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THE WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN, TUESDAY DECEMBER 13. 1887
IN THE TOILS.
WOOLFOLK'S WONDERFUL WILL POW-
er Winning.
Th« Trial Ila« lW*gno to Tall on the Prison
er’* Nmn, Hut Ho la as Attmtlre as Kver
to the Management of Ilia Case—His Two
Sisters and Aunt In Court Yesterday.
[Macon Telegraph.]
Y-oolfolk ftn<! hi* attorneys were in
thair pliqg* promptly upon opening
^■■Pfturt, and ahortly after the proceed-
Hm?s began Mr. and Mr*, il. 1\ Cowan
^entered, accoinpaaied by Mr. L. A.
Shackelford and Mrs. J. K.Crane. They
took seat* as on Vonday in front of the
position occupied’by the defense.
Wool folk’* appearance was slightly
changed from that of Monday. One from
looking at him W’ould have surmised that
he had not enjoyed restful sleep during
the night. '1 he occasional Hush of his
face and forced compression of hi* lip*
now and then told the talc of nervous
strain that is wearing from within upon
hi* iron metal. Kspecially was this so
when his sister, Mr* Kdwards, entered
the court room, and, unnoticed by him,
made her way to the back of his chair
and laid her hand lovingly upon his shoul
der. and,
STO PINO OVKR, KIS8K1) HIM
n the most affectionate manner, he re-
onding apparently to the instinct of
motherly affection while the blood rush-
1 to his fact* and he gave her a short
nc* of hiseyesand then turned them
k to a diagram of the old Woolfulk
denre and the sc ne of the tragedy
h he ami hi* attorney* had been
ring and in the examination of which
•emed to lose himself imioeJintly,
wing from hi* mind all thought* of
liiTsisfer or other in liters not pertaining
dire'll v with the business part of th»*
trial then before them.
Ho has shown himself so far capable of
wonderful power of concentration ol
mind, or else he is a reinaikably good
actor, lie watches every move of the
proceedings and listen* attentively to
every syllable uttered in the room that
h is any hearing on the case, and seems
to „’r:isp its import and size up iis impor
lance in relation to his <*a-c as readily as
do the attorneys on either si le.
He seems to he quick to take in every
suggestion and is every time ready with
a suggestion when a new point is develop
ed, or with a derided answer in n ply Vo
any question put to him by his lawyers
He acts as fimiliar with the proceed
injjs of a murder trial ns though he had
practiced in the courts himself and is
never betrayed into any look or expres
sion of ilo* novice m ciimind prosecu
lion or defense.
colors, who swore “to tell the truth, the Vghtbrown color bearing no positive
whole truth nnd nothing but the truth*” i sign* of blood stains that could be estAb-
Those who were sworn in to testify in i lishcd as such, although Mr. Chambli*
the defense numbered about twenty in j thought there were some, and the marks
all, making a total of ; that he thought were blood were con tin-
ovkr seventy WITNESSES j e d lo **ie upper part of the socks, the
. v i i u r ,l . „ „„„ * stain on the feet having, never been
to be heard before the testimony can | thought by hini to ^ othcr than
those made bv the sho£. The socks
concluded.
The witnesses all having been sworn.
Col. Rutherford asked the court that the
rule be carrried out excluding them from
the court room or hearing of the testi
mony. This was done, exception being
made in favor of the prisoner’s near re
lations, who were allowed to remain at
hi* side upon the voluntary and consul
erate suggestion of Solicitor General
Hardeman.
The fact was developed that 6ome of
the witnesses were also officers of the
court, and the question was raised by
Col. Rutherford ns to whether the should
not also be excluded from the hearing of
the testimony.
The court ruled not.
Col, Rutherford stated that some of
the minor oourl officials were very im-
portiuent witnesses for the prosecution,
and urged the point that they could and
should be excused from court duty and
excluded, as their places could he tem
porarily filled without inconvenience
Rut the court overruled the motion.
Solicitor General Hardeman in admin
istering the oath to one batch of witness-
ess, in a fit of absence of mind, made a
lapsus lingure and swore them in as ju
rors, whereupon the members of the bar
counted “one on him,” and the smile
went around.
Dr. Powell, of the lunatic asylum, and
I)r, Foster, of Madison, who were sworn
in as witnesses, were by common consent
and courtesy of the attorneys exempted
from tho list who were ordered from
the court room doting the hearing of
the testimony*.
THE TRIAL I* OPENED.
All preliminaries having been disposed
of and everything in readiness for the
beginning of the trial proper. Solicitor
General Hardeman arose and said: **If
your honor please, and gentlemen of the
jury, the ii dictnient which you are about
to try. is one found by the grand jury of
Ribb county, and embodies issues of the
most grave character and
ance. It is necessary, gentlemen, that,
as this is a case in which purely circum
stantial evidence so far as is now known,
is to prove the innocence or guilt of the
prisoner at the bar, you should pay the
closest attention, deliheiating carefully
each point brought out* and weighing
every circumstance.
•‘You must tin 1 the evidence to coin
cide with the prisoner’s guilt and that it
is absolutely nnreconeilablc with his
possible innocence before you can justly
arrive at a verdict of guilty.”
Capt. Hardeman went on to lay elo-
there was not as much blood on it then
as tho stains there now would indicate.
Didn tknow how the stains came there.
INCIDENT 8 OP THE TRIAL. _
III
nitrated strikingly in tip* fol
P . quent emphasis upon the terrible ropon-
°: f . r !'* T *''.7 | nihility of the “gentlemen of the jury.”
lowing incident
sixty m com! ju
Hie
full alio
ing iiinl
hundred and
hmi been rejected,
lefensc had struck
•ed twenty, exhausting their
nee of strikes,hut were labor*
the mistake that they had only
cen out of th*.* twenty strikes.
Mr tieorge Lumpkin, of Hast
is ca.led up for examination,
g to disquali y the defense,
lo so. “struck” him, hut ilndr
do so was challenged by tho
n. w ho established tin- fact
defense h id exhausted their
• ke*. A hi ief consultation be-
1 Ins counsel was
h- Id.
Lum,
I rise
ollolk fixed his tye* on Mr.
..r a few second* wilh a most
nmiv, and then suddenloturn-
Ruilu-rford and Mr. Walker,
;* derided, hut low tone
were shown to the jury who examined
them by the light of a candle furnished
them for the purpose by a bailifT.
Witness also testified as to a hat found
in the well about twojceeka after the
murder, lie saw the Tift f^und in the
well and it wa9 said by some of them
with witness to belong to Silas
Woolfolk’s boy, but be could not tell
who told him.
Witness also testified to having seen
blood spots in the hall near the door of
M rs. West’s room.
His cross questioning was long and te
dious, lasting until 5:3o p in, when he
was allowed to “come down,” and the
court adjourned until 9 o’clock this
morning, when the hearing of the testi
mony will be continued.
INCIDENT* OF THE TRIAL.
A commotion was caused in the gallery
about 4 p. in., by the fainting of a young
man, who had to be taken out by some
of the audience.
Miss Florence Elinore visited the court
room in company with her leading lady,
Miss Rayard and took a look at the pris
oner.
The jury is boarding at the Stubble
field House, from which place Woolfolk
also procures his meal*.
After the c >un adjourned last night
Mrs. Kd wards, Woolfolk’* sister, held a
long and earnest conversation with Sol
icitor General Hardeman and it is said
she plead with him to he as lenient as
possible to her brother. The circum
stance was a touching one and attracted
the rude gaze of the crowd which was
still in the room, hungry for food to s.it
isfy their cur.o>itv and who gathered
around the stern man of the law nnd his
gentle supplicant while the d.alogup was
going on.
