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ATHENS BANNER = TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27 1891
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BEMSEN CRAWFORD Managing Editor.
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CLARKE’S GRAND JURY-
In yesterday’s issue of The Ban
ner tbe full presentments of tbe
Grand Jnry of Clarke county were
to be found. By those presentments
we find that tbe affairs of Clarke
county are safe in the hands of her
present officers.
Judge Herrington and all the other
county officers are to be congratula
ted for their faithful service and for
the interest they manifest in doing
the'work that falls to them for the
pet pie of tbe county.
We congratulate the Grand Jury
for their frank expression of opinion
. on all matters that came before them.
j The presentments are made in clear
; foiceful diction and tbe jurors have
spoken plainly and to the point.
; Jury service is one of the duties of
citizenship that puts 4 honesty of
: opinion at a stern teat, and these ju-
• rors have stood that teat most honor
ably. Clarke county will keep -her
- eye on these men henceforth and
, point them out with pardonable pride
.* as men who honor her.
its business through that port? It
would build up the State of Georgia
in the same way that the magnificent
harbor of New York has built up
the whole State of New York and the
adjacent ports of New Jersey and
Connecticut. If a city as populous
and as busy as New York was built
up right at Savannah It would bene
fit D ;de and Rabun as well as Chat*
ham in the same way that New York
City makes business and creates a
market lor the remotest county in
that State.
Oar representative in congress
when he works for tbe appropriation
for Savannah harbor is doing aer~
vice to bis constituents here in the
hills. Every congressman from Geor
gia is a representative of Savannah
harbor, although he may not repre
sent Savannah City. All shoulders
ought to be put to this wheel.
Tbe practicability of getting a sat
isfactory ship channel to the sea from
A WILD NEGRO MAN
FOUND BY A SHERIFF ASLEEP
THE WOODS,
Crime of the blackest stain is report
ed from Danielsville.
It seems that the whole section of
country from here to our neighboring
town in Madison is iufested with vil-
lainious negro criminals almost run
ning wild >n tbe woods.
Two dispatches from our Daniels-
ville correspondent given below tell a
wonderful story that reads more like a
tale from life on the. frontier or from
the wilds of darkest Africa.
The first dispatch tells of the assassi
nation of a negro woman by her hus
band in cold blood and the particulars
are peculiarly interesting.
THE DEADLY SHOT GUN.
debatable question. Nothing but
money is needed. Tbe river Clyde
at Glasgow a hundred years ago had
only seven and a half feet; now
there are acres of safe anchorage of
over thirty feet and carrying that
same water all tbe way to the mouth
Money did it. Dredging and dig
ging lowered the bottom. That’s ail
yon have to do anywhere. The sur
face of the water will remain the
same—all you have to do is to lower
tbe bottom, and you get deep water.
SOMEBODY’S MISTAKEN-
JOHN M. ROBINSON DENIES MR.
BELL'S STATEMENTS.
A SHOT GUN BY HIM.
Some Black Crains Reported From
Madison County—A Negro Wo
man Assassinated By Her
Husband.
TEE ROAD AGENT.
[Special u> Banner.]—Danielsville
the wharves at Savannah is not a *Oct. 21 —Yesterday eveniug Je -
the wharves at oavannan is not a 8ie Harris, colored, who lives on D. P.
WE’LL HAVE THAT MAIL!
The G C. A N. Railroad Is not to
Blame It Seems—Not Let the
Post Office Authorities
Speak out In Meeting—
What’s the Matter?
*' COD KEEP THEE, HENRY f
One cold rainy night, several years
ago, the writer of this paragraph
stood witness to a little incident that
is recalled with striking emphasis
, just at this time.
It was In tbe ballwsy of the com-
* fortable home of Mrs. A. E. Grady,
/ mother of the. peerless Georgian who
. had just retired to his room early in
. order to awake in time to catch a
1 train next morning for Atlanta, after
/ a visit to bis mother in this city.
