tol Lester’s
and others, meets with earnest op
position from a number of parties,
and they say they will refuse to
work it.
At three o’clock Saturday morn
ing, the jail ot Rockicgbam, N. C.,
was surrounded by fifty masked
men, who forced an entrance and
secured a white man named John
Lee, who three weeks ago murdered
Solomon Welch, They carried Lee
out of town and hanged him to the
limb of a' tree.
Judge Gudger, of Asheville, S
C., is stiU in his first term, but he
has presided in sixty murder trials
In fact, it is in miniuture, a vir
tual encyclopedia upon this univer
sally utilized --steed of steel.” The
calendar proper is mounted upon a
back of heavy board, upon which
is exquisite.y executed, in water-
color effect, by G. H. Buck, ol New
Y’oik, a cli.11 tiling Combination of
cycling scenes. As a work of con
venient art it is wottliy a place in
office, library or parlor.
found for canceling them. What
followed is matter of history. The
cause of our traders was taken up
by the Indian government, and an
ultimatum was dispatched to Man
dalay , to which a defiant and evas
sive reply has been received. We
are now at war with King Thebaw,
and two things must result there
from—the effacement of French
intrigue at the Burmese court, and
the disappearance of the Tinedah,
who is now understood to have
been mainly responsible for the
horrible massacres in the country,
and lor the wild acts of folly
which have produced the present
crisis.
An Astonished ticket Agent.
The Honesdale (Pa.) Dispatch
relates that a few days ago a neat
ly dressed, fresh-looking woman,
about 30 years of age, applied to
Harry Foster, the Erie ticket
agent in that place for iuformafion
us to the lowest rate of fare for
herself aud family to Warren. Pa.
“How many persons?” asked
the agent.
Myself nnd my eleven chil
dren,” she said.
As soon as Agent Foster could
catch his breath he exclaimed:
Eleven children! Great Scott,
madame ! Not all yours?”
“Certainly, sir," replied t
woman, evidently surprised at the
agent’s question and manner.
Whose would they be if not
mine?’’
In the name of goodness, then
how old are they?” ased
agent, mopping the persira
from his forehead.
Well, sir,” said the won*, a,
after a short mental calculation,
“three of them are 9, three of
them are 7, two of them are 5,
aud three ot them are 3 years old.”
Agent Foster dropped into a
chair as though some one had hit
him with a club.
Madam,” said he. “you de
serve to have a pass for twelve.
TH»Lat* HarHialM. Shut*.
Whereas, our honored andjbelov-
ed brother, Marshal M. Sheats, has
been called from the service of
earth, and, as we hope and trust, to
the joys of a better life, it is emi-
nant Jy r 'ght and proper that we
should put upon record some ex
pression of our griet at his loss, and
of our estimate of his many virtues.
Therefore be it
Resolved, 1st, That we feel un
feigned sorrow in view of the loss
sustained by out church and com
munity, in the death of our beloved
brother.
Resolved, 2d, That it is a source
of pleasure and satisfaction that we
can bear testimony to his uniform
conduct and punctuality in attend-
ing divine service, and complying
faithfully with his obligations to
the churcb and conununitv in which
he resided, and these of bis friends
and relatives who stood around his
dying coucn, will cheerfully testify
and bear witness to the dying grace
that sustained him in his last strug
gle, which gave him such victory
over death and the grave, as his last
audible words were: “If this be
death, how easy to die. Bless the
Lord!”
Resolved, 3d, That to this bereav
ed family consisting of wife and
daughter upoa whom the loss falls
the heaviest, we extend our warmest
sympathies, and for them we offer
our most earnest prayers.
Resolved 4th, That a copy of
these resolutions be sent to the fam
ily of our deceased brother, and a
copy be forwarded to the Banner-
Watchman for publication, and a
copy of same be recorded in our
church bock.
Resolved, 5th. We add the fol
lowing facts concerning the life of
Brother Sheats. He was born in
W ilkes county, Ga., and joined the
Baptist church at Freeman’s Creek,
Clarke county,some fifty years ago,
and united by letter with the church
at Bethel in the year 1SS1, and de
parted this life Oct. 10th, 1885, in
the seventy-fifth year of his age.
Adopted in conference Nov. 21, ’85.
J. W. Butts, N. P.
John Nunnarly.
£. T. Prater.
. C. H. Smith,
Com.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS.
Vanderbilt's Great Fortune In Balk,
Breadth and Width.
The agent ascertained that the
woman’s name was Cullen, and
that she had presented her hus
band with eleven children at four
births.
