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WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN,
Y DECEMB
Out rut
RAILROAD.
NTKE DIREC-
Off the Board
The New Ronrd-The
the Georgia Railroad.
Savanna:?, Dec. 23 [Speci*'.]—-The
election of thirteen directors of the Cen
tral Hailrond and Banking company of
Georgia takes place on Monday, .Ian 2.
Ten of the present hoard will be re
elected. Three will not serve another
year, at least tho ensuing year. There
are evidences of a mild cont est going on.
Proxies are being soheted by Messrs C
H l’hinizy, Pat Calhoun and one oi two
others of the board. Since the last elec
tion the lnuian family has been welcom
ed into the Central household. Perry
llelmont is also a large shareholder.
These powerful families do not believe
in capitalization without representation.
In consequence of this principle it has
been decided that Suniuul M Inman and
Hugh T. Inman, of Atlanta, and Walter
l.uttgen, of New York, a young partner
of Perry Belmont, shall have seats
around the directors’ board. Th : s means
that three of the present directors will
not continue in ofti -e. Who they will
be has be *n a question of much specula
tion lately.
Messrs 0 II l’hinizy, of Augusta, and
Henry lUun and C 11 Woods, of Savan
nah, are named as the gentlemen who
will not s rve next year as directors.
The ticket made up in New York re
cently is represented to be as follows:
K. P. Alexander,
Samuel M, Inman,
Hugh T. Inman,
Walt r l.uttgen,
K. W. (irern,
.1, .1. Wilder,
• I. K* (ill nett,
A. K. Mills,
bra ha in Yetsburg,
Patrick Calhoun,
C 15 llarroid,
II. 15. Collins.
John C. Calhoun.
This wiJJ give Savannah six. New
k oik throe, Atlanta three and Ainericus
* t r
It is not likely that this ticket wiP
altered by the majority which wns
Central stock, though a good deal of nc-
gotion an l diplomacy is now at work to
e IVct a change.
Tho total rumbrr of shares is 7o,<)00,
of this amount hMXK) shares are held
by a syndicate, none ot the metnbejs of
which visited the director*. 5 room to- day,
w here the stockholder's annual meeting
was advertised le he held.
There is a repc-r, that the Central is to
buy the Georgia Uni I road company or
get possession of it in some way. Col.
Phiiozy is President of the Georgia road,
and his presence on the Central's board
of directors might embarrass the other
members. The situation causes a gre-a
deal of talk here.
MR MANNING'S FATAL ILLNESS-
>ou Said to t>
llright** 1H»ch
Suffering F.oim
i‘->ot l.ikcly to
At.many, N. Y., Dec. 21.—[Special.]—
Alarming symptoms again appeared in
Mr ' *
Manning's case this afternoon. His
immediate relatives, although still deny
ing that a crisis is close at hand, now re-
Inctantly admit that his recovery is im
probable, To day the out of town mem
b- r- of the family were summoned and
H'e now nt bis beUside. From this fact
alone h s critical conditioa, which was
correctly stated in the Herald on Tues
day. i- shown to be true.
PhyMciatis who aie acquainted with
Mr. Si a lining's case now give their diag
nosis for the first time. They say that
1 e has long sit tie red from contiacted kid
ney ami enlarged, tlabby heart. This
stnt* ment makes plain to the professional
tender the er.ure systems. To the lav
teaibr ti e term Bright’s disease will
convey the same information.
HIS LAST ILLNESS.
'J'l.e insidious progress of the disease
nifl i*.s inevitably fatal r suits are well
known. In tin last stages of this dread
n ain'tv Mr, Manning is now undoubted
H d\ mg. Only a naturally vigorous
<on-i tution and the great caro exercised
to wanl oft’ the usual complication.* and
stay the pr >gress of the disease have
kept this noted man so long alive.
Th* diagnosis thus outlined explains the
brain lesion which occurred when Mr.
Mannii g was at -Washington, his subse
quent symptoms and gradual failure and
Ins |»i('sent critical condition.
11* art failure was the cause of his
sudden and alarming sinking spell to
day. IB- is rapidly growing weaker and
the woist may be expected at any mo
ment.
TIIK EXl> NEAR.
MmsniiiT.—The alarming symptoms
of Mr. .Manning's case increase. He now
lies in a state bordering on collapse,
caused by an extensive hemorrhage from
the bowels. His physician is inconstant
attendance and the entire family is'within
call. It is feared he will not survive the
night.
A W00LF0LK JUROR-
lie Sayi He Wat Net Frightened In*
to HU Verdict.
Macon, Dec. 24.—[Special.]—Rev. H.
J. Harvey, a juror in the Woolfolk case,
has been inierrfcwtd.
“You heard the exi
himl hang him?’*
“Yes, but they had no effect on my
mind beyond the sympathy I felt for
the accused and his relatives who seem
ed so much tevrified from the moment. I
regarded the matter as two or three men
fired by whisky and did not think it an
evidence of public sentiment In arriv
ing at a conclusion, it had no effect upon
my mind at all. To iny mind the evi
dence pointed to Thomas G. Woolfolk as
the murder of his father. I was forced
to the conclusion that he was the mur
derer to a moral certainty; hence I could
not do otherwise than find him guilty.”
‘•You were not in the least intimi
dated?”
“Not in any way or hyany means* 1
felt no trepidatiou as to the effect of the
verdict upon myself. Had I felt that
the accused was an innocent men, I
would have vindicated him at all haz-
atds, and in stating my own position and
giving you these facts I am satisfied that
I voice the entire jury.”
When the jury returned to theu room
there was some delay, for the reason
that the chairs had been taken out.
When they were carried in the jury ex
amined the blood j clothing and the ax.
Dr. Harvey was made foreman and a
ballot was taken. When the ballots
were read the word guilty appeared upon
each of the twelve ballots. It was then
moved that if r juror desired reoommen-
dation to mercy he would rise. Each
juror remained in his seat* The verdict
was then written, and in eleven minutes
from the time they left the court room,
they returned and sealed Tom Wool-
folk’s fate.
FAIR WARNING.
Christmas Drunks to ' be Scvcriy
\ Dealt With In Atlanta.
Atlanta, [Dec. 24.—| Special.]—“I
wish to say before the court adjourns,”
said the recorder, “that I will treat
Christmas drunks in no sentimental way.
I do not wish to be understood as mak
ing a threat, but I want to give a word of
warning. Whoever is brought before me
fir drunkenness next Tuesday morning
there being no session of the court on
Monday, will be fined just as if it was in
the middle of Ju'y, or any other time. A
Christmas drunk, in my sight is just as
bad, if not worse, than a drunk on some-
other day. I would like for the news
paper reporters to publish this much for
me.”
BARROOMS WILL CLOSE ON MONDAY.
“1 have understood,” said Chief Con
nolly to a Journal importer, “that some
of the saloons have announced free egg-
nogg on Monday next. Somebody is
making a mistake, for under th? new or.
dinance no saloon can be opened Christ
inas day; and when the day falls on Sun
day, then the saloons must be closed on
the 2bth of December. So you see they
i must close up on Monday.”
Under the new ordinance the saloons
will close te-night at 11 o’clock, and will
not open again until Tuesday morning at
5 o'clock.
DANIEL MANNING DEAD-
The Ex-Secretary •( the Treasury
dies Yesterday Afternoon.
