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-i'"' » AMENS BANNER : TUESDAY MORNING . JULY 28,1891 NEW ENTERPRISE- COMPANY ORGANIZED TO A FURNITURE FACTORY. IT WILL SUCCEED. n g body of Good Businessmen Ab . 0 U the Reins—It Is Just What Athens has Needed for Some Time. MAYOR INTERVIEWED' HON E. T- BROWN WILL OFFER FOR RE-ELECTION. THE GEORGIA SOLONS FILLING UP THE STATUTE BOOKS. SUPPORTING THE FARMERS. it bfcs been discussed time and again * tbens and now matters come to a rsr- 1 hav ® a factor y in w ^ icb ‘ p furniture wiU be made. . Thf section arouud Atbcn * abounds • woods of all descriptions and a large fcetory can be run with profit to its 0W A Tmn* company of enterprising n few applied for a charter under the of tho Park Manufacturing tTlentifol supply ° f water and excel k ui suippi«A f* oil,tie8 c»n be obtained. sil le tracks will be run into the yard, ‘ 1 buildings and the latest improved, Lbiaery will be obtained. gveiy facility for the easy handling of the goods will be installed and alto- rtthcr the plant will be one of the most complete in the South'. - Athens has long needed a thoroughly equipped furniture factory and a fe ,l stocked lumber yard' company to carry ou a business that promises great things for the city. The incorporators arc Messrs. W Holman, >1. J. U. McMahan, J.. N. Bov-'h, F. M. Hughes and John T. Voss, mid they propose to erect a factory for tbe manufacture, of cheap furniture ttsb, doors, and blinds, with a com plete planing mill and lu mber yard. The plant will probably be located near the power plant of the electric Ha Stands Upon his Record and Rests his Claims With the Democratic Vo ters of Athens—Wilt Demand a Primary. The Direct Tax Fund Accepted—Drun-1 eu83 * ou this tuorniug. It was reported I out to investigate. Hon. E. T. Brown, Mayor of our city was seen yesterday by a Banner rep resentative and asked in regard to the publication in an evening paper in which it was announced that he would probably not be a candidate for ro-clec- tion. “I noticed the article,” replied Mr. Brown, ‘‘and can only say I never au thorized any Buch announcement. I saw no necessity whatever of making an announcement at this early day, es pecially as our city had just passed through a very heated election and I did not desire to precipitate a con test upon them months before the elec tion comes off.” . “I presume you will ask an endow ment.” ■•' r i , “I most assuredly will. At the expi ration of my time I will have only served one term. I have endeavored to do my duty faithfully, fearlessly and impartially and believe I have the con fidence and good will of our citizens* Besides it has ever been the democrat ic custom and the practice in our city when a. man Jjas made an acceptable, officer to give bis administration an en dorsement, and l feel that I bavo a right to ask this much of the fair-min ded people of Athens for myself.” ‘‘What will be your platfotm ?’ “What it has ever been—the upbuild' made the special order for this morn _ [ Twitt y bill » whioh makes all obligations was made known by Hancock's wife, ing was passed without opposition I” pay the 10 P® 1 cent, attorney’s fee. who had been absent from home on the The resolution agrees to accept from °“ Tf® voi<1 > unlc88 a plea filod by night of the tragedy. Her story was - — 1 the defendant and not sustained. 1 v ~" v ' the United States government $82,427.- 47, appropriated by the direct tax mdney, in fuli satisfaction of all claims. In connection with it was also passed a resolution to pay an agent $500 dollars to collect the money and turn it over to the state treasurer. v THE GENERAL.” , ,, ^ . . . ing of our .progressive city, the hap- milway on e ., • ; • * Te 1 piness and prosperity of tbe people and wilh machinery | the ^ enforcemont of law . Upon my record I firmly plant my self and my preseut administration is an index of what the people may ex pect of me. I entered the office of mayor free and untrammeled' with neither “friends to reward or enemies to punish.” My one thought and pur pose has been, now is and will ever be to do my full share and duty in building lor working wood Tbe new factory which this company proposes to erect will meet all these necessities. Athens is on the move in every direc tion ami you cannot stop her. She is rapidly reaching out toward the very front of Georgia cities. ATHENS AND THE FARMERS. Laty Cantt has "what to Say About | “ P OUr Atlanta Journal upon your address of welcome to the farmers?” “So far as the Tribune is concerned my friends of the Athens press have re plied to its false and wanton attack in ENACTING LAWS- EXPEDITING BUSINESS. [ of the House. Two of the colored alliance mombars made, speeches, which were heard with much interest. IN THE SENATE. The bill introduced by Senator Callo way to make the entire session of the A TALE OF CRIME The Deathbed Confession of an Un- loyal Wife. Austin, July 28.