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that throe British steam*
,l.ut'ra ami Danes, all
la-io'l'itia laden with iron
, I„si. They had 80 pas-
. , n st of his new corn mill
'which he had j”»t put up at
"j 1U. John S. Hayes and his
; • Killed hy the bursting of a
i hr engineer and carpenter were
'v injured. The mill was badly
joints glass works hare been on-
j iV ,-Mra furnace, at which nine
o'wers arc »t work.
„ .1. Snell, a Chicago millionaire,
, a noise in his house, descended
\ n jn.1 was killed by burglar*.
• totl e singular conduct of M.
who has charge of the case
\! ilson, the affairs in which
,, r |,j. reeeatly been involved, are
,, r ,. lire talk of Paris.
. i inoiiss was lined $5.75 in the
,, . , urt in Atlanta yesterday
. : i mistaking the Kitnball for a
\Y ith too much aboard Josie
, lU : t ■ worship, Sunday evening,
• 1 l.y the bright light she en
h -.ill ill and l isisted that it
Two officers transferred
head<|iiarlers.
a etitv seven retail liquor
■ « innii licenses have been gran-
m n r n|i(dications have been
1.1 on tavurahly, which will
i.uinlier tifty-seven. Eight re-
.; e-nses have been granted, one
,, i>,. i and four wholesale liquor
■ : hr jealousy Mrs Geo Miller
uInd., made tour attempts
"r nils!,and on Monday. First
-.it -t.er knife, the blade passing
hi-lint: then she stabbed him
... r 1 -he irs, then she usod an
■ • tried to shoot him. Mil-
. :ir- ins wife will kill the
E. I. SMITH & CO.
KEEP ALL
les of Shoes,
Monree is to have a social club.
Paris is crying, ‘•Vive Boulanger.”
Circle S * lT * tion Arm J <* sieging Social
Five Wednesdays for February. Un- ^
Extract from Urol __
*• University of Georgia.
Prof. Rutherford read tha following
preamble and resolutions which wera
T -s of Atlanta, ranging in
■ 11 years, filed tip to the
: Police Connolly, yester
■ and presented a bill of
t. . I In-cause of their complaint
1„ r rem -val from the pavements in
.1 tie- kitnball bj a city ordinance
n,[.: 1'ier with a petition by the mer-
1 in’ t'bief solved the problem
Mini mg to give them stands. Let
r stmelings have their rights.
< in-McLitugbllB
.ter iay at live o'clock Capt “Bud”
ati't Mt-s Pope McLaughlin were
: marriage at the Baptist Church
i m Point, l.ev, C. 1). Campbell of
. utlinaling. Capt Cox is well
rn in Athens and very popular. The
- a 1 iianning lady and universally
....r. 1 lie lady attendants were:
... f.'jrl: .McLaughlin, Fannie Bar-
:i - i Drake, Katie Sthley, Jennie
• .hi ■ Hart, Lula Bryant and
.an, A number of frii nds includ-
Morton, Messrs Will Fleming.
!’ol Iwin, (!. 11. Yancey, Ed Dor
Crawlord, 11. L. Cianford, Jno.
-ami Col. Ike Lowe went from
- t' attend tbe happy event. All
vun a. well as Dr. Mark Willing-
of Crawford, Frank Kroner, of
cmlle, and 11. P. Brown, of Girffin,
i as attendants.
presents to the bride and groom
in my and handsome. The church
m» ded with the friends of the
and bridegroom. Mr. and MrB.
r set one of the finest dinners to
nn.dsofthe bridgrootn ever seen
1 pronounced it just splendid. Kv-
mg passed off splendidly and as the
( ulled away a hearty bon voyage
»afted after Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Coz
were off for a trip to the Sub-Tropi
>1 I ENGLAND CAPITALISTS,
Sunday to
l.t.nli XtliMita Saturday
S|N*ud a l>ay*
W aI’l envy Atlanta's success and
. she grows by magic but there is
.• of the kind. She develops as
a., mu.!, hy hard licks and plenty
itrve. Plie does not expect fortune
• s her, hut is always in eager pur-
: • i cry thing looking to the up-
■i: .• of Atlanta. Just now great in-
-t - . It tn the future of Athens
i no n. pone too sanguine, are confi-
■t : v linght future dawning. A few
-ter strokes and the success of our city
i -iitr l. a few millions and we will
;h at competition. Just now as two
* n r,» IVare heading for Athena is a
-t auspicious time for us to iutarest
mil'!, in our city.
ci Saturn.-.y or Sunday a party of New
i u capitalists will reach Atlanta to
a -l.ori time in ihe city. They
, ! imibtlcss be induced to visit Ath-
'■ an i i ir council ought by all means
tic : uitter in hand and send • com-
■i’.tlir. e nl our most prominent
- to Atlanta with an invitation
■a t:.- c tv to visit us. Their stay
- 1 tie short and might be of great
uiual.
August* wants an amateur Atheletic
association.
'Fjt® steamer Aid, on Flint riveT, made
$1,000 in one week recently.
One thousand tons of cotton seed were
shipped from Covington last fall.
Memorial services in Covington Sun-
day night in honor of Dr. Mell.
A young lady of Kewtor. county can
bring down a hawk with a good rifle, at
every shoL
Madison has had her fish ponds ex
amined aad wants to be rid of them as
the aource of malanal fever.
Mr. John F. Falvey has been appoint
ed temporary receiver for Chambers <t
Co., liverymen of Atlanta. Liabilities
and assets about $5,000.
At the farewell services of the Salva
tion Army in Monroe, the congregation
numbered 1,3000. Much good was ac
complished.
A negro recently stole some silver
ware from Col. Marshall, of Columbia, S.
C., th't had been in his family for five
generations.
A number of wells in Johnston county.
North Carolina, are boiling and bubbling
violently and can be distincly heard for
80 yards from the mouth.
Some Chicago relic hunteis are bid
ding for the old Libbey prison at Rich
mond, intending to transplant it ir. Chi
cago. Fill it with Anarchists.
Colonel John P. Fort, of Dougerty
recently purchased 43 Normon colts and
ponies and expects to convert one of his
lantations into a stock farm.
Pneumonia and rheumatism are preva
lent in sections of Oglethorpe. Among
the sick are Mesers. Mitch Martin, John
Jarrell, and a daughter of Mr. Steve
Black.
The Mayor has given the boys of Al
bany permission to shoot robins on the
outskirts and by a liberal interpretation
they are having a regular fusillade all over
the city.
Fred W. Watkins, late a prominent
member of the Y. M. C. A„ in Birming
ham, forged the name of friends and
borrowed money on tne notes. He has
fled.
A gentlemsn of onr city tn passing
Colonel James M. Smith’s (arm recently,
saw 40 splendid mules plowing abreast.
They were putting in oats, behind them
were some ‘-’2 women taking up and car
rying out cotton stalks,
Atlanta is moving for a public library
of school books for the use of the chil
dren attending the grammar schools.
Athens should keep alive the interest in
the library for the public schools. It
should constantly be added to.
Tuesday night a negro broke a large
ane out of the front window of A. B.
Clark’s store, 59 Broad street, Atlanta,
entered and stole about $25 worth of
goods. He forced the cash box open
but fouad nothing. This was a bold rob-
lobbcry.
