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{BISON’S LATEST DISCOVERY.
The Savannah News says. Of
«ll the wonderful discoveries made
ky that electric wizzard of the
Sorth, Mr. Edison, none exceeds
that recently perfected by him for
,he transmission of messages to and
from moving trains. On Monday
]e*t he made the first public trial of
l„i new principle of telegraphy on
the fetaten Island Railroad in the'
presence of a large number ol lead
ing railway managers and business
m en. The experiment was entire
ly successful. It is stated that the
passengers on the train, while it was
In active motion, sent messages ask
ing the price of stocks at the time,
ami regarding domestic aflairs at
home, jauil that answers were re
ceived as promptly on board the
rapidly running train as though the
parties interested were in a tele
graph office.
The principle upon which this
latest triumph of electricity is foun
ded, is thus described: The opera-
ter on a train connects one wire of
a Morse key with' the axle’ of a car,
and through that and the wheel
with the track, which serves aS a
conductor for the incoming current
of electricity; the other wire from
the key he connects with the tin
roof of the car. From the roof the
current springs "by induction” to
an ordinary telegraph wire running
along the track in the usual man-
ser, and coursing over the wire re
turns to the point where the batte
ry is situated, thus completing the
circuit. It IS slated that by this
means messages can he seat across
a river or arm ol the sea by electric
ity without wires, and it has even
keen proposed lo send messages
across the ocaan in the same way.
’I he tiisi practical use to which
this invention is to be put ,s to
place train dispatchers in direct
communication wim moving trains
a’, any point -m Hie line oi 'hr road.
Hut Mr. E ntor, u-etul as his in
vention would in tnis way prove in
preventing accidents and saving
lite, n. c- not propose to stop here
lie says mat the communication be
iween «lie two cuncnts can be
made through a distance of fivt
hundred as Will as thirty-five feet,
• n,i ne hopes that the discovery
m.,y ) et lie utilized in the invalua
ble way of establishing communi
cation between ships at sea twenty-
hie or thirty miles distant.
WEEKLY EDITION
NO. XVI
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTJESDA.Y, FEBRUARY ^, 1886.
VOL XXXI
THE NEXT REPRESENTATIVE IN THE NtfllJI
BACON'S MASK.
Augus a Chronicle: When Dr'
Lipscomb shall lecture here on some
of the masterpieces purporting to
have been written by one William
Shaki-peare, we trust he may find
it convenient toexamiaethe claims
of that person to the authorship of
(nays and poems which bear his
name and will probably continue to
io so.
The case against Shakspeare is a
st-ong one. It becomes more and
more portentious. The proof in fa
vor ol Francis Bacon being the
jenuine writer ef the plays and po
ems attributed to Shakspeare be
comes more and more” accumulative
ami convincing. For reasons of
lus own Bacon used Shakspeare as
a mask, and unless Mr. Wm. Henrv
liuir he grossly in error, it is im
possible ‘ that any such illiterate
man as the reputed author could
have composed Hamlet, Lear or the
Sonnets. In point of fact, Mr.
Burr demonstrates that Shakspeare
could barely sign bis name and did
nut really know how to write. The
live autographs discovered, attached
lo legal documents, would disgrace
a five-year old child who had been
taught the elemental principles of
chirography. Besides this, he did
not know hew to spell his own
name, and the verification is presu
mably found in the acknowledged
and genuine sigaatnres, fac similes
of which Will astound the observer
Our sprightly contemporary, the
Gwinnett Herald, teems to be of
opinion that thete is going to be a
scramble over the nomination of a
successor to Col. Candler in the
ninth. Judges Brown and , Estes
are put down as avowed candidates,
and Col. Price and Judge Lester as
not averse to serving their country
in the seat woa by Cavdler three
years ago in the hardest fight ever
made in any congressional contest
in Georgia—a fight so gallant, and a
victory so signal, over odds so vast,
as to call ^own the applause of the
whole state which had been watch
ing it with breathless interest. The
Herald likewise says, that in addi
tion to the gentlemen mentioned,
“there are a number of young aspi
rants in the district who only need
a little encouragement to bring
them prominently into the rsce.”
If Brother Peeples be right in his
conjectures, and we doubt not he is,
we trust we may be pardoned for
making a suggestion or two. It
might be well for the candidates
present and prospective to remem
ber that it is be it to consult the rank
and file of the democracy on the
matter. When they do we opine
they they will find them about as
solid for Candler as they were three
years ago, when he took their stand
ard and bore .t lo victory when all
prominent politicians and self-con
stituted leaders, despairing of suc-
success, retused to make the race.
|udge Brown was not in the dis
trict at the time, hut he had a like
opportunity in the seventh to make
the race against Felton and refused
to do so.
There are a class of democrats
—independent in the days
of Speer’s glory and power—who
have never forgiven Candler for un
horsing their idol. They claim to
be democrats now, and their slogan
, "any liody to beat Candler.” We
advise those who want Candler’s
seat not to mistake the talk of these
gentlemen lor the voice of the party.
The true democracy are tor Candler
still, and if there arc any number of
gentlemen who propose to com
bine and by any sort of jugglery at
tempt to thwart the popular will,
they would do well to remember
the illiad ot woes this sortTrf thing
brought on the district in the past
The precedents *in Georgia are
all in Candler’s favor. Blount, who
redeemed the sixth, if serving his
seventhjterrh; Hammond,.from the
filth, his fourth term; Turner, from
the second, his fc urth term; Clem
ents, from the seventh, his third
term, and sure of re-election. These
all go *o show that the people feel
that those who have won victory
against heavy odds should be allow
ed to wear its honors at least suffi
ciently long to recompense them
for the struggles made in behalf of
the party. And yet, with Candler
less than three years in a seat, won
in a con’est to which those named
were hardly to be compared, these
gentlemen, who could not have
been induced to make the race when
Candler did, are plotting to'dis
place him!
We say these things in all kind
ness, but we do not believe the true
democracy will allow it, and it yrill
be better tor the aspirants it they
are wise enough to see it before it is
made manifest to them by the mor
tification of defeat.
FLORIDA.
TRUE DESCRIPTION OF TUTS
MISERABLE COUNTRY.
