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InEifhlren Months th© Car* Will
Dr Running Over th© (•., C. & H.
From Athena to Allanta^What
Col. Frobrl Snya About the Macon
A Athena—To Be Pashed to Com
pletion.
Athens Yesterday received joyous tid
ings indeed, that point to the early reali
zation of her most sanguine expectations.
It is now a settled fact that we are to get
both the Macon and the 0., C. A N. rail
roads, and before many weeks hands will
be at work grading both roads in our
incorporate limits.
The Baskkr-Watchman yesterday in
terviewed Mr. A.L. Hull, one of the Ath
ens directors of the C. A X. road, and
who has just returned from the meeting
held in Atlanta lasySatunlay.
“It was a mistake about that meeting
being called to consolidate the charters
of the three states of Georgia and North
and South Carolina,” remarked Mr. Hull,
“but we only met to arrange preliminaries
for the final meeting that will be held st
a future day. The North and South
Carolina directors also convened in their
respective towns, and we
have all consented to a consolidation.
There is nothing now in the way, and 1
publish in another column a call to stock
holders to convene in Atlanta on the 12th
of March.”
“You think the outlook good for the
completion of this road?”
‘•Assuredly. Gen. Hoke and his hack
ers mean business, and they are hasten
ing the work by all means in their power.
We have now two corps of engineers at
work in Georgia, as also a like number
in the other states. They are now locat
ing the line between Athens and Atlanta,
and by March the contract to grade the
road will be let, and l»y April I feel no
doubt but that every foot of the road to
Monroe, N. C., will be contracted for. It
is tbe intention to bast *n work on the
road as fast as possible, and I feel no hes
itancy in predicting that in eighteen
months, at furthest, tin* cars will be run
ning between Athens an<! A'lnnta ”
”l)o you say the corps of engineers
now working toward Atlanta is locating
tbe route?”
**Yes, and the road will follow tbe line
that they s Meet.”
This road certainly means business,
and these places that want to capture it
had h iter get to work There will he
no time waited in i lb* •nlk. In le«s than
three months dirt will !»»• broken all
along the line. Thi'* <
boom indeed, and t 1 .
Athens
croake
n ••nin<e«-nng
torking toward
moving right
be closed
Major M or» iso . - -
corps is now in the h l i
Klberton, and they ar«
along.
MAYOR UOlMiSo\ s RETURN.
Mayor Hodgson reached Athens on
Sunday from .*»•• extended trip to New
York, and a Ik- . reporter wailed on
him at his store.
••What news?” was asked.
**I have nothing of importance to re
late. I did not go on business co ineeted
with tin* Macon road, as was reported, ns
it was unnecessary, for I consider that
road as good as built. There has been
too much money put in it to talk about
stopping now, and it will be completed
if the men Yvbo advanced tbe money to
build it thus far are forced to complete
it lb-
Tie
i miles to filliOi belo
only about
Madisrn, and
that wiT soon be done, when all hands
will go to grading this side, of the fioor-
gi.1 road. You need not have the slight
est doubt about the early completion of
tbe Macon road to our city. It is con
sidered ns settled.”
•‘How is fob Machen’s health?”
‘•lie is still confined to his room, but I
do not think he is dangerously ill. 1
have no idea he has Bright’s disease, but
is suffering from nervous prostration, lie
was much better when I left New York.
But even in the event of Col. Machen’s
death it will have no effect on the com
pletion of the railroad.”
“When will Judge Thomas return?”
‘*1 do not know. He has some impor
tant railroad business to attend to this
week, that will perhaps develop into a
bigger boom for Athena than either of
the new roads now coming here. That
was what carried me to New York, but 1
am not at liberty yet to give particulars.
1 will only say that I think there is a fair
prospect of our succeeding in our under
taking."
••What do you now think of the rail
road situation of Athens?”
•*lt is bright indeed. By next summer
you will >ee dirt being broken all around
the city. 1 would advise any
one who ha- property to bold on
I., i . f-.r ii le>s «Han one year from now
A I • • - t w ill hf worth twice what it
JACKSON COUNTY NEWS.
JEFFERSON WITH HER COURT IN
FULL BLAST.
Trip to tbe Capital and Glimpses Along tbe
Way—Wbo are Stopping With MaJ. Wiley
Howard and Lady—Personal and County
Hatters by our Staff Correspondent.
Jefferson, Feb. 8.—[Special.]—I left
Athens this morning in a phieton, to
gether with Messrs. G. C. Thomas, H. C.
Tuck and A. P. Henley, a trio of genial
limbs of the law, and after an uneventful
trip over eighteen miles of bad road and
through a fog so thick that you could
almost cut it with a knife, landed safely
at the thriving capital of Jackson coun
ty, and our party is comfortably quar
tered at the Howard House.
I find Jefferson enthused on the sub
ject of a railroad to Athens, and confi
dent that their dream of many years will
he at last realized. Jefferson has two
strings to its railroad bow—Mr. Rus
sell’s project and another scheme by cer
tain prom*nent business men of Athens
who hope, through the aid of the Geor
gia read, to extend the Gainesville nar
row-gauge to our city. It is estimated
that $15,(JUO will both grade and cross-
tie the road, as there is not a branch to
cross until Jefferson is reached or a ten
foot cut on tho entire route. This money
can be raised without the slightest
trouble. Then the Georgia road will
only have to put down the iron—and it
has enough second-hand bars to lay tho
track at hut a nominal cost—when the
same rolling stock that now operates the
Gainesvill* end of the road can go
through to Athens at no additional ex
pense save fiul. The citizens of Jef
ferson have a charter to extend to Ath
ens, without touching Mr. Russell’s,
under which they can build and operate
the road. The project seems to us rea
sonable and altogether practicable, and
we have good roasen to believe that in
twelve months or less the road will he in
operation. It will be a valuable feeder
to Athens, and restore to our city all the
trade she ha- lost by the building of tbe
narrow-gauge on our west
I to-night attended an amateur theat
rical entertainment, given by certain
young ladies and gentlemen of Jefferson,
in tho hall of the Martin Institute, which
was certainly a highly creditable exhibi
lion. I did not, however, have the pleas
ure of witnessing the play to the end, as
I was taken sick and had to return to
the hotel. 1 will add, by way of paren
thesis, however, that 1 am much better
now, and hope to he able to-morrow to
take in the court and give the Banner-
Watchman a newsy letter. The play
was “She Stoops to Conquer,” and the
performers certainly acquitted them
selves with greal credit. 1 will to-mor
row review it at length if 1 have time.
1 have justjieard a ihrillingly interest
ing story of a grant of land made by Con
gress to Count IV Ktang in this county,
that I will investigate and write up in a
future letter. It will prove a valuable
addition to the historical archives of our
State.
Court is dragging along very slowly,
owing to the absence on account of his
injuries of Col. Pike, who was employed
in most cf tbe important cases. It will
hold until next week, when the criminal
docket will be taken up. •
I paid a pleasant call this afternoon to
the Herald ollice, and was given a hearty
welcome by the genial and talented edi
tor, Mr. John Ross. It is a splendidly
equipped establishment, mud is one of
the newsiest and best edited country
weoklies in Georgia. They were “wet
ting down” their paper, ana we were sur
prised and gratified to sec what a splen
did circulation the rlerald has. There
are very few weeklies in the State that
equal it. and we advise our Athens mer
chants to paste this in their hats for fu-
Tlie Herald is edited
BURGLARS’ BREAK.
A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER
SUNDAY NIGHT.
ON
Forced Entrance Into IHr. Hamp
ton-. Store— A midnight Ckmud
a Shower of Bullet.—Some Good
-Work tj Onr Vigilant Police
Force.
For several months past a band of
midnight burglars have been depredating
on our city, and at intervals a store or
residence has been entered and robbed.
The police have done all in their power
to ferret out this villainous crew, but
without success, as the thieves were
very shrewd and concealed by friends
who backed their movements.
Last Sunday morning, about 2 o’clock,
Policemen Goodrum and Culp were pat
rolling Clayton street, and had turned
Jackson & Vincent’s corner, when they
noticed two negroes climbing up a ladder
that stood at the rear of Messrs. Hamp
ton & Webb’s store and led into an up
per door at tbe end of the building. These
officers rushed around to Market street
and gaining a rear entrance, crept up
just as tbe burglars succeded in
breaking in the door and gaining an en
trance into the building. It took but an
instant for Messrs. Culp and Goodrum
to scale the ladder and enter the room.
