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' m ~7T7 r XOT IS THE RACK. w . *. Ki'.tol, of abort County, lot '^CH 4 ' 4 ** 4 fbrConeTO*«”in Health tad ^♦.Inters** Torbld. 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. T- matte 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. * '