Atlanta had a Lanier evening at the
Young Men s Library, on Tuesday even
ing. The feature of the evening was
some very interesting correspondence
relating to some of Lanier’s Georgia po
ems between the dead poet and Chief
J ustice Bleckley, which was ready by
the latter.
Dr. Eugene Foster. Rev, J. G. Gibson,
Hon. Walter B. Hill aad Colonel J. H.
Kstill have been appointed a committee
to make an investigation of Inebriate
asylums and report to the Commission
wbigh if to meet again in Mtlledgevillc
at least forty days before the next ses
sion of the Legislature. This is in ac
cordance with a resolution of the last
General Assembly.
There is a young man in Madison who
built a sleigh at the opening of winter
with the firm determination to be the
first one out when snow fell and since
then has been anxiously watching the
sky patiently awaiting the fall of the
flakes. It is needless to say that the
youns man has been sadly disappointed
so far, much to his chagrin and the
gratification of the poor of Madison.
utes of the Faculty:
"The Faculty of the University of
Georgia feel deeply the loss sustained by
the death of their honored Chancellor,
Dr. P. H. Mell. His uniform courtesy
towards each member, and his deference
to the opinions of his colleagues, com
manded their profound respect Dr.
Mell possessed, in a very high degree,
the qualifications necessary to a suc
cessful administrative officer. His per
fect control of himself made it easy for
him to control others. This seemed to
be the universal judgment with regard
to him. Whether in the college hall or
in a religious assembly, or in the exciting
scenes of war, all with one consemt look
ed to him as a leader. His clear cencep
tion of the matter in hand, his just and
correct idea of the rights of others, his
faithful and inflexible adherence t* what
he regarded as fundamental principles,
made all connected with him feel
that their rights and interests
were safe in his hands. There was
alwas very lit le opposition to his selec
tion as a leader. The judgment of those
who put him forward has been justified
by the success of his administration
The best evidence of this is found in the
fact that he he has been re-elected to
high positions, without any serious op
position, fora long series of years. These
traits of character gave him very high
position ir. public esteem. It was in his
private intercourse with his fellow men
and espaciallv in the privacy of hia home,
that the most beautiful traits of his
character were exhibited. The erring
student found in him a friend who would
accept any confession that gave premise
of amendment: With the heart of a ten
der lather he clung to the boy, even <f-
ter hope had been disappointed, never
letting him go so long as he thought it
possible to save him.
No condition or life was a barrier to
his polite attention. When entertained
by the humblest cottager, in the most
frugal style, his conduct was such as to
remove all suspicion that he was not
thoroughly satisfied with the treatment
he received.
lie was entirely free from those airs
which so often attend men of culture and
position. This made him a welcome
visitor among all classes. At home his
tenderness and politeness made him the
idol of bis household. The least
child was treated wiih the attention due
u truest. In addressing children or ser.
vimts, his tone was never peremptory;
but his wishes carried with them the
force of command. These traits, both
public and private, make his death a
calamity, keenly felt by all who have
ever been so fortunate as to be associa
ted with httn.
Therefore Resolved:
1. That in the death of Chancellor P.
H. Mell, the Faculty of the University
of Georgia, have sustained the loss of a
true and loyal friend, the students a mod
cl example of Christian manhood, the
University a zealous and loborious ser
vant, the Christian religion an able de
fender, the State a loyal and patriotic
citizen.
2. That we tender to the family of the
deceased our heartfelt sympathy for a
loss which they only can feel to the full
extent.
3. That a copy of the foregoing pream
ble and resolutions be sent to the family
of I)r. Mell.
A true extract from the minutes.
L. U. Cuarkos-nieb, Sec. Fac.
On Sunday mowing, in addition
to tbe amount published at sub
scribed to tbe building fund of the
Y. M C. A,, we append this
morning several new subscriptions
and some that were omitted from
the original lists by error in con
solidating the lists. The name on
Sunday’s list of "Joe” Duchette
should have been J. C. Duchette,
the efficient joong clerk of Brum
by’s drug store.
The committee are actively at
work and are determined to push
the matter to an early conclusion.
All amounts hereafter subscribed
will be published each day with the
amount already subscribed. Num
bers of our citizens have signified
their intention to hetp in this mat-
terand we hope to say within tbe
next week that enough has been
subscribed to allow the building
committee to proceed. In the mean
time let ail who have not yet done
so make up their minds now and
hind their names to the committee
at once and let the good work go
on.
Amt already published
G H Yancey
John Cohen
Louis Brumby
R L Reaves
Thos Bailey
Julian Fant
Wm Reaves
Thomas W Reed •
J C Polhill
Hugh Dorsey
I T Anderson
1 M Nickerson
W H Davis
Allen Talmadge
S M Hunter (additional)
C Bode
Fred Davis
F M Hardin
Oft. TALMAGE'S FTFTf
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
the female day school teachers at this
Mud. I put upon their brow the coronet.
featured, and
and endowed with all that the schools can
They are the sisters and the daughters of do for one, and of high social position,
$8,815 oo
too oo
to oo
25 00
S 00
10 00
5 00
5 00
10 00
25 00
5 00
5 00
to 00
5 00
10 00
15 00
5 00
5 «»
5 00
$9,074 00
BO.UER.
Mr F FA Rich, of this county, died
at his home on the 5th inst, aged sixty
years.
Our old friend Dick Hooper was in
town last week.
Tom Sumpter, of Franklin county, is
visiting friends in this place.
Miss Peterson, who has been giving
music lessons to our young ladies, return
ed to her home in Hall county. She has
many warm friends in our town.
juiuuitsov.
- Feb. 7.—Judge Hutchins
: J'lili.-iMr General Brown had our
running order before noon yes-
'■‘v. 1 be grand jury arc under the
'■ t'apt. Anbury (’amp, as fore
lie Alliens liar is well represent-
' Majer Lamar Cobb. George D and
1 Hernias and II C Tuck. Th*
tbe bar will be boro to-day.
• i mitt. uf the Banner-Watchman,
■1 .rent favorite with our people,
''"'in u.t. the person who was whip-
'"badly in this county, is heto to
1 !us ra e and considerable excite-
’ lI I- up in regard to this case, as
■ii- , f our prominent citizens are in it.
’ ruinl on yesterday was larger than
titi tbe first day.
Il"« to |njore Your Town.
"i’!*n-e improvements. Mistrust ita
in-n. Run it to strangers. Goto
"’.her town to trade. Refuse to ad-
'ib— in your local paper. Do not io-
a l ent; lay your money out some
' re else, ilo particular to decray the
" t 1 s of public-spirited men. Length
,r face when a stranger speaks of
-fat -in it. If a man wants to buy
• r propel ty, charge his: two prises
r I If be wants to buy anybody
■s s interfere and discourage him
••• ... to see the merits in any scheme
lines not directly benefit you.—
mem file Banner.
Ellis Shot.
BtttMtsiiEAM, Feb. C.—Ellis, the editor
of the Hornet, who made a violent at
tack on Detective Sullivan, was mortally
wounded by the latter on Saturday
evening last. Ellis has been publishing
the Hornet about three years and has
been repeatedly arrested for sending ob
scene matter through the mail. Two
years ago he murdered his mistress and
was sent to the insatne asylum, from
which he escaped by a writ of habeas
corpus.
