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T. L. GANTT.
TWO 1UDI,Y WORN NEWS ITEMS.
Periodically, lor the past decade,
the Associated Press has brought
the sad tidings of the unnatural de
mise of that famous wild western
outlaw, Billy the Kidd, followed
bv a proclamation in the enterpris
ing Atlanta papers that Gen. John
B. Gordon had just stuck his pick
into some corporate gold mine and
would soon be wading around knee
deep in wealth. A sympathetic
public has shed hogsheads of briney
tears over the sad end of Col. B,
Kidd, and the patriotic mouth ol
Georgia has been stretched from
the mountains of Rabun to the
Gulf kissed shores of Chatham ovet
the good fortune that had
fallen to the lot of one ol
her most ga-lant sons. According
to our diary of events. Billy the
Kidd has been shot dead in his
t acks, swung to a convenient tele-
nr ;i pb pole, or met some other
bloody end no less than ten separate
ami ui'iict times, and we never pick
up a paper but with a secret dread
that some resurrectionist has again
dug up the hones ol ourold acquain
tance a ml deliberately proceeded
to exterminate him over for the ben*
lit of the Associated Press and a
sensation-loving public. But Gen
Gordon and his newly-found for
tune keeps tally with the fate ot
Col. Knld, and even allowing
mode't average estimate for the
numberless rich veins he has struck
the General ought now be able to
not only buy out the Vanderbilts
ar.d Gould and hire them as valets,
but some day, while in a generous
and patriotic mood, use his quarter
ly income in liquidating the nation
nl debt. lie has tore the very bow
els out cf North Alabama and
moulded this coal and iron into
gold; bought some old cotton field
on the river bank and the Aladin
like touch of the Atlanta journals
turned the spot into a mag
nificent city—on paper; he has
changed worthless notes into
greenbacks; he has invaded Wall
street, and after exterminating both
the hulls and the bears, complacent
ly walked away with all their treas
ures; and ere the susceptible public
had succeeded in gulping down this
last narrative of Gordon's adven
tures in the world of finance, they
are paralyzed with the fresh intel
ligence that he is now in the act of
of pouring the lagoons, alligators,
mosquitoes and frozen oranges and
bleak and barren sands of Florida
into some huge cauldron, and by
that secret process known only to
this modern political alchemist, turn
the whole mess into a silver stream.
Now, as an humble member of a
a patient and long-suffering pub
lic, we want to raise our feeble
voice in protest against any
further narratives about either the
death and resurrection of Billy the
Kidd or Gordon's newly-found for
tune. Not that we are at all skep
tical on the Kidd question, nor have
we the slightest doubt that Gen.
Gordon is a 40-stamp quartz mill
with a private mint attachment; but
the truth is these items are getting
to be monotonous, and if these
news-gathers will promise not to
inflict them on us again, the read
ing people of Georgia will agree to
take it for granted, regularly every
th! ee months, that Billy the Kidd
has been exterminated, and Gen.
john B. Gordon has uncovered a
fresh vein of virgin gold. The only
thing about the whole matter that
confuses us is, with such an im
mense stock of fortunes, what does
Gordon want to he Governor of
an insignificant little state like
Geoigia for? This modem edition
of Monte Christo, itseemstous,
would buy out the whole American
continent, with Cuba thrown in as
a sort of chromo,elect himself Grand
Tycoon of the combined territory,
and feed Joe Brown and the Atlan
ta ring on crumbs that tall from his
table. VVe are opposed to the Boy
cott, but think it justifiable against
any paper that hereafter publishes
the demise of Billy the Kidd or that
Gen. Gordon has made another for
tune.
There has lately been some change
in the gubernatorial race, so tar as
new movements on the political
board are concerned. We thought
at one time that the Atlanta ring
would accept Bacon; but late events
show that he is not the choice of
that combination of political wire
pullers. They are now throwing
out Gordon as a feeler, and if the
reople show a readiness to swallow
the bait he will be Atlanta’s candi
date, and receive the support and
backing of the great triumviate
The ring, however, has some doubts
about Gordon’s strength, and he
can be easily pulled in again if the
voters shy too much, without any
committal on his part. Ex-Gov
Smith’s onslaught on every candi
date who favorable to, and
every sympathizer with, the
movement to abridge the
powers of the Railroad Commis
sion, has a deeper meaning than a
vindictive personal disappointment,
and we think that he is but one of
the instruments being used
by interested parties to defeat Ba
con. Simmons’ only hope now is
to snag the convention, and come
in during the uproar that follows.
Bacon has undoubtedly the long
end of the swingletree, and the con
centrated fire of all opponents will
be turned against him. In order to
break Bacon’s support, that old po
litical gag is being attempted of
putting out local candidates all over
the state. We see that they have
started in on the Jones family down
in Burke county, and when they
run out there is the Smiths to fin
ish up on, beginning with Tete, of
Albany. The pending contest for
McDaniel’s shoes promises to be
the warmest and most interesting
in years, but we do not feel there is
the slightest danger of a repetition
of the Colquitt-Nor wood bust-up. If
the names before the convention
fail of a nomination, it will be ac
cepted that they are not the choice
of the people, and the office will
then proceed to seek the man.
TO DISM EMBER THE SOLID S( IUT1I.
The statement of Col. J. F. Han
son, «f Macon, that President Cleve
land expressed himself as deter
mined on dismembering the Solid
South, viewed in the light of his
administration the past year, leaves
the impression that he has not been
misquoted. It certainly seems that
the President is desirous of showing
not only his contempt for the
wishes and requests made by the
Southern states, but his entire in
dependence of the democratic part}.
To the little handfull of mugwump
voters, that he looks upon as turn
ing the tide in New York, Mr.
