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1, js charged that if Gordon K et* in he I ,i„e brown will steal the State road. ,,,, s ,., ri't that 1 was offered a share call. Then I was a private cits ■ II |'„ n Hill met me at the depot one i tnlil me he had a good thing for 11,. said he had a share in the State case, and that as soon as it was in |,o eon d get me $50,00 if or it, j , share would not cost me anything, j ,ar. s afterward sold at $80,WX>. 1 I hiing my conscience to ao-' hat $oO.uOO, for 1 r 'filed it badlv. ! i ... get my const-!e> e. to indorse 1 atisaetion in which i:«n Hill and Stephens were concerned, bntl ,t see how I could earn $5O,0UO in „ ;,:lis without doing anything, and :■ U. a Hill a note, saying he need .are any share at $00,000 for tne.— , t from Johfrlt. t iordon's Amcricus NO. XVI A.TECE2STS, aEOHaiA.,^TTJESD A A.75T. 25, 1886. VOL XXXI W'c cannot sec how any triend to ,he lamented Hill or Stephens can ,. f! hi- consent to endorse the utter- a u,e of such a serious charge against tlit honesty of these two mam! and beloved statesmen, now that the grave forbids them reply- :n ,r tu the calumny. It Mr. II,II nad made such an infamous attempt An ibcty of Cien. Gordon, it seems his duty as an honest man to .pinned the offer, an.i at once sell the transaction, before ihe of death had eternally sealed ips of this great Georgian, since he failed to do this, it is nut only unmanly and unfair, but a wanton insult To the memory of the deceased, that the fearful story should have been now told, when the ."'I' tongue that can tefute it is patjiyaed forever. The Constitu- lion. when it saw the indignation of tiers honest Georgian at the un- t.‘licit utterance of such a fearful c'.jigr, attempted to deny and ex plain away Gen. Gordon’s words; but it was too la*e. Had Atlanta's c ni.ii.lutr bet ii mi-repiesetited. why tiu! he not .i.nse the correction in A BLOODY SHIRT CAMPAIGN. cell at I.t e* burg. . r ■ In- i n piibbsi two An day? at n- .tats thereaftet? .;.i!t honor Gtn. Gor ham service he did : lie same time they reverence the iilus- .1 ! Irli and Stephens; ml almg am itisinua- honor of the sol- ■ " carefully guard .<gin’s two most ■uten. Gen. Gordon u ..nler to enhance lo drag into the mire i lie spotless names The desperate attempts made by the Constitution and Gen. Gordon to wrest victory from defeat by in flaming anew the passions of the late war, and thus consolidate the soldier vott, can but be deprecated by every fair-minded voter and is an insult to the intelligence ot veterans in Geor gia. Gen. Gordon and his Atlanta organ arc not conducting the gu- bernatorial campaign on the live questions of the day,but are trying to blind the eyes of the people to the real issues at 6take by diving into the dim vistar ol the past and arous mg the passions of the late war, buried beneath twenty years of peace, and that no possible good an he accomplished by reawaken- ,n R. There are important ques tions for Georgians to consider in selecting a chief magistrate, princi pal of which, is the aspirant a suc cessful business man and financier? *1 he organ of Gen. Gordon knows that he cannot stand an examina tion into his fitness for the place he seeks, and to drown this and other pertinent and timely queries, is trying to side-track the popular attention to its candidate's brilliant war record, which no one has ever questioned, and that has nothing to do with a civil office. The Consti- tion’s attitude in conducting theGor- don campaign reminds us ol the spoke*man who was introducing Blaine to an audience strongly sprinked with democrats, who were interrupting his remarks with many pertinent conundrums, that were unanswerable. In his desperation, the speaker stopped and whispered t® the “Plumed Knight” to know what to say. “Don’t answer the questions at all," was the reply— ‘‘just talk about the tariff!” This is the present programme ol the Con stitution and its standard-bearer. Wh enever the press begins to ask questions that cannot be satisfacto- II Hill.nr.I Alexander 1 rily answered, the Atlanta organ known •r was u', and lowing .1 ihe fol re to him: utterly hollow n Iris I le III O 111 i|ile.i, ami ,lis- in every way, sincerity, even e remark." ve resented 1. and now M.i Mas pas- tistrioiiN Georgians live o'atetul memory of their should be tree Irom ihe I u m nv i i Telegraph gives the •ving account of Messrs. Hill Mephens’ connection wiih the i load lease: • are informed by one of the origi- e-iiib.-r- of this eonipany. who is fa- r vulh all the fuels connected with - unr iiioii. that Mr. Hill did not de- ri.-i.t in the lirst place to hare .--I ii-neral Gordon a share in the . atiu that lie never heard General . .. - name mentioned in connection I lie in alter. This statement may he I it e. I a • absolutely correct, and we ilie public lo draw its own conclu- from ii. i will be remembered that Mr. Ste- i> returned Ids share to the state. As i- n..1 eeiisidereil that the state had ivl.t to heroine one of the parties to lease "f her own property, this share ]-la. ed at the disposal and under the r "! "f the lease company. This pane gave it to Geo. II. Ilaalchurst, then president of the Ma- and its candidate at once begin to talk about the war. But the people, and the old soldieis. too, will not be drawn off by any such tactics. The scheme is too transparent, and no man with ordinary intelligence will be led ofl by any such political ack -o’-lantern. Il the state was electing a Genera! to command its forces, there is no man more wor thy to lead them than Gen. John B. Gordon; but as a business man and financier he has ever been a failure, and a financier is what Georgia needs in a Governor. As a soldier, Georgia honors Gen. Gordon, but •he does not wish to imperil her business career bv placing the helm of state in the hands of a map who has proved himselt so utterly in competent to manage even his pri vate affairs, ami whose path, while marked with a brilliant and honored military career, is also strewn with the wrecks, by mismanagement, of several princely fortunes. LETTER FKOM LOUISIANA. m l Krnnswick railroad. " ill -trike any man of average intel- ■ tlvit Mr. Hill would hardly have ed General Gordon a share in the it tlr time the company was forin- . i i u he hail no right to do so. It is A FATHER KILLS HIS SOS. tory of a Fearful Tra&eoy In Gwinnett County. Lawrenceville Herald. Editor Herald; Several years ago, there moved fton; Gwinnett county, Mr. J. P.Tuggle, a highly respected and prosperous farmer to Walkercouniy, Ala.. Mr. Tuggle has yet living in this county quite a number of friends and relatives. On the 15th ot last month, Mr. Tuggle and his son, Joseph, went out tor a squirrel hunt. Alter be- l.at lie did not offer him the Ste- ing out for some time, the son pro mire, because this, l>v direction of p 0se d to the father that they go y, was given to Col. Haile- down c | 05er to the river. But the t also be plain that he did I , , , A , him a share belonging to any old " lan declined saping that he - ‘ would go to the hills. The young man left his father and approached the river—they lived on the Black. 