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.UR ATLANTA BETTER.
now THE BOYCOTT 0 F THE CON
STITUTION ' WORKS.
• citwiy D«flne<l W ^ opened Between
uter end Capita? counter Boycott
6y tte Buelnea# Men—The Printers’
{Ttios Oalnlnf Or 0 und, But the Constitu
te nrs-W" of the Merchants Be*-
^theluue- .bow Boycottlnf is Con-
eocted-Anls terestlns Letter.
2$P*!al Oormr ^ndence Benner* Watch men.1
^tlista, G»., Jan. 16.—Editor Ban-
#tr .\Vitchr jan: Being an old tjpo and
arien priu* .er yourself, I will give you
^fcirdot' , relative to the “boycott” of
(tt Couf titution by the Printers’ Union
of this c ity, end which has been taken up
br »11 the other lodges of K. of L., under
ti«* c ,axim that
1NJI HV TO ONE IS THE CONCERN OF
ALL.”
I am neither a printer nor a K. of L.,
an<l thus occupying a disinterested stand-
point, can, I think, give an impartial re-
TieW uf the situation. When the an-
aounceinent was first made that
thk constitution was boycotted
Kr one of the weakest trades unions in
lh«* city, a broad smile o’erspread At
lanta s face, and the merchants, to show
their contempt for this new mode of war
fare, doubled their advertising patronage
the next Sunday. But the thing has
irj-t growing, until what is claimed to be
y.liiUT THOUSAND LABORING MEN*
ta Atlanta have espoused the cause of
;h«- printers, and not only refuse to buy
yr read the Constitution, but won't buy
i dime's worth of goods of any merchant
or tradesman that advertises therein. 1
never saw such zeal and energy mani-
ft-xted. Men, women and even children
c „ f r om store to store that patronizes
thi' paper and inform the proprietors
that unless tin y
t.wk ikU ir. I AltDs "I’T OF THK COXSTITU-
tliat tl,
not buy of them. At first
merchant* treated their demands as
»I, or informed the parties that they
it. d no outside advice about manag-
their business. Some went so far as
isult the>e delegate*, and order them
n their Mores. But the
i d their trade falling otf sure enough,
ae merchants got frightened, and
;row more polite, explaining that the
iaru'e circulation of the Coiisiitution forc
ed them to patronize it. lint this did no
satisfy the K. of L. Asa sort of sooth
ing syrup, the ollending <h alers tilled th
columns of the Working World with
their cards, many of them containin'*
»orts of soft-soldering words to the la
boring classes. Even your old towns
man, doe Jacobs, claimed to be a life-
long friend to the poor. But the editor
of tiie W. W. stated that
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NO. XVI
YE EDITOR'S COLD.
Kind frienda, please lend your ca/.twhilftr
Our troublea we’ll unfold,
And tell the trials we've gone through
While sufring with & cold.
For six long weeks in room we’ve staid,
With doors and windows tight,
And wheez’d, and sneez’d, and cough’d
and ach’d,
At morn and noon and night.
Of drugs we’ve taken full enough
To float a man of war—
Barks, roots and liquids, powders vile.
And even pitch and tar.
And plasters, too, and liver pads,
E'en then it didn’t stop,
Until our stomach seemed to us
A ’pothecarry’s shop.
They poured down whisky, rum and gin—
Enough to load a car—
Until we thought we’d have to take
Out license for a bar.
Each friend who’d call had on his mind
Some remedy—a cure.
T would knock the spots out a bad cold—
Of this he felt quite sure.
First Charlie Baldwin—kind, fat soul.
In sickness he’s quite handy,
lie felt our pulse and then prescribed
Kye whisky and rock candy.
Next came Bud Cox, our drummer frieud,
Who always looks forlorn.
Bud said the only* cure he knew
Was old Stone Mountain corn.
Then Uncle Ike, who by the way,
Once medicine did read.
“Just take a pinch of salt,’’ said he,
“Of cold you'll soon he freed.
“A quart I'll send of old Gum Sfving—
A cure for every ill.
It is the finest liquor that
E’er bubbled from a still.”
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
TALK WITH A LEADFR IX THE OR
DER.
BURNED ALIVE.
A HORRIBLE STORY RECALLED.
Dock Dorsey he had.suffered oft
From just such colds himself.
Sweetguin ami Mullin is the thing
To lay it on the shelf.
ilrts,
i.:f with
•hair, or his paper with ad-
irrtKements; that they had to quit pat-
7*iii*mg the Constitution. The Printer’s
1 toon published a list of every advertis-
tr in that paper, and staled that they, as
w»ll as the Constitution, were boycotted.
The union men won't patronize a baker,
a barber, or any other person that sub
scribes furor advertises in the Constitu-
tit'.ition. The contest is hot and still
a-heating. That
this boycott is having some effect
on the patronage of the Constitution any
one has but to glance at the advertising
columns of that paper to see. Whether
’.twill force the proprietors to terms, we
cannot say, as they are very determined
l have plenty of money to keep the
paper alloat if they did not get one dollar
Atlanta. But no man likes to
' his
BUSINESS DWINDLE AWAY,
will generally reconsider before it is
late. While our people do not en-
»•» such arbitrary measures as boy-
nng, at the same time many of them
nk that the Constitution should ac-
«• to the demands of the Printer’s
’Mon, as there is no class of men who
* TK harder than the compositors on a
burning paper. When every one else is
tdeep or enjoying himself around the
family fireside these poor fellows, often
w th aching brow, are
BURNING THK MIDNIGHT OIL.
The Constitution is making a great deal
<»f money, ami should not object to pay
ing its printers full value for their ser-
rices. So One has any respect for v
printer or any other man who will go
back on his craft, to. secure an undue ad
vantage over a fellow-workman. But there
*lly and secretly at work in At-
And Snodgrass, from the Texas
He, too, would have his say.
Compound Cathartic Pills, he thought.
Would drive the cold away.
And Colonel Thurmond, grand old man.
Our cold did much deplore.
He knew just how to tackle it—
Would guarantee a cure.
Sweetguin and Mullin we must take.
White sugar, crushed quite fine.
Mixed well with gum arabic, too—
A spoonful at a time.
And e’en the ladies, bless their souls.
Some remedy would send—
Spices, gingers, red-hot teas,
And dainties without end.
We could fill columns with such cures,
Each friend has something that
He knows is good—had tried it oft.
*Twould make us w ell and fat.