By the dim light they saw the outlines
of the thieves, and covering them with
their pistols'demanded a surrender. Tbe
burglars replied “All right!’’ hut instead
of obeying dropped through the elevator
hole to the tloor beneath. As they
touched the tloor the pistol of one of
the men fell and went . off, mak
ing a deafening report. The officers up
stairs halloaed to night watch Hayes,
who was in hearing, to rush to the front
door. But the burglars were too quick
for him, and as he turued the corner
both men made a rush at the front door
and throwing themselves against the
glass, shattered the panes and passed
out, one through one pane and one
through the other. Mr. Hayes fired
three shots at the burglars as they ran
through the streets. One of the thieves
went toward the house occupied by Mr.J.
G. M. Edwards, and the other in the
direction of the Methodist church. One
of the burglars was recognized as Jack
Kenney, a negro well known in Athens,
and who has a very unsavory reputation.
The negro left his pistol where he had
dropped it, that was taken charge of by
the police, and it is now in tlieir posses
sion. An examination of the broken
glass doors showed that the burglars
hail been badly cut as
they burst through them, as seen by
clou of blood and skin clinging to tbe
ragged panes.
Capt. Oliver at once summoned the
police force and sUrted in search for the
burglars. They suspected two negroes,
but they had no wounds, which was
sufficient evidence to esUblish their in
nocence. They went to the house
where Jack Kenney lived, which is rear
of M r. Scudders’, on Dougherty street.
Capt. Oliver went to the front door, and
sent Policeman Goodrum to guard the
rear of the house. As the Capu-iu
eutered the house he heard some one
rush out at the back of the building, and
told Mr. Goodrum to be or. his guard.
The negro did not heed that officer’s com
mand to half, but rushed past him, and
down College avenue. Mr. Goodrum
fired three shots at the fleeing negro,
and Mr. Goodwyn Lee, who chanced to
tic near at hand, fired three others,
the negro rushed through Mr. Charles
Stern’s lot, from which he succeeded in
making good his escape. A search was
made ef th* kowae, and the other no-'
groes living there acknowledged .that! it
was Jacob Kenney who had just left, but
denied knowing anything about the bur
glary. He left behind his hat and shoes,
that the police took charge of. One of
the shoes had been cut by the broken
CHATTANOOGA’S BOOM.
MAJ. LAMAR COBB TELLS US ALL
ABOUT IT.
Wonderful Increase of tbe City on
theTenneuec Biver-The Iron and
Other Indnstrles—Northern Money
In City Lots, etc. etc.
Major Lamar Cobb has returned from
Chattanooga, Tenn., where he spent three
days last week in wondering amazemont
at the.boom now hovering over the city
on the Tennessee. The wealthy and
growing city of Chattanooga of to-day
bears no resemblance to the little village
that in 1804 was the centre of military
operations in the South. Those who saw
it and knew it then, when tho sound of
cannon was as familiar to the ear as
Lookout was to the eye, would not recog
nize or know the commercial metropolis
of Tennessee to-day, so great and won
derful has been ths transformation.
The city is on a veritable boom, and the
tales that the sojourner within its gates
for a few days brings home are as won
derful and marvelous as those that for
a year or more have gone forth on every
wind that blew over Birmingham. The
Chattanooga bo tin and the Birmingham
boom are both big affairs, but the former
is far more substantial and far more
likely to prevail than tbe Utter. And
why? Chattanooga’s present prosperity
and its rich and promising future rests
upon a basis as solid as the rocks of the
Cumberland Range. Its prosperity is
due to something else besides a feverish
speculation in city lots, and is ascribed
to the assured success of enterprises in
course of completion and those already in
operation. The high prices that city
lots command are not due to the untiring
exertions of land syndicates and their
agents, but are the natural rises in prop
erty that an enormous demand for city
lots for business and manufacturing pur
poses creates.
As Major Cobb said to the reporter, it
may sound exagerated, but it is none the
less so, the people who are buying lots
there are doing so with the view of build
ing on them and nQt for speculative pur
poses. True there are speculators and
these turn over their money frequently.
These speculators trade almost entirely
on options and margins. A negro man
the other day for ten dollars bought
for twenty days the option of a certain
lot and at the expiration of his time was
winner of nearly two thousand dollars.
This lot was a particularly desirable one
and consequently was one that would
commend itself to the speculators.
Eight days after the negro sold it there
was a further profit of five hundred dol
lars in it, and thirty days later it sold for
over a thousand dollars profit on the ne-
groe’s sale. That lot is now held at a
profit on the price paid for it by the
darkey of five thousand dollars, and the
holder will get it. This is an exceptional
case but will serve to give an idea of the
demand for and the money in city lots.”
In reply to the question as to the cause
of the boom, Major Cobb said it was due
to several causes. “In the first place, to
the opening of Muscle Shoals, in^ the
Tennessee River below the city. These
shoals have heretofore prevented steam
boats from reaching Chattanooga, but for
some years the government has been at
work constructing a canal around the
shoals, thus allowing steamboat naviga
tion. This work will be completed by
the first of May, and then Chattanooga
will have water communication with all
of Noth Alabama and New Orleans and
all Missippi landings. Companies are
already formed fer steamboat
1 j offered for this lot, which has a front
of fifty feet, with a depth of over two
hundred running back to the next street.
I placed the property in the hands of a
live and energetic real estate agent, and
I am confident the lot will command
twenty thousand dollars."
Major Cobb remarked that he had
not been to Birmingham and knew noth
ing of the boom ia that place save wbat
he had read in the papers, hat if it was a
bigger thing than the boom in Chatta
nooga he did not care to fool with it.”
And now with iron in onr own imme
diate vicinity this reporter wants to
know how it is that Athens cannot get
up a boom?
THE LIGHTNING’S FREAKS.
WOMAN AND HOME.
DISCOURTESY ONE OF THE MOST
FATAL OF SOCIAL FAILINGS.
Mr..! \V. R.»nlen. of Madison, was
wi. -and passed a few
: - .. nliii Banner- Watchman <-<li-
r ;|. V.V. til -v IT closing up
_.,p. I. t'w. el, Moutil-ell., an,I Ma.li-
n. mi I are gi■ loig nit the nu’skirts of
• t little town; that a large force of
■i I- are at work. a<i*l they are moving
t'efurtl.
ixpr-t-.tl
A th
that there
a’lout the railruatl
I the eon tractors
ork ,
lure reference. ....... ... . ,
anti published by the Ross family, and glass, which was evidence sufficient that
they are making tho paper* grand pecu-1 the right man was trailed. There was
uiary success. The Herald is one of the , also signs of blood near the bed where
best pieces of property in Jackson , he had laid down.
countv. I Yesterday morning tbe police were on
There is a good deal of anxiety mani- the alert after the burglars, and hope yet
fested here over the condition of that to capture them. The men are certainly
good old man Col. S. P. Thurmond, who badly cut by the glass, and it is hoped
has a Lost of friends and admirers in this that this fact will lead to their apprehen-
county. sion. The city officers deserve praise
I mV gratified to learn that Judge X. for their vigilance in this matter, and we
L. Hutchins seriously contemplates mov- hope that they will succeed m breaking
i. g to Athens, lie will indeed be a val- up the band of burglars that have so
liable acquisition, and Athens will throw long successfully depredated on our citi-
ividc her gates to welcome him. sens. Several negroes are already watch-
By the way. Judge Hutchins is ex- ed, as they are suspected of being inter-
ccedingly anxious for the G. U. A* N road ested in the burglars.
to take in ljiwrenceville, and says that rnQT flflfl
rout** will l*» the best an i cheapest, and tU LUo 1 frlU,UUU*
far better for the trade of Athens Xhr Y . n. c. A. In Earnru-An En.
.. . Among the guests at the Howard ihiiila«tlc Weetinz.
.... - ... .. finish grading ; House \ H Col. J. M. Merrett, the talented ’ . . .
