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London, January 2 — | Special.]—The
ior of (lll< momi {’■ official and press
pitches from tin continent is decided
ly moto peaceful than the situation pre-
Mhd teat week gave premise or. Aus
tria, moved by the hopelessness ol con
duoting military operations on the Rus
sian frontier until next spring, or act
's * uated by the asseverations of Russians
that the presence of the Cxar’s troops on
* the Galician border in unusual force has
no warlike significance or intent, now
>' seems inclinetc r*cat- her lofty pedes
tal of truculent indignation and defer her
defensive preparations at least until she
can dlaoover soma tangible provocation
for their prosecution. The growing con
viction, too, that Prince Ferdinand and
his mother were instigators and prime
movers of the forged correspondence,
‘ ►"'which came very near precipitating a
desperate and jroondloss war, 1ms un*
J questionably had great effect in shaping
I the cotine which Austria will pursue
durin the next few months and it is
'hot unlikely that young lerdinand will
bo compelled to abdicate, not by Russian
bayonets, but by-jJ}ie maudate of the
Austrian emperor,
' folsourd by Flaaael faSerwcar.
/ Fron aCotuubu, Ohio, special.
l’rof. Bohanon, of the State University
W i . has been suffering from -the effects of
poison introduced into his system by
wearing ped tl.m.lr* r.5Jei,'l <»iii’/", A cou
of w iwka stOji ’.Ve *-'t r jk->' pnr-
|Hr chased a'numhsr/of suits, albraocn after
WK putting them on’ commenced' suffering
r from a burning sensation
A^ftha akih, Large blotches appeared all
b .;j]»is person. A physician pronounc
! ed tne-waonn of poisoning from the red
flannel suits. One of the garments was
Soaked iu water which was examined by
the college chemist, who pronounced the
solution thus obtained extremely poison
ous,only a small quantity being necessary
to kills dog. The garments purchased
were of the best quality and high pric
ed.
A Bark Burnt ul Sen.
San Francisco, .Ian. 2—[Special!—
The bark “Oarleton,” which arrived on
Saturday from Kngland, aeports ihe re.>-
cue of the captain, mate, seconl inat»-
ani tire of the crew of the German bark
•Mobana,” which had bc»*n three days
and four nights in an open boat. High*
of the crew an- lost, seven of whom l«fi
the bark in a bout without water. *1 he
bark waa burned a* a« a iff Cape Horn,
October 2olh, and the crew lot»k to
costs.
A Uelii'il of a 100,000.
Jkkfkiisonviu.r, Ind, elan. 2.—[Spe*
cia .J—aii expeit has ill-covered ••
inure* neat m the New Albany county
treasury. S*» ulement lias been ban
ior twelve D.screpuncies atno'ini
ing t #1 .**».• * 1 toavc been tli>
Cih'i' . ■' .»n• • i. : is said, ha*
o« iii ' ma<ie l«
hush ;
el Up.
Fourteen Hundred Urn 'to Be Cut
Off.
St. Loiis, ,1 tii 2:—(Special.)—A
special min Si dalia last i.iglit said th-«i
an “rd> r Ind liern sent over the eniiri
Go ■),! system n questing that the force
of i inployei-s in all di-partments be de-
du. leil leu |n-r cent, at once. There aie
4,< AS I men employed on the sys em, and
the order means the enforced idleness of
1,4 I ),
XVasked Away.
I'lliffl IVlNT, .Ian. 2.—[Special.]—
The temporary bridge erected after the
floods of last August across the Oconee
river, on the Macon branch, wns washed
away un Sunday evening, about It o'clock
An non bridge is in process of construe
ti -n in Atlanta, nnd will be put up as
Omn as completed. Arrangements will
he made for transferring passengers.
Attempt tu Rok u Bank.
Chicago. ;Jan' 2 —[Special.]—A dar
ing attempt to bl w up and rob tho Dro-
ver's National bank at the stock yaids
was made about midnight Saturday. The
vaults contained about $50,UU0, and only
the want of courage at the critical ino
ment prevented the intending robbers
from possessing the eatire sum.
PROHIBITION IN OCLETHORPE.
Our Neighbor* Badly Wrought up on thr
Liquor Question.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JANUARY 10, 1888.
FRIGHTFUL WRECK.
A DEFECTIVE AXLE ON A FREIFHT CAR
DOES THE WORK.
Thirty-five Souls but Narrowly Escape a
Horrid Deatli~Two Freight and the Bag.
gage Car Wrecked—A Darky Tossed
Through a door but gets up O. K.-Puaen
gers fill the Engine, Tender, Stock Cars
and are Driven to Athens.
On Tuesday last the fast train on
the Georgia Railroad due in
Athens at noon met with an
acc dent, just two miles north of Winter-
ville, which but narrowly missed result
ing most disastrously to both life and
property. On a twenty foot embank
ment and moring at about twenty mile*
perj hour, an axle of the third freight
car from the rear gavo way, the wheels
rolled out and the end of the car waa 1st
town. The boxes behind, consisting of
two freight cars, a baggage car and coach
rushed in and for some hundred yards
were dragged along, wrenched from the
wheels and bumped over tbe cross ties,
splintering them tikn an ax*. As awn
as tbe trouble was discovered the train
was stopped, but not until three cars had
been wrecked. Fortunately the princi
pal effect waa lost on the two freight and
baggage cars so that the paasesger coach
and passengers received only a severe
shock. A darkey in the baggage car waa
tossed through tbe window by a piece of
timber that was driven up through tbe
floor, but ss his head want first no dam
age resulted. Tbe moment the bumping
commenced the brother in black began
peering and leaping out of every crack
and opening in reach. With his usual
•olness Capt. Hutchens hurried back to
the passenger coach where four ladies
and twenty gentlemen were seated and
told them to keep cool; that there was
no dinger snd all would soon be righted
Uppity no injury to person resulted
but had the train been moving at greater
up into the engine, on tender amt into
ihe stock cars; were soon cut
peed it would hsTe been hurled down
twenty leet of emhankn ent and thirty-
ve lives would have paid the penalty
f a defective axle and that on an empty
freight car. As s-»on as the train stepped
the passengers all got out and climbed
loose fioin ihe wreckage and went
hirlingaway to Athens, the wonder of
all observers. A curious spectacle it
a ws, a lady at the throttle, the silken
•ands of the L. C. I. pupils apparently
■ea-ly to supply tbe fuel and several slu
lent* acting as tempora.y cow catcher.
‘I weverthe crowd came through in
safety inn are living witu >S:s of the
a/.ai ds of travel, ih uncertainty of fate
id the awful risk of cars that are not in
perf ct repair.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
HON- A. 0. BACON'S STRONG APPEAL
FOR ITS REPEAL.
Shall onr Mountains be Freed from the
Obnoxious Raldsrn? The Question never
before so much Agitated. A Settlement
In Sight.
The following are extracts from a long
timent of the country. In its platform
which it published to the country, it
unreservedly condemned the internal
revenue law, and demanded that “the
revenues from' alcoholic, liquors and to
bacco should be abolished.*’ The scare
crow of “free-whiskey’’ is not less ficti-
tous than the claim that those who op
pose the repeal of the internal revenue
law are fighting the ^attle of the people
JUBILEE OF THE DEAF.