Mr. George Lumpkin, as he took his
seat in th ; jury box yesterday, was heard
to make the droll remark that he was
ital import- 1 “out on Christmas this year.”
In empanneling the jury 174 jurors
weres.vorn; tho 163d man examined
made the twelfth juror; 122 were disqual
ified; 12 went into the jury box; 20 were
“‘struck’’ by the defense and 'J by the
Slate.
The whole jury as it now stands is:
1, T S Lowry, life insurance.
2, Win J McKay, boot and shoe sales
man.
3, U H Rarron, manufacturer’s agent.
4, A ll Tinsley, manufacturer.
5, Miles W Kitchens, planter.
0, Asher Ayers, broker.
7, I l* Roosevelt, cotton merchant.
8, J 11 Timberlake, bookkeeper.
0, H .1 Harvey, minister and superin
tendent English & Co’s compress.
10, C W Smith, Jr, bookkeeper.
11, TC Hendrix, builder and contrac
tor.
12, George Lumpkin, merchant and
justice of the peace.
Court room gossip says eleven of the
jury are anxious about their Christmas
dinner, and one is worried about a date
fixed before Christmas, in which two
persons are interested, and he can’t even
getanotefrdm her unless the judge
retd* it first.
The jurors are constantly sending a
bailiff for tobacco supplies.
The prisoner’s complexion looks less
clear each day.
Mrs Cowan, the prisoner’s sister, and
her husband, with Mrs Edwards, also
his sist r, his aunt, Mrs Crane, and Mr
Shackelford, hi* cousin, are all stopping
during the trial at the home of Mis Ed
wards, another sister, living in East Ma
con.
The jury yesterday requested the court
to furnish an expert scientist to make a
microscopic examination of the blood
and brain spots on the underclothing now
in court.
THE METHODISTS.
Tbe Proceeding* .of tbe Hletbodiat
Conference at .VI arietta.
Marietta, Dec. 10*—(Special-]—The
Conference is now hard at work, with
pi ospects of closing up all the business
by Monday afternoon’s session. Tester
day’s sessions were long and devoted to
very hard and te lious woik.
Among the interesting reports read
yesterday was one presented by Rev. A.
0, Thomas, the presiding elder of the
Dahlonega district. He has done tine
work in the mountain district* durin:
the past year. Tbe labour is tedious re
quiring long rides and great exertions to
move the people. He urged that the
church give more attention to the people
of that section.
The trustees of the Ophans* Home at
Decatur reported that institution to
PETTICOAT RULE.
MRS, HULD A MOORE DEFIES THE SHER-
IFF-AND GOES FRtEj
Twice Bluffed by Fair Premises
tbe Officer, of tbe Law are Forbid'
den Entrance to ber Xonl mud
Pocketing their Wail
Without n Prisoner,
Danielsville, Dec. 0.—JTJpecuL]—
The famous Mrs. Bukin Moore so well
known to the legal fraternity of this sec
tion is again attracting attention.
It will he remembered at the last Sep
tember term of our Superior Court,
judgement was obtained againt her bus
band, John Moore, for attorneys fee. A
motion was made for new trial, which
motion was not sustained, but served to
postpone collection till time to levy for
January sale.
When Sheriff Scarborough went to levy,
Mrs Moore, who is considered.boss of
the premises, made the sheriff some very
fair promises of payment within a very
few days and the levy was not made.
On Monday last, Mrs. Moore
came up to settle, and brought
certificates of deposits from the National
Rank of Athens, and requested that Mr.
Strickland, plaintiff in ti fa, write receipt
in full- which was done. Mrs. Moore,
after having receipt read over to her
twice, professed to have no confidence in
sheriff or plaintiff, and asked to see re
ceipt herself. She asked also to seo S
fa. After scrutinizing them for some
time she put both in her pocket and
drove off, leaving the sheriff without a
Ii fa, and carrying a clear receipt in her
| ockcL After some discomfeiture at the
cool, proceedings of Mrs. Moore, the
Sheriff took possessory warrant' against
her, and another visit was paid the
Moore residence by that officer.
She however, promised that if the
sheriff would return without executing
the warrant she would bring her hus
band to town yesterday afternoon and
have him pay the debt. She failed to
fulfil the piomise. To-day Sheriff Scar
borough and Deputy Sherill" W ii White
( went down to arrest Mrs Moore. They
I found, upon their arrival, a determined,
TABERNACLE SERVICES.
STRAINING AT A GNAT AND SWAL
LOWING A CAMEL.
urath they shall bo burled with their feet prominent tnan tne question or eternity,
toward the east, and not at all ‘anxious | Coine now, let us all go into the con-
that during their whole life they should fessional. Are not all tempted to make
be in a prosperous condition. There are
forty-five boys and girls in the home and j furious wmnan.Tn Mrs Al'ooris who" for-
all are doing well, the trustees urged | l>ado their entering the yard. She was
that the ministers bring the institution
more prominently before the people.
Bishop McTyeire will probably an
nounce the appointments for the ensuing
year next Monday.
Klbcrton is being strongly pressed as
the place of next meeting.
COALMINES ON F.RE-
til they were tlooded. The damage done j
“1 WILL RISK THAT MAN,”
Whereupon Mr. Lumpkin was ordered
by the sheriff to take his seat in the jury
box, and Fol. Rutherford, who a moment
het< ie bud been eyeing him with all the
faci it expression of mistrust that his long
exp in nee in the criminal court has
taii’Ll him, suddenly Ranged the lan
guage of bis look* and beam d a smile of
welcome to the jury, upon Mr. Lump
kin, remarking as he took his seat, “Glad
to have yon on the jury, Mr. Lumpkin.”
The work of cmpanneling the jury
listed until 1:10, panel after panel being
exhausted without a single addition be
ing made to the trial jurv.
ON K OK TIIF. INCIDENTS
of the morning was the tilt between the
attorneys of the opposing side over the
eligibility of Mr H. Y. Napier, who, in
answering tbe question put bv Solicitor
General Hardeman as to whether he had
formed or expressed an? opinion of the
guilt of the prisoner or not, said that he
ba<i at times formed opinions and ex-
» 1 them, based upon the reports
published in the pres*.
i ol Kutlieilotu atone and stated that
lie did not think Mr. Napier was a qual
itied juror as he had, according to his
own admission, formed and exressed
opinions from impressions gained from
the newspaper reports he had read.
The State claimed that Mr. Napier was
qualified; that newspaper reports were
no more weighty than any rumor upon
which a person might form an opinion
conditional with their correctness and
subject to changes upon becoming con
vinced of their inaccuracy and that such
opinion did not in any way effect a man’s
bias in the matter of this kind in ques
tion.
t ml, Rutherford thereupon spoke forc
ibly for a few moments, arguing that no
man could be unbiased upon any sub
ject after having on e formed an opinion.
A man’s mind should be as free from
predisposal in a matter of this kind as a
piece of puie white paper on which
delicate and accurate impression is to be
taken should be from spot or soil.
The question was put to Mr. Napier
again upon the judge’s order,and he said
tint he felt that if the prisoner could
show any proof that he was innocent of
the crime charged against him, that he
could do him justice in deciding upon the
matter, even though he had held an opin
ion of his guilt,
Col. Rutherford
jointly and severally and toinstruct them
upon their plain duty tn the case.
He then proceeded to state what tho
prosecution would attempt to prove,
portraying in the most vivid word pic
tures the scenes and circumstances of
the terrible tragedy on the night of the
5th of last August and the morning that
followed.
