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* new species of cotton.
singular report comes from
, ' i.i.nn- that an ex-Mayor of Ba-
'* u .1 .lain h:IS SllfCPPfl.
Rouge< that state, has succeed
'Tin producing an hybridized cot-
f plant that promises to revolu-
10 nize the south’s great staple. It
"To the effect that after experi-
|S w ith cotton for some time
tnf»-. , .
has succeeded in procuring a
‘petit* of the plant which grows
a height of fourteen feet and
,puiee> a staple that is long and
^ v and can be made to yield four
i li, to the acre.
The plan by which this species
0 f cotton was developed is describ-
j follows: The stamens of the
,, lin blossoms were removed ear-
, n the morning before the bloom
w1 , opened, and the pollen of an
,|. ra blossom was inserted therein.
T nf blossom thus hybridized is
,t, f n protected by cloths to prevent
-i-ects ftom harming it, and as soon
• he bolls are formed the clothes
• c . removed. It is stated that in
. j 4 way the experimenter has suc-
ceedrsl in securing a supply of seed
sufficient to sow an acre, and that
he will he enabled next year to con-
,j nue pis experiment on a much
'irger scale, and fully test its prac-
;;C al utility.
Ke iorts of such new departures
»«the»e must always be received
w th considerable credulity. It will
’•e remembered that a few years
, 0 h was reported that some one
•nd di-covered a new species ol
• •.,n s'I'.ich promised to revolu-
... • V. , ilture and manufacture
r ; ,. s-ji.V. and 'he story created
t \citement. But the
i . v\ : :ant turned out to be
:ame to be
die. This
however,
ion of the
ieh thinks
•nee to be
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THE
WEEKLY EDITION.
NO. XVI
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANIJYR Y 12, 1886.
VOL XXXI
COMMISSIONER HENDERSON AND TOBAeCO
CULTURE IN GEORGIA.
SIX LIVES LOST.
A CHA ABOU FISH
meiit of ihe
slderah’.e in
the develop
ef\ with con
TEHHlBLt HtUtlBlLiO*
The p.
AVI- her
d'ers le
a tc-.v days |>
with the account
The Constitution, in an editorial,
is inclined to be rather facetious at
the expense of Commissioner Hen
derson and his proposition to dis
tribute twenty-five pounds of choice
tobacco seed among the farmers ot
Georgia, to be used as an experi
ment. The Constitution makes a
mistake when it says twenty-five
pounds of seed will not give every
man in the state a pinch and a half
of snuff; tor the fact is, it will come
very near planting Georgia in the
weed. A tablespoonful of tobacco
seed, if they all come up, will about
set out an ordinary sized county.
But we are opposed to introducing
tobacco culture into Georgia, it
matters not how well our lands may
be adapted to its production, for
tobacco is the twin brother to cot
ton. and has done (or the states
where it is extensively grown what
the great southern staple is doing
for Georgia, i. e., bankrupting and
ruining the farmers. During our
visit last summer to Virginia, we
made it our especial business to in
vestigate the profits of tobacco cul-
tuie, and found that it had ruined
the lands, brought the farmers in
debt, and when the crop was mar
keted and the expenses paid the
gain was all on the side ot the man
ufacturers. In fact, a careful com
parison of the relative yield and ex
pense of an acre planted in tobacco
in Virginia and an acre planted in
cotton in Georgia, shows there
is more clear money in
the staple. Then again, our
soil is not so well adapted to tobac
co culture as Virginia, and it it
would require years for our people
to learn how to cultivate, to cure
anti to market it. Besides, we are
far removed from the manufacto
ries, and could not compete with
i the states more favorably situated.
SISKIN (i OF A CHATTAHOO-
CHKfi STEAMER.
The W. D. Chipley Strikes Against a Pro
truding Bock at starke'e Clay Landing,
and Goes to the Bottom--A Terrible Scene
—Six Dead Bodies Picked Dp.
Iff
Ilk
l.lde
Kee
luiient ol a
Southern
ne . I We agree with the Constitution
h
Ala- that Commissioner Henderson is
that Heed, who on a wrong trail when he tries
ml
i human lot m. mad
mil on a young lady
i rat (iainesvi’le, Ala., and dt-liber-
atr v » l iot lirr ilirougli the head.
She lived about two hours, long
ni"iigli t i oescrihe her assailant,
and a posse of indignant citizens,
nun g c iptti'cd the villain, burned
In n .dive at the stake. They show
ed. too. a refinement of torture that
would have done credit to the most
v ndictive Indian, for when their
victim was nearly consumed they
removed the lire so that his suffer
ing- might he prolonged, and this
was done twice before the fagots
were finally applied, and he was al
lowed to slowly roast to death.
This all seems horrible, and it is
certainly a terrible thing for a com
munity at any time to take the law
:-. their own hands, and to do so is,
me extent under any circum-
•t.inces, a blot upon civilization,
soil, if ever a lynching was justifia-
- it w as so in this case. Here
• as a bright young girl, full ot life
jml happiness, li 1 tie dreaming of
the awful late in store lor her, de-
heiatelv assaulted and murdered
bv a ruffianly brute, possessed of
o: no human feelings, and devoid ol
the-lightest sensibility—a veritable
fend. Such a creature not only
bad no kus:ne-s upon earth, hut he
cm led to suffer a punishment
It wo -c than death. No wonder
iving confessed his crime, his
- determined lhat he should
: Oe pennitled to risk the uncer-
np.es of the law. with its mani-
1 tecliuicalilit s, hut that he should
e i his worthless life to justice,
i in *uch a way as would show
i I-sin.daily inclined what they
jlit expect, should they fee! dis-
sid to indulge their malicious
to inflict this second agricultural
curse upon the farmers of Georgia,
and if he succeeded would com
plete the ruin of our farmers. Let
him encourage the raising of more
grain and hay and bacon and stock,
and not try to put an affliction up
on Georgia that has nearly bank
rupted Virgini8. What our farm
ers greatestneed is to raise something
that can he consumed by them
selves, j and not a crop the chief
profits of which go into the pock
ets of ouiside parties. The best
thing Commissioner Henderson
can do with his tobacco seed when
they arrive is to empty them into
the Atlanta artesian well, far beyond
the reach or temptation of the al
ready overburthened larmers of
Georgia. It is all they can do to
to hear up under the production of
coiton; hut add tobacco also to their
load and there is no hope for
e state.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 3.—The city
has been in a state of trenzy over
the rumors which had been received
during the morning of the sinking
of the steamer W. D. Chipley. The
first reports had the loss of life
placed as high as fifty. As many of
the passengers, and all of the crew,
were from this point, their friends
and relatives crowded around the
offices of the Merchants, Mechanics
and Planters’ company, anxious to
learn the exact facts. The first au
thentic news, however, was receiv
ed at the office ot the Enquirer-Sun,
from which it appeared that six lives
were known to be lost, that three
hundred bales of cotton were in
flames and floating down the river,
and the Chipley was a wreck, com
pletely broken to pieces.