Folltlce Too Much For Him.
A lady on Fifth Avenue. New
Y r ork, quickly summoned a physi
cian:
“Oh, doctor, my husband is near
ly dead. He attended a caucus last
night. He made four speeches and
Mr. Vanderbilt was worth $200,-
000,000. If we say that he was
Worth five hundred million or one
billion do we get a perceptibly dif
ferent impression about the bulk of
his fortune? Most people do not.
To the average mind the concep
tion ot enormeus wealth is much
the same whether it be reckoned
tn hundreds of millions
or vigintillions. The human mind
cannot grasp these great sums or
clearly appropriate the difference
between one hundred millions and
two hundred millions.
Let us try and describe Mr. Van
derbilt’s great fortune in terms of
linear, square and cubic measure
ment and weight. Everybody un
derstands these terms, and they
make a definite impression on
men’s minds.
It this sum of $200,000,000 were
in standard silver dollars it would
present such features as this.
Put lengthwise, dollar after dol
lar, it would stretch a distance of
4,672 miles, making a silver track
from New York across the ocean
to Liverpool.
Piled np, dollar on dollar, it
would reach a height of 355 miles.
Laid flat on the ground the dollars
would cover a space of nearly 60
acres.
The weight of this mass of silver
would be 7,160 tons.
-To transport it would require
35S cars, carrying 20 tons each,
(this is the capacity of the strong
est treight cars) and making a train
just about two and a half miles
long.
On ordinary grades it would re
quire 12 locomotives to haul the
train. On roads of steep grades and
sharp curves 15 or 20 locomotives
would be needed.
In one dollar bills this two hun
dred millioit dollar fortune would
assume such shape as this:
The bills stretched lengthwise
would extend 23,674 miles, or near
ly the circumference of the earth
at the equator.
Piled up one on another, close as
leaves in a new book, they would
reach a height of 12 miles.
Sptead out ott the ground they
would cover 746 acres, or nearly
the whole surface of Ceatral Park
including ponds and reservoirs.
A safe deposit vault to contaia
these bills would require to be 23
feet long, 22 feet wide and 20 feet
high.—N. Y. Times.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
We see from the Working World
that this organization intends to
make a harder fight than ever in
Athens into the next election, and
claims to be growing rapidly. They
will be defeated every time they
try to mix their lodge up with poli
tics, and should be.
MB. W. J. DAVENPORT.
This gentleman, who was struck
on the head by a chair in the hands
of a negro, was in town yesterday
with his head bandaged up. His
injuries are not serious. The as
sailant has not as yet been captured
His attack on Mr. D. was unpro
yoked.
OUR COTTON RECEIPTS.
Mr. Moss tells us that Athens'
cotton receipts this season will be
near 70,009 bales. Atlanta and
Augusta are both short Cotton is
shipped heie even from Washing
ton, Ga, by rail.
within, who eyed me up and
down in a surprised way, remarking
“Why, Senator, how well you
look?’
“‘Well, I feel pretty well,’ Ian
swered.”
The doctor uttered an incredulous
reply, when the Senator frankly told
him in answer to an inquiry, that it
was Warner’s safe cure which ac
complished for him what the pro
fession had failed to do. Senator
Bruce says his friends are very much
astonished at thia levelation of pow
er.—The Globe. "
^Overwhelmingly defeated.
Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 16
—The jury, iu tbe case of Jennie
0. Harris, vs W. E. Pickett, a
young merchant, to compel the
defendant to support her child,
yesterday returned a verdict for
the defendant without leaving
their seats. It was conclusively
proven that the plaintiff had se
cured the loan of the baby from a
German family in order that she
might produce the child in court.
Twenty-four hours ago Pickett
was denounced on all sides, while
to-day he is being congratulated
by all. The girl has disappeared,
and has, it is thought, drowned
herself.
Tli* Pr*ts Dispatches of Yesterday Reduced
Into a Nutshell.
The C^ity Bank, at Houston, Tex
as, has failed for a millio.i.
' A ' third victim of trichinois bus
died in one family in Pennsylvania.
_ A marshal’s posse near Centre-
ville, Tenn., was fired on from the
bushes and one man wounded,
A miner at Denver, Col, was
knocked from a bucket by a rock,
and fell 1,300 feet into a shaft.
A Catholic priest at Galena, Ill,
locked up an officer in A closet who
came to levy on his property.
Congressman Hammond has in
troduced a bill to .pay Georgia for
money expended in the Revolution.
