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AN HOUR SPENT IN HILLMAN’S
ELECTRIC SHAFT.
Where tl»c Well fta and What
Looks Like—Testimony of People
Who nave Been Caied—^earal*ia
and Bhenmatiens Said to be
The electric well is the excitement of
Middle Georgia. It has pot the whole
world to tingling, and has tilled the rheu
matic with hope. It is impossible to
travel on the Georgia Railroad without
feeling the intluence of this coil of rock
tnd clay in which earth currents are
said to come and go. People are ascend
ing and descending like so many arma
tures day and night. Some go there
with the desperation which long sickness
engenders. As medical treatment fails,
they become frantic and fantastic in seek
ing new remedies. Others go with the
hope which springs eternal even in the
neuralgic breast. Much the larger part
go from idle curiosity and are lowered
into the shaft to await the agitation of
of the current like the troubling of the
waters of Siloam. But whether from
faith, hope or curiosity—all have come
away in some manner impressed, and
whet is remarkable, many profess to have
been cured.
Is it electricity? More than a score
of people have felt the currents they
say, and every day some one feels a
“shock.” Is it imagination? Well, if
Hillman's shaft can so develop and di
rect a man’s fancy to snap his dry sinews
and pound the neuralgic spicule oqt of
hia bones, it Is sttTTa great institution. ~
Impressed by the accounts which have
leaked out during the past six months,
and even startled by some of the report
ed cases from Hillman’s electric shaft,
the writer took the train from Washing
ton the other day and landed at “Hill
man's, a new station on that Branch, ten
miles from Washington. It is half way
between Ficklen and Raytown, and is the
first >ign of improvement along that road
in many a day. The railroad men have
put in a siding, erected a pretty little
passenger shed, something like (ieorge
Murrell’s, and levelled olf the right of
way. In the past month, more tickets
have been sold to Hillmans than than all
the the rest of the stations together,
Barnett and Washington inclunded. The
road gives round trip tickets, which
ought to he dumper than they are, from
all point* heading to Hillman. Capt.
Anthony, of the Washington Branch fre-
«pn-ntl) takes up fifty tickets a day.
.Sunday is always a big day for Hillman.
In May a picni from six counties has
been arranged, and private parties are go-
ing lown by the sixes and sevens every
week or two.
At the train a four seated huggy drawn
by a rheumatic horse escorts the visitor
to the well, which is full half a mile
away. The railroad winds about the hill
in full sight of the well, hut the line of
Mr. A. L. Hillman's land passes between
the shaf» and the railroad. To put a
siding upon this most convenient spot
would require an acre or so of Mr. L. A.
Moore’s land. He declined to sell ex
cept at a high figure, so the station was
placed about a quarter lower down, on
Hillman's land and the traveller is full
half a mile from the shaft when he leaves
th#
1 lumsands of acres around belong to
t'u* 111!Iiit tit estate. The elder Hillman
was a I’.aptM preacher. So is the pres
ent owner of the shaft. When Mr. Hill
man died, his estate was divided up and
sold oil* to pay his debts. The property
w a* involved, and the present ground
wit r.* the well is sunk was deeded for
d-hf, I am told, to the late Gen. Toombs.
The debt was promptly discharged by
n . iillm in and the land reclaimed. The
11 di man-Moore line just includes the
wonderful shaft. One hundred yard*
away Mr. Moore has commenced on the
same hill another shaft upon his own
land. That hill holds the mystery and
the hopes of hundreds of persons, and
none are moro concerned th%n Messrs.
Moore and Hillman.
The road from the depot lies through
a pine forest, iust cleared for travel.
Thenca it tattanta a newly ploughed
field on an old hilltop and finally plunks
into a thick grove of white oak, which
covers the little mountain whose subtle
springs are oozing out of the opening at
it.: f eet You come upon the shaft be
fore you know it. When it breaks in
view you are right over it. The little
sheil which shelters the well is protected
by the great shoulders of rock which
square otf from the side of the hill. The
hare oaks stand in majestic guard along
the steep declivity. The purple rocks
glisten with traces'of mica—and some say
gold. The interior splinters taste of
alum—indeed Mr. Hillman is said to
have* been delving for an alum spring
when the so-called electric properties of
the well were disclosed.
If you are able-bodied you will make
the descent on foot, clinging to the rocks
and hushes. If an invalid you may re
main in the wagon while the rheumatic
horse winds about the hill and brings up
at the edge of the mar*h whick skirts the
hill. The thick cane-brake has been
cleared and the unsightly brush torn
from the trees. •
Your correspondent did not go imme
diately into the well. Entering the
small cabin near by, he took his seat
around the stove with a few visitors and
invalids and heard them tell of their sev
eral experiences. The grove was lively
with horses and vehicles. There were
between seventy-five and a hundred peo
ple at the shaft. Eight or ten would de
scend at a time. A cluster of negroes
hung about the door which guarded the
opening, and begged for the water which
was pumped from the spring in the rocks
at the bottom of the shaft.
Mr. J. I*. Moore, who farms a piece ofT,
was among the visitors. He was the
thiid patient who felt the curative power
of the well. He told your correspon
dent all that he knew:
“Something over a year ago,” said Mr.
Moore, “Mr. Hillman sunk this shaft.
He was prospecting for alum. There
are traces of alum in this white rock, as
may he detected by tasting. While at
work here he noticed that a hard and
troublesome muscle in his arm gradu
ally softened and ceased to trouble him.
He told Charles Calloway, a colored man
in the neighborhood, of what had hap
pened. Calloway was a bouse carpenter
and was at that time a perfect wreck
from rheumatism.”
“Come here, Calloway.”
A tall, ginger-cake looking fellow ad
vanced. He told the story substan
tially as Mr. Moore had commenced. He
said he had tried the well and his rheu
matism had left him in two days. He
remained in the shaft six hours one da 7
and live the next. lie laid down his
crutches at the end of that time, walked
up the ladder and had been working un
interruptedly at his trade since then.
Tin, was last September.
Mr. Moore said that his own hand had
been long stitT from rheumatism. He
could neither open nor close it. He
went into the shaft and staid two houn
each day for a few dnys,
“You see now, my grasp is as strung as
any man's.”
Am Enthusiastic Sleeting la If enroe
.vionday. '
J^osrok, March 22.—[Special. ]—'I
itixens of Montoe AtJ’sit the court-
citizens ... _ W „ WJP , , t| M | „
l* ou “f. ■ n, l upon motion of A J Arnold,
Mr C O Nowell wasmade chairman. A
•I ArnuTd was elected secretary.
My request CapllJapb^f K**ier stated -
the object of the' meeting—the building
of a railroad from Atlanta to Athena, via
.Monroe.* - —*”
THE DESCENT.
We examined the soil shout the open
ing as also around the shaftof Mr. Moore.
There is a red clay top soil and a mulat
to subaoil. Besides the repnted alum
taste to the rock, there is nothing to at
tract an inexperienced one. Mr. Moore
has gone about 25 feet and has curbed a
good well of water. Mr. Hillman's shaft
is 14 foot deep and this he is widening
by a new shaft dug to connect with this
along the side of the hill. If the well
holds out he can excavate a cave which
might be fitted up with all sorts of con
veniences for invalids. Finally with Mr.
Moore, we gained admission into the an
te-room—which covers the opening and
is about ten feet square. The floor of
the room has a sky light for the well
and a narrow pair of steps at the side
admits the visitor to the shaft, fall 14
feet below the ground. The well was
dark and rather damp. There is room
at th, bottom for six chair* closely
placed together, while as many more
persons may stand on the steps and lean
againit the wall where the surcharged
rocks jet from the sides. The floor is
boarded over, and a leaden pipe lead*
along the aide to th* spring beneath the
rocks. -Metallic floors and chain would
be better for the electric theory. Than
were present when I went down five or
six persons. Mr. Oakman, of Augusta,
has been a paralytic for a year or mom*
He had been in the well about four
bourn, but had not felt the fluid move
hia. Mr. J. I. Inghram, who livea pear
by, went down on crutches. ThU was
his first visit."! took a seat by Mr. Oak-
mvn and opposite Mr. Inghram. Mr.
