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__ >_tneol»n Couplo Wedded Under MOcnltl»*" A r ° rlorn **“<*•» Tear* the “j,', Nuptial Outfit Prom Bli Perion. Th<‘ new* *** s J ust re * c ^ c ^ us ofascn- marrige in colored high life, that p 1 * 1 *' * fow d *y® * go at th ° u p- town lUpiwt church, presided over by Uev. It seems that Gus Beal was a . -ular masher with the ebony damsels, »ml played sad havoc with all the frail l i , Jrls that crossed his path. Among those upon whom Gus had bestowed his smiles was Julia Maxwell, and he had roJ1 |, such an impression on her sus- ,., |„ilile heart that she (Julia) had for sometime supported the gay Lothario wiili her wages as cook. But in time _. r ew tired of his lady lore, and „ ;dhi and won another maid named j. .,niia Walker, and doubtless woarying ,,f his repeated conquests, decided to unto this last tlame his hand and nf course the news of the ap- 1,reaching marriage spread like wild fire. , ■ was not long in Teaching the ears of tli. discarded Julia. The wedding was i,- ••..niiiccd to take place in Lyons' h. ill the presence of theentjre con- _■, ..lUon. Julia Walker, although she i r< ■ wired no especial invitation, de- ,. led to he on hand, mid she was. too. Just as the bridal pair entered the church, heralded by the peals of the or- can and all eves were centered upon them, the forlorn and rejected damsel • .eldenly flew at the groom with the fe recity of on enraged tigress and began to t.'sr hts wedding garments from his per son Beth the bridal couple and the 1 i.iiurcgalion were so astonished at this unusual proceeding that no etfort was made to remove the beligerant female un til the groom resell.hied a scare-crow in a corn field,and he looked more like a candidate for some paper mill than for marriage. When Julia had finished her work sin- .piietlv stated that she had. l.v her rag of clothin, hack, and she • hould discard 1 other woman herself bought —that -oil jo injury. The left the church, and th corded wtthout fui'the though both the wedd congregation looked ; ice water had fallen ..1 n toil, p tin d for every groom had on his lot intend that he then marry an- garments she had ■I was adding in nate woman then ceremony pro- intcrrnption. al- ig couple and the 1 if a shower of lln-m. COST Or - CAHS. NO. XVI ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 80,1886 THE TECHNOLOGICAL SC, OOL. Governor McDaniel Appoints tbe Commie* slon Which Will Meet Soon. Monday Governor McDaniel .appointed the commissioners for the technological school. The following gentlemen w.ere named as the heard: E. R. Hodgson, of Athens: S. M. Inman, of Atlanta; 0. S. Porter, of Ncwnan; X. E. Harris, of Ma con, and Columbus Heard, of Greene county. The governor will call the board together at once for the purpose of or ganization. After the organization the first duty of the board will be to decide upon the location of the school of tech- nology. The question of location is left with the board under this proviso—that that city or town shall be selected which, in the opinion of the board offers the best inducements. The health and general accessibility of the place is to be consid ered in connection with the amount of money offered or other inducements held out. Any city or town ©r any non-sec tarian institution of learning may have its claims considered. Athens is highly gratified at the Gov ernor's selection of Mr. K. R. Hodgson to the responsible and honorable position of chairman of this hoard. POISONED CANDY. The Police Condemn a Candy Stand on Broad Street. For several days past a little candy stand has been operating on the corner of Broad and Jackson streets, and seemed to be doing a fair business. The pans full of yellow, red and white taffy were very tempting to the small boys, and they patronized the stand liberally. It was reported to Councilman Coleman yester day that Wilson, the proprietorof the stand, was using poisonous matter to color his sweet tasted taffy, and Mr. Coleman immediately ordered the Police to stop the sale and break up the business. It was discovered that Wilson A first- lass >taml: r.l eiirht-wheel bad been buying chromate of lead and AuH’riuan locomotive with automatic red aniline for coloring, which is said to Inin ami « river i.rakf" . is worth about be very poisonous, and if taken in too A mo.lfrn >lf. >er. with -l- incb large quantities will produce death. Mr. s!””l-tirr.| u I..-.‘is. "ix-u heel truck" ami Wilson, we have no doubt, was ignorant ’*: •••! axlrs i" iv..rtli a *out -fliMMi. A of the character of the coloring matter, V «»•”• rar wuh 1-* inch steel-tireti and had got hold of some of tne different "l.ft axh’>. toilet room ami recipes sold throughout the country for It : : 11 >t•• rt’t chairs is vorth about $5.- making taffy candy. * ’ ■ A tii'" -fi:i"S fo.lfh. with toilet room. 'l’he druggists say that any and all j ,i. m oar wanner. U inch "tcel-tirr.l kinds of lead are poisonous. Meeting ,. 1" an "led ax!" i" worth about Mr. Hampton, one of the proprietors of > A Mfomi-fla."." coach, with 33- the new candy manufactory, on the nv.i Wheel". amt "ieel axles streets, we asked if he was using chro ; i j-’U' iit ear-warmer. is worth about mate of lead or red aniline in coloring J it •"! .* 1 far of ino.ii rn ilosiprn. his candy, and he said that he used noth n ”1 11 •h "leel-tii c«l wheels ami ing but the purest coloring matter, and , -. : w ►r.h about * A 50-foot the hoys around the manufactory often ’ fa . of motif rn < esijin, with same ate ; t in preference to the candy. They rt; It,- M ir. »" worth ilM.nt A have n.i» v,;, 'g to do with these new re " .1,-Ur.i •- foot box an 1 stm-k i-.-tr. with cipes for making candy, and will put noth s»:,. * „ l4 ., on trucks an 1 .-ast wh.-els anti ing in it but “ hat is pure. axlf-s i" worth abt ut h " >. A ceal A WuNDERFUL INVENTION. < i»>\ wuh "amt- trucks , is worth about Mr. .1. Cohen tells us that while in 4 ■-!’>. A tamlar.l Hat o ir is worth about New York he called on l>r. llaruch, a oo.".‘S un> rth from $ s OO to distinguished physician of that city. Mr. *1.” * •. 