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joUn Msrrltt In Cold Blood.
8 0 clock Saturday night one of the
' , unprovoked and cold-biooded mur-
* committed at Lula that haa oc-
I'^'A for many years in that section,
rt, cause of the killing seem* to be a
vttcry, but it ia thought by some to
9 t) o f n caused from something that
n od between Merritt and Coffee
f m o lime ago. From the statement* of
*art ; es who saw the murdered inan'land
’ T i ihc pistol shots, it seems that it
^ JonC without any provocation. Joel
brother of the man who did
shooting.) John Merritt and P. F.
wore in Logan’s restaurant con
ing very friendly, when John Coffee,
the murderer, came in, and after stand
-in the crowd for a few minutes said:
M.rritt, let me see you privately.”
,,jfoe walked out of the frontdoor of the
r ,>uurar.t, followed by Merritt, and
„,pcd on the corner, which is only a
sr -tops from the entrance of the res
ent. The other members of the
rtv remained in the restaurant and con-
uo d the conversation. A few moments
i: Vr ( otfee and Merritt had passed out
the door four or
K1VF. PISTOL SHOTS
re heard tired in quick succession,
e reports of the pistol came from the
tree! near the entrance of the building,
he men rushed out and found John
Merritt lying on the ground near the cor-
cr gasping for breath. The night was
,rk and no one could be seen near the
ring man. He was picked up and car-
,.,1 into the restaurant, when he drew
ie breath and died. Merritt died with-
nt uttering a word of any kind. In fact,
was practically dead when the n»cn
•ked him up.
K. F. Cape, a deputy V. S. marshal,
died f<»r volunteers to go with him and
rrest the murden r, and intimated that
. hn Cotlee had committed the terrible
rime. No one offered to go, and Cape
•,t to t i linesvillc, where n posse was
k.» d and immediately went in pursuit,
here is considerable excitement, and
•d«‘>s Coffee makes good his os-
ip.' through the mountains, he will
t-caught Coffee has lived at Lula for
long time, and has been making and
Ihng whisky, and it will be a hard
latter to overtake him, as he is well ac-
ainit'd with all the paths and houses in
hat part of the country.
CAPE S STATEMENT.
Three of us,” said Cape, “Merrett,
urn and I, left Gainesville yesterday
-inner on a raid into Hanks county.
1. ft tin* cars at Lula where, we were
ed by heputy Collector Strong. Af-
^pending the whole of yesterday in a
• less search ami lying out all night,
reached Lula this evening between
. lown and dark, tired and sleepy, and
rtided to get aboard the down passen-
:U!* o’clock for Gainesville. While
utiiii the arrival of the train we went
> what is known as Logan’s restau-
t. a house situated on the left of the
.. ** 1 from here, almost directly op-
ite the depot building.
I.ogan, the proprietor, was in the
front room of the house. Mrs. Legan
* in the cook room adjoining, busily
preparing supper, while Merrit, Osborn,
Joel Coffee and myself, and the little
on of Logan were seated around a pleas-
mt fire in another room. Merritt was
rated in front of the tire, I was on his
ight, and Joel Coffee and Osborn at his
eft. He was entertaining the party by
propounding questions from Walter Tay-
s riddle book, and we were amusing
ourselves trying to guess the answers to
the riddles. In the midst of this John
oflee came in and stood between Mer-
r tt, who was still reading, and the fire,
inti spoke to me very pleasantly. After
»moment he approached Merritt, touch-
el him on the arm, nodeed to him, gave
I*•!»* to understand that he wished
to xpeak to him privately and went
out, followed by Merritt. As they passed
out the door Logan saw them and re
marked jokingly: “Yes, by G—d, you
are fixing to give somebody away now.’
A moment after he made this remark five
pistol shots were heard in quick succes
sion, and some one outside said “Oh!”
three times. 1 immediately sprang to
my feet and rushed out, asking as I did
so: ‘What is the matter?’ Logan replied:
•somebody’* killed,
I think,’ and seined his lantern. We
then went out together, followed by the
others, and around the corner, about eight
or ten feet, we saw Merritt lying on his
face against the house. Logan called for
water and dashed some on him and turn
ed him over. He was still alive, but by
the time we got him in the house he was
dead. Wc made a hasty examination
and found only one wound located near
the heart. Soon after 1 came away on
the train, leaving him there surrounded
by loving friends. As brave a man and
a?* true a friend as ever breathed. Why
John Coffee should have killed him I do
not know. Coffee was not drinking, and
not a word was passed in anger so far as
any of us could hear. It was a cruel
cold-blooded murder. John Coffee killed
a mi»n at Longview several years ago,
»nd is looked upon by all who know him
as a dangerous man.”
dfeven-
dve.ofhog cholera.
WjJ. Smith; otWay cross, has a
'cat Which playtf the piano.
f Butler, has
NO. XVI
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTTE&pA:^, M ARGIEL
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[V'hramcle.l
Whice out hunting, Edgar Dyson ac-
cidedtally ahot himself in the foot;
While Mr. and Mra. Gabo Bell, living
near Mt. Zion, were at preaching Satur
day, one of the little children that they
left at home was fatally burned. There
ia not much religion in leaving amall chil
dren at home to go to church, with no one
to watch them.
Mr. Wood, the stable man, had a fine
hoase to run away and get impaled on a
picket fence. The animal was so badly
injured that it had to be killed.
Father O'Brien is out en the streets
again.
The barn of Mrs. Wm. Sutton, near
Danburg, was burned.
Capt. Burnett found a hen egg on his
place recently, in the shape of a terrapin
with distinct marks for feet and tail, the
outlines of a human face, and the figures
of 171 on the flat side.
Henry Gartrell and Jerry Landers
were arraigned before Judge Widfield in
the county court on Saturday for retail
ing liqdor without license. Both were
adjudged guilty, and sentenced to the
chain gang for six months, with the op
tion of paying twenty-live dollars each
and costs.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
|B (taler.]
The Register is in mourning this week
for Dr. Wilkes, of Carncsville.
L. J. McConnell is in business in
Carnesville.
A gentleman from Harmony Grove will
open up a furniture store in Carnesville
at an early date.
Robert Smith, better known to many
of our readers as "Uncle Bob Smith,”
died on Saturday last. He lived to a good
old age, about 76.