Cleveland believes he owes his tri
umph, while the great party that
placed him before the country is
but an insignificant organization that
the President, ir. his great egotism,
believes himseli called upon to over
haul and reorganize according to
his own bastard political ideas.
President Cleveland will find that
he has undertaken a Herculean task
when he attempts to sunder the
bands of mutual protection that
have rescued the Southern states
from robbery and degradation, and
are the safeguards between our peo
ple and political prostitution. The
only thing that can create the
slightest breach in their ranks would
be for the national democratic party
to renominate Grover Cleveland in
isSS, when the Solid South would
undoubtedly divide on that issue, as
it once before repudiated Horace
Greeley; but so soon as a merited
rebuke had been administered to
this political half-breed, their ranks
would at once close and become as
intact as ever. Any break in the
Solid South means a re-establish
ment of negro and republican rule
in our midst. Rather than see
restoration of such governments in
any of our Southern states, we
would give the republican party an
hundred Presidents. While we are
anxious for the national success of
democracy, at the same time we do
not wish to purchase it at the safety
of our state governments, as this
design of President Cleveland’s on
the Solid South poi tends.
THE
As only a few, perhaps, of my
readers have visited the spot where
he distinguished chief of the
“Southern Confederacy” was cap
tured, (or made prisoner,) by the
Federal forces in the spring of
1S65, ar.d aa I visited it in the year
1SS5, I should like to give a brief
description of this now historic spot,
for the benefit of those who have
never seen it. •
As the circumstances of the cap
ture of Mr. Davis are well known,
I will not relate them again, but pro
ceed at once to describe briefly the
place where he was captured.
In the southern part ot Geergia,
along both sides of the Alapaha
river, lies Irwin county. In the
central part of this county is the
little village of Irwinville, hence
forth to be famous in history as the
place near which Jefferson Davis,
President of the Conlederate State.-
was captured. One would hardly
take this to be a place of note, as the
village consists of but five or six
houses, inciuding the court-house
and jail, and has certainly nothing
to make it attractive. But noted
places are not always the moit at
tractive in appearance. Irwinville
is situated in the open piney woods,
so characteristic of Southern Geor
gia, on the line of what may be
called a raihoad in the germ, which
many years ago had been graded
across the country from the Ocmul-
gee river to the Flint, and had nev
er developed beyond this stage ot
railroad existence. Irwinville is
almost isolated from the rest of the
world, as it has no railroad connec
tions, and is off from the river
About half a mile north of the vil
lage is the place where Mr. Davis
was taken piisoner, by a portion of
the Federal army.
In casually passing along the
road, one would never suppo-e th
h>- was in the close neighborhood
of so important a spot. Nothing is
hare to maik it as the scene of so
Interesting an hisior.cal event
There is no lolly -haft of marble or
granite to perpetuate its memory
no humble memorial stone to recall
it to the mind of the passer-by; not
even a board with its crude inscrip
tion in chalk or charcoal, to rescue
it from oblivion. A few small
earthen mounds are scattered about,
but for what purpose they were
thrown up, or whether they have
any connection with the event that
has given the spot its celebrity, I
could not learn. A few pines,
beating scars made by bullets, are
the only signs left ot the brief light
oh the memorable occasion, between
two detachmentsof the Federal for
ces. who mutually mistook each oth
er for enemies. But even those
few signs by which the place now
may be found, will soon have pass
ed away. For while the country
is sparsely settled now, the settle
ments being sometimes four
or live miles apart, it is being set
tled up very fast. The woodman’s
axe is playing havoc with the exten
sive pine forests, the saw-mills are
fast converting the pines into lum
ber, to be shipped todiflerent parts
of our own country, and even to
foreign markets, and turpentine is
being extracted from the pines to
be distilled and exported.
Who knows but that the tree
which sheltered Mr. Davis from
the dew on that last night may yet
enlei into the structure ot some
Yankee dwelling for many months
of freedom and repose, or that the
resin extracted from the tree may-
help to make a Yankee bonfire?
Perhaps at no distant day the spot
will be in cultivation and may pro
duce the cotton to furnish the Yan
kee a garment, or even Mr. Davis
himseli' may wear a garment made
from it. D. L. II.
Mercer University.
The Railroad Managers Decline to Recog
nize a Committee of Knights Appointed
to Confer With Them—Freight Traffic,
Etc.
East St. Louis, April 1.—Owing
to the absence of any definite orders
from.the local executive committee
as to the exact time when they
hronlcle ] -----
J. H. May, of Woodstock, will leave us
on the first of April, for Lincoln county,
where he will continue merchandising.
Col. J. B. Smith’s gold mine is still
turning out well. During 1885 he took
out over five thousand dollars of the
-‘*1 know a city in the United-—"Major O’B—, formerly of the
States of over 30,000 population
where not one vote was cast for
•Grwver-G le vela nd. —
‘Where was that?”
Confederate army, has been stop
ping at the New York hotel for a
precious metal.
! Master Aris LJfidsey caught l.)!! rab-
should return to work, the strike of ... .
, , • , bits 111 Ins traps last winter,
the yardmen and switchmen still < 1
The strikers have
A VERY 1UI) LAW.
The state law requiring builders
to warrant a bridge for seven years,
it is now seriously feared, will pre
vent the contiactors from complet
ing the Simonton bridge, as they
have not as yet succeeded in getting
any one to go their bond for so
long a time. This is an unjust and
damaging law to the counties that
have bridges to construct, and the
sooner the legislature repeals it the
belter. In the first place, it is not
right to make • a man construct a
bridge according to the plans and
specifications of another party, and
then require him to guarantee it to
stand all dangers of the elements
for so long a time. If he must in
sure it,let the bidder frame his own
designs. There is just as much
sense in requiring a contractor, whe
he builds a county court house or
jail, to give bond and security that , Y»nkitn.
the structure will not be destroyed
by fire in the same number of years.