1IW no to the hu M. [ C. had a pain in hts head that he thought CARD ETIQU EYTE. caused by a brain affection. Dr. Baruch Th. die II i zed I let V, letely re on a time it was the ard precede you. At : r - r .t cards are only left at the end of a \i'»r. the caller placing them on the hall- table before she leaves-the house. If *}»•* in calling on an unmarried lady she 1. > only her own card, if on a widow h> r own and her husband’s, if on a mar ried couple one of her own and two of her husband's. The ancient fashion had s veral advantages in its favor, but a per son who now sent her card in before {avinga call.would be considered igno rant of the ways of good society. TRUE BILLS. The grand jury of Habersham county, which has just adjourned, returned true hdU against sir; persons for murder, viz.: le't'ort Morris, Victoria Henderson and A.irui Dodd, for the murder of Joseph Henderson, Fred Freeman, Tom Mose- 1- v and another man whose name we could not learn. Robert Morris was tm d and convicted, as 1 wrote you, and will he hung in April. The others have not been tried. If Morris fails to get a new tsial, and the sentence of the court I- carried into effect, it will be the first hanging that Habersham has ever had. WAGES or CLERXS Wc yesterday asked a prominent gro- ] eery merchant what was the average wa ges of clerks in Athens. He replied that in his line it was about $♦»<>, or probably more. In the dry goods line perhaps a little less. Of course this docs riot refer to green hands and boys. There is no trouble about an inexperience clerk keep ing a situation, as the merchants seldom change their men. THE LEGISLATIVE RACE. There is some little talk already over who shall be Clarke's next representa tive, but he will be in a sweat-box, it matters not who he the lucky man. The “wet” side says he must pledge them to placed an apparatus over Mr. Cohen’s eye, that enabled the surgeon to see every particle of his patient’s brain by looking through the eye-ball, as if it had been a pane of glass. By the use of cocoa a man can he cut to pieces and not expe rience the slightest pain, and at the same time retain all of his senses. Wonderful strides have certainly of late been made in surgery. THE COVINGTON AND MAHON RAILROAD President Livingston, of the Covington and Macon railroad, has been in t#wn this week, and informs the Star the con tract for grading, trestling and laying the iron for the entire road has been let to Messrs. Ferguson A Co., to a point be yond Oxford, and that the work is to be finished by the first of June.—Coving ton Star. A WONDERFUL GRASS. Mr. Toomtr has a species of grass growing in his garden, now nearly knee high, and which is greatly relished by stock. It never spreads, but grows in a thick tuft. It is well adapted for bor dering walks or terraces, and if exten sively cultivated will be a valuable ear ly green feed for stock. THE ARMSTRONG CASE. A prominent Episcopalian in Athens, who is a warm admirer of Bishop Beck with, says that he did wrong to summons witnesses for the prosecution while sit ting in the capacity of a Judge. He says , the Armstrong case is not through with ' vet. MORGAN S ELKCTIuN. The election on prohibition will take place on Wednesday, May 5th, and there is little doubt hut what the liquor traffic is doomed. The ladies of Madison are heartily in sympathy with the move ment, and are already doing some noble work. PROHIBITION IN OCONEE. Petitions are being gotten up in Oconee THE CHOPPED OAK. Tilt Murder of Roper, the Land Speculator. Carnes ville Register. On the north side of the road lead ing from Toccoa to Clarkesville,and tome six or seven miles from the lat ter place, once stood the famous chopped oak. Many an Indian potv-wow was held beneath its spreading branches, and upon its venerable trunk it bore the record of many a bloody masacre. It was about four miles within the territory occupied by the Indians,and numer ous trails diverged from it, leading in the direction of both white and Indian settlements. The Indians, were starting upon a foray among the whites, would meet in council and build their camp fires at the fa mous rendezvous. The different parties in reiurning.marked with the tomahawk upon the trunk of this tree the number of scalps taken in battle or in midnight assas sinations. Doomed captives stretch ed their weary limbs beneath its fiiendly boughs, while the red sons of the forest celebrated their victo ries in savage ogiesaround the lurid campfires. Beneath that same tree the pale moon smiled on the Indian brave, as he told his story ol love to his dusky mate. But alfthis was in the long ago—warrior and maiden and captive have gone to the Great Hunting Grounds, and the story of bloodshed, pillage and captivity is fast fading from the memory of men. The old oak has succumbed to the tempest, and only a few tottering old men are left to mark the spot where it stood. In latter years, the place has been the scene of some exciting events— among those was the death of Roper, the land speculator: Some fifty years ago or more, a South Carolinian, named Roper, in company with his son-in liw,Ward, made a tour through thegold regions of Georgia with a view of buying lands. On their return they camped at the Chopped Oak. The old man. who was under the influence of liquor, while drinking at the spring near by, had his skull crushed in by a tremendous blow with a large stone in the hands ol Ward. Ward robbed his victim of a large sum of money,somewhere between $1,200 and $1,400, hid his body be hind a log near by, mounted the best horse in the team and rode rapidly- to Roper's house. He informed Mrs. Roper that his father-in-law had bought valuable lands and sent him home for more money. He procur- about $700 and disappeared. The killing was done on Thursday night and the wagon and remaining horse were seen by persons passing to Antioch church on Friday and Saturday. It excited surprisa, but they were guarded by a ferocious dog. that would let no one approach. By Saturday the dog had become quiet.and seemed to seek human aid. When persons stopped to look on, he would start in the direction of the spring and look back as if invit tr.g tneni to follow. When a party that followed him reached the spring he passed beyond toa log and leaping upon it, looked back at his Iriendsand barked furiously Behind the log they tound the dead body of Roper. Ward was not heard of for sever al years, and was finally captured by the merest accident. Six or seven years after the murder Ward was met in the public road in the western part of this state, by some Carolinians, by whom he was recog nized and captured. He was brought to Habersham courty, tried for mur der, found guilty and hung near Clarkesville. He denied his identi ty as Ward, denied the murder and rpfused to recognize hts wife. He was identified however by his wife, bv Mrs. Roper,by Mrs. Roper’s sons and by many others who knew him well. He died asserting his inno cence and denying his name. It is not possible that it was a case o! mistaken identity muitratlpni of the Georgia Mortgage Sys tem. Atlanta, March 20 —The mort gage system had a showing up to day in the United States Circuit Court in three suits for foreclosures for money loaned in Georgia by foreign citizens. As usual, no de fense was made, and judgement, was given by default. The cases are: Francis L. Achey, of Ohio, vs. J. M Austin, of Floyd county, fore closure of mortgage for $730.65 prin cipal, $2440 interest, $765.4 attor ney’s fees and cost. The American Freehold Land Mortgage company, ot London vs. W. H. Bros well, administrator, of Walton county; foreclo-ureof mort gage $702 56 principal, $55 54 inter- est, $75.61 attorney’s fees and cost. The New England Mortgage Se curity Company,vs.James P.Echols, of Banks county; forecl isnre mort- gage. $574 principal, $tS.6o interest $59,29 attorney’s fees and cost. Death in His Shoes. Jncktun (G».) Hew*. The negroes in this neighborhood OLE WILKES LETTER. A Visit to the Farm of Hr. E. T. uni. Hear Washington, Gs. Washington, March 20.