5L THE SECOND-
Bam Small'a Week to Chicago— 1 The People
Slicuitod With Him—Aping Bam tha
Greater—Hllartoui Talk about • Hell—
aroaaly Intuiting a Worthy Charity and
Good People—Too Imperlone for a Hew
Convert-Mr. Small May be Bam Jones'
Convert, Bnt He It Hot a Convert of Jesus
Chrlat.
from the experience of an eminent
servant .of the devil, until a very re
cent period a dissipated and reck*
'Mia sinner, the zeal that he now
displays against balls, operas and
the theatre, lustily rebuking all who
patronize them, and sending them
by quick dispatch to hell, would be
painiul if it were not so generally es
teemed ridiculous. Mr. Small is alto-
together too imperious for a new
convert. He is too swift and whole
sale in his condemnation and damns
THE KNIFE.
Cutting to East Athens.
Sunday night East Athens was the
scene of a very dangerous cutting scrape.
Henry Evans is a young white boy about
12 years old, and got into a difficulty
with Bud Brown, a negro, over some
trivial matter. Brown hit Evans three
licks with a hickory stick. Evans, see
ing that the negro had the advantage of
him, drew his knife and cut Brown. The
Srst cut was across the side of the head,
splitting his ear. He then stabbed him
in the pit of the stomach, and just above
the heart. The most dangerous wound
is the one above the heart, and may
prove fatal. Evans thinks he is justifi
able, and has not left.
TO SWING.
Clarksville to Have a Hanging.
Robt. H. Morris, who murdered his
brother-in-law Henderson last Novem-
vember, was tried at Clarksville last
week, and found guilty of murder in the
first degree. Morris was sentenced to
be hung on the 26th of April. His law
yers will make a motion for a new trial
this week. He had no idea that he would
be hung or even go to the penitentiary,
as he claimed that his deed was done in
self-defense. Henderson was the second
murder that he had committed.
DR. ARMSTRONG'S CASE.
Atlanta, March 8.—There is amove
ment on foot to establish an independent
church for Dr. James G. Armstrong, the
suspended rector of St. Philip's Episco
pal parish. It is not improbable that an
effort will be made to induce Dr. Arm
strong to preach once every Sunday at
DeGive's opera house, and a purse of four
thousand dollars a year is proposed as
the financial foundation of the scheme.
Quitca number of Dr. Armstrong’s parish
ioners have announced their intention to
follow the doctor if he makes a bolt.
CHURCH BURNED.
The church at White Plains, Greene
county, was destroyed Monday by fire.
The building was a large, handsome
wooden structure, erected in 1872 at a
cost of |5,500. It was handsomely fin
ished, the chandelier alone costing $125.
Nothing was saved except the organ, the
chandelier and a small pisce of the car
pet. The building is a total loss—there
being no insurance—and will fall heavi
ly upon the church and community.
Evidently the fire originated just where
the stove pipe goes through the ceiling.
BITTERS.
Our drug stores have all quit selling
litters of which alcohol is the chief in
gredient, as it turned their place of bus
iness into regular bar-rooms, and drove
off respectable customers. There is big
money in “ bitters" but it is destruc
tion on other branches of trade. To get
Anything st all intoxicating in Athens
now a fellow must ride fire miles ost to
Fowler s. A druggist tells us that his
sales of bay rum and Jamaica ginger have
quadrupled of late, as a great many old
soakers use it as a substitute for whisky.
COMPETITION IN OGLETHORPE
The steam and water mills and gins
arc waging an exterminating war on
each other down in Oglethorpe. The
water-power owners have put down the
price of grinding corn to one-twelfth,
while the steam mills charge an eighth. In
some localities the gins got to cutting so
in tolls that farmers had their cotton gin.
ned for one-thirtieth. There is no mon
ey in this, of course, and such policy is
financially suicidal.
AH ASSIGNMENT*
Yesterday J. B. Thornton, the Clay
ton street candy manufacturer, made an
•alignment for the benefit of hia credi
tors—N. B. Jones doing thb legal Work.
Ur. E.TT: Anderson is the trustee, and
will sell and convert assets i ito cash for
the creditors. Mr. Thorntcn preferred
all of his Athens creditors, tuey will get
their whole claims.
Chicago Paper.
Chicago has had a week of pre
liminary revival meetings conducted
by Mr. Sam himall, the co-liborer
and advance herald of Kev. Sam
(ones. His business was to prepaie
the way,for the union Evangilistic
services,, which began in the Casino
Skating A'cademy building last Sun-
day. Mr. Small, in the absence o»
Mr. ]ones, had the field to himself,
and conducted the prelimina'y ser
vices of the campaign in a manner
which is not altogether pleasant to
many originally interested in the
revival. He was the special attrac
tion at the noon day services at Far-
well hall, making an address every
day, and preaching every night in
the Chicago Avenue church. While
the attendance has been fairly good
at all these services, there has been
no outpouring of the multitude. It
is Jones that draws the crowd, not
Small, who, although a very capable
and eloquent speaker, of theentense
Southern style, even more dramatic
and sensational than Jones, is always
more or less overshadowed by the
greater Sam. Now that the latter
hasarrived upon the scene and taken
command, the revival served no Ion
ger by deputy, we may expect to see
the same phenomenal crowds that
have attended the Georgia evange
lists in the Southern cities, and also
in Cincinnati, the scene of their re
cent labors.
Mr. Small’s services last week
were unexphctedly noticiabiein their
way, and demand a word or two on
their own account. In Cincinnati
and elsewhere the lesser Sam has
been complimented for a higher
and more cultivated style of address
than Sam Jones uses in his pulpit
and platform appeals. It has been
said that while equally as earnest
and common sense as Jones in hia
speech, he made a better impression
on the more thoughtful and Chris
tian people of the congregation by
not descending to the slang phrases
and rowdy elements of speech which
copiously interlard the public ad
dresses of the other Sam. If this
was the case in Cincinnati ai.d else
where, a mighty change has come
over Mr. Small since his advent in
Chicago. “Like master, like man,”
would seem to be the words now to
apply in the new development of
the recent Georgia convert. On
several occasious during the last
week, Mr. Small was as coarse, ir
reverent and even vulgar as the
most heedless or thoughtless of “the
boys” could wish. His slang aad
witticism were greeted by laughter
by the thoughtless oi his congrega
tion, but many were alio displeased
at his hard hearted levity and gen
eral forgetfulnes of what was due to
his solemn position before the pub
lic.
