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EW WITH
REAVES-
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l j (() Had ;i Talk With Banker
Ui.mii. oi Baltimore.
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1C AII.ICOADN.
\% rile* a l.clier to
* Mnr,>n will,
• iu tiling definite in
innt of the Macon
».l irnuhh’.s, and on
i' yesterday inter-
Watehmnn rujiorter.
li^h spii its, and stat
>t n«*w a pailicle of
ntlroad from Macon
o.njd* ted to Athens
lir i <*f .1 one next the
i ,itv. This cen
: ’in on the same
n. ;1 »• "T< at hanker,
rn »t sitisfactory in-
end that the
are among the
ie world, and
yearly thin
av* signed an
hen, hv which
U on ti.is road
l Mr. llrown
i» he had signed *
llhct, and that [
n future have no |
•ver money he \
ss his gr. at en- j
i
iiy Mr. Heaves, ‘
* rad i ntr between
would probably
ob ,bl v this week
■.’•U, 1
• •1 Ma
ONE AN- ONE HALF MILES SWEPT
BEFOKE THE DEVOUKEB.
A Terrible Explosion Tak.es Place
Followed By a Shower off Bricks’A F<
and Iron which Fell into tbe
Street—Alter Three Hours Hard
Flffhtiuff the Flames are Stayed—
Alst of the Sufferers.
COLLISION BETWEEN TWO EAST
•TENNESSEE ENGINES.
New York, Jan. 30.—[Special.]—
Broadway was Tisitod at 5:35 o’clock
this a. m., by the most fierce and disas
trous fire that has occurred in that great
thoroughfare for fifteen years. In one
and a halt hours, despite the sending out
of a general call for fire apparatus, four
immense business houses were destroy
ed and others seriously damaged. The
total loss is estimated at $1,500,000. The
fire started in Robertson & Kaufman's
store and spread with great rapidity,
fhe flames made rapid progress, eating
their way to the roof in a few minutes
and driving the fire ladders on to adjoin
ing buildings for safety. They saw that
the structure was doomed, and immedi
ately turned their attention
to surrounding property. While the
fire was at its height a terrible ex
plosion occurred, followed by a shower
of bricks ami iron, which fell into the
street Assistant Foreman Reilly was
caught under the bulk of this falling de
bris and fatally hurt. Chief Shay had a
narrow escape. A piece of iron weigh
ing at least one hundred and fifty pounds
fell at his feet. Several chiefs of battal
ions, who were standing around him, had
a narrow escape front tailing missies. A
number of firemen, however, received
trifling injuries. The explosion sent the
sparks high in the air, and iliey fell in
■showers on adjoining property while the
finmes burned tircer than before. Soon
No. 157 began to burn. At 8 o’clock
this building was a mass of tlmnei from
cellar to roof, and the upper floors of
545 were burning, but the flames had
ne»*n checked, at 513 and in the rear
of the burning building, which are num
bered 117, 118, \il'l and 1-4 Mercer
street.
At 8 o'clock, after three hours’ hard
fighting, the fire was under control. The
firms who lose by the tire are as fellows
No 545 Broadway, Robertson & Kauff
man, trimmings; P K Wilson, laces;
Stern, Falk \* Co, clothing; II Kaemer,
linings. No 547 Broadway, F Bianchi,
feathers and flowers. Nos 540 and 551,
Henry Rogers, fancy goods; J b Libby
, . | A* Co, clothing; Vcith dr Nelson, fancy
° * goods: C A Yost, clothing: Maler, Lin
ro,< son A* Co, clothing; No 55b Broadway, J
.mucus us so n Rr.-kowski and Kmest, clothing; Mitch-
six- weeks in.- e jj ^ p V rad,clothing; Louis Me/.ger, itn-
i unning into Madi J
mta.Vast l,OUU P° r,er -
ro-1.1. Mr T. \V. j A Tl'.ltltl III.E III TKAUE.
s llnn]>t»n & lira-
"" r “ tlii'y have • , n „ n ii„ rllc d on ■> Hot Move la
no lotln-r financial 1 vinkr Him Give I p .alone,
" , * 0 "' I.itti* Rock, Aiik., January 31—(Spe-
j.-it -.» > 'an a a oinl.)—A desperate outrage was commit'
■ ioa.1, and is an- j tp j Saturday night in Kiniishi mountain
just insi.le the Indian Territory. A
wealthy cattle man named Williamson
lives near Spring Station, and about mid
night his home was entered by five
masked robbers, who seized and hound
him. llis wife was then made prisoner,
and demand was made for $ll>,tK>0. the
proceeds of a cattle sale in Kansas City.
Failing in their efforts to get cither
Williamson or his wife to tell where
their money was, they tied Mrs. Wil
liamson in a chair, removed the gags
from the mouths of both prisoners, took
her husband, and after building a fire in
the stove, held his bare hands on the hot
meta'. After he was rendered uncon
scious, Mrs. Williamson told the outlaws
, - . that ill the money but $500 had been
, set .ions o 'conce or ns j t ed in the Merchants hank of Kan-
. doubtless the most pract.ca de ^ C ity. She turned over the deposit
1 t)„. largest subscription Iwt ch k cwh on hanJ after which
•un the prize. Oconee has not . „ . f#
; Iroul, ami the building of this ^ ' m
'..•liters not where it goes, will a NEGItO KEIII CEK AT LARGE.
tease the wealth and popula- j
’• *• <|*l*-n*li«4 little county. j The While* Organize to l.yurla Him
,n an interview with Mr. , \ V ischf.ster. Ohio. Jan. 31.-[Spe
• abliMied in the Atlanta Con- 1 - - -- L - 1
" :h i'i
tb»‘ ' Id contractors were to
r c.-ut of the monej* du-»
n maimb r will be prompt*
jit-ed upon in the contract.
• g-*od news to several of our
• - :n« mis, who have put a good deal
,n ibis railroad.
’•ported in Athens that in the
i Mjined by Brown Bros, it was
I that tiie road be built via
. v\ iUe. Mr. Reaves says he knows
g of Mich an arrangement, on the
band it i* the intention of Col.
en to survey a route via High Shoals
mng at a little i lace in Morgan
. calle 1 Philadelphia
• is great interest felt among
erally done by a little steer or bull
calf hitched to a plow. The .women do
the most laborious work, and are truly
box, and set before you floating in greece,
together with biscuits about the size of
a saucer and odorous : wild Soda, was our
bat that gentleman most posi-
• - that the Georgia, Carolina
i n lailn^ad will be built via
i to connect with this great
in liis reason for investin
ib* Macon road. Thi:
Mr. Brown, who is in a po-
i\v what lie is talking about,
at rest those croakers who
i bfci-me weak-kneed in re-
l\«V*N. That this great
I be speedily built to our
' m*t a shadow of doubt.
