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h ,*«i>»ost. Oa., Mtrch 1G, 18S6.—
y r T I,. Gantt, Athens, Go.—My Dear
1 a ill not be » candidate .'or nomi-
Mr • • »
n ,-.on before the nextcon'.en.ion in the
■ih ,-on;re»*ion»' tlis rieL My repeai-
, Gl-hralth, to.ielher with ihe dents ids
j „,t private interests conitrsin me to
coficlus : on.
r), e numerous assurances of kindness
l support with which 1 hove mot,
w h'le my name hss been associated with
the position,hare been exceedingly g'i i-
f.mc » n<1 encouraging to me—still tha
inexorable demands of health, family
.id in,crest admonish me to withdraw
from *» undertaking which I cannot
>ccute w'th an undivided and de,er-
pro:
eflirifti ono^sy*
Yours truly,
W«. H. Mattox,
The shore letter will be quite a aor-
p 7 i,r to the many friends of Co*. Mat.or
in this distret, who feel that <n hia de-
c l.-,ing to become a candidate before the
c , : t congressional cenven.on that he is
virMing up an assured nomina. : on. He
vt s certainly a very a,rong mar. and wt s
fsst building up a auppoit that would
hare secured the nomination overwhelm
ingly. We truatthat Col. Mattox's re-
tirement from politics is only temporary,
for he is the kind of man our state most
needs the services of.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
BRIEF HISTORY OK THE ORGANI
ZATION.
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NO. XVI
A THFrfiTNTPl fl-TflQIRQ-XA; yCJEBPAY K MARCH 33, 1886.
VOL XXXI
ThoOroat Power of Odo Man.-Wcnder.ul
Growth of tho Order—The Msiloa of the
Knights la to PreeerTo Peace, Not Croat#
Sir if# -The Btj.nnlnj of the Order In
Clarke Coanty and Ita Piaaent Kenber-
anlp'-The Lpeakmc To-N.jht, etc.
Learning that Mr. K. F. T'erelict a
proiivnent oflicial of the Kn'^bts of La
bor, would leCaiirt* in Athens, a. Deuproo
opera house, to-night, on the principles
and aims of the- orde*, wcth : nk it woeM
r.)t ho amiss to a his.o.v of tit's or
ganization *n the U.ii.ed Sji,es and
Athens:
At present T. V. PoWf-.evly th* head
f .convive officer,w■.h tho title of Gtnor-
i. Mas,«*r \Vorkin;.n of tho Kr : jh%s of
i.abor. Hv the advice ami consoi
h:s four assooiaioa in the o::ootiaive hoard
ho can b'ocWado tffo wheels of commerc
and -endt'r *vo she m*ohine»*r. the
loroissotiresand oars o* r a great nrlwrajr.
fuis power is tho result of tho thoc .i.l,
i .orgy and »Vth of I’riah S. Slovens,
t! . 0 a poo- olosh rr.s.or of I'h’ladelphhi.
M.-vons was born *n t'apo May coustty,
N I., Aug. 3, 1SJ1 o.“ pa-en.s n com-
Li .aide circums-anccs. lie received an
t\ • ' .h ut cduca.ion av*d was destined fo»
:: utmislry, hut became a ta 'or. his
».ipaih'os were w\h »helabo «»c?ast-
Maml ho was a rofo. nor hv r : v e.
Ho began tho work of form* 1*3 this o r -
;r v/a. on » IMi'd. at first nrainly among
ir.r rlo»h-ci o-?. The first local assem
bly was properly organized in 187.3.
.-s was Assembly No. 1, and it has
boon dup'doa.ed in form in every ci.» in
th-T on at present. The bodrsp-erd
•t»» o*f in Phi.auelptr*, vnt ; l'. included
rr* Jy e’l she t-ados and the vast majori
ty of the working men. •
Having gained ascendency ' 1 Ph'*adeL
phia its t* mac Vs began to reach o»’i tc
other p’aces. An assembly in Trentor
S’. J., proved a *ai*ure, but in Pennsylva
: a the inovemert found ready sympa-
u xors. It swept across the state to
V .i*bu g and captured bhe centre of the
o*l and iron trade. S eve^s oel eved
secrecy. The name from the begin-
g was the Noble Order of the Knights
* l.ahoy, but ro one except its members
:*‘w its name. Oi*,s’de of bhe meet-
!» u was never breathed. The orders
d commun cadons bore the signature,
• • • r , and was spoken of by ihe
ambers as the “five rs .e-'sks,” of “five
a x." The calls for meedngs we r e
aade in cabalistic signs made in chalk on
sidewalks, tod the*e was intense ex
ile rue it ; n PhiVdeiph a when it was
iWovered that a few chalk matks in
Vlt . of i u'.vpende,\ce Hull cxi'.td .o
.her 1,»M» or 5,(KK) men.
The lirst general convention wss held
1'7!\ when the General Assembly of
So .h Anierca wis "ormed. Sievens
pieced General Master Woil.man
hoid ug the office through two te 1 ’ns. lie
became one of the most inlluen ..1 labor-
; men : n this country, was.wlcea
nd ua.e for congress, and beo.e his
,.h in lHH'd, saw the order he had
nnded f.rmty established and g-owing
strercth and wonder'ul raoitV..y. To-
i.tr, although the rule of secrecy is
cr-rfully observed and exact in ’or,nr.lion
cannot be obtained as to the s.rength of
the order, it is safe to say that the five
ien of the exccu -ve board con.roi fully
' or tlOO.OtX) worl.'ngmen.
It -vas estimated some morths a-o that
ont loOto 170 new local assemblies are
"rgsnixed every menth. The annual in
rrc-.so in membershop is put at over
Vi,UK).
The active members of the board art
T. V. Powdeely, pr*s ; dent and ohairma-i
and Fradexick Turner, sccreltry and
treasurer, and the work falls on their
shoulders. Mr. Powderly was born at
Carbondale, Pa., January 24. 1849. He
learred the trade of a rractraist and
studied mechanical engineering. He
joined the Machinists’ and Blacksmiths’
Union of Scranton, when 19 ycare of
age, and was presiding officer of .hat
body. He joined the K. of L. in 187',
and became shortly after the secretary of
his Disf -icb Assembly. He was p-emi-
nent in the order at the first convention
in 1878, and has bean elected its head
six times. He hss been twice Mayor of
Scravtop, I’a., and is a mao capable of an
immense amount of work. He is a good
speaker and is geo : al in disposi . : an.
Frederick Turner, the General Secre
tary, is a PhMadelpblan, and is a gold
beater by t-ade. He was one of the
most active eriginators of the order, and
wss a prominent member of .he first
General Conven. : on.