We tried ’em all—we slighted none.—
Our faith a mountain like.
We filled our maw with vile compounds
Until it made a strike.
Our spine we poulticed—smiled our
throat;
Our chest we blistered sore.
Until a walking hospital
We were—and nothing more.
But still that cold holds a firm grip—
It strengthens day by day.
And* like Pat Walsh, it threatens now,
Until the spring to stay'.
We thank our friends, both one and all.
For their prescriptions kind,
But think we’ll try a freeze-out game—
See if relief we'll find.
We’ll throw all physic to the dogs—
We’ll only drink pure air,
For we are not prepared as yet
“To climb the golden stair.”
HABERSHAM NEWS.
Rev. M. S. Williams, so well and fa
vorably known in this county, has located
in Klberton.
They Will Establish an Organ in Athena and
Capture Every City and County Office-
Candidate Wood Slightly Disfigured, But
Still in the Bing—Country Lodges Will
Be Organized.
A Banner-Watchman reporter tackled
a leader in the Knights of Labor, yester
day, and asked him how the Athens
lodge was progressing?
“We are adding new members at eve
ry meeting,” was the reply, “and by next
fall, when the city and county elections
come off, we will be in a position to
name our own ticket. We don’t intend,
either, to be any ways modest, but will
make a clean sweep of the old county
and municipal officers, and put our own
friends in position: Judge AsaM. Jack-
son is the first man we will knife.”
“But Judge Jackson’s time do**’? ex
pire for three year’s yet,” the reporter
suggested.
“Is thet so?” asked the K. of L., with
a blank face. “Well, we must bide our
time; but there are others who fought us
in the late city election who must walk
the plank. We are now making arrange
ments to establish an organ of our own
in Athens, and will make it red-hot for
our enemies. We intend to organize
lodges in every district in Clarke county,
and get as members all the darkeys and
farmers. We know what we are about,
and don’t you forget it.”
“Is ex-Candidate Wood out otpoli
tics?” was asked.
“Bill Wood is the livest corpse in Ath
ens. He was only slightly swinged last
November, but will carry all before him
next time. He is going to be Mayor of
Athens just as certain as the sun rises in
the cast and sets in the west. Paste that
in your hat. You have no idea of the
fresh strength of the Knights of Labor.
We are going to whip the Atlanta Con
stitution into terms, and it will give our
order a boom that nothing can stay. It
is the strongest monopoly in Georgia,
but will have to succumb. We are do
ing a little boycotting in Athens, on *a
small scale, but the 1C. of L. ain't well
heated upas yet. We are gaining in
strength every day, and will soon be in a
positio n to dictate our own terms and
officers. Did you see the last Working
World? It shows what we are doing.
You will also see in it that the K. of L.
in Athens intend to appear bi-fore the
next grand jury and demand the indict
ment of e very man who bought a vote in
the late municipal electiou. We have
the names. Money is the enemy that
we have to fight, whether it is used for
our oppres. lion or to rob us of our rights.”
HOUSE BURNED IN OGLETHORPE.
On the morning of January 19th Rob
ert A. Smit’n, nephew'of Senator James
M. Smith, bad the misfortune to lose his
i dwelling and a portion of his furniture
I by fire. W ben first seen by Major
Thomas Totten, who had about finished
painting the hou so, the fire was burning
rapidly in the poof around the stove
chimney. This was between 3 and 4
o’clock. It vraj; impossible to araest the
flames. A pi »rt ion of the furniture and
clothing of the family were saved. The
fire doubtless caught from the stove.
The house ha* 1 ri-cently been newly cov
ered, painted insi de and out, and greatly
improved. The loss is about $2,500.
This loss is very much regretted by the
many friends, of Mr. Smith. He had re
cently married and started life under
very flattering pro spects.
••BOYCOTT1I ?CT IN ATHENS.
From an inferei ice in the Working
World, organ of thi ; K. of L., we are lead
to believe that the goods made at the
Athens factory are being boycotted in
the North. Such a step can only result
in serious injury to the operatives, and
give them less worl;. Mr. Bloomfield
tells us that his fact« >ry is not making a
cent now, and h e is only running it to
lu.U
Mr. Hiuldock, at Toccoa falls, one of give his hands e mp l 0 ,y m ent; but if there
the oldest men in this county, says he has
zperienced colder weather since
A CorSTKK BOYCOTT,
that is growing in strength daily. The
manufacturers and business men of that
city have handed together and, without
threats or words, are discharging from
lionr employ, or refusing to give work to,
in who belongs to a tabor union.
llCSDBKDS HAVE Tilt's LATELY BEES SHIP
PED,
and men imported to take their places.
These parties also wiil not patronize any
house that withdraws its advertisement
from the Constitution at the demaud of
Knights of Lalior. They have plen
ty of money, and of course their pressure
will be felt, too. They are workiag so
ipiietly that 1 do not think the labor
unions have as yet dropped on the little
game. So you will sec that
HIE EIIIHT BETWEEN LA Hurt ASI> CAPITAL
hi- fairly opened in Georgia. The latter
are of the opinion that while they may
do m the North, the K. of L. will soon
fall to pieces in the South. It is a very
unfortunate state of affairs for our city,
and will doubtless spread to other points,
hut will not be felt in the country or as
imall places as Athens, where your peo
ple mostly deal with farmers.
THE CLASSIC CITY IS PEIIPECTLY SATE,
hut 1 cannot say as much for Atlanta,
tins boycott against the Constitution is
successful, it will encourage other ti
tempts, and 1 am fearful that we will see
“amt's TROUBLE THE COllISO SUMMER.
1 he prohibition election stirred up a
great deal of bad blood here, and the in
troduction of boycotting only keeps alive
t-* flame. Atlanta is to-day in a critical
condition, and her future is trembling in
the balance. Will write you again.
Gate City.
1851.
Mr. -lohn Walker, who lived near
Clarksville, Ga., accidentally shot him
self till ough the heart on the Oth, as he
was preparing to go out hunting.
Hob Davis, of Currahce, comes to the
front as the boss shootist. Hob, we are
told, killed 15 partridges at one shot, and
t another shot. His shooting sum
med up 41 partridges at IS shots.
’e regret to hear of the accidental
death of Mr. -lohn Walker. The cir
cumstances of the death, we learn, were
about as follows: Mr. Walker was work
ing with an old gun, and for some cause
placed the gun in the fire, with the muz
zle pointing out. The gun was loaded
and the fire discharged it, killing Mr.
