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ATHENS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1819.
AI BI'-E poem.
fm clad to say
[ r ea<l the B.-W. yesterday,
L paper, which, by my advice,
^worth, at least, three times the price)
Ud see you “shook us up and aowu”-
jlne qua non for a live tpw it)—
L find I have dnwn-Ol! ray eyes I
La fide, area’ prize !-
Lyond a hope, or e’en a dream,
by, a firs' class sewing machine!
he dol'ar sub’d as I’m a sinner,
f„w I’m dubbed a famous winner
if fony- flve dollars you say?
[ so, send ’em without delay,
f not, you’ve read of, in all lands,
folks with elephants on their hands?
i then, 1 beg you won’t forget
ifUe one I’ve drawn—for you can bet
r„ur last dollar no man can name -
’ single thing that’s known to fame,
Pith more devilment In’t, I ween,
than a first-class sewing machine
riiat does a lawyer know of spools?
leinraers, fellers, tuckers and tools
Pertaining to this domestic art?
Ie can patch or mend his broken heart,
*ut C an fc« patch, or mend his breeches?
Vhich does he know of all the stitches?
csides, my be t girl’s in a rage:
ae says the house Is hut a cage;
Vliat with tr adle, bobbin and noise,
otblng so qui ckly love destroys,
knd breaks a girl down in the back,
fakes her cross and crabbed, alack j
polling her oeauty and grace of mien,
Is a first-class sewing machine.
you take the hint, my friend? as I
Took your paper? All will you buy
Jy fine machine? indeed, if so,
end down, at once, the quid pro quo.
int if you don’t, smce 1 am wise,
And mean to try for another prize.
We’ll say for twenty years, or more,
Put In tills AD; and, may be, o’er
Wy life may pa-3 another dream,
Then I might keep niy sewing machine.
PERCY H. ADAMS.
fASHixoTox, Ga., Jan 28, 1889.
PERSONS AND THINGS.
THE ATHENS AND KNOXVILLE,
Negotiations Completed and the Moner
Forthcoming—The Road a Certainty;
Ju ige Bailey Thomas is going to build
his road from Tallulah Falls to Knox
ville, by the assistance of subscriptions
along the route and Northern capitalists.
I he latter have agreed to deposit a large
sum in New York 90 days from January
22. If the capitalists, with whom Judge
Thomas is now in negotiation, fail to
comply with their agreement, he has
other parties v ho have promised to lend
him the requisite money on the 91st day.
So the matter is now in shape and the
road a certainty, within a reasonable
lime. He won’t be able to span Tallu
lah chasm in a day or push bis way
through the mountains by a stroke, but
Judgo Thomas will get there just the
same. Put that down.
■ Besides being of inestimable value to
Athens, the road will develop a rich sec
tion in North Carolina and Tennessee, a
section abounding in minerals and splen
didly adopted for pasturage for cattle.
Those living along the line of road will
and should contribute liberally, as it will
immensely enhance the value of their
property.
OUR NEIGHBORS.
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.
Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia, and
too hearty eating, is relieved at once by
taking one of Carter’s Little Liver Pills
immediately after dinner. Don't forget
this.
DO RIGHT.
It seems strange sometimes that peo
ple del.berately yield to temptation todb
wrong when there are really greater in
ducements to do right. Don’t be tempt
ed to use any other spectacles than the
Diamond. Sold by Skiff, the Jeweler.
Do right.
CAL GASSIP PUT UP INTO SHALL
PACKAGES.
At
1 U
glRC
?!
Athens only claims one Mulberry
llers at [.resent, lie has several enter-
"kcs with millii ns in them.
he old soldiers aro making applies
ns for their pensions. Georgia is do.
a great deal for her disabled soldiers-
Miss Nittie Wiight.a beautiful young
ly fr<m Gainesville, who ha.s bcenvis-
njr Mrs. II, IJ. Stanley, at the Com
‘reiki, relumed home yesterday.
The Texas flea is a new commodity
lely in potted by the Texas pcny.They
!1 be returned to Texas on the emi-
an's. 'Jits is the way to get even with
xas aid (be flee.