—A startling story comes from one of the lumber camps at General Assembly for two years only I Kettle creek, in this county, the truth one hundred days, excited much dis- I of which interested parties have .started konness to be Defined—Railroad Leglslatlno—Chancellor Boggs tc Speak—New Bills ln« traduced. Atlanta, Ga., July 23—[Special.]— The Calvin resolution which was back adversely, and there was a motion I In April, 1889, the people of all this to disagree, which was lost. Something I region were horrified by the news that else will probably be done on this lino. Frank Hancock, a lumberman living at A committee was appointed by Presi- Blue Run, near the Tioga and Potter : dent Mitchell to investigate the Laud oounty line, had murdered four of his Scrip fund. ’ children and committed suicide by The Governor to-day confirmed the I hanging himself in his house. The newB Obl. WILL OZBURN HANG. that she had gone home and found the four children lying dead, some in the house and some in the yard. They bad been stabbed and frightfully mutilated with a big butcher knife. Tbe eldest child was 11 years old. A fifth child, a The Probabilities are that he will. Atlanta, Ga , July 23.—[Special.]— I babe, was nwleep and uninjured in tipool Will Ozburn hang tomorrow ? of blood at the side of one of its man- That is the all absorbing question, dered sisters. There is an old railway engine on a I and the almost universal opinion is that A note, apparently in the hand writ- side track in Cobb county which is of I he will. | ing of her husband, was found in the historic value. It is called “the Goner-1 His friends in the city ate doing all I bouse, in which he bonfeseed tbe terrl- al” and during the war was captured by that they can to save him, but the I ble crime, giving as his reason his de- the Federal army, and afterwards re- noose will probably be stretched. hia «* biiMelf and the captured by the Confederacy. Mr, ‘ , ..I children because of her conduct.* THE FATAL NOOSE. AFTER THE PRESS- STRETCHES THE NECK OF CHAS M. OZBURN. THE GEORGIA SOLONS ASKED TO l STEP IN GOV. NORTHEN’S ACTION WITH A REQUEST The Closing Scenes of the Great | Tragedy-1 he Drop Falls and Oz burn Leaps Into Eternity—Brad ley’s Murder Avenged-Sa Atlanta, Ga., July 24.—[Special.]— Charles M. Ozburu pays tbe penalty of his crime with his life today. - * The drop fell at 12:38. The cruel murder of John M. Bradley has been avenged, and justice still has an abid ing place in Georgia. U KING TBE DECISION. For the Telegraph Correspondent to Vacate his Seat—This Precipitates Discussion and the Correspon dent Comes out on top—Oth er News From the Cap itol! Atlanta, Ga., July 24.—[Special. J— There was quite a sensation in the house this morning. v ' : t • Mr. Glen Waters is the reporter for the Macon Telegraph. Dr. J. T. Chappell is the member Governor Northen this mornfhg de- f rom Laurens county, cided that he could not interfere with Thereby hangs the tale, the sentence of the court. j Several days ago there was quite an The interest in the case throughout I interesting discussion in the house in tho cily yesterday was intense. repard to the Senate’s action on the What will the governor do in the Oz- 1 resolution to appoint a joint committee burn case? was the question upon the to consider Mr. Fleming’s senatorial lips of hqndreds during the morning. district bill, in which discussion as was At an $arly hour, before the governor I seen from the reporter, Dr. Chappoll che executive mansion, reporters took quite a prominent part. A re- gatbered.around his office and patient ot th e discussion appeared next ly waited for the words that were to de- day in the Telegraph, together with cide the fate of the man in Fulton gome remarks to which tba doctor’s at- countyjail, about whom so much inter- tention was called, and to which he took The doctors of the legislature don’t Sib lf u’-* 01 ^ 0bb ’ thinks . tbl8 engine of want Ozburn to hang. veloped that Hancock*was jealous of such historic value that it should be fit- There are about a dozen physicians in his wife with good cause and that he j _ _ ted up and placed on the capital I the House and on yesterday they visited I ^ toqmmtiy upbraided her for her est has centered for the last few | Exception: grounds. He accordingly introduced a Lhe jail to seethe prisoner and what the^y before th<Tbutchery at Bluo month3 * On yesterday Dr. Chappell went to resolution that it be fitted up and dis- condition he was in. I Run Mre. Hancock and Jota Colley, . At , ha, ( pft8t ***** «?