During the address of Capt. Hardeman
to the jury
wool.Fol.K FACED ABOUT
by turni g his chair, ami for the first
time turned his eyes and fixed them full
upon the twelve archons in whose hands j terest in'.Macon. Woolfolk
his d-stiny has been placed for ti al dis- | sister again took seats besid j
posal. Hi* glance was shrewd and first witness was Mr Win 11 Smith, who ! i__ ° Inai i*. to control them
searching, as though he would divine fives about half a tuile from the house of j \ *
their inceptive convictions. He sat in the bloody tragedy. He testified that but without avail,
this position during the early part of Tom Woolfolk sent for him at three
Capt. Hardeman’s speech. Meanwhile o'clock on the morning of the murder,
his sister and aunt sat behind him, their j telling him that some one had broken
into the house; that on his way there he
met Tom Woolfolk at the house of Green
Lockett, colored, and Tom told him the
, tale since repeated about the murder. lie
fixed ami earnest coun- related Tom’s statement with particular-
aw it in profile. | ity and minuteness. A recess was taken
Macon, Dec. 8.—[Special ]—Nine wit
nesses were examined in this case yes
terday—all for the State. The court
house was packed with spectators, and
the trial and its incidents were the all-
absorbing topics of conversation and in
aunt and
him. The
A Fierce Fire llaging in the Aline* of
the Itoano Iron Company, in Ten.
armed with a pistol in her pocket, and
her hand on it, and when the officers
would start toward her to make the ar
rest, she railed the more, and plainly in
formed him that if he advanced further,
Dr. Talma^c Says There Are » Thousand
Scoundrels Outside the Chart h to One
Inside of It—Why the Law Taxing In.
comes Was Repealed.
Brooio/tn, Dec. 11.—To night the
Rev. T. De-Witt Talmage, D. D., preached
at the Tabernacle, this city, on “Too
Much Ado About Small Tilings.” His
text was: “Ye blind guides, which strain
at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Matt,
xxiii, 24. The eloquent preacher said:
A proverb is compact wisdom, knowl
edge in chunks, a library in a sentence,
tbe electricity of many clouds discliarged
in one bolt, a river put through a mill
race. When Christ quotes the proverb of
the text, lie means to set forth the ludi
crous behavior of those who make a great
bluster alxmt small sins and have no ap
preciation of great ones.
In my text a small insect and a large
quadruped are brought into comparison—
a gnat and a camel. You have in
museum or on the desert seen the latter,
a great awkward, sprawling creature,
with back two stories high, and stomach
having a collection of reservoirs for
desert travel, an animal forbidden to the
Jews as food, and in many literatures en
titled ‘‘the ship of the desert. ’ ? The gnat
spoken of in the text is in the grub form.
It is born in pool or pond, after a few
weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after
a few days becomes the gnat as we recog
nize it. But the insect spoken of in the
text is in its very smallest shape, and it
yet inhabits the water—for my text is a
misprint and ought to read “struin out a
gnat.”
My text shows you the prince of in
consistencies. A man after long obser
vation has formed the suspicion that in
a cup of water he is alxmt to drink
there is a grub or the grandparent of a
gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or strain
er. He takes the water and pours it
through the sieve in the broad light. He
says, “I would rather do anything al
most tlian drink this water until tliis
larva be extirpated.” This water is
brought under inquisition. The experi
ment is successful. The water rushes
through the sieve and leaves against tho
side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then
the man carefully removes the insect
and drinks the water in placidity. But
going out ono day, and hungry! he de-
or put his hand* on her, he would be ^
dead iunn in a minute. The officer vows
that she would grow so furious when he
that her face would grow black with
rage, and he verily believes that had he
attempted to arrest her he would have
been shot dead instantly. It is needless
nc**ev. I t0 that she was master of the situa-
! tion. and the officers came back* without
Ciiattanoooa, Dec. 10.—[Special.]— | a prisoner. They can face a posse of 75
News has just reached the city that a big j determined men at midnight, but not
fire has broken out in the coalmines of : HuhU Moore in broadopcH-day.
the Roane Iron company at Hock wood, , "u°j the way , in , he account of the at-
north of this city. The cause of the fire j tempted lynching it should have been
is unknown, but is supposed to be the j stated that Sheriff Scarborough summon*
result of spontaneous combustion. A j 'd a posse of citizens and marched to the
„ , , * • .1 ! j**” to see that no lynching was done, be-
year ago a hre brake ont in these same | J furc tfae guUcn 3 - - - s - - - ’
mines, and could not be extinguished
vour* a “ship of the desert,” the camel,
which the Jews were forbidden to eat.
The gasl^jnomer has no compunction of
would attempt to advance toward her [conscience. He suffers from no imliges-
-- ... ... ion. He put* the lower jaw under the
i crowd left the jaiL
CARLISLE COMING-
by the present tire has already reached
several thousaed dollars, and the 11 ones
, are growing fiercer every hour. Great
eyes cast down under their heavy black
veils, with the exception of Mr*. Ed-
wards, who raised her veil and every
now and then cast a pain-burdened 1
glance a> Tom
tenance as sh<
Rut as Capt. Hardeman detailed the at the conclusion of Mr Smith’s testi-
circumstances of the murder and pic- mony, nnd a photographer in the gallery
tured the bloody sn*ne iinn.odiately after j attempted to improve it by taking a pic
as described by the first witness who ar- } jure o! the scene below, but Woolfolk,
rived on the spot, and spoke of the axe detecting his purpose, turned his back
and socks that were proof* of Tom’s upon him. Mr Geo W Yates was the
guilt, the prisoner showed at hi* fin^
tips and hj the increased compression of
hi* lips that he was moved with emotion,
and turned his face slightly, bringing his
eyes over the heads of intervening per-
next witness. He testified that he ar
rived at the house shortly after Mr
Smith, and found Mr S and Tom Wool
fo^k there, the latter sitting at the foot of
a tree; that Tom soon after remarked
sons and fixing them on the blue sky, as ! ihat he had blood on his feet, and wit-
seen through the window at the left of; ness heard him washing them; that wit-
the judge’s bench, while Mrs. Edwards ness snw the spot on the legs of the
lowered her veil over her face, hidinj
from view.
Woolfolk sat through the remainder of
the statements of the case in the same
position, hut a* Capt. Hardeman describ
ed the agency of the bloody axe and the
shirt and socks found in the well, hi*
hands nnd inouih showed increasing
sign* of nervousness.
WITNHSSKS UNDER THE RULE.
WJien ^apt. Hardeman closed, the de
drawers when drawn from the well, and
believed that it was made by either
brains or marrow—it being of
a whitish appearance and a lit
tle bloodshot; he identified the
underclothes, and pointed to the place
where the spot had been. Col Ruther
ford took the drawers, and by turning
them about, so confused the witness
that on a second trial he placed his finger
on the other leg than the one first point-
H00SIER GIRLS ON THEIR ME fAL.
They Throw l'epper iu un F.di lor’*
Kyck and Then Cowhide Him.
Hammond, Ind., Dec. 10.— [Special ]—
A number of young women of this place
claim tn hive been slandered by Editor
Towle, of the Echo, of this place. The
girls replied in kind, publishing an arti
cle in another paper, scorning the editor.
Yesterday seven of the girls met Towle
in the street, and throwing red pepper n
his face, three attacked him with cow
hides. The editor begged for mercy and
then threatened to shoot; but the girls
only plied the whip the faster. Towle
finally escaped.
Hr Caunol lteuch Cicorgia Until the
Iliddlcof Juuuary.