THE STORY OK THE WRECK.
One ot the worst points on the
entire river is Starke’s Clay landing,
which is twelve miles north of Fort
Gaines. At that point the Chatta
hoochee takes an abrupt bend, and
the waters, having gained in velocity
from tile heavy tslls above, are al
most resistless in their force. It is
the great fear of the river men, and
the reputation of being the scene of
more casualties than any other part
of the river. Yesterday witneesed
one ot the worst rain storms ever
experienced in that section, the wa
ters falling in blinding sheets. As
night came on the darkness was
impenetrable, while the rains were
even more blinding than during the
day. It was thus that the Chipley,
working her way down to Appa
lachico, under command ot Captain
O. M. Sparks, with Captain Brocka
way and Ed. Carpenter as pilots,
tried to make the landing at Starke’
Clay. As the vessel struck and
lurched the pilot turned deathly
pale, and cried out:
•‘We’ve stuck upon the rock; look
out for your lives!”
It was about eight o’clock, and
many of the passengers had retired.
A moment brought them out, and
as they realized their danger, a wild
shriek pierced through she moaning
of the winds. Another lurch, and
the waters lurched clean over the
decks, sweeping away the three
hundred cotton bales. The passen
gers and crew realizing that all was
up, clung to the hales and timbers
as their only safety. Fire then added
its terrors to the scene through the
explosion of a kerosene lamp, which
communicated to the cotton.
Carp Considered Mo Good—An Advocate of
Speckled Trout.
Atlanta, January 2.—I had a
talk with a man who is thoroughly
upon fish. He says that the people are
easily run off into tangents. The
farmers of Georgia have an epidemic
of carp culture. There is no poorer
fish in nourishment and flavor than
the carp. The only thing in its fa
vor is that it propagates easily and
innumerably. It will thrive in a smal
pound, or even in a tub. In Germany
many poor people raise carp in a
tub and feed it on offal that in this
country is fed to hogs. The carp
is the swine among fish. It will fat
ten and thrive in a tub like a pig in
a pen. Where food is as high as it
is in Germany and the people so poor
as they are the carp is a welcome
dish; but in this country, where food
plentiful and cheap and the laborer
well paid, to propogate carp is like
cultivating weeds. In Germany carp
is a rotation crop. Trenches are
thrown up around half an acre,
which, being flooded, is devoted to
carp raising. The next year the
water is drained and potatoes and
cabbages are raised where before
carp swam.
In Georgia there are so many bet
ter kinds of fish than the carp that
there is no good reason for propoga-
ting the carp. The general govern
ment could better expend its money
in propagating any one of a dozen
other kinds ot fish than this.
The carp has no spirit and it wal
lows in mud like a liog. When it.
bites at a hook and takes it, it makes-
no resistance. That is an important
point, for all fish that have spunk,
are game, pull hard on the line, and
play with spirit to the end of it, are
full of flavor and very nutritious.
that.
1>'
P’ (tensities.
H'e are no advocates ot lynch
l.iw, and every good citizen nm-t
feel regrets when it is resorted to.
Stil! the crime of the negro keeil
was so hideous in its heinousness,
that the most law-abiding citizen
cannot hut say that he was served
exactly iigh’ —Savannah Times.
No doubt Col. Ingersoli will be
grieved when lie hears that his ad
mirers in Cleveland, O., are losing
faith in the sincerity of his belief,
or rather unbelief. They have al
most come >0 the conclusion that
tile Colonel is not a Liberal and
blasphemer for the sake ot the
cause, but for the filthy lucre he
gets out of his followers. The Col
onel is accused by an organ of the
Liberals with having pocketed
money at the last convention of the
National Liberal League in Cleve
land that rightfully belonged to the
league. It is said that the graet in
tide! was invited to dehvtr a lec
tare on the Sunday evening of the
convention, it being understood
that the proceeds should go into
the tieasury, but the lecturer re
lieved the door-keeper of the cash
before the treasurer ol the league
could get at him. Col. Ingersoll
will probably rise and explain at an
early day.
Hog cholera was carefully stud
ied last summer by several pork
raisers in Kansas, whore the dis
ease raged part of the time. One
of them resorted to “home treat
ment,” as he called it, and he says
it succeeded in bringing every mem
bet of his infected herd around all
right. The mode ot treatment he
thus describes: "As soon as the
animals were taken sick I turned
them out of the pens and began to
drive them to warm up their blood
The first day I drove them three
miles and the second day two
miles. They would vomit freely
while being driven. Alter th
second day they showed no sign
of improvement, which continued
and finally all the hogs recovered
An Abbeville county, S. C., fa
iner, whose hogs have never been
attacked by the disease, attributes
their immunity to a quart of tur
pentine slops which he gave them
weekly.
It was
whites an d blacks fighting.
On* Wlilta Man sad On* Negro Killed.
Dispatches fr^tB Qnancock, Va„
A CONVICT CAMP.
A woman was in disguise, and
was fleeing from some crime she
bad committed. She was traveling
ui a stage coach, and stopped at a
country inn. The travelers alight
ed, and the supposed man got out
with the others. All went to the
wash shelf at the end ol the porch
A man was sitting leaning against
the post ol the porch. He was
watching the woman in disguise as
she washed her face and hands,
and when she was done he at once
arrested her. He discovered her
sex by her manner of applying the
water in washing her face. All
men rub up and down and short.
All women apply the water and
stroke gently downward.
commonly remarked
the North during the war that more
good things were quoted from the
Confederates than were credited
to the Yankee soldiers, with all
their boasted shrewdness. What
Yankee soldier, for instance, would
have thought of the droll reply that
rose to the lips of the Confederate
who was caught in a persimmon
tree by General Longstreet? When
sternly asked by his commander
what he was doing there, the vet
eran at once disarmed wrath by say
ing:
“I’m eatin’ some green persim
mons to draw my stomach up so it’ll
fit its rations.”
