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Newspaper Page Text7 '■%, ~ u . p0B t, Pa., June 8 * 1889 » ^-morning last this city. Wri the experience of being ifh U feet of water, of having »*l„n.boom taken out with SSfrflop, °f Mng 40,000,000 ■"jSd lumber,mills carried away ■others wrecked,business and Indus- ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 11,1889. 1DE SPREAD HAVOC IACB BY floods STATES IN MANY Llve,L ° St property, but Heavy Damage to establishments wrecked, and number of lives lost. The flood was ;:;';. en feet higher than that of v ‘ . ... r-iiluv BURNING TRESTLE. Fsrlv on Friday news reached of t he tlood at Clearfield,but it was ore 2 o’clock Saturday morning , he swelling * '.ter began to become 7 ne „t, the river then showing a averaging two feet to the hour. Ilv and rapidly thereafter the rise in'iied. The rain up the country ^ terrific, and from Thursday noon, throughout the night and Friday and Friday nignt, the fell here with but little interrup tion the flood was at its highest I surface of water extended from Northern line of the city from Rural neon Locust street, entirely across itv to the mountain on the south Thi., ^eant that the water was f et deep on the floors of the build- n Market square, over four feet in the station of the Pennsylvania w d and at the Park Hotel, illy three-quarters of the city was urged. The loss was necessarily mous. Business houses throughout ity all lose heavily. Many of them over $20,000 each. The loss falls iestonthe lumbermen. A11 the are lost and a large share of the cut >er. The lossof life has been heavy, hildren of Charles Edwards,three Iren of a family named Shultz * and M of William Dietrich, a man ml Mit, hoi and an unknown riian, eri.'hed in the city. At Nippenos, iles up the river, 12 persons word ned, memlcrs of the families of gia and William Youngman, and young lady {.visitors. Two more were lost today. Abram Fiederiey lis son, aged 14 years, made, an at- t to cross .the river above the dam •oat,but were carried over thefalls drowned. News came this evening live men and a baby were drowned bker's cninp.nenr English centre in part of Lycoming County, great amount of distress, as f families lost every thing they had c way of provisions. Relief 10m- es have been organized and ' will work by tomorrow. ; citizens held a meeting today,and riptions were received ranging JltMMi down nearly $7000 being Groceries are about exhausted, •ling canned goods. There is a lit- iii the hands of the railroad uiies which is being put out.Kail- a»d telegraph communichtiou, "led >ince Friday night, is open- meeting was held this afternoon, i» the following was issued to nblie: 10 city of Williamsport has been tri' kcn by the most severe flood "own in tlie state of Pennsy Vania. 6iitiered great loss. Large rs of our citizens are wholly oul sutiering for the ticces- >f life. Those of our people able He giving what thcy.can, hut •dde to furnish the relief needed. I*l*cal to a generous public, in the of God, to help us. Let every- .7 H l ‘ l to the mayor of William- A Passenger Train on the Alabama South ern Takes a Leap—No Ono Hurt. Birmingham, Ala./T^une 7.—At 2 o’clock this iqorning passenger train No. 1, the south bound limited' express on the Alabama Great South railroad, met with a fearful accident, one and one-half miles north of Carthage, sixty miles south of this city. While running at the rate of forty miles an hour, the train suddenly rounded a curve. ,There are two seven ty foot trestles just around the curve. The first one of these was in a blaze, and burning rapidly. The flames w ere leaping high in the air, and the dry wood work of the Structure was being rapidly consumed. Engineer Dick Moore put on his air brakes, blew’ Ms whistle, and he and his fireman leaped for life. They escaped unhurt. The train dashed into the burn ing trestle, which crashed through the minute the heavy engine touched the already half burned structure. The ponderous locomotive No, T18 fell through to the bottom of the creek be- low. . 1 ..‘ V* f \ The mail ear, which was next to the engine, followed, and the baggage car piled on top of the mail car. The postal clerks} baggage master and express messenger are said to have es caped unhurt. There escape, as well as that of all the passengers was ntiracu Ions. The wreck toak fire, and the mail and baggage caw were totally destroyed, together with their contents* The engine was hurtled and damaged. The loss is $20,000. As yet the officials are not prepared to place any estimate as to the damage'. The two passenger cars and three sleepers that''composed the balanee of the train were stepped before they ran into the burning bridge and escaped. There were nearly one hundred pas sengers on board, all of whom