Judge Asa M. Jackson, we are sorry
announce, is quite ill »t his home tn
ond strcit. He was delirious yester-
y and Lis friends and relatives are
:ty tnusy about his condition.
^Capt. J. E. Hitch has telegraphed for
is daughter Mrs. Graves, who is in
empire, whore she went to see her
usband. Mr. Graves has again lost
s mind a:.d will be sent to the asylum.
T here is no one article in the line of
edicines that gives so large a return for
r the money as a good porous strength-
ling j laster, such as Carter’s Smart
ced tnd B« lladonnu Backache Plasters.
Col. Merritt, the leading lawyer
e Sheeler murder case, has made
putation in his management of the
se. Col. Merritt will yet come to the
ont as a ciiminal lawyer, but it maybe
long time off.
A cordial invitation from the Farmers’
lob of Clarke county, was yesterday
xtended to the members of the Farm
rs’ Alliance of Northeast Georgia then
i convection at the court, to attend the
leeiin;'of the club to be held at the
iayor’s ball in this city March 2d, at
H’Oa. m. The invitation was extend-
i through Hon. Geo. P. Murrell.
CONSUMPION CURED.
An old physician,retired from practice,
aving had placed in his hands by an
ast India missionary,the formula of _
mple vegetable remedy for the speedy
i d permanent cure of Consumption
rouchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and fill
iroat and Lung Affections, also a pos
tve and radical cure lor Nervous
lelility and all Nervous Complaints,
Her having tested its wonderful c-ura-
'if l ,ov y trs in thousands of cases, has
L ‘i. u .k’ s duty to make it known to his
uffenng fellows. Actuated by this
otive and a desire to relievo human
JACK’S ARRIVAL.
He Places His Announcement on the Door
At P lice Headquarters.
“Jack is her at last.”
The speaker was a policeman, as he
met a reporter on bis Dur ing round yes
terday.
“How do you know it,” was the re
ply.
“If you don’t believe me, “continued
the cop, go over to po.ice headquarters
and look on the door.”
The reporter did as he was; told,, and
sure enough, tacued on the door was , a
sheet of paper with a dagger drawn on
it, and shaded with red ink. The paper
was marked Bulletin 13, and read as fol'
lows:
Athens, Ga., Feb. 15, 3 p. m.
Chief of Police:
“I am now in your city ready for
work. Violators of the law beware.”
(Signed) “Jack the Ripper.”
Chief Oliver says he has no idea . who
put the notice there. A policeman on
the night force said that this morning
about 5 o’colck, some one turned the
shutters near the door and peeped .in
but seeing a Are burning in the office
they went away. This is Jack’s official
announcement of bis arrival in the
city.
My little son, three years of age, was
terribly afflicted with scrofula. His head
was entirely covered with scrofulous sor
es, and his body showed many marks of
the disease. A few bottles of Ayer's Sar
8apat ilia cured him.”—W. J. Beckett,
Hymera, lnd.
REGIMENT OF VETERANS.
tillering, I will send free of charge, to
ft t^DCtrn iA * /V
who desire it, this recipe, in Greman.
ren h rr English, with full directions
r J r ^r ar ’ ,l g and using. Sent by mail
na addressing with sta^p, naming this
mper. W. A. Nojse, 149 Power’s Black,
Chester, N. Y- 12-4-eowly
Four Hundred and Thirty Pensioners in
Georgia.
Atlanta, Feb. 14.— Georgia’s grati
tude, which is greater than her means
of expressing it, is divided among about
800 veterans who were disabled by fed
eral shot.
Up to 3 o’clock today 430 have re
ceivred their pensions. These pensions
average about $75.
The veterans are tenacious of life
One of them said today that he had nev
er seen a one-legged man dead. The pro
verbial white mule has died and has
been seen in undignified death, long
since, but the one-legged veteran lives
on, or else, like the phoenix, never per
mits the cold world to gaze on his life
less face. Within the last three years
only a half dozen have answered the
final roll call.
The pension, though a small one,keeps
many a veteran in the thin ranks who
had else long since have been numbered
with “the unreturning brave.”