All this sounds iacredible, hut in
view of the wonderfully rapid
strides made by electricity in the
past lew years, there seems to be
no limit to its possibilities, especial
ly when it is manipulated by the
masterful genius ol such a man
Edison. Electric discoveries are
vet in their infancy, and judging of
'he future by the past, there seems
to be nothing within the bounds ol
the imagination that they cannot ac
complish. Even Jules Verne's won-
derlul travels under the sea in the
famous Nautilus may yet tarn-out
to be more of fact than fiction.
DEATH OF GEN. HANCOCK.
It is said that ex-President Ar
thur’s indigestion grows worse,
and that he has become a confirmed
hypochondriac. There are two old
«nd certain cures which he can
*vsil himself of if he will; one is to
" J 'C i» his garden and let fancy
drinks alone,” and the other is to
take daily three teaspoonfuls of
**nd from Snow Spring, Dooly
eounty, this state.
Ttie Fasting Array of tbs Soldier and
Statesman.
Nesv York, February 9—The
following official notification of the
death of Gen. Hancock has just
been received.
Governor's Island—“Major-
General W. S. Hancock, ot the
United States Army, died at 2.35
this afternoon.”
[Signed] “W. D. Whipple,
Assistant Adjutant General.”
General Hancock’s death was the
result of a malignent carbuncle on
the back of his neck, which had
confined him to his bed for several
days. No serious alarm was felt,
however until shortly before he ex
pired.
New York, February 9.—In
front of No. S, Governor’s Island,
an orderly this afternoon was pa
cing to and fro. It was the late
residence ol Gen. W. S. Hancock,
who had died therein at 2:50
o’clock. It the General had lived
until the fourteenth day of ‘Ibe
present month he would have com
pleted his sixty-second year, hiving
been born at Norristown, Pa., Feb :
ruary 14, 1S24. In the fir*t story
front room, furnished with soldier
like simplicity, lay the remains of a
General who, as the guard remarked
had led his troops to more battles
than any of his military contempo
raries. The death of General Han
cock was r,ot a surprise to his fam
ily, but it was a shock to them as
well as to iiis friends.
An exodus ot la,000 to i5,ood
ne Rroes from the South to the
^•rth is talked of for the comirg
"Phng. Aa only the chaff will fly
tw *y while the wheat will remain
the South will gain aad tha North
■will lose by the transaction.
Claus Spreckels, “the sugar king
ot the new world,” is raid to derive
*n income of $5,000,000 from his su
gar plantations in the Sandwich Is
lands. His home at Honolulu
bke the dream of a sybarite. Hi*
•ants are served by an army of ne
groes.
The Vermillion county, III., far-
mer ‘, use com for fuel, say
" f,r preferable to wood and coa!
on account of its cheapness, cleanli-
“***’ Sardines*, and heat-giving
Properties. 5 1 ***
The
• w '’* e n *®oof the Bast Tennessee
Te r e r University, Bt Athens,
brutality among orphans.
Atlanta Children Inhumanely BsaUn at an
Asylum.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 8.—The
Methodist Orphan, Asylunt at Deca
tur furnishes to-day another chap
ter of brutal whipping of its in
mates.
Arthnf Harrison, a small boy, it
seems has run away several times
from the institution, as he says on
account of bad treatment Friday
he ran away and was captured in
Atlanta yesterday and carried back
to the Orphan Asylum. This morn
ing he v.as carried to a room in one
of the buildings, his clothes taken
off and severely whipped.
After being whipped he .again
ran away ana tame to the .city*
where he made kno'Wn hit treat
ment Dr. Goldsmith, who exam
ined the child’s back, expressed the
opinion that the boy had been bru
tally whipped.. The Orphan Asy
lum was founded by Sam Jones,
and hes aboard of trustees ljving in
Atlanta.
Tbs Land Worthless and No Profit In Orange
Groves-Tha Cattle and Products—The
Air Charged with Malaria—A Sad Warn
ing.
New York Herald.
Mr. Jesse Carroll is a shrewd and
enterprising Long Islander, who
has made a good deal of money by,
keeping his eyes open as he has'
gone through life. He was taken
with the Florida fever some half
dozen years ago, and took his enter
prise and some of his money down
there. Five winters were enough
for him, and he stayed North this
year. When he first went there it
took him but a littls while to make
up his mind that there was no
wealth to be made out of raising or
anges in Florida. He turned his
hand to other enterprises, however,
aad although he made some money,
he knows he could have made much
more elsewhere. He has a “way
low down” opinion of Florida. A
Herald reporter asked him yester
day to tell what he knew of the
place, and he rattled along in ener
getic fashion in this wise:—
There isn’t ofle acre of land in a
thousand in Florida that’s worth a
continental.” (The word Mr. Car-
li used was shorter and more vigor
ous.) “If there was a clear sky
over it I'd rather pay $10 an acre
for that than $5 for the land, but
they haven’t even got the clear sky
that they boast so much about in
these advertising pamphlets. Why
every morning when you get up, in
almost any part of the country,
you’ll find a marshy vapor rising
from the swamps that’s full of ma
laria. I’ve been all through the
State and found it the same. I
consider myself a healthy man, but
I never dared to stop at Jackson
ville, St. Augustine, Palatka, En
terprise or most any other place un
less I took from eight to ten grains
of quinine every day. I have trav
elled over two thirds of the way up
the St.John’s River, from Jackson
ville to Enterprise, a distance of
J95 miles, and found the country for
nea'ly the whole way made up of
swamps and lakes and lagoons. In
the dry season the water all recedes
from the old cypress trees that stick
up out of it, leaving the roots bare.
alive with malaria.
“That is tor a very short part of
the season, but take any time in the
rainy season and there will be from
ten to fifteen inches of water, with
only a hummock here and there
showing among the trees. You
may ditch it and drain it as you
please, but in the rainy season it is
sure to be covered with water, and
if it’s half drained off, with the sun
striking the dead vegetation and
the roots, the air becomes alive with
malaria. A heavy smelling vapor
arises, you are-breathing poison in
to your system all the time. No
white man can live there in "the
summer when these lands are bare
in the sun without being filled up
with quinine. Only a nigger or an
alligator could exist there. If he
escaped death by disease long
enough he would be chewed up
alive by the tremendous big mos
quitoes they have there. The cat
tle that they raise there are pretty
nearly amphibious. They have to
wade through the water up to their
knees during most of the year, just
managing to subsist off the floating
lillies. I have never seen a bul
lock there that was Jit to kill. W e
used to have to run them across to
Havana and them up and kill th'I-m
■there.