™rnorar- the correspondent of the Tele- posed of as the state sees fit. . On their return they sent to the govern-1 with whom her husband had charged j rived, and entering his private office I graph an d asked him to withdraw these what IS DBUNKKNNE88? or a recommendation that he berespi- AfSfoJ " 0tk Upd “ * he decision he bad remarks or to correal them in the pa- Mr. Mattox, of Clinch, introduced I tod and sent to the lunatic asylum until coroner’s investigation was over Ooag- r * . a . . . , . . ... per, as they treated Lim in an unjust the following important bill which he 00111(1 recover sufficiently both men- ley left Blue Run'aud came to this place w °en he had fiuished he went *ith mannor . * I . .. I in nmtllo I M 1* SrOTinAnA MaTT1 fl .f no TM*Olmnr OA#ll*A- 1 to work in the saw mills. Mr. Stanhope Sams, the present secre- apeaks for itself: j tally and physically to have the sen- | » wora mwe saw^■ -I In a speech which Dr. Chappell made An act to define drunkenness. I rente of the law executed upon him. ’ Uhls morning he »id .*at the corres- Sec. 1st.—Whereas sections 1701 and Tlm morning Dr. Phillips, of Haber- detectives were following him, and the ce ’,TT t r e ° J~ e reporters were l potent refused to dc this. He stated 3657 of the code of G e or- «h ani , offered a peculiar resolution in appearance of every stranger in Adstin fired »nt» ttie hall. They could only he had beeQ 8pt>keil of unju^ty n. ■ reooKDizas dra.k...... . Ufudtotk. Th. station S T, ZZL’SLZof «h« rendering persons incapable of making I stated that the doctors who visited Oz-I disappeared suddenly and his where-I > . I report which referred to himself be read legal contracts, giving in evidence and burn considered him an imbecile, and n abouts have never been teamed. Mrs. amitne macnine swuuy, reraraed the together with the correct report which tegal marriage; therefore be it enacted mental and physical wreck, aud that it 0 v«! Sto ^sSS MoJbnru ” ^ 10 ^ h . e 8aid Polished in the Constitu- that from and after the passage of this I was but just and human that he be re- L^ar.i nf an hangev-da I wh ‘. , ‘ . . tion. The request was granted and the act, a person who from tbe use of in- spited and sent to the asylum until he the lumber camps, living with this and ,c * w . ... ... | clerk read the two reports. “ »“ revived there- I ^ ^ they commonly do, are “declared to fore that the House and Senate tlmt escS thetoteof ito.brothers^and L ere admitted into the governor’s pres. be drunk.” concurring that the governor be re- sisters on that bloody night at the Blue mo& sous, railroad ticket legislation, quested to respite Ozburn that he may His decision was fatal to Ozburn Mr. Goodwin, of Fulton, introduced M? “f to the until be 8uffi - K^ttecS camp went to &>udersport, l tbe mahch to dkatb. a bill to declare Who may sell railroad oientl y recovers to be executed as sen- the county seat of Patter oounty, with _ oreoarine to , , ,. ... .. , tenced. After the resolution was read I the startling story that Mrs. Hancock I 158 tuo.omcers are preparing to After this Phillips of Habersham in tickets and to provide for the redemp tion of unused tickets. It makes it nn- . . . , ,• - , . , . ,, * . , , I floor and violently opposed the resolu- jawful for any person to sell or deal ini . , „ , . * , , , . , , .... I tiou. He said it was a most unheard of tickets unless h« is a duly authorized I * „ . . . • „ , . A W i rt U-|P r0Ceedln K» 0Ut0f P laU6 > aIld Unwi8 °- We cannot say he is insane as the law agent of a railroad company. A viola tion is made a misdemeanor. Any port | of & round trip ticket which is unused must be redeemed in accordance with thiB bill, or if whole ticket is presented unused, It must be redeemed. This | law is a hard oue for the ticket scalp- | era. DELAY IN TBE REAPPORTIONMENT. has said he was not. The governor should decide this matter as he is the one empowered to do so. I move to table the resolution,” motion to table, however, prevailed, W. T. Atkinson, of. Coweta, took the Athenian Hospitality. Larry Gantt gives Athens a good ,, , .... . . ... . deal of praise l.»r the way she