CENTENARY OF THE BIRTHDAY OP
THE GENEROUS GALLAUDET..
letter of Maj. Bacon, written in response | •gainst the monopolist The truth is
to request for his opinion as to the repeal «h»t those who oppose the repeal of .he
of the internal revenue, by a number of ] are either wittingly or unwit t ”
leading citizens of the State. He says; giving their ni l to a most gig
leading citizens of the State, tie says
I am in favorof the absolute repeal of
the internal revenue law and the entire
abandonment of the system of federal
excise taxation. My opposition te the
law is not on nccount of the articles up
on the production and sale of which the
internal revenue tax is lered and cel-
lected, but is based on my objection to
•ny and every system of direct taxation
by the federal government, tba more ca
ps islly against any such system which
favors the strong snd oppresses the
weak, and which is enforced by criminal
proceedings against these charged with
violations of the law.
L Any system of direct taxation by.
the Fed soil Government Is dtjjfetibrwi
U iaraffidnUy onerousUhat we oust of
sly
antic
and dangerous combination of
moneyed power and influence. The
rich andpowerful have no need for the re
peal of the law, and they are not de
manding it. To the poor and uninflu*
ential of some sections it is a burdea and
an oppression and they are crying out
for its repeal. t
BULLDOZING*CANDIDATE%.
Lake Brown, a Negro Preacher, of Athens.
Tries a Shrewd Dame.
From gentlemen from Oglethorpe
county, we learn that the prohibition
contest to take place on tho 11th inst. is
wsxing quite warm, and considerable
feeling is manifested. It is said tbit two
weeks ago liquor would have prevailed
In tlie county by a decided majority, but
within the laat few days quite a change
- in ervtimeui has taken place, and the
.' “^Issue'll now one of grave doubt. It is
believed, however, that prohibition will
? Derail by a small majority. On the
5th the municipal election in Lexington
will occur, and there is now in the field
a wet and dry ticket. The former ticket,
if triumphant, will fix the license at a
very low figure, while the latter party
will make it about prohibitory. The
two factions in the town are about equal-
ly divided, and it is hard to tell which
will win. If the county voles wet, il
will be through tbe instrumentality of
negro votes, in which event a contest
will be made by the prohibitionists. It
is contended that even a large majnrity
of the negroes who have registered are
legally disfranchised from voting, on the
ground that while they have paid ih-ir
poll tax, they hare failed to return for
assessment their few household effects,
which, under the laws of Georgia, are ms
dearly taxable as is the Kimball House,
in Atlanta. An examination of the ux
books shows that very few negroes pav
anything but a poll tax, failing to return
their pot, oven, skillet, quilts and a few
pieces of furniture. If these goods are
only worth fire cents, they must be re
turned for their pro rata parr of the tax.
The prohibitionists of Oglethorpe county
are determined to enforce the law against
all voters, and say they will not only be
able to throw out the* ballots of these
negroes, but also commence criminal
prosecution against them.
—THE MACON & ATHENS-
LEAVING THE COUNTRY-
An Exodna Among the Negroes From Ad
jacent Counties.
We learn from parties from adjoining
counties that there is a regular
stampede among negroes in the
direction of Athens, Atlanta and
other cities where the free school
system prevails. Many farms are being
deserted by every hand thereon, and we
hear of one farmer in Oglethorpe county
wlm runs forty plows, and to day he has
not a negro on his farm, the last one have
ing packed up and moved to Athens
There are whole neighborhoods in this
county already almost deserted by the
Macks. The roads leading into this city
for days past have been lined with vehi
cles of all kiuds laden with the house
hold goods of negroes. Farmers say
that they will not listen to pr positions
looking to contracts for anothar year,
these people stating that they intend to
move to towns where their children can
be sent to school the year round without
any money.
Th a desertion of the country by onr
laboring class of people will certainly
tell upon the farmers, for it will make
hands scarce and unsatisfactory. Thera
ia nothing for the negroea to de in Ath
ens. There are more men now than
there is work or room for. Every shan
ty in the corporate limits of this city
swams with half starved negroes There
is no use of them coining here with the
hope of getting their children educated
at tse expense of the while tax-payers
of Athens. Our people will not put up
with such a burden. The only future
that we see heie for this undesirable
class of population is to give employment
te our police force and ornament some
chain-gang. To show the number of
negroes moving into Athens one gentle
man tells ns that within the last few days
that he has had over 20 applications fora
half rotten down log cabin in a field that
he would not use as a stable for one of
< his mules.
CONGRESSIONAL.
U*
This Kullroail at Lul on a Sound Bond to
Completion.
Athens is indeed rejoiced to know
that all the troubles with the Macon rail
road have been at last adjusted, snd as
fast as man and money can do the work,
the road will be pushed to completion to
onr city. It is expected that this week
a force of hands will be set at work lay
ing null between Monticcllo and Uadi-
laon and this vrolk will progress at the
tataofa mile a day. Hands will also be
pot grading towards Athens, as soon as
the weather permits and there is now no
doubt bat that tho road will be complet
ed hare in time to move the next cotton
crop. It ia greatly to the interest of the
company to hasten the completion of the
road to Athena, for as soon ia it is finish
ed hero tba Richmond Jc Danville stands
pledgedstoadvance it *97,000.
That this road will be of incalculable
benefit to the business of Athens, no one
can doubL Onr city to-day is s better
cotton market than Macon, and will re
main so. Banos the Georgia road will
then be no longer a dead line to us, and
ear confident prediction it that our mer
chants will draw a fine trade from both
Jasper and Jones counties. By next
April dirt will be broken on three sides
of Athens, and with this impetus oar
city will be given sach a boom as no
town in Georgia has yet enjoyed. Prop
erty will advanee greatly in value, and
webelitre that there is not a bettei in-
, vestment in the South to-day than Clss-
1 sic City dirt.
- Agalw Pn.tp.neO.
llvooa Ga, Jan. 4.— [SpeciaU—The
case of tho Macon & Covington Railroad
has bean postponed until the 30th of this
month.
Senator John Sfaerman Attaching
the President’. Tariff Policy.
Washington, D. C„ Jan. 2.—[Special]
The two houses of congress assembled
to day, after the Christmas recess.
House.—Mr. Mills, of Texya, stated
that the Speaker could not announce the
committees to-day. Unanimous consent
was given to the introduction of bills un
der the call of the states, and s great
number of bills were then presented.
Speaker Carlisle hoped up to five
minutes before twelve o’clock, to be able
to announce the House committees to
day, but by that time determined he
would not be able to do so.
The senate convened it 12 m. At
end of the morning hour Mr. Sherman
at 12:15 took p. m. took the floor and ad
dressed the senate on the President’s
message.
DIED WITH HYDROPHOBIA-
A Mole near Crawford Bittern Poor Mentha
ago 111.. With Rabies.
About four months ajo a fine mule be
longing to Mr. Arnold a prominent plan
ter near Crawford waa bitten by a dog
supposed to be mad The mule how
ever showed no symptoms of hydropho
bia. snd Mr. Arnold continued to work
the animal. All the winter it has been
driven to the depot hauling cotton. A
few days since it began to manifest feel
ings of restlessness that continued to
increase until a clear case of the rabies
was manifested that resulted in the death
of the animal.
ROW AT U- S. BARRACKS.
Three Soldier. Hurt While Protect-
lug a Woman.
St. Louis, Jan. 4.—[SpeciJ.]—There
was a bloody riot laat night near Jeffer
son barracks, twelve miles from SL Lou
is, in which three white soldiers were
injured. The row resulted from negroes
Assaulting a white woman, and the sol
(tiers, attcmpiing.to arrest her assailants.
Sir. Chamberlain’. Return.
Washington, D. C n Jan, 4.—(Special.]
