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HEI>o, ijrA., AUVjrLOJL - loop.
. Mer Man in the Switz-
1 eriaad of Gergia.
WATER ADD
breath the cool breezes.
. , From New Holland. Gawer
ir.ef ?' ote5 / d oconee White Sulphur-
SP rlnS ': v i||e as ft Summer Resort-
6gj2If Mirth and Merriment.
.. Oll0 ,n Citv of the Mountains.”
i)lf Iropriatflv this title has been
11 " (i iinesvilie. can only be rea-
:iV uliVvi*it to this prosperous and
little citv.
F.i.-fir-t moment of my arrival
1'fOtll
ful waters. Gower Springs is a popu
lar place this summer. 1 F
New Holland is known everywhere,
and needs no comment here and now
more than to say it retains its former
prestige m ten fold proportion. The
Springs are managed by Mr. E. G. Mor
gan & bon, and tliese gentlemen are
sparing no efforts to make New Hol
land one of the most attractive summer
PLACES WHERE THEY *?*• ? eor « Ia mountains.
tin* first no
vine, when I was landed at a
beneath the radiant
;G.H ne: j
" , *' il i„ , ,Xctrie light, to my depar-
J ‘ bi4 afternoon. 1 have been im-
r ’ : '] V it'll the live energy of the peo-
rt ",l i.lvanceinent of the town in
ir ’ e-ii.-rprise, ami the general char-
' " ... w iiich have crowned it with
aIj ,l well deserved epi-
Music and dancing afford the chief
amusement at night and roaming
through the sylvan shades and loaf-
i lg in the rustic chairs around
the springs give plesure dur-
mg the day. My visit to this popular
place was necessarily short, and I re-
greted very much not being able to
linger longer with the congenial crowd
that was here assembled, some of whom
I had the pleasure of meeting and join
ing in the pleasant enjoyment of several
hours. There are numerous little cot
tages at New Holland, and families oc
cupying them are all at home under
their own rooftree, so to speak. Each . .
c ittage is named for certain cities of ! b,tte ?* That is all nonsense.
POINTS FROM A SN AKE CHARMER.
He Has Been Bitten Forty-nine Times—
His Remedy for Snake Bites.
“I have been bitten forty-nine times
by rattlesnakes,”snid C. J. Ironmonger
of this city to a Republican reporter
yesterday.
“Yes, sir, forty-nine times, either
while catching them, handling them or
performing before the public with
them. I am known as the great ser
pent charmer, or tamer. I have han
dled thousands of venomous serpents,
and twenty-three years ago I per
formed in the Bella Union Theatre as a
snake charmer, when it was mauaged
by Mrs. Tellow and son.
“I have often heard that if a rattle
snake bites a person, the sore, even' if
healed, will break out again every
twelve months. That is not so. If you
are once cured you are cured forever. I
have often read in the newspapers of
snakes charming little children, and of
children feeding them without being
STABBED TO DEATH.
A FORMER ATLANTIAN IS KILLED
IN A MACON GAMBING DEN.
The Remains Brought to Atlanta—
How the Killing Occurred.
:*ris»
vine i> fully abreast of the
•^v.;rv respect, and with its
** , numerous and nourishing en-
"’j',. jt,manufactories and inilus-
,r !’ Jf e very kind, one can hardly be-
rl< ‘" .|,., t on*)v a few years ago it was a
,r n lin’d desolate little mountain vil-
'wiil, one or two stores, and a
‘l - roads jiostolllee. But yet, this is
ilinli o
Hirst 1"
fl people.
the South, Augusta, Atlanta, Chatta
nooga. &e., and the families from these
eities are quartered respectively. Your
correspondent had the pleasure of visi
ting these three cities named all in one
brief hour—think of it from Augusta to
Chattanooga in an hour!
At Oconee White Sulphur I felt at
home, for though I had never been
there before I was with Athens people,
and that was sufficient. How familiar
were the faces of Mr. and Mrs. Billups
Phinizy when I landed at Bowdry from
the train! How comfortable to see
home people after the busy whirl with
strangers from every section of the
South!
I proceeded out to the springs two are . satisfied. If not, they w
miles distant from Bowdry in the hack 1 t:l ' ce their drink of water in the fall ai
m,o can remember the Gainesville
, f t .\v years since, with its small eol-
'f rn-tie houses, its rude but
illation of four or five hun-
aml compare it with the
;ti'ie'ville of to-day but with feeling-
f wonder and surprise at the rapid and
, n .; t growth it has experienced?
. m l v ,. t who can contemplate this
u'liitfii'i: prosperity with surprise when
» lt .'v think "f the environments that
ive deVdoped it?
