Georgia Historic Newspapers

    •' A CAPITAL GOSSIPER.
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•THE SMALL TALK MONGER IN WASH-
INGTON IS A MAN.
But Bo TMIh Some Good Stories About tliv
I Men of the Nation—Tlio Barns Family.
f Frank LmliT—Senator Ingalls* Red Cra
vat—FhUetua Sawyer’s Son.
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(Special Correspondence.!
\VAsr:'"GTO.v, Jan. 2.. —Your Wash
ington gossiper is a man. He has been
here no one knows how many -years. He
knows everybody. It is the delight of
his life to take you up in the press gal
leries, the best place in the world to see
public men. and point out faces to you.
His tongue moves in symphony witli hiB
' forefinger. There’s nobody too great for
him to speak of in a familiar way, no
body too obscure for him to know some
thing about.
’‘There,” he says, pointing with his
lead pencil to a big man in one of the
rear seats of the house, "is Jim Burns,
Of Missouri. Know Jim? I mean the
large-man with the light mustache and
tho curly hair. That’s ono of 'the best
men in the world. He weighs 235
pounds and isn’t a lightweight in debate
' or anything else. Comes from the SL
Joseph district in Missouri. He is rich.
Queer thing about the Burns family is
that they hold all their property in com
mon. There’s Jim and his two brothers
' and his two sons. Altogether they are
worth about $8,000,000, add every cent
of it is held in common. They have the
biggest bank in SL Joseph, lots of real
ostate and stocks. The three Burns
brothers and Jim’s two sons are all
chums. They live together in a great
house in SL Joseph. The brothers are
all widowers, and the boys have never
married. Their bouse is like a club
house, and ono of the best places
in the world to 6pend a few weeks. They
have a country house at a summer resort
near. St. Joseph. Great times they have
oat there. They have plenty of guests
g "the boys” of St. Jo, Kansas
from among _
City and Bt. Louis. It is esteemed an
honor as well as a pleasure to be invited
to spend a few days with the Burnses.
The Burnses are always together. That’s
S ie of Jim’s sons sitting beside him now.
ow did lie, get in on the floor, seeing
he isn’t a member? I don’t know. Guess
he’s a committee clerk or something,
nominally. # * *
Tell you a story about this Burns boy.
All the Burns boys play poker. Their
father taught them how when they were
little fellows. This one in particular is
a great poker player. Last summer the
three Burns brothers and Jim’s two boys
were' playing a* pretty stiff game one
night out at their summer house. They
are always playing together, and don’t
like to play with outsiders. On this oc
casion young Burns lost several big pots
to his father, and then turned round and
put up a hand on the old man, and beat
him out of $7,000 at one show down.
But you mustn't get the idea that Jim
Bums is a rough man, He’s a gentle
man, and was finely educated. He grad
uated second in his class at Harvard,
was a circuit judge for several years,
and-has been in congress since 1884. He
lives at Willard’s hotel, where he pays
$350 a month for his rooms, so he will
have a good place in which to keep bach
elors’ hall for the entertainment of the
otherBumses, who are often with him.
#
“The man in liglit clothes, with a red
necktie, a smile on his face, and bangs
on his forehead? That is William Wal
ter Phelps, of New Jersey. He looks
somewhat like a dude, but people who
think he is one don’t know lum. Phelps
is a brainy man. At Yale he was a
leader both in the class room and on the
campus. He looks effeminate, but he is
an athlete. His muscles are like steel.
He has a stock ranch down in Texas,-
and when he goes down there he’s a
Texan. Jumps a bronco and rides
thirty miles without stopping, carries a
gun and drinks a little whisky with the
natives just to keep them good natured.
