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Tb« Lost Man Could not too Found. The factor^ pond was turned loose Saturday night to give the friends and r«» .itives of Mark Cheatham a chanceto ir.-h the pond for his dead body. Sun- ,l.x morning a large croa’d had emigre- _.n»>d along the hanks of the river, and >,• irrhing parties were provided with 1.. ,a*s and poles with hooks on the end, :iud neatly every part of he pond was tithed without success. .John Mack hid , -mr-je of one of the boats 'ami his hook caught something that ho thinks was ,.,iner the dead manor a hog Hint had 1., ,-n drowned in the river. The water «,i* shout 12 feet deep where the body u :i- found, and it was impossible to get : i,» the surface as the book pulled out i h time. Others came to Mack’s as- and they decided that it was i*• body of a man cr a hog. * s«w- . ral attempts they gave it up as an im- j. .«-ihdity to get the body out. Thore is a great variety of opinions . i . ruing the missing man. Some -.•link be isjinAnniston, Ala., as lie had u orked there before, and having some unable here, be bad conelnded to go '.■•••h to Anniston without saying apy- • r.ng to his friends or relatives about where lie was going. The whole affair i mystery, and it will be sometime >re it will be uncovered, i »„• river where dobn Mack booked the body on Sunday was again dragged \ esterday, but nothing could be found. THE VERY l.A IT’.ST. » hief Oliver came down the North- ! rn yesterday, and met Mr. Ittair. a - In* says be saw Mark Oheutham in dug I :i\ ern Sat unlay. If Mr. Diair is i re.-t and Mark Chontham is in JugTav- •hil Iren and known bis wl> friends b- ot making AN UNFORTUNATE. sheriff Overby, of Oennec, p.v»st .:*ugh tbe.ei y yesterday’with Mr. J< fard. \rh.CTWs4«-rsinge !. and on his \va . tlu-asylitiR. \V:.r.l l.n.l a. < mnu at. li.ll.- capital of •■f-.m. 1.y lianl work an I'lmumv. a:nl was imlin-.-il in in.t-st At I ist liis la-1 It rangi'.l. tlie prim lent, lie In- mllnl tiial In aril is a Hue tonkin of life, ami i- noi e-terilav rctnarkei i -VVnU.M.an^ 1 na . v A remarksok HOX. EMORY SPEER, is srrroisT ofthe SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. IlELIVERF.il SATURDAY 7ta INST Al ATHENS OPERA HOUSE. Saturday morning, a committee con sisting of Prof.White, Mr. Prince Hodg son and Mr. Gantt, the editor of the 1 an- ner-Watchman, learning that Judge Speer was in the city visiting his parents, called on him and urged his attendance and participation in the meeting of citi zens Saturday evening. .Judge Speer at nice promised to attend and give his views on the general policy of the hill. As we promised onr readers, we here present an epitome of what he said. The speech of Judge Speer was de livered in three-quarters of an hour, and the following is merely a synopsis of the arguments made by him: My Fellow-citizens: To meet you hero to-night is to me an unexpected pTri&tfre. 1 am tine ack now lodgments to 1 ro r essor White, to Mr. Hodgson, and to Mr. (Jantt, gentlemen who this niQrn- ing apprised me of this assemblage, and invited me to participate in its deliheia- lions, for the unath cted pleasure it gives me to meet so many to whom 1 am bound, by every emotion of respect and esteem, and by the ever cherished mem ories of inv hovho( young man- «*d. Aside from the • to stand as 1 now d » faces “long lost to : I 1. delight it gives ». and look down ight; but still to iv«* been and am ied in th* subject It is v itbout cx- •t ili BLOWN UP veil diggers i A WILL, •re biiotin I Inch T wli.'ii • * i ► tie ..f the iila>t> faded .o •.eir’.i 1. d to take t!o‘ tan.pi id .urge the hole, and while tamping a spark ignited th< 1 made a verv loud report, rn at work in the well were hard t at alh The only reason that car mis that the tamping only blew Th. Id he ’ tilt the til I In HORSE THIEF CAPTURED. *s Smith, the Jackson < dr. J. \Y. Long to-day announces bine t’ as a candidate for Tax Collector e nkc county. Mr. Long is a steady rth\ young man, honorable and relia , and’if e ectc l wi I make an ellicien now profoundly i >.f your delibemti fi.jgerat.on w hen I say that it is the fore- m ist toj ie of the educational world. J m»*an, of course, the subject of technical education. Strange to mo ns is the cor - f ssio.i, 1 an. not now a citizen ot Ath ens. 1 have, therefore, no vote, anti should properly have r.o voice in its mu nicipal concerns. I do not know what is your financial condition: and am not, •.herefore, was the advice proper and pa’atnble, competent to say anything ‘bout the direct question for which this ooc dog is called—that i people of Athens should secure the State Tech' heir midst, besides, 1 live in a beauti- i 1 and attractive city, where it is not at ill impossible that arguments I might here make for Athens, would be there held treasonable to my adoj ted home. I have the honor tr> hold the courts of my country twice a year in mother city >ot l«*>s benidiul ami attractive, ami the ionic of the distinguished author of the •iil c easing the Technical School, ami I im sure that efforts on in^' part in be- lf of Athens would be deemed scan whether the Mir a debt to cal School in just i Imr *«* itiiof, who vns trie 1 at .loffitrson !y just to a jieojile and a com ” vi’HM a;< , and s< n ten v-1 t.> >i\ munity where I have Mich pleasant as y.ii sin tin* f'baii -p ; in: 11.1 1 roke jail sociations. Mine, therefore, is a divided ln< Kffn rapture 1 while erv*i g as a s..l tllegiance. This much, with propriety. si. 1 m Atlanta. Smith s: vs lu will .ii. I can say—that the city in Georgia which M .if Up will <r< to the 1 iiain Hr secures the Polytechnic School will he s r ^•lpsrnU’d as being a very handsome paid abundantly for its outlay, not in}: u all. lone in the inert* returns of wealth, but FOR TA COLLECTOR n the adv incfinent of its people, and ..tin ROBBING ■Tnith. c broke Saturday 1MEK-IN-LAW. nlored, is again 1 in We-ley Char! light and stoh Wesley Charlton and hi- himjtinip out of the wi , • v\ after robbing the hou ill he tried before Justid ughtc *. Sami ■ Evans tii mug. piNK tvoor. There is a negro man in Greene c \\ ho has not seen a wink since he -.