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XI ftWOfc M, SahUh A n- swcrs Dr. -Westmoreland. — •*, i • / Jb-.tii AFFIDAVITS CHARGING THE PHYSICIAN TO THE- PENI TENTIARY WITH BEING BEASTLY DRUNK NO. XVI «tv*uwiq it +! . iutf* ; -fmwilw WW^w waitciiiTB tea « >ar '■■■"ISS,*:, 'A.'l’^tKSfS^EpBGlA, T^TESHA-Y-, AMBL. 30£ &°«ca»>*« i*ta *%»I ».ij (.-.■•» a im ! i ■■: •'.I L:. , , .■ ~ j r i ; *. . -r-*«‘ t ..- n - .jffi ■ , •*»%*' >* 44.—- *<*'• *“ k VOLT XXXI h j THE time the doctor reported this CAMP TO THE GOVERNOR. C-d. Smilh Thinks Himsell the Victim ol Mal ice and Persecution. “l)r. Westmoreland saytfj on hare been ▼cry conspicuous in the newspapers with your troubles.” - rfl • , “I think not. I have never gone into the papers except once, and then in reply .to Dr. Westmoreland. He forced it on me. * prejudice in inst me, but I man of too much sense to be used in that way. The governor, I think will give me justice.” “How are you and Nelms?’ four physicians certify th*t the CAMP IS IN GOOD CONDITION. Col. Towera on Deck. Importer—Have you seen Dr. West moreland’s interview in the Constitution of th*‘ •'*«! inst? Hun. .1. M. Smith—Yes. }:—Have you anything to sayinre- }• •1. M. S.—I do not know that any re- J ly i> needed. His talk is so loose, full nf misstatements and errors that any in i' ’ ligeiit reader ran see that the whole . fit was prompted by malice. If 1 had ti \, r incurred the personal hatred of It. Westmoreland, it is likely there unuld have been no trouble, besides I ...mpv the unpopular side of the ques tion. l'r. Westmoreland is an officer, thet-for** in power, lie is drawing a l:tr'_«"alar\. his otfice consumes but lit- th ■ hi- tu , herce hi has abundance oncoct schemes • -sees whom he • rous fui me, as him. He has n <*f iris official idle and about, and mi assailed iitv dodge. to bring and tro ire of his charg id tier governor • i which is of r •omt'ort- i tin alter v olhcials buildings er heard >r. West- buil.lv i the rail- not le aliliy.' "N«< on. . \ manage.1 the • half so good as mine." buildings were not safe,” says ‘fin-.reland. ne ever escaped from them." V.-tmorelaiul says they were •d m them as long as I The rub- age the camp now?” camp is managed by the penitentiary offi cial-. I'heeonvicts are fed according to lio se rules. I have no discretion. The a--isiant keeper visits the camp once a month and investigates closely whether I he rules have boon carried out. The boss m in is charged with the duty of carrying tie- rub s ..ut. If lie refuses to do it the i lo\ernor discharges him and appoints I have never written a word except in “I think Col. Melms is friendly to me. self-defence.” While principal keeper • he treated me self-defence “l>r. Westmoreland says ycu dodge the governor.” “I always call to see the governor wheu in Atlanta. Am on the best terms with him as far as I know. I invited the gov ernor to come to my house and camp and see everything for himself. He promised to do so and I Would be glad for him to visit the camp and see for himself. There is no dodge in this.” “Dr. Westmoreland says you bully and abuse.” “Not a bit of it. He is the fellow who bullies and abuses. Swears he is a young man and wants to fight when a gentle man disagrees with him. The proof of this is at hand.” “Dr. Westmoreland say’s you postpone everything.” “I do everything as quick as lean. Can’t work any harder, not even to please the Doctor. Have never been call ed lazy before.” “Has there been any complaint made against your camp since last June, when the governor decided in your favor?” “None whatever. Dr. Westmoreland was at my J camp a few weeks ago, and expressed himself as being well pleased; in fact he said 1 had thb best building and camp in the state. A short time since Col. ; Shuhrick wrote me a note tn which be stated that he was very much delighted with my new building and camp.” “That is pretty strong.” “' es. That is exactly the facts. 1 ras surprised to hear the Doctor talk therwise.” hen the Doctor visited your camp in May, 1885 aftd reported the camp in bad condition, was he himself in the proper condition to inspect a camp?” *1 do not think he was.” ‘Have you any evidence from outside ponsible as to his condition on that of Mr. O ling farm- a gentle- -1 Vrson- ofht i liis •I - III. ernor appoint all the ha and discharg is the lessee is them at will.” got to do with uliiin ofih. ccept he is entitled to the nvicts.” on camp run that way?” you object to that way of running fairly, and I had ‘no trouble whatever with him. * ”1 do not know that 1 do. If the peni tentiary officials arc fair men it is best the lexers. If tie camp gets on well th- y an- entitled to the credit of it, and if '• i I- unhealthy and gets on badly, they ou.-ht to bear the blame.” hr. Westmoreland says you had scur- y in your camp; that tin* convicts w. re improperly f d and badly treated.” "lie never said that till after he got in. 1. 1‘i eviously he said they were well \ and kir.-llv treat d. See hi* official r- ports. hrs. Long, of Athens: Willing ham, of Crawford., Carter, of Winterville, j and Durham, of Atlanta, after examing 1 caretuilv every convict in camp, said on oath that there \va- not a case of scurvev in camp, there Were no traces of seur- v ey. the convicts wore well fed and kind- Iv treated. Cols. Mattox and Martin, of Libert county, Hons. K. K. Heaves and W. D. O’Farrell, Capt. James White, 1 '1 Larry Cantt and many others too tedious ;o menti on corroborated that statement. Are th. sd gentlemen relia ble ' Dr. \V'estlimn;land said, after he !o-t his case before the governor, that they wefe all liars an<| scoundrels, and that Judge Ervrin, (Tols. Meadow, and llussell, my lawyers, were grand rascals. This statement was about on a par with the one he made in regard to the con vict®. Neither will boar investigation.” “Dr. Westmoreland says he reports all cases of improper treatment to the gov ernor?” “He may, but I'douht it. I know of many eases which he has never report ed—if so there is no record of it. He raises a great furor in one camp about certain irregularities, and approves and condones the same thing in others. In 'mme cases, where he is in partnership in a certain way with the lessees, he goes very slow in reporting. In others, when ho is afraid of the political influence of the lessee, he sings very small.