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0p L * ad Plpe * to fy6t YanXeo WltU. (1n I'ri.ice avenue, near its upper end, k , m ,< distance back free she street, and y , , : rove of beautiful native and orna mental tree* and in a wilderness of choice i,rubbery, sits one of the queerest shap- j house* mat the eye ever rests upon. l, js built somewhat after the style of a Swiss cottage, only more so, and while it looks queer and unusual, at the same tunc there is a rustic beauty about the ■dace, and such an evident display of taste ,nd refinement, that one never wearies 0 f looking at it. Although the house is apparently a cottage, being built on that order, it is one of the costliest and best constructed and arranged. residences in oar city. The house was designed b} the mother of Miss Mary Franklin, the artist, and cost $20,000 to complete. The timbers in it are all of heart pine and im mense size, and everything about the house of the very best. The walls were tirst varnished, then painted and var nished again, and are as fresh to-day as if just from the painter's brush. The entire first floor can be thrown into one room. No pains nor expense were spar ed to render tins house as near perfec tion as the skill of the architect could reach. Mrs. Franklin was educated at the North, and was a schoolmate of Har- rot lleecher Stowe; but she was devoted to the South, and during the war, when ammunition was very scarce, lore the lead pipes that carried hot and cold water all over her house out and pre sented them to the Confederacy. They were moulded into bullets, and with these missiles was the battle of Shiloh fought. SITKRISTEX DENT ELECTED. Prof. Branson, From tbe Old North State. The Hoard of Education met at the University Hank yesterday evening, for tile purpose of electing a Superintendent of the free schools. A full hoard, with the exception of Mr. Charles Stern, v as present. There were two applicants for lie place from Athens—1’rof. Orr and .'I- Mitchell. There were also appli cants from Massachusetts. Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky. Maryland, Florida and Ala bama. Each one of the applicants were well recommended, but Frof. E. C. Hran- son, of Wilson, North Carolina, was elected, with a salary of $],;>UO a year. I'rof. I'.ranson is a scholarly gentleman and will make a good Superintendent of the schools. The time of the board was taken lip in reading tbe different applica tions, and it took them some time to get through with their business. NO. XVI A-THEjSTS, GEORGIA, TTXESDA.Y, MARCH 9, 1886. VOL. XXXI THE STOCK LAW IN ELBERT. A Decision Which Seems Favorable to the * Pence Men. " v EtmcRTox, G*4 March 1.—-Last Satur day the celebrated stock law case came up for a hearing Wore Hon. George L. Alma?.d, ordinary. The case had been to the supreme court on a bill for prohi bition, and was sent back by that tribu nal to the ordinary,Tor him to declare the result of the election. The trouble in the case was that part of the vote had been consolidated and returned to the ordinary, which part gave “no fence'’ a majority. After elaborate and exhaust ive arguments by Messrs. W. M. Reese and M. I*. Reese for the fence party and Messrs. F. H. Colley, Joseph F. Worley and John P. Shannon for the “no fence” party, the ordinary granted an action di recting she superintendents of the elec- tien from the several precincts to assem ble on the 16th of March and consolidate the vote of the whole county. This is in effect, a decision in favor of the “fence” party, unless some of the precincts should he thrown out for irregularities in the election. Several of the militia districts of the county will probably hold elections on the question as early as prac tical. Mi l; POLITICS IN HALL. Judge Brown will hold Habersham court for Judge Kstes while Judge Estes goes to ] Lawson for him. F.ach has the congressional fever in mild form, and de sires to circulate among the dear people. Col. Candler has injured himself in the introduction of a hill to pension the sol diers of the 1st Georgia regiment. This was a hand of thieves, cut-throats and bushwhackers that infested this section during the war. Nearly all of them were deserters from the Confederate army. Most of them were captured in Bucktown, Gilmer county, and about twenty of them taken from jail at this place, carried near New Holland Springs and shot by some Confederate soldiers in November, 1864. —Gainesville Correspondent Augusta Chronicle. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. There will he four public school build- I in*s erected in Athens—in the first and j third ward for the blacks, and second Turner Latimer Fatally Wounds Ed Bolton . and fourth for the whites. 'I he one in OtiLE i ilORPK. — Tue Murderer at Larqe. I.knisutov, Ca, March J.—Sundai morning about nine o clock Turner Lati m- r, colored, had an altercation with on« l,i Bolton, colored, on : .elate W. A. < unnun miles from town. Turner, it seems, or- d- red said Ed out ofhis yard or he would attack him. Ed, refusing to obey said mandate, began abusing Turner, where upon Turner picked up an ax laving near him, and with it struck Ed a terrible blow just below the heart with the butt end of it, knocking him down. Turner then left for parts unknown, .as yet no wai rant has been issued for his arrest. Ed died to-day. BANKS COUNTY ITEMS. East Athens will he for the negroes. The buildings will he completed ami finished exactly alike, built after the same plan, ami will cost about .$4,000 each, besides the plantation of ! furniture. The localities we last week ham, about four ; published are the ones selected, and all four lots will only cost the city $1,100. The colored people must hear in mind that it is the Citizens’ ticket aldermen who are doing this, and are giving them the same showing as . the whites. The next election will show if they appreci ate it. Mrs. Joe Gunnels, the daughter of Rev. Win. Parks, died yesterday with heart disease. She was a very estimable lady Bushrille and I)»vi<J’8 districts will vote on the fence question in a short time. They arc two of the most fertile districts in the county, and will go for no fence by a large majority. The farmers are complaining of being behind with their preparations for a new crop. There are very few negroes in the county. They have all emmigrated to the west. Farmers who once owned fif ty and a hundred slaves could not r.ow find a half dozen. DEATH IN BANKS. Mrs. Gnnnels, wife of Rev. Joel P. Gunnels, and sister of Rev. H. H. Parks, presiding elder of the Atlanta district, died at her home near New Salem church, in Banks county, Monday morning, of pa ralysis. She ilitl her domestic duties Friday last ami seemed more cheerful than usual; was stricken of paralysis at night and died after an illness of only one day. She leaves a husband and large family to mourn her loss. This leaves only three children living of the late Rev. William J. Parks. She was a faithful wife, earnest Christian and loving moth- THE UNION POINT & WHITE PLAIN8 RAIL ROAD AS8URED. Atlanta, Feb. 28.