Moore stood on the steps The dark
surroundings were enough to make*
man quiet. A dozen upturned, anxious
eyes were directed to the skylight. A half
dozen spinal columns rested against the
rocks, and every man.waited dismally for
lightning to strike him.
Your correspondent felt a slight ting
ling in his back, but attributed it to the
change of temperature—possibly of scene.
One man had his hand in the water
pipe where the current is said sometimes
to come. Another had stuffed liis fist
into an opening in the side of the wall
where the . subtle fluid is said to have
jumped frequently from its hiding
place.
“I feel it!”
“What is it?”
“The current' I have it on my hand.”
A dozen fists were punched at this
rock. One or two said they felt it Your
correspondent could not feel anything
but the cold rock.
“Stovall, I feet something?”
1lookwfmt the speaker. It waa In-
ghram. He is a remarkably earnest
matter-of-fact fellow. 1 had been through
college with Inghram and had'never
known him to make a bad break. He
studied hard, graduated among the first
>f his class and has been s teacher the
greater part of his time.
I seized his hand. It is usual for the
crowd to join hands and make the cir
cuit Inghram hail an earnest mysti
fied look in his eye. He was nervous.
I could feel the pulse throb in his fore
finger. Something leaped along my p.'lm
and tingl d at my wri-te. Whether it
was (he nervo-inagnetic influence of my
friend, or whether the slender current
from the rock, I do not know.
When a crowd of expectant people
MliMh* together in this way they are
iound to experience sensations. The
nost nervous will develop electricity iir
.nine way and easily charge a company.
■ lisa sort of table-rapping experience,
i which furniture moves and iniagi
nation 11 ones. I wouldn't trust my own
\pcrience in the nmlst of a bevy of ner-
ous people. I wouldn't believe myself
nder oatn .n such surroundings. I sat
ir nearly an hour without detecting any
•tore electricity. Some peoplo go for
lavs, and finally feel it jerk and jar them
inuiistakably. Mine was not an inva-
iTs case, although I was far from being
a insulated skeptic.
- nasi ARE ABLE CURES.
I do not give my observation to con-
n.ce people. 1 went with no ailment
nd return with no experience. Rut let
see what the well has done:
dr. Charles Crawford, of Chattanooga,
ns on the train, anil went over with me.
!e has been so cured of rheumatism as
.« h- abl», the hoys say, to run rabbits
bout the hill. A short while since he
mid hardly walk.
Mr. Thigpen, of Sandersville, testifies
it he is now able to straighten a crook -
I leg which had been drawn up with
■eumatism.
Mr. .1. R. Hammond, of South Carolina,
. nt four days m the pit and prnnounc-
ii i humbug.' On the filth day he re
ive I "a shock.’’ It was strong, and
■o.e in the cave at . the time said his
• lers p .pp»d in his leg like whip cords,
i- leg which had been stiffened from
r * inn .lisin. straightened out, and he
*• nt home sore, hut strai.ht and greatly
be icfiled.
Mrs. I’utnain, of Chattanooga, I am
t dd, ha>l been a slave to neuralgia since
the war She was so susceptible to the
current she had to be carried out the
cave. She said A ^ca|di{tlluyi of
1i ght before her eyes. till the was im
proved. One-or two rases are reported
of the shocks being too strong for the in-
v dids. In these cases the patient* were
r -moved. In others where the currents
were not felt, the persons have been
moved Without benefit. About one-half
the people who have been there are said
to hare been relieved.
Two ladies from Warren county, Mrs.
Duckworth and Mrs. Hill, have been
greatly improved by visits to the shaft.
Neuralgia and rheumatism were their
complaints. One of these ladies was en
abled for the first time in years to use
her arm and put up her hair.
-Mr. Meade, of Mobley's Pond, Scre
ven county, has . been suffering from
rheumatism from his hips down, for 26
years. He had to be lifted from the
train. He remained two or three days
before he felt the shocks. He finally
felt a tingling of his nerves, and the same
p ipping of his bones was followed by a
s ‘.lightening of his legs. After five
d lys he discarded his crutches, and to
show what he could do,' actually placed
his leg behind his head. His was a case
o r sciatic rheumatism, in which bis limb
h id drawn up under his body.
I did not se ■ these parties, but the
<cs were reported to me by Captain
Anthony, conductor on the Washington
Br nch. lie has had ample opportunity
ii-it the invalids as he lifted them olf
at the station, and again as they would
return home. These cures he suhstan
ti ites from evidence of the parlies them
selves.
WIIAT is IT?
Your correspondent is not writing t
scientific irestjse. He does not propose
to dig for ilien ri es, but to report facts
and'app- stances. Every one knows that j
tarib is a huge magnet, with cur- !
rents permea’ing from run to rim. The 1
in -qualities of heat, without and within i
the pressure of the crust and a thousand j
things continue to unbridle the electric I
fo rces and send them spinning and shoot- [
in; in rurrents about the surface of the
gl -be. The agenev of this fluid in medical
practice has long lieen recognized and its
powers of cure in some instances are
ratgical. I understand that hut one
physician in the neighborhood has be
come a convert of Hillman’s well. l)r.
Davi-lson, of Sharon, believes strongly in
it, they say. Dr. Carltm, of Athens, has
advised one or two of his patients to try
the shaft for neuralgia, and a number
fr in Athens may go down before long.
It is attracting wide attention, and if
o irren'. report is to be accredited, it
m king some marvel >us cures.
THE ACCOMMODATIONS.
There are few conveniences yet for
vi titors. There is no hotel on the spot,
an 1 Mr. Hillman has divided with the
n*ig bors around the duty of entertain
ing the visitors, giving such bed and
board as can he procured. It was ru
in ired that Schofield Brothers, of Au
gusta were going to erect a hotel. I do
not think this is settled although that
enterprising firm have examined the
spat and corresponded with some con
tractors. There is a site a few hundred
yards up the hill which is just the place
for a hotel. It commands an elegant
view of the 4urrounding country, and en
this hill a knoll rises to probably the
highest point in Taliaferro county. Har
den’s Creek winds at the base and the
sweep from this snmmit takes in Wilkes,
"Warren and Taliaferro counties, On a
clear day the spires of Washington can
be seen, and the railroad approach is un
covered for miles like. a slender wire
strung among the old clay gullies. Na
ture neyer erected a more commanding
earth work for a hotel, and if the well
keep* up its present standard it will not
be.mid-stunmor before some on* builds.
The walk up and down the hill would
work up -more electricity in a feeble
frame than the well coaid furnish in
month, and the slum spring which peo
ple drink with' eagerness and benefit
may lure many a traveller who could
quafT with, or without electric accompa
niment The well is worth the trip.
P. A. 8.
—.
AROUND LOWNDESVILLE*
“HOW DEAR TO MY HEART ARE
T the scenes of my
CHILDHOOD.”
After nmnj Years I Return (• My
Native Heath—An Experience Sim*
liar to Kip Van Winkle’s—A His
toric Old Neighborhood-*A Noted
Tree and Famous Rock—Him Nan
cy maxwell—The Sad Story of Two
Unmarked Craves in an Old Field
—True Patriotism
Lowndesville, S., C., March 18.—
[Special Correspondence.] -Perhaps it
will not be uninteresting to the Banner-
Watchman readers to be given a de
scription of a little town and of people to
whom they are strangers; but in my let
ter to-day I will endeavor to strip it of all
incidents of such a character as to raise
a revolt among our patrons. If I over
step these bounds, kind reader, only vis
it in mind the scene of your childhood
days and earl r struggles, and then see
if you cannot look with charity upon the
batch of aged chestnuts that 1 am about
to give you.
“Lowndesville!” sang out the brake-
man on the Savannah Valley road, and as
I marched from the coach with my va
lise and umbrella in hand, I looked
around to see if I could locate myself.
Had I fallen from a balloon in the heart
of Africa, I could not have been more to
tally lost or a greater stranger than I felt
here in the town of my birth. I could
not*call to mind any such spot as this near
the o’d Lowndesville that I knew, and
where I went to school and over its
every surrounding hill and vale have I
played when a child. There were all
around me new laces. A young man ap
proached and asked if he could carry
me to the Mosely House. Mosely was
the first familiar'word I heard. Then
my old friend Jim Latimer stepped up
and spoke to me. I asked him where I
was—to unravel me. 1 then discovered
that 1 had often set bird traps on the
very ground where the depot stood, and
had once gone to school within a stone’s
throw of the spot, to a minister named
Davis. The town was about a quarter of
a mile distant, and concealed by a hill.