* A cer ium lessee, before a legislative commit tee, denounced him, and 1 never heard of bis resenting it in any way.” “Hr. Westmoreland says he has order ed you to build a new hospital?” ‘‘I have never received or heard of any *ucli order from him. That i9 another °ne of his cock and bull stories. Since I h »ve put up a new building for the con- v ict«, I think that a new hospital will M,,t host—am going to build one as soon as l can. I mentioned this to the gov ernor, and he said it would be all right; H‘at there was no pressing necessity for lt> I have a very nice hospital now, but u does not correspond with the new con«i v * cl building. Dr. Westmoreland said, his official report before hp got mad "iii» me, that my presept hospital, was amply sufficient. It is the same build- now it was then. Dr. VV estmoreland says you are mad.” . * Sotvei 7* in the controversy Lhave heid my temper much better than|the 1 ocU)T : Thi * the Doctor knows. } could \ b i^t here a, very ludicrous exhibi- ■on of th. Doctor, temper, but forbear. j ne p——**• -• * Here is an affidavit 0. Dean, who is one of the \< :v f Oglethorpe county, and man well and favorably known Oglethorpe county ally appeared before me J. Power, a ustice of the Peace in and for said ounty, ( diver C. Dean, who being sworn ays on oath that he was at the residence of Hon. James M. Smith, in said county, or about the doth of May, A. D. 1885. when Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland was there; that said Westmoreland took from a little hand satchel, which he. Dr. Westmoreland, had with him, a bottle of whisky, and drank freely of the whisky; that said Westmoreland poured into said whisky something out of a vial which looked like laudanum, and smelt like laudanum, and which deponent took to be laudanum, and that said Westmore land drank said mixture of whisky and laudanum as deponent took it to he; that deponent took said Westmoreland to l>e drunk before he saw him drinking, and that after said drinking deponent saw said Westmoreland heaving and vomit ing profusely; that preparations were at that time being made for said l)r. West moreland to start to inspect the convict camp of said James M. Smith, in said county: that said camp is located about one mile from said residence; that said Dr. Westmoreland asked said deponent to take a drink of whisky with him, that this deponent refused not having drank any whisky in four years; that before •deponent left said residence said Dr. Westmoreland was very drunk and utter ly unfit to attend to any business; that said Dr. Westmoreland was talking ai random and silly. O. C. Dean. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Feb. 11, IrtSrt. James E. Power, J. P. “Have you other affidavits showing Dr. Westmoreland’s conditionV” “Yes. quite a number. 1 select this one of Mrsi Carter, as showing Dr. West moreland's condition after he left the j and camp:" and Georgia, Oglethorpe County.—Person ally came before me, W. T. Carter, a No tary Public and ex-officio J. P. in and for said county, Mrs. M. S. Carter, wife of \\ . 1>. Carter, M. D.. who. being duly sworn, says on oath that on or about oUth May, lSt>f>, in the afternoon, an old gentleman lying down in a buggy was driven up to our house at Winterville by a negTo boy. 1 went to the door. This old man talked so incoherently at first I did not understand him. The negro boy driving said he was Dr. Westmoreland, and had been to Col. James M. Smith’s convict camp. The man scrambled out of the buggy, with the assistance of the boy driving, and reached the door steps and succeeded in getting into the reran dah, called for a chair first thing, which was handed him, and he got seated on it. I finally gathered from his talk he was Dr. W. F. Westmoreland, physician of the Georgia penitentiary, and that he was on his way from Col. Smith’s convict camp, and wanted to see my husband, Dr. Carter, who was not at home at that time. After staying a short time Dr. Westmoreland left. % His conversation was not polite or intelligible. He was very drunk. M. S. £akter. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this Feb. 12th, 1880. \V. T. Carter, N. P. and ex-officio J. P. “From the two foregoing affidavits it is plain that Dr. Westmoreland on ihatvis it to that camp was wholly unable to know anything from personal knowl- ed£e.” “Was this the visit he made upon which he predicated his report that the camp was in bad condition and from which grew the case before the gover nor?” \ “It was. From that visit all the trouble started. It is strange that out of so many visits and inspections of my camp by grand jury committees, legislative com mittees, penitentiary officials and private individuals extending over a period of six years, that it remained fora drunken man, too drunk to tell his name, to dig*, cover what no one else ever did. In & few days be visited the camp again and reportd everything all right.” g “How did you get on with Colquitt?” “Without the least trouble. Gov. Col quitt, in one of his official reports, stated that the death rate and escapes in my camp were smaller than any prison in the world. Col. Nelms said the same thing.” » “How about Col. Towers?” “Col. Towers always treated ine well till he got mixed up with Westmoreland.” “What do you say of Dr. Westmore land as a humanitarian?” “Dr. Westmoreland has some good traits and some bad ones. He is very tyrannical and overbearing, and loves to argue, quarrel and dispute. The way he treated Bud Dunaway, a poor white man, who accidentally got his skull fractured and his arms and legs mangled by the railroad, dries not show much humanity. He refused to dress the poor fellow’s wounds when brought to him, because the poor man was not able to pay him. This showed exactly where his heart was locatetj. A thousand rows with les sees can never obliterate this stain upon his humanity. Here was a poor man brought to him in a dying condition, whom he absolutely refused to in anv way help, on the ground that he was afraid that he would get no pay for it.” “When the governor decided the case brought against you by Westmoreland in your favor, how did Dr. Westmoreland take it?” ‘•Dr. Westmoreland was very much displeased, lie went off and cursed out, to all intents and purposes the governor, ine, all iny lawyers and witnesses. lie wrote, or got another man to write to the Charleston News & Courier the most vindictive, bitter, lying document I ever read. Among other things he said he would never make another report to the governor. Dr. Westmoreland shows bad taste in going behind the decision of the governor. All the charges he has brought against me have been adjudi cated and decided to be untrue by the governor under whom he holds office. 