•wn years old. lie lost his eye from an overdose of pink ro . luld was blinded from tin at that time. sight Anothei aim* cause A Mlbi AKE. It is altogether a mistake about Marl Cheatham being in dug Tavern. Mr John Smith, who lives there says he has not been seen or heard of in those part; Mr. \V. 1>. Gritfeth this week sold Judge K. 1. Smith, of Oglethorpe coun ty, a shoe of land, loO acres, f.om tin Macon place, eight miles from Athens and in Clarke county, for $10 per acre Judge Smith is a good citizen and we welcome him to our county. in AT TUNNEL. ~ The surveyors on the M. «V A. road will reai'li the city now in a few days when work on the tunnel under the cit\ will at once commence. If the road i nters the city up the Tanyard branch it will develop a wide strip of level land that can he used for manufacturing pur poses—something Athens badlv needs. FRUIT DISTILLERIES. The fruit distilleries of the Oth revenue «li\ i-doti are grinding up apples and peach 's and setting up their stills preparatory to making brandy. Five have given bond in the dry counties, and say they will he able to sell all they caiCmake. When a>ked how they will manage to sell in violation of prohibition, they answer with a wink and say, “Don't mind about that, we’ll sell all we can make.” A irujt dis tiller is required to give bond for the pay ment of the taxes due on all the brandy he distills, and is expected to make one gallon of spirits for each fourteen gallons of pomace, or eleven gallons of cider. After the brandy is gauged the distiller i' lequired to pay a tax of ninety cents per gallon within four months.—Wash ing »m Chronicle. Nature unadorned. Ambition to have tine dressing docs »>"t prevail everywhere. Passing along the public highway in Oconee county the other day, and cogitating upon the • \travagance of women, 1 saw a lady in her front porch, dressed in a neat calico '“it w earing neither shoes nor stockings, **'d not ashamed for passers-by to look i her pretty feet. She wati composedly k tutting, and seemed not to he disturbed at all by the presence of strangers. 1 t K: ‘>d to myself, “Here is economy again— h. re is nature unadorned. What an im- *e saving to overpriced men, if the vonhl discard shoessnd stockings Mi. through the hot summer riu>nths! N more slippers, no more Newport ties, non ° of Miles best—natures own perfect dress, unspdiled by the handiwork V. man.” \ had to buy two pairs of shoes tR 8 °on as I reached home, ai\d my spec ulations vanished into' thin air.—Wash ington Chronicle. x .•S . - . i aSB ~ l*ove all, ill lIk* irwir-H^od dignity apJ mportance of its laboring classes and he betterment of their condition. This tatemont is verified by experience. It < confirmed and the technical school is idvocated by the best thought and the ►est thinkers of the age in which we ivo. That eminent scientist and genuine riend ofthe man of labor. Prof. Win. .oroy Hroun, declared to me that the •clinical school w as pre-ominently the •ecossity o! the day, and the best school or the advancement of labor ever de- ised. Senator lice. F. Hoar declared to he legislature of Massachusetts “the uanufacturing and mechanical classes tavc aright to demand your aid. This ►rovision for education is not only an in vestment promising a vast and direct pecuniary return, hut it is also to-day a necessity of self-preservation.” Patrick Henry said on a notable occasion: “There •s hut one lam** by which my feet nie jnirieri, and* that is the lamp of experi ence.” Now, let us test my proposition n the light of Patrick Henry’s lamp, and •y a modern instance. In the year 1805 a school of tlie procise plan contemplat ed here was established at Worcester, n Massachusetts. I'p to the year 1882 twenty-four hundred and forty-six pu pils had received training there in the best methods of applied mechanics, sci entitle, thorough aim practical. Ofth?se fourteen hundred and eighty-five came from the *own itself and the county in which it was situated. This is in the n iture of tliirgs. People who are on th spot invariably get thfc lion’s share of the advantages of an institution there. It is a well known fact that the District of Columbia, although hut about to miles square, and with a population of about two hundred thousand, of the of fices of the general government located there, obtains a proportion overwhelm ingly larger tha.i that of any state or ter ritory. This is an illustration of what I iay. If the Technical School should he 1 icxted in Savannah, or Macon, or -Ath ens, thore is not a respectable' working man in the community who could not. in time, give his boy the magnificent ad vantage of ari education, which, in the present condition of our country, is like ly to he of greater value than that which flows from the best classical school ever inspired by the genius of Attic or Roman literature. The object of all education is to exercise the faculties of the mind. It does not matter how this is done, so it is done. Exercising the mind is very much like exercising the body. One man will wield the dumb-bells or essay t e gymnasium; another will chop wood with an axe or take a ride between the handles of the plow. The body is exer cised in either case. So the subtle facul ties of the mind may be as well exer cised by learning under proper and judi cious teachers a useful trade, as by a grubbing after Greek roots, er translat ing knotty Latin, or cramming all the ologies that ever puzzled the student or pleased the professor. The proof of this statement is on every hand. A skilled mechanic is exceedingly apt to be an in telligent man, with quick perceptions, sound judgment and a fund of useful in formation If, in addition to the mental exorcise had while learning his trade, he enjoyed the advantages ol an English education, he is usually one o( the first citizens in the community, with a lively interest in public affairs, capable of giv- ng expression to sensible and patriotic thjughts, and a tower of stren jth to ither working nken not so fortunate as he. 1 his is true of colored men as well as of white men.* With rare exceptions, the men of color who possess and wielp a legitimate and useful influence with h ir race are mqp who have learned me- cuanical trades—blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers and similar handicraftsmen. Solid and substantial citizens are they, and they receive and deserve the re spect of their fellow-citizens of th«* white race. All Southern men will remembe that in the days of slavery the fnost in telligent of the plantation force, with the largest influence among their own color, were the blacksmith and the carpenter. Why is this? Why, simply because the faculties of toeir minds have b*cn exer cised in the act of learning their trades. This is education. If it had gone further it would have been better education, but it is good as far as it goes. Fourteen years ago, when I was twenty-two years old. on this same general subject, 1 ad dressed an audience in the college chapel at commencement. I find what I then said reported in the Southern Watchman of that day: “The itate should educate the people to increase its agricultural and mechani cal productive power. The increase of productive power is a problem of the most gigantic importance to the states man ami philanthropist, and becomes more important as population incroases. In the first place, an intelligent man can do more work than an ignorant man. And again, intelligent minds are more inven tive than ignorant minds and will there fore invent