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!• in* an * acid S*"**-' Lib,,,' dr Mm I'll* »>I-Bed with Mil IBGIA, THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 29, W% He Her Hen Escaped internal In. JnrleO n**|ll Terribly Burned AWottb# Face* Anini, Dee. 28.—[Special.]—Frit* Aryan, who ru so terribly burned Mon day uigbl at Olarkiten, li doing aa well And June r* Futon Well, utter Cult* tug Hie Own Threat. Macox, Ga., Deeember 28.—[Special.] In Worth county, on Monday night, a negro named Seed murdered hie wife and alz children, and then committed auieide by jumping down a well, haring drat nnaocceasfttlly tried to cut bin own throat. Another dispatch locates this horrible tragedy In tee county, s*/a that Reed urea in a bad humor ail day Sunday, and was constantly handling a dirk or knife. A boy who lived with the family said ’ that after dark Bead pretended to bo, sick, and cent him after a doctor. The boy ran, and it was several hours befora he returned, accompanied by a phyal- c an. They were astonished to' find the house s smouldering ruin, While the stench from the roasted corpses was nn- I endurable. Not much could be done in the way of investigation until daylight, I when about fifty neighbors were drawn I together. The bloody knife was found beside the well. M might he expected nuder the circum stances., lie was kept under the influ ence ff tgtitos last night, and rested well His phyai ian thinks ha may have eaoap- j ed inhalation of ths hot smoke from’the burning fire bail, and if such is the esse Sate, telneiae net V. C.I.I H K. NICHOLSON, You will Save Money and get Better Goods by Buying your French Pets, French Muahroons Turkish Prunes,French Prune:, Preserved Apricot*, Pre- CLAYTON STREET. •erred Figs,Plum Pud- ing, Jockv -Club Cmrdines.Chase & Soubons Ron ted L o flee’a Combination Java, Fancy Rio, Self Raising Buckwheat, Rye Flour, Young 'American Cheese, Pine Apple Cheese, Mesa M a c k er si, Mince Meat Oranges. Candies, caption Of his mother, now in New York farlowing literary pursuits, ( Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, the boy’s mother, has left Now York and is oxpeoted to ar rive in Atlanta at 12:20 to-morrow on tho Air-Line road. Raisins, etc., etc., for SERIOUS FUN- A Negro' Youth Flourishes u Pistol Over a Cttlueuta Head and Fires One Shat. Atlanta, Deo. 28.—[Special.]—0u* W. Alien, e negro youth about 18 years of ege, was srraigned in the Recorder’s court this morning for nn assault with IntsnttokUI. Monday morning Allen filled bimsolf up with high license whiskey and getting a pistol made things lively sn Welle street, "i Mr. Ledford Humphries, sn el derly whits man, cams along just as Allan was shooting his pistol into tho sir, and remonstrated with him. The negro becamdVdfious and swore he'would shoot Mr, Humphries’ body.as full of holes as a salva. This threat was {racked up by a shot find over Mr. Humphries’ head. The Recorder remarked that Allen’s Christmas fun whs of a very sellout ns. tun, snd entered n fine of120,75 and re quired ths prisinsr to giro a 8100 bond to answer in a higher court for pointing TRY A SACK OK NIPTUNL” FLOOR, W. M. PITTMAN’S. It wa, evident that Reed nut Have cut hit victim’s throats, seven in number, aa they slept, and then ■et the house on fin. In the well Reed’s body was found. A frightful gash was on bis throat, which must have been inflicted just ss be jumped into the well. THE BEST IN THE CITY. Talmadge . & Brightwell, WEBB & CRAWFORD, H*«dqn«rtora lor Atlanta, Deo. 28.—[Special.]