Phelps had brains enough to make his
own way in life. Before he was 25 vears
old he had a large law practice. Made
his fortune in railroads. Some years
ago he had nearly his whole fortune in
vested in ono enterprise—the Texas Cen
tral. He kept sending good money after
bad in that rat hole till his friends ad
vised him to pull out or he would ruin
himself. The road wouldn't pay. But
Phelps stuck to it till he had. put in
$1,000,000, and finally the road turned
the hill and made him a very rich
man. He is one of the most genial
meh in public life. Everybody likes
him. His manners are soft, almost ef
feminate. But if you think he hasn’t a
will just try lura once. He can yes or
no quicker and stick to it longer than
any man in congress. He likes to be
frank and communicative when frank
ness jvill help somebody and hurt no
body, but you couldn't pull a-ward out of
him with a yoke of steers when there are
reasons why he shouldn’t talk. He
adores Blaine and is fond of giving
dinners. It is oneof the treats of Wash
ington to sit at his table. He is generous
with his money, but makes no display of
hands, and it’s almost as good as won.
He sticks and hangs like a leech. About
11 o’clock he runs around the hotels, and
if there’s anybody in town from Chicago
he shows them the sights, takes them up
to call on the president, and does the fair
thing by them generally. After his work
in the house is done he sits up till 2 or 8
o'clock in the momiug writing letters
and sending out public documents. He is
the greatest letter writer in congress.
Popular? Should say he was. Tho chances
are he'll come to congress as long as he
wants to. He spends $500 a year -for
public documents to be mailed his con
stituents. All the people in his district
have small libraries of public documents.
Why, even the switchmen and gale
tenders along the railroads that run
through Frank’s district have libraries
of public documents piled up in their
little shanties. They all swear by Frank
Lawler. He’s a man of good liabits. and
is nobody’s fool, either. To 6how you
how 6mart he b I'll tell you he
keeps a pair of eye glasses. in his
vest pockeL When he meets anybody
that knows him and that he can’t place
he shakes hands warmly, ingeniously
Qnds out who the person is, and then
pulls out his glasses, wipes them carefully
and says: ‘Why, of course. I’d a-known
you in a minute if I'd had my glasses
on. You see, my eyes are getting weak.’
Frank Lawler’s eya3 are as good as yours
or mine. n * *
“That great heavy man, with a body
as big as a tobacco hogshead, is Barnes,
of Georgia. He weighs more than 800
pounds, and is the biggest man in Con
gress by long ode’s, and one of the most
eloquent. Heard . a good story about
Barnes. The other day he went with
some southern friends of his up into the
loft of the war, state and navy build
ing, where a fine view of the city and
riv«, is to be had. While they were up
there Barries’ friends noticed him to
turn pale and look scared. They asked
him what the matter was, and he trem
blingly pointed to a placard which read:
; Tho supporting strength of this floor is
: ISO lbs. per sq. ft.
“ ‘Great God!’ lie exclaimed, ‘I weigh
800 pounds, and if I don’t straddle out
I’ll go downf
“And suiting his action to tho word
he began to take long steps so his whole
weight wouldn’t come on any one square
foot of the floor.”
THE WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN,
BEN UNDER DURESS.
The President Elect Literally
Coerced Into Action.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY
1SS9.
LIGHTING.
Bovs Worked at
Aod*
NO
DOUBT NOW THAT
HAS BEEN FIXED.
ALL
it. He gives away more money in charity
than anybody I know of. in Wasliington.
Do you remember how he saved young
En o'from going to prison by going down
into his pocket and pulling out 8110,000,
and fairly shaming Eno’s rich father
into putting up a similar sum to save his
his boy? Phelps did that simply out of
the goodness of his heart, and not be
cause he had any selfish interest in young
Eno, ior he hadn't. ^
“I know of another case. When
Phelps was down in Texas some years
ago he met Billy Crain, now in congress.
