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TALK with one of uncie
SAM’S BIG MAIL CON
TRACTORS* ( L,
p.nniXG FOR ROUTES AND SUBLET-
1,1 * TINOTHEM."
difficulties encountebed in the
T PAR WEST.
ccis&wof UietOtfUlm strttthM of D««-
•rt and other Trials.
. not generally know that Mr.
r _ v M. Snodgrass, of Lampasas,
lS tho enterprising gentleman who
., l51 lt the Athens street railroad, is at
h, *1 of one of the strongest eora-
„. s in the United States for the bid-
i n ,,f contracts to carry mails. In
.t was by this business that Mr.
..!liras* accumulated the handsome
that he 'now enjoys. As our
i, . r s ar»- strangers to this enterprise,
,,uhl not be uninteresting to give an
:U , w that we had with Mr. S. a few
„ .unco, on the subject. The con-
*atn*n was opened by Mr. Toomer
Mr. S. if he was the George M.
dgras* that had the contract to carry
mail from Charleston to Mechanics-
id I am losing
he replied.
,-ar on that route.”
t are vou doing with a mail con-
>..ut'ti t 'nrolinr.?*' we asked.
, Hiy dear sir. we have more or
, \ , rv state ami territory in the
1 .-oppose we have fifty routes
. , 1 pm in my hid on every
;r:„'t to let out, and where there
GEORGIA NEWS
NO. XVI
-A.TH3E2STS, *3
< .inr—-'-■V'"
A.Y, JAlSTGTARY 19, 1886.
VOL. XXXI
WYNTON’!
THE TRIALS AND ADVENTURE8
YOUNG ATHENIAN.
Hounding Down an Innocent Man.-A Ref.
uge In the Tennesaee Mountains—Goes to
Mexico*-" You Must Vindicate Me! *—The
Clouds at Last Lilted.
The Banner-Watchman always feels
a sort of proprietary interest in Wales
Wynton, for its editor was the first man
to induce him to lay down the yard
stick and take up the Faber, and also se
cured him a position on the Constitution.
We saw at a glance that Wynton had all
the requisites of a first-class newspaper
reporter, and with the proper encourage
ment that he would make his mark
the world of journalism. As a natu
ral consequence Mr. Wynton has always
looked upon the B.-W. editor as a friend,
and freely unfoldss himself to us. l)ur-
ng his visit to his family in Ath
ens this week, we determined to get at
at the bottom facts of his responsibility
tifiv. lh
late perhaps I j the guilty man.
a do I know
1 timl
rry the
LOSt of
. i. . I, an l then
the world to
th<
f\-timate what it
mail, of course
:it. Nothing is
iiy company to
Am
nail
nles long, leading fr.
i l.ml li
equippin
i.g -tables, beside?
that rout*
THAT MACON SCANDAL,
and then judge of his guilt or innocence.
We have never believed that Wales
Wynton wilfully slandered any one, and
.f at all to blame in the matter he was
unconsciously drawn into it. Hence
we put to him the question direct, and
unhesitatingly he answered:
I am as innocent as yourself, yet 1
must confess that a strong chain of eir-
umstantial evidence pointed to me as
All th'* connection that
I had with Brown, the Cincinnati En
quirer reporter, was that we met in At
lanta. rode together to Macon, and being
in the same business w.th myself 1 treat
ed him with the court sies due one jour
nalist from another. I had not the most
remote idea of the nature of his mission,
or would have instantly dropped him.
1.1 KK OLD I *'} TUAY,
I was punished for b..ng caught in had
plenish my funds, and was set to work,
being paid $10 a column for all articles
accepted. With the prospect of a living
again before me, I set to work with all
my energy. I hunted up and made
friends with the police, the gamblers and
every one else who could feed my thirst
for news. I did well, and was compli
mented upon my labors. But McLean,
the managing editor of the Enquirer,
seemed to have a
i- pun
company.
•Wl
nil
t remain in Mfi<*on,
DISTASTE TO ME,
and was evidently frightened about the
stir that Macon letter created, and want
ed to smooth it over. He knew that the
people suspected me, and the simple
fact of my being employed in his office,
kept afresh the matter. But it is against
the rules of the office to discharge a man
so long as he is efficient, and I determin
ed to give them no excuse.
BUT MY SCALP HAD TO QO,
and one day I was ordered to write up a
column report on tobacco. Col, McLean
knew that I knew nothing whatever of
this subject, and I felt it was a trap set
for me. But I was undeterred. I in
terviewed avery one that had anything
to do with tobacco, and collected all the
statistics to he had.
I SLEPT NEITHER DAY NOR NIGHT
until that article was ready to go to
the printers. It surprised the office and
had to be accepted, and when published
I was complimented on every hand. But
even tobacco did not save me, for a few
days after Brown came tome and stated
that he tried to get me retained on the
er, hut my dismissal had been de
termined on, and advised me to send in
my resignation, which 1 did. I had only
saved a few dollars, and for the
stablish ;
*• Establish my inn
1. with no testimony
the whole city
►cence! How could
hut mv word, and
plai
relative or personal friend in
that l could go to for advice
on. I was abused and insult
ed * on every hand, and even my life
threatened. The people were hlinde 1
bv their passion and had already tried
and convicted me. What could one man
do against such fearful odds? Only God
knows what I suffered during that
lime. While I knew in my own heart
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
KOASTED ALIVE.
TWO FK1EGHT TRAINS AND BRIDGE
WRECKED.
, at $!•
, th.
fr.
