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'Atlanta, J»n. 11.—[Special.]
. The total number of indictments mejlo
bj the joff w»a 1883. Of this number
88 were for feloniei end 98 for misde
meanors. About twenty-fire cates were
investigated in whioh no true bills were
foued. _
mi attorneys’ fees
tioh contest in Oglethorpe. Both sides
hare claimed a majority etdUferent times
'bid many-ware not latbfitld until the
retuns were giren in and the rotes
buy ail the buttersMd* by
,aqd > fe* day- -*—
NEWOCOCEBr LYNCHERS.
The roting was act heary, many na-
Mi failing to go to the polls. One gen-
eman tells us that he had eight colored
to one of
lere that they might
■ _ J . . I.. H 1. UaaL
LraeUariaaeeiMBeale Prelect
Themselves.
Parkebsburo, W, Va, Jan. 1L—{Spe
cial.]—Erldence is accumulating that the
band which lynched three men in Bonne
county last October for the murder of
Rer. Thos. P. Ryan, were themselves the
murderers, and that they lynched inns*
cent men in order to divert suspicion
f voters on his pines who seemed to take
little or no interest in the matter, and
were working quietly when ha left home
yesterday morning. Ee supposes, of
course, that they did notgo to the polls.
The rote ■by districts is as follows:
Lexington, dry,Hr wet, 87.
Crawford, dry, 87; wet, 8.
Falling Greek, dry, 88; wet, 18.
Benrerdam, dry, 71; wet, 26,
Bowling Green, dry, 59; wet, 15.
Simpson, dry,92; wet, 70.
Gooiepond, dry, 44; wot, 16.
Grove Creek, dry, 61; wet, 64.
Glade, dry, 86; wet; 18.
Wolfskin, dry, 49; wet, 14.
Three precincts had not sent in re-
turns, but they will not make any change
in the general result The prohibition
majority i« about 350. Ills said by those
who know, to hare been the quietest
election ever held in the county. In
some of the districts, notably Lexington
and Crawford, almost every negro voted
“dry.” Falling Creek district, in the
■jtest election, gsvs a good wet majority.
England Mortgage Company, is heroes a
witness. < He goes-out of the city to-day,
but will return to the Ms] of the case.
This case involves the points on whioh
Judge Newman and Judge Speer bare
differed, and the progress of the trial will
be watched with interest
These loans were negotiated through
several go-betweens, who took’their
commissions out of the money loaned be*
fore it reached borrower. Judge-‘Speer
holds that these go hel9eehs are agents
of the lender, and their commissions add
ed to the 8 per doat,aitcoutt taken out of
theTonn by thy originaj leuder, make '.a
person, froin milking to moulding of
the butters] We refer. to the auooees of
this dairj r, to show what onergy and
good huukttement can accomplish in
Georgia, ana that then an roads to for
tune open io Our farmers wives that
many of them bare overlooked, Mr.
Ptica says, that hip .lady, makes more
money from hie cows then he ever could
from nia cofn and cotton crops.
AM IMPORTANT RUMOR. -> ,
ON THE BLACK LIST-
uaurens rate of interest.
The Supreme court of Georgia in n de
cision holds that those go-betweens an
sot agents of the lender, but ate Indepen
dent broken to whom the borrowerpsys
n commission for negotiating the loan.
Judge Newman holds that the decision of
the 8npnmt Court of Georgia should
control hia court io the construction of n
itty reported that Conte, the
the notices to the syloon keepers, and It
will ben hard matter for the black-listed
persona to get a dram. This makes four
names on the blaek list np to date.
POLITICAL NOTES.
WasbinqtoV, Jan. 11.—[Special,]—
Congress is painfully inert and has been
since the re-assembly, but itia probable i
that a campaign of hot talk will begin
this week, as any nnmber of otdemooth- <
bores and some heavier guns are known ;
to bn lotddd.