Gainesville is situated geographically
it the feat of the Blue
lias, with a climate as
jgi.ratingas the world can afford. It
whe e,■liter of the summer “resort re-
imisof Georgia, and is surrounded by
!iemost popular mineral springs in the
cite. The city itself is a resort of
i,i,h renown and the half dozen spac
ing hotels ean accommodate the scores
(|iha>me seekers that Hock here an-
niallv.
1 arrived in the city last night, and
co -ooii comfortably ushered into the
aide halls of the Piedmont Hotel,
mown all over the State to be one of
he \vrv ho«t summer hotels in Geor-
•„ rh.-> •■■■■<■ > :■ muft and is owned
. Grii. l.ongstreel, and is managed
hi--••a-oii hy Mrs. Stafford, of Flor-
lt has lately been thoroughly reno-
ited, and the proprietress has given it
cry appointment common to the best
't'd' ol i lie land. She knows just
•win run a hotel to please summer
i'-;-. ami has established this fact
i veritably by her management of
(: I’iediiiiiiit.
There are at present more than a
iiniivd guests at the hotel, people
eia every ijuarter of the South, from
'•xa> u» Virginia. It is especially a
vi rite ?iniiniering place among the
•"pie along the eoast, who growing
■ry nf their sweltering cities come
n-to drink tin-health giving waters
: inbreathe the pure air of the Blue
;i .v mountains. Among those now
ntiud at the Piedmont arc the
■■ win-:
‘K. Axson and family, of
•'aiinah, Mr. Patterson and family
Atlanta, M r..). T. Barnett and fam-
■ nt Atlanta, l td. Ogden and family
l/’jttfon. Mrs. Granger and family of
n w. Mr. W. \n«h and family from
-nita.Misses Peebles and Crawford,
A:lieiis,ati(ljnany others from almost
\|. r ' cit >’ along the southern coast.
. Ile •■ore is spent very pleatant
indfed. The Piedmont is surround-
| large and beautiful green lawns,
•cniost every evening the young
enjoy a delightful lawn party
•'to-the old folks look on with interest
h die varandas. Dancing, too, is
‘ favorite pastime and an occa-
•■• Uermaii is given by the proprie-
j t0 the delight of the guests.
" ater here is simply splendid,
’• t ie well on the large veranda is
• '' Mirroiiiified by crowds who en-
• iiiatuig the cold and pure stream as
*‘ 0!>e "ho drank the waters that
,; to tlie touch of the proverbial
l' 1 ; 1 °hlen days. The fact is that for
'ai profitable and enjoyable stay at a
J‘ ler res01 't anil at a good hotel in
•) x ii.-v of the word I know of no
'l Place that
i I’ledniont.
11 has been
V of
which meets each train, and when we
arrived at the elegant little hotel of
which Mr. Phinizy is proprietor I was
pleased to meet quite a number of old
friends many of whom came from
classic Athens. Mrs. B. A Stovall, and
Mrs. Sarah Rucker are the latest ar
rivals from our city, and they are en
joying better health already than they
have had this year. Mrs. Alice Thomas
is also here having come up last week.
Several more Athenians are expected
soon, and many guests . are expeeted
from Tallulah at an early date, as that
ltidge monn- place is crowded out of accommodations
pure and in- completely.
These resorts around Gainesville rank
among the most favored in the South,
and thev were never so popular as this
year. There are right here in Gaines
ville nearly a thousand people who have
come for several months. Every hotel
is full, and still the people from the
lower country pour in on every train.
Some of the most stately looking gen
tlemen and handsomest matrons of
Georgia are at the hotels,and the beauty
and chivalry of the South is well repre
sented by the young people here. Never
baS-it-been my jilatuuiro to see sueli
scenes of merriment and festivity as are
enacted nightly by these gay throngs
of fair forms and youthful hearts brim
ful of life, light and happiness. The
scene is complete, with the. pale blue
mountains in the distant, the bright
moonlight, superb music and a gay cir
cle of congenial young folks, and I ven
ture that the fancy of Tom Moore in
Utopian dreams could not portray an
equal vision. . Ckawhoro.
Gainesville and the
my pleasure also to visit
famous springs around
‘ a,u l 1 was startled at the
L tb »t throng at each of
• «Uay 1 boarded a street car and
: l,ri') 1110 tbe rural shades of Gower
I 'j* ?'* suburbs of the town.
, 1(1 rou,, <l a crowded hotel, also,
„ U ri! , ;,; u, -> ,liat applications were
ever y day from people who
•• H«,it, , cou ting here soon. Mr. P.
liri „;r U,0rf ’ tlle l )r °Prietor of the
tl,at everybody who has
lit- lcro a,u ' drank the waters of
are ! oud in praises of their
,ls *tforin It.'' , ' ,!llities . He b a s a large
nii j, K ] 1 grove fronting his hotel
Ulil " icMll SUlt * U ‘ e flowin « springs,
& th e e young folks revel nightly
- -J' ounce, and drink the healt-
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merits. Its success is indisputable.