The good woman, with the tender
care that comes of a mother’s undy
ing love, bad just been in to tuck the
- cover closely around her renowned
son, and give him her heart’s best
V good night kiss. Turning in the
door-way to look back upon her
’ “precious boy” as she always called
.. him, and lost to all surroundings in
-■‘ the deep love she bore him, the ven-
• arable mother with an impassioned
- tone said: “God keep thee, Henry P*
i and a tear shone in her eye as she
■'spoke and closed the door.
It was the last visit Mr. Grady
his mother here in Athens,
by iu,
. saw him again he was on
^ Ed
Shepard. * *
Southern’ w0 " i3 echoed io the
Somebody is at error—sure I
Not many days ago the Banner be
gan to urge the post office authorities to
put a mail servive over the Georgia,
Carolina & Northern railroad.
Congressman H. H. Carlton bad for
sometime been working to that end,,
too. He had been writing to tbe post
office department in Washington about
the ma* ter and gave to the Banner a
letter from Mr. J. Lowrie Bell, Aa’t.
Postmaster-General. The letter was
published, in which the department
claimed that the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern had refused to haul tbe gov
ernment mail for less than tbe maxi
mum rate allowed railroads by the
United States for carrying mails. As
the section of country would not give
sufficient mail to pay these rates, the
department declared it impossible to
give service to Athens over the new
road.
Now comes a letter from Mr. John
M. Bobiuson, president of the Seaboard
Air Line as follows:
mb. robinson’s letter.
Baltimore, Oc. 5th, ’gl.
Hon. H. H. Carlton. Athens, Ga.
Dear Sir:—I have noticed in tbe Ath
ens Banner the communication from
tbe Hon. J. Lowrie Bell, Second Asst.
Post Master General, giving his reasons
why mail facilitii s are not afforded on
the Georgia, Carolina* Northern 1. R.
I have only to say, that Mr. Bell has
refused to pay the Georgia, Carolina A
Northern R. R the minimum, allowed
by the Post Office Department for the
carriage of mails, which’ would not
more than cover onr expenses for do
ing the service. The moment the Post
Office Department is prepared to pay
us, tbe same compensation as is al’ow-
ed by tbe Government to other Rail
road Companies, we are *— nareu to
carry the maijg Tndy-jouts ’
Jno. *1. Robinson,President.
' J AND WHAT NEXT 1
Moon’s place near Paoli, got on th
war path and with a shot gun fired a
load of buckshot into tbe bowelsof his
wife. He then struck her over tbe
head with the empty gun, bendiug tbe
barrel Leaving her for dead, he ran
away; butShetiff Brooks caught him
within less than thirty minutes and iu
less than two hours he bad been tied
and landed in jail.
Physicians say bis wife will die.
Tue negro’s only reason for commit
ting this outrageous crimp is that he
loved bis wife and wanted to get her
out of his way.
He says if she dies be wants to b«:
hung, but if she lives be will be satis
fled to go to tbe penitentiary for life.
ASLRKP IN THE WOODS.
Danielsville, Ga.. Oct. 21.—[Spe
cial ]— sheriff Brooks has just landed
in jail a yellow negro weighing about
166 pounds, says be is about twenty
years old. Tbe negro was found iu the
woods asleep wi'b a shotgun in his
bauds.
The Sheriff is holding him ^on suspi
cion, as he has evidently committed
some crime.
He has given himself two or three
names viz: Tom Harris, John Harris,
and several others.
He was well loaded with ammunition
audalso bad with him several railroad*
spikt s which seem to have been used
to open some door. He also bad a
deck of curds and eom» dice.
He claims that gambling is his pro
fession and says he o&me from old Vir
ginia. He is a bad looking negro, and
must be a desperado.
Mixed paint*, an: colors, linseed nil,
varnish* s. paint brush* s, * to , at Pal
mer A Kinnebrew, 105 Clayton street,
< pposite post office.