„ .hut they w ,:i ..I once begin : youn . Uwyer „f M.iysvillu. Col. Mer- l»>e Young Men;* Lhnstun Associa-
"!mli,' I ' r,u is ih< who fought the
II probably
t.hHKly duel with Dr. Smith, of Clayton, renolved that they must have * building
. - : . enof till ON nrwl f*mn trillions woman-
TMK ' ••VIS.; , .,S AM, mac,,s. ,hrou h the columns of the Atlanta Con- to cost $10,000, and committees wereap-
Macs, lia., Koh. o. [Special to An- Mitution . The olom ., is s ,idtobe*l- pointed to systematically go to work and
ovista I’hTomch. ] Owing to ihc fact that loav.lo.l. and consequently his breth- to report at a called meeting to
be held
mu****** *■ ~
so many conflicting reports concernii
the pr«»?ress of the Covington A Macon
railroad h ive been published lately the j |)at j vc 0 f White county, and like all pa- : , . i - -
correspondent of the Chronicle called , riolic sons , is ,cry o'roud of his native ! "e very bright. The association has
on General Man.gerKrobeUo-dayto get an<1 it is toU | annihilation to any • "is*>/!““.IT 8 ."
I his corns. James Madison Merrett is a agement haa been extended the *e»oci*-
1 pa- > tion, mn< l l b e prospects for the building
A Timely Warning to the Gay—Airing
Kooms—Suffering Women—Little Chil
dren—Wonderful Instinct—Accidental
Playthings—Dress lie form—Paragraphs.
neat than even impure air, ami for that rea
son, before using water from a pump or
reservoir for drinking or cooking, one should
pump or draw out enough to clear the pipes
before using it, particularly in the morning,
after the water has been standing in the
pijwa all night. —Philadelphia Call.
TERRIBLE SHOW uF POWER IN A
THUNDER STORM. .
- *, *' 3k
Fall Description of the Freak of the
Lightning in Mr. K loom field's
Yard—Tho Tree. Splintered and
Tern Into a Thousand fragments
—The Water Works TrefcStruck.
A large number^of *thfr
splintered tree in Mr. Bloomfield’s
yard on Sunday. It was struck by
lightning in the violent Thunder storm
of last Tuesday, a week, ago, but
public interest in the phenomenon has
been so great that the shattered limbs
and splinters have been allowed to re
main just as tiny were strewn from the
riven truuk.
As the Banner-Watchman has al
ready stated, it was about tiklf-psst one
o'clock in the afternoon when the stroke
came. Mrs. 1L L. Bloomfield was sit
ting in the dinir g room on the south
western wing of the house. There
were present Mrs. C. O. Bloomfield and
two little children of the latter. Rev.
Mr. Epps was also a guest at the time
and was in the room. Mrs. R. L.
Bloomfield had been sitting at the win
dow sewing, hut moved away just in
time to save her eye-sight and probably
her life. There was a blinding Hash, a
deafening roar and a crush against the
side of the house. Twenty-eight panes
of glass were broken in an instant. The
first sensation so soon as the inmates of
the room could think or ftel at all, was
that the house had been fired. The lit
tle children were terrified and Mrs. C.
O. Bloomfield had fainted. She was
qpickly restored, h<iwert*r, tiie ”8ternr
had subsided, and it was found that the
house had not been struck. Against
the broken windows, however, lay the
tree top which had been cut fro.u the
trunk by the lightning and hurled fifty
feet from its base. The
trunk stood a riven mass, with
cleavage clean from the joint where the
limbs were separated, to the roots.
The scene Sunday afternoon when the
Banner-Watchman visited the tree was
substantially as it first .occurred. The
ground had been tor*' about the roots as
if by a torpedo. A dozen wedges could
not have divided the upright trunk of
the old red oak more perfectly. The
upper portion, which had not been twist
ed off, was torn into ribbons like basket
strips. As some one’ said “it seemed to
have been chewed up like a sugar cane
joint.” The very fibre of the tree had
been deadened by electricity, though
there were no places charred. A rasp
ing machine could not have done the
work more thoroughly. One piece of
limb was thrown one hundred yards and
driven through a panel of fencing. An
other was carried over the kitchen and
broke down the chimney. Strips and
curls of wood were scattered 150 yards
throughout Ike yard—^the.jwdars and
reade
t
oil v
ed
\Yi» n «sk**u if anything ofin»cr» >t
im;|it Im* -;u i rez»rdmg the con-*tru *ti<»n
ofth roa I, In* rapli-d: “You in y say
t' al the road will built and without
uny ui»necei»*ary delay ” The track
living has almost reached Monti cello
and wil be there in a *ew d «ys. More
wav and the track
l.-nv tW tho sun, moon .ml «'ery way suitable to their wanta, and
*•* stars don - H-« .... the treat of Mount at the saint time to have an edifice to
:■»' Yonah He t .u ilv -.sserted last nqtht which the citizens can point with pnde
that ihe Garden of Eden waa located in as an evidence of public spirit. Athens
the c'.untv ,.f White-referring to the is fast becoming a city of mUKirtance,
V’ale of Nacoochee. Temple Ilenlev re
We know that if our citizens will
years time the wharves of tbe city will
present a busy scene of boats loading
and unloading. These boats will lay
down at the door of the foundries and
rolling mil's iron and coal in vast quan
tities, and far cheaper than they are now
brought there.
“1 hen again, the city is a tremendous
railroad centre. It has two lines to At
lanta, one to Memphis, one to Decatur
and Birmingham, one to Nashville and
St. Louis, one to Knoxville and Lynch
burg one to Cincinnati, with several in
process of construction and in projection
besides the opening, soon to occur, of the
Tennessee River. It is the natural
market for a large wheat and corn grow
ing section, and has already outstripped
Memphis in this department of trade.”
“Its iron industry at present is its big
card. The rolling mills of the city sup
ply Southern railroads with their iron,
its pipe works furnish the water mains
for our cities, its paint factories gives us
our mineral paints, and its car shops are
taxed to their utmost to fill their orders.
It is a city where the mechanic and the
artizan are in the great majority, where
the smoke of the furnace gilds the sky
at night, and the sound of the harnmeT
furnish music that gladdens the hearts
of the people by day.”
“The people who are investing in
Chattanooga property are for the most
part Northern people,” said Major Cobb,
“Northsrn poople do not invest money
in the South until they have carefully
thought over the matter. Over in Bir
mingham the mad rush for city lots is
led by Southerners whose mania for that
form of gambling is almost unresistible.
In Chattanooga ti:e Northern man is buy
ing city lots, and when he buys one it is
for business ormanu,acturing purpases.”
“Why do they prefer Chattanooga to
Birmingham?” asked the reporter.
“For this reason, the city is republi
can in its politics. The mayor, and I
he was up there he saw ihe stump of mc |*' . . . . ..
that famous apple tree, and his hupgy »«« ‘h' s m0Kt
ironis now on the w.y and the track • „. hee , „„ OTtT , n(1 killed the veritable ment, and with one accordilend their in- thinV ra#8t 0 f his council, belong to tjiat
t»yin* Will he continued as ray idly as I , erpent lh , t tempted mothef Eve. The fluence and asatstance ta the MSMtatton,
1 ’ v “ •“ Kernel has consented to act as Mavsville the <*»• ?»« not b ® f"
correspondent for the 11anvzi.-Watc.i- Athens can point with pride to a hand-
m as, and now we can safely promise our some public building devoted to the
readers all the news from that thriving »>«™1 »"<> spmtu.l e eva on of her
young men. * f w,,,
possible. The grading will be finished to
Madison in a few days, and will he push
ed through to Athens. Mr. Frobel said
Mr. Machen’s sickness had not, nor
would not retard tbe progress of the
road at all. and that Mr, Machen was now
much hotter. The locating force of en
gineers will reach Athens this week.
The Chief Engineer and Manager Fro-
h« 1 have shown themselves not only
first-class railroad men, but inen of
pluck,energy and enterprise. The in
domitable pluck and energy manifested
by this company under all its trials agd
difficulties, and the unrighteous warfare
that hasbeen waged against it, entitle it
to the sympathy of all honorable men.
The tide will turn and is turning. New
and certain combinations may ere long
find themselves exposed to the gaze of
as admiring public. We may have more
to say hereafter.
kaii.roai* report. .
It is stated here to-day that General
Manager Fink, of the East Tennessee,
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
has been appointed chief executive of
ficer of the Richmond and Danville sys
tem. The report was not substantiated,
but it is pretty generally believed. Mr.