Still there was something ghastly
about such humor. When starving
men indulged in such jokes there
was not much room for laughter.—
Constitution.
HIE RESCUE COMES.
It happened just at this moment
that the Naiad turned the bend.
Her otfleers at once gave orders for
the rescue of the drowning men
but the danger of going near the
burning cotton bales rendered this
work extremely hazardous. It was
evident, notwithstanding the work
of the Naiad, that a number ot lives
were lost. As the disaster occurred
far distant from a telegraph station,
the news could no! be sent ofl in
that manner, and the officers of the
Naiad deemed it their duty to stay
on the scene and render all assis
tance possible iu saving file and
property.
THE DEAD LIST.
During the day six bodies have
been recovered. The books, etc.,
ot the Chipley were lost, hence no
list of the passengers could be ob
tained. Many ot them, however,
were colored, taken up at the vari
ous landings, and it has been impos
sible thus far to ascertain their num
ber or the names of the lost. One
ot the dead recovered was a colorad
child, three colored and two white
men. One of the colored men was
named James Alexander. It has
been ascertained that one of the
dead white men was Mr. McAllis
ter, of Neal's Landing. Other bod
ies may have floated further down
the river.
The boat carried a cargo of three
hundred bales of cotton, besides a
large quantity of general merchan
dise. The Naiad succeeded in tying
up two hundred bales of cotton, but
the river has swollen so much to
day, owing to last night’s continued
rains, that this cotton has been float
ed away,and will be swept into the
gulf to-night.
The Chipley has been on the riv
er two seasons. She was a staunch
river cralt, costing ifiS.ooo in con
struction. She belonged to the
Merchants, Mechanics and Planters
line, W. L Tillman, president.
Dr. Armstrong's Case.
Atlanta, Jan. 3.—Rev, J. G.
Armstrong, pastor of St. Phillip’s
church (Episcopal) wilj be tried by
a court of five clergymen of the dio
cese on tne 13I1 inst., on charges
formulated by an investigating com
mute for being intoxicated, and vis
iting places unbecoming a clergy
man.
The bishop and Dr. Armstrong
took a list of all the clergymen in
the diocese, and struck off names
alternately, on; at a time, until only
five were leit. They are Reverends
Reese, of Celartown, Hunter, of
Columbus, Pord, of Albany, Strong
of Savannah, *ad Lucas, of .
It has not] been determined
whether or rot the press will be
sdmitted to tj.e trial, which will
take place in the chapel adjoining
St. Phillip’s caurch. Mr. Hoke
Smith and Senator Jown W. Da
vidson, of Augnsta, are attorneys
for Dr. Annistjong. Mr. Smith is
out of town now; and it is under
stood he is jeoking up evidence
and consulting high church author
ities of other doces as to the rules
of evidence arje modes ot conduct
ing such invest gations.
Dr. Armstrorg’s friends seem to
look forward :o the trial only a s a
righteous vindi:ation.
tell ot an affray in Accomac county
on Sunday afternoon. Ten wh te
men from Sykes’ Island were 111
the village liquor store, at Messen
ger Bridge, Drinking freely. 1 hey
were a rough set and had been on a
spree since Christmas. Two of
them became involved in a difficul
ty with Jeff Freeman, a coiored
man, whb is noted for his strength.
Freeman, angered by remarks of
one of the crowd, picked him up
bodily and threw him across the
room. This was the signal tor a
general melee. Freeman leaped
upon a barrel and levelling a revol
ver at the crowd of white men de
fied them all. George Parker Miles
one of the white men, advanced on
the negro, who, quick as a flash, fir
ed. The ball entered Miles’ mouth
and came out his left year, inflict
ing a mortal wound.
Pistols and knives were drawn
and the crowd rushed lor the ne
gro, who leaped through a glass
window, carrying the sash with
him, and followed by a shower of
bullets and bottles. Down the road
ran Freeman, hotly pursued by the
white men. Freeman ran into a
colored church about half a mile
distant, where a Christmas festival
was being held. Some of his friends
were there. The festival was for
gotten for the time being. The con
gregation rushed to the door. As
the pursuing party advanced some
one in the church fired two shots
and several of the white men were
wounded, one of then*, dropping in
the road. Then the white men
rushed into the crowd of colored
people, driving them hack into the
church. Freeman was shot in the
forehead and fatally wounded. He
was also dragged troin the church
aud severely beaten, I he other
people fled lrotn the church.
THE COUNTY CHAIN-GANG.
STUCK FAST IN THE CHIMNEY
Treasuris at the Deep.
PhilMl.'lphim Times.
The manifest ot the steamer Lord
Gough, which arrived here from
Liverpool on Monday night, shows
that Col. John 1. Boyle, chief engi
neer ot the Vigo Bay Treasure
Company, now operating at Vigo,
Spain, has forwarded to this city a
large mahogany log and shackle
block as a sample ot a large amount
of materials ntjw on some fifteen
galleons, which have been located
at the bottom] ot the land-locked
harbor of Vigp
These galleqr.s were set on fire
and sunk by th; British and their
French allies it 1702, to prevent
their capture D\ the combined fleets
ol Great Britain and Holland. They
were reported to contain some $40,-
000,000 in silver and gold, which
had come from the Sou th Amer
ican provinces in Spain. All the
funds required to carry on the work
of raising the sunken treasure in
Vigo Bay, amounting to $50,000,
were subscribed in Philadelphia.
Col. Boyle reports that he- expects
to get the first galleon on t he beach
at Vigo about the first ol" March,
1S86.
A Thief In a Bail Box when a Fire was Star
ted Below Him.
Wilmington, N. C., December
29.—Last night Leanders Smith
planned to rob the store of Robert
Pugh &Co.» about nine miles from
here. He climbed to the roof,
took off all his clothes, and then
tried to slip down the chimney.
In doing so he loosened a brick
that fell down into Mr. Pugh’s
chamber underneath. Mrs. Pugh,
alarmed, got up,and as the night was
cold,placed a match in the fireplace,
which was filled with light wood
ready for kindling. Smith had in
the meantime gotten half way down .
the chimney and there s*.uck fast. | / , ; . A
He was unable to get out. The har
der he struggled the tighter he was
wedged in.