The only prosely.'ng which is allow
ed is the distfbi’.ion of a pamphlet con
taining the “Declare Jon of Principles,”
giving the aims of the oeder and the ’ de
mands on capital and congress. The
motto of the Kn'ghts is, “An injury to
one is the concern of all."
The Gece-al Assembly meets every
year in October and transacts all the
general business af the order, and elects
officers and three members of the Exec
utive Board, the President ard Secretary
constituting the other two.
SELLING NEGROES.
Con-
An Old Negro Trader Talks—His
science le Easy.
A genJeman who has made a fortune
buying and selling nc;,-ocs befo-o the
w. rw.-sinthe city yesterday, and was
: n erviewed by a B.-W. repo'-.er.
•1 ainold now. and my days arc num
bered ” hc»einavkcd. “Du' : ng my ca
reer before the war I bate bad some ex-
pe-’ynce in tiad’ngin negroes, out 1 have
nothing *o regTet about my -rallic : n hu-
mrn flesh as I always tried to keep a
man and b : s wife togeIke ■. and 1 never
would se r a mother away from he- cb'l-
d; The pegroes were p.oner.y, rnd
as such we-e bought and sold. They
brought hi.,h prices when the de
mand for them was good and I have had
some ve-y heavy losses when I struck a
l et .hat was fu'l. 1 general' v bought
inN’oi.h Ca’oiina, V-.ginia and South
C.ro' na andca.:ied .hem to the West
ere neg-o labor was more pt»3 table
than ; n the sta es where I bought them.
l) : d ! t . ke much morey to tun the busi
ness? you ask. We" I should say so.
1 thought no.h : ng of coming io Athens
rnd ge.. : pg .wea r thousand dollars out
ofthebrnk to a. end a sale where theie
were fi'.y or severty-five negtoes to be
sold. I would put the moacyinabe’t
and buckle it around me, sod after the sale
w ould se..le for ihe negroes I bought
There was as much to be lea-ned
: n the negro trading business
as iheie is now in the horse or
mule trade. Whe t I first started out
’n othe -sSic I thought ooe negro wai
as good as s 'o.her, and bought promis-
euouslv; but I soon found out that 1
must find those th:t suited the market
where I intended carrying them. I
starred with a wagon to Southern Geor
gia and F’or’da. and wou'd he gone all
the winter, somefimes selling for cash
and sometimes .ai : rg no.es to be paid
the fo!low : ng fa'l. Tu'S got to be too
slow a business, rnd I .red the West by
i- lrosd. This was very erpens've, but
it pa d be. er. I have often bought a
good mechanic era fancy house gi.l in
th : s country for a thousand or twelve
hundred dollars ard carried them to New
Okleans and go. from eighteen io twen
ty-fivehundied dollars for them. The
.ich planters in Mississippi and Louisi
ana would pay fancy prices for a black
smith, carpenter or a sempstress. In
Louis : ana a gua.sn'.ee had to be given
i that the negro would not run away in
.hirtydays. The ncgio was geneiaHy
given five dollars .o stay 30 days,
make the guaiantee good. I have often
seen as many ms two thousand negroes
in these mar s in New O-lear.s, wai.ing
for some one to purchase them for the
nlan atiois. 1 never did believe it was
exac.ly right to sell them, but I always
gave them a chance to sell themselves
nea- homeataaraal 1 profit, and my con
science was perfectly easy.”
A SIGH. '
An old gmtloman, nemr Athena,
came into bur office yesterday, and laid
wa would have a poor fruit crop this
year, and upon being asked for his rea
sons for this prediction, he said: “I have
noticed for forty years thst if, on the
first dsy of March, the wind was from
any other direction save the south, the
fruit crop would be poor, but if, on the
other hand, the wind blows placidly from
the south the trees will be laden with
delicious fruit.” It is hoped thst the
gentleman's prediction may not not be
rerified this yetr.
NORTHEBH FOX BOUNDS.
Dr. John Durham, at Woodville, paid
♦20 each for a pair of fox hounds in
Pennsylvania, besides $9 for express.
When the dogs arrived they looked so
poor sad Inferior thst the Docter
decided he wss badly swindled. He
took them from the office, however, and
when rested tried them at the chase.
To his surprise the dogs lead the whole
pack, even the most famous runners of
the county. Dr. D. says that dogs, ms
well as men, are sometimes deceptive in
appearance.
OATB THAT NEVER DIE.
W. II. Beusse brought to our office
yesterday several bunches of oats thst
were planted twenty years ago. They
are called the Italian oats, and cold
weather, snow or rain will not kill them
out They can be cut three .iunes a year
before they come to a head. After they
are once planted and take root there is no
more trouble with them. They grow
three feet high and have good heads.
DEATH OF AM OLD COADJC.'OK.
Ai ...auta, M» ch 14.—’i’h*s afternoon
Mr. Z. Moo r e d<ed at his home on Ivey
street in this city. He was a bachelor,
aged sixty years. Mr. KoOie was the
first conductor on the Athens branch
railroad, and was for several years a con
ductor on the West Point road and also
the M es.f-rn and Atlantic. He leaves a
host of friends to mourn his loss.
A NEW LODGE.
\\ e learn tuat a delegation went up
from Athens. Saturday night, to Center,
for the purpose of establishing a
lodge of Knights of Labor at that point.
This order is spreading all over the coun-
ry.
A BIG COTTuN CROP.
Toccoa Ga., March 14 —Indications
are for a large cotton crop next season in
this part of the country, as a large quan
tity of guano is brought into use. Daily
our streeCs are thronged with the anxious
purchasers.
SUNK A CENTURY AGO-
An Individual Wants to Bslse a Cpaalsfc
SCENE OP THE DADE MASSACRE.
Bomsttlng About
OUT OF DEBT.
Madison county is out of debt and
has three thousand dollars in the treasu
ry. The county has co bonds, and the
insolvent cost is all paid up. They
should build a new court hou se while
times are good.
An individual visited New York
last week and endeavored to inter
est several prominent law firms in
a scheme to taise the sunken treas
ure trom a Spanish galleon, which
he alleges was sunk in the latter
part of the last century off the coast
of Lower California.
The man’s name was Walker and
he hailed from Baltimore. He has
in his possession documents which,
it genuine, substantiate every word
of his statements.
These papers include an abstract
from the archives of the Marine
Depart ient at Madrid, detailing
the stranding and wreck of the
Spanish man-of-war Guadalquivir
on a reef at the entrance of a small
bay somewhere to the north of
Cape St. Lucas.