Wowing throng that gathered
L-ahout his image in Atlanta yester
day speak out! “ God keep thee,
Henry!” und the sentiment finds
tenderest response in the heart of
every Athenian who knew best how
, 0 to love him 1.
A GEORGIA SEAPORT.
Toe strictest constructionist must
Ladmit that the improvement of a har
bor is a general and not a local work
I and that money expended in this way
is legitimately appropriated. Savan
^nah harbor is the main entrance to
^Georgia from .ail the outside world.
^ike whole State is interested in its
recondition. It is not local in its ben
lefitaaod per contra its advantages
(Jure felt all over the country which
j oses it or could use it. We people
I lo Athens want a gooii harbor at Sa
vannah as much as the Savannah
people do. We will use it for our
business ju-t precisely as they would.
Suppose, for example, that money
|cxpendedat Savannah would make
a harbor there as good as New York
harbor, can any one doubt the enor
mous advantage that achievement
would be to the country transactin
SOME SILLY SMILES.
For Poultry raisers: Feed your chick
ens at least a peck at each meal —De
troit Free Press.
The woman who cannot keep a secret
manages to hold her age all wright.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
“This is a regular sugar loaf,” said
the candy-store clerk when business
was dull.—Washington Star.
We have noticed that tbe longer a
ma ’s mustache is the more fond he is of
milk and soup.—Atchison Globe.
Tbe women writers are m dern
witches; at least they indulge iu iuk-
ant&tions.—Biughimtou Republican.
By the fitness of things electrical ap
peals ought to be brought before the
Circuit Court.—Baltimore American.
There’s a vast difference between
wreckless railreading and reckless rail
roading, thanks to our handy language.
—Albany Sun. *
There are one hundred good lessons
you can learn from the fa ling leaves.
One is that when you take a drop too
much you are likely to be picked up. —
Baltimore American.
It is a well-established principle of
ecomies that the youug man who gets
up with the sun should not stay m> later
than 10 o’clock with the daughter.—
Lancaster Times.
Friend: And who is this beautiful
silver service from ? Bride. That is
from Put, Assunder *fe Co., the celebra
ted divorce lawyers. They also sent
their divorce circular.—Yankee Blade.
The four horse mud wagon, called by
common consent a stage, which rau be
tween Bn key s and Logtown. was crawl
ing up the long grade which cor:;.-crewed
anmnd to the summit of Pilot Knob It
was iRumirf to do this in order that a
good preparatory start might he had for
the succeeding rattling plunge down
the *>th ir corkscrew road which led to
Lugtov-Ti
By the side of Black Pete, the driver
sat au eastern importation of the genus
•drummer ' Pete rolled nis tobacco into
his cheek, snapped a fly off tue ear of his
leader and mid
‘No sir. I don't git ni» pay fer fightin
and I don't do no fightin for ther com
pany If ary galoot -tops this hyei
stage and periitely like .taks for the cash
box. lie’s a gwitie ter get it Taint no
use. no ways, to fight them fellers, they
always hev ther drap on ye.”
•But.” mill the drummer, “were you
ever robbed, on this route?*'
•Wal tv* out I've seed fellers loafing
round heer ez I've thought mought do it
Home time or other.’
•And if they did stop yon. yon would
give--them the express box and drive on
ehy o
•You bet: If ther express company
wants to pertect ther box they must send
a messenger along with it.”
The stage crawled slowly np to the
top of the bill, and Black Petesettled hit
foot firmly on the brake strap, and with
a “Beat ’em, boys!'' tb«- sweating horse*
started to investigate ihe mysteries o<
the almost invisible road below them on
a keen gallop
Round and round the rapidly varying
road the stage and pa- engers whirled
sometimes losing sight of the horse*
around the sharp turn* and again slew
ing sharply outward toward the danger
ons edge of the canyon which yawned
below them The sun was down and
the moon was painting weird shadow*
on the powdered dust of the grade.