Fink was a few days ago elected a direc
tor of the Richmond Terminal com-
pany.
It has been rumored for some time
that ex-President Raoul, of the Central,
wobld he manager of the East Tennes
see. Capt. Raoul returned to-oight from
llavanah, where he has been with nis
family for two weeks. He said, in reply
to an inquiry, that he has not been ten
dered the position and does not know of
any changes to be made in which he is
in any way concered. Capt Raoul’s
friends are anxious for his appointment
on tho Inter-State Commerce Commis-
V»ie Methodist Parhonaoe.—-Rev. C.
8. Owens, pastor of the Oconee Street
Mcihodist church, has displayed com
mendable energy in getting up the fund
for the new psrsonage. This is a com
mendable enterprise, and we trust the
work will he fully and promptly Dushed.
In the list of contributions published on
Sunday, Mr. Y. L. G. Harris’ item should
have been $100. Mr. Robert Chappie
gave $50. The list is now over $1,000,
and the amount to be raised is $1,200.
village.
II. C. Tuck is a somnambulist,
and last ni"ht actually
changed his bed without beieg aware of
the fact until this morning, Mr. Tuck
snores in alto, while Col. G. Carson
Thomas blows bass through his nose, so
last night our room was treated to a de
lightful serenade. In fact the notes
were so perfect that Major Pruitt im
agined that it was a brass hand turned
out in his honor, and got up and deliver-
ed a very nice little speech from the win-
dow. It was a success all aronnd.
The horse swappers are out in full
force this week, and yesterday Ed Ar
cher offered the Banner- Watchman
agent a horse and a half dollar to boot
for a year's subscription to the Banner-
Watchman. The tender was respect
fully, but emphatically declined.
One of the handsomest little halls in tho
State isoverthe Martin Institute. Itwill
seat about GOO people, and is well ar
ranged. There is a stage and drop cur
tain, and all the paraphernalia of a regu
lar theatre. It is highly creditable to
both .lefferson and the Institute.
1 have made arrangements to visit Mr.
Justice's nurseries, an I will write
them up at length. This is one of the
most important enterprises in our sec
tion o tbe State, and deserves a gener
ous patronage.
There is a large delegation of Atheni
ans in town, including almost our entire
bar. Jackson ia one of the beat counties
in the State and pays heavy tribute to
Athens. We cannot cultivate its people
or its trade too closely.
Mr. Wiley Howard tells us that his
brother Frank Howard, of Oglethorpe,
has sold $5,000 worth of land from the
lot he paid $800 for in Birmingham, Ala.,
and has an acre left, worth $20,000. He
also gave hi* niece, Mrs. Dr. Henry Mc
Carty, a lot from the tract. By the way,
we are glad to learn that Dr. McCarty is
-doing a fine practice in Birmingham.
b T. L. G.
We can build it if we will.
The city demands it; the association must
have iL
A New Store.—We learn that Mr. J.
A. Fowler will open a stock of goods in
the store he bought last week, and for-
morly occupied oy Mr. Wm. Rafferty.
This is a One stand, and we predict e
Successful business for Mr. Fowler.
An Oi.d Pater.—Mr. John Booth has
shown us an old paper which bears date
of April 179ft. It i* yellow and tattered
with age. ■ It is a summons from the In-
ferior court of Oglethorpe county and
waa served on Johuvlriffin to testify for
th* plaintiff in tbe ease of Evan Ragland
clerk jof court. It Is certainly a curiosity
and attracted much attention.
A CORPSE DRIVING-
Ur. William IloberU, of Jefferson,
Found Dead In Ills Wagon.,
Last Friday Mr. Wm. Roberts, an hon
est and highly-respected old man, who
farms on Mrs. Sarah Turner’s place, on
the outskirts of Jefferson, started to Ath
ens in his wagon, driving two horses.
He was in apparent good health when
he left home. As his wagon passed
Clarkesboro, he was seen to be hanging
over the front board of the vehicle, with
his face cast down and one band and one
arm swinging loosely. The people who
saw Mr. Roberts in this position thought
that he was only in deep meditation, or
probably watching some part of the run-
ning gear of his vehicle, and did not
speak to him. He passed others in this
position, and at last reached Harrison's,
about eight miles from Athens. Here
the attention of several parties was di
rected to the peculiarly uncomfortable -
msition of Mr. Roberts, and also to the
i act that be was very black in the face.
The team was stopped and on touching
the driver his head and face were found
to be cold and his heart stilled in death.
He Was taken out and his family notified
of the sad discovery. Mr. Roberta was
a consistent member of the church and
also a Mason, by which fraternity he was
buried last Sunday. He leave* a wife
and several children.
J.Mot
known gentleman died Monday evening
in Oconee county, from dropsy. He was
over seventy yean of age, and had been
a large and auccessfnl planter. He has
been married 43 years, and leaves a
widow and several children. This in*
deed, was the first visit which death had
• - Mr.
near
inlaw
of Mr. Isaac Lowe. His death is uni-
rersally regretted.
A New Dajet F*gM.—Mr. W. S. Hol-
man is building a splendid new barn and
otherwiae improving his dairy farm, just
across the road from his house. It is
supplied with milk from the finest strains
of Jersey cattle, and is under the man
agement of Mr. Shackelford, one of tbe
thCplainuntn tnecaaeoi r.van nagtauu — —
vs John Espy. Ha rison Musgtove wag beat milk men in tho State. This n one
of the heat managed dairy farms aronnd
Athens.'
political party. This gives to the north
ern man a kind of home feeling and he
thinks his interests cannot he jeopard
ized where the administration of affairs
is in the hands of his own people or
those of his own faith. Many of the
leading men of the city subscribe to the
pridciples of the republican party, and
that element, so far as I know, is in the
anamalous position of being a very re
spectable element in a Southern city.’’
•’Is the country about the city rich?’’
“On Missionary Ridge and on the
slopes of the other heights around the
finest grapes and fruits are grown that
can be produced; the land and its situa
tion seem to be peculiarly adapted to
horticultural purposes. You can form
some idea of its value when you are fa
miliar with the prices it brings in the
market. Fire bnndred dollars and over
is not an unusual price per acre. Straw
berries are raised in large quantities and
of the finest quality, and are ship ped
North. This industry has already as
sumed large proportions.”
'The'city is rapidly becoming a corn-
net, well-built, handsome city. Its
msiuess houses will equal those of At
lanta, and somo of them surpass the
houses of commerce in the Gate City.
The private mansions of the people are
not so-handsome as those of our capital
city, but they are far superior to the
ordinary home of a Southern business
man, and with the making of weallth will
become luxurious and beautiful.”
“Ia the city of Birmingham un
healthy?”
“For some years the Tennessee river
has been in the habit of overflowing in
the spring which naturally produces
ncknesa, but it is said that this will not
occur again owing to the improvements
the Government has made in in the
shoals *n the river. The city is surround
ed hy high mountains, and the rich of
the city are certain to make their homes
on the heights above. The people are
confident that the death-rate will be
greatly decreased, because of the river
improvement As matters now stand it
is a much more desirable place than Bir
mingham to live in. In the summer
months it ia in a half-hours ride of half
a hundred resorts, and tho breezes from
its own mountains make it a delightful
summer home. There is a railroad out
to Lookout Mountain, and there it no
reason why the. people should not de
rived every benefit from mountain air
and cold water.”
We asked Major Cobb about the lot
owned by Mr. John H. Newton, his fa
ther-in-law. He said;
“Ten thousand dollars has been free-
branchcs. Several sharp .
upright into the ground and still remain.
We have never seen anything which
depicted more powerfully the blasting
poweroflightnmg. It seems to have come
down all in a heap upon the tall symmetric
oad and frazzled it into a tassel.
Stretching from the tree for about fif
teen feet is a torn track in the earth
where the bolt burr'w id until it struck
an old water pipe wltich led to the well.
Here all signs of commotion ceased.
This pipe had been used as a conduit
from the well to willow tree down in the
grove. Part of it had been taken up, the
section near the red oak remaining. The
lightning evidently escaped to the pipe—
then was conducted away to the water
and diffused.
Mr. lllocmfield has no lighningrods to
house. He believes the trees are suffi
cient protection. Several years ago Mr.
