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About The Weekly banner-watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1886-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1886)
BANNER. - WATCHMA.N officialioroan or City of Athens and OUrko, Oconoo ft Banks. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Jjil/ }>; ... iinJij, $1; .... Ytek'y, $1 T. L. GANTT. •WATCHMAN, WHvT OF THE NIGHT?” ••'I'. c ! >ud><l and threatening. The -kv ■» gening oVrcast. and v >u can hear the rumbling of distant thunder, mingled with the clash of the rival forces. a« they meet on the «kirmi>h hoe.” rhea -' - to-dav a true pic ..... lion of our cor.> A STRONGER GOVERNMENT. fir ?r We have senous doubts about our liberal.: republic^ standing much longer, but believe that be fore many years the chains must be [Havs.1 Mr. George W. Malcolm had his collar- j , , , bone broken while wrestling, ightened and the hberlies of the . n . * .gn.cncu uuu ...c ..oe...ea »• ruo Mrg Marril J» c k 80n ig quit e low with people contracted. Our populationi*-j~— 3 Mr. Will J. Bentley was married to me , e ueil up " 'he iieid. a-.d a mine has been laid beneath eveiy business and industry, that at any hour may explode and wreck all around it. There is strife and dis trust on all side, and we find capi tal slowly ami stubbornly retreating before organized labor, llow tar it will fall back we cannot sav, but that his preparing lor a pitched and decisive battle, any one has but to view the situation to sec. That this is a most unfortunate situation fot the country, and that it even threatens the foundation of our re publican government, all reasoning men must sec and and admit. There is not a person so rich and power ful, or humble and ob-enre, in our broad land of liberty, but what must and will feel the results of the pending strife, and we very much fear that before the contest is over 1 our statesman and rulers will see the necessity of a stronger and more dictatorial government to cope with such emergencies. The future is dark and threatening and the storm will doubtless break upen us the coming summer in its lull force. I.AISOU VS. CAPITAL. getting too dense in many localities, and we have too great a mixture of nationalities, to much longer per mit all the liberties enjoyed by our native citizens. America has of late years become the refuge for all the dissatisfied and insurrectionary ele- nents in Europe, and they bring with them to our shores the same loctrines that made them exiles i their own homes. The riots .in ; i.:bt»r troubles now prevalent ci the country are directly trace- uoie to Jhese toreigners. for while our home laborers and mechanics contend for their rights, they are opposed to any violent or lawless measures. It has been discovered that the very men who were engag ed in the Chinese riots out West vt-re themselves foreigners, and had .o more rights than the Celestials, many of them not being naturaliz ed. We arc always glad to wel come the right sort of emigrants to our land, but do not want the pau pers and serf labor of the Old World, withaheir communistic and insurrectionary doctrines. They will force upon os the necessity of -lengthening our government, and result in the destruction of the free republic of wnich our people ait justly proud. If the Knights of Labor will dose down those shops and mills in the East and West that have been flood ing the South with shoddy and worthless goods and machinery, our farmers will give them three cheers and a tiger. As will he seen by tetereuce to aiticle in another column, copied from (he New York Star, the man- ufacturers and capitalists of the country are now combining and or ganizing with a view of resisting the growing power of the Knight- of Labor. Before the summer is ovei we look to see the war between these two great interests waged in earnest, and it will necessaiily ie- sult in both loss of property and destitution and suffering among the laboring classes. The Knights of Labor may as well make up their minds to meet with stubborn and organized resistance from cap italists, for it is not reasonable they will sit with folded hands and see their interests placed at the dicta tion ol the ’ employes. The K. • •! L. ha\e ’ll'.' time cauglv capital .:. L-'islanci. i; wii: tore thu ; equally a.- i • . ganized.ind as widely extended a? their own power, and it will be a war of giants, too. The head offi cers of the K. ol L. should restrain their men, and i.ui permit them to aggiavate capital any more than possible. They little know the la tent power they are arousing. Let the workingmen use their present victories with moderation, and not to make flesh enemies. We would like tor the K. of L. to order a strike in those Connecticut wooden nutmeg factories. We see they have called a halt in one of the hig Western white pine wagon -hops. ELBERTON NEWS. Miss Mary E. Bullock. The new hotel is to be ready for occu pancy about the first of May. The last grand jury recommended the building of several new bridges. Mr. John B. Sorrels, Jr., hasopened a family grocery store at the former sa loon stand. It ih reported that Mr. W. H. Wood, who mysteriously left the county some weeks ago.has been heard from in Texas whence he wrote of continued troubles. Mr. A. II. DaTidson, representing Mr. Julius Cohen's merchant's tailoring es tablishment of Athens, was over last week. He has many good qualities as a business man and successfully looks af ter the interestof his house, which has a good patronage here. ELBERT COUNTY. [Leader.] Dr. A. S. Oliver is having a two-atory granite building erected on the south aide of the public square. Madam Rumor says that another dou ble wedding in high life will occur at an early day in Elbcrton. Mr. A. Jacobs will visit his mother in Czamikan, Germany, in a short time. On last Friday evening a barrel of whisky arrived in Elbei ton, and on Sat urday