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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.