—It now looks pret ty certain that a railroad will soon he built between Union Point and White H»ins. (’apt. Harry Hill, of the Geor gia railroad, who was for years conductor on the fast passenger train between here and Augusta, has retired from his posi tion to devote all his time to the building »*f the road between Union Point and White Plains. Capt. Hill has wealth, pluck, energy and youth. These prom ise success in any of his undertakings; so the road may now he regarded as as sured. AbUAKl DOG. Mr. Prince Hodgson has a little setter that is the smartest dog in the state. The carrier of the Banner-Watchman, when he gets to Mr. Hodgson’s house, gives a shrill whistle, and the dog comes to the gate and as soon as the paper is thrown over, he picks it up and carries it in to Mr. Hodgson. He is very proud of his accomplishment. MUST HAVE MEAT. A one-horse farmer living near Win- terville, set fire to a brush heap to run a rabbit out The wind wa 4 * blowing and the brush heap set the woods on fire, do ing considerable damage. One of the farmer’s neighbors asked him why he set fire to the brush heap, and he said that the rabbit was meat, and he was very much in need of that commodity at his home. * RIGHT MOVE. Mr. Smith, Oglethorpe’s big farmer, has bought a 100-horse power engine, with which he will operate his oil mill and fertilizer works, his cotton gins, saw mill, Hour and grist mills, and other ma chinery. It will save the hiring of a half dozen engineers, and is an economical move in the right direction. THE 1UI0T8 Two harmless incurable lunatics, or idiots, have been received at the pauper farm from the asylum. They are a brother and sister by the name of Gully. They were sent to the asylum from this county before the . ar, and under a re cent act of the legislature were returned as harmless and incurable. AN EPITOMIZED HELL. Horrible Atrocities Practiced in a Convict Camp. Cartersville Courant: We give below a letter written by a convict, a young Whiteman, whose name we withhold for the reason that there is no protection between him and the rackcity and ctuelty ol the lessees except the profit his labor mav bring to them. If the State of Georgia had been half sc> careful of her own interests as she was hasty in giving over these poor unfortunate human beings to people who are mainly in terested in pulling the last farthing’s worth of profit out of their bodily labor, we should not be compelled to lav these bare facts before the public, desparing as we do of a rem edy until the State’sforbearancc will endure it no more. The poor con - vict who laid these horrors before his attorney is as helpless as a Sibe rian exile under the knout. He was sentenced for receiving stolen goods, nnd sent to Smith’s camp, in Ogle thorpe county. We will give his letter in full, followed by our friend’s letter: Macon, Ga.,Feb. S.—Dear Sir: I give you the facts regarding the cruelty which was carried on in J. M. Smith’s camp in Oglethorpe connty, six miles from Winterville, form March 4th, 1SS5, to Mav Sth, 1SS5. John Martin, who complained of being sick and unable to work, was whipped, two men holding him close to the grand with a laige leath er strap mv!c ol three-ply -ole leather. He was struck 175 l.ishes. Burrell, a negro boy,was whipped until he was disabled for work for three days. John Bell, Lindy Moore and one other,whose name I have forgotten, had the skin whipped off their hips in places as large as a man's hand. The places were raw and sore end I called Mr. Towets’ attention to it While piling manure 1 ; the horse lot, five others wire bucked and unmercifully beat: n. T hey re ceived from 150 to 225 lick- each. I counted the licks. I was inside a crib assorting seed corn. Jesse Pollock and John Lar.c were cruelly treated — whipped almost every day. On the first of May my jaw was broken and I was unmercifully beat en because 1 reported them for their unhuman treatment to the prisoners. 1 was told by guards and convicts that Gilmore Johnson, who did all the whipping, shot and killed a negro man tor no other reason but becau.e relused to pull down his trousers to be wlvpped the second time tor the same offense. This was in June. 1SS4. It is impossible to write it alt,but this is some specimens ol their ctuelty. Respectfully, etc., Now we give an extract from the letter enclosing the above to the Courant: “I enclose you statements made by a man, at presen: in the prniten tiary. He was tried and convicted of receiving stolen goods and went to the camps. Afterwards his >ela- tives took the case to the Supreme Court. A superstdius being gran ted, he was released. The Supreme Court relused to interfere in his case, and he has been returned to the penitentiary. Smith’s camp is the one reported to the Governor by Dr. Westmoreland. The convict who wrote tne letter is a young white man with good connections in this city.” 11 these things are true,these must be a remedy somewhere. It cannot be possible that our Christianity and civilization will longer tolerate this horror in our midst. The state must redeem her name and honor. It will be remembered that a Georgia Leg islature refused to grant a separate camp for women, or a reformatory prison for young criminals. Even Legislators on the floor of the House sneered at such a humane effort, de nouncing it as a shemc to “fix up a Kimball House lodging for con victs.” Some newspapers ofGeorgia.es!- ling themselves Democratic j lurnals arraying themselves on the side of inhumanity (perhaps stimulated by the substantial help from the lessee lobbyists.) and tney became so bra zen in their support as to claim th THE DEADLY DYNAMO- Circumstances Surroundlnt tbs Evansville Case—"Uy God, I Am BbocFvdl"—Tbe singular Effects ol tbe Deadly and Invis ible Fluid-One Shock Will Kill a Thous and Men. Evansville, Ind., March 2.