Walker almost instantly. The deceased
leaves a wife and no children.
COTTON IN THE COUNTS^.
A gentleman who recently had occa
sion to travel by private conveyance
o’er the country, tells us that there are
thousands of bales yet in the hands of
the fanners, and held back for an ad-
’»nce in price. At nearlv every house
he passed there wss more or less stored
»way. The spring trade will be fine, as
few farmers have bought much as yet.
AN OLD MAN.
Yesterday a Banner-Watchman repor
ter had a talk with Mr. Wm. Nabors, an
old citizen of this county. It is very in
teresting to hear this old man talk of the
good old times that have passed away.
He has attended every commencement
of the University of Georgia since 1823.
Mr. Nabors seems to have a splendid
memory and tells of things that occurred
away back in the thirties as if they were
only yesterday. He says that he remem
bers one commencement that was a grand
affair, and a great many prominent men
were here. John C. Calhoun, then Vice-
President, was one of the visitors. The
crowds flocked to Athens for hundreds
of miles around. Said he, “the campus
at night was brilliantly illuminated, the
buildings being lighted from bottom
to top. Mr. Nabors was present when
the illustrious John M. Berrien graduat
ed, and says his graduation speech was
one of the finest he ever heard. He well
remember Bob Toombs' days in college.
This gentleman is very old now, being
nearly ninety.
MEDICINE POT.
We were shown yesterday by Mr. Lcs.
** r An Indian medicine pot It was
plowed up some time since in Mr. Tom
'■•Pps 1 field. The pot is made of mud,
»nd is very hard and well proportioned.
11 >» 12 inches in circumference, 3 inches
-cross the top and 3 inches deep. The
‘mell of some kind of medicine is still in
P 0 *- I* “ A curiosity and would be a
tood specimen for a museum. The pot
“ f or sale.
DEATH OP COL. UPSON.
. _ • F. L. Upton, died in Lexington
, BOOB . «d wiU be buried to-day at
I^Wngton.
is the slightest trouble with the K. of L.
that he will close Aown until business
gets better. This will throw a great
many families out -^f employment, and
injure the business «of Athens to a certain
extent Mr. Bloom JSeld is as kind to his
employees as a fath* w-
COLORED CITIZENS.
A gentleman tells ®s that hundreds of
negroes are now mo* ung to Athens, at
tracted by free schoo Is. and every hut
anil house for rent is occupied. In fact,
many of them can’t g< t homes, and often
several families live in'. one room. Most
of these people have n o means of sup
port, and they must eitl steal or starve.
These interlopers had ji lal as well under
stand one thing in the ot/sc t—the citizens
of Athens are not going to tax them
selves to educate strange negroes, and
they will only work an inju ry on our na
tive colored people wit hout doing them
selves any good.
THE LUMPKIN ARTHJ .ERT.
When Stoneman’s raiders were pass
ing through this section a sq. iad of them
tried to come to Athens 1 >y the paper
mill; hut the Lumpkin Artil lery opened
fire on them from the hill top this side of
the creek and drove them back. It is
said that one Yankee was kill ed and bur
ied in the pine thicket near w’ here Fowl
er’s bar-room now stands, hut no one
has ever seen the grave. Th» *re are sev
eral men now living in Athen* who par
ticipated in that bloodless bat tie.
Burning a Ntgro to Death In Oglethorpe
County—A Brutal Murder Revenged—
The Victim’s Own Children Help to Feed
the Flames—A Blood Curdling story.
Lexington, Ga., Jan 16.—Editor Ban
ner-Watchman: To-day I was reading in
an issue of your paper the particulars of
burning a negro rapist alive in Alabama^
with all the fiendish torture imagina
ble. It vividly brought to my mind an
affair that I witnessed in this county
about a quarter of a century ago, the rec
olection of which still haunts my memo
ry. One of Oglethorpe’s best citizens
was
BRUTALLY MURDERED
in a most treacherous and horrible man
ner by a negro. The murderer escaped,
but so soon as the news of the deed reach
ed the ears of the neighbors, hundreds
of men were on his trail. The fellow
was found
HIDING IN A SHUCK-PEN,
and dragged forth from his place of con
cealment At that time there lived in
our county several cruel and desperate
men, who had plenty of money and feared
neither God nor devil. Into their hands,
unfortunately, this negro fell. For three
days he was kept chained in an old out
house, and the
MOST HORRIBLE TORTURES
inflicted upon him. He was whipped
with handsaws, and it is oven said that
his tormentors poured spirits of turpen
tine on his wounds to add to his suffer
ing. The negro was very stubborn and
courageous, and was insolent to the end.
It seemed impossible to break his spirit,
and this fact only enraged his captors
the more. The most horrible stories
were told of the cruelties inflicted on
that negro, but of them I knew nothing,
until the news was spread over the coun
ty like wildfire that on an appointed day
the murderer would
BE BURNED ALIVE.
There is always a mysterious attraction
in such horrors for the masses, and when
I reached Bowling Green district, the
scene the murder, I found the high
way filled with men going to witness the
death of a human being by fire, the most
painful of all modes. But all of these par
ties did not coine to satiate their thirst for
the horrible, but their motives were of
higher order, and their mission was to
try and persuade the mob to let the law
take its course. The late Hon. Zack
Clark was the leader among this law
abiding class. But it was like
DARTING STRAWS AGAINST A CYCLONE
to tryjand stay the vengeance of these vig-
ilanters. The murdered man was one of
Oglethorpe’s most honored and popular
citizens, and even those who would
not take a hand in the burning, felt no
disposition to interfere. When I reach
ed tin* scene of the murder, I found sev
eral hundred determined men standing
around, many of them armed with guns,
while new arrivals poured in constantly.
The prisoner was
CHAINED IN THE YARD,
and while his face bore evidence of the
suffering and torture through which he
had passed, there was a resolute, defiant
look on his face that showed he was not
cowed. This lost the negro much sym
pathy. A half-dozen men had taken
upon themselves the management of the
entire matter, and they were
COLD-BLOODED AND MERCILE88,
too. Y T ou had as well have tried to melt
a stone as their hearts. At the appointed
time the leader walked up to the negro,
unloosed him from a tree which he
was chained, and announced that the
sentenced passed upon the prisoner was
that he should be burned alive
AT THE STAKE
and they were about now to put it in ex-
cution. Throwing one end of the chain
over his shoulder the judge walked off,
the negro following behind with a grin on
his face. It was afterwards heard that
he said no white men would
BURN UP GOOD PROPERTY LIKE HIM,
as he was worth too much money for
that
A PILE OF CHARRED FLESH
was all left of a living human body. This
was raked up in a heap with sticks, and
pine knots and chunks heaped thereon.