“When you get down to the
plain facts about Florida it is good
for nothing on God’s earth except
for the raising ot a few fruity and
vegetables—a few strawberries, a
lew peas, a few potatoes, very few.
Cabbage, cauliflower and such like
are the only things outside or or
anges that can be raised, and the or-
ango industry isn’t half what its
cracked up to be.”
is there any money in it?
“Would a man who bought land
from any of these land companies
and went there to raise oranges be
apt to make money?” ■
“Not a bit of it. The thing is
too uncertain altogether. They
say that they haven’t had cold
weather like they’ve had this win
ter in a great many years. That’s
probably true. But they have
frosts very often. Why they have,
to have what they call ‘smokers
ready there all the time in readiness
for ftost. They burn tar at different
points in the grove and the smoke
hovering over the trees it is hoped
will keep the frost away. Ifit isn’t
very severe perhaps it does. Oh,
no! It has come to be considered
fashionable to own an orange grove
in Florida. I thought I’d be in the
fashion, but by thunder, when I got
down there I learned the ins and
outs of the orange business and con
cluded that it was altogether too
fashionable for me. I -don’t want
my fashion in such allopathic doses.
You can rely upon this, that any
map that will put the same amount
of labor into an apple or a pear or.
chard in New York or Connecticut
will make more money on an ex
penditure of one-third of.what he
will spend in Florida. But I sup
pose, it isn’t to be wondered at that
so many people are taken in. The
advertisements they publish here
about Florida’s lovely groves, sun
ny skies and balmy air are enough
to fire the average'man’s imagina
tion. Then about the time-he gets
to Charleston or Savannah a lot of
fellows will begin to go through the
cars with, their books and pam
phlets and colored piaps showing
the place to bd even more of i par
adise than the victim had imagined,
and by the time he reaches Jackson
ville he -is nearly full enough to
bust. There he meets the lot of
sharks who in no time have foufid
out all about him, and he’s pretty
sure to get roped in. Once in he
hatea to squal and permit his friends
to have the laugh on him. So he
scratches along and often joins in
praising the thing up to the sky
Of course if a man has an elephant
on his hands that he wants to sell
he isn’t going to tell anybody that
it’s a bad elephant But it’s a sin
gular fact that a man can’t go with
in a mile of a ‘grove’ down then
with an offer that he isn’t snapped
U P- ______
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
Jefferson letter.
AN INTERESTING LAWSUIT.
Onoontert Herald*
On Monday last a case was tried
before Judge W. M, Weaver in the
co. court that must have an impor
tank bearing upon the relation of land
lord and tenant This is one of the
few cases that have come up under
the amendment to the mortgage
act, and the final issue will be look
ed for with interest by all classes of
our citizens.
That'our readers may arrive at a
correct, understanding of all the
points in the case, we give below
the original law, together with the
amendment. Section 4,900 of the
revised code reads thus:
“Wrongful sale of mortgaged
property—penalty. No person, af
ter having executed a mortgage
dbed to personal property, shall be
permitted to sell or otherwise dis
pose of the same prith intent to de
fraud the mortgagee he first obtain
ed, before payment of the indebted
ness for which the mortgage deed
was executed; and if any person
shall violate the provisions of this
section, and loss thereby is sustain
ed by the holder of the mortgage
the offender shall be deemed guilty
of a , misdemeanor, and upon con
viction ‘thereof, shall be punished
by a fine in double the sum, or debt
which said mortgage was given to
secure; and upon failure to pay said
fine immediately, the person so con
victed shall he imprisoned in the
common jail for a period of not less
than six months nor more than
twelve.
The amendment is numbered 4600
(a) and is in these words:
“Sale of personal property undet;
lien. The provisions of section 4600
of the code, rendering penal the
wrongful sale of mortgaged prop
erty shall be extended to and
dude liens for rent and advances
made upon crops, by landlords, em
ployers, or others, as authorized by
law. And offenses against this
section shall be held misdemeanors,
and any person guilty thereof, shall,
upon conviction therefoi, be pun
ished according to section 4310 of
the code.”
The history ot the case to which
reference is had, briefly stated,
this: At the March term of the su
perior court the grand jury returned
a bill of indictment against H. T.
Akin, in which it was charged that
Akin removed five Irales of cottoa
and other portions of the crops rais
ed by him on lands rented from
Irby Hudson as guard ian for his
wife, before paying tlie rent. To
this bill of indictment Akin entered
a plea of not guilty, a nd thus was
the issue formed betuveen him and
the state. The case was
tried before a jury, s.nd was closely
argued by the coun sel for each side.
The theory ot the rlefense was that,
admitting the fact charged, viz: that
the cotton was r emoved and sold,
the defendant wa s not guilty for the
reason, that ur.der the evidence
there was no intent to .defraud the
lapd-lord. The jury took the oppo
site view, however, and brought in
a verdict, of guilty. The case will
go up to the superior court by cer
tiorari. Its further progress will be
watched with great interest, as the
right s of the land-lords and tenants
are directly involved. The case is
of special interest because it is
an tong the first tried under the act
a’.rd amendment above quoted
t here having been but three similar
trials prior to this. It is only be
cause the importance attaching to
this case, and that all landlords and
tenants, may be fully informed as
to the 'awj and its penalty, that wi
give this detailed statement of the
case and its result.
JsmDios; Gs, Feb. 10.—Court is
moving on ala rapid rate this week-Mon-
ctay morning the criminal docket was
taken np, and a great deal of business
transacted within the past two days. Mr. the Gainesville Southron.' Itwasunder-
TIIE TELEPHONE AFFAIR.
The Pan Electric Telephone Company Ex
plained In a Nut Shell.
r. K. L. Ho*> Refuses to Pay for the
Gains iTllle Southron.