the boys were all “on a high.” Miss Amanda Smith has brought suit against the town council for (500 for an encroachment upon her land for a side walk. Mr. A. O. Harper was in town this week. He has recently visited Madison county and says that the impression is abroad over there that that county has three senatorial aspirants. ——"-WEEKLY- BANNER-WATCHMAN TUESDAY j- MARCH-1886 3 JACKS ON riff McElhannon . Thompson’s mills again. Mr.'Andrew W. Park is dead. Col. J. U. Merritt, formerly from Cleveland, White county, Ga^ haa loca ted' at Harmony ' Grove' to pracGoela'w'.' . Tobe Duke is making from fifteen to forty gallons of liquer daily. t i A great deal ef sickness is reported through the country. Married, on last Sunday, Mr. Will Yearwood and Miss Josie Lyle. Bryant’s bridge, across the Oconee riv er, is completed and ready. The justice court at Harmony Grove this week was in session two deys and a half. , • 1, The stock law election will be held in Newtown district, March 30th. Wm. M. Ross died at the residence of John M ullinax, of Habersham county. His death was from the effects of a tall from the verandah of the upper story ef the residence of Mr. Mullinax. Mr. Ross was a brother of Captain Thos. L. Ross. He had been a deaf mute from earliest infancy. ouely CARNES ViLLE. pit-part not lie in counter ; Jav Could and his Texas i^..toads deserve no sympathy from South ern men in their present troubles with the Knights of Labor. Gould is a hitter republican, and tries his best to lorce social equality on eve ry railroad in the South that he controls. \Ve hope the Knights will hpnkrupt Gould and place eve ry railroad he owns in the hands of a receiver. The K. of L. are the chickens roosting on the shoulders of our old perseculors and enemies. Winding Up Court—Tba Stock Law Deci sion—Other Interertlng Newt. E1.BF.RT0x, Ga., March 12.—Thursday the criminal docket was taken up. The case of Barney Gcter, charged with burglary in the night, was first taken up in the morning. He was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' in the peni tentiary. A motion for a new trial has been made. The next case was that of a negro, who was charged with stealing a water melon on Sunday. Found guilty and fined $20 and costs. Another was tried, that of Mrs. Max well. resisting arrest. She was no doubt acquitted. 'he fence contest was represent- • r John I*. Shannon and J. A. A orlcy, of Klberton, and Mr. Colley, 1 \\ ashington, for the stock law. Fence, M. P. Reese, of Washington, and Mr. > inborn, of Klberton. Both sides were confident, and after the Ordinary gave his decision, the stock law men were jubilant. The fence sido were, as ngen eral thing, very much dissatisfied. A great many of them wanted the law (if they were to have it) to go into operation at once. Many of them say that they don't intend to abide by the decision, ami that they will keep up their fences anyhow. They charge that the will #f the people has been defeated, and hence the decision is unjust. We think tha. the advent of the stock law in Elbert is opportune. The counties surrounding her have the law, and the farmers would have a great deal of expense to build a line fence. Like all of the rest of the fence men in other counties where the law has been carried, the anti-stock law men will become satisfied with the law in a short time and be strong advocates of it. , , 1 Hog cholera is prevalent in the county. Many farmers have lost some fino stock by this dreaded disease. [Gazette J Mr. Wm. G. Bullard, one of the oldest citizens of this county,is dead. We hear good reports from the wheat crops in the upper counties. A petition has been filed with the Or dinary for an election on the fence ques tion in the 18th district of this county. Trains are running within eight miles of Lowndesville on the SaTannah Valley railroad. Messrs. James T. Carlton and A. S. J. Stovall graduated at the Medical .college in Augusta recently, Mr. Stovall taking the first honor in the class. There will be but little, if any, reduc tion in the amount of cotton planted this year in comparison with that of last year. In the war at the North between the manufacturers and the Knights ol Labor, our sympathy is with the laboring classes. These capitalists did all they could to oppress the .South, and had no mercy on us while ground beneath the heel of radical tyranny. Now that they are in trouble, we propose to shed a very limited amount of briny tears. “Lay on, McDuff, and dammed to him who first cries, hold! enough!” It is a notable fact that the most brilliant men of the South were op posed to the democracy. Wise, Toomha, S'ephens, Hill, jones Ilas- kill, ITenrv, Menifee, Prentiss, Ben iamin, and others, were Whigs until the Northern wing of that party joined the anti-slavery party. Then the surviving members of that or ganization in the South joined thr democracy. Georgia 1 Labor, • I ii- *>•' my p lit against can tent. M. Split ill Mr woe, w ays to the Knights ot 1 keep your hands off and you can war iti' to tour lu-rnts' co DOWN THE ATHENS BRANCH. A Few Freeh Newe Items Culled From Ex changee. Last Sunday a mad dog was killed at Woqdville. Mr. J. M. Maxey, near Maxey’s, is dangerously ill. The Georgia railroad has been laying steel bars on the Athens branch for the past week. Hr. Sam Durham, of Oconee county, has opened an office at Maxey’s. Mayor Reaves, of Athens^ has made Major A. T. Briglitwell a present of a one hundred dollar pointer dog. We’ll bet that dog is as good a marksman as Gus Briglitwell. Mrs. Ann Durham, at Woodville, is quite sick. Davidson Bros., at Woodville, arc building an addition to their store. i’apt. Smith has a school of over fifty scholars at Woodville. The steam mill at the I’oiut is now in operation. 1. Mrs. Joe McWhoTtor, of Antioch, is still improving. The authorities have given the Athens branch a new and neater smoking car, to- »inch our people feel grateful. r-li'lc '.