FOUND BY THE TRACK.
The Body of a Dead Mau Discovered
on the Georgia Pacific Railroad.
Si»e<:i!il to The Banner.
Ati.anta, Ga. August 14.—Engineer
.Tint Hawes, of the passenger train
which reaches Atlanta at 11 o’clock,
saw a man lying beside the track near
the seventeen mile tank as he was com
ing into the city last night.'
The train was stopped and the man
found to be dead.
Several bruises anil wounds on the
scalp indicated that he had been struck
by the pilot of an engine and knocked
from the track.
The body was found to be that of
Thomas Eutrican, who has for a long
time been a sawyer in a chair factory
of Dobbs & Slielverton, at Austell.
He got oft the accommodation train
at Jlalileton, and started to walk to
Austell.
While on the track lie was struck by
the engine of some outgoing freight and
killed.
He lived at Austell, and leaves a wife
and six children.
The body was taken on the train and
carried to Mebleton, where it was placed
in the depot..
Today it was taken to Austell, where
the remains will be laid to rest.
A Runaway Couple.
Special to the Banner.
Homer, Ga. August 14.—Mr. E. J.
Davis and Miss Mary Nickles, of Jack-
son county, were married in the court
house here yesterday evening by W.
M. Ash J. P. in the presence of of about
one hundred persons. ■ They had made
their escape successful in* this way:
Miss Niekleson was attending school
at Hurricane Shoals under the direc
tion of Col. George Brown. It tvas
agreed by the couple that at intermis
sion Mr. Davis would be near the
Academy with conveyance and they
would from there drive to the county
seat of Banks county and obtain license
the gardian knot tied, which was done
in modern style. After a few mo
menta rest they started for home with
bright and beaming faces and the boys
began to sing “Behold the bride grootn”
which made everybody seont happy.
No venomous snake |will eat dead
food; it must be live food that he
catches himself, and, and he will not
lake food while caged up, not even the
most inviting morsel. They can live a
remarkably long time without food. 1
once saw a rattlesnake in Maryville, in
a cage, that had not taken food for
eleven years. I have kept many of
them from five to eleven years without
food. They will, however, drink water,
1 suppose, to keep their poison re
plenished.
“Rattlers are not epicureans. They
will crawl out of their dens in the spring,
and, if they catch a quail, a young rab
bit, ora squirrel during the summer
will
llld
go to their dens and wait until next
spring for their breakfast'”
“What remedies do you use for snake
bites?” was asked.
“I put an ounce of ammonia into a
two ounce vial. Then I add a dozen or
so leaves of the niisletoe. The leaves
soon dissolve, and the liquid becomes
of a reddish color. Put eighteen or
twenty drops of this liquid into a tum
bler half full of water, and drink it soon
as you can afte. being bitten. Then
drink a pint of whiskey. After that
you must wait fifteen or twenty min
utes, and if you feel no signs ol inebria
tion repeat the dose; hut the moment
you feel the effects of the whiskey,
drink no more, but you may take
another dose of the amnioniated
liquid.
“Some people when bitten by a snake
keep pouring down whiskey until they
are thoroughly drunk, but in such case.-
tlie remedy is worse tha'n the disease.
Those who know me say I am poison
proof, hut'that is not true, while at the
same time $ snake bite that would kill
some men would injure me very little.
Harmless suakes are all gourmands
ami want to be swallowing all the
time.”
“Do you ltelieve that snakes can fas
cinate or charm other animals?” asked
the reporter.
“That is an error,” was the reply.
“No serpent has that faculty. Every
animal lias its own instinctive way of
taking its prey—by stealth, agility,
brute force, or strength. My experi
ence for the last forty years confirms
my belief. I have often heard birds
making a great noise in a swamp, and I
used to say: ‘There’s a snake charm
ing a bird.’ I would go down there to
see what was going on,and sure enough
there would be a black snake going
along slowly from one branch of a tree
to another’ There would be a eatbird
or some other kind of a bird flying
around the snake, greatly excited,
while the snake moved along slowly to
ward a nest to rob it of its young.
“Thematerial instinct of the mother
bird makes her forget the danger in a
great measure. So she flies around and
over the snake and flutters along just
ahead of him in an opposite direction,
but to no purpose, and as be comes
nearer the nest she becomes more des
perate.
“She pecks at his eyes, beats him
with her wings and like a flash he garbs
her, for he would as soon have Iter as
the young, because she is a large mouth
ful, if not so delicious.
“She was not spellbound; she had
all the use of her muscles and could
leave him at her will.
“At the Sacramento State Fair some
twenty odd years ago 1 was bitten by a
ratler in the bowels, and he left his
fangs dehind. I performed in the tent
until 9 o’clock at night. In closing up
I felt around my person and pulled all
of the snakes out of my bosom, as I
thought, but I overlooked one. I went
around the town to see the sights, play
ing a game or two, and started for my
hotel.