Albany, Dec. 24.—(Speccial.)—Dan
iel manning survived last night, contra
ry to the expectation of even his family,
the members of- which have constantly
hoped ler the besi until the serious turn in-could bo 'farih“er'from”*tho truth
of yesterday. For twenty-four hoars
Mr. Manning's death has been almost
momentarily expected. The hemorrhage
from the bowels left him terribly weak
ened, and he has been almost constantly
unconscious since that occurred. At
day break this morning his life was at
the lowest ebb, and the publication of
ihe Albany Argus, as well as the other
looming papers, was delayed in expec
tation of his death. But his iron consti
tution again asserted itself and at 10:30
to-day he rallied, opened his eyes and re
cognized those about him. He was per
fectly conscious, for he spoke a few
words to his brother John, who had
come on from Buffalo. Then he relaps
ed again into unconsciousness and grew
weaker constantly, and was only kept
alive by Ihe administration of stimu
lants.
LATER.
Daniel Manning died at 1 :39 this af
ternoon.
ALL-NICHT RIDE-
The l.ucjr Cobb Girls Caught lu Fri
day .Sight’. Blizzard.
Atlakta, Dec. 24.—[Special.]—Quite
a large party of parents were at the
union passenger depot lest night until
two o’clock, awaiting the arrival of
daughters on the Air-Line road, which
brought ^special coach from Athens, fill
ed with Atlanta girls who were coming
home for the holidays, The weather
was cold, the blizzard came direct from
the icy regions of the northwest, but the
fathers stood it bravely. The cause of
the de'ay was hot boxes.
Kiss Nannie Moore, of Mobile, a Lucy
Cobb pupil, will spend the holidays with
Miss Kffie Howell, West Knd.
Misses Blanch Tarwater, of Themas-
ville; Ohorilla Harmon, of Tennille; Cap
itols Patrick, of Fort Smith, Ark.; Susan
Wadley, of Bolingbroke; Frizzel Cald
well, of Ncwnan, and Imogene Griggs, of
West Point, were with the party en
route to their respective homes.
Miss Oglesby, one of the accomplished
teachers of the institute, was in charge of
tho young ladies.
GENERAL BOULANCER,
A Sharp Criticism on Ilia Perceptible Van
lty.
Los nos, Dec. 24.—[Special.]—When
ever the irrepressible Boulanger thinks
himself in danger of being forgotton, he
reminds the world of his existence by a
letter more or less bombastic, which, if
the newspapers be scarce of news, is
printed and commented upon by all the
journals of Europe. Characteristic in
deed is his recent note to M. Sussini, de
clining the latter’s seat in the chamber of
depu ies, on the ground that in the war
which he scents afar off France will need
warriors more than legislators.
JOHN L, THE INVINCIBLE. j
What John Boyle O'Reilly Thinks of Amer- '
lea's Incomparable Boxer.
There never was in the whole history
of tho prize ring, judging from actual re
cords, a boxer like Sullivan. Many peo
pie belieTo that his masterful quality
lien in bis vast physical strength. Noth-
NATIVITY OF CIIRIST.
There are thousands of men in America
physically much stronger -men who
could lift a heavier weight, pull a heav
ier load and keep up the strain longer
than he. Sullivan is a tremendous]}*
strong man bodily, of course; but the
first big man he defeated, Flood, was
stronger and heavier than Sullivan.
The superiority of Sullivan lies in his
extra ordinary nervous force and his al
together incomparable skill as a boxer.
In what examples ot skill, for instance?
In hitting as straight and almost as rapid
ly as light: in the variety and readiness
of his blows through his “knocked-out”
is always the round blow; in standing
firmly on liis feet and driving his whole
weight and nervous force at the erd of
his fist—a very rare and very high quali
ty in a box; in movements as quick and
purposeful as the leap of a lion,
He Cin “duck” lower than an feather
weight boxer in America; he can strike
more heavy blows in ten seconds than
any other man in a minute, and he
watches his opponent with a self-pos
session and calculation that do not Hur
ry with excitement, but only flame into
a raving intensity to shower blows, to
spring on him from a new direction and
strike him a new blow every tenth of a
second, to rush, hammer, smash, over
master, overwhelm ard appall him.
Watch the face of any man who fights
Sullivan. At the end of the first round
they all have the same look exactly
They are winded, of course, and half
blinded by excitement and blows; but
look close at tbe man and you will see
in bim a strange thing for a boxer—the
lower jaw is dropped, the mouth is
open. The man is not tired—be is hor
rified.
Every man who fights Sullivan looks
after the first round, as if he had fallen
into some terrible machinery and has
just escaped destruction from the terri
ble steam-driving arms.
Sullivan enters on a fight unlike all
other men. From the first movement
hip action is ulthnvte. Other boxers be
gin by sparring; be begins by fighting—
and he never ceases to fight. He is as
distinct fioin other boxers as a bull-dog
is from a spaniel. He is a fighting man
Kilrain is a superb pugilist, good tern
pered and a hard hitter. He is the safest
boxer living, and next to Sullivan, easily
the best pugilist i:i the world. But Kil
rain is not a natural fighter—he is too
gentle. He waits to see what his oppo
nent is going to do. It takes five or six
rounds to get his heart at full beat and
his nervous reservoir opened.
But from the first instant of the fight,
Sullivan is as fierce, relentless, tireless
as a cataract The fight is wholly to go
his way—not at all in the other man’s.
His opponent wants to spar; he leaps on
him with a straight blow. He wants to
breathe; be dashes him into the corner
with a drive in the stomach. He does
not waste ten seconds of the three min
utes of each round.
And look at the odds he offers! And
offers to all the world! They arc not 10
to 1, or 20 to 1, but nearer B O to 1. Ob
serve, he will not only defeat all corners,
but he will defeat them in four rounds—
in twelve minutes'. And thi
he will defeat them with hi
large gloves.
REV. DR. TALM AGE'S CHRISTMAS
SERMON AT THE TABERNACLE.
by mounted cavalry with lightning of
drawn 8word. Elijah had a carriage of
firo to take him up, why not Jesus a car
riage of fire to fetch him down? Or,
over tho arched bridge of a rainbow the
Lord might have descended. Or Christ
ana one oi me sweetest words “mother.”
In all ages God has honored good mother
hood. John Wesley had a good mother,
St. Bernard liad a good mother, Samuel
Budgelt had a good mother, Doddridge
a good mother, Walter Scott- a good
A BIG COUNT-
CANIEL MANNING DYiNG-
Clcveland'ft Ex-Sprrciiiry of
Trcutwrr at Death** Door.
Albany, N. Y. Dec. 22.—[Special.]—
Kx-Secretary Manning's condition is
very critical. He may die at any mo
ment.
A friend of tbe family says that Mr.
Manning lies during a greater part of the
time with his eyes closed and apparently
oblivious to his surroundings. When
aroused he appears bewildered and re
quires some time to collect himself. He
takes h a food at the hands of his attend
ants at regular intervals. Aside from such
occasional spells of arousing, how-
♦ v*r, l»is condition is one of apathy and
indillVrrence. To sum it up despite the
statements which his family make when
approached for information,Mr. Manning
is >iok unto death. It is far from likely
ly that the scenes in this sick cham
ber will ever be made public, but those
who know the man can easily read tho
record.
ANOTHER DISASTROUS ICOLLISION-
11 y Which Srvrrul Prriout wrre
very Seriously Injured.
Cincinnati, Dec. 22—(Special.)—A
disastrous collision took place at 5:50
this morning, on the Cincinnatti North
ern railroad, between the Montgomery
No, 2, coming south, and the Ohio and
North western passenger train, No. 27,
going north. Both engines were wreck
ed, and several persons were injured.
The accident occurred at Bloody Run
trestle three miles and a half from th*
city. Kdward Collins, engineer of train
No. 2, hud his ankle broken by jumping.
Geo. Glasgow, engineer of train No. 7,
bad his leg brosen and his wrist sprain
ed- lie was brought to the city hospital
Mrs. Proctor, an old lady of South Nor
wood, had Iter hack broken; Ed Sickey,
at other passenger, suffered from a mask
ed foot; Charles Barbee was injured
about the face and eyes; Mrs. Ringgold’s
back was broken.