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, accompanied
by his secretaries, Messrs. Maydock and
Uergue, arrived at the Arlington late laat
night Mr. Chamberlain will attend tbe
ball at the British minister’s to-night,
which promises to be one of the con
spicuously brilliant affairs of the early
social season.
A Political Libel Suit.
Jackson, Mich. Jan. 4.—(Special.)—
J. W. Boardi tan, preaidant of the city
council, yesterday brought gait against
the Drily Citixen and City Attorney Root
forlibeL Tba auitgrows out of the pub
lication of a signed article derogatory to
President Boardmao’s official character,
written by the city attorney for the Citi
xen. The fight ia the outcome of politi
cal feeling.
necessity bear the direct taxea of State,
county and municipal governments.
The system is inquisitorial in its
methods and utterly subversive of the
great common law heritage of our race
to be free from personal arrest snd from
seizures and searches except by due pro
cess of law. In its enforcement, it is
intrusive on private rights, vexatious to
our citizens and disturbing to the peace
and content of many communities ia our
State. It has ever been so, andfrnn its
nature must continue to be so as long as
the law remains on the statute hook.
These characteristics of the law were
recognized in Jefferson's time.
3. The internal revenue law is especi
ally objectionable in that the enf >rce-
ment of its criminal provisions must of
necessity be committed to the federal
courts. However just and lenient sucli
courts rosy be in the administration of
this law. from the fact that exclusive ju
risdie'ion ofoffens ► against this is nec
essarily vested in them, it follows that
for any violation of it. whether of tbe
gravest ir most trifling character, the
offender must be dragged from his dis
taut home, frequently more than one
hun Ired miles, to stand his trial, and, if
convict- d, to undergo his punishment
far from tlie aid snd support of family
and frier ds,
4 All criminal laws should be as sim
picas possible in their provisions. The
internal revenue law, wh le it is, ns its
nan.e implies, a law for the rain- g of
revenue, is none the less a criminal law,
as there is a penalty prove'ed for the vi
olation of any of its numberless provis
ions. So far from being a aimple law. it
is by all odds the most complicated
criminal law to be found in any statute
book either federal or state.
5. It is true that the eTilsin the admin
istration of this law are ill Georgia prin
cipally limited to a particular section of
the State, and it unfortunately happens
that many people arc not quick to sym
pathizc with sufferings in which they do
not share. There is, however, one im
portant feature in the operation of this
law, the evil of which affects every per
son in the state. Not only is the law
harsh, vexatious and oppressive to a
large portioi of our people, but it takes
out of the state a huge sum of money
which, if collected, should he collected
by the atate for the use. and benefit of
tho people of the state. The records of
the government show that since the close
of the war and up to J une 30, 1887, the
money collected in Georgia by internal
revenue tax and paid over to tbe federal
government amounts to twenty-three
million,-seven -hundred and forty-four
thousand eight-hundred and eigh een
dollars.
Speaking of the objectionsto the repeal
ha aaya; “The principal argument
against ihs repeal is that the proper re
duction cannot be made in the present
tariff law, if the internal revenue law is
rapealed.
Instead of attempting to discuss this I
will quote the official statement made by
the national democratic convention in
1884. In its platform it said: “Sufficient
revenue to pay all the ^expenses of the
federal government economically admin
istered, including pensions, interest snd
principal of the public debt, can b. got
ten under our present system of taxation
from custom house taxes on fewer im
ported articles, bearing heaviest on arti
cles of luxury, and bearing lightly ou
articles of necessity.”
This ia the opinion solemnly and for
mally announced by Mr. Cleveland. Mr.
Carlisle, Mr. Morrison and Mr. Watter-
son. I believe that both on the ground
of public policy and of constitutional
law, the tariff law ahould be framed for
the purpoae of raising a revenue for the
support of the gor« rnment—that it
ahould be limited to the amouut necessa
ry for such support—that it should be so
adjusted as to be most surely productive
of the needed revenue and should never
be prohibitory in its operation—and that
in iuch adjustment the burdens of cus
toms duty should be taken off those stri
des which are recognized as belon ing
to tho necessaries and ordinary comforts
of life, and that such burdens should be
laid as lar as practicable on articles
classed ms luxuries.
It is sssertod with great frequency
snd confidence that to favor the repeal
of this law is undemocratic. This posi
tion is as baseless as some of the argu
ments already examined. Thomas Jef
ferson ia indisput'bly good Dem-eratic
authority, and he was certainly opposed
to federal ' iternal revenuu laws..
Georgia may faixly clai to be a Dem
ocratic State. There is so little doubt
about her Democracy that she is rarely
either excites tbe fears or elicits the fa
vor* of the party. She has none of tbe
pleasing attentions which are lavished
upon the coquetish ''pivotal stat' a.”
Through her several legislatures which
may be said to have been solidly Demo
cratic she has spoken most emphatically
on the subject of this law. Four times
between 1877 and 1885 her legislature
hare passed resolutions condemning the
internal revenue law as wrongful and
oppressive and calling ou her senators
and representatives to exert themselves
to secure its repeal.
Another argument used against the re
peal of the internal revenue law, And re
peated on all occasions, is that thero
ought to be no “free whisky” as long as
the necessaries of life are taxed at the
custom house. The design of such an
argument is manifestly to produce the
impression on the public mind that if the
interns! revenue law is repealed, whisky
will be free from taxation while the
necessaries of life will still be taxed. It
s difficult to give the credit of full sin
cerity to those who are wall informed,
and who, nevertheless, make such state
ment with such design. They must
know the fact that the same law which
requires a tariff tax to be paid
the articles at the custom house, also re
quires a tax of two dollars per gallon to
be paid on all distilled spirits importsd
into this country, and that this tax on
spirits would remain after the repeal of
the internal revtnue law. There is no
direct federal tax on tbe necessaries of
life, and it ia not true that tho repeal of
the law imposing a direct tax on spirits
would be a discrimination against nec
essaries and tu favor of spirits, and, as
shown above, the removal of the direct
tax on spirits would not prevent thi
removal of the burden of tariff taxation
from necessaries. It would appear from
this that the cry of “free whisky” has
do foundation in fact, and is a demagogic
al claptnp to mislead and deceive the
public.
Some m called prohibitionists oppose
the repeal of tho internal revenue but
thourt—il pro ibitieu oas ration of
1884, which nominated St John for pres
ident, may ho acoejded as the fairest
exponent of the genuine prohibition een-
rancutl Hall. Boston, the Scene o( tba
Sleeting In Celebration of the Invention
feels and perceives. Gallhnder'conducted
the asylum for thirteen, years, and was
consulted in its management till his death
in 1851- He married one of his first class
of pupils In 1821.
Previous to tlie labors of Gollaudot the
defectives
without aid.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Aid for Invattded Children.
The humanity of our times finds it
difficult to express itself, and is constant-
in this land w«ro almost wholly ! ured a paper which resists boUTftre and i ne , w met ^ ods * . ° n , e of th *;
d. A few wealthy families sent water. ! » a London “scheme for the special
“Boy Preacher” Harrison is growing
gray in a Boston pulpit.
A German has invented and manufact-
their unfortunate children to Europe—or
brought over from there private instrnc-
Prominent In Deaf Mate Education.
I IHUUKUli U\L’l UU1U UtTIC uiaMW,* , . D * 1 c . . , . _ _ ,
-f Visible speech—Somo of the Men ! tore—but for the deaf nnd dumb ns a body Of the Koyal Society 01 London is Profes-
there was no help. The possibility of sor Stokes, a Christian.