The Guadalquivir was the pay-
ship of the Spanish squadron in the
South Pacific, and at the time of
her wrec- there were on board over
three m.uion in ingots and doub
loons. The treasure, which had
been taken aboard at Lima, was
contained in five iron boxes and
fourteen oaken ones, str«ngly bound
with iron. Twenty minutes sifter
the vessel was abandoned by the
crew she sank ia twenty fatho ms,
leaving no trace except the top of
her mainmast to show her wner
abouts.
This document is written in Spa n>
ish.and bears a formidable seal of
yellow wax attached to a red an>d
yellow ribbon. The next paper
which Walker produced was an
elaborate chart of a small bay. The
depth of the water, the course of
the shoreward currents, and the
physical characteristics of the place
are all faithfully depicted. Walker
claimed to have visited the spot,
and to have made his diagram from
personal observation. “I, with my
eyes, have seen the vessel’s
hull at low water embedded
sand and overgrown with weeds
and barnacles,” he said. “The hull
is split in half, and the wooden box
es have probably rotted by the ac
tion of the salt water. But the iron
chests are safe, waiting fora deter
mined man to raise them from their
long resting place.” Mr. Walker’s
proposition was the formation of a
syndicate havinga capital of $50,000
represented by 500 shares of $100
each. It provided for the equip
ment of a vessel and the employ
ment of several divers, with all need
ful apparatus.
No one would handle the subject
in New York, and Wnlker became
discouraged on Thursday last, and
returned to his home in Baltimore.
WHAT tripe: IS.
HIDDEN TREASURES.
DUEL IN A LOCKED ROOM.
erished that
men, over-
NO MONEY IN FARMING.
A Practical Bnilans Man Says Even With
Slava Labor Sontborn Farm* Never Made
Money.
The order does not vet include every
r»de. The members of trader snd oc-
jpa ions, however. Are coining in one
L.er another, as diffieul.ies arise. The
erranixation ia modeled to include all
kinds of laborers, and contains in i a
membership sena-ors, represen A.ives
munic : pal assemblymen, mayors, clergy
men, physicians, journalists ,'armen and
even employers and capitalists. Mem
bers of both aexes and workmen in any
exiling with certain qualifica.ions, such
as good character and membership in .he
arganized lodge of fellow-workmen
»here none exists, are eligible io mem
bership. In forming a local assembly
tbeee-quarters of the chat ter members
mm.be wage-workers or farmer*. The
■veal assembles, as far as possible, are
composed of persoat following one call
mg.
i be loeal assemblies govern thom-
"♦lves and can boycott and take other ac
tion *n their own precinct, but at' gener
al matter which the local ar district aa-
•'■blies cannot handle, come under the
jurisdiction of the Executive baa'd,which
11111 -powerful and haa the enure orderand
rath individaal of it under absolute con
trol- They fine, invesugate, arbitrate
*ad issue all orders pertaining to the
tvnersl interest of th# Knights.
The cost of membership in the order is
•light The initiation fee ia nasally
‘mall, about $1 for men and 50 cents for
w °men, although in teat strong usem-
tJie* wi,b large funds en hand it is
placed at high as |25. The monthly
duet vary from 10 cents to 40 cents per
“•nth. Few salaries are paid. The
Muter Workman of a district, who must
<1 ”ote his entire time to his work, re-
«'»es only as much as he can earn at
“ tr *l«. The General Master Work-
*«i»et a salary of only f1,600, and
It ««**"** 8 * c "*" r J-Treaaurer only
a»e With * x P* n ’ es vhen traveling or
*»T from home, while the members or
tad r" cut, »« »«nl **» only $3 a day
her !^ aM * .while at work. Each aem-
the hl * Mtmal par capita tax to
teas?312
“There is no money in farming in the
Seuth,” remarked a gentleman to ui the
other day, “and this is the reason that
our planteri a.-e so bad V off. In the
days of slavery, when farmers could
control their labor, and only had to pay
feed and clothes, not one in an hundred
made a dollar clear from their plants-
tions, and their profits were in the in
crease of negroes. If they could get the
land te feed the slaves the master was
well satiafied. What, then, can we ax-
pact when we must depend on a thrift
less labor, that:: idle half of ita time,
and paying each hand from |75 to 1100 a
year beeides? The lands of the South
are fast passing into the hands of North
ern capitalists, and the day is not far
distaat when our farmers will he renting
them at so much per acre. It is fast
coming to this, but our farmers don't
seem to see it The only salvation left
for them is to redeem farms and do their
own work. There ia no money in hired
labor. If some change is not made in
eursy|tem of agriculture, the South will
soon become to the North what Ireland
is to England.
COFFEE'S FAMILY.
John Coffee, who killed. Depnty Mar
shal Merritt, at Lula, is a grandson or de
scendant of General John Coffee, of Tel
fair county, Georgia, who was elected to
congress on the general ticket in 1834.
He died in October, 1836, . on theeveof
the congressional ejection. He was voted
for throughout the state and re-elected^
as his desth was not generally known.
Hoe. W. C. Dawson, of Greeneaboro,
was elected to fill the vacancy canted by
Coffee's death. General John Coffee has
been frequently confovpded with Gener
al Coffee, who served en General Jack-
ton's staff. Thr former was only a mil
itary general of Georgia.
MIDGE TO M BUILT.
W. D. Griffeth * Co. yesterday made
• contract with tha commissioners of
Clarke and Oconee counties to build the
Simoaton bridge, between Athena and
WatkinsviUe for $5,600. Thin amount
of asoney ought to build a bridgo the.
triU stand tha flood.
The Discovery of an Old Chart In St- Augus
tine Defines <ht Location.
F'ona the Fcmaodloa (Fl».) Mirror.
Somewhere about the year 1810
a piratical craft which ha.d been
cruising along the Spanish main,
having met with considerable suc
cess among the Spanish merchant
men and obtaining some rich hauls
of specie, was running up along the
lower Florida coast, when she was
caught in a sudden gale just below
Hilsboro inlet and wrecked on a
corral island. Nearly all the crew
got ashore safely, an J before the
ship broke up they succeeded in
gettingout iboi the 20 casks of gold
they had captured. The casks be
ing too heavy to carry easily, the
captain ordered his men to make
bags of the sails, and in these the
gold was carried to a spot in‘he
centre ot the island ard there bur
ied, the captain making a rough
charter of the location, alter which
his hands went to the lower end of
the island and camped. The same
nightthey were discoveted by the
Indians and all were killed except
ing one person—the stewaid—a
young fellow, who happened to be
a little apart from the others when
the raid was made and thus es
caped the fate of his companions.