It was jnst the time for the imagine
tiou to picture scenes of violence, rob
bery and blood Suddenly the chapar
ral bushes by the roadside slightly part
ed. and a long, shining, black object
was waved over them toward the stage
A shadowy figure rose in the moonligb:
among tbe bnshes. and from behind a
black veil, which smothered the voic*-
somewhat, came the hoarse command
“Stop! Stop!”
Black Pete hurriedly pushed bis foot
heavily down upon the brake, reach**
down into the bottom of the stage,
palled out the express box and threw ii
into the road, mattering;
•*Cnss ye. take it!"
The restless horses immediately plung
ed away iuto the shadows of the forest
"Wa— was that a highwayman?”gasp
ed the drummer
“In course it was,” answered Pete
•Didn’t yer see ther shooting iron? That
goes a cool thousand dollars, as 1 know*
now Yon Imt ther boys'll be ont arte:
him tonight. I shouhln t wonder if that
war old Bart himself He's, a coo! one
he is He always shoots his mouth of!
in some poetry. He leaves it in the !»x
when he gets through with it Didn’t
yer notice how level be held that that
shooting iron right toward me?”
Tbe lights of Logtown now glistened
below them, aud a few turns of the cork
screw road brought the stage up to tbe
hotel porch where it stopped with a load
’•Whoa!” from Pete ”
Not many minutes elapsed before tlie
prophecy of Pete was realized, for as
soon as the story of the bold robbery of
Wells & Fargo’s box was related a dozen
or so ready miners volunteered to search
the woods for the road agent After half
an .hour's swearing and drinking over
the matter they saddled their horses and
started for tbe scene of the robbery.
Now, since it seem that the depart-
Georgia this day, let m ent has labored under the cloud of a
mistake, so to speak, it seems that the
trouble can very easily be adjusted.
It ought to be.
Athens needs this mail service and it
isn’t worth whilefor the Postmaster
General to monkey any longer about it.
Try BUCCJKjDRAUGHT tea for Dyspeptic.
Johnston’s history of (he United
States, th e-book that teaches that our
fathers who died on the bloody field of
battle on tbe biiltop9 of Virginia were
traitors and out-laws, this book now iu
$he bands of the Junior class at the
State University is out of its climate.
It belongs not to this land of Sontbern
honor, Southern chivalry and Southern
pride. Take it away 1
A project is on foot to build a tower
at, the World’s fair that will be higher
than the celebrated one built by M.
Eifle 1 at Paris. We suppose this will
be <lone in order to give people an op
portunity to look over tbe tops of the
new buildings that Chicagoans are now
erecting.
SiACK.OWl)OWT v» -nr*« * ;nnsm>ftttw\
The South in good faith bowed its
head to the north at Appomattox,but the
South lost none of its honor andpride by
the act. The South would teacb,hor sons
and her daughters that while they have
much to be thankful for they have no
thing to regret. A history that te&cbes
a contrary doctriue is o ut of date in the
South to-day.
I wonder what idea you have of a
thousand million dollars. I have got
about as much idea of it as I have about
the size of the moon or about tbe dis
tance of tbe stars. Ex-Speaker R&ed.
A thousand million dollars, Mr.
Reed, is just the amount of the expen
ditures of the last Congress. Perhaps
this illustration may serve to enlighten
you somewhat.—Boston Herald. •
It ought to.
Ir the legislature of Georgia cannot
complete its work in forty days, as the
constitution requires, it should adjourn
sine die and wait for the Government
to call an extra session for what work is
necessary.—Albany News and Adver
tiser.
Exactly; why hasn’t the state of
Georgia caught the idea long ago?
The three Chicago newspaper repor-
ers who were killed in a railroad acci
dent there on Thursday deserve to rauk
as martyrs to duty. They were detail
ed to write up au article describing a
night ride on a locomotive, and they
met their fate at their post. All honor
tettbem!