—Dear Banner-Watchman: Accepting an invitation to visit “Claudale”, the splendid farm of Mr. E. Y. Hill, situated a mile outside of the town limits, and jumping into his buggy, drawn by his beautiful sorrel steed, John Carlisle, named for the hon orable speaker of the house of rep resentatives of the Federal congress, and noted for his fine style and fast step in a few minutes we were there. At the suggestion of a friend the farm was named Claudale,for the ac complished and excellent wife oi its owner. Our attention was first attracted by the great number of fine fowls, comprising large Bronze turkeys, Plymouth Rock, Brown Leghorn and South Carolina game chickens that appeared everywhere about the place. We question if a finer lot could be found in the South. Last year Mr. Hill raised a great many of these fine chickens, the sales approximating $1,000. His income from eggs was considera ble. Next we came to two fish ponds, watered by as bold and as good a spring as is in this section of the state, and contains innumera ble fish, amongst them carp, weigh ing from 10 to 15 pounds,also bream, hlue and speckled cat and perch. In the past many carp have been purchased from Mr. Hill by per sons wishing to stock ponds. The water in the fish ponds below from the bold spring is as clear as crystal. The location is splendid, and the fact that the hillsides adja cent are sown in clover and grasses makes the scene perfectly beautiful. The stables and barn of Mr. Hill are marvels of beauty and arrange ment. The barn is orobably 70 by 55 feet, and here it is the fine Jer seys and the flock of sheep of the native Kentucky breed are kept— the fine hogs of the Berkshire and Essex stock occupying the yard and adjacent iots. The barn will have 75 cattle, and under it is a cellar which will contain as many sheep, protecting them from rain and the severe cold weather. The Jerseys have descended from the best imported stock and among them are milkers that give 4 gallons of rich milk daily. There are amongst the Jerseys, three fine young bulls, one of which is a calf of Dan Raven, owned by Col. Jas. Wade of Atlanta, and a grandson of Tenilla. The sales of milk and but ter from the Jerseys last year ap proximated $1,000. The sheep are remunerative, as it takes but little to keep them, they subsisting on the waste provender fed to the Jer seys, and being occasionally fed with cotton seed. Lambs find ready sale and the wool Dears a good price. Mr Hill succeeds in raising enough meat for his family and farm use from his fine stock of hogs, and we found his smokehouse chocked full ot meat,inc!uding many fat, juicy hams. Claudale contains 300 acres, ail of which is cultivata- ble. with the exception of 8 or 10 acres. Places that were in gullies when its present owner purchased it have been made level by filling them up and are producing good crops. The making ot syrup is a special ty and that made is ot superior quality and sells readily at good pri ces. It is preferred by those who use it to any other syrup in the mar ket. His best syrup is made from the ribbon cane. From one-fourth of an acre last year too gallons were made, besides saving out more than 1,000 stalks of the cane lor seed. Mr. Hill doe; not plant largely of cotton, but raises corn, rye, peas, and all kinds of forage. Hence his farm sustains itself and pays a hand some profit. It our planters would quit the su icidal policy of raising so much cot ton and produce more supplies like Mr. Hill, they would find better sue cess. Claudale is one of the best managed farms in the state, and we were delighted with our visit. Clarke. CARELESS HUNTERS. A Deplorable Accident Hear Cuthbert— Three Youthful Hlmrods Go on a Gun ning Expediting Through the Bain—In Testln* Their Damp fowling Pieces Oue el the Hiuters shoota and Instantly Kllll Another. Cuthbert, Ga., Marcl 2'.— -Out of the saddest accidents oer trans piring in this section hippened near here about ten’o clock this morning. Three little bn>-. a* out fifteen years old, each had, dtirit g the week, made up a hunt to come off on Saturday. As the time drew near two of them, Keene M.rrtin and Charlie Owen, ]-tovi led them selves with guns, but the third. Claude McBride, failed t.. secure one in tiqpe to go out with t'-e othet boys. He, however, wa- success ful in getting AN OLD FASHIONED MUZZLE LOAD ING GUN later and went in haste to join his companions in the country, a meet ing place having been previously agreed upon. The morning was a very rainy one and the boys had taken shelter in a house about one and a half miles from town, occu pied by a negro and where they were found by young McBride. Their guns having been exposed during the walk from town through the rain, there was some doubt ex pressed by one of them as to wheth er they would fire, when Claude McBride stepped out at the door and fired his gun into the air. Keene Martin, standing in the house, heard the report and think ing his friend entirely out of the way, raised his gun to his shoulder and fired, but too late to discover that Claude had turned to enter the door. THE WHOLE LOAD PENKTIIATED HIS BODY, about three inches below the top of the left shoulder and just over the heart, killing him instantly. The wound was a ghastly one, The little boy, who was so unfortu nate as to be the slayei of his best friend, returned to town in haste, heart broken over the occurrence l’he verdict of the coroner’s inquest was in accordance with the above tacts. 