(Sain was lamenting his bad luck in a
cattle ranch, and said he was likely to
lose everything he had. ‘How much
would save you?* asked Phelps. ‘Twenty
thousand dollars,’ said Crain. ‘I’ll let
yon have it,’ replied Phelps, as quick as
that, and ho gave him his check on-the
spot. Crain has since paid back every
dollar of tho loan. That’s the kind of a
man Phelps is. He’s a clear thinker, a
splendid talker, and a man with a heart
in liim. * **
“The little man sitting down there in
front is Frank Lawler. Surely you’ve
heard of liim. He comes from Chicago.
Used to keep a saloon there. likes to
talk about the poor workingman and
twist tho tail of the British lion. Some
people poko fun at Frank becauso he
murders the queen’s English and blar
neys so much, nut I think ne deserves a
good deal of credit for pulling himself
up the way he has without any early
advantages. He is the hardest working
man in congress. At 9 o’clock every
morning he begins Ids rounds of
the departments. He works througl
more pe.*isions and things like that than
Anybody, Get a case in Frank Lawler'
Thus the Washington gossiper rattles
on about one man after another, no mat
ter who. It is all tho same to liim. Go
over to the senate and the first man he
begins on te President Ingalls.
“Ingalls,” he says, ‘*is one of the
brainiest men in the senate. The only
Trouble with liim is he likes to say smart,
cutting things. He doesn’t mean half
he says, but he is so fond of slashing and
hitting he can’t let folks alone. I’ve
heard liim tear his best friends to pieces.
What he likes best is to have people talk
back to liim. He likes to have people
give liim as good as ho sends, and I think
if some men would take a whack at him
instead of going off and talking about
his fnalignity he’d respect them
more, and they’d understand and
like him better. Next to bis
wife, be is wonderfully fond of his
family, I think he likes to ridicule men
in a joking way. He used to board down
at the Strathmore Arms hotel, where
Logan lived. Congressman Thomas, of
Illinois, boarded there, too, and Ingalls
used to nag Thomas unmercifully. Fi
nally Thomas turned on his persecutor.
Ingalls is like Phelps used to be in his
fondness for red neckties, and one day
he put on one that was unusually large
ana red. When they sat down to dinner
that evening, Logan, Ingalls, Thomas
and others all atone table, Thomas began
in this way:
“ ‘Senator Logan,’ said he, ‘as I was
coming up Twelfth street this afternoon
I saw something-that shocked me very
much, something that frightened me till
the blood stood still in my veins.’
“ ‘What was it?’ inquired Logan.
“ ‘Why, I looked up toward this house
and the building seemed to be on fire.
It -was wrapped in flames. I started and
ran as fast as I could, thinking of what
a terrible thing it would be if my wife
and you and Mrs. Logan and ml the
others should not be able to get out, if
the lurid flames should envelop and
consume you, if we should liave a great
holocaust right here in our peaceful little
hotel The thought was so horrifying
that I ran at the top of my speed, crying
fire and rousing the people along the
way. The shock to my nervds was so
great that I am still trembling.’
“ ‘But what was it,’ inquired Logan,
‘that gave you such a nightmare as that?*
“ ‘As 1 came closer to the house,’
Thomas replied, ‘I saw what it was.
Senator Ingalls was standing on Hie
front steps, where the rays of the setting
sun caught him, and he had that neck-
tio on.’
For once in his life Ingalls was
knocked out While Logan and the
others laughed the senator from Kansas
blushed as red as the offending ntektie,
bnt he could make no reply. He didn’t
get mad, though, and when Mrs. Ingalls
met Mrs. Thomas at luncheon next day,
she said, ‘Do you know, Mrs. Thomas,
James is very fond of your husband? 5
Ingalls and Thomas arc now the best of
friends, for the president of the senate
likes a man who sasses back, but ho has
never since that day worn a red necktie.
Communications Between Augusta and In
dianapolis—Gillespie Would Ilave Been
Humiliated—Anxious for Allison—Has
tho Latter Accepted';—Friends Claim tlia
lie has not.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.-Blaine
has, been offered and has accepted the
secretaryship of state under Haniron’s
administration. When (loloncl Jolm A.
