Georgia Historic Newspapers

    ESOOrXTER WITH A MAD DOG.
FijM B.tw«n a Has and a
Rabid Animal.
Mr. Wage*, who now own* the old
Coil's* mill, on Sandy creek, last Sunday
pave us an account of an encounter that
i„. hail with a mad dog juat four weeks
It «as on a Sunday morning,
«Idle sitting in his porch, that Mr. Waeos
saw a dog pass the road, foaming at the
mouth and showing erery evidence of
hydrophobia He seized his gun, and
,, ith one of his sons, started in pursnitof
animal. The two men, in prosecui-
, their search, were separated a short
distance, when the son remarked that
jhov had passed the dog, that had evi
dently left the road. At this instant the
eld gentleman aaw the dog standing hut
,w ranis from him, its eyes bioodshot
and evidently greatly enraged. Mr.
Wages threw his gun to his shoulder
| aimed at the beast, that was now
lunging toward him; but to his horror,
(1,,. weapon missed fire, and the dog
NO. XVI
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTTESDA_Y, MAAG 4=, 1886.
VOL. XXXI
PEOPLE OF
COUNTV.
'•prang
At his throat. But Mr. Wages
powerful man, and not having
tnnr to rock the other barrel, tried to
tl-ft-nd himself bj making* club of the
pun. The dog, however, seized the bar-
r , lin its teeth, that left the impress in
ti,. hard steel. All this required less
time than it takes to write it. The son at
hastened to his father's assistance,
l.ut upon his approach the dog tied. The
i.ro men then followed the animal
f,, r live miles, over into Madison county,
finally lost the trail and returned
h ur.* 1 But they had scarcely got seated
on the porch when the dog repassed
Azam upon the road. Seizing the gun
Mr. Wages this time got a shot at the
brute and lodged the load in its hips,
put the dog ahowed not the slightest
sui’i of pain, and made off with such
tpoed that it was soon lost to sight. The
afterwards traced to an old ne-
y r „ man’s near Mr. Torn Hudson’s,
w »,. r>- it iu 1 hit a cow, as also one for
Mr I.**rd. at ('enter. Both of these
imvvp, in exactly one week, went mad
n;„i ha i t<* he killed. Mr. Lord lied his
, ..a out m the w-**»ds, to await develop-
ie,t He- H. .we 1 signs of hv-
drephehia, biting her
ll he
d..;
elf and attackii
. The old nog
o * was after-
• r .y some
o have died
is certainly a
i only by his
itnd that he
teeth of the
wo cows That
•:;r that This
an epidemic
LUO ,
M
iule ;or ..taess.
text the North Eastern
:i«!r.»v‘, in run ection with the K. Sc 1>.,
v ‘1 i nu a schedule between Athens and
AM.miU, which, for convenience, com-
f *'t and speed, will he decide.lly the
Im i schedule ever put on between this
p* nt and Atlanta. The Air-Line Belle,
a splendid accommodation train, which
has hitherto run to Gainesville from At-
la .i t. will, after Monday next, run to
Ltii.i ami nuke close connection with the
North-Gas-i-rn train from Athens, which
leaves here at f» a. in. (75th meridian
time) and arrives in A Manta at 9:25: leav-
iri x .‘la.r.a il about 5 p. in., arrive in
Atnens it 11:15. This excellent arrange
ment will he highly appreciated by our
the trains make close connec-
people
stop.
aid no delav
eatlv enhanc
at Lula. Then* will be hut few
>, which important
' the comfort of sum-
hut travel. By this new schedule a per-
vin can breakfast in Athens, have about
eight hours in Atlanta, and arrive home
at an early hour in the 'evening. We
congratulate our people and the officers
of the roads on their admirable summer
ached ulc.
SHOOTING AT ANOTHER.
The Green-Eyed Monater the Cause of the
Trouble.
Sunday merging the sharp report of a
Colt’s repeater was heard near the min
eral spring, and thinking it rather out of
order for pistols to he tired on the Sab
bath, a B.-W. reporter proceeded to in
vestigate. It soems that Armstead Lew
is is a quiet negro, living on l>r. Lyn
don's lot. He thought that Win. Hill
was paying too much attention to his
wife, and went for him with a pistol anti
shot at lPill twice. After the shooting
Armstead came hack to his house anti
gave his wife a severe heating. When the !
job was through with he was terribly
enraged, air* defied any one to put their
hand on him. Lewis flourished a pistol
in a very disagreeable manner to those
standing near. Policeman McKie ap
peared upon the scene and took him to
the calaboose, where he gave bond for
his appearance. For a time that part of
the city where the difficulty began was
terribly excited and the streets filled
with the neighbors.
A BLOODY MELEE.
Between Whites and Blacks In West Vir
ginia.
Whkei.inc., April 20.—At a festival giv
en by the colored people of Brennell,
Mercer county, Friday night, a riot broke
out between whites and blacks, in which
one colored man was killed and several of
both races wounded. The melee origi
nated in the objectionable conduct of the
whites, who were more or less intoxicat
ed ami whose presence was undesirable
to those in charge. The combat, which
was waged in total darkness, the lights
having been extinguished, was carried on
with the free use of revolvers, clubs and
razors. When order was restored Ben
Wotkins, colored, was dead, with twelve
wounds upon his person. Two white
men were dangerously cut and one negro
was badly wounded by a pistol ball.
Many arrests have been made.
A MULE ATTAC1*D WITH HYDROPHOBIA.
Mr. ,T. W. Arnold tolls us the follow-
in-; About five weeks ago a mad dog
passed through Wylie X. Tope’s planta
tion and while going through a lot on the
place bit a mule belonging to Welborn
Sanders, a negro. (hi last Thursday the
mute went mad and Mr. Arnold was -ent
for to see it. When he reached
Pope's he found the mule in a strong en
closure. rearing, kicking, biting and show
ing every sign of hydrophobia. His
tongue was hanging out and it was so
swollen that the animal could not shut
its mouth. After finding that nothing
could he done and th(Jthe multfwas get
ting worse every moment it was decided
that he had better he kilted. Mr. Hal
Arnold shot him in the head with a
breech loading shot gun, killing him in
stantly. lie was bitten on the nose.—
Washington Chronicle.
mitt e to i
com
an address in the
liAWSOVa PATENTS. TO THE
■ JT*n Thousand Five Hundred Dollars Eae- •
lip Made. | At a meetingof the Oconee Coun
One day in the summer of last year, T. ty Prohibition Association, the un
F. Lawson, who owns a little farm near [ dersigned wete appointed
Athens, thought that it was time that he
was getting up a lot of baskets for his
hinds to use in picking cotton, and he
spoke to two or three negro basket mak
ers on the subject of making them for
him. Kach of them declined to take the
job on account of the difficulty of getting
white oak for making the splits. The
thought occurred to him that it was pos
sible to invent and use something else
instead of the old time split basket, and
he set his brains to work at once, to get
up a new one which would answer the
purpose. In two days his invention was
perfected, and a patent was applied for
and obtained at once. The basket is
known as the Lawson cotton basket, and
achieved such popularity that it was sold
in every Southern state last fall. Find
ing that his orders were far ontrunning
his capacity to niaufacture, and having an
insufficient capital to reap the advantage
of his invention, he sold his patent to Ur.