Atlanta, Dec. 8.—[Special.]—As an
nounced a few* days ago, Mr. Carlisle had
expressed his willingness to address the
people of Atlanta upon the subject of
tariff reform during the Christinas holi
day*. A letter received from Senator
Colquitt to-day states that Mr. Carlisle
will be so occupied with his congression
al work and so worn out that he will be
cameEs forefoot, and his upjier jaw over
the hump of the camel’s kick, and gives
one swallow and tho dromedary disap
pears forever. He strained out a gnat,
he swallowed a camel.
While Christ’s audience were yet smil
ing at tho appositeness and wit of his
illustration—for smile they did iu church,
unless they were too stupid to under
stand ti^e hyperbole—Christ practically
said to them, “That is you.” Punctil
ious about small things; reckless about
affairs of great magnitude. No subject
ever withered under a surgeon’s knife
more bitterly than did the Pharisees un
der Christ’s scalpel of truth. As an
anatomist will take a human body to
pieces and put them under a microscope
for examination, so Christ finds his way
to the heart of the dead Pharisee and
cuts it out and puts it under the glass of
inspection for all generations to exam
ine. Those Pharisees thought that
Christ would flatter them and compli
ment them, and how they must have
writhed under the red hot words as he
said, “Ye fixds, ye whited sepulchers,
ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat
and swallow a camel.”
There are ia our day a great many
gnats strained out and a great many
unable to visit Georgia during the holi- j camels swallowed, and it is the object of
days. Mr. Carlisle, however, has deti- : this se:nion to sketch a few persons who
nitely fixed the 23d day of January as are extensively engaged in that business,
the time when he will make his debut in First: I remark that all those minis-
Georgia, and on that day he will address j tors of the Gotqiel are photographed in
the public on the great question, the tar-
OUR SENIOR SENATOR-
Why he was Defeuted on Ilourd of
Induration.
fense asked toswear in Mr* Cowan as a 1 out. Mr Jerre H.nllis, the next wit
witness, and l ave him privileged to re
main in the court room with the remain
der of prisoner’s relatives. The Slate
objected stoutly and carried the point.
Mr. Walker then insisted that Mr. C.
W. Howard, the prosecutor, who was
also a witness for the prosecution, should
either go out with the other witnesses or
be sworn and testify first, before any
other testimony was given.
Col. Hardeman refused to aecede this
point, and Judge Gustin ruled that Mr.
Howard could stay in the room, and that
his testimony tould be called for by the
FURTHER ARGUED
that he vras incompetent and the court
ordered Mr. Napier marked off the list
as disqualified.
When at 11:24 a. in. Judge Gustin
calied for a panel of twelve mere jurors
he ordered that all the jurors so far dis-
qualified to sit on the present case could
!**• dismissed for the remainder of the
present term of court. The clerk began
to call the roll and it was found to be
nearly exhausted, and so the bailiffs
were sent into the by ways and hedges
of the city to gather in more subjects.
At 12 45 the Judge rapped the gavel
upon his desk and announced that the
work would proceed, A twelve was
made up, but two had legal excuses and
"ere allowed to go. The twelve was
again completed and then two more men
had to be released on excuses. Once
more the twelve was made good, and this
tune all were held and sworn. It was on
this twelve that Mr. George Lumpkin,
the lf»3d man swoin in during the two
days, was first in order, and tho manner
in which he came to find himself one of
the jury for the famous Woolfolk trial
has been described above.
Mr. Lumpkin took his seat in the jury
box at te n minutes past 1 o'clock, and as
he iRdso
“ A SENSATION OF RELIEF
prosecutors at their own time
Col. Rutherford then asked permission
to address the jury for a brief period.
But the court ruled that if he did he
would have to yield his privilege of ad
dressing them later on when his time
should come.
After some consultation with his col
league, he decided lo accept of the alter
ness, also identified the underclothing;
he was more positive than the previous
witness in pronouncing the spots brained
stain, and said there were several of
them, pointing out their locations. Capt
W A Davis, next witness, said that he
“saw the imprint of a hand made in
blood on the flesh of the prisoners right
leg: that he was a member of the coro
ner’s jury; that the jury stripped Wool-
folk and discovered it; that Wool-
folk explained that he made
this mark lowering his draw
ers before he washed, Mr. Henry
native and proceeded to give the jury a
full detail of the “counter” the defense
expected to execute in rebuttal of the
State's testimony and charges.
Col. Rutherford said: “We will show
you that Capt. Richard Woolfolk, Sr,
was the father of the defendant, T
Brown was the next witness. He cor
roborated some of the previous testimony
and said that Tom Woolfolk admitted
that the bloody tracks found in the hall
were his; also that he s.iw a little speck
of blood in Tom’s right ear, and Tom
said it must got there when his father
was struck; that Tom said. “I know who
ever killed my father didn’t do it for his
money.” Mr J J Clay, the undertaker.
testified to the appearance and positions
of the wound* on the dead bodies, etc.
Coroner llodnett identified the shirt and
drawers; said he took the sthirt from
Tom, and the bloody marks on it were
| not there ther—they were made by his
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10.—(Special.)—
Reporter, to Members of Council:—“Gen-
men, how came you to omit Sen. Brown’s
name from your ballot and thus have
him defeated?’’
Councilmen, in chorus, “Because we
had four better men; because Sen. B.
spends much of his time in Washington,
and even when here rarely attends a
meeting of the board.”
THE SITUATION IN FRANCE-
A Demand for tbe Kein*tmteuient o
tien. Boulanger a* War .VliniMer.
Paris, Dec. 8.—[Special.]—It is stat
ed that Mr, Goblet, in the formation of
the new cabinet, intended to demand tbe
appointment of Gen. Boulmger as min
ister of war.
M. Paul de Koulde has resigned the
Presidency of the French Patriotic
League, owing to a disagreement with
the league committee concerning the ac
tion taken by the league during the re
cent crisis in Paris.
Tbe Central Pacific’* Claim.
iff.
In response to an invitation from Ma
con, he will go from Atlanta to Macon on
the 24th, and upon the 25th he will Re
liver an address in the city of Macon.
The people of Georgia should be con
gratulated that soon they will have an
opportunity of hearing the most distin
guished representative of a question in
which the people of this State, and of
the entire country, are so vitally interest
ed. Mr. Carlisle stands at the very head
of the Democratic parte of the United
States. Next to Mr. Cleveland, he oc
cupies the most distinguished office in
the gift of the people of this country,
and the people of Georgia will give him
an old fashioned deinocratic reception.
FORGED LETTERS TO THE CZAR .
Tbe Wife of ihcAuktrian Ambassa
dor Accused of Haring Something
to Do With Tbe m.
the text who are very scrupulous about
the conventionalities of religion, but put
no particular stress upon matters of vast
importance. Church services ought to
be grave and solemn. There is no room
fer frivolity in religious convocation.
But there are illustrations and there are
hyperboles like that of Christ in the text
that will irradiate with smiles an}' intelli
gent auditory. There are men like those
blind guides of the text who advocate
only those things in religious service
which draw the corners of the mouth
down, and denounce all those things
which have a tendency to draw the cor
ners of the mouth up, and these men will
go to installations and to presbyteries and
to conferences and to associations, tlieir
pockets full of fine sieves to strain out
the gnats, while in their own churches at
home every Sunday there are fifty people
sound asleep. They make their churches
a great dormitory, and their'somniferous
sermons are a cradle, and the drawled
out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful
60ul in a pew with her fan keep the flies
London, Dec. 9.—[Special.]—Numer
ous theories have been advanced and va
rious explanations have been offered in
regard to the alleged forged letters th at
found their way to the czar, supposedly
from the hand of Bismarck. A great
many people have been accused of writ
ing them, and nearly every day some
one discovers that the poor Orleanists
their door. The Ceuntess Wolkenstern
Fosburg, wife of the Austrian ambassa
dor at St. Petersburg, has been selected
as one of the intriguers, and continental
dispatches inform us that Austria is
about to recall her ambassador.
