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AD FORATHENS
JN T.\?I8.
M*n *t Ouhl.m*. in the
tllf—n»w lHnch Work la Tm Be
Dane-. Proa peels •( the Surer** at
*hc Enterprise.
For some time since our enterprising
jo.low-townsman Mr. K. R, Hodgson has
been quietly at work, looking to the fill-
ing of the gaps that will giro Athens a
through line to Dahlonega, and restore
to our city that Taluablc mountain trade
we lost when the Air-Line roai was
built. Wo are glad to know, too, that
Mr. Hodgson’s clforts have been so far
successful as to thoroughly enthuse the
Parties most vitally interested, and we
believe that it will result in building
the road the coming summer. One has
but to glance at the map to see the ines
timable advantages that this line will not
only be to Athens, but to the entire coun
try through which it will pass. Besides,
this road will prove one of the best pay
ing short liner in the slate, for it 'will
penetrate into the heart of the piountain
belt of upper Georgia, rich not only in
agricultural products, but the richest
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ATHENS, G-ICOUGrl-Au, TUESDAY, JXJjSTE 7, 1887
is thought that the Georgia road can be
induced to iron and equip this road, and
operate it in connection with the Jeffer
son branch and a portion of the
G\ J. & S. R. R. It will be the design to
run trains through from Athens to Dah
lonega. Our business men are thorough
ly enthused on the subject, and we be
lieve that Mr. Hodgson will succeed in
his great work.
MURDER MOST FOUL DOWN IN OGLETHttPE.
A ghastly sight down by
RAILROAD TRACK.
DOWN IX OGLETHORPE.
gold region east of the Rocky Mountains.
Over this lino will pass that wealth of
traffic, now brought to market by the
• low process of wagons, and developand
cause to blossom as the rose one of the
most fertile and delightful regions of our
state. And when we know that the nat
ural market from this territory is the
city of Athens, and that its people
are anxious to again renew their corn-
commercial relation with us, it will be a
waste of space to write about «*•-
tance that the building of this'
bo to Athens. The following
Lumpkin county and its proif 1
the pen of a gentleman thoror*
od in regard to the country: .
lUMFKIN COUNTY, oa.
"*■ The writer has observed an
interest of the public at large ii
measures for the better develo
the mineral resources of North,
gin, particularly that portion
within the boundaries of the .
Lumpkin, and also in certain
ments, notably for the construe
railroad from some point
Tbe >r« Court IIou»e..lin prove,
meats la Lexlugtea, etc.
Saturday afternoon we decided to make
a pilgrimage to Lexington, not having
visited the place since the new court
house was built. We paid that visit on
an earnest invitation from that hospita-
ble (?) gentleman, Hamilton McWhorter,
Esq., who, in accordance with his time-
honored custom, had invited us to be
come his guest; but in accordance with
another one of his time-honored customs,
he drove out of town through one street
as we entered by another. The hospi
tality of Lexington, however, is both
proverbial and unbounded, and it would
have required a month to fill all the invi
tations extendod as from the good peo-
trnrn . J
Fi idinf off the Body off Mr. Wm.
Echols Near Rabaa Gap Junction
•■Evidences of a Straggle—The Af
fair still Shrouded la Mystery.
One of the most awful and myster
ious murders ever committed in North
east Georgia was thatin which Mr. Wm.
Echols, a wealthy and influential citizen
of Habersham county lost his life last
Sunday night When thia is said every,
thing so far connected with the affair is
exhausted, except speculation and deep
indignation. A crushed skull, battered
and brained, almost beyond recognition;
a pool of blood and a suggestive blud
geon are mute evidences of a terrible
trigedy which happened in darkness
an 1 which has sines slept in mystery
Young Asbnry who came down the
N irtheastern railroad yes)
A FEW POINTS PICKED 1
DAY’S TRIP.
ON A
A Bad Slary af the Dronglii
—Rachelar Friend Cal. Rang!
The Projected Railroads—A Dis
gust lag Duel With the Teeth—The
Stack Law, etc., etc.
The Flat Woods section of Oglethorpe
county is suffering from a fearfuldrought,
and in some places rain enough to lay the
dust has not fallen since March Oth. The
“dry streak” begins about five miles
below Lexington, near Mr. George B.
Lnmpkin’s farm, and extends clesr
across the Oglethorpe line into Wilkes
and Elbert counties—and the further yon
go the dryer it gets. The drought-
stricken section is nine miles broad, and
embraces the entire Flat Woods, begin
ning not far from the railroad at Maxey’s.
The people in this section are as blue as
indigo over the crop outlook, and indeed
have they cause to be. The fields are
either deserts of fine dust, that evei
breeze ft
555"^
THE ANNEAL. RECORD.
Its Enormous Total and Wide Dis
tribution, Caprices of Fortune
partial list of the prizes above One
Thousand DoUars, paid by The Louisi
ana State Lottery Company during
he year ending May, 1887, together
~ th the names anil addresses given
touhe Company by the holders, omit
ting those who have requested it.
Receipts for the amounts are on file
at the offices of the Company.
DRAWING OF JUNE 15,1386.
Mfs Annie M Cross, Kansas
City, Mo
J M Ricketts, Crested Butte,
Col
Mrs J Clark Fern, Clarion Co,
Pa
J W Williamson, Willow
Grove, W Va.
Paid Bank of Commerce, Mem
phis Tenn J
Paid Wells,FargS^TCo’s Bank,
SanFraooijco Cal
J T Colhw, WiUows, Cal
PaidXrlDoize, People’s Bank
30,000
80,000
15,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
Flnt National Bank of Los Angeiea,
Cal ... .... .. 15000
Ben KUm, of KJam Brothers. Houston,
JTexas ^ 15 000
£lra Elder, Princeton, Franklin county.
Kan., through E A Haiuea, cashier
Ottowa. .Kan. 15,000
W S l ^ V ? ,llen * fatchnun^iss and Tenn
B B depot, through Bank ot Commerce.
Memphis, Tenn .... j
SP Hill. New Orleans, La. <
A depositor through People’s Bank. New
Orleans, La •
¥ 1,chcU * Pccan PoInt » Ark. through
Bank cl tsULimcrce Memphis, Tenu. I
DRAWING or FEBRUARY 8, 1887.
First National Bahk of Fort Wayne. Indi
ana
l>rJ A 1 ]
.Wa
t J A Tignor,B F Clark and Mia* A Webb, ’
Borne, Ga 15.000
Msrston & Jordan, 92 Commercial street,
Portland. Me 15,000
Wells, Fargo Si Co’s Bank, San Francisco
Cal 15,000
T J LftWr. Jr, thaough Julias Weiis,'
Philadelphia, Pa 15.000
Parties in Aberdeen, Miss 15,000
'* Cleveland. Ohio 15,000
• Buffalo.N Y 15,000
* Smith Falla, Ont,,Can 15,000
" San Francisco. Cal 15.093
Thos Alexander, Washington.DC 10,000
Jas W D Stoke?. Detroit. Mich 10.000
German Bank of Memphis. Tenn 5,000
K Rosenhein 80 Beal street, Memphis,
Tenn.. through the German Bank ol
Memphis. Tenn s.noo
G Barthol, New Yora 5,000
Geo 8chilly, 7, 8,11 .West Court st, Mem
phis, Tcun , through First National
£unk Memphis Tj»nn 1,000
CamjUgn, Ky.. through Car-
ACCEPTANCE.
Soft is the breath of a maiden’s yea.
Not the light gossamer stirs with lees;.
But never a coble that holds so fast
Through all the battles of wave aud blast.
And never an echo of speech or song
•That lives in the babbling air so long.
-Oliver. Wendell Holmes.
CHOOSING A PASTOR.
The First church of Brandon was seek
ing a pastor, an occupation that luul en
grossed their energies for some time past.
For it was fully seven months since the
council had assembled to formally dis
miss Mr. Barnes and had declared the
pulpit vacant.
