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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 ..1 -i, >