!*dls us that engineers are
. • route from the Savan-
\tnens, which will finish up
x. Laving nothing to he done
■’it the contracts and put on
cial.]—Great excitement prevails here
over the flight of Dick Dent, col
ored, for whose arrest a warrant
was sworn out this morning by Miss
so ** enn * e Arlington, n pretty farmer’s
n r . SO | daughter, only stxteen, charging him
<<ca * with seduction. 8he first secured a
warrant for an innocent school teacher
named Nichols, but soon confessed that
she did so under a threat of violence
from Dent. If the negro is caught he
will be lynched from the nearest tree.
The white people are all out searching
for the fugitive, and telegrams are being
sent all over the country to apprehend
him.
THE tTSHEItli:* TIIUI BLE.
, ... ' No Satisfactory Solution In Sight.
of the Sr.viklin (N. i
that Judge \V. H. New York, Jan. 30.—[Special.]—lhe
n a verv satisfactory I Dominion Cabinet held a meeting on
s of that paper, in Sitnnlay to consider reports received
es 1 is determination I from the Canadian commissioner attend-
ween Tallulah Falls ing the Washington convention. As
mu as possible. Judge matters now stand before the cominis-
»s invested his all in sion, tbe Dominion government fear
as expunged the word j that a satisfactory settlement of the ex-
\ ocabulai v lie further i isting trouble is beyond possibility; they
will he in Franklin shortly only hope that the convention may lead
llir ii' oiilo. »iiJ can ronfi- to some basis of settlement of future
troubles and more intimate relations be
tween the two countries.
Tim Spectacle Witnessed By
Passenser, an Aastber Train—
Endues Rear Upon Each oth.r,
While th. Car, Tremble, Crash
and JUx Together.
Atlanta, Jan. 31.—[Special.]—The
passenger train on the Rome express
yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock,
witnessed a thrilling sight
On the Georgia Pacific track, a few
rods from tbe Western & Atlantic, a
switch engine with four box cars had
slowed up just this side of the belt line
crossing near the exposition mills. As
the Rome express came opposite this
train an East Tennessee freight on
the Georgia Pacific track came thunder
ing around a curve at about twenty five
miles an hour towards the switch engine
and its train.
When first seen, the freight was about
two hundred yards fiom the switching
train. The engineer whistled down
brakes, shut off steam and reversed bis
engine.
The wheels turned backward, the fire
flew from the rails and the train slid
upon the track at the rate of fifteen miles
an hour.
It was a moment of awful suspense.
Tbe switch train had come to a stop, the
engineer and fireman had jumped off.
The collision was inevitable, nothing
could be done to avert it, and the pas
sengers on the Ro.ne express waited
breathlessly for the crash.
The two engines came together with
an awful noise, reared up like monster
dogs and fell back, hissing through many
vents of steam and water. The first car
leaped upon the tender above the engi
neer and fireman, and the water from the
big tank came pouring on the track. Car
boxes all through the train crashed
against each other, and the train became
still rn the tiack. Men ran towards it
from every direction, and every one
thought that the engineer and fireman
had met a horrible fate.
The Rome express went on, and a few
hundred yards further the conductor
managed by signals to stop a second sec
tion of the freight train which was run
ning toward the wreck.
The escape of the engineer and fire -
man of the wrecked train was almost
miraculous. When the box car played
leap frog with the tender the onlookers
thought it was all up with the two men
in the cab. It is said that they were
not seriously hurt, and the track is al
ready clear.
TIIK STKVVAKT HILI. POPULAR.
The Judiciary Committee Recommend It,
Fmasc.
Washington, Jan. 31.—Not
withstanding Judge Stewart’s bill
to soften the rigors of the tevenue
laws didn't seem to please the free
whisky organs, it appears to have
pleased the house judiciary commit
tee so well that it was unanimously
reported on yesterday, and its pas
sage iccommendeJ. This is a great
compliment, not only to Judge
Stewart, but to the measure itsell,
and the people of Georgia will
have no reason' to feel graieful to
him when the treasure becomes 2
law.
The democrats of t[>e house judi
ciary fcommittee seemed disposed to
load the senate bill, refunding di
rect taxes, by inserting the cotton
tax amendment. This will be noth
ing short of a blunder. This bill
presents a clean honest scheme by
which $20,000,000 of the surplus
may be distributed into the poverty
stricken treasury vaults of the sev
eral states. The South would get
about $3,000,000 on the divide and
of this aggregate sum Georgia
would be entitled to $110,000, suffi
cient to enable the next legislature
to enjoy it- usual summer picnic
in the bracing atmosphere of At
lanta.
Judge Stewart is preparing
arothcr little project to draw a
sting out of the revenue laws. He
is in constant communication with
Commisioner Miller, and if the free
whisky advocates will only give
him margin he will extract much ol
the vinegarout of their molasses
and leave them possibly without a
revenue text.
Representative Carlton has been
seriously ill. For days he has been
confined to his room and bed with
malignant erysipelas. At onetime
his face was swollen in a frightful
manner, but good medical attention
combined with the tender adminis
trationsof his wife has hrough*
him from across the danger line.
He is convalescent but quite low
syinted.
A Description of Life Among
the Northeast Georgia
Moonshiners.
HOWTHE INHABITANTS OF TUE
nOt'XTAH COVES AND BOW-
EU RIDGES LIVE.
objects of pity..-VnaouJ. -ef t«ra ociprioeipal fare. The mountaineers'have
three stout,-able, bodied men lounging two kinds of corn bread that they call
about the yard in blissful idleness while “Riz” bread and “hard” bread. The
the poor wife and mother not only cooks firmer is made up with the skiniraincs
and washes ami attends to her numerous from the beer stands at the illicit stills
1 family of children, but also helps to whicn acts as an yeast. The latter is
make and gather tho crop, which crop
when harvested, her liege lord forth
with proceeds to boil into mean liquor
and drink it up. I saw several really
pretty girls in these wretched huts, who,
if they had the advantages of wealth and
refinement, would rank as belles; but
the hard life they are forced to lead,
quickly transforms them into withered
old women. I cannot imagine a harder
life than that led by the wife of one of
those porerty-stricken and thriftlesss
mountaineers.
To satisfy myself, I visited several of
these cabins and talked with tbe in
mates. I did not see a cooking stove in
any of them; the vessels in which the
meals were prepared being a pot, an
oven, a frying pan, and a kettle. Many
of the houses have only one room, and
in this the entire family eat, sleep and
work. These people are, however, very
hospitable, and if they have but a crust
of bread will divide it with a stranger,
and also share their scant bedding with
him on the coldest night.
I particularly inquired of the women
their sentiment in regard to the opera
ting of illicit stills. I found them as
much opposed to this business as any
one could he. More than one wifo re
marked to me that she would be thank
ful indeed to see the last illicit still in
the county destroyed, as the busineg-
had entailed more trouble upon the help
less women and children in the moun
tains than everything else combined.