!lunnicutt,of Athens, for five thousand
five hundred dollars. A nice two days
work.
Mr. Lawson did not stop, however, at
this. He concluded that the railroads
needed a new car coupler, and at once
set about inventing it. He obtained a
patent easily and sold a one third inter
est to Thomas Bailey, superintendent of
the Athens foundry for two thousand five
hundred dollars. His coupler will be
used by the Georgia, North-Eastern and
i’ichniond and Uanvillc railroads, and
bids fair to make him a rich man,—Wash
ington Chronicle.
BETTER THAN BASE BALL.
A GREAT PROJECT.
It is rumored that certain large stock
holders in the Georgia road, in this sec
tion are urged to sell their stock in that
road at the high price it now commands,
and with the money build a line from
Athens to Klherton. A half dozen par
ties are able to complete the projocted
road, and it wojld pay from the start. If
the Augusta ,V Chattanooga road is ever
built it will destroy the business of the
Georgia, and doubtless result in breaking
the lease.
CHANGE OF FIRM.
Mr. G. W. Kush, the popular fruggist,
esterdav sold lo Dr. W. R. Arnold, of
•glethorpe county, a half interest in his
drug store. The firm name will be Kush
A Arnold. They are both live young
men, and will do their share of the drug
business of Athens, both in wholesale
and retail. Mr. Arnold is backed with
money and business capacity. He i
young man who has come to Athens to
make it his home, and help to build up
the interests of our city. We speak for
the new firm a liberal patronage.
The Blatr BUI Not Gaining Favor.
A Washington special to the New
York Journal of Commerce says. The
House committee on labor is no more fa
vorably disposed toihe ltlair educational
bill, proposing to distribute $77,<100,000
among the states, than the committee on
education. At the meeting of the com
mittee on labor to-day another effort was
made to have the bill reported to the
House without recommendation, so that
it could be placed upon the calendar, hut
this was defeated. Then the committee
took up a substitute offered in the com
mittee by Mr. Ilaniel. of Virginia, which
proposes to refund the receipts from the
sales of public lands for education, but
came to no conclusion. There are only
five members of the committee on labar
who favor the Blair bill, viz; Chairman
•' Neil, of Missouri, Funsten, of Kansas,
Buchanan, of New Jersey, Haynes, of
New Hampshire, and James, of New
York, all republicans except.O’Neil.
They gave tip the hope of securing any
report,and say thatthc restof the com'
miller are not disposed to take any ac
tion that will give the bill any standing
in the house.
THE STOLEN DIAMONDS.
It is reported that the diamonds ship
ped hv Mr. A. S. Mandeville and stolen
on the road have been at last recovered
*'ur informant could not tell where the
detectives got them, but it is certain that
they have been recovered.
Laths.—The diamonds were found in
the possession of a negro girl in Bcllton
She tried to sell a diamond pin worth
$150 for 15 conts, and this led to the de
tection by a gentleman living in Bellton
1 he girl claims that she found the box of
diamonds. Several discharges of express
messengers have been made en account
"f this robbery. The detectives failed
•*» Snd them.
RED DOGWOOD BLOSSOM.
Mr. Greer, of this county, brought
into our effice yesterday a red dogwood
hower, the first that has ever been foand
in this country. He says that there if a
tree full 0 f them on Mrs. Mayne’s place,
U» thia county.
prepare n
interest of the cause of prohibition
in Oconee county. An election has
been ordered to be held on the 20th
day of May, to determine whether
or not spirituous liquors shall be
sold within the limits of the county.
We earnestly call upon the friends
of temperance throughout the coun
ty to rally to a man. for the issue is
near at hand and must be met. We
want.no divisions in this tight, but
united effort, and a strong pull, a
long pull and a pull altogether, and
our efforts will be crowned with
success and victory will perch upon
our banners. Let us meet the issue
coolly, calmly and prudently, but
with a determined and bull dog te
nacity that laughs at impossibilities,
and cries “it shall be done.” Let
the citizens of every neighborhood
be aroused to a sense of the weigh
ty responsibilities which rest upon
them, for every man who votes in"
favor of the sale of liquor, or by his
ndifference stays away from the
polls on election day is a friend to
intemperance and resposible for the
curse of bar rooms The issue can
not he dodged, there is no middle
ground, no neutrality in this fight
We are either for or against bar
rooms. We are either enlisted un
der the black flag of he rum triend
or under the pure, white flag of tem
perance. Some say that bar rooms
do not hurt them, therefore they
will have nothing to do with the
election. Have such men no
neighbors whose wives and chil
dren are in danger from
the ravages of intemperance, the
greatest of all curses? Did God cre
ate them to live unto themseives
and to contribute nothing lo pro
mote the peace, good order and
ll-heing of society? It has been
demonstrated that nine tenths ct
the crimes of this country have their
ntigin in the bar-room curse. That
being true, then the defenders of
barrooms, and h->— who through
d.flV ence letusc o vote for pro
oi ion. are Mippoitxr- o' crime.
Some -ay prohibition take.- iway
r l ights and infringes upon their
libei ties. It does not take a wav the
right of any man to diink, but it
does take away the lioerty of the
rumseller to sell that which will
make our sons drunkards, steal a>» as
the reason of our people and sei
•firm adrift upon society to steep
themselves in crime, to violate eve
ry law ol God and man, to trample
under feet the sacred ties of home,
to cause the iiearts oi wives and
mothers to drip with blood and turn
our earth into a pandemonium.
Some say that prohibition does not
prohibit. It does prohibit. One
of the largest dealers in the county
attests that tite consumption of li
quors has decreased 40 per cent,
since the question of prohibition has
been agitated. We have laws
against stealing and murders. Are
theie any thieves and muiderer-?
Yes. but how much more stealing
and how manv more murders would
toere be without these laws? We
would urge the young men of our
county to rally around the standard
of temperance, and in the language
ar-.d the last words of the immortal
G tugh would entreat them to
’•make a clean record” in the ap
proaching election. We would say
to the good women ol our county,
the mothers and daughters, who
are always ready to help in ever)
good work and whose influence is
almost omnipotent, we need your
help. Go to work in earnest, orga
nize and appoint committees and
sc> them to work in every direction.
We would be glad to have our col
ored friend,sas many as will, to meet
with 11s and co operate with us in
driving from our county this great
corse to their race.
In conclusion, we would say to
the Iriends of prohibition.be not dis-
cou'aged; although we have a pow
ertul enrol) to fight, although he is
backed by hell and wicked men,
and our cause is assailed b) foes
within the church, on the streets
and on every side, yet God and
the right are for us. Let us then
fight on till our war cry shall shake
into dust every citadel ot a conquer
ed foe, and our banner wave over
a land redeemed and saved till “cold
water" pure, crystal, limpid and
bright shall be the universal bever
age of the world
Jciin W. Johnson.