0 ■■ when, forifGen. Gordon’s state- 111-1,11« correct, it could have been sold n. it' e minutes for $5O,UJ0. ’T.Al’.UnXV S t’Llyl’E IN ATHENS.’ In speaking ol the Clarke coun ty meeting mi his Eatonton speech, '’cm Gordon christened it the Lai row clique in Athens.” In vin- d.cation of this gentleman, we will Gate thatCapt. Barrow had no more to do w ith convening that meeting than the Tycoon of Scfcwaat, and t.vm.l not know the party had been c ' 0 1 ”l H,n to select a delegation to e state convention until he saw the nonce published in <lie Bjnner- " * ,c hman. Capt. Yancey, the vl anman ot the committee, is solely trsponsible for the call, and he has :tiwa)s proved himself able to “tote his own skillet.’ The only politi- cal sin that Capt. Harrow commit ted is being an ardent personal Inetnl and supporter ol Major Ba con. It seems that Gen. Gordon, m t satisfied with reviling the mem- or\ ol the illustrious dead, is bold- 1.- -''iking around to find some one lo hold responsible for the unlortu- n “* r condition in which he finds hinisrll. H e should lay the entire me at the door of the Atlanta blan nn g- 1 hey are the political butch- ■hat are leading this sheaied Wall street lamb to the slaughter, beaih of Dr. J. Johnson Aii.a.ma, May 18.—The death ol this eminent physician, which occurred at noon to-day, has been cspecied tor some weeks. He was in his jbth year, and led a long life ut oseiulness. The deceased was a native of Kentucky, and was a oieniher of the senate of the seces- n°n legisi aturc of that state. He made Ins escape j r om the peril that turroun t | ec i him by leaving the cap- 'i°l under a load ol hay. He came 0 ' ,eor g'i<, and lias lived and prac- l', llis profession in Atlanta since. e ranked among the best in the •he profession. eating*# ard ikes. ere w«* a hungry country darkey * ■ ester’s yesterdoy who bought two '"Ses of sardines and eat them up in a ‘“V*"’ Williamson asked him * ,(i enough and the negro said he “ u sat three more boxea if an; would Mr ’ Williamaon opened and the negro flniahed the three **’ drwik oil and went off happy. Warrier. But a short time had elapsed af ter parting with his son, before the father concluded to take a “stnnd” tor a deer. He had been standing but a few minutes until he heatd something running through the bushes, and at once discovered it to be a deer. He raised his trusty ri fle and fired, but was almost paral yzed when he heard his son cry out: “Oh. father, you have killed me!” His father hastened to him at once, and discovered that he had shot Ins son through the brain. He had fell, but had gotten up, and was wiping the blood from his face when his father reached him. The old man, wild with grief, asked his boy if he was hurt much, when the heart-breaking answer came, “Fa ther, I will die.” In a letter to his brother in Bu ford, in this county, Mr.Tuggle says that no pen or tongue could depict the horrible leelings he had, to see the life blood of his soon ebbing away, and to know that he had given the fatal blow. The son lived about nine days after the sad occurrence, and then died. This is, indeed, one of the saddest accidents we have ever been called upon to chronicle. No blame is attached to the father. The son leaves a wife and seven chil dren. The old people are nearly wild over the unfortunate affair. May He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb comfort the bereav ed ones. Shreveport La., May 10, 188k.—Edi tor Banner-Watchman: Your weekly visits to my humble home in this Wes tern clime are highly appreciated by me, made so from the fact that it brings me the news from the land that gave me birth, and where I spent the major part of my life. I have been requested by some to give them, as near as I can, the advantages that might be to those that contemplate migrating to the West and engaging in agricultural pursuits. By your permis sion, I will try and give those who wish to coine this way, first, the price of lands and the probable yield per acre of cotton, com and oats (without fertilizers): Improved lands can be bought within a radius of twenty miles , of Shreveport at from $2 to $4 per acre, that prior to the war made one bale of cotton to the acre, 25 bushels corn and about the same of oats, and these same lands then would have brought $15 per acre. The reason they will not command any more now is, because the negroes have nearly all left the country and gone to towns, and there are no whites to cultivate them. I have seen many residences that are tumbling down for the want of occupants to keep them up—the fences in the same condi tion. On a great many of the farms that I speak of, the residences were of a neat finish and very large. They were once the homes of wealthy planters. When Sambo left they left, too. I will give the price of lands that are subject to entry, belonging to the U nited States and the state of Louisiana: 1st. Lands that be long to the United States, entries can be made as follows: 40 acres, $6; 80 acres, $8; 120 acres, $12; 100 acres, $14. State lands: 40 acres, $10; 80 acres, $10; 120 acres, $22; 160 acres, $27. It should be borne in mind that in making these en tries, the person so doing must go on the land and improve and cultivate it, or get some one else to do so. I will say that 1 have traveled over a portion of these lands, and can say that they lie well, and are equal to most of the up land in Clarke, Oconee and Walton coun ties. These lands lie between lake Caddo and the Arkansas line, a distance of about twenty-five miles, and bordering on the line of Texas. There are a great many settlers scattered about at inter vals of from two to five miles apart. They seem to be the happiest people 1 meet, for the country abounds with deer and turkeys, and the lakes have an inex haustible supply of fish of various kinds. Hence they live well and do but little on their farms. Where these lands arc im proved and the crops properly cultivated, the average yield per acre of cotton is abovt 1,000 pounds; corn 25 