The Savannah Morning News notes
that Hon. Gazaway Hariridge expects
to re-enter the newspaper field as a
Washington correspondent this winter.
He will probably represent a syndicate
of southern papers
Now that Abe Berner bill is dead and
the legislature adjourned it will be a
trifle interesting to|wa!ch tbe stock mar
ket on Richmond Terminal.—Bruns
wick Times.
Indeed! and market, good brother,
that the “ depression” as ’twas called
still “depresses.” Why this thus ness ?
The Columbia county fair at Harlem
will open on the 27th inst, closing on
the 29th. It will be a great event for
the people of that section of Georgia.
it was >1 little, cramped up, belter
skelter mining town among the Sierras
One need not rise early in Scar’s Hole to
see tbe sun rise, for he will not see it if he
does. Old Sol is never visible there un
til 10 in the morning The rough, pic
turesque cabins, looking Tor all the world
like dilapidated dice thrown at random
from the box. were built deep down in a
hole between the surrounding peaks
And yet they actually had a telephone
connecting them with the outside world
The denizens of Scar’s Hole were not
given to an indulgence in business cop}-
muuicatious with the great oom’r.erciffl
centers, but their telephone was the
means of preventing jjiyjly of the in
habitants from .iulng the remainder
of early days at toe insane asylum
Such was their inborn detestation ol
any man who followed any pursuits
which did not require active labor with
bis hands, and sneb was their ohividric
devotion to the fair sex that the man
agement of their part of the telephone
was given to a young lady of the name
of Frances Goldsmith
On the afternoon ot .June 29. 1880
Miss Frank, as she was usually called
Bat in the little telephone Office waiting
for the nightly crowd of m-july gossip-
era to come to it The litHe rocking
chair in which she sat went bumping to
and fro noisily and nervously npon the
pine floor, and the tiny slippered foot
beat a nervous tattoo iu unison with it.
•‘It’s too bad.” she cried, impetuously
•for Charlie to work dowu in that old
hole m the ground ail the winter, aud
then sell out for a paltry thousand. And
he’s doing it just so lie can be married
tiiis summer:” and a pretty little wave
of blood swept over the sweet neck and
face He shan't do it Chaxlie don’t
know anything about a mine, and he
might have a little bonauza and not
know it -J ust hear the dear simpleton!'
Mr I’KEciom* Frank Honn is negotiating
with me fur my claim, and in* offers ran. Sl.iXX)
cadi I Have nut vet accepted it. nut i nave
Bokey They've been talking together,
and Downey has stopped and switched
my end on. Motley is a schoolmarm, is
ne? There's $10.000in sight, and Charlie
doesn’t know it, lind the money is going
np there on the stage from Bokey to-
night Oh. dear! what shall I do v IT
go up there I will it’s only eighi j
miles, and it’s twenty from Bokey. It’s i
5 o’clock and the stage gets there at 9." :
Frank was a California girl, and there •
was no perils to her on tbe eight mile •
trail to Logtown. and if there had been.;
the slur cast upou Charlie's keenness
and the eager desire to save that “$10.00t j
in sight” for him. wonld have been suffi
cient incentives to induce her to dare
them, though she knew they awaited
her. Running over to the postoffice,
she hurriedly engaged the young clerk j
to take care’of the insitrnment for her 1
and. dashing back to her room, soon ap
peared ready for the eight mile walk to >
Logtown.