I can remember when a child
seeing the stakes set for the Savannah
Valley railroad, and remember a
grand torch-light procession that the
town of Lowndesville had when the sur
veyors got there, and that my father rode
at the head of it on horseback. The
scene is as vivid in my mind as if it had
happened last night. A great deal of
money was collected toward completing
the road, but it disappeared and the en
terprise fell through. Now after so many
years I return to find the road in opera
tion, and traversing nearly the same
ground then staked off. There is an old
saying that no railroad has evjr been
surveyed but it is some time built, and
this looks like there is ground for the
statement.
But few changes are noticeable in the
business part of old Lowndesville. A
new town is springing up at the depot,
and there is considerable rivalry between
the two divisions of the place; but 1 pre
dict that the history Of Gainesville will
repeat itself here, and the new part of
the town will soon be bill-boarded with
notices of “For Rent.”
Kind reader, did you ever revisit the
home of your boyhood after an ab
sence of many years? If so you can
appreciate the keen interest with which
I looked out for every inanimate object,
Thai chastimt Jr—, nag rigid and barl
KWfc-r *
thin had its crust become. On a hill
just across the branch, three Tories were
afterwards captured and hanged to a
hastily constructed gibbet I can re
member when the ghosts of these men
were said to haunt Pressly’a hill, on the
brow of which they paid the penalty for
deserting their country.
Another noted spot, that even time
cannot obliterate, is a large rock on I he
Deupree place, now owned by Mr. Bow
man, and almost in sight of the depot
From behind this stone a mulatto earned
his freedom by waylaying and shooting
a Tory loader. He knew that the Tory’s
house was near there, and that he would
sooner or later tre. erse the path that
led close to.his hiding place. He waited
day a.id night for nearly a fortnight be
fore his victim appeared, when a well
directed rifle ball penetrated hia heart
This mulatto was said to be a very brave
man, a.id afterwards did good service in
the American army. There is not a'
shadow of doubt about the truth of the
above events, or the exact localities.
I remember, when a boy, there lived
nearly „
5 ears old, named Miss Nancy and Miss
enny Maxwell. They looked like witch
es, were disgustingly filthy, and their
enly dress, both summer and winter,
were* wretched old gowns formed of
rags. They lived in a cabin where the
water poured through the roof and you
could have thrown a dog between the
cracks in the wall. Yet these old women
were far from being mendicants, for they
owned a large belt of the finest lands in
Carolina, and from which they would nof
let even a riding switch be cut. The
walnut timber alone on it would have
made them rich, if sawed into lumber.
In the veir.s of the Misses Maxwell,
too, flowed the bluest of blue blood, and
two more loyal or patriotic hearts never
animated the breast of woman, or man
either. They were hard working old
women, and on little patches around
their house grew plenty of provisions to
do them. Besides, they had large flocks
and herds, that brought them in consid
erable money for people who had so few
wants. All during the late war they
sold corn, wheat, bacon, wool and cattle,
but would only dispose of their produce
to soldiers or soldiers’ families, would
accept only Confederate money, and sell
at prices th»t ruled in times of peace.
They charged only ten cents a pound for
bacon, 75 cents for whea» and 50 c«-nts
for corn. wh**n these articles wen* selling
for ten and fifty times these prices. They
fina ly consented to let a large belt of
their cherished wood land be cleared
and worked, that they might have
the more provisions for the soldiers
Both these old women have been called
from a hard and self-denying life to that
land of peace and rest, where their little
frailties will be blotted out with oblivion
and only their noble deeds remembered.
Miss Nancy Maxwell, who wasthe ruling
sp ; rit, was a young girl during the Revo
lutionary war, ami I used to delight in
sitting on the steps of her cabin and
hearing her recount the thrilling inci
dents of those tiin-*s. She knew the
genealygy of every family in that district
and exactly how much Tory blood cours
ed in their veins; and she hated a Tory,
too, worse than death; and surely she
had cause for this bitterness. Within a
few steps of her home is the burying
OUR NEIGHBORS.
HIGH SHOALS XEU'S,
AVATKINSVILLE SEWS.
YESTERDAY'S REVS FACE THE TOWNS
AROUND US.
Iltou SlioAl.s. March 20.—[Special.]—
The High Shoals Manufactunng Com
pany .is haring the old store repainted.
LOCANSVILLE flEETIMi* and it begins to look right city
~ “ r „ ' Nothing like a little rivalry for
like, too.
Looansville, March 1».—[Special]— improvement''ofatown.^ThU company
irsnanf tit « rail nr this I'hairtnan nf a <• .» . . . J
Pursuant to'a call by the Chairman of , boasts of two of the most genial and
the Lngansville railroad committe a meet
ing of the citizens convened this p. m.
for the transaction of business. Dr. K.
A Hammons, the chairman explained the
object of the meeting; which was first
to show the our deep interest tnd sym
pathy in enterprise. Second, to take
subscription to the stock of the Georgia,
Carolina Sc Northern Railroad. Third,
to electa delegation-to meet the stock-
holder* in Athens, Ga, on the 7th of
April next, and fourth, to receive dona
tions of ground to build a depot upon.
Mr. E. M. Rockmore offered to donate
fire acres of land situated in town.
Mr. W. H. Braswell tendered a twenty
acre lot one half .mile from town.
Mr. S. P. Rockmore tendered eix acres
' ~ itn four hundred yards of town.
” " Rockmore
Mr. E. M. Rockmore proposed
to givt^ffvlSTeros ta a beautiful locution,
provided Mr. Braswell would give five
acres adjoining the same.
Mr. W .H. Braswell accepted the prop
osition, and the ten acres by these two
men were tendered. The chairman was
authorized to inform the authorities of
the 1 ailroad that ten acros would be given
to build a depot on.
On morion Mr. Henry Beusse, of Ath
ens. was called on for a speech, to which
he responded in a very felicitous man
ner, assuring us of his faith in the enter
prise.
On motion the following delegates were
elected to attend the meeting of the
stockholders in Athens on April 7th.
Nathan Bennett, W. II Braswell, E M
Brand, D C -Langford, E M Uockiuore
and Col E S V Bryant.
On morion the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, that we assure the Georgia,
Carolina Sc Northern Railroad Co. of our
material aid and sympathy in the work
commodating clerks in the state. They
“treat” the ladies very nicely, too.
Mrs. Chas. Center died on the 14th,
and was interred Friday in the Metho
dist cemetery.
Misses Jessie and Lucy Frazer will
leave shortly to visit friends in Atlanta.
To-day the post-office at this place
was moved from Walton, across the river,
into Oconee. It is now more convenient
for the postmaster and his assistant, as
well as for the general public. The in
crease in our mail renders it highly im
portant that great care should bo taken
in the management of the office. This
was almost impossible while so many
had access to the mail. We heartily en
dorse this move in our worthy postmas
ter. and believe he knotrs exactly what
he is doing. Mcdlin & Son kindfy give
'roomfn their new etore forth* mail de
partment
>y our village, ami that the Walton
News, Athens Banskr-Watcuman and
Gwinnett Herald he requested to publish
the proceedings of this meeting.
On motion adjournment to meet next
Thursday night the 24tl| ins ant, was
adopted.
R. A. Hammons. Oh'n.
E. S. V. Bryant, Sec’y..
HAltrrlON V IIKOI'E JfEWS.
Harmony Grove, March 21.—[Special.]
Your regular correspondent is now ab
sent from the Grove for a few days and a
new knight of the quill h is taken his
place until he returns.
Rev. Mr. Embry preach' d a most ex
cellent sermon at the Methodist church
yesterday morning from the text, “1 will
wash my hands in innocence.”
Col PF Lawshe has heeii spending a
few days with friendsin the Grove, in the
interest of the old reliablu Hartford Life
Insurance company. Col. Lawshe has
one of the best insurance men in the
State, and we are glad to know that lie
has lieen very aucccossful in his new
found avocation. Success to him hereaf
ter.