Smoke from the fire .underneath
began to ascend, which made his
condition unbearable. Thoroughly
alarmed, he yelled loudly for help.
His cries brought the town out. A
windlass was procured, and by day
break, after enduring much nifter-
ing, he was pulled out and landed
in jaiL
Interview Witn tlie Dog Trainer and uuard
for Hon. J&met M. smith
Last Saturday Bud Asbury, who is one
of the guards and also has charge of the
dogs at Smith's convict camp, was in to
see us. He had^been given a ten-days' va
cation, and it was the first time in a year
he had been without sight of the priso
ners or with a gun on his shoulder. Bud
says the life of a convict guard is one of
the most wearysome and monotonous
in existence. In fact, the conductor on
a hotel elevator has a regular daily pic
nic compared with him; that you have
nothing to do but follow a gang of con
victs from the stockade to the fields and
from the fields to the stockade, until one
nauseates at the sight of a striped suit of
clothes or the clanking sound of chains.
The only ray of anything like pleasure
the business is training the hounds,
that are kept to trail the prisoners when
one makes a break for liberty. This is
Mr. Asbury’s business, and his face flush
ed with conscious pride as he described
the merits of his pack of dogs. “Why,”
he said, “I can follow a negro for a week
with them, and it is just folly for a con
vict to try and get away. They can’t
throw my dogs off of their scent, and
they will follow them through fire and
water. 1 have those dogs trained so that
they would no more dare to eat anything
that a prisoner offered them than you
would rank poison. The niggers would
kill them in a minute did they get
chance, but I keep too close a watch for
that.”
“How many convicts have Mr. Smith
now?” we asked.
“He has 107, and they are all in fine
kelter, too—fat and hearty. We give
them plenty to eat, don’t overwork any
ne, and they are carefully looked after.
Matt. Norton is now building a tine
frame house for them within the stock
ade, 4< > by 100 feet, and it will be fitted up
with all the modern improvements. Of
course I don’t mean electric bells,billiard
tables and elevators, but nice, com
fortable bunks, glistening chains and
other attachments to a well equipped
vict camp.”
“How is Dave Nelins, from Banks
county, getting on?”
•‘Splendid. He is the best shoemaker
in Georgia, and Col. Smith has fitted him
up a nice shop and put him to work. We
get #7 per pair for all the boots he can
make.”
“Has Mr. Smith got out all of his cot
ton yet?” we asked.
“We have about two days’ pickin
do. We have not ginned a lock from
aiting for an
advance in price, but it don't look like it
will get here. This has been a very
hard year on farmers, and they are in a
fearful condition. I will leave for Ogle
thorpe this evening, and will spend the
rest of my vacation with my friends Dr.
Mark Willingham and Uncle Moke Ar
nold. I am getting on first-rate, am paid
$22 per month, and last year saved $150
clear. You see there is not much temp
tation around a convict camp for a fellow
to spend money.”
Interview With the New Superintendent.
“How is the county chain-gang getting
along and what are you doing?” we ask
ed of Mr. Stancil Barwick, the new su
perintendent of the county chain-gang.
“I am getting everything in ship-shape,
have had the hands cleaning up and
getting ready for another crop.”
“Did you hold an inquest over the late
John Wesley Copley?”
4 No; I asked Judge Jackson if it was
necessary to hold an inquest, and he in
formed me that men had often died sud
denly from heart disease, and there was
no use in running the county to an ex
pense when there was no use. Mr. John
Tuck had raised a great deal of tobacco,
and Cooley, who was a natural born
thief, got a chance and stole a lot of leaf
tobacco, which he put in his bosom, and
this is what caused his death. I have
consulted physicians, and they say that
person not in the habit of using tobac
co, and to rub it on their arm will make
them very sick. There is no doubt but
the tobacco stolen by Cooley caused his
death. Jack Sailors will be out in Feb
ruary. He is so well satisfied that he
wants to hire to me when his time is out.
Jack has made a good hand and I expect
I will keep him. The convicts are all in
a healthy condition and not much tiouble
to manage them.
ASSASINATED ONE BY ONE.
MADISOA SPRINGS IN 1826.
Extract From an old Book.
From an old volume of the life and
letters of Stephen Olive, D. D., who from
1820 to 1803 held the Professorship of
Belle Lettres in Franklin College at Ath
ens, Ga., we extract the following de
scription of Madison Springs, written
June 2!>th, 1826:
I have preaehed seven times since
March, and set out to-morrow to go 50
miles to preach on the Sabbath. I have
been at the Madison Springs one week
but the water, which is strong chalybe
ate, is too high-toned for me; and though
I expect to stay sometime here I do not
expect to drink the water. Here is a
small village, consisting of some 20 or 30
cabins and a huge boarding-house. It is
a great resort of fashion, disease and sin:
though the waters of the place do not
cure, they aggravate two of the evils. 1
The Doctor speaks of “building a cot
tage at the very bottom of a hill, on the
borders of Athens, and thoroughly bu
ried in the woods.”
TWO BRAVE GIRLS.
Who Soundly Thrash a Negro Who Insult
ed Them.
BLOODHUUNDS.
Mt. Asbury, the manager of Jim
Smith’s Aogs, informs us that some ot
the convicts, when they escape, put some
thing on their feet to keep the dogs from
tracking them. It is a mixture of differ
ent kinds of herbs, and will make the
dogs very sick for awhile, but as soon as
they get over it they will follow the track
with a great deal more vigor than before.
This is an old trick learned by negroes
before the war, to keep dogs from track
ing them, but it never dul them much
good. Mr. Asbury has his dogs well
trained, and at a given signal they will
hunt for the track of the escaped con
vict. In the days of slavery a pack of
negro dogs were worth a great deal of
money. Mr. Ralph Harden, of South
Carolina, had one of the finest packs in
the South, and often went into North Car
olina and Georgia to catch runaway ne
groes or an escaped murderer. Mr. Har
den’s dogs have often run a track that
had been made 24 hours previous.
UNDRESS AT THE OP*IRA
There were some very wealthy
men in ancient Rome and some of
the emperors were rich beyond the
dreams of avarice. Augustus, for
instance, inherited an estate valued
»t $181,458,303, and this greatly in
creased, so that he was able to spend
$10,000,oooon his bath houses alone.