Next he killed Detective Scarborough
In the difficulty between Ellis and Sul
livan several ahots were exchanged, one
of them passing thruugh Ellis’ body j ust
over the liver. He will probably die
Sullivan was not seriously hurt.
Fund far (be Sufferer*.
Norfolk, Va., Feb. G.—Miss Louise
Royce, a school teacher, three of whose
mpilsdied in her arms during the recent
flizzsrd, will lose both feet and one arm
as the result of her exposure.
Some $4000 has been raised for the
benefit of the three teachers, all of whom
lost both lower limbs. The fund will
probably reach $10,000.
Almost .Hurried.
Nkwabi>, Ohio, Feb 6th.—As Justice
Scott was about to conclude the ceremony
of joining Wm. McFarland, aged 20, and
Mrs. Mary Booker, aged 40, the bride
withdrew her hand, and remarking, “I
guess I'm not ready; wait awhile,”
turned and left the room.
A Wise Suggestion.
Mb. Editor:—Though much has been
said about the vacancy caused by the
death of that thorough scholar and ripe
Christian, Dr. P. U. Mell, late Chancellor
of the U niversity of Georgia, you will
please allow me to add just a word.
There is no necessity of electing an old
man to fill the vacancy caused by onr
Chancellor’s death, as suggested in the
Banner-Watchman of yesterday. It is
a universal concession that Georgia will
never succeed in getting a man more fit
for a Chancellor of ita University than
its late Chancellor. Then to get a suc
cessor as much like him as is possible
would be wise, and give general satisfac
tion.
Now, as a suitable successor to our be.
loved Chancellor, 1 would suggest the
name of Dr. P. H. Mell, of Aaburn, Ala.
and son of him whom we all admit wa
the right man to head an institution of
learning. In Dr. Mell, of Alabama, we
find the dear Dr. P. H. Mell, who so long
taught the boys of the University of
Georgia in an undeveloped state; but
with all the elements of growth and suc
cess in him, as a Christian, scholar,
teacher and disciplinarian, he is at least
the equal of any whose name has hereto
fore been mentioned. And so, worthily
would the mantle of the father fall upon
the son. Athens.
Head.
H.-r many friends in Athens aad
-vmli-ast Georgia will be pained to Isarn
tin* death of Mrs. Lute John-
in Bristol, Tenn., oa the 4th
“*■ Mrs. Johnson was gsasrally
“" wn *nd greatly beloved and
'tfd in this section. She wa* the
,l ‘*' ''t Captain Johnson who ran as eon
u<t ‘»r on the Northeastern for many
' lr *. lie lias suffered with dropsy for
years aud his wife broke herself
n” wn in her deveted and never tiring
I him. Captain Johnson is lying
t the point of death.
Th* V. XI. C. A. Fund,
I. 1 he following amounts were handed
to the building committee on yester-
Notue ol the larger contributors
contemplating increaiing their
^mounts:
nt already published
M K Nickerson
, II Dorsey
D Dozier
■-• wis U liradeen
Total to date
$8,244 00
Uwer Kales.
> anta, Feb. G.—Editor John T,
left to-day for Cincinnati to ar-
F." question of chsapsrrates beforo,
r* central Traffic Association, which
P M,S to-morrow.
WEB*
THE MACON & COVINGTON*
The Contractors Being Paid off and the
Work of Grading to be resumed at
Between Athens aad Madison.
The happiest man in our city
yesterday was Capt. A. R. Bradeen,
of the firm of Hampton & Brxdeen,
who have been at work grading the
Macun & Covington Railroad, but
withdrew their force several months
ago on the failure of the road to pay
them off. Capt Bradeen was met
by a B.-W. reporter and he wore a
smile on his face as broad as a hand
saw. He was on his way to Hoi
man & Deadwyler’s stable to pur
chase ten more mules, with a view
of increasing their force. Mr.
Bradeen tells us that he has already
been paid 25 per cent of his claims,
and the rest of the debt is as good as
whe?t at the mill and the toll paid—
that he is certain he will be settled
with according to contract. Mr.
Hampton and himselt have resumed
work on the M. & C. and will this
week set a large force of hands to
grading the little gaps the other side
of the town of Madison but
the work is light and it willt ake
only a sort time t0_ comp’**« it.
After that they will-resume woTk
6 miles this side the Ga. R. R.,
where grading was left ofl, and say
ihatnow that their money is assured,
dirt will fly and it won’t be long be
fore they will be blasting in the
hills around Athens. Mr. T. W.
Powell had his convicts at work
smoothing up the track between
Shady Dale and Madison, getting
the road-bed ready for the cro*s-
ties and iron.
Other contractors will doubless
set to work on this road, as it is the
intention of Col. Machen to have
the cars rolling into Athens by the
first of Jnne. Of this, he is deter
mined, and having plenty of money
at bis back, there will be no further
delay.
Awarded for Bravery.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 6.—Frank
Bradshaw, a colored restaurant employee
has been awarded a handsome bronze
nodal and two pounds sterling by tbe
English gorernment for Ltit.itm in ho
bay of Biscay in ’85.
Hatckflelds Ga Free.
FftAKKroBT, Ky., February 6.—Gor-
ernor Buckner, of Kentucky, has refused
the demand of West Virginia to surren
der the members of the Hatchfield fata:
ly who were abducted from that State.
NACOOCHEE cold mines.
A Revival of Interest tn the Universal
Wealth of the Vsllejr.
Late informationtion from Nacoochee
Valley is that there is renewed interest
in gold mining, and every week
English and Northern capitalists are
there investigating. There is a good
deal of mining work now going on, and
report says that very satisfactory re
turns are made. An English company
has leased the Duke Creek mines which
ive yielded several fortunes in years
gone by.
A Philadelphia capitalist has lately
purchased large mining interest axtend-
ing up the Chattahoochee a distance of
three miles and embracing tbe West
moreland property. The company that
has leased Messrs Childs Sc Nickerson’s
■lines is said to be reaping a golden har
vest. This is undoubtedly one of tho
finest pieces of mineral property in our
State.
There is a rumor in the air to the ef
fect that an English syndicate is now
laying its wires so as to control all the
mines in and |around Nacoochee Valley
and White county, but also to embrace
the entire gold belt of northeast Geor
gia in their coils. A great deal of this
property is owned by Athenians and we
would like to see our friends make a rich
strike.
Hon. W. M. Willingham, of Crawford,
also owns several splendid mines around
the valley. There is not a gentleman ia
Georgia who deserves more than Dr.
Mark.
And speaking of Naceochte Valley,
we learn that Captain Nichols is offering
for sale his beautiful home there for
$30,000. T his is one of the loveliest
daces in our State, for Captain Niehals
ias certainly formed around him a little
earthly paradiae. It would be next
thing to filling up Nacoochee Valley to
have the Ceptain desert it. ’Twould be
robbing the place of half of its attrac
tions.
An Akscnndlnf Treasurer Arrested.
Toronto, Ont^ Feb. 6.—Israel Lucas,
who stole $32,000 from the county of
Anglaose, Ohio, on August 27 last, while
treasurer, has been caught, aud both he
and biswife have been arrested in this
city.
