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VISTS JOHNSTOWI
TALMAGK STOPS OVER AT
STRICKEN CITY IN HIS WKS1
ERN JOURNEY.
L* j—
"Wpjos of Hope and Encouragement in
the Survivors—Wreck cf a Cnee
Beatiful CIty-The Gorged
Grave Yard.
THE BANNER ATHENS,
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER.
Special to The Banner.
.Johnston, Pa. July 25.—First when
j came here to day I was impressed
with the courage and pluck of the sur
vivors of the catastrophe. They will
hy the help of outsiders, rebuild their
oity, and in five years it will be a more
prosperous place than it ever was. They
are an honest people and can get any
amount of commercial credit they ask
for. Many of the citizens temporarily
absent will return, and comfortable
homes, large storehouses and grea
factories will stand where now are aw
ful rains. The stories circulated about
the Johnstown people having lost their
faith in God and given up the Chris
tian religion because of this calamity I
denounce as false and scoundrelly. The
pastors tell me that there was not one
such case. On the contrary, there is
more prayer and Cliistian devotion than
ever before. Even infidels pray. One
of them, the afternoon of the disaster,
in the upper room ef a house which was
rapidly filling with water, was over
heard to pray: “Oh God! if you can,
give me any aid at this time I will be
much obliged to you.” All that story
published through the land about peo
ple of Johnson in disgust burning their
Bibles is a hemispheric falsehood.
The work that has been done here by
their own ministers and phpsicians and
good men and women, and without
compensation, should be spoken of eve
rywhere. In applauding the outside
world, I have neglected to appreci
ate the Johnstown Howards and Flor
ence Nightingales, who may be count
ed iby the score, though they saved
nothing from the wreck exeept the
clothes on their own persons. Let all
the people, North South, East and West
and on both sides of the sea, understand
that in their gifts' to the [flooded dis
tricts they did not do too much or give
too quickly. Not 5 per cent, of the.
anguish has been told.
My heart is wrung with what I have
•seen to-day. Can it be possible that
this is the beautiful and hospitable
Johnstwn that I saw in other days ?
Where once was a street suggesting
Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is a long
ridge ofsand strewn with broken’planks
and twisted iron. At the moment when
a great freshed which had been raging
for hours had begun to assuage a wave
from twelve to twentjNfeet high rolls
oyer tlie already angry w'aters, and on
that surmounting wave floated 800 hou
ses, twenty-eight locomotives from the
round-house and hundreds of people,
many dead, many dying, a mass of
-helpless and appalled humanity. Two
thousand dead discovered and two
thousand missing make me believe that
the story of how many thousand per
ished will never be told until the resur
rection trumped shall be sounded.
To show how accustomed to scenes of
death this district has become, to-day,
while a human body was being taken
out of the ruins and 1 stood looking
aghast at tlie spectacle and the laborers,
no crowd gathered and workmen a hun
dred feet away did not stop their work.
Such an avalanche of wretchedness
never slipped upon any American city.
Horrors piled upon horrors,woe aug
menting woe, bankruptcy, orphanage,
widowhood, childlessness, obliterated
* homesteads, gorged cemeteries and
scenes so excruciating—it is a marvel
that any one could look upon them and
escape insanity. No fear that sympa
thy for Johnstown be overdone! The
two and a half million dollars contribu
ted is a small amount compared with
the thirty millions by this flood demol
ished.
Was the work Of devastation as great
as I supposed ? Far worse. Types can
not tell it. Only the eye can make rev
elation. But the worst part of it cannot
be seen. The heart wreck caused by
the Budden departure of so many can
be open to only one-eye, and that the
All-Seeing. Think of one family of
fourteen all dead except one, and that
the wife and mother, and she the wit
ness of their drowning! I saw tlie grave
trench in w hich 360 were buried and
the whole graveyard like aXational cem
etery, in, which the .unrecognized dead
have a particular number placed above
them and afe recorded in the undertak
er’s rooms with & description of the
body and clothes. I can well under
stand how many of the survivors who
had'buried their kindred before this
disaster occurred thanked God that they
were gone, saying: “Oh, I am so glad
that they escaped this.”
Cowed by the Military.
