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Weekly Banner-Watchman Tuesday, march 1886 BAMER-WATCHMAN TnE povkb Mh°r B ° Eono,A OITIOIAL ORGAN OF OUr of Athsns and Clarks, Oconee k Banks. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily, $5; ... Sunday, $1;..... Weekly, $1 T. L. GANTT. MISREPRESENTING GEORGIA. In an interview with a Chicagi reporter about the prohibition movement in Georgia, and in dis cussing the Milledgeville trage.i the Rev. -am Jones said: man literally takes liis life in lr hands when he goes out to talk lion down there. They blew up my Mo 1,1c with dynamite and sent me threaten ing letters not to come to Atlanta to talk prohibition.’’ There is an old adage that when a man talks too much he must eith er tell lies or give utterance to a great dc.i’. of nonsense. Now, we do not accuse Mr. Jones of wilfully misrepresenting facts; but he has so long lived in an atmosphere ol excitement and sensations, and has been allowed such full licsnse ol his longue, that he sees everything from his unnatural standpoint, and does not take time to weigh a great many ot the statements that he makes. The utterance from this minister that we copy above, origi nating fr*m such a source, and spo ken in a place like Chicago, is cal culated to do Georgia harm abroad, by giving endorsement to the many slanderous falsehoods told about the lawlessness of our people by the emisaiies of the republican party. These stories had been so success fully denied that the best people of the North were disbelieving them, when here, a great so-called evangelist—one of our own men—re iterates the slanders,and, as it were, clinches them. Now, while we do not like to dispute the word of a minister of the Gospel, at the same tune we cannot permit our people to be so grossly slandered without coming to their defense. With the exception that a little hole was Mown in the floor of Rev. Sam Jones’ barn by powder or somi other combustible—and he says ht received threatening letters—then is not one single word of truth in the paragraph. As to those blood and-thunder letters, we will state that no prohibi tionist in Georgia save Sam Jones has ever received one, and there are hundreds ot men through out the state who are lighting liquor just as hard, and have none and art still doing much more effective work for the cause, than the Rev. Sam Jones—only they don’t make one tenth the fuss uliout it. Von never hear of these parties having barns blown up with dynamite, or ot their receiving ku-ktukish com munications. From the abusive epithets that Mr. Jones applies tc liquor dealers, to men who take a tliink, and even those who see fit to vote against prohibition, it speaks volumes for the law and order of Georgia and the high regard that even these maligned classes have forthe representatives of the church, that lie has not met with persona! violence long ago. Rev. Sam Jones lias publicly abused, like pickpock ets, every man who has anything to do with whisky, and even w’ent so far as in Millcgeville to counsel re sistance and bloodshed at the polls, when there has never been the slightest excuse for it in any of the prohibition elections ever held in Georgia. And yet he has traveled over the state at his pleasure, and has never met with the slightest afliont. As to those threatening letters, they were evidently written bysome irresponsible party or crank lor it is characteristic of the Geor gians that they are not afraid to utter their sentiments to a man’s face. It is singular that no other prohibitionist ever receives such missives. Injustice to the anti-pro hibitionists of Georgia we will state that in every instance they have accepted defeat like good and law- abiding citizens, and without a mur mur. As to bulldozing at the polls, just about as much of this has been done by the prohibitionists as the liquor men, and even then the only excitement ever witnessed at elec tions is an occasional argument over some colored suffrage-slinger, and it is always conducted in good feel ing. The only places where *e hear of dynamite, bloodshed and trouble in Georgia are the counties Our correspondent, ‘’Oglethorpe,” has struck the key-note of the cause of the impoverished condition ot the Georgia planters, viz; paying a asurious interest on all the supplies necessary to run a farm—and in our cotton belt “farm supplies” means everything that is consumed on a place by hands and stock, besides .11 manner of agricultural imple ments, from a hoe-handle to a re viving harrow. Nothing is raised i manufactured that can be boughr , the store, every moment’s time t all hands being devoted to pre paring for, making and saving the cotton crop. And when we con sider, as “Oglethorpe” says, that planters ‘ pay lrom 50 to per cent, interest and profit on such a multitude of articles, all to be liquidated by rais- ng cotton at a price but little, if iny, in advance of actual cost of production, it is a mystery to us hat Southern farmers have kept join being ruined so long; and it ceitainly proves that there is a big profit in farming in Georgia when t is legitimately and economically conducted. Why, there is not an* other business on earth that could stand the assessment our farmers are paying, and hold together two years! But the merchant is no mote to blame for charging these extortionate prices for advances than the planter is for paying them. It is the rule of trade the world over to make a man pay for the risk you are running, and there is certainly a big risk in selling goods to one who is willing to pay such an interest as the farmer consents to do. The very men who most complain about extortionate prices would be the first to practice the same tactics had they a store. But the merchant has suffered just about as badly as the farmer, and when you find one who has succeeded by selling goods for big profits on time, vou can pick out fifty that failed. They h*ave a fortune in notes and accounts, but most of them are not worth the paper they are written on. Of late days, the merchants have learned a lesson, and are get ting more particular about to whom they sell. As a consequence, the titles to lands are fast passing from the farmers to merchants; the mer chant tiansters them to his factor; and the factor in turn to the North ern capitalist. Thus we see our lands slipping from the control of the original