bushels; oats 25 bushels. Have not made any test of wheat yet. Those who wish farther information in regard to these lands should confer with Mr. Fred A. Lonard, of this city. He is the authorized agent for the gov ernment and for the state. Or to Mr. Calvin S. Croom, of MooringsporL Mr. Croom is not an agent, but he is well posted as regards locality, Ac., hav ing been raised here and been a citizen for lifty years. I will here state that these lands lie in the parishes of Cadden, Bossier and DeSoto, all of which arc ac cessible to Shreveport either by rail or water. Shreveport contains about thir teen thousand inhabitants, and is rapidly stepping to the front. She has now four outlets of railroads and steamboat navi gation the year around to New Orleans, and six months north of the city to Ful ton, Arkansas. Her cotton receipts are about ninety thousand bales per annum New industries are springing up in every direction otsi the city. Uncle Sam has erected a building here at a cost of $100,- 000, which is quite an ornament to the city. It is the case with nearly all that wish to better their condition by moving west, to think that Texas is the only place for them. They start with Texas on the brain and will not stop until they get there, hence they pass by a better coun try in many respects than they find when they get there—one that is better adapted to their wants, for many have but little means when they stop, and 1 think that a poor man with a large family is not benefitted much when he settles down a prairie in Texas, fenced in with barbed wire, no WEod near by and drink water out of a stock tank, which is often the case, and there are many that go to Tex as that would gladly go hack to their old homes in Georgia and Alabama if the; could do so, while there are others that seem to be well satisfied, but I find that this class have means when they get there. Texas is not the place for a poor man with a family. DOWN IN OGLETHORPE. A FEW H0CB8 AT COL. SMITH’S. HEW ENTERPRISES AND HOW THEY PAT: a:; ALLEGED SCIKM AMONG THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. PLATING FOR A DRINK. Since prohibition has gone into effect in Clarke county, various ways are re sorted to by which to secure a drink. The latest and most novel way we have heard of happened in South Athens. A gentleman knew his wife had a little on hand, but kept it locked up and would not let him have it. He came rush ing in the house, and told his wife that he had been bitten by a taaddog, and soon commenced barking and snapping at everything in the room. One of the neighbors was sent for to manage the mad man, and soan took in the situation, and told the wife that if she conld fur nish her husband with some whisky, the rabies could probably be cured. The whisky was brought, a large dose ad ministered, and in a few minutes all symptoms of hydrophobia had disap. peared. THE TROT. The trotting race for $250 a side on the first of Juae is creating some excite ment. Mr. Jim Price is training Billy, and Mr. Uipkins is putting King Rae in order. Both horses are in fine condition and if the track is in good fix will make a fine record. FLEECER'S PAPER. W. A. Pledger has moved back t* Ath ens and will revive the Blade, the firs number to be issued Saturday. His of fice is on Broad street, over L. & J. Mor ris. Thn paper will be run on a conser vative basis, and for the advancement of the colored race. KILLING IN ATLANTA. Col. Frank P. Gray, of Atlanta, was killed by Marshal It. L. Jones. The killing was caused about the marshal trying to impound some of Col. Gray’s cows. The murder was done -in cold blood. Jones tried to commit suicide after the killing. | GERMAN PICNIC. The first German picnic that ever left Athens went out yesterday morning to spend theday at Mitchell’s bridge. Three large wagons beautifully decorat'd with evergreens and German flags, left the German club room on College avenue, filled with our German friends and their families. Capt. Henry Beusse had charge of the commissary wagon, and from the looks of the large, well filled baskets and boxes, a good dinner was had. They carried out rifles and fishing tackle, and all kinds of games were en gaged in. The picnic party went to have a pleasant time, and we know they had it. RELIGION DONE IT. A little negro boy who attends to tbe street car moles got religion and joined the church Snnday. He said that be never intended to tell a lie again. Super intendent Dorsey concluded be woaM pat him to the test and asked him to teO who it was that stole a lot of street car tickets. The little negro owned up that he had got them and said his eonsaeace bad been trauhling him about it. visit to the Convict Camp, and Condition of the Prisoners. Sundsy morning, together with Capt. IV. D. O’Fsrrell, we bosrded the 9 o’clock train, destined to spend a day with our esteemed friend Dr. W. M. Willingham. But we had very foolishly and unthoughtedly notified the Doctor in advance, by a postal card telegraph, of our anticipated raid on his larder, and as forewarned was forearmed, our weuld- be host got into his buggy and left. We were met at the gate by a little suffrage- slinger, who informed us that “Mars Mark says I mast tell you when you comes dat he didn’t git your letter, and he’d he mighty sorry, but he dun gone to Mr. Jim Smifs, and he don’t know when he git back.’’ We at once held s consultation with Capt. O’Farrell, and he advised that we at once pursue the retreating enemy, even if we had to hire a team and follow himjto the utmost coniines of the county. We marched back to Crawford beneath the scorching rays of the sun, and proceeded at once to negotiate with Dave Arnold tor a horse and buggy. While waiting for the team to be hitched up we felt the pulse of the town, and found tbe people almost a unit for Bacon. Our friend J. Phillips had a package of Gordon handbills under his arm, but they looked as lonesome as a last year's almanac. Phillips tried to appear confident, hut there was a sepul chral cast about his countenance which showed that he felt himself leading a forlorn hope. You may as well to-day write Oglethorpe down in the Bacon column, for it is certain to go for him. In due season Dave Arnold brought around a claybank Rosenanti hitched to a buggy, with an ebony-hued fellow-cit izen couched behiud on a piece of plank placed over the body, to see that we did not e’ope with the turnout. The pro prietor, just as we drove off, warned us that the horse was a little “tricky,” to which Capt. O’Farrell most ungenerous ly replied that he supposed the habit was