Mr. Barnes had labored faithfully in
their service five long years. During all
this time he liad preached good, if not
brilliant, sermons; attended regularly at
the prayer meeting, and made all the
pastoral calls that one mortal man, with
out a horse and buggy, could reasonably
be expected to make. And yet his con
gregation were not satisfied. Intima
tions finally reached the ears of the
man that his resignation would Be
signedly accepted. He sent it in, and
the next day announced tho g r
vhtiso
2,000
r tliro:
Redly
county, in such a way as Watford an out
let for the really immense quantity of
mineral product that could he supplied
for that purpose.
This railroad should lie so located as
to traverse through the immense mine-sl
zone, centrally and in such a manner
to control the minerals on each side .
This mineral zone as at present de'
is 12 miles wide—and the <mnnty wwi
(Dahlonega) is geographically end geo
logically located in the centre the,.* ( ,f—
at least so far as its width is concern. ] .
The extent of the zone is approxi
mately 20 miles on an air-line, between
the extreme north and south boundary
of said county.
As the subject of transportation is of
the greatest importance, it is necessary
to present for the consideration of the
public the character of the products, and
secondly the quantity* and value th' reuf^
First as to the character of products:
consist of gold, silver, galena, the several
varieties of iron, (hematitic, specular,
magnetic, and of iron nearly pure,)mang-
anese, copper, talc, corundum, asbestos,
marble, soap stone, sasdstonc. granite,
kaoline, mica, etc. Much of these ores
are very rich in sulphides, especially
copper, so that sulphuric acid i an be
produced in unlimited quantities.
OOI.I1 AND SILVER.
l’ino gold lias been produced in this
county since about 1887, and authorita*
lively estimated to have reached tho sum
of $7,00 ,000 with an additional amount
of silver not accounted for—say* at least 5
per centum of the amount or about $350,-
UOO—an interval occurring of about foul
years, or between the years 1861 and
1803, during w hich time no information
can be obtained—and it will appear
upon an inspection of tbe ground cov.
ered by the developments as at present
existing, that said developments arc
scarcely* perceptible and could hardly be
considered a beginning
SILVER.
Recent prospecting and opening up of
the country show* the existence of im
mense quantities of this valuable miner
al, not only in native silver, but as com
bined * with gold, galena and copper.
There are no doubts whatever
existing in tbe minds of
of the writer as to the extenl of these
formations, or as to the value of th* ores
produced, as samples of the same are
daily presented for ins in. pection and
opinion, together with an intelligent de
scription of location and oxtent so af to
enable him to form a correct stuKSte
one of the most conveniently arranged
temples of justice we ever saw, and not
only neatly but comfortably furnished.
It is a credit indeed to the grand old
county of Oglethorpe and its enterpris
ing people. This court-house cost $28,-
000, but only a bonded indebtedness of
$20,000 hangs over the county. Mr.
Lester tells us that taxation will not be
increased one mill on this ac
count. While this is a very hand
some structure and all that,
there is little doubt but that the tax
payers of Oglethorpe were made to pay
very dearly for tho whistle, and compe
tent judges say there was a clear profit
of $8,000 or $10,(XI) on the building. In
fact, surprise is expressed that that the
architect employed to look after the in
terests of the county shsuld have ac
cepted the building as it stands. There
are flaws in a great deal of the granite
used, while you clearly see on every
hand an evidence of hurrying over and
slighting work.
One of the most delightful loafing
places in the state is the front entrance
to the court house, at which point nosrly
any time in the day* you can take a cen
sus of the male population of Lexington.
In fact, an old Yankee who came to put
up the court-house clock was so irapres-
cd with this peculiarity
arity on the part of the Lexingtonians
that he remarked to Bill Lester that
there must he a great many* rich men in
the town, from the number who w ere
able to spend their time in whittling
sticks and swapping yarns. Lexington
always had one of the most flourishing
lazy clubs in the south, and Saturday af
ternoon this body was holding a sort of
reunion, and we spent a most delightful
evening with our friends of yore. There
is no spot on earth where there is more
whole-souled geniality than in Lexing
ton.
Among the improvements we noticed
in Lexington, our esteemed friend Mr. E.
G. Roane has completed two handsome
stores, for which he has secured tenants
for next year. They are the most desi
rable rooms in the place. We are pain
ed to know that Mr. Roane is still suffer
ing from rheumatism, and hope he may
fully recover. There is not a truer friend
the state than Ed Roane,or a man who
richly deserves success. Mrs.
te not only runs one of the best
1a in this section, but she has over
acres planted in cotton, that she her-
f superintends. She is a superior
isiness lady, and we never knew one
and proper location thereo in ‘.be proper f with more enorgy and industry,
stratification and formaiio; s of tbe coun- - Saturday night we spent with our old
try, and the only conclusions that can he
arrived at are that the amounts to be ob
tained from this product alone are incal
culable and unlimited. As tc value,
samples have been shown that will assay
in gold $20, silver 150 ounces, and lead!
5 per cent., or $170 per ton of 2,000
pounds, less lead not accounted for.
i the county, may* be truly* said to be
unlimited in amount. One can hardly
walk over the surfaco of the ground in
any direction without stepping upon
some variety of iron. It is simph* mat
ter of daily occurrence.
Revo lt prospecting for ibis pro
has disclosed the existence of imm
bodies of magnotic and hematitic i
eccived here
friend Col. J. S. Baughn, and had a most
pleasant visit.
Mr. T. J. Burney.—Mr. T. J. Burney >
formerly of the. Augusta Chrot le, has
accepted a position as trav ’ing .gent fa®
the Banner- W a mix an, and will enter
at once upon his row field of labor. Maj
The various species of iron, as existing Burney is one o', the most popular news-
in tint rmmtv. mav ho Imlr Haiti to hi* Cg.ia nn .l K'.c foiomlo
paper then in the State, and his friends
wish him every possible success,
Chattanooga, Term., ’.lay 28.—Mrs
Clara Emmons, w ho resided in \Vood -
land, Ala., has been murdered by her
husband. She was in an insane asylum
for five years, and to everybody ’s sur
prise was cured a month ago, and came
home. She had beer almost forgotten
by* her husband, who had a beautiful
young woman as a paramoar. -ic tried
to have his wife put back in tha asylum,
but failed. He then gave her a grain of
strychnine, and broke her neck with a
■club. The murder threw her body in a
[jeanebreak and then amid great lamenta
tions, he reported that she had died from
s snake bite. The murder was discover
ed, however, and but for his quick flight
the infuriated people would have burned
Emmons at the stake.
Sale or a Livery Stable.—Yesterday
l Messrs. Gann & Murray bought out the
livery stable of Mr. James Reaves, pay-)
i him $10,000 cash for the stock and vehi-
| clea in the same, and he also leased the
building for five,, years. This is one of
! the best l’vary stables in the state, and
fit could not have fallen into the hands of
better men than Messrs. Gann A* Murray,
for what they dont know about the Busi
ness is not worth|knowing. Wo predict
Ifor the new firm good success, and our
st wishes attend Mr. Reaves in what-
pr basinets he sees fit to pnrsue. He
t signed an agreement not to open a
’ stable ia Athens.
Traction Ehoine.—Yesterday morn-
"mg a traction engine arrived in the city
| by the Georei* Railroad from the Guyser
i’Pg Co, Waynesboro, Penn. It was
I shipped to Mr. J. G. Eberhart, of Ogle
thorpe county. Ho tired it up at the
(depot and drove up the hill, thence down
across the bridge and out towards his
[' home in Oglethorpe. The engine will
j make 35 miles on the first trip.
A Retort.—It is the general impres-
} sion, we learn, ’has Mrs. W. H. Felton
I is the author of the communication in the
Macor. Telegraph that so severely rc-
I fleets on tho discipline of the State Uni
versity, and to which Dr. Mell replied.