Lucullus, it is said, never sat down
a dinner that cost less than *10,-
°°o, and it has been estimated that
he was worth $500,000,000. Julius
Ca.-sar was a very rich man before
he became emperor, and when he
••arted on his Spanish campaign his
Private debts in Rome amounted to
$15,000,000.
Whirs Blue Blood Reigns.
Till Bits.
Boston girl (boastfully)—“Old! I
should say so. We can trace our
ancestry back 250 years, to the time
when a Coverly was hanged for
witchcraft.”
Denver Girl—“Our family goes
back a good many years too. My
grandfather was lynched tor horse
stealing fifty years ago. Isn’t it ter
rible how they used to prosecute
people in olden times?”
General Toombs and Governoi
Stephens were hosom friends, and
it is a singular fact that each chang.
ed his name. Robert A. Toombs
became plain Robert Toombs, and
plain Alexander Stephens became
Alexander H. Stephens, the former
taking from his name and the latter
adding to his name a middle initial
Thus they differed in taste all
through their long lives.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 3.—
While a white girl, sixteen years
old, was going to her home about
dusk, she was attacked from behind
by a negro boy and dragged into an
open lot, where he tried to throw
heron the ground. She fought
frantically, and both had the clothes
nearly torn off them in the struggle.
When she was nearly exhausted,
her screams drew to her aid another
girl about her own age, who assail
ed the nego, and the two girls final
ly got the negro on the ground and
held him, while they pummeled him
with their fists and stones until he
was nearly lifeless. A crowd had
gathered, but no one seemed dis
posed to take the negro’s part, and
after they had tired themselves
out beating him they dis
appeared. The negro was taken
charge of and physicians summon
ed. The district is out of the city
limits, and the police have no juris
diction. While the county officers
were being hnnted up all parties
disappeared. The girl was bruised
considerably about the neck and
face, but otherwise uninjured. The
negro was badly beaten up all over
his body, and was thought to be in
a serious condition. Those who
know the parties refuse to divulge
the names, but the girl was said to
belong to a highly respectable tarn
ily, and works in the woolen mills
The operatives of the mills are very
mad, and say when the negro gets
well enough to be out again they
will finish him, as they say he has
been seen frequently watching the
girls as they go home from work.
Thomas W. Keene, while attend
ing a banquet given by the “Elks”
pliment to him in Kansas City, was
stricken with paralysis. He was
taken to his hotel, and his physi
cians say he will never be able to
actagain.
The Sensation Created by a Blew VorkLady
In a Theatre Box.
From a X«w York Let ter.
Society is very much a.roused over
the appearance of a w ell—known
lady at her box at the M etropolitan
Opera House the other n ight. She
wore her dress very low in the
neck and with simple »tn:ps across
the shoulders, and the wait t material
she got as near a flesh tint as could
be found, so at a little: di stance it
was impossible to see any dividing
line. As she sat in her box the effect
was startliug and every opt ra-glass
n the house was leveled at her,
while the men in the audien ce who
knew her hastened as a cot nmitee
ot investigation to see what s he had
on or had off, between the act s. The
effect produced by herdressin g was
exactly what she wanted, an d yet
she is a young woman, 3 m arried
woman, a mother, and not an im
modest woman. If a man sliould
accidently see her with the- waist of
her dress off, though she wore a
high-necked underwaist, s he w ould
oe ready faint; and yet sh e would
sit in the box at the opera showing
as much flesh as she dared, and with
the avowed intention of lc oking as
though sne was undressed. I do not
know what it it is that ma kes wo
man do these things, unless it is love
cf social notoriety. They seem to
want to do something to bt ’eak the
monotony of ordinary social fife,and
rack their poor brains for so rave nov
elty in dresss or some ece tatricity
tint will make them more Calked
about than their friends.
COOKS AND HOUSE SEBVANTS.
The negro women are fast retiring
from work, and prefer being supported
sn idleness by their husbands, which is
now the prevailing style with these peo
ple. Every year cooks and house ser
vants get scarcer, and wages consequently
increase. It is high time that some steps
be taken to supplant them. Let our citi
zens form an association and send an
agent on North to employ as many white
servants as needed. There is no lack of
them there. While white servants will
demand more wages, they will do more
work and prove cheaper ill the long run.
A party of travelers recently made
the journey from San Francisco to
London, via New York and Liver
pool, in a trifle less than fourteen
days.
The estimated population of Chi
na proper is 405,223,152, or 263
souls per square mile.
HARD DF FOR A DRINK.
There is a man in Athens with such
thirst for drink that he will go into a bar
ber shop and drink all the hay milt and
hair tonic that lie can lay his hands on,
and also spends what money he can get
for Jamaica ginger and other heating
medicinal preparations. A few days since
he actually tackled a bottle of Mustang
Liniment. He says lie will die unless
something is had to warm him up 011 the
inside. It is really charity to let such
cases kill themselves with liquor as soon
as possible.
A PABTHETIC LETTER.
From a Betrayed Woman.
Toronto, Ont., fan 2.—Adti’ie
Davis, a beutiful girl from Sarni.s,
who killed herself with carbolic acid
itt a comercial traveler’s room here-,
Thursday night, left the following-
note:
“Dear Father—I heard you were
looking for me. I could nor bear to
see you. I am dying now. Hell
cinnot be worse than that I suffer.
I was blamed before I was guilty.
Eut now I am guilty, and G. R.
Hawley is responsible my poor soul,
lie forced me to yield to his wishes
two years ago. I am glad it was I
aid not my poor sister, who will see
that the wages of sin is death. Good
bye.
[Signed.] AddikJ
WEATHER SIGNALS.
The Georgia railroad has placed on all
west hound (nail trains weather signals
for the accommodation of the public.
They predict the state of the weather 54
hours hence. The white flag always in
dicates fair weather, orange flag refers to
local rains, the blue one to general rains.
The triangular flag refers always to tem
perature, when placed above either of
the other flags indicates rising tempera
ture, and falling temperature when plac
ed below. White flag with black squares
always indicates decidedly colder weath
er, and the orange Hag with black squares
indicates an approach of a cyclone wave
Ladies as as Comercial Travelors.
From the Chicago Herald.
•‘There is a new racket on the
road,” said a comercial traveller.