They said these III Hinshlne stitls were
using all the corn, and actually tak
ing bread out of [the mouths of their
people. Not a tenth part of the whisky
thus made is sold and the money devo
ted to buying comforts for the distiller's
family.
The man who made this whisky, to
gethcr with their friends, drank
it up. It encourages drunk
enness, thriftlessness and cruelty
and the women and children are the
principal sufferers thereby. There is
n it more corn made in these mount .in,
coves than is sufficient to furnish bread
to the population and there is not a spare
grain to he made up in whisky.
Hut the illicit distill ry business has
pretty effectually been suppressed in the
mountains, and to-day there are more
moonshine stills in operation in Madison
and Walton counties than in all of North
east Georgia above the Air-I.inc railroad.
During the day our party visited a num
ber of distilling places marked by rotten
log cabins and dismantled furnaces, or
occasionally a cave excavated in the
mountain side; but they all showed that
it was a long time since any work was
done in them. The revenue officers
have so thoroughly raided the moun
tains, that the moonshiner has about
given up the business in despair. There
is another cause that keeps down this
trade. The reward of ten dollars given
by the government to informers is quite
HORSEBACK JOURNEY TO
SEVARAL UPPER COUN-
1IES-
What the manufacture of lalquor
Hu Done for the Women
and Children#
A STRONG ARGUMENT AGAINST THE
REPEAL OF T11E WHISKY TAX.
Mr. T. L. Gantt spent the greater patt
of last week on a revenue raid in the
mountains, and gives the Banner-Watch
man the following account of his trip,
which conclusively shows that the pres
ent outburst of sympathy by the protec
tive tariff organs •”er the trials and trib
ulations of the mountain iuoonshiner is a
wasted passion. Mr. Gantt says:
1 was in Gainesville, attending to some
business in conne. lion with my otlice,
when I met Deputy Collectors Moses
and Ware, who, together with Deputy
Colleotor Strong, of Cornelia, had just
relumed from a raid through llahun
county, where they destroyed-everal il
licit stills. These oilicers were out
about a week, and during that tunc slept
only one night under a roof. 1 he moun
tain sides were covered with sleet and
they reported having a very hard time.
Tbe officers had not gotlun well
thawed out when they received orders
to m*ke another raid through White
county, and asked me to join them. This
1 cheerfully did, as I was very anxious
to see the mountain mooushiner in his
native lair and discover if
these revenue laws really
unjustly oppressed these people. Ow
ing to the wretched condition of the
toads we had to travel en horseback and
early Wednesday morning found our
party of five, four deputy collectors and
Deputy Marshall Cope—splitting mud
in the direction of Cleveland, the couuty
site ol White. We hired our horses
from Camp Bros., of Cream Agitator
fame, and rot being accustomed to eques
trian exercise, 1 especially asked that
they give me the easiest riding nag in
their stable. This they promised to do,
and brought out a little gray pony, and
a spur. With difficulty 1 mounted this
steed, being encased in an oversuit of
rubber, and started up .n the trip amid a
downpour of rain. 1 intended to carry I a bonanza to the average mountaineer,
my umbrella, but was advised by the an d as a consequence even many ot the
old “stagers” in the revenue service to moonshiners themselves don't hesitate
coru meal mixed up with water and
often not sifted andbakedin a solid cake
in an oven. The better class of moun
taineers will give you a nek imitation
of coffee, while the poorer people use
spice wood tea, made of the twigs of a
little bush that grows wild in the moun
tains, and this is often drank without
milk or sugar.
Atone pi tee I stopped, the good lady
asked if I would take “sweetening” in
my Coffee. On replying in the affirma
tive, she stuck her fingers in an old cup
in which the was a small quantity of a
cheap grade of sugar, and lilting up be
tween their tips a given quantity, she
told me to say when i had enough. She
then stirred the cup with tho blade of
the knife with which she was eating,
and passed it up to me. You seldom see
milk in the mountains, lha cattle being a
little scrawny breed, that don't appear to
yield more than a quart at their best.
As 1 stated at the beginning of this ar
ticle the people of which 1 speak is not
the better class of the population of our
mountain counties, hut are tho typical
moonshiners, who inhabit the sterile
ridges and mountain sides.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
l u '°l . . _
them a railroad. A friend
..oi.as' j:i Ath 11s, and n gen-
- intimately acquainted with
affairs, tells ns that hut
in.-tt >n from the minority
- -if the Northeastern railroad,
".mas would he at work
railroad: that delay
IlUftkian Soldier, fro., the Border
and Take u ■ > ru..iull Capli
Rerun. Jan.
arrangements he had made
n. .-t-ssarv money, and he would
t . do all of his work over
i s. of course, will delay mat-
'.ufonnant savs Athens may
i that Bailey Thoma
!■:■> great enterprise,
' -• in predicting that before
hands will be at work
••mi towards Knoxville.
- - about settled that the Georgia
must crone te Athens.' Colutn-
tdrcarly two roads to Atlanta,
t want another. The Georgia
1- not now paying expenses, and
Mended somewhere. Athens
i i- for it to come, and we believe
re next (all, arrangements will
n 1 to extend the road to our
man. from Athens was in Gaines-
■ "t wt 1 k, where he met Col. Price
tlier prominent gentlemen from
-a, he found them enthused on
! ’c • object of tilling the gap between
' ami Jefferson and Gainesville
,T "* I’ahli.nega, and running through
- r■ ".“our city to the heart of tho
beige mountains. This will be a
at road for Athens, and can be very
1 <i- y completed. It will insure to us
mountain trade we once had, and
'“bam! make Athens agsin the great
11 ■ rMite Northeast Georgia moun-
Ur...
1 hat all these roads will eventually
speedily he built to Athena, no rea-
»"nr..- man can doubt. It is just as nat-
'b lor them to come here as water
'• ■** down |hill. Indeed we have in
•'.Mi. ns the nucleus of a great city and it
r '°* behooves our every citizen to get
W I.rk, and help start the wheels of
l">..:r,s.s. There is not a finer business
1““. ! in the South to-day than Athens
M 3 city with a brighter future ahead.
soldiers fishing near the border cross
the frontier, anil on being ordered by
two Prussian garndarms to re-cross, fire
on the Prussians, wounding one of them.
Releasing the wounded man. they ar-
•11 - it rested the other Prussian, who resisted,
and he am * to °'* *'' m w '** 1 fi ,enl '
Tlie t'liocluvv Claim.
Cmcano, Jan. :U).—(Special.)—The
Choctaw Indians claim that the govern
ment owes them $3,000,1100 for lands
and improvements they gave up in Ala
bama and Mississippi when they were
moved further west. It has been allow
ed by Congress more than once. About
half the money was pledged to lawyers
and other middle men, but at a re
cent meeting of the tribe legisla
tion obnoxious to their lawyers was pass
ed so they have been obstructing the
payment of the money. Another called
session of the tribe to adjust the matter
is talked of.