contracted by association with Dave. That horse, however, far out-traveled his looks, but we think he must have been on a big drunk the night before, as he manifested an uncontrollable desire to drink every stream dry that we crossed. Small grain along the road is worthless, and fanners won’t make as much wheat as they planted. Dr. Wil lingham has some good spring oats at Crawford, hut it will take a good barber to harvest some of the other fields. At Col. Smith’s, however, we saw a very fine patch of Burt oats, sowed the 5th of March, and which will make 50 bushels per acre. CoL Smith also has a field of wheat that promises 10 bushels per acre. We reached our destination in due sea son, and met a cordial welcome from both Colonel Smith and Dr. Willingham. Tbe latter gentleman was most pressing in his attentions, and insisted that we make Pleasant Hill our home as long as we saw fit to remain. While waiting for dinner we took a short stroll around the lot, and first visited the cotton seed ail mill, an enterprise started since we wore last at this farm. A lUO-h. p. en gine runs the cotton gins, flour and corn mills and cotton seed oil works. The buildings are all separate, but lines of shafting extend from the machinery shed to each house. This oil mill is one of the best we ever visited, and is equip ped with the most improved machinery. The past season CoL Smith only made up his own seed, and has still on hand the 150 barrels of oil made therefrom, which is of the best quality, and will net over $9 per barrel. Besides the oil, CoL S. made every pound of fertilizers he used on his farm, which is a great sav ing. He is baying up all the eattle to be had, and winters them on the hulls and cotton seed meal, and says he can keep a cow in good condition for two cents per day. Col. Smith has turned out TOO acres of his best land for pastures, and on this will raise his cattle. He will cross them with the Devon, and says there is more clear money in milk cows and beeves than cotton. His only rea son for not going into this branch long ago was the lack of a cheap food to carry them through the winter, and ibis his oil mill supplies. In passing through the hog lot our attention was attracted by the skeleton of a genuine old-fash ioned Georgia razor-hack sow plowing up pine Toots with the energy of aSouth Georgian in quest of the docile gopher. Our host explained that thin sows al ways raised the fattest pigs, and -pointed to several litters of fine porkers near at hand. After a fine dinner, in which loaf sugar took the place of “long sweetening” for coffee, a fine pair of bays were hitched to the phseton and we drove over a por tion of the farm and to the convict camp. We saw a field of 700 acres in cotton, chopped out and with a fine stand. In fact, every part of the farm is in perfect order, hot it is too early as yet ia the sea son for crops to show much. Wonderful improvements have been made at the convict camp. New bar racks, a hospital building and stockade have been built, and the former building is a large and roomy structure, well Ten tilated and admirably designed. We do not suppose there ia a better arranged strnctnre for the purpose in the country, and the prisoners show by their appear ance that they want for nothing. There is not a single sick convict at the camp. Col. Smith buys nothing but the best quality of food for his prisoners, and they are kindly treated. We did not hear single word of complaint, although left free to talk with the men. MINOR NOTES. Col. Smith lost last week one of his fine pair of horses, that cost him $800. Mr. Bob Smith bas built a beautiful cottage near Pleasant Hill. Col. Smith has still the first steam en gine he ever owned, and it is a good one yet We saw at the camp, Dave Nelms f under a life sentence from Banks murder. He will not permit his wife snd children to see him in stripes. A species of rice bird, that go in Urge flocks, ere ruining all the barley patches, Allen Blackwell, the one-legged fames M. Smith ere earnest s.ip..ort.r<J JU fcMMMWMe of A. O. Bacon for Governor. Mr. J. T. Olive has already announced for the legislature. The congressional campaign creates | but little discussion in the county. Col. Smith, when he moved his gar- I den, hauled even the dirt to the new site. Mcrtln Irosa and Hit Friends Said to Be V. oi^tsc to Obtain Control of tae Organ ization—What the Alleged Antagonism to Ptwderly Rest* Upon. NOTES FROM BANKS COUNTY. M. L. McDonald, the former tax co’- lector, will be a candidate for tire legisla ture. Tom Hill is the best Ordinary in the State. The sheriff is one of the mn.it popular men in the county. Banks county has p only of money in the treasury. The farmers are all hard at work and have a splendid prospect for a crop. The roads are well worked and the bridges in good condition. Homer claims the best and purest well of water in the South. Gordon’s war record will do him no good in Banks. There are several pri vates in the Banks Connty Guards that, if they had worn stars, would have far eclipsed Gordon on war records. Banks is bound to have the Augusta and Chattanooga railroad if money will get it The illicit distillery lias been broken up. It is rarely we ever hear of a block ade wagon passing through the county. Homer has the handsomest and most accommodating postmaster in Georgia. Three lawyers constitute the legal fra ternity in Banks. Charlie Allen, one of the original mem bers of the Banks County Guards, is the tax receiver, and lie is a good one. The rank and file in Banks are for Ba con for Governor, and will send a dele gation for him. We are tired of war rec ords. Gordon must first explain why he re signed his seat in the senate to our satis faction before we can vote for him. The people of Banks don’t like to have any political matters covered. THE GROVES PETITION. We have heard for some time vague rumors to the effect that an attempt would be made to get Govornor McDaniel to reduce the sentence in the Groves case by a petition asking him to do it. It will be remembered that a few days before Mr. Hill went into oflice the Ordinary’s safe was opened and the county seal, county order, stub-book and other things taken therefrom. A bill was found by the grand jury against Mr. Groves and others for larceny from the house. He was tried before a jury of twelve upright men, who declared on t heir oaths that he was guilty. Judge Lumpkin, one of the ablest Judges in the state, sentenced him to pay a fine of $1,(410, to 6 months imprisonment in the county jail and 12 months in the chain-gang. If a petition asking the Governor to pardon him or to reduce the sentence is circulated, it will doubtless be met by a counter petition.