Bloomfield had another tree shattered by
lightning.
We learn that the oak tree near the
Water Works which was struck last
Tuesday was riven in much the same
way] as* Mr. Bloomfield's. The elec
tric fluid escaped from the treo to a wire
fence and for fifty yards melted the barbs
like string. Lightning seems to
mence its spring play early. “ >
RAINBOW PARTY-
Gallant Youth StraggllBf With
Oy inter Stew* nml MpooUof Thread.
The Rainbow party Tueaday evenin*
was a decided success. A large crowed
was present and the menu included oys
ters, salads, sandwiches, coffee, pickles
and crackers. There were numberless
fair women, who served as delightful
waiters, and who filled orders and re
turned change to the letter. The tables
were filled time and again, like the Kim'
ball House dining room, and after your
order was filled and your plate emptied,
it was amusing to see the delicate tact of
your fair hostess to get rid of you and
make way for another reUy. There was
considerable rivalry among the tables,
and runners were working the hall for
fair favorites. Competition was brisk,
but prices were not “cut” during the
evening. The affair was well managed
and was thoroughly enjoyed.
The sewing contest took place -at ten
o’clock, Each gallant proceeded to hem
the apron of his fair partner, and com
petent critics went round to examine the
stitches. The first prize—a handsome
inkstand—was awarded llr. Hugh WiU-
cox, whose sewing was even, well lock
ed and skillful, proving his entire inde
pendence of any helping hand. The
prize for the poorest.sewing was given
Mr. S. Thomas, Jr., whose basting was
ambitious but a little' careless. .City At
torney A. J: Cobb presented the prizes
in a neat speech.
The evening was pleasant and profit
able.
Of all social failings discourtesy is the
most fatal and most common. Husbands
speak roughly to their wives, and wives
“nag” their husbands; brothers are rude;
sisters ore tyrannical; all oppose, contradict
annoy one another, and no one thinks it in
cumbent upon him or on her to keep that
check on the temper and that padlock on
the lips which would bo a matter of obliga
tion if a stranger were present. Though
there would be infinite distress—mourning
and lamentation unspeakable—should one of
the cross grained brood die, there is a gen
eral atmosphere' of storm, threatened or
broken, loose, which makes living in such a
home damaging to the character and dis
tressful to tho sensibilities.
Young wives and husbands«*annot be too
strongly reminded of the probable shipwreck
they will wk* of their hnirpinnw if they
yield to that ill temper which expresses itself
in discourtesy, want of compliance, unneces
sary opposition, and above all that most dis
astrous amusement of “nagging” and creat
ing •' row. Hundreds of households have
gone wrong for the mere want of chocking in
time the habit of annoying as a relief to the
momentary feeling of irritation or discom
fort. The wife who gets into the way of
Contradicting, of “chocking” her husband,
of opposing him ii/ small things and stand
ing out in large ones—tho husband who is
sneering, contemptuous, tyrannical, fault
finding—perlm|>s neither side knowing the
whole extent of its folly, but just giving way
to it as more easy than to fight and conquer
it—these young people are doing their best
to dig the grave of their married peace; and
some day poor, pale, fainting little love will
fall into it, stark nml plumeless, and will
never rise to life aguin.
In tho beginning these little tiffs and dis
comforts are made up with a kiss from him
and a few tears from her to mid cement to
the reconciliation. By time the tiffs are
move acrid and the reconciliation is
warm. By still further time this never comes
at all, and things get into tliat chronic Rtute
when there is never an open breach and
never a formal healing, but an ever widen
ing drift and a never ending coldness. Then
the two lives jar and grind like rusty hinges
—locks which misfit tho slots; wheels where
the axlo is Htiff—or anything else which
should work together in harmony and
Smoothm*o, but which for want of care to
keep the adjustment exact (perhaps for want
of oil to tho joints), creak and chafe and
hong and do not fit, to the aunoyance and
more of all the bystanders.—Home Journal.
A Timely autl Needed Warning.
Now look me straight in the eye, young
gossamer head, while I tell you what I know.
The girl who will indulge in flirtation with
strange men in public places, however liarm-
less and innocent it may apj»ear, places her
self in that man’s estimation upon a level
with tbe most abandoned of her sex, and
courts the same vile regard. Strong lan
guage for a mild mannerod Amber to make
use of, but, I tell you, I become a furious
old grandmother the moment I nee a blessed
young girl tip toeing her thoughtless way
upon this road that leads direct to death and
destruction!
The boat that dances like a feather on the
tide a few miles above the commencement of
Niagara rapids, is just os much lost us when
it enters the swirling, swinging wrath of
waters, unlees a strong hand keep it up stream
and out of danger. A flirtation to-day is a
ripple merely, but tomorrow it will bo a
breaker, and then a whirlpool, and after that
comes hopeless loss of character. Girls, I
have seen you gather up your roses from the
at night and fold away in damp
paper to preserve their freshness for another
day. I have seen you pluck the jewels, liko
sun sparkles, from your ears and lay them in
PRShsta, w hick yoaloqkcd with a stiver
nBekeeping. You do all this for
> sBlch a thousand suns shall dupli
cate in fairness and perfume, and for jewels
for which a handful of golden dollars can
Seim&arse your loss; but you are infinitely
careless with tbe rose of sweet maidenliuess,
which once faded no summer shining can
ever again woo back to freshness, and with
tho unsullied pearl of reputation w’ ich ull
the wealth of kings can never buy l»ck
again, once lost.
Ob, see to it that you preserve the bloom
of that modesty and simplicity of girlhood,
without which a maiden is like an artificial
bit of scentless lawn in a milliner's window,
rather than the “white rose of all the world,”
round which honey bee gather, and to which
tho knights errant of breezelond flock like
gallant chevaliers of old to the crusade of
the most pure and holy cross. See to it that
you lock up the unsullied splendor of your
jewel of reputation as carefully as you do
your diamonds, and carry the key within
your heart of hearts!—“Amber” in Chicago
Journal.
OUR NEIGHBORS.
YESTEROftY’S NEWS FROM THE TOWNS
AROUND US.
llow Little Children Suffer.
Nobody knows how much little children
sometimes suffer at the hands of the unprin
cipled persons to whom they are too often
ignorantly intrusted. More than one fatal
attack of brain disease has been directly
traced to a dose of opium given by an un
scrupulous nurse to quiet a crying child;
many a child has caught its death from ex
posure to a hot sun or a cold wind in its per
ambulator while its careless nurse gossiped
with lover or friend, or read dime novels in
tho public parks, and last but not least,
many a nervous child has been injured for
life by the nursery bugaboos with which it
has been terrified into submission and quiet;
not always by the nurse.
Tho mother who never bathes and dre.xes
her baby, who does not nurse it and who
sleeps away from it in another room loses
much of its sweetness, and both she and her
child are to be pitied. “There U a medium
in all things,” and while no woman is called
upon to make a sl&vo of herself to her child
—indeed the doing so is a positive injury to
both—still sho has no right to give the sacred
charge over to hirelings, and consider her
maternal duty discharged when sho pays their
wages.—Mrs. M. P. Handy in Boston Globe.
A Woman's View of Women.
The best educated woman will best under
stand tho limits of her own powers; the girl
who can really cam her own living in a
manner suited to her sex will not desire work
for which sho is unfit; and tho woman who
most thoroughly understands what the term
“politics*’ implies will be the last to aspire
to a direct share in the government of the
state, even though she may think herself aud
her sisters not unworthy of a voice in tho
choice of their rulers. “There is a great
deal of human nature about,” even in
women, and you will never succeed in cut
ting them all to one pattern. Votes or no
votes, Penelope will embroider, Nausicaa en
tertain her guests, Andromache nurse her
baby, Helen will flirt, Aspasia teach elo
quence and guide statesmen to the end of the
chapter. And Cassandra? O, Cassandra
will prophesy. Wo fear that she will be as
little heeded as she was in tho days of yore,
and we hope that her forebodings will prove
less true than those which spoke the doom
of Troy.—Countess of Jersey in National
Review.
A Child's Memory.