— The peculiar and fatal accident which befell Edward Oliver,an em ployee of the gas and electric light works, of this city, is still engaging public discussion. The facts gath ered at the coroner’s inquest are as follows: It is an established rule that em ployes, while working about the machines, shall keep their unoccu pied hand behind them to avoid an accidental completion of a circuit. A screw in one of the brushes be came loose, and Oliver was taking it out to replace it with a new one, when he startled Superintendent White witha cry. Turning to where Oliver stood, Mr. White saw him grasp his left hand and exclaim: “My God, I am shocked!” Mr. White hurried to the spot, and, see ing Oliver standing there with a death-like face, asked him how it happened. Oliverattempted to an swer, then closed his eye s and reel ed blindly forward. Mr. White caught him, but the stricken man appaiently revived and attempted to walk from behind the dynamo, but staggered and fell. It was not thought that he had sustained any injury, but had mere ly fainted. Water was dashed ovei him, when tie opened his eyes, gasped once or twice and then be came quite still. Dr. Corley was summoned, and responded immedi ately. The unfortunate naan was still quite warm, but Dr. Corley, afier a thorough examination pro nounced life extinct. Examination showed on the forefinger of the rig >t hand a small black hole, ap pearing as though punctured by a pin, on the left hand, which com pleted the short circuit and caused the fatality, was a deep burn, run ning diagonally across the third and little finger. Another pe culiar feature of the affair was that death was not instant. The dyna mo supplies light for fifty six arc lights, and generates sufficient elec tricity to kill one thousand men in stantly. A Distressing Tragedy. Cattletsburg, Ky., March 2.— Intelligence has just reached this place of a most distressing tragedy, which occurred on Marrowbone Cteek, in West Virginia, last Sat urday night. An individual by the name of Rev. J. N. Pickelseiiner, who claims to be a preacher, has been teaching school at the above named place, and the school closed on Friday He was celebrating the event by a big drunk Saturday night. Colo nel Bennett, the midget, and sleight-of-hand performer had the school house engaged for an enter tainment, anil while it was in pro gress Pickelst inter rode up to the door with a shotgun on his shoul- derand demanded admittance. This was refused him and the doorkeeper shut the door in his face. Enraged at such action, he fi-ed both barrels through the door, killing Colonel Bennett, the midget, instantly. Robert Hamilton, aged seven years, was badly shot, and died in a few hours afterward. Four other persons were wound ed, and it is thought they will all die. As soon as he fired Pickel- seimer turned his horse and left tbe scene under a full head of speed. The denizens are searching the country in a body for him, and should he be caught they will lynch him. BETBAYAL AND DOUBLE DEATH. gad Sequel to aassuuradoat Attachment at DaRlonega. Dahlonega, Ga., Feb. 26.—A gloom was cast over village a few days ago by reports of the ruin of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Strickland, of this place. She was only a little more than 13 years of age, an only daughter, anti a gener al favorite with all who knew her. Her betrayer was Cris Conroy, who died here six months ago, a book keeper for the F. W. Hall merchan dise company. He was a talented young man, and well liked by his employers and also much respected by all his associates, and much sor row was expressed at his death. He hoarded at Mr. Strickland’s, and the* ^treated him very kindly, as they did their other boarders. Mrs. btrickland took care of him in his last sickneks, little dreaming ot the Hark deed done to their only little daughter. Six months after Mrs. Strickland called in their physician, C. H. Jones, and he was obliged to tell the mother of the sad condition of the daughter. The mother, al though heart-broken, consented to be merciful to her child and let her go away with het father from her schoolmates and young associates for a time. Sunday evening Mrs. Strickland received a telegram from her husband that she was dying. The secret so well kept at once be came known to all, and sad indeed were those who knew the young girl only to love her as a modest and unassuming child, as it were. She left a little girl only a few hours old. She was brought here for burial, and to-day old arid young, playmates and schoolmates, stood around her grave and shed tears of sorrow at her sad death. FASHION NOTES. A HEW INVENTION. Mr. Frank Edwards, one of the model farmers of Oglethorpe county, has in* Tented a corn and pea planter. He had it on exhibition yesterday at Hodgson Uros*. store, and it was pronounced by every farmer who saw it to be the best in use. Mr. Edwards is a farmer, and knows exactly what they need. QONE TO NEW YORK. Captain Harry Hill, so well known as a conductor on the Georgia road, left for New York Tuesday morning, in the in terest of the White Plains and Union Point Uailroad Company. He will be absent several days. A LARUE PURCHASE. We learn that Senator J. M. Smith has purchased a half interest in Perkins' saw mills, below Augusta. A GHOST-HAUNTED COMMUNITY. The Scene of a Triple Tragedy Said to be the Home of Perturbed Spirits. From the New York World. New Haven, Feb. 28.—The res- idents of Killingworth, a quiet little village on the Sound, ate very much exercised over a haunted house. On a loneri road near the centre of the town stands an old house of pecu liar construction. It was in this mansion that a decade ago Mrs. Horace Higgins cut the throats of her three children while they were asleep. They were buried in the village churchyard and, although the other graves there nre covered in summer with an abundant growth of grass, not a blade ever grows on the graves of the children. Their mother was adjudged insane a d confined in a room overlooking the graves, and every night until she died she would stand at the window gazing on the clock in the church tower near by, moaning and craving pardon for her crimes. For many years the house had the reputation of being haunted, and it almost continuously remained ten antless until last summer, when the Ray family, of Boston, took it as a summer residence. The first night they slept there the two tenants were nearly scared to death by the apparition of a woman in white standing at their bedroom window. Loud and unearthly noises echoed through the house. The next night Mr. and Mrs. Ray say they saw the apparition, and they promptly gave up the house. Recently these facts were learned by the villagers, and since then several weird