escaped unhurt, The train had on two extra sleepers, ami was running on time.' The con ductor in charge was Captain llaui mond. Twenty, feet of the trestle work was entirely destroyed. A relief train lefi here at 4 o’clock this morning, having on board Snpt.. Griggs, Koadmaster Nolan, Train Master,, llennington, Bridge Foreman Ransom and a number of hands, to-night with a quantity of bridge material. r I retire from the proprietorship of the Banner-Watchman with this issue. I am profoundly grateful to the, people of Athens and Northeast Georgia, for their liberal support during my "career ! among them. I have uniformly re ceived beyond my deserts, and shall ever cherish, with fondest recollection, the noble people among whom my lot has been cast. I earnestly bespeak the same liberal patronage to my successor, who is too well known to need a word of eulogy or introduction. To one and all of my friends anil readers I hid an affection ate adieu. Most gratefully, Mabk Cooper Pope. A Are you blUous and dyspeptic? Does your 11 er sluggish seein? MBk Is yot-r slumber often breken, 'It a hideous, nightmare dream?- Friend, be wise: The Pleasant Pellets, M»de by < r PI. rce procure. And they’ll bring you act tl e sunshine, Of good kea tli, you may be sure. For me to make any formal announce ment to the readers' of the Banner- Watchman, would be like a man intro ducing himself to his own family. I intend to do everything in my power, to make this.paper a credit to our pro gressive city, arid in the future, as in the past its watchword will be: . ‘‘Ath ens, Georgia, Democracy.” Respectfully, T. L. Gannt. FORTY ACRES AND A MULE. NO REPE !L, The Japanese Doll Festival. ‘"I" dapanps^ girls assert the on one day in the year, the 3d thml mouth. This is the doll 1 "ml the girl’s birthday. A child year old when it is born, and, Has occur even on the last day «st month of the old year, the would be two years old on the 1st • ""nary, l he failure to recognize > individuality by ignoring his 1,IUst have seemed a calamity 0 , If. * , ;'P ane se > whose whole •!? in life is conducted with ref t0 ^ ,e sujipression of all per- l 1!i ord, ‘r to be fitted for Mir- t it* final state of self obliteration. festival seems to he i toward an ap- reeogmzing peikonality, uw n originated long ago’ •m old dainno, at the birth of a r * ma de a feast for his friends, resented the child with dolls and imtiire in lacquer and bronze*. .; t,n,s inaugurated has been Mlie pretty girls that have been down for generations are on | orought out and the girls in t "ttnc entertain the dolls with 8w eetmeats. The shops are 1 gorgeously dressed dolls dnr- "i reason.—New York Telegram Justifiable Homicide. An inquest was held over the body of Dr.J.O. Owens, who was shot and killed Saturday near Pendleton, S. C-, by his step-son, William,Owens. Dur ing the inquest it was clearly shown that young Owensaeted in self-defense, the dead man still holding the open knife in his hand, with which lie made the immlerous assault. A verdict of justifiable homicide was rendered by the jury. It appears that Dr. Owens had been to Central, and while there became in toxicated. On his return home he be gan ahusingliis wife, calling her the vilest of names, and struck lier several blows. His step-son, who was standing by, remonstrated with him', and kegged him “riot to strike liis mother nriy more,” but his interference seemed to infuriate lihn all the more, and he struck the hoy in the face, and rushed at him with his knife. Young Owens told him to “stand back or he would kill him.” The enraged man paid no heed tp this timely warning, but rushed on to his death, and as he came up young Owens shot him through the heart, killing him almost instantly. The deceased is between forty-live and fifty years of age and came to .Pendle ton from Georgia. J. O. Owens was raised in Bushville district, Banks county, and has had difficulties with a great many people in that county. A gentleman now living in Athens with whom Owens had a dif ficulty, told him at the time that he would come to an untimely 'end. Dr. Owens had a difficulty with the Hon. James J. Turnbull, and in the fight ent Turnbull's throat, which came very near causing his death. For this of fense Dr. Owens ran away and went to South Carolina. ■ v^ants Registration. F re ** do doubt but thai Induced i a the next; 7 e registration in i are parties alreut.