owners, who, in a few years, will become seifs and renters on farms that they once owned. This is a gloomy picture but a true one. It is not free nig gers, guano, or even cotton raising that are ruining the South, but bad management on the part of farmers, and their consenting to pay such enormous profits on wnat they buy. The only thing that can and will save the country is to cut our large planta tions up into small tracts, and then let each man farm according to his means. We have been trying to bore with too big an auger, and aie thus forced into debt. If a man is operating a ten-horse farm, and has the means to only run one plow, let him sell off nine head of his stock and keep within his depths. He can then gradually increase the area as his means permit. It will be hard for our old citizens to practice such retrenchment, but they should make this sacrifice of their pride tor the purpose of setting a good exam- pie to their sons. It is ridiculous to talk of buying supplies on time and paying for them by raising cotton at the prices of the past few years. V ou have tried it to your sorrow, anl now find ruination staring you in the face. Settle your old debts the best you can, sell off your sur plus stock and chattels, and then take this mooey and buy what you need to run your farm for cash. Then try to make it self-sustaining, with cotton as a surplus crop, and if it gets down to five cents per pound you are not hurt, for that cotton does not belong to a merchant, and you can sell 01 hold it as you like, without fear of being dunned every time you go to town. If our farmers will only keep with in their means, they will be pros perous and happy. Few men can even pay 8 per cent and work to any advantage on borrowed capital; and here are farmers t. \ mg to do business and pay 50 per cent, and It is not an unusual thing in Southern towns to find that the per centage of deaths among the color ed population is twice as great as among the whites. Sam Jones is meeting with some opposition in Chicago. The mem bers of the church do not fancy his rough way of speaking, and rise up in the audience and call him to order. GREENE COUNTY. “Of the immigration from Eu rope, nearly 90 per cent, is social istic, especially among the Germane and Bohemians,” says a man who is posted. And, of such material as this will Prof. White manufac ture his “white peasantry” for Geor gia- Laborers on the Panama canal are dying at the rate of torty a day, and 14.600 yearly. Out .of thirty Frenchmen who arrived at the works on October 29, fifteen are dead. This would be a good place foi China to send her surplus pop' ulation, instead of foisting it on the United States. Congreseman Wollord, the Ken tucky Union General who made a strong speech Saturday in favor of pensioning ex-President Jefferson Davis as one of the greatest of the Mexican war heroes, appears to have paralyzed the bloody shirt pa pers. They have had very little to say on the subject A prisonei set up a distilling ma chine in the Allegheny (P«.) peni tentiary and operated it on wheat and rye picked up in the prison yard. He thus managed to make spirits enough to keep his spirits up for six months, when his time expired, and he kindly presented his invention to the officials, who had never suspected its presence in his cell. NEIGHBORING COUNTIES. WILKES COUNTY. harsh ipevrhes. Where he keep'' ' of fetlin.' orev-o invaded by Rev. Sam Jones, and where he made his unnecessarily j over! As an excuse for failure they 1-ving it on our worthless class ■r, guano and everything else <lie right cause—their own .anagement. Look around in ar neighborhood, and you will e every farmer who has adopted the cash sys'em doing well, while those who buy on time are tottering on the brink of ruin. An adoption of the cash system will be better of a proli -i t tki his own hands down in Go, - as ridiculous as it is false, and no one ought to know it better than Mr. Jones. We will wager that he cannot get a truthful man in the I for not only the farmer, but the state to endorse his utterance. We do not ki o.v a spot in Georgia that we would be afraid to-morrow to visit and deliver a prohibition argu ment, and would be sure to meet a courteous reception from the liquor men as well as our own side. Such incendiary and insulting discourses as Mr. Jones is delivering aie calcu lated to create bad blood and stir up strife on any subject, for few men will long stand public abuse with out resentment. It seems to us that Rev. Sam Jones, not satisfied with the notoriety that he has gain ed, now wants to mould himself into a martyr, but it can never be done by wilfully slandering hisown state and people to their political ene mies. The Ac worth News & Farmer says that the race for congress in the 7th district will be between Judge Joel Fain and Hon. J. C. Clements. Miss Paine, the Detroit lady who has bewitched Senator Jones, has $2,000,000 in her own right, and is prospective heiress to $10,000,000. The "blick" spots are being rap idly wiped out of the prohibition .map of Georgia. merchant and the country gener ally, and we must sooner or later come tu it or accept ruination. So long as you are trying to farm be yond your means, it is a matter im possible to pay as you go, but you should “cut your garment according to your cloth.” Our fanners must either draw in, or consent to become hewcis of wood and drawers of water for alien landlords. When thai time comes, they will realize the worth of their lands. [Chronic le.l John Jones, a negro with s pistol, had it to discharge. The ball struck him in the forehead, but did no harm. All the fish in Long branch hare died. The Mavpops hare all been killed. Major Freeman is 60 years old, and has lived under every president of the U. S. Mr. M. A. Pharr hauled nine bales of cotton from his plantation on one wagon to Washington. Onr friend Smith, the revenue man, denies having an addition to his family It is another member of the Smith family. Mr. I). S. Cosby, father of Will Cosby, was stricken with paralysis. Cotton will sell next fall for $30 per. bale. The old Walton house, near town, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Dr. Gresham, formerly of Woodstock, has moved to HelenA We heard a man say he had five acres of wheat for which he would take one bushel. Married, on Sunday last, Mr. Aleck Smith to Miss Cora