sights have, it is said, been seen in the old man sion. DRIVING OUT CYPRIANS. Large buttons are still the rage. Flounces are entirely out of fash ion. 1 ■" Torchon lace in all colors is entire ly new. The short spring wraps will have long front tails. Dresses are trimmed with lots of little ribbon bows. Scarfs of fine whitelawnare again fashionably worn. India silks will be much in vogue the ensuing season. Round hats will he more worn than bonnets this spring. Canvass with lace border for trimming is one of the novelties. Rich oriental embroidery is used for vests for silk dresses. Many dresses are made with long waists pointed front and back. Ginghams with tufted spots are shown in all the leading colors. Jets and fancy beads ot all sorts are still favored adornments. Blouse dresses are still the most popular styles for young children. During the summer hair will continue to be worn high on the head. On the new spring parasol a rib bon bow is tied just under the han dle. Birds and ornaments,but no flow ers, is the spring millinery man date. Fringes in all colors are formed of twisted strands of very narrow fringe. Ivory white vests are worn with velvet, silk or fine wool basques of dark colors. Feathers are liked even better than flowers in the coiffure on cere monious occasions. Velvet will be largely used this spring for trimming wool and silk as well as cotton dresses. Collars and dresses will be higher than ever this spring and cut per fectly straight on the edge. Persian lawn is much in favor for white summer dresses; it is inexpen sive, and washes well. Velvet skirts will be worn this spring with a great variety of cos tumes for street or house wear. Bonnets for visits and the theatres are dainty capotes, fastened with a single string and jewel brooch. Barege is one of the leading fabrics tor spring wear and is shown in finely woven and in opea work lace effects. Marabout feather fringe is a grace ful, pretty trimming, much.used on handsome evening wraps of rich materials. French percales are shown in beautiful designs and colorings. They are in plain and coral stripes and set figures. Gray suits with red velvet skirts are much worn in New Y'ork. Red velvet toques accompany such cos tumes. Ginghams in blue, tan, brown ecrue and cream, richly embroider- eied, form entire dresses with vests, collar and cuff of velvet. Mountain cheviots,soft and heavy, are excellent for mountain and sea side wear. They are in stripes and checks and cheviot effects. Whole breadths of netted beads or passementerie, on which heads are strung from the underdresses of handsome black costumes. Y’ellow ve vet is still prodigally used on many of the most charming of evening toilets. Two shades are used in making bows for tulle dresses. TURNING NEGROES WHITE. Hows “Fly" Yean* Man la Trading on Col ored People's Vanity., Philadelphia; News. The police department has been for some time past endeavoring to get between its official thumb and fare- finger a sharper, who has been for the past two months swindling the negro population of this city by working on their credulity and’their desire to become white. The man is described as tall and thin with negro features but white skin. His swindling consists in vending among colored people a preparation which he tells them will bleach the black est skin to a Caucasian white. He refers to the different freaks, Gen. Sherman attacks Gen. Frye again in the North American Re- who call themselves “leopard boys,” vlew as samples of the effect of his lo tion and tells gullible colored peo ple that it is through his “anti-black oleachine” that the “leopard boys’ ” skin have become white. He sells the “bleachtne” at $i a bottle or six bottles for $5. Assurances are given that a dozen bottles will have the desired effect if the purchaser will only persevere in the application ac cording to directions. There’s where the swindler is right, for if it be true that all the angels are white the ap plication of six bottles of ‘bleachine’ would give the blackest of the black-a-moors a skin of dazzling whiteness with a pair of white wings a harp and a crown thrown in. The effect of succumbing to the desire to become white may be seen in the colored district of down town, where dozens of darkeys go with their faces swarthed in greased cloths. The cause of the swarthing was explained by an old darkey the other day: “Dish yer white nigger soil me a bottle o’ stuff dat he said would would tu’n my brack skin white. I mus’ jest pour same ob de 'bleach lime’ in a sassah an’ rub it on de face wid a ha’drag. I ’ud git jest as clar a ’plexion as a—a—w’ite lady. I did jest as he told me, an,’ bless ye, hon ey, I jes’ t’o’t I win rubbin’ a nacid on my pooh face. De skin all kim off an’ I felt like I wuz burnt in de fiah. Y'er kin jes’bet ef I wuz to keep ’plyin’ dat stuff I’d a-gone to hallelujah lan’. It ’ud take a Florida man-eaters hide ter stan’ de burnin’ in o’ dat med’ein’.” The swindler reaped a harvest of dollars : n a very short while, hut has not been seen lately in the same neighborhood for the second time. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. J. Menko, clothier, Atlanta, has failed. Assets 810,000. The public debt was reduced $2,- 500,000 during February. Mr. E. W. Martin is Atlanta’s new police commissioner. The senate has rejected two of the President’s nominations. Hon. B. E. Crane’s property in Atlanta brought fair prices. A dry house at powder works in Dayton, O., blew up, killing three A BRUTAL EXHIBITION. Tbe Killing Traced to Rev. sum Jones: Millkdgkville, Ga., March 2. The killing of Marshal .Haygood Saturday has given a bloody culmi nation to one of the bitterests con tests over prohibition yet conducted in Georgia. As explaining the feeling that led to this sta’e of things, both parties charged the other with inciting the riot and bloodshed. The prohibitionists brought Sam Junes here, and he de livered a speech and pleached a sermon The anti-prohibitionists allege that he advised the prohibi tionists to be ready to fight.should it necessity of more brutality, more 1 be fo,,nd necessary, in order to se- in'iumanity and more vicious treat- ! cure lhe Piling of their votes, and ment j that he even recommended they f sueh sentiments could be open- ! should go to the polls armed with ly set forth in ot.ierw.se decent I P'S’ols. The prohibitionists admit newspapers, is it to he wondered at I ‘ hat J*' n es made use of some that J.M. Smith’s camp has become j s,,ch expressions, but they insist NO MONEY IN CONVICTS. Wc learn from