Bridgeland, formerly our consul to
Havre, arrived here a couple of weeks
ago, he brought a message from the presi
dent-elect to Mr. Blaine. It was a verlml
mes age. It set fJrth that wh.lu Mr.
Ha; rison wa? anxious to secure the ser
vices of Mr. Blaine for the head of the
state department, hs had been admon
ished so much by eminent leaders ot the
republican party against appuin ug him
that he felt ca led upon to hesitate. He
asked Mr. Blaine wh t he Umugnt aitou
it. Mr. Blaine sent back word that up
to a month or six weeks before that time
he had no an xiety to re enter put-lie life,
but that his personal character and orli-
cial r.cord had been attached by hi-; ea
emies in and out Of his party to'such an
e lent, and the pre s of the country had
due isst-d his n me to such an e tent, in
connection with the state d; partmeiit
under the new admini trat on. that he
would consider it a humiliation not to
be tendered that department. Within a
week Mr. Blaine has received in writing
a tender of the state department from
the president-ele :t, and two days alter
the i eceipt thereof he answered accept
ing the portfolio.
There is no doubt as to this. Harrison
was not anx oas to make Blaine his pre
mier, and the sen ling Bridgclan 1 here
with a left handed message plainly indi
cated that. But Blaine u as n t to be
nit o f with a left-banded message.
There are cnly two contingencies for
him—the pr miership of the administra
tion or war. Hai rison shrank from the
possibility of war, and invited Mr. Blaine
o the chief seat in his cable e .
Whanon Ba k u- had be*n s riously
considered for ‘he tr asury po tfolio
after Allison s positive d clination ot it,
up to h? lim: hat Blaine sent h s m s-
6age piac ically d mnnding ih ■ s a e d -
purlin nt. Ha risen cone iv d h idea
that it would not do o appoint two a t
ein men to the two p incipai oiiic.sot
his cqlin t, so when Blaine was a.suied
of tho stat? depa, tm nit ihe presid nt-
el ct again op n d n gotia ions wi h Mr.
Allison to try and uuKc that g ml raau
to accept he finano ministry. Alii on
kept on d dining A Utter, arid to every
mess ng -r that nar ison s nt oh in. At
last Allison was re piest d io go to In
dianapolis. It can oe stated |o-itiveiy
that h> left h re with the posi iv • i iten-
on of not acc p ing . he treat nry port-
‘Talking about big men, that round
headed, gray old fellow there isn’t so
very small He is Senator Sawyer, of
Wisconsin. The politicians say he lias
the state of Wisconsin in his pocket
Sawyer told me once he came to the
senate simply because he had nothing
else to do. " Ho was dying of ennui
The senatorial seat was a sort of play
thing for him. He 6ays now he has got
all the fun out of it there is to be had,
and that he doesn’t care to come back
any more. But lie has four years jet to
serve. Sawyer is very fond of his son,
who is out west, Texas, I think, on
cattle ranch. When tho young man got
ready to start out for himself the old
gentleman gave him $450,000 and told
liim to take good care of himself and his
money. ‘That isn’t the way I started
in life,’ added the senator; ‘in order to get
out into the world and get a start on my
own hook, I had to buy my time from the
master to whom I was apprenticed. It
cost me $100 of hard earned money to
get away from tho blacksmith shop and
into the lumber business.’ ”
If you have the time to spare your
Washington gossiper will go on like this
all the afternoon. He is a very enter
taining fellow. Walter Wellman. '
Difficult to Understand.
Custom—Here is something
chicken salad, waiter, that look
deal like feathers.
Waiter—I)at cahnt be poss’ble, sah.
Customer—Why not?