Aycock. Mr. Dudley DuBose will purchase the Toombs residence. It will lie thorough ly overhauled and the house remodeled. Mr. Will Cosby, who shot himself at Sharon, some weeks ago, while trying to steal a girl, is improving rapidly, and will soon be ready for his duties. We are reliably informed that a party of five men have been camping out near the spot of the Confederate gold robbery for a week or more with guns, dogs, etc., and say they are on a hunting expedition. Mr. S. A. Waller's little son went to his bird trap, finding one bird in it and two snakes at the trap. He ran back home to tell the news, and when he got back the snakes had gotten the bird out and killed it. Mr. Emil tiotheimer bought 320 bales of cotton this season. He sold not long since, and says he lost $1,000 by holding for a better price. Dr. W. L. Spratlin, of Centerville, has gone into the mercantile business. [UuelM,] I!. J. Myer, of Oglethorpe county, is the finest shot in the state. Six shares of Georgia railroad stock brought $161.50. Mr. W. L. Keough paid the Lowe Bros, a a debt of $30 for goods bought of their father fifteen years ago, and long since forgotten. Mr. Jim Howard resided for a num her of years in a house without any door, crawling under the sill of the house through a hole under it Miss Lollie Latimer’s throat is again troubling her. She speaks of going to Dr. Calhoun for treatment An old negro woman on Mr. E. A. Turner’s plantation is one hundred and fifteen years old. A Wilkes county farmer said that “not one of his oats had been killed.” When asked how he managed to save them he replied, “I kept them in the house. 1 Sheriff Callaway has recovered his gun that was taken from him by a pris oner. Mr. Charley Wheeler, formerly of this place, but now in business at 1‘ow- ellton, Warren county, bought the gun from a negro, paying six dollars for it. Mr. Anthony Johnson, of Elbert coun ty, who is eighty-four years old, while on his way from Washington, where he had been to buy supplies, went by Mr. J. J. Wilkinson's and undertook to go a through way to Mallorysville. He miss ed the way and was found at nine o'clock at night by Mr. Joe Shepherd, back of his house, completely lost. His son missed him on the road and became alarmed for his father's safety. [Home Jnuraaland Herald.] Rev. Mr. Downs, of Oconee county, will preach every second Sunday in each month at Atkison church, Macedonia. Mr. Steve Gillen, while cutting wood, was painfully hurt from a piece flying up and striking him on the head. Mr. Cramer, an Atlanta mechanic, who has resided near Woodville for some time, spoke on the greenback issue at the court house, in this city, on last Sat urday, to a moderate sized audience. An excursion of New York fanners will shortly visit Greene county with the view of purchasing lands, and the number and respectability of those com posing it “will remove any fear that they are mere cheap excursionists willing to impose on the hospitality of the people without intending to invest” On last Friday night,at Mr. Vase Mc Whorter’s, two negroes were gambling for money, namely, Berry Adams and Jim Waller. Berry won the game of cards and asked Jim for the pay. He refused, saying it was not a fair game. This caused a dispute. When Jim start ed off without paying, Berry took his revolver in his hand, saying, “Give me money or your life!” Jim still refused to pay him. Berry cocked his pistol and fired, the ball passing through Waller’s head. He died in a few minutes after being shot WALTON COUNTY. [Mew a] Mr. F. F. Nowell and Miss Ada Carith- ers are married. Dr. F. S. Colly died at his home in Monroe on Saturday. Mr. Egon T. Moon, of Logansville, was admitted to the bar. Mr. W. C. Cox got his middle finger torn off. Mr. Stephen Felker was slightly hurt last week by a fall from the court-house steps. Peek and McCalla are being talked of in Rockdale as candidates for the state senate. An immense amount of guano is being hauled into the county. On a Wednesday, nearly two weeks ago, Mr. W. H. Wood, who lived near the line of Walton and Gwinnett coun ties, left his home and was not heard of until the Sunday following. In that in terval the country was being scoured by his friends and relatives, hoping to find some trace of the missing man. It turn ed out that Mr. Wood went to Conyers, where he sold his horse for $100, and took the train for Chattanooga. From that point he wrote his wife that he had lost or been robbed of all but $20 of his money, that he was going to Corinth, Miss., and for her to sell their effects and follow him. By his friends, Wood’s ac tion is considered surprisingly strange. banks count*. [8ip>»l 1 Sheriff Owens has only two birds in his cage. Miss Lena Mullikans, of Gillsville, has a fine school at the Porterfield school house. J. T- Garrison has sold out his entire stock of merchandise to W. B. Mason, late of Fort Madison. R. W. Haulbrooks happened to the misfortune of getting his blacksmith and wood shops consumed by fire on the 21 th. HARMONY GROVE. [SIsnaL] Mr. R. A. Eckles will soon open his hotel. Rev. W. R. Goss, who has been quite ill, is improving. The cotton receipts of this place will amount to 13,000 bales this season. They aggregated about 8,500 last season. Mr. Merritt, of Cleveland, Ga, was in town Wednesday looking out a location practice law. Messrs. F. G. Moss and P. Y. Duck ett returned from Augusta, Wednesday, full-fledged M. D’s. Mr. W. P. Harden has also returned from Atlanta with the same honorable title. DID NOT BUY. Col. James M. Smith writes us that it a mistake about his buying a half in terest in Perkins’ saw mill, below Au- gustA He was negotiating for it, but did not trade. No other medicine is so reliable as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for the cure of colds, coughs, nud all derangements of the respiratory organs tending toward consumption. It affords sure relief for the astumutic and con lunation, even in ailvaaeed stages of disease. COVINGTON AND MACON. The Covington and Macen railroad is now in such a condition as to warrant the commencement af the laying of the rails. About fifteen miles have been graded, and arrangements have been made for the trestling and stone work. The con tract for the bridge a oss the Ocmulgec will be let in few d;.» s. FRANKLIN COUNTY. 