Seaatsr Blackburn 111.
Wasiiinoton, D. C- Feb. 6th.—Sen
ator Blackburn was taken suddenly ill
while calling yesterday, and carried un
conacious to his hotel. He is better to 1
day, though not allowed to see any one
Twe Tigers Cage*.
Atlanta, February 6.—Two negroes,
Dick Blair and Elijah Brogden were to
day caught running blind tigers, one in a
little log cabin, the other in a restaurant
Both wsre locked up.
Liniment
’IBSBRSnBZ
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A Yoang AUmiIm Tirton Find m U Jwk-
•Oft CftOBty.
Mr. Will Weatherly, a son of Mr.
Joe Weatherly, of this city, was a
few days since on a visit to his unde
in Jackson county. At night, while
travelling along the road betwen
Mr. John G. Justice’s and Mrs.
Woods, a deliberate attempt was
made to assassinate him by some
party concealed in the bushes. Two
shots were fired at Mr. Weatheflv,
but fortunately neither of them took
effect. He has no idea who his as
sailants were or wh&t they meant
by shooting at him, as he has no
enemy that he knows of in that
county. It is supposed, however,
that the would-be assassins mistook
young Weatherly for some one else
against whom they had a griev
ance. The sheriff that day was
passing thro igh that neighborhood
riding a white horse in quest of
some law-breakers, aad it was
thought that perhaps young Wea
therly was mistaken for that officer.
There had been a good deal of il
licit distilling going on in this sec
tion, as also whisky sellers and vio
lators ot tbe revenue law.
HAPPY HAMPTON.
Tbe Contractors on tbe M. A C. Road Pool
Capt. Bradeen, of the firm of
Hampton and Bradeen, contractors
on the Macon and Covington road,
reached the city, Saturday, and says
that himself and Tom Hampton are
solid. They will get their money
from the Macon and Covington
road for the work they have done,
which will place them in a very
comfortable position. Capt JBra-
deen purchased a lot of mules yes*
terday and will carry back a large
lot of hands from this place. He is
jubilant over the prospects of Ath
ens soon being connected with Ma
con, and says that the whole con-
tract between Athens and Madison
will be let out soon.
Not Intended.
Editor Banner-Watchman: I
understand that my card upon a
chancellor to succeed Dr. Mell has
benn construed by some parties as
having reference to the proposed
candidacy of Hon. Henry R. Jack-
son. At'the time the card was
written I had not heard Gen. Jack-
son’s name mentioned with the
nlacc, and it was far from my in
tention to cast any slur upon thia
illustrious and distinguished South
erner whom I have always held in
the highest veneration and esteem.
Gen. Jackson would ably and ac
ceptably fill, not only Dr. Mell a
vacant chair, but any office in the
gift of the American people.
B • “Athenian.
BHOOLKYN, Feb. 5.—The snnnsl paw
letting in Brooklyn tabernacle has just
taken place, and the rental exceeds all
previous years. For the best pews five,
six, seven and eight hundred dollan were
paid. But parts of the house are kept
free, ao that no one can truthfully say
that he cannot attfehd church here for
lack of means. "
If this immense ^Structure .were twice
as large it would nbt con tain tall who de
sire to worship hefie. By the time the
service begins tho > streets sou blocked
with people going away.
The Rev. T. De Witt Thlmage, D. D.,
the pastor, preached this morning tire
fifth in the “Series of Sermons to the
Women of America, with Important
Hints to Men.” His subject was “The
Veil of Modesty,” and his text; Esther
12: “The <3ueen Vashti refused to
If you will accept-my ana I will escort
you into a throne rbotn. In 4bis JMtb
sermon of the series of sermons there ara
certain womanly excellencies which I
wish to commend, but instead of putting
them in dry abstraction, I present you
their impersonation in, one who seldom,
if ever, gets sermonic recognition.
We stand amid the palaces of Shushan.
The pinnacles are aflame with the morn
ing light. The col urns rise festooned and
wreathed, the wealtKof empires flashing
from the grooves; die ceilings adorned
with images of bird anS besst, and scenes
of prowess and conquest. The walls are
hung with shields, and emblazoned until
it seems that th* whole round of splen
dors is exhausted. Each arch is a mighty
leap of architectural achievement. Golden
stam, shining down on glowing arabesque.
Hangings of embroidered work in
which mingle the blueness of the sky,
the greenness of the grass and the white
ness of the sea foam. '.Tapestries hung
on silver rings, wedding together the pil
lars of marble. Pavilions reaching out
in every direction. These for repose,
filled with luxuriant couches, in which
weary limbs sink until all fatigue is sub
merged. These for carousal, where kings
drink down a kingdom at one swallow.
Amazing spectacle! ’Light of silver
dripping down over stairs of ivory on
shields of gold. Floors of stained marble,
sunset red and night black, and inlaid
with gleaming pearl. - Why, it seems as
if a heavenly vision of amethyst, and
jacinth, and topaz, and chrysoprasus had
descended and alighted upon Shushan.
It seems as if a billow of celestial glory
had dashed clear over heaven’s battle
ments upon this metropolis of Persia. In
connection with this palace there is a
garden, where the mighty men of foreign
lands are seated at a banquet. Under
the spread of oak, and linden, and
acacia the tables are arranged. The
breath of honeysuckle and frank
incense fills* the air. Fountains leap
up into the Ji&ht, the spray struck
through with rSmbows falling in crystal
line baptism upon flowering shrubs—then
rolling down through'channels of marble,
and widening mt here and there into
pools swirling' with the finny tribes of
foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet
anemones, hypericums, and many col
ored ranunculus. Meats of rarest bird
and beast smoking up amid wreaths of
aromatics. The vases filled with apricots
And almonds. The boskets piled up with
apricots, and dates, and figs, and oranges,
and pomegranates. Melons tastefully
ririnvd,. with leave* ol~ Mcaeix- The
bright waters of Eulaetis filling the
urne and sweating outside the
a flashing beads amid the
traceries. Win* from the royal vats
of 7-spahan and Shiraz, in: bottles of
tinged shell, and lily shaped cups of sil
ver, and flagons and tankards of solid
gold. The masic rises higher, and the
revelry breaks out into wilder transport,
and the wine lips flushed the cheek and
touched the bgain, and louder than all
other voices art the hiccough of the ine
briates, the gabble of fools and the song
of the drunkards. --
In another part of the palace Queen
Vashti is entertaining the princesses ot
Persia at a banquet Drunken Ahasuerus
•ays to his servants: “You go out and
fetch Vashti from that banquet with the
women, and bring her to this banquet
with the men, and let me display bit
beauty.” The servants immediately start
to obey the king’s command; but there
was a rifle in oriental society that no
woman might appear in public without
having her face veiled. Yet here was a
mandate that no one dare dispute, de
manding that Vashti come in unveiled
before the multitude. However, there
was in Vashti’s soul a principle more
regal than Ahasuerus, more brilliant than
the gold of SfhusliAn, of more wealth
than the realm of Persia, which com
manded her. to disobey this order of tha
king; and so all .. the righteousness
said holiness and modesty of her
nature rises up into one sublime
refusal. She says: “I wjU not go into
the banquet unveiled.’ C Of course
Ahasuerus was infuriate; and Vashti,
robbed of her position and her estate, is
driven forth in poverty and ruin to suf
fer the scorn of a nation, and yet to re
ceive the applause of after generations
who shall rise up to-admire this martyr
to kingly insolence. Well,' the last ves
tige of that feast is'C«n; the last garland
has faded; the last-arch'kn* fallen: the
Ust tankard has been destroyed, and
Shushan U a ruin; hut as long as the
veerld stands there will be multitudes of
men and women, familiar with the
Bible, who will come into this picture
gallery of God, and admire the divine
portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti the
veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the
silent.