1IF, KILLED THREE HEX. A LABORER’S PARADISE. ( county for an election on prohibition, have advanced a funny theory in local option bill if they sup- , w j l ; c ^ w ;n j, e held the latter part of May. the matter of the death by poison of change port him, while the “dry" men say if he makes any such promise they will “knife" him. GEORGIA BUTTER IN NEW YORK. Mrs. 11. Vi. Hunt, of Putnam county, hips her Jersey butter to New* York, It is intended to conducta very quiet 1 the husband ot lane Mays. They campaign, free from excitement, even speeches will be made. ADVANCE IN GOODS. Mr. Julius Cohen tells us that the country may prepare for a decided ad it lure it nets lmr 40 cents per pound af- vacr in the price of goods of all kinds next * paying all expenses. It is considered j season, owing to the increased wages far superior to the best Goshen butter, and the rich buy it. Our Clarke Jersey f mn-- -s should make a note of this. But ler at do cents beats cotton raising. A STOCK C0UPANY. They say a stock company is being formed to establish a paper in Watkins- villo, with Earl Overby as president. If an argan there can be made a success Karl is the man to manage it. The High ^heritFs friends, however, think he is a Ued-oin horse for the gubernatorial race. of laborers. He says it will reach every manner of manufactured articles. ROUGH ON SAM JONES. Sam Jones says what the country needs is old-fashioned honesty. The Savannah News, usually so staid, replies facetiously: “The trouble is it has gone wild on new-fashioned hypocrisy.*’ A VALUABLE MATCH. Among the latest inventions is that of a match, which may be used over and over again an indefinite number of times, the wood being, it is claimed, soaked with a peculiar chemical solution. * ' THE FASTEST ON RECORD. The North-Eastern train made the distance between Athens and Lula Mon- great evening in oae hour and fifteen deal more cotton that will be compress- I •d before the season is over. THE COMPRESS. Mr. A. C. Rucker, the superintendent of the compress at the Georgia depot,say« he hss compressed 34/'BO bales of cotton up to the present time. Lasi year he compressed 32,300. There is BONNET ORNAMENTS. It is reported that garden vegetables will succeed birds as ornaments for hats and bonnets. Mr. Henry Bergh will probably introduce the fashion by induc ing some humane ladies to wear cabbage bead*. minutes. This is the fastest time ever made on this road. LUCKY AT LAST. Mrs. Blumenthal drew one hundred and fifty dollars in the Louisiana State Lottery atthe lustdrawing. There were * jre*t many in Athena that drew blank*. say that some time before the death ot Mays, that he bought a pair of old shoes from another negro, and these shoes the colored people claim were "conjured.” From that time Jane’s hnsband was a doomed man. He had no luck; he was always sick and rapidly growing worse, took to his bed. A short time before his death. Mays informed a black man that the shoes were “hoodooed,” and that they were the cause. So sincere are the “mokes”—or,at least, some of them—in the belief, that they actually think Jane Mays never poisoned her husband. Just what became ot the shoes, the “hoodoo” reporter of the News could not learn up to the time of going to press. A FUlbatterln* Expedition. The filibustering expedition against the Republic of Honduras, which departed Irom New York City some weeks ago, seems to have stirred up the President of that country in a wonderful manner. When'the President heard ol the force that was going to iuvade his domains, he made >he Secretary of War.acting as President, proclaim a military proscription, raised a large force, bought and armed a cruiser, and negotiated a loan of half a million. All this commotion was caused by twenty adventurous Freparlnc a Place to Quarter tbe Unem ployed. Chicago, March 20.—A Minne apolis, Minn., special says: The Minnesota Kights of Labor have purchased 600 acres of land in the Crow Wing country and will es tablish thereon a co-operative colo ny. Thiee families go out at once, and others will lollow rapidly. The land is to be held in common forev er. but the profits are to be d ivided yearly among the workers. In this latter feature the community will he wholly unique. The object is to furnish a refuge when the members ol the Order ate forced out ol employment in ihe cities. The plan includes co-opera live stores, one dairy, one stable, and in general centralization—agri cultural industry. A villa ge will be planted and each colonist to hold one lot in fee simple. All the land is inalienable. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company, from whom tfie land is bought, have agreed to hold an entire township in rese.rve tor the order for a reasonable time. And Held at Bay a Punning Party of One Hundred. Omaha, March 21.—H. C. Sled man, a prominent tanner of Burt county, proprietor of two creame ries near the village of Lyons, yes terday discovered Edward Johnson, alias John Anderson, a young man Johnson thereupon killed Stedman, seized his rifle and ammunition and rode oft'. Constable Parker or ganized a party armed with pistols, and they gave pursuit, being joined by others along the ivay. They gained on Anderson and he fired several shots in rapid succession, killing Peter Johnson Charles V. Johnson, Constable I’ai net’s hotse and wounding sevt'al men and horses. The pursuing party was then closing in upon Anderson. He abandoned his horse and rushed into Charles P. Johnston’s barn. Ftotn there he opened a live- fire through the cracks and open ngs, and held the entire crowd, numbering fully 100, at bay. They ~nally surrounded the barn and continued to shoot into it at tre- quent intervals until dark. It was proposed to burn him out, but no one would volunteer to fire the building. During the siege the mules and horses in the barn fre quently neighed loudly, and it was thought they had been wounded from time to time. Late last night Sheriff Skinner, from Texamaha, arrived with a posse of len men armed with Winchester rifles. This morning they opened fire again on the barn and Anderson responded. He shot through one man’s hat and through another’s coat, but wounded no one. as they exercised great caution. The des perado guarded every side ol the parn. To fire the barn notwith standing the live stock there was again determined upon, but there was no volunteer. This afternoon Anderson fired several shots through the barn, but hit no one, A special train has been ordered to carry fifty armed men to the r cene of the siege. At last accounts (late Sunday afternoon) the desperado still held the fort. It had been de cided to fire the barn. OLD BALDWIN GOES WET. An Election Day Without Any Trouble—The Prohibitionists Claim That There are Just Grounds for a Local Contest—Much Excitement Prevails--* Complete Sur prise. Milledgevillk. March 22.