It is strange that people reflect not more
on how deeply storms, injuries, vile or mean
things sink into a child’s memory. If thi*
be thought of it is plain there is more loveli
ness when no forgiveness is needful than
when it is granted; nor shall you be able to
heal by any entreaty or by any means such
a lesion of spirit as you may make in an in
stant in a young creature. I have heard of
a little girl who, taking tho dead hand of
her brother, said: “This little hand never
struck me.” Surely a memory richer and
fairer than if she could recall a thousand
repentances for blows! When this is not
only negative but positive, so that one can
say: ‘ ‘These eyes always beamed and showed
a peace; these hands always labored for me;
these feet were ready with service, and these
ears had a merciful sense, full of attention
which is sympathy ”-^this is a noon of mem
ory to which recollections of repentance are
but dim twilight, half dark.—Cor. Globe-
Democrat.
School Girl Com torts.—Tfie Lucy'
Cobb Institute bss about sixty boArders.
The girlsare allowed fires in their rooms
all day. This is a luxury that few board
ing school misses enjoy. When we
went to a boarding school.we rose at six
o'clock and “done up our back hair” in
tbe bitter cold; we retired at eventide in
I the same bleak atmosphere. The Lucy
Cobb deserves the msdel for kindness, |
and its example is worthy of imitationM
New Correspondent.—The Banner-I
Watchman his a most popular and ac
complished correspondent wiio will give
us all tho news regularly from High
Shoals. Her gifted pen has more than
once diverted and instructed the people
in this section. With such a representa
tive, High'ShoalB will cn«*c Jac public
prominence as thoroughly as if a road
ran through its limits.
Hard on thb Absentees.—>Tt' Is said I
that the lawyer* who r*H*jfr4ptbe city
when the majority of thftUjrirfeaaional
brethren are off at the neigh]w]riug courts
get more business than they can well at
tend to. This seems to be rather rough
I on the absent members. |
'They Take Another Train.—Minis
ters of the Gospel refuse to travel or thel
half-past nine o’clock Georgia Railroad
train. It tries their patience to such an
extent thatthey are afraid of forming ihe
bad habit of swearing.;.- .
' The needle work at the apron party
was very fine, considcrirg the sex and
experience. j
A Wonderful Instinct.
It is a wonderful instinct that tells youth
of age, and teaches tho child of G the weak
ness of the grandfather of 90. Tho tender
ness and caro that mere infante almost will
display toward tho old man whoso span of
life is nearly done make one of the most in
teresting and pleasant of studies. Children
have a very clear and shrewd conception of
tho difference between poople of different
ages. It does not come down perhaps to a
year or two, but decades make a difference.
Tho child of 5 draws a docs led distinction in
many ways between the boy in his teens,
the man of 80, the man of middle life and
the gray haired grandfather, and jiart of the
instinct which produces that develops the
same distinction with regard to sex, and is
ren finer in application to women than to
men. But it is curious how the child recog
nizes the nonogenarian, and makes a com
panion and an equal of him, occasionally
showing a sense of superiority.—San Fran
cisco Chronicle “Undertones.”
DA.MELSV1LLE NOTES.
Danielsville, Feb. 7.—[Special.]
The first quarterly meeting of the Meth
odist church for this circuit, just closed
yesterday, was a most interesting one.
Presiding Elder J. H. Baxter made a fine
impression, and won a permanent place
in the hearts of the people by a most
able sermon delivered at 11 a. m.
Rev. L. P. Winter, pastor in charge,
captured the congregation here by his
first sermon, delivered in January.
These two make a formidable force
against the ranks of sin, and already con
siderable interest is awakened in the
church work.
Yesterday it was announced that a cer
tain sum was expected of the church
here for foreign missions during the year.
More than the amount asked for the
whole year was made op in a few min.
utes.
Our young folks' social club meets
every Friday night Last meeting at Mr.
II B Mattox's; that before at Mr Geo T
Johnson’s. Both were enjoyable. These
meetings do much for the life of our
town. The Danielsville string band fur
nishes tiie music.
Mr John D Winn refuses $20 per acre
far his upland farm 12 miles from town,
near Fork church.
Col W J Pollard was with us in the in
terest of the A. & C. K. It, and left yes
terday for Augusta.
ELBEIITOX SEWS.
Ki.bkrton, Feb. 8.—[Special.] Yes
terday was an interesting day, as the
Sabbath always is at Klberton. The
two leading denominations here arc keep
ing up with the prosperity of worldly
interests. The Methodists arc about to
erect a $10,000 church, while the Bap
tists, under the able and active leader
ship of Rev K II Carswell, Jr, are build
ing up at every point of church interest.
We hear but little now on tho subject
of a now court house for Elbert.
Mr Mitchell J Webb, a student from
the University, .at Athens, has taken
charge as editor and proprietor of the
Klberton Leader, and has already cre
ated among our people anticipations of a
bright career for him and his paper.
Our farmers are drawing heavily upon
the merchants. One house sold recently
in one day $2,OU0 worth of goods to far
mers.
A tony affair in the way of a wedding
will take place to-morrow evening at
“Farm Hill,” the residence of MrTinsley
White, the contracting parties being Rev
L H Harris and Miss Carrie White, the
ceremony being performed by Dr A G
Haygood, who, with his good lady, will
grace the occasion. Mr Harris is one of
the most thorough scholars of his age in
the State, and may be styled brilliant,
while he takes from Klbert county into
tiie Methodist itineracy, a young lady
who has no superior among us.
The recent partnership formed between
l)r A S Olives and Mr Willis B Adams
adds a strong name to the list of our
mercantile houses.
she stoops to coxqtEih
Creditable Entertainment at tbe Martin
Institute Tuesday Meat’ "
••Jefmrhon, Feb. 0.—[Special.]—Odf
dramatic club played to a crowded house
last night, “She Stoops Conquer,” and too
much praise can not bogiven Messrs W.
T. Bennett and J. N. Boss, the principal
characters in it, also to E. M. Matthews,
r- Bcckiess A’oun^Man.with |gX> i
W ‘ th • 1500 Per -
Willie Hancock perorated tho Drunk
en Servant so w*ll that his frionds dread
lo see him come out this morning for fear
it is a Simon pure drunk. In 'the led/
characters of the play too much praise
can not he given. The beautiful costume
of the graceful and self-posscsd manners
of Miss India Hunter as Mrs. Hardcas-
tle, was the admiration of the whole
house. Said Judge T. of your citv, “If I
was a widower I would kill Hardcastle
before night.
Misses McElhannon .and Dickson sus
tained their parts well, and we are proud of
school, our show and our village.
The Patient. Suffering Women.
The world knows little of these sacrifices
and sufferings of women married to unkind
husbands. Men have resources of torture
which are rarely exposed in our most sensa
tional criminal trials. With the wide lati
tude allowed them they may systematically
commit offenses against propriety and even
decency without the condemnation of society.
They , have the business center*, the clubs,
aud the theatres to which they can renort;
but according to those rules which society
has prcscrilKxl as almost inexorable tho wife
must remain at home. There is no escape
for her. The limitations of her lot forbid
diversion. Her troubles ore stifled in her
bosom. She dare not utter even one loud
cry of brokenhearted agony and despair.
And it must bo admitted that, as a rule,
these patient martyrs bear their fate right
nobly. The tortures of jealousy, tho cool
ness, perhaps the cruelty, the long and anx
ious watching for her lord who comes not,
are borne with a meekness and long suffering
which no one but a woman could endure.
Yet they utter no murmur or complaint to
the world. With something stronger and
more loyal than the martial spirit of tho
general who buttons his coat to conceal the
fatal shot, these noble wives of ours are ever
ready to deny our faults and hide the scars
we leave. Like doves, the truest and gen
tlest of birds, they close their wings over
their wounds, anil it is only when the life
blood is seen dripping from their plumage
that tho world learns something of their
suffering.—New York Star.
Teething Babies.
Between the fifth.and seventh months,
the two first lower teeth wilffciake their ap
pearance simultaneously. Prior to this wash
baby’s mouth out regularly every day with
cold water in which is dissolved a little
powdered borax. The latter is unnecessary
unless there is soreness in the mouth. When
baby begins partaking of solid food a small
tooth brush with very soft bristles should be
used. As this is so rarely done, there are
many who will criticise the suggestion,
tho result of this practice he or sho will pos
sess two rows of sound white teeth until tho
second ones make their appearance. Th*
longer the first teeth are preserved the
stronger and better the second set will be.