Duluth, Miun, July 24.—The sti-i
kers at West Superior are quiet, and
will remain so,as long as Gen. Griffin
and the Ean Claire militia remain, bu
the mayor’s authority is laughed at
That official ordered the mob to disperse
the other day, but it greeted the com
mand with derision. However, when
Griffen, the state military officer, or
dered the mayor to repeat the order
for him, the men disappeared like pro
fessional printers.
uses to
suitable
— !«*•
Major Patrick, the Dominoin land
surveyor has struck rich oil deposits in
the Rocky Mountains.
The Rome Tribune is now nearly sur
rendered to the speeches and conj- ■
munications incident to the spirited
prohibition campaign.
J. A. Blalock of Bartlesville,the own
er of Little Cumberland island, has sold
it to the Standard Oil Companp for $5,-.
000.
Upward of half a million dollars have
been subscribed in Syracnse. X. Y% to-
the North
tion.
!
“ Harve Ka*, hews Behind the’ Bars of the
County Jail.
*
The telephone bell at the station bouse
rang Friday night,. and on being an
swered by Policeman Moon.it was asked
if Harve Mathews was wanted there.
Policeman Moon said that he was
wanted and badly wanted. He was
then asked to give a tlescriptiqn of
Mathews, which he did, and in ten min
utes .after the marshall of Lula had him
arrested.
The operator at Lula telegraphed to
Athens, and the agent at Athens tele
phoned Mr. Moon at the station house.
Sheiffff Wier was notified and yester
day he went up to Lula and brought
hiin-to Athens where be was lodged in
.jail to a whit the sheritt’ of Madison coun-
American Sale Associa-
Berry Nail and Mr. Lippe, a Belgian,
both agents for the same house, had a
row' because of a remark made by hy the
latter reflecting on Nail’s busihess.
Supt. S. S. Harmon of the Roff Home
at Macon, has resigned. It will bc’re-
membered that his administration has
been severely criticised lately.
All the alliances in that section will
have a union barbecue at Barnesville
Aug. 2,and preparations are being made
to accommodate 5,000 to 10.000 people.
It is said that the administrators on
A. J. White’s estate at Milner, found
around among his papers on Monday
morning a package containing $65,000
in cash.
Dr. Hamilton, head of the Marine
Hospital Service, has ordered a sharp
lookout kept for the appearance of yel
low feveV. He does not fear its visita
tion, however.
Lewis Bros., one of the largest dry
goods and commission houses in the
country, has made an assignment*
Liabilities are estimated at $4,350'
000.
Thomas A. 'Ammons attended the
meeting of the confederate veterans at
Vienna last Saturday,and had with him
the knife, Bible and hymn book that he
carried through the war.
After a recent rain in Ttiseumbia,
Ala., young catfish, from foui* to seven
inches in length, were picked up all
over the city. They are supposed to
have rained down.
In the Paris circus a trained lion is at
present being exhibtted who rides on
horseback, jumps through hoops and
over bars, fires oft' pistols and performs
a number of similar tricks.
The Parisian theatres have been ob
liged to lower their prices in order to
compete with the novel attractions of
the.exhibition. The prices now range
from 1 franc for the gallery sto 5 francs
$1 to the stalls: balcony and first tiers
of boxes.
Rev. Mr. Primose—“Your mother
doesn’t seem as fond of yon as she might
be.” Little Jolmny—“No, sir. She sayS
if it hadn’t been for me she’d—have bad
sister married years ago.”—Harpers
Bazar.
Proeeedings|Jwere commenced by
United States District Attorney, Read
against the firm of Geore W/ Patton
& Co., wool dealers, of Philadelphia for
recovery of $9,677.70. a balance due the
government for duties on wool,
Father Delles, a Catholic, and a mem
ber of the Protester party, has been el
ected a member of the German Reich
stag for Metz, to take the place of Herr
Antoine, who relinquished his seat and
returned to France.
The sad news comes from the Lick
observatory that the comet discovered
by Prof. Barnard last September lias
lost its tail. Bobtail comets, like bob-
tail horse-cars, can never hope to obtain
the confidence of the public.—New
York World.
Mr. Sissy—“Awthau, what do you
suppose Mister Fwesh meant?” Arthur
—“What did he say?” Mr. Sissy-
Why, I told him that I was about to
be maww’ied and he awsked me what I
was going to wear for my twosseau.
-Philadelphia Press.
Merriman (pointing at organ grinder
and monkey)—“Talk about the evolu
tion of man from the ape! Look at
that!” Graves—“Well; what of it?’