welcomed lo «» eighteen months and which the farmers at their grand rally here. I speaks volumes in praise Writing to his paper he s*ys: I ©f the patriotic and farsighted council Promptly at half past ten carriages I who have stood so valiantly at my arrived to conduct the party of Alii-1 „ J looemen into the city. They were I back - greeted with tho greatest enthusiasm | “What have you to say concerning and the most remarkable hospitality | the criticism of the Rome Tribune and that Imysceders ever met with. It has been long that Alliance sentiment and Alliance sympathy were confined alone to ihc country, hut these Alliancemen were met on tbe threshold of Alliens, the city of learning, of culture and refinement of . «... Georgia, by its best and noblest wo- manner that is entirely satisfactory to men, ami it* truest and biavesi men, I myself. It’s editorial was not only forts UMhow b tbe C mrea!^t r appreciation fa,ae in ever f particuIar but was ridicUi I u>ok the important work of the reap- I signed by Judge Gober, but will do the and the most generous hospitality to- I lousl y amusing. porlioument of the Congressional Dis- prisoner no.good unless Governor Nor- ward the Alliance 1< a lers. who repre- I The Journal’sstatement that I am a tricts of the State. I then grants a reprieve Sent th ■ A liance ci.use. In the b auti-1 convert to the third party and will The first thing that was done when Will he do it? He may and again thi Sute University "lu* erected 8 an atun,p the We8t 1,1 the inte rest of that the legislature met this summer was to he may not. immense stage upon which two or I movement is utterly untrue. Every I a j 0 i n t resolution authorizing the Meanwhile everything has been put ttrve hundred pcoplo could he comfort- J word of my address was written out be- I House and Senate to- meet in joint sea- 1 jq readiness for tbe execution- ablr »eawd. lu front and at each <-nd fore its delivery and was published in 8 ion, and propose a plan for the reap- later 1:30 a. m. moiUtc several thousand people. It is j del y an y one to a w g j now being necessary by Georgia s in- 1 jjgjog saved. He will hang tomorrow, almost, impossible to give any correct I sentence therein that lends to any uew l creasl9 d population. I The governor says he hasn’t yet deci- guteim iit of the number of people pre-lp a rty. After an unseeming delay it appears 1 - ded . There must have been eight thou- I | t jj true that I was invited by Col. I that the committees are now about as S'l'i m^ p s iakere 6 weT^t^l to the Qe°- leaver aud Mr. Simpson to for from meeting as ever; and boththe li a ringing cheer went up visit the Western States and address House and Senate are inquiring what B p 1 Whereas tho Macon Telegraph through its authorized correspondent on the floor of the house has abused the courtesy extended him by falsely reporting the speech made in the house as will appear by a comparison of the correct report in tbe Atlanta Constitu- Domce are not mate public, murdered her husband and the children. The con- teas urn is to the eff eat that she had be come alarmed at the throats her hus band had made against her because of her persistent unfaithfulness, and < Drs. Chappel and Baldwin thought it on by the two men, she resolved, a question of humanity, and that it their aid, to putHanoock out of the ought to be considered at once. The | TheP 1 ^ was to chloroform him had died in camp, and that before dying lead Ozburn out to his death, she had made a amfession whteh not A stiff toddy, the last he' will drink only acquitted her husband of the kill- ,, . . , . .. ,—— — — — togof the childrmi^id himself, but de- 00 ***** V™ ’*** tio n , and wherens the Macon Telegraph Anted that slie hsnelf and two of her | sheriff reads the death warrant. | TT.. "T paramoors, whan site named, but whose The Legislature has been in summer I and this put an end to all discussion session now about three weeks, aud I on the resolution, strange to say tbe committees from the So the legislature will not interfere. House and Senate have not yet under-1 The application Tor certiorari was while he was asleep, hang him to a rafter, and place a note in his pocket as if written by himself, stating that he Ohl. _ . . . , has admitted into its columns 12:29-Ozbnrn is on the gallows. a slanderous criticism on a member of Supported by his cousin, Sergeant I this House, and whereas said reporter Ozburn and Jailer Faith, he walked out ba8 refused said member the request to cl 8? rette - . . I retractor correot