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fHE NEGRO A FAILURE.
wmifB ADVOCATES new
1 SOUTHERN- PKJWANTRY
TELfcGHAFHIOiSPAKKS. '
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vrnx Point In the southern Labor and
firming syntem-An Ignorant, Shiftless
Cl»s*
Incapable of Training for Skilled
w wr -THe onir Hope of the South:
anructa Chronic!*. N I i_ 1 V
H. C. White, occupying tile chair
f i h.-inictry and Agricultural Science at
,l„. Inivcrsitv of Georgia, has been one
Augusta's most appreciated guests the
^ . ..-n-A' ml. I. I
]],. ha*l just roturnwl from .ffio mcot-
. of th«‘ stato farmers in Columbus,
( , r , hi> >trikin^ address upon the Mib-
» ,.f improving labor in the south has
,, i.tp. 'i murh comment in a new and
■ r , \<-<i direction.
pis.- I’hroniolo asked the ProfoMor
hires* in Columbus, in which
*\vt‘d up the nogro as a failure as a
i laborer, and declared the unfitness
das* f<»r a peasantry.
SO 1‘KASAX't IlY HKllK. »
t il, ’ said Prof. White. I took this
at hi
■ we have a state of fine climate
oil naturally good and susrepti
greater improvement, but th
is absolutely without a peasant
*• people wno occupy the rank of
• are an ignorant, shiftless class.
..f >elf-advan<
late of
:»c«|uirt
. .1 with*
-1 skill-
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NO. XVI
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1886.
VOL. XXXI
the Macon and covington.
FROM ATLANTA.
THE NEGRO ON THE JURY.
The Contract for Building the First Sixty
Hilea Already Closed.
It is an open secret that the Macon and
Covington road will be built to Athens.
It is said that Machan A: Post have made
p contract with Mr. John Inman and his
associates of New York, by which he will
take the road when they have graded
sixty miles, build it through to Athens,
and equip it in first class style. It is
expected that in return for this Athens
wtll release the Richmond Danville
from its contract to build through Iiabun
Gap.
It is said that Machan A* Co. have made
their arrangements to grade the first sixty
miles and that their contract calls for this
to be completed by the first o r June.
Also that Madison and Covington will be
put in competition ns the point on the
Georgia rail road through which the new
road will pass. A delegation of Atheni
ans met Mr. Inman and his party in At
lanta last Wednesday, ami the above
reports the outcome of tin* consultation
:h* y held. One thing seems to he sure,
anti that is that the Macon and «’ovington
will be built to Athens.—Constitution.
Mr. Reave*, being out of the city, a re
porter found Mr. Prince Hodgson.and
inquired if there was anything in the
above, and he informs u> that at present
tile committee who went to Atlanta to
A Lonely Chicago Irishman Who U the Vic- i a Memorial of the Colored. People of Oeorge-
tlm of a Cruel Fair One.
-nil -
ul. Mr. in
.nc. Tin
not say what
about to go
nlumbii-. joits us
s'etv - irloans. and
•North ti
l scttioil
shorter lino
Tl.o Ma.-on
•micelle, anil
orgia roaii at
-ml Ci
almo
• t to
• l ( oilam t.
HYDRiH'llOltlA.
Atlanta. Feb. 12.—There is a
very lonely Irishman now sojourn
ing in Atlanta. He came here from
Chicago, anti his name is Fitzger
ald. There is] a romance in his vis
it. Sometime in the past, Fitzger
aid advertised in the Cincinnati
Enquirer for a lady correspondent.
The advertisement lell under the
glance ol a very bright and beauti-
lul ycraqg lady ol Atlanta, who
marked around her name in a paper
and sent the paper to Fitzgerald.
He understood the gentle hint, and
wrote a letter, which wasanswered,
and a veey lengthy coirespondence
followed. A lung-range engage
ment touk place, i.t last a visit
was arranged for Fitzgerald, and
•ome weeks ago he came to Atlanta,
lie bought a new wig, invested in a
new rig, and in due course of time
appeared at the door of his sweet
heart. In ihe home of the young
ladv there existed great expecta
tions. Tiie young lady’s sister went
to the door. When she saw Fitz
she screamed. Fitz looked tough,
and iiis beauty was not heightened
by his very great near-sightedness
and the consequent winking and
blinking of his eyes. He was ush
ered into the parlor, but gloom
brooded over the household when
the family hail seen him. The l >st
time he called lit found, instead ol
his sweetheart, a note saying he was
not tii> to the standard dreamed ol
during the correspondence, and to
please go away. Fitz told me the
young lady had written him that
-he cared for neithei lichesnor
beauty. He thinks he lias been
badly treated, but, like a true blue
gallant, he is still waiting and ho
ping the fair one will relent. The
young lady, however, has no idea
of changing her mind She was
misled by the beautiful letters that
Fitzgerald wrote. She had pictur
ed a very handsome man, and when
her lover came he was simply —
Fitzgerald.
ibi- plan?"
ill Is
A P'.yslelan Thinks There is No Such Dis
ease to Which Hainan Beings are Sub
ject.
A few days since, in conversation with
a very eminent physician, we asked him
wlmt he thoughlof I’asleur's new dis-
"I think
will save a great many
lives." was the reply, "of people who
imagine themselves bitten by mad dogs,
as it will sooth tlic ir rears." ’
your opinion of hydropho-
■ wo asked.
I think that one dog in ten
slaughtered for hv-
eally has the disease, and
“What
bin, Doeto
"I do
thousand
drophnhia
THE TW O:
People
AMS SENSATION.
i.-ns "f individuals -1
. mg the interests of
orth ami We.t am
• thousands of iimin:i
i'i unite ii
• state in
11 Europe,
s and thou-
tie
: to pay people to
el cm
■ them to 1
.1, of r>,'«
I"ibli>h
lit- South. An njqnopri-
:i year would he Mitlirient
iniphl'ts and distrihutf
■laying an agent t*> look
intv ro<i< abroad.'*
vat tiling, for instance,
the (Vniral railroad to
to induce iminiirrants to
I.;' tin
an In
i‘v of its re
<d fold
mil deve
id. It Would
1'v build
A DOT IM r I L t ASK.