Merriinan-“ Well ; doesn't that disprove
the theory, if anything can? _See; the
man does all tlie work and the monkey
takes all the money !’t—New York
Sun.
The melon business in Clay county
this year has resulted profitably for tlie
growers. Never,before were the returns
so satisfactory. The Fort Gai ues branch
of the Southwestern railroad expects to
ship 500 carloads before the season
closes. There is much enthusiasm among
the planters, and a much large acreage
may be expected next year. ^
Shipments of watermelons from the
thirty-acre farm of Messrs.Rose & Veal
in Pike county, will commence next
week, Wnd it is believed that the culture
of,melons in this section will be shown
to be practicable and profitable. It is
claimed that they reach northern mark
ets-after the products of Southern Geor
gia farms are exhausted, aud, _ there
fore, will find a good market.
How can 1 tell her?
Ey l.er cellar:
Cleanly shelves and whitened wail.
1 can guess U-ir
By her dresser;
By the back staircase and halt
And with pleasure
Take her measure
By the way she keeps her brooms.
Or the peeping ' -
At the Ueepicg
Of her back and unseen rooms.
By iiet- kitchen's air of neatness.
And its general completeness.
Where in cleanliness and sweetness
The rose of order blooms
—Jewish Messenger
A FALSE ALIBI.
tv. ; .
There i> at least a half dozen* different
warrants for Mathews in several, difter-
ent comities.
lie is wanted before the city’ council
here and in Elbert county for-different
offense*.
Mr. Mathews is a young man of good
appear**nees He will have a hard time
pulling through his troubles.
Jefferson Jottings.
Special t > the Banner.
Jkkfkksox, Ga., July 27.—Your cor
respondent hopes that his article in the
Baxxkk of the 25th inst., in which he
made mention that Mr. Elbert Askew’s
name was suggested for mayor, will net
be considered as a want of endorsement
of the present administration. The
presept mayor, Hon. F. M. Bailey, has
filled the office to the satisfaction of all,
and if he wishes endorsement of his ad
ministration, we all will take pleasure
in endorsing it.
Miss Hornaday, of Atlanta, is visiting
the family of Judge Howard.
Judge Howard and his partner, Mr.
Welborn Webb, have just returned from
Eglethorpe.
Jaekson county steps to the front and
reports the fiest crops ever known in
our eduuty.
Judge H. W. Bell, lieutenant of Com
pany C. 18th Georgia regiment, just
back from the reunion at Conyers,
speaks in high terms of the reunion,and
says that Jettevson must do about in
*90 if she excels Conyers.
Englishmen After Our Coal.
Special to The Banner.
Sckaxtox, Pa., July 26.—It is re
ported that agents of an English syndi
cate are making efforts to buy all the coal
leases held by individual operators in
this region.
Shut Down Until 31 o ml ay.
Special to Tlie Banner.
Atlanta, July 26.—-The Fulton Cot
ton Spinning mills in the eastern part
of the city are not naming to-day, and
the operatives are having a short holi
day.
The mills closed down this morning
early in order to have a large cylinder
put in the engine house, which necessi
tated stopping the engine.
For a while it was reported that the
mills had shut dowii for three weeks.
The rumor, however, was groundless,
and the factory will be running again
3Ionday.
' Supposed to be Lost.
Special to The Banner.
Tautox, Mass., July 26.—Dr. Horace
M. Dean, of New Britian, Conn., while
on a canoeing expedition, disappeared.
It is'feared that he was lost while cross
ing Vineyard Sound/in his canoe.
A Tug Boat Sunk.
Special to the Banner.
' New Yokk, July 26.—-The ferry boat,
Brooklyn, of the Hamilton ferry, on
her trip from Brooklyn to this city this
morning, ran into aud sunk the tugboat
Burgess. No one was injured.
Death of 3(rs. Doles.
Mrs.’Gen. Doles died in Atlanta yes
terday. She, was the widow of Gen.
George Doles of Confederate fame.
'Gone at Last.
This morning about 1 o’clock as the
Baxxkk was closing its “forms” a noise
was heard in tlie campus, sounding as
if all the buildings had fallen down.
A Bannkk reporter hurried to the spot,
expecting to find the old Richardson
house a mass of ruins, but imagine liis
disappointment in finding instead that
tlie old Toombs oak had fallen and was
a complete wreck.