labor-saving machines, and thus augment the producing power. H >race Mann gives this interesting fact: “Those operatives in factories who can sign their weekly receipts for money, can do a third more work, and do it better than those who make their mark.” A writer on this subject gives this instance: “A gentleman of my acquaintance.” su’d he, “had frequent need of a carpenter. The work to he done was not regular, carpentry, hut various odd jobs, altera tions and adaptations to suit special wants and no little time and material were was ted in the mistakes of successive persons employed. At length a workman was sent who was a German, from the king dom of Prussia. After listening atten tively to the orders given, and doing what he could to understand what his employ er wanted, Michael would whip out his pencil and in two or three minutes with a few rapid lines world present a sketch of the article so clear that any one could recognize it at a glance. It could he seen at once whether the intention of the em ployer had been rightly conceived and whetherjt was practicable. The conse quence was that so jlong'as Michael was employed there was no more waste of ma terials and time, no more vexatious fail ures. Michael was no more skillful as a workman than many others who had pre ceded him, hut his knowledge of drawing gained from the system of public instruc tion in Prussia made his services wor*h fr.om fifty cents to a dollar a day more than those of his fellaw workmen.” What is true of drawing, is true of every other branch of scientific education. In crease intelligence and you multiply in vention The cotton gin, the sewing ma chine, the steam engine, would never have been invented by ignorant mechan ics. If the steam engine aloqe were to stop working to-<lay thousands would starve to death in the populous ci f ies of the world before help could he afforded. The steam power of Great Britain alone equals the laboring power of four hun tired millions of men. Steam power through the world equals the working power by manual labor af four worlds like ours. Commerce, agricul ture, warfare, the mechanic arts, hav undergone aeomplete revolution becaus of an invention not a century old, and this the work of an'educated mechanic. Almost every industrial pursuit is de pendent upon science. Chemistry is do ing for agriculture what steam has done for mechanics. The ftirmer doubles his crop by applying a knowfedge of chemis try to the soil. We absolutely fatten cattle on scientific principles. The phys iologist has proven that to produce ani mal heat necessitates a waste of suli stance and the fanner now keeps his cat tle warm an<f saves his fodder. If gov ornin*mt will diffuse knowledge among the people it pours into their a cornicopia of substantial blessings. It feeds the hungry, it clothes the naked and shelters the houseless and thereby accomplishes some of the great objects for which it was designed.” In the light of the history of educa tional advancement since then, these youthful utterances are doubly true, hut they were well known to be true at that time. Napoleon had said that the Polytechnic School of Paris was “the goose that had laid him golden eggs File skill there taught had ’carried hi troops over mountains; it had seamed France with canals; it had built the basins and break-waters of Cherbourg and con structed other huge artificial harbors it had bridged the torrent of the rushing Danube, if the historian, Allison, is wor thy of credit, in the short space of ten minutes. Germany, by the skill of her artisan trained in her Technical Schools, is underselling Birmingham and Man Chester in the staple products of those great hives of industry, and the small town of Chemitz, in Saxony, with three Technical Schools in its midst, exports larger values to this country than cities twenty times its size. Intelligence and skill are becoming every year larger fac tors in manufacturing pursuits. One small town in Vermont which has ex pended not m.:cU abort of % half a mil lion of dollars in educational advantages for its citizens, although it has bat six thousand inhabitants, and although is one huodred and fifty miles from tide water, and must bring every ounce iron and coal that it uses more than hundred miles by rail, successfully com petes with sixty other firms in the Uni ted States engaged in the same business, and sells one-third more of the product than they do. Not o^ly does the Technical School increase the wealth of communities, but it produces men of conspicuous fame and celebrity. Roebling, the architect of the great railway bridge at Niagara, and the builder of that marvellous structure which pierces the heavens and spans the arm of the sea at New York, is a grad uate of the Polytechnic School at Berlin, The times demand meu of this training. They must be had. The development of our rivers and harbors, the water sup •ply of cities: the construction of health ful and comfortable homes for. the peo ple, upon scientific principles; the devel opments of steam, electricity, magnet ism, as applied to machinery, make the trained mechanic—a professional man of GospeJ. These facts are • undeniable. What is theii logic? These men will be had; and if America does not furnish them,' Europe wiil. If the South does not furnish them the North will, and our children will be supplanted. Talk of protection te American indus try! I am a protectionist out and out, but there is no protection equal to the protection that a scientific technic training will give to the American boy. Talk of the dignity of labor. What will dignify labor more than to make it one ofthe learned professions. Give labor its university. I.aw, literature, medi cine, theology, all have their universi ties. Where is the university of labor? Here it is in the Technical School. The Germans understand the dignity of la bor. The Princes of the Imperial house the sons of Emperor William have learn ed their trades. Tne Crown Prince him self is, if I mist ike not, a jeweler, and another of the princes a shoemaker. Nothing will so elevate labor and the condition of the laboring classes as in dustrial education widely ditTused. The accumulation of wealth is r source of weakness, instead of national strength, unless in a corresponding degree the comfort and advancement of the laboring classes is attained. May I not appro priate the true and beautiful verse3 of Goldsmith: ‘III farus tn« land, lohaMcnin? ll’a a prey, ►Vhere w*altn accumulates and men decay, i’riuces and lord* may D jurish or mar (±de. A brcu'.ti may mate tbsui a* a.ure&th h-ts made; But a tMid, peasantry, their country * pride, ; W btsu oncedest-'orud cau never l*a supplied ” Educated mechanics will give wise, rudent, patriotic and statesmanlike di ction to those powerful labor oiganiza- lions which under such directions may accomplish