At last, it was supposed that everything
was consumed; out it is said tha tthe next
day a curious neighbor passed the spot | Atlanta, Jan. 16. Wednesday
Caught in the Act of Robbing a Grave—The
Sensation for Atlanta Saturday—A Sex
ton and a Medical College Janitor Charg
ed With Body Snatching--How the Crime
Was Discovered.
and raking in the ashes
FOUND THE HEART STILL UNBURNED.
He dug a hole at the root of the tree
and buried it This terrible lesson cer
tainly had a sanitary lesson on the ne
groes of our county, for there had lately
been several outrages and murders and
they at once ceased; but very few, if any
of our better class of citizens endorsed
the burning, and it was a source of deep
regret and mortification to them. Yo
the credit of old Oglethorpe I will say
that not a single man who had a hand in
that outrage is now living in our county.
They are all dead or have moved away,
apd it seems that
A CURSE HAS FOLLOWED THEM
through life. They first lost their prop
erty, and seemed to reap nothing but
trouble and misery and disappointment.
The place where this negro was burned
has long borne the reputation of being
haunted, but i have passed it at all hours
of the day and night, and the only thing
that haunted me was the picture of that
victim at the stake, that will never leave
my mind. Although I had no hand in
the burning, 1 would have given a round
•nm had I staid away. That the mur-
lerer deserved death no one will t^eny.
He belonged to a very smart, but
BAD FAMILY OF NEGROES,
one whom was hanged, two shot and
killed while resisting arrest, and another,
mere youth, murdered his own father.
They are thinned out now, but a few of
them yet live in this county, but so far
as I know, conduct themselves well
More anon. Oglethorpe.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
PROJECTED LISES OF INTERSET TO
ATHENS.
The A. E. & C. Road Nipped In the Bad--
The Wolf Creek Gap Finished, and Athens
Entitled to Reduced Freight Tates
—How Abort That Clayton Extension?
A Big Railroad Project—tJnlon Point and
White Platne.
Among interesting railroad rumors, is
one to the effect that .he Central railroad,
will extend the Savannah \ alley railroad
—now building—from Anderson. S. C.,
over to Greenville. This will kill the
projected Augusta, Klberton & Chicago
road, that would have seriously injured
the prospect of Athens getting a line to
the east.
The Asheville and Spartanburg rail
road has been completed between Hen
dersonville and Asheville, and on Janu
ary first the road was turned over to the
Richmond & Danville company, its own-
The through line from Louisville
to Charleston now being completed, a re
duction en the ra.es of coal should fol
low. This line completes the Wolf Creek
gap, and Athens is now entitled to At
lanta rates on all Western freights. We
trust that Mayor Reaves will at once hike
such steps as to secure our merchants
the fulfillment of this part of the con
tract with the Richmond & Danville.
Our citizens are getting very restless
about the delay in settling the matter of
the North-Eastern extension. According
to contract the rosd must be completed
to Clayton by the 1st of May next, and
of course there is not time enough now
to do the work. We hear nothing, either,
about the proposed exchange of this ex
tension for a southern line. It is high
time that the matter was definitely set-
tied, as our people want to know on what
they must depend, so as to take aticlt
steps as arc necessary.
A South Carolina correspondent says:
“One of the most important railways in
corporated by the last legislature is the
Elberton, Chester & Newton railroad.
This line will begin at Elberton, Ga,
come directly to Chester, in this state,
and terminate at Newton, N. C. It will
also take in the town of Abbeville, and
last Israel Stanford, colored, while
at work at a freight depot in this
city, was caught between a box car
and a platform and-fatally injured
internally, from the ett’ects of which
he died the day following. Friday
his remains were buried in the cem
etery at Decatur, by Joe Smith, the
sexton, who is a colored man. lie-
fore the remains were laid away
Smith called upon the cemetery
committee of council and'invited the
members to be present, giving as a
reason that he wanted them to see
the body put away, so that they
could testily to that fact in event
that it was stolen. The committee
thought the request a little queer
and unusual, as it had never been
made before, but attended and
witnessed the burial. That night
night the committee concluded to
visit the cemetery and take a look
at the grave, thinking that the prob
ability was that something was
crooked, or the sexton wotfld not
have made the request. As they
approached the grave two men
dropped spades and took to their
heels. U non investigating the sub
ject further they found that the
grave had been reopened and the
body carried off. The matter was
taken in hand and circumstantial
evidence gathered sufficiently
strong to implicate the negro sex
ton and a negro by the name ot
Vaughn, who for years has been the
janitor of the Atlanta Medical Col
lege. To-day Stanford and Vaughn
were arrested and put in jail.
Vaughn was arrested in Marietta
several years ago on the charge of
body snatching, and upon being
tried he was found guilty and or
dered to pay a fine of one thousand
dollars. He paid the fine, or it was
paid for him, and the sensation that
the affair created passed away.
Georela Personals at tbe National Capital.
Atlanta, Jan. 15.—Mr. Speer
telegraphs the Capital the follow
ing interesting Georgia personals:
One ol the staunchest and truest
Democrats in the Georgia quota is
Allan Candler. He expressed him-
selfin emphatic and unmistakable
language to your correspondent.
“I have tried to be temperate and
to shut my eyes to this suicidal pol
icy of returning our enemies in our
strong places. I have begged
around these departments in the in
terest of my Democratic friends,
and have been unable to accom
plish literally nothing. I have
been willing to submit in the inter
est of whst I believed to be the
President’s policy and in reference
to his judgment, but I am not go
ing to eat any more dirt. I am
against any policy thatjain’t straight
Democratic and against radicalism,
and if the opportunity offers I will
vote to root up the civil servica law,
and place the government where it
properly belongs, in the hands ot
those who after 20 years of combat
have won a great victory,”
WHAT SENATOR COLQTITT SAYS.
Senator Colquitt stated to-day, in
reply to an inquiry, that the Re
publicans in the Senate had as
sumed an open attitude of hostility
towards the President and his ap
pointments, and that he anticipated
war between lhe Administration
and the Republican Senate, and he
was ready for it. That it would at
least have the good result of clear
ing the service of the enemies of
the Administration and placing its
friends in position.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
HER DEAD BABY’S DRESS.