Banks superior court convened this
ground of the Maxwell family. The ! morning at Homer. AII of our local at-
rk men* ena was a tragic one. iney naa ^
to neys are now in attendance upon this
court, and willnot probably return until
the latter part of this week.
It has been rumored on our streets this
morning that A Martin, col
gr ives were enclosed in rude rail pens.
Two mounds were side by side, and "spe
cial care was taken with them. Thny
were the graves of her two brothers, and
their end was a tragic one. They had
fell from .and
road'l'hadVfightwith^T^ta’^Cuaning- t ^* t afternoon, and after supper were sit- ne groe* get into a quam 1 and some hard
ha™ and go* bad [y* whipped; fremtolt «*»*«"» on each side of the father, nn- aS^nTa^,,;
tree I shot my first robbin; oh, the tire- der a large tree near the house, reciting JiS 1 TheretZrfGriffeth hit
some hnnrs I have snpnt in that church to the proud old man all the news of the «namn wito ii l nereiorcswnnetn nit
some hours I have spent in that church and how thev had deoorted them- M»rim upon the head with a stick of
listening to along sermon! These and a war, ana now tniv naa aeportoa mem- . kilim* him almost instantly Grif-
hundred other long forgotten little unci seI « s and “P*“ ld thc fam,l y n »“ 8 ' » fcS^lriZ ft ?n «df defense
dents of my boyhood days crowded my waa a moonlight, summer evening and undoubtcdlv tha
thoughts and awoke sometimes a sigh of happy U ^ s ™^ T iuN^h^Slo^ cUd-
regret and sometimes a smile d pleas- nrighborhwd hid seen th! «r*deither financially or socially. Fi
ore. I could hardly take time to partake !, Dna ,, * nel ? , r , ’ n “ *f* n .! n ® naneiallv hecanse we have thc must en
of an excellent dinner at the Mosely M»*well boys trudging home, and trailed "“^"^ d ^rorising mcrchm.ta the
House when 1 started out to exnlore them 1,1(e In dians. They sneaked with- ®rgen° ana enterprising merchants, tne
Mouse, wuen t starteu out to explore . ranee of the little familv ernune most skillful and successful physicians,
the town and see what changes time had b”n«fh7he tree Two !harn crX !f » nd moat excellent and eminent di-
fVc°e! B Out of eT th7«n‘t n iro n^tula^nff “r^g^ hro^ ahftith ™ea in Northeast Georgia. Hoerally,
the place 1 did not sec a half dozen per- y° un S soldiers fell pierced to the vitals !**“?*? T® ^* T ® t . h ® most bl '* utlfu '. c “l-
tne place i am not see a nan oiozen per- i ea( i en messengers of death The tu «d ind charming young ladies; the
sons I had known when I lived here. As w,ln . un messengers oi acatn. t ne . .. chivalrous and hi-h-ton-
wandered around from one assassins made good their escape, and the ““wweigauc, cmvairous ana nign-ton-
famifilr snot o .notb™ I felt ncxt da y thc S al,ant hear,s - 8tiUed in *? 7 ^ Dg gent ' C T' n "a the ! ? out . h ’ , and
laminar spot to another, t nit j were laid side hv side within a alsobecausewehavetheiuostentertain-
like a modern edition of ltip Van Win- Death, were laid side ny side wiunn a ine theatricals and the most deliehtful-
kle Rio did find the same old silm ontv few steps of the house to which they mg tneaincais ana tne most uengniiui-
^]®'. “[P Did and tne same old sign, only . . hasten* d onlv a few hours before rainbow and phantom parties of an v little
the head of Washington was substituted B»D hastened only a lew nours before . . ^ e * , confidently
for th.t of Vine r..;™,. h„, „„ ,v. with such joyous anticipations. When ‘own in ine world, zinu we counueniiy
for that or Kin„ George, but even the rL .|. tjn „ their storv theeves of Miss Nancv predict that the Grove will continue to
post bad disappeared where so long reimnng.tneirstory tneeyesoi miss nancy r »nJ flourish “like the ceen l.av
swung thc announcement of “Bell s Maze d with fire and vengeance, and she f row J— “ounsn lixe tne giecn hay
’hT. 8 ” Major Bel" too who was al- wouId Pronounce the most horrible mal- ,re ®, all sermons against the phantom
waya kind to me^likens sign" hT.lso edictions against the whole Tory race. ,1
disippeared from the face of the earth. ? h « could not lolerale them down to the Haemont Gaovz,March 20.-[Special]
1’eacc to his ashes! I walked arrund to last Generation* She has pointed out to “Messrs W. T. Bennett and J. N. Ross,
the school house, where ’Squire G.les “« the -cry tree beneath which the sad of Jefferson, were m our town yesterday
once taught this young idea how to occurred, a^ then tenderly staking bands with their numerous
shoot. Another teicher now occupies showed me the spot where the two mar- friends inlhls "cmitr.
his desk, and another generation of chil- , ? J 1 ‘ bL ; r }y 1,e •deeping- I hear that Capt Morena and his corps of civil cn-
dren are sitting on the same benches and tins old field is now in cultivation and gineers reached the Grove yesterday
playing on the same ground the same old cotton is raised on the mounds of two evening, thereby completing the survey
games that once I indulged in. The old f* braTe , mc ? aa ® v ' r sh l ouId !7 ed *•» of the A. & C. R. B. between this place
school house is unchanged, and looks as knapsack and marched to the call of their and Gainesville. Our people are now
frowningly dark and gloomy tc-day as it country. W hile erecting costly mono- jnbilant over the flattenng railroad proa
did thirty years ago. I imagined that 1 pents over the graves of those wh* fell pecta of our flourishing little city
discovered the same pane of glass that 1 ,n ,h « la ‘® civi , wa ;’ 11 s ® f ems . to “® that “'. W ' W - St »rk arrives jn the Grove
shattered with a ball, and that caused me a ' nore < ’ , ’‘ pUy ° f " at,ona ' Rrat1 ' ! yesterday and will hang out his shingle
so much mental agony, through fear 0 f I t,,de would be to rescue from desecra-‘ next Monday morning and go to work in
exposure. I wandered for some ,j lnB ['on the soil that holds the ashes of such : earnest. Mr. Stark is young, industrious
CBlWronn VOTES.
Crawford, March 21.—[Special.]—
Capt. Hutchins has resumed bis place
again on the fast train.
O. H. Arnold left yesterday for Decatur
Alabama to look after the boom in real
estate in that town.
Editor Gantt spent Sunday in our town
mixing with the boys.
Allen Thompson an old citizen of Lex
ington, is on a visit to friends in that
town. Mr. Thompson served through
the war with the Gilmer lilues. Since
the war he has been living in Galveston
Texas, and we lern that he has made a
big fortune.
The 202d grand drawing of the Louis
iana State Lottery has come and gone,
and all the boys around here got left.
We don’t think they will invest again
of constructing and operating their road 80 ®“' , .
Wood Arnold is a lucky boy. He
leased a lot in Decatur, Alabama, for
■$ 150 a year for five years, and built
store house on it at a cost of $1,.'!00, and
has rented it for fifteen hundred dollars
per ear for five years, which is a line
investment.
Judge I’latt stayed in the electric well
twenty six hours, and says he was great
ly benefit ted.
, March 22d.—[Special.]—
\ esterday was a good day for guano deal
ers. One firm sold seventeen tons.
W'e remember hearing a prominent
opponent of Henry Carlton say during
the last campaign that it would never do
to put him in Congress, as it would take
dynamite to get him out. It seems that
liis enemies at this early day are prepar
ing the charge. Better go slow, boys,
dynamite is a dangerous thing to handle,
you may be Mowed up again yourselves.
We are glad to know that the farmers
are planting more corn than usual, and
are using guano freely on it.
CsAwronn, March 23.—J. H. Walter,
who wo mentioned some time since as
having returned to Oglethorpe from
Texas sick, died y esterday and will be
buried at the family burying ground, in
Simpson district He leaves a wife and
one child, who we suppo-e will return to
Texas..
