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ATHENS BANNER = TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27 1891 sr Published Dally, Weekly and Sunday, by ptHK ATHENS PUBLISHING CO. BEMSEN CRAWFORD Managing Editor. 0 D. FLANIGEN,... Business Manager. Tn* ATHENS uailt BAnnek Is delivered by carriers in the city, or mailed, postage bee, to apjr address at the following rates: $6.00 per •e-i, $8.00 for si* month ,|l.so for three months nw weekly or Sunday Banner $1 .O' per year, to rents for 6 months. Invariably Cash load- atoe. Transient advert’sements will be Inserted at the rate of $M*'P r square for the first Insertion, aac. Ween's for eaeh subsequent insertion, ex* adverbaementa, eon ract ,on woieh special oen t rates can bo obtained. Local notices will be charged at the rate of 10 cents per line each insertion, except when con tracted for extended periods, wh n special rates will bo made. Remittances may be made by express, postal note, mosey order or registered letter. All business communications should bo ad- drosied to the Badness Manager Subscribers are requested to prompt ly notify tiie business office of late de ll very, failure to carry papers to porch es or failure to deliver with absolute regularity on tbe part of the carriers. Such notification Is tbe only means of knowing of the existence of any cause for complaint and will be appreciated accordingly. 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. T.TTBl ATHENS HARDWARE CO (SUCCESSORS TO CHILDS NCKKER A Co,) SMITH improved Cotton Gins, Feeders and condensers. Vith or without R,. Vo! We are alio agents f or Fairbanks and Victor VTiiteley Machines standard H ay Rakes, Also, D«al«ks ir Seneral Hardware Sash, Doors, Slubber and Leather Belting, Correspondence solicited. Price LUt furnished upon application. 248 and 250 EAST BROAD STREET, July 41—wB*". GRAND PREMIUM OFFER! JL SET OF* THE In Twelve Large Volumes, Which we Offer with a Year’s Subscription to this Paper for a Trifle More Onr Regular Subscription Price. 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Frank." shouted a smothered voice close to her ear. “are yon there yet?’ • - Frances jnaija-d to her feet and ran to the telephone “Dear me. 1 left the receiver hanging d»wn and they could not ring the bell." She put it to her ear and shouted back through the transmitter: “Yes. I’m here; what is it? 1 ' ‘Don't you forget to send that thou sand up on the stage tonight to Logtown. Tom says there’s at le;ist $10,000 in sight, j Motley is a schoolmarm, and don’t know | it. Don’t forget, now Good by." i Frank’s pretty eyes and mouth spread x> ,1 _ c m*j.i wider and wider as those words came DG6CI&, BoDCiS for Ti.tl.6S, out of the wonderful little instrument. Mortgages, Notes, etc., 8-t “For goodness sake! who is he talk BANNER fob office jpg to? Oh, jr-e-s! why, jl. must to &> " DOMBEY AND SON, BLEAK HOUSE, LITTLE DORRIT, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 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