, help was not generally believed. The old The agents of the Bible society in
ANEUIL hall, in notion—that mental action was absolutely Tokio, Japan, can scarcely meet the de
dependent upon audible speech-still pro- : mand for the Bible ^ ^ cit
vailed.
Gallaudet had given preference to the | A Memphis clergyman says that be
manual alphabet, but Horace Mann : <rould be opposed to the theatre even if
arose to advocate the method of “artlcn- : all actors and actresses were true Chris-
lation” and lip reading, and between, tinns and all plays were pure and uplift-
these two schools there has raged a con-1 ing, because a play rouses the emotion of
troversy which bids fair to be perpetuaL •
Dr. S- G. Howe was a conspicuous advo
cate of the finger alphabet The Horace
Mann day school in Boston and the
Clark, institute in Northampton, Maas.,
teach Up reading.
Though the cruel kindness of parents
, T , , , visitation and aid of seriously invalided
Huxley s successor in the highest chair children in their homes.” Few outside
“Rev.” A. L. Brown, s negro bjjptjst
;sffiSWWS'
has lately been cmusrht at his old tricks
to obtain money without earning it by
the .sweat of his brow. Lake has been
mixing politics with his relicion, and has
been figuring quite prominently in elec-
tions both in Oglethorpe and Clarke
counties, and lie seemed to have been
prompted more by a desire of gain than
for the good of Lis country. It ill be
remembered that wh le pastor of tie
Lexington baptist church, this negro
collected subscriptions from h s flock
with which to build a parsonage, and in
stead of erecting it near that church,
Lake invested in a lot in Hast Athens,
on which he proceeded to huild, taking
the deed in the name of himself or wife.
We do not know what was the settle
ment of th’s* case with the victimized
church members, hut doubtless the pas
tor came out on top.
During the late municipal content *’n
this city the candidates for mayor did
not oiler ihe usual lle-h pots to th** sons
of Africa. As a consequence there was
deep growling among certain ebony poll
ticians of our city, who have made a
practice of selling their ballots to the
highest bidder. After watting in vain
fora propositi n. Like Drown s?»t him
self down and proceeded to indite notes
to the various candidates, not only those
offering for municipal honors, hut also
to scrotal gcut'mien who wot
.succe* ful candidates for county offices.
Major Hodgson received one o
sweet-scented missives in which
demanded s**v • » dol ar fo. - rvid
dered, he claimed to have rondo e<
gentleman during the election of
lie accompanied this letter wiih a threat!
thnt if the money was not forthcoming
he would give his vote and influence to
Mr. Dorsey. Mayor Hodgson refused to
comply .with the demand, and sure I
enough ! ake flopped over. We learn
that similar demands were made upon.
CapL W, D. O’ Farrell and his brother !
Charlie.
We will say to all such ballot-barter
ers as Lake Drown that hereafter the*
will find their occupation gone in Alb*,
ens. Our good people are sick and *• >-
gusted with having their elections c :i- |
trolled by such persoi s. and will use!
everything in their power to suppress j
this infamous traffic in votes and ••'flu-j
ence” that has so long disgraced our cit |
and county. Hereafter our democra.s!
will nominate candidates for all offices,
thus weeding out thi* unscrupulous,
class of voters
hts fingers* tigs, lor
Boston, whose
walls hare . -ao
often echoed bom
bast and elo
quence, can now
boast of a strange
sort of ni um
sociable—an audi
ence which could
not break the
golden silence
with speaking
words if they
would and an
orator whose
knowledge is at
be dutches and
pity, which is followed by no correspond
ing action.
It is proposed to construct a canal from
Duluth to a point on the Bed river of tho
North, and to extend steamboat naviga
tion 1,600 miles westward from Lake
keeps many deaf children at home in : Winnipeg, where it is possible to develop
blank ignorance, on Intellectual and moral wheat lands of 500,000 eauare miles
sleep tending toward Imbecility, promt- ^
a eyed
epend upon it, for their eyes must do
dnty their ears refuse—an audience of
deaf mutes assembled upon the 100th an
niversary of his birth, Dec. 10, in honor
of Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, of
Hartford, who inaugurated upon this con
tinent the system which has made these
silent people intelligent citizens.
Rev. Thomas 'Gallaudet, of New York,
son of the hero of the occasion, is a
skillful interpreter of visible speech.
Isaac Lewis Peet, principal of the New
York Deaf Mute institution, the orator,
speaks the finger language. He is the
third of his family to engage in this, nis
grandfather and father having done so be
fore him. Religious services are usually
au important feature of gatherings of the
deaf nnd dumb, who owe their mental de
liverance almost entirely to men of re
ligious callings, such having been fore-
‘ntist in perfecting the art of instruction.
A novelty in music is the ‘*singing’’ in
signs by deaf people, who indicate words,
time and tune by the motions of their
hands and fingers. Tableaux, dancing
and black magic are also in their enter
tainments.
i these
Lik.
Ibrli
assert that they can bt
t state of idiocy,
y less honored Item Gal-
Urttdet*a is that of Laurent Clerc, a pupil
Several yean ago three Russian “lady
doctors*' started at Tashkend a consult
ing hospital for Mussulman women.
From the beginning the experiment
of SI card, whom Gallaudet brought from proved a success, and the popularity of
France as his chief assistant. He acted the hospital has been increasing ever
as instructor in the American asylum for
forty-one years, und a statue in his honor
fronts the Gallaudet monument in Hart
ford.
W. K. Chase, whose portrait is among
those given, is prominent in the work of
educating the deaf.
LAURA BRIDGMAK.
PROFESSOR CLERC. REV. T. B. GALLAUDET.
Many i>eople visit the famous Laura
Rridgeman, whose mind was more com-
pi telv imprisonwl within a helpless body
when she was a child than iu any other
case in the history of this unfortunate
class; hut she is now a charming and well
educated woman. She is living at the
Perkins Institute for the Blind, in South
where she has speut most of her
life. She is now 58 years of age. She
became blind, deaf and dumb when 2
years old.
h 'r home at Hanover, N. H., and placed
in charge of Dr. S. G. Howe. He found
her a breathing, eating nnd sleeping ani
mal, who could not talk, hear, see or
smell, and hud only an imperfect sense of
taste. To reach tho darkened mind was
his task, and tlie only avenue was through
the sense of touch. He began by giving
her objects to handle, which bore their
names in raised letters. When she was
familiar with the forms of these words he
since. During the last twelve months no
fewer than 15,000 consultations have
been given.
The recent tearing down of a New
Hampshire manufactory by means of
dynamite demonstrates a new use for the
explosive. The concussion completely
Hoffman, the Child Pianist. separated the bricks and did not seem to
Once in a while, and at nearly equal them in the least. The charges
intervals, nature sends into the world an boles dug in the foundation
infant prodigy, as if to hint to us that our under the brick wall, and the number of
long labors of acquisition are not really cartridges were graded according to the
needed, if only we could discover the number of bricks in the wall to bo de
method of being bora with the particular moiished.
science already in us. Two curious facta I ^~ .
are notable about these prodigies; they thirty-eight widows of Revolu-
are almost always boya, and thelnhcrent Canary soldiers now on the pension list
talent is nine times out of ten a natural, **uncy A. Green, of Versailles, Ind., is
sense of melody or numbers. There, for youngest. She was born in 1818.
The Revolutionary war ended in 1783.
Assuming that her husband was 21 when
he was mustered out he would have been
50 when his bride was bom. If he had
married her when she was 18 he would
have been a venerable bridegroom of 74.