per mon:h. the wa
•any that brought
nountains ami dis-
1 it at convenient distances over
rl. -o that we could water our
and me passengers. The laving
pipes cost the company about $fiO,-
We got a year for carrying
ail-, and were besides doing a fine
ig. r and express business with our
es, that about paid all expenses,
ig the money we got from the gov-
•nt clear gain. Well, in six mouths
the time we started up a railroad
a*as built at the Nevada end of the des-
• rt, that brought us down to less than 75
uvA-'S on the t ’nlifornia side, and of course
. ,.r pay was reduced proportionately,
•ii government only allowing one
.nth*.- pay for altering contracts. Our
•pin- -tuck and coaches had to be sold
.i discount, our staldes and way sta
tu.abandoned, and we had to pay that
<1<«> per month for water pipes that we
never used. <>f course the company that
lai.l the pipes never got their money
hack, as the railroad broke up travel
Aver the desert, and transportation was
t.n. expensive to pay for moving the old
pipes. Some of those sand deserts out
w ,-st are great curiosities. The one that
cur route laid over was of shifting sand,
and the wind blowing for a week or so
from on.* direction would form mountains
s- v ral hundred feet high. Then it
would shift, and the next time the stage
pa—«>d that sand mound be moved per-
Lvp- two miles or more away. A sap-
p'r or any object against which the
vc.«I could lodge, would soon form one of
th- mountains, t >f course it was hardon
th- stock and we drove four horses to a
< >ach. ehatiging them tromten to twenty
miles, as water permitteed. Was one of
mv coaches ever robbed? Yes, frequent
ly. hut fortunately I never happened to
he on one at the time. I have several
times been on the coach just ahead or
behind the one attacked. 1 counted fif
teen holes shot in the hack of one of mv
Texas coaches, put thereat various times
nv mail robbers. We always try to
employ brave men as drivers, hut when
the best man saw the barrel of a rifle or
revolver suddenly held to his head, and
Knew that the finger at the trigger would
pull it on the slightest protext, he halted
and threw overboard the mail hags and
express safe. All of our stages carried
a little 50-pound iron safe for Wells,
l argo iV Co., for which they paid us
handsomely. If the route was an especi
ally dangerous one, they always sent an
armed guard along, who rode beside the
driver, or on top the coach, heavily arm
ed. If the government was transmitting
money it would fill the coach with sol
diers, hut even this precaution did not
deter the desperadoes. (>ne of my coaches
on a very lonely route, was just eraerg-
from a mountain pass, when the ex
press guard was shot from the top of
the stage and fell dead in the boot.
Another hall barely missed the driver.
1 In* horses took fright and ran pearly
'<-* > miles to a station before they took up,
thus saving the treasure onboard. It was
a very clumsy piece of work on the part
"f tin- robbers, and was evidently done
by Mini* Mexicans who were mining bo
rax near. A professional knight of the
read never lets you know of his presence
until his weapon is thrust in your face,
^e are not responsible for any valuables
or lives lost, hut the express company is
no one believed it. Instead of public
feeling being allayed, it increased each
day, and mv presence on the street was
like Haunting a red flag in the face of a
mad hull. 1 was told to leave Macon or
S would he lynched, and at last decided to
, do so. yet feeling that such a step would
leasing for a j on j v tighten the chain of circumstancial
idence against me. But like a hunted
stag I fled for my life. You must re
member that I was young and had hut
little experience, and besides, was in so
much distress that I was hardly respon
sible for what I did. I went from Ma
con to Atlanta, where I got hold of a lit
tle money. Like a criminal 1 kept iny-
lf
(•VISED AND CONCEALED
« in that city, and the first opporlu-
SKC..ND TIME WAS CAST ADRIFT
upon the cold charity of the world. ]
hoarded a freight train, not caring where
it carried ine, and was finally landed at
BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA,
with only a few cents in my pocket. My
dejection hail by this time given
wa v to a feeling'of desperation, and 1
boldly walked into the office of the Iron
Age and demanded work. Tin* p roprie-
tor kindly informed me that he then had
more local reporters than needed, and
would have to Discharge one. I stated
my destitute condition, and begged for
only a trial of a month, a week, a day—
ottered to work for the cheapest hoard,
and fill his paper with locals. He was
inexorable. At last I exclaimed:
•MV NAME IS WYNTON, SIR, OK GEORGIA,”
and you must give me something to do!
Had I told the gentleman that 1 had just
escaped from a small-pox hospital, his
surprise and horror could not have been
greater. He explained that the simple
fact of my connection with the Age would
ruin the paper, and he could not tolerate
me around his office. I knew that l had
to break down this barrier that surroun
ded me, and determined to do it right
he re. I went to work with my tongue,
and when I quitted that office I had
enough money to pay for my lodging and
supper and breakfast, and a promise to
give me a trial if 1 kept my real name
secret.
1 KNEW NOT A SOUL IN BIRMINGHAM;
hut by night I had written four columns
of the most interesting local news. The
whole office stood aghast at such a won
derful record, and when I kept it up day
after day, I made myself indispensable to
the paper, and was given regular work.
Well, you know the rest of my career. 1
have received liberal offers from promi
nent dailies all over the country, hut pre-
Vwo Sections of a Freight Train on the
Louisville and Nashville Mix and Burn—
TheJRllled and the Wounded—Praisewor
thy Act.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 9.—A
fearful accident occurred on the
South and North Alabama division
of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road at the bridge over |Flint river,
near Wilhite's station,Morgan coun
ty, to-day. Two sections ot the
North bound freight train tele
scoped. Part of the first section
broke loose and remained on the
bridge and was run into by the sec
ond section. The shock caused
the colapse of the bridge, one hnn-
dred feet of which was undergoing
repairs.
Five cars of the *first section, and
the whole of the second sections,
consisting of a n engine and seven
teen cars, we .at down with \ the
bridge. The wreck caught fire, and
eighteen cars were burned. John
Johnson, fireman tor the second sec
tion, fell under his engine, and was
drowned. Henry Boteler, brakeman
was cauget under a car and burned
to death. Engineer W. D. Johnson
brother of the dead fireman was fa
tally burned. Conductor George
Young, and a negro brakeman,
named Thos McCreary, were seri
ously burned. The freight consis
ted mostly of pig iron, which will be
saved. Conductor L. O. Harris, ol
the first section, swam across the al
most frozen river to flag the North
bound train, which was to come
along in a few minutes.
REESE KNIFED.
nitv I got secretly hoarded the train and ! fi’ r to remain in Birmingham, where I
safely reached ’the mountains of T en- j have made many friends.]
where, under an assumed name, I
I lived for several weeks with the plain
country people of that section, making
every cent of money go as long ways as
possible, for I knew not where any more
was to come from. In my excited con
dition, 1 even magnified the dangers that
threatened me, and my nerves got
wrought up to such a state that l saw an
assassin lurking behind every bush, and
LIVED IN CONSTANT DREAD.
I was nearly crazed with trouble at th&t
time and saw nothing but death and dis
grace ahead of me. One day I took up
an idea that my hiding place was known
to my enemies, and decided to go still
further away. 1 paid my hoard and sud
denly disappeared at night, without
letting any one know where I was going.
I took the train for New Orleans, and.
when that city was reached, boarded a
vessel for Vera Cruz, determined to
SEEK A REFUGE IN MEXICO.
I did everything to conceal my identity
while travelling, dreading each moment
that I he recognized. But this fear prov
ed groundless, for 1 reached the land of
the Montezumes without an adventure.