Judge Gibson will leave next Monday
for Alabama, to look after some land
was killed I near Birmingham owned by Tiller Bros.
It is a valuable place, and they have
been offered a good price for it
R. D. Stokely will leave to-day for
Hillman, to test the merits of the electric
well.
Watkinsvii.i.e, March 20.—[Special.]
H S Anderson, tax collector, will in a few
days start around over the county to re
ceive tax.
W’e hear every few days of jugs of
whisky coming into town.
We hear that Jos. Elder, a young man
of Oconee, bearing off n medal at the
Atlanta medical college. He is a deserv
ing young man and we wish him much
success in liis profession.
Thc people arc very busy planting
corn now. » *
There are people in the upper part of
Oconee who never come to watkinsville
except to attend court
The Advance is a faithful gatherer fif
news, and if you want to know what is
going on in Oconee take the Advance and
Banner-Watchman.
The reading club met at C H Ash
ford’s last night
The county school commiaslonens of
this county have been meeting the first
and third Saturdays in each month for
tho purpose of examining and contracting
with teachers. Thev have but two more
meetings for this year, the 1st and 3rd
Saturdays in April and all who expect
to get the benefit of the free school
fund had better come forward and be-
examined. Mr. Carter, the school, com
missioner, says there have not been but
three applicants for teachers, and the
trouble is with the people, for they are
indifferent and dont care about schools,
as if they were of no importance, and it
must he long before we will have a gen
eration of uneducated people, if some
thing is not done to arouse the parents in
this matter. They will struggle to raise
cotton and corn and build houses, but
not to educate their children and when
they want to economize they will stop
their children from school and tho pa
pers from coming in their house.
Watkinsville, March 22.—[Special.]
Miss Notie Ferguson, of Lynchburg, Va.,
is visiting friends in this county.
Mr. Tom Vincent, of Athens, was
over last Friday, calling on the fair sex.
S. J. Harris has returned home from a
visit to the mountains.
Quite a novel case came up for trial in
the county court this morning. Jim and
Olin Daniel ran a horse race with John
Sykes. They bet fifty dollars apiece.
Sykes’ horse beat the race, and the Dan
iel brothers being dissatisfied with the
result of the race, brought an action
against Jesse Whitehead, stake-holder,
for the fifty dollars, hut the Judge gave
them a judgment for twenty-five dollars.
Whitehead has appealed to" the Superior
court.
One of our prominent citizens is talk
ing of moving to Athens this fall.
J- W. Reaves and Ed Dobbins are pre
paring to build a Mg store house this
summer in Watkinsville.
A little neero died on Saturday last,
and was butied at the cemetery on Sun
day.
And are Raid to Have Gone to Au-
cnata—Mr. Tom Cobb and Mr.
Walter Chisolm Select Their
Friends and Agree L'pon a Meeting.
For the past few days there have been
rumors of s fight on the campus which
have attracted considerable attention.
Y esterday the matter culminated in two
■’••■'tents of the University leaving Ath-
presumably for Augusta, And the
reported departure of two more in the
afternoon.
Several days ago Mr. William McK.
Cobb, son of Hon. Howell Cobb, of Ath-
— and Mr. Writer S. Chisolm, son of
Chisolm, of Savannah,
— altercation in the Commer-
Hotcl, which came near producing a
”-e then and there. Friends intcr-
and the parties separated, but a
Judge
had
cial
rupture
vened a
. *“ v aUjiurRICII, UUl I
snort time after, the difficulty was renew*
f»Q nn *k«v —- — a _i « - » .
--on the campus. A sharp fist fight
ensued and Jt waa supposed (hat the
matter was at an end. It is said, how
ever, that Mr Tom Cobb, brother of Mr:
Willie Cobb, claimed that his brother
was not in a condition, owing to re
cent illness, to bear his part in a fisticuff,
*" challenged Mr. Chisolm to renew
contest with him. Mr. Chisolm
promptly accepted thc proposition to
tight, but declined thc fisticuff, and be
ing the challenged party, selcctetl pistols
as the weapons, some Carolina spot near
Augusta aa the place, and the distance
twenty paces. Young Cobb promptly
agreed to the terms, and nothing was
to settle but the hour of the meet*
Daniels vi lle notes.
An Order fsom Texas.—Messrs. Moss
Sc Thomas received a letter yesterday
from a lady, a Georgian by birth, resid-
iog in Longview,.Texas, saying she tad
•can *4 advertisement in the Bakner-
WAtcuMANof Mr. J. Frank D*iake’i pro
lific flour cOrn and wished to order a lot
Orders for this corn have been sent in
from all over the state in reply to Mr.
Drake’s advertisement in oor paper.
around the spot .nd from the l^ta of, "‘ a '‘>- ‘® bb ®^ “ ‘ b « Max : and brilliant, and is bound to succeed at
the children peeping through the win- j w *,.brothers.
dows, I judge ttat they thought 1 was , Mlas *" M,s ? d *" nla 5 er ® , I h * ’“^Bryant Circle met last
np to nc good. The most noticed change, ctesel v related to some of the best faun- j night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs J.
however, was in my old home. The hes in Wh Carolina, and they had fre-1 T.Qoiltan. Dr. E. W. Adur-s essay on
grove that once stood in front of it has , M u ""7 be ®. n off, / ed a bo , m ®. a " d i a ®>®nce was a rare l.terary production,
been felled, and the house now gUndl( comfort, but preferred to lead their ® ld and f .’ r “..f?T a “y *"J.°y« d b y all. Mrs.
out blankly on a naked hill. I would not I,f * ? f a PP«rent wretchedness but mde- , H. 0. Williford’s recitation was well ex-
have known this place, had I been set I P«" de ° c ®'. M ' SS . T ' hU I “ d Hhly applauded. Mr. E. R.
down in front of it without being told "hen her brothers decided to enlist in Anderson’s Local Column wsa justsplen.
where I was. It is now occupied by i th « war lhe y c*me home about sundown i did* It was spicy w.cy and bnll.artt, and
Mrs. Baker, a kind old lady that 1 knew I and announced their intention. They well deservedthe encomiums it received,
when a child, who carried mo through needed new clothes and there was not a Habmont Grove, March 22.—[Special]
• - - - - yard of cloth in the house and none to be I—The delightful phantom party given to
had. But.tha same brave spirit that ani- our TOttnc neonle last Thnradav nivht .t
JEFFEIISON NEWS.
Jefferson, March 21.—[Special.]—Our
town is very much outraged at the post
master General for ordering the mail
service between here and Harmony
Grove stoppeA after Saturday. Our
citizens knew nothing of it until Satur
day morning. We at once sent a mes
senger to Col. Candler, who has kindly
telegraphed to the department at Wash
ington to give us a chance to show the
importance of the route. It cuts off
Center, Nicholson, Harmony Grove and
Maysville from daily mails from the
county site, and it will bring us the Ath
ens and Atlanta dailies at least fifteen
houre later, as our railroad mail is not
opened until nixt morning after it comes.
Mr. and Mrs. Lo> ket, nee Miss Fannie
Hunter, of Albany, are visiting Prof.
Hunter.
Danielsville, March 22.—[Special.]—
Mr. David Simmons, aged 77 years, died
yesterday morning.
Mr. K. L. Benton’s meat houss was
burned to the ground on Saturday night,
his loss of meat being that of five hogs,
enough for his family. The fire was not
discovered, report says, till on rising
next morning it was found that the hous
was burned.
One of the largest justice's courts your
correspondent ever attended was held at
Dowdy, Saturnay. The excitement be-
bcing a case brought by Mrs. Payton vs.
J. N. Bobbs, for a cow claimed by both
parties. Both parties last year lost a red
no-horned cow. Boggs advertised and
found his cow, as he claimed. Mrs. Sarah
Payton that cow to be lier's and took
possessory warrant and had trial at Dan
ielsvilc January 10th. Boggs hold the
cow. Trover was then brouught by Mrs.
1’., judgment entered by thc Justice of
the Peace for Boggs. Paupers affidavit
was filed and case appealed to jury. 52
suhpoonas were issued in trover ease, 51
witnesses examined, and oosts on all the
trials in Justice’s Court amounted to
about $23 besides lawyers’ fees. Great
deal of feeling stirred up, and some
words. Case finished in the night. At
torneys for Boggs, Meadow and Mosely;
for Payton, J. J. Strickland.