Some specimens of his talk may
be given as examples. In a sermon
last Friday, he told of a class of peo
pie who “would want Peter to let
them out early so that they could
get their cocktail every morning!”
He then described another class that
was so much interested in a low or
der ol music, and loving it so well
that they wanl“want to get up a min
strel show,” and “organize a troupe
amongthe angels and travel through
the country.” Othei music lovers
“would not be in heaven twenty-
four hours belote they would be go-
ing around organizing an arch-an-
gelic church choir company.” Of a
certain description el lawyer he
“would not trust to get a bob-tailed
calf out of the city pound;” while the
doctor was caught in the assertion
that “we ate going on so last now
that young men don’t think i hey can
graduate properly trom a medical
college and hang out a saw-bone
sign and roll up a pill until
they have themselves acknowledged
infidels and atheists, and that they
must be agnostic before they can be
fit to prescribe for a sick baby.”
Such statements as these may be
well calculated to tickle the ears of
the groundlings they do not advance
Mr. Small’s chances for usefulness
as an evangelist.
Mr. Small was also generaly hila
rious in dealing with the subject of
hell and the eternal loss of soul;
using language that plainly evinced
that lie had no sympathy with the
multitude hurrying on the down
ward course, even using levity in
hit descriptions of their sufferings,
making them dance in hell and go
to the theatre and indulge in an eter
nal round of drunkenness and all
sorts of dissipation, drawing heart
less pictures of the fate of the damn
ed in this manner *.vith brutal facili
ty, and apparently unmoved by the
spectacle he was presenting to his
hearers.
people too promptly and vigorously
for his own good. A little more of years she has been a rag picker in
the streets of Chicago, and her back
• he common sense, which he says
once nearly sent him to hell, would
still be a useful ingredient in his
make up. People will be apt to re
member who the man is that sets up
himself as the modern Jonah to call
Chicago to repentance. A record
such zs Sam Small’s is not a first-
class recommendation for a revival
prophet or the teacher ot purity and
righteousness. If be does not be
come more careful in his speech and
more modest in his claims, the
thoughtful among his hearers will
conclude that while he may be Sam
Jones'convert, he is not a convert
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A CURIOUS SHIPWRECK.
.A FORTUNE IN RAGS
a Female Mltcrtnio Picked Up $80,000 on
the street* of Chicago. prii'
Chicago, March 4.—A little,
dried-up old woman, dirty and in
rags, sat in a chair in Judge Pen
dergrast’s court room yesterday, and
looked vacantly into the faces of six
men who had been called to exam
ine into her mental condition. Her
name was Ida Schireider, and her
age was given as 57, although she
looked much older. For twenty
picker in
Chicago,
was bent and her shoulders humped
by the loads she has during that
FASHION MOTHS. ■.
time borne through the alleys and ones -
dl it>i
Vioiett are to’ bd“very fashiona
ble. ' - fl B*
Buckles of all kinds are in high-
favor.
Cuffs are en suite with callarettes
and fichus.
Linen cuffs and collars are heavily
embroidered.
Clasps for beaded velvet dog-col
lars correspond with the heads.
Etamme or the rather coarse can
vas fabrics reappear this season.
Long silk gloves are worn at re
ceptions and with the demi-toilette.
inbroidered China silk hand
kerchiefs take the place of linen
At a re,cent sale day, valuable
lands withla two miles of Monti-
A daily paper gives the following
account of a singular shipwreck
from the l'ps of Captain White, of
the brig Ada L. White, which was
abandoned and lost on her recent
voyage from Rio Janeiro to this
port. Captain White said it was fine
summer weather, with the mercury
standing at So degrees in the shade,
when they left Rio, December 16,
with 11,248 bags of coffee on board.
The voyage continued without inci
dent until the brig was off Jamaica,
when a gale came howling from the
noithwest, and lasted three days.
But it was several days later, when
160 miles out at sea, off Hatteras,
that the great storm which wrecked
them was encountered. The waves
ran high; the wind blew almost a
hurricane, and lashed the ocean into
foam; wave after wave broke over
the ship, and finally enough water
got below to wet the cargo. Then
the coffee hegan to swell, the bags
burst, and more water got in. The
coffee, which was forced out of the
open sacks, floated into the pumps,
and soon disabled them. It was
now impossible to reduce the water
in the hold
Meanwhile the fury of the storm
ncreased, and the sea was terrible
to behold. In the midst of these
scenes of peril, a new and terrible
danger appeared. Because of the
disabled pumps, which were chok
ed with coflee, the eleven thousand
bags ot coffee became completely
thoroughfares of the city, while her
eyes would at times leave the faces
of the six jurors and drop to the
floor, as it looking for some scrap of
value upon the carpet. It was found
that she had been insane for two
years and a halt, and she was order
ed sent to Batavia.
The woman has had a most sin
gular history. Year after year she
has been turning over the ash heaps
and refuse piles of the city, and
from the garbage barre’ls ot the ho
tels and restaurants has procured
food enough to sustain liie. Her
sleepittg place was any hole into
which she could creep, and so, win
ter and summer, rain or shine, she
made her rounds, spending absolute
ly no money, for castaway garments
supplied her with clothes, until she
had laid away upward of $So,ooo,
all in money, a fortune for most peo
ple, and a princely one for her. She
has one daughter, a Mrs. Isadore
Schmidt, who yesterday made a
motion in the probate court for the
appointment of a conservator for
her mother’s estate, and at whose
instance she was found insane. It
may be that better treatment and
good food will cure the woman’s
malady, hut a mind which has been
clouded by twenty years of merely
animal existence will be a difficult
subject to reclaim.
GOING INTO POLITICS.
The Action of the Knights of Labor to nil-
nols—Tbey Announce the Formation of
a Hew Political Party, to be Known ae
•■tbe United Labor Party of America"—
The Aim* of the Hew Combination.
Chicago, March 8.—The action
of the Knights of Labor in this sec
tion in forming a new jtolitical par
ty is attracting much attention.