1 have obeyed every order ever issued by any penitentiary official. Why I am persecuted and hounded from year to an other I cannot tell. Why every little irregularity which occurs in my camp is advertised all over Georgia by Dr. West moreland. is to me strange. I know of many things in many of the other con vict camps in Georgia, which, if they occurred in mine, there would be no end to the fuss and furor created thereby. As a member of the penitentiary committee of the last legis lature, I visited many of the convict camps in Georgia. Many of the meaner class of convicts came before the com mittee with all manner of complaints. Some said they were not fed well, some said the boss man was cruel, some showed broken limbs which they charged had been done by their bosses, some said they were worked in the rain, and so on. In every case an impartial investigation showed that these complaints were made to create a sympathy in behalf of the con vict making them. One fellow who had been in prison about six months said he did not get half enough to eat. One of the committee asked him how much he weighed—he said 190 pounds. How much did you weigh when you came to this camp? 100 pounds, answered the convict. I thought without saying any thing. if the convicts in my camp were to complain this way, Dr. Westmoreland would write four columns against me and have me before the governor. I only ask to be treated fairly and honestly. Acci dents. unfortunate things will occur in any camp. The boss men are not per fect, the guards often ignorant and care less and the convicts themselves are the worst elements of society. Many of the convicts are murderers, thieves, rapists men without principle ould not hesitate to kill a boss man or guard. In fact, many guards do get killed. Convicts often kill one another in camp. An official of the penitentiary can. by a word, sign, or any unthoughted act, demoralize a whole camp and make it next to impossible for the bosses and guards to manage it." “Have you seen Col. Towers’ state ment?” “Yes, I ain surprised at Cel. Towers. The cap, he acknowledges, did not fit him. and why he wanted, to put it on and wear it, 1 do not know.” “Will you reply to him?” “I guess so. So many of them are on me I'will have to take them one at a'time. ATHENS DOES NOT JOIN IN, Northern Salaried Officers for Southern Christian Associations. Noticing in the Atlanta Constitution and Savannah Times that there are com plaints that all the salaried officers in the Southern Christian Associations are be ing filled by Northerq men, we inquired of Mr. E. E. Jopes, the Secretary of our home association, if the association here bad any idea of following suit in this par ticular. “No, sir,” was the emphatic reply 1 . “We have discussed this matter, and while we are now badly in need of a gen eral Secretary, to whom we can pay sal ary enough to command his services for the association, and while it is our in tention also to employ a young man for this purpose when our means will per mit, we have decided when we do em ploy one to get some deserving young man in our own community. The North ern associations have what they term trained young men for Secretaries, but we feel that if we have the money to pay a young man, we can train him to attend to the duties of our association as well as to get one from the North. Since the organization of our association we have had visits from two of the Northern trav eling Secretaries, and one from the state Secretary, who is a Northern man, and each of them were anxious to furnish us a general Secretary, but we have given them no encouragement that we shall employ one, for the reason that I have stated, that we intend, when we do em ploy a Secretary, to get one at home. We shall certainly not go out of this state for one.” “Are you not getting along pretty well without this expense now?” we inquired. “Yes, as well as it is possible to get along, but in order to accomplish what we desire, it is teo much of a demand upon the officers of the association, who are business men, and could not be con sistently called upon to devote the time necessary to attend to the details of the management. We want to keep the rooms open day and night, and cannot do so unless we have a competent person to see that the privileges of the rooms are not abused, and that nothing is done that would defeat the object for which the association was organized, and also to keep liefore the minds of the young men visiting the rooms the great object of the association. Do not understand me,” said Mr. Jones, “as reflecting upon the. Northern Secretaries, as it is presumable that they are consistent Christian gen tlemen. Neither in a cause like the one for which the association is organized, should there be any sectional prejudices, but we consider that men of our own section better understand the young men who come into the association, and would be better calculated to do the work for which wo need them than one who is a stranger to our people and their cus toms. Our association, according to the state Secretary, is the best organization that he has visited, and while we consid ered it an experiment at first, we are as sured that it is permanent now, and while yet in its infancy, and not fairly at work, we hope to make it an institution, the good influences of which will so en list the co-operation of those who have the good of the young men of the com munity at heart, that any reasonable de mand that may be made will be cheer fully responded to m the future as it has been since the organization of the asso ciation.” DIAMOND robbery. Athens a PaYori4> Place for Those That Lore the Sparkles. The following notice appeared in the Atlanta Constitution yesterday: A dozen detectives are now trying to make themselves famous by recovering $3,000 worth of diamonds which were stolen from the Southern Express com- 1'OWDF.hLY‘S WHISKEY SPEECH. FASHION NOTES. The Kntsnt. Pleased to Boycott Bum. Plain ribbons are few. General planter Workman 1. F. Jet ornaments are abundant and i owilerly has no love for the liquor J expensive. panv. The robbery occurred on the fifth or sixth of the present month, and tiie de tectives managed to keep the matter a secret until yesterday. The diamonds were shipped from Ath ens over the Richmond & Danville rail road to Charlotte, N. C„ but never reach ed their destination. Just how they wore stolen is not known, as the manager of the express company and the detectives all delined to talk when approached upon the subject. It is not even known wheth er the packages were taken from the messenger by force at the point of a pis tol or whether they disappeared in a mys terious manner. The loss is said to have occurred at Lula while the package was en route to Charlotte. The jewelry lost was one pair of gold bracelets, each set with five diamonds, and each bracelet valued at $450; six pairs of soltaire ear rings, valued at $825; one diamond scarf pin valued at $105; two diamond scarf pins valued at $70each, and one diamond scarf pin valued at $65. Finding such a robbery from our own city, it put the reporter of the B.