ClementH Ashford.
Reuben T. Durham.
Benj. R. McRee.
William B Langford.
As Errorless Dueling Contest Near Paris.
N. Y. Herald.
Paris, April iS.—The writ to
stay proceedings issued by the Paris
tnbunalsand served on M. I'romc-
pueix at the instigation of M Tjv
ernier, in order to prevent a duel
with M Magnier, proved inelective
Messrs. Magnier and Thomegueix
managed to baffle the complicated
machinery of French justice,and had
their duel after all at a late hour yes
terday afternoon iu the lorest of St.
Germain. The fight commenced in
a secluded spot in the forest,but an
old woman who was gathering chic-
cory intormed the gamekeepers,
who, just as swords crossed, appear
ed upon the scene in lull uniform.
The combatants, seconds and sur
geons managed to escape iu their
carriages, and drove at full gallop 5
miles to another seluded place.
A HARD FOUGHT ENCOUNTER.
Tne fight then began in earnest,
both doing their best to kill tne
other. M. Thomegueix forced the
fighting and gained ground inch bv
inch, but with no advantage, as M.
Magneir fought beautifully, his skill
equaling his feat in the celebrated
Sunday morning fencing exhibition
at the Elysee Palace in the presence
ot President and the Dauphin of the
Republic, M. Wilson. M. Magneir
certainly showed his funk this time,
as with clenched teeth and eyes
fixed on his adversary he beat M
Tromegneix slowly back. The
sword play of both was almost per
fection.
TOO MUCH ZEAL.
Suddenly M. Magnier, seeing an
opening thrust savagely at M. Trom-
eguelx’s abdomen, but the latter’s
iron wrist beat aside the sword
point just as it was touching him on
a vital part. M. Tromegneix retur-
ed the thrust, and M. Magnier
drew hack his arm in such a way as
leave no doubt of what had hap
pened. “Stop!" cried one of the
seconds; “Monsieur, you are hit, are
you not?" ”Oui" was the low res
ponse M. Tromegneix then tur
lied to-wards his seconds with a
look of satisfaction
CALM THOUGH WOUNDED
M Magnier w.1' pile bur his
hunts Hid not ticmhle, although
midway between the wrist and feie-
arin, a dark blue spot appeared
which showed where the blade had
entered. The point ot the sword
had gone to the hone. The gentle
men lorked at each other gravely.
“It is impossible for the fight to con
tiuue,” said all the seconds. Tile
doctors agreed, and the “proces ver
bal” was drawn up. M Magnier’s
wound is very serious if not danger
ous.
ANOTHER DUEL.
The next duel on the cards of this
extraordirrry series will probably
be between M. Magnier—as soon as
he gets well again—and M. Adol
pho Tavenier Yesrerday’s duel
was spoken of at the clubs as
thoroughly correct in every particu
lar, and one of the most sportsman
like combats that Ins tiken pltce
for a long tune.
FASHION NOTES
Traveling cloaks correspond with
the costume.
Fawn-colored ytamine is worn
over gold or ted silk.
Summer silks have hair lines,
blocks and small diecks.
A large bow of white ribbon dec
orates the handle of stylish sun um
brellas.
Overdresses of corde de la reine
are worn with skirts of plain velve
teen
Beige in gray, brown and buscuit
color is the favorite material for
spring wear.
Many of the new jackets are made
with close fitting back and loose or
halt loose front.
Japanese fabrics decorated with
heavy embroidery are used in the
season’s milinery.
Black silk flounces will form the
trimming of stylish black silk cos
tumes for summer.
A white camel’s hair gown trim
med with rows of black and silver
braid is a novelty.
Black guipure and French lace
and corn net will be used for over
dresses for colored dres-es.
Beaded gallon belts corresponding
to the trimming of Hit. bodice are
worn with round waists.
A FIGHT FOR A CHILD.
Wood mountain is airily situated in tha
British possessions, about 125 miles north of
Missouri river, and reached by an Iwffhw
rail from Wolf Point, Montana. Why it
reached originally by anybody fca ques- |IU3uoa ^ ^ j*™,
iaa ^ akC T a \ Ct ^'r^ ? rat? understand the poeaibllit^S
nnn " —im— " preference, but they should remember that
food that would atop an infant’s suffering; It
waa for the brats that they broke Mr. Allen
up in busjnraa not for tfisnasivea, and when
they gutted hia store, they turned to his house
for more. Refused, they concocted a devilish
scheme of vengeance, and what is very much
more to the point, they carried it out
If there is a dearer thing to an Indian than
his God, it is his child. Some pious people
nan into endless inquiry, but somebody got
here and tho result was the establishment of
i fort, garrisoned by a magnificent army of
fiftecu mounted policemen, over whom Maj.
fumes Walsh, of much deserved fame, pre
mies with dignity and results.
For a long time things ran smoothly, aa
they frequently do around a post whore peo
ple are not on particularly harsh warlike
terms with any other people, but one ill-
itarred day a red party by the name of Sit
ting Bull found his way into tho territory
with some 3,000 companions, and climbing
the sterile side of Wood mountain, located
himself and his dissolute associates at a point
about eighteen miles from the post.
it is not difficult to arrive at the reasons
that induced this Sitting Bull to go there, as
the pages of frontier history suggest the in
ference that he experienced much trouble
wherever else he went Anyway he settled
down on the side of the mountain, and in a
few (lays tho barren buttes and couleee fairly
blisnnad with the buffalo skin lodges of him
self and his tribe. This man Sitting Bull was
in a measure circumscribed. On the top of
the mountain were the forces of Maj. Walsh,
mall numerically, but weighing tons of in
fluence, and prepared to make him behave
himself with some respect to the prejudices
of people around him. On the south a multi
tude of United States troops were making
THE VOICE FROM BEAl'VOIR.
A MAD DOG.
Yesterdsy morning a large yellow dog,
evidently suffering" from hydrophobia,
attacked Arthur Pitman at Mr. Barry’s
lot, hut the young man escaped by
climbing the fence. The dog then bit a
dog on Dr. Lyndon’s lot, one at the
guano warehouse and also several dogs
around the N. E. depot. The animal is
still at large.
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Last Saturday Capt. John I. Calloway
hired Guy Hodgson’s big mule to ride
down to his Oglethorpe plantation, and
when near Mr. A. C. Daniel’s place the
animal stumbled and fell, its huge body
catching Capt. C. beneath it and badly
hurting his side, shoulder and arm. The
Captain was out for the first time yes
terday, and was complaining greatly.
OPERATION ON THE EYE.
Major R. H. Bullock, of Madison coun
ty, Spent Monday night with Mr. W’hite
in Athens, on his return from Atlanta,
where he had been for Dr. Calhoun to
operate on one of his eyes. He was
greatly benefited and with care will re
cover his sight
OGLETHORPE'S CORNER 8T0NE.
Col. J. A. Billups has been invited by
the citixens of Oglethorpe to address
them on the occasion of the laying of the
corner stone of their new court house.