Woman Thought, to
Beatan to Death.
that iti« v.*ry rare. A gentl
had a whole pack of valuable fox dogs to j
go mad. had them dissected, and he says
that tin* rabies are caused by a little
worm that gets under the tongue, and if
this ran he removed they will recover.
It is a mistake about a mad dog going
wild and biting everything it meets. On
tie* other hand, an animal thus afflicted
wants to gi t otf to some unfrequented
spot by itself and quietly die. If you will
let a rabid dog alone he won’t bother
y*n."
“How about human beings with the
disease?”
“T don't believe that a human be ;, 'g
ever had hydrophobia. When bitten by
a dog the blunt teeth bruises the flesh
and may give them lockjaw, but this i«
all. I do not credit the theory of a per
son having hydrophobia, and I am back-
id in this opinion by some eminent au
thority.”
Cincinnati Wild Over the Geor*
gla Revivalists.
Cincinnati, Feb. 15.—An ex-
traonlinaty scene took place to
night at Music Hall. It was the
closing night of the meeting ol Sam
Jonas a:ul Sam Small. Services
were U* be^in at 7:30 p.m. At 6
o'clock when the floors were open
ed over 6,000 people were pressing
for admission, and in five minutes
alter 6 every seat in the hall was
taken. Then the stage wa- packed
uiUi! the people, among them wo
men, sat on the front edge. Eight
who thousand people weie packed in
s to | the house. The Odeon Hal!, ad
joining, was also packed lull. Small
preached there. At 7 o’clock, when
Or. Jo)ce made his way to the
>t.ge, ne said he hail entered with
great d.flicuity and that the fiont of
the hall was packed with people
vainly trying to enter; that the
streets for thiee squares were a sol
jd mass of pe >pie,„ He was sure
25,000 people had tried to enter
Music Hall. Fifteen minutes later
another minister arrived and said
theie were 30 000 unable to gel in.
Ten minutes later Sam Jones ap
peared and said that a policeman
told him there were 40.000 people
in and about Music Hall. Jones
preached to an attentive audience.
He goes home to-morrow to rest,
and in two weeks begins preaching
in Chicago.
kariut pijACtCK in Australia.
id an inquest on the body of
i-r. a colored woman living
Met l« >kry > |d.TC«-. Isa-
i ncumonia, but her fattier,
rri**. thinks that bruise* she
n her husband :.bm,t four
nf up to thf
»i!
in<-<! ;
l»r. i
WILL QUIT COTTON.
Mr. Pink Price, one <>f tin* ino-t ?
ci’ssfal young farmers in t >conee,
this war plant but little. if anv, cotl
sriving his attention to grain and st<
raisinjr. Pink has lately had three .lor
vey heifer calves dropped. one of which j
lie sold for$25n, anil refused that sum t
for the oilier two. (‘apt. .1. I. Calloway, j
who lias a large farm in rii-h-thorpe. says j
has acres of the richest bottom j
land sodded in llcrmttda grass, and will t
deiotehiswh.de attention to t!
duction of hay. wle-at and nap
farmer- are quitting cotton as fast
town — Judge Pressley's View of the 8ub-
Ject.
At the recent session of the Cir
cuit Court for Georgetown county,
a memoral signed by thirty-nine col
ored citizens of that county was sub
mitted, through Judge Pressley, to
the jury commissioners of George
town county.complaining of the ex
clusion of colored persons from the
jury panel. The memorialists claim
that there are as many colored tax
payers in the county as there are
white, and that there can be found
as many colored people of intelli
gence as the average “rural white
juror,” and in many cases men ol
more intelligence and more taxable
property among the colored citizens.
The memorialists further
that nine-tenth, of all the
cases before the Courts are
colored people and they ask for jus
tice and fair play in the name of jus
tice and a free country.
Commenting on this somewhat
extraordinary document Judge
Pressley said that if, as a matter of
fact, the negro was deprived ol jus
tice by the absence of representation
on the juries, it is unknown to him.
He hail observed in Charleston a
tendency on the part of a few
preachers and colored politicians to
create an agitation on this subject,
but personal observation enabled
him to say that there was no com
plaint whatever from the great mass
of the colored people. In course ot
eight years experience he had found
it to he a tact that colored persons,
when arraigned lor trial, in nine
cases out ol ten objected to jurors of
their own race anil accepted the
whites. He had been intormed by
the lawyers who represented pris
oners in these cases that the reason
ol this was that a colored juror
would frequently convict on mere
suspicion, wheieas white jurors
would almost invariably be govern
ed solely by the evidence, and
would refuse to convict where
this was not sufficient in the up-
country. where there were compar
atively tew negioes, there were al
ways some on the jury panels, and
yet in a latge majority ol cases they
were objected to by colored prison
ers.
As a matter of fact he did not be
lieve that the negro suffered any
injustice from the lack ol represen
tation on the juries. On the con
trary lie would state it as an abso
lute fact, demonstrated by his own
observation that juries, consisting
almost wholly of whites, were al
ways disposed to give tire colored
He had recently tried
a white man in Marion county for
stealing a neg'o’s ox; the jury had
promptly convicted him and he had
been sent to the penitentiary for
two years. •%.,
The negroes once had control of
our entire state government, and
they had allowed their leaders to
plunder and steal until their flagrant
conupion became intolerable, not
only to the stale, hut to the United
States, and they had then been de
prived of their political supremacy.
They were now under the protec
tion of the whiles, who controlled
the machinery ot government and
the administration of justice; and he
believed it to be the duty of the
whites to see that they were pro
tected in all their rights. He made
it a rule to charge grand juries that
God would not bless the state un
less the rights of these humble and
helpless citizens were zealously
guarded. And he was confident
that there was a growing sentiment
in the state in tavor of their just and
hberal treatment.
He was convinced that there was
no complaint from the masses of
colored people, but that the agita
tion of this matter originated among
colored preachers, who were desi
rous of controlling the money ot
their flocks and aspiring politicians
and would be leaders, whose only
aim was to control the negro voters
savage fight for life.