^ *°° n l>e advertised* 1 111 in every county l«*Af** What a Negro Trucker Has Done With Them, in this Section. There may be; seen early every morn ing during the spring, summer and fall, a negro man making the round of the city with a market wagon,‘intent upon disposing of his load of mixed vege tables. This is Isaiah Monroe,who owns a small tract of forty acres in Lee county, just over the Dougherty line,three miles from the city. Isaiah was making his usual rounds yesterday morning, when a News and Advertiser seribe stopped him arid look ed over his load of Irish potatoes,onions, beats, beans, etc., and asked if he ex perienced any difficulty in disposing of the product'of his garden. “No sir, 1 usually fiud sale for what I bring in.” . “How long have you been in tlie busi ness’?” “I have been selling vegetables for about three years. 1 first couimpuced in a small way, and succeeded so well I enlarged my garden.” During the conversation we learned that Isaiah, who really owns only forty acres of very poor sandy land, became discouraged with the result of • raising cotton and branched out into experi menting in the sale of vegetables, lie is an industrious, honest boy, anil suc ceeded finely in growing early vege tables, and, rising at an early hour, he drives into the city, where he lias been liberally patronized hv our housekeep ers. His fortune began to rise as he devot- ed atteution to his market garden, 'and he always had a few spare dimes in his pockets. He lias enlarged his farming operations, bought himself another mule, and now runs a two-mule farm successfully. lie pays cash as he goes, and his mules are in au exceptionally fine condition. Isaiah says he makes more money on his fall garden thau on his spring vege tables. People pay so little attention to their gardens during tlie summer months that they have no (Vegetables, and those who have not neglected to plant and cultivate theirs reap a golden harvest in the markets, lie says that there is no trouble to have a fall garden in this section; all that it requires is.in- tclligent -seeding and careful cultiva tion. Isaiah has something to offer in the market from early spring till mid-win ter. Vegetables early and late thrive here, atfd a little care devoted to their cultivation will insure.a gratifying re ward. This has certainly been proven by Isaiah’s experience, and he has bnihled himself and family a comfort able'home, w hich they eujoy.—Albank News and Advertiser, But Want the Law to Remain the Same- Other Items. V Carnesvili.e, Ga., June 6.—There was a rousing pn hibition meeting held here to-day, in the court house. Dr. T. G. Underwood was made Chairman, and A. N. King, Secretary. Resolu tions were passed favoring the present law, and requesting our Senator and Representative to use. all honorable means in their power to defeat any bill that may he introduced having asi ts object the repeal of the present law. The sentiments of the audience, and it was about 300 strong, was almost unanimouly against the sale. ‘ Rev. C. A. Jamison, of Toecoa, R. B. Oi England, of this place, P. F. Craw ford, of Lavonia, W. A. Cooper, of Avolon, George Carroll, of Bold Spring, ami C. II. Newton, (col.,) addressed the audience in speeches brittle subject. Their speeches were well timed, and were applauded to the echo, and had a good effect, and Completely routed the Anti’s, who are on a still hiiut. Petitions were circulated in opposi tion to the measure going to repeal the law,’and another meeting will he held on the flrst Tuesday in July. ' Alf Dardfen, (col.,) was drunk and disorderly at Lavonia Sunday night, when Charlie Bond, the marshal of the town, .and several other gentlemen went .to arrest him ;he showed fight,and drew a pistol, and snapped iit at Johri Value tine twice, when the marshal shot him in the.-Jfg with a double-barrel shot* gun, several shot taking effect. He was arrestc|j[ for assault, with intent to mur der,- anc\ was committed to jail. Sheriff J. C. McConnell lodged him in jail last night. He ia being treated by Dr. H. M. Freeman, who thinks he will re cover. J. B. 'McEntire left here this after noon, for LaGrange and Atlanta, and IV. F. McConnell for Toccoa. A Rule Unbreakable. Hereafter the printer’s fee and Sher iff’s cost must he paid on all levies be fore the advertisements will be inserted. Tlie printers arid the Sheriffs make this an imperitive rule after paving lost more than they have collected in costs from the stoppage of sales aud the fail ure of parties to pay. The law gives us the right to demand pay in advance and hereafter we will require it. Don’t ask us to .break this rule for we will have to refuse.—Oglethorpe Echo. IVe heartily agree \\ith our neighbor If the property is worth advertising, it 7 ia worth paying for advertissng in ad vance. If all the papers would force this rule, their books could be easily balanced. 1 d V* i, -l-.vlv-u, . Shot Down by a Boy on the Road Near Gainesville. GainesVII.I.E, Ga., June 7.