During the Speer-Candler campaign,
Col. Lawshe flooded the country with
W. T. Bennett, the clerk, says that there
have been twelve pages of the proceed-
ngs of the court taken down in one day
This is doing up things at a lively rate.
The grand jury has also been doing some
good work, twenty-seven true bills hav
ing been returned upto yesterday. This
body wi'll probably adjourn tu-day.
Jackso’n county has over $6,000 in her
treasnry. She don’t owe a cent, and is
prospero us county in every way. Lands
in the coun ty are as good as can be found
in the sta to., Tjhcre are some bottom
land in this county, so I have been told
by agriculturists, are as rich and fertile
aa the Uississi. ppi bottoms.
The last throe or four days of beautiful
weather have bi'en improved in a hurry
by the farmers in turning over his stub
ble, and. preparing the land for spring
eats.cottion and other produce.
The w heat crop is very good in some
portions of our county, while hero and
there is s een a gaod stand of oats.
Studen ts are coming in every day to
the Martin Institute.
Mr. Adolphus Rrooks, father of Mr.
Thomas Brooks, of Athens, will leave
this week for Texas. He is going out
prospecting, with a viaw of locatiug in
some part o.f the state. There are also
several more-citizens of Jackson county
who will go t. > the lone star state.
Tom McEll mnnon, our efficient sher
iff, has been q uite sick for a few days.
The folio wit ig cases have been dispos
ed of this weel::
MONDAY.
State vs. George Tate, colored—Con
cealed weapons- l’lea of guilty. Fine
$20.
State vs. Henry Easley, a colored
preac her, who stole a Bible out of Holly
Sprin gs church. He plead guilty and.
Lined $110. He has quite an exten
sive library. His books have been lev
ied on for taxes. He is now in jail, and
will go to the chain-gang.
Sitate vs. John Kenney, colored—Gam
bling. Plea of guilty. Fine $25.
Armistead Moore, colored—Illegal vot
ing. Plea of guilty and paid costs and
settled. Likewise cases of Thomas Pet
tyjohn and J. C. James, who plead guil
ty to same charge and paid costs and set
tled.
There were several cases against Rob
ertson, which were nol pressed.
State vs. John Pendergrass, charged
with assault with intent to murder. Bond
forfeited, he having migrated to
Texas.
State vs. J. R. Cash. Plead guilty to
two cases, fined $20 each and settled.
TUESDAY.
State vs. P. J. Roberts—Assault and
battery. Verdict of not guilty.
State vs. John Pressley—Concealed
weapons. Verdict of guilty and fined
$20.
State vs. W.P. Holliday—Assault with
intent to murder. Plead guilty
of shooting at another. Fine $30.
State vs. Green Sharp, colored—Lar
ceny from the house. Verdict of guilty
and fined $30.
Court will probably adjourn this even
ing.
stood that the papers were sent out free
by Mr. Speer as 'campaign documents,
and while a majority were refused, a
great many were taken from the post-of
fice by the parties to whom they were
addressed. Among the Southrons that
thus came to Athens was one addressed
to our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr. R. L.
Moss. This gentleman naturally sup
posed that Mr. Emory Speer, with whom
he was personally friendly, sent him the
paper as a compliment, continue4 ts take
it from his box. Several weeks'ago Col.
Lawshe sent to an Athens lawyer a great
stack of those campaign subscription
bills, including one against Mr. Moss for
$3.50. On presentation Mr. M. said he
had not subscribed for the Gainesville
Southron, that it was sent him voluntar
ily by the editor, and he would not pay
the bill. Suit was at once instituted
before Justice Evans, and Mr. Moss em
ployed George D. Thomas, Esq., one of
the ablest lawyers in Athens, to defend
his case. But the court decided in favor
of the Southron, and Mr. Moss gave no
tice of an appeal to the Superior Court.
Judge Evans notified Mr. M. that he
could not do this until he had paid the
costa in the case, amounting to about as
much as the original bill, as also give
bond for twice the sum involved, viz, $7.
Mr. Moss proposed to let the question of
costs stand until a final settlement of the
case, and the man who lost pay; also that
instead of Soing to the trouble of hunting
up bondsmen for the $7, that he would
deposit the amount In cash. Both prop
ositions Judge Evans rejected, when Mr.
Moss paid the costs and furnished bond.
He has instructed Mr. Thomas to carry
the case not only to the Superior Court
of Clarke county, we learn, but if that
tribunal decides against him to carry it
up to the Supreme Court of the state.
Those who know best the character of
Mr. Moss say he is uncompromising
when he feels he is in the right, and that
he will spend $1,000 before he will pay
Col. Lawshe that $3.50 for subscription,
as he feels that he does not owe it. A
great many other of our citizens are be
ing pressed for subscriptions to the
Southron, and they are red-hot about it,
4oo.
ALCOHOLIC HEREDITY.
SALE OF A TROTTER.
Mr. W. S. Holman, our enterprising
horse trader, sold yesterday the celebrat
ed trotting horse, Tom Bowling, to a gen
tleman in Texas, for a big price. The
gentleman knew the horse ip Kentucky,
and has been trying to get him for some
time. He was brought from the blue
grass country by Mr. Holman, and has
on several occasions passed first under
the string in the free-for-all. He cap
tured two five hundred dollar purses and
several smaller ones. Tom Bowling is a
good and true trotter. He has been ofT
the track for several years, and is now in
the prime of his trotting life. Ve hope
to hear of Tom Bowling doing good
work on the turf.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Weston,'in Chicago, walked 2,500
miles iit 54 days.
Two suspected safe robbers have
been arrested in Augusta. ,
Belleville, Ont., has baen almost
Another subterranean gallery has
been discovered in Nashville.
Last Saturday two brakemen
wert killed on the State Road.
Garfield’s remains have
transferred to another casket.
At Pittsburg, Tex., an exploded
boiler fatally injured seven men.
At a negro frolic near Franklin,
Ga., Ike Winchester had his throat
cut.
THE ATHENS POST-OFFICE.
As the Banner-Watchman Predicted Capt.
Burnett Receives the Appointment.
A dispatch received from Washington
City yesterday states that President
Cleveland had appointed Capt. W. B.