ALDMAX INFORMS.
The Authorities Where he Rojicht Ilia
Whisky After lteioE BlaeklisteJ.
Atlanta. Feb. 1.—[Special.]—
A. M. Aldmah, n black lister, was
" ,”i P ,' n ’. fined $10.71; in the recorder's court
^'.nr'Ve'.ltor U !rlu this morning for his third drunk. Un
dcr the law the convicted man may
escape by telling who sold the whis
ky since hew as put on the black list.
Aldman said as he had no money
and did not ca’e to go to the stock
ode he would turn informant and
the efore said:
On Saturday last I got whisky
at l)aus’, on Alabama street, at
Jireitenoulcher’s on Marietta sticet,
and at Vaughn’s, on Broad street.
I got most of the whisky at Daus,
and I think it was bis liquor that
made me drunk.’’
He was committed to the lock-up
•until a case could be made first
agaist Daus as hi* evidence would
be needed. If Daus is convicted ail
others will be tried.
1 i. M Cot., Smith's Camp.—Dr. Willis
’’ •"‘tmoreland and Col. E. T. Shubrick
*M.t out on yesterday to visit Col. Jas.
•'' Kmith'a camp. A Banner-Watch-
1Ian reporter saw Dr. Westmoreland on
J*sterday afternoon, and asked how Col.
‘ jnith’s convicts were. The Doctor re-
l‘ii..! that a few of them were aick, bnt
wkmg the® all in all, they were doing
pwleratcly well. Col. Shubrick left
1 afternoon for Auguita, and
I Atias ta stulore l* n d retnrno ^ last night to
lustan
J. G. Til rower Nor*.
Atlanta, Jar., 30.—[Special.]—J, G.
Thrower has sworn out a warrant charg
ing C. D. Barker with criminal libel
Both prominent prohibitionists. Barker
made serious chmrges ofimmoral conduct
sgainst Thrower. Several months ago
Thrower beat Barker with a stick, and
was last week fined $50. Thrower retal
iates with warrant for Barker and will
also sue for dsmsges.
In memory of Dr. Bell.
Atlanta, Jan. 30.—(Special.)—At
ministers meeting this morning a com
mittee was appointed to prepare a pro
gramme for inerooriot meeting in honor
of Dr. Mail to be held neat Sunday.
Carlisle Decline*.
Atlanta,Jan. 30.—[Special.]—J. O.
Carlisle telegraph* that it will be im
possible on account of phyaical condi
tion to fill hi* Georgia engagements.
Eonr men Killed-
Cricaoo, Jan. 30.—[Special.]—An ac
cident is reported on the Michigan South
ern railroad, by which fqur freight hand*
lost their live*.
Negro on Black Elat.
Atlanta,-Jan. 30.-[Speci*U-The
first negro to get on the black hat was
pat on thi* morning.
Mustang Liniment
An Old Woman’s House.
Atlanta, Jan. 31.—[Special.]—Tho
house of Mag Wilson, an old white
woman, was raided on account of a
s ooting affair which occurred in it Sun-
d y morning. Will Hanford and Gilbert
Dudley had a quarrel and Hanford shot
Dudley, inflicting a alight wound. Dud
ley was arrested. While the officers
were searching the hense they found a
little girl eleven years old, who told
some very startling stories about the
treatment she had received from her
“sister Maggie.” The woman was ar
rested for kcepirg a disorderly house.
This morning the brother or the old
women and little girl, who i* a P«acher
in Tennessee, arrived, and at once called
on his Sifters at police headquarters. He
was greatly shocked at what was told
him, and signified an intention to carry
them both home with him. The elder
sister is not as old as she appears, a life
of sin and degradation having wrinkled
her face and brought gray hairs prema
turely.
Suing Ike Woesome
Philadelphia, Jan. 31.—[SpodaLl—
A suit for $50,000 damage* against the
Western Union Telegraph Company waa
yesterday brought by Frank J. Fnmrose,
wool merchant, who claim* ffiat he lost
that amount of money by jki» wes **™
agent buying wool on a lalling market
through a blonder in telegraphic instruc
tions.
save it behind, as it would publish
as a “tenderfoot.” wflioh J did. The
roads were an extended q tagtnire. and re
minded me so forcibly of the streets of
Athens that I got real home-sick. My
horse, too, was a fraud of the first wa
ter. The other animals would all out
walk it, and when I trotted to eutch up
1 felt like one »f those patent churn-
dashtrs. By dinner we made
MossJ 1 — -Cte?k _ camp ground, in
White county, artirthere secured a good
country dinner and had our stock fed at
an old gentleman’s named Millecks, who
1 found to be a great “Candler man” and
on learning tny name treated me with
universal kindness. From this point we
pushed towards Nacoochee Valley. A
guide had promised to meet our party a
mile from this point and conduct us to
some illicit stills. All day the rain con
tinued to fall upon us, and the clouds
were so dense that you could sec only a
short distance on either side. It was
about night fall when v e reached our ren-
denzvous, and the rain held up.
We were disappointed in not finding
our guide, we remained a couple of hours
to see if he would not fulfill his engage
ments. But the only persons we saw
were the gold miners returning from
their day's work.
Having travelled thirty-four miles that
day. 1 was pretty well worn out, and
cannot say that I was seriously disappoin
ted on leaning that I would not have te
go ten or twenty miles further over three
mountains on a raid.
We rode down into the Valley and put
up at the Green Hotel. It is needless to
say that l slept that nl&ht without rock
ing, no not without rocking, either, for a
perfect gale blew all night long, that
threatened to overturn the hotel. The
building trembled like a tree in a blast
and more than once I had serious fears
lest it would be overturned 1 never wit
nessed as hard a storm the next morning
I felt like I had been beat all over with a
base ball bat In fact, I was as sore
as I-azorous, John Ware, who
is one of the kindest-hearted fellows in
the world, insisted that I ride his horse
that day, and he would take iny rough
steed. I thankfully made the change
and fared much better.
Our work for that day was to idle
over and around the mountain, in search
of moonshine stills. The mountain paths
and coves of Northeast Georgia are as
familiar to the revenue officers as arc the
streets of Athens to oor police force.
They know every nook and corner of
this wild and desolate country, and
every spring and branch that cm furnish
water to operate a still. We did not fol
low the public highways, but took little
blind paths leading oyer the mountains
and into places never visited by travel
lers. In travelling a mountain road I
have often wondered where the people
lived, but this question was now answer
ed. They are squatted on the barren
mountain sides, and on the banks of the
numerous litt’e streams that find their
source in the Blue ltidgc range.
In White,and in fact in all the moun
tainous counties, in Georgia, are found
some as fine land as our Str.te allords,
and also many enterprising and refined
people. This class occupies the valleys,
have nice and comfortable homes, plenty
of good stock, and are independent and
prosperous.
