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OFFICIAL OMAN OF City of Athena and Clarice, Oconee ft Banka. annual subscriptions bates: 3cii/. S>; .... Sunday, SI;,.... Weekly, SI 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: I j CRANFORD =DA!IIS 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. n Y ottur nui HAMi ON A WE BP. Ei HODGSON BROS, ;trgc assortment,/ 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.” CELEBRATED nr Is justly popular. Wo clam! : money. T ■tl'T OpTV 1 u 1 1 Oil E CEDAR G ROVE Also some of are Sole agents. our iEvoriu (five us a !■ ;i C nui: JOHN CRAWFORD & CO.. DRUGGIST & C a oililD ‘SMtiil All order work to pie 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. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tbit Powder narer marrol of purity trenjjth and wholesomeuess. More economic* baa lb* erdioxry kind*, an4 cannot be told ia competition with the maltitade of low tect L tbo weight, alum Or phosphate , miiwdere. 8eM u ROYAL BAKIN0 POWDER CO- WaUek N. Y. t BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE. The Best Salve in the World for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheutu, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Kiupt- tions, and positively cures Piles, or ‘no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by Long & Co.—tf. MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared with special regard to health No Ammonia, Lime or Alum. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.. CHICAGO. 8T. LOUIS* ■extracts MOST PERFECT MADE . Purest mad stre—;sst Natural Fruit Flaror*. Vanilla. Prtc Bavin* Powder Co. * r ' wa *‘ [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®, - -THE p T' BEST TONIC ? OoOTt, 1 tecti- i*i lien Bitten log ‘jEEtajer .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. ^S. » UJ Li ;; rs'eN v ECLECTff. DR S. D. DURH* MAKES CHRONIC DISF.ASKS A 1 ' Chaw* Maxey,' maYchlfiwiy. ■ iHoder* 1 '' , Ge0$ ; LOCKS*!! GUN A® * „ snd will continue the I’"* 1 "* oTHW,awa«W’ TK8 , ...cw* H On Clayton Street, n«* 4 Jones’. niSdSfirSm.