It did not read like an article that ema
nated from tho gifted pen of Mrs. Felton
Atlanta, May 28.—Information in the
form of a rumor reaches hero that Co.-
tcctor Crenshaw has been required by
the department of internal revenue at
Washington to make a new bond. It is
also rumored that Cant. Irish, head cler«,
will be removed, and that Dr. Mark W.
Johnson will succeed him.
Fine Crocs.—Mr. Comer, of Mayes-
nd Ti
the
ville, was in the city yesterday am
ports the finest crops around Mayesville
that have ever been seen in that section.
He quotes from Mr. John, an old farmer
of Banks county, who says he never lud
such a crop before- It is at least twen
ty days ahead of last year.
first
bich
the fiUing of the
itween Athens A
H will bo a very small
From Gainesville to Dsh-
mileg, and of this route 16
and four miles ironed,
28 miles, and Ironing
>t roads
The New Opera House.—We are
glad te he able to report that the opera
house company has succeed in purchas
ing land enough to straighten their lot,
and yesterday work began of excavating
the foundation. The building will bo
pot up as first designed.
_tfcat Lumpkin stands
)on her cud of tho
redo and cross-tie
between that
It
Ox a Bicycle.—Bob Harts field rode
from Crawford, 13 miles below Athens,
into town yesterday morning on a bicy
cle*. Ho reports a pleasant and uneventful
trit.'j * The bicycle is getting to be quite
x popular mode of locomotion now.
M .unt Airy, and about half a mile above
th 'junction found the body of Mr. Wm.
E Imls lying fully 20 yards from the
ia ’road track. It was a sickening, ap-
p» iing sight. The negro gave the alarm
an 1 pretty soon a large crowd was at-
tr cli d to'the spot. Nearby the body
was.a large oak stick, seven feet long,
c ivered with blood, and this is thought
to have been the weapon with which the
m irder was committed. A piece of his
skull was 20 feet from where the body
1*.', ami brains were scattered all over
th-ground.
The theory of a railroad accident will
not hold, it is thought. The distance the
b idy lay from tbe track, the grouping of
co itusions about the head, the presence
of the oken stick, covered with blood,
al point to murder most foul. Suspicion
Iworl
Sxt_ year. We hear
Tho dismissed his hands
and taking his family, went on a visit to
Jackson county, saying he did not intend
to con e back home until it rained,* for it
was a waste of time to longer knock
around the hard clods in his barren
fields. In the upper and western portions
of the county, however, the crops are
very good, and the outlook by no means
blue.
ToshUU" Burrell, 2215 D St., N
W., Washington, D C...... 2,000
Chos J Summers, Struthers,
Ohio 2,000
First National Bank, Pontiac,
Mich 2,000
Anglo-California Bank (Ldt.)
San Francisco, Cal 2,000
DRAWING OF JULY 13, 1886.
If perspiration was gold dust Col. J.
S. Baughn would be the wealthiest man
in Oglethorpe county, for he is a veri
table miser when it comes to expending
this precious commodity. He looks on
it as being nexi thing to the unpardon
able sin to cut down a tree, and his
fields all present a most inviting shade,
beneath which the weary husbandman
can toil without the sultry rays of the
n .A rests upon a negro, who had lately summer’s sun baking his intellectual
1 . m _ __:i a if. iirntr n Knn<rhn cure n rmtal riosl
bjun m the employ of the railroad. He
an i Mr. Echols had a difficulty about two
wealts ago. Other parties have beea sus-
pjct**d, out no arrests have so far been
m ifle.
The coroner of Habersham countv has
b >en sent for, and every effort w ili be
m ule to ferret out the guilty party. Mr.
E ;hols was a proininei t uian, and was
t »e owner of the hole', at Rabun Gap
j motion. Our informant could not give
further particulars of the awful tragedy.
ROBBERY IN OCONEE.
A BOLD THIEF AND A GLITTERING
HAUL SATURDAY.
J Ark Wheeler <oniiuil» a Daring
mid Full-Handed Theft Near Far
ming I on—A Cabinet af Hare Old
Coin. I. Hilled—Good Detective,
and u swift Capture.
On Saturday last there was a temper
ance picnic at Goshen, in Oconee county.
A largo crowd from the neighborhood
were in attendance, and among then.,
vlrs. J. P. Mayno, a widow who lives
tear Farmington. She asd her sons
had locked up their house and gone to
the picnic, not suspecting that an attempt
would be made to nfle its contents in
their absence.
THEIR RETURN.
What was their consternation to find
on their return, the do ns open and the
whole place in confusion. Drawers were
•pen in in the bureaux; trunks had been
forced apart, clothes , were scattered
ibout the house snd a cabinet of jewelry
ind rare coin which Mr. Mayne had
been accumulating for several years, had
been entirely relieved of its contents.
Of couise by Sunday morning the
news had drifted pretty well through
the neighborhood. No definite idea
could be obtained of the amount of
goods stolen, but it was known that the
coins snd trinkets were gone, and per
haps other valuable articles about the
house. Mr. Robt. Miller, a bailiff in the
county couit, was apprised of the mat
er, and together with Mr. James Mar
shall, commenced a search. Pretty soon
tho keeper of one of the lemonade stands
• t Goshen reported that s darkey, whom
lie described, had given him a five dollar
told picce to change on Saturday. This
•arty had evidently gone there while the
•layno family were at the picnic. An
other party reported seeing a darkey
bout the Mayne place on the day of the
ohbery, whose appearance tallied with
he recollection of tbe lemonade seller,
lessrs. Miller and Marshall accordingly
-wore out a warrant before Judge Jack-
sun, for Jack Wheeler and tracked him
town t. the Neal place in Greene coun-
.y, where they arrested him Sunday
light. There they found their bird. In
•is pocket were some of those rare old
uins w ose value he could not even
guess, and in his trunk were a ring, oth
er coins, money amounting to about $-10,
•ieces of jewelry and silverware, hand
kerchiefs, anil in the crevices of the floor
was a necklece which he bad thrown
litre.
Wheeler was taken up to Watkinsville
and yesterday afternoon a preliminary
•rial was had before Justice Murray,who
bold him for indictment and trial. Wheel-
r does not deny the theft, but impli
:atcs some other parties who hare not
men apprehended. The fact that he
had about all the money that was stolen
leads to the belief that^he was thc.;plan-
ner and sole perpetrator ot this daring
md glittering haul. He now languishes
with Timmons in Sheriff Overby's pro
tection.
Wants a Divorce.—Mrs. John J.
Uarithers, whose husband keeps .littlo
tore in East Athens, at the forks of the
Lexington road, has employed G. C.
Thomas, Esq n to bring suit for divorce
■gainst her husband, on the ground of
incompatibility of temper. It will be
remembered that this old couple had a
difficulty about a year ago, but made up
and have been living together ever since.
Mrs. Carithers says she iovei her hus
band dearly, but can’t longer put up
with his agravating ways. They have
accumulated quite a nice little property,
ane Mrs. Carithers will ask the court to
give her half of it.
The Macon* Athens Road.—Mr.
Powell says there is fully three week’s
work yet to do before the grading is
completed to Madison. The rails are
now being laid this side of Montice'.'.o,
and enough iron is on the road to lay the
track to the Georgia road. Mr. Powell
says there is not tbe shadow of a doubt
but that the road will be hastened through
to Athens as fast as possible, bat it is
desired to finish up the work as (hey
proceed. He has the contract to grade
the road to Athens, and as soon m crops
are laid by a great many farmers will
take sections and grade them with the
field hands and stock.
Death or Mss. Staffosd.—The fu
neral services of Mrs. M. Staffoid will be
held this morning at 10 o’clock from
Mr. Chas. W. Revnold’s residence on
Hancock avenue. She died yi.sterdiy
morning at 9 o’clock, aged about (5 years.
Her death was the result of measles
which she had some time ago. Mrs.