-W. on the jump to see if it was true and was it possible that he had overlooked such an itom. C. K. Collins, a prominent jeweler, af ter showing him the article said; 1 lost a fine set of diamonds last November at the fair grounds, but have not shipped any lately that have been stolen. Skiff, the jeweler, deals largely in dia monds, and he had not shipped any. Charles Scudder had not lost a ny in tiie Express Co. The reporter be gan to think that it was all sensational until he handed the arti cle to Mr. A. S. Mandeville and asked him to report. Mr. Mandeville after ad justing his gold spectacles, declined to answer any questions, and said that he was mum on the subject. Here was something to start on, and Mr. Mande ville was plied with questions thick and fast. The reporter explained that it was already out, and that all the jewelers in Athens had denied shipping the dia monds except him. After scanning tiie article clipped from the Constitution he said: -This is about right, only there is a little mistake about what they are worth. The whole tiling is valued at $1,585, and were shipped by me to Heller ft Bardell, of 13 John street. New York. The dia monds were nicely packed in a box. 1 did not put any value on the eentents of the box, as I was instructed not to do so. The diamonds have been stolen, hut fur ther than this I cannot tell, as I do not know at what place they were stolen, or how the thief got into the express car. It has been kept secret, and the detec tives have been working up the case. Heller & Bardel can only collect $50 from the Express Co., unless they can prove negligence on the part of the com pany, as the diamonds were not valued." This is the second diamond robbery that has happened in this section in the past six months. Only last November C. K. Collins was the victim, and lost $1,600 worth at the fair grounds. DOWN IN OGLETHORPE. Editorial Correspondence to Banner-Watchmen Lexington, Ga„ April 14.—Since Fri day last I have been enjoying the hospi tality of the noble-hearted people of old Oglethorpe, and my time has been so pleasantly passed that I could not even spare an hour to write the promised daily letter to the B.-W. My health has greatly improved—in fact, I feel almost as well as ever, and hope, by the latter part of this week, to he recuperated suffi ciently to stand the summer s campaign I spent two days and nights with Dr. Mark Willingham, at Crawford, where kindness was unbounded. My time was equally divided between chatting with th* hoys down in Crawford, riding over the country, anil fishing for carp in the Doctor's ponds. Sunday I readied Lex ington. and spent that day and night with Mr. McWhorter, Monday night with Dr. Boh Willingham. Tuesday I (lined at tiie Roane House, and last night spent at Mg. (i. W. Smith's. I hare now ahead enough engagements to take three months to fill. Lexington is very quiet this week, the only ripple in the monotony being the progress of work on the new court-house. The foundation is now built, the brick ellers. They are one of the classes prescribed by the constitution of the, Knights of Labor, and just now when attention has been attracted to his ideas and opinions by the publication of his circular, his views and expressions upon that subject are being extensively referred to and quoted by the Knights. In his last address made to the general conven tion of Knights of Labor Mr. Pow- derly said: “The temperance question is an important cfne, and I sometimes think it is the main issue. The large number of applications during the past year to grant dispensations to allow the initiation of rum sellers was alarming. 1 have persistently refused them, and will enjoin my successor, if he values the future success of the order, to shut the doors with triple bars , against the admission of the liquor ; dealer. His path and that of the honest industri ous workingman lie in opposite di rections. The rumseller who seeks admission into a labor society does so with the object that he may en tice its members into bis saloon after the meetings close. ..o ques tion of interest to labor has ever been satisfactorily settled over a bar in a rum hole. No labor society ever admitted a rumseller that did not die a drunkanKs death. No workingman ever drank a glass of rum who did not rob his family of the price of it, and in so doing com mitted a double crime, murder and theft. He murders the intellect with which the Maker hath endow ed him. He steals from his family the means of sustenance he has earned for them. Turn to the annals of every dead labor scciety, and •you will see whole pages blurred and destroyed by the accursed footprints of rum. Scan the records of a meeting at which a disturbance took place andjyou will hear echoing tiirough the hall the maudlin, fien dish grunt of the drunken brute who disturbed the HARMONY OF THE MEETING. In the whole English language I can find no word that strikes more terror to my soul than the one word ‘Rum.’ It was born in hell ere the fiat of ‘no redemption,’ had gone forth. Its life on earth has been one of ruin to the hopes of youth and the peace of old age. It has robbed childhood of its delights. It has stolen the laugh from the lips of innocence; the bloom from the cheeks of manhood. It has touched the heart of old age like the tip of a poisoned arrow. Its sound, as it gurgles from the neck of a bottle, echoes through many a desolate household as the hissing of a thous and serpents. You may deem me too radical on this point. Yet I never interfere with the rights ot a man to drink if he so selects. 1 hold I have a right to and do shun rum as would an enraged tiger, neither meddling with it nor allowing it to meddle with me. So long as it keeps its distance I am content to leave it alone, hut the moment it attempts to interfere with my rights by com ing into the Knight ot Labor, then my soul rises in arms against it, and I can find no words too bitter, no denunciation too scathing to hurl against it." TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. Mr. E. It. Hodgson, one of the commis sioners of the technological school, in forms us that the location of the school will be put up to the highest bidder. Macon has made a splendid offer. The city owns sixteen acres of land in the heart of the city which can be cut up into lots, and those who are informed about real estate in that city say it will bring fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Besides this they propose to give an annuity of three thousand dollars. Atlanta has to raise I ho amount that they give by private subscription. 