This law has cost the tax-payers of
Georgia an enormous sum, for ol
course it a man takes such a risk
he will charge for it. When a con
tractor turns over a bridge comple
ted according to agreement, he
should then be released and let the
County carry its own risk. Again,
as is shown in the matter ol the Si
monton bridge, it is often difficult
for a builder to give security for so
long a time as seven years.
continues. The strikers have as
sembled in great numbers this
morning in the railroad yards and
around the relay depot, but r.o seri
ous disturbances are anticipated.
St. Louis, April i.—Tfie follow
ing address issued this evening
speaks for itself:
“St. Louis, April 1.—To the
Public: As showing the sincerity
of the railroad managers in their
treatment of the Knights ot Labor,
we respectfully state that, pursuant
to an order of our General Execu
tive Board, we this day sent r. com
mittee to the managers of the sev
oral railroads oflering to return the
men to work, and in no instance
would they be received or treated
with, each official in turn either
from refusing them a hearing, or
evading them with specious sub
terfuges tor direct answers, or re
fusing them employment. Hoxic
has agreed to receive a committee
of employees to adjust any griev
ances which may exist. He re
fuses personally and through his
subordinates to recognize any of
us as employees, ar.d refuses to re
ceive any but such as he calls em
ployees. In short, after himself and
Gould have conveyed the impres
sion to the world that they are wil
ling to settle, they refuse to settle.
Now we appeal to a candid and
suffering public, on whom is falling
all the weight of this great conflict,
if we have not been deceived
enough. How much is long-suffer
ing labor to hear? This great-tiike
never would have been, had. Iloxie
condescended months ago to hear
our complaints. We don’t claim to
be more than human; it should not
be expected of us to be more than
human. In this country position
makes no man a king or a slave,
and tiie imperious refusal on the
part of one citizen to confer w ith
other citizens whom he may have
business connection, w hen such re
fusal begets a great business and
social revolution, is not only a mis
take, hut a crime against the pub
lic. Gould is invoking the law
against little criminals who are made
desperate by his policy of duplicity
and oppression, and yet the terror
ized public does not invoke the
against tiie arch-criminal ol the
land. If vve cannot be allowed to
go to work the strike must go
[Signed ]
••By order of the Executive
Boards, District Assemblies, Nos
101,93 and 17.”
Fort \Y okth, Texas, April 1.—
Most ol the strikers here are em
piovees ot the Texas and Pacific
road That road has its full com
plement of men here, hence the
stiikers cannot get back. Yester
day they began to realize that fact.
They are hungry and desperate.
St. Louis, April 1.—Notwith
standing the failure ot the Knights
on the Missouri Pacific to return to
work, freight tratfic on that road
has assumed very uearly its nor
mal condition.
Kansas City, April 1.—Al
though the strikers as a body have
not vet returned to work, the Mis
souri Pacific freight business is pro-
gtessing more rapidly to-day. The
faeight depot was re-opened and
freight is being received as usual:
Five freight trains were sent east
without guard, tnoug a police force
is still stationed in the yard.
)'“In;Washington'.”! 1 K|’ /
' “I know a stronger plabe *h
♦hftn
he vvas sitting in the smoking room
of the hotel with a party of old sol
diers, the conversation turned upon
that. I have been to a town where! events connected with the war, and
there have been no births nor mar-! after listening to several stories
riages in hundreds of years, vet peo- | more or less hew, the major told
CRANFORD! DAVIS,
Paper, Blank Books
.Pans, Pencils and Inks,
Commercial Printing a Specialty.
EKs!
Ed Arnold has moved his mill into
Wilkes county.
Married, at the residence of Mrs.
YVynn, on Thursday last, Mr. J. D. Mul-
liken to Miss Sallie Latimer; also Mr.
YValter Rowland to Miss C. B. Boggus.
Mr. Zeb Colley has sold his farm, near
Washington, to B. O. Bigby, and will
go to New Orleans to live.
Col. Thomas Willis fdund a flint rock
on his plantation, near Ccntreville, which
has a square hole in it nearly one inch in
depth, and perfect in proportions. It is
supposed to have been done by the In
dians.
A mad dog was killed near Mrs. A. R.
Quinn's, a few days ago. It would bite
rocks and anything else in its path. It
hit several ducks and chickens belonging
to Mrs. Quinn, which had to be killed.
The land which comprises E. Y. Hill's
farm, was sold just after the war for $1.-
50 peracre in gold to .Tack Newsome,
who sold it to his brother, Tom New
some, who sold it to its present owner
for $21 per acre. Now it is not for sale,
and we venture nothing loss than $50 per
acre could buy it. Mr. Hill says it is
not for sale at any price.
pie live there and die.” The cap-I this one:
JACKSON COLTV.
[Herald]
We learned last week that Mr. Allen
Cook, 78 years of age, living in Sante Fe
District, has thoroughly prepared and
partly planted twenty acres of land, do
ing all the work himself. 1 his is hard to
heat. How many young men can you
find who have donfc so well?
We noticed the other day that the
fences in Harrisburg district were being
torn away and the rails used for for en
closing pastures. Everybody seems to
he pleased with the change.
A match box filled with powder and
thickly wrapped with twine, to which
was attached a fuse, was exploded in
front of die Howard house on last Satur
day night, the report of which was al
most or quite equal to a cannon. Mrs
Howard, who was at the time, very ner
vous from suffering with a severe attaek
of neuralgia, was very much shocked and
greatly disturbed.
wai.toTcouxty.