But even he was discovered the
next day and was kept in captivity
tor several weeks when he escaped
and, wandering along the coast fin
ally artived in St. Augustine. The
steward of ail sailing crafts at that
time also acted as the captain’s
clerk and kept all ship's papers, etc.,
and he, among other papers kept
the chart which the captain had
made of the hiding place of the
gold. He continued to reside in
St. Augustine, and for a long time
intended to take some good oppor
tunity to go and take up the treas-
ure, but circumstances prevented:
the Indians were troublelome and
the Spanish settlement was in a
turmoil and the chart became mis
laid or lost, and then came the war
01 the Confederacy; in the' mean
while the steward was getting to
be an old man, and having accumu
lated considerable wealth, he gave
up all idea of going after this treas
ure till a tew months ago, while he
was showing some old documents
which he had concerning some por
tions of St. Augustine, he unroiled
the Inst chart from inside another
parchment, but he was now about
95 years old, with no near relatives
benefit by this money,
he calls on an old friend, who
had once done him a great favor
and tells him, as the sole survivor
of that affair, all the particulars, and
gives him the chart and promises to
go with him in an expedition to find
it it his health would admit.
The friend haa rigged up a small
sloop and, with provisions and sev
eral companions, is now on his way
to the location. The old man was
too feeble to go with them, but the
chart is so clear in its description
and the information given bv the
old man aod corroborative evidence
of locatlen has been found by one
of the party who, at various times
found gold coin on the beach at the
precise locality of the wreck (pre
sumably from the several casks that
the pirates fsiled to remove trom
the ship), gives the pstty sssurance
that their trip will be a successful
one. The amount estimated by the
steward it near a million of Spanish
dollars, and the principal party, the
man who befriended tne old stew
ard, and who has hia chart and in
formation, is a well known and
popular citizen of Fernandina,
therefore we will wish him all suc
cess.
Occasionally you see a man order
tripe, but he always looks hard, as
though he hated himself and every
body else. He tries to look as
though he enjoys it, but he does
not. Tripe is indigestible and rooks
like an India-rubber apron. When
it is pickled it looks like dirty
clothes put to soak, and when it it
cooking it looks as though the cooIr
was boiling a dish cloth. On the
table it looks like glue, and tastea
like a piece of oil-silk umbrella cov
er. A stomach that is not lined
with corrugated iron would be turn
ed wrong side out by the smell of
tripe. A man eating tripe at a ho
tel table looks like an Arctic ex-
ploier dining on his boots or chew
ing pieces of frozen dog. You
cannot look at a man eating tripe
but he will blush, and look as
though he wanted to apologize and
convince you he is taking it to tone
up his system. A woman never
eats tripe. There is not money
enough in the world to hire a wo
man to take a corner of a sheet of
tripe in her teeth and try to pull off
a piece. Those who eat tripe are
men who have had their stomachs
play mean tricks on them, and they
eat tripe to get even with their
stomachs, and then they go and
take a Turkish bath to sweat it out
of the system. Tripe is an article
handed down from a former gener
ation of butchers, who sold all the
meat and kept the tripe for them
selves and the dogs, but the dogs
of the present day will not eat tripe.
You throw a piece of tripe down
An Irontof a dog and see if he does
not pull his tail between his legs
and go off and hate you. Tripe
may have a value, but it is not at
food. It may be good to fill in a
burglar-pioof safe, with the cement
and chilled steel, or it miuht an
swer to use in a breast plate in the
time of war, or it would be good
to use for bumpers between cara, or
it would make a good face for the
weight of a pile driver, but when
you come to smuggle it into the
stomach you do wrong. Tripe!
Bah! A piece of Turkish towel
cooked in axle grease would be pie
compared with tripe.
St. Ab*u*Um (Fla.) W e«My.
A few days ago s small party of
gentlemen visited the scene of the
Dade massacre, which i» within a
quarter of a mile of the track of the
Florida Railway and Navigation
Company, on what is known as its
Panasoffkee Branch, and about two
miles north of the station of Cath
erine, otherwise called Massacre,
the named the post-office.
The scene ot this well known epi
sode of the first Seminole war is one
possessing many natural as well ax
historical attractions. A small like
r nd lies to the northwestward,
the old Tampa trail, along
which were marching the unfortu-
oate victims of the mass#cre, passes
in a direction nearly due south.
Giant pines, with a young under
growth of water oaks interspersed
among them, rise gradually all
around like grim and stately ,en *'*
□els guarding the spot where the
noted sacrifice upon the altar of pa
triotism occurred.
On thi* historic a;
heroic little band ol
whelmed by a force of 1,500 Indi
ans, who, divided into three separate
bodies, completely encompassed
them. But no* all. Two men, con-
scious of their impending doom, so
disguised themselves among the
dead bodies of their comrades that
they weTe not noticed by the sa vages,
and later escaped in£ the darkness.
Alter traveling together lor a time
prudence suggested their separation,
but only one succeeded in reaching
the military post at Tampa, from
whence the little party had set forth
only f day or two before. A few
days after the horrible occurrence a
detachment of troops was sent to
bury the victims, who were interred
on the spot where they fell. Some
years lafer the remains were taken
up and reinterred in the United
States cemetery at St. Augustine,
and monuments commemorating
the event were erected over their
last resting place. Since then per
sons claiming that the remains of
the officers ot the command had
been overlooked, and never re
moved, made numerous excavations
in the vicinity seeking for them,
but without avail. A number of
interesting relics have from time to
time been found and taken frotn
the scene, and the little party of
pilgrims above named brought away
with them a short bayonet ot an
cient pattern, deeply corroded with
rust, and other mementoes of the
event.
Onssln About ttn aobaroatorlal Candldata*
Macon T.latraph.
Atlanta, March 13.—Political
gossip is lively. The main point of
!c fVus withdrawal of Gov-
discussion is the withdrawal of Gov
ernor McDaniel from the guberna
torial race. Ot course, every one
has a reason for it. To-day a well-
informed politician told me he sus
pected that the Governor’s with
drawal is to make wav lor a scheme
of certain managers to pay of! an old
debt; that lie thought “the move
meant Gordon as a dark horse. or
surpriss candidate.” This opinion
was reiterated later by another “ w ho
gallops with the gang.” It will be
remembered that at a recent date in
the history of Georgia politics a trick
that was resorted to defeat a pop
ular man was to spring candidates
from every congressional district of
the S *ate. There are signs that the
£ ame is to be tned again. Now Mr.
ester, of Savannah,is being boomed
a little. Farmer Livingston gets
into print occasionally. Dr. Felton
it mentioned as a dangerous man to
ignore. Judge David B. Harrell is
hinted at by a few. Carlton, presi
dent of the last senate,is said to have
entered the race. -Since Congress-
manNor wood’s latest speech in Con
gress in reply to Mr. Henderson he
has a few takers inthe pool.