— Toccoa News. COL. THURMOND A8 A CANDIDATE. W. L. Marler, of Gainesville, suggests Col. S. P. Thurmond for Governor. Col. Thurmond would doubtless make a good Governor, but Col. Marier did'not hear him read the chapter about Ksau and Jacob in a jury speech at Carncsville last court. The man who can scrouge Esau and Jacob both into one j ury speech can never wear McDaniel’s oldbrogans. —Toccoa News. IN A STREET FIGHT AT MARTINS VILLE, VA. derer from Elbert, stands his confine ment vrelL Clarice has also several rep resentatives a$ this camp. • Col. Smith has on hand several hlu< dred bales of cotton, that ha will, soon Great attention is bring devoted Oglethorpe to-ths rsislng of rye. BACON'S BROADSIDE. HIS CRUSH ING|REJ01NDKR TO GOR DON’S INSINUATIONS. That He Sklrked His Duty to Hla Country During the War—Exciting Incidents of The Joint Discnaalonat Eatenton. EIGHT MEN SHOT Ona Instantly Killed and Pour Probably Fatally Wounded--Tnree Hen Not Con cerned In tbe Riot Seriously Injured. Washington. May iS.—A spe cial from Martinsville, Va., gives the following history ol the trage dy of which brief mention was made last nigltf. Saturday night an anonymous circular was issued and posted up all over town. It seriously reflected on W. K. Terry, a young business man, and his lather, the late Win. Terry, a prominent citizen. Tues day morning Terry telegraphed for his two brothers, J. K. and Benja min Terry, livin? at Aiken station, zo miles. They arrived at i p. in., and after a brief consultation went to the printing oflice and demanded the author of the card. The printer told them it was Col. D. P. Spen cer, a member of the town board and one ol the leading business men. New Yoiik, Mzy it.—The Sup »v« tbit ' Urtin Irons hopes to suc ceed Mr. Powderly as General Mas ter W« rkircin of the Knights of La bor. Mr. Powderly’s sucessor is to Le chr-en st ihe annual meeting of ihe lel> gales next fall. Until re cently tlieic Las been no doubt that M*. Powderly would be elected without opposition, but if Martin lions fro nds can bring it about, there will be a change in the general board which will bring Irons in as the head,and give him associates that represent more radical and aggresive principles than those for wiiich Mr. Powderly has been contending. Mr. Powderly has been some time aware ot a feeling of dissatisfaction that existed, especially among the members who have recently joined the order, and confined largely to those districts that have been estab lished in and near Pittsburg. Irons is sullen and disappoint .d and thoroughly angry because Mr. Pow derly had to some extent openly and with much vigorous language pri- vataly condemned him for partici- pating a conflict at n time above all othcis when it was the wish of the gtneial board to avoid it. Irons, time and again, heard the members of the board who were in St. Louis say the strike was unwise, uncalled for, and ought never have been or dered. The committee told others so in his presence. He and his as sociates heard Ihe hoard say that at the next meeting of the board an attempt would be made to change the rules so that no strike or boycott could be ordered without the con sent ot the general board. It is on this issue thet the attempt will he made to defeat Mr. Powder ly and set hack the Knights of La boron a plane with the less intcli- gent and more unreasonable organi zations of the past. Mr. Irons’ friends have been in secret communication with leaders in other districts. His home is, like his tame, an iron one ivith’the (hree great districts in the southwest, l’hese liis friends think can be re lied upon to send delegates :o tile annual convention who will he op posed to taking away from the dis tricts the power to order strikes, and will force a change in the general hoard, and the elections ot Irons as General Master Workman. His friend say that all the districts in and about Pittsburg and some of those districts of New York, es pecially those composed of wage workers on the horse railroad lines, oppose the plan of taking away the power to order a strike from the dis tricts, They say that such a change is hostile to the theory upon which the organization is founded. It is built on the general plan of the gov ernment of the United States. The assembles represent towns, the dis tricts represent states, and the annual meeting of delegates, which elects a chief officer, represents the congress. The theory, these men say, upon which the order is founded is that, as in the political government, each sub-division is a law unto itself, in all matters relating to itself, while the proposed change would make each of the divisions subservient to the will of the general boaid. Underneath this there unques tionably lies a feeling of opposition, possibly ot jeal ousy, toward ,Mr. Powderly and the conservative views which he holds. Mr. Powderly is endeav oring to lead and direct like an econ omist, though he is no theorist. Thousands of Knighls who do not wholly understand him have perfect faith in him when he asserts that the revolution in the adjustment of the relations between the wealth of capital and the wealth of that which produces capital must come only after some years of education patience and sell control. It is the impiession of those who have been nearest to Mr. Powderly that he be lieves that the revolution will be a partnership, so to speak, of labor, with which labor buyors will treat in business opperations just as they do with any other partnership or coiporation with which they want to buy an) thing. Hut whatever he sees in the future he knows that it cannot be realized in a day or an hour. The organization he has so largely crested has now a large body of men who have neither patience or self control, and they chafe under the restraint of the order. It has grown too rapidly, and this threat ened schism is a danger which Mr. Powderly foresaw some time ago. Eatenton, May ii.