1’enfield is coming to the front and will make a good bid. Athens so far has done nothing and it is time some of our public-spirited men should do something to secure the school. Ath ens can and ought to make as good hid as any of the other cities, and taking the healthy location we can get the school. GAVE IT TO ROCKDALE. Mr. Hoxle’s History. Philadelphia Tln.es. H. M. Iloxie, whose name has appeared in newspapers so promi nent during the last few days as the manager ol Jay Gould’s Western interest, as the first vice president of the Wabash system, has had an in teresting career. He was a poor boy in Polk county, Iowa, at the time when immigration was pour ing into that state. A gentleman by the name of Mitchell, who kept a country hotel about ten miles from Des Moines, became interested in the boy, who showed himself bright, active and intelligent. He became the hostler in this establishment, and as such was thrown into close con tact with the many hundreds of people who stopped at “Mitchell’s Tavern” on their Western way. About the beginning of the war the boy thus trained had grown to man hood, and by the assistance of his employer had entered local politics, being elected to a county office, and in this, as in his previous employ ment, showed himself to be a bright The delegates to the last senatorial ] and capable man. He made him- convention, wo learn, settled the ques- | tion as to whether Rockdale or Oconee county was entitled to the next senator, and gave it to Rockdale. There are two arc being made, and a number of hands My private business is so urgent that I j are getting out the granite. Four pieces j have rot the time to devote to writing. Col. Towers made some insinuations and charges which had all along believed him to be incapable of. He must have been over persuaded in some way.” • point with- ora U for th* Doctor to wil i L *' un,or > “d then everything Wl U bettorIhope.”, .,,7.^1* “V Ol Mug CHRISTIAN CHURCH MEETINO. The protracted meeting at the Chris tian church is attracting attention and a fine attendance. Rev. Thomas Mi Har ris, pastor of the Christian church in At lanta, who is now conducting the ser vices, is one of the most distinguish ed ministers in this denomination in Georgia. He is an orator of marked ability, of fine personal appearance and splendid _ voice. His sermons will he enjoyed by the people no Jess for their fine delivery than thejr instructiveness and forcibly logic. STILL THERE'S HOPE. We notice tha$ a citizen bf Atlanta, in “Have you any other affidavits?” “A great many. Some much more damaging than those I have published,; but 1 will not publish them. I did npt wish to publish to the world those I have. 1 It has been forced on me.” , “Are you friendly to the governor and hetovon?” „ “The governor has.- always treated mi v«!|r loOdly and cleverly, and I mean n& friends-while in lose - two such unjty.' The Ban- ftljem well in into. Mr. A. _ u business at - reflitftiofior Ik 1 ’ 3Tliy..lfBWg4W^|EiftrtPCWML!S3fl 5 14 •«fj-4iz-ifiii og <0NI$B ^Osobwo^ii;.4a«i£n*» conversation with Mr. Heidekoper, of fheJMchmond & Danville road, quotes tbaf*gentleinan as saying fthatfthe Geor gia. Hidjand,would Certainly he built, as the mimes is already raised to build tho road fr0mXolumb’-.s to the Georgia rail road, and that Athens would, without dbafefe he tiie terminus .of the road. We hope that Mr. Heidekoper’g prediction will be fulfilled. \ We shan see what we shall see. ’ ; .i of stone are now being polished that will weigh -J,000 pounds each. The granite quarried around Lexington is said to be the best in the world, and is susceptible to the finest polish. ’The new court house, when completed, will be a mag nificent structure—a credit indeed to the county. Court next week will he held in the Masonic Hall, which is now being fitted up for the purpose. The grand jury will probably use Col. TV\ G. Johnson’s law office. There is very little business be fore court, and will probably not hold longer than three days. A friend has just called for me, and I will close for to-day, and write up my trip on return home. T. L. G. self useful to the patty managers and did good public service at the same time. About the close of the war he became chairman of the re- , , , publican state central committee candidates in the fii-ld from Rockdale, i when ; t w#g the f ash ion in Iowa Judge A. C. McCalla and Hon. W. L. Peek. Mr. Peek lias represented that j to give majorities of from 30,000 to 50,000, and was rewarded for his county in the legislature for several years, j services in this direction by an ap- and made a good representative. Judge I pointment as United States marshal, Twilled lace handkerchiefs are in fashion again. g Jef bonnets promise to be popular fop spring wear. ^ , l’he_C?togan braid remains in fashion for young ladies. Cashmere and camel’s hair are much combined in costumes. New seersucker, in pale blue,pink or ecre, is embroidered with edel- wiss in white. 1 Cambric “all overs.” in all colors, have narrow embroidery to cores pond. Children’s stockings when not in black are of the darkest shades of brown green or red. Colored laces will combine with" the silk foulards for stylish summer costumes. Mikado parasols have the points turned upward and are made of striped or embroidered silk. Yum-yum, .parasols have 4 silk foundation and are covered with col ored silk, creped and loosely put on. Bridal slippers have a couple of white ostrich tips,well curled,where formerly was a spray of orange blossoms. Leghorn straw hats trimmed with Japanese fleurs de fantasie and will be much worn during the coming season. Chenile lace will be used as a rich trimming for black costumes the coming spring, and promises to be very fashionable. Ostrich leathers will be used in connection with flowers in the dec oration of summer millinery, and both in lavish profusion. Silk hose in bronze are finding many friends among ybung ladies. These will be very pretty with pink dresses for watering places. Plush will be used on stylish cos- tumes.of all sorts of fabrics—wool, silk and cotton—both as a garniture' and for underdresses. A navy blue straw turban is trim med with folds of velvet of the same color and a large bunch ot white cherries placed directly in front. White handkerchiefs are border ed with hand-embroidered daisies in blue, white and red. Handker chiefs in mourning have the daisies in black. Marvelous are the designs for summer ball dresses, where black lace figures largely as a material and the bead ornamentation is exquisite. Hungarian chain-stitch makes such effective trimming that is con sidered very effective when used to adorn house costumes or morning gowns. Butterfly bows, or. an aigrette of feathers, makes an essential orna ment for a full dress costume—vel vet bows of ribbon,with picot edge, are most stylish. Black kid gloves are stitched and bordered with tan, and tan-calored gloves