Victims v?Uo' TeMBla TrJixtiy tn tlia Clark's Ofic* ot a
OalMdStataa Court.
The following it a fuller accout of
the shooting affray in the Clerk’s
office of the’United -States Court at
New Orltans last Wednesday than
the dispatch published in the Morn
ing News:
A desperate duel or shooting af
fray, occured to-day in the Clerk’s
office of the United States District
Court, in the custom house,in which
one of the principals were killed and
the other mortally wounded. Both
of them are well-known men. Mr.
M. E. Grace was a young lawyer,
who had been inspector of Customs,
and J. M. Btou has been for years
one of the most conspicuous men in
the sttamboat business. Mr. Grace,
who had an admiralty suit before
the United States District Court,
was seated within the private or in
ner office ol the clerk when Brou
entered. The suit happened to be
against a friend of Brou’s, and the
latter had interested himself in it.
Stepping up to Grace he said:
“You ought to be more of a gen
tleman than to take a case like
that"
Grace sprang from his seat, de
claring that he was as much a gen
tleman and as good a man as Brou.
The latter then struck him across the
face with the light cane he carried,
whereupon Grace drew his revolvei
and fired at Brou, the bait causing a
mortal wound. Brou staggered, but
did not retreat a step. Again he lif
ted his cane and struck Brou a sec
ond time. Grace replied again with
a second shot, which struck Brou in
the chest. Indeed, it was almost
impossible to miss him, as the two
men stood within a few feet of each
other.
By this time Breu had got out his
pistol, and a number of shots were
fired, the two men facing each other
resolutely. When Grace’s pistol re
fused to fire, he turned and ran to
wards the door, as though to escape
trom the room. There were a num-
of persons in the room when the
firing began,but those had scattered
at the first shot, and the door which
had a spring lock, was thus locked
on the two men. Grace ran into the
outer room to escape being pursued
by Brou, who struck him over the
head with the butt of his pistol.
He tried the outer door, but found
it also locked.
This was the last seen by the out
siders, tor the two men were left
shut up in the room together, with
all the doors spring-locked. Anoth
er pistol shot was heard and silence
reigned within. The crowd with
out waited a few seconds and then
entered the room. The two men
lay on the floor close together—
Grace stark dead at the door he had
been trying to open,and Brou lying
insensible and mortally wounded in
the centre of the room. Their fire
had been wonderfully acurate- Ev
ery one of Grace’s bullets took effect,
one entering Brou’s face, penetra
ting from cheek to cheek; another
passing through his back and lodg
ing in his abdominal cavity, the 3rd
penetrating his right lung. Grace
was shot through the arm and twice
through the chest. Most of the shots
were fireu while the men were
standing face to face with their pis
tols almost touching each other’s
breast.
Grace was 30 yeais of age, very
popular and enjoyed a good practice.
Brou had been the agent of the
French opera here, and was in vari
ous steamboat enterprises. He was
a creole, 36 years of age. He was
regarded as » dangerous man to
quarrel with, having been the prin
cipal «f several duels, last year in a
duel with Mr.Evans.te Poche.whom
he wounded. Brou wae a married
man.
HOW HE REACHED FREEDOM.
lob Yancey From Columbia to FrovUanoo
as a Corpse.
From tte New York Tribune,
Boston, March 6.—“Do I remem
ber any incidents of the under
ground railroad that haven’t got intoi
print?” said an old abolitionist and
slave rescuer the other ni»ht in re
sponse to a question. “Well, there
is one story that I don’t remember
to have been in the books or the pa
pers. In 1859, just in the height of
the agitation, S , our agent at
Columbia, S. C., had occasion to
ticket a mindle-aged negro. Job
Yancey by name, through to Provi
dence, R. I., by the underground.
Job had sheltered a runaway in his
cabin aud had been betrayed by
another negro. He learned the sit
uation and came into Columbia in
the middle of the night. There was
no hope ot concealing him. Our
agent had thought of a new meant
of shipment that he had never tried.
This was his opportunity tn try it,
for Job was clear grit, strong, with
the well knit strength of middle
age, and patient as hia namesake.
“St- got out a large coffin that he
had kept for the emergency, and
into this he put poor Job, and with
him a quantity of crackers, cheese,
dried meat and a rubber bag full of
water. A few gimlet holes admit
ted air. On the first train in the
morning Job Yaacey went off, ship
ped as a corpse to a chosen address
Providence. Trainmen were
generally respectful of the dead in
those days, and Job traveled com
fortably for a time, barring the hours
that he occasionally lay on some
depot platform in the broiling South
ern sun. Travel was slow, and
sometimes the treatment was a lit
tle rough. Job after a day or so
began to get exceedingly lame with
the confinement and pressure, his
grim berth grew irksome, but it was
when the loud shouts and laughter
of his own kind died away around
him, and when that and the sicken
ing chill came over him when they
dumped him one night on tha stone
floor of a cold baggage room some
where told him that he was in the
North, that he began to suffer. The
mere consciousness that he was in
the North might have buoyed him
up, however, if it had not been for
one dreadful circumstance:
“There was a sort of faint gleam
around him that told it was day,
and he must have been in New
York, for he says that he had been
carried across some water hy the
sensation of rising and falling that
he had felt. He had fell himself
rattled along in a wagon, too, and
the wagon had brought up in a
place where he had heard the clatter
and the roar of trains again. His
coffin was dragged violently out of
the wagon, and when his bearers
put him down they stood the coffin
against the wall—on its head. Job
began to feel the blood rushing to
his head. He felt that he was lost
and would die, but he dared not
shout for help. That would mean
ditcovery, a delivery to his owners,
and worse than death. Better die
there; even a horrible death from
torture, than be carried back to his
master’s plantation. He clung to
his determination, bat at last felt his
weakened senses give away. His
consciousness, after minutes of ago
ny, which seemed hours, was lost.
When he recovered Job had ac
tually arrived at Providence and his
new-found frieads wete using their
best endeavors to restore him. In
few days he was able to step out
into the world in a home in a chosen
village.”
1,
THE CHILD WIFE'S CRIME.