But it is not of this clsss I speak, or
with wham my business^ lay, but with
the inhabitants of the poor and unpro
ductive ridges. If you want to see pov
erty and wretchedness in its worst form
you must visit the class that goes to
make np tbe mountain moonshiners. Uf
course there are exceptions even to this
rule, and occasionally a prosperous and
welt to-do farmer is guilty of
thus qiolating the laws, bnt I am speak
ing of the illicit distillers as a class.
Their house* are generally built of logs,
and are devoid of every comfort A clear
ing cf a few acres surrounds the cabin,
which the owner raises a meagre
crop of corn. These cabins can hardly
be called bouses, but they are rather
huts, such as the prosperous negro in
the lower counties would refuse to oc
cupy. During 'my day’s ride, I saw
more than an* of these shanties—occu
pied by agnant mountaineer an angular,
sallow-faced woman, and a great swarm
of children—the chimney to which had
half fallen down and the cracks between
the logs, instead of being daubed with
clay, as is cnstomaiy, were stopped by
ramming green pine brush between
them, affording a very poor protection
against the cutting mountain blasts. It
is a mystery that these people do not.
freeze to death daring the cold weather.
The plowing and field and farm work is
generally done by the women. Tory
few families own even a scraggy
mountain pony, and the plowing ir gen-
A PENITENTIARY ON FIRE.
A Bbo* Factory Which Employed Gonicta
Entirely Consumed.
Richmond, Va., ]anuary 31.—
(Special)—Afire broke out in the
State penitentiary this morning s?t
15:30 o’clock in the shoe fac.ory
leased and operated by Davis & Co.,
of Boston, ‘Mass. The building,
three stories highand built of brick,
was entirely consumed. It was in
side of the prison walls and discon
nected from the cells. Davis &
Co., operated about 400 convicts in
the manufacturing of shoes, and did
a great deal of business. The mili
tary alarm was sounded and a strong
force was quickly on the scene.
The prisoners confined made no at
tempt to escape, and in fact were
in no danger of their lives being
lost. The loss of Davis & Co., is
about $175,000, partially insured,
the building belonged to the State
and is a total loss. The origin of
the fire is unknown, supposed to be
aiccdcntal.
MILLIONS IN IT.
Vcronee Still in the Patent Baalnesa—The
Thing Everybody Needs’
“What you got now?” a reporter said
to Veronce, and he sidled down the
street.
“1 am now on the road to fortune, and
you needn’t doubt it,” he said, as he
fished out of his pocket a suspicious-
looking piece of ware that looked more
like a portion of a burglar’s key than any
thing else. “1 have just invented the
long felt want. It is a lamp-chimney
cleaner, and does the work to perfection,
All you want is a rag, a lamp-chimne;
and my patent, self-acting cleaner wii
do the work. I have been jut of the
patent business for several .weeks, but
my brain can’t be kept idle, I must be
getting up something new whether I
make money out of it or not. I am go
ing to start agents out all over the coun
try. and it will not be many months be
fore the money will c*me rolling on.”
The first thing you know you will see
Veronce building a brown stone front
out of the proceeds of his cleaner,
Tbe Firm Steel Steamship Built in
America i» for the SoulbernTrade.
W. P. Clyde & Co., of New Y'ork, are
building for their New York, Charleston
and Florida line, the first steel steamship
ever built in this country for the carry
ing trade. She will be the largest and
fastest ship engaged in tbe Atlantic coast
trade, being over 300 feet long, 46 feet
beam and over 3,000 tons burthen; will
have triple expansion ongines, steel boil
ers and every modern improvement ap
plicable to steam navigation. She will
have unequalled passenger accommoda
tions for 250 passengers, and will be
placed upon the line by September first
This steamer will be of the same light
draught type as the new steamers Cher-
When your very complimentary okee and Seminole, placed on the New
A Letter to the Legislature of Mississippi.
Jackson, Miss., January 30.—
[special.] — The following letter
tiom ex-l'rcsident Davis was read
before the legislature tabled and or
dered spread upon thejournals:
Bkauvoiu, Miss., January 24,
iSSS: To the-Senate and house of
Reptesentatives of Miss : Gentle
men : I am sincerely ’hankful for
the honor conferred by your con
current resolution of the 12th inst.,
inviting me to visit you during
youi present session. It would give
me great pi. a-ure to mett the rep
resentatives ot the people I have
served so long and have loved so
much. It is reasonable to suppose
that the time is near at hand when
I will go hence forever, and l would
he glail personally to know the men
of the present generation, to whom
the destiny of Mississippi is to be
confided. Mississippians from the
time of her territorial existence,
have borne at.honorable patt in the
afiairs of the coun’ty, and have
shrunk troin no sacrifices which pa
triotism has demanded. Bearing
testimony, as one who comes down
toyoufroro.a past age, I can ap-
plaud the chivalry and integrity of
old Mississippi, and my highest
wi-h is that her futu-e record may
be worthy of the pa t
ItO TAVERN,
Jco Tavx**, Jan. 30—Me Wm Tn-
guson, an aged and roaprttad citizen
of Chandler district Jackson c6anty, dfcd
last night Mr Ferguson waa a fanner
and dealer in jog ware, some specimens
of which were original in Hj a
remains were interred at the burial
pound on the road sear Stitham’s. His
removed family has the sympathy ef
this community.
Sheriff McElhannon and Col R 8 How
ard came over from Jefferson and joined
the hoys in a game of foot boll
Dr. Bush ia ont traveling with his burn
medicine.
Col A L Barge has removed from here
to Goshen, in Oconee, to tske e school.
He is a fine penman and teacher.
Mr R L Carithers has gone to Atlanta
to boy another lot of mules.
Rev Mr Garrison has moved to Jug
Tavern.
Mr Sam P Smith has moved
town.
into
CARNESVILLB.
Carnbsville, Jan. 31.—3 P Parker,
McDillard and Vandiver, all of Atlanta,
grip-sack fame are here te-day.
Forty bales of cotton at the warehouse
of D A Barker were burned Sunday
night It was the property of 8 M In
man Si Co, and lully covered by insur
ance.
Fanners are now busily engaged In
breekinenp their turns.
W T Williford, of Harmony .Grove,
spent Sunday .here visiting relatives and
friends.
Deputy U S Marshal W T Carter,
waa here Saturiay night, and attempted
to arrest Sim Floyd, col, a manipulator
of a blind tiger near town. The bird
flew, but he succeeding in getting six
gallons of whisky, and giving Sim alive-
ly race.
JEFFERSON.
Jefferson, Ga\, Jan. 31.—Oar school
numbered one hundred and twelve te-
day, and by the 10th of February we
hope te have two hundred.