They declare in their platform:
“We have formed a new national
political party to be known as the
united labor party of America, for
the purpose of organizing and di
recting the great political power of
the industrial masses, as a political
saturated, and the whole mass tose I organization, and we will cast our
like yeast. With a shock that shook ballots for no one who will not
the vessel to her centre, the decks pledge himself to stand firmly by
burst open with a crash of thunder. | our principles.” They call upon all
The hatches were wrenched ofl as voters to unite in an effort to eman-
f they were but paper, and great
seams opened in the vessel, which
admitted the sea in tonents. All
hope was now lost. Nothing was
to be done but leave the ship aa
speedily as possible, for she was al
ready setting in the white waters.
THE NEGROE S HOME-MADE BANK.
Ha No Longer Puts Faltb to tbs Banking In
stitution*.
The colored folks have a great
penchant tor burying their hard-
earned money. Doubtless this feel
ing was superinduced by the Fred-
man’s bank swindle, in which so
many colored people lost their all.
An industrious old colored man
who lived in this place a few years
ago, named Lem Mathis, before his
death buried six hundred and fifty
dollars in Hunt’s woods. The mon
ey was in a tin box. He died with
out revealing the place of deposit,
and his children, one of whom still
lives here and another one in At
lanta, wete thus deprived of this
money. Another negro man nam
ed Joe Cook, who formerly belong
ed to Rev. Dr. Cook, was a brick
mason and hired his own hands,and
by this meanshadaccumulatedal.alf
bushel of silver. The family left
here for lower Georgia, and old Joe
buried his money and died without
telling the exact spot where it was
hidden. A colored man died here
about a month ago who had con
siderable money and his children
have been unable to find it. It is
presumed that he buried it.—Mari
etta Journal.
cipate the wage-workers of the
country from the iron hand of the
capitalists. They declare that the
alarming development and aggres
siveness of the great capitalists and
corporations, uuless checked, will
inevitaoly lead to the pauperization
and hopeless degradation of the
toiling masses. The Knights of
Labor numbered 20,000 1030,000 in
Chicago, and 850,000 in the U nited
States and Canada. The tinners
and cornice makers decided to be
come Knights of Labor.
AT THE LAST MOMENT.
A Man In Delirium Confenes to a Murder.
Macon, Ga., March 9.—Swamp
Miles, the man who is supposed to
have murdered Swamp Mollie and
her paramour, Davis, died yester-
day. He made a virtual confession
while dying, crying out:
“Oh! why do you torment me; I
have killed you once—let me alone.”
He tore bis hair and clutched at
his throat, saying:
“Oh! Mollie, leave me flone!”
then cried:
“I am in an engine burning up,
help me out.”
He soon died. His confession
virtually settles the question as to
who was the murderer.
A GEORGIA WILLOW FARM.
THE CHATTANOOGA MURDERER.
Ha Hu Been Carried to Sum mervllle to Re
ceive His Senten ce.
THE HABERSHAM MURDERER.
Morris is well connected, haring been
lorn and raised in Franklin county. He
'• * nephew of Hon. Thoms* Morris, of
Csrnesrillo, who represented Franklin
serorsl times in the legislature, and of A.
J. Morris, who wu at one time Ordinary
of Franklin. The doomed man in his
routh went to school to Judge Estes,
end this may be the reason that caused
the Judge to exchange circuit* with
Judge Brown. Judg* Estes for a long
fitne wu also th« law partnsr of Hon.
f ho mas Morris, hi* uncle.
hahdithuyiax.
A farmer tellaus that hands are nearly
el! hiring for standing wages this year,
end good workers command $100 and
l"»rd. U will take fire bales of cotton
* l7l » cent* to meet this and feed tbe
plow stock, allowing nothing for rent*
Jow hands will make that much. So
‘he fanner gets badly left.
AT SEA.
Farmer* are at a loss to know what to
o. They feel now that their cotton
'•op next year will bring them only 7K
«ota, and it.can’tbe raised for thi*. -Tot
“oyhare their hand* to pay off and «c*
to meet, and there U nothing else
■JL*** M»g them in ready
•’ m* Swear) *
A COOL MURDEKEB.
Morris, who wu sentenced to death
at Clarksville court for murdering Jas
per Henderson laughed all the time
bile the judge was delivering the sen
tence and said to the sheriff when he
wu carrying him back to jail, “Send me
plenty to eat, so that I will be heavy
enough to break my neck when I fall.”
THB ATLANTA JAIL. j
The government ia sending all of its
prisoners to other jails from Atlanta. One
man 8isd on hia-way home.« Bellinger
and .Byron, of Habersham county, and
Hamilton, of White county, are danger
ously ill and their recovery is doubtful,
Thor* are four others who are very lick.
MSOLVENT COST AID.
The fine tff $400 paid by Moore of
Madison cennty,atthe Us) term ofconrt,
paid ail the insolvent opstof the coun
ty except one dottkr and a half, Madi
son ia the only county on record which
ha* its insolvent cost *0 nsar paid
l up.
10 isrconrowABiHo hSk'i
JUSTICE.
News cam* down on the North-Eut-
«rn yesterday that John Coffee wad lean
in- the* northern portion of Habersham
dressed in women’s clothes,'. going to
wards North Carolina. There hia not
Boon • party organised uyet to
the fleeing criminal.
During the week Mr. Small vig
orously attacked the hypocrisy and
dishonesty of church members, but
in such en undiscriminating manner
as to lake away much of the force
ot his argument. Robert Ingersoll
could wish for no more wholesale
verdjet against the general rotten
ness of Christian society than he
could glean from Small’a sermons
of the last week. If he keeps on as
he he has begun, he will be a valu
able co laborer of Ingersoll as well
as Jones, for the infidels will be quick
to utilize his sweeping and unjust
'condemnation of the Christian
church.
It ia very generally admitted that
Mr. Small made a very bad mistake
in relation to another matter, which
has impaired hia usefulness in the
city. During the week the annual
charity ball was given in this city.