George Alfred Townsend gives tho fol
lowing sketch of Sir George M. Pullman:
“He is a rather portly man. square shoul
dered, with something of the appearance
of a French military officer, but of a
more suitable, civil expression; he wears
a goatee which is now a little gray, like
his hair. It was twenty-eight years ago
when he first lay down in a sleeping car
and. being badly rattled about and un
able to sleep, began to wonder if this
continent would not some day sustain a
comfortable system of night cars.”
JOSXF HOFFMAN.
instance, was Alexander Pope, who wore
liis cbildish babble into a rude rhyme,
even when - his words bod no meaning;
of the ranks of medical men and nurses
understand liow many children leave hos
pitals in a condition requiring far more
intelligent and continuous care tlian they
can possibly have from their families.
There are severe cases of abscesses, and
lingering sores, and weaknesses from
limbs that have been broken, besides
many who suffer from other causes less
severe, but sufficient to cut them off
from tho pursuits and pleasures of child
hood.
The object of tho association is to sup
plement hospital work—sending nurses
to the houses of the rick poor. But be
yond that, or more specifically, it is to
secure a list of wealthy and benevolent
families that can be relied upon to pay
for, or furnish what is needed for, one or
more of the little invalids. It is the work
of the association to bring the two par
ties together and get tlie wealthy inter
ested in special wards. There ia a cen
tral office and a medical secretary, to
whom any one can send the address of a
sick child needing help. Then tlie visitor
secures for such child liis friend, who is
to consider it, for tlie time being, as his
own child. This is one of the brat con
sidered forms of benevolence that has
been devised. It would bear trails;,hull
ing into every city and almost every vil
lage of not only England, but America.
The trouble with most cliarity is its lack
of personality and its transient character.
—Globe-Democrat.
Th. BwIm Mountaineer.
Under his heavy, almost coarse, ex
even wnen • ms worus non no meaning; ' *
and Mozart, whose keen sense of harmony | T*?* ““ Poeti^ instinct, engen-
was noticed as soon os he could talk, and ; constant enforced commu-
who composed a difficult piano concerto i with a nature at once austere and
at the age of 5; and thero was the won- I elevating. Like tho Germans he is mu-
Ucrful Yankee boy, Zcrah Colburn, who [ Real; he knows by heart simple songs
could multiply sums of 10,000 nnd over 1 and touching ballads, and throws their
AtSvmrs^hewMtakenfrom I b X *T>ol sums, “in his head,” fuster than j melancholy rhythm to the rocky echoes
j he as taken from tl)e most expert acc0 untant could do across the fissures of ice and the ledges York Sun
it with pencil. Only a few years ago of snow. At St™** near Rri.n, i« „„ I
A Collection of Carlo*.
The only collection of curios which P.
T Barnum confesses that he envies is
tliat of Capt. Couch, of tlie steamer Old
Dominion, which runs from here to
Richmond. Barnum sailed with Capt.
Couch, and saw liis marvelous room,
which is fitted up with cupboards all
around, and lined from floor to ceilinpr.
and on both with alligator hides, sharks'
teeth, swords from swordfishes, sea
bears, doll liabies, manikins made by
Voudoo priestesses, charms from the
Congo, hatchets, cherry trees, lives of
George Washington, scrapbooks and
boxes of newspaper clippings. These
were given to the captain mostly by
prominent people who have traveled on
his ship in the last forty years. He
knows who gave him each object of the
collection, when and what was said in
the presentation. Many of the dolls ore
presents from actresses, who dressed
them. Capt. Couch’s name is George
Washington. He has had several dozen
hatchets given him, and they hang in
every oomer. A full grown dwarf cherry
tree flourishes in a comer. On the bed,
which is never disturbed, are splendidly
embroidered tidies—one of them a gift
of Adelaide Neilson—bearing the letters
“G. W.” worked in with tlie American
flag. The scrapbooks of newspaper clip
pings number a score or more. On a
pillow sham is “God Bless Our Country”
in big blue embroidered letters. Capt.
Couch is a genial old gentleman, and one
of the ablest seamen on tho coast.—New
In truth our legislature shouM pass a ! separated the letters and taught her to
law making it a crime for a man either t'other agaim After she had
to buy or sell a vote, directly or indi
rectly.
COLORED KU-KLUX-
Bailiff Dorter went over to Hast Ath
ens armed with warrants for the arrest
of several nezro women and men who it
was charged had disturbed the quiet of
that part of the city.
They had disguised themselves, tlie
women putting on men's clothes and the
men doning the women's. In this dis
guise they started out to make calls on
their neighbors. Coming to an old ne
gro man’s house he to *k offense at their ! in its first year, 1817.
actings and doings and had warrants ta- | The mum people
ken out for their arrest. After lodging
them safely in jail the ol 1 man was pre
vailed on to withdraw the warrants and
all parties made Iriends.
learned tlie alphabet in this way she
readily acquired an understanding of the
finger alphabet—all this within three
m utlis. Finally she was taught to write,
play the piano, sew, attend to household
tintic3 and rend books with rotated print.
As .-he grew toward womanhood she gave
Midi indications of character as a aern-
jmIous neatness and a jealous regard for
tin* rights of herself and others. She is
fi nd of society, remembers old ocquaint-
n-ices and recognizes them eagerly, and Is
H i i'ond of chatting, on her fingers, as
any lady who has control of the more for
midable weapon of woman.
Mrs. Maria Limb, of Norwich, Conn.,
aged 90, and her sister, Mrs. Harriet
Derby, of Mystic River, Conn., are the
oldest pupils of the American asylum at
Hartford. They both entered the asylum
Congressman Moffat** Sarcr««or.
Chicago, Ill., Jan. 4.—[Special.]—
The News, Marquette, Michigan, special
says: **The fight for the late Mr. Mof
fat’s seat in c -ngress has narrowed 1own
to Jay Ilubbel (Republican) against Col.
Chts. Osborn Marquette, (democrat)
with the chances strongly in favor of the
alter.
CABMESV1LLE.
Carnesvii.le, Jan. 4.—[Special ]—
The new Year has opened up beautiful
ly, and all classes have gone to work in
dead earnest to make the new a success.
Dr S P llampley left here this morn
ing for Atlanta, where he will take a
post graduate course in medicine an l
surgery.
Henry David was arraigned Iv-fore the
court of ordinary on an atL’icbuient for
contempt of court, for coiicv ding or de
stroying the la*t will and testament of
Frank David, dec’d. The court dismiss
ed the attachment and let i. i go with
out cost, but n«»t without some sever**
criticisms on his >ic>ions in tbe matter.
The will wil’ beestahlis ed in tbe court
f ordinary, and the adinin strator will
proceed under the direction of the lo>t
or mislaid will, though there might be *
fight over it in the courts.
lloMK.n, Jan. 3.—Sale day. There are
several people in town.
We are glad to know that Miss Martin’s
school is increasing.
Mr. Milten Sanders, who has been
confined to his room for three months
with typhoid fever, is ou our streets to
day.
Another one of Homer’s fair damsels
will be led to the altar ere a week gl des
by. Our town is growing scarce of
young ladies.
Mr. W. A. Quillian, of Harmony
Grove, was on our s reefs yesterday.
Judge Hill and J. K. Stephens will
visit the Classic City very so.»n.
L. N. Turk will move into his new
dwelling in a few days.
Three Dozen less one.—It is the cur
rent rumor, on our streets, that a very
prominent member of the Florida party,
just returned, placed himself around just
three dozen less one big, juicy oranges at
a single sitting. We congratulate the
town that said gentleman survived the
attack and did not drift into the neigh-
boring sea.