Our merchants were somewhat in
censed at the “Gainesville Notes” in the
Constitution of Monday last; as Gaines
ville paid Athens prices for cotton this
season, and now propose patting np s
compress, and theii^largest dealers are al
ready selling goods here. Our merchants
are determined to make different arrange
ments about their next cotton crop. Tin
wagon train will no longer do the work—
we must have transnortation.
to give away a neighbor when he starts
up a still, to capture the reward. The
best spies the revenue department has
were once mooes liners.
All day long our party were winding
about in the mountains, following litt|e
blind paths and other pointers that
might lead to an illicit still, but they
met with ne success. 1 saw no signs of
prejudice among the people against the
revenue service. They politely answer- ^
t-.Yhli -jU.-Silon. Ut- 3^V$a^atii--t$ireWRITS’\
impediment in our way. This talk about
raiding in the mountains being a danger
ous service is all romance. A revenue
olliccr is just as safe in Rabun or White
as in Madison or Clarke. Several years
ago there was an occasional shooting
scrape, and a few men have been killed;
hut it lias been years since a gun has
been fired on either side. When the
revenue officers raid an illicit still the
men at work therein make a break for
liberty, and then it is a foot race to see
which party will outrun theother. No
thing like resistance is ever offered new
to the revenue officers, the moonshiners,
only ambition being to escape capture
by taking to his heels.
During tho day we traveled about 40
miles over as wild and rugged a conntry
as you generally find. We had crossed
over again into Hall county, and were
wondering if we could reach Gainesville
that night, when our party was halted
by Deputy Marshal Carter, and a young
tuan named Hightower, who had been
sent out from Gainesville to inform us
that two illicit stills were in operation
about ten miles distant across the Chat
tahoochee nver, and we would find a
guide at a little bridge near Kit’s Moun
tain to conduct us to them. Messrs.
Carter and Hightower had their horses
hid in a patch of woods near the road
side, having kindled a fire, as the weath
er was very cold. Our party tarried by
this acceptable blaze until nightfall,
when they started on their return jour
ney, having to traverse the same road
they had just come. At the appointed
place we found our guide, and taking
him up behind one of the party gave him
direction of the squad. He carried us
about two miles further and halted in
clump of pines. The guide stated that
we could not get any further on horse
back, as the road was pretty thickly set
tied with parties in sympathy with the
moonshiners, who might give the alarm.
He said the still was between three and
fonr miles distant on the other side of
the Chattahoochee river, which stream
wc would have to cross in a bateau that
he had hid at the mouth of Mossy Creek
He further said that we would have to
traverse some very rough ground. This
information proved the straw to break
the camel’s back, and I felt utterly una
blc to take the trip. So I volunteered to
remain behind with Mr. Hightower and
look after the horses. It was under
stood that 1 was to remain at the place
for an hour, when I was to carry them to
an old man named Smallwood, who lived
at the foot of Kit’s Mountain, about two
miles further on. It was late at night
when I reached his house, which was a
cabin built right under the eaves of the
monntain, as it were. After some trou
ble I succeeded in arousing my landlord,
who consented to let us put the horses in
the lot aud furnish us some corn and
hay for them. I wss nearly frozen, but
was soon t hawed out by a blazing pine-
knot fire that had been kindled in tbe
house. 1 had neither dinner nor supper,
and asked Mr. Smallwood if he could
furnish me with somethfiig to eat. An
old lady was sleeping in the room, and on
hearing my request, got up and handed
me a piece of bread and a glass of milk,
which I enjoyed as only a hungry man
can. I was also furnished with a very
bad bed, but being thoroughly worn out
was soon asleep and did not wake until
daylight I was surprised to learn that
the raiders had not returned, and when
12 o'clock came and they were still ab
sent I started in quest of them, but had
not proceeded far when 1 met my com
panions, who had sncceeded in destroy
ing a large blockade stilt and captured
three prisoners, whom they had with
them. After a dinner of corn bread and
fried meat started for Gainesville,
wnich place we reachetr shoot sun
down.
This was my first raid in the
mountains and 1 gained a great deal of
information abont the moonshiners and
their mode of living. I discovered that
Mr. Smallwood, the old man with whom
I spent the night together with bis sons,
wss a noted moonshiner and had
more than one shooting scrape with rev
enue officers.
The greatest trouble I encountered
in the mountains was the hard fare, fat
bulk meat cat in chunks about the size
and thickness ef a small paper match
revolution was received, my health
did not permit me, as I desired, at
once to accept and indicate a time
which I would vi«'t vou. My anx
iety to confer with and learn the
views of my younger bicthren
earned me to hope, that at a later
period, 1 might be able to send you
an acceptince,' but that hope has
not been realized, unless the session
should be protracted, I am compell
ed to announce my inability to at
tend.
iVith ackn owledgemcnt
of your154d coR5i(JfrHtt4^J.
with cordia) wishes for your wel
fare and luippiness individually and
collectively, ycur fellow citizen,
Jefferson Davis.
U«r Dead Chancellor.
Demosthexian, Hall. )
January 2Sth. leSS j
Whereas, In the wisdom of God,
we have been deprived by death
ol our beloved Chancellor, Dr. P.
H. Mell.
Be it KesolvcJ 1. That the edu
cational interest ol Georgia has by
his death sustained a well-nigh ir
reparable loss.
2. Tnat the cause of Christianity
has lost an able expounder and ad
vocate in his death.
3. The University has lost one
who was at all times a most zealous
guardian of her interest and
who was weie oblivious of seif in
terest and -elf preservation when
the sacr.ficc of these would in any
way benefit his beloved charge.
4. That we, the Demosthenian
students of the University, do here
by express our deep sorrows and
convey our heartfelt sympathy to
the bereaved family of the deceased.
5. That a copy of the’e resolu
tiotis be forwarded to the bereaved
family, that they be spread on the
minutes of the society, and that they
be published in the Reporter, l’an
dora, and Banner-Watchman.
W. H. Pope, )
C. R. Warren, > Committee.
J. L Ritch, )
York and Charleston line one year ago,
These steamers, besides being very fast,
cross the Charleston bar at any stage of
the tide, and thus afford the quickest
and most regular communication between
the North and Southern seaport and in
terior cities.
The Clyde line were the first to in
troduce the use of the screw propeller
and the compound engine, and are also
the first to build a steel steamship in
this country for the carrying trade.
The Messrs. Clyde say that the fact
that steel ships can now, for the first
time, be built in America, is due entirely
t» production
iron and steel, caused by t!
and development of the miner_
of the South. , > <*■ !*•
Wanted—A Wife.*”
Some two years ago Sam God
dard, a rustic living near Rome,
Ga., inserted an advertisement
headed as above, giving description
etc., of the wife wanted. Appli
cations showered on the young
fellow who was delighted to be
thus the centre of attraction for so
many hearts. The matter went on
thus until, copied in foreign papers
answers to his advertisement came
from all quarters of the globe, many
of them bearing tender tokens such
as minature likenesses, locks of hair.