SAM JONES ON GRACE.
BLAINE ON A STILL HI NT.
[Ne.8.1
Mr. Joe Cook killed a very large wild
cat, and Mr. W. A. Rogers killed three
fine wild turkeys.
Torbert's confectionery store closed
yesterday. We cannot tell now the ex
tent of the failure.
One of the most valuable features be
longing to the court-house is a large,
bust oil portrait of Chief Justice James
Jackson.
There are three white men, the only
inmates in jail. They are, Arch Hayes,
wanted in Milton county, W. 11. Tisdell,
charged with carrying concealed weap
ons, and James Stovall, charged with
the murder of Ben Harris.
On the fourth page of to-days issue
will found an extended communication
'from Mr. *E. Hi. - Ware. Mr. W.
explains the origin of the charge of false
swearing, which was preferred against
him in Walton superior court. lie
does not question the good intention of
the grand jury. Fram his communica
tion, and the appended affidavits, it ap
pears that he has been the victim.of
reat injustice.
tain ol the bark Malta crossed his
legs, opened and shut the blade of
a penknife with his thumb and fore
finger aod, complacently chewed to
bacco. The Malta arrived at New
York lrom the Mediterranean last
Friday with figs and Egyptian on
ions.
. “Yes,” said Captain Baldwin,
“who ran up the west shore of the
yEgean Sea to Haggion Oros, mean-
ng to the Greek’s holy mountain.
It is a grand pile of rocks, rising
6,200 feet straight out of ihe water,
from the end of a narrow peninsula.
What Gibraltar is to the Mediterra
nean, Haggion Oros is to the Dar
danelles. This peninsula runs hack
from the mountain about forty
miles—grand coast—and av
erages six miles wide. It is joined
tolhelaiger Chalcsdonian penini
sula by a narrow neck of sand.
They told me there that Xerxes, the
tellow who led a million of heathen
soldiers, cut a canal at that point
through the sand for his vessels to
sail through. There is another
mountain on the peninsula—Mount
Athos. We had an Oiiio preacher
and his daughter, passengers from
Alexandria, on board, and the
preacher told us about the peninsu
la and town ot Athos.
“ ‘Before Christendom,’ said he,
‘recluses used to live at Mount
Athos in holes in the ground. The
solemnity inspired by the hare peak
ol the mountain harmonized well
with their minds, bent or. wild and
mystic thoughts. So,’ said he,
after the new leligion came the
place got to be a popular resort for
monks, who didn’t want to live with
the rest of mankind; and Greek
monks have been going to that pe-
ni isuki e ’er since, until now, alter
1,Coo or i,Sco years, they have
formed an ecclesiastical self-gov
ernment. Under tile Byzantine
emperors the monks were under no
secular control whatever, but now
the Turkish government keeps a
caimakim there. He has no power,
however, llis duty is only to ob-
se ve the monks. The caimakam
has two zaptieths or soldiers, for a
body guard, but they represent the
honor ol his office more than the
power.
“They wouldn’t let the preacher’s
daughter land. No w oman is al
lowed, on any pretense whatever,
to set foot in the territory. No fe
male creature of any kind—cow',
she goat or mare, or animal capable
ot giving birth to its kind—is lound
there. Not even hens ate permit
ted in Athos. So there have been
no births, no marliages, no love-
makings nor scandal- there. Just
about as many G eck monks get
sick of the world and go to Athos
as there are those who die. liut
what a sanctimonious funetal a
monk must have there-—priests for
mourners, hack drivers, pall bear
ers, grave diggers and lookers-on.”
“I was at West Point, a boy of
20, when the war clouds first began
to form. I entered the academy
from Florida, and Teceived tny ap
pointment from Senatqr Jefferson
Davis. My sympathies were all in
favor of the southern cause. As
soon as the state of South Carolina
left the union I resigned my position
in the military academy and hasten
ed to Charleston. I, with some oth
ers, was set at work superintending
the building of breastworks and af
terward the mounting of cannon
upon them. From these breast
works the first shot was fired upon
Fort Sumter. After Sumter was
taken 1 was attached to a regiment
of Stonewall Jackson’s brigade, and
with much difficulty joined it. This
brigade, forming a part of Lee’s
army, took part in the march up
into Pennsylvania. For a while, as
you know, Lee carried everything
before him. Tiie Federals were driv
en back, and most of our young men
expected at that time to conquer the
North in a very few months. The
night before we received our first
repulse I well remember. Our camp
was well supplied with provisions
by our foraging parties, and our
successes had made the future seem
bright.
“The song ‘Maryland, My Mary
land’ had just reached the army,
and all through the camp on this
night the refrain could he heard.
The Federals were very near us; so
near that the pickets of the oppos
ing armies could often see one an
other, but the camp of the enemy
was very quiet. Far into the night
our men sang:
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DEALERS IN*-—*' 1
i Fwios and Os'grjus
j ■ Banjos, Gtaitars, '
front, Breaft Street,
HAMPTON & WEBB
M 2VN L'F.lCl l' UK!IS OF V.
C A N
M\DE OUT C,F PURS PUG.4R
Stick Candy a Specialty, Ecat, Peanut
ars
s tjuaranethl us low i
mtrehlSd.Vwly.
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HODGSON BROS,
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Desire to call attention -to their
TOBACOS.
THE
‘ 'The northern foe is on thy shore,
Mar>land 1 my Maryland:
ier torch Is at thy temple door,
Maryland! my Maryland:'
The EvangUlst Evidently Suffering from
Giving Dp Tobacco.
Chicago, March 30.—Notwith
standing the miserable weather
standing room was at a premium at
Farwell Hall to-day when the Rev.