A Chicago man was sentenced to
the penitentiary for two yerrs for
killing a doctor who had seduced
his wife.
Galveston, Tex, Dec. 19.—Spe
cial to the News from Montgomery,
Texas, says that Jackson, the negro
who murdered the Smith family at
Mink Prairie on the night of the
11th inst, was hanged by a mob at
neon to-day at a point near that
town.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 10.—Dis
patches just received here state that
a terrible dynamite explosion has
occurred in the Plijuchin mines in
Siberia. Accouats are conflicting
a s regards the number of persons
killed, some placing the number at
400, while others place it as high as
1,000.
Council Bluffs, la, Dec. 20.
A man, believed from papers found
•n his person to be L. T. Kempell,
was arrested last night oa the out
skirts of the city. He says he is en
route to Washington to kill Mr.
Cleveland in order to rid the coun
try of democrats. He was heavily
armed and had considerable money.
San Francisco, Dec. 19.—Ad
vices by the steamer Oceanica, from
1 okohoma and Hong Kong, which
arrived to-day, say that a typhoon
swept over the Phillipine islands
NoTember seventh, destroying over
400 buildings, including thitteen
churches and ten convents. Eigh
teen human lives were lost and 500
cattle perished. This report only
comprises the destruction in nine
teen ot the thirty four disricts ot the
islands, the remaining fifteen not
having been heard from.
Gainstown, Ala, Dec. 20.
Miss Carrie Boyer, a local belle,
while on her way alone, yesterday,
to take a boat for Mobile, where
she intended to spend the holidays
with relatives, was assaulted by a
negro, who attempted to outrage
her. The young lady resisted him
bravely, and the negro, finding him
self thwarted, drew a revolver and
shot her through the head. Miss
Boyer died two hours afterwards.
The citizens in this vicinity are up
in arms and patrolling the river for
twenty miles. The negro who com
mitted tke crime is known, and if
captured will probably meet a most
terrible death.
James Cowen, radical reformer
and member of Parliament-elect for
New Castle-on-Tyne, has issued a
manifesto respecting home rule for
Ireland.
, 1 be Treasurer of the Irish Na
tional League in America, in ac
knowledging a check for $1,000
from the Philadelphia branch, to be
applied to the parliamentary fund,
says £15,000 have been sentto Par
nell since October 1.
Mrs. Cornelia Winfield Scott
wife of Col. H. L. Scott, formerly of
the United States army, and daugh
ter of the late Lieutenant General
Winfield Scott, died to-night of
“We left the railroad and jour
neyed into the interior of tbe great
state on horseback,” said Mr. Gard
ner., “with the tall, waving grass on
every side as far as the eye could
reach. We saw evidence of small
fires from time to time, but we had •
made up our minds that we see none
of the fiery element iteelt. One
Sunday we stopped for tbe day at a
point about 500 miles from any rail- •
road. We proceeded to make our
selves comfortable for the day, for
we were tired and we intended to
take a good rest. After breakfast
we stretched ourselves out on our
blankets with the ponies tied a short
distance away, and we were taking
it as easy as we could. All at once
we heard a terrible noise like that
of distant thunder, and jumping up
we saw a sight we shall never for
get. The prairie was on fire. For
miles and miles, as far as we
could see, the flames shot up in the
*ir with a deafening roar. The
wind was blowing fresh and the fire
was coming toward us with the
swiftness of a railroad train. Look
ing in the opposite direction there
was nothing to be seen but grass,
grass, grass.
“There was no way of escape.
The roar of the fire became louder
and louder every minute. Birds
went screaming by, terrified by the
* ght and sound, and every kind of
game a person could think of went
pell nicll past us, screaming, hoot-
tng, barking, screeching, caring for
nothing but to get out of the
way of the fire, which was chasing
them at a rapid rate, although
was yet many miles away.
Our old guide, who had been around
the prairies all his life, was frighten
ed, much to my surprise. He cast
his eye upon the fire and then away
upon the waving sea of grass be-
yond, and told us we must mount
our ponies quickly and ride away
bef*re the fire as fast as we could.
There was a trail about ten miles
away, he said, and when we reached
that we would be all right. We
mounted our pooieB, but I knew
well enough we could not go five
miles before the fire would catch us.
The roaring increased, and it began
to get warm. Birds and animals
rushed by us more frantic than ever.