the same, therefore be 12:32—Pr. Stncklsr is praying for , God to have mercy upon the soul of the 1 re80lvea » condemned man. I That said courtesy extended to the Dr. Griffin stands with his fingers I Macon Telegraph bo And the same is upon Ozbnrn’s poise. | hereby withdrawn, and he it further He does not seem-to -realize what is resolved, jing on, bat stands with bowed head, I That the reporter for &&id journal be . , i nolding his derby hat in one hand, directed by the sergeant at arms to va- k while with the other he picks at the cate bis seat in this House. short, stubby heard upon his face. After this resolution was read. Speak- foroing her hnaband while he was \ •» ready vob the fall. er Howell requested Mr. Goodwin, of WOTe^vaitin^for the signal, entareclthe I Ozburn is standing upou the JWgnto ^ ko thoob f ^ r - | e «^ dho house nrovidnd with a rone aud were I trap. I hoped the gentleman from Habersham h^ingHSracklwhtm S I looka lo a dozedsort of fashion in- I would withdr awoke, rose up in bed, and ■ strange men, made an outcry, mother hersell seized a butcher knife and tried to frighten the child into si lence, and failing, she stabbed it to death. The othv r four children,' awakened by the noise, were bat as the first had been, to silence them. The babe, being too young to bo danger- ous to the mnme toriude D the t murder" of" the chUdreu as I With one hand each is holding to the I Mr. Fleming, of Richmond, then of- wtsll as tho suicide, and Mra. 1 railing while with the other he clntches I fered the following substitute: according to the alleged confession, Ozburn by his arm, tv bile he sways a J Resolved, by the House that we here- ife looks in a dozed sort of fashion in- I would withdraw his resolution. The ^seeintHJM tiie upturned faces below, but he does I House held She member from Laurens icrv Tha I uot seem to realizethe gravity of the I in the highest esteem, and disapproved I situation. of any disparaging remarks made about 12:38—Everyone has withdrawn from I any of its members. But they should tho gallows but four men—Ozburn. I recognize the power and use of the Jailer Faith, Jailer Miller and Sheriff press, and that it was easier Morrow. I to misrepresent the bouse by reporting The two jailors are standing on eitb-1 from without than from within, if auy- „„„ „„ ^ er side of Ozburn on the narrow shelf I one should so desire. He^therefore re- i mnz^evere "was not harmed, l-between tbe trap and the railing around I quested that its resolution be with- to then had to be written to the gallows. I drown, he murder of the children as with one hand each is holding to the Mr. 1) o suicide, and Mrs. Hanoock. | railing while with the other he clntches fered tl accoruing to the alleged confession, Ozburn by his arm, %hile he sways a I Resol.—, wrote it,, surrounded by the victims of little hack and forth, for tbe supporters I by express our entire confidence in the tiie horrible night's worse. She ? <d tbe I are in a strained position. lability, high character and eminent singe such a ringing cheer went up | Visit tne western ouiuea a uu auuiwo i nouse anu oenswi are mquinug wum i Against any Change. D f _ T . . . .... from these thousands was never I the people in defense ot the alliance I i 8 the matter with the Congressional I .n d, i„i w o-t _rsn<»oian I two men then went away, and the next I The tiiree ropes attached to the trig- 1 usefulness of the member from Laurens, heard before on the campus of Athens. 1 ... hf mention was enmmittees and what is the cause of 1 n, 0 ■ y , * 1 • day she made the announcement of the gers, two dead aad one “alive,” are land express our disapproval of any It is useless for us to attempt to describe I Principles, but no mtniion was committees, ana wnat is tne ca se Couuty School Commiasionars in sea- I frightful discovery she had made on I stretched through the windows as they I personal criticism passed upon him. 