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c'f-" v '■ r TU. fHE NEGRO A FAILURE. wmifB ADVOCATES new 1 SOUTHERN- PKJWANTRY TELfcGHAFHIOiSPAKKS. ' -Jt—\_J U 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- r\ w. i v 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