GREAT FIRE IN PITTSBURG.
Four Firemen lladly Injured—One
Probably Fatally.
Pitts in? no, Pa., Dec. 22.—[Special.]—
A fire broke out shortly after one o'clock
this morning in the basement of Fleisch-
man A* C*’s wholesale millinery and
fancy goods store, on Market street, in
tbe business centre of the city, and soon
spread to the stores of C. Yeager and
Rosenbaum & Co., also large establish
ments. Four firemen were badly injur
ed. One was crushed by a beam falling
on him. He will probably die. At 3:30
o’clock the fire was under control. The
total loss is not definitely known, but it
will approximate $500,000. The names
ol three of the injured by the fire are
Gus Dallas, Emil Spohr and Scott Waid.
A Train Hun Into a Crowd*
Chicago Dec. 22.—[Special.]—While
a crowd of folly two hundred people
were boarding the Illinois Central sub
urban train at Van Buren street station,
last evening, a Baltimore and Ohio train,
without any warning, dashed into them.
Miss Lottie Launderville, aged 20, was
thrown fifteeu or twenty feet, and it is
thought fatally injured. No one else
was injured, tnougn there were many
narrow escapes. The engineer, who
speedily stooped bis traio, narrowly es
caped lynching at the hands of the angry
crowd, and was only rescued by the po
lice who took him in charge.
CAPT- HOWELL’S VIEWS-
lie I* for Ul, OOO License Close Be-
.trillion mid Closing the Saloon,
nt lO O’clock. a
Atlanta, Die. 22.- [Special.]—Dur
ing ihe campaign. Cap!. Even P. Howell,
a leading anti-prohibitionist, said in his
speech and in his letter that Ihe “iron
hand of the law should be laid on the li
quor traffic.”
This morning he was asked by a re
porter to express his Tiewa on licens regu
lation and restriction. He said-
“1 think there shouldbe a $1,000 li
cense and a rigid inspection law. Close
up the saloons earlier—say at 10 o'clock,
and let the limits remain about
as they arc now. Don’t extend them at
all. Every drop of liquor of any kind
should be inspected.”
New York Producd Market.
New Yoxk, Dec. 22.—(Special.)—
Flour stead; fine, $2.10(32.70; superfine,
$2.50(33.05. Wheat dull; No. 1 red state
93(394:; No. 2 red state, 92J^c No. 2
red winter, January. 90 7 ,c. Corn firm
No. 2 mixed, 63c; ditto January, Ol'^c.
Oats steady; No. 1 White state, 40@41c;
No. 2 white state, 40> 8 'c; No. 2 mixed,
January, 38>|,'c. Pork dull but firm;
new mess, $15 50® 10.00. Lard steady
at $8 02 for January. Turpentine fl-ra
atST Ljc. Rosin quiet; strained to good
$1.05(31.10. Sugar, refined, dull; cut
loaf and crushed 7?±c. Coffee, firm; fair
cargoes 18. 3 4 'c.
A Idfe Sentence Confirmed.
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 22.—[Spe
cial.]-On the third of April, 188G. five
Knights of Labor attacked a coal train on
the Missouri Pacific, and Richard Town
send, an officer, was murdered. It was
during tbe strike. Henry Henning, one
of the fire men, while drunk, boasted in
Hill City that he had fired the shot which
killed Townsend. He was arrested and
giren a life sentence. The case went to
the supreme court! and judgment has
just been affirmed.
A Bridge Across the Rio Grande.
Pir.DiiHAS Negras, Mex., Dec. 22.—
[Special.]—Ground was broken here
yesterday, in the presence of 2,000 peo
ple, for the great international bridge
that is to open the Rio "Grande at this
point, connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with
this city. The event was celebrated as
a holiday. Many were present from the
America i aide. The bridge is to be en
tirely of iron and steel, and will accom
modate wagon travel as well as the rail
road. It will be two years before the
bridge is completed.
Death of a Congressman.
Washington, Dec. 22.—[Special.]—
Representative Moffat, ol Michigan, died
this morning at 7 o'clock, at tbe Provi
dence hospital. Tbe cause of his death
was blcod poisoning, resulting from a
carbuncle on bis face. (Mr. Moffat was
a republican and bis district was close.
—Ed.
Seventy-Five Thousand Bales Since the
J Opening of the Season.
The cotton receipts of Athens from
Sept 1st to Friday night, amounted to 74,
922 bales, the stock on hand here reach
ing 14,000 bales. Judging from the
amount of eotlon in the county, still un
marketed, Athens will receive, all told
his year, 90,000 bales of cotton.
Another Hallroail Smn«|)-t’p.
Free Port, 111., Dec. 24—[Special.)—
Thirty-fire persens were injured by a
wreck Jon the Minnessota and North
western Railroad yesterday forenn,
near this city. The wreck was a bad one,
and the loss to the railroad company will
aggregate $150,000. The rolling stock
was all new. The passenger••, including
those of the injured who could be
moved, were sent to Chicago on a special
train.
A Revolting Case.
Crooxston, Minn., Dec. 24-—[Spec
ial.]—The trial of Barney Whole, charg
ed with improper iatimacy with three of
his own daughters was concluded yes
terday, and the jury, after being out four
hours, brought in a verdict of not guilly.
The evidence in the case was unfit for
publication; seemed to preore conclusive
y Whole’s guilt and there was mnch in
dignation at the verdict.
Tiro Woman Kill Each Other-
Tuscola, 111-, Dec. 24.—[Special.—Mrs
Angns Helmbold, wife of a prominent
farmer living five miles northeast of
Newnan. became engaged in a fight; with
knives with her servant girl Thursday
morning, and both are reported fatally
injured. Jealousy on the part of the
wife,it is said, lead to the affair.
Champion Paddy Ryan Wonted.
San Francisco, Dec. 24.—[Special.]—
In three rounds, ending near midnight
last night, Joe McAuliffe worsted ex-
Champion Paddy Ryan in the eighteen
foot ring, at the California club rooms.
Xfcinorial Service.
Atlanta, Dec. 24—[Special.]—The
Memorial services of Dr. G. J. Orr will
occur to-morrow at 41 a. m. ot Evans
chapel. Addresses will be delivered by
Mr. W. A. UaygoodJ Judge James A.
Anderson and others. All are invited to
attend.
ft Whs Not Accident That Chrlat Wat
Bora In a Stable—The Alleviator' oi
Bratal SoCTcrlog aa Well u the Re
deemer or Man.-’*'”*'“ **
Brooklyn, Dec. 25.—Services today
at tho Brooklyn Tabernacle were jubilant.
Professors Browne and Ali t with organ
arid cornet, were unusually powerful,
and Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox sang three
solos. The thousands of people who
packed (hechurch and all the approaches
seemed to join in the great chorus:
lie shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway;
He shall reign when, like a scroll.
Yonder heavens have passed aw ay.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., took
as tho subject of his sermon, “The Barn
and It3 Surroundings.** His teat was
taken from Luke ii, 15: “The shepherds
said one to another, let us now go even
unto Bethlehem and see this thing which
is come to pass.** Dr. Talmage said:
One thousand years of the world’s ex
istence rolled painfully and wearily
along, and no Christ. Two thousand
years and no Christ Three thousand
years and no Christ. Four thousand
years and no Christ. “Give us a Christ,”
had cried Assyrian and Persian and
Chaldean and Egyptian civilizations, but
the lips of the earth and the lips of the
sky made no fjiswer. The world had
already been affluent of genius. Among
poets had appeared Homer and Thespis
and Aristophanes and Sophocles and
Euripides and AlexWvJEBchylua, ydt no
Christ to be the most poetic figure of the
centuries. Among historians had ap
peared Herodotus and Xenophon and
Thucydides, but no Christ from whom
all history was to . date backward and
forward— B. C. and A. D. Among con
querors Camillus and Manlius and Regu-
lus and Xantippus and Hannibal and
Scipio and Pompey and C»sar, yet no
Christ who was to be conqueror of earth
and heaven.