Waiter—Kase calves don* hab
feathers.—The Epoch. -
in my
a goo d
no
How Three Enthusiastic
It Thirty Wars
[Special Correspondence. 1 v
New York, Jan. 2 ..—The companies
controlling the myriwl of electric wires
in our streets are still battling against
having them put under ground, and a*
fast as one of their obstructive baruen
is knocked away set up another. 1 uen
latest professed objection is that tne
buried pipes of the fcjleaai Heating com
pany leak steam and keep the grounc.
about them so hot and damp that h sub
way system in it cannot be successfully
operated. It will not be at all surprising
if they- eventually claim like disastrous
influences from the contiguity of UI-
vinists and Baptists living near their
fines. Surely they will if by so doing
they can wdrfe delay in the bury mg ol
their wires. . ,,
Reverting to this matter recalls some
interesting facts that have been lost
sight of for a quarter of a century, but
that are worthy of resurrection and re
tention in remembrance. New York was
the first citv in the world that it was pro
posed shoufd be lighted by electricity,
and the proposition was made by three
brainy boys, then students in tho New
York college, neither of them 19 years
old at the time. -o o« Ihose boys, the
leading spirit in the scheme, was Ed
ward Hoffmevcr Boyer, now principal
of Grammar Sch*x>l No. 9; another holds
a prominent editorial position on the
must widely circulated newspaper in
New York, and tho third is, as he has
been for years, an official in ihe weigh
ers’department of the New .York cus
tomhouse. The three lads were enthu
siastic Btudents of electricity and
conducted most of their experiments
together. One day Boyer suggested to
his fellows the magnificent idea of de
vising a practicable plan for economically
lighting New York by electricity. The
incandescent light wait not yet dreamed
of, but they knew that the decomposition
of carbon by tho electric current would
produce an intense light—such as every
body knows now as the ‘‘arc light.”
They recognized before them the prob
lems how to provide the current eco
nomically and how to distribute the
light effectively^ and on those they
worked with purposeful patience for a
couple of; years. At length their scheme
was perfected. The power they pro
posedto employ was the,slow-but certain
and tremendous one of the rising and
falling of the tide. They planned to
have four enormous floats geared for the
generating of that power, one stationed
on the “Poor House Flats,” at the head
of Avenue D; a second at Corlear’s
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fo.io f. om Mr. Hamsoju. Wh ■ili r lie
w ak ned while in Indianapolis is still
an 0]K-n qm fltion. but Allison s fri nds
hire l eli ve that be has not yet accepted
the treasury port'olio and that he w ill
not. If! during his long stay with thj
pr sid nt-el ct, Alijsonccns nted totak ?
the treasury po tfoLo it is saf _• to say
tha: he did so on curtain terms.
Allis n does riot tx li ve that Han is, n
is tigeno sgh to > eatwo-te mpr fcideru.
He also t* U ves that S.iermau will not
be a p esidential candidate four v ears
from now. and th it cons < uentl. h* will
le the most < ligible can ti-.iate in th - le
putlicun conv ntion. He con id red
that he wo Id stand a 1 etter cliunc • of
maiatai.ung friendly nLtions with his
party and the people gen rally a-; a sena
tor than as s creiary of the treasury.
These were the considerations that
were continually in front of Ahi«on. as
J our’correspondent is reliably infer . ed
y a ck> e personal and poli ical friend
of his. A flit on wanted the president to
jive Clarkson, bis Iowa friend, a t-lace
n the Cibiuet. and it was at Alii-on's
suggestion ti at Mr. Harrison in tiled
Clarkson to visit him at his home .n in-
dianapoi.is. Clark on. from all accounts,
did not make a very favor, ble impres
sion on Harrisoi, an l he renewed his
importunities to Allison to assume the
responsibilities of the t easur-. Allison
kept on ’.esisting. and finally, when a
definite and po itive answer was deemed
essential, and the c& e was comi g to a
crisis, so to speak, he .was summoned to
Indianapolis, .f he yielded to the plead
inga of Ha rison liis friends here w ill be
surpr sed. They still believe that lie did
! iot yield, and ti.ey deck re hat if he did
t was under a promise from Harrison
that the 1 .t.er would not be a candidate
for i e-election, a d that Al i on could
use the i fluence of the treasury depar -
meat to advance his prospects for the
republican nomination in 18ai?,
Allison keeps very mum, and the
chances are that lie will not ay anything
until Harrison first speaks. Mrs. Blaine.
hjweve\ ia not tongue tied. She has no
hesitation in declaring that her husband
will be secretary of state scfcn after the
4th of March.