have the stitching and bor ders of black. Long silk gloves reach over the shoulder. The simple turban shade for walk ing hats trimmed with pom-poms on the side will be the mbst stylish hats for your girls this spring. These are faced with velvet. Nun’s veiling is great variety, it has crinkled stripes, or has a bour- ette or frise surface, the loops being exceedingly fine. The plain sorts are finer than those oi last season. Narrow satin ribbon still makes the prettiest possible trimming for costumes for young girls and chil dren. It is sewn on in many rows, and tho effect is always pretty and appropriately simple. English chevoits make stylish cos tumes for young girls and children, and have the great advantage of be ing washable. For rough wear they are much better than “home spun” or ordinary, woolen fabrics. Entire overdresses of wool gui pure, make up without lining, will be worn over silk slips for semi-dress occasions, and fine grade wool gui pure net will be conspicous in dresses prepared for summer resorts. Some of the mantles are in gena- dine with frise fringes,and light-col ored grenadines trimmed with laces of the same color, lined with self color or silk, form most dainty man tles for dressy occasions during the warm weather. Gold lace of elaborate design is now uaed in the neck and sleeves of costumes for ceromonious occa sion where full.dress is de riguer. This lace is sometimes sewn on to velvet, making it more affective but ldss becoming. A new style of plastron is made of plaited jetted net. It ends in a point at the waist, fasted with loops' of black satin ribon. It is edged with arrow-head beads and is fin ished with a turndown Byron collar of jetted net. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. Augusta defeated the Charleston base ball nine. The $35,000 forfeited bail of Geo. O. Cannon was paid. Interest increases as the naval ex ercises at Pensacola continues. The London Daily News believes that the proposeu land purchase loan has been reduced to £60,000,- ooo i since Mr. Gladstone's scheme was drafted. William Blakeney shot and killed Raber Perry at Lancaster, S. C., on the nth. Abb Miller and Jack Bailey fought a draw of 100 rounds at Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. A delegation from Augusta goes over to Charleston in the interest of the Augusta and Chattanooga rail road. y<iijig/fnaiv named m> ou was killed near Carrollton, Ga-, his team running away; - In the seventh *qpgre**ional dis- r trick* meeting qf the district;, cony mittee has been called for April 3°th. the Baptist church house at Statesboro was burned to the gro ind by an incendiary on Tuesday n-ght at is o’clock. An Albany lady paid, during tlje war, $20 for a spool of thread, $3°° for. a pound of tea. and $400 for a simple gingham dress. The Ernestine go-.d mine com pany, of Villa Rica, has soid out its machinery, and it is being shipped to Lordsburg. New Mexico. It appears that Ellaville has been shaken from centre to circumfer ence bv the appearance in her midst of one of those wilj creatures kn'own as-a “blind tiger.” Col. G. W: Bryan, of Henry county, has one of the largest and best kept .vineyards in the state. He has now about nine thousand vines, comprising the choicest and most prolific varieties to be lound anywhere. ■> The Ellaville Enterprise says: Mr. J. M. Murray informs us that while out hunting a short time since that he killed a partridge, its back nearly whDe and the other parts natural color. A strange freak of nature. Col. Thomas Willis found a flint rock on his plantation near Centre- .-file which lias a square hole in it j' inr h in rlpnth. and ner- ra The President has viithdra wn tl?e nominatiorv of Qrlaudq W. Powers, ot Michigan, to be associate justice of the supreme court of Utah. Senator Chase yesterday reported adversely the bill to increase -.he rate ot postage on fourth class mat ter to two cents per ounce. ’ The New York lower house has 1 intended to emigrate, adopted resolutions tendering sym pathy to the Irish and praising Gladstone. nearly one inch in depth, and per fect i'Vproportions. It is supposed to have been done by the Indians. At Fort Gaines a day or two ago a rabbit came floating down the river on a lot of trash. He sat se- ! 1 1 renely through the number of shots fired at him, looking ahead, as if he Fanueil hall, Boston, was packed last night at a mass meeting to ex press sympathy with Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell. J. Stevens, a switchman in the Louisville and Nashville railroad yards, was caught between two cars and badly meshed. It is thought he will die. Senator Colquitt spoke to an im mense audience in the skating rink, at Lynchburg, Va., on local option. The fight is very hot and both sides claim that victory is assured to them. Secretary Lamar will leave Wash ington this morning for Memphis, Tenn.. Macon, Ga., and his home at Oxford, Miss. He is not expected to return to Washington for a week or ten days. President Watson Vanbenhuysen testified before the telephone inves tigation committee yesterday. The investigation was lively at times and “the liar” and “scoundrel” were applied lavishly. R. H. Harris, treasurer of the Sag Harbor savings bank, was discovered to be $S,000 short in his accounts this morning. Harris, who has heretotore borne an un sullied reputation, is superintendent of a Methodist Sunday school. The President yesterday nomina ted and the senate unanimously confirmed Senator Howell E. Jack- son, of Tennesse, to be circuit judge of the United' States for the sixth judicial district, vice John Baxter, deceased. BtRNED IN THEIR COFFINS. Mr. Nettlotoa's Terrible Discovery—Wife and Child, Consumed. McCalla is a lawyer of prominence in I and as his district covered the entire Conyers, and a braver soldier never | sidle gave him a prominence which shouldered a musket. The members of I was m ° r e than local and made him one ot the best known men in the 3d Georgia regiment living in Clarke county recollect Gus McCalla as one_ of the brave soldiers who followed where Gen. Wright led. FARMERS COMING SOUTH. AJgenUeman registered at the Commer cial a few days ago named II. Hayden fromCharlotte, Mich. Mr. H. immediate ly commenced inspecting our city and the surrounding country, and says that he has been sent ont by Northern farmers to look at the different parts of the coun try South and report He is very much pletsed with Athens and the surround ing country, and says that Athens is a progressive city. Whether any of the Northern farmers trill come or not re mains to be seen. , . » DISSOLVED AND LEFT. jn this issue appeu-s the dissolution notice of Long & Co.; Messrs. Charlie- D. ing and .Cosby E. Smith comprising the m- ’ Hoth of these