THE DEtkTH OF MAJ. MURRAY BE
CALMS A STRANGE STORY*
The Major’s Hand-to-Hand Encounter with
a Jealous Money Lender In a Lonely
Room in London—A Duel to the death.
tng
■sil >1.-
•liot that tin* «h
.L ath fr
flu*
NO PETITION
l or M*vrral Jays a run
tloAtin# around thr strort
that a petition was Wiujr srrn tl v circu
lat’-din Athfns and Clarkr county to
have anothrr election on prohibition. It
a:i> !• poin d that a largo number who
VERY WEAK.
i Yesterday bring warm and pie
1 Mr. Gantt walked out on the piaz
his house, hut his strength gave
J pletely out, anti he had to he as
»«-rn i Fack to his room. It took
{fret 1 recover his breath. Mr.
Some time Ago we published a
statement ot the lavages of rabbits
*" j in Australia, they having become so
1 j numerous and dotiuctive that the
n * • authorities were alarmed and puz-
k- ! zled to know what to do to get rid
of the pests. It was stated that one
el England’s colonies had already
lost two millions of sheep by them, j
One flcok owner; it w as stated, had ; by these means for their own se’fish
trapped five thousand ot the Double- purposes. If the officers charged
>ome creatures, but that they were j w -, t b t be drawing of juries abused
«o numerous that they must be kill* j their trust and the neg»oes suffered
e.i by the million to perceptably j ail y injustice, it would then be time
check tlie rapid multiplication °* | for the proper authorities to investi-
1,1 j these prolific and devouring pests. \ g a t e the matter and remedy any evil
p<>s- j In a it cent English newspaper we j that .night he found to exist. The
i see that, although (^jieen^land has j injunction laid on the jury commis
not \et been etlected with the rabbit I s j oners fcrv law was simply tha* they
plague, attempts are being made 1° j should seltct proper and suitable
prevent their tngrtss into them ter- persons to serve as jurors, and be
nlorial limits by erecting rabbit was satisfied that they strove to do
com- j prooi wne fence*, ot: then boundry
isted | line. lenders luve been accepted
ernt.
of -
their duty recording to law. At
the present juncture he did not fed
rough,
dfol
.diihi
Hit
and that n
would h»* had to
• the call. The
t if thnv was ai
>rc than «*nou
pet the Ordinn
U.AY. tried
ything in the
hut it was a
i no petition be-
».rt, and if any one cc
• ad -ignud the petition
‘nnlless search. Therf
tig circulated, nor is there likely to he
me. The people of .Athens are satisfied
with whisky being out of the city. It is
i recognized fact that prohibition has
worked a great pood for this county, and
th*-y are willing to let it stand.
le time to | for 2 550 miles of fencing wire and ! ca ,i e< j upon to interfere; but if tlie
still has a | 45° ‘Dues of wire netting of small 1 petitioners, through their chairman,
id when he fails to j mesh. 1 he order will be shipped j desired to have a further hearing be-
une fever in the afternoon, | * ron ? ^ n K^ ant ^ forthwith. A route fore him, he would gladly give
he is improvin'* fast. It , lias “ ce J? ou , t ' tunning tor adis- | them private abdience and cheer-
i tance ol 7)00 miles to the intersec* ! fullv fn anv enprial arnnnHe
| ting angle of Queensland to New
■n | W: dk uptown, however. j j^outh VVales.and thence northward
h To CLEAN A PARTRID3E. j * or IO ° m '^ es * ^ ^ le Queensland gov-
V I A sportsman tolls us tho quickest and j ernmenl ha T s voted T50.000 lor that
t« 1 Lest wav to pick a ,.artrid,oist„ wnnpoit P U, P 0 ^' U !* est ""“ ,ed «*•«
* 11 1 miles ol fencing will have to belaid
in New South Wales,wiiile in Victo-
1 hut otherwis
will he a long til
th*
ids ;
(tin
ngs being
ild he found who j nothing but hone), and then the skin and
N'<>
PROHIBITION IN CLARKE.
•w elccti«>n will he held in this
mity on the prohibition issue unless
' L- al hill pass<>d for Clarke county is
• •• »r -1 hv the legislature, which is n* t
1 " 1 ' This hill, to order to have a
! v • • < :ion. requir«*s a petition signed
1 . v -half the legal voters of the county.
!ri th< first place, this number cannot be
k;el. a:t,l secondly, even Nvere it possible,
1:0 ns ill take the trouble to ride all
f, '»-r the county to get it up. Prohihi-
t’"ii is a fixture in Athens, and the old
t n pcr> had just as nv*-11 prepare to accept
vitahle or exodust.
feathers can he slipped as easily from the
birds as taking otf a glove. Picking par
tridges is a great deal of trouble, and you
can skin a dozen while you are picking
the fathers from one. The birds eat
just as well.
. . , t r police tor assistance in the case of
highest endorsements of I • . > i « o i ..u
^ her sixteen year-old son Paul, who
tht-
PROHIBITION IN HALL.
' 'ri the 10th of next month, an election
‘ r 'jl hejhcM in Gainesville and Hall coun
ty. to prohibit the sale of whiskey within
fi“- limits of said county. Gainesville is
n °tva prohibition place, no whiskey hav-
■ been sold there for some time. The
flavor, Mr. Walker, and a majority of
tie- council are dry men. and hence no
license is granted. The whisky men
have umde attempts to get license, but
•ailed. The temperance people are con-
"b*nt of carrying the county, while the
hquorites
A SUPERINTENDENT.
It is reported that a gentleman from
North Carolina .will probably he given
charge of the public schools of Athens,
as he shows th
any of the applicants. Any one can get
recommendations, and we advise the
Hoard of Education not to depend too
much on such in selecting so important
an officer. The best and most experi
enced inan to be found should he chosen,
it matters not where he comes from.
that the authorities have signified a
willingness to forego the duty upon
fully listen to any special grounds
of complaint they might present.
A LEAP FOR LIFE.
A Georgia Woman on Fire Leaps Into
Well.
. f Screven Co.,Feb. n.—A terri-
r,a so great is the demand for wire hle , eap , or life occurred on last
BROKE HER HEART.
A Mother Dice From Grief While an Officer
Arrests Her Son.
A New York special says: A.I
about midnight Mrs. Kate Barker,
torty-two years old. applied to the
express themselves as being
A SUICIDE.
Homer Friday H. B. Henderson
committed suicide by shooting himself in
1 with a pistol. , JJo died in fifteen
Jjunutc*after tha bill entered the head.