Sam Jones stepped to the front of
the platform and began his twenty
five minutes talk. The basis of his
discourse was the text, “My grace is
sufficient for thee.” He said sub
stantially that no matter what deg
radation or infidelity a man had tal
len to, he had but to go on his knees
to God, and his grace would be
found sufficient. He spoke at some
length on the thorns in the flesh that
men suffer from, saying they were
messages from Satan to buffet the
sinner. The thorns in Mr. Jones’
flesh must have been bulleting him
to-day, lor the “little pale Southern
er” looker! tired and ill—doubtless
finding his “s*ear-ofl'' ol tobacco
chewing more of a thorn than lie
had anticipated. He did not talk in
his usual energetic manner, and his
remarks were not up to their stan
dard, lacking the pointed emphasis
and vim that have characterized his
sermons.
EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
A second class ticket can now be
f nrehated from > St. Louis to San
'rsncisco for $20, with a rebate ol
$•4, which actually makes the tick
et cost but $6. This is the lowest
rate ever known between these
'■•Hunts, the distance being over two
and miles.
Below will be found a list of the
counties composing the eighth con-
greasion district with the number of
members of the legislature to which
each one is entitled, and the voting
strength of each in the convention,
which we copy from the Wash
ington Chronicle. In nominating
conventions, each county is allow
ed twice as many votes as it has
representatives in Ihe general as
sembly. It will be seen that the
district comprises twelve counties
with seventeen representatives, and
therefore 34 votes in a convention.
Under the operation of the majori
ty rule a candidate would need a
fraction above seventeen votes, and
under the two-thirds rule, he would
need twenty-two and two-thirds
votes to secure the nomination.
Following is the list:
county No. rep. No. votes iu con.
Wilkes.......... 2....
Putnam
O/tetnorpe
Greene...
Hancock..
Clarke....
,1.
1 ..
Hart.... I
Madison
Morgan.
Oconee.
A United States senator thinks
the way to deal with the Indians is
to offer the cowboys a reward of
$500 lor each scalp they will bring
in. We are in favor of this sug
gestion, but would supplement it
by giving the Indians a similar re
ward for all the cow-boy scalps
they in turn harvest. Such a law
would be a double-edged sword of
retributive justice.
The names of Hon. W. C. Benet,
of Abbeville, and Hon. B. F. Whit-
ner, of Anderson, are mentioned in
connection with the congressional
succession to Hon.D. Wyatt Aiken.
In Massachusetts the Knights of
Labor are growing so fast that the
erection of halls with reading rooms,
etc., is contemplated.
A New York Chinaman has ap
plied to Grand Master Fowderly
for admission to the Knights of
Labor.
ATLANTA MOUTES OPEN.
Six months ago we trad no demand for
B. 15. B., hut now our retail demand is
such that we are forced to buy in cross
lots. We uttrihntn the rapid and enor
mous demand to the comparative size
price ot It. B. B. (being large bottles for
$1) and its positive merit. It sells well
and gives our customers entire gatlfaction
Our rales have increa-ed 500 percent,
within afew months. Jacobs’Pharmacy
per Fred. B. Palmer, M. D.
Oceeral Logan Objects to the Ways or His
Wicked Partner.
Washington, March 30.—It is
learned that Gen. Logan is harboring
bitter feelings against Mr. Blaine on
account ol recent developments
showing the schemes of the Maine
statesman to break down Log.n as
a presidential candidate in iXSS
General Logan’s extreme sensitive
ness on this subject shows that it
occupies an important place in his
mind. Lately his ill feeling toward
Mr. Blaine cropped out in another
novel wav. Last week Senator
Hale ol Maine moved an amend
ment to Logan’s army trill, which
is virtually an attack upon the life
of the hill it'Clf. Then General Lo
gan said, while discussing the meas
ure, that he regretted the absence
of Mr. Hale from the senate, as he
had something to say for his especial
benefit. He said further that he
knew perfectly well where the hos
tility of the Maine senator came
from, and thought, under the cir
cumstances, that it was unfortunate
tor the bill that some other senator
did not have charge of it in the sen
ate.
General Logan’s allusion to the
animus that lies back oi Mr. Hale’s
motion, unquestionably refers to the
supposed agency of Mr. Blaine to
defeat the bill because it is a meas
ure with which Logan’s name is es
pecially identified, and the success
of which wouid be a personal ad
vantage to Logan, While General
Logan was saying these things.
Senator Frye of Maine sat near and
looked the Illinois senator squarely
in the face. Geneial Logan said he
expected his bill would he voted
down bv the senate.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
[llegiiter.]
On Tuesday morning of last week, a
dog passed through Carnegville, sup
posed to be suffering with hydrophobia,
lie bit several dogs in town, and quite a
number along the public road.
John Barleycorn made a foray upon
the outskirts of Carncsville on Tuesday
evening, ond the prayers and curses of
the drunken men were heard on the
"hone yard ' at a late hour in the night.
The election recently held in Manley’s
district, on the question of fence or no
fence, was declared to be illegal by the
Ordinary.
The contest over the election in Bry
ant's district was decided in favor of
stock law.
THE GEORGIA MIDLAND.
Election of Seaton Grantland as President
—To Go to Work at Once.
Gkikitn, April 1.—At the meet
ing of the directors of the Georgia
Midland and Griffin railroad in Col-
lumbus on March 15. Mr. G. Gum-
by Jordan handed in his rcsidnation
as presidet and director of the road.
Capt. S. Grantland was then elected
to fill the vrcancy. Capt. Grantland
has just returned from New York,
where he has been to perfect all
arrangements for the building of the
road.
The conti act was let to Col. P. P.