Stafford was tha widow of Mr. Malcolm
Stafford, who was one time foreman^ of
“the Northeast Georgian” in Athens, aud
afterwards editor and founder of ills
Jackson Connty Herald. She was a
good woman asd had many friends in
Athens.
Bio Drinkixo.—A negro in Watkins-,
ville drank a gallon of water sweetened
with three pounds of augur on a
It did not seem to interfere
very.
$.jnuch.
brow. Col. Baughn says s great deal
is to be gained by planting a crop in the
shade—he is not bothered by grass; he
saves a plowing, two booings, and can
gather the harvest in one-tenth the time
as a farmer who pursues the old beaten
path of clearing all the timber from land
before putting it in cultivation. The
pilgrim who journeys by Col. Bsughn’s
farm is impressed with the various crops
he sees planted beneath the shade of
the wide-spreading oaks. Ho lias most
wisely thrown out bis cleared fields, and
sown them down broadcast in chick-
weed and old field pines, on which he
expects to winter his flocks and herds.
We were impressed with this progres
sive farmer’s methods, and felt that he
had discovered the true solution of the
problem, “What will become of our
Southern farmers?” There is another
peculiarity of our friend Baughn. lie
has the most remarkable memory of any
man we ever. knew. In fact,
Col. Baughn can distinctly re
member things that never have happen
ed and will not probably occur in the
next ten thousand years.
*»*
The projected Augusta & Chattanooga
railroad passes through the eastern part
of Oglethorpe county, and for a long dis
tance traverses the dry streak we have
described above. We find hut little
faith in the enterprise. In truth, the
faith of the Oglethorpcans is so weak
that they have turned a deaf car to all
those pathetic appeals to advance a por
tion of their subscriptions. The only
work yet done in this county is to make
a hasty preliminary survey, over which,
as a civil engineer remarked, you
couldn’t push a wheelbarrow, even if
the road was graded- It would be & big
thing for the lower portion of the county
if this road was built; but it is generally
conceded, from the route selected—
avoiding every important place from
which freight could be drawn— that the
road could never be made to pay oper
ating expenses, and no capitalist can
be found foolish enough to invest his
money in it. But the people have strong
faith in Gen. Hoke's railroad, and when
it tapped the upper edge of the county
all the enthusiasm oozed out of the A. &
C. Strong efforts are being made so as ’
to induce the G., C. & N. to cut deeper
down into Oglethorpe, so as to take in
the Glade, and, if possible, Sandy Cross
also. It is claimed that this new route
would be but little if any further, and a
natural ridge could be found, leading
down to Broad river and on tc Eiberton.
A delegation will probably wait on Gen.
Hoke when he again comes to Athens.
***
A gentleman gave us an account of one
of the bloodist and most horrible com
bats he ever witnessed, that took place
between two stout negro women, below
Lexington, a few days ago. These negres-
ses fell (out ,about some dusky Lothario,
and agreed to decide their claims by a
fist-and-skull duel. They were giantess
es in size and as strong as men. I’cr
many minutes the a-r was filled with
bits of wool, scraps of hide, arid pieces of
clothi At last they grappled one another,
and tnen began a scene only witnessed
in d/>g-fighLs. They attacked one an-
other with teeth, and toi e and lacerated
human flesh as dumb brutes would de.
Oni was seen to bite great hunks from
the face and neck and arms of the other,
and sppttjngom the loathsome morsel,
sicze upon her victim again. The
strong teetli' ol one woman literally lacer
ated. the flesh of the other, and the com
batants had at last to be torn apart as
yo : would a pair of buil dogs. It is
said that the woman so badly torn af-
fir us that 'he is poisoned by the teeth
of the bi.' : fiend, and is in a precarious
condition. The spectacle must have been
a disgusting and horrible one.
Wm Clem Monroeville. Ind..,
A H Jones, Anniston, Ala
Mrs Mary E Holmes, 208
Princeton St., East Boston
Mass
Wells, Fargo & Co’s Bank,San
Francisco
W B Cushman, Worcester,
Mass..
J no H Bones, 349 W 45th St.,
New York
Henry Soss, 29 Western Ave.,
Toledo, O
.Carl Tideman, care Meyer
Bros Drug Co Kansas City,
Mo
Vito Dilorenzo, cor Washing
ton and Laurel Sts New Or
leans, La
Eug Lafou,Denison, Tex
John A Stewart, 5 Lafayette
Ave Detroit, Mich
John W Miller, Palmyra, Mo.
Second National Bank, Louis
ville, Ky . ..
E W Warren, 358 Main St,
Springfield, Mass
Frank LoCascio, Boston, Mass
J H Powell, South Vallejo, Cal
Wells, Fargo & Co’s Bank, San
Francisco
R L Bailey, Thorpe. Tenn
Thos Mason A Co care A Mc-
Auley, 225 20th St, Rich
mond, Va
A W Oxley, San Francisco,Cal
George Kleiue, 608 Sixth St.,
San Francisco, Cal
Mrs Mary E Murdock, 641
Folsom St San Francisco,
Cal
T T Smith, care Messrs Lemke
& Ulrich, San Francis, Cal..
Charles Clifford, St. Paul,Minn
15,000
16,000
5,000
5,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
10,000
5.000
5,000
6,1X10
2,400
DRAWING OF AUGUST 10, 1886.
Wells, Fargo & Co’s Bank, San
Francisco, Cal
German Bank, of Memphis,
Tenn
Henry Lajore, Holbrook, Mass
B Frank Burpee, 8 Granite St.,
South Boston, Mass
J >i Smith, Fort Monroe. Va..
Mrs C Goldsmith, 717 North
Wells St., Chicago, Ill
J Bisque, Philadelphia, Pa...
Jas J Clincbey, cor. Clara and
Perdido Sts., New Orleans,
La
Sirs M Broderick, 28 Prieur St
New Orleans, La
Bank of Commerce, Kansas
City, Mo
W D Wacerult, Montgomery,
Ala
Mill J Carr, Concordia, Kas...
Jno M Mason, Kansas City,
Mo
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,200
Mts Mary Logue. collected through Hide
out. Smith Co..Oroville Cal
Kolllu kitchen, aid South Cherry street,
Richmond, Va
R M Whiteside. Biseo, Texas
Jno M Manning, 1117 dth st, N W, Wash
ington, D C
1 -e stock law works like a charm, and
ever, the darkies, we learn, arc well
pleased with it. The breed of cattle and
8to- k of all kinds are fast being improved,
and the connty is pretty well stocked
with half-Jersey and other papular
strains of cattle. Butter and milk are
abundant, and while cattle arc not so
numerous, they are of much better quality
anil bring better prices. Considerable
attention is being given to sheep raising,
and a gentleman who has tested the mat
ter says there is nothing more *profitable.
But farmers have yet much to learn be
fore they can make the stock law as pro
fitable ss it esn be. For instance, they
persist in buying western^ hay, when a
few acres sowed in rye aud cut green will
make all the forage they need. W*
heard of one farmer, whose csttle were
actually dying of starvation, when he
corn. Be could have kept fifty head of
cattle fat on it, while the co.*n would
scarcely pay for the working. Farmers
should turn out then best lowlands for
m adows, and the land will pay them a
bettor dividend for grazing purposes
than in any crop they can plant.
Case ot Incest.—Sheriff Woodruff, of
Anniston, Ala., arrested Zoabem Anglin,
forti -five ream of age, living six miles
norm of Jacksonville, the opunty seat,
on the c harge of incest with his eldest
daughter. Anglin came to tho county in
December, having been run out of Oco
nee oountp, Ga., by the authorities. He
was arrested on a requisition from the
G overnor of Georgia and lodged in jail at
Jacksonville, where he now awaits of
fices from Ocor.eo county, Ga.—Atlanta
Constitution,
Fora Crops.—Hr. B. B. Williams, of
upper Oglethorpe county, was in the ciiy
yesterday, snd he reports the crop .'rat-
look as bright indeed. He will harvest
three-fourth* of a crop of small grain,
while he never knew better prospects for
corn and cotton.