In the first place, I want you to look
upon Vashti, the queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with white, drawn round her fort-,
head, indicated her queenly position. It
was no small honor to he queen in such a
realm as that. Hark to the rustle, of her
robes! See the blaze of her jewels! Aqd
yet, my friends, it is not necessary if)
have palace and regal robe in order to he
queenly. When I see a woman with
stout faith in God, putting her foot upon
alt meanness, and selfishness, and godless
display, going right forward to serfs
Christ and the race by a grand and
glorious service, d say: ‘That ^wo
man is a queen,” and the ranks ft
heaven took ofer. the battlements upon
the coronation; ^nd whetherttrt come up
from the shanty oh the commons or the
Mr. M. B. McGinty received a
dispatch from his son Frank, stating
that he ,and his wife would reaeb
Athens last night on tbe 7 o’clock
train. Mr. Frank McGinty accom
panied bis intended, Miss Mary
Lemon, to her home at Sagmar, it
few days ago, and expected to he
married sometime thia spring, hut
after arriving at her home they con-,
eluded to marry at once. Miss
Lemon is a finely educated young
lady, and one of the reigning belles
of Cobb county. Mr. McGinty is
a son of Mr. M. B. McGinty, of this
place, and is a young man of rare
promise. We congratulate him on
capturing such s prize.
MVWIS m
caslytsOssiht*
mansion'of the -htahioushle sqi
greet her with tbs shout; “All
Queen Vashti." What glory
on the brow of Man of ~
"Elizabeth of England, or
Franp£ «r Catherine of Russia,
with the worth of seoto of our
mothers, many of them gone into _
—or of that woman merituand hr the
Scriptures, who put her all into tite Lord’s
treasuryf—or of Jephthah's daughter,
who nude a demonstration of unselfish
patriotism?—or of AbigmB, who rescued
the herds and flocks of her husband?-2or
ot Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun
for poor, old. .helpless Naomi?—or qf
Mrs. Adomrain Judsba, who kindled the
lights of salvation amid tbs flyknsad of
of Burmahf—or dT Mia. Hsmuus.
who poured 'fart her holy, eoul in
words' which -will for «*ek he
s
throb, aud; curfew’s
women, unknown
water to the
<nr towns and cities, selected out of s
vast number at applicants, became of
their especial intellectual and moral en
dowments. There are in none of your
homed women more worthy. These per
sons; some ot them, come out from afflu
ent homes, choosing teaching as a useful
profession; others, finding that father is
older than he used to be, and that his
uysslghl and strength are note* good as
cape, go to teaching to lighten his load.
But I tell you the history of the majority
of the female teachers in the publio
schools when 1 say: “Father is dead.”
After tha estate .eras settled the family,
that were comfortable before, are thrown
on their own resources.
It is hartEfor men to earn a living in
this day. but,it is harder for women—
their health nOt ao rugged, their arms
not so strong, their opportunities fewer.
These persons, after trembingly going
through the ordeal of an examination as
to their qualifications to teach, half be
wildered step over the sill of the public
school to do two things—instruct the
young and earn their own bread. Her
work is wearing to the last degree. The
management of forty pr fifty fidgety and
intractable children, the suppression pf
their vices and the development of their
excellencies, the management of
rewards and punishments, the send
ing of so many bora of soap and fine
tooth combs on benignant ministry, the
breaking of so many wild colts for the
harness of life, sends her home at night
weak, neuralgic, unstrung; 60 that of all
the weary people in your cities for five
nights of" the week there aro none more
weary than the public school teachers.
Now, for God’s sake, give them a fair
chance. Throw no obstacles in the way.
If they come out ahead in the race,
cheer them. If you want to smite any,
smite the male teachers; they can take
up the cudgels for themselves. But keep
your hands off of defenseless women.
Father may be dead, but there are
enough brothers left to demand and see
that they get justice.
Within a stone’s throw of this building
there died years ago one of the principals
Of our public schools. She had been
twenty-five years at that post. She had
left the touch of refinement on a multi
tude of the young. She had, out of her
slender purse, given literally thousands
of dollars for tne destitute who came
under her observation as a school teacher.
A deceased sister’s children were thrown
upon her hands, and she took care of
them. *She was a kind mother to them,
while she mothered a whole school.
Worn out with nursing in the sick and
dying room of one of the household, she
herself came to die. She closed the
school book and at the same time the
volume of her Christian fidelity; and
when she went through the gates they
cried: “These are they who came out of
great tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the lamb.”
Queens are all such, and whether the
world acknowledges tsiem or not, heaven
acknowledges them. When Scarron,
the wit and ecclesiastic, as poor as he
was brilliant, was about to marry Mine,
de Maintenon, he was asked by the notary
what he proposed to settle upon madem
oiselle. The reply was: “Immortality!
The names of the wives of kings die
with them; the name of the wife of Scar
ron wiU live always." In a higher and
better sense, upon all women who do
their duty, God will settle immortality!
Not th* immortality of earthly fame,
which is mortal, but the immor
tality celestial. And they shall reign
f'ligyex and ever. Oh, the opportu
nity w*L'--“every woman has of bgr-
a queen! The longer I HfCrth?more I
admire good womanhood. And I have
come to form my opinion of the charac
ter of a man by his appreciation or non
appreciation of woman. If a man
have a depressed idea of womanly
character he is a bad man, and there is
no exception to the rule. The writings
of Goethe can never have any such at
tractions for me as Shakespeare, because
nearly all the womanly characters of tho
great German have some kind of turpi
tude. There is his Mariano, with her
clandestine scheming, and his Mignon, of
evil parentage, yet worse than her ances
tors, and his Theresa, the brazen, and
his Aurelia of many intriguqg, and his
Philina, the termagant, and his Melina,
the tarnished, and his Baroness, and his
Countess, and there is seldom a womanly
character in all his voluminous writ
ings that would bo worthy of resi
dence in a respectable coal cellar, yet
pictured and dramatized and emblazoned
till all the literary world is compelled to
lee. No! no! Give me William Shakes
peare’s idea of woman; and I see it in
Desdemona, and Cordelia, and Rosalind,
and Imogen, and Helena, and Hermione,
and Viola, and Isabella, and Sylvia, and
Perdita, all of them with enough faults
to prove them human, but enough kindly
characteristics to give us the author’s
idea of womanhood, his Lady Macbeth
only a dark background to bring out the
supreme loveliness of his other female
characters.
Oh, women of America 1 rise to your
opportunity. Be no slave to pride, or
worldliness, or sin. Why ever crawl in
the dust when you can mount a throne?