But the slow century and the slow
year and the slow month and the slow
liour at last arrived. The world had had
matins or concerts in the morning and
vespers or concerts in the evening, but
now it is to have a concert at midnight.
The black window Fhutters of a De
cember night were thrown open, and
home of the best singers of a world where
they all sing stood there, and putting
back the drapery of cloud chanted a
l>eace anthem, until all tho echoes of hill
and valley applauded and encored the
hallelujah chorus.
At last the world has a Christ, and
just tho Christ it needs. Come, let us go
into that Christmas »n j though we
liad never before woi the man
ger. Here is a Mad • looking
at. I wonder not th ; j quent
name in all lands j is tVn
centuries is Mary. 1 laoys
in palaces and and
though German ankl xli&n
and Spanish and Eagi ce it
differently, they arc :.ll j f ihe
ono whom we find on traw
with her palo face again cheek
of Christ in the night .ivity.
All the great painters . ic'd on
canvas to present Mary and her
child and the incidents of that most
famous night of the world’s history.
Raphael in three different master-
is not all— | pieces celebrated them. Tintoret
hands in | and Guirlandjo surpassed themselves in
I the “Adoration of the Magi.” Corregio
if Sayers could not knock out 1’oulson needed to do nothing more than his “Ma
in 108 rounds with bare hands, what ef- i donua” to become immortal. The ‘‘Ma-
fect would he have had on him in four donna of the Lily,” by Leonardo da
rounds with large soft gloves? Vinci, will kindle the admiration of all
As Sayers with bare hands was to ages. Murillo never won greater tri-
might have had Iris mortality built up on mo *} ier » Benjamin West a good
an«4l. m.A ai. „ j a .f _ , mother. In a m*r»nt nil (I inni'n mnof .■>#
I’oulson (an inferior man) in 109 round
is Sullivan with large gloves to the
best man in the world in four rounds.
This is the sum in proportion.—John
Boyle O'Reilly in the Boston Herald.
Tbe German Crown Prince.
Berlin, Dec. 22.—[Special.]—The
Tagblatt states that Prof. Vierchow haa
returned from San Remo, and reporta
moat favorably concerning the condition
of the Crown Prince. He says bis voice
is stronger and clearer than it wax, and
his general health excellent. v
Blr*. M’CsnSIni Better.
Wasuinoton, Dec. 22.—(Special.)—
Last night Mrs. Ed. McCandless was re
ported critically ill with pneumonia. It
was,thought that she was almost beyond
hope of recovery. This morning she
was be ter.
Sullivan Wants to Fight.
London, Dec. 22.—(Special.)—John
h. Sullivan has deposited the earn of
£500 at the office of the Sportsman, as
an earnest to bind either Smith or Kil-
Tain, or both, to 6ght him*
SULLIVAN BLUFFINC*
— Better From Mitchell -Saying Snlllran
Don't Menn To Fight.
I .os don, Dec. 22, 1887.—This morn
ing's Sporting Life prints the following
letter :
To the editor of the Sporting Life:—
Sullivan, tbe bogus champion, ia at his
old game again and seeks to ma^e capi
tal out of the recent international fight
by challenging both men at the same
time when be should have held his
peace, When he is through with me I
don’t think he will want any more en
gagements under the new prize ring rule,
for I am vain enough to fancy he will
then realize tbe fact that be is not even a
fistic marveL Sullivan has only fought
ence, and th in with a man who did not
rank higher than a selling plater Hav
ing Tefused to fight Kilrain before he left
America I am sure nobody will believe
that Sullivan is in earnest now. If so
let him cover Ur. Richards K. Fox's de
posit of £200.
Following so closely on the recent gal
lant fight betwoen Kilrain and Smith
Sullivan's challenge is unworthy of no
tice, and if he takes my tip he will let the
matter rest, as I consider it is a monkey
to a pony on Kilrain or Jam Smith whip
ping him.
Tours, &c,
Charles Mitchell, .
English Boxing Champion
THE NEW OPERA HOUSE-
It wpena baout the lOtb or Janwarr—Mr.
II. L. Cranford to taka Chars* of tbe
THE COVINGTON AND MACON-
The E.awjrcrlcii» Meeling—Tbe In
junction Case Again Poelponcd.
(M-con Telegraph.)
The herring of the injunction case, of
the C ivington and Macon railroad was
again postponed yesterday, this time to
the 4th of January.
The continuance was made by the
unanimous consent of the parties on both
sides, and in belief that before that time
all differences will have been satisfactor
ily adjusted.
As mentioned yesterday, the creditors, or
a majority of them, held a meeting with
closed doors at the hotel Lanier on Tues
day night. None of their attorneys were
present, for the reason that the creditors
preferred that they would meet and con
sult together in their own way. It was not
their intention to rellect in any way upon
their attorneys, hut they desired to see
what they could do without legal inter
ruption of proceedings, Capt. Frank S.
Johnson was made chairman. The
claims represented amounted to about
$40,tXX). The question discussed was
the most feasible plan by which they
could secure their money and take the
road out of the courts, so that it could be
pushed forward to completion.
A resolution was adopted appointing a
committee to issue a circular to all the
creditors asking their co-yporation, and
to be present at a meeting to be held next
Thursday uighL This committee was
also instructed to negotiate with Col. E.
C. Machen as to the payment of the
claims.
It is understood that Col Machen has
signified his willingness te pay every
claim against the road proper and 25
per cent, of the claims against l’ost &
Ingersoll, the contractors. Thedifficul-
ts which seems to be in the way of an
earlier settlement on his basis has been
that much of the indebtedness is claim-
cd by Post & Ingersoll, while on the
other hand the creditors claim that they
they do not know Post,V Ingersoll in
their transactions. This, however, will
also be adjusted, and no further trouble
on that score is to he apprehended. The
only hitch that the creditors now sec
are two claims which Col. Machen will
not pay on the ground that he does not
consider them just. One is the Davis
claim. It will be remembered that a
law suit was made of the right-of-way
through a portion of the Davis property
on the east side of the river, which w as
the old right of way of tho Georgia rail
road. This law suit resulted in favor of
the Covington and Macon, hut the claim
has been again brought forward The
other claim is that of Thompson Holly, a
sub-contractor with Furguson & Co.,
nd who, it is ssid has been paid at least
25 per,cent..of his hill, and furthermore,
that it is not owed by the company.
The creditors, or a least that portion
of them who met Tuesday night, say
they feel confident that alt the creditors
will agree to the propositions to he made.
One says $45,000 will he represented at
the next meeting, and another says the
entire $48,000 will be present. It is
also said that Col. Machen will be in at
tendance and thut he has already ar
ranged for what money he wants on con
dition that the road passes out from un-
dor the receivership, At any rate, the
creditors expressed themselves yester
day as believing that the prospects was
brighter now for a settlement than ever
before, and that the injunction case will
be at end before the 4th of January.
The creditors maintained their indi
viduality yesterday throughout, in that
I hey went into the court and through
their spokesman, Engineer L. W. Ro
berts, asked for the continuance,
The new opera boose is sbent com
pleted and is certainly one of the hand
somest opera houses in the South' The
scenery is magnificent The rooms for
actors and actresses on the stage are well
arranged and comfortable. Mr. H* L.