Among the Georgia, people Senator i
Brown’s speech, the recent Bacon letter
and the tariff travail of the esteemed Ate i
otton menufacturer, is now
igementa to establish a mill
near Higki hosls factory and the people
living around them have confidence in
the report ', A few weeks since a capi
talist living near Athens purchased sev
eral shares of a valuable water power
not far above the factory .dais; and lbs
■lory goes that Ee was an agent of
Coats. There is quite a boom in prop
erty there and the people believe that
there is $ big future ahead for their
town. Last year there were only three
gh Shoals, but this year sov-
The Largest and Best Selected .Stock of
It has been said that Georgia farmors
are mortgaged in this way to the amount
of six or eight millions, and as real estate
of three times the value is required, from
$18,00(ty)Q0 to $20,000,000 worth of farm
property iu Georgia ia held under these
mortgages.
It is probable that the ease wiU net
■top short of the United Slates supreme
This time she pies 87 dry. Hurrah for
Failing Creek district, end three cheers
for old Oglethorpel! I a
i 'ib-tj.
■tores at Bigl
en will be ope....... . , ,
Messrs. Lowe * Lannius have dissolv
ed, each geptlemtu going into business
on hia own accounL Mr. Fraxierand
Mr. Cook will also do business thore. It
A TRIAL PROGRESSING.
In (Thiele Use BuMweru PlM la
Bln Bight tn Kill €«lM«al«
' at Pleasure, ......
Lociaviun, Sr* Jan. 1L—(Special)— fonts Coflttltut>on, tre subject* ofptene-
trial of Logan Sigmund for the murder of ant a very day comment.
Wn. Higginbotham in 1861, wan begun it is my opinion (and I want it to
at Mt. Vernon, Ky,, yesterday, Higgin- be accepted as an bumble onl) that no
bothnm was riding i Jong the road, it is tariff measure,.either direct or compro-
| said, hurrahing for Jeff Davia, when 8ig- niiae will come out of this congress, if
I mund shot him from a doorway. Sigf- Mr. Randall and hia cohort agreo to set
I mund was extradited from Missouri in thrir fooes against the prospectivt nom-
(1885, and tried in-1880, the jury dl»n- mittee bill the whole eebeme. of tariff re-
l greeing. The defence ia that he was a form will moat likely fait through. Any
I federal soldier, and had n right to do tha observing person c4n note' tho cryetnli
•hooting. Tbo G. A. tt. ate helping him uti0D 0 f feeling now going on, and tha
‘ defend the case. true reformers are already beginning, to
THE BLAIR BILL. declare that they will never allow a ml-
aority oabal in their own ranki to togfa*
The Ba.»u.»t hn^UT. Itead Uu (m ^ f%TtJ M , whoIt . Whtn
ensure Kouee. congress first came here for n sitting it
Washington, Jan. 9.-Thn able tod looked naif the factions would certainly
adroit statesmen who are laboring so dll- „ n | U on .cheme by whioh n modi-
igontly Jor the passage of the Blair edu- com of the excite ineome and a luge
cations! grand distribution subsidy .are share ofthe eustoma income Would bo
in en uncomfortable frame of mind this extinguished, buMbta expectation is fat
tening. One of them asked a member iBf . I think the best informed memben
of GM educational committee of the now look toa relegation of tbo subject
house to-day when tha oimmtttee pro- to the people, and tariff reform may be
posed to meav organise and consider booked as the living bene ever which
“Our bilL” The member said that he the two great political parties will do
-did act know, bat had baud that than battle this fall.”
J|o«!d probably 4>o n meeting held in .in .peaking to Mr. Blount, t alked,
February or H^rcb. A look of (tun- “Can the patty safely go to the hustings
ning surprise and complete consternation w im the pvealdentinl policy ns its slogan?
spread over Che face of the questioner, n pU was, “It can, and no party
whogasped: “MyGod.yon don’t menu cooMwbhfornbroadernodflnnerplai-
to aay yoor committee U not going tn form upon which to slake ite saecMt,"
meet in February or Mi rob, do you?" _ - ■ ■ 1...
“No, I don’t mesa to toy that the com- * Blr **" ****V‘* ****** H *
mittee will meet that soon.'. I slmpl? ' ni»» wire,
meant to *ay that I heard the eammtttas Atlanta, Jan. II.—[SpeefoL]—Noth-
migbt meet in February or March, but I log reliabb has yet been heard o? Benja-
gueaa that meeting will only be prelimi- tnin Burton, the man of many wires- tt
nery. I think that the meeting of the wed reported in the city thU morning
committee to consider the Blair blanket that he wan seen crossing the Oh.ttahoo-
will be held the laetThuredey in June.” chee river yesterday in a batten, and
Thta nnawer paralysed the Blair men With him was bb sixth wife, whom ha
fora foil minute, which he consumed in had married tineaTeaviag Atlanta.