Be queens unto God forever. Hail
Vashti 1
'Again: I want yon to consider Vashti
the vailed. Had she appeared before
Ahasuerus and his court on that day,
with her face uncovered, she would have
shocked all the delicacies of Oriental
society, and the very men who in their
intoxication demanded that she come, in
their sober moments would have despised
her. As some flowers seem to thrive
best in the dark lane and in the shadow,
and where the sun does not seem to
reach them, so God appoints to most
womanly natures a retiring and unob
trusive spirit. God once in a while
does call an Isabella to the throne,
or a Miriam to Btrike the timbrel at
the front of a host, or a Marie Antoinette
to quell a French mob, or a Deborah to
stand at the front of an armed battalion,
crying out: “Up! up! This is the day
in which the Lord will deliver Sisera into
thy hands.” And when women are called
to such outdoor work and to such heroic
positions, God prepares them for it; and
they kave iron in their soul, and light
nings in their eye, and whirlwinds in
their breath, and the borrowed strength
of the Lord omnipotent in their right
arm. They walk through furnaces as
though they were hedges of wild
flowers, and cross seas as though
they were shimmering sapphire, and
aO the harpies of hell sink down
to their dungeon at the stamp of their
womanly indignation. But these are
exception* Generally, Dorcas would
rather, make a garment for tbe poor
boy;" Rebecca would' - rather fill the
trough for the camels; Hannah would
rather make a coat far Samuel; tbe
Hebrew maid, would rather give a
prescription for Naaman’s leprosy;
the woman of. Sarepta would rather
gather a few sticks to 000k a meal for
famished Elijah; Phebe would rather
cany a letter for the inspired
apostle; Mother Lois would rather
educate Timothy in the Scriptures. When
1 see a woman going about her daily
duty—with cheerful dignity presiding at
die table; with kind and genfle, but
firm, discipline presiding in the nursery,
going out into the world without any
blast of trumpets, following in the foot-
stepr of trim who went about doing good
—Isay: “This is Vashti with a veil on.”
But "when I see a woman of unblushing
.boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue of
infinite clitter clatter, with arrogant
look, passing through the streets with a
masculine swing, gayly arrayed in a
vary hurricane of millinery, I cry out:
“Vashti has lost her veB.” When I see
* woman struggling for political
preferment, tod retfectm* the dutto
of hirmir and thinking
yet moving in society with supercilious
ness and hauteur, as though she would
have people know their place, and an un
defined combination of giggle, and strut,
and rodomontade, endowed with allo
pathic quantities of talk, but only home
opathic infinitesimals of sense, the terror
ot dry goods clerks and railroad con
ductors, discoverers of significant mean
ings in plain conversation, prodigies of
badness and innuendo—Isay: “Vashti has
lost her veiL"
But do not misinterpret what I say
into a depreciation of the work of thorn
glorious and divinely called women who
will not be understood tfll after they are
dead, women like Susan B. Anthony,
who are giving their life for the better
ment of the condition of their sex. Those
of you who think that women have
under the law of this country an equal
chance with men are ignorant of the laws.
A gentleman writes me from Maryland,
saying: “Take the laws of this state. A
man and wife start out in life full of
hope in every respect by their joint ef
forts, and, as is frequently the esse,
through the economic ideas of the wife,
succeed in accumulating a fortune, but
they have no children; they reach old
age together, and that the husband dies.
What does the law of this state do then? It
says to the widow, hands off your late
husband's property, do not touch it; the
state will find others to whom it will give
that, but you, the widow, must not
touch it, only so much as will keep life
within your aged body, that you may
live to see those others enjoy what right
fully should be vour own.” And the
state seeks the relatives of the deceased
husband, whether they be near or far,
whether they were ever heard of before
or not, and transfers to them, singly or
collectively, the estate of the deceased
husband and living widow.
Now, that is a specimen of unjust laws
in all the states concerning womanhood.
Instead of flying off to the discussion as
to whether or not the giving of the right
of voting to women will correct these
laws, let me say to men, be gallant
enough, and fair enough, and honest
enough, and righteous enough, and God
loving enough to correct these wrongs
against women by your own masculine
votes. Do not wait for woman suffrage
to come, if it ever does come, but so far
as you can touch ballot boxes, and legis
latures, and congresses begin the refor
mation. But until justice is done to
your sex by tlie laws of all the Btates, and
women of America take the platforms
and the pulpits, and no honorable man
will charge Vashti with having lost her
veil.
Again, I want you this morning to
consider Vashti the sacrifice. Who is
this that I see coming out of that palace
gate of Shushan? It seems to me that I
have seen her before. She comes home
less, houseless, friendless, trudging along
with a broken heart. Who is she? It is
Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what a change
it was from regal position to a way
farer’s crust. A little while ago approved
and sought for; now none so poor as
to acknowledge her acquaintanceship.
Vashti the sacrifice. Ah, you and I have
seen it many a time. Here is a home
empaiaced with beauty. All that refine
ment. and books, and wealth can do for
that home has been done; but Ahasuerus,
the husband and the father, is taking
hold on paths of sin. He is gradually
going down. After a while he will
flounder and struggle like a wild beast in
a hunter’s net—further away from God,
further away from the right. Soon the
brigbV' . jjyl of the children will turn
IS-rags; soonUie song will be
come the sobbing of a The
old story over again. Brute?
breaking up the marriage feast of La-
pUv 2<f The house full of outrage, and
crueltV, '-sad abomination, while trudging
forth from the palace gate are Vashti
and her children. There are homes rep
resented in this house this morning that
are in danger of such a b" .airing
up. Oh Ahasuerus, that you should
stand in a home, by a dissipated
life destroying the peace aad comfort
of that home. God forbid that your
children should ever have to wring their
hands, and have people point their finger
at them as they pass down the street and
say: “There goes a drunkard's child.”
God forbid that the little feet should ever
have to trudge the path of poverty and
wretchedness. God forbid that any evil
spirit, born of the wine cup or the brandy
flask, should come forth and uproot that
garden, and, with a blasting, blistering,
all consuming curse, shut for ever the
palace gate against Vashti aud the chil
dren.
Oh, the women and the men of sacri
fice are going to take the brightest coro
nals of heaven! This woman of the text
gave up palatial residence, gave up all for
what she considered right. Sacrifice!
Is there anything more sublime? A
steamer called the Prairie Belle, burning
on the Mississippi river, Bludso, the engi
neer, declared he would keep tbe bow of
the boat to the shore till all were off, and
he kept his promise. At his post, scorched
and blackened, he perished, but he saved
all the passengers. Two verses of pa
thetic poetry describe the scene, but the
verses are a little rough, and so I changed
a word or two:
and the men on the lookout were frozen
in their places. That was awful, but
magnificent All the Arctic blasts and
all the icebergs could not drive them
from their duty. Their sileuce was
louder than thunder. And this old ship
of a world has many at their posts in the
awful chill of neglect, and frozen of the
world’s scorn, and their silence shall be
the eulogy of the ikies, and be rewarded
long after this weather beaten craft of a
planet shall have made its last voyage.