After m«*al* ia the time to clean the teeth,
Yarticularly after supper or before going to
>ed. If they are to be cleaned but once
day let it be before going to bed.—Mrs. Ellis
Mununa in Good Housekeeping.
Accidental Plaything*.
The very word toy implies something that
Is intended to amuse. Very many of the
elaborate and costly toys only do this
tor a *hort time, as long a* they ore new,
while tome article that by accident the child
has become possessed of ia a daily source of
pleasure.
As I write my little girl of 2 site on the
floor with a button hook in her hand trying
to button and unbutton her little boot*.
She fa not playing, rather she is working;
but she fa interested in what she fa doing, her
attention fa concentrated upon it and she fa
happy. Wo do not give her the hammer
and looking glass, but some equally queer
articles. We let her have a Dover egg
Suppo6o the should break it?” What if
the doe*? It cost* much less than ordinary
toys, and serves her vastly better. When
she had learned to put the end of it in a
little dish and turn the wheel—“just os
nMMwm& does”—she was happy, aiul her
pleasure in her new plaything lasted for
weeks. She would not hurt herself seriously
with it, and finding that there was one way
In which it acted and made a noise sho did
not throw it about and uso It as a hammer,
but used it properly, came to have a high re
gard, and I have no doubt a deep respect, for
it. Another plaything fa a clean lamp bur-
with a long piece of wick knotted at the
end* so that It cannot toll out, or with the
end* sewed together; the child c^f turn the
thumbscrew and make th* wick move, and
thus find much pleasure.—Babyhood.
Airing Booms.
It is o. great mistake that ths whole bourn,
particularly sleeping rooms and tbe dining
rooms, receives little-ventilating and purify
ing the air, when it W” be done with so lit
tle trouble and no expense. A pitcher of
cold water pieced on a table or bureau will
•beorb ell the gasee with which tbe roomie
filled from tbe thfl respiration of thoso eating
or sleeping in the apartment. Very fow real
ize bow important such purification fa f<?r the
health oi the family, or, indeed, understand
or realize that there can be any impurity in
the rooms, yet in a few hours a pitcher or pail
of cold water—the colder the more effective
—wiU make ths air of the room pure, but
the water wilj bo entirely unlit for use.
In-bedroom* a P*a or pitcher of water-
should be always kept, and changed often if
Any one stays in ths roam during the day,
certainly be put in frs* when the in
mates retire. Such watsr should never be
torimk, but either a covered pitcher or glass
bottle with a stopper should be usod for
SteS^SS^aiutiviTibs kept elossly
covered. Impure water censes more sick-
Sufflclcnt Unto One's Self.
We should all become, as nearly as possi
bfo, sufficient unto ourselves, but not in a
narrow sense.
But it fa a duty we owe the world to be
come such excellent companions, comrades
for ourselves, that we shall be important
factors in the lives of others. One that fa
poor company” for himself is rarely of
much aceouiit to his friends.
If life were divided into tenths we might
say that it might matter one-tenth to the
world, what we were in habit, thought and
ability; that it was nine times os much con
sequence what we were capable of being to
our family, to ourselves. If it is well with
personally, with us in our family Import
ance anil content, we can afford to pay
moderate attention to the world’s claim,
though it cannot justly disturb one whose
homo life is content.—Our Country Home.
What Next In Dress Keforra?
Women have long been asking: “What
next?” Tho reform in undergarments is
well established, as any pajier fashion cata
logue will show; and the outside dress,
while it may for a time bo played with by
society ladies, just as children chango old
toys for new, does not meet the physic ti
needs of working women, nor the aspira
tions of thoso who are working for social
purity and one standard of morals of men
and women. So it will bo a “signal failure”
even if it succeeds. Mmo. Mindeleff
“It is perfect,” but I must rspectfully deny
that any dress wbbh makes a curtain for
hiding the limbs fa the “perfect” dress for
women.—Celia B. Whitehead in Woman*
Journal.
Duties of a Guest.
While a guest make yourself amenable
a certain degree to tho lu&bite of your friend 1
household. Do not attempt to ride your
hobbles or air your special isms on such oc
casions; it Ls not in good taste. One should
adjust their taste, sight, smell, etc., to the
different conditions of the homes sho visits.
It fa far from pleasant to feel that our guest
has with tho plummet line of her superior
wisdom, fathomed our shallows in domestic
economy or family government, found
disagreeable odor or discovered tiie “skele
ton” in our closet.—Ladle*’ Home Journal.
The Truest Homes.
The truest homes are often in houses not
especially well kept, according to the ideas
of the very fastidious, where the comfort
and happiness of the inmates rather than the
preservation of the furniture are first con
sidered. They are not like the homo where
tbe father and eons were obliged to always
come in by the kitchen door, and then had
to take off their boots and walk in their
stocking feet. That home fa a thing of the
past; the sons did not stay any longer than
they could help under that roof.—Atlanta
( KAWFOKU CA LLINGS.
Crawford, Feb. 8.—[Special.] Mrs.
Henry Baughman and daughter, of Ken
tucky, are on a visit to the family of S II
Stokely.
Mrs J H Dorsey, of Athens, is visiting
her father, L S Hargrove.
Ii M Witcher left yesterday for Ath
ens, where he goes to accept a position
with Cohen, McMahan & Co.
J M Norton, the contractor, says that
Corinth Baptist church will be complet
ed and a new organ placed in it by next
Saturday.
There was a man in our town yester
day in a covered wagon, from the moun
tains, offering wine for sale. Our town
TOYS wouldn’t allow him to soli here.
Don't know whether he had anything
stronger than wine or not, as we did not
interview him.
Crawford, Feb. 9.—[Special.]—Tho
contractors on the new court house have
completed the building, and yesterday
the commissioners met and received it.
As soon as seats are procured it will bo
ready for holding court.
The Clerk and Ordinary are moving
into their offices to-day.
Hal Howard and Sam Arnold left on
the fast mail train yesterday for Decatur,
Alabama.
The Sans-Souci Circle met at Mr. A.
Little’s last night and received 28 new
members. It now numbers about forty
members.
Mr. Huntley, of Warrcnton, is in town
talking life insurance to the boys.
The hell for the new court house
weighs one thousand pounds, and when
put in position can ho heard live miles.
A BUDGET FBO.YI BANKS.
Homer, Ga., Feb. 5.—[Special.]—We
had a targe crowd of our best citizens
on the streets to-day.
Messrs. Moss and Telford are attend
idg district court at Golden Hill district
There has been quite a change in the
weathea since yesterday.
There has been a petition sent to the
Postmaster General asking that the dai
ly mail from Maysville be discontinued
and to establish a daily mail from here to
Lula, Ga
IloMER,Fcb.!l.—[Special.]—Ordinary’s
Court to-day. Quite a large crowd in at-
tendace. Everything seems to he on a
boom.
We are glad to see our old friend
Fletch Morris out on the street again.
We notice several are commencing
work in their gardens.
Sunday School was organized at the
Methodist church Sunday morning.
Twenty-five naaies were enrolled. The
prospects for a good school are quite
flattering.
Our physicians seem to be kept busy
visiting the sick.
Miss Ada Forbes is attending school
in our town.
IN ION POINT NOTES.
Union Point, Feb. 7.—[Special.]—
Col W J Pollard, of Augusta, who has
been tho chief worker in pushing the
Augusta and Chattanooga railroad, was
among his friends here yesterday.
Rev N H Smith filled the pulpit for the
Presbyterians here yesterday.
We have been taking care of two droves
of mules and a drove of Texas ponies for
several days.
The wet, cold weather for several days
has interfered with farmers considerably.
Union Point, Feb. 8.—[Special.]—
The event of the season was the supper
last night, given by Mr and Mrs J “
Hart, of the Terraces, to the Friday nfght
club, as a compliment to Mr M W Wood
ing. who has been in town for several
days. Ten or twelve 'young men sat
down to the table at 7’J o’clock, and
royal supper, with spicy conversation,
pleasant repartee and a good time gener
ally whiled away an hour. After the
supper the young men repaired to the
parlor, where they met an equal number
of young ladies, and until eleven o'clock
a pleasant Rainbow party was the order.
Union Point, Feb. 9.—[Special.]—
The Executive Committee of the Greene
County Sunday School Association met
here yesterday to set a time for holding
their quarterly convention.