so much lasting good, and in absence may work so injuriously to the common welfare. No body of men, however earnest, can reach great and ults, without that true leadership hich springs from trained and disciplm- ntellect. A ou, my friends, whom I address may not directly erjoy the advantages of these lustrial schools which the advance- -*i>t of labor and the increased dignity labor have made the necessity of civi lization. hut you will enjoy them in the ippincss of your children in their in creased prosperity, in their improved in- llectuality, in all that tends to make fe useful, in all that tends to make life happy. I firmly believe that in the in dustrial schoal is found the solution of cry serious problem, which perplexes American statesmanship, and the dis- rsion of every cloud that hangs over future of the laboring classes of this untry. I congratulate you on the pros- erity of your community an I rnv dear Id home. I congratulate you with all my heart upon the evidence of thrift and prosperity I see on every hand. 1 would notiflcould mislead you oti any public piestion m which your interest is con- 1 owe too much to the people of Athens and to the working men of Athens to mislead them. I can never, ver, forget them. I can almost say th the Psalmist u»* :*«*• “If 1 forget thee, < >! Jcrusaelein, may my right hand rget its .cunning, and my tongue cleave the roof of inv mouth.” Nor have 1 any motive, present or prospective, per sonal to myself, in this advice. My line life is taken, and happily taken, and ill never be changed of my own voli tion. I have spoken solely to give my humble contribution for the advance ment of the people and for the welfare of the toilers for bread, upon whose happi- ss the contentment of all depends. AUGUSTA’S FACTORIES, ALL CLOSED DOWN FOR AX IXDE- FINITE PERIOD. 4,000reopHOntm worit-M.eUag of tie Dnifhta of Labor--Tae Women uiad of the Shut Down,; So ca to Enahio Them fox Awhile to Secure Rest--TheK. of L. Ap point a Guard to Protect the Rroperty the Mill Owners Against Any Deprecia tions that May Occur. Augusta, Gah Aug. 10.—A reporter hastened to the factories to scy? nn«l talk to the operatives as they came from their work after the mills had closed down for an indefinite period. Arriving a little ahead oltime we talked to a num ber who had . gathered around the Knights of Labor hall, n..d learned on inquiry, that nearly half of the opera tives had been dismissed at noon. “What is the situation?” asked the re porter of an operative standing by. • “The situation isply . tips; We ai& shut-out and we would rather go this way than Str&e. We will stand by tl o Augusta Factory and be guided by their action. If they go to work we wi^l. if they stick out until they get the ad vance tre will.” “What n^ill you do during the shut down? 4 ^ • “A large number of operatives, espe cially ofthe King and Sibie Anills, have relatives living in the country and they will go to them. A number of the men have already made arrangements and will go to work on railroads. We ain’t going to starve, that’s one thing you can put down as certain.” “How about the women:” asked the eporter. “They need rest l adly and they .are glad to get it. 1 just bet the women will he true. They are more determin ed than the men.” About this time the A GREAT LOCK-OUT- FOUR THOUSAND HANDS TO BE DEAARBED FROM WORK. anil the operatives from t e mills pour ed out—not with sad faces. They were not noisy. Smiles of satisfaction gleam ed over their countenances as they talk ed, and hurriedly walked to their homes to get ready' to attend the meeting ol the Knights of Labor, which was to be held ot 7:1X). The reporter stopped a few with whom he was well acquainted, and they alt saiii about the same. One said: "1 am out of a job. The mills have shut down, but ex pect we will all live." TUK llKKTIXli. An hour before lee time fur the meet- tig the large hall of the Knights of La bor was densely packed, and before the hour of meet’iig, hundreds were unable to gain admittance. The visiting Master Workmen address -d the assembly. The meeting, of course, was private, but the ODcrativcs who arc locked out were counselled to he law-abiding and orderly, and they wire advised to follow tbe good example of the strikers of the Augusta factory, who have be-n out nearly a month, anil not a single viola tion of the city's rules have been repor ed from that locality. • WILL NOT ItlXli. The belle will not ring this morning, but the operatives will_ be.at the gates ready to go to work at the usual hour,at all the factories except the Augusta. 4,tX*> l-KOI'I.K OUT OF WllltK. There are now in Augusta four thou sand white people out of employment, and it does not look as though there was much chance for an early solution of the tx-ouble. ATHENS NOTES. Athens is rapidly building up. Xew houses can be seen on every street and most of them are tasty dwelling houses, be city is making substantial progress very direction, and^is rapidly sccur- all the conveniences which are com mon to larger places. .Several cotton fac tories. two cotton compresses, gas works, ice factory, a good system of water works, an iron foundry, the free school system and tlie State University, arc all operating 10 build up the city. Amongst its dry goods merchants, the Mullanc Company heads the list, with an immense stock of goods anil a splendid trade. All the merchants seem to be prosperous, and have high hopes of tlie advantages to be derived from the Macon anil Athens railroad, which will probably be com pleted by Christinas, The business men of the city expect lo build a road to El- berton and tl is will complete their rail road tacilities. If the Augusta and Chat tanooga is built, such tempting offers will be made that it is believed will secure that road also. Altogether, Athens is very happily situated and may well be hopeful of its future.