The Athens Drummer.
The A then’s drummer is on the jump
all the time, and can be found in every
nook and corner in Northeast and Mid
dle Georgia. They do not care for the
sun or rain, but will go through it all if-
they hear of a merchant wanting a bill
of goods. Athens furnishes some good
men on the road, who are talking up
our city at all times.
Needed in Athens.
If the White Caps will come to Ath
ens they will have some good work • to
do. There are negro loafers und white
loafers in our city who do not work nor
do they propose, to work. There aye
quite a number of young white boys
who would not work if they could, but
are perfectly satisfied if they have a
place to sleep and some one to furnish
grub. .If the White Caps or any other
kind ofx*aps will come they will be wel
come.
There was a long debate in the House
ofCommons[on the royal grants.. Mr.
Smith and Mr. Gladstone spoke in favor
and Mr. Labouchere in opposition.
The man who sits down to deliberately plan
a crime works every point and detail to one
common center—an alibi. The law has com
mon sense enough in this one particular to
presume that a man who is in Boston, for in
stance, when a murder is committed in Cin
cinnati could not have fired the shot or struck
the blow. Therefore, let one accused of crime
prove to the jury that he was at some other
point at a certain critical hour, and he must
be declared innocent. This knowledge makes
the alibi a favorite defense. If net clearly
proved it always raises doubts and affords
opportunity for argument. On the other
hand, however, when an alibi is fairly beaten
by the prosecution, then circumstantial evi
dence becomes the death trap of the accused,
and he has no show.
One of the best laid alibis I ever ran np
against in my career as a detective, and one
of the easiest to work out after 1 got the end
of the thread in hand, was put forward in a
case in Iowa about twenty years ago. The
situation was this: In a small village in the
western part of the state lived a Miss Clarin-
da Moore, a spinster about 45 years of dge.
She was worth $50,000, and she had adopted
a boy named Byron Fergus. At the date of
which I am writing this boy was uo longer a
boy, but a young man of 23. He was em
ployed as a clerk in a dry goods house, and
hoarded and lodged at home. He was adopt
ed at the age of 12, and on the day be reached
his majority Miss Moore made a will leaving
him everything. This fact was known to all
in the village. Fergus was a model young
man. No one could point out a single bad
habit. He was trusted and respected by all,
and had ho been accused of the slightest dis
honesty no one would have . believed the
charge.
In a smaller village six miles away Fergus
had au aunt who was a widow aiul lived
nlone, with the exception of having the com
pany of a servant girt. He was in the habit
of gding over there about once in two months
and remaining over Sunday. On these trips
he drove a horse and buggy belonging to the
village cooper. The horse had a peculiar
habit, which will be described later on. Ono
Saturday evening of a July day Fergus drove
away on ono of these trips. There were two
or three women at the gate in company with
Miss Moore when he drove'away. The only
thing out of the usual run was the remark
that Byron looked rather pole and seemed a
bit nervous, but probably this would never
have been thought of but for what came to
pass;
At 11 o'clock that night there was a thun
der storm, and au insurance agent who was
on the road between the two villages, with
horse aud buggy, drovo into a fence corner
and sheltered himself os well as possible with
the waterproofs. In tho midst of the storm
a horse . and buggy came along. The
driver was so enveloped by waterproofs that
thoageut could not tell whether ho was old or
young, large or small, white or black. At
that spot the road had been lately graded up,
and was very soft. The stranger was urging
t he horse to trot, but the beast found the mud
too deep and could only proceed at n walk. As
the strange horse come opposite thero was a
long, vivid flash of lightning, and the agent
saw that the animal had his head turned tc
the right and his tongue out. This was the
peculiar habit of the cooper’s horse when on
a walk. When trotting he held up his head
and kept this tongue back. The agent identi
fied the horse to his perfect satisfaction, and
called out to the driver, asking who bo was.
Instead of halting or replying the man struck
the horse sharply with the whip and was out
of sight In a moment.
“That's old Sheppard (the cooper) and
he’s afraid l am a highwayman!” laughed
the agent, and, the rain now beginning to
cease, lie made ready to resume bus journey.
Miss Moore was an early riser, and; more
over, never missed church services. As the
day was fine and she was not seen at church,
two or three of her friends called at the
house on their way to ascertain her excuse.