From Vera Cruz I went to the City of
Mexico, travelling partly by rail and
partly by stage. Had my mind been
free, I could have written a number of
interesting letters descriptive of the
country, the people and the scenery,
hut I had no heart for anything. When
1 reached my destination 1 first counted
iny money, and found it greatly dimin
ished. I ouly paid
TEN CENTS A DAY FOR BOARD,
and you may imagine that it was not
equal to Delmonico’s, But the coarse
and unpalatable food they gave me sus
tained life, apd this was all 1 could hope
for. I set about hunting for work of
HAT ABOUT THE OLD MACON MATTER.
I hear nothing more about it, and I
presume that the people of that city are
now satisfied that 1 am entirely innocent
of any complicity in that Enquirer letter.
While I have suffered a great deal, at
the same t?;ue I have laid in a rich store
of experience, and will profit by it in the
future. My only ambition now is to rise
in my profession, and my succesk is all
that 1 can ask.
‘THAT SHOOTING SCRAPE?’
Well, it was an amusing coincident. Do
you remember jokingly telling me in your
room in the Kimball House that 1 would
have to shoot some fellow to establish
my reputation as a fighter and to make
the people let me alone? I little thought
then that in less than three days I would
he following your advice. 1 have not
been molested since that time, and am
sure that I have no desire for a personal
encounter. I have never harmed any
one, and only try to faithfully do my le
gitiraate duty as a journalist”
A FATHER’S FATAL CRUELTY.
Tarrlble Exposure and Death of Him
Daughter and her Babe.
Ringgold, Pa., Jan. Jn, 1SS6.—
John Klinger, a wealthy old farmer
of Rush township, has always been
regarded by his friends as a severe
and harsh old man, but no one ever
gave him credit for as stony a heart
as the tragedy of the last twenty-
four hours proves him to have had.
His daughter Hetty, then aged
eighteen years was two years ago
clandestinely married to Joseph
Maurer, a farm hand, and it ended
in botn being driven from the
How Georgians Faxed on Speaker Carlisle's
Committees.
Washington Cor. A1 lant-i Capitol.
There is some sore disappoint
ment among certain of the Georgia
members. There is Seab. Reese,
for example, who was second on the
committee on postal affairs on the
last congress, and has disappeared
from the committee altogether in
this congress. He is hot about it,
and I don’t blame him. Before this
committee could vote on appropria
tion he was its vice chairman. The
chairman in the last congress failed
of a re-election, and Reese was en
titled to go to the top, but he didn’t,
and Mr. Blount did. Of course it
was had for one Georgian to fall
heir to honors, that justly belonged
to another Georgian, but Mr. Blount
wanted them and he got them, and
now how will Mr. Reese feel toward
Mr. Blount? I leave your r eaders
to imagine. Mr. Clements, who
has been here three terms, is dissat-
satisfied, too. True, he got the sec
ond place on Berry Belmont’s com
mittee on foreign affairs, but he is
not pleased with that. Mr. CandUtr
fared but poorly, and George
Barnes, one of the brainiest
of them all, got next
nothing. I might say that Mr.
Norwood, by some sort of inherent
good luck, fared better. He got on
the Naval Affairs committee, which
is not a poor place. Mr. Ham
mond retains If s place on the com
mittee on Judiciary, which suits his
taste and gives him prominence
where he is most likely to do him
self credit. Mr. Turner received
his chairmunship back—that of the
committer on elections—which en
titles him to an annual clerk, a com
fortable committee room and light
work. Somehow there is a feeling
of many of the Georgia members
that the deal has been manipulated.
I might mention rumors and state
ments both, but probably it is be t
j not to do so. I am thoroughly sat
isfied of ore th’ng, which 1 will
mention, however^Politics about
the national center are charged with
selfishness and full of deceit and
damnation, end the longer a man
serves his constituents here the less
capable he becomes of serving his
God.
Details o ttue Burnln* of the Alabama Black
Brute.
Montgomery Advertiser.
The negro, Alex Reed, who mur
dered Miss Carrie Boyer near Gains-
town, Clark county, Ala., Friday
week, was captured Christmas eve
on the Rhodes plantation, near the
county line The entire population,
white and black, had been for a week
On his track, and the expressed de
termination was that he should be
burned. The whites ofle ed a re
ward of $150 to any negro who
would capture Reed, and the cap
ture was effected by two negroes. A
guard of onf hundred men was for
med. All along the route
the desire was that Reed should be
lynched, but the captors moved on
to the point where the biutal mur
der was committed, The place was
Teached yesterday morning, and at
3 o’clock Reed was taR%n out on the
road and chained to a tree at the
place where Miss Boyer had been
found dying with her head crushed
in.
Reed said that he had committed
the deed, but that he bad not inten
ded killing his victim. She resisted
his attack and his gun went off acci
dentally wounding her in the neck.
Circumstance* then compelled
him to murder her, and he did the
deed with the stock of his gun, and
then ffed.
The crowd then piled lightwood
around the negro and set fire to it.
Although he appealed for mercy
after he had roasted awhile, the fire
was scattered and he was allowed to
feal the lull agony of burning. Then
a new fire was built,and this, in turn,
after burning some time, was taken
away. This process was repeated
three times. Reed made no outcry,
but his contortions showed that he
sufferred terribly. When it was
found that he was dead the light-
wood was piled thickly around
and the corpse was reduced to
ashes.
KATIE PUTMAN IX LUCK-
LUCK’S A FORTUNE.
A Banner-Watchman Printer le Notified of
a Lot of Money.
Several years ago Mr. Stafford, the
proprietor of a newspaper at Harmony
Grove, went to Charleston to get a boy
from the Orphan’s Home and learn him
the printer’s trade. He succeeded iu find
ing a lad that suited him and brought him
home after giving bond to the Orphan’s
Home that the lad would be well cared
for. Willie J. Jones was the name of
the boy. His mother and father being
dead, Willie could not find out much
about his family relations. He worked
with Mr. Stafford and learned his trade,
and after Mr. Stafford’s death Jones
came to Athens and commenced work
for the Banner-Watchman. He wrote
letters to Charleston and found out that
he had one or two relatives in that city,
and they informed him that there was
some money left him by his mother, but
could not tell how much or in whose
hands it was. Yesterday he received
a letter from his cousin stating that his
mother had left with the trustees of the
Orphans Home a large lot of money, to-
geteer with a box filled with jewelry and
a bundle of papers. The money was de
posited in a Savings Bank and has been
drawing interest for twenty years, making
the interest double the principal. Mr.
J ones will be of age, so the letter stated,
next November, when he will come in
possession of a nice little fortune. He
is a good printer and steady in his habits.
He has accumulated some money since
he has been working in the Banner-
Watchman office, which he has invested
in the Building and Loan Association. He
will quit the printing business as
he gets possession of his money and buy
a farm and go into the stock raising busi
ness.