good authority that Hon. James M. Smith last year lost over $10,- OOO on his convicts. He had just pitch ed his crop when measles broke out in his camp, and for several weeks his en tire force was down. When they got able to work the crop was badly injured. OUR NEW HEAD. To-day the Banner-Watchman appears with a new head, the old one being not only badly worn but out of style. We think the new one is quite tasty. We have also ucw ones for the Sunday and Weekly editions. We wish the editor could order a new head as easily—one without « bad cold in it. Never Heard of Death. From the Marietta (Oa.) Journal. We are told that in the mountain fastness of North Georgia, where the locomotive whistle has never been heard, where the “worm of the still never dieth,” and the mis sionary has not preached, that there aremen and childten who cannot read, never heard ot Jesus Christ, his mission or death, know nothing ot Sunday schools, or the proper observance ot the Sabbath, or what Christmas means. It is related that when a man’s 13-year old daughter died up there not long ago, the fath er bent over the corpse, with weep ing eyes and lacerated heart, and exclaimed: “She did not know there was such a thing as death.” 5>he had never seen anybody dead; >he had never been taught she had to die, knew nothing of the shad owy land of eternity, heaven or hell; yet thousands of dollars are •nnually collected from the people tk *5?* 10 Christianize the “hea- then Chinee," while in the moun- Win seeluiions the rough and illiter- e inhabitants scratch the ground, » n Aj th * dter , harb the trout, make li ? drink ‘heir whisky, and are ob- htioua to the gospel of Jesus Christ ORGANIZING. We lesrn that the Knights of Labor are organizing lodges in every district in the county, mainly among the blacks, and are preparing for a hard fight for both city anc county officers. The negyocs say they will get $1 a day for farm work next year, and board besides. M1SQUUTED. Prof. White was down to sec us yes' terday, and says his position toward the negTO on the peasantry question is mis understood. He did not advocate run ning these people from the country, for there is land enough for all to work. Let the negro remain and take his chances. FOR THE CHAMFI0N8HIF. The Oconee county hunters claim to be the best shots, and to have the finest bird dogs in the state. There is a prob ability of a big hunt between several parties living in Clarke and Oconee for the championship of the two conntiea. TALLULAH FALLS. The Messrs. Scofield yesterday rented Mr. Moss’ hotel at Tqllulah Falla. It is reported that they will also run hotels at Gainesville and ML Airy. We did not learn how long the Tallulah Falls hotel was leased for. DEAD. Mrs. Holly Csrter, an aged lady of upper Oglethorpe county, died last Sun day morning. the head centre of barbarism and unnecessary cruelty to prisoners? The leading journals of Macon, Columbus and Augusta cleared their skirts, and advocated a house ot correction for the unfortunate chil dren who are hardened and corrup ted by association with veterans in vilainy, but the little understrappers (some of whom we are reliably in formed took a fee of $5 to change sides on the Railroad Commission, yelled like they were paid the by line in behalt of the convict lease sys tem. Now, in view of all these facts, what ia to be said of our pulpits, which moan and sigh oves Chinese ignorance, and are perfectly “mum” on this great crying shame of Geor gia? Here in our midst white men and black men ate punished like dumb brutes by vicious “trustees,” them selves olten the grandest scamps in the corral (and as in the case of the white convict shot in the Chattanoo ga river by a negro fiend, himself sentenced for a more villainous crime,) there is whitewashing, ex culpation and apology in high places, because the lessees are pow erful in politics and vindictive in re venge. Saipan Bones In Mexico. A correspondent from Mexico City writes: “While excavating for the planting of some trees in front of tne Cathedral the workmen un earthed great heaps oi human bones. Americans who viewed the grinning skulls were a little horri fied at the. manner in which the bones of human beings were han- died. For more than half a day they lay in the sun, exposed to the gaze of the curious but unsympa thetic crowd. Toward night they were hauled off and deposited on the level land as fertilizers. Some claim the bones are of pi iests or victims of the inquisition, while others say they are of a more ancient origin. The ground close to the Cathedral was once the site of the Aztecs’ greatest Teocalli, or temple of hu man sacrifice, and many claim the bones are remnants of the Aztecs. They would certainly have furnish ed a study for Eastern people, but they caused hardly a second thought to the Mexicans.” hat he meant the prohibitionists should stand firm for their rights, nd nothing more. Immediately after the terrible tiagedy such ex pressions as these were common: “It was Sam Jones’ work,” and “How will Sam Jones leel when he hears to what his incendiary ut terances have led?” A dispatch from Macon, Ga., makes similar charges that Mr. Jones incited the prohibitionists to violence. SPARTANBURG. A Han Publicly Malned In a Wrestling Match. A dispatch from Chicago,Feb. 16, says: “The papers this morning com menting on the wrestling match be tween Lewis and Soratchi, declare that it was not sport in any sense of the word, but that it was unmiti gated brutality. Arms have been broken, shoulders put out of joint, hips dislocated, ankles sprained,col lar-bones broken.and other accidents fully as serious have happened iu wrestling bouts while trying various locks, but that never in the history of wrestling that a big hulk of a fel low straddled a weaker and smaller, twisted his legs back until his an tagonist was completely at his mer cy, and then with cold blooded,mal ignant, brute ferocity, deliberately snap off the ankle with a wrench that would almost snap a bar of iron.” A Horrible Tragedy. Aiken ,8. C.) Recorder. On the night of February iqth, a colored man by the name of Wm. Craftonjiving on some land bought from Hon. G. W. Turner, about five miles from VancJuse, had hi* house and contents destroyed by fire, and also his son and daughter burned into ashes. Their ages were be tween twelve and sixteen. Thete was another young man about twenty three years of age that also was burned to death. He lived, we understand, in Barnwell county, and was boarding with Crafton, and going to school at the Betris Acad emy. It seems that there were fif teen persons asleep in the house that night, and if a pistol, which was in a bureau drawer, had not been discharged several times just when it did, all of them would have been hurried into another world without a moment’s warning, and, as it was, they barely escaped with their lives. The three that were burnt never woke nor moved from their beds. It is supposed that the house caught from the fire place by means ol a broom that was left standing near a bed after sweeping the hearth just belore retiring. An Effort to be Hade to Improve a Dlsrep- reputablo Neighborhood. Atlanta, Ga., &arch i.