JUG TAVERN. *
Jug Tavern, Feb. 11.—One of Mr. F.
L# Pirns’ fine mules had its foot caught
in a crack of the stable yesterday, and
iu the effort to rise the leg was broken.
Mr. Z. W. Betts, of Athens, made a
business trip here today.
Messrs. Smith & Carithers, A. J. Har-
digree and others were purchasers of
land at the sale of lots belonging to the
estate of Mr. J. B. Betts.
Jug Tavern, Feb. 16.—The band en
tertainment last night was well attended
despite the threatening weather. •The
music and songs were entirely new and
added much to the evening’s programme.
The popular drama “Among the Breaker”
was rendered better than ever, showing
marked improvement since it was played
here last summer. The whole pro
gram will be repeated Monday night.
18th inst. by special request.
JEFFERSON,
Jefferson, Feb. 11.—That same pluck
and energy that has always been shown
by Bichard Russell characterizes him in
bis new office, and he will be a solicitor
that all will appreciate. It gives your
correspondent much pleasure to make
public the compliments psid to' our mu
tual ftiend, Geo. C. Thomas, of Athens.
His speech on Saturday in the Hawks
case has been complimented on all sides,
and the same reputation he has gained
in ciiminal business is awarded to him
on the civil side of the court. He is
bound to be one of the leading lawyers
from Athens at our court.
Jefferson, Feb. 12. —- Three cheers
and a tiger for the choice of an editor for
the University Reporter. No better
selection could have been made than J.
C. Turner, of Jefferson. Mr. Turner
was born in Athens in the year 1865,
»nd..8hortly thereafter moved to Jeffer
son. He received bis education at the
Martin Institute, then read law in the
office of Col. Siltnan, and is now taking
course in the law department at Ath
ens. He will alike reflect honor on bis
home and the University.
Court is progressing very well Our
new Solicitor-General is doing good
work.
The c« ncert will take place tomorrow
night. A good crowd from Athens is
xpected.
Jefferson, Feb. 16.—Considerable
interest was felt by all who had taken a
chance at the breech-loading shotgun of
fered by editor Ross, of the Herald, and
the pumpkin seed were counted on yes
terday. The pumpkin had 722 • seed,
and F. M. Marlow guessed 718 and took
the prize.
Court adjourned last night. It is said
the grand jury will recommend eight
week’s court instead of six, so as to keep
up with the docket.
Col. R. L. J. Smith, and lady, of Dan-
ielsville, have been in attendance during
court.
CRAWFORD.
Crawford, Feb. 11.—Mr. P. A. Wat
kins, an old and highly respected citi
zen of our county, died rather suddenly
this morning at 3 o’clock.
The new Baptist church will be
finished this week. The finishing
touches are being put on, and it will be
one of the nicest churches in Northeast
Georgia.
Farmers are beginning to haul guano,
though we don’t think they will use as
much as they did last year.
KAYSVILLE.
May8villf, Feb. 16.—Miss Nora
Rylee, daughter of Mr. Win. Rvlee,
Banks county, died on-last Wednesday
night.
Mr. Edgar Sheeler is here to-day cir
culating among his friends, who are con
gratulating him ‘over his recent ac
quittal.
Geo. W. Brown, arid J. M. Merritt, re
turned from Jefferson yesterday.
Hon. Pope Barrow passed up the
Northeastern this morning.
W. W. Jordan, Esq., of Harnjony
Grove, paid us a visit to-day.
SHEELER CLEARED.
Jlfferson, Feb. 16.—The.jury in the
Heeler murder case brought in a ter-.
lj c - r» ot guilty, after being out about
.ce hours. This case has created
[life a sensation all over the State. The
nurdered man was beating his wife, and
1C j |f s,imcn y showed that her husband
tad her down and, with a "draw knife,
wore he would kill her, when the son
lot his gun and killed his father. The
Ase has been called several teims of the
ourt and was continued. There was
, od counsel on each side, and all made
engthy and able speeches.