Burnett Postmaster at Athens, to sue- , . .
ceed Madison Davis, whose time had ex- * destro y ed b >’ h, E h ‘ w »‘er,
pi red; that the new officer would arrive
in Athens last night, and at once make
his bond and take charge of the office.
The appointment of Capt. Burnett, we
feel assured, will give general satisfao
tiontothe democratic party in Athens.
No one questions his ability to manage’
the office in the most skillful manner, and
if there is any man who deserves espe-
cial recognition at the hands of a demo
cratic administration.it is W. B. Burnett
He will build the office up to the high
est-standard, and backed by influential
friends at Washington, will secure for
Athens many advantages that other men
could not procure. What changes the
new postmaster will make in the office we
cannot say.* He will doubtless be great
ly governed by his friends and his party,
and knowing Capt. B. as we do, don’t
think there is any need for a man to ap
ply for place under him unless he can
show an unblemished democratic record.
THe Banner-Watchman last Sunday stat
ed that this appointment would be made
just as it has been. We knew from the
backing Capt Burnett had among the
congressmen and senators that his suc
cess was assured. We congratulate not
only our friend upon his triumph, but
also the city of Athens on securing such
an able and efficient officer.
THE COUNTY FARM.
Tema on Which This Property Was Leased
to Btancll Barwlck.
During a call yesterday from Judge
Jackson, we asked him on what terms
Mr. Stancil Barwick had been given
charge of the county farm this year?
“He is not paid a salary,” as was John
Tuck, “but has rented the farm for a
year. Some of the committee were in
favor of leasing it for five years, but 1
would not consent to this, as it is an ex
periment, and twelve months is long
enough. This is the trade that we made
with Mr. Barwick: He pays $400 this
year for the rent of the farm, and the
county iB to furnish him with four con
victs, as an offset to the expense of
guards and clothing for the prisoners.
The rest of the county convicts Barwick
is to take at $6 per month each. He iB
to be paid $6 per month each for feeding
and attending on the paupers, but the
county clothes them. He is to give both
convicts and paupers plenty of good,
wholesome food, and of course the entire
farm will be subject to inspection by the
grand jury. We are also to take an in
ventory of all the stock, supplies, tools,
etc., on the farm, and at the expiration of
the year Mr. Barwick must either return
them in just as good order as they were
received, or pay for them, as also for all
other articles turned over to him. The
farm is now in perfect order, and under
the highest state of cultivation, being
equipped with the best and most improv
ed agricultural machinery of all kinds.”
been
John L. Cochran, a deputy U.
S. marshal, was shot in Newton
county. „| lu
Senator Colquitt has Introduced
a bill to abolish the sale of whisky
in the District of Columbia.
The starving mechanics of Lon
don held a mass meeting in Trafal
gar square. It resulted in a riot.
Mr. Thomas A. Seales attempted
suicide in Augusta by taking mor
phine. He will probably die,
The Governor of Wisconsin par
doned two sisters who perjured
themselves to save their brother.
A mad dog in Crete, Neb., bit
twenty-five dogs and . three chil
dren before he was killed.
, The Coke Syndicate at Pitts
burg say the plan now is to put
negroes in place of the strikers.
There is a movement on foot ii
Tennessee to prevent the employ
ment of ex-convicts.
A printer named George Weaver
was severely cowhided in Chatta
nooga by a woman from whom he
had been divorced.
In the yard of the Newcastle
(Del.) jail one criminal was placed
in the pillory and a number were
whipped.
It is thought that the imprisoned
half-breeds of the Northwest will
be pardoned and a general amnesty
declared.
It is said that a certain man in
Georgia nets from $r,ooo to $2,000
from his hennery alone, and it don’t
interfere with his other interests,
either.
Hall county is to have a whisky
itJrtMn*. .j/; / ;
Fresh shalare selling in Lump
kin at 75 cents each.
A neg.o boy at McKibben, in
Butts county, ate so much fresh
meat that be died irih short while.
The Steel Creek factory was told
at Hartwell Tuesday, and was
bought by R. D. Yow and J. P.
Vickery for $6,500.
In nearly every quarter of Geor
gia comes reports of; the depreda
tions of mad dogs. A number of
cows have been bitten.:
A child of Mr. Asbury Smith,
near Ball Ground, Cherokee coun
ty. was choked- to death by a bean
lodging in its throat
A charming young lady in this
city says she is suffering with a vio
lent attack of “ask-ma.”—Waynes
boro True Citizen.
A Georgia mtfrderer escaped
punishment because the indictment
charged that he shot his victim in
the left shoulder, when the proof
was that it was in the right shoul
der.
We wish that Larry Gantt was
.restorer! to health with his usual
vigor,of body and mind; so that he
could fill his place in every sphere
in which he was wont to move. We
like Larry—he has a noble heart,
and a generous nature.—Working
World.
A lady near LaGrange managed
to save her turnips after this fash
ion: They were all gathered be
fore thejfreeze, put into a pit which
had been dug for their reception,
and then covered with straw and
earth. Her neighbors have lost
theirs, but she has twenty- five bush
els for gale.
Eleven persons h«ve died of men
eagits, in Jefferson county Flor
•id*.
Little Rock, Ark., February 7.
—Particulars of a crime committed
on the Roy place, seven' miles south
of Forest city, reached here yester
day. A negro man najnea Johnson
recently married • .mulatto” woman
who had a four-year-old daughter.
This child Johnson considered to
be in the way, and so he deliber
ately held her in front of aa opan
fireplace until Ufa brat extinct 1
The Pan Electric Telephone Com
pany has 5 millions of stock, of
which originally,Gen. Jos. E. John
son, Sec. A. H. Garland, Senator
Isham G. Harris, C.Young, J. D. C.
Atkins, and J. H. Rogers each held
$500,000.
Gen. Johnson was president and
Mr. Garland attorney.
Eight local companies were form-
1 and started in eight states
which paid a bonus of $10,000
each.
The origonal company paid in $1,-
37J- When the first local company
paid its bonus of $10,000 the $1,375
w-s reimbursed and the rest of the
10,000 was divided out as a divi
dend, each stockholder getting
$600.
In addition to the stock above
mentioned th« company issued
$500,000 for co mmon use "and distri
bution, which was divided around
>rei.y Uberally, Ex-Gov. Tohn C.