Dickinson, who will leave New
York on April 4th. On his arrival
here he will at once sub-let the con
tracts, and before this month is out
grading will be commenced. The
election of Capt. Grantland was
kept quiet, as it was thought best
for the interest of the road.
Mr. G. Gunby Jordan has been
elected president of the Georgia
Midland Gulf Construction Compa-
and will see that the contract is
carried out, which guarantees the
completion of the road by May 1st,
1SS7.
“When morning dawned the bat
tle, which was to decide so much
began again, and we were forced
from our position and obliged to
fail back. »*fll day long the fight
was waged, but the Federals were
too strong for us. When camp was
pitched on this night the Confeder
ate soldiers did not feel much like
singing, and it was the Federals’
turn. Again the camps were very
near together, and the word, of
many of the northern songs came
very distinctly to us. 'The Star
Spangled Banner,’ ‘America,’ ‘John
Brown’s body’ aud many others
were sung. There was a silence
for some time, and then, to our in
tense disgust, we. heard our own
new song sung in this way:
“Oh! Beauregard ami Lonrstreet, Let!
Maryland! my Maryland:
And Stonewall Jackson, where is he?
Maryland! my Maryland!
Rstreamiug in the breeze
Is a I! the loval s
Far better thau the adorning trees!
Maryland! my Maryland!
“Our
men were too disgusted
and tried to reply, and after that
night we began our long retreat
nnd the two camps were never
again very close together.”
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HART COUNTY.
There are two forms of chronic rheu
matism: one in which the joints are
swollen and red without fever, and the
appetite ami digestion good, in the
other the joints arc neither red nor swol
len. bnt only still and painful. Iri either
lorm Salvation Oil may be relied on to
effect a cure. It kills pain, Price 25 cents
a bottle.
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weight, alum Or phosphate
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pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box For sale by
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[SunJ
Charlie Sanders went to his birrl-tra
last Sunday morning, and found it down
1 If course the little fellow was thinking
of the game lie had caught, when lo! and
behold it was a ground rattlesnake. It
was about two feet long and hud live
rattles and a button. How did it get there?
Did it go in before or after the trap fell?
Several washouts delayed trains on
the Elherton road this week. No mail
from Atlanta Thursday, caused by wash
outs or fills on the R. & D.
Mail dog excitement is rife, caused by
the ravages of rabid dog in Smith’s dis
trict and elsewhere. Twelvo or more dogs
bitten were killed in that district. The
mail dog came to Hartwell, hit several
dogs, a number of which have been shot
and others confined, and then passed on
to Mr. Geo. Cleveland's place, where a
hog was bitten. Mr. Clevland succeeded
in killing the dog. We have heard of
no person being bitten.
Rev. Capers Neese has removed to
Hartwell from Bowersrillo.
A colored beau got a young white
gentleman to write a letter for him to
the object of his adoration a dusky dam
sel in a neighboring town. Untliought
edly he signed his own name to the ten
der missive instead of the colored beau’s.
No doubt the young lady is elated over
the unexpected mash she has made, and
will respond favorably to the overtures
of Cupid.
CENTER SHOTS.
Our town is on a boom. We have an
express office, with C. C. Chandler as
agent. Claude is burdened with more
offices than any man of his age in the
state.
John Botvers killed a strange fowl in
an old field near here. It is thoqght to
be a bittern.
Mr. J. T. Johnson has moved to town,
and owns one of the prettiest houses in
the place. .-><!. to - ■»•'_» »•>!
The measles are raging ‘in ,! Centor at
present. ' <!•' ’ ‘ ’’-‘I- ■
Dick Tuggle killed an immense rattle
snake near Center to-day. 1
A very fine .cow belonging to Mr. J.
T. Lord, was bit * by a. mad,dog three
weeks ago, afitli's now riving mad. Mr.
L. will at once kill the cow. . , r j
Snipe and wi(d geeso are plentiful in
Chandler’s .bottoms,
The latest sensation
seen after nightfall, walking
with shoes in-His hind coat pocketi
Old JacksotV (lilt dertataly'be'-well rep
resented in this walking 'timtilGithich
takes place in your city in May.
Efpibt.
TO THE CIKIZENS AND STUDENTS OF
ATHENS.
Owing to the cry of hard times, and
the unusual demand for cheap Photo
graphs, T have, in order to satisfy this
demand, inaugurated for 30 daj's the
club-rate system.
1 will make for clubs of twelve my
best Cabinet Photographs at. $4.00 per
dozen; and will give, as a premium to
one getting up each club, one dozen
Cabinet Photographs, or if preferred, its
value in cash. Kaon member of a club
on payment of $1 Oo to the former of
club receives an order which is good on
presentation at my office, and the pay
ment of balance $3 00, for 1 dozen Cabi
net Photographs. Clubs are not requi
red to come in a body, but each at his or
her convenience.
Tho~e failing to get in clubs can by re
mitting to me .$1 00 receive an order
which will entitle him to a sitting at any
time presented.
I desire to impress upon the public
that 1 propose by this system to make
only tirst-class work, guaranteeing sat
isfaction: all members of clubs being en
titled to the same privileges as those pay
ing regular prices.
Parties desiring to organize clubs will
please do so at once, and report to me
for the necessary instructions, cards, etc.
Respectfully,
C. W. MOTES,
34, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Most Excellent.
J. J. Atkins, Chief ol Police, Knoxville,
Teun., writes: “My family and I are
beneficiaries of your most excellent
medicine, Dr. King’s Xew Discovery
for consumption; ha\ing found if. to be
all that you claim for it desire to tesify
to its virtue. My blends to whom I
have recommended it, praise it at every
opportunity.”