"Jl B '?k.fc. eadaclie is misery, what are
Uw RUb if they will
ly , coreit? Pe °P le who have used
raTiSn* ? &IlkIy of their worth. They
re tmall and easy to take.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a purely veget
able preparation, being free from injur-
ioua ingredients. It is peculiar in its
curative power.
A GOOD PICTURE.
Mr. D. N. Mathews drew a splendid
picture of the monopolist and farmer,and
presented it to the Alliance meeting on
Thursday.. The picture represents
farmer with a sack of guano on his back
and the monopolist holding his nose to
the grindstone, and as he turns the gold
drops out into the coffer of the monopo
list. It is well gotten up.
Advice to Mothers.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children teeth
ing. It soothes/the child, softens the
gums, allays all pain, cures jvind colic
and is the best remedy for diarrhoea.
wenty-flYe *ientp * bottle.
The Preacher Captures One of the Sisters
—An Irate Husband—SticksUsed—
A Broken Head—Warrants
and Counter Warrants.
“Fight in the church,” said a police
man to a B.-W. reporter.
“Show me the fighters so that I may
pencil out a sensation.”
“See that six-foot-four negro with
blood trickling down his face? He is
one of the participants in the fight, and
can give you all the news.”
The reporter at once sidled up to Jack
Eads and found that he was willing to
give to the world his troubles in tLe
church where Rev. Lake Brcwa was the
pastor.
Said Jack as the reporter informed him
of his object in seeking an interview:
“I am a deacon in Lake Brown’s
church in East Athens, and Wednesday
night 1 wanted to make* statement to
the church in regard to how Brer Lake
Brown had treated me. This statement
the Rev. Brown did not care to hear, as
it implicated him in all of my troubles.
I was at once seized by several of h ! s
followers and thrown out of tie church,
and while his followers held me R< v.
Lake Brown struck me over the hi ad
with a stick, Jack pulling off his hat and
showing a fearful gash. The church is
against me, but I am bound ‘to tell all
about it. Lake Brown has won the af
fections of my wife and taken her away
from me, although she is the mother of
eleven children, she found favor in
Lake’s brown’s eyes, and while I was off
laboring bard to make a support for her
and the children he came like a thief in
the dark and with prayers and an oily
tongue took from me the one that I had
sworn to love, honor and protect. After
I found out how things were going at
home, I left my wife and will never live
with her again. Lake Brown is the au
thor of my unhappiness, and when I at
tempted to tell the church that they
were harboring & wolf in sheep’s .cloth
ing, I was beat nearly to death.”
There will be several warrants sworn
out on both sides, and we may expect to
have rich developments. Lawyers have
been employed on both sides.
WILL BE A FAILURE.
What Col. Harvey Thinks ol
the Coming Administration.
GEN. HARRISON A NARROW
SECTION ALIST. HI
ATHENS STOCK MARKET.
$8.00
7.50
5.62
4 25
4.00
4.00
3.75
3.50
3.25
3.00
Corrected daily by W. A. Jester.
Athens, Ga., Feb. 14.1889.
Markot—Brisk.
Good middling riiules 1
“ horsts
Ordinary mules
Low Middling mules
Standard mules
M ules with no teeth
“ one eye
“ no eyes.
Stump suckers, no demand.
Mules with ribs in view
Mules with no tails
Texas ponies dull and slow sale.
reharks.
The demand for three dollar mules has
been brisk during the past three days,
but owing to a rush of a large number,
the market has slightly declined, and up
to a late hour yesterday the buyers and
sellers were apart.
Bernstein came on the market about
dinner time and tried to bull the market
with stump suckers, but finding it could
not be bulled he retired in disgust.
There is a good demand for $3.25 mules
but the sellers think that by giving
of | few more feeds they may go higher.
The tone of the market is brisk, with
an upward tendency, and it is more than
likely that mules with one eye will bring
higher prices during the day.
ATHENS COTTON MARKET.
Office of Banner-Watchman.
Feb. 16, 1889.
Athens, Ga,
M arket- -Steady.
Strict Good Middling
10H-
Middling.
10—
Strict Low Middling,
9%-
Low Middling,
9%-9K
Strict Good Ordinary
9M-9M
Good Ordinary
8%—y
Stains
8^-9
HAIR PULLING AT
FARMINGTON.