—Washington Chronicle. Th* Hill President*' ultimatum and the K lights of Labor's Final Aetloa—The Aujusta Factory Strike to Bring a den- oral shut Down. Augusta Chronicle. YkSterdty morning, as the opera tives went to work in the different cotton factories in this city, they were confronted with a notice that unless tne striking hands in the Au gusta Factory went to work by Tu esday morning next, the mills would all shutdown on that dav. The notice was worded in differ endways in different mills, hut was plain and p* remptory, and con tained a square ultimatum from the proprietors to the laborers. It was t renewal’of what had already been attempted ijome weeks ago, and was the first active evidence that the Knights ol Capital had com oined on the same plane with the Knights of Labor. This wa- the first notice to the opetajives and to the public gener- illy that the Southern Manufactu rers’Associ ition h id held a meet ing and had ad pled this plan, it •it once became news, and all day ong theie was wide inquiry as to the outcome ol the trouble. THE >IIL1. MEN- TALK. The Chronicle approached the mill Presidents in their offices, and although each one acknowledged that a shutdown would be tried un less the hands returned to their places at the Augusta Mill. The Chronicle was referred to Mr. Cha«. G. Goodrich, Secretary of the Southern Manufacturers’ Associa tion. for further particulars. Mr. Goodrich said that the pdlicy hail been adopted by the mill men m meeting Friday evening. It'was orced upon them lor self protec- •ion. The managets of the differ ent mills felt that each one was aid ing in sustaining the strikers in the Augusta Factory, and concluded to make a square issue here and now. 1’he operatives were offered a .'ha to relit'n to work, an I now had an opportuni'y to do so. It was to he hoped that a shut-down would be averted.. “How many factories form your Association?” ‘•About ten. T:ie Carolina mills troui’d tis have come in, and others will follow. The present ciisis foes not obtain in the Carolina til'll* yet The A<-ociation has not organized for objecKof oppression. Mottling c uld be f iriher from our desire. We propose when better grown, to revise our wage lists, . qu -lize'he pay rolls and see that cert tin classes ol our labor get bet- er wages. The design, too, is to oo. after the general welfare of our people and to exert a moral influ ence as well as to extend mutual aid wherever we can. ••Of course, this is now in a for- alive state; the present purpose is sell-protection, while the full plan mut ual benefit.” AROUND THE MII.LS. THE MEXICAN TROUBLE. SrtURETARV BA YARD INTERVIEW Ah. Jttittnf to Be Beheaded In Cnee an Attack Be Made firom the Texas Side of the Rio Grande TO PUOT83T THK MILLS. It is understood that at a meeting of the Knights last ni<;ht a committee was appointed to look after the mill property and see that no one attempted to injure any property mills. Washington, Aug. 9.—Secre— tavy Bayard, when asked whether there were any new developments in the Cutting esse, replied that fhere were absolutely none. “It is not time yet for us to hear anything definite, and I suppose that what comes as newspaper re ports of the proceedings of the trial are not very accurate.” m “Do you believe that President s pOiaz is likely to pardon Cutting,” was asked. “I do not know, but should not be surprised if it were true. That does not enter into the -question, however. It makes no difference whether he is pardoned or not. It *cems to me that the statement of the case as made by some of the newspapers is far from correct.,The whole point in the affair is that the United States has court s for the trial of its citizen*, and we cannot tolerate such a thing as the. trial on foreign soil, by foreign courts, of American citizens for • offenses, or alleged offenses, committed in the United States. We might as well not have any government if we are to suffer anything of the kind. It does not enter into the case at the present stage to inquire whether V. titling was a turbulent citizen or not, orwhether he has committed a crime. The whole point is that this country is entirely able to deal with its own citizens.” El Paso, Tex., Aug. g.—Excite— J ment over the Cutting -imbroglio is much intensified tcBday. A passen ger on train front Chialuiahua City, this morning.’said that it is known positively that General Maceyrahas ordered the Paso del Norte authori ties, in case of an attack from Texas, TO CUTOFF THE f-IUSONEJt’s HEAD and deliver it to the Americans. Eight hundred Mexican troops are -aid to have left Lagos for Paso del Norte on Sunday night. It is as- -erted that a second demand has oeen made and that American offi cials have been notified to leave Mexico. Large crowds gather at every street corner. EDITOR CUTTING—HOW HE TOOK HIS SENTENCE. El Pas-i, Texas, Aug. q.—As sentence was protonneed Cutting turned slightly pale, hut was other wise thoroughly composed. When 'he reading ol the sentence was fin ished, he asked in a loud voice of AGONY OF BEING 'SCALPED. A sick and sorry locking spec! men of humanity stepped from the passenger train last night anil climb ed into a waiting wagon and was driven to the country. His name was Samuel Neff, fie is a man of about so years of age, and his pa rents reside in Pine Creek. Young Neff *s just home from Arizona, w here he has been prospecting in the mines and acting as a scout on the hunt for Indians. Unfortunate ly fbr him, he found the murderous red devils, and they almost made mince meat of him. Oneday while riding through a canon.be was shot through the shoulder and fell from htshotse. Hi* asssilants, finding that he was not dead, tortured him outrageously. They cut gashes in his face and all over his body, ap plied fire to his feet and hands, and ended their brutality by scalping told'agdni About the mill* there is ^ diversi fy ot sentiment. One. eleihcfttTk'tip* po-ed to all compromise. They say they will not return to work in the * e ive looms in the Augusta mill, ami are r.-ailv to make the issue now. Another class rre said to be wi li the court, at the same time pointin'* to Medina: ' “About the $600, is. that creature to get any of ii?" At this point Consul Brigham in terposed to stop him". “If ‘he prisoner uses insulting language,” said the judge. “1 can add .something to the te tn of. his sentence.” Judge Brigham assured the court 'hat neither he nor Cutting meant any disrespect to it. “Let us understand,” said Judge BHgtatqsvjtuJDvtoU this is foi ?” “It is for the publication on the other side ol an article which is held to have vitiated a reconciliation made on this side.” “And this act o*. the other side,” continued Ju Ige Brigham, “was him. He suffered untoldi'sgohie*, and praj-ied that death might relieve him. Finally he fell into a faint, and upon awakening he found him- self being kindly cared for in a miner s cabin. The miner had pick ed him up and carried him a long distance on horseback. Neff suf fered weeks of excruciating pain and raved with a fever, and as. soon as he was able to travel he took the road for home. A reporter asked Nefl how it felt to have his hair lifted. “It is a dreadful sensation,” he said. “One thinks, as the skin is being torn from the skull, that his feet are coming right up through his body to the top of his head. On, it is terrible. It is so painful that you cannot utter a cry; thousands of stars dance before your eyes. You imagine red-hot needles are darting in and out ofyour flesh, and you clasp your h-nds so cjoselv that the finger nails cut into the flesh. 1 would rather be run thro gh a threshing machine, ground up in a sausage mill or thrown under a lo comotive than to ever undergo such another ordeal. It.makes me shud der to think ol the tortures I have gone through with, and I never want to look upon the face of an other Indian." / “Do many persons survive the operation?'’ interrupted the re porter. * No; I have only heard of two or three men besides mvsulf who have lost their hair by the scalping-knile and then live to tell of it.” “Do you think the hair will ever grow out agein?” “Oh, no; I shall always have a bald spot up there. The skin was torn of! fora space ot lour inches square, and I’m atraid will never heal entirely. Even it it does heal over the bare place will always be so painlul that I cannot touch it. I keep my head tied up in cotton and swett oil. You can see that my beauty has been entirely marred. I hese Irigbtful gashes across my face will go with me to the grave.” —Chicago (Cal.) Chronicle. I to go to their tasks, now that const.ued on inis side as a contempt THE KLKC1K1C LIGHT. ECONOMY. Having business with an old gentleman in Elbert county last week, I sat in liis piazza until lie could come from the field, and 1 was surprised to see him walk up barefooted, lie had been hoeing all the morning. The case will appear strange when it is stated that lie is past sixty and owns seven hundred acres of landau liis rightO c m» e county I saw lady carding cotton rolls and her daugh ter was spinning the rolls into thread. Such economy as this laid the basis of all the great fortunes in this country. Our old people are still capable of practicing this virtue, hut the younger generation are inclined to live up to their privileges. ■Washington Chronicle. of A TRUE SNAKE STORY. A few days ago as Sank Griffin, the painter,-was strolling along at a picnic gait in the country, he saw on the ground a heap of something black and a good deal of it; also a wide-spread mouth and two legs hanging out of it When he recovered from his surprise, he was able to discern that it was a living mass coiled up before him—a very large black snake. The snake had partly swallowed a half-grown rabbit Mr. Griffin meas ured the reptile and found him over seven and a halt feet in length. It a curious black, snake, having about a foot and a half of its tail white.—Walton News.- more dignity, usefulness and. popularity than thpfi4oetanttt|rjluMlMijn f*|iT-niBrniiLi scareotiJ less so-thin-the minister of the convicts on the road. WILFUL DESTRUCTION. The seats and desks in the Athens Academy, the property of Clarke conn ty, have been backed to pieces and ruin- id by the pupils. It is an outrageous shame. We trust that onrpnhlie school buildings wilt not be so defaced as this icademy has been. ' Will contact. Hon. James M. Smiah is negotiating for a contract on the Macon' & Athens ■nad, and if lie gets it will put all of his the protest has been made and the injustice pointed out, believing that public opinion and the'interest of the factories w.ll work out better days for them as trade looks up. These people are. some of them, ajixious, it is said, to go to their pla ces. THE KNIGHTS WILL NOT GO BACK. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 7th, 1880.—Edi tor ltanner-Watchman: Having seen complaints in the newspapers recently of the inefficient and badly lighted streets of your city, induces me to writo to you on the subject of having electric lights introduced into Athens. I have had some correspondence with Dr. Hunni- cutt, but cannot net from him muc". in formation as to the Wishes of you citi- izens respecting the nse.s of the com bined systems of “Arc and Incandescent Electric Lighting.” He informs me that the city is under contract with the tlie gas company, having sevettal years to run. 1 have advised him that the Let does not prever.; our system from being installed there at once, atid to he made profitable to tne promoters from the very beginning of opcrKtions. As it is in about 150 cities in the I'nitod States, paying regular it viilends of* from 10 to ”5 per cent. Out of tho above stated largo number of cities which liave had our system ins-ailed, only about -II were free to contract for electric lights, at or before the plants- were estaoliahe Notwithstanding, i'do not know of one single city that has not adopted and con tracted for the e|ectric tight in addition to the miserable, poor gas lights, long before the ex| iration ol ilicir gas con tracts. Individual and commercial lighting is the main thing to he consider ed. If your citizens are desirous of en joying the great benefits of the very Last night the Chronicle repaired to Harrisbutg at id o’clock, where the Knightsol Libo. were in session until midnight, discussing the situa tion at the Augusta factory and the threatened lock out in all the mills. Awaiting the adjournment of the :odge. the Chtomcle finally found the i tficers and adv.sers, and asked them the result of the session. The Chronicle found that the op eratives had a large and very quiet eeting, and that it was decided to H bicle the issue which the mill presi dent had forced upon them. “Tnenthe oper-'tives will qotgo to work in the Augusta factory?” the Chronicle asked of one of the committee. ol court?” To this the court replied in the negative. The court then turned to the prisoner and asked: “Do you still stand underthe pro tection of your government?” “I do,” replied Mr. Cutting. “Do you wish to take an appeal to the supreme court?” the judge asked. “I have no appeal to make, ex cept to the government of the Uni ted States.” It you should desire to take an appeal,” said Judge Zubia, “you have five days tn which to give no tice. Do you wish to sign the pro ceedings of this court?” *• T«iirn nnthinn ” “Nc; they cannot go back unless thetxecutive bo^rd of the United States orders them back, and I have no idea this will be done. This is a lockout, and a provision is,mailef->t • uch an emergency bv the copstitu •inn of the Knight* of Labor. The .Augusta factory hinds will not re tun! to wotk, as on vision ha* been made to " carry them thiough the st ike. and the fumlr ate being fur ttished for them to live on. The general executive board has been notified of theimpetvdinglockout on Tuesday, ’Oth inst. Tney will tak ■ he muter in charge.” “What about supporting the stri “Theorder rtq'tiresthat thework men shall be supported as far as possible by local me»ns. It is not true as reported that we have failed best system of electric lighting in the to receive recognition tromtheex ecutive board. Then again we hav A WOMAN’S GALLANT EXPLOIT. jsign nothing.' “Do you wish to express saisfac- tion or dissatisfaction with the sen tence?” "No, sir; I have never recognized your court or jurisdiction, and I do not recognize its right to imprison me for one hour.’ Cutting was taken back to jail. Savin* a Man at the Rl.lt of Her Own Llfe- The Details Given In Particular, Montreal, -Aug- ■ ■ y.