Dr. Kingli’s New Discovery for
Consumption is guaranteed to cure
Coughs. Colds, Bronchits, Asthma,
Croup and every alection of Throat,
Chest ami Lungs. Long «fe Co Trial
Bottles Free at Drug Store. Large Size
$1.00.
THE WEST POINT FLOOD.
marebICwlyL
Clayton Street, At
CHIEF OF POLICE SALES.
GEOtl',14, OJ.AKK.G COUNTY, Mar
1846 — Will be »o 1«J uti ttU’ .at 1 u-.filay
14*6 before ihe Court House <lo«»r b t«
legal hours of pale, to t.ic lushest l*,«!
orate limits of the
porati
bound
t bjr .■sieve Hubbard; north
Also
the f
nd pin
land containing :i-4 of a
au unfinished house upan it, bv
within tn» corporaie limits of ,ith«
ed on the east by lands of John (.
by Bob Gales; north and south by
ford Levied
Brawner. to aati fy two fi fas, is?
clerk’s office of the city of At hen
HELP FOK Vv 0;-iA.’l
'IHE GERMAN .iND A Mi
DlSPEK^AkY A?ru
FtMALE i j\ r i K... uti.
MISS ROSA 1 .1 i>
Ai.L m-K .
ritEATRD.
TU'-
1SSI and 18^5. Lery
March, IS8S.
Also, at the aatse time mod place, will
one house aud lot or n Prime Avenue au
on the Sonth by the estate ol I. M. Keo
the hast by Mrs. K. Jat-ot... and oh the b
General Master Workman l’ow-
derly, it seems, began his working
life as a switch-tender. Mr. Iloxie.
manager ol the Gould system of
railroads in the Southwest, was at
one time hostler in a hotel near Des
Moines. Afterward he became
chairman of the republican state
central committee and United
States Marshal of Iowa. Mr. Gould
himself earned his first money as a
map peddler.
Some of the papers, like the Nett-
nan Advertiser, are pouring hot shot was a terrlt,le strain on my wife s
nerves, hut she stood it wonderfully
well. She spent one night from home.
into Gen. Gordon for coming back
to Georgia for the purpose of enter
ing politics again. lie resigned his
seat in the United States senate just
two weeks before the session closed,
thus giving the Governor of the
state the power of dictating his suc
cessor. The office, with aii that it
implied, should have been returned
to the people who gave it.
nYSPEPSiA
Is a dsneeroas os well as dfrrtr—jpg complaint. II
neglected, it tendn, by impairing nutrition, and da-
pmwing tnn tone of the system, to prepare the wgj
BROW®, -
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p T' BEST TONIC ?
OoOTt,
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i*i lien Bitten log
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.T1MVKJ4MB.
Great Distress and Destitution Among the
People.
Rev. A. W. Williams, who once had
charge of Oconee street church in this
city, and now stationed at West Point,
Ga., writes as follows to a friend in Ath
ens about the late flood that submerged
that town:
“1 ain just in from seeing and hearing
the destructions ef the groat flood. Such
destruction of property and such distress
of families 1 have never witnessed. Many
families barely escaped with life—losing
everything. Every business house in
the city is under water from 3 to 5 feet
deep. The water is 3b, feet deeper than
ever known. Our magnificent bridge,
costing $13,tHX>, is gone. The city is in
two parts. Crossing is dangerous.
Steamboats are running up aud down
every business street, saving life and pro
perty. Such unselfish devotion I have
never seen. The estimated loss is $150,
0U0. My family are all safe. The wa
ter was three feet under my house. A
boat with six passengers passed under
my house and through my garden. Jt
terrible
Princo Avenue, West uy W. S. Holir
on os the property of Louisa Bone to satisfy a ti.
fa. issued from tne cltrka office of the t Ity of
Athens, July 15th, 1855. Levy rn&ao and seiuru-
ed March 24th, I8S6.
Aire, at the same time and plac'' one home
and lot in the city limits. coautiuin k ’ e,
more or less, and bounded on th<* east by I’m.’ --
tive Baptist church lot, ou the west by Billups
Street, north by Tajlyr .Struct and south by
Zttck Harris and others. Levied on ns the pro
perty of Henry Davis to satisfy a tax fi fiv ls : u <1
from the clerks office of the city ol Athens, July
15th, l$8i. Levy made and returned SL.nb 24th
1886.
Also at the ?ame time nnd place one lot of land
lying in ea-t Aineus, oontaiuintr \ acre, more
or leas r.ud bounded on the south bystreet, ou
the north ov Joaaph Carlton, west by Anna
Macon, cast by I’nt Lester, l evied on «s the
property of James Wilkins to satisfy two li ia>«
issued from the clerks office of the • uy of Atheas
tor taxes of 1884 and If85. Levy ramie and re
turned March 2!th 1S86.
quickly
ut your <
lht/Di-iit
F’ I- , n YUA! •!
NOTICE.
•AVI.) K. Ml'KKAH,
Also at the same tim
lot in the cit of Ath:
more or less, and b-iuudeJ an the e
Jones west by Rocs Spring Aveum
Taylor Street, and South by hd’
Levied ou as the piopertv of «Juru< 1
;ax fi fa issued trotn the t ie
.. f Athens, 10th December
and returned March 24th, 1LS6.
», at the same time and place o;
east Ath
satisfy i
OCH&SON’S
Celebrated La
SENT FREELA"
IOth. to any address. 10'-
every^thlng for Ladies . G
house In tfte United Sts’
*ni inflict ion OAUiruiv;-'or r.
funded. 11. Cf. V. KOCH (
6th Avc. A £Cld LU '• 1
lest
ind be
ded <
the
by John Hcrtiug..