This affair, originating outside of the
churches and with a most commend
able object in view, enlisting tome
of the best families of Chicago in
its support, was bitterly attacked by
Mr. Small as a hell-deserving enter*
prise. He had the rudeness to de
clare: “If there is any logic in earth
or bell that can differentiate the dif
ference between a charity ball and
one of those low dance house dive
balls for the villainous and the scum
of Chicago, then you ought to trot it
out right away.” To put this char
itable Dali on the same moral level
with the dance house dives and
brothels of the city, was an offense
for which Mr. Small will not soon
b$ forgiven in Chicago. It was
vile uuault to hundreds of its best
people, who are foremost in all the
good works of the City. And when
we rwnflmber that Mr. Small is
himself, according to his own ac
count, only $ few month* removed
John Davis, who killed a com
panion of his in Chattoog a county,
was carried to Summerv'ille from
Rome Thursday to receive his sen
tence of imprisonment for life.
The murder which carri, ;s young
Davis to the penitentiary to r life was
committed about two y ears ago.
He and a companion, a boy about
14 yeats of age, were out hunting,
and when night came the hitter did
not show up. The parents of the
boy became alarmed, and went in
search of him, Davis failing to give
any account of the missing one.
The search was made through the
night and until the next day, when
the bey was found in the creek
with gunshot wounds upon
his person sufficient
produce death. Davis wascharged
with committing the crime and was
therefore arrested. At the Septetu
her term of Chattooga superior
court he was tried for the murder of
the boy, which resulted ina mistrial
At the March term, 1885, he was
again tried, and found guilt; of
murder, but was recommended to
the mercy oi the court. The law
yers for the defendant made a mo
tion for a new trial and asked sen
tence to he suspended. The request
for the new trial was refused, and
the motion was carried to the su
preme court, where the judgment
of the lower court was sustained.
About a mile below the city of
Macon is the Osier willow farm of
Mr. I. C. Plant, which has been
visited by a correspondent of the
American Druggist. The willow
switches, at the end of two years,
are from four to seven feet long, and
are cut and gathered into bunches
like sheaves of wheat. In the strip
Ding building they are steeped in
water, and the bark at the larger
end loosened for a couple of inches I
by machinery. The leaves and
bark are then removed by a little
machine devised by Mr. Plant. One
by one the switches are placed in
the mechanical stripper, and with a
pair of pliers are pulled through
with a sudden jerk. They are then
wiped off with a woolen cloth, bun
dled and laid away to dry.
All the leaves and bark are dried
and haled. They are used for me-'
dicinal purposes, and command a
price b'f twenty-five cents a pound.
There are at present 400,000 wil
lows growing on the farm, and 80,-
000 additional slips have recently
been set out. Tbe entire levee is
to be eventually covered with them,
when sixty acres will be devoted to
this single crop. The average yield
is a ton to the acre. When dried,
the willows command $200 per ton,
and find a ready market.
Beaded plush and frise velvet are
always combined with the plain ma
terial.
Childrens’ pinafores must be am
ple now, quite covering the dress,
and being very richly trimmed.
Plush grows in popularity for
dresses, wraps, bonnets and hats,
and is worn by old and young alike.
Fichus of crape cross over the
bust one end is cut off where the
other crosses it, the latter extend
ing to the waist line.
Cord ornaments are shown. They
are heavy, and are worn with the
best effect on the coarse, rough ma
terial now in vogue.
Tan-colored Swede Gloves are
worn with evening dresses. They
are of very light shade, very long,
and fit the arm smoothly.
Cashmere shawls are utilized for
mantles and are trimmed with os
trich tips or fur. The longer cloaks
have the front and back of velvet.
Khedia satin is a new material. It
is to be had with small Oriental de
signs and also plain. When draped
it falls in peculiarly soft, rich folds
Plastrons of silk muslin or piece
lace are laid in folds from the throat
to the waist, where they are fin
ished by a fan of lace or a bow of
ribbon.
Exquisite hand - painted flowers
are seen on the silk or satin hand
kerchief bags that now hang from
the elbows ot the stately dames of
fashion.
Ribbon will form a most impor
tant part of the new dresses, water
ed, plain, gross grain, gauze, satin
striped and plain, fluttering in bows
and floating ends.
Crush hats are made of corded
silk rosettesatranged in front. These
hats are also made to match trave
ling costumes.
Such dainty work bags may be
made of colored China silk kerchiefs
with a running strings set in, leav
ing the four pointed corners to lap
Over;to make them prettier still,these
bags should be edged with oriental
lace.
A dainty sachel-bagis made with
a white China silk handkerchief, in
which the filling is in equal parts,
lavendar and orris root. The con
tents should be tiid up in pudding
fashion and the string a piece of
bright red ribbon.
Red jerseys are are shown with
black buttons and black velvet vest,
collar and cuffs. A skirt of camel’s
hair, with long drapery lined and
turned over at one side with the color
that forms the trimming of the jer
sey, makes a useful morning cos
tume.
Nattv jerseys in wool are made
with aloose coat front, trimmed with
gold buttons 3nd worn overa Fedora
front ot bright red, with a low bod
ice of velvet matching the shade
of the eoat,which in this case should
be dark blue or black.
New $dk handkerchiefs have tor
figures cross bars of orange, black
and other striking combinations of
colors, in sea green and in dark blue
with white dots. Others come in
pearl gray, with various rich figures
in blue red checks and a great varie
ty of soft colors.
A rich dress has the bodice, train
and short overdress of deep blue
velvet. The underskirt is of pale
pink satin, covered with lace. The
overdress is fastened back with em
broidery and agraffes of shaded blue
beads. The short sleeves are of vel
vet trimmed with bead embroidery
and lace. About the shoulders are
folds of the-lace covered satin.
' A walking costume is ot brown
bourette with tiny"flecks of red.
The overdress is draped over the
skirt, whicn is plaited in wide folds
from the waist. The bodice is laced
with red and brown cord over
dark red surah chemisette. The
short visita worn with this dress is
trimmed with Alaska sable. The
bonnet and muff are of dark red
plush edged with fur. ■'
IixoseUtWurdstfWtl ^7
Loan agents have been fora num
ber of years scattering mortgages
upon our Georgia farms.
There are probably $1,500,000 of
such mortgages, in sums of from
$500 to $3,000. Numbers of the
borrowers have failed to meet their
indebtedness and the lands are be
ing sold. Some of our best lawyers
are making a handsome thing ot it
in foreclosing these claims.
The farmer first paid from 30 to
50 per cent, tor supplies and guano
advances. He thought it a move
forward to borrow money for three
to five yeats’time, mortgaging $3
of land for $1 of loan, paying 16 per
cent, of commission in a lump to
the agent, and S per cent, interest a
year.