Two old men over sixty years old,had
a regular fist-and-skull fight at Far
mington a few days ago. There was con
siderable scratching and biting. The
citizens of Farmington are now anxious
ly awaiting the pistols and coffee.
Gen Alger is playing a sharp game
to get into President Harrison’s Cabinet.
He recently said that Gen. Harrison had
determined to offer a portfolio to a Con
federate brigadier, as he was sure that
the solid South could never be broken
until an Ex-Confederate was in the Cab
inet. Alger has had this remark repeat
ed in the Grand Army of the Republic
circles and the result is that a small cy
clone is forming over the Harrison resi
deuce in Indianapolis,
that this commotion will result in a for
mal demand for a G. A. R. man to bo hon
ored with a portfolio. He is sure that
he fills the bill.
The new House of Commons in Japan
is to be composed of 390 members, and
the right of sufferage is to be exercised
by all men 25 years old who pay annual
tax of$25.These requirements are more
exacting than those heretofore fixed for
electors who are entitled to vote for
members of the city and perfectual assem
blies that determine the local tax rates.
In the case of those electors the voting
age has been 20 years and the land tax
limit about $5. There were nearly
1,700,000 such voters in 1884. By the
terms of the new Constitution there will
also be established a House of
Peers under conditions that will permit
it to be controlled by the Mikado, for
v bile some members are to be elected,
those remaining, and probably a majori
ty, are either to bo nominated by the
Mikado or to obtain seats by inheritance,
It could not have been expected that
the present ruler and his immediate sup
porters would turn over the whole thing
to the people at one stroke. The change
will be sufficiently abrupt under the con
ditions marked o.ut, and it is probable
that the privileges conferred will be all
that the people are prepared to use in
telligently. But frem every point of
view it is a very remarkable undertak
ing, and the experience of Japan under
the operation of this Constitution will
be studied with deep interest by all civi
lized nations.
Whit* in Many Ways Adroit and Canning
he Cannot Slake Friends—The Colouel
Foresees Storms and Trouble Be*
foie Long—Allison a Sian of Indecison
and for this Reason Declined.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 15.—Colonel
James E. Harvey was James Buchanan’s
•minister to Portugal. Since the day
when the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary, he has been a political
student. A vigorous writer of keen ob
servation, his views are of value upon
the lines which divide party fo lowings
in this land. Your corr»[ on !ent met
Mr. Harvey yesterday, and asked him
what he thought would be the outcome
of the Harrison administrafon.
“It will bee failure,** he said. “In
deed, it is a failure now, before it is
launched. Since his election, Mr. Har
rison seems to have been in ti e hands of
a mob of very bad advisers. His mistake
in the formation of' his cabinet has been
his desire to select according to geo
graphical lines. The fact is the people
of this country don’t care where a cabi
net minister may be selected, so long as
he is of ability and probity. My judg
ment is now that Harrison is floundering
badly as to a secretary of the treasury,
Determined he seems to go west for his
candidate, and yet every one mentioned
for the office from that section has rela
tions with Wall street, one way or the
other. The administration of the affairs
of the treasury departm.nt do not in
volve the highest order of ability. Hon
esty and good sense enter, of course, but
the policy is fixed. It is that of protec
tion jmd tho purchase of bonds. Were
I president, I would much prefer to have
at the head of it one who knew the ins
and outs of Wall street, for ha would
protect the treasury, raher than one
who did not, to be open to its rapacity,
The position of power of patronage and
plunder is not the treasury, but the inte
rior department.”
“What,” he was asked, “in your judg
ment, operated upon Senator Allison to
decline the treasury?" j
“Allison,” he said, “L -j. man of inda*-
cison. He coquetted w ith Gartield. % He
accepted a place in his cabinet one night
and ihen declined n the morning, giv
ing as an excuse that h;B wife was not
qeual to its social exactions. That was
a good reason for the declination the
night he accepted, but not subsequently.
He seems to have trilled with Harrison.