—“I sur render f” hut a mohent later James Me Ever was shot to the ground, his legs, from the kuees down, being filled with bird shot. Isham Divis did the sltooting. It was without provocation. They met in the public! road, when Davis, a boy of four teen, pointed a gun at McEver, telling him to surrender, hut at the same time shooting him. Davis claims it w'as ac cidental.. McEver was left prostrate on the road, hut later dragged himself to a neighboring store. The boy had said nothing about the shooting, which- is a much regretted affair. Siou Eye Sighed. Sioux is pronounced Soos, therefore Siou would be “Soo.” Eye is pronounc ed “I,” and sighed ts pronounced as though spelt “side.” Yet S-i-o-u-e-y-e- s-i-g-h-e-d would be regarded as a most peculiar way of spelling suicide. It is an ugly thing however yori spell it, yet thousands of women are practically guilty of it. Day after day, week after week, they endure that dull pain in.the back, that terrible “dragging-down,” sensation that tells of _ weakness and functional disorder,. and do absolutely nothing to effect a cure. In a few years a broken-hearted husband and mother less children will follow her to the grave False delicacy prevents* consulting a physician,but even this is not necessary. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has cured thousands of such women. To suffer anct to die when this would cure is plain, uriinistakable Suicide. It is guaranteed to give satisfaction, money paid for it refunded. Advice To Mothers. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always be used for children teeth j n <r. it soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures .wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrloea twenty-five cents a bottle. ' 'r- l SURRENDER. Successful Business Men. Who are our most successful business men? Go out on the street and look them over. Yon won’t find therii meri who have bale cheeks. They are not thin emaciated men. They are not nervous irritable men. They are men whose faces indicate robust health. Men with good blood, and plenty of it. That’s the secret of their" success. A man whose blood is. thin and weak and poisoned with impurities; is never successful like his healthy neighbor. You cannot ex pect him to be, for without rich,strong nourishing blood he will lack the“vim” and “push” which the man must have who would succeed-. Such men should use Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery "to restore their impoverished blqod’to its normal condition*. By the ijse of ( tips great blood-purifier* and huilder-up of the system, they may put themselves in a eonditien which will enable them to win the success they are anxious to achieve; THE FISHERY TROUBLES. History of the Causes Leading to the Im broglio. New York, June'4.—A Washington special says: The question of the juris diction of the United States oyer Alas kau waters relating particularly to the killing of seals has h^en a inattter great concern to the Treasury‘Depart ment. As early as 1881 it was reported to ; the department that unauthorized persons were killing seal in Alaskan waters,and the Secretary and Treasurer caused a notice to be published in the newspaperes printed at all the Pacific ports of this country, stating that the law prohibiting seal killing would he enforced against all comers rind the penalties inflicted. A similar notice has been printed every year, and con gress appropriated money for the pro tection' of the seal life in Alaska, and the government dispatched vessels there with instructions to seize and condemn all vessels engaged in this illicit busi ness. The first question as to the ex tent of the jurisdiction claimed by the United States over Behring sea was raised in 1881, and under date of April 4,1881, the Secretary of the Treasury replied that the law prohibited the kill ing of any fur-bearing animal within tlie. limits. of Alaska territory or the waters thereof, aud also the Islands of Sf. Paul and St. George, or in the waters adjacent thereto. . The treaty with. Russia of March 30, 1867> clearly defined the. boundary of territory so ceded. The limit of cession as before mentioned extends from a line starting from the Arctic and running through Behring strait to the north of St. Lawrauce Isla ids. The line runs thence in a southwesterly direction, so as to pass mid-way betwen the Island of Alton and Copper Island, of the Kor- uiandorski couplet or group in the North Pacific ocean, to meridian 193 degrees west longitude. All the wa ters within that boundary to the wes tern end of the Alontian Archipelago and chain of islands are ^considered as comprised within the waters of Alaska territory. This decision is printed in the Pacific coast- papers every year. This decision was repeated by- the Treasury Department by the late Dan iel Manning on 16, Jane 1886. The Canadian authorities, in their brief relating to the seizure of Cana dian vessels in Behring sea