Cranford has taken charge of the man
agement, which ia a guarantee that we
are to have some of the best talent on
the road. Hit boose will be opened on
or shoot the 10th of January with one of
tbe best troops that can be brought to
the city.
A Strange Taste.—A prominent citi-
Een of Athens, who occupies a beautiful
home on Millodge avenue, and cultivates
a large farm on the Monroe road near
Athens, advertises for old carriages,
high bodied, with folding steps—such
as were used 25 or 30 years ago. He
will pay a high cash price for all such
vehicles brought to bis premises, and
bega parties having sneb carriages to ad
dress P. O. box 137, Athens, Ga^ stating
the age, price, and cost of delivering to
his back lot on Hancock avenue. Cor
respondence will be closed by tbe first of
Janntry, and the collection must be
completed by that time.
Citt Court.—The city court adjourn
ed Thursday evening until Ihe third
Monday in January next The court
was busy all the time from Mo day
morning until the time of adjournment
trying cases. In ail, eleven cases were
disposed of: one settled on payment of
cost, two nol. pressed, three aeqnitted
and five convicted. The court has
enough to occupy it for a day or two in
Jannary, and then will have a clear
docket for the next term.
umph by his pencil than in his presenta
tion of tho "Holy Family.” But all the
galleries of Dresden are forgotten when I
think of the small room of that gallery
containing the "Sistine Madonna.” Yet
all of them were copies of St. Matthew’s
‘‘Madonna” and Luke’s “Madonna,” the
inspired Madonna of the Old Book, which
wo liad put ihto our hands when we were
infants and that we hope to have under
our heads when we die.
Behold, in tlie firat place, that on the
first night of JilirisCa, life God honored
the bruto creation. : You cannot get into
that Bethlehem bam without going past
the camels, tho mules, tho dogs, the
oxen. The brutes of that stable heard
tho first cry of the infant Lord. Some of
the old painters represent tho oxen and
camels kneeling that night before the new
liorn babe. And well might they kneel.
Have you ever thought that Christ came
among other tilings to alleviate the suf
ferings of the brute creation? Was it pot
appropriate that he should during the
first few days and nifliits of his life on
earth be surrounded by the dumb beasts
whose moan and plaint and bellowing
have for ages been a prayer to God for
the arresting of tiieir tortures and
the righting of their wrongs? It did
not merely "happen so” that the unin
telligent creatures of God should have
lieen that night in close neighborhood.
Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a
bird’s nest, not a worn out horse on tow-
path, not a herd freezing in the poorly
built cow pen, not a freight car in sum
mer time bringing the beeves to market
without water through 1,000 mites of
agony, not a surgeon’s room witnessing
tho struggles of fox or rabbit or pigeon
or dog in the horrors of-vivisection hut
has an interest in tho fact that Christ
was born in a stable surrounded by
brutes. He remembers tliat night, and
the prayer.he heard.in their pitiful moan
he will answer in. the punishment of
those who maltreat the dumb brutes.
They surely have as much right in this
world as wo have.
In the first chapter of Genesis you may
sec that they were placed on the earth
before man was, the fish and fowl created
the fifth day, and tho. quadruped the
morning of the sixth day, and man not
until tho afternoon of that day. The
whale, the eagle, the lion, and all the
lesser creatures of their kind were pre
decessors of the human family. They
have the world by right of jiossession.
They have also paid rent for the places
they occupied. What on army of de
fense all over the land are the faithful
watch dogs. And who can tell what tho
world owes to horse, and camel,
and ox for transportation? And
robi- And lark have by tho cantatas
with which they li&ve filled orchard and
forest, more than paid for the few grains
they liave picked up for their sustenance.
When you abuse any creature of God
you strike its creator, and you insult tho
Christ who, though he might have been
welcomed into life by princes, and taken
his first infantile slumber amid Tyrian
plush and canopied couches, and rippling
waters from .royal aqueducts dripping
into basins of ivory and pearl, chose to
be bom on tho level with a cow’s liom,
or a camel’s hoof, or a dog’s nostril, that
lie might be the alleviation ot brutal suf
fering as well as the redeemer of man.
Standing then, as I imagine now I do,
in that Bethlehem night, with on infant
Christ t n the one side and the speeehless
creatures of God on the other, I cry:
Look out how you strike the rowel into
that horse's side. Take off that curbed
bit from that bleeding mouth. Remove
that saddle from that raw back. Shoot
not for fun that bird that is too small for
food. Forget not to put water into the
cage of that canaty. Throw out some
crumbs to those birds caught too far
north in tho winter’s inclemency. Arrest
that man who is making that one hone
draw a load heavy' enough for three.
Rush in upon that scene where boys are
torturing a cat or transfixing butterfly
and grasshopper. Drive not off that
old robin, for her nest is a mother’s
cradle and under her wing there may be
three or four prtma donnas of tbe sky In
training. And fat your families and in
your schools teach the coming genera
tion mine mercy than the present gen
eration has ever shown In this marvelous
Bible picture of th* Nativity, while you
point out to them the' angel, show them
also tbeicazne!, Jfod -arhila. they hear the
celestial ehant-tet^Jhem also hear the
cow’s moan. HD nune'did Christ show
interest in the botanical world when be
said, “Consider the lilies,” than be
showed sympathy for theornithi
when he said, “Behold the fowls ot the
air,” and the quadrupedal world when
he allowed himself to be called in one
place a lion and in another place a lamb.
Meanwhile, may the Christ of the Bethle
hem cattle pen have mercy on the suffer
ing stock yards that are preparing dis
eased and fevered meat for our American
households.
Behold also In titia Bible scene how on
that Christinas night God honored child
hood- Christ might have made his first
visit to our world in a cloud, as he will
descend on his next visit in a cloud. In
what a chariot of illuminated vapor he
might have rolled, down tije sky. eaeorted
earth out of the dust of a garden, as was
Adam, in full manhood at the start,
without the introductory feebleness of
infancy. No, no! Childhood was to ho
honored by that advent. Ho must have
a child's light limbs and a child's dimpled
hand, and a child’s beaming eye, and a
child’s flaxen hair, and babyhood was to
be honored for all time to come, and a
cradle was to mean more than a grave.
Mighty God! May the reflection of
that one child's face ba seen in all infan
tile places. Enough have all those fath
ers and mothers on hand if they have a
child in the house. A throne, a crown,
a scepter, a kingdom under charge. Be
careful how you strike him across tho
head, jarring the brain. What you say
to him will be centennial and millennial,
and 100 years and 1,000 years will not
stop the echo and re-echo! Do not say
“it isonly a child;” rather say “it is only
an immortal.” It is only a masterpiece of
Jehovah. It is only a being that shall out
live 6un and moon and star, and ages quad-
rillennial. God has infinite resources, and
can give presents of great value, hut
when he wants to give tho richest possi
ble gift to a household he looks around
all the world and all the universe and
then gives a child. Tho greatest present
that God ever gave our world he gave
about 1887 years ago, and he gave it on
a Christians night, and it was of such
value tliat heaven adjourned for a recess
and came down and broko through tho
clouds to look at it. Yea, in all ages
,Gtal has honored childhood. He makes
almost every picture a failure unless
there bo a child either playing on the
floor, or looking through tho window, or
seated on the lap gazing into the face of
its mother. It was a child in Naaman’s
kitchen that told the great Syrian war
rior where he might go and get cured
of the leprosy, which at his seventh
plunge in the Jordan, was left at
the bottom of the river. It was to tho
cradle of leaves in which a child was
laid, rocked by the Nile, that God called
the attention of history. It was a sink
child tliat evoked Christ's curative sym
pathies. It was a child tliat Christ sat
in the midst of the squabbling disciples
to teach the lesson of humility. We arc
informed tliat wolf and leopard and lion
shall be yet so domesticated tliat a little
child shall lead them. A child decided
Waterloo, showing the army of Blucher
liovg they could take a short cut through
the fields, when, if the old road had
been followed, the Prussian general
would have come up too late to
save the destinies of Europe. It
was a child tliat decided Gettysburg,
he having overheard two Confederate
generals in a conversation in which they
decided to inarch for Gettysburg instead of
Harrisburg, and this, reported to Gov
ernor Curtin, tho Federal forces started to
meet their opponents at Gettysburg. And
tho child of to-day is to decide all the
great battles, make all the laws, settle all
the destinies and usher in the world's
salvation or destruction. Men, women,
nations, all earth and all heaven, behold
tho child! Is there any velvet so soft as a
child's cheek? Is there any sky so blue as
a child’s eye? Is there any music so
sweet as the child's voice? Is there any
plume so wavy as a child's hair?