>011 • n >ci otic Hi' ihe men zation that attempts it!” MOST PERFECT MADE Prepaml with special regard to health Mo Ammonia, IJmo or Alum. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.. CH1CACO* ST. LOUIS* HEXTRACTS ' MOST PERFECT MACEI SSSSRUSS Price Bazin* Powder Co.' 1 be speech of Senntor Kcnna in 'hi senate Friday is pronounced •he finest delivered before that body years. His presentation of the controversy between the senateand 1 he President was masterly and elo quent, and has elicited congratula- 'ion on all sides and enthused dem- i-cr.its in Washington to a remark able degree. Edmunds has been annihilated. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thu Powder never varies. A -vrrvel ot purity irtBsth sad wbeleeoaenesa More «< onomlc* heathe ordlearv Made, imdcsaSw Be said ta competition with (Bate attitude of low Hit, shor walnut, slam er phoipkets Bowden, tala onl laeaae. ROYAL ARUMtOWEBB 00.. I* Wallet. N Y. soddftwi OGLETHORPE COUNTY. [Echo.] I)r. W. W. Burkhalter will locate in Gainesville. Mr. Lewis Saxon and Miss Mary John son are married. It was a runaway match. A negro house in Mr. J. R Cheney’s yard at the old Deupree place was total ly destroyed by fire with its entire con tents. It is against the law to hunt birds o? other game after the 15th. Miss Maggie Knox went to Elbert to take charge of a school. The whites of the Glade district are disposed to let the negroes emigrate if they want to. Mr. Albert Wynn has a school at Chan dler's Hill. There is already thirty-five hundred dollars in the treasury to the credit of the new court house. The Washington monument at Augus ta was cut from Oglethorpe granite. A handsome slab has been placed over the grave of the late J. H. McWhorter. Mias Mary Sanders will probably lose the sight of one of her eyes. The plumbago mines in this county are being inquired into. HART COUNTY. . ■ 1 J [San.] William Hartwell Cole was the first baby born in Hartwell. Marshal Carter nabbed Kelly, the bar ber, and George Mantz^on Wednesday, for infringement of revenue laws. Tugalo Grange, of Franklin county, Is the largsst Grange in the state, number ing 249 members. It has a commodious hall and school room. Married, Mr. J. W. Morris, of Hart well, and Miss Mary E. Jones, of Ander son, S. C.; also, Mr. S. M. Phillips and Miss M. E. Vickery. 11 Died, March first, Mrs. Nancy Winn, wife of Adolphus Winn. [Leader.] H. B. Nelms has rented the Carnesville Hotel and has taken charge of it. Dr. W. C. McEntyre will move to town in a short time and will open up a family grorery business. The Register will receive a power press this week and enlarge its size to a seven column paper. Its nc^t issue will coi - taiu a full account of all the facts of the Mauldin murder at Toccoa. U ncle Bob Smith, an old citizen of this county, died Saturday. He had quite a checkered life. Had lived in South Car olina, Texas and Georgia. HORRIBLE HANGING. FORD AND MURPHY'EXECUTED WHILE UNCONSCIOUS. Revolting Scene tn New Orleans Friday Noon—Insensible Men Launched Into the Presence of Their God bp the Hangman- Spectators sickened at the Fearful Sight —Instantaneous Death of the Unfortu nates the Only Redeeming Feature of the Execution. New Orleans, March 12.— Probably the most revolting hang ing yet recorded in our history was enacted in New Orleans to-ilay. While the crime for which Murphy- ami Ford were sentenced to pay the death penalty was one of the dark est in New Orleans annals, it cannot compare with the scenes enacted si their execution to-day. and the wis dom of such proceeding can cer tainly be questioned. When the jailer visited the cells of the doomed men during the morning to warn them that their last hour was fast approaching, the prisoners were found to ba in an insensible condi- t on, having during the night previ ous taken of poison. The Governor was notified of their comatose co .- ditioti, but ordered that their sen tence be cairied out. All efforts to revive the men proved ineffectual. Between 12 and 1 o'clock the death warrant was read to ears witho 1 bearing and to eyes without sight, the unfortunate victims dragged to the scaffold* and, unconscious of what was going on, tvere launched inta eternity. The men werejear- ried to the scaffold at exactly 12:45. It was indeed a miserable spectacle. Al the gallows they were placed in a sittingposion with their backs to the wallto give them support. Nearly all present involuntarily turned away from the sickeningsight,some even having to nerve themselves against a fainting fit, and to hold fast to the balcony rail for support. Fortu nately there was not long to wai . It only needed a few minutes for the executioner, in domino and mask to adjust the ropes and black caps. He then as quickly re-entered his cage. Almost instantly a sharp “swish” of the axe was heard as it cut the rope.and simultaneously the trap fell and the bodies shot down ward eight feet, rebounded with a jerk ami then fell back, stretch'ng the cords to their utmost tension. Death was almost instantaneous. The bodies were allowed to hang 25 minutes, and were then cut down at 1:15 p.m. The same jury whi 1 witnessed the hanging viewed the bodies and gave a verdict ot deaih by hanging. The necks of the two men were dislocated. The bodies were taken in charge by the Ford family. slaughter-house on -upied by the pig - l that time he ba the community, ly ha aaUmatofi gg dollars it swelled into -yes, It was simply fabulous 1 r, it was quite natural that, finding him so abundantly provided with gold, society should recognize Michael as its darl ing. All at once it was discovered that w’-r-riTil possessed rare qualities of head and heart and that his wife was a lady of ex . ccedlng beauty and. ( WILKES COUNTY. paiette.] Mr. Coxwell killed a wild turkey 10 years ol(l, that weighed 40 pounds. Mr. A. Franklin has purchased Mr. S