—“Who as serts it, lies; who insinuates it, lies; who repeats after hearing me today, that I ever resigned any public trust in peace or war, when my services would benefit my people or country, and when I was physically able to serve them lies. Aod let him come who dares to deny it!” That was Major Bacon’s manly and defiant reply to Gen. Gordon’s insinuating inquiry if he he had not resigned from the Ninth Georgia regiment as Adjustant when his country needed his sirvices. Dur ing the delivery of this bold rebuke of an unworthy insinuation, Major Bacon looked Gen.Gordon square in the eyes and shook his finger at him. The sensation produced caused a hush over the audience that mark ed its significance. Even Gen. Gor don seemed humiliated and his non chalant air vanquished. The day was signalized by sev eral notable accidents. Among them was Gen. Gordon’s serving indirect notice on Maj. Bacon that he proposed, if necessary, to run another Colqnitt campaign. In commenting on his challenge for primaries as against fixing things as done by court Louse cliques he re peated his Clarke county grievance, and said the counties that had de clared for Bacon had done so with out authority. Growing vehement, Gordon said: “Don’t you know the action of these clique caucuses, like those of Burrows in Athens will be reversed?” Dr. R. B. Nisbet introduced both Gen. Gordon and Major Bacon. In presenting the former he made a stump speech ot some length in fa vor of the old soldier, which was a surprise even to his triends as the chairman of ajoint discussion is pre sumed to say nothiiig leaning to either candidate. Gen. Gordon recited his Ameri- cus speech, firing a few shots with which he had been loaded in At lanta on Sunday, and using a tuse of sopho.noric rhetoric to set them off. The burden of his song was that Bacon was a chronic candidate, declaring that he had been a stand ing candidate for so long that “the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.” When Nishet rose to introduce Bacon he said the Major was of Georgia blood and an honorable man who had as much right to run for Governor as either Gordon or the speaker, and as often as he pleased. This unhappy reiteration of Gordon’s chief point was eheer- ed. Major Bacon with flashing eye and voice as if choked with indigna tion, spoke in spirited terms of the chairman’s reference to his right to run as often as he pleased. Nobody disputed the proposition, but it was a question ot taste » to the chair man’s lugging it in. Dr. Nisbett jumped up excitedly and would not sit down at Majoi Bacon’s bidding, but proceeded to say he would leave it to the people present to say if he had reflected on Major Bacon. He had used the ex pression, “right to run as often as he pleased,” out of extreme courtesy, as Gordon had pressed Bacon so hard on that point Major Bacon said if the gentleman had offered it out of courtesy, he could only say he was not used to such courtesy. “Then you have not been accust omed to associating with gentle men,” interupted Nisbet. “To that I reply, in forbearance of severer language, that 1 am accus tomed to the society ot gentleman’: own blood in my home city,” res ponded Major Bacon, with percep tible suppressed emotion and coura gous forbearance. Continuing he said: “I ask, before I proceed, that some impartial person ba appoint ed chairman, or at least some one he appointed keeper of the time of our limited speeches.” A friend of Major Bacon’s then took the time. While this was go ing on two of Dr. Nesbit’s sons had pushed their way to the platform cursing and swearing that, “that man Bacon should not speak here. This was accompanied by several excited expletives. As they neared the platform they were forced back Order was restored and Maj. Ba con proceeded with his castigations ot Gordon, whom he fairly spitted and roasted over the fire of logic in the crucible of truth. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. h..« i iii i11 »n- sol L<n Destructive cyclones have swept over Ohio, Kansas and Michigan. Germany has passed a general law against the meeting of socialists. Senator Colquitt is stumping North Carolina for prohibition. There has been a big drop in the price of kerosene oil. Two men were killed and others wounded in a riot near Way cross, Ga. for Tuesday evening, soon alter the tobacco factories had closed lor the day and the streets were filled with i Beyond all qesiion, it was because operatives returning from theii I of this internal disaffection, as well work, the Terry brothers started in as the general disturbance among the direction of Spencer's factory, laboring men, that made the general When about half way they were board anxious to retire from the met by Spencer, with his brother and several friends. W. K. Terry addressed a few words to spencer, who told him n®t to shoot, just then same one flred a pistol and the shooting became general. Forty shots were fired. W. K. Terry was sfiot from the rear, the ball entering near his spine and lodging in his right breast Jake Terry was shot thrpugh tbe abdomen and (ell dead Ben Terry was shot through the neck and in the body. Spencer was shot in tbe hip, and his busi ness partner, T. Wieton Brown, re ceived two balls in the groin and is thought to be fatally wounded. Jones, a saloon keeper, R. S. Gre- ory a clerk at the Lee Hotel, and iandy Martin, a colored mechanic, are all seriously hurt. The last two were hit by stray balls. The Terrys are well known and are members of an old family and occupy a high social position. None of them are mairted. Saturday afternoon W. K. Tetry circulated a card ridiculing the tax bill passed by tbe town board, of which bpencer was a member; but this did not justify in public opinion the card which followed it at night and which brought on the tragedy. A LOST BOY. Ur. John Bush, of Oglethorpe county, was in Athens yesterday in search of his son, who had ran sway from home on Monday, and he thought that he had eith er come to Athens or gone on to Atlanta. He could find out nothing about his son here. PROPSRTT SALE. Ur.T. L. Gantt yesterday purchased of llr. U. B. McGinty the Frit-view farm, lytng within the incorporate limits, snd fcontaining over 40 acres of land. Mr. Gantt will improve the same and make it biskbae. management of the great southwes tern strike. Their whole attention will be given Irom this time forth the most serious trouble they have met. If Mr. Irons and his friends should succeed there is hardly any doubt that there would be division or se- cession. It the Knights cannot he controlled by the principle with which Mr. Powderly has thus far controlled them he would wish the order to be divided, and with those of them who stand with him would at once reorganize either a new body or in some way go on with the work he has given fifteen years. With this body the work of rapidly- increasing the number of accessions of vehement and passionate recruits will be carefully avoided. Itis probable that before very long there will be conspicous indications of the revolt which is now secretly operating in tbe ranks of the Knights and tbe next annual meeting will probably be a crucial one for the or gani zation. ELOPED WITH A GYPSY GIRL. The printed copies of the evi dence in the trial of the Rev. Dr. James G. Armstrong were placed on sale, and at once found many purchasers. Carnesvillb, Ga ,May 18.