gentlemen leave this their old home in Nevrnan. firm . n BASEBALL. A meeting of the Athens baseball club was held last evening at the rooms of the Athletic Association on Clayton street It was ascertained that the Lexington and Harmony Grove baseball ciubs hare or ganized, and that they ?ere anxious to play games with the Athena club during not heard from the Washington and Mad- isorvclubs. The club. is also waiting to ascertain if they can secure a battery. Another meeting will be held in a few AT THE CHURCH. Rev. Thos. S. Harris' practical and in structive sermon on Christian progres sion at the Christian church, Tuesday night, was listened to by a good audience with intense interest, and those not in attendance were the losers of some rich and noble thoughts that emanated from the lips of this highly educated Chris tian divine. None should miss his lec tures if they wish to be instructed in the path of truth and right. BALL FOR ATHENS. Quite a large number.of the lovers of base ball met in the rooms over Mr. An derson’s store, on Clayton street, to or ganize the Northeast Georgia League. The meeting was largely attended and liberal subscriptions made. The gentle men who have the matter in hand arc destined to make it a success and give our citizens a round of sport this year. The proceedings will be published in to morrow’s paper. JAMES R. LYLE. The above named gentleman will be put ferward by his friends in Oconee county to represent the district composed of the counties of Clarke, Oconee, Wal ton, Newton and Rockdale. Mr. Lyle is a brilliant and forcible speaker, and will reflect credit on the district -SW , DELEGATES ELECTED. At the Quarterly Conference held at the season. The committee as yet had- the FiretMethodist church Monday night the following delegates were elected to the district meeting to be held in Jefferson in Jnty: Dr. J. A. Hunnicutt and J. R.- Crane. Alternates, Cobb Lampkin and Prof. I. G. Hudson. the state. Just after the reconstruction pe riod he gave up politics and remov ed to Palestine, Tex., where he be came connected with the manage ment of the International railroad. Here the same qualities that' had stood him in good stead as a boy and man, in business and in politics, brought him to the front and did good work in developing this rail road system in Texas, and soon showed that he had in him the qual ities of a gtcat railroad manager. When Mr. Gould bought up a large number of the railroads in the Southwest and had consolidated them in the general name of the Wabash system, Mr. Hoxie was chosen as one of his lieutenants and went to St. Louis, where he became first vice-president of this system. He is a shrewd, quick-witted man, of few words, but prompt in deci sion and immovable when once he has made up his mind. A Cowboy Duel. A cowboy duel with lassoes was fought near Cheyenne, W. T., be tween S. T. Batbour, “Texas Tom,” Sam Little, “Coyote Sam,” The two were mounted and carried lariat^ for ty feet in length. They were placed 300 yards apart, and at the word rode straight at each other Sam Lit tle made his rope last to bis saddle horn, while Barbour took a single turn on his. As the men met, Little threw his rope and missed and Bar- hour- then put his lariat about -hts adversary s neck, and could easily have choked him to death. Little fought to relese himself,but without avail. Finally the tyo shook hajnds and parted as friends. Barbour is front Louisville,and is related to the Mafiorys and Rodmtt^ds. He was educated at Bard town. Li,ttle is from Missouri. . A TOURIST POCKETS $2,000. A Mean Trick Practiced on an Unsuspecting Orange Grower. From the OcmU (Fix) Banner. A report reaches us that an or ange grower living not many miles from Ocala, was the victim of two shrewd sharpers not long since. This gentleman feels like hiring some man wearing No. izs to give him a sound kicking, so we shall not give him away, but for conven ience will call him Mr. B. Early in the fall he was visited by a tourist who wanted to invest in a grove; the price asked, was $5,000, which, after some dallying, was agreed upon. Five hundred dollars was paid down to confirm the trade, and both gentlemen were to meet in Ocala some days afterwards to ex amine the abstracts and pass the deeds. But, before this was done, an- otherstranger passed along, who was ported to be extremely healthy. He took a great fancy to the place and wanted to buy it, and increased his sum gradually until the sum of $8,- 0000 was reached. This was a bait' too tempting to bo resisted, and the owner said that he would try to beg or buy off buyer No. 1. But buyer No. 1 -bad too good a bargain and had no ideS of relinquishing, his hold. He would not listen to even being bought off, so an offer of $500 was resisted, likewise $i t ooo, but when the grower reached the sum together with the $500 he hod paid to bind the bargain, was paid over to him, and the^. tourist returned to Ocala, but he did not wait to buy any more groves, but departed on the first train, and tourist No. 2, with the $3,000 has not yet put in appearance) and will hardly do so before the rose* bloom. From the New York Herald, Sandusky, O., April 9.—Singu lar developments have crept out to-day regarding, the burning of a fine buffet baggage car on the Lake Shore railroad yesterday between Toledo and Oak Harbor. But little was thought of the matter till Mr. Nettleton returned from Cleveland to look for the remains of his wife and infant, which were in the car, when the following facts came out: James Gilroy, baggageman, says he smelt smoke in the car for some time, but singularly enough failed to investigate the cause. He finally informed the conductorpf his fears and the train was stopped, but the flames had then got a considerable start, and it was clear that the car was doomed. Mr. Nettleton was in the sleeper, but was not fiotifieij of the calamity, and he knew noth-; ing about it till the train reached Cleveland. He was then told that it was use less to return, as his wife’s and ba by’s bodies were burned up. He did go back, however, and found the remains of his wife and child partially consumed, soothing 're mained of the former but the trunk; the arms and legs were gone. He procured a new casket and sent them on to their destination. He offered $1,000 reward for a diamond ring which he had put on the finger of this corpse. There was other valuable jewelry in his trunks, be sides a large sum of money, notes and bonds, all of which were con sumed. Not a piece of baggage was saved. > . Mr. Nettleton is indignant and demands an investigation. He does not accuse any particular person of committing the robbery, which he says was the first committed, and that the car was subsequently fired to hide