A Sudden Death.
Our telegrams this morning tell of
a sudden shadow thrown across the
White House last evening, caused
by affliction in the President’s polit
ical household. The company had
gathered for a brilliant Saturday
atternoon reception, held by the
President’s younger sister. The
beautiful blue room had been set
apart tor the .afternoon and bright
flowers cut from the conservatory.
The band, which had taken its sta
tion behind a screen of foliage, was
about to open the selections for the
occasion, and already company had
arrived to make their compliments
to Miss Cleveland, who was assisted
in her social duties by young ladies
from the cabinet.
The programme is delayed by the
absence of Miss Katie Bayard, the
oldest daughter of the Secretary of
State, the pride of her family and the
favorite in Washington society.
Perhaps no family in the gay capi
tal were more keenly appreciative
of the social privileges at the White
House thin that of the American
Premier. While her friends yet
waited the minute of her arrival,
and the swelling music almost burst
upon the opening festivity, the com
pany was informed of the sudden
death of Miss Bayard.
The social season in Washington
will be cut short by the distressing
incident. The round of gayety and
hospitality, which are delayed by
the period of mourning for the Vice-
Pres’dent, will be abridged by this
sad affliction in the house of the
President’s chief minister. Already
one of the state dinners has been
given up and there will be quiet in
the White House again,—Augusta
Chronicle.
several towns en route. The company
The fellow thought that after he-1 w jH be organized at an early day. Mr.
ing severely punished he would be
run off and sold in the Mississippi
swamps, that was done with all uncou-
queralle slaves. The crowd followed
behind, 1 securing a place close to the
prisoner. There were a number of ne
groes also in the party, as the farmers
though t this a good time and place to learn
them a lesson. If his race had any sym
pathy for the doomed man they did not
show it by sign or word. He was car
ried down a hill, and a clearing near a
branch was reached. Near the stream
was growing a little sappling, and at this
the guard halted. The murderer was
then
A HORSE AND BUGGY S3L tSHED.
The engine on the North-E astern rail
road ran into a horse anti buggy, the
other day, a few miles: above Harmony
Grove. The engineer thought, that there
was a man in the buggy, and ba eking the
train to the wreck, Vie found t he buggy
completely demolished and one of the
horse's hoofs mashed. The horse went
off on three legs, and if there was a man
in the buggy ho could not be found.
SEND A COMMITTEE.
The excursion pzrty from Pennsylva
nia will reach Georgia about the first
week in February, and it is to the interest
fo the citizens of our city and county to
get them to visit Athens and show them
our water powers and lands. Would it
not be well for the Mayor of Athens to
appoint a committee to meet them in At
lanta and invite them to visit our city?
The railroads would no doubt give half
rates to the committee, and it might be
the means of bringing some good farmers
and capitalists to our county.
TOMmOIH OCONEE.
'The dwelling house of Mr. L. W.
Downs, of Oconee county, wss destroyed
by Are on last Friday night' Bat little
of the furniture was saved.
WEARY OF WAITING.
More than a month ago, at the reques
of a number of good citirens of Oconee,
we sent Congressman Reese a petition
asking a certain change in ti to High
Shoals mail route. We have not l'leard a
word from the honorable genlTeman
about the matter. Why is this thus ?
“THERE'S MILLIONS IN IT. 1
We see that Col. W. W. Habersha m is
now discovering diamonds and o. ther
precious stone mines in the northern ] >art
of the state. The Colonel, a few ye: urs
ago, went to Oglethorpe county and 1 o-
cated a rich gold mine on every Stan's
farm in the Flatwoods, and set the peo
ple nearly craxy at the thoughts of such-
great wealth within their gTasp; but af
ter some companies had sunk about $10( ),-
CHAINED TO THIS TREE,
and the spectators asked to gather fagots
and pile around the human offering on
the shrine of revenge. Only a few lent a
helping hand. There were several little
chil.iren of the doomed man, who had
followed the procession from the yard.
They saw the white people gathering
brush a nd piling them at their daddy’s
feet,and in nocently went to work helping.
Up to this time a number of white gentle,
men present did not believe that the mob
would carry ou't their threat, and hur
riedly held a consultation. It resulted
in Col. Clark springing upon a stump and
begging the mob not to
RESORT TO SUCH JUtUTALITY,
but let the man be triod and executed
according to law. But CoL C. was or
dered to keep his month closed, or he
would get into trouble himself. At this
time a match was struck and
THE FUNERAL PYRE IGNITED,
The fuel being very dry it at once blazed
forth, and for the first time the murderer
realized his doom. He cast a most ap
pealing look at his tormentors and ei'
claimed aloud,
“great god, white folks, YOU AIN’
OOIN’ TER BURN A MAN ALIVE?”
He was answered with jeers, and fresh
fuel thrown on the blaze. I never want
to witness such another sight, for
haunted me for years afterwards. While
the negro did not speak again, I could
see that he was suffering all the
AGONIES OF THE DAMNED.
The flames would raise great blisters on
his flesh, when they would burst. His
body and limbs would brown and with
er. His contortions were horrible,
tried to tear himself loose from the chains
and would squirm and writhe. A sick
ening oidor of burning flesh floated
the air. At last all struggles ceased.
More brash were heaped around the
now dead body, and finally cremation
began. Limbs would born off and fall to
000 in mining, they got enough gold to _
make a collar button. Col. Habersham I the ground, the head dropped from the
has always a fortune just ahead of him. I shoulders, until At length
A Pathetic Incident of Everyday Life Wit-
nesed in a Pawnshop.
From the New York World.
While a reporter.in company with
one of Inspecter Bynes’detectives,
Was searching books of a Bowery
pawnshop for traces of some stolen
articles, a woman, poorly clad in
mourning, with a bundle under her
arm entered and timidly approached
the counter, and said she would like
to have some money advanced on it.
Tile clerk opened the bundle, and,
shaking out its contents, lifted up a
baby’s long dress, made of lace and
fine while cambric. Gazing at if
with a critical eye, in order to care
fully appraise its value, he turned to
the woman and asked:
“How much?”
“Oh, sir,” she replied as tears
came into her eyes, “I can’t sty. I
don’t know it’s value. When my
little baby was christened it was
given to her as a present. She died
the other day, and I want some med
icine for my little son who is now
sick.”