HAYSVILLE HATTERS.
the house; but the changes here had
een so thorough that 1 could not con
nect it w th the past. In fact, when Mrs.
Baker pointed out the identical corner in
which stood the bed on which I made
my affvent into this world, I fear that I
shocked the good lady by remarking
that I had no recollection whatever of
any such event
Lowndesville is a famous spot in the
history of South Carolina, and this sec
tion of Abbeville district* has given to
the world John C. Calhoun. George Mc
Duffie and Preston Brooks. It has ever
been a patriotic neighborhood, too, and
both in the Revolutionary and last wars
her sons were first to respond to the call
of their country. My grandmother waa
nearly 90 years old at the time of her
death just before the late war, and was
born and reared within a few miles of
Lowndesville. Her father and uncles
figured in the straggle for independence
by th* American colonists, and the inci
dents and information ahe gave about her
section, relative to that memorable strug
gle, was authentic, as it came direct to
her from partfes who knew tie truth in
regard to the incidents that I will re
late.
Less than a mile from Lowndesville,
on the old Bowman ferry road* stood one
of tho largest poplar trees I ever saw,
ttat tad a hollow commodious enough
to accommodate a man on horseback, and
that reached to its top. It was constantly
cracking as if in the act of fallingr and • a
Fin* Rebhon—Rev. W. A. Overton,
ia parsing through Athena' preached an
•xotUaat sermon at the Baptist Church.
i>,»
it/. ,r
•.a
This old tree was' revered
much hy the people who knew its histo
ry as the Charter Oak of Connecticut,
and while the timber around was cleared
off it waa left an liAurbed in its mvjestia
and solitary grandeur. During thfc revo
lutionary war, and when this section of
Carolina was id possession of Cunning
ham and his Torieg, the hollow of this
tree was used as a .pesthouse
for three American soldiers'
.who were afflicted with the small pox,
and who were fed here by the daughter
of a Tory. The men re covered, and their
descendants are still living in Abbeville.
I asked for this old tree, and was told
that after standing th* storms of centu
ries, a few years ago it snccambed'tbth*
fury of the elements, and by its crash
was split intotinder wood, so dry and
mated the boys was also inherited by
the Maxwell girls. With her own hands
M<ss Nancy went out into the pa-ture
and caught a nd sheared enough sheep to
supply woo) to make two suits of clothing
while the ot .er girls spun cotton into
thread and got ready the loom. By day
light they hud carded, spun, wove and
sewed into -arments two full suits of
clothing, an l had them packed in their
brothers km* psacks.
Had I space, 1 could recount many
such events connected with this section
of Abbeville county. I give, them be
cause I think they will prove of general
interest, am*, perhaps in time serve to
rescue from oblivion by reducing to print,
facts relative to the part that my native
county played in the memorable struggle
for American independence, ttat I think
worthy of preservation in the archieves
of history. ,
I will have to postpone my Greenwood
letter for to-morrow, when I will give
some information that our readers are
more directly interested in. T. L. G.
The Fruit Crop.—It is very generally
eared that the fruit crop in this section
feared that the fruit crop
is seriously damaged by the severe
weather of the past week. From the
country about Athens advices come say
ing ttat much damage has been done.
For several nights recently water has
been frozen, end the appearance of the
ground in the early morning indicate
that the cold taspenetnted to a consid
erable depth. This is dse to wtat is
known as black frost, and the old inhab
itants declare it is an unusual. thing t?
see at this season of the year. The At-
labta Constituiion of yesterday quotes
the Commissioner of Agriculture upon
the subject as follows: “It ia impossible
may be that the fruit crap is totally de
stroyed. In a day or two I stall receive
report! from all parts of this county, and
probably from many parti'of the state,
^s soon as the weather permit* I stall
make an examination myself, and will he
able to tell something definite then! Un
til then my opinion is not veryvalaablai”
Ex-Adjutant John Stephens of Geor-
gia impound t* btaia a flying condition
at his home iQ Washington,
our young people last Thursday night at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. Q. Wil
liford has attained no email degree of
notoriety of late. It has already formed
the tubjeetof a lengthy and laborious ef
fort from the pulpit. And now we are
reliably informed that even the laity will
take up the cudgels against it and utter
anathemas, long and loud against phan
toms and phantom parties. We are told
ttat this party will form the subject of s
long and erudite discourse by one of the
most able and distinguished literati, at
the next meeting of the Mozart-Bryant
Circle Friday night. Our people are all
expectancy in regard to this piece, and a
large turnout is expected. If the antici-
pated criticism on phantom parties is
read, nearly all of the members of the
circle will join issue with the eminent
writer, and a 1> ng and lively discussion
will be sure to follow.
HOSIER HAPPENINGS.
Homes, March 2L—[Special.]—Messrs.
Moss, Telford and Edwards are attend
ing Justice court at Golden Hill district
to-day.
G. C. Forbes, our Treasurer, visited
Harmony Grove on yesterday. Mr. F.-
is a high-toned gentleman, and Bank*
county should be jlroudof him as an offi
cer.
We were happy to grasp the hand of
W. C. Hz'-ibrooks yesterday.
Lee Griffin and A. Martin, colored,
while at the breakfast table this morn-
ing t got into* dispute, and after some
short warflr had. been passed between
them, Martin opened his knife and swore
he would kill-Griffin, and Griffin, seeing
that he would have to kill or be killed,
picked up a atick and attack Martin on
the held, killing him instantly. Both
negroes were in the employ of Mr. Fa
gans, living one mile from this city. 8.
A. Ayers, coroner, is on our streets sum
moning a jury.
March 2(1.—rSnedaLl—Col
W^^ofjeff^KKr
town. We think the CoL will be in time
for court.
Several, of our ladiea and gentlemen
have gone to the Grove to-day. Suppose
thev are making preparation for court.
The patrons of the Bamna-WATon-
MAN are anxiously awaiting tho coming
-e agc.it, Mr. Pruitt, ho will bo ton-
Jekferson, March 22.—[Special.]—
Miss Alice Burns, the accomplished
daughter of Dr. John Burns, of Apple
Valley, has been visiting friends and rel
atives in town for several days.
Dr. L. G. Hardman, ot.e of Harmony
Grove’s most popular and suceessful
physicians, visited our city last week,
Rev. J. M. Lowry, the popular pastor
of the Methodist ohuroh, has been quite
sick for several days.
Our young friend,Mr. Will Stark, who
was admitted to the bar at the last ses
sion of Madison Superior court, was in
town on business last week. Col. Stark
will locale at Harmony Grove.
Mr. Will Espy, one of ihe'most pros
perous farmers of Chandler’s district,
was in town last Friday. |
Rev. Mr. Hoyt, an eloquent Preshyte- j
rian minister from Maysville, preached 1
an impressive sermon at Thyalira church
last Sunday morning.
Mrs. Fannie Locket, nee Miss Fannie
Hunter, of Albany, is visiting the old
folks at home.
Rev. IV. Hatcher, editorof the Chris
tian Index, filled the pulpit at the Bap
tist church last Sunday morning. Dr.
Hatcher is an earnast worker in the
Master’s vineyard.
Dr. Albert White, a recent graduate of
the Augusta Medical Gollege, was in
town a few days ago. Dr. White is an
intelligent and worthy young man, and
will no doubt rise rapidly in his chosen
profession.
Among the colored citizens of Jeffer
son there is an old darkey whose story
telling proclivities surpass those of
Uncle Remus. He is a staunch believer
in ghosts, spirits and hobgoblins of every
kind, color and size, and some of his
prescriptions for preventing witchcraft,
Ac., equal medieval science. He is also
a first-rate clairvoyant, and will unroll
your past and reveal your future destiny
for a “chaw o’ terbaker.”
Some of our devotees of Bacchus, who
have been in the habit of beguiling '“the
festal hours" with “the mantling cup,”
leem rather out of spirits since the elec
tion on prohibition.
Maysville, March 21.—[Special.]—
Rev. D. D. Holand preached an interest
ing sermon in the Baptist church yester
day.