An idea struck me. Jumping from
my pony I rushed out into the tall
grass several hundred feet and start
ed a fire. It went with a Whirl and
in a minute or two a space of 300or
400 acres had been burned. VVe
worked with a will and soon had
ponies and effects in the middle of
the bare spot. It was none too
soon, for looking in the direction of
the fire I saw it part at the point
where he had stood a few minutes
before, and then it went by us with
a terrific roar. It was terrible
smoky and hot but we were not
burned to death, as we would have
been if we had followed the 1 t
guide.”
—uisu nr-UlgUl Ul
paralysis, at the University hospital,
in Baltimore, aged 60 years.
Tim Sflirlinrr l!n!nm t 'I aa
Jim Starling, living in Chattooga
county, Ga., was boiled in a caldron
* fo
used for scalding pigs. He tried to
put a porker into the pot, when he
missed his footing and fell into it
headlong, and was literally boiled to
death.
Tded toe officials at Nantic oke
decthe mi abandon the work in the
ail account of the cave-in
and the presence of fire damp. All
attempts to get the missing men out
alive have been abandoned, but the
work through the tunnel will be
pushed forward.
A special to the Gazette from
Choteau, Cherokee Nation, Indian
Territory, says Jonathan Davis, a
white man married to a Cherokee
squaw, was shot and killed by Kit
Ross, a Cherokee buck. Davis
stood high among the Indians. Ross
killfed him out of pure deviltry.
Emperor William and Queen
Christine of Spain have sent tele
Plantation Philosophy.
De big liar kain' he’p frum bein’
er big talker. De dog dat’s alius
barkin’in de woods ain’t treed
nothin’ yit.
De man whut’s got er whole lot
er little ’complishmcnts doan
ermount ter much, De trick mule
ain’t do ’count ter work.
I aiu’goin’ ter leabe my britches
in reach o' de man dat is all de
time folierin’ me up an* tollin’ me
dat he wants ter do me ex faber.
Dar ain’ nuthin’ more deceibin’
den 8oun’. Dar ain’ nuthin’ more
pityful den de cry o’ er wild cat,
but, oh Lawerd, whut er mout an’
claws dat varmint hab got 1
Er man wid er appetite stronger
den his will ain’ gwinter’mount ter
nuthin’ in dis worl’, eben ef de
’traeted meetin’ an’ ’vival season
wuster come roun' ten times in et
year.
Some folks is alius sayio’ dat
dar ain’ nuthin’ new nn’er de sun.
Dem folks whut holds dis heah idee
oughter git er holt o’ some peach
brandy dat I tuck er snort o’ some
time ergo, an’ blame ef da wouldn’t
change dar, chune. Wy, dat bran
dy wuz so new dat I could heah it
hoppin’ roun’ on its all-fours.
W’y, de jag had fuzz on it.
Salt Lake City,' Deic. 21.—The
clergy of this city to-day adopted
the following: “To the Country—
The grand jury have unearthed a
conspiracy on the part of the Mor
mon officials to blacken the "charac
ter of the public men of this city.
An attack on the Christian minis
ters has been begun. We warn the
Eastern public against these slan
derous* reports, emanating from
Mormon sources.”
' Cluverius, the murderer of V ss
Madison at Richmond, is in.
grams to Pope Leo, expressing their
thanks for his services and for his
equitable decision as arbitrator ...
the controversy between Germany
and Spain, regarding the Caroline
Ireland.
San Francisco, Dec. 21. Pri
yate advices by the steamer Ocean
ica, which arrived here Saturday
from China, state that the German
man-of-war Nautilus has raised the
German'flag oa the Marshall and
Gilbert groups of islands in the
Southern Pacific, and claimed for
*hat government a protectorate over
them.
for
Tfc* Greea-EyadMoaster.
“My dear,” observed Mr. Grip, —
he came in a little late for supper.
“I am sorry that I couldn’t get here
sooner, but 1 stopped on the way
to get tickets for the theatre.”
“You ought to know better than
to waste your money in that wav.
Mr. Grap.’’ ,
“Yes, my dear, but I got them
Maiy Anderson.”
“You did, hey? You got some
tickets for Mary Anderson? You
ought to be ashamed of yourself,
Mr. Grap. Here I am left «t home
to work my hands off while you go
out and buy tickets for Mary An
derson.”
“But, mv dear, I was going
see Mary."
“I don’t want to see her, ' and you
ought to be ashamed to tell me
that It’s bad enough for you to
.go and buy theatre tickets ior her.
“But, my dsrling—”
“Look here, Mr. Grsp, I want to
tell yon one thing. If you mention
that woman’s name to me again
you’ll be sorry for it. You needn’t
try to explain, for I won’t have it.