ATTACKED BY BOYS*
Prof. Kinnebrevv Has Trouble With
School Boy* in Atlanta.
Woolfolk, and we will show you by un- j ^rapping * l>l°°dy towel. Sheriff
controvertable evidence that Thomas I 'J estcott testified to the safe keeping of
Woolfolk lovoJ his fattier as well as a hoy j ,1,e . underclothing, etc. The court then
ever loveil a kind parent,” and went on to I adjourned.
aeemed to affect every one present after
the long and tedious routine of the last
two days. Even Woolfolk seemed sat
isfied to think that the trying ordeal of
selecting the twelve component parts of
the tribunal that was to weigh the evi
dence in the ease and decide upon his
life or death, had com. to an end, and at
least there would be something else for
■
be judge promptly directed that the
jurora still under aubptpna be relieved,
and ordered a recess of an hour and
twenty mirutes, until 8:80.
THU RIFKsa KHOItp,
At 8;30 p. m. Judge Gustin waa in his
coat again, iu wera also the counsel, with
the prisoner and hia relatives. Tha doors
were now opened to the crowd outside
and bailiffs placed in the gallerias to keep
order among the motley congregation
that quickly filled them to their utmost
e-ating capacity. His Honor ordered
tbe bailiffs at tha doors should only ad
mit sufficient number* to occupy tba
■eats, and that no on* be allowed to re
main standing within the room, so that
the order of the oourt might be folly
preserved.
As soon as tbe influx of spectators
ceased, the court ordered that th* pro
ceeding* begin, and Solicitor General
Hardeman moved that tha witnesses be
instantly sworn. The motion was grant
ed, and th* State prooeeded to adminis
ter th* oath to its witnesses, some fifty-
Odd in all, of different grades, shades and
state the facts in the case as the deft 1
proposed to prove them. That the clothes
found in the well were not Tom's but
Richard's, and that the
erors os the clothin<i
were not blood spots, but might have
been made in any other way well as l>y
blood spots.
the first witness called.
Mr. Sam C. Chambliss was put upon
the stand.
He knew Richard F. Woolfolk, Sr.
Saw him dead on the morning of the (ith
oflast August. He received tidings ut
daybreak on that morning that Capt.
Woolfolk and his family were all mur
dered. fie mounted his horse and hast
ened to the place. He found Tom sit
ting at the foot of the tree in front of the
house.
Ho went into Tom's room on tho left
front of the house and saw two spots on
the floor, that had evidently been made
by the washing up of some stains on the
floor, as the aoap-suds were still there.
In the corner of the room was a wot
towel. He described the positions of the
various bodies as he found them, and th.
nature of the wounds, essentially as they
were described in tho columns of the
Telegraph at the timo of the tragedy.
THE raTAL AXE IN COURT.
When tbe testimony was reached con
cerning tho weapons used in the murder.
Sheriff Weatcoit, at a motion from Cap
tain Hardeman, went into the privatp
room of the court, and shortly came onf,
bringing in hi* hand so ajfe of foil wood?
choppers’ site, hong on a staff about
eighteen or nineteen inches long, with
the handle end rsther battered and split,
while the other end in the eye of '.he ax*
waa badly broken and bung very loose
ly. There was bluodon the handle, and
on the head of the axe several
LOCKS OP LOSO HUMAN HAIR
■till hong ss tell-tale evidenoe or its ter
rible instrumentality in th* enactment of
the bloody chapter.
Captain Hardeman asked permission
to retire to hi* office a moment; and when
ho returned he passed a slight buudle to
Mr. Chsmbliu, the witness, and asked
him to undo it and tell th* jury if he rec-
o.nised what he found therein.
Witnesa slowly unrolled it and pro
duced a pair of socks and a floe little
atrip of doth which ha stated he had
taken from the wodfolk well, with the
help of eeveral others, about 12 o’clock
after the murder. Tbe socks were origl
Macou Tt le rn h.
Mr J J Clay, the undertaker, was the
next witi ess to take the stand.
He examined the wounds on the bod
ies, and thought must of them were made
with the “pole;’ or head of an axe.
He examined the wounds with a key
which he had on a ring in his pocket
which he showed the jury still having
blood upon it.
He measured the wound over Miss
Pearl’s eye and concluded that they were
all make with an axe.
Col Rutherford here raised objection
to witness saying what he thought at the
time.
Solicitor Hardeman held that the su
preme court had decided that question.
The court ruled that if witness could
give satisfactory reasons for his impres
sions he could state them.
Mr Clay had a memorandum of the
wounds on the bodies, w hich he could
not read without a pair of spectacles, but
had left them at his home. The clerk
of the court furnished him with a pair,
and he read.
Mrs Woolfolk, one blow on back of the
head with blade of an axe.
Captain Woolfolk, o.ie over the left
ear, one on the forehead, one over tbe
left eye with head of the axe, and one on
left of the head with blade' of the axe.
He might have been hit several tim?s
more, as his head was terribly mailed-
Young Richard had thp back of hjs heaq
crushed in with head of the qxp, *nd q
blow oyer the right eye on the forehead
With blqde of the a*e.
Charlie had a blow on top oTIiis head
with head of the a*c, and one on tho
right temple?
Annie had « blow behind tho left ear
with edge of the axe; one on the left side
of the neck and one on her back with the
edge also.
Mrs West was struck behind the left
ear with edge of the axe, and oyer her
loft temple.
Miss Pearl had one blow, crashing in
the left ear, one on left of forehead with
blade of axe, and one crushing ont her
left eye.
Rosebnd had one blow behind left ear
and alight blow on left shoulder.
Witness thought Mrs. Woolfolk was
killed trying to protect her husband, he
being the second one who testified to
that impression.
Ho thought there was a terrible strag
gle to the death in the halt where the
blood was, and anrmised that either Mias
New York, Dec. 10.—[Special.]—C.
P. Huntington, for the Central Pacific,
has sent to the Pacific railway, commis
sion a statement of the position of that
company. The document was prepared
by Roscoe Conkling and W. I). Shipman
and reiterates the familiar argument for
the cancellation of the company’s debt
to the government.
An Awful Dentil.
Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 9.—
[Special ]—John Haggerty,a workman at
the Wheeling steel plant, was literally
fried to a crisp }esterday He was en
deavoring to pass through a narrow space
between the shears and a train of rolls,
when a white-hot ingot struck him and
knocked him down. The hot iron was
drawn slowly across him baking the flesh
to a crisp, and even rasping it off in large
chunks, exposing and blackening the
bones. The attention of the employees
was attracted by the odor of burning
flesh, and the victim was rescued in a
dying condition.
• | Pearl or Richard were killed thefe.
nally of medium quality but were tome-1 He could identify the shirt shown him
whst worn sod darned and of s very I by Solicitor Hardeman, but knew that
Atlanta. Dec. 9.—[Special.]—Prof.
Kinnebrew, late of Athens, who is now
teaching at the Ivy Street School, was
whipping a boy named Goldsmith today,
face in the right direction so that they
shall come up in the resurrection of tho
just whichever way they are buried. How
many there are chiefly anxious that a
minister of the Gospel shall comp in the
line of apostolic succession, not caring so
much whether he comes from Apostle
Paul or Apostle Judas. They have a
way of measuring a gnat until it ia larger
than a camel.