He will probably cansont to be with
them.
HcOlNNIS CAUSES TROUBLE.
When the Banner-W’atchman made its
appearance in Harmony Grove, on Mon
day, a horse hitched to a wagon in front
of Quillian’s store got a glimpse of Pat
rick McGinnis’ photograph and ran away,
smashing the vehicle to pieces.
EXPLOSION OF A RUMOR.
I have just seen Harry Hill, who says
he has not given up the White Plains
railroad, but will begin work next week,
—Correspondent Augusta News.
MARRIAOE.
In Clarke county, on Sunday morn
ing, Mr. Frank Whitehead and Hiss
Sallie Nixon were married. We wish
them a life of unallowed happineas.
How a Man and Hit Horse Went Down in
Utter Darkness.
Cairo, Ga., April 28.—Editors
Evening News: Again I claim
spaca in yonr most excellent paper
to narrate an occurrence which took
place in the extreme portion ot
Southwest Georgia, as given to
me by a man who helped to rescue
the horse from a cave. A man by
the name ot Jessa Johnson was rid
ing r fine young horse and driving
cows out of a pasture. As the cows
got outside of the pastuie one of
them turned into the woods, when
Mr. Johnson dashed off" on the
horse to head the cows. Suddenly
the earth gave way, and the horse,
from the jerk of the bridle, iell in
backwards. Mr. Johnson slipped
and went down ahead of the hor-e.
A ledge of rocks had to be passed,
and the man got through quick and
stopped on the ledge of rock over
which the stream of water was
running. The horse missed the
place where the man stopped and
went on below. T ust then neither
man nor horse went to see what be
came of the cow, for Johnson, poor
fellow! was stunned by the fall,
and sometime passed before he
gathered his wits. When he came
to himself all was dark as midnight;
he finally discovered a light, but
was not sure what sort ot light it
could be down in that place, but con
cluded it was better to get to the
light than to remain in darkness.
So he ventured on, and to his sur
prise, after going a few hundred
yards he was on top again. He
had come out of a hole where the
stream had entered, and the light
was a star. So he found his home
and told of his plunge into the cave,
and said his horse kept on and per
haps had made the trip.
Next day the people gathered,
and one man descended into the
cave, and by means of ropes fas
tened to the horse, they with men
and windlass succeeded in pulling
the horse up to the ledge ot rock,
where the man stopped, and they
helped the horse on to his feet and
led I lira out by the same route the
man escaped,
Hon. Jefferson Davis on the Labor Question.
Galveston April 24.- -The follow
ing letter fiom ex—President Jeffer
son Davi<-of the Southern Confed
eracy, to H. W. Pope nf Marshall,
Texas in which Mr. Davis gives
his views as to what legislation
might be adopted so as to bring
about harmony anil unity of acting
between capital and labor, has just
been made public;
THE LETTER IN FULL.
Beauvoir. Miss, March 27, t886
The Hon. II. \V. Pope:
My Dear Sir: Fully appreciat
ing the compliment conveyed by
your requet for by views as to what
legislation might be adopted to ad
just the conflict, I regret the compli
ment is so little merited The old
war between capital and labor has
called forth the best interlects ol
Europe; il has disturbed commerce
has overthrown governments, has
p oduerd anarchy and crept from
the wreck without solving the prob
lem. With us the contest is in its
incipient state, and happily it mav
be that something can be done to
check its growth.
SELF-INTEREST AND FREE CONPE-
TITION.
Self interest and free competition
for labor will, wherever laborers are
abundant give the rich power to
oppress the poor. Wo cannot leg
islate to destroy self-iuterest for that
lies at the foundation of progress,
and our effort must therefore be
directed to unifying the interest of
labor and capital, as this may be
done by the legislatures of the states.
The present form of conflict is
between associated labor and or
ganizations employing it. It is not
a sufficient answer to say that the
price of labor has advanced, unless
it can be proved that the profits has
moved pari passu with the profit
of capital, for in this, as in oilier
things we must consider the relative
improvement, the standard of
comfort rises proportionately to
the increase of wealth in the coun
tries.
A COURT OF_ ARBITRATION WAN
TED.
Yous idea Of a court of arbitration
I think, has much to recomend it.
The organization of such a court so
as to secure the confidence of both
contending parties would require
botli liberality and discretion, and it
would he needtulthat their decision
should be based on something tike
industrial partnership, in which the
wages on employes should be meas
ured bv the profits of the corpora
tion. If in this manner community
ot interest could be established and
welfare and contentment of both
would seem to be the possible re
suits.
With sincete regards for you and
yours, I am your friend.
JEFEERSON E>AVIS.
Little girls will wear Turkey-red I prodigious arrangements to thumphimdis
frocks edged with white embroidery I astreusly should ho appear within their bafli-
, . . j \ wiek. O11 the cast and west alone were fields
and guimpes of plaited mair.sook.
A novel but effective apron is
made of narrow strios or seersucker
with insertions of Russian lace.
High dog-collar* of velvet arc to
be stylish on the spring and sum
mer costumes. These fasten on the
side.
Beige and mohair hold their own
lor traveling costumes, in spite of
all the newer and more expensive
fabrics.
Poppy-red sunshades for the sea
shore are covered by Madras muslin
and have an edging of wide lace
fulled very, very full.
Mud dresses have skirts with
bands of deep insertions Between
clusters of tucks. The bodices hi)ve
yokes and sleeves of allover em
broidery.
Railroad braid still trims some ol
the most attractive spring costumes.
rubul.tr braid and Tom Thumb
braid aie also stiri stylish .is a finish.
The spring design for dresses re
quire much material. The draper
ie.s are long and axe looped high at
the sides, showing much ot the on,
derdress.
White wool canvas cloth is trim
med with yak or angora lace, and
makes a useful summer dress; nows
o ted velvet ribbon trim such cos-
untes very prettily.
Delaine in various fine qualities,
either figured or plain, is to be much
used for house dresses during the
coming season, and appears in new
and attractive colorings.
White cashmere trimmed with
dark red or salmon pink plush is a
favorite combination for house dres
ses, also a deep cream shade, trim
tned with tan-color or leaf brown.
The old fashioned idea using a
sage leaf or two on the teeth at each
brushing has come up again tsage
is said to whiten the teeth, and is a
very automatic substitue for tooth
powder.
A Valuable Relic.
The Savannah News mentions
the following rellt'of antiquity:
“This morning we wete shown at
the jewelry emporium ot Mr. S P.
Hamilton a piece ot soft marble or
stone in rile shape ot a key stone,
which is said to have been part of a
pillar on the outer porch of King
Solomon’s temple at Jerusalem. A
document accompanying this sub
stance is officially signed and certi
fied to by Victor Bacoucher, U. S.
Consul, and states that this stone
was excavated Irom Hamans wall
under Robinson’s arch, seventy feet
below the surface of the site of King
Solomon’s temple at Jerustlem, on
the Slh ot February, 1S62, by Ser
geant Britters, of the Royal expedi
tion attached to the Palestine ex
ploration service. This stone is in
the possession of Dr. George H.