the crime. On the other hand it was asserted that no one could have ente-ed the car without being seen by the employees. The body, of the baby was burned and blackened beyond recognition.' Mr. Nettleton was taking the remains of mother and child from St. Paul to .Connecticut. Mr. H. W. J.' Ham, the well- 1 S known journalist, will take charge of the editorial department of the Daily Official Centennial Bulletin, published by Davis Bros., during the week of the big drill at Savan nah in May. Judge Arthur Hood, of Cutnbert, died on Saturday night, after a lin gering illness of nearly six weeks. Cuthbert loses one of her most prominent citizens, and the legal fraternity one of the brightest law- years in the state. Mrs. Devlin and Mrs. Dr. RiddIey,of Atlanta,are hir daughters. C. O. Lyle killed some kind of a strange water fowl Tuesday, three .miles south of Carrollton. When killed it was in a little lagoon on a branch. No one was able to say what it was. It was 3 feet 4 inches in height and 4 feet from tip to tip of wing. It is presumed it was some sort of a sea fowl. A Lumpkin merchant who keeps a cage of white rats at home, took a nap one evening recently, and after reaching his store felt something moving around between his vest and shirt. An investigation showed that he had been carrying one of his rats around in his bosom for an hour or two without knowing it was there. Atlanta, Ga., April 9.—Presi dent Linderman, of the Savannah, Dublin and Western railroad made affidavit ir. the executive office to day that he was-on the Oregon re turning from London and had the original charter of the company which sunk with the steamer. He applied for a duplicate, which was granted. He let the contracts to day for sixty-five milds of road. In Thomas county a few days ago, Mr. James Knight met with a serious accident while splitting rails. A lodged limb fell, striking him on his head, glanced, splitting his hair, striking between his neck and collar bone, breaking his collar bone and dislocating his shoulder and penetrating the hollow, splitting his left •' lung. The limb weighs about forty pounds; it seems unreas onable neverthless it is true. Mr. Knight is doiqg as well as could possibly be expected. This morning about 12 o’clock, quite a crowd was congregated about the cigar store ol Mr. Gazan, under the Pulaski house, looking at an eel that had passed through the pipes into the hose used in watering the street, where it lodged, as its body was too big to come out of the uozzle; Several advanced theopin- ion that it was not an eel, but a small mocassin. After considerable trouble the eel was released from its position in the pipe, and placed in a basin of water, where it seemed to be perfectly at home.—Savannah Times. GENERAL NEWS. ‘J At Horton Gillis’ butter factory, five miles north of Harvard, Illinois,' a cream separator burst, killing Wm. Johnson and wounding three oth- ^ra,-named Acton, Bourman and .Blake* Acton’s injuries being, seri ous.. 1 S /te ’, -i ,1 J, on, I LILLIAN MADISON’S DEATH. Alleged Evidence that she Died from Mal practice. ’ Richmond,April,1 i-The question of the hanging of T. J. Cluverius for; thb murder of Fanny Lillian Madison is now in the Hands of the hiehest court of the state the con demned man having asked for a new trial on the ground.of newly discov ered evidence In the latter part of last summer 'Rachel Mb Donald, aged maiden lady, living near the reservoir in which the body of Lillian Madison was discovered, was found dead in' her yard with her throat cut. Appa rently every effort was made to" dis cover the means ot her death, but without avail. Her property is in the hands ot the court. Now comes the startling news that witnesses have been found to prove that Miss Mc Donald was murdered and that they will appear before the next grand’ jury nf the county (Henrico) with more positive evidence. Still more startling is the informa- ion that Lillian Madjson,who it'was thought was thro wn in the reservoir by her cousin Cluverius died at the house of Miss Me Donald from an at tempt at malpractice and was thrown into the water after death, All these rumors have excited the greatest in terest, and counsel for Cluverius was not slow in doing alj in their power to get the facts’of the death'Of Miss McDonald out. - The,local option question is turn mg oyer-Virginia, so to spe^West W went wet^e^.^ £ \ •'m3 hf.id-s-t »«lob to Smalt »d] Four escaped convicts have been seen near Birmingham. Congress has passed a bill for the erection of a national library build ing. A sturgeon seven feet long and weighing 250 pounds was caught by a small boy at Tacoma, Washington Territory, recently. James Dennis, 50 years old, an inmate of the almshouse at Reading, Pa., hanged himself because he was ordered to move from the old hospi tal to the new. A dispatch from Decatur, Ala., says: Collector A. Flournoy, super intendent of education of Colbert county, has disappeared, leaving a shortage in his accounts. A “cent-a-mi!e” fare bill has pass ed the New Jersey house, providing for' fares on all railways within twenty miles of New York at that rate- between the hours of 5 and 7, morning and evening. General Sheridan will leave Washington next week for Chicago, and front there will go on a tour of inspection of the department ot the South before its command is deliv ered to General Terry. Peter Wilson, of Spring Mills. P^nn., who died a week ago or so, was said to be the oldest Sunday school superintendent in the world. So long ago as in 1828 he assisted in organizing the Sabbath school of which be was president at the time of his death. The trial of Burns, Hyndman, Champion and Williams, the social ist leaders on the charge of having incited the Trafalgar Square and IJyde Park riots, was concluded. The jury reedered a verdict of not guilty, and the defendants were all discharged. Andrew Canova. the 13-year-old son of A. P. Canova, and the two sons of J. Heston, aged about 12 znd 16 respectively, left Palatka in a sail boat late Monday afternoon for Deep Creek, near Federal Point, where they went for the purpose ot fishing. Nothing has been heard t>f the boys by their parents since, and they are ve^- anxious as to the safety of them.. In Jhe yard connected with the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road, at Lima, O., there is an old four wheel locomotive that was the first engine used oh the Cincinnati and Hamilton railroad, which was chartered in 1846 and opened in engine is carried by the four yvheels connected, and has in- 'clined c}lih'dei&, although there is ho truck. 1 Th'e steam chest ’is on top of the cylinders, as m modern locomotives, and the valver' motion is tbe>V hook.- , The, engine is: pre- ,, j/ Kiri ' • C*v'. .