New Firm.—Messrs. Shackelford &
Ha taw ay have formed a copartnership
for the business of selling commercial
fertilizers and provisions. Mr. Sh.ckt l-
ford has been in our city for a long time,
and is well known as a business man.
Mr. Hataway is from High Shoals and
already ranks as one of the best busi
ness young men of that section. We
welcome Mr. Hataway to our citv, and
hope the new firm will do a thriving
business.
a numerous class.
The y are to be found in all the professions,
and many are printers, bookkeepers and
manual laborers. They number 30,000
bread winners in thi9 country, besides a
host of dependents. About half of them
are born deaf, and the rest achieve deaf
ness. Loss of speech follows, for tho
tongue needs the guidance of tlie ear.
Articulation is taught at somo schools,
but the speech of the pupils is at best
hi.rsh and indistinct, as the motions of the
vocal muscles are purely mechanical. The
finger language Is known to nearly all
mutes, but articulation and lip reading
arc added ns accomplishments by a large
number. They have several newspapers
published in their Interest, and form
literary and religions societies in all quar
ters of the country. The deaf mutes in
Boston who thus band together number
years ago of snow. At Steeg, near Brienz, is an
Willie S|»i»ht .olI Cincinnati, astonished innkeeper of giant Btaturo and equal
that musical city by bis violin renditions .length, with broad shouldere. maiive
at the nee of 6; and as he was well grown ’ i ”
and healthy, much was expected of him, L ? T f ° r u- 9 ° f
but. wefor three years lat« he died very ‘bo Alp.no horn, his potent
suddenly, after a short and not very se- breath sending the sound far up tho
veto illness. It seemed as if the nerve luountain. When he speaks his voice is
threads of his young life hud been drawn *° w “d musical. He sings tho lays of
a little too tense and snapped suddenly “» country side with apathetic grace, in-
with iut warning. His last audible words terrupting himself occasionally to utter a
were: “O God, don’t be too hard on • stupid jest or to give a token of liis ath-
poor little fellow.” letio powers. That same giant rose one
At present little Josef noffmnn is the night at 12 to ascend theFaulhom, 0 000
musical sensation of New York. His feet high, in order to see his Uttie boy.
achievements on the ptano excite the as- who had been ill in the v&llryand had
tonlshtnent and admiration of profession- -— • • - - .
ait. ' £
the Utter Otto Floer-
shelm,skillful pianist and composer,
took Us mtt and improvlstd a theme;
tore the oat, began to si
which it was hiai
tbe berr took it up where the pianist < his infancy. The pathos of this little act,
* — * carried it by razy «tep* Into with its poetical promptings, did not pre
vent the i nnkrapu’ frocn bring stsMS.
pulouriy extortionate when selling Alpine
horns at Sley to a too confiding stranger.
—M. do S. in New York Sun.
Tho Barbrrs of Pari*.
“I wish somo of our New YorkTbar-
bers would practice their art as I experi
encod it in Paris,” said an impatient cus
tomer as he jumped out of the chair of a
Broadway barber’s shop in which he had
sat for twenty-five minutes while under
going the process of shaving. “The
very day I got to Paris I went into a
barber's boudoir adjacent to the Hotel
Blank, in which three artists were on
duty. As soon as I entered one of them
showed me to & chair—not a monstrous
thing such as the American barbers *:se,
. , pleasant trip indeed*
Little Bros, hate just reacted seven)
new buggies, of the Stsndsrd mske, for
their popular livery stable. The gentle
man are full of enterprise and are boand
to succeed here.
Mayor U L ilanlraan has notified the
citizens of this place that thero will be
an election here on the 11th, inst. for
mayor and aldermen for tho present
year. No candidates have announced up
to date so far as we can learn.
Harmony Grove 4 Jan. 2.—[Special.]
Col YV \\ r Stark has returned home from
a short visit to friends and relatives in
the country.
Dr 8 is Adair, a prominent young den-
tistof hlbeoton, returned home this
raoruing, after spending the Christmas
holidays with relatives in the Grove snd
vicinity-
Cols P G Thompson and R L J Smith
are in attendance upon the ordinary's
court in Homer to-day.
Tom Miller, col., our worthy barber,
has moved his shop from the Central
hotel to the office formerly occupied by
Col P G Thompson.
Rev Mr Bona preached his first ser
mon here yesterday. Owing to the in
clemency of the weather only a small
congregation was present, who were do-
ighted with his sermon.
A great many farmers in the Grove to
day settling up their accounts.
The usual quota of Athens drummers
same up this morning to sell their goods
to our enterprising and prosperous ujer*
chanst.
Prof llgnry Walker, of Monroe, airiv*
d in the Grove Saturday evening, and
penod the spring term of his school
this morning.
Mr John H. Gunnels happened to a
very serious accident, Saturday after-
loon. While out driving in his sulkey,
liis horse became unmanageable and
rned the sulky over, throwing Mr
iunnels to the ground with great force.
Ylr, Gunnels’ face was badly bruised,
several of his teeth were knocked out,
ind his leg was badly cat A physician
was immediately called in and pronounc
ed the injuries serious, but not necessa
rily fatal.
Harmony Grove, Jan. 3.—[Special,]—
Maj S C Homesley has *gono up to
Clarksville in the interest ol the Merc
hants’ Protective I'nion.
Miss Mamie Short, one of Wilkes
county’s fairest daughters, returned home
this morning, after a very pleasant visit
o Mrs G W D Harber, of our town.
Col Jno J Strickland, a prominent at
torney of Danielsvillc, spent last night in
the Grove, en route for Jefferson.
Mr Tom Hardman made a flying visit
to Athens to-day.
Miss Mollie Richards, the beautiful
and bewitching belle ef Conyers, is spend
ing a few days with Miss Ida Bohannon,
of our town.
Capt A D Stapler was married to Miss
Koxie Street, last Sunday, in Nicholson.
Capt Stapler is one of Jackson oountv's
most highly esteemed citizens, and nis
many friends wish him a long and happy
life,
Mr. L. B. Johnson was in the Grove
this morning.
Col. \Y r m. II. Simpkins has gone lo
Jefferson to-day on professional busi
ness.
Mr. John H. Gunnels is doing as well
as could be expected and will soon be
out again.
Our merchants report collections for
last year very good indeed, and all of
them are making preparations for a big
ger business this year than ever jefore.
\\ r e were very sorry indeed, to seo in
Sunday’s Banner-YWrcnMAN that Mr.
Pleasant A. Stovall had that day severed
his connection with the B.- W.as its sen
ior editor and proprietor. A splendid
newsgatherer, a strong writer, and a
brainy and intellectual young man, he
was a great factor in the journalistic
world of Northeast Georgia, and bis ab
sence will be felt by all. Whersver ha
may cast his lot in the future, we wish
him the success he so richly deserres.
_.Cj}rjie»yJ 'Jf
_ pansing on a chromatic
progression. Then the pianist played a
variety of airs In several keys, to each of
wi*.: 'h tho child responded gracefully and
intelligently, the two conducting thus a
sort ox musical dialogue for ten minutes.
He lcfirned a difficult minuet in three
xniuntos, though ho cannot read mnsio
and has hod no education whatever in
musical science. All his music so far il
Sugar for Ministers.
It is an accepted tradition that minis
ters and theological folk generally ore
very fond of sweet things to eat Deep
imitative, aud the object of his American philosophers might trace some connection
tour, under the management of Henry E. , between this tendency and their benicr-
1 LI.AM l.i tn nL4«tn mniiar fur n (li.r. — 1 . . .... °
Abbey, is to obtain the moiicy for a ther
ough musical education.