LEGISLATIVE OUTRAGE.
FUGACIOUS SCISSORS.
An Instrument Which Disappears in the
Most My.-terious Mann r.
The apparently fugacious habits of
scissors have been noticed since the ear
liest historic period, according to a writ
er in Collier’s Once a Week. They dis
appear with a celerity and secrecy whol
ly without parallel in the history of lost
objects. A woman is sewing and has a
pair of scissors in her lap.She uses them,
say twice, and each time drops them
again in her lap.The third time she wish
es to use them she cannot find them.
Though she searches her lap, her dress
her chair and the floor thoroughly, she
cannot find the -slightest trace of the
missing scissors, and thereafter they are
never again seen by mortal eyes. Or let
us say that a woman, in the very act of
using a pair of scissors, is called from
She places the scissors care-
FOR SALE
_ her work.
Hook; a third at the foot of Canal street fully in her work-basket, ^oes out lock-
in the North river; and the fourth at the * j n g the door 6f the room after her, and
foot of West Twenty-third street. By 1 returns iu ten or fifteen minutes to find
ingenious appliances they arranged for • her 6c j S80rs gone .
theconservation ofenergyMurmgthe Wh at is the more remarkable about
-LT . _.v having disappeared thiy ore never again
found. You may loses tack hammer,or
a comb, but sooner or later you find the
mis ing artice behind some piece of fur
niture, but a pair of scissors once lost
are lost foreyer. There is scarcely a case
on record of the final recovery of a pair
of scissors that have been missed
not been found within
the next five minutes.
That there is something peculiar in the
disappearance of scissors is virtually ad
mitted by women when they seek to
prevent the loss of scissors by means of
charms. For a piece of ribbon, which
many women attach to the handle of
their scissors “to prevent them from be
ing lost,” must act as a charm,or other
wise it would be valueless. How, in the
name of science and common sense, can
the mere fact that four inches of blue
ribbon are tied to the handle of a pnir of
scissor* keep them from being mislaid?
In point of fact ic does nothing of the
kind, and in spite of women’s faith in
the blue ribbon charm, it is abs lutely
ustless. If,however,we assume that this
origin cf this custom as the attaching of
bill of witch-naze! to the handle of a
pair of scissors, we can understand it.
The woman ef the middle age had a
■■■ Piece of properly ffi
and rents for§l25.00 Brice §1.300 m,,.
b vance in 12 months at 8 percent inor.:
3 Room house in East Athens, in cud
and well lqpated a h bonghtiwd
1 tore house on exteiisi n of hoad *3
I E st thens (an be bought chexn 1
OA Acre farm in 3 miles of thens «J
OU state of cultivation. 20 acres inV.'
original f rest; 2 branches routine tin'.
I place This place is well improved
room dwelling, barn, stables, arrlaoi
■poultry house and > ottou house; vltlS J
mile of a school and church and in 3oa
the-:. & M Railroad. Prioe §1200
cash balance in 12 months at 8 p r cent
-t Acres of land 8 iu a high state oil
IU tion, 2 in woods, some fine fruit trml
3 room dwelling on the place and within tl
of Athens for $300. . II
Aces of splendid land, within 2d
c.\J 1 the post office of Athens, on tl
leading out to Wat insville. It lias ac.
dwelling, stables and other houses used!