They found the curtains down and the doors
locked. As they knew of young Fergus go
ing to his aunt’s the evening previous, they
reasoned it out that ho must have returned
during the night for Miss Moore, she perhaps
being wanted for an emergency. This theory
satisfied them until aboQt 4 o’clock in the af
ternoon, when one of -them returned to gather
a bouquet of flowers. She then noticed
bloody finger marks on tho back door, and,
trying the door, found .it unlocked,
dared not enter the house, but two or three
men were summoned to make an investiga
tion, and in a few minutes it was discovered
that a murder had been committed. The
dead body of Miss Moore was found in the
sitting room, at the door of her bedroom.
She had been struck three terrible blows with
a-club or other blunt weapon, each ono break
ing the skulL
I was visiting the sheriff at this time, and
we were driving through the village when
the first alarm was sounded. 1 was, there
fore, at the house among the first, lying
placed in chaf&e by the sheriff, I kept the
people oat until I could make an investiga
tion. The murderer had not obtained forci
ble entry to the house. Not a single article
of value had been removed, nor had any ran
sacking been dona The woman had been
struck down where the body lay, but her
hands were clenched as if she had grasped
the weapon of death and it had been pulled
away from her. The palm of one l>»mi was
torn and bleeding. I did not know either the
dead woman or Fergus, but I wanted au
thority to arrest the latter. When this fact
became known I was regarded as an idiot or
a lunatic. A general cry went up thatFergus
could no more be suspected than au angel in
heaven, but while the sheriff was left to se
cure the necessary papers, I drovo out to in
terview the young man and break the news
to him. If Fergus was guilty, his defense
would be an alibi, and he had carefully ar
ranged the details. He would be expecting
the news, and he would be braced up to play
apart.
I found him making ready to hitch up to
drive back. Ho had never seen me before,
and ho did not know my profession. As
entered the bam he looked startled and
turned pale, but recovered himself after
minute, and asked the nature of my business.
"You know, of course, that Miss Moore
dead?’ I carelessly replied.
“How—how should I know itl” he exclaim
ed, turning very white.
“Well, she is dead, poor thing.”
“And do they charge mo with it!” 4WC
“With what?”
"Her murder P
k . “I Jbadxrt said she was murdered. I told
watermelon.
you simply that she was dead. How did you
know she cad been murdered?’ *5#® ’’’
tie saw tho trap he had fallen into, and he
gasped and stammered and did his best to j ereil.the be.
smooth it over. I pretended not to lay it up 1
! as a point against him, and speedily arranged
j that ho should return in my vehicle andleav#
i the cooper’s rig where it was. After the first
shock he braced up wonderfully, and his de
meanor on the way home was entirely that
I of an innocent man. He expressed great
1 willingness to give us all posuiva mforaia-
J tion, but at the same time snvgficed and
I clung to the theory that no one bflt a tramp
I could have been truiltv of the crime. Coon
reaemng borne he displayed considerable
grief and emotion. In fact, he rather over
did it. It was more like acting out a part.
The people were indignant that he should be
suspected, and he was not put under re
straint. Indeed, np warrant had been issued
Cor him.
Early the next morning, satisfied in my
own mind that Fergus was the murderer, 1
drove out to his aunt’s. I found that he ar
rived there at 7 o’clock Saturday night. Half
au hour later he complained of headache and'
went to bed, saying he would be down t^aiu
by 9 o'clock. As he did not keep his promise
the hired girl knocked on his door at that
hour, but, receiving no reply, was told not to
disturb him. He was not seen by the inmates
of the house until 7 o’clock Sunday morning.
The girl was up at 5, and as she crossed the
yard she saw that his window was up, and
some of his clothing was hanging in the sun.
At the barn I found the cooper’s buggy,
washed clean. Fergus bad done this Sunday
forenoon. He had not made a godd job on
the horse, however, and 1 found plenty of
mud on his fetlocks. As it was dusty Satur
day night when he was driven over, this mud
must have been picked up after the storm. I
found the harness stiff and damp from being
wet, and the cloth cushion of the buggy was
stiff damp. Hunting further, I found the
fresh tracks of horse and bpggy turning into
the barnyard after the rain. The window of
the room occupied by Fergus opened on the
roof of- the sired. At the lower edge of the
roof stood a leach. On tho edges of this leach
and on the roof I found mud. On tho carpet
ir. Fergus’ room I found more of it. He had
scraped and cleaned his boots and flung the
dirt into a stove, whenco I got half a pound.