The clerk listened with a repect-
ful attention,and after a cousultation
with another clerk turned to the
woman and said:
“Thirty-five cents.”
“Thirty-five cents!” echoed the
woman and tears ran down her
cheeks. “Please can’t you give
more than that? I will redeem
it as soon as I get some work.”
“That’s all we can afford to give,”
said the clerk. “It may be worth
more, but we don’t care to take any
risks.” He then wrapped up the
dress and handed it back to the wo
man, who after reflection took it,and
drawing her faded cloak about her,
lett the place to try elsewhere.
DANIELSVILLE NEWS.
THE STREAM OF COLORED PEOPLE
MOVING WESTWARD.
. H. Parker, of Abbeville, one of the
incorporators, tells me that there is no
doubt about the roail being built. It is
calculated that this route “-ill bring At
lanta about forty miles nearer to Colura
biathan by any of the present lines,
This is only one of the eight railway
companies which the last general assem
bly put on foot” This is the line that
is proposed to extend from Elberton
to Athens, Ga., and it will be one of the
most important routes that our people
can build.
We see that Harry Hill is preparing
to go to work at once on a road from
Union Point to White Plains, in Greene
county, and if we mistake not, it is in the
interest of the Georgia road. How
would it do to make this road an exten
sion of the Athens branch, and let the
same trains that leave this city run
through to the terminus? The only ad
ditional expense would be in keeping up
the road, and it would pay handsomely,
besides being of vast benefit to Athens.
We consider this little road one of the
most important for our city that can be
built, and if necessary, our citizens should
subscribe liberally to it
Folding Their Tents and Emigrating Be
yond the Mississlypi—Twelve Dollars Per
Month, Board and Lodging—Going to
Labor In the Yineyards.
Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 16.—
The exodus of colored laborers from
North Carolina lor points West is
beginning to excite some interest.
Charlotte is the railroad centre tor
the state, and it is here that emigra
tion patties are made up and here
railroad agents meet and arrange
for their transportation.
Not less than three thousand have
left the state, mostly lor A’kansas
and Kansas. They continue to emi
grate westward, but there seems to
be no further demand for them in
Kansas, and they are now going to
California. Last night seventy
were turned over to Ed. F. Sisson,
of the Santa Fee route, and A. Gal
lagher,of the Missouri Pacific route,
for transportation to California.
This batch of emigrants ar< bound
for Los Angeles, having contracted
to work in the vineyards and hop
fields of E. J. Baldwin. According
to the agreement with Mr. Bald
win, through hi» agents, before leav
ing here, they are to get $12 per
month lor the first year with board
and house free. Mr. Baldwin ad
vanced money to pay their transpor
tation to Los Angeles, price of each
full ticket being 869 70. The entire
seventy people lelt here last night
on their journey.
The Schools-. Perional and a Marriage.
Danielsville, fan. 19.—The
spring term of Danielsville High
school opened yesterday morning
with a fine attendance, notwith
standing the disagreeable weather.
Prof. Llewellyn J. Brown made a
favorable impression in the begin
ning, and the school starts off
promisingly. Miss Ella Smith, of
Jefferson, assistant, who was so
popular here in that position two
years ago, came in yesterday and
the students are happy.
Miss Susie Colbert, of Athens,
who was so successful with her
school last year, is again teaching
at the same place near the residence
of Mr. James F. Tolbert, two miles
from here.
County School Commissioner T.
J. Adams, one of the purest of men
and a fine educator, is teaching near
his home two miles from town.
Prof. P. L. Payne, one of the ris
ing lights, is teaching his second
school at Paoli.
Mr. B, L. Moseley, messenger in
the employ of the Southern expres:
company, was visiting relatives
here with his mother. They return
ed to their home at Nicholson to
day. ,
The cold weather is gone and
now we have mud and slush.
Miss Lizzie Davis was married
Sunday morning to Mr. M. Free
man. Both of this county.
HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
MAN’S PERFIDY.
A Kind Letter from the Ladles of Madi
son, Ga.
We extract the following from a pri-
vate letter we this week received from a
noble lady of Madison, Ga.: “Mr. T. L.
Gantt—Dear Sir: By request of the la
dies of this Union, I write to offer you
our congratulations on your recovery
from recent illness. As one who has
made such a noble stand for prohibition,
and also for your kindness to us this
past summer, we feel the warmest in
terest in everything that concerns you.
* * Tbe ladies also send kind
remembrances to Judge Thomas and Mr.
Tuck. Again assuring you of our glad
ness in your recovered strength, And
wishing you all success in life,” ete,
Such kind words, coming from so appre
ciated a source, calls forth the most
grateful emotions of our heart, and can
but serve to nerve our arm to continue a
strife where the hearts and happiness of
such noble ladies are in the balance.
While still confined to our room, such
kind words will help us bear with pa
tience any amount of suffering. We hope
soon to be again at our post, and assure
the ladies of Madison that we are ever at
their command, when either our services
or pen can be useful to them. ’
MORMONS.
Emissaries *f Hie Mormon church are
in the city. Our peopjo wonld do well
to look out for such. A coatef tar jnd
| feathers might not he misapplied.
Drives a Handsome Woman to Insanity.
Palestine, Tex., Jan. 17.—Miss
Virgina Mason, a preposessing
blonde of 23, was adjudged insane
in Anderson County Court yester
day, and will be sent to the asylum
at Terrell to day. The girl is de-
cended from one of the Oldest and
most distinguished families of Vir
ginia. Her own family resides near
Murfreesboro, Tennesse; they are
rich, and very proud of their family
connections. This is a repetition of
the oft told tale of man’s perfidy and
woman’s disgrace. It is said that
the family sent her to Texas to avoid
a scandal aft«r becoming a mother.
She brooded over her uufortunite
Jot until she lost her reason.
A new phase has been put on
the Keiley matter. Baron Schaefer,
the Austrian Minister to the United
States, now says that Mr. Bayard
treated him badly in giving out
confidential dispatch about Keiley’
wife being a Jewess, which was
not meant to be used.
The reports in Atlanta are that
our two Georgia Sams, the evange
lists, Jones and Small,are doing Stic
cessful work in Cincinnati.
They are alluding to Sam Jones
in Cincinatti as “The Samsonian
Slayer ol Sin.”
Murray county, Ga., is building an
t8,jao court-house.