Again, my subject photographs all
those who are abhorrent of small sins
while they are reckless in regard to mag
nificent thefts. You will find many a
merchant who, wlifle he is so careful
that ho would not take a yard of cloth or
a spool of cotton from the counter with
out paying for it, and who if a bank
cashier should make a mistake and send
in a roll of bill* $5 too much would
dispatch a messenger in hot haste to
return the surplus, yet who will go into
a stock company in which after a while
he gets control of the stock, and then
waters the stock and makes $100,000
appear like $200,000. He only stole
$100,000 by the operation. Many of
the men of fortune made their wealth in
that way. One of those men, engaged in
such unrighteous acts, that evening, tho
evening of the very day when he watered
the stock, will find a wharf rat stealing
a newspaper from the basement doorway,
and will go out and catch tho urchin by
the collar, and twist the collar so tightly
the poor fellow cannot say that it was
thirst for knowledge that led him to tho
dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter
and tighter, saying, “I have been looking
for you a long while; you stole my jmper
four or five times, haven’t you? you miser
able wretch.” And then the old stock
gambler, with a voice they can hear three
blocks, will cry out, “Police, police!”
That same man, the evening of the day
in which he watered the stock, will kneel
with his family in prayers and thank
God for the prosperity of the day, then
kiss his children good night with an
air which seems to say. “I hope you
will all grow up to bo as good as your
father.” Prisons for sins insectile in size,
but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No
mercy for sins animalcule in projx>rtion,
but great leniency for mastodon iniquity.
A jKXjr boy slyly takes from the basket of
a market woman a choice pear—saving
some one else from the cholera—and you
smother him in the horrible atmosphere
of Raymond Street jail or New York
Tombs, while his cousin, who has been
skillful enough to steal $50,000 from tho
city, you will make him a candidate for
the New* York legislature!
There is a great deal of uneasiness and
nervousness now among some people in
our time who have gotten unrighteous
fortunes, a great deal of nervousness
&[>out dynamite. I tell them that God
will put under their unrighteous fortune*
something more explosive than dyna
mite, the earthquake of his omnipotent
indignation. It is time that we learn in
America that sin is not excusable in pro
portion as it declares large dividends and
lias outriders in equipage. Many a man
is riding to perdition, postilion ahead and
lackey behind. To steal one copy of a
new’si>aper is a gnat; to steal many thous
ands of dollars is a camel. There is many
a fruit dealer who would not consent to
steal a basket of peaches from a neigh
bor’s stall, but who would not scruple to
depress the fruit market; and a c . long as
I can remember we have heard every
summer the peach crop of Maryland
is a failure, and by the time the crop
comes in the misrepresentation makes a
difference of millions of dollars. A man
who would not steal one peach basket
steals 50,000 peach baskets. Go down in
the summer time into the Mercantile
library, in the reading rooms, and see tho
newsjiaper reports of the crops from all
]>arts of the country, and their phraseol
ogy is very much the same, and the same
men wrote them, methodically and
famously carrying out the huge lying
about the grain crop from year to year and
for a score of years. After a while there
will be a “corner” in the wheat market,
and men who had a contempt for a petty
theft will burglarize the wheat bin of a
nation and commit larceny ujkhi the
American corn crib. And some of tho
men will sit in churches and in reforma
tory institutions trying to strain out the
small gnats of scoundrelism, while in
their grain elevators and their storehouses
they are fattening huge camels, which
they expect aftef awhile to swallow. So
ciety has to be entirely reconstructed on
this subject. AVe are to find tliat a sin is
inexcusable in proportion as it is great.
I know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds against good men.
They say: “Oh, what a class of frauds
you have in the church of God in this
day,” and when an elder of a church, or
a deacon, or a minister of the Gospel, or
a superintendent of a Sabbath school
turns out a defaulter, wliat display heads
there are in many of the newspapers.
Great primer type. Five line pica: “An
other Saint Absconded,” •‘Clerical Scoun-
drelism,” “Religion at a Discount,”
‘ ‘Shame on the Churches, ’ * while there are
a thousand scoundrels outside the church
to where there is one inside the church,
and the misbehavior of those who never
the question, Where shall I live now?
greater than the question, Where shall I
live forever? How shall I get more dol
lars here? greater than the question.
How shall I lay up treasures in heaven?
the question, How shall I pay my debts
to man? greater than the question, How
shall I meet my obligations to God? the
question, How shall I gain the world?
greater than the question, What if I lose
my soul? the question. Why did God let
sin come into the world? greater tho
question, How shall I get it extirpated
from my nature? the question, What
shall I do with tho twenty, or forty, or
seventy years of my sublunar existence?
greater than the question, What shall I
do with the millions of cycles of my post-
terrestrial existence? Time, how 6mall it
is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former
more insignificant in comparison with tho
latter than a gnat is insignificant when
compared with a camel. We dodged tho
text. We said, “That doesn’t mean me,
anu that doesn’t mean me,” and with a
ruinous benevolence we are giving the
whole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge.
What an ado about things here! What
poor preparation for a great eternity! As
AN ASSUMED NAME*
A Young Woman On the Northeastern Pass
es Off as the Daughter of the n^nhs
County Ordinary.
A good-looking young woman came
down the Nortlu?astern, Monday night|
and at Lula was taken suddenly very
sick, and informed some of the passen
gers that she was tho daughter of Col.
Tom Hil!,Ordini.ry of Banks county, and
was returning from Atlanta, where she
had beep for some time. Several of the
passengers knew Mr. Hill and did every-
thing to alleviate the suffering of the
young lady. 8he got off at Maysville,
and Mr. Jinks Coiner did all in his pow
er to assist the young lady, but some
thing about her acting aroused his sus
picions that sho was not tho daughter of
Mr. Hill, but she seemed to bo in great
pain,and hefelt that it was hisduty to help
her, even though she was an imposter.
Mr. Comer went after her, Tuesday, to
carry her over to Homer, but found her
still quite sick and not desiring to go.
When he arrived in Homer, he informed
the Ordinary of the circumstance and
Mr. Hill informed him that there was
not a word of truth in the young wo
man’s statement; that his daughter was
at home and had not been away. There
though a minnow were larger than a * s 80me mystery connected with her,and
behemoth, as though a swallow took
wider circuit than an albatross, as though
a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar,
as though a gnat were greater than a
camel, as though a minute were longer
tlian a century, as though time were
higher, deeper, broader than eternity.
So tho text which flashed with lightning
of wit as Christ uttered it is followed by
to those who make the questions of
greater than the questions of the future,
the oncoming, overshadowing future. O
eternity! eternity 1 eternity 1
no one seems able to unravel it.
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Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church see the inside of a church is so great it is
tlian to smile in church, for the latter
implies at least attention, while tho for
mer implies the indifference of the hear
ers and tho stupidity of the speaker.
In old age, or from physical infirm
ity, or from long watching with
the sick, drowsiness will sometimes over
power one; but when a minister of the
unda healthy and intelligent people
struggling with drowsiness, it is time for
him to give out tho doxology or pro
nounce the benediction. The great fault
with church services today u not too
much vivacity, but too much somnolence.
The ono is an irritating gnat that may
be easily strained out; the other is a
great, sprawling, sleepy eyed camel on
the dry desert. In all our Kabkith
schools, in all our Bible classes, iu all our
pulpits we need to brighten up our relig
ious messages with such Christ like
vivacity as wo find in the text.
I tako down from my library tho
biographies of ministers and writers of
whentheboycriedforhelpandotherboys ages, inspired and uninspired, who
attacked the professor, lie dism issed
the school, and as he walked across the
yard he was attacked by a mob of boys
with rocks, lie jumped the fence anJ
went home. A sensation was caused by
tbe occurrence.