^Mowasthe excessive drinking of
Th,
»W«ky.
JUDGE REESE DEAD.
.1 ml “0 Augustus Reese.one of the purest
men in Georgia, breathed his last Mon
day. .Judge Reese fell last week and
fractured his arm. This, together with
liis failing health, caused his death.
POST OFFICES.
Banks is one of the smallest counties
in the state, and yet there are twenty
post-otTlces where the citizens of this
county can get their mail. Banks is
blessed with mail facilities.
he said was in the nabit of return
ing home late every night intoxicat
ed. creating a disturbance and abus
ing her. Detective Blissert was de
tailed, to accompany Mrs. Barker
home and arrest her son. When
they reached the coruer of First
avenue and Sixth street the woman
stopped suddenly, placed her hands
over her heart, and with a cry ol
grief fell to the sidewalk, where she
exclaimed passionately:
“Oji, God, my heart is breaking!”
The woman was carried back to
the station house, and died on the
way thither. Her son Paul was
shortly afterward arrested. When
he saw the dead body of his moth
er he threw himself upon it, and
expressed great sorrow, saying that
he was the cause ot it all.
ONLY A DOLLAR.
The last legislature passed an act to
pay coroner s jurors one dollar. This
is why so many arc anxious to get on
these juries.
AT HOME.
Congressman Rer*e has left Washing
ton on a telegram announcing the dan
gerous condition of his father, Judge
Iiecse, of Madison.
IN TEXAS.
Mr. B.H. Kinncbrcw, formerly of Dan-
ielsville. is the city attorney in Bowie,
Texas, and doing a fine practice.
Friday morning, about ten o’clock.
A negro woman living on the place
of Hon. T. H. Oliver, Screven
county, was standing in front of the
fire, when her clothes ignited and
soon was enveloped in a sheet ot
fire. After several ineffectual ef
forts of friends to extinguish the
fire, and seeing nothing but certain
death staring her in the face, she,
in the excitement, ran one hundred
yards and deliberately jumped into
the well used on the place, which
was about 25 feet deep in water.
When she first rose to the surface
of the water she made another des
perate effort to save her life. Grasp
ing the first footholds in the well
she managed to get hold of the first
round in the curbing, but unfortu
nately for her it gave way, thereby
causing her second descent. She
again rose to the surface, getting
hold of the opposite round, and
managed to draw herself from the
well,when medical assistance reach
ed the scene. Emily is a woman of
fine physique, and saved her life by
her superior masculine powers.
Hero of an Exciting war Incident.
Qjjincey, 111., Feb. 9.—Lieat.
Martin J. Hawkins, one of the
twenty-four men who in 1S63 at
tempted to destroy the bridges and
telegraph lines of the Chatanooga
and Atlantic railroad, died here on
Sunday night. The daring raiders
were captured before they reached
the Union lines, most of them were
hanged. Hawkins and a few others
escaped, and later on congress re
warded them by promotion.
The postmaster at Fort Dade,
Fla- is an embezzler.
Ml'RDER.
Verdict of the Jury In the Mauldin Caee.
ToccoA.Ga., Feb. 13.—The Cor
oner’s jury, investigating the mur
der of young Mauldin, published its
verdict to-day as follows:
“We, the jury, find that Alexander
Mauldin came to bis death by
wounds from a shot gun in the
hands of Alfred Freeman, and was
afterwards robbed by him.’’
No motive further than is dis
closed in the verdict is known.
Fred is fourteen years old. His
father, Maj. Freeman, was formerly
Mayor of the town, and is now post
master, and is one of the most hon
ored citizens of Habersham county.
Fred has not yet been arrested.
New York SUr.
London, Jpn , 9 ._Three days ago
a brief notice in the London news
papers told of the death at Monte
Carlo ol Maj. William Murray, at
the age of 75 years, it has excited
com men?; and yet tw-nty five
yca.s ag i next April, Maj. Murray
s lalk of London and the strange,
savage tragedy of Northumberland
, , street Strand, in which 11 ° CCi ? r l^ d ’
ute was the nine-day horror of all Eu
rope.
Major Murray was a gentleman
of good position and fortune,a brave
soldier, and highly popular in the
military clubs—one of those bache
lors known as “a man s man.
Twice or thrice a week he went
down into the city, for he was
influential in several strong compa
nies. In appearance he was a mod
el of a retired military officer; erect
in carriage, trim in dress, with a
bold,sweeping mustache, waxed at
the ends. J he Major had no secrets
from the world; his habits were as
regular as the sun, and he could be
found as easy any man in the city.
One crisp' April morning, after
he had breakfasted heartily at his
club in Pall Mall, he set oat to walk d! ”’ a - in
down to the city to the meeting of
the Board ol Directors. Atr extra
dividend was to be declared that
(lay and ttje Major was uncommon
ly cheerful—even, as subsequently
appeared, to the extent infringing
club rules by tipping his waiter un
der cover of the cloth. Ten minu
tes later he was seen pacing jauntily
down the strand. At the corner ol
Nortnumberland street he was stop
ped by a man whom he had never
before seen. .
“Beg pardon, but this is Major
Murray?” the stranger asked cour
teously.
“Yes,” said the Major.
“Director in the Grosvcnor Hotel
Company?”
“Yes,” said the Major again.
“You will, I hope, overlook this
intrusion. I am the solicitoi lor. a
gentleman who has £40000 to in
vest in the Grosvenor note! on ray
favorable report. I have studied
the condition of the company J°r a
week, and I am petlectly satisefid
except on a tew minor p itnls. I
was on my way to lay my inquiries
■before the Board ot Directors when
I met you. To-day it happens I am j
very much pressed for time. Non
can tell me in a moment what I
want, lo know this my excuse for
this liberty, and I should be im-
'mensely obliged to you would you
step into my chamber just below
here.”
He was a medium-sized, self-pos
sessed, business-like man,with crop
ped black whiskers, and the air and
die-s of a prosperous attorney.
Evidently he was not used to stand
ing on formalities to save time and
gain a point. The Major hesitated.