—The prohibitionist victory is about to be followed up with the aboilition of the houses of ill repute. About three months ago a real estate agent went to the proprietresses of two well known places of this character in the city and offered a handsome sum for the propeity. Both were sold at $18,000. The women were told that they could keep the houses at a rental of $250 monthly until they were asked for. They thought that with such high rent they would never be asked to give up the prop erty. They have been notified, however, that they must vacate in lorty-eight hours. They can get no other houses conveniently located, and it is thought that forty women will be turned loose on the city. It transpires that the property was bought to put toother use, and thus to raise the valuation of other prop erty on the block whiclwwas injured by the location of these houses. The purchasers own most of the block. Fred Douglau' Family. A Washington Special. Frederick Douglass, the colored Recorder of Deeds, for the District, was one of the attendants at the President’s reception last night. He had with him a young mulatto girl, his wife and her sister. As the ven erable Fred approached the Presi dent with the colored girl on his arm. Col. Wilson, of the army, who was making the presentation, announced in a loud voice: “Mr. Frederick Douglass and wile.” “No, this is my grandaughter,Mr. President,” said Frederick, correct ing Col. Wilson. “This is my wife,” said he, introducing a demure look ing white woman, attired in a black silk gown ornamented with a broad white collar. The ladies of the receiving party, as well as all within hearing of Col. Wilson’s voice, turned their atten tion to the remarkable couple, and it is sale to say that Fred Douglass and his white wile received more general attention and comment than any other couple present. The Penally Fits the Crime—A Negro Lynch ed on Account of a Gross Outrasre. Spartanburg, March 2.—Abe Thompson, tha negro committed to jail here Sunday tor a felonious as sault on Mrs. Lancaster, near Glenn Springs, last Friday, was taken from the prison last afternoon by a crowd ol citizens without disguises and carried to a grove on Main street, about half a mile from the court hduse, and hanged to a limb of a tree' He was about twenty years old and of a most brutal coun tenance. He acknowledged the crime and said he deserved death. Suspended mills are starting up Oil miners have struck it rich in New Mexico. Ultra republicans are trying to kill the Blair bill. Gov. McDaniel Defines His Position. Atlanta, Feb. 2S.—Within the last few days a number of the friends and followers of Gov. Mc Daniel have called upon him and suggested to him the propriety of declaring his position on the ques tion of his being a candidate for re- nomination. The question' of his eligibility was a'so laid before him, but upon that as well at his candida cy he remained as silent as the spyinx. While a Piute youth was asleep under a tall tree in the Eel river region, California, a huge nut fell with such force straight down on his upturned temple as to kill him lasaas Tfirongli Hunger. Erie, Pa., Feb. 25.—A most dis tressing care of starvation was dis covered here at an early hour this morning. Frederick Saunders, wife and two children came here from Cleveland a month ago, and, being unable to find employment and be ing without means, was sorely dis tressed. For several days be refus ed to eat anything, giving his share of food to his wile and two famish ing children. His hunger and die-' tress overcame him, and this morn ing he became a raving maniac, tearing his hair out of his head and attempting to kill himself. The case has excited the profound sym pathies of every one. Samuel Davidson, of Corydon, Ind., failed tosupply his family with enough wood to keep them warm. A lot of his neighbors seized him, tbe other evening, hitched him to a sled, and forced him to haul wood night. When He lagged he was well whipped with limber switches Helena, Mont., Feb. 27.—Win. S. Moore and wife have been lound dead in their house on the Benton road, about 45 miles south of Helena. Appearances indicate that Moore first shot his wife and then himself with a Winchester rifle, and that a terrible struggle took place before death. They leave three small children, who were away at sehool at the time of the tragedy. A good fat sheep was grazing in afield near Mount Pleasant, Pa., when a big bald eagle swooped down upon it like a lightning bolt. It buried itself so deep in the sheep’s hack that it could not release itaelI, and the sheep ran home, when the immense bird was captured. An old pine tree recently cut near Merriwether measured 315 feet in height. The colored people of Georgia own 600,000 acres of land, and pay taxes on about $10,000,000 of prop erty. The four-year-old daughter of Dan Jaricks, colored, living near Ilogansville, fell into a well fifty feet deep, and was drowned before help could be given. In the yard of a farm house at Augusta there is an old oak tree in appearance, but, instead of growing acorns, there are miniature forma tions of a singular nature. The usual cup of the acorn, and by which it is attached to the limb, is present, but is about the size of a pea, and contains four small seeds. Birds flock to the tree in great numbers and feast upon these seeds. Some years ago there lived in Greene county a much esteemed citizen who, if he were living to day, would have no use for a tele phone. Without any apparent ef fort he could make himself distinct ly heard a distance of five mites. It was a common thing for neighbors living two and three miles ‘to hear the orders to his hands in the morn ing. At Milton, Friday, J. M. Dodds complained of lack of employment, and Pink Mayfield proposed to give him 75 cents to carry a brick all day back and lorth from the pub lic well to the church, a distance of a quarter of a mile the round trip. Mr. Dodds accepted the offer and carried the brick the entire day, making over 80 round trips in tne day, and receiving his pay at night.. . ; mvaaait av..