All this l got without the aunt suspecting
that I was after proofs. I then returned to
the scene of the murder, and after an hour’s
search discovered the place where a horse had
been bitched for some time. It was in the
rear of tho bouse, on an open space und under
tree, and the horse had pawed up the
ground and gnawed the bark of the tree.
The footprints of a man -could be faintly
traced across the g&rdca, and I had no doubt
that Fergus came and went this way. On
the fourth day after tho funeral I learned
from tho insurance man what be had seen
during the storm, aud then a warrant was
issued and Fergus was token into custody.
By this time tho townspeople had begun to
think it a queer case. Fergus had gone over
the house and declared that nothing had been
taken. No suspicious characters bad been
noticed in the neighborhood. Jewelry and
money had been left lying on tho bureau,
shqwing that the object could not have been
plunder. Did the woman have an enemy!
S'o, not one, as far as we could learn. Who
could profit by her death! No cne but Fer
gus, aud yet this was one of the strong points
ho brought forward. It was known to a score
of people that she had made her will in his
favor. Would not everything be his at bar
death.' ,
To clinch our case and make circumstantial
evidence good we must show a motive. This
seemed hopeless, but 1 went at the task,
hoping evidence might aid me if Fergus
was guilty. I examined hlB personal effects
over aud over again in search of a hint, but
for two weeks after he had been sent to. jail 1
discovered nothing. Then I got the clew
where I ought to have secured it before. In
a drawer in his desk I found several adver
tisements plainly in the interest of swindlers.
One of them-read:
“A steady young man with $10,000 cash capital
can double it in one year in a legitimate enter
prise. For particulars address box 801.” etc.
Another read:
It you have nerve and $5,000 in cash we win
maim you a millionaire in on-year. Vo permit
tho fullest investigation before investment. Write
for particulars.
A third just bit his case:
Are you u young end ambitious man, feeling
that you could get ahead if properly backed and
encouraged? Have you any money? Can you
get from one thousand to throe’ thousand? If so
we will positively guarantee you $100 in return
for every dollar, and inside of a year.
I felt sure he bad written some of these
parties, but as I could not find any letters
from them I set out to hunt them up in per
son. They were bold faced swindlers, and
they bothered me some, but in the end I got
five letters written by Fergus. In one of
them -ho stated that he would soon have
money to invest,- and expressed his satisfac
tion at the particulars of tlie speculation as
far as given him. The greed of gain, then,
was his incentive. The woman, who had
been mother and sister to him, came of a long
lived race, and was in good health, and a
month before her death was told by a doctor
in the hearing of Fergus that she was likely,
to live to ba’lk) or 100 years old. Until her
death the young man could hope for little or
nothing, os she was obliged to make the in
terest of her capital support her. . !
Murderer or not, the boy was the legal
heir, and he employed the best legal talent
in tho west to defend him. The lawyers
might take every dollar if they conld but
clear him. It was a veritable light for life
with all the money and most of the talent on
one side, but that web of circumstantial evi
dence kept drawing closer and closer, and it’
could neither be broken nor explained away. 1
Had Fergus been Innocent a frank reply to
each question would liavp explained it.
Being guilty, his evasions oniy made matters
worse. The jury were out' fourteen hours
before finding a verdict of guilty, but within
an hour he bed made a fuff confession. He
told me that he had been planning for two
months, and that he believed he had ar
ranged details until his case could withstand
the most minute investigation of the highest
detective talent.—New York Sun.
'-Hu* MadL 0n
in *
equal if not
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they wifi Riveth em
the banks of the Hi
of the Rio.it prosp^^S
county, ha. per,^
markable-families ° f, £2
raised a family of , Sta K
none of whom ever °" n ’' n
***** to-
any |
any form, n or
pirit
There must not be
his neighborhood.
Special to the Banner
Columbus, (, a . j ulv
W* Brooks,ordinary 0 f
ty, is dead. *
. lhe -Athens ft r eme n *
mined to bring back 1
that they badbeeen to
nearly all of them earn* * ^
It is No Jok e .