Furtlin Details of Use Fierce Cesstr Sea-
The steamer Oregon baa gone
down. The saved of the Oregon,
are-189 first caUn, 66 second cabin,
and 3&9at«ersg.. paaaangera and 205
Wavcuoss, Ga., March is.—
Somewhat incomplete information
has just reached here ot the shock
ing murder of Andrew J. Johnson
by his wife. The scene of the mur
der is a farm about thirteen miles
from this city, near the line of
Pierce and Ware counties and Sa-
tilla river. On Christmas eve last,
the immediate neighborhood sur
rounding the home of Johnson was
the scene of great conviviality, as it
was the occasion of Johnson’s mar
riage to Miss Little. The brief
honeymoon was spent in apparent
good will and complete happiness,
when there came a little shade in
the sunshine. It was rumored that
Mrs. Johnson was jealous of her
liege lord and things did not move
in the domestic cirds at they were
wont to do and at last
culminated in the murder of John-
son. On Wednesday night they
had retired as usual to rest, when
during the still hours of the night
Mrs. Johnson stole from the aide of
her sleeping husband and going out,
procured an axe and returned to
the bedroom. Some intuition of his
danger caused him to awaken, when
he beheld his wife, mo in hand,
standing behind him, and before be
could spring to his feet she had
dealt him bis death blow. She
turned and fled to a neighbor’s, and
told them that some one had mur
dered Andrew. Investigation
found the victim dying, bnt with
just enough consciousness to relate
the scene described, placing the
deed at bis wife's bands. She was
arrested. The woman ia bnt 15
years old, and ia said to be prepos
sessing in appearance. Her friends
advance the theory of insanity, but
the prevailing belief is that jealonny
caused the deed.
MMlMBUtiU.
▲aterlcua Republican.
A few days agoata Primitive Bap
tist conference, in Sumter county
only a few miles from Americus,
good old Brother C. was arraigned
for drunkennesi. After a long
discussion among the brethren, the
sisters listening attentive but silent,
the moderator asked:
“Well, brother C., 1 supnose you
are willing to apologize and prom
ise to do better?”
“No, I am not. I hive not sin
ned; I am one of the elect, and don’t
do anything that God ain’t willing
for me to do. If he didn’t want me
to get drunk I guess he would stop
me.”
The moderator then asked:
“Wan’t you drunk when the
mules ran away and threw you and
your wife out of the w agan and
broke it up?”
“No, I wan’t!" indignantly snap
ped the old man. “I just twisted
my mules’ tails to tease Martha, and
they run off, threw us both out of
the wagon, and broke it up. I
wasn’t drunk a bit!"
The conlerence lasted until after
4 o’clock in the afternoon, and sev
eral of the sisters were indignant at
being kept so late. One was over
heard to say to another:
“I was so mad with brother C.
that I could er just twisted hit tail,
if I coaid a reached it, till he run
away!"
REIGN OF TERROR IN TEXAS.
rsepl* Afraid to Call Tkslr tsnls Thslr
Own—Tbs Knlsbts of Labor Hold tno Up
per Hand—Folsoalns Drinking Water.
Fort Worth. Tex., March 16.—
The Knights of Labor have the up
per hand here. Boarding houses
and hotels which accommodate the
men who take the place of strikers
are boycotted. Even the butchers
reluse to sell them meat. All this
is true. Yet the sentiment of the
people is against the strikers, but
the business men are afraid ot the
boycott. John Tagart, a boarding
bouse keeper, was boycotted yes
terday. The waterman trom wnom
he has been purchesing his supply
of drinking water refused to sell to
him and he has to go two mites to
secure water. His landlord, one of
the richest citizens, has ordered him
to vacate his house. - Yesterday
poison was thrown into Tagart’s
water barrel and one married wo
man and two little "girls were pois
oned and lie in a critical condition
The case cited above is the worse
yet reported, but there are others
no'edly disgraceful. People are
afraid to call their souls their own
Blue is reinstated and is seen in
all materials Amber is said to be the
most popular of the yellows.
Fuchsias are a favorite flower
design for the spring goods.
Jet panels have designs of wheat
with rich out pendants like wheat
COVINGTON AND MACON.
Tbs snccsss sf tbs loti Asiursd-Fsr
D»r.
Macon, March i*,-—To-day is
pay day with the contractors and
employes of the Covington and Ma
con railroad. On the 15th ot last
month some of the smaller contrac
tors were paid off, bnt this is the
first regular p»y day since the road
was commenced, and about 830,000
was paid out by Contractor Mack-
en this afternoon at the company’s
headquatters. Hereafter payments
will be made regularly on tbe 15th
of each month. If there haa here
tofore existed any lack of confidence
in the enterprise or its projectors,
there is no cause for further exis
tence. Twenty-four miles of the
road have been graded, and its com
pletion within the present year it
assured. The iron is expected to
arrive io a few days, and the track
laying will be commenced in a few
days. '
A Lastly Gravt.
On tbe Alabama road, about five
miles from town, by the side of the
road, ia a lonely grave that marks
the resting place of ap unknown
Confederate soldier, who was killed
during the war in a skirmish or
yrhile on picket duty near by. Tbe
good people of Ike neighborhood
navo placed * substantial fence
arouae the grave.—Rome Courier.
SOCIETY WAS SHOCKED.
A Dlstrssslnc Hlfbap that BsftU n Toons
Lady in a Ball Bsom.
Washington, March 7.—Wash
ington society has again been shock,
ed, and again the shocking process
took place at Mrs. Secretary Whit
ney’s. A young lady, the daughter
ot a General, was one of the many
guests at Mrs. Whitney’s peculiarly
select ball last evening. The young
lady, Miss Blank, wore a low cut
dress, of course, though report says
it was no lower than many others
prasent. Well, finslly, in the giddy
whiil of the dance, Miss B’s dress,
the scant upper front part of it, be.
came horribly disarranged and ex
posed a portion of her flesh which
was supposed to be partially cov
ered. The worst of it was thst
Miss Blank was not awate of the
disarrangement, and passed about
among the guests wholly oblivious
ot!it Finally a kind companion in.
formed her and she retired in con
fusion for repzirs. This incident
fully demonstrated the point at
which society should be shocked
There is a point to which it is per.
fectly proper to go as to lowness ot
the dress, but a half inch lower is
shocking. All of which illustrates
the delicacy of taste that is aecessa.
ry in tha management ol a low.
neck evening dress, and tho_ proper
place at which to draw the line.
ltsrdu Xaar Xlbsito*.
Elbbrton, Ga., Mareh 16.—Guy
Brown was killed by Granville
Simpson yesterday afternoon about
eight miles from Elbertoo. Tbe
killing was done with a knife,
coroner’s inquest was held, and
warrant lor murder issued for Gran
vilie, who escaped. They were
both colored and about 16 years old.