Everthing wore a rosy hue until
these foreign missive* began to ac-
cumalatc, many of them with pos
tage due. Then poor Goddard be
gan to realize that his big heart was
not large enough to embrace the
sea. He grieved for his incapacity
and postage, for a time and finally
solved the problem by wedding a
rnral lassie ot his own mind and
bailiwick. This is of real occur
rence. The happy pair live near
Rome.
HARtHONY GROVE.
Harmony Grovk, January 31.—
Mr. Charles Walker returned to
the Grove yesterday morning after
a short visit to the Classic City.
Hon. W.T. Bennett, the clever
clerk of Jackson Superior Court,
was in the Grove yesterday shaking
hands with his many Iriends.
Colonel W. L. Telfo-d, a rising
young lawyer of Homer, Ga., was
in the Grove yesterday on profes
sional businsss.
Judge Thomas F. Hill, the pop
ular Ordinary of Banks county, was
in town yesterday evening on offi
cial business.
Mr. T. A. Little is selling a great
many fine mules and horses to the
farmers of this section now. We
wish Mr. Little success in his new
departure.
Mr. F. M. Henderson the efficient
sheriff of Banks county, was in our
little city yesterday on business con
nected with his office.
Mayor Hardeman is having onr
nut in splendid condition
rcxo the
OF THE
Best Make.
CAMPUS DOTS.
A 9mw Koto# About tbe College Boys
Mr* B. F. Hardeman who has
been quite ill recently with inflam-
atory rheumatism, is much better.
Freuk is one of the most popular
members of the junior class, and
has a host of friends who will be
glad to see him out again soon.
The college exercises having
been suspended for two days in
deference to our dead Chancellor,
were resumed this morning.
Mr. R. V. Swain, of Warrenton,
it the latest acquisition to the law
class. The class now numbers fif
teen members.
The students are undergoing the
trying ordeal of final examinations;
and burning the midnight lamp is
the rule just now.
We regret to note that Professor
Morris has been a little unwell for
the past few days.
The retiring editorial staff of the
University Reporter had their
roup picture taken this morning,
'hey are a fine looking set of young
men.
Mr. J. W. Echols, of the Sopho
more class, who has been sick for
some time, is almost recovered,
Lawn tennis ia'the favorite past
time among the students.
JEFFEBsOX.1
Jeffebson, Jan. 30—We bad quite an
excited election here en Saturday for Jus*
tice of tbe Peace to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Col. John Asbury.
The candidates were Col. Bose Duke,
the old independent war-horse of the
county, and Andrew J. Bell, of Jefferson,
Bell was elected by a handsome majori
ty-
On Sunday the Rev Ur Aiken gave us
two good sermons on the “Importance
of Location,” and showed clearly that the
only location was in the heart of Christ.
Mr Aiken has captured our people by
his earnest and faithful efforts to do then*
good and I think he is the.rlght man in
tiie right place.
Our school is still on the increase and
among the arrivals on Saturday was Miss
Bostwick, of Morgan county, stopping at
CoL Niblaok’s.
I waa glad to see out at church and
Sunday school yesterday Miss Sallie
Barber and Mrs Clark, of the musical de
partment We are well pleased with
Prof Glenn’s selection, and our pet, the
Institute, is on a boom.
Several of the old University boys
hero favor Prof Glenn as the successor
of tha lamented Dr. Mell as chancellor of
the University. He would do honor to
the position.
Couldn’t do Without it#
Mr. Willie Booth while the agent
of the Banner-Watchman was in
Watkinaville, concluded to stop
taking the daily and change to the
weekly. The agent argued with
him for a long time but to no pur
pose and he paid for the weekly
for one year and ordered his daily
stopped, Yesterday he sent a five
dollar bill over and stopped the
weekly, and said he couldn’t live
without it. Mr. B joth is one of the
originals of Oconee county. His
Word is his boi>d, and a cleverer
man never lived than Willie Booth.
It is always a pleasure to meet and
have an hour’s conversation with
him. _
Passed no Dividend.
offe’bt tho’ bestMayanui
State, any how.
Mustang Liniment Mustang Liniment R
jsaias5!Sf» , ®K=HiBr"“ .t
CANDLER FOK CONOR ESS.
Tlie One-Eyed 1’lovr-boy Still In the Klnf
From an interview n ith the corres
pondent of the Atlanta Constitution from
Washington, it seems that Col. Allen
Candler will be in the race tor congress
from the 9th district and expects Col.
George I.ostcr to he his opponent. Cols
Candler and Lester are both on the
same line in regard to the tariff ques
tion, and of course there can be no fight
between the two on this line. Colonel
Candler has made a good member and
has watched the interest of this section
with an eagle’s eye. He is the man
who helped the 9th district out ot its
troubles when it looked like the ship
was bound to go down. Let the plow
boy have itas he warns it
As to Col. Lester’s candidacy, we
have only to publish what Col. Candler
says about him: “The Judge is an ex
ccllent gentleman, and as he has planted
himself squarely on the platform on
which I have stood in congress for the
past four years, I can’t criticise that. In
deed, 1 feel complimented to know that
my course on the tariff, internal revenue
and national and State banks, should be
so heartily endorsed by a gentleman of
Judge Lester's character and ability. He
is a level-beaded man, aud knows a good
thing when he seeB it.”
Goixo to Florida.—-The question is
asked drily on our streets, when are you
going to Florida? It seems to he a do
sire with onr people to visit tho hand of
Flowers and orange groves. This is the
had time of the year in this section, when
rheumatism, asthma and other diseases
predominate, and those who car. afford it
seek the gentle climate of Florida to get
rid of it. Athens will send a good dele
gation to Jacksonville to the exposition,
and we hope they will have a pleasant
time.
In Love With Texas.—Col. Alfonso
England writes back from Texas and
gives* glowing account of the Lone Star
State. He says a farmer can make more
there and pay rent than they can in
Georgia and get it alL CoL England says
he never will buy any more guano in
Georgia. This doe* not tally with the
statement of some that have just return
ed.
Rone of the blind tigers paid their
fines, so they were put on the Btreets
After the Truitts.
It may be doubtful whether Con
gress has authority to legislate in
regard to some of the combinations
which, under various names are
seeking to regulate the production
and fix the price of many necessi
ties of the people. But it can at
least investigate the matter, and
this the house has very wisely voted
to do.
Those ot the trusts that have in
terstate connections may be headed
off by the Federal government,
Those that are local can be dealt
with by the States. They are all
conspiracies against the well-being
of the people and should be forbid
den.
rays In Dogs.
A young lawyer speaking of his
business yesterday said he was do
ing very well in getting cases but
the pay was bad. Only a few days
ago I had a client and he wanted
me to take a dog to delend him, I
decl.ncd to take tee case as I am not
a dog fancier. If I could find a
man who could handle a pack of
dogs and would pay half price for
them I could do well. Walking
sticks, wash pots, cooking stoves
and various other things are often
put up for a fee.
Lot Purchased.
