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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- Suecess results from merit. Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer is placed before the public solely on its 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 DANIEL PRATT GINS Best Buggies and Wagons for the Money in Athens FULL LOOS BELTING. T. Fleming Son. ATHENS, GA. Athens -AND- Foundry MACHINE ATHENS, - WORKS, GEORGA Manufacturers of Iron and Brass Castings, Mill and Machinery Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers and. Baxes, Cotton Presses, Cane Mills and Evaporators, Cotton Seed Crashers and Circular Saw Mills. We Injectors, Jet iPumps jYa'ves, Piping and Steam Packings, Water Wheels and laws of Georgia so as to provide for * Belting Cloth. We have competent mill-rights and will tax in lieu of road work, and to provide | send them out and erect mills anywhere in the country for the levy anil collection of an ad val-t .. . . ,. , men, tax by the county authorities for i can 4urU ‘ S !’ f timates. . J . Write to us or call and see us for anvthmj; you may need about 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. Write to us or call and see us for anything you may need Grist Mill or Gin. Address ATHENS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS, Athens, Georgia: your THEO. MARKWALTER’S STEAM Marble and Granite "W'orks. BROAD STREET, Near Lower Market, AUGUSTA, GA. Marble Work, Domestic and Imported, at Low Prices Georgia A South Carolina Granite Monuments made a Specialty. A large selection of Marble and Qranlto Work always on hand, ready ter lettering and dell vet Parties Desiring Monuments or Work Apply to ANDRW A? Athens Cemetery. -.♦JS-AGENTS W *' ,T !&Z? R ™ B —WAR STOBT SURRY Jchn Esten Cooke. 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