It was an irregular proceeding. But
the stranger was quietly pressing,
and the Major good humordly ac
quiesced. He followed the stranger
to a dingy building on Northumber
land street and up three flights of
stair6, into a se‘. of cramped and,
dusty chambers. These were nota
bly tidy. Legal-looking papers
were piled neatly on shining desks
and clean shelves; but no clerk ap
peared. On the largest table a litter
of letters, an open inkstand, and the
half written page of a note showed
recent occupation. The furniture
was rude but polished by time. Not
an enlivening place the Major
thought,but a copy of hundreds of
other chambers in the neighborhood.
His guide stopped in the first and
lightest room, having a double win
dow, with tiny panes, looking out
on the low roofs opposite, and
wheeled a cha : r with high, straight
arms and back into the light. He
had not spoken on the journey.
Now he said.
“It's high up eh?”
“Yes,” said the Major as he seat
ed himself.
“Out of the way of everybody?”
the stranger continued, with an odd
chuckle. The Major turned sud
dtniy at the sound. He never knew
whv, for his nerves were strong.
But that low husky rattle had in it
something so sini-ter, so cunning,
so satisfied that it startled even the
old soldier. The man had turned
toward the shelves and seemed
to be quietly and methodically
searching papers. Ilis face was
hidden. Without answering, the
Major resumed his first position,
with crossed legs, upright shoul
ders, and gloved hands resting on
his malacca cane—an attitude of pa
tient expectation. But he felt a
restless impatience to be done with
the business, and an odd,depressing
uneasiness. He bent down his head
to get a broader view of the cheery-
morning sky. The next instant he
sprang madly forward at the elec
tric touch of a small icy ring at the
back of his neck, and the next tell
face downward, rigid and senseless,
with a cartridge ball just above his
spine, and in his ears the echo of a
pistol shot thrown back muffled
from the thick walls.
■ Ht>w long his paralysis lasted or
what it concealed the Major never
knew. When he opened his eyes
he was still prostrate on the floor.
He was conscious of a pool of blood
under his cheek and another where
his hand had fallen, crunched be
neath his. breast. With some guar
dian intuition, he struggled, in his
returning consciousness, to restrain
motion. He conld see nothing but
the brown'squares of straw matting
against which his face had drop,
ped. As his confused sense cleared
he realized that he was wounded in
three places—in the neck, in the
shoulder and in the side. Those
last two had saved him by letting off
the blood, which relieved the cere
bral syncope that had caused the
assassin to believe he had killed his
victim with the first ball. The Ma
jor ielt little pain from his wounds.
It was too soon for that. * But there
was a spot on his leg, with the dull,
continuous soreness of. a bruise.
With diabolical malignancy his ene
my had twice fir*d into and then
kicked the body of the man who
seemed to be dead. The Major,
lying-motionless, did not speculate
on the causes of this acrid, insentatc
hate. He. asked himseif only,
“Where is the scoundrel now?”
And growing stronger every mo
ment, be finally decided to turn upon
bis side.
Hp contrived to achieve this
noiselessly and brought the further
half of the room within range of his
eyes, and then he closed them and
breathed more lightly than an in
fant; for, seated at a desk, calmly
writing, was his cowardly assailant.
His profile was toward the Major,
cameo like, in its paleness against
the black oak wainscotting. His
broad, square brow was unclouded,
and his expression fixed and serene.
But tor the cruel, strong seams about
his thin lips the Major would almost
have doubted his identity with the
assassin. It he should look around!
The Major peered furtively through
his eyeglasses. His frame tingled
for joy when he saw a pistol on the
floor, where it had been thrown.
His cane must be behind him, for
he could not see it. But if he could
reach that pistol! The blood surg
ed to his heart. He could not re
strain a tremor of elation. The
matting rustled. The man at the
desk turned swiftly, with a livid
startled lace. The Major sprang to
his feet.
For one mighty second they con
fronted each other; the assassin
quivering with a sudden supernatu
ral terror, his long flexuous fingers
clawing and scratching at the
smooth edge of the desk and the
Major’s face blazing terrible pur
pose. Then, by mutual impulse,
both sprang toward the pistol. Nei
ther stooped. They stopped, with
the weapon between them, glaring,
panting, watchful. Then the Ma
jor, with a dexterous kick, flung the
pistol across the room. With
the hiss of a baited snake the
leaped with writhing
fingers at the Major’s throat.
The Mayor met him with a ring-
blow, and as he staggered
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE
PRESIDENT.
GEORGIA NEWS.
locked him in a grizzly’s grip. The
awful struggle began.
The Majors gloves cramped his
hands and loosened his grasp, and
his wounds bled copiously as they
strained and swayed back and lorth,
above and below, over the slippery
floor, with low, ferocious cries and
grasps. Without his opponent’s
streng h the assassin’s power was
unimpaired. With teeth and claws
by desperate contortions, he olten
evaded the Major’s blows, and tore
frantically at his wounded neck.
Never wholly releasing himself. It
was yet possible he would tire his
antagonist out, and it was with the
joy ot a saved soul that the Major,
thrown near a tottering desk,
caught an empty heer bottle. Ral
lying his failing strength, he struck
the assassin. The man’s clutch re
laxed, a film clouded his glittering
eves, and he fell dead.
Faint and weak though he was,
the Major felt that he must not leave
the place without trying to explain
the mystery of his adventure. He
racked his memory in vain for the
motives of the dead man’s design.
Then dragging himself to the large
desk, he saw the letter, now direct-
How He la Dismembering the Democratic
Party—Has the Contempt of the Republi
cans and the Distrust of the Democrats--
Pnblicly Sneered at in the House and
Senate—Wants to Be Renominated.
[Special Correspondences Banner-Watchman.]
Washington - , D. C„ Feb. 13.—Editor
Banner-Watchman: At your request, I
will write you a short letter, giving you
the “true inwardness” of the political
situation in this city. Yon ask what is
thought here of the President's policy?