I thank God that the mightiest in
fluences are the moet silent The fires in
a furnace of a factory or of a steamship
roar though they only move a few shut
tles or a few thousand tons, but the sun
that warms a world rises and sets with
out a crackle or faintest sound. Trav
elers visiting Mount Etna, having heard
of the glories of sunrise on that peak,
went up to spend the night there and see
the sun rise next morning, but when it
camo up it was so far behind their an
ticipations they actually hissed it The
mightiest influences today are like the
planetary system—completely silent
Don’t hiss the sun!
Oh, woman! does not this story of
Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled,
Vashti tho sacrifice, Vashti the silent
move your soul? My sermon converged
into the one absorbing hope that none of
you may bo shut out of the palace gate
of heaven, You can endure the hard
ships, and the privations, and the cruel
ties and the misfortunes of this life, if
you can only gain admission there.
Through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, you go through those gates dr
never go at alL
When Rome was besieged the daughter
of its ruler saw the golden bracelets on
the left arms of the enemy, and she sent
word to them that she would betray her
city and surrender it to them if they
would only give her those braoelets on
their left arms. They accepted the prof
fer, and by night this daughter of the
ruler of the city opened one of the
gates. The army entered, and, keep
ing their promise, threw upon her
their bracelets, and also their shields,
until nnder weight she died. Alas,
that all through the ages the same folly
has been repeated, and for tbe trinkets
and glittering treasures of this world men
and women swing open the portals of
their immortal soul for an everlasting
surrender, and die under the shining
snbmergement.
Through the rich grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ may you be enabled to imi
tate the example of Rachel, and Hannah,
and Abigail, and Deborah, and Mary,
and Vashti. Amen I
(ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Stray Bits of Good Reading Clipped from
tha Various Exebsnges.
Chambersburg, Pa., has a fire com
pany that was organized 108 years ago,
The most trying position a truthful
clergyman can be in is to be preaching
the funeral sermon of a man who died
rich and mean.
A movement has been started for the
purchase of the early home of the poet
Whittier and its preservation as a shrine
for patriotic Americans.
An English firm calls attention to its
admirable supply of sermons for melan
choly occasions, which they retail for
seven pence each. Special sermons are
two and six a head.
A New Orleans newspaper says that
the millions of pickaninnies seen around
the cotton fields of the south furnish
complete ref’ tffsrthn theory
the negro —tf* 1
jlity ton flat car, which is claimed
to be the hugest ever made in this coun
try, is being built in Packer-ton, Pa., and
when finished will be used for hauling a
lot of machinery from New York to
Bethlehem.
Through the hot black breath of the burning
Jim Bludto's voice was heard.
And they all had trust in his stubbornness,
And knew he would keep his word.
And sure's you're born they ail got off
Afore the smokestacks fell;
And Bludso's ghost went up above, v
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
He weren't no saint, but at Judgment
I’d run my chance with Jtm, . } ~
Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shake hands with him. "
He'd seen his duty, s dead sure thing.
And went for tt there end then.
And Christ Is not going to be too hard
On s man that died for men.
Once more: I want you to look at
Vashti tbe silent Yon do not hear any
outcry from this woman as she goes forth
from the palace gate. From the very
dignity of her nature you know there wiU
be no vociferation. Sometimes in life it
is necessary to make a retort; sometimes
in life it is necessary to resist; but there
are crises when the mo6t triumphant
thing to do is to keep silence. The phil
osopher, confident in his newly discov
ered principle, waited for the coming of
more intelligent generations, willing that
men should laugh at the lightning rod,
and cotton gin and steamboat—waiting for
long years through the scoffing of philo
sophical schools, in grand and magnificent
silence. . Galilpo, condemned by mathe
maticians, and monks, and cardinals,
caricatured everywhere, yet waiting and
watching with his telescope, to see the
coming up of stellar re-enforcements,
wheh the stars in their courses would
fight for the Copemican system; then
sitting down in complete blindness and
deafness to wait for the coming on of
the generations who would build his
monument and bow at his grave. The
reformer, execrated by his contempo
raries, fastened in a pillory, the slow
fires of publio contempt burning under
him, ground under the cylinders of the
printing press, yet calmly waiting for the
day when purity of soul and heroism of
character will get the sanction of earth
and the plaudits ef heaven. Affliction,
enduring without any complaint tho
sharpness of the pang, and the violence
of the storm, and the heft of the chain,
and the darkness of tfie night—waiting
until a divine hand shall be put forth to
soothe the pang, and hush the storm, and
release the captive. A wife abused, per
secuted, and a perpetual exile from every
earthly comfort—waiting, waiting, until
the Lord shall gather up nis dear children
in a heavenly home; and no poor Vashti
will ever be thrust out from the palace
gate. Jesus, in silence, and answering
not a word, drinking the gall, bearing
the cross, in prospect of the rapturous
consummation when—
Angels thronged his chariot wheel,
-.Aad bgcsAhn to his throne:
An Orlando (Fla.) newspaper man has
substituted a pair of sand hUl cranes for
watch dogs, and he finds that their load,
clear note of warning when a tramp or a
burglar comes near is an effective means
of protection.
The manager of the automatic machines
which furnish weights, sweetmeats, pens,
paper, and other things to London
people, recently showed the police half a
ton of lead and zinc dies and thousands
of pieces of cardboard that had been
dropped into the machine instead of
pennies.
The two new victorias of the senators
from California are said to be the most
elegant carriages seen in Washington.
Senator Stanford’s attracts the greater
attention for tha reason that the coach
man and footman are in deep mourning
and match the somber hue of the hories
and the harness.
The crown princess of Austria pre
sented her husband, Prince Rudolf, with
a complete outfit of goemetrical instru
ments Os a New Year’s gift. The case
of walnut, inlaid with silver, which held
the instruments, also contained a pretty
letter from the princess trusting that
their lives would “henceforth be hap
pier.”
California is proud of her record, for
1887. Three hundred miles of new rail
road were laid, the assessed value of
property increased' $183,06^000. the
wine and brandy produet wu Urge,
80,000,000 poundftrt canned goods and
85,000,000 of greed fruit were shipped,
end, there never wu such a year for
tourists.
Among the gifts offered to the pope
on his birthday U a contrivance by a
French engineer, named Arragon, for
ringing Urge church bells by electricity,
A similar arrangement U, we believe, tut
present at work in a London church, the
apparatus having been designed and
erected by some of the students at the
Finsbury Technical college.
A Russian general has created a great
sensation in Europe by furnishing on
elaborate scheme for the construction of
a railway through Siberia to the Pacific
ocean. It is intended to go by the short
est possible cut from the Urals to the
Pacific ocean. The total cost of the rood
is estimated at $21)0,000,000, which, it
is believed, can be readily raised in Rus
sia itself.
Ex-Governor Alger’s great Michigan
pine forest is located at Block river, on
Lake Huron, near Alpena- It comprises
70.000 acres, or over 100 square miles.
The annual product of the forest is from
75,000,000 to 00.000,000 feet of lumber,
according to the state of the trade: There
are 600 men employed in the nine camps
in tiie forest.
Hucksters are so numerous in some
puts of town that they are a serious an-
nfaysnee' to hnnartesjars. ‘ A lady in
West Philadelphia; tired of their repeated
•*>«* 9* *=“ WV adopted a very
shrewd means of getting rid it them.