NEVER WAS A MASON.
Jefferson Davis’s Reply to an Indirect At
tack on Freemasonry.
New Orleans, Jan. 12.—Some
one, in order to annoy Mr. Jefferson
Davis, recently mailed to him at his I
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
OUT OX THE FIRST ROUXD.
Sbe Qets a Gift and a Mine is Also Adverti
sed.
The following dispatch from Hot
Springs, Arkansas, is now going the
rounds of the press:
“The newspapers of this place
print to-day an account of the sudden
wealth heaped upon Katie Putnam
the aetress, who is now tilling an en
gagement here. Fivt years ago,
when she was in Helena, Montana
the owner ot a newly discovered
mine was captivated by her acting
and asked the priviledge of naming
his mine alter her. His request was
granted with thanks tor the honor.
Katie Putnam heard nothing further
about the matter until she received
as a Christmas present a handsomely
engraved certificate of three hun
dred shares nonassessable paid up
stock in the Katie Putnam Mining
Cotnoanv, of Helena Montana. The
capital siock is placed at three hun
dred thousand dollars. It is said
that the mine has recently develo
ped such wealth as to make tile three
hundred shares of the little actress
worth nearly a quarter of a million
dollars.
Tbs Athens Cbrontcle Changes Hands.
Mr. Harry Phinixy, the polished edi-
itor and proprietor of the Athens Chron
icle, sold out his paper yesterday
to Messrs. .1. II. Stone and Wal
ter S. Christy. Mr. Stone, it will he
remembered, was the founder of the
Chronicle, and had run it successfully
until its purchase by Mr. Phinixy. Mr.
Christy is a young man, well-known in
Athens, having been born and reared in
our city, is a son of the late Col. John II.
Christy and a most estimable younginan.
Hotli of these young gentlemen are prac
tical printers, which makes their success
doubly sure. In Mr. Phinixy retiring
(ieorgia loses one of her brightest news
paper men.
some kind, hut did not understand Span- , . -
ish, and hence could not make mv 1 young wife s home. Xlaurer being
for all articles entrusted to its care
Hells, Fargo ACo., however, charge big
Prices and have made a mint of money.
hut of course all our mail contracts are
b»t so unpleasant as these. We have one
in Tennessee thi.t pays us $-t,G00 s yesr
Another for nearly as much, in
Texas, we get carried free, on the condi
tion that we give up the express and
passenger business. We sub-let s ma
jority of them, and nearly always make r
good protit. In fact, our company is
making considerable money, and is hack
ed by plenty of capital. The railroads
are our worst enem1t% but there is still a
broad field for big profits in the west
ern states and territories, but a man
must know what ho is about Sometimes
be wdl hid on a 200 mile route to find
not a drop of water on it, and this must
be provided for, We have all kinds of
earners, from a coach and four to a man
hat totes the sacks over mountains on
_ Then again we have three
’oinen mail carriers, and they make good
hnes, too. l»y the way, it was one of my
Res that female road agent robbed
twice ln Texas, and that created auch a
ensation I am turning my attention
for t£ rBe y t0 bui,din s ilreet railroads,
anvil!-***! I? mon mone T >“ th«m than
“ Tl . h ‘ D « 1 know. SoaooSaal finish up
work^T* 1 hw * ,eTenJ more.to start
wishes known. lint the truth is,
there is hut little to do in this miserable
country, and wages are nominal. In my
extremity I applied to some of the
MEXICAN NKWSFAl-FKS
for work, but failed. And by the way,
the Mexican journals are queer institu
tions. There is the boss editor and a
half dozen or more little editors, who
write up any and everything that strikes
their fancy, often the whole number
lecting one local. The paper will
the next morning contain a half doxen
reports of the same occurrence, and the
public are expected to criticise them and
select the best. Public opinion shapes
the policy of newspapers in Mexico, and
not newspapers shape public opinion.
There were several American publica
tions in the city of Mexico, hut 1 kept
clear of them.
‘WHAT ABOUT MEXICO?’
It is certainly a liod-forsaken land, and
the last place on earth that a civilixed
human being would want to abide. It
has a mongrel, laxy, thriftless population,
and you meet robbers and cut-throats at
every step. There is some fertile land
and beautiful country, but such spots are
exceptions. The City of Mexico is
the loveliest place in the world. But as
1 told you, 1 was in no frame of mind to
notice anything, as day by day my little
store of cash diminished, and 1 had no
means to replenish it. At last one day
I counted it over and found that I had
just enough to
GET BACK HOME
on. I had grown desperate, and at last
made up my mind that I had as soon be
shot in Georgia as starve to death in
Mexico. The next day I left the city
where I had suffered so much agony of
mind, and never want to look upon it
again, ln the meantime a cool determi
nation had come over me to
BET MYSELF BIGHT
with my people, and I knew that Brown,
of the Enquirer, was the only man that
could do it. 1 went at once to Cincin
nati, and hunted him up. Brown at first
treated my troubles as a hugejoke, but I
isisted that he must vindicate me by pub
lishing to the world the names of the par
ties who gave him the information. I
first appealed and then threatened; but
he appeared in an excellent humor, and
refused to take affront Brown insisted
that I go home with him and take tea
I accepted, and found him living in a
beautiful house, surrounded by a charm
ing family of a wife and two children.
They were exceedingly kind to me, and
that night
BUOWS TOOX ME AROUND TOWN
and introduced me as his Georgia friend.
I found Brown very popular, and 1 was
made quite a hero of. When we parted
he told me to come around to the En
quirer office next morning, and I should
have a place as local reporter on the pa
per, and he would see that 1 was trou
bled no more about that Macon matter.
UU A DROWNING MAN,
I eagerly caught at the proposition to re-
COULDX’T COXCEAL IT.
unable to find work here Went to
Canada, where he took charge ot a
squad of laborers on new railroad
works. Hetty, the young wife, re
mained in the valley working for
the subsistence of herself and child,
assisted by the small remittances
which her husband was able to send
her. Eaily in the fall these ceased
and soon alter she received a letter
from Montreal informing her that
her husband was dead. Yesterday
she determined to seek forgiveness
of her father, and ask him to at
least let her work as a servant in
the home of her childhood. In spite
of her tears and those of a younger
sister she was spurned ftom the
door, and wandered aimlessly down
the country road bearing her child
in her aims and with a blinding
wind drifting the loose fallen snow
about her. Two miles from her
father’s house and a mile Irom the
nearest neighbor she fell exhausted,
and there she lay all night. She
had tried to save the babe by wrap
ping it in her thin ‘woolen shawl,
but it, too, had succumbed to the
cold, and side by side they were
found this morning, cold and stiff
in death. The verdict of the coro
ner’s jury was death from exposure.