'made of any third party | the delay. I sion at LithiajSpring unanimously re-1 coming home. I were in the Washington banging. I Mr. Boifetdllet then read the editorial There was a momentary buzz of con- in this morning’s Telegraph together vorsation, but it was hushed like magic ] with the letter written by Dr. Chappell, tiie arrangements for the meeting. . . KvuryUidy seems to have thrown their I This was a compliment that I highly j lkgistativb gossip. I solved against any radical change in I Mverei£yid"nstM the^ajTf U p P reolate and w 111 ver F likely accept I Today whUe Bob Lewis, the well present school law, and also opposing an Alliance meetFug more than the one I I have ever been a friend and aym- I kaown member £rom Hancock, was in I and condemning any, movement to- | liehl in Athens. When Mayor Brown I pathiser with the farmers, but h ere tO" | b e gidlery talking to some friends, a 1 wards state uniformity of text books, arusn to greet the Alliance men and I fore declined to deliver any speeches iu I « 0 hi n g member of the house called to I Another resolution urges upon publish- ‘ wi *"xi b )!Lted a the 0f h t eartv ty w > elrame I behalf of the A11Unce movement , le6t I the speaker, “aT rivifeged resolution.” ing houses the necessity of having de- wliieh we kWbe could give. We felt my motive he misconstrued. But when The resoluti o n rsad as follows: Re-1 positories in the state. Ohl. tliathe was a gentleman of learning and I it fell to my official duty-to deliver the I go j ve d that Hon. Bob Lewis, o< Han rtilnement and one who knew how to I address of welcome to my farmer! k be invited to seat on the floor of i'SntSd! honour hearts ^ere %M-\ 1 atteraneetothe the House during hisstay in the city, deaed when he went beyond his simple I sentiments that have ever found lodge- I chancellor Boggs, of the University, duty of welcoming onr people, and gave I meat in my heart. And I was glad I waa in tll0 c i t y today. Dr. Boggs will his endorsement to the entire declare- | .hat this opi : 1 mere was a momentary DUZZ oi con- l in tuts myranig s xeiegrayu togeiuer Father Hynee'a App««i. I vorsation, but it wss hushed like magic I with the letter written by Dr. Chappell, Kansas City, Jnly 23.—Father A. M. when thejword “one” rung out from and showed that the paper had acted T rs tv Mr. rrw.niw I Sheriff Morrow; eminently fair in the matter as it had J. Hynes or Fierce Laity, Ao., recently Every eye was fixed upon the frail also published the correot report as it excommunicated by Bishop Hogan of | body standing on the gallows, when the I appeared in the Constitution, this diocese, has appealed from Arch-1 word “two’^sounded out like the voice | Mr. Berner also tbought that the Tel- A NEWSPAPER SOLD. bishop Kenrick of 8L Louis, to Arch bishop Feehan of Chicago. He was ex communicated while making appeal in Rome to be iinm of reprimand by the bishop here. of doom egraph though had acted just and fair and tion of purposes and platform of de mands, that this opportunity Was given me to make an addres#beiore the General As- speak a word of cheer and encourage-1 8em bty ne xt Wednesday in acccordanco Th . Buv _ th _ namoaviiift He was charged with insubordination, escapingfrora his 11 The Alliance Boys the Carneavlll ° He also sues the St Louis archbishop broken by the falL Enterprise—Other Notes. | f or uhel. 1 —“ July 22.—The | Tramps Took tho Train. Carnesville, Ga., . y Alliance Farmer has bought the Eu* aycan » v. j semDiy next cunuauay in acucuru-.uicu i Q j t hia place of L. ment to an honorable and worthy class, J w j t h a resolution introduced this morn- an d will charge of it lOUgl L. J. McConnell Brazil, Ind.,Jnly 23.—A gang ot Civilize the People. | and I also know that it was tbe best Unless the politicians raise a row I day8 work ever done for Athens.” iBrp waiiH ho onw VAFi.h nr anv South I .. .. . • • 1 ing. there won’t be any North or any Somu ■ *«Bnt reverting to the municipal race twenty years from now but will be one 1 ual porting j years united and prosperous country South leone, f, I,., —PI ... . . . Hang I will you demand as yon did before a BILLS BEAD THE FIRST TIME. the politicians, civilize the people; pat- I primary election.” roniM Skiff the jewejer, __ use nis dia-1 t ,j mogt undoubtedly will, moud spectacles and let the good work K°on. THE NEW PRINCIPAL. **r. D. L. Earnest, of Alabama, Elec ted Yesterday. Tbe board ot education held a meet- ln K lyesterday to elect a sneoessor to Frof. T. J. Simmons. Mr, D. L. Earnes t, a young gentle man and refined scholar from Alabama was chosen to he principal of Washing ton Street School. Miss M. A. Bacon nsigned her posi tion as assistant principal, and the By Sapp of Chattahoochee^—To re peal section 829 of the code which pro vides for the return for taxation of For unless I am given office at the I plantations and nihies on the line be- harnls of my own people and party 11 tween two counties. prefer being retired to the shades of By Lark of Clay.