A Texas jury in a murder trial reached
• verdict by drawing straw*.
Mora Thu On. Mayflower.
Mayflower waa . common name for a
nity and sweetness and light. Perhaps
it is in some sort an expression of the re
lation between knowledge and the love of
sugar. However that may be, the Athe
nian distinctly remembers that in child
hood days, whenever there were ministers
for “company at dinner,” the mother al-
,. . . ... lme I ? r ? ways put three lumps in the cup without
ship in early days, and the one examined asking.and then slipped two extra ones
to the East India company in 16°0, and TheSWn££Th£p
hkn^?ie^to j
murttoto'ltaTetom tarcwshiDe thairtbi for they help to remoTe painful awe
sr-jws
A Merited and Becowho Bum
skaxce.—The Atbaiueumh as received a
beautiful New Year remembrance from
lfimJ. A. Hay*a,ia the shape of a hand-
seme 10x12 portrait of her distinguished
father the Hon. Jefferson Davis. The
likeness is One and represeats Mr. Dsvis
sitting by a table reading.
K. CHASE.
THOMAS GALLAUDET. ISAAC LEWIS PEET.
about +15. State associations are general,
ami the New England Association of Deaf
Mutes is on important body. There are
more than fifty schools in the United
States, with S.ODOteochers, anda National
Deaf Mute college at Washington, of which
Edward Gallaiul-t, another son of the
great teacher, is president These institu
tions receive support from the national
anil local governments, thanks to the
ardor with which Rev. T. H. Gallaudet
pleaded their cause before the legislatures.
Their lieuefactor’s memory was honored
by tlie deaf tnutes by the erection of a
statue nt Hartford, some thirty years ago.
and $8,000 has now been raised, among
their own number, for tho purpose ol
idacing another statue at Washington.
The inauuer in which Gallaudet waa
led to pity and work for the deaf mutes
was peculiarly Interesting, and the name
of little Alice Cogswell, of Hartford, is
inseparably associated with his achieve
ments. She was a neighbor’s child whom
Gallaudet, then a young Congregational
minister, undertook to rescue from the
mental darkness consequent upon her
deafness, the result of fever. His expe
rience with this little girl revealed to the
minister the imbecile condition in which
thousands of his fellow creatures were
existing for the want of soma means of
communication of Ideas. Several Hart
ford gentlemen combined in 1815 tor tbs
purpose ot starting a' scnooL and sent
Gallaudet to France, where he learned
the Abbe Sicard’s method of s iucation by
means of the manna! alphalwt and, re
turning, founded tbe American asylum at
Hartford. It still flourish
Gallaudet did not inve.it a system of
teaching, but he so in;* roved upon the
methods of Sicord that !.e acquainted his
pupils with simple truths of morality and
religion, with ideas of themselves, their
senses and souls, with Ideas of God and
the social world, in • year's time, when
the pnpils of European Institutions hail
not advanced beyond the knowledge of
sounds and the names ot sensible objects,
qualities and actions. Herrin was Gallon-
det’s great merit as a teacher. He put
ideas before words, and caused to hud and
bloom in the light of reason the souls of
his pupils which had been hidden In dark
A leading object In the first lessons was
to establish free communication with tbs
pupils in sign langnage In rsfsieaoe to
their ownferitags and thoughts as excited
by objects Mu or events in their lives.
Then the papU easily comprehended^the
feelings of others, and was thus Ud to
learn tbe wunee of simple emotion*
acts of tbe mfad, and to think ot thi
•isiblo agent—the soul—aa tia hrioa
long rbefore 1059. Only ships built ot
Indian teak could have kept tlie sea from
1000 to 1059 like those used by Phoeni
cians at Tyke, which Theophrastus telb
us luul continued tailing for more than
200 years.—'Tho Athenaeum.
Items of All Sorts.
A German carp weighing more than,
ten pounds was caught in a mill d.m
near Oringsburg, Pa.
Much alarm exists among coffee plant
ers in Brazil owing to a new disease hav
ing broken out in the coffee shrubs.
In some of tho southern counties of
Virginia, tlio cultivation of peanuts is
gradually taking tbe place of cotton as
affording a more profitable crop.
A ‘‘belled buxzard” is again circulating
over middle and west Tennessee. Owing
to the mortality among cattle, caused by
the drought, ho fills a long felt wont.
A Galloway, Cola, cow is to -next
season make her home on tbe top of Pike’s
peak. She will he the highest cow on
built for
t gods . . .
brings them nearer to earth where chil
dren dwell.—Chicago Times.
Th* Japanese Persimmon.
Many of tho gardens of Sacramento
are at present decorated with Japanese
persimmon trees loaded down with ripen
ing fruit Tho leaves of these trees are
now all off, leaving the branches and
fruit alone, and presenting a very pretty
sight The Japanese who recently visited
Sacramento spoke very laudatory of this
fruit, classing it os the finest in that
empire, and stated that it would come to
be greatly appreciated by the American
people when better known. The trees
produce very young, and some very
large specimens of tho fruit are to be seen
in various parts of the city.—Chicago
Times.
We’d climbed up to a rocky nook.
Were bidden well, so non. could look.
Tor I’d resolved to know my fete.
And was Impatient, could not writ.
Go round her waist I put my arm
(She said abe thought there waa no harm).
And told her, trembling, of my lore.
Called her “sweetheart," “dear" and "dor. I"
‘-I like you very much," told she,
“And hope that we shall always be"—
“Please atop!” I cried, “pray aay no more,”
“I know the rest; you’re number four.”
Tedder, the Artist.
Elihu Vcddcr, whoso work is some
times spoken of as the best imaginative
art of modern times, has a brow and
W ^“^“eSto 1 ^ I ot Hawthorne, though tho
, t”y„ , . i , M, I artist is fair, while tlie romancer is dark,
is to be kept there to her milk. Tlie forehead is broad and thoughtful.
Tigers havo been encountered lately iu tho eyes are intelligent, frank and kindly,
ports of Asiatic and European Russia, but tbe month and chin ore those of a
where they liave never been before. Some very matter of fact man.^—Boston Budget
of tbe animals have been captured aud
■out to St. Petersburg olive.
A telegraph line to connect Russia and
Franco is being built. In case of a war
with Germany Russia would be out off
from all telegraph communication with
tbe eastern countries, as the only tele
graph wire it has goes through Germany.
In excar*tlngto a cellar at St Augus
tine, Fla., a workman disinterred an im
mense iron crowbar, which must have
been used fay tbe unknown aborigines. It
b ten feet long, tapering at each end to a
sharp point, and weighs 190 pounds.
An earthquake, occurred in Iceland in
October lari. The shock seems to have
been confined, to the southern part of the
bland, and was. very seven. The ruck
at Gape SeUtiavik, on which the light
house stands, has been rent asunder, and
the house considerable damaged.
The old treaty oak on Mrs. Thompson’s
plantation in Oglethorpe county, Ga., has
been cut and killed. Thb famous white
oak waa the tree under which the first
settlers nmde the treaty with the Chero
kee Indian* for all the land in that sec
tion of the state.