J. M. Merritt, H. II, Hale and T. W.
Brown are attending Banks Superior
Court.
Lee Griffin, col'd kitled Abe Martin,
col’d, Saturday. Griffin is now in jail,
awaiting his trial, which will be granted
this term of court.
ONION POINT NEW*.
Jeffekron, March 23.—[Special-]—
The surveyors of the-Augusta A Chatta
nooga Railroad have been in our county
during the past week. They are running
a line from Gainesville to Harmony
Grove Via hurricane Shoals. They are
anxious to get acros the river there. It
it is the best-water power by far in the
county, This property is owned by Mr.
Sherwood of our town.
We have received no Athens mail
since Saturday. Our new mail line be
gan to-day, tri-weekly from Jefferson to
Apple Valley. What importance that
route ia to tne county no one is able to
make outt but Col. Candler is confident
that our mail route will be established
soon.
Mr. Nickerson, of Childs, Nickerson A
Co. is in town to-day.
Union Point. March 22.—[Special.]—
Col. W. Mitchell, a prominent lawyer of
Crawfordville and a former citizen of
this place, is among his friends here to
day.
ReT. W.C. Smith of Minnesota, preach
ed for the Presbyterians here yesterday.
Mr. Henry R. King, a popular young
merchant in the village attained his ma
jority this morning at 6 o’clock, and is as
nappy as a lark over it. He celebrated
the occasion with a royal family dinner.
Agentle rain last night and this morn
ing will help the farmers wonderfully.
Union Point, March 23.—[Special.]—
Farmers are getting a little restive under
the continued cold weather.
Frank Smith, of Athens, the hardest
working boy on the road, was in town
to-day.
While the Sunday School children and
the church people are singing “Gates
Ajar” down here, the Athens people are
singing keep them shut.
Mrs. S. J. Harwell, near us, died last
night. Mrs. Harwell was a most estima
ble lady, and her place will be hard to
fill. She will be buried from the Metho
dist church here to-day.
ELREBTON NEWS.
Elberton, March 22.—I
The town council of Elberton have to-day
given to the printers an ordinance, the
publication of which will probably as
tonish the natives. The ordinance
makes it penal for a man to appear intox
icated on tho streets, and provides for
his arrest, stipulating that he may give
bond, but if after he has given bond he
appears again on the streets in the same
condition, he shall not be permitted to
give bail.
WALTON COL'NTY NEWS.
Monroe, March 23.—[Special.]—A
most enthusiastic railroad meeting was
held at the court house Monday morning
and our people gave strong evidence of
their desire for the railroad by the inter
est manifested in the moeting. Our citi
zens are thoroughly aroused to their in
terest. They say they want the road
and must have it, and nothing that they
can do will be left undone in their efforts
to bring the road by here; It would
make Monroe one of the best little towns
in Georgia. We are waiting patiently
for the surveying party, and when the
route is surveyed by Monroe we think it
will be clearly demonstrated that it is
g eatly to to the benefit of the road a*
we 1 as to us to come by Monroe.
FRANKLIN CTNTY.
CLARKES BORO NEWS.
Clabkesboro, March 22.—[Special.]—
Mrs. Margaret Harrison, returned home
from Nicholson last Saturday.
Prof. Yarborough of Nicholson, was in
our middt a few days ago on business,
Master Joe Fowler was quite sick, and
Dr. Whaley of Athens was tailed in to
see him a few days ago, and at last ac
counts he Eras better. Dr. Whaley is
quite popular and very successful among
our people.
Mr. Bob Whitehead and Mias Fannie
Whitehead were married on the 18th.
Carnesvill', March 23.—[Special.]—
The whooping cough is taking this place
by storm; a large per cent, of the chil
dren in town have it.
Col. P. P. Proffitt is in attendance upon
Hart Superior Court this week.
J. B. Parks and W. R. Little, two prom
inent members of our bar, left yesterday
morning for Homer, to attend Banks Su
perior Court.
Tho many friends of CoL S. P. Thur
mond, of your city, here, are sorry to
hear of his protracted illness. No man
who practices in our court has more
friends than Col. S. P. Thurmond. He
is an honest man, the noblest work of the
Creator.
ACCORDING TO THE CODE.
TWO YOUNG STUDENTS LEAVE
ATHENS WITH SECONDS,
Tuesday morning, Mr. Chisholm and
his friend Mr. Hugh M. Comer, ofSavan-
nah, left the city, presumably, for the
fighting ground. They took the 9 o’clock
train on the Georgia Railroad, and if they
did not go directly to Augusta, went to
some place where their movements will
not attract notice, and from which they
can easily reach the selected spot on the
Carolina shore.
It was the intention of Mr. Tom Cobb
and his second, Mr. P. W. Martin, of
Florida, to get off on the three o’clock
Georgia train yesterday afternoon. But
itso happened that Sheriff John W. Wier
went down to Winterville on that train,
and his intention some how or other be
came known. Young Cobb and his
friend, not aware that the sheriff was
simply going down to Winterville to
serve some writs, but thinking his pres
ence would prove a hindrance to their
movements, changed their plans. Pro
curing a horse and buggy, these two
young men drove away, presumably to
board the afternoon Augusta train some
where between Athens and Union Point.
It will be understood that these young
men calculated that the sheriff, not see
ing them at the depot or aboard the train,
would return to the city.
If they boarded the train yesterday
afternoon at Winterville, they will he
very much surprised when they see the
sheriff step off. But he will not inter
fere with their movements just yet.
The friends of Mr. Chisholm declare
that he and his seconds have not left the
city yet. The reporter even heard others
make the same remark; but this is not
credited here, for several parties who
know, declare that Mr. Cnisholin left
yesterday morning, and by this time is
beyond thc reach of the officers of the
law.
Sheriff Wier telegraphed to Sheriff
Daniel, of Augusta, yesterday afternoon,
as follows:
To Sheriff Wilborforce Daniel, Augus
te, Ga.—Tom Cobb, a University student,
accompanied by P. W. Martin, his sec
ond, will probably arriko on Georgia
train to-night, Chisolm and Com ’r, the
other parties to the affair are either in
your city or on their way there. A duel
is on foot. Watch the parties.
J.W. Wieb, Sheriff.
It is not likely that the young men
will be allowed to fight, for it is sup
posed the Auguste authorities will keep
a close watch unpon them. They are
being watched here, and should Cobb
turn up or Chisolm prove not to have
gone to Savannah, they will find it right
difficult to get away.
The affair is very generally regretted.
Both young men are well known here
where they have many friends whe re
gret that this trouble should come be
tween them. Being both stndents of the
University—Mr. Chisolm a member of
the law school and Mr. Cobb of the
Sophomore class—each young man is es
teemed as bright and promising.
Later.—Mr. Cobb and his second
went down to Winterville yesterday at
one o’clock- Being advised by special
messenger that Sheriff Wier would be at
Winterville, they drove to Pope's Sta
tion and got on there. They prob
ably got off at Grovetown, last night,and
drove through Augusta.
--tythe
in mass meeting assembled:
1st That thc citizens are united in
their Desire to Secure the Georgia, Caro
lina A Norther^ Railroad, and will give
it their support in-every respect
2d. That the road running via Monroe,
besides adding greatly to our county.will
build up this place, which will furnish
thc road more freight and passengers
than anv other place between Athens
and Atlanta.
2d. That it is to the interest of the cit
izens of this place to work together for
•ho said railroad, and we hereby appoint
meeting for 10 o’clock, first Tuesday in
Apni next, which' irto select a county
Delegation to the meeting in Athens to
>»c held on thc ft xt Hiur-day in April
next. r
4th. Be it further resolved, ttat every
:itzen in the county is requested to at
tend thc meeting here on the first Tues
lay in April.
Upon motion the resolution was unan
itnously adopted.
Upon motion ofO W Felker, Messrs
S Walker, G M Napier and A J Arnold
were appointed a reception committee
and instructed »o see that the surveyors
were well entertained and cared for on
‘heir arrival here.
On motion of Capt G M Napier, a com
mittee consisting of Messrs R J Hughes
'"<» C ** Blasinpamo was appointed to
show tho surveyors tho route through
the county via Monroo.