—To amend section I indicting several wounds, they are not nrivate life.” 1299 the code providing for making affi-1 dangerous. Whiskey is said to he the P ‘davits in trials of criminal cases in cause of the trouble. No arrests have I been nuiue> iunty courts. Rev. w. M Rampley left here this By Mattox of Clinch.—To establish morning to visit relatives at Baldwyn, .t Could not l«v. B.en For PHnUnel a tce blll (ot , who , M de, MM Ko „, . ( „ m „ u , lDg eil Lottery . Ads. services required by the state. miles from this place has 40 acres in The.arrest of Editor Harry Brown, of | By Dodson of Clayton.—To mcor-1 cultivation on his farm that is cultiyat be ran ns an^AnianwsheetandwiU be hoarded a west bound V.uidaKa freight edited by Joe Scott, this is the report as .i Q ... f we get it and is thought to be true. tr,jn »t Greencawle. They badly beat i | The paper committee of the Alliance is the conductor and ran the train to suit I now in session and it is thought the I themselves. The conductor telegraphed » will take permanent shape before tne-polieo here to he the depot. In J 0urns . attempting to- arrest them a fight« Joe Cole and Pate Eaton had a difl- "bed, in which revolvers and knr cully at a picnic on Nails creek Saturday were used. The police succeeded in in whiob Cole cot Eaton several tinna I ^mg twelve of the number m jaiL Crawfords vzujs, withdrawn ass. BL. B I _ into >m bis lips as bis neck was I which was'passed. * So all parties seem satisfied, and Mr. Waters still retains his seat. Only a few local bills were introduc ed this morning, and only one of any. importance whatever. Mr. Jackson, of Heard introduced a bill which hesays, if it becomes a law will increase the standard of fertilizers from iWoadcB. July 94.—The | we net it and is thought to be true. I to,in at Oreencastle. They badly beat northern part of Montgomery oounty two to four. It prescribes regulations — ° - - ..... . I *v.. —— 4i.» *- —a I mTU q »n^ f!Bnfaip nrmn-ty ura Un- by which the manufacturers will be tag visited witirstrenge ineects. They ^ Iled to make a purer * U * Uty ot come in clouds at> thick as to darken the j Senate bills were then put on a second houste a« they pass,and a person get-1 rending, and a few were taken up fora ting among, them cannot avoid taking I tid*d time. 9 ttarndwrik-1.Jgf EDITOR BROWN’S ARREST. TO. Tormina. Hoanqumtor. . rf » tatag .bool tho .lm ot. Hrao, » ^rio7?oa« Atlanta, G.„ J.1, BHWO-1 'ffig $. The lease of the Kiser building to the Terminal company for offices was | closed today. That building is the new one oppo site the Chamber of Commerce. The thn Alliance Farmer in Atfanta, was I porate the “Farmers and Merchants' ed by two hired hands, 20 acres of it in Terminal takes four floors, corner store u Rnnk of Georgia’ at Jonesboro Geor-1 corn and 20 in cotton. The cotton crop room on first floor and basement,paying something of a sensation. | Bank of Georgia at Jonesboro ueor |. fa ** ^ make !« b.les of cotton | $l4fM0 year rental . The g enera i But it la probable that it will all end gia. 1 or more. He hires his hands for wages. , ... „ „ in smoke I By Sibley of Cobb.—To 'amend the I and thinks his cotton crop will pay all I offices will bo moved lost as soon as the and that such being sent through the Georgia. bands. He is just a plaon commAii- eral Comptrollerslnp of company. To A Convict Pardoned. I m oii« mu a violation of the law. M By .Seay of Floyd.—To change the sense, practical larmer. He has a hay handle all the money, and will proba- AT r ,,,G... J „, y «.-IS^.l- “SrGV.U.„ 1 .-rTi..-,-t.r-L r Xl«l-»rK T . < . HE&’SftSSffWSS K 1 ^^ lhe Governor has issued • pardon • to I ^ uonoerning the arrest of his asso-1 By Seay of Floyd.—To require each 1 pg,. hundred pounds that is almost all, Albert Selery sent up from Muscogee in I and Baid it all must have been land every miller or manufacturer of | clean money, as be has sold about 3 tons Military Matters in Georgia. 1882 for life for arson. All the surviv- L * A pd on a mistake. The Alliance flour or meal to print on sack the up to this time that the gathering it has Atlan ia, Ga , July 23.—[Special.— ing grand and traverse Jurors signed naflfcfcgWdo with 1 adver- numberof^nnfisRcontains. f&tRril?TtoS The MaoOU H 1 U68 5 8 have beeH trans ‘ the petition for Selery’s pardon, also ti9 . con tracts. The spaco is all rent- By Martin of Fulton.