15,000
16,000
15,000
15,000
1,200
DRAWING OF SEPT. 14,1880.
Isaac Wllmarth, Deerfield,
New York 13,000
Alex Mahen, Carson City, Nev 15,000
Jno Ccnnor, care Cammack
and Decker, 28th St bet. I
and K, N W Washington,
Goo W Foucb, Osceola, Iowa.
Amaro Araujo Blbeiro, Boston
Mass ...
Wells, Fargo A Co’s Bank,
San Francisco
Paul Bunker, Oriental Ware
house, 1st aud Brannan Sts,
San Francisco, Cal
Paid Exchange Bank cf Dal
las, Texas
T R Lee, Philadelphia, Pa....
Eduardo Marquez) 322 E 13th
DelPino {•
Lazaro Vila ) St N. Y.
Mrs J C Sullivan, Chicago,Ills
L L Fosse, care H B Olsen A
Co, 90 Superior St, Chicago,
Ills
J G Lallande, New Orleans
National Bank, for a deposi-
- tor there
D H Bentley, Truxillo, Hon
duras C A
John R Durft, Louisville, Ky.
E C Reed, Portland, Dak
16,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
2,000
2,000
IS,000
DRAWING or OCTOBER 12, 1886.
Wm n Turner, 238 Randolph street, Chi
OugO, Ill —
Chin j Herrman. Muskeson.Mich
J N Lawn Jamestown, Dak ....
London. Paris and American Bank, limit
ed, San Francisco. Cal ; 15 000
A H french, 23 Ferry st, New York.— ., is,coo
Marcus Slone, 86 Eddy sL, San Francisco,
15,000
Cal
5,000
Arthur ii Barnebjr, 81th North stieet,
Boston
F. T Rabbit. Dennison, Texas....
•J W Jackson, Brownsville, Tenn
Dow 4 Doyen, IMaJove. Cal..
duu u i/ujcu, i.'iujutf, VOI>. ..... .
Farmers & Dtow'H Bank, Louisville,
Wells. Targo St Co’a Bank, San’ Fran-
Boyd Corvick. Mnscontah, ill
PA Bassons, 52 Hawthorne ave., Chica-
C H Graves, Carthage, h C
Wm T Kidgewar. New York
6 II Smith.IS W23d st. New York
DRAWING or NOVEMBER 5». 1896.
Eliza J Peterson. 53 Moulton street. Boa*
ton
A L Bel tram. 193 Esplanade st., NewO r-
Leans, La
T L Piadell, Keene, Ky
Chas O Kkholm, 153 Townsend, st, Chica
go, Ill
Mrs A Kinsey, Manchester. Va., through
the State Bank of Virginia, Bichmona..
Wells, Faigo Si Co’s Bank, San Francisco,
1,200
1,200
1,200-
1,200 '
Cal HP!
Henry L Valencia. £
Traders's National
Texas
W M Brown, Boston, Maas
Anylo-Califorctan bank. Ban Francisco..
O Rocuo. Siocktonj Cal
15,000
15,000
5,000
5,000
Tonkin, San J ose, Cal
James K Dozier, Cairo, Ills 1,200
DanielMcColl,flew York ... .... ...... 1.2»0
Mire V show, through L Barnerd, 205 Wert
84th iLNew York 12to
Weill, Fuao a Os', tank. Sen Francisco
inrtcb, -*
° HmZodilt'llKS” oJC'nOioffenstoIl,
1.300
DRAWING OP DECEMBER 14, 1888.
WeUa, Tuto’i A Co’i hank, San Franclreo
Frank Meta, Oikosh.Wl* <*i,uuu
Fourth National Bankjo! New York 25,080
Bahlaiore and Ohio ExpreaaCa. Chicago. 25*000
Daniel Tones, at Thao Dumas' furniture
store, 258 Koval at New Orleans—..... 15,000
Hibernian National Bank, New Orleans.. 15,000
Parties in New York, through New Or-
leans National Bank, New Orleans, La 15,000
Gross, Crawfordavllie, Ga 4,000
y in St Augustine, Fla, through John
*• -es. Savannah, Ga 1,000
40,000
vine, tad:...:
Linsey Hayden, Evansville,
Wells, Fargo & Co’a bank, 8a
c * 1 ' " 5 " ! “cbieiort
cYupDroretf, Mflt^riorKreeL Cleve^ *’° 0 °
ly.d, Ohio 2,000
kSumo^'*i€d-:. . U '. roug . t ! ,.000
rntAWCtO OF JANUARY 11,1587.
itss?
A^MJailfiiiiia Bank, lin.jted,Sai'FiVn 15,000
J^fc-Wnart'Ski- Va.' V*
• . ..
25,300
Warner, Stratford, Out 15,000
Thos Falvey, Wrights ville, Pa 15,000
Peter M. Vermaas, 379 S Robey St. Chica
go, Ill 15,000
HTr -1 " “ * ■ —
Taylor, New York .....
15.000
Joseph Bosonliold, Houston. Texas 15,000
t Moeser,
Kas
15,000
15,000
Cal 15,000
London, Paris and American bank, limit-
15,000
15,000
ed, San Francisco
D P Hawes, Decorah. Iowa
J C Dunlop, Pembroke, Ont
Mrs Mary O'Brien. Central City. Dak....
T J Weaver, Trabue, Fla
Frank Brock, 518 Potter st., East Saginaw,
Mich
Union National Bank, Kansas City, Mo..
Olof Berglund, Darlington, WIs
Chas H Horner, care Adams Ex
Newark, N J _
J E H arrigan, 128 W Canton st., Boston
Mass. .a
E B Kimball, Portland. .Me
City National Bank, oi Dallas, Tex
Oliver Si Griggs, bankers. Dallas. Tex ...
El Pmo National Bank, El Paso, Texas .
Germania Savings Bank, New Orleans.
La„ for a depositor
O.'ICO
5,000
0,000
Horner, care Adams Express Co
8,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
DRAWING or APRIL 12, 1887.
Wells, Fargo Si Co, S&n Francisco, Cal....
W Thayer, 33 Yamhill street, Portland,
Anglo-Califotnian Bunk, limited, San
Francisco, Cal
Naw Orleans National Bank, for account
of correspondent Irom 8an Francisco,
30,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
London, Paris and American Bank, limit
ed, San Francisco. Cal 15,000
Mrs M R No tv berry, Cheboygan. Mioh.... 15,000
Ambrose Gilliland, Moweaqua, 111 15,000
Geo F Stackhouse, 2324 Christian st., Phil
adelphia, Pa 15,000
Koy J Bour. Canton, O. 5,000
C W Tweedy, Augusta, Ga
WC Hammock, Urimn, Ga.,
J M Stotts, Dee, Ark
A B Robb, Atchison, Kas
Wells, Fargo Si Co., San Francisco, Cal..
Mrs Lav id Swlckheimer, Bico, Col
Jno Kaatz. Pottsville, Pa
G Ragin, Clarksville, Texas
PH Dwyer, Boston, Mass
H B Davis & B S Webber. Portland, Me..
Chas C Keenan, fiarnesvilie, Minn
5.0C0
5,000
5,000
5,000
4,100
4,000
DRAWING OF MAY 10. 1887.
Wells, Fargo A Co., San Francisco, Cal.
T J Lrnch Si Co., cor 11th and Locust sts.
Philadelphia, Pa
City National Bank of Cairo, Ill
National Commercial Bank of Mobile,
Ala .
Bank of Commerce. Louisville, Ky . ..
Commercial National Bank of N&shviile,
Tenn
Edwin Le Bars, New York .. .
Anglo Culiiorula Bank (limited] San
Francisco
N Creushaw. Everest. Kas
Bank of falforuia, San Francisco, Cal.