1 Reals ter.] Marriages: Mr. W. A. Stancil and Miss Emma T. Green; Mr. Samuel McDaniel and Misa Beulah Herndon. Dr. Mclntire will probably move to town this week. We are glad to note the improved condition of his health. The excitement in reference to the Toccoa tragedy is subsiding. We regret to announce the recent death of Mrs. H. J. Cox. A fine sorrel horse with a blaze face was found dead in a secluded place, in the neighborhood of Comer’s mill, few days ago. No ore knew the horse or anything about how he came there. Judge Bowers has just received iron enough to lay three-fourths of a mile of track on thcCarnesville railroad. The stockholders have treated him shameful ly in withholding their subscriptions. A new school house hAS been built near Union Creek church, and the pat rons have secured the services of Mr. Elliott, of Elberton. ELBERT COUNTY. [Guette-l The gin bouse of ex-Sheriff Wm. H Adams was burned a few days ago. Mrs. Elizabeth Black, relict of John W. Black, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr.Thomas J. Campbell, near Elberton, on Saturday night last. She was in her 79th year, and was a highly- respected lady. A negro on my place in Lincoln coun tv was bitten by a mad dog on January 15th last—went mid on Friday, 19th of this month, and after the most horrible suffering, died on Sunday, the 21st. Dr. Jas. E. Bell pronounced it a clear case of hydrophobia. Now, Mr. Editor, I think if you had seen the case, when it took three strong negro men to hold a 10-year- old boy in the bed, you would use the influence of your paper to have a dog tax. What it takes to feed the dogs of the county would raise meat enough feed half the county. Respectfully, D. It. Cade. OGLETHORPE COUNTY. Of the 4,000 Presidential offices it is learned that President Cleve land has filled since his inauguration between 1,800 and 1,900. About 1,200 of these appointments were to fill vacancies by death, resignation or the expiration of terms. In the remainder—643 in number—he “suspended” officers before the ex piration of their four year terms and appointed men of his own selection in their places. The Chinese of Wyoming terri tory have filed claims to the amount of $147,700 for property destroyed in the riots there in September last. The claims for damages to the Chi nese at places in Oregon, California and Washington Territory will prob ably be much larger. JACKSON COUNTY. [Herald.] Hands are putting the slate roof on the new institute. W e are sorry to learn of the death of Mr. T. A. Nunn. Dr. W. P. DeLaperriere has moved his store to Hoschton. Married, Mr. W. C. Year wood and Miss Josie Lyle. There is quite a striking resemblance between Judge Martin and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. W. J. Whitehead, of Jug Tavern, has bought a farm in Wilkes county, and will go down at once to take charge. Mrs. W. S. Brock received the sad in telligence of the death of her brother, Johnson Freeman, who died suddenly of heart disease,on the 9th of February last, in CaliforniA The Oconee agricultural club has abandoned the project of buying guano direct from the manufactory, and will pat- ronize borne agents. Major Joseph H. Adams, a man 72 years old, with hit silvered locks, plows from sun up till sun downjike a 16-year- old boy. He is a living evidence of what prudence and temperance will do for a man. [Echo.] Bairdstown hasa Greenback club with 25 members. We are saddened to chronicle the death of Mr*. Will Farmer. There are eighteen regulrr boarders the Roane House. Miss Janie McCarty opened a school the Grade. Corn will generally be planted two weeks sooner than usual. It is thought a little blockading is done in lower Goosepond. The county commissioners have made a road leading from Thos. T. Herndon’ to the railroad at F. T. Berry’s. Mr. F. T. Berry is now offering for sale his entire plantation, between seven hun dred and a thousand acres, at ten dollara an acre. Mrs, Gunnels, a sister of Mrs. J. Bacon, of this place, died suddenly Harmony Grove Monday night last. A mad dog passed J. S. Callaway’s last weed, which bit all the dogs on the placo. Percy McCommons killed seven dogs the next morning. Mr. Web Thaxton and Miss Fannie Johnson, of Simston district, are married; also. Miss Kate Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Young, and Mr. T. J. Jackson, of Wilkes county. “That is Just about the conclusion a am veamg to .* mysejf, general,” said Carey, A TOUR TO EUROPE. Quite a large party o. r ladies has been formed in Athens to go to Europe. The ladies will leave here immediately after the Lucy Cobb commencement, and will be gone about two months. They intend visiting all the important places in Great Britain and on the Continent, and arc ex pecting a very pleAsint trip. GEN. JACK S DIAMOND. Pretty much everybody hat heard of Gen. Jack’s penchant for diamonds, and a great many of us know the man himself, a sturdy character, sound and firm on his feet as a horse-block. A florid face, rather Ixard, a square chin, determined lips closing over white teeth, cold gray eyes looking right at you from under a hedge of eyebrow sandy in color, dusted with gray, a large straight , broad and fleshy—you’ve 6©en the Dressy in his way, but not as gentle- dress, and wearing rings upon his fat white fingers, and a big diamond in his ex pansive shirt-front His voice is deep and stem, rather hoarse, too, and harsh; its volume is tremendous when it comes freighted with a crash of oaths. Gen. Jack is self-made; began as driver of a pair of mules on a canal route, then took the lion- car of Herr Broscher’s menagerie, became finally ring-master to a circus, owner of his own circus, keeper of a livery stable, millionaire, art patron, political leader. His wife was on the stage once, and a charming creature she is; and Gen. Jack is universally known and liked by the profession—but it is about Gen. Jack’s diamond I am to tell you. “First thing I ever bought,” says Gen. Jack, “when 1 got to be ring master, after I was properly fitted out in the clothes de partment, was a diamond, and I’ve been buying ’em ever since. It’s a weakness, and I’ve paid for it Tiffany's people al ways send for me when they’ve got in any thing new, and the Amsterdammers know me.” It is said that those who want to come it over Gen. Jack—no easy thing to do—al ways approach him on his diamond side. He takes it as a compliment to be asked to show his