I). Heard’s plantation. The friends of Dudley 'DuBose, Esq., hope he will consent to enter the race for the legislature. ‘ ReV. Sam Jones will come to Wash ington as soon as his Chicago engagement is over, which will be in the course of two or three weeks. The failure ef Mr. S. D. Heard, bar and billiards, of this place, is announced this week. The liabilities are about four thousand dollars, real assets fifteen hun dred dollars. GREENE COUNTY. [Home Joaraml and Herald.] At the residence of Judge Wm. H. McWhorter, Mr. John Gorham and Miss Fannie Me W.horter were married. Mr. J. E. Reynolds, near Union Point, lost his dwelling by fire one night last week. He saved most of his household effects, but lost a good deal of his provis ions. The corn crib and fodder house belong ing to Mr. W. V. Griffeth,on tho Jackson place, near Veazey, was burned. It was supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Mr. Griffcth had enough com and fodder to do him the year and it was entirely destroyed. There is no school at GreshamviUe for the present year. Mr. Davi j W. West and excellent wife were assaulted by a mad woman, who inflicted some ugly gashes upon the per son of Mr. West. The woman’s name is Mrs. Mollie Haynes. She was arrest ed. Mrs. A. L. Griffin accidentally shot herself in the hip by a pistol she had un der her pillow. -10 Aaron Parker, a young boy fifteen yeare old, was bitten by > mad dog one day list week while plowing in 'the field. His father coming up at the time gather ed hold of a pole and killcd it ‘ -Rev. F. M. Haygood, aged three score' and ten, with his agedi wife, has gone to New Mexico to preach the goapel aa a missionary. ._. ijy'v ijj nq.II Harmon Hamilton, a Uniterm States prisoner, from White county, died in Fulton county jail Thursday night. THE HAUNTED MAN. Ffiattezwittapredocs them homage in the thousand delicious ways known only to society. What wonder was it that Michael’s head was turned and that his wife was wheedled by these smiling hypocrisies? How should the simple stable man and the innooaot restaurantgirl know aught of the ways of tho society world? It was not long before Michael found it necessary to build a residence, for his family was increasing and society. m«H. demands which required honoring. His mother had died — God rest her honest soul!—and he had the humble birth of no other relative to be ashamed of. So it was a magnificent mansion be erected on tha moat fashionable avenue in the city— a palatial dwelling, surrounded by a beauti ful park, and furnished in a truly regal manner. And here lived Michael and his family in sumptuous style. Their neigh bors were the ornaments of society—people of as large wealth and gentle blood os Michael and his spouse. To their right dwelt one who bad begun life as a peasant- vender on a railway train; to their left lived a merchant prince, who had peddled suspenders in his early days, and who had married a batcher's daughter; over the way was the splendid brown stone mansion of the wealthy broker who had but recently returned from Canada by. tha grateful grace of the statue of limitations. OK it was, I can assure you, the most aristo cratic neighborhood in all that great city. It was about this time that Michael changed his name. One of his aristocratic friends assured him that Grady was not a worthy name, and that Michael was posi tively vulgar. So, by paying *500 to a very scholarly gentleman who made a business of tracing and providing pedigrees, Michael learned that he was a lineal descendant of that grand old Norman knight, Michel Grayde, who come with William the conqueror into Great Britain, and was awarded one-half of all Ireland for his valor and his allegiance to his sovereign. It was developed that this Michel Grayde had a wondrous coat-of-arms—a shield accosted vert, bars gemel purpure, stags counter courmnt, a falcon issuant and recursant, a unicorn at gaze; chevron gules and a ban ner tlotaut dexter. So it came to pass that Michael Grady became Michel Grayde, and flaunted, as well became one of his pedigree and wealth, a splendid coat-of-arms. Was Michel happy.’ He literally rolled in wealth. One mill ion hogs per annum sei-.ed as a mint to swell his coffers He lived in a sumptuous home Society worshijied him. He wore broadcloth and diamumls His wife arrayed herself in the costliest silks and the finest jewels His sons were cliivalrous, and his daughters were beautiful. Tho boys were being educated in Europe, and the girls were already reigning belles Was Michel happy? No; he was utterly miserable. And this Is how it came about. One night he Hd returned from a grand party at the home of jmm _ . , _ you,please. Human eyes never beheld a more grotesque sight. One old razor-back hog, whom the others called “Missouri ” in sisted upon gnawing at the carved acorns on prided herself on bar*— * — grace. The newroaoen P rided herself on having lived in s*?r mrfsSSrSSi''*-**? *•)**;,tha tb£,'g>U°H [Eugene Field tn Chicago News] In a rude cabin on one of the beautiful hills that environ the city of Cork there once lived a hod-carrier whose name was Michael Grady. Ho was so very poor that his only possessions wore a ftw pieces of household furniture, the honest hod with which he plied his trade, and a speckled sow which had been given him on a St Patrick’s day by a more prosperous neighbor. Michael's family consisted of a wife and a bright little boy who had been christened Michael Small as his family was it re quired a vast amount of thrift on the part of Michael and his good wife Bridget to keep the bailiff from their cabin door. However, by the death of an aunt, who had been housekeeper to a priest, Michael fell heir to several hundred dollars, and upon this money Michael and his fam ily emigrated from Ireland to America, taking with them to their new borne the honest old hod and the equally honest old family sow. Bnt in lets