C J Harmon, through Corry National
National Bunk, Corry, Pa
For full particulars of the Grand Semi-Annual
Drawing of June 13, sje scheme In another col
umn of this paper to-day,
GENERAL NEWS.
Mount .Etna is in a state of eruption .
The stone inoulders’strike is at an end.
Gen. J. 1*. Siui8, of Covington, is dead.
It is thought that the Belgian strikers
will resume work.
A storm in Cleveland, O, wrecked the
Catholic church.'
wife’s health forced him to seek a more
salubrious climate.
Whereupon it devolved upon the or
phaned congregation to choose for them
selves a pastor—a man after their own
hearts—one who should possess all the
virtues of their late pastor, as well as
those which ho lacked.
They proceeded to search for him in
the truly orthodox way, namely, by en
tertaining candidates. Sabbath after
Sabbath beheld a different divine in the
pulpit. They came we know not
whence and returned wo know not
whither. They embraced every known
type of man, from the venerable D. D. of
three score and ten to the immature
theological student of 21 summers.
Hie doctrine preached to that people
during the season of candidating was as
variegated os tho patchwork silk quilt
which they presented to their Late pastor's
wife on her birthday. It shaded all the
way from Catholicism to Universal ism,
and branched out into every known
“ism.” There was the “old school” and
tho “new school,” old fashioned ortho
doxy and modem free thought. There
were sermons with strong leanings toward
liberalism, and there were others fraught
with Calvinism and oozing orthodoxy at
every pore. And there were scientific
sermons without end, and poetical and
philosophical ones. But in all this
variety the people found not tho man
they sought. There was some insur
mountable objection to every candidate.
Rev. Abercombie gave them good ser
mons, but the college students declared
that liis gestures were “execrable” and
would demoralize their own “style,” and
they camo en masao to the church meet
ing and voted him down.
Rev, J. Irwin Smith was youthful and
handsome, anfl the young ladies shed
tears of regrefwhen the church decided
not to call him. But Deacon Grimes said
his sermons were mere “froth,” and he
hoped they wouldn’t, in his day, get down
to a man who parted his hair in the mid-
die.
Rev. Loring was too dramatic and
threatened to convert the staid old church
into a theatre, while good Mr. Blalcesley,
who despised show, was rejected because
he didn't “draw.” One candidate was
too solemn, another too frivolous; one
was too reserved, another too “common.”
And so the spring and summer came
and faded away, and fall was fast emerg
ing into winter,* and the people were
I growing weary of their search and longed
for a settled pastor, bnt he still eluded
them. As old Mr. Grove aptly summed
up the situation; “We’ve had close to a
hundred men hero to preach for us and
we've given ’em all a fair show, and
there hain’t been a perfect man among
Several Urge water spouts were seen
off Charleston.
A new iron furnace will he built near
Montgomery, Als.
Mr. Blaine says he will remain abroad
for more than a year.
Eleven persons were stunned by a
thunderbolt near Rome.
A largo warehouse, valued at $300,000,
was burned in New York.
There was a perceptible earthquake
shock at Jamestown, N. Y.
There is a scramble for the shoes of
the dead Ordinary of Hall county.
Mrs. Cleveland has been on a pilgrim
age to the tomb of old John Brown.
The ma-'.er masons of Philadelphia are
locking Ob. < Yom werk all union men.
A dastardly assault was made by a ne
gro boy upon a white lady of Decatnr,
Mr. W. O. Bu’.er has been removed as
business manager of* the Anniston Hot
Blast.
Colden Hutchens, of Raleigh, N. O,
cut his wife’s throatbecause she wouldn’t
read, to him.
A drunken mob of roughs broke up
'Dehavens circus at Hartsville, Tenn. No
one was killed.
A man fell 60 feet from the railroad
bridge at Richmond, but escaped with a
broken shoulder.
The news of the victory of the Lomax
Riflies at Washington drill was received
with much enthsiasm in Mobile.
A mountain has collapsed near Spin-
ged, in the canton of Ari, Switzerland,
destroying two cottages and killing six
persons.
Cleveland, Ga, May 30.—Last week
a man named Ben Campbell was fataly
hurt by the caving of an embankment at
the gold mines near Lowdsville.
The people of Schley county are out
spoken in their denunciations of the
supreme court court for denying the ex
:kman.
ocution of the murderer Blacl
Sumpter F. Nichols, the slayer ofWm.
Jordan, who was aejudged o lunatic at
Baker court last week, died on Thursday
last from injuries received in attempting
to suicide while in Albany Ga.
A sensation has been caused in Vien
na by the conversion to Judaism of
Fraulein Bloskovich, a member of one of
the oldest families of the Hungarian no
bility. Her formal reception into the
Jewish faith took place in the synagogue
ip that city yesterday. She will marry
a Yienness Jewish banker named Kon-
igswauter.
The body of Sheriff Grayson Jacobs,
of Lawscn county, Texas, Choctaw Na
tion, who had been missing for several
days, was found by the aid of bnzzards,
which were devouring the corpse. About
three hundred yards from where the
sheriff’s body was found lay the bodies
of two negroes, which had been partly
devoured by buzzards. The discovery
causes great excitement. The sheriff’s
death a profound mystery. There is
no clue to thetragedy b-yond the fact
that two desperadoes, Choctaw Indiana,
are missing and they are being sought
after.
ishvillb, Tenn!, May 30.—\ John
G Bernal, an old man, and a painter by
trade and vero much addicted to joking,
came in the drug store and going back to
where George Donelson, a clerk, was
putting up medicine said: “George I’m
tired of living. What will kill me?”
Donelson who was measuring aconite,
said; “Here is something that will kill
you mighty quick; aconite, if you just
drink enough.” Donelson poured out an
ounce gradually. He did notjiotico Ber
nal, who took it up and drank it.: Don
elson, lockingnp a moment later and see
ing tbe empty glass stud; “My God!
Did yau drink that?” “Yes,” said Ber
nal. “Then you.ll die, said Donelson,
and he rusqed off for help. Six or sev
en physicians were summoned and did
all they conld, but it was too late. Ber-
said be had no idea of killing him-
and no idea that the glass contained
poison. His wife and grown sons were
also called and were with him when he
died.
At length, when expectation was well
nigh exhausted, a cheering ray penetrated
the gloom of their despondency, and in
their mind’s eye they could seo as their
own established pastor the brilliant young
preacher who was holding audiences
spellbound in a western city. A delega
tion was dispatched to treat with him.
Ho hod graciously consented to consider
the matter, and tho whole situation was
as encouraging as it well could be. Ho
was to preach for them on trial the first
Sunday in December, and on the Saturday
evening previous Deacon Gilkey and his
wife were returning from a day’s shop
ping in Chicago. Just as tho cars were
starting Mr. Ames, another pillar in the
church, hurried in, and seeing Mr. and
Mrs. Gilkey, dropped into the seat behind
them, the other half of which was occu
pied by a strange gentleman in a fur
trimmed overcoat and a sealskin cap.
“Getting chilly,” remarked Mr. Ames
to Mr. Gilkey, as an introduction to con
versation, meanwhile buttoning up his
overcoat. The remark recalled the fact
to Mr. Gilkey, and he buttoned up his
coat and replied;
“Yes; looks a little like a storm.”
“Shouldn’t wonder,” said Mr. Ames.
“They’ve had five inches of snow up
north.”
“Is that so? They have pretty tough
winters up there. ” And Mr. Gilkey gave
his coat collar another jerk.
“Suppose you’ll be out to church to
morrow?” said Mr. Ames.
“Yes, I presume so,’’assented Mr. Gil-
key, and Mrs. Gilkey said, “Yes, cer
tainly,” - with a glance at a bandbox at
her feet, which suggested the idea that a
Chicago milliner had made “assurance
doubly sure” in her case. But it, of
course, suggested no such thought to Mr.
Ames, who observed:
“I guess people will turn out pretty
generally to hear our new man.”