A Jones and ou the \u-st b) Mis
levied on as the property of Sai u
satisfy a tax fi :a issued from ti e cl«
Athena ’uly l6tli 18*?.
.‘e thoe^an l pDc
laud in thecliy of Athens. <
W.
^ University of Geo'^
NATURAL IilsMo
aud returned M«
of lift rgi:t w:J. i
• boui.TK
rock Ae
by Martha
•; : ‘ t j >oo.
| And M S
ot j Farm. .
i: • <1 .
v\LA i
M.VIC kU:JL,Mr-. 1
»Athens containing Id
TO i lUc.
A
l.l. p.
The draft on my time and sympathies is
beyond anything I have ever had to en
dure.
Moat of the diatoM which afflict mankind are origin-
ally canoed br a disordered condition of tbo LIV E R .
For all oamplainta of tMa kind, ouch aa Torpidity of
the Iiver.JBiliouaaagq. NogTouq Dyopopita, IndJgea-
tioa.lrrogularity of the Bowalo, Constipation. Flatu
lency. Eructation! and Burning of tho
(sometimes called Hoartbarn), Mi»m. Malaria.
bbwO. mm rtvm. m- V Ul • ^
Exhaustion before or after Fevers. Chionio Diar
rhoea. hem ot Appetite. Headache. Foul Breath.
Bearing-down
Pains. Back-
ache, de., Ac, __
lo Invaluable.
^GURE M omnwtfiitRUVEii.
STADICER’S AU RANT 11'
Poc RtlR hj *n DtocxIru. Hjtrjtjotynttlata*
C.F.8TADIQER, Proprietor,
MO SO. FRONT *T.,1 FUNodsIphta, Pa.
and returned Mu
.1 the same time aad place oue lot o land,
ithin the city of Athens, containing rJ
lore or less, and hounded a.s loll s; o>.
, by lmidsol a. D. Miiuueil. agent, on the
y bituon Marks and J. \Y. .NfchoD.ni, on
l by J. VS'. Nicholson, ou iu« south %y tho
the pr
■ I'h.VH
Go.,
( iiai r
id returned «
Also, at the:
i the. 2,ih ilurob l:
nnd pia
no rate la
lot of
i .«mlth.
. ol th
land lying within the e
on Rock Spring A vein,
ward Mills, east by A f-
street, containing
levied ou as the projMrr
to satisfy a tax ft ht ism:
citv of .Athens, Levied made
March 2Sth T886.
Also at the same time and plare one house aud
lot iu the city of Athens, conuiulug % ?.cre, more
or lert, and bouaded south by Simon Marks,
west by Waller Hector, nonh by Lau hryd»e, east
by Camilla Slye, and ot era. Levied ou as the
property of ben Crawford to satisiy a tax ti fa
issued from the clerks office of the city ol Athens
1st December 1814. Levy made and returned
March 20th ls86.
Also, atthe same time and place. One houve
and lot in the city of Atheus, containing 1-8
tent re » m.
MAi
li)UP*hIl>\\ 6t
Nonci
TO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACH
milS board of Kdm f A; u U.ouVt -
JL tbo County sehoil .”0- • .
aatkinsvilio on •
April. May
less, and bounded, east t»y Henry Bare-
hold, westby Loom Bird, south by Harwell Self,
Jr., and north by W. F. Hood. * * •
led on
. ... fy a tax ft fa
issued from the cerka office of the city of Athens.
rty of Jim Houston.
July 15th, 18*5. Levy made auU returned March
27th, 18S6.
aprnAVSd D. ORAN OLIVER, 0, P
C - - -
first Tuesday in May lbS«, before the Court
Housedog Of Clarke county, between the legal
hoars of sale the following property to-wit: a
certain tract ol land lying and being in said
county, containlrig twenty-five acres, more or
ires, and bounded as follows: beginning at a poj*-
lar at head of branch ou A Archers line, thence
with S H Terby’a line to road at comer of fence,
thence al ng the fence to soring, thence down
the branch to highta farm, thcrce up same to
poplar. Paid land i»vied ou as th-» property of
HUl Pittman to aaiitfy a tax u fa issued l»y
H H Union '.or .State and County Taxes for the
yea* 188V Levy made by J H .suddeth, constable
and property pointed 1
thi* Apr! a! 2,1816
aprU*,2
2!
by said MbLPittman,
JOHN W. WIER. S C 0 G,
r\ EORGIA. CLARKE COUNTY.—Whereas.
\T Mary A. Hughce, administratrix of H. 8
Hughes deceased, applies, iu terms ef *he law for
a discharge from safd administration, .’here are
uiish ail ceoeArned to.
thereforPfto cite and admou
show cause atthe reguUlrtorxi of the Cour: o f
Ordinary ol. said, county .to be held OOi the first
Monday In June next, why said dUchatge should
dot be grasted Given under <mjrh*nd At office
this lOih day of February ltsfft,. „ , ,,i '
eb)«m3m. > VV.- J A cfc t 1 « * »
fofoTapplied <o Inejunder-
slgned for leave fo tell the lands belonging to the
estate ofaaid deceased, and said application wl J
ar,t M0 T?y. HuX. OrtSxry.
out aud profita^ 10
thertby giving thc
superior corsets
have a large num»r r ot *£
gr*no success selling tL.e»
vny.
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ECLECTff.
DR S. D. DURH*
MAKES
CHRONIC DISF.ASKS A 1 '
Chaw*
Maxey,'
maYchlfiwiy.
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; LOCKS*!!
GUN A® * „
snd will continue the I’"* 1 "*
oTHW,awa«W’ TK8 , ...cw* H
On Clayton Street, n«*
4 Jones’.
niSdSfirSm.