How easy he could have said, when he
first visited Harrison in behalf of Clark
son, that under no consideration would
he go into the cabinet.
This would l a e
dismissed him from Harrison’s "mind.
Instead, he left it an open question.
When he again visited Harrison recently
so 6tire we.e the Iowa leaders of his ac
ceptance that they at once proceed ed to
plan for his senatorial tea’. under the
firm convicticn of an impending vacani
cv. He came back from Indianapolis to
Washington with the problem still open.
Just as Henderson, Clarkson and Lara-
bte had arranged for the succession Mr.
Allison declines.”
“And what prompted him so to act ?’
“Of course, I do not know,” was the
answer. “I imagine, though, that fcher-
man and Edmunds prevailed upon his
judgment. Neither Edmunds nor Sher
man feels under obligations to the presi
dent-elect because he has seen St to select
Blaine as the premier. Of course, they
will not antagonize the new administra
tion openly or explosively, but they will
secretly stab it.”
“Wnat is your estimate of Gen. Har
rison?” asked your correspondent.
“I take him,” sail he, “tobean adroit,
man. His speeches in the cam-
’ ” ‘ l think him,
Jris sect orial
rvligiousscruples, andre
reason I hate some apreehensions for
the south I cannot see, though, how he
is to be popular. I discussed him with a
senator a day or two ago who served
contemporaneously with him. Why, he
said, after six years he left the body
witnbut any ^special friends, and not
evev wi.h the good-will of a single page
of the senate. True. Henry G. Davis
had relations quite clo~e with him, but
these were entirely personal.”
“Do you apprehend the democracy
will regain power';”
“It depends,” was tho answer. “If
the members of the south are not too
anxious to establish relations with the
new administration I can see no reason
why the democrats should not regain
control of the next house of representa
tives. I think Harrison is stiff-necked,
self opinionated, and callous to advice.
For this reason I foresee for him storms
and trouble.
paign developed that., 1
though, a narrow man in,
When you are sick you don’t want the
oretical or even logical demonstration to
convince you as to the Worth of a rem
edy you should use. Experimental
knowledge is the true criterion. Read
the experience of others who have used
B. B. B., (Botanic Blood Balm). Their
plain statements carry more force than
Alger expects | all the logic and theories possible. (8)
The Clayton Hou;e has arranged a
neat and comfortable office for the con
venience uf its guests.
Bask for Secretary of War.
Washington, D. e., Feb. 15.—Jere
miah M. husk, of Wisconsin, has been
tendered the portfolio of secretary of
war. This information comes from a
source in such close personal relation to
him that it scarcely admits of a doubt
that the proffer has been made.
Warner Miller for Agriculture. _
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 15.—The Amer
ican’s Washington special states posi
tively that Hon. Warner Miller, of New
The merits of the Clayton House are
be ’Otning known. Increased patronage
attest this fact
. to Lend
On Best Terms and at Lowest
Bates.
We are prepared to lend Money la
sums to suit borrowers in ClarkeyOeorae,
Jackson and Franklin. Time, from 2to
5 years. Interest (7%) seven Fh» cert
dually. RUSSELL £ RURffiSy
Athens. 6a.
No. 11 Clayton Sfreet.
ther
(tn aritliers & Talmadge’s new building.}*
nOLEMlH & Dum
DEALEESIN
A good supply of well broke Maks
and Horses always on band. Call be
fore purchasing at the stables od
Thomas street.
HOLEMAN & DEADWYLEfr.
R. L. J. SMITH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AS LAW
DAN IELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Will practice 1*3 Jackson, Banks,
Franklin and adjacent counties, and also in tbe
Supreme and Federal courts of the s'
give special attention to collection* i
ipt ret
jlupri
WW
.nake prompl return*.
D ies! Piles! Itching Pile*.
Symptoms—Moisture; inteuse itcM-
stinging; most at night; worse by
Jl allowed to continue tumors form,
bleed and ulcerate, becoming
Swayne’s Ointment stops the itching:
bleeding, heals ulceration ami hi m'
moves the tumors. t X druggists,
50 cents, Dr. Swayue & Sou, PJ'
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