“They ought to,” said Mr. Gilkey, “for
he seems to be about our last chance, and
I say we’d better take him if he suits any
kind of way.”
“We might as well shut up the church
if we don’t get some one before long,”
Baid Mr. Ames gloomily. “There wasn't
a baker’s dozen out last Sunday, and the
Halls and McAllisters have given up their
pews. Hall says he won’t pay pew rent
for the sort of preaching we’ve had
lately.”
“It needn’t make any difference to him
what kind of preaching we have; he’s
never there,” remarked Mrs. Gilkey,
severely.
“What does Dr. Williams have to say
about this Mr. Grant that’s going to
preach to- morrow?” inquired Mr. Gil
key.
“He won’t take any stand at all,” said
•Mr. Ames, “says it’s none of his funeral
who they get. He’s put out because they
wouldn’t call that Sir. Otjin; but we
never could havomade that thing work.”
“He preached good sermons," said Mr.
Gilkey, reflectively.
“He talked through his ncee,” said
Mrs. Gilkey, conclusively.
“Then tho Whites,” said Mr. Ames.
“They want that eastern man, with the
long hair. He’s a sort of a cousin to
White's wife. The West End are all
united on that man from Washington.
And Dr. Glover’s got a man down south
that he’s trying to run in this long
time.” Mr. Ames paused for breath,
and Mrs. Gilkey took up the burden of
his complaint.
“Yes,” she said, “and the Georges say
they won’t vote for anybody but that Mr.
Fame, from Ohio. He stayed with them
while he was here, and they say he is
just as agreeable and entertaining as
can be. You’d never suspect he was a
minister.”
At this stage Mr. Ames, happening to
look up suddenly, surprised an amused
smile on the face of the stranger who
shared bis seat.
“I beg your pardon,” said thaffgentle
man. in answer to Mr, Ames’ stare, “I
could not help overbearing your conver
sation,”
“No harm done,” returned Mr. Ames,
affably. “We’re pretty much interested
in getting the right sort ot a man for our
church. We know what keeps tb6 thing
going, you. see.’’ He rattled.signifi-
cantly, some coipa in his pocket, and the
stranger intimated that he saw. -
“Isn’t it the general opinion that we’re
paying too steep a price for our preach
ing?” inquired Mr. Gilkey.
- 1 ‘Altogether,’’ said/Mr,. .
phaticaiiy. "Ana x say wo ve jusr got
to drop off $500 on our next man. Wily,
when I was a boy, a minister didn’t get
over $400 or $500 a year, and they man
aged to live on it somehow. They didn’t
throw their money around on all sorts of
extravagances, I’ll be bound.”
“People say we havo these things our
selves,” began Mr. Gilkey, mildly.
“I don’t care if we do!” rcterted*Mr.
Ames. “I earn my money; and I know
where it comes from. ’ ’
Mr. Ames had, by this time, worked
himself into quite a vehement stato of
mind. He ostensibly addressed Mr. Gilkey;
but it is not strange that the conscious
ness that the stranger was an intere ted
listener caused him to elaborate his a* ,*pi-
ment with the distinctness and preci ion
of ono who feels that he is making a. od
point. He now glanced for approve- of
his sentiments from Mr. Gilkey to tho
stronger, and tho latter seemed en. our-
aged to venture a remark,
“What particular stylo of man do you
desire for a pastor?” he inquired.
“Wo want a first class man,” said Mr.
Ames, with the ah* of ic*. *ing a well
leat nod lesson. «‘Some on,' who can hold
hjgggn with the other irin. ,ters in tho
Now, you see’ ’—*je« ming confi-
’ There's a certain »t in out
jat are strong on J
another class that dotTdrra _
about it, and won’t hear it pr-relied! They
mostly don’t belong to the church, but
they come regularly and renV our best
pews, and we feel bound to consider tlieiF
feelings. But it takes a man with some
tact to get along with these :hin;;s and
not offend any one.”
“Indeed it must,” said She sira ger.
And Mrs. Gilkey said, in fur Lilt * illus
tration of the point: “Why, weea tnever
keep a man more than six months with
out one set or the other gett ng lown on
him. He’s sure to be in I x, we ,r somc-
the thief.
This firm are’s
ferson’4 prospt.
oy in brick and i..„,
Mr. Julius H Williamson I
accept (ho position of clerk at N<3
land Springs. They wilt
Lamp Bros—Jackson county box*
the pleasure-seeking part of our nl
can premise themselves a pleasant 1
if they will visit New Holtand ’
Jefferson, May 28.—f Specials
Chandler, of Nicholson, hold coir
on Saturday to hear evidenced a i
assault with intent to murder rs i
and others of New Town dish
hearing the evidence, the jusfl
ed* the warrant on the groL
defense, and at once a warrants
colo*ed, was sued out Tha
was issued for simple laiceR
waved trial and went to jail
McGinty & Co’s hands of you!
here, and will complete the jail
three weeks.
| Ittt '.’Vivl.IN COI'.VTyJ
where. Oh, dear! why diax’t' ou catch
that?”
This last exclamation was not ad
dressed to the stranger but to Mr. Gil
key. For in the excii ement of tho dis
cussion the lady had loosened her hold
upon tho bandbox, and a sudden jolt of
the cars had precipitated it into tho aisle.
With the aid of a fellow passenger and a
cane Mr. Gilkey ’fished up the precious
parcel, and by tha timo this feat was ac
complished the train was moving slowly
into the Brandon .station.
Mr. Ames shook hands with the
stranger at parting and said ho was glad
to havo met him; after which ceremony
the travelers repaired to their several
destinations, Mrs. Gilkey with grave
forebodings lest the fall should havo re
sulted disastrously to tho contents of the
bandbox: Mr. Ames with a placid satis
faction with himself and the world at
largo, and the stranger—but as he is a
stranger we cannot guess with any ac
curacy wliat his thoughts and feelings
were.
Tho church was filled that Sabbath
morning, aril an agreeable flutter of ex
pectation pervaded the well dressed con
gregation. Their faces wore that wido
awake, alert expression of persons who
expect to be entertained.
Mr. Ames felt very tranquil in spirit
as lio leisurely ascended the qhurch
steps, just in timo for the. opening an
them. As ho leaned back in his seat
and glanced over the crowded house he
said to himself that he, for one, was
glad they were going to have a steady
pastor, and he was going to do his best
to encourage him. He’d get introduced
after service, and invite him up to dinner
to-morrow. He nudged his wife and
confided to her this resolve, and she said
’twas “just tho thing.”
Ho craned hi3 neck around to get a
sight of the new man, but the desk com
pletely* hid him from view us he sat in
tho large pulp*:*: jhair, resting his head on
one shapely hand.
With the last notes of the anthem,
Sirs. Gilkey sailed down the aisle in all
tho glory of her new bonnet, while her
husband followed at a respectful distance
behind the swaying plumes and spread
ing brim. Mrs. Ames whispered to her
husband that ’twouid be just like the
Gilkeys to try to get in ahead with the
minister, that woman was “so pushing.”
He must remember and speak to the
minister right after church.
The choir sat down with a flutter and
giggle. There was a brief pause. Then
the preacher advanced to the desk and
announced the hymn. As the mellow
tones of his .voice floated out over their
heads the waiting congregation smiled
gracious approval. But what was it
made Mr. Ames start so violently at the
first words ;of tho ^reader, stare hard at
the desk and sink back into his seat with
an expression of Mint dismay? Mr.
Gilkey observed it from where he sat ana
wondered what it meant. One look at
the minister told tho story. He was the
stranger who had shared Mr. Ames’ seat
in the cars the night before!
Tho subsequent proceedings* were
fraught with painful interest for at least
two of that audience.** Mrs. Ames whis
pered to her husband that she noticed
that Mrs. Dr. Holmes wore a new seal
skin, but he heeded her not, and* when
the congregation rose to sing he kept his
Rpnf rlosnifn Hint; lndn’a ronrAn"nCT IaaI-
seat, despite that lady’s reproving look.