Stone, of this city, who has placed
it with Mr. S. P- Hamilton for the
purpose of having it made into a
jewel for Zerubbahel Lodge, No.
5, F. & A. M. of which he is a
member. The stone was sent to
this country by Mr. L. M. Johnson,
at Damascus, Nov. 15th, 1868, with
a letter addressed to Mv. Warren C.
Stone, who has presented the curi
osity to his brother, Dr. George H.
Stone.”
A TEA PLANT.
At Colt’s mill there is a black tea bush,
grown quite large and that stands the
freezes as well as our native plants. Du
ring his life-time Mr. Colt used the
leaves to make tea, and it was said to be
equal to any of the imported.
WAXING WARM.
Prohibition is getting a little hot in
Oconee county and the election will be
closely contested. This quiet little county
don’t want any outsiders to interfere
with the election. They propose to fight
the battle against whisky alone.
: il ' A LONO SUFFERER.
There is a Miss Lilly in Athens who
has been a constant Sufferer irom inflam
matory rheumatism foe twenty years, and
for live years she has been confined to
her bed. She has endured, untold ago
nies daring that period.
Rising From tbe Grave.
From the '■piritofthe South.
The Rev. Mr. Lindsey, who for
merly resided and preached in this
countv, was able to boast that he
was born four months alter his mo
ther had been dead and buried. His
mother, who resided in Stewartville
township, N. C., fell ill, ar t! to all
appearances died, and was buried
in Stewartville cemetery. The night
following her interment ghouls tor
the purpose of securing some jewel
ry tnat was buried with the body,
unearthed the remains, when con
sciousness returned, and she was
enabled to return to her home, Ar
riving at her late residence she rap
ped at the door and was answered
by her husband, who demanded to
know who was there. To his great
astonishment the answer came: “It
is your wife.” He was-not quick in
opening the door, but finally did so,
and was ovetjoyed to meet ugain in
lite his beloved wife whom he had
mourned as dead. Four months af
terward the Rev. Mr. Lindsey was
born and she survived several years.
Concren Not to Adjourn Till August.
Washington dispatch to the Bos
ton Journal: The democratic lead
ers in the house begin to talk about
adjourning July 1st, yet the senate
has passed only one appropriation
bill. In all the estimates made as
to adjournment, the House leaders
have assumed that the senate would
follow the bidding of the house.
But it is understood that senators
have generally made up their minds
that they will be kept here till Au
gust. The appropriation bills about
which the most controversy is to
occur between the two houses are
yet to be passed, and senators de
clare that they do not intend jo be
hurried in the consideration of these
measures, even if they should |be
required to remain until fall, and the
senators are not disposed to hold
night sessions to make up for the
dalay and negligence of the house.
for tho display of his prowess, and taking ad
vantage of pressing opportunities, he swashed
around among the buffalo with eminent sat
isfactory effect, and bis squaws fed well and
the babies slept sound.
As a matter of course a man of business
mast havo a market for his wares, and Sit
ting Bull, who, having acquired some prop
erty, should now be recognized as Mr. Bull,
found a large quantity of robes and skins on
his hands. He could eat the meat, but the
hides and furs were worthless to him save in
the way of trade. He dared not not seek a
mart at Poplar River or Wolf Point, lest he
be knocked on the head by an indignant
military, and as there was no other
outlet he was in what might be captiously
termed a hole. At this juncture up
rose Edwin Allen, formerly an officer in the
police, but who had resigned his commission.
Foreseeing a liberal trade with this Mr. Bull,
he straightway started a store, stocked it with
hard tack, sugar, tobacco, blankets and
trinkets, and entered upon barter with the
red-skins. For a long time he did famously,
exporting valuable furs to the American
side, the proceeds of which enriched him
amazingly. Finding themselves honestly
dealt with, a circumstance which provided
them with much entertainment for original
ity, the savages patronized him liberally, and
Mr. Allen found himself amassing rapidly
and growing up with the country at an ex
hilarating pace. Fortune beamed on him
with both eyes, and the happy redskins, who
longed to clean him out, desisted out of re
spect for the genteel manner in which he ac
complished the square thing. A c length it
occurred to Mr. Allen that he ought to get
married. Years before he had left a yellow
haired, bright-eyed girl in Montreal, and now
that he had put himself in a position to as
sume a responsibility with that color of hair
and class of optic, he made up his speculative
mind to take her unto himself, and, leaving
the store with a young man whom tbe In
dians affectionately termed “Two Bellies,”
presumably from the phenomenal area of his
only one, Mr. Allen started on his 3,000-mile
journey in search of the Montreal lady. He
did not conceal much from her. Frankly
he told her that the best bleod in
Wood mountain society (outside the post)
was red instead of blue, and she dutifully
put her hand in his and sang the German
songs he loved to hear, with chorus loud and
clear—perhaps that isn't quite so. Anyway,
I’ve forgotten tho rest of it. Nevertheless, she
agreed to go with him, and so they were mar
ried. “Not much of a prospect for a bride,"
the average city woman may say. Perhaps
not, more especially If you stop to consider
that she was the only white woman (or would
bo when she got there) within 500 or 600 miles
oi the mountain, for at that time old man
Bird was the agent at Poplar River, and he
had no wife, so tho nearest was at Fort Bu
ford, away down east at the mouth of the
Yellowstone.
After three weeks of pretty rough getting
around she found herself comfortably located
in the little log house on tbe top of the moun
tain, with a squaw for a maid, and a fine
view of the country. One can see a long dis
tance in that neighborhood. The air is as
clear as the average city woman’s complexion,
and Pinto Horse butte, eighty-five miles from
the mountain, looms up like an oyster
in a church stew. It’s a fine place
to live, if one can stand it. A
healthy, clear, bracing atmosphere; days that
commence at 2 a. m. and last till 10 at night;
blizzards that howl in the winter like a thirsty
dog, and mosquitoes all summer averaging
1,000,000 to the square inch. Maybe Pm mis
taken about that. Perphaps the pressure is
only 750,000. Anyway, they’re thick, and,
moreover, they bite. In spite of all this, she
got there. The troops were glad to see her,
and the Indians disguised their surprise and
welcomed her with a characteristic ro# in her
honor. “Two Bellies” had a good account of
tho state of trade to offer, mid Mr. Edwin
Allen was conspicuously happy. The world
for him was as bright as a new skillet, and be
had only to push onward and upward, sing
ing tra-hula to get somewhere before old age
should cut him down in the legs and leave
him burst on the sands of time, which some
worn and weary brother seeing, would take
heart again.
Antelope and buffalo furnished their table,
and they had water from two springs, one
erroneously supposed to possess great medical
properties, and tho other a mile and a half
off. There was a neat little bed-room, a neat
little dining-room, a neat little kitchen and
neat little loop-holes all around the sides of
the house through which to poke the finger of
scorn at such savages as needed revision and
amendment. Many a meal I have enjoyed in
the neat little dining-room, and many a night
I have sat around the big fire in the kitchen,
that is, os for around as 1 could get, listening
to the fearful narrative of Long Dog, or to
the prairie news that the Broad Necklace
broughi in. There was no presage of danger
then, nothing prophetic of the wild and fear
ful night that was rolling around the earth
for the happy trader and his pretty wife.