collection, and does show it But he is a good judge of character far all. The story goes that some thieves conspired to rob him by profiting by fcb pleasure in showing his treasures. There were three of them—nobby jRnglish fellows —who came ffver expressly to do the job, and thoroughly posted. They made his acquaintance at a down-town hotel where he is often to be found, and in dne course procured the invitation to see his dia- monda They claimed to be sporting men, ardent turfites, but connoisseurs in such things. They came to Jack’s house one forenoon, in a coach, and he received them alone, opened his safe, displayed all his treasures, went into their history, etc. “This,” ho said, “is my Golconda specimen —not very large, but remarkable for its brilliancy and pure water. This is my Bra silian—it is a bi toff color, a suspicion of a canary tinge—” whack! smack! tL-vack! “You would, would you!” and with three successive blows of his fat fist, his three English visitors were knocked down and put hors de combat. It was a mere suspicion on his part—something ho saw in the mm's facee, read in their eyes—but it saved his diamonds. He summoned aid, locked the safe, secured the men, and found th. u fully armed—pistols, burglar tools, handcuffs, rope, gag, chloroform, red pepper. He dis armed them, bundled them into the coach, and gave them twenty-four hours to leave the country. “As you came here on my in vitation, I won’t cache you, but—git!” md he still preserves the gag, the handcuffs and the cayenne among his trophies. One day Gen. Jack a visitor, a man of 40 years, with grizzled hair and a stoop in his shoulders—a pallid face, somewhat bloated from long indulgence in liquors. “You don't know me, Gen. Jack!” said the CABNB3VILLE. [Leader.] Married, Mr. S. J. McDaniel to Miss Beulah Herndon, all of this county. As one of the effects of prohibition in Franklin county, our calaboose has been converted into a useful institution. One of Dr. H. D. Aderhold’s fine red Jersey sows had a litter of pigs in there last week, using the old blankets for bedding. This is much bettor than to have drunk en men in it. Sheriff McConnell settled a case of assault and battery one day last week in a summary way. A negro boy was un der arrest for hitting a white girl with a rock, and, by consent of the parties, the negro boy received thirty lashes at the hands of the officer, and was sent home and put to work and the warrant was dis missed. Cholera has been discovered in Venice. Tbe general was puzzled a good deal. “Hombre, I’ve seen you somewhere. Stop —I have it! Good Lord, Cary, what have you done to yourself if” “It's fifteen years ago, general,” said Cary, apologetically. “Only fifteen! Zounds! You were a hand some young fellow then; I thought you were a genius. And your wife was lovely.” “Do n’t mention the past—she’s a wreck- six children to care for; and I am—what you see. I want you to do something for me, before the black dog devours me.” “Hombre, it f s the drink that does it” “I want you to ^ave me from the drink, general.” “This man” (the general says, when he tells the story>—“this man, Mark Cary, was what you might truly call one of these here geniuses. When I knowed him—and loved him, too, as everybody had to do—he was editing a neat little paper in a Virginia town and happy as a June bug. One of your A polios—tall, square, a step like a spring-board, blue eyes full of fire, Hyperean curls like—a man, every inch. The things he couldn’t do with the dumb bells were n’t worth trying—he could beat my best roan at the square leap—sat a horse like a Center ora Cotnanchy—and put a pen in his hand, or call on him for a speech, and, by sounds, you couldn’t mate him nowhere. I used to get him to* write my bills and advertisements for mo—he’d been a treasure in that line if he’d only taken wages. As for poetry—well, I’m no judge, but if he couldn’t pump all theee here centenniaUers, I’m Dutch! His wife was just the sweetest little lady ever you see, and could pour out tea like an angel, AjxA now here he was, gone to seed. “How came it, Cary!” It was the war, poverty, sickness, long struggles in adversity, long lassitude and km of spirits, chagrin, all that turned in. “I think I’m gone, general, but Margaret won’t hear a word of it She told me to come to see you and ask you to help ma” “Where is the little woman, Mark!” He named a wretched tenement house. Gen. Jack drummed on the table with his fat fingers a moment “Notin want, I hope, Cary !” said he, at last * “Not quite, general; but the times are hard; I can’t get away, and there’s no tell ing how long it will be before that comes, ‘.‘Come, let's go and see her,” said general, and Cary, without a word, led the way to his poor lodgings. The general does not say much about the interview that ensued, but I know from other sources that the wife and children had » good supper tnat night “Come to my office-down town, here’s the number-to-morrow at 11, Mark, and y°^ Madam, im see* yon apjhi,” and the general withdrew. . ^®jbere,Mark,*’agtfdthe general next “j 0 ® <k>wn. The little woman can* do anything with yon, and your own backbone's turned to injun-rubber. Yon ain’t.worth a n “I know better!” cried Jack, vehemently pounding tbe table with his fist; “I to take you in hand nowand make a man of you!” . ' “I wish to Heaven you would!” cried Cary. “I mean to! You’re the very fellow I’ve been looking for this year or more. You’re honest and capable—you know all about geology, mineralogy and that sort of thing, don’t you!— If you don’t you can learn—stop! Listen! You are up to my diamond passion—well, there’s where I want you! I want a man —an honest man—a capable man—to go to South Africa for me, and find me the biggest diamond there—a dozen of them, if you’re so minded! Will you go! Stop! I’ll take care of the little woman, if you do, and provide for her if you don’t comeback. The sea voyage will give you a chance to taper off, drop the drink, build yourself up and ail that; when you get there you’ll bo all right again, and then you can use your brains in finding me that diamond. I’ll pay you good wages, and all you find is mine Is it a bargain! Strike hands on it if it is!” “If Margaret says yes, I’ll go, general! And God bless you anyhow’.’ “Come home to lunch with me then, and i’ll ask her—she’ll likelv be there.” Not only she, but all the enuaren were there, and in the newest of clothes, for Mr. Jack had been at work too, and Mrs. Cary told her husband, with tears in her eyes, “We needn’t go back to that dream of hor ror any more.” So it was all settled in a few minutes. Cary’s family was to have the cottage on the general’s farm and an ample allowance, the eldest boy and girl to go to school, and Cary himself to go after the big diamond. In a week Mark Cary sailed, with a chest full of books in which to study up the sub ject, and the little woman and her children were happy on the farm—happy, at least as they could be, with Cary away in quest of a big diamond. How did that quest fare! I must let Gen. Jack tell it in his own way, as he takes th# key of his safe from his pocket, preparatory to opening it, and stands on the hearth be fore the grate, warming his stout calves, and emphasizing his narrative with gestures of the key. “Never was mistaken in a man in my life, before that! Made all my money by looking in people's faces to see if I could trust 'em or na And this here Mark Cary —well, there’s half a million o’ diamonds, great and small, in this here chist, let alone bonds, and I’d left him here with the safe open and notxxiy else in the house, and gone off say to Europe or the Sandwich islands perfectly easy. But, you see—well there’s such a thing perhaps as tempting people too far. Cary got along splendid at first He wrote to his wife and me regular all along the voyage, any when he got to the cape he sent a photograph that we might; see how he was spruced up. I could see the old curls was coming back to his hair, the old fire to his eyes, and the old roundnese to his cheeks —and the little woman was more in love with him than ever. He went up country, and by and by his letters began to come regular again, and diamonds, too—small ones, but one or two good,size ones, so that in their sum they might be taken to be worth full as much money as I had put up for him. One day he sends me a real brill iant two-carat fellow and simultaneously draws on me for £500, saying ho was going to another place in hope to find a diamond worth the venture. “After that no more from Mark Cary. More than a year went by, and not a word did I get from him, nor did his wife no more than me. The little woman was well nigh crazy, and, as I had no good news for her, I didn’t tell her any. I had written in a private way to*a correspondent of mine at Natal, and heard what I was afraid of—that Cary had gone all to the bad again—and it cut me deep; but I never let on, not even to my own wife. No news—eighteen months and more went by, and not a single word from Cary. I kept out of the little woman’s way all I could, for the sight of her would have distressed a politician, let alone a stone wall; but one stormy night she burst in upon my wife and me, os wild as she could be. ‘Gen. Jack,’ she says, wringing her hands, but never shedding a tear, and turn ing on me, a face I couldn’t look at for the pity of it; ‘Gen. Jack, I can not be the pen sioner of your bounty any longer! You are the best man that ever lived and I’m the most wretched of women, but that’s no son why I should keep on imposing upon you.' So I says to her, ‘What’s up!’ for I was pretty sure now she had news of Mark, and nothing good. ‘Have you heard from Cary!’ ‘Gen. Jack,’ she says, solemn like, ‘I know my husband is dead! I know that he has been false to you, and it killed him! It’s killing me!' I was struck all of a heap. ‘Never mind little woman, never mind!’ I was going on to say, when my wife broke in, ‘How did you learn all this, Margaret!’ she asked. ‘In a dream, a dreadful, awful dream!’ said the poor creature, and then she broke down, burst out crying, and couldn’t say any more. So we sets to work to console her best way we could, but didn’t make much headway at it I told her I would be cruelly hurt if she didn’t let me keep my promise to Mark, but her last word was she couldn' daren’t and wouldn’t live on me.” “Just then then the front door bell rang, and when William opened it, the raggedest buzzard of a man broke past him&nd came rushing into the sitting-room here where we were. He hadn’t a whole stitch or a clean stitch on him, that fellow hadn’t; his hair was long and wild and his beard also; his feet bare and his face would have won the premium over a Connecticut hatchet for sharpness. All the same that little woman knowed him as soon as he stopped at the door, turned white as a sheet, held her two hands together tight and just sighed be tween her set teeth. ‘Marie!’ I thought she’d go over, but she was too true grit for that He never noticed her, nor nothing else. He came straight up to me and kind o' steadied his staggering feet by holding onto the table and looked me in the face and said, cool and calm-like, but in a monstrous thin reedy voice: ‘Gen. Jack, I’ve been a thief and a traitor, a sot and a vagabond, for more than a year; but I have lived long enough to make you amends. Here’s your diamond; take it quickly, for I’m dying!' and he put a bundle of rags about as bis a* your two fists In my hand, and went over just like he was shot!” “The little woman gave one cry. half joy v half terror, and had him in her arms next instant, his head in her lap and she smother ing him with kisses, while my wife, cool as a statute, turns to William and says, ‘Have some soup made,’ and first thing I saw she had the brandy bottle and a spoon and was down on her knees beside him. ‘He’s just starved to death, general, that’s all’ says she. And I wasn’t nowhere in that ring, while them women were bringing him round with little doses of beef tea and brandy, kisses and pattings, and calling him all the loving names in the dictionary. By and by he sits up—‘Where is it!’ says he, and makes me hand that parcel of old rags out of my pocket where I’d slipped it in the hurry of the moment, and unwrap and unwrap until Extracts, and in fact everything to be found in a City Drug tore. Braces of every description,m $ 1 up. Fine Stand Lamps, only price, $2. At the New Drag Store you will find nothing but STORE ON COLLEGE AVEMUE; G. W. RUSH, Drugs, Patent Medicines, Cologne, proprietor, U now open ^ full stock 01 * Trusses anl re gula t New Goods. No Old Stock on Hand. Every one will find it to their interest to call at the New Drug Store and get prices before buying T r g the public will give me a liberal sharge of patronage, lam, respect fuy, 5 ' ru,t G. W. RUSH. BUN TOGETHER. Two sections of a freight train went together on the Air-Line road just above Gainesville late last night Three men were injured in the collission—two seri ously and one slightly. Engineer May- field and Conductor Lee. The train was running in two sections, when several boxes from No. 1 came uncoupled and s run into by No. 2, splitting the cab open. The engine and several cars are broken up, and the road blockaded. A FALLING WALL BURIES NINE MEN. Augusta, Ga., March 5.