Mr. Jesse P. Wilson, Clerk of Greene
Superior Court was in tho village yester
day on official business.
As the game law of Greene goes into
effect on the 15th prox., hunters are using
the short time left for all it is worth.
Whist is a favorite game with the drum
mers when they have to spend a night at
the hotel.
Mr. J. F. Hart will goto Atlanta to-da)
in the interest of his new patented car
coupling. Mr. Hart thinks he has a good
thing in his patent, and all ho wants is
for some road to give it a fair trial to test
its merits.
There is much complaint among our
town people on account of the negroes
stealing and burning the fencing around
their gardens and lots. They take every
thing they can lay their hands on. They
even take up the plank from the street
crossings and carry it off. It is certainly
very annoying, and a few loads of shot
would not be amiss.
HARMONY Cl ROVE HAPPENINGS.
Haretag. and Divorce Lm
There b a gradually extending opinion that
the marriage and divorce law. of the differ
ent Mate, should be made uniform. In
twenty-three of the thirty-eight eta tea a
prior undissolved marriage sets aside a new
union. In twenty insanity doe. the same;
in aeventeen non-age, and in thirteen fraud.
Then are ground, for declaring mar
riage null and void ab initio. Desertion as
a ground for divorce varies in length and
character in many etatea.—New York Bun.
A Healthy Skin.
Very cold or warm bath, when uwd to ex-
ceM diminish the elasticity of the dun and it.
power of resirtance to external irritants
Dr. Auspeta, of Vienna, aay. a healthy ddn
is not neoemarily beautiful and water ia
■ervieeable to it in only moderate amount*
and in moderate temperature*. The tame
aathorlty says that a sponge aoaked in oil
should b. applied to tbe scalp and roots of the
hair at night.—Atlanta Constitution.
Harmony Grove, Feb. 8.—[Special.] wom,>
The spring crop of drummers are raiding
our town just now.
Mr Jim Comer visits our town every
Monday. He is popular with our mer
chants, and deservedly so.
Mr H L Cranford, of Athens, is in
town to-day.
The town tax will be lowered this year
25 per cent
Mr John H Gunnels is getting up quite
a reputation as a horse swapper.
All our city Colonels are at Jefferson.
Mr John Booth kills two birds with
one stone whemhe visits Harmony Grove
—beef cattle ana .
“War Cloud,” an Indian chief, will lec
ture here on the 14th, in the Methodist
church.
Hasmont Grove, Fob. 9.—[Special.]
There is a to be a wedding in town at an
early day.
The railroad is playing havoc with the
dogs in Harmony Grove.
Hood Harber Guano Factory is in full
blast.
Our town is headquarters for fertilisers
in Northeast Georgia. They are sold
cheaper here tean at eny other point
Cotton is still coming in at the rate of
ten or fifteen bales per day.
'■HUH SHOALS NEWS.
Iliciii Shoals, Feb. 9.—[Special.]—As
our town has no representative in your ■
paper, I gladly agree to your proposition
of last week, nnd will try to send you at
least occasionally the intorestiag items of
onr romantic village.
The Editor of the Madisonian paid us
visit last week, and expressed great sur
prise on learning that High Shoals con
tained over 8U0 inhabitants. He visited
her mills, surveyed her water powers,
patronized her siorcs, admired her scen
ery and went home delighted with his
trip. His great wonder was that wc
didn’t have a railroad.
The builders are hard at work on the
■w store tdat Mr. James Frazer is hav
ing added to A. J. Medlin’s old
stand, just opposite 1’eck * Son's barber
shop, on the (Iconce side of the river.
Mrs. McDowell, from Rome, is visiting
Dr. Gray's family.
Meenie Docolass.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN-
The Reaiona Why Telemachus should Q«t
Married on a $1,000 Salary.
Get married, my hoy'? Telemachus,
come up close and look me right in the
eye, and listen to tne with both cars. Get
married. If you never do any thingclsc,
marry. You can't afford it? Your
father married on a smaller salary than
you are gettihg row, my boy, and he has
eight children, doesn't have to work very
MW, VWf%VWyTttr in^ra-gffarpTe of "
your little bills that your salary won’t
cover. And your father was just as good
a man at your age as you are now. Cer
tainly, yon c»n afford to marry. You
ca l’t afford not to. No. I'm not going
to-qjote that tiresome old saying that
what will keep one person will'keep two,
because it won’t. A thousand dollar sal
ary won't keep two one thousand dollar
peop’e: hut it will keep two five hundred
people nicely, and that’s all you are, just
now, my boy. You need not wince or
get angry. Let me tell you, a young man
who rates in the world as a five hundred
dollar man, all the year round, Monday
as well as Satrday: the day after Christmas
just as well as the day before; the fifth of
July as the third, he is gouig to rate high
er every year, until he is a pardner al
most before he hoped to he a bookkeeper.
Good, reliab'e five hu idreddollar yourg
men are not such a drug in the markets*
you suppose. You marry, and your wife
will bring tact, aril love, and skill, ard
domestic genius, and womanly economy
that will early double your salary. But
i’ou would have to deny yourself many
ittle If xuries and liberties? Certainly
you would; or, ratber you’d willingly
give them up for grea’erluxuries. And
you do t’t want to shoulder the borders
and cares of married life? 1 see you do
not. And I see what you do not relize,
perhaps, that all your objections to mar
riage are mean and selfish. Y’ou haven’t
given o .to manly reason for not marrying.
If j-ou do marry yon arc going into a
world of new cares, new troubles, new
etrbarrassments. You are going to bo
careful and worried about many things.
You are going to be tormented with
household cares and perplexities, ail new
and untried to you. You are going to be
pestered and bothered and troubled.
You will have to walk the floor with ten
pounds of baby and a liarrelful of colic,
whenjvou are nearly crazy for sleep.
You will have to tell stori-s to the chil
dren when you want to read. You will
have to mend a toy for young Tom, when
you ought to be writing letters. You
will have to stay at home in the evening,
when you used to go to the club. The
b.liy will rumple your necktie and the
other children will trample into your lap
with their dusty shoes. Your wife will
have so much to do, looking after the
comfort of her husband and children,
-hat she won’t be able to sing and play
for you every evening, as your sweet
heart did. I our time will not be your
own, and you will have less leisure aud
f eedom for fishing and shooting excur
sions, camps in the mountains aud yacht
ing trips along the coast than your bach
elor friends of your own age. I admit
all this. But, then, you will be learning
self-denial; you will bo living for some
one else; you will be lovingsomeone bet
ter than you love yourself, and more
than a thousand fold that compensates for
all that you give up.
Why, you want to remain single now,
my boy, just because you arc selfish.
And the longer you remain single the
more tins selfishness will grow upon you.
There aro some noble exceptions among
bachelors. 1 know, and some mean ones
among married men; and a selfish mar
ried man needs killing more than any
other man I .know; but, as a rule, just
look around your own friends and see
who arc tiie unselfish men. Who is it
that gives up his seat in a street-car to a
not* pretty young girl, but a
homely wrinkled woman in shabby dresa?
Who is it heads the charity subscrip
tions? Who pays the largest pew rent?
Who feeds the beggar? Who finds work
for the tramp? Who are the men fore
most in unselfish work? 1 know your
young bachelor friends are not stingy!
Oh, no! I knon Jack Fastboy paid $670
last week for a new buggy; it ie light as
a match-box, and has such a narrow seat
that be nevar can ask a friend to ride
with him; and at the same time, Dick. Slo
cum who married your sister Alice, five
years ago, gave $250 for the cyclone
sufferers. 1 think the angels lsnghed all
that afternoon, my boy; but I don’tthisk
it was,because Jack paid $570for his
new buggy. If you went to shirk the
responsibilities of tife, my dear boy, you
may; if you want to live forty or fifty
years longer, with no one tinder the hea
vens to think about, or care for, or plan
for but yourself; go ahead and do it- The
world won’t mist you nearly so ranch a*
you will miss the world. You will havu
a mean, lonely, eelfisl^ easy time, and,
unless 'tre a rare exception to your
clait, little vbildren will hate you, And
the sods never yet loved any man whom,
th# children disliked.—BuaDETTX, In.
"The Hawkeye” ‘