Notice also that in this Bible night
scene God honored science. Who are the
three wise men kneeling before the divine
infant? Not boors, not ignoramuses, but
Caspar, Belthasur and Melchior, men who
knew all that was to be known. They
were the Isaac Newtons and Herscheis
and Faradays of their time. Their
alchemy was tho forerunner of our sub
lime chemistry, their astrology tho
mother of our magnificent astronomy.
They had studied stars, studied metais,
studied physiology, studied everything.
And when I see these scientists bowing
before the beautiful babe 1 seo the
Dropliccy of the time when all the tele
scopes and microscopes, and all the Ley
den jars, and all the electric batteries,
and all the observatories, and all the
universities shall how to Jesus. It is
much that way already. Where is the
college tliat does not have morning
prayers, thus bowing at the manger?
Who have been the greatest physicians?
Omitting tho names of the living, lest we
should he invidious, have we not had
among them Christian inen like our own
Joseph C. Hutchinson, and Rush, and
Valentine Mott, and Abercrombie, and
Abemethy? Who liave been our greatest
scientists? Joseph Henry, who lived and
died in the faith of the Gospel, and
Agassiz who, standing with his students
among the hills, took off his hat and said:
“Young gentlemen, before wo study
these rocks let us pray for wisdom to
the God who made {he rocks.” Today
tho greatest doctors and lawyers of
Brooklyn and New York, and of all
this land, and of all hinds, revere the
Christian religion, and are not ashamed
to say so before juries and legislatures
and senates. All geology will yet low
before the Rock of Ages. All botany
will yet worship the Rose of Sharon. All
astronomy will yet recognize the Star of
Bethlehem. And physiology and
anatomy will join hands and say: “Wo
must by the help of God get the human
race up to the jorfect nerve, and perfect
muscle, and jierfect brain, and perfect
form of tliat perfect child before whom
nigh twenty hundred years ago Caspar,
and Belthasar, and Melchior bent their
knees in worship.
Behold also in that first Christmas
night that God honored the fields. Come
in, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and see
the child. “No,” they say; “we are not
dressed good enough to como in.” “Yes,
you ore, como in.” Suro enough, the
storms, and the night dew, and the
brambles have made rough work with
their apparel, but none liave a better
right to come in. They wore the first to
hear the music of that Christmas night.
The first announcement of a Saviour's
birth was made to thoso men in the
fields. There were wiseacres that night
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem snoring in
deep sleep, and there were salaried offi
cers of government who, hearing of
it afterward, may have thought
that they ought to have had tho first
news of such a great event, some ono
dismounting from a swift camel at their
door and knocking till at some sentinel’s
question, “Who comes there?” the great
ones of the palace might havo been told
of tho celestial arrival. No; the shep
herds heard tho first two bars of tho
music, the first in tho major key and the
last in the subdued minor: “Glory to God
in the'lughest, and on earth peace, good
will to men.” Ah, yes; tho fields were
honored. The old shepherds with plaid
and crook liave for tho most part van
ished, but we have grazing—on our
United States pasture fields and
prairie—about 45,000,000 sheep, and all
their keepers ought to follow the shep
herds of my text, and all thoso who toil
in fields, all wino dressera, all orebard-
ists, all husbandmen. Not only tliat
Christmas night but all up and down tho
world’s history God has been honoring
the fields. Nearly all the messialis of
reform, and literature, and eloquence,
and law, and benevolence, havo come
from the fields. Washington from tho
fields; Jefferson from tho fields; the
presidential martyrs, Garfield and Lin
coln, from the fields; Henry Clay
from tho fields; Daniel Webster
from the fields; Martin Luther from the
fields; and before this world is right
the overflowing populations of our
crowded cities will havo to take to
tho fields. Instead of ten mer
chants in rivalry as to who shall sell
that ono apple, we want at least
eight of them to go out and raise apples.
Instead of ten merchants desiring to sell
that one bushel of wheat, we want at
least eight of them to go out and raise
wheat. The world wants now more hard
hands, more bronzed cheeks, more mus
cular arms. To tho fields! God honored
them when he woke up the shepherds by
the midnight anthem, and he will, while
the world lasts continue to honor the
fields. When the shepherd’s crook waa
that famous night stood against the wall
of the Bethlehem kahn, it was a prophecy
of tho time when thresher’s flail and
farmer’s plow, and woodman’s ax, and
ox’s yoke, and sheaf binder’s rake shall
surrender to the God who made tho
country as man made the town.
Behold also that on that Christmas
night God honored motherhood. Two
angels on their wings might have brought
an infant Saviour to Bethlehem without
Mary’s being there at all. When the
villagers, on the morning of Dec. 26,
awoke, by divine arrangement and in
some unexplained way, the child Jesus
might have been found in some com
fortable cradle of the village. But no,
not Motherhood for all time was to be
consecrated, and one of the tenderest
relations was to be the maternal relation.
mother. In a great audience, most of
whom wer* Christians, I asked that all
thoso who had been blessed of Christian
mothers arise, and almost tho entire as
sembly stood up. Don’t you see how im
portant it is that all motherhood be con
secrated? Why did Titian, the Italian
artist, when he sketched the Madonna,
make it an Italian face? Why did Ru
bens, the German artist, in his Madonna,
make it a German face? Why did Joshua
Reynolds, the Engli^ artist, in his Ma
donna. make it an hnglish face? Why
did Murillo, the Spanish artist, in his
Madonna, make it a Spanish face? I
never heard, hut I think they took their
<ovn mothers as the tj-pe of Mary, tlio
mother of Christ. When you hear
some ono in sermon or oration speak
in the abstract of a good, faithful,
honest mother your eyes fill up with
tears while you say to yourself, that was
my mother. The first word a child
utters is apt to be, "mother,” and the
old man in his dying dream calls,
“Mother! mother!” It matters not
whether she was brought up in the sur
roundings of a city, and in affluent home, <
and was dressed appropriately with ref
erence to the demands of modern life, or
whether she wore llie old time cap. and
great round sjiectacles, and apron of her
own make, and knit your socks with het
own needles seated by the bread fireplaco
with great back log ablaze on a wintet
night. It matters not how many
wrinkles crossed and recrossed'her face,
or how much her shoulders stooped with
the burdens of a long life, if you painted
a Madonna hers would ho -tho face.
What a gentle hand she had when we
were sick, and what a voice to soothe
pain, and was there any one v, ho could
so fill up a room with peace, and purity
and light? .Anil what a sad day that was
when we came home and she could greet
us not, for licr s lq>s were forever still.
Come back, mother, this Christmas day,
and take your old place, and as ten,
or twenty, or fifty years ago,
come and open the old Bible you used to
read, and kneel in the same place where
you used to pray, and look upon us as of
old when you wished us a Merry Christ
mas oi a Happy New Year. But no!