■taring vacantly at tha committeeman. Mrs. Barton luteber five still bolbven
He finally recovered hie speech auffi- her hnahuid, in whom she now has n
cientiy tossy: undivided one-sixth interest, to bn to-
“Well, if that don.t beat h—1, I’ll bo nocent, and thinks he will return to At-
d—d> lento. Her father, however, bating
The membejri in telling your corre*. every effort to have the bigamUt brought
pendent about it, said: “I never saw a back to the city; Barton b probably
man so completely upset in my life." heading for Utah.
, “Well, aerieualy,whatnreyougoingto Aareal Irrl.at lea Project.
! d0 with “>• biU /’ f “H- El Paso, Texx* Jan. U.-[8 P ecial.]-
“Why, cenaider iL” A movement la on foot in Western Texas
place. Mr.R. K. Reaves, of Athena, has
been tendered the Presidency of the
road, and ft b said that he will accept.
It b a well-known fact that this gentle-
man has large interests there, ana then
b reason to believe that the positioi
tendered him means an adoption of tbo
High Shoals rente.
io Athens, it will j
before buying.
Ever seen
THE GREAT ACTORS.
la theCtfo.
Atlanta, Jin. - 11—[Special.]—Mr-
Joseph Levy, the principal sgent for tho
Booth Sc Barrett combination, arrived in
Atfoata last night, and will fix the pries
of tickets this evening, after he consults
with another agent,
Mr. Levy stated that Booth A Barrett
would appear here on Friday and Satur
day, the 20th and 21st of thb month. On
Saturday than will be a matinee. On
Friday aixht “Othello, ’the Moor
of Veniee,” will be given.
Mr. Booth will piny lego, and
/' AN ESCAPED CONVICT.
A Cental* Prisoner Eecepes Cram Hr. Toon
. Powell, Near Bl.h (boelai
Mr. T. W.-Powell now keeps hie con-
v'cia, about thirty in numlier, on bis
mother’* form,; near High Shoals, and
among the nnmber was a negro woman
who was sentenced from Wilkes eonnty.
As her term lacked only n few weeks of
being out she was permitted to sleep in
an outhouse, and a few nights tinea the
jhmpedf and-Ieft for parte unknown. So
soon as ker.absence waa reported to Mr.
Powell he put bis pack of hounds on
beg track, bat the dogs lost bar trail in a
creak, np whioh she had waded to - de-
*'
early as far as
mds waa one
fitive convicts,
is door ofa na-
dto bark fori-
rsa searching
Have Moved their Mammoth Stock of
Mr. Barrett will appear as Otbella. On
Saturday night Julius Omen will be pre
sented. Mr Barrett will' play Cassius
and Mr Booth will appear ee Brutus. At
the matinee on Saturday, Hamlet will be
the play. Mr Booth will appearae Hem-
let and Mr Barrett will pby Laertes.
' mdid com-
•xtendini
Monroe. Among them
remarkable for tricing f
and thb deg went up to
gro house and cemmenj
Remember our place and govern yourself “ccordingly.
dec3<j&wim. 7
Tha combination has a 1
pnoy of 85/£ttsta,'a(id baa
two weeks! ««agemant at the
of Mode in New fork. The
the tieiets will he lees than $8.
fdr had concealed herself In the cabin
and waa at that time standing trembling,
in the comer, expecting to be taken.
Mr. Powell, however, called the deg off
without asirehinS the honae, and than
the prisoner escaped arrest. Tuesday
night, however, he got information that
fab prisoner trie being protected by norne
negroes near SoeialGirele, and soedeed-
JUST RECEIVED AT‘
A Large Shipment of
LaFanm, Ind, Jan. 1L—[SpecUl.]
Mieeger Banooek, living eeat jMepAladn
cticbnjtid thf one h imdrtaili
stry of bb birth IfeRfinyT? Mr. W# ,[k
b n grandson of Jahniiancoek, signer of
tho deebratien of bdependineo, and was
born U Delaware.
near Social Circle, and
those who e
try ere stilll
not too busy.’’—Louiivlll* Corn
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