She notified every one who came to her
house that she would liave him arrested
for telling without license if he came
again. It was only a guess of hers as to
the fioenae, but toe ahot went home In
«r**y case. !„
Tbe wife of a United States senator
believed to have broken the Waahii
visiting record. She made nm?
calls in one afternoon. Assuming
she golloMd the round of her abort! duties
in fcnSnSunf toe* mads twMrd csili ah
hour, or one every five minutes. De
ducting the time taken ip going from
bodse tobouaeandaattmaiing Mat two
nflntrtss, ton average duration 1 ot •call'
would he about tores minutes. Three
minutes, berwaver, is sufficient for the re
quirements of Washington friendship.
-Mode*, ‘
Subscribers wishing their Baaner-
Watchman address changed, should' state
old as well as the new address; and. site
ssy^whetoer your paper U daily"?
OF THE
est Make.
THE GLADE FA-»LS-
’oadsrfol Water Fewer In Hall Conn,
ty, Georgia.
north of Gaines-
, road that leads -»V
intp Nacoochee Valley, is perhaps .
onfc of the finest falls in Georgia,
ranking next (o Toccoa. It is 01.
Fist creek, quite a bold stream, that
rises at Mossy Creek camp ground.
We do not know the exact 1 eigr t
of this water power, but it is not
very far behind Toccoa. The scen
ery, too, is as fine as any in Geor
gia, It is a matter of surprise to us
that this beautiful place is not bet-
tef known and advertised. A pub
lic road runs directly by these falls
and a splendid set of mills ave built
here, but nos one-tenth ot the fall
is utilized, and nnly a portion of the
water. The remainder of the water
carried from the top of the falls
through a canal seven miles long,
that runs along the sides and tops
of hiils until a place called The
G|ades is reached—a thriving set
tlement on a high and dry ridge.
Here the unusual sight is witnessed
of a fine set of merchant mills, a
cotton gin and other machinery,
being propelled by water power,
the source of which is three miles
distant by an air-line, and seven
miles the way the canal runs. This
canal was first cut by an English
company, for the purpose of work
ing some gold mines at The Glades.
But they did not pan out very well,
and so the company decided to let
the gold alone and try farming and
merchandising. This is the only
farm in Georgia to-day owned by
Englishmen, and it is said, too, to
be a most orofitable investment. It
is managed bj a superintendent
who also overlooks the store, mill
and gin.
THE MAN OF THE HOUR.
What Jud^sW. B. Thomas has Done For
Athens.
A prominent businessman of this city
remarked yesterday in the presence of a
Banner-Watchman reporter that Bailey
Thomas w»s one man w ho was worth
his weight in gold to Athens and the
present prosperity of the place was duo
more to his efforts than to any other
cause.
Judge Thomas was the first man to
start a compress in Athens, and this
brought up our receipts fifty thousai d
bales or more. lie has always been
ahead in every eterprising move, indeed
his energy has only been guaged by his
capital and influence. One dciiur in W.
B. Thomas’ pocket was worth more to
wards the material development of Ath
ens than $10 controlled by any other
citizen. \Ye say this not to the dispar
agement of our other spirited citizens,
lor we all know that Bailey Thomas is a
whole team within himself when ho
starts.
Tbe magnificent block of stores on
Clayton street now nearing completion,
together with our beautiful new theatre,
aro monuments to his enterprise. Had
Judge W. B. Thomas not taken this mat
ter in hand, and made plain a plan hy
which these improvements could be
built, the sites on which these buildings
stand would to-day be vacant.
And the still grander en
terprise that this gentleman has insured
to Athens is the building of the Macon
.and Covington railroad to this city. As
ell-known fact, Covington had cap
tured the road was being
town. At a most critical ana‘ opportune!
moment for Athens, Judge Thomas
chanced to be in New York and at once
saw the danger we were ia of losing the
railroad. He at once set to work, first
to interest Colonel Mechen in Athens
ard then he came home to arouse and
enthuse our citizens. His efforts have
been crowned with success nd before
the middle of next summer theas will
have arether railroad that she could
never have secured had it not been for
W. B. Thomas’ timely visit to New
York and his gallant work in behalf of
his city.
And there is a still more important en
terprise tost this gentleman is now
bringing te success—the completion of
the railroad between Tallulah Falls and
Knoxville. There are many who do—
not believe that Judge Thomas will ever
succeed in this project, but we have a
most abiding confidence in him. If it is
possible to build that road, Batly
Thomas is the man to do it. He is now
unlimbering his every energy in that di
rection and has placed the last dollar ho
controls in the ventune. We believe he
will build bis road and would like to see
him clear a million dollars out of it.
YESTERDAY’S HAPPENINGS BRIEFED.
Matthew Bush cut his wife’s throat in
Chicago in tbe presence of their three
children, causing instant death.
Peter O’Neill shot his wife through
the heart, in Pittsburg, Pa.. She died
immediately. Turning the pistol he
shot himself fatally. Jealousy was the
cause.
Tom Ellis, the terror of Birmingham,
and editor of the Hornet, is dead. De
tective Sullivaa, who fired the fatal shot,
is on trial.
The ship Lsrnica arrived Monday in
the harbor of New York, having on boari
the nine men rescued on New Year’s
eve off the A zones from the sinking Ja
son. They had been thirty-five days at
the pumps with the water constantly
gaining, and would have perished but
for the rescue.
D. R. Loek (Petroleum V. Nasby,)
editor and proprietor of the Toledo
Blade, is dying in Toledo, O. *’
Capt. John Augustine, a well known
journalist of New Orleans, is dead.
B- 8. Crawford, the negro who was
shot ia Atlanta by Dr, C. E. Murphy, on
Monday, is oot of danger. Dr. Mur-
phey is out on a $300 bond.
Representative Stewart and Collector
Crenshaw addressed the committee of
coDgnss having charge of the Atlanta
custom house bill* on Monday, and Mr.
Grimes spoke in favor of the building for
Columbus. The Atlanta bill will be re
ported favorably, the appropriation be
ing increased to $120,000. No action on
(he Columbus bill, which is unfavora
ble.
Bob Cloud,a negro in Atlanta, blew off
the head of Henry Phelps with a double-
barrel shot-gun, just as he was returning
at midnight from a church sociable with
Cloud’s wife. The woman received the
other load in her back just is she turn
ed to ran. Her husband followed and
! triedjto brain her with a club, but she
escaped; Cloud went up to police head
quarters and told the story, saying: “I
didn't know that I had sh jt her. I didn't
shoot at her nor at Phelps, either; I was
so mad I just shot in the bunch.” He
was locked up. Gen. Gartrell and Robt.
L. Sibley, Esq., were retained by the
prisoner.
About ane hundred Scotchman, mem
bers of the Paving Cutter's Union of
Lithonia and Stone Mountain, struck
Monday. The cause of toe strike.'was
the arrival from Virginia of abont twenty
negro block breakers who propose
:to Break reck at $8.00 per 100, the price
now paid being $18.00. The Scotchmen
work tor reasonable prices and make
g<x>d citizens. It is thought the strike
vjiU be adjusted. The company claims
" wilt give th* negroes houses
*' that will increase their