“Its a female drummer. I met her
the other day, and she is a dandy.
Ot course she travels tor a Chicago
house.and she sells goods like a Jan
uary thaw. She has been out so long
now that she is as independant as a
hog on ice. She sits in an ordinary
railway car and charges up berths
in her expenses, just like the rest of
us. She walks to the hotels from
the stations and charges up the hack
fares, ust as we do. She beats the
lanlord down to $1.50 a day and
charges the house $2.50 the regular
old style. She can take care ot her
self every day in the week, and she
knows how to order up a bottle of
wme and work that on the expense
account, too. Why, when 1 saw
her last she was a new silk dress
ahead of the film, and, by New
Year’s proposed to have a sealskin
saque out of her expenses. And
that isn’t all. She has half the hotel
clerks in the north-west mashed on
her, and the way the little rascal
knocks them down on her bills is a
caution. She has a regular trick ot
staying over Sunday where one of
her admirers runs the house, and
she walks off Monday morning for
getting to pay the bill. What does
shesell? That’s the funniest thing
about it. You would think she
would handle jewelry or millinery
or dry goods, wouldn’t you? but she
dosn’t. She sell gents furnishing
goods, and the young men who
usually keep that kind of stores buy
of her as if they hadn’t seen a drum
mer in six months. And she is
a dandy poker player, too. She
handles the cards awkwardly, and
as if she didn’t know a lull hand
from two pairs, and raises $2 on
deuces, and nearly cries when
t’other fellow shows up three of a
kind, and then gets excited in a big
jack pot, and raises the opener and
bets the limit and raises back and
scares t’other fellow out, and slides
into the deck a little pair of sixes
or sevens or a bobtail as innocent as
you piease. Bluff? Why she has a
bluff' on her like the Wisconsin
river. She’s a daisy, and I tell you
it’s mighty lucky for the boys that
there ain’t any more like her on the
road.”
Colored Aristocracy.
• Philadelphia Press
The very cream ot what may be
termed the colored aristooracy of
the city was out in full force last
night at a kettledrum and bali held
in the Natatorium on Broad street,
the scene of so many fashionable
festivities. The entertainment was
given privately by nineteen repre
sentatives of families of the most
prominent caterers in the city, who
were the patronesses of the affair.
It was gotten up in the geueral
style of the old and exclusive assem
blies, and only the “very nicest peo
pie” and the “oldest families” were
invited. No names were admitted
on the list except of caterers iu the
very best circles. Some of the
belles and beauties were veritable
Cleopatras and Hebes, and, taken
all in all, showed more points of
true and mixed race beauty than
could have been encountered at
most of the balls or large social fes
tivities where the beaus and
swells usually officiate at the
supper table. As they entered the
beauties divested themselves
their rich wraps and opera cloaks,
displaying full evening dress,
some instances they took off their
fur-lined overshoes and put on
white satin dancing slippers. Trails
were generally worn, and most of
the dresses were cut low, sometimes
showing handsome ornaments and
real diamond ornaments on the
neck. There were some very stun
ning dresses, with bunches of rib
bon in the latest style. A great
many flowers were worn and some
carried bouquets. The men were
all in full evening dress, some with
the latest style of silk facing on
their dress coats, others with white
vests, and a few with diamond studs.
A number of the more matronly
figures loooked very effective with
fresh white gloves covering their
arms partially, but with the neck
and shoulders exposed. Some of
the young ladies wore articles of
attire painted and embroidered by
themselves. There were twenty
pieces on the dancing programme,
winding up with the Virginia reel.
Four Member! of the Detroit Enoch Family
Mysteriously Killed.
New York World.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 1.—The
Knoch murder case was brought in
to prominence again to-day by the
sudden death ot Mrs. Elizabeth
Knoch, the mother of the ill-fated
family. She had been sick only a
few days, and yesterday sent for an
officer for the purpose it is said of
making a statement about the recent
case of arson and murder. Befoie
they arrived at her bedside she had
relapsed into a comatose condition
from which she did not rally. She
died early this morning. In the opin-
of a physision whoaccompained the
officers to her home, Mrs. Knoch
was affected with heart and lung
disease, but there were symptoms
of poisoning, and an investigation
will be made.
Mrs Knoch’s death heightens the
mystery enveloping this quadruple
tragedy. When the house of Frank
Knoch was burned, on the night ot
Dec., 16, and he and his wife were
found in the ruins with bullets in
their brains, it was learned by the
police that the father of the murder
ed man also died from the assassin’s
hand and also a brother, supposing-
ly, as the lattar was found two years
ago in his stable with marks of vio
lence on his body, although at that
time the case was disposed oton the
theory that he was kicked to death
by a horse. The fire at Knoch’s
house and the murder of himself and
wife and the loss of the two chil
dren who perished in the the flames,
are attributed to the fact that he
showed a roll of bills to friends on
the evening of the tragedy, and said
that ho had $1,000 which he was to
pay on his land the next day. It is
supposed that some one overheard
Knoch, and went to rob the house
a few hours later.
But an uncle of Knoch refused to
believe that robery was the only
purpose, and hints that another pur
pose enters the case. He does not
say what he thinks this other pur
pose is, but a neighbor claims that
the Knochs stand in the way of
somebody securing a rich inheri
tance in Germany, and that if the
detectives are shrewd they will trace
the three crimes to one person, and
that person the least suspected in the
world. If the death qf Mrs. Knoch
to-day can be attributed
to the use of poison by any
one except herself, it is possible that
the deep-laid plot to assassinate the
entire Knoch family, if such it is,
will be laid bare. The various bran
ches of the family have lived near
together for many years in the vicin
ity of Detroit. The Knochs were
market gardeners, and had acumula
ted considerable property. Frank
Knocft lived on the road to Wood-
mere villiage and three men on their
way home to Woodmere on the
night of Dec. 16 discovered the fire.
They could not gain admittance,
they next peeped in at the window
and’ saw the body of a man roasting
upon the floor. They attempted to
climb in at the window, but were
driven back by fire and smoke. The
flames spread rapidly and the house
was soon reduced to ashes and no
one saved. In the morning the
ruins were searched and the bodies
of Knoch, his wife Susan and two
children. The later aged 8 and 3
years respectively, were dug up
Knoch was holding in his arms an
unrecognizable mass of bones and
charred flesh—all that remained of
his wife. The body of the elder
child was found five feet away, but
the infant had been incinerated.