The execrations of all are showered
on old Klinger, whose cruelty re
sulted so sadly and fatally.
THE GEORGIA MIDLAND.
The Bride Tries Not to Appear Brldllh But
Fails.
“Now remember, Charley, we are
to do nothing bridal,” said a some
what elderly bride to her husband,
as they boarded a train. “I should
die of mortification if I should be
taken for a bride. Te, he!”
“All right,” said Charley I’ll be
careful.”
Later on Charley -wanted to smoke
and entered the smoking car lor that
p urpose.
in the seat i. nmedistely back
of the conple sat ait inquisitive old
lady.
“Going far?” sho inqnired. tick
ling the bride’s ear with her breath
“To Montreal. T'e, he?” simpered
the bride.
“Travilin’ for pie isure.”
“Yes. Te, he!”
“Leave the children at home?”
“What’s that?” demanded the
bride.
‘•Didn’t you bring the children?”
“We have no children, ma’am.”
“No children!” repeated the old
lady, compassionately, “P’r’aps
they are dead?”
“Er—we’ve never had—er—any
children,” the bride answered, be
ginning to get a little mad.
“Never had no children? I’ve had
seven’ an’ tney’re all growed up an’
married. Children is a great
comfort when they’re well brought
up. But some people is unfortinite
’Ixjut havin’ childre n. There’s my
sister Jane A nn for instance, she’s
been married at lomj as you or me,
an’ she ain’t never isad no children
Tba ^Commissioners of Commons Grant
Ground (or the Depot and Shops.
The commissioners ot commons
held % meeting yesterday evening
for the purpose of considering the
application of the directors of the
Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad
for commons lots for depot and shop
purposes. The resolution passed
recommending the granting of cer
tain lots was read. After a
statement by Captain W. A.
Little, and considerable dis
cussion by members of the
board, Capt. C. A. Reed moved
that the company be granted parts
of lots No. 45, 56, 51 and 52, and
parts of lots No. 53 and 54, includ
ing parts ol two streets. The reso
lution was unanimously adopted.
The company asked tor several oth-
lots, but it was thought by the
commissioners that the above nam
ed would be amply sufficient for
the uses of the road, as they con
tain about twenty-five acres. The
lots granted are situetad just north
of the old cemetery.—Columbus
Enquirer Sun.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF ANOLDLADY.
DEATH OF A FF.0NINENT MAN.
Mr. Albert Henley received a dispatch
yesterday from Mr. W. S. Edwards, of
Harmony Glove, stating that his Uncle,
Dan Hush, had dropped dead. Mr. Hush
was a prominent man in Hanks county.
He has a great many relatives in Athens
who deeply sympathise with his family.
Mr. Dan Hush was a good soldier dur
ing the war, and served his county faith
fully. Receiving a severe wound he re
turned to his home in Hanks county,
where he engaged in farming, and mar
ried Miss Ida Jarrett, of Habersham. He
leaves a kind and affectionate wife and
two children to mourn his loss.
home in Bueavoir, Miss., a sheet
■headed “A Summary,” containing
the following paragraph: “Benedict
Arnold, the first traitor to American
Liberty, learned his patriotism in
Hiram Masonic Lodge, No. 1. New
Haven, Conn., and died a Fremason
in good and regular standing. Aaron
Burr, another traitor to the Govern
ment, plotted his treason jn Roval
Arch Chapter, and also died a Free
and Accepted Mason, in good and
regular standing. Jefferson Davis
a Free and Accepted Mason, led
the great rebellion,and in fact did not
even taint his Masonic standing, but
did have much to do in securing his
pardon.”
Mr. Davis inclosed the sheet to
his friend, Col. J. L. Power, ol
Jackson,Miss., secetary of the Grand
Lodge of Mississippi Masons, with
the following letter:
Dear Sir: 1 have received, with
others of a similar character, the
inclosed sheet, having a paragraph
underlined to secure my attention,
I send it to you to attract your no
tice. Under the head of * Summary”
is a concentrated distillation of
malice and mendacy. The main at
tack seems to be against the tater-
nity of Free and Accepted Mason
and, as many slanderers have here
tofore done, the writer avails himself
of a sectional prejudice
isting against me to point his attack
against Freemasonry, and in less
than the three underscored lines
soonas perpetrates at least as many false
hoods. First, I. Jefferson Davis,
am not, and never have been a Free
and Accepted Mason; second, as a
citizen of the Sovereign State of
Missisippi, I obeyed her command,
and as soverigns cannot “rebel,”
neither led or followed a rebellion,
great nor small; third, as I had no
Masonic standing, the assertion that
it was not tainted by the imputed
act of mine rests not upon a fact,but
upon a misrepresentation: Fourth,
Masonry could not have had “much
to do with my pardon,” as I have
never been pardoned nor applied
for a pardon oi appealed to Mason
ry to secure lor me the benefit of
the writ of habuas corpus that I
might have the constitutional right
ot every American citizen to be con
fronted by my accusers. To exclude
possible inference, I will add that
my father was a Mason, and I was
reared to regard the faternity with
respect, and have never felt any
disapproval of it other than that
which pertains to every secret soci
ety. Viewing Freemasonry from a
distance, and judging the tree by its
fruit, I have believed it to be in
itself good. Respectfully and truly
yours, Jefferson Davis.
Five men in a skiff’were drown
ed at Memphis.
Reil’s men contemplate an up
rising in the spring.
A. F. Pickert, an Atlanta jew eler,
has assigned.
VV.B. Williams, a cotton factor in
Charleston, S- C., fell dead.
Fulton county has paid the last
cent she owes.
A dispatch from Athens says the
war fever in Greece is virulent.
The trains in the North and West
NEW CITIZENS.
Mr. Stephen Upson anil family, of Lex
ington, are now moving to Athens and
will occupy thu Mitchell property on
l’rince avenue, purchased by that gen
tleman. Mr. Upson is a retired capital
ist, owning a great deal of property in
New York, and is a most intelligent and
accomplished gentleman. This family
is quite un addition to our population, and
we hid them a hearty welcome to the
Classic City.
IVALTON COUNTY.
^ATHENS PROPERTY ADVANCING.
Mr. H. X. Taylor has sold his beauti
ful house and lot on Prince Avenue to E.
K. Lumpkin, Esq., for $G,500, and Mr.
Taylor and family now occupy the house
belonging to Mr. Bob Taylor, near Laf-
ferty’s. This is a valuable piece of prop
erty, but Mr. T. about doubled his money
in less than two years. This shows that
Athens dirt is on aconstant rise.
paralysed and Unable toSpeak Sbe Is Slow
ly Burned Alive.