« • - - The Cuibreath lynching trial at Edgefield, S. C., has been contin ued. An unknown man was found frozen to death in New York, Tues day. * In Ontaria a man went crazy from reading the Bible and killed his wife. Some of the manufacturers in Missouri are discharging all Knights of Labor. The treaty of peace be'.ween Ser via and Bulgaria has been signed at Bucharest. Prominent democrats say Cleve land is killing democratic chances for iSSS. The inhuman treatment of con victs in Alabama is a subject which has aroused indignation. An attempt was made to assassi nate Dr. Blewitz, Paris correspond ent of the London times. Steps have been taken to secure the permanent location of the State agricultural society near Atlanta. The two eldest daughters of- James G. Blaine have joined the Catholic church within the last year. Sam Tones has received a black eye in Chicago. The congregation took issue with him on the subject of prayer. Rev. Sam Jones is in the prints defending himselt against charges of responsibility for the Milledge- vtlle tragedy. The exodus of negroes from the South has only begun. Thousands are preparing ’,to move westward during tne present season. There was a $20,000 collision on the Central road, Ga., at station iz£. No one hurt, but two passenger coaches burned. Boston, March 2.—°arscn Downs last night severely beat a Post reporter who has unearthed scandals affecting him. The McCormack works, in Chi cago, opened Tuesday—<540 men at work. Strike over. McCormack carried his point and will continue to hire non-union men. Atlanta, March 2;—Within the past eight months there have been between fifteen and twenty escapes from the penitentiary camps of the state. Four negroes are now being tried in Nashville for the murder of the headless corpse. A vagrant negro has been arrest ed in Chattanooga who ravished a little white girl. Emperor William is confined to his room suffering from a contusion of the left thigh. William Gifford, Charlotte, N. C., and Richard J. Fitzgibbon, Ma con, Ga., suicided. One purchase of 10,000 bushels of corn at 40c created excitement in the Chicago exchange. Hon. Henry W. Hilliard has been invited to deliver the Toombs eulo gy before the supreme court Atlanta’s tax assessors say they will have to increase the value of property, and the people are mad. The Lowndes county jailor had a desperate tussle with four priso ners, but came out victorious. The Missouri and Arkansas di vision of the Texas and St. Louis railroad, at public auction, brought $7,401,000. Charleston, S. C., Fqb. 27.— Charlotte Williams, daughter ot ex- Congressman Small, has been found dead in a cabin from exposure. Simmons and Bacon are going it neck and neck. They are watch ing each other like hawks; wher ever one is, the other is gathered to gether also. Mr. George A. Peet, manager of the Gullet Cotton Gin factory, ?t Anite, La., was seized by a tnob of masked men, tied to a tree and bru tally flogged. Monroe, Ga., March 1.—The prohibitionists are getting up a pe tition for an election. There is not a retail bar in the county, and it is thought there will be no serious opposition. A. J. Coursen, of Waco, Tex., a student attending the Atlanta Med ical College, attempted suicide with laudanum because he did not get a diploma. He was pumped out and saved. Walter J. Duffy, a lad, died of injuries said to be inflicted by two playmates, who threw him down in Tompkins’ square, N. Y., and took his roller skates from him. The young assailants were arrested. A Georgia gentlman who had business at the White House a few days ago, said to me last night that the President spoke freely of the •‘glorious old party,” and predicted the sate election ot a democratic administration to succeed his own. Cain Jackson, col., at Walton court was sent to the penitentiary for eight years for assault with in tent to murder. Walton county is out of debt, and has a surplus in the treasury, after paying for a new court house and jail. Columbia, March 2.—George McNeary waylaid and shot Mr. D Henry Wheeler, one of the wealth test and most quiet citizens of Pros perity, last evening just outside of that village. The wound is thought not to be fatal. McNeary is a negro Newburgh, N. Y., Feb. 27.— Archibald Meyers was frozen to death last night while walking from Newburgh to Montgomery. He was a brother of James E. Meyers, who was yesterday on trial here for cutting the throats of his wife and her paramour. The deceased was in attendance at the trial and miss ed the train. The notorious J. E. Bryant is in. Washington after something. Green peas from six to eight inches high in the gardens of Al bany. An exchange says “a great many cats were sown last week.” It meant oats. There are 231 agricultural socie ties enrolled at the. agricultural de- partment Pig iron is made in twentv-nine states, and Georgia is the fou. .eenth in rank. Mrs. Jonathan Fountain, of Wil cox county, killed a hen the other day that weighed 18J pounds net. The last license issued to sell li quor in Putnam county will expire about the 15th of February, 1SS7. Mr. Elijah Lingo, of Irwinton, has a scuppernong vine that bore fifty bushels of grapes last year. Six black bears have been killed in the Cohutta mountains in the last two months. The mountains are said to be full of them this season Dr. A. G. Haygood states that there are 1,000,000 negro children at school in thfc Southern states,and of the teachers for them 15,000 are colored. A pond in Glasscock county went dry recently and the Gibson Enter prise says ths decomposed tadpoles in it were sufficient to fertilize thor oughly one acre of ground. Capt. J. B. Reese has suspended the publication of his paper and sold the material to Rev. G. W. Fears, pastor of the colored Bap tist Jchurch* in Eatonton, who will run the Middle Georgia Banner. While John Thomas was letting down a piece of curbing for a well by means of a rope, in Twiggs county, the other day, he was jerk ed into the well, falling a distance of thirty-eight feet. Strange to say he was unhurt. Sam Emanuel, the negro, who was cut with a scythe blade by Peter Taylor, in Sandersville, Sat urday, has died Irom his wounds. They had been wrestling, and Tay lor became so enraged because of defeat, inflicted the wounds as stat ed. He fled. The family of Mr. L. H. Legg, in Pike county, came very near being seriously poisoned a few days ago by using rat