—George Green, a merchant ot this city, with his daughter and an engineer, left Morrisburg Park, on the St. Law rence, yesterday morning, in his small steam launch, for Lachine. They appear to have lost their bear ings, having passed that place, and Were steaming directly into the rapids, when the vessel struck one ot the submerged piers ofthe new railroad bridge, just above the rap ids, and sank. The trio were thrown int. the water. The engineer suc ceeded iu gaining one of the piers. Mr. Green,Jjeing unable to swim, sank, but came t. the surface, when he was seized by his daughter, who is a strong and vigorous swimmer. The brave girl had a fearful battle with the swiltcurrent, and just suc ceeded in gaining shore, almost ex hausted, in time to escape being carried over the rapids. When picked up, she and her father were insensible. OCUEPI. Ban... .. —itt" art" •riiv.. i ’ f'lyl; Sculh • so am I, though if you coul i'he tlp.end of in or on my left eye, I think you woilid i'say a was Oi:."iuu>g. , ( But, as the novel wr ti-r- say, of this-more anon. We Innl :i fine circus on' the ti-ain the day I left .- Athens. There wasn’t 'an v hors-s or roaring animals, but a fellow and ntaur-ve .sere clown, lui^ina-ffir an-l siiieshow, all combined. ThujQS occupied ‘he seat right in front of me, and they made me tired, anc^H -t'ellow and his girl, tlWt were Miot married, sat. in the seat behind me. ||i i was in a nest. The lellow behind me always leaned towards, his girl, . while she sat straight tip, but iti front of me the married fellow sat >'*. straight jp, wht-e his bride did alt' ■ the leaning. The bride leaned over evr ry occasionally, put her head on her lellow’s shouldor, chuckled him under the chin, and said: “Dumpsy; will you alway- lpve your little chunksy-wumpsy?” Then the people in the car wculd smile and hunch each other, and whihk, while the bridegroom looked sick at the stomach like he wanted to go into the smoking car and rest. When I go on my bridal tour-- which I shall do as soon as I find bride of sufficient beauty and othc attractions, (principally in the re gion of the pockot-book)—I think I shall leave the bride at home. 4 Another .attraction on my train, I say my train, although my special car did not arrive by some mistake—“ was the newsboy, more properly, peaking, the newsman,- for he is Mree, whiteand twenty-one,” as the darkeys say. This newsman was Buck Heard, who is about as wide ly known along the Athens branch as President Cleveland or Jesse James. Buck ought to sign with • some traveling show or northern museum, and add another name to the list of Georgia wonders. He rarely tells any twe persons the *ame thing as regards age or weight or anything of that kind, but I bought three papers from him and set him up and he loosened his tongue. Buck’s real name is William Heard. He was born in Greene county, and will soon be twenty- two years old. His height is three feet ten inches and his weight 46 pounds. Buck’s father is one of the leading citizens of JGreene county, and lives near Union Point with his family of several children. Col. Heard, his wife and children are all . ordinary stature except Buck and a sister, who is a little smaller than Buck, and a year or two his junior. It used to be a favorite saying with his diminutive citizen that “he and Alex. Stevens were the only great men in Georgia ” But that was before he met me. z The candidate is getting ripe in Greene. This lucious fruit will be - | ready for plucking by the time the 1 frosts of November have fallen-on" I it. There are indications for a fine crop this year and while the elec tion ports will ripen some,- others will be frostbitten and marked “no good.” A mass meeting was held in Greensboro Tuesday and ar rangements made for the nomina tions, and it was unanimously agreed to nominate by primaries. For the state senate from this dial trict it is understood that Xlr. W. P. McWhorter, of Woodville, and H. T. Lewis, Esq., of Greensboro will be candidates. The candidates for the legislature will be Judge Parks, Dr. Adams, and about a regi ment of others. Sculilegrit is a nice little place for great men like me to spend their summers in. Some people regard it as a road town, but they are not close observers. They have the finest grass in Scuffiegrit that 1 have seen this year. It even cov ers the streets and sidewalk's anti requires no cultivation. Then too M its tia'n passes in right miles of it six times a day, and the town boa>ts 1 three subscribers to the Weekly v l Banner-Watchman. I am very I meekly-located for a couple of--'"Tr>j weeks with an old farmer that takes j in tramps and candidates for the ; j TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. world, I an. prepared to serve then., and fu - V. . , V K ?T' ,, , ,, . ’ . the ru-ht to appeal to anv as'embla would respectfully request that you j thp * Ul)ile /i tatei lor J id . Funds will call the attention of one or two er- ( , of our are f arn i,hed by Vir ginia and Georgia, terprising citizens to the matter, and would he glad to hear from you on the subject in a day or so, as I am in hopes of leaving here next week. Very re spectfully, D. C. Mft.t.Kit. Secretary iiayurd 1 a, Uot rece ved the resignation of Gen. Jackson the t ie minister t > Mexico. Two corpses r ave made barrels and have go..e througn the whirl pool rapiu.. Forest fires are raging in Wi>- cousin. Tne town ot Spencer, wa, laid in ashe-. Two freight tra-ns on the Ea>t Tennessee and Va. R. R, collided Sunday at. Seney station ntar Rome. Twenty-tnrec pa-set.g r coaches were churtere 1 by tie SoipaUt publishing company 01 Chiiagq. by the Lake Shore and Micmgan Southern Railway. Tney w:re crowded and the proceeds of the excursion were to go to defending the anarchist now on tr al. “When an assembly is locked out, as .-uts will be, it becomes the duty of every Knight in the country to contribute a* far as may be possible or necessmy to support inose who -are locked out” The Chronicle’* informant stated that even if the Augusta factory hands wanted to go to work, the mill could not be' s-arted, for about one-third of the operatives have either left the city or obtained other emp oyment. Mr. Mey rardie stated to the Chronicle last ni*vht that the Knight* of Labor would keep everything as quiet as possible a'ound the mills, and the first money that is.furnished by the executive board will be ne- voted to sending as many hands as possible to the country ogotowork. rht re, or to any other p.-.e wuere they may get enployment. “Ev ery one who wants to go to the country,” said hr, “we will try to the he;essa-y fund* tp. Cutting fears'hat he will be as sassinated by the Mexicans. A meeting will be held . it Waynesboro Friday night to organ ize a volunteer mil,t try company. Last Thursday H rn. W. L. Peek was nominated for statr senator for the twenty-seve ith senatorial dis trict. Professor Le in, the man who -Skins the cat” 01 a tight tope, has taken up his headquarters at Grant’s Park, in Atlanta Tht- ferecious vampire bat is with him. The Chicago Herald suggests that Mrs.Cleveland having joined tne church, Mr. Cleveland should join the democratic party. Rev. Edwin G. Weed, late of Au gusta, will be consecrated Bishop of Florida in Jacksonville la mor row. Jackson. Miss, Aug. 10.