New Orleans, Jan. 11. 1885—
Mrs |. P. Keller, mother of Judge
Keller, of the Fourth Recorder's
Court, was burned to death to-day
while sitting alone ia her room. She
was an invalid, sixty eight years of
age, paralyzed in the left side and
unable to talk, tshe was stirring
the coal fire in the grate, when the
basket tell out and the fire ignited
her dress on the right side. The
A FRIGHTENED CITIZEN.
Friday night, while the wind was blow
ing a perfect hurricane, it lifted the spark-
catcher from the stove pipe on Mr.
Lowe’s residence, and the noise that the
tin made rattling over his roof led him
for awhile to believe that one story of
his house had been carried off by the
storm.
extinguish the fire, and being unable
spfak could not call for help. She
was found in the room with her
lower limb* almost entirely consu
med, but still alive. The chair in
which she had sat had been burned
under her, and the aged lady was
lying on the floor, when the smell of
burning fleah attracted the attention
of people in the bouse. Notwith
standing her age and the terrible
nature of her injuries, 6he lived sev
en hours after the accident.
THE GAINESVILLE HATCH CO. FAILS.
The Georgia Match Company, of
Gainesville, has failed. It went into
the hands ol F. M. Johnson, Esq.
The hands were told that Johnson
would settle with them, and that
they were preferred creditors. The
company owed a considerable num
ber of small bills among merchants,
all ot whom have been trying to as
sist in carrying it on.
The Diamond Match company,
the officers say, put the prices of
matches so low as to cause them to
run af a loss, in order to freeze them
out, that it might continue its mo
nopoly. They say it has done every
other rival the same way.
In June last, at Eldora, Hardin
county, la., two young men were
lynched on the charge of attempted
assassination. Two othera escaped,
and much exasperated were the
lynchers that they did. Last
month the grand jury considered
their cases and tailed to find a par
ticle of evidence against them, and
concluded that there was none
against the two who had died at
the hands oi the lynchers.
Just here the husband returned
from the smoking car, as-he took his
seat, the bride laid her head convul
sively 00 his his shoulder and whis
pered.
“I guess it’s no use. Charley; I’m
sure everybody will take us for a
bridal couple, no mattr what we do.”
And during the rest of their wedding
jomaey the bride took precions care
that everybody did.—Drake’s Trav.
elers* Magazine. '
DtitholCov. Conlty.
Governor Benjamin Conley is
dead! His death occurred Sunday
morning at halt-past eight o’clock,
at his home in West End, and was
quite sudden and unexpected,
thovgh he has been in feeble health
fosseveral months.
A newspaper paragraph says
that a Harvard student has an in
surance ot twenty thousand collars
on the furniture of his rooms.
Miss Margaret Mendenhall,
young -thing of seventy-three sum
mers, La* just eloped with a farm
band qf hers ip Indiana.
TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
Mr. R. S. Cheney, the depot Agent at
Harmony Grove has learned to telegraph
and can send a message nearly as good as
a fust-class operator. It is something
wonderful for a man of his age to learn
flames quicklj enxelopeJ her I He attends to the business at the depot,
eon. Her left arm being useless she | A . „
was unable to make even an effort to “ * “ " ”
A Good Remedy.
Merchant Trarelor.
Hostetter McGinnis met Dr Per
kins Sponover a few days ago on
Austin avenue.
I am much obliged to you doc
tor for that tonic you gave me,” said
Hostetter, taking the learned physi
cian warmly by- the hand.
“So it helped you, did it?"
“Helped me? Well I should say
it did. I never had anything brace
me up as that tonic did.”
“How many bottles did you
take?’' , (j; “ ,
“I didn’t take any myself. Catch
me patting tuch staff down my
throat. When I want to commit
taicide I’ll go at it in a different
way.”
“But I thought you said you
experienced beneficial effects from
it,"
_ “So I did. I gave the stuff to my
rich.uncle, who had just made his
will in my favor, and now he is no
more. One bottle of your tonic
knocked him cold.”
St. Louis, January 11.—Quite a
sensation was produced last night
when the coroner announced that
Rev. H. D. Jardine, a Protestant
Episcopal minister, who was some
weeks ago convicted before the
ecclesiastical coup of, Kansas City,
bad committed suicide here vester-
day.
and receives and sends all the messages
at Harmony Grove.
Drying Dp—A Negro Convention—A Good
Showing—The Circus Sale—A Correc
tion.
[Monroe News.]
Buncombe district has gone dry.
We understand the colored peo
ple will hold another convention in
Monroe on the 14th and 15th of this
month to discuss the colonization
measure.
As a showing for the first month
under dry administration the town
council has had $uS added to its
treasury—$76 for fines and $42 for
granted licenses to a circus and soap
dealer.
In speaking of the sale ot the cir
cus, the News says: The band wag
on was bought by Mr. C. G. Nowell
with two sets of the harness. The
cornet band will he fortunate in
getting it. The whole sale footed
up $5,400 and the sale of the horses
with that of the animals leaves about
810,000 for the attorneys of the
mortgages and laborers to struggle
for in the courts.
High Shoai.s, GA.,Jan.7, ’S7.—
Editor Walton News: Al
low me space in your paper to cor
rect a false statement made by your
correspondent from this place in re
gard to the death of my father.
His death was not caused from
taking too much alcohol, neither
did he drop dead, as your corres
pondent stated. But he was ill sev
eral hours before he died. He died
of poison caused by taking, we
suppose, about two ounces of a
fluid called Wood Alcohol, not be
lieving it to be poison.
I will make no further correc
tions, as Ithink these are sufficient.
But I hope Miss “Msenie Douglas”
will make no more such reports
about our family. My father has
been a citizen of this county about
fifteen years, and is well known by
a majority of its people.
Very Respectfully,
II. A. Starr.
Son of W. S. Starr, the deceased.
are again running.
Parnell’s position is said to be
perillous.
The Pennsylvania coal mines
complain of a scarcity of labor.
The cold spell is general through
out this country and England.
It is feared that a big tug near
Boston, with 40 men, has been
lost.
The committee on territories will
report in favor of admitting Dakota
as a state.
The thermometer throughout Da
kota is from 20 to 40 degrees be
low zero.
Kennard & Brown’s goods, at
Newnan, were badly damaged by
fire.
The volcano of Colima, in Mex
ico, is belching lava to the distance
two miles.
The powers demand that Greece,
Servia and Bulgaria demobilize
their armies.
Florida is transformed into a re
gion of icicles, and the orange crop
ex ‘ is seriously injured.