than a year after hit arrival in America Michael, having par ticipated too generously in a political cam paign, was prostrated by disease, and, feel ing that death waa at hand, summoned hie family about him, and with bis last breath made a distribution of his Uttle property. To hie wife he gave *200 in money, ehd to Michael he bequeathed the old fondly sow. Having thu*. disposed of everything, and having invoked the blessing of Heaven upon ihe tearful group, the stricken father fell hack on his humble husk mattress »wi The ' mother soon found employment to which her ar and humble condition suited bar, and the son set out in the world to earn hit own living. Being at this time about IS years ot ago, Michael rented a sty in the rear of a certain stable, and in this he boused the old .sow which had been given him by hit moribund parent He himself was employed ‘About the stable, and there fore his care of the old sow partook largely of the nature of recreation. His kindness to the amiable creature was duly rewarded, for one morning she presented him with thirteen as beautiful little piggies as ever ehwH.i rte ditL, .11 squealed in chorus dr gladden a'mother’s eyea In quite a handsome sum on this brood, for if you ha vs ever texted roast pig you will admitthere never waa a more savory viand served on _ platter, and you can depend upon it there were epicures in the city where lived. Now, having profited so considerably by this means, it occurred to Michael that three awaited him a goodly ft him a goodly fortune in, the pic and, with tha capital ha now had in hand, be retne/ed his soar to the suburbs of the city, where he ensconed her in a larger sty, near which she soon established a capacious and odorous wallow. In these improved quarter* the old sow duly became the mother of eleven piggies, and, in bat than eighteen months thereafter, she was the grandmother 0< threescore and ten grandchildren, male and femalet So, you sea, Michael, by practicing frugality and industry, had, in' a comparatively short time, became exceedingly well-to-do. Hs leased other Stirs and other wallows un til the. whole, neighborhood wherein he lived . seemed - to be devoted to the pig industry. . Then Michael bufli a smoke-house, and it was not long before hie hkasS-and haooo came to be known as the choicest in tho market Mean while the number of his pigs increased, and both near and far was Michael called the a great parasite whose familiy pandered to the vanity of the rich, and he had just got into bed and pulled the silken, quilts over him when he beheld a strange apparition approaching the couch. This ghostly visitant, intangible a* the mists, ap peared to be In the shape of a monstrous pig. Slowly it approached the bed, and never once did it take its sullen, bead-like eyes from Michel’s trembling form. Michel tried to shut out the horrible wraith by drawing the curtains of tbe couch, but the specter waved one ghostly foreleg threaten ingly and Michel tank, back cold and terri fied QDGG “Do you know me!** demanded the spec- ter, in hollow tones, and each particular bristle on her ghastly back stood erect “Yea,” gasped Michel: “you are—the— tbe old sow—the old family sow!” “Say rather I am the old sow's ghost,” said tho specter, in a sepulchral monotone. “The old sow is dead; many years ago she fell a victim to a hired assassin's blade ” Michel made no reply. He quivered in speechless agony. “How could you forget met” demanded the specter. “How could you forget those days in distant Cork, when you used to come, an idle, ragged Uttle boy, to scratch my back and participate in my gambolst Many a time have you pillowed your head upon my grateful bristles—many a time have you fished out crusts of bread from my hospitable trough But you forgot all these things, base ingrate that yon were. You took me from my native isle to a strange country to immolate me and my progeny upon the altar of your sordid ambi tion! Forgotten are the days when my sporadic grunts were sweet lullabies to your sleepy ears—when you cuddled your shiver ing Uttle body close to my warm bosom, when ws lay cheek by jowl, at it were, and slept the summer afternoons away!” Michel remembered it aU now, but he said nqthing—be merely paled and trembled aU tbe more. “Ungrateful man,” continued the specter, “your gold has hardened your heart to all but flatterers You forgot that it waa I who made you what you are—that it waa t who brought you riches—that it was I who gave you this fine house—yes, and this soft bed upon which you now loU supine. Da you heart It was I, the old speckled, fam ily sow.” . . / Poor Michel! How he shook end stam mered and sweat Oh, it was terrible! “Enjoy thesf things if you can,” contin ued the specter, “but you shall never for get that everything you are or efrer can be, and everything you have or ever can poa- aess, is pig, pig, pig—hog, hog, hog!” And with these awful words the specter vanished into air. And at that very mo ment Michel’s ears were filled with a din as if the dying wails of 30,000.000 pigs had been focused in that chamber. The sound was so dreadful that with a great groan Michel lapsed into unconsciousness. When he came to, it was broad daylight The sunbeams creeping through the windows and between the velvet curtains danced over the axmin- iff ter carpet. “It was a dream,” muttered Michel, but he trembled as he thought of it When he went down-stairs that morning and entered his parlors hs was well nigh stupefied to see written across the face of a magnificent painting that hung over the marble mantelpiece the word “Hog” in deep, broad, black letters, as if 1c bad' been burned Into the canvass 1 with a branding iron. Michel tottered, rather than walked, to the mantelpiece and touched bis fingers to the canvas where this word seemed written. But the canvas wax smooth; it was evident that no word waa branded thereon Yet, Michel