There’s an epidemic of murders
in France. ,
Montana is knocking for admis
sion as a state.
Milledgeville, Ga., had a $3,000
fire Monday.
Wheat last week reached its low
est point fora century.
Florida has about one million dol
lars’ worth of frozen oranges.
R. B. Davis and Daniel Quattle-
baum, of Gainesville, Ga., are dead.
Judge T. G. Holt, of Macon, died
suddenly while visiting a friend.
The Riel rebellion has already
cost $4,000,000.
Natural gas has been discovered at
Birmingham, Ala.
The thermometer was tS degrees
below zero at Lenoir, N. C.
Frozen victims of the freeze are
reported generally in Kansas.
The late freeze did $20,000 dam
age to the water pipes in Atlanta.
Four travelers in Colorado lost
their way and were frozen to death.
A rich gold mine has been dis
covered in Edwards county, Texas.
John Keliy has had a relapse and
is very low from nervous prostra
tion.
An avalanche in Colorado buried
six men, but four were rescued
alive.
Holly Epps, who murdered farm
er Dodson, of Vincennes, Ind., was
lynched.
No arrests of the striking Penn
sylvania miners can be made with
out bloodshed.
A tow boat was blown up at
Pittsburg, and the captain killed
and two men injured.
Charles Bertrand, a New York
lawyer, shot himself through'' the
heart while being carried to jail.
An incendiary in New York at
tempted to escape by crossing a riv
er on the ice, but was drowned.
Thirteen lives were lost by a fire
damp explosion in a Wyoming
mine.
A negro, an Italian and a German
are to be hanged in Washington
City.
A serious cave in of the levee at
Kennerville, 20 milqs above New
Orleans, has occurred.
The life of Stansel, who was shot
in Atlanta, was saved by a suspen
der button.
There is a rupture between Ham
mond and the Georgia senators over
the Atlanta post-office.
Knoxville elected a democratic
mayor. The other offices are di
vided between republicans and dem-
crats.
Five members of that Pittsburg
family have died of trichinosis, and
three others are not expected to
live.
A conspiracy by Chinese has been
unearthed in St. Louis to secretly
murder a detective who raided their
gambling dens.
Dr. S. A. Richmond, of St. Jo
seph, Mo., has mysteriously disap
peared from home. He is believed
to have been mentally deranged.
Little Rock, Ark., Jan. iS.—
The dwelling of Emanuel Johnson,
in Columbia county, was burned
and six children were burned to
death.
Barnes, the printer, won the first
prize in the type-setting contest in
Chicago, his scores being 39,210;
McCann won second and Levy
third prize.
Since the explosion of dynamite
in New York, on the fine of the
new aqueduct, all the water in that
section has dried up, and the com
panies won’t insure property.
Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 18.—
Rev. S. G. Jones, the aged grand
father of Rev. Sam P. Jones, fell on
a brick pavement in the ice last
Friday, and sustained injuries, from
which it is feared death '.v : !l result.
Washington, Jan. 18.—The su
preme court to-day rendered a de
cision which ia in effect that state
or local taxes upon drummers or
commercial travelers are unconsti-
tional.
Dr. Thomas W. Keene, member
of the Virginia legislature, dropped
dead on the floor from heart disease,
after finishing a speech.
Comptroller General W. A.
Wright has notified the Pullman
Sleeping Car Company that the
state must have her taxes right
away.
A dispatch from Belgrade says
the Servian government refuses to
disband its forces on the ground
that it desires to be protected against
surprise.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. iS.—Julius
L.*Brown is now in the North. I
is reported that he is there to cn
gage the services of Hon. Roscoe
Conkling in the argument of the
prohibition election case before the
supreme couit of the United States.
It is said the queen will make
doleful mention of the stale of affairs
in Ireland, and that she will ask for
the passage of laws, either for the
abolition or control of the land
Geneva lias gone dry by raising
the liqffor Pcense to $3,000.
Baldwin county is in tne throes
of a .prohibition Contest.
Annie is the name of a new post
office in Lowndes county'.
Three for' ten cents is the way
rabbits sold in McDonough last
week. i:.’J :i. • 1 h'?,
Atlanta liquor dealers have been
visiting Griffin -with * view of lo
cating there. ■ .1
There is a letter in the post-office
Eatonton addressed to Gen.
Washington.. ,
A pen of eleven hogs were froz
en to death at Vinning’s station last
Sunday night.
The grain fields throughout the
county ot Wilkes laok as if they
hod been burned over.
Aunt Silvia Dwite, a colored wo
man of Burke county, is said to be
130 years old.
Frank Small, brother of Geor
gia's revivalisr, is at present advance
agent for Clara Morris.
Two districts of Washington
county have petitioned for an elec
tion on the stock law question.
Griffin has been called upon to
raise her subscriptions to the Geor
gia Midland $5,000, making $30,000
altogether.
Howell, ot Pike county, contin
ues his squirrel business. Three
hundred and seventy marks the
number he has killed this season.
From all over the state comes the
report that the grain crop was en
tirely destroyed by the freeze, and
the fields will be replanted.
One of the leading farmers in the
eastern part of Gwinnett county
took a notion last Saturday to go to
Texas, but before he got to Atlanta
he changed his mind and returned
home that night.
A little three-vear old colored
child on the place of Mr. Nat Gools
by, near Monticello, wandered off
late in the afternoon of last Friday,
when found was frozen to
and
death.
W. E. Bird, of Guyton, had good
luck in getting a fine buck on Tues
day. Five started to swim from the
South Carolina shore to the shore
opposite Ebenezer. Mr. Bird jump-
ed in his boat and headed one off,
and succeeded in killing it as it
reached the shore.
Last Saturday mornit.g G. N.
Butler and two negroes got in boats
and went hunting in the overflow
ed swamp back of the plantation at
Montezuma. They killed eight wild
hogs, averaging 150 pounds each,
nine rabbits and eight ducks.
This from the Dahlonega Signal:
A well known lawyer of this place
has a novel way of catching par
tridges. /'Ht? says that while hunt
ing recently his horse stepped'into
a covey of twelve partridges, the
animal’s leet holding them by the
tail until the huntsman dismounted,
when he caught six of the covey.
GENERAL NEWS.
GRAZED BY JEALOUSY.
A Young Glrl’a Terrible Revenge on a Sue
cesaful Rival.
Good authorities in Jacksonville
place the loss on oranges alone at
$350,000.