' The sun was yet very hot, although al- >
most down behind the hills The trail
was steep and rooky; but Frank pushed;
on. muttering to ‘ herself, when she felt j
so tired she was tempted to sit down
and rest
“Charlie’s a schoolmarm. is be? Ten
thousand dollars iu sight, and he doesn’t
know, it, eh? Well, he shall know it
and have all the credit of the discovery !
too—there, now I'
Up. np down. down, around and
around wound the mountain trail, and
Frank wound with it. until tired, dusty
breathless, hoarse and almost crying
she saw the county highway in the sons |
ber moonlight jnst below her. ,
Jnst as she reached the roadside and <
was about to push through the chapar- j
ral which here reached to hen shoulders!
she heard the rambling stagecoach com j
ing aronnd the bend close to her With
the despair:'-'--: resolve to go in at least
with the stage if she conld not before it!
she pushed b< r parasol through th<
bnshes and waved it to the driver
shouting at the same time, hoarse from
her excitement;
“Stop! Stop!’
Bnt to her astonishment and dismay,
instead of. stopping the driver reached
down into the lioot. aud with a “Uust
yer. take it?" threw a heavy box into tin
road and. lashing his four-in-hand into a
ran. disappeared down the canyon.
Poor Frank crouched down into th*
chaparral in despair
•Oh. dear! i haven't walked ther*
and I've lost the stage, and p<x>r Charlif
-oh. dear met”
The spirit of a genuine California girl
:s uot easily overcome with despair, and
Fiank was a genuine California girl, an*!
she was not to be beaten n 11 til she was. Sh*
got np. pnilen her black veil tighter ovei
her moist face and bravely started on
again to Logtown it was not far. an* I
not a half hour elapsed before she saw
the lights of the little wimp scattered
aronnd in the canyon below her
Breathless aud panting she hurned on
to the tavern A great crowd of mer
were excitedly swearing and threaten
mg on the porch. Some were in th*
street cincliing saddles 011 to their horses
and in their midst stood Black Pete, th*
stage driver.
‘Don’t 1 know?" he was angrily shout
ing. “I tell yer twar only a mile back
an ther cuss shoved his shooting iron
right under tny nose. . Why didn't 1 ran
fer it? Thar war two nv ’em thar. in
sure as fightin."
Pretty soon, with a yell and a whoop
twenty men galloped np the road with a
suggestive looking rope dangling from
one of tbe saddles.
Poor Frank hastened to find Charlie
She fonnd him sitting disconsolately on
the back porch
"Why. Frank, what in the world are
you doing here?"
“Oh. Charlie, have yon sold that mine
yet? Am I too late?"
“Too late for what? Sold it? No; and
I don't believe I can. That man Benn
sent the money np by express, and a road
agent got away with the stage tonight
and the money went with it. 1 don’t
believe he'll risk another thousand on a
played ont mine.’
“Oh, goodie!” cned Frank ..‘f ee got
..ere in tune Road agent! That is to<
rich! Oh. dear, I Shall die!" Frank’*
voice ended in a high squeak of langhtei
•Frank, what is the matter? What d*
m about the road agent?"
k was holding her sides in despan
of stopping her irrepressible laughter
' Road agent? There wasn't any roac
agent at all 1 stopped the stage to get
on, and the driver threw a box at me."
“What does this mean. Frank? Tel,
me. What were yon doing ou the roao
at this time of night, and all alone?”
It took a long time to get the story
oat, bnt she did. while Charlie stood
with his month open wide enough t<
represent his played ont claim with
“$10,000 in sight"
No sooner had Frank told her story
than be canght her in his arms with a
wild shout.
“You little darling, yon shall have
every cent of it!”
About two hours afterward a file oi
disconsolate, disgusted horsemen select
ed their way up to the tavern, with a
“suggestive rope dangling from one oi
the saddles" and a box containing $1,000
It is sufficient to relate that Charlie
did not sell his “$10,000 iu sight,” bnt
on the contrary, received a much larger
sum—sufficient, in fa *. to make him a
happier mm fiuanda.iy and matrimo
niaily. When enough of the story had
been told in the barroom to account foi
the stopping of the stage. Black Pett
had to provide for a smile all aronnd
with a continuendo.—St. Louis Repub
lie.
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