A committee, consisting of Messrs C P
Blasingamc, J F Mathews and G M Na
pier, was appointed to invite Hon H D
\IcDsnicl to address the meeting on tho
first Tuesday.
Mr. G. vv. Felker moved that Col. B.
\V alkcr be requested to solicit sub
scriptions and to report at tho meeting
the first Tuesday in April. Mr. Felker’s
name was added, and the motion pre
vailed. r
General sentiments were expressed in
favor of a latgc meeting on the first Tues
day, and for constant work in the raean-
tiine; and the meeting adjourned until
10 o clock a. m. on Tuesday, the 5th day
J April next. J
March 21st, 1887.
... G ' C ' N '°" e, -G Chairman.
A. J. Arnold, Sec’y. -
Expect to hear from us in Athens on
first iliursday in April.
B. S. Walker.
l Card From the Ordinary of Jack,
■on County About License te LI.
quor Dealer*.
Office II. W. Bell. Ordinary Jack-
son County,Jefferson, March2'-. Kdi-
j SXEI1 ‘" xtchman: In your issue
or the daily Baxser. Watchman of the
19th inst., you say: “Several parties in
Jackson county have whisky licenses
that run from nine to eleven months yet.
These licenses the Ordinary issued, and
that official declares that thc prohibition
law cannot interfere with the workings
of these places in the county now oper-
ated under liis permit.”
I desire to say that you have been
badly misinformed upon the matter.
The Ordinary of Jackson county has not
issued a license to a liquor dealer since
1884. Our county has been under tho
operation of a local restriction law for
the past two years. Our recent election
on prohibition was held under the gen
eral local option liquor law, passed by
the General Assembly at their session in
1884--85, and approved Sept 18th, 1885.
A clause in said act provides that if the
result of any election shall be “against
the sale,” the Ordinary shall publish the
same once a week »V»v r,...- ...t,. • al _
THE LATEST.
Chisolm and hia Baoond, Comer, Arreated
In Augusta.
Augusta, March 22—7:45 p. m.—
[Special.]—Chisolm and his second,
Comer brrested and gave bond this af
ternoon. S. H. C.
QUIETING DOWN.
The Affair of Honor Probably Am
icably Nettled in Augnata.
Yesterday morning the duel was all
the talk. The Banner-Watchman was
scoured for news and pretty soon the is
sue was exhausted. The wires were
worked for latest information and the
noonday papers eagerly scanned. These
issues contained but little new save the
announcement that a board ofhonor was
ia session in Augusta and that it was
believed the matter would be amicably
adjusted.
It is but fair to Mr. Tom Cobb to say
that he did not anticipate the turn which
the affair has taken. His challenge was
proffered upon the idea that the usual
meeting under Queensbury rules would
follow. When the alternative of weap
ons was chosen by his antagonist, how
ever, he promptly accepted the condi
tions.
It may also bejjust to Mr. Chisolm to
conclude that having already engaged in
one fisticuff with Mr. Cobb's younger
brother.he preferred to change the scene
of conflict to more neutral ground,and to
continue the contest under more decisive
regulations.
There is a matter touched in the print
ed reports and telegrams sent out from
Augusta which should be corrected. The
trouble did net arise from any charge
about “cheating in examinations” as those
accounts declare. So far as w e can learn
there was some discussion between Mr.
William Cobb and Mr. Chisolm about
the latter’s being prompted in his law
recitationa by a fellow-student. Mr.
Cobb was chaffing'him and Mr. Chisolm
admitted that a companion had suggest
ed an answer to an oral question in class,
but denied that he tad availed himself of
such aid. It was from this we learn ttat
the trouble arose which culminated in
the fight on the campus.
Examinations, as the Augusta Chaoni-
cle has correctly stated, are conducted in
writing under strict pledges of honor,
and a hint might be accepted in class
which would not be tolerated in these
reviews. - This explanation we get from
the University students and the correct
ness of the statement we do not ques
tion.
Pel-
ker introduced the following resolution;
Be it resolved by the citizens of Mon-
“ *
”7
JACKSON COUNTY LICENSES.
1 outsit (JauusD mo
same once a week for four weeks, in the
paper in which he gave notice of the elec
tion, and that this act shall take effect
aS soon as said prohibition has been made
the time prescribed—provided no license
to sell liquor of an;, description prohib
ited by this act shall bo granted during
said time of publication except a* to
vested right There are several parties
m the county who are selling liquor by
the gallon, or larger quantities, under a
license obtained from the revenue de
partment of the United States govern
ment and by paying the special tax o f
fifty dollars to the State govemmen.
Whether or not these parties will be
protected under this authority if they
continue to sell after tho publication of
the proclamation of the ordinary upon
the prohibition election, is a question
upon which there is a difference of opin
ion, and an undetermined question by
the courts so far as I know.
Very respectfully,
H. W. Bell,
Ordinary of Jacksnn counfy.
Tuz City Coubt.—Tho city court
met yesterday morning, with Judea
Howell Cobb on tho bench. There is
not very much business before tne couzt
and it is not likely that the r present term
will be a very long one. Sheriff Wier is
assisting Judge Cobb in administering
justice.
The first case disposed of was the
State vs. Sam Milliga col. charged w'th
abandoment of children. Verdict of net
guilty.
The State vs. Henry Harris col. ch ar-
ged with assault Verdict of guilty.
Fined ten dollars and cost
* he State vs. Thomas Durham col.
charged with larceny from the house.
Indictment by grand jury demanded.
The State vs. Tilman Sims, col., char
ged with larceny from the house. In
dictment by grand jury demanded.
The State vs. Hirschfield & Blunen-
thal, charged with selling liquor in viola
tion of prohibition law—two cases—nolle
prosequi in one and a plea of guilty in
the other with a fine of $50 and cost
1 here being no other jury cases the
juries ware discharged for the term.
The court however will hold through
the greater part of thc week.
Which is Right.—The gentlemen in
charge of the Technologi
cal School insist on calling themselves
“the Commissioners on the Sohoolof
Technology.” Ff the school had been
located in Athens, it is very likely that
the name would have been “the Commis
sioners of the School of Technology.'*
We say over here “the Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues,” not “Commission
ers on Roads and Revenues.” One is At-
lan*.a style, the other is in use pretty
generally throughout the country! At
lanta may be right, but she ought not to
make the who.e world feel wrong by this
new departure.
Hunting Wet Tijices.—The whisl
men have been rustling around to find
place to settle at. Since Jackson count
went dry it has rather broken up calc
lations. Madison county will catch tl
most of them, and several buildin
have already been put up. Uncle Di
Saulter has secured the nearest place
Athens, about * mile from Helic
Springs, and J. A. Fowler is also erec
ing a building on the Danielsvile rofl
just beyond Saulter’s.
Athens Saturday Nioiit.—Saturdi
night in Athens at the present time,
far differenv from Saturday night of ti
yearaag*. The* then was drinkit
cursing, yelling ami fighting. The poll
were kept busy keeping imjlm^ gu n
Now every store is closed before t<
o’clock, and the principle portion of ti
citizens are at home in,bed. Things ta
changed.
Basz Ball.—Next Friday afternoon
at half past three th* two junior nines
will have a regular league game at the
fair grounds. Mercer and Morris and
Davis and Nisbet will bo the batteries.
The fiist Juniors have won both games
they have played and the second Juniors
have won two out of three. The nines
are very evenly matched.
The North and West are experiencing
unusually bad weatheri Rain, cold, sfeet
and snow are the order of th* day in those
sections.
Plenty of Ice.—The Athens Ice Com
pany have started in time this season,
and will be ready to furnish ice in any
quantity before the warm weuthersets in.
Mr. Rexiuger haa a force of hands at
work getting the wachinery in working
order.
No Hat.—Mr. Tom Hudson is out o
hay and cannot furnish his custom*!*.
Ho is receiving postal cards by every
mail, and hates to disappoint his friends.
His next crop will come in Juno* .how
ever, and he will then bo in . the field
with hay racks full and presses bursting
over,
LatxstHit.—A card not a Christmas
card nor an Easter, but an April 1st card.
Get on* to send a friend.