THEY WON’ CET IT-
The Xeirro College and the Klght Thousand
Doll.rs.
Atlanta, Dec. 9.—[Special.]--Chan
cellor Mell and the trustees who consti
tuted a commission to approve theappro-
priation for the colored University in At
ianta. have returned the plan of expendi
tures for the next year, unimproved.
Tbe reason is that it failed te comply
with the law passed by the last legisla
ture prohibiting the admission of whites.
The State appropriation of $8,0U0 will
he withheld.
Manulaclurern Kicking.
New York, Dec. 8.—[Special.]—The
Herald prints an interview with manu
facturers of various commodities in all
parts of the country, giving their views
on the President’s message. The opin
ions are almost universally opposed to
carrying out the Presidential recommen
dations.
Death at a Kladieon l ady.
Madison, Ga., Dec. 8.—[Special.]—
Mrs. James S. Reid died suddtnly on
yesterday morning at 11 o’clock. She
was sitting in her carriage at the gate of
Mr. f*- W. Walton, and niqst have been
dead some few minutes when her condi
tion waa noticed. Sho had just paid a
short vimt to Mrs. Walton and had left
to visit the business part of the city.
Presumed to be caused from heart dis
ease.
Three Outrager* Banged.
Orion, Tenn., Dec. 8.—[Special.]—
Three negroes, Adam Charles, Andy
Miller and Wm Smith, who had assaolt-
ed a little ten year old girl, were caught
by a mob of 100 whites and blacks yes
terday, near Rives. Tenn, and banged.
Mr. Parnell Seriously Ill.
New Yore, Dec. 8.—[Special.]—It is
said that Mr. Parnell, tbe Irish leader, is
suffering from abscess of tbe liver, and
that it ia developing to an alarming' de
gree.
NO RAILROAD THROUGH HIS FARM
t nichigander Shoots Two Track.
Layers Who Were Building One.
CARDtLLAC,Mich, Dec. 9.—[Special.]
The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Vorth Mich
igan railroad was surveyed through John
Chapin’s form. Chapin swore that he
wouM have no railrpad cutting op his
farm, and posted a notice warning tres
passers that he would shoot the first
railroader caught prowling on bis prem
ises. Yesterday the track-layers began
work, *nd when Chapin’s farm was
reached be fired upon them, shooting
John Thomas through the bowels and
Fred Subine in the head. They are dan.
gerously hart Chapin has been arrested
CONGRESSIONAL*
hare done the most, to bring souls to
Jesus Christ, and I find that without n
single exception they consecrated the’
wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah
used it when he advised the Buulites,
ns they could not make their god respond,
telling them to call louder us tlieir god
might be sound asleep or gone a-huntin&
Job used it when he said to his self con.
ceitetl comforters, “Wisdom will die
with you.” Christ not only used it in
the text, but when he ironically compli
mented the putrefied Pharisees, saying,
‘•The whole need not n physician,” and
when by one word he described the cun
ning of Ilerod. raying, “Go ye And tell
that fox.” Matthew Henry’s com
mentaries, from the first page to the last,
corruscatcd with humor as summer
clouds with heat lightning. John Bun-
yan’s writings ore os full of humor os
they ore of raving truth, and there is not
on aged man here who has ever read
“Pilgrim’s ^’rqgress” wlio. does not re-
npmiber tlmt while reading it he smiled
as o&gn^ylie wept. Chrysoetom, George
Herbert, lCobert South, John 'Wesley,
Ifeorge Wliitefield, Jeremy Taylor, Row
land Hill, Nettleton, George Q. putney
and all the men of the past who gveatly
advanced the kingdom of God consecrated
their wit and tlieir humor to the cause of
Christ, Sait has been in nU the ages,
and 1 say in these young theological
students who cluster in these services
fiabboth by Sabbatli, sharpen your wits
rs ke?n (is cimeters, nnd then take them
into this holy war.
ft Is a very short bridge between n
entile and a tear, a suspension bridge
from eye to lip. and it is soon crossed
over, end a smile is sometimes just as
sacred - ns a tear. There is ns much re
ligion, and I think a little more, in a
spring morning than in a etarlees mid-
tko- _makNi TSaligktus work without any humor
nTT* orSttlnit la a banquet with a side of
Nothing Done la Either Branch T<
day—Bath Houses Adjourned
Bonday Next. ■' beef, and tliat raw, and no condiments.
Wash inoton.Dcc. 8.—[Special.]—The
senate after the readiug of the journal
received some responses from tbe inte
rior department to inquiries about pri
vate land claims, and then, on morion of
Mr Farwell, at 12:06 p. m, adjourned
until Monday.
After several resolutions were offered
referring to amending tbe houto rules,
the boose, at 2:20, on motion of Mr.
Mills, adjourned until Monday next.
An Actress Saves a Child's Life.
Pittsburg, Pa, Dee. 8.—[Special.]—
Verona Jarbeao, the popular actress,
saved a child’s life yesterday by bravely
epringing before a locomotive and snatch
ing the child away.
Another Fatal B. B. CollUlen. .
Council Bluft, Iowa- Dec. 8.—[Spe
cial.]—At Percival last night a freight
train ran into a out-going -Kanaaa City
8L Joseph and Council Bluff . passenger
train. Tl» officials say two tramps who
were stealing a ride on the freight tram
were killed. Other reports say one
passenger was killed and about twenty
injared’
and no dessert succeeding. People will
not Bit down at each a banquet. By all
meant remove all frivolity and all bathos,
and all lightness and all vulgarity—strain
them out through the sieve of holy dis
crimination; but, on the other hand, be
ware of that monster which overshadows
the Christian church today, convention
ality, coming up from tbe Great Sahara
desert of ecclesiasticism, having on its
hack a hump of sanctimonious gloom,
and vehemently refuse to swallow that
camel.
■ Oh, how particular a great many peo
ple arc about the infinitesimals while they
are quite reckless about the magnitudes.
Wliat did Christ say? Did he not ex
coriate the people in his time who were
so careful to wash their hands before a
meal but did not wash their hearts? It
ia a had thing to have unclean hands; it
is a wane thing to have an unclean heart.
How many, people there are in our time
’ 1 are veer unjn*' that after, their
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enough to tempt a man to become a
Christian to get out of their company.
But in all circles, religious or irreligious,
the tendency is to excuse sin in propor
tion as it is mammoth. Even John Mil-
ton in his “Paradiso Lo6t,” while he
condemns Satan, gives such a grand de
scription of him you have hard work to
suppress your admiration. Oh, this
straining out of small sins like gnats, and
this gulping down great iniquities like
camels.
This subject does not give tho picture
of one or two persons, but is a gallery in
which thousands of people may see their
likeness. For instance, all thoso people
who, while they would not rob their
neighbor of a farthing, appropriate the
money and the treasure of the public.
A man has a house to sell, and ho tells
his customer it is worth $20,000. Next
day the assessor comes around an.l the
owner says it is worth $l. r >,000. The
government of the United States took off
the tax from personal income, among
other reasons because so few people
would tell the truth, and many a man
with an income of hundreds of dollars »
day made statements which seemed to
imply that he was about to be handed
over to the overseer of the poor. Care
ful to pay their passage from Liverpool
to New York, yet smuggling in their
Saratoga trunk ten eilk dresses from
Paris and a half dozen watches from
Geneva, Switzerland, telling the custom
house officer, on the wharf, “There is
nothing in that trunk but wearing ap-
Jarel,” and putting a $5 gold piece in
iis hand to punctuate the statement.