removed his hand, there again waa the reproachful word! Ho spelled it out—Ko-g, bog—there could ba nothing plainer. “I must be going mad!” thought Iflohel “The specter was no dream; it was a real ity!” Near the big picture hung a Uttle one. Michel’s son Armand had sent it from Paris with the criticism that it was a chef d'oeuvre. Michel did not know what a chef d’truvTe was, bnt as the picture was a marine he took it for granted that “chef d’oeurre was a nautical term. On this chef d’ceuvre at this moment he av, as distinctly as he had seen the word “Hog” on the larger picture, the lees ostentatious but equally of. tensive word “Pig” written in bold chacasten. And upon the splendid rosewood case of the grand pianoforte he beheld “Hog” scrawled in large, sprawling letters—ay, and now that he cast his eyes about the parlors he •aw “Hog,” “Pig,” “Pig,” “Hog,” written everywhere and upon everything—the care pete, walla, chandeliers, tables, curtains, chairs, sofas, ottomans, and all; yes, and even the superbly frescoed ceilings were de faced with a monstrous legend “Hog!” It was not wonderful that Michel fell into a chair and hid his face in his bands, as if to shut out the hideous spectacle Everywhere Michel went that day he waa haunted by “Hog.” He found it written above the door of his grand carriage- he »»it branded upon the flanks of hla thor oughbred team; he recognized it all over the Uvery of his driver and grooms; when the harness squeaked it sounded like the squeak , of a pig—oh, !t was dreadful! Michel saw “Hog” everywhere, and aU the sounds be heard were porcine sounds—or. at ftastto tiwyagteed. And when bed^w hU plethoric silk purse from Ut pocket, lol ,lt was a sow’s ear, and his gold was dull His eldest daughter, Pauline T—xii M itdaaiahet waA about this time tha* Michael be- came enamored of a pretty girt who waited “ ‘ oniied in. the corner that ahe reciprocated he propiaed marriage, w„ csptecL and in time was wedded to the ob ject of to him that afternoon and told him zhe had received an offer of marriage from young Sr^'SSowSSS* *• m t 04 “You accepted him, 1 hope?” mid Michel .-‘71* P*P».” *epUed Pauline Isabel, bluxhingly, “and. here is our engagement It was a magnificent bauble It must have cost a fortune 1 Michel saw then waa' •ome lettering on the inner tide of tho ring, and be asked what It waa -1: . ' i -“*■ '‘.? ur »** i i“*. P»I*, mid Pauline Itabel, raffing joyfully. “See, is it not prettyl 'P. L G. from H. O. G.’ ” . Add'turned pale He saw the old specter again. • uert '“q “Itmeana ‘Pauline Isabel Grayda’-from *’ explained**,; g.btrt he made* wild Isabel stole away, won- ironnd the chamber up and down the wall*, and across the celling; yes, up the bedposts md down the curtains for you must know that specter hog* like other specter*, ars endowed with supernatural powers. Here and there lay the sleek, plump white 5 pig* r of New England, grunting monosyllabically m if they pinod for their old-time ration* of potato paring* and sklm-mUle. Hogs every- where; y««, hog*, pig^^boam, sow*, bar row*, and shoata, and they grunted •queeled, gamboled and rpoted, in solos and symphonies, in chorus and concert, and in weird hog harmonies. The wildest orgies of the Valkyries could not have equaled it “Michael,** said the old family sow, con tinuing to point the index prong of her foot reproachfully at .trim, as her tiny dead- mackerel ' eyes steadfastly regarded him; “Michael, we have come bock to enjoy your good fortune with you. We are numerous. For twenty years you have been butchering us at tbe rate of 2,000,000 a year! Think of It; 20,000,000 hogs massacred to gratify your greed for gold! Well, we are here to revel id the finery. And why should we not? We gave you all you possess. These things are as much ours as yours. We will enjoy withyou’* They had indeed a hilarious time; it was in vptv truth a porcine saturnalia. All night long tney gamooiea ana rooted nnq wallowed in tbe , chamber. A dozen little piggies with cute white curled taily took tbe bronze clock on the mantelpiece and set it on the floor and played gleefully with it. Guileless little specters! it them to see the wheels go buzzing around. The older pigs groveled lazily about, and several of the more dignified bogs reared back in the armchairs and looked very wise, for, as you know, in the brute creation as well as in the. human there are owl-like hogs. “How do you fancy the spectacle, Michael!” asked the ghostly old sow. “Does it please you as much as the sight of your grand coat-of-arms! Why did you forget us when you hired that coat-of-arms in vented! W hy did you not pay our memory the simple justice of a sow dormant or n boar rampant or a shoat adossedf Why is there no gore splashed on your proud shield to represent the blood of 20.000,000 hogv who have perished for yoOr nuke! Mi haeJ. * > > are a fraud—u coarse, unfeeling, ungiai. i . fraud!” Then the other hogs gave a prolonged, scornful grunt in chorus, and all the little pigs went squ-e-o-eak in tones that well ex pressed theif bitter reproach. And then they all rooted and wallowed and sozzled around in the most brutal manner. Michael saw and heard it all, but what were his protests against the stubborn will of these malignant persecutors! The next morning he found hog tracks and pig tracks everywhere, and everywhere there was the smell of hog* and pigs. Even the bouquet of roses his wife placed on the center table was redolent of trying lard and hot drippings! This condition of affairs lasted for many months. Each night the phantom hogs invaded his chamber and ran riot there; each day he beheld inscribed on all he possessed the ghostly words “Hogs” and “Pigs.” It was simply agonizing. And everything seemed to conspire to fret this poor man—yes, even the most trivial happenings. For instance: One evening Michael and his family went to the theatre; this was something they