—At rn election held here on Saturday last on tbe stock law question, the no fence party was victorious by a majority of 25 out of a total vote of 21910 the distriut- Bacon and Gordon had . quite a stormy discussion at Sparta, Tues day. They sty ore enmity on the stand,- and % promised to show no more quarter. -The crowd was with Bacon. A Wrathful “Prince” Threatens to Cut Han’s Heart out. New Haven, May 11.—“Prince Williams, the famous gypsy horse- trader whose band is encamped in Westville, tried to-day to induce the police to arrest Wm. T. Squires, young mao who eloped with his daughter and several horses while the hand was encamped at Walling ford several months ago. The “Prince” has just learned his daughter and Squires are in this city and he appealed to Capt. Hyde, of the central police station to arrest him. Squires had only been releas ed from the lockup but an hour, where he had been confined for drunkenness, when the “Prince' came tearing into the office. “I don’t know whether he is mar ried to my daughter or not,” he said, upon being informed that the police could do nothing for him, “but if he don’t give her back I’ll cut his heart out. I don’t care anything about the horses, but 1 want the girl.” The “Prince” is reported to be worth several hundred thousands dollars, and swears the vengance himself and all his tribe upon Squires The young woman appeared at the police office today and waited until the time Squires was released. The couple are thought to be in town still and the “prince” is hunting for them. APPOINTMENTS. Paul Hayue, the poet, and Capt Kidtl, executive officer of the gunboat Alaba ma, are appointed on the examining board of the University. FREEMAN CAPTURED. News reached Athens late yesterday evening that Fred Freeman, the suppos ed murderer of Mauldin, of Toccoa, had been captured in Missouri. A negro highwayman robbed Mrs. Betts of four dollars in Atlanta on Saturday last. Atlanta is infest ed with • gang of highway robbers. SAH JONES APHORISMS. Some Old. some Hew. Bat all Very Point! The Blair educational bill is dead this congress. An attempt to bring it before the House failed. London, May iS.—A dispatch from Catania, Sicily, says yEtna is a state of eruption. Dan and Love Manon killed mar shall Campbell and policeman Mc Cormack, at Bartow, Fla. Major Bacon will carry “one undred counties,” or come nearer it than his distinguished compet itor. New Yoiik., May 18.—The su- ar worker’s strike strike has been eclared nt au end and the union dissolved. The Western and Atlantic rail road company wants an injunction against the railroad commission, and Clifford Anderson, attorney- general. A large number of manufacturers have shut down in St. Louis, Mo., throwing out of employment thous ands of people because of the de mands of the workmen. Mrs. Parsons, the wife of Editor Paioons, the anarchist, who now languishes in jail, says that there are thousands of bombs in the hands of anarchists in Chicago. Washington, May 15.—The house considered the bill to estab lish a sub-treasury at Louisville. The debate was a purely political one and its close the bill passed—yeas 157. nays 6t. Capt. Harry Hill and Hon. John Hart spent Saturday at White Plains, maturing plans for the peedy building of the much-need ed Union Point and White Plains railroad. Daneii.lk, Va., May 17. —A desperate fight occurred at Mar- tinsville to-night between Col, P . Schener and the Terry brothers. K. Terry was killed and his bro ther Spencer, Tarleton, Brown, H jgh, Dyer, Robert, Gregory and two negroes were iearfully if not fatally wounded. Chicago, May 17.—A special dispatch from Celena, Ohio, says the reports of Saturday night re garding the cyclone were not ex ggerated. The track ot the storm was three milea north. Scores of houses were destroyed and several people were killed, but the number is not known. Liquor will be sold in Atlanta even after the saloons close. Col lector Crenshaw will have regular sales in tront of the custom house when a still is raided. The birth of a posthumous heir to the late king of Spain is an im portant event in the politics of Europe. The yonng prince dis poses, for the present, ot the strong est argument of the Carlists, and gives promise of the continuance of the reign of the ruling family. Augtsta, Ga., May 17.—A Mr. VciL attempted suicide to-day by cutfiffg his throat with a butcher’s knife. He was unsuccessful, how ever. Mr. Vail was at one time a leading dry goods salesman of Au gusta, but of late has been unsuc cessful and in trouble. He will re cover. Macon, Ga., May 17.—Last night young Johnnie McClendon, a 15- year old son of W. A. McClendon, went in company with Alby Snow to visit Miss Laura Miller, on Third street. Finding John Taylor keep ing company with the young lady he went out and shot himself three times, inflictiug fatal wounds. Elberton, Ga., May 17.—Elec tions were held in the Royston and Carnesville districts of Franklin county, last Saturday on the stock law question. Royston went for stock law by three majority. It is supposed that Carnesville went the same way, but the returns had not been received. Staunton, Va., May 15.—A ter rible wind and rain storm occurred here this afternoon. Barnum’s show was exhibiting at the time and when the performance was half over the first gust came. The peo ple were notified to get out and the tent was lowered. The crowd made a rush, but the coolness of the circus managers prevented a gen eral stampede. A few persons were hurt, but none seriously. Reading, Pa:, May 10.—William P. Deppen, a brewer ot this city, against whom a boycott was insti tuted a month ago by the Berks li quor dealers’ league, brought suit this afternoon against fifty of the leading boycotters, all hotel keepers, for conspiring to injure his business, and laying damages at $500,cx>0. It is proposed to make this a test case A number of other boycotted busi ness men are waiting to sue per sons who tried to injure their bus! ness. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 15. A bloody riot occurred to-day at Eureka coal mines, in Roane coun ty, Tenn. A family named Hind, consisting of father and four sons, attacked a miner named Hand with axes, picks and crowbars. They cut Hand over the head and shoul ders. Tbe latter diew a pistol and shot old man Hind in the breast, indicting a fatal wound. Six eight other miners came to Hand's assistance, and a bloody affray en sued, in which four or five men were injured. A FASTIDIOUS HORSE-THIEF. A Prisoner Who Scorned to steal Leu Than Two Horeea at Once. Keene, N. H., May 11.