Knoch’s arms had been burned ofl
at elbows and the legs at the knees.
Knoch was al-
georgia news.
Atlanta small dealers are breaking
every day. . ,
The. town council at Chipley has
fixed whiskey license at $560.
Watermelons were offered for sale
in McDonough Christmas day.
Henry J. Hill has forty-four colts
on his Wilkes county plantation.
Savannah has raised^ her liquor
license to $300. She is going to
test the virtues of the high license
law.
JEFFERSON SALE DAY.
Tuesday was sale day in Jefferson
The Atlanta Constitution quoted
Central railroad stock yesterday at
71 asked. The Macon Telegraph
quoted it at 724 asked.
A negro girl living m Leary an
swers to the high-souding name ot
Mamie Baker Queen Victoria
Southern Belle Atlantic Beauty.
Master Shelton Vickers, in Wash-
ington, had his face badly scorched
recently. A match box full of pow
der held in his hand exploded.
A yearling cow was bitten by a
mad dog in November in Chattooga
county. It did not have the rabies
until a few days ago, when it was
killed.
Sam Jones has been challenged to
meet a "blood” of St. Louis where
“further communications” can be
carried on in regard to some of his
evangelizing provocations.
Dodge county goes dry by TO ma
jority, in a vote of 1,026. There
will be no contest. It was a fairly
won victory after a vigorous battle
waged by both sides.
Charles Belton, the Texas stock
man, who was so seriously injured
in the collision at the seventeen
mile water tank on the Georgia Pa
cific road, was out in a carriage at
Atlanta Saturday.
Dr. C. A. Estabrook has written
a letter to Gov. McDaniel from
Dayton, in which he says he will
leave Ohio for Georgia with his
second excursion of farmers between
the first and third of February.
Governor McDaniel to-day issued
his warrant for $100 for L. A. Sim
mons of Hall county, lor the cap
ture ot Meeks Block, charged with
the murder of Jasper Saunders, in
Hall county in December iSS4-^
While running timber down Cobb
creek, in Tatnall county, Tuesday
night, a negro fell ofl" and was
drowned. His body was recovered
and carried to camp. During the
night negroes from another camp
stole the body, and the theft waa not
discovered until next morning.
Chris. Owens, of Dalton, the he
roic engineer of the train which ran
into the Georgia Pacific, causing
such destruction of life, is able to be
out again. His leg, which was so
badly scalded, is rapidly healing.
Will Keehlar, the fireman, is on
crutches. His leg, in addition to
being scalded, was severly sprained.
Tom Madison, a negro living near
Madison, was out hunting Saturday,
and, aftei he had killed a squirrel,
was standing with his lett arm
leaning on the muzzle of his gun,
when his dog ran by and, touching
the trigger, discharged the gun. The
entire load passed through the arm
near the shoulder.
Judge McCay starts from Atlanta
for Baltimore Tuesday with his
daughter, who is attending school
there. It is probable the Judge
will be away several weeks, as Judge
Tompkins, of counsel lor the anti
prohibitionists, has informed the
court that the rule is granted by
Judge Pardee, and which Judge
McCay was to have heard Jan. 4, •
would not be passed lor the present,
if, indeed, it would ever be.
There are more Mormons at our
doors than we ac’ually estimate.
They have congregations in Ala
bama, Tennessee, Georgia and
North Carolina, and the fact now
co.nes to light that there is a Mor
mon church with seven hun
dred members at Fall River, Mass.
There is another congregation in
New Bgdford, one in Boston, and
Rhode Island, Maine and Connect
icut also have a sprinkling of these
paople. The plot thickens.
A correspondent writing from
Atlanta to the Rome (Ga.) Bulletin,
says: “When prohibition is fully
assured, I shall have something to
tell the Romans about a gigantic
speculative scheme, now fully orga
nized, which will take advantage of
into their coffers" a few hundred
thousand dollars. Atlanta is duller
than it has been for years at this
time. Xmas trade has been most
unsatisfactory, rents are reduced,
property depreciated, and the pro
hibition war has been succeeded by
a wail.”
GENERAL NEWS.
anil a large crowd was in town. The
The body of Mrs. — . . -
most entirely consumed. Only a , the depression^tn property and turn
few charred bones remained to iden
tify the eldest child.
The discovery that the victims had
been shot was accidental. The
funerel was set for 1 o’clock the
next day, there had been a dispute
among the relatives as to the lorn.
•f burial, the remains ot the father,
son and wife being in one coffin and
the wife being Catholic, the Prose
cuting Attorney was appealed to.
That official ordered the remains
held and a post-mortem examination
was made, and in the brain of each
of the adults was found a bullet. An
empty revolver was found in the
ruins, and some people suggested
a domestic tragedy had been enac
ted. It was thought possible that
Knoch and his wife had quarrelled
and that one had shot the other and
then committed suicide, and that in
the struggle of death the table vas
jarred, and the kerosene oil lamp
upset. The theory was not believed
i by the police, because of the mystery
i surrounding the death of the other
Seay and Thompson lands were sold at
public outcry. The land was sold very
cheap. Some of it brought only $3 and
$4 per acre. Dave Hancock bought near
ly all of the Seay land. The Gober land
was bought by Mr. Butler at a very
small price.
DISSOLUTION IN LEXINGTON.
The firm of Arnold & Stewart, of Lex
ington, has dissolved, Mr. Stewart with
drawing on account of ill health. Mr. O.
H. Arnold, one of the best merchants and
cleverest gentlemen in Georgia, will con
tinue business. Mr. G. W. Smith, of the
game place, will take in Sheriff Edgar
Maxwell as a partner.
_ A North Carolina woman has
just died, at the age of 130.
WHAT CONSTITUTES BITTERS.
Several of our drug stores are now do
ing a rattling prohibition business in sell
ing bitters, of which 60 per cent is rye
(whisky and 40 per cent compounds that
are comparatively harmless. Under the
laws of Georgia any bitters containing
over 60 per cent, of alcohol cannot be
sold as such, but are classed as liquor.
To Make Destruction bure.