Well, it is looked upon as a fatal mistake
for the democracy, and if a Presidential
election came off to-da}-, the republican
party would sweep tho country like a
tidal wave. The democrats are hacked
and dejected, while the republicans are
insolent and bouyant. They see the
President is afraid of them, and they are
making all tho political capital they can
out of his weak-kneed policy. That lit
tle threat in the senate about removals
was only done for the effect on the
pending congressional elections, and be
fore adjournment all of Jthe Presi
dent’s appointments will be confirmed. I
do not suppose there ever was a public
officer more roundly and unanimously
ahused than President Cleveland. The
republicans have no respect for him,
while his own party looke upon him as a
traitor in their ranks. If you sec a group
of half a dozen democratic congressmen
together, you can safely bet ten to one
that they are engaged in abusing the
President and denouncing his policy.
Why, oven on the floor of the senate
and house he is often held up to censure,
and when such denunciation comes from
the republican side, it is sure of applause
from the democrats. It is very much
feared that the President’s milk-and-wa
ter policy will imperil the democratic
majority in the House, as the party all
over the United States is disappointed
and disheartened, while the republicans
were never in finer spirits. I was talk
ing yesterday with a congressman from
Michigan, who remarked to me: “We
have now five democrats in congress
from my state, and the party was
strengthening daily. But Cleveland's
miserable policy will lose the last one of
us our places. Every office in our districts
is filled by a republican, and we have
been able to do nothing for our follow
ers, who are deserting the party like rats
will a sinking ship. I had rather see
Blaine to-day President than Cleveland."
This is but a sample of the wholesale de
nunciation of the President. The North
South, Fast and West unite in their com
plaints. Every government office in this
city is still filled with the most partisan
Gainesville will accept the new
fire engine.
The county of Chatham is in
splendid condition financially speak
ing. It has a fund of over $60,000
on hang and does not owe a dollar.
At Atlanta eight sat down to a
quiet game of poker Saturday night
in a private room. Before the game
wound up Sunday morning $r_4oo
had been lost. One actor lost $200,
and another showman $250. Three
drummer boys scooped in all the
money.
Madison county can furnish a
case ot the most remarkable fecun
dity—a lady giving birth to four
children inside of twelve months,
and not having twins either time.
About the first of March of last
year the wife of a Mr. Bradley, liv
ing in the upper part of the county,
gave birth to triplets, and the first
of this week she gave birth to one
—making four children in less than
a year.
Gainesville, Gn , is to have a morn
ing paper.
Parnell says if he is not given his
own way he will resign.
A hotel was burned at St,
George’s, Ont., and thiee.men With
it.
Dynamite has been used on a sa
loon in Cleveland, Ohio.
The business portion ot Flagstaff,
Arizona, was burned.
The senate has granted the frank-
ing privilege io Mrs- Gen. Grant.
A horse thief named John Wil
son, was lynched at Danbury, N. C.
Measles are an epidemic in Rabun
county, Ga.
The persecuted Chinese out west
want damages.
The Union passenger depot at
Dalton, Ga., is burned.
Attorney-General Garland says
he will not resign on account of the
telephone scandal.
The nomination of Martin Bow
den, as postmaster at Griffin, Ga.,
was made by the President.
Everything is now ready to push
through the completion of the Geor
gia Pacific to Columbus.
Mrs. Frederick Johnson, of Oran-
oke, Conn., shot herself through the
heart.
GENERAL NEWS.
President Cleveland’s wealth is
placed at $60,000.
Cyrus W. Field has again begun
the restoration of the Andre monu
ment.
Cancer caused fifteen d :aths in
Boston last week—just one-halt as
many as consumption.
The bill introduced in congress to
give Mrs. Hancock $2,000 a year
will pass both houses unanimously.
It is now said that General Han
cock destroyed his fine and robust
constitution by high living.
Mrs. U. S. Grant will receive
nearly three-quarters of a million
dollars from the sale of the General’s
“Memoirs.”
A Missouri farmer who has been
testing seed corn from the butt, the
tip and the middle of the ears for
three years finds that the corn from
the tips of the ears will ripen first,
that fiom the middle next, and that
from the butt last.
The story of the meanest man in
the world comes from the West. It
seems a manufacturer of iron hung
himself one day in the work room.
Several of the hands left their work
and spent several hours in resuscita
ting him. What was their surprise
the next pay day to find that their
miserly employer had docked them
lor the time used in saving his life!
John B. Gough; the renowned
temperance lecturer, has been
stricken with apoplexy in Philadel
phia.
Moody and Sankey will conduct
religious meetings in Columbia for
several days in the early part of
next month.
ed and completed, ot which he had .republicans, while linndreds of
noticed the beginning on entering.
He started at the address on the
envelope, then eagerly tore it open.
The story was all there. The letter
was addressed to a lady friend of
the Major (here the Colonel, in
telling the story, winked laborious
ly). She wasextiavagant, beyond
the Major’s means, and had raised
money during the past two years
through the writer, the dead man
Roberts, a money lender. Roberts
had become infatuated with her,
and persecuted her. While faith
ful to the Major, she did not ven
ture to complain of Roberts, be
cause ot the money she owed him.
Nevertheless she vowed not to leave
the Major while he lived. The
jealousy ol Roberts construed this
into a hint to murder Murray, and
for twoj ears he shadowed him at
all hours. In all parts of Europe,
he followed him waiting
his chance. In all this time
Murray had no suspicions, nor
could he recall having seen the man.
Roberts’ letter ended with the prom
ise to claim his reward when Mur
ray’s body was disposed of; and if
the woman insisted, Roberts would
willingly desert his wile and chil
dren. Murray’s emotions on finish
ing this perlormance was naturally
powerful. He shuddered with re
lief that his unknown, implacable
foe was dead at last. But his pres
ent position was sufficiently seri
ous. The building below stairs had
seemed deserted. No one, to his
knowledge, had seen him enter
with Roberts. He was alone with
the man he had killed, and his
wounds were evidence of their
fierce struggle. What could he
prove in his own defence? There
was the letter. The Major studied
it in a faint, dizzy, wavering way.
At last he staggered across the
room, threw it in the fire and watch
ed it consume. He could not use
that letter, he thought, let a jury
find what it might. And then he
groped liis way toward the door.
The door was locked. Murray
searched blindly for the key, in the
dead man’s pockets, on the floor,
under the matting, behind the fur
niture. The key was lost or hid
den. Murray was getting weaker
eve r y moment. He must bleed to
death if he stayed in this fatal room.