by our rev enue cutters, claimed that Secretary Boutwell had decided that the United States had no jurisdiction over Behring sea outside of the tree mile limit. Mr. Boutwell denies this, and in a letter written a few days ago, says: “Neither upon my recollection of facts as they were understood by me in 1872, nor upon the present reading of the corres pondence, do I admit the ..claim of Great Brittain that my letter is an ad mission of any right adverse to the claims of the United States in the waters known as Behring sea. Last year the question as to the right of the United States to exclusive do minion and jurisdiction ov«r Behring sea came before the United States dis trict court in Alaska, in the cases of United States vs. the British schooners Dolphin, Anna Beck, Grace, and Ada charged with violating the law prohib-j iting the killing of fur seals in AldS&a: waters. The queen’s counsel, Mr. N. W. T. Drake, conceded that the mas ters of the vessels named were taking fur seal in that portion of Behring sea claimed by the United States. But he filed a demurrer, alleging that the dis trict court had no jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action, for the reason that the vessels were more than one marine league from the shore when seized, and the act was unconstitution al in that it restricted navigation of Behring sea for sealing purposes. The eourt .overruled the demurrer, and a judgment of forfeiture to the United States was entered against each of the Vessels separately, with their tackle, apparatus and cargoes. No appeal was taken from this decision and the exclusive jurisdiction over these waters was asserted, so Corigressman Dunn, chairman of the Committee on merchant marine and fisheries, held and was exercised by the legislative and executive "branches of 'the government But that statement Is controverted for other reasons. That court waiving the international question, aud planting itself upon the face of the treaty of ces sion and the acts of congress, entered judgment of condemnation against the libeled vessels and cargoes, and prepar ations were made to sell the conde lined property. Three ot the condemned ves sels belonged to British Owners, who appealed to their government and ob tained its intervention. At thi3 stage of the case, the awkward discovery was made that the act of con gross organizing a judicial system for Alaska had omitted to provide for ap peals from the district court in civil causes, and the judgment of that court improvidently rendered in the belief that the Supreme coiirLat Washington would correct any error made by the lower court in respect to the construc tion of the statute under which the con demnation was decreed, were found to be finalities. In this dilerama, the President, by an exercise of constitntienal powers, re" leased the British vessels and their car goes without reason or condition, arid so gained time for an attempt to negotiate for an international closure of Behring sea in behalf of the preservation of the seals, hut refused to release the Ameri can vessels aud cargoes, likewise-con demned, under the belief that the Su- premecourt would pass upon the legal ity of the condemnation. ^ OI A good supply of well broke Mules and Horses always on hand. Call be fore purchasing at the -stables on Thomas street. HOLEMAN & DEADWYLER. CARTERS A MISTRIAL In the VVbolfolk Trial at Perry, and the Case Begun over Again. Perry, May 5.—Twenty-five of the seventy-five talesmen summoned yes terday afternoon answered this morn ing. Mr. Hardeman stated that Knight,the juror accepted yesterday, bad stated lus unwillingness to convict on circumstan tial evidence, ^and’the prosecution de manded an investigation. In the diseussion of the matter it was submitted that J.W. Parker, an accept ed juror, answered to the name of J. B. Parker, the talesman intended to *be summoned, J. W. Parker not - being on the jury book. The court then discharged both Knight and Parker, whereupon Mr. Rutherford demanded the declaration of a mistrial. Decision on this point was held till the afternoon. On the demand of Sir. Rutherford the investigation as regards Knight was made after the jury retired, "and the correctness of the rumor that he had declared that he would not convict on circumstancial evidence was proven by three witnesses. MISTRIAL. Laterr—A mistrial has been declared. The jury has been discharged, and the empaucliug of another begun. Wheth er to imprison Knight, and Parker is now under consideration. J7TIE IYER PILLS. OUlF^iE Sick Headache and relievo all the troubles inri- dent to a bilious state ot the system, each as Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress alter eating. Pain In the Side, Ae. 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