Jrown, of Tennessee, getting$io,-
000.
Senator Vance’s brother, Con
gressman R. B.Vance, introdneed a
bill giving the Attorney-General
power to bring suit to vacate patents.
The bill passe-d the House, but laid
in the senate committee.
The other eight companies paid
their ,$10,000 bonus, which was di
vided out in dividends, giving each
stockholders $3,000 profit in iS
months on $275 inventment ,
It is claimed that Attorney-Gen
eral. Garland had this interest in
breaking do wn the Bell patents—
$500,000 in-the parent company and
$1,600,000 in the 8 local companies—
and the same proportion in future
companies. If the Bell patents are
broken Mr. Garland’s interest
would be estimated at $10,000,000,
THE N ANTICOKE DISASTER.
Bnt Llttla ProxreisJftat Toward* Eacovsr-
ln* tn» Bodlas of tbo Victim*.;
Wilkbsbarre, Pa., Feb. 6.—It
is now s even weeks since the occur
rence of the terrible disaster jn slope
1. of the Sutquehana Coal Company
ht Nantiicoke, by which twenty-six
men.lost their lives. Every effort
that human ingenuity could suggest
has bee n made to recover the bodies,
but without success. The work, of
clearing up the gangways is not
progressing aa rapidly aa when first
begun, as culm aad quicksand is
now cme compact mass, and it it
very d : fficult to remove. The men
working in the gangways are of the
opinion that it will be weeks, and
possibly months, j?et before they
can reach the spot where the bodies
are supposed.to be. It is thought
tha t when the fourth counter, which
is mow 500 feet away, is reached
the work; will be dangerous to life.
The drilling in the hole is progress
ing. Up to eight o’clock this morn
ing 112 feet of pipe had been put
down, mid there yet remained «je
feet tp be drilled. The,Officials sav
that, beyond all doubt the men are
dead and the drilling of the* hole in
Sr. Crother* oa the Tranamlialon of Dis
ease* earning Drunkennei*.
Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn.,
addressed the members of the Presbyte
rian Temperance Institute, at the Thir
teenth street chuTch, last night, on “In
ebriety and Heredity.” He said that a
steady procession of human life, repro
ducing the shape, form and mental qual
ities of past generations is going on with
the mathematical certainty of the return
of the reasons. “This is called heredity,
but the forces that govern it are largely
unknown. Diseases are transmitted with
the same certainty as qualities of form or
mind. The transmission of alcoholic
tendencies is much more common than
iB generally supposed. It appears in
groups. First, is direct alcoholic hered
ity, which is seen in drunkards whose
parents orgrendparents were inebriates.
The lines of inheritance are plaited—
that is, they run from father to daughter
and mother to son. About one in three
cases of excessive use of liqnor can be
(need to inebriate ancestors. If the
father is a moderate drinker and the
:0ther a nervous woman, the children
!e quite sure to drink to excess. Cases
e mentioned where nurses put a few
drops of spirits in the food of infants and
roused the latent heredity, never to
)>e checked except by death.”
■^The second group of these alcoholic
heredities are called the indirect They
■re cases where the inebriety of some
ancestor has left a stream of diseases,
such as minor forms of insanity, con
sumption and various nerve defects,
which may have run through one or two
generations, then suddenly develop into
inebriety, with or without any special
exciting causu. In such cases the mod
erate or excessive drinking parents will
be followed by nervous, feeble minded,
consumptive, or very precocious chil
dren, or^sccentrieand odd people.' They
are persons wjto die early and leave
large progeny, who suffer from nerve
and nutrient troubles and find in alcohol
and opium a most seductive relief.”
Dr. Crothers also described a third
group of cases, which he called complex
borderland inebriety. They are cases
where the ancestors have been epileptic,
criminals or otherwise degenerate.
‘Nq fact ii clearer to-day,” said the
lecturer, “than that the army of inebri
ates are dn their'longi last march to the
valley ef death, to the mouth of a most
terrible hell that stretches on into the fu
ture, thatshadows and cripples the gen
erations to j come. A flashing instinct
may come to them Out some one has
blundered, but there is no time for ques
tion or reply. On, on, obeying orders
not beard by the coarser senses, and fol
lowing lines of march that lead into ex
tinction and night”
In failing to re cognize this heredity,
Dr. Crothers contended, the educational
and law administering authorities of the
century are increasing the tortures of
— - a * B O —P_ a a * a# i* m
AM ACCIDENT.
A son of Judge Hutchins was serious
ly injured by powder on Saturday last
While he and two of his sisters were in
the room, one of the small children
threw a flask of powder into the fire, and
in order to save his little sisters from be
ing injured young Hutchins en
deavored to get the flask
out of the fire, and just as he caught hold
of the flask it exploded, terribly burning
his face, and it is feared his eyes will be
permanently injured. Judge H. left for
his home on Wednesday morning, and
Judge Estes took his place on the bench.
THE ELBERT FENCE LAW.
The Supreme court, on Saturday last,
sustained the decision of J udge Lump,
kin in the fence case from Elbert cocnty,
refusing the writ of prohibition, which
will bring the case back to the Ordinary
for him to decide, the court holding that
under the law the court of ordinary was
the only court having jurisdiction in
such cases, and that there was no ap
peal therefrom.
Harmony Grovb, Feb. 9th.—The boys
of our town have a splendid brass hand,
and are practicing every night There
Borne good talent in this band, and they
make good music. They expect to give
an entertainment next Friday night for
purpose of paying for their instruments
buying music and to pay the salary of
their teacher. Prof. McGill, of Hartwell,
is the teacher, and is a fine musician.
The entertainment will be given at Strick
land’s hall and promises to be a nice af
fair.
Trade is good in our town. Cotton is
coming in very rapidly, and the farmer’s
take a load of guano hack with them.
There is a good deal of the staple in the
country surrounding the Grove.
Our new guano house is finished, and
all the guano in town is stowed here and
is a big enterprise for our town.
One of our citizens says that a thous
and drummers stops at Harmony Grove
every week.
CHEAP LABOR.
Labor was never cheaper in Athens
than now, and you can get hands at your
own price. Grown men are glad to hire
by the day at 25 cents, and are contract
ing by the year at $50 and and rations.