The building committee of the
students have notified Mr. John N
Bird that they would take the lot on
Broad street, next to Dr. Benedicts.
They are to pay $1,000 for not quite
one-half his vacant lot. Mr. Bird
thinks of building on theother half.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Ga., Feb. 1.—On
Wednesday evening Mrs Heard
gave a most delightful entertain
ment in her lovely home to thi
young ladies of our town, whii
was in every respect pleasant. I
young ladies were beautifully' dress
ed in evening costumes while the
gentleman were also in full dress.
At half past elven the guests were
raked to participate in an elegant
repast. The remainder of the eve
ning was spent in dancing, and
chatting until a late hour when the
happy throng disperied all pro
nouncing it one of the most de
lightful occasions of the season.
Several of the married ladies as
sisted by the young men and ladies
of our town are getting up an enter
tainment for tbe benefit of the .Pres
byterian church, lhe entertam-
will consist of recitations, mus'c,
tableax, and will doubtless be a
grand success.
Mrs. Blakly, of Atlanta, is visi
ting Mrs. Heard.
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
A Lovely Yoang Girl is Crashed Beneath o
Tre. Felted By a Brother's Axe.
The section of Wilke’s county around
Jordon’s creek, has been , made sad by
one of the most heart-rending accidents
in the history of the county. Mr. H.
G. Spratiin, who has recently returned
to that section of the oonnty, told his
boys last Saturday to cut down a tall
poplar tree which stood in th* yard, as
he was afraid it might fall and crush the
roof in case ef a storm. Their yonng
sister, Mias Lottie, webt out to see the
tree fall. Justssitwas about to fall
her brother cried to her to ran towards
the house, fearing it might strike her. In
the confusion she ran immediately under
the tree, a limb striking her on tbe bacx
of the head, knocking her forward, and
the body of the tree falling across her
back inflicted a serious wound. Th*
tree was immediately cut off of her body,
bnt she died in a few moments, before
medical rid could reach her. The tree
was. not resting on her body, being held
off by a limb. It was close enough to
the ground, however, to press against
her body. The fair girl waa just burst
ing into young womanhood, being abont
16 years of age, and was a great favorite.
Her father is a very prominent man and
the family has large connection. The
community grieve the untimely death of
anch a fair flower, and alt extend deep
eat sympathy to tiie heart-broken family.
Company has just
fifth annual repoit showing a total
income for the year 18S7 of $134,-
842.89 and disbursements $101,210.*
74, leaving a profit of $33 396.15.
A dividend of 4 per cent was de-
y .red to the stockholders, but on
account of the new State law re*
quiring companies to hold a larger
per centage of premiums in reserve,
no dividend was made to policy
holders.
While this will be a disappoint
ment to them they will find some
consolation in the fact that the com
pany is made stronger than ever,
and their insurance has not cost
any more than in other companies.
Maetlmg or Respect.
We learn from a member of the
Prudential committee of the Uni
versity, that their meeting on Thurs
day was held to adopt suitable res
olutions on the occasion of Dr.
Mell’s death and fnneral services,
and to temporarily confer upon
some member of the faculty the
powers of Chancellor. Incideetal
to the -meeting it was resolved to
request President Gresham to as
semble the board of trustees on
February 17th, to take what ever
action might seem best for the in
terest of the University. We say
this much to correct the impression
that the trustees were acting in un
seemly haste to fill Dr. Mell’s place.
A New Deputy Marshal.
Hon. John W. Nelms, United
States Marshal, yesterday appointed
Mr. Wiley F. Hood, of Athens,
deputy marshal in place of Mr. W.
D. Kelley, who resigned. Mr. Hood
will doubtless make an excellent
officer.
Going t» Close Out.—We regret to
learn that the firm of Lucas & Davis, at
Lafferty’s old stand, will discontinue
business. Mr. Davis will go -into busi
ness in Atlanta and Mr. Lucas will pro*
bahly move to Brunswick. These gen
tlemen have been doing a good batinets
and were generally very popular. We
do not like to give them np. /
Warehouse men report cotton coming
in freely.
Senator Brown, before the pres
ent Congressional season closes,
will no doubt bring a bill providing
for a saving* bank for drunkards,
the deposit* to begin a* soon as the
old topers lesrn that tbe internal
revenue laws have -bRa done sw:
with.—Louisville Conrier-Jougn:
ay
ia).
The tariff* prevents the farmer
from competing with bis producer
in foreign markets and com
him tojpay extra juices upon
goods he purchases. He gets a
whack at both ends. No wonder
to many farmers have “hard sled
ding-”
Rnlataaio.
Buffalo, N. Y. February. 1—
[Special.]—The mommoth* dry
goods hbiise of Btfrnfetfifeugerer &
Co, burned to ashes ttf-day at soon
Four girls wetfr dcsth.
Loss.a quarter of ajjiniioh.
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A VARIATION OF “ENOCH ARDEN.”
Divorced From the First Husband and
llc-marrled to the Second.
Charlotte, N. C, January 27.—A ro
mantic marriage just performed at the
little town of Newton is the sequel of s
carious complication. Seventeen years
ago Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson wasjliving
in Rowan county with her first husband,
John B. Ferguson. One day he went
to Georgia and did not coin? hack. Af
ter two years his wife heard that he was.,
dead. After many years of sappoaed - '
widowhood, she went to live as house
keeper ia the family of Mr. A. Hale, s
wealthy retired jeweler of Charlotte,
who had moved on to a farm in the
neighborhood on account of the delicate
!»lth of his wife.
Mrs. Hale died, and eighteen months
ago Mr. Hale married Mrs. Ferguson. A
month or two ago it waa discovered that
Ferguson had married another woman,
and wsa still alive. Steps were at once
taken by Mrs. Ferguson, (new Mrs.
Hale,) to obtain a divorce from Ferguson.
The case came np yesterday, and the
Court at once granted an absolute di
vorce. Last night, at the Haynes House,
in tbe presence of Judge Boykin, Ex-
Congressman Arm field, and many well-
known citizens, Mr. Hale and hia wife
were united. They were serenaded by
the band, and s large crowd was attracted
to the house.
A Bis Purchase.
Mr. Mendall Morris purchased
yesterday fromjMr. R. L. Moss the
large store house now occupied by
J. A. Mullane & Co.; paving $5,800
for tbe same. Mr. Morns we learn,
is also negotiating for the corner
adjoining him. Mr. Morris started
12 years ago in Athens with e very
small stock of goods and by close
attention to business has bought
and paid for three of the best stores
in the city and if be keeps on will
own the whole block before many
years. „ „
Santa
Dublin, February 1.—[Special,]
—-Mt.I’iniOthy'SulKvnn has been
Teleitsed from Tullamore jail. The
strehts-were filled with people wait
ing for him.
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MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT abould alw4?>
0. kept la Bovm. Stable *a4 Factost. bnalaol
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