Want or food was the origin of the trouble.
That may seem a strange statement, when
compared with the description of the In
dians’successes, but a day came when the
Buffalo started south and crossed the Mia
souri river, where Sioux dared not follow
Even the antelope wandered away, and the
prairie* were left barren of game. As a mats
ter of course there was nothing on hand
Your Indian is not a thrifty person., Give t
quantity of food to a savage, and there fc
no work done until the latter has absorbed
tha former. The idea of depositing grub in
ana wonaerea now long they would stand out
full and round without artificial encourage
ment. There were fish in abundance, a few
jack rabbits and whole colonies of gophers;
but your Indian is a sensitive party, and will
hunt nothing that he can’t hunt on a horse. He
r«n fast indefinitely, but his spirit is above
small gome. So our friends, tho h os-
settled down to % comfortable
family starve. And it was right
there that Mr. Edward Allen made a bit of a
mtgtnkn find lie closed his store, as the civil
ized merchant does when famine sets in, he
hod kept himself out of difficulty, but he
didn’t Touched with an unnecessary senti
ment of pity, he began, to give away quanti
ties of food, and, naturally, he came to grief.
Unfortunately for Mr. Allen he was a prac
tical man. Had he understood that philan
thropy is purely a speculative science, he had
they are civilized, and that in civilization lots
of things rank the babies. The Indian doesn’t
look at it so. First in his mind comes the
child and that child he will feed at the
expense of his life. He doesn’t reconcile
himself to the idea that a starving
young one is but a bud opening into
the perfect flower. He finds no resignation in
a romantic acception of the inevitable. When
his popooee is hungry he is going to skirmish
for fodder, and if no gets licked he takes it
quietly, so quietly that he never moves around
much afterward. Understanding his own
feelings, he ascribes the same to others, and
the Wood mountain end of the schedule, con
jecturing that if they secured Allen’s baby he
would put up any amount of nourishment as
a ransom, broke into, the house and yanked
the youngster from its mother’s arms. Of
course that made trouble. The mother
couldn’t stand it, and the row commenced.
Up through coulees a shriek of mourning
rent the air and drifted away to find its
echoes in the mountains. Red women moaned
with despair over the dead bodies of husbands
and sons. Dusky faces were pressed upon the
snow that melted under hot tears of gsisf Cor
husbands and brothers slain in the grapple for
grub, for after all, grief is colorless, and
attacks irrespective of hue. The copper-skinned
savage has & cardiac entrail as susceptible to
love as—well, as the average city woman-
end she misses her loves as much and mourns
them as bitterly. Through the camp that
stood like great ghosts in the flickering of the
fires men still fought and wrestled, and at the
upper end of the village a great crowd gath
ered around the white baby. There was no
disposition to hurt it To its captqrs it was a
circulating medium representing so much
food, for which they were perfectly willing
to trade it. They could not harm it, for it
belonged to their friend, and they were anx
ious to return it to him for a consideration.
An e% idence of a leaning toward civilization,
you may say. Not exactly. It is true the
civilized man will rob his friend and trade
back the stolen property for something more
valuable, but he won’t barter human flesh.
There is a law against it.
Down from the mountain top tore a frantic
woman. There were no cries, no words. The
business she bad on hand did not allow of
much noise. Her horse’s hoofs rang out on
the frozen ground with a steady clang, but
there was no faltering. The trail was dan
gerous and a little out of repair, but there
was no hesitation. Clone behind followed the
fifteen lanciers, but there was not speed
enough in their horses to catch the flying
pony before them. Down through the dark
passes and into the deep shadows, and out
again into the half light, the chase ran
steadily. Not a halt broke that run of eigh
teen miles, when the fires of tho camp burst
into sight. Down through the crowds of
wailing women; past the howling mourners;
out through the lines of deserted lodges, and
at last into the crowd that circled around the
child. It was a strange frame for the picture
the lonely white woman made. A dozen dig
nified Indians toppled over as the brave little
pony dashed against them. A dozen more
fell undsr the swift strokes of swords. The
attack was too sudden for resistance. A score
of warriors were down, and others fell like the
prairie grass before the wind. There was no
quarter until the last savage had disappeared
over the hill, and then Mrs. Allen fainted. Of
course she got the baby. She couldn’t have
fainted before. A woman only faints at the
point of success. Perhaps it doesn’t occur to
her before.
Back up tbe mountain, and once more at
home. There was no obstacle to the retreat.
The savages were thoroughly cowed by the
attack, and turned away from the retreating
force. Safe ensconced in her home, Mrs. Al
len had hysterics and all the other accom
plishments, and then got over it Down in
coulee the women mourned afresh. The
prairie was splashed with tears and the crisp
night air was tom with lamentations,
grave blunder had been committal, and suf
fering and sorrow followed, and it was many
a long day before the red women stifled their
sobs or ceased their mourning for those who
had died in^be fight for children’s lives It
waa ad nature!. Who can blame either side}
The Indian acted on the noblest instinct that
his birth had given him, and employed the
only means in his power. The white woman
did no more, but somehow the Indian suffered
meet, as he generally does when it comes to a
contest with his ptdo “brother."—Stanley
Huntly in Drake’s Travelers Magazine.
self if this was the advance guard of
the army of Knights that was going
to regulate labor.
It only lasted five minutes, thanks
to organized power, to which, alas,
in these days of arbitration, and
moral suasion, we must come at last
for dread adjudication in the streets.
The clubs were coming. One doub
le platoon came down Third ave
nue, another came suddenly out of
Fifty-n ;r .th street as if it had been
shot up by a trap. Then com
menced the most fearful of sights, a
police attack upon a street crowd.
Supt. Murray’s orders to his men
were to “strike hard.” I turned my
head away with a sickening sensa
tion,for I seen this before. You can
have tio possible conception of the
terrible nature ot such a cene un
less you have encountered it. 1
have witnessed a charge of cavalry
that rode down gunners and tram
pled infantry into the earth, but
there was a mild, redeeming swirl
to it, and then there was no women
and children in the crowd.
The one duty of the police in
such a crisis is to break and scatter
the solid mass. It must go through
it, and when the onslaught is made
with these dreadful clubs it is too
late, in the paroxysms of purpose,
to pick the innocent from the
guilty.
If ever you have heard the soupd
of those clubs as they fall crushing-
ly upon heads ana faces you will
never forget it. As if by magic the
scene changes. A few stalwart
men stand up defiantly a moment
in opposition. Then they fall un
der the blows. But panic seizes
the great mixed throng of men and
women. The air is suddenly filled
with screams. The character of
the tumult is sharpened into dis
may. A mad chaos of desperation
ensues; women are entangled by
their skirts and thrown down and
trodden upon; you can hear the
pitiful cries of the children above
the din; it is the meeting of organ
ized force with disorganized vio
lence.