He stole a furtive glanco at Mr> Giikev
to see how he bore it. That gentleman,
after some discussion with his wife, arose
and held the book for her during the
hymn, but he hung his head and looked
crushed in spirit. Sirs. Gilkey, on the
contrary, carried her head and the new
bonnet with conscious dignity, and sang
liko jl robin.
To Mr. Ames' excited imagination that
service was ten hours long, although the
clock only indicated on hour and a half.
Brandon had not heard such a sermon
for many a day; but Mr. Ames/slasl
couldn’t have told a word there was in
it. He counted the pipes in the organ,
the crystals on the chandeliers, the panes
of glass in the windows, in his frantic
attempts to make the time pass. But
every time he returned from some ab
struse, numerical calculation only to
hear the eloquent tones of the preacher
and behold the people hanging in rapt
attention on every word. —
Mr. Ames did not wait to be intio-
duced to the minister after the service.
Far from it! He fished his hat out from
under the seat, with unwonted alacrity,
and made for the door, looking neither to
the left nor right.
“That was a powerful sermon we’ve
just heard, wasn’t it, Brother Ames?”
began Elder Stan<*ift, stepping softly out
into tho aisle. “Such depth and pro
fundity of thought, such”
But Mr. Ames stalked past him, with
averted gaze, and pretended not to hear.
Ho jammed his hat down~over his
eyes and shot out of tho door with more
haste tlian dignity. On the corner ho
stopped and waited for his wife, who de
manded, sternly, how ho supposed that a
man was going to come up to dinner if
ho wasn't invited? And he told her,
candidly, he was sure he didn’t know.
Monday night the church held a meet
ing, at which they unanimously voted to
give Mr. Grant a call. Bnt, what was
their surprise, on tendering him tho pas
torate, to find it promptly and positively
declined. He said he felt that the re
sponsibilities of tho charge would fie too
great for his humble powers..
Vain were persuasion and argument.
He was firm, and some of the oommitteo
suggested, sadly, they were afraid he had
“heard something. ”
Tho fold is still without a shepherd.
The weeds grow rank and tall in the par
sonage yard, the house is empty—and so
are the pews on Sunday mornings. And
stQl the candidates come and go, and
come and too; and, report says, the peo.
pie are katfler to suit than ever.—Lowell
Doily Courier.
CARN'zsyiu,^; fvne l. rg
Harvesting will
commence
days, and the crop® fi n © ex,
which are short, owing to
weather.
Our most, excellent sheriff, J
Connell, went over to Harmony ,
Tuesday, and returned with BoseJ
.man, col., who is charge with
He was arrested en a'bench wa
led-somr lime ago. • Bose, os mm
with tbe darkey, is srnerstitious.
dreamed a few nights since that he w«
arrested by Cross, and that he found hin
in the bed, which was true, as Crest
found him in the arms of Morpheus anq
invited him to accompany him to town. "
Carnesv/li g May ,Hi.—[Special.]—,
Crops sre looking well; cotton is look]
ing finely, and corn is booming where thd
•tand is good; small grain crops havq
improved very much in the past fev
days.
# James Randal died last night,
sickness was out of the usual routine
diseases. His physicians first thqjf
*■ * had pneumonia, but afterward d!
that they were undecided as
was his ailment He was aL
preacher, and had labored leng ,
cause, ns ho was ahout 7u years old
the time of his death. Ho leaves a wifJ
and several small c kildren to mourn
Peace to his ashes.
06LET1I0KPK CttllUTY,
Crawford, May 50.—[Special. ]•
The clock agents, v no mske headqua
ters here, report goad sale3. One of the
informed us that ho averaged twelve
week. -
We have heard that Oapt. T. H. dWi
zier speaks ot moving back to Oglethorpe
and live in Lexington. His friends will
welcome him back.
We were glad to see Uncle Mordecai
Ldwarus well enough to attend church
yesterday. V
. W. O. Tucker has two children very
sick with measles.
Crawfoed, June 1.—[Special.]—A
little boy about four years old, son of
John C. Stephens at Sandy Cross, died
with dysentery yesterday!
Messrs. Lberhart an*d Pass passed
through town to-day with their, Xrsctrofif
engine. . a
Uncle Charley Hargrpyaiaaiaking ar
rangements with tho P. O. Department
to sell postal notes, which is a great con
venience to parties wishing
small amounts of money. v
WATKINSVILLE.
WatkinsviLLR, June 1.—[Special.]—
Coaly Marshal, an old negro woman of
this county, died at the advanced age of
or e hundred and twenty years o*i Sun
day last.
Chandler Watson, colored, on last Sat
urday ate theee pounds of sugar and
drank a gallon of water to wash it down.
This is no snake story, but tho truth.
Mr. A. L. Smith, of DeKalb count-*, is
in ih-s county trying to sell a county
right to a patent bee gum.
Miss Nellie Stilman, a charming young *
lady of Starksville, will visit this place
soon.
We had a light showor of rain this
evening.
CLiBKSBOBO NEWS.
Clarkesboro, June 1; [Speei:
l of sickness fn the
There is a great deal
neighborhood now, nearly every mem
ber of Mr John Harrison’s family are’
co nplaining and some are in bed quite
sick.
Mr. Henry Harrison has moved into
his rew house.
Mr. Jo'in Duncan and several of his
famiiy have been cal’ed to Athens to help
nurse one of Mr. Tom Fowler’s chilnrcn
who is quite sick.
Minister’s and deacon’s meeting, em
bracing last Fridry and Saturday wai
held at Crooked creek Baptij
The crowd was immense <m a
Seme of the farmers Jiavo commence
cutting wheat. Hope tho harvest wi
be plentiful.
Iffiss Miffln, of Southern Georgia, —
been visiting the family of Mr. Charlie
Gordon.
MADISON COUNTY.
Danielsvili.e, June 1.—[Special.]-—
Crops are fine and farmers well up
with their work. Harvesting is begun.
Wheat is fair; eats a failure.
Hon Julius A Greene has cucumbers
too old to eat. His garden is fine.
The commencement exercises of Dan-
ielsville high school will bo held on the
23d and 24th inst°
m
LACK OF HENOKli
®°te Sterlet Told on Two Prorai.
neat Citizens.
Ws yesterday heard two good storiee
on a couple of esteemed gentlemen, and
from the source wc received them, fee l
no fear about vouching for their correct
ness.
The Rev. Mr. Arnold, who once preach
ed in Athens, was on a visit to his friends
here last week. There camo up to him
a gentleman whose face he distinctly re
collected, and was most pressing in his
kindness. Mr. Arnold could notrernffip-
ber his name, and 'disliked 1
last he hit ec a happy id
discovery.
“1 was just
“about how i
never (could i
“Why, 1
“Ii
I knew it
old
blushes
“J-o J
man.
Joe Williams’ Death.—The news
has reached Athens that Joe Williams
met his death in Texas at the hands of a
sheriff. It seems that he had killed a
man, when that officer wont to arrest
him. Williams resented and showed
fight, when he was shot dead. The cor
oner’s jury acquitted the -*■—*** *'-**
in the killini
blame
collect I
little kind-hearted
the information withol
took this innocent i
and the worst of it was
the opportunity te correct it.
But Mr. McDuffie tells even
story on Mr. F. W. Lucas, whols noted
for bad memory of names, although he
never forgets a face.
Lately there were several parties in
the store, on whom Mr. Lucas was watt
ing, and after their departure he came- to
McDuffie and asked:
“Who is that young follow to whom
Y seld those goods?”
' Which one?” asked Mr. McDuffie,
“you were waiting oa several i larties.”
“Oh, I mean that smooth-faced, slim-
built young fellow that married my
daughter.’’
Mr. Lucas acknowledges the (ruth of
the story,„we learn, and ’
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