Miss Anderson, hey ?■! 1 suppose you
gave her the tickets?”
“No, my dear, I——”
“Then the best thing you can do
is to put them in the-fire ”
“But, my ” * -
“See here, John Grap, if you don’t
put those tickets in the fire you’ll
regretit.”
And. John goes and puts the $5
worth in the stove, mentally resolv
ing that the philosopher was right
when he divided mankind into two
varieties of. fools.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Th? Thrilling Experience of
on the Plaius of Texav
oinvWan'I Her-'.d. -V l&s, |
A prairie on fire.is a sight se ldom
seen by people at the present time.
Mr. B. P. Gardner, of the county-
auditor’s office, tells of ia.thrilling
experience he had not long ago
while hunting on the plains of Texr-
’ 1 Hill I :
ADES1
X OF THE SAVIOUR
m
Roma Courier,
Belt v is an extract from an old
manus ipt book written in 1833.
It is e property of Mrs. C. M.
Harper, and was written by her
.... . X/f— vi: rr .
aunt, Mrs. Eliza Houston:
“Copy of a letter preserved by
the Christian Fathers, which was
sent by Publius Lentulus, a govern
or of Judea, to the senate of Rome,
respecting the persons and actions
ot Jesus Christ, which serves'as
strong evidence and testimony as
to th omplexion and appearance
of out ord’s person. The authen
ticity^ the ancient manuscripts
fromjw th it is translated, is found
ed on th best authority. Tiberius
C:csar w. then emperor and caus
ed the ex .raordinary intelligence
contained in this letter to be pub
lished throughout all the Roman
provinces.”
“There appeared in these our
days a man of great virtue, named
Jesus Christ, who is yet living
among us, and of the Gentiles is ac
cepted as a prophet of Truth, but
by his own disciples called tbe Son
of God. He raiseth the dead, and
< .-th all manner of diseases. A
man of stature somewhat tall and
comely, with a very reverend coun
tenance, such as the beholders may
both love and tear; his hair is the
cdlorof a filbert full ripe, and plain
almost down to his ears, but from
his ears downward somewhat curl
ed, more orient of color, and wav
ing about his shoulder. In the
midst of his head goeth a seam or
partition of his hair, after the man
ner of the Nazarites: his forehead
very plain and smooth; his face
without spot or wrinkle, beautified
with comely red; his nose and
mouth so formed as nothing can
beBrepresented; his beard some
what thick, agreeable in color to
the hair of his head, not ot any
great length, but forked in the
midst; of an innocent mature look;
his eyes grey, clear and quick. In
reproving he is terrible; in admon
ishing, courteous and fair spoken;
pleasant in speech, mixed with
gravity. It cannot !je remembered
that any have saen him laugh, but
many have seen him weep. In
proportion of body, well shaped
and straight, his hands and arms
right delicate to behold; in speak
ing very temperate, moderate and
wise.- A man of singular beauty,
surpassing the.children of men.”
(ton. Toombs' Fortune
Wsshlagton (Qa.) Cor. Macon Telegrapn.
The wreck cf Gen Robert Toombs
fortune continues to be the subjec
of discuss’on here..
It appears that about a month ag<
some of Gen. Toombs’ heirs deter
mined to legally investigate bis con
nection with the Kimball Houst
Company and went to Atlanta fo
that purpose. The investigation re
suited in the heirs deciding to con
test a certain power of attorney
given by Gen Toombs’ to Mr Josept
Thompson, a member of the Kimtal
House Company. This Dower o
attorney authorized Mr- Thompsot
to indorse certain notes ot the com
p*any with Gen. Toorab’s name. I
is alleged that Mr. Thompson die
this to tne extent of $280,000.
It is certain that the work on tb<
Kimball .bouse would have beer
stopped had not Gen. Toombs giver
the power of attorney authorizing
Mr. Thompson- to indorse for him
In one instance the Balke Company
refused to furnish the billiard room
unless Gen. Toombs’ name was in
dorsed on the notes which the Kim
ball House Company offered in pay
ment for billiard fixtures. ,
It is understood that the heirs
will contest the , power of attorney
given to Mr.. Thompson, upon the
ground that.Gen. Toombs was men
tally incapacitated to attend to busi
ness. Ugly disclosures are antici
pated.
It is said that George W. Peck,
the “Bad Boy” writer and lecturer,
has made $100,000 out ol his bad
humor,
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