For instance, ou a $3,000 loan he
gave a mortgage on a $9,000 farm.
His commission, 16 per cent., was
$4So, which left him only $2,520
cash. His interest of 8 per cent, on
$3,000 is $240 a year, or $1,200 for
the five years. His account stands
at the end of the five years:
Whole loan due $3,000
Commission gone ! 480
Yearly interest five years 1,200
Ik
•ed'
Spotted
county jail.
Senator Miller, of California, is
dead.
Boston liquor licenses have been
raised $200.
John S. Davidson is mentioned
for Governor.
Humphries, the alleged murder
er, is in Macon for safe keeping.'
The tea culture experiment in
South Carolina has proven a failure.
One million new Georgia 4^’s
have been placed in Paris.
The President’s course is still
condemned in Washington.
At Gwinnett court, John Hill was
convicted of manslaughter.
A Philadelphian shot his daugh
ter in the shoulder for a burglar.
The work ot rescuing the entomb
ed Nanticoke miners has been re
sumed.
Nitro-glycerine was found under
the^ freight depot at Newberry,
$4,680
He gets use of cash 5 years 2,500
For which he pays $2,180
This is a frightful thing. The
farmer gets $2,500 for 5 years on a
$9,000 place and pays for it $2,160
or $432 ayear practically, or 17$per
cent. He lacks $360 of doubling
the amount in five years—that is he
gets $2,500 in cash and pays out
lor it $2,160, or within $360 of the
$2,520. He pays commission $480,
which he gets no use of, and pays S
per cent interest, on it for 5 years,
being $38.40 a year and $192 for 5
years.
Now, let us see what the $S,ooo
farm has to do in five years. Be
sides supporting its master, his fam
ily and hands, it has to produce a
surplus of $4,680 in the five years,
This is a total of over (50 per cent
for the whole five years or over to
per cent, a year, A business that
nets 6 per cent, is a good one—a
magnificent one. But this farmer
has to net over 10 per cent, straight
along for five years, good or bad
season, rust or no rust, drouth or
flood, as his fundamental expense,
and live outside of that, or at the
end of five years be unable to meet
his mortgage.
It can’t be done as a rule. It can
only be done as a rare exception.
The only policy for the farmer is
to not borrow, but live and work
hard, economize, diversify his har
vest, make home-made manures,
raise provisions and have his cotton
as a surplus.
Down with the mortgage system
PROHIBITION.
How (tha Movement Is Growing Over the
United States.
A fatal duel in Mexico has been
recorded. Both p incipals were
shot dead.
The Mormon women protest
against the government’s war on
polygamy.
Tennessee, Virginia and North
Carolina will be contested by the
republicans.
Senator McCall, colleague of
Senator Jones, of Florida, says he
is crazy—as mad as a March hare.
Earthquake in the CityofCosen-
za, houses thrown down ’and per
sons killed and wounded,
Samuel Newton, the Choctaw
wife murderer, was executed last
Friday.
One negro gambler near Millen,
Ga., shot and killed another because
he would not loan him five cents.
cello sold for $4 an acre.
Eleven Atlanta youths have run
away from their homes, Snd intend
to walk to New Orleans.
Many of the farmers of Haber
sham county are using guano and
trying to raise cotton.
Three and a half gallons of whis
ky from a bushel of corn is the
yield at Bagby’s distillery, in New
ton county.
Three white men were sent to the
chain-gang since our last issue for
bj ting up an old negro’s pai’tngs.
—Waycross Reporter.
A Monroe county farmer' says
that he has quit swearing, drinking
wrisky and chewing tobacco, and
thrt to make the reformation com
plete, he will quit guano.
One family in Bartlesville had 14
•’ooks last year. The he. d of that
household is now paying his two
’aughters, bright, w'nsome girls
they are, too, $153 month to do the
cooking.
Several Swiss settlers, who lo
cated in Habe. sham cou.ity several
years ago, bid ta : r to m..*.e the gr. pe
tnd w: .e business a >..c-‘ess. Some
of them till ik Habe •haul, in its
idaptability to the v : ie, equal to
the fine wine districts in Europe.
Mr. Elijah Pate, of Dooly county,
s unusually sprightly or a man ot
seventy-five yea's of age, but he
still has an eye for the tender and
the loveable. A few days ago he
was married to Mi Bailey, a young
lady of sixteen summers.
Some few weeks since Mr. John
Faucett, living in upper Dodge
county, conceiving the idea that
phosphorus was sure death to rats,
broke a lot of match s, m'xed the
same with some sausage ard placed
it in his corn ctib. The s.ory in full
is told in a few words: The rats
were destroyed, and with them the
coin crib and its entire contents,
amounting in tile aggi egate to about
coo bushels of corn.
A breach of promise suit has been
filed against a Louisville, Ky.,
preacher.
There are sti'lsome Seminole In
dians living in the everglade region
of Florida.
The burning of the West Point,
Ga.. college, was the work of an in
cendiary.
F. L. Howell, of Warrenton, and
Powell & Hardy, of Harlem, Ga..
have failed.
Ethridge was acquitted of the
murder of Dr. Tucker, in Dodge
county.
John Hill, an old and paralyzed
Confederate soldier, was found dead
in Augusta—supposed to be suicide.
In Pittsburg, Pa., rival labor
unions are s.riking against each oth-
ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
TERRIBLE DEATH BY FIRE.
An Epileptic Falls Unconscious Upon a
' Banins stove.
Canton, O., March a.—A horri
ble and fatal accident befell Na
thaniel Harsh, a bachelor farmer,
living near Pekin, a village in this
county. Harsh was about 45 years
old and lived alone, attending to his
own household work. Since his
youth be had been subject to epi
leptic fits. While cooking his sup
per last night he was suddenly at
tacked with a fit and fell helpless
’m the hot stove. He was una
upoi
ble to move and lay roasting for
quite a time, when.he finally regain
ed bis consciousness and flung him-
sett 'from this awful, conch. The
baked flesh fell in large pieces from
his body. In an agony ot terror he
rushed- into the open air, where he
was - found running about crazed
with pain. He died shortly after.
Xsn-Csnt Circuses.
: • ; Charleston (S. C.) Letter.