Tliat would not lie fair to call you back.
You liad troubles enough, and aches
enough, and bereavements enough while
while you were here. Tarry by the
throne, mother, till we join you there,
your prayers all answered, and in the
eternal homestead of our God we shall
again keep Christinas jubileo to
gether. But sjieak from your thrones,
all you glorified mothers, and say
to all these, your sons and daughters,
words of love, words of warning, words
of cheer. They need your voice, for
they have traveled far and with many a
heartbreak since you left them, and you
do well to call from tho heights of
heaven to tho valleys of earth. Hail,
enthroned ancestry! AVo are coming.
Keep a place for us right beside you at
the banquet.
TO THE FARMERS !
You will Save Money and get Better Goods by Buying
your
-OF-
BALDWIN & FLEMING.
ATHENS, _
GEORGIA.
Slow footed years! More swiftly run
Into the gold of that unsetting sun.
Homesick we ore for thee.
Calm land beyond the sea.
GUNS!
The Largest and Best Selected Stock of
GUN
Eaci- seen in Athens, it will pay you to eoe us
before buying.
. fleming&son
T
DR- CARLTON’S RETURN-
Arrival of the Representative of the Kighth
District Yesterday—Ills Tariff Views.
Hon. H. H. Carlton, representative of
this district, returned yesterday from
Washington City to spend the holidays.
As l)r, Carlton’s views on the tariff
have been subjected to some critisisin
lately, we print the following from the
Washing correspendent of the Augusta
Gazette;
“1 have been almost in daily contact
with the Congressman from the Eighth,
and his views have been expressed to
me from time to time to time without re
serve, 1 have never heard him deliver
himself as in favor of the repeal of the
internal revenue tax on whisky. I have
heard him say that as a direct tax (not
as a whisky tax) there were democratic
grounds against it, because direct taxa
tion was not a democratic method. But
he considered that it was* notf democrat
ic question, because it was not a demo
cratic enactment. He further expressed
the opinion that in some parts of Ten
nessee, North Carolina and Georgia the
references of the message to this subject
might not be popular, owing principally
to the indefensible practices resorted to
in the collection of the tax, and to the
revolting pevices and processes adopted
to detect and punish illicit distillation.
The laws were blamed for this by some
good people. “But I am for the mes
sage,” he said, “and I am with the dele
gation. We are about alike. I have
had little time to ponder the exact terms
of the document, and have had to de
pend largely upon my memory
of its utterances as I heard
them read. I don’t mind saying
that after the essentials
of the question have been settled—that
is, that after the reduction in the tariff
taxes on provisions and comforts have
been first agreed to, and the tax on to
bacco, perhaps, has been adjusted, if
there is anything left to be done I might
vote in a change in the internal revenue
laws relating to whisky—noton account
of the lax, nor on account of the whisky,
but as perhaps the only way to relieve
the people of some parts of Georgia and
other States from the presence of paid
spies and detectives, who are often the
worst men in the section, and who claim
to be empowered by the internal revenue
laws to do all manner of monstrous acts
and, as I have been told, to persecute and
blackmail innocent citizens.”
FUN^OR ATHENS*
Greek George and John Muhler Coining.
Mr. U. N. Taylor has returned from
Atlanta, and informs us that Greek
George and John Muhler, the cham
pion wrestlers of the world,have concent-
ed to give an exhibition of their tremen
dous powers as wrestlers next Friday
night. Mr. Taylor has a photograph of
John Muhler, and it is certair ly perfect
as a specimen of manhood. The mus
cles in his arms show like whip cords.
He has never met Greek George but
once and that was in Denver They
wrestled four hours and ten minutes and
it was declared a draw; Tho Greek will
meet his man in Atlanta next week and
from there they will come to Athens.
The opera house will bo crowded to see
these champions contest for the suprema
cy. All those who love sport sheuld
visit the opera house next Friday night.
The price of admission will be sinal'.
A strong Endorsement.
* Still they come aud all iu the highest
Office Piedmont MTg Co., Piedmont,
S. C.—Mess. Westmoreland Bros,:
Nearly two years ago I contracted
malaria Into my system, aim suffered
greatly from time to time Iron, it in
various forms in which it developed
Sometimes had severe chills and levers
—indigestion followed it.-and I was gen
erally out o‘ health. Last spring for
more than two months 1 was greatly
troubled with a disordered condition of
the bowels, which I believe was the re
sultot the malaria still existing in my
system. I visited two or three mineral
springs celebrated for tho cure of mala
rial diseases, without the slightest
benefit. 1 was alsotreated as the differ
ent symptoms developed by the most
skillful physicians, but was not relieved.
About two months ago, I concluded to
try Calisaya Tonic, prepared by West
moreland Bros., but I must confess I
had little confidence ol being materially
benefited by it. I have taken five or six
hottles ol the Tonic—from the beginning
I felt relief and continued to improve,
until now 1 feel quite as well and in a-
perfect health as I everuid in my life,
and 1 believe I am perfectly well.
H. P. HAMMETT, President.
The effects of malaria in the system is
a hard thing to eradicate, but will
promptly yield to the wonderful am 1
sovereign remedy, Westmoreland’s
Calisaya Tonic. Try it.
Try Dr. Duke’s Anti Bilious Wafers
with Tonic if Bilious.
For sale by all Druggist at $1.00 a
bottle.
R. T. BRUMBY & CO. Wholesale
Agents, Athens, Ga.
Will be Built.—Our people are at
last aroused on the vital importance of
building a new hotel. Tbe lack of pro
per accemmodations for the public is i
serious drawback to the prosperity of
our city. Who will take the lead and
raise the company?
INTERESTING OCCASION.
Tlae Proprietors Make a Present.
Christmas eve witnessed a most inter
esting ceremony in the editorial rooms of
the Banner-Watchman. The members
of the editorial staff, type-stickcrs, fore
man, devils, carriers and maids-of-all-
work, being assembled, the editor-in-
chief, in a neat and appropriate speech,
presented to Maj. W. B. Pruitt, of the
staff, a handsome silver watch, in token
of the appreeiatioa in which his services
to the paper is held by the proprietors.
Upon receiving the gift the modest Ma
jor turned it over, opened it, snapped it,
wound it up, stood on first one foot,
then the other, shifted his tobacco,
smoothed bsck thv flowing locks which
clustered around his—neck, cleared his
throat and delivered himself as follows:
Friends. Romans, countrymen and fel
low-citizens: Watch and pray. If you
don’t know how to pray, theivmake it up
in watching. If you don’t want to run
down, in these days you must watch the
progress of events and keep time with
the advancing step of progress. ‘■[Great
applause; and cries of “Chestnut,’ from
the devil. Here the Major cast a be
seeching look at the ceiling, and after a
pause proceeded.] I am proud that I
was a member of the Banks county
Guards. [The devil again suggested
that this was a chestnut] The editor
of this paper has made a speech to the
Banksville Grange, and I have never
had a chance to show whether I could
make a speech or not, and I am bound to
peak Now, my friiends, not only be
cause of this present, but because of the
esteem and regard 1 have for you, I trust
that your lives may be as bright as the
silver of your gift; your movement up
ward maybe as unchecked as the swing of
its hands, and your success as complete
as the circle of its dial. [Loud applause.]
The most of us have been together for
live long weary years; we have toiled
wiih unrelenting zeal from the rising
of the morning star till the chateclicr’s
clairion notes awakened the silent echoes
of midnight; we have trod together the
heavy treadmill of journalism, and stood
as firm to oJr trusts as the rock of Gib
raltar, though the raging billows of
popular prejudice dashed against us, at
times, and have had as much cussing
as any set of men in the same length of
time. [At this sudden flight the devil
iiaunon v cbove.