No cause for tbe deed haa yet come
to light
FASHION NOTES.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Stonewall Jackson's charger ia
dead.
Representative Hahn, of •Louisi
ana, is dead.
Hon. John S. Davidson is not a
candidate for governor.
The Chinese are afraid to attend
Sunday school in Augusta.
“For fence” tickets gave a district
ia Carroll county the stock law.
A order was issued from the war
department retiring Major General
Pope.
A movement is on font around
Atlanta for the defeat of Senator
Colquitt.
Lieutenant A. W. Greely, the
Arctic explorer, submitted to a se
vere surgical operation.
Mrs. Burney, near Rome, Ga.,
aged 60 years, was burned to a crisp
by a fire in her yard.
The President has nominated Mr.
Trenholra, of Charleston, to be
comptroller of the currency.
Charles Richard, member of a
prominent Hebrew family, was as
sassinated in Mobile, Ala.
There is no probability that the
civil service law will be changed or
repealed this session.
ASuakim special says: “In a
skirmish between the British and
the rebels thirty of the latter were
killed.
At the session of the A. M. E.
Conference, at Staunton, the body
declined to ask the general confer
ence to change the word “South”
“America."
“J. R. R," of the Augusta Chron
icle, still uses dark glasses in view
ing the situation from Washington.
West Virginia is now reported lost
te the democrats.
It is estimated by senate officials
that the cost of tbe special train car
rying the body of the late Senator
Miller to California will not be less
than $20,000.
The jury in the case of Gamble
v», the Central railroad for $20,000
damages, returned a verdict at Tal-
botten, Ga., for $4,000. A motion
for a new trial was made by the
railroad.
The city of Granada, a capital ef
the province in Spain of the same
name, was shaken by an earthquake.
The shock was oi seven seconds du
ration. The people were terrified
and fled in all directions. -No lives
were lost.
Atlanta, March 16.—The ques
tion is now being agitated as te
whether or not under the prohibi
tion law case, the Capital City club
can continue after July tst to fur
nish its members liquors.
Lexington, Ga., March 16.—
Married, in the lower part of the
county, Mr. Jim Christian, a wid
ower of forty, and the father of three
children, to Miss Lou Pass, a blush
ing blonde of 16 summers.
The body of L. G. Dewitt, who
fell from the ice mound at Niagara
Falls, aweekpgo Sunday, and lodg
ed on the ice below, was secured
Tuesday morning after several days
labor in cutting through the ice,
The steamers Nacoochee, from
New York, and the Wm. Crane,
from Baltimore, were in collision in
the river below Savannah, Wed
nesday afternoon. The Nacoochee’s
main-rail and upper deck waterway
was broken. The Crane was only
slightly damaged.
Tobe Jackson, the Cartersville
dynamiter, slept in Atlanta Sunday
aight. Jackson came to Atlanta
Sunday afterneon and yesterday
morning, soon after he lelt, a dozen
GEORGIA NEWS.
Clay county’s prohibition election
occurs April 8th. ‘ ~
A liver weighing three-fourths of
a pound was recently taken ont of a
LaGrange chicken.
A Macon young Indy who is .
about to wed n railroad conductor
hss required him to insure his life.
There is a man in Macon who be- )
lieves that displaying weather sig
nals is tampering with Providence.
If the Blair bill becomes n law
Georgia wiH in eight yean receive
from the government $6,4448,442-
Twenty-tour hundred applica
tions have been sent to Postmaster
Renfroe for positions in tbe Atlanta
post-office.
In the upper part of Laurens
county, the accidental killing of a
13-year-old negro boy by his grown
brother took place.
A splinter nine inches long by one
and a hall inches wide, was cut out
of a horse’s shoulder in Savannah,,
Friday. It had been in the shoulder'
about two months.
Tbe board of county commission
ers, of Gwinnett, at their meeting
the first Monday, established a new
militia district to be known as Pack
et’s district.
Jordon Dennis, negro, of Pulaski
county, recently beat a horse to
death. He was tried in the county
court and goes to the chain-gang
for six months.
The ink found in an excavation
at the foot of Kennesaw Mountain
a few years ago, is used by the or
dinary of Cobb county in record
ing official papers.
In Alpharetta the other day a
mule fell in an old well. When he
had bean hauled to the top the rope
broke and he fell to the bottom, a
distance of thirty-five feet. He was
again hauled up and when on dry
land, began munching the grass, as
though nothing had happened.
policemen found it out and began
hunting for Tobe but they were too
late. Nig Simpson, and “old Nig”
‘ ‘ ‘ lhi ‘
Blue striped seersuckers again
make their appearance and {form a
very neat castume.
The Japanezereazehaa impregnat
ed the spring goods and the Yum-
Yuma will be worn on our streets.
Light gloves have many exquisite
ornamentations such as face inser
tions, chenille, embroidery and hand
painted designs.
Neck trimmings are of the dain
tiest and most exquisite deacriptiont
and will be a most becoming adjunct
to many el the spring styles.
Brown still continues the color for
the masses, and is to reign in the
spring goods, notwithstanding the
brightest combinations are to be
worn.
Puffed sleeves will be worn with
thin dresses. Not the round full puff
but a sort ot melon shaped puff,
large at the shoulder and tapering
at the wrist.
White heliotrope is in high pop
ularity now. but is too delicate to
wear ia a corsage bouquet, and so
finds its place on the shoulders of
many a ball dress.
Independent wraps will be much
orn in the spring, a style, doubtless
the outgrowth of the“variety” phase
of the present season which some
people have affected.
The stockings for full dress occa
sions are most elsborate and costly
Bits of hand painting and lace
confections are in some sewed on
the instep instead of being “let in,”
which requires much care and skill.
Black stockings hold their jfavor
with the public. Many ladies buy
the light-colored ones and have them
dyed.Some dyehouses color them so
they will not crock, but although all
promise this virtue, few possess it.
Very fine flannel in pink, blue or
creamy white haa the seams feather-
stitched in silk of a contrasting color
and the silk waistband is tied with
ribbon with long ends. To such
eads have the underskirts ot to-day
arrived.
Violet and ciel blue are combimed
but few can do it without offending,
Amateur milliners and dressmakers
are warned to use much care in the
combinations to be warn next spring,
at they are very trying, and although
many colors appear in tha goods, it
ss ill be difficult to select the color to
ornament or to combine with the
material.
tbe bloodhound, were out ot town,
The two-thirds vota by which Mr.