A great many are out of employment
Wages will Advance when farm work
begins..
FROZEN APPLES.
Capt Burbanks says in the North,
when apples freeze, they are put into
tub of fresh water from the well or
spring, and it will extract every particle
of the cold from ,the fruit, a thin coat of
ice appearing on every apple. This ex.
perimentis worth trying, as it costa
nethizg.
SURVEYING THE ROtfTE.
From parties just from tha mountain!’
we learn that the surveying party from
London, Ky., to Toccoa, Ga., are in the
field and will reach Claytom in Rabun
county next week. This looks like bus
iness.
>ilintai«ii^Tiitii mrsd a radical reform i
demanded;—New York Herald.
nuiaonmi
Capt. B. R. Asbury, of White county,
had his: large three-story burn and eon-
tenta tohiirn on Monday night last. Lon
m bushels of com, five head of horses,
Uhsid of cattle, large lot of fodder and
hi* toss at lout $2,900. No inaur-
onnee. Capt Asbury is Esther of Mrs-
H. T. Huggins, of thirdly.
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3 ii ..0 M .SnAHMliO
OOINO TO ATLANTA.
We learh that Hon. Weldon Price con
templates moving from Oconee-county to
Atlanta and going into business. Mr.
Price is one of the live men of Oconee,
and his leaving will be regretted by the
whole county.
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A MOTEL IN THREE CHAPTERS.
CQAPTBBI.
Maid one,
• Chaptxr H.
V Jktmi 4 W0,,fc 2 *; 1
‘ ( _ Chapter hn
Made .one.
V
The senior class this session is the
largest in many, years,, numbering 49
students. The University is in a highly
prosperous condition, and new students
are being constantly earolled.
On February 3d, at the residence of
the bride’s mother, Hr. D. B. Fowler
and Hiss Jennie Patman, Rev. E. F. An
detsen oMniatiny - -■
. DIED.
Miss Ella Bell, sister of Mr. A. A.
Bell, of this city, died KondMfis&t,
her home in Jackson county.
!
r i “. Salt
An
Uite'
from Arizona saying that Captain
Crawford was murdered by
the Mexicans.
HARMONY GROVE ITEMS.
Darien, GA.JFeb. 8.—The re
cent decision of the supreme court
on the pilotage question, conflicting
as it does with the action of the
legislature, is causing a .good deal of
annoyance here.
Geo. Driscoll, a well known bus.
iness man of Springfield, O., was
shot dead yesterday morning by
burglars, whom he found in his
house. A colored man named Har
ry Slater has been arrested.
Keokuk, Iowa, February 7—A
suit brought under the civil rights
act by the Rev. T. L. Smith, a col
ored preacher, against a restaurant
keeper, in which $10,000 damages
were asked for refusing to sell
Smith refreshments on account of
his color, has been decided in the
superior court, the jury bringing in
a verdict for $1 in favor of the rev
erend gentleman.
Among the effects of the late
Gen. Toombs, is a solid silver can
dlestick bought by him forty years
ago. It is an exquisitely wrought
piece of silver, representing a tree
and its branches; at the base is a
fountain from which a fox and some
deer are drinking. 1*108 candle
stick weighs twenty-four pounds
pounds, and originally cost $800.
There is a house in Barnett which
is remarkably unlucky. It was
built in 1S76, and five or six families
bavfe since moved into and out of it
Not a family has occupied the house
a year without the death of- one ot
its members. It has been built nine
or ten years, and nine or ten deaths
have occurred in it, and it is said
that all of these were taken sick
suddenly.
A case is thus reported from
Meriwether county. The defendant
losing his case, was forced to pay
the costs. The Justice accepted a
small black fice for his fees. The
little dog soon ran away and return
ed to his oft home. The defend
ant says he is charging the fice
board and thinks the bill will soon
be large enough to pay the bailiff’s
cost.
Towards the close of the adjourn
ed session of the last Legislature,
Representative Avery, of Columbia
county, was taken sick with what
appeared to be an attack of apo
plexy. He was found in his room
Newberry, S. C., February 7.—
A case was tried in our circuit court
"OLD B.”
We clip the following original adver
tisements of our esteemed friend John
B. Benson, from the last issne of the
Hartwell Sun:
“I keep all the best grades of Flonr,
and sell real good Flour cheaper than the
dogtail cotton option flour is sold.
“Another lot of those fine patent Axes
like I sold for cost, 65 cents, but then
you know it was what it cost you, not
me.
“Georgia Collard Seed, saved from the
•Id stock that old Mias Stalling, the
mother-in-law of Major Jones’ courtship,
used to raise. They grow six feet high,
and a few stalks will keep a whole fam
ily of tow-headed children from perish
ing.”
last week, that was begun years ago
for the recovery of $450, the pur
chase money of a negro slave sold
in 1859. One member of the jury
that tried the case was a negro
freedman. After remaining in the
jury ruom all night, the jury agreed
upon a compromise verdict, one
half of the amount due, which,
strange to say, was first proposed
by the negro juror.
Macon, Ga., Feb. 6.—Yesterday
afternoon Mr. Wm. Long, who re
sides in the Warrior district, twelve
miles from this city, ended his life
by shooting himself in the head
with a shotgun. Mr. Long was
one of the oldest and most highly
respected citizens in the county.
His tragic eud was a surprise to his
numerous friends. He was in his
7 J d year, was the father of thir
teen children and has a large fam
ily connection. The cause which
led to the rash act wag an attack of
melancholy, said to have been su-*
perinduced by dyspepsia.
AN OLD ATHENIAN.
Mr. Tom Baker, an old Athens police
man, died Tuesday at his home in Madi
son county. Mr. Baker was Chiefof
Police of Athens for many years, and
has quite a number of friends here.
A MADMAN’S HORRIBLE CRIME.
Curtin* Off tn* Top of U* Mother’s Head,and
at One* Regaining Lis Reason.
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 7.—At
Peru, Hillsborough county, last
night, a young man named Dusen
bury| entered the house while his
mother was alone, and,withont pro
vocation or warning, killed her by
chopping off the top ot Ler head
with an axe. The coroner’s jury de
cided that he was momentarily in
sane when he committed the deed.