— Refer- log to the death of the Emperor of Ger many Dr. Schuman remarked: 188oT Of course "Hie country ves there end the people won then, but the title Emperor had cessed. Thq.lsst Em pemr -wav tbs Emperor Ferdinand, of Austria. Ths war with Napoleon in 1800, re sulted lu the dissolution of tho empire, Tho late Emperor was the younger brother of tho. former Mug of Prussia, snd ths son of Frederick William III, a id Quean Louisa. Whan Napoleon overran Prussia, ho had to flee with his mother. He was for a longtime Prince of Prueeis, snd as bis elder brother had no heir*, he was conceded to be tbs suc cessor. In 1818, whou there was a rev olutionary move meat, ths king was weak and the Prioce was very firm, and urea of the opinion that the people had to b* suppressed anyhow to be kept in order. In consequence of that then was a good dial of trouble in Berlin, Ha bad treated ths people to grape-ihoh *nd wo nssd to Athens, Ga. HASELTON’S HOLIDAY TRADE. in a higher court for pointing a pistol at another person. SWAPPED FORA MULE- Haw Cat. Bab Ingereolt Was Ex. changed as a Prisaaer. Rev. T. T, Eaton, a prominent Baptist minister of Louisville, tells a good story about Bedford 1 Forest, the “vriuard. of the aaddle,” and Col. Bob Ingersoll that haa neverappeared in public print. TheXtory )• aa follows: Forrest captured Ingerscli in one of hla* fights, io which ha carried out his famous taotica of “gitting thar fust, with and tha redoubtable Oranges, Applet, Cocoanuts, Cur- Tanta, Cilrau. Raisins, Prunes, Nuts of all Kirda. HEADQUARTERS FOR Pianos, Organs, Guitars, Banjos, Violins, Accor- .daunt. Mandolin*, Harmonic**, and *11 kind* of Mualcal Merchtn- dlea. She t Music and Noveti'ee, Set- thrGrm Roller Organ. Plays Ever seen . in Athens, it Before bi la thacltr. Tn an* out of our emm Bonr Siro tad be situ 4 wtib it. Oar awest Rea* VW ar '• c va* so io be theti.it Han* at Uosr la 111* city, nave brand ar Baa. Dried Boot sod RraaVart Bmoi. Tha had moment of French Caadr avar offered to tha trade of Athena. WEBB & CRAWFORD, the moat men; ’colonel” was as blatant •• usual with bia blasphemous utterances sgainat Christianity. Forrest gave the infidel a good aouad cussing, for in thotu days the gallant general was very profane though niter the war became pious and dted a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. Finally tha general said: “I’ve got no uae on earth far such n d—n prisoner and would be glad if I ooildaschange Mm for a mule." Ingersoll hsard of the speech, and cigar to gala bia liberty,, stol a mule to For rest sod told him ha accepted hie propo sition. Tha exchange was made Aid im- Sf’o lures. Only $600. call him tho gripe-shot Prince. But af terwards, by bia patriotism sad by hit nobis behavior all along since ha Iteend- ed the throne, ho hes bean highly ts- tsimsd by tho Germans, and wbila ha waa in and altar 1818, considerably bated, ha fa now the most belorad and ti e most popular Prince on tho globe. -to DON’T FAIL TO CALL ON o: Ho used to appear at a certain hotff in ths morning at a certain window in tho palace, and thoro tbs people would wait (or him artry morning snd would cheer bln. particularly when be had bean sick or, had baenabaeDt far some time. If ha had lived ht would hsvu been 91 GIFT BOOKS, BOOKS IN SETS, JUVENI1 -io SELLING AT COST. o. years old on tho 22d of March naxt year. Ha aicandsd tha tbrons in 1851 and ns- •anted the title 0! emperor in 1871. After the French war had beta nearly finished ths German princes and ths German people wanted him to assume ths title sf Emperor, snd to trout anew tha tbrons of the German Empire. Tbs German nation bad bean loosely united, but bjr the erection of that throat again we a firmly united. Ha has a son, thu Crown rrince Frederick Nicholas Wil liam, a grandson, Prineo .William, and a great grandson. -Tho crown prince, waa born in 1839, and his eon It about twenty-eight years old.” From this It will bo assn that fa the event of the death of ths crown prince, who has sn ugly growth tn his throat which has ban call cancer, Prineo Wil liam, a young man of. 28, : will bocomt emperor of Gsrtnany. EVERY THING GOOD TO FANCY A FEMALE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. Him rkstt* Cousins Assasenr Ikattkewllllt »?W Independent Prohibition Candidate. St. Louis, Mo, Doe. 28.—[Special.]— Miss Phoebe Consint has announced that lbs will bo the independent prohibition ouadidato toe governor tn tho coming campaign. Miaa Conaina recanUy tarn- tad tha oflaa of marshal of [he eastern district of.Mtssoori which aha success- folly manegud for several months altar the death ef >ar father. A Verdict ol Insanity. , , Chicauo, HL, Dae.. 28.—(8p*eia1.)— The coroner’s jury yesterday found that Mrs. Ida MeCanlly, who kill*4 h«r but- FINE