—The electron t-> determine w hethc nr not whisky shall be sold in Baldwin county came offto-dav. The total number of votps rep'*— tered in the county was 1.955. Of this number 730 were white and i,- 255 colored. The number ol pre- c.ncts were four. Contrary to all expectation, the election passed ott very quietly throughout the entire county . Noth ing occurred here to disturb the se renity, and the d ry passed almost without an incident. At 12 o’clock the prohibitionists here were Confident of victory. The number ol voles polled was 650. of which they claimed 500. The anti- prohihitionists depended largely for their strength on Brown’s and Butts. l’he ladies here manifested great interest in the result <Jf the election, and materially aided the prohibi tionists by serving het coffee and dinner free to all who voted the dry ticket. Their head quarters were opposite Masonic temple, where they had everything splendidly arranged. The negroes were fed in a hall to one side, and were provided for as bountifully as the whites. At the churches last night spe cial services were conducted in be half of the prohibitionists. Prayers were offered that the result m’ight be in their lavor, and that the con test might pass oft quietly. Both sides worked hard, and the negro vote all day was at a premi um The election hinged on their vote, as the figures show, and a desperate struggle was made over it. Tne employes ol the lunatic asy lum came over about 2 o’clock, over a hundred in number, and voted solidly the prohibition ticket. MtLi-EDGEviLLE, March 22.— The returns from all the voting pre cincts came in promptly to night. The following is the official count: Milledgeville, for the sale, 165; against the sale, 576. Browns, for—361; against—47. Butts, for—237; against—47. Cooper’*, lor—242; against—3S. Total—for the sale, 1,005; against the sale—704, giving the antis a majority of 301. There is much excitement to-night over the result, and the elvetion will certainly he contested. The prohibitionists claim that there were at least six hundred illegal votes polled. THE PANAMA CANAL. How Negro** from Hew Orleans are Treat ed Who Went to Work on tbe Big Ditch. Failing in Jamaica, a fresh re cruiting ground ha* been toughjt in New Orleans, and this, unless mat ters alter, I toretell will end in fail ure. This-subject must necessarily be of the utmost interest to citi zens ot the United States, owing to these people being under the protection of the republic. Great Britain may, if she chooses, allow her subjects to be drawn away by eductive financial offers into a country- where they may be mal treated, robbed, and ultimately left to die and he buried, or “dumped anywhete,” as the poor negro at Gamboa said. But with the Uni ted States the period at which a sys tem ot even semi-slave trade might flourish has long since passed by and her citizens may not wittingly suffer. Hence it is that I would call the special ettention of the United Slates authorities to the shipment of colored laborers to the isthmus of Panama and the circum stances attendanton it. At present only one cargo has ar rived, but the details of the voyage are revolting enough to remind one of the by-gone slave trade times. These unfortunate men, numbering about six hundred, after being drawn together by promise of large wages, were shipped by the con tractor on a cattle boat at New Or leans. Tney wele crowded in to gether and treated just like cattle. During the passage they were halt starved and lying in filth, while disease prevailed. On arri val at Colon their plight was terrible and they were bundled out on to the dock, where they were met by some one whose duty it was to refuse or accept them as their physical appearance warranted. Many were well nigh dead, and therefore refused, and tven the healthy had had no preparations made lor their comfort. A promi nent member of the railroad whose wharf these sad scenes oc curred said to me: ‘Several of these unfortunate creatures died on the dock, and the company were com pelted to bury two of them.” Later on these men were sent to the works, where like the rest they will find themselves under foreign masters with whom they can have no understanding, where their health will be in all probability neg lected. and their hard earned wa ges filched by a set of iniquitous paymasters who assure themselves large incomes by defrauding the poor colored workingman. ClOTOland Gets a Hoodoo Ba.ll. During the first week of Mr Cleveland’s administration it is esti m? ted that full five hundred pr esents were received at the Whitq House. Last week a Virginia negro -of Fa- quier county sent the President badly written letter thanking him for the appoinment of Mathews, and inclosing a “luck ball,” which the Writer declared would protect him from evil spells and malignant disease*. The ball was full of bent pins and some hair which, the negro wrote,were plucked from the tail of • jet black dog at midnight. The Piesident indulged in* hearty laugh when the letter wa* read and the novel present wa* exhibited to him, and at a subsequent time asked and received from Secretary Lamar some information in reference to the negro superstitioe in the South. This particular luck ball is now in possession of one of the colored attendants at the White House* A YOUTHFUL FIRE FIEND. Burnet] His Baby Brother to Death and Roasted a Cat on the Store. Reading, March 17.—The city superintendent of schools was in formed to-day of a pupil, who has ju-t entered Ihe public schools here, who shows a remarkable mania for torturing persons and animals with fire. His name is Reuben Briner, FASHION’S FANCIES. aged 7 years, a scholar in one of the ninth ward schools. The teacher can do nothing with him, and is j finished that they are classed as Spring wraps will be close fitting, matching the costume in color and fabric. Dark Russian green and dark plumb or lead are excellent colors for between suits Very few flowers are seen upon bonnets; the preference is for rib bon and delicate feathers. The new sheer cotton dress fabrics look like old time bareges, not like lawns or cambrics. Belt buckles and clasps set with imitation stones are so handsomely GENERAL NEWS. The losses by the wreck of The Oregon amount to $3,166,000. Senators Hampton and Butler ire members of the Episcopal chui ch. Pear trees in Florida are being ruined by spiders, which eat jthe buds. Pasteur is suffering from over work and fears a second paralytic stroke. _ _ ; 200 women living in Chicago will attack the polls in a body at the coming election and demand the right to vote. Frank James, the famous Missou ri bandit, is reported to have declin ed an offer of $25,000 a year to trav el with a circus. A marriage license was recently issued to a Meadville couple whose combined ages amounted to 124 years. Four couples at Westmoreland. Pa., took out licenses and performed the prescribed ceremony for them selves. New Haven’s cat show was boy cotted last week because its