It does not last long. In fifteen
minutes the street is cleared. But
it is bloody. And then that dis
mantled car is dragged back to the
depot and a score of miserable
wretches are behind the police bars.
This is the first tussle. But there
on Fifty-ninth street are the re
serves drawn up freshly. They
seem to say, '“Here we are, quite
ready to go on. If this question ot
labor is to be a question of mere
brute force, that’s what we are here
for.” And in it and over it all there
i* 5 a sad reminder that the men who
had rights and public sympathy
have thrown away the most pre
cious part of their contest in under
taking to shift their fight from the
co poration to the community.
Nym Crinkle.
New York ladies who claim to set the fash
ions have taken to fencing aa a relief from
ROMANTIC NUPTIALS.
THE STREET CAR STRIKE.
What “Nym Crinkle" Saw During the Re
cent New York Blot.
DEATHS.
The thousands of friends of Maj. John
W. Green, of the Georgia railroad, will
join m sympathy with him in the death
of his venerable mother.
Mrs. A. J. Statham, of High Shoals,?
died Monday, and was carried to her oid
home in Jackson and buried.
fared much better. But he went about phi
lanthropy as be went about hiehusineB, and,
consequently^ he dropped'Into trouble. The
more he gave, the more importunate became
his beneficiaries.
Thor wired, they Legged, «nd then de
manded more. Thereupon Mr. Allan did
what be ahonldbave done in tbe tat ptaco-
•hutnp his shop and went boms to hie wife,
who had. taw nonthe pmtaadjr prerented
him with a baby. Thia exasperated his coa-
tomers, and the dma opened. Mind you he
had six men in bis employ. There were flP
teen at the fort under Walsh. Thia Sioqx
numbered 3,000, and the nearest help was 210
miles to the northwest.
The sacking of tbe store waa .horrible
right, especially for Allen. Hundreds of sar-
ages, crazed with hunger, tore tog from log
and seised uponeTerthingedfble. Theyfonght
like makes with each other for . morsel, and
■ in tbe morning tbe cold winter sun threw
frozen beams upon the men who had been
killed for food. Did they want it for them
selves! Not one of them. Down the side of
that ragged, cheerless mountain were babila,
rod as prairid fires, but human and.hungry.
Up from the lodges came wsilin
tation, answered bock from the
with shrieks of rage and pain, as
rim strove with each other for
New York, April 27.—The
Knights of Labor have had entire
possession of this city for forty-eight
hours. They stepped all surface
trave' by horse railroad on Monday,
and if you stop to think a moment
how utterly dependent this longitu
dinal metropolis is on horse car trav
el you can imagine the effect of this
on every branch of business. Broad
way and Fifth avenue and other of
the great tributary streets like Four-
eenth and Twenty-third wore a
Sunday aspect. The grand crowds
Of women and'children that are usu
ally seen around the big bazaars in
Fourteenth street had disappeared.
All commerce, all the retail trades,
ar.isans, merchants, skilled labor of
e/e-y kind suffered, because the
le st skilled of all labor had got its
grip on the meqnsof transit. I came
down Broadway, I stopped in at
half a score of the big shops. They
were deserted at what is usually the
busiest hours. I talked with the
merchants. They had but one opin
ion. They were suffering, but one
and all hoped the railroads would
ho’d out and settle this question of
t aue tyranny and law and order
once and for all. I do not remember
ever having seen so complete a re
vu sion of public opinion as these
strikers have brought about within
a week. At first public sympathy
was heartily with them in what it
believed was a fight against heart
less corporations.but now they have
succeeded in placing the railroads
on the side of law and order, and
with one vpice the intelligent com-'
mumty is backing the corporations,
simply because the corporations do
not insist upon interfering with the
rights of everybody else, and in ma
king threats of violence.
I saw the fight on Third avenue
yesterday. It was a small riot In
it were all the deadly elements of
the Commune; all the incipient
flames and fury of the worst Paris
ian days. Nothing saved that
great th.toughfare from ’massacre
but the promptitude with which the
police fell upon the mob and drove
it back. When the first brick was
aimed at the poor conductor that,
was trying to take the car through
there went up a • wild howl from
thousaads of cruel, demoniac throats,
and in an instant the air was black
with missiles. The car windows
were smashed, the light panels
splintered. Tbe wrecked vehicle
was surrounded in a twinkling with
maddened men and women. A
horrible sound of yells, screams and
groans filled the air. There seem
ed to be but one impulse animating
this mob,’ it wsrto get hold of the
A Singular Marriage In Monroe of tire Foat-
Mlitren.
Walton Nova.
Tuesday, Miss M. A. Rooks was
married to Rev. G. F. Shaeffer, ot
North Carolina.
This marriage is worthy of nnu-
sual note. Every person in that
county old enough to come to town
is well acquainted with tbe bride,
who fat nineteen years has officiat
ed as postmistress of Monroe—and
she has made one of the best offi
cials that ever served under any
government. Her record is re
markable, have never lost a moment
out of the office except when sub
poenaed away to attend a couple of
courts. Like most men of promi
nence, she is self-made. Many
months ago Prof. Shaffaer read in
some North Carolina paper an ex
tract from the news, in which it
was stated that Miss Rooks had
been in the office for so many years.
Admiring the character of the brief
sketch, although he knew her not,
he wrote, asking the privilege of
forming an acquaintance. After
some months’ correspondence he
came here last December to see
Miss Puss (that was when she
passed him off to the unsuspecting
people—but it was pardonable-
A post office detective), and again
in March. The engagement is of
some months’ standing.
The groom is a learned
man, a Lutheran minister
of enviable reputation, a Master of
Arts, and now serving as president
of the North Carolina College, at
Concord, N. C.
tear them limb from limb. It was a
noble sight, this brave endeavor of
a thousand to clutch two fellow-
beings and rain, blows upon them
and trample them-into masses of
undistinguishable flesh beneath
their hoofs. . As J saw brawny
arms in the air, cxugfirsight of .the
distorted laces and glaring Ayes and
heard the fearful.'dtaii of .'sickening
oaths and imprecations, I asked my.
A GOOD HOUSE RUINED.
Messrs. Ed. and Alfred Rorie are
renting a one-horse farm from Mr.
George Tucker on the place belong
ing, to John B. Smith, and their
plow team is a black stallion. Mr.
Tucker is farming on the same place.
One night last week, Mr. George
Tucker and Mr. Alfred Rorie put
their horses in the same stable as
usual and went to bed, the stallion
being in a stall next to the horse
owned by Mr. Tucker. About mid
night an old woman living on the
place waked up with the information
that the horses had been fighting
about an hour. The most fearful
screams could be beard frsm the di
rection of tbe stable, and when the
two men reached the stable the
sight presented was a ghastly one.