frequently did, and it was very good of them to patronize the drama. But on this particular evening a Shakespearean drama was to be per formed, and Michel had bespoken a box; it was box P, section I, aisle G—which, by tbe way Michel soon discovered stood for Pig! Between acts the young folks fell to discuss ing the authorship of Shakespeare’s play, and Michel was sadly discomfited when he heard Henri Osmund Grummond, his daugh ter’s lover, advance the startling theory that Bhakespeare was not Shakespeare, but Bacon. During the rest of the evening Michel thought of nothing but bacon be was very miserable, When the phantom hogs assembled in Michel’s bed-chamber that night they were in high spirits, and when the ghost of the old family sow, who on all such occasions officiated as the presiding spirit, referred to young Grummond in complimentary terms there was an outburst of approving grunts. These porcine phantoms seemed ever ready to applaud whatever drove tho iron into Michel’s soul As for Michel’s wife, she never was troubled with any of the frightful halluci nations that made Michel’s life a burden to him. She was happy because she all the money she wanted and because society acknowledged her as its queen. She wore the costliest gowns and bonnets ever seen in the city, and her diamonds were simply regal; she was courted and flattered—of course she was happy. She did not see that everything she had bore upon its face in flaming letters “Hog” or “Pig.” Happy woman! But unhappy Michel! Even the sough ing of the breezes distressed him. And at last, worn out not so much by his practical dealing* with bacon, sides, cut meats, fam ily mess, short ribs, sweetepickled shoulders, green hams, spareribs, leaf lard, scraps, green shoulders (New York cut), link sau sages, and sweet-pickled hams—worn out, we say, not so much by these things as by the old family sow and her legion of procine follower*, he died. His sightless eyea be held no longer the horrid legends of “H-O-G” and “P-I-G” inscribed on all his glittering possessions, nor did the phantoms of the Missouri river razor-back and the Kansas prairie-racer affright them. But when he was dead, everybody criod “Hog” and “Pigw_ ye ^ now that Michel was gone, everybody railed at his memory and vowed there was in the will he left behind an aroma of pork and bristles. Or, perhaps we should not say that every body railed, for to its utmost capability did fashionable society mourn tho loss of Michel Grayde, its brightest ornament. And lo! just as Michel bad dismembered and cut up the old family sow and her progeny, so did Michel’s ungrateful heirs cut up the will and dismember the estate left behind him. . !v , Oh, what a ghastly sequel it was! fair girl artlessly Michel said 1 SK* ndI That night tho spocta’ of : tte old family I sow returned agaii to MicKel’A twLehamba- anrterltes, irtUte e^eFlteerelytho* ReJ Oeroe glance. Kasatfl toiyfaroa fcia bearFt ! mm w wii. wm wnuiwu w uo oi. . w the old family sow waa not hia affoettoox. The followloa rorfna V*” eras with her a legion of otuer porkerx—boars, sow*, hogs, nigs, Very Much Like aa Engliihman. [Gentleman's MscazlneJ If an Australian aboriginal feels hungry and finds himself without food he betakes himself to belaboring his wife with the nullahnullah, awl derives great comfort from this self-made consolation; just as an Englishman, whom, a foolish custom pre vents from using a, to him, more natural weapon, turns on his wife with Irritable, bitter tongue, and is only to be mninfOvt with soups and .meats—flesh, man's aim and object, and woman’s defense, her chief one in Australia, and only second to tears with us—just as a myall is with hunks of h 1 * 1 ? raw wallaby or smoky kangaroo. Meeting with Poor Luck. [New York Sun.] Tramp (at tha backdoor)—Will you please give me something to eat? Woman—Not a thing. Tramp—Nor nuthin’ to drink? Woman—Nor nuthin’ to drink. Tramp—No cast-off clothes? Woman—None. Tramp—Well, would you tell a poor, un fortunate man what time it is? TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. Congress will pension Mrs. Han cock.' ‘ „ The fund tor Mrs. Hancock foots up *40,636. Senator Colquitt has been lectur ing in Chambersberg, Pa. Moonshiners stote a captured still fren the depot at Locust Grove, Ga. The house committee on educa tion postponed until April 3d the various bills before it extending government aid towards common School education. Strikers Friday pursued and dis abled an Iron Mount*ip locomotive, were in turn pursued by officers, fired upon and arrested,. The race of the engines created excitement, z The long and striking li*$ of fa talities in tbe Bayard families has just been added; to by the death of -Mrs. Richard H. Bayard, • an aunt ot the. Secretary of State- , Augusta, Ga., March is.-—Thos. A. Scalee. thd young man who at tempted suicide St the Globo Hotel a fqw weeks since, died from’pneu monia. jeflerton Davis' Hits accepted' atf invitation to lecture in Montgomery in behalf ef the monument f6r the . He ha** made in behalf of the Confederate dead, an exception in this case, and Vrill ' si ill bsilad j »d? Bruce, the colored _ Mississippi, i* to be appointed Civil Service Commissioner* i* aujborre tatively denied. His name has not been considered by the President. proprieto, •totky 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 Drpg Store you will find nothing but Every one .will find it tQ their interest to call at the New Drug Store and get prices bef jre buv^n ing the public will give me a liberal sharge of patronage, lam, respect fu y G.W. RUSH CHEAP ADVERTISING. Certain papers soliciting business in Athens, and taking column advertise ments at from (25 to (50 per column a year, and we know one leading(?) jour nal that lately contracted for a column at (35. This is a regular cut-throat busi ness, for no country paper can be sus tained that sells its space for less than (100 a column. An editor who accepts such rates must be pretty low down in finances. Such parties had better quit journalism, and go to editing a plow- stock and a Georgia mule. They will certainly starve to death trying to run a paper. 