prizes were made by a firm under the labor ban. The fife of a paper dollar is five years, while a silver dollar will last twenty times as long. But neither of them lasts a great while market ing for early vegetables. An ox was recently killed near Eureka, Humboldtcounty, Cal., and in his stomach was found over half a pound of two-penny finishing nails. They were worn smooth and bright by the action of the acids of the stomach. The late sharp freeze killed mil lions of catfish in Florida, anJ their bodies cover the river banks in many places. Planters in the vicinity ot Indian, Halifax and Hillsborough rivers have carried away many loads of fish into their orange groves. The Kennebec Journal contra diets the report that the two unmar ried daughters of Mr. Blaine had become or were about to become members of the Catholic church. The paper insists that Mr. Bliine’s family are Congregationalists, and that the story has not the slightest foundation. J. F. Copeland’s “Old Bill” is not as famous as Stonewall Jackson’s “Old Sorrel,” just died, but he is older. He carried Mr. Copeland through the war, received some flesh wounds, and now passes a pleasant old age near Corinth. He is torty- two years old and quite bald as to neck and tail. A young man of Leadville enam- oredof a young woman of the same town, made arrangements to elope with her. Each thought the other rich. The inability or unwillingness of each to buy the railroad tickets to San Francisco caused a postpone ment of their plans, and another home is now broken up. A young man named Arthur George, is exhibiting his perform ances in eating glass at the New York museum. He went or. Sun day night to a newspaper office and chewed up two small glass tumblers without making his mouth bleed. He says that he has been eating glass for fifteen years and has been wealthy. compelled to keep him sealed on a platform near her desk. Until re cently he resided with his parents in Philadelphia. There, while his parents were absent, he lighted a piece of paper at the stove and de liberately set fire to the clothing of his little brother, aged lS months, who was burned to death, while the fiend enjoyed it and gleefully told his parents what he had done. He was penned in the garret and kept on bread and water tor a month, after which he was sent to Reading, as he expressed an inten tion to cut his two brother’s throats with a butcher knife. He continu ally wants to set things on fire in school, the dress of the teacher or the clothing of the other pupils, and has several times been detected just in time to prevent the destruction of buildings. While his grand mother, with whom he is now liv ing, was away Irotn home, he caught the large house cat, placed her on the hot stove and roasted her to Heath. Such inhuman acts of cruelty innumerable have been reported of him. Medical gentle men will probably examine him. War Prices la the South. BarneiviUe (.3ft.) Mali. ..... ~ i A few days ago a party of gen- GES. BEAUREGARD NO RIGHT TO ,| en , an were discussing high prices HIS NAME. Senator Mitchell, ol Oregon, has in the South during the latter part of tire civil war. . . - ... "I paid $20 a yard tor a suit of gray the euphonious mame ol John Hip- I cotton j eanSi ” Sil ij the first speaker, THE POISONED CANDY. Nearly every one you met yesterday was sick from eating the poisoned candy We heard of one young lady who waa f "p"ritV fmm”the" Fourth” WaVd “ of made quite sick from it, and fell pros trate on the floor. A COSTLY OYEBCOAT. Mr. Chas. Stern, the clothier, in speak ing yesterday of fine garments, says he once saw an overcoat that cost $5,000 It wa* made of Russian sable, and be longed to a wealthy gentlcn#m in Boston’ ew York City. Five of the num her have returned, and the others are trying to get .back as best they can. Good Ground* (or a renslon. "I don’t see upon what grounds you can secure a pension. You were notin the army during the war.” “I know, but I was in the Home Guards.” “Were you wounded or disa bled?” “No; btR I first saw the woman who is now my wife while itve were on parade. Since then I’ve had nothin; but trouble, and think the pie Mitchell. His name originally was John Hippie, bur when he moved West, at the age of twenty- five, he added his mother's name to his own, and it is my inipte-sinn, says Carp, in the Cleveland Leader, that the legislature el Oregon pass ed a bill giving him a right to do it. Senator Mitchell is not the only prominent man who is known to the public by a different name than that by which be was christened. Vice- President Wilson was born «ith the name of Celbath, anJ he got his name ol Wilson from his adopted father, who raised him. Robert Treat Paine, one of the first Ameri can poets, was baptized as Thomas Paine, but he did not w>-nt to bear the same name ot the great infidel, and he changed thq first part of it. General Beauregard’s real name is Pierce G. Toutan, and the name by wh : ch he goesisof his own adoption. Beauregard’s ancestors came from Canada, and his grandfather, old Pierce Toutan,emigrated at an early date to New Orleans,where he made a very large fortune tn a short time, and where he acqnired great politi cal influence. He bought an estate outside' of the city, and called it “Beauregard,” meaning fine sight. General Beauregard vas named after this ancestor,and wh^n.through him, he was admitted to West Point, it was rmder the name of Pierce G. Toutan. After a time, being of an aristocratic tendency, he changed his name to Pierce Toutan de Beau regard, which he, altera time, drop ped into P. T. Beaugard. The fact that General Beauregard has no real right to his name will be a surprise to many. “and the suit of clothes cost tne $360 after being cut and made.” ••The biggest trade 1 made during the war,” said No 2," was $30 lor a single spool of cotton thread.” And I,” saitl No. 3 '‘paid $15 for a shave.” “How could a man carry enough change in his pocket to buy any- tning?” I ventured to ask. “They stuffed it in their hats,boots, pocke's, or most anywhere it would stick,” ri plied No I. jewelry. New spring woolens come with canvas woven grounds on which are stripes, bars and figures of boucle, velvet and plush. V-shaped plastrons of velvet are embroidered with beads of corres ponding color and are edged with double folds of satin. The edges of most of the new French evening corsages are out lined with a single row of beads, in jet, pearl, copper, bronze, opal or ruby. Elamine volours is the name given the new canvas-woven velvet and boucle striped figured and barred woolens tnatare worn in the spring Just now the acme of costly ele gance exhibited on the promenade is the walking jacket made out of “a real India long shawl.” Among newest of art occupations is painting on leather. The idea is said to have been brought all the way from the land of the sultan. Green is to be the leading color for spring, say the authorities, and for once fashion comes out with something seasonable and appro priate For young women who want to be chic the masculine styles are to be retained in all their glory, from the man’s hat down to the cloth- toe shoes. Just what particular style of ar ranging the hair now is most fash ionable would lie hard to decide. Any style, almost, is fashionably including the wig. Another inconsistency of fashion is that summer dresses and travel ing costumes are to be trimmed profusely with velvet in every pos sible shade. GEORGIA NEWS. Whet Tobacco Chewing Lea to. Canton, Tex., March 17,—News has been received here of a 13-year- old boy in the southern part of this county committing suicide. The hoy had learned to chew tobacco. He got out ot tobacco, and went to a neighbor’s hou»e to get some, but finding no one at home he stole 35 cents and bought it. His father learned the facts and chastised him. He immediately went into the house got his father's gun and blew his brains out. KILLING THE WRONG COW. Mr. Nabors, before leaving for South west Georgia, purchased a cow from Po liceman McKie, and informed his batcher that if he needed a cow to kill while he was gone to send to Mr. McKie and get it. Yesterday the butcher sent to the wrong Mr. McKie, and got Ms fine milk cow and killed it. MUTILATED CUMLENCT Mr. Hadaway had a ten dollar bill 71 terday with a portion of the bottom J Goverment ought to given tea” pen. burned off, and sold it for eight dollars.' sion.” Hilled by Electricity Phii-abbphia, March 20.—Dan id Coyle, an electric light lineman, ditribed ao iron awning to secure a broken dectric-light wire to-day. He supported himself by holding one handto the wet awning post, caught the end of the wire with the other, and fell dead into the street. He bad several years ex perience it the business, but had become careless from familiarity gritb iu-dangers. In a town not far from Macon, the other day, a couple of wicked clerks carried a barrel out of the store.and sat it down in the middle of the street. The barrel was an ordinary barrel, and was empty The clerks looked into it as intently as if it contained a section of a ten cent circus, laughed and then with drew. Men on both sides of the street saw the performance and were soon looking down on the bare bottom of the barrel. Each man smiled at himself for being so completely sold, but he would have died belore giving the snap away All day long the citizens were walking up to that barrel and com ing away smiling. Every man in town was caught and every man in town kept the secret to himself. Baxley Banner; A negro woman Jiving near a stilt not far from the village cut herself into widowhood with a turpentine axe last week. She cut a box in her husband and he refused to live until dripping time. A GOOD APPOINTMENT. Hob. R. B. Russell has been appointed by Mr. Reese clerk of the committee of which that gentleman is chairman, and ia now filling the positien. Ii will be re membered that Capt. Burnett held this place for a short time. BARBY HILL S ROAD. Harry Hill spent Sunday evening aaagnestof his cousin, Wink Taylor, ef the Arlington, in Gainesville. He aays he has all the arrangements made to build the railroad from Union Point to White Plains and will begin work on the first of ApriL A FOB MER ATHENIAN. We are glad to learn that Mr. M. G. Cohen, an old Athens merchant, is do ing a splendid business making cloaks in New York. Hehasalarge number of hands employed, and is making a great deal of money. f A LOSING BUSINESS. One party near Athens lost $40,000 in the last eight years farpsing. There are other men who make about as much at the same basinets. A NICKLB TRADE. A store keeper from the country yes terday paid Mr. W. S. Holman for a horse in nickles. Holman would not count the money, as it was too big a job. ADELINA PACT*, in, (mu •unxivrtu.i of Solon Palmer's Perfume*, Toilet Soap* and er Toilet Article*: “I unheetUUnjty pronounce them superior to any I over need? Principal DepoCSIt and *7* Pail BL Now York. Strychnine is used to kill the larks in Terrell county. A club of female baseballists are playing in the small towns of the state. Some one has stolen the door of the Baptist church in Snellville, Gwinnett county. A married woman of Brunswick is a granddaughter of the late Gen Hancock. The Waynesboro Citizen nomi nates Col. John J. Jones, of Burke, tor Governor of Georgia. A Knights of Labor assembly, with a membership of 250, has been organized in Rome. Property in Savannah that a cen tury ago was worth $25 now com mands $100,000. The survivors of the Eighth Georgia Regiment reunite in Sa vannah the first week of May. The moonshiners are not shoot ing revenue officers as rapidly as they did a few weeks ago. J. M. Fincher, of Newton factory, has a baby girl two years old that knows the alphabet perfectly. The proposed Augusta and Chat tanooga railroad will run through a body of long leaf pine containing not less than fitteen thousand acres. Gen. Henry R. Jackson, United States Minister to Mexico, has gone to Washington, on business con nected with his post. The Woman’s Christian Temper ance Union of Georgia call for their fourth annual state convention, to be. held in Macon April 2 land 22. The Cedartown Advertiser ob serves that in “the dim distance can be seen the man who is willing to sacrifice himself on his country’s altar for $4 a day and mileage.” It was Senator Cockrell, of Mis souri, and not Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, who opposed the Blair ed ucational bill. Both of the senators favored the measure. Blakely News: It is real refresh ing in these degenerate days to find a boy who has reached the age of ten years without learning to swear, chew tobacco, smoke cigarettes, or some other of the numerous vices ot the day. The grave of Alexander H. Ste phens remains unchanged, but above the last resting place of his faithful servant, Harry Stephens, rises a handsome monument. Joseph Emerson Brown—old Joe Brown, as he is familiarly called— is one of the most conspicuous fig ures on the floor of the senate. He looks eighty years of age, though in reality he is but sixty-five.. The Monticeilo News says a par ty of United otates revenue men on the 10th inst. went to the house of N. W. Williams in Jasper coun ty and behaved in a shameful man ner, invading his dwelling with cocked guns, using profane lan guage and frightening Mrs. Wil liams and the children. They broke open the door and captured a still that had been properly registered “out of use.” A gentleman troubled by owls and hawks says that last year he cut off the top of a tree and all the limbs close to the trunk. On the top of the tall stump or tree he placed his steel-trap. During the year he caught in the trap six large owls, two hawks and a buzzard. The last finally broke the trap loose from its fastenings and sailed away with it. We nave heard ot the belled buzzard, but if any one sees a buzzard with a steel-trap attachment, word can be left at this - office.