Harmony Grove, Dec. 24.—[Special.]
Miss Mamie E Swmt,a beautiful young
lady from Newnan, is spending Christ
mas in our town with Mr and Mrs W W
Jordon.
Several farmers were in town yAter-
day buying Christmas gooSs, and our
all day merChantSWere k< r ’ t quite bus y
Miss Tope McLaughlin, one of Union
I oint’s most popular belles, is spending a
few days with Mrs J D Barrett, on Rail
road street.
Maj Hudson is actioning off the goods
bclongming to Mr W T Duncan, who has
decided to go to (arming next year.
Miss Dora Carson, one of Franklin
county’s most charming daughters, pass
ed through the Grove last Wednesday,
from the Gainesville seminary.
The anti-prohibitionists in I’ocataligo
district are thinking of contesting the
late election.
A great many commercial tourists
have been in the Grove during the pres
ent week.
There is some talk of establishing a
newspaper in our town. Wo trust that
this may be done, as a bright, newsy pa
per would add greatly to our town..
The members of our brass band will
give two splendid dramatic entertain
ments here on Monday and Tuesday
of next week.
, band gave Mr and Mrs R L J
Smith a most delightful serenade last
very highly apprecia
ted by them, and for which they re
quest us to return their most sincere
thanks to the band.
Miss Dora Carson, a charming young
lady of Franklin county, passed through
yesterday from the Gainesville Semina
ry to spend Christmas with the ‘‘old
folks at home'”
Mr. Powell Waters, of Homer, Ga.,
is to-day auctioning off the goods of Mr.
W. T. Duncan of our town. Mr. Dun
can has decided to quit merchandising
and go to farming.
"What is Woman's Worth?"
Asked a fair damsel of a crusty olj bach
elor. He did not know, so she said :“ W.
O. man” (double yon, O man). But a
woman feels worth little if disease has
invaded her system and is dailv sapping
l'“”. - *■“". =““>«>“ For all female weaknesses,
fainted, and after he was resuscitated J DrR.V. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription”
with water,something foreign to liis na-|‘ : stands unrivaled. It cures the com-
ture the Major proceeded.] The Ban-) Plaint and builds up the system. Send
ner-Watcbman, in consequence, is on I 10 cents in 8tamos for pamphlet to
top, the city is on top, and if tho mer-1 World’s Dispensary Medical As-ocia-
chants of Athens will stand by us, we
will put our shoulders to the wheel, and
strive witft renewed energy to make
Athens second to no city in the South. I
return thanks to the editors and proprie
tors of the Banner-Watchman for I Ap
preciate it highly, and will leave it
amoug my effects to John Pruitt, Jr., to
keep and go down from him to posterity
as a souvcnii of Christmas of 1887, and
a memoir of the B.-W. Gentlemen, I
thank you, and wish you a most merry
Christinas, and happy new year.”
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Positively Popular; Provoke Praise;
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Purchase. Price, Petty. Pharmacists
Patronizing Pierce Procure Plenty.
LEMON ELIXIR,
It’s Wonderful Effects on tbe Elver
stomach, Ilotvels, Kidneys,int,
Blood.
A pleasant lemon drink,that positively
cures all biliousness, constipation, indi
gestion or dyspepsia, headache, malaria,
kidney disease , dizziness, cMds, loss of
appetite, fevers, chills, blotches* pimples
all impurities of the blood, pain in the
chest or back, palpitation of the heart,
and all other diseases caused by a dis
ordered liver and kidneys, the first great
cause of all fatal diseases. 50 cents and
$1. per bottle. Sold by druggists. Pro
pared by 11. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga.
Lemon Hot Drops,
Dr. H. Mozley—Dear Sir: I have
suffered for five years with a severe
cough and lung tronble. I saw your ad>
vertisementof Lemon Hot Drops, and
procured a bottle; having tried every
cough syrup and lozenge that I could
hear of with but little benefit. I deriv
ed benefit from the first dose; my cough
left me, also the soreness ol my lungs.
My cough was so severe as to produce
hemorrhages, at the time I began to use
it, and the relief was so great that I shall
ever feel grateful to you.
MRS. E, SIMS,
No. 4, Orange street, Atlanta, Ga.
Dec. l-2m.
tiou, 663 Main Street, Buffalo N. Y.
DANIELS VI LEE.
Danielsville, Dec. 22.—[Specia.]—
Since our last the following are Ihe tnar-
rinses in the county as far as heard from
viz:
Mr, S. B. Daniel, county surveyor of
Clark [county, to Miss Fannie Chandler,
by Dr W B Hardeman.
W R Benton Jr, to Miss Lcvia Bur
roughs.
Mr Cicero Woods and Miss Mauda
Groves, by Rev T J Adams. This is pas
sing from Groves to Woods, you see.
Mr N A Belk and Mrs Gincey Bowe.
Mr Stephens White and Miss Mattie
Stone, by Rev Bill Sanders, who is on a
visit to relatives hero.
Rev Mr McNortan is visiting his daugh
ter Mrs Jno J Strickland.
Our editor W B Loehr smoles a broad
smile now. It is a 12 lb girl
Considerable preparations are being
made for tho Christmas tree Monday
night
JEFFERSON.
Jeffkuson, Dec. 23.—[Special.]—May-
or Randolph, who is the small boy’s
friend, has gave them permission to pop
crackers from now until Christmas, and
the average boy is trying to make his
finance hold ouL Some of them are al
ready broke, and Christmas will not be
Xmas with them; they should remember
that a wise Iran foreseeth danger and
prepares for it—they roust sum up.
E. M, Matthews, son of the late
"cousin” Billy, so favorably known in
Athens, has been visiting around consid
erably while convalestng from his late
attack of fever. He has just returned
from a visit to his uncle. Judge Bell.
Our people have concluded to have a
Xmas' tree any way, and will have one at
the chapel on Saturday night
Use the great specific tor. “colds in
head ” and catarrh Dr. Sage’s Catarrh
Remedy,
Man; People Refuse to Take Cod
Liver Oil on account of its unpleasant
taste. This difficulty has been over
come in Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver
Oil with Hypophosphites. It being as
palatable as milk, and the most valuable
remedy known for the treatment of Com
sumption, Scrofula and Bronchitie. Gen
eral Debility, Wasting Diseases of Chil
dren, Chronic Coughs and Colds, has
caused physicians in all parts of the
world to use it. Physicians report our
little patients take it with pleasure.
Try Scott’s Emulsion, and be convinced.
Dr. Thomas Hall, Holly Creek, Ga.
says: “lam using Scott’s Emulsion iii
the case of a little child one year old
wasting away, and it is improving fast,
Many wild dueks are beiug killed on
the ponds and rivers and ponds around
Athens.
A Preacher Cored of Dyspeyela.
Miccosukee, Fla., Leon Co., July 20 86’
I have been a sufferer from indiges
tion and dyspepsia for a long time, and
have tried manv remedies, but until I
was induced by my friends to try your
B B. B. received no relief, but since
using it have found more relief and com
fort than from any other treatment I
have used. Hoping you will forward to
my address your little 32-page book for
prescription, also evidence of cures
Send at earliest date BEV. ROB’TC,
Going Dav.—Mr, J. S. Jarrell, a well
posted gentleman, from Crawford was
ia the city yesterday and said that Ogle
thorpe county would go dry on the 11 of
January. Mr. Jarrell asserts that a man
can gallop through the county on horse
back and see the beneficial effects of pro
hibition in the improved condition of the
farmers. '
Another Enterprise.—It is stated
that Dr. L. G. Hardman of Harmony
Grove, contemplates establishing a large
surgical institute and hospital combined
in Athens. There is a fortune In it, and
Dr. Hardman is tho right man.