farm. Itnasalso2tenant houses lSOacnH
land in a high state of cultivation the l
in old field pines and original forests,
has also a fine orchard on it. ■
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fomilty at all times. Then, for the
utilization of the light, they proposed to
erect four towers, each 250 or 800 feet
high, constrticted of skeleton iron work
like the tower now standing at ilullett’s
Point. One was to be placed in Tomp
kins square: a second, in or near Mad
ison square; a third, in St. John’s park, QI
and the fourth somewhere near the city ) . .
halt The angles of radiation of each J a
light were carefully calculates l, and the
heights of the several towers regulated
accordingly, so as to give tho widest pos
sible diffusion to tho lights, the practical
effectiveness of which was to bo still
further enhanced by a system of super
imposed reflectors.
This plan was a bold one, and the boys
had worked it out, in all its details, with
tho thoughtful care of able engineers,
and,so good was it that its principal fea
tures .are now practically employed in
tho lighting of an English city. The in
auguration of the plant would have been
expensive, each tower, it was computed,
costing about $180,000. but the projectors
demonstrated that the subsequent cost of
operation would not exceed $50,000 pel-
annum Tor the entire service.
The proposition, accompanied by an
admirable set of illustrative drawings,
ample explanatory matter and closely
detailed calculation of cost, was pre
sented to the board of aldermen in 1859.
The livery stable keepers, gin sellera and
ward he'elers in that august liody re
ceived the communication with shouts
of laughter. The idea of fighting a city
by electricity seemed intensely funny to
them. ' “F’wats electricity onyhow?”
asked one. “ Damfino," replied another.
They brayed at science, and laid the
communication on the table. Doubtless
there were flaws in the plan; it would be
strange if there were not, coming as it
did from three boys; but those boys
were far ahead, in scientific knowledge,
of the fellows who sat down upon them,
and even had they offered nothing more
than tho germ of such a splendid idea,
that germ was worthy of much more re-
? >ectful consideration than it received.
he fact deserves to go into history that
municipal lighting was first proposed for
the citv of New York, and with it the
other fact that it was proposed by repre
sentative American boys, whose being
ahead of their fellow citizens was not so
very strange after all, 6ince they were
ahead of all the rest of the world.
James EL Connelly.
vague belief that the, disappearance of j e tter or in person it would take
scissors was due to the witches, and * ■ * ^
therefore called in the use of witch-
hazel. The rubdern woman, ignorant of
the peculiar efficacy of witch-hazel,
farcies that anything tied to a pair of
scissors will keep them from being lost,
and she prefeis ribbon to witch-hazel
because it is prettier and more conven-
* nt.
A Contemptible I’ioco of Libel Law Passed
, Iu New Mexico.
Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 31.—Tlie most
pot rious libel bill that has ever been in
troduced in any legi lature, has passed
both houses of the ass embly.
The governor is hard at w ork prepar
ing a veto, which will be transmitted to
tha council to mor. ow. It will accom
plish i.othing, however, as it will be
K 3sed over, his head, as others have
en.
Mr. Oatron champions the measure,
aud as he is the most inlpopulat man in
Newie.ico with the p ess, at who e
hands he has been frequently roasted, it
Is pres lined that the bill is to protect
himself.
It makes it a lible for a person to read
aloud from a newspaper anything de
rogatory to the goed or bad name of an
other, and punishable by a heavy fine
and imprisonment.
This is o .ly one of the many outra
geous provisions defined in this act. It
is the principal topic in thiB state at
present, and meets with generation- 1
demnation.
Dr. L. M. SchaTer, who was sent to
the state penitentiary of South Carolina,
after CQnviction as the principal party to
the “corpse trust,” died in prison. The
plan of operations of this “trust” was to
enroll fiotitious names for life insurance
afterwards to collect the policies on
5<$ticus deaths and interments.
- om Silver.