—Meriwether Vindicator. The gas"fire has been controlled. Cyclone in Indiana Monday night. Not much damage Midnight robber*, have bean run down and jQGeronimo, the rebellion* Indian leader, has surrendered. Three valuableblock* were burn ed in Helena. Ark. Dr. Armstrong has refused an inj vitation to preach to bit admirers. Deaths from meninHtia are re ported all over the state. A hoop and barrel lactory will be established in Gainesville, Ga. A 13-year old white- girl in Hartford, Conn., ha* aet fire to two houses. : Tbe body of a Michigan murder er wa* found frozen to death in a swamp. Mr. Henry Watterson, editor, of the Courier-Journal, is recovering from his recent illness. About 150 masked and armed men entered the roundhouse at Denison, Texas, and “killed” sever- eral locomotives. Tl.e agitation over local option in Richmond, Va., is very great, arid much talk for and against the law is indulged in. There is a law suit in Nashville ever the refusal of a girl to sweep the floor of a free school building when her time came. In Iowa, two young girls became nvolved in a quarrel over a young man, when one killed the other with a revolver. Morgan White, colored, was killed at the Pendleton guano works. His neck was broken by being caught in a band. Galveston, Tex., MarclYs2.— Fred Gould, a boy. while opening shells, accidentally exploded one, which killed him instantly. At Macon, Judge Speer decided the case involving 30,000 acres of land in Southwest Georgia. George . E. Dodge, of New York, wins. Mrs. Folger, en route from San Francisco to Chicagn. while atafe hotel in Omaha, found her son’s knife and plunged the'blade into der heart, dying instantly. Columbus, March 30.—A negro girl about fourteen years old fell into a ditch at Renders’s mill, near Greenvilie, yesterday evening, and broke her neck. The ditch was only two feet deep. Cuthbekt, March 21.—The mill pond of Greene & Moody, near town, broke yesterday, and a dar key passing along while the water was low picked up a German carp weighing thirteen pounds. In Nansemond county, Va., Fri day night, the 17-year-old son of J. Van Harrell dangerously shot Thomas Bidgoorf, because ot his too intimate relations with his mother. No arrests. Memphis, March 20.—M. Blasso, postmaster at Huspuckana, Miss., nine miles ^outh of Memphis, was murdered last night by unknown persons, who robbed his store and rifled rhe postoffice of all the mon ey and stamps. The town of Murrayville, Pa., is threatened with destruction. A welt of natural gas took fire and shoots up a blaze 200 feet in the air. All efforts to put it out are fu tile. The country is illuminated for 20 miles around. New York, March 19.—Mrs. Grant has paid out ot her share of the proceeds of the General’s book $25,000 to Mrs. Corbin, the sister of the General, being the amount which that lady lost by an invest ment with Grants Ward. Senator Colquitt addressed the senate on the Edmunds resolutions. His remarks were listened to by a full senate, including many mem bers of the house of representatives. The speech was regarded as being strong in argument and well con sidered. Ike Montgomery, colored, was sentenced yesterday in Spartan burg, to two years in tlie penitenti ary sor resisting an officer. After the sentence he was left alone in his cell. Half an hour later he was tound hanging toa bar by strips of blanket. John Mahan, known in sporting circles as Steve Taylor, a promi nent heavy weight, is dying at his home in Jersey City, of consump tion. He attributes his disease to the thumping which he received from John Sullivan during his tour through the west with the cham- 0 pion. Milton, Va., March 22.—The Rev. V. A. Ramsey, of this place, eloped last night with his cousin, Miss Rosa Henley. The affair is rendered more shocking by tbe fact that the reverend gentleman, who stood most high in the estimation of ’ his congregation, leaves an excel lent wife and three small children. Secretary Manning, of the Treas ury department, is changing a great many Republicans out of the de partment and supplying their pla ces with Democrats. Many of these appointees are from the South, the majority of the States from thnt section being now repre sented by one or more appoint ments. Omaha, Neb., March 22.—Ed. Johnson, the desperado who killed his employer on Saturday, entrench ed himselt in a barn near Oakland, where he resisted all attempts to capture him, and kil’ed two men and wounded several others. The barn was set on fire last evening. Fire was opened on Johnson and he was killed, falling in the flames. When the fire had subsided, the body was found riddled with bul let*. Augusta, Ga., March 20.—A cutting affray, which will result in the death of one of the participants, occurred to-night corner Hopkins and Campbell streets. Mose Scott, a fish peddler, became involved in a quarrel with a couple of dusky fe males, and Ben Johnson, a negro painter, espoused the cause of the girls, stabbing Scott in the back, in juring the kianeys> and producing wounds from which death will en sue. Johnson escaped and is at large. New Orleans, March 22.— News ot a deplorable tragedy comes from a French settlement in Liv ingston parish. The wife of A. Trynahan, a young lawyer, assailed her sleeping husband with a hatch et, sinking the weapon into his skull seven or eight times and dash ing out his brains. She then ran to the residence of a sister near by, where she attempted to cut her own throat with a carving knife, but was prevented by the timely inter ference of her sister, who succeed* ed in getting the kniie away from her. The earlier reports of the Anar chist riots at Jemeppa, Tilluer and SsraiDg, Belgium last Saturday night, were all far short of the actu al truth. A great amount of pro perty was damaged or ruined at each place by the rioters. At Liege, on the same night, there was an open conflict between. the troops, which had been massed there for the protection of the place, and a large body of Anar chists wljo were marching against tbe town for the purpose of attack ing and looting it. The fight was severe and prolonged, but finally- resulted in' the repnlse ot the An archists.