“It was called the Oro then, hut the
name is changed now. Then I threw
myself across tbe bed, and the first
thing I knew I was bitten. I was smoth
ering him. I grabbed him by the head
through nty shirt, and gave him a twist.
Hence I broke his fangs. I held h mup
to the moonlight and found him to be a
favorite of min e.
“I had no remedies with me, and the
drug stores were shut up at that hour.
At last I found a doctor named Logan
who gave nte a bottle of whisky and
twenty-five drops of amonia, and I was
soon all right, but the fangs remained
in me. 1 began to grow sick at last,
and the wound had to be opened afresh
and the fangs extracted. It was three
months after I • was bitten that the
network of fat that covers the bowels be
gan to inflame, and it came near killing
me.
“I |liave not said anything about
tarantulas, scorpions and centipedes
but they are till in uij' line. I have
been stung by all of them, and I use the
same remedy.
Atlanta, Aug. 12.—This morning
the remains of Herman Bohnefeld, who
was stabbed to death in Macon Sunday
morning, arrived it Atlanta.
Bohnefel formerly lived in {Atlanta
and is well known here.
About 3 o’clock Sunday morning
Bohnefeld was in a gambling den on
Fourth street in Maeqji with Lee Low-
enthal and others. Bohnefeld was
drinking. He and Lowenthal quar
reled over a jack pot. A fight ensued
tud Lowenthal pulled out a knife and
stabbed Bohnefeld over the left eye,
over the left temple and ripped his left
arm open from the shoulder blade to
the elbow. Then with a well directed
blow Lowenthal sent the knife into
Bolinefcld’s left breast just above the
heart. The last blow was fatal, and
Bohnefeld threw himself over a table,
gasped: “I am cut,” and was a corpse
in a few minutes.
Lowenthal tried to escape, but was
captured and locket! up.
The coroner held and inquest and the
verdict was that the killing was mur
der.
Bohnefeld was buried in Oakland
cemetery this morning, the funeral
taking place from Mr. Patterson’s un
dertaking establishment.
THE NEW ROAD LAW-
A Favorable Report Agreed on by the
Joint Committee.
Special to' The Banner.
Atlanta, Ga., August 12.—Mr.
Lofley, of Macon, and Senator Boyd
have finished the draft of the new road
bill. The joint committee has had it
under consideration and agreed to a fa
vorable report. The report will be sub
mitted to both senate and house to
morrow morning. *
The bill proposes t,o amend the road
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the purpose of a more efficient working
of the public roads in this state.
The ordinaries and road commission
ers arogiven authority to enforce the
road work in their respective counties.
All persons now subject to road duty
remain so subject. But any such per
son, when summoned for road work,
may commute this work for a payment
of 50 cents for each day he is subject to
work. The receipt of the road overseer
for this 'um will constitute a full re
lease from road duty.
The county authorities shall appoint
road commissioners for each district, as
now provided by law.
These commissioners shall have ful
authority to punish defaulters. They
shall also select and contract with an
officer, to be road overseer of tne dis
trict. The overseer shall be furnished
by the commission with a list of persons
in his district subject to road duty. The
commissioners shall inspect the roads
from time to time. ’
The road overseer shall receive one
dollar a day for actual services. lie
shall inspect roads and have charge of
them and report to the commissioners.
He shall summon the hands. If they,
or any of them, pay the commutation
tax, he shall summon others to supply
their place, and so on until lie has force
sufficient to work the roads. Taxes re
ceived in commutation he turns over to
the commissioners.
As soon as they can determine it, the
county authorities shall notify the road
commissioners as to the number of days
which shall be required to work the
roads during the year. At the time they
assess taxes for other count}* purposes
they shall, also, assess an ad valorem
tax upon the property in the county
sufficient to raise a sum equal to the
road capitation for that year, to he col
lected as other county taxes, and paid
by the tax collector to the treasurer as a
road fund. This fund shall be prorated
according to the character of the several
roads in the districts. In counties that
have no board of commissioners, the
clerk of court, the sli§rift' and ordinary
shall constitute a board and prorate the
fund as provided for.
County authorities shall furnish nec
essary tools.
Where chaingangs are worked now,,
they may be continued in road work,
and the county authorities may hire out
misdemeanor convicts or any other
chaingang. The money received for
such hire shall go to the road fund.
The law will not apply to persons liv
ing in incorporated towns and cities.
On or before December 31st of each
year, the road commissioners shall make
a full tabulated statement of the money
expended on the roads,how many hands
have worked, etc. Work shall com
mence at 7 a. m. and continue until Cp.
m., with one hour’s intermission at
noon.
can furnish estimates.
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spasms and incurable sickness seize it, but get
this reliable remedy at once; it never fails. -