Cne of the phenomenal successes
of the year it that of a 10-cent cir
cus which, was organized here a
short time ago, and which has been
playing to crowded tents during
the week. It starts off on a tour
next week. The outfit was pur
chased by Charleston capitalists,
who saw money in it, and the ac-
tors were engaged North. There
have been four ten-cent circuses
here this season, and all of them
have coined money. Two or three
sharp business men here caught on
to the idea and determined logo
into the circus business. The out
fit cost them about $2,506,1 am totd,
and their weekly expenses are about
$500. Their first week’s recepts in
Charleston will aggregate over
$2,000.
Newton Powell, ot Walker County
Light Bond.
Lafayette, Ga., March 8.—
Newton Powell, of this (Walker)
county, was arrested yesterday for
killing Dr.-Sam Price. Two months
ago Dr. Price and Tom Powell be
came involved in a difficulty,
which the physician
shot the young man. As he at
tempted to shoot the second time
Newton Powell, brother of the
wounded man, seized a billet of
wood and dealt the physician a
terrible blow on the head, crushing
his skull. Dr. Price lived six weeks
with his brains oozing out, and was
a raving maniac until his death two
weeks ago. Young Powell, recov
ered trom his injuries, whan New
ton Powell was arrested. It was
decided that four magistrates should
hold his preliminary trial. When
the testimony was concluded
two were in favorjof acquittal and
two wanted him committed. Nei
ther would yield until the body of
Dr. Price was exhumed. The
head was dissected in the coffin to
make some technicial examination,
and thep decided to bind Powell
over in $200 bond.
WANT TO COMPROMISE.
Some of ihe whisky men are proposing
a compromise to the prohibitionists in
Athens. They say they will not get up
a petition for another election or try to
hava the bill repealed, if the prohibition-
ists will allow them to have the bill so
amended sa to allow them to sell 1 beer.
The Germans in Athens ore great .lovers
of beer, snd they went to be allowed to
drink it when through business at night.
It will be a matter of interest to
those interested in the temperance
movement to know what have been
the gains in recent years. As to
states:
New Hampshire has prohibition.
Maine has prohibition.
Vermont has prohibition.
Kansas has prohibition.
Iowa has prohibition.
Great difficulties in enforcing
these laws have been met for years.
Courts must pass upon many law
points raised. In Kansas the last
saloon has gone. In Maine the
law is enforced in all cities upon
the coast but Bangor. In Iowa, a
few of the cities on the Mississippi
resist the enforcement ot the law;
in nine-tenthsof the states the sa
loon has been suppressed. The
Governors ot these states say the
law has come to stay.
As to counties:
In Georgia, m counties have no
saloons.
In Maryland, 10 counties have no
saloons.
In Kentucky, 32 counties have no
saloons.
In Missouri, 21 counties have no
saloons.
In Florida 6 counties have no
saloons.
In Pennsylvania, 3 counties have
no saloons.
In Mississippi, 26 counties have
no saloons.
Ssuth Carolina has only 200
saloons outside of Charleston.
Large parts of Arkansas, Texas
and Tennessee have driven the bar
rooms away.
Virginia, both parties stand
pledged to pass a county local op-
on a tion law, under which so widespread
a work has been done in the South.
It looks now as if the next five years
will suppress the legalized, in New
Orleans, and a few large cities.
In Canada, this movement to sup
press the strong drink traffic is
equally widespread and successful,
Fully one-halt of the Dominion is
now freed from the curse.
In places where we would least
look for prohibition, it has come
with the vote. When the people
of Dakota voted recently upon the
adoption of the constitution, the
vote was in favor of complete pro
hibition. It is not yet a state, but
there is in this vote a-healthy mor
al tone.
In Clarendon county, S. C., reg
ulators whipped a negro who was
living with a white woman.
Civil service examinations are to
be held at Charleston, S. C., March
23d, and Savannah March 26.
Atlanta, March 7.—Gen. Gar
trell is reported critically ill at mid
ght.
The past year, three men have
been lynched in Spartanburg coun
The republicans say that Cleve
land is the best President they ever
had. He is disrupting the demo
cratic party.
Government counsel on the Bell
telephone suit have come to an
greement on a bill. The action is
be brought in Columbus, Ohio,
Augusta, Ga., is excited over an
influx of Chinamen in that city
There are already over 100, and
they have 20 stores.
Utica, N. Y., March 8.—Mary
Bleecker, relict of Gov. Horatio
Seymour, died at the residence of
Mrs. Roscoe Conkling to-day.
At Eatonton, N. T., a negro 70
years old was lynched in jail for
outraging a young gill. He first
knocked her senseless.
to I
Elberton, Ga., March 6.—Major
Henry H. Harper, a prominent citi
zen of Abbeville county, S. C-, died
on last Thursday morning.
Atlanta, Msrch 7.—Edward
George, the young man, aged 20,
who was accidentally shot late last
night by his friend, died to-night.
Mr. Emory Nash, of Lawrence-
ville, tried to commit suicide with a
pistol, but the pistol was knocked
up and the ball passed through his
neck.
GOSSIP ABOUT DB. ARMSTRONG.
Atlanta, Match 8.—Without
being in the least desitous of being
at all sensational, I am constrained
to say the floating evidence is in
favor of tbe belief that an effort
will be made to establish an inde
pendent church for Dr. Armstrong,
There is a rumor that he has been
offered
“OLD SORREL” DYING.
Tbs Last of Stonewall Jaokson’a Famous
War Horse.
Richmond, March 8.—To-night
“Old Sorrel," Stonewall Jackson’s
famous war horse, is thought to be
dying. He was exhibited at the
New Orleans Exposition, and since
that time has been at the Confeder
ate Soldiers’ Home, where he has
been tenderly cared for. He
now 32 years old, and has been
bad health for some time past. Du
ring the last week he has been
weak that a block and tackle was
used to place him on his feet The
old soldiers at the home, in talking
about him, shed tears.
• . u.uu, mat ..«= Senator Brown will speak in the
pastorate of *.Unitarian c°ming debate in the senate, on the
church, outside pf Atlanta. It is al
so rumored that the Doctor- Will go
into the insurance business and
teach elocution in the afternoons.
Beacon Telegraph.
■ New York,(March .9—A tele*
gram received in this c'ty this morn-
Fng’announces the death at Purdy’s
Station, Westchester county, of ex-
United States Senator Jerome R.