—A fire in the gas house of the Augusta factory to night resulted in only $1,000 loss, but several personal injuries and loss of life. A falling wall buried nine men, instantly killing Councilman M. E. Hill, overseer of the factory. Master Mechanic W. C. Allen died an hour afterward, and John Edwards will also die. Others were more or less seriously injured. HEMORRHOIDS CURED Dr. A. L. Nance, Jug Tavern, Ga., cured me of a case of Hemorrhoids of 14 years standing. I had paid out over $300 and received no relief. I live on the Clarkesville road, on the Kendrick farm, three miles from Athens, Ga., where I can be seen at any time. Very Respectfully, mar2w4t. T. A. THORNTON. PIANOS AND ORGAtS*\ We arelSole Agents In this c iy for the eale of Lndden & Bai a’ Pianos and Organs, namely: ChicL- ering, Mathnsohek, Bent and Arion Pianos, and Mason & Hamlin, Pack- £ ard and Bay State Organs. Every instrument sold by us bears the makers’ name in fall, and is just what it is represented to be. If parties who contemplate the pur chase of an instrument will commu nicate with us, we will quote prices that will be sure to satisfy them. Pianos from $210 to $1000. CRANFORD & DAVIS. Printers and Stationers. Red Front, Broad st„ Athens. An Old Citiun bpeaks. Mr, J. M. Norris, an old resident of Borne, Ga.,says, that he had been badly troubled witfi Kidney Complaint for a great many year* and with Eczema for three years; at times could scarcely walk and had tried many remedies without benefit, until he began taking Electric Bitters and anointing his hands and feet with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. This treatment afforded him great relief and he strongly recommends Electric Bitters to all whosufferwith Kidney Complaints, or need a Blood Fun tier. Sold by Long & Co. HODGSON BROSi Desire to call attention to their large assortment off TOBACOS. THE CELEBRATED PLANK M TOBACS Is justly popular. MOUNTAIN MAH. ROUTES. Col. Candler has succeeded in securing a daily mail from Alpharetta to Duluth, with special service commencing at once. He is also endeavoring with strong pros pects of success to secure a new mail route from Dawsonville to Johntown, thus supplying a hitherto neglected sec tion with mail facilities. Wonderful Cures. W. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Re tail Druggists of Rome, Ga^ say: We have been selling Dr. King’s New Dis covery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for two years. Hare never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures effected by these medicines in this city. Several eases of pronounced Consumption have been entirely cured by use of a few bot tles of Dr. King's New Discovery, taken in connection with Electric Bitters We guarantee them always Sold by Long & Co. _ be wld before the Court House door In the City of Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in April, 1S86. the following pro perty, »o-wit: one house and lot in the City of Athens in said County and State aad containing th.ee fourths (%)of an acre, more or loss, and bounded ss follows: on the North by James McQueen and Stephen Perry, un the Wctt by Albert Hawkins and other*, on the South by Strong street, and ou the East by Fannie New ton; tne same levied upon as tho property of tbo estate of James C. Newton, to satisfy a tax fl. fa. issued by H. H. Linton. Tax Collector of said County tor State and County Taxes for the year 13S5. Levy made by H. N. Prater, L. C. and turned over to me for advertisement and aale^ written notice served on Tenant In possession. JOHN W. WINK, march# 4t, Sheriff Clake County, Ga. out there shined—but sho! there are some things you cannot describe!” And at this point in his narrative the general always unlocks his safe and pro duces his great diamond. “There he is! Biggest diamond in America! Finest jewel in the world! Look at it! That man fetched him for me all the way from Africa by way of Australia, and hadn’t a cent in his pocket half the time! Didn’t I tell you I never was mistaken in a man’s character in my life! Hadn't had a bite to eat from Omaha here, but held on to the diamond and said nothing—only starved. “Well, he told me all about it—not that I believe ail his sentimental trash,' though. People with his sort of face are honest by nature. If they get wrong their nature beats them and pulls their ears till it sets them right again! That’s all of it His story is that he hadn’t been at the new place more than a week before he lighted on the big diamond—kicked it up with hie toe. He no sooner saw it than he knew it was a fortune for him if he kept it. Then, he says, the devil entered into him and tempted him, and he got on an all-fired rollicking bust, and ran away to India to sell the stone to a rich Maharajah there. But, just as he was con cluding the bargain he ran away again—he don’t say the devil tempted him this time, though. Then he landed in Australia, and kept up his jollification until he hadn’t a red left; but all thin time he held on to the dia mond, because it was mine, not his. So one day be makes up his mind to come home, and works his passage across to California, and then, for fear least he should be tempted again, or get robbed, begs and borrows his way home. Now, that 1 call pretty much of a temptation for a poor nuu to over come; don’t you? Look at the stone—it’s worth $80,000 as it’s cut,and that Mark Cary didn’t know he was going to get a penny for it, outside his wages, as agreed on. But he brought her on, all safe! It isn’t every man would do it—but the way I got rich was by looking in men’s faoee and seeing if they’re honest And I never was wrong in indxrinor a man’s character in mv Ufa” Uea jack trill not tell yon, wnat is never theless the fact, that, after his famous dia mond was cut, he