poison about the house. By some means the poison got into the meal bin, and when the family ate the bread they were poisoned, but not seriously. There have been some recent and valuable findings in gold-bear ing districts in Cherokee county, N. C., on the waters of the Hiwas- see river, and also in Georgia, just over the North Carolina line. As say of these ores average as high as $75 per ton. Johnson county claims a pine tree on which is grown acorns. The Wrightsville Recorder says: “Thick ly perched upon every twig and bow are to he seen these acorns, varying in size the same as they flourish on their parent stem, the oak. Interspersed here and there upon the tree are the original pine butrs.” One of the truly loyal editors of Chicago put out the report that Sam Jones and Sam Small were the worst kind of “unrepentant rebels down in Geoigia.” Small replied that he was only 10 years old when the war broke out, and that Sam Jones was only 13, and that they had both repented of all the sins of which they were conscious of hav ing committed. GENERAL NEWS. The boycott against the Constitu tion is practically at an end, and has been without effect. The Constitu tion has paid no attention to the “boycott,” but has patiently await ed the time when the Knights of Labor would discover that they had been misled in the matter and the time has arrived. Brownwood, Tex., Feb. 27.— Three masked men entered Cam eron & Co’s office last night, made the cletkt hold up their hands and then secured $1,500. The robbers left as suddenly as they had come. As they departed they were fired upon by one of the clerks. One of the robbers was killed. He proved to be a painter, who was well known about town. Prominent membersof the Young Men’s Christian Association in At lanta are prosecuting all saloon keepers who sell drinks to minors, habitual dtunkards and persons un der the influence of liquor. Mon day Jack Kelly, a prominent saloon keeper, was found guilty of selling liquor to L. H. Mason while under the influence of strong drink, and fined one hundred dollars and costs. Chicaga, March 1.—The Mc Cormack Reaper Works resumed operations this morning, 150 men reporting for duty. Great crowds were in the vicinity of the works early this morning, and to their presence is ascribed the fact that a large number did not apply for work, through fear of intimidation. A 1 nrge force of police weae o n hand to preserve order, and arrest ed three or four men who were noisy and aggressive. The men locked out ware very threatening until dabbed by the police. Trou ble is feared. Secretary Whitney has given a prompt denial to the malicious re port that he and Mr. Manning were conspiring to get Garland eut of the cabinet. Garland does not in tend to resign. Piedmont, S. C., March 2.—W. King killed his wife by cutting her throat this morning, and afterwards killed himself with the same instru ment, orphaning nine children. Poverty was the cause. Mr. J. H. Ladson, of the Rich mond & Danville railroad, was painfully injured in an accident on the 24th inst., near West Minster, S. C. The muscles were torn from his right leg. The thawing breeze that follows the blizzard is known in the North west as a “chinnok.” General Hancock used to say that Sheridan was “a whirlwind with spurs.” Gunpowder was known and can non used in China nearly 3,000 years ago. The Vance family, sixteen in number, draw $25,320 per year in salaries. Henry Gtoss, who lives in Kan sas, is eighteen years old, and never until recently saw a fruit tree, rail road or telegraph line. It is thought that a dozen shots from the new German bomb, charg ed with dynamite shells, would de stroy the strongest fortifications in the world. Mr. G. W. Ormsby died at Ro- berdell Mills, N. C., Friday night, Irom the remote effects of trost-bit- ten feet, which misfortune he suf fered during the war. Sidney B. Holt, of Alamance county, S. C., killed the monster beet of the season last week. The animal, when dressed and weighed, pulled down 972 pounds. The wicked story come* from Paris that a sausage-maker there displays a placard in his window announcing: “Every link carefully inocculated by M. Pasteur.” Ada C. Sweet, formerly pension agent at Chicago, is said to be the most attractive member of the of the Woman’s Suffrage convention, whose session she has been attend ing at Washington. At Whistler, Ala., on Wednes day, a mechanic named Bailey went into John Holland’s bar-room in a drunken condition and vomited on the floor. After he had fallen asleep Holland shot and billed him. A colored man named Austin was accidentally killed in Prairie Laurent, La., Wednesday night, while telling a tree to catch a coon. A dismembered limb of the tree struck him in the stomach, produc ing instant death. Petroleum is found in a number of places in Overton county, Ten nessee, where it oozes from” the sur face, forming what are called oil springs. A want of transportation prevents the development of the in dustry. Within two miles of Winder, N. C., Mr. Archie McCraney milked a cow last year each morning and evening, getting a gallon and a half of milk a day, and with the same animal he plowed a corn crop du ring the milking period, and made a hundred bushels of corn. The message of Presidant Cleve land to the senate, in which he states in positive terms his refusal to submit to the demands of that body for private papers bearing upon suspensions which he has made, is the most striking docu ment which he has yet prepared. His reply to the senate committee, which made the formal demand threatening to force him to terms by refusing to ratify his appoint ments, is made in such pointed and positive terms as to leave but one alternative, if the majority report of the committee expresses the senti ments of the republican senate. In his message the President, in stat ing his position, defined that of the party to which he belongs. , The body of Major John H. Hughes was recently disinterred at Edgefield, S. C., where it has been buried fourteen years, to be placed by the grave ot his wife. When the coffin lid was raised the dead man’s face was found to be natural and apparently as well preserved as on the day of burial. A few days ago J. W. Acord, with five of his children, tried to cross Mulberry creek, near Coal Hill, Ark. The creek had swollen by the melting snow, and the wag on floated and became uncoupled, the wagon bed turning upside down. Mr. Acord succeeded in saving him self and three of the children, but the other two, a boy ten and girl eight,were drowned. - : 'l n