No, arresta is reported. The. family
recently came from Pennsylvania.
When the murderer's brother en
tered the house the corpse was sit'
tiugSbolt upright in a chair, and the
alleged crazy .man seized him from
behind crying iu piteous tones:
“My God! I’ve killed my moth
er!”
The matricide says he became ra
tional the moment he dealt the fatal
blow
the-Talmage house, on Walton
street, one morning lying on his
bed with his clothes on in an insen
sible condition. A physician was
called in, and after applying resto
ratives, Mr. Avery’s consciousness
was restored. Since then he has
been confined to his bed at the Tal-
mage house, where he is attended
by his physician and his wife. It
said that his affliction hat turned
out to be an attack of paralysis.
His condition is such that it is im
possible to take him home until he
gets better. To get him home he
will have to travel through the
country after leaving the train, a dis
tance of 18 miles.
A LETTER2FR0M LIBERIA.
’•tn i.StaU**
Ne Alibi.
“If you are innocent,” *aid a law
yer to his client an old darkey, who
was charged with stealing a ham,
“we ought to be able to prove an
alibi.” . - . -
‘1 don’t ’spec we kin,” the dar-
said doubtfully. , * »
,*At what, time waa the hagi},veto-
lea?” , Jumt
“’Bout lebben o’clock, day Kay.”
“Well, where were you bet Ween
eleven o’clock and midnight, in
bed?”
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The Hardships Endured in a Land That
■* Almost Unknown.
From tke Gat* Cltj (Mo.) Pres*.
Brewbrsville, Liberia, Oct. 15,
1S85,—Mr. Fay—Dear sir: This
place, Brewersville.Js fifteen miles
from Monrovia. It is fifteen years
old. It is the largest settlement in
Liberia, outside ot Monrovia. All
the people who have emigrated out
here in the last ten or fifteeen years
haye settled here. The people ini
the settlement are poor and unable
tohelp each other in a business sense
of view. There are no oxen, no
horses and no'mules in the whole
settlement. , Out here they have to
do all the farm work with the hoe,
rake and axe. I hare been out here
six months. I have been all over
the settlement and I have found the
larger number of people in a suffer
ing condition for something to eat
and wear. There isn’t any doc
tor in this settlement; the settlement
is too poor to support one. The in
habitants of this settlement number
556. Calico is 25c per yard,
common laborer, when he can get
work to do,is 25c per day. Pickled
pork is.25c per pound. All the flour
and meat used here are imported
from England and America. Corn
meal is 10c per quart Common
flour it $15 per barrel.. This is the
greatest place for. sores I ever saw.
There is here an insject called the
iiger. He is. veryr dangerous. Since
here I have seen grown people, and
children, too, witp their toes eaten
oft. Shoes are more needed here
than in America. It is neccessary
to wear shoes all the time, so as to
protect your feet ftroth these insects.
The people are unable to keep shoes
on their children all the year round
and a good many have sores on
their feet all the time. My boy
feet have been so sore since I have
Been out here that he could hardly
walk.
The only way the settlers have to
make any money here is by raising
'arid-selling coffee. It will take
new-comer like myself from five
six years to get a coffee farm in trim
for selling coffee. The public schools
are in a poor condition.' There is a
Class ot people over here who do
cot want the true state of affairs
written back home. They say
that if the people want to know how
times are over here let - them come
over And see for themselves. „ \ T
:-:z ’IAndhiisqn H. Jones.
GENERAL NEWS.
Uncle Sam has $400,000,000 in
his strong box.
A Maine man sent 1,000 skunt
skins to Boston, the result of one
week’s hunt.
A St. Louis girl, aged 40, and
worth $3,000,000, is about to mar
ry a man of 22.
According to the Enterprise, col
ored, not a black face is to be seen
in the'New York state capital.
Sawdust burnt to the windward
saved many Florida orange groves
from the biting frost.
Edison, the inventor, is about to
marry Miss Mina Miller, of Akron,
Ohio, whose father is worth two
millions.
At St. Helena, Cal., a few days
ago, several thousand gallons of ten-
year-old California wine sold for
three cents a gallon.
Mrs. James K. Polk has found it
necessa:y to deny the -report that
she is a Catholic. She is and al
ways has been, a Presbyterian.
A Cohoes man and a Troy wo
man met at a party in Lansingburgh
last Friday evening, fell in love at
sight, became engaged before the
arty was over, ana. were married
laturday night.
•« The Mississippi Legislature voted
pot tQ accept any railroad passes,
and then, horrified at its own vir-*
tue, carried a motion to reconsider
the vote. , , •
There are several men out here in
the wild and woolly West who are
afraid M. Pasteur will discover a
better remedy for snake bite than
whisky.—Merchant Traveller.
Two Arizona papers, the Red
Gulch Dam and the Red Gulch
Fool, have consolidated. The Red
Gulch Dam-Fool subscribers,
though not numerous, are much ex
cited, as may be imagined.
A dinner was given at New
York hotel, last week, of eight cov
ers, that cost $600. The pheasants
and saddles of mutton came from
England, the grouse from Scotland,
the truffles from France and the
partridges lrom the neighborhood
of Augusta.
Dr. Shrady, the editor of the
Medical Review, laughs at the re
cent hydrophobia scare. He de
clares'that there have only been
three cases ot genuine hydrophobia
reported in the United States in the
last ten years, and that he does not
believe there has ever been a gen
uine case in the state of New Jer
sey.
A Washington correspondent
tells of a death there recently which
is sensational in its details. A young
doctor, handsome, strong, and of
great promise, was called to attend
a lady in a carriage at his door.
Receiving no answer to his greet
ing to the patient, he thought she
had fainted. He stepped into her
coupe and found her already a
corpse. He drove by the side of
the dead woman to her house : and
thence to the hospital, where he
was expected to participate in a
meeting of the managers. Apolo
gizing to bis colleagues for his late
ness, he related his ghastly *
atnsttA taiiJ -V ,.TO!J j
"mSSiSt ■"’ 1 "> vlidw tti.o*! *
ness, ncreiateo nts gnastty, expen-
>t ence. Then remarking, “I feel
faint,” Ire fell, struck dead by pa- .
ralysis.
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