The Ways and Means committee
is said to have been organized in
the interest of tariff reform.
A negro postmaster in South Car
olina has been convicted of stealing
from the government.
The Presbyterian church, erected
in Covington, Ky., three years ago,
at a dost ef $25,060, was burned.
Mrs. Gibson, wife of Judge Wil
liam Gibson, formerly a resident of
this place, died to-day in Augusta.
A destructive fire visited Aiken,
S. C., burning down several stores.
Augusta was telegraphed for aid
to subdue the flames.
The Macon merchants have boy
cotted the E.T„ Va. &Ga. railroad,
because it made them pay freight
charges before delivery of goods.
Obelin, O., had a $75,000 fire; a
five-story building burned in Cin
cinnati; two merbhants were burn
ed with their store at Louisville,
Ky.
During a blinding snow storm,
there was a frightful collision be
tween two trains at Wilmington,
Del. Three persons were killed
and several wounded. Thare was
a fatal collision on the B. & O.
road.
Near Union City, Tenn., a house
caught on fire and two women were
burned to death. The lives of the
entire family are endangered lrom
burned or injuries received bv being
thrown from a second story window
on.th^snow.- - —- •
At the Munster assizes, Ireiand.
heavy sentences, ranging from six
to ten years imprisonment, were
passed upon a number of persons
convicted of moonlighting, attempt
ing to murder policemen, and
wounding and shooting at other
persons.
A Braddock, Pa., special says the
Edgar Thompson steel works closed
down all ot its departments this
evening because the men refused to
handle hot metal made by the new
hands who took the place of the
striking furnace men.
Columbia, S. C., January 9.—
The thirty-three citizens of Edge-
field county indicted for the lynch
ing of O. T. Culbreath, are still out
on bail. The court meets in that
county next month, when the case
will be called again. The attorney
general ot State declares his inten
tion of prosecuting the prisoners to
the end.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 12.—Post-
office Inspector Whitesides, who a
few days ago arrested Joseph N.
Rivers, the colored postm aster at
Ladies’ Island, S. C., reached At
lanta to-night. He says that an in
vestigation of the charges against
Rivers shows that the office pays
but one dollar and fifty cents annu
ally, and that the postmaster has
gotten away with three thousand
dollars in money orders and postage
stamps.
Nine ; firms will sell whisky in
Dpwso.i this year. ; : ; ,
Covirtgtoii has received ' (6,000
bales of Cotton (bis season.
A? negro was •fajtb'wjjd the
shoulder by‘a colored girl,' in Cov
ington.
The State Agricultural conven-
on will meet at Columbus, Febru
ary 9th.
The W. D. Chiplev, which sank
in the Chattahoochee, had cleared
Over $3,000 this season.
The number of whisky licenses in
Rome is reduced from sixteen in
iSS4and fourteen in iSS5to twelve
at present.
Another steamer has been pur
chased to take tlie place of the
wrecked Chipley on the Chattahoo
chee river.
An election on the local option
question will most certainly come
off in Newton county before very
long.
The Lincolnton News is in
formed that the Savannah river has
been higher than for twelve or fif
teen years.
Talbotton, Ga., January 9.—The
municipal election held to-day re
sulted in a complete victory for the
prohibitionists.
Geneva, January 9.—Last night
the town council raised the liquor
license to $3,000. This makes
Geneva a dry town.
The merchants of Elberton have
agreed “not to open an account with
any one, without any exception, or
sell any goods on time to any one
before the 1st day of February.
Henry Morrison, a negro, went
out hunting in Elbert covnty a few
days ago. In jumping over a gully
his gun was discharged, killing him
instantly.
A negro man was out hunting
near Lincolnton the other day, and
his dog, in playing about him,
struck the trigger of his gun with
his paw, discharging the weapon.
The man's shoulder was shattered
Atlanta, January 9—The anti-
prohibition lawyers have filed a bill
of exceptions to Judge Clark’s rule
in the application for mandamus to
compel Ordinary Calhoun to hear
contest. The case will be argued
before the Supreme Court.
In Warren county. last Saturday,
Mr. Hardy Norris was cutting down
a large sweet gvm tree in his yard
which falling unexpectedly and in
an opposite direction from that in
tended, came down on one of his
little children which was playing in
the yard, and inflicted injuries from
which the little fellow died in a few
hours.
Rev. A. M. Williams related to
us the other pay a good one on
Prof. Bechter. The professor was
having his coat repaired at Rum-
ney’s, and being very anxious to
get it had gone for it several times
before the work was done. The
last time he went he Was Asked to
be seated, as the coat was finished
except pressing, and as the “gaose”
was rhen at the fire he could get it
in a few moments. The musical
professor, not getting exactly at the
different 'hades of meaning to be
given to the word “goose,” backed
out of the shop, bowing his thanks
and expressing his extreme regret
that it was impossible for him to
remain to dinner.—Dalton Journal.
In Dooly county, a few nights
ago, two men went to the eabin of
William Kersc, colored, after he
and his wife had retired, and called
Keise two or three times, saying
that some one wanted to see him.
When lie was about half way be
tween the bed and the door a pistol
was thrust through a crack in the
door and he was fired upon, the
ball striking him above the navel
and lodging in the abdomen. Alter
being shot he went to the lied
where his wife vas and told her
that he was going to die. She im
mediately sent for the doctor, who
rendered the unfortunate man all
the medical aid in his power, hut it
was of no avail, as he died. No ar
rests had be t en made at last ac
counts.
GENERAL NEWS.
SHOT HIMSELF.
Mr. T. J. Overton, of near Sharon, Takes Hie
Own Life hr Blowing out Hie Bralne.
DEATH OF JUDGE POTTLE.
The Nebraska Sleeping Beauty Awakens.
Columbus, Nkb., January 12.—
News has just reached here from
the farm house several miles north
that Minnie Disher, the Nebraska
sleeping beauty, recovered con
sciousness Sunday, January 3d, the
70th day of her hystero cataleptic
trance sleep.
The roads have been impassable
until the present time, aud news of
her recovery could not be received
before. The girl fell into a trance,
from which she has now revived,
October 36th last. During the long
interval she has lain to all appear
ances a lifeless being, with the ex
ception of respiration .and pulsation.
When Miss Disher awoke her
mind was apparently clear and un
impaired, her appetite and general
feelings good, but her arms and
legs were paralized.
She says she was conscious du
ring the whole time of her protrac
ted trance, but though she exerted
her utmost power to evince her
consciousness, she could not move
a single muscle. She says the had
no physical pain until the 40th day
of her sleep when the electric bat
ter* was applied.