Bland was permitted to name the
days on which the silver question
should be disposed of, shows that
the goldbugs have no standing in
the house of representatives. The
coinage of silver will continue for the
future as in the past
Atlanta, March 16.—A mem
ber of St. Phillip’s church said to
me this morning: “You can state
that St Phillip’s church is all righ.;
that a meeting of the pew holders
will be held on the 26th of April to
elect a new vestry, and pretty soon
thereafter a new minister will be
called.”
Millkdgevillb, March 16.—
Eatonton train was almost complete-
wrecked about 15:30 o’clock this
aiternoon, at the 183 mile "ost, by a
wheel of one of the fr _ht cars
jumping the track. Seven freight
cars, nearly all the freight, aud the
track for fifty yards is a complete
wreck. The engine and tender was
broke loase. The passenger coach
was but slightly damaged. No one
was hurt oeyond a few bruises.
There were six passengers on board,
Clayton, Ga., March 16.—Mr.
M. L. LaCount, who had been in
Atlanta jail serving out a sentence
for violating the internal revenue
laws, returned home on the 7th in
stant He was completely paralyz
ed ia his limbs, and was perfectly
helpless. His voung wife, in at
tempting to lift him from the bed to
a chair, ruptured a blood vessel and
died on the following Tuesday.
She leaves two children, one being
two years old and the other six
months.
■trawborltz tauiac at 62 00 p« Quart.
The strawberry season is just open
ing in Florida and Mr. W. H. Pil
ing
low, the fruit commission merchant
at Waycrosa depot is receiving
about 30 quarts per day from the
growers. However, only small lota
are yet shipped North by him. He
received bit first consignment on the
27 th of Febuary.
The prices at present obtained in
the.Eastern cities are from $2 to $2 50
per qnart.—Jacksonville (Fla.) Her
ald.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Alf. Terry aspires to the
Presidency.
John Peter Smith is a candidate
for governor of Texas.
A white crow has been seen re
cently in Newberry county, S. C.
Since 1881 cholera has swept away
more than twenty thousand people
in Calcutta and its suburbs.
It seems that Miss Betsy Cleve
land secured the register’s office in
Washington City for the negro Mat
thews.
Mr. Blaine’s second volume will,
they say, uphold the President’s
power to make removals at discre
tion. .
Mrs. Isabella Hilton died recent
ly in Spartanburg county, S. C., at
the age of xto years. She was born
in September, 1776.
Capt. A. S. Sims, of Darlington
county, S. C., still owns the
“bloody” mule th*t he rode out of
the Confederate army in ’65.
It was noticed in Washington
city that during the recital ot “Os
tler Joe,” by Mrs. James Brown
Potter, several ladies blushed clear
down to their waists.
In the states a man with the least
bit of negro blood in his veins is re
garded as a black man, but in Brazil
a man with very little white blood
in his veins is regarded as a white
man.
Two disconsolate widows at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, the other day
recovered from two liquor dealers
damages for the loss of their hus
bands, who were killed by strong
drink, the liquor having been ob
tained from the defendants.
A wonderful Chinese boy is men
tioned in the report of a missionary
at Pekin. At a recent examination
he repeated the entire New Testa
ment without missing a single word
or making one mistake. He is now
committing to memory Dr. Martin’s,
“Evidences of Christianity.”
Bennett Parsons, of Jefferson
county, Ala., was killed with a shot
gun about a year ago during a quar
rel with his wife and daughter.
They were put on trial, and not
withstanding the pleas of insanity
have each been sentenced to twen
ty-one years in the penitentiary.
An old brass cannon was unearth
ed Monday near Axtell, Texas, to
gether with several sabres and some
old muskets with flint locks. One
of the sabres was handsomely silver
mounted. The relics were found
underneath ». dense thicket and
were badly eaten by rust. Long
before Texas became a republic, n
party ot Louisiana adventurers,
headed by Philip Nolan and Ellis
P. Bean, were attacked by a body of
Mexican troops near Axtell. Near
ly all of them were killed. Those
who were taken alive were taken to
Mexico, where they were made to
throw dice which of them would
be shot. The fight above mention
ed is tbe only battle that was known
to have occurred near Axtell, and
the weapons discovered are pro
nounced the relics of that bloody
battle.
CARING FOR DR. ARHSTRONG.
A BsslOtmcs Stated, Foralsktd andTtadtr
Atlanta, Ga^ March t6.—The
friends of Dr. Armstrong among
the congregation of St. Phillip’s
are still standiug up to him in eve
ry way. A few days agoata meet
ing of the vestry a committee was
appointed to call upon him and
make a tender of any pew in the
church free of charge, for as long a
time as they see fit to use it. Since
then the ladies of the congregation,
wno, during all his trouble, have
been bis strongest supporters, have
rented n residence, furnished it and
provided the same with a year’s
provisions. The bouse was placed
at his disposal to-day, and to-mor
row Dr. Armstrong will take pos
session of his new home. The pro
ject of building him a new church
is still being favorably discussed,
and it is believed that tbe requisite
amount of money can be easily
raised.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, of tbe
“Ostler Joe” fame, haa decided to
go on tbe stage, to the great disgust
of her aristocratic relatives.
BAN Ed COUNTY NEWS.
The Banner-Watchman being
the county organ of Banks, of
course is very popular. It is read
by every family in the county, anti
is as much sought after by the citi
zens of Banks as an umbrella on a
rainy day. They say that they can
never forget the great service Edi
tor Gantt and the Banner-Watch
man did them -in the Speer-Can-
dler campaign.. Your correspond
ent is adding new subscribers to the
already large subscription list in this
section.
We are stopping with Mr. T. F.
Hill, the efficient ordinary of the
county, and a perfect gentleman.
He has taken us in hand, and says
we shan’t want to. anything.
Straw hats are being worn in
Homer.
Measles are very prevalent all
over Banks county. There is one
family all down with them, and it
is thought one will die.
Monday evening Judge Estes
sentenced a young men named
Wise for six months in the chain-
gang or pay a fine of $25 and all *
cost for carrying concealed weap
ons, He plead guilty to the charge.
Patterson, the man who is charg
ed with an assault with intent to
murder his wife, is .here at court.
He says he is going to settle the
case or stsnd ‘his trial. His bond
lor $1,000 has been forfeited. He
is not a bad looking man by any
meant, and seems to be abont 35
years old. Patterson appears to be
iry penitent.
There are two negro boys in jail,
charged with stealing an oxen. They
are aged 13 and 15 years, and stole
they animal in the lower edge of
the county, but were captured near
Lula. 1 T.
Mr. Cullom’s speech in the sen
ate, on tne right of tbe senate to de
pend the opening of jhe president’s
private mail bag, was belt Jw medi
ocrity, and shows to what straits the
republicans have been driven.
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