Some seem to think that it i
about the prize fight, but weV
ably informed that unit* - !
break up tlie mill, it W H|
come off. The particulars are v,
perfect secret and only one or - ,
besides the Iprineisals an( j
know anything about it. 1
~~Tmr
To All Owners of VekU)^ 1
There are a great many
Clarke, Oglethorpe, Oconee V
and Jackson and other
counties having in past years „
of the old Hodgson make of u v ,„l
buggies, that will aytta .S'a
rather pay $25 more for a \v
buggy than they have to pay { „ t .
cheap wagons and buggies flat**
now days, if they were certain -T
they would get one as good M ^ j
Hodgson make.
We wish to say to all who have \
the old Hodgson, work aiu^to the,
lie that we can furnish you wag, jM s
buggies, that we will garuntee total
good as the old Hodgson work, an
cheap us you can buy Eastern or
ern or any other kind of work.
We carry a good assortment o( I
gies and wagons on hand, vUAl
propose to sell as cheap as you cm b|
of anyone else in the State.
Respectfully, Klein & Maeth,
d-lt-w-tf. Athens, ik |
Thd testimony before tlie l 1
Commission is ail in. the court icm
journed. Messrs. Condon and O'O
were sent back to prison.
BOOK PATHWAY OF LIFE.
Kia Greatest Work 11 Srie*m*n ~
everywhere. Exclusive territory, ii
to Europe for live workers, t dmotj
duccments. Apply now. B.F.J0H.
CO.. 1UW Main bUlOchmoml,'**
MOORE’S
i^coto/ Business Unit
Atlanta, Ga., for a Thoroiiyli VaOM
c 1 Education. ScIioo’.im Maw]
Short Hand, and I’cnm.iii- 'il 1 - i>|
tion rensoiirble. TitneShorf. NW"*!
jtnnrsmtccd. Burin*** mm
With competent assistants at fhonuotw.
*OrSendJor Circular».
THi^BKST^*icLre Frames 5f
All the “Ungers’ Groups.” fard triGJj
net sizes of frames, < hoice G—-- J
Engravings, from one of the
hest selected stocks in the Country. I
lished U8L
JAMES S. EARLE 4 S0i«
PHILADELPHIA, PA-
Catalogue on receipt of stam_
sal **UsfKt,.4 '.a ®
.:nre of Goaotrii* 1
Gleet. I present*!”* |
fee! safe in »*':***
Ins It to all suffwA j
i.J. SWMA
Oecifer,®-
PRICE. $!••*
gnlrf hr p
Ladies
Do Your Own Dying »t Ho»^
PEERLESS
.sswa'tws^a-jci 4 '
ors. They have no equal tor-- . ^ ue , s
ness, amount in packages, « r v ,| on ot<T
or, or non-fadinx quantity. " :#B ^ o
or smut. For sale by g.
v LTSros,
nS&SrJSeg:
“Catching It on tho Fly.”
We have never seen it in print, and it may
be a mossy Joe Miller in modern dress. It has
keeping qualities;
Theodore Thomas’ orchestra was playing a
symphony or something in which the music,
at one part, was softened almost to a bird’s
whisper, when, like the crack of a rifled can
non, came one startling blast from the oboe.
The enraged conductor turned savagely upon
the player: “What in the devil do you mean!”
Just then a plump blue bottle fly took wing
from the oboeist’s score. “Gott in himmell
l delink he vas vou node, und I bkty him!”—
Saturday Globe.
Bank of the
—depository of t";
STATE OF GE0KG 1 - •
Capital, $125,000_ erve l
J. A. Huxxicutt,
A Planters &PSI02,
I employ i *»»“£** ° f
9 r them were “ - «
countseU wbe» 1 —, fi T
Kats Stole the Pigs.
J. D. Smith, of Sunnyside, a few -reeks ago
had one of the finest lots of Poland China
pigs in the community, but every night or!
two one of tho porkers would disappear. Mr.j
Smith decided to watch for the thief and dis
covered a large rat come up through the;
floor aud quickly grab oue of the little pigs
and carry it away. Mr. Smith procured a 1
rifle and succeeded in killing seventeen of tho^
tineves.—Remington Democrat.’
The result was
became strong Itvei
had u« furtliur * 1 ^ fe*r ^jar*'
pills, I "“S&rrAl*
Sold EveffJ; sore
Office, 44 MO” 1 ” ^
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