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 (3<J<) and received no relief. I live on the Clarkesvillc road, on the Kendrick farm, three miles from Athens, Ga., where I can be seen at any time. Very Respectfully, mar2w4t. T. A. THORNTON. CRANFORD I DAVIS, —’•■•DEALERS IN w— Paper, Blank Books, Pens, Pencils and Inks, Commercial Printing a Specialty. CRANFORDIDAVI —* DEALERS IN — ■ Pianos and Orgad •Ban’:3, Guitars, Etc " Red Front,. ANOTHER RAILROAD ON OUR EAST. The Augusta News says that a civil engineer of New York will reach Au gusta early this week, and will at once begin the preliminary survey of the route for the Augusta and Chattanooga railroad. The proprietors of the road ! are determined to make it a success, and they have no doubt that it will be under way in a short time. The road will be a great benefit to Augusta, giving another western connection, which it greatly needs. No other medicine is so reliable as Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for the cure of colds, coughs, and all derangements of the respiratory organs tending toward consumption. It affords sure relief for the automatic and con-uraption, even in advanced stages of disease. HALL’S RECENT ELECTION. Gainesville, March 12.—The consol idated returns on the election show that “for the smle” carried by 371 majority. The antis earned 13 out of the 16 voting precincts. Blue badges are at a discount, and banners are furled. The “Prohibs.” take it hard, but so it is. 0ver2,100votes polled. The mayor and council met in called session last night for the purpose of fixing the retail license. The follow ing arc the rates: Retail liquor dealers, (500; wholesale liquor dealers, (250; drug stores, (250; lager beer, (60. PEACE MAXES. Those workmen who All up the gaps and smothe away the rough spots and finish up the work that others have left undone. as Skiff the Jeweler is doing, are true peace makers and worth a whole army of growlers. PAY OF FACTORY OPERATIVES. The average pay of the factory opera tives at Fall River, Mass., is (5.64 per week, or 94 cents a day. If this be the case we don’t blame them for striking. No one can more than exist on such wages, and meet the necessary expenses of a family. There should be a more equml division of profits between the hands and the mill owners. . : „ , HOG CHOLERA. V, We see that the cholera is playing havoc wit^ the hogs in Elbert county. An old citizen tells us of the following remedy which he pronounces as a certain cure: Take some poison ivy leaves that grows on the river banks and mix them in with some barley and slop. Feed on it for a day or two and your hog will live a walker. , „ A countryman came into Athens yes terday, who says he walked from home to Athena; a distance of 32 miles; by ode o’clock. He says-he can walk sixty miles s day and never get tired. ' HARDWARE STORE IN HARMONY 0R0VI Messrs. Williamson 3t Hardman are winding np their business preparatory to opening a large hardware store in Har mony Grove. Columbus, Ga., March t».— Bush Martin, an old citnen of Tay lor county, committed suicide Wednesday night by shooting him self through the bend. He was tir ed of living. / The colored politicians in Wash ington endorse the Matthews'ap pointment at an honor to their race. As Matthews is' nearly white, if» hard to say what portion'of the bon- ‘ ‘ Fill or belongs to the full blooded negro. ECLECTIC. ’: DR S. D. DURHAM, ■ mares' CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY. Cht’rgvt very moderate.' . , Mabtey;' : * - '^oorBlift. marclilfiwly. bus ■ 1 urb NOTICE A LL persons hsving demands against (Km astnta <x( I<xk» Wl.t.. iZei^At 1 the etteteof John Winter, late ol •jgiethorpe County, deceased, are here by notified to render in, their demands to D. H. winter, ih cart‘of H:K. J Ntcli- ofaon tk Co., Athens, Ga., according to law slid >11 persons Indebted to aaida&i oeaaed are required to make immediate ^ment *( the atote of; JohuiWlntef* merits.'' Wthtervllle, Ga.i'Marrib 12. 8& “ M A KOAKKTT WINTER, marchlSwGt.. ;,.!, _,t Executrix.' 4 NOTtoE. " ?o*l .... _ a Clarks.Cwintyyi The report that former Senator to present the same la ' ruce. the colored statesman ment. March IZ 188 'taiioa' 1 JOHN T. BRTTAIN, marcnlQwGw. Administrator* HAMPTON & WEBB, MANUFACTURERS OF ALL Kl.MLS OF C A N D1 M*DE OUT GF PURS fiUr.AR Stick Candy a Specialty, Coeeanut, Peanut, Bars 61 Prices guaranteed as low as any other markets. 8rn<1 orders -or Mtnpl-1 xrehlldAwly. f. HAMPTON A WEBB, Lumpkin 4 kw It I HODGSON BRO! Desire to call attention to their large assortment ol T0BACOS. THE CELEBRATED PLANE ROAD MCI Is justly popular. We clain there is no better f tr t | money. -Try it. 01 PE 1 CEDAR GROVE Also some of our Favorite Brands for which are Sole agents. Give us a ball and be Convinced. JOHN CRAWFORD & CO, WHOLESAlsS and. retail DRUGGIST & SEEDSME! Athens, Georgia. Opposite Post Office, Clayton St | marchlfiwly. •. r ■ COTTON SEEd *,u ’***“”• , TRY ONE BUSHEL, V FOR SALE BY O’FARREIvaL & HODGSON i! aj.'.zaa”: 1 tcoo a iulUU •! ;k! isvMviuti: R. C. B s • ... .. :i’«- i c, Cough.,; ‘ ‘RUSH’S , Co IJGH B A L x £ 'A, M, ' FbR. ' 4 ' Cong^.Qrqspr,, rp, Whooopmg Asthma, Broncitis, ' ilnxIJA 70071 alia(rvdlo Coaotuteption.' 1 i ’ll Asft ftil Biiaaeee • * PRICE BO CEN ! 7z jo- .»et*A«ED aroiin ;.b «i G. W. RUSH, ;r.v n* od:. ATHENS;t 1 ’*’ aul 'IpEL •<■. l. liiUj ik.iV2CSiO HELP FOR WOMA THE'GERMAN AND AMERK- dispensary AND , infirm^ mSSBOSAPBKUDESTHAL*’ Proprietor.. PBClXlk* W 18 :x<i: ALL DISEASED TREATED. ratsssK®*;: department i*’’pert** of ZKoticb . AU W7S0OX ew ^ UnucaHi juuua j AIW.A.T ■IB **WS)Oe ■ Tuf ( iiEWTiyjffiSSfr- |[ot