—Locked up in the Cheshire county jail is one ol the most notorious, skillful and audacious horse thieves that the country can furnish. Christopher Carter is said to be his name, but he has passed under several aliases, as Albert Stone, Texas Jack and nu merous others, and has served atime in many houses of correction and prisons in New England. He is a Canadian and about 45 years of age. The great peculiarity of his crimes is that he never deigns to steal one horse. He draws the line at two. He has stolen an entire car-load of equines while en route to the states from Canada. Ordi nary he captures two and a vehicle —one horse being used to draw the carriage, white the other was led. Carter now has the prospect of a long term of years behind the bars. He was captured ia Bsrre, Mass., and will first be taken to Sullivan county to answer to several charges fired by the evaugelists have in the form of aphorisms, short an. pithy. thev eXD. e s juiL wh^tcitf 1 preacher intended, atvd so qlearl lhat no one can. fail to. understan their meetings. Among tho»<*.usycl during the week were the follow. g: ,n , 1 .; 1 You pack your preachers in an icehouse and abuse them all the year because they dont sweat. Many of us are too decent to be religious. My prayer is for a copy of the heart of God. I can never call names but every fellow knows his number when I talk. I am a Methodist till I find some thing with more get-up-and-get about it. I never became safisfird in Geor gia till we put legs on all the barrels and demijohns in Atlanta and mov ed them away from our boys. 1 had rather be a man in the true sense of the work than the best an gel in heaven. The church is the last place to be solemn, provided you have lived right. If I have lived right, I’ll wear a smile as broad as heaven; but if I’ve been swindling or doing wrong,(I’ll have one as broad as a graveyard. Christ was full of sympathy for the sinners, but he gave the amen corners bringes. I want to be a good man and a good husband, but Loid keep me from be'ng a nice p.eacher. If I am a revivalist I’ve grown just as the fingernails have grown on my fingers. God never made two men alike but one was no account. I’d rather be a man that a digni fied preacher. I’d rather die on a well-fought field of battle that run away and speculate on the spoils of the War. A cross is the Lord’s will one way and yours another. Some men w nt the Lord to quit lying and drinking for them. That’s your job. Some men give the devil the (.lady hood ot the world, but I believe if I •ruat in the Lord, he will bring it to pass. Some people think they can’t be pious unless the are everlastingly on the big. 1 pray for my daily bread, but I have 'o hunt for my corn pone with the sweat running down the hoe- hand’e. Dignity is nothing but the starch_ of a shroud. Some of these meleesh soldiers sing, “Surely the Captain may de pend on me,” but a corporals guard from the devil would run off a reg iment of them. Every society woman who claims be to a Christian, has got to get out ot society some time in her life or go to hell. I’d rather a daughter of mine get a snake bite than a society bite. Society is a heartless old wretch sapping the spiritual life from thous ands of peeple. When a man is bragging that his father is a Colonel you can put it down that his father is ashamed of him. Many a man will lie down in hell and say: “My tongue damned me.” You may baplize a man all over, but his tongue will come out as dry as powder. Some of us will get up a big muss in heaven by talking about our neighbors. I’m not singing the “Sweet bye- and-bye,” but the “Sweet now-and- now. Please recognize me down here. When I get in glory with a palm in my hand if you don’t wan’t to recog nize me you needn’t doit. 1 pray the Lord to give me a heav en to heaven in. I’ll pjt u.) with less in heaven if I can get more down here. 1 ‘ v “ Every true man is an eleriwUmil- lionaire. aw The greatest gift of God is.a game preacher. It a horse is sound from head to foot he don’t mind the currycomb, but if there are unsound spots when you come to curry him he kicks. Some preach there are no hell, but, old fellow, you won’t be in hell ten minntes before you’ll wake up and say: “My God, what a mistake I’ve made.” Hell is sin intensified, and sin is hell in all its respects. The de vil liaa no better servant than a preacher that is Iayiag feath er beds for fallen Christians to light on. If I were an old sinner I’d have all the fuu I could while I’m here .'or I tell you it will be too warm where you are going to have much fun. The devil is too much of a gentle man to go where he’s not invited. Feeling is moral perspiration. Y’ou can’t take another man’s money to heaven with you. There are no pockets in shrouds. I believe the whale swallowed Jonah, and the only reason I don’t believe Jonah swallowed the whale is because the Bible don’t say so. I’d rather be a bull pup than a town bnlly. I’d rather be a dead lion than a liviug dog. Ignorance is as round as a ball, and slick as a button; its got no han dle and you can't manage it. The Lord will have a great big ABC class in heaven. No man can be a Christian and drink whisky. Nobody but an infernal scoundrel will sell whisky, and nobody but an infernal fool will diink it. You go on singing your way to heaven and you will be mistaken. You’ll yet tangled up with the idea that Christ is going to be good for you, and you’ll get left on Judg ment Day. Righteousness is righteousness, straightedness. The secret of happy life is to do your duty and trust in the Lord. Among the pithy sayings of Mr. Small are. “You cannot run a city on an un equal partnership with God. There are no middle ground—no mugwumpism—in religion The Lord knows, you need a lit tle religion in .your politics. There are a great many Christians who have a smattering of religion, but they have not acquired the true accent of Christian life. Chicago, May iS.—The box makers made an effort yesterday to settle their difference with their employers by proposing to return to work at eight hours’ pay for tight Hours’ work. The manufac turers refused to accept the terms. Pittsburg, May 18.—Reports from the Cumberland coal regions are to the effect that the giriat strike. has been broken. 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