A great deal of fossil history Is
sealed up in genuine old silver. Here,
is an example of it, dating back to the
first third of the Eighteenth century,
guaranteed by the only test which in
disputably proves the quality and date
of sterling silver, the English “hall
mark.” Tnis is a two handled “lov
ing cup,” which at feasts was grasped
by its two handles and was so passed,
literally, from hand to hand and
mouth to mouth around tho circle of
the “goodlie companie.” This cup is
of the year 1727. Here is a tankard
dating 1733, another One old English
piece. In marked contrast {o the
plainness of tho rest, here is a high!
ornamented tankard—a modern worl
in reproduction. Its body is a solid
piece of ivory covered with intricate
carvings of war scenes- tbe top and
base are silver, and too cover is
crowned with an ivory warrior.—
New York Times.
Queensland's Rich Mine.
The Mount Morgan gold mine of
Queensland has proved to be the rich
est mine in the world. It is situated on
the range of a sheep ranch. It is an
iron stone hill in tne midst of green
grass. A public . road runs over the
mountain, aud it was while repairing;
it that the gold was discovered. 1 .
was purchased for $3,200, just $5 an
acre, and the shares are now worth
$75,000,000. It is supposed to be 1
old geyser impregnated with gold.
The metal is extracted by the chlori
nation process and costs but $7.50 a
ton.—Brooklyn Eagle.
street for $650.
TO
RENT.
6 ROOM HOUSE AND L'BGE
Dougherty strefet.
4 Ho-se farm, In Smiles o r Athens, good I
iu high state of cultivation, a goodrinl
barn ana several tenant > ouses, cau bt
venr cheap for 1889.
A-iso a 6 horse farm with some spleniMi
bottom land, in 2 mi es of Athens.
the hams and tenant houses sufficient ton
farm this size, for 1889
Q ROOM HOUSE, garden, well and*
iJ house, close to business, in a good 0
hood and nicely located • n Hancock an
ROOM HOUSE on Hulls reet.
J. T ‘NDERSOK Ill
FIRE IN MADISON COUNTY j
News reached the city yesteidi
the burning of the Henry Williford j
idence between Athens and Daniil
in Madison county. The prcpertjl
longed to the widow Williford, and f
valued at $3,000.
The cause of the fire is • suppo
have been the work of an incenH
There was no insurance.
Will be found an excellent
for sick headache. Carter’s Littb
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Try them.
President-elect Harrisou to a
tor on Friday: “My dehr eir,
were to give an office to every
who has applied for it already |
600 tons guano, for sale by MtGinty
& Huunicutt. , Call and see them belore
buying. 2-9-w4l
The directors of the coming Atlanta
Exposition have jent a committee to
Indianapolis to invite the President
elect to attend the Exposition. The
city of Atlanta has also urged him
to accept the invitation.
six years to sigu the commission;!
■ — J
Six moles for sale. Coll andseelH
at McGinty & Munnicutt. 2-9i
The contracts for fireworks, to |
used at Washington on the nigt
the inauguration day, 1
awarded. The cost will be §U:j
Not a single baby has been
in Liberty, Ky., for thirteen J
Liberty has a population of 700.
S100 Reward. $100.
The readers of the Banner-Watch
man will be pleased to learn that there
>s at least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages,and
that is Catarrh. Hall’s (Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitu
tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is
taken internally,acting direetly upon the
blood and mucus surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength,
by building up the constitution and as
sisting nature -in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that in fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonial?:.
Address, F. J. CHENFY & Co..
Sold by Druggists,75c. Toledo, 0.
Cotton Seed Meal for sale in
and large quantities, at McGinty
nicuit’s. ' 2-M
Dr. C. J. Ivenworthy, city health
officer of Jacksonville, has just made
public his report for the month of
January. It notes only twenty-two
deaths from sixteen different causes,
and not one of them from fever of anv
type. v
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Dr. II. H. Tucker is meeting with
marked success in his management
of the Christian Index. The paper is
ably edited and full of interesting
matter. Dr. Tucker is one of the
most original and forcible writers *
the South.
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