had it appraised, and paid Mark Cary its value, less the advance# made to Mm and his family. He will not tell you of Cary's fine plantation and his fine prospects—of how he is a temperate a good citizen and the best of fathers and husbands—made so by Gen. Jack’s min istry. But he will show you the big dia mond, if you call Upon him, with exquisite pleasure, and relate to you with much gusto such portions of its hirtory as do not reflect too great credit upon himself. A Danville, V*., grand jury has found indictments against all the parties engaged in lynching a mule thief. County-Will be sold on first fu’-sday in April next before tbs Court house door In said County, within the legal ours ot salo, s tract of land belonging to Margsreue Colie), deceased, containing forty-six acres, being in said County, adtoining lands of K M. Jackson, Bob Miller. Jack Fulnotar.d Mrs. William Hoff, whereon the Administrator new resides. Sold for tho benefit of heirs sad creditors of said deceased. Terms cash. GEORGE W. COLLET. m&rch9.4L Administrator. _ tbo firstTueoday in April next, at tho Conn House in said County within the legal hoars of side to tho highest bidder lor cash, the following property to-wlt: one tract of land lyinr in said County, adjoining lands oIR V. Emmett, Mrs. F. Belle w, J. 8. Furr and others,ices tuning one hundred and eighty acres, more or loss. Said land levied on as the property of John Anderson (col) to satisfy six Justice Court fl. las. issued from the Justice Court of tho t<5 District. G. M. of said County in favor of 0. W Hood, vs. said John Anderson. Levy mads and returned to mo by J. S. Stephens, L. O. Also at the same time and place one tract of land in said County adjoining lands of Carry Jordon on tho North, lands of George Acrey oa tho hast, J. J. Anderson on tho South, and Cham bers on tho West, containing on j hundred and thirty seres, more or loss. Levied ones the property of Thomas Jordon, to satisfy a Justice Court, fl. fa. issued from the Justice Court of the four hundred sad forty-eighty (ttf) District. G. M, in said County, la favor el the Potansoo Guano Company vs. F. M. Jordon, Principal, W. 8. Dudley and Thomas Jordon security. Levied ou ss the property of Thomas Jocdon; Levy mads and returned to mo by C. W. Smith, Also st tho same time and place one other tract containing two hundred and fifty *150) acres, more or loss, lying and being in said County, adjoining lands of Jas. Terrell oa tbo East, J. N. Coggins, on tho South and lands of Lewis Carter end others. Levied on ss the property of A, L. Pool and M M. Pool as Principal and fio. r Jonosas security, by virtue of a Justice Chart fl. fa. issued from tho Justice Court of the 912. District, O. M. or said county in favor of J. N. Coggins vs. A. T Pool aad M. M. Pool. Lsvy made and return* to me by J. E. Stephens, LT C E. D. OW8N8. Sheriff, march*.**. Banks County. fl BORGIA, CLARK! COUNTY.-Asreeable to U an order of the Ordinary of Clarke oouaty, will bo sold before thetSirt Homredoor ofsaH county on the first Tvesdsv in April next, within the legal hours of sale the foLowing property to* wit: one tract ol land lying on tho waters ol the south prong»f Bare Creek, containing oni Ored and seventy-two (179) acres, more oi upon which is a comfortable log dwelling splendid spring of water very convenin joining lards of J. H. and Robert Thom. Aiex Kenney. Wm. Cooper, J. R. Wall and susan Fuleher, known as the.Evans place. Sold as tho property of James Fulcher, Into of said ooauty deceased lor tho pnrpooeof distribution amongst the legatees named In wilL Put exhibited on day ofsale. Terms cash. DUKE HAMILTON, J. W. FULCHER. Administrators with tho will annexed cf Jsxu Fulcher deceased. f mnrch9.*t. University of Georgia. THE CHA1E OF NATURAL HISTORY And Agricultnre in the Univenitv of Georgia will be filled In July 1886. $2,000. SALARY $000 And residence on the Experimental Farm. All applications mutt be tent to febl8w&s3m. LAMAR CUBB, Secre *"*■“ Athens, tarr is, Ga. We clain there is no better fir tin money. Try it. CEDAR GROVE Also some of our Favorite Brands tor which we are Sole agents. Give us a call and be Con inced. HOME COMFORT WROUGHT IRON RANGE. My agents are now eanva«*ine counties In the vicinity ol Athena, and ta*mvra will tart u$p* portunity to examine this celebrated COOKING APPARATUS. Below will bo found some of tbo certificates froir parties iu tbe two large csuuties ol ton and Wllkvt, who have bought the»e Ranges. S. C. HOAK, Superintendent. WILKES COUNTY. .his Is to certify thrfwe have etch bought a Home Comfort Wrought Iron pleased to say that it fives entire satisfaction; we think It superior m every resect to ss; ^ stove we have ever used : Mrs T V Shipp. Mrs DJ vdsnos, WT Hudson, Firs ti L Msa'tj.Vn Wm Fouche, Mrs M M Walton. F H Cooper, Mrs A J Pharr, c g Florence. Miss Lib* *T»i Mrs JR Burdett, Mrs A F Wanslry, Mrs W Tatnra. R L Rmlth. Mrs J H Gresham. *r«*T Harris, JamesCarlvon. Mrs W L Wooitcu, N L MeMekln, Mrs C A ShePe^rd, Mrs L J Shssk fir-* C Thomas, slrsT J •-raves. Mrs J N McKakto. John J Sherpard. A R Burdeit, MrsMOnllsy. J Login. Mrs Rose Hall. Mrs B D Butler, Mrs J J Grafton, Mrs L J Dannet, A <* McMekin, MriCA Standard, Mts J LBurdstt, E BramleUG * Bu dett WASHINGTON COUNTY. MrsE 8 Smith, James FSmith. MrsM V Mason, S Van Brikle. B G Llndser. Z T—art. M iOr Mrs Williams. Wm F Martin, W H Hart. S T McAF-e J R Rolgrs. I « Webb. H C Aod;#«. * *> CM Franklin, M G Wood, Sr.. Singleton Hvd, RJ McCoy. B SBoatrigh: BissM Jsrksss. Motile MeCoy Ella L Pearson, W H Avant, T « Brooks, James R Cox W rt Hail, s Prince. Mi*•* Burgamy, William Jonas. V lUlamCMo, * W Hall. TH Diwna. James Webster, MrsLekioo .4mason. Mrs M M Tamer, Mrs v F Cato, ttlla T Newsome. M t, Huron. Mrs B II Wicker, J P* M M Mathis. A A Morrison, Mrs B Tanner, W Mills, Liry Ann Dye, irvant Wilkins. K P W4* tngfield, David Bailey, T B Smitn, T J Madden. Daniel .Yew. J*s!»*it. MAGNOLIA ACID, The boat Acid Phosphate in Georgia. Matchless Cotton Grower * Bpleodid AmmonUtcd Cum Uut ft lmmtawl/ popular ud crowlns In p.pnlirltx ••ert'* 1 Merry man’s , Am. Dis. Bones. Tho Old Reliable—Never< •. y yet, and na ve r O. K. DISSOLVED BONES, A new goods which will supply a long fait want. All tbo abive Fertilisers ea» ** ^ ORR & HUNTER. Athens, Georgia. R. C. 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