The stallion had the other horse on
tbe ground and was literally chew
ing him to pieces. The top part ot
the horse’s neck was almost eaten
off, and cuts, kicks and bruises were
visible on all parts of his body. It
was with difficulty that the stallion
could be made to loose his hold, and
the horse was found to be entirely
ruined. There is n* hope of his re
covery from the fearful wounds, and
Mr. ‘Tucker is an industrious man
and the lass of his horse at the sea
son of the year is a great misfortune
to him.—Washington Chronicle.
THB ATHENS PRESBYTERY.
The Athens Presbytery meets in
Gainesville the 5th-qf .May and will re
main in session until the 10th. The
Presbyterians are nuking ample prepa
rations for the entertainment of delegates
and others who attend. The Baptists
and Methodists have held their annual
convocations there, but this will be the
first for the Presbyterians.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Geronimo’s band is still on t
war-path- '
Sandusky. O., printers strut
against the eight-hour law.
The treaty"uf comnieice betwe
- France and China has beeii si;
The Emir of Hurrar has
cred all the Europeans in his capita
Greece has been pacified and tf
war cloud has disappeared.
The police are still on d..’y at tl
-ugar refinery of Williamsburg,
The G. A. R. endorsed the Pres;
lent’s policy toward Yankee ’ sol
diers.
... -re has been a little rioting be
tween Catholics and Orangemen ai
Glasgow.
The Amalgamated iron and steel
woi kers and the Knights of Laboi
conflict.
Cases against the switchmen o
the Lr’se Shore road have been dis
missed.
The convicts in the penitentiary
-it Quebec rebelled and shot thi
warden.
The Clarissa and Nellie works
miners in the Connel sville region
ire out.
The prize libel against the steam
er City ot Mexico has been dis
missed.
The auti-prohibitionists carried
Lynchburg, V.i., by 18S majority.
Richmond also remains wet.
Senator Brown is announced to
speak at the celebration of General
Grant’s sixty-fourth lyrthday.
Settlers in St. Pierrie, Chenenne
River Agency, hare been ordered
to vacate. Great excitement pre
vails.
Clias. Wilmund, theGerman An
archist convicted in New York of
carrying concealed weapons, has
been sentenced.
The depot and freight office of
the Alabama Great Southern at
Akron, Ala, were burned last night,
together with their contents.
Paris, April 23.—The Russian
woman who was bitten by a mad
wolf, and who had been under
treatment by M. Pasteur, died to
day of hydrophobia.
St. Louis, April 2S.—United
States Commissioner Edmund Tal-
len sold, under foreclosure of mort
gage, to-day, the Wabash, St. Louis
and Pacific railroad. The .total
pried paid for the property was
$625,000.
SavaxnAh, Ga., April 26.—The
corner stone of Odd Fellows’ Tern- *|
pie was laid to-day with imposing ‘
ceremony by the the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows. The temple rep
resents an investment ot about$50,-
000.
Chat -anooga, Tenn., April 24.
Major Halliday, a prominent citizen
of Spring City, was run over and
killed by the canron ball express
train on the Cincinnati Southern
railway this evening while attempt
ing to save the life of a valuable
dog.
A report Irom Magdalena, in the
state of Sonora, Mexico, says the
Apaches attacked Budo Zee’s
ranche, 25 miles east ot Magdalena,
killed three men and two women,
and destroyed a quantity of pro
perty.
Several men have been arrested
at Barbastro for burying a man
alive near that town. The victim
was rescued from the grave in a
critical condition. The motive was
revenge.
Joaquin Miller has separated Irom
his wife whom he max tied only six
years ago. and who was a Leland
of the noted hotel keeping family.
He has gone to Mexico, avowing
nis intention to . pend the rest of his
life there, and Mrs. Miller remains
in New York.
Secretary Lamar’s southern trip
appears to have improved Lis phys
ical condition very, much. He is in
the best of health and spirits. His
friends say there is no truth in the
reports of his coming marriage. In
Speaking of the ste.e of Georgia, re
cently visited by him, he says that
he has seen nowhere in the south
such evidences ol growth and pros
perity.
Clarksville, Tenn., April 24.—
Yesterday afternoon a ghastly dis
covery was made about five miles
below this city by two boys. A
hogshead which had been left on
the field by the re- eding waters of
t’le Cumberland w s tound to con
tain the mutilated and much decom
posed bodies of a mm and woman,
supposed to be negroes. The arms
of the man were separated-from the
body, while both bodies had appar
ently been sawed m two. The
skultr. of both were missing.
Atlanta, April 26.—Gen, Gor
don has announced to a gentleman
in New York that he wifi make the
race for Governor of Georgia. He
will make an ac.ive canvass of the
state on his return from Montgom
ery, where he goes to deliver an
oration at the time of the visit of
Mr. Jefferson Davis. He will stand
by the railioad commission and at
tack Major bacon’s position on that
question. The Atlanta Constitu
tion will support him, as also Sena
tor’s Brown and Colquiit. .
BRIDGE WILL BE BUILT.
Mr. Nat Richardson will take the con
tract to build Simonton’s bridge, at the
_ sum it was bid off for some time ago.
two men who were on that car and: Mr. Richardson will put a sufficient num
ber of hands at work on the bridge to
finish it before the summer is over.
HOT IN THB RACE.;
It has been reported that Hon. B. F.
Camp, of Franklin county, will not enter
the congressional race in the 8th dis
trict.
Thoroughbred colts at the Belle
Meade farm averaged $8ia each.
SINGULAR DEATHS.
Two Little Nerro Boys Die From Eating
Bins Grass.
Isham Jones, colored, is employed
at the Southern Express office and
lives out in “the bottom.” He had
two sons, aged respectively 14 and
7. On Friday they went down to
the brick yard ponds and went in
swimming. Alter coming out of
the water they went into the woods
near bv and ate a quantity of “blue
grass.” On their arrival at home
they both complained of feeling
badly, but they continued on their
feet until Saturday night. Sunday
morning about 1 o’clock the older
one callrd his father and said lie felt
weak. In a short time he was seized
by convulsions and died at 3 o’clock.
The younger one was taken by con
vulsions Sunday evening and died
at 7 o’clock. There was no physi
cian with either ot them, and the
exact cause ot their death is not
known. It is possible that going
into the water had as much to do
with their fatal illness as eating the
grass.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Washed Up By The Flood.
.Rome Courier.
Friday afternoon a careful exami
nation of an Indian burial ground
or camping place, laid bare on the
Nixon farm, near this city, by the
recent flood, was under the super
vision of Mr. T. L. Krebs. During
the work an almost complete skele
ton of an indian was unearthed. The
smaller parts wete not to be found.
Among other things of interest to the
archaeologist were found numerous
arrow heads of various shapes and
sizes, an iron speer head, a soapstone
pipe, several perforated soapstones
and a great number of fragments of
pottery. Shortly after the water
was off the laud young Mr. Nixon
found eight or ten skulls and parts
ol skeletons and two fine specimens
of pottery. Mr. Krebs has superin
tended >he excavation oi several
mounds in Ohio, has a fine collec
tion of Indian relics and is an en
thusiast on tbe subject.of archscnol.
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