—To incorpor- orops from th i s meadow and the second lorr f d 10 tl,e fl,th Kliment; they have the Solicitor-General and a number of ^ to j^i c h 0 i s and Holliday, who fill it ale the Georgia Banking and Loan will be better than the first. This is a been in first Batalion. The (change is *" * ■ M - - - * * tip with different advertisements and company of Atlanta. | very strong evidence that > there is no | made because, jis they put it, the Sa- are responsible for them. ^ By Marlin ofFnlt Mr Gantt was satisfied that nothing ate the Georgia Mineral railroad. By Harris of Quitman. To require corner lots surveyed by county survey ors to be marjted by blocks of stone or officials, all of whom united in saying •bat he had been sufficiently punished for the crime lie committed. Tbz Dispensary Bill Finished.— The bill to establish a dispensary in Athena has been completed and will be sent at once to Col. Morton to be intro duced into the General Assembly. It is Pretty much Pared at P‘Sted bill piuT'uc- i» — “j r erection in tylih-hti .... are made they shall be equitably divid- jelight by her citizens, lupwiij VTA. UVITOUVU, 1 v O 1*1 X By Maxtin ofFulton.—To incorpor- ® XCU8e * or s0 muc “ ooniplaint among van nab people are more their sort than y ^ I farmers, as earnest efforts will always I pay in any pursuit. would come of the arrest. A-*. -TO It Will Succeed.—The new compa- nv formed to erect a furniture facto,j, JV I • " I - U X ' «toof nr/10 TV^C B\XKERj The House adjourned at 12:30, an in vitation beiDg issused by resolution to tbe Colored Farmers’ Alliance, who were in the gallery to come on the floor They’re After It.—The Georgia editors are after the New York World with a sharp -Stick. W hile in New York they were not treated well by the World, and now the}' are now back up on tlieir native heath, they will show the Pulitzer organ tliht the Georgia Weekly press is not to be snubbed even by a great New York uaily. the At antians. Tomorrow the advisory board meets and the encampment will be discussed. Ohl. a cross -between a bop and a fly, and it vorce is filed. took the swarm thn.« days to pate a The bill originated in the Senate, and given point. They are traveling in an was introduced by Senator Harp, of the easterly direction. The insects harmed 1 24th District. It passed that body and none of the growing crops, and their came up 'to-day for passage in the strange appearance has caused much House. After some disscussion the bill wonder. A local scientist has asserted l passed by the requisite majority, that the insect’s name is "tripidas fol- Another Senate bill introduced by len.” Senator Lanier, from the Ninth, for tbe ' " (protection of landlords, was, after much discussion defeated. CALHOUN DIVINE, J The House adjourned about ten - Tt ~ „ ., I minutes before one, after granting al- Who Stayed a Ne«ro In Memphis, Does mogt en0U jrh leaves of absence tO leave Not Recollect it. them without a quorum to-morrow. Memphis, July 94.—Dr. Divine, father I in the senate. of Qnlhnnn Divine, the young man A bill was introduced by Senator Cul- who killed Jake Waller, the colored ver providing that all executions shall . , j l a. v __ take place in private and not in the dis- haokman, on Monday night last, baa Lretion of the judge, arrived in the city from Atlanta, and is I The house bill introduced by Mr; 9 stopping at the Gayoso hotel. Dr. Di- Goodwin to prohibit blacklisting by vine is a man of fine physical appear- Kallr0ad f a “ d 9 tlie lJ l c ?/P 0 .^f t j 0n 5* xl . KK . j The bill of Mr. Boifeuillet, of Bibb, ance and (to years of age. He seemed I ^ h a ve the school commissioner elected, much worried on account of his son’s I by the people instead of appointed by conduct. Be Btatedthat he had no idea the governor came up in Senate repor- B of his son’s whereabouts until he heard I ted adversely It was voted on bus from him in Memphis. He states that vote was not announced, and whole his son has been wild for some years, I business was tabled, but of a pleasant disposition, when at himself, and not under the influence of ... liquor. Tbe doctor will be in the city They Will be Here Soon.—Time for several days, or long enough to as- passes very rapidly and it will only be They Await Its Coming.—The peo- pl , of Atl fnta are as much stirred up o' •> the Georgia, Carolina & Northern road as the citizens of Athens. They anxiously await its coming. certain all theparticnlarsof the tragedy, and make arrangements to employ counsel when the trial comes up. Cal houn Divine still insists that he remem bers nothing of the killing. a little more than a month until the Lncy Cobb girls return, followed in a few weeks thereafter by the University boys. Indications point to a large at tendance next session upon all of tha educational institutions iu Athens,