—The election to-day in this city ga e 300 m ij rity against piuinu.iion, but itie county w.i» carried by the prohibi, tionisisby Soo majority. Cincinnati; Aug. lo.—Ex-Gov ernor John W. Stexenson, of Ken tucky, died this morning at his res idence at Covington, alter a sh.-rt it ness, aged 73 years. A nugget weighing thirty-seve.; p mnds and valued at <7,ooo was tuund in a drift mine near Sierra City, C.I., recently. This is one of the largest specimens ever found in the state. It is rumore I that Gen. Black com missioner of Tensions, is to be made minister to Austria. A FIENDISH SUGGESTION. Kn Alleged Proposal of Spies to Romore Capitalists With Prussic Add. Superintendent Cornish, of the Pinkerton detective agency, at Bos ton, furnishes a Ion g exposure of he secret workings of the Anarch ists of Chicago, which, he says, have been thoroughly explored by the Pinkerton force. Parsons, Mr. Cornish says, was one of the first to blossom out as a red hot Anarchist. He soon t>ok Spies into his coun sels While in Griefs saloon one night Cornish heard Airs. Parsons make a violent speech, inwhich she advocate l hurling bombs at the res ideaces of the wealthy citizens of l hicago. Spice told them he had a better •cheme which was. as follows: Le every man arm himself with a lit— syringe just large enough to be con cealed in the closed hand. The point of the synnge should he as small and fine ** that of a needle, BA lU.I OAnutl-Bl. * .l so that it can easily penetrate cloth ing -and skin. The bulh must he filled with prussic acid Armed with th'* you can walk .ongside of the apitalist to he re moved, quickly insert the needlc point into his flesh a'td at the same time squeeze the bul*>, sending the a very enterprising town; the | legislature for fifty cents a night, j The house is large and airy, sun flowers and things grow in the front yard, and chickens and guin eas in the back yard. I otten put on my dressing gown and stroking cep and stroll about the place. I think it is very picturesque and pastoral. On suah occosiotts I usu ally smoke a cob pipe. I smoke a pipe instead ot a cigar, because of its greater beauty and picturesque ness; in this it resembles me. The other day when I was stroll ing about among the dew laden " bjossoms and balmy air and sich like in my figgered dressing gown I thought I would have some fun. blowing smoke tip the nose of a genrle little kid. There was some one .else who thought he would have some fun, bu* I didn’t know it; I wish I had. The other hu morist wa* anothor goat—one of the billy persuasion. As soon as I had caught the kid and stooped down and began to eojoy myself by blowing smoke in the kitj’s face, the aforementioned william goat advanced behind me and suddenly in the most cowardly mariner struck me a vigorous blow in the bosom of my pants that sent me over in a - - neighboring pig pen. You will please send me an ounce of strych- niue. I want to make.it into a blood onic for this goat. He is no gen tleman. Bowles and Bone, the alleged *1 counterfeiters, are at home with theii families again and happ. This whole neighborhood is very much gratified at their established inno cence. Bowles is a leading citizen prns-ic acid into his veins. The I ” e •* an honest man and raises the victim would not mind the attack more than he would the prick of a pin, but the poison would kill him in a ve'y few minutes, and his death wo-tld be a horrible one. This scheme was greeted with acclama tions of approval by all present. In a collision between two freight trains on the Chesapeake and Ohio, four persons were killed and sev- eralfatally injuted. It snowed on # Wednesday last at Rome, N. Y., and the weather is said to be extremely cold for th a season of the year. Galveston has received one hun- dred^and thirteen bale* of cotton of the new crop in one day. Ver ly, the opening of the business season Mr. Hint-in Wrig it, w i» recent ly wrote the governor of Texas of fering the setvices of a company of men from Atlanta, received a reply from him this morning, thanking tiim fbr the oFer, and stating that the conr muniqation had been filed dor future reference. There are now about one thous and hands grading the new. Macon and Athens tadroa.l, We feel it a duty we owe to hu- j i* not far away, manity toadviae every famUy togoj Rid river, in Texas, h»a riae t to the countty to get out of the twenty feetf but what , he country present labor system, with its tntq- wan ts is tor the Rio Grande to rise. ms_ 1 mtiAc «nn nnitcne 71 i uities and abuse*,' . I , There will be between three and . Cholera seems to be :r.creas:n; betw een Mad- j four thousand operatives out of 'em- in some parts or Italy, ison and Monticeilo. Work on j ployment by this lockout. |, Tne business o c Chi We are informed that a lockout means a boycott. ; ! troubles the Covingipn branch has'been dis continued / { - J’ne business o c Chicago is sa d 1 to-be seriously cfected by the labor . I «oub‘ Queen Victoria is said toemphat icallv assert the divine power of kings when she walk*. 'Hei then goes‘tip, her. chin, of course, inclining at the same angle; and her general manner being that of a wo man who hasn’t a peer in the wofld Capt. R. W. Andrews, of Sum ter, S. C., who is ninety years old, and is making a pilgrimage on foot, applied at police headquarters, in Washington, yesterday, for trans portation on the cars. He says he would vva’k, but his money had given out. He had a little dog with, him.- finest watermelons in the country, have tried them. Au revoir. “When this you see remember me.” (I use quotation marks because I think I have seen this somewhere before. Jop Snider. - Edward Bundy, colored, wa* hanged at Spartanburg for the n >r- der of Annie Hickman, in March, •085. . ■ ii Atlanta, Aug. to.—It has been decided to carry a t artesian water pipe into the union depot for the benefit of the traveling public. The water could hatdlybe placed where ii would-be more appreciated than in the depdt. *; There is talk of firming a volun J teer company for Mexico trem Au- gusta. A private meeting is said to have been held at the Globe last nose night. The reporter failed, how ever, to get the names of the lead ers. At Atlanta the wholesale liquor licenses of Cox, Hill & Thompson, and ol John M. Hill expired Satur day, and the license ol Paul Jones retires from the field within the next ten days. . It ifearei tn« me otfiee seekers have not all adjourned. The presi dent will no doubt grant most of leave of absence f »r the sum mer