He managed to reach the window,
to open it, and to shout tremulously
for aid. It opened into a narrow
court of blank walls, and there were
no passers oelow. A thick iron
water pipe, fastened to the building
by rings, ran beside the window
down to the pavement. Murray
swung himself out of the window,
clenching his pipe,* and began his
perilous descent. Time and again
his life was not worth the flip of a
sixpence. All his ebbing strength
had settled in his hands, and when
his feet touched the earth he swoon
ed. He was found ten minutes af
terwards and carried to the hospi-
J. W. Renfroe was nominated bj
the President for postmaster at At
lanta. No doubt is expressed as to
his confirmation by the senate.
Jefferson Ellis, of Chattanooga,
shot his brother Samuel Ellis
through the head, killing him in
stantly.
A Chicago lady is claiming es
tates in the Hawaiian islands on the
ground that she is related to a king.
The story is quite romantic.
On last Thursday night a cyclone
struck Mr. Joe A. Daniel’s store
house at Leesburg, Ala., and com
pletely demolished it, scattering his
goods in every direction.
The Attorney General of Virgin
ia, it is reported, has filed an opin
ion to the effect that coupons must
not be receieved for taxes.
SAYING A BABY'S BEAUTY.
true and tried democrats hare been walk
ing the streets for months in a fruitles
effort to be heard. They feel like they
liare been betrayed—robbed of
their natural inheritance. The
truth is, Cleveland lias always been
elected to office by republican votes, and
he feels it essential to conciliate that
party. He is completely under the con
trol of a few New York mugwumps, and
such men as Curtis have more influence
over him to-day than every democrat in
congress. President Cleveland is play
ing bis cards for a renomination, but lie
won t “touch it with a ten-foot pole.”
Why,his party would rise in open rebel
lion against having such a political rene
gade foisted on them again, and the
Greeley campaign would repeat itself.
My statement of the standing of the
President here is not overdrawn, and by
spending a day or so in Washington you
can hear enough vituperation against him
to last a life-time.
Senator Sherman is the ablest man in
the republican party, and if he receives
the Presidential nomination will he a
hard candidate to beat. Georgia.
THE SPRING FASHIONS FOR 1886.
Fans are of all fashions and descrip
tions.
Black hosiery are worn by men, wo
men and children.
Fussy, superfluous trimmings are go
ing out of favor.
Combinations of silk and velvet form
the bulk of the toilets imported for early
spring wear.
Cheviots come in checks, bars, and
stripes, and with smooth, boucle and di
agonal grounds and surfaces.
When overskirts are looped at all the
drapery is drawn very high around the
hips and made somewhat bouffant.
Tho newest hat in Paris is “the Lady
Doctor.” a crush hat with a shavin;
brush pon pon on one side or directly in
front.
Stripes will be again worn, but more
frequently for crosswise trimmings of
the bodies, and for horizontal lined front
breadths of plain frocks, than for entire
suits.
Long kid gloves, which are deriguor
with short-sleeved evening dresses, have
tops of guipure lace, of netting of silk
Jersey webbing, and sometimes of rows
of embroidery alternating with silk gauze
pu ffs.
A Delicate and Probably Successful Surgi
cal Operation in Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 16.— An operation
pertormed atone of the South Side
hospitals in this city is thus descri
bed by one of the attending surgeons;
The patient is a girl whose body is
covered with hair moles. One of
these began on her forehead, exten
ded down over her eyelids
.-.nd covered the bridge over her nose
disfiguring the otherwise beautiful
face. The operation was for the
purpose of removing this growth of
hair. The patient was placed under
the influence of an anmthetic and the
surgeon made an incision in the
skin, covering the forehead and the
cheek bones on each side and
and throught the outer skin of the
eyelids and upper part of the nose.
Then he cut through the skin on each
eye,leaving a pair of eyebrows. The
skin was removed and small pieces
cut from the patient’s limbs and
transplanted over the forehead, nose
and eyelids. The child was so com
pletely covered with moles that the
surgeon was obliged to make the
transplantation ot several small
pieces of skin instead of one piece.
“The forehead will be slightly
scared,” said the surgeon,“but it will
be a thousand times % more sightly
than if it was disfigured by that
mole.”
The little patient did aot seem to
mind the operation, and in half an
hour, after recovering from the in
fluence of the anaesthetic, was
sleeping soundly.
Tefferson Ellis, in the course of a
quarrel with his brother at St.
Louis, Mo., became so enraged that
he drew a pistol and shot the latter
dead.
Thomasville, Feb. 16.—The
negro school recently burned at
Quitman, and about which so much
fuss was raised, is to be established
here.
Asheville, N. C., Feb. 16.—On
yesterday two colored convicts were
killed on the Asheville and Spartan
burg railroad by the explosion of a
blast. Others were seriously injur
ed.
Atlanta, Feb. 16.—Hiram Foot,
a 13 year old dudish looking negro
boy, was run in to-night for com
mitting an assault on a four year old
child. Evidence against him strong.
The child’s condition is critical.
James Ehle, his wife, father and
three children and Mrs. Kinney per
ished by the burning of the Ehle
residence, in the town of Green-
bush, Mich. A hired man alone
escaped, and he is thought to have
fired the house.
FEEDING SWINE ON MONEY.
How a Fulton County Farmer Recovered
Hla Lost Greenbacks.
One hundred and fifty negroes,
beguiled from their homes in South
Carolina by emigration agents, have
been stranded upon the streets of
Jackson, Mississippi, penniless,
with all their baggage held by the
railroad companies in pawn for their
fare.
Atlanta, Feb. 16.—Manager
Cohen, of the Augusta opera house,
was here to-day to enter suit against
Mr. Strakosch, manager of the
English Opera Company, for can
celing an engagement in Augusta.
Under advice of Mr. Julius Brown,
Mr. Strakosch compromised with
Mr. Cohen for $150.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 13,—A
fire at Lancaster, S. C., this morn
ing destroyed the Crocket House,
two stores and the building occu
pied by Barber & Shoemaker. The
fire originated in the room of a
millwright named O’Dernder, who
went to bed drunk with matches in
his pocket. His charred body was
found in the ruins.
Atlanta, Feb. 13.—Mr. M. A.