Described in the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law of
grammar, and who want all their lan
guage an elegant specimen of syntax,
straining out all the inaccuracies of
speech with a fine sieve of literary criti
cism, while through their conversation
go slander and innuendo, and profanity
and falsehood larger than a whole cara
van of camels, when they might better
fracture every law of tho language and
shock intellectual taste, and better let
every verb seek in vain for its nomina
tive, and every noun for its government,
and every preDOsition lose its way in the
Sentence, and adjectives and participles
and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy
of tho Fourth ward on election day. tlian
to commit a moral inaccuracy. Better
swallow a thousand gnats than ono
camel.
Such persona, are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about
the small faults of others, and have no
alarm about their own great transgres
sions. There aro In every .community
and in every church watchdogs who feel
called upon to keep their eyes on others
and growl. They are full of suspicions.
They wonder it that man is not dishon
est, it that man ia not unclean, if there is
not something wrong about the other
man. They are always the first to hear
of anything wrong. Vultures are always
tbe first to smell carrion. They are self
appointed detectives. I lay this down as
a role without any exception, that those
people who have the most faults them
selves are the most merciless in their
watching of others. From scalp of head
to sole of foot they are full of jealousies
and hypercriticisms. They spend their
life in hunting for muskrats and mud
turtles, instead of hunting for Rocky
Mountain eagles, always for something
mean instead of something grand. They
look at their neighbors’ imperfections
through a microscope, and look at their
own imperfections through a telescope
upside down. Twenty faults of tlieir
own do not hurt them so much as one
fault of somebody else. Their neighbors'
imperfections are like gnats and they
strain them out; their own imperfections
are like camels and they swallow them.
But lest some might tlrink they escape
the scrutiny of tbe text, I have to tell you
that we all come under the divine satire
when wa irtako the question of time mom
Washington, Dec. 10.—[Special.]—
The December statistical report of the
department of agriculture relates mainly
to farm prices of agricultural products.
The average value of corn is 48.8 cents
per bushel, against 3G.C last year, and
32 8 in 1885. The average value of
wheat is 69 cents, only three mills high
er than tho average last year. The aver
age for oats is 30.7 cents, against 29.8
last year. Barley averages 52.2, instead
of 53 last year. Buckwheat 56.1, or
seventeen cents higher than list year.
The cereal averages for the entire coun
try differ very slightly from these oflast
year, except aa to corn. The value of
potatoes is greatly enhanced, being 68.5
cents, against 45c. last year. It is higher
than for seven yean, except
1881. The value of hay is much
increased. It averages 9.34 per ton.
against 7.36 last year. The advance has
been in the drought area west Cotton
values about half a cent higher than in
December last. The average plantation
prices by States are as follows; 8.7 cents
per ponnd for the States of the Atlantic
coast, 8.6 for Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana; 8.5 for Tennessee and Arkan
sas, 8.5 .for Texas.
The December report which will be
printed at the end of the month, will con
lain the estimates of the area, products
and value by states of corn, wheat and
oats. It will also include a report on the
area and condition af winter grain.
Grading Itrtwecn Athena and Atlanta to
Begin an Soon Hr Bight of Way Can be Se
cured From One or Two l'Hrtlee in Till#
Neighborhood,
THE ROUTE FIXED.
Shovels and picks will soon he throw
ing up embankments and opening exca
vations on our new railroad. Right of
way has been secured between Atlanta
and Athens, with the exception of a
short gap just out of the city limits.
Some few impede the progress of the
enterprise by refusing to give or price
right of way through their premises.
They will soon come to terms, the con
tract will be let and grading begin in
good earnest. Some change has been
made in the line of the ro.ul. The route
through Oglethorpe county via Sandy
Cross and the Glade has been abandon
ed as impracticable, and a route by Dr.
Thompson’s, Hardeman's bar room and
Five Forks, in Madison county, has been
decided upon. This route will cross
North Broad river through Henry Dead-
wyler’s land, it was found that not a
single stream would ho crossed between
Athens and South Broad river. Gen.
Hoke has decided that Elberton is too
important a place to miss, so the new
road will pass by and unite our sister
city with us by hands of steel. We wel
come the closer connection.
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THE ANTIS AT WORK-
E-peclally to Women.
“Sweet is revenge especially to wo
men,”said the gifted out naughty, Lord
Byrt.n. Surely he was in bad humor
when he wrote such words. Bui there
are complaints that only women sufr
fer, thet are carrying numbers of them
down to early grave. There is hode for
those who suffer no matter how sorely,
or siverelv in DrfiV. Pierce’s ’’Favor
ite Prescription.’’-•’afe in its action it Is
a blessiuy jespecia ly to women and to
men, too, for when women suffer, the
uausenold Is askew
THE RECORD BROKEN-
A Divorce Granted tn the Superior Court In
Two Minute*.
The divorce record of the Superior
court was broken this morning. Hereto
fore the best time made was 2:082^. Time
and again verdicts have been rendered
within five minutes. Sometimes a case
is drawn ontover half an hour, but even
first verdicts are generally obtained in
leas than ten mnutes, unless the defen
dant answers the libel.
In fact, Chatham county juries have
attained such a reputation for expediting
suits for separation that it has been sug
gested that Beecher’s remark about the
metropolis of Illinoia: “Chicago, 15
minutes for divorce,” ia becoming appli
cable to Savannah.
The first case called by Jndge Adams
this morning was the suit of H. D. Can-
nick, a negro ’longshoreman, who want
ed a divorce from his wife Hager. Henry
McAlpin, Esq., represented the libellant.
The wife did not appear in Court and
made no answer to the charge of adul
tery. One witness, a neighbor was
sworn his evidence was brief, but point
ed, and the jury agreed to sign a 'second
verdict within fifteen seconds after the
witness had stepped down. The case
lasted two minutes and four seconds,
breaking the best previous official record
by 4}£ seconds.
The antis are making a still hunt to
see if they can secure the signatures of a
majority of the qualified voters in order
to call an election on the all-absorbing
whisky question. They are making
very little ado, hut will make a thorough
canvass before they decide to go to in
earnest. Of course it is a heavy under
taking to get such a long list of signa
tures as the law requires, but there ia
no telling what persistence and brains
may accomplish. Speaking to a promi
nent citizen the other day, he remarked,
“Why, no there is no more chance to
get whisky back into Athens than for
every anti in tuwu to take wings and fly
to mid-air. They could not get up a
corporal’s guard.” That’s one side of
the question. A prominent anti has de
cidedly another mind and liopea to suc
ceed in bringing the matter to a vote at
no distant date.
The blind organ gripder without the
monkey atlpe^qtent, t)** reached the
city.
Beat Again.—Who hoard the clock,
in the steeple strike thirteen Beat by
not so very small majority in the vote
for mayor, but still a candidate, and will
not be beat in having the best selected
stock of silter,ware, watches, Jewelry,
gold pens and almost everything you
can ask for in the jewelry line. And an
extensive lino of Artistic l’ottery. Royal
Worcester, Polychrome and other Christ
mas goods too numerous to mention.
Prices low and ma-ked in plain figures.
Truly,
Skiff, the Jeweler.
M. M. Maddrey in thoroughly accom
plished in ever deparraent of his busi
ness. He has come from an apprentice
ship up and is to-day prepared to hold
his own with the best. His perfect
knowledge of his business gives him
great advantage in judging of material
and repairing.
To get rt lief from indigestion, bilious
ness, constipat ionororpid liver with
out disturbing the stomach purging th»
bowels, take a few doses ol Carter’s Lit
tle Liuer Fills, they will please yon.
Jule Cohen, No. 6, was the first to th»
plug at the late fire.
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