Chaffee, father-in-law of Mr. U. S.
Grant. t> awe -
was
given
At Anderson, S. C.‘, a neg
taken lrom tbe calaboose an-
150 lashes for exposing bis person
iri the presence of white ladies, and
: then ordered to leave the county,
uiWtw «*»• nl baa.!' It*
right of the senate to demand the
papers of the President in the cases
ot removal from office. Senator
Brown says the President is clearly
right, and that the country will en
dorse him.
London, March 8.—The boiler
of the tug Riflemau exploded in
Cardiff harbor this morning. The
vessel and crew, consisting of six
persons, were blown to atoms. Tb
cylinder of the engine struck a pat
ing Italian ship a quarter of a m
distant and killed the pilot.
Port Royal, S. C., will probably
be made a port of entry in the near
future!''’ : o ■ tto*!'.i; oitrc 1
orfT liai. U-'iatra t, - t-'iifi
GENERAL NEWS.
One Mississippi j til contains thir
teen prisoneis charged w th mur
der.
Mr. Moody, the revivalist, is to
begin work in Charleston, S. C., on
the 14th inst.
A teamster in Wilkes county, N.
C., last week killed a 400 pound
bear with an axe.
A mechanic of Belton, S. C.,
claims tha- he has succeeded in get
ting perpetual motion.
The hydrophobia scare has caus
ed -he slaughter of 10,000 dogs in
London.
Mark Twain has received $63,000
on the proce ds of foji months’
sale ot “Huckleberry Finn.”
Ex-Cadet Whitaker, late of West
Point, has recently taken charge of
the Sumter, S. C., A. M. E. school.
Mrs. Hendricks, widow of the
late Vice-President, has been cho-
-en a director in a Montana mining
company.
One hundred and fii.v persons
have been kil'ed in Chk.-go during
the past year being run over by rail
road trains.
A New Preston young man play
ing in k-ssing game the other night,
kissed one of the buxom maidens so
h? d that hebtoke k’> false tee.h.
The value of the contents of a
barrel of c.ude petroleum ranges
from eighty-six cents to $1, while
the value of the barrel itself is $2.50.
The London Times suggests that
a well-served fire-plug, with a hose
attached, is the best weapon with
which to confront a riotous mob.
The report comes from Dallas,
Texas, that the receivers of the
Texas and Pacific have in contem
plation the arrest of the leading
knights of Labor and strikers.
The Duke of Seville, who was
recently sentenced to imprisonment
for insulting Queen Christian, was
pardoned by the Queen on the oc
casion of the marriage of the Prin
cess Eulalia.
Manchester, V*., has produced
the largest diamond ever found in
this country, weighing 233 carats
uncut, 11 11-16 carats cut, and for
merly valued at $6,000.
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister
of Gen. Grant, is lecturing in Mas
sachusetts under the ausp’ces of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union.
The grand jury at Bowling Green,
Ky., last week brought in seventy
true hills against saloo 1 keepers for
selling liquor to persons in the habit
of gettiag drunk.
Mr. G. M. Hunter, of Fish Pond,
Barnwell county, South Carolina,
last year made eighteen barrels of
syrup—eight hundred and ten gal
lons—on two acies ot land.
M. Samford, a drummer for Hart
Brothers, of Chicago, was found in
the Texas and Pacific yards al Fort
Worth, Tex., Saturday merning,
with his head severed from his body
aad his arms and legs cut off.
Augusta, Ga., March 6.—Mrs.
Millie A. Hutchins, wife of Eugene
Hutchins, ol the Augusta and Sum
merville railroad, was horribly burn
ed from hip to heel, from the’effects
of which she will not recover.
A man near Winnemucca, Nev.,
offers a reward of $150 for the ar
rest of the person who stole his
house from him. The building has
mysteriously disappeared and there
is no trace of its whereabouts.
Augusta, Ga., March 6.—It has
become known that a vast amount
of suffering exists in the fnctory sec
tion of Augusta, among the families
of destitute persons and those who
are unable to procure work in the
mills.
The strike on the Gould railroads
throws 10,000 men out of employ
ment, and is shutting down iron
mills and other work along the line,
that can’t get their products ship
ped. All this trouble is caused on
account of the discharge of one
man.
Portland, Oregon, March 6.—
Another Chinese outrage is report
ed near Port Townsend, W. T.
Two men attacked an inoffensive
Chinaman, and after beating his
head against the rocks and fear
fully maltreating him, they tore his
que out by the roots and then leit
him tor dead.
The colored people of Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., are preparing to begin
the publication ot a paper, to be
known as the Independent. It will
urge the colored people to cease their
slavish adherence to the republican
party.
At Abeline, Tex., Saturday, an
Irishman giving his name as Fran
cis Ames killed himself by drinking
three and a half pints of whisky
within twenty minutes. He died
in rbout the same length of time it
took him to drink the whisky.
Last week, after a desperate strug
gle, Joe Bethel killed a wild boar on
Brooker’s Creek, near Point Pinel
las, Fla., which weighed 455 pounds.
The boar fought desperately for
four hours, killed two dogs and tore
up Joe’s clothes so badly that there
was not enough ot his coat or pants
left to make gun wadding.
Cartkbsvillr, {.larch 6.—The
east bound local freight of the East
and West railroad broke through
the Whitehead trestle three miles
ijelow Taylorsville, yesterday morn
ing. The whole crew of the traitr
were on the engine except a negro
named Will Smith, though all were
Wrt « less Seriously bruised or
scalded. ConductorVandivere was
#1 "
terribly Maided ou t
bruised
escaped by a miracle with*a
slight injuries. •«?.? , .
1 1 f in tlXlJUn JA i\JM MIJrl :<: '
Mrs. T. A. Hendricks received
recently from the California demo
cratic dub a letter ot condolence
printed on parchment from an en
graved steel plate and encased in a
massive envelope of solid silver.
The whole was enclosed in a mag
nificent satin-lined morocco box
with silver ornaments.
Covington, Ga., March 8.—Fire
occurred here last night about 11
o’clock, destroying the brick build
ing owned by R, W. Bagby. An
other attempt at safe robbery was
also made in the town.
Humphries, the murderer of the
>ung ladies near' Milledgeville, haa
the Macqn jail for
r ,-„ .He says "if he did
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