One rich man in Chicago pays
$10,000 a year for a pew in the
church.
Snow fell iu Rome lhe other day
till the ancient city was clad in a
coverlet of white.
Cyrus W. Field is disgusted with
the Andre monument investment
and will not spend another dollar in
repairing it.
A brother of Engineer J. C. Hun-
nicutt, who was killed on the South
Carolina railroad near Reeves’ sta
tion, sues that road for $15,000.
A black cat bit James Gregory, a
lad of thirteen years, in London the
other day, 3nd since then Gregory
has died of rabies.
There has been expended in the
development of the Franklin mine,
in Forsyth county, $116,000. Eighty-
hands are employed.
There is a widow of a naval offi
cer in Washington whose name is
Mrs. W. W. W. Wood. A few
years ago Atlanta had a merchant
named H. H. H. Hambright.
The artillerymah who picked
Gen. Polk off his horse by a can
non shot on Pine Mountain, Geor
gia, twenty-one years ago, died in
Indiana the other day.
Gen. Longstreet, the distinguish
ed republican ex-Confederate, has
a brother, Maj. John Longstreet,
who has had the misfortune to
break his leg while playiag billiards.
Paper rails are made in Russia-
They are longer than ordinary rails,
and said to have a greater adhesive-,
ness in contact with locomotive
wheels.
Three ladies in Vermont, O., hid
$2,000 worth of jewelry in the ash
barrel and then sold the ashes for
ten cents. The ash man declares
that he didn’t find the valuables and
they are probably lost forever.
Toronto, Ont., Jan. iS.—A sen
sation was created here last night
by the teirible revenge taken by
Ellen Mclnerney, a jealous young
Irish girl, on a pretty young married
woman, Mrs. Jackson, who won the
affections of Benjamin Bennett, the
former’s lover, and to whom she was
to have been married. Miss Mcln
erney visited Mrs. Jackson’s house,
where she found her lover and rival
together. The enraged girl threw
a large vessel of carbolic acid over
Mrs. Jackson’s face, neck and arms,
burning her terribly, disfiguring her
for life, and probably destroying the
sight of one eye. Miss Mclnerney
has been arrested. Her victim is in
a critical condition. The parties
are well connected here.
Mr. Reese’s strange Friend.
It is generally understood that
Representative .Reese will have
strong opposition in the next elec
tion in his district. This fact has
doubtless led him to select for office
here some ot the strongest and most'
active of the young democrats of
his district. In place of young
Harrell, whose sudden dea^h has
been reported, he kas appointed
Mr. Julius Wingfield, of Eatonton,
a brother of ex-Representative
Wingfield, and as a clerk of his
committee, he has sent for W. B.
Burnett, of Athens, one of the most
enthusiastic young democrats.—
Washington correspondence to At
lanta Capitol.
A peddler in Derby, Conn., fell
into the water the other day and
would have drowned but for the
timely assistance ot two young men.
Glowing with gratitude the peddler
opened tps P acK and gave to each
a lead pencil.
league.
Hon, Allen 1). Can Her stands
second on the committee of educa
tion. Mr. Aiken, the chairman, is
ill, and will not be able to be in his
seat. This virtually gives Georgia
another chairmanship, and that of
an important committe.
Atlanta, Jan. 18.—The case of
Marcellus Thornton vs. John L.
Conley, suit for the recovery ot the
dress and material of lhe old Post-
Appeal, was brought up in the su
perior court this afternoon. Only
one witness was examined. Col.
Thornton will be on the stand to
morrow.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 16.—
John Heeseman, a merchant here
for forty years, died suddenly on
January 4th. It was found to-day
that he had forged notes on the
banks here for $10,000, and was a
defaulter to that amonnt.
Tarentum, Pa., Jan. 16.—Mrs.
Hausmeyer died to-day from the
effect of eating raw pork, producing
trichinosis. This makes tour deaths
in the family from this cause. The
only remaining son, John, is lying
very low and the daughters are
growing worse daily.
Charleston, Jan. 16.—Robert
N. Goufdin, a young son of the late
Dr. Peter G. Gourdin, was killed
while hunting in the Santee swamp
yesterday. When found he was
lying on his back with a bullet hole
in his forehead, and died in two
hours. He is supposed to have been
shot accidentally by some hunter,
although none could be found in the
vicinity.
Wilkesbare, Pa., Tan. 16.—The
rescuing party at work at the Nan-
ticoke mines bad up.to an early hour
this morning worked their way
through over 3,000 leet of sand and
The father of one of the Newark
boys who went to Pasteur, signed a
contract to put the boy on exhibi
tion for two weeks at a dime muse—
em in New York. But he now says
lie has changed his mind.
Wire or fibrous nails are coming
into use, and are claimed to be, in
some respects, quite an improve
ment upon the ordinary cut nail,
especially on the score ot tenacity;
they are not only tough, but stiff and
will penetrate hard wood where cut
nails would break sharply off or be
come badly crooked.
A few years ago there was a W.
W. W. Wilkerson, a W. W. Wil
kinson and a W. W. Wilkison in
Alabama, a rather singular coinci
dence. But more singular is it that
there is a Rev. Dr. Grammar, a
Rev. Dr. Language, a Rev. Dr.
Syntax and a Rev. Dr. Word. This
is nearly as strange as Professor
Musick, Professor Piano and Pro
fessor Organ, all genuine names of
individuals.
There are certain names that al
ways perplex ordinary printers,
who seldom fail to correct them to
suit their own ideas of what they
ought to be: For example: Johns
Hopkins, Williams Rutherford,
Phillips Brooks, The “s” gener
ally "gets left.” So J. D. Fred be
comes Ford, and Hape appears
Hope, and H.J. Petei comes <*ut
Peters. Prof: Scomp is always
afraid of being made a Scamp, hav
ing already suffered in that way.
i
to reach the fatal chamber in the
mine where they are in hopes of
finding the twenty-six men who
were imprisoned there just five
weeks ago yesterday.
Woodstock, Ont., Jan. 18.—Re
cently a girl named Collins died as
’twas supposed here very suddenly.
A day or two ago the body was ex
humed prior to its removal to anoth
er burial place, when the horrible
discovery was made that; the girl
rocks and are now hourly expecting had. been buried alive. Her shrdud
had been torn inte shreds.-her knees
were diawn up to her chin, one of
her arms' was twisted under her
head and her feSturesbore ev“
of dreadful torture.