Since then she has suffered thou
sand agonies of body, and at times
it seemed as if her reason would
give way under the strain, and she
now complains of terrible physical
sufferings in consequence of the
•hock to her system. The doctor
in attendance, say. however, that
she will recover in a short time, and
will also regain the full use of her
limbs.
*
HANCOCK GOES DRY.
All the bar-rooms in Hancock
county, closed their , doors on pew
year, but had sold oqt all their stock
of liquor before doing so.
His Remains Brought Back from Florida for
Interment.
Warrenton, Ga., Jan ti. News
was received here to-day of the
death of Judge E. H. Pottle, in Mic-
anopy, Florida whither he had gone
several months ago for his health.
Judge Pottle served as Judge of this
circut for eight vears. He was mar
ried about a year ago to a Macon
lady. His remains will reach here
tonight to be buried tomorrow with
Masonic ceremonies.
Jndge Pottle was graduated from
the same class with Linton Stephens
the University of Georgia in 1836 in
Gen. L. T. Gartrell, Rev. J. L. M.
Curry and others who afterward
acheived honorable distinction in
the various fields of labor and life.
His mind was clear and logical and
he was practical and expeditious
rather than ornate and studious
Judge Pottle was nearly 70 years
old.
EXCURSIONISTS COMING.
Mr. W. D. Griffeth, the enterpris
ing real estate agent, has invited a
number of Pennsylvania farmers to
visit Athens the first week in Feb
ruary. These farmers are all men
ol wealth, and will visit this section
for the purpose of investing in
lands. All those who have lands to
aell shouid put it in the hands of
the real estate, agents so that this
party of excursionists can have a
chance to see it.
Mr. T. J. Overton lived near
Sharon, inAhis county, and had been
prospering and enjoying life with
his neighbors, relatives and friends
for a number of years. He was
peaciable, quiet and kind hearted.
Everybody thought well of him
who knew him, and his enemies
were tew.
We are told that he had been
drinking a little during the holidays,
and his supply having exhausted
he sent bis little son to Raytown,
lastTuesday.a distance of three miles
(or some more whiskey. The boy
went,got the fatal article, and on his
way home took a drink, and reached
home considerably intoxicated. This
mortified the father to the greatest
depth of his heart. His remorseful
altitude was not perceptible to his
wife, who accused him of his
wrong in the following words: “You
were the whole cause of this trou
ble.” This struck the poor man with
such a blow that he quietly turned
towards the bureau in corner of the
room, saying, “Yes; I’m the cause
of it.” He quickly drew from the
bureau drawer a loaded revolver,
and placing the muzzle about his
head pulled the trigger. The first
shot failed to reach its desired mark,
and he fired the second time, which
was fatal. The ball penetrated his
brain and he died the following
night. He leaves a widow and nine
children. The bereaved family have
our heartfelt sympathies.—Craw-
tordville Democrat.
* The Andre Monumont.
Tappan, N. Y., Jan 11, 1SS6.—
The fence surrouhd'ing the Andre
monument, which was damaged by
the recent explosion, was takan
down today and shipped to the
Composite Iron Works to be re
paired.' Mr. Field will soon re
place the stone in proper shape.
John Kelly. so the'eurrent rumors
run, is now tailing rapidly in health.
The Arlington Changes Hands.
Gainesville, Ga., January 9.
Mr. Wink Taylor has bought the
lease of J. H. Clarke on the Arling
ton hotel, and will assume control
to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, being an
old traveling man. has hundreds of
ireinds in Georgia and elswhere,
who wili he glad to know that he
has the Arlington, and will give
him liberal patronage. He is sure
therefore, to succeed.
KtUvi W .3
Election In Lexlngolon.
Lexington, Ga., January 9.
The election was very quiet and on
ly one ticket voted for. Mr. E. J.
Reynolds was elected mayor and
Messes, George W. Smith. Georgia
W. Brooks, George C. Smith, Wil-
liem Stewart and W. B. Lester
were elected councilcnen,
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Ex-President Arthur’s income is
said to be about $20,000 a year.
Wolf tracks were discovered'on
the streets of Chicago the ether
morning.
Oysters ten inches long are re
ported by J. W. Potts as existing in
New Guinea.
Prince Bismark is the first protes-
tent that has ever received the dec
oration or the Order of Christ. The
badge is worth £600.
An effort will be made in the
Washington Territorial Legislature,
now in session, to repeal the Wo
man Suffrage law.
Dr. Edward Warren writes from
Paris to the Baltimore Sun that M.
Pasteur will treat all bitten Ameri
cans without charge.
A witness, who was being exam
ined in a divorce case-at Laurens,
Ga., was asked to tell the maiden
name of his wife, but was unable to
do so.
A Texas man living near Dallas,
lately sold a lot ol cotton and disap
peared, His wife ofiers five hun
dred dollars reward for his produc
tion, “dead or alive.”
At a charity fair in Berlin the
Crown Princess of Germany has
been selling sausages at thirty-five
dollars apiece and sponge cake at
one dollar a slice.
Kate Chase Sprague, who is now
living in Paris, is educating her
eldest daughter lor the stage. The
young lady is said to inherit her
mother’s grace and beauty.
Mrs. Grant’s name will soon' be
put on the pension roll for $5,000
per annum, making the fourth Pres
ident's widow on the list—Mis. Ty
ler, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Garfield, and
Mrs. Grant.
London has it that pretty Miss
Fortescue, the actress, is to be mar
ried, after all, to Lord Garmoyle.
The bleach of promise trouble, in
which Miss Fortescue recovered
$50,000 damages, appears to he for
gotten.
The Knights of Labor, it has
been shown upon the trial of six
dynamitets who blew up the street
car tracks in Chicago last October,
not only expelled these men by the
entire branch to which they be
longed, but that promptly.
A resident of Greenpoin’, Long
Island, whose wife died on Satur
day, went to a clergyman on Sun
day night with another woman to
be married. When the minister
learned the circumsrances he re
fused to perform the ceremony.
During the siege ot Paris dogs
were genetally devoured. A story
is told of a Parisian lady ol fashion
who having eaten her lap-dog,
looked sorrowfully at the pile of
bones by her plAte, and said with
tears in her eye*: “Poor Fido; if he
were alive how much he would en
joy them.”
Lulu Hicks, a female hermit of
01ean, N. Y., died suddenly some
time ago. Last week the old cabin
in which she lived wa* torn down,
and $45,000 in bouJs and currency
is said to have been found under the
pallet on which she slept.
Hannibal, Mo., Jan. 7.—Lottie
Griffin, a colored woman, who said
she was over jao years of age, died
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yesterday. She has a daughter
here over So years of age.