Pittsburg. Pa., Pa., Jan. 3.—A
special says: A desperate attempt
to burn down the town of Tarentu.n,
Pa., was made at an early hour this
morning. The fire was discovered
in Essler’s livery stable on Gaines
street. It soon spread to Rue &
Jones’ livery stable, Zimmerman’s
shoe store and Dr. Volz’s residence,
and all were destroyed, The incen
diaries had taken every precaution
to make destruction sure. They had
cut the ropes of the two alarm bells,
broken the principal pumps in the
village and carried off the fire
buckets and tubs, The cry
of “Fire!” aroused a lad
named William Dibel, an employee
of a large planing mill upon which
was a bell. He ran to the mill and
upon finding the bell rope cut,
climbed to the room and sounded
an alarm by striking the bell with a
hammer, This awakened the en
tire community, who turned out en
masse and soon extinguished the
flames. The loss is $9,000.
About two weeks ago there was
an atfempt made to burn the village
down. Six or seven large build
ings were destroyed, entailing a
loss of $50,000.
NO LIQUOR FOR GAINESVILLE.
Gaixesville, Jan. 2.—Last night our
new city council were sworn in, anil be
gan their work by electing officers, and
deciding the question of bar-rooms for
Gainesville this year. They refused to
license the bars and closed down on the
drug stores in the same manner. Some
of the whisky men were very much dis
appointed, as they had gone so far as to
rent houses for their business, so confi
dent were they of success.
Col. B. H. Bates, at Candler, Hall
•county, has raised a turnip that
1 weighed 84 pounds,
members of the family, and because
OUR FIRE COMPANIES.
The fire companies all turned out
promptly when the alarm of fire was
sounded in East Athens, Tuesday night.
The companies were turned back by
parties who told the officers that it was
only an old guano warehouse and thas it
was no use for them to go. The firemen
of Athens are always ready to go to any
part of the city when the alarm is sound
ed. and they would have went to the
gre on Tuesday night had they not been
turned back.
it was shown that Knoch never had
a revolver. Investigation showed
traces of footsteps made by a person
leaving the house. The imprints
were not made by the men who dis
covered the fire. Mnrever, the post
morten proved that the man was
shot first, while the women, judging
lrom the condition of the brain, was
shot only a few minutes before she
was burned. Again, the incenera
ted bodies of man and wife were
locked in embrace and that indicated
that the woman had seen her hus
band fall and and stooping to stanch
the flow of blood from his wound
had clasped him in her arms just be
fore the fatal bullet pierced her own
brain. So the suicide theory was
dismissed by the police. They hope
to get a clew from Knoch’s hired
man, who, while claiming to know
nothing of the fire and assassination,
is closely watched.
A warrant for murder has been
issued against the husband of the ne
gro woman who was last week
found in the river near LaGrange.
William H. Vanderbilt’s wealth
is rated at $305,000,000.
Ruth and Boaz are the names of
two post offices in Coryeli county,
Tex.
Minnie Dishner, of Columbus,
Neb., has been asleep continuously
since Oct. 26.
New Year’s day four years hence
will begin the year 1889 with a total
eclipse of the sun.
A new system of drying lumber
by surrounding it with common salt
is just now attracting attention.
It is feared that a good many
credulous people have seriously in
jured by trying to gulp down that
New Bedford story about a whale
swallowing a boat and it* crew of
seven men.
Burled Them Deep.
Boston AdTartlier*
The Smithsonian institute has
received from Bartow county, Ga
a natural curiosity that is.arousing
much interest. A company which
is getting out limestone from a solid
ledge found, 100 feet below the
surface of the ledge an immense
deposit of human and animal bones
carelessly heaped together and im
bedded in the solid rock. The bones
are intact, but break when the ef
fort is made to free them from the
stone.
A mass of this conglomerate of
stone and bones weighing 600
pounds has been receivea here, and
the Smithsonian authorities will
send an expert down to examine
the deposit, which is represented to
weigh many tons. No explanation
is offered for the bones being there
save that a cave existed there in
habited by antediluvian and it after
wards slowly filled with a lime
stone deposit which cannot now be
distinguished from the original ‘rock.
There is a good deal of talk among
the republicans and protection dem
ocrats about the likelihood ol Ten
nessee breaking from the ranks of
the “Solid South.”
Ferdinand Ward is running a
small printing press in Sing Sing.
There is only one place in Camilla
where drinks can be had, the bar
keepers have voluntarily quit the
business.
Oakes Ames, who tried to bribe
congressmen, has a $60,000 monu
ment, upon which patent medicine
men put signs.
Three thousand one hundred and
thirteen miles of railroad track were
laid last year—less than any year
since 187S.
The British sparrow is coming
into disrepute in his own home.
His depredations are estimated at
$4,000,000 a year.
During the last sixty-five years
the Methodists of the United States
have raised $191,000,000 for the con
version of the brethren to Christiani-
ty-
Paris, Jan. 2.—The four children
from Newark, N. J., who were bit
ten by a mad dog and who have
been under the treatment of Pasteur,
sailed from here for New York to
day. They are all well.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 2.—Mrs
Polk, the widow ol ex-President
James K. Polk, received new year’s
callers yesterday with her two
nieces, the Misses Fall. The day
was the 6oth anniversary ot her
marriage.
Mrs. Eliza B. Fluker, widow of
the late Col. Robert Fluker, (Ned
Brace of “Georgia Scenes,”) of Red
Bluffs, La., although S3 years of
age, has all the youthiul appear
ance and charming conversation of
forty years ago.
The persons who invested in the
diving speculation to obtain JC100,-
000 worth of gold which was sunk
years ago in the ship* Alfonzo XII,
oft'the west coast of" Africa, have
been rewarded by a harvest of gold
from the gray sand fields. The div
ers have got up nearly all the gold,
and have sent it to England.
The Italian smuggler who is re
ported to have killed and thrown
overboard a load ot nine Chinamen
who he was bringing to the Ameri
can side of the Straits of Fuca last
summer, to keep from being caught
by the United States revenue cutter,
which bore down on him and exam
ined his little vessel, was worthy of
being a descendant of the Caisars
and the Borgians.
In the city of Nocera, Naples,
lives Maddalena Granetta, aged 47,
who was married at the age of 2S
to a peasant—just nineteen years
ago. Maddalena Granetta has giv
en birth to, either dead or alive, six
ty-two children, fifty-nine of whom
were males. She enjoys florid
health, is robust, and twenty-four
hours after her last accouchment
was ready to go out to her accus
tomed labor in the fieltj.