Goer fed his hogs this morning, and
came to town for the purpose of
making purchases. When about to
pay for them he missed his wallet,
which contained $250. He at once
retraced his steps without stumbling
across his treasure. At last reach
ing the hog pen, he at once decided
that he must have dropped the mon
ey while feeding them, and immedi
ately set to work to kill them with
the view of finding his money. In
this he was successful, finding in
the entrails of one ol the animals a
wad of pulp, into which the green
backs had resolved themselves. He
brought this to Mr. Lot Hill, Presi
dent of the Gate City National Bank,
who estimates that it contains $200
of the money, so that the other $50
is in some of the hogs which have
not yet been killed. Mr. Hill will
send the pulp to the Treasury de
partment in Washington for ex
change.
FROM NEW YORK.
The following is an extract from a let
ter written to Mr. Skiff from a friend in
Jamestown. X. Y.:
“Our cold snap that with you went
down to zero, with us was 20 to 25 de
gress below, but we passed it very com
fortably, as in this city we use natural
gas for heating and cooking, and it is the
tal. Robert’s body lay in the cham- n ' c, ' s * thing out. They attach it to any
hers until Murray could speak, three
days afterward. On his recovery
Murray was tried and acquitted
Wanted a Peasantry.
The need of the state seems' to be
an educated class of citizens, well
up in the arts and sciences, willing
o work sixteen hours a day at $8 a
month. The poor negro is down
at the right place, but he is not up
to the standard in work or mental
acquirements. He will be shelved
as we can procure an ideal peasant
ry such as poor Goldsmith wrote
about so beautifully. These fellers
that know all about strikes and think
the good things'of the world don’t
all belong of right to the landlord,
need not apply. Willing, tractable,
horny-handed, sixteen hours a day
and wait till Christmas for your pay
peasantry, willing workers and poor
grumblers, may address with recom
mendations enclosed with stamp for
reply, p rof. White, Athens, Ga.—
Hamilton Journal.
Gearge C. Cannon, the» master
mind of the Mormon church, has
been arrested.
stove and let it run night and day. It
has not been out in our stoves this win
ter, and part of the time have to turn it
down, as it heats up too much. It is
brought from Pennsylvania, about 30
miles from here, in 8 inch pipes, and then
distributed all through the place, same
as manufactured gas, and you pay so
much a month. So with no fire to build,
and no coal nor ashes to take care of, it
takes off more than half the work of run
ning the house, and then it is no more
expensive than coal.”
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 13.—
The south bound train on the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad was
wrecked about .15 miles above here
at 2 o’clock this morning. About
35 passengers were on board. The
smoking car. the first-class coach,
and three Mann boudoir cars ran
down an embankment about 100
feet high. Fortunately no one was
killed, and probably no one fatally
injured.
The attitude of the coinage com
mittee is regarded as a death blow
to the hopes of the gold men, mak
ing their petitions waste paper.
Fears are expressed that the silver
men may take advantage of the
victory and go too far. The gold
men made a mistake in agitating
the subject, They are caught in the
rebound.
DIED CURSING THE MOB.
A Colorado Murderer Swung by Lyncbers.
Denver, Col., Feb. 15.—A spe
cial from Red Cliff, Col., says: Fri
day last two miners named Perry
and Gleason became involved in a
dispute concerning the payment of
five dollais that Perry owed Glea
son, and the former shot the latter
through the heart. Perry was ar
rested.
At ti o’clock last evening a mob
of 200 miners came to town, over
powered the sheriff, took the pris
oner from jail and hanged him from
a railroad water tank. Perry’s only
request was to be allowed to climb
up a ladder and jump off. This was
refused and the rope was thrown
around his neck and he was drawn
up and strangled. His last breath
was used in cursing the mob.
Chicago, Feb. 16.—The great
McCormick Reaper Works closed
down at 9 this morning. Not a
wheel isturningand 1,400employes
have begun to undergo a seige of
enforced idleness. The threat of
certain employes „to precipitate a
strike unless five non-union men
working in the moulding depart
ment were dismissed appears to be
the cause of the suspension,as every
other demand ot the men was
granted.
INJURED BY WATER.
A little white boy who wat struck by
the stream of water while Gainesville's
new fire engine was being tested, is in a
more sorious condition than was at first
imagined. He is now spitting up blood
and undergoing much pain.
MARRIAGE IN OGLETHORPE.
Married, on the morning of Feb. 16th,
at the bride’s mother, in Oglethorpe
county, Mr. John W. Hubbard, of Wilkes
county, to Miss Lizzie W. Slaton, Dr. J;
G. Gibson officiating.
FIGHT OYER A CORPSE.
We have often heard of two females
wrangling over a real live man, but it re
mains for Atlanta to get up a legal fight
between two of the fair sex over a cold,
cold corpse.
THE STAMPS.
There has gotten to be quite a demand
by relic hunters for local Confederate
postage stamps. Mr. Munstein, the jew-
elej at Dr. Lyndon’s, wilt give $3 apiece,
for them. [ '
Two men, while crossing the track
at Cleveland,'Ohio, in a buggy,
\
were struck by a locomotive and
l bqjh, wqrekiUed.
■■ «( ’ .!
RAILROAD IN THE AIR.
Every zephyr that blows wafts a rail
road to Athens. Those who are on the
inside look knowingly, and tell us that
there will be a railroad built to Athens
from most of the important points within
fifty miles of this place. Capt J. Calder
Turner, one of the best engineers in
Georgia, is in the city, and is as silent as
a dumb man 011 the subject. He says
there will be something done, but can t
tell what It is. The reporter has worn
out two pairs of Baldwin & Fleming’s $8
shoes trying to find out something, but
s( far he has learned nothing. Wc hope
though, in the near future, to give our
readers something definite.
vitQ iat- ; •• yv.i'H .*yv- ■}«$
NO CYCLONES.
Mr. Gus Brightwcll, of Maxcy’s, was
in the city yesterday, and says there will
not he many cyolones this summer, on
account of the farmers not using as much
guano as. in, former years. Mr. B. is
finply of the betiof that the cyclones are
caused by the-too free use of guano. If
the farmers would goto work and raiso-
their own. meat and corn, apd quit rais
ing cottour and using guano, the cyclone -
business would cease. Mr. Brightwcll 1
has a clear head on the hogand homiu-w