The immigration of children to Canada
b attracting mdeh attention in Great
Britain. Large rrumbtra c< pauper chil-
dren hare been sent over, arul inspectors
have been appointed by the government
to visit the children once or twice a year
to see that tfaeyem properly pnoeidad
to. • •
Mox* than Etxb Bxroxx.—We lesrn
that the TaX€&n*ctor has issued about
ohe thousand executions against delin-
tsx payers. This is the largest
in this county.
had honed it, and by a few gentle, skill
ful, deft strokes, wholly unl&e tbe scrap
ing to which I had been accustomed, I
was shaved! He then handed mo a
small linen napkin and a dainty porce
lain bowl of water, in which I moistened
a corner of the napkin, passed it over ray
face and dried the same, without suffer
ing by such scrubbing as had often mado
me groan. Tlie work was done, nnd, in
stead of half an hour of my time being
wasted in the barber's shop, only eight
minutes had elapsed between my en
trance and exit. And it was done in
style, too.”—New York Sun.
Th. Sngar Loaf list.
I noticed a man posing in the lobby of
the Metropolitan Opera house the other
night, holding in his hand a hat of the
shape of a sugar loaf. He was appar
ently a dude by profession, at least that’s
wbat I gathered from liis “get up.” His
collar was abnormally high, his face was
pinched, his cheeks were tinged with
rouge and his raven locks scattered over
his narrow, receding brow made a pict
ure which was certainly worth studying.
I watched this little “thing” for some
time, out of cariosity, to seo what sort of
an effect his new faugled hat would make
when placed upon his remarkable looking
head. I did not have to wait long, and
a more extraordinary looking picture
never presented itself to my eye. Tlie
dudes are responsible for a good deal, but
I hope in the cause of suffering human
ity they will never be allowed to exist
long enough to introduce a fashion of
pointed silk hats. Heaven knows, we
see enough queer tilings knocking about
the streets without having the night mado
hideous and daylight objectionable by
constant visions of this new monstrosity.
—New York Truth.
glad to meet Her in <
try to make her visit pleasant
A sociable is billed for tbe Franklin
House to-night, -and a gay time is ex
pected.
The roads leading out from here are
as muddy, we reckon, a. the streets of
Athens, and locomotion is slow and dis
agreeable.
A large number of public schools will
commence Monday morning.
W T Williford, of Harmony Grove, Is
over on a visit winding up his matters
here, preparing for the commercial battle
at his new home.
John M. Carson has severed his con
nection with R. D. Yow * Co., at Ava-
lor, and is casting about for a place far
the future. He is here for a short while.
All the young M. D.’s who are in col
lege in Atlanta are at home—L K Bur-
russ, G W Westbrook and W L McBath.
Dr S P Rainpley made his annual holi
day visit to Elberton Tuesday. He is
very much attached to Elbert and her
people.
Mr. and Mrs. J A Munday spent the
holidays in Elberton.
A Disappointment.
Bobby (to young Mr. Featherly)—I heard
Clara toll ma that She was disappointed bs-
caqa* you didn't call last Sunday night.
Young Featherly (in n tremulous whisper)
—Isay, Bobby, did year sStar say bow di»
appointed she was?
Bobby (thoughtfully)--I’m toyin' to think
Yea, she aald ahe was agreeably dioap
pointed.—New York Sun.
Woman’s Sphere.
They talk about a woman's sphere,
As though it had a limit;
There's not n place in earth or heaven.
There’s not a task to mankind given,
There’s not a blessing or a woo
There’s not n whisper, yes or DO,
Then’s not a file, or death, or birth.
That baa a featherweight of worth.
Without a woman In It.
—Unknown Exchange.
The Concordance Mon.
It has been said of Alexander Cruden
of Concordance fame, that if madness
was, in his case, softened into eccen
tricity or directed to works of useful
ness, he was probably indebted for his
escape for that absorption of mind whieh
such an undertaking as the Concordance
must have involved. “What would
havo been to others intolerable drudgery
waa a sedative to his agitated mind (both
crazed with care and crossed in hopeless
love; and the Labor which would have
wasted the energies of a happier man
was tlie balm of his wounded spirit”—
Public Opinion.
CRAWFORD.
Cbawfobd, Jan. 3.—[Special.]—The
young men of our t.wu will give an oys
ter supper at Arnold’s hall Wednesday
night, the 4th inst
r R J Arnold aud his beautiful bride,
of Hampton, Ga., arrived yesterday even
ing on a visit to relatives and friends in
this county.
Messrs Jule Cohen, Crit McMahan,
Andy Coleman, J W Echols, Macon
Johnson snd W B Burnett, of Athens,
visited onr town to-day.
The registration books were closed
last Saturday evening, and only 560 ne
groes have registered for the prohibition
election on Jsn. 11th, and the pruhis are
confident of victors (
A Splendid Address.—One of tho
rarest treats it has been our pleasure to
attend, was a lecture delivered on last
Snnday evening at the Presbyterian
church by Mr. Arthur Bishop, on the
subject of foreign missions. Mr. Bishop
handled his subject in a most interesting
manner. In spite of the inclement
weather, the lecture room was crowded.
■HUH SHOALS.
High Shoals, Jan. 2.—[Special.]—
Christmas, with its noise and frolic is
past, and our town, se merry and lively
for the past week, has put on a soberer
aspect, in keeping with the gloomy opoa-
ing day of the new year 1888.
High Shoals has seldom known a more
gala week than the one just past
' The Christmas tree on Saturdajr night)
which opened the festive holidays, was
a grand success. The programme pr*”
pared for that night was heartily enjoyed
by all who attended.
On Monday evening last Jessie Miss
Frazer gave an entertainment to her
visitors and friends-.
Tuesday morning, by special invita
tion, and under the escort of Messrs.
Ilenrv Walker, Stevo Hester, John and
Powell Frazier, a gay party from hero
wended their way to Monroe. On reach
ing that place they were hospiatbly re
ceived anil entertained bs Mrs. D. H
Walker nnd a number of young people
already in waiting. Monroe is noted for
her hospitality, and its one's own fault,
we venture, if lie is not handsomely en
tertained within her bounds.
The “candy pulling" at Dr. George's
on Wednesday night, furnished great fun
for a large crowd,
The masksrade given to the young
folks, at Mr. Frazer's on Thursday night
was the most enjoyable occasion of the
whole Christmas.
Misses Berta Abbott and Sallie Camp
bell have returned to Athens, sftsr a
pleasant visit to friends here.
Mr. Charlie Abbott, of Atlanta, in vis
iting Mr. John Frazer.
Mis* Lizzie Robertson, to tbe regrot •f
many friends, left to-day to resume her
place at the Lucy Cobb.
Mr. John B. Hattaway, Jr. leaves to
day for Atlanta, where he will make bin
future home. Mr. Haitaway is a
young man of great perseveranco and
sterling worth, and will suoceed in what
ever he undertakes.
Cincinnati Grocer (to ousIoums)—And is
that all, madam t
Customer (rriUctivdy)—I don't remember
hqw our supply of eauerkraut ia Ob, well,
ytxi may sends couple ol barrels, if you like.
New Machisxst.—Splendid and latest
compete with any iq the United States,
Tbe pood has been cleaned out uid the
mill thoroughly overhauled, and.in about
two months it will start up. '
Homer, umn. a—^-pecial.]—Two of
Banks most prominent young men leave
this morning for Texas, Messrs C A
Meeks and II B Morris. Their many
friends regret their departure, and wish
them great succets.
Miss Emms Marlin, 'an estimable
young lady from Lula, took charge of the
Homer school this morning.
It is leap year, and our young ladiea
are certainly having a grand time. Tho
leap year ride was a success; each lady
furnished her own turn-out, driven by
herself and went after the gentlemen.
They were very polito in assisting the
ind snowing them jastt
eltdiea.
young men. am
they should wait on the
thow